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Dirofilaria immitis is the medical term for the infection we all recognize as heartworm. The first cases of feline heartworm were reported in Brazil in 1921, since then it has been reported around the world. It is interesting to note that feline heartworm is reported more frequently in areas where dogs with heartworm are reported as well. However the number of reported feline cases remains lower than canine cases in these high-risk areas. Furthermore, the male cat is more susceptible to this disease than the female. Also the presenting symptoms and diagnostic approaches are different in dogs and cats reported to have contracted this disease.
Heartworm is passed on to cats by infected mosquitoes that carry the L3 Larvae. When the larvae mature and become adults they develop into worms and these parasites attach to their host and live within the body. [...]
Heartworms pose a very serious and life threatening condition in dogs if left untreated. A severe infestation can be fatal for any dog, however dogs that are very young, senior dogs or dogs with other health or respiratory problems are at high risk for death due to these internal parasites. Although heartworms historically were only found in the southern United States, mostly along the Mississippi River and the southern Atlantic and Gulf coastal areas, they are now found in almost every country including southern areas of Canada, all of South America, Australia, Europe and even into Japan. [...]
Since the United States encompasses such a huge land area as well as a diverse range of climates and environments, it is possible to plan an incredible number of vacations right within the country. After all you can spend the summer on the beaches of California, travel to see beautiful fall colors in the New England states, move through to Colorado for some outstanding skiing in the winter then vacation in Florida in the early spring. There are also the border states of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico if you want warmth virtually year round. [...]
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Politicans, neighborhood leaders back nonviolence project in Mt. Auburn
Mike LoVuolo has a vision for his Mt. Auburn neighborhood in East Dallas one that’s free of the sound of gunfire.
LoVuolo, who is vice president of the Mt. Auburn Neighborhood Association and a board member of Stonewall Democrats of Dallas, brought neighborhood residents, political officials, Democratic candidates and Dallas police and fire safety officers together on Saturday for a summit on non-violence. A crowd gathered in the parking lot of Iglesia de Dios Church on Parkview Avenue to hear LoVuolo’s plans for a gun buyback program and to listen to civil rights leaders speak.
The event also featured a voter registration table.
“I’m a political activist and I’m a human rights activist, so I’m very excited about it,” said LoVuolo.
Martin Luther King III, who came to Dallas for a youth summit on non-violence in Oak Cliff, was also scheduled to speak at the East Dallas gathering, but a traffic jam in the Mixmaster kept him from attending. King’s travel itinerary forced him to head for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport instead.
Representatives of King and the Rev. Peter Johnson of Dallas spoke in his place.
The event was held to help promote the gun buyback planned March 31, 2007, on the anniversary of deceased Hispanic labor leader Cesar Chavez’s birthday. The coordinators plan to exchange gift certificates for guns and to give children other types of toys in exchange for their toy guns.
“Maybe if they quit playing with them when they are young they will not want to play with them when they get older,” LuVuolo said.
The plan calls for the guns to be melted down and molded into a sculpture to be placed somewhere in the neighborhood.
LoVuolo said even though King was unable to attend, he felt a sense of accomplishment. About 100 people attended the outside event, despite blistering heat.
“We got our neighbors together and one of the churches involved with the neighborhood as well,” LoVuolo said.
Political officials attending the event included City Council member Pauline Medrano, who helped coordinate it, and Dallas Independent School District board members Adam Medrano and Ron Price. Former Dallas council member John Loza also attended.
Medrano, whose district includes the Mt. Auburn neighborhood, said she wants to help promote nonviolence and conflict resolution among youths.
“We’re trying to do something in terms of educating our youth and their families,” said Medrano, who noted that random gunfire is a big problem in the Mt. Auburn area.
Medrano said the key to improving the quality of life in a neighborhood is to get residents involved in helping clean it up and keeping it free of illegal activity.
The Rev. Sergio de la Garza, pastor of Iglesia de Dios, said he was proud for his church to be involved in the effort to improve the quality of the neighborhood’s life.
“I think it is a great challenge,” said Garza, whose church attracts about 125 worshipers each Sunday.
LuVuolo said he plans to ask King to return to Dallas for the gun buyback at the church next March.
Coordinators of the buyback are hoping to involve other neighborhoods with gunfire problems in similar projects, LuVuolo said.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition, July 21, 2006.
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[This story was originally published August 18, 2012]
The story behind the story that U.S. journalist Adam Piore recently published in the online magazine The Atavist began in April 1999 shortly after he had landed in Cambodia for the first time.
As the newest staff member at The Cambodia Daily, he recalls, “The first assignment they gave me was reporting on the men who had been arrested on the bank of the Mekong attempting to blow up the Sokimex gas facility with an East-German rocket launcher that they could not get to work.”
Had they been less inept, millions of gallons of highly flammable fuel may have ignited to disastrous effect on the waterfront just a short drive beyond the Japanese Friendship Bridge.
As is often the case in Cambodia when it comes to so-called plots against the government, the police had been warned in advance by an anonymous tip and arrived while the men were still struggling with the Armbrust rocket launcher—a shoulder-fired weapon that shouldn’t have been too difficult to master.
Later, at the police station, the five men would claim membership to an unknown revolutionary group: the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF).
Since nothing had happened except for the would-be terrorists’ arrest, Mr. Piore was told to summarize the incident in 120 words for The Cambodia Daily. But he felt there had to be much more to that story than incompetant revolutionaries.
He ended up following the CFF story and its strange developments for more than a decade, which he recounted in the online publication The Atavist in April.
Entitled “The Accidental Terrorist,” Mr. Piore’s account follows the rise and fall of Chhun Yasith, the Cambodian-American tax accountant who launched the CFF group out of his small office in Long Beach, California—the capital of the Cambodian community in the U.S.
“The Accidental Terrorist” describes the bizarre episodes that included Chhun Yasith setting up a base of operation in Thailand where he met with members of Cambodia’s various political groups, and then orchestrating in November 2000 a bungled armed attack on government offices in Phnom Penh that claimed the lives of at least seven people.
The violent, if poorly organized and executed, attacks were branded a coup by the government, and grandiosely by Chhun Yasith as his attempt to topple Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. Though the fighting took place over several hours one November night in 2000, there was never any chance that CFF rebels threatened the government’s grip on power.
Mr. Piore’s story lists intriguing details such as the fact that Chhun Yasith was asked to raise funds for the U.S. Republican Party after his name had been linked to the failed “coup” and that he dined in Washington, D.C., with President George W. Bush and 7,500 other party supporters in the mid-2000s.
Investigated by the FBI, he was later brought to trial and, in April 2008, found guilty of conspiracy and of engaging in a military expedition against a nation with which the U.S. is not at war.
Chhun Yasith is now serving a life sentence in a U.S. high-security federal facility, where he is filing an appeal against his sentence.
Mr. Piore’s story is written in a genre referred to as narrative journalism to which digital technology has given rise.
“I like to tell good stories,” he said in a phone interview from his home in New York City. “The idea is that, in the digital age, there’s opportunity to write stories that are longer than magazine stories but shorter than a full-length book.”
“The Accidental Terrorist” is around 12,000 words while magazine stories may range from 1,000 to 4,000 words and books require upwards of 35,000 words.
With this length and story format, one could not avoid some shortcuts through Cambodia’s complex history of the last decades.
However, since The Atavist is also a platform that makes stories accessible on an iPad, iPhone or in text-only versions for Kindle, Nook, Kobo and Google Play, Mr. Piore created in the text links to additional anecdotes and information that would have broken the flow of the story itself but could be of interest to some readers, he explained.
In the course of his research, Mr. Piore interviewed the FBI agents who had investigated Chhun Yasith, went to Long Beach to meet with his family and friends, and read pages after pages of court documents from the trial. Since Chhun Yasith is in a maximum-security penitentiary, Mr. Piore was not allowed to meet him for the story but they corresponded at length by email.
Although Mr. Piore also wanted to retrace the story of the CFF, his main goal was to find out who Chhun Yasith really was.
“What would prompt someone who is an accountant, who has money, has established a peaceful life in the United States, and has a family: What would prompt him to undertake such an unlikely effort and risk it all,” he said.
Here was a man who had fled the Khmer Rouge, immigrated in 1982 to the U.S. where he had acquired four unofficial wives in succession as well as 10 children, and had managed to enroll hundreds of Cambodian Americans into contributing time and money for an armed movement to topple the Hun Sen government in Cambodia.
Was Chhun Yasith charismatic? “Yes: Even one of the FBI agents I spoke to said some people just have ‘the juice’ as he called it,” Mr. Piore said. “And he is a likeable guy when you meet him. He’s just so friendly and he seems to wear his heart on his sleeve.”
When Chhun Yasith was finally arrested, Cambodians in Long Beach—whom he had helped with everything from social assistance and immigration paperwork to advice about their teenagers lured into gangs—volunteered the money to help him post bail.
“They offered to put up $1 million…. These were poor Cambodians who were willing to put up their houses as collateral and everything they owned to try and get this man out of prison,” Mr. Piore said.
“However damaging and disruptive and dangerous his effort was, I felt that he was an interesting character who, at least in his mind, thought he was doing the right thing.”
Still, people died, others were injured and at least one man was maimed in the 2000 attack. Some CFF members arrested after the bungled “coup” are still serving life sentences in Cambodian jails.
An intriguing detail that Mr. Piore points out is the fact that Chhun Yasith was convinced that the U.S. would approve of his efforts to topple Mr. Hun Sen. After all, U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher had penned a resolution calling for the prosecution of Mr. Hun Sen for “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide” during the Pol Pot regime and, even though no evidence had ever emerged linking the prime minister to Khmer Rouge atrocities, the lawmaker’s resolution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in October 1998.
Mr. Piore spent four months writing the story.
“Even though there are some elements of Chhun Yasith’s story that are sad, it was wonderful to remember the places in Phnom Penh, to imagine the Russian Market for instance…I miss Cambodia,” he said.
The Atavist publishers sent Mr. Piore’s story to a prominent agency in Hollywood so that it can be sent to a movie producer. But based on his past experience with the film industry, Mr. Piore says he does not expect to see the odd story of the CFF and Chhun Yasith brought to the screen in the near future.
Having worked for Newsweek magazine after his time at The Cambodia Daily, Mr. Piore is currently a contributing editor to the science publication Discover Magazine and also writes for a number of other magazines including Conde Nast Traveler, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American and several business publications.
© 2012 – 2013, The Cambodia Daily. All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced in print, electronically, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without written permission.
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In programming you can negate a double. At least Google hits tend to that, but there are, though, a lot of hits for invert a double.
While the definition of to invert is clear
to change the normal position of something, especially by turning it upside down or by arranging it in the opposite order
the definition of to negate seems to have a bit different meaning
1 to stop something from having any effect
2 to state that something does not exist
Other dictionaries like merriam-wesbster back that up:
to deny the existence or truth of
to cause to be ineffective or invalid
Having said that I wonder why there are so many Google hits for to negate a double. We neither make it invalid nor we cease its existence.
I found one definition that goes into the direction of turning a value to its opposite but the definition fits more to a boolean than a double because NOT 5 is unequal to MINUS 5.
Computer Science: To perform the machine logic operation NOT gate. thefreedictionary
But the noun negation fits at all:
the exact opposite of something; the act of causing something not to exist or to become its opposite
So, why do we negate a double instead of invert a double?
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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”—Jer 1:5 (NKJV)
Darwin’s Origin of Species proposes natural selection as the mechanism by which simple organisms became increasingly complex, yet he never made a direct claim as to how the first simple organisms came about. Most evolutionists are quick to claim that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution does not claim to explain how life actually began. The question of how the first simple living cell formed requires an answer. The Materialist answer is called abiogenesis—life from non-life through some yet to be identified purely natural process. Non-materialist answers vary from agnostic Intelligent Design to literal biblical Creation.
Abiogenesis is the branch of evolutionary research that seeks to understand and explain how life arose from non-life. This endeavor assumes the materialistic view that life arose through undirected (chance) natural chemical activity. The picture most people have in mind is of a lightening bolt striking some primordial soup. The result is the perfect combination of atoms to form amino acids, the most basic chemical building blocks. Subsequent energy input from heat or electricity supposedly caused these amino acids to bond correctly to form proteins and, somewhere on the heel of this magnificently simple idea, Evolution takes over to drive the ever increasing complexity of life. A number of significant problems make the popular notion of life arising from some ancient soup extremely unlikely.
Life’s most basic chemical components require an environment where the chemicals are free to react. The presence of water in any primordial soup would prevent amino acids and nucleotides from combining. A chemical principle known as the Law of Mass Action says that reactions proceed from highest to lowest concentration. Water forms as a byproduct of amino acid polymerization. The Law of Mass Action means that any process that produces water cannot be performed in the presence of water.
If we assume the soup was completely water-free, containing only free amino acids and nucleotides, the variable reaction rates would require a highly precise timing of reactions for any meaningful combinations to take place to produce a higher functioning polymer. Even the simplest polymeric sequences in our DNA require a degree of precision virtually impossible to be the product of random chance. In addition to the difficulty of random timing of reactions, the location of each reaction matters. Once two amino acids join they form a chain. When the additional acids react, they may react at either end of the chain. A four-part chain would require not only the correct amino acids combining, but combining at the right ends of the chain. With each new link in the chain comes a 50/50 chance of it being added at the wrong end. This means the odds of an incorrect chain combination double with each additional amino acid. Proteins contain hundreds of amino acids linked in a chain, activated in the right sequence and at the right rate. Even if only the right raw amino acids are present in the right relative proportions, the odds of forming an original protein are so slight as to be virtually impossible.
Nucleotides are necessary for DNA and RNA. They are formed by the reactions involving sugars known as reducing sugars. Amino acids are required to form proteins. Reducing sugars and amino acids would be mutually exclusive in a primordial soup because they instantly react with each other. Both components are removed from the mixture and the resulting chemical is useless for the formation of nucleotides or proteins.
Assuming all of the problems above are somehow overcome, the necessary amino acid and sugar molecules must have exactly the correct three-dimensional shape to combine properly. This three-dimensional property of a molecule is called chirality. Chirality can be thought of as handedness. To join correctly, every amino acid of every protein must be left-handed while every nucleotide must be right-handed. If any of the naturally occurring proteins or sugars are handed wrong, the original gene cannot form.
The only way to form a useful polymer sequence is to carefully control the process under very specific laboratory conditions. Abiogenesis—the logical extension of Darwin’s theory—assumes random natural processes formed life. Without conditions and contents being directed by an intelligent designer, formation of original DNA or RNA in a lab is simply impossible. [Dr. Charles McCombs, Acts & Facts 2/09]
Let us put some statistical mathematics in our imaginary primordial soup to understand just how absurd is the possibility of accidental life. The rate of complexity increases exponentially as the number of components increases in a machine. The odds of four unique parts combining in an exact order is 1 in 24; five parts = 1 in 120. If you mix 100 unique parts in a box then pull them out randomly, the odds of doing so in an exact order is about 1 in 10158. If all 1080 atoms in the universe were scrambled twice per second for 30 billion years (1018 seconds), the odds of a 100 atom chain forming in the right order are only 1 in 1042. The most basic living protein has far more than 100 amino acids, each consisting of several atoms. This math does not even factor in the problems of three dimensional shape requirements. The odds of life from non-life are infinitesimal. It seems ridiculous to suggest the building blocks of life formed and combined originally by accident.
Odds have not stopped hopeful evolutionists in their daunting task to demonstrate how life might have arose from non-life. The principles of abiogenesis were most famously put to the test in the 1953 experiment was performed by Stanley Miller with the help of Harold Urey. They reproduced an artificial atmosphere to simulate what they thought might be early earth conditions. They then added the necessary soup components into that atmosphere, then applied electricity. The result was the spontaneous organization of organic molecules. The initial results were hailed as a huge step forward in human understanding of origins. Only later did the various problems with the experiment come to light. First, the simulated atmosphere, made up primarily of methane and ammonia, is universally rejected as impossible as an early Earth atmosphere. Very high electric charges had to be used to cause formation of the organic (carbon-based) molecules. The molecules generated were actually cyanide and formaldehyde, both of which are lethal to living cells. Although the Miller-Urey experiments have now been discredited and generally disavowed even by Evolutionists, the basic idea still lingers. Some text books in use today still provide a false impression that these experiments effectively demonstrated how life arose. Thus far every successful attempt to organize atoms, molecules, chemicals of any other level of complexity has involved the careful and purposeful implementation of an intelligent design under tightly controlled conditions not found in nature. It seems, then, that for man to create he must play at God, imitating Him with purpose, design, and very careful hands.
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An affirmation, or Rich Thought, is a statement of something as if it were true, regardless of whether it’s truth is experienced in actuality or not. Some people are a bit put off by affirmations when they try them and they don’t work. I’ve found that that’s usually because they’re trying to cover up an open wound with an elastoplast, when what it really needs is a good cleaning out and a proper bandage. This is why many people who do affirmations think they don’t work. So how can you use them to make sure they do work?
Firstly, identify whether you’re dealing with a ‘graze’ or a deeper wound. By this I mean, whether you’re trying to shift the [read more]
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Icebreakers are little exercises that help relax tensions and loosen up a formal atmosphere in a meeting where you want to have creative ideas and group participation.
The "Visual Puns" game is a fun activity that gets people thinking creatively. Pick an ordinary object such as a stapler or trashcan. As you pass the object around the room, each person must think of something that the object looks or acts like. For example, a stapler could be an alligator, some castanets or a catapult. A trashcan could be a hat, a soup bowl or a swimming pool for a beetle. Let your imaginations run wild and encourage wild ideas.
Icebreaker: Mixed Phrase
Icebreaker: Punch line
Icebreaker: Name Game
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Chat about these articles and other mind related topics.
Creative Caption Game
Can you make the funniest caption for these odd pictures?
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According to a poll by Gallup International, Ireland now ranks among the top ten atheist nations worldwide, in a huge shift from the last poll in 2005. In the six years between polls, according to the results, one in five Irish set aside religion.
The Gallup International Association poll, titled the Global Index of Religion and Atheism, asked 50,000 people in 57 countries: “Irrespective of whether you attend a place of worship or not, would you say you are a religious person, not a religious person or a convinced atheist?”
In 2011, 47% of Irish respondents said they considered themselves religious, 44% not religious, and 10% convinced atheists. The global average has 59% of respondents self-identifying as religious, 23% as not religious, and 13% as convinced atheists.
When the same poll was conducted in 2005, 69% of Irish respondents identified as religious, 25% as not religious, and 3% as convinced atheists. The 2011 poll results reflect a 22% drop in Irish identification as ‘religious’ in the six years between poll conduction, with a corresponding increase in the ‘not religious’ and ‘convinced atheist’ categories. The United States saw a 13% drop in identification as religious over the same period.
Ireland ties with Austria, Iceland and Australia with ten percent of respondents in the ‘convinced atheist’ category. That puts all four countries behind just seven others for the top percentages of convinced atheists. China was the least religious nation surveyed, with 14% identifying as religious, 30% as not religious and 47% as convinced atheists.
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OR7 crossed the state border yesterday, becoming the first gray wolf known to roam wild in California since the 1920s. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife informed its California counterpart today that the young male, on the move for several months since leaving its pack in northeast Oregon, has been tracked by radio collar into Siskiyou County. He still hasn't been seen or photographed. The event prompted a press release from California DFG director Charlton H. Bonham, who says: “Whether one is for it or against it, the entry of this lone wolf into California is an historic event and result of much work by the wildlife agencies in the West. If the gray wolf does establish a population in California, there will be much more work to do here.” That's politic. I talked about OR7 and the prospect of wolves returning to California in my Monday segment on KCRW this week.
Photo: OR4 is the sire of OR7. Oregon Department of Fish and Game.
Animal-related: Veronique de Turenne has made some disturbing discoveries, and some exciting sightings, near her barn in the Malibu hills.
Previously on LA Observed:
A gray wolf could be approaching California - first since 1924
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Last week, as the P5+1 (the five permanent Security Council members – the United States, France, Britain, China, Russia plus Germany) brought proposals to talks with Iran to contain its nuclear program, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps cadets in Tehran. According to the Fars News Agency, in referring to the Western countries, he said, “The front of oppression, arrogance and bullying is weakening and on the verge of demise despite its apparent hue and cry.” The Supreme Leader called on the Iranian elites and youths to “rely on their talents and double their efforts to accelerate the country’s scientific progress.”
These words resonate as the second round of talks in Baghdad ended late last week seemingly with only one agreement – to meet in Moscow again in mid-June. This, after previous talks a month earlier, led to last week’s meetings. (Do we detect a pattern here?)
On Sunday, May 27, Iran’s nuclear chief Fereydoon Abbasi told Iranian State television that Iran will not halt its production of higher grade uranium of 20%.
Iran's duplicity continues. Talks lead to more talks but Iran shows no sign of containing its nuclear ambitions. Iran wants existing and prospective sanctions curbed, and its full nuclear rights affirmed, but offers nothing in return. And as one American official is quoted as saying, "Every day we don't figure this out is a day they move forward with their nuclear program."
What is clear is that without an understanding, Iran will continue on this path to becoming a nuclear power, threatening not only the region but that of the entire world.
Just the facts
(1) Avoiding and obfuscating restrictions on its nuclear program has been a strategy for Iran for many years. According to a May 14 New York Times article, Hamidreza Taraghi, a political analyst, spokesman for the Islamic Coalition Party and adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said: “Without violating any international laws or the nonproliferation treaty, we have managed to bypass the red lines the West created for us… But here we are, enriching as much as we need for our nuclear energy program.”
In referring to Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, another Iranian official who asked to remain anonymous told the New York Times, “Wait for our leaders to announce, for example, a new mountain bunker so Fordow will be forgotten.”
(2) This tactic is not new. In both 2003 and 2004, the EU-3 nations (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) attempted to address Iran’s nuclear ambition through extended diplomatic efforts. Following the October 2003 talks, Iran “officially agreed to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.” In November 2004, Iran agreed to a temporary suspension of its enrichment program in exchange for the IAEA not referring Iran to the UN Security Council.
Iran’s discussions with the West are in order to buy time to develop nuclear technology.
Iran’s former chief negotiator Hassan Rowhani conceded that Iran had entered into discussions with the West from 2003 to 2005 in order to buy time to develop nuclear technology. In 2006, Rohani told The Telegraph, “The world did not want Pakistan to have an atomic bomb or Brazil to have the fuel cycle, but Pakistan built its bomb and Brazil has its fuel cycle.”
(3) Iran’s relentless call for the destruction of the State of Israel entered a new phase at the same time the P5+1 talks were taking place last week. Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, said to a defense gathering, "The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel.” According to Itay Baron, head of IDF Military Intelligence research, Iran possesses 450 missiles capable of striking Israel.
(4) A new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) indicates that Iran is continuing uranium enrichment work in defiance of U.N. resolutions. According to The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), Iran’s monthly production had risen by about one-third with some of the uranium having been processed into higher-grade material. The ISIS analysis states: “This total amount of 3.5% low enriched uranium hexafluoride, if further enriched to weapon grade, is enough to make over five nuclear weapons.” The IAEA found traces of uranium enriched up to 27% at Iran’s Fordow enrichment plant.
Whether or not this was intentional is undetermined, however, it does show Iran’s capacity to accomplish higher enrichment. Reportedly, it only takes months to enrich uranium to weapon grade, once 20% enrichment is achieved. The report showed that Iran has installed additional uranium enrichment centrifuges at Fordow. Included in the report were satellite images showing “extensive activities” at the Parchin military complex where there have been suspicions of nuclear weapons research, and where Iran has denied IAEA inspectors access to investigate.
(5) Two new rounds of sanctions against Iran are scheduled to go into effect in the coming weeks. On June 28, the U.S. will begin to sanction foreign companies that carry out oil trades with Iran’s central bank. On July 1, the 27 member countries of the European Union will impose a ban on Iranian oil imports.
South America and Beyond
Iran’s capability to produce nuclear weapons has serious ramifications beyond Israel and the Middle East. Iran’s deepening relationships around the world, either directly or through its proxy Hezbollah, means this nuclear technology and weapons could be shared throughout the world. According to a March 2012 report from the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, “There is general consensus among dozens of experts as well as current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials interviewed by the Majority Investigative Staff that Hezbollah — more than any other terror group — is most capable of flipping a U.S. based fundraising cell into a lethal terror force, should Iran decide that is in its interests.” Notably the report states that Hezbollah fundraising cells are “prevalent” throughout the United States.
In South America, Venezuelan President and Iranian ally Hugo Chavez has expressed interest in developing his own nuclear program with assistance from Iran. In 2009, the New York Times reported that Chavez is seeking to “create a ‘nuclear village’ in Venezuela with technological assistance from Iran.”
It has been widely reported that Iran has been actively mining for uranium in Venezuela’s Roraima Basin. Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by Ilan Berman in February 2012 corroborates reports of Iranian mining in the Basin. According to the Wall Street Journal, the basis for the Iran-Venezuela mining initiative is a 2008 signed agreement in which Iran and Venezuela “agreed to cooperate in the fields of nuclear technology.”
Iran has been actively searching for uranium in Latin America.
Iran has also been actively searching for uranium in other parts of Latin America. According to Ilan Berman’s Senate testimony, “a $30 million joint mining deal concluded between Tehran and Quito (Ecuador) back in 2009 has positioned [Ecuador] to eventually become a supplier for the Islamic Republic.” Berman also points out that “Iran is believed to be extracting uranium from as many as 11 different sites in Bolivia’s east, proximate to the country’s industrial capital of Santa Cruz.”
Iran is believed to be working to establish military operations in Latin America. A May 20 report stated that hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guards are training South American forces. And, according to a 2011 AEI report, networks coordinated by Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps operate in at least 12 countries throughout Latin America.
According to testimony given before the House Committee on Homeland Security in July 2011, Latin America security expert Douglas Farah said, “There is growing concern that Hezbollah is providing technology for the increasingly sophisticated narco tunnels now being found along the U.S.-Mexican border.” Farah points out that DEA officials suspect that Hezbollah views drug trafficking as a source of revenue to be used for terrorist attacks.
Voicing Your Opposition
A May 18 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 21 countries, including Lebanon, Egypt, and Turkey, are strongly opposed to Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.:
Write the President, Senators, and members of Congress to say that sanctions need to be fully implemented immediately as Iran remains in defiance of UN Resolutions to stop its enrichment plans and it is clear that Iran is not ready or willing to take the steps to bring it into compliance with Security Council resolutions. Remind them that Iran is not just targeting Israel, or even the Middle East but the entire world, and convincing Iran that all options are on the table is crucial. Thank your representatives for passing the Iran Sanctions Accountability and Human Rights Act of 2012 and the President for implementing strong sanctions.
The United States and other countries have recognized Israel's legitimate concerns and her right, and even duty, to protect her citizens from an existential threat.
Institute for Science and International Security
ISIS Analysis of IAEA Iran Safeguards Report
Wall Street Journal
On Iran, We'll Probably Get Fooled Again
New York Times
After Talks Falter, Iran Says It Won't Halt Uranium Work
The Weekly Standard
Negotiating with Iran, 1979 and 2012
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel
The Institute for National Security Studies
Decade of Diplomacy: Negotiations with Iran and North Korea and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation
The Israel Project
A History of Iran’s Defiance of Nuclear Negotiations
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The "Ask Dr. Jiang" column is designed to explore corners of Chinese medicine that may not be easily understood by American practitioners or are underrepresented in American clinical health literature.
According to Chinese medicine, the sour flavor binds and secures, but herbs that are cooked in vinegar, such as bie jia and da huang, take on a blood stasis dispelling effect. This seems to be just the opposite of what I understand "binding" and "securing" to mean (i.e., preventing substances like sweat or urine from leaving the body). Can you clear up this apparent contradiction?
Insecure About Vinegar Milwaukee, Wisconsin
You're right, IAV. It's almost impossible to find references in the ancient or modern literature attributing binding properties to vinegar or herbs cooked in vinegar. That's because in addition to being sour, vinegar is also bitter. In fact, it was known in the Shang Han Lun as ku jiu, or "bitter liquor." Bear in mind that we're talking about the energetic properties of vinegar, and not necessarily its actual flavor. We're also talking about Chinese rice vinegar. I can't say for sure whether the properties outlined below would apply to the vinegars used in this country, which are made from corn, grapes, or apple cider.
According to Chinese medicine, rice vinegar is bitter, sour and warm. The Nei Jing states that when bitter and sour come together, the collective function is to drain. Taken as a whole, therefore, vinegar warms and drains, and this explains most of its functions in Chinese medicine and food therapy. Below is a brief list of the functions and applications of vinegar.
1. Vinegar invigorates blood, dispels blood stasis, and stops pain. Mu xiang, pre-fried in vinegar, can be used to treat abdominal pain, due to blood stasis or qi stagnation; to regulate the liver; and to soften hardness. Da huang, pre-fried in vinegar, breaks up masses and tumors in the abdomen; this process also reduces da huang's purging effects. An ancient formula called cu bie wan used vinegar, bie jia and gan jiang to treat abdominal masses. Derivatives of this formula are used in modern China to treat cirrhosis of the liver and cancer.
Vinegar applied externally can treat external forms of blood stasis. Used alone or formed into a paste with da huang powder, it can help the out-thrusting of early stage boils. This same formula can be used as a salve for first-degree and second-degree burns. Plain vinegar wash can help heal bruises and contusions due to external trauma. As a mouthwash, vinegar can relieve the pain of toothache.
2. Vinegar courses the liver, regulates qi, and moves stagnation. Pre-frying in vinegar can enhance the qi-regulating and pain-reducing properties of herbs such as xiang fu, qing pi and xiao hui xiang. Combined with cooling herbs, the draining properties of vinegar can be used to treat headaches due to liver fire or ascending liver yang. Modern studies in China have found that three-to-five vinegar-soaked peanuts taken daily can help control hypertension.
3. Vinegar relieves toxicity. Egg white boiled in vinegar can be used to treat sore throat due to toxic heat. Vinegar can be used as an external wash to prevent insect bites, or as a treatment after an insect bite has occurred. In some parts of China, vinegar is boiled to clear epidemic toxins from the air and prevent colds and flu. Vinegar is also used in cooking to remove any toxicity that might be present in meat and fish and to prevent food stagnation.
4. Miscellaneous uses: Diluted in water, vinegar can relieve the symptoms of hangovers. Vinegar can be used to expel roundworms, especially if they are lodged in the gall bladder. And of course, vinegar can be used as a form of food therapy: Patients with blood stasis, qi stagnation or liver yang rising should take a little more vinegar in their diet.
Although vinegar is very safe, a little bit of caution is needed because overuse can damage the spleen and stomach. Overall, rice vinegar is an extremely important herb and an important ingredient in cuisines around the world. But don't expect it to bind and secure; its function is to get things moving.
Edited with the assistance of John Pirog, MSOM.
Click here for previous articles by Yong Ping Jiang, DOM, PhD.
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New Zealand small and medium-sized businesses are slow adopters of new technology, with just 35 per cent even having their own website, according to new research.
MYOB today released a report showing New Zealand businesses, and in turn the national economy, were missing out as a result of the slow take-up of technology.
A survey of just over 1000 SMEs owners found only 18 per cent considered themselves to be early adopters of new technology.
Just 14 per cent were using cloud-based services and only 35 per cent have so far developed a dedicated company website, according to The State of the New Zealand Digital Economy report.
That is despite the fact that 86 per cent of kiwis are now online and 80 per cent use the internet to make purchases, as stated in the report.
New Zealand's economy is ultimately weaker from kiwi businesses' failure to adopt new technology, said New Zealand Institute of Economic Research principal economist Shamubeel Eaqub.
"Part of the reason why we have poor productivity is because we have low technology take-up."
With so many people shopping online, businesses are simply missing out from not having a website, Eaqub said at an event to launch MYOB's findings in Auckland this morning.
"You're not even in the market if you're not adopting technology and don't have a website."
Eaqub said the internet has the same potential to connect New Zealand with the world and transform the economy as refrigerated shipping did in the 1880s.
"We are small, we are far away, but technology can bridge that gap for us."
New Zealand has hundreds of small businesses but very little scale on a global level, he said.
"How we use technology to overcome the tyranny of distance and our small scale, could define New Zealand and our place in the world in the 21st Century.
"By helping to connect us to the rest of the world and opening up new markets and opportunities, the internet can transform the New Zealand economy."
MYOB general manager Julian Smith said New Zealand consumers were some of the world leaders in the way they used the internet to buy, sell and share online.
As a nation, we are ninth in the world for internet usage, in front of the UK (15th), Australia (21st), and USA (23rd).
But as business owners we are "some way off the pace", Smith said.
Just over 60 per cent of businesses surveyed said they did not see the value in having a website.
Three-quarters said the main barrier to setting up a site was simply having too much other work on.
When asked about cloud computing, 31 per cent of the 1000 businesses surveyed said the key thing holding them back was a lack of knowledge.
"They have concerns about how and where their data will be stored and managed and they quite simply have too many other priorities at present."
MYOB's findings suggested something was going wrong in the way online products were being promoted to businesses, Smith said.
"This really highlights the need to adopt a mass-market approach to promoting the benefits of the internet.
"It's not enough just to build the technology and talk about the technical details. We must make it easy for time-poor business owners to understand the benefits and adapt new internet-based tools and services."
A key way to encourage better technology adoption was to focus on the "pain points", Smith said.
Providers need to emphasise how a piece of technology can reduce major challenges businesses face.
"Introducing new technologies represents a cost, both in terms of money, effort
and time, and business owners need to be presented with a clear understanding of the rewards they will receive for this investment."
The MYOB survey was carried out by Colmar Brunton in May this year.By Ben Chapman-Smith Email Ben
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Husain is known in India as the original “kebab lady”—having researched into the beginnings of the kebabs and traced their history back, not to the muslim rule in India, but further back to Rig Vedic times of the early Aryans, who would conduct elaborate horse sacrifices and such and pieces of meat would be roasted for a meal. These were pre-Buddhist days and meat eating was allowed in Hinduism. Husian, who is a Persian scholar, has now accessed several Mughal texts, including the Ain-i-Akbari, a detailed account of Akbar’s rule (including the accounts of his kitchen; a separate officer was employed to oversee the kitchens) in the 15th century. Sifting through these, Husain manages to give to us interesting portraits of the Great Mughals, their fascination with the arts, including culinary arts, their practices such as drinking only water from the river ganga (held holy by the Hindus, it is said to have purifying properties) in only golden cups. Only the last of the Great Mughals, Aurangzeb was a frugal man. But we may have guessed that from his zealous temperament.
In fact, this is the first book of its kind offering readers not only mouth-watering recipes —ranging from soups and exotic breads to non-vegetarian dishes—but also showcasing the splendor of the Mughal table. The recipes have been selected from original Persian books. They are lucidly explained and easy to follow but have been modified to suit our modern times, tastes and practices.
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RAC – The Royal Automobile Club Guide
The Royal Automobile Club, or RAC, is the oldest of the breakdown service providers, founded in 1897 as the ‘Automobile Club’. It employed the first uniformed patrolmen in 1901 and received Royal assent in 1907, becoming the Royal Automobile Club that we’ve come to know and love.
The RAC has a long association with motorsport, first organising the British Grand Prix in 1926 held at Brooklands. This inaugural Grand Prix featured well-known names such as Malcolm Campbell and Henry Seagrave and covered 110 laps of the 2.61-mile banked circuit.
The first RAC Rally soon followed this in 1932, with 367 entrants who covered the 1,000-mile distance at an average speed of just 25mph. By 1960 the RAC Rally had been increased to 2,000 miles in distance and by 1961 modern rallying had been born with the introduction of forest stages where high speeds could be attained.
Someone calls the RAC Breakdown service every 7 seconds. They claim to have more patrols per member (over 1,750 patrols currently) than anyone else and have a target of 40 minutes to reach a member in distress.
Vehicle Breakdown Cover
The RAC can provide Personal Cover that gives cover regardless of what car you are driving, or Vehicle Cover that covers the car no matter who is driving.
There are levels of cover: ‘Roadside’, ‘Roadside and Recovery’, ‘Roadside, Recovery, and At Home’, and Roadside, Recovery, At Home and Onward Travel’.
Roadside cover provides roadside assistance by an RAC patrol who will try to repair your car at the side of the road, providing it is at least ¼ mile from your home address. If they can’t repair it – and they claim to repair 80% of all cars at the side of the road – they will recover you and your car to a garage of your choice within 10 miles. You then liaise with the garage to get your car repaired, something that might be a problem if you are on a long journey or, heaven forbid, starting your holiday.
The RAC will also help you if you have an accident.
Roadside and Recovery gives the same level of cover as before but adds recovery of you and your car – along with up to 6 passengers – anywhere in the UK if they can’t fix it at the side of the road. This means that you can continue your journey or start your holiday even if your car lets you down.
Roadside, Recovery and At Home adds recovery and help at your home address or anywhere within ¼ of a mile of it. If your car won’t start because of, for example a flat battery, the RAC will come out and sort it our for you, something that you’ll appreciate on a workday!
Roadside, Recovery, At Home, and Onward Travel is the most expensive cover buy gives the most peace of mind. It adds the cost of a hire car for up to 3 days, or the cost of public transport for your party or the cost of an overnight hotel stay.
Cover can also be provided for European travel in 20 countries. This provides breakdown cover as well as the costs of repatriation for you, your party and your car if necessary as well as some legal costs.
The RAC also provides a No Claims Discount service, reducing the cost of membership by 10% for every year that you don’t call them out, up to a maximum of 50%.
The RAC also provide:
- Driving schools through the British School of Motoring (BSM), which it owns,
- Legal services,
- Car inspection,
- Travel and traffic information,
- Vehicle inspections,
- Car checks,
- Retail sale of car tyres (in conjunction with BlackCircles),
- Car Hire (with Europcar),
- Hotel booking, planning and inspection.
They also maintain two rather nice private-members’ clubs in Pall Mall, London and Woodcote Park, Surrey. Sadly, membership of the RAC Breakdown service doesn’t give you membership of these clubs too!
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The amazing £4,000 beast you see here has been configured with one simple purpose in mind: to break the world record in the benchmark that many consider to be the de facto metric of overall CPU performance, SPEC CPU2006.
And has it pulled it off? Your bet your ass it has – it's officially the fastest desktop PC ever built, and it's absolutely jaw dropping.
To pull this off it requires no less than 1GB of system memory for each logical CPU.
You may not be surprised to learn then, that the £1,000 Core i7-965 Extreme Edition (reviewed here) forms the beating heart of the Fi7epower MLK1610. Thanks to Core i7's HyperThreading feature, that means a minimum of 8GB of extremely pricey high performance DDR3 memory is required.
And due to the novel triple-channel layout, the system actually packs 2GB plus 1GB per channel for a grand total of 9GB of Corsair memory. Just the CPU and memory alone have a face value of nearly £2,000.
Elsewhere, it's a similar story of best-in-class components. There's the obligatory HIS Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, complete with two of AMD's awesome RV770 GPUs and 2GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory, as well as a terabyte of spinning-disk storage from Samsung.
Rock solid performance
But the CPU aside, the Fi7epower's snazziest feature is the £400 Intel X25-M solid-state drive. Granted, it's only 80GB.
But that's just about enough for a boot and application drive and it's so much better than a conventional rotating hard drive, it's not even funny. It's absolutely silent, it barely uses any power and it boasts ridiculously fast read speeds. Once you've gone SSD, you won't want to go back.
Another highlight is the Asus P6T motherboard. It's our first look at a third-party take on Intel's new X58 Express chipset.
For the most part, it has all the usual polish we've come to expect from Asus boards. For starters, this is the first desktop motherboard we've seen that supports both Nvidia's SLI and AMD's Crossfire multi-GPU graphics platforms, though Yoyotech has gone for a single card solution in this case.
You also get the ExpressGate quick-booting embedded OS. It's basically a cut-down Linux distro that boots in about five seconds and supports web browsing, instant messaging, photo browsing and all that jazz.
In practice, it's arguable how much use it really is. If nothing else, it makes the boot process a bit classier and Apple-esque.
Of more practical use is the Asus ScreenDuo, a small monochrome LCD display unit that connects via USB. Firstly it supports Vista's Sideshow auxiliary interface, allowing you to track emails and other updates without waking up the PC.
More importantly, it doubles as a handy overclocking controller, giving you the freedom to adjust operating frequencies on the fly.
That brings us neatly to the question of the P6T's overclocking prowess. Given the X58 chipset's shiny newness, we've yet to build a frame of reference for its outright overclocking potential.
But what we can say for now is that the P6T's BIOS needs a little work. Currently, it lacks options to individually adjust the CPU multiplier for each core and hence robs you of full control over the Core i7's turbo mode.
Also missing are options to adjust the TDC and TDP operating envelopes. These control the thermal and electrical current limits and are new for Core i7.
Asus assures us that future BIOS updates will add support for all of the Core i7's overclocking features. That's nice to know, but we'd certainly recommend you check the status of those updates before you buy.
Of course, Fi7epower comes kitted with all the latest drivers, so that's not an immediate issue. Nor does it have an impact on the performance of this PC, which frankly, is little short of sickening.
Fastest consumer CPU ever
Perhaps that is nothing less than you would expect for a factory overclocked Core i7 PC running at 3.73GHz. But we still didn't expect the utter decimation of the competition it doles out in the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark for which it was purpose-built.
Before the Fi7epower came along, the fastest system on the planet was powered by an exotic eight-core UltraSPARC processor that scored 85.5 points in the peak integer rate test. The half-priced Yoyotech blows it away with a phenomenal score of 130.
It also breaks the record for the peak floating point rate test with a score of 88.3. The fact that the SPEC CPU2006 test takes no less than three days to complete also speaks volumes about the stability of this PC.
As for our regular benchmarks, it's a similar story of devastating speed. In our X264 video encoding benchmark, for instance, it's not far off twice as fast as a stock-clocked system running Intel's previous £1,000 CPU, the Core 2 QX9770 Extreme Edition.
Fast as this rig is, however, that massive sticker price is hard to justify. We'd recommend knocking the memory down to 6GB for starters. It won't make any difference to real world performance and will save you a few hundred quid.
Of course, this is a Yoyotech PC, so you can tweak the specification to suit your every whim - most importantly your sense of value. Everything from the beastly Coolermaster chassis downwards is essentially an option.
The added extras...
One of the only significant shortcomings of Intel's Core 2 chips compared to AMD's processors is the old school memory controller located on the motherboard northbridge chip. With the Core i7, Intel has shot straight past AMD by not only shifting the memory controller onto the CPU die, but also adding a third channel. The result is speeds of 18GB per second and miles more bandwidth than any other PC platform.
Thanks to a change of policy from Nvidia, the X58 is the first non-Nvidia chipset to support the SLi multi-GPU platform. However, individual motherboards do have to be licensed by Nvidia, which is why the Yoyotech's Asus P6T board is SLi compliant but Intel's own X58 offering is not. For what it's worth the P6T is the first motherboard to support both SLi and AMD's competing Crossfire tech.
Intel's Core i7 processor is a massive performer, so it's no surprise to find it sitting in a big new CPU socket. Of course, the requirement for the new LGA 1,366 socket is more about supporting architectural changes including the on-die memory controller and Quick Path Interconnect. But the sheer physical heft of both the socket and the CPU package is a nice reminder of the raw engineering that Intel has put into its new platform.
Not exactly a northbridge
Although Core i7 has many more on-die features than Intel's existing Core 2 processors, remnants of the northbridge chip remain. The X58 chipset retains an input/output hub chip that links the CPU to PCI Express graphics cards and also southbridge peripherals courtesy of Intel's new 25.6GB/s Quick Path Interconnect. Mainstream versions of Core i7 due next year get a new chipset that ditches the northbridge altogether.
Along with the fabulous Core i7 processor, Yoyotech has packed the Fi7epower MLK1610 with pretty much the finest components on the planet. Intel's peerless X25-M drive provides awesome storage performance. Meanwhile, AMD's awesome Radeon HD 4870 X2 handles the 3D rendering duties. But it's the attention to detail with quality peripherals like the modular Coolermaster PSU that really marks out a Yoyotech PC.
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The Partnership Training Program holds positions each year in the STEP-UP Program for qualified trainees from the University of Puerto Rico System. The STEP-UP Program, which is a comprehensive training and research internship program, focuses on developing the biomedical science background, medical vocabulary and clinical experience of well-qualified science, technology and engineering students with plans to pursue post-baccalaureate Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. studies. This program is offered jointly through MD Anderson and Rice University. Program benefits include:
- Academic credit awarded by the University of Puerto Rico
- Training and certification in HIPAA regulations and First Aid/CPR
- Eighty-hour dissection-based clinical anatomy rotation designed to increase students’ knowledge about human structure and expand their medical vocabulary
- Approximately 60 hours of observational rotations through a variety of Texas Medical Center medical clinics
- Didactic seminars addressing lab safety, clinical etiquette, cultural diversity, leadership, ethics and a variety of topics related to cancer research
- Approximately 240 hours working on a cancer-related research project under the direction of a research preceptor
- Team-building non-academic and social events
- Identification as STEP-UP alumnae, entitled to ongoing resources, information and networking opportunities
- Opportunity to return for a second summer (STEP-UP2) dedicated to conducting research in a MD Anderson research lab
To apply, please visit the STEP-UP site to download an application.
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I knew that sounded awfully familiar. From Wikipedia:
Vorwärts (“Forward”) was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany published daily in Berlin from 1891 to 1933 by decision of the party’s Halle Congress, as the successor of Berliner Volksblatt, founded in 1884.Vorwaerts lives on today as the house organ of Germany’s leftist SPD; you can read all about its illustrious history here (in German).
and Kurt Tucholsky both wrote for Vorwärts. It backed the Russian Marxist economists and then, after the split in the Party, the Mensheviks. It published articles by Leon Trotsky, but would not publish any by Vladimir Lenin. . .
And if you don’t think David Axelrod doesn’t know this, you really ought to think again.
Victor Morton at the Washington Times also has a story on the Marxist slogan.
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Pubic hair is that which covers the area around the sex organs. It is generally darker in color and stronger in texture than other hair found on the human body. The main purposes of pubic hair is to protect a delicate part of the body as well as to reduce natural odors from the sex organs.
The growth of hair can go up toward the navel, but will always continue to grow down past the pubic region and ending at the anus (the hole between the buttocks). In females hair will cover the outer lips of the vagina; in males hair will grow around the base of the penis and lightly cover the scrotum (the outer sack containing the testicles).
Some people may change the way their pubic hair looks, by trimming or shaping it, although most people will continue to have a pronounced growth due to the relatively quick rate of hair growth in the area, as well as the desire to be seen as a mature adult.
Pubic hair is sometimes called a "bush," "nest," "pubes," or "curlies."
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Marine Protection Planning System Modernised
29 Jan 2006
All New Zealanders are to be given a greater say on where marine protected areas should go under a new policy launched by Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton and Conservation Minister Chris Carter today.
The Marine Protected Areas Policy sets up a new system for planning where marine protected areas, including no-take marine reserves, are to be located in each region.
In future, the government expects proposals for new marine reserves to be considered by regional forums before ministers decide on them. The forums will involve a broad range of community groups with an interest in the local marine area.
"The relationship New Zealanders have with the sea is an important part of defining who we are as a people, and therefore, everyone has a stake in how we use the sea," Jim Anderton said.
"We have been successful at protecting our terrestrial environment, but we have not yet banked the biological wealth in our seas in a comprehensive network of protected areas," Chris Carter said.
"In the past our system for developing marine protected areas, particularly marine reserves, has been somewhat piecemeal. This has sometimes caused unnecessary conflict because, rightly or wrongly, different stakeholders have not felt fully included in protection processes," Mr Carter said.
"This new policy heavily reforms the old system. It aspires to a comprehensive network of protected areas encompassing the full range of our marine environments, but it seeks to ensure that the sites included in the network are chosen in a way that minimises the impact on existing users of the ocean."
The policy will see a team of experts scientifically classify the different types of marine environments around the country, and an assessment made of which environments have already been protected. Those environments that have not been protected will be tagged for consideration by local forums.
The forums will be tasked with:
1) Developing proposals for where new protected areas in particular regions should be located to plug the gaps in the marine protection network, and
2) Identifying what type of protection tool is most appropriate to each particular spot.
"Rather than different government agencies driving a range of different protection tools, the government wants these tools, such as fisheries restrictions under the Fisheries Act and the establishment of marine reserves, used in an integrated way," Jim Anderton said.
"We want a protected network of areas in the sea that is science-based but informed by the unique local knowledge marine user groups have."
"The regional forum approach should bring certainty to marine users, as all the potential sites that might be proposed for protection in an area, and their impacts, can be considered at once. This will enable a consensus to be reached on how to minimise adverse effects on existing marine users.
"Our hope is that by adopting this new approach we will make smooth progress towards the government's goal of having 10 per cent of our marine area under some form of protection by 2010," Jim Anderton said.
The government wants at least one representative example of each habitat or ecosystem type in the new network to be protected by a marine reserve. Marine reserves will also be used to protect rare and unique sites.
Existing marine reserve applications before Ministers will continue through the statutory process already triggered. This includes applications for reserves at Akaroa, Great Barrier Island, Wellington South Coast, and the Sugar Loaf Islands.
However, proposals that have not yet reached the stage of a formal application will be folded into the new system. This includes the proposal for a reserve at the Nuggets in Otago.
The new policy has been developed after consultation with key marine stakeholders.
Find out more..
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How sad that just two days after our nation celebrated another Independence Day, a major U.S. court decided to ignore the Constitution. I refer to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on July 6 to allow open homosexuality in the military ranks, thus immediately ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy which has been in effect for 18 years.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution empowers Congress "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces..." Article II, Section 2, empowers the president to be "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States..."
Article III delineates the responsibilities of the judiciary, yet it is conspicuously silent about the courts' role in military matters. For this, we should all be grateful. Micro-managing military policies by judicial fiat ignores the authority of our military leadership and circumvents the military's own Uniform Code of Military Justice.
By allowing judges to institute military policy, we diminish the roles of the Secretary of Defense, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, Congress and the constitutionally mandated role of the nation's commander-in-chief. Simply put, the military's role is to fight and win our nation's wars. Judges lack the expertise and, in my opinion, the authority on how to best do this.
A three judge panel of the 9th Circuit vacated their earlier stay of the lower court's ruling that DADT was unconstitutional. The Wall Street Journal pointed out that the latest decision "creates the possibility that recruiting rules could shift back and forth for weeks to come."
This lack of consistency and expertise by the courts makes it very difficult to operate a first-rate military, much less fight two wars. It underscores the rationale (that many courts respected over the years) to give great leeway for the military to decide these issues, hopefully in an environment devoid of political and social considerations.
We want to make sure that the repeal of DADT does not detrimentally affect military readiness. Our concern is not based on prejudice or discrimination but solely on unit cohesion and combat readiness.
When a lame duck Congress rushed through legislation last year that would likely repeal DADT, it included a requirement that Department of Defense (DoD) officials first certify that the new policy would not have an adverse effect on combat readiness. That certification has not yet happened.
Moreover, last year's legislation passed after Congress was presented with a report that some have called into question. It contained what was supposed to be an honest survey of how those who matter most - the men and women in uniform - feel about the issue. It was later revealed that the numbers were manipulated in media reports that falsely indicated that 70 percent of the military members surveyed had no concern about the repeal.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was so bothered by the unauthorized and premature leaks of the report that he ordered an investigation by DoD's Inspector General. The U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps have been bearing the brunt of the combat, yet last year both of their service chiefs ignored political winds and bravely testified in favor of keeping DADT.
Then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey told lawmakers, "Implementation of the repeal of ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' would be a major cultural and policy change in the middle of a war. It would be implemented by a force and leaders that are already stretched by the cumulative effects of almost a decade of war."
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos was even more forceful in an interview last year with newspaper reporters. He noted that a large percentage of Marine combat veterans that were surveyed are opposed to the change. "So the Marines came back and they said, ‘Look, anything that's going to break or potentially break that focus and cause any kind of distraction may have an effect on cohesion,'"Amos said. "I don't want to permit that opportunity to happen. And I'll tell you why. If you go up to Bethesda [Naval] Hospital . . . Marines are up there with no legs, none. We've got Marines at Walter Reed [Army Medical Center] with no limbs."
The Obama administration should defend the president's constitutional role as commander in chief by directing the Justice Department to immediately appeal the 9th Circuit's ruling. Moreover, the military brass and civilian leadership at DoD should withhold certification until the issues of military readiness and unit cohesion are studied more honestly and thoroughly.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 23 -- Regarding conflicting reports about the direction of US natural gas production, Raymond James & Associates Inc. said, "the preponderance of the evidence supports the view that US gas production is falling by more than 4% on a year-over-year basis."
"Furthermore, it does not appear that this trend is likely to reverse itself anytime soon," analysts said in a Dec. 1 research note.
The Energy Information Administration estimates that US production is growing by roughly 2% year-over-year. But RJA believes production is declining based upon its findings from quarterly surveys of 46 publicly traded US gas producers.
"If we smooth the data out by incorporating a 12-month moving average, one can see a substantial divergence between publicly traded company data and EIA data beginning in early 2002," RJA said.
The EIA estimates dry gas production from state-reported data, which is an estimate that will be revised for a trailing 18 month period, RJA said. Then, the EIA adds supplemental gaseous fuels and imports, subtracts exports, accounts for changes in gas storage, and incorporates a "balancing item" to arrive at a monthly consumption number, RJA added.
"Not only are US natural gas production revisions for the last 18 months enough to raise an eyebrow at, but the mysterious balancing item estimates and revisions have brought the accuracy of the EIA data under scrutiny for some time," RJA said.
RJA contemplated whether production from small private companies could account for the differences between its survey figures and EIA data.
"Specifically, private company production would have to be growing by nearly 8.5% year-over-year to get close to the EIA data . . .While these smaller companies have been helping to drive the rising US rig count, one must question the quality of prospects available to them. In fact, our analysis shows that it is highly unlikely that the smaller,
private E&P companies are driving any increase in US gas production," RJA said.
RJA said the larger publicly traded independents represent 29% of US gas production and have been responsible for putting an additional 97 rigs to work, accouting for a 49% increase, since Jan. 1, 2003.
But despite the increased drilling, corresponding production results shows only 2.4% year-over-year growth in gas production.
Meanwhile, the private companies represent 44% of US production and have been responsible for putting an additional 106 rigs to work (a 30% increase).
"Even if we generously assume similar rig and finding efficiencies, private company production would be up only about 1.5%, and therefore total US production would still be down over 1%," RJA said.
"In summary, without large organic increases in production from only a few of the independents with quality prospects and improved efficiency, it is likely that the private gas producers may not experience production increases at all," RJA said.
State agency data
The analysts noted that some of the states' reporting agencies also project monthly
For instance, the Texas Railroad Commission releases its monthly production data, complete with projections of recent months based on an inflation factor.
"Over time, these projections have been fairly accurate," RJA said. "However, in periods of severe changes in activity and production (particularly upswings), we have noticed that these estimates can be a bit too optimistic," RJA said.
For instance, this was the case during the 1997-98 acceleration in gas production following a drilling boom, analysts noted.
"While we can't definitively say that this issue is reoccurring today, we are not willing to just take the most recent production estimates at face value, as some others have done. Only time will tell if these figures are, in fact, accurate," RJA added.
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Four things that didn't happen in 2012
...and other successes in the fight to protect your freedom to fly
If you used GPS for navigation this year, you may be an unwitting beneficiary of efforts by AOPA and other aviation advocates to preserve your freedom to fly.
Apple Maps aside, both consumer and aviation GPS units continued providing reliable location data to pilots, farmers, drivers, and others this year—an unremarkable fact, unless you consider that a high-powered mobile-satellite network conditionally approved to operate on frequencies adjacent to those of GPS could have interfered with the weaker GPS signals and made navigation unreliable.
Staff at AOPA work continuously to protect pilots from proposals that could detract from the utility and fun of general aviation—and to advance policies that will help pilots fly more, and with confidence. In 2012, the association fought several proposals that could have harmed the GA industry and kept pilots on the ground more. At the same time, staff worked with lawmakers, regulators, and other aviation groups to promote policies and regulatory changes that benefit pilots and aircraft owners. Check out four bad things that almost happened this year—and four good things that did.
- User fees. The year started out with a rude awakening for any aviation advocates hoping for a reprieve from the specter of user fees: On Jan. 13, the White House posted its response to a petition by close to 9,000 people urging the president to take aviation user fees off the table. The title? “Why We Need Aviation User Fees.” The president followed up in February with the fiscal year 2013 budget, which included a proposal to impose a $100-per-flight fee for turbine aircraft that use air traffic services. But opposition to the proposal remained strong in Congress, where GA caucuses in the House and Senate help educate lawmakers about GA and its importance to the nation. Members of Congress spoke out early against the proposal in a letter bearing 195 congressional signatures, and House members heard testimony about the potentially crippling burden of the proposed fee. A united front staved off the fee another year, but AOPA and other aviation groups are preparing to renew the fight in 2013.
- Launch of a GPS-crippling mobile network. When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted wireless venture LightSquared conditional permission to use powerful ground transmitters for its mobile-satellite network on frequencies adjacent to those used for GPS, AOPA and others raised concerns that the network might interfere with GPS. Testing in 2011 confirmed that the signals were incompatible with GPS; while LightSquared blamed existing GPS signals for the interference, a broad spectrum of organizations formed a coalition to protect GPS. After a yearlong effort, the FCC said in February 2012 that it would suspend the LightSquared network. In May, the mobile-satellite company filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. By fall, the hedge-fund-backed company had returned to the FCC with a new proposal. Will this one pose a threat to GPS? AOPA is pushing for answers as we move into 2013.
- ‘Luxury’ taxes on Maryland airplane owners. Marylanders in the market for an airplane might have pushed back their purchase if a luxury surtax on the sales of aircraft had gone forward in 2012. AOPA staff testified against the proposal, which would have added a 1-percent luxury surtax on purchase sums above $35,000 on “motor vehicles, boats and planes.” For items more than $90,000, the surtax would have been $550 plus 2 percent of the amount above $90,000. The state’s legislative session came to a close without action being taken on the tax.
- Doubled fees for aircraft and pilot registrations in Illinois. When a bill was introduced in Illinois that would have doubled registration fees paid by aircraft owners and pilots, AOPA urged lawmakers to vote it down, arguing that the undue tax burden could drive aviation industry from the state. The bill moved forward without the provisions that would have doubled registration fees.
Gains for pilots
- Pilot’s Bill of Rights puts protections in place for aviators. A pilot under investigation by the FAA may be confused about his or her rights, or unaware of the information used in an enforcement action. The Pilot’s Bill of Rights, signed into law Aug. 3, guarantees pilots greater protection: The law requires the FAA to give pilots facing potential enforcement action access to investigative reports, ATC recordings, and any relevant information for 30 days before the enforcement action could move forward. Pilots now also have the option of appealing a decision in federal district court, among other protections. Introduced by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the Pilot’s Bill of Rights also calls for an advisory panel to dig into the notam system and a committee to review medical certification.
- Aviation tax exemption boosts GA in Florida. While AOPA fought harmful aviation tax proposals in some states, the association was advancing an aviation-friendly tax policy in Florida. The association worked with the Florida Aviation Trades Association to craft and insert language into an omnibus economic-development package to enact a sales-tax exemption for GA aircraft repairs and equipment. The bill, which was signed into law in March, makes aircraft with a maximum certificated takeoff weight of more than 2,000 pounds eligible for a tax exemption previously available only to airplanes weighing more than 15,000 pounds.
- Knowledge test reform plan moves forward. Knowledge test questions will better measure an applicant’s grasp of practical concepts under recommendations of the Airmen Testing Standards and Training Aviation Rulemaking Committee released in 2012. AOPA and other groups had requested the formation of the panel, which reviewed knowledge testing in response to concerns about unannounced changes to some tests. The FAA said it will implement most of the recommendations in the report; an advisory committee formed late in the year, co-chaired by AOPA, has begun work to implement reforms.
- FAA and industry launch effort to make aircraft safer, cheaper. The certification requirements of Part 23 drive up the cost of airplanes, stifling sales and discouraging prospective pilots from flying. AOPA, the FAA, and other groups think they hold the key to cheaper, safer airplanes with the work of the Part 23 Reorganization Aviation Rulemaking Committee. The group, whose recommendations will go to the FAA in spring 2013, is hashing out details of a proposal designed to double safety and cut certification costs in half. With lower certification costs, pilots can expect to see more new, innovative airplanes. Owners of existing aircraft could also experience the benefits in the form of more affordable equipment available for installation.
December 17, 2012
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I don’t have much to say about the human side of the Haitian earthquake except that it’s terrible, as media reports will tell you. I saw the waves coming in on our seismograph drum, which gave some idea of the distance and size of the earthquake but not the location. The location in itself is about as bad as possible — a large, shallow earthquake very close to a major city, in a country too poor to afford earthquake-resistant construction. All I can do is suggest that you donate to relief organizations and press the Canadian and other governments to get aid in place as quickly as possible.
I can, at least, say something meaningful about the seismology. The best source for information on recent earthquakes is usually the USGS page. The basic parameters of an earthquake are time, location, magnitude, and source mechanism. Time is generally given in universal time code (UTC) rather than in any particular time zone. The location is given in three dimensions: latitude, longitude, and depth. Depth is the hardest of the three to measure accurately, but the value given (10 km) is relatively shallow — well within the crust. Shallower earthquakes are more likely to be damaging than deeper ones due to the shorter distance to the surface. This map puts the event in context with respect to other earthquakes in the region: Haiti’s actually west of the main subduction-zone seismicity — earthquakes are much more frequent elsewhere in the Caribbean. The fault yesterday’s earthquake was on is a strike-slip (horizontal motion, like the San Andreas) fault with left-lateral motion (if you stand on one side of the fault, the other side’s moving to the left).
The magnitude of the earthquake was, based on current estimates, a 7.0. That’s big, comparable to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that did serious damage to San Francisco and environs. It’s not big enough to be all that rare on a global scale, however — a quick search of the ANSS catalog shows 145 events of magnitude 7.0 or greater since the beginning of 2000 (i.e. a bit over one per month). The earthquake magnitude scale is logarithmic, meaning that the Sumatran earthquake of 2004 (a 9.0) was roughly 100 times the size of this one. An earthquake’s effect on humans depends on a lot more than the magnitude, though — where it is in relation to populated areas is of critical importance, as are the response of local soils (soft ground can make matters worse) and the types of construction used.
Finally, there’s the source mechanism. It’s possible to work out, by looking at the waves radiated out in different directions, what the “radiation pattern” of energy transmitted by the earthquake was. There are different characteristic patterns for different types of fault motions. This earthquake’s pattern is characteristic of a slightly oblique strike-slip fault; based on the pattern, two different fault orientations are possible, but one (WSW-ESE) lines up with known fault traces and gives the expected left-lateral motion.
As I mentioned before, the earthquake showed up very strongly on the old analog seismograph we have as part of a museum display. The fancier digital instrument chose this opportune moment to play dead, but I obtained seismograms from an instrument operated by the Canadian National Seismograph Network that is located fairly close by.
The instrument in question records ground motion along three axes (N-S, E-W, and vertical); in the above plot I’ve rotated the horizontal components into radial (parallel to the path to the source) and transverse (perpendicular to the path to the source) components to show how different the result is. At this distance, four major wave types are observed: P and S waves, which pass through the Earth’s interior, and Love and Rayleigh waves, which travel along the surface. The surface waves are much lower in frequency and higher in amplitude than the body waves. P and S waves are also different in frequency and polarization, as we can see by zooming in:
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U.S. starts to clean up Agent Orange in Vietnam
Dioxin, linked to cancer, birth defects and other disabilities, has seeped into Vietnam's soils and watersheds, creating a lasting war legacy that remains a thorny issue between Washington and Hanoi.
The Associated Press
By the numbersThe U.S. military dumped some 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides on about a quarter of former South Vietnam between 1962 and 1971.
The defoliant decimated about 5 million acres of forest — roughly the size of Massachusetts — and an additional 500,000 acres of crops.
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DANANG, Vietnam — Vo Duoc fights back tears while sharing the news that broke his heart: A few days ago he received test results confirming he and 11 family members have elevated levels of dioxin lingering in their blood.
The family lives in a two-story house near a former U.S. military base in Danang where the defoliant Agent Orange was stored during the Vietnam War, which ended nearly four decades ago. Duoc, 58, sells steel for a living and has diabetes, while his wife battles breast cancer and their daughter has remained childless after suffering repeated miscarriages.
For years, Duoc thought the ailments were unrelated, but after seeing the blood tests he now suspects his family unwittingly ingested dioxin from Agent Orange-contaminated fish, vegetables and well water.
Dioxin, a persistent chemical linked to cancer, birth defects and other disabilities, has seeped into Vietnam's soils and watersheds, creating a lasting war legacy that remains a thorny issue between the former foes. The United States has been slow to respond, but on Thursday the U.S., for the first time, will begin cleaning up dioxin from Agent Orange that was stored at the former military base, now part of Danang's airport.
"It's better late than never that the U.S. government is cleaning up the environment for our children," Duoc said in Danang, surrounded by family members sitting on plastic stools. "They have to do as much as possible and as quickly as possible."
The $43 million project begins as Vietnam and the United States forge closer ties to boost trade and counter China's rising influence in the disputed South China Sea.
Although the countries' economic and military ties are blossoming, progress on addressing the dioxin legacy has been slow.
Washington still disputes a claim by Hanoi that 3 million to 4 million Vietnamese were affected by toxic chemicals sprayed by U.S. planes during the war to eliminate jungle cover for guerrilla fighters, arguing that the actual number is far lower and other environmental factors are to blame for the health issues.
That position irks Vietnamese, who say the United States maintains a double standard in acknowledging the consequences of Agent Orange.
The United States has given billions of dollars in disability payments to American servicemen who developed illnesses associated with dioxin after exposure to the defoliant during the Vietnam War.
In 2004, a group of Vietnamese citizens filed suit in a U.S. court against companies that produced the chemical, but the case was dismissed, and the Supreme Court declined to take it up.
Over the past five years, Congress has appropriated about $49 million for environmental remediation and about $11 million to help people living with disabilities in Vietnam regardless of cause. Experts have identified three former U.S. air bases — in Danang in central Vietnam and the southern locations of Bien Hoa and Phu Cat — as hot spots where Agent Orange was mixed, stored and loaded onto planes.
The U.S. military dumped some 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides on about a quarter of former South Vietnam between 1962 and 1971.
The defoliant decimated about 5 million acres of forest — roughly the size of Massachusetts — and another 500,000 acres of crops.
The war ended April 30, 1975.
The country was then reunified under a one-party Communist government. After years of poverty and isolation, Vietnam normalized diplomatic relations with the United States in 1995.
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A coworker of mine, who exercises regularly, was telling me that her daughter deliberately avoids exercising. The reason, the daughter said, is because she learned in health class that sweat is the same as urine, so when you exercise and sweat, you're basically peeing all over your body.
This made both of us laugh, and we weren't sure if it was just an excuse or a legitimate fear based on misinformation. I don't know if it would change the daughter's mind, but I thought I'd try to find some accurate information for her.
This daughter is in her early teens, so I thought internet sources might be more persuasive than scholarly journals. I searched the web for "is sweat like pee" and immediately hit on answer forums all saying no.
Sweat does contain a small amount of uric acid, which might have accounted for her logical leap, but they are definitely different fluids.
There is certainly more thorough research that could be done for this question, but I left off here. It might be a tall order to convince her that sweating is actually a good thing.
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Alarm raised as Rome’s Trevi Fountain loses pieces
ROME, June 11 — Several decorative pieces have fallen off the Trevi Fountain in Rome, raising the alarm that one of the eternal city’s most famous structures needs a new major restoration.
At the weekend, a few stone laurel leaves fell from the top frieze of the fountain, which marks the terminal point of one of the aqueducts that brought drinking water to ancient Rome.
Umberto Broccoli, Rome’s cultural superintendent, said the damage was “not worrying” and that the detachment was probably due to water infiltration caused by heavy snowfall that hit Rome in February.
Police put barriers around the fountain and restoration experts checked the damage. They removed about five other pieces that appeared to be in danger of falling from the top.
The basin of the fountain, which figured prominently in films such as “La Dolce Vita,” “Roman Holiday” and “Three Coins in the Fountain,” was to undergo its weekly draining and cleaning today.
Dino Gasperini, Rome city counsellor for culture, asked for funds to protect the fountain from any more possible imminent damage and said another full-scale restoration was needed.
The last major restoration of the fountain, whose current form was completed in 1762, was 20 years ago.
While Broccoli said the falls were not worrying, Italy’s Greens party said the Italian capital’s monuments were in dire condition and announced a campaign where residents can send e-mails to signal dangers to Rome’s cultural heritage.
“We think what is happening at the Trevi Fountain, one of the most recognised monuments in the world, is very grave,” said Greens leader Angelo Bonelli.
Bonelli said concern for the fountain was even greater because earlier this year a few small pieces fell off of the Colosseum. That monument is now being restored.
Tourists viewing the fountain today expressed concern and said Italy had to protect its cultural heritage.
“Heritage should not be just a cost, it should also be a resource. For example, that bar should pay something more given that it has the privilege to be located in front of the Trevi Fountain, which is one of the world’s greatest wonders,” said Italian tourist Daniele Masta.
The Trevi Fountain stands at a point where in ancient Rome three roads (tre vie) formed a junction. Water arrived from a source about 13 km from the city and was carried by an aqueduct to serve the populace.
The aqueduct, bringing what was called Virgin Water, served the city for more than four centuries until it was destroyed by invading Visigoths.
The tradition of building monumental fountains at the terminus of aqueducts was revived after the Renaissance.
The current fountain was commissioned by Pope Clement XII in 1730 to replace a more simple basin and completed in 1762. The allegories show Tritons guiding Oceanus, the god of all water, on his shell chariot.
A Roman tradition says tourists who throw a coin in the fountain are guaranteed that they will someday return. — Reuters
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To the Editor:
I'm sorry for the kids that got killed in Connecticut. The guy who killed the adults and kids, was a loner and stuck to himself. Kids like that get bullied everyday at school. I know because I was one of them kids that got bullied everyday of school and the principal did nothing to stop the bullying.
Maybe the school system should look at their bullying rules alittle closer, and enforce the rules.
to prevent this kind of outcome.
If you know what I'm saying about bullying good, if you don't know what bullying does to a kid, do your homework.
Talk to your kids and say no more bullying.
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Art Of Walt LaRue Featured At OutWest Reception Saturday
A special exhibition of the art of Walt LaRue, a cowboy legend who captured the spirit of the West with his pen on paper, canvas, newspapers, dinner plates and pretty much any flat surface, will be on display during the month of April at OutWest Western Boutique and Cultural Center in downtown Newhall.
The opening reception, scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, will feature highlights of his life and times with original illustration, artwork, rodeo programs and select personal items. Available for purchase will be some of Walt’s work – a limited number of signed and unsigned prints, his book “Rodeo Cartoons from the Buckboard” and CDs of his music.
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LaRue, born in 1918, developed a love for horses in his youth as a guide in Glacier National Park and perfected his bareback skills and horsemanship as a rodeo cowboy during the 1940s and 1950s. He belonged to the Cowboy's Turtle Association, the Rodeo Cowboy's Association and was a Gold Card member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboy's Association.
He followed the shows from Salinas, California to Madison Square Garden, rode bulls and bareback broncs, was a good hand and could make his living going down the road.
During his time in the rodeo, Walt had the opportunity to work in the movies and became a stuntman working at both for a long time. When he wasn't robbing trains, chasing buffalo, or fighting the rustlers in the movies, he was going to the rodeos.
In the mid 1950s, after riding the wild ones for a long time, he hung up his gear and bid the rodeos goodbye. He stayed with his movie career, although his stunts became tamer. He received several awards including the 2007 Golden Boot, a Lifetime Membership in the Stuntmen's Association, and the 2004 America Cowboy Culture Award for All Around Cowboy Culture.
For many years, as an avocation, Walt was a freelance artist. He started drawing as a kid and continued doing it all his life. He drew cartoons for newspapers, magazines, and advertising agencies, for eight years he drew all the covers for the Rodeo Cowboy's Magazine, "The Buckboard." Weber's Bread and Levi Strauss were among his advertising accounts. He also illustrated books and for the last 20 years of his life he created fine art.
His paintings, all Westerns, are now in private collections, galleries, and museums all over the world. Successful as this was, he still called the art work a "side line" and shared it with his many other interests.
Walt always said he was a "lucky man" --and he did the things he wanted to do. He died June 12, 2010 in Los Angeles.
Refreshments for the reception will be provided by El Trocadero Steakhouse, Pulchella Winery and Newhall Ice. Guests will be entertained by "Western State of Mind" featuring musicians John Bergstrom and John Nelson.
OutWest is located at 24265 Main Street in Old Town Newhall; follow OutWest on facebook or at www.scvoutwest.com.
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The Edge of Space
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|Stuart Wolpert||July 10th 2012|
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TYC 8241 2652—which vanished. (Credit: NASA JPL/CalTech)
Astronomers report a baffling discovery never seen before: An extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star has mysteriously disappeared.
“It’s like the classic magician’s trick—now you see it, now you don't,” said Carl Melis, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego and lead author of the research. “Only in this case, we're talking about enough dust to fill an inner solar system, and it really is gone!”
“It's as if the rings around Saturn had disappeared,” said co-author Benjamin Zuckerman, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. “This is even more shocking because the dusty disc of rocky debris was bigger and much more massive than Saturn's rings. The disc around this star, if it were in our solar system, would have extended from the sun halfway out to Earth, near the orbit of Mercury.”
The research on this cosmic vanishing act, which occurred around a star some 450 light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Centaurus, appeared in July the journal Nature.
“A perplexing thing about this discovery is that we don't have a satisfactory explanation to address what happened around this star,” said Melis, a former UCLA astronomy graduate student. “The disappearing act appears to be independent of the star itself, as there is no evidence to suggest that the star zapped the dust with some sort of mega-flare or any other violent event.”
Melis describes the star, designated TYC 8241 2652, as a “young analog of our sun” that only a few years ago displayed all of the characteristics of “hosting a solar system in the making,” before transforming completely. Now, very little of the warm, dusty material thought to originate from collisions of rocky planets is apparent.
“Nothing like this has ever been seen in the many hundreds of stars that astronomers have studied for dust rings,” Zuckerman said. “This disappearance is remarkably fast, even on a human time scale, much less an astronomical scale. The dust disappearance at TYC 8241 2652 was so bizarre and so quick, initially I figured that our observations must simply be wrong in some strange way.”
Norm Murray, director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, who was not part of the research group, said, “The history of astronomy has shown that events that are not predicted and hard to explain can be game-changers.”
The dust had been present around the star since at least 1983 (no one had observed the star in the infrared before then), and it continued to glow brightly in the infrared for 25 years. In 2009, it started to dim. By 2010, the dust emission was gone; the astronomers observed the star twice that year from the Gemini Observatory in Chile, six months apart. An infrared image obtained by the Gemini telescope as recently as May 1 of this year confirmed that the warm dust has now been gone for two-and-a-half years.
Like Earth, warm dust absorbs the energy of sunlight and re-radiates that heat energy as infrared radiation.
Because so much dust had been orbiting around the star, planets very likely are forming there, said Zuckerman, whose research is funded by NASA.
The lack of an existing model for what is going on around this star is forcing astronomers to rethink what happens within young solar systems in the making. The dust likely resulted from a violent collision—but that would not explain where it went. Was it somehow swallowed by the star?
“Although we've identified a couple of mechanisms that are potentially viable, none are really compelling,” Melis said. “In one case, gas produced in the impact that released the dust helps to quickly drag the dust particles into the star and thus to their doom. In another possibility, collisions of large rocks left over from an original major impact provide a fresh infusion of dust particles into the disc, which then instigate a runaway process where small grains chip into oblivion both themselves and also larger grains.”
Major dusty regions are known to exist in our own solar system and include the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and another located beyond the orbit of Neptune. Nearly 30 years ago, NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) first discovered many similar regions orbiting other stars—but no disappearing act like the one at TYC 8241 2652 had previously been seen.
The research is based on multiple sets of observations of TYC 8241 2652 obtained with the Thermal-Region Camera Spectrograph on the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the IRAS, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite, NASA's Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Herschel Space Telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA), and AKARI (a Japanese/ESA infrared satellite).
“We were lucky to catch this disappearing act,” Zuckerman said. "Such events could be relatively common, without our knowing it."
This article is adapted from EurekAlert.
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
David Perlstein, MD, MBA, FAAP
Dr. Perlstein received his Medical Degree from the University of Cincinnati and then completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at The New York Hospital, Cornell medical Center in New York City. After serving an additional year as Chief Pediatric Resident, he worked as a private practitioner and then was appointed Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.
- What is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
- What is the cause of SIDS?
- What are the risk factors for SIDS?
- How is SIDS diagnosed?
- Can SIDS be prevented?
- Does the supine (back) sleep position cause any problems for infants?
- What support is available to parents who are coping with an infant loss due to SIDS?
- Where can people get more information about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) At A Glance
What is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
Sudden infant death syndrome (also known as SIDS) is defined as the sudden, unexpected death of an infant younger than 1 year of age. If the child's death remains unexplained after a formal investigation into the circumstances of the death (including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history), the death is then attributed to SIDS. Sudden infant death is a tragic event for any parent or caregiver.
- SIDS is suspected when a previously healthy infant, usually younger than 6 months of age, is found dead following a period of sleep. In most cases, no sign of distress is identifiable. The baby typically feeds normally prior to being placed in for sleep. The infant is then discovered lifeless, without pulse or respiration. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be initiated at the scene, but evidence shows a lack of beneficial effect from CPR. The cause of death remains unknown despite a careful review of the medical history, scene investigation, and autopsy.
- SIDS is rare during the first month of life. Risk peaks in infants 2-4 months of age and then declines.
- About 90% of SIDS deaths occur in infants younger than 6 months of age.
What is the cause of SIDS?
The cause (or causes) of SIDS is still unknown. Despite the dramatic decrease in the occurrence of SIDS in the United States and worldwide in recent years, SIDS remains one of the leading causes of death during infancy beyond the first 30 days following birth. It is generally accepted that SIDS may be the result of multiple interacting factors.
- Infant development: A leading hypothesis is that SIDS may reflect a delay or abnormality in the development of nerve cells within the brain that are critical to normal heart and lung function. Research examinations of the brainstems of infants who died with a diagnosis of SIDS have revealed a developmental delay in formation and function of several serotonin-binding nerve cell pathways within the brain. These pathways are thought to be crucial to regulating breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure responses during awakening from sleep.
- The hypothesis is that certain infants, for reasons yet to be determined, may experience abnormal or delayed development of specific, critical areas of their brain. This could negatively affect the function and connectivity to regions regulating arousal during sleep.
- Arousal, in this context, refers to an infant's ability to awaken and/or respond to a variety of physiological stimuli. For example, a child sleeping facedown (prone) may move his or her face into such a position so that the nose and mouth are completely obstructed. This may alter the levels of oxygen or carbon dioxide in the infant's blood. Normally, these changes would trigger arousal responses, prompting the infant to move his or her head to the side to relieve this obstruction.
- Other protective responses to stressful stimuli may be defective in infants who are vulnerable to SIDS. One such reflex is the laryngeal chemoreflex which arises from nerve cell pathways located in the back of the throat (pharynx) and within the voice box (larynx) and upper airway. This reflex regulates changes in breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure when portions of the airway are stimulated by fluids like saliva or regurgitated stomach contents. Having saliva in the airway may activate this reflex, triggering swallowing responses which help to keep the airway clear. When an infant is in the facedown position, the rate of swallowing is decreased. Protective arousal responses to these laryngeal reflexes are also diminished in active sleep when infants are in the facedown sleep position.
- Rebreathing stresses: When a baby is facedown, air movement around the mouth may be impaired. This can cause the baby to re-breathe carbon dioxide that the baby has just exhaled. Soft bedding and gas-trapping objects, such as blankets, comforters, waterbeds, and soft mattresses, as well as stuffed or plush toys are other types of sleep surfaces that may impair normal air movement around the baby's mouth and nose when positioned facedown.
- Hyperthermia (increased temperature): Overdressing, using excessive coverings, or increasing the air temperature may lead to an increased metabolic rate in these infants and eventual loss of breathing control. However, it is unclear whether the increased temperature is an independent factor or if it is just a reflection of the use of more clothing or blankets that may act as objects obstructing the airway.
Even though the specific cause (or causes) of SIDS remains unknown, scientific efforts have eliminated several previously held theories. We now know the following about SIDS:
- Apnea is a term that describes the clinical situation in which a person's breathing stops spontaneously. Apnea associated with prematurity and apnea which occurs during infancy are felt to be clinical conditions that are distinct from SIDS. Infants with apnea may, in some cases, be managed with electronic monitors prescribed by doctors that track heart rate and respiratory activity. Apnea monitors will not prevent SIDS.
- SIDS is neither predictable nor preventable.
- Infants may experience episodes termed apparent life-threatening events (ALTE). These are clinical events in which young infants may experience abrupt changes in breathing, color, or muscle tone. Common causes of ALTE include viral respiratory infections (RSV), gastroesophageal reflux disease, and seizures; however, no definite scientific evidence links ALTE as events that will lead to SIDS.
- SIDS is not caused by immunizations or bad parenting.
- SIDS is not contagious or hereditary.
- SIDS is not anyone's fault.
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One of my favorite professors at the University of Utah was J.D. Williams in the political science department.
His lectures on the genius of the U.S. Constitution and the beauty of our system of government were delivered with contagious enthusiasm.
But if you came to class unprepared to discuss the assigned readings, he could be brutal. After a week or so of class, few students dared come unprepared.
With that explanation, I doubt Uintah County Commissioner Mike McÂKee ever took a class from J.D. Williams.
As told in the Summer 2012 edition of Southern Utah Wilderness Alliances's newsletter, Redrock Wilderness, McKee was caught unprepared when testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Technology in May.
McKee was there to condemn the Bureau of Land Management's proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing, which pumps fluid deep underground to break up rock formations and release trapped gas. Critics claim it adversely affects water quality.
McKee, whose county is Utah's largest natural gas producer, railed on federal regulations that he said were driving jobs out of his county and damaging its economy.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., then asked McKee to tell him Uintah County's unemployment rate.
McKee didn't know.
But Connolly, just like professor Williams during his academic interrogations all those years ago, knew the answer to his question before he asked it.
Connolly informed the commissioner that his county's unemployment rate is 4.1 percent, lowest among Utah's counties and about half the U.S. rate.
Best of intentions • The new leadership of the Boy Scouts of America's Great Salt Lake Council is reaching out to Scout masters and troops who are not based in local LDS wards, where most Utah troops are based.
A letter sent by Council President Bryant S. Davis, Council Commissioner A. Jack Peck and Scout Executive Rick Barnes to "our volunteer scouters from our other faith-based and community-sponsored units," invited "the others" to meet together at Camp Tracy Lodge on Sept. 18.
The invitation was for a "Fireside Chat."
And if "the others" don't know what that means, well, they can just ask one of their LDS friends. They'll know what it means.
Or, they could channel Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Reaching a settlement • I have written about the Republican Party angst over the elephant logo used on the Facebook page of Republicans for Ben McAdams, the Democratic candidate for Salt Lake County mayor.
The McAdams campaign received a letter from a National Republican Committee (RNC) attorney threatening legal action if the elephant logo wasn't taken off the page because it was a violation of trademark laws.
The logo remained on the page, however, and an attorney advising the McAdams campaign said that because the colors are different (the McAdams elephant is orange and brown while the official RNC elephant is red, white and blue) it did not violate the trademark.
Alas, though, after much cajoling, McAdams has finally agreed to take old Dumbo down and replace it with what appears to be a more energetic little elephant that no longer is adorned with stars, but is posed in a leaping mode. McAdams' new elephant is still orange and brown.
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Hundreds of viper trails covered the sand before them. The Egyptologists could only hope that the serpents themselves were long gone as they made their way off the ancient desert road towards the limestone cliffs.
First to reach the wall, Dr John Coleman Darnell of Yale University, was surprised to find the surface covered with rough hieroglyphic inscriptions in apparently random patterns. What did they mean?
His past experience in the field led Darnell to think the markings were graffiti. The wall was close enough to an ancient campsite to serve as the common latrine for drivers, merchants and guards. The inscriptions, over 500 counted so far, were the ancient equivalent of writing on the bathroom wall. Darnell was the first person to see that graffiti in possibly 5000 years.
Using standard archaeological methods to measure, record and interpret the inscriptions on this wall could be the work of an entire career, by itself. But Professor Darnell’s plan wasn’t to use conventional techniques in this survey. His team was packing a technological edge that would make quick work of this fascinating new find.
When most people think of Egypt, the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, Queen Cleopatra, King Ramses II and, of course, the boy king Tutankhamen, spring to mind. In the popular imagination, thanks to explorers like John Carter and classic films such as The Ten Commandments and Cleopatra, Egypt is renowned as an ancient land of mystery whose roots run back to the foundations of human civilisation. It is the Egyptologists who dedicate themselves to uncovering the hidden past of this glorious land.
An author of several books on Egyptology, including Tutankhamun’s Armies, with Colleen Manassa (J. Wiley and Sons, 2007), Professor Darnell is the co-director of the joint Thebian Desert Road Survey and Yale Toshka Desert Survey.
Darnell’s team is working in a harsh environment in the Western Desert, which lies to the west of the Nile in Egypt, Libya and north western Sudan. About 700,000 square km in area, the temperature can rise to over 40 degrees in the midday heat and drop towards zero at night.
See the above page for the full story.
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I am working on this project where I receive a char pointer, but need to cast it to an unsigned short. Below is an example of the code, I am trying to add code to methodB. Also I am not understanding why pointer in methodA is passed as a char and than it is passed to methodB as void. Does this have something to do with how I am casting.
methodB is saying that it can accept a pointer of any type.
This is very unsafe code. char and short have different lengths. You have no guarantee that the caller has reserved at least sizeof(short) bytes when he allocated what ptr points to. (I'm assuming ptr and buf are the same thing in your example).
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The movie Sideways added to the fame of the central coast of California with rolling hills covered with live oak, dramatic cliffs descending to the Pacific Ocean, and grapes harvested for premium wines.
Fordrivers, the central coast has another reason for fame. Rabobank, a financial leader in 48 countries and headquartered in the Netherlands, has installed a network of electric car chargers that use the installed on bank branch roofs. The charging network is a perfect match for early adopters of who prefer to charge with renewable energy.
The solar installations were done by Solar City, a leading solar power provider. Last week I was talking with Pete Rive, a Founder and COO of Solar City. Rabobank has 12 locations with 225kW of solar power that have Level 2 90A/240V chargers, which are publicly accessible from Highway 101. For many electric car drivers, this brings them closer to the dream of driving from Northern to Southern California, charging along the way. Pete Rive can make the drive now since he owns a Tesla Roadster with a 240-mile range between charges.
Google is one of the world’s leading employers to provide solar charging for its employees. Google GFleet Details
This year, SolarCity® and Google created a $280 million fund to finance residential solar projects. The fund is SolarCity’s largest project financing fund and the largest residential solar fund created in the U.S. SolarCity has now created 15 project funds with seven different partners to finance $1.28 billion in solar projects.
The SolarCity/Google fund will extend solar lease (SolarLease®) and power purchase agreement (SolarPPA™) options to customers who desire to have solar panels installed on their homes, but do not wish to make the larger upfront investment to purchase the systems. SolarCity serves Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas, and has more than 15,000 solar projects completed or underway. More than 12,000 of those customers have chosen SolarCity’s financing options, while 3,000 have purchased their systems.
I met Pete Rive at the GoingGreen Silicon Valley Conference. Always On hosts conferences like these in various parts of the nation through the year to bring together leading technology firms and venture capitalists.
The Internet had made billionaires of a few people in the room. The Internet started as ARPANET, a government funded venture. Emerging companies such as Netscape turned to venture capitalists for help in recruiting top management, executing the right strategy, and needed funding. For every Google, venture capitalists have watched multiple investments fail.
As some members of Congress now try making the failure of Solyndra a reason to stop supporting cleantech, the hundreds of people at this conference move ahead, albeit with more difficult funding obstacles. Entrepreneurs see enormous opportunities in solar, vehicle electrification, energy efficiency, smart grid, grid storage, biotechnology, and many other areas. Investments will continue to be made. Most will fail. Some will change the world.
A successful venture capitalist that I met at Going Green was Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His firm’s successes include China’s leading search engine Baidu, and Internet stars that are now part of Microsoft including Hotmail and Skype. Steve Jurvetson drives a Tesla and is on their Board of Directors. He states that all vehicles in the future will be electric, yet he has joined ExxonMobil in investing in Synthetic Genomics, a leader in biofuel from algae. I asked Steve to explain the seeming contradiction.
Synthetic Genomics (SGI), lead by Craig Venter, is developing disruptive technology in biofuel, bio-energy, petrochemical substitutes, and vaccines. Steve Jurvetson, as a Board member of Synthetic Genomics, is excited about transforming more products now plastic from petroleum. By contrast, ExxonMobil with $300 million invested in SGI is interested in algae biofuel feedstock made at breakthrough cost that can be blended at the refinery.
Yes, electric motors are at least four times the efficiency of diesel and gasoline engines, so electric cars have a huge future. Trucks and planes will need fuel for decades and we’re running out of low cost conventional oil. Both EVs and biofuels can successful.
As SGI pursues its multi-year efforts to progress from laboratory to large-scale commercialization, it is giving birth to multiple companies including one to take on some of the world’s most deadly diseases. Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) and the not-for-profit research organization, the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the formation of a new company, Synthetic Genomics Vaccines Inc. (SGVI). The privately held company will focus on developing next generation vaccines using JCVI’s genomic sequencing and synthetic genomic research expertise, coupled with the intellectual property and expertise of SGI, to significantly advance and enhance vaccine development. SGVI is also announcing a three-year collaboration agreement with Novartis to apply synthetic genomics tools and technologies to accelerate the production of the influenza seed strains required for vaccine manufacturing.
Many at the conference see a big potential for electric vehicles charged with solar power and other renewables. For them it’s not just potential, its how they now travel.
What will happen to all these lithium batteries when they reach the end of their warranties, which are typically 100,000 miles or 8 years? At that point, a battery that once gave a LEAF driver like me 60 miles of freeway range may only delivery 50 miles. These batteries can be repurposed in solar power projects, storing electricity to be delivered during peak hours when the sun is no longer high in the sky.
Peter Rive, SolarCity COO, has projects for these repurposed batteries right now. He could see buying lithium batteries for $200 per kilowatt for wall-mounted storage.
We have an abundance of sunlight. We also have an abundance of brilliant scientists and engineers, innovative entrepreneurs, and investors who love to bet big on making the world better. Thanks to them, we will increasingly ride on sunlight.
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In November 2012 Mozilla plans to release Popcorn Maker - a creative tool that makes authoring interactive video as easy as point and click - which has evolved from Popcorn.js. Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers - Think jQuery for video. You can leave the heavy lifting to Popcorn, and concentrate on what you do best: writing awesome code.
Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plugin system to a graphical user interface, with familiar timeline controls. Completely free and open source, Popcorn Maker offers a collection of useful templates, but since it’s built from standard HTML, you can customize it to your heart’s content.
Popcorn Maker 1.0 will empower you to make cool web-based media, whether you’re a beginner or pro. With over 20 plugins—ranging from Twitter to Google Maps to video processing—you’ll be able to stitch up a stylish video that’s woven into the web. And, of course, it’s 100% free and open source.
You’ll be able to publish and share your creations on your blog, Twitter, or Tumblr (or just grab the code).
To create Popcorn Maker, they developed Butter - a software development kit for HTML5-based timeline media apps. If youʼd like to build upon Popcorn Maker, you can get started now by forking it on Github.
Popcorn.js utilizes the native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods and events, normalizes them into an easy to learn API, and provides a plugin system for community contributed interactions.
Popcorn has dozens of plugins for common services and APIs, ranging from Twitter, to Maps, to media events, and more. But if it doesn’t do what you need right now, you can write your own plugins quickly and easily.
With over 1400 unit tests, popcorn.js is put through the paces at every release. A result of many iterations, popcorn.js achieved its 1.0 milestone thanks to the efforts of a dedicated community of world class developers and media makers. And with Mozilla behind it, you can feel confident that this library will be supported well into the future. We’re always open to suggestions of how to make the project better suit your needs.
Popcorn is the core behind a growing number of sister projects and libraries. For example
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University of Connecticut expansion features handmade copper facades
At the end of last month Leers Weinzapfel Associates announced the completion of their newest design, Oak Hall, at the University of Connecticut. The building is the second of two copper-faced and brick classroom buildings on the campus.
Its earlier twin Laurel Hall was opened in the fall of 2011. Together they are the first classroom buildings on the campus which have been designed to LEED Gold standards and have begun to shape a sustainable future for the University.
Oak Hall, named for the state tree, has become the new home for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences' linguistics, modern and classical languages, economics, and journalism departments which were all previously housed in two other buildings. Both structures are located at the campus crossroads and have helped strengthen this space by creating a fresh exterior civic space which lecturers and students alike are able to use.
The architects have featured copper façades in both designs which is their new signature interpretation of brick which has previously been the standard material used for modern college campuses. The copper is hand-crafted so it responds to the brick scale of surrounding buildings.
The current public education challenge of creating large, flexible learning spaces for growing student bodies is addressed by both structures. Oak Hall has a linear layout which accommodates the faculty's departments on the three upper floors, with a large lecture hall and classrooms primarily located at ground level.
The form is created from two L-shaped brick volumes which are intersected by a large connector on the three upper departmental floors. As a result the office spaces are maximized whilst two copper-lined, interconnected courtyards are created.
"It is rare to be able to design two buildings at the same time that so importantly shape the center of a campus," says firm Principal Jane Weinzapfel. "These buildings do just that."
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- Asian food pyramid, Harvard food pyramid, Latin American food pyramid, Mediterranean food pyramid, USDA food pyramid, vegetarian food pyramid.
- A food pyramid is a pictorial representation of a diet that makes recommendations of how much a person should consume from each food group every day. The most popular food pyramids in circulation are the Asian food pyramid, Harvard food pyramid, Latin American food pyramid, Mediterranean food pyramid, USDA food pyramid, and the vegetarian food pyramid.
- The food pyramids are all comprised of food groups. However, the number of food groups in a diet and the frequency that they are eaten varies between the pyramids. The diets represented in the food pyramids are not intended to help a person lose weight. Instead, they represent proportions of what a healthy adult should eat to stay healthy and maintain a normal weight.
- The first food pyramid was created and distributed by the USDA in 1992. In 2005, the USDA released a revision of the food pyramid that clarifies serving sizes and advocates for exercise as a part of a healthy lifestyle. The USDA website mypyramid.gov offers personalized recommendations based on gender, age, weight, and level of physical activity.
- Though the USDA publishes the primary food pyramid, a number of other food pyramids have been created to accommodate the cultural eating practices of subgroups within the United States. One of these pyramids is created by the Harvard School of Public Health out of concern that the USDA may have created their eating recommendations with too much influence from food industry advocacy organizations. The Asian, Latin American, Mediterranean, and vegetarian pyramids were created by the organization Oldways, which advocates for consumption of foods based on daily, weekly and monthly eating cycles.
- The food pyramids are designed as a quick visual reference for individuals to modify their diets in order to keep their bodies healthy and prevent disease. The diagrams are designed to be flexible enough that a person can eat a variety of foods every day while still getting a healthy amount of vitamins and minerals. The pyramids suggest a number of servings of foods already popular within a particular demographic.
- Diets may vary because of factors such as personal preference and cultural affinity. Also, experts disagree on some of the specifics of what a food pyramid should look like although all agree on the importance of getting basic nutrition. These differences of opinion have led to a number of different food pyramids.
Theory / Evidence
- The USDA food pyramid is based on the 2005 Dietary Guides for Americans, a joint publication of the Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA. It is intended to serve as a quick mental and visual reference for patients who wish to improve their diets.
- The other food pyramids are based on the concept of the USDA food pyramid. The Harvard food pyramid was created as an alternative to the food groups and suggested serving sizes that are presented in the USDA food pyramid. The Oldways food pyramids draw from traditions of healthy eating among certain populations of the United States and offer modified food groups for these individuals. Proponents of the vegetarian food pyramid note epidemiological data suggesting that this diet may lower risk of chronic diseases and may increase adult life expectancy.
- This information has been edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (www.naturalstandard.com).
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Harvard School of Public Health Food Pyramid.
- Oldways Food Pyramids.
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Pyramid.
- United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- USDA food pyramid: This food pyramid is organized by daily intake of food. Thirty minutes of daily exercise is also recommended. Unlike some of the other pyramids, this one does not offer examples of foods that may fit into each category. The USDA food pyramid is the most general.
- Daily fruits: A person should eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Fresh fruits should be chosen over juice. A person should eat about two cups every day.
- Daily grains: The USDA recommends that at least half of the grains eaten every day are consumed as whole grains. This amount is equal to 6 ounces every day.
- Meat, beans, fish, nuts, eggs, and soy: All of the foods in this group are recommended as excellent sources of protein.
- Daily milk, yogurt and cheese: The USDA advises that a majority of the three cups of dairy consumed should be low-fat or no-fat.
- Daily oils: Oily foods should be consumed only in very small amounts. The USDA recommends oils from fish, nut and some vegetable sources. Butter, margarine, lard, and hydrogenated oils are not recommended.
- Daily vegetables: Vegetables are recommended daily, with an emphasis on dark green vegetables and brightly colored vegetables, as well as beans. Beans are also classified as a source of protein. The recommended daily intake is about 2.5 cups every day.
- Asian food pyramid: The Oldways Asian food pyramid offers diet suggestions based on daily, weekly and monthly eating cycles. Some parts of the Asian food pyramid are not intended to be eaten every day. Each of the major groups is listed by frequency followed by examples of foods that fit into this category. This pyramid also recommends daily exercise.
- Daily rice, noodles, breads, millet, corn, and other whole grains.
- Daily fruits: Pineapples, bananas, mangos, tangerines, watermelon, grapes, pears.
- Daily legumes, seeds and nuts: Soybeans, peanuts, dried beans, edamame beans, miso, tofu.
- Daily vegetables: Carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, bok choy, cabbage, bamboo shoots, chilis, bean sprouts, scallions, leafy greens, peppers.
- Daily vegetable oils: In small amounts and in moderation.
- Daily fish and shellfish or dairy (optional).
- Weekly sweets.
- Weekly poultry and eggs.
- Monthly meats: pork, beef, mutton.
- Harvard food pyramid: The Harvard food pyramid was designed to emphasize exercise and weight control. This is because its creators consider these two lifestyle factors crucial in staying healthy. The food groups and frequency that items from each are to be consumed are based on research regarding prevention of common diseases among Americans.
- Daily whole grains: This pyramid recommends the consumption of carbohydrates from whole grains such as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal and brown rice at every meal. Eating these foods is advised as a way to regulate blood sugar and prevent type 2 diabetes.
- Daily plant oils: Unsaturated fats from canola, corn, peanut, soy, or sunflower plants should be consumed along with unsaturated fats from fatty fish such as salmon. The Harvard food pyramid places these oils at the bottom of the pyramid because they are the source of about a third of most Americans' calories from fat. These fats are thought to lower bad cholesterol and improve heart health.
- Daily fruits and vegetables: Fruits should be consumed two to three times a day. Vegetables should be consumed even more often and in abundance. Proponents of this food pyramid suggest that these foods may lower the chances of having a stroke or heart attack, lower blood pressure and protect against cancer and vision problems.
- Daily fish, poultry and eggs: An important source of protein, foods from this group should be consumed zero to two times a day.
- Nuts and legumes: The foods are recommended as good sources of vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber. Legumes include lentils, black beans, garbanzos, and navy beans. Nuts include pistachios, hazelnuts, peanuts, almonds, walnuts, and pecans.
- Dairy or calcium supplement: These products are recommended because they contain less saturated fat than milk or cheese.
- Daily multivitamin: This supplement is described as a "nutritional backup" because developing healthy eating habits can be a goal that takes time to achieve.
- Sparing amounts of red meat and butter: This food pyramid suggests that individuals substitute these foods with alternatives such as chicken, fish, lean meats, and vegetable oils as many times as possible during the week.
- Sparing amounts of white rice, potatoes, white bread, white pasta, soda, and sweets: Proponents of this pyramid note that these foods may increase blood sugar, the risk of type 2 diabetes, as well as potentially result in weight gain, heart disease, and other chronic health problems. Whole grains are suggested as an alternative.
- Moderate amounts of alcohol: One drink a day is recommended for adults who drink alcohol.
- Latin American food pyramid: The Oldways Latin American food pyramid offers diet suggestions based on daily and weekly eating cycles. Each of the major food groups is listed by frequency followed by examples of foods that fit into each group. This pyramid also recommends daily exercise.
- Fruits at every meal: Limes, bananas, avocados, cacao, breadfruit, plums, apples, berries, papayas, mangos, cherimoya, guanabana, pineapple, melon, tamarind, quince, grapes, guava, oranges, kiwi.
- Vegetables at every meal: Kale, cactus, eggplant, turnip, chard, squash, zucchini, onions, broccoli, okra, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, tomatillos, sweet peppers, chiles.
- Whole grains, tubers, pasta, beans, and nuts at every meal: Maize, potatoes, rice, bread, taro, tortillas, arepas, black beans, seeds, quinoa, malanga, peanuts, amaranth, legumes, cassava, pecans, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, plantains, yuca, garbanzo beans, pinto beans.
- Daily fish and shellfish: Shrimp, salmon, snapper, mussels.
- Daily plant oils and dairy products: Plant oils (soy, corn, olive), milk, cheese.
- Daily poultry: Fowl, turkey, chicken.
- Six glasses of water a day.
- Weekly meat, sweets and eggs.
- Alcohol in moderation.
- Mediterranean food pyramid: The Oldways Mediterranean food pyramid offers diet suggestions based on daily and weekly eating cycles. Each of the major food groups is listed by frequency followed by examples of foods that fit into each group. This pyramid also recommends daily exercise.
- Daily bread, pasta, rice, couscous, polenta, other whole grains, and potatoes.
- Daily beans, legumes and nuts: Almonds, walnuts and other nuts; chick peas, white beans, lentils and other beans; peanuts.
- Daily fruits: Olives, avocados, grapes.
- Daily vegetables: Spinach, eggplant, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, mushrooms, garlic, capers, beans.
- Daily olive oil.
- Daily cheese and yogurt.
- Weekly fish: Shellfish, sardines.
- Weekly poultry: Chicken, turkey.
- Weekly eggs.
- Weekly sweets: Pastries, ice cream, cookies.
- Monthly meat: Beef, pork.
- Moderate consumption of wine.
- Vegetarian food pyramid: The Oldways vegetarian food pyramid offers diet suggestions based on daily and weekly eating cycles. Each of the major food groups is listed by frequency followed by examples of foods that fit into each group. This pyramid also recommends daily exercise.
- Dietary supplements as necessary with special attention to vitamins D and B12.
- Whole foods and minimally processed foods are recommended over highly processed foods.
- Fruits and vegetables at every meal: Grapes, raisins, pears, avocados, oranges, melon, apples, bananas, plums, cherries, mushrooms, tomatoes, kale, broccoli, collards, sweet potatoes, peppers, asparagus, cucumber, potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage, squash, leeks, eggplant, celery, lettuce.
- Legumes, beans and soy at every meal: Soy, red bean, lentil, kidney bean, tempeh, tofu, black-eyed pea, dried pea, soy flour, textured vegetable protein, navy bean, miso, pinto bean, split pea, lima bean, chick pea, black bean.
- Whole grains at every meal: Oats, wheat, rice, buckwheat, flax, bulgur, quinoa, amaranth, seitan, millet, barley, whole grain bread, rye, pita, tortilla, rice cakes, couscous, noodles, kasha, pasta, corn.
- Daily egg whites, soymilk and dairy: cheese, yogurt.
- Daily nuts and seeds: Pine, walnut, pistachio, brazil, pecan, almond, sesame, cashew, pumpkin, hazelnut, macadamia, peanuts, peanut butter, almonds, pistachios, pine nuts, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds.
- Daily plant oils: Corn, canola, avocado, olive, soybean, safflower, peanut.
- Occasional eggs and sweets.
- Alcohol in moderation.
Copyright © 2011 Natural Standard (www.naturalstandard.com)
The information in this monograph is intended for informational purposes only, and is meant to help users better understand health concerns. Information is based on review of scientific research data, historical practice patterns, and clinical experience. This information should not be interpreted as specific medical advice. Users should consult with a qualified healthcare provider for specific questions regarding therapies, diagnosis and/or health conditions, prior to making therapeutic decisions.
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Costa Rica may denote paradise and boast of toucans, howler monkeys, and a good number of wildlife that can complete a Disney cartoon flick. The life in Costa Rica is pretty much relaxed. Add to that the strong waves and beautiful environment. These reasons among others attract around 1.5 million travelers every year to Costa Rica.
The number of things you can do in Costa Rica are myriad.. Those who are into active travel can go surfing, snorkeling, hiking, and wildlife spotting. You can also cross the cloud forest, go to an active volcano, and have a relaxing massage on the beach . If you want some adrenaline pumping, you can go ziplining or surfing the rough waves of the Pacific.
Tags: Alila Villas, australia, best eco-hotels, Costa rica, eco hotels, Ecotravel, green hotels, Green tourism, green travel ideas, green vacation, Maldives, Mexico, Monte Azul Hotel, Rancho Pescadero, top eco-hotels, Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa
If you’re environmentally conscious, you probably won’t mind sacrificing a little luxury lodging for a run-of-the-mill mosquito ridden inn. After all, if you can help save mother earth, the sacrifice is all worth it. That was several years ago, though. Now, you don’t have to camp out just to have a guilt-free summer getaway. A green vacation is possible while enjoying high-end facilities and first-class services as well.
There’s a new breed of hotels and they’re aptly tagged “eco-chic”. Now, you can enjoy the best amenities without harming the planet. Below is a list of the hottest eco-chic hotels and resorts around the world.
Costa Rica: Monte Azul Hotel and Center for Fine Arts
Costa Rica is already a known pioneer of eco-tourism, however, the set up as Monte Azul Hotel seems to beg for some redefinition. Here, the hotel’s friends and neighbors seem to give it what it needs. You can find anything just across the road: from organic vegetables to fresh milk to eggs and perfectly aged steak.
Think about the cleanest country in the world, and chances are you will answer “Singapore”. While the city state is praised time and again for being spotlessly clean, the fact remains that Costa Rica has been lauded as one of the most environmentally clean countries in the world. They have pledged to offset all carbon emissions and become fully carbon neutral by the year 2030. A tall order, but it seems that they are well on the way to achieving this status.
Prior to the pledge, Costa Rica’s reputation as an environmentally conscious country is well known across the globe. They gazetted more than a quarter of its total area and make them protected sanctuaries. Translated, this means that more than a quarter of the republic country consists of forests and wildlife parks. Costa Rica is also proud that it generates much needed electricity from renewable sources – at an impressive amount of 96 percent! In fact, they promise to reduce even more emissions from its various industries – something that most countries cannot even begin to promise.
In the Hispanic world Santa Teresa is an important saint and celebration. Consequently Santa Teresa is a wide spread town name : there are Santa Teresa in U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Only the last one, Santa Teresa from Costa Rica waked my interest and I visited it since short time.
La Playa Santa Teresa
Santa Teresa is a fast growing city sitting in the jungle. The road conditions are poor, the touristic infrastructure is also not very developed, as the city has been for many years a humble fishing village in Costa Rica. Despite all of these things, the town and the area tourism is booming. Some prominents have discovered this wonderful quiet place ( e.g. Giselle Bundchen owes a property in the area, and she celebrated her wedding there. It was a violent wedding, with shotguns.)
A villa in Sata Teresa
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Writing Homework One Answers - Student One
Lying, prevaricating, making a brief departure from the truth, whatever you like to call it, people do it constantly. Consistently. Sometimes it feels like a never-ending barrage of lies, bombarding you from every direction. But what right do we have to expect honesty from others if we won’t hold ourselves to that standard? Or do we expect it? Are we the People shocked when we find that those put in office to represent the will of People abuse their privileges to achieve their own ends? Maybe we would be shocked if we were aware of what was going on under our noses, if we weren’t ignorant and unconcerned.
Our nation’s capital is no exception to the predisposition towards deception. Could this be because we as a People no longer expect the truth from Washington, whose namesake could not tell a lie?
“The truth hurts. What you don’t know can’t hurt you. Therefore, ignorance is bliss.” These are some of the maxims used to justify our ignorance of things of great importance. There are answers to be found if we would look for them. If we the People actually wanted to do something about the antics of the panjandrums in Washington, we could. This a nation created by the People, for the People; there were measures set in place to safeguard our liberties and freedoms.
But at the same time, we also have the freedom to disregard all of this; the careful thought and planning by our nation’s founders, the effort put forth to achieve this liberty, the passionate words of great statesmen to convince the People of the need for this liberty. We have the freedom not to vote, not to concern of ourselves with matters of government, to live in ignorance even as they make decisions that affect every aspect of our lives. We can choose to hide from the facts, and be ignorant.
“An enlightened people will never suffer what was established for their security to be perverted to an act of tyranny”. It is long past time for the People to let Washington know that they are under our employ, not the highest bidder. Ignorance is not bliss, no by a long shot.
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Dr. Peter Loock, Bithun Sarkar (Eng. Chem. 2011) and Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois demonstrate the “Photonic Guitar” in a 5 min clip shown by the Discovery Channel. Paul plays a custom-built acoustic guitar made by Dagmar Guitars (luthier: Pete
Swanson). The “Photonic Guitar” is interrogated with laser light and is equipped with 7 fiber-optic sensors which act as pick-ups for the vibrations of the guitar body.
For more information and to watch a short video, please visit the Department of Chemistry website found here.
Students aren’t the only people who come to Queen’s on exchange.
Waseda University staff members Kunito Koizumi and Takako Ota enrolled last semester in the 12-week English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program offered by the Queen’s School of English (QSoE). The Japanese visitors also volunteered at the Faculty of Arts and Science International Programs Office (IPO).
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Indiana University was founded in 1820 at Bloomington and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education west of the Allegheny Mountains. Its facilities and programs are internationally known for their excellence and diversity. With 109,000 full- and part-time students on eight campuses, as well as a faculty of more than 6,000, Indiana University is one of the largest universities in the nation. The university offers 5,000 courses of instruction and 880 degree programs, and it attracts students from all 50 states and more than 150 countries.
Indiana University has eight campuses: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana University Northwest (Gary), Indiana University South Bend, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana University Kokomo, Indiana University Southeast (New Albany), and Indiana University East (Richmond). It also offers courses through Columbus, Elkhart, and many other sites. The university puts quality education within reach of all Indiana citizens.
Indiana University Kokomo
Indiana University Kokomo was built upon the foundations of another institution, the Kokomo Junior College. Organized in 1932, the Junior College offered a basic two-year collegiate program. Throughout its 13-year history, it maintained an average enrollment of about 75 students.
In 1945, the Junior College asked Indiana University to assume its function and to establish an extension center in the former Junior College building at 508 West Taylor Street. In 1947, to accommodate steadily increasing enrollment, the university purchased the Seiberling-Kingston mansion at 1200 West Sycamore Street.
IU Kokomo’s main classroom building was occupied in 1965 on South Washington Street. Housing classrooms, lounges, faculty research facilities, and a community auditorium, it is located on a 51-acre site in the southern part of the city.
The mission of Indiana University Kokomo, a regional campus of Indiana University, is to enhance the educational and professional attainment of residents of north central Indiana by providing a wide range of bachelor’s degrees, and a limited number of master’s and associate degrees. Indiana University Kokomo is further dedicated to enhancing research, creative work, and other scholarly activity, promoting diversity, and strengthening the economic and cultural vitality of the region and the state through a variety of partnerships and programs.
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3 Words Could Increase Drug Costs By $1.2B Annually
Arizona governor Jan Brewer has generated a lot of press lately and a lot of jokes with her proposal to require some of the state's Medicaid members pay an annual $50 fine for engaging in certain unhealthy behaviors like being obese and smoking.
Google "Arizona + obesity" and more than 6.8 million results from last week appear concerning Brewer's fee proposal along with plenty of references to a so-called flab-and-fat tax.
I have no opinion about the fairness of a flab tax, but it does make me think about how easily our national debate about healthcare can be bogged down and distracted by some nickel-and-dime proposals. If every man, woman and child in Arizona's Medicaid program paid the fine the state's coffers would swell by $50 million, which is a drop in the state's annual $8.9 billion Medicaid budget.
Meanwhile, according to a recent study, three words cost our healthcare system several billion dollars each year. "Dispense as written," or DAW is used by some physicians to avoid the generic equivalent of brand name drugs. Some states allow the patients themselves to request a brand name drug even if the prescribing physician will allow generics.
Researchers at Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark studied 5.6 million prescriptions for 2 million patients. Here is what they discovered:
- Some 4.7% of the prescriptions were designated as DAW.
- For the most part physicians, used DAW when no generic alternatives were available.
- In 2% of the prescriptions, patients opted for brand name drugs even when a generic version was available and the physician approved the substitution.
- Primary Care Docs Average More Hospital Revenue Than Specialists
- 69% of Employers Plan to Offer Healthcare Coverage After 2014
- How Chargemaster Data May Affect Hospital Revenue
- Insurer's App Aims to Lower Healthcare Costs, Securely
- House Lawmakers Grill CMS Over Health Exchange Navigators
- ED Physicians Key to Half of Hospital Admissions
- Building a Better Healthcare Board
- Q&A: Catholic Health Initiatives' New Senior VP for Capital Finance
- Don't Let Nurses Sink Your Bottom Line
- Hospital Pricing Irks Nurses; More Jobs, Less Pay
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The world is filled with people believing that large earthquakes cause volcanoes to erupt far far away. Lately we have had quite a few very large earthquakes that all where above 8 in magnitudes and two that was on the mega-colossal scale (Tohoku and Boxing-day earthquakes).
Here is the list since 2000:
2001: June 23 Peru (8.4)
2003: September 25 Hokkaido Japan (8.3)
2004: December 23 Macquery Islands New Zealand (8.1), December 26 Sumatra Indonesia (9.1 Boxing day earthquake)
2005: March 28 Nias Indonesia (8.6)
2006: May 3 Tonga (8.0), November 15 Kuril Islands Russia (8.3)
2007: January 13 Kuril Islands Russia (8.1), April 1 Solomon Islands (8.1), August 15 Chincha Alta Peru (8.0), September 12 Sumatra Indonesia (8.5)
2009: September 29 Samoa Islands (8.1)
2010: February 27 Maule Chile (8.8)
2011: March 11 Japan (9.0 Tohoku)
2012: April 12 Sumatra Indonesia (8.5), April 12 Sumatra Indonesia (8.2)
Good, now we have raw data. Among these are 6 out of the 11 strongest earthquakes recorded by man. One of the earthquakes was the third largest earthquake ever recorded. If something could rock the boat it would be one of these ones. Oh, and before you go off on the “there are more earthquakes now than before train”, no it s not. It is just that we have far more seismometers available now.
What do we need now? Well, a couple of smoking close to eruption volcanoes would be good. Iceland is bound to have a couple. So let us check for the usual suspects. We had 3 eruptions happening (2 Grimsvötn and 1 Eyjafjallajökull). On top of that we have Hekla who is achingly close to erupting since 2007; Hekla is most likely the closest volcano on the planet to tipping over into an eruption. And for fun, let us throw in Etna; she is always up for a show.
Let us start with Grimsvötn, the penultimate bad-boy of Iceland. Grimsvötn has had more eruptions than any volcano during the last 300 years, and also the world’s largest fissure eruption during the same time period. We should find something there should we not?
2004 November 1? Nope, nothing happened then. 2011 May 21 (Grimsvötns largest eruption in a century). Nothing spectacular happening on that date.
Now you are going, Eyjafjallajökull, she disturbed airline traffic and was a messy bastard, surely that one was caused by an earthquake? 2010 March 17 (Fimmvörduhals-eruption) and April 14 (Eyjafjallajökull crater eruption). Well, I am sorry but nothing happened then.
Let us now go for Etna, she is having loads of small eruptions during this time-period, so statistically at least one should coincide with a large earthquake. Let us check. I am not going to write a long list of the eruptions, I will just write down those that occurred that coincides with an actual earthquake. And once again it shows that no major eruption coincides with an Earthquake. If we then go into the last eruption of Etna that started in August 2010 and is still ongoing we find that Etna had series of small eruptions called Paroxysms. These happen about monthly so one of them would surely be a jackpot.
Lo and behold! We have a match! After 10 days of being quiet Etna had a paroxysm in the morning of the 12th of April. Thank the Gods, we have proven that Earthquakes causes Eruptions!
Or did we really? No we did not. Etna is a very predictable volcano, and Dr. Boris Behncke had already warned about the eruption coming 36 hours before the earthquake. Hm, so the volcano was already going to erupt. In reality the eruption was actually not coupled that well with the earthquake, there was 4 hours in between them.
Well then Hekla, the most trigger happy volcano on the Planet. Locked and loaded to go off since at least 2007, one would think that nasty mess of a volcano would do something. Well she did, she shivered as jolly pudding. Here you can see both the 8.5 and the 8.2 earthquakes. It is a nice image, it shows that there is enough lava down there to actually shiver like a pudding, otherwise it proves nothing. The last eruption produced a motion 10 000 times larger. So, if the volcano closest to a large eruption on the planet did nothing more than behaves like Jell-O I would say that this matter is over with.
An Earthquake cannot cause an eruption in a far off volcano. Get over it.
Bonus volcano, Mount Merapi! We should not be euro-centric. Guess what, there were no earthquake then either.
It is actually quite simple, the waves generated are filtered by the vast mass of earth, when the waves from the earthquake finally arrives only the most low in frequency are left, and they span a lot of area, we are talking about waves that are 100s of meters wide up to kilometers wide. They do not cause a kick in the ass of the magma causing it to de-gas, instead it gently sloshes it a bit. Like the difference of dropping a beer-can on the floor and opening it, and gently pulling the tap and pouring it after having turned the can gently upside down a few times.
If you do not believe me about the filtering try this experiment. Put on your favorite recording on your loudspeakers. Tape a piece of cardboard over the tweeters, listen. You should now hear that the high frequencies are muted. Now repeat the same thing over the bas. Not much happening right? Now, let us have fun, put in some earplugs before doing this. Now go and crank up the volume and take a look at the cardboard. It should by now be pulsing with the base pretty visible. Gosh darn it; same does the earth do to the earthquake waves.
The gently rocking motion of a teleseism (distant earthquake) is quite reminding of the gentle slow-moving earth-tides. And they do not cause eruptions either (nor earthquakes), but that is another bedtime story for another evening.
Earthquake on Earthquake
The same principle also goes for Earthquakes. A distant Earthquake is not going to cause a distant fault-line to rupture. Why? Well again the waveforms are so large that they move all of the fault-line at the same time in a slow and equal movement. Think here about going for a massage and compare it to being hit a few times by a boxer. The massage does not really hurt you, but the boxer will.
In this case the boxer was the blow of 8.5 at Sumatra, it damaged a close by fault-line causing the following 8.2 Earthquake. So I am sad to say that physics do not allow teleseisms to set off series of large earthquakes all over the planet. Get over it 2012ers.
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The much lamented fading of the American dream of a better future results from the continuous, corrosive effect of policies initiated by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Democrat/Socialists blame Republicans for foreclosing the American dream, the expectation that things will be better for our children than they were for us. Their explanation is that presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush took income away from the middle class and from low-income citizens and gave it to “the rich” via tax cuts.
The incoming Obama administration vows to change that.
Implicit in this picture is the presumption that people’s lives can be improved only by new or expanded Federal welfare programs. The dream has faded, in this picture, because Republicans haven’t spent enough on the nanny-state.
This is an example of the static analysis that characterizes socialist economic doctrine. The economy, in that view, is analogous to a chess board with a fixed number of squares and a fixed number of pieces, each with unchanging characteristics. Liberal-progressive planners unrealistically presume that they can control the game’s outcome simply by repositioning pieces on the static playing board.
The main element of such state-planning involves mechanisms for income redistribution. Democrat-Socialists sincerely believe that the American dream was crafted, not by the ingenuity and hard work of individuals in the trenches and by managers and entrepreneurs, but by the state-planning instituted in the 1930s New Deal.
Moreover, in Democrat/Socialists’ Marxian theory, the only source of value is physical labor. Thus, business managers’ salaries and investors’ so-called unearned income – dividends and interest on invested funds – constitute stealing what rightfully belongs to the workers. For Democrat/Socialists, such income not taken by taxes is in undeserving hands.
Real-world economic analysis, unlike the static analysis of liberal-progressive-socialist economics, reflects the economy’s dynamism. Capable management and risk-taking entrepreneurs, funded by savings from the middle class and the rich, introduce more efficient production methods and entirely new technologies. Such actions engender higher labor productivity, which causes the economy to grow and fosters the creation of new jobs, as well as higher wages and salaries.
If, however, entrepreneurs and business managers are to take risks and to invest private funds in new and more productive assets, they must be able to foresee the likelihood of profits commensurate with the risks. It is this, the role of such expectations, that gets short shrift in liberal-progressive-socialist economic theory. Completely ignored is the paralyzing effect of uncertainties about future inflation, taxation, and increases in regulatory red tape. Metaphorically speaking, people are hesitant to set out on a long journey when there is a possibility of life-threatening storms and terrorists’ roadside bombs along the way.
In the business world, those storms and roadside bombs are the prospect of higher taxes, increased regulation that adds to production costs, and the inflation that ensues. To an unquantifiable extent, they limit future profits and reduce the incentives for innovation and risk-taking.
Consequently, increased nanny-state benefits don’t increase the prospects for the American dream of a better life in the future. When the Federal government deliberately and repeatedly (sadly under Republicans, as well as Democrat/Socialists) resorts to deficit spending necessary for the expansion of the nanny-state, inflation confiscates a significant portion of nanny-state benefits and of the increased wages and salaries earned by workers and managers.
In that regard, read Inflation-Targeting — More Monetary Manipulation and Unending Inflation on the Mises.org website.
The current perception that the future is less bright for our children than it was in the 1950s is correct, because our inflation-driven costs of living are continually increasing, usually at a faster pace than our wages and salaries. Inflation increases business costs, cut profits, and thereby reduces the wherewithal to pay higher wages and salaries. Inflation also discourages long-term productive investments that would lead to creation of more jobs.
The New New Deal to which Democrat/Socialists now aspire will continue what Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal started: deliberate inflation to fund expansion of the nanny-state.
As I wrote in How FDR Destroyed the Dollar,
Until 1933, the U. S. dollar was the among the strongest and most stable currencies in the world. With the stroke of a pen, President Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed it. We are still plagued with the resulting inflation.
An earlier New New Deal, President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, produced the stagflation of the 1970s. Inflation in that period reduced the purchasing power of people’s life savings more than fifty percent.
In Ben Bernanke and the “Barbarous Relic” I wrote:
…central banks, from their inception, have tended to succumb to pressures to create fiat money faster than the increase in underlying assets produced by their economies.ÂÂÂ
Governments pressure central banks to ‘create’ money by purchasing government debt, thereby avoiding the need to raise taxes to fund welfare-state hand-outs. Commercial banks support the resulting excess credit creation, because it provides them more funds to lend at a profit.
The result is a false sense of economic well-being such as [what prevailed in March, 2006, an] economy in which our massive trade deficit [was] financed by the explosion of so-called home equity (based on the inflated market price) loans on private homes.
Inflation deliberately imposed by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s has pushed today’s CPI to more than ten times that of the pre-FDR era. The American dream is guaranteed to fade so long as our government is wedded to ever-increasing inflation to fund Federal deficit spending.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776
Email comments to email@example.comThomas E. Brewton, who maintains this blog, had the great good fortune in the middle 1950s at Louisiana State University to study under two of the 20th century's great minds: Eric Voegelin in political science, and Walter Berns in Constitutional law. These two professors opened the door of education to a glimpse of Western civilization and of American political and social thought as they had been before socialism was unconstitutionally established as the official national religion of the United States in 1933.
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You've found the famous Dave's Garden website! Join this friendly global community that shares tips and ideas for home and gardens, along with seeds and plants!|
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site.
|Positive ||vossner ||On Jul 11, 2011, vossner from Richmond, TX (Zone 9a) wrote:
I grow mine in a pot and have to keep watered. However, it is extremely easy to kill it w/ overwatering.
|Positive ||joycou ||On Jun 2, 2010, joycou from Riverview, FL wrote:
can i propagate helichrysum in water
|Positive ||robcorreia ||On Jul 17, 2008, robcorreia from San Diego, CA (Zone 10b) wrote:
Very pretty plant. Easy to propagate from stem cuttings!
|Positive ||leucantha ||On Nov 14, 2005, leucantha from Loma Linda, CA wrote:
Grows well for me in inland southern California, only 40 miles from Palm Springs. Drought tolerant when watered deeply but infrequently. Stands out and brightens in dry shade. I put it among plants with that contrast in leaf color, size, and shape, and then let it crawl all over, among, through, between them. Can be started from branch tip cuttings in the spring. Try with liriope 'silvery sunproof' gold-striped grass, with pigsqueak, and with echinacea. Also with salvias.
|Positive ||Dunedinduo ||On Oct 4, 2003, Dunedinduo from Cranston, RI wrote:
Plant enjoyed its summer in my New England garden. I left it potted but transplated X1. I've now moved it indoors to enjoy a sunny window. This will be a test for us both. Has anyone info on ph tolerances before I get into trouble?
|Neutral ||Dinu ||On Mar 10, 2003, Dinu from Mysore
India (Zone 10a) wrote:
As far as its water needs are concerned, it must be watered, not over watered. I don't think it is 'drought tolerant' because the leaves droop if it is not watered for two days. In Summer, I have to water it everyday. The leaves emit a very pleasant odour when touched.
|Positive ||jkom51 ||On Nov 22, 2002, jkom51 from Oakland, CA (Zone 9b) wrote:
Just put this in last month (Oct 2002) so we'll see how it gets thru the wet winters in zone 9 coastal northern California.
Grown as an annual in other zones - very frost tender.
Sept 2003: All the helichrysums do very well in our mild winter/cool summer Mediterranean climate. Planted in moisture-retentive compost and mulched, they can get by with very little supplemental watering even in summer, but moderate watering (along with good drainage) encourages them no end. I find it necessary to prune them back or they overrun other less aggressive plants. My 'Limelight' is responding to its aggressive neighbors (canna lily clump and white-flowering solanum potato vine) by growing upwards into the potato vine's arbor! Like lambs' ear, a pruning regime helps eliminate the dead undergrowth.
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Los Angeles, California
San Diego, California
San Leandro, California
South Pasadena, California
Holden Heights, Florida
Rocky River, Ohio
Pecan Grove, Texas
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nothing seems out of the ordinary when you first look at Life Clock. upon closer inspection, you may notice the numbers seem a little high. this is because one rotation of this clock is equal to the average human lifespan. the clock is an artwork by bertrand planes which uses an ordinary clock slowed down 61320 times to make each minute equal to a year.
Julie Cloutier and Claire Nereim have physically shifted the forms of the alphabet, creating a B from an A, a C from a B and so on until they reached Z and lost one letter. They write: This shift in form and meaning is intended to both reveal and celebrate the formal deception inherent in the act of reading and to create new meanings by exposing the resemblances and fissures inside our hierarchical alphabet. SHIFT, available in 26″ x 40″, screenprinted on paper, edition of 45.
Jerri Chou, organizer of The Feast Conference(and new studio member here in our office) just informed me that their agenda has been finalized with a series of inspiring, mind-expanding, and innovative talks. “The Feast” will try to showcase a look at social innovation from all angles. Speakers include Dickson Despommier, the mind behind the “vertical farming” concept and Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance who will discuss how to make good ideas happen.
They only have 70 tickets for sale so buy yours today as space will sell out fast! And as a special bonus, use discount code “FIFTY” to receive $50 off your ticket price. To register for The Feast and get more information, please visit thefeastconference.com.
photoshop photo frame: the first ever analog digital photo frame. This is high quality 4×5 white wooden white frame with hand silk screened image of software window, only 50 will be produced in time for holidays, and will be selling for about $50. *Love* it!!!
A page from Typographie. The phrase, “nach Mass” translates to, “made to measure” Photo: insect54
Past examples of structured grid design and typography by Swiss masters such as Josef Müller-Brockmann continue to influence both print and interactive design to this day. However, after realizing there is no shortage of Müller-Brockmann fan clubs, I wanted to explore some of the other, maybe lesser-known founders of the International Typographic Style. My search led me to a typographer and designer by the name of Emil Ruder (1914-1970), who played a key part in the development and dissemination of the Swiss Style.
Alphabet Bags was created in 2008 by business partners and couple Hayley Thwaites & Lucas Lepola, two twenty-somethings living in London. You might be familiar with their first project, the KeepCalmGallery, which I often link to. Their latest project, Alphabet Bags, which launched yesterday gets my two thumbs up for its sheer simplicity. The bags have been made using 100% heavy-weight cotton and have been stitched and screen printed in the UK. What’s your favorite letter?
The average blog that runs ads, according to Technorati, is actually making money: Among those with advertising, the mean annual investment in their blog is $1,800, but it’s paying off. The mean annual revenue is $6,000 with $75K+ in revenue for those with 100,000 or more unique visitors per month.
Making money off original content isn’t hard as long as you aren’t afraid of making money. You can sell it, you can offer subscriptions to it, you can talk about it, etc. But what’s more interesting — and easier — is making money again of something that already made you money before.
I am looking forward to wednesday’s CLICK conference here in NYC. It’s an annual conference on advertising and digital media, a one-day symposium featuring some of the most forward-thinking leaders in the industry: James Cooper/Another Anomaly, Alex Lieu/42 Entertainment, Sergio Gordilho/Africa Propaganda, Alessandra Lariu/McCann/She Says, Michael Lebowitz/Big Spaceship, and Benjamin Palmer/The Barbarian Group, to name just a few. Moderated by Liz Danzico of Happy Cog and the School of Visual Arts. Are you going?
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Fires Blaze North of Omsk
April usually brings a sharp increase in fire activity throughout Central Asia, as farmers begin to prep their fields for the coming season. This year is no exception.
Thousands of hectares were burning when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of fires in a rural area north of Omsk, a city in south central Russia near the Kazakhstan border. Fields and grasslands appear brown; red outlines mark the locations of actively burning fires. Numerous smoke plumes, as well as a patchwork of darker burns scars, are also visible. Aqua acquired the image at 2:05 p.m. local time (08:05 Universal Time) on April 24, 2012.
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Many of the fires appear to be on burning on farmland and were likely started by grain farmers. The area around Omsk is one of the most productive agricultural regions in Russia; some of the main crops include wheat, rye, barley, and oats. Growers often burn debris from the previous year's crop before replanting in order to clear the land and fertilize the soil.
Officially, both Russia and Kazakhstan prohibit farmers from burning their fields, but each spring satellites detect large numbers of agricultural fires nonetheless. Scientists can use satellites to distinguish between agricultural and wildfires because in addition to occurring on croplands, agricultural fires tend not to be as bright or long-lasting.
In one study that used MODIS measurements, scientists tallied the global distribution of agriculture fires and found that between 18 and 29 percent of the fires in central Asia were agricultural in origin. Researchers also found that Russia was responsible for an estimated 31 to 36 percent of the world's agricultural fires-more than any other country.
What begins as a controlled agricultural fire, however, can easily morph into a raging wildfire in this part of the world. In Omsk, forests cover about 30 percent of the landscape and fires can easily spread. Many cultivated fields are adjacent to abandoned fields and wild grasslands, remnants of large farming cooperatives that collapsed with the USSR. (Forests are densest in the upper left of the image, and some of the fires in these areas have likely become uncontrolled forest fires).
About 200 wildfires break out each day in Russia, the director of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Sergei Didenko, recently told the ITAR-TASS news agency. "The human factor continues to play the negative role. Ninety-nine percent of all fires are started by negligence, prank, or carelessness, " he said. In an unusual case, officials recently fined a man 581 million rubles-$19.6 million-for discarding a cigarette and starting a fire that burned 2,000 hectares in 2009. He reportedly saw the fire burning, yet did nothing to stop it.
Source: Earth Observatory
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A life to short
15 April 1945 | Po Valley, Italy
During one of the bloodiest battles of the Spring Offensive of the Po Valley in Italy. 2nd Lieutenant Owen W. Fligg, Jr., forward observer with Company B, after the company occupied Hill 828 at Le Coste, was killed by macine gun and sniper fire.
He was the recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He was a member of the 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division.
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- Way Off Shore
Banking in Montana
- by George
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, the king of Tonga isn't laughing anymore.
Tonga, it appeared, was ready to put up the $2 million needed
to open what would have been Montana's first off-shore banking
The king's financial advisor J.D. Bogdonoff, who also happens
to be the king's court jester, was in Montana recently investigating
the state's off-shore banking opportunities until he himself
became the subject of an investigation into the disappearance
of more than $20 million dollars since it was invested in this
country in 1999. Most likely that Tongan wealth evaporated in
the devaluation of Internet stocks over the last year.
The Tongan king's jester was the first serious candidate to invest
in a Montana mechanism to attract foreign capital to Montana's
In 1997, the Montana state legislature passed an idea into law
that created foreign capital depositories--similar to banks but
legally prohibited from being designated as banks. Given the
political, economic and other risks that exist in the world,
the idea behind the legislation is that there's a market for
a safe, stable repository for cash. The Montana-chartered institutions
can be set up by U.S. or foreign corporations or citizens, but
depositors can't be U.S. citizens. The institutions are aimed
at depositors who want to place assets of $200,000 or more in
a safe place outside of their own countries.
The privacy of depositors will be well-guarded, although managers
of the depositories will still have to comply with U.S. laws
to prevent the laundering of drug money, terrorist bankrolls,
and the concealment of the proceeds from white collar crimes.
Despite these restrictions, then Governor Marc Racicot urged
passage of the law, estimating that these foreign capital depositories
would attract $12 million dollars in the first full year of operation.
This mechanism to attract foreign capital to the state looked
attractive because Montana doesn't have a sales tax and the goal
was to generate revenue for the state's general fund from fees
related to the depositories.
These fees seemed designed to discourage all but the most serious
investors, too. To operate a depository in Montana, a corporation
or individual must pay a $25,000 (non-refundable) application
fee and a $25,000 initial charter fee. Then there's the 1.5 percent
annual fee based on the size of assets held and a $10,000 charter
renewal fee due annually each following year.
Despite the projections of millions in fees that would result
from dabbling in the off-shore banking business for foreign capital,
the state of Montana has yet to realize a penny in new revenues,
despite responding to hundreds of inquiries from around the world.
The King of Tonga is not the only one not laughing anymore. Not
long ago, Tonga's government apologized to its citizens for Bogdonoff's
bad investments. The court jester's real joke though is on the
citizens of Montana who have yet to realize any benefit from
the 1997 law. The fees collected from foreign capital depositories
are required by the law to be applied to reduce individual income
taxes in the state, so there is plenty of reasons to wish the
state success in the future.
After a century of having a reputation as a good place for desperadoes,
refugees and just plain dissatisfied folk to hide from the bad
choices of their previous lives, the state is now banking that
it will also be known worldwide as a good safe place for people
to hide their money.
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Sierra Nevada Brewery: Beer Powered by the Sun
By the end of this month, the Sierra Nevada Brewery will be almost entirely off the grid. Already, the brewery has four fuel cells operating 70 to 75 percent of the facility's power, according to Cheri Chastain, the company's sustainability coordinator.
In a few short weeks, the solar panels they've been installing all summer will be ready to capture some rays, enabling the brewery to approach 100 percent self-sufficiency when the sun is at its peak. (Chastain expects the brewery to be around 80 percent efficient during off-peak hours, at night, or on cloudy days.)
Already a model of sustainability, the brewery also focuses efforts in recycling, heat recovery, carbon-dioxide recovery, water conservation, energy efficiency, and byproduct recycling. Now that's what we call one green brewski. ::Paradise Post
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Casa-Estudio de José Fuster
Artist José R. Fuster, a world-renowned painter and ceramist nicknamed the “Picasso of the Caribbean,” has an open-air workshop-gallery at his home (Calle 226, esq. Av. 3A, tel. 07/271-2932 or cell 05/264-6051, www.josefuster.com, daily 9 a.m.–5 p.m.). You step through a giant doorway—La Puerta de Fuster—to discover a surreal world made of ceramics.
Many of the naive, childlike works are inspired by farmyard scenes, such as El Torre del Gallo (Rooster’s Tower), a 12-foot-tall statement on male chauvinism that also doubles as an oven. Other allegorical creations—puppet-like forms, buses bulging with people—pay tribute to Compay Segundo (of Buena Vista Social Club fame) and other provincial figures. Call ahead to arrange a visit.
Fuster’s creativity now graces the entryways, benches, roofs, and facades of houses throughout his local community.
(Fidel Castro’s main domicile is nearby, but you can’t see it. The home is set in an expansive compound surrounded by pine trees and electrified fences and heavy security. All streets surrounding it are marked as one-way, heading away from the house.)
© Christopher P. Baker from Moon Cuba, 5th Edition
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… was born in Los Angeles on this date in 1891.
Among the decisions the Supreme Court made under Warren as Chief Justice were those that:
- Outlawed school segregation.
- Enunciated the one-man, one-vote doctrine.
- Made most of the Bill of Rights binding on the states.
- Curbed wiretapping.
- Upheld the right to be secure against “unreasonable” searches and seizures.
- Buttressed the right to counsel.
- Underscored the right to a jury trial.
- Barred racial discrimination in voting, in marriage laws, in the use of public parks, airports and bus terminals and in housing sales and rentals.
- Extended the boundaries of free speech.
- Ruled out compulsory religious exercises in public schools.
- Restored freedom of foreign travel.
- Knocked out the application of both the Smith and the McCarran Acts–both designed to curb “subversive” activities.
- Held that Federal prisoners could sue the Government for injuries sustained in jail.
- Said that wages could not be garnished without a hearing.
- Liberalized residency requirements for welfare recipients.
- Sustained the right to disseminate and receive birth control information.
(Source: The New York Times)
Warren’s parents were born in Norway (father) and Sweden (mother). Elected governor of California three times (1942, 1946, 1950), Warren was so popular he won both the Democratic and Republican primaries in 1946. The darkest mark against Warren’s public service was the wartime internment of Japanese Americans.
President Eisenhower appointed Warren chief justice in 1953; he retired from the Court in 1969. NewMexiKen considers Warren the most significant historical figure I’ve ever seen in person (briefly at the 1964 New York World’s Fair) — and I’ve seen five presidents.
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This is a simple twist on the regular hanging leg raise exercise…instead of hanging from the bar facing forward, you will instead turn 90 degree so that your body is perpendicular to the bar, then you’ll do hanging leg raises.
How is this different, you might ask?
The answer is that the close-in hand position actually allows you to better target the obliques while doing the leg raise. Normally, when you do the hanging leg raise exercise, your hands are at least a foot or more apart, for stability. With this version, you’re using a baseball-bat type grip so your hands are directly overhead. This puts the arms at an angle to your torso, which automatically involves the obliques.
You can also purposefully bring your legs up in a twisting movement to further accentuate the oblique involvement, which I will also show below.
Since I’m doing these in my rack, I have my hands set a bit back from the center point to allow room for my legs to come up. This is more of a knee raise, because of the space constraints – if you have enough room by your chin-up bar, you can do a full leg raise with the legs straighter. This version works really well, too, though.
So grip in a alternating baseball bat type grip then hang.
Now start raising the legs/knees. Be sure to start the movement with flexion at the abdominals, not just hinging at the hips.
I like to come all the way up until my feet are by the bar and my upper body is leaning back almost horizontal.
You can also come up twisting, with your knee tilted to the sides.
This is great oblique work and all it takes is a simple positioning change in the hanging leg raise grip.
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As a scientific technical association offering the Association of Cereal Research (AGF) from the field of information handling and processing of crops and derived foods. In the division of AGF milling, baking, baking ingredients, starch, pasta, cereal-based foodstuffs, machinery, breeders, institutes, associations and publishers are represented.
Responsible for the program of the various conferences are the working committees of the AGF, formed jointly by practitioners and researchers from the cereal sector and related fields. The annual meetings of the working committees the bases for topics of the meetings are laid.
In addition to the transfer of knowledge in the field of cereal processing and related disciplines includes the objective of the AGF the exchange of experiences within the practice and the promotion of technical training.
In addition to conferences e.g. also organizes practical training courses and seminars organized by the Association of Cereal Research and carried out. Since the founding of the AGF in 1946 82.000 participants already have attended our events.
The majority of our conferences are in German. At the BIOETHANOL MEETING and STARCH CONVENTION the conference language is English and the presentations of the conference for MILLING TECHNOLOGY will be simultaneously translated into English.
Find out about our events
The transfer of new scientific and practical knowledge is not only passed on at the specialized conferences but also in written form. The Conference Proceedings (Summaries and Presentations) are published directly by AGF and offered free of charge only to its members.
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Metals and Toxins in food packaging
If you’ve eaten bhel off newsprint, idli chutney packed in ordinary plastic or bought atta with a coloured printed label inside the bag you could have ingested metallic and chemical toxins. Regular consumption of these poisons even in traces can have a negative impact on your health. The ingredients used to make plastics include dyes, metals, resins, plasticisers (primarily phthalates), dioxin, benzene, antioxidants and stabilisers, all which can migrate into foodstuff if the plastic is not of food-grade quality. Our bodies cannot deal with this, certainly not in the long-term. ‘Such toxic substances can get concentrated in the gall bladder or the kidneys and can lead to diseases of these organs,’ says Dr. Purvish Parikh, Head of Department, Medical Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital.
Carciogenic Properties: Lead, which is found in abundance in newsprint is a known carcinogenic and is harmful even if ingested in small quantities. It leads to gastro-intestinal, renal, neurological symptoms as well as anemia. ‘Lead enters the blood and is stored in the bone marrow,’ explains Dr. S.H. Advani, Medical Oncologist and Haematologist. Children absorb lead more easily than adults and are thus more susceptible. Cadmium, another carcinogenic, accumulates in the kidneys. Substances like dioxins, phthalates and benzene which are all present in plastic are also stored in body organs if consumed over a long period of time. They can cause cancer of these organs. ‘Benzene is a well-known carcinogenic,’ says Dr. Advani.
The Laws: As the leaching of these poisons into food and water from non-food grade plastics has been well established, Indian food laws make it mandatory to serve and package food and water in food grade materials. The laws state that manufacturers have to use materials like PET (polythylenetetrepthalate), glass and aluminum foils to package food. In fact, all packing material of plastic origin has to pass the overall migration and colour migration limits as laid down in the various Indian Standards Acts. There is soon to be yet another food law – the central government has proposed the Food Safety and Standards Act 2005 to harmonize the existing food laws. It is expected to become law in the next session of parliament. Besides the various laws, we also have government organisations like the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) which set stringent standards for products and packaging and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which is responsible for the implementation of certain food and drug laws. There are also our ministries – the Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs and the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Harmful Packaging: Yet everyday millions of Indians are being slowly poisoned by eating food packed and served in non-food grade materials. And there’s worse news. Foods that are highly acidic (pickles) or which contain alcohol or fats (wine, cheese, butter, oil) need a different quality of food-grade plastic because plasticisers leach more easily into these foods. For acidic foods glass is the safest. Our food laws are not as stringent as those in the EU and do allow for plastic (of a particular grade) for packing foods like sauces and pickles but many reputed manufacturers prefer glass. This is because leaching of plastic into foods not only changes the taste of the food packed in it, it also increase chances of spoilage, specially during hot Indian summers.
In fact the real test of a product, even if it is packed in food-grade material is when it is tested directly from the shop shelf as hostile weather conditions can affect it’s safety. Even a safe material like tin can deteriorate at high temperatures (over 35 degrees centigrade) and if the food is stored for a considerable length of time, a very slow corrosion process can start inside the can. This is why consuming a packaged food past it’s expiry date can be harmful.
Consumer Apathy: Most well-known brands are tend to adhere to the laws and sometimes go a step beyond that, if only because they know that watchdog organisations will come down heavily on them if they don’t. Consumers too train their guns on big companies rather than bother with little known manufacturers. ‘We don’t usually receive complaints about the unorganised sector,’ admits Advocate Rajesh Shukla who works for the Consumer Guidance Society which handles consumers’ complaints about defective products and services. He adds that court proceedings can be time-consuming and people do not want to waste their time on next-door aunties who cook a few hundred dhoklas or idlis a day, even if they are cooled on newsprint and packed in thin plastic bags.
Companies don’t test products off the shelf: However big names fall short when it comes to testing their products directly from the shop-shelf. ‘Picking up products and testing them off the shop-shelf is not very common,’ admits Dr. Deepa Bhajekar, a doctorate in Food Microbiology and the Proprietor of MicroChem, which tests branded and unbranded products for chemical and micro-biological contaminants. She explains that it is not always economical or practical for companies to do this.
Consumers can change the situation: The onus then falls on the consumer. It’s the middle-class consumer who suffers the most as it is he who picks up the easily available, inexpensive and yes, even expired foods. As it is not possible to depend on the goodness of the sellers or the iron hand of the law, a greater consumer awareness and rejection of illegally packed food products is the only solution.
Consumers may not be able to avoid traffic fumes, pesticides in fruits and vegetables, preservatives and other chemicals in processed foods but they can certainly say no to food packed in carcinogenic packaging.
Lead: It is found in newsprint, dyes, inks, plastics, glazing of ceramics, petro products. If ingested it is stored in Bones. It can be released into our bloodstream and can cause cause gastro-intenstinal, renal, neurological symptoms and anaemia. It is a long-term carcinogenic and a high dose is fatal.
Dioxin: It is found in plastics and stored in body tissues. It is a known carcinogenic and can cause cancer in the lung, liver and stomach as well as non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma A high dose is fatal.
Cadmium: It is found in glaze, enamel, plastics. It is stored in the liver, the kidneys and can cause kidney damage, anaemia, lung disorders, hypertension, bile diseases. It is a long-term carcinogenic. A high dose can be fatal.
Benzene: It is found in Plastics, rubber, glues, cigarettes. It is stored in body tissues, bone marrow. It can cause blood disorders, including leukemia. A high dose can be fatal.
Pthalates: It is found in plastics and stored in body tissues. It can cause liver and lung damage.
(Published in The Times of India, Mumbai in 2005)
Read More: A packaging trick by J&J
The global war against plastic
Check the weight of what you buy
How unhealthy even atta noodles are
How over-cooking destroys nutrients
How food can make us depressed and irritable
About the chemicals we consume everyday
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I was reading 1 Maccabees the other day and was struck again by Mattathias’ call to arms in 2:40-42.
After the report of a slaughter of fellow Jews who had refused to fight, Mattathias and his friends are despondent.
And each said to his neighbor: “If we all do as our brethren have done and refuse to fight with the Gentiles for our lives and for our ordinances, they will quickly destroy us from the earth.” So they made this decision that day: “Let us fight against every man who comes to attack us on the Sabbath day; let us not all die as our brethren died in their hiding places.” Then there united with them a company of Hasideans, mighty warriors of Israel, every one who offered himself willingly for the law.
It seems to me that this turn to violence perfectly captures the logic that drives so much rhetorical and physical violence on the part of religious people, Christians and non-Christians.
The feeling is that the honor of God and the existence of God’s people (our survival!) are at stake. Because of that—because the stakes are so high—we must put aside some of the central convictions of our faith.
Christians, however, must draw upon God’s grace to remain in the shape of the cross even when our survival appears to be at stake, or when things appear to be out of control in our culture. Remaining in the shape of the cross (refusing to retaliate, returning evil with good, loving those who hate us, controlling ourselves to speak kindly to those with whom we disagree) embodies faith in the resurrection and trust in God’s sovereignty.
God is, after all, the just Judge who will judge righteously. God is, after all, the one who will take vengeance and will do so with perfect justice.
Sadly, an election season turns up the rhetorical temperature in an already over-heated culture war. Christians find themselves engaging in rhetorical violence against this or that candidate, verbally blasting this or that supporter of this or that party.
Let’s remember that cruciformity is the only way of hope and promise for those who confess loyalty to the Lord Christ. The way of violence (rhetorical and physical) is only and always the way of death.
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NEW YORK—Betye Saar, Nancy Grossman, Willem De Kooning and Robert Colescott are all in the room. Their works on paper are a part of a survey at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. “…On Paper” gathers an impressive selection of 34 artists, many of them critically recognized African American artists including Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Benny Andrews, Beauford Delaney and Charles White, in additio to Saar and Colescott. “Let the Light Enter,” a narrow, vertical drawing by White is particular striking.
“…On Paper” is on view from April 14 to June 29, 2012.
All photos by Arts Observer
From left, “Home from the Deep Bayou-Outside New Orleans,” circa 1970 (collage of various papers and acrylic on Masonite) by Romare Bearden; “Cotton Monument,” 2002 (oil, fabric and paper collage on paper) by Benny Andrews; and “My Shadow,” 1977 (crayon on paper) by Robert Colescott.
From left, “Untitled,” 1977 (titanium white and graphite on paper) by Richard Pousette-Dart; “France-Terrace,” 1960 (watercolor on paper) by Norman Lewis; top, “Woman with Bird in Her Hair,” 2010 (mixed-media collage on paperboard) by Betye Saar; and bottom, “Untitled (Nijinsky),” 1953 (collage of various printed and cut papers mounted to paper) by Jess.
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To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing so you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Communing With God Across the Country
Tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer. Whether a person is able to participate in any of the prayer events located around the region or not, one can make time to pray for the city of man and the various jurisdictions in which one lives—city, county, state, federation.
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.—1 Timothy 2:1–2
How can we pray for those in authority? Here are some suggestions: Ask God to help them …
- see that as authorities they are also under authority, namely God’s
- see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ
- to be surrounded by wise counselors
- reward good and punish evil and scandal in their jurisdiction
- establish justice
Pastor Sam Crabtree is Bethlehem's Executive Pastor and Lead Pastor for Life Training.
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The Cultural Center, "The Arch", located in the Southern Norwegian village of Mandal, is shaped like a green blanket that elevates and integrates the building in the surrounding landscape.
The green and subtle expression is a natural extension of the idyllic landscape consisting of the river, forests and little islands, surrounding Mandal.
The Arch is adjusted in color, scale and proportion to the
characteristic and picturesque Norwegian wooden houses by the
river's edge. By making the culture house an integrated element in
the landscape it makes the previously anonymous industrial area an
attractive new part of the town.
The glass facade opens up and exposes the lobby to the river bank allowing plenty of daylight into the building.
The Arch contains a theater- and concert hall, a library and a gallery. The layout ensures a high degree of visual contact between the different functions giving the house a dynamic feeling of life and activities at all times.
The Master Plan, also conceived by 3XN, focuses on making the
new town area reflect the rest of Mandal on the other side of the
river. Also, ensuring that all the houses, including the cultural
centre, will have maximal profit from the short distance to the
The plan also comprises a pedestrian bridge, which will further connect the cultural centre with the local community. The bridge is under construction.
Facts about The Arch
Marianne Bratteli "Chaos and Gaia"
Photographed by Adam Mørk
Last updated: March 06, 2013
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On August 28, 2010 one hundred cities around the world are rising up to protest the barbaric practice of stoning, as well as to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran. This day will be recorded in the annals of humanity as a manifestation of the protest, during the prior weeks, by millions of people across the globe against stoning as the most heinous form of medieval cruelty. It is a disgrace to humanity that, at the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century, stoning is still practiced in Iran and similar Islam-stricken countries. We, the citizens of 100 cities, hereby unequivocally declare that this blot must be removed from the face of humanity immediately and permanently.
On this day we also protest against the regime of stoning in Iran. This regime has, during the 31 years of its existence, committed genocide, established a system of sexual apartheid in Iran, and made imprisonment, execution, torture, rape of political prisoners, and the rule of pre-medieval Islamic Sharia the law of the land. Such a regime is not the representative of the people of Iran. It is their murderer, and its leaders must be brought to trial before international tribunals for their crimes against humanity.
Further, the international protest of August 28 is yet another manifestation of the solidarity of people around the world with the people of Iran, who have heroically risen up to bring down the regime of stoning, the Islamic code of punishment (Qesaas), Hijab, torture, and execution. We, the citizens of 100 cities worldwide, proudly declare that we consider ourselves the standard bearers of the universal front of humanity against barbarity. We support the struggles of the people of Iran against one of the cruelest regimes in the history of humankind. We, therefore, emphatically declare, on behalf of the world’s civilized humanity, that the path to the liberation of the Iranian people will not pass through threats or military action against, the country, but through the removal of the regime of the Islamic Republic by the power of the struggles of people in Iran and across the world.
The following are our common demands on August 28, 2010 throughout 100 cities of the world:
1- The immediate and unconditional freedom of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and all other prisoners in Iran sentenced to be stoned to death.
2- The abolition of stoning in Iran and elsewhere. We demand that the United Nations urgently adopt a specific resolution forbidding stoning as an inhuman punishment all over the world.
3- Not recognizing the Islamic regime of stoning in Iran as the government of that country and, thus, banning it from all international bodies.
4- Bringing to trial the perpetrators of stoning. Stoning is one of the most abominable forms of crime against humanity. Any individual, group, organization or state executing the punishment of stoning must be prosecuted and tried by international tribunals.
We continue our struggles until we have achieved all of these demands. As an immediate, primary step to that end, we demand that Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the president of the regime of stoning, be stopped from entering the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2010.
International Committee against Executions
International Committee against Stoning
Mission Free Iran
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Hello all, I am trying to hook up a Behringer EPX3000 amplifier to a pioneer sc 68 amp Subwoofer output. The output on the Pioneer is RCA. I am using a TC SOUNDS LMSR 15 Sub that I have built a custom enclosure for. I have the option to use RCA on the Behringer Amp,that said I have read in other posts that the input would be lower than a connection made by XLR. I have read about a device made by Samson that ups the input voltage to the amp. My question is should I be connected with RCA and the gain turned all the way up? or should I purchase some kind of gain adjuster? XLR to RCA? I need a bit of basic explanation.Thanks for the help.
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A desktop bookshelf which can hold about five books & uses the weight of the books to maintain stability.
Here we have 'Shelves with a Bench' designed by Stanislav Katz.
Here we have Ron Arad's flexible bookshelf that can form unlimited shapes which can be limited only by ones personal creativity.
An interesting 'Equation Bookshelf'.
An interesting design by Huting, & the best part of this design is that the modular system enables the user to decide how to install the cables which allows it to be tailor made for any room.
If you are a book lover & are having short of space in your apartment, then this is an ingenious solution for you - Stairs bookcase.
London-based Levitate Architects who created this states: "creating a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one third." And it turned out to be a perfect the way to access the bedroom & a place to store books. And what more "With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome."
The Incredible Bookman is designed by East Anglian artist Kazmierz Szmauz, & can hold about 100 books. It measures 70 inches high by 45 inches wide & is made from Mahogany, although other woods can be used.
Here we have another interesting bookcase by Olivier Peyricot with its unique design.
Another good solution for your set of books!
This interesting designed bookcase is by Carl Gromoll.
Few more of bookshelves:
Don’t miss to check out “Creative and Stylish Bookshelf and Bookcase Designs – Part: 1| 2| 3| 4| 5”.
Ads Using Poles.
12 Most Amazing Illusions.
Houses With A Difference.
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Collection of Old Detroit Photos and PanoramicsWe have a great selection of old Detroit Michigan photos that date from the late 1800s to the 1970s. Photographs include old street scenes of downtown Detroit; theatre photos of the Olympia and Grand Riveria; old hotels, street cars, and aerial photos of Detroit and it's skyscrapers along the lakefront. Photos available in a variety of sizes including 5x7, 8.5x11, 16x20, 17x22, and 24x36. Although much of Detroit has changed over the years, these old photographs preserve the beautiful history of this great American city.
Photo of the ferry dock on Bois Blanc Island(commonly known as Boblo Island) in Detroit, Michigan. Great view of old businesses on the dock and people in period dress getting off the ferry boat. This old photo dates to between 1890 and 1899. Learn More
Photo of the Garland steamboat ferry on the river in Detroit, Michigan. Photo dates to between 1890 and 1901. Learn More
Photo shows view of the Hotel Cadillac on Washington Ave., in Detroit, Michigan. This old photograph dates to 1899. Learn More
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Dharma Atma wrote:Hmm... As I know we've got less than a zero Latin native speakers.
I do respect the author of the translation. He must be a very intelligent person... But what for?
kirtu wrote: Then there might be some very minor Romance language in the wilds of France or the mountains of Spain that is close enough to Latin to make the sutra useful. Perhaps Helvetica (Swiss Swiss) as well?
kirtu wrote:There is an interest in Latin with media in Latin for example (Radio Bremen and of course the Vatican).
Astus wrote:What is the use of translating the Diamond Sutra at all?
Dharma Atma wrote:But why to translate them in the dead languages...
Astus wrote:Still, there is some beauty in Latin.
Astus wrote:Even two volumes of Harry Potter were translated to Latin (and one volume to ancient Greek).
I'm a Latin fan and tiro & would love to read the Dhammapada in latin; do you have a link? As for everyone else, Latin until the 18th century was the language of all European intellectuals: Hungarians, Finns, Frenchmen, Russians, Englishmen could all converse with one another. Wittgenstein wrote his treatise in Latin. Latin is making a big comeback & I for one see how useful it would be as an international language.
Dharma Atma wrote:Very funny
In realty, Spanish (even in the wildest places where people haven't even heard the very word "civilization") went too far from its Latin progenitor. I don't even wanna speak about French: its evolution ran even faster.
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Interesting NEWS...not our usual scince article but it made me laugh... Sam's Tours is all setup for uploading these sounds on to your iPod at the Digital PhotoCenter...provided you can hear the fish grunting...
Not quiet... but very interesting reading and I thought I share this with you... oh boy, what they all discover these days...
I guess if you at Sam’s Tours in Palau with the fully equipped Digital Photo Center and have a Underwater Housing for your Soundrecorder then there is no problem to up load all of these fishy noises on to your IPod...have fun and thanks again to Walter for pointing out this interesting and amusing story...
Grunting fish have helped
scientists to date the origins
of vocal sounds to about 400 million years ago.
Photo: Screenshot Courtesy of the BBC, click on the image
or use the link below for the video and complete article.
and midshipman fish use a variety of different sounds to attract
mates and scare off rivals. Now US researchers have found that the
area of a fish's brain that drives vocalization is extremely
primitive. Writing in the journal Science, they say it suggests
that the ability to communicate through sound emerged very early in
the evolution of vertebrates...read the complete article and
watch the Video...
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Mac OS X includes various components that it expects to find as part of the operating system. Some of these live in
/Library, but some required parts of the operating system live in
/Applications. While you might think it is harmless to delete, say,
Chess.app, and there is a good likelihood that you can delete it without adverse side effects, a future update to the operating system or a third-party program might rely on its presence for functionality. Once deleted, re-intsalling applications that are OS components is rather challenging.
You express your concern for removing the programs as connected to the fact that they "take up space" in the
/Applications folder. This could mean either they consume disk space, or they take up visual space when you list the directory.
As far as disk space is concerned, on most installations of Mac OS X, space in
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If visual space is the concern, however, you can make these programs disappear while leaving them in place in case the system needs them. At a terminal prompt, you will need to type
sudo chflags hidden /Applications/Stickies.app
(for Stickies, for instance; substitute the name of any other program you wish to hide).
sudo part of the command runs the command with administrative privileges (necessary to modify system files).
chflags hidden tells the system to mark these files as "hidden files" that will still be present on disk, but not appear in Finder windows. Finally,
/Applications/Sitckies.app is the path to the application you want to hide.
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June 17, 2003 -- “The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse” is a 1980 war movie based on a true story from World War II. It is a workmanlike film told in a non-flashy, straightforward way, featuring an all-star cast. It is part war movie and part spy movie, with some political intrigue thrown in.
The late Gregory Peck stars as Col. Lewis Pugh, and Roger Moore stars as Capt. Gavin Stewart. Both are British spies and soldiers who go to Goa, a neutral Portugese colony in India, to try to find out how the Germans are sending classified information about Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean to deadly U-Boats on patrol in that area. They discover that the Germans are sending secret radio messages about shipping to the subs from merchant ships anchored in Goa harbor. The British can't attack the ships in the harbor, however, because Goa is a neutral territory. The British come up with a novel solution to the problem. They will use civilians, retired military men, to stage the attack. The men will pretend to be drunken revelers who stumble upon the ship.
The daring raid is to be carried out on March 10, 1943, by members of The Calcutta Light Horse, a club of retired British military men. They are led by Col. W.H. Grice (played by veteran actor David Niven, who once played James Bond, and who starred with Gregory Peck in the action classic “The Guns of Navarone”). He is accompanied by Major 'Yogi' Crossley (Patrick MacNee of “The Avengers” fame), an explosives expert, and a number of other volunteers from the Calcutta Light Horse. If they are caught, the British government will deny all knowledge of their raid. They will receive no pay, no benefits, no medals, no recognition of any kind. In addition, they won't be told what their mission is until they are well under way. Everyone in the club volunteers anyway. While the men prepare themselves for the raid, Gavin Stewart and Jack Cartwright (played by veteran actor Trevor Howard) deal with deadly German spies and prepare clever diversions to aid the raid in Goa. Getting the raiders to Goa is quite a feat in itself. The team steals a rickety old boat named the Phoebe, hoping it will get them there and back without sinking, or being destroyed by a U-Boat.
Roger Moore, who had already been playing James Bond for several years by this time, effortlessly slips into his spy role, including a hot romance with Barbara Kellerman. Gregory Peck is cool and efficient, both as a spy, and as the leader of the raiding party. David Niven does his usual fine acting job. The supporting cast is solid. Filmed on location in West Germany, India and England (the club scenes were filmed at The Roshanara Club in Old Delhi), the film has a feeling of authenticity about it. Two German survivors of the attack on the boats in the harbor, the Ehrenfels, Drachenfels and Braunfels were consultants on the film. Over the end credits, photos of the actual attack can be seen, as well as the salvage of the three ships in 1951. Also during the credits, photos of the real men who carried out the dangerous raid are shown together with pictures of the actors who portrayed them in the movie.
I saw this film on DVD. There are no extras on the DVD, but the video transfer is good. It has both wide (aspect ratio 1.85:1) and full screen (aspect ratio 1.33:1) versions of the film on opposite sides of the disk. The sound is Dolby (TM) Digital stereo. It seemed the sound levels were low and uneven. Sometimes it was hard to hear the dialogue without turning the volume up very loud, which increases the risk of being blasted by the sudden sounds of loud explosions and gunfire. The DVD comes with English and French subtitles. This film rates a C+.
Click here for links to places to buy or rent this movie in video and/or DVD format, or to buy the soundtrack, posters, books, even used videos, games, electronics and lots of other stuff. I suggest you shop at least two of these places before buying anything. Prices seem to vary continuously. For more information on this film, click on this link to The Internet Movie Database. Type in the name of the movie in the search box and press enter. You will be able to find background information on the film, the actors, and links to much more information.
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Feminism, Sarcasm, Buddhism... you know; girl talk.
I have been working in the field of victim’s rights for a few years now and have done my fair share of reading and debating over the issue of sexual assault. I recently had a revelation that has been very helpful to me when dealing with victim blaming, and I would like to share it with you.
Our society believes wholeheartedly that the status known as “not being raped” is a privilege, not a right. Sadly, this is not a view held only by misogynists, rapists and batterers- instead it is one that I have heard pastors, social workers, medical professionals and even co-workers espouse.
Here’s how “Not Being Raped” (NBR) works:
Modestly dressed Sunday School Teacher? Congratulations, you deserve NBR!
Drunk at a frat party? No NBR for you.
Commit a crime? Well, you just lost your NBR.
Americans are very comfortable with the concept of Not Being Raped as a privilege. We love it! We talk about the loss of NBR as a good crime deterrent, as a consequence for promiscuity and as a logical outcome of associating with non-[fill in the blank with the conservative religion of your choice] men.
Not Being Raped is not a privilege. It is a right. All human beings have the right to not be raped. This means that no action, association, belief or crime should ever cause someone to lose that right.
Now, we all have responsibilities. One of your responsibilities is to limit your vulnerabilities. (LYV) Examples of practicing LYV include locking your doors, being aware of your surroundings and keeping track of your belongings. But failure to practice LYV does not lead loss of NBR. Let me say that again; irresponsible choices, acts that increase our vulnerability, DO NOT remove our right to not be raped.
This is very, very simple. Either the state of “not being raped” is a privilege or a right. If you believe it is not a right, then you have given rapists your permission to enjoy the status of vigilante- dutifully distributing justice to all the sluts, criminals and deviants of the world who failed to limit their vulnerabilities. If it is a right, then we can feel confident when we educate people about limiting their vulnerabilities that we are not participating in rape culture by insinuating (or blatantly stating) that failure to limit one’s vulnerabilities is an invitation to rape.
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Following a consultation on options for improving the Retail Prices Index (RPI), the National Statistician, Jil Matheson, has concluded that the formula used to produce the RPI does not meet international standards and recommended that a new index be published.
The National Statistician’s consultation was prompted by the need to address the gap between the estimates produced by the RPI and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). The ONS research programme found that use of the arithmetic formulation (known as the ‘Carli’ index formula) in the RPI is the primary source of the formula effect difference between the RPI and the CPI, and that this formulation does not meet current international standards. Therefore, a new RPI-based index will be published from March 2013 using a geometric formulation (Jevons), known as RPIJ.
In developing her recommendations the National Statistician also noted that there is significant value to users in maintaining the continuity of the existing RPI’s long time series without major change, so that it may continue to be used for long-term indexation and for index-linked gilts and bonds in accordance with user expectations.
Therefore, while the arithmetic formulation would not be chosen were ONS constructing a new price index, the National Statistician recommended that the formulae used at the elementary aggregate level in the RPI should remain unchanged.
The National Statistician has also recommended that improvements to the measurement of private housing rents from using an alternative data source should be implemented in the February 2013 RPI indices (published on 19 March 2013). As this change affects the RPI it is subject to consultation with the Bank of England and, if necessary, the consent of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Board of the UK Statistics Authority has accepted these three recommendations.
The Office for National Statistics will continue to pursue its research programme in the area of consumer price statistics and work with users to maintain the quality of its consumer price statistics.
National Statistics are produced to high professional standards set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. They undergo regular quality assurance reviews to ensure that they meet customer needs. They are produced free from any political interference.
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Dallas can probably keep the snowplows in the garage — at least for now.
North Texas is bracing for a mix of Christmas Day precipitation, starting with rain and possibly ending with snow.
A thick blanket of flurries probably isn’t in the offing for Dallas, but a shroud of flakes may settle on some area landscapes Christmas night.
The underwhelming snow forecast probably will leave under wraps the snowplows that North Texas transportation officials have been gearing up to use since the winter of 2011.
The heaviest snow — 1 to 3 inches, if not slightly more — likely will drift north of U.S. Highway 380 and along the Red River into Oklahoma, said Eric Martello, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
“It’s a hard thing to pinpoint,” said Martello.
A shift in the upper-level system that’s ushering in colder air could cause more snow to land in Dallas, Martello said.
But as of mid-day Monday, he predicted, Dallas can anticipate a “light dusting to maybe a half inch to an inch” of snow across far northern suburbs.
Early in the day, from daybreak through mid-Christmas morning, Dallas likely will see thunderstorms and rain.
“Then the cold air will change rain to snow, and maybe a few sleet pellets,” Martello said. “It will be windy and cold, probably 25 to 35 mph winds, by late afternoon.”
By Wednesday, the high is expected to be in the upper 30s, with a low in the mid-20s. The band of severe storms that may bring tornadoes to southeast Texas and other Gulf Coast areas on Christmas is not expected to affect North Texas.
Forecasters project temperatures to start climbing again Thursday, with an expected high in the low 50s.
After a massive snowstorm shut down many Dallas-area roads before Super Bowl XLV, which was played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Feb. 6, 2011, highway officials upped their game of preparation.
Both the North Texas Tollway Authority and the Texas Department of Transportation acquired new snowplows and used a snowplow simulator to train workers for the next hazardous snowstorm.
Highway officials in other relatively mild-weather states, such as Kentucky and Virginia, did the same thing.
So far, the snowplow training has been for naught.
“During a mild year, everyone’s going to say it is overkill,” Michelle Releford, a Texas Department of Transportation spokeswoman, said of the agency’s recent snowplow simulation training. “But if we get dumped on next winter, everyone’s gonna be glad we have it.”
The simulation re-created slick pavement, dense fog, heavy snow and poor visibility.
Now, highway officials are just waiting for enough flurries to fall to put the snowplows to use and test what they’ve learned over the past two winters.
“It’s a little more complicated here because you have to have snow to use a snowplow,” said Releford. “And you must keep the blade three inches off the ground or it will tear up all the buttons and actually damage the truck.”
Michael Rey, a spokesman for the North Texas Tollway Authority, said the training eventually will pay dividends, whether it’s Christmas Day or later.
“We saw it as a great opportunity to get the [snowplow] drivers seat time,” Rey said. “As with most situations in life, the more experiences, the better you’re likely to perform in that situation.”
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Regulators approve ND part of power line projectBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Public Service Commission has split on its approval of the route of a major new power line.
By: Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Public Service Commission has split on its approval of the route of a major new power line.
The line will carry electricity from Fargo to St. Cloud and Monticello in Minnesota. Supporters of the “CapX2020” project say it will increase North Dakota's ability to export electric power, and will help the electric system's reliability.
The commission voted 2-1 on Wednesday to approve the project's 33-mile route in North Dakota. It loops around south Fargo before crossing the Red River.
Commission Chairman Brian Kalk says the project does a good job of balancing the interests of people along the route.
Commissioner Kevin Cramer voted no. He argues the power line route is too disruptive to communities south of Fargo.
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“I confess that I will not be afraid, for I am deeply loved by God. I shall take heart, and be at peace, and be strong.“ [Daniel 10:19]
Even as Christians, no one is exempt from facing fearful situations from time to time. We all will take on different kinds of fears as we go through life. Fear of failure, fear of rejection and most of all, fear of the unknown. Yet the Bible tells us that God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind.
Fear is the opposite of Faith and when we allow it to counteract with our Faith, then we must know that we are not pleasing our Father. Fear is also known as the spiritual force that blocks God’s best for our lives, therefore we must confront fear as soon as it enters our minds.
I am always encouraged when I read the story about the three Hebrews boys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who were faced with one of the most fearful situations you can imagine. These men of great faith were confronted with the choice of standing for the one and only true God or bowing to King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue. Refusing to bow to the idol, the King thought he could raise fear in them as he offered them a second chance. However, these men did not worry what would happen to them, they knew that even if they were thrown in the flaming furnace, their God would deliver them. Although their faith was tested by fire, we see that not even fire could destroy them.
Ultimately, God did not keep them from being thrown in the fiery furnace, but he protected them while they were in the fire. Isaiah 43:2 states, “When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and the flame will not consume you.”
Maybe you are facing a troubling and fearful situation. No matter what it is, make a stand to trust God. God assures you in His word that your troubles did not come to destroy you, but they come in order to prove that your faith is real. You can take courage as you consider the example of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Stand up and declare that your God is able!
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Due to the overwhelming response from home schoolers in the area, we have developed a program designed to fit their needs. On the second Tuesday of each month we have "Home School History Days" from 10 until 11 a.m. These programs include a special tour or class, an activity, and a chance to go through the Museum. These classes are designed to meet a variety of ages. Please see our calendar of events for upcoming programs. All Home School events are free for Museum members and free with admission.
Designed for older homeschoolers this four-part series allows students to go more in-depth with a specific subject than our regular home school events. Each series includes hands-on time with collection items, an off-site visit, and a project to be presented during the final class. Home School History Workshops are for Museum members only and are $25 per family. Reservations are required and limited space is available. The next series will begin in January of 2011 focusing on the Civil War. 2011 marks the 150 anniversary of the Civil War; this series will include a visit to Fort Sumter and special exhibit tours. Please register through our calendar of events.
The Charleston Museum's collection is a great tool for helping scouts meet their badge requirements. Let us plan a badge workshop for your troop! We can also offer service hours and many leadership opportunities. Contact the Education Department for more details.
Click here for a list of Brownie Try-It Badge Workshops
Click here for a list of Junior Girl Scout Badge Workshops
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Olympics-Mind games of the victorious
(This is the eighth and last in a series of stories about the science behind the Olympics to run daily this week. The full list will be updated at )
By Sharon Begley
NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - For decades after the first sports psychology lab was established in 1920 in Germany, mental coaches have been the water boys of sports science, viewed by their colleagues as not quite good enough to make the first-string team.
That has changed. Virtually every top professional team and elite athlete has a psychologist on speed dial for help conquering the yips - when stress makes crucial muscles jerk and ruins, say, an archery shot - marshal the power of visualization, or just muster the confidence that can mean the difference between medaling or just muddling through.
But a more important reason for the improved reputation of sports psychology is the solid science demonstrating the effect of the mental game on athletic performance.
A 2011 study, for instance, examined U.S. National Basketball Association players' free throws. Their success rate is 6 to 9 percentage points lower when their team trails by a point or two with 15 seconds or less left on the clock. Researchers at Oregon State University reported the findings in the Journal of Sports Economics.
When free throws can mean the difference between a win and a loss - that is, when it's clutch time - the resulting stress makes many players choke.
But the power of the mind is sufficiently great that it can even trump reality.
Scientists have known since the 1990s that athletes who look at a target without moving their eyes have better success making soccer penalty kicks, basketball free throws, golf putts and other challenges where aim is crucial. But why does "quiet eye," as it's called, help?
One idea was that by keeping the gaze fixed on the target the athlete could better ignore distractions. But scientists led by Purdue University's Jessica Witt, a psychology professor and 2005 Ultimate Frisbee team gold medalist, had a different hunch. They asked whether quiet eye changes how a target looks: objects seen in the center of the eye, called the fovea, appear larger than those seen in peripheral vision. Could that improve aim?
For a 2012 study, Witt and her colleagues made golf holes seem bigger by projecting five large or 11 small circles around them, creating what's called the Ebbinghaus illusion: see graphic.
In this illusion, large circles make a target look smaller and small circles make it look larger. Volunteers sank more putts when the hole looked larger, Witt's team reported in the journal Psychological Science. The most likely explanation: believing the target was larger increased people's confidence in their skill, which improves performance.
Confidence also seems to explain the power of sports superstitions, from lucky underwear to game-day rituals.
To test the power of superstitions, scientists led by Lysann Damisch of the University of Cologne in Germany ran several experiments. In one, they gave participants either a "lucky ball" or an ordinary one before they tried to sink a golf putt. In another, they had people bring their own lucky charms. The researchers let half of them keep the rabbits feet and the like, but confiscated the rest.
Superstition triumphed in both cases. People given a "lucky ball" sank more putts than those with an ordinary one, and performed much better if they kept their lucky charms than did people whose talismans were confiscated, the scientists reported in 2010 in Psychological Science.
How does superstition work? The scientists found that people who thought that luck was smiling on them felt more confident and competent. That inspired them to try harder and keep at it.
Which is not to say athletes can talk themselves into better performance with any old mantra. Nearly three dozen studies have analyzed sports "self-talk," in which athletes tell themselves variants of "I've got this!" or "I can beat this guy!" But not all of it, found sports psychologist Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis of the University of Thessaly in Greece and colleagues.
In general, self-talk worked better for fine motor movements such as those involving the fingers, as in archery, rather than for gross motor skills using the large muscles of the legs and arms, as in track. And what the scientists call "instructional self-talk" was more effective than "motivational self-talk": "raise the elbow," "keep the head down," or "follow through" rather than pep talk like "I can do it!"
The reason, they suggested in a 2011 paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science, is that instructional self-talk can sharpen focus on, say, what that elbow is supposed to be doing in archery. It can increase confidence - "I know what movements are crucial to nail this" - and trigger the automatic brain program that executes the task.
The more an athlete can off-load that brain program to automatic rather than conscious circuits, the better the performance.
Other scientists, have found that benching part of the brain can sharpen performance. Recreational athletes who practiced bench presses hoisted a couple of kilograms more when they were blindfolded, found kinesiologist Ali Boolani of the University of Georgia. "When you're not seeing, your proprioception," or sense of where each part of your body is in space, "improves," he said. That seems to allow weight-lifters to position their hands and arms in a way that maximizes lift.
Boolani has also found that when athletes listen to music they like, their performance improved, whether they were shooting baskets, hitting baseballs or competing in track events.
"We think it's because of dissociation," he said. "If you don't think so much about what you're doing, which happens when you're listening to music, muscle memory takes over."
For all the importance of mind games, it seems, less thinking can be better than more. (Editing by Michele Gershberg)
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The Museum of Modern Art today announces that the MoMA App is now available on the App Store. The new application for the iPhone and iPod touch provides users with instant access to 32,000 works of art in the Museums vast collection of modern and contemporary art; a dictionary of art terms and a database of artist bios; calendar information for exhibitions, film screenings, and events; and a variety of audio tours, including special tours for children, teens, and the visually impaired. As a useful companion for visits to the Museum, the MoMA App offers users a chance to snap photos inside the Museum and send them as postcards, and allows visitors to select tracks from their own music libraries to listen to while touring the Museum. The applications highly engaging visual interface was designed in-house, and when used with the new iPhone 4G and its high resolution and retina display, artworks can be viewed in the highest possible quality. The MoMA App is available as a free download from the App Store, and follows the spring 2010 release of the Museums first e-book app Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night.
With MoMAs new app and other upcoming initiatives, MoMA is taking advantage of features specific to an iPhone and iPod touch, and also actively building a platform for publishing content to multiple devices, says Allegra Burnette, MoMAs Creative Director of Digital Media.
The MoMA iPhone Application Features:
A Calendar of current and upcoming exhibitions, daily events and film screenings, with the ability to share via Facebook or Twitter.
Tours, which include the MoMA Audio programs, with five distinct tour options, such as Special Exhibitions, Modern Voices, Modern Kids, MoMA Teen Audio, and Visual Descriptions, and the ability to browse by floor or stop number.
An Art index of over 32,000 works featured in the collection as well as a database of art terms and artist biographies.
Information about the museum, including hours, admission and transportation.
MoMA Snaps offers the option to take a picture in the Museum and send it as a Museum postcard.
MoMA Tracks allows visitors to select tracks from their own music library to listen to while exploring the Museum or the MoMA App.
Access to MoMA resources on iTunes, iTunes U, and YouTube.
The MoMA App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at http://www.itunes.com/app/moma
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What makes one leader succeed when placed in a completely new environment, while another leader with a comparable background does not? Those of us in business education would claim that the success factors include the individual’s intelligence, his or her previous experiences, and the knowledge and skills acquired through an excellent business school education. That is, in a very real sense, our value proposition: We provide the knowledge and skills that give talented people the edge to succeed.
I believe that simulated learning environments, fully integrated into a business curriculum, can prepare students for the complex business settings they are sure to face after graduation. We place students in circumstances where they must confront a wholly new environment and then ask them to use their newly acquired knowledge and skills to learn the fundamental drivers in that environment. As a result, the students develop appropriate strategies and tactics to convert these fundamental business drivers into long run success in that environment.
The key is mastering a skill called “critical incident learning,” one in which the aspiring business leader is immersed into the inner workings of an existing organization. From that vantage point, the would-be leaders begin the tasks of assessing and responding with problem solving, organizational skills and communication skills to map, assess and implement appropriate courses of action.
Many Approaches to Experiential LearningIn the late 1980s, business schools began to embrace experiential learning, using consulting projects to augment the case method in providing problem- solving and quasi-decision making experiences in a real world context. These consulting projects were a major stride forward, but even they had the potential to give students only a glimpse of the total picture.
The “critical incident learning” that is so key to understanding the foundations of business success does not fully transfer from consulting project experiences because the realities of our external constituent relationships preclude our ever permitting the project or enterprise to be truly at risk; yet, awareness and assessment of true risk are essential to real business decision making. Other non-business fields have made significant strides in using simulated learning environments to help students have “near experiences” with real risk. Notably, airline pilots and anesthesiologists routinely undergo technology-aided simulations that bring the real world and its attendant risks and consequences into the students’ immediate experience.
A New Look at “Older” TechnologyWhen working on my M.B.A. in the 1960s, the professor for my capstone policy course introduced a business simulation as a complementary learning device added to our casebased instruction. In addition to the hypothetical decisions we regularly debated on behalf of the case protagonist managers, we also had the chance to debate our decisions in our simulation teams, make decisions and then live with the consequences. The learning experience was so profound and powerful that 12 years later, as an instructor, I introduced a next generation simulation as a supplement to my Principles of Marketing course.
I believe the most profound use of business simulation technology is only now emerging. With the support of our faculty, the College of Business has used business simulation not as a tangential tool for learning business fundamentals but rather as the backbone of our full-time MBA curriculum. The early indications of its success are positive, with valuable insights all business schools might consider.
The curriculum is sequenced to take students through a series of learning stages: a familiarization stage that not only shocks the system with information overload but also provides invaluable context for students, paving the way for constructive learning and appropriate integration of theory; a stage to focus on the execution of decisions, which is done by fully utilizing teams and understanding the role of data as the foundation of solid decisions; and the knowledge state and its application.
The Corporate World Wants Better Decision MakersThe business simulation serves as both the initiation and the backdrop to all of the fundamental issues our students wrestle with in the classroom. Using the business simulation enables us to more fully integrate all the elements of a sound MBA education: teamwork, analytical skills, communication skills, core disciplinary knowledge, strategic thinking and effective decision making.
I am convinced that this simulation-based curriculum is made-to-order for these critical skills – complete with a controlled environment that spawns ample opportunities for coaching and “critical incident learning” that instills the confidence in decision making that only comes from experience.
It is All Very Real to StudentsBecause the curriculum is cross-functional, students struggle as they go through a rigorous decision-making process on matters ranging from whether to diversify their company’s product line, invest in new plant capacity or purchase expensive new market research. The stakes are high as grades are based in part on success indicators such as the company’s operating and financial performance.
In the second year, there is a programwide election of CEOs, who must then recruit their own teams. The newly formed teams must define their internal policies and rules of operation. Teams can “fire” teammates, very effectively dealing with the “free rider” problem so notorious in MBA group projects. Overall grades are based on a formula devised by the financial accounting faculty to measure the net change in wealth during the new management’s tenure.
The Flash of InsightSome of the stress designed to give students a “real” experience is induced through “curveballs” interjected at key points. For example, a more expensive synthetic version of a previously carcinogenic ingredient becomes available. This raises complicated ethical, branding and bottom line issues that are relevant in today’s business climate.
Student teams react quite differently to this news, either seeing it as an opportunity or an enormous threat – and the team’s decision-making environment begins to mirror the heated discussions that certainly take place in today’s executive boardrooms.
I believe this form of business education provides the potential for dramatically increasing readiness of today’s MBA graduates to accept and perform assignments with greater responsibility and impact.
The case method, established at Harvard 90 years ago, has been the mainstay for conveying business knowledge and managerial skills to generations of business students. I am not advocating the demise of case-based pedagogy in individual course offerings; however, I am suggesting that this venerable method can be effectively enhanced by using advanced business simulations to create a truly integrated approach for MBA education and better prepare today’s MBA students to lead tomorrow’s ever more complex and competitive businesses.
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Unsurprising. Though the average (and completely understandable) opinion is that a trained person’s intuition can’t be matched by a unfeeling, “methodical” machine, I would say that this type of AI is actually the perfection of a trained person’s intuition- it’s a way of arriving at a best guess, put together by the unconscious weighting a large amount of data accumulated over a long period of time.
I would imagine there there will be enormous pushback to this method of diagnosis, because these AI systems are being applied to a very critical knowledge industry, where people’s live’s are at stake, without fist gaining the public’s trust in less critical applications. So then why are these systems being developed for medical use before they’re able to do something more “simple”, like decide what kind of campaign a marketing company should employ for their client?
Quite simply, it’s the dataset. I can’t think of any other knowledgebase that would be so broad, detailed and complete than medical records. And any real-world AI application, no matter how advanced the algorithm, will always be bound by dataset quality.
Next question: how does facility layout and room design change when this job is outsourced to an entity with no human-scale spatial requirements?
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On May 1, 1898, at Manila Bay in the Philippines, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroyed the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first major battle of the Spanish-American War (April-August 1898). The United States went on to win the war, which ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.
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In 1903, George Dewey became the only U.S. naval officer ever promoted to the rank of admiral of the Navy.
Spanish-American War: Background
The Spanish-American War had its origins in the rebellion against Spanish rule that began in Cuba in 1895. The repressive measures that Spain took to suppress the guerrilla war, such as herding Cuba's rural population into disease-ridden garrison towns, were graphically portrayed in American newspapers and inflamed public opinion.
In January 1898, violence in Havana led U.S. authorities to order the battleship USS Maine to the city's port to protect American citizens. On February 15, a massive explosion of unknown origin sank the Maine in the Havana harbor, killing 260 of the approximately 400 American crewmembers aboard. An official U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry ruled in March, without much evidence, that the ship was blown up by a mine, but did not directly place the blame on Spain. However, much of Congress and a majority of the American public expressed little doubt that Spain was responsible and called for a declaration of war.
In April, the U.S. Congress prepared for war, adopting joint congressional resolutions demanding a Spanish withdrawal from Cuba and authorizing President William McKinley (1843-1901) to use force. On April 23, McKinley asked for 125,000 volunteers to fight against Spain. The next day, Spain issued a declaration of war. The United States declared war on April 25.
U.S. Commodore George Dewey (1837-1917), in command of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron anchored north of Hong Kong, was ordered to capture or destroy the Spanish Pacific fleet, which was known to be in the coastal waters of the Spanish-controlled Philippines.
Battle of Manila Bay: May 1, 1898
On April 30, Dewey's lookouts caught sight of Luzon, the main Philippine island. That night, under cover of darkness and with the lights aboard the U.S. warships extinguished, the squadron slipped by the defensive guns of Corregidor Island and into Manila Bay.
After dawn, the Americans located the Spanish fleet, a group of out-of-date warships anchored off the Cavite naval station. The U.S. fleet, in comparison, was well-armed and well-staffed, largely due to the efforts of the energetic assistant secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), who had also selected Dewey for the command of the Asiatic squadron.
At around 5:40 a.m., Dewey turned to the captain of his flagship, the Olympia, and said, "You may fire when ready, Gridley." Two hours later, the Spanish fleet was decimated, and Dewey ordered a pause in the fighting. He met with his captains and ordered the crews a second breakfast. The surviving Spanish vessels, trapped in the little harbor at Cavite, refused to surrender, and late that morning fighting resumed. Early that afternoon, a signal was sent from the gunboat USS Petrel to Dewey's flagship announcing that the enemy has surrendered.
Spanish losses were estimated at more than 370 troops, while American casualties were fewer than 10.
Battle of Manila Bay: Aftermath
Dewey's decisive victory cleared the way for the U.S. occupation of Manila in August and the eventual transfer of the Philippines from Spanish to American control. In Cuba, Spanish forces likewise crumbled in the face of superior U.S. forces, and on August 12 an armistice was signed between Spain and the United States.
In December, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the brief Spanish-American War. The once-proud Spanish empire was virtually dissolved, and the United States gained its first overseas empire. Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to America, the Philippines were bought for $20 million, and Cuba became a U.S. protectorate. Philippine insurgents who fought against Spanish rule during the war immediately turned their guns against the new occupiers, and a significantly greater number of American troops died suppressing the Philippines than in defeating Spain.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Julia "Judy" Bonds, a charismatic and tireless leader in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.
Judy won the Goldman Prize in 2003 and will be remembered as one of the most important grassroots leaders speaking out against destructive mining practices. She worked closely with the Goldman Prize following her award as a nominator and partner, helping to support other recipients. It was an honor to work with her. Judy passed away on January 3, 2011 at the age of 58 after a battle with cancer.
Photo: Jo Syz Photography
"Responsible citizens must step forward, not just to point the way, but to lead the way to a better world." - Judy Bonds
Remembering Judy Bonds [Coal River Mountain Watch] Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds - [Huffington Post] Julia 'Judy' Bonds, 58, dies; outspoken foe of mountaintop strip mining - [Washington Post]
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Cashew nuts grow dangling beneath a fleshy stalk known as the cashew pear. The 'pear' can be used for juices, syrups and liqueurs. Cashew nuts are eaten on their own as a snack or as an ingredient in various sweet and savoury dishes. Whole or chopped cashews provide crunch and substance to Asian stir-fries, noodle dishes and curries and they're a good match with chicken.
In Europe cashews are usually eaten dried, roasted and salted as a snack or in salads. Use unsalted cashews, whole or ground, for cooking - they're often added to Chinese and South East Asian dishes just before serving. Cashew nuts are particularly good with chicken or prawn dishes and can be used in meat or vegetable stews or curries. Or thrown them into rice dishes to add texture.
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A personal frustration of mine is when I see a cluster of nouns sitting together in a sentence. I usually see these in highly technical emails, but not exclusively.
Here is a particularly bad example I received this morning:
The Web Product Provider search print Individual Provider Map does not print the listing originally found [...]
What are some good strategies for breaking up these nouns while still keeping the language specific and concise?
Edit: I should add a little context here as well. This statement isn't supposed to cover a complex topic. It's nothing more complicated than the following:
- User enters a search term
- User clicks map button on the list of results
- User prints the list of results
The issue I am trying to tackle is that the user who experienced this problem needs to report enough specifics to be complete, but at the same time, do so in a manner that is easily parsed. There is a trend of using clusters of nouns instead of simple English.
(P.S. I'm asking this so that I can become a better writer, not as ammunition — just in case you were thinking it.)
Edit #2: I thought of a few more examples that might paint a better picture of the problem.
The operations review evaluation task force is responsible for this task.
He doesn't know how to read the aperture adjustment calibration manual.
She started the 12-week half-marathon training regimen for beginners.
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Bio-based chemicals to create US jobs
A report from the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst which was Commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance is encouraging the United States to reform chemical industry regulations in the country to make the industry more environment friendly and to create more jobs.
How would reforming the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to ensure the production of chemicals that are safer for workers, the environment and human health, create jobs?
According to the report, jobs in the U.S. chemicals industry has been declining because it is capital intensive rather than labor intensive. However, shifting to the production of bio-based chemical products such as biodegradable plastics means a shift to more labor-intensive production. The report estimates that if ''20 percent of current production were to shift from petrochemical-based plastics to bio-based plastics, 104,000 additional jobs would be created in the U.S. economy even if the output of the plastics sector remained unchanged.''
Aside from increasing jobs in specific sectors, there would also be more jobs created because of the linkages between sectors. Compared to petroleum-based chemicals, bio-based chemicals such as bioplastics, soy-based inks, biofuels, biocatalysts, and other chemicals and materials use raw materials from plants and trees. The production of these materials is more labor intensive than petroleum-production. At the same time, the materials are available in the U.S., so they don't need to be imported.
The report alleviates concerns that the quality of the jobs will be lower. It states ''a shift away from petroleum and towards clean energy would not be associated with a net loss of high-income jobs. The total number of jobs, including those with high and more moderate earnings, would increase.''
There is also the worry that shifting to agriculture-based chemicals would mean farmers would grow less food, in turn affecting food supply and prices. Thus, the report warns that ''Non-food biomass, including waste materials from food processing should be prioritized when developing alternative bio-based chemicals.''
It may be too optimistic, but there is indeed much to be hopeful about when there is a possibility that, as the report states: ''Better regulations will reduce environmental pollution, improve health outcomes, build a foundation for long-run sustainability of the U.S. economy, support technological innovations, and make markets work better for consumers, investors, and businesses.''
The report ''The Economic Benefits of a Green Chemical Industry in the United States: Renewing Manufacturing Jobs While Protecting Health and the Environment'' by James Heintz and Robert Pollin is available at www.bluegreenalliance.org and www.peri.umass.edu.
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Alternating hot and cold water immersion for athlete recovery: a review.
Objectives. The aim of this review was to investigate whether alternating hot–cold water treatment is a legitimate training tool for enhancing athlete recovery. A number of mechanisms are discussed to justify its merits and future research directions are reported. Alternating hot–cold water treatment has been used in the clinical setting to assist in acute sporting injuries and rehabilitation purposes. However, there is overwhelming anecdotal evidence for it’s inclusion as a method for post exercise recovery. Many coaches, athletes and trainers are using alternating hot–cold water treatment as a means for post exercise recovery.
Design. A literature search was performed using SportDiscus, Medline and Web of Science using the key words recovery, muscle fatigue, cryotherapy, thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, contrast water immersion and training.
Results. The physiologic effects of hot–cold water contrast baths for injury treatment have been well documented, but its physiological rationale for enhancing recovery is less known. Most experimental evidence suggests that hot–cold water immersion helps to reduce injury in the acute stages of injury, through vasodilation and vasoconstriction thereby stimulating blood flow thus reducing swelling. This shunting action of the blood caused by vasodilation and vasoconstriction may be one of the mechanisms to removing metabolites, repairing the exercised muscle and slowing the metabolic process down.
Conclusion. To date there are very few studies that have focussed on the effectiveness of hot–cold water immersion for post exercise treatment. More research is needed before conclusions can be drawn on whether alternating hot–cold water immersion improves recuperation and influences the physiological changes that characterises post exercise recovery.
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- Caucasus - Georgia - Mikheil Saakashvili - Russia - Russian politics
Emergence of opposition tests Georgian democracy
Until recently, the former Soviet state of Georgia was without any credible opposition to President Mikheil Saakashvili's powerful ruling party. Then billionaire philanthropist Bidzina Ivanishvili entered the fray. The Georgian government accuses him of being pro-Russia, an accusation he denies. But the battle for power is a key test of Georgia's democratic development.
By Markus Meyer
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We've come full circle in this tale of Chinese worker exploitation, re-reaching the conclusion that Foxconn is still a hard place to work after hearing what it's really like from a woman who works on the inside.
Following news that a few hundred workers threatened suicide unless working conditions improved, Foxconn has experienced a month of intense scrutiny from all angles, followed by a guilt-quelling possibility that these factories provide better working conditions than anywhere else in China. But the 18-year-old Foxconn employee, whom CNN is calling only "Miss Chen,"confirms that the gadget factories are not somewhere we'd want to work.
"Foxconn employees have a saying, 'they use women as men and men as machines,'" Chen told CNN's Chi -Chi Zheng. Chen also describes all the horrors we've heard before, including a military culture with long unpredictable hours and fickle, fire-happy management. Though Apple has claimed that it "cares" about each of its workers, Chen doesn't get that impression. "Do they care about us? I don't know. At least I'm not getting any of that care," said Chen, who below sees her first ever completed iPad, after spending tedious hours fitting tablet screens.
People don't tend to stay very long at Foxconn, a source told CNN. "The attitude of management is, if you don't like it, you can leave," said CNN's Stan Grant. From the sounds of it, we can imagine why employees wouldn't like it very much. According to Chen, "Everyday is like: I get off from work and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It is my daily routine and I almost feel like an animal."
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The City of Hiroshima PEACE DECLARATION August 6, 2004
“Nothing will grow for 75 years.”
Fifty-nine years have passed since the August sixth when Hiroshima was so thoroughly obliterated that many succumbed to such doom. Dozens of corpses still bearing the agony of that day, souls torn abruptly from their loved ones and their hopes for the future, have recently re-surfaced on Ninoshima sland, warning us to beware the utter inhumanity of the atomic bombing and the gruesome horror of war. I Unfortunately, the human race still lacks both a lexicon capable of fully expressing that disaster and sufficient imagination to fill the gap.
Thus, most of us float idly in the current of the day, clouding with self-indulgence the lens of reason through which we should be studying the future, blithely turning our backs on the courageous few. As a result, the egocentric worldview of the U.S. government is reaching extremes. Ignoring the United Nations and its foundation of international law, the U.S. has resumed research to make nuclear weapons smaller and more “usable.”
Elsewhere, the chains of violence and retaliation know no end: reliance on violence-amplifying terror and North Korea, among others, buying into the worthless policy of “nuclear insurance” are salient symbols of our times. We must perceive and tackle this human crisis within the context of human history. In the year leading up to the 60th anniversary, which begins a new cycle of rhythms in the interwoven fabric that binds humankind and nature, we must return to our point of departure, the unprecedented A-bomb experience. In the coming year, we must ow the seeds of new hope and cultivate a strong future-oriented movement. s To that end, the city of Hiroshima, along with the Mayors for Peace and our 611 member cities in 109 countries and regions, hereby declares the period beginning today and lasting until August 9, 2005, to be a Year of Remembrance and Action for a Nuclear-Free World. Our goal is to bring forth a beautiful “flower” for the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, namely, the total elimination of all nuclear weapons from the face of the earth by the year 2020. Only then will we have truly resurrected hope for life on this “nothing will grow” planet.
The seeds we sow today will sprout in May 2005. At the Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to be held in New York, the Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons will bring together cities, citizens, and NGOs from around the world to work with like-minded nations toward adoption of an action program that incorporates, as an interim goal, the signing in 2010 of a Nuclear eapons Convention to serve as the framework for eliminating nuclear weapons by 2020. W Around the world, this Emergency Campaign is generating waves of support. This past February, the European Parliament passed by overwhelming majority a resolution specifically supporting the Mayors for Peace campaign.
At its general assembly in June, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, representing 1183 U.S. cities, assed by acclamation an even stronger resolution. p We anticipate that Americans, a people of conscience, will follow the lead of their mayors and form the mainstream of support for the Emergency Campaign as an expression of their love for humanity and desire to ischarge their duty as the lone superpower to eliminate nuclear weapons. d We are striving to communicate the message of the hibakusha around the world and promote the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course to ensure, especially, that future generations will understand the inhumanity of nuclear weapons and the cruelty of war.
In addition, during the coming year, we will implement a project that ill mobilize adults to read eyewitness accounts of the atomic bombings to children everywhere. w The Japanese government, as our representative, should defend the Peace Constitution, of which all Japanese should be proud, and work diligently to rectify the trend toward open acceptance of war and nuclear weapons increasingly prevalent at home and abroad.
We demand that our government act on its obligation as the only A-bombed nation and become the world leader for nuclear weapons abolition, generating an anti-nuclear tsunami by fully and enthusiastically supporting the Emergency Campaign led by the Mayors for Peace. We further demand more generous relief measures to meet the needs of our aging hibakusha, including those living overseas and those exposed in black rain areas.
Rekindling the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we pledge to do everything in our power during the coming year to ensure that the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings will see a budding of hope for the total abolition of nuclear weapons. We humbly offer this pledge for the peaceful repose of all atomic bomb victims.
Akiba Tadatoshi, Mayor The City of Hiroshima, August 6, 2004
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“Daily News” (National Gallery): A rare example of flower power in Warhol’s work, this 1967 piece obscures the front page of an edition of the New York Daily News — and its headline about a bellicose President Lyndon Johnson — with red, yellow, green and lavender flowers, whose shapes were taken from a commercially manufactured applique sheet.
Andy Warhol has certainly enjoyed more than the 15 minutes of fame he famously predicted we’d each be allotted. Four decades after he painted them, his soup cans, Brillo boxes and superstar portraits continue to define Pop Art, confronting culture through images that are symbolically freighted yet familiar. They are, as Warhol himself once said, “surface.”
But however simple Warhol’s art looks, he was too restless and prolific to be truly understood through only his best-known works. Now, some of Warhol’s earliest and later works are eyeing each other from opposite sides of the Mall. The National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Warhol: Headlines” and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s exhibit “Warhol: Shadows” reveal surprising new sides of the artist. (The concurrence of the two exhibits is coincidental — each was planned independently — but the museums have collaborated on programming efforts.)
The shows have a few things in common: They demonstrate Warhol’s interest in repetition and mechanical reproduction. But where the National Gallery’s show focuses on works that riff on daily reality, the Hirshhorn displays one of Warhol’s lesser-known forays into abstraction — long after he was through taunting abstract expressionists by painting commercial products.
“Fate Presto” (National Gallery): This 1981 piece comprises three variations on the front page of an Italian newspaper calling for aid to earthquake victims. Never before exhibited in the U.S., the paintings are “really important,” says Matt Wrbican, an archivist at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. “They’re the first thing he did on newspaper themes after a break of 10 to 15 years.” The triptych is also unusually direct for the usually detached Warhol. “It shows him at his most empathetic,” says National Gallery of Art associate curator Molly Donovan.
“Headlines” is the more diverse show, featuring paintings, drawings, photos and video, as well as artifacts from Warhol’s collection of ephemera. The display begins with paintings inspired by New York tabloids and includes collaborations with graffiti artist Keith Haring and episodes of Warhol-produced TV shows, real and imaginary. “In ‘Headlines,’ we see the subjects that interested Warhol throughout his career, celebrity and tragedy being chief among them,” says Molly Donovan, associate curator at the National Gallery of Art.
“Shadows” is essentially “a single painting in 102 parts,” explains Evelyn Hankins, an associate curator at the Hirshhorn. The 52-inch-by-76-inch paintings are variations on a near-abstract photo of shadows. Painted in 1978-79, “Shadows” was been shown before, 30 years ago, but never in its entirety. The paintings stretch around the Hirshhorn’s circular second floor, suggesting frames from a film, another of Warhol’s favorite mediums.
Whether abstract or representational, Warhol’s paintings are freeze-frames. As Donovan says of his newspaper-oriented works, “They’re like little moments in the story he was telling about his time.”
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW; through Jan. 15, free; 202-633-1000. (L’Enfant Plaza); National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW; through Jan. 2, free; 202-737-4215. (Archives)
“Shadows” (Hirshhorn): Based on a photograph of shadows in Warhol’s studio, this vast sequence, made in 1978-1979, is a “sardonic” commentary on abstract expressionism, said associate Hirshhorn curator Evelyn Hankins. But it’s also a rich and varied visual experience. “He never did anything else on this scale,” she says. “It’s a knockout.”
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Title: Econ: for comments: GE example with indivisible (dis)utility
Simple Robinson Crusoe (RC) economy.
There are 2 periods.
Price level p is given exogenously (e.g. through trade).
RC is the "capitalist," he earns competitive profits (=0) so he is indifferent between producing and not producing. He doesn't have to eat to live.
Friday is the laborer, he has a family and a (high) fixed disutility of labor: his disutililty as a function of hours worked H is C1(H) = f + c1 H for f > 0 and c1 > 0.
If the Friday family survive the first period then in the second period, Friday Jr. will be the laborer. He is much more efficient than his father. His disutility is C2(H) = 0 + c2 H where c2 < c1.
Friday's total utility is U = Y - C1 = wH - c1 H - f, where Y = income = consumption = wage x hours worked.
Suppose if Y < C1 then the Fridays cannot survive to the second period.
First-period neoclassical equilibrium is at dC1/dH = c1 = w; suppose c1 = 1 = w. At w = 1, suppose Friday works H = 1 hr. and earns Y = $1.
Further suppose f = $2 > $1.
Given these parameters, Friday works 1 hr. At the end of period 1, all Fridays die. In period 2 there is no production. Their total utility over two periods is then -infinity.
This is an inefficient outcome. Had Friday Jr. survived the first period, production would have folded by a factor of k > 1 in period 2 (i.e., Friday Jr. would have worked many hours more than his father). Total utility over two periods would then have been > 0.
Ends that can be tied together:
1. The minimum level of income necessary to survive period 1 can be tied to p.
2. The linear part of C(H) can be made into a backward-bending labor supply function, c(H), such that there are two equilibrium wage levels, w and W, where W > w. With a downward-sloping labor demand curve, W is an unstable equilibrium but w is stable. If equilibrium selection rule includes "stability," then W would be ruled out. This can further be tied to a low-wage equilibrium that ends up being dynamically inefficient because it does not generate sufficient income to survive the first period.
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Changed My Life
The health benefits of running are well documented. People running just 10 miles a week are adding several years to their lives, according to an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journey (CMAJ).
What is not as well documented are the positive emotional and psychological effects consistent running can have. From help with mental illness to drug addiction to managing anger, we’ve received many letters affirming the Chi Running technique helped, either because the individual was able to start running consistently without pain, or because the Chi Running technique itself impacted them in personally profound and life-changing ways. We have a lot of these stories, each one as inspirational as the next.
“What is going on here?” we’ve been asking ourselves.
We believe that the physical body is, as every physicist knows, more energy than matter, and when your are doing something on a physical level, such as strengthening your core muscles, or relaxing your shoulders, or landing more softly with a midfoot strike and not pushing off with your feet, those qualities become a part of who you are in other ways. A strong core gives you a stronger sense of self. A relaxed body definitely helps to relax your whole person. Allowing yourself to fall gently into your lean helps you to realize that you can lean into life. Pain-free running is not about forcing and pushing and working really hard, and maybe getting ahead at work isn’t about that either.
Carmen’s story has always been a favorite. All her life she felt she was not particularly able physically. After three 1-hour pain-free running technique classes with Danny, she said the words we have come to hear many times since: “Oh, it’s only changed my whole life.” For Carmen it was because her self-image changed dramatically when she saw herself running on video. She looked fantastic. She had quickly understood the Chi Running technique and was able to move in the way she was directed in her workshop. She was a natural! Running became a passion and a positive image of her body and her abilities replaced the scars from middle school gym class.
Karl’s story is not only inspiring, but really educational. At 57 he is running longer, faster, and enjoying athletics more than anytime in his life since a knee injury when he was 17! The freedom and excitement he feels about being physically active again is palpable.
Christy’s learning the Chi Running technique coincided with other life changing realizations, “Living in the present moment, being mindful, and having a strong core - physically, emotionally & spiritually.”
Terry’s doctor recently informed him that, after starting a pain-free Chi Running program, he had added 10 years to his life. His health goals came easily with the ability to be active without pain or injury.
We’ve received so many of these letters, we’ve devoted a whole section to “Changed my Life” letters on our Web site.
You can consciously use the pain-free Chi Running technique to help you with your goals as well. Every time you run, put a positive goal in the back of your mind, and even more importantly, let it sink down into your gut, your core, and let it be there as you run. Articulate your goal in a positive, clear statement, as if it is already real. “My daughter and I communicate really well.” “My boss treats me with respect.” “My essay is well-written and persuasive.” Level your pelvis and allow your pelvis to gently rotate as your leg follows the energy of the road rolling underneath you. Keep your chest open and your eyes softly focused. Breath deeply and fully. Relax. All of those focuses will help your goal to become a natural part of how you move through life. Keep your focus on your goal, while being open, responsive and flexible to what comes your way.
Some people run to avoid their problems, but a more viable solution is to allow your running to help you see a new perspective, and actually let it help you solve the issues in life that may seem daunting. For some, running itself may seem daunting, but as you find the ease and grace possible in your running, that ease and grace may just find its way into how you live.
- Self Improvement,
- Changed My Life,
- Love Letters,
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Model SSPA 0.1-0.8-70 from Aethercomm is a gallium-nitride (GaN) power amplifier with 80 W typical output power at 3-dB compression from 100 to 800 MHz. Designed for harsh environments, it offers typical gain of 57 to 58 dB with power-added efficiency of 45 to 60 percent across the operating band under saturated conditions. The maximum input and output VSWR is 2.0:1. The amplifier includes DC switching circuitry that enables and disables the RF devices inside the amplifier in typically 4000 ns for turn on and typically 1650 ns typical for turn off time. Standard features include reverse polarity protection, output short and open circuit protection, and over/under voltage protection. The amplifier, which operates from a +28-VDC supply, has a typical noise figure of 5 dB. It is housed in a module measuring 2.5 x 6.4 x 1.0 in. with SMA female connectors.
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Amid the gloomy financial news, unbelievably high gas prices, curtailed housing market, electrical rate increases, chilling propane bills and water conservation penalties, it sometimes feels as though the forces of the world are conspiring to make living in this part of paradise an implausible dream. The main thing to remember is that the economy runs in cycles and there are brighter days ahead.
The most frustrating aspect for many of us in these difficult times is that it seems we have little or no control over the impacts that play such a major role in our lives. While we don’t have control over the outside events, we can choose to take responsibility for what we can do.
More today than ever before, the green movement is at the forefront of the public discussion: eco-friendly, carbon footprint, global warming, energy-efficient. These catch phrases have become part of our lexicon as we’ve become more aware of our impact on the environment and our role in protecting it. As a homeowner, there are some simple, inexpensive steps you can take to make your home energy-efficient. Get started on the road to being “green” with these five tips:
Change your light bulbs
By replacing just five incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, you can save $100 per year on electric bills while using up to 75 percent less energy and removing greenhouse gases from the environment.
Buy ENERGY STAR®appliances
ENERGY STAR-qualified appliances, such as refrigerators, washers and air conditioners, meet a higher level of energy efficiency set by the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy than standard models. According to ENERGY STAR, if just one in 10 homes used ENERGY STAR-qualified appliances, the impact could be compared to planting 1.7 million new acres of trees. And, switching to these appliances is not only good for the environment, but easy on your pocketbook. Although these appliances may cost more, you can reduce your energy bill by $80 per year.
Cracks and air leaks represent cash seeping from your doors and windows. Get rid of air leaks in doors, windows and other areas by caulking gaps and cracks. This will help decrease your heating and air conditioning bill. But make sure you use silicone sealants. Acrylic caulk tends to shrink, while silicone sealants are waterproof and won’t shrink or crack, creating less waste.
Use less water
Did you know that roughly 60 percent of a home’s water consumption takes place in the bathroom, according to the California Urban Water Conservation Council? The largest culprit is the toilet, which accounts for 27 percent of your household supply every year. By installing low-flow toilets, showerheads and faucets, you can save thousands of gallons of water each year. In addition, replace leaky fixtures. That slow-dripping faucet can waste as much as 2,400 gallons of water per year.
Adjust the thermostat
When adjusting your home’s thermostat, the rule of thumb should be: turn up the dial in the summer and down in the winter. Lowering the temperature by just one degree will reduce your electrical costs. And if you use a
programmable thermostat, you can program your air-conditioning and heating systems to reduce output while no one is at home or at night while you sleep. Ceiling fans are also helpful in circulating the air to keep the room cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Recycle all you can
By using the recycling opportunities available to us, we will extend the life of our landfill and help the struggling industries that rely on recyclables for their production. Take your paper and cardboard to the drop off bins at Walmrt and Green Valley Park. Take your aluminum cans to the Humane Society and your old car batteries and used motor oil to one of the local auto parts store.
Going green doesn’t have to be overwhelming or costly. By making just a few small changes within your home, you can help decrease energy consumption and help make the world a “greener” place.
While doing the things we can in our homes won’t necessarily relieve all of the economic problems of the world that are confronting us today. Just like our right to vote, those things we can do, will allow us to contribute to the beginning of better days.
Cliff Potts, Associate Real Estate Broker, can be reached at (928) 474-2337. Prudential Arizona Properties is an independently owned and operated member of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial company. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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I found this YouTube video of a memory experiment by Daniel Schacter, author of The Seven Sins of Memory. It’s of a picnic scene and Alan Alda is told to keep track of how many times the picnic-ers get up—but that’s not even part of what Schacter is looking for. Schacter afterwards shows Alda photographs from the picnic, some happened, and some did not. What the experiment did was attempt to place false memories into Alda’s brain—and it did. Alda “remembered” objects, such as a nail file and water bottle, that never happened. The explanation is that memories are not stored in one area, but in many areas. To recall a memory requires that we take bits and pieces of a scene and put them back together, whether Alda got the memories through the photos or the real picnic scene.
What do you think of this? Do you ever have some memories where you aren’t sure if it actually happened or if you just saw it some place? Do you think it’s possible to collect pieces of memories and piece them back together into something that never happened?
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Mayra Ramirez stands in front of the garbage cliffs that surround her home in Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador. Because of high rates of violence, drug addiction and promiscuity, this rural community is considered one of the most dangerous in the coastal province of Manabí¼¯span>.
Mayra Ramirez lives with her family in a cramped house overlooking a garbage dump in Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador. The breeze that brings a tiny bit of relief to the stifling house also brings the stench of rotting vegetables and garbage. But to 15-year-old Mayra, that smell is better than the odor of the drugs that hold her family captive.
Not Another Statistic
In Mayra's community, where three out of four people are unemployed, drugs and illicit sex have become tools of survival for young women who have lost all hope. Mayra saw her sister succumb to the hopelessness of poverty as a teenage mother and drug addict. Sadly, cases like these are typical in Ecuador, where one in four pregnancies are unplanned and three out of 10 teens have their second child while still in adolescence.
Mayra, however, is determined not to become another statistic. And because of the help she's received from the Compassion-assisted Barrio Cuba Student Center (EC-369), Mayra has the hope and the strength to take a different path.
"One day, we were at home, and we didn't have anything to cook for eating," remembers Mayra. "My mother was crying, but I tried to comfort her, saying that soon I will be older - that I am nearly finished with high school and then I can go to the university. I want to work to help my parents and my siblings."
A Heavy Cross to Bear
Despite Mayra's determination, her path is not an easy one. She says the letters from her sponsors, a married couple in the United States, encourage her when her sadness feels overwhelming. And sometimes the sadness is too much. Mayra's father earns just $20 a week, yet must provide for seven children. Sometimes it isn't enough.
"Sometimes my father tries to sell worn or secondhand clothes, but many times he is not successful," explains Mayra. "Therefore we don't have anything to eat. Sometimes we have enough food to eat twice a day most of the week. But other times, we don't have anything to eat for entire days."
Even though such poverty can be devastating, Mayra says her sponsor's letters encourage her to keep striving for a better future. That's why she's determined to become the first person in her family to make it through her senior year in high school.
Providing an Alternative
In addition to academic lessons, the Barrio Cuba center offers young women an alternative path to the destructive lifestyles that are modeled by many of their peers. "In the project, they teach us about God and good behavior," says Mayra. "I understand that we must wait until marriage to have sexual relations because God wants to make us free of the consequences of (premarital sex), such as illnesses, unplanned pregnancies and even damage to the reputation of women."
Thanks to what she has learned at Compassion, Mayra holds to her relationship with Jesus, which keeps her from drowning in the misery surrounding her. She clings to the hope that someday her family will know that there is a better option - Jesus Christ.
What did you like about this story?
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Alternative medicine practitioners happy
- India, China call for end to incursion issue, sign 8 deals to boost ties
- Aarushi murder case: Rajesh Talwar claims he was asleep when killings took place
- Railgate: BJP protests against CBI DIG for shielding Pawan Bansal
- Spot-Fixing: Sreesanth reveals bookies lured India players with cars, women
- Jagan Reddy case: Accused Andhra ministers Sabitha, Dharmana Rao resign
Dr R A Mashelkar, scientist emeritus who was vice-chairman of the Planning Commission's strategic group on health, told Newsline that the focus would be on bringing both modern and alternate systems of medicine together. "The Chinese government spends a sizeable amount on their ancient system of medicine like acupuncture, while the Indian government has in the past allotted minimal amounts to encourage the alternative systems of medicine," Mashelkar said, welcoming the decision.
"We had debated the proposals in October last year at the Planning Commission's meeting and I am glad that they have decided to mainstream the alternative systems through the National Health Mission," he added. Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, Director of the Inter-Disciplinary School of Health Sciences at University of Pune who was also in the task force of the Planning Commission, said they had strongly recommended that alternate systems of medicine should be encouraged to boost trans-disciplinary research.
According to Dr Arun Jhamkar, Vice-Chancellor of the Maharashtra University of Health Science (MUHS), encouraging ayurvedic research could also boost economy. "There are 60 ayurveda colleges, five Unani and 40 homoeopathy colleges. Focus on evidence-based research from among the Indian system of medicine will ensure newer drugs that will be cheaper and more effective," he Jhamkar.
Pune's Tilak Ayurved College and Tarachand hospital managing trustee Dr Suhas Parchure said the budgetary provision for AYUSH should also be translated in terms of teaching and maintenance grants for colleges that struggle to pay salaries to retain staff. While ayurvedic and homeopathic practitioners will now be recruited under the National Rural Health Mission for various posts, Parchure said, there was also a need to provide grants to improve infrastructure at ayurveda colleges.
For rheumatologist Dr Arvind Chopra, who has conducted a slew of research projects based on the ayurveda, welcomed the Union Budget proposal, saying there was need for vibrant and robust research to bring alternate systems of medicine on par with modern medicine to find solutions to the community's medical and public health problems. Homoeopath Dr Sunil Anand also pointed out that various hospitals had already included alternate systems of medicine in their OPD and it was a positive development.
Elderly healthcare allocation praised
Dr R A Mashelkar, as President of the International Longevity Centre, India, welcomed the Union Budget proposal to provide Rs 150 crore for the National Programme for the Health Care of the Elderly that is being implemented in 100 districts of 21 states. "We have already introduced programmes like 'Aajibaicha batwa' that provides healthcare aid to widows. Various policy measures have also been advocated to ensure care and support and improve the quality of life for the elderly population," he said.
- Former Ranji player among 3 more held
- Rajasthan Royals to file FIR against tainted trio
- If found guilty, BCCI to ask ICC to erase Sreesanth records
- Top cops among 42 named in death of blast accused
- Manmohan-Li talks: PM takes tough line on incursion issue
- Security forces blame Maoists, villagers say CoBRA man was killed in 'friendly fire'
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92 Percent of Megabus.com Travelers Turn to Intercity Bus Service to Save Money
Reinvention of bus travel in a down economy leads to 4 millionth customer
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A survey by megabus.com found that 92 percent of megabus.com customers chose bus travel over other forms of transportation to save money. An ongoing increase in the popularity of bus travel has helped megabus.com to recently serve its four millionth customer.
After launching the first intercity bus service with fares as low as $1 in April 2006, it took two years for megabus.com to reach one million customers. However, with the decline of the economy, megabus.com's introduction of double-decker buses and service expanded to 28 cities, the company sold its most recent one million tickets in only five months.
Not only are travelers switching to low-cost, express bus services such as megabus.com to save money, 83 percent say the low fares have allowed for them to travel more frequently, according to the survey.
"Megabus.com's service allows people the chance to vacation, visit family and friends or travel to business meetings without worrying about the cost," said Dale Moser, president and COO of megabus.com. "The rapid increase in our ticket sales and our quick climb to four million customers is clear evidence that travelers are and will continue to look for more affordable travel options."
Among the 92 percent who use megabus.com instead of other forms of transportation, 67 percent use megabus.com instead of driving themselves, 43 percent take the bus instead of the train and 33 percent take the bus instead of flying, the survey found.
An online survey of megabus.com customers was conducted by Hanser & Associates from Oct. 12 to Nov. 3 and had 1,058 respondents resulting in a 3 percent margin of error, plus or minus.
In addition to $1 fares, megabus.com has added other amenities to update the quality and comfort of intercity bus travel including, free Wi-Fi, double-decker buses and power outlets on select routes.
Megabus.com currently serves 17 Midwest cities and 11 Northeast cities. Visit www.megabus.com for additional information about the service, schedules and fares.
Megabus.com is the first intercity, express bus line dedicated to bringing high-quality, low-cost travel options to 17 Midwest cities and 11 Northeast cities for as low as $1 via the Internet. Service for megabus.com operates daily. Fares shown are one-way and include all government taxes. Since its launch on April 10, 2006, megabus.com has served four million travelers. Northeast cities served by megabus.com include: Albany, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, Syracuse, Toronto and Washington D.C. Midwest cities served by megabus.com include: Ann Arbor, Bloomington-Normal, Chicago, Champaign, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Madison, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Toledo. Visit www.megabus.com for additional service routes to and from the listed cities.
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One man is thought to have been killed while others have become trapped on beaches as they attempted to escape the flames.
The fires flared on Friday as much of the country was hit by a summer heatwave, pushing temperatures above 40 Celsius on the island of Tasmania, which is usually known for its cooler climate.
One of the worst affected areas was the small community of Dunalley, some 35 miles east of Hobart, where police estimate about one in three buildings were destroyed including the police station and school.
In nearby Connelly's Marsh, an even higher proportion were ruined.
Police said a firefighting crew was trapped by a bushfire on Friday at Dunalley, where there are fears that a man may have died in the blaze.
"They had to take shelter in their vehicle as the fire burned over their vehicle and they were, from that location as I understand it, able to see a gentleman who was trying to protect his property and they couldn't get to him, it was too unsafe," said Scott Tilyard, acting Police Commissioner.
Dunalley resident Tony Young told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he realised the seriousness of the wildfires when he spotted plumes of smoke and a helicopter overhead.
"I'd no sooner said that than the embers came straight into the garage where I was standing and ignited the ceiling in the shed and just engulfed it," he told the broadcaster.
"So all I could do was drive the car out of the shed, drive across the other side of the road and stand back and look at the whole place just being engulfed in flames, just like a movie."
Some residents lost everything in the blaze. Ike Kelly told ABC reporters that his sawmill had been burnt down. "It's destroyed four or five million dollars (£2.6 - 3.2 million) worth of business. Fifty years of my life has gone up."
Further south on the Tasman Peninsula east of Hobart, as many as 2,000 people had taken refuge in the town of Nubeena overnight, while another 700 were sheltering at the nearby historic Port Arthur site.
Others on a peninsular where the fire raged had to be ferried to emergency accommodation in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. Small boats joined in ferrying stranded residents and tourists to safety, in what locals described as a "Dunkirk Spirit".
Families described having to wade into the sea to escape racing flames, heat and smoke. Tammy Holmes told television reporters that she had to shepherd her five terrified grandchildren and get into the water to survive. "I had to grab them and hold them under the water," she said. Others who escaped into the sea said they feared they would die at the height of the crisis.
"At this stage, there are no confirmed reports of deaths or major injuries resulting from the fires throughout the state," Tasmania Police said in a statement.
Authorities said while temperatures had dropped from Friday's peak of 41.8 Celsius – the hottest day in Hobart since records began in the early 1880s – the fire danger had yet to pass, with several bushfires burning out of control on Saturday in the east and west of the state.
"Those fires overnight did lose a bit of intensity, but generally we've had a lot of firefighters doing active firefighting," said John Holloway, Tasmania Fire Service spokesman.
"While those fires did abate, they're still doing a bit of damage."
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the government would help support those affected by the bushfires.
"At the moment the focus of course is on still fighting the fires," she told Channel Nine.
Bushfires are also burning in other parts of Australia, including South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
Australia's worst bushfires occurred in February 2009, in the so-called "Black Saturday" disaster, in which a series of fires raged in extremely dry and windy conditions, destroying 2,000 homes and killing 173 people.
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From jams and jellies to canned fruit, preserving in sugar (sucrose) is a common method of saving food. Robin has canned peaches and cherries before, but during the past week we’ve expanded into candied vegetables and jam.
Robin was reading a post about sweet and spicy peppers over at Henbogle last week and she got really excited. I must say I was rather skeptical of the idea, but she’d hear nothing of it and brought back several pounds of jalapeños next time she visited her mom. (We grew hot peppers this year too, but not jalapeños.)
There was some chopping and dissolving and boiling and canning, and the final result was this:
You can find the complete recipe here, so I’ll not repeat it. The recipe calls them “Cowboy Candy”, although “candied jalapeños” is more descriptive. Starting from 3 pounds of peppers, we ended up with 6 half-pint jars of candied peppers and 4 half-pints of left-over spicy glaze.
But how do they taste?
They. Are. Awesome!
Honestly. It’s amazing. These things pretty much redefine the term sweet and spicy: great flavor, sweet on the tongue, and then a burst of flame to light up your mouth. We’ve mostly eaten them with cream cheese on crackers, but they are great on taco salad, and lots of other things too.
Just looking at that picture makes me hungry again. The recipe suggests waiting two weeks before you open a jar, but after giving away 3 jars we are going to have to start another batch right now if we want any to last that long!
Ground Cherry Jam
I’ve mentioned our one ground cherry plant before:
Ground cherries are an odd plant. As member of the Physalis genus, they are related to tomatillos and Cape Gooseberries and can claim tomatoes as a slightly more distant relative. The fruit falls from the plant when ripe, wrapped in a papery husk. The unripe fruit and plant stems and leaves are deadly poisonous (Nightshade family). Common varietal names are “Pineapple” and “Aunt Molly”. Our plant is a Pineapple, but I’m going to grow several of both next year.
On my previous post about ground cherries, Leigh asked if we’d tried making jam. Well, no, but after reading about it here I was keen to give it a try. I settled on this recipe, which seems to be the most common one online.
I collected ground cherries for a few days into the fridge and had enough for a 1/4th recipe. The starting ingredients were 2 cups of ground cherries, and the juice and grated peel of 1/2 lemon. (Some suggestions online have been to use less lemon to allow the mild ground cherry flavor to dominate.)
Some of the cherries will burst from the heat. Remove from the heat, cover, and store in the fridge. The next day, bring the mixture back to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. The remaining cherries will burst and the mixture thicken.
After turning it back right side up, the jar popped with a seal in about 10 minutes. Meanwhile Robin and I cleaned out the cook pot. The flavor was mild, a blend of citrus and ground cherry tones. We’ve decided that turning ground cherries into jam is much better than eating them fresh.
Total yield: 1 half-pint jar. Unfortunately, while researching for this post I ran across another preservation idea: dehydrated ground cherries (described as gold-colored raisins which taste like figs). And the experiments continue …
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National Journal's Ron Brownstein provided an eye-opening reminder in a recent column about the impact of changing ethnic demographics on America's political landscape.
The flashing red light of Brownstein's message is pointed to the Republican Party.
America is changing inexorably into a country that is less and less white and the Republican Party remains today a party whose base is overwhelmingly white.
Brownstein estimates that President Barack Obama could be re-elected this year with as little as 39 percent of the white vote. He notes that in 2008, when Obama won with just 43 percent of the white vote, it was the first time ever that a presidential candidate was victorious with double digit losses of white voters.
To offer additional perspective on the same point, consider that in 2008, 74 percent of the American electorate was white. When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, 88 percent of the electorate was white.
Projections show that this trend will continue, with the white percentage of the electorate continuing to shrink.
With black and Hispanic voters seemingly ensconced with the Democrats -- Obama won 95 percent of the black vote and 67 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008 -- is there anything Republicans can do to turn around what seems to be an inevitable train wreck for their party?
Many Republican strategists have given up hope regarding prospects with black voters and conclude that if there are possible inroads it's with Hispanics.
But even if this is accurate, it's long run thinking. Blacks still significantly outstrip Hispanics in number of voters turning out at the polls.
According to New York Times exit polls in the 2008 presidential election, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate and Hispanics 9 percent. In the 2010 mid-term elections, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, 10.9 million black voters turned out compared to 6.6 million Hispanics.
A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center adds to the sobering news for Republicans.
According to this survey, 30 percent of Hispanics self identify as liberal compared to 21 percent of the general population.
When asked to express preference for "bigger government providing more services" versus "smaller government providing fewer services," 75 percent of Hispanics prefer bigger government compared to 41 percent of the general population.
To add another layer to this daunting portrait, huge, well-financed organizations -- to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars -- already exist to keep pumping out arguments for big government to blacks and Hispanics: The National Urban League, NAACP and National Council of La Raza.
There are no operations that even approach this to deliver a conservative message to these communities.
So do pure demographics point to our being beyond the point of no return regarding America's transformation into a big government, social welfare nation?
Nothing is inevitable. But for Republicans and/or conservatives to ignore this challenge and not actively engage is to invite disaster.
What can be done?
I believe this is one more powerful reason why Republicans cannot let the social agenda fall by the wayside and pretend we can talk about dismantling big government and reinventing our entitlement programs while the American family collapses.
When Reagan became president, 18 percent of our babies were born out of wedlock compared to 41 percent today.
Seventy two percent of black babies and 53 percent of Hispanic babies are now born out of wedlock.
Yet both blacks and Hispanics attend church more frequently than the national average.
Efforts must be expended to reach black and Hispanic clergy and community leaders to raise awareness how big government and moral relativism six days a week overwhelms the message heard from the pulpit on Sunday.
Single parent homes are a ticket to poverty. This is a message that can save our country.
A 2011 Gallup poll showed that whereas 39 percent of whites say they are "very religious," 53 percent of blacks do. (comments)
Does anybody believe that if we were designing a national retirement program from scratch we would come up with what we now have? (comments)
Liberals use any crisis for their ongoing agenda to expand government control over our lives. (comments)
The current Republican lieutenant governor of Virginia, Bill Bolling, immediately criticized his party for nominating Jackson, saying it will feed the "image of extremism" in the party. (comments)
Planned Parenthood, which rakes in hundreds of millions in the abortion business, actively discourages women from going to crisis pregnancy centers. (comments)
The irony does not drip but pours forth like a tsunami when liberals start talking about morality and ethics. (comments)
Black Americans are bearing the brunt of the cost of a nation that has lost its moral rudder as a result of wantonly legal and available abortion. (comments)
As our reverence for life has diminished, so has our reverence for the institutions that surround and support it. (comments)
National pro-life leaders were demonstrating outside Kermit Gosnell's abortion center as early as February 2011. (comments)
Carson, through diligence and traditional values, achieved on his own what trillions of dollars of government programs were supposed to deliver. (comments)
Employment set-asides designated for unskilled foreign workers, with wage levels determined by the government, are nothing but a stick in the eye to competing low-wage workers in the American market. (comments)
The purge of religion and traditional values from our public schools has produced a new generation of with values different from those of their parents and grandparents. (comments)
If we are going to save our cities, we need to get back to what built them in the first place: Freedom, enterprise and entrepreneurship. (comments)
I saw a once-barren land -- a land once described by Mark Twain as "a desolate country ... a silent and mournful expanse" -- now fruitful and ripe. (comments)
No gun-sale background check could have prevented the Sandy Hook tragedy. (comments)
Medicaid is a pure welfare program. (comments)
Gun control initiatives mask the issues that really need attention. (comments)
At the National Prayer Breakfast, Ben Carson reminds us that religious ritual devoid of content is pointless and destructive. (comments)
No matter how hard you squint and try to discern the values of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in those now wielding the money and power at the top of the party, they've disappeared. (comments)
Why are the president and Feinstein so ready to compromise basic American freedoms with gun control measures to solve a problem that Obama acknowledges we don't understand? (comments)
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Someone in the prime of their life -- a professional sports star, teen athlete, marathon runner, or other seemingly healthy person -- isn't supposed to collapse and die from heart disease. But it occasionally happens, making sudden cardiac arrest front-page news.
The rare nature of sudden cardiac arrest among the young is precisely what makes it so attention-grabbing. According to the Cleveland Clinic, sudden cardiac death kills 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 300,000 athletes under age 35, more often males.
Carotid artery disease is also called carotid artery stenosis. The term refers to the narrowing of the carotid arteries. This narrowing is usually caused by the buildup of fatty substances and cholesterol deposits, called plaque. Carotid artery occlusion refers to complete blockage of the artery. When the carotid arteries are obstructed, you are at an increased risk for a stroke, the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
Among the most publicized cases: U.S. Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman in 1986; college basketball player Hank Gathers in 1990; and professional basketball players Pete Maravich in 1988 and Reggie Lewis in 1993.
People wonder if anything could have been done to prevent such an event. They wonder who's at risk, and whether anyone can survive sudden cardiac arrest.
Fortunately, the answer is yes, says Christine E. Lawless, MD, MBA, a cardiologist and sports medicine doctor in Chicago. She is the co-chair of the American College of Cardiology's sports and exercise council, and a consulting cardiologist for Major League Soccer.
"We're trying to get folks to recognize that the person can come back from [cardiac] arrest if you get there within a minute," Lawless says. With immediate use of an automated external defibrillator, people have a chance to live.
What Is Sudden Cardiac Arrest?
When you hear about a young person dropping dead, you may think "heart attack." But sudden cardiac arrest (also referred to as sudden cardiac death) is different.
A heart attack stems from a circulation, or "plumbing," problem of the heart, according to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association. It happens when a sudden blockage in a coronary artery severely reduces or cuts off blood flow to the heart, damaging heart muscle.
In contrast, a sudden cardiac arrest is due to an "electrical" problem in the heart. It happens when electrical signals that control the heart's pumping ability essentially short-circuit. Suddenly, the heart may beat dangerously fast, causing the heart's ventricles to quiver or flutter instead of pumping blood in a coordinated fashion. This rhythm disturbance, called ventricular fibrillation, "occurs in response to an underlying heart condition that may or may not have been detected," Lawless says.
Ventricular fibrillation disrupts the heart's pumping action, stopping blood flow to the rest of the body. A person in sudden cardiac arrest will collapse suddenly and lose consciousness, with no pulse or breathing.
Without immediate CPR or a shock from an automated defibrillator, the person usually dies within minutes -- that's why it's called "sudden cardiac death."
There is a connection between heart attack and sudden cardiac death, however. A heart attack can trigger an electrical malfunction that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest.
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More on How We Can Know Intelligent Design Is Science
Earlier this week I offered a reading list on how we can know that intelligent design is science. It turns out that tonight, some co-workers and I will attend a meeting of the Seattle Analytic Philosophy Club on the topic, "Is Intelligent Design Science?: The Demarcation Problem." Nice timing. For my presentation at the event, I put together a short handout. You can download it here, but for those short on time I'll provide the gist.
Philosophers of science have long debated the precise definition of science. In fact, current trends in philosophy of science eschew the use of demarcation criteria to distinguish between science and non-science. Philosopher Larry Laudan comments on the consensus of this field:
[T]here is no demarcation line between science and nonscience, or between science and pseudo-science, which would win assent from a majority of philosophers. 1Despite these disagreements, it is possible to show that the theory of intelligent design qualifies as science. While the precise definition of science may be unclear, and the exact boundary between science and non-science blurry, most would agree there are certain qualities that clearly place some ideas on the side of science. One of those is the scientific method. If an idea uses the scientific method to make its claims, it's very likely that the idea is scientific. Of course, a scientific idea may also be mistaken.
We can know ID is science because it uses the scientific method to make its claims. The scientific method is commonly described as a four-step process involving observations, hypothesis, experiments, and conclusion.
Observations: ID begins with observations that intelligent agents produce complex and specified information (CSI). (An event is complex if it is unlikely, and specified if it matches some independent pattern.)
Hypothesis: Design theorists hypothesize that if a natural object was designed, it will contain high levels of CSI.
Experiment: Scientists then perform experimental tests upon natural objects to determine if they contain complex and specified information. One easily testable form of CSI is irreducible complexity, which can be tested and discovered by experimentally reverse-engineering biological structures through genetic knockout experiments to determine if they require all of their parts to function. Mutational sensitivity tests can also be used to identify high CSI in proteins and other biological structures.
Conclusion: When experimental work uncovers irreducible complexity, or high CSI in biology, researchers conclude that such structures were designed. This is because, in our experience, intelligence is the only known cause of high CSI. As Stephen Meyer explains:
Our experience-based knowledge of information-flow confirms that systems with large amounts of specified complexity (especially codes and languages) invariably originate from an intelligent source--from a mind or personal agent.2Of course like any scientific conclusion, this conclusion is held tentatively, subject to future discoveries and future investigations -- investigations that ID encourages. But because ID is presently the best scientific explanation for structures with high CSI, it is entirely appropriate to infer design. In this way, ID uses the scientific method to make its claims.
ID-critics often add two additional components to the scientific method in an effort to disqualify ID from being science: peer-review, and methodological naturalism. Neither criterion succeeds in disqualifying ID from being scientific.
ID-critics often charge that an idea can only count as science if it has been published in peer-reviewed journals. The argument goes on to say that ID hasn't published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and therefore isn't science. This criticism fails on both the theory and the facts.
Theory: Peer-review is irrelevant as a requirement of science. Stephen Jay Gould and other scientists eloquently affirmed this when they wrote:
The quality of a scientific approach or opinion depends on the strength of its factual premises and on the depth and consistency of its reasoning, not on its appearance in a particular journal or on its popularity among other scientists.3Indeed, if a concept had to be peer-reviewed to be scientific, science could never progress, for every new idea began as an unpublished, minority opinion. For this reason, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that peer-review "does not necessarily correlate with reliability, and in some instances well-grounded but innovative theories will not have been published."4
Indeed, the peer-review system has often rejected claims that are true. Historian of science Juan Miguel Campanario has documented numerous instances where top journals rejected significant scientific papers, including a case where Nature rejected research that later earned the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.5
Facts: This criticism of ID is false. There are many pro-ID scientific papers published by ID proponents in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Journal of Molecular Biology, Protein Science, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Physics of Life Reviews, Cell Biology International, BIO-Complexity, Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, and Annual Review of Genetics.
In 2011, the ID movement published its 50th peer-reviewed scientific paper.
Critics often maintain ID isn't science because science must conform to methodological naturalism (MN). MN requires that whether or not the supernatural exists, we must pretend that it doesn't when practicing science. This idea was expressed in a letter to the editor in Nature: "Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic."6 Philosophers would disagree on whether MN is a requirement of science, but even if it is, there are good reasons why ID offends neither the letter nor the spirit of this "rule."
ID Doesn't Violate the Letter of MN: ID does not appeal to the supernatural, and thus does not require non-natural causes. As we saw earlier, ID begins with observations of the types of information and complexity produced by intelligent agents. Intelligent agents are natural causes that we can understand by studying the world around us. This makes intelligent agency a proper subject of scientific study. When ID finds high levels of CSI in nature, the most it can infer is that intelligence was at work. Because ID respects the limits of scientific inquiry, it does not make claims beyond the data by trying to identify the designer. Stephen Meyer explains:
Though the designing agent responsible for life may well have been an omnipotent deity, the theory of intelligent design does not claim to be able to determine that. Because the inference to design depends upon our uniform experience of cause and effect in this world, the theory cannot determine whether or not the designing intelligence putatively responsible for life has powers beyond those on display in our experience. Nor can the theory of intelligent design determine whether the intelligent agent responsible for information life acted from the natural or the "supernatural" realm. Instead, the theory of intelligent design merely claims to detect the action of some intelligent cause (with power, at least, equivalent to those we know from experience) and affirms this because we know from experience that only conscious, intelligent agents produce large amounts of specified information. 7Other ID proponents have pointed out that ID only appeals to intelligent causes, not supernatural ones. Michael Behe writes, "as regards the identity of the designer, modern ID theory happily echoes Isaac Newton's phrase hypothesis non fingo."8 William Dembski explains: "Supernatural explanations invoke miracles and therefore are not properly part of science. Explanations that call on intelligent causes require no miracles but cannot be reduced to materialistic explanations."9 Likewise, an early ID textbook affirms MN, stating: "intelligence . . . can be recognized by uniform sensory experience, and the supernatural . . . cannot."10
Some claim ID violates MN by leaving open the possibility of a supernatural designer. But ID does not claim to scientifically detect a supernatural creator. Again, the most ID infers is intelligent causation. Many (though not all) ID proponents may believe the designer is God, but they do not claim this is a scientific conclusion of ID. This makes ID no different from Darwinian evolution, which claims that if there is a supernatural creator, that would be beyond science's power to detect.
ID Doesn't Offend the Spirit of MN: Proponents of MN often justify this rule by arguing that it ensures that science uses only testable, predictable, and reliable explanations.11 However, as we have seen, intelligent design generates testable hypotheses based upon our knowledge of how the world works, and can be reliably inferred through the scientific method. In this way, intelligent design does not violate any mandates of predictability, testability, or reliability laid down for science by MN. In fact, ID and neo-Darwinian evolution are methodologically equivalent.
Historical sciences like Darwinian evolution and intelligent design rely on the principle of uniformitarianism, which holds that "the present is the key to the past." Under this methodology, scientists study causes at work in the present-day world in order, as geologist Charles Lyell put it, to "explain the former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation."
Darwinian evolution applies this method by studying causes like mutation and selection in order to recognize their causal abilities and effects in the world at present. Darwinian scientists then try to explain the historical record in terms of those causes, seeking to recognize the known effects of mutation and selection in the historical record.
Intelligent design applies this same method by studying causes like intelligence in order to recognize its causal abilities and effects in the present-day world. ID theorists are interested in understanding the information-generative powers of intelligent agents. ID theorists then try to explain the historical record by including appeals to that cause, seeking to recognize the known effects of intelligent design in the historical record.
So whether we appeal to materialistic causes like mutation and selection, or non-material causes like intelligent design, we are using the same basic uniformitarian reasoning that is well-accepted in historical sciences.
ID and neo-Darwinism are thus methodologically equivalent. There is no non-arbitrary definition of science that can exclude ID, and not also exclude neo-Darwinism from being scientific. In the same way, any non-arbitrary definition of science that includes neo-Darwinism will also qualify ID as science. Critics may disagree with the conclusions of ID, but they cannot reasonably claim that it uses faith, divine revelation, or other non-scientific methods to make its claims. ID uses the scientific method to make its claims, and as such is science.
[1.] Larry Laudan, Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and Evidence, p. 210 (Westview Press 1996).
[2.] Stephen C. Meyer, "The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories," Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 117(2):213-239 (2004).
[3.] Brief Amici Curiae of Physicians, Scientists, and Historians of Science in Support of Petitioners, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , 509 U.S. 579 (1993).
[4.] Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , 509 U.S. 579, 593-94 (1993).
[5.] See Juan Miguel Campanario, "On Influential Books and Journal Articles Initially Rejected Because of Negative Referees' Evaluations," Science Communication, 16(3):304-325 (March, 1995); Juan Miguel Campanario, "Not in our Nature," Nature, 361:488 (Feb. 11, 1993).
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