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Gallium nitride (GaN) is a very hard material commonly used in bright LEDs since the 1990s. According to the report the GaN market is mostly driven by blue laser diode production and related applications such as high-density data storage. The market has been strongly boosted by bluray players and game stations which are currently in strong demand.
The 125 page report describes recent advances in crystalline quality as well as new opportunities offered by non-polar and semi-polar GaN material. From 2011 ultra-high brightness (UHB) LED's will boost GaN production and 2013 will see the introduction of new power devices based on GaN. However these new technologies will only be possible if the cost of GaN production is severely reduced. The pricing of bulk-GaN will have to compete with 4” and 6” SiC offers as well as GaN-on-Silicon alternate technology. The report forecasts that with the correct pricing the demand for bulk GaN in LED lighting applications will rapidly dominate the market from 2013.
The report “Bulk GaN Market 2009” is available from Report Buyer at: http://www.reportbuyer.com/
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It is highly recommended that you keep all your device drivers up to date for system stability; however there are times when the newer driver or driver update you just downloaded and installed causes your pc or devices to become unstable. When this happens reverting to the last stable version of your device driver becomes your last resort.
The term to “rollback a driver” refers to the process of reverting to the last working version of a device driver. This is often the last version of a device driver just before you performed an update that consequently messed up the proper functioning of your pc device.
There are several ways you can rollback your device driver:
Windows driver rollback feature: Each time you update or replace a device driver with new one, windows saves a copy of the last version for you. The windows driver roll back feature will enable you revert to this saved version if the new version is giving you problems.
How To Rollback A Driver in Windows XP and Vista
Click Start button and choose Control Panel
Click System and Maintenance and then choose Device Manager
(You can also access Device Manager by right clicking on the My Computer icon on your desktop and choose Properties, then Hardware, then Device Manager)
In the Device Manager window, select the piece of hardware that has the driver you want to rollback and double click the name to open up the Properties box.
Click the Driver tab
If a previous version of the driver is installed on your system the Roll Back Driver button will be available. Click it to restore the older version of the driver.
If this button is unavailable or rolling back the driver didn’t solve your problem you should visit the manufacturer’s website to see if another version of the driver is available.
Manually Install An Old Driver
You can manually ‘roll back’ a driver by simply installing an older version of a driver. There are lots of websites online that contain databases of older versions of drivers and software, so if you are having trouble with a new driver try downloading a previous version and installing it. To do this, search for the appropriate driver, and click the download link. Save the driver file to your computer and then follow the installation instructions.
Driver Updater Programs
If you use a driver updater program it may have a built in feature that allows you to restore your drivers to a previous version.
If your driver updater software offers this feature it should just be a matter of choosing the particular hardware device in question and clicking a button to roll back to a previous version of a driver. If you are unsure of how to do this then check the manual or online help system for your particular program.
Keeping your drivers up to date is important in order to make sure your devices are using the very latest software. However, sometimes updating a driver can cause conflicts within your system. In this case you may need to rollback to a previous version of a driver. If you have restored a previous version of a driver and are still experiencing problems them you should contact the device manufacturer as the fault could be with the actual hardware itself and not the driver software.
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...(1301–48) was chiefly strong on history, geography, and poetry. A third Egyptian, al-Qalqashandī (1355/56–1418), compiled a more important and well-organized encyclopaedia, Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā (“The Dawn for the Blind”), that covered geography, political history, natural history, zoology, mineralogy, cosmography, and time...
...in which people find release from difficult situations, often at the very last minute and as a result of the generosity of others. A still later work by al-Qalqashandī, the 15th-century Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā (“The Dawn of the Blind”), approaches Ibn Qutaybah’s in its compendiousness, but its practical bent makes it a kind of comprehensive summary...
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On a typical Saturday morning anywhere around the world, you will be able to find a congregation of Jewish people inside of any synagogue. You will enter a sanctuary of any size or style and experience a unique service filled with Torah reading, d’vrei Torah, or sermons, and chanting. Depending which community you choose to spend Shabbat with, you may see modestly dressed families walking to synagogues, and the local kosher supermarket will be closed. You’ll find yourself surrounded with tallitot, or prayer shawls, and ardent Jews gathering to learn all afternoon. No matter where you choose to go, you will be immersed in a faithful community.
The following morning, you’ll see a somewhat different experience. Sunday mornings across the globe affect Christians of all denominations. All church doors are unlocked in order to welcome large communities that gather for worship services, masses, or bible studies. You will enter a spirited sanctuary of any size or style and be enlightened by the sense of both devotion and passion felt all around you. Depending on which Christian community you choose to experience this day with, you may see a contemporary band on stage or a white-collard priest standing before you. You may see a Gospel choir singing harmoniously or hear an organ echoing throughout gothic cathedrals. All the local “Chik-Fil-A’s” will be closed, but inside every church community, there is overflowing energy that can satisfy any hunger for spirituality.
No matter which day you choose, which community you choose, or which service you choose to attend, these two dominant religions share a common practice: prayer.
Prayer, derived from the Latin term meaning “to beg,” is a universal idea that unites people of all faiths. For thousands of years, prayer has been expressed through various styles and practices. Though styles of prayer have certainly evolved since the biblical days of our patriarchs, the significance of prayer has remained enduring nonetheless.
In Judaism, most of our daily prayers have already been written. Jewish congregants form daily minyanim , or quorums of at least ten Jewish adults, and chant Hebrew prayers in an organized service. There are set times at which we pray (Berachos 4:1) along with formulated tunes (nusachim) and movements. Covering every spectrum of life, the average prayer book (siddur) contains various psalms and prayers that are recited three times a day. While tunes and selected prayers are subject to change every so often, the core aspects of this prayer service have been preserved since the formation of Rabbinic Judaism. During each Shabbat service, there is a general feeling of holiness that engulfs a Jewish community; the unwavering commitment that Jews have in Shabbat is exuded through these weekly gatherings.
Within the more liberal sects of Christianity, prayer is explored in more of a contemporary style. During church services, (Evangelical, Baptist, Methodist, etc.) prayers are recited entirely on impulse. Pastors lead congregations in communal prayer and speak the first things that come to mind. Preaching to crowds ranging from ten congregants to thousands of congregants, church leaders speak eloquently and passionately, igniting their inner faiths to shine. Praise bands lead hundreds in impactful worship services, filled with religious music, singing, and even dancing. (Hebrews 10:25) Every Sunday morning seems as though a new element of spirit is being added to the Christian faith; one cannot help but smile when watching a room filled with faithful people spring into life. During the jovial moments in life, we can rely on our faiths for a dependable and inspiring service each week.
Some weeks, however, are not as incredible. All religions in life face the tragedies and horrifying circumstances that deter the average person from praying. All clergymen are approached with life-altering events that threaten the faiths of their congregants. The religious institutions that we consider to be spiritual havens have always opened their doors during the times of dire need and despair; they even remain open as we grieve for reasons that are sometimes beyond our understanding. During these times of pain and suffering, every religious group is posed with the ultimate question that can sustain or eradicate one’s faith: Why do we pray?
Some people take prayer as an opportunity to praise God without any justification. Others use this outlet of faith as a chance to yell and be angered with theology. Some take the concept of prayer and modernize it; the organized time during weekly services to pray is merely for having “catch up” conversations with God. I realized, however, that no matter how people choose to pray, they are still committed to organized prayer at their respective religious services. Perhaps there is truly one, unbreakable aspect of organized prayer—one that we cannot circumvent even if we tried: community.
Through both the positive moments in life and the heartbreaking, there has always been a faithful community to support us. When we jubilantly celebrate our blessings, we have always been surrounded by a smiling community, one for which to be unconditionally grateful. We may not realize this until today, but that same tight- knit family stands behind us during times of personal struggle. We have always been supported and comforted during the moments in life that shake us and leave us feeling emptier than words can describe. Our loved ones in that community may not necessarily offer theological advice, but have always guaranteed a shoulder on which to lean through the rough patches in life. Through both our smiling and tear-filled eyes, we have seen our communities beside us and continue to stand beside us in our faith journeys. This is the same community that takes part in our organized prayer. So, despite the theological struggles and phases of doubt, why not immerse yourself in a providing community for as long as you possibly can?
Prayer helps us find an everlasting community. Faith may be a personal journey, but certainly not one to experience alone. Perhaps that is why Jewish minyanim require at least ten congregants in order to begin praying together. Perhaps that is why Sunday morning church services will not commence without at least one family present. While prayer may be one of the fundamental values of religion, it is a strong community that is the ultimate backbone of faith. Faithful people are meant to share faith together.
To one struggling person, your faith could mean the world. Your presence could begin a long healing process for a grieving family. Your religious group’s service that one week could impact another’s life forever. By praying beside someone, however, you will be ensuring that person that no one in life must face faith alone. You will be alleviating the fears and doubts people may have, and replacing those feelings with inner peace of mind.
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A reflection on Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea, and CAI.
With a meek, modest, humble nature, Greg Mortenson radiates with a passion for education that bubbles just below the surface. Perhaps it's this mild and humble manner that allows Mortenson to so gently observe and respect the communities with which he has worked.
Mortenson's Central Asia Institute has the unique posture of working with communities to build ideal schools where much of the educational philosophy can be imagined, rather than fitted within an existing bureaucratic structure. While Mortenson could have taken any approach to education, CAI appears to have done the opposite of what is happening in the U.S. As hyper-standardization and rigid structure appear to be at the forefront of "education reform" in the States, Mortenson's organization builds community-owned schools in which communities have actual decision-making power, where spending is transparent. There is a contract with communities in which they decide how the schools will be governed.
Mortenson knows about the importance of listening. Asking: What are your community's priorities? Acknowledging the lived expertise of community members. While we privilege certain types of education and expression--for example written expression--these don't define education, knowledge, or intelligence. The ability to "read the world" can be just as powerful. Community members are experts in their lived experiences and can contribute to prioritizing and planning.
Educational theorist Paulo Freire pushes towards a theory of "dialogical action" when working with communities. He warns against falling prey to "cultural invasion" in which development workers and professionals come to solve all problems and develop solutions on their own. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he argues that often times, "professional" or "educated" individuals "do not listen to the people, but instead plan to teach them how to 'cast off the laziness which creates underdevelopment.' To these professionals, it seems absurd to consider the necessity of respecting the 'view of the world' held by the people." In order to be with communities rather than over or inside, we must recognize the importance of dialogue (sharing and listening) and appreciating the expertise of all participants in the process.
Mortenson made it clear that he believes communities are capability of running schools (tell this to the NYC Department of Ed!)
CAI schools are formed with community input that includes a focus on storytelling, culture, and languages. Storytelling can be a major stronghold within a community--in sharing and shaping history. In Local Acts, Jan Cohen Cruz, an Associate Professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and community-based artist, comments, "storytelling as a traditional form of education passes on values, practices, experience, and knowledge that affirm the collective identity of the group." Education and schooling have the potential to distance students and participants from their communities or allow them to form connections with the community, explore the community's history, and recognize the beauty and struggle that lies within. Often, schooling drives students to leave the community if we place a negative focus on the community. The only desirable possibility is to escape. It's important to recognize education's potential to build up communities and preserve and share their important histories.
Mortenson describes education as an act of engagement and experience. He references the need to smell, taste, touch, and feel. Theater of the Oppressed author, practitioner and theorist Augusto Boal translated Freire's popular education theories into participatory and theatrical games and exercises. Through participatory techniques, Boal challenges us to truly listen to what we hear, feel what we touch, and see what we are looking at. With the development of these senses, we can pursue Freire's concept of literacy, not only learning to read words, but to read the world through sensory experience and emotion. And finally, by reading and recognizing the world, we are called to challenge, transform and re-name it.
When we hear Greg Mortenson's story, his quest to build schools to promote peace, we are touched. Why can't education be like this in the States? Do we think we are too advanced for an education that promotes community and peace? How can we re-imagine education?
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The fog of (cyber) war
Cybermilitias, black hat hackers and other non-nation-state bad guys blur the lines on the virtual battlefield.
Computerworld - Analysts and strategists gathered at the Cyber Warfare 2009 conference in London last January were grappling with some thorny problems associated with the cyberaggression threat. One that proved particularly vexing was the matter of exactly what constitutes cyberwarfare under international law. There's no global agreement on the definitions of cyberwarfare or cyberterrorism, so how does a nation conform to the rule of law if it's compelled to respond to a cyberattack?
Back in the U.S. trenches, drawing up a legal battle plan is indeed proving to be extraordinarily complex. Those definitions are especially elusive when you consider that no one can even be sure who the potential combatants are.
"There is some real work that needs to be done, not only in the U.S., but globally, to think about what is a use of force or an act of war in cyberspace," says Paul Kurtz, a partner at Good Harbor Consulting LLC in Arlington, Va., and a former senior director for critical infrastructure protection on the White House's Homeland Security Council.
The need to establish global norms about what is acceptable behavior in cyberspace, he says, is complicated by the fact that "the weapons are not just in the hands of nation-states. They're essentially in everybody's hands."
"Laws of war would forbid targeting purely civilian infrastructure," adds Steven Chabinsky, senior cyberadvisor to the director of national intelligence. "But terrorists, of course, don't limit themselves by the Geneva Conventions."
Time, effort and expertise
Further fogging up the battlefield is the fact that it's nearly impossible to identify all of the potential targets. It is possible to conduct a threat assessment, however, and there appears to be general consensus in the cyberdefense community that the biggest threat in terms of scale is presented by nation-states.
"Cyberattacks which seek to manipulate [an adversary's] critical infrastructures would take more time, effort and expertise than mere data theft," says Kenneth Geers, U.S. representative to the Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. "But computer network defenders should understand that time, effort and expertise are resources that militaries and foreign intelligence services often have in abundance."
Analysts and former intelligence officials, including Kurtz, say that, not surprisingly, China and Russia top the list of countries with highly developed cyberwarfare capabilities. Kurtz also named Iran and North Korea as countries with known cyberwarfare aspirations.
While Chabinsky declined to be specific because of concerns about compromising intelligence-gathering methods, he affirmed that the U.S. has identified "a number of sophisticated nation-state actors who we believe have the capability to bring down portions of our critical infrastructure." Fortunately, he added, "we don't think they have the intent to do so, [since] our country would respond accordingly, and not necessarily symmetrically through cyber means."
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The deportation of Hamza Kashgari despite a High Court order preventing it is clearly a show of disrespect and contempt of court, says the Islamic Renaissance Front.
The Islamic Renaissance Front strongly condemns the deportation of Hamza Kashgari over his allegedly offensive tweets.
Due to the irresponsible and cowardly actions of the Malaysian government in enabling the deportation, Mr Kashragi now faces the possibility of the death penalty in his home country of Saudi Arabia for the simple act of demanding his right to practise the most basic human rights – freedom of expression and thought.
Since the Syari’ah Law that is practised in Saudi – just like any other Muslim countries that implement Syari’ah – is subject to individual interpretation by the clerics, and Saudi is known to have a very poor record in ensuring fair trials compounded by a history of denial of rights to lawyers and clients; we do not feel that Hamza Kashgari will stand a fair trial.
More importantly, Mr Kashgari has already removed the tweets and apologised for his statements. We believe no further punishment is necessary upon the trauma he had already endured being on the run for such an innocuous act what more while facing the risk of punishment by death.
In this, we wish to remind Muslims of the importance of forgiveness in Islam. The importance accorded to forgiveness in Islam is very much tied to another key value of the deen which is the freedom of speech and conscience. This can be seen clearly in verse 256 of Al-Baqarah which states that “There shall be no coercion in matters of faith. Distinct has now become the right way from [the way of] error…”
Humans were created as subjects of freedom, divinely endowed with the rational faculties needed to be able to determine what is right and wrong on their own accord without the threat or imposition of external forces. The development of character depends on our ability to make that journey towards the good on terms we can relate to and understand most.
This is the core of any ethical system whereby meaningful choices and virtuous acts find their meaning on the basis that they have been willed freely by the person. For if coercion is what is needed most to ensure good conduct, then notions of love, solidarity, genuine trust or sincerity lose their meaning.
In appealing for the humane treatment of Mr Kashgari, the Islamic Renaissance Front once again points to the values of freedom, justice and democracy in Islam.
We are also deeply disappointed with the complicity of the Malaysian government for succumbing to pressures to deport Mr Kashragi. As a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Malaysia could have used this opportunity to set an example to the region, if not the entire Muslim world, of what responsible governance based on human rights could be.
Instead, with barely a pause in its conscience, the Malaysian government saw no problems deporting someone accused guilty for the supposed crime of tweeting his opinions.
The Islamic Renaissance Front adjures that the Malaysian government should just step down from the Human Rights Council so that the world would no longer be led to believe that Malaysia somehow stands for something it actually does not. The reality is that beneath the proliferation of malls and skyscrapers, we are still of an administration that does not understand basic human compassion.
This will save everyone’s time.
The deportation of Hamza Kashgari despite a High Court order preventing it is clearly a show of disrespect and a contempt of court. The Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein must be held responsible for this wicked and egregious act. Considering that Malaysia has no extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia, the deportation is a clear insolent and uncivil act and in breach of international laws.
There is nothing to be proud of being a part of the so-called Global Movement of Moderates. It is just another superficial and manipulative evocation of democracy and rights. Today is indeed a very sad day to be Malaysians and Muslims.
Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, Ahmad Fuad Rahmat, Edry Faizal Eddy Yusuf and Muhammad Nazreen Jaafar from the Islamic Renaissance Front sent the above article.
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RALEIGH — A new report shows people who seek and find sex using the Internet could be putting their health in danger.
Web sites and chat rooms have become the virtual bars and bathhouses of the new millennium. A growing number of people look for sex online. Success can end in contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
A Denver study in theJournal of the American Medical Associationsays Internet sex seekers are at a higher risk for catching sexually transmitted diseases.
One woman, who wanted to be identified as "Janet," says she surfs the Web a few times a week looking for sex.
"One of the good things about online is that you don't have to go through the whole little flirting, game-playing situation that you do in a bar or a club or whatever," Janet says.
Dr. Mary McFarlane of theCenters for Disease Controlsays that kind of behavior is very dangerous.
"People who have sex partners on the Internet tend to have more sex partners, more history of sexually transmitted diseases, more risky sex and use condoms only 50 percent of the time," McFarlane says.
Of 856 people in Denver who sought HIV testing, 10 percent found sex partners on the Internet. Lee Rosen, a Raleigh divorce attorney, says he has seen all kinds of cases involving Internet relationships.
"Sex through chat rooms, through e-mail, we have it in case after case after case," Rosen says.
Health officials are using the Internet to warn people about the dangers of online sex. "Janet" says the practice may become more relevant in a fast-paced world.
"It is hard to find people and meet people, and some of us aren't lucky enough to have found our life's partner yet," Janet says.
Rosen says the Triangle may be a center of Internet sex seekers because of the heavy use of computers and the Internet in the area. Information about affairs, stored on home computers, is being used more often as evidence in divorce cases.
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The European Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that reductions in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the use of some forms of bioenergy — burning wood for electricity, for example — could be overestimated because of a “serious accounting error.”
The draft opinion, described here in an earlier post, could have wide repercussions. It suggests that a far narrower variety of crops for biofuels and bioenergy should be grown and that organizations like the International Energy Agency and the United Nations probably need to lower their emissions forecasts related to the use of biofuels and bioenergy. Read more…
David Bragdon, who oversaw environmental programs as president of a regional planning agency in Portland, Ore., is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s new chief adviser on environmental policy.
City of New YorkDavid Bragdon
The mayor announced the appointment on Wednesday, filling a post vacated this summer by Rohit T. Aggarwala, who followed his wife to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she became a fellow in infectious diseases at Stanford University Medical Center.
As the new director of the mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, Mr. Bragdon, 51, will be responsible for administering PlaNYC, the mayor’s long-term environmental agenda. He previously headed the Oregon Metro Council, an elected body that oversees the protection of nature as well as recycling, solid waste management and other programs in the Portland metropolitan area. That city is a national leader in planning and controlling urban growth and other green efforts.
A New York native whose family moved to Portland when he was 12, Mr. Bragdon arrives with a family tie to City Hall. His father, Paul Bragdon, was press secretary and legislative representative to Robert F. Wagner, New York’s mayor from 1954 to 1965.
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could hardly have come at a worse time for President Obama — a month after he angered many supporters by announcing he would open up vast areas of American waters to new offshore oil exploration and drilling. Now, many of the groups that opposed the move are using the spill to restate their objections.
On Monday, the political action committee Moveon.org unleashed a new television ad that asks, “President Obama, will you lead our country into a clean energy not future, or will we see more of this?” It cuts to images of a fiery oil rig and dead fish and birds covered in slick black oil (wildlife images that were not recorded in this accident).
Oceana, a nonprofit ocean advocacy group, sent its condolences to the families of the 11 workers who died on the Deepwater Horizon and to those who were injured. But in an I-told-you-so vein, it went on to say: “Events like this one will happen again unless we act to prevent them. It is time for the U.S. to recognize that the risks of offshore drilling far outweigh any benefits.” Read more…
Harry Cabluck/Associated PressGov. Rick Perry of Texas assailed the climate-change bill, which would create a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, as a “legislative monstrosity.”
In a fiery speech in Austin today, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas blasted the Waxman-Markey climate-change and energy bill, which narrowly passed the United States House of Representatives in June and awaits debate in the Senate. Mr. Perry assailed the bill, which would create a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, as a “legislative monstrosity” that would do grave damage to the Texas economy.
“If the United States Senate were to take leave of its senses and pass this bill, it would precipitate an economic disaster in the state of Texas,” Mr. Perry said.
Mr. Perry’s denunciation of the Waxman-Markey bill seemed timed to coincide with a conference at the United Nations today in which President Obama and President Hu Jintao of China pledged action on reducing carbon emissions. Mr. Perry’s talk underscored the uphill battle the legislation faces in the Senate.
Under Waxman-Markey, industries will ultimately be required to pay a fee for carbon emissions, under a regime similar to that currently in place for other airborne pollutants. Opponents of the bill contend that such a policy is tantamount to a new energy tax.
“This misguided piece of legislation would essentially be the single largest tax in the history of our nation,” Mr. Perry said. “These energy taxes will cause every product that uses energy to become more expensive.”
Wild chimpanzees have been listed as endangered since 1990, but a new proposal covers all chimps, including nearly 2,000 captive in the United States today.
How are climate change, scarcer resources, population growth and other challenges reshaping society? From science to business to politics to living, our reporters track the high-stakes pursuit of a greener globe in a dialogue with experts and readers.
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News of a "monster" natural gas find in British Columbia has once again highlighted that North Americans need to make a choice. Do we want to keep the huge volumes of natural gas that have been discovered in recent years across the continent landlocked and transportable only by pipeline, or should we develop the infrastructure that will enable us to transport this fuel to the gas-hungry markets of Asia?
Both options come with advantages and drawbacks, of course. Keeping the fuel landlocked will keep prices depressed, likely so much so that many producers will be unable to turn a profit and will shut up shop. Building the infrastructure to transport natural gas to faraway shores is expensive, but more importantly, it would commit the continent to a future of fracking, liquefying and exporting natural gas, a decision that carries heavy environmental repercussions.
Here's how it stacks up. North America has trillions of cubic feet of a fuel that the energy-hungry developing economies of the world want. Knowing that the easy oil and gas of the world are gone, those developing economies are desperate to lock down oil and gas supplies for the future. As their desire for our gas climbs, so will the price they are willing to pay.
In short, it's going to be hard to say no for long; the financial incentive will be too strong. That's why we see North America becoming a significant exporter of liquefied natural gas [LNG], but not for years. It will take a long time for North America to develop substantial LNG infrastructure. In the meantime, who will benefit? Let's investigate.
Apache's (APA) Monster Find
Back in 2009, Houston-based Apache Corp. drilled a well in the Liard Basin of northern British Columbia. It was just a normal exploration well, like the thousands it had drilled before in its quest to find gas reservoirs. Then the drill hit gas.
It hit so much gas that Apache didn't release results from the well until last week, almost three years later, because the company wanted to snap up as much of the surrounding land as possible.
You do that when a single well produces 21 million cubic feet per day in its first month. Making things even better, the well was only fracked six times; in many other shale reservoirs wells are fracked as many as 18 times to enable the gas to flow freely.
Apache has now drilled three wells in the Liard, with a fourth under way, and has examined logs from 16 others drilled since the 1960s. With those results in hand the company believes the Liard could be "the best unconventional gas reservoir in North America."
Based on initial results, the company estimates that the Liard Basin holds 210 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas, of which 48 tcf is recoverable. For comparison, total US recoverable gas reserves stand at 300 tcf.
The wells drilled to date, which are spaced more than 25 km apart, are producing gas into an existing pipeline that runs south from the Northwest Territories. Apache says the fact that all the wells are performing very similarly indicates the reservoir is very robust. To give itself the best chance to tap into that robust reservoir, Apache has secured about 174,000 hectares of land in the Liard, an area that is 150 km northwest of the town of Fort Nelson and 100 km west of Horn River, another substantial BC shale gas play.
The Downside Of Shale Gas Riches
Even with only a few wells completed, there is little doubt about the importance of the Liard discovery. It is huge - so huge that Apache believes its Liard wells could be profitable at a gas price of just $2.57 per MMBtu, almost as low as current North American natural gas prices.
Gas prices in North America have been pretty volatile over the last 15 years, spiking at least four times. Discounting those short-lived price spikes, the Henry Hub spot price has ranged from just under $2 to almost $8 per MMBtu - a wide range. We are presently near the bottom of that range.
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There's a simple reason why prices are plunging: supplies are sky high.
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This is the shale gas phenomenon. The ability to tap into natural gas trapped within tight rock formations known as shale basins has unlocked trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, pushing US gas reserves from 162 tcf in 1993 to 273 tcf in 2009. (Official US Energy Information Administration data for US gas reserves is currently only available until the end of 2009, though estimates from other reputable sources such as the US Geological Survey put today's US gas reserves above 300 tcf.)
It is simple supply and demand: Supplies have risen dramatically, and demand is struggling to catch up. That is, demand within North America is struggling to catch up. There is demand aplenty in other parts of the world, and in those places prices are much higher.
In Northeast Asia, strong demand from Japan and South Korea is keeping LNG prices near US$17 per MMBtu. Yes, that is more than six times higher than the current Henry Hub spot price of US$2.70 per MMBtu. It is worth noting, too, that $2.70 per MMBtu is a relatively good price for Henry Hub, one propped up in the last few weeks by warm weather and hurricane threats. By contrast, in April, the North American gas benchmark fell to just US$1.86 per MMBtu; prices have hovered near just $2 for several months.
Weak gas prices like that have several effects. First, swaths of North American gas producers are cutting back on production. They do not see a need to supply more gas to an already oversupplied market and, more importantly, many actually lose money producing gas at these prices. Second, if prices remain this depressed for a sustained period, producers will start writing down their reserves counts. A "reserve" is a volume of fuel that is economic to produce using current technology. When prices are high, lots of gas reserves are economic - even very tight shale deposits requiring multiple fracs to get the gas flowing. When prices dive, it becomes more costly than it is worth to produce gas from these challenging and expensive tight gas deposits, which means they lose their reserve status.
In short, North America's gas companies flooded their own market, drowning out any chance that good prices will return anytime soon.
The problem for North America's gas producers is that their gas is landlocked. Natural gas has to travel by pipeline; in its gas form, it takes up a lot of volume per unit of energy produced, which means it is never worth the cost of transportation to ship it. So North America's gas producers are generating a product that has to find buyers in North America.
Or they could condense their product down into a liquid, rendering it transportable. That's the beauty of LNG - it is natural gas in a reduced-volume format, which means it can be loaded onto tankers and shipped across oceans.
If North Americans want to take advantage of their newfound natural gas wealth, LNG is the way forward. We can use some of the fuel at home, of course, and will use more and more if ideas like converting the continent's transport trucks to natural gas take hold. But the trillions of cubic feet of gas contained in shale basins from the Liard Basin in British Columbia to the Fort Worth Basin in Texas are more than we can use, so much more, in fact, that prices will remain too low for producers to bother producing it, and these gas reserves will revert to being geologic curiosities rather than economic resources.
That is one choice: keeping our natural gas landlocked and committing producers to years - perhaps decades - of rock-bottom pricing. The other choice is to build gas liquefaction facilities on our coasts and send our gas wealth across the oceans to markets in need. The economics of this choice are pretty clear. Even though LNG plants cost billions to build, the size of the resource here and the expectation of continued strong gas demand in the developing world put the calculations back in the black pretty quickly.
So economics are not the question. The question, instead, is environmental. Does North America want to become an LNG exporter? The economic upsides include jobs and money, but the environmental concerns include new pipelines, tankers transiting coastal waters, more drilling and fracking of natural gas wells, and the knowledge that we are enabling a continued global addiction to fossil fuels.
It's a choice that will play out in the news media over the next few years, as interested parties start vying for permission to start these multiyear construction projects. Construction is just about to begin on North America's first gas liquefaction plant, being built by Cheniere Energy (LNG) at Sabine Pass, on the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana-Texas border. The project is expected to cost $10 billion and will not be complete until late 2015, but Cheniere has already signed offtake deals with BG Group of the UK, Gas Natural Fenosa of Spain, Gail of India, and Kogas of South Korea that account for almost 90% of the plant's expected output.
The demand is there. The opposition is there, too; Cheniere spent years trying to get regulatory approval for Sabine Pass, against the protestations of groups such as the Sierra Club.
The bottom line is that even though environmental concerns continue to hang over its natural gas industry, they are unlikely to prevent North America from eventually exporting LNG in earnest. There are simply too many jobs and too much money at stake.
Energy is always a high-stakes game, but winning it has become even more crucial to developed and developing nations alike. Some have started calling the jostling a "new Cold War," but no matter where the trends go, one thing is certain: outsized profit potential awaits the investor who intelligently taps in to those shifting trends today.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
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Healthier Ice Cream; Greener Coffee & A Dog Fight
Mark Bittman points to an article in the SF Chronicle by his friend Marion Nestle about the benefits--or lack thereof--of organic food. Nestle answers such questions as "Aren't organics elitist?"
"In the dog-eat-dog restaurant business..." Iconic Chicago hot dog stand SuperDawg is taking New York restaurateur Danny Omari to court for trademark infringement for his new joint SuperDog on MacDougal Street. SuperDawg is not letting up, even though Omari ended up opening the restaurant officially under the name Super Hot Dog.
[Crain's via Grub Street via Eater]
The latest trend in ice cream involves using healthy ingredients, like fresh fruit, grains, and nut milk. It doesn't make the ice cream less fattening, but who cares? Restaurants like Golosi are selling flavors like grano (made with 17 whole grains), black sesame seed, and green tea, while Harbour is touting vanilla cashew ice cream, sweetened with agave.
[NY Daily News]
Ever notice that a regular coffee at Starbucks contains 5 calories, while an iced coffee has 90? As it turns out, the company's iced coffee is "a delicious and refreshing blend of freshly brewed Starbucks Terraza Blend served chilled and slightly sweetened on ice." To get your coffee unsweetened, you must request to have it "customized" that way.
In other coffee news, Nespresso, a maker of capsule-based espresso machines, has announced a new initiative called Ecolaboration that involves an in-depth examnination of its supply chain in order to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 percent in four years.
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Physical Sciences Division
Where in the Water Are Hydroxide Ions?
Chemists use new computer models, calculations to determine ion's travel plans
Results: Just as parents want to know where their teens go, scientists want to know where hydroxide ions travel. And, as is true for parents and progeny, this ion's choices have stumped researchers for years. Different studies yielded different answers. So theoretical chemists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Louisiana Tech University teamed up and used a new approach that takes into account aspects of ion behavior not considered previously. They showed that hydroxide ions travel plans do not involve congregating at the water's surface.
Why it matters: From forming clouds to growing crops, many of the reactions that sustain life on earth occur where water and air meet, known as the water-air interface. So researchers want to know what is happening at the water-air interface to predict ecosystem behavior, such as climate changes, and mitigate problems, such as acid rain and hazardous waste spills.
"Some of the most important chemistry on the planet occurs where air and water meet," said Dr. Liem Dang, a theoretical chemist at PNNL and a researcher on this study.
Further, the behavior of ions at the water-air interface is vital in current and future industrial processes. For example, understanding how ions react at the surface could aid researchers striving to produce automotive fuel from poplar trees and other vegetation.
Methods: The researchers used two different approaches to model the hydroxide ion's propensity for the water's surface. The first model is a classical model that focuses on the ion's polarizability. Just as with politics, polarizability refers to the tendency to move toward one extreme or another. In ions, it is the electrons tendency to move to one location or extreme on the ion, instead of moving smoothly around the whole ion.
"Understanding a hydroxide ion's polarizability may be key to understanding how it behaves at interfaces," said Dang.
The second model is known as the multistate empirical valence bond model, or MS-EVB for short. This model, used for the first time on this type of study, includes proton sharing in its modeling of the hydroxide ion. Proton sharing is when the hydrogen on the hydroxide ion can move back and forth or form a bond between the oxygen atoms of the hydroxide ion and the water molecules.
After running both models on computers provided by the Department of Energy and the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, the scientists found the hydroxide ion prefers to congregate at the water's surface.
Next steps: The scientists are continuing to study how hydroxide and hydronium ions behave at the water-air interface. They are conducting not only new studies of the ions, but also refining existing models and building new tools to get needed answers.Investigating Hydroxide Anion Interfacial Activity by Classical and Multistate Empirical Valance Bond Molecular Dynamics Simulations." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 113(22):6356-6364.
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CampOutrageous at Bellevue Baptist | Events
A New Kind of VBS
June 7-11, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m
Ahoy, mates! Hoist the anchor and set sail on an amazing search for priceless treasure!
When Billy is pulled into his favorite video game, he must use a special map to search for three 'crucials' that lead to the Treasure of Arcadia. He will need help from Captain Bright, along with his friends, Katie and Peppy, to find the treasure before Willoby Caught — the pirate king! Billy will need lots of faith and courage to accomplish his mission. Each day brings new challenges, and CampOutrageous kids will be part of the surprises and action! Don't miss this thrilling drama full of great fun and great truths! And who knows? Some of you may find the priceless Treasure of Arcadia for yourselves!
Exciting Classroom Adventures
Climb on board ship for our swashbuckling classroom adventures, where children will hear Bible stories, make crafts, play exciting games, and enjoy snacks on their high seas expedition!
Extreme Family Adventures
Bring your family and friends to see the Quest for the Arcadian Treasure production performed live in the Fellowship Hall — it's free! Performance times are:
Friday, June 11, at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 12, at 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 13, at 6:00 p.m.
Register NOW online
Children entering kindergarten through those who have completed 5th grade may register.
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Having images imprinted on anything from caps and t-shirts to cars and motorcycles is nothing new. Millions of people have done just that over the years; however, changes in technology have made this style of printing much easier and more effective. The most common form of custom printing these days is hydrographic printing.
Hydrographic printing is also known as immersion printing. It is a process by which a printed design can be put onto a shaped or 3D object. This type of printing may be done on hard woods, glass, metal and plastic, among other materials. The process involves cleaning the object on which the graphic is to be imprinted. Once it has been cleaned, the object, such as a motorcycle gas tank, is “marked” and areas that are not to be imprinted are taped off. The tape protects those areas from the process of printing the image and sealing it onto the object. Once tape is applied the remaining area is coated with primer and then a base coat. Once the base coat dries the entire object is dipped into the hydrographic solution for up to 24 hours. After removal and drying time a top coat is applied and then the process is completed.
The hydrographic printing process is time consuming and takes a careful touch to complete correctly. If you are looking for a good provider to perform this task, look no further than DipShitzHydrographics.com. At Dip Shitz you can get custom or pre-made images imprinted on anything from a vehicle part to a motorcycle or even firearm. Motorcycle graphics are available on the website to view, as are prices and more information. Gun camo dipping is popular right now, as well. When you are looking for a good, reputable dealer to perform water transfer imaging, look no further than Dip Shitz HydroGraphics.
Facing tough decisions when purchasing a 60 amp disconnect box can place a huge damper on your overall shopping experience. Your company likely wants to save as much money as possible by ordering cheap products. Just be aware that saving money now probably means spending more in the near future. Your technicians will struggle to use inferior parts that are not built to withstand years of constant use. Do not let these problems become the standard operating procedure for your company. Convince your investors that reliable components should be used in all automated machinery. They should be prepared to spend a few additional dollars on equipment that keeps your assemblers from making countless tedious repairs over time.
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Perhaps one of the hidden benefits of a sluggish economy is that people are starting to get away from a throw-away mentality. Instead of tossing things away without a thought, we’re now trying to find ways to rebuild things and extend their lives. For instance, companies that repair batteries for rechargeable tools are providing a way to convert what appears to be a worn-out piece of junk into a usable tool again.
With most rechargeable tools, the battery is the part that stops working soonest. Owners often find themselves with a tool that seems to be perfectly good except that it won’t hold a charge. Obviously the lifetime of the tool could be extended if the battery could be repaired or replaced with a better one.
This is the idea behind the new wave of battery rebuilding companies. Owners can now send their old tool batteries to a company that will rebuild the cells and make them better than they were in the beginning. Using the original cases, these companies will insert new cells that are probably superior to the ones that came with the tools, multiplying its lifespan by several times. Tool battery rebuilds are already providing a huge savings for construction companies and individual owners, and the trend is growing.
Since the original cases are reused, the newly-rebuilt batteries are guaranteed to fit the tools and their chargers. Because of this, it doesn’t matter if the battery is an older model that is no longer in production. Owners who refurbish batteries in their old, worn-out tools often find that they really work fine.
Given a choice, any tool owner would rather repair batteries than buy new tools. If this sounds interesting to you, go to ToolBatteryRebuilders.com for more information.
Having a good retirement plan is important if you want to feel good about retiring and living off of your financial funds. This is why many people will speak with a solo 401k administrator to find out more about what they need in order to live comfortably at all times. You will be surprised to see just how simple it can be for you to set up one of these plans for yourself and your spouse. You will then be able to retire from your job and live comfortably without having to constantly worry about finances and other problems in life.
Setting up a good retirement plan can be a lot easier than you might think. The first step to doing this would be to go online and see which plans are available to you. You will then be able to see how much you will need to put into the plan at the end of each month in order to keep it active. When you are ready to retire, your entire fund will be available to you so that you can easily live in comfort and have more than enough money to pay all of your many bills at home.
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A good corporate illustration can sway the reader’s opinion of your company. If you would like your company to feel professional, we believe you should get the assistance of a reliable stipple portrait artist. You have have admired stipple drawings in the Wall Street Journal as they are an impressive form of corporate art. These drawings resemble the woodcuts originally used in newspapers. There are many customization options available when you commission your own stipple drawing. CEO portraits look amazing as stipple drawings.
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You certainly want to present your business in the best possible light, no matter what field your company is in. With all of the uproar going on inside Wall Street businesses now, it is vital for management types to put their best face forward, so to speak. Investing in our publications will ensure they make the most impact possible. Check out Sprouls.com to find examples that illustrate the special characteristics of the stipple technique. Now is when you should begin thinking of improving your professional image.
You may notice that many universities offer new york student tours. These are often important as a way of showing students about the history of different regions of the country. Students who attend universities in New York might find that the school offers opportunities to travel to different areas and attend classes there.
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There are also many study abroad opportunities that colleges may offer. If you want to take advantage of such an option, you normally need to be able to afford it. Fees for these types of study options are often high, and many students may not be able to pay for them.
When deciding on the perfect pair of motocross boots, the selection is very important. Although they don’t come cheap, they play a key role in protecting the rider. Some boots are superior to others, so it’s important to study how well they are made and compare features before buying a pair.
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Children’s boots are expensive and youngsters outgrow them rapidly. Parents need to keep safety in mind, and not sacrifice it for cost. Regardless of the age, sturdy motocross boots are essential for each rider. Quality boots can make a difference in a crash, providing superior protection to ankles and feet. Motocross industry leaders offer their quality boots at mxsouth.com
The way the federal government and private organizations are intertwined is amazing. As our government’s competence and extent increases, we are able to notice new hybrid sectors. Not public sector or private sector, this new hybrid industry consists of private players that must conform to detailed and onerous government regulations. These new laws protect the jobs of those who work within the government. Unfortunately, these absurdly detailed and numerous regulations tend to stifle the private sector.
The research it takes to obtain federal government contracts can be a lot for nonprofit managers. Following an unjust rejection of a contract bid, those bidding need to seek out a government attorney to seek rectification. Government contract regulations are often ridiculously complex. Fortunately, there are a number of reliable law firms that have mastered this field over years of practice. To find out a great deal how to manage government agreements, go to BerenzweigLaw.com. Today’s society typically casts attorneys in a less than flattering light. This is sad because law establishments often take the lead in trying to eradicate changing regulations. Standing in solidarity with dependable law firms has the potential to make the world a better place.
Now is the time that everyone in the human race needs to begin striving for the common good. This responsibility entails fighting against destructive elements within our own government. So long as we remain within the confines of the law, we are justified in pursuing many kinds of civil protest. Having a decent job doesn’t resolve anyone of their duty to look out for the common good. If we start cooperating with one another, we can lessen the impact that regulations have had on government contract law.
The island of Kauai is home to a staggering number of delicious restaurants. Many offer casual meals on a budget that are loved by locals and visitors alike. Others feature fresh ingredients and seafood caught that very morning in the Pacific Ocean. Whether you are looking for a traditional Hawaiian favorite or a delicious upscale dinner choose one of the following restaurants in this kauai dining guide:
Aloha Kauai Pizza: This is a family run restaurant that is a local staple in the dining scene on Kauai. The husband and wife duo who run Aloha Kauai Pizza offer delicious pizzas with hundreds of toppings ranging from fresh seafood to organic local produce.
Scotty’s Beachside BBQ: For the ultimate outdoor meal that will definitely please young children be sure to head to Scotty’s. The menu features classic dishes with an island twist, like ginger chicken and mango coleslaw. The best way to finish off the meal is with roasted marshmallow s’mores made at your table over a controlled flame.
Brennecke’s Beach Broiler: Head here for a wide variety of pupus, or appetizers. Look over the ocean and dine on these delicious pupus as well as a large salad bar and hearty grilled steaks.
Beach House Restaurant: This is considered to be the most formal and upscale dining establishment in Kauai. The breathtaking views from the Beach House Restaurant look over the coastline and the dining area is one of the best places on the island to watch the sunset. Enjoy inventive Pacific Rim cuisine delicacies here.
Wishing Well: This small shop in Hanalei is closed until noon but be prepared for a crowd as soon as it opens. The specialty dessert here is shaved ice topped with delicious syrups and fresh local fruit. It closes when the ice runs out for the day to stop by after lunch to avoid disappointment.
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Solo show of the artist
Curator : Claire Moulène
"In 1967 and 1968, I wrote down a verb list as a way of applying various activities to unspecified materials. To roll, to fold, to bend, to shorten, to shave, to tear, to chip, to split, to cut, to sever... The language structured my activities in relation to materials which had the same function as transitive verbs," Richard Serra declared about his famous "Untitled (Verb List)."
These instructions for automatic (plastic) writing could serve as a script for the entire work of French artist Morgane Tschiember (Brest, 1976). For about ten years she has explored the performative qualities of materials, whether with added value or worthless (metal, foam, glass, plastic), which she subjects to all kinds of impacts. Each of her works thus conceals a series of various efficient actions -to saw, to twist, to weld, to blow, to hang... which form a sort of subtext for it.
Just as Serra revisited a Minimalism marked by rigorism and autonomism, Morgane Tschiember thus unveils the "making" at work behind the forms she produces. Unsurprisingly, her sculptures, three-dimensional paintings, or installations then flaunt their joints, as the "folded space" hanging in the first room of the exhibition epitomizes. Made after a model in folded paper, and unfolded according to a non-orthogonal grid, this mobile made of metal broken down and welded back does not cover over the marks of its fabrication: the black roe-like liquid produced by molten metal quite visibly shows. Hanging at eye level, it may be contemplated literally and figuratively from every angle.
Elsewhere, a new set of puffy glass sculptures, grafted on their very concrete plinth, openly give away the secret of their making. Indeed, the artist -who likes to quote Paul Thek and Michael Asher in the same breath- believes that what makes a (sensitive) surface is also the experience of a body at work as it implicitly appears in the pieces: the glass-blower's or, in other contexts, the body of the builder tirelessly piling up concrete blocks to obstruct the access to exhibition rooms. The body is also that of the artist, who never balks at handling heavy work or being confronted with the scale of a space, as she does at the end of the exhibition with a monumental, immersive installation sewn with transparent ribbons. Morgane Tschiember's work essentially plays out in these undetermined, fertile margins, on the edge of an inhabited, sensitive minimalism, of the re-appropriation of the intrinsic values of materials and practices by the artist. "Anything generally hidden during the conception of a piece is revealed and laid bare here," she explains. "What is usually called defects and constraints is used to develop the physical relation to the work. This connection speaks to me."
Claire Moulène, March 2012
Bubbles art work was realised with the support of the Cerfav and the CRAC at Sète.
The artist thanks too Baron Osuna and Johnny Coca for Polaroid art work.
Morgane Tschiember also exhibit at the Loevenbruck gallery until July 28th.
Exhibition from June 5 to July 7, 2012
Opening on Monday, June 4, 2012, starting at 6 :30 pm
Free admission from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am to 7 pm
Guided tours on Wednesdays at 12:30pm and Saturdays at 12:30 pm and 4:00 pm. Free admission
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In Hawaii a combination of PV + hybrid tank hot heaters actually MORE efficient than a thermal hot water, and lowers the cooling load inside the building too.
In heating-dominated climates there's always the issue of hybrid tanks adding to the space heating load, but in cooling dominated climates with high-priced electricity (such as in HI) they're a slam-dunk.
Some independent testing seems to indicate that the larger the tank the more efficiently the hybrid heat pump tank works, but I don't have web-published data on that. The 80 gallon Steibel Eltron Accelera tests better than any of the smaller- tank hybrids out there, and has good first-hour ratings for an electric tank- you can even fill a decent sized soaking tub with it before the resistance elements would kick on.
A couple grand for a hot water heater may seem like a lot, but at Hawaii's electricity rates it'll pay back well within it's anticipated lifetime, since it uses dramatically less power for hot water while reducing your cooling power use at the same time. The installed cost will still be less than that of a fossil-fired tankless, (and less than even an in-line batch-solar hot water heater of lower net efficiency.)
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A New York attorney, Steven Simkin, settled his divorce in 2006 by dividing property and assets equally with his wife, Laura Blank. At the time, the couple had a large sum invested in Bernie Madoff’s now-infamous Ponzi scheme. Mr. Simkin opted to leave his money there; his wife preferred cash, so he took $6.6 million in cash out of the Madoff account and paid it to her. She also got one of their houses and half of the rest of their assets.
The divorce had been final for more than two years when the Madoff fund collapsed, and Mr. Simkin immediately went to his wife and asked for a do-over on the distribution of assets. She refused. He took her to court, arguing the theory of “mutual mistake.” That theory says that when both parties to a contract are laboring under the same erroneous belief–for example, that the value of an item is much greater than it actually is–the contract can be cancelled. Mr. Simkin argues that because both he and his then-wife were mistaken in their belief that they had money in the Madoff account, their settlement agreement should be voided. Ms. Blank’s rejoinder is that there was no mistake and that the money was there at the time, as evidenced by Mr. Simkins’ ability to take out $6.6 million to pay her for her share. She says the only mistake was Mr. Simkins’ belief that the account would continue to have value in the future–a mistake made by many a divorcing spouse who retains certain assets based on a belief that they’ll continue to appreciate.
Does this seem like a simple question of Mr. Simkin regretting a bad decision? Apparently the courts don’t think so–the case is now pending in New York’s highest court, after a trial court held in favor of Ms. Blank and an appellate court overturned that ruling.
My favorite part is the claim of “extreme hardship” by Mr. Simkin, who earns at least $3 million annually as a partner at the law firm that is representing him in the divorce do-over case (for free).
Check back for updates when the New York high court rules on this interesting case.
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The EPA gives millions to the environmental groups that sue it. “When the EPA settles or loses those suits, it then awards the groups millions more in attorneys’ fees,” notes legal commentator Walter Olson. “‘The EPA isn’t harmed by these suits,’ said Jeffrey Holmstead, who was an EPA official during the Bush administration. ‘Often the suits involve things the EPA wants to do anyway. By inviting a lawsuit and then signing a consent decree, the agency gets legal cover from political heat.’ Holmstead called this kind of litigation ‘sweetheart suits.’”
The EPA gave millions to groups that sued it to get it to regulate greenhouse gases, like the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council. Those groups brought a lawsuit that led to the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), which vastly expanded the EPA’s jurisdiction. More recently, they sued to compel the EPA to issue greenhouse gas “performance standards” for power plants and refineries. In a recent settlement, the EPA agreed to do just that. Critics “said the costly settlement was ‘concocted in secret’” and that other lawsuits by EPA grantees resulted in collusive settlements that cost the economy billions, increased the EPA’s powers, and gave environmental groups things that they were unlikely to win in any court ruling.
Government funding is one of many reasons that these environmental groups have a huge financial advantage in the political process. For example, an American University study found that supporters of the cap-and-trade bill aimed at global warming had a massive financial edge over their critics. American University’s Professor Nisbet notes that “the effort by environmentalists to pass cap and trade may have been the best financed political cause in history.” It nonetheless has failed thus far, perhaps because of the enormous cost and waste associated with the bill. (In 2008, Obama said that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under the cap-and-trade plan he favored, and that it would “bankrupt” coal-fired power plants. The cap-and-trade bill is chock full of costly corporate welfare, and would have a “trivially small” effect on greenhouse gas emissions while imposing an enormous cost, according to a former Obama Advisor. It is supported by the same special-interests and corporate rent-seekers who supported the stimulus package’s green-jobs provisions, which used tax dollars to outsource American jobs, subsidizing foreign “green jobs” that replaced thousands of American jobs. Recent EPA rules will wipe out at least 800,000 jobs. Two economists say the stimulus destroyed 550,000 jobs.)
As Walter Olson notes, collusive lawsuits are not unique to the EPA, nor are incestuous relationships between agencies and liberal lobbying groups. In his book, Schools for Misrule, he chronicles how “other government agencies, much like the EPA, use settlements of pressure-group lawsuits as a way to go along with desired expansions of power.” For example, “corrections and foster-care systems commit to step up program offerings and . . . seek higher funding to accomplish their missions; union-allied public-sector managers give away the store on employee benefits disputes, and so forth (scroll to “Consent of the Governors”). From New York to Alabama, state education departments have covertly or even openly assisted lawsuits against themselves intended to force spending expansion. And once sweetheart negotiations result in an adverse consent decree . . . the locked-in big-government policies can be nearly impossible to unlock later on, should voters’ moods change.”
Nor is the EPA’s willingness to fork over millions in fees in collusive settlements unusual for agencies in the Obama Administration. Other agencies in the Obama Administration frequently settle lawsuits brought by liberal groups by giving them everything they ask for, even when the liberal group was virtually certain to lose its lawsuit against the government. The Obama Administration frequently agrees to pay attorneys fees to trial lawyers even when such fees are barred by provisions in the Equal Access to Justice Act. That law, which governs the award of attorneys fees in many lawsuits against the EPA, protects the government from having to pay fees even when it loses a lawsuit, as long as its position was not frivolous but rather was “substantially justified.”
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Childbirth is a wonderful thing, but it's also extremely hard work so be prepared. Saying that some Mothers find it easier than others, and some pregnancy's will have a different finale to others.
When you're pregnant, thinking about the birth is the last thing you want to do (well it was for me anyway!) You may be experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions already. But you know eventually you will reach the time when those niggley little cramps start, and this time it's for real!
So read other peoples stories, look at some pictures, watch a video and take those relaxation and breathing classes. Be prepared! (I can't say that enough!)
Ouch!! - what are these pains you're experiencing? here are some early signs of labor. Or have a more detailed look at labour. Could it be false labor? Either way you will need those bags and at the ready! Here's a few essentials for your stay in hospital.
As for the birth itself, you will have alot of decisions to try and make. Where do you want to have your baby, does the sound of a home birth have you smiling? Or how about a water birth. To see how calm a water birth can be, watch this water birth video. If you fancy a calm and relaxed birth, you should look into the techniques provided by hypnobirthing, and maybe study some online child birth classes.
What if you want or need a cesarean birth, take a look here. (This page contains graphic photos of a caesarean birth, please be careful with young children viewing this content)
Whether it's a hospital or a home birth, lets have a look at the finer (no holding back!) details of childbirth and labor, what to expect in the 3 different stages of labor. Stay focused and calm during this intense time using breathing techniques, and then prepare yourself by having a look at these childbirth videos, here's another where the Mom gives birth to a rather 'large' baby naturally at home!
Then try reading these child birth stories, or after you've had your baby, let us know how it went for you by submitting your own story.
Planning on using some pain relief? (yes please!) Take a look at Pain relief options - Medication. Or Pain management during labor - Natural ways if you're going 'Au Naturale' Maternity Acupressure is said to be one of the best natural pain relief options there is, so that has to be worth a look.
What will happen if you're overdue and labor doesn't start? Or maybe there is some medical reason why you need to have your labor artificially started, lets have a look at how to induce labor.
What happens to your body when its all yours once again?, Lets have a sneaky peek at Post natal health. Baby blues are common after having your baby. If you feel really down it could be postnatal depression. Another big part in post natal health is fitness. The fitter you are, the easier every day tasks will become. Have a look at exercising after pregnancy.
Take your time with your choices, and it's always ok to change your mind about childbirth at a later date if you need to. From beginning to end the whole experience should be rewarding, after all... look at what you get at the end!
Back to New baby and beyond homepage
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Low-Fat Diets Will Make You FATTER-5 Reasons Why
As an individual who desires a lean, attractive and “fat-free” appearance, you most likely have the idea that your ultimate dietary goal is to limit your consumption of fat as much as possible.
And who could blame you for thinking that?
For years we’ve been told that low-fat diets are the only healthy solution and that dietary fat is somehow an evil, harmful substance that should be steered clear of at all costs. Just walk into any grocery store and you’ll be bombarded with package after package of “low fat” and “fat free” products lining the shelves.
For those of you who point the finger at dietary fat as the major cause of a soft and flabby body, here’s an interesting fact for you…
Despite the current obesity crisis in the United States (where 7 out of 10 individuals over the age of 25 are considered overweight) our consumption of dietary fat is actually at an all-time low!
That’s correct, we’re consuming LESS fat, yet we’re FATTER than ever!
How could this be?
Simple: diets that focus on the extreme restriction of fat consumption are actually counter-productive to your fat burning results.
Don’t believe me?
Let me give you 5 good reasons why…
1) Low-fat diets are naturally higher in sugar.
Fats contain 9 calories per gram, and when you place severe limitations on your fat intake, you’ll naturally have to make up for those lost calories through an increased consumption of protein and carbohydrates.
For most individuals, this means piling up their intake of fruits, breads, pastas and other such items that, while low in fat, are very high in sugar. Although your body requires a certain amount of glucose to fuel its daily tasks, any excess that isn’t needed and cannot be stored in the muscles for future use will simply be stored as fat.
2) Low-fat diets increase cravings and hunger pangs.
Not only does the addition of dietary fat provide a more “filling” effect from the meals that you eat, but since your carbohydrate consumption is now naturally higher, your blood sugar levels and insulin production will be in overdrive.
Constant rising and falling of blood sugar not only lowers your energy and increases your appetite, but it increases your body’s rate of fat storage as well.
3) Low-fat diets decrease testosterone levels.
Most people are aware that testosterone plays a large role in the process of building lean muscle tissue (which in turn causes greater body fat losses), but testosterone in itself also has direct fat burning effects.
Diets that focus on significant reductions in fat consumption also produce a measurable negative effect on testosterone production.
4) Low-fat diets increase the rate of body fat storage.
Your body is a far more complex and intricate “machine” than you might think, and it has all sorts of defensive survival mechanisms in place to deal with stressful situations. When you severely reduce your fat intake, the body perceives this lack of dietary fat as a potential threat to its survival since fat is a primary source of energy.
As a result, the body will make the necessary adjustments which include a slow-down in the fat burning metabolism (to preserve its current fat stores) and a rise in hormones that promote fat storage.
5) Low-fat diets are unhealthy.
Your body quite simply NEEDS dietary fat in order for regular and healthy functioning. Forget about your concerns with storing body fat; if you deprive your body of the fat it needs to keep you alive and healthy, you will inevitably cause problems.
Fats perform an endless array of positive functions in the body, including brain and nerve tissue development, organ insulation, immune system strengthening, anti-inflammatory effects, controlling cell membrane fluids and regulating hemoglobin production just to name a small fraction.
For all of the reasons outlined above, your dietary fat intake should NEVER drop below 10% of your total daily caloric intake. This is just a minimum, and 15-20% is probably ideal.
It’s not fat itself that is the enemy; it’s simply consuming the wrong types of fat, and consuming it in excessive amounts. However, it must be noted that an excess of ANY nutrient will lead to body fat storage.
Your goal should be to limit your intake of saturated fats (those that are solid at room temperature and are typically found in animal meats), and instead place the majority of your focus on healthy, unsaturated fats which are derived from plant sources and are liquid at room temperature.
You can consume these fats through solid food sources such as:
Or from healthy oils such as:
- flaxseed oil
- extra virgin olive oil
- fish oil
- canola oil
- sunflower oil
- hemp oil
To learn more great tips about proper fat loss nutrition, including detailed information about protein, carbohydrates, caloric intake and more, visit www.HowToBurnFat.com. You can gain instant download access to a full collection of customized body-sculpting meal plans, and can also sign up for my free 6-part fat burning email course.
About The Author
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Keeping the Faith
In this week’s parsha, our father Yaakov marks a moment of great transition
in the story of the establishment of the Jewish people as a national entity.
Until Yaakov’s family appears on the scene, the story of Judaism and Jews is
one of lonely and singular individuals. Avraham has to break away from the
idolatrous home of Terach and wander to fulfill his dream of monotheism and
morality. He is forced to make hard choices within his own family circle as
to who his successor in this mission of nation building will be.
His faithful servant Eliezer is eliminated from the succession contest as is
Yishmael and the numerous other children that Avraham sired. For only in
Yitzchak will Avraham find a successor to further his ideals, beliefs and
value system of life. Yitzchak is also faced with a winnowing process in
designating an heir to the vision and destiny of his father Avraham.
Though he attempts to somehow salvage Eisav as well, in the end he fully
recognizes that only through Yaakov can the mission, of uniqueness and
Godliness that is to become the Jewish people, be fulfilled. Until Yaakov’s
family arrives on the scene, the heritage and vision of morality and
monotheism is entrusted only to one member of the family while the others so
to speak are discarded by the wayside of history.
But Yaakov fathers twelve sons and a daughter. Is the pattern of only one of
them being the true heir of Yaakov’s dream and mission to be repeated in his
family as well? Past family history seems to indicate that such a scenario
was possible if not even probable.
This perhaps explains the reaction of the brothers to the favoritism
exhibited by Yaakov towards Yosef. The brothers were apprehensive that the
mission of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov would again be entrusted to only an
individual – only to one of them – and the other members of the family would
again be historically discarded. And that chosen brother, judging by their
father’s favoritism to him, would be Yosef.
And, they felt that Yosef was the incorrect choice for solely carrying on
the heritage and mission that began with their grandfather Avraham. What
they failed to grasp was that Yaakov and his family now marked the great
transition, from Judaism being the faith and belief of individuals to now
being the religion which would be embodied in a people, a society, and a
Since no two individuals are alike physically, mentally, or emotionally, the
people that would emanate from Yaakov and his family would be made up of
diverse individuals and ideas. But the cement and glue that would bind them
all together would be the vision and faith of Judaism that was their common
heritage and would be their common destiny as well.
It is much more difficult for a large group of people to retain a special
identity and sense of mission than it is for an individual alone. The story
of Yosef and the brothers that marks the concluding sections of the book of
Bereshith is the supreme illustration of the challenge of molding
individuals who are inherently different into a common and effective nation.
This challenge still remains with us millennia later.
Rabbi Berel Wein
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Arthur Scargill is seventy years old. Leader of the British coal miners' union in the late seventies and early eighties, this right-thinking and honourable Yorkshireman was turned into a figure of national hatred and ridicule by the gutter press and its Tory paymasters. He wasn't trying to hold the country to ransom. He was standing up for his members and he was fighting for the very future of British coal. Little did he know that Thatcher would do whatever it took to crush the miners' strike of 1984-1985 and the men and women who wore that simple yellow badge - "Coal Not Dole".
How strange to think that this all happened almost a quarter of a century back in time. Britain still sits on massive coal deposits while we import ship loads of the stuff from Poland and beyond. And even today the horrid legacy of Thatcher's extremism still blights the former pit villages of South Yorkshire and South Wales.
Arthur Scargill said:-
"All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have."
"Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things."
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Washington County (Utah). County Recorder Land transcripts
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
Washington County Deed Record Book V, called "Transcript of Lands," describes those lands in Washington County which were granted by the Federal Government for the support of education and other public institutions and for building permanent reservoirs, as provided by an Act of Congress passed 16 July 1894. This Act, which enabled the people of Utah to draft a constitution and form a state government, also granted to the State of Utah specified numbers of acres for public benefit (Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations, of the United States of America, vol. XXVIII, chap. CLXXXVIII. Published by authority of Congress, Boston: Brown, Little and Company). In 1907 the Utah State Legislature mandated that the Secretary of State should transmit to each County Recorder, a transcript of all lands within his county selected by the State of Utah under the provisions of this Act (Laws of Utah, 1907, chapter 163).
The 1894 Act granted 500,000 acres for building permanent reservoirs for irrigation purposes; 110,000 acres to benefit the University of Utah; 200,000 acres for the establishment of an agricultural college; and 100,000 acres each for the support of normal schools and for the establishment of 1) an insane asylum, 2) a deaf and dumb asylum, 3) an institution for the blind, 4) a hospital for disabled miners, 5) a school of mines, and 6) a reform school. Money from the sale of these lands was to be permanently invested by the state, so that the interest would provide perpetual income. Utah's Secretary of State selected the acres to be sold and specified their purpose. The Washington County recorder's transcript provides a legal description of selected lands, indicates the date the land was selected and the list number on which it was recorded by the Secretary of State. While much of this book relates to land grants authorized at statehood, some transcripts relate to other land grants. The last transcript was dated 1942, but not recorded until 1956. The county recorder used the last pages of Deed Record Book V to record OATHS OF OFFICE AND BONDS, Series 23518.
Chronological by date.
Conveyances to the state of Utah register from the Secretary of State, Series 394, is the Secretary of State's register of all lands conveyed from the Federal Government to the State of Utah in accordance with an Act of Congress passed 16 July 1894.
Official records from Washington County (Utah). County Recorder, Series 7067, contain land transcripts recorded after 1956.
Abstracts (sectional land) from Washington County (Utah). County Recorder, Series 16432, document the conveyance of land from the Federal Government to the State of Utah as well as the sale of that land to individuals or corporations.
This series is classified as Public.
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Washington County Recorder's Deed Record Book V was microfilmed by Utah State Archives in July 1973 and processed by Rosemary Cundiff in January 2001.
- School lands--Utah--Washington County.
- Public lands--Utah--Washington County.
- Land titles--Registration and transfer--Washington County (Utah).
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Feds should set goals, then get out of the way
The federal government can properly juice long-term economic growth by encouraging new technologies.
But the Obama administration overspent in a misguided splurge on batteries. Wishful thinking trumped market realities. Eager to encourage new, low-carbon industries, the federal government provided grants of more than $100 million each to four companies to build lithium ion batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles. Here's how that worked out:
A123 Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October.
Dow Kokam's majority owner, Dow Chemical, wrote off its stake.
EnerDel entered and emerged from Chapter 11 this year. It is concentrating on buses and stationary uses for its batteries.
LG Chem Power has delayed production of lithium ion batteries.
The underlying problem is basic. Demand for the batteries is limited. The batteries are expensive to produce and inflate sticker prices of most electrics to well above $30,000, excluding federal and state rebates and tax credits.
That's a tough sell in a market with many excellent gasoline-powered subcompacts available for less than $20,000.
So why did the federal government wander into the weeds?
It is proper for the federal government to set strategic goals and standards. In this case, the Obama administration sought to create jobs quickly in low-polluting industries. That's laudable.
But the market should find the best way to accomplish those goals, a method known as technology neutral. The auto industry has thousands of engineers eager and able to explore hundreds of ways to cut pollution and create jobs. Batteries are just one possible route.
A technology-neutral approach takes more time and patience. But it tends to create lasting solutions that consumers are able to afford and willing to buy.
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Wells Fargo's grip on the U.S. mortgage market has tripped alarms among regulators and lawmakers concerned that the bank's control over 1 of every 3 new loans could hurt consumers and undermine markets.
Wells Fargo and its two largest rivals, JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp, made half of all U.S. home loans in the first half of the year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, an industry publication. Wells Fargo alone controlled 33.1 percent. In mortgage servicing, which involves billing and collections, four firms have 50 percent of the business, and Wells Fargo is No. 1 in that field, too, with 18.5 percent.
The concentration in the mortgage business has drawn warnings from the inspector general for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the head of Ginnie Mae, Fitch Ratings, and members of Congress about growing risks to borrowers, taxpayers, investors, housing markets and the financial system.
Critics fear a potential setback or strategy shift at Wells Fargo that could choke off credit for home buyers and compel the federal government to again pump in money to keep the housing market from seizing up.
"A concentration of issuers creates an oligopoly," said Bill Frey, head of Greenwich Financial Services in Connecticut, whose firm invests in, creates and trades mortgage bonds and advises bondholders. The result will be "higher mortgage costs for generations, as well as slower economic growth. Housing is the keystone of our economy."
As recently as the 1990s, a company with 7 percent market share would have been considered a large player in a market that was broadly distributed among savings and loans, community banks, credit unions, mortgage brokers and commercial banks, according to David Stevens, chief executive officer at the Mortgage Bankers Association and a former official in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
San Francisco's Wells Fargo, led by Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf, controlled 15 percent of the market in 2007, before the financial crisis caused by falling home prices and souring mortgages hobbled rivals such as Bank of America and Citigroup.
"The nation benefits from a broadly distributed mortgage finance system," said Stevens, whose organization represents more than 2,400 firms involved in housing.
"If the market is too concentrated on one company, and if they were to change their strategy around mortgage originations or got into financial trouble and had to leave the market altogether, you could have market disruptions."
Fear of waning enthusiasm
Officials aren't suggesting that Wells Fargo did anything improper to emerge as the biggest player in mortgages, or that the bank, ranked fourth by assets in the United States, is putting its own soundness at risk.
Instead, as they seek to avoid another financial crisis, regulators' focus is on what might happen if Wells Fargo's enthusiasm wanes for housing, which made up almost a fifth of the U.S. economy in more prosperous years. Last month, the bank said it will stop funding loans originated and sold by independent mortgage brokers.
"The home lending business is a key part of Wells Fargo's strategic vision for the future," Vickee Adams, a bank spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. "We have always taken a longer-term view of the home lending business and we have succeeded by lending responsibly to customers, one at a time."
Concern over concentration
Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has said he's concerned about concentration and urged officials in a May speech to consider changes. Freddie Mac - with Fannie Mae, the recipients of almost $190 billion in government aid - bought 82 percent of the single-family loans it purchased in 2011 from 10 firms, filings show, with 40 percent from Wells Fargo and JPMorgan.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rely on Wells Fargo and other large servicers to collect payments for the loans they guarantee. That makes them vulnerable to the business practices and financial health of a few large banks, said Steve Linick, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's inspector general. The top 10 serviced 75 percent of single-family mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae, according to company filings.
"A limited number of servicers poses a safety and soundness risk to the enterprises," Linick said. This "ultimately could cause losses to taxpayers."
Impact on Fannie, Freddie
The effect on servicing has also drawn the attention of Ted Tozer, president of Ginnie Mae, a government-owned corporation that guarantees mortgage bonds holding loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration and other agencies.
"If the quality of servicing deteriorates, you have to deal with it, and that puts a lot of oversight responsibility on us, no question about it," said Tozer, whose Washington operation guarantees more than $1 trillion of mortgage-backed securities. "That's one of the big challenges."
Aside from the impact on Fannie and Freddie, lawmakers and consumer advocates say the lack of options for mortgage credit is causing borrowers to pay more than they should. Lenders reported $13.7 billion in mortgage-banking income through the first six months, according to IMF, the industry publication. That was capped by Wells Fargo's record $2.89 billion income in the second quarter on $131 billion in loans.
"To the extent there is a lack of competition, that's costing homeowners money," said Rep. John Campbell, R-Newport Beach (Orange County), who serves on the House Financial Services and Budget committees. "As low as interest rates are, I'd argue they could be lower."
While the home sales would have been worse without Wells Fargo, and to a lesser extent JPMorgan or U.S. Bancorp, it's not sustainable, Campbell said.
U.S. officials including DeMarco haven't taken large-scale steps to reduce Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's reliance on a few firms, and Campbell said he hasn't taken up the issue with the government mortgage firms.
No antitrust red flags
Wells Fargo's leading market share isn't likely to draw the ire of antitrust monitors, at least not yet, according to Makan Delrahim, a former attorney at the Department of Justice's antitrust division.
The United States doesn't track explicit market-share thresholds, meaning a firm can control 90 percent market share if it gets there by offering better products or services and not by unduly taking advantage of its market position, he said.
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The dreary drizzle is supposed to end
By Dale Lezon | February 12, 2013 | Updated: February 12, 2013 8:50am
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Dreary clouds and drizzle Tuesday are expected to give way to sunny skies later this week in the Houston region as a mild cold front pushes through the area.
Temperatures may drop by the middle of the week when the cool air filters into the region, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said the lows on Wednesday may fall into the upper 30s north of Houston near Tomball and into the lower 40s in the metropolitan area. Highs, forecasters added, could be in the lower to mid-60s for the next few days.
By the weekend, a mild cold front could hit the area, dropping temperatures slightly.
"It'll be pretty nice in the middle of the week," said Paul Lewis, a meteorologist with the weather service. "It's going to be kind of chilly this weekend."
On Tuesday, a 60 percent chance of showers is possible, especially before about noon. The high will be near 65 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The low will be about 46.
Sunny skies are forecast for Wednesday, when the high will be about 61. Northwest winds will be between about 10 mph and 15 mph, becoming northerly at night at about 5 mph. The low will be near 42.
More sun is expected Thursday and Friday. The highs each day will be near 67. The lows will be in the lower 40s.
Lewis said Saturday may be chilly after a mild cold front arrives. The high will be about 58 degrees under sunny skies. The low near 37.
Temperatures may climb slightly on Sunday, which is expected to be sunny. The high will be about 58. The low will be near 52.
Normally, temperatures range between about 46 and 66 this time of year.
Monday, Houston and surrounding cities saw varying degrees of hail that may have led to a massive pileup:
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La Villa Roy
La Villa Roy, a mansion perched on a hillside just west of downtown Tegucigalpa, was donated to the public in 1974 by the wife of ex-president Julio Lozano Díaz. The gesture seems remarkably patriotic, considering her husband was deposed by a military coup in 1956. The La Villa Roy mansion now houses the Museo de Historia Republicana (tel. 504/222-1468, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Mon.–Sat., US$1 admission), which traces the development of the Honduran republic from its birth at the end of the Spanish colonial era in 1821 to the present.
Though the museum is not particularly gripping, the La Villa Roy mansion has been nicely restored, and people with at least a passing interest in Honduran history will find several displays to hold their attention, especially if they can read the Spanish labels.
The well-worn boots and trusty Eveready flashlight of great Honduran geographer and cultural historian Jesús Aguilar Paz, who created the first accurate map of Honduras in 1933 and compiled voluminous journals during his endless trips around the country on oral history, local legends, and observations on flora and fauna, are enshrined in a glass case.
The rooms upstairs dedicated to the early part of the 20th century, complete with many old photographs and paraphernalia, are quite informative, but the history of the Carías era and the second half of the 20th century are bland.
On your way out, take a look at the fleet of black presidential vehicles parked in the garage, including a couple of wicked-looking Cadillacs.
Just below the museum, on the way back into downtown and one block west, is the small, leafy Plaza La Concordia, featuring several impressive replicas of Mayan stelae (sculptures).
© Chris Humphrey and Amy E. Robertson from Moon Honduras, 5th Edition
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General Steps to Increase System Security
- Preparation: The first step is to understand security by doing research and then use that knowledge to plan your defense.
- Planning: Security is an ongoing process, not just something you do once. Planning should be continual. Any security plan is only as good as its weakest point. After an attacker breaches a single point of defense, the other points become easier to breach. The security plan should also include training, auditing, and so on. It should also include steps to report and repair hosts after a breach. The quicker a breach is caught and corrected, the less time an attacker has to compromise other systems.
- Prevention: It is much easier to prevent an attack than to recover from one. One can use multiple strategies to accomplish prevention:
Monitoring for unsuccessful attack patterns
Vetting and verification of identity
- Postvention: This is just a fancy term for learning from your mistakes. Looking for signatures of a successful attack, notifying authorities, closing a discovered vulnerability, and fixing the affected systems are examples of postvention. Monitoring for breaches is very important. Some common monitoring tools are Chkrootkit, Tripwire, and Logwatch.
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E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
So called by the Jacobites. George II. was called the Turnip-hougher [hoer], and his hiring of troops was spoken of as selling the turnips, or trying to sell his roots. Hanover at the time was eminently a pastoral country.
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A Quote by Joey Reiman on manifesting, thought, ideas, and imagination
"In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking."
Source: Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life, Pages: 141
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Most of world population, especially in China, North India and the Middle East are expected to be affected by a drastic decrease in air quality over the coming decades, according to a new atmospheric model.
In large cities, summer air is highly polluted with automobile and industrial emissions what makes breathing difficult and unhealthy.
According to the latest calculations of Max Planck scientist Andrea Pozzer this scenario could become true for most of world population in 2050 if no counteractive measures are taken.
In 2050, the air quality worldwide will be as bad as it already is nowadays in urban areas of Southeast Asia.
This is the result of a simulation of the atmosphere done by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
The chemical atmospheric model EMAC used by the researchers for their current study is the first to include all five major air pollutants known to negatively impact human health: nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometres which are regarded as particularly harmful.
Air pollution is one of the major current health risks of humanity. At present, urban outdoor air pollution causes 1.3 million estimated deaths per year worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation. That number will increase in coming years.
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The New York Citizens Advisory Committee to the Lake Champlain Basin Program is inviting the public to a Watershed Stewardship Summit which will present the successes and challenges in aquatic invasive species spread prevention in the Lake Champlain basin and Adirondacks.
The summit will held on Tuesday, March 29, from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm at The Nature Conservancy Office on Route 73 in Keene Valley.
Aquatic invasive species are an on-going threat to the region’s lakes and rivers. The introduction of a single invasive species into a waterbody has the potential to upset the ecological balance by out-competing native plants, disrupting the food web, and altering species composition. Aquatic invasive species impact the use and enjoyment of waters, as well as, the local economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species is critical for protecting our water resources.
Experts from around the region will discuss programs that are being implemented to help prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species into our lakes and rivers. The panel of experts will include:
Dr. Eric Holmlund, Director of the Watershed Stewardship Program at Paul Smith’s College
Lake Champlain Basin Program Boat Launch Steward Program
Hilary Smith, Director of the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program
Carol Treadwell, Ph.D., Executive Director for the Ausable River Association
Emily DeBolt, Director of Education for the Lake George Association
The summit is sponsored by the New York Citizens Advisory Committee – Lake Champlain Basin Program. Please rsvp at email@example.com by March 25.
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Monster storm? Mountains of snow? We've seen this movie.
For many people in the Northeast, another big winter storm – and the inconveniences it brings – is becoming too much of a pattern. Travel is snarled, schools closed, and snow piles just get higher.
For a lot of people living in the Northeast, it feels like Groundhog Day – the movie.Skip to next paragraph
A bad snow storm – make that a near-blizzard – pelts the area with a foot or more of the white stuff. Public transportation grinds to a halt. Crossing a street becomes a mountain-climbing experience. And, guess what? Just like in the movie, you get to wake up and do it all over again.
On Thursday morning, the snow statistics sound vaguely like the late December blizzard that brought places like New York City, Long Island, and Connecticut to their knees: Central Park got 19 inches of snow; Bridgeport, Conn., more than 12 inches; Boston 11 inches.
In New York, the January snowfall total has now reached 36 inches, breaking a record set in 1925. Some meteorologist expect New York will break the prior record of 75.6 inches set in the winter of 1995-1996.
The cycle of snow might not be so bad if some of it had melted. But in places like Boston, residents are now wondering where to move it. So far this season, the city has received 60.3 inches of snow, more than three times the average for this date, 18.8 inches, and almost 50 percent more than the average total for the entire winter, 41.8 inches.
“It’s piled everywhere,” says Amy Staley, a resident of Somerville, Mass., adjacent to Boston. “I am a social worker and have to drive to people’s houses, so you have to get out and dig a place out to find a parking space.”
The snow is piled so high, Ms. Staley says, it has become difficult to see around the corners at intersections. “You are definitely inching your way out and thinking, 'I haven’t seen anyone so maybe I’ll go a little bit further.' ”
Like the December storm, the storm overnight caused massive transportation problems. Amtrak canceled its service between New York and Boston. Airlines operating out of Northeast airports in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston canceled scores of flights. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority pulled its buses off the streets and the limited subway service was packed.
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ALWAYS EXPECT MORE
Date: March 11
Category: Setting Goals
1 Kings 9:1, Ezra 5:8b
"When Solomon finished the building of the Lord's house and the king's, and all he desired and was pleased to do."
"This work goes on with diligence and care and prospers in their hands."
In a German translation called Hoffnung fuer Alle, (which means, ‘hope for all'), 1 Kings 9:1 says, "Solomon built the temple and the palace and also reached his goals." In Ezra 5:8b, the German translation says, "They worked with a goal and that's why they prospered in whatever they did."
The common theme found in both these passages is that both Solomon and the Israelites (who came back to Jerusalem after exile) had specific goals and worked towards reaching those goals. There were certain desires that they had, something they wanted to accomplish. In Ezra, we read that it was their hard work and diligence that allowed them to prosper.
If you don't have a purpose in your life, it's like navigating without a chart; it's like driving without a map. You never know where you're going. If you don't have a major purpose or goal in life, it's possible that you could still get to where you want to be but most likely you would just drift through life aimlessly.
As you grow, your purposes will grow as well. When you reach a goal, usually that motivates you to want to reach another. We, as human beings, were created to always be progressing in life. That's why it's important to carefully plot and plan what you want to do in your life and how you want to do it. That way you will be in the right direction.
When you're in school, you should never be satisfied with the marks you have. You should always want to improve your marks and earn even better marks. When you're working, you should never be satisfied with your average performance. You should always try to do a better job than before – even better than what's expected of you. When you start building your life through marriage and children, you want to have all the finances that you need to buy a house, a car, pay the bills, and care for your family. But once you reach those goals, you should make even greater goals and work towards reaching those.
If you get to a point where you're completely satisfied with where you are in life, you will begin to slack off. You will start to regress in life. If you don't constantly push yourself to go forward, eventually you will start going backwards. There is no such thing as a standstill position in life. That is with school, work, relationships, finances, etc. It's with everything in life. If you don't always work to improve your situation, your situation will begin to get worse. You're either reaching your goals or you're going nowhere. You're either succeeding or you're failing.
So regardless of what level you have reached in your studies, your career, your finances, or your relationships (including your relationship with God), you should never just settle with where you are. Always strive to achieve more. Always strive to gain more. Never stop learning. That's why goal setting is so important. When you begin to set goals for yourself, your life now has a focus; your energy gets put into reaching those goals. Once you reach those goals and begin to set even greater goals for yourself, your focus gets put on those goals. And the progression continues. So remember to always expect more in life.
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Teen with autism crowned homecoming king
Students at Michigan's Linden High School recently voted Danny Leideker, an 18 year old teenager with autism spectrum disorder, homecoming king. This seems to be part of a growing trend of students embracing those with difference, according to an article on the Huffington Post.
Leideker, the Linden High School football team's manager, has Asperger Syndrome, which can make it difficult to form friendships and forge social connects. But he was befreiend by a small group, including the team's cpatian, Eddie Walterhouse, who stuck by him through the tough high school years.
In a report by Michigan Live, Walterhouse said, "There's more to life than school and football and he's shown me that."
Check out our tools to help fight bullying and raise awareness in your school.
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(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved. Contact us for information about using this image.
In a televised speech on April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced an expansion of the Vietnam War through an invasion of Cambodia. Anti-war protest spread across the United States as a result of this announcement. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops, sent onto the campus of Kent State University to control student protests, opened fire on the demonstrators. Four students were killed. Speaking before the New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce on May 7th, 1970, Senator Barry Goldwater (Arizona) reflected on the deepening polarization in the United States over the Vietnam War. He blamed a "mixed bag of liberals and anarchists" for undermining the President's foreign policy and conduct of the war. Senator Goldwater?s statement is an early association of liberalism with political dissension.
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Two centuries after the French people beheaded Louis XVI and dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, scientists believe they have authenticated the remains of one such rag kept as a revolutionary souvenir.
Researchers have been trying for years to verify a claim imprinted on an ornately decorated calabash that…Continue
Fifty miles north of Mazatlan in Sinaloa State, north west Mexico, there is a beach known as Las Labradas where the rocks are covered in over 600 petroglyphs. Now Mexican investigators have uncovered archaeological sites in the vicinity dating to the Archaic period (2500-1000 BCE) along with another later site that…Continue
The Dead Sea Scrolls, arguably the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, have now been placed online for anyone to freely view them in unprecedented high resolution detail.
Launched the middle of December, 2012, the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is the brainchild of a collaboration between…Continue
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Synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry and polymer research is her passion.
Christine R. de Denus' interest in polymer research has continued from her years as a student to her current assistant professorship. Currently, de Denus is studying the construction of polymer chains with attached metal groups and light-sensitive materials. The purposes of such chains are manifold, from industrial uses to biological.
Research in the de Denus group is aided greatly by the active involvement of undergraduate students. Since her arrival at the Colleges, de Denus has mentored a total of 15 undergraduates who have worked with her during the academic year or as summer research scholars. The work of these students has resulted in 1 publication in a peer reviewed journal and 15 student presentations at regional and national conferences.
Synthetic chemistry refers to the practice of learning about research that is needed to be done in a particular area and then producing hypothetical results to be tested in a laboratory. de Denus' role as a synthetic chemist is crucial as one of the many steps involved in scientific inquiry and discovery. Her research in inorganic and organometallic polymers, synthesis, characterization and electrochemical investigations is vital to later experimentation , data collection and analysis.
The ubiquity of polymers in the everyday world and discoveries in their growing number of uses makes for interesting and important research. Light-sensitive materials and heat-sensitive materials (like self-tinting window panes and children's thermometers) make use of polymer chains and their property-changing abilities. New avenues exist for discovery in this area of chemistry and continuing research is essential to further development.
de Denus maintains connections with her Canadian counterparts and continues to follow their developments in this and other areas of chemistry research and discovery.
A recent list of publications include:
Book Review "Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers" Christine R. de Denus, J. Inorg. and Organomet. Polym., 2001, 11, 199-201.
H.R. Allcock, S.D. Reeves, C.A. Crane, and C.R. de Denus, "Influence of Reaction Parameters on the Living Cationic Polymerization of Phosphoranimines to Polyphosphazenes", Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 748-754.
H. R. Allcock, C. R. de Denus, W. R. Laredo, and R. Prange. "Synthesis of Norbornenyl Telechelic Polyphosphazenes and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) Reactions", Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 2757-2765.
C. R. de Denus, L. M. Hoffa*, A. S. Abd-El-Aziz, and E. K. Todd. "Synthesis of Oligomeric and Polymeric Ethers Containing the Cp*Ru+ and CpFe+ Metal Moieties", J. Inorg. and Organomet. Polym, 2000, 10, 189.
H.R. Allcock, J.M. Nelson, C.R. de Denus, and I. Manners, "Design, Synthesis and Uses of Phosphazene High Polymers", p165-173 in Tailored Polymers and Applications, VSP International Science Publishers: Netherlands, 2000.
Abd-El-Aziz, A. S., de Denus, C. R., Todd, E. K., and Bernardin, S. A. "Design of Polyaromatic Ethers Using Cyclopentadienyliron Complexes" Macromolecules, 2000, 33, 5000-5005.
Interview opportunities and additional background information may be requested through the Office of Communications, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. Phone: (315) 781-3540. After business hours, Communications staff members are accessible through contact information on their answering machine at that number.
Christine de Denus received her Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1997 and her B.S. from the University of Winnipeg in 1993. Prior to becoming an assistant professor of chemistry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1999, she completed a prestigious two-year Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral Fellowship in the department of chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University.
de Denus' post-doctoral Fellowship with NSERC was preceded by a research assistantship in the chemistry department at the University of Winnipeg, where she also instructed introductory, inorganic and organometallic chemistry laboratories. Her research has been detailed in 28 manuscripts in journals such as Journal of the Chemical Society: Dalton Transactions and Perkin Transactions, Chemical Communications, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers, Macromolecules, Organometallics, and the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. In addition to publishing her work, de Denus is an active reviewer for the Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers, International Journal of Science and Technology, and the American Chemical Society: Petroleum Research Fund.
Christine de Denus' professional affiliations include: The Council on Undergraduate Research; The American Chemical Society; The Canadian Society for Chemistry; Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
To date, de Denus has received external funding for her work from the Council on Undergraduate Research and the National Science Foundation.
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Call for regime change signals Libya replay
Amid the outcry over the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters, and now President Obama’s demand that dictator Bashar al-Assad step down, the “world community” is not in the mood for nuance. Yet nuance is precisely what is needed in what has to be one of the most delicate – and complex – socio-political landscapes in the Middle East.
The media narrative, as always, pits Good Guys (the protesters) against Bad Guys (the regime), but reality is rarely so simple and clear-cut, and in this case that caveat needs to be doubly emphasized. We are told all the violence is being visited by one side (the regime) against the other (the protesters), but the International Crisis Group – no friend of the regime, and hardly a principled opponent of US intervention – has a different perspective in their report on the crisis:
“Protesters claim they are entirely peaceful, but that assertion is hard to reconcile with witness testimony and with the vicious murder of several security officers. More plausibly, criminal networks, some armed Islamist groups, elements supported from outside and some demonstrators acting in self defense have taken up arms.”
The report goes on to say “but that is a marginal piece of the story,” telling us that “the vast majority of casualties have been peaceful protesters, and the vast majority of the violence has been perpetrated by the security services.” Yet this doesn’t tell us anything about the character of the violence on the part of the “Good Guys”: is it organized violence, or random incidents? Are the protesters engaged in a campaign of organized provocation, seeking to incite the regime to higher levels of violence in order to justify foreign intervention?
In understanding what is going on in Syria, the reporting of Joshua Landis, who blogs at “Syria Comment,” is invaluable. Landis is director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he is an associate professor, currently living in Syria. While the Western media glosses over reports of violence by the protesters, Landis is in a position to report the actual facts, and he has done so:
“This controversy arose in April during the protests in Banyas, when nine soldiers were killed while traveling down the main highway in two transport vehicles outside of the city. Activists claimed that soldiers in Banyas were executed by fellow soldiers for refusing to shoot at demonstrators.
“This story turned out to be fictional, but was carried by most of the Western Press and never corrected. I wrote about this controversy on April 14 under the title: Western Press Misled – Who Shot the Nine Soldiers in Banyas? Not Syrian Security Forces. The reason I took an interest in this story is because my wife’s cousin, Lt. Col. Yasir Qash`ur, was one of the nine soldiers killed on April 10. We know him well. We spoke with Yasir’s brother-in-law, Colonel `Uday Ahmad, who was sitting in the back seat of the truck in which Yasir and several of the nine soldiers were killed.
“Uday told us that two military trucks were ambushed as they crossed a highway bridge by well armed men who were hiding behind the median of the highway and on the tops of buildings at the edge of the road. They raked the two trucks with automatic fire, killing nine. The incident had nothing to do with soldiers refusing orders. His description of what happened so contradicted the reports I was reading in the press that I began to dig around. Later video footage of the shooting surfaced and was shown on Syrian TV. It corroborated Uday’s story.”
Prof. Landis goes on to say that “Western press and analysts did not want to recognize that armed elements were becoming active. They preferred to tell a simple story of good people fighting bad people.” He reiterates the ICG’s evaluation that the majority of protesters were peaceful, and adds: “One only wonders why that story could not have been told without also covering the reality – that armed elements, whose agenda was not peaceful, were also playing a role.”
We don’t need to wonder. Reality is the enemy of the Western media, which insists on presenting its preconceived narrative as fact: and, of course, it’s just a coincidence this narrative fits in rather neatly with US government objectives and propaganda.
Who are these armed groups, who is arming them, and what is their agenda? These are questions the “international community” is not at all interested in asking, let alone answering – perhaps because some of the governments now condemning the violence in Syria had a hand in provoking it.
Again, claims by the opposition and their Western supporters that some 100 Syrian military were killed in Jisr ash-Shaghour for refusing to fire on their fellow Syrians were repeated uncritically by Western media. As it turns out, however, those soldiers were killed by “armed gangs,” as the Syrian government calls them: Landis claims videos here and here seem to confirm this. One Syrian opposition activist, interviewed by CNN, admitted the truth:
“One prominent anti-government activist, who asked not to be named because of the dangers that could arise from the release of the information, told CNN the state TV account was correct. The bodies are those of Syrian secret police killed by Syrian fighters from Iraq who have joined the anti-government fight, said the activist, who gets information about the goings-on in Syria from an extensive network of informants.”
Could these Syrians from Iraq conceivably be the very same fighters who were killing US soldiers, and have now turned their guns on the Syrian Ba’athists? This is a replay of the Libyan scenario, where the US/NATO-supported rebel faction contains strong Islamist elements, some of whom were actually involved in the Iraq fighting.
This time, however, the stakes are much higher. What is happening to Syria is far more serious for the region than anything that could occur in Libya. I have written before about the horrific consequences if Syria should come apart at the seams: the horror would be quite bloody as far as the country’s religious minorities – Christians and members of the idiosyncratic Alawite sect – are concerned. Worse, a full-scale civil war in the geographic center of the Middle East’s most volatile sore spot – the “frontline” state of Syria, where the Israeli-Arab conflict is most explosive – has the potential for igniting a regional war, and even a world war if the conflict spirals out of control.
The timing of the present crisis, as it ratchets up to a climax with Obama’s call for regime change, poses a particular danger. With the Palestinians about to declare their independent state, and the UN ready to endorse it, the temptation to create some kind of diversion is likely to take hold of the Israeli leadership. Indeed, I would speculate it already has. Those “armed gangs” didn’t come out of nowhere, and it wouldn’t be the first time the Israelis demonstrated how far their reach extends inside Syria.
Syria’s ally, Iran, is the real target of what looks to me like a coordinated effort to sow chaos in the region: the idea is to draw the Iranians into a proxy war in support of the regime, and lay the groundwork for an all-out US-Israeli attack on Tehran. The encirclement of the Iranians is proceeding apace, with the Israelis on the front line, the Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan and, increasingly, Pakistan. With Israel’s powerful lobby in the US relentlessly demanding that Washington “do something” about the Iranians, and the growing deluge of phony “intelligence” supposedly proving they have an active nuclear weapons program, it seems like just a matter of time before the fuse is lit and the region explodes. Obama’s demand that Assad step down is a giant step forward on this road.
With typical mendacity, the President’s statement avers:
“The United States cannot and will not impose this transition upon Syria. It is up to the Syrian people to choose their own leaders, and we have heard their strong desire that there not be foreign intervention in their movement. What the United States will support is an effort to bring about a Syria that is democratic, just, and inclusive for all Syrians. We will support this outcome by pressuring President Assad to get out of the way of this transition, and standing up for the universal rights of the Syrian people along with others in the international community.”
Note, first of all, that the statement doesn’t pledge not to intervene – the author only claims to have “heard” about this “strong desire” for non-intervention on the part of the Syrian people. As to whether the Emperor will grant them their wish – or whether US covert action in the country has already rendered the point moot – remains to be seen.
Secondly, the Americans know their call for Assad to step down, and the accompanying economic and diplomatic sanctions, will strengthen the Ba’athist position inside the country. The President’s statement isn’t aimed at the Syrian people, however, but at the other imperialist powers, the Brits and the French, our “multilateral” partners-in-crime who will be asked, when push comes to shove, to share in the responsibilities of policing their former colonies in Syria, and Libya.
The similarity of these two theaters of conflict is striking: Both are former European colonies saddled with secular dictatorships that claim to be “socialist,” and both feature an Islamist “democratic” opposition supported by the NATO/EU powers.
That the Assad forces hardly constitute an army of saints goes without saying: what needs to be said, however, is that the “democratic” rebels, so sympathetically portrayed in the Western media are not exactly the angels they’ve been made out to be. Yet even if they were, this is a judgement that only the Syrians can make: an Alawite or Christian Syrian can be understood, if not forgiven, for supporting a brutal regime out of fear of an Islamist takeover.
The outbreak of civil war in Syria would be sure to bring in the “international community,” initially in the visible form of air support to the opposition, conceivably taking out the Syrian navy that shelled rebellious Latakia. This will culminate in air strikes against key military installations, including sites that supposedly harbor “weapons of mass destruction.” Indeed, there is enough cobbled-together “evidence,” of dubious provenance, to “prove” Syria tried to build a nuke to justify a US/NATO strike on that pretext. Or else they could declare another “humanitarian emergency,” as they did in Libya, claiming Assad is about to massacre 100,000 people. Perhaps it’s too soon to pull that one again.
In any case, the idea is to draw US/NATO forces into the very epicenter of the Middle East’s sectarian conflicts, where the religious passions of the three great world religions have clashed for thousands of years. There the “peacekeepers” will sit, policing the roughest neighborhood on earth, ensuring that each faction is properly mollified and controlled, and – not so incidentally – standing between the Israeli Sparta and the rising fury of its Palestinian helots.
Israel is the biggest beneficiary of this policy: a Lebanonized Syria is precisely what they want, producing as it will plenty of opportunities for expansionist incursions – in the name of their “war on terrorism.” A “Greater Israel” will emerge from the ashes of World War III, as if to confirm the “end times” prophecies in the Bible, hopping up the evangelicals-for-Israel crowd into a frenzy of war hysteria.
The Rev. John Hagee and his fellow Christian heretics may be praying for the Apocalypse, but what about the rest of us?
Again, timing is everything in these matters: it’s no accident, as the Marxists used to say, that our new policy of Syrian regime change has been announced at this particular moment. That, after all, has been the real policy since day one of the protests. There may have been a change of administrations in Washington, but there was no change in practically nonexistent US-Syrian relations when Barack Obama came to town. Sanctions were increased, and the Syrian ambassador was ridiculed as a pariah among diplomats. Syria, one of the original “Axis of Evil,” has long been in Washington’s sights: regime change in Syria is yet another project of the Bush administration that has been taken up with renewed enthusiasm by the Obama-ites.
As I noted shortly after the 9/11 attacks:
“The dust had not yet cleared from the battered Manhattan skyline when Bill Kristol and his ‘Project for a New American Century’ sponsored a full-page newspaper ad in the form of a letter to the President, demanding that Bush invade not only Iraq, but also Syria and Iran if they don’t comply with all our demands. The letter is signed by every neoconservative known to man.”
In the years to come, PNAC would push for US intervention is virtually every nation in the Middle East, including Libya. This “liberal” Democratic president may yet completely fulfill PNAC’s agenda: right now he’s nearly halfway there. Given a second term, he’ll have ample opportunity to go all the way. There’s nothing like a world war to distract attention away from an economic depression – and provide some good old Keynesian “stimulus” in the bargain.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN
I received a couple of letters complaining about my recent column on Paul Krugman and his deluded conception of war as an economic “stimulus.” To refresh your memory: according to Krugman, if the government perpetrated a hoax about an imminent invasion from outer space, and we built up an enormous defensive system against this nonexistent threat, it would lead us out of the depths of depression. I disputed this in my column, and received exactly two letters complaining that I hadn’t mentioned Krugman’s personal opposition to the war in Iraq, for example, and instead branded him a “warmonger.”
I’m glad this came up, because I should have mentioned it – in order to make the case that this is far worse than being an honest warmonger. For it inoculates Krugman against the charge while paving the way for the “real” warmongers to have their way: after all, they’ll say, even the “progressive” Krugman, who opposes the war on old-fashioned “moral” grounds, knows it will be good for the country. And that kind of message beamed at suffering Americans is much more insidious and dangerous than the usual neocon blather about “exporting democracy,” which nobody ever really believed anyway. If you can persuade people they can materially benefit from a war, you already have half the population – and it’s only a matter of time, in this frightening downturn, before the other half drops its moral pretensions and climbs on board the war-wagon.
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Nedarim 47 - 53
Who Keeps the Kerchief?
In order for any transaction or commitment to be finalized halachically, a kinyan must be made. A kinyan serves as the legal instrument of acquisition or obligation from which there is no backing out.
The most common form of kinyan is chalipin. First mentioned in the Book of Ruth, this kinyan consists of the party wishing to acquire an object or a commitment from another party giving him some useful item; this in turn obligates the other party to transfer ownership of the object being sold or given, or to fulfill the commitment.
The item mentioned in the Book of Ruth is a shoe, but the most common item used throughout history has been the sudar -- the kerchief -- and the kinyan of chalipin is frequently referred to in the Talmud as kinyan sudar. Most everyone has seen such a kerchief kinyan performed at a wedding when the groom assumes the responsibility to his bride for all of the financial obligations recorded in the ketubah. It is also a familiar sight before Pesach when we use this as an instrument for transferring to the rabbi the right to sell our chametz to a non-Jew.
What happens to the kerchief after the kinyan is complete?
Anyone who has participated in such a kinyan or observed one knows that it always ends up back in the possession of its original owner. Is this because it was intended only as an instrument of kinyan and therefore must be returned, or does the one making the transfer or commitment have the right to keep it?
There seems to be a dispute on this point between Rabbi Nachman and Rabbi Ashi. Rabbi Nachman contends that the seller cannot keep the kerchief, and he cites this as support for his view that something can be transferred to someone solely for the purpose of momentarily serving as an instrument of kinyan. Rabbi Ashi challenges this support by contending that if the seller wishes to keep the kerchief, it is not certain that he would not have the right to do so.
Ran points out that even Rabbi Ashi concurs that the kerchief cannot be kept, and that he was only offering a challenge to Rabbi Nachman as regards the conclusiveness of his premise. He bases this on a statement made by Rabbi Ashi himself in another gemara (Mesechta Kiddushin 6b). Even though Tosefot there disagrees with this interpretation of Rabbi Ashi's statement, Tosefot does agree that it is the universal custom for the kerchief to be returned to its original owner.
The Secrets of the Sage's Wealth
From a humble beginning as an ignorant shepherd, Rabbi Akiva developed into a Torah giant and a very wealthy man. His Torah scholarship made him the teacher of 24,000 disciples. To dispel any notion that his wealth resulted from having so large a student body, points out Maharsha, the gemara informs us that he received no payment for teaching Torah but became wealthy from six different sources.
In connection with two of these sources there are fascinating stories only hinted at in our gemara.
One is about the Roman noblewoman from whom Rabbi Akiva borrowed money to support his disciples. She insisted that Hashem and the sea serve as guarantors for the loan. When the due date arrived, Rabbi Akiva was ill and did not appear to make the payment. She thereupon went to the seashore and said: "Sovereign of the Universe, it is revealed to You that Rabbi Akiva is sick and was unable to pay his debt. You are the guarantor of his loan."
At that moment the emperor's daughter went mad and threw a chest filled with jewels and gold coins into the sea. The chest was then washed ashore at the very spot where the noblewoman sat and she took it home with her. After a while Rabbi Akiva recovered and went to the noblewoman with money to pay his debt. " I have already turned to the guarantor," she informed him, "and He paid the entire debt. Here is the amount which exceeded the debt," she said, whereupon she gave him the remaining treasure.
Another woman connected with Rabbi Akiva's wealth was the wife of the Roman nobleman, Turnus Rufus. One day he came home extremely upset because Rabbi Akiva had embarrassed him in a theological debate before the emperor. She thereupon offered to incur Hashem's anger towards the sage by tempting him. When she appeared before Rabbi Akiva in all her finery, Rabbi Akiva spat, laughed and cried. In reply to her request for an explanation of his actions he agreed to reveal the reason for only two of them. He spat because she was the product of a putrid seminal drop, and cried because such beauty was destined to eventually rot in the earth. The reason for his laughter, which he did not reveal to her, was that he had a Divine revelation that she would convert and become his wife. She was so moved by what he did tell her that she asked if there was a way for her to repent. When he said there was, she took the initiative of converting, married Rabbi Akiva and brought along her great wealth.
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By Frank Shallenberger, M.D. If you’re a man, getting the results of your annual PSA can cause a little anxiety. Given that prostate cancer affects approximately one in every six men, you never know for sure what you’re going to see. When the test comes back showing no increase over the last year, you can take a deep breath and start worrying about something else for a while. Wouldn’t it be nice to know your PSA will stay normal from year to year? Well, there’s an easy way to do just that.
A recent study showed that an over-the-counter supplement combined with a healthy diet can help make sure that your test stays normal. And if you already have prostate cancer, the same study shows an excellent way to slow it down.
The authors, from the Department of Urology at UCLA, looked at the effect of two important dietary oils on prostate cancer. They performed the study on mice.
The researchers fed one group of mice a diet that consisted primarily of omega-6 oils. These would be the fats in grains, grain-fed animals, and most vegetable oils (safflower oil, corn oil, sesame oil, soy oil, evening primrose oil). They fed the other group an equal amount (1:1 ratio) of omega-3 and omega-6 oils. This represents a very low amount of omega-6 oils combined with a very high level of omega-3 oils.
Two weeks after the mice started these diets, the researchers injected them with prostate cancer cells. In this case, it was the most common kind of prostate cancer. This particular strain of prostate cancer is sensitive to the male hormone testosterone. After eight weeks of tumor growth, the researchers removed and studied the tumors. Here’s what they found.
The mice eating the high omega-3, low omega-6 diets had a much slower rate of tumor growth. Their tumors were 68% smaller than the omega-6 mice. In addition, their PSA levels were 77% lower. And when the researchers examined the tumors, they found out why.
The omega-3 mice had prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) levels that were 83% lower than those in the omega-6 mice. PGE2 is a very biologically active substance that omega-6 oils form. PGE2 promotes the growth of prostate cancer cells in tissue culture. It also prevents natural cell death, a process called apoptosis. One of the reasons why cancer cells are so dangerous is because they don’t undergo apoptosis like healthy cells do. And PGE2 makes this effect worse. But there’s more.
PGE2 also directly causes cancer cells to become more invasive. This results in them being much more likely to metastasize (spread throughout the body). And if that’s not enough, PGE2 also stimulates the process known as angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is the way tissues, including cancer tissues, grow more blood vessels, allowing them to grow and spread faster. One of the major mechanisms that doctors have today to fight cancer is medications that slow down angiogenesis.
So how do you avoid prostate cancer — or at least slow it down? Simply by decreasing the intake of omega-6 oils and increasing omega-3 intake. Doing so in these mice dramatically decreased their levels of PGE2, slowed down cancer growth by causing the cancers to die faster, metastasize less, and grow slower. The authors conclude that these results “provide a sound basis” for clinical trials in humans. And I agree.
Other studies have already shown that similar diets in humans have resulted in a decrease in the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in healthy prostate cells. And the effects of PGE2 I mentioned above are already known to occur in humans. But why wait until researchers do more studies?
I urge you to start decreasing your intake of the foods mentioned above that are high in omega-6 oils. And at the same time, increase your intake of omega-3 foods. Foods high in omega-3 oils are walnuts, fish (especially salmon, mackerel, tuna, and trout), soy, grass-fed animals and poultry, and eggs high in EPA/DHA. In addition, do as I do, and take 2,000 mg per day of a concentrated EPA/DHA fish oil supplement.
REF: Kobayashi N, Barnard RJ, Henning SM, et al. Effect of altering dietary omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid ratios on prostate cancer membrane composition, cyclooxygenase-2, and prostaglandin E2. Clin Cancer Res. 2006 Aug 1;12(15):4662-70.
Article contributed by http://www.realcuresletter.com/. © Copyright 2010 Soundview Publishing.
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The Wheeler Centre is a cultural institution dedicated to books, writing and ideas. It is the centrepiece of Melbourne’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature and organises events, lectures, readings and debates about literature and a wide range of other issues. All the events I've been to there have been really thought-provoking, and they are a great way to gain insight into both contemporary writing and 21st-century Australia. And one of the best things about The Wheeler Centre is that most of the events are free! Reserving tickets through the website is very simple so if you're visiting Melbourne make sure you check out The Wheeler Centre's programme.
No trip to Melbourne would be complete without a visit to one of the city's great food markets (Queen Victoria market, South Melbourne market & Prahran market are my 3 favourites). And from mid-November to the end of February most of Melbourne's markets are open late one night a week. There's live music, and stalls selling street food from all around the world. Snacks/dishes are usually reasonably priced (under $12) and there's a great atmosphere.
This online poetry collection of works by local Melbourne spoken word artists and poets is a great way to get a feel for the city and its people. Each poem is inspired by a different place (a statue, a building, a street corner) and the poems have been organised into a series of poetry walks, which you can download as MP3 files. Explore Melbourne through its poets and you'll discover what a creative and inspiring city this is.
Before you travel anywhere scan you passport and store it on a hotmail account which has been opened solely for that purpose and remember you password of course.
If you lost your passport the hotmail account will give easy access for getting help, eg from the nearest Embassy etc.
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Iran is certainly not scoring a lot of ‘greenie’ points this month. First it hits international headlines for its brutal treatment of environmental activists campaigning to save an endangered salt lake and now they have been highlighted as having the world’s most polluted cities. And that’s if we ignore the whole nuclear power issue and the debacle over the recently freed US hikers accused of being spies. The WHO global survey on fine particle pollutants is the first of its kind and found that cities in Iran were amongst the worst on the planet for air pollution.
High Air Pollution & Traffic Fatalities
News of Iran’s poor air quality in cities won’t come as a big surprise to the residents living in the smoggy and noisy cities who have been complaining about these issues for years. Poor public transport and a traffic fatalities rate five times the world average paints a pretty clear picture of the reason behind the pollution – cars.
The WHO report found that the Iranian city of Ahvaz had the highest measured level of airborne particles smaller than 10 micrometres. The recommended upper limit for these particles set by the WHO is 20 micrograms per cubic metre- in Ahvas the annual average was a substantial 372 micrograms per cubic metre which is 19 times over the limit. Another Iranian city, Sanandaj had 254 micrograms per cubic metre.
1.34 Million Premature Deaths Per Year
The WHO report is based on data provided by the country over the years and measured the level of airborne particles smaller than 10 micrometres in almost 1,100 cities. India, Pakistan and Mongolia were also amongst the worst for pollution in cities whilst Canadian and American cities had some of the best scores. For example, Washington has a score of just 18 micrograms per cubic metre of airborne particles smaller than 10 micrometres.
The WHO estimated that around 1.34 million premature deaths occur every year due to outdoor air pollution. It added that proper investment to reduce air pollution would quickly pay off as it would lower disease rates and therefore healthcare costs. In Tehran alone, it is believed that 27 people a day die from air pollution. WHO pointed to rapid industrailsation, use of poor quality fuels for transport and electricity generation as the reasons behind high air pollution.
: Image via Iman Khalil/flickr.
For more on Iran and pollution see:
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Canada is the best country of all the G20 nations to be a woman in, according to a global poll of gender experts. These findings were released in advance of the annual G20 summit, where the world`s 20 largest economies (19 countries plus the European Union) will meet to discuss international affairs.
19 Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) local offices are closed as of June 1, 2012. In addition, front counter services will be eliminated at the remaining open offices.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its annual Better Life Index report. For 2012, it ranked Canada as one of the ten best countries in the world in terms of the quality of life that its citizens enjoy.
On 14 May, Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and American Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that their countries would begin consultations to facilitate cross-border business interactions.
Beginning 20 April 2012, most Permanent Residents who require Permanent Resident (PR) cards will no longer have to pick up these cards at a Citizenship and Immigration Canada office. Instead, through a new pilot project, they will be able to receive their cards by mail.
The Government of Canada has partnered with two leading private Canadian businesses to develop and expand the Federal Internship for Newcomers Program (FIN).
Businesses in Saskatchewan have hired over 280 skilled workers from Ireland. This is a direct result of a March 2012 recruitment mission, in which provincial officials and representatives from 27 Saskatchewan employers traveled to Ireland in search of employees.
Canadian Immigration and Culture Minister, Jason Kenney, announced today that consultations have begun regarding the possible creation of a new program for immigrant entrepreneurs.
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Over the past five years, NYSERDA has delivered professional development and provided free energy efficiency and renewable energy training materials to over 8,000 K-12 teachers. Additionally, we work with many training providers across the state to provide job skills and worker readiness leading toward certification and employment. These programs serve young people and adults preparing for careers in energy efficiency/building science and renewable energy.
We are currently developing new workforce training programs that will be implemented in 2012-2016. These programs will include initiatives for teachers, guidance counselors, and high school students and will focus on technical training and preparation for careers in energy and advanced technologies. More details will be available soon.
Energy Action at Home
Looking for a way to integrate energy into your classroom? Check out our unique workbook, Energy Action at Home, which is full of information, fast facts, energy tips, and interactive activities that teach children about the energy they use every day and how to help conserve our limited resources. It’s a teaching workbook with step-by-step guidance on a variety of energy-related topics. Best of all, the workbook is available free of charge.
Download the Energy Action at Home [PDF] booklet. There are no restrictions on reproducing the booklet from the digital file, as long as it is used for educational purposes (and not for resale).
Alternatively, you can request multiple copies for a classroom, club, or youth group. Limit 50 copies per person, while supplies last.
Project-Based Global Climate Change Education
NASA awarded a Global Climate Change Education grant to Clarkson University, in collaboration with NYSERDA, for the delivery of project-based education to develop climate literacy in New York State. The project includes teacher workshops and the dissemination of information online and through regional and statewide conferences. For more information, please refer to the Clarkson University website: http://www.clarkson.edu/highschool/climate_ed/.
Energy Books for All Ages
NYSERDA has also assembled an annotated bibliography of books [PDF] on energy, the environment, and conservation, which may be useful for integration into your science or energy lessons. Books are organized by topic. In addition to a brief overview, the document provides information on the grade levels or ages for which each book would be most appropriate.
- The US Department of Energy website is a great source for creative lesson plans, labs, projects, and other energy-related activities for grades K-12: www1.eere.energy.gov/education/lessonplans/
- The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has loads of information for educators, as well as links to sites of interest to children: www.dec.ny.gov/26.html
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has produced an informative guide on energy efficiency programs for K-12 schools: www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/documents/pdf/k-12_guide.pdf
- The ScienceEducation.gov site provides a convenient source for lesson plans, curricula, classroom activities, and professional development opportunities related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education: www.ScienceEducation.gov
- The National Energy Foundation (NEF) is a source for high-quality books, posters, and educational materials on energy, conservation, and the environment—many of which have been used in NYSERDA’s educational programs: www.nef1.org
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The existing Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee toll bridge opened to traffic in 1955 and is an integral component of the regional roadway network. It has a total length of 16,013 feet including approaches. The main span over the navigable waterway measures 1,212 feet, providing a clearance of approximately 139 feet over the water. It was designed to carry 100,000 vehicles on a peak day but traffic volumes have grown to approximately 138,000 vehicles per day with a high percentage being intrastate and interstate trucking.
This project is intended to address the need to correct substandard structural, operational, mobility, safety and security features of the existing bridge. The existing bridge is prone to severe congestion and does not meet bridge and highway standards, such as lane and shoulder widths.
In addition, it requires an extensive and costly maintenance program to keep structural elements in a state of good repair. Traffic will be maintained throughout construction of the new bridge.
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Kim Jong Un Refers to Noble Patriotic Life of Kim Jong Il
| Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un in his work "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country" said leader Kim Jong Il warmly loved the country and the people more than anything else and devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people.
Deeply cherished in Kim Jong Il's mind were the country and people whom he always loved anywhere he went, Kim Jong Un said, and continued:
Kim Jong Il used to call thick forests and standardized vast fields green mountains and green fields.
During his visits to foreign countries, he used to call the country and the nation my country and my nation, longing for them.
Viewing neat villages shrouded in apricot trees and company barracks in persimmon trees, he called them an apricot tree village and a persimmon tree company.
Since the very day he embarked on the road of the revolution, resolved to be responsible for the Korean revolution, Kim Jong Il had defended and glorified the socialist country all his life. He kept to the road of patriotic dedication to the country and the people till the last moments of his life.
The struggle to defend the socialist country was the most acute confrontation with imperialist allied forces and the grimmest struggle in history. Kim Jong Il made a long journey of the arduous Songun leadership in the do-or-die spirit to tide over the grim difficulties faced by the country and defended it.
It was thanks to the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il that our country which had been deprived of its state sovereignty due to weak military muscle a century ago is now demonstrating its might as a world-level military power equipped with tremendous military capabilities.
It was also thanks to the long journey of patriotic devotion made by Kim Jong Il covering rugged path all his life that the country has been face-lifted and a solid cornerstone for the prosperity of the country laid.
The land of the country has been rezoned as befitting the socialist country and gravity-fed waterways were built in several regions, turning rural villages into a socialist land of bliss.
Lots of modern heavy industrial and light industrial factories have been built and the factories that had existed have been renovated as required by the new century and grand edifices for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of posterity have been successfully built across the country.
The drive for putting industry on a CNC basis that led to Korean-style industrial revolution in the new century proves the high level of Kim Jong Il's patriotism.
When the country was undergoing difficulties, Kim Jong Il had valuable funds allocated for putting the country's industry on a CNC basis for the future of the prosperous country even though he worried about the people suffering from the shortage of food.
Nothing is more patriotic than to enlist strength for the prosperity and development of the country. Only when the country is strong, can it defend itself and guarantee the happiness of all the generations to come. Kim Jong Il used to shed tears whenever he heard song "Push Back the Frontiers of Latest Science and Technology" as the song reminded him of the arduous path he had covered and the pains he had taken to put industry on a CNC basis. His tears reflected his genuine patriotism.
His warm love for the socialist motherland and people and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness are derived from his absolute trust in his own people and steadfast confidence in justice of the socialist system and victory of socialism.
His warm love and devotion are also prompted by his noble awareness and sense of mission that he is responsible for the destiny of the country and people whom President Kim Il Sung entrusted to him.
Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.
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On February 7, 2011, Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis welcomed three leading civil society figures from Afghanistan who visited Hungary as part of a Europe-wide speaking tour arranged by the European Foundation for Democracy. The group included Dr. Gulalei Safi Nur, a member of the Afghan parliament from Northern Balkh Province and a
n advocate for women’s rights, Afzal Nooristani, a lawyer and director of a legal aid organization and Hayatullah Ahadyar a judge and former journalist. While in Hungary, the group met with a wide cross section of NGO’s, government officials, journalists and academics to discuss the current challenges in Afghanistan as well as the progress that has been made. Ambassador Kounalakis reiterated U.S. support for strengthening Afghan civil society and appreciation for Hungary’s commitment to that country’s future as well.
Legal Aid Services at Provincial Level
LAOA was the first organization that took the initiative to bring defense lawyers in Badghes province and in Wardak province, to build their capacities, to identify procedural obstacles and to create awareness about their rights of juveniles in Bamian province. In Herat province most of the children's rehabilitation center cases are handled by LAOA.LEGAL.
Training and Awareness Workshop
The majority of graduates trained by LAOA practice as defense lawyers. Paralegals trained by LAOA assist attorneys in delivering legal services. LAOA lawyers also serve as legal trainers at law faculties/universities, other legal institutions (e.g.,INLTC) and international organizations (e.g., UNICEF, IDLO). LAOA has been instrumental in the establishment of the Afghan Independent Bar Association (AIBA) and trains AIBA staff
Threats and Political Interventions
Afghan President Hamid Karzai should issue a pardon for Parwez Kambakhsh, a student and part-time journalist, whose 20-year prison sentence for blasphemy has been upheld by the Supreme Court, said Human Rights Watch. The Supreme Court decision was the final stage in a highly politicized case.
Afghan women: An uphill struggle for legal rights
This morning the European Policy Centre (EPC) organized a briefing in Brussels on Afghanistan's women and the country's legal system. Invited to the panel were Ms Golalei Safi Nur, Member of the Afghan Parliament, Mr. Hayatullah Ahadyar, Judge at the primary court of Counter Narcotics in Afghanistan, Mr. Afzal Nooristani, Lawyer and Executive Director of the Legal Aid Organization of Afghanistan (LAOA), and Ms Bettina Muscheid, Political Desk Officer for Afghanistan at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Moderator of the panel was Mr. Josef Janning, Director of Studies at EPC
Attention: fourth year student of law and Sharia faculties!
To the attention of all graduates, third year and fourth year students of Law and Sharia Law faculties of all universities, ninth period of Advocacy Skills training Program will be started soon by Legal Aid organization of Afghanistan. Read more.......
Graduation of ninth Period of Advocacy Skills Training Program Ninth period of Advocacy skills training program that was staret on 22/09/2012 has been ended successfully.
Baad giving of women and girls still exist in Afghanistan and is a matter!
still exist in Afghanistan and is a matter of concern “A” son of “H” in case of adultery with “R” daughter of “KH” was arrested potentially by police but with mediation of community elders they were married to each other instead of referring their case to court. Read more.......
End of eighth period of Advocacy Skills Training Course!
Training department of LAOA conducted the third phase (Moot Courts) of its eighth period of Advocacy Skills Training Course. The purpose of this course is to build capacity and develop the culture of advocacy in Afghanistan. Read more.......
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|The name Louis Comfort Tiffany may not be part of your everyday conversation, but there’s definitely a chance you’re familiar with his family’s store. Hint: They’re famous for little robin’s egg blue boxes. Well, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 – 1933), the heir of the Tiffany & Co. fortune, is famous for much more than engagement rings. Does this lamp look familiar? “Oh! Of course!” someone might say. “Those used to hang above the tables at Ruby Tuesday!” Well, sort of. Tiffany lamps are often imitated, like this dragonfly pendant lamp which is a replica, but they’re never truly duplicated. We’ve all seen some sort of knock off at a home decor store. But they cannot compare to the absolute pleasure of viewing 45 original Tiffany stained glass lamps up close at the Tiffany at Biltmore exhibit housed in the legendary Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. Trust me. I did, and it’s design-geek heaven. Tiffany is celebrated as one of the preeminent designers of decorative glass. The exhibit at Biltmore showcases his designs in a dimly lit room allowing their translucent glass to light the way through the halls. It’s truly magnificent to view all of the colors and motifs up close and personal.|
Biltmore Estate is the perfect venue for this exhibit. The Vanderbilt family built Biltmore House at the height of the Art Nouveau movement, of which Louis C. Tiffany was a highly revered central figure. Art Nouveau celebrated the natural world and captured it in art, architecture and design. Lamps featuring Tiffany’s favorite natural muses — dragonflies and lilies — reflect his appreciation for the natural world. It is those designs that are most popular.
However, Tiffany also found inspiration in some creatures of the organic world that you wouldn’t expect. My visit to the Biltmore exhibit marked the first time I had ever seen (or heard of) a Tiffany lamp with a design influenced by the form a spider and spider web. (Be sure to keep an eye out for it when you take the tour.)
If you are as enthralled by nature as Louis Comfort Tiffany obviously was, you’ll also enjoy the Biltmore horticulture team’s celebration of the works of Tiffany. They’ve created four 40-foot stained-glass-inspired dragonfly topiaries made up of more than 12,000 plants each. Not your average topiaries! And after you take a stroll through the acres upon acres of gardens by the father of landscape design, Frederick Law Olmstead, savor a Tiffany-inspired dragonfly cupcake from the Biltmore sweet shop. Another trust me, here. They are delicious.
The Tiffany at Biltmore exhibit runs from now until October 23rd. Maybe a trip to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains is in order for the long Labor Day weekend? If you plan your travels for October instead, keep in mind that Asheville and the Biltmore are a popular destination for taking in fall colors.
If you’ve already been to the Tiffany exhibit, what did you think?
If not, have you ever viewed Louis C. Tiffany’s stain glass lamps or windows first hand? I would love to own an original, wouldn’t you?
Tell us in the comments below.
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Trauma and Justice: Treatment and Recovery Through the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services
Trauma is a universal experience of people in treatment and recovery for substance use and mental disorders. Trauma is a widespread, harmful, and costly public health problem. Trauma occurs as a result of violence, abuse, neglect, disaster, war, and other emotionally destructive experiences. Similar to substance use and mental disorders, trauma can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, economics, race, ethnicity, geography, disability, or sexual orientation. People can overcome traumatic experiences with appropriate support and intervention; but left untreated, trauma significantly increases the risk of substance use and/or mental disorders, chronic physical diseases, and early death. The effects of trauma place a heavy burden on individuals, families, and communities and create challenges for all public institutions, jails, prisons, and service systems. This show will examine the need to address trauma in the delivery of substance use and/or mental disorders treatment and recovery services, how to screen and identify individuals with trauma-related problems, and provide suggested interventions and support services. Discussion will include what interventions work, how to collaborate, and how to provide a full range of support services to ensure a full and sustained recovery.
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ZULFAINAH, ZULFAINAH (2007) THE EFFECT OF USING SEQUENCED PICTURES ON THE WRITING NARRATIVE ABILITY OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT SMAN 2 BATU. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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This study was aimed at finding out whether after being prompted with sequenced pictures, the students achieve better performance in writing narration or not. This study was based on the fact that the students’ writing was not comprehensible and the students had low motivation and were not interested in doing the tasks. The sequenced pictures, which consisted four pictures arranged chronologically forming a story, were expected to have a significant effect on the students’ performance in writing a paragraph narration. An experimental study was conducted to answer whether there was a significant difference between the first year students’ writing narrative ability before and after the sequenced pictures were prompted them. The subject of this study were the first year students at SMAN 2 Batu academic year 2006/2007. At the beginning of the course the subjects were given a pretest. They were asked to write a paragraph narration. After the treatments, which covered six meetings, had been conducted, a posttest that was similar but not the same test as that in the pretest was given to the students. The results showed that the mean score of the posttest (72) was significantly higher than that of the pretest (59). It means that the students achieve better performance in writing narration after being prompted with sequenced pictures than before. In conclusion, it was proved that the using sequenced pictures had a significant effect on the students’ performance in writing narration. Finally, the researcher suggested that sequenced pictures should be used to accompany the real writing material.
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TeachMideast.org A website for K-12 educators featuring innovative
resource on the culture, geography, history and religions of the Middle East, including
essays, classroom activities, downloadable multimedia content and interactive Google
This section contains full-text readings from a variety of sources. Many of these texts have never been offered online before. They represent a range of scholarly views and interests, and are intended to offer a more in-depth view of selected topics covered in this module. Please be aware that these texts may not be reproduced in any way without the express permission of the original copyright holder, as indicated at the head of each reading.
The readings listed in grey are currently unavailable, as we work toward renewing copyright permission from the publishers.
This interview with William Cleveland, Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, provides excellent background for scholars beginning to delve into the study of the history of the Modern Arab World, addressing many of the issues they need to be aware of. Among the topics discussed are the contradictory risks of either treating a region composed of many different cultures and countries as a monolith, or of insisting too much on regional or national specificity. Cleveland also addresses, briefly, some of the key developments in the recent history of the region, such as the development of the nation state system, the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the effect of the oil boom on the the Arab countries.
This brief survey by Peter von Sivers, Professor of History at the University of Utah, traces the spread and development of Islam in the northern part of the African continent, particularly from a religious perspective or, more accurately, with regard to the role of Islam in governance of the region. He divides the article into two main parts: 1) 'The Formation and Dominance of Sunni Orthodoxy (700-1800)' which deals with the arrival of Islam, its interactions with local populations and innovations introduced by successive governing dynasties. 2) 'Political Recentralization and Religious Reform (1800-present)', which discusses the response of North African Islam to the modern world and increased interaction with the West.
In this article the influential Moroccan historian takes provides a history or the role of the United States in the Middle East and North Africa. The essay provides and excellent introductory survey, beginning with the recognition of the young American republic by Morocco in the 19th century through recent events. The paper is a consice and necessarily general survey that provides a useful overview of historical developments. It can be complimented by more in depth, issue specific readings with a more limited focus, such as the articles by William Quandt and Fawaz Gerges that analyze the American approach toward the Arab-Israeli conflict and Political Islam, respectively. See, also, the gallery in this unit as well as resources in the links and bibliography to explore the topic further.
This chapter is a very brief survey of recent history in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire through 1988 when the book was originally published. It clearly outlines the role of British and French colonial powers in defining the nation states that exist in the region, and how this involvement impacted local political structures. It also touches on the impact of Arab Nationalism and political Islam in a nation by nation survey of recent political developments.
Ira M. Lapidus is an Emiritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
The nationalization of the Suez Canal by Gamel Abdel-Nasser, the Iranian hostage crisis of 1978-79, and the decision of Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait, are three events which have had a tremendous impact on the history of the Middle East. They are also three events which have contributed to constructing what Stephen Humphreys, Professor of History and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, calls "The Myth of the Middle East Madman", i.e. the Middle Eastern leader bent on antagonizing the world and specifically the West, for no apparent or seemingly rational reasons. The author dismantles this myth by looking into the context surrounding each of the decisions above, demonstrating the completely logical and very real motivations behind each decision. In some cases the actions may have been misguided and the results mixed, but nonetheless, the initiative was motivated by real political factors. Hence, the Middle East Madman is a stereotype that doesn't have a basis in reality.
This article by Donald Quataert, a specialist in Ottoman History from Binghamton University (SUNY Binghamton) deals with the “long nineteenth century, 1798-1922” in the Ottoman empire. This was a period of transformation in the empire, marked by a number of external pressures that led to some shrinkage of borders and greater pressure on the Ottoman Empire from external economic factors, as well as some internal rebellion. There is an extended discussion of Egypt’s Muhammad Ali and his challenges to Ottoman authority and its results, as well as a number of internal legal and structural changes that occurred during this period, most notably reforms in the status of Muslims and non-Muslims and some changes in the legal status of women. The article also focuses on the rise of inter-communal violence within the empire. An understanding of the Ottoman Empire, particularly from 1798 onwards, is essential to an understanding of the Arab World today, as all the territories in the Arab World, with the exception of Morocco, were under Ottoman rule. It was from its rubble that the modern nation states to the region emerged. Consult the interview with William Cleveland for some theoretical insight into this process, and the bibliography for additional resources on the Ottoman Empire.
Through a detailed and specific consideration of the borders of Libya, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, this article provides an important illustration of a point made in the history module by several scholars, including William Cleveland, that many of the nations in the Middle East exist within borders defined as much in response to imperial and colonial needs in the region as to community interests and territorial claims of the populations living there. The article begins a theoretical and historical survey of border issues which argues that in many ways colonially imposed conceptions of territory-based states were imposed on structures that had been based more on community affiliations. He then proceeds to analyze, on a case by case basis, the major border disputes within the region, and the historical development of conflicting claims. The article has been updated by the author for inclusion in this site.
In this essay, Azzedine Layachi, Professor of Political Science at St. John's College in New York, reviews events of the last three decades in Moroco, Algeria and Tunisia, particularly with regard to political and economic reforms and the factors which brought them about. The author argues that these reforms have a tendency to "include few elements of society and to exclude many." He also argues that these reforms are not, as many argue, merely "regime survival tactics" but that they "should be considered as part and parcel of irresistable socio-demographic, economic and policitcal mutations in the Maghreb."
This chapter from The Near East since the First World War: A History to 1995 is a discussion of the history of the Arabian Peninsula from 1989 to 1995, particularly the build up to and effects of the most important event of this period, the “Kuwait Crisis and War,” which, of course, is know to most Americans as the Gulf War. However, the discussion begins with the collapse of oil prices in the 1980s. Sections of the essay focus on Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and the Persian Gulf States, i.e. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
This book, by an Associate Professor of History at Davidson College, considers the history of Islam from roughly the middle of the seventh century through to the beginning of the 18th century, i.e., from the Umayyad era through Medieval Islam. While the book is chronologically organized, it's approach is more analytical than many histories of the period tend to be. this chapter looks at "popular religion" in the Medieval Period (1000-1500), introducing the distinction between popular practices and the scholarly teaching of the Ulama, including festivals and visits to tombs. Berkey makes a useful distinction between popular Islam and Sufism, however, is discussed in the precending chapter.
This essay is a consideration of Islamist movements in Morocco and the efforts of the Moroccan government to reach some sort of accomodation with them during the past three decades. The essay also gives insight into the factors which contribute to the attractiveness of the movements for the citizenry, their poltical programs and techniques. Written as recently as February 2002, the author attempts to assess whether or not the political and economic liberaliztion process currently going on in the coutnry will be sufficient to keep these movements in check. for more on related topics, listen to the interview with Azzedine Layachi in the AV section of this unit.
This article provides a historical overview of the problems encountered by Great Britian when, at the end of World War I the three provinces that make up the modern nation state of Iraq became a British mandate. Under this arrangment Arab claims to independence were theoretically recognized, but it was to be the role of the British to prepare the territory for self rule. The article provides a historical account of the debate over approaches to be taken, the strategies implemented and the internal problems in Iraq that caused the approach to fail.
In the conclusion to his book America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? Fawaz Gerges discusses the American government’s response to the phenomenon of Political Islam during the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration which followed it. The essay summarizes the results of the research that is detailed in the book, Gerges first deals with the rhetoric of the executive branch and finds it generally very productive. He then moves to an analysis of policies, finding that the rhetoric does not translate into policy. In fact, he demonstrates that there has been a great deal of inconsistency in US policy toward Islamist movements in Egypt, Iran, Algeria and Turkey. The essay concludes with thoughts on “What is to be done?” with regard to Islamic movements so as to “prevent the hijacking of American foreign policy by those in both camps who are beating the drums of cultural and civilizational war.” Fawaz Gerges is currenlty Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
This essay by Edward Said, one of this country’s most important cultural critics and a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, originally appeared as the “Afterword” for The War for Palestine : Rewriting the History of 1948. The essay begins with Said’s personal experience of the war that led to the establishment of the nation of Israel, then proceeds to more general considerations of the war on the Palestinian people, the Arab World and on Arab Ideology. Said discusses in some detail the plight of the Palestinian refugees who were rarely truly welcome in the countries to which they fled, the post-1948 militarization of Arab countries, and the ideological distortions present in accounts of historical events on both sides of the conflict. The article ends by proposing Said’s strategy for peaceful coexistence that should be “based on a full consciousness of what 1948 was for Palestinians and for Israelis, the point being that no Bowdlerization of the past, no diminishment of its effects can possibly serve any sort of decent future.” The article, is, however, a deeply personal account of the issue. For varying perspectives on the Arab-Isreali conflict, see the reading by William Quandt in this unit, as well as the links list, which contains a section on the conflict from Arab, Israeli and Palestinian perspectives.
On September 13, 1993 when the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin exchanged an awkward handshake on the White House Lawn in front of President Clinton, it seemed to many a moment of great, previously unimagined hope. This chapter provides an objective accounting of the process that led up to that moment, as well the gradual unraveling of whatever understanding had been reached, as well as subsequent, but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to revive the understanding. The chapter includes an assessment of problems with the Oslo accords from both a Palestinian and Israeli perspective, and ends in 1999 with the formation of Ehud Barak's coalition government in Israel.
For more on the the American role in the conflict, see William Quandt's 2001 assessment of "The Challenges Facing Future Administrations." The AV section of this unit also contains newsreel footage from Arab television on key periods such as the 1967 war between the Arabs and Israel. Edwards Said's article "The Consequences of 1948" provides a Palestinian perspective on the establishment of the Israeli state, and the links section of this unit contains a special section that provides a number of resources representing various perspectives from both sides of the conflict and from international news agencies and NGOs.
This essay is from William Quandt’s book Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967. As the concluding essay of the book, it is an assessment of the role played by each American administration in promoting and facilitating peace between the parties in this conflict. The piece is illuminating because of the light it sheds on the effects of domestic politics in the United States, and of the degree of personal commitment on the part of the President and his staff, on the process. Quandt’s analysis is subjective, but well argued and well supported. The article ends with an assessment of future prospects for ending the conflict. The article frequently refers to UN resolution 242, the text of which can be read online here. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the Arab world. For much more on this topic, see the section “Arab-Israeli Conflict” in the links list. William Quandt is a Professor of International Relations and Comparative Government at the University of Virginia.
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"For her pioneering work leading to the discovery of the large-scale structure of the universe and for her extraordinary contributions to science education of diverse audiences around the world."Background:
Margaret Geller received her B.A. (physics) from UC Berkeley in 1970 and her Ph.D.. from the Princeton University physics department in 1975. She joined the permanent staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (part of the CfA) in 1983.
Geller is best know for her pioneering maps of the distribution of galaxies in the nearby universe. Together with COBE observations of fluctuations in the microwave background, these maps profoundly changed the view of large-scale structure in the universe. Geller has also made substantial contributions to the study of galaxies and their environment. She has developed and applied techniques for measuring the matter distribution in clusters of galaxies. She is currently working on a deeper map of the galaxy distribution called HectoMAP.
Geller is a fellow of the APS and the AAAS. She is member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received a MacArthur Fellowship (1990), the Magellanic Premium (2008), the James Craig Watson Medal (2010), and the Russell Lectureship (2010). She is a Library Lion of the New York Public Library (1997) and she has received 5 honorary degrees.
Marcela Carena, Chair; V. Chan; G. Gabrielse; N. Levinger; M. Turner
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Key players in environmental design open the bible and look at the world as a whole. Subjects such as “How can we all play a part in building an eco society…” are dived into causing ripples across the ignorant waters of the blind uninterested consumer. I won’t unveil what lies beneath, only that the information provided is concise, easy to understand and to the point! The information accumulated is used to influence and support the aims of the book efficiently, and helps direct the reader to what they can do to make a difference.
The bible looks at how environmental design is evolving architecture, and how climate change is forcing the government to introduce new legislation, legislation which means well even if at times it doesn’t make the impact it is needed to!
GBB looks at a variety of subjects from encouraging wildlife and constructing natural swimming pools through to finer details such as air tightness and insulation.
From traditional, almost lost, methods such as thatch which is reviewed and reawakened as one of the most sustainable roofing materials ever devised, to modern methods such as ‘Thermally decoupled ‘passivhaus’ standard windows the bible provides the answers!
The information provided in the bible is easy to understand for everyone from the construction professional to the unknowledgeable user wanting to do their part. Every aspect of the materials and construction process is viewed and unbiased conclusions are made. Volume 1 buries far enough under the surface to help you make your decisions without overloading you with technical in-depth information.
Sketches, diagrams and photos help you understand how certain methods work and are formatted in such a way that the text and graphics flow together to give you all the information at your fingertips instantly.
Recognisable projects such as ‘The Woodland House’ and ‘The Kingspan Off-Site House’ help the reader associate methods and materials to existing projects giving them the confidence to use or avoid the system depending on the post-construction analysis and personal requirements.
Volume 1 provides up-to-date information on what is happening in the environmental construction industry, now in its fourth edition it is still an invaluable resource to any eco-library and one that should never be put back on the shelf, but kept at the side of your desk, in easy reach for when you need it! At the end of each section are references, further reading and suppliers/services.
The book provides numerous tips and ideas from looking at what you want to achieve to how to achieve your aims and how to finance the projects.
At the back are pages of useful contacts, training providers and my personal favourite and new holiday planner, inspirational ideas!
My final word is this, you have read other sustainability books, and may been left dazed and confused, now read the bible and let your eyes be opened by the light!
Volume 2 follows on from Volume 1 with the same enthusiasm and knowledge by plunging into the more complex details of designing and specifying a more sustainable building.
The book is filled with examples and case studies to help you understand more clearly the algebraic calculations provided.
Everything is clearly written and easy to understand, just like volume 1 but the detail enclosed within the books glossy covers is invaluable to the academic, professional and everyday user. The book is ideal for building service engineers wishing to get up to speed on environmental design methods.
Volume 2 looks mainly at energy saving, ventilation, heating and lighting. With pages of information giving you the tools to improve and adapt your design to be as efficient and sustainable as your budget allows you.
From explaining common everyday abbreviations to breaking down equations into easy to understand calculations, everything you need to know is right at your fingertips.
Volume 2 shows you how to exploit natural energy to it’s optimal efficiency for your requirements, whilst also providing the methods in which you can adapt your design to create a more sustainable building.
The information is collected from a wide selection of recently published international publications, providing the reader with up to date and proven practices.
Volume 2 carries on from volume 1 reagarding commercial design, it looks at how high embodied energy construction methods can be adapted to reduce the energy demand over the buildings life cycle rather than at the construction stage which has a high impact.
Modelling exercises compare different methods through a variety of analyi. The exercises don’t dismiss the low scoring methods, just demonstrates how one method is not always the best method for a proposed application.
Both books are invaluable and should be on the reading list for every budding green builder, designer or user. The information is unbiased and too the point.
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St Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro)
It’s the world’s largest Basilica of Christianity, nested into the heart of the Vatican city, with its 186 metres of length (218 if we consider the porch too), a height of 46 metres in the central aisle, a main dome 136 metre high and 42 metres large in diameter. The huge façade is 114 metres wide and 47 metres high. It has a surface of 22000 square metres and twenty thousand persons can pray in it.
The indigenous St Peter's Basilica, nowadays forgotten, was constructed by will of Emperor Constantine around 320 AD in the area where Saint Peter had been martyrized (together with other Christians) close to the circus of Nero that, in fact, rose in the vicinity. For about thousand years the Basilica grew and got enriched, but it was also theatre of pillage in the barbarian hordes.
The first repair and enlargement intervention was ordered in the middle of the 15th century by pope Niccolo V, who entrusted Leon Battista Alberti and his helper Bernardo Rossellino. Later pope Giulio II charged Bramante who in 1506 demolished the old Saint Peter's Basilica planning a new one with a Greek cross plan. But at the time of the death of both pope and architect only the central pillars had been constructed.
Rafael (with the contribution of experts such as Fra Giocondo and Giuliano Da Sangallo) took over the guidance of the works, and proposed a Latin cross plan. Rafael was succeeded by Baldassarre Peruzzi first and Michelangelo later, who instead chose a return to the Greek cross. After the death of all contenders, pope Paolo V imposed the Latin cross structure, which was realized by Maderno who took care as well of the façade as we see it today.
The St Peter's Basilica was consecrated in 1626.
The plan of the dome belongs to Michelangelo who managed to finish only the portion of the dome basement called Tamburo. It will be Giacomo Dalla Porta to complete the dome according to Michelangelo’s drawings in 1588-89. The positioning of most of the interior furnishing of the Basilica was assigned to Bernini by his untiring pope Urbano VIII Barberini.
Bernini worked in the St Peter's Basilica for twenty years. We owe this artist the arrangement of the St Peter's square in front of the Basilica as well (1656-1667). Inside the Basilica are numerous and priceless art pieces kept in the forty five altars and eleven chapels. There are about ten thousand square metres of mosaics, Michelangelo’s Pieta, the papal canopy and the monument to Urbano VIII both by Bernini, the monument to Cristina of Sweden by Carlo Fontana, the monument to the countess Matilda by Canossa (under drawing of Bernini), only to quote some of the most important pieces.
Opening time of the basilica:
from 7:00 to 18:00 every day (until 19:00 during winter), except on Wednesdays (if there is the papal audience the Basilica remains closed until 12:00). Entrance is free. It’s also possible to visit the dome (from October to March every day from 8:00 to 16:45, until 17:45 from April to September); entrance is charged.
How to get to Saint Peter’s Basilica:
the most comfortable public transport is the metro (line A – stop: Ottaviano)
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“Multi-skill maintenance” defined: Blending skills and knowledge across traditional maintenance craft- or trade-job definitions and boundaries to address modern equipment technologies and work efficiency and effectiveness.
Most plants and facilities in America have operated with a “multi-skill” maintenance workforce for generations. As I’ve said before, it’s nothing new. Growing your own multi-skill maintenance technicians may make sense if you’re not there yet—especially when you consider skills shortages and the integrated equipment technologies in your plants and facilities.
I started exploring multi-skill maintenance in American industry in the mid-1980s. It was around this time, as plants and facilities were modernizing with radically different state-of-the-art technologies, that we first began experiencing shortages of qualified maintenance technicians. Our solution was to develop models for defining required skills and knowledge, then training and qualifying the new “multi-skill” maintenance technician. Pay-for-skills compensation systems were used to recognize changing job-performance requirements. And it worked!
Skills blending is the operable term
In these early multi-skill jobs (and the move to multi-skill maintenance-job roles), mechanics were taught specific electrical and instrumentation skills, and electricians were taught specific mechanical skills, along with instrumentation and control skills. This “blending” of skills and knowledge addressed particular equipment and process maintenance requirements, where merely adding more mechanics and electricians would not adequately address the requirements.
The use of robots in manufacturing plants drove one of the BIG multi-skill maintenance training and qualification priorities in the 1980s. Robots of that era (similar to those of today) required a blending of maintenance skills and knowledge to troubleshoot, maintain and repair (i.e., skills and knowledge in the areas of mechanical, electrical, electronics, microprocessors, programmed logic controllers and hydraulics). Without these “blended” skill sets, there would sometimes be four different maintenance tradesmen working on one robot trying to troubleshoot and make repairs. This traditional approach did NOT work.
Training and qualification is a must when developing multi-skill maintenance job roles. One of the biggest complaints in the history of multi-skill discussions (and arguments) is worker safety. “If they work outside their traditional job role they can hurt themselves and others!” Effective multi-skill maintenance jobs require formal training and qualification processes as defined in “Growing Your Own: Parts II and III” (Uptime, pgs. 8-10, MT, February and March 2011). To omit training is dangerous, counterproductive and downright insane.
Attention: multi-skill is NOT multi-craft
“Multi-skill” is blending skills and knowledge to fit the requirements of the equipment: This allows the maintenance technician to do more “whole jobs” rather than handing off part of a job to others and returning to complete the job.
“Multi-craft,” on the other hand, is often a combination of two or more maintenance job classifications and responsibilities. While this may look easy on paper, it can be extremely difficult to execute with very little benefit to the organization.
How to start multi-skill
Begin by evaluating the need for “multi-skill maintenance” with these questions:
Look at your traditional maintenance job roles and responsibilities and job descriptions. Do they encourage or prevent the blending of skills and knowledge? Oddly enough, there is little consistency in maintenance job roles and job descriptions across America. I continue to discover that maintenance is the least defined of all industrial activities. Err on the side of flexibility.
Technology has changed maintenance job roles
Troubleshooting, problem solving, maintenance and repairs have become needlessly complex because of the perpetuation of traditional maintenance job roles. Mechanical maintenance job roles have changed significantly because of the “automation” of many types of equipment and electro-mechanical processes. Traditional mechanical maintenance work has been undermined because of the addition of control loops, sensors, interlocks, microprocessors and programmed logic devices. Seemingly simple mechanical problems are masked by layers of electronics and the use of electro-mechanical devices. Likewise, seemingly simple electrical/electronic problems are compounded by the interaction with mechanical devices.
Keep this important fact in mind: Business and industry will struggle when maintenance job roles are not updated, improved or altered to match the changing requirements of equipment technology.
Auto mechanics are multi-skill
I was a certified auto mechanic and instructor in 1970. Auto mechanics these days bear little resemblance to my peers of back then. Engines, transmissions, suspensions and interior controls are now largely controlled by microprocessors and on-board mini-computers. A great engine mechanic of the 1970s and 1980s would be hard-pressed to diagnose and solve problems in today’s vehicles. Auto mechanics’ jobs have evolved to address the changing requirements of the equipment they work on. This evolution has called for significant amounts and higher levels of training and qualification. That’s why many of the general auto repair shops of the 1970s and 1980 have disappeared—and why auto dealership service departments have grown. The little guys just couldn’t keep up with the technological changes.
Multi-skill maintenance is not for everyone
Changing to multi-skill job roles does not need to be wholesale, across the board for all maintenance roles in the plant. The focus should be on improved maintenance and reliability results through the targeted use of multi-skill job development. Some level of traditional maintenance craft and trade skills will always be needed. Some people may not have the interest or the aptitude to master the new multi-skill job requirements. They can continue to perform work in their “primary craft.” Other maintenance personnel may have unique, highly “specialized skills” that are not necessarily opportunities for multi-skilling.
Here are several examples of typical multi-skill maintenance training and qualification opportunities for mechanical maintenance personnel. In many traditionally structured plants, these job duties have been perceived as “electrical” and, thus, have not been performed by maintenance mechanics:
By the same token, though, multi-skill electricians can be cross-trained and qualified in a variety of basic mechanical and instrumentation/electronics skills and knowledge of job-performance requirements.
Regardless, when developing multi-skill maintenance job roles, formal training and qualification processes are a must. Modified compensation systems such as “pay-for-skills” to support multi-skill maintenance are also a must. Without changes in training and compensation systems, the multi-skill model will not work.
This is the right time to do it
The skills shortages we are currently experiencing have been and will continue to be exacerbated by hanging on to old, outdated, traditional maintenance job descriptions and expectations in the context of modern plants and facilities. Labor leaders, human resource managers, maintenance managers, maintenance employees and local community colleges and tech schools, among others, must collaborate on the changing maintenance requirements in our businesses.
Maintenance and reliability
leaders who are facing the conflict of traditional job roles and modern equipment and facility technologies must take the lead to grow their own. The performance, reliability and competitiveness of our businesses and industries is in the balance. The time for action is now. MT
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Massive Solar Storm Causes Planes To Be Rerouted
You might have heard about a major solar storm that is hitting Earth right now. It's the biggest to hit us since 2005. You've also probably heard a few pople say, "I didn't feel anything."
As our friends at 13.7 explained earlier today, the storms have the ability to disrupt sensitive electronics and even the power grid. Usually none of those things happen. But, today's solar storm did cause a bit of disruption.
As Fox Business reports, Delta Air Lines rerouted at least six planes that were supposed to cross the North Pole. Fox explains:
"There is no risk to people on Earth, Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center told FoxNews.com.
"But as a rare precaution, some polar flights were re-routed to avoid communication lapses and exposing pilots and passengers to excessive radiation.
"'We know that some airlines did not fly the polar routes yesterday,' Biesecker told FoxNews.com. Delta is one of them, rerouting flights between Hong Kong and the U.S. that usually fly over the pole."
Besides the rerouting, the solar storm also produced some spectacular northern lights. MSNBC's Photoblog has some images of the auroras.
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Making Room at the Top
Tree and utility wires have always vied for space in our rural and urban areas. No clear winner has emerged from this competition. We either were faced with electrical outages caused by broken tree branches, or our roads were lined with disfigured, high-maintenance trees. Today, however, most utility companies are using an improved method of pruning that can help protect the health and safety of trees and provide the necessary clearance for electrical distribution wires. Electric utility companies must provide continuous service for our needs. To guard against power outages, they must regularly remove tree branches that threaten wires. Traditionally, utilities have cut the branches back to a point that would allow needed clearance. Called heading or topping, this method efficiently, if temporarily, protects wires, but the trees suffer enormously.
Topped or stubbed-off branches usually produce numerous fast-growing shoots, which are weakly attached and subject to future breakage. These shoots also grow directly back into the space needed for utility wire clearance. The branch stubs holding the sprouts are left vulnerable to decay, which may progress down into the branches and weaken them.
This will happen even if the sprouts growing from these branches produce seemingly luxuriant foliage. Some trees cannot tolerate drastic removal of branches and may quickly decline. The entire process of repeated topping virtually ensures a population of unhealthy trees. Weakly-attached or decayed branches are susceptible to breakage, especially during wind or ice storms.
Some people mistakenly think the heading or topping technique is acceptable or even desirable for all trees. Countless trees throughout Missouri have suffered irreversible damage from topping by people with perfectly good intentions, even when such drastic treatment was not needed.
Today, many utility company's approach to clearance of electrical transmission wires continues to involve regular maintenance pruning, but cuts are made in such a way that whole branches or limbs growing towards wires are removed, leaving no stubbed-off branch ends. Names given to this utility wire clearance technique include natural target pruning or, more specifically, natural directional pruning.
This technique benefits trees because it is more sympathetic with their natural growth habit. Wounds from cuts made at branch collars, or at their point of attachment, grow over more easily, minimizing decay. Excessive sprout growth is avoided because most live branch ends are left on the tree to sustain future growth.
Utility companies benefit from natural directional pruning because over time trees are more sound and less susceptible to breakage.
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Robin Marshall: A Modicum of Genius Page 4
The first bending mode is when the outer edges just slightly begin to tip up. This is widely known. Don Barlowe, who is seriously underrated by I think almost everybody (footnote 2), has already written a number of papers about this. He described, in a paper on dome radiators he gave to the 50th AES Convention in London, the first bending mode as being low down.
Atkinson: You say that you think a cone tweeter might be a better way of going about it?
Marshall: Yes I do. Because when a dome goes into breakup, it's utterly, totally finished. Uncontrollable. That's it. There's nothing more to be had. When a cone goes into breakup, all that's happening, providing you can control it, is that the radiating area is diminishing. It's much easier to control that. There's a lot of work to do, of course. I wouldn't like to say that you can just take a sheet of paper and design a cone tweeter which is going to be a world-beater. But I'm sure there's a lot of scope. I shouldn't say this, should I? I should just go out and do it.
Atkinson: But can't you add damping to control the dome breakup, or use a material which has high intrinsic damping?
Marshall: Yes, but the damping makes things worse. You look at a soft-dome's frequency response—and that's how most people judge a tweeter—and if it's nice and flat, it's wonderful, isn't it? What it's not telling you is that the first worrying resonance, the second resonance, may be at 6kHz. It's heavily damped, it's very low-Q, but that means it's actually worse than if it's an aluminum dome. If you looked at it in the old-fashioned way of judging hi-fi in the 1970s and early 1980s, a low-Q resonance is great because you can't see it. But a low-Q resonance is far more worrying than a high-Q resonance.
Atkinson: Peter Fryer in the '70s (now with B&W), and now Floyd Toole at the NRC in Canada, have done work that indicates that low-Q resonances will be more audible than those of high-Q.
Marshall: Yes, Floyd Toole says that a high-Q resonance xdB down won't be as audible as a low-Q resonance much, much further down, two times xdB down. There's a lot of engineers, of course, who work purely on theory, on "Let's measure it. Listening? Oh, I've heard of that, but you know, how do you actually do that?" I think Peter Fryer did a lot of good work to begin with on resonances. And every engineer involved in audio, for God knows how long, has always said the best way to treat resonances is to damp them like anything; you know, make them very low-Q. Peter Fryer at least had the courage to say, "Mmm, not so." And then provided evidence to prove that wasn't the case.
Atkinson: A low-Q peak may not be nearly as high in amplitude, but there's a larger area under the curve. And you can hear it.
Marshall: Oh yes! That's where soft domes fall down, I think. They spit and sizzle at you, but when you look at the response you think, "I don't understand it. Why?" If you simply think about what the thing's doing, it's obvious, isn't it? This awful resonance in the audio band.
Atkinson: So what you're saying in effect is that you have to use a stiff dome made from metal or some similarly hard material such as a ceramic . . .
Marshall: . . . to take that resonance as high as you can. And then don't attempt to damp it. I suppose in a way Celestion fell into that hole with their copper dome. Didn't they try to damp the resonance electrically?
Footnote 2: Don Barlowe designed the Leak Sandwich cone, then went on to Rank Wharfedale's research department. He did a lot of very good work on groove deformation in gramophone records, writing a really far-ranging paper on that subject. A wonderful engineer.—Robin Marshall
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Social customs in Spain
Traditions and habits
Spain - Culture
All countries have their own particular social customs and Spain is no exception. As a foreigner you will probably be excused if you accidentally insult your host, but you may not be invited again.
When you’re formally introduced to a Spaniard you should say ‘good day’ ( buenos días señor/señora/señorita) or ‘good evening’ ( buenas tardes) and shake hands (a single pump is enough). Spanish men shake hands on meeting and again on departing, whether it’s a casual meeting in the street or a formal occasion. If you’re in doubt as to whether a woman is married or single, wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the right hand (not the left), although mature women should be addressed as señora. ‘Good afternoon’ ( buenas tardes) is used instead of ‘good day’ ( buenos días) after lunch, which can start as late as 3pm until 9 or 10pm. ‘Good night’ ( buenas noches) is usually used when going to bed or leaving a house late at night. ‘Goodbye’ is adiós or less formally you can say see you later ( hasta luego).
‘Hi’ or ‘hello’ ( ¡hola!) is used among close friends and young people, often accompanied by ‘how are you?’ ( ¿qué tal?) or ‘what’s new?’ ( ¿qué hay?). In more formal language, ‘how are you?’ is ¿cómo está usted?, to which the reply is usually ‘fine, thank you, and you?’ ( muy bien, gracias, ¿y usted?). A common reply when being formally introduced is ‘delighted’ ( encantado/a). Elderly friends are often addressed as ‘male’ ( don) and ‘female’ ( doña), followed by their Christian name (considerable courtesy and respect is shown to women and the elderly in Spain). When someone thanks you ( gracias), it’s polite to reply ‘it was nothing/you’re welcome’ ( de nada). When talking to a stranger it’s polite to use the formal form of address ( usted) and not the familiar form ( tú) or someone’s Christian name until you’re invited to do so. However, nowadays the tú form is much more widely used and usted is reserved mainly for business and when addressing older people.
Kissing in Spain
Male and female acquaintances kiss each other, usually on both cheeks. If a lady expects you to kiss her she will offer her cheek. The ‘kiss’ is deposited high up on the cheek, never on the mouth (except between lovers), and isn’t usually really a kiss, but a delicate brushing of the cheeks. Close family and male friends embrace.
Talking on the phone
You should introduce yourself before asking to speak to someone on the telephone. Although the traditional siesta is facing a battle for survival, it isn’t advisable to telephone between the siesta hours (e.g. 2 to 5pm) when many people have a nap. If you call between these times, it’s polite to apologise for disturbing the household.
Family surnames are often confusing to foreigners, as the Spanish often have two surnames (possibly linked by ‘and’, e.g. y or i in Catalan), the first being their father’s and the second their mother’s. When a woman marries she may drop her mother’s name and add her husband’s, although this isn’t usual. Spanish children are usually named after a saint and a person’s saint’s day ( santo) is as important a celebration as their birthday ( cumpleaños), both of which are occasions on which it’s traditional to entertain your family and friends.
Appointments in Spain
If you have an appointment with a Spaniard don’t expect him to arrive on time, although being more than 15 minutes late is considered bad manners. If you’re going to be more than 15 minutes late for an appointment you should telephone and apologise.
The Spanish say ‘good appetite’ ( que aproveche/buen apetito) before starting a meal. If you’re offered a glass of wine, wait until your host has made a toast ( ¡salud!) before taking a drink. If you aren’t offered a (another) drink it’s time to go home.
Dressing style in Spain
Spanish men and women are almost invariably well groomed and style and fashion are important, although they often dress casually. It’s advisable to dress conservatively when doing business or visiting government offices on official business. There are few occasions when formal clothes are necessary and there are very few dress rules in Spain (except in respect to places of worship). Spaniards consider that bathing costumes, skimpy tops and flip-flops or sandals with no socks are strictly for the beach or swimming pool, and not for example, the streets, restaurants or shops.
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> > xfsdump uses an xfs feature called bulkstat'ing to speed up
> > the stat'ing of all the inodes of the file system.
> > However, it apparently snapshots the info from the disk blocks
> > instead of going through the in-core data structures.
> > This means that if this data is not flushed to disk completely
> > when xfsdump is running then it won't have the latest stat
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> Hmmm... I see.
I should expand on this one a little. XFS has two copies of the inode, first
the in memory inode structure which is used to by most parts of the filesystem,
and is the structure modified by most operations and recorded into the log.
Second is the on disk inode structure which is held in buffers, this structure
is updated asynchronously from the in memory inode and flushed out to disk.
It is this second structure which bulkstat reports the contents of and
hence the potential time lag between what is visible to xfsdump and what is
visible by the regular system call interface. The contents of the inode buffers
should not lag behind the in memory inodes by very much - 30 to 60 seconds with
the default kupdated configuration.
As Ivan pointed out, xfsdump is not an instantanous operation anyway, it takes
time to dump a filesystem, and should the filesystem be changing during the
dump process there is no guaranteed way to ensure that everything which existed
in memory at the time of the end of the dump will be in the dump. However,
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October 25, 2010
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NEW YORK (RPRN) 10/25/10 — Nazmiyal's Antique Carpets on Exhibition at the Museum
Visitors to the Whitney Museum of American Art will have the opportunity to see an unprecedented collection of works from painter and sculptor Paul Thek displayed on a dramatic backdrop of antique carpets from the Nazmiyal Collection. In the first U.S. retrospective since the influential artist's death, the New Yorker's work returns to his hometown in this highly-anticipated exhibition billed as a one of the season's must-see museum events.
Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Thek was a New York-native who attended Pratt Institute and the prestigious Cooper Union before befriending luminaries such as Susan Sontag and Tennessee Williams. As a classically trained artist, Thek's first galley exhibition in 1957 was comprised of fairly traditional works. After returning from travels in Europe, Thek gained notoriety for exhibitions of hyper-realistic sculptures in NYC's prestigious Stable and Pace Galleries.
Known as the artist's artist, Paul Thek is famous for his life-like creations of human
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Since its establishment, The Whitney Museum has preserved the art of living American artists and contemporaries. For years, Paul Thek has been known internationally. Now, his cutting-edge works are returning to New York for a limited time to celebrate the legacy of an artist that defied classification and still maintains an original style more than twenty years after his death.
Nazmiyal Collection is pleased to provide carpets for this unprecedented exhibition and retrospective of Paul Thek art curated by The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and a number of cooperating partners.
For exhibit information visit: http://www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/PaulThek .
For the Nazmiyal Collection visit: http://nazmiyalantiquerugs.com/
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Dear UW alumni and friends,
You’re invited to the second event in the UW School of Social Work’s 2010/2011 Faculty Lecture Series, featuring Assistant Professor Jennifer Stuber’s talk on Transforming the American Conversation about Mental Health.
The public health problem of untreated mental disorders has many causes. Dr. Stuber’s research is focused on the development of educational programs and interventions designed to bring about a cultural sea change in how people understand and communicate about mental health.
Dr. Stuber will discuss the work she has been doing in seven communities in Washington state and the life-long program of research she has taken on.
Before and after the lecture, guests will have the opportunity to view The Willard Suitcases, an art exhibit telling the story of the stigma, shame, secrecy and histories of people with mental illnesses or disabilities after the closing of a large inpatient psychiatric hospital.
The School of Social Work’s 2010/2011 Faculty Lecture Series will host an additional lecture in May of 2011. Information on the May lecture will be available in March.
Space is limited, so sign up today!
This lecture is presented by the UW School of Social Work and the UW Department of Communication.
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General Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army four-star General best-known for his service in China and Burma. For his purported concern for the average soldier and forthright manner, he was nicknamed "Uncle Joe" and "Vinegar Joe." As a cadet at the United States Military Academy, Stilwell organized the first varsity basketball team, starred on it and coached it.
Stilwell played for and coached the 1903 and 1904 teams at West Point, during his junior and senior years. When he returned to West Point as an instructor, he again took over basketball coaching duties for the 1907-08 season. He continued coaching through the 1910-11 season and again for the 1913-14 season. His cumulative record was 49-17.
His best season was 1909-10, when the team finished 14-1. That year the Cadets defeated several Ivy League powers (Yale, Penn and Brown), as well as other strong Eastern teams (Penn State, Georgetown and NYU). Their only loss came in a close contest with Swarthmore College, a small Quaker school outside of Philadelphia, 27-26.
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Tax Freedom Day Arrives on April 17
April 9, 2012
Tax Freedom Day is a vivid, calendar-based illustration of government's cost, and it gives Americans an easy way to gauge the overall tax burden. The model assumes that the American workforce begins working on January 1 and receives the same daily pay throughout the year. When the nation has finally earned enough to pay all the taxes that will be due for that year, Tax Freedom Day has arrived, says William McBride, an economist at the Tax Foundation.
Tax Freedom Day for 2012 will arrive later than most of the last 100 fiscal years, but is still not the latest on record.
- Tax Freedom Day for the 2012 tax year arrives on April 17, four days later than last year due to higher federal income and corporate tax collections.
- That means Americans will work 107 days into the year to earn enough money to pay this year's combined 29.2 percent federal, state and local tax bill.
- If the federal government raised taxes enough to close the budget deficit (an additional $1.014 trillion), Tax Freedom Day would come on May 14 instead of April 17.
These 107 days of tax burden can be broken down into their respective sources so that Americans can see the proportional contribution of each type of tax:
- Thirty-two days for the federal individual income tax.
- Eight days for state and local individual income taxes.
- Twenty-three days for federal social insurance taxes.
- Two days for federal sales and excise taxes.
- Twelve days for state sales and excise taxes.
- Twelve days for state and local property taxes.
- Nine days for the federal corporate income tax.
- One day for state and local corporate income taxes.
- Seven days for other taxes at both the state and federal level.
Tax Freedom Day varies substantially by state.
- Dates range from March 31 in Tennessee to May 5 in Connecticut.
- New Jersey and New York are the only other states that have Tax Freedom Days in May, both on May 1.
- Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and South Dakota all follow Tennessee closely, having days from April 1 to April 4.
Source: William McBride, "Tax Freedom Day Arrives on April 17th, 2012," Tax Foundation, April 2012.
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Damaged homes are shown from the 1991 Halloween Storm, also called the Perfect Storm, that killed 13 people. (Source: NOAA)
(RNN) – No one should allow Hurricane Sandy's temporary downgrade to lull them to sleep, especially those that live on the East Coast.
This "Frankenstorm" – as has become its popular nickname – has all the makings of a nor'easter, a weather phenomenon that can include part hurricane, part snowstorm and is completely destructive.
Nor'easters usually begin in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the U.S. and move toward Canada. They form when winds from the north move downward and meet warm air that travels up from the Gulf of Mexico.
The Atlantic Coast from fall until spring provides the perfect timeframe and location for these powerful super storms because the changes in temperature and constant air movement cause several such meetings.
Those meetings of the hot and cold air fronts produce the rotation that creates more severe weather, however nor'easters don't always classify as hurricanes.
The most destructive nor'easter in recent memory was the 1993 Superstorm that affected the entire eastern half of the United States, Canada and Cuba. The storm produced snow, wind speeds near 100 mph and more than 50 tornadoes. Estimates of damage in terms of property and lives reached as high as $6 million and more than 300 people.
The "Perfect Storm" of 1991 killed 13 people – including an entire ship crew of six and a National Guard member – and inspired a book and subsequent movie. This storm lasted an unusually long five days and eroded 1,000 miles of coastline by sending 15-foot waves ashore.
The Great Blizzard of 1978 devastated New England and killed more than 10 people, many of whom were trapped in their houses or stranded in their cars on roadways barricaded by snow.
Copyright 2012 Raycom News Network. All rights reserved.
Sunday, June 16 2013 1:14 AM EDT2013-06-16 05:14:35 GMT
(CNN) – Severe weather like that of Superstorm Sandy is unforgettable. It caused $38 billion in damage to Jersey Shore area alone. Add those numbers to the damages caused by other hurricanes, tornadoes,More >>
The damages caused by other hurricanes, tornadoes, fires and floods, 2012 was the second costliest year ever in terms of damage, according to the National Climatic Data Center.More >>
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising sloppy commutes and...More >>
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation...More >>
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(RNN) – Less than a week into the official hurricane season, the first storm of the year has formed in the Gulf. Tropical Storm Andrea has sustained winds of 40 mph and is sitting 320 miles SSW of Apalachicola,More >>
Less than a week into the official hurricane season, the first storm of the year has formed in the Gulf.More >>
Saturday, May 25 2013 7:00 AM EDT2013-05-25 11:00:14 GMT
(RNN) - An active six months is predicted for the 2013 North Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center has called it an "extremely active"More >>
An active six months is predicted for the 2013 North Atlantic hurricane season.More >>
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The list of the names is a part of rotating lists of names. For example, the list used in 2012 is used in 2018. Each storm will be named alphabetically. The lists of names are chosen by World MeteorologicalMore >>
The names for the 2013 North Atlantic hurricane season.More >>
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(RNN) - Most natural disasters come as a surprise to all homeowners, but not being covered can be surprising and costly when you aren't sufficiently insured. One major insurance company is aiding homeownersMore >>
For homeowners, the instance of having insurance is not the only part in being prepared for severe weather when it strikes.More >>
Monday, April 15 2013 9:06 PM EDT2013-04-16 01:06:27 GMT
A new audit released Monday by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor says the state could be on the hook for hundreds of millions in disaster relief payback. The money was supposed to help property ownersMore >>
A new audit released Monday by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor says the state could be on the hook for hundreds of millions in disaster relief payback. The money was supposed to help property owners recover from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.More >>
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Every summer when I was a kid, my parents would load my brother, my sisters and me into our van and haul us from Colorado to eastern Wyoming and Montana, where we searched for fossils left by ancient inland seas. We drove to places with names like Froze to Death and Dead Horse Point, broke down in the middle of nowhere and wandered for hours across jumbled buttes and flats. I remember those landscapes as all meadowlark song and two-lane highways that ran in straight lines to unbroken horizons.
"Drive-through country," some might call it, but we loved it; its very emptiness was the thing that made it wonderful. These days, though, that country isn't quite so empty.
Even though the gas boom has slowed, coalbed methane wells, waste pits, roads and pipelines can now be found throughout the Powder River Basin, which straddles northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana. Gillette, Wyo., overflows with new houses and diesel pickups clog the local roads and parking lots. It's not hard to look at this intense energy development as blight, since it slurps up groundwater, pumps unknown chemicals into the earth and chews up millions of acres to send greenhouse-gassy fuel to urban markets.
But there's another land rush on in Wyoming, just to the south. Developers are sniffing around rural communities like Slater, hoping to harness wind that blows so hard in some places, even turbines can't handle it. There's a similar boom in the desert Southwest, where companies are jockeying for 1.7 million acres worth of access to prime solar energy on BLM land, much of it in the Mojave Desert.
In 2010, the Interior Department plans to pour $50 million into initiatives that spur energy development on our public lands and offshore. In California, Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona, the federal agency plans to set up new offices to process permits for renewable energy, while smaller permitting teams will operate in New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Oregon. Their objective: to speed up the granting of permits for renewable energy.
On the face of it, that's good news. Wind and solar power are undoubtedly cleaner than oil and gas, and it appears the United States is finally getting serious about climate change. But because renewables tend to be less-concentrated energy sources, they require a lot of space to produce enough power to sate our massive energy appetite. Large-scale wind projects will mean vast networks of roads and habitat fragmentation, which sounds a lot like what natural gas development does to the land. In the case of large-scale solar, whole landscapes will need to be scraped clean -- what one BLM official recently described to The Associated Press as "a potentially irreversible commitment of lands." Let's also not forget that harnessing renewable energy from remote places requires building giant new transmission lines to reach far-flung markets.
In the path of all this new development are the "wastelands" I loved as a child, landscapes that aren't wastelands at all, but home to rare plants and animals and to the West's mythic openness.
That presents a dilemma for Westerners who have long defended such places, but who now also must consider how these and other lands may be harmed by global warming. The problem is that we require so much power. Even if all 70,000 megawatts of solar projects proposed for Bureau of Land Management lands were built, we still wouldn't come close to scratching the surface. And our hunger for energy keeps growing.
Can we find ways to develop large-scale renewable energy plants and transmission without sacrificing unused landscapes? Fortunately, some examples suggest the answer can be yes. In Arizona, a Spanish company is moving ahead with a 280-megawatt solar project -- enough to supply energy to up to 70,000 homes -- on a former alfalfa field. The EPA has identified hundreds of polluted and former mining sites that would be suitable for both large-and-small-scale renewable energy development.
Those are the kinds of alternatives we should exhaust before we move on to industrializing our "empty" spaces. But there's another approach we seldom even discuss: Why not simply use less energy?
Sarah Gilman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colo., where she serves as assistant editor (email@example.com).
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The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to practice using Roaster, which is the Java interactive development environment (IDE) we will be using in this class. Also, you will practice writing and debugging small Java programs.
In general, I will hand out assignments during lab time on Wednesdays and they will be due the following Wednesday at the beginning of lab time. You should start the assignment and get as much done during lab time as you can. Some people may finish some assignments during the lab, but most people will probably have to finish on their own time during the week.
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Parents who want to learn more about how to handle bullying, mental health, substance abuse and Internet safety will soon likely get the chance through their school districts.
HB298, the first of a slate of bills aimed at preventing teen suicide and bullying, finished its journey through the full Legislature on Friday, passing the Senate 22-4. It would require districts to offer annual seminars to parents on such topics.
Districts would be allowed to opt out, but would have to notify the state school board and provide reasons. The state school board would be required to create a curriculum for districts to use.
Bill sponsor Rep. Steve Eliason, R-Sandy, has said he decided to run the bill after student suicides at a school in his area several years ago. He said the father of one of the children who committed suicide asked him to do something to try to help.
"This, I believe, should be one of our top priorities," Eliason said at a hearing earlier this month. "This is not a comprehensive approach. It doesn't solve all the problems, but if it saves one life, it's definitely worth it."
The Senate passed the bill Friday, with just a couple of lawmakers speaking against it, saying schools should focus on academics and the legislature should respect local control.
"I think it is a very well intended piece of legislation, but I'm voting no because I think we're forgetting what the purpose of schools are," said Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem. "We're expecting them to be all things to all people including mental health clinics."
Others, including Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, endorsed the bill. Dabakis warned that districts should think carefully before opting out of the seminars, saying "bullying and many of the problems listed in this bill are problems in every school district."
HB298 now goes to the governor for his signature.
The bill is one of at least four this session meant to stem teen suicide and bullying in Utah. In Utah, two youths are treated for suicide attempts each day, according to a 2011 report by the Utah Department of Health.
Two other bills, HB134 and SB184, would require schools to notify parents of bullying or suicide threats. Sen. Luz Robles, D-Salt Lake City, has said she's been working on SB184 with the family of David Phan, a 14-year-old who shot himself on a pedestrian bridge leading to the campus of his school, Bennion Junior High, on Nov. 29.
SB184 has passed through a Senate committee and is awaiting a hearing on the Senate floor, while HB134 stalled in committee Thursday, despite emotional testimony from two Copperton parents who lost a 13-year-old son to suicide last month.
Eliason has also introduced a second bill, HB154, that would, among other things, require school districts and charter schools to hold youth suicide prevention programs for junior high and high school students.
Learn more about suicide prevention
To find out about suicide prevention, visit http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline toll-free number 1-800-273-TALK.
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I installed qemu v 0.6 from a Mandriva repository. The program itself works fine (I booted a FreeDOS img from qemu's web site. When I try to run the following command...
qemu -boot d ./winxp.img
I get the following error:
CDROM boot failure code : 0003
Boot from CD-Rom failed
FATAL: Could not read the boot disk
I have tried two different CDs (both of which I know work as I have recently used them to install an OS on another computer. I have also tried installed v 0.7 (compiling it from source) and it still doesn't work.
I'll answer my own question. Here is what worked...
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Tvm: The Kerala Government has decided to implement the File Tracking System, IDEAS (Information and Data Exchange Advanced System), across all the departments. This was announced today by the Chief Minister, Shri Oommen Chandy, while briefing the media after the weekly Cabinet meeting. The complete roll out of IDEAS across all the offices of the departments in the Government Secretariat was supposed to have been completed by 2009.
The CM said that the implementation of this system would ensure tracking of files and petitions online and this would benefit a petitioner who need not come back to the Secretariat to know its status. “Today, it’s virtually impossible to know the status of a file in the Secretariat. My office would upload information about all the petitions we receive and after they forward it to the concerned department, we expect them to update the status and information about the action taken”, he added.
IDEAS is currently being used in the Offices of 12 Ministers and 28 Offices of the Administrative Departments in the Government Secretariat under the Secretariat Internet Communication System. Apart from these, this system has also been implemented in the Office of the Transport Commissioner, Office of the Director of Technical Education, Legislative Assembly (Niyamasabha) and the Kerala State Planning Board.
Developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Kerala and supported by the Kerala State IT Mission, IDEAS is an advanced file information system built on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It is a web based file tracking system that records details of the documents that come into a government office, like Petitions received from citizens, or ‘Tapal’s received as communications from other offices. Officers can use the web interface to record or query information of the petitions, tapals or files within their Offices using Internet or the government's own State Wide Area Network (KSWAN). Citizens and Officers alike can obtain online information about the movement of files. There is also a provision for SMS that reverts with status of a petition or file against its reference number.
Click here to access IDEAS online.
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The LU Mental Health Subcommittee is committed to offering programming specific to improving mental health and combating the stigma around seeking help for mental illness.
The committee carries out a number of active and passive programs throughout the year, including:
- Fundraising Walk for the National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Eating Disorders Panel Discussion
- Mental Illness Panel Discussion
- Yellow Ribbon Campaign
Rubber Band Remembrances
The Mental Health Subcommittee is encouraging students, faculty, and staff to acknowledge LU's recent losses to mental health issues by wearing a rubber band around their wrists. The rubber bands read: Speak. Listen. Remember. The idea behind these words are that we should SPEAK more openly about our troubles and relay concerns to appropriate campus staff/faculty, LISTEN and support each other, and REMEMBER those we have lost.
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Workers sets up a stage for the media next to St Peter's Square ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's last public audience Wednesday, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules of the conclave that will elect his successor, allowing cardinals to move up the start date if all of them arrive in Rome before the usual 15-day transition between pontificates. Benedict signed a legal document, issued Monday, with some line-by-line changes to the 1996 Vatican law governing the election of a new pope. It is one of his last acts as pope before resigning Thursday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two pontiffs, each wearing white and each called “pope” living a few yards apart, with the same archbishop serving both.
The Vatican’s announcement Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI will be known as “emeritus pope” in his retirement, called “Your Holiness” as an honorific and continue to wear the white cassock associated with the papacy fueled renewed questions about potential conflicts arising from the peculiar reality soon to face the Catholic Church: having one reigning and one retired pope.
Benedict’s title and what he would wear have been a major source of speculation ever since the 85-year-old pontiff stunned the world by announcing he would resign, the first pope to do so in 600 years.
There has been good reason why popes haven’t stepped down over past centuries, given the possibility for divided allegiances and even schism. But the Vatican insists that while the situation created by Benedict’s retirement is certainly unique, no major conflicts should result.
“Knowing Benedict XVI, it won’t be a problem,” Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano said in an interview. “According to the evolution of Catholic doctrine and mentality, there is only one pope. Clearly it’s a new situation, but I don’t think there will be problems.”
Critics aren’t so sure. Some Vatican-based cardinals have privately grumbled about the decision, saying it will make it more difficult for the next pope with Benedict still around.
Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, Benedict’s onetime colleague-turned-critic, went even further: “With Benedict XVI, there is a risk of a shadow pope who has abdicated but can still indirectly exert influence,” he told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine last week.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Tuesday that Benedict himself decided on his name and wardrobe choice in consultation with others, settling on “Your Holiness Benedict XVI” and either “emeritus pope” or “emeritus Roman pontiff.”
Lombardi said he didn’t know why Benedict had decided to drop his other main title: bishop of Rome.
In the two weeks since Benedict’s resignation announcement, Vatican officials had suggested that Benedict would likely resume wearing the traditional black garb of a cleric and would use the title “emeritus bishop of Rome” to avoid creating confusion with the future pope.
Adding to the concern is that Benedict’s trusted secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, will be serving both pontiffs — living with Benedict at the monastery being converted for him inside the Vatican while keeping his day job as prefect of the new pope’s household.
Asked about the potential for conflicts given the existing divisions within the Vatican bureaucracy, Lombardi was defensive, saying the decisions had been clearly reasoned and were likely chosen for the sake of simplicity.
“I believe it was well thought out,” he said.
Benedict himself has made clear he is retiring to a lifetime of prayer and meditation “hidden from the world.” However, he still will be very present in the tiny Vatican city-state, where his new home is right next door to the Vatican Radio transmitter and has a lovely view of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Kueng said it was a mistake for Gaenswein to serve both men and for Benedict to remain so close to the center of action.
“No priest likes it if his predecessor sits next to the rectory and watches everything he does,” Kueng was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel. “And even for the bishop of Rome, it is not pleasant if his predecessor constantly has an eye on him.”
However, others reasoned that Benedict’s retirement plans and title were in keeping with those of other retired heads of state.
“I was somewhat surprised that Benedict would still be called `His Holiness’ and would wear white, but it’s akin to the former U.S. presidents being addressed as `Mr. President,”’ said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit writer and editor. “It’s a mark of respect for the former office he once held.”
“Overall, I don’t think that after the conclave there will be any doubt about who the pope is, or who is in charge,” he said.
While Benedict will no longer wear his trademark red shoes, he has taken a liking to a pair of hand-crafted brown loafers made for him by artisans in Leon, Mexico, and given to him during his 2012 visit. He will wear those in retirement, Lombardi said.
Lombardi also elaborated on the College of Cardinals meetings that will take place after the papacy becomes vacant — crucial gatherings in which cardinals will discuss the problems facing the church and set a date for the start of the conclave to elect Benedict’s successor.
The first meeting isn’t now expected until Monday, Lombardi said, since the official convocation to cardinals to come to Rome will only go out on Friday — the first day of what’s known as the “sede vacante,” or the vacancy between papacies.
In all, 115 cardinals under the age of 80 are expected in Rome for the conclave to vote on who should become the next pope; two other eligible cardinals have already said they are not coming, one from Britain and another from Indonesia. Cardinals who are 80 and older can join the College meetings but won’t participate in the conclave or vote.
Benedict on Monday gave the cardinals the go-ahead to move up the start date of the conclave — tossing out the traditional 15-day waiting period. But the cardinals won’t actually be able to set a date for the conclave until they begin meeting officially Monday.
Lombardi also further described Benedict’s final 48 hours as pope: On Tuesday, he was packing, arranging for documents to be sent to the various archives at the Vatican and separating out the personal papers he will take with him into retirement.
On Wednesday, Benedict holds his final public general audience in St. Peter’s Square — an event that has already seen 50,000 ticket requests. He won’t greet visiting prelates or VIPs as he normally does at the end but will greet some visiting leaders — from Slovakia, San Marino, Andorra and his native Bavaria — privately afterwards.
On Thursday, the pope meets with his cardinals in the morning and then flies by helicopter at 5 p.m. to Castel Gandolfo, the papal residence south of Rome. He will greet parishioners there from the palazzo’s balcony — his final public act as pope.
And at 8 p.m., the exact time at which his retirement becomes official, the Swiss Guards standing outside the doors of the palazzo at Castel Gandolfo will go off duty, their service protecting the head of the Catholic Church finished.
Benedict’s personal security will be assured by Vatican police, Lombardi said.
Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield
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The major in physics provides the student with fundamental training in the physical principles of nature. This program is designed for the student to acquire a basic understanding of physics and to develop the scientific skills and aptitude necessary for further study. Students pursuing the physics curriculum will have opportunities to study other useful and related fields such as mathematics, engineering technology, biology and chemistry. A student who successfully completes this program will be able to pursue a variety of careers in various branches of physics as well as other fields.
Students selecting physics as a minor are required to complete a minimum of twenty semester hours in physics. Physics majors are not required to have a minor.
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Soldering is one of those tasks that you either really enjoy or greatly despise; RC maintenance is often like that. Even if you are a nitro guy, soldering comes-up more than you’d think, and if you run electric, soldering is a vital necessity. Most beginners—and some veterans—are intimidated by soldering jobs, but if you keep a few important tips in mind, soldering can be easy and will become something you look forward to, instead of cringe over.
Use a hot iron
Soldering is a lot easier when you start with a hot iron. Avoid using an iron that is less than 40W. Low wattage irons can put your equipment at risk, because holding the iron in place too long, waiting for the solder to melt, can easily damage your components by overheating.
Pick the right tip
There are a number of different soldering iron tips on the market, and they can be used for specific tasks. In general, however, stick with a broad-faced, chisel tip. The extra surface area on the tip will improve the contact surface, allowing for more efficient heat transfer. Unless you are forced to solder in a confined space, avoid fine-tipped irons.
Wipe the tip often
Before you start a new job, dampen a sponge and keep it handy. You should wipe the iron tip with the sponge before you tin a new surface, and wipe it off in between steps. Iron tips accumulate flux, oxidation and old solder quickly, and wiping them off allows for more efficient heat transfer.
Use an iron stand
Even if you don’t have a complete soldering station, you should at least purchase a coiled-wire iron stand. This gives you a place to keep a hot iron handy and will prevent you from burning your work bench and even yourself. Lying a hot iron on its side is dangerous and makes it difficult to use.
Especially if you are soldering on flat surfaces, it is always useful to rough-up (score) the surface with fine-grip sandpaper. Scoring the surface cleans it and increases surface area—both of which aid in making a strong bond and prevent the solder bead from running.
Any time you solder one surface to another, “pre-tin” both surfaces with a small amount of solder. When you move-on to binding the surfaces, the tinned areas will melt together much more easily than if one or both of the surfaces are naked.
Use a soldering jig
Although they may look ridiculous, investing in a soldering jig that uses alligator clips and a magnifying lens is a big help, especially when soldering connectors or wires to each other. The jig works as your third and forth hands—an invaluable resource considering that your first and second hands are full of the iron and solder itself.
Flux helps the flow
Most hobby-grade solder is infused with flux—as substance that improves the flow of melting solder. But for heavy-duty jobs with wide-gauged wires, brushing a little extra flux paste onto the surface before starting can help the melted solder flow and its heat remain homogenous.
Do the tug-test when done
When you are done with a job and the surfaces are sufficiently cooled, give the wire a quick, moderate tug. Solder isn’t bullet-proof, but a good connection should sustain a few pounds of pressure. If your connection beaks with a slight tug, the bond is bad, and it was just a matter of time before it came loose on its own.
Soldering is an acquired skill, much like trimming a body or gluing tires. The more you practice an acquired skill, the more tips and tricks you will learn by experience. If you are nervous about soldering, try practicing on an old wire, motor or battery first.
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Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
After building a great franchise offering a unique customer experience, Starbucks diluted its brand when it overexpanded and offered too many new products. Harvard Business School professor John Quelch thinks the trouble began when the company went public. Key concepts include:
- The pressures of being a public company convinced Starbucks executives it needed to open more locations and offer more products, diluting the special customer experience it had created.
- Starbucks is now a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Some premium brands deliberately decide to stay private to maintain control.
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth.
In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized the problem that his own growth strategy had created: "Stores no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store." Starbucks tried to add value through innovation, offering wi-fi service and creating and selling its own music. More recently, Starbucks attempted to put the focus back on coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Either you have to cut price (and that implies a commensurate cut in the cost structure) or you have to cut distribution to restore the exclusivity of the brand. Expect the 600 store closings to be the first of a series of downsizing announcements. Sometimes, in the world of marketing, less is more.
Schultz sought, admirably, to bring good coffee and the Italian coffeehouse experience to the American mass market. Wall Street bought into the vision of Starbucks as the "third place" after home and work. New store openings and new product launches fueled the stock price. But sooner or later chasing quarterly earnings growth targets undermined the Starbucks brand in three ways.
First, the early adopters who valued the club-like atmosphere of relaxing over a quality cup of coffee found themselves in a minority. To grow, Starbucks increasingly appealed to grab and go customers for whom service meant speed of order delivery rather than recognition by and conversation with a barista. Starbucks introduced new store formats like Express to try to cater to this second segment without undermining the first. But many Starbucks veterans have now switched to Peets, Caribou, and other more exclusive brands.
Second, Starbucks introduced many new products to broaden its appeal. These new products undercut the integrity of the Starbucks brand for coffee purists. They also challenged the baristas who had to wrestle with an ever-more-complicated menu of drinks. With over half of customers customizing their drinks, baristas, hired for their social skills and passion for coffee, no longer had time to dialogue with customers. The brand experience declined as waiting times increased. Moreover, the price premium for a Starbucks coffee seemed less justifiable for grab and go customers as McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts improved their coffee offerings at much lower prices.
Third, opening new stores and launching a blizzard of new products create only superficial growth. Such strategies take top management's eye off of improving same store sales year-on-year. This is the heavy lifting of retailing, where a local store manager has to earn brand loyalty and increase purchase frequency in his or her neighborhood one customer at a time. That store manager's efforts are undercut when additional stores are opened nearby. Eventually, the point of saturation is reached and cannibalization of existing store sales undermines not just brand health but also manager morale.
None of this need have happened if Starbucks had stayed private and grown at a more controlled pace. To continue to be a premium-priced brand while trading as a public company is very challenging. Tiffany faces a similar problem. That's why many luxury brands like Prada remain family businesses or are controlled by private investors. They can stay small, exclusive, and premium-priced by limiting their distribution to selected stores in the major international cities.
Join the discussion on Harvard Business Online.
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Bordeaux remains the centre of the fine wine world.The maritime climate on
the 45th parallel provides for temperate winters and long warm summers, perfect
conditions for growing grapes suited to the production of classically
constructed, long-lasting wines. This vast region of 120,000ha of vineyards
(four times the size of Burgundy) is home to 10,000 wine producers and 57
different appellation contrôlées. Red now makes up 88% of Bordeaux
wine, and is usually referred to as claret. The origin of this name was to
differentiate the lighter-coloured wines of the coastal region from the deeper
"black" wines from up-country regions.
The "Left Bank", comprising the wine regions of the Médoc, Pessac-Léognan and Graves are planted predominantly with Cabernet Sauvignon, which thrives on the gravelly
soils left by the ancient course of the river. This is a thick skinned variety
which ripens late, producing powerful, tannic wines capable of long ageing. It
is blended with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and sometimes Petit Verdot. The highlights of the Médoc are
the four communes of St Estèphe
(blackcurrant concentration); classical, cedarwood and cigar-box Pauillac; richly fruited St Julien; and elegant, fragrant Margaux.
On the "Right Bank", most famously in St Emilion and Pomerol, it is the fleshy Merlot grape which
predominates, sometimes supported by cabernet franc. Here the soils are more
mixed, with gravel and clay underpinning the rich, fruity wines of Pomerol.
Styles vary more in St Emilion, depending on the predominance of sand in the
lower lying slopes, or limestone on the hillsides and plateau.
By the 18th century, individual properties - known as châteaux,
however humble - were becoming known for the quality of their wines and in
1855, those of the Médoc (plus Haut Brion, a property commended
by Samuel Pepys as early as 1663) were classified into five levels of classed growths. Lafite, Latour, Margaux and Haut Brion were cited as First Growths,
to whose ranks Mouton Rothschild was
elevated by presidential decree in 1973. Beneath the ranks of the classed
growths lies a raft of fine châteaux known as Crus Bourgeois,
while a host of less well known "petits châteaux" still makes attractive,
enjoyable claret at affordable prices.
The other jewel in the Bordeaux crown is the district of Sauternes, making some of the most outstanding
sweet white wines in the world (from the likes of Châteaux d'Yquem, Rieussec and Climens). The foggy autumn mornings along the
banks of the Garonne River near Sauternes and neighbouring Barsac enable the noble rot, botrytis cinerea,
to form on the skins of the grapes, which can still ripen in the afternoon sun
as late as the end of October or early November.The Sémillon grape is the prime component, but Sauvignon Blanc and a little Muscadelle are
also planted to provide insurance if the weather is less favourable to
Sémillon, as well as a counterpoint in flavour.
There are many inexpensive dry white wines - more Sauvignon than
Sémillon - from regions such as Entre Deux Mers and the Graves, with
just a handful of outstanding properties located in Pessac-Léognan. Most
famous of the
great dry whites are Châteaux Haut
Brion, Laville Haut Brion and Domaine de Chevalier.
The finer wines of Bordeaux are sold "en primeur" in the late spring
following the harvest, some two years before the wines are ready for physical
delivery. The chateaux offer their wines through a system of Bordeaux
négociants (brokers) who sell on to importers round the world. Prices
vary enormously from one vintage to another dependent on perceived quality and
world demand, which shows no signs of diminishing, especially for the great
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Robert Greacen was born in Derry in 1920 and lived in Belfast, Monaghan and, most recently, in Dublin.
As a poet, memoirist and a literary scholar, Greacan earned critical success and saw his work published in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, and the United States. His Collected Poems won the Irish Times Poetry Prize in 1995. His other published poetry volumes include The Bird (1941), A Garland for Captain Fox (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975), Young Mr Gibbon (1979), A Bright Mask (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985) and Carnival at the River (Dublin; Dedalus, 1991). His last book Robert Greacen: New and Selected Poems was published by Salmon Poetry in 2006.
In 1969, Greacen published Even Without Irene, an autobiographical memoir which he wrote following the death of his wife Patricia Hutchins. His work Brief Encounters (1991) is a memoir of literary life in London and in Dublin.
He also authored critical work on the novelist C.P. Snow and the playwright Noel Coward.
Greacen was a member of Áosdána. Speaking about his passing today, Mary Cloake, Director of the Arts Council, said, ‘Robert Greacen’s poetry is at once elegant and playful, with a sadness and longing always pushing from under the surface. He was once quoted as saying, "writing poetry is like trying to catch a black cat in a dark room." His work captured words and aspects of life completely, and it was always evident how committed Greacen was to the craft of poetry, prose and criticism.’
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Breast lift (Mastopexy) Procedure
A breast lift can help achieve is a more youthful looking breast line that can help add to a younger appearing figure. Breast Lift/Mastopexy surgery tightens and elevates breasts by cutting excess amounts of skin and then tightening the surrounding skin. This helps to give the breasts a new and more supported appearing shape that also helps enhance a woman’s overall curves.
What are some of the factors which contribute to sagging breasts?
• Gravitational forces
• Becoming Pregnant
• Feeding a child by breast
• Weight gain or loss
• Getting Older
Having a breast lift will not have a dramatic effect on the size of the breasts or help to enlarge any area of the breast above the nipple. For an enhanced, larger appearance, a breast augmentation can be in many cases added to the lift. For more petite looking breasts, a breast reduction can in many cases be performed at the same time as the breast lift.
Things that help one to become a good candidate for breast surgery:
• Asymmetrical (different) breast height
• The Areola and Nipple are pointed toward the ground
• A reasonable understanding of what the procedure will and will not do
• Being a non-smoker
• Not having weight and or a BMI that fluctuates
• Having big areolas
• Breast tissue that is stretch marked
• Sagging thinner breasts which swing back and forth when not supported
What a breast lift can help achieve is a more youthful looking breast line that can help add to a younger appearing figure.
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Japanese tuna trace radioactive path
Traces of Fukushima Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear accident is being transported across the Pacific Ocean by migratory fish, according to a new report.
Following the failure of coolant pumps at the Japanese nuclear reactor in March 2011, radioactive caesium (Cs) was released into the ocean in amounts that exceeded any previous accident, leading to considerable international concern about their spread.
Nuclear accidents are relatively infrequent, but have potentially wide-ranging effects on both human and ecosystem health.
Dr Daniel Madigan from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station says these effects are poorly understood, and that Fukushima presents an opportunity to better understand the dynamics and risks of radionuclide discharge into the ocean.
Migratory fish have long been thought likely ecological carriers of radioactive material around the oceans. Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis), also known as bluefin tuna, spawn in the western Pacific with some juveniles remaining in Japanese waters before migrating to the eastern Pacific at about one year of age.
The fish are harvested commercially for human consumption.
"We tested the possibility that juvenile [bluefin tuna] served as biological vectors of radionuclides between two distant ecoregions: the waters off Japan and the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME)," he and colleagues write in the paper published today Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"We analysed two-year-old [bluefin tuna] caught off San Diego, California in August 2011, known from size to be recent Japan migrants, for the presence of Fukushima-derived radionuclides."
They studied the tuna's white muscle tissue (where radioactive materials naturally accumulate) for the presence of radioactive caesium, as well as various naturally occurring radionuclides.
These results were compared with samples taken from California-caught fish from before the Fukushima incident, and from yellowfin tuna (T. albacares) which live predominantly in the CCLME.
They found elevated levels of Cs-134 and Cs-137 in all of the bluefin tuna caught after the Fukushima accident.
"In contrast," say the researchers, "[bluefin tuna] caught in 2008 and yellowfin tuna caught in 2011 had no measurable Cs-134, and consistently much lower Cs-137 concentrations."
"This is unequivocal evidence that Fukushima-derived radionuclides were transported to the CCLME by Pacific bluefin tuna as no other sources of Cs-134 were present in the North Pacific preceding the Fukushima disaster." Most other naturally occurring radionuclides were detectable only at very low concentrations.
The researchers found the combined Cs concentration in the fish caught in 2011 was up to ten times higher than in other years, but total radiocaesium concentrations were still significantly below the current Japanese safety limit.
Radioceasium levels also varied depending on the tuna's amount of exposure, their size and radioactive decay over time.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), which monitors the situation in Japan in consultation with the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) say the levels in the fish are not of concern.
"The levels of Cs-137 (6.3+/- 1.4 Bq/kg) and Cs-134 (4.0+/- 1.5 Bq/kg) in Pacific bluefin tuna [in this report] do not represent any health concerns for Australian consumers," says a FSANZ spokesperson.
"Certain foods from Japan, including fish, are subject to testing at the Australian border prior to being allowed into the food supply."
"If the combined levels of C-137 and C-134 in fish are below 1000 Bq/kg the food is considered safe and allowed into the food supply."
"The 1000 Bq/kg limit is an internationally accepted safe level."
Other highly migratory species such as seals, whales, billfish, turtles, sharks and seabirds that forage around Japan may also assimilate radiocaesium and transport it to distant parts of the North and South Pacific.
"Our results demonstrate that Fukushima-derived radionuclides in animal tissues can serve as tracers of both migration origin, and potentially timing, in mobile marine animals," say the researchers, "providing valuable complementary movement data to extensive tagging programs in the Pacific.
"[It is] an unexpected tool for examining migratory origins of apex predators in the Pacific Ocean."
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Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of peninsular India and the meeting point of three oceans-the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Besides its importance as a Hindu pilgrim center, it is famous for its beautiful views of sunrise and sunset over the waters. The multicolored sand is a unique feature of the beach here.
Tourist Attractions in Kanyakumari
The list of attractions in Kanyakumari is
endless. The tourist destination itself is a beautiful place to move around.
The Kumari Amman or the Kanyakumari Temple, located on the shore, is dedicated to a manifestation of Parvati, the virgin goddess who did penance to obtain Lord Shiva's hand in marriage. The temple and the adjoining ghat, picturesquely situated overlooking the shore, attract tourist from all over the world. The diamond nose-ring of the deity is famous for its sparkling splendor said to be visible even from the sea.
Two rocks reach out of the ocean, southeast of the Kumari Amman temple. One of these is Sri Padaparai, where the footprints of the virgin goddess are said to be imprinted on this rock, Swami Vivekananda is said to have sat in deep meditation and here also stands the famous Vivekananda Rock Memorial built in 1970. There is a dhyana mandapam where one can sit in a serene atmosphere and meditate. Ferry services are available to reach the memorial.
The striking Gandhi Memorial has been built on the spot where the urn containing the Mahatma's ashes was kept for public viewing before immersion. Resembling central Indian Hindu temples in form, the memorial was so designed that on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday (October 2), the first rays of the sun fall on the exact place where the ashes of the father of the nation were kept.
Accommodation in Kanyakumari
Accommodation is not a problem in Kanyakumari. There are many standard hotels, which provide good services to their guests. As Kanyakumari is quite popular with Indian tourists, it is better to get reservation before reaching there. We at Tourism of India.com will provide all the travel services like air ticketing, hotel booking, car rental et al to make your holiday at Kanyakumari memorable.
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Tennessee lawmakers and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) want everyone convicted of driving while under the influence to be required to have an ignition interlock device installed on their vehicles.
The device requires the driver to blow into it and the device checks for alcohol. If the person has alcohol on their breath the device will not allow the vehicle to start.
In Tennessee, first time offenders with blood alcohol content (BAC) of .15 or more would have to get the device installed.
House Bill 353 and its Senate companion Bill 670 would require the device for first-time offenders convicted of dui with a BAC more than .08, which is the legal limit.
"Hopefully it will save lives in Tennessee," Senate sponsor Mae Beavers (R) Mt. Juliet said.
According to research from MADD, the interlock devices reduce repeat offenses by 67%.
In Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico and Louisiana the use of the devices for all offenders have cut DUI deaths by 33%.
Benson had been out drinking the previous night. When she was arrested Benson told investigators she thought she was in the backseat of a taxi, not driving her car.
Rebekah Leonard, Steffanie's sister and her family have worked to raise awareness about the effects of drinking and driving.
"I definitely think it is a good idea because you have people who say I will never do it again but that one night can come up and you think you are ok but you are really not," she said. "That for me is the hardest thing, knowing that one decision changed everything forever."
Benson pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in November. She is serving two years in prison and will then serve eight years probation.
"I just want people to value life so when they get to that point they don't just think about their life it is also their family's life," she said. "Because not only is it the victim and the survivors it is the person who made that choice. Their family suffers as well."
The Senate version of the bill has been assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The House version has not been assigned to a committee yet.
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In 2009, after having two children the old-fashioned way, Toby and Murphy Meisenheimer, of Naperville, Illinois, were considering adoption when someone at their church mentioned Safe Families for Children, an organization that supports families in crisis by providing temporary shelter to children.
“Initially when we got that call from Safe Families, I was extremely hesitant, because to me, it just kind of sounded like being trapped in church nursery,” said Murphy. She thought the temporary nature of the placements would mean she would have “no ownership in a child’s life.” A Safe Families representative listened to her concerns and advised her to follow the organization’s tweets to see how the Lord would lead.
The Meisenheimers received their first placement in 2010 and have hosted 15 children since then. “There’s an element to it that’s kind of addictive in that so often you see the needs of the poor on the TV screen or in your community and you kind of feel powerless, but you know you have some ability to help. …Safe Families gives our family an outlet to do that, which is to very quickly respond to an urgent need and bring some of the most helpless individuals in our society into our home and partner with that person’s parents to slightly alter their trajectory,” Murphy said.
Safe Families for Children is a national alliance comprised of three partners, said Dr. Robin Chamberlain, who holds multiple positions in the organization, including director of operations. Those partners are Bethany Christian Services, Lydia Home Association, which started the Safe Families movement, and Olive Crest, a Christian child welfare agency on the West Coast. The vision of the alliance is to “call the church as a whole back to biblical hospitality,” Chamberlain said, and “to make it as easy as possible for people to volunteer.” Biblical hospitality, in her view is “not cake and cookies after church, but actually opening up our homes and our hearts.”
Host families become like “extended spiritual families,” providing relief to those who may be isolated, which is important because “a high predictor of the incidence of child abuse and neglect is social isolation,” Chamberlain said. Although communities have always had informal networks for supporting families in crisis, she said Safe Families “provides a structure, and a network, and support” for them.
The organization’s website says it operates with three objectives in mind: to provide a safe alternative to child welfare custody, child abuse prevention, and family support and stabilization. There is a screening and approval process for host homes that includes finger printing and background checks, but it is not lengthy or invasive, Chamberlain said.
The Meisenheimers have provided respite to families in a variety of crisis, including incarceration, homelessness, joblessness, and drug addiction. All of these placements were made voluntarily, Toby said, but for at least one, a county child welfare agency had urged the mother to make the placement rather than lose custody of her offspring.
Toby sees his role primarily as facilitating his wife’s ministry. “I honestly believe she was crafted to work with kids, train them up, nurture them. …Once I could see that our own biological and adopted kids are joining us in this ministry together, it became a family cause,” he said.
The Meisenheimers have two biological children and two adopted children. They say their kids “love” hosting other children, but they do grieve when those children leave. Murphy thinks this experience teaches important lessons. “In life, we love and we lose,” she said. “It’s okay for them to risk a little bit of their security for someone else’s gain.”
It’s not only the children who pay a price though. Toby and Murphy expected to be inconvenienced and were prepared to deal with “unique behaviors” that they didn’t necessarily see in their “home-grown kids” and with “the messiness of interacting with moms and dads who are really in an extremely challenging spot,” Murphy said. What they weren’t prepared for was the emotional and relational expense of their ministry.
Toby likened the impact on their friendships to when someone gets married and suddenly their single friends aren’t quite as good friends, or when a couple has a child and it creates a rift with married friends who aren’t yet parents. “You do pay a price in awkwardness … or lack of empathy, because it is a different experience than what the typical family in America is striving for,” he said.
But they’ve also had loved ones, like Toby’s parents, who live nearby, “lean into” the ministry. “They step up and they realize that Safe Families isn’t for them, but they play a incredible supporting role in bringing groceries by and taking the older two kids for an afternoon on the town…. This isn’t really a lone ranger sort of role,” he said.
The Meisenheimers have also grappled with the fear of litigation and other potential consequences of entering into the messiness of strangers’ lives, but they choose to live by faith rather than by fear, Murphy said. “By and large, all 15-plus families that we have dealt with have shown nothing but gratitude towards us,” she said. “They’re choice other than this most likely is their child gets placed into state custody. Most of them are very well aware of what that means and they would do anything rather than allow that to happen.”
“I do trust Safe Families to have done their due diligence within the contract and in the ongoing case work. They have some duty to defend their families and not leave us high and dry if suddenly there was a litigious birth parent or something,” said Toby.
Because Safe Families works closely with churches, the organization recommends including it with other ministries covered by church insurance policies, Chamberlain said. Additionally, she said volunteers are covered by the organizations’ affiliated Christian child welfare agencies’ insurance policies and by the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997.
The Meisenheimers have had two placements end early because the children needed more intervention than they felt equipped to handle. “That’s where your case coach is invaluable,” said Toby. “As they’re coming to you and you’re building your relationship with them, you’re not an island in this trying to figure out how to relate to somebody who grew up in the inner city and has almost from a different world. You’re seeing them regularly, you’re asking them for advice, they’re praying for you and they’re your counselors throughout the process.”
The family also takes time to recover between placements. How long that is depends on the “complexity of the case,” Murphy said, and on their own needs. After one of their children was adopted, they took a six-month break. “That might have been longest time without a placement. …We tend to get them back in pretty quickly,” she said. “One of the best parts of Safe Families in terms of a volunteer perspective is that it is flexible. So you can choose what ages you take and how long you will take them.”
“We’re glad we have taken the risk. Our lives have been enriched. We watch our kids grow through the experience to do ministry together with them. It’s worth trying and trying more than once,” said Toby. “If you’ve known somebody who tried something like this and had a bad experience, or you do on your first try, you’ve got to give it a go again, because that’s just the enemy getting in the way of pure and undefiled religion. …This is not a results driven ministry. We are just hopefully improving some brain synapses and showing love early and trusting that a two-degree bend in their direction will yield fruit down the road.”
Safe Families for Children was established by the Lydia Home Association in 2002 after its founder, David Anderson, had an encounter with a mother in crisis, Chamberlain said. The association did not offer temporary placement services for children at the time, so he and his wife (who were licensed foster parents) took her children in to give her a break. “That was kind of birthing the vision,” Chamberlain said. Since then, the alliance has placed more than 5200 children in host homes nationwide.
“The hospitality of the Bible is dangerous, demanding, and must be deliberate,” Anderson wrote in a 2010 article. He acknowledged that there are risks involved in welcoming strangers into our homes, but said, “The blessings run deep when we practice Biblical hospitality and demonstrate to the world that the Christian family, in obedience to Christ, can be a powerful source of change.” More than 5000 children know exactly what he means.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
How great is this tree? It's Dr. Seuss-inspired (my favorite kind!) When I first saw one, it was located curiously close to a delicious local sushi restaurant, so I decided it must be Asian. Then, I began to see them along the road as I was driving to work, and realized that was a stupid assumption. I was trying to imagine how I could have never noticed these wonderful pink powder-puff fluffs growing on these local trees, and decided to do a little research. What is it? Where is it from?
Turns out, it IS Asian!! or, to be more precise, it is native to both Asia and the Middle East. It's called a Mimosa or silk tree. And birds, bees, butterflies and hummingbirds like it.
I have ALSO discovered that this is an "invasive tree" and many folks are up-in-arms about people who plant it in this part of the world. Apparently it re-seeds quite easily and can be a bit of a pain. But I can't imagine anything quite as charming as an overabundance of pink powder-puff-fluff trees - even if they ARE invasive.
My photos are all rather close-up because I didn't like the surroundings...but there's an entire pool devoted to the Mimosa at Flickr, and a couple better overviews here and here.
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Amateur stargazers have a new way to explore the heavens - with an update to Google's free global mapping application Google Earth.
This program shows users a globe of the Earth, which they can search for landmarks, high-resolution images and information tagged to the planet by other users. Google says the original application has been downloaded more than 250 million times.
The new feature, called Sky, adds a wealth of astronomical data to Google Earth, including images of more than 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies.
At the press of a button, a user sees their perspective shift upwards, revealing the correct constellation of stars for their selected position on Earth. They can then pick out particular stars or planets manually, or using the search field, and zoom upwards to see more detailed images and additional information. Some 20,000 celestial objects can be searched for by name using the Sky feature.
Astronomical imagery and information comes from a number of scientific organisations including the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CalTech Palomar Observatory, the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre and the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Although a number of stargazing programs already exist, such as Starry Night, Redshift and The Sky, Francisco Diego, an astronomer at University College London and president of the UK Association for Astronomy Education says Sky has its advantages. It is simpler than many of these programs, he says, and will appeal to many amateur astronomers because it lets them upload and pin their own images to the sky.
"It could be a kind of astronomical YouTube," says Diego says. "Amateur astronomers will have a fantastic opportunity to display their own work. They discover a lot of supernovae; I think Google are going to be overwhelmed with information."
Jason Chuck, a product marketing manager at Google, hopes the tool could make a useful teaching tool. "Even if you don't know a lot about space, you can zoom out and it can guide you," he says. "If you are teaching stuff in the classroom it can be your guide."
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Cardinal’s Sand Plant Takes Flight
To ensure a good, timely supply of quality sand, this glass factory branched out into the aggregates business.
by Kerry Clines, Senior Editor
In southern Oklahoma, just a bit off the beaten path, is a brand new sand plant owned by the largest glass producer in North America and, probably, the second largest in the world. However, the glass company has never been in the aggregates industry before – at least not until last year. The sand plant, FG Minerals LLC, is a division of Cardinal Glass Industries and is the glass company’s first venture into the aggregates business. But if all goes well, it may not be the last.
The idea for the sand plant started back in 2004 when Cardinal Glass Industries built a float glass factory in Durant, Okla., says John Van Der Wal, sand plant manager. When the glass factory, Cardinal FG Co., first opened, it bought its sand in Arkansas and shipped it in by rail, which was expensive and, at times, unpredictable. The sand didn’t always make it to the plant. Sometimes, it ended up in another state or the train derailed on the way, which caused supply problems at the glass factory.
McCabe Industrial Minerals, Inc., a consulting company located in Tulsa, Okla., approached Cardinal with information about a piece of land about 14 miles north of Durant. It was available, and the consulting company suggested that the glass company could open up its own source for sand on that site, rather than purchase it from a sand plant in Arkansas.
Testing was done on the property to make sure the sand met the quality and composition criteria necessary for making glass. Permitting soon followed. “It was an old cow pasture,” Van Der Wal says. “We dug a hole with an excavator, made a pond, and put a dredge in.” But that was the easy part. A processing plant also needed to be built.
Numerous manufacturers and service providers helped build the wet and dry plants. “Krebs provided the dredge pump, slurry pumps, and all the cyclones and whirlsizers for the wet plant,” Van Der Wal says. “Everything else (for the wet plant) was provided by GreyStone.”
In terms of the dry plant, B.W. Sinclair provided bucket elevators and conveyors, while silo tanks were built by Tank Connection. Carrier built the fluid bed dryer, and Rotex provided the screens.
Structural fabrication and general construction of the plant was spearheaded by Texoma Millwright and Welding. When it came time for electrical controls, Van Der Wal turned to Millenium – the same company Cardinal used for the glass factory. In-house expertise, in the form of Cardinal Electrical Engineer Ted Cole, handled the installation of controls for the entire plant.
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Medieval gardens, £9.99
Length: 13.400 cm (of longest axe)
Gift of Canon W. Greenwell
P&EE 1879 12-9 1947-53, 1956-58, 1960-62, 1964-66
Hoard from Ayton East Field
Later Neolithic, about 3000-2500 BC
North Yorkshire, England
A person of some importance?
This hoard was found in a pit dug into the top of an oval cairn. The burial cairn, constructed of limestone rubble, was first opened by A.D. Conyngham in 1848. Surviving records suggest that the hoard was found with a burial. The surviving finds comprise three flint axes and a flint adze, five lozenge-shaped arrowheads, a polished flint knife and two flakes, an antler 'macehead' and two boar-tusk blades.
The custom of burying individuals with prestigious grave-goods had begun by 3000 BC. The earlier Neolithic practice was of burial in communal tombs, with few objects placed with the dead. In this later period, individuals of some status in the community were buried with selected items of their personal property. This must indicate a more ranked society, where access to such 'special' objects became restricted to the few.
D.V. Clarke, T.G. Cowie and A. Foxon, Symbols of power at the time o (London, HMSO, 1985)
I.A. Kinnes and I.H. Longworth, Catalogue of the excavated Pre (London, The British Museum Press, 1985)
I.A. Kinnes, Round barrows and ring-ditches (London, The British Museum Press, 1979)
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For the past four years, I’ve held a small summer camp for an interesting group of boys. It was started by a client of mine who thought it would be fun to have a camp in her backyard, but needed some help. We started when the boys were just six years old, and since then, we’ve held the camp for one week every August. I have to say, it’s a very unique group of boys! Each of them has special gifts ranging from sports, to music, to engineering. They are clever, witty, and very bright, and they get along really well with each other. It’s been a special treat watching them grow up.
Each day of camp has a different theme: science, sports, “backyard ballistics,” and so on, in order to embrace all of the myriad talents that the group of boys possesses. It’s a yearly challenge for me, coming up with new and exciting projects that will push the boys to work together (or sometimes by themselves), and open them up to new experiences.
The other day, I thought it would be fun to try the “egg experiment.” For those of you who are unfamiliar, it’s a challenge where you must safely transport a raw egg twenty feet (or more) without any direct human contact. Pulleys, ramps, and slides may all be used, but a human hand may not touch the egg nor its container once it has been put in motion. And of course, the most important thing: the egg cannot break in transit.
When I first gave the boys the challenge, I had visions of strings tied to containers and winches that would pull the egg across the yard, or maybe long ramps made out of cardboard and wood. What I wasn’t prepared for was flying eggs and egg funerals!
The most exciting part was watching my nine-year-old inventors grasp the challenge and take off in teams without any prompting or adult supervision. They were off like a shot! Some chose to work in teams, and others by themselves, but what was interesting was how they seemed to naturally break off into groups as if they had been assigned from the start. It was as if some boys had a magnetic pull that drew them together. And amazingly, these teams (and the individuals) all worked really well within themselves and with the other groups. There was no sense of competition, only determination and focus. Each group was set on achieving their goal, but equally fascinated by how others had accomplished the task.
I’m sure that a real school teacher would frown on my version of this “eggs-periment,” because when the boys asked me if they could use the zipline installed in the backyard as a means of transport, I of course said “Yes!” But it’s my summer camp, and I figure if the boys came up with the idea to use the zipline, why not let them use it? After all, the zipline ended up presenting its own challenges, especially with momentum! We had some spectacular egg “deaths.” One must have catapulted twenty feet after the zipline hit its limit. It was a sight to see, and a cause of much cheering by all!
What I hadn’t expected in the course of these experiments were the egg funerals. The boys mourned the loss of each egg that gave its life. It was hysterical! There were tombstones made, graves dug, and keening -- yes, keening! -- by the gravesites. There were eulogies exulting the heroic eggs that had given their lives for the betterment of mankind, and egg carton “limousines” who pulled up with the survivors so that they could pay their respects to their fallen comrades.
As I watched these proceedings I felt an odd prickling in the back of my eyes. I was actually getting teary! Watching as the boys immersed themselves in this off the cuff role play made me feel like the Grinch at Christmas – my heart practically grew three sizes that day, and I felt like it was going to burst out of my overalls. I turned to my assistant Jane, and I could see she was feeling it too. There was just something really magical and wonderful about what was happening – children completely immersed in creativity. And it was then that I got a tiny taste of what it might mean to actually be a parent – to be privy to that unadulterated joy daily.
I’m not a parent, but this experience gave me the briefest of glimpses into what it must feel like to be one. It blew me away. I have the utmost respect for parents and caretakers; it’s a full-time job, nurturing and protecting little minds and bodies. I know it’s not a job I can take on myself, but sometimes my work allows me a small taste of what it’s like to share in that responsibility, and I can’t thank God enough for letting me have this gift.
Now, anyone up for some scrambled eggs?
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Apricot & Goji “Rice” Krispies Treats
Posted on February 24, 2013 by Alison Murray
Sometimes I feel a bit lost at work when I’m asked by customers which of our boxed cereals they should eat. I really want to exclaim “None!” and explain how unhealthy and processed they can be. Do you know how flaked, shredded, puffed or extruded cereals are made? Yes even the cereals labelled as ‘Natural’ are manufactured in this way and they are still highly processed and devoid of nutrition. It’s argued they are even more dangerous (see here [Sidebar]).
Instead of those brightly coloured boxes I like to encourage people to get back to basics and make their own healthful mix of nuts, seeds, fruit and, at times, puffed grains. Now, I said puffed grain, not extruded puffed cereal. Made by pressure cooking grains with steam, puffed wholegrains are a great way to add texture to a home-made muesli mix or cereal topper. You can even do it at home if you want to – e.g with amaranth or cooked rice, quinoa, millet or barley. Don’t confine the use of puffed wholegrains to breakfast-time though, they are also fantastic for making your own home-made Rice Krispie Treats (Kellogs LCM).
Now I did say “Rice Krispies” but these bars are actually made with puffed millet, a deliciously nutty alternative to puffed rice and higher in protein and fibre. Popping or puffing uses rapid heat to explode the grain so there is supposedly little loss of nutrients (besides some of it’s B vitamin content). Puffed millet has a delicious taste reminiscent of cashews and when combined here with sun-butter and linseed meal gives you a lovely dose of protein and fibre per serving.
There’s nothing nasty in this recipe, the marshmallow and margarine in your traditional home-made Rice Krispies bar recipes are replaced with delicious sun-butter and organic rice malt syrup. Inspired by a recipe at Healthful Pursuit, I’ve just added organic Turkish apricots and goji berries give you some added colour and flavour. There’s some buckwheat kernels in there too to give a satisfying “crunch” to every bite. It’s easy to make, you don’t need to bake and you’ll end up with 16 yummy squares at the end of this recipe. Get your mixing arm warmed up!
- 3 cups puffed millet (or other puffed wholegrain)
- 1 cup buckwheat kernels
- 2 tbsp flax (linseed) meal
- ¾ cup finely chopped organic dried Turkish apricots
- ¼ cup goji berries
- ½ cup organic rice malt syrup
- ½ cup sunflower butter (or other seed/nut butter)
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Grease a square cake tin. In a large bowl combine puffed millet, buckwheat, flax meal, dried apricot and goji berries. Put aside.
- In a small saucepan combine rice malt syrup, sunflower butter and vanilla extract. Stir mixture over medium heat for 5 minutes or until melted, smooth and glossy. Pour melted mixture over popped millet mix and combine quickly with a large spoon until well coated.
- Spoon mixture into prepared square cake tin and press out to edges firmly with a spatula. Firm mixture down into pan and cool in the fridge for an hour before cutting into squares.
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As the sequestration cuts begin, it is crystal clear to the American people that our elected federal officials are more interested in playing politics than in sound government.
House Speaker John Boehner called off talks last Thursday that could’ve stopped the sequestration cuts from going into effect the next day. This was after President Barack Obama offered numerous proposals of budget cuts that were all turned down by the House GOP, mostly because the president insisted on tax increases to accompany the cuts.
Obama also proposed a cut in the corporate tax and a steeper tax cut for manufacturers by closing loopholes in the tax code. But House Republicans said no.
In addition, Obama offered to reduce spending in health care programs such as Medicare by $400 billion over 10 years, change an inflation formula for government benefits that would result in lower cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and other programs, and reduce other spending, for total reductions of $900 billion over 10 years. House Republicans said no.
Those cuts, together with about $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction already achieved over the past two years through spending cuts and a year-end tax increase on taxpayers making more than $400,000 would achieve a $4 trillion deficit reduction target. But House Republicans were still dissatisfied, in large part because of the accompanying proposal to raise taxes.
Now, American citizens are left to wonder whether Obama’s foes are going too far in their opposition to his proposals. They - House Republicans and Obama - chose to let sequestration begin, despite the indiscriminate funding cuts that come with it. This is simply bad government - and bad politics.
We elect our legislators to navigate the labyrinth of public finance carefully and expertly so that the country ends up in the best place. But instead we get indiscriminate hacking. And President Obama is not blameless in this farce. Choosing the path of political expediency, he agreed during his first term to the sequester.
Sequester backers trot out numbers that show that the new cuts won’t really amount to much and are a start in the right direction. But those cuts will mean jobs lost, which means people’s livelihoods will suffer. The job losses won’t be massive, but they’ll feel massive to anyone who loses a job because politicians couldn’t find a compromise.
It’s time for House Republicans and Obama to have serious talks about how to prevent future economic crises so the next four years won’t be a series of fiscal cliffs that dominate Washington’s time while needed policy changes go by the wayside.
The Herald-Bulletin, Anderson, Ind.
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The 80:20 rule in Lyme disease dynamics: causes and consequences of variable tick burdens on mice and chipmunks.
Brunner, Jesse*,1, Ostfeld, Richard1, 1 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY
ABSTRACT- Pathogen vectors, such as mosquitoes and ticks, tend to be aggregated on their hosts such that a small fraction of hosts feed the majority of the vectors while most hosts feed relatively few. Those hosts that are frequently bitten or highly infested are generally going to be infected earlier, more often, and with heavier pathogen loads than the rest of the population, and will therefore be responsible for infecting the bulk of new and naïve vectors. Identifying these hosts is therefore important for understanding transmission dynamics and also for designing effective intervention strategies. We were interested in the distribution of blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, on small mammals, and how aggregation on these hosts might influence transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, both to these rodents and to humans. We used a likelihood approach to identify host characteristics associated with large tick burdens in an 11-year dataset of larval and nymphal tick counts on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) in an oak-dominated forest in southeastern New York. Once year-to-year variability was taken into account, individual host characteristics, such as sex, age, and size, were strong predictors of tick burdens, whereas population-level characteristics such as population density had little support. There was also evidence of a positive correlation between nymphal and larval burdens, indicating that those individuals that feed the next generation of ticks are also the most likely to be infectious. We then used some simple models to examine how the strongly clumped tick distribution influences Borrelia transmission from nymphal ticks to mice and chipmunks to larval ticks, and how different control strategies might alter the prevalence of Borrelia infection.
Key words: disease ecology, aggregation and transmission, likelihood
All materials copyright The Ecological Society of America (ESA), and may not be used without written permission.
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We all have our differences. Be it race or religion, political views or economic stature, or whether or not we think Hilary Swank is attractive, we are different people.
GAHHH!… don’t look directly at her!
Despite those differences, we can all agree that the movie Cool Runnings is an incredibly inspirational film.
That it is based on a true story makes it all the more inspirational.
Wait, what? All the characters in the film were fictional?
Well, still, the premise of the story is what matters. The idea of three, world-class Jamaican sprinters and their wise-cracking, egg-kissing friend falling just short of making the Olympics, only to turn to a sport to a winter sport in an effort to achieve their dreams is incredibly moving.
Huh? None of the bobsledders in real life were Jamaican sprinters, but were recruited from the military instead?
….. So what! It says based on a true story. It’s not a documentary! Besides, even if they weren’t sprinters, they still faced such a dramatic uphill climb to reach their goals. They had no money, they practiced in a push cart and they got to Calgary on what appears to be the day before the Olympics started! It’s amazing that they were able to overcome all of that!
Come again? They were funded by two Americans with a ton of money and arrived in Calgary to practice with a real bobsled on a real bobsled track months before eventually heading to Austria to compete in a few minor events to get their bearings and returning for the Olympics?
Yeah, and I bet there weren’t any real montages either, jerk.
Who cares! You are just like that creepy East German guy and everyone else, hating on the poor Jamaicans!
Oh, come on! No one hated them?! The bobsled community loved the fact that the Jamaicans were trying to qualify? They were graciously welcomed and were even given a sled by a competing team in order to help them qualify?
Ugh. Okay, so based on a true story just means that there used to not be a Jamaican bobsled team and now there is. It doesn’t dampen our enthusiasm for the movie and it certainly doesn’t lessen the moral of the story. It does, however, lessen the value of the phrase “based on a true story.”
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Iron ore pricing has caused tension between buyers and sellers
Two of the world's biggest mining companies have agreed landmark deals with Asian steel mills to buy iron ore on quarterly contracts.
The deals could mark the end of annual contracts that have formed the basis for pricing in the steel industry for decades.
Vale and BHP Billiton said the new system was fairer and more transparent.
The price of iron ore under their first quarterly contracts has risen strongly, reflecting increased demand.
According to reports, Brazil's Vale is now charging Japan's Nippon Steel around $105 per tonne of iron ore.
By Will Smale, BBC News business reporter
BHP and Vale's announcements could mark the end of an era.
For decades global iron ore prices have been set on an annual basis, the idea being that 12-month pricing brings much-needed stability to what has always been a volatile industry.
However, the big growth in iron ore also traded freely on the markets - so called 'spot' iron ore - has put increasing pressure on the annual price arrangement in recent years.
Four years ago, only 4% of iron ore was available to buy on the spot market, but this has now risen to about one third - with most being bought by China.
When the spot price has been significantly below the set annual price, the steelmakers complain, and when it is above, it is the iron ore firms that are unhappy.
By switching to quarterly pricing, BHP and Vale hope that the fixed price will more closely mirror that of the spot market, and be more able to respond to changes in iron ore demand.
It remains to be seen whether Rio Tinto - the third of the big three iron firms will follow BHP and Vale's lead.
And more importantly, whether China - the world's largest importer of iron ore - will also agree to accept quarterly pricing.
In recent years China has strongly opposed the annual prices the iron ore firms have offered - saying they are too high - but continued to support 12-month pricing in principle.
This compares with the 2009/10 annual price of around $62, that expires on Wednesday.
If Vale and Anglo-Australian BHP had continued with annual pricing, it is likely that the new annual price would also have been set around $105 per tonne, as demand for iron ore is now rising strongly again compared with 2009's much lower volumes.
But by moving to quarterly contracts, the two firms are hoping to end the friction that the old annual pricing system caused, especially when the cost of iron ore on the open market moved strongly up or down away from the fixed 12-month price.
"BHP Billiton today announced that it had reached agreement with a significant number of customers throughout Asia to move existing iron ore contracts that were previously priced annually onto a shorter-term basis," said BHP.
Pedro Gutemburg at Vale said: "The old system generates never-ending confrontations between buyers and sellers."
While Vale said it had signed new quarterly agreements with Japanese and South Korean steelmakers, BHP was more vague, only saying it had reached agreement with "a significant number of customers throughout Asia".
This leaves open the question as to whether China - the world's largest importer of iron ore - has also agreed to the new quarterly deals.
Some analysts have speculated that some smaller Chinese steel firms have also signed up, but the Chinese government has yet to make any announcement.
It also remains to be seen whether Rio Tinto, the third of the big three iron ore companies will follow Vale and BHP's lead. It has not yet commented.
Iron ore negotiations is a sensitive subject for Rio, especially a day after four of its executives were jailed in China for bribery related to iron ore price talks.
Some analysts think Rio will ultimately follow suit.
"Annual prices are a relic of the past," said Tim Schroeders at Pengana Capital.
"In today's environment, you need to be able to adjust to the market reality a lot quicker than on an annual basis."
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Piotr Andreyevitch Streltzof (1893 – 1973), better known as Father Arseny, was a spiritual father in Russia during the period of communist rule under Stalin. Father Arseny is believed to have performed many miracles during harsh times in the cold Siberian prisons, where there was little hope for those who were encamped.
In Stalin's Russia, priests were considered anti-communists because many of them had different political views than Stalin. As a parish priest, Father Arseny was convicted for anti-communist propaganda and became Prisoner No. 18376.
Life in the barracks was brutal. Many of the prisoners were often ordered to work outside in the below-freezing weather, while others had specific duties inside, such as keeping facilities heated. If any of the tasks were not performed properly, prisoners were beaten severely (sometimes to the point of death) by those in charge of them.
While in prison, Father Arseny encountered a former student by the name of Alexei. Alexei was an atheistic individual who mocked God and all of those who followed him, but when he met Father Arseny, he began to see life in a different light.
An event that decisively persuaded Alexei to believe in God occurred when both Father Arseny and Alexei were sent outside to be punished for petty offenses. The lieutenant in charge ordered Father Arseny and Alexei to stay in a metal shack for 48 hours without food and drink. The temperature was -30° Celsius, which felt worse in the freezing metal shack.
While in the shack, Father Arseny and Alexei recited prayers to God and visualized being in a warm place. Father Arseny and Alexei survived the 48 hours. Before them, nobody had been able to live after being in the metal shack for 48 hours. How they survived the cold weather without food and drink is still a mystery today. However, his spiritual children believe it was the work of God.
Under Stalin, many innocents were imprisoned due to the dictator's quota on the number of people that needed to be arrested for anti-communist activities. Those who met Father Arseny, and lived to tell their stories, praised him as a man of God who touched many lives in the camp through prayer and faith.
This article is partially based on wikipedia:Father_Arseny.
"the servant of God, Alexander", ed., Vera Bouteneff, trans. Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father. Crestwood, NY, 1998, ISBN 0881411809, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
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Rotary-engined cars frequently suffer from fuel starvation caused by inadequate fuel pump delivery at full throttle. The problem arises because the pump, though it may deliver adequate pressure at idle, cannot hold that pressure when the engine demands more fuel. As a rule of thumb, we have found that, in stock street use, if the fuel pressure drops below half of the correct fuel pressure, the power output may be affected. In "street ported" engines it is undesirable to let the pressure drop more than 30% from the idle pressure. In race engines, the drop should be no more than 10% and preferably less. In actual use, fuel starvation is felt as a lack of high RPM and high speed power, even though the initial throttle response seems good.
To test the system, install a 5/16-inch "T" fitting in the fuel line ahead of the carburetor and plumb in a 0 to 6 psi gauge on a three-foot length of 5/16-inch hose (be sure to use hose clamps). Tape the gauge to the outside of the windshield so it can be read from inside the car. Start the car, check for leaks, and observe the fuel pressure gauge. The gauge should read within .5 psi of the pressure listed in the following table. Accelerate the car at full throttle in second or third gear and observe the fuel pressure. If the pressure drops below the recommended pressure limits, you may have a fuel pressure problem. Before condemning the pump, check the fuel filter near the pump. Also check for damaged or kinked fuel lines, especially under the car. Another possibility is a weak battery, and/or a failing charging system. If all else fails, change the pump. All race cars should have a fuel pressure gauge installed.
Suggested fuel pressures are as follows:
1971-1973 12A 3.5 PSI
1974-1975 12A 4.0 PSI
1976-1983 12A 4.5 PSI
1984-1985 12A 3.5 PSI
All 13B 5.0 PSI
Holley Carburetors (All) - 6.0 PSI
Weber Carburetors (48 & 51IDA) All - 4.5 PSI
Excessive pressure may cause the fuel level to rise and overflow. Conversely, insufficient pressure may cause the fuel level to drop enough that "foamy" fuel, caused by the spraying of fuel exiting the needle valve, is drawn into the fuel jets, thereby upsetting the fuel mixture.
The accelerator pump is very important to clean, crisp throttle response. Check the system with the engine off to see if fuel begins to spray from the accelerator pump shooter into the throttle bores from the first moment the throttle is moved.
Copyright 2007-2013 Racing Beat, Inc ©
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State Dept., Coast Guard to lash health record systems together
The State Department and the U.S. Coast Guard will begin sharing an electronic health record system, according to State Department officials.
State's Office of Medical Services and the Coast Guard’s Health and Safety Work-Life Directorate recently signed an interagency agreement to share an integrated health information system, which includes a commercial electronic health record system developed by Epic Systems Corp., officials said.
Navy recruits first to enjoy lifetime electronic health care record
The agreement accords with interagency acquisitions authorized by the Economy Act, State Department officials said. Along those lines, the collaboration taps the Coast Guard’s initial procurement investment in the electronic health record system.
The plan calls for setting up an interagency disaster recovery network supported by electronic health records. For the first time, health care providers working through State’s Office of Medical Services will have access to the health records of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments’ personnel when caring for these individuals, officials said.
Under the agreement, State and Coast Guard clinicians will also have access to the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), the unified electronic health record for current and retired members of the U.S. Armed Services.
VLER is compatible with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a set of common standards and technologies for sharing health information being spearheaded by the federal Office of the National Coordinator for health IT.
This State-Coast Guard project increases the interoperability of information within the federal government and private sectors, which is a critical component of health care reform, State officials said.
Rutrell Yasin is senior editor for Government Computer News. Follow him on Twitter: @Yasin36.
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Dragons, dragons have been a part of myth and fantasy for centuries and now they are even more popular then ever. Two days ago I drew a dragon while I was live and now today I will submit it. You will get an awesome lesson on “how to draw baby dragon step by step”. I do already have a lesson on a baby dragon but, I wanted to sketch out another that was more detailed and kind of realistic looking. In the end I love how the dragon turned out. Drawing dragons is fun, and you can get as creative as you want to be because dragons are drawn in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. I decided to color in this baby dragon a greenish shade, with his tongue being a bit of a bluish green color. The wings are a deep brick color which emphasis's the color of the baby dragons hyde. The legs and arms are stubby just as a toddler dragon's limbs should look, and the skin is smoother than that of an older dragon. The face of this baby dragon also looks premature which is totally normal. As the dragon grows up the features will be more intense and fierce looking, giving the dragon it's powerful stature. The day I drew this dragon out was so much fun. In the next day, I will be submitting some really cool stuff that I am sure all you artists out there will enjoy. I know its going to be difficult to wait and see what pops up next on Dragoart, but that is the fun of waiting. Well, I guess that's it guys. I will leave you to this tutorial on “how to draw baby dragon step by step”. Peace out and happy drawing guys.
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Martin Tompa (email@example.com)
I am a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where I teach discrete mathematics, logic, probability, design and analysis of algorithms, and other related courses. I have always loved playing games. Games are great tools for learning to think logically but, more important, seem to me an integral part of happy family or social life. I will be delighted if game-players, parents, teachers, and students find this series fun and useful.
My excitement about Schnapsen was rekindled by playing against an iPhone program called Master Schnapsen/66 written by two friends at Psellos. Set to play at its “Master” level of difficulty, this program is one of the two most formidable opponents I have found. It comes up with surprising and brilliant plays, and I have learned an enormous amount of Schnapsen strategy by playing with it. Nearly every deal in this Schnapsen Log arose during those hours of playing with Master Schnapsen/66.
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