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The Little Girl is walking with her arms stretched out, dreaming that she could fly.
Looking up into the sky she stretches her arms out even wider, knowing that there must be a way to realize a dream as clear as this.
And then! A Dragonfly Flying high above, truly soaring.....He is able to walk on air, to float weightlessly. He represents all that she has been dreaming.
The Little Girl stops, gazes up into the sky and follows his every moment in amazement. Her fingertips seem to tingle as she imagines being able to do the same.
But wait! The Dragonfly swoops down to her, hovering right in front of her .... could he be asking her to fly with him? Could she have wings like he does?
Oh! she must be able to do this! She must see this dream become reality! Without asking, she leaps into the air and tries to catch the Dragonfly, to grab him right out of his sky.
The Dragonfly gives one easy flick with his wings, and flies away.....high and out of her reach. He is free, a creature of the sky, and can not be caught.
The Little Girl watches in despair as the Dragonfly dissapears into the heights of the sky, walking on air and leaving her far behind, unable to follow.
Heartbroken the Little Girl realizes her loss. A dream has come so close and offered an invitation to fly together was made so freely, all now seems lost.
But wait! Could it be? Out of the sky a winged creature is approaching. The Dragonfly is flying so low it looks as though he is going to land, right next to her.
So close! The Dragonfly hovers right in front of her, he gives his invitation again. Come fly with me, dream with me! Let me know what it is like to be you and I will share with you what it is like to be me! Come with me!
Of course ....The Little Girl realizes that she knows what to do. He is free to offer her all that he dreams, but she, in freedom, is to do the same. It is her moment of recognition and true understanding. She stretches out her arms, one free creature to another.
The Little Girl and the Dragonfly are side by side. But look! The Little Girl no longer has arms - instead she has four perfect dragonfly wings, two where her arms were and two growing out of her waist. The red V chevron of her swimming costume outlines the wings, like a border around each one. And! The Dragonfly no longer has wings - instead he has four perfect little girl´s arms, fingers stretched out as they fly.
It is the moment of almost walking in each other´s skin, of profound understanding. A moment in which two journeys join together and two lives touch.
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned officials and private investors against hiking construction costs for the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The 2014 Games are expected to cost $51 billion, including construction of new roads and railways, making it the most expensive Olympics in history.
Putin toured some of the Olympic venues on Wednesday, a day ahead of the 1-year countdown to the games.
Russian news agencies quoted Putin as telling investors and officials "the most important thing is that nothing gets stolen and that there'd be no unjustified hikes in spending."
Russian officials have dismissed allegations of corruption linked to the preparations for the games.
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We have been writing a lot about the Ogden School District’s decision to sign its teachers on an individual basis and to move toward a pay-for-performance plan. These steps are important ones that could gradually help change the landscape of public education in the best interest of Utah students.
To help shed some light on why the district made this decision and on what interested parties think about it, we interviewed Noel Zabriskie, superintendent of Ogden School District; Doug Stephens, president of Ogden Education Association; and Derek Monson, manager of public policy at Sutherland Institute. Watch the video here:
As this debate continues, we hope that the Ogden School District, and all other districts and charter schools in Utah, will continue to move toward a system that does more to reward excellence, involve parents and focus on the children it is meant to educate.
Here’s the script of the video:
VOICE-OVER: In a move that has sent waves throughout Utah, the Ogden School District will not be negotiating with the Ogden Education Association for the teachers’ 2011 through 2012 contract. Noel Zabriskie, the superintendent for the Ogden Board of Education, explains why the district has made this decision.
NOEL ZABRISKIE: “Based upon the information that we released earlier, we had been in contract negotiations with the education association for 14-15 months; we did not reach contract agreement. Essentially, the contract ended, the school year ended, and feeling the sense of urgency to move this direction, and the board approved a new contract and asked the teachers to sign.”
VOICE-OVER: Teachers were told to sign and return the individual contract by July 20th or their jobs would be advertised as open for hire. Over the next six years, the district plans to replace “steps,” or the practice of giving raises based on years of experience, with a new system of performance-based pay.
NOEL ZABRISKIE: “We’ve had a downturn in the economy and the revenue picture has been pretty tough; we haven’t been able to fund “steps,” or longevity pay. And as the board looked at those kinds of things, realizing perhaps we need to be a bit more accountable relative to what the teacher is being able to do rather than just spend one more year within the Ogden School District.”
STAND UP: Doug Stephens, president of the Ogden Education Association, disagrees with the district’s decision.
DOUG STEPHENS: “The ‘sign or you lose your job’ is shocking, it’s so uncharitable. You’re talking every teacher in the district is being threatened, and every teacher in the district isn’t doing a bad job.”
VOICE-OVER: Stephens says the district abandoned them and has left the members of the association frightened.
DOUG STEPHENS: “The district is saying that we will include you, but their past actions in the last two weeks aren’t really indicative of that. And so it makes us very cautious; in the past we have always collaborated together, we have always tried to work out whatever challenges that we face. But this is frightening; it’s like we reached a tough place, and rather than sitting down and trying to find a solution to the tough situation that we were in, that we feel like the district bailed on us and didn’t want to include us anymore.”
VOICE-OVER: The superintendent said the contract sent to the teachers asks them for their input to help create this new performance-pay system.
NOEL ZABRISKIE: “First of all, the contract doesn’t talk about the performance-pay piece, what we put forward is this is a target of where we are heading, so sure they are signing on board to help create that if they choose to, but that in my mind is no different than any other teaching situation, any other school system: ‘Sign on board, we can’t tell you all the things you’re going to have to do while you’re doing your job, but here is the framework.’ ”
VOICE-OVER: Derek Monson with Sutherland Institute explains that teachers will be contributing to this process.
DEREK MONSON: “One of the big points that has been brought up is how the teachers don’t have input into this process, and groups like the unions have portrayed it that way, and I think that is inaccurate and misleading. The teachers signing their contracts will have input over the next several years with the district directly into how this performance-measurement system will be implemented and what will be used. That’s the purpose of these contracts that they’re sending out is to get the teachers’ input.”
VOICE-OVER: Sutherland Institute commends Ogden School District’s decision; they believe the focus should always be on providing the best educational experience for children and parents.
DEREK MONSON: “A system that drives outcomes of children and that uses payment and incentives to push for better outcomes and better results, is a great thing, and that’s what we should be encouraging in our education system.”
STAND UP: Ogden School District is on a path that will reward great teachers and help other teachers improve, which, in the end, will help more children succeed. And that’s something we can all agree on. For Sutherland Institute, I’m Alexis Young, reminding you that policy, good or bad, changes lives!
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In statement on Friday New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pointed an accusing finger to the thefts of Apple’s iPhones and iPads as the reason for the high crime rate in New York.
In a radio interview, Mr. Bloomberg stated that Apple products appeared to be the preference for many thieves and urges users to safety guard they Apple products by keeping them in an interior, hard-to-reach pocket.
“Put it in a pocket in sort of a more body-fitting, tighter clothes, that you can feel if it was — if somebody put their hand in your pocket, not just an outside coat pocket,” the mayor said.
The Police Department has so far recorded 3,484 more major crimes in 2012 than for the same period last year. However, the increase in thefts of Apple’s products is 3,890 year over year.
According to a report by New York Times:
Still, city officials said the overall crime figure was skewed by the Apple figure.
“If you just took away the jump in Apple, we’d be down for the year,” said Marc La Vorgna, the mayor’s press secretary.
“The proliferation of people carrying expensive devices around is so great,” Mr. La Vorgna said. “It’s something that’s never had to be dealt with before.”
So, there you have it folks, keep you devices out of sight where practicable.
Source: New York Times
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Sew another star on the flag. Mexico will become our 51st state in 2012.
State and congressional leaders from California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico say it’s the only way to solve America’s massive illegal immigration problem.
“Keep the Mexicans from sneaking across the border is like trying to shoo flies off a hog’s back. We might as well make them U.S. citizens and try to get a little tax money out of them,” said a source close to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Officials of the four states bordering Mexico are secretly gathering statehood support for that country because they bear most of the cost of illegal immigration. President Obama is fully behind the initiative.
“Pregnant women enter the U.S. illegally so their babies will be born here – and thus become American citizens,” said a congressman who is spearheading the move to Mexican statehood. “Mexican men slip across the border to work. And a few of them wind up in jail, costing us more than they spend here.
“We’re tired of U.S. taxpayers footing the bill to provide schooling, medical and other help for illegal aliens because the federal government doesn’t enforce our immigration laws,” he added.
The U.S. already spends billions of dollars each year for aid to Mexico’s impoverished 92 million people.
Then, of course there’s NAFTA and the recent Mexican financial bailout that is costing Americans a bundle.
Mexicans are jumping at a chance for U.S. statehood, say sources. 72 percent of Mexicans say they would welcome become a state in the United States.
Some Republicans are objecting to the initiative. “We should we make them Americans? Just so they can siesta all day, draw welfare checks, eat tacos and won’t have to worry about border guards leaning on them. It’s ridiculous. We’re the only Americans in North America!”
The fruit and vegetable growers strongly oppose statehood for Mexico, afraid that their workers may stay in Mexico. But, many believe that everybody will benefit from statehood for Mexico.
One sponsor of the bill in the White House said, “the Border Patrol is tired of grabbing illegal immigrants and sending them back to Mexico, and the ones already here, live in fear of being captured, like pre-World War II Germany when the Jewish people had to wear the star of David bands on their arms to announce they were Jewish rather than German. Germans were the ones attempting to make a distinct. Mexicans are already living and working in the United States. Most of them are working in hospitals, restaurants, landscaping and other service industries. Instead of playing tag at the border with illegal immigrants, it would be simpler to make Mexico the 51st state!”
“Changing border boundaries would eliminate the need to patrol the border and would save a lot of money. Then too, Americans wanting to vacation in Can Cun or other tropical paradises in Mexico, could freely travel to those spots. Then there would be no need to patrol the southern United States border any longer.
“Civil liberties and lifestyles would greatly improve for all Mexicans as the United States could spend its middle east war money on a worthwhile cause – namely, bring Mexico up to the same standard of living as what the Americans have already.”
Say Hola to the new citizens of the United States!!
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By Courage to Resist. November 18, 2007
While home on leave in January 2007, Army Spc Kimberly Rivera made the life changing decision that she would not be returning to the Iraq War. Instead, she packed up the family car and drove to Canada with her husband and two children. She is currently one of about fifty AWOL US war resisters who are openly seeking sanctuary in Canada. This is her story.
Also now available, Courage to Resist audio interview with Kimberly. December 4, 2007
Kimberly Rivera grew up in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb east of Dallas. She had never thought of becoming a soldier until she was seventeen and the Army recruiters visited her home to meet with Kimberly and her parents. The recruiters offered money for college that her family did not have. Her mother was supporting Kimberly, her father, and her two sisters after her father suffered a work related accident. She took an aptitude test for job placement out of “curiosity”, but later signed up to be a mechanic. She was given an enlistment date following graduation for the Army Reserves.
On July 14, 2001 Kimberly was sent to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina for Basic Training. After suffering from morning sickness for several weeks, she attended sick call where the doctors told her there was nothing wrong with her, but handed her some pills saying, "This will take care of all your problems." She did not take the pills and continued with training.
Just before Christmas 2001, three months after entering AIT training, the commander released her because of her pregnancy. Because Kimberly was not active duty, she had only part time benefits which did not include health care or dental, or any of the other things that she needed to be a mom and a soldier—and the military agreed.
She returned home to Mesquite and to her job at Wal-Mart. Within the next two years she had two children, a boy and a girl. "I still felt like a 24 year old loser because our jobs were not paying the bills for the apartment, food, car, car insurance and health insurance and credit card bills." They moved in with her parents, which created additional stress.
She thought about the military again. The Army offered job security, sign-on bonuses, a food and clothing allowance, medical benefits, housing allowance, "Everything I needed, they had. It's the best form of socialism" she thought. After talking to an Army recruiter in January 2006, she joined up for a second time—this time active duty to receive full benefits for her family. She was again sent to Ft. Jackson a month later. Because she had previously completed Basic Training in 2001, she was sent to Ft. Leonard Wood in March 2006 and after passing her truck driving course was assigned to G Company, 2-17 Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Ft. Carson, Colorado. For the next few months she spent two weeks of each month in the deserts of the Colorado Rockies and a month in Death Valley, California.
In October 2006 her reserve unit was activated and deployed to Iraq. "I felt like I was losing my mind. I was so close to death so many times. It scares me now. My life as I knew it was falling apart and I was unable to pull it together. I was surrounded by males who were filled with filthy comments and talking about all kinds of sexual things. I was there for three months and was scared that some of the guys might try to get me to trust them just so later they could have their chance to abuse me."
"While in Iraq losing soldiers and civilians was part of daily life. I was a gate guard. This was looked down on by infantry soldiers who go out in the streets, but gate guards are the highest security of the Forward Operation Base. We searched vehicles, civilian personnel, and military convoys that left and came back every hour. I had a huge awakening seeing the war as it truly is: people losing their lives for greed of a nation and the effects on the soldiers who come back with new problems such as nightmares, anxieties, depression, anger, alcohol abuse, missing limbs and scars from burns. Some don't come back at all."
"On December 21, 2006 I was going to my room and something in my heart told me to go call my husband. And when I did 24 rounds of mortars hit the FOB in a matter of minutes after I got on the phone...the mortars were 10-15 feet from where I was. I found a hole from the shrapnel in my room in the plywood window. That night I found the shrapnel on my bed in the same place where my head would have been if I hadn't changed my plans and gone to the phone."
She began questioning everything: "Why am I here? What am I giving my life for? How am I helping my comrades and Iraq's people? What harm do I see here that would affect the safety of my family back home? Is what I am doing self-defense or aggression?"
That night an Iraqi civilian friend of Kimberly’s was badly wounded. “All I know is she was in very bad shape. The shrapnel hit her in her mid section and she was put on life support. That’s the last I heard from her sisters before I left.”
The following Saturday she watched as an Iraqi father came to the base with a little girl about 2 years old to put in a claim for loss due to Army negligence. The little girl was shaking very hard. "You could see tears of trauma running down her face. No weeping, no whining, just tears. . I was seeing my little girl. I wanted to hold her so bad, but I was afraid of scaring her more and I didn't want to do that."
In January 2007 she began two week's leave. One night in the second week Kimberly and her husband agreed she would not go back to Iraq. He contacted War Resisters Campaign in Canada. They packed their car and began driving from Mesquite, Texas "the long way around to Colorado to delay time." Every time they got closer to Colorado the dread increased and they would then drive east. "As long as we were going east to Buffalo, we had peace...If we had doubts about our decision; we didn't once we passed the border. We know all that we left behind: our families, our things in Colorado, our life, our home, our country, and our pride. The most important thing was for us to live as a happy, safe family with both parents in the picture." They crossed the Rainbow Bridge into Canada on February 18, 2007.
Kimberly and her family now live in Toronto hoping they will be able to stay. She is the first female war resister in Canada to publicly speak out about her decision to resist returning to the Iraq War. "My goal," she says," is to find a better future for my kids."
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With all the media attention focused on Microsoft's not-so-friendly takeover bid of Yahoo, a below-the-radar acquisition target proves why social commerce is the future of search.
Google is in talks to acquire Facebook competitor and global social network, Bebo. Along with Hi5, Google social network Orkut dominates the South American social networking landscape. Adding Bebo, which owns 65 percent of the UK market, would fit nicely in the growing Google puzzle of acquisitions and partnerships (YouTube, MySpace, Urchin).
Google and The New New Thing
Google's buying into social networking and social search in a big way even though monetization remains problematic.
Despite social network traffic increasing eightfold in 2007, social search engines still account for less than 1 percent of total Internet traffic, according to Hitwise. There's huge upside potential.
Google continues to struggle in its partnership with MySpace. Generating robust revenue streams from its $900 million deal with NewsCorp has been a challenge. Many insiders believe Google is losing money on the deal. Even Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted, "I don't think we have the killer, best way to advertise and monetize social networks yet."
It's probably no coincidence News Corp's Rupert Murdoch may trade MySpace for a 20 percent stake in Yahoo.
Some Web pundits aren't sold either. "What you have with social networks is the most overhyped scenario in online advertising," said Tim Vanderhook, CEO of Specific Media.
So, if Google and others are struggling with social networks, why would Google waste its time and resources by acquiring Bebo?
Socialommerce and Twitter's Death by Facebook
Socialommerce™ is the next big thing. Google product guru Marissa Mayer recently told The New York Times that social search would be a key component in the future of search. Social commerce deserves Google's unbridled attention. What is socialommerce exactly? Social commerce harnesses the simple idea that people value other people's opinions. Nielsen reports 78 percent of people trust their peers' opinions. This is neither a new concept, nor new to the Web (e.g., epinions.com).
What is new: social networks make so much easier to disseminate the information. And people want to disseminate information. How else can one explain the popularity of Twitter? Twitter is a product that enables users to text their group of friends daily to indicate what they're doing every minute of the day (I'm having an ice cream cone, I'm studying for an exam, etc.). Twitter's popularity, currently relegated to teens, is gaining popularity with adults.
Facebook's status updates are far and away one of its most popular features. Status updates enable everyone to brag, boast, and tell people what's going on in their lives. It helps them stay connected (duh, the social piece of the network).
The need for Twitter? Facebook will make it obsolete shortly. RIP, Twitter.
Facebook allows people to update their activities in real time and informs everyone in their network instantly. Facebook's mobile application makes it even easier to do this.
That's one reason 100 billion stories per day are processed through Facebook's Newsfeed servers.
Socialommerce in Action
Let's take a look at a couple examples of how socialommerce works.
Online Retail: Karen (age 48) just received her IRS refund check for $170. She feels like treating herself by buying something, but doesn't have anything particular in mind. Karen quickly taps into her social networks to see what other people she respects (friends/peers) are buying and whether they like or dislike their choices.
Within five minutes, she decides to purchase an iPod Nano since her friend Sally bought one and she loves it. The fact Sally has one and likes it assuaged Karen's fear of technology since Sally is even more of a technical neophyte than Karen. Knowing this drove 95 percent of Karen's decision process in minutes.
The big social networks will eventually dominate this portion of socialommerce. Sites like ThisNext, Kaboodle, and WishPot, are taking advantage of this market opportunity in the short term by enabling the buyer to quickly share their purchases and reviews with friends.
Travel: Suzy (age 34) has set aside a budget of $1,400 to take a trip this year with her husband. The only thing she knows at this point: destination, South America. In the past she would've performed a search on Google, which would have taken her to some helpful sites like Travelzoo, Tripadvisor, Lonely Planet, and others. She probably would've narrowed down her choices after hours of research. From there, she would then begin the arduous task of finding the best deal that accommodates her schedule and desires.
This process becomes much simpler for Suzy in the near future. She'd simply go to her social network of choice and search for South American vacations. The results would pop up: five of her friends have traveled to South America in the last year. They list their itinerary, hotels and resorts, as well as prices and recommendations.
Suzy sees two of her friends both took a trip to Chile through GoAhead vacations and rated it highly. It's within her budget, and the same package is available. She quickly snatches it up before it's sold out. She saved hours of painstaking research and the fees of a travel agent. Socialommerce gave her peace of mind and the anticipation of an enjoyable adventure.
So you can see why Google is interested in social networks. They just might become the first place where people perform their searches
Have you used social networks to plan vacations or buy gifts? Click here to tell me how it's working out for you.
Next up: Social search transforms social networks. Big brands, you've been warned.
Introducing SES Online
Want to view one of the sessions you missed or listen to an especially informative presenter a second time? SES New York sessions are available for purchase on ClickZ Academy's new e-Learning site. SES is now Online!
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Immigrant stories, apartment squatters, disco dwellers, tiger attacks and stool robberies - yes people stealing stool samples - these are the funny tales that make up The Tiger Hunter, a weaving story Lena Khan is bringing to the silver screen.
Khan is the creative mind behind the feature film, having carved out a niche in the American Muslim community. The UCLA graduate is pursuing her dream with the directorial debut of The Tiger Hunter.
Khan has produced music videos for Kareem Salama (A Land Called Paradise) and Mehr Zain (The Chosen), and in 2008, a series on Voting Smarter.
"It's hard to describe how exciting it is to have the chance to make a real movie. You know, with recognizable actors. Theaters. Laughs," says Khan.
While Khan has honed her skills working at big-name Hollywood studios and production companies, making a movie is not an easy task.
Movies like Disney's Enchanted was written in 1997, but took ten years to finish. While the 1976 film Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, was shot over the course of twenty-eight days.
Inspirations for The Tiger Hunter are rooted in Khan's childhood stories told by her father. Khan spent a year writing the story and then collaborated with the talented Sameer Gardezi, a well-known writer from ABC's Modern Family.
The result is a story about Sami Malik, the protagonist, who is an ambitious young man with an engineering degree. He travels to 1970s Chicago to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his father, a local legend and tiger hunter.
Being an immigrant, Sami soon finds himself in a series of adventures involving outlandish schemes, an arch-nemesis in an absurd office environment and a variety of misfits.
What is unique about the movie is that it's a story told by an American Muslim about a Muslim immigrant experience.
Hollywood is often criticized for getting Muslims wrong. Khan says that this is an opportunity to portray the "right image, our image as we see it ourselves."
Jamaal Diwan, resident scholar at the Islamic Center of Irvine, Calif., believes that as a fairly young community, Muslims in American are still in the process of negotiating their identities, and as artists, deriving meaning from their artistic output.
As the community matures, works like Khan's are critical in charting the future of American Muslims.
Diwan believes that the arts have to play a bigger role in community life.
"If we were to look at the artistic products of Muslims in America in the past, we would see mostly imported expressions" says Diwan. "However, as we move forward as a community and develop a unique sense of identity in this time and place, our artistic contributions will develop as well."
But artists struggle not only to make a space for their unique Muslim expression, but also in garnering support from the community they wish to raise awareness about.
Zahra Noorbaskh, an Iranian comedian, put together a one-woman show called All Atheists Are Muslim.
Speaking to SFGate.com about her performance, Noorbaksh says that comedy is a way for her to filter her world. "I think (it) is a fresh lens when so much of anything Muslim-related is overwhelmingly nothing to do with anything funny."
Noorbakhsh's work brings to the fore the importance of portraying her characters as real people rather than caricatures. Something that is readily available on many Hollywood shows and movies.
Noorbaksh, like Khan, used Kickstarter to raise $4,000 in two weeks for her show from a diverse group of backers in order to bring her artistic vision to life with audiences across the country.
Khan's project has attracted a number of investors but she was still short on achieving the necessary funding to start production. She has turned to the community that had supported her previous works, including family and friends, to raise the remaining $55,000 necessary to make the film.
Khan's Kickstarter campaign has raised close to $12,000 and has garnered widespread social media buzz.
"It's a way to get people involved in the film, make it happen, and directly be part of the process" Khan said. "My entire blog has been devoted to making people understand what goes on in the process, so it was natural for us to open it up through Kickstarter as well."
Khan explains that by crowd financing, she will have more control over the movie.
"We are also limited in that we now have a debt of gratitude and a responsibility to our backers. This project has to be made. It has to be quality. But the thing is, I think it is a limitation in a good way: it makes up aspire even higher."
Support Lena Khan's The Tiger Hunter here.
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Aspect Security has launched a free baseline knowledge tool that claims to produce an accurate assessment of a development team's knowledge of application security. Secure Coder Analytics can be accessed online to determine the skill set and level of a group of developers or individuals.
- IDC Analyst Connection: Using Blade Systems to Cut Costs and Sharpen Efficiencies
- Application Testing Strategies in the IBM z/OS Environment
- Strategy: How to Conduct an Effective IT Security Risk Assessment
- Strategy: Smartphone Smackdown: Galaxy Note II vs. Lumia 920 vs. iPhone 5
- The Untapped Potential of Mobile Apps for Commercial Customers
- Why is Information Governance So Important for Modern Analytics?
"How do you know what you don't know? That's the challenge facing development teams that want to develop secure code. There's no shame in not knowing all of the tricky aspects of application security, and now you can find out where your gaps are," said Jeff Williams, CEO of Aspect Security.
Williams is also cofounder of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and he contends his firm's Secure Coder Analytics takes a developer approximately 20 minutes to complete and tests knowledge in various security areas via a multiple-choice assessment.
Questions are randomized from what is said to be an "extensive" pool of questions. Managers of development teams can set up their own tests and invite developers to participate anonymously. After participating, each developer sees their own grade and managers can see aggregate scores that reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the team as a whole.
Aspect Security's eLearning curriculum features 53 learning modules at three different levels of technical depth. The company says that its eLearning solution is in use by developers worldwide at many corporate entities, including giants in the financial, shipping, and logistics and airline industries and government agencies.
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I'm a C#/.Net developer but my experience in the field is limited to WinForms (and a bit of WPF) programs for internal use of the company I work for. I'm looking to expand my programming knowledge into games, mainly for a hobby or perhaps give away as freeware.
I'd like my game to be more about the game-play than eye candy (my lack of artistic ability helps with this move too
Without being too long winded about what the game is I'd be quicker to describe as 'Dwarf Fortress like' although it's certainly not going to be a 'clone' of DF (not that I would dream of being able to even equal such a classic game imho). I want to use the style of ASCII type graphics that DF uses and it would work well for what I have planned, I'm not really interested with 3D objects or bitmaps at this point. Although DF looks like a console app I'm not sure if it actually is (not being experience with console apps I'm not entirely sure what display abilities they have)
I've purchased an excellent book called Visual C# Game Programming for Teens that uses GDI and sprites and I'm hoping to use this to show be the basic concepts of game programming. What I'd like to know is:
Can I use C# to create a game with the same graphic style as DF? If so have you any hints/tips or some keywords I could Google?
If not would using XNA be a better approach?
Sorry if these questions sound a bit vague but I'm at the stage were I don't know what I don't know (if that doesn't sound stupid) and don't want a long walk down what could be a blind ally, ask me to write a program to interrorgate a database and I'm away, all the graphics and game stuff is making me feel like I've only started coding again
Many thanks in advance and thank you!
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Khaled Meshal and Hamas Go Their Separate Ways
Former Hamas leader Meshal envisions himself replacing the aging Mahmoud Abbas as head of the Palestinian Authority.
The news that Hamas leader Khaled Meshal is resigning his leadership post is an ominous sign that Hamas is heading toward more confrontation with its Palestinian rival Fatah and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the near future. Meshal is reported as seeking a bigger role for himself within the PLO even perhaps as its leader replacing the ageing and discredited Mahmoud Abbas.
As a leader of Gaza-based Hamas, Meshal should have been leading his organization from Gaza, which is free of Israeli control, and work to improve the lives of the people of Gaza, which his organization has been controlling since 2007. Instead Meshal has opted to place himself in the mold of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat taking comfort in hoping from this Arab capital to one day replace Arafat as a “symbol” of the Palestinian struggle against Israel albeit with very little results.
Even though Meshal lacks the personal charisma Arafat enjoyed for over 40 years, which later proved to be a disastrous trait for Palestinians leaders, he might find the regional alignment in his favor, especially in Egypt and Iran, should he decide to pursue plans to lead the PLO later on.
In order to respond to overwhelming Israeli power Palestinians need political managers skilled in statecraft and clean-handed politicians, not charismatic leaders who will inevitably turn into corrupt dictators and stay in power for decades. Neither Meshal nor Abbas can be described as clean-handed or competent.
Palestinians, much like their Arab brethren in the Arab States have yet to produce the kind of leadership that will hold itself accountable to the people and to the law. This is perhaps one of the key differences between Israeli and Palestinians whereas Israelis were able to develop an able pool of diverse leaders who acted in the best interest of their state and citizens even before they established their state in 1948. Palestinians on the other hand were stuck with the same leaders for generations who led them from one disaster to another.
Meshal, who has been leading Hamas since the mid-nineties, might have come to see himself as a leader of all of the Palestinian people as part of larger strategy by Hamas to control the overall Palestinian leadership. This could be a plausible scenario given the deteriorating conditions within the Palestinian territories and the discredited leaders of the PA and the relentless Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
Ever since its inception in 1987, Hamas has played the spoiler in the now defunct “peace process” and as a competitor to Fatah in its quest to lead the Palestinian people in their struggle to achieve their independence and end the Israeli occupation.
Helping Meshal in his goal is the rise of Islamic leaders in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab World who he sees as his natural allies and who obviously share his ideological background.
The problem with Meshal and Hamas, however, is that they behave much like other Palestinian organizations, past and present, by being beholden to the interests of their pay masters and political allies in Iran, Qatar, Egypt and Syria. Hamas's continued control of Gaza strip and its refusal to relinquish its grip on power there is also part of a regional struggle that involved the same regional and international actors who pay money to both Hamas and the PA
Acting as pawns of other Arab states and its leaders has been the story of the Palestinian leaders even before 1948. Clan-based Palestinian leaders of the Husseini and Nashasheebi families of the 1930s and 40s were more consumed with fighting and plotting against each other than fighting off the British and the Zionists at that time. As a result they were caught off-guard and totally unprepared militarily and politically when Zionist leaders declared their state of Israel in 1948 in what was once Palestine.
Arab states meddling and corrupting the Palestinian leaders and organizations continued even when they founded the PLO to function on their behest against each other. Hamas is no different than other more secular organizations.
In July of 1967 a mere month after Arabs were defeated and lost the West Bank and Gaza along with Sinai and the Golan Heights, Israeli cabinet member Yigal Allon proposed the “Allon Plan” offering the Palestinians (then under the control of Jordan) autonomous populated areas within the West Bank and Gaza while Israel retained much of the West Bank and Jerusalem and overall military, political and economic control
The fact that both Hamas and Fatah organizations have resigned themselves, and fighting each other at the same time, to control different semi- autonomous parts of the West Bank and Gaza while remaining under an overall Israeli military, political and economic control -- exactly like the “Allon Plan” -- shows how shameless, irresponsible and incompetent those leader are. Palestinians simply deserve better leaders.
Ali Younes is a writer and analyst based in Washington D.C. He can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.org and on Twitter at @clearali.
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What is "Hobbies For Good"?
Hobbies for Good is the concept that if the old saying "The
best hobby is the kind that pays for itself" is true, then the saying "The
best hobby is the kind that can do good for others" is better. If you have a
special talent for arts, crafts, handiwork, or anything else you do for
enjoyment (and profit), you can make that talent even more enjoyable knowing
you can use it to help a good cause.
How does it work?
Once a month, or as often as you can, donate an item you have
made/fixed/created/restored to an organization that can sell it and use the
proceeds for good in the community.
Who is "Hobbies For Good"?
Hobbies for Good is you, it's me, it's everyone that can
help. It's not any one organization or group, it's a concept of helping and
doing good in life.
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Thu, May 26, 2011 | 01:52 BST
Carmack: Cloud-based gaming is “inevitable”
John Carmack, one of id Software’s founding fathers, has predicted cloud gaming will have the biggest impact on the games industry in the immediate future.
“I think cloud gaming will eventually be a significant part of the landscape,” Carmack told IndustryGamers.
“Consumers have shown over and over again that convenience can often more than offset some quality issues, and there will be significant convenience wins possible there over optical media or digital downloads.”
Carmack said he felt the change was “inevitable”, although he didn’t want to guess at adoption rate.
Otherwise, the engineer said “all the obvious trends” would continue.
“Another console generation, big MMOs on PCs, more movement towards digital distribution, smartphones encroaching on dedicated gaming territory, and so on,” he said.
” Blockbuster games will continue to increase in development cost, but gaming should continue to have a much more vibrant ‘low end’ than, say, the movie industry.”
Looking back over his career, Carmack said the industry had changed at a startling and exciting rate.
“The challenges available in game development have grown at least as fast as my knowledge, and I have never reached a point where I felt that there weren’t interesting and exciting things to learn and work on,” he commented.
“If anything, I almost feel overwhelmed with the available directions to focus on … Twenty years ago you could look at a platform and consider it as something that could be grasped nearly in its entirety.
“Today, your cell phone’s total complexity is beyond anyone’s capacity to completely comprehend, to say nothing of your personal computer and the internet it connects to.”
id’s next game, RAGE, is the first to run on Carmack’s new engine – idTech 5. It’s due on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September. The studio also has Doom 4 in the works.
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"The Supreme Court just struck a huge blow against transparency and accountability. The five conservative justices are enabling the Prop 8 supporters to mask their radical views, preventing the transparency that an effective court system needs. This historic trial will remain largely hidden from public view, despite it's historic potential to challenge and change the minds of Americans. "
The dissenting judges; Justice Stephen Breyer, Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, wrote in their opinion:
The decision "micromanaged" the administration of the district courts and that it was inappropriate to intervene."
"The majority’s action today is unusual," Breyer wrote. "It grants a stay in order to consider a mandamus petition, with a view to intervening in a matter of local court administration that it would not (and should not) consider. It cites no precedent for doing so. It identifies no real harm, let alone 'irreparable harm,' to justify its issuance of this stay. And the public interest weighs in favor of providing access to the courts ... [a]nd so I believe this Court should adhere to its institutional competence, its historical practice, and its governing precedent — all of which counsel strongly against the issuance of this stay."
When gay marriage hits the Supreme Court, which it will, this gives us an indication of how the justices will rule since it seems they continue to divide along ideological lines. It also appears that Sotomayor will continue to uphold the "liberal" views of the court, and if the make up of the court doesn't change, the outcome of gay marriage is dreadfully predictable.
However, the caveat I put forth is Ted Olson. Being a conservative himself, he could possibly swing the opinion of Justice Kennedy, the linchpin in the outcome of most decisions. Olson has argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court and won more cases before them than most. Perhaps he will have the ability to frame this battle to his conservative brethren on the bench of the bottom line here. I'm actually optimistic that this battle for our civil rights will be won on wit, will, and of making this matter an undeniable, inalienable civil right of a United States Citizen.
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I shudder to think what would happen if Home Energy Matters hadn ’ t found the gas leak in my old furnace. The health and safety check may have saved my life! I had been wondering about the smell in my basement but never thought it was gas. The state rebates make the decision to buy a new furnace…
S. Martin, Boonton Township
The old phrase about beauty only being skin deep sure fits my house. Last year I paid a whole lot of money for a new kitchen, bathroom and wood floors. It all looked so beautiful. But when Home Energy Matters did my audit they found out that the contractor forgot to put insulation on the kitchen wall that faces…
J. Perez, Mountain Lakes
For years I used the room upstairs as a closet. It was always moist and too cold to sleep in. The Home Energy auditor discovered that there was no insulation between the attic floor and the ceiling. Now I have the bedroom space I originally bought. And I got $1,000 in free air sealing.
K. Dorant, Parsippany
I ’ m a do-it-yourself guy. Recently I installed a new hot water heater. When the audit team from Home Energy Matters did the safety check they discovered I made several errors that decreased the efficiency of the heater and created a potential safety hazard. That safety discovery paid for the audit before they even looked for energy inefficiencies.…
T. Lewis, Kinnelon
We had an addition put on our house to add a bathroom and sun porch. It was so cold we couldn ’ t use the toilet. Turned out they forgot to put in the insulation. Can you imagine? Because of the audit we can now use both rooms.
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Walk where Patsy Cline walked, see where she lived, slept and spent her "prime years" while pursuing her music career.
Enjoy a detailed tour of the Patsy Cline Historic House. As she said in one of her songs, "come on in, sit right down, and make yourself at home"
Located in a working-class neighborhood in the City of Winchester, Virginia, this modest house was the residence of country music legend Patsy Cline (1932-63), who lived here from the ages of 16 to 21, when she married Gerald Cline. Patsy resided here from 1948-53, longer than at any other house associated with her in the Winchester and Nashville areas, and she returned to it intermittently until her singing career began in 1957.
Cline was the first solo female singer to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1960, and the first woman to be inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973. "Crazy," one of Patsy's best-known songs written by Willie Nelson, continues to be the number one jukebox hit of all time.
Seasonal Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sunday 12-4pm, last tour begins at 3:30pm
Length of tours – 30 to 45 minutes, allows for guided tour and gift shop
Admission Fee: Adults: $6, Seniors (65 and older): $5, Youth (ages 11-18): $4 Military and under age 10: FREE
Last Updated: 9/13/2011 11:44 AM
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Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate reports that 105 million people voted in the 2000 election. Turn-out of eligible voters was 53 percent—a 2 percent increase over 1996.
Among registered voters, it was 86 percent, up from 82 percent who voted in 1996.
This shows that if you get people to register, they will probably show up on Election Day. Personally, I think a 100-plus vote is a powerful sample of public attitudes. That's especially the case if you note that even the largest polls rarely rise above a 1500-person sample. I say this knowing that if everybody voted, the Democrats would be the heavy favorites. (Then again, I'll bet that all those people coming late to the movies are Democrats. They just can't get their act together enough to check the movie time in the newspaper—I forgot! You have to buy one! —and to show up on time). I really do believe that Will Rogers remains the great explainer of the Republican Election Day edge: "I belong to no organized political party. I'm a Democrat."
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's and CNBC's Hardball, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of three books, including his Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think.
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Magnatune an Open Choice, iTunes an Expensive Choice
On April 2, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs along with EMI CEO Eric Nicoli announced DRM-free downloads at a new cost of $1.29 US—a fee that's $.30 more than the current DRM-formatted music. Shouldn't music be DRM-free anyway and not come at an extra cost? That's not what iTunes is saying or showing, as it still is going to sell DRM music for $.99 and DRM-free music for even more. Why put up with these over-priced songs, not only from iTunes but also from other on-line stores, such as Microsoft's MSN Music that sells over-priced music, and like iTunes, the music comes with DRM.
The new DRM-free songs on iTunes will be in MP3 and WMA formats and supposedly will be of “superior quality”. That mention of superior quality, however, is merely to cover up the extra price and save iTunes from the UK's fair trading pressure of infringement on European trading regulations. Why should you have to deal with a company that makes you pay more for freedom? Freedom is not something you should have to pay for. Why pay for freedom when you can choose an on-line site that gives you options the other record-label companies don't offer?
Such a site exists, and it gives you many choices, including how you want to receive an album, such as a downloaded DRM-free format (MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC or AAC) or a purchased CD that will be mailed to you, all without the extra “freedom fee”. This site also lets you choose to pay what you think a particular album is worth, and it gives you the option of re-downloading a purchased song if you lose it due to a faulty hard drive or misplaced file. This site also gives you the option to back up music on another device, without restrictions on the number of devices on which you can store your music—something iTunes does not allow, and it's something I know I want to be able to do with music I purchase. And, the best thing of all, this site allows you the freedom to share an album and give the gift of music to your friends. If you buy an album, you can share it with up to three friends (based on the honor system).
What if I tell you it's all possible with Magnatune—the company that says “We Are Not Evil”, and it's just that, not evil. Magnatune allows customers to do everything mentioned above—plus more. It's not only an independent, on-line record label, but also a company that wants to change how music is distributed and open up possibilities for less-known bands and artists. The artists and bands on Magnatune are not highly rated with albums or songs in the Top 100, but they still are great to listen to and download. All Magnatune needs is only one top artist to switch over to put it on the map as a mainstream label company. Magnatune takes big strides to label great-sounding artists, and one out of 300 artists gets signed.
This is straight from Magnatune's site:
All music should be shareware. Just as with software, you want to preview, evaluate and pass along good music to others—in the process of buying it.
Find a way of getting music from musicians to audiences that's inexpensive and supports musicians. Otherwise, musical diversity will continue to suffer greatly under the current system where only mega-hits make money.
Musicians need to be in control and enjoy the process of having their music released. The systematic destruction of musicians' lives is unacceptable: musicians are very close to staging a revolution (and some already have).
Creativity needs to be encouraged; today's copyright system of “all rights reserved” is too strict. We support the Creative Commons “some rights reserved” system, which allows derivative works, sampling and no-cost noncommercial use.
“Listen to more than 500 hand-picked complete albums. If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you choose the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. You'll get MP3s and WAVs, and no copy protection (DRM), ever.” (From magnatune.com.)
Magnatune recently has taken part in the Linux community, allowing you to search and listen to its podcast and music directories without purchase from the KDE Amarok 1.4.4 player. This try-before-you-buy philosophy gives you the opportunity to listen to not just one song from an album, but the full album, before deciding how much you are willing to pay for it—if you choose to purchase it at all. The great thing with Magnatune's search-and-buy feature being put into the Amarok player is that it allows you to purchase an album from the player instead of going to the site, making it easy to search Magnatune's massive album collection for specific genres, such as Classical, Electronica, Jazz and Blues, Metal and Punk, New Age and Rock. Once your purchase is complete, the song or album can be put into any type of music player, such as an iPod or any other MP3 player. As I said before, Magnatune lets you pay what you think the album is worth. It does have a starting price of $5, with a maximum of $18 (the typical purchasing price for an album is $8). Each song is DRM-Free (at the price of about $.50 a song) and can be downloaded in many formats to work on just about any music player and device. The best part is that 50% of the sale price of each album goes directly to the artist.
Another great thing about Magnatune that blows iTunes out of the water is its daily free song give-away, compared to iTunes weekly song give-away. Some people hear the word free and think something must be wrong or of poor quality, but people who use or develop open-source and free software know that's not the case. What makes Magnatune's daily DRM-free music give-away special is not only freedom, but also that the songs are great to listen to and have amazing sound quality. But, that's not all, Magnatune changes genres every day for the give-away. I plan to visit the site on a daily basis to download the free song and browse for other songs.
Magnatune also has joined and supports the partly open-source Second Life, which has become an on-line phenomenon that allows you to live a second on-line virtual life, while making money on-line and joining groups and meeting new people. If you're a member of the Second Life world, Magnatune allows you to choose a genre to listen to while you're in the game or in Magnatune's furnished tents, giving you a relaxing area to hang out with other Magnatune users, making it a better community yet again. When you teleport to Magnatune's hang-out location, don't forget to get a free Magnatune T-shirt for your avatar. Best of all, Magnatune considers Second Life's playing of its streams to be promotional use of its music and grants you a license to use that music for free. Magnatune also says it will grant you a collecting society waiver, so that if ASCAP or BMI ever asks you to pay for the music you're using on Second Life, you can point them to magnatune.com/info/second_life.
Open Music has become one of the largest projects that's made Magnatune so well known in the music industry and Open Source community. Open Music is music that is shareable, available in “source code” form, allows derivative works and is free of cost for noncommercial use. It is the concept of open-source computer software applied to music. Think of Open Music as open-source software, allowing you not only to edit and sell it, but also to share the wealth with the artist and Magnatune, or just give it back to the community so others can then edit what you edited to make it even better. And, it's all under the Creative Commons, including Magnatune's main site. One example of this Open Music Project is the new Amarok Live CD Project. Magnatune allowed the Amarok Project members and community to bundle tracks from the Magnatune store that were licensed under the attribution/noncommercial/share-alike version of the well-known Creative Commons license.
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A leather-faced Egyptian fruit seller said it best: "The revolution was like a beautiful woman. She charmed us, and we fell in love with her and killed the tyrant to marry her, but she was just a trick -- another burden to add to our heavy load, and we are falling out of love."
Strolling through the streets of my native Cairo for the first time in four years, I can see the heartbreak on every face.
From the lines at gas stations to the crowds at public metros, every Egyptian looks exhausted and disappointed.
Tahrir Square, the epicenter of revolt last year, now looks miserable, too. The icon of defiance has been reduced to just a bare patch of dry sand with a few dilapidated tents.
As one driver told me, "If you want drugs, hashish or to hire a thug, go to Tahrir Square."
The legacy of the revolution now lives in the streets, where a lack of security means many women feel less safe and are less likely to leave their homes by themselves after dark.
It lives in the abandoned tourist sites and four-star hotels, where managers with only 20% occupancy rates struggle to stay afloat amid numerous worker strikes and an uncertain economic climate.
It lives in the cafes, where youngsters angrily dismiss our cameras, tired of the spotlight, irritated with the attention and seemingly embarrassed with the revolution that was once a point of pride.
Cairo is both familiar and unrecognizable since my visit to the city in 2008 when my grandmother demanded I destroy a pamphlet on workers' rights out of fear the Egyptian authorities might harass me.
This time, before I can even finish asking a question about elections, my family erupts into a furious debate, each member siding with a different candidate and attacking each other for supporting "fellul" -- or remnants of the old regime.
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About a year ago, a small group – including people of W3C, Opera, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and others – started talking about a new documentation project for information covering open web standards. Yes, there are lots of documentation sites already available, but some of them are low quality, out-of-date, or both. Some have great information about some subjects, but not others. And generally it takes web developers a lot of time to find all the information they want. It would be great for all the information providers to get together and produce one authoritative resource to tell web guys all the information they need to know to do their job!
The idea was very warmly received by all parties involved, and so we all started solving problems together, working out an infrastructure for the project that would scale well and handle lots of different contributors, working out marketing and business plans, and putting together a large list of content from different resources – such as HTML5 rocks, MSDN, MDN and Opera’s web standards curriculum – that would act nicely as seed content to get the project started. Ideally, we wanted this to be an ever-evolving project controlled and written by the community, rather than a bunch of big name vendors telling everyone what to do. As the founding companies, we just wanted to act as guides, as custodians, empowering the community to document their web as effectively as possible!
It was hard work leading up to initial launch of the project, especially as we wanted to get enough done on the content and site styling to ensure that it would look unfinished but not embarrassing, and therefore attractive for other contributors to come on board. On October 8th, we launched Webplatform.org on the world, and got a really marvellous response, with loads of people jumping on the project to help out.
And it doesn’t stop there! One we’ve got the existing content in better shape, our community will be adding more and more as we forge ahead. We’ll be adding resources for teachers wanting to teach web standards-related subjects. We’ll be adding live sandboxes to run and edit code examples. And much more! Please come and look around, and tell us how you’d like your webplatform to be improved! Hell, write some code to add the features you want.
It is October 2012, and life is looking good. As days grow shorter, the webplatform.org team can at least afford to take a breath before we make our next move, safe in the knowledge that we have at least taken cursory steps to unleashing the future of open web documentation upon the world. But there is still much to do, and we need all the help we can get! To learn more, hop on over to Web Platform Docs, sign up for a free account using the “Login / create account” link at the top, and then read our “Getting Started” guide to find out what needs doing, and how to do it.
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Jackson, Mississippi – Documents filed in Federal Court Friday by the State of Mississippi show that serious health and safety concerns were primary motivating factors in passing a law that threatens to close that state’s last abortion clinic. That law, which requires that abortionists be Board Certified or eligible as Ob/Gyns and that they maintain local hospital privileges, was challenged by Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Federal Court to block its implementation after admitting that it could not comply with the law.
The brief, submitted by Special Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Bryant, cited the recent closure of Alabama’s New Woman All Women after the Alabama Department of Public Health discovered 76 pages of violations, including “evidence that clinic staff failed to respond to complaints of post-surgical complications.” New Woman All Women was owned by Diane Derzis, who also owns the Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Instead of remedying the violations, Derzis agreed to close the abortion clinic and disaffiliate from any one that might attempt to relicense the facility.
The State’s brief also cited a lawsuit filed in 2011 by abortionist Joseph Booker, a former employee of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO) who sued the clinic “alleging that Derzis had instituted numerous practices that jeopardized the health and safety of patients, including:
Permitting untrained staff to perform and interpret ultrasounds, despite the fact that accurate ultrasound are vital to the medical safety of patients. Pressure from the JWHO administrator to administer RU486 abortion pills in a manner that is “dangerous” and not approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Belief that JWHO does not carry malpractice insurance. JWHO is jeopardizing patient safety by not using a “local doctor who has hospital admitting privileges” when administering RU486 because of the “real risk of severe hemorrhage” and “the risk of ectopic pregnancy” associated with the drug.
The State noted that as the Supreme Court abortion rulings currently stand, “the right to abortion services belongs to the women who access those services – not to the physicians who provide them.” Parker has claimed that his right to perform abortions is jeopardized by the new law, when no such Constitutional right exists.
The State’s Exhibits are devastating to the abortion clinic’s arguments that abortion is so safe that hospital privileges are unnecessary.
A declaration submitted by John Thorp, Jr., M.D. notes that hospital privileges make it more likely that abortionists can effectively care for patients. He stated that 73% of hospitals report inadequate on call coverage by specialists, especially Ob/Gyns. Dr. Thorp also concluded that hospital privileges prevents patient abandonment by itinerate physicians. Dr. Thorpe backed up his statements with impressive qualifications, including a 57-page Cirriculum Vitae.
A declaration by James C. Anderson, M.D. states that the new law “will most likely improve the quality of care…and enhance patient follow-up care after an abortion.”
Anderson continued, “As stated earlier, I have worked in local Emergency Rooms across Virginia for over thirty years. When women have come to the Emergency Room with complications related to an abortion, never once have I received a phone call initiated by the provider conveying information about the abortion, the young woman’s condition or potential complications. I have always had to evaluate the situation, come to my own conclusions, and initiate what I thought was appropriate treatment. This definitely created some time delays that were not in the patient’s best interest. I have called many abortion clinic physicians but never once has the provider come to the Emergency Room to assume care. I have always had to call a staff physician. This then creates another delay since the staff physician is taking care of his/her own patients, but now much change his/her schedule to assume the care of someone else’s patient. These delays can have life-threatening implications when dealing with hemorrhage or infection.”
Dr. Anderson cites the cases of 35 abortion clinics and providers from recent news stories as “illustrative of the need for state regulation of abortion practice and conformity to standards of care in medicine.” Those cases include many in which Operation Rescue had involvement, such as that of Ann Kristin Neuhaus in Kansas, Feliciano Rios and Andrew Rutland in California, Rapin Osathanondh in Massachusetts, Alberto Hodari in Michigan, and ten abortionists in Texas who were discovered to have committed violations during an undercover investigation conducted in 2010 by Operation Rescue and The Survivors, and other cases.
Judge U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, who is an appointee of President George W. Bush, will hear oral arguments at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
“We are guardedly optimistic that the judge will uphold this much needed safety rule on Wednesday, and are very confident that the law will eventually be cleared by the courts for enforcement since similar laws in other states have been upheld as Constitutional,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.
“The states have a right to protect women, and that is what Mississippi is trying to do. It is ridiculous to argue, as Jackson Women’s Health Organization has, that it is in the best interest of women to keep an abortion facility open that cannot ensure that patients receive safe and timely emergency care. If they can’t comply with even this minimum safety law, then they should not be allowed to continue to endanger the health and safety of women.”
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Asylum law revisions
Zurich provides test case for new asylum centres
A refugee from Gambia stows his suitcase at an asylum center (Keystone)
The city of Zurich has offered space to the Federal Migration Office to build a temporary centre for up to 500 asylum seekers. The project will be a way to test cantonal and federal cooperation in implementing recent asylum law changes.
Space for the new centre has been set aside in an area in the west of Zurich. The city expects to save around SFr1 million ($1.1 million) by hosting the centre due to the fact that the federal government will take care of schooling, housing and security concerns for the asylum seekers to be housed there. Normally, such responsibilities fall to individual cantons.
At a news conference on Friday announcing the building plans, city officials along with the federal authorities said the project would be an ideal way to test new laws designed to process asylum requests more quickly. For example, the proposed centre would allow translators, medical personnel and councillors to operate out of a single location, making it easier to process cases.
The migration office would like to rent the plot of land for 15 years in order to properly develop it into a housing centre that could also last beyond the trial period if the project is successful. Building plans have yet to be finalised, but the city of Zurich has recommended constructing a “container city” out of shipping containers, much like a community that already exists in one part of Zurich.
City officials said those living in the temporary housing would be subject to strict curfews and house rules. The Duttwiler plot is currently home to city offices and an industrial site.
Recent changes to Swiss asylum law state that Switzerland no longer provides refugee status to conscientious objectors and army deserters, most notably in Eritrea. The new laws also allow for the creation of special centres for uncooperative asylum seekers already in the country and state that asylum seekers may no longer file applications at Swiss embassies abroad. The asylum law revisions will be put to a nationwide vote in June.
The legal revisions also stipulate that the government is authorised to test different procedures to speed up asylum requests, as it will now do in Zurich, and federal authorities can house asylum seekers for up to three years in accommodations without asking explicit permission from cantonal authorities.
The changes to Switzerland’s asylum policy are already in effect because parliament considered them urgent and voted on them in September 2012. However, they will last until the end of September 2015, and if the Swiss people vote against the changes, they will only be in effect until September 2013.
It was also recently announced that Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga will visit Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola imminently to discuss immigration issues and, specifically, how many rejected asylum seekers those countries are prepared to take back. She will visit Africa between February 1 and 7.
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15th March - 7th April 2007
Opening: 15th March 2007
St. Martin's Sculptors
St. Martin's Sculptors
Katherine Gili, Alexandra Harley, Peter Hide, Phillip King, Tim Scott, Anthony Smart.
Poussin Gallery features the work of six artists who all studied at St. Martin's School of Art at various times between the 1950's and the 1980's, beginning with two of the 'New Generation', Phillip King and Tim Scott. Peter Hide was a student in the mid-1960's, and Katherine Gili and Anthony Smart studied in the early 1970's. Our group is completed by Alexandra Harley, who was a student of the 1980's.
Anthony Caro was amongst the first group of artists invited to teach in the new sculpture department of St. Martin's School of Art set up by Frank Martin in the mid-Fifties. Caro soon began to exert a forceful influence, particularly upon those students who attended his informal evening classes. These were set up to attempt more fully to embrace the changes that had taken place in sculpture in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries in Europe. Caro's first students included Tim Scott, who enrolled in 1956, Phillip King and Isaac Witkin in 1957, and David Annesley and Michael Bolus in 1958. By 1959, Bill Tucker had arrived, and Phillip King had already returned to teach, and by the mid-1960's all of this group had done likewise. In that ten year period, from the mid-50's to the mid-60's, the whole landscape of visual culture in Britain changed dramatically, and Caro and his St. Martin’s students were a part of that vanguard of change. On the agenda for both students and staff alike was an involvement with the 'modern' issues of expressive figuration, abstraction, surrealism and the 'organic', and the influences of Picasso, Gonzales, Duchamp, Matisse, Henry Moore and, later, after Caro's visit to America in 1959, David Smith. Added to the mix was the modernist aesthetics of the new architecture of post-war rebuilding in Europe and the general surge of invention across the creative arts. New thinking in design, fashion and music all reinforced the idea of exciting changes taking place.
In the early 1960's Caro pioneered his own very original abstract steel sculptures, which were to become synonymous in the minds of many with St. Martin's, and which posed serious questions about the boundaries of sculpture, engaging as they did with the literal space of the viewer. Both before and during this revolution in his own work he was forcefully urging his new students to be innovative, to discover for themselves what could comprise a new 'reality' for sculpture. In the fifty years since then, St. Martin's sculptors have argued and wrestled with many issues, but none more so than this, the issue of three-dimensionality and what distinguishes sculpture from the literal world we live in. It is an issue that ran through much of the practical and intellectual activity that took place at St. Martin's, from Clement Greenberg's early visit in 1963 at Caro's behest, through to the notorious destruction through mastication of his “Art & Culture” essays in an event staged by John Latham in 1966; and from Bill Tucker's book “Language of Sculpture” of 1974 through to Alan Gouk's 1980 lecture “Proper to Sculpture”, both of which laid out the intellectual territory for subsequent new generations of students.
All these things contributed to an ethos at St. Martin's of open, often fractious, but, as far as possible, honest and objective debate about art in general and sculpture in particular, exemplified by the evolving democratisation of the relationship between staff and students over the years, and, most tellingly of all, by the weekly 'crits' of work by students, staff and invited guests. These proved to be a hugely important and influential institution at St. Martin's, which acted as a forum open to comment by all and sundry, from the lowliest first-year student to the most eminent of visitors. This open and critical debate, focussed on what could be seen to be happening in the work itself, gave direct rise to similar attitudes at satellite studios such as Stockwell depot in the 1970's and Greenwich Studios in the 1980's. For some, the obsession with an empirical search for a heightened and explicit three-dimensionality has become the touchstone of their involvement with sculpture. These artists have pushed their search for form beyond 'formalism', beyond the limits of literalism in 'object-making', yet without its relinquishment, a line perhaps of most resistance in their art. There is still unknown territory for sculpture to explore here - in particular abstract sculpture - and it remains very much unfinished business for these and other sculptors from St. Martin's.
Robin Greenwood c. Poussin Gallery 2007
There is an article on St. Martin's School of Art sculpture department in the current issue of Tate Etc. magazine. http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/yearlockedroom.htm
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The "Occupy Wall Street" movement trickled into New Jersey today as protests in Jersey City and Trenton each drew a couple dozen people.
The protesters railed against economic inequality, job cuts, the bailout of financial firms, wars abroad and the country’s dependence on foreign oil.
Chanting "This is what democracy looks like" and holding signs with slogans like "Tax Wall Street transactions," 50 or so protesters in Jersey City ranged from people in their late teens to the elderly. They marched along the waterfront, to where several financial firms relocated after 9/11.
"This great disparity of wealth is a moral issue," said Father David Stump, a Jersey City resident. "We’re supposed to work together for the common good."
Some onlookers in Jersey City were not impressed. Joe Ryan, 40, of Hoboken, said the protesters had too many competing messages.
"Everybody has a cause, but I don’t think they’re going to change anything," said Ryan, who has been out of work for six months. "I kind of think they’re wasting their time. But to each their own."
The protest in Jersey City was greeted by a massive police presence from five law enforcement agencies. Police had expected more than a thousand demonstrators, based on support for the Facebook group Occupy New Jersey, said Jersey City police Lt. Edgar Martinez. They had laid out plans for responding to several possible scenarios.
A State Police helicopter buzzed overhead, while patrol boats cruised along the Hudson River.
"We have to prepare for the unknown," Martinez said.
The crowds in both Jersey City and Trenton were peaceful and cooperated with police.
In Trenton, a crowd of fewer than 30 people gathered at the Statehouse to protest the state’s recent shift of more pension and health benefit costs to public workers.
Anne Christiansen, 57, of Egg Harbor Township, said it’s "disgusting" that governments across the country are piling more costs on the middle class even as the economy worsens. A special education worker for 18 years, her job was reduced to part time and she lost her health benefits last year as the school district cut costs, she said.
"We were just trying to live our lives, and we almost lost it all," she said. "Now my 64-year-old husband drives three hours a day to work a night shift, just so we can have health benefits."
Protesters expect to return to Trenton every day, they said, but a few planned to spend the night. Heath Weaver, 46, of Toms River, said she wasn’t worried about rising crime in the capital city.
"What are they going to do, steal my crappy sleeping bag?" she said.
Demonstrators were not discouraged by their small numbers. It was a start, they said.
"This is a good turnout for something that came together very quickly," said Stump.
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"I produce 10 data points that completely undermine what everybody thinks they know about the archaeological record here. It was really important and really interesting, and almost nobody believed me." -Joan Brenner Coltrain
“My interest has always been in language structure, the grammar of language,” Axelrod says. “So many different ways to talk about the world, it just makes you think how brilliant we are as human beings.”
Jennifer Zimbroff (pictured above) wanted to understand why qualified high school students, especially minority students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, fail to take advantage of the college opportunities that are available to them.
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Call me a prophet of doom if you want, but Europe's meltdown isn't a recession - it's a coming depression
Those financial forecasters, like myself, who take a generally dark view of world affairs are known by a number of monikers: prophets of doom, killjoys, pessimists, Cassandras. And that last one is interesting.
Cassandra, in ancient Greek myth, was the daughter of King Priam of Troy. After Helen, she was considered the most beautiful woman on earth. Curly red hair, blue eyes, fair skin. (I know: she sounds more Irish than Turkish, but work with me.) Because of her beauty, the god Apollo fell in love with her and gave her the gift of prophecy. When she did not return his love – always a dangerous game when dating a god – he cursed her, ensuring no one would ever believe her prophecies.
But Cassandra saw it all coming: the Trojan war, the Trojan horse, the fall of the city and the slaughter of its citizens. She explained clearly and repeatedly what was happening. And no one believed her. Even after her early forecasts had proved to be bang on the money, still no one believed her. Even as the Trojan horse, bursting at the joins with Greek soldiers, trundled up to the gates of Troy, no one believed her.
Greece: We can't see the 10-year depression just yet - but that doesn't mean it's not coming
So Cassandra feels like a good term to apply to people like me. (I’ve never been wooed by a goddess and cruel observers might suggest I’m very slightly past my physical peak, but I’m trying to focus on the prophesy side of things here. Work with me, folks.)
I’ve said for ages that the euro will fail, that the countries of the Mediterranean are bankrupt, that Germany doesn’t have the resources to fill the void, and that the Western world is entering not a recession, but a depression: a huge, 10-year, economic slump.
And here we are. If you look outside the city gates right now, I think you’ll find a giant wooden horse with a trapdoor in its belly. Because I’m a Cassandra, you won’t believe me of course, but I’ll give it a try anyway. That’s what I’m fated to do.
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So number one, the interest rates on Spanish government debt are now heading up towards 8%. If you want to borrow money from the bank, you can likely do it cheaper than that. You personally may have a better credit rating than the Spanish government right now. In any case, a government can’t pay those punitive rates when its debt is gaping, its deficit out of control, and its economy in recession.
There’s muttering about a €300 billion bailout, which would keep Spain away from the financial markets for three years, but so what? For reasons I’m about to come to, I don’t think such a bailout could possibly happen, but even if it did, so what? Spain’s problem is too much debt piled onto a creaky economy. That €300 billion ‘bailout’ wouldn’t be a gift, it would be a loan. The solution to too much debt is not more debt. (And, for that matter, Mr King, the solution to weak money is not to print an endless supply of the stuff.) Naturally a giant bailout would kick the problem down the road, but bankruptcy is bankruptcy no matter when you meet it.
That’s point one. Point two is that Germany (and creditworthy northern Europe in general) is coming to the end of its borrowing capacity. There’s no reason at all why the German government should fail to meet its obligations, but it can’t be the Atlas that shoulders all the burdens of its southern neighbours too.
The ratings agencies have noticed this. Germany is now on credit watch for possible downgrade. If Germany commits to a monster bailout of Spain (not directly, of course, but via some Euro acronym), that downgrade would happen faster than Helmut Kohl could guzzle a schnitzel. Because Germany knows this, and because its citizens know it, those German purse strings are going to be drawn ever tighter as eurozone discussions progress. And quite right too. Germans have worked hard to restrain wage costs, export goods, innovate new products, and boost productivity. There’s no reason on earth why the fruit of those efforts should be handed out to economies which have steered a very different course.
Germany is now on credit watch for a possible downgrade. No wonder Angela Merkel is showing the strain
Point three: the terrible data, released today, about the British recession. I said we were in recession back in autumn last year. (No one believed me but, hey, I’m used to it.) And now we find that we’ve actually had three successive quarters of recession, with the last quarter the worse of the lot. Even if things turn up – and, pardon me for asking, but do you see any grounds for optimism right now? – we’ve still experienced the worst recession in British economic history. Not a bit worse than the Great Depression but, by now, very significantly worse.
Like I say, I’ve been saying all this for a while. Me and Cassandra both. The Greeks are coming. There’s going to be war. It’ll last for ten years. That wooden horse looks mighty iffy to me.
And no one listens. Maybe it’s nothing to do with being cursed by a God. Maybe it’s just the way with people who tell the truths that people don’t want to hear. But we Cassandras just go on prophesying anyway. There’s a big storm coming and it’s about to strike.
Mitch Feierstein is CEO of Glacier Environmental Fund and author of Planet Ponzi: How bankers and politicians stole your future
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On Valentine's Day, Lammes Candies sticks with tradition
Photo by Duane Osbor courtesy of Lammes Candies
Valentine’s Day comes early at Lammes Candies. In fact, production of the candy-maker’s assorted-chocolate boxes usually begins before the New Year arrives. “They used to be our No. 1 seller. Now it’s chocolate-covered strawberries. They make up 50 percent of our business at Valentine’s Day,” says Pam Teich, who along with her brother, Bryan, and sister, Lana, is a fifth-generation owner of the longtime purveyor of sweets and treats.
Teich’s great-great-grandfather, William Wirt Lamme, founded the business in 1878. It was originally a storefront on Congress Avenue that served ice cream, among other desserts. Then, in 1892, it began selling pecan pralines, and the candy-making business took off.
In 1957, Lammes’ manufacturing plant was moved to its current Airport Boulevard location, marked by the oversized red-and-white candy cane sign. It is here where row after row of strawberries are lined up on a conveyor belt then passed through a waterfall of creamy chocolate. The process starts at 3 a.m. on Feb. 13 because, according to Teich, chocolate-covered strawberries have only a 36-hour shelf life. Last year, 65,500 of the No. 1 sellers filled 4,200 gift boxes.
As for this year’s batch of assorted chocolates, including caramel and pecan clusters, Lammes will go through 3,000 pounds of chocolate. The bite-sized treats will be packaged in 2,300 regular and 1,500 heart-shaped boxes. And, even though dark is the healthier choice, it “still plays second fiddle to milk chocolate,” Teich says.
Lammes faces challenges like any other small business. These days, higher prices for pecans are a concern. But, the company credits its longevity to keeping it simple. Lammes has only five retail locations in the Austin and Round Rock area and employs between 70 to 85 workers.
“We’re just a local candy-maker,” Teich says. “We’ve been very fortunate, but we’re also very conservative. We don’t put ourselves into a position to get into trouble.” When it comes to indulging in chocolate, that’s a principle we could all live by. Except on Valentine’s Day, of course.
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Public Involvement Report
District Public Involvement Liaisons (PILs)
A tremendous amount of public involvement occurs at the
grassroots level with the District Public Involvement Liaisons leading
the charge. Even though many of them are new to these positions, there
is abundant evidence that these folks are working hard to make sure that
the public is informed and involved in the KDOT decision-making processes.
For instance, five of the six districts took part in
public hearings for System Enhancement Applications that proposed local
authorities taking over portions of the Kansas highway system. Also, this
summer five of the six districts participated in a number of county fairs
within their districts. Thousands of people stopped by the booths which
displayed Comprehensive Transportation Program maps, local project maps,
fact sheets about local projects, brochures explaining KDOTís project
selection processes, and several promotional items. KDOT staff members
from the districts, areas, and subareas were on hand to answer questions
and address concerns from the public. In some instances, the public filled
out formal comment cards about their questions and concerns, which were
later answered and mailed to them.
The following section highlights some more of the district
public involvement endeavors from October 1999 to October 2000. Please
note that this only touches on the highlights of the external efforts.
A tremendous amount of important internal Public Involvement efforts
have also been implemented. However, for purposes of this report they
have been omitted.
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Get Started in Ski Area Operations Program
You must be proficient in college level reading, writing, and mathematics before entering this program. Your skills in these areas may affect the sequence of ski resort management and operations courses in which you can enroll and may also extend the time required to complete this program.
This program has certain physical and academic standards which you will be required to meet before you can begin the program. Students accepted into the college's ski and snowboard vocational programs must be physically, mentally, and emotionally self-supportive with reasonable accommodations. If there is a concern about meeting the physical and academic standard, students need to contact the Special Populations Coordinator who will determine the student's ability to participate in this program.
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WASHINGTON — Syrian insurgents fighting to unseat President Bashar Assad face a growing list of accusations that they’ve carried out executions and torture, muddying the Western narrative of a heroic resistance force struggling against a vicious regime.
The issue of rebel conduct has come to the forefront this month largely because of a video posted online showing the aftermath of apparent executions of pro-Assad militiamen during the rebels’ capture of an intelligence center in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.
A reporter for the Turkish newspaper Milliyet witnessed the incident Tuesday and confirmed in a first-person account the circumstances of the killings: More than a dozen men were captured alive and then summarily executed in what advocacy group Human Rights Watch called an apparent “war crime.”
The men “were forced into a building, then brought before a court of the Free Syrian Army on the back of a pickup truck, after which they were lined up and shot at lightning speed,” the Milliyet reporter wrote.
The incident doesn’t appear to be isolated, either. A McClatchy reporter traveling with a unit of the Free Syrian Army was told that rebels had captured about 45 Assad loyalists in fighting in Al Tal, north of Damascus. Asked later what had become of the prisoners, a rebel said eight had been executed, 25 had been released and the rest were being held in hopes of a future prisoner exchange.
This week, a rebel commander in Damascus said that over the months his unit had executed perhaps 150 people it had detained on suspicion of being pro-Assad informants.
The Agence France-Presse news service, meanwhile, cited a top Iraqi security official in a report July 19 describing the rebels’ takeover of a border outpost. According to the official in the report, “they executed 22 soldiers in front of the eyes of Iraqi soldiers.”
Meanwhile, the so-called Daoud Battalion, a rebel force that operates in Jebel al Zawiyah in northern Syria, used its captives and suspected spies in an “ingenious” form of vehicle bombings against regime targets, according to a July 25 report on rebel groups by the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank that has made a specialty of studying the Syrian rebel movement.
The rebels put the prisoners in cars rigged with explosives and then remotely detonated the bombs when the vehicles approached government checkpoints.
"In videos of these attacks, the group has been careful to note that despite their appearance, they are not ’martyrdom operations,’" the report said, a reference to suicide attacks by its own members.
Taken as a whole, such incidents show the depth of the uprising’s evolution in 17 months from a protest movement against dictatorship to an all-out civil war, with both sides committing what ultimately may be viewed as war crimes.
“We’re going to face retaliation and revenge at the end because the numbers of those being killed is huge,” said Mohammad Abdallah, head of the new Syria Justice and Accountability Center, a partly U.S.-funded center for documenting atrocities. “The rebels, the protesters, maintained remarkable self-control at the beginning, but after that, the (regime’s) killing approached a level you cannot really tolerate, and everyone has the right to defend themselves in the end.”
Even the rebels’ U.S. supporters appear to be more cautious in their statements after a series of hits to the opposition forces’ credibility: purported videos of regime crimes that were revealed as fakes, exaggerations in reports of mass killing by government forces, the spread of militant Islamists in rebel ranks, U.N. claims of cease-fire violations and, now, potential atrocities such as prisoner executions.
“We strongly condemn summary executions by either side in Syria. We condemn actions like that,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters this week. He quickly added, however, that it was Assad’s forces “that have perpetrated the overwhelming amount of violence in Syria.”
Earlier this week, fighters in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus stopped and interrogated three men driving through the area on suspicion that they were government informants. After being held for several hours, the men were released, having proved their identity to the rebels’ satisfaction.
Other suspects haven’t been so lucky, explained a rebel commander in Damascus who uses the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah.
“We have had a big problem here with informers,” he said. “If a man is accused of being an informer, he is judged by the military council. Then he is either executed or released. In general, about two out of three are executed.”
Abu Abdullah said that the council had ordered the executions of some 150 men since the beginning of the conflict, but that the rate had declined as the rebels feel the neighborhood is “cleaned” of pro-regime elements.
“In the beginning, we would execute 10 or 15 men a week,” he said. “Now it’s closer to one every 10 or 20 days.”
At least some rebel elements appear keenly aware that their moral high ground is in danger of being challenged and have issued statements in recent days vowing to abide by international conventions governing battlefield conduct. However, the Free Syrian Army remains only loosely organized, with no true central command, and it’s impossible to tell which – if any – units are enforcing such orders.
In one video, posted Monday on YouTube, a self-proclaimed representative of the Free Syrian Army read a statement announcing that, in response to international concerns, units would adhere to the Geneva Convention’s guidelines for the treatment of prisoners and would guarantee its captives food, medical attention and holding areas away from active combat zones. The rebel spokesman also invited Red Cross workers to inspect their detention facilities.
“We tell everyone that we are revolting against a barbarous regime that always tortured and treated detainees and arrestees in brutal ways that led to the deaths of many,” the rebel says in the video. “That’s why we can never adopt the behavior of that very entity that we are revolting against.”
International humanitarian organizations and conflict monitoring agencies have become more vocal in criticizing rebel forces for battlefield transgressions, warning them against tit-for-tat violence that would only fuel the civil strife.
One, the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit monitor of global conflicts, called on the rebels to assume responsibility for halting revenge killings.
“The regime almost certainly will not change its ways, so the burden must fall on the opposition to do what – given the immensity of its suffering – must seem an improbable undertaking: seriously address the phenomena of retaliatory violence, sectarian killings and creeping fundamentalism within its ranks,” the group in a report released Wednesday titled “Syria’s Mutating Conflict.”
The group also recommended that the opposition rethink the goal of total regime change and focus on rehabilitating current institutions. To reassure Assad’s minority Alawite sect, so far the backbone of his support, and other regime loyalists, the opposition should “come up with forward-looking proposals on transitional justice, accountability and amnesty,” the report said.
Tice, a McClatchy special correspondent, reported from Damascus.
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Learn to use a trim nailer
The first time I used a pneumatic trim gun, I was hooked. It's not just that it was lightning fast. I loved being able to install hardwood moldings without predrilling to prevent splitting, and I was happy to leave my nail set mostly in my toolbox. But even better was the fact that nail guns allow you to hold a molding in exactly the right spot with one hand while you instantly nail it in place with the other. And small nail guns called brad nailers allow you to quickly and easily secure thin, fragile moldings without ruining them. That's a job that otherwise requires the dexterity of a surgeon.
But things can go wrong. In this article, we'll show you the most common problems you'll encounter when nailing trim with a nail gun and the techniques you can use to prevent them.
Avoid blowouts by watching the angle
Once you master this angle technique, you'll have no trouble shooting nails exactly where you want them. Start by positioning the center of the nail gun tip exactly where you want the nail to enter the wood. Then carefully align the nail gun with the path you want the nail to take, just like when you line up a pool cue before striking the ball. Photo 1 shows what can happen if you get careless and angle the gun wrong. When you're nailing into door jambs or other areas where only one side shows, point the nail gun slightly to the hidden side where it won't show if the nail pops through (Photo 2).
Occasionally nails hit a knot or follow the grain—and pop out despite your best effort. If this happens, break or cut off the protruding nail with a nipper and use your nail set to recess the remainder.
Avoid split ends by placing nails accurately
Driving nails with these tools is so simple that it's easy to get carried away and put nails where they don't belong. (Ask any painter who has to putty all the extra holes!) With practice, you'll get a feel for where the nail comes out of the gun and be able to drive a nail precisely. Photo 3 shows the result of placing a nail too close to the end of a molding. The same thing will happen if you nail too close to the end of a baseboard, especially on short pieces. Make sure to keep nails a few inches from the end of moldings to avoid splitting the wood. Brad nailers, which drive thinner and shorter nails, are the exception. With these, you can usually nail within 1/2 in. of ends and 1/8 in. of edges without splitting the wood.
Use the right size nail
Changing nail sizes in the middle of a job is bothersome. It's tempting to use the nails that are loaded and hope for the best. But it's a bad idea.(Photo 4). We should have used a 3/4-in. brad or at most a 1-in. 16-gauge nail on this miter. A good rule of thumb is to pick a nail long enough to go through the material you're fastening and penetrate the underlying wood about 3/4 in. to 1 in. Allow more penetration for heavy-duty jobs like nailing door jambs, and less for fine work like securing miters.
I own a 15-gauge nailer and a brad nailer and keep them both connected to separate hoses while I work. (Install a T-fitting at the compressor to connect two hoses at once.) With this setup, it's an easy matter to pick up the brad nailer for intricate jobs like pinning.
Buying or Renting Nail Guns
If you can afford it, buy both a 15-gauge finish nailer and an 18-gauge brad nailer. The two guns make a winning combination. The 15-gauge nails, ranging in length from about 1-1/4 in. to 2-1/2 in., are strong enough to secure door jambs and other heavy trim materials. Plus, the angled nose on most15-gauge nailers allows you to nail in corners and drive toenails more easily. Prices for 15-gauge nailers range from $230 to $350.
Fifteen-gauge nails are too thick for many fine nailing tasks. And this is where the 18-gauge brad nailer excels. They shoot very skinny 5/8-in. to 1-1/2 in. long, 18-gauge brads. These are perfect for nailing miters (Photo 2), nailing the skinny section of door or window casing to the jamb (Photo 3) and other nailing jobs where a larger nail would split the wood or protrude through the other side of the material. Prices range from $70 to $200.
Having both guns connected to your compressor with separate hoses means you can nail the inside and outside edge of casings without having to change nails. And you'll always have just the right size nail for the job at hand.
If you don't do enough trim work to justify the expense of two nailers, a 16-gauge nail gun is a good choice. The 16-gauge nails are a bit skinnier and not quite as strong as 15-gauge nails. But they're less likely to split thin pieces of wood. Most 16-gauge nail guns will shoot nails ranging from 1 in. to 2-1/4 in. Prices range from $200 to $300.
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Avoid underdriven nails
Nails that don't set, or that are left sticking out (Photo 6), are usually the result of pressure that's too low, a nail that's too long or an improperly adjusted nail gun. If the nail is sticking way out like the one in Photo 6 try increasing the air pressure to the maximum allowable for your nail gun (90 to 100 lbs., or check your instructions). If the nail still won't set, try loading shorter nails or brads.
The nosepiece on some nail guns is adjustable to help control how deep the nail is set. Use this in conjunction with pressure adjustments (Photo 7) to fine-tune your nail gun until the head of the nail or brad is slightly recessed. Keep a nail set handy for the occasional protruding nailhead.
Don't bother pounding in nails that protrude more than 1/4 in. They'll just bend over and dent the trim. Instead, grab the shank and bend it back and forth until it snaps, or use a side cutting pliers (Photo 6) to cut the nail near the surface. Then recess the rest with a nail set.
Nail Gun Safety
Pneumatic nailers are unbelievably fast and powerful. One careless second is all it takes to lose an eye or put a nail through your finger. Here are safety precautions you should take:
- Disconnect the air hose from the gun when you're loading nails or clearing a jam, or when you're not using the nail gun.
- Wear safety glasses and have your helpers and bystanders wear them too.
- Keep children away from nail guns. Disconnect the gun and put it out of reach when you're not using it.
- Keep your fingers well away from the nail's path. Use clamps if necessary.
- Never rest the gun on top of a ladder.
- Keep your finger off the trigger when you're not firing the gun.
Other problems you might encounter
Nail guns can be a little finicky. Here are a few common problems and possible solutions:
- If the nail gun fires but no nail comes out even though you can see nails in the clip, the nail feed mechanism may be sticking or the nails may be binding in the magazine. Remove the nails and lubricate the magazine and spring feed with spray silicone.
- If the nail gun doesn't fire even though it's loaded with nails (you won't hear or feel the piston and driver move), it's probably not getting enough air. Make sure the compressor is plugged in and that the fuse or circuit breaker isn't tripped. Then check the gauge to be sure the pressure on both gauges is set high enough.
- If a nail jams in the nose, disconnect the hose from the gun before you do anything else. Remove the nails from the gun. Then open the nose (check your instruction manual if you're not sure how) and remove the jammed nail.
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Stimulus Funding in Georgia Used to Support Lighting Retrofit Projects at Convenience Stores throughout the State
December 19, 2011
The state of Georgia received $82,495,000 in economic stimulus funds for the State Energy Program (SEP). The funding was allocated to the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) division of Energy Resources to encourage the adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency throughout the state. Of the total amount of SEP funding available, GEFA allocated $10 million to create four competitive grant programs for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. One of GEFA's grant recipients, Outlaw Consulting, created a lighting retrofit fund to implement lighting retrofits on convenience stores. Since its inception, the fund has retrofit over 30 convenience store locations, including interior lighting (generally T12 to T8 conversions), cooler door lighting (generally with light-emitting diode or LED lights), and outdoor canopy lighting. The stores were retrofit with no up-front costs to the owners. Rather, the owners pay back into the fund the estimated savings that occurs over the 18-month period after installation. Not only has the Outlaw Consulting Lighting Retrofit fund resulted in significant savings in energy from the projects themselves, but the fund was the catalyst for the development of this new lighting solution that will continue to evolve in the future. Read more on this story via CSP Daily News.
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Brazilian manufacturing firm Weg is attracting analysts' attention. The 50-year old electric motor, equipment and paints global conglomerate set its sights on the local wind sector in 2011 when it signed a technology-licensing agreement with MTorres Olvega Industrial (MTOI), an Egyptian-owned turbine manufacturer based in Spain.
The joint venture with MTOI, in which Weg initially invested BRL33 million ($15.5 million), gives it responsibility for facilities and projects in Brazil, while MTOI handles technology transfer.
Its prospects have been boosted further since last summer when Brazilian development bank BNDES delisted several of its biggest competitors, including Vestas and Suzlon, for failing to meet its strict local content rules that give access to cheap finance. Under the rules, at least 60% of content - in terms of weight and price - needs to be made in Brazil.
Weg, it seems, was ready to take advantage of its local presence and new international relationship with MTOI. According to a Weg sales representative, the BNDES delisting resulted in a surge in requests from wind-farm developers and, in September, Weg landed its first turbine sales contract for 90MW for a wind farm in north-eastern Brazil. No more details about the deal were released, except that delivery would be made by 2015, with the wind farm due to start operating in 2016.
Weg is not new to the energy sector; it already supplies transmission, distribution and small-scale hydro and biomass generation equipment. It has facilities in Mexico, Argentina, the US, Portugal, China, Austria and India. But in wind energy, it saw the growth opportunity in a fast-developing and prosperous market that fitted into its diversification strategy.
Weg offers turbines of 1.65MW, 2.3MW and 2.5MW. It moved its transmission equipment production facilities to Sao Paulo state to make room for the production of nacelles at its factory in Jaragua do Sul. This can produce 65 nacelles a year, built using MTOI technology - the company aims to double this by 2015.
Weg is tight-lipped about its first deal. "This first contract shows that we managed to develop an interesting portfolio of products that will give us the conditions to increase - gradually and methodically - our presence in the market," Luis Francisco Oliveira, the company's investor relations officer, said in November.
And that was all that was said about the new contract. Neither Oliveira nor any of the other company official was prepared to discuss further the company's plans for the wind sector. Weg's press office turned down interview requests, saying the silence is part of the company's strategy.
Strategy is vital for a new entrant in a big market, especially when burdened by licensing royalty payments of at least 5% for each sale in a market where price is crucial to compete for the 8GW of wind power - almost 90 times Weg's maiden contract - that is expected to be commissioned in the next decade.
Weg is up against powerful competition: GE, Vestas, Alstom, Suzlon, Gamesa, Enercon (with Wobben Wind power), Acciona, Impsa and Fuhrlander. These companies together are investing about $200 million in new factories in Brazil.
However, Weg has several competitive advantages. Although it does not own the more specialised wind technology such as blades, towers and nacelles, it can make electric motors, electronics and control parts locally. This makes it possible to source up to 80% of content locally, according to Mauricio Aredes, wind power and technology transfer researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 's Coppe Engineering Research Center.
Additionally, a licensing agreement gives local firms access to patents and allows equipment to be adapted to local conditions, another competitive advantage that other players are concerned about in Brazil.
"All licensing agreements result in local innovations because you have access to the 'blueprints'", says Mauro Luz, co-ordinator of the technology transfer department at the Brazilian National Industrial Property Institute.
According to Aredes, the model adopted by Weg is similar to the approach taken in China in the early 2000s, albeit under tougher market-access control.
"China's local content rules were much stricter than Brazil's, and in two years they were able to launch innovation in new turbines and, later on, to open up the market. Of course nobody was able to compete internally with Chinese companies," says Aredes.
Weg is already an expert in licensing agreements in other sectors and has strong capacity for research and development, allocating 2.5% of its revenue to its development laboratories. It can use this to adapt MTOI's turbines to local conditions.
During the Brazil Windpower conference in August 2012, Weg stated that its TWT-2.3MW turbine was more efficient for local winds, claiming it can reach a higher generating capacity at lower wind speeds. "It's a small percentage increase from the previous model but, over the thousands of hours, it makes all the difference," a Weg sales representative told Windpower Monthly.
Weg's efforts so far have drawn mixed views from industry commentators. "The strategy adopted by Weg seems to be aimed at capturing specialties and to become an important player in the all sectors," says Mario Bernardes, industrial sector analyst at Banco do Brasil. "I already had a positive view about Weg, but with the decision to enter the wind sector, this view has become even more positive."
Convince the market
Bernardes expects Weg shares to outperform, predicting that by the end of 2013 they will have risen 34% from 2010 prices. Looking at the company's overall capacity and revenues, he notes that the foreign currency royalties due on MTOI's wind turbines will be compensated for by Weg's 45% foreign-currency sales revenues.
Daniel Gewehr, a Sao Paulo-based analyst at Spanish banking group Santander. is more conservative - he suggests Weg's shares will hold their value, saying that the revenue of the first turbine deal is still small in comparison to the group's overall earnings.
To guarantee margins for wind-turbine manufacturers, Aredes says that prices need to be around BRL 120/MWh. Yet, strong interest and competition is one reason for the sharp power price decline across Brazil, from BRL 300/MWh in the contracts of early 2000, to around BRL 100/MWh at the last auction in 2011.
Although the first contract shows that Weg can play the market, the company now needs to build on this convincingly, increasing sales significantly, and at a fast pace, to gain scale production and counteract the low wind power prices in Brazil.
According to Gewehr, Weg's annual sales revenue was expected to have risen by 16% in 2012 from 2011's BRL5.2 billion and to BRL20 billion by 2020.
"I guess 90MW is better than nothing, but Weg has to do much better than that to pay off the royalties," Aredes concludes.
OUTLOOK EXPRESS - THE GOVERNMENT'S CONSUMPTION FORECAST ENTAILS GROWTH IN WIND
Brazil's wind-power sector woke up in 2009 when the government abandoned its incentivised clean-energy programme, Profina, and decided to introduce wind in competitive auctions - where firms that offer the lowest prices win 20-year power sale contracts.
This move was perfectly timed to coincide with a slowdown in the world economy that affected wind-turbine demand, and Brazil now boasts 2GW of installed capacity, more than a tenfold increase in seven years.
One of the world's fastest-growing wind markets, Brazil now has a manufacturing capacity for 4GW of turbines a year from 11 international players producing locally.
The country's wind-power market is driven by significant economic growth and the government is projecting a 4.7% average increase in yearly power consumption by 2021 according to its ten-year energy plan.
To supply this demand, Brazil's overall installed capacity needs to reach 182GW, a 65MW increase in ten years. The government has signaled its intention to see that the extra wattage comes from clean energy sources: 15MW, or 24% will come from wind and 50% will come from hydroelectric plants.
CONTENT CONTROL LOCAL-LEANING FINANCE
- Tough line In June, national development bank BNDES delisted Vestas, Suzlon, Acciona, Fuhrlander and Clipper from its Finame cheap finance programme. It said that these companies had failed to meet its local content rules, which state that all manufacturers must produce 60% of content locally within five years of entering the programme
- Restoration The manufacturers are now working with BNDES to be reinstated to the programme. There has been speculation that some will buy local companies in order to meet the rule
- More restrictions The bank has indicated that it will regularly review and tighten these rules
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The AutoGuide News Blog is your source for breaking stories from the auto industry. Delivering news immediately, the AutoGuide Blog is constantly updated with the latest information, photos and video from manufacturers, auto shows, the aftermarket and professional racing.
Every car, whether it has a big V8 engine or an electric motor powering the wheels, is being equipped with fuel saving technologies.
Recall variable-valve timing. Introduced on the Acura NSX, and at one time a revolutionary technology, now practically all cars have some form of VVT. Now more technologies are being introduced as innovations for saving fuel. Let’s take a look at some of the more important and popular features being introduced on new models; many of which will soon be as prevalent as variable valve timing.
In a bid to improve fuel economy without sacrificing performance Volvo will bdegin fitting two new gasoline turbocharged direct-injection (GTDi) engines in two of its cars later this year. Both a turbocharged 3-cylinder and 4-cylinder will be offered for the new S60 and V60 wagon.
The 1.6-liter GTDi T3 makes 148-hp with as much as 177 ft-lbs of torque. As for the T4 powerplant, it will produce 177-hp and 177 ft-lbs, with an overboost function that delivers up to 199 ft-lbs of torque. Both engines will be made entirely from aluminum to minimize weight.
Volvo expects the new engines to cut fuel consumption and emissions by as much as 20 percent.
The new engines will be fitted exclusively to the S60 and V60 models at first and there’s no word on if Volvo plans to offer either in North America. And as unlikely as it is, the T4 engine could see use in the S60 here, or perhaps in the next generation S40.
We expect Volvo to make an announcement of the new powerplants when it officially unveils the new V60 at the Paris Auto Show.
GALLERY: Volvo V60
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Oklahoma, Creek Nation sign tobacco compact
The agreement settles a lawsuit over the practice of Creek Nation tribal stores in Oklahoma erroneously selling cigarettes with a cheaper tax stamp.
A tobacco compact was signed Friday between the state of Oklahoma and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, which settles a lawsuit filed by the state over the practice of tribal stores selling cigarettes with the wrong and much cheaper tax stamp.
The compact with the Creek Nation, one of the few tribes that didn't have a compact with the state, ends several years of frustration by state officials because tribal stores were buying cigarettes bearing an “exception” tax stamp that costs 6 cents a pack and then reselling them in the Tulsa market. The tax stamp for nontribal retailers is $1.03, giving the Tulsa area tribal stores a 97-cent-per-pack advantage and shortchanging tax dollars owed the state.
According to the compact, Creek Nation tribal stores, often called smoke shops, are required to sell cigarettes bearing the $1.03 tax stamp. Oklahoma will receive 50 percent of that tax rate. The compact recognizes the right of the Creek Nation to charge a higher tax on cigarettes, with all tax revenue going to the tribe.
The compact also gives the state the right to inspect the stores and shops selling the cigarettes on tribal land, and grants enforcement power if the shops are not in compliance.
The compact settles a lawsuit filed in 2009 by the state attorney general's office against more than a dozen Creek Nation smoke shop owners and tribal officials. The lawsuit accused them of conspiring to violate state and federal laws on the sale of cigarettes in the state.
The Creek Nation filed a federal lawsuit the next year, claiming the wholesaler was on American Indian land and the state could not regulate sales from one tribe to another. In February, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the side of the state in the federal lawsuit, giving Oklahoma authority to regulate tribal tobacco sales even if the cigarettes are bought from another tribe.
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The Campus Police provide protection services to students, faculty, staff, visitors, and guests of the University. All Campus Police officers are certified through Pennsylvania Police Officers Education & Training Commission ( M.P.O.E.T.C.). Campus Police officers are armed and on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Duties of the Campus Police include protection of the campus community, enforcement of federal, state, and local laws, campus judicial code, and enforcement of parking rules and regulations. The office also maintains a 24 hour emergency line (extension 7222). In addition, Campus Police provide the following services: escort service, crime prevention training programs, lost and found, and vehicle assistance including battery jump kits and assisting with vehicle lock outs.
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Here is a quick tip on how to find out what host IPs are on your subnet using nmap. This is useful to find out what IPs are being used or just to know how many devices are connected to the subnet.
How to find out what IPs are being used on your subnet
# nmap -v -sP 192.168.1.0/24
You can replace the 192.168.1.0/24 address with whatever your IP and subnet is.
Also, for a cleaner output that removes the lines that tell you an IP is not used, try the following:
# nmap -v -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | grep -v "appears to be down"
Popularity: 4% [?]
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Pet Product News Editorial Blog:
September 3, 2012
Selling Aquarium Additives
By David Lass
Much as I am a “purist” and do not use many additives at all with my own tanks, displaying and selling the right additives at your store is essential. Not only are these money-making products for the store, but they are also important to your customers (especially beginners), helping them keep their fish alive and thriving.
For freshwater tanks, water conditioners are very important, especially in treating tap water for chlorine and chloramines. Most are recommended for use with water changes and when adding new fish. Maintaining a proper pH is important, although I have yet to be convinced that keeping it exactly at 7.0 is that necessary. As long as the pH doesn’t keep bouncing around on either side of neutral, I guess making a weekly adjustment is okay—and the products do sell well.
Photo by Katie Ingmire/BowTie Inc. at Passionate Pet Superstore
Freshwater planted tanks require a number of additives to really flourish. “Plant foods” are something hobbyists always think they need—and they sell well, too. Iron and other specific additives can also make sense, especially if a hobbyist is using CO2
injection and has sufficient lighting for the plants to grow fast. Algae cures are also often needed by folks with planted tanks, even though a tank full of healthy fast-growing plants will usually out-compete algae.
On the marine side of the hobby, the additives are endless, especially for reef tanks. Having a wide selection is important, as it can bring in the hard core reef-geeks who stop by to pick up that bottle of iodine, rather than buying it online. Maintaining the correct levels of various chemicals in a marine aquarium is also very important—again, especially for a reef tank.
On both the marine and freshwater sides of the hobby, it is crucial that you not only offer a good selection of additives, but that you use them in the store. It is always a good idea to have bottles of water conditioners (large sizes, please), tonics, pH adjusters (even though I don’t like them) etc., around in your fish room.
Alongside your live plants tanks, you should have all of the many additives displayed, as well as the substrates you use. Ditto for the marine section, especially reefs. If you have a special deal with manufacturers to “push” their products, then those are the ones to use along with a sign that reads, “We use and recommend these fine products.”
Hobbyists, especially new ones, really love to dose their tank with different things. Your store can take advantage of this tendency, and at the same time get them to use products that will, in fact, help them to succeed in keeping their fish.
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Dr. Mark Funkhouser, a former Kansas City mayor and auditor, is the director of the Governing Institute.E-mail: email@example.com
When analyst Meredith Whitney predicted that there would be a huge number of municipal defaults in 2011, she was roundly derided, and in fact things didn't turn out that way last year. But I wonder if she might just have missed the timing by a little.
On Tuesday, the city council in Stockton, Calif., approved a plan for the city to default on about $2 million in debt payments through the end of its current fiscal year and begin a process of mediation with its major bond holders to try to get a break on its debt. The city's leaders hope that the plan they've set in motion will enable Stockton to avoid being the largest U.S. city to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
So what happened? In some of the cases where local governments have defaulted, it's been due to one big thing that was stupid or illegal. I had a discussion recently with Bob Attmore, chairman of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, about financial troubles in municipal governments. "There's usually a gimmick somewhere imbedded in all these problems," he observed. And you can see his point: Harrisburg, Pa.'s attempt at filing for bankruptcy resulted from a long series of misadventures with the city's trash incinerator. The Jefferson County, Ala., bankruptcy resulted from a series of risky bond-swap agreements compounded by corruption that resulted in several public officials going to jail. In other cases, such as with Vallejo, Calif., cities have filed for bankruptcy primarily to gain leverage over public-employee unions.
In the case of Stockton, however, there seems to be no one big thing that is the proximate cause of the fiscal crisis. City Manager Bob Deis says the city's financial management is "simply horrid" and that "in my 32 years of managing finances for local government, I have not heard of nor seen a situation such as this." Apparently he wasn't paying attention for most of those 32 years. The kinds of financial-management mistakes Stockton made—such as errors in reconciling accounts, accidentally double-counting parking ticket revenues and looking at financial decisions on a "pay-as-you-go" basis rather than at long-term cost management—happen regularly in local governments across America, and they are frequently documented in municipal audit reports. Those are serious problems, but they haven't driven other cities to bankruptcy—yet.
Here's the thing. Stockton's management errors happened in a city with the second-highest foreclosure rate in the country and crime and unemployment rates that are among the highest. They happened in a city twice ranked as one of America's most miserable cities.
And here's why Meredith Whitney might end up being right after all. In one of the articles attacking her, DWS Investments said, "The investment public now seems to be recognizing that the fundamentals in the muni market are improving." That's nuts. Here's a "fundamental" for you: Hourly wages in the United States have not kept pace with inflation for the past 40 years. Real hourly earnings peaked at $20.30 per hour in January 1973. In constant 1982-1984 dollars, the real hourly wage in January 2012 was $10.24.
If you want to understand what's going on in cities, look at what's happening to the people living in them. In 2012, the vast majority of average Americans are hurting economically. It's not surprising that their cities are hurting as well.
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Assisted living transition tough for some seniors
County offers support for assisted living transiti
Last Updated: 133 days ago
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Mental health experts said it is stressful for seniors when they are forced to move into an assisted living program.
"Moving to a nursing home or convalescent home can be overwhelming for a lot of people. Especially if they are not prepared to do so and that decision is made for them abruptly," said Lito Morillo of Kern County Aging and Adult Services.
Mental health experts said when an elderly person is forced to move into assisted living they can feel their independence being taken away and may become depressed.
"If it looks like there is depression is setting in and there is concern that they are suicidal, they can connect them into senior specific mental health services," said Bill Walker of Kern County Mental Health.
Kern County Mental Health has the Volunteer Senior Outreach Program that offers help for families looking to make that transition.
"A therapist can meet with anyone in the family and they can send out a volunteer, who is also a senior by the way. They can work with them and try to understand what the family needs," said Walker.
Mental health experts advise families to move with caution when considering assisted living for their elderly parents. They said be honest with your loved ones about why assisted living is the best option, but don't make that decision abruptly.
"If someone is moving in to a nursing home, it should be prepared and well thought out. The individual or couple should get a good understanding of what their environment will be and get more comfortable with the location they will be moving. They need to get familiar with the people they will be living with," said Morillo.
Mental health experts also said you should seek help if an elderly person is depressed and is talking about suicide, because one in four seniors actually go through with it.
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Voting is under way in the first round of France's parliamentary elections, with recently elected President Francois Hollande seeking Socialist control of the National Assembly to push through his programme of reforms.
More than 6,500 candidates are standing for election to the 577-seat lower house of parliament in Sunday's vote which comes just weeks after Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy to become France's first Socialist head of state since 1995.
The new lower house serves for the next five years, coinciding with Hollande's five-year term, and the results will determine whether the new president is able to rule unfettered as he seeks to reform Europe's second-largest economy.
The left already holds a majority in the upper house Senate, which is indirectly elected.
Hollande has pledged to steer France towards a growth-led recovery, and his election was hailed by critics of austerity measures across the eurozone.
The 57-year-old faces many challenges such as curbing rising unemployment and erasing a government overdraft without exposing voters to welfare cuts and Greek-style austerity.
The new French president needs parliamentary majority as he lobbies European leaders, chief among them German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the way to handle eurozone crisis.
Hollande wants a fiscal responsibility pact signed by Sarkozy to be reworked, arguing that it needs more pro-growth measures as opposed to Merkel’s austerity approach.
A majority in the assembly will help him in the implementation of his tax-and-spend programme.
Prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault's interim government has taken a series of popular steps, including cutting ministers' salaries by 30 per cent, vowing to reduce executive pay at state-owned firms and lowering the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some workers.
But Sarkozy's UMP party has hit back with warnings that the Socialists are preparing huge tax rises to pay for what the right says is a fiscally irresponsible spending programme.
The economic backdrop is bleak for whoever wins the parliamentary vote, with unemployment at 10 per cent, stalled growth, and a resurgent eurozone crisis.
The vote will also be a litmus test for Marine Le Pen's anti-immigrant National Front, after she won 18 per cent of votes in the first round of the May presidential election.
If no candidate wins more than 50 per cent in the first round, any contender with more than 12.5 per cent of the vote is allowed to stay in the race for the second round to be held on June 17.
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As CPS prepares to close a record number of schools, the fate of students and communities is in question.
Equity and transparency elusive
You don't have to go far to find someone, some group, some leader who is skeptical or openly critical of Mayor Daley's plan to close a slew of the city's low-performing public schools and open 100 new ones. Ever since Renaissance 2010 was announced three years ago, it's been dissected, analyzed and, always, challenged.
As well it should be. This newsmagazine has reported on the more troubling aspects of the districtwide effort, notably how it has affected children who were displaced when their elementary schools were closed. Fewer than 2 percent of them transferred immediately to new Renaissance schools. The vast majority (84 percent) were enrolled, instead, in traditional schools with below-average test scores.
Other charges leveled against the plan: Not enough union teachers. Public schools are being privatized. Community control is being undermined and local school councils will eventually be eliminated. New schools get more funding and resources than traditional public schools do.
Maybe these have merit, maybe not. Who knows? The first three are matters more related to philosophy and politics than what happens to children. And until now, no one has done a detailed comparison of funding and resources.
However, an analysis by Catalyst Chicago sheds light on how the district commits and spends its capital projects dollars and whether new schools and charters are getting more than a fair share.
As critics have long suspected, new Renaissance schools are at the head of the line for facility repairs and renovations, and a disproportionate share of current renovation work is happening in schools that now house only 4 percent of all students. Meanwhile, new schools have had more renovation work completed or funded than traditional schools: 62 percent vs. 45 percent. And perhaps most telling, the district needs to spend twice as much to finish work at traditional schools: $1.21 for every $1 already spent compared to just 61 cents at new schools.
District officials say that of course these schools are getting priority. They're often empty and it's easier and safer to complete construction work when they're vacant. "We consciously prioritize these schools to get them to an acceptable level for reopening," says outgoing Chief Administrative Officer David Vitale.
Does this mean that school buildings that are "unacceptable" for Renaissance schools are just fine for children who are, or were, already enrolled in them? Are these buildings safe or, at least, suitable for a productive and healthy learning environment? No doubt most parents would answer both questions with a resounding, "No."
Decisions like these may make sense on paper, but they breed resentment and suspicions in schools and communities. Instead of pining for a $100 million capital windfall if and when state lawmakers do something about school funding, the district would better serve the public, and itself politically, by coming clean about why some schools get upgrades or new buildings and others, presumably just as needy, do not.
"It's extremely difficult for the average [person] to get a big picture of what's going on," says Jacqueline Leavy, who for years lobbied for the district to produce a comprehensive capital spending plan.
Otherwise, the public will know that good old City Hall patronage is alive and well at Chicago Public Schools.
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By Nova Safo, CNN
Chicago, Illinois (CNN) – When Chicago students return to school after summer break, they will do so in 48 fewer elementary schools. The city is closing a record number of schools to deal with a $1 billion budget shortfall.
The closures are just the latest in a string of public school closings around the country, according to Emily Dowdall of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dowdall has been looking into the causes of public school closures:
[4:08] "And those are a decline in the school-age population, the rise in charter school enrollment, and finally, tight budgets that are forcing districts to act."
In Chicago, the schools that are being closed are in mostly African-American neighborhoods, where the recession has hit hard. Lack of jobs and rising crime have driven out many middle class families, and their school-aged kids have gone with them.
At the same time, public schools have lost even more students to charter schools, which are growing rapidly.
For Asean Johnson, a charismatic 9-year-old student who attended a protest against Chicago school closings, the fight to save his school was about keeping him and his friends safe. Many parents and students are worried about longer walks to schools farther away, in which they would have to cross dangerous gang lines:
[:41]“I’m worried about my school friends' safety. I’m worried about everybody’s safety. Because, I do not want anybody to die.”
By Tommy Andres, CNN
Editor's Note: Listen to the full story in our player above, and join the conversation in our comments section below.
(CNN) - This week, 35 former Atlanta Public Schools teachers and administrators, including the former superintendent, Beverly Hall, turned themselves into police. They were indicted on charges ranging from racketeering to theft, all tied to a district-wide cheating scandal that was discovered in recent years. It's been described as the largest school cheating scheme in the history of the United States.
The teachers are accused of erasing and changing standardized test answers to improve scores. Those scores are tied closely to state and federal funding as well as teacher bonuses.
The arrests were another step towards closure of a three year saga that's left an indelible mark on Atlanta.
Errol Davis took over as superintendent when Hall resigned in 2011.
CNN Radio interviewed Davis about his journey through the scandal and about changes he's made on testing security at Atlanta's public schools.
By Jim Roope, CNN
(CNN) – Getting into a good college is so competitive that even the nearly perfect student has trouble.
[0:38] “I got a 2390 out of 2400 on my SAT,” said 18-year-old Kevin Mark.
Yet with that near-perfect SAT score, a 4.0+ GPA throughout high school, an Eagle Scout and volunteer work for his church and community, he was not accepted to MIT, his first choice of college, nor his second choice Cal Tech.
What do you think about the pressure today's students are facing? Do you have any stories to share? Please leave your comments below.
By John Sepulvado, CNN
Editor's note: Embed America is a partnership between CNN Radio and CNN iReport. This series tells the story of the 2012 U.S. presidential election through the people most critical to the campaigns: the voters. CNN Radio is traveling across the country to interview iReporters on election issues close to their hearts. These issues were named important by iReporters during phase 1 of the iReport Debate.
East St. Louis, Illinois (CNN) – The East St. Louis School District has some of the worst reading and math test scores in the state. That’s according to state and district statistics. Only ten percent of students are proficient in reading at their grade level. And for at least one resident, 17-year-old Louis Jones, it's a problem the presidential candidates need to address.
Meanwhile, education officials in Illinois are trying to take over the school district. The state cites systemic problems with corruption. Local board members disagree, and as is often the case with fights over power and money, both parties are now in court.FULL STORY
by Jim Roope, CNN
(CNN) Summer enrichment programs in low-income neighborhoods across the country are in trouble.
Nine-year-old Nicole Levine at L.A.’s BEST Summer Program says that, without the program, she would probably just be at home watching TV. Something she'd rather not do.
She could also wind up wandering the streets in her Los Angeles neighborhood as her single-parent mom works two jobs.
Nicole’s grandfather Steven Levine says this neighborhood in the North Hills section of Los Angeles is a high-crime area with a significant amount of gang activity. He says he knows that his grandchildren are safe at the summer enrichment program on the campus of Noble St. Elementary School.
Kids from poor neighborhoods suffer significantly from what’s called, ‘summer learning loss.’ It’s the diminishing over the summer months of skills learned during the school year. Kids from middle- and upper-income neighborhoods have more opportunities to go to camp or travel, or be enrolled in programs that stimulate learning during summer vacation.Listen to and read the story from CNN Radio
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This year's altitude conference will be held at the University Center on Lehigh University's campus. The University Center, formally known as Packer Hall, was the first building erected on Lehigh's campus in 1866. The building demonstrates a High Victorian Gothic style. It was designed by Edward Potter to serve as a multipurpose building and a central gathering place for students. To this day the University Center holds this same purpose as it houses several student and faculty dining halls, art displays, and larger rooms used for professor instruction and community service events.
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Master plan approved by coastal board
Published: Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 11:59 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 11:59 a.m.
The final version of the state’s master plan for coastal restoration and hurricane protection will contain new projects aimed at protecting lower Terrebonne and south Lafourche.
The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority voted unanimously to approve the $50-billion, 50-year coastal master plan at a meeting in Baton Rouge Wednesday. The plan will be submitted Monday to the Legislature for final approval.
The plan includes changes requested by residents of bayou communities who felt the state wasn’t doing enough to rebuild land in rapidly-eroding central Terrebonne Parish.
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Chairman Garret Graves said that Louisiana is facing a coastal crisis. It will take decades to repair the coast and build necessary protections for communities, but the threat we face from storms and coastal erosion is imminent.
Louisiana has lost nearly 1,900 miles of land since the 1930s, and it could lose another 1,750 in the next 50 years if nothing is done.
The 2012 state master plan attempts to create a realistic strategy for restoring Louisiana’s coast based on what we know about the coast today and the resources we’ll have available in the future.
“Every community gets protection through this plan,” Graves said. “No one gets left out. No one gets left behind.”
First released in 2007, state law requires the master-plan to be updated every five years.
This year’s science-based plan used objective tools to select the projects that would create the most lasting land for the least amount of money — tools that found land in eastern and central Terrebonne to be too expensive to build and maintain.
Changes were made across the plan in response to concerns from residents, according to Kirk Rhinehart, chief of planning with the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. The state received more than 2,000 written comments, and more than 750 people showed up at three meetings, including one held in Houma in January.
“It couldn’t just be about science and the numbers because we’re doing it for the communities,” Rhinehart said.
Many local concerns focused on the lack of marsh creation in central Terrebonne, Rhinehart said. The plan previously included large marsh creation projects in western Terrebonne on Point au Fer that would have created quite a bit of lasting land but protected no residents.
“The people that we are affecting with this plan are afraid of losing their homes, their livelihood and their culture,” South Lafourche Levee Director and Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board Member Windell Curole said. “It’s east to make the Kool-Aid, but the people down the bayou have to drink it.”
That project was removed. Instead, land will be built along the outside of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection system along the Pointe-aux-Chenes ridge.
The plan also aims to restore the rim of Terrebonne Bay, though planners are unsure of specifics. It could be done with oyster reefs or other experimental projects. Planners included it in the master plan to “identify it as a critical area and put the money there,” Rhinehart said.
The plan also now includes a floodgate on Bayou Chene local officials are fighting to build after a temporary structure prevented the flooding in Terrebonne, Assumption and St. Mary parishes during last year’s Atchafalaya River flood.
In addition, a marsh-creation project planned for the Port Fourchon area was moved. It now extends north along La. 1 from Belle Pass to Golden Meadow.
The plan also includes freshwater diversions down Bayou Lafourche and from the Atchafalaya River into western Terrebonne wetlands and projects aimed at beefing up local barrier islands. It will reconstruct some ridges in Terrebonne and raise levees in the Morganza-to-the-Gulf and Larose-to-Golden Meadow hurricane-protection systems.
There will also be a new statewide program aimed at elevating homes in coastal areas, Rhinehart said.
With the new plan, state officials hope that land loss in Louisiana will be curbed in 20 years, and that we might actually start gaining new land in 40 years.
Members of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority hoped the updated state master plan, grounded in science, would be a tool the state can use to pursue future federal money for restoration.
“There were a lot of changes, but it’s because we were listening,” Graves said. “The changes were principled and the principles of our plan were not compromised.”
Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or email@example.com.
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Operation Plan Bantay Laya
OPlan Bantay Laya is an end product of more than three decades of failures and frustrations of U.S.-GRP-AFP to crush and defeat the National Democratic people’s struggle led by the CPP-NPA-NDF in the country.
Bantay Laya is the latest formulation of previous counterinsurgency plans initially crafted during the Marcos dictatorship. Due to reverses suffered by government forces, these plans have undergone revisions by succeeding regimes under different names:
Involved in conceptualization, planning and execution of all these plans is the U.S. government through the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency as has been the case since the anti-dissident campaigns against the PKP-HMB during the Magsaysay regime in the early 1950s.
Having run out of counterinsurgency options Bantay Laya I & II appear to be the U.S.-Arroyo regime’s “final solution” to the long drawn-out conflict. A novel and significant feature is its special emphasis on punitive measures in dealing with the political component of the insurgency. This includes suppressive measures against Congressional Party List representatives and constituencies and “neutralization” of legal institutions and organizations. Bantay Laya’s focus on the political component and White Area operations is best described by veteran reporter and columnist Amando Doronila in Philippine Daily Inquirer (21 June 2006):
“The blueprint of war outlined in the ‘orders of battle’ of OPlan Bantay Laya envisages decimation of non-military segments of the communist movement. It is not designed to engage the New People’s Army in armed conflict in field warfare. It is designed to butcher and massacre defenseless non-combatants. It is therefore a sinister plan for civilian butchery, a strategy which exposes the military and police to fewer risks and casualties than they would face in armed fighting with the communist guerrillas.”
In dealing with legal institutions and organizations the term “neutralize legal personalities” is conspicuous in media reports on Bantay Laya. Again we cite the following revelation of Doronila:
“The emphasis of this strategy on ‘neutralizing’ sectoral/front/legal organizations helps explain why most of the victims of the past five years have been non-combatants and defenseless members of the Left. During that period the number of murdered aboveground members of the Left has far exceeded fatalities of the New People’s Army in armed encounters with security forces.
“This strategy is blamed for the systematic massacre of non-combatants. It offers a huge potential for human rights abuses and atrocities. It makes the regime look more cold-blooded in its methods in trying to crush the insurgency than its predecessors, not excluding the Marcos dictatorship. It opens the path to the slaughter of the defenseless.”
The U.S.-Arroyo regime probably believes that giving license to military commanders to carry out extra-legal draconian measures that include physical elimination of legal personalities and non-combatants will intimidate, terrorize and decapitate the National Democratic struggle leading to its demoralization, political disintegration, loss of will to struggle and eventual capitulation.
Operation Phoenix, Jakarta Solution, Death Squads
What is unfolding today under the U.S.-Arroyo regime evokes memories of Operation Phoenix conceived by the Pentagon and CIA during the Vietnam war. In this nationwide operation at least 41,000 Vietnamese legal personalities and civilians were tortured and murdered by U.S.-directed Saigon troops in a desperate bid to reverse the unfavorable trend in the war situation.
In Indonesia in 1965-66 the U.S.-supported Suharto dictatorship unleashed what came to be known as the “Jakarta solution.” This was no ordinary massacre but a “blood bath” directed against members and sympathizers of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and constituencies and followers of the Sukarno government, almost all of whom were legal personalities and plain civilians. Estimate of murdered and massacred “blood bath” victims range from a minimum of 500,000 up to a high of one million. It was reported that many rivers in Indonesia where the bodies were dumped turned bright red and maintained that color for many days.
In Latin America CIA-supported and trained “death squads” carried out systematic assassinations, murders and massacres of tens of thousands of legal personalities in Guatemala, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua and El Salvador where US-supported dictatorships reigned since the decade of the 1950s.
The “Final Solution”
As mentioned earlier Bantay Laya was conceptualized and planned by the U.S.-Arroyo regime as a “final solution” in a desperate bid to put an end to more than three decades of failures and frustrations in dealing with the protracted National Democratic struggle.
As reported in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (18 June 2006), one military official ended a briefing on Bantay Laya with this statement: “We have been in this game for decades. Perhaps it is time to put into play an endgame strategy (read: ‘final solution’) that will terminate this lingering problem.” Included in the same report” “This is it. If this won’t work, I don’t know what else would,” a key security official and one of the key movers of Bantay Laya told the reporter.
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Apple’s App Store first made its debut on the iPhone 3G back in July 2008, much to the delight of iPhone owners whose only taste of third-party software prior to that was with web apps. Now, just over four years on, it has received more than 1 million app submissions.
Apple confirmed during its iPad mini event back in October that it had passed the 700,000 milestone, but Apple’s figure would have included only those apps that are currently still available to download. When you lump in those apps that are no longer around for whatever reason, there have been more than one million submissions, according to App Store discovery company Appsfire.
The company’s co-founder, Ouriel Ohayon, has provided some interesting figures on how those 1 million apps have been split. 493,289 of them are paid apps, while the rest were completely free to download. 158,848 of them are games.
Of the 736,247 apps that are currently live and available to download today, 336,270 — or around 45% — are paid; while 120,065 — or around 16% — of them are games.
Apple also announced during its iPad mini event that the App Store has seen more than 35 billion downloads during the past four years, with more than $6.5 billion in revenues paid to iOS developers. Back in September, when the company announced the iPhone 5, CEO Tim Cook said that the average iOS user has downloaded over 100 apps.
“It’s been an absolute revolution,” Cook said. “It’s phenomenal. Together with the incredible products, these have helped us achieve an incredible milestone.”
With iPhones and iPads still becoming increasingly popular, Apple’s App Store will only continue to grow. Google’s Play Store is slowly catching up to the same number of apps on offer, but other rivals — such as Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace and BlackBerry’s App World — simply cannot compete.
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Why Smart Executives Fail
And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
It’s an all too common scenario: A great company breaks from the pack; the analysts are in love, the smiling CEO appears on the cover of BusinessWeek and Fortune, the stock soars. Two years later, the company is in flames, the CEO is under attack, and the stock has tanked.
Why does this sort of thing keep happening at respectable companies like Motorola, Quaker, and Sony, all of which have very smart, hard-working senior executives? And how can you tell if it’s about to happen at your own company?
Why Smart Executives Fail answers these and many more crucial questions. Sydney Finkelstein, a distinguished professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, carried out a six-year study of leadership failure, the largest of its kind. After hundreds of interviews with insiders at top companies that got into major trouble—such as GM, Mattel, and RiteAid—Finkelstein figured out the common causes behind failures in wildly different types of companies. He explains “the seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful people” that drive smart managers to make catastrophic mistakes.
As much about psychology as it is about business, Why Smart Executives Fail tells the stories of more than fifty great business disasters and includes exclusive interviews with many of their leaders, in which they explain what really led to their disastrous decisions.
1. Why Smart Executives Fail
Part I: Great Corporate Mistakes
3. Innovation and Change
4. Mergers and Acquisitions
Strategy Gone Bad: Doing the Wrong Thing
Part II: The Causes of Failure
7. Delusions of a Dream Company
8. Tracking Down the Lost Signals
9. Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful People
Part III: Learning From Mistakes
11. How Smart Executives Learn
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WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR WEEK ENDING 19 JANUARY 2001:
PAYLOAD ACOUSTIC TEST PREPARATIONS CONTINUE TO GO WELL
Preparations for the move of the Science Payload to Sunnyvale for the Payload Acoustic test continue to go well. The team accomplished the following:
- The Space Vehicle transporter was driven from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Sunnyvale.
- The Transporter was instrumented with shock recorders, and was driven from Sunnyvale to Stanford and back on the route that will be used with the Payload. Shock levels were within expected levels.
- The Tilt Dolly, Tilt Ring, Payload Aft Support and associated slings and strongbacks were transported to Stanford.
- The Tilt Dolly was moved into the FIST Ops area, and is configured and ready to accept the Payload.
Photo: The Space Vehicle Transporter arriving at Stanford University
ECU EMI TEST IN PROGRESS
The ECU EMI testing is projected to end by 24 January. At conclusion of the testing the UV investigation in the TV chamber will begin. The design for inclusion of more filter area in the box cover has been completed and is out for review.
FORWARD SRE TRR PLANNED FOR 18 JANUARY
The Fwd SRE TRR is 18 January to allow start of pyroshock and random vib testing of the two forward units. Preparations are underway to replace the diodes on the Interpoint power supplies to reduce the synch voltage peaks.
UNCAGED GYROSCOPE SHAKE TEST
The gyroscope test team has been working on demonstrating in an off-line test the ability of the uncaged flight gyroscopes to safely survive the upcoming payload acoustic test. The team has successfully qualified the mini-quartz block system including a test gyroscope. The mini-quartz block and associated gyro suspension electronics were then transported to a shake facility. Two DDC GSE systems (only one is required for this test) were damaged in transportation. The plan is to repair a DDC system, retest the gyro, perform the shake on the gyro, and then retest the gyro thereby demonstrating the survivability of an uncaged gyro in shake.
Photo: The mini-quartz block in the clean room during testing.
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Dependent relevant revocation (DRR - also known as ineffective revocation) is a doctrine in trusts and estates law. It makes a revocation of a former will
ineffective if the testator
made the revocation through execution of a new will, and that newly executed will is determined invalid. Said differently, the former will is revived when the new will in which the former will was revoked is found to be invalid. Without DRR, both wills would be invalid and the testator's property would pass through intestacy. The theory behind dependent relevant revocation is that the testator revoked the first will only on the condition that the second will was valid.
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Earlier this year, an Italian photographer and camera buff named Michele Ferrario found a double pack of Kodak instant film with an expiry date of 1991. Not many people are aware of this, but Kodak once made an instant camera, the EK100, in an attempt to compete with Polaroid. They quickly faced numerous legal challenges and after nine years in court Kodak lost and was left with millions of unsellable cameras and packs of film – some of which apparently are still floating around. After an extensive search Ferrario found a working camera and tried it out. The pictures (above and below) are like a cross between spirit pictures and an experiment in time travel moving backwards and forward between past and present. And for anyone interested, there’s a camera for sale on Ebay. At the time of this writing, it’s at $10 Australian dollars!
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A primer on Chinese consumers.
Doctoroff (Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer, 2005) is North Asia area director and Greater China CEO for marketing/advertising firm J. Walter Thompson. Obviously a pragmatic person, the author stresses the pragmatism of Chinese consumers. It is vital to understand the individual politics and civic values of Chinese women and men of all ages, he writes, so that they are more likely to purchase products and services from elsewhere. This mostly explains the failure of the Mattel company to sell Barbie dolls and the success of Starbucks to sell coffee and other consumables in a strong tea culture. Throughout the book, Doctoroff treats even the most complicated topics briefly, with each paragraph delivering a takeaway pearl of wisdom. Because the ordering of the chapters seems random, the narrative is choppy, but the writing is clear and authoritative. Doctoroff does not see China as an economic or political threat to the United States, which gives the book a certain calmness too often absent in similar books by authors who seem slaves to xenophobia, no matter how subtle. Doctoroff emphasizes the importance of understanding the Chinese worldview, which is radically different from that of the United States, no matter how much some Chinese express fascination with Western culture. All the outward modernization of Chinese society does not negate the reality that fundamental change is nearly absent, that the watchword is individual ambition, leavened by caution and family loyalty. In an epilogue, Doctoroff offers 10 myths about China, including the myth that American-style individualism is taking root.
A no-nonsense book by an enlightened capitalist.
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The people have spoken, but will the Board of Education listen?
More than 100 people came to a public hearing on March 3, most of them to oppose the idea of declaring school sites as surplus.
The hearing had initially been scheduled to gain input on a boundary shift about Banneker and Briggs Chaney middle schools in Silver Spring, but more than three-fourths of the speakers came to talk about the currently unused school sites.
Only one, Daniel Sachs of the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, came to speak in favor of turning the property over to the county for affordable housing. The Housing Opportunities Commission administers the county’s affordable housing program.
Sachs explained the benefits of affordable housing to the county as a whole, and to the school system in particular.
“Many [Housing Opportunities Commission] rental properties are occupied by persons at the lower rungs of the schools’ salary structure: its beginning teachers, its classroom aides, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers and custodians,” Sachs said.
Sachs also floated the possibility of paying the school system for the land in a profit-sharing arrangement.
“The [Housing Opportunities Commission], as another component of county government, could look favorably on sharing with MCPS some of the financial gain associated with the development of housing on these sites.”
The other speakers, parents from virtually every school in the Churchill Cluster and some from other clusters, offered not money, but incredulity. They questioned why the board would even entertain the idea of declaring with finality that any proposed school sites would never be needed.
The idea of turning the land over for affordable housing, however, did not originate with the School Board but with the county executive who asked the board to give the land up.
“We must fulfill our legal obligation and consider it,” said board member Pat O’Neill (Dist. 3). “We must have it on the table.”
The overarching theme from parents was that it would be shortsighted to declare land surplus when the future needs are unknown.
Julie Dobson, president of the Potomac Elementary PTA, gave a brief history of the expansions and modernizations of the school, which was built in 1927.
“No one thought that a school built for 65 would support 602 today,” Dobson said. “And it would be presumptuous of us to decide today that we know what the next few decades will bring.”
George Barnes, president of the West Montgomery County Citizens’ Association and a graduate of Potomac Elementary, also spoke about taking a longer view. “I can personally assure you that if anyone had asked my parents in those days [the 1950s] if they thought the county would grow to the extent which it has today, they would have been incredulous.”
Barnes also pointed out that the enrollment projections are based on current land use choices made by the County Council. Any increase in density would correspondingly increase enrollment. “Any County Council can change the zoning in any Master Plan are by a simple majority vote,” Barnes said.
“Given the current reality, the School Board has no business giving away any of its land,” said Jud Ashman of Gaithersburg. Ashman was one of two speakers from the Quince Orchard cluster who came to speak against turning the land over to the county.
“As we’ve learned in Clarksburg, Gaithersburg, and the downcounty clusters, growth is not going away, but land is,” said Jim Keenan, cluster coordinator for Quince Orchard.
Parents from the Churchill Cluster questioned the board’s analysis of enrollment figures.
The enrollment projections presented by the Board of Education show declining enrollment in the cluster, although enrollment will still be over capacity at the cluster’s two middle schools, Hoover and Cabin John, through 2020.
Churchill Cluster coordinator Janis Sartucci noted that the analysis should have taken a wider perspective.
“Note that the superintendent’s recommendation failed to bring the enrollment at Frost [middle school, in the Wootton cluster] into consideration,” Sartucci said. “That is a major omission, as Cabin John Middle School is not used exclusively by the Churchill Cluster.”
As Sartucci pointed out, students from Cabin John go to both Churchill and Wootton. She then added in enrollment projections from neighboring Pyle Middle School, in the Whitman cluster, and showed that construction of a new middle school at Brickyard could be used to allow the five schools to have enrollments of approximately 860 each. This would allow the four current schools, all of which are now over capacity, to be at or below capacity.
The schools assert that it is not cost effective to build another school. If additional capacity is needed, said Joe Lavorgna, director of the Department of Planning and Capital Programming for the school system, there is room for additions to both Hoover and Cabin John.
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David Brooks is on his evergreen subject again, the American elite and why it’s kind of failing. He’s rather good at this, having quietly made the necessary pivot from celebrating the advent of the new “meritocracy” (in his Bobo book, published in 2001) to recognizing, post-financial crisis, that the new elite isn’t serving the country very well and isn’t very popular.
There sometimes arises the question of how much truth a subject can bear, and this may be the case in discussing the current American elite. Several years ago Brooks related this anecdote:
A few years ago, I wrote a book about the rise of a new educated class, the people with 60′s values and 90′s money who go to Starbucks, shop at Whole Foods and drive Volvos. A woman came up to me after one of my book talks and said, “You realize what you’re talking about is the Jews taking over America.”
My eyes bugged out, but then I realized she was Jewish and she knew that I was, too, and between us we could acknowledged there’s a lot of truth in that statement. For the Jews were the vanguard of a social movement that over the course of the 20th century transformed the American university system and the nature of the American elite.
Brooks doesn’t go into this in his current column. He never does. Perhaps there’s no need to: in a way, his key criticism of the new elite–that its members insist on perceiving themselves as outsiders even though they are insiders–stands as implicit acknowledgment of a sociological fact best left, most of the time anyway, unspoken.
Why the reticence? Perhaps somewhere there is a fear of awakening a slumbering beast of heartland anti-Semitism. There has never been much anti-Semitism in America, but given the global historical record, this is, to say the least, an understandable concern.
I would surmise the greater reason is connected to the one area where Brooks most sympathizes with the prejudices of the current elite and most favors their prejudices over those of the old one. American foreign policy is very different under the new meritocracy. The generation of Harrimans, Lovetts, Achesons, Marshalls, and Kennans would have no difficulty imagining a corrupt and self-serving Wall Street class — they had lived through the 1929 crash, when WASPs ran the show and ran it badly. But I doubt they could imagine an America which so completely perceived its foreign-policy interests–its choice of enemies, its choice of wars–as so congruent to those of Israel. The old WASP elite were, almost to a man, opposed to the creation of Israel and to American recognition of the state; they saw nothing but trouble arising from America’s support for Israel. They can be faulted, certainly–none of them lobbied for America to make room for the hundreds of thousands of Jewish war refugees (displaced persons, in the jargon of the time) languishing in refugee camps in 1947, many in Germany of all places.
They made their peace with President Truman’s decision, and went on to serve their country in important ways. And for a generation at least, it could be fairly argued that their fears were much overwrought.
But now? We have a huge bill to pay for a war with Iraq, and perhaps a larger one in store for a looming war with Iran. A Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, contorts itself into paroxyms of deference to a far-right Israeli leader.
The old Protestant Establishment, or its heirs, shakes its head in bewilderment and despair. But as Brooks points out, with as much perception as any writer out there, we have a brand new establishment now.
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Mr. Jackson: Well, I’d rather not stop completely if I don’t have to. What kind of limits do you mean?
Dr. Wilson: The maximum limits for a man your age are no more than 4 drinks a day and no more than 14 in a week. Because of your blood pressure, I would recommend no more than 2 drinks on any day and no more than 7 a week. We’d like you to try it out for a couple of months, and then we’ll have you come back in and check your weight and blood pressure.
Mr. Jackson: Well, I think I can do that. It’s not like I have to have a drink.
Dr. Wilson: OK, just so we’re clear, we’re talking about no more than 2 drinks a day and no more than 7 drinks a week.
Mr. Jackson: Right, got it.
Dr. Wilson: Here are some things that can help you keep track. Since beer comes in different sized containers, I just want to be sure you know that a 12-ounce beer counts as one drink. Here’s the number of drinks in other sizes. Also, here are some calendars to help you keep track, and some tips on cutting down. We’ll check your progress in 2 months.
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A French centenarian became the fastest cyclist of his age when he covered 100 km (62 miles) at an average speed of just over 23 km/h (14.3mph).
Robert Marchand, a former fireman and boxing enthusiast from Paris, who will celebrate his 101st birthday in November, had been training every day for months to cross the finish line in under five hours.
"I did better than expected," he said at the velodrome in Lyon, southeast France, where he completed the 300 laps in 4 hours, 17 minutes, 27 seconds, averaging 23.305 km/h.
Marchand's uncommon vitality has piqued the interest of scientists at the Inserm public research institute who have examined him every three months to try to understand the secret to his longevity.
The wiry centenarian, who weighs in at just 51 kg (eight stones), says he never smoked, but otherwise indulged a healthy appetite for wine and women throughout his life.
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What follows are quotes of interest (to me) from sections 1-3 of Quality information and consumer health plan choices, by Nancy Dean Beaulieu (JHE, 2002).
Section 1, Introduction:
[T]here have been few published studies of the effects of health plan performance data on consumers’ health plan choices. The existing literature on this topic does not provide convincing evidence that health plan performance data affect consumers’ health plan choices [...]. These findings are troublesome for practitioners and policymakers implementing managed competition. Embedded in the theory of managed competition is an assumption that health plan quality can be measured and that all else equal consumers will enroll in plans with higher measured quality. If these assumptions hold and if consumers have a choice of health plan, then market forces will generate incentives for health plans to improve the quality of care. [...]
The analyses [in this paper] are based on data from a natural experiment in which a large employer began providing health plan performance data to its employees to facilitate their health plan selections. [...]
Analysis of plan switching behavior suggests that the provision of quality information had a small, but significant effect on consumer plan choices. Employees were more likely to switch from plans with lower reported quality. Cross-sectional analyses of plan choice indicate that reported quality played a role in plan selection even after controlling for other health plan characteristics frequently associated with plan choice.
Section 2, Methodology:
[I hypothesize that] older consumers are more likely to have strong ties to specific physicians and therefore may be less responsive to quality information. Consumers that should be most responsive to the quality information are those that currently have little information about the relative quality of the different health plans and who are least likely to have established strong relationships with specific physicians. New employees meet these criteria.
Consumers with greater expected needs for health care services may be more or less responsive to quality information. They could be more responsive because they stand to benefit more from an improvement in the health care services delivered by a higher quality plan; on the other hand, they could be less responsive because of stronger ties to specific physicians or concerns about continued coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Section 3, Literature Reveiw
Scanlon et al. (1997) present a useful framework for understanding how these variables affect health plan choice. They identify a set of primary variables representing attributes of health plans that directly impact health plan choice. These primary variables include measures of price, quality, choice of provider, benefit design, coverage, and convenience. The set of secondary variables represents characteristics of the consumer that might amplify or attenuate the effects of some primary variables and, hence, indirectly affect health plan choice. Secondary variables include demographic and health status variables. One might think of the primary variables as arguments to the consumer’s utility function and the secondary variables proxying for the relative importance of the primary variables. [...]
[In Chernew and Scanlon (1998)], the authors fail to find evidence confirming their hypothesis that newly-hired employees will be most responsive to the report card data. [...]
In [Scanlon et al. (2002)] specifications that aggregate multiple health plan performance measures into an overall performance rating the authors find evidence that employees avoid plans with below-average ratings.
Chernew, M., Scanlon, D.P., 1998. Health plan report cards and insurance choice. Inquiry 35, 9–22.
Scanlon, D.P., Chernew, M., Lave, J., et al., 1997. Consumer health plan choice: current knowledge and future directions. Annual Review of Public Health 18, 507–528.
Scanlon, D.P., Chernew, M.,McLaughlin, C., Solon, G., 2001. The Impact of Health Plan Report Cards on Managed Care Enrollment. Unpublished manuscript.
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It’s not ‘nuts’ when you get to know other folksPublished 6:48pm Wednesday, October 10, 2012
We all have people we see on a weekly, or even daily basis who we know by face. We exchange smiles with them. Sometimes we even exchange pleasantries.
But, we don’t “know” them.
Yesterday, I decided to get to know someone better.
The peanut man comes in our office here at The Messenger each Tuesday and when he arrives, the call out to all of us in an attempt to sell his peanut wares is unmistakable.
“Peanuts. Who needs some peanuts today,” he begins calling out from the moment his foot enters the door.
Sometimes I’m on the phone. Sometimes I’m rushing out the door. Sometimes I don’t have cash. But, for whatever reason, the peanut man and I never really had a conversation until this week.
Robert Redden, whose name I may not be spelling correctly because he’d rather talk about peanuts than himself, is an interesting character. He’s been selling peanuts in various forms for about 50 years.
On Tuesdays the Dothan-based peanut man sells to people in Montgomery and Troy, on Wednesdays he heads to Panama City, Thursdays Redden is in Enterprise, and Fridays he’s in Eufaula. The peanut man said he used to sell on Mondays, too, but he’s retired.
It never fails, Redden always has a smile on his face when he brings in boiled peanuts, peanut brittle that his church makes, and other items, such as fried corn and roasted peanuts. And he’s usually wearing a funny T-shirt about peanuts.
You can purchase one bag of nuts for $3 or two for $5. And Redden is always happy to make change, accept pennies, or take checks – a form of payment many shy away from these days. Sometimes, you can even “owe him” because he says he “trusts ya.”
Redden calls his business “Nutty Man’s Peanuts” and said he sells about 600 bags of boiled peanuts each week. The other products vary week to week.
And if you think people don’t notice when you make an effort to get to know them, think again.
As the peanut man started out the door this week, instead of slipping quietly out, he turned around and said, “It was nice talkin’ with y’all today. I’ll see you all next week.”
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After a year of negotiations, Yale’s Chemistry Department has landed what Provost Peter Salovey called its most important hire in the past few years.
Jonathan Ellman, a professor of organic chemistry and chemical biology in the University of California at Berkeley’s top-ranked chemistry department, will join Yale’s faculty this fall. Salovey said Ellman’s hire will fill a long-standing void in Yale’s synthetic and organic chemistry faculty and could be a boon for the department as a whole. Ellman will join the new Institute for Chemical Diversity, Evolution and Function at the West Campus, a research center devoted to chemical biology and its interdisciplinary applications in fields such as medicine and biomedical engineering.
“One of the most important things about hiring a distinguished person in a field is that distinction attracts further distinction,” Salovey said. “People are more likely to respond to offers from Yale.”
Ellman directs 17 undergraduate and graduate researchers at his Berkeley lab, which focuses on designing new methods for synthesizing amine-containing compounds and applying chemistry to characterize biological systems, with the ultimate goal of advancing the treatment of some diseases, according to his lab’s Web site. His teaching responsibilities include overseeing several independent study and research seminars in chemistry.
Ellman said the opportunity to do research in conjunction with the Chemistry Department, the Medical School and the new science centers at West Campus strongly influenced his decision to come to Yale.
“There are huge opportunities to apply chemistry in a really productive way,” Ellman said.
Chemistry Department chair Scott Miller said Ellman has a strong reputation as a mentor and teacher, explaining that many of Ellman’s students have gone on to be successful researchers in both academics and private industry. Though Miller said he expects Ellman to supervise more student research at Yale, he declined to say which classes Ellman will teach next semester.
Ellman said he will not teach in fall as he moves his wife and daughter to Connecticut, but that he expects to teach organic chemistry, chemical biology and courses related to the discovery of new pharmaceuticals.
“He is an award-winning teacher,” Miller said, referring to Ellman’s 1998 teaching award from Berkeley’s chemistry department. “He is very enthusiastic about teaching undergrads as well as graduate student courses and he is very experienced in both.”
Chemistry professor Alanna Schepartz, who serves as chair of the Institute’s advisory committee, said Ellman’s hire is the result of a search for faculty who are leaders in the field of chemical biology and who would also benefit from the West Campus’ emphasis on multi-disciplinary science.
Ellman came to campus in January to give a lecture on substrate activity screening for the Connecticut Organic Symposium, a series of talks on organic chemistry hosted by Yale’s Chemistry Department.
Ellman completed his doctorate in organic chemistry at Harvard University in 1989, and earned his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
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My latest challenge came from our three-year old, who asked me if I could make a guitar. (I have to say, I love that she knows about guitars, pianos, etc. Thanks to a great music class she takes at her preschool, I’m sure!)
Here are the ingredients for our guitar. I will be honest and tell you that I did ‘cheat’ and looked up a picture online, because I didn’t trust my non-guitar playing memory. I did take a guitar class in college, but I was horrible. And I’m most certainly NOT saying how long ago that was!
After peeling and slicing some cucumber into disks, I took two and cut off one of the round edges of each, so I could line them up and form the smaller, top part of the guitar.
Can you tell how I lined up those two cucumber slices at the top? It still gives the round effect but it’s smaller than if I had them next to each other whole. The bottom part is three slices.
I used green pepper to make the neck of the guitar. That is called the neck, right? Like I said, it’s been a while. Not saying how long though…and if you do know, don’t you dare tell! ;)
I used a cantaloupe to make the hole that is behind the neck. It probably should have been a darker color, but I didn’t have anything that was both big enough and dark. So I took some artistic license.
And here’s the ‘cantaloupe hole’. I am so technical. Oh, I just looked it up and it’s called a sound hole. I was actually kinda close!
And to create the pick guard, I took a grape tomato half and carved out a little round piece from it. And yes, I had to look up ‘pick guard’. Learn something new every day, that’s what I always say!
I used another slice of green pepper for the bridge. I know, I’m just showing off now, aren’t I?
Yeah, the strings were the hardest part. I used some matchstick carrots, but those darn things are wavier than you’d think. I could only fit two on the neck, and even then, they wouldn’t stay on very well.
I added blueberry halves for the tuning keys. They were my favorite part!
And there we have it, the guitar. I finally got a couple of matchstick carrots to line up decently, at least long enough to get a picture of it! As if it really mattered to the little girl…speaking of…
The Verdict: It was a Number 1 hit! Our three-year old, who requested it, exclaimed, ‘It’s a guitar!’ (whew!) and gobbled away. Leaving…you guessed it…the green pepper. Do I look worried? Naaaa. Happy Salads!
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When I first started my career in the web industry, the very thing that I spent most of my time on was to look up the meaning of so many different terms and synonyms (which took as much as 50% of my time a day!). This glossary may help to save so many of your late night sleep searching in wikipedia!
Above the Fold – Content appearing on a website when it first loads, without requiring the user to scroll vertically. This is frequently considered the most valuable screen real estate.
Adsense – A popular ad network, run by Google, that allows you to publish contextual ads to make money from your website or blog.
Affiliate – Someone who promotes another person’s (or company’s) products on their website or blog and collects a portion of the sale price as compensation for sales referrals.
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At a glance:
- Author: Loung Ung
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
It has been a quarter of a century since the Khmer Rouge marched into the Cambodian capital of Phnom Phenh and embarked on a killing frenzy that decimated nearly half of the country’s population, destroyed its infrastructure, and laid waste to a magnificent cultural heritage. Given humankind’s predilection for devouring itself and conveniently forgetting monumental acts of genocide, the world can never have too many survivors to testify to both the murderers’ actions and their victims’ lives, so that others may know and remember the truth. Loung Ung’s story, therefore, is a welcome and necessary, though heartrending, addition to the growing number of voices bearing witness to Cambodia’s Holocaust.
Loung Ung’s descent into hell begins when she is a mere five years old. Born into a picture- perfect, middle-class family, Loung (whose name auspiciously means “dragon”) is the fifth of seven children. Loung’s innocent and sheltered childhood, filled with typical sibling rivalry, trips to market for tasty treats, and play time with school chums, suddenly—and incredibly—evaporates when the Khmer Rouge evacuates Phnom Phenh on April 17, 1975. The Ungs, like other city dwellers deemed bourgeois and therefore “unclean” by Angka, Pol Pot’s ruling party, are forcibly transported in overcrowded trucks to the countryside where they are made to live under inhumane conditions with the unsympathetic Cambodian peasantry.
Eventually the most unbearable comes to pass as the family is torn apart. The two oldest brothers, Meng and Khouy, are sent off to hard labor camps. Loung’s adored older sister Keav dies of dysentery. When Khmer Rouge soldiers finally ascertain his political connections to the Lon Nol government, Loung’s father, Seng Im is abducted, never to return. Finally, her mother, Ay Choung, now a widow with three-year-old toddler Geak to care for, makes the ultimate and unthinkable maternal sacrifice by sending Loung and her remaining brother and sister into the Cambodian countryside on their own, instructing them to separate and never to return to her.
Genocidal nightmares abound. And yet, there are inexplicable miracles. Somehow the remaining Ung siblings survive landmines and refugee camps to find each other again and rebuild their lives and family. Throughout, the family’s loving kindness, dignity, and spiritual faith in the face of constant humiliation, torture, filth, and starvation is a testimony to the nobility of their collective characters.
The back jacket cover shows a photograph of Loung Ung, now an adult and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Landmine Free World. She has a magnificent smile. Knowing the cruel realities that lie in her emotional landscape renders that smile all the more poignant—and heroic.
Did this raise a question for you?
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Despite Internet, Yellow Pages multiply
Now that just about every business' phone number and information is available online, the Yellow Page volumes in our home rarely get touched. Because of where we live in Los Angeles, we get several different copies zoned for particular neighborhoods left on our doorstep. Some of them go straight to the recycling bin.
Apparently, according to an Associated Press report, ours is not the average American family:
Last year, Yellow Pages publishers logged roughly $16.8 billion in revenue. That figure is on pace to rise to $17.2 billion this year, and $17.6 billion in 2009, according to [Simba Information, a Stamford, Conn.-based media research company] . . . .
And while other advertising-driven businesses -- particularly newspapers and magazines -- have been struggling as their readers and advertisers migrate to the Internet, the old-fashioned printed copy remains king in the Yellow-Pages business.
A usage study conducted by statistical research firm Knowledge Networks/SRI estimates that Americans referred to print Yellow Pages advertisements 13.4 billion times last year, compared with 3.8 billion online listings.
The story says the Yellow Pages business has been so good that there are now two phone books published for every person in the United States.
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Editor's note: Alex Castellanos is founder of Purple Strategies, a CNN political contributor and a Republican media consultant who worked for Mitt Romney in 2008.
(CNN) -- Conventional wisdom has it that President Barack Obama's campaign four years ago was a political masterpiece. Yes, the Republican brand was in the toilet; the economy had cratered; his real opponent, George Bush, was a political pariah; and the country despaired for a new direction. Still, we recall the Obama campaign as a crushing force, brilliantly harnessed, riding the tide of history.
So why is his re-election campaign such a mess?
Team Obama has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal. They've discarded their most valuable asset, his stature. The outsider who flew above the hated, polarized politics of red and blue now does nothing but campaign and polarize. The Obama who was "one of us," apart from Washington, is increasingly and, to his detriment, "one of them."
We first picked up this change in sentiment a few weeks ago in our Purple Poll of 12 key swing states when we asked independent voters who "is just another politician?" Obama edged out Romney by 4 points. The candidate of soaring ideals has tumbled to Earth, muddied and mired in politics. Yet Team Obama has proved it can still effect change: Consistently, they make their situation worse.
This past week, the Obama who supported gay marriage when running for Illinois legislature, then flipped against it as candidate for president, flopped once more to serve his re-election. The president's reversal did not just evolve. Its politics became transparent.
Though same-sex marriage was not "right" earlier, it suddenly became a matter of conviction. With the Democratic Convention approaching, the president needed to energize his base and defuse the likelihood of a platform war over same-sex marriage. Miraculously, at that moment, he found the courage to do the most politically useful thing.
Many of us who support the president's new position still found the politics as subtle as neon. The maneuvering became the message. The latest CBS/New York Times Poll reveals 67% of those interviewed said the president made his decision "for political reasons." Less than a quarter of voters believe he acted on principle.
Americans have started to connect a swarm of dots, revealing politics as the pattern. Even when this president crosses oceans, Americans see him putting politics first.
Recently, in perhaps the most damning YouTube moment yet in a presidential race, Barack Obama was captured putting domestic politics ahead of foreign policy. He was caught on an open microphone, telling outgoing Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that he would be more amenable to Russian interests on the issue of missile defense if he survived the November elections. "This is my last election," Obama said. "After my election, I have more flexibility."
The president's mask slipped. The politician beneath was revealed. Voters, including the president's core female supporters, got to see what they had only suspected: Obama's priorities aren't necessarily theirs.
While our economy was melting down, Obama spent his first two years compulsively advocating a health care plan. While moms struggle to stretch their family budget and fill the gas tank, Obama's crusading for birth control and same-sex marriage. And now, as storm clouds from Europe's exhaustion and California's failure begin to roll into our heartland, trapping our economy without exit, the president offers tacit acknowledgment that this is the best he can do: His campaign is about everything but what will save us.
The latest CBS/New York Times Poll says 50% of voters believe the president is doing a good job. The problem? They don't think it is the job he should be doing. Only 43% of Americans are voting for him.
Republicans have never been able to paint Obama as a flip-flopper, despite a litany of evidence.
Candidate Obama supported "pay as you go budgeting," but the economic meltdown excused him from his commitment, allowing him to propose a decade of trillion-dollar deficits. He spent a trillion dollars on health care, but explained it was a practical strategy to save money. In the same moment, he has urged both expensive stimulus and deficit reduction. Still he has been excused, as a practical man, with long and short-range fiscal tools on his workbench.
He reviled the Bush tax cuts and the "tired and cynical philosophy," behind them. Then he pragmatically extended them, calling his pirouette a "substantial victory for middle class families" who would otherwise have suffered a tax increase.
The Obama running for re-election is for everything and nothing at once, a creature of calculation. His oratorical skills are seen not as gifts that elevate him above the elite political class, but tools that enshrine him as its leader. Obama has become what he came to Washington to change: He is politics.
There is a good chance the Obama campaign is about to disintegrate, if only briefly. Obama is about to walk through "the valley of death," where candidates lose their way and are tested on an arid march. In this familiar story, the campaign that could do no wrong can do no right: Pundits who have predicted an Obama victory reverse course and insist Romney is a sure bet.
Republicans should restrain their exuberance. The race will certainly tighten again if this president fixes a fundamental and possibly fatal political mistake:
Obama is asking America to be a polarized, angry country, where we are at war with each other, tearing at our own throats. Romney is asking us to be a country at peace with itself.
Unless Obama changes course, he will not make it through the valley. This is a race Romney wins.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Alex Castellanos.
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On Becoming Preschoolwise says that one of the important factors in getting ready for kindergarten is developing focusing skills. One way to do this is to "Keep his toys developmentally stimulating and challenging" (page 121). The authors then go on to suggest toy rotation in order to accomplish this.
The basic idea of toy rotation is that you use some method to put toys out of reach for a few weeks or months. You then pull them out and put other toys away. This keeps toys new and fresh and interesting for the child.
I am guessing some of you are here hoping to see some amazing toy rotation system I have come up with. I am sorry to tell you I have not done so. What I do is so simple.
I am what you call a "macro" cleaner. This means my number one priority in cleaning is surfaces are clutter free. If I have to choose between a drawer being clean and the counter being clean, the counter wins every time. I do have great value for the drawer being clean, too, but counter trumps.
This is also true in my childrens' rooms. I like toys to be cleaned up and put away.
We have cupboards, drawers, and closets that hold toys. My husband is big into totes for organization, so we use a lot of totes to hold toys. So all of the Little People accessories are in one tote. All of the action figurines are in one tote. All of Kaitlyns My Little Ponies are in one tote. I also have one tote in each child's room that is for "random" toys that we don't have a lot of.
So our toys are pretty well out of sight unless you go looking for them (you know, other than the train table, kitchen, doll house, etc.)
Then the trick is for me to get out different toys every so often for them to play with. With the toddlers, I get out the toys for independent play, so I rotate what I get out. With older kids, I let them choose, but if I see a toy has been forgotten about, I will pull it out for a nice "suggestion" (aren't I such a mom?).
We also have most of our toys in Brayden's room since he has the most storage. So I will pull toys from his room to put in the girls' rooms every so often and take toys out of the girls' rooms and put in his room.
There are lots of ways you can do rotations. You can get totes and group toys in totes, put totes somewhere in storage, then only get out one tote at a time. You can do bins. You can do bags. You can do large buckets.
Please share the toy rotation system you use, or the system you have found and would like to use!
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Mining tax dismissed as inadequate by critics
Investors appear unfazed by Australia's mining tax and critics say the Government will not raise enough money to fund its promises thanks to the uncertainty of exchange rates and resource prices.
TranscriptTICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: Investors aren't recoiling at the sight of Australia's mining tax.
It's small beer in the context of the Northern Hemisphere's debt crisis and it could be small beer for the Government as well.
Critics say the Government won't raise enough money to fund its promises and the tax take is hostage to the uncertainty of exchange rates and resource prices.
Here's Phillip Lasker.
PHILLIP LASKER, REPORTER: Shovelling dirt and shipping it offshore may look simple, but there's nothing simple about the politics and economics of taxing it.
JOHN ROBINSON, GLOBAL MINING INVESTMENTS: It's certainly been messy. I mean, the tax is I guess at best ill-designed.
PHILLIP LASKER: The watered-down mining tax or Mining Resource Rent Tax is a shadow of the comprehensive proposal put forward by the Henry Tax Review. It taxes coal, iron ore, gas and petroleum, but not minerals or metals like copper or booming gold.
DAVID RICHARDSON, AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE: I think over time we will see interest in expanding or broadening the Mining Resource Rent Tax.
PHILLIP LASKER: According to John Robinson, the broadening will occur out of necessity rather than choice because this revised tax won't make cash cows out of the giant miners.
JOHN ROBINSON: It positions the major companies, the BHP and Rios, in a fairly good position in as much as they're able to rejig their depreciation base back to market value, in other words, start all over again in terms of the depreciation base they use, and this means this that they're going to have some fairly major offsets to the tax, particularly in the early years.
PHILLIP LASKER: And as for the Government's expectation that the tax will raise $11.1 billion in the first three years ...
DAVID RICHARDSON: We know from looking at past budgets that revenue estimates are often out by something of the order of plus or minus $10 billion or more. So, it's a very, very small thing in the scheme of things, I think.
PHILLIP LASKER: But it's enough to raise doubts about the Government's ability to fund its mining tax-linked spending promises like interest income discounts, a 1 per cent cut in company tax and the gradual increase in compulsory super from 9 to 12 per cent of salaries.
JOHN ROBINSON: The kindest thing you could say is that it's heroic. And the concern obviously that flows from that is that once the shortfall in tax take becomes evident over time, given that the spend side is already committed, there's going to have to be further pain for somebody.
PHILLIP LASKER: As if to underline the resource sector's vulnerability in the face of the Government's optimism, a survey showed Chinese factory activity was the weakest in nearly three years.
JOHN ROBINSON: There's obviously a lot of variables that will impact on the final take, not least of which is the commodity pricing and exchange rate.
PHILLIP LASKER: Both would be undermined by a significant slowdown in China.
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When construction workers and staff are hired for the new coal-to-liquid plant at Wharncliffe, Adams Fork Energy will give preference to those who have served: the country’s military veterans.
The plant will become one of the businesses that is participating in the “I Hire Veterans” initiative formed by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and other legislators.
Adam Victor, CEO of TransGas, the company that is building the plant, said he will participate in the initiative when construction gets underway.
“West Virginians are the most patriotic people in the country,” Manchin said at an informative presentation regarding the CTL plant. “When I spoke to Adam Victor, he agreed we need to do this for those who have served.”
“When we learned of the “‘I Hire Veterans’ paradigm, we signed up,” Victor said. “We will work with the unions to give veterans a leg up.”
A persistently high unemployment rate faces veterans. In February 2012, there were 777,000 unemployed veterans. As troops return from conflicts in the Middle East, roughly 100,000 additional service members looking for work.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at any time since September 2001 was 12.1 percent in 2011. Nationally, the unemployment rate was about three points lower. And on top of that, young male veterans between the ages of 18 and 24 had an unemployment rate of 29.1 percent in 2011.
“That number is absolutely mind boggling,” Manchin said. “I know there are many efforts out there to help our veterans find employment, but it’s clear that we can do more.”
Sen. Manchin is asking businesses small and large to make a person and public commitment to hiring veterans.
Sen Manchin, along with Illinois senator Mark Kirk, formed the Veterans Job Caucus in February.
The caucus started the “I Hire Veterans” program as a way to publicly commit to hiring the veterans and current serving members of the National Guard and Reserves.
“It’s a way for employers to proudly display that they have made a public and personal commitment to hiring veterans,” Manchin said. “I have three veterans working in my office, and let me say, they are some of the most skilled, dedicated and disciplined individuals around.“
Senator Manchin and the members of the Veterans Job Caucus display a “I Hire Veterans” logo in their offices to signify they have veterans or their family members on their staff.
Employers who hire veterans are encouraged to download the logo at manchin.senate.gov, or call 304 342-5855 for a copy, and post it in their workplace.
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Ps 27:4 - God's Presence *
In David's time only the priests were allowed in the house of the Lord (the tabernacle). This is where God's presence was, so anyone outside of the Levitical tribe had to remain outside the tabernacle, especially the inner sanctuary called the Holy of Holies. What David was saying in this verse is that "I long for your presence God. I long to be in the same place you are. I want to spend all of my time in your presence, with you, communing with you, basking in your beauty and your goodness." But David was a king - Kings weren't allowed in God's House to bask in God's presence, only the Priests were. With these words David was revealing that although he was in a kingly position he had a priestly heart. This is why God said "David is a man after my own heart" - he has the heart of a priest that longs to just be with me. He had more of a priestly heart than any of the priests! We know that because God never said that a priest was a man after His own heart - He only said it of David.
Now, after Jesus came, He has made us all priests, and we should long for God's presence all the days of our life. If this isn't the inner longing of our spirit then we need to spend more time with our Savior. You treasure what you pursue, so if you want to treasure God's presence as David did then you need to start pursuing God! Go after Him, and when you're in His presence just wait there, forever!
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Online records reveal that Arthur, born April 23, 1900, was the son of Elmer and Mary Gardner. When he was 18, he left the family farm to fight in the Great War. (His draft card shows his middle name: Raymond.) On April 27, 1929, Arthur married Nora Eberhard.
Just months after the wedding, Arthur died. He was buried at Flint Cemetery in Franklin County, Ohio on October 19, 1929.
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What about Nora, Arthur’s young widow? With some help from Ancestry.com, I found an image of her obituary. She remarried and lived to be 96. Nora and her husband, Lloyd Ballenger, owned and operated Reeb’s Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio for more than 50 years.
Flint Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio
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By Mike Watkins//Correspondent
Long-time USA Swimming corporate partner Phillips 66 has been a sponsor since 1973 and involved in the sport overall for seven decades. Today, Phillips 66 believes they can improve lives through energy, and in that spirit, usaswimming.org is highlighting swimmers of all levels who have benefited from Phillips 66's contribution and chosen to give back to the sport of swimming or to their community.
When Taryn Gerson wanted to create an event for breast cancer awareness, the Purdue student noticed most were land-based.
“Whether it’s a walk-a-thon or run-a-thon, there wasn’t much being done in the water (for breast cancer awareness),” Gerson said. “The idea came to me from my interest in the swimming community and my involvement with my sorority’s philanthropic cause, breast cancer awareness and education. I wanted to unite the swimming community and make an impact on raising money for this cause.”
With this in mind, Gerson started Breaststroke 4 Hope, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising money for breast cancer education and awareness through fundraising in the water and sales of Breaststroke 4 Hope merchandise. The inaugural event took place this past January at the Purdue University Aquatics Center in West Lafayette, Ind.
The one-hour event brought together over 160 swimmers comprising 30 teams from the Purdue Greek community joined by the Purdue swim teams who swam more than 2,700 laps in the event. Participants raised money by reaching out into their communities to collect pledges and flat donations. In total, more than 1,000 individuals from the Greek community and Purdue campus came out to support the event.
This fall, due to a direct connection with Speedo, Gerson worked out a deal to have Breaststroke 4 Hope products like pink Speedo swimsuits, caps, goggles, bags and T-shirts sold via the company’s website. A portion of the proceeds are donated to Breaststroke 4 Hope and are available at Speedousa.com.
“I felt that with their (Speedo) impact on the swimming community, we could get the message out about this important cause,” Gerson said. “Speedo is focused on supporting the core swim community and philanthropic causes, so this was a natural fit.”
Last year’s event raised more than $10,000, and with more than 250 swimmers expected to participate just from the Purdue campus this November, combined with proceeds from the Speedo merchandise sales, Gerson said she hopes to raise more than $100,000.
Breaststroke 4 Hope supports the Women’s Breast Health Initiative, www.flbreasthealth.com, which gives women who don’t have health insurance free mammograms as well as information on how to conduct self-examinations.
“This is not our only event, as we are also hosting events with swim clubs and high schools around the country this year,” Gerson said. “Organizations and teams can sign up for an event at our website, www.breaststroke4hope.com. The response has been amazing, and we look forward to spreading the message through our promotions, website, twitter and Facebook.”
Gerson said that while she hasn’t been directly impacted by breast cancer, she knows others who have and along with her sorority sisters, the cause is very close to her heart and personal mission.
“To be honest, there is nothing more in the world I would rather do,” said Gerson, who swam competitively from ages 10 to 12 but chose to focus on land-based sports soccer and basketball in junior high but never lost her love for the water. “I have been extremely blessed with my life and have the most supportive and amazing family.
“While in college, I needed to decide what I wanted to do with my life, and there has been no greater satisfaction than giving back. I can guarantee that I will continue to give back and help families affected by breast cancer.”
If you or your swim club is interested in holding your own Breaststroke 4 Hope event, please contact Gerson at email@example.com. For more information about the organization, check out its website, www.breaststroke4hope.com.
“The goal is simple…to raise money for breast cancer education and awareness,” Gerson said. “Remember, you know someone… who knows someone… who knows.”
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Contact: John Ascenzi, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 267-426-6055 or firstname.lastname@example.org
Donna McDonald-McGinn, MS, CGC, associate director of Clinical Genetics and program director of the “22q and You” Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, received the Angelo DiGeorge Medal of Honor on July 6 at the 8th Biennial International 22q11.2 DS Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Ms. McDonald-McGinn, who began her career at CHOP in 1985, is the second person to receive this highly esteemed honor.
The Angelo DiGeorge Medal recognizes outstanding contributions to understanding and/or treatment of chromosome 22q.11.2 deletion syndrome, a relatively common multisystem genetic disorder. The International 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Consortium established the award in 2010 to commemorate the life and work of the late Dr. DiGeorge, a Philadelphia pediatrician at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children who described aspects of the syndrome in the medical literature nearly 50 years ago.
In presenting this award to Ms. McDonald-McGinn, Dr. Peter Scambler of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London praised her “singular breadth of achievement and dedication.” He particularly singled out her work in recently co-authoring an important scientific article that presents best practice recommendations for patients with this syndrome.
Chromosome 22q.11.2 deletion syndrome is a congenital disorder that occurs when a portion of the DNA on chromosome 22 is missing. It occurs in about 1 into 2,000 to 1 in 4,000 births, making it nearly as common as Down syndrome. The loss of genetic material has multiple effects, which may include abnormalities in the immune system, the heart, the endocrine system, facial features and cognitive abilities.
Over the years, researchers have found that deletions on this section of chromosome 22 are an underlying cause of various clinical diagnoses, known by such names as DiGeorge syndrome, velocardiofacial syndrome, and conotruncal anomaly face syndrome, among others.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has a long history of studying chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Elaine Zackai, MD, the medical director of the “22q and You” Center, recalls that she saw a child with DiGeorge syndrome in 1982, and realizing that the patient had more than the usual findings, suggested doing a chromosomal analysis. Her colleague, Beverly Emanuel, PhD, now the Hospital’s chief of Human Genetics, discovered the actual deletion in chromosome 22, and ultimately developed a diagnostic test.
Shortly after Children’s Hospital developed this laboratory test in 1992, Ms. McDonald-McGinn was instrumental in launching the Hospital’s “22q and You Center,” which draws patients from throughout the world. She has published more than 80 articles on this deletion syndrome, has served as a tireless advocate for children and families, and has spent countless hours working on support and educational events related to this condition.
Dr. Zackai added that Donna McDonald-McGinn “has unique qualities: being very smart and savvy, having the ability to bring the right people together, and being the glue that holds them together…She is innovative, ambitious, never stops until the job is done, and then goes the extra mile looking toward the future.”
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Planning Your Craft Fair
You should begin planning your crafts fair at least two months prior to the date you'd like to hold it. The most successful shows, however, are often planned about six months in advance. This will give you plenty of time to arrange all of the necessary details, as outlined below.
How Craft Fair Fundraisers Work
In terms of fundraising, craft fairs generally work by charging some sort of fee to those artisans who would like to display and sell their goods at the show. Sometimes this is a flat fee (fifty dollars for floor space, twenty dollars per booth, etc.), but it can also be a part of the booth's take for the day, normally ranging from 10% to 25%.
In order to run a craft fair, you'll need two things -- artisans to display their work, and a place for them to display it! This could be your group's meeting hall, basement, gymnasium, field (if the weather's good), or other suitable space, but also think about how your artisans will display their work - will you have tables and booths available, or will they need to bring their own?
If your church doesn't have appropriate space or equipment, talk to local schools and civic centers, which are often willing to allow use of their space and set-up at no charge for community service projects. As a last resort, these necessary items can be rented for a small fee.
To gather your artisans and craftspeople, it's best to go to other craft fairs throughout the year and to talk to the people who have booths set up to display their wares. Many of these folks are constantly on the lookout for new places to sell their handiwork, and will welcome your invitation. They may also be able to spread the word among the local craft community about your upcoming show.
If you're looking for more contacts, consider calling local Chambers of Commerce, who may be able to provide you with names and telephone numbers of craftspeople and craft fair organizers.
Scheduling Your Craft Show
Try to schedule your craft show on a weekend afternoon at a time that doesn't conflict with other craft shows, art openings, flea markets, or any other event which you think might draw people away from your fundraiser. The most popular time for craft shows is after Thanksgiving and prior to Christmas, but late spring and early fall are also great times to host an event of this kind.
Advertising Your Craft Show
There are many ways to successfully advertise a craft show. About a month before the show's scheduled date, print up fliers with all of the relevant information about your event, including a map to help people find you. Call your local newspapers and have the show placed in the Community Calendar section. Of course, spread the word to your congregation and those people on your mailing list.
You might also consider talking with an area radio station about creating a public service announcement, or even about setting up a booth at your craft fair with a live feed, which is sure to draw more people to your fundraiser. Approach local woodworkers about holding free lessons or demonstrations on the day of your craft show - if they're willing to donate their time, advertise these no-cost workshops to the public in your fliers and radio announcements.
Supplementing Your Craft Show Fundraising
Craft shows are great events to coordinate with other small kinds of fundraisers. You might hold a free drawing, gathering names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers in return for a shot at a prize donated by a local business. You can then use this contact information for newsletters and direct mail campaigns!
For a variation on the free drawing, have entries cost a dollar, gathering more money for your cause. It's good to hold multiple drawings of this kind throughout the course of the show, as it inspires continuous interest. You can also sell drinks and baked goods for a small fee, in the style of a bake sale. Another excellent supplement for this type of fundraiser is a silent auction, in which people write in bids for items donated by local craftspeople and businesses.
Hosting a craft fair can be a big project, but with sound planning, dedicated volunteers, and talented local craftspeople, this form of fundraising can be a great moneymaker for your church or religious organization.
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Date Implemented: May 24, 2012
Date Revised: May 24, 2012
A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that reasonably approximates:
(1) one hour (50 minutes) of classroom or faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester of credit, or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time; or
(2) at least an equivalent amount of work as required in paragraph (1) of this definition for other activities as established by the institution, including laboratory work, internships, practica, and other academic work leading toward the award of credit hours.
Important Note: In the absence of a more stringent policy at the school or college level the University Graduate Academic Policies apply. Should a graduate program not have a specific policy or should there be omissions or gaps in the policy for a specific graduate school program, the University Graduate Policy shall govern.
The Graduate Academic Policies are the responsibility of the Graduate Curriculum Committee Convener. For additions or revisions contact email@example.com.
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Bill Seaman responds in turn
(To Diane Gromala)
1) "Textuality -- an open, infinite process that is meaning-generating and subverting."
Yes. This is one of the forms of textuality that I am interested in. Yet I want to go beyond the logocentric - the analogy of the text in discourse - somehow even in the extended sense of writing that Derrida describes (probably because he is a writer), he seems to bring us back to the way "writing" and/or "text" operate to understand that extension.
The central issue is this - I do not believe we make a text as we perceive, yet we still experience meaning-production. We may choose to make a text later to try to articulate what we have perceived in the form of a text. As we explore more complex experiences under the guise of "authorship," we need to move toward technologies that better enable reflection upon that complexity.
Computer-based environments open out many new communicative potentials. The concept of fields of meaning enables one to have very different kinds of impressions informing the experience evoked in particular environments. In turn, the nature of meaning production also shifts in such poly-signifying realms. An environment need not be understood through the analogy of a text for a participant to derive meaning. A virtual environment's experiential nature presents a new conglomerate of meaning qualities - the summing of qualitatively different meaning forces inform meaning production in terms of interactivity in a particular context.
The technological properties of emergence that I am alluding to seek in part to be a compelling extension of Derrida's "other" ways of writing and reading, where we take seriously "other" logics of the structure of signification. I seek to move beyond understanding meaning production through the analogy of text alone. My work in part explores Derrida's concern "with the signifying gaps that a standard reading disregards or represses: discontinuities, contradictions, ambiguities, materiality, silence, space, conflict, margins, and figures." It does this in relation to an extended notion of "text" as well as through other avenues. My work also explores the otherness of media-elements and processes, and larger environmental issues exploring interface, virtual and physical spatiality, and the potential operativeness (read: code-driven manipulation) of media-elements of which text is just one.
2) "How can we use new technologies to provoke us into a more sensually engaged relation to text in ways that don't immediately re-inscribe these longstanding practices of repressing sensual response?"
Computer-related environments open many potential new qualities of media authorship. This new authorship can be more or less embodied, but we must be clear that the body always becomes implicated in the cybernetic loop. The physics of these environments work through matter/energy exchanges -- human/machine/human interaction. The question here has more to do with the intention of the "author" of the environment -- what layers of content does one wish to explore and how might an experience be focused through the inclusion of a particular set of fields of relation?
2a) "How then does he view the relation between cultural contexts and technology?"
There is always a reciprocal relation between culture and technology. They can not be separated out. Each exerts a meaning force on the understanding of the other.
Gromala states: "An interesting component is the role of attention, as it continually seems to shift, oscillate, and buzz among reading the text as it is overtly meant to be read, reading the more covert, visual aspect of text, and reading aspects of one's own body." But this intermingling of responsiveness can be a way to sustain awareness and at the same time, to continually provoke different kinds of awareness of autonomic states.
I am very much interested in this "intermingling of responsiveness." Gromala focuses on "reading" each of these experiences where I would say that each experience is potentially "of itself," contributing a meaning force that cannot be "read" but can only be understood by drawing on multiple qualities of meaning production as arising through interactivity within the overall context. It is a reduction of experience to equate the understanding of some computer-based environments as a "reading" of that environment. The notion of "Reading" is often used as a descriptive metaphor when media-environments are being negotiated, but "reading" is not a broad enough analogy to encompass the new kinds of experiential meaning production that computer-based environments enable. The notion of the experiential meaning production includes the following: how sound actuates the space; how physical behavior can be focused to negotiate or operate on media events; how media elements can have an authored agency or their own emergent behavior; how spatial relations can alter the evocative nature of the experience of a virtual world; and how physical experience can intermingle with virtual experience. We need to develop a series of differing metaphors to address meaning production in these new forms of media environment. The analogy of the text is no longer broad enough to adequately reflect these experiential realms. I have now gravitated toward the concept of the field to reflect on the complexity of such environments.
3) "I would like Seaman to address the issue of the role of the legibility of coding and emergence. How can they create meaningful patterns of experience? Do emergent properties need to be perceived as such?"
I often intentionally load the fields with a meaning potentiality (i.e. in The World Generator/The Engine of Desire). Legibility again points to the analogy of how text signifies. In The World Generator, the signs are more or less "legible" if we are to use the limiting vocabulary of the analogy of text. I am interested in the differing evocative qualities that media elements display. Peirce states, "Meaning is that which the sign conveys." In generative virtual environments I am assuming that meaning is that which the sign configuration conveys. Meaning can be extremely subtle in terms of what media elements in a spatial virtual environment convey, and meaning production can be approached from many different perspectives in relation to the media elements and processes that are facilitated in computer-related environments. In particular, media environments can explore meaning production in different ways than that of the "legibility" of words. Again, sound communicates differently than image and text. Behavior alters understanding. Spatial relations and neighboring properties are not "legible" in the same way they become functional in texts alone. I would say media elements carry different qualities of meaning force than that of words. Yes, we can say media elements and media processes have qualities of "legibility," but this misses the point -- they have new potential signifying qualities that are not necessarily understood in the same way that text is understood.
Physical manipulation of interface is different from the experience of reading, although it may incorporate reading. The body becomes engaged in a different way. This is not to say that the act of reading cannot be enfolded into a larger sensual realm in such computer-mediated environments. We begin to experience felt meanings that are especially difficult to articulate in words. In such environments, meaning is more complex than words' ability to reflect that meaning. It is in part an experiential meaning, a bodily understanding, that can be enfolded with the meaning force of a textual "reading" -- yet it is meaning nonetheless. In part it depends on what the participant construes as being meaningful.
4) "Seaman's reference to `the body' seems to imply that the body is unchanging."
Gromala states: "If technologies that exhibit more literally-involved sensual aspects and emergent qualities can allow us to reawaken or extend sensual experience, and if the body is a key site at which culture and cultural identity is articulated, this will be an important question."
The body is in a subtle, ongoing state of continuous change, as is the nature of understanding and meaning production. The ongoing summing of meaning forces is understood through the body/mind as it functions in relation to environment over time. The nature and definition of "environment" is also being transformed through technological change. Computer-related environmental authorship enables us to explore many exciting qualities of meaning production that potentially heighten bodily experience. One must also recognize that on a subtle level, the body is implicated even in the use of the mouse and keyboard.
I wish to point at the sensual relation of the body to the following: to sound; to scale; to qualities of light; to motion; to the pictorial; to levels of abstraction; to virtual spatial activity; to behavioral and spatial textual activity -- to all of the aspects of meaning production that make computer-related environmental experience different than the experience of reading a book. The body in each case functions in a state of sensual relation. Contemporary authors of media environments are still learning about the potentials of evocative experiences that the computer can enable. The body and our understanding of the body, as well as our understanding of meaning production, are in a continuous state of negotiation with these new forms of space, technology and the larger scope of human interaction. I do not deny the beauty, importance and clarity of words. I also agree that we need to extend our means of discourse to reflect upon the complexity of these new forms of media environment and their relation to sensual experience.
5) "How can these new technologies also enable us to go beyond re-inscribing the tendencies that led us to understand body, environment and technology as distinct from one another? Can the very technologies themselves play important roles in the erasure among these boundaries?"
The expressive exploration of the technology becomes central here. I for one see an infinitely complex interweaving of sensual experience (of the lived environment) intermingling the body, technology and thought. It is important to open up the discourse surrounding this question. Focusing the technology through the authorship of forms of experiential environment seems to be one answer, as does finding new ways to articulate the body/technology/thought relation. In particular it is important to talk about how experiential meaning differs from meaning production through words. Such discourse should encompass the following: the physicality of sound as sensual; the spatial qualities of virtual environments; the authored physics or E-phany physics (playful physics) of such spaces. Differing qualities of physical interface that engage the body may also be brought into the discussion.
In my work Exchange Fields, the participant literally takes on a physical position with the work, which in turn triggers a relevant response. Another approach utilizes direct body language as part of the cybernetic system that enables interaction as in the sound environments triggered through the Very Nervous System (video sensing) of David Rokeby. Haptic response may be employed -- see the extensive website of Haptic related feedback systems that Margaret Minsky has amassed. Even in Gromala's own work with affective computing, the body can be monitored in a direct manner and used to control or operate on media material. It is at this time important to extend the potentials of the computer-related meaning production by moving the discourse away from the analogy of text. This is achieved both through new forms of human/machine/human interface and computer-related forms of meaning production exploring the experiential and the environmental, as well as through new avenues for discourse and the framing of such diverse qualities of meaning production.
(To Jill Walker)
1) "Where do I stop and where does the machine begin when I type these words, or when I engage with an art piece? I can carefully see myself as separate from the machine, but sometimes I dive down imagining we are one, like Kristeva's infant before she knows she is herself and not part of her mother. That blurred space (continuum) where I can't tell the difference between me and it is a place of chaos and creativity, of magic and horror alike. Am I a machine? Is the machine an organism?"
I am interested in the continuum between body, machine, thought and environment. One can look at the machine from a biological perspective or biology from a machinic perspective - both kinds of metaphor are valuable, especially at this moment of nano-exploration, potentially conjoining the machinic, the biological and the computational.
2) "Often, I let the machine control me, delighting in the skill of my fingers and my mind in following the strict rules that I've learned in order to use this machine."
The body learns many things about the world. We are surrounded by rules and constraints. We can choose to change them, to skirt them, to negotiate them, to subvert them or we can choose to revel in them. I seek to extend the potentials of generative systems -- to open out communicative potentials. Yet this may arise by defining another set of constraints. We now can move toward the authorship of empowering generative systems. We can build powerful new tools to aid in authorship and meaning production. This is not to say that they cannot be used as controlling systems. Technology can be used for different purposes -- this relates more to the intention of the people focusing the use of the system. One role of the artist/author is to subvert negative tendencies of control as well as to re-interpret and shift the intended focus of the machine.
3) "I imagine patterns (combinations, signs, texts, hybrids) that did not exist until being vused and that could not be predicted; meanings that weren't intended by the human(s) who created the machine but that emerge in the meeting between me and it."
Emergent meaning is central to my work. I am interested in both authorship and inter-authorship -- in providing expansive experiences where the participant takes an active role in both the construction of the experience as well as the production of meaning.
4) "It sets the rules, and I must obey them in order to `interact' at all."
All systems of communication have rules and constraints. The question is, how can we develop new communicative potentials and empower meaningful interaction inside of these constraints? More specifically, how can we shift the realm of constraints to enable new forms of meaningful interaction?
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One of the most valued of all hard bop accompanists, Cedar Walton is a versatile pianist whose funky touch and cogent melodic sense have graced the recordings of many of jazz's greatest players. He is also one of the music's more underrated composers; although he has always been a first-rate interpreter of standards, Walton wrote a number of excellent tunes ("Mosaic," "Ugetsu," and "Bolivia," to name a few) that found their way into Art Blakey's book during the pianist's early-'60s stint with the Jazz Messengers. In addition to his many quantifiable accomplishments, Walton is less well known as the first pianist to record, in April 1959 with John Coltrane, the tenorist's daunting "Giant Steps" -- unlike the unfortunate Tommy Flanagan a month later, Walton wasn't required to solo, though he does comp magnificently.
Walton was first taught piano by his mother. After attending the University of Denver, he moved to New York in 1955, ostensibly to play music. Instead, he was drafted into the Army. Stationed in Germany, Walton played with American musicians Leo Wright, Don Ellis, and Eddie Harris. After his discharge, Walton moved back to New York, where he began his career in earnest. From 1958-1961, Walton played with Kenny Dorham, J.J. Johnson, and Art Farmer's Jazztet, among others. Walton joined Blakey in 1961, with whom he remained until 1964. This was perhaps Blakey's most influential group, with Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. Walton served time as Abbey Lincoln's accompanist from 1965-1966 and made records with Lee Morgan from 1966-1968; from 1967-1969, Walton served as a sideman on many Prestige albums as well. Walton played in a band with Hank Mobley in the early '70s and returned to Blakey for a 1973 tour of Japan.
Walton's own band of the period was called Eastern Rebellion, and was comprised of a rotating cast that included saxophonists Clifford Jordan, George Coleman, and Bob Berg; bassist Sam Jones; and drummer Billy Higgins. From the '80s onward, Walton continued to lead his own fine bands, releasing numerous albums including The Maestro in 1980, Cedar Walton Plays in 1986, and Composer in 1996, followed a year later by Roots, featuring trumpeter Terence Blanchard and saxophonist Joshua Redman. In 2001 Walton released The Promise Land, his debut for Highnote, which was followed by Latin Tinge in 2002, Underground Memoirs in 2005, and Seasoned Wood with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt in 2008. Walton was joined by saxophonist Vincent Herring on Voices Deep Within in 2009. Herring was also featured along with trombonist Steve Turre on The Bouncer in 2011. ~ Chris Kelsey, Rovi
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‘Dear Naturalist’ is a weekly column devoted to the most
commonly asked questions on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The season has officially started on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The visitor centers are busy, the campgrounds smell of roasting hotdogs and s’mores, and, of course, the Fire Pink flowers are in bloom.
The season also began with many questions being raised by park visitors. In the following column, I’ll attempt to answer two of these questions along with information on guided hikes and programs where you can learn more.
When will the rhododendron be in bloom?
The time at which the three native types of rhododendrons will bloom is dependent on weather and elevation. Parkway botanist Lillian McElrath explains, “The rhododendron on the tops of the mountains will bloom later than those down in the valleys. It’s colder up there.”
With that said, all bloom times are relative. In general, Punctatum rhododendron typically blooms in early May. Catawba rhododendron blooms in early June. Rosebay rhododendron should bloom in early July.
The mild winter, late snow and early very warm summer seems to have disrupted the typical bloom times, however. The Catawbas are already past bloom even at the higher elevations of the parkway on Grandfather Mountain.
At this rate, I expect the Rosebay to bloom their light pink flowers around Blowing Rock in mid-June.
Blue Ridge Parkway rangers hold wildflower walks and other hikes nearly every week on trails all along the parkway. The public is invited to attend these hikes and all of them are free of cost. Stay up-to-date on these ranger activities through the Take a Note section of The Mountain Times, or you can call (828) 295-6308 for more information.
Why is the park service not mowing the grass along the Blue Ridge Parkway?
The thousands of visitors who drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway over Memorial Day Weekend all noticed that the parkway is looking a bit shabby compared to what it is normally like.
The parkway was designed as a “manicured landscape.” The parkway’s constructors built a road that was meant to ride through manipulated scenic beauty of mowed grass, carefully placed and planted rhododendrons, and picturesque overlooks.
Things have grown up a little since the 1930s and ’40s, when much of this work was done, but should it really look this wild? No.
The tall grass is, tragically, an outcome of a park service fatality on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Mowing operations have been halted by the National Park Service at all its locations since May 14, one week after a riding mower carrying 63-year-old Dana Bruce tumbled off a 140-foot embankment on the parkway near Asheville.
Bruce was killed in the accident and, as a precaution, officials mandated actions be taken at all the sites to prevent similar incidents.
Parkway maintenance workers are undergoing new training and learning new safety protocols. As of this week, they were given the go-ahead to use weed-eaters and small, push lawnmowers.
The parkway’s deputy superintendent, Monika Mayr, said that park officials are questioning if mowing should ever continue on the more steep embankments and roadsides.
However, for the most part, mowing should resume in most areas of the parkway in the next few weeks.
Ask Ranger Amy
If you have a question about the Blue Ridge Parkway or its flora and fauna, please email (email@example.com) All of your questions will be answered. Two will be featured next week. See you on the trails!
Amy Renfranz is an interpretive park guide on the Blue Ridge Parkway. She is a certified naturalist through the Yellowstone Institute and a certified environmental educator in the state of North Carolina.
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Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Hitachi attend the opening ceremony of the National Convention for the Protection of Wild Birds during the 67th National Bird Week.(Photo: Nagaoka City)
In addition to their official duties, Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Hitachi serve as President or Honorary President of a wide variety of organizations.
Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Hitachi attended the National Convention for the Protection of Wild Birds during the 67th National Bird Week in May 2012, the 67th National Athletic Meet (in Gifu Prefecture), the 25th National Health and Welfare Festival for Senior Citizens (in Miyagi Prefecture), and the 10th National Competitive Exhibition of Wagyu (in Nagasaki Prefecture) in October 2012, among other events. On each of these visits, Their Imperial Highnesses took the opportunity to observe the situations in each of the regions.
Their Imperial Highnesses also devoted themselves to the fostering of international goodwill, through a visit in July 2011 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (to attend events related to the Praemium Imperiale global arts prize in honor of Prince Takamatsu) and a courtesy call on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In March 2012, Their Imperial Highness traveled to the Kingdom of Tonga to attend the state funeral of His Majesty King George Tupou V.
After graduating from the Faculty of Science of the Gakushuin University, His Imperial Highness studied biology of cell division at the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo. Then he became the guest researcher at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research. In the subsequent 40 years, he published a large number of papers on carcinogenesis and cancer biology in international Journals and the works have been highly evaluated around the world.
In 1997 His Imperial Highness received an honorary doctorate from George Washington University of the United States, and in April 2001 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota. In March 1999, in view of his outstanding international contribution to cancer research, His Imperial Highness was recommended as an honorary member of the German Association for Cancer Research and became the first foreigner to be appointed to such a position in the Association.
In addition, in January 2001, His Imperial Highness was appointed the Honorary President of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research.
Her Imperial Highness attends events of the Japanese Red Cross Society Regional Meetings in her capacity as Honorary Vice-President and events of the Japan Ikebana Arts Association in her capacity as Honorary President. In addition, Her Imperial Highness is involved in charitable events such as those of the Nippon-Latin American Ladies' Association and the Japan Animal Welfare Society. Her Imperial Highness is deeply interested in animal welfare in particular, which is a relatively unspectacular area that can sometimes be easily neglected. Her Imperial Highness has translated and published five foreign children's books and picture books about animals, including "Dot the Fire Dog," which was published in April 2005. The proceeds from these books are being donated to the cause of animal welfare.
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In recent conversations with customers, we discovered that data replication as a technology has taken on a number of dimensions -- as part of enterprise-wide storage strategies that deliver on Recovery Time Objects, as a tool for data retention, and to assist in storage consolidation and migration. It is likely storage vendors will also position their data replication products differently in the coming years to support evolving market segments such as ILM, which appear to be much more holistic than previous approaches. That means that data replication will be viewed more as part of a continuum of data protection technologies and less as just a standalone tool.
By next year, customers making buying decisions should ask vendors what their integration plans will be with broader data protection strategies. In the meantime, there are a number of issues customers need to consider when evaluating these kinds of tools.
Delivery mechanism. Most customers already understand the various options they have in selecting data replication tools. Until now, storage system vendors have offered data replication as an option, but a growing number of vendors are beginning to offer network-based replication inside devices such as routers, switches or dedicated appliances. Determining which option is best depends on your existing environment, your budget and key
Key considerations. Customers need to consider the following functionality as part of their evaluation criteria:
- Performance: How well does the replication product deal with performance issues? Does it employ compression or throttling of data?
- Availability: How much redundancy does the tool have if a failure occurs at the target? Are there retry mechanism to ensure packet delivery?
- Application and file system awareness: Does the tool have an awareness or special support of files, databases and other applications?
- Ease of use: How easy is it to deploy and manage? Is there a centralized management console? Does it interact with other management tools? Where are replication failures/problems reported? Does this allow for one-to-many and many-to-one configurations?
- Price: How do these investments meet ROI expectations for better business operations availability, improved network and storage system efficiency and reduced labor costs?
- Heterogeneity: Is this tool heterogeneous in approach? There are trade-offs depending on customer requirements for availability and performance.
For more information:
About the author: Jamie Gruener is a SearchStorage.com expert and the primary analyst focused on the server and storage markets for the Yankee Group, an industry analyst firm in Boston, Mass. Jamie's coverage area includes storage management, storage best practices, storage systems, storage networking and server technologies. Ask him your storage management questions today.
This was first published in June 2004
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More critical thinking needed
Columnist Willem Lange usually strikes me as a critical thinker and a fairly interesting writer. However, in his article “Pearl Harbor’s legacy,” (Jan. 21 Times Argus/Rutland Herald) in referring to JFK’s assassination, he labels those opposing his perspective as “loonies with time on their hands.” This name-calling method seems to be used quite often to shut down any debate on certain topics. As a matter of fact, this method seems to have worked quite successfully for more than a decade by the U.S. government and its cooperative mainstream media and others, with the words “conspiracy theorists” used to thwart any serious objective debates, especially on critical issues.
As for Mr. Lange’s statement “But 9/11 remains an open wound; our national consciousness still hasn’t been able to wrap itself around the motives of the men who took flying lessons ...” I believe that the “open wound” in “our national consciousness” has little to do with the motives of men who took flying lessons. It has much more to do with what were the motives of the men who caused the 12-second straight-down controlled demolition-type collapse of each of the three WTC skyscrapers on 9/11.
As for motives, we would do well to consider what U.S. foreign and domestic policies followed from the events of 9/11 and which continue to this day, including the consequent induced fear that paralyzes the national psyche. We now are a country of torture, drone assassinations, lost civil liberties and shock-and-awe for countries with oil and other resources that the multinational corporations covet.
In short, we have a world turned upside-down thanks to the unexamined, uninvestigated and covered-up events of 9/11.
Accepting unquestioningly the official 9/11 conspiracy and proceeding to parrot it is not critical thinking. We need all the truly critical thinking we can collectively muster. Let’s stop labeling those who question our government’s actions either in JFK’s assassination or the 9/11 murders and have a real debate on ultra-serious issues while we still have a voice.
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Sen. Daniel Inouye, the longest serving senator and fourth in line of presidential succession, has died. Inouye, a decorated World War II hero, was 88. According to his office, "His last words were, 'Aloha.'"
Inouye has been hospitalized since early December due to respiratory problems. His cause of death was "respiratory complications".
Inouye was first elected to the Senate in 1962, after three years in the House. He served in Congress throughout Hawaii's time as a state.
After a half-century in the Senate Inouye held an influential position as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He was also president pro tem of the Senate, putting him in the line of presidential succession behind House Speaker John Boehner. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), will now hold that position.
A low-key lawmaker, Inouye commanded bipartisan respect. "Senator Daniel Inouye was an American hero. Read up on his WWII service. Incredible. He will be missed. #Aloha #RIP," tweeted Rory Cooper (@rorycooper), communications director for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA).
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Motorcycle Sounds For Your Bike
To fix this problem, SoundofMotion has developed a product that can add the sound of a roaring V-Twin motorcycle to your otherwise human-powered ride. The system uses a monitor on the bike to determine wheel-speed, which talks via Bluetooth to your cell phone to provide the sound.
Given that the quietest of motorcycle exhausts is going to be far louder than just about any cell phone speaker out there, it's somewhat doubtful that this device is going to help the rider get anything more than some bemused looks from nearby pedestrians. But, if you're looking to add a little humor to your ride, this might be a good way to do so.
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Two Schoharie Schools In Line For Senate Help
Two school districts in Schoharie County will receive senate funding to help purchase needed equipment, Senator James L. Seward announced today.
The Middleburgh School District will receive $10,000 and the Gilboa-Conesville District is in line for $6,500 in special senate funding.
The Middleburgh School District will use the funding to help pay for computer software for the district's literacy initiative. The software will track students' progress in k-12 reading sckills. The Giboa-Conesville District will use its $6,500 to computerize its cafeteria management system to facilitate state and federal reporting of its operations.
"The senate funding helps local education programs and meets locally identified community needs that would not be possible without state assistance," Senator Seward said. "It also reduces pressure on tax rates and tight budgets, especially in rural areas."
Seward said the money was included in the current state budget.
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Lao PDR addresses terrorism prevention
Vientiane (Lao PDR), 15 February 2010 - The Ministry of Justice of the Lao People's Democratic Republic organized, with support from the UNODC Terrorism Prevention Branch, a national workshop entitled "Promotion of ratification and implementation of the universal legal instruments against terrorism". The workshop, which was held on 28 and 29 January 2010, was preceded by a preparatory meeting on 27 January to discuss and design a concrete road map for future actions.
The workshop was supported by UNODC terrorism prevention experts and it specifically focused on the adoption of legislative measures needed for the Lao People's Democratic Republic to fully adhere to and implement the universal counter-terrorism conventions and protocols. The participation of the UNODC's Country Office expert encouraged discussions towards integrating counter terrorism requirements into the on-going national criminal justice system improvements and the role of UNODC in supporting this process.
Representatives from the following branches of Government and other entities participated in the workshop: the Office of the Supreme People's Prosecutor, the judiciary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Bank of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (which also acts as a financial intelligence unit), a lawyers association and the customs police.
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Explore The central highlands
The southern section of the central highlands is its most-travelled region, though the vast majority pass straight through from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Lat, the only city in the area that appears on open-tour bus schedules. It’s also possible to fly into Da Lat, but there are actually a few sights on the overland route from Ho Chi Minh City. The route follows Highway 1 for about 70km before branching northeast on Highway 20, which starts a steady climb. The rubber trees corralling its traffic occasionally reveal tantalizing views of the valleys below. Buses sometimes screech to a brief halt on the causeway traversing La Nga Lake, from where the houseboats cast adrift on its waters are only a zoom lens away. Locals use foot-powered rowing boats to access their homes, which double as fish farms. East of La Nga, Highway 20 passes wooded slopes whose verdant greens are flecked occasionally by the red-tiled roofs of farmsteads and the roving figures of grazing cattle. Look out for unusual rock formations at the roadside in Dinh Quan, 112km from Ho Chi Minh City, where enormous smooth boulders are scattered beside the highway in the southern part of town, and volcanoes with symmetrical slopes and flat tops are visible from the road both south and north of town.
In time the hills yield to the tea, coffee and mulberry plantations of the Bao Loc Plateau. The town of Bao Loc is the best place for a pit stop between Ho Chi Minh City and Da Lat, and it’s also a jumping-off point for visits to nearby Cat Tien National Park and Dambri Waterfalls. Another 100km further northeast, Highway 20 switchbacks up the considerable climb to Da Lat at an altitude of just under 1500 metres.Read More
Surrounded as they are by dense forest, Dambri Falls are much more attractive than any of those in the vicinity of Da Lat, and the only ones worth visiting in the dry season. The road to the falls, which branches north from Highway 20 just east of Bao Loc, bisects rolling countryside carpeted by coffee, tea and pineapple plantations. Once you arrive, there are two paths leading to the falls. The main one to the right leads to the top of the falls, where some ugly fencing stands between you and a precipice over which a torrent of white water tumbles over the 80m drop. From here, you can descend to the base of the falls by steep steps, or if you’re feeling lazy, there’s a lift available. A second path, to the left by a restaurant, leads down a steep stairway among towering trees to a superb view of the falls from in front. The two paths are linked by a bridge over the river, where you’re likely to get drenched in spray, even during the dry season. The path continues downstream to a smaller cascade, Dasara Falls, but the trail can be slippery after rain.
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Once in a while we come across a great marketing effort that makes us stop and stare or even participate to some activity. When that happens, you know the guys who made it are geniuses.
Then, there are some marketing efforts that make us squint and go “wtf” or, worse, run away in fear.
And so here are some of the most stupid ideas from my dear world of marketing and advertising.
10. The Taco Liberty Bell
Taco Bell has had some of the best publicity stunts ever conceived. In 1996, they put an ad in the New York Times announcing their plans to buy the liberty bell, “in an effort to help the national debt.” The ad went on to announce that the bell would be renamed the “Taco Liberty Bell.” Thousands of people complained that this was unpatriotic. But according to Entrepreneur magazine, Taco Bell’s profits increased by half a million dollars the day the ad went up, and by $600,000 the following day.
The thing is… it wasn’t true. Taco Bell ended up fooling and subsequently enraging millions of Americans. They issued a formal apology.
9. Snapple Popsicle Melts
Snapple decided to grab some attention with a seemingly harmless scheme: set a new Guinness World Record for the largest popsicle in the world, using their newest flavor of the time, Kiwi Strawberry. Sounds great. Maybe hundreds of people can take a portion for a free sweet tooth treat.
One thing they missed on, it was hot and I mean summer hot. The 171-ton popsicle began melting almost immediately, coating the New York city streets with sticky kiwi gloop.
8. Three Muses Inspired Clothing
This small and new boutique didn’t have a lot of money so the owner decided to dress up as a character from Alice in Wonderland. She asked her friends to help her out and do the same. They hit the main drag of bars in downtown Jacksonville to pass fliers and business cards. Unfortunately, Keane’s friends drank at the bars. The one dressed as a caterpillar became a drunken spectacle and got them kicked out of the first bar. That bar called the other bars and they were barred from going in.
You get what you pay for.
7. Gas Giveaway
Nothing attracts more attention than a good giveaway. Two poker Web sites, PokerShare.com and its sister site CasinoShare.com, organized a joint giveaway of 8,000 gallons of gas to New Yorkers. Back in 2006, when this stunt took place, gas prices were more than $3 a gallon. Hundreds or even thousands of New Yorkers went to get their free gas. Traffic came to a halt. Eventually, police had to shut it down as the angry crowd awaits.
6. Cash Giveaways
Who would say no to cash? On February 29, 2008, CashTomato.com, a video Web site, wanted to compete with youtube so they decided to give away money. They had done similar giveaways on the West Coast, stuffing several thousand dollars into sacks along with tomatoes and handing them out to passersby. But in New York, “street people” lined up for the money and was angry that they were being made to wait long. A few minutes before the scheduled giveaway time, a mob descended on the bags of cash and a small riot ensued, with several pedestrians getting bruised up.
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|If you are interested in a field of study that isn't offered at a Mississippi public university, then the Academic Common Market (ACM) may be available to you.
ACM is a cooperative tuition-reduction agreement among 16 Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states allowing residents of a participating state to pursue academic degree programs that are not available in their home state. The program, administered by SREB and coordinated by each individual state, allows a resident of a participating state to apply for a waiver of out-of-state tuition to attend a cooperating public institution of higher education in another participating state. The participation by the a state and an institution is voluntary. The programs available to Mississippi residents through ACM can be found on the SREB web site.
For information on admission to any of the programs, contact the out-of-state college or university offering the field of study directly. Once you are accepted into a program not available at a Mississippi public university, contact the Mississippi Academic Common Market Coordinator, Ms. Pearl Pennington, at 601.432.6482 to request an application packet or download one here.
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"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."
Shoes: random store in SoHo, NYC.
We think way too much about what other people think of us. I do. Every single day I walk around in my city, self-conscious about myself, about what I am wearing, about what I look like. And I am not alone, and that is what makes me most upset.
No matter what you look like, how awesome your style may be or how pretty your face might be, being self-conscious is a part of our lives, especially the lives of us, the girls, the women.
People say that women dress for each other, not for men because men don't notice. Well, whoever it is that we may dress for, that someone or those someones are making a bad job at giving back a lot of the time.
When coming to your school or to your job in the morning, wearing a new pair of awesome shoes you just got in your mail the other day, people should pay attention to them and to you not by staring at you but by saying what they think about them to you.
Way too often I experience the staring reaction, the reaction where people stare at you, at your clothes, at your shoes, at your body. And you never know if they were staring because:
A)they like what you're wearing and think you're awesome
B)they hate what you're wearing and they think you're a weirdo.
And this, drives me insane. Because this makes me, as a girl, as a young woman, as a human being extremely uncomfortable in my day to day life. The act of staring might be the most rude act we perform in our lives. Because looking at someone without saying anything is extremely intimidating for that person you're looking at.
And we all do it, I am no exception.
But I am fed up with it, I am fed up with walking around in my city feeling shy and looking down at my phone, or possibly even the ground because I'm afraid to meet the stares of the people around me, to look at someone and see that they are staring, for whatever reason. Because those stares always makes me want to hide.
By thinking too much about what other people may think of you, is gonna stop you from being your awesome, amazing, beautiful self. And that would be a waste wouldn't it, because we don't want copies of someone else. We want new things, unique things, at least, that's what I want.
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Hundreds of bridges across Cumbria County in England were under review following the Nov. 20 flooding resulting from the highest rainfall in a 24-hour period on record in the U.K. The flooding caused the collapse of six bridges and the death of one police officer. One of the larger bridges to fail was the 50-meter-long, two-span, brick-built road bridge over the Derwent River in Workington. Official says the bridge was inspected and declared sound in July 2008. The town’s second bridge, the Calva, was closed because of serious damage.
Photo: AP/Wideworld/Peter Byrne
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More details have emerged regarding three new Sandy Bridge Celeron processors slated for Q3 2011.
Previous reports revealed that Intel plans to launch three new Celeron "Sandy Bridge" processors sometime during Q3 2011. Based on a leaked roadmap slide, the processors were branded as the Celeron G440, the G530 and the G540 but yielded little else in regards to core info, clock speeds and whatnot. Now unnamed sources have released additional detals to offer a better insight into what will hit the market later this year.
Out of the three processors, the Celeron G530 and G540 will have two cores and the ability to execute two threads at once. Both will feature integrated graphics with a base frequency of 850 MHz and a turbo frequency of 1 GHz when necessary. They'll also have 2 MB of L3 cache and a TDP of 64 watts. The only difference between the two is that the G530 will clock at 2.4 GHz and the G540 will clock at 2.5 GHz.
As for the third processor, the low-power Celeron G440 will feature a single-threaded, single core clocked at 1.6 GHz. The integrated graphics will still have the same 1 GHz turbo as its dual-core brothers, but feature a lower base clock of 650 MHz. It will also have the same 2 MB of L3 cache but a much lower TDP of 35 watts.
Earlier today VIA introduced the VIA QuadCore, its new quad-core processor with a TDP of only 27.5 watts. Initially it will be available clocked at 1.2+ GHz and come packed with 4 MB of L2 cache, Adaptive Overclocking and a 1333 MHz V4 Bus. It will also feature native support for 64-bit operating systems.
That said, the new Celeron chips will also feature 64-bit instructions and VT-x virtualization thanks to utilizing the Sandy Bridge core architecture. They'll even arrive in LGA1155 packages. But what's unknown at this point is when these chips will actually launch and for how much. It's possible we'll know more about the Celerons at Computex later this month, so stay tuned.
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SEATTLE — Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art of Video Games is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium. With a focus on graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity, the exhibit features the work of some of the most influential artists and designers of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers.
The Art of Video Games will be on display at EMP February 15, 2013 through May 12, 2013.
Chris Melissinos, former chief evangelist and chief gaming officer for Sun Microsystems and founder of PastPixels, guest-curated the exhibition. “Video games are a prevalent and increasingly expressive medium within modern society,” said Melissinos. “In the 40 years since the introduction of the first home-video game, the field has attracted exceptional artistic talent. Video games, which include classic components of art, offer designers a previously unprecedented method of communicating with and engaging audiences by including a new element—the player—who completes the vivid, experiential art form by personally interacting with the game elements.”
The Art of Video Games features 80 video games that demonstrate how the medium has evolved. Presented through still images, video footage, historic game consoles, large prints of in-game screen shots, and video interviews with developers and artists, the exhibit focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology, and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3.
Featured games spanning five eras will be available for hands-on use. Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst, and
Flower allow players to interact with virtual worlds and highlight the innovative techniques used by their developers that set the standard for many subsequent games.
The Art of Video Games is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins; Shelby and Frederick Gans; Mark Lamia; Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk; Rose Family Foundation; Betty and Lloyd Schermer; and Neil Young. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, “Treasures to Go.”
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By Feargal O’Connell, Assistant Country Director of Programs, Democratic Republic of Congo
Today is World Humanitarian Day. According to the United Nations, today is ’a celebration of people helping people’ and the day ‘recognizes the sacrifices and contributions of those who risk their lives to give others help and hope.’
Today is when I started biting my fingernails again.
Today at 10.21 am local time Concern’s team was stopped at a checkpoint and refused passage until 11.27 am. The team had decided that with rising tension in an area prone to conflict, it would be prudent to temporarily relocate to the nearest city.
While we’re used to working in insecure areas (we’ve been operational in this area since 2004), recent insecurity and the threat of further deterioration, lead us to take the difficult decision that the team should withdraw for a few days.
But for a nerve-wracking 66 minutes their route to safety was blocked. Sixty-six minutes of fingernail biting for those of us supporting the team from afar. Sixty-six minutes of negotiation and waiting for the team on the ground.
Today at 11.27am the text came in: ‘We’re through’ and I (hopefully) stopped biting my fingernails again.
Up until May I worked directly with this team in the same area. And today, on World Humanitarian Day, I want to share the admiration and respect I have for every member of that team. Admiration for the work they do, providing timely and quality assistance to vulnerable and conflict affected-communities to improve their quality of life. And admiration for their positive and professional attitudes and outlooks despite working in an incredibly challenging environment day in, day out…year in, year out.
Concern is in the middle of registering newly displaced families who’ve fled their villages because of fighting and also vulnerable members of the communities that have taken them in.
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Next up for Shania Twain: interviewing a queen!
Today, Shania will guest host on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'The Current' radio show, and interview Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan. The topic of discussion will be the Jordanian queen's global charity for underprivileged youth, 1GOAL. The queen's charity is seeking to reach out to the 72 million children worldwide who do not have access to education.
Shania, who grew up poor in a family of five children, can relate to the pain of poverty. And it is her passionate desire to open new doors of opportunity for talented boys and girls through a charity she just started, 'Shania Kids Can.' Along with her radio interview, the country superstar will also be visiting an inner-city Toronto school to perform for students from underprivileged backgrounds.
"It's an endless chain of trying to get by ... and living in a world of haves, when you were a have-not," Shania tells CBC News. "You were humiliated by the fact you went to school and your clothes weren't clean, or you didn't have lunch.
"We went in and out of different phases, and I'm sure that's what's happening to many families. My dad had a job from time to time, and we could shop for groceries every week, but sometimes we'd go for a month without shopping."
Though she grew up poor in Timmins, Ontario -- washing clothes by hand, and having the heat turned off because her parents had to choose which bill they could afford to pay, heat or electricity -- Shania never felt troubled or neglected as a child. In fact, she has nothing but warm, loving memories of her childhood. And she wants most desperately to give hope to those children who have fallen through the cracks of life, into the bleak and hopeless world of the 'have-nots.'
"(Growing up poor) taught me to be resilient, to be patient, that life has its ups and downs. I don't regret it -- it made me strong. But I don't want anyone else to have to go through it," she says. "I've reached a point I never imagined, and luck played a big role in that ... and it's a shame if we leave luck to do it."
Shania plans on visiting schools to stay closely involved with her 'Shania Kids Can' charity, which will give underprivileged children the opportunity to play music or take lessons that their parents could not otherwise afford to give them.
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Temblor centered near Canyon Dam followed by dozens of aftershocks
The earth moved in Plumas County last week, and it was felt as far away as San Francisco.
Bottles and cans lie smashed open on the floor after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook them off shelves into the aisles at Wally’s Peninsula Market in Lake Almanor on May 23. Wally’s wine room was also heavily damaged by the earthquake, but employees worked through the night to clean up the mess and opened their doors early Friday morning.Photo courtesy Wally’s Peninsula Market
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake, centered near Canyon Dam, struck at 8:47 p.m. on Thursday, May 23. The temblor was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including a 4.9 jolt at 1:10 a.m. Friday.
It was the largest earthquake to hit area in nearly 40 years.
No injuries were reported. But the quake caused power outages, minor structural damage and rock slides and caused things to fall off of shelves.
Plumas County Office of Emergency Services Director Jerry Sipe said up to 600 homes in the Lake Almanor area were without power for several hours.
He added that the Lake Almanor Mutual Water Co. sustained a water main rupture, emptying the storage tank located at 600 Clifford Drive.
Lake Almanor Country Club office manager Bea Kohfeld said the line was damaged when the earthquake hit.
“The line from the water tank broke just before the shut-off valve and 360,000 gallons of water was emptied,” she said May 24.
The Clifford tank is one of four that supply the Lake Almanor Peninsula.
The tired firefighters of the Peninsula Fire Protection District were back at the 801 Golf Club Road station by 8:30 a.m. Friday morning to take a break from their night patrols.
|This map of the south end of Lake Almanor shows the epicenter and magnitude of the quake and many aftershocks. Click on the image for a larger view.|
PG&E reports two power outages affecting 623 customers in the vicinity of Prattville on the west side of Lake Almanor. There is a broken water main in the Lake Almanor Peninsula affecting an unknown number of customers. There are reports of minor damage, mostly items knocked off of shelves, from Susanville, to Indian Valley, to Lake Almanor.
An earthquake struck Plumas County at 8:48 p.m. on Thursday evening. The 5.7 quake struck about 11 miles west/northwest of Greenville near Canyon Dam. It was felt as far away as Sacramento, San Francisco, Chico, and Lake Tahoe.
Extreme Rescue Makeover pairs needy horses with talented trainers and loving owners.
These were Cinderella horses: unwanted, unhandledand, for the most part, unpedigreed. Their situations ranged from less than ideal to deplorable; some were days away from slaughter.
On Sunday, May 26, these same horses and the trainers who rehabilitated them will demonstrate what a throwaway horse can do, given the chance. The first place trainer takes home a $5,000 cash prize. The winning horse, and its fellow equine competitors, graduate to forever homes — complete with love, care and very likely lots of carrots.
“In a cooperative effort to provide public service for the boating public and free boat safety inspections and boating safety and invasive species education, the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with a number of agencies to bring Operation Safe Boat to Lake Almanor May 25,” Sheriff Greg Hagwood said May 17.
|The Greenville High School Drama Class performs the final showing of "Arsenic and Old Lace" at Greenville High School on May 13. Photo courtesy of Peter Lind.|
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Angela's mother brought her to see us when she was twenty-two months old. They
were Australian and were visiting the United States during Angela's father's
musical tour playing the didgeridu, a rhythmic Aboriginal instrument. Angela
was too young to be diagnosed with ADD, however had her behavior continued once
she entered school, she would have received that diagnosis.
Angela had a red rash on her face (1). She had not enjoyed one good night's
sleep (nor had her mother!) since birth (3). When her mother weaned her at
seven months, Angela refused nay other milk. She woke in the middle of the
night crying, distressed, and disoriented. Her parents allowed her to sleep
with them. Otherwise she woke all the time crying for her mother (3). She
fought for hours against going to sleep. It was as if she were in a frenzy
every night (3). Angela's desperate parents had even given her sleeping pills
Angela was extremely willful (3). She insisted on having things her way (3).
It was very difficult to travel with her and international travel was essential
to her parents' lifestyle because of her father's occupation. She screamed
during our interview with her. When she threw a fit, Angela was inconsolable
(3). Nothing satisfied her (3). Even when given a bottle of juice, she usually
refused it. She often threw herself on the floor when she didn't get her way
(3). She became bored very easily (2).
Angela loved people. She was very lively and didn't like to rest (3). She
lived in a busy household. There were always friends and family members coming
and going. She loved animals. She walked at nine months and ran at ten months.
She climbed on everything fearlessly. She loved to put on her mother's
lipstick. When we inquired as to whether Angela was musical, her mother
reported that she danced to music all the time. As soon as the music came on,
she moved and danced. Even at her very young age, she sat at the piano and
played. She liked to play her father's guitar when he held her on his knee.
People often commented on her rhythmical talents.
Angela had been diagnosed with dermatomyositis. She suffered from purplish,
red, scarred areas on her fingers which looked like tiny splinters. The
Australian physicians considered this an unusual condition for an infant.
Now take some time to study this interesting case, then turn to page
___ for the case analysis. This will probably be a very easy case for any of
you who are familiar with the homeopathic materia medica.
If you have read our previous articles of kingdoms of remedies, consider for a
moment whether Angela belongs to the mineral, plant or animal kingdom. You will
probably conclude very quickly that this lively, engaging, aggressive child has
an animal nature. Other traits of Angela which correspond to individuals
needing animal remedies are her desire to attract attention and to be
attractive (loving to put on her mother's lipstick), love of being with others
(her pack, so to speak), and her constant tendency to climb on things.
Once you have identified that Angela is likely to need an animal remedy, you
can narrow the focus to the appropriate species of animal. Angela lacked the
suspiciousness, jealousy, and hypervigilance of the snake remedies. She fit
more closely a spider remedy. Common spider characteristics are
mischieviousness, restless, a desire to climb on furniture, quick movement, a
lively personality, a strong need to be the center of attention, and a
charming, but tricky and manipulative nature.
Which spider? Angela's love of rhythmic music and the piano and her propensity
for dancing as well as the pervasive beat of the didgeridu with which she had
been raised, even in utero, made the selection obvious.
We gave Angela one dose of Tarentula. This medicine, made from the Spanish
spider, is for overactive children who are extremely lively, love to be the
center of attention, climb like little spiders, and love dancing and rhythmic
music. They can have tantrums and fits and often have a sneaky, manipulative
quality. The term "frenzy", mentioned by Angela's mother, is often true in
children needing this remedy. It is understandable that Angela, raised in an
environment of music and dance, needed this lively medicine. Another
characteristic of children needing Tarentula which we have often seen, though
not part of Angela's case, is a desire to cut clothing and other objects,
usually with a scissors.
Some of the mental rubrics in which Tarentula is the ONLY remedy and which
give you a real flavor of the remedy are: "Cursing, swearing; threatening
destruction and death"; "Destructiveness; cunning"; "Excitement, excitable;
dancing, singing and weekping, with music, from"; "Feigning; looking to others
in distress"; "Hysteria; music ameliorates"; "Insanity, pulls her own hair";
"Mania, madness; destructive efforts, sudden foxlike, requiring utmost
vigilance, followed by laughter and apologies"; "Quarrelsomeness, scolding;
hysteric mania, at beginning of";
"Shrieking, screaming, shouting; laughter, after";
Striking; children, in; other, when not observed"; and "Tears; things; books,
Angela's mother called from Australia five weeks after she took the medicine.
Angela had no further tantrums or extreme moodiness, "just the odd two year old
stuff". Her behavior was nothing compared to before she took the Tarentula. She
was much more easily distracted when she became upset. She jumped up and down
occasionally when her mother said "no", and that was it. She was quite a bit
easier to entertain. She could sit in a car now, which had been a major problem
previously. Her teeth grinding, which her mother forgot to mention in the first
interview, was ninety percent improved. The redness and scarring on her hands
was also better. When we explained to Angela's mother about the medicine which
we had given her, she added that Angela tended to nibble on their ears all the
time. Prior to the homeopathy, she had tapped on everything, teased, and acted
very mischievously. These behaviors had also improved. "Looks like Miss
Spider's working", her mother commented.
Angela needed one more dose of the Tarentula five months later because some
of her symptoms had returned, though to a much lesser degree than before the
homeopathic treatment. Her mother communicated to me that Angela's
dermatologist was quite surprised that the redness and inflammation of her
fingers had improved dramatically.
Dr. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Dr. Robert Ullman are licensed
naturopathic physicians and are board certified in homeopathy. They are
President and Vice President of the International Foundation for Homeopathy
where they teach homeopathy to licensed health care professionals. They
practice in Edmonds, WA at 131 3rd Ave., N., Edmonds, WA 98020 and can be
reached at (206) 774-5599. Their new book, The Patient's Guide to Homeopathic
Medicine, is now available.
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Our four-year-and-9-month-old son, Gabby who’s in kindergarten, went home from school yesterday in wet uniform. He voluntarily voided in his shorts because he feared his teacher might scold him. My wife called me at work during my lunch break just to inform me of what happened. For you, this might be petty but for parents like us, it’s not a big issue either but we won’t allow a chance to pass without correcting what needs to be corrected.
As I reached home early evening, our son narrated to us that he felt the urgency to urinate during the time that they were asked to copy writings from the board on their noteboook. Gabby told us, “Sabi ni teacher, pag madalas umihi, may lalabas na dugo sa ihi, kaya di na ako nagsabi ng, teacher may I pee?…”
I wasted no time in writing his teacher a letter regarding the matter….
May we request your consideration and assistance whenever our son, ________(Gabby) feels the urgency to void; kindly allow him to do so.
As medical professionals and educators too, we certainly know that controlling micturition may result to possible infection and / or urinary incontinence. As parents, we’d like to inform you that Gabby is still adjusting on the fact that we just weaned him from wearing of diapers a couple of weeks ago as his age calls for bladder training.
We are bringing this to your attention because our son went home yesterday complaining that he voluntarily voided at his uniform because he feared you might scold him. According to him, you’re telling your preschool class that frequent urination will result to hematuria (blood in the urine) and this is far from being factual.
We’ll appreciate your concern with immediate response and action regarding this matter.
Dr. & Mrs. Santos
As our household help brought our kid to his school this morning, I was told that one of Gabby’s girl classmates also peed in her skirt because of the same scenario.
To say that I and my wife (who’s a nurse-educator) are also strict with our college nursing students is an understatement. We value time, money spent on education and efforts so we’re not power-tripping on them but inculcating discipline in every sense of the word. We may be rigid on rules, but we’re always honest and true to our students and we’re so democratic that we allow them to respond to the “call of nature”. We’re very unlikely Gabby’s teacher. We hope she will consider the consequences of her acts.
If this will be repeated, she’ll get what she deserves!
Sa lahat naman ng pagsasabihan ng tungkol sa maling medikal na aspeto ng pag-ihi, anak ko pa, anak ng pating naman ‘o!
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Its Venture Capital Jim, but not as we know it….
Business Week recently published an article on advice for start-up trying to attract venture capital and it made interesting reading on a couple of fronts.
First of all as I am sure a lot of you are aware the pool of venture funds has got smaller, a lot smaller additionally the opportunity for concept or speculative deals is near enough impossible to fund and finally on the plus side, if a business asks for less (sub 5m) and manages to succeed in a bear market, it has a very good chance of survival.
In my view there is little or no change here from how VC’s have always operated and for those unaware a short economics lesson of VC life:
Since the time when the Sex Pistols and the Clash were in the music charts and punk was a radical idea, Venture Capital firms had a model that worked. First off there was a large fund for investment – normally around 100m and then a bunch of businesses would be invested into at entry level for less than 5m each and within 3-5 years the best would be sold off or taken to market generating a 10-20 time return, which covered the failures in the pack and the investment time. Easy money, and for the next 30 odd years the industry made billions surviving the .com boom..
Then along came clean tech and the thinking was again that here was a money pit waiting for excavation only this time the deal is a bit more complex….very complex, to the point where VC’s are scrambling around desperately trying to find a model that works.
The problem is – apart from a massive decline in funding that the VC’s can smell the money and see the potential but it’s the level of risk that is making them gag. Getting a VC to buy into a start-up or early funding is a problem due to the fact that they don’t know what is working yet, so they wait for a “mature” business to come along with contracts and proven delivery. But then part of the old model is now out of kilter in that they are no longer a cheap buy and the returns are not a traded market but balance sheet. Add to the issue that the investment is normally in excess of 10mm and suddenly the model of 1976 is in pretty bad shape and the VC’s get twitchy.
So what’s the answer? The VC has a role to play and as the banks are less than interested in supporting a business needing hundreds, never mind millions they need and want to step up to the crease. I can see in the future a new wave of VC that spends more time on understanding the market and good due-diligence before making an investment decision. This means that investment business will need to be stronger and better thought out in their delivery and have a strong management team committed to delivering it. I can also see the numbers of businesses invested in reducing dramatically, with the “expected to fail” model being kicked into touch. That would mean less cash and more equity with more time and help being offered by the VC to ensure that they become a success beyond fiscal management, however the thought of VC businesses advising on sales and marketing is a scary thought!
A punk VC business? Or perhaps a fad to see the VC through a tough period of investment jitters? All I know is that any start-up looking to generate VC dosh will need to be ahead of the game, have big IPR and a team to wipe the floor with the competition – as the cash gets tighter and risk becomes more prevalent it’s the only thing a VC will take seriously.
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What does Domino's Pizza have to do with a computer program that creates synthesized music for a holographic pop star?
Answer: they're both big in Japan.
In your unexpected romance of the day, Domino's pizza president Scott Oellkers announced a brand-new mobile app designed to help Japanese pizza-lovers call in their orders with style, to the auto-tune of their favorite singer/sex kitten.
Illustration via Crunchyroll
Betabeat has the rundown on the hilariously awkward promo spot, but it forgot to mention the most incredible part of all: that's a computer-generated pop star dancing on a pizza box.
Her name is Hatsune Miku, a fake 16-year-old with teal hair and a squeaky voice, and she's the most famous of a generation of synthesized musical applications made from a program called Vocaloid. Vocaloid, along with a similar software called UTAU (which means "song" in Japanese), allows you to create your own music using synthesized vocals, but it goes a step further by letting you create songs using various computer-generated singers.
Vocaloid artists aren't real, but each one is unique, like a character from a video game; and their fans love them as much as if they were, creating entire storylines and universes around the fake singers. Vocaloid songs have topped charts in Japan, and Vocaloid fans have proliferated the Internet with fan-created songs, music videos, dance videos, and original (synthesized) Vocaloid singers of their own.
Miku, who sprang to life in 2007, is the most popular non-existent pop star of them all: so popular that she's performed her own live hologram concerts to sold-out crowds. Her most famous performance has to be seen to be believed:
We'll let Kids React explain the phenomenon for us:
Vocaloid vocals are sampled from real voices—Miku's comes from voice actress Saki Fujita. But anyone can use the Vocaloid software to create their own original vocaloid, or apply their own computer generated "voice" to an existing Vocaloid character model.
The result is an endless wormhole of Vocaloid and UTAUloid music.
Vocaloid software is basically open source, so Miku's voice and the songs she sings can be applied to pretty much everything, in any context. That's how the world wound up with the Nyan Cat song: someone took a Miku song, covered it with an UTAUloid vocal, then turned that into the ubiquitous squeaky cat theme we all know and love.
Here's a Vocaloid artist named Len covering "Gangnam Style," complete with dance moves and backup crew:
And here's a human covering a song originally created for a Vocaloid artist:
Domino's has been actively courting the Vocaloid fanbase for a while now in Japan, with a series of ads in which Miku discovers the joys of pizza. Here's one in which she races to deliver a pizza on a hysterically slow-moving moped while singing a wacky theme song:
"Domino's Pizza now has this most excellent and awesome opportunity to take college campuses by storm by bringing this Hatsune Miku promotion to the U.S. of A," gushed YouTube user Mrshoujo. "I would drive to the next town with a Domino's Pizza just to get the boxes."
Unfortunately for Mrshoujo and other U.S. Vocaloid fans, the mobile app is only available in Japanese. But if you're lucky enough to have a Japanese iPhone, then Crunchyroll reports you can enjoy special features like the "Pizza Stage Live" function, which causes Miku to start a musical number right there on your pizza box.
Table dancing just gained a whole new meaning.
Screengrab via YouTube
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Please CLICK HERE to download this months' service list
The Following is a guide to our Weekday and Weekend Services
08:30 (Monday to Friday), 09:30 (Saturday)
Historically one of the first monastic offices of the day, this service last about 20 minutes, and is said, using the Celebrating Common Prayer book, and includes a section of the Psalms of David, together with two readings from the Bible. This service is said in the choir stalls by the resident clergy, Abbey parishioners, and anyone who wishes to join us.
Supported by the Mothers’ Union and our Youth Worker, this service takes the form of a simple Eucharist for parents, guardians, and toddlers (from 0 to school age). A children’s Bible story is read, songs are sung with instruments, and afterwards, there is time for a cup of tea or coffee and a chat in the Abbey Hall with those attending the service.
09:30 (Wednesdays and Thursdays)
This is a said service of Holy Communion, which takes place in the Lady Chapel on a Wednesday, using the Book of Common Prayer, and on a Thursday in the St Helen’s Chapel, using Common Worship.
17:30 (Monday to Friday)
Taking place at the close of the day, when the monastic community would say their service of Vespers, said Evening Prayer takes place in the choir stalls, and uses the Celebrating Common Prayer book, and like Morning Prayer, includes sections from the Psalms of David, with two readings from the Bible. At this service, we gather together the prayers, written and unwritten, of all those who have visited the Abbey that day.
This is a service of Holy Communion, which takes place in the Lady Chapel on Tuesday evenings, and uses Common Worship. The service lasts about 30 minutes.
08:00 Holy Communion
Using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer said Communion Service, this service is held at the High Altar, and includes a sermon. The service usually lasts around 40 minutes.
09:15 Informal Communion
Taking place at the Lady Chapel altar, this service uses modern language from Common Worship, and includes traditional and modern hymns, with a short sermon. The Sunday School (Noc Noc), which has been taking place in the Abbey Hall, join the service for Holy Communion and a blessing. The service usually lasts around 45 minutes.
10:30 Sung Eucharist
Taking place in the main body of the Church, this service is taken from Common Worship liturgy, at which the Abbey Choir sing, supported by occasional visiting choirs during the summer holiday. This service takes a more traditional approach to worship, and the liturgy, with parts of the service sung by the choir and clergy, together with the colour of the vestments worn by the clergy, servers, and choir, give glory to God. The service usually lasts just over an hour.
6:30 Choral Evensong (with Benediction on the third Sunday of the month)
Using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, this service lasts around 45 minutes to an hour, and takes place either in the main body of the Abbey, or in the Lady Chapel. The Abbey Choir sing on the first Sunday of the month, although each service includes hymns and a sermon. On the third Sunday of the month, a short service of Benediction is held at the end of Evensong, where we adore Christ for His presence with us, and receive the blessing of his presence, in the form of the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Morning and Evening Prayer:
The worship offered to God each day by the Christian Church has its roots in the worship of the Jewish tradition, from which today’s Church grew. The practice of saying prayers at fixed hours was widespread among the Jews, and was most likely taken over by the first Christians. These early Christians would gather together in communities, and begin their day with prayers focussing on the Cross, and end the day by lighting a lamp, to symbolise the Light of Christ. This is a tradition which some prayer books are now re-discovering.
Perhaps taking their inspiration from the Psalmist (“Seven times a day will I praise you” Ps.119.164), the Monastic Offices of Prayer eventually followed the form of: Mattins, Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline, and undoubtedly the Benedictine Monks at Wymondham Abbey would have followed this pattern. At the same time, in cathedrals and non-monastic churches there was a simpler structure of Morning and Evening Prayer, which the laity as well as the clergy were encouraged to attend.
At the time of the Reformation (and the dissolution of the monasteries, which had a profound effect on Wymondham Abbey), the traditional Offices were combined into those of Morning and Evening Prayer, which the Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549, called, Mattins (combining Mattins and Lauds) and Evensong (combining Vespers and Compline). Common to both offices was the recitation of the Psalter and readings from Scripture, which would have followed a set pattern, or ‘lectionary’, and would also include prayers for the Church, for the world, and for those in need. Canticles (chants or songs) from Scripture are also said – the ‘Benedictus’ – a passage from Luke’s gospel, which talks of ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel’, at Morning Prayer, and the ‘Magnificat’, or Mary’s Song, again from Luke’s Gospel, in which Mary rejoices in the Lord at having been chosen to bear the Christ Child.
The offices of Morning and Evening Prayer are said during the week at Wymondham Abbey, and we welcome all who wish to come and share in this worship of God, whether you wish to take a more active part, or whether you just wish to sit quietly and allow this time of prayer to create a ‘space’ in a busy life, and allow the thoughts and feelings suppressed by a busy life to be offered to God in prayer.
From the very earliest days of the Christian Church, in an act of worship instituted by Christ Himself, Christians have been gathering together for this central act of Christian worship. The word ‘Eucharist’ means ‘Thanksgiving’, and so, in this service, we give thanks to God for the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, when we receive the elements of bread and wine, His Body and Blood, in an act which calls to mind Christ’s promise that He will be with us throughout all ages. The Eucharist has many names in the Anglican Church – among them are ‘The Lord’s Supper’, ‘Holy Communion’, and ‘The Mass’. In other denominations, such as the Orthodox Church, you may find the Eucharist referred to as ‘The Divine Liturgy’.
In the New Testament, the institution of the Eucharist is mentioned four times – once by St Paul in 1 Corinthians 11.23-25, once in Matthew 26.26-8, once in Mark 14.22-4, and once in Luke 22.17-20. Although John’s Gospel does not mention it explicitly, there is a strong reference in John 6.32-58. References to the celebration of the Eucharist in the early Christian community occur in Acts 2 (Jerusalem), and Acts 20 (St Paul during his visit to Troas). The references to the Eucharist in the New Testament show that from a very early date, the service was a regular part of Christian worship, and that it was instituted by Christ himself. As with the offices of Morning and Evening Prayer developing from Jewish tradition, so it is with the Eucharist, which developed most strongly from the Passover meal, and from the meal held in Jewish homes on the evening of the Sabbath.
The service in which the Eucharist is celebrated has many parts, all of which play a key role in our understanding of what actually happens. Broadly, the Eucharist (as the Western Christian Tradition has received it), has two parts: The Liturgy of the Word, and The Liturgy of the Sacrament. The first of these, the Liturgy of the Word, reflects the Jewish tradition of gathering in the Synagogue to recite the Scriptures, wherein God’s interaction with humankind is recorded. The second of these, the Liturgy of the Sacrament, recalls the Jewish worship of the home, and of the meal offered in every Jewish home on the eve of the Sabbath. Again, here the record of God’s involvement with humankind as recorded in the Scriptures, would be recalled, and the bread and wine would be shared amongst those gathered. Jesus, being a Jew himself, partook in such a meal on the night before he died, and therefore gave the sharing of bread and wine a whole new meaning. As Jesus passed the bread around those gathered, he declared that it was ‘my body, given for you’, and likewise when the wine was passed around, Jesus said, ‘this is my blood, shed for you’. These words are spoken by the priest at the altar during the Eucharist, and in so doing, the bread and wine on the altar become, for those gathered, much more than just simple symbols. They become the very body and very blood of Christ himself, because that is something that Christ himself promised at the Last Supper – “This IS my body, this IS my blood”.
Whether it is at the quiet, reflective service of Prayer Book Holy Communion, the Informal Communion, or the great solemnity of the Sung Eucharist on a Sunday morning, the actions of the priest and people recall the actions of Christ’s pilgrim people over many centuries. In this central act of Christian worship, the Church recalls the simple meal that Christ shared with His disciples, and in this meal, all the Holy People of God are invited to feed on the Body and Blood of Christ, wherein we receive strength for our earthly pilgrimage and our journey through life, at the end of which, we shall join in the heavenly banquet promised to us by Jesus Christ Himself.
The service of Benediction in which we adore Christ for His presence with us, and receive the blessing of His presence, is a service which is closely linked with the Holy Eucharist. At Benediction the Christian is able to adore Christ for a period of time longer than is generally practicable at a celebration of the Eucharist. Devotion to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament stimulates believers to a deeper awareness of Christ’s presence, and is an invitation to communion with Him in the Holy Eucharist – and with our fellow Christians. Devotion to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament inspires Christians to imitate Christ in lives of loving service to each other and to God. Devotion to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament renews the Spirit of God in us, giving us the wisdom to see the way He is calling us to follow Him, and giving us the strength to proclaim in our lives the truth we hear in our hearts.
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Republicans dismissed President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address as nothing more than big government spending and more tax increases. But a brief sip of water may have gotten more immediate attention than any policy ideas.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio‘s mid-speech swig from a small Poland Spring water bottle during his GOP response generated instant reaction in social media circles and on cable television, even as Republicans offered fresh appeals on the economy and promises to rein in federal spending.
Rubio appeared to wipe away sweat during his rebuttal from the Speaker’s conference room in the U.S. Capitol. At one point he stretched out his left hand, grabbed a small plastic water bottle and took a brief swig of water. As the water break gained notice online, Rubio sent a photo of the bottle from his Twitter account.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday, Rubio explained: “I needed water. What are you going to do? God has a funny way of reminding us we’re human.”
In his GOP address, Rubio urged Obama to “abandon his obsession with raising taxes” and said the president had shifted the nation away from free-market economic principles that had helped middle-class families achieve prosperity.
“Presidents in both parties — from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan — have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity. But President Obama? He believes it’s the cause of our problems,” Rubio said.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, in a separate tea party response, said both parties had failed voters by driving up trillion-dollar deficits. “Washington acts in a way that your family never could — they spend money they do not have, they borrow from future generations, and then they blame each other for never fixing the problem,” Paul said.
Republicans sought to characterize Obama as overly reliant on government, even as the president made his case to the nation that he could generate new jobs without raising the federal deficit. Defending his policies against GOP critics, Obama said the nation needed a “smarter government” instead of a bigger one and pledged to boost the minimum wage and increase federal spending to fix roads and bridges.
Both Obama’s address to Congress and the Republican responses around the Capitol sought to position each party as the champion of average Americans in a nation still grappling with high unemployment and a slow economic recovery. Republicans noted that the nation’s jobless rate ticked up to 7.9 percent in January and the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the final months of 2012.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Obama offered the American people “little more than more of the same ‘stimulus’ policies that have failed to fix our economy and put Americans back to work. We cannot grow the middle class and foster job creation by growing government and raising taxes.”
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman accused Obama of promoting “the same big-government policies that have failed to get our economy up and running again.”
Paul, a tea party favorite, said both parties had been guilty of “protecting their sacred cows” and engaging in “backroom deals in which everyone up here wins but every taxpayer loses.” He said he would propose to balance the budget in five years and urged lawmakers to return to their duty of passing budgets. If not, Paul said, voters should “sweep the place clean. Limit their terms and send them home.”
Rubio, a rising star in the Republican party and a potential 2016 presidential contender, pointed to his Miami roots to address Obama’s frequent portrayal of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — and his party — as only caring about the wealthiest Americans. Rubio said he still lived in the “same working-class neighborhood I grew up in” and his neighbors “aren’t millionaires” but retirees, workers and immigrants.
“His favorite attack of all is that those who don’t agree with him — that we only care about rich people,” Rubio said.
Rubio pre-recorded his speech in Spanish for Spanish-language networks, a nod to Republicans who have said that they must do more to address their deficit with Hispanic voters. Obama won 71 percent of Hispanics last year against Romney, prompting concerns about the party’s ability to compete with Democrats in future elections.
Follow Ken Thomas at: http://twitter.com/AP_Ken_Thomas
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2013 Capitol Hill Blue
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Published: Wednesday, 6th June, 2012 3:30pm
Helen McGonigle in 1968.
A woman sexually abused by Fr Brendan Smyth believes that the paedophile priest killed a child in America in the 1960s.
The notorious Norbertine priest abused Helen McGonigle in the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, starting when she was six years-old, in late 1967.
Smyth had been assigned to the local parish, Our Lady of Mercy, in the Diocese of Providence, in 1965. A chilling warning made by Smyth after abusing Helen - that she would "end up like the body in the woods" - made her link the paedophile to the discovery of the remains of a child in woodland near her school.
That discovery, however, Helen says, took place after Smyth's threat.
Helen, who is now a US attorney, was so convinced that he was responsible for the death that she notified the Police at East Greenwich in Rhode Island in March 2007.
Police confirmed to The Anglo-Celt they had taken a statement from Helen but added that no investigation was launched into the events of 1967 or 1968 due to the amount of time that had since passed, the death of Smyth, the time-frame quoted in her statement and that their older records were not digitally stored. At the time of going to print, police in Rhode Island were unable to confirm or deny any bodies found in the woods in 1968, due to the time passed.
In this week's Celt newspaper Helen talks of:
* why she believes Smyth is a child killer;
* the tragic impact Smyth's abuse had on her and her family;
* why she rejects the apology from the former abbot of Kilnacrott
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