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Four steps to successful energy management Forging cross-functional teams, executing and publicizing small successful projects will earn support for comprehensive energy-management programs. Trimming a factory's energy costs is a great way to boost a manufacturing company's bottom line. However, implementing a comprehensive energy management program can prove challenging for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the need for close collaboration among individuals-such as process engineers and facilities managers-who historically have not had to forge working relationships. Following are four steps that are almost guaranteed to put a manufacturing company on the road to succeeding with adoption of a comprehensive energy management program. 1. Aim for low-hanging fruit and expect incremental progress. By definition, a manufacturing company's primary business is not devising energy management strategies. This may sound obvious, but it is an important detail to remember because the attention span for green initiatives is very short-particularly among CEOs and CFOs, who must always be concerned about whether any activity ultimately will make-or cost-the company money. With that in mind, champions of comprehensive energy management programs must look to start with projects that can be implemented quickly and show nearimmediate return on investment. That means looking for low-hanging fruit. If, for example, your manufacturing floor sounds like a giant air leak during off-shifts, making changes to the compressed air system may be a good place to start an energy management program. Compressed air flow meters are very affordable (~$500) and can be easily installed on a plant's distribution circuits to determine which production areas consume the most air. In many cases, area supervisors can drastically reduce wasted air by implementing simple procedural routines. The payback on compressed air flow meters can be staggering, considering that operating a 200-hp compressor costs upwards of $50,000 per year in energy, according to U.S. Department of Energy studies. Achieving a quick win of this type would be great for securing management support-and possibly funding- to implement additional projects. 2. Foster open communication between process engineers and facilities managers. Comprehensive energy management within the industrial segment is best thought of in terms of optimizing the ratio between energy spent and productive output of the facility. Disconnecting all electricity from the plant is great for lowering the monthly bill, but obviously this would be counterproductive to the business. To be comprehensive, an energy management plan requires collaboration between process engineering and facilities management, even though these two groups traditionally operate in separate places using different technologies. (Readers who have experienced the convergence of engineering and IT are correct to draw analogies.) Fortunately, the technical barriers between process engineering and facilities management have shrunk drastically in the last few years thanks to standardization efforts driven by new communication protocols, such as BACnet and LON protocols. Industrial controls and building controls are now more compatible than ever before, but the evolution is not complete. So it's important to have at least one individual on the energy management project team who understands both sides. Hiring an independent advisor to help develop energy management solutions is a great way to fill this role. For best results, find an advisor or company that is technology independent so they will focus on fitting a solution to your company's needs rather than wedging your needs into their system. 3. Build on technologies you know. A simple Google search for "energy management system" yields a plethora of meters, gadgets, and software packages claiming to be the answer for all conservation needs. While many of these offerings are compelling, this is definitely a situation in which the buyer must be extremely aware. Buying a monolithic energy-management solution from a single vendor is likely to be a major, costly mistake. Building a solution around technologies the company is familiar with-and already owns-will be much more cost-effective, and have a much higher chance of success. The rationalization for this is simple and draws upon many of the topics already discussed. - Funding for energy management projects is often fickle and requires quick, decisive return on investment (ROI). Large initial investments have been the nonstarter for many good plans. - Since energy projects are iterative and incremental, it's better to use familiar technologies, making it easier to implement projects internally. - Anything that is installed has to be maintained. Choosing familiar technologies allows existing staff to maintain the solution without expensive third-party support contracts. - Leveraging systems you know and already own is a much more viable option today because building controls and industrial controls are more interoperable than ever before thanks to standardization technologies, such as OPC, BACnet, and LON. Following are two real-world examples that demonstrate this philosophy. Company A operates a large manufacturing facility that is more than 30 years old. The manufacturing floor is standardized primarily on GE PLC and SCADA products that are supported by the company's internal engineering department. The plant's facility management is contracted to Johnson Controls, and a Metasys building management system is used to control the large HVAC and lighting infrastructure. This company needs to reduce electricity costs associated with welding and has chosen to construct an energy monitoring solution using a GE Cimplicity SCADA. The initial system is focused on one comparatively new area of the plant that is already equipped with smart electrical meters. By keeping the initial system small, this company has demonstrated significant savings for that portion of the plant while also creating an energy-management system infrastructure that can be expanded to the rest of the facility. Future projects will require significantly more capital investment for meters and installation; however, the tangible savings from phase 1 of the project make justification easy. Company B is a biotechnology manufacturer whose product line is constantly evolving and whose facility is always in some state of construction. This company's production processes are managed with automation and control technology from Rockwell Automation that is compatible with open industry standards, and its engineering group is very skilled at adapting this technology to the company's ever-changing requirements. However, the company's building management systems are based on proprietary technology that is largely un-maintainable by in-house personnel. As a result, it is virtually impossible for this company to implement a meaningful energy management program. To correct this problem, the company has chosen to incrementally migrate from its proprietary building management system to more open technologies that can be supported by its internal group. The new architecture uses Rockwell FTView SE as the new building management HMI. It communicates via BACnet to Tridium JACE controllers that can replace the proprietary processors. This new architecture also allows the company to leverage its existing OSIsoft PI historian as the central archive for energy trending and analysis. 4. Publicize your success. The final suggestion for a new energy management team is to always take credit for success. Publicizing the tangible results of energy projects is crucial to garnering support for future projects. Craig Lechene is co-founder and Managing Partner for RoviSys Building Technologies. He holds an Electro-Mechanical Engineering degree from Penn State University, a Master of Business degree from NC State University and has worked extensively in the life sciences and specialty chemical industries. 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TOP STORY >> Couple gives home to abused horses Leader staff writer Along a dirt road on the border of Lonoke and Prairie counties, Saving Grace Horse Rescue is nurturing back to health some of the most severe cases of animal neglect in central Arkansas. The nonprofit group is operated by Stewart and Melody Anderson with the help of their family and friends. They all work full-time jobs, with the exception of Stewart, to pay for the rehabilitation of the malnourished horses, most of which are hundreds of pounds underweight, overcome the consequences of years of neglect. Saving Grace Horse Rescue near Butlerville cares for 11 horses, and that number grows by the week. The rescue horses are a sad sight, their ribs and backbones protruding from their skin. Their faces are emaciated, but their expressions are appreciative and emotional. The rescue operation is as expensive to run for its owners as it is rewarding. “You swell up with pride when you get a horse fit and healthy,” Stewart Anderson said. But satisfaction won’t cover the costs for the feed and numerous medical treatments that each horse needs to get healthy. The Andersons rely on donations raised at fundraisers, discounts from farm supply stores and the generosity of veterinarians to sustain the rescue. “The last fund-raiser we did was great. We made $425, but I spent $50 on feed today,” Stewart said. The Andersons are looking for grants that would finance the rescue of dozens of more horses. If a stable source of income does not come through, the family doubts that Saving Grace will continue. “We’re not taking any more volunteer surrenders,” because it would just be too expensive, Stewart said. But that doesn’t mean that horses won’t be arriving at the 75-acre Saving Grace farm. Unfortunately, the group’s services are in high demand. The White County sheriff recently seized four horses from their owner in McRae. The Andersons said the horses were eating only tree bark and had no grass to graze on. They were starving. “Everyone there was so hurt by what they saw,” Melody said. The sheriff’s deputies and Humane Society representatives who confiscated the horses were appalled by the animals’ suffering. What was worse, she said, was that the owners did not understand what they had done was wrong and they were furious about losing their horses. Occasionally, Saving Grace will get a call from an area Humane Society representative asking them to check on a horse that may be neglected. “What we do is scout the roadside,” Stewart said. If they believe that a horse is not being fed properly or is penned improperly, they will contact the horse’s owner and explain their concerns. The Andersons said most of the horse owners they deal with are respectful and do want to take care of their animals, but they often need education. Many times, the Andersons don’t even take a horse to the Saving Grace farm, but teach owners how to take better care of their animals. Most horses at Saving Grace were voluntarily surrendered by owners who couldn’t meet their animals’ needs. Few were taken by law enforcement. The group tries to adopt out the horses once they have been rehabilitated. But their adoption process is rigorous and lengthy. The Andersons check up on a horse for a year to make sure that a prospective adopter is capable of caring for the horse. Adoption fees are meager and on a sliding scale. Saving Grace will never recoup its expenses. Adopting horses is one of Saving Grace’s most difficult challenges, according to the Andersons. More horses come to Saving Grace than leave. The Andersons expect another four horses to arrive this week. “We have two more definitely coming from Vilonia, and another two from Jacksonville and Ward,” Stewart said. So, why do they do it? Each horse needs a monthly visit to the veterinarian, several shots a year, almost constant hoof care, several pounds of feed a week, regular exercise and the list goes on. It’s expensive, but it means a lot to the Andersons. Stewart and Melody have been around horses almost their entire lives. Stewart grew up on a farm in Illinois where there were always horses. Melody discovered her love for horses on her aunt’s farm in the Florida Panhandle, where she is originally from. They moved to Arkansas about six years ago, first living on a smaller farm outside of Beebe and they moved to the farm near Butlerville in early April. They plan to live there permanently and continue to run the horse rescue there. “There’s not a bad horse, only bad people,” Melody said. “We’re gonna save the ones that we can,” Stewart said. Only generous donations and grants can help sustain the Andersons’ mission. 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p2pnet view Movies:- According to the Australian arm of Hollywood’s FACT (Farcical Approaches to Copyright Transgressions), Australians are a bunch of thieving barstewards who are robbing the helpless movie industry blind. ‘Economic consequencesof movie piracy, AUSTRALIA’, an exciting new screenplay scripted by IPSOS MediaCT and Oxford Economics (?) for MPAA appendage FACT (other name, Federation Against Copyright Theft) makes these two statements as though they’re accurate and originate with reliable sources >>> - 6,100 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) jobs were forgone across the entire economy (equivalent to more than six times the number of job cuts announced by Telstra in October 2010) including nearly 2,300 forgone directly by the movie industry and retailers. These impacts of piracy on employment persist as long as piracy persists. - Allowing for effects on other industries, some A$1,370m in Gross Output (Sales) was lost across the entire Australian economy. - This was equivalent to a loss of GDP of A$551m across the Australian economy – reducing national economic growth and Australia’s ability to invest in its future. - Tax losses are A$193m, representing money that government could employ for other social uses in areas such as education and health care. And # 2 >>> - Direct consumer spending losses to the movie industry, i.e. cinema owners, local distributors, producers and retailers, were A$575m – equivalent to more than three times the combined revenues of AFL clubs Collingwood, Hawthorn, Carlton and Geelong. - A third of the Australian adult population (aged 18+) is active in some form of movie piracy (downloading, streaming, buying counterfeit, borrowing unauthorised, burning), with an estimated 92m pirated movies obtained or watched in the 12 months up to Q3 2010. - Both borrowing and viewing pirated copies are high volume piracy activities. Overall the highest volume of pirated movie content is from receiving digital copies of movies – an activity that accounts for a quarter of all pirated movies. - Just under half (45%) of all people consuming pirated movies claim they would have paid to view the movie via an authorised channel had the unauthorised channel not been available. Meanwhile, somehow, somehow, Hollywood routinely reports mind-bending, eye-popping revenues in the billions of dollars, year after year, each year better than the last. No need to stay tuned. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation ~ Marshall McLuhan Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.	<urn:uuid:55b8a854-3bae-4959-bc16-875904b69982>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.p2pnet.net/story/48884	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941741	600	2	2
A move to end the estate-tax is luring new adherents in the 2010 midterm campaign, turning permanent repeal into a negotiating stance for future congressional wrangling over taxes. More than 250 current congressional candidates, mostly Republicans, have signed a pledge this year to support elimination of the tax, according to the advocacy group sponsoring the effort. The signers include 53 incumbents and more than half of Republicans running for House and Senate. During the 2008 elections, when the group first began seeking supporters, only 30 candidates signed up. The estate tax has become a particularly hot issue in the West, including in Washington state's Senate contest, and some rural House districts where Democratic incumbents appear vulnerable. The tax tends to be a hotter issue in rural areas because it raises particular concerns among farmers and landowners. During the Bush administration, Congress passed a law that lowered the tax gradually and repealed it entirely for 2010. It is set to spring back Jan. 1 to its 2001 level, absent congressional action, with a top rate of 55% and an exemption for the first $1 million of an estate's value. For now, it appears unlikely the momentum behind repeal will prompt Congress to extend the repeal for 2011. Instead, the current Democratic-controlled Congress seems likely to consider a new version of the estate tax in a lame-duck session after the November election as part of a package of extensions of other expiring Bush-era tax breaks. A strong showing for repeal in November, however, could raise pressure on lawmakers to lower rates and increase exemptions, Republican aides say. It could also lay the groundwork for reconsideration of the issue following the 2012 election. President Barack Obama favors returning the estate tax to 2009 levels, which saw a 45% rate and $3.5 million exemption. Republican leaders in the Senate, a body key to any resolution on the tax issue, are lining up behind a plan drawn up by Sens. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) and Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.) that would impose a 35% top rate and a $5 million exemption. Of the 260 candidates for the Nov. 2 elections who have signed the pledge to eliminate the tax, 253 are Republicans, and two are Democrats, according the American Family Business Institute, the advocacy group behind it. Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), a leader of the repeal camp in the Senate, said he hoped the 2010 elections would generate "the momentum to finally kill the death tax for good," using the conservative shorthand for the estate tax. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who is leading a drive by congressional liberals for higher rates on large estates, called the repeal effort "morally obscene." But he said in an interview he was worried by its renewed momentum. The repeal effort has been underway since the early 1990s. Former President George W. Bush promised in his 2000 campaign to abolish it. Because of the loss of tax revenue, Congress chose to lower the rate gradually from 55% to 45% between 2001 and 2009, while increasing the exemption from $1 million to $3.5 million. Lawmakers limited outright repeal to 2010, the final year of Mr. Bush's tax-cut legislation. In a 2009 poll by the nonprofit Tax Foundation, two-thirds of respondents said they favored estate-tax repeal, even though the tax was levied on only about 5,500 estates that year. The online survey of 2,002 adults aged 18 or older also showed that the estate tax is viewed as the most unfair federal tax, in part because the income being passed along has already been taxed by the federal government at least once. Opponents of a full repeal argue it is largely a campaign by the richest Americans to safeguard their fortunes. They say the estate tax helps prevent the perpetuation of wealth. "There is an enormous amount of money behind the effort to repeal," said John Russell, a wealthy Portland, Ore., office-building owner who works with groups that seek to maintain the estate tax. Mr. Russell said he believed some of the cash flowing anonymously to conservative political groups this year is aimed at promoting estate-tax repeal. Repeal proponents play down the role of the wealthy in their effort, saying such families often find ways to avoid the estate tax already. Instead, they say the tax mostly hits family-business owners and landowners. Critics say repeal advocates exaggerate the impact on small businesses and family farms. Lawmakers might balk at the cost of a full repeal, especially at a time of deep budget deficits. Eliminating the estate tax would cost about $410 billion over the coming decade, assuming the 2001-level tax returns as scheduled next year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. President Barack Obama's push to return to the 2009 levels would cost the government about $199 billion, compared with next year's scheduled rate. Meanwhile, the estate-tax repeal has become an issue in Senate races in Florida and Kentucky, as well as in House races in Missouri, Georgia and other southern districts. In Washington state, Republican Senate candidate Dino Rossi has made a full repeal a focus of his candidacy. With the TV cameras rolling during a recent campaign appearance, he stood next to an eastern Washington farmer who is battling renal cancer. The man pondered out loud whether he was better off dying this year in order to avoid exposing his family farm to next year's tax. "It's a shame the government forces people to make life or death decisions that affect what they've worked so hard for all their lives," Mr. Rossi said in an interview, before going to another estate-tax campaign event with small-business owners in Seattle . His Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Patty Murray, said the issue wasn't affecting the race. A Murray spokeswoman said it was a time-worn conservative tactic, adding that Ms. Murray supports a bipartisan compromise on future estate-tax levels that has backing among many Republicans. Washington voters "understand [Ms. Murray's] commitment to protecting family businesses while also balancing our budget priorities," Ms. Edwards said.	<urn:uuid:9139c69f-a521-4031-9c9b-5607093110b9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704763904575550442176217552.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.962972	1,236	1.59375	2
- Subscribe TodayGet a Free Book of Lists Sign Up for the Buffalo Morning Roundup Newsletter Send this story to a friend Higher education: On New York and its neighbors Jason Lane of the Rockefeller Institute tackles the future of colleges and universities in the Northeast in this recent item, including a rundown of familiar critiques involving finances and high school demographics. But amidst the less-than-encouraging data, New York is actually an outlier (it should be noted that Lane is a provost fellow with the State University of New York and teaches at the University of Albany, one of SUNY's four major research centers). For instance, New York is alone in the entire Northeast (an area defined as Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, according to the data Lane works from) where higher education support has increased since 2008, which Lane says "is indicative of a growing belief that higher education is a critical component of a state's economic prosperity. Governor Andrew Cuomo has clearly linked funding of higher education to his plan for growing New York's economy." Lane praises the SUNY 2020 model (though he calls it SUNY 2012). Lane also hits on the subject of high school demographics, and again New York stands out. In fact, it is the only Northeastern state where the number of high school graduates are projected to see periods of increase in the next 2.5 decades, though in total the class of 2028 is still expected to be smaller than the class of 2009. Lane writes that colleges from other states will try to poach New York students. College officials regularly bemoan the same trends, particularly the future of their customer base (students). So it's interesting to note that New York appears better positioned than some of its neighbors, though times are tight for everyone. "If the trends continue in their current direction, the closing or consolidation of at least some colleges in the Northeast is a very real possibility," Lane wrote. "Those that survive will the ones that learn to adapt to the new conditions." Dan Miner is Business First's enterprise reporter. He also covers education and public companies. If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below. - Most popular - Which WNY community has the highest income levels? - 5 private high schools in WNY charge more than $10K in tuition - Here are the Upstate colleges whose graduates make the most money - Which WNY community has the most residents with advanced degrees? - Which WNY community has the highest rate of homeownership? - Which WNY community has the largest concentration of big homes? - Which WNY community has the largest concentration of renters? - Nardin remains No. 1 among Western New York high schools, but City Honors is closing the gap - Williamsville pushes WNY district streak to 10 years; East Aurora edges Clarence for second place - Attorney Dobson dies after overseas biking accident The latest local business news delivered to you each day. How much do you trust Wall Street bankers and brokers to do what is best for the economy -- a great deal, somewhat, a little or not at all? - Careers at Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless \| Local Opportunities - Project Manager - Webster, NY Jones Lang Lasalle \| Webster, NY - Banking Financial Analyst/Manager Robert Half Finance & Accounting U.S. \| Buffalo, NY - Senior Systems Engineer Moog Inc. \| East Aurora, NY - Plant Controller Robert Half Finance & Accounting U.S. \| Rochester, NY	<urn:uuid:2f7ebc8d-39dd-47eb-a3fc-7c35af1e47d6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/miner-business/2013/02/higher-education-on-new-york-and-its.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_buffalo+%28Business+First+of+Buffalo%29	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.938621	775	1.546875	2
Female country singers emerge with self-confident musical statements By Bill Friskics-Warren MAY 29, 2000: Faith Hill's latest album turned back the clock for women some 2,300 years. Not that she meant to, of course. But on song after song on Breathe, as well as in the supine, sex-kitten photos that line the CD booklet, Hill embodies the misogynistic ontology that Aristotle inflicted on Western philosophy more than two millennia ago. "In Aristotle's biology women are denied all generative potency," writes theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether. "[Women] are merely passive incubators of the male seed which provides the entire formative substance of the homunculus." Aristotle's observations extend to all forms of human activity, not just procreation. Men, he insists, are powerful, active, and spiritual; women, by contrast, are weak, passive, and material. Women are ultimately defined by and subordinate to men. Breathe reverberates with this inane anthropology. At nearly every turn, Hill sings not of what she does or even can do, but of what her man is doing to her--of how he's kissing, touching, transforming, breathing life into her. Nothing on the album, though, is as egregious as "Bringing Out the Elvis," an unwitting howler in which Hill exalts the man who liberated her by, get this, unlocking her inner Elvis. "Just a fossil frozen in time/I could not move my heart, my soul, my feet/Then you unearthed me," she moans, trying to sound sexy. Incredibly, she delivers these lines with no hint of irony, and the same is true later in the song when she relishes no longer having to wait like a canned sardine for her man to open the tin she's in and set her free. Thank the goddess, then, for the new albums by Trisha Yearwood and Lee Ann Womack, records brimming with grit, autonomy, and smarts that couldn't have less in common with Hill's insufferable song-and-dance. Much as women like Macy Gray, Angie Stone, and Melky Sedeck are doing in the pop realm, Yearwood and Womack grapple with the variable pull of the heart's compass, in the process rendering country music relevant, even crucial, to everyday At a time when most of her Nashville counterparts have gone the slick pop route, Yearwood has up and made a blues album, or at least the emotional equivalent of one. Granted, apart from the Latin-undertow of "One Love" and the grassy twang of "Too Bad You're No Good," Real Live Woman isn't much of a musical departure from the pop- and rock-influenced country records Yearwood has been making since her self-titled 1991 debut. The differences are subtle, matters of degree: The guitars growl more; the rhythms press harder; Yearwood's vocals, which have always evinced exquisite subtlety and command, are huskier, a mite The striking shift is in her perspective, in where she's coming from. Yearwood recently divorced her husband of nearly six years, Mavericks bass player Robert Reynolds, and the wrenching material here reflects as much: She's got the blues, and she's got 'em bad. Throughout much of her new album, Yearwood fingers the jagged grain of that painful experience in search of meaning and, ultimately, a measure of transcendence. "Lately I ain't been feeling right/And I don't know the cure," she confides on "Try Me Again," a wailing, gospel-steeped number cowritten by her hero Linda Ronstadt. On "Some Days" Yearwood sinks deeper into despair. "If you see dark skies in my green eyes/It's just that I can't find no cover/These ghosts that haunt me/They get me when they want me," she grieves. It may be a leap from these emotionally barren lines to Robert Johnson bawling about blues falling down like hail, but it's hardly an inconceivable one. Still, as Yearwood sings at one point, "some days are better than others." On "I'm Still Alive" she emerges from her dark night of the soul and throws open the drapes to find that the sun is shining. "You're gone and I'm still alive," she marvels, exulting not just in the power of her soaring soprano, but in her hard-won resiliency as well. Later, struck by how her fingernails look better in pink sorbet than in some chic designer polish, she wonders "what took me so long to sing this song." It's a defining moment, as is the Bobbie Cryner-penned title track, a soul-searching meditation on the meaning of beauty akin to TLC's "Unpretty." "I don't need to be 19 years old/Or starve myself for some weight I'm told/Will turn men's heads," Yearwood sings, affirming her inherent worth and vowing to shape her own destiny. "Been down that road/And I thank God I finally know just who I am." Womack's new album, I Hope You Dance, exhibits much the same depth and scope as Yearwood's does. The record encompasses bluegrass (courtesy of top-flight bluegrass pickers and singers), pop, and honky-tonk, and does so in a way that's both tradition-minded and contemporary. Thematically, the songs plumb heartache and issues of self-esteem ˆ la Real Live Woman, but they also tackle topics ranging from parenting to providence to the meaning of life. The album's title track and first single is getting all the attention, and deservedly so; the song has an anthemic quality, a universality, that has made it a favorite at high school and college commencement ceremonies across the nation. But where "I Hope You Dance" veers into Hallmark territory--its sentiment earned largely on the strength of Womack's big-hearted vocal and David Campbell's tensive string arrangement--"Stronger Than I Am" is a gut-wrenching tour-de-force. Yet another stunner from the pen of Bobbie Cryner (a first-rate country-soul singer in her own right), "Stronger" finds Womack humbled by the resiliency of the daughter she's raising with her ex. "So many things she can teach me/Full of life and so completely innocent/She still says she loves her daddy/Goes on just like nothin' happened/Forgives and forgets," the singer muses in a silvery, Dolly-like tremolo. Warbles as breathtaking as Womack's, a sound as pure as the dew on the wildwood flower, come along only once a generation. That's why it was such a disgrace that the production on her first two albums often shrouded her gifts. It's not that these albums were without their share of moments, but too often Mark Wright's production--a Billy Sherrill retread here, a billowy Reba knockoff there--sounded phoned-in, barely a cut above the lowest common denominator. Not so with I Hope You Dance, where the pickers, arrangements, and material push Womack to reach deep inside and sing her throbbing heart out. Witness the difference between the wooden version of Buddy and Julie Miller's "Don't Tell Me" from Womack's last album and the soul-searing reading of Julie Miller's "I Know Why the River Runs" on I Hope You Dance. Elsewhere, Ricky Skaggs' mountain harmonies help etch sorrow into "The Healing Kind," while the fire in Womack's cover of Rodney Crowell's torch-twang anthem "Ashes by Now" is so palpable it's astonishing. Despite lyrics to the contrary, it's as if we're listening to I Hope You Dance abounds with these adult emotions, feelings that Womack, inspired by her main man Conway Twitty, says she wanted very much to convey. For all-consuming passion, though, nothing can touch the album's bone-chilling cover of the Millers' "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger," one of three standout tracks produced by Womack's husband, Frank Liddell. The back-holler wailing on the chorus alone might even be enough to dispel the stench from the corpse that's rumored to be stinking up Music Row these days--a fetor that not even Faith's perfumed lingerie can conceal.	<urn:uuid:27eb3e30-bd02-4eda-a49b-5de8d2532e25>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/05-29-00/nash_music-lede.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.942867	1,943	1.554688	2
Originally Posted by yogurt_21 hey Wiz I thought the rop's were tied to memory bit on this architecture. Wouldn't that put the gtx275 at 28 rops based on the 448-bit memory? your chart has it at 32 rop's the same as the gtx285 whcih has a 512-bit mem interface. Yes your correct.... they are 28 ROP's	<urn:uuid:38e6c870-01e3-486a-964d-a730faf1fb19>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1294981&postcount=12	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.973601	82	1.5	2
While Australia tries to steer boats crammed with immigrants away from its shores, it is beckoning wealthy foreigners with a new visa that smooths the path to Australian residency — for a price. Under a new visa program that goes into effect Sunday, skilled migrants don’t have to pass the usual tests that rate their skills, experience and English ability. The age limit is out the window. But there’s something extra that would-be Australians need to do to be eligible: Invest more than $5.2 million in Australia. Migration agents are reportedly calling it “the golden visa.” Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has plugged the program as a way to boost the Australian economy and compete for “high net-worth individuals.” Investors can plunk their money into government bonds, managed funds that invest in Australian assets, or Australian companies that meet specific standards and aren’t listed on the stock exchange. It was no coincidence that the visa category number is 888 — an especially lucky number for the Chinese, immigration attorney Michael Sing told the Sydney Morning Herald. Wealthy Chinese have flocked to other countries to enjoy a better quality of life, from cleaner air to less corruption. "We think this visa is aimed squarely at the emerging wealth in China," Sing told the paper. The idea has received some blowback from critics who say Australia has put residency up for sale. It stands in stark contrast to Australia trying to push other immigrants away. People who arrive on rickety boats are detained on the islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea while their cases are processed. Bleak and cramped conditions on Nauru, where detained immigrants could wait as long as five years, amount to “a human rights catastrophe,” Amnesty International said Friday. Australians “like the idea of well-dressed refugees arriving on a plane,” RMIT University lecturer Binoy Kampmark told The Times this year as the Nauru plan was debated. “They do not like the idea of being besieged by the sea." Though the hefty financial investment needed for the new Australian visa is striking, other countries, including the United States and Britain, have similar programs to lure wealthy emigres from abroad. Applications for the U.S. program have skyrocketed, The Times reported last year.	<urn:uuid:120d2524-398b-4575-8db5-64fb0241316f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.southbendtribune.com/topic/la-fg-wn-australia-visa-20121123,0,216227.story	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.965108	478	1.609375	2
FOOD AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS THE REVIEW PROCESS Field Services is responsible for providing training and technical assistance and for conducting administrative reviews to ensure that Child Nutrition Programs at the local level are operated in accordance with federal rules and regulations. There are ten field advisors located throughout the Commonwealth who visit sponsors of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). They report to Regional Supervisors in Harrisburg. In the National School Lunch Program federal regulations require the Department of Education to conduct administrative reviews of sponsors at least once during each five-year review cycle. In the Child and Adult Care Food Program, federal regulations require the Department of Education to conduct administrative reviews of 33.3 percent of all institutions annually. During the review, we look at activities for one month (called the test month) in a specified number of buildings or sites. THE REVIEW PROCESS The following areas are evaluated during a review of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) or a Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): - Free and Reduced-Price Eligibility Applications for free and reduced-price meals are reviewed to ensure that children are receiving benefits in the correct category. In the CACFP, enrollment documents are also reviewed to verify that only meals served to enrolled children are claimed for reimbursement. - Meal Patterns Menus are evaluated to ensure that meals claimed for reimbursement contain all required items. - Counting Systems The counting system used to determine the number of paid, free and reduced-price meals claimed for reimbursement is evaluated to ensure that meals are counted at the point of service. - Food Quantity Portion sizes of food offered are examined to ensure that the meals meet the minimum quantities or the planned portion sizes. - Civil Rights Field advisors ensure that there is no discrimination in enrollment or in the service of meals and that the approved non-discrimination poster is displayed to recipients. Advisors ensure that procedures have been established to receive complaints alleging discrimination and that children with disabilities are provided program benefits as prescribed by regulations. - Monitoring Responsibilities In the NSLP, sponsors with more than one building are required to conduct on-site reviews of the buildings under their jurisdiction at least once prior to February 1 of each year. Field advisors look for documentation of those visits. In the CACFP, sponsors are required to conduct staff training annually and are required to conduct monitoring visits at least 3 times each year with not more than 6 months between visits. Field advisors look for documentation of the training and monitoring visits. - Reporting and Recordkeeping Field advisors verify that sponsors keep necessary records on file to support their claims for reimbursement. Records must be kept for 3 years after the final claim for reimbursement for that fiscal year is paid or until resolution of any audit findings. - Free and Reduced-Price Process (NSLP sponsors only) The verification of free and reduced-price applications procedure is evaluated to ensure that the appropriate number of applications are selected for verification and that any changes to eligibility category, which resulted from the verification process, are made within the required time frames. - The School Meals Initiative (NSLP sponsors only) During the School Meals Initiative (SMI) Review, the field advisor does or reviews a nutrient analysis of menus to ensure that schools are making a good faith effort to serve meals that are consistent with the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. - Food Service Operating Costs and Administrative Costs (CACFP sponsors only) Food costs and operating costs are analyzed to document that all costs incurred are directly related to the CACFP and qualify as eligible expense items. Sponsors of family day care homes must have documentation to support the amount of administrative costs claimed each month. Advisors also verify that the amount received for meals is distributed to providers within five (5) days of receipt.	<urn:uuid:11b37682-a6e5-40be-b091-4900e3a59841>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/food___nutrition_services/7483/field_services	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952544	797	1.867188	2
A driver’s licence is a privilege – but no guarantee that the owner will be a safe driver! Drivers need to work on their driving, improve their skills all the time and seek to gain awareness on those aspects that will enhance their safety and the safety of others on the road. The major threats to road safety include a lack of self-respect and disregards for the rules of the road. The Automobile Association (AA) advises that all motorists give way to better road manners. The following are some valuable advice on road safety manners and attitude: - A motorist is not justified in keeping to the right-hand lane and obliging traffic to overtake him on his left simply because he is driving at the legally-allowed maximum speed. Another motorist may have a valid reason for exceeding the limit, and to obstruct him unreasonable may lead to the building up of a dangerous situation in which bad temper may overcome good judgment. - In an emergency switch on your emergency hazard lights as well as your headlights and drive at a safe speed. Obey the rules of the road and don't drive recklessly. - Although driving in the emergency lane during daylight hours is permitted under certain provisos, following traffic has no right to force traffic ahead to move across the yellow line to allow overtaking - it may be courteous to move over but it places the onus on you to ensure that it is safe to do so. - The AA urges motorists to be more tolerant and patient on our roads by driving defensively, rather than aggressively. Content courtesy of Arrive Alive: www.arrivealive.co.za	<urn:uuid:0c805615-c173-497a-b7c4-a10ef4affcf9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ford.co.za/ford-owners/resources/driving-techniquess	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963103	334	2.765625	3
CONIFER — A plume of fire and smoke — reaching up to 1,000 degrees and moving as fast 40 mph — took about two hours to burn about 4 square miles in Jefferson County Monday afternoon. The fast-moving blaze tore through the back roads near Conifer and Aspen Park, leaving several residents trapped. By Tuesday morning two were dead and a third missing. Winds of up to 80 mph, temperatures in the 70s and parched terrain were the perfect combination for the fire plume, which burned thousands of acres and sent smoke billowing as high as 10,000 feet in the air, said Dan Hatlestad, spokesman for the Jefferson County Incident Management Team. Sam Lucas, 77, and his wife Linda, 76, were found dead at their home, which was destroyed in the fire. Theirs home was one of 27 destroyed in the blaze, most along Kuehster Road. The road runs along the northeast section of the fire zone. An 32-man, six-dog team started searching for a woman who remains unaccounted for. The woman's husband reported her missing while he was out of town. Their home was destroyed in the fire. The fire most like sparked around 2 p.m. Monday, from embers that left behind by a controlled burn last week. Fire crews had been working hot-spots related to that fire beginning Thursday. Strong winds Monday afternoon pushed the fire east. Later that afternoon, temperatures increased and wind gusts hit 80 mph. The winds sent intense radiant heat in front if the flames, which "pre-cooked" the fuels, making them more susceptible to the approaching blaze. "The flame sheets were 30 to 40 feet wide across Kuehster Road," Hatlestad said. Temperatures got so hot that the fire started sucking up the surrounding oxygen and debris and sending it into the plume. The debris and gases continued to burn in the plume above the blaze. Plumes can be so intense they create their own weather system, Hatlestad explained. Plumes are too dangerous to fight. They move erratically and can easily close in on fire crews, Hatlestad said. "Unfortunately ,several residents experienced this Monday," said Hatlestad, who was one of the firefighters helping get resident out of the plume. The plume could travel several miles and reach a resident in minutes. "You would see gray clouds, then black and then flames," Hatlestad said. The fire behavior is simar to that seen in the Hayman and FourMile Canyon fires. Today, crews are hoping to begin containing the fire while they continue to maintain protection for structures inside the fire. While the plume has been replaced with a less visible haze, the fire is still incredibly dangerous as fuels continue to burn within the perimeter. "The fire can creep along and seem like nothing more than a candle and then suddenly explode," Hatlestad said. It is unclear when evacuees will be allowed to return to their homes.	<urn:uuid:adf51ef5-45a5-423e-9909-c8cd2f4b18d1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20274702/plume-smoke-and-fire-reached-1-000-degrees?source=rss	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970901	628	1.726563	2
~ ~ SalvationFirst Ministries ~ ~ A Non-Denominational Ministry of Our Heavenly Father Sharing the Word of God... World-Wide Why is it important to understand Marriage Marriage is a term used in The Word of God. It means much more than united by the laws of the State of Ohio or any other Government, It means HOLY Matrimony. The Word of God tells us this is a SPECIAL HOLY UNION, as it is also used to describe the very union we are to have with Jesus Christ when He returns for "His Bride" In the Book of Genesis, we read God made Man as "Male and Female", But he did not have them as Husband and Wife. These were not His Special Creation. Adam was his first Special creation. Adam was the FIRST to have a WIFE. Notice that this Female was not called female, but was called WOMAN by Adam. God made her because He knew "It was not good for man to be alone" Our Creator had us BOND as ONE to a woman as He made her our wife. How do we know Eve was one with Adam? Notice the order of scripture. Our Creator made Eve from the rib of Adam for a reason. She was truly "A Part of Adam" This is also shown when Eve was with the serpent. She said God told her not to eat from the "Tree of Knowledge" However nowhere in The Bible is she told this as Eve. ADAM was told this BEFORE she was taken from his rib. So she heard this FROM God, THROUGH Adam. She heard it as a rib inside Adam. She was a part of the BODY of Adam. All these terms are also used to explain our relationship with God. So we must understand them, in order to understand our TRUE relationship with Our Father and Our Savior Jesus Christ. (If you can understand how we are one with our wife / husband, then you can understand that Our Heavenly Father, Our Savior Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, are also ONE.) As stated earlier, there were "Male and Female", (They were NOT called Man and Woman) created at the same time as Adam. These humans were told to "go forth and multiply" It was with these humans that Cain found his wife. Remember, Cain feared OTHERS would kill him, and God used the term "ANYBODY" These words would not be used to describe Adam or Eve. We have covered in other messages that there is a difference between IMAGE and LIKENESS, and that we were not made in his LIKENESS at this time. (Image is what we see in a mirror, our OUTSIDE or Flesh. His Likeness is Spirit , and Jesus did that at the Cross. Genesis 1:26-28 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam	<urn:uuid:2aa306f5-6caa-4790-8bd0-ae1d400791a6>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.salvationfirst.org/Understanding_Marriage.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.988761	867	1.664063	2
Phonological disorder occurs when a child does not develop the ability to produce some or all sounds necessary for speech that are normally used at his or her age. Phonological disorder is sometimes referred to as articulation disorder, developmental articulation disorder, or speech sound production disorder. If there is no known cause, it is sometimes called "developmental phonological disorder." If the cause is known to be of neurological origin, the names "dysarthria" or "dyspraxia" are often used. Phonological disorder is characterized by a child's inability to create speech at a level expected of his or her age group because of an inability to form the necessary sounds. There are many different levels of severity of phonological disorder. These range from speech that is completely incomprehensible, even to a child's immediate family members, to speech that can be understood by everyone but in which some sounds are slightly mispronounced. Treatment for phonological disorder is important not only for the child's development to be able to Phonological disorder is often divided into three categories, based on the cause of the disorder. One cause is structural problems, or abnormalities in the areas necessary for speech sound production, such as the tongue or the roof of the mouth. These abnormalities make it difficult for children to produce certain sounds, and in some cases make it impossible for a child to produce the sounds at all. The structural problem causing the phonological disorder generally needs to be treated before the child goes into language therapy. This therapy is especially useful, because, in many of these cases, correction of the structural problem results in correction of the speech sound problem. The second category of phonological disorder is problems caused by neurological problems or abnormalities. This category includes problems with the muscles of the mouth that do not allow the child sufficient fine motor control over the muscles to produce all speech sounds. The third category of phonological disorder is phonological disorder of an unknown cause. This is sometimes called "developmental phonological disorder." Although the cause is not known, there is much speculation. Possible causes include slight brain abnormalities, causes rooted in the child's environment, and immature development of the neurological system. As of 2002, there is research pointing to all of these factors, but no definitive cause has been found. The symptoms of phonological disorder differ significantly depending on the age of the child. It is often difficult to detect this disorder, as the child with phonological disorder develops speech sounds more slowly than his or her peers; generally, however, he or she develops them in the same sequence. Therefore, speech that may be normal for a four-year-old child may be a sign of phonological disorder in a six-year-old. Nearly all children develop speech sounds in the same sequence. The consonant sounds are grouped into three main groups of eight sounds each: the early eight, the middle eight, and the late eight. The early eight include consonant sounds such as "m," "b,", and "p." The middle eight include sounds such as "t," "g", and "chi," and the late eight include more complicated sounds such as "sh," "th," "z," and "zh." Many children do not normally finish mastering the late eight until they are seven or eight years old. As children normally develop speech sound skills, there are some very common mistakes that are made. These include the omission of sounds, (i.e., frequently at the end of words), the distortion of sounds, or the substitution of one sound for another. Often the substitution is of a sound that the child can more easily produce for one that he or she cannot. The diagnosis for phonologic disorder depends greatly on the age of the child in question. Children who are four years old may have speech production difficulties that show normal development for their age, while children who are eight years old and making the same mistakes may have phonological disorder. In children with phonological disorder, the pattern and order of speech sound acquisition is usually similar to that of normally developing children. However, the speech sound skills develop more slowly, so age is an important factor in determining a diagnosis of phonological disorder. Children with phonological disorder may make the same speech sound mistakes as younger, normally developing children. In some cases, however, children with phonological disorder have demonstrated more instances of omissions, substitutions, and distortions in their speech. When exploring a diagnosis of phonological disorder, it is generally recommended that a physician check for other possible causes of the signs and symptoms. A child's hearing should be checked, because speech sounds that are not heard well by a child cannot be imitated The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) states that for a diagnosis of phonological disorder to be made, three general criteria must be met. The first criterion is that the child is not developing speech sounds skills considered to be appropriate for his or her age group. Also, this lack of speech sound acquisition must be causing problems for the child at home, at school, or in other important aspects of the child's life. If the child is mentally retarded, has problems with his or her speech muscles or hearing, or if there is environmental deprivation, a diagnosis of phonological disorder may still be appropriate. The diagnosis can only be made, however, if the lack of speech sounds skill is considered greater than the child's other problems. Phonological disorder of unknown cause is considered significantly more common than phonological disorder that is caused by neurological or structural abnormalities. It has been estimated that 7–8% children who are five years old have phonological disorder with any cause (developmental phonological disorder). About 7.5% of children between the ages of three and eleven are thought to have development phonological disorder. Phonological disorder is more common in boys than it is in girls. Estimates suggest that two to four times as many boys as girls have the disorder. Children who have phonological disorder are more likely to have other language problems and disorders. Children with one or more family members who have this or similar language disorders are also considered to be more likely to have phonological disorders. Treatment by a speech-language pathologist is generally recommended for children with phonological disorders. The therapy will differ depending on an individual child's needs, but generally takes the form of practicing sounds. Sometimes the child is shown the physical ways that the sound is made, such as where to place the tongue and how to form the lips. Repetition of the difficult sounds with the therapist is an integral part of treatment. There is debate, however, over the way that children with more severe forms of the disorder should be treated. Some therapists believe that the sounds that are learned later in development should be addressed first, even if the child has not developed the more simple sound skills. Other therapists believe that simple sounds should be treated first, as it is easier for children with phonological disorder to master them. One other school of thought is that when the child develops a sense of accomplishment when these sounds are mastered, and he or she will more willingly continue with treatment. There is ongoing research on this debate, and the results as of 2002 are still mixed. Children who have phonological disorder because of neurological or structural problems that do not allow them to produce some sounds are often helped to find approximate alternatives for the sounds within the range of sounds that they are able to produce. The prognosis for children with phonological disorder is generally good. For many children, the problem resolves spontaneously. It is reported that in 75% of children with mild-or-moderate forms of the disorder, and whose problems do not stem from a medical condition, the symptoms resolve before age six. In many other cases, children who receive treatment eventually develop normal or close to normal speech. In some cases, there may be mild effects that last until adulthood, but speech is completely understandable. For children with phonological disorder due to a neurological or structural cause, the outcome generally rests on how well the cause of the problem is treated. There is no known way to prevent phonological disorder. A healthy diet during pregnancy and regular prenatal care may help to prevent some of the neurological or structural problems that can result in the disorder. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. text revised. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. Sadock, Benjamin J. and Virginia A. Sadock, eds. Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. 7th edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000. Rvachew, Susan, and Michele Nowak. "The Effect of Target-Selection Strategy on Phonological Learning." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, no. 3 (June 2001): 610. Weismer, Susan Ellis, and others. "Nonword Repetition Performance in School-age Children with and without Language Impairment." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 43, no. 4 (August 2000). American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 3615 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016-3007. (202) 966-7300. <www.aacap.org>. The American Academy of Pediatrics. 141 Northwest Point Boulevard, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098. (847) 434-4000 <www.aap.org>. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. 10801 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. (800) 638-8355. <http://www.asha.org>. Tish Davidson, A.M.	<urn:uuid:b52ea4c9-c601-4707-8113-079627c00893>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/phonological-disorder	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.958085	1,979	3.59375	4
Homesteading, Organic Gardening, How to Farm, Preparedness, Self-Reliance Tags: Gardening, Grapes Hi David really like the picture of the grapes. We just planted two grape plants in April of this year hope to have grapes next year. Ellen from Georgia Fantastic, Ellen. I just pruned mine back on Thursday. The grapes have set for the season and they look great. I really have no idea what I'm doing with them - very much learning as I go. I'm glad the grapes know what they're doing ;) David it really is a learning experience for sure, we have corn that is really growing just have to keep the deer away. We have one big black dog Bandit who is watching the garden for us and doing a good job so far. If he manages to keep the deer and rabbits out it will be a steak for Bandit Toni thanks that is the first packet we planted, over to the right of the picture will be the second packet along with the red potato's above it. First picture right down from chicken run pasted potato's is second packet of corn Toni, I'm in zone 7a. It gets brutally hot here. Our growing season keeps getting earlier and earlier. This year I could have easily set out plants in March. Although the temp dropped in the high 30's, low 40's in March, it was in the 70's and 80's most of the time with no frost. The grapes really came out fast this year. Hi David we put the potato's in the ground on March 17 so far every thing is really growing, have a feeling it is going to all come at the same time. Ellen from Georgia Make a comment! Join Farm Dreams Welcome toFarm Dreams Sign Upor Sign In Or sign in with: © 2013 Created by Dusty Bottoms. Report an Issue \| Terms of Service Please check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.	<urn:uuid:be072f1c-cf3d-49ba-993d-95907d1497f3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.farm-dreams.com/photo/grapes-1?commentId=6379289%3AComment%3A58382&xg_source=activity	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.965787	412	1.617188	2
Le Moulin de Lecq was one of the ancient water mills of the island of Jersey and retains the name it bore 600 years ago. Formerly a fuller’s mill, with parts of the mill dating back to the 12th century, Le Moulin de Lecq is a historic landmark featuring the largest water wheel on the Island. The Germans later requisitioned the wheel to generate power for their search light batteries throughout the war years until the liberation. In April 1955 the “mill” was granted a license, and it was decided to convert it into an “inn” of unusual character. The outside water wheel weighs 18 tons and has a diameter of 21 feet and works entirely by the weight of water as it did hundreds of years ago. Since then, the property has been run as a genuine free house serving an extensive range of real ales and beers. A newly built restaurant now adjoins the old mill inn which has been designed in a sympathetic way to blend in with the original stone and masonry craftsmanship. Le Moulin de Lecq can cater for parties and functions of all sizes and has recently been granted a license to hold wedding ceremonies for that very special day! Le Moulin de Lecq prides itself on its informal atmosphere and hopes to provide a welcome and relaxing change to the hustle and bustle of St. Helier.	<urn:uuid:6d5ba4a5-8441-48c6-bd85-a2f3b5fc25ce>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.moulindelecq.com/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955974	287	2.265625	2
The essential sources to assist in your investigation of the history of your property are the Sands Directories. These were the city-wide address book of the day in use in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. In Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia a similar directory was in use, and were published by either the Post Office or H. Wise & Co. Sands Directories \| Source: Royal Australian Historical Society Library, Sydney Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1858-1932 Each issue of the Directory listed householders, businesses, public institutions and officials of the entire Sydney area. The two major components of the Directory were the 'Alphabetical' and the 'Suburban' sections. The first consisted of a single alphabetical sequence of the names of householders, business houses and major organisations, with the address of the associated premises attached. The suburban section provided similar information arranged variously by suburb, locality or local government area as the Directory developed. The street-by-street listing of householders in Sands is useful for undertaking research on the history of properties. The type of information included is: - Householder's name and title, - Street number and house name, - Householder's occupation or type of business They are useful in listing the residents of a building, although they may not necessarily be the owners of the property. They also help confirm the date of the house. The easiest way to do this research is to simply take a later volume of the directory and go back until your house no longer appears. You may come across a reference to the property being "vacant" or "house under construction". If so, it's likely your house will appear the following year. The first year in which a property appears in Sands may be considered an indication of when a piece of land was first developed but be cautious, the first listing may in fact be after a period of omission e.g. if the property was vacant for some time. However, directories are not without their problems. Information was often a year behind and inclusion in them was not compulsory - the fee for being listed putting many off. Other problems identified by the Royal Australian Historical Society, says the society's librarian Donna Newton, include: - Street names may change - Street numbering sometimes absent in the early Directories - Street numbering may change - House names could change regularly - Listing may not indicate a change of use or redevelopment - Sands is not a legal document - the information was collected by Sands' agents who called door to door - and is open to error - If a property was vacant, then the Sands' agent could not collect information for the site Where do I find a Sands Directory? As with all research, start with your local library. These fine institutions may have hard copies or microfiche of the originals, and will likely have free access to Ancestry.com.au or findmypast.com.au, which both have Sands records from various states as part of their collections. Use the amazing Trove to find a library near you stocking the directory. Beautiful hard copies of the Sands Directories are available at the Royal Australian Historical Society, at History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney and of course, you can find the Sands at: - State Library of New South Wales - State Records NSW, see Archives in Brief 116 - Researching your house or property Directories across the states:	<urn:uuid:85ac2db8-be80-4665-b829-0cbe03d4e175>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://insidehistorymagazine.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955642	717	2.65625	3
Arts, crafts inspire Indy hobbyists to seek professional organizing help With three young children, Iva Caldwell of Zionsville, Ind., tries to capture their early memories in scrapbooks. But pulling out craft supplies and packing them away each time she wanted to work on a page felt like wasted time. Yet the perfect craft table proved elusive until her husband, Dustin, stumbled across a brochure for California Closets advertising craft room designs. They consulted with the highly rated company, and in December paid about $2,800 for a custom craft cabinet in their basement. “This allows me to have everything in its place, and I can keep supplies out or put them away,” Iva says. The Caldwells represent a growing number of homeowners carving out dedicated spaces for their creative crafts. Erin Moore, senior design consultant for California Closets of Indianapolis, says her team started seeing an uptick in craft room requests about two years ago, and today they add up to about 15 to 20 percent of business. Moore says designs vary and prices start around $2,000. “At the very least it’s a large wall and a lot of times it’s a whole room being converted,” she says. The Craft & Hobby Association’s most recent survey found that 59 percent of Midwest households engage in some type of crafting. The rise of websites like Etsy, where crafters sell homemade goods, and Pinterest, where users share images of crafts, also indicate being crafty is cool again. Amanda Mauer Taflinger opened Homespun: Modern Handmade in Irvington in 2010, following the success of the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange annual craft fair, which she helped found in 2007. This spring, the store, which sells local handmade goods, also began offering classes on various crafts. “People are interested again in handmade goods,” Taflinger says. Michael and Susan Porter of Carmel paid highly rated Innovative Cabinets & Closets of Westfield, Ind., about $3,000 to outfit a basement room with cabinets and a custom table for Susan and their children to work on art, sewing and other craft projects. “A lot of stuff can be put in that room, out of the way,” Michael says. “It’s a place to leave the mess and close the door.” Beyond building a dedicated space for craft supplies, professional organizer Becky Gaynor of highly rated Time 2 Declutter in Indianapolis says many crafters need help organizing supplies. “Many tools and items are needed for crafts and hobbies,” says Gaynor, who charges $59 an hour. “Unfortunately, by the time they find me, they haven’t been able to be in their craft room at all. Their talent and outlet has been shut down because their inventory got out of hand.” She recommends culling duplicate and outdated supplies, and organizing by theme, whether by season, color or type of product. After using an item, put it back immediately. Angie’s List member Joan Elliot of Greenwood, Ind., turned to Gaynor in January because she couldn’t use her loom room — a space she built into her home for her weaving hobby — because the looms, bags of wool and other objects crowded her out. “With such a strong personality, she was able to work with me when I’d get wishy-washy about getting rid of something,” Elliot says.	<urn:uuid:25d4d2a9-cf9a-45b3-8681-526b46acdb63>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.angieslist.com/articles/arts-crafts-inspire-indy-hobbyists-seek-professional-organizing-help.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.962454	726	1.71875	2
The full-length paper is a great read as well. He describes his translation methodology and gives some detail on each bug found. At first it may seem the author could be stacking the odds towards the static language as the translation was manually done by himself, but I found his description of the process pretty convincing of its fairness. The choice of Python as a source language probably helped given the pythonic inclination towards straightforward code that avoids sophisticated abstraction and metaprogramming mechanisms. But the real meat of the paper is in the description of the bugs he found. Upon a not particularly discriminating reading, a clear pattern jumped out. Most of the bugs fell into one of two categories: - Assuming that a variable always references a valid value when it can contain a null value. - Referencing constructs that no longer exist in the source. How the second category of bug comes about is easy to guess from the projects histories: some method or variable was present but changed, perhaps it was renamed or subsumed, and not all references were updated to reflect the change. Even pervasive unit tests can't hope to catch these kinds of regressions, as the problem is found on the integration between units of code; the units themselves are just fine. A type system helps when the change affects the signature of the referenced construct, which is often but not always. If the study's findings are generalizable and my observations are correct, these are the main takeaways: - If you have a type system at your service, it's prudent to structure code such that behavior-breaking changes are reflected on the types. - End-to-end integration tests are a necessary complement to both a suite of unit tests and a type system. In my experience how far should these tests stray off the happy path is a difficult engineering trade-off. - If your type system allows nulls — such as Java's, for instance — its role in bug prevention is greatly diminished. The proportion of null-dereference bugs on the analysed code bases helps to makes it clear just how big a mistake it is to allow nulls in a programming language.	<urn:uuid:53ed3b37-05f4-41fe-8b40-f6ed78295502>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blog.rafaelferreira.net/2012_07_01_archive.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.958165	432	2.21875	2
Barack Obama has crossed the Rubicon and come to the defense of same-sex marriage. For him, it was a small step, since his is already the most pro-gay rights presidency in history, but it will have big political ramifications. The war is on. The line is drawn. Mitt Romney -- who, in another incarnation as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, said he stood to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights issues -- now is opposed not only to gay marriage but to civil unions. Any trace of limp-wristed accommodation with homosexuals is being drummed out of the Republican Party, and Mr. Romney wants to prove himself a good drum major. In state after state, Republicans are backing bills and ballot measures that push back against the rapid advance of "the gay agenda." On Tuesday, voters in North Carolina approved an amendment to the state constitution that not only bans gay marriage, but also makes civil unions and domestic partnerships illegal. This is no mere "defense of marriage;" it is a judgment about what kinds of relationships should benefit from government policies. It is not about politics, it is about sin. Many religious Americans fervently believe homosexuality is a moral abomination. They also believe heterosexuals living together without the benefit of marriage are breaking God's law. The only sanctified model for human partnership is a man and a woman joined together in matrimony, they insist, and that model should be favored by government while other pairings are discouraged. This is a traditional view that, only a few years ago, was utterly conventional and largely unchallenged. However, an alternative way of seeing things has emered and has, in recent polls, won the approval of a majority of Americans. Newark Mayor Cory Booker summed up this alternative principle on "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday evening: "This is not about gay rights; this is about equal rights." This, too, is a traditional ideal and has the added force of being imbedded in our Constitution: No citizen can claim more rights than another; all people are created equal. Therefore, if state or federal governments offer tax advantages, legal protections or special privileges to married people, then every citizen should be allowed to marry. The U.S. Constitution does not pass judgment. It is not the Bible. There is no exception based on what a citizen does in the bedroom or with whom he or she does it. Equal protection under the law is the right of every American. So, now, an election that was supposed to be about "the economy, stupid," will also be about which tradition should prevail. Mr. Romney and the Republicans have made it perfectly clear they are the party of the religious view. All sinners may find forgiveness, but not all of them have the right to marry. They cannot even establish a household with a person they love and receive the same state-sanctioned benefits enjoyed by married citizens. The Democrats are the party of equal rights. This is hardly new, but the president's statement of support moves the party to an unambiguous endorsement of same-sex marriage as part of that egalitarian guarantee. At the Democratic convention in September, there will be no attempts to fuzz up the language on this issue in the party platform as there would have been if Mr. Obama were still playing it safe. His position is no longer evolving. He has chosen sides. Now, we will see if he pays a price. Certainly, this will intensify support for him among liberals and in the gay and lesbian community, but there are more evangelicals than homosexuals in America. There are a lot of blue-collar swing voters with conventional views of sexuality. There are plenty of conservative Catholics among the Hispanic voters the Democrats need to win. Yes, 53 percent of Americans say they favor gay marriage, but a big share of them are young people, who are the laziest voters. The president probably lost votes by speaking up for gay marriage, but at least with half the country he won new respect. Mr. Obama came into office with expectations he would be a transformational president. On this issue, at least, that is what he is becoming. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Horsey is a political commentator for the Los Angeles Times. Go to latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/ to see more of his work.	<urn:uuid:a5f1e9ef-0932-48a9-8ce2-00754b48e5dc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-horsey-obama-gay-marriage-text-20120511,0,6176405.story	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.972985	891	2.015625	2
- No one said good transit was free. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Metro's critics have continued to beat their drums loudly regarding certain failings of the transit agency — some painfully real, some imagined. One bruising example I see still cited is WMATA's $200,000 report articulating its benefits to the D.C. metro region. I've defended this expense in the past (in theory, assuming a reasonable breakdown of funds from WMATA's planning chief Nat Bottigheimer). The numbers sound high but not wrong when talking professional statistical analysis. When I visited Arlington County's Commuter Services Bureau last month, I mentioned the small WMATA controversy over its $200,000 report to a senior official, someone situated in local planning for upwards of a decade, and she laughed. "Oh, that's cheap!" Lois DeMeester, executive director of Arlington Transportation Partners, declared. Quality statistical analyses aren't easy to come by ... and they cost. I've been reviewing the D.C. Office of Planning's recent expenditures on urban planning reports, and I want to include these costs here for comparison and context. Here's a taste of what director Harriet Tregoning's crew is spending as they ponder the District's future: • Sustainability plan ($500,000) • Mt. Vernon Square traffic modeling ($200,000) • Capital improvement plan/facilities planning ($200,000) • Economic development implementation projects/Eds & Meds study ($200,000) • Zoning regulations re-write, publications, outreach, economic analysis ($175,000) • Office space study with GSA and DGS ($175,000) • Historic Preservation incentive program analysis ($165,000) • Union Station study ($100,000) Take a long, good look at those figures there. Dizzy from the dollar signs yet? Seven of the eight budget items above cost more than $150,000. Local transportation studies and analyses cost in the tens of thousands and yes, frequently enough hundreds of thousands of dollars. I fully understand people's gut reactions to the numbers. To pause and question whether officials are efficiently spending taxpayers' money is more than fair and even necessary. But what I would emphasize is that WMATA's spending on its report is not atypical — various local government agencies spend their funds on analyses such as that at similar expense (even though as a whole, WMATA should probably be spending money a little more wisely). Consider the Barney Circle archaeology study, which ran for $250,000. The Department of Public Works recently conducted a Solid Waste Generation and Composition Study, now in draft form, with a budget of $147,132. Remember the D.C. Streetcar Land Use Study that got everyone so excited? The one Mayor Vince Gray cited in his State of the District speech earlier this year and that envisions $5 to $7 billion in investment dollars coming into the city thanks to the new transit network? Its phase 1 price tag was $501,000. Its phase 2 follow-up that's planned: $310,000. These are the numbers, people. For better or worse.	<urn:uuid:ed257e32-ac62-44a8-b9c2-6eb125f3be2f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-on-foot/2012/03/context-when-judging-the-cost-of-transportation-studies-14717.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945008	653	1.710938	2
William Orville Douglas Douglas, William Orville, 1898–1980, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939–75), b. Maine, Minn. He received his law degree from Columbia in 1925 and later was professor of law at Yale. A Democrat, Douglas was appointed (1934) to the Securities and Exchange Commission; as chairman (1937–39) he pursued a vigorous policy of reform. He was prominent as a proponent of the New Deal and was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He became known on the court for his fervent support of civil rights, conservation, and personal and civil liberties, particularly the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. Consistently liberal, in 1953 he granted a stay of execution to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who had been convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and were subsequently executed (see Rosenberg case). The House of Representatives made an unsuccessful attempt to impeach Douglas for this act. His 1965 decision reversing Connecticut's ban on contraceptives ushered in an era of significant privacy rulings. Among Douglas's published works are case books on business law and volumes on American law and civil rights, including We The Judges (1956) and A Living Bill of Rights (1961). An advocate of outdoor life and an enthusiastic traveler, Douglas wrote many books on these subjects, including Men and Mountains (1950), Russian Journey (1956), My Wilderness (1962), and The Three Hundred Year War: A Chronicle of Ecological Disaster (1972). He also wrote the autobiographies Go East Young Man (1974) and The Court Years (1980). Douglas was sometimes critized for various ethical lapses in his personal life, and the heroic image that emerges in his autobiographical works has been somewhat tarnished by discoveries that he had bent the truth on a number of details, e.g., his youthful health and social status, his military service, and his academic record. Nonetheless, his reputation as an outstanding jurist, staunch protector of privacy and civil rights, and defender of the environment remains intact. An anthology (1959) of Douglas's Supreme Court opinions was compiled by V. Countryman. See biographies by J. F. Simon (1980) and B. A. Murphy (2003); H. Bosmajian, Justice Douglas and Freedom of Speech (1980); N. Feldman, Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (2010). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. See more Encyclopedia articles on: Supreme Court: Biographies	<urn:uuid:9f997f50-eb87-4d94-8100-daa026c8697d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/douglas-william-orville.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.965637	543	2.578125	3
NDSU Identity Fraud/Theft This site provides suggestions for protecting your personal information and monitoring your personal credit. Within this site, you will find links to state and federal resources that provide you with additional information. No matter how vigilant the University is, there is always the possibility of security breaches in computer systems in which personal information can become compromised. These breaches can be caused through a number of ways: faculty security software, hackers, or breaches through contracted third-party vendors. Documents containing names, addresses, and social security numbers for NDSU students, faculty and staff can be potentially viewable via the Internet. If such incidences ever occur, the University will take immediate steps to remove the information from the Internet, including requesting Internet search engines to remove the information from their servers so that it could no longer be viewed. Those records which are high risk for such security breaches are: - Student information, including student registration records, transcripts and loan data. - NDSU human resource and payroll records. - Graduate School records, which include completed applications for admission, records of graduate degrees conferred, and grade transcripts. NDSU wishes to make anyone who may ever be affected aware of actions that can be taken to minimize potential risk of identity theft.	<urn:uuid:16950675-7e23-4563-8248-1e110bd733ef>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ndsu.edu/general_counsel/identity_theftfraud/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.928011	258	1.679688	2
I’d like to burn some very typical straw men. Hopefully, in the debate over Christianity, these unnecessary issues can be avoided. Creation - Neither Genesis nor any of the scriptures demands that the earth and universe is only 6- to 10- thousand years old. The Hebrew word for “day” (yom) could mean long periods of time. The words “there was morning and there was evening, the first day” could be translated “there was beginning and ending, the first (yom)”. (BTW, the narrative moves to the surface of the earth in Genesis 1:2. While stars were certainly already in existence, their light was not visible on the surface of the earth until the opaque early atmosphere cleared). Adam and Eve – While scripture does indicate they were specially created, there are gaps in the biblical genealogies that could place Adam and Eve back 60- to 90-thousand years. This would also predict increasing discovery of a common DNA originating between east Africa and the Mesopotamia. (BTW, the word for “rib” means “side”. The story of Eve’s creation could mean God created her from Adam for symbolic purposes. I speculate a biopsy, of sorts, from the side, with a few million variations to the DNA producing a female. ) Talking Snakes - A boa constrictor with vocal cords is not in view here. That image comes largely from medieval art. The “serpent” in the garden was intelligent and used for evil. One can only speculate what sort of being it was (perhaps one no longer extant). The Flood – The fact that a great flood is found in various cultures indicates that it happened. Two questions emerge: which account is most accurate and whether the flood was global or local. I’m of the opinion that the flood was regional rather than global for several reasons. First, while the flood was universal in effect, it was only regional in extent due to human’s not having moved much beyond the Mesopotamia at the time. A global flood was unnecessary. Secondly, language like “under all the heavens”, “all the earth”, etc. are most likely from the perspective of the observer, i.e. a flood from horizon to horizon. “Mountains” could be translated “hills” with rain and water “covering” (or running over) them rather than submerging them. Thirdly, this would mean there were not polar bears and penguins, etc. on the ark, but only animals indigenous to the region and of special relation to man. Fourthly, a global flood would have torn the ark to pieces, no matter how well built. And it certainly would not have landed anywhere near its original location. Fifthly, the scripture itself said a “large wind” was used in the evaporation process. Such a wind would have virtually no effect in a global flood. Finally, if the flood were only regional why not just have Noah, his family, and whatever animals needed, hike out of the area and be safe? Why a big specifically-built ark? I think because God often operates via symbols teaching important truths or significance, i.e. salvation in Christ or deliverance through troubled waters (trials). Use of Metaphor – The scriptures use metaphor and other literary devices. One need only utilize common exegetical analysis and context to determine what any author meant as literal or metaphorical (and on a case-by-case basis). Inerrancy – If there are consequential or factual errors in the Bible that does not mean Christianity is false. However, I find it remarkable how well the Bible holds up to scrutiny and that there are plausible answers to discrepancies. Personally, I hold to the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy. Hell – is not a place of torture (external) but of torment (internal). There are many descriptions of hell in the scriptures. The “fire” is most likely not the chemical combustion we’re familiar with. It, combined with all the other descriptions, reduces to separation from God and the judgment of God. This does not make hell more tolerable (that’s not possible). But it does dispel hillbilly theology that has poor souls swatting flames for eternity! Christ depicted conversation taking place “in the flames”. No person could have a conversation while on fire! On our familiar planet, one is in mindless torture if burning. It is, however, a profound tragedy to be eternally separated from God. It is a “spiritual chaos” one enters when the intact “self” survives the physical body. There are indications that some kind of body could exist in hell. Heaven – is a remarkably physical place. It is not ethereal or immaterial. It is a combination of a “new heaven and new earth”. We will live on earth in physical bodies that are “spiritual” which nonetheless have access to one another and continued exploration of the universe without many of the limits of current bodies affected by entropy, etc. Christ’s resurrected body could be touched and he ate food, etc. This describes the redeemed, resurrected body. This is not to be confused with an intermediary state which is not physical. At death, one goes either into the very presence of God to await the resurrection of the body, or in a state of chaos to await final judgment. “God will not allow anything to happen in your life that you can’t handle” – False! Scripturally, there are plenty of things that happen that one cannot handle! Devastating things! The accurate teaching is that nothing will happen that God’s grace will not get one through. “You must become like children” - Christ said to “humble yourself like a little child”. It does not mean to be naïve, ignorant, gullible, or irrational. Pascal’s Wager – This is not an argument for God nor necessarily addressed to atheists. Pascal used a popular gambling motif to shake the French laity out of spiritual complacency and to at least move them in the direction of God. Further, the Wager, as it is commonly used, is not allowed by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. He said if Christ was not risen, then the jig is up! Christianity is false! He did not say believe it anyway “just in case” or because it provides a positive way of life. I hope these internal considerations provide food for thought. Kevin, despite the very civilized answers you have received to your post, I believe the most common understanding of this community is that you're preaching to the wrong choir. Nobody here will ever consider any of your "clarifications" worth the time it takes to read them. Like Heather exemplified somewhere around the middle of the thread, you might as well be hypothesizing about any other fairy tales accuracy, nobody around here would blink twice. I believe you'll feel more welcome at the Landover Baptist website. Proselytizing is actually welcome there. Fernando, I suggest all of us ensure that we clearly know what it is to which we're opposed. Or maybe not which we're necessarily opposed to, but simply do not believe. I agree, and that is why I investigated the Bible and Christianity to the extent that I have. I moved from a point of not knowing much about it and not really caring much to having enough exposure to be certain I do not want to follow Christ. I've checked that off my list, and I am good with it. I don't think that's opposition as much as lack of belief. Ron, I think we're spending time on #1 throughout this thread and others. We certainly need to discuss it as thoroughly as we can. #2 makes sense in a theistic context, particularly if God has indeed revealed himself in Christ and the Incarnation). If God exists, miracles are possible and alleged instances can be examined on a case-by-case basis. #3 and #4 are instances of God's grace and love. Only a perfectly righteous person could atone for the sins of others. #5 is like #2. Remember, the Christian hypothesis is "God raised Jesus from the dead", not a naturalistic anomaly, etc. #6 is best understood in the context of the Old Testament theocracy (which is no longer in effect). God used the armies of Israel in judgement on nations who were horrible beyond belief (after giving them 400 years to repent)! Most of the women and children fled ahead of the battle, but those who remained were killed. The question of whether this was an "atrocity" depends on whether God in fact commanded this. God gives life and takes life every single day! And, internally, God has the wisdom to know when and how. A good resource on this is, Is God a Moral Monster? by Paul Copan. The info on ancient military history alone is worth the read! As to #7, I think the proper way to view it is not God's erecting arbitrary criteria but rescuing us from our self-imposed separation from God. Christ did not come to condemn the world (establish a sickness so as to sell the cure) but to save us (because we were condemned already). Paul Copan in Is God a Moral Monster? is absolutely not an adherent of the Chicago Statement on Bible Inerrancy. In fact he blames many of the atrocities on the Israelites who were learning and trying to become Godly and he calls much of it hyperbole and exagerated. #1- fine - believe in your imaginary friend. I'll stick with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. #2- no, it makes no sense, unless of course you also accept all the other "virgin births" in mythology. #3-4- human sacrifice and vicarious redemption, in my opinion, are not instances of grace and love- simply acknowledging "you're forgiven" would be an act of grace and love- the convoluted human sacrifice concept in Christianity is sufficient for me to reject Christianity as nonsense. #5- does it matter? Aren't they the same "being?" It's ridiculous, regardless. #6- there are atrocities in Revelation. #7- and the criteria for eternal life in Christianity are? You are going to great lengths to preserve Bronze Age mythology that, in my opinion, is completely unnecessary. RonV - in case you're not aware of it, Pythagoras was also born of a virgin, healed the sick, and ascended to heaven at the end of his life - 300 BCE. So....you're of the more mystical and esoteric stripe, that's cool. I like that you are introducing people to the understanding of that approach. My contention comes from God as first cause, to have a being without form and with intellect defies physics and all behavior on this planet follows the repeatable behavior of matter. That is the fundament of logic itself, if there were no pattern then nothing else could even be. I can't concede that this pattern for the universe was created, there is no evidence. I do like that you've gotten into the language and context, this is a good post! Thanks, Donovan! I'm not sure I'm mystical or esoteric, i.e. I don't try to establish metaphor unless the context calls for it (e.g. "hand of God", "under God's wings", etc.). I just think the scriptures were written to cover broad eras, people groups, and individuals. It therefore does not fill in all the details (like how cellular mitosis works, etc. We can discover that as we go). God's being an unembodied mind does bring up mind/body dualism. Many philosophers hold that there exists "mental substance" apart from physical embodiment, but which can interact with matter (e.g. the brain). And, I think it makes much more sense that something of the order of mind is ontologically ultimate. Matter just does not have the characteristics of being ontologically ultimate. Time, space, matter/energy is contingent. RE: "Many philosophers hold that there exists 'mental substance' apart from physical embodiment, but which can interact with matter...." Who would those be Kevin, Uri Gellar notwithstanding --?	<urn:uuid:0f25f857-45cc-4789-9397-7bc780dc58e0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/common-misconceptions-of?commentId=1982180%3AComment%3A1149438	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961821	2,601	2.078125	2
Every year, no matter what, we all turn a year older. It can be exciting or sad depending on the person and age. Some people will want to celebrate, but others won't. Valley High School sophomores Brooke Pauley and Destiny Holden celebrated when they recently had birthdays. They turned 16, and did what most American teenage girls dream of but don't necessarily accomplish: they threw a Sweet 16 bash. Pauley, Holden and two of their friends decided they needed to have a big Sweet 16 party with friends and family, so on Feb. 11, they partied at the WVU Tech ballroom in Montgomery with more than 200 friends and family members. They never picked a theme, but their color scheme was pink, purple, black, white and grey. Everything said "Sweet 16" on it. Pauley wasn't quite 16 the day of her party; her birthday was four days later. She hasn't had any big parties in the past, and she said the Sweet 16 party probably will be her last. She doesn't think she's too old for parties; they just aren't her thing. When it comes to birthday party age limits, Pauley doesn't think there is one. "A lot of people have parties, and there is no reason why there should be an age limit," she said. Holden, who turned 16 two days after the party, has always wanted to have a big birthday party. "Turning 16 was just a good reason to have a big party," she said. Holden had a party planned for her 15th birthday, but it was cancelled at the last moment, so her last party was when she turned 14. She and Pauley had a small party together. From now on, she just plans to have sleepovers for her birthdays. Like Pauley, Holden feels that age shouldn't matter when it comes to having parties. In this case, she said lots of people have Sweet 16 parties, so why shouldn't she? Age should never matter when it comes to birthday parties. Turning a year older should be fun and exciting. Whether you have a big theme party or just a little get-together, a birthday should be a time to celebrate.	<urn:uuid:0d63b6b8-36a5-4a7d-a3c2-9123a4f6df3b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wvgazette.com/Entertainment/flipsidefeatures/201204190123	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.986856	461	1.734375	2
The Government has no plans at the moment to abolish the death sentence but will listen to views from all parties who are against capital punishment, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk V.K. Liew. "Suggestions will be given consideration from all aspects. In-depth study will be done, as abolishing the death peanlty would have a great impact on the judicial system of the country," he told Datuk Seri Mohd Radzi Sheikh (BN-Kangar) during question time in Parliament Wednesday.Star, 1/12/2010, No plans to abolish death sentence, but Govt willing to hear views [Wondering what PKR's and PAS's position is on the Death Penalty - they should call for its abolition.] NEW RESOLUTION APPROVED BY THE UN. THE PRO MORATORIUM FRONT GROWS December 22, 2010: The United Nations General Assembly yesterday approved a new resolution in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty. It is the third time after the historic resolution approved in December 2007 and then again in December 2008. 108 countries voted in favour, with 41 against and 36 abstentions (another 7 countries were absent at the time of the vote). It recorded a decisive step forward compared to 2007 when in a plenary assembly the votes in favour were 104, with 54 against and 29 abstentions (with 5 absent at the time of the vote).Another step forward was taken also in respect to the second vote on the pro moratorium Resolution in December 2008 when there were 105 in favour, 47 against and 34 abstentions (6 were absent at the time of the vote).The most significant political data regarding the favourable is that of 6 countries that in 2008 voted against (Kiribati, the Maldives and Mongolia) or abstained (Bhutan, Guatemala and Togo) or the abstentions of 4 countries (Comoros, Nigeria, the Solomon Islands and Thailand) that in 2008 voted against.The number of cosponsors of the Resolution also increased, 90 in total, three doing so for the first time: Cambodia, Russia and Madagascar.The only new part of the text of the Resolution concerns the request – in part contained in the 2007 text – directing the member states to ‘make information available relevant to the use of the death penalty to allow an informed and transparent national debate.'“The new vote at the UN in favour of the moratorium records the positive evolution happening for more than ten around the world towards the end of the State-Cain and the ending of the fake and archaic principle of an eye for an eye,” Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia said.	<urn:uuid:4959a8ef-e583-455a-a1cc-c4169b6d671b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://madpet06.blogspot.com/2010/12/malaysia-should-join-global-trend-move.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949991	552	2.046875	2
Religious circumcisions are crimes says court Published: 26 Jun 12 11:03 CETReligious circumcisions are bodily harm and thus a crime, a German court ruled this week, in what was dubbed a precedent-setting decision. Non-medical circumcision is a "serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,” the Cologne district court ruled. This criminalises religious circumcisions performed by Jews and Muslims, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper said on Tuesday. It says circumcision should be considered a crime of bodily harm. Thousands of very young boys are circumcised in Germany each year, mainly for religious reasons. In the United States most boys are circumcised shortly after birth - regardless of their religion, though the practice has declined in recent years and anti-circumcision protest groups have sprung up. German doctors performing circumcisions that are not medically necessary have until now operated in a grey legal area. Until now they could claim that they were unaware that performing a circumcision is a crime. Even if a physician was later found guilty by a court, there was a legal loophole and he could claim that the law was improper and avoid punishment. That is no longer the case, the Financial Times Deutschland said. "The ruling is enormously important above all for doctors because it's the first time that they have a legal certainty," Holm Putzke of the University of Passau told the paper. He has been calling for prohibition for years. “The court has, in contrast to many politicians, not allowed itself to be scared by the fear of being criticised as anti-Semitic or opposed to religion,” Putzke said. "This decision could not only affect future legal rulings but in the best case it could lead to a change of consciousness among the affected religions when it comes to respecting the basic rights of children." Jewish and Muslim groups have fought for years against a criminalisation of circumcision. They did not have any immediate comment on Monday's ruling, saying they needed to review it first, the paper said. The court ruling is likely to be highly controversial – experts expect the matter will end up being decided by the Federal Constitutional Court. The Cologne decision came after a Muslim doctor performed a circumcision on a four-year-old boy. Two days later the mother brought the child to the emergency room because he was bleeding. The prosecutor's office learned of the situation and filed charges against the doctor. The doctor was found not guilty in the first instance, but the prosecutor appealed.	<urn:uuid:8a4702ca-b50b-4a7a-b73f-731100eb7cde>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,28237.0.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.969955	519	2.09375	2
Anechoic chambers are specialized chambers designed for electromagnetic or sound waves. They have specialized walls to absorb and reflect waves of electromagnetic radiation. Acoustic anechoic chambers are soundproof and used for testing applications. They are usually constructed with cement or brick walls to keep outside sound from entering the chamber. Inside, the chamber is lined with fiberglass wedges to absorb the sound waves. Anechoic chambers that are used to study or test electromagnetic interference (EMI) are lined with an absorbent material, such as carbon-impregnated foam shaped into pyramids. The pyramidal shape acts to resist and dissipate the electromagnetic waves. EMI testing is done in anechoic chambers to analyze the properties of antennas and other electronics that are susceptible to radio or microwave interference. Anechoic chambers range from small compartments to chambers as large as aircraft hangars. The size of an anechoic chamber depends on the size of the objects to be tested and the frequency range of the radio or microwave signals used. Radio frequency interference (RFI) is the unwanted reception of radio signals and can be problematic to the other electronic equipment onboard aircraft and other vehicles. Radio frequency interference sources include lightning, electrical equipment, fluorescent lighting, cell phones, and transmitting equipment from radio stations. RFI testing helps determine which frequencies affect particular electronic systems and provide clues to mitigating the risks to communication devices or developing measures to counter the interference. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) measures the ability of an electronic device or system to function in its intended electromagnetic environment to work efficiently without error. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) issues include interference to radios produced by power lines, or the interference fluorescent lighting produces in computer monitors. Anechoic chambers used to conduct EMC testing monitor a device’s electromagnetic emissions and their potential interference to other devices, as well as the tested devices immunity or susceptibility to stray radio or microwave signals. Related Products & Services Acoustic enclosures are full chambers, enclosures, or rooms designed to attenuate or minimize acoustical noise. Audio Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Audio amplifiers and audio preamplifiers are used to increase the amplitude of sound signals. Preamplifiers or preamps are designed to amplify low-level signal from a high-impedance device such as a microphone or instrument pick-up. After pre-amplification, the signal is sent to a power amplifier or amp, which provides the higher current necessary to drive the speakers. Soundproofing and Acoustic Materials Sound proofing and acoustic materials are used to attenuate, deaden, or control sound and noise levels from machinery and other sources for environmental amelioration and regulatory compliance.	<urn:uuid:cc6e360f-3afb-4003-9e74-af7dd96ca8fc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.globalspec.com/learnmore/sensors_transducers_detectors/acoustic_audio_equipment/anechoic_chambers	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.90909	559	3.53125	4
New York, August 29, 2008—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Indian authorities to protect journalists and lift restrictions on media workers in the curfew-bound northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, after a cameraman was reportedly killed and a near-total news blackout hit the main city of Srinagar. Srinagar newspapers did not reach the stands today for the fifth consecutive day and cable operators shut down international news broadcasts on Thursday because of an almost uninterrupted government-imposed curfew, according to local news reports that are still being published sporadically online. Local television news broadcasts were ordered off the air on Sunday. Officials have been holding talks with cable operators and newspaper editors but no resolution has yet been reached. A BBC report said security forces shot and killed cameraman Javed Ahmed Mir on August 13 while he was waiting for an equipment van to arrive from a local news channel he worked for part-time. “The situation for the news media in Kashmir is dire,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “We call on the Indian authorities to immediately allow broadcasters to return to air and to ensure that journalists can move about freely. It is vital that news gets out during such a chaotic time in the region.” Srinagar-based newspapers last went to print on Sunday, but distribution was curtailed by a 24-hour curfew imposed in the early hours that morning to thwart anti-government protests. Monday’s issues went unpublished, according to local journalists. Officials reassured editors this week that steps would be taken to protect journalists after several complained of violence when government-issued curfew passes were ignored by police, local reporters told CPJ by telephone. But editors said they will be unable to print until all media staff are free to come to work, including hawkers, who are central to the local distribution system and are on the streets from 4 a.m., a local journalist told CPJ. Officials banned local news and current affairs programming in a letter sent to cable operators on Sunday. News reports published online from the Kashmir Valley said that some cable operators withdrew all remaining Indian and international news broadcasts on Thursday in protest against the continuing government ban. The government has denied banning international news, after programs went off the air on Thursday. But a report on Pakistani news Web site The News says authorities in Srinagar had already banned several Pakistani television stations, including news and entertainment programs, in a letter to cable operators on Wednesday. Irfan Ahmed, vice president of the Take 1 television group, told CPJ that his company, which distributes cable television throughout the valley, was in talks with local officials but that recent gaps in their programming were the result of technical difficulties, not protests. Journalists were hopeful that the restricted newspapers could begin printing again from Monday. “The situation is limping back to normal,” Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, the Daily Excelsior’s Srinagar bureau chief told CPJ today. One journalist said that some newspapers had been published in the other major city of Jammu, but that they were not widely available due to the stymied distribution system elsewhere in the state. Jammu officials also withdrew the television news ban after six hours, according to a report published on the news Web site Greater Kashmir. An unidentified group protesting inadequate coverage of the independence burned stacks of the Jammu-based Daily Excelsior on August 23, according to news reports. The predominantly Muslim state has seen escalating turmoil since the local government promised a disputed tract of land to a Hindu shrine in June. Separatist groups in the Indian-governed portion of Kashmir seek independence or union with Pakistan. CPJ is a New York–based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide. For more information, visit www.cpj.org.	<urn:uuid:748397c1-aeec-4498-8805-ff97b848e4b5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cpj.org/2008/08/media-shut-down-in-kashmir-one-journalist-dead.php	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970901	780	1.609375	2
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia The Kingdom of Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia, bordering Laos and Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, and the Andaman Sea and Myanmar to the west. Thailand is also known as Siam, which was the country's official name until May 11, 1949. The word Thai (ไทย) means "free" in the Thai language. It is also the name of the Thai people - leading some inhabitants, particularly the sizeable Chinese minority, to continue to use the name Siam. Main article: History of Thailand Thailand's origin is traditionally tied to the short-lived kingdom of Sukhothai founded in 1238, after which the larger kingdom of Ayutthaya was established in the mid-14th century. Thai culture was greatly influenced by both China and India. Contact with various European powers began in the 16th century but, despite continued pressure, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power, though Western influence, including the threat of force, led to many reforms in the 19th century and major concessions to British mercantile interests (as such many historians include Thailand in the "informal British Empire"). A mostly bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy. Known previously as Siam, the country first changed its name to Thailand in 1939, and definitively in 1949 after reverting to the old name post-World War II. During that conflict Thailand was in a loose alliance with Japan; following its conclusion Thailand became an ally of the United States. Thailand then saw a series of military coups d'état, but progressed towards democracy from the 1980s onward. On 26 December 2004 the west coast of Thailand was devastated by a 10 metre high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, claiming more than 5,000 casualties in Thailand, half of them tourists. Main article: Politics of Thailand The king has little direct power under the constitution but is the anointed protector of Thai Buddhism and a symbol of national identity and unity. The present monarch enjoys a great deal of popular respect and moral authority, which has on occasion been used to resolve political crises. The head of government is the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the king from among the members of the lower house of parliament, usually the leader of the party that can organise a majority coalition government. The bicameral Thai parliament is the National Assembly or Rathasapha - รัฐสภา, which consists of a House of Representatives (the Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon - สภาผู้แทนราษฎร) of 500 seats and a Senate (the Wuthisapha - วุฒิสภา) of 200 seats. Members of both houses are elected by popular vote. Members of House of Representatives serve four-year terms, while Senators serve six-year terms. The highest judicial body is the Supreme Court or Sandika - ศาลฎีกา, whose judges are appointed by the monarch. Thailand is an active member of the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Main article: Provinces of Thailand Thailand is divided into 76 provinces (changwat, singular and plural), which are grouped into 5 groups of provinces. Each province is divided into smaller districts - as of 2000 there are 795 districts (Amphoe), 81 sub-districts (King Amphoe) and 50 districts of Bangkok (khet). However, some parts of the provinces bordering Bangkok are referred to as Greater Bangkok (Prari Monthon). These Provinces include Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon. The name of each capital city (mueang) is the same as that of the province: for example, the capital of Chiang Mai province (changwat Chiang Mai) is amphoe mueang Chiang Mai. - Chiang Mai Chiang Rai Kamphaeng Phet Lampang Lamphun Mae Hong Son Nakhon Sawan Nan Phayao Phetchabun Phichit Phitsanulok Phrae Sukhothai Tak Uthai Thani Uttaradit - Chumphon Krabi Nakhon Si Thammarat Narathiwat Pattani Phang Nga Phattalung Phuket Ranong Satun Songkhla Surat Thani Trang Yala - Amnat Charoen Buriram Chaiyaphum Kalasin Khon Kaen Loei Maha Sarakham Mukdahan Nakhon Phanom Nakhon Ratchasima Nongbua Lamphu Nong Khai Roi Et Sakon Nakhon Sisaket Surin Ubon Ratchathani Udon Thani Yasothon - Ang Thong Ayutthaya Bangkok Chainat Kanchanaburi Lopburi Nakhon Nayok Nakhon Pathom Nonthaburi Pathum Thani Phetchaburi Prachuap Khiri Khan Ratchaburi Samut Prakan Samut Sakhon Samut Songkhram Saraburi Sing Buri Suphanburi See also: List of cities in Thailand Main article: Geography of Thailand Thailand is home to several distinct geographic regions, partly corresponding to the provincial groups. The north of the country is mountainous, with the highest point being the Doi Inthanon at 2,576 m. The northeast consists of the Khorat Plateau, bordered to the east by the Mekong river. The centre of the country is dominated by the predominantly flat Chao Phraya river valley, which runs into the Gulf of Thailand. The south consists of the narrow Kra Isthmus that widens into the Malay Peninsula. The local climate is tropical and characterised by monsoons. There is a rainy, warm, and cloudy southwest monsoon from mid-May to September, as well as a dry, cool northeast monsoon from November to mid-March. The southern isthmus is always hot and humid. Major cities beside the capital Bangkok include Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Sawan, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla. See also: List of islands of Thailand Main article: Economy of Thailand After enjoying the world's highest growth rate from 1985 to 1995 - averaging almost 9% annually - increased speculative pressure on Thailand's currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that uncovered financial sector weaknesses and forced the government to float the currency. Long pegged at 25 to the US dollar, the baht reached its lowest point of 56 to the US dollar in January 1998 and the economy contracted by 10.2% that same year. The crisis spread to the Asian financial crisis. Thailand entered a recovery stage in 1999, expanding 4.2% and grew 4.4% in 2000, largely due to strong exports - which increased about 20% in 2000. Growth was damped by softening of global economy in 2001, but picking up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China and various domestic stimulation programs along the Dual-Track Policies promoted by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Growth in 2003 is estimated to be around 6.3%, and projected at 8% and 10% in 2004 and 2005. Tourism contributes significantly to the Thai economy, and the industry has benefited from the Thai baht's depreciation and Thailand's stability. Tourist arrivals in 2002 (10.9 million) reflected a 7.3% increase from the previous year (10.1 million). Thailand is also a major destination for sex tourism, and there is particular concern over child sex and forced prostitution. Main article: Demographics of Thailand Thailand's population is dominated by ethnic Thai and Lao, the latter concentrated in the northeastern Isan region and making up around one third of the population. There is also a large community of Thai Chinese, who have historically played a disproportionately significant role in the economy. Other ethnic groups include Malays in the south, Mon, Khmer and various indigenous hill tribes. Around 95% of Thais are Buddhists of the Theravada tradition, but in the south of the country there are some Muslim areas, and small minorities of Christians and Hindus also exist. The Thai language is Thailand's national language, written in its own alphabet, but many ethnic and regional dialects exist as well as areas where people speak predominantly Lao or Khmer. Although English is widely taught in schools, proficiency is low. Main article: Culture of Thailand Muay Thai, or Thai boxing, is the national sport in Thailand and its native martial art. It reached popularity all over the world in the 1990s. Similar martial art styles exist in other southeast Asian countries. The standard greeting in Thailand is a prayer-like gesture called the wai. Taboos include touching someone's head or pointing with the feet, as the head is considered the highest and the foot the lowest part of the body. Thai cuisine blends four fundamental tastes: sweet, spicy, sour and salty. - Communications in Thailand - Historical parks of Thailand - Foreign relations of Thailand - List of Thailand-related topics - Military of Thailand - Music of Thailand - National parks (Thailand) - Prostitution in Thailand - Public holidays in Thailand - Thai immigration to the United States - Transportation in Thailand - Thaigov.go.th Royal Government of Thailand - Thai National Assembly Official parliamentary website - Tourism Authority of Thailand Official tourism website - Wikitravel: Thailand Wikitravel article on Thailand - List of organizations providing assistance and help to the victims of Thailand Tsunamis - Thailand Tourism Guide - CIA - The World Factbook - Thailand The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. 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In keeping with its original purpose, Hampden-Sydney seeks “to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.” The College is committed to the development of humane and lettered men and to the belief that a liberal education provides the best foundation not only for a professional career, but for the great intellectual and moral challenges of life. In an age of specialization, Hampden-Sydney responds to the call for well-rounded men who are educated in world cultures and can bring to bear on modern life the wisdom of the past. The College seeks to awaken intellectual potential in a search for truth that extends beyond the undergraduate experience. The College encourages each student to develop clarity and objectivity in thought, a sensitive moral conscience, and a dedication to responsible citizenship. The liberal education offered at Hampden-Sydney prepares the student for the fulfillment of freedom. It introduces the student to general principles and areas of knowledge which develop minds and characters capable of making enlightened choices between truth and error, between right and wrong. The mere facts about a subject do not speak for themselves. They must be interpreted against a background of ideas derived from an understanding of the nature of logic, language, and ethics. The individual who is educated in these areas and in the basic disciplines is able to confront any event with true freedom to act, outside the constraints of prejudice and impulse. Thus Hampden-Sydney’s curriculum is directed toward the cultivation of a literate, articulate, and critical mind through the study of the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. It provides both breadth and depth in learning and encourages independent programs of study. Believing that education should be a liberating experience emancipating men from ignorance, Hampden-Sydney strives to make men truly free. THE WALTER M. BORTZ III LIBRARY AND FUQUA INTERNATIONAL Opened in the fall of 2007, the Library, named the Walter M. Bortz III Library in 2009, is an integral resource in the education offered by Hampden- Sydney, with a collection that supports the College’s liberal-arts curriculum and a staff ready to assist students and faculty in its use. The ability to use an academic library with confidence is one of the distinctive marks of an educated person. By means of formal and informal instruction in research methods, students are encouraged to progress from the heavy reliance on textbooks and assigned readings characteristic of the freshman to the independent work of the graduate scholar. The Walter M. Bortz III Library provides an open and inviting atmosphere for study and learning. The wireless configuration of the building makes it easy for students and faculty to use either laptops or desktops provided on every floor. Group study rooms are available for use and convenient carrels and tables provide quiet space for study. Containing more than 250,000 volumes, 280 periodicals, and more than 19,000 ejournals, an extensive media collection, and government documents, the collection is arranged in open stacks on the third floor, with bound periodicals located on the first floor.	<urn:uuid:7c39fc7b-cb7e-44c9-8448-561a8198b15e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://hscathletics.com/information/recruits/academics	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.933082	633	1.914063	2
James Duddridge is the Member of Parliament for Rochford and Southend East and previously worked in Africa prior to entering parliament in 2005. Follow James on Twitter. For many, life in Africa is moving forward. Recent development indicators published by the World Bank show that in Sub-Saharan Africa GDP has risen every year since 2000, averaging 5.8% annual growth. Those are quite remarkable figures given the turbulent global economic environment of the last decade. The irony however is that probably the richest and most heavily resourced country of all within the region has benefited so few of its people and savaged so many. I am, of course, talking about Zimbabwe. In 2008 there was a palpable expectation from the citizens of Zimbabwe that they were, finally, going to be able to vote for change in their country and alleviate themselves from three decades of a tyrannical regime. Unfortunately, Robert Mugabe and his party, ZANU PF, had other plans. Despite every indication that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, had won by a landslide, a run-off was set with Robert Mugabe after the vote count conveniently recorded Tsvangirai as falling just short of the 50% required to form a Government. Over the next two months Mugabe and his Zanu PF supporters unleashed a campaign of terror and violence across the country, unparralled in its brutality even by Mugabe’s standards. Many opposition supporters were killed, and others – including Tsvangirai himself – were so savagely beaten they were left unrecognisable. In the end, Tsvangirai fell on his sword to prevent any further killings of his supporters and Mugabe was once again declared the victor and the power sharing Government of National Unity was formed. Five years later, the Government of National Unity has certainly improved the situation in Zimbabwe; there have been four years of steady economic growth following 10 years of economic contraction, inflation has been reduced from 231,000,000% to less than 4.5% and last month a new constitution – which includes limited presidential terms – was approved. Much of these achievements are down to the efforts of Tendai Biti, the Zimbabwean Finance Minister. With both parties now accepting that the Government of National Unity has run its course, the country once again stands at cross roads. One longstanding MDC supporter recently said , "we really are on the edge here. We have an opportunity now to kick on from the last five years work and get Zimbabwe back on its feet and back to prosperity. If we can once again become a viable destination for foreign investment, and get business working again, then all Zimbabweans will benefit. If we see what we saw in 2008, or a ZANU victory then God help us. We’ll be forgotten, and end up like the DRC." And it's because of this very real concern that it is so important we, the British Government, and the wider international community, particularly SADC and South African President, Jacob Zuma, do everything we can to ensure the upcoming polls are bonafide and as the people want. This means international election observers are critical, as is ensuring all political parties will be held accountable for their actions, as Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire. The recent passing of the new constitution in Zimbabwe is reassuring, but it is right for the MDC leadership to demand certain reforms are implemented prior to the country going to the polls, most notably amongst the security sector where worrying signs have already started to emerge that intimidation seen in 2008 is resurfacing. Whilst there will be some who think Zimbabwe should no longer be a priority for the UK’s foreign policy, particularly with recent news of chemical weapons in being used in Syria, a nuclear North Korea and the threat of Islamic rebels spreading across North Africa, that is to miss a vital point. Where do you think countries like Iran and North Korea are turning to for uranium and other resource supplies? Where do you think the millions of dollars of diamonds revenues are going? We need to look at the longer term and problems around the corner. The upcoming elections do not just offer the people of Zimbabwe hope, they offer the UK a chance to show it remains very much at the forefront of global foreign policy; with a democratically elected Government in power, Zimbabwe can be a major strategic ally to the west. Let’s remember, after all, that the average Zimbabwean is far more interested in a decent education, Manchester United and Nike trainers than they are with religious extremism or the development of nuclear arsenals. It is important we ensure there are free and fair elections so the people of Zimbabwe can decide.	<urn:uuid:d4929479-56ec-4c14-9b40-fedc1e563deb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/james_duddridge_mp/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967435	965	1.757813	2
Built in 1927, an 1800 square foot bungalow is bought by Shawna and James for $445,000 in 2002. Reflecting sky rocketing home prices in the neighborhood, the house is resold for $1.2 million to Jin and Chong in 2006. Having borrowed $900,000 to buy the house, and hoping that their $1 million home becomes a $2 million home which they can sell, the new owners default when the economy collapses. Foreclosed, the owners leave and the house is auctioned to its current owners, Eric and Alison, for $765,000. You can see the buyers’ side of the story. Easy to borrow money, soaring home prices, excited people who see their net worth multiply. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we have Washington Mutual providing easy loans (and then imploding), real estate agents facilitating sale after sale, Fannie and Freddie packaging mortgages into mortgage-backed securities, investors buying the securities, servicing firms collecting all of this money and passing it from party to party. But still, when we get right down to it, it really is all about one house. And then another, and another, and another. You might want to listen to Planet Money’s story of the mortgage-backed security they purchased, Toxie. The Economic Lesson Mortgage-backed securities enabled a financial bubble to inflate because they funded house sales with more money than otherwise would have been available. More dollars chasing the same number of goods inflates prices. As with all bubbles, eventually prices cannot move any higher. At that moment, the bubble pops and prices descend.	<urn:uuid:3dcd7d38-8f92-4dc4-89a3-a9850c3f354c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.econlife.com/more-than-just-a-house/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943081	337	2.09375	2
Embargo expired: 12/23/2012 1:00 PM EST Source Newsroom: New York University Newswise — Autistic-like behaviors can be partially remedied by normalizing excessive levels of protein synthesis in the brain, a team of researchers has found in a study of laboratory mice. The findings, which appear in the latest issue of Nature, provide a pathway to the creation of pharmaceuticals aimed at treating autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that are associated with diminished social interaction skills, impaired communication ability, and repetitive behaviors. “The creation of a drug to address ASD will be difficult, but these findings offer a potential route to get there,” said Eric Klann, a professor at NYU’s Center for Neural Science and the study’s senior author. “We have not only confirmed a common link for several such disorders, but also have raised the exciting possibility that the behavioral afflictions of those individuals with ASD can be addressed.” The study’s other co-authors included researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and three French institutions: Aix-Marseille Universite’; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); and Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The researchers focused on the EIF4E gene, whose mutation is associated with autism. The mutation causing autism was proposed to increase levels of the eIF4E, the protein product of EIF4E, and lead to exaggerated protein synthesis. Excessive eIF4E signaling and exaggerated protein synthesis also may play a role in a range of neurological disorders, including fragile X syndrome (FXS). In their experiments, the researchers examined mice with increased levels of eIF4E. They found that these mice had exaggerated levels of protein synthesis in the brain and exhibited behaviors similar to those found in autistic individuals—repetitive behaviors, such as repeatedly burying marbles, diminished social interaction (the study monitored interactions with other mice), and behavioral inflexibility (the afflicted mice were unable to navigate mazes that had been slightly altered from ones they had previously solved). The researchers also found altered communication between neurons in brain regions linked to the abnormal behaviors. To remedy to these autistic-like behaviors, the researchers then tested a drug, 4EGI-1, which diminishes protein synthesis induced by the increased levels of eIF4E. Through this drug, they hypothesized that they could return the afflicted mice’s protein production to normal levels, and, with it, reverse autistic-like behaviors. The subsequent experiments confirmed their hypotheses. The mice were less likely to engage in repetitive behaviors, more likely to interact with other mice, and were successful in navigating mazes that differed from those they previously solved, thereby showing enhanced behavioral flexibility. Additional investigation revealed that these changes were likely due to a reduction in protein production—the levels of newly synthesized proteins in the brains of these mice were similar to those of normal mice. “These findings highlight an invaluable mouse model for autism in which many drugs that target eIF4E can be tested,” added co-author Davide Ruggero, an associate professor at UCSF’s School of Medicine and Department of Urology. “These include novel compounds that we are developing to target eIF4E hyperactivation in cancer that may also be potentially therapeutic for autistic patients.” The study’s other co-authors were: Emanuela Santini, the study’s lead author, Thu Huynh, Andrew MacAskill, Adam Carter, and Hanoch Kaphzan of NYU’s Center for Neural Science; and Philippe Pierre of Aix-Marseille Université, INSERM, and CNRS. The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NS034007, NS047384, NS078718, and CA154916), a Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program award (W81XWH-11-1-0389), and the Wellcome Trust. # # #	<urn:uuid:30007dcc-465a-4e06-b1b9-b4dbb6ba84c5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.newswise.com/articles/neuroscientists-find-excessive-protein-synthesis-linked-to-autistic-like-behaviors	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950012	863	2.96875	3
Movie fans are probably familiar with the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, given that it sits in view of the famed "Hollywood" sign and remains a popular film location year after year. But the Los Angeles Times today offers a interesting peek into the life of Griffith J. Griffith, the millionaire for whom it is named. Start with this line: Griffith "donated about 3,000 acres for a city park in 1896, shot his wife in the head in 1903, and served two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon." His soon-to-be ex-wife survived, and Griffith reportedly came out of San Quentin a changed man. He got his inspiration to build the observatory after peering through a telescope one night—"If all mankind could look through that telescope, it would change the world"—and his epiphany was to put it not on some remote mountain but near the center of the city, easily accessible to all. By doing so, he played a huge role in opening up astronomy to the public, say his modern advocates. Critics, meanwhile, think he was just trying to buy back his reputation. Griffith died in 1919, but he left behind a trust to build the observatory, which didn't happen until the 1930s, "perhaps due to his lingering notoriety." Click for the full story.	<urn:uuid:ed73b34e-53cb-4145-847b-90e49f005e12>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.newser.com/story/163511/thank-san-quentin-ex-con-for-iconic-la-observatory.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.983691	267	2.625	3
Program That Helped Alleviate Hardship, Create Jobs Set to End Thursday Sep 29, 2010 Pacifica Radio posted a segment on the TANF Emergency Fund's expiration that quotes Ms. Lower-Basch. Listen to the segment. Most of the tens of thousands of individuals working at jobs subsidized by the TANF Emergency Fund will work their last day tomorrow, receive their last paycheck, and then try to figure out what happens next. This is because on Sept. 30, 2010, the TANF Emergency Fund expires. States will no longer be able to receive federal funding for increased spending on cash assistance, short-term benefits, or subsidized jobs. This is incredibly disappointing. Millions in the nation face unprecedented hardship, and this program helped to alleviate some of that hardship. The TANF Emergency Fund was created in February 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to assist states in expanding services during the recession. At that time, most people did not realize how deep or long-lasting the recession would be. Congress did not expect that in September 2010, unemployment would still be stuck at nearly 10 percent. CLASP has been calling for an extension of the Emergency Fund since January, and such an extension was included in President Obama's budget proposal for FY 2011. The House has included such an extension in several bills, but the Senate has failed to pass an extension of the Emergency Fund. The last attempt occurred Tuesday, when Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Robert Casey (D-Penn.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) sought "unanimous consent" for a stop-gap measure that would have extended the program for three months. However, Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi objected to the motion, and it failed. Although this program has received widespread and bi-partisan support at the state and local levels, the Republican leadership in the Senate has refused to allow it to be included in the Continuing Resolution, the bill that will extend government operations until all FY 2011 budget bills pass. Fortunately, all is not lost for some workers. Illinois used TANF Emergency Fund dollars to employ more than 26,000 people since April through its Putting Illinois to Work program. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced recently the state would use its own funds to continue the program for two months. This will allow workers to stay on the job while the state waits to see whether Congress will revive the Emergency Fund when it returns to session after the November elections.	<urn:uuid:4410067f-9be4-4b6d-8ce0-3935fec3b578>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.clasp.org/issues/in_focus_print?type=temporary_assistance&id=0022	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970646	509	1.828125	2
The General Assembly took an important step toward repealing Maryland's death penalty Thursday night when a key committee, for the first time in decades, approved a bill to end capital punishment. The Senate Judicial Proceedings committee voted 6-5 to send Gov. Martin O'Malley's death penalty bill to the Senate floor, with Sen. Robert A. Zirkin, a Baltimore County Democrat, dropping his long-held opposition to repeal of capital punishment and providing the decisive vote. It was one of two major pieces of the governor's agenda to move to Senate floor. The same panel also began crafting changes to O'Malley's gun-control package that proposed some of the nation's strictest gun laws and the governor declared his top priority for the General Assembly session. The committee rolled back some of the provisions requiring handgun licenses and barred from gun ownership people involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. It gave the bill initial approval in a 7-4 vote close to midnight. The bill repealing the death penalty is expected to go before the full Senate next week. Advocates say they have the votes there and in the House of Delegates to pass it, and they welcomed Thursday's action by a committee that has been seen as an obstacle to their position. "I'm elated that the committee has come to a place where they recognize it's time to have this vote on the floor," said Jane Henderson, executive director of Citizens Against State Executions. Henderson said the NAACP's push for repeal in Maryland was "instrumental" in changing the dynamic this year. With Zirkin's vote, she said, repeal advocates count at least 26 Senate votes for the bill — two more than needed. Henderson said she's confident the Senate would muster the 29 votes needed to end a filibuster if one is attempted. Before casting his vote, Zirkin told the committee he would probably never be comfortable with his decision no matter which way he came down. He said he was torn between his emotional response toward brutal murderers and the "legal and practical" arguments that the death penalty system doesn't work. "As heinous and awful as these individuals are, I think it's time for our state not to be involved in the apparatus of executions," he said. NAACP President Ben Jealous and Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger, who debated the death penalty Thursday night before a crowd of about 50 at a forum hosted by The Baltimore Sun, had differing reactions. Jealous cheered the committee's action and said that if repeal succeeds in Maryland, it could help push a U.S. Supreme Court decision to eliminate it throughout the country. "This is a state that has repeatedly sought to evolve and be a beacon for the rest of the country," Jealous said. Shellenberger, a Democrat who told the committee when he testified that the death penalty should be kept for the "worst of the worst," said he was "obviously very disappointed." "I still have some hope that when it hits the Senate floor that there will be enough opposition and hopefully some constituents will let their senators know how they feel," he said. "There's still always a chance that we may hang on and keep the death penalty." The Judicial Proceedings vote for repeal was the first for that committee since 1969, when the measure was defeated on the Senate floor, according to the Assembly's library staff. The panel temporarily blocked repeal in 2009, but the measure was brought to the floor in a rarely used parliamentary maneuver. The bill was amended on the floor that year to retain the death penalty but to allow it only in cases where the prosecution could meet one of the highest evidentiary standards in the country. Besides Zirkin, voting for repeal in committee Thursday were the panel's chairman, Sen. Brian E. Frosh; Sen. Lisa A. Gladden of Baltimore; Sen. C. Anthony Muse of Prince George's; and Sens. Jennie Forehand and Jamie Raskin of Montgomery County. All are Democrats. Voting against the bill were Democratic Sens. James Brochin and Norman Stone of Baltimore County and Republican Sens. Nancy Jacobs of Harford, Joseph Getty of Carroll and Christopher Shank of Washington County. Opponents of repeal argued that there are cases in which the death penalty is the only appropriate sanction — especially when a convicted killer commits another murder in prison. "We have murders in our prison system. We have murderers who say they are natural-born killers," Getty said. Five men, all convicted murderers, remain on death row in Maryland for killings that go back as far as 1983. The state has not executed a prisoner since 2005. The Maryland Court of Appeals imposed a de facto moratorium in 2006 when it threw out the rules under which executions are carried out. Those regulations have not been replaced amid complaints from death penalty supporters that the O'Malley administration has been dragging its feet.	<urn:uuid:4b5ba82b-fd25-44e8-b055-7dab98da7403>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-02-22/news/bs-md-jpr-voting-20130221_1_citizens-against-state-executions-senate-votes-death-penalty	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97194	998	1.726563	2
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology. In this Article - Arthritis facts - What is arthritis? What causes arthritis? - What are risk factors for arthritis? - What are arthritis symptoms and signs? - Who is affected by arthritis? - How is arthritis diagnosed, and why is a diagnosis important? - What is the treatment for arthritis? - Is there a special diet for arthritis? - What are the prognosis (outlook) for arthritis, and what are arthritis complications? - Can arthritis be prevented? - What is the national financial impact of arthritis? - What is a rheumatologist? - What is the Arthritis Foundation? - Find a local Rheumatologist in your town How is arthritis diagnosed, and why is a diagnosis important? The first step in the diagnosis of arthritis is a meeting between the doctor and the patient. The doctor will review the history of symptoms, examine the joints for inflammation and deformity, as well as ask questions about or examine other parts of the body for inflammation or signs of diseases that can affect other body areas. Furthermore, certain blood, urine, joint fluid, and/or X-ray tests might be ordered. The diagnosis will be based on the pattern of symptoms, the distribution of the inflamed joints, and any blood and X-ray findings. Several visits may be necessary before the doctor can be certain of the diagnosis. A doctor with special training in arthritis and related diseases is called a rheumatologist (see below). Many forms of arthritis are more of an annoyance than serious. However, millions of people suffer daily with pain and disability from arthritis or its complications. Earlier and accurate diagnosis can help to prevent irreversible damage and disability. Properly guided programs of exercise and rest, medications, physical therapy, and surgery options can idealize long-term outcomes for those with arthritis. It should be noted that both before and especially after the diagnosis of arthritis, communication with the treating doctor is essential for optimal health. This is important from the standpoint of the doctor, so that he/she can be aware of the vagaries of the patient's symptoms as well as their tolerance of and acceptance of treatments. It is important from the standpoint of patients, so that they can be assured that they have an understanding of the diagnosis and how the condition does and might affect them. It is also crucial for the safe use of medications. Viewers share their comments - Submit » Get the latest treatment options	<urn:uuid:b55ac31a-d4ac-4065-bfc8-2c2ae1e37dbf>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.rxlist.com/arthritis/page3.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934165	711	2.25	2
Why Everyone Hates Equities And Loves Bonds Day after day we are brain-washed with the mantra of equity dividend yields being greater than treasury yields implies 'cheapness' or "who wants a 2% return from treasuries?". While we have tried again and again to put this dead-end of apples-to-unicorns valuation to bed, SocGen has an excellent treatise on the subject that should make all but the most ardent Bill Miller fan comprehend the ultimate risk-reward trade-off. At its simplest level, comparing a risky instrument with an inherently risky cash-flow stream (equities and dividends) to a risk-free (at least from a get-back-your-money basis) should be a red flag for any valuation approach - no matter how ingrained it feels. While describing risk is always prone to complexity and argument, the chart below shows that based on current levels equities (SPY) are 32% (orange line) more volatile (risky) than TSYs (TLT). At the same time, the relative yield advantage (black line) is 10.8% higher in stock dividend yields vs TSYs - so a 3:1 risk-to-reward ratio for the switch from bonds to equities. Of course capital appreciation 'potential' is the main argument against this simple approach and that is where SocGen's excellent article comes in. Sub 2% bond yields offer miserable nominal returns, but equities always carry the risk of massive drawdown. Major losses on bonds typically stem from inflation eroding returns, not major price declines. Nominal bond drawdown has rarely exceeded 10% on a 5-year rolling basis. Let's put the relative risk attraction of bonds and equity returns into context. The five year maximum drawdown of US Treasuries and US equities on a nominal return basis is shown above. The point here is to show just how much more risky equities are versus bonds when it comes to losing money. Equity investors have seen several periods of substantial drawdown, whilst on a nominal return basis, which is the only thing that matters when marking to market, bond drawdown has been much more limited. And so to longer-term investing and the benefits of buy-and-hold: How regularly each asset inflicts pain on the holder is shown below. Here we make the assumption that you buy and hold each asset for a five-year period. We then ask the question, how many times, if investing on a monthly basis, since 1950, would you have taken a 20%, 30%, 40% or 50% drawdown? They succinctly summarize the asset allocation decision as follows: The bond investor could have bought bonds 90% of the months since 1950 and avoided having a 20% drawdown or more, whilst the equity investor could have only invested in 40% of months to avoid such losses. Extreme drawdown of 40% or more, even on a real basis, is almost unheard of in the bond market, but seen 17% of the time in equities. Yes bonds at sub 2% offer miserable returns, but equities will always offer a higher probability of major losses and until we have an investor base that is able to take such losses, low yields and a systematic preference for bonds is likely to be with us for a while. Risk capital will also be in short supply - if you have it, better use it wisely. As Boomers head into an uncertain retirement, we wonder whether this type of 'realistic' analysis will trickle-down to investor expectations and 401(k)s as the triangle of risk-reward-regret becomes more and more prescient every day.	<urn:uuid:05ee2696-9379-448e-a16b-92156023ea57>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-everyone-hates-equities-and-loves-bonds	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.928163	759	1.554688	2
Instituted over 200 years ago, the US Library of Congress (LOC) is the largest library in the world, housing millions of books, manuscripts, images, and recordings. With its dual mission to support Congressional research and share its vast resources with anyone who takes advantage of its collection, the Library sought to combine its wealth of knowledge and available technologies to make its resources more accessible to visitors and online users. Sapient provided strategic and project management leadership in re-launching the Library’s visitor experience, an important element of which was increasing collaboration and facilitating working relationships among departments across the Library. We also partnered with the Library to implement The Library of Congress Experience (LCE), an interactive presentation of multimedia exhibitions. Working with the client, Sapient established a single office of communication and planning and developed a plan to solicit monetary and in-kind donations. As a result of our efforts, online engagement with the Library has increased substantially, with more than 80,000 registered users on the companion myLOC.gov site, which helps visitors plan their trip or virtually tour many of the exhibits. Private donations increased by $3 million after the development and distribution of the business plan to key contributors. The project was recognized as a ComputerWorld Honors Winner for its contribution to better society through the use of technology.	<urn:uuid:3ccaed7a-3682-43e7-9e51-9148d3044055>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.humancode.com/en-us/government-services/our-work/case01.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.95016	266	1.640625	2
One of the best things about the Android interface when pitted against iOS is that it has an open source basis. This translates to an easier and simpler means of generating your own applications and dissemination them without having to wait for months to get your program approved. You can create your own Android application on your computer given that you have the proper tools installed. Moreover, you can take it for a spin using an Android emulator, which enables you to view and experience the program when it is operating on an actual android phone. There are two methods used to generate Android programs from a computer. The first method makes use of the Android Software Development Kit. The kit enables you to write pure codes and assists developers in moving within the complex Android environment. The other method deploys the App Inventor, a tool from Google Labs that is currently still in beta version. The App Inventor offers developers with a simple drag-and-drop interface that you can utilize to produce new programs designed from building blocks of codes. The App Inventor is actually designed to make application production possible for individuals who aren’t versed in coding. However, the program is not ideal for production mediums. Assuming that you prefer the full coded medium, this guide will manifest how to generate a basic application for Android. Upon creation of an Android app, one must have an integrated development environment where they can input the codes and take it for a test drive. Aspiring app developers will also require a computer that is installed with the Android kit. Begin by installing a Java Development Kit for your computer’s specific operating system. An Eclipse IDE will also have to be integrated for Java users. When you integrate Eclipse, it will automatically look for the Java Development Kit. It is ideal to unzip Eclipse in an identical directory as the Java Development Kit. If it can’t see the kit, it will not install, yet you can always transfer the needed documents to whichever directory the Eclipse installer is searching for it. Once the Eclipse program is operational, you can then download the Android kit. Extract the kit to a secure directory on your computer and make sure to remember where it is. This is only the first half of the process. There are more steps to go through to successfully build your own Android app. By correctly doing the above steps, you now have a solid foundation for your Android app development.	<urn:uuid:bbb21a14-fce1-43b1-aad3-a21c4b50ae94>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://fourreasonswhy.com/how-to-make-your-own-android-apps/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.915731	484	2.671875	3
Named a 5th– 6th Grade Honor Book by the Austin Young Engineer’s Award 2003-2004 From old favorites like Monticello, Falling Water, and the Chrysler Building, to lesser-known treasures like Bernard Maybeck’s First Church of Christ, Scientist (in Berkeley, California), the buildings that Janice Weaver presents tell the story of a nation and its people. Traveling through almost four hundred years of history – and to all four corners of the continental United States – Building America explores an architecture that is as diverse as the people who created it. Complete with timeline, glossary, and index, this fine introduction to architecture is splendidly illustrated by Bonnie Shemie’s detailed paintings. “[This] book with great visual appeal offers a tantalizing survey of 400 years of architecture… Meticulous, finely detailed renderings in subdued colors illuminate the buildings…” –School Library Journal “[This] book takes a fascinating chronological look at the development of architectural styles in the United States…Highly Recommended.” “…an intriguing historical guide…” “This is more than a marvelous illustrated history of architecture in America; it provides an easy-to-take social context for the buildings it showcases. Illustrator Shemie has done a masterly job of picturing the wide variety of buildings.” “…a fascinating record of how United States architecture has evolved in the past 300 years… The illustrations…are numerous and colourful.” –Winnipeg Free Press “[A] fascinating book, a must for any history or architecture buff…[w]ith clear, detailed illustrations…” “It’s a lovely and informative book, designed for pre-teens up, and of equal interest to adults. –BookLoons Teens Reviews “…interesting and highly informative…lavishly illustrated…” –The Monterey County Herald Janice Weaver has been working with books all her life – first as an editor, and now as a writer. Building America, her first children’s book, has allowed her to pursue a love of architecture that began when she was knee-high to a gargoyle. Bonnie Shemie is a graphic artist, author, and painter with a special interest in architecture. She is the author of Houses of China and the acclaimed Native Dwellings Series, which includes Houses of adobe; Mounds of earth and shell; Houses of hide and earth; Houses of snow, skin and bones; Houses of wood; and Houses of bark. Bonnie Shemie’s most recent book is Building Canada. Upgrade to the Flash 9 viewer for enhanced content, including the ability to browse & search through your favorite titles. Click here to learn more!	<urn:uuid:7a6fe0e2-cac5-478a-8212-af93b363b120>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.tundrabooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780887766060	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.922631	582	2.796875	3
The Roman Martyrology Confraternity of Ss. Peter & Paul What is the Breviary Online? The Official Prayer of the Church Next to the Holy Mass, the Divine Office (or Breviary) is the most important prayer offered to God. It is offered by the Church and in the name of the Church, conferring multifold graces and blessings on those who recite it worthily, attentively and devoutly. Normally the domain of priests and religious, the Church has continued to recommend her official prayer to the faithful. However, until now, the complexity of the rubrics and a lack of suitable translations has deterred many. Now Accessible to the Layman With the help of modern technology, it has become easier to overcome these problems. The result is the Roman Breviary published by the Confraternity of Ss. Peter & Paul in both Latin and English. No knowledge of the liturgy is required. All you have to do is click on the feastday, and then on the Canonical Hour you want to say. The rest is just like reading a book—everything is laid out for you in order according to the rubrics of the day. No more flicking through the ribboned sections of a weighty volume. No more apprehension that you are forgetting some obscure rubric. It's all there spelled out, in order, every day. Learn More about the Breviary And if you do want to deepen your knowledge of the Breviary or the Confraternity, this website can help you with that too. We already provide a short history of the Breviary, instructions on when to recite which Hours, a brief commentary on the psalms, and much more. And for those who would really like to understand the rubrics in greater depth, we provide in our bookstore a detailed but simply written electronic manual entitled How to Say the Breviary. We shall be expanding this website regularly with more information, so check back with us frequently. And may God reward your prayers by bestowing on you all those spiritual favours that come from a devout reading of the Church's Divine Office. Is this Breviary for You? Link to our Features Page to see what a difference our online edition of the traditional Roman Breviary can make in your life. Link to the Office for the Feast of St. Pius X, our secondary patron. You can browse through the various Hours of the Office and get a feel for what to expect. Check out the artwork, the original photos, play some of the music. We hope you enjoy the experience. More importantly do you think this approach to prayer is something that could be spiritually beneficial for you? How Do I Get Started? Register and Subscribe Link to our online Breviary homepage. Underneath the login form is a box, with the words First-Time User? and Register Here in red letters underlined. Click on this link and complete the short form. Click the Sign up link. Log in to our webiste using the user name and password you have chosen. When you first attempt to Recite the Breviary you will be linked to the subscription page. Here you may choose from our monthly subscription of $2.50 (USD) per month, or $24.00 for an annual subscription. Or simply send a check to the address provided on our Contacts page. For the Roman Martyrology Included in our new stand-alone version of the Roman Martyrology is a Perpetual Calendar for use in its recitation. This provides our subscribers with an easy way of referring to any page of the Martyrology according to the day of the year. A non-working illustration of this calendar may be seen on this website. Table of Moveable Feasts For Easy Reference There are two factors which create the need for a Table of Moveable Feasts. The first of course is the fact that the Festival of Easter does not fall on a fixed date of the civil calendar, but was established by the First Council of Nicea in 325 as the first Sunday after the full moon following the northern hemisphere’s vernal equinox. The second factor is that several feasts are linked to Sundays, which again, fall on a different date each year. During the course of the liturgical year, we therefore run into many feasts, linked to either Easter or to a particular Sunday, which cannot be ascribed to a fixed date. The Martyrology consigns the most important of these to a Table of Moveable Feasts, comprising a list of those feasts and commemorations contained in that book. In our stand-alone version of the Martyrology we include a link to this Table at the beginning of each day’s reading, thus allowing readers to refer to it and include any reading from it appropriate to the day. The Simple Version While the official rubrics for the Roman Martyrology are actually extremely complicated and involve the use of astronomical and mathematical formulae, in practice for the average reader they are extremely simple. We provide on our website an abbreviated list of the most important things to remember while reciting the Martyrology. For those who are interested in an in-depth look into some of the more advanced and exotic features of the rubrics, we present elsewhere on this site a monograph written by the learned Provost of the Confraternity. Introduction to the Martyrology The Roman Martyrology is, like the Roman Missal and the Roman Breviary, an official liturgical book of the Catholic Church. It provides an extensive but not exhaustive list of the saints recognized by the Church. Click on the button to link to the If you are not logged in already you will be linked to our login/subscription page. The Roman Martyrology was first published in 1583 by Pope Gregory XIII, who in the year before had decreed the revision of the calendar that is called, after him, the Gregorian Calendar. A second edition was published in the same year. The third edition was made obligatory wherever the Roman Rite was in use. In 1630 Pope Urban VIII ordered a new edition. 1748 saw the appearance of a revised edition by Pope Benedict XIV, who personally worked on the corrections: he suppressed some names, such as those of Clement of Alexandria and Sulpicius Severus, but kept others that had been objected to, such as that of Pope Siricius. Since then, the Martyrology has remained essentially unchanged, save for the addition of new saints canonized during the intervening years. Since then, the Martyrology has remained essentially unchanged, save for the addition of new saints canonized during the intervening years. The Martyrology generally begins (see the three exceptions below) with the announcement of the calends. This simply provides the date, which in the Latin is given in the old Roman format, followed by the current phase of the moon. After the mention of any movable feast which happens to fall on this day, there then follows the reading of the saints who either died or who are for some other reason commemorated on this anniversary. Each entry generally provides the name and type of saint, information on the location where the saint died, and if a martyr, the name of the persecutor, a description of the tortures, and the method of execution. Often other information is added, thus making the Martyrology an invaluable reference for those interested in the lives of the saints in addition to those celebrated in the Universal Kalendar. The Church recognizes that the Martyrology is not an exhaustive compilation of the entire Church Triumphant, and so the daily reading always concludes with the words “Et álibi aliórum plurimórum sanctórum Mártyrum et Confessórum, atque sanctárum Vírginum” (And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins) with the response “Deo gratias”. Recitation of the Martyrology The entry for each date in the Martyrology is to be read during the Office of Prime on the previous day. Reading in Choir is recommended, but the reading may also be done otherwise: in seminaries and similar institutes it has been traditional to read it in the refectory after the main meal of the day. Whenever the Martyrology is not said in Choir, its reading becomes optional for those bound to the recitation of the Divine Office (eg. clerics in major orders). Reading of the Martyrology is completely omitted on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. On certain dates of the liturgical year, the Martyrology prescribes special proclamations to be made before the commemoration of the saints of the day: On Christmas Eve, a long proclamation of the birth of Christ is made immediately after the announcement of the calends. This has special ceremonies and recitation tones, and is generally celebrated with great ceremony. On Easter Sunday, the Martyrology not having been read during the three previous days of the Paschal Triduum, a proclamation of the Resurrection of Christ precedes the announcement of the calends. On All Souls Day, in order to separate the Church Suffering from the Church Triumphant, the proclamation of the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed is made before the announcement of the calends. Online Breviary's Two Versions The Roman Martyrology is an integral part of the Roman Breviary. It is read as part of the Office of Prime, and can be found within that context in the text of our Divine Office prepared daily for the recitation of our subscribers. This original version has the following advantages over the standalone version we now present: A daily illustration of the phase of the moon, clearly showing what to expect in the night skies on the day the Martyrology is read; The inclusion of the movable feasts in their proper context within the reading of the Martyrology of the day; Appropriate contextual modifications for the anticipation of vigils, the transfer of feasts, and so on. We thus encourage our members to read the Martyrology in this context as part of their daily recitation of Prime. However, it is often the case that our members wish to refer easily to a list of saints for a particular day of the year or simply to read the day’s Martyrology outside Prime. We are therefore presenting a new stand-alone version of the Roman Martyrology as part of your subscription. This new version has all the same text and artwork as the original, but is laid out in a manner convenient for reference or for reading outside the Office of Prime. We hope you will find this a useful addition to our online Breviary.	<urn:uuid:a18442d6-7e4e-4666-9eba-b837e05d966d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.breviary.net/martyrology/mart.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945176	2,230	1.679688	2
His Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for research and discoveries relating to what scientists and philosophers call the Big Questions. We support work at the world's top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and social science relating to love, forgiveness, creativity, purpose, and the nature and origin of religious belief. The Templeton Prize (for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities) is awarded each year to "a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, best exemplifies "trying various ways for discoveries and breakthroughs to expand human perceptions of divinity and to help in the acceleration of divine creativity." Beyond the Prize, some controversy has surrounded the awarding of 'Fellowships' and grants to institutions, researchers and journalists. Author John Horgan has written of his guilt in accepting money and travel, due to his "misgivings about the foundation's agenda of reconciling religion and science", and perhaps also due to the fact that the Foundation is now run by John Templeton Jr, "an evangelical Christian [who] is the chairman of Let Freedom Ring Inc., which raises funds for conservative causes.". Though Horgan and many others ended up accepting the grants/fellowships, some have not: At least one scientist has publicly refused to accept money from the foundation. Sean M. Carroll, a physicist at the University of Chicago, declined an invitation to speak at a Templeton-sponsored conference held last fall, which featured 16 Nobel laureates and was endorsed by the American Physical Society. Carroll explained in his blog that "the entire purpose of the Templeton Foundation is to blur the line between straightforward science and explicitly religious activity, making it seem like the two enterprises are part of one big undertaking." An atheist, Carroll did not want his name to be "implicitly associated with an effort I find to be woefully misguided." Yet Carroll admitted that he had been tempted by the foundation's offer of a $2,000 honorarium. Personally, I think the aims of the Templeton Foundation are laudable. Hopefully, in the wake of Sir John Templeton's death, no ideologies will be imposed upon either the Foundation, or those whom it supports.	<urn:uuid:061470bf-1e14-493c-a792-415d52904611>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://dailygrail.com/Fresh-Science/2008/7/Templeton-Passes-Away	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961147	457	1.679688	2
Your Local Organic Farmer Your local organic farmer isn't dousing crops with toxic chemicals, or overdosing the soil on fossil fertilizers. He doesn't process peanuts at a rodent-infested plant crawling with salmonella. Your local farmer doesn't slaughter cattle in such conveyor-belt high volume that E. coli contaminates the beef. She isn't pumping up her dairy cows full of synthetic hormones or cramming so many cows into such small spaces they need antibiotics to stay free of disease. Your local farmer isn't letting "foreign materials" like bits of plastic into processed foods -- because he isn't processing foods at all! Your local farmer has had a pretty good year, providing fresh healthy vegetables at farmers markets and community supported farms. If you've been eating foods from a local farm, you've had a pretty good year too. The rest of the U.S. agricultural system seems a little off-kilter these days. Let's hear it for the local organic farmers of the world! For providing us nutritious and safe food -- with a smile and a handshake -- they each deserve a Heart of Green award. Read on to see more nominees for a 2009 Heart of Green award, honoring those who make green go mainstream. The Ground Breaker Who is the voice for the backyard gardening movement? Who reminds us of the simple pleasures and enduring wisdom of harvesting our own food? Who relentlessly asks the commonsense question: Why does the White House have 18 acres of grass, and no vegetable garden? Roger Doiron isnt alone, but his voice as the founder of Kitchen Gardeners International and the Eat the View campaign has been loud, clear and influential. The Downeast, Maine, resident has simple aims (inspire and encourage more home gardening) and sophisticated methods. Who else thought to auction off one-square-foot plots of White House lawn on eBay to raise money and awareness for Eat the View, the campaign pressuring President Obama to plant an organic garden within walking distance of the Oval Office? The same guy who grew a 10,000-member-strong organization in the space of just five years. We love Doirons populist foodie vision. The KGI Website answers the question, "What Is a Kitchen Gardener?" In part: "Unlike mere foodies who flit from one trendy spot to another in search of instant culinary gratification, Kitchen Gardeners set out roots in a place and begin planning their pleasure months in advance." For reminding us all how easy and good it is to grow our own food, Roger Doiron is a 2009 Heart of Green award winner. Watch his acceptance speech! Environmental Defense Fund Quick! Which of these headlines is true: Fish are healthy and essential for a healthy diet! Fish are so contaminated with mercury they are toxic! Omega 3 fatty acids are so important for pregnant women that the brains of their children wont develop properly without enough fish in the diet! Pregnant women should avoid fish because of contamination that will permanently damage their childrens brains! To eat fish, or not to eat fish? And how much? And which species? These are questions that could have tied a modern Hamlet in knots. Fact: Many species tend to be highly contaminated with mercury, PCBs and other contaminants that can cause serious harm to children, which is why the Environmental Protection Agency warns against eating many species, or limiting the number of meals eaten, particularly for pregnant women and younger children. Fact: Fish are an excellent lean source of protein and other nutrients, and the Omega-3 fatty acids in fish are an important brain food -- particularly for pregnant women and younger children. Fact: The world's oceans are being rapidly depleted by overfishing and a host of other environmental threats. Thats why the Environmental Defense Fund deserves a Heart of Green award. Its Seafood Selector, available on the Web or in a pocket-sized downloadable document, serves up a simple lists of dos and donts at the fish counter. Just choose fish from its "eco-best" list and you know youre eating the least contaminated, most nutritious and most sustainably harvested fish on the market. Whew! Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin Names not familiar? How does Skinny Bitch grab ya? Called "the bait-and-switch diet book of the year" (by Salon) Skinny Bitch quietly clothed a vegan diet in sass, and inspired a movement, not to mention a best-selling franchise. The former models-turned-dietary truth tellers Rory Freedman (left) and Kim Barnouin did more to promote a humane, vegetable-based (and green!) diet than any in-your-face activist could have. All they did was deliver a healthy weight-loss regimen, from the mouths of the best friend who wont stop telling you how right she is. (Watch out, fellas: Skinny Bastard is due April 27.) Keep it up, uh, bitches. Your dietary jujitsu is deserving of a Heart of Green award. Sidwell Friends School When Sasha and Malia attended their first day of classes at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., the nation got a sudden insight into a simple truth advocates have been trying to hammer home for years: School lunches can be healthy and delicious. They can be sustainable and they can be sourced locally. How many local school districts include tomato basil soup, organic spinach salad, roasted local veggie melts, organic baked French fries and organic pears on a typical menu? The occasion of the Obama girls' first school lunch sparked a media frenzy, and inspired the cottage industry in foodie fan blogs tracking anything that passes an Obamas lips. And a good thing! If every school in America followed the Sidwell Friends lunch model, it would go a long way toward boosting local agriculture, reducing obesity and no doubt improving test scores. (President Obama himself seems to be encouraging public schools to follow the lead of Sidwell, a private school.) Sidwell Friends School focuses on regional vendors and uses organic and fair trade ingredients whenever possible. It uses recycleable, biodegradeable and compostable products. (How about adding those words to the next spelling test!) It composts food waste and uses the compost to fertilize school gardens and grounds. It even uses vegetables that students bring in from home, and serves them up as soup for for the homeless. For perhaps the best side benefit of Obamamania, Sidwell Friends School deserves a Heart of Green award for inspiring an overdue school lunch revolution. Alice Waters and Slow Food: What a perfect culinary pairing! Alice Waters has been a driving force in the U.S. Slow Food movement for decades, advocating a diet delicious, nutritious, sustainable and -- not insignificantly -- fully enjoyable. She has translated the success of her massively influential Chez Panisse restaurant, with its fresh-before-all-else menu, into a number of successful campaigns, including the Edible Schoolyard, a middle school garden and teaching kitchen -- and, of course, Slow Food Nation. In 2008, the first-ever Slow Food Nation event drew a small citys worth of people to San Francisco to enjoy food that is "good for them, good for the people who grow it and good for the planet." If Alice Waters is successful, all people will see the unassailable value in that mantra, and well all be better for it. Organic Trade Association Do you want to know if the milk youre buying came from cows treated with synthetic hormones? Do you think the cows producing the milk you drink should adhere to the same drug-free standards as Major League Baseball players? If the answer is yes, then you have the Organic Trade Association to thank for keeping truth-in-labeling alive. Monsanto, until recently the maker of recombinant bovine growth hormone (Eli Lilly bought that arm of the business in April 2008), waged a state-by-state campaign to outlaw the use of phrases like "rBGH-free" on milk. The Organic Trade Association quietly spoke out in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and Kansas, urging state agriculture departments to continue allowing dairies that avoid synthetic hormones -- including certified organic dairies, which cannot by law inject their cows -- to label their milk accordingly. When most customers walk into the refrigerated aisle of their local grocery store, they dont realize how behind-the-scenes battles like these have their effect. Because of the Organic Trade Association, consumers can still look for milk that fits their ethics. For that, the OTA deserves a Heart of Green award. Mark Bittman is known to many as the New York Times columnist (The Minimalist) and blogger (and author of the kitchen staples How to Cook Everything and, even better for the green audience, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. He's an everyman foodie: He advocates using quality ingredients for the right reasons -- the health of the consumers, the Earth and local communities -- but without any of the pretension that sometimes accompanies the same message delivered by someone else. With Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipes, Bittman put his popular appeal to good use, showing us how to act on what 2008 Heart of Green winner Michael Pollan taught us -- "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." For showing us how to make the Pollan mantra a lifestyle, and enjoy it, Bittman deserves a Heart of Green. Sure, eating locally grown foods is great but it's so hard. What day is that farmers market, again? And where is that local farm stand? Is that CSA still accepting members? Local Harvest has the answers. The group's mission is revolutionary only because our food system has come so far from its roots: "Awakening the U.S. to the importance of community, variety, humane treatment of farm animals, and social and environmental responsibility in regards to our food economy." And Local Harvest has a bright future, with yearly search traffic up by one-third in 2008, and millions of Americans taking advantage of its huge updated database of farms, farmers markets, community supported farms and other sources of locally grown foods. (Proud Conflict of Interest Alert: Local Harvest and The Daily Green are partners, and you can start your Local Harvest search right on our homepage.) Local Harvest is the Google of local eating. In other words: This group has a Heart of Green. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis King Corn was released a dogs age ago, in movie terms: 2007. Yet the documentarys simple, smart premise -- grow an acre of Iowa corn and watch how it passes through the U.S. food system has such enduring value that its influence hasnt waned. It doesnt hurt that Curt Ellis (right) and Ian Cheney, the buddies who set off to understand how their bodies could be so heavily made up of Midwestern corn, are so likable and earnest. In the hands of others, this film might easily have felt overly didactic and confrontational. For showing America how strange industrial corn and its many uses are, and for doing it in a style that matched a Michael Moore subversiveness with a Michael J. Fox affability, these two deserve a (somewhat belated) Heart of Green award.	<urn:uuid:26d182fb-e699-4767-a58e-17d645936823>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/heart-of-green-food-470301	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.940626	2,342	1.710938	2
Updated: 05/21/2013 4:06 PM KSTP.com (AP) LONDON - Britain’s House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales. The legislation, backed by Prime Minister David Cameron, passed by a vote of 366 to 161 on Tuesday. The bill will now move to the House of Lords, whose approval is also required. Members there are expected to hold their first debate in July. If approved, the law is expected to take effect in 2015, and enable same-sex couples to get married in both civil and religious ceremonies, provided the religious institution they choose consents. Such a law also would allow couples who had previously entered into a civil partnership to convert their relationship to a marriage. (Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)	<urn:uuid:dbae969a-d499-42ef-9ede-189b6f71c24e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://hbispace.com/printStory/kstp/index.cfm?id=1487770	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.966229	173	2.234375	2
Scientists say that understanding how the cocktail party effect works could help people who have trouble deciphering sounds in a noisy environment. Guests make it look easy at a Dolce and Gabbana Lounge party in London in 2010. Scientists are beginning to understand how people tune in to a single voice in a crowded, noisy room. This ability, known as the "cocktail party effect," appears to rely on areas of the brain that have completely filtered out unwanted sounds, researchers report in the journal Neuron. So when a person decides to focus on a particular speaker, other speakers "have no representation in those [brain] areas," says Elana Zion Golumbic of Columbia University. CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, BYLINE: This is Claudio Sanchez in Washington, D.C. By mid-afternoon, some parts of west and northern Virginia had gotten a foot of snow. Washington, D.C. was expecting at least half that, so area airports cancelled more than a thousand flights. Schools closed. So did federal and local government offices. Things look bad. CHRIS VACCARO: This is certainly a significant storm and a dangerous storm. SANCHEZ: That's Chris Vaccaro with the National Weather Service. More than three decades ago, Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov went missing in Afghanistan after he was wounded in battle with Afghan mujahedeen forces. His whereabouts remained unknown until two weeks ago, when he was tracked down by a team from the Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee, a Moscow-based nonprofit that looks for Soviet MIAs in Afghanistan. I've been listening to two very good new albums led by drummers. After learning that both men are in their early 70s, I can't help but wonder how I process that fact in what I hear. "Killer" Ray Appleton (b. 1941) and Barry Altschul (b. 1943) practice different styles. But they both came of musical age in the hard-bop era, spent many years living in Europe and eventually returned to New York. In other words, they've each got a lot of experience. The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is an especially tough blow for Cuba, whose feeble state-run economy has been propped up for more than a decade with Venezuelan oil shipments and other subsidies. The Castro government has declared three days of mourning, calling Chavez "a son" of Cuba, but privately Cubans are quietly fretting about the potential loss of billions in trade and the threat of a new economic crisis. An elderly woman at a California retirement home died in February after a staff person refused to perform CPR, despite the pleas of a 911 dispatcher. The nurse says she was following company policy. This incident raised many questions about the role of dispatchers in medical emergencies. In his profile of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this week's issue of The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin writes: "Ginsburg has suggested that she would like to serve as long as Louis Brandeis, her judicial hero, who retired at eighty-two." Ginsburg turns 80 this month and is marking her 20th year on the court. She has had cancer — colon and pancreatic — and her tiny, frail-looking stature leads many people to wonder if she'll be retiring soon. Every year, the South By Southwest music, film and interactive festival gets larger, and navigating the blur of panels, parties and shows gets more daunting. The girth of it all is enough to keep many SXSW old-timers away from Austin this year.	<urn:uuid:25247285-8ddd-4b6b-a482-42c8d1beda55>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://kgou.org/?page=98&news-management=&action=view_news&news_id=4503&a=1	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.972174	743	1.695313	2
Speaking after a bus tour of the city's red zone, the Archbishop says it was important for him to see the remains of the Christ Church Cathedral. "It's different when you see a great building, historic building, very much loved, in ruins like that. You can read stuff on a page, you can even see pictures, (but) it does feel very different...." "The only thing I've seen like this really is when I was in Beirut a few years ago. But somebody was saying to me just now, 'there are no bomb craters, there's no enemy. You can't hate somebody out there, it's just something that's happened'. And in some ways that's even harder to come to terms with I think." Read it all. Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Archbishop of Canterbury Anglican Provinces Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia * Christian Life / Church Life Church History Liturgy, Music, Worship Parish Ministry * Culture-Watch Religion & Culture Urban/City Life and Issues * General Interest Natural Disasters: Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, etc. * International News & Commentary Australia / NZ To comment on this article: To article and comments © 2013 Kendall S. Harmon. All rights reserved. For original material from Titusonenine (such as articles and commentary by Dr. Harmon) permission to copy and distribute free of charge is granted, provided this notice, the logo, and the web site address are visible on all copies. For permission for use in for-profit publications, please email KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com	<urn:uuid:2feb0676-97ad-419a-82af-d9f729fc7d0b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/print/45869/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.936942	342	1.671875	2
At Last ... The Dalek is Complete ... After three months of work (after school and at lunchtimes) the Dalek is now complete. In a scene resembling an episode of Dr Who, the Dalek emerged from the DT Department for a quick photo shoot. It was well received by all who saw it. Mr Stevens is now editing the video that will show how it was made so that it can be used in DT lessons. The video will show how computer aided design and manufacture was used to make it. He would like to thank all the staff and pupils who helped with its construction including the staff at Nottingham Trent University and invites all staff and pupils to come and have a look at it. Keep an eye out for future appearances that it may make at school events. The DT Department Dalek - Update 8th July The DT Dalek is now 90% complete. Only a few minor jobs and some painting are needed in order to complete it. On Monday, the dome (for the head) was delivered by Nottingham Trent University which meant that the final part, the head, could be completed. The DT Department would like to say a big thank you to them as without use of their huge vacuum forming machine, the dome would have been very hard to make. Keep an eye out for pictures of the finished Dalek, expected in the final week of the term. The DT Department Dalek The Design Technology Department is making a full size Dalek! Mr Stevens, who is running the project, hopes to have it completed by the end of the summer term. The aim of the project is to show the students how all the machines in the DT Department can be used to make the various parts. The project, so far, has used a wide range of equipment such as Computer Aided Manufacturing (CNC Milling and Laser cutting) through to traditional manufacturing techniques such as wood turning and vacuum forming. The project has also created links with Nottingham Trent University who are helping to form the dome, part of the Dalek's head. Mr Holt is making a voice changer with his Systems class to add to the realism. A video is also being made to show how the Dalek was made which should be a valuable teaching resource when teaching Resistant Materials. The Dalek is going to be based upon one which featured in the Dr Who series called 'Genesis of the Daleks' where Davros, creator of the Daleks first appeared. Keep an eye out for further updates as more progress is made or you may be EXTERMINATED!!!	<urn:uuid:c29944a9-a0a8-4415-a038-4a979a39054b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.trinity.nottingham.sch.uk/dt/2010/dalek/default.aspx?im=6	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.977754	528	1.75	2
From traditional healers to state-of-the-science practitioners of Western medicine, Cullen Clark has studied the gamut of doctors who treat the sick. At UAB for four years, he is currently researching complementary and alternative medicine, the sociology of medical knowledge, and the ways culture influences medical care. He will complete a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology in 2008 with dissertation research that focuses on the cultural worldview of conventional and alternative medical physicians. “This is an exploratory project comparing the worldview of naturopathic physicians (a type of alternative doctor licensed to practice primary care in about a dozen states) and conventional primary care physicians (allopaths),” he explains. “Working with Dr. Jeffrey Michael Clair and other members of my dissertation committee, I developed a survey to measure attitudes about topics ranging from health and illness to spirituality and ecology. I then mailed the survey to a randomly selected group of naturopaths and allopaths in the states where naturopaths are licensed to practice medicine.” To date, 961 physicians – including 399 naturopaths – have completed the survey, says Cullen, adding that the results reveal a fascinating pattern of differences across several dimensions of worldview. “There is also a wealth of information in this data for future studies. It is really exciting to work on something that will be useful both for researchers interested in this field and health administrators seeking to build systems that truly integrate conventional and alternative medicine.” Originally from Liberty, Mississippi, Cullen has lived in Birmingham for the last 20 years. This will be his second degree from UAB. Fifteen years ago, while working full time, he completed a Master of Science in Health Administration. He speaks highly of UAB, crediting the doctoral program in Medical Sociology with having an excellent international reputation. “The program is also very supportive of nontraditional candidates like me. Before I became acquainted with the program, I was a mid-career healthcare marketing professional with a strong interest in complementary and alternative medicine, unsure about leaving a job to return to school. I was encouraged to take a course as a non-degree seeking student. I studied Medical Sociology with Dr. William Cockerham, and I was hooked. The course was great; both faculty and fellow students were very welcoming. By the end of the course, I knew I wanted to apply for the program.” Coming back to school, after working as a professional for some time, was “simultaneously exciting and challenging,” he adds. “I knew I would be called upon to master a large body of knowledge very quickly. That said, nothing could have prepared me for the transformative experience pursuing this doctorate has been. Developing a repertoire of analytical techniques and social theory is just the beginning of the process. It seems to me that the real metamorphosis is one of vision; students in this program learn to see things once familiar in an entirely new light.” As a result, based on his own positive experience, he would advise people who are considering returning to school in mid-life to pursue some course of study that excites them. “Actually, [this advice] comes from the person whose counsel I value most. When I fretted that if I went back to school, I would be in my early 50s when I finished my Ph.D., my wife pointed out that if I did not go back, I would still reach my 50s. I just would not have my degree. Ultimately, I came to see that life is too short not to pursue your dreams.” He quickly learned that the sociology department sets high standards for its graduate student, but Cullen prefers it that way. “The work load can be intense, but the faculty is always very supportive. Indeed, one of the traditions of the department is the remarkably collegial atmosphere between faculty and graduate students. It is a tradition that seems to have been carefully crafted over time, and one that Department Chair Mark E. LaGory and Graduate Director Patricia Drentea successfully build upon. The net effect for graduate students is a community of learning where faculty mentors share their knowledge and help students navigate their transition into academia and research.” Many people at UAB have influenced his development, he adds. “My dissertation chair, Jeffrey Clair, has been a great mentor. My other committee members Ann Clark, Mike Flannery, Ferris Ritchey, Chris Taylor, and Ken Wilson have all gone out of their way to support me. So has everyone in my department – faculty and fellow students alike.” As for staying motivated as he finishes his Ph.D., that’s not a problem. “I am incredibly lucky. Every day I get to do something I love. What could be more motivating than that?” Cullen wants to continue researching and working on complementary and alternative medicine, the sociology of medical knowledge and the ways in which culture influences people. “And I want to share that work with the broadest audience possible, through both traditional and nontraditional venues. 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Why HDTV production is making film shoots a thing of the past By Bob Burnett and Dan Bailes Bob Burnett: I used to always shoot public service announcements and TV spots on film. Sometimes, marketing and advocacy programs too. After spending 90+% of my time working in video it was great to have projects where shooting film was possible. By its very nature film offered a different perspective to approaching a shoot and a "look" that made the captured images seem very special and different. Of course film shoots offered moments where the magic would be momentarily interrupted, like the time the assistant camera person was changing mags, dropped the just-shot one which popped open (he also forgot to tape the mag closed) exposing the previous four hours of set-ups and shots. Never mind those moments—in fact, forget them—because they aren’t going to happen again. Given how the landscape of work has changed I doubt I’ll have the opportunity to justify using film again. The new generation of video cameras (High Definition as well as DV) has put a serious crimp in my ability to rationalize using film on shoots. And I’m not alone. I see so many things on TV that were once shot on film now being shot on video. Screenshot from GVI's production "Great Schools By Design" for the American Architectural Foundation But what about those wonderfully unique qualities only possible when shooting film that in the past made video look a far distant second place? Let’s review a few basic points of where we are today: Aspect ratio? Not a problem, video now shoots flawlessly be it 16:9 or 4:3. All it takes is a quick, menu driven adjustment to make a change. Shutter? Got it. Video has an adjustable shutter making 24p frame rates somewhat replicable. Video’s electronic image replication versus the deep, lovely irreplaceable nuance of film’s image exposure? Well…yeah…we all know about that but depth-of-field adjustments, inclusion of "grain," color correction and pulldown "filmlook" manipulation are all basic "drag and drop" tools in editing now. Just think what Photoshop is capable of doing in still photography (be it film or digital) and the same broad range of possibility is happening in video editing and color correction. Screenshot from GVI's production "Stop the Aerial Hunting of Wolves in Alaska" for Defenders of Wildlife Dan Bailes: I grew up with film—first as an assistant cameraman (circa 1970) and later as an editor. I learned all about 16mm ECO reversal film (ASA 16)—if you didn’t know how to light back then you’d end up with a shiny figure surrounded by darkness. Then came the faster reversals—but with all that grain. Man, when Kodak rolled out 16mm negative it created a revolution. Finally "Big Yellow" had created something to rival the ever-growing incursion of video. Or so we thought at the time. I loved editing film—namely hour-long documentaries or political spots. For me it was the perfect medium. I learned how to develop a deep memory to keep all those shots in my head. I devised little tricks to make sure my tracks stayed in synch to the picture and developed a complex filing system using film bins, vault boxes and hundreds of two- and three-inch cores for all those trims and outs. I learned how to pre-visualize effects like fades and dissolves and mark the film with grease pencil so the negative matcher would set up the a and b rolls correctly. (Those days, after you were done with the creative editing, you had to match the negative to the original and send it to the lab for timing to get the contrast and color balance just so. Then you’d review the first answer print, call up the lab with changes and hope the second or third answer print would get it right.) I devised workflow systems for my assistants (I almost always had at least one assistant) so I could spend my time on the creative side while they managed the mechanics and filing. And it was a great way for them to learn editing. But the best part was it was all very physical, as I’d get into a rhythm: view, judge, stop, pull down the roll, mark, cut, splice, and push on to the next. I got so I could work as fast as I could think. Pure heaven. Of course, as we all know, nothing lasts forever. Video soon took over and made editing a nightmare. Wonderful non-linear film editing became locked into linear and ugly video. And God help you if you wanted to lose a shot half way through the edit. You had to go down a generation until pretty soon you could barely read the window-burned timecode on the smeary VHS dubs. Staying calm and developing the patience of Job became just as important as lining up great shots to tell a story. Thankfully, all the visual sense I developed as a film editor helped. And I often worked with footage shot on film and "dumped" (great word, that) to tape. Then along came the next innovation, non-linear computer-based editing, and with it the death of film editing. My first experiences working with (computer-based) Avid’s Media Composer were mixed. With computers, if you don’t carefully label and file your work, you’re lost. And you have to spend all that time logging and importing the picture and sound elements. I’ve worked on projects where more time was spent on capturing/digitizing the media than on the creative process. Back in the days of film editing, three to four months was standard for editing an hour-long television documentary. Now, for a lot of cable TV projects, three weeks or less is more the rule. So instead of presenting polished, thoughtful work, the first draft effort is typically what goes on the air. In the old days, the path to becoming a film editor required years of working as someone’s assistant. You had to know so much about the entire process to do your job right—often the editor would direct the lab finishing process as well as the audio mix. Now editors often do their own Avid-based digital color correction and audio mix. I must admit, editing today is truly amazing. The programs developed by Avid and Apple allow you to do just about anything you can imagine. But the biggest downside to all this innovation is that we’ve lost the training ground that went with film editing. As a newbie, you’d typically work with ten or twenty editors over the course of several years before you developed the expertise to call yourself an editor. What a great way to learn. There’s nothing like that today. It seems like every technological advance is constructive and destructive at the same time. Yes, some things are easier and the barriers to entry are constantly lowered. And the tension between innovation vs. the expertise that comes from experience will probably always be with us. But for me, what is most important is the content. Understanding what you are trying to say and deciding how you want to say it. Then, it’s just a matter of using the available tools to get the job done. Whether its art or artifice, all this technology is just a means to an end. Making the pictures tell a story is still the most important thing. So for me, I’ve learned to keep my eyes and ears open and to look for inspiration where ever I can find it. Bob Burnett: Our aim here isn’t to be depressing or to wallow in some great, lost era of film—it’s just to present our small slice of how we’ve seen things change. Instead of bemoaning the changes, Dan and I are excited to be producing videos for use on DVD as well as on the web—where image quality is vastly improving and in many cases our stories are reaching a wider audience and having greater impact than in the past. 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Innovators: Tackling The Need For A Technical Workforce “If we’re going to have the technical workforce that this country needs, we’re going to need to look really closely at science and engineering in college, and look at how can we teach more effectively … and also more inclusively,” says Lisa Hunter, founder and director of the Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. With help from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Hunter and her team at AWI are working on the training and retention of a diverse student population in electro-optics through a curriculum that is designed to meet workforce needs in astronomy, remote sensing, and other technology industries in the state of Hawaii. According to Hunter, several AWI alumni have either entered the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce or are continuing their education in a STEM-related field. Provided by the National Science Foundation More Innovators videos	<urn:uuid:da5117d3-e7e3-48c3-836f-fc622179aee0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://science360.gov/obj/video/80d4dec4-05e8-4a9c-bbcd-e00578948d5b/innovators-tackling-need-technical-workforce	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.951583	206	2.4375	2
The District of Columbia now has a Department of Environment (DDOE). Created as a result of a bill introduced by Councilmember Carol Schwartz, the new DDOE was recently formed through a merger of the DC Government's Environmental Health Administration, the DC Energy Office, policy functions of the Tree Management Administration and policy functions of the Office of Recycling. The new DDOE is a one-stop-shop for programs and services that protect human health and the environment and address energy efficiency issues for all sectors of the city. "During these days and times of environmental consciousness and concern about rising prices of gasoline and home energy prices, this kind of agency couldn't have come along at a better time," said a local underground storage tank contractor who was applying for his installation license. "Having so many important services and programs together is great!" Mayor Anthony Williams appointed Elizabeth Berry as Acting Director. Ms. Berry said, "I'm happy to have the opportunity to lead the city's charge towards cleaner air and water and, greening our neighborhoods and building space. We encourage visits to our new website, ddoe.dc.gov to see what we offer. It will be updated frequently and will list our latest news and special events." The agency headquarters is located at 51 N Street on the 3rd floor. Check the DDOE website for contact information. The Energy Assistance and Home Weatherization services are located at the Reeves Center, 2000 14th Street, NW. Please call the DDOE Hotline at (202) 673-6750 for more information.	<urn:uuid:88fa50ba-6223-401b-ac93-e79b1c065d3b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://newsroom.dc.gov/show.aspx/agency/ddoe/section/2/release/13634/year/2006/month/2	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963925	318	1.796875	2
Celgene's cancer treatment Abraxane improved survival time for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer when paired with another treatment in a late-stage study. The Summit, N.J., company said Abraxane combined with gemcitabine, which goes by the brand name Gemzar, delivered a statistically significant improvement in overall survival for patients who have yet to undergo treatment, compared with patients who received only Gemzar. Celgene's subsidiary, Celgene International Sarl, also said late Tuesday that 35 percent of the patients taking the paired drugs survived for one year, compared with 22 percent taking Gemzar alone. U.S. regulators already have approved Abraxane to treat breast cancer and a form of lung cancer. The company plans to seek approval for the pancreatic cancer use in the first half of this year. Celgene said pancreatic cancer makes up only about 2 percent of all newly diagnosed cancers, but it has the lowest survival rate of all forms of the disease. The five-year survival rate for patients with advanced forms of the disease is less than 2 percent. Researchers also are studying Abraxane as a possible treatment for bladder and ovarian cancers. Cantor analyst Mara Goldstein said she has high expectations for Abraxane as a pancreatic cancer treatment. Goldstein things the study data was strong, but she wouldn't be surprised to see Celgene shares take a break from climbing after advancing about 30 percent in the last two months. Shares of Celgene Corp. fell $1.21, or 1.2 percent, to $98.10 Wednesday in premarket trading.	<urn:uuid:ea52378e-f8a9-4850-bc1f-660d2e93a6a2>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ahead-bell-celgene-cancer-drug-134445184.html?.tsrc=warhol	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952318	336	1.835938	2
“One in seven people are undernourished, while more than one billion people worldwide are overweight and at least 300 million are obese,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN independent expert on the right to food in his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council. De Schutter reminded States that the right to food “cannot be reduced to a right not to starve.” It is an inclusive right to an “adequate diet providing all the nutritional elements an individual requires to live a healthy and active life, and the means to access them.” In his report, he stressed that a large number of people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Vitamin A deficiency affects at least 100 million children, limiting their growth, weakening their immunity and, in cases of acute deficiency, leading to blindness and increased mortality. Between four and five billion people suffer from iron deficiency, including half of the pregnant women and children under 5 in developing countries, and an estimated two billion are anaemic. Iron deficiency leads children to perform less well in schools and adults to be less productive. In addition, about 30 per cent of households in the developing world do not have access to iodized salt, and children born to highly iodine-deficient mothers are likely to experience learning disabilities. “The health impacts of bad diets are well known,” said De Schutter. Diets rich in salt and alcohol, combined with a lack of exercise, often results in high blood pressure, which in turn increases the risks of stroke and heart diseases, while diets rich in saturated fats can increase cholesterol levels. “Urbanization, supermarketization, and the global spread of Western lifestyles have shaken up traditional food habits. The result is a public health disaster,” said the expert. “Governments have been focusing on increasing calorie availability, but they have often been indifferent to what kind of calories are on offer, at what prices, to whom they are accessible, and how they are marketed.” The accessibility and abundance of highly-processed foods are major factors in nutrition-related illnesses as they tend to be richer in saturated and trans-fatty acids, salt and sugars. De Schutter said that children, in particular, frequently become addicted to the junk foods marketed to them. Furthermore, most advertisements promote foods high in sugar and fats and low in nutrients. A recent study covering television advertising in Australia, Asia, Western Europe, and North and South America found that children were exposed to high volumes of television advertising for unhealthy foods, featuring child-oriented persuasive techniques. He noted that it is the poorest population groups in wealthy countries that are most negatively affected by processed foods, which are often more affordable than healthy diets. “In high-income countries,” he said “healthy diets including a wide range of fruits and vegetables are more expensive than diets rich in oil, sugar and fat.” According to the report, the globalization of the food chain has led to the export of high-quality food, like tropical fruits and vegetables, to rich countries, while developing countries import processed food. “The export of such Western dietary habits,” he said “has brought diabetes and heart diseases to the developing world.” In his report, De Schutter identified five priority actions for putting nutrition back at the heart of food systems in both the developed and developing world. They are: imposing taxes on unhealthy products; regulating foods high in saturated fats, salt and sugar; cracking down on junk food advertising; overhauling “wrong-headed” agricultural subsidies making unhealthy ingredients cheaper than others; and supporting local food production. “Ambitious, targeted nutrition strategies can work,” he added, “but only if the food systems underpinning them are put right.” 28 March 2012	<urn:uuid:fc057ab6-cd7b-4627-9634-d8807b664944>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Righttofoodtheimpactsofbaddiets.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961113	787	3.484375	3
I have always been curious about two things. First, why are traffic jams always heavier on Mondays than on other weekdays? Second, I wonder why traffic is heavier when it rains. I know drivers get more cautious on rainy days, but even when it rains so little that I can hardly feel the raindrops, the traffic gets a lot heavier than on sunny days. Why? Confused commuter, South Korea I began by checking the data, and they surprised me. Inrix, who supply data to in-car satellite navigation systems, reports that the worst mornings of the week – in the US, at least – are actually Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Monday and Friday are low-congestion mornings. Friday evenings are bad, but Monday evenings are particularly quiet. My guess is that Monday is a popular day to take a holiday or call in sick. As for data on rain, two Australian academics have found that the heavier the rain, the lighter the traffic in Melbourne. You are asking me to explain two illusory phenomena. So what is going on? One possibility is that things are different in Korea, but I am not so sure: I think that Australians, Americans and we Brits all share your perceptions that rainy days and Mondays are bad for traffic. And we seem to be wrong. I think we need to turn to psychology for our answers. Norbert Schwarz – a psychologist who is well known to economists thanks to his work with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman – has famously showed that if you want people to tell you that their lives are a wreck, just ask them on a rainy day. There is also some psychological evidence that Monday mornings depress us, too. In short, rainy days and Mondays always get you down. You’re living in a Carpenters song, but please don’t blame the traffic. Questions to email@example.com	<urn:uuid:839f63c4-ee2c-4860-9cbb-123827a4ef31>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/dear-economist-why-are-traffic-jams-so-bad-on-mondays/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967185	386	2.109375	2
A massive fire struck at the core of Chevron Corp's large Richmond, California, refinery on Monday, spewing flames and a column of smoke into the air, threatening a prolonged outage that may increase prices of the costliest U.S. gasoline. The fire was contained, but not extinguished, according to the company. The fire has blazed for hours after it erupted at the refinery in a densely populated industrial suburb of San Francisco. Smoke could be seen billowing over the Bay Area and four train stations were shut. Nearby residents were ordered indoors after the fire hit the sole crude unit at the 245,000 barrel per day (bpd) plant, which accounts for one-eighth of California state's refining capacity. About 200 people have sought medical help, complaining of respiratory problems, the San Pablo, California-based Doctors Medical Center said in a statement. The fire had started in the No. 4 crude unit, the only one at the plant, at 6:15 p.m. shortly after a leak was discovered, Chevron said. As the leak grew, workers were evacuated, plant manager Nigel Hearn told journalists at the site. He said some units were still operating, but gave no details. It was not immediately clear when the fire would be put out and the extent of damage to the plant was not known. "I walked outside and saw what looked like a lot of steam coming out of Chevron, way more than usual. I thought they must have blown a boiler," said Ryan Lackay, a 45-year-old employee at a chemical plant next door to the refinery. "And then all of a sudden it just went whoosh, it ignited." Crude distillation units (CDUs) break down oil into feedstock for other units in a refinery. It can take months to repair a CDU at a large plant, during which operations are typically severely limited. Any lengthy disruption in production could affect the supply of fuel in the West Coast, particularly gasoline, due to the difficulty in meeting California's super-clean specifications. The region also has few immediate alternative supply sources. "Chevron will have a hard time finding replacement barrels in an already short market," said Bob van der Valk, a petroleum industry analyst in Terry, Montana. "Refineries are already drawing down summer blend inventory in anticipation of the switch back to winter blend gasoline." TOWERING FLAMES, BLACK SMOKE Residents of Richmond were advised to "shelter in place", an order often given during refinery accidents to shield against possible exposure to toxic chemicals or smoke. Sulfuric acid and nitrogen dioxide were released during the incident, according to a filing with the California Emergency Management Agency. The refinery, the third largest in California and among the oldest in the country, is key to the economy of Richmond, a declining industrial city. But it has stirred controversy among local residents concerned about the environmental impacts and local politicians often seeking more tax revenues. "I looked out the window and saw 40 foot flames and black smoke," Marc Mowrey, a Point Richmond resident who lives about a mile from the plant, said in a telephone interview. He said the smell was not exceptional or very different from other days, but a huge plume of smoke was sitting over Richmond and neighboring El Cerrito. Chevron said in a statement that there had been only one minor injury at the refinery, which at its peak 10 years ago employed over 1,300 people on a site of over 2,900 acres. Last week, the refinery reported vapor leaks and a compressor failure to California pollution regulators, according to notices. The notices did not say which units were involved. We are "very disappointed that this happened, and apologize that we are inconveniencing our neighbors," Chevron spokesman Walt Gill told local television. A Reuters reporter who lives nearby said he heard some loud bangs and a siren as the fire erupted, but a Chevron spokesman denied reports of an explosion. It is common to shut down the entire plant in the event of a major blaze. A February 17 fire at the CDU of BP Plc's 225,000 bpd Cherry Point, Washington, refinery led to a three-month shutdown and sent the regional price premium to more than $1 a gallon in some places. (Additional reporting by Noel Randewich, Jonathan Weber in San Francisco, Manash Goswami in Singapore; Editing by Miral Fahmy)	<urn:uuid:8d61ed21-c962-4770-b949-c2212943b80f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://news.terra.com/large-fire-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery-local-authorities,468e3f9acbef8310VgnVCM10000098cceb0aRCRD.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970042	915	1.671875	2
Barbara Kruger is an internationaly renowned conceptual aritst whose work focuses on domestic violence, women's rights and issues of power. Now, I'm not a rampant feminist (I lack one of the key qualifications of being a woman), but I popped along to her latest installation in Glasgow on Friday and I was blown away by her work. I honestly have to say I hadn't heard of this woman before going to this exhibition, but from what I've been reading about her over the weekend, she has typically presented her case in stark posters with bold colours (often red and white). The latest installation at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow is a shift to green and white and comprises a room with all the surfaces covered with blunt messages such as "You stone my face and harden my heart" and part covered in newspaper articles concerning recent cases of violence against women. Some of it (i.e. "Who will write the history of tears?") may border on the pretentious, but I couldn't help being blown away by her work; it's the first "issue based" contemporary art in a while that's actually been able to properly convey its message to me. - Barbara Kruger is exhibiting at GoMA, Glasgow as part of their 'Rules of Thumb: Contemporary Art and Human Rights" series, until 26th September.	<urn:uuid:85e18e80-b6d8-4533-ab19-2217505f2692>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://martinmc.blogspot.com/2005/08/barbara-kruger.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.974904	280	1.515625	2
This article was originally distributed via PRWeb. PRWeb, WorldNow and this Site make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE: Home Experts Realty In a recent poll 33% believe that having the ability to finance a home without an initial down payment is vital to the continued recovery of the U.S. housing market. Dayton, OH (PRWEB) November 14, 2012 Ohio is an incredible land of real estate opportunity lately, with legalized gambling fueling demand for investment and income properties, fears of losing out on low property prices sparking an intensified level of buying activity from buyers that previously sat on the fence, falling unemployment rate, more jobs and ever fewer reported foreclosures. Who wouldn't take advantage of a good thing offered when most needed? One precious opportunity is the ability to buy homes in Ohio with no down payment. The Rassmusen Report clearly demonstrates that 55% polled believe to protect the Nation's real estate market; 10-20% down payment is needed on each and every purchase, while 13% remain undecided. The health of the Real Estate and Housing Market is a huge factor in the economic health of the U.S., and this topic deserves more scrutiny. As with VA Loans, the USDA Guaranteed Rural Housing Program allows a purchase and spares the buyer the considerable expense of a down payment. While many believe this is not good for a “as of yet still fragile” economy, there are perhaps things unconsidered by some and huge misconceptions by many. Some feel that without the down payment, the role of ownership isn't taken as seriously, and banks aren't as secure without a more hefty initial investment on the buyer’s part. Let’s look at the flip side of that coin. First, USDA loans require a much higher credit score on average than FHA loans with 3.5% down. FHA 203k and 203b Streamline loan products are escrow repair loans as buyers aren't allowed to do the repairs themselves when the purchase is financed. On average, USDA Guaranteed Rural Housing Loans require a minimum 640 credit score, where some banks will lend down to a 580 for an FHA loan. Which sounds more responsible to you? Secondly, these loans are only a viable option in designated areas and rural communities with populations under 25,000, with careful income to debt qualifications. Some mistakenly perceive buying a home with no money down akin to lining up at the welfare office for a handout. Rest assured that in reality, the buyer pays for the right of home ownership. They don’t ask for a credit score, job history, 2 years of income taxes when one asks for food stamps. Thirdly, home buying programs like these help move homes more quickly through the market. Less days on the market for a move in condition home also protects the value of the home and surrounding real estate as properties don’t fall into horrible disrepair as seen with the majority of foreclosed homes. Having more homeowners and fewer renters in a neighborhood also props up and protects home values. It is also worth noting that more homeowners means more funds for local schools. Lastly, if a home buyer is able to keep several thousands in their pocket, have a good credit score worthy of buying with no money down, that particular buyer is ahead of the game, being better prepared with savings in their account instead of living down to that last thin dime each month. Buying a home with no down payment provides a significantly smaller monthly housing payment than buying with an FHA 3.5% down payment as well, and buyers can even build equity faster if they choose so. Buyers that utilize no money down finance products are typically more secure financially and enjoy a good feeling in a shaky economy. Knowing that more homeowners means a healthier U.S. economy, would getting rid of this ability be beneficial? Home Experts Realty values the ability to buy Ohio homes with no money down, here in the Buckeye State. Americans should seek to preserve this amazing benefit. For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2012/11/prweb10130148.htm	<urn:uuid:c85bd28a-e68f-4e06-a7b3-4082a1487aa3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.klkntv.com/story/20096113/33-in-favor-of-no-money-down-home-ownership-home-experts-realty-explains-why-some-are-wary-while-others-are-hopeful	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.95841	861	1.804688	2
The residents of Portland, Ore. are tearing their city up. The Portland-based nonprofit Depave, in partnership with Carfree Portland, has been organizing volunteer work parties to remove thousands of square feet of concrete pavement and "free the soil" beneath. According to Depave.org, getting rid of unnecessary pavement will "reduce stormwater pollution and increase the amount of land available for habitat restoration, urban farming, trees, native vegetation, and beauty, thus providing us with greater connections to the natural world." That's a lot of benefit to leave wrapped in cement. But it's not all jackhammers and bits of broken rock. Working with local property owners, Depave teams have been replacing barren parking lots with urban gardens and community green spaces—key contributors to healthy, livable cities. This video was produced by StreetFilms. - The DIY Liberation Guide :: Simple steps for day-to-day liberation. Go ahead: free your world. - PARK(ing) Day :: One day a year, residents reclaim parking spaces as public parks—and have their say about how small but precious pieces of urban real estate are used. That means, we rely on support from our readers. Independent. Nonprofit. Subscriber-supported.	<urn:uuid:9c9b8048-1aa6-4dc4-821b-5fbbdd7e4e1f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/depaving-in-portland?icl=email_wkly20100430&amp;ica=mrVideo	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.918304	259	2.28125	2
Record breaking clean seas at island beaches03\|05\|2012 The sea at Jersey’s most popular beaches is the cleanest since records began some 20 years ago. In 2011, all beaches sampled in Jersey passed the European ‘Imperative Standard’ and 15 out of 16 passed the highest quality ‘Guide Standard’. The Island’s pass rate for the Guide standard was 94% compared to the UK’s 77%. The numbers of bacteria in the sea are measured each week at the 16 island beaches during the summer months. The beaches that passed the Guide standard were: La Haule, Victoria Pool, Havre des Pas, Green Island, Grouville, Archirondel, Rozel, Bouley Bay, Bonne Nuit, Grève de Lecq, Plémont, Watersplash, Le Braye, Beauport and Portelet. St Brelade passed the Imperative standard. Senator Alan Maclean, Minister for Economic Development said: “The fact that Jersey beaches are once more cleaner than England and Wales is a great boost for Jersey Tourism.” The sampling of the sea at Jersey beaches is done to a strict European protocol by the Department of the Environment. The Minister for Planning and Environment, Deputy Rob Duhamel said: “The department’s sampling programme measures bacteria in the water. The continued improvement of water quality is partly due to our efforts to reduce land-based sources of contamination. “All Islanders can help us to make sure our beaches stay clean, from dog walkers who use the beaches to boat owners who can help by emptying their holding tanks appropriately. The departments will continue to work with farmers and the industry to ensure that slurry is applied carefully to land and that people with septic tanks and tight tanks make sure they are working effectively and not overflowing.”	<urn:uuid:b1e37f91-510d-4c42-aab1-9029fe1a389d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.jersey.com/business/press/pressreleases/Pages/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?PressReleaseItemId=627	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.925982	390	2.40625	2
In this talk we present a class of linear control systems called patterned linear systems, where every matrix in the state space representation of the system shares the same set of eigenvectors. Equivalently, each system matrix is a polynomial function of a common base matrix. This class includes for example, circulant systems, which are systems comprising a closed chain of identical subsystems that are interconnected in a repeated pattern. Some examples of applications of these systems are mobile networks, paper machines, and the approximation of partial differential equations. The control of circulant systems has been studied by previous researchers using the matrix algebra properties of circulant matrices. Our class is broader than just circulants, and we study patterned systems using abstract algebra, specifically the observation that a set of matrices with common eigenvectors has useful relationships with a set of invariant subspaces. The description of the class in terms of subspaces allows these systems to be studied under geometric control theory. In particular, the objective is to find feedback controllers to solve some of the classic problems of geometric control such as the restricted regulator problem, while preserving the pattern of the system. We conclude with a discussion of several applications of the results. Sub-Riemannian geometry is the underlying model for non-holonomic systems in a similar way as Riemannian geometry is the framework for classical dynamical systems. For instance, the position of a ship on a sea is determined by three parameters: two position coordinates and an orientation angle. Therefore, the ship's position can be described by a point on the manifold R2 ×S1. When the ship navigates from position A to position B, it describes a curve on the aforementioned manifold that is tangent to a certain 2-dimensional non-integrable distribution. In general, if this distribution satisfies the Chow's bracket generating condition, any to points A and B can be joined by such a curve. One can ask what is the shortest distance a ship can navigate from one position to another. Because of constraints, the shortest distance is neither a straight line, nor a classical geodesic. It is a solution of the Euler-Lagrange equations of a certain associated Lagrangian, and they are called sub-Riemannian geodesics. Their length defines the Carnot-Caratheodory metric on the coordinates manifold R2 ×S1. Similar sub-Riemannian models can be associated with other systems with constraints, such as the rolling penny or rolling ball on a plane, a skater or slide on a plane or a bicycle. The problem of existence of sub-Riemannian geodesics between any two points constitutes one of the research trends in the field. The interested reader can also consult the book Sub-Riemannian Geometry: General Theory and Examples, by Calin, et al., published by Cambridge University Press, 2009. I will present a short proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP) on smooth manifolds, using the Whitney embedding theorem, the tubular neighborhood theorem and the PMP in Rn. Lie groups G with an involutive automorphism s provide a natural setting for variational problems that illuminate the theory of integrable Hamiltonian systems. In my talk I will attempt to justify this assertion by focusing on the following problem: Let g denote the Lie algebra of G and let g = p + k denote the Cartan decomposition induced by the Lie algebra automorphism s. Assume the existence of a positive definite quadratic form á , ñ on k and let A denote a fixed element in Cartan space p. Then consider the problem of minimizing ò01 [ 1/2] áU(t),U(t) ñ dt over the curves g(t) in G that satisfy the given boundary conditions g(0)=g0, g(T)=g1 and are the solutions of following left invariant differential system This "optimal control problem" admits well defined solutions for A "regular" and the Maximum Principle of optimal control induces a class of Hamiltonians H on the dual g of g. The integrability of the Hamiltonian system defined by H is intimately linked to the "solvability" of the above problem. It follows, as will be demonstrated, that H is integrable when the quadratic form á , ñ is proportional to the Cartan-Killing form. In particular I will show that the most classical integrable systems, such as Jacobi's geodesic problem on the ellipsoid, Kepler's gravitational problem or the elastic problems of Kirchhoff can be seen as particular cases of the above situation. The talk will end with some open questions. We investigate the Seibert-Florio reduction problem for finite-dimensional dynamical systems: given two closed positively invariant subsets of the state space, G1 Ì G2, assuming that G1 is either stable, semi-attractive, or semi-asymptotically stable relative to G2, find conditions under which G1 enjoys the same properties relative to the state space. We present reduction theorems which extend, in the finite-dimensional setting, Seibert and Florio's results for compact G1, and illustrate their relevance in Control Theory. We study the stabilization of a second order differential equation with control occurring through a play operator. This is a model for a mechanical system such as a shaft or gear system with mechanical play on the fittings. Since the differential equation is discontinuous in the state variable the usual existence theory does not apply. It is shown directly that a Caratheodory solution exists for all continuous controls. An optimal control problem of minimizing a cost associated with these dynamics is formulated. It is shown that a viscosity solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Belman PDE exists, and hence an optimal control. A scheme for computation of the optimal control is presented along with some numerical results. This is joint work with Carmeliza Navasca, Clarkson University.	<urn:uuid:08bc1134-0215-4d39-b6a5-df8782faa1d0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://cms.math.ca/Events/winter09/abs/nct.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.911541	1,264	2.28125	2
The owner of the B110 bus in Brooklyn, which runs between two Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, insists that despite the fact that women have been told get in the back of the bus for decades, it never condoned the practice. However, since everyone got so riled up about passengers telling women where to sit on a public bus route, from here on out they won't be allowing the segretation they ostensibly never permitted in the first place. Following an exposé by Columbia University's New York World, the New York City Department of Transportation sent a letter to the ironically-named Private Transportation Corporation, which was actually running a public bus line under a franchise agreement with the city. The city warned that sex discrimination, "would constitute a direct violation of your franchise agreement and may lead to termination of that agreement." In his response, Jacob Marmurstein, head of Private Transportation Company, wrote that the company "does not support, promote, or condone any conduct involving the segregation of its passengers to various areas of the bus based upon gender." Yet, the New York Times notes that in addition to female passengers being told to move to the back to honor the Hasidic prohibition on intermingling between the sexes, there were signs in the front and back of the bus that read: "when boarding a crowded bus with standing passengers in the front, women should board the back door after paying the driver in the front" and that "when the bus is crowded, passengers should stand in their designated areas." Now in response to the uproar over the policy, the company has pledged, "to confirm our policy of non-discriminatory conduct with our drivers and other Company personnel. In addition, we will be placing signage on the buses which confirms these policies and sets forth the prohibition against such discriminatory conduct..." A city spokeman says they'll keep following up with Private Transportation Company, just to make sure they don't get confused about policies on their own busses again. Image via auremar/Shutterstock.	<urn:uuid:0bcef79d-745d-4dea-b2dd-b8e8683b2b7b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://jezebel.com/5854140/women-on-brooklyn-bus-can-now-sit-wherever-they-damn-well-please	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.969375	415	2.3125	2
Falklands veterans braced for traumatic 30th anniversary Tomorrow will reopen deep psychological wounds that survivors have been struggling to overcome Hundreds of traumatised Falklands war veterans still need help to cope with psychological trauma 30 years after the conflict. Many of those fighting painful memories will have flashbacks tomorrow, triggered by a welter of TV and radio coverage of the 30th anniversary of the Argentinian invasion of "Las Malvinas". A British taskforce of more than 100 ships and more than 10,000 personnel took the islands back after a war lasting 74 days – at a cost of 255 British lives. Many of those who came back physically unscathed bore psychological scars which have exacted a toll over the past three decades. Spike Dunkin was just 19 when he served as an electrician on HMS Intrepid. While he escaped physical injury, the 49-year-old from Sidmouth, Devon, lives each day fearful of memories that he struggles to describe: "It's the noise, the constant stress, worry that it's going to be your last moment on earth, the smells, the fighting, just everything. Guns and missiles were going off all the time... Every time there was an air raid, it felt as if someone was holding a knife to your throat, whispering: 'This time I am going to kill you'." What happened next scarred him for life. "The worst day was when HMS Sir Galahad got hit while the Welsh Guards were onboard." Forty-eight personnel died and more than 100 were badly burnt. Mr Dunkin's HMS Intrepid became a rallying point for the casualties. "It was absolutely horrendous seeing all these poor blokes broken, burnt and damaged. I had five of them with me in my mess deck. We made them cups of tea and held cigarettes for them because their hands were burnt and they couldn't hold anything. We all felt so helpless and useless." After the war, he started having nightmares: "I'd wet the bed. I couldn't sleep properly and felt low and depressed. I used to drink until I blacked out." Mr Dunkin left the Royal Navy after 10 years, but found it hard to adjust. "I would only last a year in a job because I couldn't settle. I bottled everything up; I lost interest in things and always wanted to move on. My marriage then disintegrated." He was ashamed to ask for help for more than 20 years but remembers relenting in 2004. "Within three minutes, I was in floods of tears and couldn't stop. It was the first time, sober, that I'd talked about the Falklands. I was so scared of going for an assessment because I thought they would put me into a straitjacket." Mr Dunkin is one of many fighting the past. An estimated 300 Falklands veterans have killed themselves. And many are struggling with psychological wounds. Around 210 are being treated by the charity Combat Stress: 18 made their first contact with the organisation last year. After eight years of support, Mr Dunkin has found stability. "I know my post-traumatic stress disorder will never go away, but I've learnt how to cope with it. I am now a lot more positive about things and I no longer drink. If I have nightmares and wet the bed, I accept that it's happened and do not judge myself so harshly." He has remarried and works as an electrician. He counts himself lucky. "I do feel hopeful. I feel calmer and more settled than I ever have." But he added: "If people think they may need help, they must ask... I've lost a few good friends to drink and drugs problems – ex-forces guys who've found that's the only way out." Dr Walter Busuttil, director of medical services at Combat Stress, said: "This is a difficult time for Falklands vets – the anniversary brings it all back to them... This won't stop. The legacy is still alive." Have shock jocks gone too far? Former Google exec says he has 100,000 emails showing how 'immoral' company avoids paying UK tax Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress? British man confesses to slitting two children's throats in Lyon flat 'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur - 1 Asteroid nine times the size of the QE2 liner to sail pass Earth - 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress? - 3 British business: We need to stay in the EU - or risk losing up to £92bn a year - 4 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots - 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page. 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By Alan Bean In The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, Steven Teles describes how the conservative movement was able to undermine and largely replace what he calls the Liberal Legal Network (LLN for short). By the late 1960s, liberal ideas inspired by New Deal politics and the civil rights movement were deeply entrenched within the American legal establishment. To change this picture, Teles says, conservative counter insurgents had to realize that they were dealing with a hegemonic regime. A regime is most likely to endure when it can make its ideas seem natural, appropriate, and commonsensical, consigning its opponents to the extremes . . . A regime that has achieved hegemony makes its principles seem like ‘good professional practice,’ ‘standard operating procedure,’ ‘the public interest,’ or ‘conventional wisdom.’ Those who fail to affirm these principles are stigmatized, and their arguments are dismissed. In order to overcome this kind of hegemonic reality, Teles suggests, “intellectual entrepreneurs” must “‘denaturalize’ the existing regime, by exposing the hidden normative assumptions embedded in seemingly neutral professional, scientific, or procedural standards and practices, forcing those assumptions to be justified and alternatives to them entertained.” This analysis got me thinking. Friends of Justice, the faith-based non-profit I direct, is encouraging American churches to embrace a biblical “common peace” perspective on immigration and criminal justice issues. This agenda makes perfect sense to most Latino and African American Christians, but is often greeted with a mixture of bewilderment, suspicion and hostility in Anglo religious circles. I’m not talking about conservative evangelical congregations or the religious right; the churches I’m describing are a blend of standard issue evangelicalism and big steeple Protestantism. People in these churches value niceness above all other virtues, but they sometimes have a hard time relating to the concept of a Common Peace Community. We are dealing with a hegemonic regime rooted in deeply embedded assumptions that, in Anglo churches at least, have attained the status of the ‘good professional practice,’ ‘standard operating procedure,’ ‘community interest,’ or ‘conventional wisdom’ Steve Teles talks about. Why does a politically irrelevant religion seem natural, appropriate, and commonsensical to so many white Christians? To understand the conventional wisdom at work in white churches we must confront the assumptions at the root of the problem. Here is my first stab at culling out the assumptions. Some of these, especially five and six, might sound a bit unfair since church people rarely put these assumptions into words. My point is that we generally act on these assumptions, whether or not we give them utterance. Six assumptions that keep white churches from applying biblical norms to immigration and criminal justice - The immigration and criminal justice systems should be left to lawyers and politicians. It doesn’t really matter what Christians think about these issues because we lack the expertise and standing to form a credible opinions or impact public policy decisions. - Churches should avoid partisan politics. Institutional tranquility demands that the political implications of our religion must never be discussed in religious settings. - Religion is a source of security in a troubled world. Crime and illegal immigration threaten my personal security, so I am reassured by political tough talk. - Religion is about saving souls, promoting a sense of personal well-being, nurturing personal relationships, and sustaining a spiritual family. Public policy issues conflict with these priorities. - It’s great that racial minorities are taking an interest in politics so long as they understand that American politics is designed to maximize the prosperity and personal happiness of white people. - It’s fine for racial minorities to attend churches and think religious thoughts so long as they understand that American Christianity is a white person’s religion that must be restricted to matters that white people care about. Again, my point is not that we say these things out loud, or even that we consciously approve of them. I theorize that these ideas must operate as unexamined, a priori assumptions because most of us behave as if they were true.	<urn:uuid:f8b14d8f-c382-4e77-867f-2af09d7a5625>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.abpnews.com/blog/public-policy/six-assumptions-that-allow-white-evangelicals-to-flout-biblical-norms-2013-02-21/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948695	859	1.640625	2
With so many people around the world looking to embark on a greener lifestyle it is no wonder that the Vegan lifestyle is receiving a large amount of attention lately as well. From people who are looking to embark in just some minor changes to those who are looking to completely revamp their entire lifestyle. Regardless of whether you are looking to make a massive change or just a few small differences Vegan cooking can offer a large number of benefits, which helps to ensure that many people start picking up the habits. Aside from the reality that a Vegan lifestyle is much more green friendly than eating tons of meat it also has a huge benefit of being a much cheaper lifestyle. Because the majority of the foods that are eaten in a Vegan lifestyle can be grown at home it provides a substantial savings that you would not otherwise be able to realize if you were relying on purchasing the majority of your foods from a grocery store. By omitting meats from your diet you are not only doing your part to help the environment but with savings in the thousands of dollars possible each year it can be a huge benefit to look towards a Vegan lifestyle. Other concerns that are important is the ability to avoid chemical treated foods. Many Vegans opt to grow their own produce, which provides the huge benefit of allowing you to use your own home grown organic foods. This makes them much cheaper for you, which again can significantly decrease your average grocery bill. It is still very important to realize that you might need to buy some food items from the store, however you will not need to worry about the items that you do need to purchase as much since the costs will be significantly lower and there are generally less likely to be subject to harmful chemicals. Many people opt to turn to a Vegan lifestyle due to the health benefits. It is a proven reality that people who consume large amounts of meat tend to weigh more. This is a reality that cannot be avoided especially due to the increasingly large number of people around the world who are becoming obese. By changing to a Vegan lifestyle, it is much easier to lose weight and find a much healthier lifestyle that will benefit your entire family. In order to really see the benefits of this it is necessary that you take some time to really devote to the Vegan lifestyle to see a real benefit. There are some studies lately that speculate that Vegan cooking has been linked to also help reduce the occurrence of diabetes as well. In order to really know if this is true for you it is important to talk to your doctor. Many people experience huge changes to their blood sugar levels by switching to a Vegan lifestyle, however many others also find that it is increasingly difficult to find a good method of changing their blood sugar levels to reduce the need for additional medication. If you are looking to reduce your blood sugar levels then it is important to talk to your doctor before making the adjustment. With any change you might be considering you should always take plenty of time to review your options. Most people find that the Vegan lifestyle is perfect for their needs without spending months of research however; you should still take at least a bit of time to ensure that this is the right lifestyle for you. If you are not interested in making a permanent change then you should consider making some small changes and working to tweak each of these changes to your exact lifestyle preference. You might need to make several changes, but you should be able to settle into a comfortable pattern and lifestyle quite quickly if you devote a bit of time and effort to the process.	<urn:uuid:3a554cf4-2f3c-491c-90ea-dfafa6c7aa7e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://flirtingwithfitness.com/nutrition/nutrition/vegan/reasons-to-embark-in-vegan-cooking/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.980587	698	2.0625	2
Albany hotels come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny bed and breakfasts run by friendly couples to large chain hotels which will seem familiar to you and your family from their branches all across the nation. When choosing from amongst the many Albany New York hotels it is important to consider all the types of Albany hotels to choose your ideal lodging from amongst the many Albany New York hotels. Albany's rich history and exciting attractions account for all of the tourist interest in the area, and the large amount of Albany hotels. Becoming acquainted with the area's background will help you decide how to spend your visit and choose from all the Albany hotels to find the right one from your stay. Albany was discovered by the famous explorer Henry Hudson, from whom the Hudson river takes its name, in 1609. Hudson did not become involved in the development of the town of Albany, however. Instead, the area was settled latter by Dutch merchants who were involved in the industry of bringing furs from northern climes with the intent of shipping them back to Europe. The fur trading industry was at one time a major reason for the development of the new york upstate area, and Albany is no exception to this phenomenon. There is no way these dutch fur traders several hundred years ago could have dreamed that one day Albany would be a bustling city, full of all kinds of Albany business including Albany restaurants, Albany nightclubs, and Albany hotels of all imaginable kinds. Soon after its initial settlement, Albany grew from a small stop on the fur trading route into a major hub of fur trading activity. It became the major gateway to the north east passage through which so many men and women made their livelihoods in the early years of north American colonial settlement. The oldest building in the city was created during the fur trading boom, and you will probably want to see it during your visit if you or your companions are at all interested in early American history or architecture. The building is known as Quakenbush House, and currently functions as a working restaurant. A visit to Quakenbush House will help make your visit to Albany ny a memorable one. Albany NY has changed a lot since its inception, as different groups infused the area with their own unique cultural energies and backgrounds, making Albany NY a melting pot like so many other towns and cities in our nation. As early as 1776 albany became home to its first Shaker community, and you can still visit this group's original cemetery, meeting house, and orchard located in the vicinity of the Albany International Airport. The founder of the Shaker Movement, and of this first Shaker Community in the united states, is buried in this historically notable cemetery. On your visit to the Shaker Cemetery, you would do well to take note of the grave of Ann Lee, who changed the face of America and the world with her innovative ideas about community and religion. If the 1770s feel too modern for your tastes and you are in the market to see something even older, stop by the Albany Institute of History & Art. There are two genuine Egyptian mummies housed in this unique museum, sure to delight children and adults alike with their eerie majesty.	<urn:uuid:60a70437-a172-4e4f-b075-3105a92bfb32>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.syl.com/articles/albanyhotelsarethegatewaytofun.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.976573	648	1.523438	2
Justice, Fortitude, TemperanceFR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS Last week, Straight Answers addressed the topic of the cardinal virtues ó those "hinge" virtues that are the foundation of all virtues. Having examined the virtue of prudence, we now turn to justice, fortitude and temperance. The second duty in justice is toward our neighbor. A person must not only refrain from doing evil toward his neighbor, but also do what is good toward his neighbor. As such, a person must respect the rights of each person and establish relationships that promote equity among all people and build-up the common good. The virtue of justice has three dimensions: commutative or reciprocal justice, distributive justice and legal or general justice. Commutative or reciprocal justice governs relationships between individuals. Strictly speaking, here is contractual justice. The meaning of the contract between individuals is to identify each partyís rights and to guarantee one partyís claim to a certain benefit as much as the otherís obligation to provide that benefit. Looking at the broader spectrum of justice, distributive justice orders the relationship of the community as a whole to its individual members. In justice, the whole community must promote the common good for each person, not just the majority. Therefore, those entrusted with the care of the common good must make sure individual members are given what is their due. For example, in justice, the government must ensure that each person has proper food, clothing, shelter, medical care and educational opportunities, which are basic goods for the dignity of each person. Here one recognizes the duty of the whole community to care especially for those members who are most vulnerable ó the unborn, the old, the sick and the disabled. Finally, legal or general justice concerns the individualís relationship to the whole community. Every person has the duty to uphold and obey the just laws that ensure the common good. For instance, every citizen has a duty to support the common good through the defense of the country or through the payment of taxes (too bad, but true). Virtues that derive from justice include piety (here the proper reverence and service to our parents, country and others in legitimate authority), obedience, gratitude, veracity, affability (the proper friendliness and civility among all) and equity. Next, the virtue of fortitude enables a person to stand firm against and endure the hardships of life, and to remain steadfast in pursuit of what is good. Here such steadfastness and endurance reflect the soulís clinging onto what is good. Genuine fortitude does not entail making sacrifices or risking oneís life arbitrarily or foolishly. However, genuine fortitude is always exercised in accord with reason, assesses the true nature and value of things (i.e. asking whether something really worth sacrificing for) and involves a just cause. Fortitude strengthens the individualís resolve to resist temptation, overcome personal weaknesses and make sacrifices for what is good. To have fortitude does not mean that a person is immune from fear. Instead, a person with fortitude recognizes fear, but does not allow fear to prevent him from doing what is good or, worse, to make him do what is evil. Think then of how important fortitude is to withstand peer pressure. Fortitude strengthens a person to conquer the fear of death or persecution, and even to make the ultimate sacrifice of martyrdom. Virtues stemming from fortitude include magnanimity, which inclines a person to perform great works in every virtue; munificence, which inclines a person to perform great physical works; patience, which inclines a person to endure present evils; and perseverance, which inclines a person to continue steadfastly in the pursuit of virtue. Vices contrary to fortitude include timidity, recklessness, presumption, ambition, vainglory, pusillanimity, inconstancy and pertinacity. Finally, the virtue of temperance enables a person to keep his passions and emotions under the control of reason. While temperance moderates a personís attraction to pleasures and gives balance in the use of created goods, it also involves using these goods in a good way. Here one approaches pleasures and the use of created goods in the light of faith, of reason and of oneís own vocation and circumstance of life. The exercise of temperance includes two essential parts: a sense of shame and a sense of honor. The sense of shame causes a person to fear feeling the disgrace, confusion or embarrassment from being intemperate in action. The sense of honor causes a person to want to feel the dignity, esteem or love for practicing temperance. On one hand, the sense of shame prevents a person from acting intemperately and, thereby, sinfully; while on the other hand, the sense of honor inspires a person to act temperately and, thereby, meritoriously. In all, temperance in action is self-preservation, whereas intemperance in action is self-degradation and self-destruction. Virtues aligned with temperance include abstinence, sobriety, chastity, purity, continence, humility, gentleness, clemency, modesty and lack of greed. On the contrary, vices opposed to temperance include gluttony, drunkenness, unchastity, impurity, incontinence, pride, wrath and greed. The practice and development of the four cardinal virtues are essential to anyoneís spiritual life. However, as the old saying goes, "Easier said than done." Being the poor victims of original sin, each of us has difficulties living a virtuous life. Therefore, we need the abundant graces our Lord offers through prayer, the frequent reception of the sacraments and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Looking to the example of the saints and invoking their prayers also strengthen our resolution for holiness. We must never forget our Lordís challenge: "You must be made perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). Through the practice of virtue, assisted by Godís grace and the aid of the saints and angels, we can meet the challenge. Saunders, Rev. William. "Justice, Fortitude, Temperance." Arlington Catholic Herald. This article is reprinted with permission from Arlington Catholic Herald. Father William Saunders is dean of the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College and pastor of Our Lady of Hope Parish in Sterling, Virginia. The above article is a "Straight Answers" column he wrote for the Arlington Catholic Herald. Father Saunders is also the author of Straight Answers, a book based on 100 of his columns and published by Cathedral Press in Baltimore. Copyright © 2002 Father William Saunders Not all articles published on CERC are the objects of official Church teaching, but these are supplied to provide supplementary information.	<urn:uuid:45927eef-4572-424a-9265-f23d64820a34>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0531.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.93742	1,395	3	3
KU News Release January 11, 2013 Contact: Brendan Lynch, KU News Service, 785-864-8855 Greenhouse gas-emitting microbes in soil pose a global warming challenge LAWRENCE — A grim hazard of climate change is that “positive feedbacks” will augment the warming induced by human activities. One such a positive feedback loop that could spiral out of control lies directly underfoot. When microorganisms in the soil break down organic matter like dead plants, they also emit heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. The warmer the world gets, the busier the microorganisms in many places could become, producing relatively more greenhouse gases. “There is great concern that with human-induced climate change in the coming century, warmer temperatures will increase the rates at which microbial activity in the soil occurs, and that in turn will drive increased fluxes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” said Sharon Billings, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Microbial activity in the soil generates carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, all of which add to global warming. Indeed, emissions from soil-dwelling microorganisms worldwide constitute a “huge governing factor in the Earth’s climate,” according to the KU researcher. Thus, with a hotter climate, increased emissions by soil biota could contribute severely to yet more global warming in the coming decades — at levels akin to other major systems that threaten positive feedback loops in response to a warming planet, such as melting reflective sea ice or methane-rich Siberian permafrost. But according to Billings, who also works at the Kansas Biological Survey, scientists who forecast the Earth’s changing climate urgently require a better grasp on these microorganisms’ role in global warming and the reasons behind any change in their behavior with warming. “Our work highlights what we really need to study – and model – to understand what is going to happen in the future,” Billings said. “We already know that if you warm soils, you’re going to get more CO2 in most cases. The question is how much, and why.” Billings stressed that scientists must understand the specific means by which warming boosts microbial respiration in soil – a key process that produces CO2. “When you warm soils in the field or warm soils in the lab and you measure how much CO2 comes off, that CO2 is the end result of many different processes prior to cells’ respiration,” she said. “There’s a big effort in my lab to try to parse those different processes out and find out what the temperature influence is on each of them.” Billings and her team are researching several possible mechanisms behind increased greenhouse-gas production from soil microbes. “You have to ask, ‘Is the microbial population increasing in size? Is that a feature driving warmer soils to emit more CO2?’” she said. “Or, are the microbes changing what they’re going after? Are they going after cellulose instead of sugar, or going after lignin instead of cellulose? We don’t know the answer to those questions, and that’s really where we need to go.” With such an understanding, a more finely tuned estimation of the microbial influence on Earth’s warming climate is possible, taking into account precipitation and regional climate differences as well. There might be little that humankind can do to change the rates at which microorganisms break down organic matter in soil around the planet. “We have very little control of that relative to human-driven processes,” Billings said. “These ecosystems are going to function in response to environmental features like temperature and precipitation. And human activities are changing those patterns.” The University of Kansas is a major comprehensive research and teaching university. University Relations is the central public relations office for KU's Lawrence email@example.com \| (785) 864-3256 \| 1314 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045	<urn:uuid:8837f65c-1109-45ec-b197-ce8db9d8a38d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://archive.news.ku.edu/2013/january/11/microbes.shtml	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.928298	858	3.296875	3
My desk is boring. My walls are boring. My windows are boring. I need to liven them up by turning them into musical instruments that detect and recognise my touch. Fortunately, that's cheaper and easier than it sounds. This video shows off Mogees, an interactive gestural-based way of turning any surface into a real-time, wacky musical instrument. It uses a single, cheap contact microphone, which you can attach to any surface: plate glass, tables, trees, balloons, whatever. It will work best with something fairly solid but, as the video shows, it copes just fine with being attached to something squidgy like a balloon, too. Once attached, the microphone can detect the proximity and type of movement which hands and objects make when they touch the surface in question. Some smart software models the detected sound and matches it up to a sample in its database, producing the weird and wonderful noises you hear in the video. I'm a fan of the squelchy, wobbly samples that get picked up when it's attached to the balloon, but I also like the idea of my finger tapping making a real – if slightly amateur – contribution to the music I'm listening to. That drum solo in Moby Dick will never sound the same again. For which I'm sorry. The contact mic that Bruno Zamborlin, the developer of the system, used costs about $20. He's also planning to release the software soon. My office is about to get much more interesting. [Bruno Zamborlin via Slashdot]	<urn:uuid:dbb37c5c-ee02-4520-b52a-8febb15552ee>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://gizmodo.com/5872387/turn-any-surface-into-a-touch+sensitive-instrument-with-a-20-microphone	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941627	323	2.0625	2
Within the banking and finance sector, you’ll find a wide range of opportunities for IT specialists. From programming financial software and applications, to website development and maintenance, this diverse industry relies heavily upon new technology in all facets of its business – and employs more computing experts than virtually any other. There are over one million people currently working in the UK financial services industry in more than 35,000 companies (UK international financial services - the future, HM Treasury, 2009). These include retail and online banks, pension providers, insurance and actuarial firms, and organisations such as supermarkets that have diversified into providing financial services and products. Technology enables each of these organisations to run their business efficiently. IT is used on a massive scale to support all data management, interactions and transactions and is central to providing services through a range of channels, including internet and telephone banking, cash machines and over the counter in high street branches. Although London is the focal point of the UK financial services industry, it accounts for just under one-third of overall industry jobs. There are also thriving financial districts in other large cities: search for jobs in Manchester, jobs in Leeds, jobs in Bristol, jobs in Edinburgh, jobs in Glasgow, jobs in Cardiff and jobs in Belfast. Many of the organisations in the UK financial services industry are part of international groups or have clients based outside of the UK. Opportunities to work overseas may be available to those who make their careers with global firms. The work environment in the banking and finance sector is very fast-paced and dynamic, often with long hours and crucial deadlines. To balance this out, you’ll also find attractive salaries and bonus structures, as well as opportunities to work on multi-national projects. IT specialists with a flair for development and with a strong technical knowledge of languages such as PHP, .NET, Java or similar codes, could look at developing and programming financial software and applications, for example. Individuals with an interest in IT support may prefer to explore infrastructure, such as the provision and maintenance of servers, networks, data storage, disaster recovery and desktop terminals. Even the various financial institutions are themselves consumers, purchasing the latest applications from financial software houses. These software houses employ IT specialists to regularly develop new programmes and applications, as well as liaising with clients and selling the product. And an IT specialist with business or marketing experience and qualifications can also diversify into managing and implementing aspects such as e-promotions, e-brochures and direct marketing solutions. Search for banking and finance IT jobs	<urn:uuid:7d70270b-d4cb-4e5c-8f54-ca3dff39f708>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/careers-advice/it-glossary/banking-and-finance-explained	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943057	519	1.789063	2
threw quite the wireless party by introducing PC Free at yesterday's WWDC keynote, but it seems that the engineers in Cupertino may have even more tricks up their sleeve. Judging by a recently filed patent application, the company's hoping to add charging to its list of cord-cutting services. Specifically, the patent describes building a NFMR (near-field magnetic resolution) power supply directly into your iMac so it can charge your iPhone, iPad, or even peripherals -- such as a keyboard or mouse, when equipped with a special antenna -- without the assistance of your ol' trusty charging cords or batteries. Sporting a somewhat mature iMac that's operating sans NFMR? Pop a special USB dongle in that bad boy and presto, you're good to go. The patent points out that the range is limited to one meter, though there may be ways to install repeaters in peripherals to extend that distance further. Of course, patents won't guarantee we'll be grabbing the scissors to cut our cords anytime soon, but at least we won't have to rely on these things for the rest of eternity.	<urn:uuid:ff7ad44d-0864-4335-b9f2-27ed885db171>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/07/apple-patent-app-sheds-light-on-wireless-charging-dreams-nfmr-l/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943925	237	1.789063	2
One of my closest friends had a parasite go thru her heart muscle causing her blood pressure to rise quickly. At first, she is just not feeling good with the racing heart symptom she experienced. Then, she went to the doctor, who did an E.K.G (it was fine). Her pressure was so high that she gave her a heart prescription and said to get it filled immediately, which she did. She couldn’t understand what was going on. She took the medication, but was still having heart palpitations only more softly then. Read more.. This is what one of my friends having in her candida diet meal plan right now. She is following the protocol outlined by Russ Newmans plan. She is not totally well yet, but she feels that she may be making some great strides. Here is the food list. Read more.. I agree that one shouldn’t get depressed about having to stay on the strict candida diet forever, but one should really change their diet more gradually than just changing to the anti-candida. For at least a couple of weeks, if not a month, get used to eat only healthy foods. This helps to get all the kinks of becoming ‘healthy’ out of the way, such as deciding to eat organic foods and either whole wheat or non-gluten noodles. This way, when you heal yourself of candida overgrowth, you will not go out and shove sugar down your face because you are “free”. Read more.. My friend is getting really confused for what fruits are exactly allowed on which anti candida diet. She wonders what makes Crook’s diet is lemon only and Russ allowed grapefruit, kiwi, and only 4 dates per day. Dates are high in sugar, which feed the candida. Dates are dried and she believes dried foods are disallowed because of possible mold. She wants to know why they are allowed. Read more.. In my humble opinion, I believe that whatever kind of candida you suffered from, you need to start with a proper anti candida diet. Stop eating the pastas, breads, carbohydrates, junk, and processed foods. Start eating fresh vegetables, if not fresh, then frozen should be the second choice. Read more.. Let us get our spotlight on a topic of yeast free diet and fruit. As most of you already know, fruit is forbidden for candida sufferers. Fruits have their own sugar called fructose, and sugar turns into carbs in your body. One of my friends is attempting to eliminate as much sugar as possible from his diet, and now he is pretty much stopped eating fruit and drinking fruit juice. Read more..	<urn:uuid:1011a8c8-ea89-48b0-a31e-3ebec4bca46e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://getridofcandida.org/tag/candida-diet-2/page/2	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.978619	552	1.757813	2
The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All : In his work as research and development director at cutting-edge think tank TalentSmart, where he helps businesses work better and employees think smarter, Nick Tasler realized that the recent discovery by scientists of a potential-seeking gene could have a remarkable impact on how we understand decision making. Those who have this gene - about one quarter of the population - are endowed with impulsive tendencies that can lead to fast and decisive action or to foolish choices. The cautious majority that Tasler calls risk managers can make carefully considered decisions or become hopelessly lost in the fog of details. Now The Impulse Factor offers readers a unique online opportunity to analyze their own decision-making style and harness it to improve their everyday lives. Each book comes with access to a proprietary assessment developed specifically to evaluate impulsivity. With examples from business, psychology, and Tasler's own research at TalentSmart, the book also vividly illustrates how susceptible we are to the events around us and how our reactions often run contrary to our best interests. By combining his research with real-world examples of extreme decision making, Tasler teaches readers how to thrive when faced with difficult choices. More than just a book, The Impulse Factor provides a clear understanding of why you make the choices you do - and the tools to make those decisions change your business and your life. \|Business & Economics\|\|Decision Making & Problem Solving\|	<urn:uuid:4be93aba-55fe-439a-8c0a-8cd917a34ce5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ofertondelibros.com/Bookstore/Book/The-Impulse-Factor-Why-Some-of-Us-Play-It-Safe-and-Others-Risk-It-All/_/R-9781416562344B	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947246	296	2.140625	2
\|http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine®\| The official name of this gene is “hemoglobin, alpha 1.” HBA1 is the gene's official symbol. The HBA1 gene is also known by other names, listed below. The HBA1 gene provides instructions for making a protein called alpha-globin. This protein is also produced from a nearly identical gene called HBA2. These two alpha-globin genes are located close together in a region of chromosome 16 known as the alpha-globin locus. Alpha-globin is a component (subunit) of a larger protein called hemoglobin, which is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to cells and tissues throughout the body. Hemoglobin is made up of four subunits: two subunits of alpha-globin and two subunits of another type of globin. Alpha-globin is a component of both fetal hemoglobin, which is active only before birth and in the newborn period, and adult hemoglobin, which is active throughout the rest of life. Each of the four protein subunits of hemoglobin carries an iron-containing molecule called heme. Heme molecules are necessary for red blood cells to pick up oxygen in the lungs and deliver it to the body's tissues. A complete hemoglobin protein is capable of carrying four oxygen molecules at a time (one attached to each heme molecule). Oxygen attached to hemoglobin gives blood its bright red color. Deletions of the HBA1 and/or HBA2 genes are the most common cause of alpha thalassemia. Rarely, mutations in or near these genes can also be responsible for the disease. The signs and symptoms of alpha thalassemia tend to be more severe when the disease results from mutations in the alpha-globin genes than when it is caused by deletions of these genes. People have two copies of the HBA1 gene and two copies of the HBA2 gene in each cell. Each copy is called an allele. For each gene, one allele is inherited from a person's father, and the other is inherited from a person's mother. As a result, there are four alleles that produce alpha-globin. The different types of alpha thalassemia result from the loss of some or all of these alleles. Hb Bart syndrome, the most severe form of alpha thalassemia, results from the loss of all four alpha-globin alleles. This condition is characterized by a buildup of excess fluid in the body before birth (hydrops fetalis), a shortage of red blood cells (anemia), and an enlarged liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly). HbH disease, which is milder, is caused by a loss of three of the four alpha-globin alleles. HbH disease is characterized by mild to moderate anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, and yellowing of the eyes and skin (jaundice). In Hb Bart syndrome and HbH disease, a shortage of alpha-globin prevents cells from making normal hemoglobin. Instead, cells produce abnormal forms of hemoglobin called hemoglobin Bart (Hb Bart) or hemoglobin H (HbH). These abnormal hemoglobin molecules cannot effectively carry oxygen to the body's tissues. The substitution of Hb Bart or HbH for normal hemoglobin causes anemia and the other serious health problems associated with alpha thalassemia. Two additional variants of alpha thalassemia are related to a reduced amount of alpha-globin. Because cells still produce some normal hemoglobin, these variants tend to cause few or no health problems. A loss of two of the four alpha-globin alleles results in alpha thalassemia trait. People with alpha thalassemia trait may have unusually small, pale red blood cells and mild anemia. A loss of one alpha-globin allele is found in alpha thalassemia silent carriers. These individuals typically have no thalassemia-related signs or symptoms. A condition called alpha thalassemia-retardation 16 (ATR-16) results from a large deletion of genetic material from the short (p) arm of chromosome 16. The signs and symptoms of this condition result from the loss of many genes, including HBA1 and HBA2. A deletion of the HBA1 and HBA2 genes leads to alpha thalassemia trait in most people with ATR-16. The loss of other genes causes additional features of the disorder, including intellectual disability, severely delayed language skills, an unusually small head size (microcephaly), and distinctive facial features. Affected males may also have undescended testes (cryptorchidism) and the urethra opening on the underside of the penis (hypospadias). The signs and symptoms of ATR-16 vary depending on the size of the deletion. A particularly large deletion may include the PKD1 gene, which is responsible for polycystic kidney disease. A loss of this gene leads to the growth of multiple cysts in the kidneys. If the deletion also includes the TSC2 gene, an affected individual will develop tuberous sclerosis complex. This condition is characterized by the growth of noncancerous tumors in many parts of the body. Cytogenetic Location: 16p13.3 Molecular Location on chromosome 16: base pairs 226,678 to 227,519 The HBA1 gene is located on the short (p) arm of chromosome 16 at position 13.3. More precisely, the HBA1 gene is located from base pair 226,678 to base pair 227,519 on chromosome 16. See How do geneticists indicate the location of a gene? (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/howgeneswork/genelocation) in the Handbook. You and your healthcare professional may find the following resources about HBA1 helpful. You may also be interested in these resources, which are designed for genetics professionals and researchers. See How are genetic conditions and genes named? (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/mutationsanddisorders/naming) in the Handbook. allele ; anemia ; cell ; chromosome ; contiguous ; contiguous gene deletion syndrome ; cryptorchidism ; cysts ; deletion ; gene ; gene deletion ; Hb ; heme ; hemoglobin ; hepatosplenomegaly ; hydrops fetalis ; hypospadias ; iron ; jaundice ; kidney ; locus ; microcephaly ; molecule ; oxygen ; polycystic kidney ; protein ; sclerosis ; substitution ; subunit ; syndrome ; testes ; thalassemia ; trait You may find definitions for these and many other terms in the Genetics Home Reference Glossary (http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary). The resources on this site should not be used as a substitute for professional medical care or advice. Users seeking information about a personal genetic disease, syndrome, or condition should consult with a qualified healthcare professional. See How can I find a genetics professional in my area? 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Galaxy Elementary’s pre-K ceremony is cutest graduation As the 18 capped-and-gowned graduates prepared to line up in ABC order, their teacher posed an important, last-minute question: “Did everyone sit on the toilet? Tell me the truth!” “I did!” replied a chorus of 4- and 5-year-olds. “All right, ‘I did,’ ” said Angela Johnson, a teacher at Boynton Beach’s Galaxy Elementary, home to one of the school district’s few “Moving On” ceremonies for pre-kindergartners . Held in Galaxy’s cafeteria last week, the pint-sized graduation was equal parts rite of passage, musical revue and ridiculously cute, beginning with the shy, gap-toothed graduates walking down an aisle formed by two rows of lunch tables, and ending with cake and punch. (Story by Staci Sturrock continues below the gallery of photos by Bruce R. Bennett) TIP: You can use your keyboard’s left and right arrow keys to navigate through the gallery “It’s really a celebration of our students and a showcase of their talents and gifts and academic gains,” said pre-K teacher Era Ellis, whose charges sang and danced to – occasionally in unison – The Number Rock and The Cool Itsy Bitsy Spider, and gave a brief demonstration of their newfound reading skills. Student Erianna Rousseau, for example, read aloud a selection entitled He Had a Farm. “What is the meaning of the story?” Mrs. Ellis asked her student. “The farmer had a farm,” answered Erianna. Although several of Galaxy’s pre-kindergartners did make the giant leap into literacy this year – and all of the students met state standards during a recent assessment – social skills are on equal footing with book-learning at this fidgety age. Just ask Senai Newby the most important lesson she takes away from Mrs. Ellis’ class: “You have to be good to people that you don’t love. You have to be nice to them every day.” And pre-K is merely the beginning of a long educational journey, Senai says. “You have to learn until you get bigger.” For the presentation of certificates, the ceremony’s crowning moment and best photo opportunity for proud parents aiming cellphones, digital cameras, iPads and even laptops at their offspring, 6-foot-3 principal Joe Schneider got down on one knee to hand each rising kindergartner a rolled-up “diploma,” many of which quickly became ersatz spyglasses, mustaches and microphones. Schneider has a special place in his heart for this age group, he said. “Any time I am having a bad day, I go visit pre-K, and they revive my spirit.”	<urn:uuid:a3ede967-4702-4a6e-9785-f55eaa87117e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://clikhear.palmbeachpost.com/2012/south-florida/palm-beach-county/galaxy-elementarys-pre-k-ceremony-is-cutest-graduation/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.94647	634	1.570313	2
IVF blood clot alert: Women pregnant as a result of fertility treatment 'have higher embolism risk' By Jenny Hope Women who become pregnant through IVF may be more likely to develop life-threatening blood clots, researchers have warned. The study, the first of its kind, found that their risk rose fivefold in early pregnancy compared with women who conceived naturally. IVF is linked to more cases of pulmonary embolism, in which a blood clot causes a blockage in the main artery of the lung, and venous thromboembolism – blood clots which form elsewhere but can break off and become life threatening. The proportional risk for those who had had IVF compared with those who had not was highest in the first three months of pregnancy (posed by model) The researchers believe doctors should be aware of the danger, saying the number of cases remains small but blood clots on the lung are a leading cause of death in pregnant women. They suggest the reason may be a huge rise in oestrogen levels triggered by IVF drugs, with the effect diminishing later in pregnancy. Hormonal drugs are widely used in IVF to stimulate the ovaries, allowing up to 15 eggs to mature and be removed from a woman’s body at the same time. But there has been concern about the health effects of over-stimulation – which occasionally can be fatal – and possible harm to the eggs. More than 45,000 women had fertility treatment in the UK in 2010, with almost 13,000 babies born as a result. More than 45,000 women had fertility treatment in the UK in 2010 In the latest study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden compared the risk of both pulmonary embolism (PE) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) in almost 24,000 women having an IVF pregnancy and 117,000 women having a normal pregnancy. Women were matched for age, with an average of 33. It is well known that the risk of blood clots is higher during natural pregnancy, but not how much the rate changes in women having IVF babies. The study found the proportion of IVF women diagnosed with VTE was 4.2 in 1,000 compared with 2.5 in 1,000 for those who had a natural pregnancy. The proportional risk for those who had had IVF compared with those who had not was highest in the first three months of pregnancy: 1.5 in 1,000 compared with 0.3. There was no difference in risk before pregnancy or during the year after delivery. Researchers identified 19 women with potentially life-threatening artery blockages in the IVF group (a rate of 0.08 per cent) compared with 70 women (a rate of 0.05 per cent) having natural pregnancies. The risk in the IVF women was increased during the whole pregnancy and particularly in the first trimester. Absolute risks for pulmonary embolism were low however, with two to three additional cases per 10,000 IVF women, says the study, published on bmj.com. But, the researchers say, it is a difficult condition to diagnose. Study leader Professor Peter Henriksson said it was not clear why IVF mothers were more at risk, but hormonal drugs were a plausible cause. He said: ‘During the IVF procedure hormonal drugs are given to stimulate the egg follicles to grow more eggs. This increases oestrogen levels in the body between ten and 100-fold and is likely to impact on the coagulation of the blood and increase blood clot formation. ‘It is highest during the first third of pregnancy, then eases off and the risk goes down to about the level of a normal pregnancy.’	<urn:uuid:132bfbd8-3a1e-4d98-9a46-08ee63bed9bc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2263077/IVF-blood-clot-alert-Women-pregnant-result-fertility-treatment-higher-embolism-risk.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.975405	783	2.296875	2
The ultimate benefit to home improvement is the appreciation in value of your home’s value. Updating your house with various additions or renovations yourself is a great way to make it energy efficient and to save money too. Many people even find home improvement to be a fulfilling hobby as well.The following suggestions can be just the start you need. Paint stripes on your old walls before installing paneling! No matter how careful you are when installing paneling, the old wall still peeks through. To make this less noticeable, measure off the areas in which the panels will join before your do the installation. Use a color that will match the paneling and paint the areas where the paneling will meet. Use a unique container for a coffee tables instead of a regular table. You could even add a small tablecloth and some decorative teacups if you want a country look. Remember your environment whenever you are making improvements to your home. Having nonsensical improvements such as a sun room without insulation in Michigan, or an uncovered deck in Arizona would make your potential buyer wonder what other odd choices you might have made with the house upkeep. Add value to your home, not negative features. When storing items in containers, use hot glue. It will make finding what you are looking for in even the most organized tool shops.Written labels do not as easily convey the same when you rifle through all of your containers looking for a part. Sometimes the only solution to a squeaky door is to replace the actual door hinge. Most hardware stores sell them. Disassemble the hinge. Then attach the new one to your door and wall. Try aligning the hinge and replacing the pins. Do not demolish too quickly as you start your project. Always double check the underlying structure that is behind a cabinet or wall before going to tear it down. It can be really expensive if you damage electrical components that are damaged during the making of home improvements. Install new fixtures to the bathrooms in the home to make a quick improvement in the appearance. You can find items such as toilet paper holders, towel racks and cabinet knobs in many shapes and finishes. A lot of places will put these together in a package so you can put them in quickly and efficently. If you’re about to embark on a home improvement project, write a list with steps needed to complete the project, and then have an experienced contractor or builder check it for you. You don’t want to miss a step when planning. A good home improvement tip is to make sure the company you’re doing business with is legit. Make sure that the company you choose conducts business face-to-face. Instead, select someone with a good reputation. You need to be aware of a modern danger when doing home improvement projects. 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Window modifications can make a ceiling seem higher than it already is and add some spice. You can make your ceilings seem higher by raising your drapes and curtains higher. In order to create precious floor space or clear out other much-needed space that is being take up by your television or television stand, it’s a great idea to hang a television from a wall-mounted bracket instead of using a ordinary stand. This can be done in half an hour if the instructions are followed correctly. Pull your furniture away from your walls in order to give the room a bigger appearance. It will make the space look bigger, and it will bring a more modern feel to your space. Install a pergola to give your home’s exterior. Is the daytime heat in your house unbearable, or is the sunlight too much? If this is the case, perhaps tinting your home’s windows will help. It’s easy to do this as a DIY home improvement project. You will also save some money on the cost of cooling your home. It may be wise to paint the walls and the ceiling first before getting new flooring. No matter how careful you are with drop cloths and tarps when painting, it will be almost impossible to avoid getting paint on it. Is your flooring looking a bit old? You can lay down some sticky wood flooring after pulling up the old floor. Some people believe this sort of flooring is cheap; however, it’s nice if done properly. This flooring is also easy to lay down by yourself. New blinds are a rather simple home improvement task that provides surprising results. Add some curb appeal by adding a couple coats of some high-gloss paint to the shutters and front door of your home. Homes that are made of light colored brick are a perfect candidate for a deep tone on the front door. Upgrading your appliances goes a lot for the perceived value of your home. Whatever your situation, new appliances add value to your home. When choosing a contractor for your home improvement needs, you must be sure they have insurance. If they cause damage to your house, you might have to take them to court if they are not insured. All you must do is to find a contractor and ask for their proof of insurance. Determine how you need to use for eliminating debris. For complicated home improvement repairs, it may be wise to hire a professional. Designers, contractors and architects have their title and their job for a specific reason. These individuals are experienced and knowledgeable about complex projects. Hiring professionals gives you some confidence that your end result will be just what you wanted. Be safe when it comes to any type of home improvement project! It can be very dangerous to do construction in areas where there is a gas is present. Be aware of the location of the shutoff valve! Install windows that have secondary glazing. 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Landscaping is a very enduring home improvement. Flowers, trees, and shrubs can be combined with stonework or mulch to enhance the appearance of your property. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and your landscaping does just that to visitors; it also increases home value. Add some paint to your walls in an interesting new color. A fresh coat of paint freshens your home and changing colors can instantly update any room. You may also want to consider painting or dull walls to give your home a contemporary feel. Investing in proper insulation will pay off very well over time. With most older homes, you will find the insulation to be inadequate. You can reduce the power bill significantly by adding to the insulation in attic and crawl space areas. Home improvement projects have the ability to be both practical and fun, which is a rare combination. Using the tips shared here, you can make good choices in your next project. 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ERGObaby understands the importance of promoting healthy spinal development and how to correctly carry babies from birth. The ERGObaby ‘Heart2Heart’ Infant Insert has been developed following extensive research, customer feedback and work done directly with newborns and pediatricians. The design encourages healthy maturation of the spine by supporting the pelvis, hip joint, and leg position rather than putting a baby in a compromising position before the spine is ready. The ERGObaby ‘Heart2Heart’ Infant Insert also supports the safety of the baby's head and neck in this critical stage of development. The ERGObaby ‘Heart2Heart’ Infant Insert is a specially padded and shaped cushion that is quickly and easily placed in the carrier. The Insert can be used with any models from the ERGObaby range and is recommended for use for the first 3-4 months, until baby has reached 5 kgs or has good head control. The design enables parents to ensure their newborn is positioned correctly on the pillow, keeping pressure off the developing sacrum, and supports the development of the spine and hips. It holds baby in a cozy, protected environment close to the heart, as well as in an ergonomically correct natural sitting position.	<urn:uuid:99268553-4222-44ce-aa98-947843b71877>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.youandbaby.com.au/ergobaby-heart2heart-infant-insert/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.931606	258	1.554688	2
Over 8,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition. Compete \| FAQ \| Contact Us Titanic: The Sinking of the Unsinkable The Titanic was the most extravagant vessel of its time. In our website, you will learn the story of this great ocean liner. You will experience the sinking and discovery of this unsinkable ship. See a video on our homepage and test your knowledge on our quiz. Now look into our website and the sinking of the unsinkable: Titanic! 19 & under History & Government > Disasters	<urn:uuid:0626b933-7291-4a23-933e-250161ff3d07>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://thinkquest.org/pls/html/f?p=52300:100:1591655016140488::::P100_TEAM_ID:501583053	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.901905	124	2.625	3
The struggle against Great Britain in the years leading up to the War for Independence promoted an expansion of popular participation in politics. Popular pamphlets,urban demonstrations, and voluntary associations such as the Sons of Liberty gave voice to the sentiments of ordinary men and women. In May 1770 an anonymous author named “Brutus”—believed to be the New York City merchant and Son of Liberty Alexander McDougall—addressed his fellow citizens and urged them to reject the claims of leading merchants or “Mercantile Dons,” as he labeled them, to decide unilaterally issues of great political and economic concern. Two years earlier, some merchants had organized boycotts against certain products imported from Great Britain (a strategy known as nonimportation) to resist British taxation measures aimed at the rebellious Americans. And these merchants regarded the decision to resume trade as their decision alone to make. But Brutus disagreed, and responded with this single-sheet broadside. To the FREE and LOYAL INHABITANTS of the City and Colony of NEW-YORK Friends, fellow Citizens, fellow Countrymen, and fellow Freeman, NOTHING can be more flagrantly wrong than the Assertion of some of our mercantile Dons, that the Mechanics have no Right to give their Sentiments about the Importation of British Commodities. For who, I would ask, is the Member of Community, that is absolutely independent of the rest? Or what particular Class among us, has an exclusive Right to decide a Question of general Concern? When the Non-Importation Agreement took Place, what End was it designed to answer? Not surely the private Emolument of Merchants, but the universal Weal of the Continent. It was to redeem from Perdition, from total Perdition, that Stock of English Liberty, to which every Subject, whatever may be his Rank, is equally intitled. Amidst all the Disparity of Fortune and Honours, there is one Lot as common to all Englishmen, as Death. It is, that we are all equally free. Sufficient is it therefore, to hew the matchless Absurdity of the exclusive Claim, of which a few interested Merchants have lately attempted, in a most assuming Manner, to avail themselves, in determining on the Question, whether the Non-Importation Agreement shall be rescinded, to observe, that it was not solemnly entered into for the Good of the Merchants alone, but for the Salvation of the Liberties of us all. Of this the trading Interest of this City were convinced, when, after forming themselves into a Society for executing that Agreement, they not only requested a similar Association of the Mechanics, but by frequent Meetings, conspired with them in Support of the important Company. When the parties engaged in it, none doubted the Necessity of so salutary a Measure: Every Man saw, that between an Importation of Goods, which stern Virtue ought ever to despise as a Means to encourage luxury, and the Sacrifice of our inestimable Rights as Englishmen, there was no Medium. This View of the Subject begat and brought to Perfection, the important Resolution, which has inspired the Enemies of our Liberty on the other Side of the Atlantic, with Fear and Astonishment. We have seen the salutary Effect of this ever memorable Compact, in the Resolution to repeal all the odious Duties, but that on Tea; and this remains unrepealed for no other Reason than that a tyrannical Ministry will not stoop to it unasked; and the East India Company scorn to request it of that tyrannical Ministry. Has not our Mother Country, by solemn Act of Legislation, declared that she has a Right to impose internal Taxes on us? And is not such an imposition incompatible with our Liberty? But this Law is a meer dead Letter, unless it be carried into Exercise by some future Act. For this Purpose was the Law devised, imposing a Duty upon Tea, Paper, Glass, Painters Colours, &c. the very Articles which our Egyptian Task-Masters thought were most essential to us, as being not hitherto the Produce of this Country. And shall we nor, for our own Sakes, shew that we can live without them? What are all the Riches, the Luxuries, and even the Conveniences of Life, compared with that Liberty wherewith God and Nature have set us free, with that inestimable Jewel which is the Basis of all other Enjoyments? They are Dross, vile contemptible Dross, unworthy the Notice of Men. Rouse then my fellow Citizen, fellow Countrymen, and fellow Freemen, of all Ranks, from the Man of Wealth, to the Man whose only Portion is Liberty: Suffer not a few interested, parricidical and treacherous Inhabitants, to gratify their Avarice at the Expence of our common Interests. Spurn at the assuming Upstart, who dares to assert, that in a Question of such universal Concern, none but the Merchants have a Right to decide. For shame! will you, can you believe that you are their Beasts of Burthen, that you must toil and sweat, that they may be filled? I know that there are many Merchants whose patriotic Hearts abhor the accursed Thought; but still of that Profession, there are some base and vile enough to estimate their private Gain above the public Weal. These are the Miscreants who dare to affirm, with an Assurance that merits public Chastisement, that the Mechanics, or in other Words, the Majority of the Community, are not to be consulted on a Point of universal, of dreadful Concern. But who has made those Wretches as Gods among us? Curse on the vile, the arrogant Usurpation. In fine, let the patriotic Merchants, the respectable Body of Mechanics, and the virtuous of all other Ranks, conspire; let them, I say, conspire, as it were with an Oath, to brand with public Infamy, and public Punishment, the Miscreants who, while the odious Power of Taxation by parliamentary Authority, is in one single Instance exercised, even dare to speak in Favour of the least Infraction of the Non-Importation Agreement, and who like accursed Villains,—would owe their Greatness to their Country’s Ruin. O! ye Betrayers of the glorious Cause, remember the Boston Importer, Rogers, I say, remember him and tremble. Source: Brutus, To the free and loyal inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York... 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We women are the first environments of our children. We embody our lineage of environments - which is physical reality. How do we stand for what is right for ourselves, which is therefore right for our children? By looking straight into the eyes of reality, with courage and love. Then taking a stand, acting with integrity and clarity. EcoBirth-Women for Earth and Birth is exploring how to do that with two projects- My Personal Environmental Story and Guarding the Rights of Future Generations. Please look further under our tabs on this website and join us on Facebook. Also visit our My Personal Environmental Story website and "like" us on our Facebook page. And visit the Women's Congress of Future Generations website and read the Declaration of the Rights of Future Generations and give your opinion on what it says. You can offer your own Personal Environmental Story and become involved in the new civil rights movement for Future Generations. You can become a Guardian of Future Generations and a Beloved Ancestor. Take a stand with a loving gaze on reality with us.	<urn:uuid:6b8fbbce-669f-453f-a6c8-af8d42ff320b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://ecobirth.blogspot.com/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934532	210	1.835938	2
80 color plates 5 x 8 Whether it’s a piano-playing cat, a surprised cat, or one that’s just plain adorable, some of the most-watched online videos these days feature funny felines. And it doesn’t end there; cats are ubiquitous on the Internet, inspiring meme after meme, speaking their own language, and even prompting the launch of a new film festival. But the omnipresence of the cat in pop culture is not novel. Feline references date from before 2000 BC in ancient Egypt, and since the introduction of cats to Western households they have inspired writers and artists—from the scribe of the Lindisfarne Gospels to poets of the present day. Puss in Books is a celebration of feline wit, intelligence, aloofness, and charm as presented through cats in books, with examples from literature, folklore, and popular culture. Among the selections included in this gorgeous volume are nursery rhymes (“Hey Diddle Diddle”and “Ding Dong Bell”); poetry by Thomas Gray (“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”) and T. S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats); cats in fiction by Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, and Charles Dickens; and contemporary feline characters such as Splat the Cat and, of course, the ubiquitous Puss in Boots himself. Wonderfully illustrated in color throughout, Puss in Books is an ideal gift for every cat lover.	<urn:uuid:8043009d-278b-45ff-9583-3196c719ca79>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo15977913.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.908117	330	1.960938	2
September 12, 2012. South African military put on high alert in response to mine strikes Military bases across the country were placed on high alert on September 12th for the first time since the advent of democracy in 1994, defense officials confirmed. The move came as firebrand politician Julius Malema prepared to address disgruntled soldiers near Johannesburg. He has addressed several rallies in recent weeks, demanding President Zuma's removal from power after police shot dead striking miners. Analysts see Malema as exploiting the killings to reinforce his image as the champion of poor black South Africans. Meanwhile, a police spokesman said on September 12th that roughly 1,000 workers at a platinum mine in North West province, owned by the world's top platinum producer, launched a strike as well. Strikers were reportedly rioting, barricading the roads with tires, trees trunks, and rocks. Copyright © 2012 Kroll Inc.	<urn:uuid:07d11b94-c57c-4c4e-831b-b878e89d3798>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hthstudents.com/extras/highPriority_article.cfm?p_id=53403	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.974955	184	2.1875	2
The Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, Pfc. Bradley Manning, won a potentially significant ruling Wednesday when a military judge said she will require that for some charges prosecutors will have to prove that Manning acted with knowledge that what he was doing could harm U.S. national security. The media (and the public) also scored a breakthrough by receiving a paper copy of Col. Denise Lind's four-page ruling just after it was issued during a pre-trial hearing at Ft. Meade, Md. The government has previously said reporters could only get such rulings by transcribing them in court or by requesting them under the Freedom of Information Act. Lind ruled that in order to prove eight charges that Manning violated the Espionage Act by sending data to WikiLeaks, prosecutors will have to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the Army soldier had "reason to believe" that the information he was sending could cause harm to the U.S. or help to a foreign country. Manning's defense has argued that he only distributed files he thought would do no such harm if disclosed. Prosecutors said they did not believe such proof was necessary because the information in question was "tangible," a term which they said included the computer files Manning is accused of sending through the Internet to WikiLeaks. In 2006, a federal judge handling a case against two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ruled that the government could punish an individual simply for giving tangible information to an unauthorized person, but that if the information was orally transmitted prosecutors would have to show that the defendant expected some harm to follow. Lind found that while the computer files were tangible, the government's decision to charge Manning with passing information meant it had to prove the extra harm element regardless. "Actual physical matter, not oral communication, was communicated," Lind wrote, notwithstanding the fact that the files were transmitted electronically. "The Government elected to charge the communications under the 'information clause.' That clause carries with it the 'reason to believe' scienter requirement. "The Government is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused had reason to believe the communicated information could be used to the injury of the U.S. or to the advantage of any foreign nation." The ruling could made the prosecution rethink their decision to proceed with the case despite Manning's guilty pleas to 10 charges that carry a potential total sentence of up to 20 years. So far, prosecutors have indicated they plan to seek to prove all the charges, including an aiding the enemy count that carries a potential life sentence. When the Justice Department dropped the case against the two ex-AIPAC lobbyists in 2009, prosecutors cited that judge's rulings on intent as one reason the case was abandoned after several years of investigation and pre-trial motions. Army prosecutors did win a ruling Wednesday that the government can present evidence that data Manning released made it to Al Qaeda, the Associated Press reported. That testimony may come from an anonymous SEAL Team Six member involved in the raid on Osama bin Laden's Manning's court martial, which he has elected to face in front of Lind alone and not by the military equivalent of a jury, is set to begin in June. One downside of Lind releasing one of her orders Wednesday on paper: it's easier to see a couple of errors: the judge quotes from the wrong subsection of the law at one point and appears, perhaps because of a typo, inaccurately summarizes judicial rulings after the AIPAC case. h/t for the ruling to Alexa O'Brien	<urn:uuid:360a494d-8c98-4018-99c8-9e3ea462760b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://dyn.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/?id=209&ml=ca	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.977196	717	1.617188	2
If there were such a genre as ragtime theater, it would probably look a lot like Eric Overmyer's "The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin," which is receiving its world premiere in Center Stage's new Head Theater. What Mr. Overmyer has done is the tricky task of translating one art form into another. Specifically, he has taken a collaborative composition, "The Heliotrope Bouquet," by Joplin and his little-known contemporary, Louis Chauvin, and sought out the equivalent words and images for the notes and music. The result is essentially a mood piece, an evocative reverie, structured in a series of overlapping flashbacks dreamt by Joplin at the end of his life. The 80-minute, intermission-less play is, as one character puts it, "a dream of ragtime rapture. Just a phrase." Like most musical compositions, it feels more lyrical than dramatic. And those very qualities show off the poetic aspects of Center Stage's new upstairs theater. Set designer Christopher Barreca and lighting designer Richard Pilbrow make the Head Theater's spaciousness seem as vast as a dream (there's even a heaven-bound spiral staircase). And the theater's juxtaposition of state-of-the-art technology in a 19th century structure forms a near-perfect metaphor for Mr. Overmyer's 1991 reflection on a turn-of-the-century style of music. Many of the images that the playwright and director Stan Wojewodski Jr. have conjured up are as ethereal as music and as mysterious as Chauvin himself -- a natural, but illiterate, musical genius whose only extant work is the collaborative "Heliotrope Bouquet." Although the keyboard of the onstage piano is soundless, the music played on it echoes throughout the theater in similar fashion to the celestial dictation in "Amadeus." In one scene, various "piano professors" compete in a ragtime contest in a St. Louis cafe. When one draws a handkerchief across the silent keyboard, we hear a glissando; when another twirls a bowler hat over the keys, the result is a sprightly trill. Actors Monti Sharp and Victor Mack ably demonstrate the opposing temperaments of Joplin and Chauvin, the former a ganglion of worry, the latter cocky, youthful and fun-loving. And Essene R is a warm, nurturing presence in the multiple roles of several significant women in Joplin's life. "The Heliotrope Bouquet" frequently seems as evanescent as memory -- or melody. But it also whets your appetite for the future possibilities of the Head Theater, a performing space whose flexibility, appropriately, appears almost as limitless as musical improvisation. "The Heliotrope Bouquet" continues at Center Stage through April 7; call 332-0033.	<urn:uuid:b86db8c1-0393-4116-ae49-c6a8efcf6714>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-02-21/features/1991052028_1_heliotrope-scott-joplin-louis-chauvin	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.950015	615	1.507813	2
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Hackers interfered with US satellites An upcoming report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says that in 2007 and 2008 hackers were able to mess with American satellites in orbit. They were apparently able to access them from a remote station in Norway and the Commission thinks it's likely that the attacks originated in China. A Landsat-7 earth observation satellite system experienced 12 or more minutes of interference in October 2007 and July 2008, according to the report. Hackers interfered with a Terra AM-1 earth observation satellite twice, for two minutes in June 2008 and nine minutes in October that year, the draft says, citing a closed-door U.S. Air Force briefing.	<urn:uuid:baf43644-e5c4-445a-9ddf-f70e85cdfb96>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/tech-report-blog/hackers-interfered-us-satellites	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.973027	141	1.9375	2
The Royal Academy of Dance offers a wide range of courses, classes and workshops for young people The history of the RAD has been as much about music as it has about dance. Every time a new syllabus is created, teachers and musicians have got together at the earliest opportunity to develop the concept as a joint enterprise. Back in the early 1920s, Caroline Bedells, the mother of Phyllis Bedells - one of the five original founders of the RAD - compiled books of music for the first ballet examination syllabi, and we have been developing, publishing and recording music for ballet ever since. As a result, many dance accompanists around the world got their first introduction to the craft of playing for class directly from working with an RAD teacher, or indirectly from the techniques, styles and conventions evident in the music published for the syllabus. We'd like to think that we'll continue to play that role for many years to come, finding new ways to work with music, exploring new partnerships and possibilities between dancers and musicians, and nurturing an international community of musicians with a shared interest in of dance. In addition to providing specialist music for syllabus and examinations, the Academy also has a range of resources to assist teachers and musicians in their work. The music catalogue has includes, for example a series of CDs of piano music for ballet classes, Studio Series: Intuition (six volumes and growing) two how-to guides to playing for dances classes, A Dance Class Anthology and A Dance Class Tune Book and two CDs of classical instrumental music for relaxing or dancing to, After Class 1 & 2 . With the Alternative Music for Grades 1-5 we published two entire guidebooks in place of inlay cards, which are now available on line. For more information, see our page on Music Resources. In response to the queries that teacher members and pianists often ask us, we have a created a series of Music Factsheets. These deal with the sometimes quite complex matters that are part of everyday dance teaching: copyright and licensing, buying a keyboard and learning your trade as a pianist. We are always interested to hear your views and questions, so if there's something you think we've left out, let us know. RAD Conference: Dance and Lifelong Wellbeing, 26-28 April 2013 Booking for the Introduction to the new Advanced Foundation, Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 syllabi Teachers’ courses is now open.	<urn:uuid:96c84db5-10a0-4e81-a4e1-456529313c75>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.rad.org.uk/article.asp?id=87&rCSS=black	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959719	496	1.921875	2
Time: 07:30:00 - 10:00:00 Place: MCLE, Inc. 10 Winter Place Instead of joining the FBI, as special agent Christopher Stangl urged them to do in a recruitment video three years ago, computer scientists associated with the hacker networks Anonymous and Antisec say they hacked into his laptop, and stole a database of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) device ID numbers. Some of the 12.4 million IDs, called unique device identifier numbers (UDID), came with user names, the name of the device, the device type, zipcodes, cell phone numbers and addresses, the hackers said in a blog post, in which they announced the publication of 1 million of the UDID numbers. In a statement, the FBI reported there was "no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data," according to Bloomberg. A later statement from Apple said the FBI had not requested UDIDs, and the company had not provided any such information, the New York Times reported. In the post, the author derides FBI attempts to recruit hackers, writing, "We decided we'd help out Internet security by auditing FBI first." The point of the effort appears to be not only to embarrass the FBI. The hackers say their exploit proves the FBI is using device data for some kind of a "tracking people project." Forbes contacted Stangl, who did not wish to comment. Anonymous and Antisec have said they won't comment further. Editor's note: This story was updated with a late statements from the FBI and Apple. If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of American City Business Journals.	<urn:uuid:eedc20e2-459c-4d9c-81fb-443f5eed0725>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass_roundup/2012/09/fbi-laptop-apple-udids.html?ana=RSS	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.94434	419	1.648438	2
The U.S. Supreme Court's Abominable Bias: Limiting Government Power To Help The Vulnerable March 30, 2012 \| Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The Supreme Court is so full of it. The entire institution, as well as its sanctimonious judges themselves, reeks of a time-honored hypocrisy steeped in the arrogance that justice is served by unaccountable elitism. My problem is not with the Republicans who dominate the court questioning the obviously flawed individual mandate for the purchasing of private-sector health insurance but rather with their zeal to limit federal power only when it threatens to help the most vulnerable. The laughter noted in the court transcription that greeted the prospect of millions of the uninsured suddenly being deprived of already extended protection under the now threatened law was unconscionable. The Republican justices seem determined to strike down not only the mandate but also the entire package of accompanying health care rights because of the likelihood that, without an individual mandate, tax revenue will be needed to extend insurance coverage to those who cannot afford it. The conservative justices, in their eagerness to reject all of this much needed reform, offer the deeply cynical justification that a new Congress will easily come up with a better plan—despite decades of congressional failure to address what is arguably the nation’s most pressing issue. In their passion to embarrass this president, the self-proclaimed constitutional purists on the court went so far as to equate a mandate to obtain health care coverage with an unconstitutional deprivation of freedom; to make the connection they cited the spirit of a document that once condoned slavery. These purists have no trouble finding in that same sacred text a license for the federal government to order the young to wage undeclared wars abroad, to gut due process and First Amendment protections, and embrace torture, rendition and assassination, even of U.S. citizens. Now they hide behind the commerce clause of the Constitution to argue that the federal government cannot regulate health care coverage because that violates the sacrosanct principle of states’ rights. If the right-wingers on the high court consistently had a narrow interpretation of federal power over the economy, there would be logic to the position expressed by the Republican justices during the last three days of questioning. Of course, the court’s apparent majority on this has shown no such consistency and has intervened aggressively, as did the justices’ ideological predecessors, to deny the states the power to protect consumers, workers and homeowners against the greed of large corporations. We would not be in the midst of the most severe economic meltdown since the Great Depression had the courts not interpreted the commerce clause as protecting powerful national corporations from accountability to state governments. Just look at the difficulty that a coalition of state attorneys general has faced in attempting to hold the largest banks responsible for their avarice in the housing disaster. The modern Supreme Court has allowed the federal government to pre-empt the states’ power to protect homeowners, whose mortgage agreements were traditionally a matter of local regulation and registration. The court has no problem accepting Congress’ grant of a legal exemption in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that allows the bundling of home mortgages into unregulated derivatives. The court has vitiated the power of the states to control interest rates, even though quite a few had explicit provisions in their constitutions banning usury. The result is that loan-sharking by banks that can claim to be engaged in interstate commerce is constitutionally protected, which is why there are no limits on mortgage, credit card or personal loan interest rates. The sad truth is that President Obama and the Democrats brought this potential judicial disaster upon themselves. In light of what has been said this week in the Supreme Court, it seems inevitable that the linchpin of the 2010 reform—mandated coverage—will be thrown out, probably along with the crucial accompanying reforms. Forget coverage for the young and those with pre-existing medical conditions. The Democrats will protect themselves from this reversal by arguing that all they did was copy the program that this year’s prospective Republican presidential candidate implemented when he was the governor of Massachusetts. Mitt Romney’s plan included the dreaded mandate that he and the Republican justices condemn. How ironic that Barack Obama’s health care agenda would be in a far stronger legal position had the president stuck by his earlier support of a public option. Clearly, our federal government has the judicially affirmed power under our Constitution to use public revenues to provide a needed public service, be it education, national security, retirement insurance or health care. Obama’s health care reform should have simply extended Medicare and Medicaid coverage to all who wanted and needed it—no individual mandate—while allowing others to opt out for private insurance coverage. That’s an obvious constitutional solution that even those die-hard Republican justices would have a difficult time overturning.	<urn:uuid:9d2c85d4-0532-4222-b16a-db442e548b60>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.alternet.org/story/154767/the_u.s._supreme_court%27s_abominable_bias%3A_limiting_government_power_to_help_the_vulnerable	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.96151	1,009	1.773438	2
On Approximately Universal Schemes for Two-Hop Network Source: Indian Institute of Science Full-duplex and half-duplex two-hop networks are considered. Explicit coding schemes which are approximately universal over a class of fading distributions are identified, for the case when the network has either one or two relays. A single-source single-sink (ss-ss) wireless relay network is one which there is one source (labeled S) and one sink (labeled D) and there are multiple relay nodes. The link between any two nodes is modeled as a fading channel. The performance limits of a coding scheme for such networks can be characterized approximately using Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff (DMT).	<urn:uuid:a9b5dfcf-ad46-4ece-a409-6f62bbb467b9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/on-approximately-universal-schemes-for-two-hop-network/32593591	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.921237	147	1.820313	2
One should learn the proper case with each verb, but there are some general heuristics (which are, of course, not always true): The accusative is used for the thing or person that the action is done to and the dative is used for the thing or person the action is done for. Ich habe ihm ein Keks gegeben. The action of giving is operating on the cookie, so accusative, and he is the recipient or beneficent of the action. Your example of introducing people is not very good because this action is usually symmetric. But if you want to analyse this particular sentence, note that vorstellen literally means "put in front of". So, you take the accusative for the person you put in front of someone else, and you take the dative for the person who is the recipient of the action. So, if you say "Hi, Dan, this is Mia.", you have presented Mia to Dan, so Mia is accusative and Dan is dative. For English speakers the heuristics are simple: If an object has no preposition in English, it corresponds to accusative in German. Beyond that, any German learner should buy a German grammar book in their native language that lists the exception, which for an English speaker includes words like "help". (Usually words that admit both interpretations, the help is done to you, but also done for you.)	<urn:uuid:4440872a-6f93-4104-9606-4ff4c0c0bc88>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/einem-vs-einen/1565	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.938488	299	3.390625	3
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. This is presented in each of the Gospels, but Zechariah [9:9] knew about it first, pioneering and inspiring the idea to REJOICE. He that is Salvation would come riding in on a colt (not the NFL team, an actual animal, although the visual of Payton Manning giving Jesus a piggy back ride would be monumental). The Triumphal Entry of Jesus! The story goes like this: Jesus instructed two of his disciples to go and bring him a colt. He also instructed them on what to say when they were questioned about it, and when they returned with the colt they prepared it for Jesus to ride into the city and as he rode they REJOICED, exclaiming “Blessed is he who comes in the name of The Lord.” Jesus, coming through Jerusalem on a colt, was fulfilling prophesy as written in Zechariah and even though the disciples weren’t fully aware of this, because of their obedience Jesus allowed them to be apart of that process. The beauty in God’s Love for us is that he doesn’t really NEED us. I mean think about it; compared to his power we are minuscule in might. On top of that, the things we choose to do can make us a nightmare to have around. Yet God not only includes us in his plans, but he takes pleasure in using us. However, he doesn’t use anybody just because they have a pulse; we must first be obedient. Imagine if the disciples were like: “Jesus, all this walking we’re doing and YOU want ME to get YOU a donkey so YOU can ride… while we WALK some more? No thanks!” Or what if they got there and didn’t say what Jesus instructed them to say. Imagine that conversation: “Yeah, Jesus, people were there questioning what we were doing so instead of saying anything we just left. And we didn’t bring the donkey. You’ll just have to walk.” It’s very possible that Jesus would’ve gotten a colt to ride in on as scriptures indicated he would – with our without the help of his disciples. But how sweet is it that he chose to use them and allow them access to partake in his supreme purposes. How sweet is it that he does the same for us every single day. All we have to do is obey!	<urn:uuid:ebac2881-d215-4f76-a9d7-0e4e3fbfbed9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://follow4biblestudy.com/2012/04/12/god-comes-triumphal-entry/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.977927	571	2	2
The Curious Case Of Suriname Suriname, the self-proclaimed ‘beating heart of the Amazon,’ is a small country in northern South America.In terms of area it is the smallest in South America. The legions of football fans may have never even heard about this country,but it has played a far major role in football as we know today. Most of its people are descended from African slaves and Indian and Indonesian indentured servants brought over by the Dutch to work as agricultural labourers. However, there is little assimilation between the different ethnic groups, which confine their contacts to the economic sphere. Similarly, most political parties are ethnically based. This acts as an obstacle to consensus-building. So what has all of these to do with the beautiful game? Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking region in the world that is not a part of Netherlands or Belgium, and is the only state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language.One more interesting fact is that 27% of the population is of Indian origin. While the Surinamese economy is based mostly around bauxite and bananas, its rather more famous export is footballers.Consider Ruud Gullit, a one-time European Player of the Year, and the captain of the Dutch team that won Euro 88. Or Frank Rijkaard, also a mainstay of that 1988 side, two-time Dutch Player of the Year and who would later coach Barcelona to the 1996 Champions League Title. Both are Dutch-born to Surinamese fathers. Also a member of the Euro 88 squad were Gerald Vanenberg and Aron Winter.Here Winter is a peculiar case as he is of Indian origin where as all the others are of African origin. And Winter scored a goal against Brazil in the 1994 world cup quarter finals.Just imagine,an Indian scoring a goal against Brazil! And during the nineties some more stars emerged including Clarence Seedorf,Edgar Davids,Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Patrick Kluivert.All who went on to become footballing greats at least in Europe. Just imagine if all these guys turned up for Suriname and not Holland,then Suriname would have been a footballng powerhouse. So why do these players turn up for Holland rather than Suriname? Of course the main reason is that most of these players are of Surinamese descent but actually born and brought up in Holland.Originally Suriname was a Dutch colony and this was a time when many Surinamese people were taken to Holland as slaves and also after the colonization ended Surinamese people preffered migrating to Holland rather than other countries because of the common language. Dutch football has immensely benefited from Suriname,there is no doubt. Without the Surinamese, the Dutch national team would be similar to Germany,’ according to Humberto Tan the only Suriname based journalist in Holland. In 1991 a Surinam XI beat a Holland select team which included the likes of Ronald Koeman, Jan Wouters and Danny Blind. A few names on the Surinam Select teamsheet weren’t bad either – Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Winston Bogarde.It was a charity match to raise money for families who lost loved ones in a plane crash just outside Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam, in 1989. On board were 20 members of a football team made up of players from the Netherlands’ Surinamese community.That match showed how much Dutch football depended on Suriname and the Dutch authorities as expected never organised such a match again. So how does Suriname produce such quality players? Edgar Davids has a theory. ‘Surinam has many similarities to Brazil,’ says the Ex-Juventus midfielder who was born in Coronie, 130 miles west of Paramaribo. ‘There’s a lot of poverty and a lot of kids on the street who have no money, come from broken homes and have plenty of time on their hands. They play football all the time and they learn to play with their bare feet.’ Davids maybe right,but playing with barefeet alone doesnt make you great,the few fortunate Surinamese who are based in Netherlands turn up into such superstars primarily because of the coaching system.Davids is himself is a product of the famed Ajax Youth Academy. The heavy Surinamese presence in the Dutch team continues with Ryan Babel, Mario Melchiot,Nigel de Jong, Kew Jaliens and Orlando Engelaar. .Also,rising stars like Edson Braafheid, Eljero Elia,Andwele Slory, Romeo Castelen, Urby Emanuelson and Evander Sno have all made appearances in national colours. So why is Suriname in itself such a low ranked team? One reason for this strange case is that a curious Surinamese government policy that prevents former residents who have taken up Dutch citizenship from playing for Suriname. So all those Surinamese playing in Holland, who aren’t quite good enough to make the Oranje, cannot enrich the team of their homeland either. Thus the Surinamese national team is made up almost entirely of amateurs from its domestic league. Whatever the government’s policy is,Suriname is one amazing country managing to produce such stars with a population of 494,347	<urn:uuid:46bafaa7-2357-4caa-af24-6c3abfc025bc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.the90thminute.com/soccer/2010/12/the-curious-case-of-suriname/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.966824	1,151	2.390625	2
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not only that, twelve percent of the population has been diagnosed with heart disease and more than 600,000 people will die this year alone from this largely preventable disease. The primary cause of heart disease is poor eating habits. Diets that are rich in saturated fats and have little to no nutritional value will only carry you so far. Eventually, your arteries clog up and your heart cannot pump blood freely throughout your body. The key to preventing and even reversing heart disease is consuming a diet that contains unsaturated fats, like omega-3 fatty acids from fish, for example. Also, your diet should contain soluble fiber which can be found in fruits and vegetables. In addition, this will also help decrease LDL cholesterol. A great way to get your daily supply of essential antioxidants and omega-3s is to make a salad by mixing in some white albacore tuna chunks with slivered almonds, bell pepper and diced orange segments over a bed of green leaf lettuce. Salmon, mackerel and sardines are other excellent sources that are abundant in omega-3 fatty acids and selenium. A good source of high fiber can be found in kidney beans. You can get a day’s worth of calcium, potassium and fiber with a small bowl of turkey chili. Simply brown some lean ground turkey in sunflower oil, add a can of Mexican-style diced tomatoes, a can of drained kidney beans, heat and serve. This dish is low in fat and low in cholesterol. Have a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and you will be starting your day off right. Add a handful of blueberries and you will give your body an antioxidant boost and an energy kick to help get you out the door. Avoid the instant flavored oatmeal varieties as it has too much sugar and other additives. By following these simple recommendations, you can keep your heart healthy and strong and prevent heart disease.	<urn:uuid:54d8a90b-97a6-4627-90dc-9b99c963a69a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.accelcoq10.com/these-super-foods-may-help-reverse-heart-disease	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.929203	411	3.0625	3
Great inspiration comes to those that listen to genius. Great minds challenge one to think deeper about the problem in front of them. One of those geniuses is Clayton Christensen. Not only is he a Harvard Business Professor and famous author he is also a Latter-Day Saint and former Area Seventy. I enjoy listening to him solve business and leadership problems because it makes me wonder if his answer would be similar if asked to solve similar LDS leadership problems. Recently Clay Christensen and James Quigley (also LDS and a former bishop) were interviewed by The Economist about leadership, corporate culture, and disruptive innovation. I imagine a conversation about innovating home teaching would garner similar answers. Let’s see what we can learn… As an Elder’s Quorum President or a Relief Society President have you ever had the strike of inspiration that your group needs to go in a different direction? Maybe it is regarding home teaching? Maybe it is regarding your meeting format? The idea is so profound you can’t wait to share it with the quorum/group. When you do share the idea you are shocked to see no lasting effects take hold. Home teaching percentages stay the same and you are baffled by the lack of result. Clay Christensen knows why… The Economist asks: What really changes culture in order to allow business to adapt to new innovation? What LeadingLDS would ask: What really changes culture in order to allow quorums to adapt to new home teaching innovation? Listen to his answer here: It’s not that leaders have bad ideas about home teaching, but rather they don’t frame the problem effectively in order for everyone to understand it completely. Your job is to give them a language to frame the problem and then they will be in step with you as a leader. The Economist asks (directed at Jim Quigley): What do you think works in changing culture in this way? What LeadingLDS would ask: What do you think works in changing culture in an Elder’s Quorum? Being the benevolent dictator is difficult. Imagine you have an innovative approach to improving home teaching. Everyone in the group agrees it would be effective but then your meeting ends and the discipline it takes to execute the solution is lacking. The value of the innovative solution is never reached. At this point, many make the mistake of trying to think of a new innovative solution to fix the problem when their real problem is driving the idea “deep into the fabric of your enterprise.” In this next clip Clay Christensen teaches us a great principle about home teaching. The Economist asks: How can a manager kill a project that isn’t going to work in order to be more effective as a company? What LeadingLDS would ask: How can a leader make sure home teaching will be more effective? In his example think of the customer as the home teaching family. This is great insight! You don’t need to understand the home teaching family you need to understand the needs and concerns in their life to more effectively home teach. The need of the laid off father finding a job is more important than simply making a monthly visit. The home visit many times is classified as the “need” when in reality what they need is a short 10 minute visit so they can get back to enjoying the evening with their children. When approaching home teaching this way the “probability that you will be successful isn’t 100% but it sure isn’t a crapshoot.” What further thoughts can we apply to LDS leadership from these clips? To see the full-length interview watch below:	<urn:uuid:eb7aaaed-be49-4cc3-bee3-7068db589f9b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://leadinglds.com/my-blog/2012/05/clay-christensen-james-quigley-fixing-home-teaching.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970434	751	2.015625	2
Already a Bloomberg.com user? Sign in with the same account. Energy policy in Europe has lost faith in markets to deliver sustainable, secure and affordable power and may be sending the industry “spiralling” into subsidy dependence, according to Poyry Oyj. (POY1V) So-called capacity mechanisms, which allow utilities to fix electricity prices for guaranteeing backup supply in advance, are being developed in Germany, France, the U.K. and Belgium. While they may cut wholesale power prices, the payments may increase costs to consumers if they are designed as another form of subsidy, Stephen Woodhouse, a director at Poyry Management Consulting in Oxford, England, said yesterday in a phone interview. “Many of the calls for capacity payments across Europe are thinly disguised requests for support for stranded combined cycle natural gas turbine assets, with their finances destroyed by subsidized renewable capacity,” Woodhouse said. “The sector is falling into a spiral of needing more and more certainty for individual projects, which adds to the cumulative policy risk and reduces the influence of markets further.” European Union carbon permits have fallen 66 percent in the past four years, eroding the financial incentive to cut emissions blamed for climate change. The reduction has prompted EU governments to put in place renewable energy subsidies and, in the U.K., a carbon price floor in order to help meet emission reduction targets, Woodhouse said. The European Commission will say next month in a strategy paper on the internal energy market that a hasty move to a system that rewards utilities for running back-up plants when renewable power is insufficient risks being counterproductive, according to a copy of the draft obtained last month by Bloomberg. Systems that reward availability as well as generation are known as capacity markets. The payments might be “based on local political concerns, and they undervalue and under-pay” for energy traded across borders, Woodhouse said. “The result will probably be an oversupplied system across Europe,” he said. “Politics requires more security of supply than economics.” The fees may change the pattern of prices and demand response at peak times, potentially causing distortion, Woodhouse said. A utility importing into a country making the payments may be disadvantaged, for instance, he said. “France, for example, is designing a mechanism in which only generation which is located in France is able to sell capacity,” he said. “Imports to France are welcomed without payment and the treatment of exports is unclear.” Poyry has been hired by 10 utilities and lobby groups to study Europe’s energy future, the Helsinki consulting and engineering firm said. It today published a preliminary report subtitled “The shape of the beast.” The company advises clients such as Dong Energy A/S, RWE AG (RWE), Statoil ASA, EON AG, Bord Gais Eirann and Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. There is a growing gap between national energy policies and the longer term market-led vision held by the European Commission and Eurelectric, the lobby group, Woodhouse said. This gap could prevent the industry from attracting investment. Across much of Europe, the majority of new generation investments over the next few years will fall under regulated regimes that come close to deciding the timing, the amount of each technology and its price, Woodhouse said. “Market-led investment is becoming increasingly rare,” he said. In some markets, decisions to close plant will also be subject to regulatory scrutiny, he said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government backed a plan this month to prevent utilities including EON AG and RWE AG from closing unprofitable power plants as the nation seeks to safeguard supply. Power- station operators will have to inform authorities 12 months before a shutdown under the proposal. The contrasting vision is for no capacity payments and free trading of energy and market-balancing services across borders, he said. “While policy makers and the industry pretend growing consensus for the market-based vision in the longer term, national policies with industry compliance are taking us to a more regulated and interventionist world to deal with more immediate problems,” he said. The multi-year international framework for carbon pricing is not expected to be delivered soon and governments are pressed into greater intervention, Woodhouse said. The commission’s vision of investment driven by a carbon price may be “idealistic” because emission allowances may need to rise to unacceptable levels to work properly, Woodhouse said. This vision needs to be “challenged,” he said. Carbon prices may need to surge to around 250 euros ($323) a ton to allow offshore wind energy to compete with a new natural gas fired power station, under one scenario for 2020, Poyry said. The scenario assumes costs for the gas plant of 50 pounds ($81) a megawatt hour compared with 130 pounds for offshore wind. EU carbon for December dropped 4 cents today to 7.65 euros a ton on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London at 11:22 a.m. The December 2020 contract settled yesterday at 11.33 euros. To contact the reporters on this story: Mathew Carr in London at email@example.com; Rachel Morison in London at firstname.lastname@example.org To contact the editor responsible for this story: Lars Paulsson at email@example.com	<urn:uuid:97160e1b-5bca-4599-b263-07ded7d749fc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-26/eu-energy-market-spiraling-into-interventionism-poyry-says	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941158	1,139	2.265625	2
It’s our job as parents to instill morals, a code of ethics, manners, when to use a fork and when to use your hands, why wiping your boogers on your sleeve can be seen as gross. All sorts of things we teach our kids. One lesson that seems to keep coming up is time. Kids are notorious for having no sense of time. As babies, playing peekaboo, when your kids see you come out from behind your hands, it’s as if they haven’t seen you in 3 hours. My daughters used to wake up from an hour nap and greet my wife and me as if we had just gotten back from an 11 year mission to Mars. Being a kid is like being in a perpetual casino with no clocks where minutes pass like hours and hours pass like minutes. Growing up, my parents did me no favors in the time department. Anytime we left anywhere, we were given a 10 minute warning. Growing up, my sister and I knew that 10 minute warning could mean anything from 10 minutes to 3 hours. I was convinced 10 minutes meant I still had time to start and finish a game of Monopoly. Now a parent, among the things I was sure I wouldn’t do to my kids (besides make them eat Brussels sprouts) was giving them a meaningless 10 minute warning. If I said 10 minutes, I wanted them to know it meant 10 minutes. Let’s just say it has been a work in progress. “Tell the kids 10 more minutes please.” My wife seems to think if I give the kids the deadline, somehow it will resonate louder. “Kids!” I try to put an authoritarian tone to my voice. I want them to hear me because there is a better than good chance they’ll become selectively deaf. Somehow when I call them for dessert they could hear me whispering through a wind tunnel yet when I tell them to come for a bath, I have to deal with two tiny Helen Kellers. “What?!” Both in unison and quasi-disgust. “10 more minutes.”	<urn:uuid:a04d9d65-8270-45cc-900c-67ba9c415301>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.republicanherald.com/father/?tag=daughters	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.973792	447	1.867188	2
The Great Debate UK Sarah Brown is Global Patron of the White Ribbon Alliance and author of Behind the Black Door published by Ebury Publishing on March 3, 2011. Follow her on Twitter @SarahBrownUK The opinions expressed are her own. Thomson Reuters will host an International Women’s Day follow-the-sun live blog on March 8, 2011. To mark the 100th International Women’s Day it is as good a place as any to start with U.N. Women’s objective to seek a pathway to decent work for women. Back in 1911, the very first International Women’s Day was held to protest unfair wages and poor conditions of work for women. Today, much of the focus lies similarly in seeking equal treatment, repairing injustices and opening up the opportunity for women to improve their lives in the poorest parts of the world. As U.N. Women’s Executive Director Michele Bachelet said just last week, “Women’s strength, women’s industry, women’s wisdom are humankind’s greatest untapped resource”.	<urn:uuid:616f6084-8ecf-42d3-864d-790540777f34>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/tag/white-ribbon-campaign/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.94179	229	1.992188	2
The symptoms of lung cancer Lung cancer often does not have symptoms until after the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Symptoms will vary depending on the type and stage of lung cancer and location and size of the tumor. Some lung cancer symptoms are similar to those of other common illnesses. Learn about lung cancer symptoms Lung cancer symptoms (Lung Cancer Alliance) Symptoms and signs of lung cancer (ASCO's Cancer.net) Lung Cancer 101: Symptoms (CancerCare) Symptoms of lung cancer (Onconurse)	<urn:uuid:9b9fb399-4e73-440a-813a-e226d24d52e5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/get-information/what-is-lung-cancer/lung-cancer-online/symptoms-side-effects-and-complications/lung-cancer-symptoms/introduction.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.915651	116	1.859375	2