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A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to hike to the old Golden Waif Mine, referenced on topographical maps as the “House Mine.” This mine had a major impact on early Payson. It was the first major claim filed in the area, patented May 23, 1877 by a group of miners led by Irving Monroe House and D.I. Rouse.
Over the next couple decades, House would be a steady figure in area mining, while Rouse disappeared into the shadows.
I hiked to the approximate area of the old mine with local historian Jinx Pyle. We followed Main Street past the sewage plant and eventually came up a hill with a great view of the Mazatzal Mountains.
At that point we were in the heart of the region’s old mining country, a place that had an enormous impact on the area. Early on there was a town out here. It was called Marysville, and according to “Rim Country History,” published in 1984 by the Northern Gila County Historical Society, it had over 100 people by 1882. Today’s topo maps show Marysville Hill, but I’ve been told by some folks that’s not the actual location of where the little town was located. Eventually Marysville dissolved and Payson, which was known as Green Valley in 1882, became the area’s center.
Jinx and I turned off of the road to head toward the Excursion Mine and ultimately to a cutoff that would take us over to the Mazatzals. If we had kept going on the main road, we would have ended up at Doll Baby Ranch, which was settled early on and was the site of a Mormon settlement known as Mazatzal City.
Eventually we turned on to NF-414 and took it over closer to the Mazatzals to just past the North Peak Trailhead turnoff.
One of the things I asked Jinx about was what that country looked like back in House’s day. According to him it was a different country, with much more grass and a simple line of Cypress running through it. If you look at Fred Croxen’s “History of Grazing on Tonto,” you’ll find similar recollections as told to Croxen by area pioneers.
From where we parked it was upwards of two miles to the location of the old House Mine, which I had pinpointed on GPS. This is beautiful country, despite some of it having been burned in the Willow Fire a few years ago.
Eventually we came across the spot I had marked and hiked around through the riverbed. We knew that we were in the same spot that I.M. House had been over 130 years before. It truly was a trip back in time. You could see how this would have been a good spot to mine. There are all sorts of mineral evidence still in the area.
Jinx pointed out that visibility was good too. Remember, in 1877 things were not completely settled with Native Americans in the region. The threat of attack was very real. From this spot though, it appears that one person would have been able to dig while the other kept a fairly good watch on the surrounding area.
Table Mountain is quite visible in the area. This topographic feature is mentioned as a point of reference on many early mining claims.
Jinx and I hiked farther up and found the area to have been worked quite a bit more. This was really a good producer at one point in time, there’s no doubt about that. The word of the success of this mine helped set the table for other ventures in the area and by the early 1880s, the region was awash in activity. Much of the activity would move up to the East Verde River, where the Gowan Mine is located, and where other mines such as the Crackerjack, are close by. This clip from the Sept. 23, 1880 Arizona Silver Belt clearly states this trend.
“Messrs. House and Rouse, of Tonto Basin, were in town last Saturday and Sunday. They report that in their camp everything is quiet, but that on the River Verde, times were lively. Their mine, which we are assured, is a valuable one, was bonded to San Francisco parties. They have 150 tons of good ore on the dump and the mine is looking well. They tell us that on the East Verde, the miners have taken out a ditch to carry water to arrastras by which process they intend for the present to work their ores. The mines along the Verde are gold mines. Mr. Rouse is largely interested in mines along this river, and he claims that some of them will prove as valuable as any yet discovered. Wood, water and grass are plentiful. There is a wagon road from that country to Globe. Mr. R. says that Globe will have to look to its laurels or a new district will be organized on the Verde that will eclipse it.”
Eventually most of the mines flamed out, with just a few continuing to be steady producers, and the region became best known for its cattle. But mines like that of House and Rouse’s Golden Waif did have a strong impact and when visiting such sites, it’s easy to see why.
When I got back from the hike a friend asked me, “Is Jinx in as good of shape as he thinks he is?” My response? Oh yeah. Jinx had forgotten about our plans to hike and had worked out for an hour and a half before going on the hike — and if anything he had to slow down for me, not the other way around. I can only hope that I’m in that good of shape when I’m his age (65).
It’s worth mentioning that some of the old mine sites are dangerous. Most of the time old shafts are covered up, as was the case at the House Mine, but there may still be some uncovered. I wouldn’t get too adventuresome and also realize that there are still some active claims out there. Respect for others’ claims and property is important. For example, the old Excursion Mine is privately owned.
If you have any old photos or information or questions about old mines or other history in the area, e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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It's an opportunity to work with and have a positive impact on children.
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During the discovery process of researching how to effectively connect with youth about the topics of wildfire safety, prevention and mitigation; Firewise Program staff knew the target audience had to become a large piece of the project and they implemented the don’t do anything about me, without me, concept discussed in yesteryday's blog.
Connecting with middle and high school students through six wildfire community conversation workshops produced input that was consistent and forthright - and participants voiced what needed to be incorporated to make it impactful. Attendees adamantly stressed that wildfire safety messages need to be delivered by peers who'd been personally impacted by a wildfire; and if possible include an entire family to make the messages even stronger. They felt it's important to learn from real people that can make the topic relatable – not actors, celebrities, government officials or politicians. Firefighters were another acceptable delivery mechanism for wildfire messages; but they felt if a teacher was used in that role, they prefer it be one that was (you guessed it) also impacted by a wildfire. Who they want to hear from was loud and clear, but they also want the information to be realistic; not scary, but definitely honest and straightforward.
They believe human-to-human information sharing is much more effective than advertisements in any form. One group adamantly stressed that, “if you want us to pay attention – the messages need to get our attention!”
This demographic expects and demands information that's real without any sugar-coating. They want to know what's at stake and what they could lose. Pets and animals of all kinds are very important to them and they want to know how wildfire could impact them.
They might be entrenched in texting, email and Facebook, but the teens we talked with said their most common source of wildfire information is traditional media sources; and tied for the second most frequent source of information was parents and school, followed by the Internet.
School may have been cited as a common source for information; but the majority of participants said extremely limited information was shared with them at school before or after the fire in their communities; even though all the fires that impacted attendees occurred during months that school was in session.
The full report on our conversations with youth includes in-depth information on how they want to be reached and the topics they prioritize as important. In our next blog, we examine the results of a questionnaire distributed to teachers in four communities that recently experienced a wildfire.
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The amount of data versus information kept in the computer is a tradeoff. Data can be processed into different forms of information, but it takes time to sort and sum transactions. Up-to-date information can provide instant answers.
A common misconception is that software is also data. Software is executed, or run, by the computer. Data are "processed." Thus, software causes the computer to process data.
(2) Any form of information whether on paper or in electronic form. Data may refer to any electronic file no matter what the format: database data, text, images, audio and video. Everything read and written by the computer can be considered data except for instructions in a program that are executed (software).
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Concentration camps in Nazi Germany served a number of purposes. First, these camps were used to jail those who opposed Hitler’s government or were thought to threaten it. Second, knowledge of what life was like in a concentration camp was allowed to leak out – or came out when someone was released. The fear of ending up in such a camp was sufficient for a great many Germans to openly declare their loyalty to Hitler even if this was not the case. Therefore for the Nazi leaders, concentration camps served the dual purpose of controlling the majority of the population because of the fear they engendered and also locking away those who crossed the line- a line imposed by the Nazi government.
Hitler had no issues with the harshness of these institutions. Even before he became Chancellor in January 1933 he said to Hermann Rauschning:
“We must be ruthless. We must regain our clear conscience as to ruthlessness. Only thus shall we purge our people of their softness and sentimental philistinism, of their easy going nature and their degenerate blight in beer-swilling. We have no time for fine sentiments. I don’t want the concentration camps transferred into penitentiary institutions. Terror is the most effective instrument. I shall not permit myself to be robbed of it simply because a lot of stupid, bourgeois mollycoddlers choose to be offended by it.”
Officially concentration camps were to “reform” those who had expressed opposition to Hitler’s regime and to turn “anti-social members of society into useful members”. Hitler argued that the Weimar constitution made such camps legal but just in case this was not the case, a law was passed on February 28th 1933 that suspended the personal liberties of dissenters and allowed for them to be kept in “protective custody”.
The first concentration established in Nazi Germany was at Dachau. As the name of the camps suggest, these camps incarcerated a large number of people into a relatively small area – i.e. concentrated their numbers into a small space. Dachau served southern Germany. Very quickly concentration camps were also established at Buchenwald that served middle Germany, and Sachsenhausen that served northern Germany. Others were built at places such as Ravensbrück (for women), Mauthausen in Austria, Flossenberg and Bergen-Belsen.
Those arrested and put into “protective custody” included Jews, trade union leaders, Socialists, Communists, Roman Catholics and Protestants. In fact, anyone who deviated from Gleichshaltung could be included.
Before the start of World War Two, it is thought that 200,000 people had been sent to a concentration camp. Some were sentenced to a short term in the hope that they would have ‘learned their lesson’ by the time they were released. Others spent far longer in these camps. Those sent to a concentration camp frequently had no trial and consequently they had no right of appeal against the sentence. When World War Two broke out in September 1939 it is known that at that time there were 50,000 inmates in the camps. During the war, the number of inmates greatly increased.
Inmates were put into four groups: political opponents, members of “inferior races”, criminals and the “shiftless element”. Those classed as criminals found the group subdivided further into BV’s and SV’s. BV’s were criminals who had served several short stays in the camps and had been sentenced to another one. SV’s were in secure custody and were serving long term sentences. Homosexuals were classed as part of the “shiftless element” group and post-war research found that they were especially pick-out by guards for appalling treatment and their fatality rate in the camps was very high.
All concentration camp inmates had to wear a sign on their clothing that indicated what group they were from. The sign was worn on the left breast of the jacket and on the right trouser leg. Jews had to wear a yellow Star of David, homosexuals wore a pink triangle, political prisoners had to wear a red triangle while criminals wore a green triangle. Those in the camps who were deemed to be simple wore a jacket with ‘Blöd’ (Stupid) written on it. Those who the guards thought posed a threat with regards to escape had a jacket with a shooting target in red and white on the front and back of their jacket.
As the Allies advanced east and west in 1944 and 1945, camp guards did what they could to destroy any documentary evidence as to the crimes committed at these camps. However, they could not destroy all of the most obvious of evidence – the victims in the actual camps. When the Americans first entered and filmed the concentration camp at Dachau they were horrified at what they saw. The same occurred at Bergen-Belsen when the British relieved the camp. Concentration camp commandants and the guards who could be traced were punished after the war, as were the doctors at Dachau who had performed inhuman operations on camp inmates.
However, despite the arrival of the Allies, the suffering of those in the camps continued. The Allied authorities took the decision that the risk of disease spreading was so great that the inmates were confined to the camps. Food and other essential supplies were brought in but the authorities could not afford risking the spread of typhus or typhoid until that risk had passed. It was only then that a process started whereby those in the camps started their journey home.
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The inspirational force behind the founding of Tri Delta was Sarah Ida Shaw. Sarah was one of the best students in the class of 1889 at Boston University, and her academic excellence was recognized by Phi Beta Kappa. All three of the women's societies (sororities) on campus had invited her to join, but she declined their invitations due to her family responsibilities and active personal life, as well as a preconceived notion that secret societies were foolish. However, she came to realize that a fraternity could fill a great need for young women living away from home and their network of family and friends. This realization led her to start Tri Delta. Tri Delta owes to her the beauty of the Rituals and the knowledge that commitment to an ideal greater than ourselves can bring a new dimension into our lives.
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Florence Isabelle Stewart was the youngest child of a village doctor who was in his 80s when she entered Boston University. Because the family had little money, it was difficult for Flora to remain in school. During her first years she commuted from Medway with her high school friend, Nellie Pond. Flora was an excellent student and salutatorian of her high school class. Her intelligence was matched by her beauty. She served as Grand Secretary from 1889-1893, but was inactive in the Fraternity after this time.
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My very old Ungar 8800 soldering stand had a cracked ceramic iron holder from decades of use/misuse. So I went looking for Ungar on the www. They are no longer with us. But I found that they are now owned by Weller....
Yes, tubes are coming back. No, not the thermionic space bottles of my youth. These are a different kind of tube. Made of small bits of graphene. Carbon nanotubes. IBM reports on their progress in the area. And it is amazing.
The idea of using wind to create energy isn’t exactly new. The first examples can be traced back to 200 B.C. in Persia – a creation of Heron of Alexandria. That particular device simply harnessed the wind to power a machine, so a case could be made that the first real windmills were built a little bit later, in the 7th century in Sistan, modern day Iran.
The introduction of a smaller iPad was much expected by the wider tech community. Ovum sees this as a defensive move by Apple to stave off competition from cheaper and smaller tablets introduced by Amazon and Google. Apple faces a tough challenge with the iPad Mini.
Most drivers wouldn't feel comfortable just handing over control of their vehicle to, well, their vehicle, but a new system from Nissan may do just that. The Autonomous Emergency Steering System, as the name suggests, will take over steering in emergency situations in which a crash could be avoided when you remove human error from the equation.
Though video games are often blamed for instilling violent instincts in children, the Boston Children's Hospital has developed a game that is designed to do just the opposite. In a recent study published in Adolescent Psychiatry, the children's hospital described a game that they believe will be able to teach children with severe anger issues how to maintain an acceptable level of calm...
Gabriel of Gabotronics asked me to promote his kickstarter project as time was running out and he had not yet met his goal. Due to some technical difficulties I was unable to get to the project promotion until today. Sorry Gabriel. But Gabriel is not sorry.
Red-light cameras are a hot-button issue. One side calls them a necessary safety precaution, while the other questions their constitutionality. Not to mention, since the red-light camera are run by big business that occasionally gets paid by the ticket, it seems a little shady.
When you are a patient in a hospital, you tend to expect that the electronics are either top of the line or at least functioning correctly. You expect that the devices doctors implant in your body are reliable and safe. These seem like safe assumptions. Unfortunately, you could be mistaken.
X-Files fans, conspiracy theorists, and the tinfoil hat crowd were right all along! Sorta… In the 1950s, the US government really was building a flying saucer. But it didn’t involve little green men, human-alien hybrids, or David Duchovny; this isn’t what you’d call a "smoking gun."
As the weeks and months go by I am going to be doing a number of hands-on projects. OSH Park will be making boards for those projects available for those of you who want to build something. But it does no good to build something if you don't have power to power it.
There is a lot of junk in space. There’s American junk, Russian junk, Chinese junk, and corporate junk. There are satellite pieces and discarded rocket parts and metal bits. Basically, all the junk is just floating around clonking into other junk and causing general mayhem when they get a bit too close to the stuff that’s not junk.
One of the biggest challenges in immobile patients is bedsores. Because patients usually end up laying in a bed or sitting in a wheelchair, a lot of pressure is exerted on the skin and tissue over bony areas of the body like the heel, ankle, hips, or buttocks. That unrelenting pressure can often result in bedsores, a difficult- to- treat condition.
NASA has been known to make pretty large contributions to society. But they might have outdone themselves on this one. The agency is currently in the research and development phase for a powered armor suit that could one day allow paraplegics to walk. The suit, called X1, is a robotic exoskeleton designed to be worn over the body to assist in leg movements.
I was excited by a report at ECN saying that the world matched the hottest September temperature again this past September. Well that got me to thinking. CO2 is still rising and hot temperatures are only being matched? Doesn't the theory run - more CO2 makes the climate hotter? What happened?
According to Wired, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — the oft-delayed, oft-maligned, “backbone of America’s tactical aviation fleet” — is set to make its big-screen debut in the Superman reboot, Man of Steel. To be sure, this won’t be the first time the JSF has appeared onscreen. A computer-generated F-35 battled The Hulk in this summer’s blockbuster hit, The Avengers.
Graphene has been getting a lot of press lately touting it as the electronics material of the future. It is a strong single-layer material with high electron mobility. All good things for a semiconductor material.But single-layer graphene lacks something very important for a semiconductor material: a band gap.
The ASETNIOP keyboard is one of those things that may be great for future generations but will have a tough time integrating itself into the current workforce. The keyboard works on the premise that the traditional setup for typing is structurally inefficient, and you really only need 10 buttons to type
By this point, you’ve probably heard that Felix Baumgartner is planning to skydive from 120,000 feet above the earth. For the record, that’s about 23 miles from solid ground. The jump was originally supposed to happen on October 9, but because of 14 mph wind speeds—they needed speeds of less than 2 mph to jump safely
I went to a city wide art show this last weekend and ran into the most marvelous artists who does computer generated art that doesn't look like computer generated art - at least not the generic stuff you so often see. His name is Barry Reithmeier. He has a feel for the medium. He uses a tool called Bryce which is currently available for free.
Crunch. That’s the last sound you want to hear when you’re backing up your car. It is scary. It is alarming. It is NOT a good sound.It’s the reason dashboard cams were invented. Unfortunately, the embedded cameras only show a small portion of what’s behind the car, and accidents still happen.
I like to do projects. I like to do projects that involve soldering. These days that means surface mount. And therein lies a tale. I design my own boards and get them produced by OSH Park they do great work. I try to make the boards easy to solder. To see the little bits when I do do the soldering I use a pair of Foster Grants with 3.25 magnification...
Gabtronicis has updated their micro e-scopes. You may recall I did an article on them a while back. They also have a Kickstarter project to raise money to do more interesting things. Gabriel (the "Gab" of Gabtronics) likes Atmel XMEGA microcontrollers. Daishinku Corporation (KDS) has been very helpful to me with some projects I'm working on...
People simply don’t think of electric cars as long-distance vehicles. It’s a car to run down the street and grab some groceries, make the 15 miles commute to work or—like one of my friends—if you live in Hawaii and can’t really drive that far. It’s not an option most people think about for a regular car.
Here’s a rundown of the most read, most popular, most awesome articles for September. They all come with a witty, engaging summary just in case you missed them the first time or want to check up on an old favorite. Keep checking out the Lead and follow us on twitter @ecnmagazine for our most up-to-date articles.
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Ithaca (WSYR-TV) -- More than one million bats have dropped dead over the last five years due to a mysterious illness called white-nose syndrome and finally, scientists say they know why. It turns out, a long suspected fungus is to blame. Scientists now hope they’ll be able to help save the bats from extinction.
Thousands of bats in New York have already been killed due to white-nose syndrome.
“It causes severe infections and actually can create holes in the wing membrane itself," Paul Curtis with Cornell University said. "So, it really is a destructive skin fungus and probably very irritating to the bat.”
Curtis and other scientists at Cornell University have been researching white-nose syndrome since it was first discovered in Albany back in 2006.
“The spread has been just absolutely phenomenal. Now it exists more than 1,200 miles from the source in just a period of four years,” Curtis said.
Pinpointing the cause now means scientists have a better chance at containing the fungus. If left unchecked, species like the little brown bat could become extinct within the decade. And what many may not realize is that we rely on bats to eat bugs that destroy our crops.
“A very large colony may consume hundreds of thousands of insects in a night,” Curtis said.
Bats also eat mosquitoes, which breed heavily in wet, wooded areas. The West Nile Virus and EEE season in Central New York was particularly active this past summer, including one human death from EEE.
But Curtis says the problem will be particularly hard to get a hold of since it affects bats when they’re hibernating. Time is ticking though. Some colonies in New York have already been nearly wiped out.
White-nose syndrome is moving south and west. It has now spread to 16 states, but the northeast is by far the hardest hit. The USGS says declines in this region far exceed 80 percent.
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From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
CALEDON, a market and post-town, in the parish of AUGHALOO, barony of DUNGANNON, county of TYRONE, and province of ULSTER, 7 miles (W.) from Armagh, and 70 miles (N. N. W.) from Dublin; containing 1079 inhabitants. This town, which was formerly named Kennard, as it is still frequently called by old people, although its manor, markets, and fairs, are all known by the modern name of Caledon, appears to have been more anciently called Aghaloo, it being the head of the parish of that name, and the site of its venerable church, which was destroyed in the insurrection of 1641. It appears to have been an important military post from a very early period, having been the property and principal residence of one of the princely sept of O'Nial. The first direct mention of it is in 1498, when the Lord-Deputy Kildare marched against Mac Art O'Nial, and having defeated and driven him from his strong hold in Kennard, presented the fortress and territory to the British ally, Tirlagh O'Nial, whose descendants seem never to have been found in arms against England, until Sir Phelim O'Nial headed the insurgents in 1641; for, in the settlement under James I., Tirlagh O'Nial had a grant of Kennard, with 4000 acres.
Tirlagh built here a bawn of lime and stone, some time prior to 1619, near which he erected a castle. This was afterwards the residence of Sir Phelim, from which he sallied on the evening of the 22nd of October, 1641, having invited himself to supper with Lord Caulfield, at Charlemont. While at the supper table he made Lord Caulfield a prisoner, and having separated his lordship's family and the garrison, carried them prisoners to Kennard, in the castle of which he put his lordship to death. Sir Phelim, who had been educated as a Protestant in England, soon found himself at the head of 30, 000 men, and waged a sanguinary warfare against the English. The whole of the county of Tyrone remained in the possession of the insurgents till 1646, when General Munroe, at the head of 6000 foot and 800 horse, marched against the Irish under Owen Roe O'Nial. Having passed through Armagh, Munroe, on the 6th of June, crossed the Blackwater at the ford near Kennard, and fought the battle of Benburb, or, as it is here called, Batterford Bridge, in which he was defeated and many British officers and men were slain.
This town, which is situated on the river Blackwater, and on the road from Armagh to Omagh, was, before 1816, a mean village, but is now, through the exertions of the Earl of Caledon, one of the best built towns in the North of Ireland: it contains 226 houses, nearly all of which are built of stone. The neighbourhood presents gentle swells and fertile vales, producing abundant crops. Close to the town are extensive flour-mills, erected by Lord Caledon in 1823, where above 9000 tons of wheat are ground annually, all of which is grown in the vicinity, where scarcely an acre of wheat was sown at the beginning of the century. The Ulster canal, now in the course of formation, passes through the Earl of Caledon's demesne, a little to the westward of the town. The market is on Saturday, and is well attended; and a fair is held on the second Saturday in every month. A constabulary police force has been stationed here; and there are barracks for the militia. A court for the recovery of debts under 40s. is held in the market-house, on the first Monday in each month, for the manor of Caledon, which extends into the parishes of Aughaloo and Clonfeacle, in the county of Tyrone, and of Tynan, in that of Armagh; and petty sessions are held in the town once a fortnight.
There are several large and elegant houses in the neighbourhood, the principal of which is Caledon Hill, the seat of the Earl of Caledon, which stands in a richly ornamented demesne of 650 Irish acres, extending beyond the Blackwater into the county of Armagh. Not far distant are Tynan Abbey, the residence of Sir James Stronge, Bart.; Glasslough, of Mrs. Wynne Leslie; Crilley, of R. Pettigrew, Esq.: Rahaghy, of N. Mayne, Esq.; Annagh, of C. Richardson, Esq.; Drummond, of H. Moore, Esq.; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. E. A. Stopford; besides several large and good houses in the town.
The living was made a perpetual curacy in 1807, and 20 acres were then added to the old glebe, which consisted only of 6 ½ acres: it is in the diocese of Armagh, and patronage of the Archdeacon. The income is £100 per annum, arising from a salary of £50 paid by the archdeacon; £15, the estimated value of 26 ½ acres of glebe land; and £35. 2., paid by the trustees of Primate Boulter's augmentation fund. The present church occupies the site of the ancient building, and is the parish church of Aughaloo: it was erected by Primate Robinson, in 1767, during the incumbency of the Rev. C. W. Congreave; the spire was built by the present Lord Caledon, by means of a bequest by his late father; and the church was enlarged and otherwise improved by his lordship. It is a large and handsome edifice, in the later English style of architecture, comprising a nave, chancel, and south transept, and for repairing it the Ecclesiastical Commissioners recently granted £175. 8. 11.
There are a R. C. chapel and a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parochial school is situated near the church: it was built in 1776 by Mr. Congreave, and is endowed with 3 acres of land and 3 tenements given by Primate Robinson, and also with £8 per annum by Lord Caledon. Schools at Ramakit, Curlough, Dyan, and Minterburn, are principally supported by Lord Caledon; there are national schools at Rahaghy and Mullinahorn; and near the demesne is a female school built and supported by the Countess of Caledon, in which 40 girls are clothed and educated. Here is a dispensary; and a mendicity association was established in 1829, to which Lord Caledon subscribes £100 per annum. Among the charitable bequests is £100 left by Alex. Pringle, Esq., and vested in the funds, in the name of Lord Caledon; the interest, with that of several smaller sums, is applied to the relief of the poor. Two extensive lakes existed here formerly, one on the north and the other on the south side of the town, with an island in the centre of each; that on the south has been drained and brought into cultivation; the north lake remains, and the island in it, which borders on the glebe is beautifully planted.
Almost the last vestiges of the ancient castle of the O'Nials were removed a few years since, and a clump of trees planted to mark the entrance into the courtyard: some of the flooring of the castle was subsequently discovered, about four feet beneath the surface of the ground, in forming the new road to Aughnacloy. Some old swords and other military instruments have been found in the neighbourhood, and are preserved at Caledon Hill. Caledon gives the titles of Baron, Viscount, and Earl to the family of Alexander, in which the proprietorship of the town is vested.—See AUGHALOO.
From a sad, comfortless childhood Giles Truelove developed into a reclusive and uncommunicative man whose sole passion was books. For so long they were the only meaning to his existence. But when fate eventually intervened to have the outside world intrude upon his life, he began to discover emotions that he never knew he had.
A story for the genuine booklover, penned by an Irish bookseller under the pseudonym of Ralph St. John Featherstonehaugh.
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….FRANCITA ALAVEZ….”THE ANGEL OF GOLIAD”.
“Francita (some say Francisca), Alavez came from Compano Bay, TX, to Goliad with Col. Telesforo Alavez. History is not sure if he was her husband, but he was a colonel in the Mexican Army. They were living in Goliad at the time of the Goliad Massacre. She is credited with persuading the officer in charge of the fortress not to execute the men, who had been brought from Copano to Goliad. In addition, it is believed that Francita entered the fort the evening before the massacre and brought out several men and hid them, thereby saving their lives.
Francita and Colonel Alavez proceeded to Victoria, where she continued to aid the Texians held prisoner at Goliad by sending them messages and provisions. When the Mexicans retreated from Texas after Santa Anna's defeat at San Jacinto, Francita followed Colonel Alavez to Matamoros, where she aided the Texans held prisoner there. From that town, she was taken by Alavez to Mexico City and there abandoned. She returned to Matamoros penniless, but was befriended by Texans who had heard of her humanitarian acts on behalf of Texans captured by the Mexican army.
Dr. Joseph Barnard and Dr. John Shackelford, two of the Goliad prisoners spared by the Mexicans, later testified to Francita's saintly behavior, thus causing her deeds to be more widely known. She came to be called the Angel of Goliad and gained recognition as a heroine of the Texas Revolution.”
“Ignacio Seguin Zaragoza was born March 24, 1829 in Goliad, Texas across the street, so to speak, from the Presidio La Bahia. Ignacio's father was an officer at the Presidio La Bahia when Ignacio was born. The Family lived in a dwelling that was provided for the officers.( This site has been reconstructed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and is now a State Historical site.) He studied for the priesthood in Monterrey, Mexico but left his studies to become involved in the Civil War that ravaged Mexico.
On May 5, 1862, General Zaragoza and his command of 4,000 men defeated 8,000 men of Napoleon's III's army at Puebla, Mexico. This defeat was a great morale booster for the liberal Mexican army in the civil war that engulfed Mexico. Zaragoza died from typhus contracted from visiting his ill soldiers September 8, 1862. He was 33 years old at the time of his death. He was buried in the Liberal Mexican Army Cemetery in Mexico City. His body was transferred from Mexico City to the City of Puebla on May 5, 1962.
Cinco de Mayo (the 5th of May) is celebrated in honor of the victory at Puebla May 5, 1862. It is a national holiday in Mexico, and is celebrated in many south Texas towns and cities, including Goliad, his birthplace. “..Left photo is his birthplace, rebuilt.
I found it interesting that they moved his body back to the Mexican town he saved..very neat, in my opinion. Even back in Sandwich, IL…far away from Puebla, MX, our restaurants celebrate Cinco de Mayo…and the local Mexican Restaurant, the Sante Fe, REALLY gets into it!! Of course, McGyver and I have never partaken in the celebratory event…yeah, right.
I mentioned that we have some colorful new neighbors here at Goliad State Park. We got to meet them yesterday, when they were outside sitting on the picnic table …..fluffing and adjusting their colorful “garb”..
I now present to you our new neighbors, Hank, age 37…and Jasper,(a girl) age 13…..
Yep …We got ourselves “the Macaws” living across the street. As you may guess, I am a little distressed at being upstaged by these two guys…Their outfits FAR outshine my humble colors…If this is to be a competition, I am going to have to “ramp up” my repertoire of ensembles to a more eye popping blend of hues!!! All I know is the bird’s names and ages…Why do I NOT know more?, you ask….I sent McGyver with the camera to get their photos because I was in my socks…Never send a man to do a very nosy woman’s photography…NAMES AND AGES?? THAT’S ALL I GET??? ARE THEY UNDER SEVERE INTERROGATION?? Den did encounter their owner, but never inquired as to WHY she is has such “bird brained” traveling companions….
…Trust me…If I get the chance I will find out the complete history of Hank and Jasper….FYI, when these birds squawk, the whole campground hears them…!!!!
So, yesterday was sunny for a change and I got to spend some time reading in the sunshine..That’s ONE day of sunshine and SEVEN days of gloom and /or rain, because today is the both gloomy AND rainy!!…I need to cozy up to those Sun Gods just a little bit closer!! Thanks to those who are tolerating my zest for history. I understand that not EVERYONE has such interests, but if you did read this far you were rewarded by meeting Hank and Jasper, eh?? See ya again in a few days with more about these two potential Easter Bonnets..JUST KIDDING!!!
“IF YOU’RE QUIET, YOU’RE NOT LIVING. YOU’VE GOT TO BE LOUD, AND BOISTEROUS AND COLORFUL!
~ Mel Brooks
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(CNN) -- A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.
A washing machine was part of a July 4 parade float made by a group seeking changes at West Bend's library.
The battle has stirred much of West Bend, a city of roughly 30,000 people about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Residents have sparred for months on blogs, airwaves and at meetings, including one where a man told the city's library director he should be tarred and feathered.
The row even spread to this year's Fourth of July parade, which included a float featuring a washing machine and a sign that read "keep our library clean."
"If you told me we would be going through a book challenge of this nature, I'd think, 'Never in a million years,' " said Michael Tyree, director of the West Bend Community Memorial Library.
The strife began in February when West Bend couple Jim and Ginny Maziarka objected to some of the content in the city library's young-adult section. They later petitioned the library board to move any sexually explicit books -- the definition of which would be debated -- from the young-adult section to the adult section and to label them as sexually explicit.
Ginny Maziarka, 49, said the books in the section of the library aimed at children aged 12 to 18 included homosexual and heterosexual content she thought was inappropriate for youths.
She and her husband also asked the library to obtain books about homosexuality that affirmed heterosexuality, such as titles written by "ex-gays," Maziarka said.
"All the books in the young-adult zone that deal with homosexuality are gay-affirming. That's not balance," she said.
The library did not agree with the Maziarkas' suggestions, and the couple appealed to the library board. Ginny Maziarka, a mother of four, began blogging about the issue and the local newspaper picked up the dispute, sparking the opposition.
Maria Hanrahan, also a West Bend mom, set up a rival blog to argue the other side.
"I'm against any other party telling me what's appropriate for my child and what isn't," said Hanrahan, 40, who also created a West Bend Parents for Free Speech group. "We don't mean to say these are appropriate for everyone, but we don't feel they should be set apart from other materials or restricted from the young-adult section."
By this time, many more people had become caught up in the issue, which was generating heat. When Hanrahan appeared on a local radio, callers attacked her views, she said.
"People were being very passionate on both sides of the issue. I think it divided the community a little bit," she said.
With the debate raging, the city council voted in April against renewing the terms of four library board members, in part because council members thought the board was dragging its feet, library director Tyree said.
The Maziarkas were still fighting to have books moved, having identified 82 questionable titles -- more than double their original list. Then they stopped targeting a list of books and circulated a petition that asked the board to label and move to the adult section any "youth-targeted pornographic books" -- including books that describe sex acts in a way unsuitable for minors. The books could still be checked out freely by anyone.
"We're not talking about educational material. We're talking raunchy sex acts," Maziarka said.
One book she objects to is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," in which a fictional teenage boy tells about his freshman year in high school, including rape and homosexual and heterosexual sex between teens.
Tyree said book excerpts found on Maziarka's blog had been taken out of context and, in the case of "Wallflower," the criticism missed some of the book's points.
"In this book, there were consequences of ... rape, of indiscriminate sex. Those were not portrayed so glowingly," he said.
By the time the library board met on June 2, each side had collected more than 1,000 signatures backing their position. Dozens of residents spoke at the meeting before the board -- still including the outgoing members -- unanimously voted to keep all policies the same.
The demand to move the books was always going to be problematic because no authority has determined that any of the titles are pornographic or obscene, Tyree said.
Book challenges aren't new. More than 500 were reported in the United States in 2008, mostly in schools and public libraries, Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the American Library Association said.
But this one was attracting extra attention. Caldwell-Stone, who monitored the dispute, said moving any young-adult book to the adult section would have been a form of censorship, even if teens were free to check them out.
"The whole intent was shelving books not on the basis of age or reading ability, but because they disapprove of the content with the intent of restricting access. That's a burden on First Amendment rights," Caldwell-Stone said.
Outside West Bend, the fight caught the attention of Robert Braun, who, with three other Milwaukee-area men, filed a claim against West Bend calling for one of the library's books to be publicly burned, along with financial damages.
The four plaintiffs -- who describe themselves as "elderly" in their complaint --- claim their "mental and emotional well-being was damaged by [the] book at the library."
The claim, unconnected to the Maziarkas, says the book "Baby Be-bop" -- a fictional piece about a homosexual teenager -- is "explicitly vulgar, racial and anti-Christian."
Braun, who says he is president of a Milwaukee group called the Christian Civil Liberties Union, said he singled out the book because it "goes way over the line" with offensive language and descriptions of sex acts.
The call for burning the book showed his passion, Braun, 74, said. "I don't sit on the fence when I do these things. When I make a decision to speak up on something, I go for it."
The ALA will help the library oppose the claim if it goes forward, Caldwell-Stone said, adding she felt that was unlikely because "it has very little basis in law."
Back in West Bend, the Maziarkas and their supporters are gearing up for another go at the library, in part because the board now has its four new members. They do not want books burned, but they do want action.
"We want parents to decide whether they want their children to have access to these books ... and we want the library's help in identifying [them through labeling and moving]," Maziarka said. "It's just common sense."
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Volume 42, Issue 9 - September 2007
|the Farnady Files
The Bermuda Triangle
Lost in the Geometry of Business
by Dez Farnady
A recent article in this worthy publication reminded me of the infamous triangle between Bermuda and the Florida coast where things often disappear without a trace. No one ever knows what exactly happens; things just vanish. At first glance, it looks like a lot of innocent empty ocean. Only when you are in the middle do you realize that you will have a hard time figuring out where you really are, and by then it may be too late. But there is really no mystery. It is just a tough place to do business with lots of traffic passing through stormy waters.
Cutting Out the Middleman
I can understand that the customer wants to save money by buying direct and that all the manufacturer wants is to get the sale. But, the glazier in the middle not only loses the material mark-up when he is told to install only, but he also loses control of the product. Of course, being in the middle in more ways than one, he will end up being expected to deal with both the manufacturer’s and the customer’s problems. Hey, there is a reason why the man in the middle makes money when he assumes the responsibility.
The small-scale version of this often happens because everybody wants to “buy direct.” They smell the better deal. When the one-time buyer/homeowner is sent to a supply house or fabricator like you and me, the first thing he tells us is that the contractor sent him. Oh, and, by the way, he would like the contractor’s discount because the contractor told him he could get it. Then, if you are dumb enough to agree to sell it to him at all, he will tell you that his contractor will take care of all the particulars. He gives you his name, address and generally what he thinks he wants so you can write up part of an order, but then forgets to tell you who the contractor is.
A week later someone calls and wants to know if his order is ready. You ask him who he is and he tells you his name is ABC Construction. You say, “That’s nice, but we don’t have an order for ABC Construction.” So, now we go through the ritual of finding out who his customer was and if in fact anything was even ordered. OK, it was the Joneses. Oh, of course. Didn’t the Joneses tell us that ABC would pick up the material? Well, not quite. They said that their contractor would give us the information and then they would pay for it and then the contractor—I suppose that’s you—would pick it up. “Well, then,” the contractor says, “What did they decide to get?” And we say, “Don’t you know?” And then he finally gives us what he thinks are the specifics and thinks he has an order placed, but he says that he better wait because he wants to check with the homeowner just to be sure.
All right, I have had enough of this.
“Who is paying for this?”
“Well,” the contractor says, “the homeowner is.”
“Good,” I say, “because you can tell him to come back here and he can tell me what he wants and he can pay for it, pick it up and I don’t care who puts it in—him, his mother, his Uncle Charlie or even you. And you can do your business with him, which, by the way, is none of mine. Or you can tell me what you want, pick it up, pay for it and I don’t care about what your customer wants. That’s between you and him because there are only two parties to this deal, not three. I will only deal with one person—that’s the one who is paying the bill.”
the author: Dez Farnady serves as the general manger of Royalite Manufacturing Inc., a skylight manufacturer in San Carlos, Calif. His column appears monthly. Mr. Farnady’s opinions are solely his own and not necessarily those of this magazine.
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FAMILY ORIGINS: VALLENDAR, GERMANY|
The Klufft family, also spelled Kluft, Klofft, and Kloft, originated in the town of Vallendar, Germany in what was then considered Prussia. Vallendar is located near Koblenz, the third largest city in The Palatinate, southeast of Cologne.
Vallendar (also spelled Wallendar) is located in the district Mayen Koblenz and the settlement area of the city spreads on the right bank of the Middle Rhine opposite the inhabited island Lower Rhine Werth (Niederwerth). The city is situated to the west of where the Westerwald (mountain range) meets the right bank of the Rhine. The city is located 5.7 km north of Koblenz and 12.3 km south of Neuwied in Neuwied Basin, a part of the Middle Rhine basin. In 1910 the population of the city was 4,462. The current population is 8,763.
The first record of Vallendar is in 830 CE. It was historically said to be owned by the archbishops of Trier, but may also be of Celtic origin, and thus much older (700 - 600 BCE). In 1232, the Count of Sayn built a castle on the north side of Vallendar. Today, the Marienburg stands where the castle was built.
The modern town hall stands where the original town hall stood, from 1294 to 1789. The ceramics industry (with porcelain factory) and the finishing of leather (and, thus, arts and crafts) were prime industries in the town. The town has had a tannery, a facility where tanning processes were applied to hides to produce leather, dating back to the 17th century.
In 1802 the city was under the principality of Nassau-Weilburg, but in 1815 it became the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1813, the Wars of Liberation began in Germany, following the destruction of Napoleon's army in Russia. After the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany was liberated from French rule. The Confederation of the Rhine was dissolved. During the Wars of Liberation, Vallendar is a constant passage and quartering station for ally troops. Many inhabitants died of typhoid fever.
The Congress of Vienna assigned Koblenz to Prussia, and in 1822 it was made the seat of government for the Prussian Rhine Province. The Rhine Province (German: Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreuben), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1822-1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and J'Cleves-Berg. In 1946, the Rhine Province was divided into the newly-founded states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
Today the town features a beautiful university and a health resort. Its grace chapel is known throughout the world, particularly in South America.
Johann and Maria Catharina Klufft lived in Vallender and had three children, Anna Maria, Elverinus, and Peter Joseph.
The baptismal sponsors of Anna Maria were A. Muller and Theodor Hisgen. Baptismal sponsors of her siblings included Elverinus Bender, Elisabetha Monreal, Peter Josef Bartel and A.M. (Anna Maria) Noll.
Ludwig Franz Frank married Anna Maria Kluft on November 28, 1804 in Vallendar.
Ludwig and Anna had seven children, including great-great-great-grandfather and immigrant ancestor Theodore Frank.
Photos of the Frank family are available OnLine.
The surname Kluft is Old High German and is either a rift, gap, or fissure or a levee (embankment to prevent flooding).
Surnames of those in my direct ancestral line appear in BOLD.
1 Johann Klufft b: unknown d: Feb. 26, 1804 in Vallendar, Germany
..+ Maria Catharina (unknown)
........ 2 Maria Anna Klufft b: May 19, 1778 in Vallendar, Germany d: unknown
............+ Ludwig Franz Frank b: 1774 in Vallendar, Germany d: Nov. 30, 1855 in Vallendar, Germany
............ [click here for additional information on this family line.]
........ 2 Elverinus Klufft b: May 19, 1780 in Vallendar, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d: unknown
........ 2 Peter Josef Klufft b: Dec. 21, 1782 in Vallendar, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d: unknown
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In 2002, fewer than 200,000 people in Afghanistan had access to telephones. Today, some 15 million Afghans use mobile phones and a full 85% of the population lives within the combined network coverage of the four major telcos. This technological leap connects Afghans to each other and to the economy in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. And the mobile phone now opens up a world of possibilities for finding solutions to some of the challenges that Afghans face every day. One important use that is quickly becoming a reality in Afghanistan is the creation of a nationwide mobile financial services sector – using mobile phones to transfer money safely and instantly, reducing the need for cash and giving millions of Afghans who may never see the inside of a bank the ability to use their handsets to conduct basic financial transactions. The possible applications for mobile money in Afghanistan are limited only by our imaginations.
Today I had the honor of announcing three USAID innovation grants, totaling just over $2M, to develop applications in this field and begin to create a mobile banking system that could include all Afghans.
At the grant kick-off event, the Afghan Education Minister highlighted the urgent need for mobile payments in Afghanistan by telling us about his staff member who was killed just three weeks ago while transporting cash in a remote province in northern Afghanistan in order to pay a teacher. He expressed his frustration that thousands of his teachers, who are so critical to Afghanistan’s future, often wait months to get their salaries due to the difficulties of transporting cash in the country. I am delighted that USAID is able to help seed a partnership between the Afghan Education Ministry and the mobile operator MTN to begin paying teachers in ten provinces over the mobile platform, thus ensuring they get paid in time and in time, and more importantly, that no Ministry employee loses his life for a duffle bag of cash. And if successful, we expect much of the Afghan civil service to eventually benefit from a mobile payments system that will help the government develop its own capacity as our troops transition home.
The second grant links up telco Etisalat with the new Afghan electricity utility. To my mind, this partnership to design mobile phone-based billing and payment systems for electricity service represents the true art of development by using creative, commercially viable systems to help the Afghan utility collect real revenue. At the end of the day, delivering electricity to all Afghans will require a revenue model that will sustain operations, motivate more public and private investment, and expand Afghanistan’s energy grid so that fewer communities live in the dark. This novel concept applies to any kind of service. In Kenya, some rural communities are sustaining water systems thanks to a mobile phone-based payment system. The concept is simple: consumers use a phone-based app to pay for the water they need, enabling the maintenance required to actually keep the system up and running. Although mobile payments are a simple concept, the possibilities they offer are revolutionary for truly under-served communities.
The third grant funds a partnership between Afghanistan’s mobile money trailblazer, Roshan, and a micro finance consortium whose clients are predominantly women. The concept is to further extend the reach of credit into areas otherwise inaccessible or simply too costly to reach. Running loan extensions and repayments over mobile phones significantly reduces the need for loan officers and clients to travel. This cost savings can be passed on to the customers, making credit more affordable. In culturally conservative Afghanistan, our hope is that this innovation will better serve women who might otherwise not be able to participate in loan programs.
Finally, today we kicked off a contest USAID is co-sponsoring with the Afghan Mobile Money Operators Association to tap the minds of creative young Afghans. University students are being asked to submit ideas for mobile money applications they believe will make a difference in the life of Afghans. Designers of the eight most interesting proposals will receive cash awards and, more importantly, the mobile operators will implement and market the winning apps. We hope this contest will not only drive uptake among a key early adopter demographic, but will also unleash the creativity of young Afghans who have so readily adopted cell phone technology.
With 3G looming just over the horizon (the Afghan Government issued the first tender earlier this month), it is clear that Afghans will increasingly use mobile phones and other modern technologies to build a healthier, better educated and more prosperous society. The days of land-lines or coal-fired development are rapidly being replaced with these new innovations, and I am proud that USAID is able to help unleash Afghan innovation to lead the way.
PS – Check out this video on Afghanistan’s emerging mobile money sector.
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NAACP leaders will be in Geneva, Switzerland next week to get support for ending voter suppression in the USA. The group intends to lobby the United Nations there and to examine violations of minority voting rights in America at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
NAACP President, Ben Jealous will travel with the group who will bring to light the recent Republican led voting laws in fourteen states, the he claims will lead to voter suppression of minorities.
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“Now, like then, the principal concern is voting rights,” Jealous continued. “In the past year, more states have passed more laws, pushing more voters out of the ballot box, than at any point since the rise of Jim Crow. We have seen at least 5 million voters have their votes blocked by specific states like South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Wisconsin and so forth during the past 12 months. These include strict voter-ID bills, so-called registration-ID bills, bans on formerly incarcerated people voting and a range of other mechanisms that diminish access to the polls among minority populations.”
“The U.N. is the world’s forum for both promoting and defending democracy,” Jealous said. “In these hyper-partisan times in the U.S., we believe it is important for them to weigh in on what is happening here in our democracy. Our democracy is precious, not just to the citizens of this country but to the world.”
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Manage Up with AgileEVM
As teams start to use Agile methods for delivering software, it is common for the business to ask for a summary of progress. This is not always easy to do for Agile teams. Teams may have an Agile project management tool, hand-drawn burn up charts, task boards on the wall with other information radiators or spreadsheets where the information about delivery thus far is kept. Teams might even duplicate data in multiple tools so that they are able to generate information for management without inhibiting the team’s progress by making them update more than 1 tool.
AgileEVM allows teams to take the outcomes of their iterations as evidence of delivery and then generates progress reports for the release. The most commonly used report element is the Release Forecast Chart as seen below. It has similar characteristics to a Release Burnup Chart but adds a risk window as Dave Thomas had described in his keynote at Agile 2010. Rather than only showing progress towards a target based on units of work and iterations, the Release Forecast Chart also shows forecasts based on optimistic, pessimistic, and when under volatile conditions. These provide a more holistic picture of the current release progress along with an understanding of the potential risk to plans.
The 5 data points that a teams needs for each iteration are:
- Points committed to at beginning of iteration
- Points delivered in the iteration
- Scope change in the release (either positive or negative)
- Did the team meet their Definition of Done
- Actual cost of iteration (i.e. # of team members * cost per hour * # of hours in iteration)
Most of this information is already part of an Agile team’s iteration data. The addition of actual cost can usually be pulled from your finance department or wherever time tracking against the project is maintained.
Upcoming posts on AgileEVM will describe:
- How an estimated Release Baseline can be developed using simple techniques with your team
- Adding your Definition of Done in AgileEVM
- Managing impediments across your AgileEVM portfolios
- What indicators and advice AgileEVM provides to users in the progress summary
- and Understanding what “under volatile conditions” may mean to your release progress and response to the information
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The vocabulary section of the Graduate Records Examination® (GRE®) can be fairly intimidating for many testers, but there are some ways in which you can improve your GRE® vocabulary. In general, to improve your vocabulary you should try to read a great deal of different types of materials, including books, newspapers, and magazines. You should try to find material that is challenging for you, such as professional news outlets that are prestigious and written in a vernacular similar to what you might find on the GRE®. There are also a number of books and Internet websites that can help you improve your GRE® vocabulary through lists of words and practice questions.
GRE® vocabulary typically refers to the language and vocabulary section of the GRE®, as well as those words commonly found in this section. While a comprehensive list of these words and the associations between them cannot be provided, since the GRE® tests are kept secret to protect its validity, there are some ways in which you can improve your overall GRE® vocabulary. Many of these methods are ways in which you can improve your vocabulary in general, and you should begin working on these methods months, or even years, before you take the GRE®.
One of the best ways to learn new words and develop your GRE® vocabulary is to read a great deal of different materials. This means you should read both “deep” and “wide.” Deep reading usually indicates works that are difficult in nature and cover ideas and use language that can require more attention and work on your part to read effectively. You should be sure to keep a dictionary near you and look up words as needed to better understand this type of writing and develop a stronger vocabulary.
Wide reading, on the other hand, refers to reading a variety of different types of works on many different subjects. You should read magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and literature to help develop a stronger GRE® vocabulary. This can take a great deal of time, however, which is why it is often best to begin working on this during your first or second year in undergraduate school.
You can also build and enhance your GRE® vocabulary by studying lists of words specifically taken from previous GRE® exams or often seen on the GRE®. There are many books and websites that provide these word lists, and you can use these to study words and have a better sense of what to expect on the test. These resources commonly have practice tests as well, which you can use to improve your GRE® vocabulary and see how these words are often used on the actual test.
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Neanderthal hunters were redlining near the maximum sustainable risk per calorie, Gregory Cochran suggests:
If the average member of the species incurs too much risk, more than that sustainable maximum, the species goes extinct. The Neanderthals must have come closer to that red line than anatomically modern humans in Africa, judging from their beat-up skeletons, which resemble those of rodeo riders. They were almost entirely carnivorous, judging from isotopic studies, and that helps us understand all those fractures: they apparently had limited access to edible plants, which entail far lower risks. Tubers and berries seldom break your ribs.
In Africa, most calories probably came from plant foods back in the Middle Stone Age, as they do in African hunter-gatherers today, and that fits too: early African hunters seem to have mainly gone after relatively safe prey like eland, avoiding really dangerous animals like cape buffalo. This is not to say that they did not hunt, or that hunting was unimportant, but they had alternatives.
Risk per calorie was particularly high among the Neanderthals because they seem to have had no way of storing meat – they had no drying racks or storage pits in frozen ground like those used by their successors. Think of it this way: storage allow more complete usage of a large carcass such as a bison, that might weigh over a thousand pounds – it wouldn’t be easy to eat all of that before it went bad. Higher utilization – using all of the buffalo – drops the risk per calorie.
You might think that they could have chased rabbits or whatever, but that is relatively unrewarding. It works a lot better if you can use nets or snares, but no evidence of such devices has been found among the Neanderthals.
It looks as if the Neanderthals had health insurance: surely someone else fed them while they were recovering from being hurt. You see the same pattern, to a degree, in lions, and it probably existed in sabertooths as well, since they often exhibit significant healed injuries.
By the way, why were mammoths rapidly wiped out in the Americas while elephants survived in Africa and south Asia?
First, North American mammoths had no evolved behavioral defenses against man, while Old World elephants had had time to acquire such adaptations. That may have made hunting old world elephants far more dangerous, and therefore less attractive.
Second, there are areas in Africa that are almost uninhabitable, due to the tsetse fly. They may have acted as natural game preserves, and there are no equivalents in the Americas.
Third, the Babel effect: in the early days, paleoIndians likely had not yet split into different ethnic groups with different languages: with less fighting among the early Indians, animals would not have had relatively border regions acting as refugia. Also, with fewer human-caused casualties, paleoindians could have taken more risks in hunting.
Dave Chamberlain adds a story about elephant-hunting:
I read a story of a herd of african elephants that were such a nuisance to the local farmers that hunters were employed to kill them. The elephants quickly changed their habits before all of them could be shot. They hid in the dense jungle during the day and came out to feed at night. The hunters became the hunted, several of them going into the jungle where the elephants were hiding were trampled. The hunters quit and the diminished elephant herd still exists, and — wouldn’t you know it? — they haven’t forgotten; they still have a reputation as some of the meanest and most dangerous elephants in Africa. African animals had a million years to adapt to the slowly increasing hunting skills of man.
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Physicists To Be Honored at November Unit Meetings
Five physicists will be honored for their work in plasma physics and fluid dynamics in November. The 1999 James Clerk Maxwell Prize, Excellence in Plasma Physics Award, and Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Plasma Physics Award will be presented during the annual fall meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics in Seattle, WA. The 1999 Fluid Dynamics Prize and Otto Laporte Award will be presented during the annual fall meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in New Orleans, LA.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL PRIZE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS
Established in 1975 and supported by Maxwell Technologies, Inc., the Maxwell Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics.
John Bryan Taylor
Citation: "For ground breaking research, distinguished by its ingenuity and clarity, in such topics as: relaxation theory, transport, finite Larmor radius effects, the minimum-B concept, adiabatic invariance, the standard map, bootstrap currents, the ballooning representation, and confinement scaling laws."
Taylor received his PhD (1955) from Birmingham University. He joined the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment Aldermaston and in 1962 moved to Culham Laboratory, where he became chief physicist. In 1989 he was appointed Fondren Professor of Plasma Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Perhaps his most celebrated contribution is the introduction of plasma relaxation theory, which combines plasma turbulence and magnetic helicity to predict, from first principles, many features of plasma behavior. He is a recipient of the 1986 APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics.
EXCELLENCE IN PLASMA PHYSICS RESEARCH AWARD
Established in 1981 by donations from friends of the Division of Plasma Physics, this award recognizes a particular recent outstanding achievement in plasma physics research.
Raymond A. Fonck
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: "For his implementation, development, and exploitation of Beam Emission Spectroscopy for measuring fluctuations and their relations to anomalous transport in hot, fusion-relevant plasmas."
Fonck earned his PhD in 1978 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is currently a professor of engineering physics. He is an experimental physicist with research interests in plasma and fusion science, atomic processes in high-temperature plasmas, and diagnostic instrumentation. He has developed a variety of diagnostic techniques for measuring the particle and energy content and the stability of very-high-temperature plasmas.
OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL THESIS IN PLASMA PHYSICS AWARD
Established in 1985 and endowed by General Atomics, this award recognizes young scientists whose doctoral thesis work is of outstanding quality and achievement in the area of plasma physics.
Thomas R. Clarke
University of Maryland
Citation: "For his comprehensive elucidation of the hydrodynamics and the optical mode structure of the plasma waveguide."
Thomas R. Clark, Jr. received his PhD in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1998. In 1998 he joined the Optical Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC as a research physicist. His current research interests are in the development of low noise ultrafast fiber laser systems, photonic analog-digital conversion, high-speed photonic devices, and noise characterization of photonic systems. Dr. Clark is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society.
FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE
Established in 1979 and supported by the AIP journal Physics of Fluids, the prize recognizes and encourages outstanding achievements in fluid dynamics research.
Daniel D. Joseph
University of Minnesota
Citation: "In recognition of the broad range of his contributions to the stability and bifurcation of fluid flows, rheological fluid mechanics, and fluid mechanics of problems involving solid-liquid boundaries."
Joseph earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1963 and promptly joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, where he is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics. His current research interests include the aerodynamic breakup of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in high-speed flows, foam control using a fluidized bed, and cavitation and the state of stress in a flowing liquid.
OTTO LAPORTE AWARD
The LaPorte Award was established in 1985 to recognize important advances in fluid dynamics.
Case Western Reserve University
Citation: "For lasting contributions and leadership to the understanding of transition to turbulence in high-speed flows and non-homogenous flows."
Following completion of his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Cooper Union in New York City, Reshotko worked at NASA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory and spent a summer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena before earning his PhD in aeronautics and physics from CalTech in 1960. He then rejoined the staff of the Lewis Research Center until 1964, when he joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve UniversityHe is presently vice chair of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.
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Joe Webb is an artist who takes a low-fi approach - opting to work without the aid of computers.
After several years working as a graphic designer he took to making hand made collages, carefully reinventing imagery to convey his ideas. Ironically, Webb’s artwork has become popular on the internet, with tens of thousands of people sharing his images.
Earlier this year Webb had his original artwork displayed at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery, London.
Webb has now produced limited edition prints based on his original collages, which incorporate exciting multi-media printing techniques such as Diamond Dusting and Silver Leaf.
"I started making these simple hand made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage...using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo.
My collages work to a basic rule of sourcing just two or three images... I then present them as a reinvented single image to communicate a new message or idea.
I suppose I'm fairly anti technology although I now promote my art on websites, own an iPhone and use Facebook... I wish I had been born 100 years ago".
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For New Yorkers, shopping online means less travel time and, on occasion, lower costs. It also means more trash to put out at the curbside. Because most online retailers rely on major private carriers such as UPS and FedEx to deliver their goods, this holiday season saw not only a sharp rise in local deliveries but a similar rise in the amount of paper, cardboard and plastic pushed into the city waste stream.
According to the Department of Sanitation, New Yorkers left more than 8,300 tons of cardboard and mixed paper at the curbside in the first full collection week after the Christmas holiday, a 21 percent jump over the same period last year.
This year’s post-holiday numbers were inflated somewhat. Sanitation spokesman Matthew Lipani notes that an awkward alignment of Monday holidays that forced many residents to hold onto their recyclables an extra week. Still, immediate pre-Christmas tonnage -- 7,258 tons this year vs. 6,033 tons last year -- showed a 20 percent increase in paper recyclables and paralleled a national 25 percent surge in holiday online sales according to the Internet research firm comScore.
Positive Or Negative Effect?
Such numbers indicate a cultural sea change not only in how New Yorkers are shopping but also in how much trash and recyclables the city will have to process in the years to come. Given the lack of studies on the overall online shopping “life cycle” -- the total net effect on the environment once products have made their way from raw material all the way to consumer’s wastebasket -- environmentalists, for the moment, see only a collection of positives and negatives adding up to a giant question mark.
“There is no guarantee that the Internet’s net environmental impact will be positive,” writes Nevin Cohen, a professor of environmental science at The New School. “For decades, technology watchers predicted that the personal computer would result in the â€paperless office,’ but U.S. shipments of office paper actually jumped 33 percent between 1986 and 1997. E-commerce could have similarly negative effects.”
Boost To Recycling
From a short-term perspective, the cultural shift away from brick and mortar retail seems to offer a net boost to the city’s recycling program. Of the city’s two major recycling contracts, the cardboard and mixed paper contract with Visy Paper is the one that actually pays the city for what it recycles (in pdf format), roughly $7 a ton according to the city’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse & Recyling.
Because the Department of Sanitation also tends to divide per-route costs by the number of tons collected, extra cardboard at the curb in December and January means a better bottom line for the overall recycling program over the long term.
More Pollution, More Trash (Like Styrofoam)
Balancing out such benefits, however, are several concerns. Cohen notes that the biggest benefit associated with online retail is the reduced number of vehicle miles as shoppers take fewer trips to the local mall or department store. As December’s transit strike demonstrated, however, many New Yorkers rely on mass transit (not cars) to do their Christmas shopping. “In New York, there might not be an environmental savings,” says Cohen. “In fact, the net might even be negative once you figure in the additional vehicle miles needed to deliver packages.”
A second concern is the amount of new, non-recyclable or hard-to- recycle materials that come with products ordered online. Many retailers and shippers, in order to protect their goods, load up on plastic cushioning materials such as foam rubber, bubble wrap, and expanded polystyrene -- a material many know by the Dow Chemical trade name Styrofoam. So far, the city does not collect these materials nor does it have many private company suitors begging to take these materials off the city’s hands.
The reason, says Betsy Steiner, executive director for the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers, boils down to the materials’ very nature. Bulky, light and easy to produce in virgin form, foam and bubble wrap are a tough fit for a recycling industry that makes its profit on a per-ton basis.
“Basically, you’re collecting and shipping air,” Steiner says. “So for a program to work, it has to be localized and in very, very large quantities to be economically viable.”
Shipping air is cheap, of course, but not as convenient as simply dropping things off at the curb. Steiner says her organization gladly accepts mailed packages that include the molded foam packaging used to shield iPods and other modern electronic products. Those looking to recycle foam peanuts, a product her organization doesn’t accept, can visit the nearest UPS Store or visit the Plastic Loose Fill Council’s “Find a Collection Center” , enter a zip code and get the address of the closest business that collects loose fill foam.
Making The Manufacturers And Retailers Responsible
The day when New Yorkers can simply leave such materials in the blue can at the curbside is still a long way off, however. In the meantime, organizations such as INFORM, a Wall Street-based non- profit firm organization promoting “strategies for a better environment” advocates a European-style system that shifts the responsibility for the waste processing of worn-out products and packaging away from municipalities and consumers and back onto the producers themselves.
“It’s kind of like a welfare system that we’ve generated for manufacturers here in the U.S.,” says Lloyd Hicks, director of INFORM’s solid waste prevention program.
Hicks holds up Germany as the most obvious counterexample. In 1991, the government mandated that manufacturers and distributors take back all transport packaging, including expanded foam and blister wrap. Manufacturers that don’t wish to process such materials can opt out via the Green Dot program, a non-profit program which finances packaging material recycling. To gain membership in the program, companies pay a scaled fee depending on the amount of material recycled. Once in, they earn the right to put the Green Dot logo on their packages, making their products more desirable to distributors who might otherwise bear the recycling responsibility.
“They’ve found a way to deliver the same products with less packaging,” says Hicks. “That’s one reason we believe there should be a way to provide a similar system in the U.S.”
Learning From NetFlix
The Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyler’s Steiner says her organization doesn’t endorse producer responsibility legislation. She says the real issue isn’t who pays for recycling so much as who is willing to buy the recycled materials once they’ve been processed.
“I think on the surface it looks like, oh, it’s getting paid for, but the bottom line is they’re still encountering problems on the end use market,” Steiner says. “That’s been the problem with plastics recycling globally. The raw material is so cheap you just get into the chicken or the egg thing.”
Cohen, the environmental science professor, shares Steiner’s sentiment somewhat. Like Steiner, he sees the Green Dot program as a top down solution to a bottom up problem -- i.e. individual consumers shifting their shopping patterns as a way to minimize both stress and seasonal costs. Unlike Steiner, however, he sees a chance to phase out polystyrene and phase in packaging technologies that deliver, at worst, a net neutral effect on the environment.
“The long term goal should be to develop two-way packaging that eliminates the waste,” Cohen says, pointing to NetFlix, a movie rental company which ships its DVDs in reusable envelopes, as a pioneering example. “It would be great if Amazon.com and other companies developed a similar method for shipping their products.”Â
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As the board of Dow Jones met today to mull over a $5bn (£2.5bn) takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch, there were signs of a backlash in political circles at the prospect of the Australian billionaire controlling America's leading business journal.
Mr Murdoch's $60-a-share bid for the Wall Street Journal's parent company is part of a strategy by the News Corporation chief to gain a franchise in financial news of the kind he previously built in covering sports.
He faces an uphill struggle - Dow Jones' controlling Bancroft family has rejected Mr Murdoch's approach and political analysts warned that Democrats in Congress were likely to make the chances of success as difficult as possible.
Morris Reid, a leading Democratic party strategist who served in the Clinton administration, said the majority party in Congress was likely to do everything it can to slow a potential deal - including holding hearings on Capital Hill, putting pressure on regulators for an investigation and shopping around friendly billionaires for a rival purchaser.
"The Wall Street Journal is the economic journal of record in the United States," said Mr Reid. "When you have someone like Rupert Murdoch, who has a track record of right-wing conservative journalism, I'm not sure that's in the Democrats' best interests."
Dow Jones' share price slipped 1.3% to $55.47 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange as the likelihood of a quick deal receded. The company's directors met advisers on Wednesday from the investment bank Goldman Sachs, while it emerged that the Bancroft family has retained Merrill Lynch.
The Bancrofts, a disparate clan of some 35 people, control 65% of Dow Jones shares and have announced that they will vote just over 50% of the company's stock against the offer. Relatives, however, are far from unanimous - the Murdoch-owned New York Post reported that there were "at least 10 known dissidents" within the family who were keen to sell.
A publicity-shy family, the Bancrofts inherited control of Dow Jones on the death of Barron's magazine founder Clarence Walker Barron in 1928. They meet once a year for a Bancroft Family Forum to which all relatives over the age of 18 are invited.
A 2003 investigation by the New Yorker described them as, among other professions, "writers, investment bankers, equestrians and philanthropists".
News Corp's offer has put the strength of the family's commitment to Dow Jones under strain. Younger descendants are known to be impatient with the company's waning share price and there has been tension over the way dividends are distributed among relatives. Two cousins - Elisabeth Goth and William Cox - broke rank in the late 1990s to press for changes in management and for the sale of a data provider, Dow Jones Markets.
John Morton, a Maryland-based newspaper analyst, said: "Ever since they've been in control of Dow Jones, they've been resolute in their determination to keep the Journal independent - but as with most newspaper families, that devotion can be diluted somewhat as the years go by."
The winner of 33 Pulitzer Prizes, the Journal would give News Corp business content to filter throughout its news empire - stretching from Star television in Asia to BSkyB in Britain and a soon-to-launch Fox Business channel in the US.
In a distinguished history, Dow Jones claims to have been the first news service to report the September 11 attacks - it had offices near the World Trade Centre which had to be rapidly evacuated.
The company's flagship title has had a tough decade - Mr Morton said the collapse of the hi-tech boom in 2000 wiped out a large slice of the Journal's advertising and a recession which followed in 2001 hit financial advertising badly. However, he added: "This is one of the grandest brands in journalism. It has a value that may not be reflected in its financial performance."
There were rumblings of discontent from minority shareholders at the speed with which the Bancrofts had shown the door to Mr Murdoch's offer which was widely seen to be a generous one, at a 65% premium over Dow Jones' share price.
Porter Bibb, managing partner at MediaTech Capital Partners, said Dow Jones' board had a fiduciary duty to look at the offer and to explore the possibility of alternative bids: "My guess is there will be a new owner within the next few months."
Private equity firms are thought unlikely to match News Corp's price but billionaires looking for a "vanity purchase" are considered more of an option. Sam Zell, Eli Broad, Ron Burkle and Jack Welch are among a crop of wealthy, seasoned American businessmen to have expressed interests in newspapers over recent months.
Irrespective of the Bancroft family's reluctance to sell, rival newspapers wasted little time in imagining what a Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal could look like.
Playing on Mr Murdoch's reputation for racy tabloids, the New York Daily News mocked up a front page with the Journal's traditional tightly-packed column of financial round-ups squeezed alongside a scantily dressed picture of the singer Beyoncé Knowles. The notional headline screamed: "How Beyoncé manages her assets!"
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Seven Surefire Ways to Fight Bed Bugs
(CBS) Bedbugs are back and badder than ever.
Although the nasty bloodsucking pests were largely eradicated through the use of DDT in the 1940's - they are beginning to rear their ugly heads again and are infesting people's workplaces, hotels and homes.
From sightings in fancy five-star hotels to movie theatres to clothing stores - seemingly no place is safe.
Worse, since bedbugs like to hitchhike, if you visit a place with bedbugs you might wind up bringing them home.
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Many tourists in the nation’s capital have stumbled into the historical Sidney R. Yates Federal Building which houses the Forest Service national headquarters by mistake — they were looking for the Holocaust Museum or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which is just down the street. But once inside the Forest Service facility, visitors from all over the world are surprised by the warm welcome they receive and the information available on the importance of forests and wildlife habitats.
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Have astronomers found chemical precursor to life?
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In the hunt for these molecules, Remijan and colleagues scanned a star-forming region of the Milky Way called L1157-B1 using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA).
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PARTY NOMINATES REP. FERRARO;MONDALE, IN ACCEPTANCE, VOWS FAIR POLICIES AND DEFICIT CUT
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First, I'd like to point out that I've added a feature to the site. It's a collection of links to the best training articles and presentations, as well as relevant research related to running. Dr. Richard Hansen has helped with the collection and I hope that you will too. The site allows anyone to add relavent links, rank the articles, and comment on any of them. The goal is to build a collection of relavent articles in one place that allows for easy access and an ability to search for what you're looking for. So, feel free to join in and help us out! The link is:
One of the biggest fears coaches have is high lactate work or high intesnity interval training. If done too much or too early this generally leads to early peaking and a dramatic drop in performance as time passes. At every level of the sport, there is a fear of doing interval work too early. Arthur Lydiard was one of the first to put forth this idea.
While the idea that too hard too early does lead to a premature peak is correct, the idea has grown to mean that any interval training or intense training done early causes this premature peak. That's simply not the case. There are two problems with this idea that have developed over the years
1. Interval training does NOT equal high lactate work/high intensity/high acidosis.
2. We've ignored the idea of specificity of the high lactate/intensity work.
Interval training does NOT equal Anaerobic training
For many reasons, any interval training done has been associated with anaerobic training, to use lydiard like times. It's assumed that you do longer runs, steady runs, threshold runs to improve aerobically and then you start doing intervals to improve "anaerobically" or "VO2max" or basically "high intensity fatigue resistance."
There is a problem with this line of thinking. It's not true! We've associated interval training with anaerobic training so much that we've forgotten that the way the intervals are modulated is what matters. It does not matter whether you call something a tempo run, an interval workout, or a fartlek. What matters is what the run/workout is actually accomplishing, and what is going on physiologically. By manipulating the length of the intervals, the intensity, and the rest periods you can make an interval workout that accomplishes anything from pure speed to pure endurance.
So it is not whether you are doing interval training or not that causes you to peak early or cease progression at the end of the season, it is how those intervals are done. You can do intervals year round and be fine, it's all about how it is manipulated.
Misunderstanding the Igloi method:
Mihaly Igloi was a coach who had enormous success as a distance coach in the 50's-70's, including Olympic 5k champ Bob Schul and mile WR holder Lazlo Tabori. Some of his coaching protege's include the coaches of the Santa Monica Track Club. Despite the success of the training system both in the past with Igloi and by athletes whose times would still compete today (think Johnny Gray, Khadevis Robinson, David Mack- i.e. a bunch of 1:42-3 800m runners), little is known about the system and there are a lot of misconceptions about it. For a system that produced some of the best milers in the world (Tabori, Beatty, etc.) in the 60's, produced several 1:43 or better 800m runners in the 80's-90's, and has worked on some of our best athletes in present day (Khadevis Robinson) it seems worthwhile to investigate.
The Igloi system of training is misunderstood because it was portrayed as the complete opposite of the Lydiard approach. Lydiard was simplified to all aerobic long running, while Igloi was simplified as the all interval approach. Because Lydiard's approach gained so much popularity and people started to make the connection of intervals=anaerobic conditioning, the Igloi method got seen as a high intensity "anaerobic" training system.
The key to the Igloi method of training is not in looking at intervals vs. distance, it's looking at what the actual workouts accomplished. As mentioned above, people make the connection of intervals=anaerobic. Igloi's system however was not like the HS systems you here about where they run 400's in 65 all year long. Igloi manipulated the intervals to create both aerobic and anaerobic adaptations.
The basis of the system is running by feel and progression. The system is based on running at different levels of effort (easy, fresh, good, fast good, hard, very hard). The athletes run each rep/run at given effort levels. By doing this, the emphasis is on running by feel and this creates a built in natural progression as the athlete develops. This means at the beginning of the season 200m good speed might be 30 for some athlete, but by the end it's 26-7.
In addition to the various effort levels, there are also two different ways of running (or as he called them, swings). Basically, the belief is that altering how you ran would slightly change the muscle fibers used, thus delaying fatigue. It is a very interesting idea that has not recieved any attention. Think of it like switching gears in biking. The two basic ways to run were a short swing and a long swing. These basically amount to a style with a shorter stride with quick turnover and a longer stride with reduced turnover. The idea was to be able to change from one style to another within runs, races, and workouts.
There are many variations in how the intervals are done, but typically modern Igloi users have gone to a system that uses interval training and easy/steady running. In Igloi's day there was a more heavy emphasis on interval training, with most of it being shorter intervals. The reason for the use of short intervals is partly due to the idea that it minimizes lactate build up at similar speeds. Run 100m repeats seperated by 50m jogs at 800m pace and you'll produce much less lactate than if you did 200 or even 300m repeats at that pace, and it would take longer to clear that lactate. In addition, the longer intervals were thought to take too much out of athletes, and thus used sparingly.
If you look at what Igloi's training actually accomplished instead of getting infatuated with the fact that it is interval training, you can see that early on his intervals are no different than aerobic training or threshold type work. You can do 100m repeats at moderate paces with short rest and have it be a similar stimulus to running a 5mi threshold run. Sometimes people get caught up in the volume of interval training they were doing at times, but the key is it wasn't that different from similar mileage levels for other athletes. Yes, the stress of running intervals on a grass loop or track is intesne mentally, but from a purely physiological standpoint doing 6mi worth of 100-400m repeats at fresh to good intensities was very similar to do a 6mi progression/threshold run. One thing to remember is that Igloi's athletes weren't low mileage runners.
One other thing to take into account is the vast modulation in the workouts themselves. Instead of doing most of the repeats at similar paces like in most modern training programs, the speed of the reps varied greatly throughout the workout. The workouts themselves seem to have different phases within them so that there will be hard, moderate, and easy parts of an entire workout. For example, instead of doing 10x400 at 60 like in a traditional program, the Igloi method might include 3x400 (fresh, good, good), 3x400 (good, good, fast good), 4x150m w/ 50m jog at fresh speed, then repeat some more 400's at various efforts.
Instead of taking a long break between sets, the 4x150m functions in that way. It's an interesting way to enhance recovery while still getting some work in and keeping the Heart Rate up. The 150's are easy and would serve to enhance lactate clearance. This method of an "active break" is an interesting one that needs some consideration.
Let's look at some example workouts:
Early workout for 800m:
6x150m good speed w/ 50m walk, 2x(5x200 good speed) w/ 100m jog b/t reps, 400m b/t sets, 1 lap jog, 6x150m (2 fresh, 1 good) w/ 50m walk
A late season example for 800m runner:
4x200m (good speed, 25-26) w/ 100m jog, 1 lap easy, 2x300m (35) w/ 400m jog, 2-3 laps easy, 3x200m (1 fresh, 1 good, 1 hard) w/ 100m jog, 2-3 laps easy, 10x100m easy
The best way to think of Igloi's system is in terms of swimming. Swimmers train both aerobically and anaerobically, yet they do it all through interval training. This is essentially what Igloi did. The genious of Igloi's system and what you should take away from it is he created a type of training that allowed for athletes to run at or near specific paces, using specific biomechanics, while keeping the internal stress low enough that he could build up massive volume of this type of work.
The downfall to Igloi's system was the fact that they did a lot of work on the track and in spikes. Mentally this could be very tough and stressful mechanically on the body. It seems like a better way to do it would be to incorporate some of the ideas of the shorter intervals in a type of natural fartlek system.
A modern take on the Igloi system of short intervals with short recoveries can be seen in the Kenyan's use of diaganols.
Looking at it Physiologically:
What does this massive amount of interval training potentially do (that could take several hours to complete the whole workout)?
-The variation in pace/effort intersperced with period of 1-3 lap jogs is likely to recruit a lot of different muscle fibers.
-It's likely that it enhances the endurance/fatigue resistance of FT fibers because of the large volume, and the mixing of paces with longer easy recoveries.
-The Heart Rate is kept elevated for a prolonged time and likely varies between 140-180-90bpm a lot. Because of the short nature of the intervals and short recoveries it's likely that you don't go up to max even on faster work and then you don't go down a whole lot during the recovery.
-One has to wonder about time spent at VO2max? No long traditional VO2max intervals leads me to believe that once again, VO2max as a system to stress is not important.
-Lactate levels are likely lower then comparable volumes of work in traditional training because of the short intervals. This likelyt results in training to use lactate as a fuel.
What intervals should you do?
What's the takeaway message?
It matters how you manipulate the training, not what someone calls or classifies it.
Remember, that just because it is interval training does not mean it's hard training. Since the focus is on early season interval training, here's what I recommend.
Aerobic Development that is more specific:
One way that I like to use interval training early is a way to get in aerobic development that is more specific in pace. This means that you get good aerobic development in similar fibers that are going to be used in the race, using similar biomechanics. In particular, this works well for middle distance runners (especially 800m runners) and FT orientated athletes.
What you do is use very short repeats at faster paces with a good volume of work during the set, but long breaks between sets to bring everything back down. Doing it this way, you can get in running as fast as 800-1mile pace with lactate levels similar to those seen during a steady threshold run.
An example for an 800m runner(racing 1:52, 14sec per 100m):
3x10x100m at 16 w/ 20-25sec b/t reps, 6min b/t sets
3x 400m of 60m at 800m pace, 40m easy w/ 6min rest b/t sets
2x5x150m at 15sec pace w/ 50m jog in 30sec b/t reps, 5-6min b/t sets
For a 5k runner:
-Easy run w/ 30sec pickups in the middle
-9mi easy w/ 8x45sec at 10k down to 5k pace with 2:15 east after
-8x200 at 3k pace w/ 200m easy
-8x100, 8x200 w/ 100s at 1500 pace and 20sec rest, 200s at 5k down to 3k pace w/ 200m easy
Another good way to use early interval training is to use it as a foundation for specific endurance. Essentially the goal is to include short interval training at goal race pace. This early work sets a foundation on which to develop specific endurance. So start off with very short intervals at specific pace and increase the distance of the reps, increase the volume of the workout and/or manipulate the rest between.
For an 800m runner, a specific endurance progression might look like this:
sets of 8x100m w/ 45sec rest at date 800m pace
sets of 8x100m w/ 35sec rest at goal 800m pace
sets of 4x200m w/ 40sec rest at 800m pace
sets of 300,500m
sets of 400,400
sets of 500/300
For a 5k runner, you might start with 200m repeats at goal pace (12x200 at 5k w/ 200m jog), and progress to sets of 400s (4x4x400m at 5k pace w/ 45sec rest, 4min b/t sets) and progress onwards.
Muscle Fiber recruitment:
In addition, using short intervals in the middle or at the end of a long run is a good way to stimulate the recruitment of muscle fibers when fatigued. Including 4x30sec, 4x45sec of moderate pickup in the closing miles of a long run would accomplish this goal.
Intervals for recovery/lactate use:
Another use for short aerobic intervals is to teach lactate use as fuel and enhance recovery. As most of you know, lactate is not some horrible substance that causes fatigue. Lactate can be used as an energy source through the lactate shuttle. One goal of training is to teach your body how to use lactate as a fuel at higher intensities. The best way to do this is through alternation work, but another option is by using aerobic interval work in the middle of a more intense interval session.
Besides promoting lactate use/clearance, it also aids in recovery. If you see a runner struggling during an intense workout and you still want him to get more volume of training in, a good way is to insert a couple of short aerobic intervals. The short aerobic intervals keep the athlete getting some work in, which helps him mentally, and aids in recovery.
An example of this would be if during 6x800m at 5k down to 3k pace the athlete is struggling hard after 4, insert 3x200m at 10k-LT w/ easy 200m. Then give him 2min rest and finish with the last 2x800.
Use relaxed 100s, 150s, 200s, 300s, etc. at 3k to threshold type paces in the middle of workouts, or in between sets, such as 2x5x400 at mile pace w/ 60sec recovery. After set, 2min rest, 4x150m at 10k w/ 150m easy, then start the next set of 400's.
Some great sources for Igloi training info are below:
Next, we'll look at non-specific lactate work.
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This tutorial will help you to create and maintain a BOINC project with Debian. We are still (8/2011) moving paragraphs back and forth, but by following these instructions you will have a working project. How exactly this page will evolve depends on you all who you read this. We do not aim at substituting the BOINC mailing lists or the BOINC wiki, but rather attempt giving a red line to follow through it all.
The BOINC source tree comes with a BOINC server. That server however does not serve by itself but installs the skeleton for the real server. Consequently, the Debian package is named boinc-server-maker, allowing for the creation of an arbitrary number of truly serving BOINC servers for every machine.
In the following, please distinguish
- the folder to which the files of the BOINC server templates install ('/usr/share/boinc-server')
- the name of the Debian package providing those files ('boinc-server-maker')
- the location of your very own project ('you/name/it')
A BOINC project may harbor multiple applications. And those applications come in multiple versions. What version of what application goes together with what data is described in the work units.
The preparation from the Debian sources is not too different from a preparation from the original source tree. Debian should just shorten the process to a first success. The first version of these instructions sometimes presents side-by-side the "original BOINC textbook" instructions and the Debian way of achieving the same. This renders these instructions as generic and as educational as possible. Violations to that principle please report to us.
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Technology and Health 2.0
Thursday, Oct 20, 2011
Start Time: Pacific - Noon, Mountain - 1:00 PM, Central - 2:00 PM, Eastern - 3:00 PM
Presenter: : Kelli Ham
- Chat: pdf [34kb]
In the past several years, two major phenomena have dramatically changed the way people find and share information: mobile devices and social media. It is no secret that patrons are using smart phones and mobile devices for much more than making phone calls. For health information, these devices have become pocket medical encyclopedias, fitness coaches, nutrition calculators, medication reminders, and much more.
Studies report that people are increasingly sharing personal health information on the Internet. Librarians are hard-wired to look for authoritative resources; but can user-contributed health information be trusted? With thousands of health-related apps and sites available, how is it possible to sort the good from the bad?
This webinar will focus on:
- the use of mobile devices and social networking for finding and sharing health information
- the implication of using these devices for library staff
- the benefits and issues around health-related social networking sites
- examples of well-designed, safe sites
- quality health apps and mobile sites, evaluation tips, and resources to point
At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:
- Be aware of the landscape of mobile devices and understand the differences between apps and mobile sites
- Be able to evaluate and guide patrons to quality health-related content for mobile devices
- Be familiar with the benefits and caveats of social networking for health information
- Be able to incorporate knowledge of technology and electronic resources into services for patrons
This webinar will be of interest to public library staff, including reference librarians or reference desk staff, adult and teen services librarians, and staff from organizations who provide health information to consumers and members of the public.
Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No passwords are required.
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The Holidays are about giving, sharing, and spreading joy, which is why I’m honored to be part of the “12 Days of Giving!”
Sometimes things aren’t all smiles and happiness, though. As a survivor of domestic violence myself, I’ve had a few rough holidays in the past. So have many others. In fact, according to the CDC, 1 of every 4 women and 1 in 9 men in the United States are victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives.
Luckily, there’s a way to make it easier for a woman (or man) to take the first step to shattering the chains of abuse, by talking with someone about the situation… someone with the knowledge and ability to help.
That’s why I choose the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), 1-800-787-3224 (TTY). Hotline advocates are available for victims and anyone calling on their behalf to provide crisis intervention, safety planning, information and referrals to agencies in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Assistance is available in English and Spanish with access to more than 170 languages through interpreter services.
Domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion or gender. It can happen to couples who are married, living together or who are dating. Domestic violence affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels.
Here are four helpful resources to learn more, help yourself, or help a loved one or friend. And please give if you can.
If you are a victim/survivor of domestic violence, the important thing to remember is this: It’s not your fault. The abuser very intentionally, methodically, and usually gradually, grinds down your self-worth, isolates you from friends, family, and favorite activities, and increasingly adds verbal abuse, threats and escalating physical violence. Their favorite weapons are secrecy and control. It makes it very tough to have enough courage to break free.
The first step to breaking the chains is telling someone.
The good news is, as in my case, sometimes talking to someone at a hotline like National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), where they know much more about the process abusers use – the secrecy, control, manipulation, threats, isolation, and violence – makes it much easier. You recognize that you are not at fault. You realize this is actually, sadly, very common – and you aren’t alone. You realize people will understand. You see that it will only get worse if nothing is done. You get help with the process of safely leaving, taking legal action like getting a restraining order, and other things that are not knowledge anyone has until they need it.
74% of Americans know someone affected by domestic violence. And since you just read this article, now you definitely do too. I was able to come out of the dark and break the chains with help. Can you please help another hurting person do the same? Thank you.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline can help: 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) or NDVH.org.
Learn more by following @12DaysGiving and the hashtag #12DaysOfGiving on Twitter.
And I’d love to connect with you on Twitter @CharityIdeas!
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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama urged Libyans to continue pressing for democracy in remarks Tuesday at the United Nations, portraying the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi as a success story in the making, but underscoring perils ahead.
"Your task may be new, the journey ahead may be fraught with difficulty," Obama said in remarks aimed "directly to the people" of Libya. "But everything you need to build the future you seek already beats in the heart of your nation... To the Libyan people — this is your chance. And today the world is saying, in one unmistakable voice — we will stand with you as you seize this moment of promise, as you reach for the freedom, the dignity and the opportunity you deserve."
Obama's remarks come as Libya's National Transitional Council has failed to name a new cabinet, and Obama pressed for progress after a private meeting with Libyan Transitional National Council Chairman, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, whom Obama said was committed to a peaceful transition.
"We all know what is needed," Obama said. "A transition that is timely. New laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law. Political parties and a strong civil society. And, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections."
Rebels have seized suspected Gadhafi loyalists and Obama warned against seeking violent retribution for the ousted leader's brutal rule, saying "as Libyans rightly seek justice for past crimes, let it be done in a spirit of reconciliation, not reprisals and violence."
He called for a rejection of violent extremism, "which offers nothing but death and destruction."
Jalil, who spoke just before Obama, said the council would "work toward a spirit of forgiveness" and pledged support for democracy and human rights.
"Libya reassures everyone that it will be a vibrant state that upholds peace and security in the region," he said through an interpreter to applause.
Obama acknowledged that the battle isnt yet over — "even as we speak, remnants of the old regime continue to fight," he said. "Difficult days are still ahead. But one thing is clear — the future of Libya is now in the hands of its people.
"None of this will be easy," Obama said. "After decades of iron rule by one man, it will take time to build the institutions needed for a democratic Libya. I'm sure there will be days of frustration; when progress is slow; when some begin to wish for the old order and its illusion of stability.
"And some in the world may ask — can Libya succeed?," he said. "But if we have learned anything these many months, it is this — do not underestimate the aspirations and will of the Libyan people."
Obama announced that the U.S. ambassador would be returning to the Libyan capital of Tripoli and that the American flag that was lowered before the U.S. embassy was attacked will go back up this week, over the American embassy.
And he pledged that the U.S. would work with the new U.N. Support Mission in Libya "to assist the Libyan people in the hard work ahead.
He said the NATO-led security mission would continue and urged Gadafi loyalists to give up.
"Those still holding out must understand — the old regime is over, and it is time to lay down your arms and join the new Libya," he said.
He added that the U.S. will help the U.N. in humanitarian efforts to help Libyans recover from "the ravages of war."
The president celebrated Libya as a foreign policy success for the U.S., saying the international community has not always called it right, but "this time was different. This time, we found the courage and the collective will to act."
But he said the credit for the liberation of Libya belongs to Libyans, who, after "four decades of darkness," are now "writing a new chapter in the life of their nation.
"It was Libyan men, women — and children —who took to the streets in peaceful protest, faced down the tanks and endured the snipers' bullets," he said. "It was Libyan fighters, often outgunned and outnumbered, who fought pitched battles, town by town, block by block. It was Libyan activists — in the underground, in chat rooms and mosques — who kept a revolution alive, even after some in the world gave up hope."
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One hundred thousand people are
Many more Christians are
Meanwhile, here in the “Christian” West, Christians are
Forced to violate their faith under penalty of law.
That is the message Vatican spokesman Msgr Silvano Maria Tomasi brought to the United Nations earlier this week. Msgr Tomasi expressed the Holy See’s “deep concern for violations of religious freedom and systematic attacks on Christian communities” in some part of the world. At the same time, he pointed out that “in some Western countries … a trend emerges that tends to marginalize Christianity in public life, ignore historic and social contributions and even restrict the ability of faith communities to carry out social charitable services.”
I think it is important to note that Msgr Tomasi was not merely protesting the violent persecution or the marginalization of Catholics. He was speaking out for the civil and human rights of all Christians, everywhere.
People who attack Christianity often try to divide us. For instance, several of the commenters on a recent post I wrote concerning a Christian basher and the Pentagon, tried to say that this Christian bashing wasn’t aimed at Catholics, but Evangelicals. The point, I presume, being that if someone attacks those “other” Christians, the rest of us should either join in with the attackers or at the very least turn our backs on the attacked.
I like Msgr Tomasi’s approach. It is the one I take on this blog. If you cut any Christian, anywhere, we all bleed. Because we are One Blood, and One Body, and that is the living body and blood of Christ in the world. Any persecuted Christian is my brother or sister.
Let me say that again: Any persecuted Christian is my brother or sister.
From Vatican Radio:
Vatican to UN: 100 thousand Christians killed for the faith each year
2013-05-28 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See has expressed “deep concern” for violations of religious freedom and systematic attacks on Christian communities in regions of the world such as Africa, Asia and the Middle East. This was pointed out by Msgr. Silvano Maria Tomasi, who spoke Monday at the United Nations in Geneva.
“More than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year. Other Christians and other believers are subjected to forced displacement, to the destruction of their places of worship, to rape and to the abduction of their leaders -as it recently happened in the case of Bishops Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji, in Aleppo (Syria).
Several of these acts have been perpetrated in parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the fruit of bigotry, intolerance, terrorism and some exclusionary laws. In addition, in some Western countries where historically the Christian presence has been an integral part of society, a trend emerges that tends to marginalize Christianity in public life, ignore historic and social contributions and even restrict the ability of faith communities to carry out social charitable services.
“It may be useful that the Delegation of the Holy See should recall some pertinent data on the current services to the human family carried out in the world by the Catholic Church without any distinction of religion or race. In the field of education, it runs 70,544 kindergartens with 6,478,627 pupils; 92,847 primary schools with 31,151,170 pupils; 43,591 secondary schools with 17,793,559 pupils. The Church also educates 2,304,171 high school pupils, and 3,338,455 university students. The Church’s worldwide charity and healthcare centres include: 5,305 hospitals; 18,179 dispensaries; 547 Care Homes for people with Leprosy; 17,223 Homes for the elderly, or the chronically ill or people with a disability; 9,882 orphanages; 11,379 creches; 15,327 marriage counseling; 34,331 social rehabilitation centres and 9,391 other kinds of charitable institutions. To such data about social action activity, there should be added the assistance services carried out in refugee camps and to internally displaced people and the accompaniment of these uprooted persons. This service certainly doesn’t call for discrimination against Christians.
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Motorola unveiled what is believed to be the first carbon neutral (and sideways) cell phone at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show this week. The W233 Renew Phone is made predominately out of recycled plastic bottles and Motorola hopes it will help the company bust a circuit all up in the environmentally friendly market segment.
Motorola said it was the world's first carbon neutral phone. As well as using recycled materials for the plastic casing, the company also pledged to offset the carbon dioxide used in manufacturing, distribution and operation of the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation.
Motorola, which has lost market share by being slow to follow trends such as touchscreens and high-speed data links, also plans to showcase three different items at CES: a relatively large touchscreen tablet phone, a rugged phone, and a rechargeable cable TV remote control with a find feature.
Holy shit -- a rechargeable TV remote with a find feature! That's new and exciting! Seriously Motorola, I can see why you've been struggling. And who can get that excited about your recycled-plastic phone anyways -- it looks like the same piece of shit i was rocking three years ago (minus the lime green). Now a cell-phone manufactured out of used condoms, THAT would be something. Aural sex anyone?
Thanks to ITSELF, who once had phone-sex with some chick at 411 and didn't even have to pay.
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Yakusan asked a monk, “Where do you come from?”
“From Nansen,” was the reply.
“How long were you there?” Yakusan continued.
“From last winter to summer,” replied the monk.
“Then you must have become a good ox,” commented Yakusan.
The monk said, “The thing is, I was there, but I didn’t even go to the dining hall.”
“But you cannot get by just through breathing the wind!” Yakusan commented.
“It was not that bad, Osho,” said the monk. “There is surely a man who will hold a spoon for me.”
On another occasion, Yakusan was returning to his temple with a bundle of firewood when a monk asked him, “Where have you been?”
Yakusan replied, “I’ve got firewood.”
The monk pointed to Yakusan’s sword and said, “It makes the sound ‘tap-tap.’ What in the world is it?”
At this the master unsheathed the sword and assumed a warrior’s stance.
There is a group of Soviet comrades present here today. They have a few very beautiful and simple questions. First I am going to answer them.
The first question:
You have dedicated a book to Gorbachev. Since you are against politicians, is this a contradiction?
Not at all, because Gorbachev is not a politician. His every act proves that he is a man in politics but not a politician. My dedication to Gorbachev and the academic scientist Sakharov was for this simple reason, that he is not a politician and is immensely interested in having peace in the world. He is for friendship in the world, not for war.
The politician’s mind is always concerned with war. Adolf Hitler in his autobiography, My Struggle, says that if a politician wants to remain in politics he has to continue creating enemies. If there are no real enemies, create fictions that somebody is going to attack you, that you are surrounded by enemies. Only that will keep you in power – not peace.
And it is a factual thing to know; your whole history is filled with heroes who were nothing but warmongers, people who massacred millions of people. Your history does not consist of a single name who was a peacemaker.
I have dedicated my book with deep love to Gorbachev and Sakharov because they are both working for world peace. That is not the way of the politician, that is the way of a humanitarian. That is the way of one who loves humanity, who loves this beautiful planet and wants to save it at any cost. And all his actions prove what I am saying.
Their second question is:
As a religious leader, you are above human hurts, but do you criticize America and Christianity so much because you feel hurt?
In the first place I am not a religious leader. I am a religious man. A leader is fundamentally a politician. Whether or not his politics is hidden behind religion does not matter; the very word leader comes from politics.
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It's a good thing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the man who saved our economy, is in charge. Otherwise I might be a bit concerned about these three (and many other) bailouts-in-the-making:
The Federal Housing Administration won’t be able to earn its way to financial health this year, increasing the chance it will need a taxpayer bailout, based on an updated forecast from Moody’s Analytics, which provides the agency’s housing-market analysis.
The U.S. government mortgage-insurer, which guarantees $1.1 trillion in home loans, had been counting on “robust growth” in home prices to help rebuild its insurance fund after paying out $37 billion to cover defaults the past three years, according to its annual report to Congress, filed in November.
It won’t get that growth until 2014, according to the latest outlook from Moody’s Analytics. Prices will fall 3 percent in fiscal 2012 before growing 1.4 percent in 2013 and 6.5 percent in 2014, said Celia Chen, a Moody’s Analytics housing economist who updated her estimate after providing the housing-market forecast for the FHA’s annual actuarial report.
“The FHA’s economic projections are surreal,” said Andrew Caplin, a New York University economics professor who has testified to Congress on the agency’s finances. “They must believe there will be very few readers in Congress able to critically review such a complex report.”
In their annual review, the FHA’s actuaries -- risk analysts who specialize in insurance -- used earlier projections that called for increases of 1.2 percent in 2012 and 3.8 percent in 2013. The agency, which backs mortgages that cover as much as 96.5 percent of a home’s value, is sensitive to changes in home prices. While the insurance fund’s 2012 outlook called for net growth of about $9 billion, that will drop if home prices decline, according to the FHA’s November report.
Back in late 2006 and early 2007 a few (soon to be very rich) people were warning anyone who cared to listen, about what cracks in the subprime facade meant for the housing sector and the credit bubble in general. They were largely ignored as none other than the Fed chairman promised that all is fine (see here). A few months later New Century collapsed and the rest is history: tens of trillions later we are still picking up the pieces and housing continues to collapse. Yet one bubble which the Federal Government managed to blow in the meantime to staggering proportions in virtually no time, for no other reason than to give the impression of consumer releveraging, was the student debt bubble, which at last check just surpassed $1 trillion, and is growing at $40-50 billion each month. However, just like subprime, the first cracks have now appeared. In a report set to convince borrowers that Student Loan ABS are still safe - of course they are - they are backed by all taxpayers after all in the form of the Family Federal Education Program - Fitch discloses something rather troubling, namely that of the $1 trillion + in student debt outstanding, "as many as 27% of all student loan borrowers are more than 30 days past due." In other words at least $270 billion in student loans are no longer current (extrapolating the delinquency rate into the total loans outstanding). That this is happening with interest rates at record lows is quite stunning and a loud wake up call that it is not rates that determine affordability and sustainability: it is general economic conditions, deplorable as they may be, which have made the popping of the student loan bubble inevitable. It also means that if the rise in interest rate continues, then the student loan bubble will pop that much faster, and bring another $1 trillion in unintended consequences on the shoulders of the US taxpayer who once again will be left footing the bill.
"More Municipalities Betting on Pension Bonds to Cover Obligations" (Los Angeles Times)
Local governments are increasingly borrowing money to plug shortfalls in their employee pension funds by exploiting a loophole in federal law. Market experts say the risks and long-term costs are frequently ignored.
-- NEW YORK Struggling to pay employee pensions, local governments are increasingly borrowing money to cover their obligations — exploiting a loophole in federal law that allows them to issue taxable bonds without seeking voter approval.
Oakland took a bet on its pension fund that ended up costing the city an estimated $245 million — nearly a quarter of its annual budget. That hasn't stopped the city from looking to try its luck one more time.
The bets are being made using an exotic but increasingly popular financial instrument known as a pension obligation bond. Cities, counties and states use the bonds to take out high-interest loans from private investors to plug shortfalls in their employee pension funds.
If the pension funds make smart investments with the borrowed money, the returns can help pay the interest due to borrowers and sometimes even spin off some extra cash to pay pension costs. If they don't, the bonds can create additional costs for taxpayers, put the retirement funds of teachers and firefighters in jeopardy, and, in the worst case scenario, force municipalities into bankruptcy.
Municipal finance experts are sounding alarms about the practice, saying that local elected officials are taking unnecessary risk because they are afraid to anger voters by raising taxes. There is also the risk of instigating powerful public employee unions if pensions are cut.
"There are communities that just do not want to make the hard choices, even though it means the choices in the future will be worse," said Robert Doty, a municipal finance consultant in Sacramento. "They are just going to dig themselves deeper and deeper into a hole."
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
The Process of Inner Alchemy
Sound and Colour Therapy
Natural Medicine Principles:
Dis-ease is caused by an imbalance in the functioning of the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual level of an individual. The imbalance produces symptoms, which are warning signs, expressions of the imbalance, telling us that we need to look at what we are doing to our body. We have a choice: we can suppress the symptoms, or we can treat the cause at the level in which it exists.
Natural medicine is the art and science of health care based on principles derived from centuries of research and observation into the process of disease and healing. Some of the principles which guide the Doctors at this clinic include:
- Tolle causam: (Find the Cause) Doctors at this clinic aim to remove the root cause of a patient’s condition instead of just treating symptoms. For example: if you find yourself using any medication for constipation, headaches, sleeping problems, allergies, frequent colds, rheumatic pains, skin disorders, etc. then ask yourself if your treatment plan is taking you a step closer to curing the disorder (removing the cause), or is it just alleviating the symptoms?
- Vis Medicatrix Naturae: (The Healing Power of Nature) When the obstacles to cure are removed and the bodily functions supported, the body has the ability to move towards a restorative state of health. Many symptoms are actually the body’s attempt to aid in the restoration process.
- Primum non nocere: ( Above All, Do No Harm) Therapies at this clinic are safe, non-toxic and when used properly, have no side effects.
- Wholism: Doctors at this clinic recognize that dis-ease is multifactorial. Heredity, diet, environment, lifestyle, emotions, etc. all affect the health of an individual. All aspects of the individual’s health are examined. Recent research in the area of psychoneuroimmunology is proving the age old concept that mental and emotional attitudes can influence our physical body.
- Prevention: Health is a prized possession. Why do we wait for symptoms of disease to appear before we start to value our health? Health is freedom from limitations. Doctors at this clinic aim to keep patients free from disease on all levels.
- Education: The word “doctor” means “to teach”. Doctors at this clinic aim to educate their patients so that they have the tools to make intelligent choices about factors that affect their health. Doctors at this clinic can act as teachers, guides, resource individuals, etc. Patients are encouraged to accept responsibility for their health, ask questions and be active participants in their healing process.
Doctors of Naturopathic Medicine receive their N.D. degree (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) after completing a minimum study of seven years at post-secondary institutions (minimum of three years of university and four years at a government recognized Naturopathic medical college). The provincial regulatory board exams must be passed before obtaining a Naturopathic license in Ontario.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine recieve their D.Ac. degree (Doctor of Acupuncture) after completing a two year program of study at a post-secondary institution of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Prerequisites for entry into the program of Traditional Chinese Medicine are basic premed courses such as Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, Embryology, etc. Currently Doctors of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine are not licensed in the Province of Ontario, however, they are regulated by the Ontario Association of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Auricular Medicine is an energetic reflex technique in which the pulse and filters are used to detect points on the ear. The points that show up on the ear can indicate the location of specific imbalances within the body. Through the use of filters we are able to identify specific dysfunctions within the body.
Auricular Medicine is a specialized field of Energetic Medicine. Training consists of a one year program with the prerequisite that a recognized Medical program has already been completed. The practitioners of Auricular Medicine are recognized by the International Association of Auricular and Bioenergetic Medicine. The Doctors in this clinic use Auricular Medicine as their key diagnostic tool and work with their clients to stimulate self-healing (vis medicatrix naturae) through assessment of the disease state, prevention of disease, evaluation of a client’s state of health, and treatment and care of client’s using means and substances that are in harmony with the client’s own self healing processes.
Auricular Medicine in conjunction with conventional medical tests can find and treat the cause of disease. Many conditions, acute and chronic, can be treated by Auricular Medicine.
Medical Intuition is the ability to read the energy of the body in order to bring awareness to what the body is expressing through its subtle energy. The information reflects the physical, mental and emotional/spiritual components of imbalance as the body is expressing them through its symptoms. To have an energetic profile done of the body can give insight into the essence of the person’s imbalances, and is very useful in integrating all aspects of the individual into a treatment program. A diagnosed condition can be limited in its ability to portray the individual’s specific development and response to their challenges, not only on the physical level, but also on the mental and emotional/spiritual levels as well. To break free of the assumptions we currently hold about our discomfort, and build relationship to the specific programs, impressions, and encapsulated beliefs that our body is holding onto from our past, is to enter in awareness the potential of the Self to heal.
Medical Intuition takes the symptoms out of the context of a named disease and into a description of what the body is expressing at the source of the imbalance.
A Medical Intuitive Scan can be done by distance, a written report is sent, and a follow-up phone consultation is arranged to discuss the scan. The Scan records the information held in the body, at a subconscious level, therefore during the phone consult the information presented will be discussed in relation to what the individual is currently experiencing on a conscious level. Medical Intuition can give insight into the emotional and energetic components of the disease state that are not detected using standard diagnostic equipment.
The Process of Inner Alchemy
This is a therapy developed by Alison Feather Adams that facilitates the client to bring awareness to the subtle energy within their physical body. The client learns to 'feel' what the body is expressing and the therapy releases the negative emotional charges held in the body so the held area of trauma, or place of resistance may be understood and liberated to be in line with what they have consciously chosen from a state of awareness. Our bodies have an intelligence that goes beyond what most of us have learned to acknowledge.
This therapy helps you reconnect with your inner potential by taking you past your discomfort into the wisdom of subtle energy where your intuition can guide you to see things the way they really are, in truth. Truth is the foundation for healing and reinitiating your physical body as well as the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies to work together to bring you back to the state of ease and health again. You come to experience the essence of who you are, and release the outdated programming that the body is compensating for, and outgrown impressions about yourself that has been influencing you unknowingly.
The process of Inner Alchemy is about transformation, and requires a desire to unveil the truth within, so that one is realigned with Source for healing.
We go beyond the illusion of fear, betrayal, and hurt, to realign with an inner strength that transforms & unites rather than further separates us from one another and our True Self.
This process can be done in person as well as by telephone.
Sound and Colour Therapy at the Renascent Integral health Centre
What Is It and How Does it Work?
For centuries both sound and colour have been used as effective therapies in the healing arts. Both of these modalities are energetic therapies, meaning that they utilize frequencies of sound and colour to affect and re-balance the client’s energetic body.
In a world that continues to require scientific and physical evidence as proof of the efficacy of healing modalities, it can be difficult for the average person to believe that either sound or colour could possibly affect an individual’s ability to heal. The Doctors at the Renascent Integral Health Clinic first became acquainted with the healing potential of Sound & Colour Therapy when they met with a group of French physicians who were pioneering a Sound & Colour Therapy system which utilized the concept of individualized sound and colour treatment the first of it’s kind. Over the years this form of therapy has proven itself again and again as an effective tool in addressing and shifting a client’s energetic blocks to physical and emotional healing.
In order to understand how this therapy works, one must first have a basic understanding of how energetic medicine works. All energetic therapies are rooted in the knowledge that we all have an energetic body or aura. This energetic body can be likened to a hologram of ourselves that overlays our physical body and extends out into a field around us. The theory of energetic medicine is based on Einstein’s model, energy becomes matter, as such, any physical disturbances or ailments we may be experiencing, first appear in our energetic field, indeed all of our imbalances physical or emotional are present in our energetic field. Our energetic fields may sometimes be seen (by aura readers), photographed (by Kirlian photography), felt or read (by intuitives), and even altered (with frequencies). It is the ability to alter our energetic bodies with frequencies upon which the Sound & Colour Therapy offered at our clinic is based. If we can address the client’s imbalances on the energetic level, then we can impact and accelerate the client’s ability to heal themselves. Once the blockages to healing are released and removed the client’s self healing and self regulating abilities can begin to return them to a state of health and wholeness.
The Doctors at the Renascent Integral Health Center have found this form of Sound and Colour Therapy to be very effective when used in conjunction with the other healing modalities offered at the clinic. When Sound & Colour Therapy is used in conjunction with other therapies it accelerates healing on all levels. We are also discovering that Sound & Colour Therapy is effective as a stand alone therapy. In cases where physical interventions are not currently possible (the client is not able to take remedies due to special circumstances etc), Sound & Colour Therapy offers an alternative that will help a client begin to shift their energetic field, as the client’s energetic field begins to shift they also begin to shift on the physical level creating the opportunity for healing to begin. Those who are seeking personal transformation also benefit from Sound and Colour Therapy, as it offers a vehicle to help us deconstruct limiting beliefs about ourselves and begin to connect with our infinite potential.
The Process of Sound and Colour Therapy at Renascent Integral Health Centre:
Sound Therapy begins with a listening test. The client listens for different sound frequencies through a set of headphones, first through the left and then the right ear. When the listening test has been completed the sound therapist develops an individual sound treatment by using a piece of classical music and the Audio Biocolor equipment. The harmonics and frequencies present in the music combined with the client’s individual listening test create a sound treatment that is unique and powerful. The client listens to their treatment with stereo headphones in office for 45 minutes. As the client is listening to their treatment, it is also being recorded so that the client is able to take their treatment home on an audio CD.
The colour portion of the Sound and Colour Therapy session begins with a colour test. The sound and colour therapist leads the client through a process of choosing colours that appeal to them intuitively. Once the test has been completed the Audio Biocolor equipment writes a unique colour treatment for the client using the information gathered during the colour test.
Colour Therapy is administered to the client at the same time as sound therapy. The client’s Colour treatment is presented on a large panel or smaller chromodome, the client may have their eyes open or closed, as colour therapy is a vibrational treatment. This form of colour treatment is not appropriate for people who have a history of, or are prone to seizures.
Each sound and colour assessment (testing and treatment) provides a valid treatment for approximately 6 weeks, before re-assessment is required. This is a general guideline which is dependant on each client’s unique circumstance. Ongoing treatment (after the initial test and treatment appointment) may be done by the client, at home with their treatment CD. Alternatively, clients may choose to return to the office for a short follow up appointment where they will receive their sound and colour treatment in office.
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Media playing to chauvinist men by portraying women as violent are skewing statistics, says professor.
A world expert on women and crime says a "moral panic" about violent girls is seeing more of them arrested and jailed, even though evidence suggests they are actually becoming less violent.
Meda Chesney-Lind, a Hawaiian women's studies professor who is in Auckland for a criminology conference, said the panic was fuelled by media firms appealing to chauvinist men by portraying women - especially black women - as violent.
The story was reinforced by "zero tolerance" policing policies which led to more females being arrested for minor crimes that would once have been dismissed with a warning.
"I looked at juvenile robbery because it seemed to be hugely increasing," she said. "It turned out the average amount being stolen was $2.50."
As a result, girls had increased from 21 per cent of juvenile arrests in 1983 to 30 per cent last year in the United States, and from 19 per cent in 2001 to 22 per cent in 2010 in New Zealand.
Yet US surveys showed that both girls and boys were actually becoming much less violent. Only 23 per cent of girls and 39 per cent of boys had been in a fight in the past year in 2009, compared with 34 per cent of girls and 50 per cent of boys in 1991.
New Zealand surveys of secondary school students by the University of Auckland's Youth 2000 unit also found slight reductions in fighting between their two surveys published so far in 2001 and 2007.
Only 12.2 per cent of girls and 26.2 per cent of boys had been in a serious physical fight in the past year in their 2007 survey, compared with 14.5 per cent of girls and 27.9 per cent of boys in 2001.
"This 'crime wave' doesn't exist," Professor Chesney-Lind said.
But news media played up girls' violence in a "backlash" against feminism which appealed to men, choosing images of young women holding guns or in other violent poses.
"There is nothing accidental about any of these media images. Girls peering over the barrel of a gun is just hugely popular," she said.
Most of the photos were of black women. A study of how female drug offenders were depicted in 17 newspapers found that white women were typically shown at home with their families talking about how they had reformed, whereas black and Latino women were portrayed as "there she goes again, we let her out, she's back on drugs".
"But even false moral panics have real consequences," Professor Chesney-Lind said. "Between 1991 and 2003 detentions of girls went up 98 per cent, while detentions of boys went up only 29 per cent.
"African-American girls represent nearly half of those in detention. Seven out of 10 cases involving white girls were dismissed, compared with three out of 10 cases involving African-American girls."
Women have also increased as a proportion of New Zealand prisoners, though more modestly - from 5.1 per cent in 2001 to 6.1 per cent in June.
Nelson anthropologist Donna Swift agreed that there was not enough evidence to say whether girls' violence was actually increasing. But she said there was a lack of gender-specific programmes to address it.
"We can't really say that it's growing," she said. "We can say that what we have got, we are not addressing in a good way."
By Simon Collins Email Simon
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XML::SAX first release is heading to CPAN now.
This is basically DBI for XML.
If you remember the days before DBI, we all used to use either OraPerl or Sybperl, which were hacked versions of the perl binary with Oracle or Sybase support compiled in (as functions).
Well that's about where Perl's XML support was until now - that is before today.
Now, instead of using a specific XML parser (e.g. XML::Parser, XML::LibXML, XML::SAX::PurePerl or something else), you can just use XML::SAX as a factory for parsers. Of course the parsers need to comply with the Perl SAX2 spec (so XML::Parser is out, but there will be SAX2 parsers based on XML::Parser coming out soon now), so that you're using the same interface regardless of the parser. But that's a good thing.
In XML::SAX you get the base XML::SAX, which is a registry of installed parsers on your machine. Then you get XML::SAX::Base, which is Kip Hampton's uber-cool Driver/Parser/Filter base class, which helps make sure you do the right thing wrt those types of "things" (see his XML.com column for more details). Also there's XML::SAX::Exception, which all Perl SAX2 parsers should use as an exception class. Then the all important XML::SAX::ParserFactory, which gives you something similar to DBI's "->connect" method, but better
I look forward to feedback from this. It's been a fun process.
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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
I can, though where I live it's called 'bottling'. I am a photographer, jam maker and shopkeeper, following and living the seasons through ingredients. A well stocked pantry is a glorious thing.
Full of colour and full of flavour. A special jam to enjoy for the holidays.
Our local plum variety used to be the plum of choice for jam manufacturers. When combined with English lavender it makes a colourful preserve worthy of a royal garden party.
With asparagus such a prized vegetable, ever having enough to pickle seems an impossible dream!
You can't find blueberries in plentiful supply in the UK and those little punnets cost a bomb in the shops. There's nothing for it... I'll just have to grow my own.
Oranges are not the only fruit. This marmalade has a great flavour and uses ingredients with a longer season than a traditional marmalade.
The longer they poach the richer they become. Quince are an unusual fruit that reward you by long slow cooking.
Hedgerow harvesting is starting to slow now after an intense period of abundance. Don't let the last ingredients go to waste. All the fruit for this fabulous jelly was foraged for free.
A jam so black when you peer into its dense glossy richness you have to hang on so's not to fall through into an alternative jammy universe. Powerful stuff!
Take a walk on the wild side. It is all about consistency; jams you dollop but cheeses you slice.
Gather rosehips for free and make them into syrup for a delicious cordial... or itching powder!
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, is a musical
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
written by Sandy Wilson
Sandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...
for the inaugural Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
Pantomime at the newly refurbished Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. It played during the Christmas pantomime season of 1979/80 at the theatre, (opening on 21 December 1979) and starred Richard Freeman, Joe Melia, Aubrey Woods
Aubrey Woods is an English actor. He was born in London.His television credits include: Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, Doctor Who , Blake's 7, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Ever Decreasing Circles...
, and Ernest Clark
Ernest Clark was a British actor of stage, television and film.-Early life:Clark was the son of a master builder in Maida Vale, and was educated nearby at St Marylebone Grammar School. After leaving school he became a reporter on a local newspaper in Croydon...
The Aladdin story
Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
(sometimes combined with Ali Baba
Ali Baba is a fictional character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves...
and other Arabian Nights tales) had already been a traditional pantomime subject in England for nearly two hundred years, and numerous versions of this tale have been presented. http://www.its-behind-you.com/aladdin.html
Sandy Wilson was apparently asked to write a conventional pantomime in this tradition, but (quoting from the sleeve notes he wrote for the cast recording):
"Instead of writing a pantomime — a form of theatre about which I know very little — I decided to make Aladdin a musical, and based it on the original story in the Arabian nights"
This is a trifle disingenuous, to say the least, as the show actually follows the traditional pantomime presentation of the Aladdin story quite closely — including the "pantomime dame
A pantomime dame is a traditional character in British pantomime. It is a continuation of en travesti portrayal of female characters by male actors in drag. They are often played either in an extremely camp style, or else by men acting 'butch' in women's clothing...
" character of Widow Twankey
Widow Twankey is a female character in the pantomime Aladdin. The character is a pantomime dame, portrayed by a man; and is a comic foil to the principal boy, Aladdin – played by an actress.-History:...
(renamed Tuang Kee Chung for the programme). In fact, as a cast recording was released, this is a valuable record of what a traditional Aladdin pantomime (albeit one by a composer/lyricist/playwright of superior talents) is like. To be fair, the plot has fewer completely gratuitous twists, and the songs a little more to do with the plot, than is usually the case with a "pure" Aladdin pantomime.
The wicked wizard Abanazar, in his desert home in Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
, summons the spirits to tell him how he may obtain the magic lamp — source of all power. He is somewhat bemused to discover that the source lies in a Chinese Laundry in Peking, and the launderess' ne'er-do-well son Aladdin. The ghostly chorus of the spirits takes us into the next scene, where Aladdin himself is discussing with his mother the virtues of idleness.
The emperor's herald
A herald, or, more correctly, a herald of arms, is an officer of arms, ranking between pursuivant and king of arms. The title is often applied erroneously to all officers of arms....
proclaims that anyone looking upon the Princess Badroulbadour
Badroulbadour is a princess from the far east whom Aladdin married in The Story of Aladdin; or, the Wonderful Lamp...
as she passes on her way to the baths will be instantly executed. This is just the kind of challenge that Aladdin likes, so he rushes off to try to catch a glimpse of the Princess. When he returns from his quest the Widow is relieved that he is alive, but very concerned that the young couple are in love. Everyone, including the emperor himself, has a pretty shrewd idea of what has happened — but, as he explains in song to his daughter, "Loves's a luxury" that royals must forgo for reasons of state.
Abanazar's arrival seems like just the thing. He quickly convinces the widow and her son (neither of whom is very bright) that he is the boy's long lost uncle and that he will make Aladdin rich. The upshot of this finds Aladdin trapped in the cave — where he inadvertently summons the genie
Jinn or genies are supernatural creatures in Arab folklore and Islamic teachings that occupy a parallel world to that of mankind. Together, jinn, humans and angels make up the three sentient creations of Allah. Religious sources say barely anything about them; however, the Qur'an mentions that...
of the ring — a sympathetic young lady who readily agrees to take him to his mother's house, after a few tears over the sad fact that "Genies have no mothers". The Widow Twankey starts to clean the rusty old lamp which is all her son has brought home — thus summoning another, much more powerful genie who makes it clear he will do anything for anyone unless they make unkind remarks about his green colouring. In no time at all Aladdin is a prince, and happily married to the princess of his dreams.
The Widow Twankey is now the Royal Mother-in-law — and manages to dispose of that rusty old lamp to Abanazar (disguised as a pedlar
A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a canvasser, cheapjack, monger, or solicitor , is a travelling vendor of goods. In England, the term was mostly used for travellers hawking goods in the countryside to small towns and villages; they might also be called tinkers or gypsies...
). He is now the Genie's new master — and he quickly takes the palace (complete with the princess and her mother-in-law) to Morocco.
Under sentence of death from the emperor, Aladdin follows the palace to Morocco with the aid of the genie of the ring, and, obtaining the lamp, he gets the palace and the princess back to their wonted places. Abanazar however follows Aladdin back to China, where it becomes apparent that in a contest of brains
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
our hero hasn't a chance. What is he to do? A bit of old fashioned violence ("the old Kung-Fu
Chinese martial arts, also referred to by the Mandarin Chinese term wushu and popularly as kung fu , are a number of fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. These fighting styles are often classified according to common traits, identified as "families" , "sects" or...
") is called for. This remedy applied, Abanazar is carried off by the Great Roc and all ends happily.
- The spell
- The proclamation
- Tuang Kee Po
- It is written in the sands
- There and then
- Love's a luxury
- Dream about me
- Song of the genie of the ring
- Song of the genie of the lamp
- All I did
- The dirge
- Life in the laundry
- Give him the old kung fu
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Instructions for dealing with a very tricky problem,
prepared by classical music agony aunt ALICE McVEIGH
What do you do, as an agony aunt, when NOBODY has written to you, not even a dorky text-type message from a teenager who hasn't figured out it's a MUSICAL column?????
Yours, one of your greatest admirers,
Well, when this happens, the correct procedure is as follows:
Copyright © 15 October 2004
Alice McVeigh, Kent, UK
- With great maturity and soundness of judgement you quietly jump up and down screaming, 'Nobody's OUT there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
- You kick an (imaginary) dog
- You check out ebay, to see if there's anything you can buy (RETAIL THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- You don't find anything, so you morosely go back to your email box, hoping for inspiration.
- You don't have any messages, so in desperation you start TIDYING THE HOUSE
- Suddenly you remember that you have to teach cello in five minutes, and it's not a duffer, no, it's one of the two TERRIFIC PLAYERS that have been gifted to you on their gap year from a USA college, who have actually got a HOPE IN HELL of making it!!!!!!!!!!! She is playing a Hindemith piece you have always sedulously avoided learning, because (a) it was written in the latter half of the 20th century and (b) it makes your head ache to count it, and YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Two hours later (it's OK, you distracted her with brilliant in-depth comments about the Rococo Variations instead) you commence looking gloomily at your empty column
- Suddenly you remember that you promised to visit your sick buddy in hospital.
But you do not feel like going to the hospital.
This is because the hospital is bound to be full of sick people.
- Half an hour later, you are still wrestling with your conscience, and have accomplished exactly nothing other than cleaning the kitchen floor, when a TOTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT pupil arrives.
- The floor looks good too, until both dachshunds come breezing in from the very damp back garden, trailing detritus of rain, brown leaves and even browner earth (they had been digging to Australia, but got distracted by a squirrel).
- The pupil leaves, saying something about a sick cat, reminding you that the cat next door is going to be VERY sick, and probably pop his clogs, if you (scatty neighbour from hell) does not get off your bum and go feed it. You let yourself in next door, where Amber watches you contemptuously from out of the corner of her eyes, twitching the end of her tail from side to side in a meaning manner. Since she is a cat, she feigns complete indifference to your proceedings, while you bustle about seeing to her creature comforts, until you have let yourself out, whereupon you observe a tabby-coloured streak whooshing from the hall into the kitchen (doesn't want you getting above yourself, now, does she???)
- You then recall that you are WORKING that night, and it's a major event at which royalty will be present, meaning that YOU are personally responsible for getting self and three string players TO a venue in central London by FIVE-THIRTY for extra security or else die in the attempt. You ring up the three, two of whom don't answer their mobiles and the last of whom is asleep, to make sure they are still alive, check the contract ninety-five times and make sure you have music, mobile, cash, evening bag, special lights, make-up, and stand. You also call childminder to make sure her husband can take Rachel to tennis, as this is your last chance on earth to make any serious money out of her so you no longer have to do all of the above.
- Then you go back and stare at your non-column some more. There is still nothing worth shelling out for on ebay. The kitchen floor has still got rainy dead leaves on it.
- You give up on your column and turn to your play about Schumann. This mighty epic has absorbed you (about five minutes a day) for over a year, but now it is almost finished, you cannot bear to finish it. It has ceased to be a play and become a friend, something you -- and only you -- can turn to, and admire one's polished prose and wonderful pacing. One will never finish it. Schumann (my Schumann) will forever be sitting by the Rhine, but never jump in. He will never be rescued and taken to the asylum; he will never lose his marbles, no, all history will be rewritten because he will be sitting by the oh-my-God my train leaves in ten minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- You make the train by a whisker, trailing chamber music and posh dinner shoes. Your mobile goes and you are sure -- in a flash -- that the leader of your string quartet has in fact jumped into the Rhine in pursuit of a 'bargain' on ebay. However, it is only Rachel's tenor horn teacher, who needs to reschedule her tenor horn lesson. (This is Good News, as it stops you feeling guilt-stricken about having changed her lesson time yourself three weeks running.)
- Coming home from the gig, you are no longer thinking about childminders, or the Rhine, or anything. Your brain is dead, way too dead to think about your column, but after all it is only Tues. You think:
Tomorrow I will go the hospital.
Tomorrow I will do my column.
Tomorrow Schumann will finally jump into the Rhine.
You are asleep.
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444 Olive St: soon to be the Lotus yoga & belly dance center
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The Times: "The purpose of the committee is to find out what the city can do and look at what other cities are doing, said Lester, who proposed creating the task force earlier this year."
Downtown wifi has become a symbol of cities' friendliness to high-tech endeavor. Example: Austin.
Downtown wifi is a glamor item, a bragging right.
In the minds of proponents, people would take their laptops to Riverview Park to read their email and blog. City of the future and all that. Have you tried reading your laptop screen outdoors in Shreveport? Rotsa ruck.
The downtown idea is sexy but empty. Let's say you're a starving artist. You can get a computer and internet connection in the Shreve Memorial Library. For a nominal fee you can get both high-speed internet and instruction in how to use it at Tipitina's Office Co-op. Build a myspace page with art and music on it and reach out to the world from Tips on Texas. If you're lucky enough to own a laptop, you can snap a bit of wifi in Artspace.
There are probably a lot of additional places downtown where you can get an unprotected signal. And I believe that business types all across downtown do their work through existing office wifi systems.
But I know of no such advantages in Highland. Yet it's in Highland where we can identify a significant concentration of the region's artists. In Highland we see an ethnic diversity and co-existence that might be called laudable. Fledgling businesses of Highland such the Lotus Center (illustration) and Lila's bakery would be given a pick-me-up.
Highland has historic architecture and a tradition of vitality that is preservable, in my humble opinion. WiFi would be the salt atop the gumbo of old and deserving Shreveport.
Wish there were a way to quantify the benefits of installing wifi in downtown vs giving it to my sweetheart, Highland.
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It has not been a good summer for butterflies in our garden. A few commas and tortoise shells but little else that I have spotted.
There has been an abundance of hoverflies though, particularly on our Echinaceas. Hoverflies are very welcome, as their maggots eat aphids and and they can be good pollinators. The RSPB offers good tips for helping pollinators in your garden and if you want a quick fix bumblebee nests and pollinating bee logs look attractive as well as serving a useful purpose.
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What Are Related Definitions You Should Know?
Related definitions that you should know as you increase your understanding of predictive dialers include:
Dialer: generic term for any computer-driven device that places outbound calls and connects the answered calls to an agent or operator.
Agent: telephone professional to whom a predictive dialer sends the ready call.
Predictive Dialer: Predictive dialing was introduced for the purpose of increasing efficiency within calling centers. They are computer based system that automatically dial groups of telephone numbers, and then passes live calls to available agents. The SpitFire Enterprise dialer utilizes sophisticated algorithms to speed up and slow down the call rate based on, number of available agents, number of available lines, the campaign’s average call time and other statistical information.
Quick Connect: Quick Connect allows your agents to log in one-to-one with a phone line. This option is great for B2B purposes, especially when your agent needs to be on the phone line through the entire call.
Fixed Dialing: Fixed Dialing gives your call center manager the power to manually set the volume of calls. The software will then automatically dial a predetermined number of lines per agent. Fixed dialing is ideal for political campaigns, charity campaigns, and other situations drop call ratios are not a factor.
Auto dialer: makes thousands of calls screening for busy signals, no answers, fax machines while detecting answering machines/voicemail and delivers pre-recorded messages. SpitFireX Auto Dialer is a low cost solution for voice broadcasting.
How Do Predictive Dialers Work?
Predictive dialers use complex mathematical algorithms that calculate, in real time:
- the number of available agents
- the number of phone lines available
- the probability of reaching a human being at a specific number
- the time between calls required for optimum agent efficiency
- the length of typical agent/customer or
- the average length of time agents require to wrap up after a call
SpitFire Enterprise Predictive SEP is a fully blended call center solution that supports unlimited lines, agents, and campaigns. Its greatest strength is in its flexibility: multiple campaigns can be set up, viewed, and changed with the click of a button. With easy options for customization, data and dispositions can be catered to each campaign. In addition to our user-friendly interface, SEPhighlights full customer data and combines multiple campaigns on one screen. All the information your agents need is accessible at a glance, freeing their energy to focus on what matters: the calls.
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Benefits of Using a Predictive Dialer
- Manages the process of dialing tens of thousands of calls or tens of millions of calls in its lifetime.
- Detects the result of the call, as an example: no answer, busy, fax, bad number, answering machine without any presence of human expertise. Consequently saving time by only transferring calls which are voice connects to the agents locally or remotely.
- Using predictive dialer increases the productivity of the company by drastically increasing the time agents spend on the phone talking to actual customers or prospective clients.
- Predictive dialer users get the ability to organize and better manage the client information, no lost notes scribbled on pieces of paper. The database used by the dialer organizes the calling structure.
- The most significant task done by the predictive dialer is to predict, which means always making an effort to get a live call to the available agent with the shortest amount of wait time. This is achieved by self learning algorithms within the predictive dialer to increase or decrease the dial ratio per agent, logged into the system.
- Inbound call can be better dealt with by allowing the customers to wait on hold in an IVR system, or a way to leave a message they'd like a callback while the agent is busy talking with other customers.
- Most important benefit of a predictive dialer is it reduces expenses for your company over a period of time since you do not need to buy and deploy a complex and sometimes extremely expensive PBX system. Your company will experience return of investment (ROI) in a period of six to twelve months.
- A predictive dialing system can effortlessly fit into your companies existing infrastructure since it is software controlled.
- The call routing logic and the contact management is all included in one software package. Your call routing logic implemented as per your specifications. Since it is a software package it can easily be upgraded even if you are located remotely with the help of internet.
- Provides an added cost effective method of managing the client database by giving the user of the predictive system ability to rework your database on previous call results.
- only redial records which were busy, no answers and answering machines
- Delete records which are bad numbers, disconnected numbers or operator intercepts
- Do a real time look up against the do not call database saving the predictive dialer user from accidentally calling people who have enrolled in the do National not call registry. This saves the company from lawsuits and others risks conforming to all legal statutes and FCC complaints.
- Provides progressive dialing capabilities like call blending which means handling inbound and outbound call at the same time.
- Provides ability to integrate call recording devices and call monitoring interfaces which helps call center supervisors to train agents and users and improve their customer support skills.
- Easy to setup and learn the predictive dialer logic and software tools.
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Over the last century, we have radically altered the way we produce and distribute food through the creation of a highly consolidated and industrialized food system. This transformation is fundamentally affecting the health of our planet and its inhabitants. Rather than fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and other high fiber foods important for health we created a system which favors the production of animal products and highly-refined, calorie-dense foods. Poor nutrition is a risk factor for four of the six leading causes of death in the US: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Hidden behind these nutritional imbalances is a food system reliant on and supported by methods of production and distribution that hurt humans and our environment.
In the United States, the typical food item now travels from 1,500 to 2,400 miles from farm to plate. This energy intensive system disconnects growers from the consumers, increases opportunities for food contamination and loss of nutrients during transportation, and plays a role in climate change emissions. Approximately 70% of all antibiotics produced are given to healthy animals to promote growth and compensate for poor husbandry practices. These are linked to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the spread of other antibiotic resistance bacteria. Humans now contain on average thirteen pesticides in their bodies and studies show that we are literally bathed in pesticides in the womb. In communities across the nation we can find “food deserts,” large and isolated geographic areas where mainstream grocery stores are absent or distant and there is no access to healthy food. Clearly, we have not designed a system that is health promoting – we are having a system failure.
How we produce and distribute food has a profound impact on ecological health, and by obvious extension, human health. As places of healing, hospitals have a natural incentive to provide food that is healthy for people and the environment in which they live. The role of the healthcare community is important not only because of its moral authority, but also as a result of its substantial purchasing power, which influences both public policy and the supply chain. And the total healthcare market for food and beverages is big business accounting for about $12 billion a year. While patient food receives considerable attention in the media, cafeteria and catered food make up the largest percentage of food in the budget, accounting for approximately 55-70% of hospital volume.
Fortunately, we are witnessing a nascent movement that is beginning to address food systems from an ecological health perspective. At the forefront of this sea of change is the healthcare community. By the end of March 2009, more than 230 hospitals have signed the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge put forward by the Healthy Food in Healthcare Initiative of Health Care Without Harm, the campaign for ecologically sustainable healthcare. The pledge represents a commitment to support a localized, sustainable food system and acknowledges that healthy food must be defined by not only nutritional quality, but also equally by a food system that is economically viable, environmentally sustainable and supportive of human dignity and justice.
Examples of Healthcare’s leadership on these issues are included in the report Menu of Change, where you will learn how some hospitals are now beginning to serve local produce, grass fed beef raised without antibiotics or hormones, fair trade coffee and support local gardens. What you may discover in your local community is a hospital cafeteria that is a destination restaurant where community members go to the hospital for nutritious, local food. This summer the healthcare leaders from around the country will gather to learn or build their expertise at FoodMed 09 -The Third International Conference on Local, Sustainable Healthcare Food.
Unquestionably, if we are to solve the expanding ecological health crises facing our nation and globe, the healthcare community is going to have to become much more involved in policy and advocacy with a voice and urgency that may be unprecedented. Significantly, these changes in healthcare and society are going to require more than small changes in behavior. As Dr. David Pencheon, director of the United Kingdoms National Health System sustainable development unit, shared when announcing the dramatic elimination of meat from UK hospitals menus, "This is not just about doing things more efficiently, it's about doing things differently, because efficiency is not going to get us to big cuts…What will healthcare look like in 2030-2040 in a very low carbon society? It will not look anything like it looks now."
The current economic and healthcare crises provide the opportunity to re-examine our 21st century food and agriculture practices with a new health-conscious lens forcing the realization of our intrinsic connection to global health and ecological processes. There is potential, that these crises in combination with the models and agents of change that have been created, to change public policy in the service of primary prevention, ecological health and global healing.
If you work at a hospital, or know someone that does, ask how you can help them get engaged.
The finalists for NRDC’s first-ever Growing Green Awards are extraordinary leaders in the field of sustainable food. The award winners will be honored along with Michael Pollan at NRDC’s “Food for Thought” benefit in San Francisco on May 9th.
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Can I plant my Witch Hazel and willow tree in te garden now? I also have a sun beam plant and red robin can they be planted out now or should i wait until all frost has gone?
Where are they at the moment Nicola? Witch Hazel, willow and photinia Red Robin are all hardy and will be fine unless they've been kept inside and have started putting on some early growth. If this has happened they will need hardening off gently to accustom them to the colder conditions outside.
I'm afraid I don't know Sun Beam - do you have more of a name for it?
They have been outside in the pots in the position i want to plant them. The sun beam is mainly yellow in colour and smells like eucalyptus when you cut it. I dont know the full name.
If they're outside already then plant them - the roots will have more protection from frost in the ground than in pots. Give them a good mulch with some manure or compost (not touching the stems), and they'll romp away as soon as the weather warms up.
Could sunbeam be one of the Choisyas? http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=426
Yes thats the one. x
Same as the others then, it's not quite as hardy as them but it'll be fine planted now if it's been outside.
To be honest I'd have planted them as soon as the ground had thawed - they'd have been fine, but no matter, you've not left it too late
Thankyou for your help. They are all planted out now
My pleasure. Enjoy your gardening
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The National Collaboration for Youth believes that:
- Preparing youth for adulthood, self-sufficiency and career success requires the development of the requisite academic, vocational, employability, and work readiness skills within the broader context of youth development, involving:
- teaching life skills and work related values (such as punctuality and the ability to deal with colleagues and supervisors);
- connecting youth to caring and competent adults, including staff, volunteers, worksite supervisors, and mentors;
- providing opportunities for youth to develop positive peer groups and to interact with peers who support their achievement and success;
- exploring life options, including career paths that are non-traditional for a youngster's gender, race, culture, and/or social class;
- providing meaningful connections between youngsters and their communities through accessible work and service opportunities;
- promoting the concept of "life-long learning" to prepare young people to move through accessible work and service opportunities;
- creating opportunities for youth to assume leadership roles and develop responsibility, self-reliance, and initiative and the desire and ability to participate in decisions affecting their lives;
- providing opportunities for all youth to gain both access to and training in information and communications technology for the New Economy;
- generating a wide range of opportunities to develop marketable skills, including apprenticeships, mentoring experiences, on-the-job training, summer work skill-building programs, national and community service programs, and career development, and work study programs at the high school and college levels;
- engaging employers in shaping curriculum to ensure youth are learning the skills and competencies demanded by the contemporary workplace and exposing youth to workplaces and careers through work-based learning;
- creating opportunities that take into account the life circumstances of youth, such as housing, health, transportation, and day-care needs if any;
- ensuring the quality secondary education and standards of reading and math proficiency that are prerequisites for youth socialization and employability; and
- connecting youth to postsecondary educational and training opportunities and promoting postsecondary success.
- Strong links must be forged among business, labor, government, educational establishments, community-based organizations, and other voluntary youth development organizations, with their involvement with young people beginning long before high school graduation through multi-faceted, but coordinated, age-and stage-appropriate programs to solve the problems of youth unemployment.
- Guidance about the relationship between positive youth development and employability should be made available to employers providing internships, apprenticeships, and on-the-job-training opportunities.
- Government at all levels must invest in evaluation and continuous improvement, and, based on what works, provide the leadership, standards, and support mechanisms that will enable schools and communities to prepare the nation's youth for rewarding careers.
PUBLIC POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
The federal government should take the following actions related to youth employment:
- Provide federal support to enhance the quality of secondary education and to expand the availability of school-based and community-based programs that provide non-traditional and experiential learning opportunities that are responsive to the learning styles of youth.
- Ensure that young people who have left high school or are failing in the mainstream education system are provided with opportunities to achieve academic standards, earn recognized credentials, and develop the requisite academic, vocational, and developmental skills and competencies for career success.
- Ensure that federal education and training programs provide incentives for strong local linkages among business, labor, government, schools, and community-based youth serving organizations.
- Provide support for programs that work, for the transfer of expertise and for the adaptation or replication of successful practices and programs.
- Provide support for capacity building and staff development in youth development and youth employment and training organizations.
- Recognize youth development programs as effective outreach, recruiting, and work-site resources for youth employment programs.
- Support separate, visible, and adequately funded government offices dedicated to the support of youth employment and training initiatives.
- Develop and support access to technology and new technology skills training in youth development and employment programs.
- Demonstrate federal commitment by increasing appropriations for youth employment and development programs, especially within the Departments of Labor, Education, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Health and Human Services and other departments and agencies.
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The Vivaldi Compendium will serve as the most reliable and up-to-date source of quick reference on the composer Antonio Vivaldi and his music. This takes the form of a dictionary listing persons, places, musical works and many other topics connected with Vivaldi; its alphabetically arranged entries are copiously cross-referenced so as to guide the reader towards related topics. The Vivaldi Compendium also provides a gateway to further reading. This is achieved via an extensive bibliography, to which reference is made in most of the dictionary entries. These two sections are complemented by an article-length biography of the composer and a carefully organized list of his works. Knowledge about Vivaldi and his music is still advancing at an incredible rate - many discoveries occurred while the book was in preparation - and every effort has been made to ensure that The Vivaldi Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research, drawing on the author's close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian music over four decades. MICHAEL TALBOT is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is known internationally for his studies of late-baroque Italian music, which include recent books on Vivaldi's chamber cantatas (2003) and the same composer's fugal writing (2007).
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From the Silk Road region of Kyrgyzstan comes an extraordinary collection of art and handicrafts, including one-of-a-kind wool felt rugs and handmade silk and wool felt scarves. The show also includes felted wall hangings, dolls, hats and warm felt slippers. The collection includes both traditional Kyrgyz work, drawing from their centuries-old nomadic culture, as well as contemporary designs by young Kyrgyz artists. A photography exhibit portraying rural life in Kyrgyzstan is also part of the show.
The Handmade Show & Sale will open with a reception on Friday, November 16, from 6 to 8 PM and continue for two more days, on November 17 and 18, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Come enjoy a performance of music from Central Asia, performed by a student from UC Santa Barbara, at 7 PM.
The Handmade Show is brought to Ojai by Anne and Jerry Kaplan and generously hosted by Susan Cummings. It is presented by a non-profit by Vista 360°, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering international cooperation.
Kyrgyz Feltmaking Traditions
Kyrgyzstan is a high mountain country and the Kyrgyz people are traditionally nomadic. Families bring their herds of sheep and horses to high alpine pastures during the summer months, living in wool felt yurts. They return to lower elevations in the Fall when the first snows arrive. The Handmade Show features many items made by shepherds, practicing a centuries-old tradition. Included are warm and colorful felt rugs, called shyrdak, which are a hallmark of Kyrgyz culture.
Through the sale of these items produced by rural women, the Handmade Show supports the revival of traditional handicrafts and contributes to sustainable agriculture in the high mountain pastures of Kyrgyzstan. The shepherd families make one or two rugs each year, which Vista 360° buys through a cooperative.
Also included are felt hats and toys created by Tumar Art Studio, an artists’ enterprise dedicated to bringing ancient Kyrgyz traditions into the 21st century. Their items have a contemporary design combined with refined techniques of felt-making. The Show also features a selection of felt dolls made by Gallina Turdyekeva, with hand-embroidered faces, and patchwork quilts incorporating pieces of embroidery which were originally used as dowry gifts. Several other new doll makers are also featured.
Gifts that Help the World
All over the world, there is a movement to link creative people from economically poor countries to the global marketplace through small-scale, one-of-a-kind initiatives. The Handmade Show is part of this inspiring worldwide movement. People in Jackson can purchase these beautiful items and make a small, but concrete, contribution to closing the gap between the rich and poor nations of the world.
“The purpose of the Handmade Show is to support women’s cooperatives and small creative businesses in Kyrgyzstan”, explained Vista 360° President, Candra Day. “For example, customers will find dolls from a dollmaking studio and hats from a workshop that specializes in felt hats. Kyrgyzstan has very talented artists and beautiful craft traditions that deserve wider exposure.” The Handmade Show is an ongoing partnership connecting Americans with mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan.
Handmade Show & Sale on Nov 16-18
The Handmade Show and Sale will take place at the Susan Cumming Gallery from 6-8 on Friday and 10-6 on Saturday daily. The Susan Cumming Gallery is located at 453 East Ojai Avenue, next to Azu.
For more information about the Handmadei Show from Kyrgyzstan, contact Candra Day at (307) 413-5847 or Anne Kaplan at (805) 640-8765. More information about the beautiful line of AIDAI scarves featured at the Show can be found on their web site, www.aidai-design.com.
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Upbringing a child starts at home and you really need to have a lot of patience and information for ensuring success of your upbringing plans. The first step in this process is to talk to your baby. Even though the child …may not be able to express his thoughts or answer your questions, he or she will know t
It is important to understand on the impact of caffeine products on health and fitness of an individual. Recent studies have clearly suggested that the side effects of caffeine can be seen in short as well as the long run.
It is very important to note here that caffeine…, when used as a stimulant, can bri
In this blog meant to create general awareness among the masses, we would like to let you know that good health… is one thing that cannot be compromised at any stage of time. If you think that your body can take anything that comes its way then you need to think twice. Just because your body has not succumbe
Resveratrol, which has featured on television shows such as 60 Minutes, Rachel Ray, CNN, and Oprah Show, has been a promising contender in the world of medical and anti-aging. This wonder drug has been known to the world as an exceptional anti-aging product… that had already helped men and women who w
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President Obama needs to give EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson an ultimatum: waive the requirement in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) established in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandating ethanol blending in motor fuels now, or hit the road Jack—son.
RFS, signed into law by George W. Bush and supported by then-Senator Barack Obama, was a dud from the beginning because it was based on an assumption. (You know what they say about assumptions.) Congress was led to believe most of the ethanol would be derived from inedible substances rather than corn. Seven years in, and billions of research dollars later, nothing has changed — except the more we learn about ethanol, the less we like it. Corn-based ethanol drives up food prices locally and globally, reduces gas mileage performance, and produces more greenhouse gas than petroleum.
Even green energy gazillionaire and former Vice President Al Gore admitted corn-based ethanol was a foolish endeavor. For him, it was all about votes. Speaking about his previous support of corn-based ethanol to a crowd at a conference in Greece, Gore said: “One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president.”
At least Gore was honest about lying, which is more than can be said of the Obama administration, which has all the facts laid before them regarding ethanol yet obviously capitulated to lobbyists awhile back by upping the ethanol blend requirement from 10 to 15 percent. This change forces gas stations to purchase new pumps to process the E15 blend, and automakers are questioning the impact it will have on automobile engines. According to Consumer Reports, nine automakers voiced concerns to Congress, stating they cannot honor warranties for older cars running on E15.
The recent drought should give all Americans, and especially those in elected leadership, reason for pause to reexamine our priorities as a nation. Farmers and ranchers are forced to slaughter livestock prematurely because there is not enough corn feed to keep them alive. The ethanol mandate currently requires around 40 percent of corn crops be used for ethanol production, leaving roughly 34 percent for livestock feed, 13 percent for exports, and humans get what’s left. Might our priorities be a tad out of whack?
To be honest, Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” got us into this mess with the act he signed into law, but I have to believe that same compassion would have most likely convinced him to relax the production requirements based on the reality of today’s dire situation.
And then there is our sitting president, whose response to the drought crisis is another bailout. On the campaign trail in Iowa August 13, President Obama committed to doling out more of his Obama “stash” by buying up millions of dollars in prematurely slaughtered meat. And the taxpayers responded with a hearty “You’re welcome.”
So where’s the beef? Apparently, the government has meat lockers sitting idle because Obama told the crowd the government has “a lot of freezers”. Even if they do, I’d think twice before eating anything the government supposedly kept on ice, based on the Obama administration’s own guidelines for freezing meat. Foodsafety.gov, (another government creation from 2009), states frozen meat loses its quality (not safety) after four to 12 months. So who would we complain to if there were a problem with this meat? The government? It’ll never happen.
The price of ethanol has risen 33 percent since May, not to mention exorbitant grocery prices and an upcoming corn and meat shortage. Rather than addressing consumer price pain, the administration responds with yet another bailout, which sends the message: “When the going gets tough, we make things worse.”
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Summertime brings out the kid in us all and nothing says childhood fun like running through sprinklers. Culver City’s Town Plaza is home to our very own water attraction.
The Lion's Fountain was commissioned by the Culver City Redevelopment Agency as the public art component of the Town Plaza development project. The fountain is comprised of an eight-foot tall bronze lion sculpture surrounded by 40 lighted jets that shoot streams of water high into the air.
The Lion's Fountain has become a focal point of Town Plaza, delighting visitors with its carefree demeanor and dancing water jets.
Douglas Olmsted Freeman, a Minneapolis based sculptor, was awarded this commission, in part because of his success in creating sculptures and designing spaces that invite the viewer to participate, to imagine, and to play. Some of Mr. Freeman's other large-scale installations include: A Spiral of Birds (1991) in St. Paul, MN; The Fountain of the Wind (1994), in Duluth, MN; and Shichifukujin - The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan (1995), and The Seven Animals of Akabane (1996) in Tokyo, Japan.
Although the theme for the fountain is inspired by lions associated with Culver City's movie studio history (MGM's Leo the Lion and the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz), this lion is neither a representation nor direct interpretation of either of these felines.
Look for exclusive Leo cartoons in the Culver City News.
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THE RELIGION ISSUE
Lieberman Is Asked to Stop Invoking Faith in Campaign
By GUSTAV NIEBUHR
he Anti-Defamation League
called yesterday for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, to
stop making "overt expressions"
of religious belief on the campaign trail.
Such appeals in a political context, the league said, risk alienating people and also run "contrary
to the American ideal."
The league's request to Mr. Lieberman came in a letter signed
by Abraham H. Foxman, its national director, and Howard P.
Berkowitz, its national chairman.
They said that although the organization believed that candidates "should feel comfortable
explaining their religious convictions to voters," there was "a
point at which an emphasis on
religion in a political campaign
becomes inappropriate and even
unsettling in a religiously diverse
society such as ours."
In an interview last night, Mr.
Foxman said the letter was in
response to remarks Mr. Lieberman made at a Detroit church
during its Sunday services, calling for a greater role for religion
in American life.
"We do not think that religion
belongs in the political campaign
and the political arena," Mr. Foxman said. "There's nothing
wrong with somebody professing
their faith and going to church or
synagoue, but this is almost
In the speech in Detroit, Mr.
Lieberman, the first Jew to run on
the presidential ticket of a major
party, said that he hoped his
nomination encouraged people
"to feel more free to talk about
their faith" and that it also reinforced the idea that "there
must be a place for faith in America's public life."
He added, "As a people, we
need to reaffirm our faith and
renew the dedication of our nation
and ourselves to God and God's
Mr. Lieberman returned to the
theme of religion in public life
yesterday, when he spoke to religious leaders in Chicago. He
called the United States "the
most religious country in the
world" and said that not only
were Americans citizens of the
same country, but that "we are
also children of the same awesome God."
Mr. Lieberman was not alone
yesterday in invoking a public
role for religious belief. In a
speech to a B'nai B'rith convention in Washington, Gov. George
W. Bush of Texas, the Republican
nominee for president, spoke of
his support for Israel and also
praised the work conducted by
faith-based social programs.
In his speech, Mr. Bush said,
"Our nation is chosen by God and
commissioned by history to be a
model to the world of justice and
inclusion and diversity without division. Jews and Christians and
Muslims speak as one in their
commitment to a kind, just, tolerant society."
Mr. Foxman said he had not
been aware of Mr. Lieberman's
or Mr. Bush's comments yesterday. He said the league, a division
of B'nai B'rith, had not received a
reply from Mr. Lieberman.
Candidates in the presidential
campaign have expressed their
religious faith in public terms on
previous occasions. During a debate among the Republican presidential candidates in December,
Mr. Bush identified Jesus as his
favorite philosopher. The same
month, Vice President Al Gore,
now the Democratic presidential
nominee, told an interviewer for
"60 Minutes" that he considered
himself a born-again Christian.
Mr. Foxman said that the
league had written the candidates
last year to ask them not to invoke religion in their political appeals.
"We drew a line during the
primaries for Bush and Gore," he
said. "And we now think Senator
Lieberman crossed it."
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With the Bomber Command Memorial in London only having been unveiled a couple of days ago, I guess it is pretty fitting to be reviewing the story of a Second World War Bomber pilot. I’ve always been in awe of the job that these very brave young men did, and it’s always interesting to hear of their stories.
This book is the story of a Second World War RAF aviator, Squadron Leader Tom Cooke DFC AFC DFM AE. Joining the RAF as an 18 year old in 1939, he graduated to flying bombers. Cooke won the DFM as a Sergeant Pilot flying Whitlet Bombers, and was later commissioned as an officer. He later served tours flying Wellington’s and Stirlings. He was awarded the DFC and AFC. In between tours with Bomber Command Squadrons he also served as an instructor in Operational Conversion Units, teaching new pilots. In this capacity he took part in the famous thousand Bomber raids on Cologne and Essen, when Bomber Harris combed out the OCU’s in order to put up as many Bombers as possible.
He returned to operations flying Halifax Bombers, but this time in a slightly unorthdox manners – namely, Special Duties, dropping special agents behind the lines in occupied Europe. On his twelfth mission he was shot down over France, and managed to evade his way back over the Pyrenees, and home to Britain via Gibraltar. Having been in contact with the French Resistance he was not allowed to fly operationally over Europe again, as he knew too much about vulnerable contacts in occupied territory. Instead, after ‘escape leave’ he was transferred to South East Asia and Burma. After leaving the RAF in 1946 he re-enlisted, finally reaching the rank of Squadron Leader, and after finally leaving the service worked as a commerical airline pilot.
It’s quite possible to do a lot of research piecing together the career of RAF Bomber Crew. If the man’s log book survives then that’s a real bonus. Also, Squadron records state the aircraft that flew on specific missions, who exactly was on board, what bomb load they carried, when they took off and landed, and a brief report of their experiences. Some crewmembers, in particular gunners, filled out air combat reports when they encountered enemy fighters.
In an interesting way, this book is quite similar to some of the research I have done on Portsmouth RAF Bomber Crew, using the same sources. Only here, Franks and Muggleton were able to call on some oral history interviews in the Imperial War Museum, with not only Cooke but also some of his crew. My one criticism would be that the text does not perhaps flow as well as it could. The authors have chosen to include stories about other men, aircraft and raids, presumably to add context. Whilst these additions do this, they do have the side effect of breaking up the narrative of Cooke’s story. I would probably rather have read Cooke’s story, as there are plenty of good books on the Bomber Offensive in general. None the less, it is still very much an interesting and gripping read.
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Prioritizing areas for action in the field of population-based prevention of childhood obesity
A set of tools for Member States to determine and identify priority areas for action
The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased substantially over the past three decades and is now considered as one of the most serious health challenges of the early 21st century.
While the need for preventive action is increasingly recognised, policy implementation often occurs in a non-systematic, ad hoc manner. The purpose of this document is to provide a set of tools for Member States to determine and identify priority areas for action in the field of population-based prevention of childhood obesity. The tools presented are intended to facilitate a prioritization process that is both systematic and locally relevant.
Three priority-setting approaches are described in this document: the WHO Stepwise framework for preventing chronic disease, the Modified Problem/Solution Tree (mPAST) process and the ANGELO (Analysis Grid for Elements Linked to Obesity) process. All three approaches follow four common steps which include:
- Problem identification and needs analysis
- Identification of potential solutions
- Assessment and prioritization of potential solutions
- Strategy development
While these priority-setting approaches all contain common elements, the contexts in which they are used, the processes they involve, and the technical analyses differ and selection of the most appropriate tool is dependent on the purpose, desired outcomes and criteria to be used for assessment, level of resources and data available.
The document stresses that regardless of the tool selected, due consideration must be given to local, regional or country-specific factors when analysing potential areas for action. Finally, the identification of key stakeholders and the outlining of their potential roles and responsibilities is critical for the prioritization process.
Priority-setting to create a set of recommended, promising policy interventions is an essential part of evidence-informed policy-making; however, it is only the beginning of the process. The recommendations need to be accepted by the community leaders or politicians from different sectors who make the decisions and this usually takes an advocacy effort. Once endorsed, the actions need to be funded and implemented requiring project or programme management skills through a multisectoral implementation process.
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Recognized as one of the five most important artists to pass between 1945-1955 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bror Nordfeldt used the abstract form to represent his emotional connection to various regions of the United States. He is particularly well known for his seascapes and depictions of New Mexico’s indigenous culture.
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Bror Julius Olsson (B.J.O.) Nordfeldt was born in Tulstorg, Scania, Sweden to parents Nels and Ingrid Olsson. He immigrated to the United States in 1891 with his family and enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago at twenty while simultaneously working as a printer’s devil for a local Swedish newspaper. He was selected to become an assistant muralist to Albert Herter (1871-1950) for the McCormick Harvester Company’s murals at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Nordfeldt traveled to Paris to see the project to its completion. While in France, he studied at the Academie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921).
While in Europe, Nordfeldt went to England and learned etching and woodblock cutting in London from Frank M. Fletcher (1866-1949). He also exhibited at the Royal Academy of London. Upon his return to Chicago, set up his own studio in 1903. His early work depicted local landmarks of the region. Nordfeldt relocated to New York in 1907, but held his first solo exhibition in Chicago at the Albert Roullier’s Gallery in 1911 featuring regional subject matter, painted in abstract and impressionist styles. While in New York, he also met and married Margaret Doolittle in 1910.
In 1914, Nordfeldt began spending summers in Provincetown, New York and became a founding member the Provincetown Players experimental theater group. He created set designs and frequently acted with them throughout the following four years. He also began experimenting with new printmaking techniques and in 1916 developed the “White-line” print. The method allows the artist to colorize a print using only one block of wood and one impression for each print instead of different blocks for each color the artist wished to include.
During World War I, Nordfeldt was employed as Assistant District Camoufleur for the U.S. Shipping Board in San Francisco, specifically assigned to camouflage merchant ships. After the war, Nordfeldt visited his friend and fellow artist William Penhallow Henderson (1877-1943) in Santa Fe and made the decision to relocate to the Southwest, where he eventually settled for the next twenty years.
This time period also marked a significant change in subject matter for Nordfeldt because he began to draw inspiration from Native American dance sequences and Mexican Americans in whom he “found individual human qualities he wanted to convey in his work” (Udall 78). Nordfeldt was greatly influenced by Gaugin, Cezanne and the Fauvist style of strong, bold coloration.
In 1921, Nordfeldt joined the Taos Society of Arts. He frequently participated in group exhibitions, he refused to have any one-man shows in New York because he did not approve of the high commission demanded by galleries. The exorbitantly high cost of shipping to New York from Santa Fe made shows of this nature impractical. Therefore, Nordfeldt’s prints provided his primary source of income until 1926 when he became a painter exclusively. Documenting Nordfeldt’s work during the 1920s is also problematic because he considered much of his work experimental and chose to leave it undated and untitled. In many cases, he destroyed the works he was unsatisfied with.
Throughout the 1930s, Nordfeldt taught at various schools including Utah State College and the Wichita Art Association. In 1933, Nordfeldt taught a term at the Minneapolis School of Art where he met student Emily Abbott. After leaving the campus, he began traveling the Midwest creating lithographs for the Works Progress Administration, but maintained correspondence with Abbott throughout this time.
In 1937, Nordfeldt permanently relocated to a ninety-acre farm in Lambertville, New Jersey, which allowed him sufficient access to the New York City art world while maintaining the private life he desired. Biographer Van Deren Coke states that at this point in Nordfeldt’s career, “energetic paint application became his major preoccupation” and in 1931, Nordfeldt arranged his first one-man show since 1917 with Lilienfeld Galleries in New York (94-95).
In 1944, Nordfeldt returned to a teaching position with the Minneapolis School of Art, divorced his first wife, and married Emily Abbott, whom he had maintained contact with for nearly ten years.
The last decade of Nordfeldt’s work focused on constants that could be documented throughout the artist’s career, particularly the seascape. In 1953, Nordfeldt and his wife traveled to the California coast and Emily noted that “the resulting paintings were more abstract, the color brighter…less rigid, have movement and vibrancy and almost a joyfulness and gaiety about them” (Hunter 78).
Nordfeldt died on April 21, 1955 of a heart attack while returning from a trip to Mexico. A memorial exhibition was created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which classified Nordfeldt as one of five major artists to have passed away between 1945 and 1955.
|Two Birds Watching, 1952|
Treasured for his transition from the Santa Fe school to abstraction, it is easy to see in this late piece Nordfeldt's reduction to planes of color. The two birds are almost cutouts of white and brown, the harbor pilings are minimalized to rust and black. The stark simplicity of the high horizon and minimalist's sun reinforce Nordfledt's efforts to reduce his painitngs to color and shape icons. Private Collecton, Arizona.
II. AN ANALYSIS OF THE ARTIST'S WORK
“I was considering what was the most fundamental thing in painting and I believe that it is abstract form. That is the structure of the idea-bones—not the infernal likeness but just the absolute shapes that would give the emotional part.” - B.J.O. Nordfeldt (www.michenermuseum.org)
B.J.O. Nordfeldt had a varied range of artistic instruction and found his greatest inspiration from vastly different regions including New Jersey, California, Santa Fe, and Minnesota, each of which became the artist’s home during his lifetime. However, one constant that can be found throughout Nordfeldt’s work is his love of these natural surroundings and more importantly, his desire to express the unique feelings that resulted from each location. Biographer Van Deren Coke described this process, stating that Nordfeldt “got a deep feeling of satisfaction out of controlling the viscous quality of paint. He sought to breathe his own energy into his subjects by deftly applying a loose patch of color, then shaping it to define a form” (99).
Sam Hunter states that Nordfeldt’s career “coincided with one of the most revolutionary and complex periods of change in western art” (14). Appropriately, the artist’s career can be viewed as an experience of trial and error that reflects the changing artistic tendencies throughout American art of the time period. While Nordfeldt studied drawing at the Academie Julian in Paris and woodblock cutting in London, his independence from this instruction is most notable. He was disenchanted with his three-week instruction in Paris, and though he internalized Fletcher’s teachings on Japanese printmaking, he used this technique as a springboard to create his own “White-line” printing technique.
Nordfeldt found his greatest and most consistent inspiration in French master, Paul Cezanne’s work. Use of flat, independent color combined with dense and strongly outlined forms created a unity between figures and landscape that characterized much of Nordfeldt’s work. Nordfeldt used abstract designs consistently, but clarified the importance of connecting his work to reality by stating, “I believe that since all painting is borrowed visual experience, there must be a recognition element to serve as a bridge between abstract form and the beholder” (www.delart.org). Therefore, he consistently traveled to his mentioned favorite locations and would make small sketches to use when memory would not suffice.
When Nordfeldt moved to Santa Fe in 1919, his work reflected a dramatic change in subject matter and opened up a new period of experimentation for the artist. The most notable change for Nordfeldt was the incorporation of local cultural motifs, particularly from Native American pottery. He also began using Native and Spanish Americans as models and through this, according to Sandra Langer, Nordfeldt “gained importance as a pioneering modernist for his non-academic handling of American Indians, whom he painted in an Expressionistic manner, using bold colors and flat patterns.” However, Nordfeldt considered many of his landscapes from the 1920s to be unsatisfactory and consequently destroyed many before leaving Santa Fe in 1937.
In 1936, Nordfeldt traveled to Paris and England with Russell Cowles (1887-1979) to view an exhibition of Chinese art. Neither took exceptional inspiration from the exhibit, but while in London, the pair viewed an unfinished work by El Greco at the National Gallery. Nordfeldt found himself particularly drawn to the piece because of “the expressive quality of the distortions used by the Spanish master and by the fact that oil pigment had been applied by El Greco over a tempera ground” (Coke 88). After seeing this, he began painting in oil, over two coats of tempera, in a similar process to that of El Greco.
In the latter half of Nordfeldt’s career, the artist began to strip down his style to more basic forms and placed emphasis on the repetitive elements of natural patterns. This can particularly be noted in Nordfeldt’s marine paintings, which had been a staple of the artist’s career. Nordfeldt explained his interest in the sea stating that he was “interested in the nature of water – its fluidity, its weight and strength” (Schwarz). While Nordfeldt had continually attempted to depict these ideas, there is a sense of loneliness and depth that can also be attributed to the artist’s longing for a solitary lifestyle while at his New Jersey farm.
Upon reviewing Nordfeldt’s last set of paintings, New York Times critic, Howard Devree described the artist’s work as “packed with vigor and explosive emotional intensity…no more vigorous painting has been shown this season.” This final review expresses the culmination of Nordfeldt’s work and his overarching desire to express the powerful forces of nature and culture that can be felt from coast to coast.
|Boats Ashore, Italy, c. 1908|
Perhaps completed when Nordfeldt was doing magazine illustratons, this lovely watercolor shows the artist's facility with the medium. He easily renders the seaside villas, the fisherman at day's end hauling the catch ashore. The sense of light and fancy pervades a romantic, holiday scene that travelors would love to see. Private Collection.
III. THE WHITE-LINE PRINT
Developed by Nordfeldt, the White-line method of printmaking involves carving a woodblock, then painting a picture on the block, allowing grooves to separate the colors. Nordfeldt would paint the single block with whatever colors he chose and could change the colors he wished to without having to carve another block. Historian David Action states that this method was “more appropriate to his spontaneous, post-impressionist style of the movement” than the traditional method taught by Fletcher in London.
The traditional technique of woodblock printmaking draws from a long history of Japanese techniques that require the artist to cut different blocks for each color he wishes to include within the finished print. The print then has the impression of each block pressed into it to create the final product. This process was more physically demanding, and Nordfeldt’s method presented a departure that resulted in unique prints limited only by the artists’ skill and patience. Fellow Provincetown blockmaker Blanche Lazzell is also occasionally credited with co-creating the innovative design, which was used widely throughout the Provincetown artist’s community.
1878 Born in Tulstorg, Scania, Sweden
1891 Moves to the United States at age 14
1899 Enrolls at the Chicago Art Institute
1900 Travels to France and England to further studies
1903 Returns to Chicago and begins using his mother’s maiden name “Nordfeldt”
1906 Wins International Print Exhibition in Milan
1907 Moves East to Massachusetts, then New York
1908 Returns to Sweden to illustrate for Harper’s Magazine
1909 Marries Margaret Dolittle in December
1911 First solo exhibition at Albert Roullier’s Gallery, Chicago, IL
1913 Returns to Paris, stops in New York to view the Armory Show
1914 Becomes founding member of the Provincetown Players
1919 Moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico
1921 Joins Taos Society of Artists
1926 Becomes partner in the Spanish and Indian Trading Company in Santa Fe
1929 Begins painting landscapes, but destroys many before leaving New Mexico
1930 Begins painting in watercolor
1931 Taught a semester at Utah State College
1933 Taught a term at the Minneapolis School of Art
1934-37 Taught at the Wichita Art Association
1934-37 Makes lithographs for the WPA
1937 Permanently relocates to Lambertville, NJ
1941-43 Guest Professor for the Department of Art, University of Texas
1944 Divorces Margaret after six year separation, marries Emily Abbott, and teaches at the Minneapolis School of Art
1955 Dies of a heart attack in Henderson, TX
Amon Carter Museum, TX
Arizona State University Art Museum, AZ
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Delaware Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, IN
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, MN
Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, TX
Jonson Gallery of the Uinversity of New Mexico
Marion Koogler Mcnay Art Museum, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of New Mexico
New York Public Library
1900 Paris Exposition, France
1911 Albert Roullier’s Gallery, Chicago, IL
1912 Thurber’s Gallery, Chicago, IL
1912 Milwaukee Art Society, WI
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA
1917 National Arts Club, NY
1917 Daniel Gallery, NY
1919 Arts Club of Chicago, IL
1920 Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1921 Arts Club of Chicago, IL
1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, PA
1926 Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1929 Denver Art Museum, CO
1931 Anderson Galleries, NY
1931-50 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1933 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
1936 Denver Art Museum, CO
1937San Francisco Art Association, CA
1937 Hudson Walker Gallery, NY
1937 Lilienfeld Galleries, NY
1944-55 Passedoit Gallery, NY
1945 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1946 Pennsylvania Academy, PA
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
1950 Carnegie Institute
1951 Albright Museum, Buffalo, NY
Chicago Society of Etchers
Indian Artists Fund
New Mexico Society of Painters
Society of American Etchers
Society of Independent Artists
Taos Society of Artists
WPA/Federal Arts Project
1906 Sliver Medal, International Print Exhibition, Milan, Italy
1915 Silver Medal, San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition
1926 Bronze Medal, Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, PA
1926 Logan Medal, Art Institute of Chicago
1927 First Prize, Brooklyn Society of Etchers, Brooklyn, NY
1928 First Prize, Chicago Society of Etchers
1937 Yetter Prize for Painting, Denver Art Museum
1947 Purchase Prize for Painting, Worcester Art Museum
1949 Bronze Medal, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- 1. Action, David. A Spectrum of Innovation – Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960. 1990.
- 2. Coke, Van Deren. Nordfeldt the Painter. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
- 3. Devree, Howard. “Isolated Southwest, Restless Sea Limned in Work of O’Keeffe and Nordfeldt.” New York Times. 30 March 1955. p.32.
- 4. Hunter, Sam. B.J.O. Nordfeldt: An American Expressionist. 1984.
- 5. Preato, Robert and Sandra Langer. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945. 1988.
- 6. Udall, Sharyn. Modernist painting in New Mexico 1913-1935. 1984.
X. WORKS FOR SALE BY THIS ARTIST
Still Life with Squash
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A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones. The devil casting a seine of lace, (With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated. All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. Baruch de Loppis
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a wall of webbing used to encircle fish
To catch fish with a large fishing net made to hang vertically in the water by weights at the lower edge and floats at the top.
A net that is weighted so that it hangs vertically in the water. Its ends are then hauled together to form a trap like a large bag.
A type of commercial fishing gear - a large fishing net with floats along the top edge and weights along the bottom.
a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are drawn together or drawn ashore.
A net, usually suspended between two poles, which is pulled through the water to capture fish for bait. Seines used for this purpose must not exceed 12 feet in length and four feet in width.
A large net with sinkers on one side and floats on the other which hangs vertically in the water. Used to enclose fish and crabs when the ends are pulled together
net Seine nets have two wings and a reinforced section to retain fish, although a variety of net shapes and buoyancies are used. Seining may be done from a beach or boat.
A seine is a large fishing net that hangs vertically in the water by attaching weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top.
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Madison College Information Technology Association hosts workshop on landing a job
Nearly 30 students gathered at the Truax campus Thursday evening, Oct. 18, to get an edge on landing a job during tough times.
Madison College Information Technology Association (MITA) hosted this presentation, entitled “Landing Your First Job in a Tough Economy.” Jason Greely and Jordan Tway, both of staffing firm Robert Half Technology, educated the audience of mostly technology-based majors on job search strategies, interviewing, and online self-presentation.
Greely first emphasized the national attention towards employment, recalling how, in the second presidential debate, the first question both candidates fielded revolved around the outlook for youth employment. While the presentation steered clear of politics, it did raise participants’ awareness of job market difficulties. It also offered free pizza.
“A lot of senior level people who had lost their jobs because of the economy are starting to look for those entry level jobs,” Greely said.
Nonetheless, job seekers must maintain a positive attitude and a sense of practicality. Greely and Tway acknowledged that today’s job seekers may benefit from broadening their scope of positions. They could reach their desired outcome by taking part-time or temp work with a desired company and then network with hiring managers once they get their foot in the door.
IT Programmer/Analyst major Benjamin Hoppe knows the frustrations of looking for well-paying jobs. Already armed with a degree in Sociology, he went back to school in pursuit of more marketable IT skills.
“Everything is going mobile,” Hoppe said.
He described an increased demand for mobile applications developers.
“That’s where I really think the market is going, toward tablets and phones and I wanna be on the cutting edge of that,” he said.
As students listened, presenters touched on the importance of researching companies using local websites such as Madison.com and making use of Madison College’s career center.
Further, they taught students how they could build and maintain their network connections through the professional-targeted site, LinkedIn. A site where potential employees can connect to a wealth of information on companies. Also, they can package their professional selves and summarize their skill set for hiring managers who are increasingly using the site to recruit.
“80 percent of jobs are never advertised,” was written in bold on one powerpoint slide. Consequently, job seekers must garner opportunities by face-to-face networking, informational interviews, and marketing themselves well online.
IT Web Analyst/Programmer major Dennis Wills and IT Programmer/Analyst major Mindy Skowron both felt empowered by what they learned from the presentation.
“It was really informative,” said Skowron, who is currently seeking an internship.
Wills agreed, adding, “It gave me a few ideas on how to network, which is a key factor in landing a position these days.”
MITA President Angela Francis helped coordinate the presentation. She was pleased with the attendance and mentioned the importance of such events because they give students a safe environment to raise questions, practice their networking and develop communication skills in small, friendly settings.
Francis said “This is so vitally important because you’ve got to have those team building skills, those communication skills, those project skills, otherwise, your sunk, because the programmer sitting in their cubicle typing away at their code all day, that job doesn’t exist.”
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Ice Age Site Yields Five Mastodon Pelvises, Plus Two Tusks, Two Skulls
This week, the excavation team from the Denver Museum of Nature
& Science has uncovered many Mastodon bones -- including five
pelvises, two tusks, and two skulls -- all located together among
the sediments at the bottom of the area's original lakebed and on
top of the glacial moraine.
See photos from the dig site on Flickr.
"These giant fossils, the skulls and pelvises each the size of a
car door, are in one large bone bed among massive boulders,"
said Kirk Johnson, the leader of the Museum's excavation team
and vice president of the Research and Collections Division. "We
are just baffled as to why they are all in one place. One possible
scenario could be that they were from skeletons on the shoreline
that were washed into the lakebed and settled to the bottom. It's
just speculation at this point, as we piece together the details of
this incredible Ice Age scene."
An average mastodon pelvis weighs approximately 150 pounds, and
that weight increases to 400 pounds once the fossil is surrounded
by a plaster jacket. An average mastodon skull weighs up to 600
pounds before it is jacketed. The team at the Ice Age dig site near
Snowmass Village is relying on an excavator to hoist these heavy
specimens off the ground, and will rent a truck to transport them
down to the Museum for preservation.
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This is a great way to introduce rhyming words or using it to make new words. This is a power point that shows pictures of the letters and gives a sentence for each letter. I also us it in a computer center. The students will read the sentences and try to make up another sentence with the same letters. Enjoy!
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Everyone's having a big laugh over the Supreme Court's alleged lack of tech savvy, as illustrated during oral arguments in a case (Ontario vs. Quon) focusing on text message privacy for a city employee using a city-provided pager.
The gist of the case is that a SWAT team member had a government-issued pager with which he was sending racy text messages to his girlfriend. There was an official policy in the police department that messages sent on department-owned technology would not be private, but another of the SWAT team member's bosses deemed that pagers could be put to personal use outside of work, as long as he paid for overages. At issue is how much privacy someone texting with such a device can expect from the government. It's relatively new territory for the courts, and the SCOTUS decision could have a big impact on how Fourth-Amendment protection is extended to electronic material.
Which leads us to oral arguments, several exchanges of which led to lots of Internet mocking of the justices. It was the perfect nerd storm. Nerds who love technology and politics were nerdy enough to be attuned to news of a Supreme Court oral argument about a nerdy technology issue. When the nerds on the Court evinced insufficient familiarity with the tech nerds' domain, young, tech nerds of the Internet promptly turned on old, legal nerds of the Court in a shocking display of nerd-on-nerd mockery. See Rachel Maddow, who made an entire finger-puppet segment out of the "spectacularly uninformed" SCOTUS, which can be seen here. (I, too, am guilty, having linked a post poking some fun at the justices yesterday without reading the original transcript first.)
Soon, everyone with a Twitter account was electronically guffawing about how John Roberts doesn't know the difference between e-mail and a pager and enjoying a bonus laugh at the fact that John Roberts was appointed by George W. Bush. No wonder he's dumb, huh?
The problem is, the mockery (at least of Roberts's question, which has gotten the most attention) is based on an unfair and incomplete reading of the transcript.
The question for which the Court has gotten the most flack is this one from Roberts (pdf):
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Maybe -- maybe everybody else knows this, but what is the difference between the pager and the e-mail?
Wow, that does sound silly, doesn't it? But Roberts isn't asking about the difference between e-mail and a pager. He's asking about the differences in how police department policy treated e-mails sent from a computer and texts sent from department-issued pager. He's actually making a rather sophisticated distinction, not betraying his ignorance. The exchange preceding Roberts' question features Quon's lawyer Dieter Dammeier explaining the policy, "The city will periodically monitor e-mail, Internet use and computer usage," and Justice Ginsburg asking if it wouldn't be reasonable for an employee to assume the same would apply to texts sent via pager.
And, here's Dammeier's answer to Roberts:
MR. DAMMEIER: Sure. The e-mail, looking at the computer policy, that goes through the city's computer, it goes through the city's server, it goes through all the equipment that -- that has -- that the city can easily monitor. Here the pagers are a separate device that goes home with you, that travels with you, that you can use on duty, off-duty.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You can do that with e-mails.
MR. DAMMEIER: Certainly, certainly. But - but in this -- in this instance with the pagers it went through no city equipment, it went through Arch Wireless and then was transmitted to another -- another person.
What Roberts is trying to tease out is whether there are differences in reasonable expectations of privacy and the police department's conduct depending on where e-mails are stored (on a government server) vs. where text messages are stored (by a private company).
He expands upon this thought later:
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Again, it depends upon their reasonable expectation. Do any of these other people know about Arch Wireless? Don't they just assume that once they send something to Quon, it's going to Quon?
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Will Daylight Saving Time Make My Cat Bonkers?
I love Daylight Saving Time. I love the extra relaxing hour of evening that it provides. I love that it heralds the onset of spring. In my opinion, it’s just about the best possible use for an hour. And let's face it: An hour isn't much.
But Daylight Saving Time has its detractors. Just as alarmists feared that fluoridation of the water supply was a Communist plot (a plot, evidently, for Americans to stop suffering from cavities), some people claim that Daylight Saving Time harms health through disruption of circadian rhythms, or leads to excess energy use, or simply represents a lost hour of sleep. Several governments, notably those in Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Arizona, do not recognize Daylight Saving Time.
But, for the sake of thoroughness, let's revisit those possible health issues. Specifically, since I'm a veterinarian, let's talk about the potential health issues your pet may suffer as a result of a time change.
My experience of the effects of one-hour time changes in pets is this: They are negligible. It's one thing to fly your cat from Seattle to Mumbai. She will experience significant jet lag, not to mention culture shock. It's another thing entirely to move the clock ahead or back by an hour. In my experience, most pets simply don't notice. And why would they?
Let's start with the worst part of Daylight Saving Time: You have to get up for work at a time that feels like an hour earlier for at least a week. Ostensibly, your cat may also have to get up earlier (although I'll bet many pets simply keep sleeping -- I know my dog does). Regardless, I doubt your cat has to worry about getting to work on time. Waking up early isn't so bad if, rather than heading into the office, you get to lounge around all day like most cats do.
If you regularly sleep six to eight hours a night and then have to high-tail it to work, that lost hour hurts. But what if you’re a cat and you usually sleep 16 to 18 hours out of every 24? If you could go back to sleep for as long as you wanted after the alarm went off (perhaps after first eating breakfast), would you really notice if the alarm went off an hour earlier, never mind the scrambling and complaining your owner was doing?
Cats and dogs are highly adaptable. Part of their job is to adjust to our schedules. Do you and your cat wake up at precisely the same time every day? I certainly hope not. If you do, I hereby diagnose your pet's life as boring. (I am precluded by law from diagnosing your life as boring, but you can draw your own conclusions.) In that case, I recommend that you try to shake things up a bit. You and your cat will be happier for it.
If you have to go into work early, Miss Tibbs adapts. If you get to sleep in on a Saturday, Fluffy sleeps in too. Cats and dogs can roll with these sorts of changes, and for the vastly overwhelming majority of them, an hour here or there won’t be a big deal.
Remember that both species were domesticated before humans had invented the concept of time. Outside of the tropics, photoperiods (the lengths of each day) vary with the seasons. Human schedules differed with the length of each day, and our pets' schedules varied right along with ours.
That said, there is one veterinary-specific aspect of the time change that should be addressed: medications. Many pet meds are prescribed to be given at intervals of 8, 12, or 24 hours. If your cat normally receives her thyroid medication at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., what should you do when the time changes? Continue to administer it at last week’s time, or adjust to the change and administer it at 9 and 9 until Standard Time returns?
In the overwhelming majority of cases, it doesn't matter. With rare exceptions (which generally involve medications that normally would be administered only in an ICU setting), giving your kitty her medicine an hour early or late won't make any difference at all.
There are, however, a couple of exceptions. The first is insulin, which is used to treat diabetes. If you give your cat her dose too early, it could lead to dangerous low blood sugar levels. The good news is that, even for insulin, the risks of changing the timing of administration by an hour are very small. It probably won't matter. However, if your pet is diabetic, check with your vet about how this drug should be administered after the time change.
Another exception is furosemide, also known as Lasix, which is used to treat heart failure. Again, for most pets, an hour's difference in timing probably won't matter. But if you want to be safe, discuss it with your vet this week.
If you’re still worried that Daylight Saving Time is bad, I have two propositions. First, and most simply, why bother changing the clock at all? This would eliminate time changes and the minor complications they cause.
If year-round Daylight Saving Time is unpalatable, then I have an idea that everyone surely would accept. Let's change the timing of the time change.
Instead of boringly switching over at 2 a.m. on Sundays, wouldn’t it be better to "spring forward" at 4 p.m. on Friday? It’d certainly make the weekend get here faster. And we could then "fall back" at 5 a.m. Monday. The new timing would lead to one better Friday and one better Monday each year, with no downside that any person would notice. And, like the current time change regimen, it would have negligible effect on our pets.
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Ukiyo-e paintings and prints: the early period
Ukiyo-e, 'pictures of the floating world', depict the Kabuki actors, courtesans and female entertainers (geisha) of the pleasure-quarters of urban Japan, where men (strictly, commoners, but also numbers of samurai) went to escape the rigid social hierarchy of feudal society.
The Ukiyo-e school developed out of early seventeenth century fūzokuga ('genre paintings') of the entertainment districts of Kyoto and Osaka. However, by the late seventeenth century, the centre of demand for these works had moved east to the Shogun's capital city of Edo (modern Tokyo), with the rapid growth of the wealthy merchant class there.
Ukiyo-e artists worked in a number of formats. Printed books (guide-books, picture-books, illustrated narratives, and illustrated poetry anthologies) grew in popularity as literacy rates increased. Many Ukiyo-e artists were also commissioned by rich clients to produce hanging-scroll paintings (nikuhitsu), often showing single figures of celebrated courtesans. However, it was the single-sheet woodblock print that was most readily available as a cheap memento or pin-up, and many thousands of designs were produced by a succession of highly accomplished artists.
Many of the earlier Ukiyo-e prints by artists such as Hishikawa Moronobu, Sugimura Jihei (worked about 1680-1705), Torii Kiyomasu I (worked about 1700-20), Nishimura Shigenaga (died 1756) were hand-coloured. From the early 1740s, Okumura Masanobu (?1686-1764) and others started to use a limited number of colour blocks.
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Our subject's father, Maurice Armstrong, was a native of Kentucky, a son of one of its early pioneers, Joshua Armstrong, who was a Pennsylvanian by birth. The last named was also a pioneer of this State during territorial days, migrating from Kentucky with teams in 1810, and being one of the first to settle in what is now Madison County. At that time there were but few white settlers in Illinois, and the Indians, who were often hostile, still boldly ventured within their domain, to avail themselves of the advantages afforded by the rich virgin soil, built blockhouses in which to live when the Indians were on the war-path, and they always went armed into the fields. The grandfather of our subject, after spending several years in Madison County, removed to Jersey County, and there died in the fullness of time. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Morris, and she was born in Virginia, of French ancestry.
The father of our subject was young when the family came to Illinois, and he grew to a stalwart, vigorous manhood in the wilds of Madison County. When he started out in life on his own account he bought in that county, a tract of land with a few improvements, and lived upon it until 1833, when he sold that place, and took up his abode in what is now Jersey County, where he bought a tract of timber land and built the log house in which his son, of whom we write, was born. He rived shingles for the roof, and made the house in the primitive manner common in the construction of dwellings in those days. After he had his family comfortably domiciled, he commenced to evolve a farm from the wilderness. He had not the conveniences of modern machinery to aid him in his work, and there were no railways to bring the markets within easy access, so that whenever he needed supplies or wished to dispose of his produce, he had to go to Alton with a team, that being the nearest city. His wife, who was an adept at the old-fashioned arts of carding, spinning and weaving, used to manufacture the cloth with which she clothed her children, and she cooked their meals before the fire in the rude open fireplace of the olden days.
In 1854 Maurice Armstrong sold his place in Jersey County, and going to Montgomery County settled on land he had entered from the government. He built upon it and resided there one year, after which he rented it and, removing to Girard, bought a home in the town, in which he lived quietly until his life was rounded out by death. In early manhood he married Elizabeth Sims, a native of Kentucky. She died at a venerable age at Girard. She was the mother of 12 children: Aholla, James, Eveline, Mary Adeline, William, Thomas, Andrew, Jane, Christopher Co., Benjamin F., Maurice and Elizabeth.
Christopher C. Armstrong was reared under pioneer influences, and obtained his education in the primitive schools of Jersey County, that were taught in log school-houses, furnished with slab benches without backs and with wooden pins for legs. There were no desks in front of the seats. The light was admitted by a log being cut out of the wall, and a row of glass inserted into the aperture thus made. Our subject can well remember the wild condition of the country in which he passed his boyhood, when deer, wolves and other kinds of wild game were plentiful. Before he attained his majority he left his home with its familiar scenes, and in 1855 moved with his folks to Girard, then a small but flourishing village, and opening a general store, he soon became one of its most enterprising merchants. In 1870 he established himself in the drug trade, and until recently carried it on very prosperously, having a neat and well equipped store, fully stocked with everything usually found in such an establishment. Mr. Armstrong sold this business in June, 1902, and in September, 1903, with his son Byron, opened a large and well appointed drug store in Jacksonville, Illinois, operating under the firm style of Armstrong & Armstrong. Their stock, which is complete and up-to-date in every respect, is valued at $10,000. They make a specialty of physicians' supplies.
Mr. Armstrong was married in 1862 to Fanny D. Weed, and they have made their home the center of a charming hospitality. Six children have been born to them, of whom four are now living: Herbert, Paul, Byron and Irene.
Mr. Armstrong is justly held to be one of the county's citizens, for his private life is irreproachable and in every public position he has held he has always acted for the best interests of the city and county. His fellow citizens, appreciating his worth, his sound business instincts, and his genuine integrity of character, have often called upon him to fill responsible offices. He has represented Girard as a member of the County Board of Supervisors several terms; he has served as a member of the City Council of Girard, and also as a member of the School Board. He belongs to Girard Lodge No. 171, A. F. and A. M.; Girard Chapter, No. 132, R. A. M.; St. Omar Commandery, No. 30, K. T.; and Macoupin Council, R. and S. M. Politically, he is a Democrat, and has always stood firmly by his party. Aside from his private business, our subject is identified with the financial interests of the city - as treasurer of the Girard Building and Loan Association, and as president of the Girard Coal Company, he has contributed greatly to their success and importance.
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This fun and entertaining book began as a catalog for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's exhibit of air travel posters. Beginning with the promotion for daring early hot air balloon rides, continuing with the soaring antics of the barnstormers, and through the advertisements for commercial air liners, these posters span 150 years of the fascinating history of flight. Many of the posters have never been published, but we're glad that the Museum's curators have given them a new life by combining them with informative text and special stories. Perfect for aviation buffs and poster collectors alike. 192 pages, 10" X 8".
BK227 - Fly Now!
A Colorful Story of Flight from Hot Air Balloon to the 777 "Worldliner"
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What We Do:
The Public Information and Liaison Branch is responsible for NIDA's information dissemination activities:
- Initiates and monitors press relations activities
- Manages and maintains NIDA websites for multiple audiences
- Responds to information inquiries from the public
- Conducts public education campaigns, including National Drug Facts Week
- Manages the development and dissemination of NIDA publications
- Coordinates NIDA's exhibits program
- Provides graphics and video support services
- Publishes NIDA Notes newsletter about NIDA-supported research activities
- Responds to Freedom of Information Requests
Carol Krause, M.A., Branch Chief, PILB
Ms. Krause joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in 2006 as the Chief of the Public Information and Liaison Branch (PILB), where she has launched several innovative programs, including National Drug Facts Week, the first Addiction Science Awards at the annual INTEL Science and Engineering Fair, and the National Centers of Excellence for Physician Information. As Chief, PILB, Ms. Krause oversees a staff of communications professionals with expertise in Web, media, publications, and health education campaigns. In other government service, Ms. Krause was selected to be the first Communications Director of the HHS Office on Women’s Health (HHS OWH) in 1997 and launched the National Women’s Health Information Center, the government’s premiere health Web site for women, which won a designation as one of the Top Ten government Web sites in the year 2000, and soon after achieved the highest grade of all government web sites rated by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Ms. Krause has more than 25 years’ experience in health education in the public and private sector. She began her career as an Emmy Award winning television journalist covering medical and political issues, and has written a nationally published book on family medical histories. Carol has a B.A. in Political Science from the George Washington University and an M.A. in Communications and Public Affairs from American University.
David Anderson, Public Health Advisor
Mr. Anderson joined the Public Information and Liaison Branch in the Office of Science Policy in February 1999 and assumed the editorship of NIDA Notes. In 2002 he founded NIDA’s peer reviewed journal Science & Practice Perspectives (subsequently renamed Addiction Science & Clinical Practice; AS&CP), and edited both publications until 2011, when Evans Medical Foundation and Biomed Central acquired AS&CP. Mr. Anderson has been Senior Editor of RN, a journal for nurses, and Contemporary Internal Medicine, for primary care physicians. He has also served as founding editor of CV Nurse and contributing editor to Patient Care and Business & Health magazines. Mr. Anderson has a master's degree in Population and International Health from Harvard School of Public Health, and has written original research and policy monographs on international issues in abortion, AIDS, male fertility, and Russian mortality for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. Other health-related organizations he has worked with include the Pan American Health Organization, Pathfinder International, Data for Decision-Making, and the Harvard Center for Population and Development.
Josie Anderson, Visual Production Specialist
Ms. Anderson joined the Public Information and Liaison Branch (PILB) team in October of 2012 and filled one of NIDA’s newest positions - Visual Production Specialist. Currently, she works directly with the PILB Branch Chief, while also augmenting the NIDA Director and Press Team. The Visual Production Specialist is just one example of how NIDA is progressing in the world of mass media and innovative technologies. Combining the technical skill of video production and the operational support of public relations, the possibilities for NIDA are endless in this new venture. Prior to NIDA, Ms. Anderson served in the United States Air Force (USAF) for ten years, as a Broadcast Journalist. Her military experience includes pioneering the first USAF media outreach team in Iraq, lead videographer for the USAF Thunderbirds, and was an on-location correspondent during combat, training and humanitarian missions in over 15 countries. She also attended the Defense Information School with a background in Public Affairs and Broadcast specialties.
Elisabeth Davis, M.P.H., Public Health Analyst
Ms. Davis joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in 2006 as a Public Health Analyst. Currently, Ms. Davis serves as a Project Officer for the Physicians Outreach project (referred to as our NIDAMED/NIDA Centers of Excellence project) and for the Educational Marketing project (referred to as our Scholastic project). The Physicians Outreach project includes working with 8 medical schools around the country to develop innovative medical education curriculum resources on drug abuse and addiction, an evaluation study, the development of products for and Advertising/ marketing to practicing physicians, and much more! The Scholastic project involves the creation and design of print articles (3 per year that each appear in 6 magazines), posters, and web-only content for middle and high school students and teachers. In addition to these projects, beginning in 2009 Ms. Davis was tasked as the Project Manager/Coordinator of NIDA’s first ever National Drug Facts Week, a health observance week for teens. Prior to coming to NIDA, Ms. Davis held a variety of positions in the field of Public Health including Senior Research Coordinator for an adolescent health and media study at the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communications and the Director of a community/school-based violence prevention program in Philadelphia. Ms. Davis also worked on projects/studies of women and heart disease, adolescent obesity, prenatal health, gun violence prevention, educational programs in prisons, and health insurance for children.
Kimberly DiFonzo, Senior Media Specialist (Contractor)
Ms. DiFonzo joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in April 2008 with over 20 years of public relations experience working for trade associations, non-profit organizations and public relations firms. Her experience combines a broad knowledge of healthcare communications and media relations, as well as educational program development and execution. Kim is a member of the NIDA press team and responds daily to inquiries from national, local and social media on a wide variety of issues related to drug addiction research. She prepares spokespeople for media interviews, assists with the implementation of media outreach campaigns and events, including National Drug Facts Week, Monitoring the Future, and the Addiction Performance Project, and writes and edits various press materials. Prior to NIDA, Kim worked in the public relations office at the American Psychological Association, wrote public relations materials on behalf of the President of the American Nurses Association, served as a national spokesperson for the blood services program at the American Red Cross, and managed the Campaign on Clinical Depression while at Burson-Marsteller. Kim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, VA.
Mark Fleming, M.A., Webmaster
Mr. Fleming joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in December 2000 as the Webmaster in the Public Information and Liaison Branch. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in zoology from Miami University in Ohio and a Master of Arts in visual communications from Ohio University. He has worked for NIDA for the past 27 years, both as a contractor and now as a federal employee. He established the Visual Media Unit to provide photographic and graphic arts support for NIDA intramural research in 1986. In addition, he established the NIDA web site in 1995 and has worked since then to increase its scope and exposure. Recently, his work has focused on migrating the NIDA sites to a content management system, which allowed creation of a full responsive design version of NIDA’s site as well as delivery of NIDA publications in e-pub format. As NIDA’s 508 coordinator, Mr. Fleming and his support team work with NIDA staff to ensure all information products meet accessibility regulations. With the new site launch and remediation to other NIDA web properties, NIDA reached 99% compliance in 2012.
Sheri Grabus, Ph.D., Acting Press Officer
Dr. Grabus joined the Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in November 2010 as the NIDA Deputy Press Officer and began managing the press team in early 2013, bringing a strong science background to NIDA’s media outreach efforts. Sheri was trained as a neuroscientist and has a Ph.D. from American University in Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience. As a postdoc at Virginia Commonwealth University, she designed mouse models of nicotine dependence and reward, and studied nicotinic agonists, antagonists, and bupropion. She has also taught at the college level—including courses in psychology, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and she has lectured on drug dependence, pharmacology and drugs and pain control. Prior to joining NIDA, Sheri served as Executive Director for a small-town Chamber of Commerce and was in charge of all marketing, public relations, sales and media relations.
Janet Linton, Web Analyst
Ms. Linton joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in March of 2009 to provide web support to the NIDA Webmaster. Her primary tasks include: ensuring NIDA’s content is compliant with section 508, overseeing NIDA’s Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube accounts. Ms. Linton helped design NIDA’s National Drug Facts Week (NDFW) website, and is responsible for all updates and maintenance. Prior to joining OSPC, Ms. Linton worked as a lead operator, training and overseeing employees, at the PNC Bank Operation Center in Baltimore, MD. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Animation from Westwood College.
Brian Marquis, Program Analyst
Mr. Marquis joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in January 2002 as the Information Center Manager for the Public Information and Liaison Branch. He is now the NIDA Public Liaison Officer and connects with organizations across the country with the help of NIDA publications and Web sites. Prior to joining OSPC, Mr. Marquis worked at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Publications Clearinghouse and as a contractor at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He has a B.S. in Family Studies from University of Maryland, College Park.
Aaron Martinek, Web Analyst (Contractor)
Mr. Martinek has been a contractor with NIDA for over 13 years. Originally a Graphic Artist at NIDA’s Intramural Research Program (IRP) in Baltimore, he switched his role to Web Analyst, and moved to Office of Science Policy and Communications in 2005 to focus on NIDA's websites. Mr. Martinek handles everything from web development to design for digital/print materials. He holds a Graphic Artist degree and has over 20 years’ experience in the field of design.
Stephanie Older, JD, Deputy Branch Chief
Stephanie Older became the Publication Information and Liaison Branch’s Deputy Branch Chief in early 2013, managing publications and media efforts, as well as supporting virtually all outreach activities across the Branch. She joined NIDA’s press team in 2008, and became the press team leader in 2010, when she launched NIDA’s social media program, energized NIDA’s media response capabilities and enhanced outreach to high school and college journalists. Her prior communications experience includes media work for both corporate and non-profit organizations, most notably as the media liaison for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. Ms. Older holds a law degree from the University of Baltimore as well as a B.A. in communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining NIDA, she served as Attorney-Advisor to an Associate Chief Judge at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Lanette Palmquist, Program Analyst
Ms. Palmquist joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in November 1999 as a Program Analyst. Prior to joining OSPC, Ms. Palmquist was a Program Analyst in the Office of Science Policy at the National Center for Research Resources, NIH where she was responsible for a vast array of projects including contracts, evaluations and analyzing budget data. Ms. Palmquist is responsible for handling the Institute’s Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests and responding to e-mail queries and social media posts from the public. She also serves as the Alternate Contracting Office Representative (COR) for the Scholastic contract and assists OSPC staff with various projects. Ms. Palmquist received her B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Mount Holyoke College.
Shirley Simson, Senior Media Specialist (Contractor)
Ms. Simson joined Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) in March of 2006. She has almost 20 years of experience developing, managing, and implementing successful public relations programs, with an emphasis on health communication and social marketing. Ms. Simson has worked on behalf of a number of federal clients, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Food and Drug Administration; and the U.S. Department of Transportation. She also spent two years as a media spokesperson for the national headquarters of the American Red Cross. As a member of the NIDA press team, her responsibilities include responding to daily inquiries from national and local media on a wide variety of issues related to drug addiction research; scheduling and preparing NIDA spokespeople for press interviews; conducting proactive media outreach activities in support of NIDA press events and meetings; and writing and editing press materials. Ms. Simson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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"A National Historic Landmark designation. . .will ensure that those who died at Mountain Meadows will always be remembered as part of our nation's history," said Marlin K. Jensen, official historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jensen met this morning in Carrollton, Ark., with representatives of the Mountain Meadows Association, the Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants and the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation, all of whom had asked the church to seek landmark status for its holdings in southern Utah, where Mormon militia and a some native people killed about 120 emigrants on a California-bound wagon train from Arkansas on Sept. 11, 1857.
The Mountain Meadows site is already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but requirements for a landmark designation are much more stringent, according to an LDS Church statement. The process involves documenting the historic significance of the site, a public comment period, and review by the National Park Service and a government-appointed board of experts. The Secretary of the Interior will make the final decision.
At today's meeting, Jensen also sought input from the descendants groups on proposed plans to create a second memorial with interpretive markers at the Burgess upper gravesite, an area recently acquired by the church where remains of some of the victims are thought to lie. The church recently purchased 600 additional acres of land at Mountain Meadows to avert its development into a residential subdivision.
"The land will be left undeveloped to preserve the sanctity of that hallowed area and out of respect for those who died there," Jensen said.
Six months ago, Mormon leaders gathered at Mountain Meadows with the three descendants groups, Paiutes and others at a 150th anniversary memorial service to honor the victims of the massacre.
At that time, Henry B. Eyring, then an LDS apostle, now a member of the church's governing First Presdiency, acknowledged that the responsibility rested with regional LDS leaders who also held civic and military positions and with members of the church acting under their direction. "What was done here long ago by members of our church represents a terrible and inexcusable departure from Christian teaching and conduct," Eyring said at the September 2007 service "We cannot change what happened, but we can remember and honor those who were killed here."
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When Joey Watson was born, his mom, Pat Farmer, saw a sweet, chubby-faced little boy. Only the small hole in his scalp and the extra finger on each of his hands gave the outward impression that there might be a problem.
She was lost when, just a few days after he was born, doctors told her that her son Joey was born with Trisomy 13, a chromosomal disorder that causes babies to have a limited life span. (read more)
Looking up at the stage, it’s easy to get lost in early 19th-century London, filled with beggars, women of ill repute and criminals.
And that’s exactly what the actors on the stage during Idaho State University’s Threepenny Opera want — an audience that experiences the story without thinking about the hundreds of hours of work that happens behind-the-scenes. (read more)
With 2010 being the Year of the Tiger, an interview with Benny the Bengal seemed appropriate. Enjoy this glimpse into the mind of a champion. (read more)
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Wall Street Manipulates Deficit Angst with 'Fiscal Cliff' Fear
Deficit hawks rely on media allies to report budget doom to advance their agenda of cutting Medicare and social security
Many of the nation's most important news outlets openly embrace the agenda of the rich and powerful that colors its coverage of major economic issues. This is perhaps nowhere better demonstrated than during the current budget standoff between President Obama and Congress, which the media routinely describes as the "fiscal cliff". This terminology seriously misrepresents the nature of the budget dispute, as everyone in the debate has acknowledged. There is no "cliff" currently facing the budget or the economy.
If no deal is reached this year, then on 1 January, daily tax withholdings will rise by an average of about $4 per person. Any money actually deducted from pay checks will be refunded if a deal is subsequently reached that returns tax rates to 2012 levels. Government spending probably won't change at the start of the new year, since President Obama has considerable discretion over the flow of spending. No one can think that this modest increase in tax withholdings would plunge the economy into a recession, but the Wall Street types seeking to dismantle social security and Medicare have used their enormous wealth and allies in the media to generate this kind of fear-mongering across the country.
One way in which they have pushed their agenda has been in misrepresenting projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO's projections show that if higher tax rates and lower spending are left in place for the whole year, then it will substantially slow growth and push the economy into a recession. However, these projections explicitly assume that we go a whole year without reaching a deal. They say nothing about what happens if the government cuts a deal by the second or third week in January. Even a Washington Post editor should be sharp enough to understand this distinction; nonetheless, many stories have implied that the recession projections apply to missing the 1 January deadline.
Wall Street types have also pushed this idea that the markets are demanding for programs like social security and Medicare be cut. This sort of assertion, which is treated as a fundamental truth by the Washington insider crowd, has the wonderful feature of escaping contradiction. Of course, none of us knows exactly what will trouble the financial markets or by how much that trouble would hurt the economy. (In fact, even a sustained drop in the stock market has a limited effect on the economy, and short term fluctuations have almost no impact.) This means that when Wall Street, or their designated mouthpieces, make authoritative-sounding claims that the markets will be upset if we don't cut social security or Medicare as part of a budget deal, there is no direct way to refute them. After all, it is possible that they might be right.
If economic reporters did their job, though, they would be looking for evidence to support these assertions about financial markets. They could start by looking at the track records of those issuing the warnings. If they examined the track records of people at organizations like the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and other deficit hawks, they would reveal to their audiences that these "experts" have the distinction of being almost 100% wrong on just about all their economic predictions over the last five years.
This crew has been predicting that large budget deficits would cause interest rates to skyrocket ever since President Obama's first round of stimulus, almost four years ago. Many also predicted that inflation would explode. Yet, none of them warned us about the housing bubble: they were too busy running around the country yelling about the budget deficits even when the deficits were small enough that the debt to GDP ratio was actually declining.
In short, major national news outlets have adopted the agenda of the Wall Street elite that displays zero evidence of any understanding of what drives the economy, wholesale. Their assertions that the markets will panic without a budget deal that cuts social security and Medicare have no apparent foundation in reality. It is just a threat that they have concocted to advance their agenda. Now, that would make for a very good news story.
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See his autobiography (1911, repr. 1973); study by N. B. Crowell (1953).
He became a barrister in 1857 before leaving law to concentrate on literature.
Politically conservative, Austin edited National Review for several years, and wrote leading articles for The Standard.
On Tennyson's death in 1892 it was felt that none of the then living poets, except Algernon Charles Swinburne or William Morris, who were outside consideration on other grounds, was of sufficient distinction to succeed to the laurel crown, and for several years no new poet-laureate was nominated. In the interval the claims of one writer and another were assessed, but eventually, in 1896, Austin was appointed to the post after Morris had declined the post.
Austin died of unknown causes in Ashford, Kent, England.
As poet-laureate, his topical verses did not escape negative criticism; a hasty poem written in praise of the Jameson Raid in 1896 being a notable instance. The most effective characteristic of Austin's poetry, as of the best of his prose, was a genuine and intimate love of nature. His prose idylls, The Garden that I love and In Veronica's Garden, are full of a pleasant, open-air flavour. His lyrical poems are wanting in spontaneity and individuality, but many of them possess a simple, orderly charm, as of an English country lane. He had, indeed, a true love of England, sometimes not without a suspicion of insularity, but always fresh and ingenuous. A drama by him, Flodden Field, was acted at His Majesty's theatre in 1903.
Among his works are Pacchiarotto, Prince Lucifer and The Human Tragedy (1862). His autobiography was published in 1911.
Now upon English soil I soon shall stand, |
Homeward from climes that fancy deems more fair;
And well I know that there will greet me there
No soft foam fawning upon smiling strand,
No scent of orange-groves, no zephyrs bland;
But Amazonian March, with breast half bare
And sleety arrows whistling through the air,
Will be my welcome from that burly land.
Yet he who boasts his birth-place yonder lies
Owns in his heart a mood akin to scorn
For sensuous slopes that bask 'neath Southern skies,
Teeming with wine and prodigal of corn,
And, gazing through the mist with misty eyes,
Blesses the brave bleak land where he was born.
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Saguinus tripartitus occurs in the upper Amazon rainforest between the Rio Curaray in Ecuador and the Rio Napo in Peru. It can also be found east of the Andes between the right bank of the Rio Napo and the left bank of the Rio Putumayo in Ecuador. (de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008; Emmons, 1990; Hershkovitz, 1977)
Saguinus tripartitus is found in lowland evergreen rainforests, seasonally flooded forests, and terra firma of the Amazon basin. Although typically found at lower elevations, S. tripartitus has been recorded at up to 400 meters above sea level in the western limits of its range, near the Andes Mountains. In general, tamarins are highly arboreal and are rarely seen on the ground. (de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008; Emmons, 1990; Hershkovitz, 1977)
Saguinus tripartitus can range from 218 to 240 mm in body length and 316 to 341 mm in tail length. They have orange bodies and blackish orange hands. Their heads are covered in black fur with muzzles and faces which are generally white. On their lower back is a patch of cream colored hair. Their tails are generally black with an orange underside. This species is also closely related to Saguinus fuscicollis. Some investigators consider S. tripartitus to be a subspecies of S. fuscicollis. (de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008; Emmons, 1990; Grizmek, 2003)
Saguinus tripartitus, like other callitrichids, live in groups in which only the dominant female mates, typically with multiple males. There is some evidence of facultative polyandry among tamarins, in which two or more males mate with the female and cooperate in caring for the twin offspring. (Abbot, et al., 1993)
Saguinus tripartitus, like other callitrichids, live in groups in which only the dominant female mates. As in other callitrichid species, the ovarian cycles of subordinate S. tripartitus females are suppressed while living in groups. In studies involving captive females living in family groups, low and acyclic levels of urinary estradiol (a hormone produced by the ovaries) were recorded while females were living as subordinates. When females were removed from the family group and placed in isolation with a male, their levels of urinary estradiol skyrocketed and immediate onset of their ovarian cycles occurred. The physiological reasons behind this are not known, but it is speculated that pheromones from dominant females may play a part in suppression of ovarian cycles in subordinate females. The length of gestation and lactation periods, breeding seasons and intervals, and time to sexual maturity, are not known. They are believed to be similar to other members of the genus Saguinus in terms of these traits. Gestation periods for Saguinus range from 140 days to 180 days, with most species having gestation periods between 140 and 150 days. Information regarding lactation periods of Saguinus could not be found. No generalizations could be made about the breeding seasons of the whole genus based on the information available. However, Saguinus fuscicollis breeds between April and October, and Saguinus oedipus and Saguinus geoffroyi breed between January and February. The age to sexual maturity varies between 15 and 24 months for Saguinus species. (Rowe, 1996; Abbot, et al., 1993; Rowe, 1996)
Patterns and duration of parental investment are not known. Fathers tend to provide and care for the infants more than mothers do after they are born. This may be offset the substantial energy investment of the mother during gestation and lactation. Tamarins give birth to young with large body masses relative to the mother's body mass, so females invest large amounts of energy into the young before they are born. Post-birth care from parents comes in the form of providing food, providing protection, and carrying the young around as they develop. Social groups also help to care for the young, sharing food and generally protecting them. (Abbot, et al., 1993)
Little information is available about the lifespan of Saguinus tripartitus. Rowe (1996) lists lifespan in the wild as 6 years and Hershkovitz (1977) mentions one specimen living five years, nine months, and nineteen days in captivity. (Hershkovitz, 1977; Rowe, 1996)
Saguinus tripartitus individuals are very social. There are definite social hierarchies among groups, but these hierarchies have not been studied. Groups generally include 2 to 8 (maximum 15) members. The average group size is 5.3 individuals. These social hierarchies are maintained through the use of scent marking. Saguinus tripartitus individuals are arboreal and rarely seen on the ground. (Abbot, et al., 1993; de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008)
No information could be found regarding the home range of Sagunius tripartitus. They have been documented as having a population density of 13.5 individuals per square kilometer. (Abbot, et al., 1993)
Saguinus tripartitus primarily uses scents in communication. Individuals use circumgenital marking (marking using glands surrounding the anus) and suprapubic marking (marking using suprapubic glands). Individuals of higher social rank mark more frequently than those of a lower social standing. Saguinus tripartitus individuals can distinguish a large amount of information from scents, such as sex, species, social rank and reproductive status. (Abbot, et al., 1993)
Saguinus tripartitus is primarily insectivorous and frugivorous. They have also been known to eat small vertebrates, non-insect arthropods, flowers, nectars, gums, and other plant exudates. They may feed less on exudates than some other primates because they lack the dentary adaptations of those species for gouging into plants. (Abbot, et al., 1993; de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008; Grizmek, 2003)
Saguinus tripartitus individuals are preyed on by a variety of animals including birds of prey, snakes, ocelots, and tayras. They use several behaviors to protect themselves from these predators. They differentiate between the fecal scents of predators and non-predators in order to avoid areas which may have predators in them. They use specific warning calls which can alert others nearby if the threat is aerial or terrestrial. They sometimes mob predators. (Abbot, et al., 1993)
In its ecosystem, Saguinus tripartitus is important for its role as prey for larger animals. Most often these are birds of prey. It also has a small role as a predator of insects and very small vertebrates. It is also possible that the diet of S. tripartitus makes them important in seed dispersal and the pollination of flowers. (Abbot, et al., 1993; de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008; Grizmek, 2003)
Saguinus tripartitus is listed as "Near Threatened" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Saguinus tripartitus occurs in remote forests along the Rio Yasuni. Human activities have not greatly impacted these forests to date, with the exception of small petroleum prospecting encampments. However, the recent discovery of petroleum in the area has led to the construction of the Pompeya-Iro highway through the area, which has caused some concern about future deforestation and development in the habitat of S. tripartitus. Due to projected high rates of deforestation, the population of S. tripartitus is expected to decline by twenty-five percent over the next eighteen years (three generations). (de la Torre and Cornejo, 2008; Emmons, 1990)
Justin Carter (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Lauren Hall (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Phil Myers (editor, instructor), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Tanya Dewey (editor), Animal Diversity Web.
living in the southern part of the New World. In other words, Central and South America.
uses sound to communicate
young are born in a relatively underdeveloped state; they are unable to feed or care for themselves or locomote independently for a period of time after birth/hatching. In birds, naked and helpless after hatching.
Referring to an animal that lives in trees; tree-climbing.
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
an animal that mainly eats meat
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
helpers provide assistance in raising young that are not their own
ranking system or pecking order among members of a long-term social group, where dominance status affects access to resources or mates
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
union of egg and spermatozoan
an animal that mainly eats fruit
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
An animal that eats mainly insects or spiders.
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
the business of buying and selling animals for people to keep in their homes as pets.
Referring to a mating system in which a female mates with several males during one breeding season (compare polygynous).
rainforests, both temperate and tropical, are dominated by trees often forming a closed canopy with little light reaching the ground. Epiphytes and climbing plants are also abundant. Precipitation is typically not limiting, but may be somewhat seasonal.
communicates by producing scents from special gland(s) and placing them on a surface whether others can smell or taste them
remains in the same area
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
associates with others of its species; forms social groups.
uses touch to communicate
Living on the ground.
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
uses sight to communicate
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
Abbot, D., J. Barrett, A. Belcher, et al.. 1993. Marmosets and Tamarins: Systematics, Behaviour, and Ecology. United States: Oxford University Press.
Emmons, L. 1990. Neotropical Rainforst Mammals. United States of America: The University of Chicago Press.
Grizmek, B. 2003. Family: New World Monkeys II. Pp. 127-128 in M Hutchins, D Kleiman, V Geist, M McDade, eds. Grzimek's Animal Life Encylopedia, Vol. Volume 14, Second Edition. Detroit: Gale.
Hershkovitz, P. 1977. Living New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Heymann, E., M. Vasquez. 2001. Crested Eagle (Morphnus guianensis) Predation on Infant Tamarins (Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis, Callitrichinae). International Journal of Primatology, 72: 301-303.
Rowe, N. 1996. The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates. East Hampton, New York: Pogonias Press.
de la Torre, S., F. Cornejo. 2008. "IUCN 2008 Red List - Saguinus Tripartitus" (On-line). Accessed March 27, 2009 at http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19824.
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Hosiarpur, Punjab (June 19, 2013): It is learnt that a 94-year-old Sikh inmate, Bapu Assa Singh, was hospitalized as he was reportedly attacked on June 18, 2013 by few prisoners in a Hoshiarpur jail. Bapu Assa Singh was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a TADA court (Ludhiana) on November 20, 2012 in a 1989 case.
Amritsar, Punjab (June 18, 2013): It is learnt that the Punjab state police special cell has received the police remand of Bhai Narain Singh Chura for 3 days in connection with a 2010 case.
Baramulla/Kashmir/India (June 10, 2012): It is learnt that the turbaned Sikh students have been attending classes for the last fortnight following their earlier exclusion for wearing their turban at the St Joseph’s Higher Secondary School in Baramulla, 50 km from the State Capital, Srinagar.
Amritsar, Punjab (June 06, 2013): Sikhs observed 29th anniversary of Ghallughara (holocaust) June 1984 at Sri Akal Takhat Sahib on today. The Shiormani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) organized a function to mark the day, called Ghallughara Dihara (holocaust day).
Amritsar, Punjab (June 02, 2013): It is learnt that Hindu organization Shiv Sena (Rashtarvadi) took out a march on May 31, 2013 in Amritsar to show their protest against the June 1984 memorial for Sikh martyrs. In June 1984 Indian army had attacked Sri Darbar Sahib and other Sikh Gurdwaras in Punjab and adjoining states.
Washington, DC, United States (June 1, 2013): According to a newsletter issued by the Sikh Coalition: Major Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi – a decorated US Army soldier who in 2009 received an exception to a decades-old rule barring Sikh turbans and unshorn hair – provided compelling testimony yesterday about why the US military should open its doors to Sikh soldiers at a United States Civil Rights Commission hearing.
New Delhi, India (May 31, 2013): According to media reports a New Zealand Sikh community who was framed under charges of “terrorism” in India has been released. According to ‘The New Zealand Herald’, [t]he Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) said on May 30, 2013 that it had been informed the case against Manpreet Singh had been dismissed.
New Delhi, India (May 31, 2013): It is learnt that A Judge of Delhi High Court on May 31, 2013 rescued himself from hearing a plea of Indian politician and Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging a lower court order by which the CBI was asked to further investigate his role in a case related to November 1984 violence against the Sikhs. This case relates to the brutal killings of three innocent Sikhs.
New Delhi, India (May 30, 2013): The killing of 24 people, including three senior politicians and eight police personnel, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on 25 May could further escalate violence in the state, putting more civilians – including local Adivasi (Indigenous) communities – at risk, Amnesty International has warned.
Delhi, India (May 29, 2013): According to certain media reports a massive fire broke out in Guru Teg Bahadur Hosptial in Delhi on May 29, 2013. As per inforamtion the fire broke out around 11 am in a air condition unit.
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Scientists, managers, and fishermen are concerned about the habitat conditions for American lobster in inshore southern New England waters, particularly in Long Island Sound. Scientists believe that a combination of warmer water temperatures, hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen levels), and other stress factors resulted in die-offs of lobster in western Long Island Sound in late 1999 and in 2002. If these conditions continue, future die-offs are possible. Researchers also believe that increased water temperatures in southern New England may be driving lobsters to cooler offshore waters and disrupting the settlement of larvae in traditional coastal areas.
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Measuring an American lobster.LAUNCH GALLERY
Fishermen have been harvesting the iconic American lobster since colonial times. Both Native Americans and colonists caught this abundant resource by hand and used them for food, bait, and even fertilizer. One colonist wrote that the lobster’s “plenty makes them little esteemed and seldom eaten,” an ironic statement considering that today the meat of the American lobster is so highly prized that it supports one of the most intense and valuable commercial fisheries in North America, with revenues in the hundreds of millions.
With this long history of fishing also comes a long history of monitoring and management. As markets grew and commercial fisheries expanded along the northeast coast in the late 1800s, people involved in the fishery noticed catch rates and the size of harvested lobsters began to fall, an indication that the lobster populations might be declining. States enacted a number of regulations to halt this decline and maintain these valuable fisheries, restricting the size of lobster that could be harvested and when lobster could be harvested. Maine also prohibited harvest of egg-bearing females to protect them and future generations of lobster. As populations continued to decrease despite these regulations, scientists theorized that other factors besides fishing pressure might be partly to blame. They conjectured that poor habitat conditions and predators might also have contributed to the decline.
Today, scientists face similar challenges regarding the abundance and management of lobster. Although lobster fisheries are highly regulated and harvests in some areas are at their peak, recent assessments of the lobster resource paint a mixed picture, with record high abundance and reproduction and survival rates throughout most of the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, but decreasing abundance and reproduction and survival rates in southern New England. State and federal fishery managers and lobstermen are continually working on ways to ensure the continued health of this valuable resource and are developing additional harvest restrictions for the southern New England population due to concerns about its current state. Managers also recently capped the number of lobster trap permits in the primary Gulf of Maine fishing area to maintain current harvest levels and the abundance of the resource in this area.
LOCATION & HABITAT
American lobsters are found in the northwest Atlantic Ocean from Labrador to Cape Hatteras. They’re most abundant in coastal waters from Maine through New Jersey and are also common offshore out to depths of 2,300 feet from Maine through Virginia.
American lobsters live on the ocean floor. They live alone and are very territorial. They can live in a variety of habitats as long as there is a burrow or crevice for cover. Coastal lobsters like rocky areas where they can readily find shelter, although they’re sometimes found in mud bottoms where they can burrow. Offshore populations are most abundant along the edge of the continental shelf near underwater canyons.
Near the coast, small lobsters do not travel much, but larger ones may travel extensively. Offshore lobsters migrate during the spring anywhere from 50 miles to 190 miles.
American lobsters have a long life span. It’s difficult to determine their exact age because they shed their hard shell when they molt, leaving no evidence of age. But scientists believe some American lobsters may live to be 100 years old.
American lobsters can grow up to 44 pounds. Lobsters must periodically molt in order to grow, shedding their hard, external skeleton (shell) when they grow too large for it and forming a new one. They eat voraciously after they molt, often devouring their own recently vacated shells. Eating their shell replenishes lost calcium and helps harden their new shell.
Lobsters molt about 20 to 25 times (over 5 to 8 years) between the time they hatch and when they are able to reproduce. Usually, lobsters mate after the females molt. Males deposit sperm in the soft-shelled females. The female stores the sperm internally for up to a year. Females can have 5,000 to more than 100,000 eggs, depending on their size. The eggs are fertilized as females release them on the underside of their tails, where they carry them for 9 to 11 months. Egg-bearing females move inshore to hatch their eggs. The eggs hatch during late spring or early summer. The pelagic (free-swimming) larvae molt four times before they resemble adults and settle to the bottom. They will molt more than 20 times over a period of 5 to 8 years before they reach the minimum legal size to be harvested.
Lobster are “opportunistic feeders,” feeding on whatever prey is most available, so their diet varies regionally. Larvae and postlarvae are carnivorous and eat zooplankton (tiny floating animals) during their first year. Adults are omnivorous, feeding on crabs, mollusks, polychaete worms, sea urchins, sea stars, fish, and macroalgae. In general, a variety of bottom-dwelling species including fish, sharks, rays, skates, octopuses, and crabs feed on lobster. Young lobsters are especially vulnerable to predators. Large, hard-shelled lobsters may be immune to predators (except humans).
American lobster is a crustacean with a large shrimp-like body and 10 legs, two of which are large, strong claws. One is a big-toothed crusher claw for pulverizing shells; the other is a finer-edged ripper claw, resembling a steak knife, for tearing soft flesh. Live lobsters are not red like those you see in a restaurant or grocery store. Most are either olive-green or greenish-brown; some have orange, reddish, dark green, or black speckles and bluish colors in the joints of their appendages.
There are three stocks of lobster in U.S. waters - Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and southern New England. Generally, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission assesses the lobster stocks every 2 to 5 years. Results of stock assessments help the Commission’s lobster management board make decisions on management measures that may be needed to address problems with the lobster resource. The management board looks to industry advisors to provide recommendations for managing the fishery to meet management objectives.
The Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank lobster stocks have increased in abundance over the past 10 to 15 years. Both of these stocks are above target population levels. The southern New England stock increased in abundance from 1982 until 1997 but has since declined. Southern New England stock abundance is currently below the level scientists consider to be sustainable (overfished) and at the lowest level observed since the 1980s, with the rate of small lobsters recruiting into the fishery declining since 2000.
State scientists, in cooperation with the lobster industry, are conducting projects to assist with the effective management of the lobster resource. Many states have established “ventless trap surveys” to determine the level of juvenile lobster abundance. By removing escape vents from the lobster traps and setting them at random, researchers can assess the abundance of small lobsters and the potential for recruitment in the future. These surveys complement longstanding trawl surveys conducted by NOAA Fisheries and the states. Since trawl gear can’t effectively sample rocky or shallow coastal bottom types, the ventless trap surveys fill the data gap.
Researchers are also currently developing techniques to breed American lobsters and are analyzing the economic feasibility of commercial aquaculture of this important lobster species.
Harvesting American lobster
The three stocks of American lobster - Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and southern New England - support both inshore and offshore fisheries. The Gulf of Maine and southern New England areas are predominantly inshore fisheries, while the Georges Bank area is predominantly an offshore fishery. Most U.S. harvest is caught in inshore waters.
Most fishermen use traps to harvest lobster. They bait rectangular, wire-mesh traps then lower them to the ocean floor in water 15 to 1,000 feet deep. A buoy is attached to the trap line to mark the trap’s location. Fishermen haul the traps back to the surface every few days to check their catch, although the frequency varies depending on the season and the location.
The Northeast/Mid-Atlantic American lobster trap/pot fishery can incidentally entangle large whales (such as endangered right, humpback, and fin whales). Lobstermen follow a number of regulations to protect large whales from fishing gear. For example, lobstermen must use sinking groundlines between traps to reduce the amount of line in the water column, which reduces the potential for whales and other protected species to become entangled.
Traps can incidentally catch finfish and invertebrates (such as crabs and conch). Ghost traps (lost gear that continues to capture lobster and other species) can also be a problem in the lobster fishery. Regulations require biodegradable escape panels or hinges on traps to prevent ghost fishing. Escape panels must be large enough to reduce bycatch of undersized lobsters.
Who’s in charge? The states and NOAA Fisheries cooperatively manage the American lobster resource and fishery under the framework of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC). Each lobster harvesting state has three members on the ASMFC lobster management board and NOAA Fisheries has one representative on the board. Each state and NOAA Fisheries get one vote when deliberating management measures for American Lobster. States have jurisdiction for implementing measures in state waters (from the coast out to 3 miles), while NOAA Fisheries implements complementary regulations for the American lobster fishery in offshore federal waters (3 to 200 miles from shore).
Current management: The American lobster’s range is divided into seven areas for management purposes. There are seven Lobster Conservation Management Teams for each of these management areas. These teams, made up of industry representatives, recommend measures to address the specific needs of their respective management areas. Federal waters contain portions of six of the seven management areas; only Area 6 is totally within state waters (Long Island Sound, which consists of New York and Connecticut state waters).
State waters (within 3 miles of shore): Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Lobster
Each management area has unique regulations that include:
- Limits on the minimum and maximum size of lobster that can be harvested.
- Trap limits, which are a way to control fishing effort. Each lobster vessel is limited to either a vessel-based trap allocation based on its historical fishing practices, or an area-wide trap cap which is the maximum number of traps a vessel may fish in a specific area. Prohibition on the possession of egg-bearing lobsters and “v-notched lobsters” (v-notching the tail fin of egg-bearing females in a “v” shape before returning them to the water).
- Prohibition on possession of lobster meat and lobster parts (lobsters must be landed live and whole to ensure they are of legal size).
- Gear restrictions (trap configuration requirements and prohibition on using spears).
- Limits on the amount of lobster that can be harvested with non-trap gear.
- Monitoring and reporting requirements.
Federal waters (3 to 200 miles offshore): Regulations implemented through the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act.
- Fishermen must have a permit to harvest lobster. Managers limit the amount of available permits to control the amount of fishermen harvesting lobster.
- Limits on the minimum and maximum size of lobsters that can be harvested; these limits vary among management areas.
- Measures to protect egg-bearing females – fishermen may not harvest them and, in most areas, if one is caught in their trap, they must notch its tail fin in a “v” shape before returning it to the water.
- Gear restrictions (trap size, gear marking requirements, escape vents, and ghost panels).
- Trap limits, which vary among management areas.
- To improve data collection in the fishery, all federal lobster dealers must submit weekly electronic reports for all lobsters they purchase from fishermen with federal permits.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada manages the American lobster resource in Canadian territorial waters of the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Commercial harvest in 2010 totaled 115.4 million pounds. There’s a reason we associate Maine with lobsters – the state led in American lobster landings for the 29th year in a row, with landings of 94.7 million pounds in 2010. Massachusetts was the second leading producer, with landings of nearly 12.8 million pounds. Together, these two states produced 93 percent of the total U.S. American lobster harvest.
The U.S. fishery for American lobster is one of the most intense and valuable commercial fisheries in North America, with revenues in the hundreds of millions. The 2010 commercial harvest was valued at nearly $396.8 million.
Recreational fishermen catch lobsters in coastal waters with pots and by hand while SCUBA diving. If they do not intend to sell the lobsters, divers may possess up to six lobsters per person per day but must abide by commercial size restrictions.
Lobster meat is mild and sweet. The meat is white with red tinges and is firm and somewhat fibrous. The tail meat is firmer than the meat from the claws.
Lobsters and other crustaceans spoil rapidly once they die, which is why many buyers insist on purchasing them alive. Live lobsters range in color from brownish rust to bright blue to greenish brown but turn bright red when cooked. Live lobsters should be active, and their tails should curl, not dangle, beneath them. Many lobsters sold commercially are killed and frozen before cooking. Freezing slows deterioration. (Seafood Business, 2011)
Live lobsters are landed and available to consumers year-round. In New England, where most lobsters are landed, the peak harvest season extends from May to November.
Lobster is low in saturated fat and is a very good source of protein and selenium. The FDA advises consumers to not eat the tomalley, the light-green substance found in the lobster. The tomalley is the liver and pancreas, which can accumulate contaminants from the lobster’s environment.
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Ann Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa (Jos Sweeney as she is also known) is a doctoral student in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She has worked with migrants and people of refugee background in Australia for many years. Her research interests are in refugee re-settlement, decolonised social work practice, whiteness and critical race theory in social work.
Her PhD is dedicated to exploring what works and what does not work in social work encounters with people of refugee background. Both social workers and community members of refugee background are participants in this project.
She utilises participatory research methodologies in all her research activities to not only learn and facilitate community development but to also evaluate social work practices. Funded by the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship and sponsored by the University of Tasmania she co-led Tasmanians Talking, which piloted action research methods of facilitating community and organisational dialogue on issues of cultural respect. Her dream is to one day learn the language of her ancestors, the Mapuche people of South America.
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The Ring of Fire
While weather models are not perfect, we do tend to bank on them a little more when they show consistency. Weather models have been quite consistent lately at showing some possible changes in our anticipated heat wave. Weather models are alluding to the possibility that the hottest “actual” temperatures may stay just south and west of the 49 Viewing Area through the upcoming weekend. In return, we may have higher thunderstorm chances; some strong.
Thunderstorms typically form on the edges of a hot airmass. We call this edge, “The Ring of Fire”. Northeast Kansas will be very close, if not on, the ring of fire through the weekend. If weather models keep showing us this trend, we may continue to back off on “actual” temperatures this weekend. However, who really cares about the “actual” temperature? What is most important is what it “feels” like.
We will still be close enough to this hot airmass to likely zip into the lower-to-mid-90’s through the weekend. Unfortunately, because we may be on the edge of the hot air, we may see the most humid weather pool over us, too. So, while actual temperatures may not teeter with 100°F, the “feel” like temperature (the combination of heat and humidity) will likely still top 95-105°F through the weekend. Depending on the timing and placement of thunderstorm chances, temperatures forecasts may need to be refined accordingly.
Sitting on the ring of fire can make for tricky temperature forecasts. The best chance of thunderstorms around the ring of fire is during the evening, overnight and early morning hours. If storms last a little longer—into the daylight hours—then temperatures may be a bit cooler. If storms clear out by mid-to-late morning, the hot Kansas sun will evaporate any residual rainfall, making for hotter “feeling” temperatures. Yuck!
So, current trends are backing down somewhat on “actual” temperatures for this upcoming weekend. Current trends are showing an increase in potential thunderstorm activity. The timing and placement of thunderstorms are key to what it will “feel” like outside later this week, going into the weekend. Any change in placement of the edge of hottest weather will impact those thunderstorm chances, and subsequent temperatures. Nevertheless, it's still looking quite warm and humid.
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Video Transcript: Curiosity Rover Hits Paydirt
Hi, I'm Joel Hurowitz, a scientist with the surface sampling system team and this is your Curiosity rover report.
This week the Curiosity science team released its initial findings from its first ever drilled sample on Mars. This sample was collected from the "John Klein" drill site, which is located about 500 meters east of where we landed about 7 months ago.
Curiosity obtained her first drill sample and passed that sample on to her onboard analytical lab instruments, called CheMin and SAM. These powerful instruments tell us about what minerals are present in these rocks and whether they contain the ingredients necessary to sustain life as we know it.
What the Curiosity team has found is incredibly exciting. When we combine what we have learned from our remote sensing and contact science instruments with the data that's coming in from CheMin and SAM, we get a picture of an ancient watery environment, which would have been habitable had life been present in it.
As an example, the information that we're getting from the CheMin instrument, tells us that the minerals that are present in this lakebed sedimentary rock at John Klein are very different from just about anything we've ever analyzed before on Mars. And they tell us that the John Klein rock was deposited in a fresh water environment.
This is an important contrast with other sedimentary environments that we've visited on Mars, like the Meridiani Planum landing site where the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, has been operating since 2004.
At that site, the sedimentary rocks record evidence of an environment that was only wet on a very intermittent basis, and when it was, the waters that were there were highly acidic, very salty, and not favorable for the survival of organic compounds.
This is in direct contrast to the fresh water environment we're seeing here at the John Klein Site.
The SAM instrument is telling us that these rocks contained all of the ingredients necessary for a habitable environment. We found carbon, sulfur and oxygen, all present and a number of other elements in states that life could have taken advantage of.
All in all, these few tablespoons of powder from a Martian rock have provided the Curiosity science team with an exciting new dataset that tells us that Gale Crater, and perhaps all of Mars, contained habitable environments. This is an incredible success for the Curiosity mission to Gale, and the science team is looking forward to digging deeper into Mars' ancient watery past in the weeks, months, and years ahead.
This has been your Curiosity rover report. Please check back for more updates.
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The world has watched as Russian President Vladimir Putin destroys the fledgling democracy movement in Russia and reinstates authoritarian government to that nation. While actively (and admittedly) crafting a cult of personality around manufactured Superhuman exploits, Putin has striven to reinstate the oppressive laws from the Soviet era. In the face of continuing protests, Putin appears intent to show that he can and will do anything he wants with critics. This month his underlings arrested the best known protest organizer Sergei Udaltsov while his government has shutdown international human rights organizations and NGOs. At the same time, his government has passed a new law in the lower house of the Duma to radically expand the definition of treason in Russia. Udaltsov led the largest protests against Putin as part of a campaign of “Russia Without Putin.”
Russian prosecutors used a documentary on a pro-Kremlin TV channel to accuse Sergei Udaltsov of plotting “mass disorder.” The Putin government used the case as an excuse to search the homes of critics — a classic Soviet era tactic.
The police say that the documentary showed that Udaltsov received money and orders from an ally of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to cause unrest in Russia.
Police say that they suspect Uadltsov and his associates of planning “terrorist acts” in Russia. It is a telling allegation since the Putin government has moved to radically expand the definition of treason in Russia.
The Putin government issued a statement that is clearly designed to chill anyone who joins the anti-Putin protests: “Those who think they can with impunity organize riots, plan and prepare terrorist attacks and other acts that threaten the lives and health of Russians, you underestimate the Russian special services’ professionalism.”
This menacing message was amplified by the new legislation. The law passed in the lower house makes it treason not only to pass on state secrets but receiving, transmitting or publicizing such information. That would bring protesters and journalists within the scope of the law in publicizing crackdowns by Putin and human rights abuses. It will be considered treason to reveal such information to international organizations, which have been the target of much of the crackdown by Putin who is embarrassed by the continuing international criticism of his authoritarian inclinations.
The law also lowers the standard to remove the requirement that prosecutors show “hostile intent.” Now all that is required is that the Putin government show a “threat to state security,” which they largely define.
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Lashkar-e-Islam (Urdu: لشكرِ اسلام), (LI or LeI) literally Army of Islam also transliterated as Lashkar-e-Islami, Lashkar-i-Islam) is a militant organization active in and around Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. LeI was founded in 2004 by Mufti Munir Shakir. Currently, the organization is headed by Mangal Bagh.
On April 17, 2008, Bagh claimed that LeI has over 180,000 volunteers in Khyber Agency
On April 27, 2008, it was reported that a "Lashkar-e-Islam" has changed its name to "Jaish-e-Islami". It is unclear whether this is the same group, or another which happened to use the same name. The reports stated that this LeI is located in Bajaur Agency, and headed by Wali Rehman.
Leadership progression
(The term "Lashkar-e-Islam" is very generic, but the following individuals have been cited in media as leaders of an organization by that name in Bara tehsil, Pakistan)
- 2004: founded by Mufti Munir Shakir
- 2006: reportedly led by Haji Taj Mohammed, "member of the Afridi Shura." However, a report from earlier that month refers to Taj as only "a spokesman for the Mufti"
- Present: led by Mangal Bagh
Recent focus on Lashkar-e-Islam
- LeI sends threatening letters to industrialists in Khyber Agency
- LeI clashes with Pakistani government troops in Khyber Agency
- LeI compels the public administration of Khyber Agency to close its offices in Bara tehsil
- Lashkar-e-Islam claims membership of 180,000 volunteers in Khyber Agency South Asian Terrorism Portal 18 April 2008
- Taliban group chooses new name Daily Times (Pakistan), 27 Apr 2008.
- Staff Report Khyber Agency given last chance to resolve Mufti issue Daily Times (Pakistan), 26 Feb 2006.
- Khyber Rifles takes up arms against Mufti and Pir Daily Times (Pakistan) 03 Feb 2007
- Threatening letters ‘from LI’ worry NWFP industrialists
- Pakistan hard-liners 'shot dead'
- Closure of PA Bara headquarters demanded
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Two drugs better than one to treat most deadly skin cancer
11 Feb 2013
Adding lung cancer drugs to targeted melanoma treatment could increase survival for certain patients, according to research published in Cancer Discovery today (Monday 11 February).
Scientists at Cancer Research UK’s Paterson Institute at The University of Manchester showed that lung cancer drugs such as gefitinib (Iressa) can override resistance to new targeted therapies for melanoma, called BRAF inhibitors.
The first BRAF inhibitor, vemurafenib (Zelboraf), was approved for patients on the NHS in 2012, and others are currently in development. They work by targeting a faulty version of the BRAF protein, found in more than half of all melanomas as well as some other types of cancer.
But patients often become resistant to BRAF inhibitors after a short time and their disease returns, leaving them without further treatment options.
Now scientists have found that treating BRAF inhibitor-resistant cancer cells or tumours with the drugs gefitinib or dasatinib, which block a different biological pathway, can halt their growth.
Lead author, Professor Richard Marais, director of Cancer Research UK’s Paterson Institute at The University of Manchester, said: “This exciting research shows that two drugs can be better than one in beating this deadly disease.
“If these findings are confirmed in larger studies, combining two drug types could provide an effective new treatment for skin cancer patients for whom the only existing targeted treatment available – vermurafenib – no longer works.
“This is a vital step to understand how to treat the disease more effectively but there is still a lot to do. We hope that this work accelerates progress that will ultimately increase survival from skin cancer.”
Around 12,800 people in the UK are diagnosed with malignant melanoma each year and there are around 2,200 deaths from the disease.
Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK’s senior science information manager, said: “These new results builds on our work on the BRAF gene, which has led to the development of important new drugs for melanoma.
“This fundamental research into the biology of cancer is leading directly to new treatments and we hope that this latest study will bring forward more effective approaches for treating melanoma, which we urgently need. This is the kind of work that the new Manchester Cancer Research Centre excels at - bringing together a wide range of expertise to revolutionise cancer treatment.”
Professor Marais’ team is part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (MCRC), which is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, The Christie and The University of Manchester. A new campaign, “More Tomorrows”, is fundraising to build a centre for MCRC scientists to work together on treatments for cancer.
Notes for editors
For further information contact:
Cancer Research UK
020 3469 8300
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'[PIC]: XTAL startup issues on PIC 73B [OT] Testing'
Alan B. Pearce
>Also, how can I test the xtals?
The easiest way to test them is to have a spectrum analyzer with tracking
generator. One manufacturer (Marconi) had an app note with a circuit described
as follows (my ascii art is hopeless)
Put a 50 ohm load on the tracking generator, and a 50 ohm load resistor at the
end of a coax lead to the analyzer input. connect the crystal between the active
ends of the 50 ohm loads. run the analyzer and tracking generator through the
frequency of the crystal, with a sweep of +/-5khz (probably for 18Mhz), and you
should see a signal on the analyzer which looks a bit like the graphs for phase
response. The lowest amplitude point is the parallel resonant frequency of the
crystal, and the highest response peak is the series resonant frequency. The
depth of the dip is a function of the ESR of the crystal, (remember at parallel
resonance it will be seen as a parallel high value resistance) and I would bet
that the crystals that do not work will no have a deep dip compared to ones that
do work. This ESR figure will also show in the height of the series resonant
peak, in that a high ESR will limit the height of the peak.
If you have the time, you could do a similar arrangement with a signal generator
and an RF voltmeter or oscilloscope, manually tuning the generator to look for
the min and max response points. You will see several of each, and need to pick
the highest and lowest points to get the relevant ones. If you really want to
get fancy, it would be possible to calculate the ESR of the crystal by knowing
the voltage division ratio into the 50 ohms on the output side of the network.
From this I think you will see that the problem you have is the crystal
manufacturer is not controlling the ESR of the crystals (probably because there
is no specification) and Microchip are not controlling the spread of gain and
phase characteristics of the oscillator, so sometimes you end up with a
combination where the oscillator gain is insufficient to overcome the ESR loss.
Your suggestion of adding a series resistor will only make this worse, and
should only be used with crystals which have a low ESR or oscillator with very
high gain, to stop the crystal being overdriven.
A recent response on this thread implied that the trouble was caused by a
crystal and PIC that are each at the extreme of their behavioral
(parametric) range. If this were the case then using a "bad" crystal in
another board would likely work. I don't believe that is the case, however.
(high performance, high function, low-level software)
Alan B. Pearce
>If this were the case then using a "bad" crystal in
>another board would likely work.
>I don't believe that is the case, however.
Which to me implies that the spread of characteristics for the crystals goes
outside that allowable for the chips. Hence my comment that the ESR of the
crystals is getting too high on some units because the manufacturer is not
testing it, because it is not spec'd, because Microchip do not characterize the
maximum allowable ESR, because they (apparently) do not spec the gain of the
oscillator portion of the chip. (Whew - draws deep breath).
for a bit of a treatise on how these parameters affect the oscillator have a
look at this Maxim app note.
It is a little different in that the oscillator is a colpitts one, but the
principle is the same.
'[PICLIST] [OT] test'
H.P. de Vries
Please ignore, but I keep getting annoying replies saying i didn't tag my
post correctly. ( eg. [PICLIST] [PIC] etc...)
'[PICLIST] [OT] test sent at 1:45 CST'
'[PICLIST] [OT] test please don't read'
More... (looser matching)
- Last day of these posts
- In 2002
, 2003 only
- New search...
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"That's also an issue," de Poorter said.
John Priscu is an environmental scientist at Montana State University in Bozeman who has spent 22 years studying microscopic organisms in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
(See an interactive map and wallpaper photos of Antarctica.)
He says the climate there is actually cooling, but the contamination of the environment with human bacteria and bacteria from other regions of Antarctica is a real concern.
For example, he says, researchers have found seals and penguins infected with bacteria from the sewage at the McMurdo Station research base.
At the nearby Scott Base, seals are infected with canine distemper, a virus passed to them by researchers' dogs.
Priscu and his colleagues wear special suits whenever working in ice-covered lakes to prevent contamination. Researchers also follow strict protocols to make sure equipment used to explore one region does not transfer bacteria to another.
Priscu is also embroiled in a debate over whether humans should be allowed to drill for research purposes into the pristine waters of Lake Vostok, the largest ice-covered lake in Antarctica, and risk contamination with human-borne bacteria.
(Read "Under-Ice Lakes in Antarctica Linked by Buried Channels" [April 2006].)
"One group of people argues that it doesn't matter. What can live there?" he said.
Human bacteria thrive in an environment that is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius). The lake is just above freezing, shielded from light, and poor in nutrients, the argument goes.
"The thing is, we're finding more and more extremophiles out there," Priscu said, referring to organisms that can survive in extreme environments such as Lake Vostok.
And in places like the Antarctic Peninsula, where newly exposed soils are hosting new exotic species such as turf grass, bacteria that used to have no means to survive might now thrive.
"Antarctica has a relatively nondiverse ecosystem compared to temperate ecosystems, but as it warms up the environment will start playing host to a broader range of organisms," Priscu said.
According to de Poorter, the alien invasion of Antarcticaat least on landis not of "plague proportions" yet but is a sign of things to come.
"It's more a question of becoming very much aware of it and working on the prevention angle," she said.
In the water, the situation could be worse: Nobody has a good grasp on what organisms are therenative or invasive, she adds.
"I think awareness is growing," she said. "Part of that is awareness of very bad impacts elsewhere is starting to grow as well. It goes hand in hand."
The growing awareness of invasive species led to the adoption of new measures to reduce the risk from nonnative species at last month's Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
As a first step, visiting ships are being asked to dump their ballast water before arriving at the ocean that surrounds Antarctica.
Ultimately de Poorter hopes Antarctica will remain pristine, in part for philosophical reasons.
"It still sparks the imagination as the last place on Earth which is sort of like a symbol of how people and the environment can get along," she said.
"So I think it's good we have this chance to be very proactive and protect it better than we've managed to do with the rest of the world."
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Apache Chainsaw is a popular graphical logging tool for Java. Even though it’s based on Log4j and Resin’s logging uses java.util.logging, you can use Chainsaw to analyze Resin’s logs in real time. In this blog, I’ll show you how to connect Resin with Chainsaw using a technique that can be extended to other Log4j-based analysis tools.
Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category
The Internet is becoming more and more about sharing data, and, uploading files had become nearly universal requirement for a web application. Prior to Servlet 3.0, implementing file upload successfully required external libraries or tedious input processing. Version 3.0 of the spec goes a long way towards providing us with a solution to the problem in a generic and portable way.
Resin 4.0 introduced Early Access Servlet 3.0 support and, in version 4.0.2, we’ve solidified the implementation. Among many interesting features, Servlet 3.0 introduces annotations that make deploying Servlets, Filters and Listeners of all types easier. This short tutorial opens with the introduction of annotations of javax.servlet.annotation package, shows how to use WebListener, WebServlet, WebFilter and WebInitParam annotations and closes with an example demonstrating a use of IOC (javax.inject package) in a Servlet.
We’ve been quiet on the blog for a while, but pretty busy behind the scenes for the last couple of weeks. There’s lots going on, but what I’m working on specifically is a new deployment model for Resin 4. In addition to our current file system based hot-deploy, we’re now adding a deploy model based on Git. We introduced this in Resin 4.0.0 and 4.0.1, but we started exploring the benefits of Git repositories and realized that we have the ability to do some really powerful things like sophisticated application versioning and rolling out applications in stages. I’ll show you the new model and give a preview of how you can use it in upcoming versions of Resin.
I’ve updated our Eclipse plugin to fix bugs, add a couple of features, and generally improve the user experience. It’s up in a snapshot now on our Eclipse update site: http://caucho.com/eclipse. Just add this to the software repositories in your Eclipse set up. The changes include:
- Bug fixes (esp. debug handling)
- Better handling of Resin configuration files
- Support for deploying to a temporary directory
This is a very rough draft of a pomegranate specification. It should contain the main details needed for an early implementation.
Over the last few months, I’ve been talking to a lot of people, doing conference sessions about cloud computing and I’ve found out a lot about the different architectures in this space. I’m still very happy with our architecture (perhaps even happier) even after of all these discussions. In past blog posts and in our whitepaper, we’ve explained how the new Resin 4 cloud architecture works. Now I’ll talk a little about why it’s a nice alternative to other approaches.
Last week I was out of town doing some on-site training for a potential customer and they asked if it’s possible to log the number of threads active at any given time. We don’t do that as part of Resin normally, but it got me thinking that this should actually be very easy using our scheduled tasks and a PHP script to access our MBeans.
We’ve used test-driven development from the beginning of Caucho, almost 12 years now, and it heavily influences our development, refactoring, and also our release cycle. Today, we’re in the final two weeks of the release cycle for 4.0.1 which means passing our regression test suite and working through load testing.
Each week in our release cycle is influenced by our TDD methodology. For Resin, we aim for an eight week release cycle, and usually slip a week or two so it ends up being ten-ish weeks.
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ENSEMBL gene expression distribution separated by method of detection and sample analyzed: expression distribution in DGE counts for genes identified in (a) UHRR and (c) HBRR, by both DGE and Affymetrix microarray (red line), as well as by DGE alone (blue line); expression distribution in Affymetrix microarray expression values for genes identified in (b) UHRR and (d) HBRR, by both DGE and Affymetrix microarray (red line), as well as by Affymetrix alone (green line). The differential expression between UHRR and HBRR for genes identified by: (e) both DGE and Affymetrix, as well as, NGS alone, in NGS counts; (f) both NGS and Affymetrix, as well as, Affymetrix only, in Affymetrix microarray expression values. (g) Comparison of the number of expressed genes detected by DGE and microarrays. Values for relaxed (at least one read) and stringent (at least five reads) DGE parameters are in bold or in brackets, respectively.
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Kesser Torah College provides the full range of educational experiences in an Orthodox Jewish environment.
The programs of study include the Board of Studies requirements and additional studies of Jewish religion and culture. At every level the School strives to integrate the range of educational, religious and cultural experiences to provide a holistic education for each student. Each aspect of the School incorporates its unique role in the Jewish and wider community.
The School has achieved excellent results in external exams and in its religious education ensuring a wide range of options for our students after completing High School.
For more information about KTC's High School, please follow the links on the right.
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The story behind 'use less, offset the rest'
By Bill Edmonds
Three years ago NW Natural launched Smart Energy, a voluntary offset program that promised to help our customers reduce their carbon footprint and bring biogas to the region. The program has been successful in helping customers reach carbon-reduction goals, while assisting dairies in turning cow waste into a renewable fuel.
Our customers wanted help in managing carbon emissions. While offsetting carbon emissions is noble, we believe that nothing can substitute the wise use of energy through efficient appliances and conservation. Our motto is "use less, offset the rest" and our customers have embraced that approach.
Through a partnership with Energy Trust of Oregon, we've assisted customers in saving 34.3 million therms of natural gas from 2003 through the end of 2009. That’s enough energy to heat nearly 68,000 homes.
Where conservation leaves off, Smart Energy picks up allowing residential and commercial customers to offset the carbon emissions associated with their natural gas use. So far, customers have joined us in offsetting 74,000 tons of carbon — about the equivalent of taking 13,000 cars off the road.
NW Natural partners with The Climate Trust in offering Smart Energy to our customers. The Climate Trust is a local nonprofit and is nationally respected for developing high quality offset projects. Smart Energy funds have helped fund three regional biodigesters – two in Washington and one in Oregon. We’ve learned through these projects that reducing carbon emissions requires innovation as well as continued private and public collaboration.
An example is a dairy in Washington with 2,200 cows. Previously the farm scraped manure into uncovered lagoons, which generated methane – a greenhouse gas that is 23 times stronger than carbon dioxide when released it into the atmosphere.
Bill Edmonds is Northwest Natural's director of environmental management and sustainability. His last column was on natural gas as a complement to renewable energy.
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Wagner Brake stops dip coating to give powder a break
Discarding solvent-borne dip coating for powder coating allows a brake-shoe remanufacturer not only to exceed the goals of an EPA emission-reduction program but also to improve the finish on the company's parts.
When Wagner Brake, a division of Cooper Industries, installed a powder coating line to replace the solvent-borne dip-coat process used to paint brake shoes at its plant in Tijuana, Mexico, the decision wasn't difficult. The division had installed a powder coating line at its Scottsville, Ky., plant in December 1993 and immediately saw improvements in coating quality. By January 1995, the first powder-coated brake shoes rolled off the line at the Tijuana plant.
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Motorola Gets Serious About Linux
Last quarter, Motorola was the second biggest smartphone maker in the world, thanks largely to the million or so Linux-based smartphones it shipped in China.
Clearly, Motorola has seen the writing on the wall, and is making a big commitment to Linux. In fact, this company is working to have over 50 percent of the handsets it releases in the future run Linux.
This new initiative won't be confined to just one region. Motorola is also going to be push these devices in the U.S. and Europe.
These Linux-based handsets are expected to cost between $100 and $300.
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A motion detector in your yard or home does just what it says that it will do. It detects motion. When you connect it to a source, the motion detector is connected to either lights, alarms or something else that will alert you when there is any kind of movement inside your home or outside.
Needless to say if you live in a high traffic area, or have hikers walking near your home etc., you’re going to want to pay careful attention to the placement of it and how it’s arranged. You obviously don’t want an attached alarm going off ten times a night to alert you and your neighbors that the cat from four doors down has just brought his playmate over. We’re joking, although we have seen some odd setups.
There are three kinds of motion sensors. Microwave active, ultrasonic active, and passive infrared sensors can all be used. Most of them will use more than one technology to alert you to movement.
In addition, the sensors that rely on more than one kind of technology also help to lower your incidence of false alarms. Most motion detectors have functions that permit them to ignore a pet that weighs less than 80 pounds, which is handy for the pet owner.
A motion detector in your home or residential area can serve a wide array of purposes. Along with helping to light the path for legitimate visitors, they can also help when you come home well after dark, having forgotten to leave the porch lights on.
They not only deter those who want to slink around in the dark, but they improve security for you when you come home late. Then a light is popped on by the motion of someone walking past, that offers the news that someone is paying attention, which is often enough to foil a burglary attempt.
If you live in the rural areas, motion detectors can be valuable, time saving and money saving devices that will help you to arrive home and get indoors safely and with a well-lit pathway. Even for the city dweller, it’s always a good idea to employ motion sensing lights outside your home.
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Fujifilm has announced a modified version of their Finepix S3 Pro. This new limited edition camera, the Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro UVIR, is modified to be sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) light. This camera is the first "factory made" digital SLR to be specifically designed for UV and IR photography.
The camera is essentially the same as the standard S3 Pro, but the standard UV and IR filters have been removed. Photographers have been doing this on their own for a while and several third party companies will do the same modifications, but you void your warranty. With the S3 Pro UVIR, you stay legit.
Also, the camera's Live View CCD allows a live preview for up to 30 seconds. This allows for easy preview and focusing, which can be a challenge when doing UV and IR photography.
So what makes this a good camera for police, medical reseaerchers, and the military? Here are a couple paragraphs straight from Fujifilm's press release that best explain it:
"While UV and IR photography are not really like the "X-ray vision" of comic books that lets you see through solid objects, both UV and IR can be used to reveal sub-surface details that are invisible to the naked eye. In a recent example provided by Brooks, police used differences in reflectance made visible only with IR photography to positively identify a charred body in a gangland murder. It revealed the victim's prison tattoo, which was invisible under ordinary light.
In a similar manner, both UV and IR photography can corroborate the presence of gunpowder, show altered signatures and the difference between similar-looking inks on a document, or make bone fragments stand out in a plowed field. Medical researchers and police investigators use IR and UV photography to find injuries below the skin. They can even determine whether an assailant wearing a specific ring punched someone, or if a set of two-week-old, no-longer-visible bite marks were made by an alleged perpetrator's teeth.
Infrared photography is also a great tool for nighttime surveillance with "invisible" IR flash or under IR-rich sources such as common street lamps -- the same basic principle used in night-vision glasses. And since different plants reflect light in different shades of color or gray under IR, it can be used to detect illegal plants such as marijuana or opium poppies growing in a farm field. "
The Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro UVIR will be available in September for $1800.
Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro UVIR product page
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06 December 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Four dogs were simultaneously shown photographs of a landscape and of a dog, and were rewarded if they selected the latter using a paw-operated computer (Image: Huber et al / Springer)
Next time you sort through your holiday photos, maybe your dog could lend a hand. It seems dogs can place photographs into categories the same way humans do, an ability previously identified only in birds and primates.
Friederike Range at the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues trained dogs to distinguish photographs that depicted dogs from those that did not. "We know they can categorise 'food' or 'enemies' from experience," says Range, "but this is the first time we've taught them an abstract concept - 'a dog' - and shown they can transfer this knowledge to a new situation."
In the training phase, four dogs were simultaneously shown photographs of a landscape and of a dog, and were rewarded if they selected the latter using a paw-operated computer touch-screen. When the computer-savvy dogs were shown unfamiliar landscape and dog photos they continued to identify those containing dogs. And when shown an unfamiliar dog superimposed on a landscape used in the training phase, they were still able to pick it out in preference to an image of just a landscape, showing that they could distinguish a dog by its features (Animal Cognition, DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0123-2).
"We are starting to see that dogs have some good reasoning abilities," says Range. "I hope this might impact how we treat them at home."
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The progress of British historical studies has long been impeded by the lack of lists
of office-holders. Even where such lists exist they are often incomplete or inaccurate
and fail to provide the kind of information that enables the student to relate the offices
themselves to their institutional background.
It is with the object of remedying this situation that the present series Office-Holders
in Modern Britain has been devised. The immediate purpose of the series, which is in
the course of preparation at the Institute of Historical Research, is to provide lists of
the officials who served in the departments of the central government between the
Restoration and 1870. Each volume will contain a short introduction discussing
the development of the department with which it is concerned and notes explaining the various offices and grades within the department as well as lists of appointments
and an alphabetical list giving details of the periods of service of each official.
Part of the original research for this first volume was undertaken by Mr D. M.
Gransby. The material was checked, supplemented and re-arranged by Mr J. C. Sainty,
who also wrote the introduction and the explanatory notes. The Institute of Historical
Research is extremely grateful to him for making such useful information available in
so convenient a form.
A. G. Dickens
I am grateful to the many librarians and archivists who have helped to make this work
possible. I am particularly indebted to Dr Henry Roseveare for his unfailing encouragement at all stages in the preparation of the lists.
J. C. S.
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Indian and Himalayan Art
Ritual Spoon with Gopala Krishna HandleMade in India, Asia
Possibly made in Mysore, Karnataka, India, Asia
c. 18th century
Artist/maker unknown, India
Currently not on view
2006-53-107Bequest of Dean Walker, 2006
LabelKrishna-seen here in his most popular form, the young cowherd lord (Gopala)-stands atop the handle of this elaborate ritual spoon. With one foot nonchalantly crossed in front of the other, he raises his hand to play his flute (now missing). Such spoons are used during Hindu worship, primarily for offering holy water to deities.
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If you are reading this blog, you probably already know that Abercrombie & Fitch, the "sexy tween" clothing chain, was once a sportsman's wonderland that sold camping, hunting and adventure gear to the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Amelia Earhart. But if you didn't know, this, you are in for a treat! Whenever my 85 year old mom and I pass an "A&F" store now, she will shake her head and talk about how she and my dad used to love shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch. Of course they did! Teddy Roosevelt wore A&F clothes for his trips to Africa and the Amazon. In 1927 A&F outfitted Charles Lindbergh for his cross-Atlantic flight. JFK bought his weekend jackets and shirts there. They were the first store to sell both women's and men's clothing in the same place. Fashion forward movie stars like Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable and Greta Garbo wore Abercrombie and Fitch. In 1964 The Abercrombie & Fitch brand was even featured in the movie Man's Favorite Sport starring Rock Hudson. Hudson played a fishing expert who worked at A&F.
Here's a brief history and a description of their landmark store in NYC lifted from Wikipedia and everything2.com.
Abercrombie and Fitch (A&F) was founded by David Abercrombie, a former trapper, prospector, topographer and railroad surveyor who was a also a brilliant camping equipment designer, as a waterfront shop and factory in downtown New York City under the his own name (David T. Abercrombie Company) in 1892 as a men's outdoor clothing store. In 1900 an avid customer of Abercrombie's, a lawyer by the name of Ezra Fitch persuaded Abercrombie to allow him to become a partner in the growing company and the current name reflects the short-lived partnership.
In 1909, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. mailed over 50,000 copies of its 456 page catalog worldwide (a staggering and costly amount of publication at that time, since each cost a dollar to produce). The catalog featured outdoor clothing, camping gear, articles, and advice columns. The cost of the catalog nearly bankrupted the company, but the catalog proved to be a profitable marketing device. Within the store, the catalog was available to customers for free. By 1910, the company became the first store in New York to supply clothing to women as well as men. In 1913, after moving into Reade Street, which was not a convenient shopping location for women, the store relocated to a more fashionable and easily accessible midtown address near Fifth Avenue at 55/57 West 36th Street, expanding its inventory to include sportswear. In 1917, the store moved again into a twelve-story building at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 45th Street. The store occupied the entire available space (12 stories).
The Madison Avenue store included many different amenities. The basement housed a shooting range while on the mezzanine (main floor) paraphernalia for skiing, archery, skin-diving, and lawn games were sold. The second through fifth floors were reserved for clothing that was suitable for different climate or terrains. On the sixth floor were a picture gallery, a bookstore (focused on sporting themes), a watch repair facility and a golf school (fully equipped with a resident professional). The seventh floor included a gun room with hundreds of shotguns and rifles, decorated with stuffed game heads, as well as a kennel for dogs and cats. The eighth floor contained fishing, camping, and boating equipment and included a desk for a fly- and bait-casting instructor who gave lessons at the pool, which was located on the roof. The fishing section alone was stocked with over 48,000 flies and over 18,000 fishing lures.
|Vintage A&F gun catalog cover|
|A page from the 1939 catalog from the Archival Clothing Blog.|
|Gorgeous vintage A&F Seafarer watches from Hauer. Created in the 1950s it was the first chronograph watch to feature a tide indicator. Cuz, ya know, when you're playing sea captain, you gotta know whether the tide is in or out.|
|"Hello! Abercrombie & Fitch?"|
A vintage New Yorker cartoon by Peter Arno
|Some photos of presumably useful items from A&F's Big Little Book of Fishing published in 1968. |
Note the mosquito netting headgear with mouth hole so your outdoor activities don't interfere with your pipe smoking.
Thank you to the blog The Wildwood, for making these scans available.
|Recently my mom handed off a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch boots to me that she wore on a pheasant hunting trip with my dad to Aberdeen, South Dakota, but, darn it, they are too small for my Fred Flintstone feet!|
|A&F didn't create these leather animal footstools, but they did sell them in their stores and, I kid you not, we had a hippo like this in our house. A 3 year old girl could easily find creative ways to use this fella as a slide while watching Mr Rogers.|
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In the seventh chapter on BizIsSimple.Com, author Chris Stern talks about extreme differentiation and smart business definition and develops a novel approach to the Blue Ocean Theory.
Chris Stern immerses readers in differentiation and innovatively combines the Blue Ocean Methodology with the strategy mapping approach of the Balanced Scorecard.
A differentiation canvas is used to visualize strategy patterns. "While certainly not scientific, the idea provides a new approach to a proven methodology, and that makes it interesting" says Chris Stern. "Showing differentiation patterns comparing a Blue Ocean businesses with a legacy businesses allows the strategist to provide rational arguments why a certain business innovation may succeed, or not".
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The goal of BizIsSimple.com is to look at business administration in an extremely pragmatic way and to help readers find tools they can immediately apply in day-to-day business.
The web book will be an ongoing work. In contrast to paper publications, the author can add and change content based on readers' input or updated knowledge. The seventh chapter is called "Business Definition and Differentiation" and is available for immediate reading at http://www.bizissimple.com.
Every chapter comes with a downloadable presentation and the author plans to add video sequences in the near future. Until further notice, access to the site is free of charge.
IFEM Management Consultants Inc, doing business as Institute For Efficient Management, is a management-consulting firm delivering integrated business administration solutions for organizations needing to simplify the processes of strategic and business management. IFEM helps its clients design and implement strategic plans that are highly efficient and effective. IFEM's founder Chris J. Stern is best known for his statement that "business is simple until academics and consultants make it complicated". IFEM serves corporate customers throughout the United States and Europe, and specializes in improving the performance of U.S. subsidiaries of European companies and EU subsidiaries of U.S. companies. Click here to read the IFEM Website and to contact IFEM. To read the web book on bizissimple.com, click here.
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Topics in This Section
- General Information About Delirium
- Causes of Delirium
- Effects of Delirium on the Patient, Family, and Health Care Providers
- Diagnosing Delirium
- Treatment of Delirium
- Current Clinical Trials
- Changes to This Summary (03/13/2013)
- Questions or Comments About This Summary
- Get More Information From NCI
- About PDQ
Delirium is a confused mental state that can occur in patients who have cancer, especially advanced cancer. Patients with delirium have problems with the following:
- Muscle control.
- Sleeping and waking.
There are three types of delirium:
- Hypoactive: The patient is not active and seems sleepy, tired, or depressed.
- Hyperactive: The patient is restless or agitated.
- Mixed: The patient changes back and forth between being hypoactive and hyperactive.
The symptoms of delirium usually occur suddenly. They often occur within hours or days and may come and go. Delirium is often temporary and can be treated. However, in the last 24 to 48 hours of life, delirium may be permanent because of problems like organ failure. Most advanced cancer patients have delirium that occurs in the last hours to days before death.
This summary is about delirium in adults.
There is often more than one cause of delirium in a cancer patient, especially when the cancer is advanced and the patient has many medical conditions. Causes of delirium include the following:
- Organ failure, such as liver or kidney failure.
- Electrolyte imbalances: Electrolytes are important minerals (including salt, potassium, calcium, and phosphorous) in blood and body fluids. These electrolytes are needed to keep the heart, kidneys, nerves, and muscles working the way they should.
- Paraneoplastic syndromes: Symptoms that occur when cancer-fighting antibodies or white blood cells attack normal cells in the nervous system by mistake.
- Side effects of medicines and treatments: Patients with cancer may take medicines with side effects that include delirium and confusion. The effects usually go away after the medicine is stopped.
- Withdrawal from medicines that depress (slow down) the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).
Patients with cancer are likely to have more than one risk factor for delirium. Identifying risk factors early may help prevent delirium or decrease the time it takes to treat it. Risk factors include the following:
- Serious illness.
- Having more than one disease.
- Older age.
- Low level of albumin (protein) in the blood, which is often caused by liver problems.
- High level of nitrogen waste products in the blood, which is often caused by kidney problems.
- Taking medicines that affect the mind or behavior.
- Taking high doses of pain medicines, such as opioids.
The risk increases when the patient has more than one risk factor. Older patients with advanced cancer who are hospitalized often have more than one risk factor for delirium.
Delirium may be dangerous to the patient if his or her judgment is affected. Delirium can cause the patient to behave in unusual ways. Even a quiet or calm patient can have a sudden change in mood or become agitated and need more care.
Delirium can be upsetting to the family and caregivers. When the patient becomes agitated, family members often think the patient is in pain, but this may not be the case. Learning about differences between the symptoms of delirium and pain may help the family and caregivers understand how much pain medicine is needed. Health care providers can help the family and caregivers learn about these differences.
Patients with delirium are:
- More likely to fall.
- Sometimes unable to control bladder and/or bowels.
- More likely to become dehydrated (drink too little water to stay healthy).
They often need a longer hospital stay than patients without delirium.
The confused mental state of these patients may make them:
- Unable to talk with family members and caregivers about their needs and feelings.
- Unable to make decisions about care.
This makes it harder for health care providers to assess the patient's symptoms. The family may need to make decisions for the patient.
When the following symptoms occur suddenly, they may be signs of delirium:
- Not cooperating.
- Changes in personality or behavior.
- Problems thinking.
- Problems paying attention.
- Unusual anxiety or depression.
Early symptoms of delirium are like symptoms of depression and dementia. Delirium that causes the patient to be inactive may appear to be depression. Delirium and dementia both cause problems with memory, thinking, and judgment. Dementia may be caused by a number of medical conditions, including Alzheimer disease. Differences in the symptoms of delirium and dementia include the following:
- Patients with delirium often show changes in how alert or aware they are. Patients who have dementia usually stay alert and aware until the dementia becomes very advanced.
- Delirium occurs suddenly (within hours or days). Dementia appears gradually (over months to years) and gets worse over time.
Older patients with cancer may have both dementia and delirium. This can make it hard for the doctor to diagnose the problem. If treatment for delirium is given and the symptoms continue, then the diagnosis is more likely dementia. Checking the patient's health and symptoms over time can help diagnose delirium and dementia.
Doctors will try to find the causes of delirium.
- Physical exam and history: An exam of the body to check general signs of health, including checking for signs of disease, such as lumps or anything else that seems unusual. A history of the patient's health habits, past illnesses including depression, and treatments will also be taken. A physical exam can help rule out a physical condition that may be causing symptoms.
- Laboratory tests: Medical procedures that test samples of tissue, blood, urine, or other substances in the body. These tests help to diagnose disease, plan and check treatment, or monitor the disease over time.
Both the causes and the symptoms of delirium may be treated. Treatment depends on the following:
- Where the patient is living, such as home, hospital, or nursing home.
- How advanced the cancer is.
- How the delirium symptoms are affecting the patient.
- The wishes of the patient and family.
Treating the causes of delirium usually includes the following:
- Stopping or lowering the dose of medicines that cause delirium.
- Giving fluids to treat dehydration.
- Giving drugs to treat hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood).
- Giving antibiotics for infections.
In a terminally ill patient with delirium, the doctor may treat just the symptoms. The doctor will continue to watch the patient closely during treatment.
Controlling the patient's surroundings may help with mild symptoms of delirium. The following may help:
- Keep the patient's room quiet and well-lit, and put familiar objects in it.
- Put a clock or calendar where the patient can see it.
- Have family members around.
- Keep the same caregivers as much as possible.
Patients who may hurt themselves or others may need to have physical restraints.
Medicines may be used to treat the symptoms of delirium depending on the patient's condition and heart health. These medicines have serious side effects and the patient will be watched closely by a doctor. These medicines include the following:
When the symptoms of delirium are not relieved with standard treatments and the patient is near death, in pain, or has trouble breathing, other treatment may be needed. Sometimes medicines that will sedate (calm) the patient will be used. The family and the health care team will make this decision together.
The decision to use sedation for delirium may be guided by the following:
- The patient will have repeated assessments by experts before the delirium is considered to be refractory (doesn't respond to treatment).
- The decision to sedate the patient is reviewed by a team of health care professionals and not made by one doctor.
- Temporary sedation, for short periods of time such as overnight, is considered before continuous sedation is used.
- The team of health care professionals will work with the family to make sure the team understands the family's views and that the family understands palliative sedation.
Check NCI’s list of cancer clinical trials for U.S. supportive and palliative care trials about delirium and cognitive/functional effects that are now accepting participants. The list of trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.
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