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WZTV FOX 17 - Top Stories
February 11, 2013
There is a new effort to dramatically reduce drunk driving across the state of Tennessee.
A group of state lawmakers wants to install a breathalyzer device in the vehicle of every person convicted of a DUI.
The proposal is already drawing support.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is backing the plan to require an ignition interlock device in an offender's vehicle.
The idea is simple, if you've been drinking your car won't start.
The equipment may be small in size, but many believe an ignition interlock device can have a big impact.
"Blood alcohol content is 0.00 and it tells me to start the car," says Mitch Davis.
Mitch Davis' company installs the devices, which are designed to prevent driving under the influence.
"We will essentially stop DUI and killing of our citizens by repeat offenders," says Rep. Tony Shipley, (R) Kingsport.
State lawmakers want to mandate ignition interlock systems for every person convicted of drunk driving.
"And make sure that they do not have alcohol on their breath before they can operate their car," says Sen. Mae Beavers, (R) Lebanon.
Supporters say it's more than just a piece of legislation.
"You know I have my daughter's picture on the nightstand. When I go to be at night, that's the last thing I see," says MADD advocate Millie Webb.
Millie Webb lost her four year old daughter and 19 month old nephew to a drunk driver in 1971.
She has seen the data. The CDC says interlock devices reduce repeat offenses by 67%.
"And if somebody is an offender with a history of drinking and driving, they will not be able to start the car," says Webb.
Lawmakers say convicted drivers will pay for the devices to be installed.
Representative William Lamberth, a former prosecutor, says it's another tool to make a difference.
"It takes someone who has already been convicted of DUI and does everything within our power to prevent them from doing it again," says Rep. William Lamberth, (R) Cottontown.
Millie Webb wears an angel in remembrance of her daughter and nephew, and she says this law would save lives.
"They are angels, and I don't have to worry about them hurting anymore," says Webb.
Right now Tennessee requires an ignition interlock device for any person convicted of a DUI with a blood alcohol content of .15 or greater.
This law would move that requirement to .08.
Lawmakers believe it has a very good chance of passing.
For news updates follow John Dunn on twitter @WZTVJohnDunn
Monday, February 11 2013, 11:28 PM CST
Body found in Percy Priest Lake
May 25, 2013 20:14 GMT
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say a body has been found in Percy Priest Lake in Middle Tennessee.
WSMV-TV (http://bit.ly/16gYKys) reports officials with Metro Police, the Office of Emergency Management and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency were at the scene Saturday at Hole In The Wall Island. The body was reported to authorities about 11 a.m.
TWRA officials say they believe the deceased man is a boater who disappeared in the lake two weeks ago.
Police said the agencies coordinated with each other to get a boat in the water and recover the body.
Information from: WSMV-TV, http://www.wsmv.com/
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WASHINGTON—Amid growing concerns over a worsening in the fighting between Burma’s government and Kachin ethnic rebels, overseas Kachin groups have launched public appeals to the US government and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene and pressure the Burmese army into ending its offensive.
In open letter on Wednesday the US-based Kachin Alliance urged President Barack Obama to take steps to force the Burmese government to stop its assault, which now threatens to overrun the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army and has displaced an estimated 100,000 local Kachin villagers.
“[E]thnic and civil society groups and peace activists have made appeals to the Thein Sein government to put an end to this civil war [...] The international community has also called for restraint, but the ground and aerial bombardments continue unabated,” the group said.
“[But] it appears the Burmese government, aided and abetted by the Chinese, is seeking a military solution rather than a political one,” it said.
The group asked the US to condemn the use of airpower by the Burmese military and demand that it ends the fighting and open negotiations with the rebels. The safety of displaced Kachin villagers should be guaranteed, the Kachin Alliance said.
It also called on the US to reconsider its diplomatic, economic and planned military ties with Naypyidaw. Kachin organizations and other US ethnic communities from Burma will demonstrate at the State Department and the White house on Jan. 12 to highlight their demands.
There was no immediate reaction from the White House. The State Department said on Wednesday that is was urging the warring parties to lay down arms and open talks.
“We are encouraging both the government and the rebels to end the violence, to commit to a process of compromise, discussion, as has been done in other parts of Burma. That is still what we are working on,” said State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland.
US-Burma ties have only recently thawed after years of heavy western sanctions against Burma’s military-led regime, and Obama visited Rangoon in November amid international praise for the reform agenda of President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government.
Concerns remain about the plans of Burma’s military and whether Thein Sein can assert power over the army, which has fought battles with the country’s ethnic groups for decades.
On Thursday, 23 overseas Kachin organizations sent an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi, in which they repeated an earlier appeal to the NLD leader to pressure the government into stopping its Kachin State offensive.
The Nobel laureate has been largely silent on the war in Kachin State, which has greatly intensified since mid December. At an Independence Day speech on Jan 4, Suu Kyi was conspicuously silent on the conflict.
“[We] request that you clarify your position or at least elaborate upon your understanding of recent events so that we can develop constructive dialogue on these matters with you,” the Kachin groups said.
“All Kachin people are waiting for your detailed comments on these matters,” the letter said.
The groups said that Suu Kyi’s lack of response so far was a major concern for the Kachin and other ethnic groups in the country, who had hoped that recent reforms and new political leadership in Burma would bring positive change for them after decades of conflict.
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Like all the sports Group Trout fishing is a great exciting activity sport. It is a fresh-water sport where you can relax along with playing with your fishing nets and rods. It is usually carried out on the river-shores and ice-covered mountain rivers. Wild and high elevatedriversand lakes at the cold areas are ideal for group Trout fishing. It is indeed a fun and challenging sport. In order to have a high percentage of success Group Trout Fishing, the people should be clever in choosing the fishing flies they will use. There have actually plenty of choices to select from and this can give you a strain most expressly if are still learners. The fishermen should be sure about using the same cast is not as effective when used again when fishing in the same location. Trout can adapt and you can't fool them the second time around. This makes group Trout fishing more challenging. So it is important to get to know the fish and where it lives. By means of studying what kind of insect it eats would also be a great help. In this way, you can limit your scope of options to what type of lure you should use and you will have more chance of inviting the trout to bite.
When going for Group Trout Fishing in river or stream situations, Make sure to avoid wearing clothing with plain white or loud colors as it may distract the fishes. This is because wearing such bright colors like orange or white will make you stick out like a sore thumb against the background making it easy for the fish to spot you in daytime. So, it would be wise to wear drab colors such as grey or brown in order to blend in with the surroundings as far as possible. This will make it harder for the trout to identify you and increase your chances of getting more bites from flies.
Group Trout fishing usually calls for light weight fishing gear and bait unless you intend to go fishing in the huge Great Lakes visiting where you will definitely require much heavier gear. In most cases though, a 5 foot light weight fishing rod joined with light reel spooled with four will go better. Talking about the hook, 10 hooks should do successfully and as for the trap, smaller lures are recommended as well. If you want to use spinners or spoons, it's important to use those that are no heavier than one ounce and if your choice of bait is minnow-type plugs, then you should ensure they don't exceed 4 inches in length.For a better group trout fishing, a conventional angling method, artificial flies are tied using materials including feather and fur onto a hook to imitate naturally occurring food to catch more fishes.
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T-Shirt Creation as a Means of Expression
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James Coyne, who died Friday night in Winnipeg at the age of 102, will always be remembered as the man who won a Pyrrhic victory against former prime minister John Diefenbaker in what has come to be known as The Coyne Affair.
As Governor of The Bank of Canada, Mr. Coyne was highly critical of the prime minister’s monetary and fiscal policy and said so frequently in speeches about the need for “sound money” policies. For his part, Mr. Diefenbaker considered Mr. Coyne “inflexible,” “arrogant” and an “unregenerate Grit.”
Nobody emerged unscathed from their confrontation: Mr. Coyne lost his job in 1961, but won a moral victory in the Liberal dominated Senate; both Mr. Diefenbaker and minister of finance Donald Fleming had their reputations tarnished. Still, as a result of this tempest, the relationship between the government and the governor of the Bank of Canada was clarified.
As for Mr. Coyne, his tumultuous tenure at the bank was only one entry on a curriculum vitae that included a Rhodes Scholarship, a call to the bar in Britain and Manitoba, public-policy making in the recovery efforts after the Depression and during the Second World War and his final and private role as a husband and the father of five children.
“He had a natural gift for it,” said his youngest son, Andrew Coyne, a journalist for the National Post. “Dogs and little children gravitated towards him and loved his mixture of gruffness and warmth.”
Quirky and eccentric, Mr. Coyne was not “kissy huggy, but he was there at crucial moments and he was a very important moral and intellectual guide.”
Susan Coyne, his younger daughter, drew a deft portrait of her father in Kingfisher Days , her 2001 memoir of her childhood. “My father at this time had recently retired from public office, after a highly publicized and principled battle, to which he never referred. The exact nature of his present occupation remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of our childhood. There was always some inviolable corner of the house to which he would retire after breakfast to pore over his important papers. From time to time we would hear him whistling some ancient air from his youth. Later in the day, he would sit in his chair on the porch and do the cryptic crosswords, or read thick books on science and mathematics.”
The Coynes were a prominent Ontario family until James Bowes Coyne, moved to Winnipeg in 1905 (after Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall) to become a partner in the law firm Aikins, Robertson Fullerton and Coyne. He married Margaret Elliott, and later served as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal from 1946-1959.
James Elliott Coyne, the eldest of their three children, was born July 17, 1910 in Winnipeg. He went to local schools and then studied history and mathematics at the University of Manitoba, graduating cum laude with a bachelor degree in 1931, and winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford the following year.
George V. Ferguson, who subsequently became editor of the now defunct Montreal Star, was on the selection committee. He told journalist Peter C. Newman that Mr. Coyne was so far ahead of the other candidates that the meeting was one of the shortest in the committee’s history.
At Oxford, Mr. Coyne studied law, played on the Oxford Blues hockey team (as had Lester Pearson and Roland Michener before him) and was called to the English bar in 1934. He returned to Winnipeg to practise law in his father’s firm, which by then was called Coyne and Coyne. It proved a short-term association, for two years later, J.L. Ralston, counsel for the Turgeon Royal Commission that was investigating the effects of the Depression on the wheat trade, hired Mr. Coyne as his assistant.
As the royal commission toured the West, holding its hearings, the staff often ended up in the same prairie hotels as a research team from the Bank of Canada, which had been founded in 1934 as a private corporation. Long discussions on the Depression and how to solve the country’s economic problems ensued and gradually Mr. Coyne realized that he was more interested in making economic public policy than practising law.
In 1938, the year the bank became a Crown corporation, he abandoned his burgeoning law practice for a job as a clerk in the research department of the Bank of Canada at a salary of $150 a month. Later, he described arriving in Ottawa in January, 1938 and finding an apartment on Metcalfe Street with a bedroom and a kitchen for $45 a month.
Although his expertise was in the grain trade, he was soon assigned to the Rowell-Sirois Commission, which had been struck by former Liberal prime minister Mackenzie King to investigate constitutional and economic repercussions coming out of the devastation of the Depression. A year later, he was seconded to the Central Mortgage Bank, which had been formed by the federal government to help sustain private mortgage-holders on the prairies, but the prospect of war changed everything. Mr. Coyne ended up working for the Foreign Exchange Control Board, which was charged with ensuring that investments required for the war effort didn’t leave the country.
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The jump was not entirely unexpected.
Projections last year had the Huntsville metropolitan area of Madison and Limestone counties growing at a rate some demographers said could push it past Mobile this decade to become the state's second-largest metro area.
However, some commenters pointed out a difference in the way the stats are reached for Huntsville vs. Mobile.
- That would all change if Baldwin county was added as part of the Mobile MSA. With Baldwin county's population approaching 200,000, the Mobile metro area would be and should be well over 600,000. Mobile is the only metro area in the state that is currently based on one county. If counted like other MSA's in the state you could also add the surrounding counties. - eee222
- You would think Mobile and Baldwin co.'s should be together in the same MSA. - Robertos
Others predict that Huntsville's upward population trend will continue.
- Huntsville is already prepping for another BRAC in 2015-2016. The Huntsville area will match this census' growth in 2020. - theuniversityofalabama
One commenter, though, posed the question that is likely on the minds of many Huntsville-area residents.
- Does that mean we get car tags starting with the number 2? - mtnbikeer
What do you think about the 2010 Census data? Is Huntsville's metro ranking computed fairly (or Mobile's computed unfairly)? What will Huntsville's substantial growth mean for the city?
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Doha News reports: Qatari poet Mohammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami has reportedly been sentenced to life in prison in a local court this morning.
It remains unclear what Al-Ajami was convicted of, but he was arrested in Doha last November and eventually charged with “inciting to overthrow the regime” and “insulting the Emir.”
Amnesty International, which confirmed this morning’s ruling to Doha News, said Al-Ajami has one week to submit his appeal.
“This is sending shockwaves across the Gulf region,” Amnesty researcher Dina El-Mamoun said. “Not just Qatar but beyond Qatar, among activists who feel there is sort of less and less space for them.”
On Twitter, hundreds have denounced the verdict under the hashtag #الحرية_لشاعر_محمد_بن_الذيب (freedom for poet Mohammed Ibn Al-Dheeb), questioning Qatar’s commitment to free speech after its support of so many Arab Spring revolutions.
Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth attributed the life sentence to Al-Ajami’s widely distributed Jasmine Poem, which criticized governments across the Gulf, asserting that “we are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite.” [Continue reading...]
Last month the BBC provided more background on the case.
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One of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations is calling on the Israeli parliament member who ripped pages from the Bible to apologize.
"There is no excuse for abusing the sacred scripture of any other religion," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, director of interfaith affairs at the center, in a statement Wednesday.
"Israel from its inception guarantees religious freedoms and mutual respect for holy sites and objects of all its citizens. Israelis of all persuasions and backgrounds welcome the friendship and support of members of all faiths," Cooper and Adlerstein said. "Thank God Israel is not Saudi Arabia, where keeping a Christian Bible, let alone a Torah, Talmud or Siddur is a criminal offense. We urge MK Ben-Ari to apologize for his act and to find appropriate ways to strengthen Jewish identity and loyalty"
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center was reprimanding Michael Ben-Ari, a member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Ben-Ari was photographed ripping up pages from the New Testament and throwing it in the trash.
The Bible Society in Israel, a messianic Judaism group, had sent copies of the Bible to all 120 members of the Knesset, according to Israel National News. Ben-Ari had perceived the society's sending him the Bible as an attempt to proselytize and also blamed the Bible for violence against Jews: "Millions of Jews were murdered in the name of the New Testament, this revolting book brought massacres of Jews in the [Spanish] Inquisition and throughout history."
However, the society said it only wanted to inform MKs that the Bible is among the religious texts produced in Israel, the Anti-Defamation League explained.
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday also denounced Ben-Ari's action saying, "I condemn any disrespect of holy texts of any religion, including ripping the New Testament by an MK yesterday," according to The Jerusalem Post. "Every holy book is important to its believers."
He added, "Democracy is the freedom of speech, but it is not anarchy, and freedom of faith and worship is one of the founding values of this country."
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Have you listened to The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper? So many interesting food and cooking shows on NPR! No wonder SNL can't help but parody them with The Delicious Dish. Anyway, I noticed a section on the website called Where We Eat. Jane and Michael Stern drive all around the United States looking for good food and report back on the places that they find.
It's a wonderful listing by city and state of different places to try and what each particular place is known for. So you can eat your way across the country or just check out a particular state or region. Have you visited any of the places? Last year I visited the All-Star Sandwich Bar in Cambridge. Read my post here.
Thinking about how there is so much lack in the middle of so much plenty also has been on my mind. My mother told me that she was watching The Callie Crossley Show and learned that many students at Bunker Hill Community College don't have enough food. Wick Sloane, who teaches at the college was interviewed about an article that he wrote for Inside Higher Ed. Apparently it's a big issue in community colleges all over the country, not just here in Massachusetts.
Just thinking about this issue stuns and angers me. Below is a portion of Sloane's article called So My Students Can Eat.
Students have been crying in my office at Bunker Hill Community College every week since September and, some weeks, every day. Hungry. Often homeless. Often jobless.
One who was hungry and nearly homeless had an A in calculus. “Have you eaten today?” is a question I use more often than “Do you need help with your homework?” She wouldn’t say. As the student cried in my office and spoke with a gentle colleague, I bought a sandwich, some fruit, and a bottle of orange juice from the cafeteria. The student drank the juice and put the food in her bag to take home.
The student had a class and said she’d return later in the afternoon to finish the conversation. With $25 from my colleague in my pocket, I walked to Johnnie’s Foodmaster in Charlestown and bought a $50 food card that we gave to the student later. She cried again.
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5 Ways America Is Betraying Its Best Values in Conflicts With Rest of the World
Continued from previous page
Meanwhile, the drumbeat for war with Iran continues to build. Faced with the prospect of an Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic, the Obama administration has refused to definitively back away from the prospect of becoming part of that war.
"Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment,” the president said. “I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And as I have made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests."
In fact, the urge to stop a potentially disastrous confrontation, which could seriously affect the price of oil and the global economy, has sent high military and civilian officials winging from Washington to Israel with warnings against an attack on Iran. Still, war continues to be treated by diplomats and others almost as a fait accompli.
The news then is certainly grim, and moving in one clear direction -- the use of the law, or at least the Justice Department’s version of the law, to justify whatever acts the government feels are necessary against whomever they deem to be the enemy. Attorney General Holder summed the situation up tellingly in his defense of the al-Awlaki killing.
In significant detail, he explained that the killing of an American citizen (and terror suspect) was lawful, despite the fact that it brought into question the guarantee of due process under the Fifth Amendment, and despite the guarantees offered by the laws of war. “Due process,” he declared, “is not judicial process.” It was a startlingly honest admission of something new under the American sun: due process is now what the president and his closes advisors decide it is, a constitutional rethinking of the first order to justify the “targeted killing” of an American citizen.
To sum up, the legal gray zone Washington has, over the course of a decade,plunged us into -- and everything that goes with it, including punitive measures, attempts to bypass constitutional guarantees, the spread of secrecy and surveillance, a growing distrust of American citizens, and straightforward killing -- isn’t something we will soon put behind us. The move away from the rights and liberties enshrined in the Constitution and the law is very clearly the way of the American future in our new age of enemies.
Karen Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, a TomDispatch regular, and the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First One Hundred Days, as well as the editor ofThe Torture Debate in America. Adam Brody, Rebecca Kagan, and Sasha Segall contributed research to this article. To listen to Timothy MacBain’s latest Tomcast audio interview in which Greenberg discusses a new American state of “legal limbo,” click here, or download it to your iPod here.
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Discussions have been taking place in Brussels to develop Europe-wide standards for cosmetic surgery.
The talk will mean that patients can have more confidence in the sector.
According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the market for cosmetic surgery has "increased dramatically over the last years, including through the recession".
However, consultant plastic surgeon and BAAPS president Nigel Mercer, said that so far the UK and many other countries have failed to put in place adequate regulations.
On his attendance of the European Association of Societies of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, he added: "I will be delighted to join the new Project Committee for Aesthetic Surgery Services and help design a solid Europe-wide framework which will ensure patients can rely on safe treatment and facilities wherever they might be."
The latest figures from BAAPS revealed that there was a 6.7 per cent increase in the number of cosmetic surgical procedures carried out by its members between 2008 and 2009.
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View Full Version : PANIIC ATTACKS
I have for a couple of months been haveing panic attacks. Couple of them really bad. Not really knowing if this is somethig really physcial wrong or anxiety. Now they are coming more frequent. I am 50 years old And pre-meapause. Had one yesterday and today. I also have Mitral Valve, and heard this sometimes causes panic attacks. Either or both. Could this possibably have ANYTHING to do with it. ANYBODY????
06-26-2009, 12:01 AM
Actually, pre-menopause causes hormone imbalance, that could lead you to high and low. My friend, who is going through pre-menopause suffered from panic attack as well, but it will be temporary.
If you can't stand it, you may want to try hormone therapy, it will get you thru your menopause easily but can increase the risk of breast cancer.
07-01-2009, 11:35 PM
Panic attacks are frightening but fortunately physically harmless episodes. They can occur at random or after a person is exposed to various events that may trigger panic attack.They peak in intensity very rapidly and go away with or without medical help.
People experiencing panic attacks may fear they are dying, that they are suffocating, or that they are having a heart attack.About 5% of the population will experience panic attacks during their lifetimes. People who have repeated attacks require further evaluation from a mental health professional. Panic attacks can indicate the presence of panic disorder, depression, or other forms of anxiety-based illnesses.
07-10-2012, 11:40 PM
I read my friends above and i would like to share that i have panic attack too 7years ago when i went to massive height.Then after that i realize i've panic attack or you can say phobia.Know i have attack when i goes to height and some body throw the large amount of water on my face.My friends and cousins told me that i have phobia rather than the attacks.can anyone tell me about this?
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Lethic botnet knocked out by security researchers
Zombie network taken down
The command-and-control servers of the Lethic botnet have been taken out following a spam-busting collaboration between security firm Neustar and ISPs.
The botherders behind Lethic specialised in distributing unlicensed pharmaceutical, diploma and replica goods spam. Compromised machines in the network are reckoned to have spewed out as much as one in 10 of junk mails circulating globally, Dark Reading reports.
The decommissioning of Lethic follows other botnet takedown efforts over recent months, including McColo in November 2008, Torpig in May 2009, and most recently Mega-D in November 2009.
Security firm M86 reports that compromised machines in the Lethic botnet are attempting to contact new servers, hosted in Hong Kong and China. M86 has contacted local registrars in a bid to get domains polled by Lethic drones (which are currently inactive) permanently delisted.
Miscreants have responded to botnet take down efforts by building more resilient cybercrime networks, with command and control servers selected using Fast Flux techniques to rotate URLs or communicate via P2P networks. This means that the Lethic takedown is unlikely to have a long-term effect on spam levels.
Nonetheless, even a temporary reduction in penis pill and diploma spam is welcome, so Neustar et al ought to be saluted for their efforts. ®
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Madurai, Nov 02 : Police seized explosive powder and other materials with which Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and other explosives could be fabricated from the Tirupparankundram hill, where the ancient 'Kasi Viswanathar Temple' and a 'Dargah' were situated, here last night.
Acting on a tip off, personnel of Tamil Nadu Bomb Detection and Disposal (BDDS) squad, sleuths of Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ravichandran rushed to the hillock and after an intense search, the police team recovered a plastic bucket from an isolated area. The bucket contained ammonium nitrate powder, four timer devices, 16 numbers of 9 volt batteries, 6 pen-torch batteries, PVC pipes with lids, wire bundles, detonators, switches and petrol.
Talking to newsmen, Ravichandran said the timer devices were not connected to the wires, but however the explosive materials could be fabricated into atleast three numbers of IEDs and other explosives. Police have registered a case and are investigating to find out the culprits. This is the seventh such incident in Madurai since last year. The first was the explosion of a low intensity crude bomb in a dust bin near Mattuthavani Integrated City Bus Terminal during May 2011. In second incidence.
A similar Bomb was detected from a state transport corporation bus at a TNSTC Bus Depot at Pudur on September 30, 2011. In third incident, a powerful 'Pipe Bomb' was recovered by the police beneath a Causeway at Alampatti village near Tirumangalam, a couple of hours before senior BJP Leader L.K.Advani's 'Jan Chetna' Rath Yatra was scheduled to pass over it on October 29, 2011. The Pipe bomb was made of 'Power Gel 90,' an improvised version of Gelatine which is said to be highly lethal explosive.
Police cited Fakrudeen alias 'Police' Fakrudeen, an Islamic fundamentalist as the prime accused in the pipe bomb, which was an attempt on Advani life. Though police picked up a few persons on suspicion, no headway was made in the case as Fakrudeen was still elusive.A 'Tiffin Box Bomb' fitted with a Timer was found planted inside a TNSTC bus, which was proceeding to Periyar Bus Stand from Thiruvathavur village in Madurai on December 7, 2011. However, the bomb was timely detected and defused by the police with the help of passengers.
A low intensity bi-cycle bomb went off near 'Sri Ram Temple' at Anna Nagar here on May one, this year. Police suspect the bomb was exploded to disrupt the 5th State Conference of BJP, titled 'Thaamarai Sangamam' (Lotus Confluence) that was scheduled for May 10 and 11, in which senior party leaders Nitin Gadkari, Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu and others took part. A former activist of banned Islamic ultra outfit 'Al Umma' Umar Farook (36) received a parcel bomb from an unidentified youth in his shop at South Krishnan Street in the city on August four, last in the sixth incident.
The parcel bombs contained two IED's connected to a timer and battery. The parcel bomb assumed significance, as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was invited to inaugurate a two-day Global Sourashtra Meet-2012 on the day, but however Modi could not turn up for the conference. Even as the police were struggling to make any breakthrough in the previous bomb plots, especially the powerful Pipe bomb targeting Advani in Madurai, the recovery of explosive materials at Tirupparankundram hillock kept the police on their toes.
Nov 02, 2012
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For someone that represents a body of schools of higher learning, the NCAA sure has trouble earning a passing grade.
The organization that essentially put Cameron Newton's father on probation without taking any action against any schools or athletes in the case - and then didn't even enforce that - on Thursday in Indianapolis approved giving students who already get free tuition, room and board, books, fees, tutoring help and even some meal money $2,000 on top of all that.
Or it least it gave its member conferences the option of adding that to their scholarships. Never mind that it pretty much will force schools that want to compete to pay that because, say what you will about how little $2,000 per year is, it's still $2,000 more than nothing.
What in the world are they thinking?
Yes, it's become a cause for some that these athletes that are apparently generating so much revenue for the universities should get something back, although it conveniently disregards how much they already receive. They get to develop their skills for what for a few will turn out to be multi-million-dollar paydays in the pro ranks.
The majority that don't play a sport beyond college, still are getting an opportunity for an education and a career - should they take it - free of charge.
This opens all kinds of doors this opens for fudging numbers, increased cheating and more difficulty in enforcement, and one has to wonder where this extra money is going to be coming from, considering how many college athletes are out there. Thursday's decision decreed that schools have to expand money equally across men's and women's sports because of Title IX.
An even better question is why we should be paying even more to those whose tuition and board is covered when we have education costs rising for most college students and so many cuts being made or discussed at the secondary and elementary levels.
The more one looks at this, the more it seems like PR move that, while possibly with the best of intentions, was done without really examining everything.
Once again, the NCAA gets an F.
Thoughts go out to Philipsburg-Osceola High School football coach Jeff Vroman and his family. Vroman's father passed away earlier this week.
Vroman's Mounties play at Huntingdon tonight.
The Ernie Fetzer-coached Johnstown Vo-Tech football team that upset Indiana for the District 6 Class AAAA championship in 1986 is scheduled to have a reunion next month.
No word yet on whether or not Suds Solomon, who made the Spartans a prohibitive underdog in that game, will be in attendance.
Cmor can be reached at 946-7440 or firstname.lastname@example.org
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I'd like to find a contemporaneous review of this book. King toured China, Korea and Japan with an expert eye on their intensive, sustainable agriculture and what seems to me to be a radically approving tone for his day. There were still anti-Chinese settlement laws and riots up and down the West Coast, after all, and was mocking foreign farmers specifically for their prudence and industry. Current reviews of this (it's still in print) are all in the trail of , who approved; I looked it up because of a half-crankish reference in a composting journal.
King, for someone clearly approving, comes across as a transparent, inquisitive author, who must have had a busy translator to extract all the techniques and price-lists and explanations that make it into the book. Mostly, this is a travelogue with 'pods' (in's words) of dense agro-tech exposition hanging off; and many photographs of a startlingly pre-industrial world.
The frame of King's curiosity, though, is his claim--as a Wisconsin professor of agriculture--that the U.S. could not possibly sustain its wasting methods of agriculture, its intentional losses of topsoil and nutrients, and that the Far East had a long history of supporting high populations, and probably knew something we needed. From the Preface (by a Dr
We in North America are wont to think that we may instruct all the world in agriculture, because our agricultural wealth is great and our exports to less favoured peoples have been heavy; but this wealth is great because our soil is fertile and new, and in large acreage for every person. We have really only begun to farm well.
Following, many details of how the fields are leveled, green and muck manures preserved and spread, crops and fallow rotated, irrigation accomplished, markets made. King points out early that the areas around the China Sea are of naturally high productivity, being warm and well-watered (by rain, as well as rivers that bring them silt); but the astounding effort put into farming every square foot, into dredging that silt out of an enormous delta--by human labor--to raise and, indeed, create the land, is no less amazing. King was always happy to notice what clever tricks cycled nutrients, but modern lazy I, I notice that the cleverness usually relies on human effort and a good bit of desperation. There were also devastating famines in China, over those forty centuries. I don't know if they were less common there than in, say, Europe; and this seems crucial to enthusiasm for the book... If we are to consider if this is a good plan for humanity (and many permaculture enthusiasts do), then I want to know how many population crashes that 'sustainability' requires. King quotes an interlocutor saying that in poor years the girl children are sold or given away, which King refuses to believe.
It would be nice to think that we could have a less dense population, and still recycle as intensively, leaving a margin for ourselves and natural systems. It seems unlikely to me. Not just the physical labor, but the constant attention, seem to me to be so extreme that we would not keep them up without a constant fear of personal failure and starvation:
But above any other factor, and perhaps greater than all of them combined in contributing to the high maintenance-efficiency attained in these countries, must be placed the standard of living to which the industrial classes have been compelled to adjust themselves, combined with the most rigorous economy which they practise along every line of effort and of living.
The permaculture doomers assume that we'll have that fear soon enough, and will want to know how to survive; fair enough. Or possibly we will teach our robots to do it for us. Wall-E would have been a much, much better movie had Wall-E found a copy of this book.
Interesting details: comparing the smallest unit of currency, the cash, about 1/1750 of a US dollar at the time, to the smallest unit, used "On the Pacific coast [of the U.S.], where less thought is given to little economies than perhaps anywhere else[...] the nickel". Foot-propelled paddlewheel passenger boats cost less per passenger mile than the US railway tariff. King suggests diverting the lower Mississippi over the "200 miles of country" behind its levees, in order to preserve and increase fertile farmland. "Everywhere we went in China, the labouring people appeared happy and contented, and showed clearly that they were well nourished. The industrial classes are thoroughly organized, having had their guilds or labor unions for centuries." The compost practices were detailed and labor-intensive; Chinese villagers built clamps of mud over aging compost; the Japanese National Department of Agriculture published plans for a handsome stercorary. (It's evident that Japan had more timber than China.) There's a reference to 'parking' but the word means 'making a park of' land, planting trees.
Find in a Library: Farmers of Forty Centuries
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by Brittany Geragotelis
You know those times when you get so upset that you're seeing red? Someone says you'll never amount to anything. A teacher criticizes you. That one big bully humiliates you for the umpteenth time in front of everyone. The guy you love cheats on you....with your BFF...or even worse, your sworn enemy. Catch my drift?
You're mad. I'm talking shaking, clenching your fists, feel sick to your stomach pissed.
Now, what do you do with all that anger? How do you deal? Do you lash out at others? Hold it in until you're in the safety of your room and then collapse on the floor and cry? Write something mean about them on Facebook? Trust that Karma's a bitch and so are they? Maybe you exercise (isn't that what kickboxing classes are really for?), dance away your stress or watch a funny movie or TV show. Whatever your process, the important thing is to get rid of the anger, otherwise it'll just eat you up inside. You know what they say: holding onto resentments is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
I've been listening to Taylor Swift's new album, Speak Now, the last few days (over and over again so I can learn all the lyrics, of course) and it's pretty clear that she's working through some issues of her own. She's got a song on there that's supposedly about her John Mayer and the sucky way he treated her. She's also got another song on the album that's apparently about the girl that stole another one of her ex's away. And one of my favorites is Mean, which seems to be about a bully who Taylor claims "all you'll ever be is mean."
I think it's pretty safe to say that Taylor works through her feelings by writing songs. And I've gotta say it seems like a pretty productive and theraputic way to let out her anger. Come to think of it, I suppose a lot of artists use their craft to sift through their emotions. Singers write what they experience in their everyday life. Directors like Wes Craven, name their evil, nightmarish monsters after high school bullies (I'm looking at you, Fred Kreuger).
And to be honest, I've even used my own writing as a way to "get back" at those who've pissed me off over the years. Oh, I may not use their names or even give an accurate description of them, but in my fictional world, I always get the last word and horrible people are put in their place. In my novels, the universe always punishes those who deserve it.
Come to think of it....that's actually pretty true to the real world, too. I believe that we get what we put out there. If you're nasty, nastiness will follow you. If you stab people in the back, you can expect a few knives of your own. You reap what you sow as they say. So, sometimes the best revenge is actually just sitting back and letting the universe work itself out....
Either that or you go ahead and write a song about them.
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Home page of King James Bible
Home page of King James Bible
Matthew 14
MT 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
MT 14:2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
MT 14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
MT 14:4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
MT 14:5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
MT 14:6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
MT 14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
MT 14:8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
MT 14:9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
MT 14:10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
MT 14:11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
MT 14:12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
MT 14:13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
MT 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
MT 14:15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
MT 14:16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
MT 14:17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
MT 14:18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
MT 14:19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
MT 14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
MT 14:21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
MT 14:22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
MT 14:23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
MT 14:24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
MT 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
MT 14:26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
MT 14:27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
MT 14:28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
MT 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
MT 14:30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
MT 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
MT 14:32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
MT 14:33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
MT 14:34 And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.
MT 14:35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
MT 14:36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
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Search engines are increasingly moving from lists of content to directories that figure out what you want and highlight it. In Bing, that means Snapshot, a sidebar that appears for popular searches like "Abraham Lincoln" with photos, short biographies, and related information. Today, Microsoft is expanding Snapshot to pull in more information from search patterns and social networks. For present-day celebrities, Bing's sidebar will now include information from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Klout, with each indicated by an icon below the name — the only notable social gap is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Google+. For professionals on LinkedIn, things like work experience and education will appear.
Outside present-day people, the expansion is less dramatic, but Bing is adding more related information when searching for historical figures or places. In the handful of examples we tried, the results usually aren't markedly different from Google's own side panel. Bing will also directly answer questions whenever it can, bringing up "Mt. Everest" for "tallest mountain in the world," for example. Google does this too, but in our once again anecdotal searches, we saw more divergence: Bing was better at answering geographical questions, while Google won out in cultural ones like "Who wrote Fight Club?" The new Snapshot is live now, with more information at the Bing blog.
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Should US adopt the Godfather cyber defense doctrine?
- By William Jackson
- Apr 18, 2012
While rereading Marion Puzo’s "The Godfather," I came across a helpful suggestion for solving one of the thorniest problems of cyber war today: attribution. Knowing the source of an attack might not be necessary to defending against it, but how do you respond or retaliate if you don’t know who is attacking you?
Vito Corleone addressed this issue in his speech at the Mafia peace conference. He was willing to let bygones be bygones, he said. But he warned against any future interference with his family. “If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning, I will blame some of the people in this room,” he said.
The assembled dons understood. It was in everyone’s best interest that there be no attacks.
This smacks somewhat of Mutually Assured Destruction, the truly mad Cold War nuclear doctrine, but it just might work. If Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. Cyber Command, were to tell the United Nations that if, God forbid, one of our servers gets a virus or our electric grid goes down, he is going to "blame some of the people in this room," it might be a call to mutual defense they could not refuse.
William Jackson is a senior writer of GCN and the author of the CyberEye blog.
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Oh, the people would come from far and away,
They'd dance all night 'till the break of day,
When the caller would holler "Do-si-do,"
You knew Uncle Pen was ready to go.
Late in the evening about sun down,
High on the hill and above the town,
Uncle Pen played the fiddle, lord a how it'd ring,
You could hear it talk, you could hear it sing.
Oh, he played an old piece he called Soldier's Joy,
And he had one he called Boston Boy,
The greatest of all was Ginny Lyn,
To me that's where the fiddlin begin.
Oh, I'll never forget that mournful day,
When Uncle Pen was called away,
They hung up his fiddle, they hung up his bow,
You knew it was time for him to go.
translated from English to Italian
Phish Uncle Pen Lyrics
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Abu Hamza al-Masri, 54, indicted under the name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, entered a Manhattan courtroom under heavy security to face charges he conspired with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and helped abduct 16 hostages, two of them American tourists, in Yemen in 1998.
Al-Masri came into court with both arms exposed through his short-sleeved blue prison shirt. His court-appointed lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, asked that his prosthetics be immediately returned “so he can use his arms.”
In the 1990s, al-Masri turned London’s Finsbury Park Mosque into a training ground for extremist Islamists, attracting men including Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and “shoe bomber” Richard Reid.
His court appearance followed soon after two other defendants brought to New York, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary, entered not guilty pleas to charges that they participated in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.
The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. They were indicted in a case that also charged Osama bin Laden.
In New Haven, Conn., earlier in the day, Syed Talha Ahsan, 33, and Babar Ahmad, 38, entered not guilty pleas to charges that they provided terrorists in Afghanistan and Chechnya with cash, recruits and equipment. All five of the men face up to life in prison if they are convicted.
Al-Masri, a one-time nightclub bouncer, entered no plea, saying only “I do” when he was asked by U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas whether he swears that his financial affidavit used to determine is he qualifies for a court-appointed lawyer was correct.
Shroff told Maas that al-Masri needed use of his arms. “Otherwise, he will not be able to function in a civilized manner.”
She also asked for a dictating machine, saying he can’t take notes, and the return of his diabetes medication and special shoes that prevent him from slipping. She said he will need a special diet in prison and a full medical evaluation.
His beard and hair white, al-Masri peered through glasses as he consulted with Shroff and another court-appointed lawyer, Jerrod Thompson-Hicks, in a proceeding that lasted less than 15 minutes.
Al-Masri has one eye and claims to have lost his hands fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. His lawyers in England said he suffers from depression, chronic sleep deprivation, diabetes and other ailments.
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Mission: The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) takes its inspiration and shape from Catholic social teaching, particularly Church teaching on migrants and newcomers. In the Catholic tradition, migrants are accorded the same human rights as citizens because of their membership in the human family and their inherent dignity. Further, Catholic teaching calls us to befriend the alien and sojourner and to work on behalf of the most vulnerable members of our society. The CLINIC network safeguards the rights and promotes the dignity of all newcomers. It does not distinguish among those in need based on class, culture, gender, race, religion, or ethnic background.
Communications and Marketing staff coordinate CLINIC’s media relations. In addition to responding to reporter request for interviews, CLINIC issues press releases and authors opinion pieces and letters to the editor that highlight issues related to immigrants, service providers, and practitioners. The Center for Faith and Migration also develops tools to help CLINIC affiliates improve and expand their relationship with the media. Across the country, CLINIC affiliates are viewed as a credible source for information on immigration law and issues related to immigrants. (See Press Releases and News)
Communications and Marketing staff promote Catholic social teaching regarding immigrants and the role of this teaching in the public policy sphere through collaboration with partner agencies and development of educational tools. CLINIC contributes to publications and offers seminars, presentations, and workshops on Catholic social teaching and migration. (See Resources).
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Russia, on Sep 13, 2003
- These shots I made today, about 1 PM, in Moscow. I used the glass from welders mask. My friend held it by hand in front of
camera lenses, so the relative position between them changed from shot to shot. So I think that any lense flares are the
consequence of it. May be I am wrong - I am not expert in light refraction. Photos were made by Fujifilm S1 Pro camera with UV
Protection filter on. I just crop them. No other corrections were made.
- In the first (A), a Monster Sun with Dust Cloud can be seen that is clearly not a lens flare. In the next (B), motion in the hand held
welder's lens caused both the Sun and this Monster Sun persona to create a reflection below them. In the third (C), the motion
was upward. Since lens flares do not have lens flares, this indicates two sources of light - the Sun and a Monster Sun representing
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Technology with style
Style, for Smeg, is a distinct concept: the way a product communicates with its surroundings and enables users to interact with it.
Attention to detail and design solutions bring homes that reflect the image of their occupants to life. With Smeg, appliances take centre stage in the heart of the home, a place where people can congregate. The kitchen integrates all of their functions and becomes a perfect, fully-equipped backdrop for those precious and enjoyable moments.
Smeg's internal design studio, which carries out painstaking research into aesthetics and style, has the support of internationally renowned architects such as Guido Canali (watch the interview), Mario Bellini, the Piano Design studio, Marc Newson and Giancarlo Candeago. Knowing how to combine technology with style is the key for Smeg in creating products which become truly iconic.
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It's All Politics
Mon September 26, 2011
Flashback: Herman Cain's 1994 Bill Clinton Debate On Health Care
Herman Cain, who won the Florida Republican presidential straw poll over the weekend, is no newbie when it comes to showing up career politicians. Texas Gov. Rick Perry was just the latest one to be Hermanized by the former Godfather's pizza company executive.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton had an encounter with Cain in which many conservatives believe the Man from mozzarella got the better of the Man from Hope.
The video of the encounter is worth watching and not just as a walk down memory lane, a golden era when the economy was creating jobs by the millions and before the threat of federal government shutdowns.
Clinton was pitching his ill-fated health care plan at a town hall-style meeting in Kansas City when Cain, who was leaving the pizza store chain to head up the National Restaurant Association, told the president that his proposed overhaul would wind up costing his company significantly more than the president's figures suggested.
This began a respectful and lively disagreement in which each man showed his ability to think on his feet with neither giving an inch.
Clinton said his health proposal would result in only a small increase to Godfather's payroll costs which could be easily passed on to customers.
Cain told the president he was wrong, explaining that because only a third of his workers got health insurance largely because the company couldn't afford paying any more, the costs would be far larger.
And that it wasn't so easy for a company like his that wasn't the largest in its industry to pass along costs to consumers when some of its competitors had the size to eat such costs in an attempt to gain market share from his company as price sensitive customers decided to go elsewhere.
As someone actually running a business at the time, Cain arguably came off as someone who had the better idea of how businesses run then Clinton. For instance, he explained that after expenses, his company's profits were about 1.5 percent of revenue, not enough to pick up the costs Clinton's plan would have imposed.
Along these lines, PolitiFact examined earlier this year Cain's track record at Godfather's and concluded that the should get credit for the turnaround that occurred there.
A piece by David Weigel at Slate also reports how that exchange with Clinton set in motion Cain's political career.
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1 I was small among my brothers,
and the youngest in my father’s house;
I tended my father’s sheep.
2 My hands made a harp;
my fingers fashioned a lyre.
3 And who will tell my Lord?
The Lord himself; it is he who hears.
4 It was he who sent his messenger
and took me from my father’s sheep,
and anointed me with his anointing oil.
5 My brothers were handsome and tall,
but the Lord was not pleased with them.
6 I went out to meet the Philistine,
and he cursed me by his idols.
7 But I drew his own sword;
I beheaded him, and took away disgrace from the people of Israel.
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By JENNIFER FITCH
5:40 PM EST, November 22, 2012
In an era where traditional methods of education funding are strained, volunteers and donors with the Waynesboro Area Business Education Community (WABEC) Foundation are finding ways to funnel private contributions into innovative programs for students.
The organization seeks to increase community involvement in education, and support student learning and achievement within the Waynesboro Area School District.
WABEC President Greg Ochoa became involved in the foundation about a year ago.
“I really liked the idea that this was a group doing work to support the needs of the students in the school district,” Ochoa said, noting that work is tangible and visible in schools.
Currently, WABEC officials are gearing up for a capital campaign, the first phase of which is expected to be announced in the spring, Ochoa said. The organization is consulting with individuals who have experience with past capital campaigns, he said.
The campaign will address athletics, arts and academics, he said.
WABEC had its first board meeting May 6, 1999.
“Over the course of 10 years now, WABEC has been providing innovative educational opportunities for students,” board member Rita Sterner-Hine said.
Through WABEC-funded Adventures in Learning, middle school students visit a college classroom and participate in mock job interviews. The program focuses on life skills.
WABEC provides funding to send second-grade students to Children’s Village in Washington County for fire and safety programs.
WABEC offers mini grants up to $5,000 for programs and technology. Past grant awards have funded a middle school dance team; broadcast announcements in the high school; books and materials for student-led conferences with teachers, administrators and parents; and interactive whiteboards.
Eight applicants received mini grants in 2011-12.
WABEC is “becoming a go-to organization if there is an innovative idea,” Sterner-Hine said.
WABEC’s annual golf tournament is a good event to not only increase awareness about the foundation, but also raise money for the programs, according to Sterner-Hine, who is principal of Summitview Elementary School.
Golfers and sponsors “are involved because they know where the money is going,” Ochoa said.
WABEC is established as a nonprofit organization. It also is approved within the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program in Pennsylvania, in which eligible businesses can receive tax credits for contributing to certain organizations.
Other ways to support WABEC include direct donations, the purchase of T-shirts and participation in events, Ochoa said.
WABEC’s vice president is Randy Sellers; its treasurer is Julie Sellers; and the secretary is Chastity Wantz.
Sterner-Hine said education extends beyond scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) standardized tests each year.
“It’s more than being ‘advanced’ or ‘proficient’ on the PSSA. You have to have the ability to interact with people, to continue to develop children overall,” she said.
Hardships at the federal and state levels affect education funding, and organizations like WABEC can be helpful in those circumstances, Ochoa said.
For more information about WABEC, visit www.wasd.k12.pa.us and click on “community.”
Copyright © 2013, Herald Mail
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What is in this article?:
- Keep Your Head Above Water with Gap Insurance | Gap Crop Insurance Covers What Multi-Peril Won’t
- How It Works
Josh Norris was like many eastern Corn Belt growers who waded through too much rain at planting time in 2011. Delayed planting probably cost him 15-20 bu./acre in corn yield. But thanks to insurance checks for about $90/acre that paid for anticipated corn and soybean losses through a unique new private weather insurance program, trips to the mailbox were happy events. And he has booked all of his corn, beans and wheat in the program for 2012.
Norris, a Middleton, IN, grower, normally has a corn, soybean and winter-wheat crop rotation. His corn averages 180-185 bu./acre, soybeans yield about 50 bu. and wheat about 70 bu./acre. He regularly buys RMA multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) to protect against disaster production situations.
“I usually go with 80-85% (MPCI) with enterprise units,” Norris says, which gives him a yield guarantee of about 140 bu. for his corn crop.
But what about the bushels between 140 – where his MPCI stops – and the 190 bu. that Norris was shooting for? In his case, those bushels were covered by an additional “gap” policy called Total Weather Insurance (TWI) from The Climate Corporation.
The Climate Corporation (www.climate.com), formerly known as WeatherBill, provides the TWI program to corn, soybean and wheat growers who seek protection for top-end yields that their MPCI program doesn’t cover.
Sold through crop-insurance agents, TWI operates similar to automobile gap insurance, which provides funds toward complete replacement of a totaled-out car or pickup, money normally not there through a typical collision insurance policy.
With TWI, a grower can’t fool Mother Nature into skipping his farm with excessive rainfall, heat or an early freeze. But it can provide protection if weather events happen which are likely to reduce his crop production.
It’s estimated that more than 90% of all crop damage comes from weather-related situations, says Jeff Hamlin, The Climate Corporation’s director of agronomic research. The weather-gap policy helps manage projected yield losses from the weather.
The company has access to and analyzes an incredibly large amount of weather data. “Using National Weather Service data we are able to track rainfall for any 2.5 x 2.5 mile area in the continental U.S., which helps us provide farm-level protection against bad weather,” Hamlin says. “The rainfall grids we are using this year (2012) provide more than 25 times higher resolution than what we had for the 2011 crop year.”
Hamlin says TWI’s corn program provides a set of coverage components that protect against the major weather perils (see illustration) growers may face throughout the corn-growing season. They include:
• Planting rain, which protects against excessive precipitation that can delay timely planting and other fieldwork.
• Drought with soil moisture tracker, which protects against depleted soil moisture that can cause wilting, pollination issues and decreased yields.
• Daytime heat stress, which protects against hot days that can reduce crop growth and result in ineffective pollination.
• Nighttime heat stress, which protects against warm nights that may result in diminished kernel growth due to increased plant respiration.
• Excess rain with soil-moisture tracker, which protects against excessive local rainfall that can lead to standing water, which starves the crop of oxygen and promotes disease.
• Low heat units/freeze, which protects against a cool growing season or early freeze events that can prevent corn from reaching full maturity.
The soybean program features similar coverage, including an early fall freeze provision. “Growers can look at what is available in the coverage and say ‘yes, that matters to me,’” Hamlin says.
Payments for bad weather events that are likely to cause losses aren’t made in a lump sum. They’re made throughout the growing season, depending on which weather component period is in place.
For example, the typical “planting rain” period for corn in a region may run from April 25 through May 25. If there is excessive rainfall and the grower has not received the number of good planting days specified in his policy, the grower “will be paid for presumed yield problems,” Hamlin says. “Checks are sent within 10 days after the end of each component period.”
There are no crop inspections and growers don’t file claims. Payments are made automatically, based on official weather data reports from various independent sources, such as USDA, National Weather Service and other sources.
Hamlin says that because federal crop insurance is based on a grower’s APH rather than their 2012 target yield, MPCI provides “almost catastrophic-level coverage for yields. Growers must suffer extremely significant yield losses before their federal crop insurance will ever kick in.”
However, in looking at a typical TWI policy in the Corn Belt region’s 30-year crop and weather history, “It would have resulted in a payout about 30% of the time,” he says.
“During the 2011 growing season, we paid out for the ‘early season rain’ component of client policies in 52% of the counties where coverage was purchased, while drought and heat payments were made to 48% of all policyholders nationwide.”
Hamlin says a grower interested in the program can receive a free risk report, which includes an analysis of the insurance gap they face with MPCI alone and information about the specific weather events that have caused documented crop loss in their county in the past. Initial premium rates are based on long-term weather forecasts for the coming year. Projected wet weather in northern states or continued drought in the southern plains will impact the price.
“In this example, the premium is currently $38/acre, but prices tend to increase as we get closer to the March 15 purchase deadline,” Hamlin says. “Growers can lock in the early season price and then make final decisions about how many acres they want to cover with TWI once they have their federal crop insurance in place.
“This gives growers the ability to design a cost-effective risk management plan that accounts for their federal crop-insurance election. And for growers who purchase coverage, premiums are paid at the end of the coverage period, typically after harvest. Only growers that experience good weather, and presumably good yields, end up paying a premium at the end of the season,” Hamlin says.
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Three years ago this fall, Secretary Vilsack and I launched the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative (KYF2). Since then, we’ve seen interest and participation in local and regional food systems grow beyond anything we expected: whether I’m meeting with buffalo ranchers from the Great Plains or with members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, I hear about efforts to connect producers and consumers locally and interest in how USDA can help.
In meetings of the White House Rural Council, which has representatives from across the federal government, regional food systems have been a key part of discussions. Read more »
Last month, representatives of several federal agencies held a meeting with the federally recognized tribes in Southeast Alaska. The meeting, in Alaska’s capital city of Juneau, was the fifth in a series of government-to-government Tribal Collaboration Meetings scheduled with tribes in Alaska. The venue for the meeting between federal officials and tribal leaders was the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Vocational Training and Resource Center.
Tribal representatives and other partners from the region used the session to discuss issues affecting their villages. Leaders from USDA Rural Development, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, Small Business Administration, Housing and Urban Development, the Economic Development Administration (EDA), and Intertribal Agriculture Council were on hand to listen and participate in the dialogue. Read more »
How does a community, business owner, tourist attraction, farmer, homeowner go on after the disastrous 2011 Missouri River flood? At a news conference on May 17, the message was clear: it took determination, community strength and perseverance. With great pride, communities and businesses announced that the Missouri River “MINK” Corridor is “Open for Business”.
The news conference was hosted by a coalition of communities and organizations in the states of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas (MINK). The members are in counties two deep on either side of the river. MINK knows no borders crossing county and state lines, and is helping each other in community development efforts. The genesis for MINK was a Midwest meeting in Madison, Wis. in May, 2010, hosted by the Partnership for Rural America through an agreement with USDA Rural Development. Read more »
Front row: Mary Honke, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Dr. Greg Smith, President of Central Community College. Back row from left to right are: Dr. Jack Huck, President of Southeast Community College; Ryan Purdy, Interim President of Mid-Plains Community College; Dr. Todd Holcomb, President of Western Community College; State Director Maxine Moul; and Dennis Baack, Executive Director of the Nebraska Community College Association.
Local colleges and USDA Rural Development are combining resources to improve the availability of higher education in rural areas. This increased emphasis on continuing education will bring a stronger work force to Nebraska. Read more »
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak before a group of city and town planners at a forum hosted by the American Planning Association. Before I spoke I asked the crowd to raise their hands if they had worked in a community of less than 50,000 population. To my surprise, three-quarters of audience raised a hand.
When I then asked for people to keep their hands raised if they worked in communities under 20,000, and close to half the hands were still up.
It was another reminder that people who live and work in rural communities are highly engaged—enough so to attend a conference here in Washington D.C.—and intent on exploring solutions for small towns and rural areas. Read more »
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JPMorgan Chase Cut Dividend, Wells Fargo and US Bank Might Follow
Dimon said the dividend cut is not directly related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, although it helps the company to maintain a strong capital position. JPMorgan, has received $25 billion in TARP money. JPMorgan has been deemed to be in the best financial shape of the other major banks.
The move is also supposed to save funds to repay the TARP money faster. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) also reaffirmed that it would be willing to increase dividends once economic conditions are more favorable.
Investors are now wondering which bank is next to cut its dividends. Some believe that Wells Fargo and US Bank, which received $25 billion and $6.6 billion respectively, are next in line for a dividend cut. With its current yield of over 16% however, most investors are expressing serious doubts about the sustainability of the current dividend payments.
Wells Fargo (WFC) is more likely to cut, as its acquisition of Wachovia would most certainly increase the need of the bank for cash. With a current yield of 12.5%, WFC seems like the lowest yielding financial stock out there. In the current tough credit environment however, I wouldn’t count on the safety of any financial dividend.
US Bank (USB) might be more susceptible for a dividend cut, as its payout ratio is very high currently. Furthermore the bank failed to increase its dividend in December for the first time in over 3 decades. Other companies such as Bank of America (BAC) failed to raise their dividends just months before cutting their payments to shareholders.
Traditionally, bank stocks were one of the best dividend investments for shareholders. It seems that TARP essentially is bad news for dividend investors, as it could result in further decreases to already lowered payments. The lesson to be learned for long-term investors is to diversify across sectors, no matter how great the dividend yields look.
Editor: Wells Fargo, US Bank, and a small position in Bank of America happen to be Warren Bufftt's bank holdings.
Tickers in the article:
- High Yield Dividend Stocks in Gurus' Portfolio
- Top dividend stocks of Warren Buffett
- Top dividend stocks of George Soros
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Residents speak out about I-26 widening plan at DOT meeting
Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 9:38 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 9:38 p.m.
More than 160 people curious about a proposed project to widen Interstate 26 attended an informational workshop Thursday at the WNC Agricultural Center.
The N.C. Department of Transportation held the session to gauge public interest on plans that have been blocked by critics in the past. Most people were in favor of the measure to calm the already troubled transportation route, which the DOT estimated could host a daily stream of more than 90,000 motorists by 2040.
Others were against any expansion that may encroach on their land, contribute to urban sprawl or bring more noise to an already noisy corridor.
DOT Division Engineer Joel Setzer said the 50-year-old interstate has been rehabilitated twice.
“The ride quality is slowly deteriorating,” he said. “I see the day approaching when we’ll have to renovate the lanes and I would like to do (that with) the widening all at one time.”
The $264 million project would involve a multi-lane widening of 22.2 miles of I-26 from the Upward Road exit/U.S. Highway 25 in East Flat Rock to I-40 in Buncombe County, and an overhaul of overpasses.
Between 45,000 and 80,000 or more cars travel the busy interstate on an average day outside of tourist season, said Undrea Major, project development engineer for DOT.
The steady flow of cars has led to traffic snarls, but relieving the congestion has been stalled by those who said the money would be better spent elsewhere or that widening would harm the environment.
The DOT planned to build a new interstate interchange to relieve traffic at Clear Creek Road that would have bulldozed an office park and part of Patton Park to bring people down the newly widened Asheville Highway in 2000. It sparked a public outcry, however, and the plans were shelved.
A few years later, local leaders urged DOT to use the money instead to widen I-26 in Henderson County. That plan was halted in 2003 when U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle sided with environmentalists in a lawsuit to block the project, saying state law required DOT to study its environmental impact.
Residents crowded around maps Thursday to get a look at the expansion plans.
“I think it’s definitely needed and I think it’s important that we do this for our future,” said Lorraine Riewerts.
“It’s been in the works for a while and it’s due; it’s very due,” said her husband, Berney Riewerts.
The two are regular travelers on I-26 and say they have seen the traffic grow “more and more” since they moved to Etowah 14 years ago.
“It should have been done 10 or 15 years ago,” said John Forehand of Arden, who travels the interstate every day on his way to work in Greer, S.C. “Most days I-26 is like a rolling parking lot.”
“We need a third lane on each side,” he said, adding that the corridor could also use another exit between Four Seasons Boulevard (exit 49) and Fletcher (exit 44) to alleviate congestion from traffic accidents.
He has been caught in the five-mile, no-exit land of no return before, he said, trapped in traffic snarled for an hour-and-a-half due to a collision that blocked both lanes.
But Julie Mayfield, executive director of WNC Alliance, an environmental group that joined others in the lawsuit against the DOT a decade ago, quizzed officials on how they would widen the lanes.
“Cannibalizing the medians” may have less of an environmental impact than expanding outward, she said.
“We’ll have to wait a little bit longer and see what they’re going to do,” she added.
Traffic congestion can lead to problems with air quality, so expansion could help in that regard, Mayfield said. “What we know about highway widenings, though, is that they can also induce more demand on the highway,” she said, and more demand can lead to “sprawl.”
Uncontrolled growth can be hazardous to an environment’s health, she said, and widening isn’t always the best answer.
Major said sprawl and growth can be limited by a city’s or county’s land development plans.
“We’re building to accommodate for traffic that’s already going to come,” he said. “At some point in time we need to determine are we going to be ahead of the curve in accommodating that traffic, or do we let it get out of hand?”
Deborah Henderson, whose land in Fletcher may be needed for the expansion of the interstate, said she was for it. “I’m totally okay with it,” she said, adding she would be happy to sell her land for future travelers. “I travel a lot of weekends to Tennessee and coming back I notice how congested it is ... especially on a weekend, it’s crazy. To me, it’s a win-win situation.”
DOT officials told inquirers that any definite plans on exactly where the corridor will expand outward instead of inward have not yet been decided, but they have earmarked $5 million for right-of-way purchases.
Starling Underwood of Fletcher was filling a comment form with his concerns. His house lies 400 to 500 yards from the noisy interstate.
“My main concern is ... how much they’re going to expand and if they’re going to build a sound barrier,” he said. “We’ve tried to sell the house before and when people come look at it, (they say) it’s too noisy.”
Concerned that the extra lanes would bring more noise, he said he and his neighbors “would like a sound barrier.”
The DOT has been studying the project since fall of 2012. Officials plan to draft an environmental impact statement in 2015 and host a public hearing in the winter of 2016. Construction of the project would not begin until 2020.
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Fjordman has written an associated Brussels Journal post, one in which he addresses the question “Is the Nation State Obsolete?” It is a lengthy discussion of the effort to delegitimize the nation-state, and therefore any national identity.
He quotes Roger Scruton:
The political and economic advantages that lead people to seek asylum in the West are the result of territorial jurisdiction. Yet territorial jurisdictions can survive only if borders are controlled. Transnational legislation, acting together with the culture of repudiation, is therefore rapidly undermining the conditions that make Western freedoms durable.
Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties – the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties, and by the electorate as a whole. Yet everywhere the idea of the nation is under attack – either despised as an atavistic form of social unity, or even condemned as a cause of war and conflict, to be broken down and replaced by more enlightened and more universal forms of jurisdiction. But what, exactly, is supposed to replace the nation and the nation state?
Actually, we already know the answer to this question, since we’ve seen it in action before: the troika of Party, Central Committee, and Politburo, serving the interests of “The People” by ruling with an iron fist.
The fact that the Party Congress will likely conduct its sessions in Arabic and apply justice according to the fiqh is neither here nor there.
In Europe, the remaining native speakers of European languages will be obliged to pay for this de-nationalization process. As Fjordman says:
The irony is that while we are being told that we should accept massive immigration because the nation state is obsolete, we are still supposed to pay for it. Many Western Europeans in 2006 typically pay between 35 to 55% of their income in taxes, and almost all of this goes to projects and institutions on a national level. If the nation state is dead, how come it gets half of my salary? The nation state must be the most expensive corpse in human history. It is also noteworthy that Leftist parties in Europe usually get the overwhelming majority of votes from Third World immigrants, who come precisely to enjoy the economic benefits these countries have to offer. The idea that the border should be kept open, since nation states are obsolete, but that citizens should still pay for it has proven to be a stroke of genius for Leftist parties, who can simply import voters and elect a new people. Native Europeans who pay their high tax rates will thus be funding their own colonization.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. If Fjordman is right, there is still time for Europeans to take their nations back from the EU.
My ancestors spoke Northumbrian, Scots Gaelic, Provençal, and Low German, so I am somewhat of an ethnic Europhile. The real Europe, that is: the patchwork of peculiar people jabbering in their own languages and maintaining their ancient and honorable traditions, not the Grand Experiment of the “European Union.”
As my contribution to the effort to take Europe back from the EU, I’ve created some additional graphics. First, the large version:
It means, “Say no to the EU!” Also, “Stop EUrabia!” and “No more EUtopias!” I invite our European readers to borrow this graphic — or the smaller one shown below, which is designed for the sidebar — and use it on your blogs.
Forsake EUphemism and eschew EUnamity!
There’s no reason for Europeans to give up their nations. They can gather together with people from other countries and speak English or French or German, and also speak their own languages at home, in their own parliaments and institutions.
A supranational institution can never assure the security of a free people. No one is going to volunteer to take up arms and die to defend the Treaty of Maastricht. People are moved to defend themselves by the natural ties of blood, language, and custom.
Prosperous free-market democracies tend to be peaceful entities. In any case, smaller nations can form alliances to forestall any threat of resurgent hegemony from Russia or France or Germany.
Let’s hear it for Norway and Latvia and Slovenia and Poland and Denmark and Spain! Long live Republika Hrvatska! Vlaanderen Vlaams!
Are you ready to take the U out of E?
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As you search for a job as a recent college graduate, you need to take advantage of every opportunity. You are up against some tough applicants, many of whom have far more experience but are willing to take a pay cut in order to find employment. Yet you have many things on your side. Your youth, your recent education, your energy – all of these will help you impress your employer in ways the experienced workers cannot.
Perhaps your greatest advantage for finding a job is that employers have reduced expectations. While this may sound like a bad thing, the truth is that this can only work to your advantage. Hiring managers are not stupid. They know they cannot expect a recent graduate’s resume to read like a CEO’s. They have to look at your application in a different perspective, with the knowledge that though your resume may not be strong, your intelligence and education may guide you to success in the role.
Taking Advantage of the Assumption
You can use these lower expectations to your advantage. One of the ways to do this is by expanding the ways you look for jobs. A few months ago we went over the different types of cover letters (/5-types-of-cover-letters), each one corresponding to a different way of applying for jobs.
It is in your best interest to use some of these job search techniques, because they are rarely employed by recent college graduates. Using these techniques is sure to impress employers, because it will be a complete surprise for them to see these strategies used by a recent graduate, and that surprise is sure to get you noticed.
- Cold Contact – Send in your resume and a cover letter to companies that appear to be amazing places to work, even if they do not have a job open.
- Try Your Network – Give your resume and cover letter to people you know that have great employers. See if they will get you a referral.
- Use Referrals – Nothing gets a company interested like the referral of someone that is already in the company. Referrals are genuine signs of trust, because few people would risk their careers to get a friend hired that was not qualified for the role.
These are some examples of job search techniques that recent graduates should absolutely utilize. As a recent college graduate, you are in a position to truly impress employers that go into their hiring process assuming you will not measure up. Show them they are wrong, and then some.
Take Away Tips
- Utilize all available job search strategies.
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See Japan's castles the easy way
Article posted on Tuesday, August, 23rd, 2011 at 10:56 pm
I have been attempting to finish 100 things at the the same time. The result being 100 unfinished things. And just to top things off, I’ve been neglecting this blog. It’s time to keep it simple.
Here is a photo from the end of what was a fantastic day at Ōzu Castle. This castle, and indeed Ehime Prefecture, are must visit places. Do yourself a favour!
A question before I go. What would you like to see here at this blog? I’m open to your ideas.
Article posted on Wednesday, February, 16th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
I recall as a child being asked if I’d collected stamps. My mother had been really into collecting them, and her interest had rubbed off a little onto my sister & me. Anyway, so when I was asked “Do you collect stamps?”, I said yes. The person who’d asked the question then proceeded to jump on my foot and said, “Well, there’s another one!” Ahh… the funny things kids get up to.
You may recall from a previous post that a trip I took to Ehime late last year. It was then that I actually started collecting the stamps of Japan’s 100 famous castles (100名城). What you see below are the stamps of Yuzuki Castle (No, you don’t), Matsuyama Castle, Ōzu Castle and Uwajima Castle.
I actually missed out on Yuzuki twice: morning and night. I guess I’ll just have to go back there again one of these days.
So, um…do you collect stamps?
Article posted on Wednesday, December, 15th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
The samurai were never really big on siege weapons, at least not to the extent of their counterparts in Europe. Attacking & defending a castle in Japan was much more a game of cat-and-mouse. Sometimes the cat was happy to wait, and other times it would be forced to chance the maze-like corridors in an attempt to get a result.
The gate pictured below is the Tsutsui Gate (筒井門) and the small gate to the left is the Tonashi Gate (戸無門). From my own experience, the path is quite clear when entering the castle. You first pass through the Tonashi Gate, then through the Tsutsui Gate. And, just so you know that I’m not misrepresenting things here, the area out of frame is quite small and entry from the foot of the mountain is limited to the Tonashi Gate. Well, to this enclosure at least.
I think we can all agree that the way in doesn’t look all that hidden. So, what’s the catch?
The Kakure Gate
The missing piece to all this is the Kakure Gate (隠門). It may not surprise you to learn the Kakure means hidden. It’s only now that I realise any surprise was doomed from the start having named this post The hidden gate. Live and learn. Anyway, the castle’s designers always intended this tacked-on gate be overlooked, not so much by 99% of today’s tourists but by any attacking force intent on getting their mitts on the lord’s topknot.
The theory behind the twin-gate set-up was that the well-harassed attackers be focussed on the Tsutsui gate, when seemingly, out of nowhere, defenders would be spilling in from the side, out-flanking them.
A final explanation
The Tonashi Gate isn’t shown in the above picture but sits to the very left of the above two gates. The attackers would enter from the left & presumably focus their efforts on the Tsutsui Gate (the larger gate). Defenders would then counter-attack from the Kakure Gate on the right.
A side note
The three gates mentioned are a mixture of old & new. The Tonashi (door-less) Gate & the Kakure (hidden) Gate are designated as Important Cultural Properties and date from the Edo period. The larger Tsutsui (round well) Gate has been since rebuilt. The turret atop the Kakure Gate is also listed as an Important Cultural Property.
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FORTUNE -- The TABB Group, a research firm that specializes in stock trading and technology, is out with what appears to be a concerning stat: Just 2% of professional investors completely trust the market.
It's become a common line to say that Knight Capital's recent trading glitch, the bungled Facebook IPO and the 2010 Flash Crash is either adding to or the root cause of individuals' skittishness with the market. As evidence, people point to the fact that money has continued to come out of stock funds even as the market has rallied. Now TABB is saying it's not just individuals but pros who are growing nervous.
TABB has done this survey a number of times, and taken together they do seem to suggest high-frequency trading and technical glitches are the source of the pros' growing uneasiness with the market. After 2010's Flash Crash, 12% of market pros said their confidence in the market's structure was "very high." After Facebook's bungled IPO, the "very high" group had dropped to 5%.
The problem with all this lack-of-confidence talk is that the market's main gauge of confidence, the S&P 500, is up 11% so far this year. Yes, on light volume. But for the market to be up that much, someone must be putting more money in.
What's more, fears that the market is some sort of borg-controlled system ready to be taken down by a computer bug is only part of the confidence story. Along with the question about confidence, TABB also asked respondents what they thought it would take to revive investor enthusiasm for U.S. stocks. Slightly less than half of all asset managers and hedge funds who responded to the survey, 47%, did say some improvement in market structure would help. But the next highest response, 39%, was that U.S. stocks "outperform other markets." What's more, the most common written-in response, at 8%, for what would boost confidence was "global economy."
I'm not saying that our complicated, fragmented market is not a problem that regulators shouldn't look into. And it's probably true the market has grown so complicated that a growing number of professionals now don't truly understand how it all works.
But we should also be careful before lumping in the trading problems into talk of "the death of equities." The reason stocks have had a lackluster few years could be more mundane than we think. People aren't confident in the market, because stocks haven't been going up, at least not consistently. And the economy hasn't turned around. When stocks go up, and the economy turns around, investors are likely to pile back into the market, which is, of course, what always happens.
An increase in stock trading rule changes is making it hard for firms to keep up.
FORTUNE -- Perhaps the only thing moving faster than high-frequency traders are the changes to the rules that govern how they trade.
On the day of the flub that cost Knight Capital Group (KCG) $440 million in 45 minutes and briefly caused turmoil in over 100 stocks, the New York Stock Exchange issued three changes to MOREStephen Gandel, senior editor - Aug 8, 2012 2:40 PM ET
Building error-free trading software is impossible, and that makes today's stock markets even more fragile.
FORTUNE -- One question keeps arising in the saga of Knight Capital and its $440 million software glitch: why did Knight, one of the premier U.S. market makers that handles more than 10% of total stock trading, introduce glitchy software into the market?
CEO Thomas Joyce explained in a television interview that the company's new software program MOREScott Cendrowski, writer-reporter - Aug 3, 2012 2:17 PM ET
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The Whiting-Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture Series
Come to Be Inspired!
Adam Ostrow, Chief Strategy Officer at Mashable.com and Alumnus of the Merrill School of Journalism and the Hinman CEOs Program presented his talk titled "Reimagining Media for a Connected World" on April 11, 2013.
It's many an engineer's dream—to create and introduce a new product or technology, and in the process make the world a better place and reap financial benefits. The Whiting-Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture Series, now beginning its second decade at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, celebrates this dream and helps make students, faculty, alumni and regional business people more likely to achieve it.
The series brings leading technology enterprise thinkers to campus—men and women from large, established companies or small and promising start-ups, who deal with the real-world challenges of a fast-paced, global economy. In their lectures and question-and-answer sessions, they share their insights and experiences, their "war stories" and predictions, inspiring audience members to apply new ideas and approaches in their current or future careers.
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Late last year, the U.S. Education Department negotiated agreements with two colleges that required them to tighten procedures for dealing with sexual harassment complaints under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Experts read the agreements, which were much more extensive than past ones, as a clear message that the department's Office for Civil Rights was cracking down on Title IX violations.
If other colleges didn't get the memo then, they will undoubtedly get it now. Today, OCR is sending a "Dear Colleague" letter to colleges, universities and schools across the country to assertively remind them of -- and help them carry out -- the Title IX requirements on the prevention of sexual harassment they must adhere to as federally funded institutions.
While the document is described as a clarification, it contains several key shifts. The department is stipulating that the burden of proof required for colleges to take action is less than that required for criminal convictions, and stating that there are specific requirements that apply to colleges for incidents that take place off-campus.
The 18-page message describes at length the various ways in which colleges must address and prevent sexual harassment so they are in compliance with Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The new guidance elaborates on mandates that officials said colleges have previously misunderstood or not adhered to. While there are no brand-new regulations, it is expected to clear up some confusion about a few of the more vexing requirements that have long confounded colleges, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali said in a conference call with reporters Friday.
The "historic" guidance clarifies colleges' responsibilities for dealing with sexual violence, Ali said, and helps institutions better understand how to ensure incidents are reported, investigated and dealt with "swiftly and appropriately." It also encourages colleges to be proactive in preventing sexual violence through community education. Nonexistent, disjointed or unclear reporting and investigation procedures at colleges have cost many victims the fair process they are entitled to under federal regulations, Ali and others said. (Eastern Michigan University and Notre Dame College in Ohio, the two institutions that reached agreements with OCR in December, were faulted on this, among other things.)
"From our perspective, this is a significant advancement for the victims of sexual violence and preventing sexual violence," said S. Daniel Carter, director of public policy for Security on Campus, an organization that has said colleges don't do enough to address this issue. "The process matters, because we see when victims are revictimized by the process, when they don't get justice, when they don't get protected. And that's one of the most important aspects of Title IX.... A better process, which these guidelines are intended to foster, will better protect them, will better ensure that they have access to protections in an educational environment."
To ensure that sexual harassment does not create a hostile environment for any student -- victim or otherwise -- colleges must take many measures, but they all fall within three main procedural requirements. Each institution receiving federal funds must: disseminate a notice of nondiscrimination to students, parents and employees; designate at least one employee to coordinate its efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under Title IX (that person's contact information should be included in the nondiscrimination notice); and adopt and publish grievance procedures providing for prompt and equitable resolution of student and employee sex discrimination complaints.
Given that the guidance deals only with existing regulations and adds no new burden to colleges, Ali said she expects "immediate compliance."
Others are unsure of that expectation's feasibility. "It is common in colleges and universities that when they need to change policies and procedures, that they go through a process, and sometimes those processes can be prolonged," said Ada Meloy, general counsel for the American Council on Education. "However, because this Dear Colleague letter is quite detailed and directive in its content, I think that colleges and universities have more to go on as far as what the OCR thinks they should be doing. While very little can be done immediately, I think that colleges and universities will give this a serious look and move it up on their agenda of things to deal with."
Meloy interprets the guidance as another signal that OCR doesn't intend to back down on this issue and colleges will continue to see activity from the office, but she cautioned against institutions rushing to place blame.
Brown University was sued by a former student who was accused of rape and who said his rights were ignored and that he was forced out of the university based on minimal evidence. (The new guidance makes clear that the victim and the accused must receive fair treatment.) The woman involved in that case is now suing the alleged rapist for violating their agreement and discussing the case by filing his own lawsuit against her, her father -- who is himself a Brown alumnus -- and the university.
"I think that colleges and universities do need to be careful to keep in mind that being wrongfully accused or wrongfully found to have committed these offenses is extremely damaging, so care must be taken at every stage of the proceedings to be fair in reviewing the matter," Meloy said. "I know from my years on campus that these are not always simple issues to resolve. There are almost always going to be two sides to the story, and particularly since this mainly addresses peer-on-peer harassment, both sides need to be listened to and considered." (Meloy noted that a federal grant program, mentioned in a footnote of the OCR letter, could assist colleges in the training and review procedures they're expected to carry out.)
In the press call, Ali stressed the importance of clarifying the standard of proof for sexual harassment. "The guidance answers a longstanding question that we have heard from many general counsels about, and that is what the standard of proof is," Ali said. "Far too often universities use that higher standard when it comes to Title IX." Colleges need only a "preponderance of evidence," showing it's more likely than not that a crime occurred, Ali said. According to the guidance, "Conduct may constitute unlawful sexual harassment under Title IX even if the police do not have sufficient evidence of a criminal violation. In addition, a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual violence does not relieve the school of its duty under Title IX to resolve complaints promptly and equitably."
Despite its importance, Carter said, the standard of proof is one clarification that he is concerned might take time to carry out. For instance, Carter noted, at Ohio State University, where the OCR began a compliance review in June after students alleged too high a burden of proof when considering whether to discipline those accused of sexual harassment, lowering that standard could require approval from the institution's governing board.
And realistically, even the less demanding requirements could take time to get applied to actual cases, Carter said. "I don't expect to see changes overnight, but I think particularly as we move into the next school year, we do expect to see changes as institutions respond to being made aware of the requirements," he said.
Carter noted one other particularly important clarification. Previously, many colleges were unsure as to whether they should investigate and possibly take action on off-campus incidents between students; the guidance makes clear that institutions are obliged to do so. "If a student files a complaint with the school, regardless of where the conduct occurred, the school must process the complaint in accordance with its established procedures," the letter reads. "Because students often experience the continuing effects of off-campus sexual harassment in the educational setting, schools should consider the effects of the off-campus conduct when evaluating whether there is a hostile environment on campus."
The new guidance is being formally announced today by Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan at the University of New Hampshire, 200 miles northeast of Yale University, which is at the center of a new OCR inquiry. OCR officials confirmed Friday that, after considering a 26-page complaint they received on March 15, they will launch an investigation into allegations of a sexually hostile campus environment at Yale. The complaint alleges that, in addition to not having a Title IX coordinator or a sufficient grievance process, the university did not respond promptly or effectively to several known incidents of harassment.
Yale spokesman Thomas Conroy said via e-mail that the institution "does not believe it has violated Title IX in any manner." The university declined to comment further on the specifics of the complaint because it has not received a copy. But in a statement sent to Inside Higher Ed on Sunday, Yale said it "has initiated a number of programs in recent years as part of its continuing effort to respond effectively and appropriately to incidents of sexual misconduct and harassment." In a letter addressed to Yale College students and faculty members Friday, Mary Miller said she became dean of the college in part to "carry the message of equity to an even wider audience." In the letter, Miller acknowledged the reported contents of the complaint and defended the university's regulations regarding sexual harassment and misconduct, saying it "has used the available means" to investigate questionable incidents and respond appropriately, issuing penalties when necessary. "Yale is notable," Miller wrote, "for the extraordinary number and range of initiatives, programs of study, working groups, faculty and student organizations, and administrative offices devoted to the advancement of women and women's issues."
In recent months, students at other institutions have protested handling of complaints, as well. A four-day sit-in at a Dickinson College administration building, where students protested that the college was not strict enough in disciplining for rape and sexual assault, ended early in March after the college promised to lighten its standard of proof and punish rape perpetrators only with expulsion.
While strict guidelines for sexual harassment policies and procedures could help clear up messy situations such as those at Dickinson and Brown, the OCR letter does raise concerns for civil liberties groups like the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which fears that by not addressing freedoms of speech and expression in the guidance, the OCR could leave students vulnerable to harassment charges for speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
"Worryingly, this letter fails to replicate the exacting, speech-protective understandings of hostile environment sexual harassment contained in previous OCR guidance letters, including both the 2001 Guidance and the 2003 Dear Colleague letter," FIRE said in a statement sent to Inside Higher Ed on Friday. "In the 2001 Guidance, OCR made clear that in determining whether a hostile environment has been created, the severity, pervasiveness, and both objective and subjective offensiveness of the behavior in question must be considered."
"As a result of this deficiency, FIRE worries that schools seeking to comply with OCR's increased emphasis on sexual harassment education and prevention will fail to promulgate and disseminate sexual harassment policies that provide sufficient protection for student speech. This result would run counter to previous OCR guidance and legal precedent," the statement continued. "Colleges and universities are both legally and morally obligated to address sexual harassment and sexual violence on campus. The vast majority are also legally and morally obligated to protect freedom of expression. These responsibilities need not be in tension."
While acts of sexual violence are "vastly under-reported," data show that nearly 20 percent of college women and 6 percent of college men will be victims of attempted or actual sexual assault as students, according to one estimate the OCR cited. "This is an issue that we have to confront as a country," Ali said. "Our first goal is prevention through education. But where the OCR needs to be involved in an enforcement context, we will do that as well."
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The town of Azay-le-Rideau has more to offer than just one of the Big 6 Châteaux, but you would never know by reading the Michelin Guide to the Loire Châteaux. It's true that the château of Azay-le-Rideau is particularly beautiful, but even a short walk through the centre of the town will provide other architectural gems that I am surprised the Michelin Guide did not feel were worth mentioning.
The church of Saint Symphorien is very close to the château, and if you park in the town's public car park, you have to walk around it to get the château entrance.
The oldest part of the church is 9th century, and it is mostly Romanesque from the 10th to 12th centuries, with additions in the 16th and 17th centuries.
There is a good article about the church here.
front of the church.
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Pre-optometry: The career that shouldn't be overlooked
May 14, 2007
College of Saint Benedict senior Gina Silvers was like many students - undecided about what career path to follow after graduation. But eventually, she saw a clear future in optometry.
"The benefits and options with it are outstanding. I know I will be doing something that I love, and will still have time for a family," Silvers said.
She said she discovered a passion for eye care after job shadowing and working at an eye clinic associated with LensCrafters while at CSB/SJU.
"Volunteering and job shadowing are great ways to gain experience and get advice from professionals," Silvers said. "A good way to find doctors who are willing to work with students is by asking professors or upperclassman. The experiences will not only be amazing learning experiences, they will help you decide if you are choosing the right career path."
In addition to job experience, her biology professors have helped foster her career goals even though she said she is a "shy student."
"Their doors are always open to help with school work or just to chat. I really appreciate their desire for us to learn and succeed in life," said Silvers, who is originally from Sartell, Minn.
She said that she only knows two other pre-optometry students that are seniors this year, but finds student support in general to be very beneficial when is comes to making plans for after graduation, in addition to forming long-lasting friendships.
"I share many of my classes with a lot of the same pre-professional students who I have gotten to know quite well. It helps that many of us are in the same position when it comes to interviews and getting accepted into school for next year," she said.
"I would say the relationships I have formed throughout my four years here have been outstanding." Silvers added. "I have met some wonderful people, in class and out, that have motivated me in many ways and helped me form memories that I will have forever."
Silvers plans to attend optometry school after graduation, with her top choices being Ohio State University, Indiana University, University of Houston and Pacific University in Oregon.
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Australia, 1942: A visiting American soldier comments on how much smaller the rats are compared to his native Brooklyn.
Posts tagged as: Vintage
From the Smithsonian Institution comes this very old photo, along with a heartwarming story of a dog who rode the rails:
Owney was a stray dog who wandered into the Albany, New York, post office in 1888. The clerks let him stay the night, and he fell asleep on a pile of empty mailbags. Owney was attracted to the texture or scent of the mailbags and began to follow them, first onto mail wagons and then onto mail trains. Owney began to ride with the bags on Railway Post Office (RPO) train cars across the state, and then the country. The RPO clerks adopted Owney as their unofficial mascot, marking his travels by placing medals and tags from his stops on his collar
Via Flickr Commons, collections of the world’s photo archives.
In the heady days of vaudeville, one of the more unusual acts was the Whisker Sisters, a magic act consisting of a pair of kittens. Audiences loved them, even though their ability to guess the selected card was at the level of statistical chance.
Update: By request, here’s a link to the photo’s page, which has a little more info.
More updates: Nikki calls Rule 14, and someone corrects my spelling of “sleight.”
Once, long ago, some girl dropped a bonnet,
And a curious kitten crawled in and upon it.
‘Twas 1885, that’s quite a while,
So only the kitten is still in style.
Image from George Eastman House via The Commons on Flickr.
“Hey, guys? Could somebody throw me one of those — oh, what are they called? — those rescuing things? Oh, you know, the round things with the hole. Um, it’s named just like the candy? Totally drawing a blank here; it’s not Necco Wafers, I know that… Now I’ve got the word preserver stuck in my head, so it must be that candy with lots of preservatives… Man, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…”
Way back in your great-great-grandfather’s days in the Navy, it was customary for sailors to pose the ship’s mascot in one of the big guns. Don’t worry, they weren’t loaded. (The guns, that is. The sailors, that’s another story.)
When she was a little girl, Mabel Flossenglottner had an imaginary friend, a penguin she called Mr. Flappy. She would run and play with him all day long, and share her most private thoughts. In return, Mr. Flappy would tell Mabel to … do things.
Vintage Qte found by Lindsey J. (With apologies to the little girl, who probably turned out just fine.)
Way back in the Once Upon, before the world was in color, before time was what turned kittens into cats, it came to pass that our Fearless Leader dispatched this missive across the interwires by high-resolution telegraph, on August the 16th, in the year of two-thousand-and-eight…
Puh-lease. Too, too moshe:
black and white?
miniscules and striped?
ear flappage and paw danglage?
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In the scientific taxonomy of Living Things, you have: Life Domain Kingdom Phylum Class etc. down to Species, and maybe thence to Breed. If I were talking about my neighbor's dog who is half ...
Does using unexplained spiritual elements (soul, "spiritual"/non-physical beings, afterlife, God, etc.) in a story with a futuristic setting make it science fantasy rather than science fiction?
Through the process of writing my novel, I've found that I really don't know where it fits in the written realm. I believe I should have a clear understanding to identify what genre my book belongs ...
I'm an attentive follower of Janet Reid's Query Shark, and I've learned a lot. But Reid doesn't represent speculative fiction, which seems to present wrinkles of its own. Particularly, Query Shark ...
Diving (OK, dove) into conlanging for a novel I'm working on. The Conlang is atmospheric and allows for some subplot intrigue, but it's not absolutely essential to the story. I've got basic grammar, ...
So much of Sci-Fi and Fantasy requires the viewer (or reader) to suspend their disbelief: The speed of light can be circumvented, magic works, vampires are real (and may or may not sparkle), etc. ...
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Tuesday that the upcoming budget cuts under the so-called sequestration would create a "significant" burden on an economy that is growing only moderately.
In his semi-annual economic report to Congress, the Fed chief urged lawmakers and the Obama administration to "consider replacing the sharp, front-loaded spending cuts required by the sequestration with policies that reduce the federal deficit more gradually in the near term but more substantially in the longer run."
He told the Senate Banking Committee that the sequestration set to take effect March 1, which would cut federal spending by $85 billion this year, and other recent near-term budget changes could create a "significant headwind for the economic recovery."
"Besides having adverse effects on jobs and incomes, a slower recovery would lead to less actual deficit reduction in the short run for any given set of fiscal actions," he said in prepared remarks.
Bernanke said that the economy was continuing to grow at a moderate pace and that the flattening of growth late last year did not indicate a "stalling-out" of the recovery, but instead reflected weather-related disruptions and other transitory factors.
Still, Bernanke again highlighted the weakness and hardships in the labor market, noting the high unemployment rate and the millions of people struggling with long-term joblessness and the inability to obtain full-time work.
In addition to the slow recovery and the risks of sequestration, Bernanke's remarks came as the U.S. and the world faced renewed threats from the Eurozone debt crisis, which had quieted since late last year but reawakened this week in the wake of an impasse in Italian elections.
Bernanke, in a question-and-answer session after his testimony, was expected to address those economic conditions as well as increased concerns about the effectiveness of the central bank's aggressive monetary stimulus to support the weak economy.
Inside and outside the Fed, experts and policymakers are concerned that the Fed's easy-money policies could be sowing the seeds of runaway inflation, asset bubbles and unstable financial markets down the road.
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In his exchange with the senators, Bernanke laid out a case for why the central bank should keep priming the economy with plenty of monetary stimulus. He said the Fed’s bond-buying and other efforts to hold down interest rates had helped the housing market and sales of cars and other goods, essentially arguing that the benefits outweighed the risks.
He said he didn’t see much evidence of a stock market bubble, and he pushed back against accusations that he was soft on inflation.
Responding to Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who called Bernanke the “biggest dove” on inflation “since World War II,” the Fed leader said “my inflation record is the best of any Federal Reserve chairman in the postwar period, or at least one of the best, about 2% average inflation.”
The record of the Bernanke years has been notably less stellar on unemployment. The Fed has a dual mandate: to control inflation and to maximize employment. Liberal critics have said Bernanke has done too little to stimulate the economy to bring unemployment down, even as conservatives have accused him of doing too much.
Corker and some other lawmakers also questioned Bernanke about the Fed’s sharply increased holdings of Treasury and other government securities. They raised concerns that when the time comes for a reversal of the Fed’s stimulus measures that it could destabilize financial markets or lead to losses instead of the gains on assets that the central bank has been remitting to the Treasury.
Bernanke acknowledged that those remittances would decline if the economy strengthens or if interest rates were to rise quickly. Still, he expressed confidence that the Fed had the tools to tighten monetary policy without doing undue harm.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) asked: “What would the impact be of actually having to liquidate a big portion of your holdings on the bond market, on the equity markets?”
“We don't anticipate having to do that,” Bernanke replied. “We could exit without ever selling, by letting it run off,” he said, referring to the Fed’s holdings of mortgage-backed securities.
Bernanke added: “Senator, if I can just make one very quick point -- there's no risk-free approach to this situation. I mean, the risk of not doing anything is severe as well. So we're trying to balance these things as best we can.”]
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Can You Count on Voting Machines?Back to Article »
After the 2000 election, counties around the country rushed to buy new computerized voting machines. But it turns out that these machines may cause problems worse than hanging chads. Is America ready for another contested election?
Do you trust your vote to be counted with electronic voting machines?
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CHICAGO — For the owner of an attended laundry, their employees are among their most important assets. But all people have unique personalities, habits and motivations — they don’t always work well together or create the results that a business wants. The key to eliminating these problems is to understand the team’s personalities and manage every individual in the way that works best for them.
There is no cookie-cutter way of determining people’s personalities; you can only gain this insight by spending time with them, paying close attention to their habits, and asking them about their aspirations and preferences.
Here are some key considerations:
The amount and type of structure that an employee has in their day-to-day work is one of the biggest considerations. The scale ranges from those who want no guidance at all to those who enjoy being micro-managed (though most fall closer to the center of the spectrum).
Workers who are independent, responsible and good at managing their time usually don’t appreciate a lot of top-down structure and rigidity. They thrive in a position and work environment that are in constant flux and tend not to appreciate rigid deadlines, though they do hold goals in high regard.
Employees at the other extreme prefer to have every half-hour mapped out to make sure they stay on schedule, so leaving them to their own devices would result in anxiety, ineffective priorities and wasted time. They want stability, clear expectations and deadlines.
Some people love to be in charge: they want complete ownership over their projects and are happy to delegate work. These “leaders” chafe under too many rules, structures and layers of authority.
Contrasting this are workers who don’t want to be responsible for anything at all, and don’t enjoy making decisions. These meeker types become anxious when they must take the blame (or credit) for a choice that they made, and are quite happy to be followers who do only the work assigned.
Discerning what somebody wants to get out of their job, and what drives them to perform and succeed, is challenging. People can be driven by a paycheck, recognition, status, desire for approval or simply sheer enthusiasm for the work. Some people simply want to get by, while others are driven to achieve ever more through hard work or strategic thinking. A good business owner will discover what a person enjoys doing and what goals they strive for, and will seek a way to integrate these two elements while they are working in their laundry.
Individuals on their own are tricky to manage, but groups of people bring up whole new sets of challenges. Some employees are outgoing “people-persons” – confident, friendly, open and social. They can overpower meeker team members and always have something to say. Their contributions are valuable, but keep them in check so they don’t drown out all other voices.
Other employees are shy, reluctant, introverted and private. These workers should feel that they are accepted into the group even if they do not contribute as loudly or as often as others, and should not be put on the spot.
Finally, consider how your team handles conflict and stress. Some members may handle criticism, mistakes and disagreements well, without taking anything personally or feeling attacked. Others are more sensitive and may feel defensive or offended if they are called out or challenged. Handle conflict and problems with sensitivity and always remember that people have faults and make mistakes; it’s only human.
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Associate Professor of Lighting Design, School of Constructed Environments
Craig A. Bernecker is founder and Director of The Lighting Education Institute , Philadelphia, PA. From 1981 to 2001 he taught lighting fundamentals, electrical systems, environmental controls, and architectural lighting studies in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Bernecker is the past President and a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, a United States representative and Board Member of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Lighting Research Institute . He has published extensively in journals inluding Lighting Design+Application, Lighting Research and Technology, and Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society, and has authored a number of volumes in the IESNA Lighting Education series. He has been a technical and peer reviewer for the Department of Energy, and has presented papers and workshops on lighting-related topics across the United States and internationally. Bernecker holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Master of Science in Architectural Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
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The latest casualty of the economic downturn is state funding of higher education.
The annual Grapevine study, conducted by Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Higher Education and the State Higher Education Executive Officers, indicated that state appropriations for colleges and students dropped by 7.6 percent, the largest decline in at least 50 years.
Forty-one states cut their spending from 1 percent to 41 percent, with a third plummeting by double digits. Twenty-nine states diverted less money to higher education in 2011-12 than they did in 2006-7, and 14 provided at least 10 percent less than they did five years ago.
The Choice is now available in your in-box. To sign up, visit our subscription page and enter your e-mail address. Every week, you'll receive the latest college admissions news and advice from The New York Times.
Given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at Wesleyan University, Mr. Steinberg accompanied an admissions officer for nearly a year as he recruited the nation's most promising students. “The Gatekeepers” follows a diverse group competing for places in elite colleges.
Although Will Walker, who will attend Williams College, counts himself “lucky,” he encourages other students with unfulfilled college plans to wait: “the universe usually has a way of working things out.”
In the beginning, my dream of attending college in the United States with limited funds seemed to be just that: a dream. However, I am grateful to have had friends and family who were always supportive.
I, for one, do not believe that a roommate profile is the proper place to demonstrate one’s self-restraint. Or it could be that my profile is utterly repugnant … I am wearing Minnie Mouse ears in the photo.
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Workplace stress is a reality most of us have to face. If we are to succeed in our careers, we have little choice but to learn to copies with it. Managing workplace stress does not require you to make big changes in every aspect of your work life. Rather, it requires focus on what you can always control: yourself. Here are seven stress reducing tips you can apply to your own life at the workplace.
1. Try a Different Perspective. Seeing a stressful problem or situation from a different perspective can often help you relieve stress and regain composure. Sometimes, we tend to force ourselves to seek solutions by looking at issues from only one perspective. However, jf you can convince yourself to get out of your zone and look at things from a different angle, you might see things as your co-workers do, and that can lead to reduced stress. In other words, looking at something through someone else’s eyes not only can lessen your tensions but can also lead to a better solution.
2. Delegate. If being overloaded with work is a continuing stress factor, you should consider delegating some of your work. Think carefully about what you are required to do and identify those tasks that could be competently done by others. If necessary, discuss the issue with your boss and explain the need for more assistance with some tasks. Some people tend to feel the need do all the work themselves and find themselves with a the pile of work that is not possible to finish in regular working hours. They leave themselves with no option but to stay late or work on weekends, which creates more stress. Delegating work may help relieve some of that stress. If this sounds like you, start by seeking the help of someone, a neutral third party who can be objective about what tasks others can do for you, to help you review your tasks to determine what can be done at a lower level. A side benefit of delegating is that your co-workers often feel as if their jobs have been enhanced by the work you are trusting them to do for you.
3. Make Time for Your Loved Ones. Creating a balance between work and your home life is also important. When you become too engrossed in work, you can begin excluding people who love you without your realizing it. Certainly you want to work hard in order to provide for your family. However, your children are not able to understand the distinction between your choosing to spend time away from them and the need to provide income. A disproportionate focus on work can destabilize the strongest of relationships. Require yourself to spend quality time with your loved ones. Make it a rule to have dinner with your family. It will let you to enjoy some time in a relaxed manner, another essential to reducing stress. No one has ever come to the end of their life wishing they had spent more time at the office!
4. Exercise Vigorously and Frequently. Aerobic exercise is an effective way to lift your mood, boost your energy level, sharpen your focus, and relax your mind as well as your body. A good half hour of heart-pounding activity on most days will enable you get optimum stress relief. If you are unable to set aside at least thirty minutes for an exercise session, try breaking up the activity into shorter segments, but the sum total of those segments has to be more than just thirty minutes.
5. Eat in Moderation. Your food intake has a definite role to play in your stress levels. Irregular food habits can make you feel anxious, while overeating can make you lethargic. Eat nutritious meals in smaller portions, several times a day, at regular intervals. It will help your body maintain an even level of blood sugar and avoid mood swings.
6. Moderate Drinking and Don’t Smoke. Drinking alcohol in moderation, avoiding nicotine, and getting the proper sleep are other essentials to keep stress under control. Consuming excessive alcohol or nicotine might give a false sense of relief, but may lead to higher level of anxiety when their effects wear off.
7. MEDITATE. Meditation can also be very helpful in workplace stress management. Meditation has been shown to effectively counteract the effect of stress. People who meditate regularly use oxygen more efficiently. Their adrenal glands produce less cortisol and their mind ages at a slower rate, reducing stress and helping them focus better on their work.
About Dr. Robert Puff, one of the leading therapists in Orange County. He is a leading author, stress management expert and TV show host.
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We’ve developed an opinion about next year’s prices. However, we’re not as focused on where prices are going as we are on getting you prepared for whatever prices do.
By Steven Schalla, Stewart-Peterson
Events like World Dairy Expo are a welcomed chance for many producers and industry people to recharge the batteries and get excited about the coming year for the dairy industry. In our discussions with producers at Expo, there seemed to be a more cautious feeling about 2012. As we looked at the Class III futures for next year, the reaction from each producer was strikingly similar: “Those prices are not very exciting.”
The second most popular phrase we heard was in the form of a question: “Are 2012 prices going to be good, bad or ugly?”
Some Expo goers were a bit taken aback by our answer: “We’re not as focused on where prices are going as we are on getting you prepared for whatever prices do.”
That’s the outcome of great marketing: having a plan in place that flexes with the markets and puts you in a position to avoid the major downtrends while remaining close to the highs.
“What? You don’t have an opinion on prices?”
Sure we do. We’ve analyzed all the available information, and our team developed an opinion about next year’s prices. After the uptrend of 2011, historical price patterns suggest that 2012 could be down as much as 20-30%, meaning that as 2011 prices close the year at an average of $18.00, next year’s average price could be in the range of $14.40 to $12.60 as a base Class III price.
That’s our opinion. However, there are so many moving parts that will impact what milk prices will be and determine whether they are good, bad, or ugly. In each potential scenario, there are many things that will have to fall into place in order for that scenario to play itself out.
Here are some of the key developments on our radar that could push prices towards a specific result:
Good price scenario
· International demand continues to expand and exports provide strong demand pull.
· Milk per cow struggles and limits production growth as feed costs and feed quality plague many dairy regions.
· The Federal Reserve continues easy money policy through stimulus and drives commodities higher as a whole.
Bad price scenario
· U.S. consumers continue to tighten their belts in a stagnate economy and dairy demand softens.
· International milk production is plentiful as Oceania achieves its aggressive growth goals, leading to international prices declining.
· Feed prices maintain lower levels relative to the summer highs, encouraging some production growth with better margins.
Ugly price scenario
· Global debt challenges boil over and cause a double-dip recession, taking financial markets, including commodities and milk, sharply lower.
· The U.S. dollar rallies as it is still perceived to be the safest currency, pressuring export opportunities.
· U.S. production jumps as producers follow through from strong prices in the second half of 2011.
Of course, the definition of whether prices are good, bad, or ugly is subjective. The definition of great marketing is less subjective to us, and that’s why we focus there. Great marketing is maximizing the difference between your price and the “bad” or “ugly” prices, while staying as close to the higher “good” prices as we can.
If you have a solid understanding of all the marketing tools available, it is possible to evaluate how various positions, often in used in combination, can achieve this goal of “great marketing.” In fact, we can “pressure test” potential strategies against price swings, and in the process build confidence that we are prepared for whatever the market brings—good, bad or ugly. We call this Market Scenario Planning.
The table below illustrates an example of this process with current 2012 prices, although please remember it is simplified and designed as an educational example.
In the table, we assess different marketing positions and how they will impact the base Class III price received. For the purposes of evaluating results, let’s say that:
· A base Class III price of $16.00 or higher is a “good” price, meaning that after adding milk plant premiums we are over breakeven costs and in profitable territory. These prices will be in green.
· “Bad” prices are in yellow and are less than $16.00, but higher than $15.00, representing breakeven to manageable losses for the year.
· Finally, the red boxes show “ugly” prices, where devastating losses will be sustained as prices move below $15.00.
· The goal of our marketing is to increase the green area and reduce as much red and yellow area as possible.
In the Market Scenario Planning Table, the prices below each column heading represent the effective prices received when each strategy is implemented. With this table, it is easy to see how a given position will perform if different actual prices materialize.
For example, in line one where no action is taken, the effective prices will be the same as the actual prices. However, by implementing a combination of small forward contracts and purchasing Put Options in line two, it is possible to start separating from the lower prices, eliminating a red box and assuring the breakeven level is achieved at the $14.00 level.
Moreover, in line three, by being a bit more aggressive with forward contracts and using fence positions, it is possible to assure the breakeven level is hit regardless how much the market declines. Naturally, some upside potential is lost by obtaining this coverage, which needs to be acknowledged.
Like many others in the dairy industry, we have studied the spectrum of milk price indicators and have offered our best opinion on prices for 2012. However, we believe that taking your marketing to the next level means going beyond opinions, beyond attempting to outguess the market. It means knowing in advance what your revenue stream is going to be, because you planned for multiple price scenarios. Using Market Scenario Planning, great marketers can transform 2012 from uncertain to predictable, and in doing so turn concern into confidence.
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Raman Ramamurthy has not received any gifts yet
Talent means the skill that is within someone quite naturally – to do something that is hard. At the same time, someone who has the ‘talent’ is able to do something without trying hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. It is a high degree of ability or of aptitude. Someone who has talent is referred to as talented: For eg., Sachin Tendulkar has a talent for playing cricket. In such cases, we say that he or she is ‘born with a talent’.
Talent acquisition is…Continue
'Everyday people get fired from their job; employees change their firms/ companies to meet and/ or benefit from new market opportunities; human resource department (HRD) in large enterprises is always looking out for trust worthy and efficient workers. These are all leads to the rise of recruitment agencies in India – though, many agencies open shop every day, only some sustain amidst market forces and a few succeed well!’
In present times, HR agency start ups are challenging,…Continue
Many people are eager to start a career or a business initiative in Human Resources, as it is a fast-growing field with many lucrative opportunities. Career analysts expect the number of HR jobs to rise in India with advance of globalization efforts and HR consultants are growing in number.
There are several ‘accomplished’ HR professionals with a wide variety of educational backgrounds – Human Resources, Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Commerce, Science, Applied Arts, Psychology…Continue
Can we ask applicants to give us a copy of the performance review from former job? Yes, you can! But, at issue: Is this an effective HR practice? Does it not invade the privacy of the applicant?
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Is The Spirit Of The Holidays Gone?
Giving, Caring and Sharing
Family makes holidays spirit worth having!
The holidays are known for being a time of giving, sharing and caring for others. I grew up knowing this time of year as the “season of brotherly love.” In simplest terms, brotherly love is love for one’s fellow-man (women included). It is a kind and lenient attitude towards others. I like to believe that the holidays spirit of being kind to others is not a lost art.
In the past, I have seen many examples of the holidays spirit all around me. I have seen secret Santa’s give away money to those in need, donations of all types overflowing and local holiday events filled with laughter. I haven’t seen much spirit this year. Unfortunately, what I have seen is a trend towards being self-centered. The holidays spirit this year means postal workers yelling at me, retailers ignoring me and two grandmothers almost ruining my 3 year-old sons belief in Santa (see Should Children Believe In Santa).
I know the holidays are a stressful time of year for many people. The media pressures us to buy the “next” great item. Children yell at parents, “I want” continuously. Parents focus more on money and on how they are going to pay for everything. It seems as if everyone wants something and no one is willing to slow down and remember it is a time for caring about others.
It is impossible being upbeat and happy all the time. I certainly know I am not! We all have personal reasons that make us want to quit humanity. When I write about various things I try to stay positive but I will share about the difficulties life can give us. Heck, just in the last week I have had a laptop stop working, my cell phone stop posting and the heat go out in the house but I am still not saying “Bah, Humbug!“
I believe it is time for everyone to think about other people and not just the “pains” of the season. If we try to remember what the holidays are about maybe we can take that feeling with us year round. Life is hard enough without each of us trying to make it harder on someone else.
Holidays Spirit Is Here
1. Family Time - During most of the year, our lives are very busy and sometimes complicated. The holidays ares the only time many people are able to see or speak to their family. I don’t want to have regrets later in my life. I might not always get along with everyone in my family but I realize that life is short. I make an extra effort to talk to people in my life during the holidays to let them know I am thinking of them.
2. Giving to others - We teach our children that it is better to give than to receive. We teach children about giving because it is morally correct and we understand that it can make you happy as well as someone else. Giving isn’t necessarily materialistic. I enjoy helping other people by volunteering my time and I don’t need a thank you (but they are always welcome).
3. Traditions of past - The holidays are a time families pass along traditions. Traditions are beliefs, customs or stories that we share with each new generation. People are able to share their experiences and lives through traditions. They are a legacy that we leave to future generations. I know during the holidays I make cornbread stuffing. It was something that my mother taught me that she learned from her mother.
4. A child’s wonder - Watching a small child learn about the world is a wonderful thing. It doesn’t matter if you have a child or not because children and the holidays go together. The holidays allow adults to feel like they are a child again. We took my three-year old son to look at holiday lights. He reminded me about the holidays spirit when he wouldn’t stop talking about how beautiful the lights are.
Children and the holidays go together!
I realize that not everyone celebrates the holidays. People don’t even have to agree with me about what it means to have holidays spirit. I do think most of us can agree that we have much more to gain for ourselves, our children and society when we take the time to think of others. It is a feeling we should keep with us year round and not just at one time of the year.
I hope the current trend of being so self-centered is temporary. As a father, I want to teach my son to care for others and not just for himself. When we care for other people we are showing that we aren’t always self-centered and other people matter to us. It is a life skill that everyone needs and should strive to have. It can help us to make a better world for ourselves and our children.
The holidays are a time to remember others as well as yourself. Do you think people are becoming more self-centered? What does holidays spirit mean to you? Tell me more about how you think people are acting during the holidays this year in the comments!
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2 Md. residents contract Legionella
Frederick County officials say two residents at an assisted living center have contracted Legionella, a bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease.
Jacqueline Douge, deputy health officer for the county health department, says the two residents of Tranquility Assisted Living Center have been hospitalized.
The health department says water used to flush toilets at the center can remain on, but showers and water sprayers cannot be used. The department is testing the water for bacteria.
Frank Gerhardt, a spokesman for the center, says the facility plans to bring in a portable shower. Residents are drinking bottled water and are taking sponge baths.
Legionnaires' disease is a bacterial infection that can cause potentially deadly pneumonia.
Information from: The Frederick (Md.) News-Post.
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Molly Saunders – Digital Bear
For the nine years Build-A-Bear Workshop has honored amazing young people doing incredible work in our worldwide community. Through the years more than 100 kids have been named official Build-A-Bear Workshop Huggable Heroes. These heroes have collectively raised millions of dollars and have donated thousands of hours of community service to help make our world a better place.
This year we are celebrating 15 youth from the United States and Canada for making an amazing difFURence! They have raised nearly $1.4 million to support worthy causes such as homelessness and poverty, bullying, literacy, health issues and recycling. Below are some photos from the service art project our Huggable Heroes created in Memphis, Tenn. at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Catholicism’s last Asian stand against America’s “culture of death.”
or bad Catholics with respect to family planning? That attitude is very narrow minded. Its medieval.”
Babies at both breasts
Outside a different chapel in Manila, the baroque-style Malate Church, Josephine Gonzalez huddles by a creaky rickshaw with her infant son. At 35, the homeless mother of eight could pass for a ragtag 60. Her eyes are sunken, her limbs are skeletal and and tawny skin sags off her cheekbones.
The only clue to her true age is the baby sucking at her right breast. Revealing a gummy upper palate, Gonzalez says she’s milk fed kids until her teeth have fallen loose. (According to a Journal of Periodontology study, heavy breastfeeding can deplete calcium.) “Some years,” she said, “I’ve had one baby at each breast.”
Each night, Gonzalez, her husband and their seven children pile into a rickshaw they assembled from scrap pulled from a garbage dump. There is a bit more space now that her oldest, a 17-year-old son, is in prison on a stabbing charge.
About 30 other families also live illegally around the church, she said, and none have fewer than four or five kids. Many have eight or more. “Kids are a burden when they’re young,” Gonzalez said. “But once they’re big enough to beg, they’re a blessing.”
Gonzalez — broke, homeless and saddled with kids — sits squarely within the Reproductive Health Bill’s targeted demographic.
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“In an ideal world, she’d only have three children,” Defensor-Santiago said. “Her husband could scrape up enough money to send them to public school. Filipino families are closely knit, so they could have banded together, in our tradition, so that at least the youngest could attend college. And maybe they could have a good lower-middle class life.”
“But as it stands,” Defensor-Santiago said, “she is condemned to poverty and the humiliation that comes with it.”
The average Filipina woman starts having sex at 21 and hopes to have roughly three kids, according to surveys conducted by the Philippines’ National Statistics Office. The poorest, however, typically end up birthing five or more. And one-fifth of married women, according to the survey, want to stop or slow down their birth cycle but never end up accessing contraception.
After her third child, Gonzalez said, she hoped for tubal ligation (getting her tubes tied) through a free government program. But the last two Manila mayors have vowed not to spend a single centavo — the lowest denomination of Philippine currency — on contraceptives or tubal ligation, which is also opposed by the Catholic Church.
“Yes, I have heard that these things are immoral from the church,” said Gonzalez, stroking her infant son’s wispy scalp. “So when I pray, I just ask for food for the kids and, if I’m really feeling hopeful, a home. But I’m not even sure this child will be my last.”
America's "culture of death"
Colonized by Spain and the US back to back, Philippine society is molded more by the Western world than any Asian neighbor. Europe offered Roman Catholicism, a faith observed by eight in 10 Filipinos. The US offered a taste for burger joints, Hollywood and American-accented English.
But Filipinos must not adopt its Western allies’ eroded sexual mores, Reyes said. “Before, abortion was illegal in the US, illegal in Europe ... but Holy Father [the pope] has said it: where contraception spreads, so does pro-abortion culture.”
Though the church opposes the existence of all contraceptives, Reyes said, it will not pressure Philippine politicians to ban them outright. However, bishops will not stand for a government that distributes condoms or birth control pills with public money.
“They should respect the church to which the majority of Filipinos belong,” Reyes said. “Muslims don’t eat pork. And the government doesn’t try to promote pork to our Muslims saying, ‘It’s for free! It’s for your health!’ This is the same thing.”
The priests are wary of America’s influence for a reason. Until recently, US taxpayers helped pay to flood the island nation with contraceptives. The federal US Agency for International Development (USAID) was the Philippines’ largest provider of condoms, birth control pills and injectable contraceptives until the White House, under President George W. Bush, phased out the program between 2003 and 2008.
Filipina women felt the loss. According to the Guttmacher Institute, which studies global reproductive health, the percentage of Philippine women obtaining contraceptives from the public sector plummeted from a high of 67 percent in 2003 to just 46 percent in 2008.
The Obama administration has not reversed the previous administration’s course. But that has hardly comforted the Filipinos who virulently oppose America’s foreign contraception funding. A September editorial signed by almost every major Filipino group opposed to the Reproductive Health Bill stated that, if Obama wins a second presidential term, he and his administration will “continue to target countries like the Philippines to spread their culture of death.”
More than a decade’s worth of feuding over the Reproductive Health Bill is pushing the Philippine Congress to finally decide the bill’s fate. President Aquino’s predecessor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, threw in her lot with the bishops. But Aquino, a bill supporter, can bring the full influence of the president’s office to bear on politicians who insist on impeding the bill. Its future remains uncertain.
“It will be very soon now with all this pressure,” said Ernesto Herrera, a longtime Philippine lawmaker and supporter of the bill. “Abortion, yes, all of us should be against that. But it’s irresponsible for parents to continue producing if they’re dependent on children picking through the garbage.”
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Have you ever bought a 6-pack or a few small pots of bedding plants, brought them home and planted them, then had them just sit there like a bump on a log? No new green growth, no new buds, just….a still life in your garden.
I’ve had it happen with begonias, impatiens, lobelia, marigolds, mums, and even bacopa. They don’t die or brown or wilt, they just fail to thrive.
“Oh hi! We’re still here! Still tiny! Nothing to see, move along!”
You might overwater them in frustration, feed them, sing to them. Nothing doing. You had visions of lush hanging baskets or a carpet of color, and so you wait. And wait.
Why does this happen? Plant growth regulators.
Growers produce a crop to be ready at a certain time and look a certain way. Spring bedding plants should be healthy and vigorous, but compact. No one wants leggy delphiniums at the start of the season. So growth regulators (PGRs) are applied during production to keep plants from getting too large or too leggy. Applying PGRs is an art form: too much and you smoke the crop, too little and the plants aren’t the size you want (or the size the big-box store specified they wanted). The wrong PGR: no flowers at all, or nothing but flowers and little foliage, or Easter lilies that are 4-inches tall. It’s easy to miss the mark.
In an effort to time shipments and keep the plants saleable for as long as possible, PGRs might be liberally applied, and it takes some plants a long while to metabolize them and start growing again. It can takes weeks or even months.
If you buy from a good independent garden center, this probably won’t happen very often. One thing you can do is to watch brands and the name of the grower on the plant label: buy enough plants and you’ll learn quickly who has a handle on PGRs and who has a too-heavy hand. Some growers don’t use them at all, and they’re more common on annual plants than on perennials. When they’re used correctly though, you won’t even notice.
You’re probably not a brown thumb. There’s no magic involved. It’s just PGRs.
I’ve been sheet composting since before I knew what that meant. Basically it’s just composting right in your beds, which at this time of year means sweeping up all the dropped leaves from the trees and raking them around the base of the plants. Sometimes there are apples in there, or cones, or whole plants that were pulled out.
The only rules are no diseased foliage (so I never use rose foliage or branches) and no weeds. Many weeds can set seed even after they were pulled out of the ground; better to just toss those or compost them in the traditional way.
You can compost kitchen scraps this way as well, but I usually bury those slightly for aesthetic reasons.
Yesterday I put the leaves from the purple ornamental plum around some newly transplanted Euphorbia. Their blue foliage with the burgundy and yellow leaves underneath looks great, and I avoided spending $100 on mulch for the beds. Come spring, the soil will be loamy and shot through with mycelium from the fungi doing their work. The plants will have had relatively warm feet all winter, so losses are less than if they were uncovered.
The key to keeping your garden attractive while sheet composting is to keep your edges clean and sharp and keep the compost in place. You can turn the soil a bit to hold lightweight leaves, or keep all the material raked in the beds until it starts to break down and form a mat over the soil. That takes about 2 weeks with a little rainfall (or the hose).
All winter long, as I pick up debris around the yard, I toss it into the beds. Smaller pieces break down faster, and the plants won’t be vying for nitrogen because they’re mostly dormant.
In the city I didn’t have room for a compost bin, and that’s how I came to sheet composting. I have room now, but I really like the way the beds look with the seasonal detritus used as mulch. At the LA Arboretum there’s an enormous Ginkgo that sheds seemingly acres of bright yellow leaves. It would be a travesty to pick them up, they’re lovely spread over the blue Senecio and herbs around the tree.
I’ve made the rather dubiously delightful discovery of Gardens Illustrated. It’s $8.15 an issue, a mere $84 a year. Ouch!
But it is so worth it. First, if you live in the PNW, the UK has a similar climate so the plants and ideas translate well. Second, it’s a BBC publication and is very well done. Third, they don’t use pruners; they use secateurs. Irresistible.
This is the little garden out at our research farm where the honeybees have one half of the 10 acres and the horticulture department and organic farmers have the other.
The hives are out of sight, but do you see the all the birdhouses hanging up in the tree? Bumblebee nests.
The hanging bells are CO2 cannisters cut in half and painted gold. There is a Thai Buddhist symbol of the elephant and the monkey with honeycomb hanging in the center. Just behind, there’s a drop off to a small tributary of the Willamette River.
My club was out there with the master gardeners planting a water wise garden. While we were having tea during a break, we were standing around the hives.
You have to believe me: these are the calmest bees in the world. Several landed on my sweater, and I petted them. And they were like, “Okay”.
Then we went back to work, and here’s part of the garden coming together. You can see a good amount of the farm in this view. Did I mention it was foggy?
The plants in this garden are several sedum varieties, penstemon, rosemary, agastache, one tiny juniper, cistus, ceanothus, a dwarf native iris, helianthemum, and coreopsis.
As I write this, I am wondering if the deer, who ran by that hoop house in the distance maybe 2 minutes after I took this photo, came and did a little mowing last night. Beasts.
These guys provided the background music.
And I have nice things to say about this Shantung Maple. Lovely.
This is a meme from Kim over at A Study in Contrasts; what things do you like in a garden but wouldn’t have in your own?
Here are the “rules”: Think about 5 (or 10, or 3, or however many come to mind) things that you really like but would never put into your own yard. Make a post that explains each thing and also tells why, much as you like each one, it will never appear in your garden.
• Koi ponds. The raccoons and miscellaneous raptors would have a field day.
• Cordyline. Okay, I don’t really like them in anyone’s gardens.
• I really like rose arbors and pergolas, particularly with the climbing rose Cecile Brunner, but sitting underneath them – isn’t there always a bistro table with a tea pot and crustless sandwiches underneath? – is just creepy. Things drop out of the roses and down your shirt, make tiny webs in your tea strainer, buzz you just as you’re dropping off to sleep. Yes I love insects, but I don’t want them in my mouth or down my pants.
• Need I even mention or explain: undignified statuary.
• Cottage gardens. They can be beautifully executed, but not by gardeners such as myself. One day I’ll tell you about the time I installed a butterfly friendly cottage garden for a client and the first generation butterfly larvae mowed it to the ground in a weekend.
• Prunus laurocerasus. I love that it draws bees and sometimes, it’s even slightly attractive. Usually, it’s redundant, neglected, and fugly.
• Kniphofia. Now, normally I am a friend to plants that hail from South Africa. Torch Lily looks like Beeker from the Muppets to me, and I can’t fathom the appeal of its slap-dash goofiness.
• Vinca. Love it! Don’t want to chase it.
• Windchimes. Sometimes people will choose just the right chime for their yard: the style matches their home and landscape, the tone complements the whole feel of their garden. I had a windchine too, but every time it tolled I cringed, waiting for the neighbors to yell at me. I grew up in tight city quarters where windchimes started feuds and were subject to vandalism. I can’t quite enjoy them.
• Lawn. Other people do it well and I want to shed my shoes and go scooting across their temples of turf. At home, I could care less about the grass, and sadly, it shows.
• Annuals. I don’t know why exactly; they seem disposable or too temporary to throw money at year after year. I’d rather collect perennials.
• Yellow foliage or varigated green and yellow foliage. It screams chlorosis to me, even when I know better.
• Perfection. Ever since I got involved in entomology, I’ve lost interest in arthropod genocide. I certainly appreciate pristine roses, I just don’t grow any that could be described that way.
Goodness. I have a few garden rules.
Every spring and summer, I’ve given the wasps that build their little paper nests around the house very wide berth. My father had a violent run in with a yellow jacket while on a ladder, and I couldn’t differentiate between my yellow and black hovering beasties and the ones he described. Incidentally, my father does a hilarious “something is stinging me” dance to which I have been an audience several times. He’s got moves.
When I started working in the entomology department, I took a keen interest in my wasps and did a little research. It turns out they are paper wasps, Polistes dominulus, and they are a more relaxed social wasp than the dreaded yellow jacket. They tolerate human proximity of about 8 inches with interest but no apparent alarm. This was driven home one day when I opened the passenger door of the car we use for ferrying dogs around and right below the hinge was a perfect little nest with a perfect little queen. Sometimes she was there when we pulled out of the drive, so presumably she is well traveled. She’s never wandered into the passenger compartment or been concerned by the door slamming or dogs nearby.
The paper wasp can be somewhat easily differentiated from yellow jackets by their orange antennae; they also fly with their legs hanging down and out, but there are other wasps who do this as well.
In the course of finding out more about them, I came across a study done by Elizabeth Tibbetts and James Dale of the University of Michigan. They’ve looked at facial markings and their role in individual recognition in a colony. After reading one of Tibbetts’ articles, I went out and observed the nest that hangs from the window ledge right above a shrub rose. That time and every time thereafter, the wasps that were at the outside of the nest and apparently standing guard were those with the heaviest facial markings.
With the judicious use of a long bamboo stake, I discovered they are also the ones most prepared to give chase if threatened. They are less shy than the wasps with the solid yellow faces who usually fly off when you touch the flower they are in or brush against foliage they are on. The wasps with the black markings on their face turn to face you when disturbed and notably, they do not back down. I haven’t tested their tolerance much, but it’s interesting to see how the markings so seem to rather obviously correlate with certain behaviors and roles in the colony.
Now that I’ve identified and made peace with them, I’m sorry that they’ll be gone soon as temperatures drop and the populations of the insects they eat drop steadily.
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Alright, look, it's mid-December, Hanukkah is over and Christmas isn't far behind. If you haven't nailed down the perfect holiday gift for that airman or woman in your life yet, now's the time to get cracking.
Here's a list of Flying magazine's top gift ideas (in no particular order) for small plane pilots everywhere. If you can't find what you're looking for here, the ideas may at least get you started on your search.
1. inReach Satellite Communicator: If you're pilot of choice is out of cell-phone range (often the case in most parts of Alaska) than an inReach Satellite Communicator is a great stocking stuffer. At $250 this lightweight, pocket-sized satellite (produced by Yarmouth, Maine-based DeLorme) can be paired wirelessly to an iPhone, iPad or Android device to enable communication via Facebook, Twitter or text.
2. Aviation: A Filmed History: this classic collection of aviation history is straight from the National Archives and available in a boxed set. Much of the content is narrated by some of Hollywood’s greatest names and it features historical newsreel footage, documentary featurettes, rare scenes and more. The collection is just under $70 at Amazon.com.
3. X-Plane 10 is a video game for all ages. According to Flying Magazine it's "for pilots and pilot hopefuls who would like to spend a little more time perfecting their skills without leaving the comfort of their living room. Priced at $69.99, X-Plane 10 also offers extensive versatility, enabling users to fly in various weather conditions and respond to a variety of systems failures."
4. Sporty’s iPad Briefcase is great for any pilot whether they rely on an iPad or not. The case is padded and lined with a soft cloth material. It has a zippered pocket in the front for valuables and an open pocket on the back with slots for pens. The briefcase is a well priced $39.95.
6. King Schools Crew Resource Management Course is an online course developed by John and Martha King and designed to help develop a less stressful cockpit environment for professional pilots, but is great for anyone who spends time in a cockpit. The course is $199. Read more.
The heavy hitters
7. Appareo's Stratus Portable Receiver: Looking for a hassle-free in-flight weather receiver that connects wirelessly to an iPad and provides GPS and ADS-B weather straight to the cockpit without a subscription? Then look no further. This gadget, priced at $799, lacks cords and a subscription. Read more.
8. The Jay by Redbird is a fun flight simulator and an all-in-one device for both entertainment and education. It's available from King Schools and will cost you $1,999.
9. Hamilton Khaki Flight Timer watch is a little spendy, but it's worth the investment. This year's model is priced at $1,445 but it has several features pleasing to any pilot including (but not limited to) displays that present ISA temperature at various altitudes and the ability to detail up to 20 flights and close to 100 landings. Read more.
10. Here's the big one: Pipistrel's newly released lightweight, four-place Panthera. If you've got the money this little plane is worth it. Flying magazine writes, "With a price tag beneath $500,000, as well as hybrid and purely electric versions that also are in the works, the Panthera is definitely near the top of our airplane wish list."
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Glider and Skydiving Aircraft Collide
Six Germans are dead after an aircraft carrying skydivers to
altitude collided with a single-place glider in the skies over
Bavaria Saturday. The entangled wreckage of both aircraft landed in
a cornfield north of Munich.
"All we know at this point is that the two aircraft crashed into
each other in mid-air," said police spokesman Josef Bauer. "The
wreckage landed in a field just outside of the town. Luckily no one
on the ground was hurt. We don't know at what altitude the accident
happened," Bauer said when asked about a local television news
report saying the crash happened at an altitude of 1,200 meters
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Food Fights: Winning the Nutritional Challenges of Parenthood Armed with Insight, Humor, and a Bottle of Ketchup. So I did, and I have mixed thoughts.When I told our pediatrician that Nate had some new mealtime habits - he now refuses former favorite foods, like pears & applesauce and he enjoys throwing his food over the side of the highchair tray - she recommended I check out the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
The chapter on starting solids is also very informative, with a great introduction to feeding your baby "real food." Amidst the constant hokey (often forced) jokes is a good deal of valuable information on nutrition. I find there's very little warmth to it however. As my friend pointed out, you've got to go to Dr. Sears for that.
The AAP recommends breastfeeding exclusively for six months and support for breastfeeding for the first year and beyond as long as mutually desired by mother and child (while the WHO and many other nations recommend breastfeeding until 2 years of age). Yet this book, put out by the AAP, reads as though they expect that most readers will be formula feeding. There is very little mention of breastfeeding in general, and one of the only times it's mentioned is a warning that if the baby is taking in more than 32 ounces, more "food" may be in order. What really bothers me though is that there is ZERO guidance with respect to nutrition and breastfeeding after one year of age. It's as though with one side of their mouth they are encouraging breastfeeding until at least a year, but with the other side they never expect you to get to that point or give you any guidance how to do so.
My advice? Get it. But take what they say with a grain of salt. And if you want to breastfeed, also look at other more supportive sources like The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (which I have to admit I've not yet read, but La Leche League is well known for its unwavering support for breastfeeding).
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MORE beacons are needed in Buca Bay waters to mark reefs along the passage from Taveuni to Natuvu.
Ferry operators who provide services along the route have raised concerns about the difficulties they face when manoeuvring their boats into Buca Bay.
Ferry owner Martha Prasad said two ferries, the Karamal and the La Venture, recently ran aground on a reef as a result of the absence of beacons.
"We fear for the safety of our passengers, especially while travelling along Buca Bay," said Ms Prasad.
"We have difficulties manoeuvring boats particularly during bad weather and the absence of beacons has made it even more difficult.
"With new captains who operate along this route, they go through a lot as sailing here needs a lot of experience."
There's been no comment from the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji because CEO Neal Slack is out of the country.
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Community Service Class
Community Service in an experimental learning opportunity for students accomplished in conjunction with various agencies in the Williamsport area. This activity allows students to expand their knowledge relative to specific individuals and certain opporutnities including but not limited to their history, culture, and needs. The outcome of such service will promote students' personal and social development as well as assist them with gaining an enhanced perspective concerning civic responsibilities and social practices.
The Community Service class is offered each semester during the academic year and fulfills a distribution requirement for graduation.
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The American Lockdown State
Post-Legal Drones, the Bin Laden Tax, and Other Wonders of Our American World
By Tom Engelhardt
Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past. In its wake, President Obama was hailed (or reviled) for his "liberal" second inaugural address. On that day everything from his invocation of women's rights ("Seneca Falls"), the civil rights movement ("Selma"), and the gay rights movement ("Stonewall") to his wife's new bangs and Beyoncé's lip-syncing was fodder for the media extravaganza. The president was even praised (or reviled) for what he took pains not to bring up: the budget deficit. Was anything, in fact, not grist for the media mill, the hordes of talking heads, and the chattering classes?
One subject, at least, got remarkably little attention during the inaugural blitz and, when mentioned, certainly struck few as odd or worth dwelling on. Yet nothing better caught our changing American world. Washington, after all, was in a lockdown mode unmatched by any inauguration from another era -- not even Lincoln's second inaugural in the midst of the Civil War, or Franklin Roosevelt's during World War II, or John F. Kennedy's at the height of the Cold War.
Here's how NBC Nightly News described some of the security arrangements as the day approached:
"[T]he airspace above Washington... [will be] a virtual no-fly zone for 30 miles in all directions from the U.S. capital. Six miles of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers will be shut down, with 150 blocks of downtown Washington closed to traffic, partly out of concern for car or truck bombs... with counter-snipers on top of buildings around the capital and along the parade route... [and] detectors monitoring the air for toxins... At the ready near the capital, thousands of doses of antidotes in case of a chemical or biological attack" All this security will cost about $120 million dollars for hundreds of federal agents, thousands of local police, and national guardsmen from 25 states."
Consider just the money. It's common knowledge that, until the recent deal over the renewal of the George W. Bush tax cuts for all but the richest of Americans, taxes had not been raised since the read-my-lips-no-new-taxes era of his father. That's typical of the way we haven't yet assimilated the new world we find ourselves in. After all, shouldn't that $120 million in taxpayer money spent on "safety" and "security" for a single event in Washington be considered part of an ongoing Osama bin Laden tax?
Maybe it's time to face the facts: this isn't your grandfather's America. Once, prospective Americans landed in a New World. This time around, a new world's landed on us.
Making Fantasy Into Reality
Bin Laden, of course, is long dead, but his was the 9/11 spark that, in the hands of George W. Bush and his top officials, helped turn this country into a lockdown state and first set significant portions of the Greater Middle East aflame. In that sense, bin Laden has been thriving in Washington ever since and no commando raid in Pakistan or elsewhere has a chance of doing him in.
Since the al-Qaeda leader was aware of the relative powerlessness of his organization and its hundreds or, in its heyday, perhaps thousands of active followers, his urge was to defeat the U.S. by provoking its leaders into treasury-draining wars in the Greater Middle East. In his world, it was thought that such a set of involvements -- and the "homeland" security down payments that went with them -- could bleed the richest, most powerful nation on the planet dry. In this, he and his associates, imitators, and wannabes were reasonably canny. The bin Laden tax, including that $120 million for Inauguration Day, has proved heavy indeed.
In the meantime, he -- and 9/11 as it entered the American psyche -- helped facilitate the locking down of this society in ways that should unnerve us all. The resulting United States of Fear has since engaged in two disastrous more-than-trillion dollar wars and a "Global War on Terror" that shows no sign of ending in our lifetime. (See Yemen, Pakistan, and Mali.) It has also funded the supersized growth of a labyrinthine intelligence bureaucracy; that post-9/11 creation, the Department of Homeland Security; and, of course, the Pentagon and the U.S. military, including the special operations forces, an ever-expanding secret military elite cocooned within it.
Given the enemy at hand -- not a giant empire, but scattered jihadis and minority insurgencies in distant lands -- all of these institutions, which make up the post-9/11 National Security Complex, expanded in ways that would have boggled the minds of previous generations (as would that most un-American of all words, "homeland"). All of this, in turn, happened in a poisonously paranoid atmosphere in Washington, and much of the rest of the country.
Even if you ignore that Inauguration Day no-boating zone or the 30-mile no-fly zone (the sort of thing the U.S. once imposed on enemy lands and now imposes on itself), consider those "thousands of doses of antidotes in case of a chemical or biological attack." Just about nothing on this planet is utterly inconceivable, but it's worth noting that, as far as we know, the national security bureaucracy made no preparations for an unexpected tornado on Inauguration Day. Given recent extreme weather events, including tornado warnings for Washington, that would at least have been a plausible scenario to consider.
Certainly, a biological or chemical attack is a similarly imaginable possibility. After all, it actually happened in Tokyo in 1995, when followers of the Aum Shinrikyo cult set off Sarin gas in that city's subway system, killing 11. But the likelihood of any conceivable set of Islamic terrorists attacking those inaugural crowds with either chemical or biological weapons was, to say the least, microscopic. As something to protect Washington visitors against, it ranked at least on a par with the (nonexistent) post-9/11 al-Qaeda sleeper cells and sleeper-assassins so crucial to the plot of the TV show "Homeland."
And yet, in these years, what might have remained essentially a nightmarish fantasy has become an impending reality around which the national security folks organize their lives -- and ours. Ever since the now largely forgotten anthrax mail attacks that killed five soon after 9/11 -- the anthrax in those envelopes may have come directly from a U.S. bioweapons laboratory -- all sorts of fantastic scenarios involving biochemical attacks have become part and parcel of the American lockdown state.
In the Bush era, for instance, among the apocalyptic dream scenes the president and his top officials used to panic Congress into approving a much-desired invasion of Iraq were the possibility of future mushroom clouds over American cities and this claim: that Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein had drones (he didn't) and the means to get them to the East Coast of the U.S. (he didn't), and the ability to use them to launch attacks in which chemical and biological weaponry would be sprayed over U.S. cities (he didn't). This was a presidentially promoted fantasy of the first order, but no matter. Some senators actually voted to go to war at least partially on the basis of it.
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Fewer holidays taken by Britons
Britons took fewer holidays this year - but young people bucked the trend by taking an increasing number of breaks.
On average, Britons took 3.5 holidays in the 12 months to September 2012, compared with 3.82 in the 12 months to September 2011.
But the number of breaks taken by those aged 15-24 rose from 3.7 in 2011 to 4.7 in 2012, according to a survey of 2,008 adults by travel organisation Abta.
The overall split of holidays taken in 2012 showed 2.11 were taken in the UK and 1.4 overseas. Although lower than last year, the figure of 3.5 breaks on average was a rise on the 3.2 figure for 2010.
Released at the Abta convention in Antalya, Turkey, the survey also showed that those aged 15-34 were the most likely to take shorter trips abroad of one to three nights, or four to six nights.
While 3% of all holidaymakers went on a stag or hen party in 2012, the figure for 15 to 24-year-olds was 7%.
This year, 48% of holidaymakers booked an overseas package compared with 42% in 2011 and only 37% in 2010. Among 35 to 44-year-olds, 51% booked a package in the 12 months to September 2012 compared with only 36% in 2011.
Safe and secure accommodation was the top priority for the holidaymakers surveyed, with financial protection second.
It appears the Olympics had little impact on booking habits, with only 4% changing the time they booked a trip due to the Games.
Abta chief executive Mark Tanzer said: "The younger generation are clearly determined to make the most of their freedom and opportunities for travel whatever the economic climate. The research suggests they like to go away frequently and for shorter amounts of time than older age groups, which represents a great opportunity for travel companies to tap into this trend."
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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah recently gave a reasonably strong defense of the construction of the Cordoba House Muslim community center, saying that “if the Muslims own that property, that private property, and they want to build a mosque there, they should have the right to do so.” He spoke further about the importance of religious freedom in American society, noted that plenty of Muslims were killed on 9/11, and called Islam a “great religion.”
Hatch’s statements weren’t without problems (I’ll get there in a moment), but given the pathetic silence of most of the Republican establishment in the face of the increasingly open, intense and virulent anti-Islamic sentiment emerging in American political life, I think it’s important to recognize when someone is willing to cut against the grain and stand on principle, especially when doing so entails political risk. So, for the most part, bravo Mr. Hatch.
My one quibble might seem a bit semantic, but I think it’s a symptom of a larger problem in the way Muslims are represented and thought about in American society. Hatch, when asked about the high level of public opposition to the Cordoba House project, said, “there’s a huge, I think, lack of support throughout the country for Islam to build that mosque there, but that should not make a difference if they decide to do it… I’d be the first to stand up for their rights.” Again, the overall sentiment expressed here is as admirable as it is underrepresented in contemporary discourse. Hatch’s reference to “Islam” in such agentic terms, though, threw me a bit. He speaks of Islam as though it is not only a unified school of thought, but a relatively unified organizational body, one that is capable of strategically directing mosque placement as one might move pawns on a chessboard. I’m sure Hatch was just using verbal shorthand, but that’s the point. People conditioned to think of “Islam” as a unitary entity in the mold of, for example, the USSR or even international communism will be much more susceptible to thinking of Islam as inherently dangerous. Though Hatch seems to have avoided this trap, at least in its ugliest manifestations, his word choice is telling.
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Immigrant and Refugee Task Force
The Domestic Violence and Immigration Task force brings together domestic violence advocates, attorneys and community agencies to learn about the impact of domestic violence has in the lives of immigrant women and children. The purpose of the task force is to work on creating solutions that are woman centered and respectful of her culture
- To form statewide collaborations to identify resources for survivors
- To create resource guide for attorneys, advocates and survivors of domestic violence programs, immigration services and immigrant and refugee community based programs
- To develop cross training materials for advocates and immigration community
The Domestic Violence & Immigration Task Force is committed to creating awareness about the issue of domestic violence in the lives of immigrant and refugee women and to advocate for initiatives and foster collaborations that address this issue. Please contact our ODVN Outreach Coordinator to Underserved Populations for information about meetings or to join this taskforce.
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Place-based Bills & Agreements: Defining Characteristic #3: Frustration with Status Quo and Desire for Change
Martin Nie, University of Montana
Here is my third post focused on the defining characteristics of selected place-based bills and agreements. I should have started with this one obviously. But unlike the other posts on the topic, this one doesn’t emerge from just looking at those tables and associated documents—but required some further background, digging, and conversations.
A third defining characteristic of these initiatives is a widespread sense of frustration with the status quo. While differences abound, all of these initiatives want to change something in national forest management. Though not universally agreed upon, there are multiple sources of frustration shared by members of these groups.
Some group representatives, for example, express frustration with forest planning processes. For some, the process takes too long, while for others it doesn’t provide enough certainty or predictability (as discussed previously). Compounding things is the fact that forest planning rules have been in a state of regulatory and legal limbo.
Funding for the USFS is another commonly identified source of frustration. All of the initiatives have taken shape in the shadow of a deeply problematic Forest Service budget that has been annually upended to pay for associated fire management costs. Since the 1990s, the average annual acreage burned by wildland fires has increased by roughly 70 percent. At the same time, the Forest Service’s fire-related appropriations have more than doubled, representing about half of the agency’s total annual appropriations. In order to pay for the costs associated with wildland fire suppression and management, the agency has regularly transferred funds from other Forest Service programs.
For Senators Tester and Wyden, among other Senators recently writing to President Obama, money going to fire suppression is money not going to restoration and forest management:
When the Forest Service’s general budget is reduced either by fighting wildfires or inflationary costs, other vital projects such as restoring watersheds, investing in infrastructure, and managing for ecosystem health are put on an indefinite hold. These programs are critical to protecting our communities, adapting to climate change, maintaining our forest products infrastructure and improving ecosystem health.
Similar complaints have been made by others, and they cross the political spectrum. For Russell Vaagen, Vice President of Vaagen Brothers Lumber Inc., and a member of the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition, the Forest Service’s fire budget “is now squeezing every other non-fire program” and this constitutes a “disaster of epic proportions.” In representing Oregon Wild in favor of Senator Wyden’s bill, Andy Kerr similarly acknowledges the challenges of securing adequate funding to implement S. 2895:
The best source of funds to pay down this ecological debt—by undertaking the necessary comprehensive forest and watershed restoration—is to reprogram current Forest Service annual appropriations that now go to a fire-industrial complex that wastes billions of dollars attempting to extinguish fires that cannot or should not be extinguished.
This budgetary backdrop adds another dose of uncertainty and frustration into the mix. And this helps explain why so many initiatives are seeking more secure dollars from alternative funding sources. Senator Wyden, for example, authorizes $50,000,000 to carry out the purposes of his bill. Several initiatives are also competing for appropriations already authorized by the Forest Landscape Restoration Act. And every initiative embraces the use of stewardship contracting authority as a way to pay for restoration and mitigate the problems associated with having to rely upon a highly uncertain Congressional appropriations process.
Some of the dismay also revolves around the organizational culture of the U.S. Forest Service. This theme emerged—unprompted—in several discussions with place-based participants. Some people see the agency as a “paper tiger,” one forced to do more planning and paperwork than active forest management and restoration. Others emphasize a perceived agency culture that is resistant to change and slow to embrace new ways of doing things. One person went so far as to compare the agency’s troubles with the history of the U.S. auto industry. Whatever the reasons, frustrations with the USFS partially explains why place-based initiatives are seeking legislation or formalized agreements, as both approaches ostensibly limit the agency’s discretion and force it to do particular things.
Several people also expressed frustration with the Forest Service’s small-bore approach to restoration. A common refrain, heard from conservationists and industry representatives, is that the agency manages and implements projects at too small of scale. This is probably due in part to the agency’s fear of administrative appeals and litigation. These challenges apparently get easier as the projects get larger in scope and scale. The irony here is that the Forest Service, in Pavlonian response to appeals and litigation, are now thinking at too small of scale according to various interests. Russell Hoeflich, Vice President and Oregon Director of the Nature Conservancy, played a consulting role in Wyden’s Bill and summarized the situation like this:
Controversies surrounding forest management compel federal agencies to plan restoration projects at very small scales. To meet their action goals, federal agencies have to consider what is doable in addition to considering what is most important. As a result, they often propose relatively small and narrowly-focused management actions. On the other hand, ecosystems and the species they support interact in complex ways and at relatively large scales on the landscape. The magnitude of the forest health problem demands working at vastly larger scales if we are to get ahead of the problem.
When viewed together, these frustrations, among others, help explain why these initiatives are doing what they are doing.
P.S. Just a reminder that registration for the upcoming symposium focused on place-based laws and agreements closes this Friday.
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Journal Review Highlight
Thomas F. Purdon, MD, FACOG
Safaeian M, Solomon D, Wacholder S, et al. Risk of Precancer and Follow-up Management Strategies for Women With Human Papillomavirus-Negative Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance. Obstet Gynecol. 2007;109(6):1325-1331. Level of Evidence II.
The group from the National Cancer Institute, many of whose members reported on the pivotal ALTS (ASCUS-LSIL Triage Study) in 2001 and 2003, has looked at more follow-up data from those trials. From the study cohorts, they report now on the risk of intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN 3) or worse in women who had an ASCUS HPV-negative Pap smear after 12 months using cytology or HPV testing or both. In the groups overall, only 22 of 1,539 (1.4%) women who were ASCUS HPV-negative developed CIN 3 or worse during follow-up. The ASCUS HPV-positive group had CIN 3 in 269 of 1,767 (15.2%) women. In the low-risk group (ASCUS HPV-negative), only 7 cases of CIN 3 were diagnosed between 12 and 24 months of follow-up. The authors pointed out that this lower risk limits the power to distinguish meaningful differences in sensitivity among 12-month testing strategies. Specificity of HPV testing (84%) was significantly higher than cytology alone, using ASCUS as the threshold (71%). Using both tests resulted in even lower specificity (61%) at 12 months. Because CIN 3 cases were uncommon, the positive predictive value for subsequent CIN 3 or worse was low (under 3%) for all three modalities. Conversely, the negative predictive value for all three management strategies was very high: 99.7% for HPV testing, 99.82% for cytology, and 100% for both together.
The authors conclude that because of the very low absolute risk of subsequent detection of disease in women with ASCUS HPV-negative, they might be returned to a more routine screening interval, even longer than one year, depending on circumstances such as age and prior screening history. Their data further suggest that if a one-year follow-up is chosen, HPV testing has a higher specificity as well as a lower referral rate compared with cytology using an ASCUS threshold. There were too few cases of CIN 3 to distinguish differences in sensitivity among the various testing strategies. Furthermore, combining both HPV testing and cytology at 12 months results in extremely high sensitivity of detection of CIN 3 or worse, but with unacceptably low specificity, high referral rates, and low positive predictive value. They also point out that both Hybrid Capture 2 and PCR results were compared, and several false-negative HC2 tests were found. This would explain the low, but not zero, incidence of CIN 3 in women who were ASCUS HPV-negative. This information adds to our ability to tailor our management of patients with ASCUS HPV-negative Pap smears according to physician assessment of patient history, risk, and reliability for follow-up.
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At Walters State, you can take classes online anytime or enroll in a fast-track program. If you're a high school junior or senior, you can even get a head start on earning your college degree.
The office of Distance Education coordinates academic credit classes at off-campus centers, at satellite campuses and on the main campus during evening hours. Distance Education, in conjunction with academic divisions, also builds, schedules, and tracks cohort programs such as College Express and Learning Strategies Express. The office of Distance Education coordinates with high schools in our area of service to offer high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to take college courses through dual enrollment. All classes are consistent with the college's overall mission to provide affordable, quality higher education opportunities for residents of Upper East Tennessee. Distance Education also houses the Instructional Design Team that assists faculty with course development and provides faculty training needed for course delivery utilizing technology. Distance Education office strives to offer both accessible and flexible education within and beyond the traditional classroom. Classes utilizing varying forms of delivery, provide lifelong learning to individuals seeking professional growth or personal enrichment in a society coping with rapidly changing lifestyles.
Admission requirements for evening and distance education students are identical with requirements for students in the regular daytime program. The quality of instruction governing credit course offered during the evening on campus and at satellite locations is equivalent in all academic considerations to campus day courses
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By Sara Jameson
During a recent keynote at this year’s CA Expo in Austrailia, Douglas Merrill said the six years he spent at Google as the CIO were the most fascinating part of his career. He made many mistakes and learned many valuable lessons that he shared with his audience. The following are some of the highlights of his keynote address.
According to Dr Douglas Merrill, companies that are stuck in traditional management practices risk becoming irrelevant and their leaders should not be afraid to do "dumb" things. Larry and Sergey developed a search product called Backrub and shortly after that the two launched Google as part of the Stanford domain. Most of the early Google hardware was taken from the trash and as the hardware they used broke all the time they refined their product and built a reliable software system. Everyone knew we shouldn't build our own hardware as it was 'dumb', but everyone was wrong. Sometimes being dumb changes the game.”
Merrill reflected that “Google was founded by two computer science students at Stanford and they hated each other at first. I found out they were both correct,” he said jokingly.
“There is a whole cottage industry of people talking about innovation, including all kinds of garbage… and I'm part of this cottage industry.”
He said a successful product is not about having perfect project management, rather “the more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed”. This is very interesting insight as it sheds light on some of the early management practices at Google that may have led to their successes - get out of the way of the bright innovative people and let them do what they do best - innovate and engineer new systems and programs.
“It’s not about hardware and capex. Build your product and then figure out what to do with it,” he said. This sounds like a page out of the build it and they will come book. While I believe this may be true to some extent, you must really have a focused idea of at least where you are heading in order to get there.
Merrill cited the “fairly disturbing statistic” of 66 % of the Fortune 100 companies having either disappeared or are out of the list in the 20 years since 1990.
“Eastman Kodak is my favorite example. It has more patents than any other company on earth and is the most successful research company,” he said. “In 1990 a young researcher invented the charge coupled device which is the core of every camera today. His boss said you're a moron we make film.”
“The most important thing to take advantage of is to see innovation from everywhere – inside and outside.”
With information being democratized over the past twenty years, we have seen the price of hard drive storage drop by 2 million fold, Merrill said that businesses if they pay attention can emerge in a cheaper more efficient way. The open source movement is one very good example of this. It enables companies to start offering products and services while leveraging the collective efforts of the open source community.
While technology matters to “real” bricks and mortar businesses as much as online companies, Merrill said there are lots of examples of technology turning out “spectacularly badly”.
“Just because you can do something with technology that doesn't mean you should do something with technology,” he said. “You want to find cheap ways to get your customers to care about you.”
“McDonalds wanted to get people to come back to its stores so they ran an interesting marketing program with Foursquare where people could come to a restaurant and ‘check in’ and get a hamburger for free. That resulted in 25 per cent sales lift day-on-day and the total marketing promotion cost $18,000.
When Merrill left Google he worked at EMI records, which was interesting and enjoyable, but he knew the music industry was “collapsing”.
“The RIAA said it isn't that we are making bad music, but the ‘dirty file sharing guys’ are the problem,” he said. “Going to sue customers for file sharing is like trying to sell soap by throwing dirt on your customers.”
Merrill profiled the file sharing behaviour of people who used Limewire against the top iTunes sales and the biggest iTunes buyers were the same as the highest sharing “thieves” on Limewire.
“That's not theft, that's try-before-you-buy marketing and we weren’t even paying for it… so it makes sense to sue them,” he noted.
Merrill said it is also prudent not to listen too carefully to customers as so-called “focus groups” suffer from the Availability Heuristic: “If you ask a question the answer will be the first thing they think of.”
“You can't ask your customers what they want if they don't understand your innovation,” he said. “The popular Google spell correction came from user activity.
“Don't lose the ability to learn from the people who do the work. Pepple will do what you measure so make sure you measure the right stuff.”
On funding good people, Merrill recommends always “over hiring” and diversity matters.
“Diversity yields better outcomes. Hire someone who annoys you as they are more likely to be diverse and diverse practices are better,” he said.
“To win you have to make sure you don't lose. Change happens. To you, or by you so pick. The Fortune 100 companies which are gone all 'knew' what the answer was.”
According to Merrill, everything we learned in business from 1990 to 2010 was false.
“My company has zero capex and everything is in Amazon,” he said. “The single most common thing executives do is get in the way.” This really indicates that you can start the company on the cheap without large upfront capital expenditures. It is better to lead than to manage groups of individuals.
Merrill said the culture of secrecy in business is also a fallacy and people should talk about everything, well, almost everything.
“IT security people tell you what you can't say and HR people say you might hurt people's feelings, but the actual stuff you need to keep secret is small.”
These are some interesting and non-traditional insights into the management of IT. They may or may not work for your IT organization but some of the concepts may well be worth a try. Why not mix it up a bit in your organization and give it a try?
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Yesterday morning I spent a couple hours with Coach Cip talking about his recent trip to the IMG soccer academy in Bradenton, Florida for his A license audit. Every four years USSF A license coaches are required to attend continuing education to keep their licenses current.
Coach Cip had a great time, and especially enjoyed the sessions presented by the Dutch U-17 National Team coach. He had some very eye opening comments to make as well.
Cip shared one of the finishing drills demoed during one of the sessions, and I wanted to pass it along to you as well. This activity is very representative of the type of multi-faceted drills and sessions included in our Ciplfied Soccer 2.0 coaching guide:
The set up is very simple. Set up two lines 30-40 yards from goal. One line will be attackers, the other made up of defending players. The coach will stand behind them with all of the balls at his feet. Have a keeper in a full size goal. Also, set up two small-sided “counter” goals on either side of the starting point.
The coach begins by playing a ball into space for the attacking player to run on to. The defender tries to win the ball as well. If the defender gets control of the ball, he/she should immediately turn and head for one of the two counter goals.
The attacking players will be working on staying composed and finishing under pressure. The keeper gets work on his 1v1 game. Defenders learn to recover quickly and harass the attacker to prevent a quality shot.
Having the counter goals adds several important elements to this drill. It adds an element of transition for the defender as he/she will immediately go on the attack one the ball is one.
In addition, the attacking player will learn to quickly try to win the ball back the moment it is lost. He/she is forced to defend immediately upon losing possession.
We love this kind of activity as it works on many facets of the game at one time. Attacking, finishing, goalkeeping, defending, transition, etc.
The drills and coaching techniques in this guide are designed to quickly get your players into realistic game-like activities that your players will love.
This is the absolute best method for rapidly developing players’ skills and game intelligence.
The end result:
- motivated players
- rapid skill development
- increased on-field problem solving abilities
- more wins for the team
…and lots of happy parents!
Get Ciplified Soccer 2.0 here:
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Selling falafel to Eskimos
Nadav Weiss with his creation.
Think it's impossible to sell ice to Eskimos? Try selling falafel in Alaska?
If you compare Nadav Weiss, 30, to a salesperson selling ice to Eskimos, he will laugh. Ice to Eskimos? That is no match for the challenge he took upon himself: selling falafel to the residents of Fairbanks, Alaska without ever cooking it before and in a place where most have never heard of the national Israeli food.
Yet, the risk paid off. Nadav's "Falafel Place" that is open four hours a day, sells about 200 falafel meals. The locals love it.
Weiss arrived in Alaska after his army service and instead of continuing on the world tour he planned, he fell in love. Twice. First with the place, then with Terry – his Alaskan wife. When they made the ice state their home, they looked for a fulfilling job and a challenge. They decided on falafel.
There was only one problem with Nadav and Terry's Cinderella story: the couple couldn't cook falafel, nor could they find a pita in the entire state; so they opted for learning to make both. Four months of trials-and-errors later, they stumbled upon the winning recipe and opened a stand in Fairbanks.
"At first, our stand was located in the middle of the Framer's Market in town. As the lines grew longer and longer, we were moved to a corner where our customers wouldn't be in the way of shoppers," Nadav said.
Although the resemblance to the original is evident, there is one big difference: Nadav's $7 pita is stuffed with falafel, tehina, parsley and… lettuce. "Although I tell my customers that in Israel we prefer our falafel spicy and with pickles, the Alaskans' craving for lettuce couldn't be squashed. So I agreed," Nadav explained.
Despite his success, Nadav remained humble: "This story is not about an Israeli who traveled to Alaska to conquer it. I love this place but I wanted something to remind me of home."
Falafel fact sheet
At times it is shaped like a ball, sometimes like a flat burger. It may have a pale brown color, or be darksome. It can have a smooth or grainy texture, and be eaten inside a pita or Turkish bread. Make way for hummus’s brother: falafel
Falafel is the second-most common dish made of chickpeas, after hummus of course. It is eaten in many Arab and Mediterranean countries, each with its own special version.
You can find falafel all around the world today. But when in the US and North Europe, is it usually made by ex-Israelis, Lebanese, Egyptians or Turks. Falafel is very common in these countries (except Turkey).
Is falafel an Israeli food?
Well, there is that theory about how the ancient Jews invented falafel during their slavery in Egypt, and brought it back with them to the Holy Land. Doesn’t sound too convincing to me, but falafel does owe a lot to Israel, where it is highly popular. In Israel, falafel has first found its way into the pita bread. Israelis were also the first to spread it to Europe and the US, somewhere around the early 1970s.
But where did it come from?
A common theory suggests falafel was invented some 1000 years ago by the Egyptian Copts, who brought it with them to the rest of the Middle East. Another theory dates the invention of falafel as far as the 6th century AD, or even earlier, placing it on the subcontinent of India, which is known until today for making various chickpea-based dishes. And like anything else - some say it was invented by the ancient Egyptians.
What is falafel made of?
There’s a falafel recipe here which you can check for yourself and see. To make long things short: soaked chickpeas, coriander, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper. When it is greener, it usually means there’s a lot of coriander in it. Some add onions, parsley, paprika and sesame seeds to it. Soaked bread and baking soda are often used to make it more airy.
Even today, Egyptian falafel is made of ful (brown dried broad beans). Surprisingly, not only is the taste pretty similar, but falafel made of chickpeas is also considered healthier.
Is falafel good for you?
Falafel contains around 325 calories for 100 grams. It’s made out of 35 percent water, 30 percent carbohydrates, 15 percent protein and some 20 percent of the rest - which may include some fat and also vitamins and minerals, such as potassium and magnesium. When deep fried, the falafel contains relatively little fat, and when eaten with salad it is both satiating and healthy.
Is there a correct way to eat it?
In Berlin, where it is fairly common, falafel is usually made by Turks. They serve it in a Turkish toasted bread, with salads, and some spicy sauces. In the Middle East, it is eaten inside a pita bread, mainly with vegetable salad and tahini. In Israel you also usually get some French fries, pickles and pickled cabbage. In Arab countries, it is traditionally eaten as a stand-alone side dish.
What makes the different texture in different places?
The best way to make falafel is by grinding the ingredients through a meat grinder. In some places, a simple food processor is used, so the texture is smoother and it is less crunchy.
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This is going to be one of those long, rambly posts that touches everything. So you might as well go get a cup of tea. And maybe not come back. I leave that to you.
My first encounter with the myth of Johnny Appleseed was a big white hardcover picturebook which I swear was called The Joy of Giving, but which I can’t find anywhere on the eeenternets, so maybe I imagined the whole thing. It told the life of Johnny Appleseed in the simplest, most sanguine terms, with cuted-up illustrations and a talking inanimate object sidekick (a shovel, I think). He wore a pot for a hat, dressed in muddy overalls, and hiked barefoot, with a big walking stick and two cloth bags slung over his shoulder: apple seeds and oatmeal. He walked until he was tired, ate supper out of his hat, built an orchard, then started walking again. And now we have apples everywhere, in pies and cider and the American dream.
It doesn’t get simpler than that. And when I turned six or seven and graduated from Mac and Tab Are Friends to that, believe me, I was sold. If I could figure out what the heck that story was actually called it would go on my Jay Ridler Top 100 books lickety split. Along with all the rest of the sappy picture book biographies in that series (each one of which had its own unique variety of inanimate object sidekick).
Sappy and cheeseball though it is, it occurs to me that the talking inanimate sidekick thing–at least as used in that series–is actually a magic realist trope. Everything else about the story dealt in a more or less accurate—albeit syrupy-sweet—manner with the real life of some inspiring historical figure. Madam Curie talked to X-Rays, as I recall, and Louis Pasteur talked to germs. It was awesome. And Will Rogers talked to his lariat. No, really. It’s just taking one element of a story and blowing it up to magical stature via hyperbole in order to grab the fancy of a reader who might otherwise be less than interested. This is why magic realists get accused of pandering and their readers of exoticism. But why the hell else would I have cared what happened to the boring old whitebeard Louis Pasteur if he hadn’t been fighting these big germs that looked like Napoleonic soldiers with bayonets?
It’s apple-picking season. In a couple weeks I will drop off several five-gallon glass carboys at my local orchard to be filled with fresh-pressed, unpasteurized cider. The big Mac tree behind my apartment has been producing apace since August; I’ve been eating at least one a day since then and am now physically invincible. As my affair with the cliff the other day clearly demonstrates. Today, I ate three different varieties of wild apple: a kind of Golden Delicious/Macoun hybrid from the tree outside my work at lunchtime, a hard, mild Spy variety from the edge of a field in Graves Farm Sanctuary at the beginning of my evening hike, and a spicy Macintosh variety from the same field at the end.
Mulling over the last one as I meandered back to the car, I thought of Appleseed. His position in the American myth is unique, closest perhaps to Thoreau (at least among its real, breathing representatives, as opposed say to Longfellow’s Hiawatha) in terms both of pacifism and unabashed love and appreciation for nature. Appleseed has a magnanimity towards the human race that, to my mind at least, the other great naturalists lack. On the the other hand, he is completely un-unique as an unconcerned, if well-intentioned, spreader of colonialism.
Still, I don’t think I can deny being deeply influenced by that spirit–and by Appleseed as a hero–even if there is a bit of hypocrisy involved. Little kids are impressionable, I know. As a six year old I was probably equally enthralled with the story of Helen Keller and her talking water pump or whatever. But not nearly to the degree that her legend can rear up out of a country breeze and hijack my head for a couple of hours.
This is where the dangling spider-threads of my newly adopted fake religion, pseudopagan pantheism, make themselves felt. I am irrevocably a creature of New England. If I ever leave here, I’ll still be that. Which means, because of the legacy of Appleseed and those like him in the oblivious colonialist sense, that as deep as my druidy roots ever reach, they will always have been founded upon a tamed and friendly Nature. I can wander around like an idiot falling off cliffs and getting lost in thickets in the dark without a lot of fear of retribution. No wolves, only the occasional wee black bear to go “aww cute” and scare off, and no place to get lost or horribly crippled where a mere half-mile of excruciating crawling won’t get me to a friendly human dwelling with phones and hot running water. Whenever I meet a serious wilderness enthusiast from west of the Mississippi, I seem to end up getting the same gentle ribbing about being so irrevocably enamored of the nurturing-yet-pansy green hills of my home, even to the point of disregard for real wild things like the Rockies, Yosemite, Olympia. And they’re not wrong. But I can’t help it.
I can’t stand new development. I get very angry when trees get cut down and old farmland gets paved to make way for giant box stores I will never enter and couldn’t even dent with a shoulder-fired missile. And yet at the same time I feel, a bit guiltily, that I owe a lot to Johnny Appleseed. He (or his myth) made what remains of the Western Massachusetts wilderness into the Eden that it is, where I can wander around ignoring trail signs and topography, picking apples and taking meticulous photographs of mushrooms with no regard for life or limb. I could probably live for weeks in the woods this time of year just on apples. Presuming I didn’t get gunned down by hunters. Without him, or the spirit of agricultural imperialism he exemplified, that wouldn’t be possible. My whole philosophy of existence pretty much wouldn’t be possible.
If only I were Erin Hoffman, I could distill all this verbosity down into a heartwrenching 20-line poem that cuts to the quick, sell it, and maybe put it out of my head.
Instead I’ll spend the next year or so mulling over the tragic extinction of the American tall tale, how the sterilization of popular culture into malls and box stores and wax-coated, nasty, gas-chamber megamart apples has utterly exterminated any earnest belief in the old kinds of myths, and the only way to resurrect them is in clinical laboratory examinations such as this. And maybe, If I’m really lucky, six months after that, I’ll have written a story that touches on these sad notions briefly in passing and ultimately fails to do them justice.
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For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage.
The 67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars ($167) a month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit hutches crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty, working-class West Kowloon neighborhood.
The cages, stacked on top of each other, measure 1.5 square meters (16 square feet). To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages’ wooden planks instead of mattresses.
Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. The category also includes apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or filled with coffin-sized wood and metal sleeping compartments as well as rooftop shacks. They're a grim counterpoint to the southern Chinese city's renowned material affluence.
The poor, endlessly besieged American plutocrat must tip his hat to his luckier Asian brothers. They get to enjoy in the open the kind of things that he can only pine for secret. Throwing the poor in wire cages and charging them $167 a month for the privilege, how exhilarating! We could easily jack that up to two hundred in the states. Coffin-sized sleeping compartments, rooftop shacks, bedbugs, misery. How nice it must be to cram the 47% into cages where they belong and be done with it, no muss, no fuss, no more living a lie. They’re all moochers and looters anyway. Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.
But, alas!, here in America too many people have vestigial memories of being middle class and they just wouldn’t tolerate living in cages, at least not yet. The expectation of a better life has been hardwired into their DNA and it can only gradually be bred out them. The American frog must be boiled slowly, very slowly, with lots of gadgets and entertainments thrown in along the way. It takes patience, planning, art.
“There just wasn’t enough time, Tagg,” said a disconsolate Mitt Romney to his eldest son. “There just wasn’t enough time.”
“We’ll get there, Pop,” Tagg replied. Ann looked on lovingly as father and son shared a warm hug, and then they all went back to cheating each other at Monopoly, relieved that things in the family were still normal.
I think the uber-rich in this country would like to see us living in cages, cardboard boxes, and rooftops shacks. I really do. The fact is, it’s just not enough for them to get richer and more powerful. You must also suffer. Material acquisition is all well and good, but even the most shallow trust fund baby must occasionally fall prey to bouts of ennui. Another sports car, another yacht, another ski trip to Switzerland, another offer for a reality TV show … Daddy, what’s it all about? Grinding others down is just the thing to take the angst away, and being envied is your birthright as a member of the one percent. A world without losers to gawk at you would be such a buzz kill.
If that doesn’t work, they can always convert to Objectivism or Scientology, or Christian Science, or evangelical Christianity, or any of the other insipid consolations that our overlords tend to embrace. Maybe buy a senate seat, run for president, or go play soldier with Erik Prince at Xe; start a paper and write anti-Jewish screeds like Henry Ford did; collect urine bottles like Howard Hughs; start a wrestling camp like John E. DuPont, fondle the athletes and kill one of them. Use your imagination. You’re a producer, the world is your clam.
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The Employment Relations Act 1999 is the Labour Government's flagship reform of individual and collective employment law. The Act repeals elements of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 and substitutes additional, and potentially far-reaching, new trade union provisions. Additionally, at the individual level, it supplements a variety of rights provided by the Employment Rights Act 1996.;This guide provides a detailed account of the Act and explains the meaning of its provisions in a practical manner. It contains background briefing on the rationale and philosophy behind the provisions and in each substantive chapter attempts to identify the legislative objectives, analyze the meaning of the relevant provisions and assess their likely impact in the future. Incorporated into the discussion of the effect of the legislative principles are references to relevant parliamentary debates and case law. Many provisions of the Act are to be brought into force gradually by way of commencement orders and in the form of regulations - all of which are examined and analyzed in detail.;The book contains a copy of the Act.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer confidence tumbled in December, driven lower by fears of sharp tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect next week.
The New York-based Conference Board said Thursday that its U.S. consumer confidence index fell this month to 65.1, down from 71.5 in November. That’s second straight decline and the lowest level since August.
The survey showed consumers are slightly more optimistic about current business conditions and hiring. But their outlook for the next six months deteriorated to its lowest level since 2011, the survey showed.
Lynn Franco, the board’s director of economic indicators, said the decline in expectations for the next six months is a signal that consumers are worried about the “fiscal cliff.” That’s the name for the automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that take effect Jan. 1 if the White House and Congress can’t reach a budget deal.
Expectations also plunged in August 2011 when a fight over the federal debt limit brought the government to the brink of insolvency, she said.
A separate consumer confidence survey released last week by the University of Michigan fell to a five-month low this month. And reports show the holiday shopping season was the weakest since 2008, when the country was in a deep recession.
Last week, the Ottawa-based Conference Board of Canada said its index of consumer confidence was down in December for a third month in a row amid concerns over job prospects and the economy in general.
People on both sides of the border have been unnerved by a political stand-off in Washington that could have serious repercussions for the U.S. economy, which is the largest in the world and a major market for Canada and other countries.
Negotiations between President Barack Obama and House Republican leaders on a package to avert the sharp tax increases and spending cuts reached an impasse last week. Obama and congressional lawmakers return to Washington Thursday to resume talks with just days to go before economy goes over the fiscal cliff.
That’s the term used to describe a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that are set to go into effect in January, unless a compromise deal is reached. Economists warn that the measures could push the U.S. back into recession and would certainly slow its recovery from the deep 2008-9 downturn.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner added pressure to the talks Wednesday by alerting Congress that the government was on track to hit its borrowing limit on Dec. 31. He said Treasury would take “extraordinary measures as authorized by law” to keep the government operating for another couple of months.
Still, he added, uncertainty over the outcome of negotiations over taxes and spending made it difficult to determine how much time those measures would buy.
The Conference Board index has risen from an all-time low of 25.3 touched in February 2009. It remains well below the level of 90 that is consistent with a healthy economy. It last reached that point in December 2007, the first month of the Great Recession.
There are signs the economy is improving. The job market is slowly improving and the average number of people filing for unemployment benefits over the past month fell to the lowest level since March 2008.
Home sales are up over the past year and prices are rising, signalling the housing recovery is sustainable. Companies ordered more long-lasting manufactured goods in November. And Americans spent more in November. Consumer spending drives nearly 70 per cent of economic growth.
While a short fall over the cliff won’t push the economy into recession, most economists expect some tax increases to take effect next year. That could slow growth.
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The Isaac Osborn House at 88 Newtown Lane was erected during a decade when the Mexican-American War was fought, the postage stamp was invented, and the few buildings in East Hampton Village were surrounded by farmland. It, too, was once a farmhouse, in the middle of hundreds of livestock-filled acres that stretched all the way to Cedar Street, 35 acres in a straight line.
Today, the house sits on about one acre. Built in the 1840s and purchased by the village in 2007 for $1.4 million, it is midway through a renovation process, slated to culminate in June 2013. Soon after, eight village employees will move into three offices in the 1,800-square-foot house.
The village acquired the property from Adele Lamb, a descendant of Isaac Osborn. “The village appreciates the character of that commercially undeveloped stretch of Newtown,” said Robert Hefner, its director of historic preservation. “We especially wanted to prevent the worst-imaginable scenario — that someone would buy the property and tear it down.”
Isaac Osborn and his brother Joseph, who lived across the street, built the house together. Although neither brother put an “e” on the end of his name, some of their relatives did. “It is and was a matter of personal preference,” Mr. Hefner said. Osborne Lane does have the extra “e.”
Richard Baxter, a restoration contractor who also oversaw the renovation of the Hook and Gardiner mills, is in charge of this project as well. Work began in March, when the porch was removed, but really picked up speed in August, when the front and rear dormers came off, bringing the roofline back to its original appearance. Next, the first-floor side windows were taken out, exposing the soil beneath; the house was built originally without a basement. It has one now, to be used for storage.
For its age, Mr. Hefner said, the house is in relatively good condition. “Several features, like the Doric column-like framed doorway and matching [nonfunctioning] fireplace, staircase, and wide-board oak flooring in the parlor are intact,” he said. “If certain elements cannot be salvaged, we are doing our best to install furnishings that coincide with the property’s overall vernacular.”
A concave window brings sunlight into the kitchen. Two other such windows are being replicated by Maurer & Shepherd Joyners of Glastonbury, Conn. In the building’s current state, soot-caked ceiling beams are visible, evidence of an 1890 wood stove that will eventually return to its rightful place. Much of the flooring in the kitchen has been removed, leaving exposed bricks, but no buried treasure or relics beneath. At the top of the stairway a double window allows light to enter from a small room close by.
According to Mr. Hefner, there were 13 people living in the house at one point. The finished building will contain five rooms and one bathroom.
There are two accessory buildings on the property. One, a 400-square-foot storage space that was once used as summer living quarters, has been moved to a spot where it will shield a planned 15-space parking lot, in back of the house, from Newtown Lane.
The other, a 19th-century cobbler’s studio, is going to the East Hampton Historical Society’s Mulford Farm for use as a blacksmith shop.
This is not the first time that East Hampton Village has saved a historic property and adapted it for office use. In 1993 it paid $580,000 for the Lyman Beecher House at the corner of Main Street and Huntting Lane, now Village Hall. One of the most important ways the village can protect its history, said Mr. Hefner, is by preserving its historic houses.
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This week's guest blogger is fantasy novelist Narrelle M Harris, author of the acclaimed vampire novel The Opposite of Life and the Melbourne Literary app for the iPhone and iPad.
It was all in the detail.
There’s something about Art Deco design which never ceases to delight me. Maybe it’s the combination of geometry and colour. Maybe it’s the frescoes in which 20th century technology looks decorative and classical. Maybe it’s just the way I associate Deco with PG Wodehouse and his Jeeves and Wooster books.
Whatever the reason, the Melbourne Art Deco Architecture Tour provided the requisite delight as I walked around the city under the guidance of guide Robin Grow. Some of Melbourne’s Deco architecture was already known to me, but Grow revealed a few secrets as well (the secret, guys, is to look up!)
The Manchester Unity Building was the logical start for our walk. Although I’m very familiar with the elegant sweep of this 1932 building, I hadn’t really stopped to look within its interior. How had I not seen the picture of the grieving woman near the Collins Street entrance? The curve of her back, the image of Death in the corner. The art is blocky but eloquent:
Further along I noticed the lovely stained glass highlights under the walkway to the Capitol Theatre for the first time:
Then, after spotting the little K on the former Kodak House, I got a better look at the mosaic on Newspaper House. I’ve always seen it from the other side of the road, but up close, I could see the dates and strange little designs on the insets of the windows:
It’s strange to think you know a city well, only to discover you really haven’t been looking at it properly. The Aztec influence in Harry Norris’s floor design for Block Court was obvious once it was pointed out to me. Howey House’s musicians were a surprise, as were the fish forming what I thought was a floral design on the Majorca Building:
I hadn’t expected the strange combination of images at the top of the Theosophical Building on Collins Street. The design is a combination of the six pointed star, a cross that looks a bit like an ankh, a swastika (the peaceful Indian one, not the reversed Nazi one) and the ouroboros (the snake eating its own tail):
My favourite surprise, though, was the Egyptian motif on a building on Bourke Street. The winged sun and lotus columns reminded me of the time I lived in Egypt. The Egyptian craze in design that followed the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb reached even our far shores and this elegant decoration represented a bridge between Melbourne’s history and my own:
Robin Grow knows a lot about the architectural history of Melbourne, helping you see the parts of the city you never noticed before; but it was the tour's interaction with my personal history that added detail to the experience.
The MELTours Melbourne Art Deco Architecture Tour takes place on the second Sunday of each month. Cost $49. Bookings via +61 407 380969 or meltours.com.au.
Narrelle M Harris was a guest of MELTours. You can find details of Narrelle's vampire novel The Opposite of Life at her website, along with details of her Melbourne Literary app and other published work.
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There are many options to troubleshoot memory leak issues in .NET applications. Most common approach is capturing a memory dump just before terminating the process and looking at the object count and gcroots. Most of the time this approach works, but in few cases where the application has too many short lived and too many long lived objects, it is hard to determine which objects are leaking and which objects are cached.
Another common approach is capturing multiple snapshots at the same location of the application after executing the application functionality that causes memory leaks. Comparing these snapshots, we can easy tell which object count is increasing and we can do gcroots on only those objects.
In this blog post, I would like to show how NP .NET Profiler can collect multiple snapshots and generate different reports to determine which object count is increasing.
Click the image for a larger view
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Reid: America is Fortunate
the State of the Indian Nations Is Strong
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement on President Joe A.Garcia's State of Indian Nations Address to the National Congress of American Indians:
"In his address to the National Congress of American Indians,President Garcia described the state of the Indian Nations as strong. Inthe face of difficult odds, American Indians continue to be a vital forcein our country -- people who contribute to every facet of our nation. They enrich our society, defend our homeland, and as always, we send our thanks. We in Congress have the responsibility to do more to help. More than30 years ago, Congress enacted laws to promote tribal self-determination, a movement that President Garcia recognized as dramatically improving thelives of native people. As President Garcia said, we must continue tohelp tribal governments make progress on improving public safety for those in Indian Country, expand health care for native peoples, encourage the diversification of tribal economic development enterprises, explore tribal energy sources while sustainable conservation practices and protect tribal natural resources. From continuing to support native housing programs, to working to stamp out the community-destroying effects of methamphetamine addiction, and more, Democrats in Congress look forward to working alongside our nation's native people to make sure the more than 500 Indian communities grow even stronger in the future and to fulfill their goals of self- determination."
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Student Diversity Abroad
Links for Diverse Groups
Did you know that 212 self-identified students of color from the University of Georgia studied abroad in 2009-10?
These students ranged from freshmen to PhD students, visited 34 different countries with both UGA-run and external programs, were majoring in dozens of different subjects, and were abroad anywhere from three weeks to an entire academic year.
What did they all have in common? All got academic credit towards their UGA degree!
Resources to explore Diversity Issues for students going abroad.
- Diversity Abroad
- Disability Services at UGA
Provides academic and support services to qualified students with disabilities to ensure equal access to all programs and activities at UGA.
- Services for Students with Learning Disabilities at UGA
Provides appropriate services and coordinates accommodations for students with learning disabilities at UGA.
- Mobility International
Information on international travel and study abroad programs for persons with disabilities.
- NAFSA Rainbow Special Interest Group
Special interest group within NAFSA: Association of International Educators whose goals are to counsel international students and study abroad students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered.
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Well, there are a lot of terms, I'll just explain some of the "popular" ones.
Walls have very high defense. They are usually used to block physical moves.
Sweepers try to quickly knock out ("sweep") the opponents Pokemon. They have high Speed and Offensive stats.
A Pokemon that can take hits, and fight back, like a a "tank"
Like a tank, a Staller takes hits and fights back. It stalls.
More info on the terms
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The results are in! The Tanning is Out Challenge was a huge success for high schools with more than 8,000 students in BC pledging to stay tan-free! Students promoted sun safety and busted some dangerous myths regarding tanning. They planned activities asking their peers to take the tan-free pledge and avoid deliberate tanning both indoors and outdoors.
Students also took part in weekly photo challenges. Each school was encouraged to submit a photo to TIO Facebook. The school with the funniest and most creative photo of the week was eligible for an extra per cent added to their total pledge numbers giving them an advantage to potentially win the overall challenge. We saw creative shine and I’ve never seen competition this fierce!
What are students saying about the photo challenge?
“It was a good way to get the word out and it was creative.”
“It was fun! I was able to participate with my friends.”
“Everyone got a chance to be whacky.”
Successes and Inspiration:
Tanning is Out Leaders from the Greater Vancouver Area at Windermere Community School hosted themes like “Jers-day” where students encouraged their peers to dress up like their favourite, and extremely artificially tanned, Jersey Shore characters while promoting the TIO Challenge and what not to look like. With their Photo Challenge submissions, Windermere came out on top with 100.5% of grade 12’s pledging to be tan-free. Awesome job guys!
On Vancouver Island the winning school, Oak Bay High generously decided to donate their prize money towards Relay for Life. This inspirational group of students have helped advance the work of the Canadian Cancer Society in so many ways. Truly amazing!
In the Fraser Valley Region, Tamanawis Secondary TIO Student Leaders showed the “What if” video and provided presentations to all Gr. 10 classes in the school. They focused on the fact that skin cancer doesn’t discriminate and that people of all skin types must practice sun sense.
In the Northern Region, Williams Lake Secondary TIO Leaders engaged the cooking class to bake cakes frosted with orange TIO designs which they shared when students pledged.
In the Southern Interior Region students from grades 6-12 took the tan-free pledge. The TIO initiative at Kelowna Christian School was a feature story on Global BC in the Okanagan.
As a former student volunteer and continuing TIO volunteer, it has been wonderful journey to work on this initiative with high school students. It’s an amazing feeling to walk out of a high school knowing that you’ve changed the way someone evaluates how unnecessary and dangerous tanning is. The message behind this campaign has really resonated with me over the years. It has constantly reminded me that true beauty isn’t what you can do to change your skin but learning to embrace all the parts that make you who you are.
For a more in depth explanation about Tanning is Out, click here.
Until next time,
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Re-authentication delay is a major concern of fast handoff in wireless mesh networks. Most recent efforts focus on proactive approaches by transferring security context to potential target mesh routers before handoff occurs. However, the efficiency and effectiveness of such approaches are significantly affected by the density of potential targets and the accuracy of handoff prediction which is in fact a very difficult task. In this paper, we propose a reactive scheme to reduce re-authentication delay with low communication overhead in IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh network. Our proposed scheme consists of two steps: Immediate Authentication (lA) and Full Authentication (FA) to exploit the tradeoff between system performance and security. Numerical results show our proposed scheme can reduce re-authentication delay by as much as 51.9% within the sacrifice of the degradation of security 6.04%.
Date of Conference: 5-8 April 2009
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Yes, interest rates are at rock bottom, but higher down payments and credit requirements are hurdles for many home buyers.
We've all heard the message: Buy a home now to take advantage of record affordability.
But in reality, a tighter lending environment is eroding the gains that come with record-low rates and falling home prices, according to a new report from Andrew Davidson & Co.
"The main hurdle today in stopping home prices from quickly growing is high down-payment costs," said Alexander Levin of the New York-based mortgage consulting firm.
There's a lot more to getting a mortgage than during the height of the housing bubble. Lenders not only want bigger down payments, they also require proof of income and higher credit scores from borrowers. And those with weak credit are now penalized in the way of a higher mortgage rates.
This contradicts the message of various Realtors' groups, which have tried to stir buyers by reminding them that housing affordability is at an all-time high.
"For those with good credit, we've never seen better housing affordability conditions or market opportunities than we see at present," said Moe Veissi, president of the National Association of Realtors and broker-owner of Veissi & Associates Inc. in Miami. Veissi noted that home sales would be more robust if lending standards were more relaxed.
"Although home prices are stabilizing and sales are rising, some buyers still have to jump through a lot of hoops to convince a lender that they are creditworthy, even for a mortgage that would be well within their means. This is especially true for self-employed buyers."
Such affordability indicators take into consideration mortgage rates, household income and home prices. Mortgage rates have fallen to record lows in the past several weeks, and home prices are at a 10-year low.
Jim Buchta • 612-673-7376
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I saw a 12-year-old hit a 300-foot home run today. All he did was lift his heel and put it back down. He hit a 220-foot homer, too.
The no-stride is a tool. It's a drill for hitters who are too active with body parts in a variety of ways. Rarely should a hitter use it as a permanent hitting style. A lot of the guys who give lessons use it because they are working in cages and a hitter can make contact and look reasonably good doing it. With hitting in to nets, kids think they are doing well but they are just cage hitters. Not really able to drive the ball past fielders. So it's ok to use for awhile if necessary but it's not a long term style. Some guys might use it with 2 strikes I guess.
mud, the real difference in those 2 swings is that the shift and swing person actually clears his front hip slightly as his front foot touches. This 'hip clear' allows the hips to rotate faster (they are rotating around the center) vs. a gate swing (rotating twice as far around the front hip).
So, I agree... the swing on the right is best, but, I'm not convinced they are 'shifting then swinging'.
eFastball.com hitting and pitching fact checker
The batter on the left pulls back and pauses. The batter of the right pulls back continuously and the rotates around the rear hip and then releases everything at "go".
The post says they are the same batter. If that's the case, I'd just say that are at different stages of development.
On the right, you can see his hip move toward the pitcher, before it rotates back around the rear pivot.
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A technology company racing to become the default “wallet” on mobile devices has been valued $3.25bn in its latest fundraising, confirming its status as one of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups.
Square, a San Francisco mobile payments company started and led by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, has raised $200m in new funding, said people familiar with the deal.
The company will use the money to focus on international expansion as it seeks to secure its technology as the default “mobile wallet”, facing fierce competition from large global companies which are also searching for ways to turn consumers’ smartphones into all-purpose payment systems.
Square now processes $8bn in payments annually, compared with $1bn one year ago. Its workforce has grown to more than 400 employees, up from 150 last year.
The company was founded in 2009 after an artist friend of Mr Dorsey’s complained of losing a $3,000 sale because he could not accept a credit card. Square’s original product is a one-inch square plastic credit card reader that plugs into the jack of an iPhone or Android phone. Square provides the reader for free, then charges a 2.75 per cent transaction fee.
Small business owners and sole entrepreneurs, from hairdressers to therapists to dog walkers, have adopted the technology. Both US presidential candidates are using it at rallies to capture election donations on the spot, rather than waiting to solicit supporters via email at a later date. Friends in California even use it socially to settle bills at restaurants and pubs.
Square has since developed a payment system for small retailers that uses an iPad in place of a cash register to process payments directly via customers’ cell phones.
The current financing round was led by an unconventional group of investors: Citi Ventures, and arm of the global financial services company, Rizvi Traverse Management, a private equity firm, and Starbucks.
In August, Starbucks began replacing all of the credit and debit transaction systems in its 7,000 US coffee shops with Square’s technology, a landmark deal for the start-up.
One of Square’s biggest competitors is PayPal, the payment arm of ecommerce site eBay. PayPal released its triangular plug-in credit card reader this year and signed a deal with Discover, giving 7m merchants that accept that credit card ability to also accept PayPal payments.
The latest round brings Square’s total fundraising to $341m. Previous investors have included Sequoia Capital and Visa, which made a combined $27.5m investment. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Tiger Technology Global Management invested $100m last year, along with $3m from Sir Richard Branson.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court to block part of the federal health care law that requires the Christian family-owned arts and crafts company to provide insurance coverage for emergency contraception pills.
The Oklahoma City-based company asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block enforcement of the law, which will require Hobby Lobby and a sister company, Mardel, Inc., to cover the morning-after pill and week-after pill as part of employee health insurance plans beginning Jan. 1.
The company filed its appeal Tuesday, a day after a federal judge denied the request.
“There is a sense of urgency here,” said Kyle Duncan, general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing Hobby Lobby.
The company, which is self-insured, has said it will face a daily $1.3 million fine beginning Jan. 1 if it ignores the law.
Hobby Lobby is the largest business to file a lawsuit against the mandate. Founded in 1972, it now operates more than 500 stores in 41 states and employs more than 13,000 full-time employees who are eligible for health insurance coverage.
Hobby Lobby sued the government in September, claiming the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its Christian owners, the Green family. The owners maintain that the morning-after and week-after pills are tantamount to abortion because they can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman’s womb. They also object to providing coverage for certain kinds of intrauterine devices.
“Appellants engage in an undisputed exercise of religion: they refrain from providing insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs,” Hobby Lobby’s appeal states. “Yet the government puts appellants to an impossible choice: either give up the religious exercise, or pay millions in fines.”
In ruling against the company Monday, U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton said churches and other religious organizations have been granted constitutional protection from the birth-control provisions, but “Hobby Lobby and Mardel are not religious organizations.”
“Plaintiffs have not cited, and the court has not found, any case concluding that secular, for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby and Mardel have a constitutional right to the free exercise of religion,” the ruling said.
But the companies’ appeal argues that members of the Green family run their businesses according to their religious faith, “and regularly engage in what can only be called exercises of religion.”
Among other things, Hobby Lobby takes out hundreds of full-page ads every Christmas and Easter celebrating the religious nature of the holidays, closes on Sundays to give employees a day of rest and excludes contraceptive devices and drugs that its owners maintain can cause abortion from its employee prescription drug coverage plan, according to the appeal.
“They exercise their personal religious faith in many ways in which that company is run,” Duncan said.
Heaton recognized that the Green family has sincere religious beliefs, but the judge ruled that complying with the new health care guidelines creates only an indirect burden on Hobby Lobby’s owners and it is not personal to them, he said.
In medical terms, pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches itself to the wall of the uterus. If taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, the morning-after pill can reduce the chances of an egg implanting in a woman’s womb by as much as 89 percent.
Critics of the contraception say it is the equivalent of an abortion pill because it can prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus. The lawsuit also alleges that certain kinds of intrauterine devices can destroy an embryo by preventing it from implanting in a woman’s uterus.
At a hearing earlier this month, a government lawyer said the drugs do not cause abortions and that the U.S. has a compelling interest in mandating insurance coverage for them.
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The aim of this paper is to trace a map of Italian local social capital endowments. It focuses on the “structural” dimension of the concept, as identified with social networks. The analysis is based on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred indicators of five main social capital dimensions: strong family ties, weak informal ties, voluntary organizations, civic awareness, and political participation. 51 key variables are selected for performing principal component analyses both on each of the five groups and on the entire dataset, in order to build latent indicators for every single social capital’s dimension and for the concept as a whole. Finally, a multiple factor analysis is run on the entire dataset, in search of a single synthetic measure of social capital. A clear distinction emerges between bonding social capital, shaped by strong family ties, and bridging and linking social capital, shaped by weak ties among friends, neighboors and members in voluntary organizations. Areas characterized by high levels of bonding social capital can suffer from a lack of bridging and linking ties. The study provides a valuable synthetic indicator capturing the particular configuration of social capital which the literature generally associates with positive economic outcomes.
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Our Darwin Day Gift to You: "C.S. Lewis and Evolution"
It's a premiere, so watch it now on YouTube!
"C.S. Lewis and Evolution" is the second of three short documentaries inspired by John West's book The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society (Discovery Institute Press). It examines the evolution of Lewis's views on orthodox Darwinian theory from his time as a college undergraduate to his death in 1963.
Yes, it's a wonderful way to celebrate this special day. And in case you missed it, go watch the first film in the series, "The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism." Enjoy your Darwin Day responsibly.
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The Pride is the result of their hard work June 23-30 at Oregon State University. Check out their newspaper in PDF form or read individual stories on the Teen blog.
The students collectively interviewed business leaders, superintendents, principals, restaurant owners, college basketball coaches, star athletes and others. They wrote informative, nuanced stories around the OSU campus and surrounding communities. They shot all their own vivid photographs. And they blogged throughout the week, sharing their learning experiences, fears and aspirations.
All of these students come from underrepresented backgrounds and speak with voices often lacking in America's newsrooms. This year's institute participants include ethnic minorities, low-income students, students who will be the first in their family to attend university and students achieving through disabilities. Many face multiple disadvantage factors.only 12.3 percent of the country's newsroom employees are minorities, according to the most recent newsroom census by the American Society of News Editors.
Given the work this year's students produced at camp, they are well on their way to changing that trend. We look forward to the day we see these students as colleagues in our newsrooms.
The institute is a collaborative effort between The Oregonian, Oregon State University, the (Medford) Mail Tribune, the (McMinville) News-Register, the Corvallis Gazette-Times and the Oregon Newspapers Foundation to promote diversity in newsrooms of the future.
Additional support was provided by the Albany Democrat-Herald, Pro Photo Supply, Nikon and Judy Butler.
-- Yuxing Zheng, institute co-director
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It’s not a good time to be in the business of helping internet pirates. According to a new report, Google has seen a dramatic rise in DMCA takedown requests in recent months. How high, you ask? Requests have doubled in the last few weeks, and spiked an unbelievable 1,137 percent year-over-year. According to the report, Google received requests to take down 1.5 million URLs per week last month. In July 2011, they were asked to take down an average of 131,577 each week.
This new rash of crackdowns began the week of July 9th, when Google was asked to remove a record-setting 719,416 URLs from their search engine. The previous record, 609,800 requests, had just been set in June. The next week, users broke the new record, flagging 736,477 URLs. Two weeks later, the week of July 23rd, Google was asked to take down 1,107,659 URLs by copyright holders.
I bet you thought the story was over, didn’t you? Well, it’s not. Flash foward to the week of August 13th, two weeks ago: Google registered 1,496,220 DMCA requests in one week. That’s a 1,137 percent increase compared to the week of August 8th, 2011.
Though the most dramatic rise has occurred in last few weeks, the number of requests has been rising steadily since Google began releasing their transparency report, revealing which sites have been taken off the search engine on a regular basis. The report, which Google began filing in May, has clearly become an essential tool for copyright holders looking to minimize the Internet’s impact on their earnings.
As TorrentFreak points out, not every takedown request is for copyright infringement. One woman, for instance, wanted a URL taken down because it has a mugshot that features her personal information, but isn’t a picture of her. When asked, most sites comply and remove flagged URLs in order to avoid being removed from Google completely. Obviously, there have been a few exceptions in the past. With recent crackdowns on piracy, many of those sites have been blocked altogether… Well, somewhat.
- It sounds like Ubisoft has given up on taking down pirates
- More on Google’s role in the fight against online piracy
- I couldn’t find a third story that uses the same picture…
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NBC challenges broadcasters on African stories
October 25, 2012 11:26
Abuja, Oct. 25, 2012 (NAN) The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in Abuja on Thursday urged broadcasters to strive and tell African stories in a way that will portray it in good light to the World.
This is contained in a communiqué of the 9th biennial conference of African Broadcasters (AFRICAST) with the theme ``Content Rules’’.
The communiqué was signed by Mr Joseph Agbo, the NBC Zonal Director, Jos zone.
It called on broadcasters to build the image of Africa by acting strongly in producing materials with elaborate and gripping contents that would show case the best of Africa.
``Africans have been identified as having bright ideas. This should be used in producing quality programmes that would have a worldwide appeal.
`` Broadcasters should imbibe the spirit of fairness and professionalism, accountability and transparency as the guiding principle in the production of broadcast content,’’ it said
It also advised broadcast organisations to provide specialised training for producers of children’s programmes so that they can create programmes with wholesome content, good culture and great value lessons.
`` The need for adequate training on every aspect of content production, particularly cinematography, post production and effective production management cannot be over- emphasised.’’
It stressed the need for the updating of technology for both content production and delivery.
The communiqué advised the NBC to provide guidelines which should serve as best practice for the protection of masts and other broadcast equipment.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the conference was attended by 317 delegates, from South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, USA, France, Italy, Cameroun, and India. (NAN)
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Torvalds wins Economic Innovation Award
Gong from The Economist
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is being honoured at The Economist's Third Annual Innovations Awards.
The event is held in San Francisco and awards innovators in six categories: bioscience, computing, energy and the environment, communications, "no boundaries" and social and economic innovation. Entries were nominated by Economist readers and journalists and the winners were chosen by a panel of 17 judges.
Torvalds wrote the original code for Linux while he was a student at the University of Helsinki. More importantly he published the code on the internet and invited other programmers to improve it and send him their improvements - the basis of open source software development.
He recently described his role within Linux as similar to a shepherd, but herding cats rather than sheep.
Torvalds won the Takeda Award in 2001 and was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004. He currently works for the Open Source Development Labs promoting the wider use of open source software.
Other winners include the creator of Toyota's hybrid car - the Prius, Muhammed Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank which makes small loans to Bangladeshi women and Vic Hayes, former chair of IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless LANs. ®
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Jailbreaking is a process that changes little by little with each iOS upgrade, so in addition to our always-up-to-date jailbreaking guide we keep past methods available in case you're not using the latest and greatest version of iOS. Here's our jailbreaking guide for 4.3.3 using redsn0w and not the easier JailbreakMe method.
The video above will show you how the whole process works, both on your computer and your iOS device. The video depicts the jailbreak process for iOS 4.3.1 but it is identical to the process for iOS 4.3.3 (and 4.3.2, for that matter). Here are the individual steps:
Connect your iOS device to your computer. It's always good to back it up before jailbreaking (use PKGBackup if you already have a jailbroken device and want a more comprehensive backup) in case something goes wrong, but before you get started with the jailbreak you'll want to quit iTunes.
Download redsn0w from the iPhone Dev-Team, download the iOS 4.3.3 IPSW for your specific device, and the update to the latest version of iTunes. It is very important that you download the IPSW file that corresponds to your specific iDevice or this will not work.
Open the IPSW file with redsn0w and let redsn0w do it's thing. When it's done it'll ask you to select some options before starting the jailbreak process. You'll have four at the bottom of your screen and you really only need to select the first, which is "Install Cydia." If you're not familiar, Cydia is basically the jailbreak app store and you'll need it to install jailbreak apps, hacks, extensions, etc.
On the next screen you'll be asked to turn off your iDevice and connect it to your computer, so do that. Then get ready because as soon as you click next you're going to have to do some quick work.
To start, hold down your power button for three seconds. After three seconds, don't let go but start pressing your home button as well for another 10 seconds. After that 10 seconds has passed, let go of the power button but not the home button. Redsn0w will tell you to hold the home button for about 15 seconds but in most cases you'll be able to let go a lot sooner than that. You'll know because the instructions will disappear and stuff will start happening. Redsn0w will guide you through this process as it happens so don't worry about getting the timing right. If you screw it up—and you probably will the first time—you can always try again.
Once you're done you'll see a lot of text appear on your iDevice's screen. This is normal. Pretty quickly redsn0w will tell you it is done and you'll just have to wait for things to finish up on the iOS screen. iOS will take several minutes to finish so be patient. Eventually your device will be ready and it'll reboot all by itself.
And you're done! You'll find Cydia installed on your home screen (although if you have a ton of apps you'll need to scroll through pages to find it). Launch it and you're ready to go! Don't know what to do next? Check out our jailbreaking tag page for some ideas.
Music by Adrian Holovaty
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The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has filed a statewide class action lawsuit against Anthem Blue Cross saying the health insurer is discriminating against HIV/AIDS patients.
Anthem is changing its pharmacy program and will require anyone using drugs from a list of “specialty” medications to use a mail-order pharmacy, approved by Anthem. But patients seeking to fill other prescriptions may still use their local bricks-and-mortar pharmacy. “That’s exactly the kind of targeting and discrimination barred under the Civil Rights Act in California,” Consumer Watchdog attorney Jerry Flanagan says.
In a statement, Anthem denies the change is discriminatory, because the list of specialty medications includes not only HIV/AIDS drugs, but also medicines for other conditions, such as cancer and multiple sclerosis. Anthem says that the practice is already established. From Anthem’s statement:
“For many years, health plans in California and other states have sought, subject to certain exceptions, that specialty drugs be filled by Specialty Pharmacies and received via confidential home or other private delivery location that benefits the member. … This is being done with the knowledge of our regulator and applies to several hundred different drugs for many medical ailments. Anthem’s policies do not discriminate on the basis of disease states, and they are reasonable and compliant with applicable laws.”
Marta Green at the Department of Managed Health Care confirmed that there are three similar programs already in place in California from Health Net, Sharp and United Health Care of California. Green declined to comment on Consumer Watchdog’s lawsuit, saying the Department had just received it.
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The move to make Holocaust denying illegal across the EU seems to have acquired legs, with the Commission supporting the German proposal and the egregious Justice Commissar Franco Frattini (he, who got his job because the original Italian candidate Buttiglioni was a devout and practising Catholic) announced somewhat pompously that he "very much welcomed and fully supported" these proposals.
I shall not bother to rehearse all the arguments against the ban, which have nothing to do with the horrible aspect of the event and of the need to know about it and to study it (though there are other things in history to study as well).
It is, however, gag-making to hear this sort of commentary:
While freedom of expression is part of Europe's values and traditions, its democratic societies also allowed to fight racist speech through penal law, the commissioner added.Those European values and traditions (that, of course, include Nazism and the Holocaust as well) seem to be infinitely flexible. What Commissar Frattini should be dealing with is the fully acknowledged growth in anti-Semitic attacks across the whole of western Europe in the last few years. Most of these member states, including Italy, routinely post police guard outside synagogues because they are afraid of attacks that come from one or two barely acknowledged directions.
Compared to that, the denial of something that happened some decades ago, a denial that is, moreover, not taken particularly seriously by any respectable historian or commentator, is hardly of paramount importance. Is this another effort on the part of all our lords and masters to go for displacement activity rather than trying to deal with existing and growing problems?
As we have already said on this blog, should such a ban be proposed for legislation in the United Kingdom, we shall start campaigning for legislation that would make the denial of Communist crimes illegal. Alas, we have not enough space in courts or prisons to accommodate all those who have been and still are indulging in this activity.
Pic courtesy of: bigfoto.com
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Euro-area inflation unexpectedly slowed in January as the economy cooled and governments cut spending across the 17-nation currency region.
The inflation rate in the euro area dropped to 2.6 percent from 2.7 percent in the previous month, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said today. It had initially estimated January’s inflation rate at 2.7 percent. Before today’s revision, economists forecast February inflation, due tomorrow, to slow to 2.6 percent, according to the median of 35 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey.
European companies are struggling to pass on higher costs as budget cuts undermine consumer sentiment just as global export demand weakens. Still, while the European Commission predicts that the region’s economy will shrink this year, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has said the situation “seems to be stabilizing.”
Consumer prices dropped 0.8 percent from December, the statistics office said. Inflation slowed in 16 out of 27 EU member states, accelerated in nine and remained steady in two. Euro-region core inflation, excluding volatile costs, slowed to 1.5 percent from 1.6 percent in December.
Energy costs rose 9.2 percent in January from a year earlier, down from a 9.7 percent gain in the previous month, today’s report showed. Prices of clothes rose 0.9 percent.
Adding to signs of easing cost pressures across the region, producer-price inflation probably slowed to 3.5 percent in January from 4.3 percent in the previous month, a Bloomberg survey shows. Euro-region unemployment may have held at 10.4 percent in January, according to a separate survey.
The ECB, which aims to keep inflation just below 2 percent, will hold its next monetary assessment on March 8. It will publish its latest inflation projections on the same day.
“The euro area has entered into a mild recession,” EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said at a briefing on Feb. 23. “Prospects have worsened and risks to the growth outlook remain but there are signs of stabilization at the same time, especially in the more recent period.”
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I know that many teachers are demoralized. It is not just because I read your comments every day, but because national surveys by Scholastic/Gates and by the Metlife survey report that this is so.
Some of the newbie organizations founded and/or funded by Gates (like TeachPlus and Educators4Excellence) think this is wonderful. So does The New Teacher Project (TNTP), founded by either Wendy Kopp or Michelle Rhee, depending on whom you believe. They see a new day coming, when teachers who don’t care about a pension or job security, who want to be evaluated by test scores, will fill the classrooms of America.
I say all this is nonsense. Ten years from now, the teaching corps in most districts in the nation will be drawn from the same pool as now. It is an absurd goal to want to push out or drive out experienced teachers and rely on a group of young people to change teaching into a job for short-timers. It could happen, but if it does, it won’t be good for students or for the quality of education.
Short term, there is good reason to be demoralized. Long term, I am convinced that the destructive trends of this era will pass. Failed ideas eventually are recognized as failed ideas.
That is why I urge everyone to stay and fight for what they know is right for their students. Signs of resistance are growing. The test boycott at Garfield High School in Seattle is the first sign of spring. There will be many more.
Here is someone who disagrees with me, or made her decision a while back:
“Maybe the greatest act of defiance is to stay and fight for what is right.”
Diane, I believe most teachers who have decided to leave the profession felt that way years and years before they left. These changes have been a long time coming. The writing was on the wall years ago and most teachers hunkered down and got the job done anyway. They stood up to bullying principals and insane edicts, more paperwork, much more testing, and more decisions being made by people who never taught a day in the classroom. They fought hard and were belittled, ignored, or forced out.
There comes a day when it becomes impossible to stay, when you feel you can no longer be a part of something that is directly harming children and that takes a little piece of your soul each day that you continue to play by someone else’s rules. I know because I was one of those teachers. I taught for 20 years and the district offered a buy out, hoping to get rid of their veteran teachers so they could hire cheaper, more pliable, younger teachers. That was almost two years ago, and most of the teacher friends I left behind are retiring this year. Like me, they reached a point where they had to leave.
Even though we’re no longer in the classroom, we continue to fight “from the outside.” Thank you for everything you do.
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Smoke and Mirrors: What is a café in the UAE without sheesha?
Are we really saying goodbye to the city’s Arabic café staple that is the sheesha? Good for the lungs, bad for business. How will cafés offset this imminent sheesha ban?
June 12, 2011 4:41 by Precious de Leon
An article on Emirates 24/7 this weekend, suggested that coffee shops in the UAE’s towns and residential areas that are “relying heavily on sheesha smokers” will have to either leave to a less congested location or shut down altogether (not exactly ideal proposals for any business).
The move is said to be part of an anti-smoking law which will reportedly be enforced soon. Once the federal law has been ratified, cafés will have six months to make the make or break decision.
What’s different about Sheesha (or Hookah as some of you may call it) is that it has become so ingrained in the Middle Eastern culture. It’s completes the picture of a serene social setting across the region.
This isn’t a surprise, however. The UAE government has been slowly weaning the country out of its hard-to-break habit. Back in 2009, the municipality banned smoking shisha at beaches, parks and other family areas as part of moves to stamp out smoking in public places. And even earlier than that is the 2007 ban for youth under 20 years old to have Sheesha.
The UAE, for years, has been working on a federal law regulating tobacco and its uses, content and trade, in accordance with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC).
So should the law actually be enforced soon, how will these ‘sheesha cafés’ in? Well, they will have to take notes from their counterparts neighbouring Sharjah, which has banned Sheesha for years (from what Kipp could tell, the Sharjah ban is at least ten years old, from the last paragraph of this article).
“The law is clear…all these coffee shops which serve sheesha for its customers will have to shift outside residential areas to industrial zones,” Dr Widad Almaidour, director of the anti-smoking team at the Ministry of Health, was quoted as saying by Arabic language daily Al Ittihad.
The question that’s left is for business owners to figure out how they will offset this loss. Will most of them ply their trade out of the city and residences, when their business thrives on heavy pedestrian traffic? Or stick it out in the same location, competing on hot and cold beverages and snack foods?
Perhaps the added value of life entertainment? Or compete on ambience, service, pricing? Whatever it is, it will have to be really good since its customers will have to really make the effort to drive over so they can enjoy some ‘hubby-bubbly’.
Weaning off the city’s smoking habits is a good long-term thing. And one thing’s for sure, it’ll push more innovation in a country that needs an injection of creativity more than ever.
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South Africa has a rich wine tradition stretching back more than three and a half centuries. But it seems that in the past decade the wines have received the global recognition it deserves and more and more world citizens are treated to proudly South African wines.
In a recent column by in Wine Spectator magazine it is stated that “There’s something for everyone these days from South Africa. The Cape’s wines continue to improve, at both the top end and with its values. Diversity is on the upswing too, as grapes such as Cabernet Franc along with Rhône and Mediterranean varieties are being used by increasing numbers of the Cape’s winemakers.”
South Africa winemakers have the luxury of great soil, weather and diversified cultivars to make exceptional and interesting wines.
One such a wine is the Kumkani VVS white wine. This wine consists of Viognier, Verdelho and Sauvignon Blanc grapes. All the components were fermented separately before blending to make a really great and interesting white wine.
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Old Wives' Tales
Radio & TV
Toxin du jour
Claim: Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Origins: Although numerous plays, musicals, films, books, and television programs have melded humor with the sport of baseball, the quintessential amalgamation of comedy and the American national pastime remains the renowned "
The enduring popularity of the "Who's on First?" sketch created a similarly enduring association between Abbott and Costello and baseball, contributing to the mistaken belief that the comedians have been the only people with no professional connection to the sport to be honored with induction into the National Baseball
In 1956, one year before the release of their last film together, "Dance With Me Henry," and their official (and amicable) split, Bud and Lou were brought together on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW before a live nationwide viewing audience. The emotion was further heightened when Steve Allen announced the induction of Abbott & Costello and their Gold Record of "Who's On First" into the World-famous, BASEBALL HALL OF FAME in Cooperstown, N.Y. Abbott & Costello are the first non-baseball playing celebrities ever to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.As of 2005, the Hall of Fame has so far enshrined
Q: Right before Bud and Lou broke up, they appeared on The Steve Allen Show and were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Did they know that was going to happen before going on the show?
A: No, I think it was set up as a surprise. Then, of course, the gold record of "Who's on First?" was dedicated to the Baseball Hall of Fame by Bud and Lou. They were the first non-baseball player celebrities that were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
According to the Hall of Fame's FAQ:
We often hear baseball fans ask the following trivia question: "Who are the only members of the Hall of Fame that have nothing to do with baseball?" The supposed answer is "Bud Abbott and Lou Costello." Actually, that answer isn't quite correct. Abbott and Costello are not members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, though the comedy duo is featured in our museum.The confusion probably stems from a
A gold recording of the "Who's on First?" routine of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello will be placed on permanent display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame museum in(News of the honor could not have been broken as a surprise to Abbott and Costello on The Steve Allen Show, as that program's debut didn't occur until a month after the public announcement quoted
Also to be exhibited late next month will be a framed copy of the dialogue they have performed more than 15,000 times in twenty years. The spokesman said word of the honor came to Abbott and Costello from
Costello commented, "This is better than getting an Oscar."
The belief that Abbott and Costello are "in" the Hall of Fame as members is understandable given that the official name of the Cooperstown baseball institution is the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and the museum portion (where the "Who's on First?" recording is housed) is far more prominent
Although Abbott and Costello may not be actual members of the Hall of Fame, they're featured more prominently in the museum than some of the figures who are. For two men who never set foot on a professional baseball field in any official capacity, that's quite an honor.
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