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If you haven’t been following the growing buzz around LEDs — energy efficient and long-lasting lighting technology — then this bit of news will no doubt make you take notice: on Monday GE’s lighting division announced that it’s acquiring LED startup Albeo Technologies. The companies didn’t release terms of the deal.
Albeo is a venture-backed startup, based in Boulder, Colorado, that once described itself to us as the Dell of LEDs. The company makes LED fixtures and control systems, and buys the light emitting diodes themselves from big LED manufacturers. In 2007, Albeo switched its focus from the residential market to selling LED systems to industrial and commercial customers.
Good move. According to GigaOM Pro and Pike Research, by 2020 LEDs will make up nearly half (46 percent) of the $4.4 billion U.S. commercial lamp market. According to The Denver Business Journal, Albeo’s revenue have blossomed 430 percent over three years, from $2 million in 2009 to $10.6 million in 2011.
Albeo has found a growing amount of customers with industry like commercial-scale refrigeration, data centers, parking garages, and warehouses — anyplace where companies want to extend the life of the lights as long as possible, and also are large enough to benefit from the energy savings of the more efficient LEDs. LEDs are significantly more efficient than both incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs.
For industry and commercial companies LEDs are starting to be a clear winner. For the residential market — not so much. Most residential LED bulbs are expensive enough that home owners don’t yet see the benefits of the long term energy savings.
Albeo was backed by Denver-based Green Spark Ventures. Exits in the cleantech world have been few and far between.
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This work is a primer for players of Lovecraftian roleplaying games set in the dismal streets of 1930s London.
The Guide is replete with contacts, rumours and clues which will guide you on your quest for forbidden knowledge. Written as the companion volume to Bookhounds of London for Trail of Cthulhu, it can be used as a Keeper’s resource as well as an in-game artefact for players in any Mythos game.
In 1933 a mysterious secret society commissioned Augustus Darcy to compile a guide to occult London. By the end of that year, Darcy was dead. Within these tales of The Smoke’s legendary past are scattered clues to its future. Was a magical war brewing? Were forces from other dimensions breaking through into our own? Who were the mysterious Brotherhood? Who killed Augustus Darcy and why? After eighty years Darcy’s book is here for you to make up your own mind. Use it as a guide as you venture into Darcy’s world and may your gods be with you in the days ahead.
It is a work of fiction, an autobiography, an occult miscellany and a murder mystery, a book which should not be read, and yet cannot be cast aside. It is all these things and more, but most of all it is a guide for your own journey through the streets of the Big Smoke.
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Research disputes ‘facts’ on Christian divorces
It's been proclaimed from pulpits and blogs for years: Christians divorce as much as everyone else in America. But some scholars and family activists are questioning the oft-cited statistics, saying Christians who attend church regularly are more likely to remain wed.
"It's a useful myth," said Bradley Wright, a University of Connecticut sociologist who recently wrote Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites . . . and Other Lies You've Been Told. "If a pastor wants to preach about how Christians should take their marriages more seriously, he or she can trot out this statistic to get them to listen to him or her."
The various findings on religion and divorce hinge on what kind of Christians are being discussed.
Wright combed through the General Social Survey, a vast demographic study conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and found that Christians, like adherents of other religions, have a divorce rate of about 42 percent. The rate among religiously unaffiliated Americans is 50 percent.
When Wright examined the statistics on evangelicals, he found worship attendance has a big influence on the numbers. Six in ten evangelicals who never attend had been divorced or separated, compared to just 38 percent of weekly attendees.
Wright questions the approach of the Barna Group, evangelical pollsters based in Ventura, California. Barna's latest published divorce statistics say one-third of all adults, including "non-evangelical born-again Christians," have ended a marriage.
Barna's statistics are tied to its highly specific—and controversial—definitions of born-again Christians and evangelicals. For instance, Barna labels Christians "born-again" if they have made a personal commitment to Jesus and believe they will go to heaven because they have accepted him as their savior. Barna's evangelicals, on the other hand, are those who fit the born-again definition but also meet seven other conditions, including sharing their beliefs with non-Christians and agreeing that the Bible is completely accurate.
David Kinnaman, president of the Barna outfit, said the statistical differences reflect varied approaches, noting that Wright looks more at attendance while his group's research dwells on theological commitments. "We've tried to measure it based on theological perspective, not merely [people's] church attendance or whether they call themselves Catholic or mainline," Kinnaman said.
Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family wrote a recent Baptist Press column highlighting Wright's interpretation of the state of divorce for Christians. "The divorce rates of Christian believers are not identical to the general population—not even close," he wrote. "Being a committed, faithful believer makes a measurable difference in marriage."
Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, agrees that there's been some confusion. "You do hear, both in Christian and non-Christian circles, that Christians are no different from anyone else when it comes to divorce, and that is not true if you are focusing on Christians who are regular church attendees," he said.
Wilcox's analysis of the National Survey of Families and Households has found that Americans who attend religious services several times a month were about 35 percent less likely to divorce than those with no religious affiliation. But nominal conservative Protestants were 20 percent more likely to divorce than the religiously unaffiliated, he said. —RNS
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VERNONIA, Ore. (AP) -- Students in Vernonia will soon have a new place to learn three years after flooding caused widespread damage in the Coast Range foothills just west of Portland.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski led a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for a new school and community center to replace three schools damaged in the 2007 flood that sent sewage through classrooms.
The new school will house kindergartners through high school seniors.
It's the latest step in rebuilding the Oregon community repeatedly ravaged by floods. Kulongoski also announced the state will pay $3.8 million to improve the a highway and two other streets near the new school.
Students have been attending class in damaged buildings and portable classrooms since 2007. The school is being funded through a $13 million bond and private fundraising.
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— Nigerian bands like Heroes Band International hope to break out of local circuits with pop songs inspired by traditional tribal music. Besides ambitions of stardom and financial security, these musicians say they also hope to use modern entertainment to preserve ancient values and boost the economy.
Success in the arts may be a long shot, but in a country where most people live in poverty, Nigerian musicians say it could be their best and only shot.
Ifeyinwa Samuel Ndukwu, known to her fans as Ify De Diva, is the lead singer with Heroes Band International, an Afro-Pop band in the Nigerian capital, where the impoverished live side-by-side with the enormously wealthy. She says young artists make guest appearances with her in order to pick up new gigs.
“As they are featuring with my band, maybe they are engaged on a show. Somebody may see them to engage them for a performance. Maybe people will give them something, a reasonable thing. But it’s better than to steal," she said.
Like many musicians, bass player Olawale Akinduro needs a second job to survive. He plays with Heroes Band International using the name Waleman and says the music business in Nigeria is changing, with new role models emerging like the hip-hop Afro beat sensation 2Face Idibia.
Traditionally, he says, Nigerian parents discouraged their children from going into the music business.
“They don’t believe music is something you can make money with so they can put food on your table. Or that music is something that can make you achieve anything. Except these days that we now see people like 2Face, like the new guys that are coming up," he said.
Other artists say modern music is dual-purpose in Nigeria.
Babatunde Ayodare, known professionally as Dare Darela is one of Ify De Diva’s regular guests. He says his music, called "contemporary highlife/juju" is ethnic Yoruba with a modern Nigerian flare. He hopes it will keep his ancient culture alive and may one day help his economy grow.
“I want to use this music to help a lot of people, promote a lot of things and assist people even not from the music field," he said.
These musicians say it’s not just about the money. With songs written in some of Nigeria’s hundreds of native languages, and dances said to be as old as Africa itself, these artists say, for them, it’s also about the love of music and their love for their country.
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China is finding the once friendly ground of Southeast Asia bumpy going, with anger against Chinese claims to disputed islands, once reliable ally Myanmar flirting with democracy and renewed American attention to the region.
The changing terrain for Beijing was on view this past week at a conclave of East Asian nations in Cambodia. Wen Jiabao, China's lame duck premier who usually exudes a mild, grandfatherly air, got into a sharp exchange over the contested South China Sea islands. The leaders of the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam reacted furiously when host Cambodia suggested that all sides agreed not to bring outside parties into the dispute - a reference to the U.S.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama, buoyed by the first visit ever by a U.S. president to Myanmar, projected an image of a confident, friendly America, calling for a reduction in tensions and seemingly taking no sides.
Beijing is struggling to find its feet as its own power grows, but the U.S. refuses to cede influence in the region, emboldening other countries not to fall in with the Chinese line.
"The robust U.S. presence and relatively disciplined and quiet diplomacy looked strong relative to China's heavy-handed pressure," Ernest Bower, chair for Southeast Asian studies at the Council for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., wrote in a Thursday commentary.
It's a reversal over the treatment Beijing enjoyed much of the past decade as it wooed Southeast Asia with soaring trade and investment and the lure of the huge Chinese market. Looking to further those links, Wen held discussions on expanding a free trade agreement to increase China's imports from Southeast Asia.
China's economic "pull remains, but the smile has faded," said Aaron Friedberg, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.
Getting Southeast Asian diplomacy right matters to Beijing. It's an area where China historically exercised great sway. The 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian nations, or ASEAN, are home to a market of 600 million people and straddle vital shipping lanes and seas rich in fish, oil, gas and other minerals.
Beijing's influence began foundering in 2010 when its more assertive claims to islands in the South China Sea touched off anxieties among the Philippines and Vietnam, who along with Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan also claim the islands in whole or in part.
The fracas provided an opening for the U.S., which as it wound down involvement in Iraq was re-examining the challenge posed by China. The U.S. "pivot" brought renewed diplomatic attention to the region and promises of more military resources.
Still, the friction has only increased. Beijing has become more aggressive in patrolling around the disputed islands, leading to a faceoff last summer with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal. It is sparring farther afield over other islands with Japan, heightening worries about an expansionist China. It also started issuing new passports featuring a map that shows the entire South China Sea as Chinese territory.
The tensions bubbled to the fore at an annual summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh attended by Obama.
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Florida car insurance requirements
|Florida state law requires the following minimum car insurance coverage:
|Minimum bodily injury liability
|Personal injury protection
|*Bodily injury liability not required by state; many carriers require $10,000/$20,000
Currently, Florida has the lowest car insurance requirements of any state.
To register a car you must have a Florida-based car insurance policy covering $10,000 in property damage liability and $10,000 in personal injury protection (PIP). We strongly recommended that you also purchase bodily injury liability coverage. While not required by the state, many car insurance companies require it as part of any policy they issue in Florida.
Here's why: Florida is a no-fault state. Treatment for any injuries you suffer is covered by your personal injury protection, up to its limit, regardless of who caused the accident. If bills exceed that limit, the at-fault driver is legally personally responsible unless he or she has bought bodily injury liability coverage.
What's worse, even though bodily injury liability isn't mandated by the state to register a car, Florida's Financial Responsibility Law could force you to buy it after a serious accident or traffic violation.
If you buy bodily injury liability coverage, the smallest amount you can buy is $10,000 per person (up to $20,000 per accident). Homeowners and those with substantial assets need more than that.
Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles spells out some accident guidelines.
Hurricane warning: Hurricanes and tropical storms threaten Florida each year. Comprehensive coverage will repair the damage to your vehicle -- but you can't wait too long to buy it. Make sure to get the coverage in effect before a warning is issued.
No-deductible windshield repair or replacement: In an effort to get drivers to repair cracked or damaged windshields, Florida state law says that your comprehensive coverage deductible isn't applicable for damage to the windshield.
Snowbirds: If a vehicle is in Florida for more than 90 days during a 365-day period (the days do not have to be consecutive) you must purchase PIP and property damage liability limits of at least the state minimum limits. See "Car insurance for snowbirds" for more information.
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I'm attacking a hidden assumption Christians often make, which isn't true. Your claim that God is making a conditional promise is the typical interpretation of this passage. So I am not being critical of you personally. But for whatever reason, Christians are confused about the true nature of things and it takes analogies like the one I gave to highlight the truth, which is that a conditional promise is nothing more than a "contract", which is an agreement two parties make in exchange for compensation. Christians mistakenly believe that Peter was talking about a conditional promise, apparently not realizing the implications of their mistake.
Originally Posted by poorinspirit
The Biblical picture is NOT that God is offering us a conditional promise, i.e. a contract for the delivery of salvation upon receipt of belief (in other words, compensation) Rather, the Biblical picture is that God's salvation is a free and unmerited gift, given to those whom he choses to bless according to his kindness.
We are so accustomed to being marketed that we accept this as being normal. The common offer we see is when an advertiser offers us a "free gift" for trying their product. We have been trained by this world system to think of free gifts as compensation for something. We hear the words "free" and "gift" but we all know that the compensation isn't actually "free" and neither is it a "gift."
"Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
We read that and we go, "I know what that is. I have heard it before on TV. Peter wants me to repent, which is something I wouldn't normally do anyway, in exchange for a "free gift", which we all know isn't actually free."
Most Christians reading this would probably say, "You're being ridiculous; You're just being stupid for some reason. Of course salvation is a free gift and it really is free and unmerited. We aren't saying otherwise." But you are. If you think that Peter is offering a conditional promise, you are holding two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time, which is a skill many human beings have learned. But such contradictory ideas shouldn't be allowed to exist side by side.
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The drug problem in the state of Maine is a major risk to the state in general with the continued abuse of cocaine and crack cocaine which continues to increase throughout the state. Heroin has recently become more popular in Maine, around the southern communities of the state. And marijuana is still the drug of choice in Maine as well as a current increase in the abuse of the pharmaceutical drug, OxyContin showing a need for effective drug rehab throughout the state.
For those already addicted the best treatment option is a long-term, drug free program with a high success rate for permanent recovery.
The Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program achieves a 70% success rate with all hardcore addictions.
If you or someone you know is struggling with a drug problem in the state of Maine contact us for immediate help as government statistics from 2005-2006 indicate that exactly 113,000 Maine citizens or 10% of the total population of the last reported past month illicit drug use.
Additionally there were 34,000 individuals in the state of Maine that reported needing drug rehab but not receiving drug treatment.
In the year 2007 there were 15,582 individuals that admitted themselves into drug rehab in Maine. In 2006, 14,430 people were admitted into drug treatment in Maine. The year 2005 saw 13,885 drug treatment admissions in the state.
Contact us today for more information on getting effective drug rehab help for someone from the state of Maine.
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Coming together to break the cycle in Manor
Some of Ireland’s top celebrities including Roz Purcell and Brent Pope, are joining forces to help ‘Break the Cycle’ of suicide in Ireland, by getting involved with Cycle Against Suicide, a National Suicide Awareness initiative taking place around Ireland from Monday 22nd April to Sunday 5th May 2013.
The cycle will arrive in Manorhamilton on May 2, with cyclictis staying the night and departing the following day. Local personalities, as well as suicide prevention and bereavement support experts will visit a local school as part of the ‘Break the Cycle’ education programme - details to be announced closer to the date.
The idea behind the project was developed by successful entrepreneur and international businessman Jim Breen, with the objective of raising awareness for the considerable help and supports that are out there for anyone battling depression, at risk of suicide, or those coping with the loss of loved ones due to suicide. Founder and CEO of PulseLearning, Jim Breen said “Everyone has some connection to suicide or depression, and we believe the best way to help fight the battle is to do so together. Mental illness is like any other health issue, it is something we all have to be mindful of, and sometimes ‘minding’ it will involve asking for help. We want to get people talking about the subject, and play our part in breaking the cycle of suicide and in doing so, decreasing the incidence of suicide in Ireland.”
According to the National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF), suicide is claiming the lives of at least 500 people each year in Ireland, which is three times higher than the number of deaths on our roads.
Jim stated “Research has shown that 81% of people who take their own lives have met with their GP at least 4 times in the year prior to death. GPs and front line care professionals need to be supported more with effective and sustainable training on depression, self-harm and suicide intervention and prevention – as well as our first response professionals, i.e. Gardaí, Fire and Ambulance personnel.”
Through the Cycle they will be visiting schools, villages, cities and towns, opening up the discussion, making people more aware of the local resources and most important, in advance of their visit, local professionals will be trained in suicide intervention and prevention. This is just the start of a long road ahead in lowering the rate of suicide in Ireland, but it’s going to be a really strong start.”
Starting at the Phoenix Park in Dublin, the 1,400km awareness cycle will take its route all around the country, and finish back in Dublin again. The schedule of regional events will see local personalities, as well as suicide prevention and bereavement support experts visiting 26 schools along the way, educating young children to help ‘Break the Cycle’.
Participants can take part in a section of each 100km leg, an entire leg, multiple legs, or even complete the entire cycle. To learn more, get involved or sign up visit www.cycleagainstsuicide.com . For further news, follow @CASuicide on twitter or visit Facebook.
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Wonthaggi & District Historical Society
Murray Street, WONTHAGGI
Phone: (03) 5672 2009
Wonthaggi & District Historical Society Website
About the organisation
The Society's Museum is housed in a former railway station which has been listed by Heritage Victoria.
The Photographic and artefact collection related mainly to the state coal mine which operated from 1909 to 1968.
Other displays relate to Wonthaggi and the various institutions which shared its history. EG co-operative store, Wonthaggi miners dispensary, union theatre, schools, sporting clubs, Wonthaggi and district hospital miners union and miners woman's auxiliary.More information about the organisation and its collection
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Sinohydro’s IPO: An Opportunity for Environmental Reform
When companies list at the stock exchange, they need to define their brand and business strategy, which includes their approach to the environment.
In the coming months, Sinohydro, the world's biggest hydropower company, plans to list at the Shanghai stock exchange. Civil society organizations are calling on the company to adopt a world class environmental policy at the time of its Initial Public Offering (IPO). Here is the case for environmental reform.
Sinohydro, a state-owned enterprise, is the world's foremost dam builder. The company controls 70% of the Chinese and 50% of the global hydropower market. Its projects include the Three Gorges, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Ertan, Pubugou, Ludila and Xiaolangdi dams in China. As part of its going-out strategy, Sinohydro has also taken on projects such as Bakun (Malaysia), Bui (Ghana), Hatgyi (Burma), Merowe (Sudan), Nam Ngum 5 (Laos), and Tekeze (Ethiopia).
Increasingly, the company not only acts as a contractor, but is also a developer, operator and owner of power plants. This increases its responsibility for the impacts of these projects. The dividing line in the power sector is between contractors, which provide equipment and/or carry out work for the developer, and developers, which take on ownership in the projects that they build. Developers can be private or state-owned enterprises (in BOT projects) or public utilities (such as the Three Gorges Power Corporation). Sinohydro is active throughout the hydropower value chain and takes on a variety of contracts, while also expanding its business from hydropower to other energy (coal, gas, wind), infrastructure and real estate sectors.
Like many dam builders, Sinohydro has encountered social, environmental and safety problems in some of its projects. Dam projects such as Bui (Ghana), Dikgatlhong (Botswana), Hatgyi (Burma), Merowe (Sudan) and Pubugou (China) have seen strong protests by affected people, environmental organizations and workers. The State Assets Security Administration Commission, which administers China's state-owned enterprises, in 2005 and 2006 downgraded Sinohydro from a B to a D over environmental pollution and safety accidents, but has since then upgraded the company again.
In November 2009, Sinohydro announced that it had concluded an internal restructuring process and planned to go forward with an IPO. The company intends to list 25-30% of its shares as A-Shares on the Shanghai stock exchange in 2010, and to raise RMB 12.9 billion (USD 1.9 billion) in the process. China Securities Co. and Bank of China International will act as the underwriters. In March 2010, the Ministry of Environmental Protection posted an Environmental Audit Report for Sinohydro on its website as part of its green securities policy. Environmental organizations from China and other host countries of Sinohydro projects urged that the company adopt an environmental policy which reflects international standards before it gets listed.
Sinohydro has demonstrated openness towards international civil society. In a recent article in the Public Diplomacy Quarterly, the company's CEO Fan Jixiang encouraged Chinese enterprises to "openly and honestly conduct an exchange and even debate with international dissenting organizations". International Rivers has been engaged in a constructive dialogue with Sinohydro since July 2009. Our bottom-line has always been that if Sinohydro wants to become a world-class brand in the global hydropower sector, it needs to adopt a world-class environmental policy.
An environmental policy which reflects the highest international standards will preclude destructive projects such as the Paklay Dam on the Mekong mainstream from going forward, and may mean additional costs for its other projects. Over the longer term, however, it offers an environmental and financial double dividend for the following reasons:
- Reputation: As a market leader, Sinohydro will increasingly be scrutinized by international civil society and the media. Avoiding environmental disasters will help the company to protect its brand and its social license to operate.
- Business risks: Environmental problems can delay or even derail projects by triggering protests, legal and political problems. Environmental safeguards help mitigate against such risks.
- Commercial interests: A strong environmental policy will help Sinohydro design and build better projects. Adopting international environmental standards will make the company an attractive business partner, and will allow it to compete successfully for World Bank contracts.
- Financial interests: Adopting highest international environmental standards will allow Sinohydro to access capital from socially responsible investors, and will make it easier to access carbon credits on the European market under the EU's Linking Directive.
In March 2010, Sinohydro informed International Rivers that it was now preparing an environmental policy, and invited us to submit recommendations. We were happy to recommend guidelines for the balanced assessment of water and energy options, thorough environmental impact assessments and management plans, public acceptance and participation of affected communities, and the sharing of benefits with local communities.
International Rivers supports Sinohydro's IPO under the condition that the company adopts and implements an environmental policy that reflects highest international standards. We encourage environmentally responsible investors to convey the same message to the company. By engaging in a dialogue with civil society and striving for robust environmental standards, Sinohydro can play a pioneering role in defining environmental and financial win-win solutions in the water and energy sector.
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It's a dark and gloomy Friday here in Southern California. And in Los Angeles, specifically, that means there will likely be more accidents on the road, a longer commute and residents are bundled up like snow is about to fall. However, since it doesn't rain much, the clouds and droplets are much-needed in our area.
If you're wondering just how much rain has fallen, the National Weather Service is offering an interactive map for you to browse on this rainy Friday the 13th.
As of 11 a.m., Marina del Rey had seen about .04 inches of rain, West Hollywood measured .06 inches and in the mountains off of Pacific Coast Highway near La Tuna Canyon Park measured .07 inches.
- For the interactive map from the National Weather Service, click here.
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Extra resources for students of State and Local Government 180, an upper-division GE class in the Government Department at Sacramento State University
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Riverside Press Enterprise: Criticism builds against fire protection fee
State's $90 fire fee OK'd; criticism heats up
BY JIM MILLER, SACRAMENTOBUREAU The Riverside Press Enterprise 10:54 PM PDT on Monday, August 22, 2011
SACRAMENTO- Tens of thousands of rural property owners in Riversideand San Bernardinocounties will have to pay fire prevention fees of up to $90 a year under emergency regulations adopted Monday by the state forestry board.
The approved fee on inhabitable structures in places where the state has the main firefighting responsibility is significantly less than the $150 maximum fee sought by the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brownin the June budget package.
Various discounts could reduce the fee to almost nothing for some property owners, generating much less than the $50 million assumed in the 2011-12 budget.
Monday's fees, however, could have a heavier impact in places like Riversideand San Bernardinocounties. Many of the more than 1 million acres of state responsibility area land in the two counties are identified as having a very high fire threat, and those places pay more under Monday's fee.
The fee will take effect Sept. 1. It could be altered before Monday's emergency regulations expire in 180 days, and possibly as soon as October.
"I don't think anybody expects that this package could be anywhere near perfect," Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Chairman Stan Dixon, of Eureka, said Monday before the panel's unanimous vote. "We are going to find out very quickly, after Sept. 1, what needs to be addressed. We're going to get an earful."
Supporters of the June $150 fee contended that state taxpayers effectively subsidize residents in the state areas. The Legislature's nonpartisan fiscal analyst had linked the areas' rising population to increases in the state's firefighting budget and more medical calls.
Critics, however, call the proposed charge illegal and unfair. Many homeowners in the targeted areas already pay for local fire protection, opponents said. A Republicanlawmaker has filed paperwork to overturn the law.
State officials estimate there are as many as 850,000 dwellings in state responsibility areas. An average fee of $30 per structure would mean revenue of $25.5 million in 2011-12.
But in his signing message last month, Brownsaid he envisioned a $150 fee that would provide $50 million for Cal Fire in 2011-12 and $200 million annually thereafter.
The Brownadministration is crafting legislation to modify the fee law before lawmakers recess for the year Sept. 9.
"We will deal with issues related to the fee and a host of other technical issues," Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer said Monday, offering few details about the legislation.
Monday's fee, he said, is only "the first step in a number of steps that still have to happen."
Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries, R-Lake Elsinore, said the fee is unworkable and he urged the board to hold off on the regulations.
"You have been handed a lemon and you're trying to make lemonade," Jeffriessaid.
There are about 100,000 structures on state responsibility land in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, based on census and Cal Fire data.
At least three-quarters of the housing units in Riverside County's state responsibility also are in or near very-high fire severity zones. In San Bernardino County, two-thirds of San Bernardino County structures are in very-high threat areas
Cal Fire, however, lacks detailed parcel-level maps showing fire threat, Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott said.
In Riverside County, for example, there are almost 40,000 parcels that are completely within a very high fire severity zone in a state responsibility area. There are 5,000 additional parcels that are at least partly within a very high fire severity zone.
"It's going to be a very challenging task to go back and revalidate the numbers, determine those that qualify and generate a list to go" to the state Board of Equalization, which will administer the fee, Pimlott said. "I'm concerned that the regulations as adopted don't meet the intent of the governor's signing message."
Regulations adopted Monday set the following charges and exemptions for an inhabited structure covered by the State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Benefit Fee.
$15 Fire prevention program
$20 Dwelling in a very high fire severity zone
$25 Grant program
$10 Living in a county that have certified fire safe regulations or safety element
$45 Already covered by local fire protection program
$10 Home has had defensible space inspection within four years.
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SHU to Celebrate the Beatification of Cardinal Newman
On Sunday, September 19th, Pope Benedict XVI will be in Birmingham, England, to formally declare John Henry Cardinal Newman, the celebrated English convert, a “Blessed” of the Roman Catholic Church. His beatification will draw the faithful from around the globe including a delegation from Sacred Heart University led by the University President, Dr. Anthony J. Cernera.
Dr. Cernera, who is also president of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), will preside over an international gathering of scholars from September 16th-18th in Liverpool. “The Idea of a University – Revisited” is co-sponsored by IFCU and the host institution, Liverpool Hope University. The conference is aimed at a wide audience, including university staff with an academic interest in this area, as well as teachers, theologians and those who think more generally about values in education and public life. The conference also includes the option to attend the beatification.
Cardinal Newman, who died in 1890 at the age of 89, remains an incredibly important influence on modern educators, especially within the Catholic intellectual tradition. The most famous Anglican intellectual and preacher of his time, he caused national headlines when he chose to leave the Church of England and become a Catholic. He was eventually ordained in Rome. His Idea of a University continues to inform the discussion on the aims and values of modern higher education. In recognition of his singular contributions to intellectual and academic life, Sacred Heart named one of its residence halls in his honor.
The Cardinal’s legacy will be explored at Sacred Heart University in a number of forums throughout the year. SHU professors, for example, will enjoy two extended opportunities to probe the Newman legacy during the Faculty Conversations series and the Presidential Seminar. These venues promote philosophical and theological exploration of issues connected to the Catholic intellectual tradition and its application to all of life – academic, spiritual, social and professional. The Faculty Conversations during the course of the year will explore “Discourse III: Bearing of Theology on Other Branches of Knowledge,” and “Discourse VI: Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning,” both from Newman’s Idea of a University. Other readings will include James M. Cameron’s “The Idea of a University Revisited” from On the Idea of a University, and Dr. Michael W. Higgins’s “John Henry Newman: A Century of Influence,” found in Grail: An Ecumenical Journal. A panel discussion for the public has been proposed this fall after the beatification, and there will be a full day on Cardinal Newman at the Presidential Seminar session on January 15.
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Deb Poling, Ph.D.,RN, FNP-BC,CNE
Director, Graduate Nursing Programs
Our graduate program at IPFW offers a Master of Science degree with a major in nursing with an area of concentration in Nursing Education. Students taking classes in the Nursing Education area will learn to use emerging technologies to engage learners.
Learning to teach using cutting edge methodologies that include the use of iPad, social media, and high-fidelity simulations is part of the educational experience embedded in the Nursing Education curriculum. Evidence-based practice serves as the foundation as students learn to design curriculum and match the best technologies and methods used to enhance learning. Informatics is integrated throughout the graduate curriculum and is emphasized in the Nursing Education Curriculum.
The program provides theoretical and practical knowledge in the areas of curriculum development, instructional design, advanced teaching methods, and program evaluation.
Student Learning Objectives for the Graduate Program:
The curriculum evolves from the practical aspects of the nurse educator role and the recommendations from the National League for Nursing (NLN) and other nursing organizations. This is a 42 credit hour program designed for students who have established an expertise in a clinical area and are now interested in nursing education. The curriculum includes coursework related to high fidelity patient simulation strategies, as well as other emerging technologies and related teaching methodologies to improve education outcomes. The graduate is prepared to assume positions in healthcare agencies or in college settings.
The IPFW Graduate Nursing Program is accredited by the
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3343 Peachtree Road, NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30326
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Remember when Twitter said that client-app developers would need to “work with us directly” and “need our permission” to exceed 100,000 user-login tokens?
Well, now we know what that means. Atta Elayyan, developer of the Tweetro client for Windows 8, sent Windows Observer the result of his attempt to get Twitter’s permission. Here’s what the quadrant robot at Twitter wrote:
Thank you for reaching out to get clarification on our developer policies. As you know, we discourage developers from building apps that replicate our core user experience (aka “Twitter clients”). We know that there are developers that want to take their passion for Twitter and its ecosystem to unique underserved situations. As such, we have built some flexibility into our policy with regard to user tokens – which went into effect September 5th, 2012.”
… Unfortunately, It does not appear that your service addresses an area that our current or future products do not already serve. As such, it does not qualify for an exemption.
In other words: “Even though we don’t currently have a Windows 8 client, we might have one in the future, so yours isn’t allowed.”
The wording of the supposed “rule” that permits apps addressing “unique underserved situations” is so vague, especially since being “served” includes potentially being served by Twitter’s future products, that it’s effectively meaningless.
Now we know: “work with us directly” means “die”.
The real rule, if Twitter was honest and direct, is simple: “We don’t permit anyone to exceed the limit unless we feel like it.” But even then, it would be stupid for anyone to build a business on Twitter with such unstable footing. And if your plan is to stay under the 100,000-token limit, you’d be a fool to believe in the safety and longevity of that exemption.
The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”
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Yesterday our Presiding Bishop informed the Bishop of South Carolina that, on advice, she was accepting his renunciation of the ministry and depriving him of that which was bestowed on him in ordination. Others, including some progressives, have observed that, as Bishop Lawrence hadn’t requested permission to leave the ministry, the action seemed premature or even uncanonical.
Bishop Lawrence’s dismissal isn’t the matter I want to address today. He stands as a representative symbol of a larger group of people, babies, youth, adult, elderly, unordained, who by this action are now in the process of being disowned by the Episcopal Church. Hang on. Surely this not insignificant crowd could avoid their bishop’s fate by refusing to go along with those clergy and laity who voted to leave the Episcopal Church at last month’s special Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina? That’s true enough. It’s hardly likely. These loyal church people are in effect the consequence, the effect of years of conflict within our church and nation. A large number of them have their roots in the places where they live and worship, where their ancestors lived and worshipped, in parishes many of which are older than the Episcopal Church, some of them nearly as old as Anglicanism in its reformed sense. There were Anglicans in the Carolinas when the Church of England emerged from its Civil War. Stroll around Charleston and as one passes St. Michael’s or St. Philips, one might imagine being in Restoration England after Wren built his parish churches. Unlike most parts of the United States, in the old southern colonies, real and substantial roots and traditions are dug deep into the soil.
This history, however, isn’t the point. Those now living, caught up in this conflict, are baptized. That should be a significant point, a ‘given’ in any discussion about how a Christian body manages dissent and conflict. The ties that bind us aren’t tribal, or structural or canonical. They are sacramental. Our church doesn’t own the sacraments. It exposes them, makes them available, in obedience to our Lord’s will and commandment. Our church’s clergy point to them, open them, in familiar acts of obedience. That obedience runs deeper than any oaths to man-made canons or structures.
In the process of stating that, as Mark Harris put it, Mark Lawrence is now Mr. Lawrence, the action taken begins the process of our church saying to thousands of lay people, we don’t recognize the ecclesial reality of your assemblies, the authenticity of your sacraments or of your clergy. Of course we cover all this in ifs and buts, of qualifications and disclaimers, but, face it, at least as far as we are concerned, the great majority of our sisters and brothers in Christ in South Carolina and headed into limbo. They are schismatics.
For years now Episcopalians in South Carolina, in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and individually elsewhere have been saying to the Episcopal Church a couple of very simple things.
1. You have legislated the progressive opinions of a majority of those with power and influence and have elevated that legislation to the level of core doctrine, beliefs to which we must assent or acquiesce to remain in fellowship with this church.
2. You have refused to make adequate space for dissent and in the process you have narrowed the comprehension Anglicans have enjoyed for centuries. In your zeal for justice and contempt for what you term bigotry, you have driven us to a point beyond conscience. When we have reacted, yes, let’s be honest, often as badly as we have been treated, we’ve been preached at, shamed and disciplined.
When it comes to the essential morality of what has happened -I’m not using morality as in sex – few on either side have much to boast about. We’ve hurled insults as readily as we’ve sought to make theological justification for our positions. We look like our political parties. That’s no accident. We live in two worlds and as we spend more time in society and ‘culture’ as we do in the Kingdom: the world seems to triumph.
Is it too late? It’s never too late. If those who manage the Episcopal Church don’t believe in conscience that they can make room for conscientious dissent, isn’t it their duty to make caring space for dissenters? If those of us who cannot square our consciences with the new canonical provisions, should we not do all we can to respond to any initiatives by the Episcopal Church to give us room.
After nearly ten years of constant turmoil, of defections and schisms, of new canons and tighter central control, as our church dwindles in membership and finances, as we have exported our quarrels worldwide and split the Communion, isn’t this a moment to stop? If the people who have left in South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth and elsewhere, and I mean the people, the lay people, are lost sheep, what does Jesus require of us? The answer to that seems easy to discover.
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New Production of Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’
Thursday, 17 January 2013
NUI Galway Drama Students Get in on the Act
Theatrecorp's seventh classic production, William Shakespeare’sMeasure For Measure, will run from 29 January to 2 February in the Black Box Theatre. The play is directed by Max Hafler, a teacher on the Drama programmes at NUI Galway. This play is rarely seen in the West of Ireland and Drama students from the University get to see first-hand behind the scenes of such a production, while some current students and recent graduates have secured performing roles in the production.
The play will be presented in raw ensemble style, which is a style the company embraced in many of its previous productions. Max Hafler, his cast and design team will be utilising a specific acting technique in rehearsal, the Chekhov Technique, to explore and work on the text. Max Hafler, who has trained with the renowned Michael Chekhov Association in the US, has been working with actors extensively in this technique.
Measure For Measure issupported by NUI Galway and as part of the University’s relationship with the company, Theatrecorp provide several placement opportunities for performers and technical crew from the BA in Drama and Theatre Programme, with NUI Galway students also working on the production. In addition, Measure For Measure is being taught to second-year English students, providing an invaluable teaching resource for the University, with a post-show talk on the production.
Dr Patrick Lonergan, Head of Drama Programmes at NUI Galway, said: “Max Hafler is a long-serving teacher on our Drama programmes here at NUI Galway, and has done a huge amount to prepare the next generation of Galway actors, directors, and theatre audiences. For that reason, we are particularly delighted to be able to support this production, which will greatly aid our students' appreciation of one of Shakespeare's most challenging plays. This TheatreCorp production promises to be of interest to everyone who loves theatre in this city: it will, as ever, be visually inventive, thematically rich, and superbly well acted. We're looking forward to it immensely.”
Actress and NUI Galway teacher Sarah O’Toole plays Isabella, current student Darragh O’Brien and MA in Drama graduate Emmet Byrne are also acting, and students Muireann Ní Raghaillaigh and Lane Jackson work on the technical team.
Measure for Measure is supported by NUI Galway, the Town Hall Theatre and Galway City Council.
Tickets for Measure for Measure can be purchased from the Town Hall Theatre at 091 569777 or visit www.tht.ie, or on the door at the Black Box.
Author: Marketing and Communications Office, NUI Galway
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Low-income people who need help paying home heating bills can now apply for the federally funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
LIHEAP pays for part of the heating costs of qualifying households, as well as furnace repairs and weatherization services.
To qualify, people must meet program income and asset limits. This ensures that help goes to those most in need. To qualify, a household can earn up to 60 percent of the state median income, which for a family of three equals about $39,461 per year. Nearly two-thirds of the participating households include people who are elderly, have disabilities, or include children age 5 and younger.
People can apply at their local county social service office. The application is also available online (pdf) and should be completed and returned to county social services.
Individual tribal LIHEAP programs serve tribal members living on reservations in the state. Contact your tribal office for more information.
Last year, the state LIHEAP program paid an average of $873 in heating energy costs for more than 13,700 North Dakota households. The program pays fuel vendors, such as utility and fuel oil companies, directly.
The adjusted gross income of all members of an eligible household cannot exceed the following:
- Household Size = 1 – Income $24,428
- Household Size = 2 – Income $31,944
- Household Size = 3 – Income $39,461
- Household Size = 4 – Income $46,977
- Household Size = 5 – Income $54,493
- Household Size = 6 – Income $62,010
- Household Size = 7 – Income $63,419
- Household Size = 8 – Income $64,828
- Household Size = 9 – Income $66,238
- Household Size = 10 – Income $67,647
- Household Size = 11 – Income $69,056
- Household Size = 12 – Income $70,466
Contact your county social service office to determine whether you qualify.
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Full Show Summary: While some shows based on superhero comic-books have been quite popular in the past (Batman, Wonder Woman), this is arguably the first time that a tv series based on an independent comic has been successful. Robert Kirkman’s The walking dead started publication in 2003 under a clear premise, explained by its author: What happens at the end of your typical zombie story? What if, even if you’ve survived, things don’t return to normal? How would you live in world where most of the population has turned into zombies? Closely following the comic-book story-line, the show follows the story of Rick Grimes, an Atlanta cop who wakes up from a comma only to find out that everyone seems to be dead... or worse, a zombie. Soon he’ll find survivors like him, but they’re certainly the minority, and with no help nor authority in sight, they’ll have to get used to live among the dead... for a long time. Mixing horror and action, this is no cozy show, and some describe it as dowright depressing, but if you’re willing to go with the ride you’ll find an addictive story, full of interesting characters and dilemmas. How does our personality change when the world has come to shambles? Is it possible to raise a family in such conditions, or even be an acceptable human being? How long is it possible to go on? Supervised by famed director Frank Darabont (The Shawhank Redemption) and starring Andrew Lincoln and Laurie Holden, the show is already at its third season and going strong. One good advice - don’t get too attached to the characters, since there are numerous losses, and they usually happen in gruesome, cruel ways. But then again, maybe that’s the main attraction of the show for a significant part of the audience, right?
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Improving Resume Response
In today's highly competitive environment, your resume will be one of many. Thus, it is essential to develop a clear plan and adapt to the unique circumstances of each application. Following are a few strategies to consider:
- Target your resume and cover letter
- Strategize when developing your resume and cover letter; hone the content to reflect the requirements of the specific position while emphasizing your relevant skills and strengths. Developing a summary of qualifications that clearly targets your goals and the position is often advantageous. In fact, it is quite common to develop and utilize more than one resume—each targeting a specific type of position or industry.
- (Note: Since many companies today use automated applicant tracking systems, your resume might be stored in a database where two different versions of your resume could be compared, side-by-side. If you pursue different positions at one company and your resumes are targeted significantly different and compared, you could then be perceived as unsure of your goals.)
- Focus on accomplishments
- While many candidates may have the skills required for a position, relevant accomplishments will ensure you stand out! Some job seekers are more aware of their accomplishments than others. In general, accomplishments are contributions you have made or the results you have obtained on the job; it is helpful to quantify results whenever possible. It may be helpful to ask yourself what you contributed above and beyond your job description. Our clients have found our skills questionnaire (SkillNet™) essential as it draws out vital areas of one's background. When writing your own resume, it is important to analyze all of your relevant skills, strengths, and accomplishments prior to beginning the writing process.
- Include relevant keywords and phrases
- Keywords and phrases are essential today for computer and human screening. Analyze job descriptions and your industry prior to developing your keywords and phrases, and appropriately include these throughout your documents.
- Avoid or mitigate potential screen-out factors
- Screen-out factors are elements in a resume that cause a candidate not to be selected. These can vary greatly depending on one's unique background and career goals. While many job seekers have screen-out factors, typically these can be substantially minimized or eliminated in your resume to avoid adversely affecting your candidacy. For more, visit 5 Common Resume Screen-out Factors.
- Eliminate irrelevant information
- Do not include interests or hobbies unless they relate to the industry or position. Don't include personal information such as date of birth, marital status, etc., unless you are targeting positions outside of the U.S. (If you are pursuing positions outside of the U.S., research the requirements specific to each country.)
- Carefully check for typographical errors
- Obvious errors will immediately raise concerns about your quality of work and attention to detail. To identify and remove errors, you can use a spell-check feature to locate misspellings only; still, a typographical error can be missed if correctly spelled (e.g., "mange" instead of "manage"). In general, the grammar-check feature should be avoided since it can often indicate "errors" that are correct and even suggest changes that will result in an error. Ultimately, it is best to carefully proofread your documents as well as have several others review them before submitting to an employer.
- Know the posting or submission requirements
- When posting your resume on a job board such as Monster, you will have specific guidelines on how to post. When applying to an opening, each company will have its own procedures. Some companies require candidates to complete an online application, many require an MS Word document, others will only accept applications via plain text email, and larger companies often use an automated applicant tracking system. To be sure you are fully prepared, it is best to have the same resume and cover letter in a variety of distribution formats.
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There is no strict definition, because a crappy sailor can do coastal on a seaworthy boat, and a really good sailor can take an inappropriate or marginal oceanic boat over the horizon.
I think you can say 24 hours x 5 knots=about 120 miles of range under sail. Most boats in the 25-30 foot range will not have enough fuel
to do that without a jerrycan or three, but some will. Others will be able to handle heavy weather, while some will be light enough to make distance with little wind.
I think that the expectation
of a coastal boat is usually "fun, easily driven, good for having a beer on at the end of a day". 99% of the time, a production boat for coastal cruising will cover this off really well, as most people "coastal cruising" favour fair weather and will motor under 10 knots and head for shore over 20 or four feet of waves.
So if you intend to "keep on keeping on" in the coastal mode of being out of sight of land, but within a day's sail (like going from Florida to the Bahamas, say, or Maine to Nova Scotia), you'll want a somewhat different boat and a more robust skill set than a club racing Catalina 30 owner who will look for three days of 12-18 knot winds and two foot waves before contemplating a point-to-point trip down Lake Ontario, for instance.
A "coastal" boat can expect to encounter bad weather, but of short duration and maybe medium severity. Summer squalls, for instance, can be fierce, but don't typically develop the huge and long waves of the open ocean...the fetch is too short.
This is why it's a difficult question; when people say "coastal", I assume they mean "daysailer or fair-weather cruising". There's a lot of boats up to that, but which I would hesitate to put out of sight of land or in 35-40 knots, because they might prove too tender, too light, too ill-equipped for reefing down and too lightly built in the portlight, hatch
and companionway departments.
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Still, there's a quiet victory for reproductive rights that happened late last week: D.C. has had a ban on local tax dollars used to pay for abortions under its state Medicaid program that has been imposed by Congress since 1988 lifted.
I did a piece for The American Prospect about it:
"This is really something to be celebrated from the point of view of women who live in D.C. who are low-income," said Healther Boonstra, senior public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute.At its core, lifting the restrictions gives D.C. "home rule" like other states and allows autonomy over its own funding. Now, D.C. can once again put local funding toward Medicaid that would pay for abortion services and care. Medicaid is paid for through a combination of federal and state funds. Federal funding can't be used for abortion because of the Hyde Amendment, but states have autonomy to fund abortion services with their own dollars. But D.C., because it isn't a state and technically falls under Congress's rule, has faced additional restrictions.
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With a hat tip to Best of the Web: Read Students expelled for teddy bear film for an example of schools that need some courses in ogic for the people in charge. Highlights:
Two students are suing to return to school after they were expelled for making a movie in which evil teddy bears attack a teacher.I note the ACLU is on the case for the students and, for a change, I think the ACLU is on the right side.
The teenagers were among four students expelled from Knightstown High School over the movie, "The Teddy Bear Master." Two of the boys are asking a federal judge in Indianapolis to order the students reinstated, arguing that school officials overreacted to a film parody and violated their First Amendment rights.
But Knightstown Principal Jim Diagostino and Superintendent David McGuire don't see the humor, and note that the teacher who is threatened in the movie has the same last name as a real teacher in the district.
"That's crazy to think that's a threat to anyone," said Linda Imel, 42, whose 15-year-old son, Isaac, and his friend Cody Overbay, 16, have filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
Evil teddy bears? What kind of threat is that?
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In Treasuring God in Our Traditions, you write that your children listened to stories on tape while they were too young to read. Could you recommend some good, sound children’s Bible story recordings?
That’s a good question and difficult to answer. The sets we used are out of print and it’s hard now to find good options. Perhaps publishers think kids are too visually oriented to be interested in audio.
These are ones that we’ve used and liked:
- Stories that Live, a large series of books and tapes produced by Peter Enns.
- A Few Who Dared to Trust God, a set of 5 cassettes produced by the American Bible Society.
- The Word and Song Bible, books and tapes, ed. Steve Elkins. Broadman & Holman, 2000.
I'd suggest typing those titles into your Internet search engine. You might find one used or back in print. Or your search may uncover some other treasure. (When you find something good, I’d like to hear about it!)
When buying something unfamiliar from a Christian business that presumably cares about the Biblical faithfulness of its merchandise, I’d ask up front if there’s a way to preview audio before buying or if it’s possible to return opened tapes or CDs if they are not as clearly Biblical as the packaging indicates.
Here are some of the basics I’m looking for in audio for pre-readers.
- A Bible story told without added details or characters;
- Presentation of God as the central character;
- Appropriate respect given to the Word of God;
- and less important, but helpful to a younger child is that stories be narrated rather than dramatized.
If you can’t find what you want or simply want the Bibletime experience to be more intimate, why not make a recording yourself from your child’s favorite Bible story books?
Blessings on you and your family as you grow together in God's Word.
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The Dark Side of the Outsourcing Revolution
Two years ago, I lost my credit card on a trip. Dialing the American Express 800 number, I asked the polite customer representative to read the list of recent charges. As she went through each charge, I noticed something familiar about the way she said words like Duane Reade and Blockbuster.
Excuse me, I interrupted. Where are you?
Oh, were the American Express Call Center in Bangalore, India, she replied.
Over the coming months, I started noticing this phenomenon more often. When I called AOL trying to cancel my account for the fifth time, the helpful woman giving instructions was in India. Palm Pilots Level 1 help desk seemed to be in America, but when they were stymied and bumped me to Level 2, an unmistakably Indian voice came on. Recently, I even started getting sales calls hawking credit cards from India.
A few months back, a new pattern began to emerge. Suddenly, the customer service representatives werent eager to divulge where they were from. Oh, were not allowed to disclose location, said one nervous voice. It was very cloak-and-dagger. Maybe its some new security measure, I thought to myself.
Then the New York Times article, titled Were From Bangalore (But Were Not Allowed To Tell You) revealed all. Indian call centers now had to acquire American accents and generic Anglo names, displaying a newfound nervousness in the face of an incipient backlash: Dell was closing its Indian call center in the face of protests; New Jersey was trying to pass a bill blocking outsourcing to India; and an angry Indiana politician huffed, I represent Indiana, not India!
All Roads Lead to India
India is at the red-hot center of the outsourcing revolution. Thirty percent of all new information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies is now done abroad, mostly in India. McKinsey Consulting estimated that three countries received $20 billion in outsourcing revenue from the U.S. in 2002: Ireland ($8.3 billion), India ($7.7 billion) and Canada ($3.7 billion). Analysts forecast that by 2008 Indian IT services and back-office support will grow to a $57 billion a year industry with 4 million workers.
International multi-nationals have had offices in India for almost a decade, and they include Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Intel, IBM, Cisco, Motorola, HP, Oracle, Yahoo, Ernst & Young, HSBC, and, of course, the trailblazer in discovering India, Microsoft. But Indian offices whose main business is outsourced work from the U.S. are a relatively new phenomenon. Recent high-profile firms include MphasiS, which processed tax returns of 20,000 Americans this year (analysts predict that 200,000 U.S. tax returns will be processed in India next year). Then there is OfficeTiger, which employs 1,200 people to do research and analysis for eight Wall Street firms. Finally, GE Capitals four Indian centers design statistical models, prepare data for GE annual reports, write software, and process $35 billion of global invoices.
India dominates outsourced IT, accounting, and financial services. Ambitious firms have now expanded to food-stamp paperwork, auto engineering, drug research, airline industry, and work for the U.S. Postal Service. India has two key strengths: hundreds of thousands of technology graduates each year and the use of English at all stages of education. Armed with this combination, Indias potential is huge as knowledge-based service work expands. China dominates in manufacturing, which is only 14 percent of the U.S. economy. By contrast, the service industry, where India has laid its stake, makes up 60 percent of the U.S. economy.
White Collar Labor Wars
Of course, U.S. firms are not outsourcing work out of benevolent desire to help Indian workers. These new moves come in an ever-expanding desire to cut costs and increase profit margins. The stage is set for a struggle between Western and Asian white-collar labor. Just as the success of H-1B visa workers during the Internet boom led to an anti-immigrant backlash, the outsourcing revolution faces its own pushback.
Critics argue that every time a project is outsourced, jobs are lost in the United States. Estimates vary from a projected loss of 600,000 jobs by 2005 (Forrester Research) to 2 million by 2008 (Deloitte). But it is also impossible to calculate what portion of these job losses are also an effect of the overall recession.
As anger builds over claims of lost jobs, American unions have emerged as aggressive opponents of outsourcing, and their rhetoric often displays thinly disguised xenophobia. Even inside the U.S., unions create their own hegemonies, often leaving immigrant-dominated industries out in the cold. When it comes to a globalized labor market, Workers of the world unite! is not their motto. TechsUnite.org (CA), Alliance of Technology Workers (WA) and Rescue American Jobs have all been pushing politicians to pass Buy American legislation to limit federal agencies from sending jobs overseas. In New Jersey and Indiana, bills to outlaw shifting state jobs overseas were narrowly defeated. Maryland, Michigan, and North Carolina are planning similar legal battles in the future. Incessant complaints about bad service and strange accents forced Dell Computers to shut down one of its call centers in India, representing a major victory for the America First lobby.
A Dilemma for the Left
The traditional left has been caught off-guard by the outsourcing debate. It is very hard to make the argument that Indians are being exploited. Studies show that jobs in outsourcing firms are some of the most highly sought-after, and often pay much more than jobs servicing the local economy. There is still a knee-jerk reaction among Indians, reflected in editorials that deride these workers as cyber-coolies.
But does that jargon apply everywhere? As hordes of freshly-minted IIT graduates put on their starched white shirts, or crisp salwar-kameez, and march into brand-new cyberpark offices in Bangalore, are they really anybodys coolies?
Not everyone accepts the unions arguments. In England, George Monbiot in The Guardian applauded the irony of the new power structure: Britains empire is striking back. Former colonies have found a silver lining in the bitter legacy of conquest: English, the language of former masters, is a competitive advantage in the global economy. After Norwich Union sent one of their centers overseas, a spirited debate erupted on the BBC website. From London, Theresa Law wrote, Give me an intelligent, well-educated, polite Indian on the end of a telephone handling my customer queries, over an ignorant, rude, unhelpful and unwilling British call handler any day! In reply to numerous e-mails about stolen jobs, Henry wrote, What a breathtaking display of economic illiteracy and downright racism. Why shouldnt people in India have a crack at earning a decent living if they can do it more effectively than can be done in the UK?
Outsourcing is an incredibly complex economic and ethical issue, with winners and losers on both sides. Yes, why shouldnt Indians (and by extension, my native Bangladeshis) have a chance to improve their living standards through hard work? On the other hand, as thousands of jobs are lost in the West during the present recession, much of the blame will fall on outsourcing. But free trade means the flow goes both ways. If the West demands open access to global markets for its exports, doesnt the Third World have the right to demand free access to labor markets?
Finally, the unions need to make the connection between outlandish CEO salaries and lost jobs. Outsourcing is not the only reason for all worker woes. To take one recent example, if Boeing were to ever open a factory in India, many would scream about lost jobs. But arent far more jobs going to be lost to cover the damage from the Pentagon contract kickback scandal, which has already led to the resignation of Boeings CEO?
The Human Face of a Global Economy?
In this ongoing debate, a startling new entry is a multimedia theater piece Alladeen, now touring the U.S. after a successful run in England. Produced by Englands Motiroti and multimedia wizards Builders Association, the play is an antidote to media stories about faceless Indians taking jobs away.
Call centers are the Ground Zero of the outsourcing debate. Because Western customers have to interact directly with an operator in India, all of the coded racism, and anxieties come boiling to the surface. In previous recessions, similar misdirected hostilities targeted H-1B visas, green card holders and other shades of new immigrants. But because the targets were inside the country and able to lobby for their own rights, demonizing was not easy (witness the death of Californias Prop. 187).
In this new battle, the targets are in a distant high-tech call centerwhich makes it much easier to scapegoat and destroy. There is a subtle interplay of racism in this whole debate. Would outsourcing be a political hot potato if the jobs were going to Norway, Israel, or Portugal? In fact, no one complains about job loss to Ireland, even though it is the global leader in outsourcing.
Alladeen tackles this issue head-on. Through a combination of actors, simultaneous video displays, computer screens, and taped video footage from a real-life Indian call center, the play breaks through the clutter of economic and ideological debates. Finally, the anonymous Indian at the faraway call center is given a voice, a name and a life. We see what is created, and also what is lost.
Alternating skillfully between documentary footage and re-enactments, Alladeen takes the audience through the life cycle of a call center. We start with the training sessions, where eager Indian graduates are told to neutralize mother tongue influence. A white supervisor explains that Indians always say w for v and then patronizingly adds to one candidate, Theres no extra marks for going fast. Im not going to give you a chocolate bar. Just as Indians rote-memorize scientific facts in high school, these trainees memorize city names, to switch on and off American accents, and learn cultural facts (potatoes are important in Montana). Overhead projectors are used to explore football (the pork skin), baseball (a model of sacrifice) and television shows that tap into the zeitgeist of a city (Ally McBeal for Chicago, Buffy for California and Friends for New York).
Later, each freshly-minted trainee will channel his or her favorite Friends character. But are they creating an illusion for the caller, or living in a dream world of their own? One where they live on Central Park West? In this phase of cultural globalization, being American is a job requirementeven if some real Americans want nothing to do with you.
As the trainees become more confident, they deal with stoned callers, buck-naked pranksters, and suspicious matrons. Internet websites flash trivia about the callers hometown, and eagle-eyed supervisors monitor every callall is perfectly calibrated to give the caller the impression they are dialing their neighborhood call center, and talking to a cheerful Phoebe, Monica or Chandler.
But all contradictions are laid bare when Phoebe receives a call from an Indian-American from Redwood City. Even though she recognizes a fellow Indian, protocol demands that she lie and say Im in New York City. Discovering that the man is a software engineer, Phoebe tries to ask him about life in America.
Disguised half-questions are blurted out in the tiny window of opportunity before the call ends. Finally, desperately trying to semaphore her own situation, Phoebe blurts out, But is it easy there? I mean what if you were Indian?
My dear! comes the puzzled reply, I am Indian!
Alladeens most poignant moments are in two real-life documentary clips. In one segment, the Bangalore call center operators are asked, if they had one wish, what would it be. The answers come rushing out: To be handsome, rich, five inches taller, married. But one exhausted operator, who talks earlier about the grind of the midnight shift, can only look at the camera and say, I wish this were a 9-to-6 shift!
In the other segment, an operator named Aarthi Angelo talks about the endless quest to hide Indian accents: People are so sensitive to accents. Especially after the World Trade Center incident, people started asking me, are you Muslim? You know, weve been taught to transcend barriers of caste and religion. But here we had to answer that question. Then after a pause, she adds, Even Muslims had to say, no were not Muslims!
Outsourcing will continue to be debated at union meetings, political rallies, Senate chambers, Fortune 500 seminars, and journal pages. Yet, Alladeen succeeds in painting a picture that is often missing from this debate over globalization. The show puts a human face on a complex economic system, highlighting both the gain and loss for each human player.
The last word goes to Simon, another visitor to the BBC website: What we are seeing is capitalism working in a totally uneven playing field and it will carry on until the playing field is evened out. That is going to be a long and painful process and the world simply isnt going to be able to support its entire population at the standard of living we would like to continue to enjoy.
Naeem Mohaiemen is a historian, media activist, and the editor of Shobak, a magazine devoted to South Asian issues. Additional research for this article was provided by Udayan Chattyopadhyay.
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“When we drove by this property and [Mayor] Brian Stack told me, ‘You know what we should do here? We should create a park with musical instruments that shoot water,’” Union City Commissioner and North Hudson Community Action Corporation (NHCAC) CEO Christopher Irizarry told the crowd of hundreds gathered before the unveiling of the brand new Michael Leggiero water park, “I looked at him, and I said, ‘Brian, I think you’re getting to that point where you’re losing your mind.’”
Engineered by Ralph Tango and landscaped by Alicia Morejon, the park was named after community icon Michael Leggiero, who took over NHCAC in 1971. Leggiero passed on in 2004.
“Things like parks are quality of life issues that can make a difference in young people’s lives.” –Senate President Stephen Sweeney
Children bounced in blow-up houses, residents danced to live salsa music, and local dignitaries joined Leggiero’s family in celebration of both the park, and his life.
Located on the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street, Michael Leggiero Park boasts a wading pool and four giant brightly-colored instruments that do indeed shoot water. It makes up one of dozens of parks in Union City, each with its own particular dedication and function.
The musical water park took over a year to put together. There were oil tanks to clear, environmental issues to clean up, and the property that had sat unused is now a colorful way for kids to cool off. Once the large outdoor screen is constructed within the next week or two, Commissioner Lucio Fernandez said, locals will be able to watch movies and cartoons outdoors.
The man behind the park
“When Michael entered a room, you felt it change,” Irizarry continued. “He was a person filled with compassion, a person who wanted only to live to help his fellow man and who put his heart and his soul into everything he did. Every single time I sit in that chair as director, I think, ‘What would Michael do?”
Leggiero built NHCAC up from a small, dying health center to a far-reaching, 22-site, more than 750 employee-run corporation it is today. It provides health care, day care, Head Start programs, emergency food and shelter, and more.
So why name a park full of water-spouting musical instruments after him?
Leggiero was also the city’s commissioner of public parks and recreation, and he loved music, his family and friends recounted. He led worship at his church and he sang regularly at functions. His young niece and nephew, Nicole Alcott and David Tarantino, followed his lead and sang in their uncle’s honor.
“Michael Leggiero’s lifelong dream was that the site at 5301 Broadway in West New York would once become our building,” Irizarry announced. “He fought his entire life to make that a reality and I am proud to announce the NHCAC has reached an agreement with the Archdiocese of Newark to purchase that building.”
The building will be dedicated to and named after Leggiero.
City of parks
“Things like parks are quality of life issues that can make a difference in young people’s lives,” state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who had driven two hours to attend the dedication ceremony, announced that day. “It’s not seeing what’s not there, but what could be there, and how we can lift this community.”
The Skate Park on 38th Street has a basketball court and five ramps where roller skaters and skateboarders can practice their tricks. Pablo Duarte Park on 33rd Street and New York Avenue provides locals with water activities.
Peru Plaza on Central Avenue and 24th Street has a basketball court and water activities for kids, and the park on 17th and West Street has a playground. Washington Park provides residents with baseball fields for summer sporting.
The city has three pools that are free for residents. Ron Dario Swimming Complex on 47th Street has an indoor pool with a retractable roof. Firefighters Memorial Park on 9th and Palisade Avenue boasts an Olympic size pool with stunning Manhattan views, spray pools, and a passive area for lounging. And the indoor pool at Bruce Walter Recreational Center on 5th and West Street offers all-year-round swimming for residents.
Ellsworth Park on New York Avenue between 23rd and 24th hosts theatre performances every Thursday night at 7 p.m., and Duarte Park on 33rd has musical and theatrical performances on Tuesday nights.
For more information, call the Department of Public Affairs at (201) 348-5735.
Gennarose Pope may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org
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We are especially proud to welcome our new guest blogger, David Stieber, a teacher at TEAM Englewood High School. This topic is near and dear to me, since I’ve spent well over a decade working at public schools as an educator and director in the theater arts. Welcome, David!
What’s At Stake for Chicago Public Educators?
You have undoubtedly heard the news reports, radio attack ads, CPS representatives, the “CEO” of Chicago Public Schools, and the Mayor saying how teachers are walking out on the students if we strike. Parents, students, residents of this city, as a teacher let me tell you, comments like that rip teachers to our core. As cliché as it sounds teaching is a calling. It’s not as if one day we just said, “I guess I’ll just be a teacher.” It takes skill and dedication to stand in front of 30 (sometimes more) young people in a classroom and truly care and be able to teach every one of them. It is not possible to just be mediocre when it comes to teaching students. A young person is the first to let you know if you aren’t doing a good job at teaching the lesson, not getting graded work passed back quickly enough, heck, they will even let you know if you look bad that day.
Teachers just can’t punch in, start thinking about kids then punch out and stop. Teachers are always trying to improve our lesson plans, grade, figure out ways to reach the students who are withdrawn, quiet, confrontational or disrupting class. We just can’t shut our students out of our lives when the bell rings.
Unless you are a teacher you have no idea the pain, frustration and intrinsic anger we feel when some paid radio ad claims, that “teachers are walking out on students”. Some days after teaching, I honestly wish I could walk out on my students and never come back. But no matter how frustrating our day may have been it is the kids that always bring us back. Teachers spend our lunch periods, before and after school helping, coaching, and listening to our students.
After days of teaching we spend nights in grad school, trying to make ourselves better teachers. We raise children and think about how we want our own child to be like __(insert name here)__ that we taught a few years back.
There is nothing about our careers, our schools, and our students that we take lightly.
So please understand, teachers are trying to teach you that our careers and professions are under attack. Please understand we are trying to teach you about how your child’s education is under attack.
You may find this dramatic, but education is at a crossroads in our country and our neighborhood, our city is right at the intersection of these crossroads. There is an attempt to make schooling privatized, charter-ized, and more inequitable than it already is. There is an attempt to get rid of experienced teachers who have built relationships with families, who truly know how to teach and replace them with less expensive inexperienced teachers who likely will only be at the school for two years.
There is an attempt to teach through testing, to make your child so bored in school from over standardized testing that students aren’t excited for school anymore. There is an attempt to further cut librarians, counselors, nurses, PE, World Language, Art and now classroom teachers, in order to “save” money. A budget is a political document, not a financial one, it’s about priorities. Some priorities obviously need to be re-evaluated.
Teachers in no way shape or form want to strike, we want to be working with and educating your children. The CTU, which represents and is elected by 26,000 educators across this city has had over 50 negotiation meetings with CPS since November 2011. In all of that time “CEO” Brizard has attended zero of those meetings, which means there was no one from CPS at the bargaining table with any educational experience.
So I ask, how do you bargain on what is best for students with people who have never taught students?
At stake is way more than pay. At stake for us is doing what is right for our community, our city, and yes our students, because as teachers it is always about the kids.
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by Robbin Gray
Martial arts is one of the best activities for young kids and teens, because it can teach them valuable life lessons, give them something to look forward to and take pride in, and will teach them the benefits of physical activity. A lot of parents and opponents of Taekwondo feel that it is all about fighting, when in reality most schools don't even teach you to fight (in the street sense). Numerous Taekwondo schools are sport or self defense based and they don't support going out and getting into fights. If you ask anyone who trains in this art they will tell you that real fighting is much different from learning Taekwondo. If that is a reason you are leery of letting your child begin classes then you have little to worry about.
So what can you expect from your child learning Taekwondo? You can expect your son or daughter to learn respect and self discipline. They will also learn the value of team work, how to lead others as well as follow instructions, and learn to enjoy physical activity. If you feel that these are all valuable skills that you want your child to come away with then it is time to search for the perfect Taekwondo School for your child.
The first and probably easiest way to begin your search is on the USA Taekwondo Member Clubs page on the website. Here you can browse USAT member clubs by state. Remember that not every school will have a website and that just because the site looks one way or another doesn't mean that the instruction will reflect what you see on the computer.
Write down all the schools in your area or the ones you are most interested in. Before you decide to give them a call it is best to develop some questions for the instructor or owner so all your questions will be answered before a visit. Some good ones might include:
- What days do you offer classes and at what time?
- How much are your monthly dues and how many classes does this allow my child to attend?
- Do you require that I sign a contract; and if so what is the duration?
- How much does a student uniform and belt cost?
- Do you charge for testing?
- What is the youngest that you accept students?
- What are the fees for ending the contract early?
These are merely a few questions to ask. You may have additional ones pop into your head and after you take a visit to the school obviously more will come to mind.
Once you have called the schools you are interested in and asked your preliminary questions the next step is to go and visit each one. Some schools will let your child have a free class to see if he or she likes it. You should definitely take advantage of this. Observe how the instructor interacts with other students, his demeanor, listen to what they are saying, and see how the other students react. Is the class too strict or do the kids just play games? Is there a high student-to-instructor ratio? These are just a few questions to keep in mind. Don't just drop you child off and leave. You will not know what the school is about and if it is right for your child. If possible talk with some of the other parents and older students. See how they feel about the class and instructor.
The final step is to pick out your desired school. It is best to look for one that has short or no contracts, because your child may be excited about training at the moment, but several months down the road who knows how they will feel. Even if you do sign a contract, do not feel pressured to stay the entire duration. Sure you may wind up losing a little bit of money, but if your child is un-happy then that is not a good situation as well. If you follow these steps you should find the perfect Taekwondo school that fits your son or daughter's needs.
About the Author
Robbin Gray is a staff writer at the MMA Zone. She has written and trained in various martial art styles such as: Taekwondo, Karate, Judo, and Muay Thai.
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Tue December 11, 2012
Syrian Defector: Assad Will Use Chemical Weapons If He's Desperate
Originally published on Tue December 11, 2012 2:25 pm
If Syrian President Bashar Assad gets desperate enough he will use chemical weapons against his own people, the former chief of staff for that country's chemical weapons tells NPR's Deborah Amos.
Maj. Gen. Adnan Sillu, who defected in July and is now in Turkey, is convinced that if rebel forces close in on Damascus, Assad will order the use of mustard gas, sarin or other chemicals in a "last desperate act," Deb reported today on Morning Edition.
And as Deb told NPR's Renee Montagne, Syria is thought to have the largest undeclared cache of chemical weapons in the world.
If Assad did order their use, though, many analysts say he would be committing "regime suicide" because the U.S. and other nations would take swift and decisive action.
Sillu has been warning about what Assad may do with the chemical weapons since soon after he defected. In September, he told The Times of London that:
"He had been party to top-level talks on the deployment of chemical weapons against rebel fighters and civilians in Syria's second largest city. 'We were in a serious discussion about the use of chemical weapons, including how we would use them and in what areas. We discussed this as a last resort — such as if the regime lost control of an important area such as Aleppo,' Gen.Sillu said in his first interview since his defection. The meeting, held at Syria's chemical weapons center [8 kilometers] south of Damascus, was the 'last straw' for the general, who said he defected because he was convinced the regime would use the weapons against civilians."
With opposition fighters making steady progress against Assad's forces, however, the concern about those chemical weapons has only increased since September.
There is a more hopeful sign today, though. As CBS News reports:
"The Obama administration Tuesday appeared to temper its recent assertions that the Syrian government may be preparing to use chemical weapons, with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta telling reporters the relevant intelligence had 'really kind of leveled off.'
" 'We haven't seen anything new indicating any aggressive steps to move forward in that way,' Panetta told reporters during a flight to Kuwait, adding that U.S. officials 'continue to monitor it very closely and we continue to make clear to them that they should not under any means make use of these chemical weapons against their own population. That would produce serious consequences.' "
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A lot of D.C. rowhouses have a rosebush blooming in the front yard, like this one I passed on my way to work last week. Some of the rose bushes are carefully planted in fully landscaped gardens; others, like this one, exist as the yard’s sole decoration. If my experience is any guide, rosebushes in D.C., when planted in a place that gets enough sun, take some work the first few years–pruning, watering, smushing of aphids, plucking of diseased leaves–but then, at least in the spring before the pests wreak their havoc, they’ll thrive pretty much on their own. Whether perfectly pruned, or overgrown and straggly, they offer the sumptuous beauty of their flowers to anyone who passes by. It’s a gift, a thoughtless generosity, by multitudes of people who keep most of their treasures behind locked doors.
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Written by PETA
A lot. Is the short answer. But if you have a little bit of time on your hands, there’s a long answer currently available in the form of our 2007 Annual Review, and it makes for some excellent reading. There’s also a bulleted breakdown of the numbers (like, how much we spent on what), as well as a bunch of pretty pictures for the benefit of anyone who, like me, has trouble reading more than a couple of paragraphs on the Internet without taking break to see what the lolcats are up to.
Suffice it to say, 2007 was an insanely busy year—so it’s great to take a step back and see just how much we got done.
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Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights? Read more.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition activist and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Burma, kicked off her first trip to the U.S. since being released from house arrest by meeting with political and diplomatic leaders in the nation's capital.
Tuesday, the pro-democracy leader also known as "The Lady," met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and gave a speech at the United States Institute of Peace hosted by the Asia Society.
Wednesday, Suu Kyi continued her high-level meetings with a visit to Capitol Hill in the morning where she was received by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Suu Kyi will finally accept the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday, four years after it was awarded to her for her continuous work to bring Burma into the democratic fold.
In a surprise announcement Wednesday afternoon, the White House also confirmed Suu Kyi would be meeting with President Barack Obama tonight in the Oval Office.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been a leader on the global stage since her return to Burma from living in England and the U.S. in 1988. Born to prestigious parents - her father founded the modern Burmese army and her mother was the ambassador to India and Nepal - Suu Kyi seemed destined for a political life.
After working for the United Nations in New York and living with her American husband Dr. Michael Aris in Bhutan, she moved back in the late 1980s and spoke out for democracy amid violent army suppression of a nascent democratic movement.
She founded the NLD in 1989 but was put under house arrest the following year by the military junta, who regained power after General Ne Win resigned and a popular uprising was stifled. The widespread slaughter of democracy advocates came to be known as the 8888 Uprising (August 8, 1988).
In 1990, after the NLD won 59 percent of the votes in national elections, the military junta refused to hand over power to the party. In 1995, she was released from house arrest only to be re-arrested in 2000. Of the last 20 years, she has spent 15 locked in her own home in Rangoon.
In November 2010, Suu Kyi was released from house arrest and the military-backed government began slowly allowing for small democratic reforms. Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience have been released and the NLD was allowed to stand in the first national by-elections in twenty years.
The party won 43 of the 44 seats they contested, including one in which Suu Kyi ran herself. Only 46 seats were open in the by-elections.
This year, she stepped outside of her country for the first time since her return in 1988. Her first trip was to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1990. This week marks her first trip to the United States since then.
In her meetings with Secretary Clinton, who visited Suu Kyi in Burma after her release from house arrest earlier this year, she spoke about goals met and work that still needs to be done, specifically on remaining links with North Korea and their nuclear program.
Speaking yesterday at USIP, Suu Kyi said she was heartened by the Obama's administration's continued desire to engage with Burma.
"The United States, from the beginning, stood firmly by the forces of democracy and for this I would like to thank all of you," Suu Kyi said Tuesday.
She also urged continued easing of sanctions on Burma while also highlighting the need to push the government further on political prisoner detention, relations with ethnic minorities and abuse of emergency powers.
Suu Kyi will spend a total of 17 days in the United States. After Washington, D.C., she will also visit California, New York and Fort Wayne, Indiana, home to one of the country's largest Burmese-American communities.
Her trip will coincide with that of Burmese president Thein Sein, who will visit New York next week to attend the United Nations General Assembly. He will also give remarks at the Asia Society in New York during his trip.
by RTT Staff Writer
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We headed out of Havana early on a Sunday morning. This was really our first look at the countryside, and at the transportation system. The stories about huge numbers of old American cars from the 1950s? All true! Under Cuban law, cars registered after the 1959 revolution could not be bought or sold, though that is changing. The result is that those who had a car hung onto it and tried to keep it running, passing it down as an inheritance. Many of the cars we saw are Frankencars, with parts from various cars slapped together. Some were well-tended, others looked like they were held together with rust, and it was not uncommon to see one of them along the roadside with the hood up. I was on the lookout for a ’56 Mercury Monterey, like my grandmother’s old car that I drove in high school. Chevys seem to be the most common but I did see Mercurys, as well as just about any other model you can imagine.
Only about 1% of Cuban people own cars, so other forms of transportation are common too. We saw lots of bicycles, including pedicabs. There were lots of horses with buggies too, especially as we got outside the city. We saw some recognizable buses, packed with people, but in the rural provinces, it is common to see people standing, jammed into the back of an open-air truck. In the countryside we also saw an interesting sight – most vehicles are owned by the state and at key intersections in the small towns we passed we observed an official dressed all in yellow stopping cars and trucks. Our guide, Frank, explained that all state vehicles had to give rides to citizens going in the same direction, so the man in yellow was coordinating ride-sharing.
Our first stop that Sunday was at the National Botanical Garden. The director, Dr. Angela Leiva Sanchez, gave us a lecture on the plants and vegetation zones of Cuba that was very helpful in our interpreting what we saw on our later hikes. One of her staff then joined us on the bus as we toured the Garden. It is HUGE – about 600 hectares (1480 acres) so we only saw a small bit of it in our tour. Probably the most impressive part was the palm collection. They have over 200 species in their collection, making it one of the largest in the world. They also have a really lovely greenhouse area. Following our tour we went to their open air restaurant and had a wonderful buffet lunch – one of the best meals we had in Cuba! Many of our meals were short on fresh fruits and vegetables and this lunch had various salads and a large fruit plate.
Our day was just beginning though – from the Garden we traveled west to see the community of Las Terrazas located in the Sierra del Rosario mountain range in the Pinar del Rio province. French coffee farmers arrived early in the 19th century and there were more than 50 plantations in the area. These plantations were later abandoned and erosion became a problem. Beginning in 1968, the hillsides were terraced (Las Terrazas means terraces) and reforested with 8 million trees. In 1985 the area was designated a Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations. Such Reserves allow some development within and Las Terrazas is designed as a sustainable community and ecotourism center. We visited a restored coffee plantation and then went to the small community, where we visited the homes of two local artists. The homes were small, but very nice and the community seemed vibrant, with children and chickens roaming around. We visited their small coffee bar where we were treated to excellent espresso drinks. The community seemed very peaceful – they take great pride in retaining the natural, social, and cultural heritage of the area.
Leaving Las Terrazas, we traveled to our hotel near Soroa, a sprawling set of buildings on hillsides. In the center was a very large pool, which became of focus on interest on the next couple of toasty afternoons. The hotel is right next to an orchid garden that is now run as a research center by the University of Pinar del Rio. The garden was originally built by a wealthy man, starting in 1948, who then gave it to the University. It is a set on a steep hillside, like my own garden, so I was really interested in how it was terraced to provide planting areas. Most of the building material appeared to be native limestone. There were more than 700 species of orchids, begonias, and other types of flowering plants. Our guide took us up the hill to the house, where we sat on the terrace, listened to musicians, and had refreshments, including fresh coconut water.
We also enjoyed a short hike while in Soroa, but the best hike of the trip was on the next leg of our journey, which we visited the “ecologically protected” area of Mil Cumbres (Thousand Peaks). More about that coming up!
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Hewlett-Packard has expanded its use of renewable energy as part of its goal to reduce overall global energy consumption 20% by the end of 2010.
HP has signed deals with two renewable energy providers. As part of a power purchase agreement with SunPower, HP will install its first-ever large-scale solar power installation at its San Diego facility.
In addition, a wind power contract with Airtricty will ensure that nearly 90% of HP's energy use in Ireland is renewable, exceeding the company's 2007 target for carbon emission reductions.
"Switching to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power makes both environmental and business sense," said Pat Tiernan, HP vice-president for social and environmental responsibility.
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1. Do Your Homework
Once you decide on your ultimate dream car, do your homework. The internet is, of course, a valuable research tool but classic car clubs and live auctions are also great places to network with knowledgeable enthusiasts. Before you buy, have an expert check it over to make sure you are getting exactly what you’re paying for. And always buy from a reputable source.
2. Study the Market
Several publications offer insights into the market. Magazines like Car Collector and Classic & Sports Car track auction results. Market price guides such as Hagerty’s Cars That Matter, Kelley Blue Book and NADA Guides offer current values based on recent sales and most auction houses publish their sales results online.
3. Do It for Love
Don’t buy a car with the thought of making money overnight. Buy something you are going to enjoy driving and owning. But don’t fall in love at first sight, either. Some cars have great sex appeal but that doesn’t always translate into value or reliability.
4. Buy a Significant Make
Classic cars with famous heritage such as Ferrari, Duesenberg or Porsche are better long-term investments than less desirable marques. But note that not every famous manufacturer’s model is valuable. Each has had its share of winners and losers.
5. Make it Rare, Please
Low production numbers and survival rates are important factors in the value. Fewer than 100 produced is good. Fewer than 50 is even better. Think of the great European sports cars like Jaguar C-Types (50 made) and Ferrari GTOs (39). Unique, pre-war luxury cars like Duesenberg and Packard, and certain 1950s and 1960s American cars built in low numbers, are ones that will hold their value more.
6. Bigger is Sometimes Better
Bigger engines can sometimes mean a bigger return on your investment. The most desirable 1960s muscle cars are the special, high-performance, big-block V8, four-speed cars, produced in limited numbers. The V12-powered sports cars of Italy took many victories on the track because of their sheer power, aerodynamics and performance, making them instant classics, much like their derivative road cousins.
7. Learn Your History
Knowing a car’s complete history is one of the most important factors to consider. Any factory-issued paperwork or documentation can add considerable value to a car’s selling price. Who was the original purchaser and where was it sold? Did a celebrity or notable individual formerly own it? Are there any photos? Did the owner keep a service log? These are important questions to be asking.
8. Consider a Sports or Race Car
Currently, one of the strongest segments of the market is the sports and racing sector. For a real thrill, buy a vintage sports or race car. These cars are always in demand, so buying the right car almost ensures a lasting market. For example, the current market for a nice Jaguar D-Type is about $(US)2m, but the car Stirling Moss drove at Le Mans is worth considerably more. There are also many established vintage events across the country that will let you ‘exercise’ your prize.
9. Build the Right Portfolio
Building a great collection with the right cars will help build a reputation that can be good for the future value of the entire collection. A well-planned portfolio will draw interest from a specific and much attuned market of potential buyers at auction time, helping to secure a strong return on the original investment.
10. Care for Your Car
Don’t forget to make allowances for upkeep. Classic collectibles require climate-controlled system garages or special storage facilities, plus regular service and maintenance. And don’t forget to add vehicle insurance to the equation. Surprisingly, it is more affordable to own insurance on a classic than a new car – if you keep an eye on the mileage covered.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1207), as amended, be, and the same hereby is, further amended so as to read in full as follows:
"The Secretary of the Interior, or such official as may be designated by him, is hereby authorized beginning as of July 1, 1937, and until otherwise directed by Congress, to pay out of any unobligated tribal funds of the Klamath Indians in the Treasury of the United States salaries and expenses to the chairman, secretary, and interpreter of the Klamath General Council and members of the Klamath business committee or other committees appointed by the Klamath General Council (except the Klamath Reimbursable Loan Fund Board), when
engaged on business of the tribe, and to such official delegates of the Klamath Tribe who may carry on the business of the tribe at the seat of government: Provided, That the rate of salary and per diem paid shall be fixed in advance by resolution of the Klamath General Council, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, except that additional salaries and expenses, fixed and approved in the same way, may be made retroactive to July 1, 1943: Provided further, That the official delegates of the tribe carrying on said business at the seat of government shall receive, if travel is by rail, the usual railroad and sleeping car transportation to and from the seat of government, or, if travel is by automobile, delegates furnishing such transportation shall receive an amount equivalent to the cost of their railroad and sleeping-car transportation to and from the seat of government, but salary and per diem shall not be paid to delegates traveling by automobile for any period in excess of the time required to perform the travel by railroad: Provided further, That the aforesaid official delegates shall also receive reimbursement for telegraphic expenses incurred on tribal business: Provided further, That the aforesaid salaries and expenses shall not exceed $15,000 per annum: Provided further, That the length of stay of the official delegates at the seat of government shall be determined by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs."
Approved, May 15, 1945.
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Start 2013 at the Library
December 28, 2012
Is one of your resolutions for 2013 to start your own business or go back to school? If it is, or even if you are just curious about where to start, the Grandview Branch will be offering some free programming opportunities that just might help.
Creating a business plan from scratch sounds like a daunting task, but Business Plans 101: for the Entrepreneur on Thursday, January 17th at 6:30 p.m. will show you the steps to do just that. Whether you have a business plan that needs some fine tuning or you are starting on page one, this free class will help you get your business dreams off the ground.
Life has a habit of getting in the way of dreams to go back to school. If you have always wanted to finish your college degree but was uncertain about the opportunities available to you, our program, Rising to Meet Your Ambitions: Returning to School as a Working Adult, on Thursday, January 31st at 6:30 p.m. is for you. Whether you are seeking a promotion with your current employer or considering a completely new venture, this free class may be just the jump start you need.
To register for either of these classes, use the links above or call the Grandview Branch at 816.763.0550.
Your new year may bring big changes like going back to school or starting your own business, or smaller changes like planting a garden or trying a new recipe. Either way, programming at your nearest MCPL branch can help. Next time you're in the Library, ask for a copy of your branch's Access Guide and the current Beyond the Books program guide. They are full of free programs to fill almost every need. We hope to see you often at Grandview Branch programs in 2013.
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I feel pretty grateful. Over the years at my now almost alma mater (one week until I will be able to hold (actually make that hug) my diploma!), I’ve met some wonderful, health conscious friends who view food as medicine, just like I do. This wasn’t always the case, especially during freshman year of college when I couldn’t find a sole who would rather consume a large salad over a greasy bowl of fries. I’d find myself in uncomfortable social situations, wishing I could just get my hands on some kale chips or fresh fruit while my new friends were cooking up hamburgers and pasta. Lucky for me, I’ve met health conscious friends over time and I figured it’s high time I interviewed one of these special friends so that they can share with you their experiences living health consciously in our world of junk food ubiquity.
My friend, Myra, is super cool. Not only does she share my love of salads with unusual toppings like eggplant and figs, but she also is never one to turn down an opportunity to keep her body in shape. Not only does she have experience dancing, but she currently teaches Zumba classes (a Latin dance inspired aerobics workout). Myra is as passionate about making the right food choices as she is about having a fun workout and we immediately bonded over this. She is an inspiring voice for anyone wishing to make superior eating choices and follow an active lifestyle. She gushes with enthusiasm about how both her nutrient-rich diet and creative workouts make her feel energetic, de-stressed and ready to tackle even the most frustrating term paper. Welcome to DiseaseProof, Myra!
1) What was your diet like growing up?
In elementary school and middle school, life for my family was all about convenience and what foods were at hand. We ate a lot of frozen foods, fast food and deli meats. My mom had a full-time job and our priority was always speed rather than health. As I got older, we began learning about the importance of making conscious food choices and our eating habits changed drastically. I haven’t touched fast food since middle school.
2) What motivates you to make the right food choices now?
I like waking up feeling like I have energy and am ready to conquer the day without having to rely on coffee to get out of bed. I want to look and feel my best, and of course, this means eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. I’ve lost a bunch of weight eating more green vegetables, raw veggies and fruits and I’ve never felt better. Teaching Zumba classes means that I have to have enough energy to motivate others. I can’t do this if I fuel myself with junk foods. I’d actually feel nauseous or sick if I ate processed foods before a workout.
3) How do you handle events with friends who eat conventionally?
I find it useful to have premeditated guidelines in my head of what foods I should eat for lunch or for the evening. Most restaurants are pretty accommodating when I ask for a salad with walnuts instead of cheese or a vegetable dish without salt. Knowing what type of foods I want before I go out helps me make the right food choices rather than ordering something spontaneously that I might regret later.
4) What advice do you have for those wishing to become more physically active?
People tend to think of exercise as something that they have to do, but it’s important to change your mindset about it. Exercise can be fun, used as a stress reliever, and an opportunity to focus on yourself. It doesn’t have to be painful the same way that healthy eating doesn’t have to be bland and taste awful. If you are more open to the idea of beginning an exercise program, there are certainly ways to make it fun and something to look forward to. It’s important to be honest with yourself and your goals and there are so many different types of exercise programs to try- it’s important to find a form of exercise that’s suits your personality.
Myra is a wonderful role model for her students, but an equally nice person and friend. The picture here is of Myra and I at the dock by our local farmers market. Thank you for the inspiring interview, Myra!
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The Republican National Committee’s platform on education contains a lot of tea party buzzwords: abstinence, English-first, homeschooling, vouchers, local control. But the document also shows signs that the GOP is willing to embrace some type of benchmarking (that is, regulation) for public schools. The platform talks about “accountability,” “higher expectations for all students,” and options for students in failing schools. It’s a far cry from eliminating the Education Department.
Prominent education-reform advocates are hobnobbing in Tampa. They are the type of people who doggedly defend standards for student achievement and shun a hands-off approach. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, the former District of Columbia Public Schools chancellor, led a panel discussion on Tuesday at a screening of Won’t Back Down, a movie about two mothers who take on a failing inner-city public school. The event drew 1,000 delegates and guests.
Rhee’s grassroots-education group, StudentsFirst, will also be screening the film in Charlotte next week at the Democratic National Convention.
“A lot of people said to me beforehand, ‘Well, you’ve got to be careful at these conventions. It tends to be the most radical people,’ ” said Rhee, a Democrat, in an interview. “We talked about bipartisanship a lot on that panel, and we got a really strong reception.”
Republicans love Rhee because she took on the teachers unions in D.C. by insisting that school layoffs eliminate the ineffective teachers, not the ones with the least tenure. Her message to Republicans is the same as it is to Democrats. “I think that what both parties have to do between now and November is not kowtow to the special interests within their own party—Democrats with the teachers unions on their side and Republicans with the tea party on their side,” she said.
There are hints that Republicans are responding to her plea. Idaho’s schools superintendent, Tom Luna, led the platform committee in drafting the education plan. In his state, Luna implemented tough standards, including a new “credit system” for the middle grades. During the committee’s deliberations, he said that Republicans would support “innovative education reform” such as merit pay for teachers, removal of “last in, first out” tenure protections, and “education beyond high school”—all things that a dogged advocate such as Rhee also supports.
But Rhee isn’t yet convinced that GOP support is for real. She applauded Mitt Romney for producing a meaty white paper on education, but she pointed out that he ignored the critical accountability factors that underpinned President George W. Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind law. “They didn’t say, ‘We’re not going to do it.’ They didn’t say, ‘We are going to do it.’ They sort of just left it out,” she said. “So, for me, that’s a little bit of a flag that they aren’t going to be as strong on accountability.”
The GOP’s chief message on education is school choice. Anyone familiar with the fight over D.C.’s controversial voucher program knows that choice is not an issue that can be resolved on the local level. The Republican platform says that the District’s voucher program, which the Obama administration has sought to defund, “should be expanded as a model for the rest of the country.”
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Cisco settles open source case
Show us yer source code
Networking behemoth Cisco has settled a patent infringement case brought by the Free Software Foundation.
The FSF accused Cisco of distributing products under its Linksys brand which breached FSF General Public Licenses. A key part of GPL is that if you distribute products based on it then you must also make the source code available for others to see.
Several firms have struggled to comply with this requirement - BT got into similar trouble over its wireless router. Companies find it easy to include open source software in their products, but less easy to provide customers with full access to source code.
To settle the case Cisco has agreed to appoint a Free Software Director, who will oversee Linksys's compliance with open source licences and report back to the FSF.
Cisco has also promised to inform existing Linksys customers of their rights under GPL, to make source code for products available on its website and make a donation to the FSF.
The FSF welcomed Cisco's affirmation of its commitment to the open source community, and said the agreement was the quickest way to make the relevant source code available.
FSF statement is here. ®
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UT Tyler Department of Electrical Engineering
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
The master of science in electrical engineering degree program is designed to provide an advanced, in-depth program of study in electrical engineering, or to provide a multidisciplinary program of advanced study that may include graduate courses in computer science and mathematics.
The master of science in electrical engineering program is tailored to individual student needs and is structured and scheduled to serve full-time and part-time graduate students, as well as the continuing education needs of practicing engineers. The program includes courses of particular interest to engineers currently working in or preparing for a career in engineering research and development or electrical engineering practice.
Graduates of the master of science in electrical engineering program will be prepared to assume leadership roles in a variety of settings, both traditional and high-tech. With the proper selection of courses, students in the program may also prepare for further graduate study at the doctoral level.
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Details: This poster is of Winter Goth, by Victoria Frances. It shows a girl wearing a long black dress and black veil standing as snow falls around her.
Victoria Frances is a Spanish illustrator, born in Valencia. She is a graduate of the Universidad de Bellas Artes in Spain. Her work is very goth-inspired: ghostly women in long dresses are perhaps the most common characters found in her art. Unsurprisingly, she cites her influences as Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice and H.P. Lovecraft. She also claims to have been influenced by the art of Luis Royo and Brom.
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25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (65.1 x 54.6 cm)
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 (1993.400.1)
21 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (55.2 x 81.9 cm)
Gift of Heather Daniels and Katharine Whild, and Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, Wolfe Fund, and Ellen Lichtenstein and Joanne Toor Cummings Bequests, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers, and Wolfe Fund, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 2001 (2001.473)
One of the most influential artists in the history of twentieth-century painting, Paul Cézanne (18391906) has inspired generations of modern artists. Generally categorized as a Post-Impressionist, his unique method of building form with color and his analytical approach to nature influenced the art of Cubists, Fauvists, and successive generations of avant-garde artists. Beginning to paint in 1860 in his birthplace of Aix-en-Provence and subsequently studying in Paris, Cézanne's early pictures of romantic and classical themes are imbued with dark colors and executed with an expressive brushwork in the tradition of Eugène Delacroix (17981863). Dramatic tonal contrasts and thick layers of pigment (often applied with a palette knife) exemplify the vigor in which Cézanne painted during the 1860s, especially apparent in the portrait series of his uncle Dominique Aubert, variously costumed as a lawyer, an artist, and a monk (53.140.1; 1993.400.1). This kind of costume piece is reminiscent of Édouard Manet's Spanish paintings of the 1860s.
While the three works that Cézanne exhibited in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition were not fully in line with the Impressionist technique of quickly placing appliqués of pigment on the canvas, he did eventually abandon his relatively dark palette in exchange for brilliant tones and began painting out-of-doors, encouraged by the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (18301903). His Bathers (1976.201.12) of 187475 demonstrates a developed style and tonal scale in one of his first paintings of this theme, which recurs in his oeuvre. The landscape of Bathers has the brilliance of plein-air painting, while the figures, drawn from the artist's imagination (Cézanne rarely painted nudes from life), reconcile themselves within this setting. The complex process of drawing inspiration from these two sources, nature and memory, would occupy Cézanne in his later work. The Fisherman (Fantastic Scene) (2001.473), of about 1875, shares the same bright tones as Bathers, while its subject recalls the themes of fantasy familiar from the 1860s; it too could be the product of two polar sources.
In his still-life paintings from the mid-1870s, Cézanne abandoned his thickly encrusted surfaces and began to address technical problems of form and color by experimenting with subtly gradated tonal variations, or "constructive brushstrokes," to create dimension in his objects. Still Life with Jar, Cup, and Apples shows Cézanne's rejection of the intense contrasts of light and shadow of his earlier years in exchange for a refined system of color scales placed next to one another. The light of Impressionism resonates in this work, but signs of a revised palette are especially apparent in his muted tones. Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses (51.112.1), a mature work from the early 1890s, reveals Cézanne's artistic evolution and mastery of this style of building forms completely from color and creating scenes with distorted perspectival space. The objects in this painting, such as the fruit and tablecloth, are rendered without use of light or shadow, but through extremely subtle gradations of color. In such still lifes as Dish of Apples (1997.60.1) of about 187577, as in his landscapes, Cézanne ignores the laws of classical perspective, allowing each object to be independent within the space of a picture while the relationship of one object to another takes precedence over traditional single-point perspective.
From 1882, Cézanne executed a substantial number of landscape pictures of his native Aix and of L'Estaque, a small fishing village near Marseille, in which he continues to concentrate on pictorial problems of creating depth. Here Cézanne used an organized system of layers to construct a series of horizontal planes, which build dimension and draw the viewer into the landscape. This technique is apparent in Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (29.100.64) and The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque (29.100.67). In Gardanne (57.181), he painted the landscape with intense volumetric patterns of geometric rhythms most pronounced in the houses. This picture anticipates the Cubism of Georges Braque (18821963) and Pablo Picasso (18811973), especially Braque's impressions of L'Estaque of about 1908.
In 1890, Cézanne began a series of five pictures of Provençal peasants playing cards. Widely celebrated as among the finest figure compositions completed by the artist, The Card Players (61.101.1) demonstrates his system of color gradations to build form and create a three-dimensional quality in the figures. Continuing on this theme of the rural laborer, Seated Peasant (1997.60.2) celebrates the dignity of working-class citizens of Third Republic France (18701940).
In 1895, the dealer Ambroise Vollard (18671939) held Cézanne's first one-man exhibition at his gallery in Paris. Although the exhibition met with some skepticism, Cézanne's reputation as a great artist grew quickly, and he was discussed and promoted by a small circle of enthusiasts, including the art historian and critic Bernard Berenson (18651959), American painter Mary Cassatt (18441926), and collectors Henry Osborne Havemeyer (18481907) and his wife Louisine Havemeyer (18551929). Posthumous exhibitions at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune and the Salon d'Automne in 1907 in Paris established Cézanne's artistic legacy.
Voorhies, James. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pcez/hd_pcez.htm (October 2004)
Related exhibitions and online features
These related Museum Bulletin or Journal articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.
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Dubai is one of seven emirates of UAE surrounded by the water of southern Gulf and grand desert.
Dubai is very popular place to visit to have a relaxing holiday on the beautiful beach, an adventure trip in the desert or to have great shopping.
Dubai offers white beaches, clear blue sea, luxury hotels and a variety of restaurants and nightclubs. It has everything you need to have a memorable holiday.
Dubai is a modern city with a great number of up-to-day buildings. At that time it preserve old streets, houses and of course -traditions. Dubai is the city that combines old and new.
There are lot of historical places, museums and churches in Dubai that should be seen. It also offers perfect possibilities for sports, shopping, dining and entertainment and is suitable for individual travellers, families or groups. It is also necessary to tell about another important city -Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi is the largest emirate in UAE and also a city of the same name that is the.capital of the country. It is also one of the modern cities in the world and is the cultural and administrative center of the country. Visit Dubai and Abu Dhabi for new emotions and new experience.
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Question 30: How can you get organized?
Sometimes I look in my backpack or closet and think: Will I ever get organized? That's what GrammarGeek is wondering about:
How do I keep myself more organized? I am always falling behind with my homework, and it's really troublesome. I hate using an agenda and I never use it...
I say GrammarGeek is on her way to being better organized. Why? Because she realizes that it's a problem and she's looking for ways to improve. Here's the best advice I've seen on the subject.
Take the quiz to see how organized - or disorganized - you are!
Organize, Focus, Get It Done
Take the Organization Quiz
OK, Pink Locker Girls, what's your best advice for clearing the clutter and getting organized?
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THS Press Books
Theatre Historical Society of America is one of the nation’s foremost publisher of books related to the field of theatre architecture.
In 2009, we reprinted a deluxe edition of the landmark book American Theatres of Today, by R.W. Sexton and B.F. Betts, originally published as two separate volumes in 1927 and 1930. It is one of the very few books on theatres produced during the era when movie palaces were being built all across the country, and contains essays on many design and operational aspects of theatres of the period, illustrated with hundreds of beautiful photographs, drawings and plans. There is also an introduction by famed showman Samuel L. “Roxy” Rothafel.
We are currently planning several new books to be published very soon. Check back for more updates on these exciting projects!
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U.N. Fellows ProgramSection Menu
There’s a lot of responsibility that comes with being one of the few colleges in the world to be granted Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status at the United Nations. There’s also a lot of pride that comes with it. NGOs work with the U.N. to establish dialogue and policy essential to various issues of global importance. From human rights to health, from economic development to education, the work we do with the U.N embodies our tireless dedication to service and compassion in the Franciscan spirit.
This distinguishing status with the U.N. gives Felician students a unique opportunity to participate in our U.N. Fellowship Program, gaining unprecedented access to attend U.N. conferences and meet politicians, diplomats and ambassadors from around the world. The students who have participated in the U.N. fellowship program are as varied and diverse as the U.N. itself, with past participants representing seven different nations from around the globe, including Poland, Russia, Denmark, Korea, Bosnia, Japan and the United States.
No matter the major or background, Felician students are continually strengthened through our commitment to the U.N and our common goal of making the world a better place.
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ABBEVILLE, S.C. -- Local churches will hold a reconciliation service next week to apologize for not trying to stop racial strife decades ago, including the 1916 lynching of a wealthy black farmer.
During Tuesday's service, white church leaders will confess the sins of their ancestors and apologize to the black community for events such as the death of Anthony Crawford. His great-great-granddaughter praised the ministers' plan.
Ministers representing the black community will accept the apology and extend forgiveness in return, said the Rev. Wendell Rhodes, the pastor of Friendship Worship Center in Abbeville and organizer of the event.
The idea for the service came when Crawford's lynching was prominently mentioned during the US Senate's formal apology last month to the descendants of victims of lynchings.
''What was taking place was wrong, and the church and others remained silent. I felt that if we had this kind of service, healing could take place here and we could move on," Rhodes said.
Doria Dee Johnson, a great-great-granddaughter of Crawford, said she has been waiting for something like this for decades.
''All this time, this is what we've really been pushing for," she said. ''What we want is for representatives for the perpetrators and the victims of lynchings and other such crimes to sit down and have honest dialogue."
Johnson traveled from her home in Evanston, Ill., last month to watch the Senate apologize for not outlawing lynching.
She told the story of Crawford, who was jailed after an altercation with a white man.
''They dragged him down the stairs, tied him to the back of a buggy, drug him around the square, stabbed him, beat him, and hung him on a pine tree at the county fairgrounds," Johnson said.
Johnson and other members of a group called Southern Truth and Reconciliation recently held marches in Abbeville on the anniversary of Crawford's lynching, but she said she felt as though the community did not care.
But Tuesday's service makes her feel as though the town is ready to take the first step, she said.
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Dumb it down
Is it true you can shut taxi-drivers up with the push of a button?
A new and unique initiative to shut taxi drivers up is being rolled out in the UK, but what does it entail and will it be coming to Ireland anytime soon?
So what’s all this about shutting taxi-drivers up with the push of a button?
Shutting taxi-drivers up is a unique initiative which is being rolled out by a London cab firm called GreenTomatoCars. Basically, some of their ‘green cabs’ (most likely a fleet of Toyota Prius’) have a special sign fitted in between the driver’s seat and the passenger side seat that tells the driver if their customer is up for a chat (pictured above).
Wait, so they have signs to tell them when to talk? Explain…
Yes, they do. When the customer hops into the cab they can either change the sign to say ‘Talk’ or if they’re not in the humour of chatting to the cabbie they can change the sign to read ‘Don’t Talk’. Simple as.
Okay, but why would you need a ‘Talk/Don’t Talk’ sign in the first place?
Well, mainly because GreenTomatoCars recently commissioned a survey that asked the public about how reserved they are. It’s a common stereotype to call the British over-polite (the Irish suffer from it too, at times) so many people end up talking to the taxi driver for the duration of the trip when all they want is some peace and quiet. However, GreenTomatoCars is talking the embarrassment out and putting a form of politeness into telling the cabbie to “shut the f*ck up” - all thanks to the new signs which are in a few of their cars.
Are they in every car?
Not yet, but they hope to install them into their whole fleet if the initiative is successful. In fairness, we can’t see it being a failure.
Is this a serious thing or are GreenTomatoCars trying to pull a quick one on us?
Well, here’s what the GreenTomatoCars managing director, Johnny Goldstone, had to say: “It’s a bit of fun, but has a serious underside. People are more likely to tell a waiter they don’t like the food or ask for the service charge to be removed than they are to tell a driver that they would prefer to sit in silence. Our customers pay for our service in the same way they pay in a restaurant so we want them to feel equally comfortable.”
Sounds like he’s doing some damage control by saying it’s light-hearted with a serious underside. Still, we can see it becoming a fairly big success.
Will the ‘Talk/Don’t Talk’ signs feature in Irish cabs anytime soon?
Not that we we’re aware of. However, with taxi firms over here doing everything they can to entice customers into their cabs (20 per cent discounts, free apps etc.) we wouldn’t be surprised if they all had a talk/don’t talk function in the not too distant future. At least you wouldn’t have to ask the driver how long he's been working for or what time he finishes up.
We have a feeling the green side may gather some dust
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Charisse in 1987, by Allan Warren
|Born||Tula Ellice Finklea
March 8, 1922
|Died||June 17, 2008
Los Angeles, California
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(m.1948-2008; her death)
Cyd Charisse (March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American actress and dancer.
After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually focused on her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut.
In her later years, she discussed the history of the Hollywood musical in documentaries, and participated in That's Entertainment! III in 1994. She was awarded the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities in 2006.
Charisse was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela (née Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweler. Her nickname "Sid" was taken from a sibling trying to say "Sis". (It was later spelled "Cyd" at MGM to give her an air of mystery.) She was a sickly girl who started dancing lessons at six to build up her strength after a bout with polio. At 12, she studied ballet in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska, and at 14, she auditioned for and subsequently danced in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as "Felia Siderova" and, later, "Maria Istomina".
During a European tour, she met up again with Nico Charisse, a handsome young dancer she had studied with for a time in Los Angeles. They married in Paris in 1939. They had a son, Nicky, born in 1942.
The outbreak of World War II led to the break-up of the company, and when Charisse returned to Los Angeles, David Lichine offered her a dancing role in Gregory Ratoff's Something to Shout About. This brought her to the attention of choreographer Robert Alton – who had also discovered Gene Kelly – and soon she joined the Freed Unit at MGM, where she became the resident MGM ballet dancer. In an early role, she had her first speaking part supporting Judy Garland in the 1946 film The Harvey Girls.
Charisse was principally celebrated for her on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She first appeared with Astaire in a brief routine in Ziegfeld Follies (produced in 1944 and released in 1946). Her next appearance with him was as lead female role in The Band Wagon (1953), where she danced with Astaire in the acclaimed "Dancing in the Dark" and "Girl Hunt Ballet" routines.
As Debbie Reynolds was not a trained dancer, Gene Kelly chose Charisse to partner him in the celebrated "Broadway Melody" ballet finale from Singin' in the Rain (1952), and she co-starred with Kelly in 1954's Scottish-themed musical film Brigadoon. She again took the lead female role alongside Kelly in his penultimate MGM musical It's Always Fair Weather (1956).
In 1957, she rejoined Astaire in the film version of Silk Stockings, a musical remake of 1939's Ninotchka, with Charisse taking over Greta Garbo's role. In his autobiography, Astaire paid tribute to Charisse, calling her "beautiful dynamite" and writing: "That Cyd! When you've danced with her you stay danced with."
She had a slightly unusual serious acting role in Party Girl (1958), where she played a showgirl who became involved with gangsters and a crooked lawyer, although it did include two dance routines.
In her autobiography, Charisse reflected on her experience with Astaire and Kelly: "As one of the handful of girls who worked with both of those dance geniuses, I think I can give an honest comparison. In my opinion, Kelly is the more inventive choreographer of the two. Astaire, with Hermes Pan's help, creates fabulous numbers – for himself and his partner. But Kelly can create an entire number for somebody else ... I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's ... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you! ... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious."
After the decline of the Hollywood musical in the late 1950s, Charisse retired from dancing but continued to appear in film and TV productions from the 1960s through the 1990s. She had a supporting role in Something's Got to Give (1962), the last, unfinished film of Marilyn Monroe. She made cameo appearances in Blue Mercedes's "I Want to Be Your Property" (1987) and Janet Jackson's "Alright" (1990) music videos.
Her last film appearance was in 1994 in That's Entertainment! III as one of the onscreen narrators of a tribute to the great MGM musical films.
Charisse was married to singer Tony Martin from 1948 until her death. The marriage lasted 60 years. Cyd's first husband, whose surname she kept, was Nico Charisse (March 1906 – April 1970); they were married from 1939 to 1947.
She had two sons, Nico "Nicky" Charisse from her first marriage, and Tony Martin, Jr. (1950-2011), from her second. One of her daughters-in-law is Liv Lindeland, who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year for 1972. A niece of hers by marriage is actress Nana Visitor.
Charisse wrote a joint biography with Martin (and Dick Kleiner) entitled The Two of Us (1976). She was featured in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records under "Most Valuable Legs", since a $5 million insurance policy was reportedly accepted on her legs in 1952. MGM was reputed to have insured her legs for a million dollars each, but Charisse later revealed that that had been an invention of the MGM publicity machine.
In her eighties, Charisse made occasional public appearances and appeared frequently in documentaries spotlighting the golden age of Hollywood. She made her Broadway debut in 1992 in the musical version of Grand Hotel as the aging ballerina, Elizaveta Grushinskaya.
Charisse was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on June 16, 2008 after suffering an apparent heart attack. She died the following day at age 86. After her death, she was buried on June 22, 2008 at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California, following a Christian ceremony presided over by Dr. Gary Allan Dickey, Senior Pastor of The United Methodist Church in Westlake Village.
On November 9, 2006, in a private White House ceremony, President George W. Bush presented Cyd Charisse with the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities, the highest official U.S. honor available in the arts.
In her collection "Tauzia 1945" fashion designer Marcela Calvet pays tribute to her by naming an exotic handbag after Cyd Charisse.
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Tue May 12, 2009
Michigan gets Cs and Ds for protecting infrastructure
By Rick Pluta, Michigan Public Radio Network
East Lansing, MI – East Lansing, MI (MPRN) - A report by a group of civil engineers says Michigan needs to spend more to fix and upgrade its roads, bridges, waterworks, and electric grid.
Transportation and water systems got particularly low marks from the Michigan chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Kirk Steidle, director of the Michigan Department of Transportation, agrees with the findings.
"What I find most troubling about this, and this is not the first year the scores have come out this low," he says. "The national reports have been coming out for years and the grades continue to get lower and lower and lower. And we've had little action to solve the problem and if we don't solve the problem we are only hurting ourselves in the long run."
Steidle says other states are also struggling to maintain and improve their infrastructure.
But he says Michigan is running a little behind the national average.
The report also says Michigan is in trouble because it does not have light rail systems serving population centers in southeast and western Michigan.
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This post is for Gail's Wildflower Wednesday, and as I frequently do, I'm putting my own spin on it, including some native foliage, and not just posting wildflowers. I'm also posting a little early because I hope to visit some blogs this evening, and if they visit me back, I want a more current post.
I will start with the current star of the yard. I am pleased that the New England asters, or "former asters", as Gail points out, have seeded themselves around a bit. The ones by the sidewalk usually have problems with brown lower stems, but I cut them back in the spring, and that seems to help prevent or delay it. When the sun is out, these plants are loaded with different kinds of bees and painted lady butterflies. Can you see the honeybee on the right? The bigger dried leaves are common milkweed.
The Mexican hats are still blooming. I hope some come up from seed next year.
The asters on the right are not native ones. I recently figured out what kind they are, but am not remembering right now. I put this photo in to show the native switchgrass that I want to take some divisions of to other spots in the spring. It is being crowded right now.
I am enjoying the little bluestem grasses that are in several spots. They have gotten to be a nice size, and I love the fall color change. The next photo will show a closer shot of the Riddell's Goldenrod, which was the last to bloom.
I'm thinking the bloom time was shorter than the other goldenrods. I'm kind of liking all the puffiness.
There are several plants, including this liatris that have put a few new blooms out, even though the rest of the flowers have gone to seed.
I usually show the amsonia hubrichtii on the east side of the house, which is quite spectacular now, but I'm putting this one in to show the Indian Grass on the right of it. There is also one on the other side of the bicycle, to the left of where the photo ends. I just planted them a couple weeks ago, and am concerned about them, because I only remembered to water them for a few days. We have had a couple rain showers, and I am now watering them, but they are pretty brown. I hope they are still alive.
I frequently show the mountain mints. I'm not sure what kind this one is, because I don't remember whether I planted it, or if it planted itself.
I mentioned in my last WW post that the short toothed mountain mint looks good all season. See? I'm glad the baptisia behind it did not get eaten by the caterpillars the one down the way did.
The Joe Pye Weed is almost finished blooming, and I see the foliage has turned a darker color, but it is still quite a large presence in the yard.
I hope you aren't tired of the wild quinine. It's another one with a long season of interest.
The golden alexander foliage is redder than last month. Larry cut off the seeds from the plant that they were on, so I hope the plants come back next year. I have read that they are short lived, but will reseed. Next year, I'll leave more flowers on to go to seed.
The rigid goldenrod has fall colors, and puffy seedheads. I see there is new green growth at the base.
Here's a closer view of the seedheads.
I'm glad I planted gray headed coneflowers before hearing a woman at our local nature center say they shouldn't be planted in small yards. They have had a good, long season, and most are still blooming nicely. Others are finished, but still provide structure for the garden.
I'm pretty sure this is thick spiked blazing star, one of the several kinds of liatris in the yard.
Some birds have been enjoying the beautyberries.
The two wild sennas I planted last year had those pretty clusters of yellow blooms this year, and now have some cool looking seed pods. I will admit that I took some off before they could ripen, hoping for fewer to have to pull out or find homes for next year.
I was pleased to see this painted lady butterfly on one of my clumps of a native plant called pussytoes the other day. It didn't bloom this year. I hope it does next year, but if it doesn't, I still like the foliage.
We are having some mild days to enjoy. I have been watering the most recently planted things with water from the rain barrels, which need to be empty before winter. Larry and I raked some leaves out of the street and a bit from a couple neighbor's yards and put them on the vegetable garden across the street. It was Larry's idea to put them there instead of on a compost pile, like we usually do. I hope they stay put and are easy to incorporate into the soil next spring.
I am excited for spring to get here, to see if the native flower seeds I planted sprout. The penstemon looks like it's coming up already. I hope it is OK. I had read the seeds need the cold winter temps in order to sprout. I am hoping for some new flowers to show for next year's Wildflower Wednesdays.
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Holland Hospital respects patients’ rights under federal and state law to make decisions concerning their health care, including the right to accept or refuse medical or surgical treatment. Patients have the right and responsibility to make health care choices prior to, and during, the delivery of care, and to make their wishes known to their care providers.
The law requires hospitals to ask each inpatient and home care patient, upon admission, whether or not they have a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. In this advance directive document, an individual—or "patient"—names a trusted "advocate" to make health care decisions for him or her in the event that the patient becomes unable to make decisions for him-or-herself. The patient is also encouraged to include instructions about his or her specific values and choices regarding life-prolonging medical care. By signing (several signatures, including witnesses, are required); the advocate agrees to honor the patient's wishes.
Advance directives are entirely voluntary, but are highly recommended for adults of all ages. Patients who already have a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care are invited to supply a copy for their hospital medical record. For those interested in creating one, hospital personnel are available to help. For more information, call the hospital's Spiritual Care Services at (616) 394-3362. Regardless of whether or not a patient has an advance directive, patients and families may discuss with the attending physician their wishes regarding providing, withholding, or withdrawing care or medical treatment.
Help with Difficult Decisions
Regardless of whether or not a patient has an advance directive, patients and families may discuss with the attending physician their wishes regarding providing, withholding, or withdrawing care or medical treatment.
Sometimes decisions about a patient's treatment or next step become difficult or ethically complex, particularly when considering life-sustaining treatment or interpreting a patient's advance directive. In such cases, representatives from the hospital's Health Care Ethics Committee are available to consult with patients, their families or their doctors. The Ethics Committee is made up of physicians, nurses, ethicists, pastoral care staff, social workers, legal representatives and other support staff who have been specially trained to assist families in talking through and sorting out difficult treatment decisions. Patients or family members may arrange a meeting through their nurse or physician, or by calling (616) 394-3362.
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KUSA - In the city of Montrose, the fate of a large dog who bit a woman several times during an attack has become a hotly contested issue.
'Dutch' is an American Allaunt, a large breed of dog typically bred for guarding or hunting.
In November of 2012, Montrose Animal Control officers began investigating a woman who had been attacked by the dog, sustaining deep bite wounds to her buttock, thigh and hand.
As a result of the attack, Dutch and his owner, Jeremiah Aguilar, were found guilty of violating the city's vicious animal ordinance. Dutch will be sentenced on Feb. 14, and could face euthanasia.
Aguilar says he's had Dutch for four years and the dog has never shown any signs of aggression.
Aguilar is an Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran and has PTSD. Dutch is now registered as a service dog to help with Aguilar's PTSD, but the dog is still going through training and is not certified.
Dutch had begun training to be a service dog in Oklahoma before the attack. Those trainings stopped when Aguilar moved to Colorado. They began again after the attack.
Aguilar says following the attack Dutch passed his Canine Good Citizen test administered through the American Kennel Club.
"If I thought he was vicious for one second, it would already be done," Aguilar said. "I would have taken what punishment I was to get. But it's just wrong because he's not vicious. He's a family dog. He loves everybody. He's friendly, he's kind and he doesn't have a vicious bone in him."
The city released an account of the dog attack on their website Friday, citing court documents and physical evidence.
"I have been in this job for 15 years because I love to care for animals and protect them," Animal Services Supervisor Mike Duncan said. "But my job also includes protecting the public, and I also take that part of my job very seriously."
The following information comes from the city's account of the attack.
Aguilar had left Dutch at the victim's home while he was out of town. The victim was also Dutch's previous owner.
On Nov. 14, the victim heard a commotion in her back yard and discovered that Dutch was fighting with a Pit Bull. The victim struck Dutch with her hands to try and free the Pit Bull. She then hit the dog once with a "light-weight tiki torch pole, which immediately bent and was discarded."
She was eventually able to pull Dutch away from the other dog and brought him inside.
That's when Animal Control says Dutch bit the victim's thigh, puncturing it to the bone. She tried to run to her bedroom, but tripped and fell. Dutch jumped on top of her, biting her again in the thigh, hand, and finger.
The victim was able to make it to the bedroom and called her fiancé to come to her aid. In the meantime, the dog continued to try and enter the room, damaging several pieces of furniture in the home.
The victim did not call the police or ambulance out of fear that the emergency responders would be attacked.
When her fiancé and another man arrived to help her, they found Dutch sitting on the floor. When the same Pit Bull re-entered the home, Dutch began attacking the dog again. At that point, the second man hit Dutch repeatedly with a board from a broken picture frame to free the Pit Bull.
The city attorney's office reviewed the case and determined they had enough evidence to proceed with prosecution, based on the owner's violation of the city's vicious animal ordinance.
"In any vicious animal case, our primary concern is for the safety of anyone who may come in contact with the animal in the future. This is the worst incident of an animal attack that I have seen. In the dozens of vicious animal cases I've investigated, I have never seen a case where the animal was as aggressive in pursuing the victim multiple times," Duncan said.
You can read the entire release from the city here.
9NEWS began looking into Dutch's case after receiving several news tips which indicated the dog was a service dog that had been punched, kicked, and hit with a metal pole for several minutes before then biting the victim. Those tips did not indicate there was a fight between two dogs leading up to the attack.
You can read that account here.
The city of Montrose says the Americans with Disabilities Act offers more protection from euthanasia for dogs that are service dogs.
Dutch was only registered as a service dog following the attack.
(KUSA-TV © 2013 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)
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The authors explore options for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) governments to make competition law enforcement more sensitive to trade and investment policy, thereby supporting liberal trade policy. The competition laws of these countries tend to resemble European Union (EU) competition disciplines (Article 85 - 86 of the Treaty of Rome), but give competition authorities great scope for discretion in interpreting the relevant statutes. Much can be done through appropriate wording of criteria and implementation guidelines within the framework of existing legislation to subject trade policy to competition policy scrutiny. A liberal trade policy and active enforcement of competition laws will be crucialnot only for national welfare, but also for eliminating the threat of contingent protection by EU firms. When CEE countries face antidumping threats or action from EU countries, the authors suggest that they seek a link between competition law enforcement and antidumping investigation in the context of the association agreements with the European Union. That is, the European Commission could be asked to apply competition policy criteria in antidumping investigations against products originating in CEE countries, ensuring that there is a threat to competition, not just a threat to a European Union competitor. This treatment could be sought informally during the transitional period. Generally, since the CEE countries have adopted competition legislation comparable to that of the European Union, it seems safe to assume that if they enforce their competition laws vigorously, EU consistent minimum standards will be respected. Until the association agreements are fully implemented, it is important to reduce to a minimum the risk of being treated as an"unfair trader."Safeguard actions will remain possible until EU membership has been attained. But safeguard protection is more difficult to seek and obtain if there is only a weak case for arguing that Central and Easter European firms are benefiting from trade barriers, state aids, or various government maintained entry barriers.
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Posts Tagged ‘federal taxes’
Critics have urged Romney to release more than just the two years of returns and follow his father’s model. When George Romney ran for president, he released 12 years of tax returns.
by Bernadette Starzee Published: August 29, 2012
Tags: accounting, accounting firms, bisexual, federal taxes, Finance, gay, legislation, lesbian, LGBT services, Marcum, marital deduction, MayerMeinberg, non-traditional family, Same-sex marriage, tax issues, taxes, transgender, Vishnick McGovern Milizio
Many cheered last year’s legalization of same-sex marriage in New York. Among those showering rice along with best wishes were perceptive accounting firms.
Thousands of Medicaid health care service providers still got paid by the government even though they owed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal taxes, congressional investigators say. A legal technicality is making it harder for the IRS to collect In a report being released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office says Medicaid payments to doctors, [...]
Contrary to public opinion and what the Occupy Wall Street protesters would lead you to believe, the top 1 percent pay a huge chunk of the nation’s taxes. Of the $865.9 billion in federal taxes paid in 2009, the top 1 percent (about 1.3 million people earning at least $344,000) paid $318 billion, or 36.7 [...]
Some airline customers won’t see savings this weekend even though several federal taxes on tickets have expired. US Airways and American Airlines say they’ve raised fares to offset any tax savings. That means instead of passing along the savings from expired taxes, the airlines are pocketing the money while customers pay the same amount as [...]
WASHINGTON – Taxes too high? Actually, as a share of the nation’s economy, Uncle Sam’s take this year will be the lowest since 1950, when the Korean War was just getting under way. And for the third straight year, American families and businesses will pay less in federal taxes than they did under former President [...]
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Access to health IT key to successful EHR adoption, ROI
The cost of EHR adoption depends on whether a hospital has access to technical skills in its local labor market and internally, according to a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The authors, including researchers from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, hypothesize that the impact of a new electronic health records system depends on whether the hospital has complementary assets that reduce the costs of adopting to the change and turning it into a net benefit.
The study of thousands of hospitals from 1996-2006 revealed that EHR adoption is initially associated with a rise in costs, but adoption in "favorable" conditions, such as an urban location with access to health IT, lowers costs. In areas with strong IT resources, costs can fall sharply after the first year of adoption to pre-adoption levels, according to the report.
"Overall, hospitals in IT-intensive markets enjoyed a statistically significant 3.4 percent decrease in costs from three years after adoption of basic EMR and a marginally significant 2.2 percent decrease in costs from three years after adoption of advanced EMR. These are significantly better than the up to 4 percent increase in costs after adoption by hospitals in other markets," the researchers noted.
They warn that if complementary assets are not available to the adopting hospital, that the results of EHR adoption will be "mixed."
These results dovetail with those in the recent report from the Government Accountability Office, which found that two-thirds of hospitals that have successfully attested to Meaningful Use were in urban areas.
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After 14 years as a homemaker, Catherine Clarke left her husband because of domestic violence. With four children to support, she enrolled at Harper College in Illinois, taking advantage of help for single parents and displaced homemakers, reports Community College Times. The college’s Rita and John Canning Women’s Program teaches test-taking and study skills, provides career counseling and helps women build their self-esteem and networks.
With the help of scholarships and grants, Clarke graduated from Harper with a 4.0 grade-point average and went on to Elmhurst College. She hope to work as a counselor.
“When you look at the risk factors for people not being able to graduate college, low-income single moms have just about all of them,” said Meegan Bassett, senior policy associate for Women Employed. However, single mothers also are highly motivated, she said.
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While the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Sinn Fein back the deal, minority Unionist parties and a splinter group of IRA gunmen have come out strongly against it. “What we will not do... is engage in a process that ignores Britain’s centuries-old subjugation of the Irish nation,” read a statement from the Irish National Liberation Army. Which shows how difficult it will be to achieve the next goal on the road to peace -- the decommissioning of weapons.
As if that didn’t give party leaders enough to argue about, a hot little debate has broken out over whether a visit by President Clinton in mid-May would help or hinder the referendum. Nationalists say it would help; Unionists say it would hinder. “If they think I should go -- and they’ve got the biggest stake and the closest sense of the public -- I would be happy to do it,” Clinton said Monday. If all goes well, he’ll be dispensing up to $100 billion in investment goodies. No doubt Ulster will say yes to that.
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Books of the Times
Published: November 12, 1981
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt THE BREAKS OF THE GAME. By David Halberstam. 362 pages. Knopf. $15.
WHY did David Halberstam (''The Best and the Brightest,'' ''The Powers That Be'') pick the Portland Trailblazers as the team he would live and travel with during the 1979-80 season for his book on professional basketball? He never spells out a specific reason, though one suspects it was largely because of Portland's willingness to be accessible. Despite their dependence on the news media, professional sports teams are not always generous about letting reporters go behind the scenes.
But whether the choice of Portland was serendipitous or by design, it turns out to have been a very good one. The Trailblazers, an extraordinary championship team three seasons earlier, were still suffering in the fall of 1979 from the symptomatic inability of contemporary National Basketball Association teams to repeat as champions. What Portland's decline reflected was as usual not only the extraordinarily delicate chemistry of winning teams in a game where talent was so equally (some would add thinly) divided, but also many of the deeper problems that were overtaking big-league basketball - among them, its change from a professional sport to a branch of the entertainment industry, the persisting narrowness of its appeal compared with baseball and football, the precipitate leap in power and affluence of even its average players, and its perhaps too-rapid growth and possible overexpansion. Unusual Players
So by following the night-to-night fortunes of the Trailblazers and using each break of the game as an occasion to reflect on its background, Mr. Halberstam gives us intimate profiles of an unusual collection of players -among many others, Bill Walton, the giant Californian whose career was being threatened by his vulnerable feet; Maurice Lucas, the streetwise power forward who was allowing his game to be eroded by his disaffection over his contract; Kermit Washington, a sensitive man still trying to live down a devastating punch he had thrown in the heat of battle, and Jack Ramsay, the peerless coach who was trying to blend his systematic approach to the game with the freelance style of the black athletes who were coming to dominate the N.B.A.
At the same time, by responding to the pertinent cues, Mr. Halberstam is able to explore everything from CBS-TV's troubles with its ratings and its advertisers, to the reaction of a Mississippi farmer at seeing the child of one of his sharecroppers star in a playoff game on national television: ''That boy could sure jump. They could all jump, he thought, but Billy could jump a little better than the others. He felt a certain stirring of pride watching him, a boy off his own place. It certainly was different these days, he thought.''
Not that other teams besides Portland wouldn't have provided the cues that Mr. Halberstam needed for at least a third of his material. All N.B.A. teams have to play in Boston, so following any of them would have given him a chance to discuss the Celtics tradition and how it was maintained at minimal pay scales, or the advantages of the rattiness of the Boston Garden, or Red Auerbach's belated but successful adaptation to the epoch of the players' union and the highsix-figure salary, or Larry Bird and the tradition of Indiana basketball in which he grew.
Following any team would have provided an occasion to reminisce about the great New York Knick teams of the early 1970's or to wonder at the play of the Doctor, Julius Erving. And to judge from the flimsiness of some of his transitions, if the cues hadn't come up, Mr. Halberstam would have taken them anyway. Trivial Questions
Still, the Portland team seems to have packed an unusual amount of significant experience into its brief history as a 1970 expansion team. So for the basketball fan, reading ''The Breaks of the Game'' is like sitting up in an all-night bull session with someone who has been there and can answer all our most trivial questions. What is Kareem Abdul Jabbar really like? And Larry Bird? And Magic Johnson? What's the real story behind why Bill Walton got so mad at the Trailblazers about his medical treatment? Why didn't the New York Knicks get Moses Malone when they had a chance to?
And for slightly more serious readers, ''The Breaks of the Game'' is a window looking out onto recent American social history. Is the transparency of that window enough to attract readers who haven't the slightest interest in professional basketball? That's difficult for a fan such as I am to guarantee. I can only say that few subjects come to mind that can provide a better overall view of America in the 1960's and 1970's than pro basketball does. That's why it has attracted as restless an intelligence as David Halberstam's. And that's why ''The Breaks of the Game'' is at the very least one of the best books I've ever read about American sports.
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The weather is certainly warming up and it looks like the forecast is for more of the same. Things are getting busy and I’ve got a few things to talk about this week. The first is the start of the Western Bean Cutworm Trapping network. Traps should be set up this week and the data should... Continue reading
It was a busy weekend for pest activity.
Flea beetles in canola continue to be a problem in some areas of the province, particularly Owen Sound, New Liskeard and Meaford. This hot weather is ideal for them to get ahead of the crop. Scout frequently to determine if thresholds have been reached.... Continue reading
Leanne Freitag (of Cargill) informed me this afternoon of some cereal leaf beetle activity in the Clinton area. Adults and eggs were easily found recently and larvae are expected to be feeding soon. Given that the wheat is already near or in the boot stage, it is very important to protect the fl... Continue reading
Ohio colleagues report finding cereal leaf beetle adults and eggs in wheat at various locations there. Ontario usually sees a few hot spots with CLB infestations around the same time that Ohio does so be on the look out.
Best way or worst way to scout, depending on who does your laundry at home,... Continue reading
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Op-ed: Why Alabama Needs to Update Its Sex Education
BY Patricia Todd
January 31 2013 1:21 PM ET
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four little girls and awakened a nation. Unfortunately, in so many ways, Alabama remains stuck in the 196's with its unspoken segregation, whispered disparagement of those in poverty, and a ferocious societal adherence to a literalist, unforgiving Bible.
My state has the longest constitution in the country, with over 800 amendments that include requiring a horse in Macon County to wear a diaper in a parade.
No, I am not kidding.
Our poverty rate is one of the highest in the country and we spend less money on public education than the majority of states, and it shows. The evidence is, in part, our nearly 60% dropout rate. White flight and "brain drain" from Birmingham, Alabama's largest city, has left in its wake a segregated school system recently taken over by the state Board of Education because of mismanagement. In Alabama the entire tax base rests on a high sales tax, the most regressive form of taxation.
Alabama is the buckle of the Bible Belt, where public policy is based on religious beliefs instead of the U.S. Constitution. It is not easy to come out in Alabama or serve as its only openly gay elected official. As a legislator I am constantly bombared with "Bible babble" that seeks to defend discrimination and hatred toward our LGBT brothers and sisters.
I have spent most of my six years in the legislature working on bills to reduce poverty and increase transparency in our state; in so doing I have passed legislation creating the first Alabama Housing Trust Fund and establishing the first state-funded commission to reduce poverty. I am proud to be seen as the advocate for the disenfranchised and have worked tirelessly on legislation to assure accountablity in state government and transparency in our financial transactions.
I knew when I was elected in 2006 that all eyes would be watching me and I carried the hopes and dreams of the LGBT community on my shoulders. I also knew that I needed time to develop relationships with fellow legislators to gain their trust. In 2010, when the Republicans took control, I realized that my goal to obtain equality for all had just become even more difficult. But sometimes when barriers seem most impossible to overcome, we me must not retreat but instead seize the moment as an opportunity to challenge the status quo.
And so that moment has come.
In the upcoming legislative session I will introduce a bill to strike the homophobic language from our state-mandated health education curriculum. In the early 1990s the Alabama legislature passed a law mandating that when HIV education is taught in the public schools, teachers are required to teach "an emphasis, in a factual manner and from a public health perspective, that homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual conduct is a criminal offense under the laws of the state."
No, I am not kidding.
It would seem to be a simple fix for those outside the South: First, there is no scientific evidence that this statement is true, and second, the U.S. Supreme Court stuck down sodomy laws in 2003. Understandable, so strike the language!
But, as we know, Alabama does not always follow the federal laws — and we are best known for refusing to follow the law. Remember Gov. George Wallace refusing to allow two black students to attend the University of Alabama? Or maybe you remember when, more recently, our Supreme Court justice Roy Moore refused to remove a stone plaque of the 10 Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building? That is Alabama. Interestingly, Moore was just reelected to the Alabama Supreme Court as chief justice, no less, and has spent most of his public appearances spewing hate and preaching that same-sex marriage will destroy our country.
This is what I face as a lawmaker in this state, but I keep reminding myself that my work is much like a missionary's — you go where to work needs to be done.
The legislation I am proposing in the coming session would strike that language from the public school curriculum and would actually take curriculum development out of the hands of the Alabama legislature, where it currently rests, and place it in the hands of the state Board of Education. In fact, my bill's first hurdle will come when I ask for it to be placed on the agenda of the Education Policy Committee, chaired by the most conservative woman in the Alabama House. In fact, she informed me that she doesn't believe sex education should be taught in the schools at all. Ignorance is bliss.
I remain convinced that this bill is a step toward good public policy in Alabama. It may not pass, but what it will do is challenge the Alabama legislature to begin the conversation around these once-taboo issues while providing an appropriate public forum where meaningful debate around the harmfulness and factual inaccuracy of such existing law can take place. Now is the time in Alabama, and now is the opportunity to shift from a course of inequality to full equality.
As you read this and shake your head in disbelief, take a minute to help me and other LGBT Alabamians move our state out of the 1960s. You can help. Equality Alabama will be leading the educational efforts, and it will take money to organize and educate the legislators to do the right thing. You can make a donation to Equality Alabama by going to EqualityAlabama.org
While today many states are fighting for marriage equality, Alabama once again finds itself far behind the curve, living in another time. But while the issue here may not marriage equality, for every LGBT Alabamian, this is our line in the sand.
PATRICIA TODD is an Alabama state representative.
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The death certificate for Andy Griffith says the actor's death …
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Close your eyes and picture it: small-town America. It has a …
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Some of the highlights of Andy Griffith's career.
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Updated: Wednesday, 04 Jul 2012, 6:54 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 04 Jul 2012, 6:54 AM EDT
(AP) - Close your eyes and picture it: small-town America.
It has a little post office, of course. A general store, too, and a fishing hole. There's a barber who knows everyone — and knows about everyone. There's a friendly auto mechanic. The picture wouldn't be complete without several women who could be anyone's favorite older sister or aunt.
Kids scurry around at reasonable paces, making low-grade mischief while dirtying their short-sleeve plaid shirts or striped T-shirts. Quirky characters wander about in a landscape of picket fences and healthy storefronts. And the police officer in charge? He's tough but fair, community minded, the Solomon of his entire, geographically limited jurisdiction. He's Atticus Finch without any of the racial tension.
This is, today, the comforting script America often reaches for when it summons the vanished rural nation that so many say they long for. Not coincidentally, it is also the state of mind given to us by Andy Griffith and his long-running TV show.
More than anyone except perhaps Walt Disney, Griffith was the entertainment-world emblem of the 20th-century values Americans often like to say they prize most. He spread the notion, begun by no less a figure than Thomas Jefferson, that somehow the very best of us was contained in the rural life — in this case, the fictional tales of Mayberry that "The Andy Griffith Show" delivered for almost a decade.
"The show is kind of like a step back in time, especially for my generation," Molly Jones 24, of Raleigh, N.C., said after learning of Griffith's death Tuesday. "It's kind of like, 'Oh, this is how it used to be,' and 'Why isn't it this way still?' Things were so much simpler back then."
They certainly were in Mayberry, N.C. When Deputy Barney Fife wasn't arresting someone for jaywalking, little Opie was accidentally killing a bird with his slingshot and earnestly dealing with the moral fallout. Aunt Bee was usually either offering affection, feeling underappreciated or cooking ham. Goober and Gomer were causing disarray, and Floyd Lawson or Howard Sprague was dispensing quirky wisdom. (Come to think of it, that was true of everyone on the program.)
The reality of the age was somewhat different. Griffith's show, in a way, defied its times rather than captured them.
Though it felt like the 1950s in many ways, it was actually a product of the roller-coaster decade that followed. It debuted in 1960, four weeks before John F. Kennedy was elected, and ended its run on a spring evening in 1968 three nights before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis. While the country was tearing itself apart, Mayberry quietly endured, a Dick-and-Jane primer for an America yanked in every direction — a vision, during the Cold War, of friendly, unintruded-upon isolationism.
At the center of it all was Griffith himself, a product of Mount Airy, N.C., who began his career doing comedic interpretations of yokels years before he honed his persona into the Sheriff Andy Taylor combination of avuncular community figure, doting father and common-sense Southerner. Though Griffith would later say the sheriff was the better angel of his nature, the perception was otherwise. "Andy was Mayberry, and Mayberry was Andy," Don Knotts, who played Barney Fife, said in 1999.
Griffith was a far more complicated figure than he appeared. As Sheriff Taylor, he effectively acted as a cultural interpreter for a fast-urbanizing nation reared on, and comforted by, Norman Rockwell imagery. Griffith's take on a post-Eisenhower "Our Town" made him, to television, what Woody Guthrie had been to music two decades earlier — a popularizer who came from authentic country roots, polished it all up, then fed Americans back a more digestible version of rural culture. It was an approach that coincided with a musical folk revival in which rural songs were being popularized by mainstream musicians like never before.
During the run of "The Andy Griffith Show," more rural and rural-urban sitcoms had emerged — broader, city-mouse-country-mouse affairs such as "The Beverly Hillbillies," ''Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres." The market for rural-themed comedy in America had grown so glutted by the dawn of the 1970s that there was actually a "rural purge" in which the networks scrapped most of their country comedies as irrelevant and out of sync with the more urgent times. The Griffith show's sequel, "Mayberry R.F.D.," was one victim, cancelled after three years.
Four decades later, the spirit of Mayberry lives on in the town that claims to be its muse. While it's widely believed that Griffith's childhood in Mount Airy inspired Mayberry, it's absolutely certain that Mayberry has inspired Mount Airy. Tourism has made the marketing of small-town flavor good business, and Griffith's hometown has taken the ball and run with it.
Everywhere you turn in the community, there is a Mayberry reference, explicit or otherwise. The names of businesses downtown — Mayberry Trading Post. Mayberry's
Music Center. Mayberry Memories, Barney's Cafe — are testament to the exuberant opportunism Griffith made possible. An annual fall festival, Mayberry Days, draws tens of thousands of people to Mount Airy.
And at 129 North Main St., the owner of the six-decade-old City Barber Shop even added the word "Floyd's" at the front of its name two decades ago to evoke the TV show's Calvin Coolidge-loving tonsorial expert.
Melvin Miles, 69, of Mount Airy, has an idea why people are so attracted to this stuff. Miles works for Squad Car Tours, which owns five Ford Galaxys, replicas of the cars used on the show. He remembers a town where people gathered on porches and — lacking Facebook or 300 channels — just visited.
"The people long for the simple way of life," Miles says. "And that does not exist in too many areas anymore."
Mayberry today is shorthand for a shiny America that may or may not have existed at all, yet endures. Just whistle the theme from the show and Griffith's vision is summoned. Listen to politicians talking about traditional values, and Mayberry is there. Eat at a Cracker Barrel restaurant anywhere in the republic and walk through its "general store," replete with striped candy sticks, jars of apple butter and rocking chairs priced to move, and Andy Taylor is lurking. Try and watch the movie "Pleasantville" without thinking of Mayberry.
Like the folks in "Pleasantville," ''The Andy Griffith Show" eventually moved from black and white to color. Its final episode in 1968 begins at Mayberry's bucolic railroad depot. But the arriving train brings a chaotic, voluble Italian family to town — or, if you're looking for symbolism, the larger world arrives. There is no going back.
Americans loved, and still love, the notion of the small town as a manageable, nonthreatening, friendly, finite community — an idea all but upended in the 21st century, where the truly isolated town is, for all practical purposes, no more. The black-and-white world that Andy Griffith shaped so masterfully is there for our perusal from a distance, but it is not coming back — either on television or anywhere else.
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Americans are deeply worried about the economy and their jobs — and about whether their elected representatives in Washington have a real plan for digging out of this mess. They are right to be worried. But this week, at least, voters were given a clear choice about the direction the country can take in November and beyond.
President Obama — who took too long to engage this debate — gave two sensible and, finally, passionate speeches. He said that to create jobs and stabilize the economy, the federal government will have to help businesses invest more, and it will have to spend some more, for a while longer. And he said that the country will never be able to wrestle down the deficit if Congress gives in to Republican demands to extend $700 billion in unjustified and unaffordable tax breaks for the wealthy.
The speeches were a pointed rebuttal to Representative John Boehner, the House Republican leader, who has spearheaded his party’s implacable opposition. In a speech in Ohio last month, billed as the definitive Republican position on the economy, he declared that “the prospect of higher taxes, stricter rules and more regulations” was choking recovery.
The president was exactly right when he said that Mr. Boehner’s proposals were nothing more than a return to the past decade of economic mismanagement; the same policies that helped turn budget surpluses into crippling deficits nearly destroyed the financial system and cast millions of Americans into long-term joblessness.
“Do we return to the same failed policies that ran our economy into the ditch,” he asked on Wednesday.
The immediate battle is over President George W. Bush’s tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of this year. Mr. Obama wants to make the tax cuts permanent for families that make less than $250,000 a year and let the tax cuts expire for those who make more — about 2 percent of taxpayers. Mr. Boehner says he wants to extend all of the tax cuts for two years — although there is little doubt that the goal of Republicans is to extend all of them permanently.
It makes good sense to extend the middle-class tax cuts temporarily because the weak economy needs the boost, but it makes no sense to extend them for the rich. Middle-class Americans spend tax breaks, while wealthy taxpayers generally save them. In the longer term, more revenue will be needed to keep rebuilding the economy and meet health care and other obligations.
We’re not surprised that Mr. Obama avoided that hard truth. But Mr. Boehner and his party’s position is an utter denial of reality. In the real world, it was lower taxes for the rich, lax rules and deregulation that hurt middle-class Americans and dragged the economy to this dangerous pass.
Mr. Boehner’s much professed concern for small businesses is misdirection. The tax cuts that Mr. Obama would let expire would affect very few owners of small businesses — how many do you know who make more than $250,000 a year? — by any common-sense definition of that term.
Mr. Boehner said he was fed up with “Washington politicians talking about wanting to create jobs as a ploy to get themselves re-elected while doing everything possible to prevent jobs from being created.” Amazingly enough, he was not talking to Republicans.
Mr. Obama did more than just rebut Mr. Boehner. He also offered some sound ideas — some that also had Republican support, at least until Mr. Obama raised them. He proposed on Wednesday to allow businesses to write off all the investments they make in 2011, rather than over several years, to close loopholes that reward businesses that send jobs overseas and to permanently extend a research and development tax credit.
Mr. Obama again called on Congress to pass legislation that would make more credit available to small businesses — legislation that Senate Republicans, for all their claims of concern for small businesses, have delayed passing.
If there is any good news from Mr. Boehner and other Republicans it is that they suddenly want to seem eager to shed their reputation as the Party of No. This week, they suggested that they might be open to some of Mr. Obama’s ideas, which include a $50 billion initial investment to create jobs improving roads, rail lines and airports — as long as those projects were not paid for by taxing billionaires, oil companies and other wealthy corporations. That, of course, is just how Mr. Obama intends to pay for them — and just how he should.
Mr. Obama’s speeches were a robust effort by the president to rally Democrats for the election. It has been a long time coming. And we wish that Democratic leaders in Congress could show the same clear thinking and the same willingness to go head to head with the Republicans. Some commentators are likely to say that Mr. Obama should not have given a national stage to Mr. Boehner, a relative unknown despite his immense power in Congress and his ambition to be the next speaker of the House. But that is just what he needed to do.
For far too long, Mr. Boehner and others have been dominating the political debate with insincere sound bites, Jedi mind games and plain bad economics. How can they claim to care about the deficit and insist on more tax cuts?
The answer, unfortunately, is that they can, and they have, because Mr. Obama has sat on the sidelines and most Congressional Democrats have run for the hills. We are glad to see Mr. Obama fully in the fight.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
New York Times: President Obama's recent speeches on the economy
Wise words from today's New York Times editorial pages:
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Teen Sets Self On Fire To Imitate YouTube Clip
Mom Points Finger At Video Web Site
A Deltona teenager was hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering multiple burns while imitating a video posted on YouTube.
Russell Gortzig, 13, said his friend siphoned gasoline from a riding lawnmower and poured it on Gortzig. The teen said he held the lighter away from him, but a combination of the spark and fumes caught his shorts on fire.
"Skin missing all the way down to his ankle on the front and the back," mother Linda McCrea said.
McCrea said the boys were trying to copy a stunt they saw on the video sharing Web site, YouTube, where a man in a banana suit lights himself on fire. She warned other parents to closely monitor the online activities of their children and wants YouTube to tighten its user guidelines. She believes YouTube is partially to blame for her son' pain.
A representative for YouTube said the Web site takes in 20 hours of video every minute and said, while it's impossible to screen postings in advance, users can flag potentially dangerous video.
It is reviewed and age restrictions are often added.
Gortzig is in stable condition at Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital.
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News & Policies >
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 13, 2002
Message to the Senate of the United States
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith, the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism, adopted at the Thirty-Second Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados, on June 3, 2002, and opened for signature on that date. At that time it was signed by 30 of the 33 members attending the meeting, including the United States. It has subsequently been signed by another two member states, leaving only two states that have not yet signed. In addition, I transmit herewith, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Department of State.
The negotiation of the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism (the "Convention") was a direct response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. At that time, the OAS was meeting in Lima, Peru, to adopt a Democratic Charter uniting all 34 democracies in the hemisphere. The OAS member states expressed their strong commitment to assist the United States in preventing such incidents from occurring again anywhere in our hemisphere. Within 10 days, the foreign ministers of the OAS member states, meeting in Washington, D.C., endorsed the idea of drafting a regional convention against terrorism. Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Mexico played particularly important roles in the development and negotiation of the Convention.
The Convention will advance important United States Government interests and enhance hemispheric security by improving regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism. The forms of enhanced cooperation include exchanges of information, exchanges of experience and training, technical cooperation, and mutual legal assistance. The Convention is consistent with, and builds upon, previous counterterrorism instruments and U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373, which mandates certain measures to combat terrorism.
The Convention provides for regional use of a variety of legal tools that have proven effective against terrorism and transnational organized crime in recent years. Since fighting terrorist financing has been identified as an essential part of the fight against terrorism, the Convention addresses crucial financial regulatory, as well as criminal law, aspects. Existing Federal authority is sufficient to discharge the obligations of the United States under this Convention, and therefore no implementing legislation will be required.
In particular, the Convention mandates the establishment of financial intelligence units for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of terrorist financing information and the establishment and enhancement of channels of communication between law enforcement authorities for secure and rapid exchange of information concerning all aspects of terrorist offenses; the exchange of information to improve border and customs control measures to detect and prevent movement of terrorists and terrorist-related materials; and technical cooperation and training programs.
The Convention also provides measures relating to the denial of refugee or asylum status. In addition, the Convention provides that terrorist acts may not be considered "political" offenses for which extradition or mutual legal assistance requests can be denied, and provides for other mechanisms to facilitate mutual legal assistance in criminal matters.
In sum, the Convention is in the interests of the United States and represents an important step in the fight against terrorism. I therefore recommend that the Senate give prompt and favorable consideration to the Convention, subject to the understandings that are described in the accompanying report of the Department of State, and give its advice and consent to ratification.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 12, 2002.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Ted Olson needs to learn that it’s hard to put lipstick on Chevron’s pig in Ecuador.
In yet another setback for Chevron, the U.S. Supreme Court this week declined a petition signed by Olson to restore the unprecedented global “injunction” obtained last year by the company purporting to block enforcement of the $19 billion Ecuador court judgment. That injunction – imposed by controversial federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan – provoked an uproar in the international legal community and was unainmously reversed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chevron General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate then brought in his friend Olson, the former Solicitor General of the United States and the mastermind behind more than 50 Supreme Court arguments (including the winning side in Bush v. Gore). Olson asked the Court to take the radical step of summarily reversing the Second Circuit ruling without argument or briefing.
Instead of acceding to Olson’s unusual request, the Court decided not even to ask for briefs or argument as it would in a typical case. It just flat out rejected the original request, and also rejected Olson’s backup plan to file briefs -- all without as much as a comment.
This is the ultimate rebuke not only to Chevron and Olson, but also to Judge Kaplan. Kaplan's global injunction -- the crown jewel of Chevron's defense to enforcement -- is now officially dead.
One must ask if Olson really understands the extent to which his new client committed human rights violations against indigenous groups on a mass scale in Ecuador's rainforest. To understand the extent of Chevron’s misconduct in Ecuador, see this video, this 60 Minutes segment, and this report from a highly-rated Australian news show.
The disaster in Ecuador was not an accident, like BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Chevron designed its system of oil extraction in Ecuador to pollute, and pollute it did – to the tune of 4 million gallons of toxic waste dumped daily in to Amazon waterways for roughly two decades. (Chevron operated in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992 under the Texaco brand.) Environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy visited the area in the late 1980s and wrote of witnessing an apocalyptic environmental disaster.
In his petition, Olson presented the Justices with Chevron’s "blame the victim" narrative that the indigenous groups and their U.S. counsel somehow defrauded the oil giant by filing the lawsuit. After reading the reply of the Ecuadorians -- where Chevron is hung by evidence from its own corporate files that it committed gross wrongdoing -- the Justices clearly were not moved by Olson's pleading.
By denying Chevron, the Justices now have joined with 18 U.S. federal trial court judges and four federal appeals courts who have rejected Chevron's fraud claims in whole or in part in various litigations over the last two years.
The Supreme Court decision is also the latest blow to Olson’s law firm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Chevron hired the firm in 2009 to “rescue” it from the impending Ecuador liability. Not only did Gibson Dunn lose the largest environmental case ever, it has continued to pile up losses for Chevron in various trial and appellate courts in the U.S. and Ecuador. It's fast approaching Tebow Time for Chevron but there appears to be no Tebow on the roster.
Another big loser with the Supreme Court decision is Gibson Dunn’s self-anointed “mob prosecutor” Randy Mastro, who now has lost every argument he ever made on behalf of Chevron before a U.S. appellate court. Mastro, the leader of the Gibson Dunn rescue mission, had found a willing audience in Judge Kaplan in New York. But Kaplan now lacks any power to block the judgment, thus severing the rescue operation's last lifeline in the U.S.
At this point, Kaplan’s open biases against the Ecuadorians are so well-documented that they could well provoke a backlash against Chevron in foreign courts being asked to enforce the judgment. Judges generally don't like to be told by courts of other countries what they can and cannot do. That's not good for comity, international relations, or the image of the U.S. judiciary as a whole.
Gibson Dunn also has provoked fierce criticism for trying to help Chevron pry into the private emails of the company’s critics; for sending 11 lawyers to court to cover a minor hearing related to the Ecuador judgment; and for being involved in efforts to offer inducements (e.g., bribes) to Ecuador officials to violate their country's Constitution and quash the case. The law firm itself was found by courts to have committed ethical violations on behalf of Chevron.
Much of Chevron's misconduct and fraud in Ecuador is documented in chilling detail in the affidavit of Juan Pablo Saenz and the lawsuit filed against Chevron by the longtime legal counsel for the Ecuadorians, Steven Donziger. These documents provide a taste of how desperate the company has become to avoid being held accountable for the wanton destruction it caused in Ecuador.
Look for Olson and his partners to continue to exploit the billing opportunities provided by their increasingly futile legal odyssey -- one that also has sparked a shareholder rebellion against their ultimate client, Chevron CEO John Watson. Let's not forget as well the calls by shareholders and a U.S. Congresswoman for an SEC investigation to determine if Watson is lying to downplay the Ecuador risk.
Ted Olson is without question a brilliant lawyer. Watson will certainly pay for the next batch of lipstick for Gibson Dunn to try to smear over the lips of the Ecuador judgment. But that pig is not getting prettier.
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Just in time for Earth Day, we took our iPhone 3GS for a little outing out in the sun with the Novothink Surge Solar Charger. This attractive 2.8-ounce case is available in six colors, and covers the back, bottom, and most of the sides of an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. Let's see if it can live up to its claim of giving you 30 minutes of talk time after sitting in the sun for two hours.
The Surge has a 1320 mAh battery inside that's more powerful than our 1200mAh Mophie Juice Pack Air, and the case itself is only slightly thicker. That's not great, because the thinner Mophie already doubles the thickness of the iPhone.
To first test its charging capability without using the solar panel, we plugged the Surge into a USB port, charging it completely over about eight hours. Then it was time to charge the iPhone, and six hours after we inserted our iPhone with a completely depleted battery into the Surge, the most the Surge could recharge the iPhone was to the 75% point. We expected better, since Novothink claims the Surge's battery offers 105% the iPhone's battery capacity.
Next it was time to put it to the solar test. We wanted to simulate a situation where we were on a camping trip and had completely depleted the iPhone's battery as well as that of the Surge. On a bright, sunny day here in the Midwest, we inserted the iPhone into the charger and placed it in bright sunlight in the middle of the day for exactly 2 hours, the amount of time the company says will give you "30 minutes of talk time on a 3G network or 60 minutes of talk time on a 2G network."
At the beginning of our charging session, the iPhone showed less than a 2% charge, and after two hours direct sunlight, it was up to 10%. Would that be enough to give you 30 minutes of talk time? We think that would be a stretch. (UPDATE: Upon further testing, we got just 18:12 of talk time on a 2-hour solar charge. Better than nothing, but far short of the claimed 30 minutes.)
Now, let's think for a minute about how useful a solar cellphone charger could really be in our daily lives. Typically, whenever we're not talking on our cellphones, they sit in our pockets. We wouldn't want to leave our iPhone 3GS (update: or this $80 charger) sitting around out in the sun unattended, and it's a rare day when we spend the whole day outside working or playing, so we realized the usefulness of this solar charger case — even if it worked perfectly — was very limited.
We usually charge the iPhone at night, anyway, and obviously that's when the sun doesn't happen to be shining. And when we confirmed its weak performance in our testing, we're convinced the Novothink Surge solar charger is not worth its steep $80 price.
Unless you're looking for a feel-good product with the novelty and symbolic Earth-friendliness of solar panels on the back, get yourself a thinner Mophie Juice Pack that'll do just about the same thing for $11.50 less.
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How many people watching or listening to the news coverage of the vote by the General Synod of the Church of England (the Church’s governing body) against the appointment of women bishops actually care? Not many I would guess, and then not for long. The Archbishop of Canterbury thinks the Church has ‘a lot of explaining to do’ to the wider community and that it has ‘lost a measure of credibility’ after the decision and the BBC are rightly making it headline news. But I believe the Church had already neglected the wider population of the country and the argument for disestablishment has been growing. Ex-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tweeted that the Church no longer represented the country. How many people thought it did anyway?
But we should care. Not because of reasons of faith – we are a multi-cultural, multi-faith country and we can choose to have any faith or none. But we should care because the Church does still have a huge political influence in this country and across the world, often in countries where women experience far greater inequality than in the UK. This decision signals the long-term and inevitable decline of an established Church which I personally find alienating and dispiriting; but if the vote had gone the other way it might just have become a force for some sort of real change. How can we accept or take seriously the Church’s involvement in discussions at the highest level when it remains exempt from equality legislation? Whilst the House of Lords allows 26 unelected bishops a say in our legislation we have to take this seriously.
I don’t say this as someone with an overwhelming interest in the health of the established church. But I have an interest in politics, in history and in equality and what bothers me most is the hypocrisy of the whole situation.
For goodness sake, the Head of the Church is a woman, and Queen of this country. The current and next Archbishop of Canterbury are deeply upset at the result. The majority of the bishops and clergy are in favour of a change in the legislation which currently prevents women who have chosen a priestly vocation from advancing in a career that was a male preserve almost to the end of the 20th Century.
So who has prevented this desperately needed change? What has stopped those women – many wonderful ministers and committed Christians – from breaking through what one smart person on Twitter called today ‘the stained-glass ceiling’?
It was the laity – those people who represent parishioners around the country. Sufficient of them voted against the proposal to prevent the necessary two-thirds majority being achieved. Apparently it is those the legislation sought to protect who have still voted against it. No wonder women priests felt betrayed – it has taken twenty years of fighting for a satisfactory wording to get legislation this far, those women and men who wanted the change thought they had addressed all their opponents fears, just to find that many still won’t play.
Now I am not a regular church goer. I would, if required to acknowledge allegiance to a formal religious organisation become a Quaker – a tolerant and liberal group of people without all the pomp and schism of the established church. I appreciate that those who have studied the bible in detail will present me with their reasons why those few people who still turn up in our beautiful but inevitably crumbling historical churches on a Sunday morning should be protected from loving and committed female priests. I will always believe they are mistaken.
Are we seriously saying that if the Jesus the Church of England promotes was alive in the 21st century he would treat women so abominably? Would he undermine and devalue their faith and commitment to it? Would he suggest they were not good enough to work to spread His word? Would he believe in inequality, in-fighting and injustice? Doesn’t this highlight a fundamental hypocrisy at the heart of the issue?
Why should we trust the established church when we look at some of the attitudes to same-sex marriage (failing to even accept that such a thing is possible); the lack of tolerance towards gay clergy and the possibility of their living openly with a partner in the vicarage; the long hours ministers are expected to work for low wages in poor quality accommodation with little in the way of long-term provision for a comfortable old age; the role of faith schools.
I see the people heading into the church close to us as the bells ring out every Sunday. I would estimate the average age to be around 70. Does the Church rely on people like me to decide, as I realise I am getting on a bit and need an insurance policy, to start polishing the pews and turning up to sing out of tune for an hour each week? I suggest that those of us in middle-age in 2012 are of a very different view.
Apparently it will at least five years before the legislation gets to the position where another vote on this matter is possible. By then will it be too late to save the established church? In that period what greater power will those with more fundamentalist views from all religions be wielding? The Church of England has always had a reputation for being a cosy, nostalgic and undemanding faith system in this country, a reputation which is pretty harmless until it starts bolstering inequality, intolerance and injustice.
So in my view it does matter, a lot.
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Further Questions and Answers
Updated: Jun 24, 2009
Fundamental questions and answers concerning LDN can be found on the LDN Homepage and on other pages of this website focused on specific diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and MS.
This page contains other questions frequently asked, along with corresponding answers.
- Can LDN be taken during pregnancy? How about while breast feeding?
- Dr. Phil Boyle, a specialist in fertility care in Galway, reports the following:
I am confident that LDN is perfectly safe in pregnancy and in certain cases will actually reduce the risk of miscarriage. Thomas W. Hilgers, M.D, of the US, who developed the fertility treatment I provide, has used high dose naltrexone...up to 100mg throughout pregnancy and during breastfeeding safely without ill effect to mother or baby since 1985. I have been prescribing LDN regularly during pregnancy [for several years] and the results have been excellent. Clinical experience has proven to me that it is safe.
We've had over 50 babies whose moms have been on LDN throughout their pregnancies and those babies, if anything, have been even healthier than those whose moms haven't been on [low dose] naltrexone.
- Can LDN be taken with other medications such as tranquilizers or chemotherapy? How about interactions with alcohol or tobacco?
- LDN can be taken along with any other medication or substance, so long as it is not narcotic-containing. Naltrexone is a pure opioid antagonist and it will block the action of narcotics. Some examples of narcotic-containing drugs are Ultram, morphine, Percocet, Duragesic patch and any codeine-containing medication.
- Can LDN be taken along with any of the standard medications for multiple sclerosis?
- It can, and many people with MS do this. However, all of the standard MS drugs, with the probable exception of Copaxone, are immunosuppressant and thus tend to oppose the beneficial immune system upregulation induced by LDN. Therefore, many people with MS try to wean themselves away from these other medications when they find that they are doing well on LDN.
- What is the best dosage of LDN to begin treatment with?
- For an adult who is not significantly below the normal weight range, the optimal dose of LDN is 4.5mg, taken each night at bedtime; i.e., between 9pm and 3am. One can begin at this dose level. If one were to develop persistent sleep disturbance (i.e., a sleep disturbance lasting longer than 10 to 14 days) after starting LDN, which occurs in less than 2% of users, then the dose may be decreased to 3mg or 2mg.
- People who have multiple sclerosis that has led to muscle spasms are advised to begin treatment with just 3mg daily and to maintain that dosage.
- If I have to work on a night shift, for example from midnight to 8a.m., at what time should I take my LDN?
- Continue to take LDN as recommended above; i.e., between 9pm and 3am. This relates to the fact that the endorphins for each day are always produced in the pre-dawn hours, regardless of the hours when one is awake or sleeping.
- If LDN is so wonderful, why isn't it FDA-approved or reported in one of the respected medical journals?
- Although the Food and Drug Administration approved naltrexone at the 50mg dosage in 1984, "low dose naltrexone" ( LDN ) in the 4.5mg dosage has not yet been submitted for approval because the prospective clinical trials that are required for FDA approval need to be funded at the cost of tens of millions of dollars. In the absence of such a current scientific clinical trial, medical journals tend not to be interested in "anecdotal" reports of therapeutic successes.
- Can you supply me with the names of physicians in my town who prescribe LDN?
- Sorry, we have no such lists of physicians. But any physician may ethically and legally prescribe LDN as an off-label prescription. If you are very interested in starting LDN, and you are absolutely unable to find any local doctor who will prescribe it for you—even though you have shown them information from the website and made it clear to them that LDN is compatible with any other medicine (except narcotics) and that it has no toxicity and no significant side effects—then you may want to ask the many members of the LDN-Yahoo Group, who are eager to help others. You can easily join the Group (it's free) on the home page of this website by simply entering your email address.
- Can I have my LDN prescription filled at any pharmacy?
- Low dose naltrexone prescriptions are generally filled at a compounding pharmacy. The druggist uses either generic naltrexone 50mg tablets or bulk naltrexone powder to prepare the LDN capsules. Because there have been occasional reports from patients of a poor quality product coming from scattered pharmacies, we feature the names of several pharmacies on the website that have shown themselves reliable and experienced in correct LDN preparation. (Please note: Under no circumstances should you accept a preparation of "long-acting" or "slow release" naltrexone.)
- I have HIV/AIDS complicated by lipodystrophy. What can I expect from
starting low dose naltrexone? Could I actually see a reversal in my
condition? How long would it take?
- Of those people with HIV/AIDS who already have lipodystrophy, the
majority who begin taking nightly LDN experience a gradual reversal of the
signs of lipodystrophy. Although this may occur swiftly in a few, in most
people it has taken the better part of a year. Very, very rarely do we
hear of a non-responder—so rarely that we have to doubt the legitimacy
of their LDN supply.
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With the former Klein’s Supermarket sitting gutted for months, many residents began wondering what was stopping progress on the future Veterans Administration (VA) clinic site.
VA officials said there were several unanticipated challenges in converting the former grocery store, but the process is now ready to begin. Nabholz Construction was hired this month to begin work on the site.
The site is being leased for $1 million per year.
Another VA clinic is being built for the Katy area as well.
“We are excited about the progress being made on the new VA outpatient clinics for Katy and Tomball,” director Adam Walmus said. “Our goal is to bring medical care closer to where veterans live and eliminate the hassles they face fighting traffic and parking in Houston.”
The Tomball facility is projected to be 30,000 square feet and will provide veterans with several services including primary care, mental health, womens specialty care, phlebotomy, optometry, audiology, x-ray, telemedicine and teleretinal imaging.
Officials said that the recent challenges in converting the store have pushed the projected opening of the facility back to July 2013.
“For Tomball and the challenges of converting a former grocery store, we are looking at a July 2013 opening,” deputy director Bryan Bayley said. “We eagerly anticipate cutting the ribbon and opening these new clinics.”
Officials at the VA estimate the new Tomball clinic will serve more than 7,500 veterans within the first year.
Houston VA communications director Bobbi Gruner said that officials have already started looking for staff to run the facility, as well as nurses and doctors to serve patients.
“All federal jobs are posted at usajobs.gov,” Gruner said. “It’s a simple website to use, you can search jobs by area or by profession.”
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North Korea's nuclear test last month wasn't just a show of defiance and national pride; it also serves as advertising. The target audience, analysts say, is anyone in the world looking to buy nuclear material.
North Korea’s belligerent rhetoric — which has included a threat to conduct a third nuclear test and launch more long-range rockets — and its description of the United States as a “sworn enemy” should compel the Obama administration to rethink its policy toward the secretive, Stalinist nation, analysts say.
New satellite images of a North Korean rocket launch site show a mobile radar trailer and rows of what appears to be empty fuel and oxidizer tanks, evidence of ramped-up preparation for what Washington calls a cover for a long-range missile test.
Japan's defense minister said Friday he had issued an order to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the nation's territory, a planned launch that has raised global alarm bells.
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Pg 14 Heavenly Wind
"That which we call paradise or happiness or the Dharma or enlightenment cannot be sought outside us. It will be found only when we notice that we are innately endowed with it."
"If you try for it, you will become separated from it."
This topic isn't a new one for us is it? To me this story is a gentle reminder of why I need to plant my butt on my cushion each day.
I am the youngest of four children in my family. I have a strong bond with my sister, who is closest in age to me (we are five years apart). Growing up, my sister was often bossy and always felt the need to tell me what to do and when to do it – as bigger siblings tend to do. I began to rely on her judgement, or rather her perceptions of my situation and the best way to handle it instead of trusting in myself to make a decision. And I’ve found that throughout my life, I have sometimes felt the need to call on her or another close friend to, in essence, validate my own feelings on what I should think or do. I sometimes felt/feel my happiness depends on another person's perspective of me, my decisions, or I look to them to help me figure out what I already know in my heart to be true. I've found through this practice, that it would just be simpler to tune into myself in the first place; put trust in myself and follow what my instincts tell me to do!
Recently, I have placed myself in a situation in which I put so much stock in what other’s opinions or perceptions "may" be of me that I forgot to just trust myself, just be myself and let others perceive me as they will. Do I really need other’s approval to be happy in my life? A kind friend reminded me that it is important to look inside and just be who I am first and I thank him.
QUESTION: Describe a time in your life when you have allowed outside influences to affect your way of thinking or doing?
"If it Sloshes, there isn't enough. People are like gourds. Human beings who are truly self-aware remain calm and unruffled no matter what happens. When people rush around busily, complaining and making excuses, they prove their lack of wisdom.”
I loved this story. It puts such a neat spin on advice we've heard throughout our lives - the advice for us to count our blessings, or to look at what is already present in our lives. Prior to starting down this path and still sometimes on this path, I've let little things upend my sense of calm.
The very day our moving trucks were delivering our things to our new house, my van broke down. I had just started my job (and the kids started school) that very week, so I wasn’t about to ask my boss for a day off. My mind tells me, “oh crap, we have school tomorrow can Eric leave a little later to take us, I have no idea where a garage is to get it fixed, this is going to cost a lot, we can’t afford anything unexpected right now after moving"…on and on. The same day, our phones were hooked up and activated, yet our phonelines were dead – after a visit from the phone company, we find out that phone lines were never run to the house. My mind tells me, “this house is only 5 years old, how in the world were there no phone lines hooked up, and this is going to cost a lot" …on and on. The same week, our dishwasher stopped working and we had to call a repair man to come fix it. My mind tells me, “I barely have time during the week now to get things done, now I’ll have to wash dishes by hand! (oh the horror ), now we’re going to have to pay the repair man and pay for a new dishwasher, this is going to cost a lot."
After making it through all this, I realized that it did end up costing a lot…but not a lot of money. It cost me time away from my kids, stress and headaches over things that were out of my control, and unnecessary anger toward everyone when things were easily fixable. As many wise individuals have stated here, zazen doesn't fix all these problems, but it does allow us to see through them. It takes away the power of these stresses, and our fears of them so that we can come through them essentially unharmed.
QUESTION: Have you had a time in your life when you felt like you were just "sloshing" around and couldn't find a sense of calm? Were you able to regain some stillness, and how?
This is just my limited interpretation of these stories, I'm looking forward to hearing yours.
bows to all,
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Endowed Scholarship dollars are often the deciding factor in determining whether a student can attend college. Through the history of the University of Hartford, scholarships of all sizes have enabled students to complete their studies and pursue their dreams. Scholarships can be established in a variety of ways.
Some donors wish to create a scholarship in an area of study that holds special meaning for them, while others want to honor a family member or friend. In any form, scholarships have a direct and powerful impact on students.
Perhaps there is no more personally rewarding gift a donor can make than the gift of an education, and of a future, to a deserving and appreciative student.
Beau was able to graduate last year because he received essential financial assistance from donors like you. Beau lost his father suddenly during his junior year and without financial aid, he would have dropped out and we would have lost one of our stellar students.
Beau had an overall GPA of 3.79 and achieved the Dean's List and received President's Honors every semester. He received his degree in architecture from the College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture and is passionate for architecture. He hopes to design structures in the future that are aesthetically pleasing, fully functional and environmentally friendly.
Beau uses the knowledge and wisdom his father taught him so that he can grow and become a great man - just like his father.
Beau D. '10 Recipient of the Sid Schwartz Endowed Scholarship and the George Weiss Endowed Scholarship
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We Can Shine: From Institutions to Independence (57m, U S A)
Western New York - In his search to understand his own disability, Asperger’s Syndrome, filmmaker and history buff Adrian Esposito questioned what it would have been like for him had he been born in 1944. What he found was shocking and what could be described as “horror” in its truest sense.
We Can Shine-From Institutions to Independence is a documentary about the state of institutions for the developmentally disabled in New York State from the 1900′s onward. The film chronicles the events that led to the Willowbrook Consent Decree as told by Bernard Carabello, one of its former residents who later founded the N. Y. State Self Advocacy Association.
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Week in News: Long Branch Boardwalk's Fate, Sandy Video Diary, Guard Still on Patrol
Find what you may have missed from our neighbors in Monmouth and Ocean counties
Video Diary of Sandy (Part 3): 'Hard Times Come Again No More'
Ocean City - John Thornton, a resident of the Ocean City Homes neighborhood on the south end of Ocean City and a teacher at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, recently completed a third segment of a film about the impact of superstorm Sandy on his friends, neighbors and hometown.
The first 14-minute segment of the film starts on Saturday, Oct. 27, two days before Sandy makes landfall and continues through the storm. The second part of the film is about Sandy's impact on Ocean City. It starts the day after Sandy makes landfall as Thornton gets his first look at the storm's effects.
Read more on Ocean City Patch.
National Guard Maintains A Large Presence in Sandy-Impacted Areas
It’s Sunday afternoon. A few hours ago guardsmen were stationed along the barrier island, huddled in the rain around makeshift fire pits or loaded up in Humvees touring the still-devastated landscape. Now, they’ve taken their positions in armchairs in front of the big screen to watch with mild interest as the Cowboys take on the Bengals.
More than a month ago the National Guard was deployed in New Jersey to help assist with evacuations prior to Hurricane Sandy. They remained for the immediate aftermath to assist with search and rescue. Finally, what was anticipated as only a three to five day deployment for observation and surveillance has turned into a two-month stay.
Read more on Toms River Patch.
Facts For Rumson Rebuild After Sandy
Rumson — They circled the Forrestdale School parking lot in a swarm honing in on a spot, a step closer to solutions — Sandy-afflicted Rumson residents looking for answers.
Last week's stakeholder forum of Sandy survival was the sort of meeting the beleaguered and storm-embattled rebuilders been waiting for since the superstorm hit and rendered hundreds of homes in the borough’s low-lying areas uninhabitable.
This was the borough’s first post-Sandy forum featuring local, state and federal officials who may be able to help them.
Read more on Rumson-Fair Haven Patch.
Sandy Leaves 14,000 Tons Of Brush — Most Ever Recorded
Wall Township — If you think there was a lot of brush left over after Hurricane Sandy, you’re right. About 14,000 tons of it, officials said.
That’s 14 times the amount left from Hurricane Irene, the last big storm that in 2011 blew through the Shore Area and toppled trees and downed power lines in town, Township Administrator Jeffry Bertrand said.
The mountain of brush left after Sandy and the nor'easter that followed it amounts to the most ever recorded, Bertrand said.
Read more on Wall Patch.
At $6.5M, Belmar Boardwalk Bid Comes in Less Than Half of Original Estimate
Belmar — Rebuilding Belmar's boardwalk will cost less than half what was originally estimated. The borough approved a $6.59 million contract to rebuild the boardwalk as it was, but with increased hurricane protection.
Belmar planned to spend $17 million to rebuild its boardwalk, destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. On top of the favorable bid, the lowest of 23 submitted, winning contractor Epic Construction could net a $100,000 bonus if the work is complete by April 30.
Read more on Manasquan-Belmar Patch.
Long Branch Boardwalk Not Likely To Be Rebuilt As It Was Prior To Sandy
Long Branch- The Long Branch boardwalk will likely have a different look once it is rebuilt by the city.
Upcoming FEMA regulations and a desire for the boardwalk to not suffer the same fate from a future storm as it did from Hurricane Sandy may force the city's hand in building a new type of boardwalk, city officials discussed during Tuesday night's council meeting.
Read more on Long Branch Patch.
Freeholder Wants More Help for Ocean County — Now
Freeholder Joseph Vicari was watching C-SPAN, listening to New Jersey Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez talking about the need for billions in federal funding to repair damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
There was one thing that bothered him about it, however: all of the damage they discussed was in North Jersey.
"The senators made it very clear about North Jersey, but I didn’t hear anyone mention the Jersey Shore," Vicari said. "They have to be more aggressive about getting the money for us, too."
Read more on Point Pleasant Patch.
Red Bank Flavour Gives Taste of Sea Bright Rising
There will be food and drink and dancing, of course, but this weekend when Sea Bright Rising holds its sold-out Beach Bash fundraiser at Ocean Place Resort and Spa, the main item on the menu will be a break from Sandy's wrath.
Read more on Red Bank-Shrewsbury Patch.
Little Silver Town Hall Meeting Sheds Light on the Rebuilding Maze
Little Silver — The most eye-opening moment at Tuesday night's Little Silver town hall meeting came not when one resident said she paid about $85,000 annually for flood insurance, or when another shared with the crowd his frustrations that the amount of money given to him by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a rental was not commensurate with market values in the area. It came when about a third of the audience of about 225 residents packed into the Markham Place cafetorium raised their hands to show they had been displaced from their homes by Superstorm Sandy.
Read more on Little Silver-Oceanport Patch.
Township Considering Options to Replace Retiring Nally
Lacey — The Township Committee will discuss Thursday in executive session how to proceed following police Chief William Nally’s impending retirement.
After serving the Lacey Township Police Department for nearly 28 years, Nally, 49, announced his retirement in a Nov. 19 letter to Township Administrator and Municipal Clerk Veronica Laureigh.
Read more on Lacey Patch.
CommVault to Pay $5.9 Million for Land at Fort Monmouth
Tinton Falls — Officials have accepted a deal with Oceanport's largest company to build its new headquarters on Fort Monmouth property of Tinton Falls.
The deal will be the first sale of property at the fort.
Fort redevelopers Wednesday night passed an amendment to a purchase-sale agreement with CommVault for a parcel of land in in the Charles Wood section of Tinton Falls where the data management firm will build it's new global headquarters.
Read more on Little Silver-Oceanport Patch.
How High Is High Enough?
Berkeley Township — Residents whose homes will have to be raised to comply with new flood standards will have to wait until next week to find out how high they will have to go.
That's because the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new advisory base flood elevations won't be released until next week, after state officials have had a chance to review them, a National Flood Insurance Program representative said at the Dec. 11 Township Council meeting.
FEMA: Temporary Housing Ready for Sandy Victims
In an unused parking lot under the long morning shadow of a 130-foot tall steel roller coast, 40 outwardly identical mobile homes, each sitting on their own trailer, are ready for deployment.
As part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Temporary Housing Assistance program, mobile homes have been delivered from Cumberland, Md. and are currently being staged at Six Flags Great Adventure theme park in Jackson. As early as next week and assuredly before Christmas, officials said, the mobile homes will be dispatched to parts of Monmouth and Ocean Counties where they’ll house residents who have lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy.
And more are on the way.
Read more on Brick Patch.
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Tourists can choose to proceed to the surfing Mecca of Mentawai Islands, or to the hiking trails of Bukittinggi and the Kerinci Seblat National Park, without using Padang as an access point. Nevertheless, because Padang has a nice beach, distinctive culture and architecture, delicious delicacies, and friendly people, many tourists do not mind arriving a little late in their major destinations just to experience Padang.
The capital city of West Sumatra, Padang has cheap beachfront hotels and numerous restaurants and street vendors offering tasty treats such as rendang sapi (spicy curried beef) and ayam pop (popcorn-like chicken bits). Museum of Adityawarman and Taman Budaya (Cultural Park) are where to see regular Sumatran cultural performances and exhibited art while Ramayana is where one can shop for export-quality local products. The city also hosts an annual international dragon boat competition.
South of the city is Sikuai Island, where the natural Jacuzzi of Lubuk Minturan river and the crystal-clear river of Bangus Bay can be found. Pantai Air Manis (Sweet Water Beach) is popular for its Batu Malin Kundang (Stone of Malin Kundang), a stone shaped like a prostrating man. Local legend has it that Malin Kundang, an ungrateful son who disowned his own mother, was cursed to become the stone after he came back home wealthy from his travels.
Ta Marija Restaurant
In «Ta 'Marija», located in the center of the village Mosta you’ll be amazed by the welcoming atmosphere created thanks to the traditional setting of talented entertainers and warm ones. Every Wednesday and Friday after the Auto Reviews and Auto Shows that are shown in the TV, customers are invited to sing accompanied by mandolin and guitar, traditional and popular songs ... Read full Blog post
Ati-atihan in Kalibo Aklan
Ati-atihand origins ccan be traced to 1210 when refugees from Borneo would smear their faces with soot in affectionalte immitation of the Filipino natives The island of Panay in the Visayas is where this particular detail of Philipine history took place sometime ih the late 12th or early 13th century. For centuries hence, it has been commemoratged in one specific place - in Kalibo, the capital ... Read full Blog post
An Aerial fiesta in Clark Pampanga
Its a party in the sky as multi colored hot air balloons piloted ny different pilots from various partso of the world participated in this annual gathering. As early as 5am, the 2,500 hectare aviation complex at Clar Economic Zone in Pampanga was already crammedi with excitement. Clusters of hot air balloon participants busily prepare their own balloons for liftoff as they need to take advantage of ... Read full Blog post
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Most judges hate Michigan's Driver Responsibility Fee, but some courts are giving people a chance to keep driving legally and avoid a mountain of debt.
In 2003, the state-mandated fee was passed with the idea it would encourage people to keep clean driving records.
It also has boosted state coffers with the fee going not to local units of government, law enforcement or the Michigan Secretary of State — but instead right to the Michigan Treasury where it can be used for any general fund purpose.
The state assesses about $225 million a year in fees but manages to collect only about half that sum. But when the fees – which range from $150 to $1,000 imposed annually for two years – aren’t paid, they accumulate and put some driver’s deep in the hole.
Kentwood District Court Judge William Kelly said the result is a class of people who will never drive legally.
Judges say it is not unheard of for a driver to walk into a local court with fees higher than $10,000.
Wyoming District Court Judge Pablo Cortes said he has had people in his courtroom with $15,000-plus in fees that have stacked up.
“It mostly affects people who can least afford it,” said Cortes. “If you can’t afford one fee you can’t afford two, three or four fees.”
On more than one occasion this week, Cortes had people in his courtroom driving on a suspended license, facing an additional $1,000 fine as a result of the fee structure. This is on top of the other fines that can reach up to $500, as well as a license reinstatement fee from the Secretary of State.
But Cortes gave the offenders a chance. He reduced some of the court costs and told them if they paid the reinstatement fee at the nearby Secretary of State’s office, he would allow them to plead guilty to allowing an unlicensed person to drive.
The reduced charge takes the fee out of play.
It is a similar scheme followed by judges throughout the state who look at the fee as an unfair burden upon those already being punished.
Kelly said his court provides written directions on how to work with the Secretary of State and other courts when it comes to fines and penalties so that the charges can be reduced.
“It makes a lot more work for the courts, but as a practical matter, it is the fair thing to do,” Kelly said.
There have been proposals to eliminate or restructure the fee but with the state’s economic drought going into its second decade, a severe reduction in state revenue is a longshot.
Most recently there was a bill in the state Senate that would eliminate responsibility fees for driving without insurance or a valid license and in other specific circumstances that takes effect Oct. 1.
But Kelly says that is just the tip of the iceberg.
“It has nothing to do with traffic safety and all to do with revenue,” Kelly said.
In the meantime, judges are finding their own solutions.
“I don’t approve of people driving on a suspended license, it’s their own fault,” Cortes said. “No one here is getting away scot-free.”
But the judge says there needs to be common sense applied by lawmakers in Lansing.
“Our goal is not to create more criminals by saddling them with these fees,” Cortes said.
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Both William and Max have sweet Etch A Sketch skills. They can write words and create recognizable images... not just sagging squares and wobbly circles. I don't have examples at the moment. My point is that they make good use of their Etch A Sketch, which is why it isn't surprising that they wore one out. The vertical knob wouldn't draw anymore. You can't send these things out for repair. So, we had a learning opportunity we could not resist.
Embossed in black plastic on the back of the toy, is the message that the silver 'aluminum powder and the small plastic balls' are non-toxic. Good to know, but we were cautious none the less. Who knows the story of the original Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz? Buddy Ebsen was cast as the Tin Man, but was hospitalized for 2 weeks after inhaling aluminum dust from his Tin Man make-up. It coated his lungs. Ouch.
Breaking into an Etch A Sketch is not as easy as you might hope, or, er... maybe you wouldn't hope to break in to one, but we love taking things apart and figuring out what makes them tick. Max made the first attempts, then I stepped in to help. Finally, Geoff got out his hack saw to separate the heat melded plastic inner casing. Once he pried open a hole, remembering poor Mr. Ebsen, we decided to pour the contents into a Ziplock bag.
The plastic beads are not small. The plastic beads are teeny, tiny, and they poured out like liquid. The aluminum spread like a fluid too, flowing and following the tiny beads, coating the inside of the bag until it looked like silver mylar (which is actually metalized nylon.)
Once the bag became super-coated in the silver dust there wasn't much to see. But it was cool figuring out as much as we did.
I haven't done any quilting in 2 1/2 years. I finished the last ones just days before Maria was born. Having come across dozens and dozens of lovely "fat quarter" or "doll quilts" I have been inspired to try my hand at one of these mini projects. I drew a bunny and embroidered it with fanciful colors, then while the boys were out and Maria napped I was able to cut a quilt pattern... I was hasty, and I could not find my rotary blade. Excuses. It's not quite as perfect as the one I was imagining, but it did make me happy to see it completed.
It's hand quilted. The real compliment is that Maria has already claimed it as her own. It's in her bed right now keeping her dancing bunny cozy and safe. If you want to see what patience, skill and an artful eye can produce go see Calamity Kim's doll quilts. She is sewing up a storm. And then if you want to see even more amazing work, then you must see Calamity's "Doll Quilt CrAzY." Keep scrolling through the pictures to see the amazing variety of little quilts, styles and colors. I have lots of favorites.
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Clean up crews work frantically to clean up the spill that now covers over 1800 square miles of ocean.
That's bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
Authorities say they have begun burning some of the thickest oil in an attempt to keep it from spreading to land.
Some experts predict the oil could reach shore in as little as three days.
People off Florida's coast say they can smell the fumes from the leak that took place hundreds of miles away.
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Lithuanian basketball fan Petras Leščinskas, who made Nazi salutes and monkey chants during the Olympics and was therefore fined £2,500 in court, is a fool, Andrius Užkalnis wrote in Lrytas.lt.
He is a double fool for he tried to explain in court that such behaviour is common practice in Lithuania and that he has been doing it for quite some time. Not because Nazi salutes never happen in Lithuania (or elsewhere, for that matter). But because assuring the judge that the offence you are tried for is really nothing wrong is the surest way to get sentenced more severely.
‘You don’t understand, things are different in our country’ is the dumbest argument and a shot in one’s own leg. This has been an excuse of hundreds and hundreds of Lithuanian drivers caught in Britain without the compulsory car insurance, with technically unsafe cars, or a little drunk. ‘In Lithuania no insurance is o.k. One glass beer is o.k. No problem.’ They seem to think of it as the mitigating circumstances. They cannot be more wrong. It is a red cape in front of the judiciary.
An automatic response from a police officer, prosecutor or judge is always the same. ‘This is our country, this is our law and our public order, and you are about to see it for yourself.’ They will not point this out – but you will definitely be shown who sets the rules and maintains order in their country. The aforementioned Mr Leščinskas had a first-hand experience of it.
You may call England the land of homos, their order – nonsense, application of law – absurd, you can argue till the cows come home about different interpretations of saluting from the times of the Roman Empire to the first Olympics of the new era, when there were no traces of Nazis whatsoever.
It’s all irrelevant, since 11,000 litas are not coming from the English jerks to your pocket but from you to theirs. You think you paid ‘for nothing’? For a nonsense? For a misunderstanding? This makes you a double jerk.
When you borrow money from some sly crooks and it turns out that over the course of the year you paid 15,000 litas in interest for a 1,000 loan, you shouldn’t call them stupid. They now have fourteen grand they earned from you, and it is you who paid them. Who is the stupid one here?
At the end of the Olympics’ story it is not those Brits who will suffer. It is you – because of your behaviour, which was stupid, with consequences which had been clear and completely avoidable. Because you always have to think what you’re doing. This is all the more relevant in a foreign country.
Any arguments as to the prevalence of such behaviour elsewhere, its justifiability, historical or traditional interpretation are meaningless.
Great Britain has its own rules: from driving on the right-hand side of the road (try turning into oncoming traffic, crashing into someone’s car and then making an excuse that it is different in Lithuania, that this is nonsense, that the rules are horrid), to their notion of political correctness and an extremely broad understanding of what counts as ‘racial offense’.
Moreover, all circumstances in this case were not in Lithuanians’ favour. Olympic security guards were also involved in the story. In Britain, security guards from private companies are not the people you’d want to argue with. In contrast to police officers, rarely do they have any real-life experience or understanding of the context, hardly ever are they educated. Oftentimes they are themselves foreigners, with complexes resulting from their low social status or insignificant role in the society. In many instances they belong to the lowest strata of society – just now given a uniform, power and authority.
Anyone who has lived in Britain for a few or more years could write a book on the absurd ways of maintaining order there. I saw with my own eyes a train station security guard demanding a girl to take off her earphones. And for what reason? ‘Should there be a security warning, you may not hear it’. He looked stupidly satisfied with his power and his being a little chief of the station platform. Luckily, the girl was wise enough not to argue with him.
In some public areas, similarly, these folks try to show they should be reckoned with by telling people not to take pictures, that it is forbidden to do so here. Sometimes they can be shown their place by replying that there is no such rule here and by suggesting calling the police if there is a problem. Then they usually leave, with their tails tucked.
The sporting fans, however, have no understanding of how to behave in particular circumstances and in whose hands the preponderance of power is in each case. Rights without power amount to little. Driving the main road, you may have priority over the asphalt roller coming from the side road. But should you crash into it, it will be you and not the roller who will suffer more.
Lithuanian fans don’t seem to understand that once caught on cameras of the yellow press and following the headlines such as ‘Lithuanians make Nazi salutes and remain ignored by the police’, they are in the game which they cannot but lose.
The yellow press does not particularly like the redneck workhorses, just as it doesn’t like other Eastern Europeans. Whether rationally or not, is of no importance here. It doesn’t. But they cannot say it (‘the country is full of them!’) until they have a good reason.
But when there is a reason, and even a picture, you can hit those gastarbeiters from the Eastern Europe with twice as much force. Then it doesn’t matter that among the English fans themselves you are likely to find folks next to which Lithuanian fans are innocent as lambs. Doesn’t matter at all. The tone is set by a newspaper, and the police will of course not want to be blamed for irresponsible leniency – ‘Nazis are on the loose, and you are not doing anything about it!’
Then it is of no importance whether those involved really are Nazis, or whether they actually share any racist intent.
Yes, Great Britain is particularly – sometimes even comically, absurdly – sensitive towards anything that resembles offense against other person on racial or religious grounds. Examples range from banning Christmas in hospitals so as to avoid offending the Muslims, to official warning for the schoolboy’s parents because he asked his teacher whether the reason for her dark skin is her African origins (‘no, dear kid, I only sunbathed a lot’).
The country, which is often haunted by its centuries-long colonial past, ill at ease with its diminished role in the world as well as powerlessness against the hardworking, aggressive and zealous foreigners, many a time is childish and irrational. A book such as Kazys Binkis’ Jonas at the Gypsies (‘Jonas pas čigonus’), were it translated into English, would cause rage and require a lot of explaining if shown to England’s militant defenders of equality of rights.
At the time of event so important as the long-anticipated Olympic games with participants from all over the world (moreover, the event in which security is a serious issue due to negligence of the organisers and where everything related to it is therefore a considerable sore), all the reactions become but more impulsive.
In a case as questionable as this one, no one pays much regard: the judiciary is automatically on the side of the other skin colour. If something might be considered a racial offence, considered it will be; we have seen an example in point. Furthermore, even the law says that offence may be considered racial if the victim thinks it was committed on racial grounds. The validity of such claims is to be decided in court.
Lithuanian fans have two sensible options: either to behave themselves and avoid trouble, or not go to the Olympics at all. There is no other option.
Just as in the airport: if you want to fly, don’t joke about bombs in the luggage. Otherwise you will be made an example and spend a few days in the dungeon. It will be you who’s guilty, not the airport staff – despite your better sense of humour.
There is no right to do as your habits and understanding tell you and go unpunished – neither in England, nor anywhere else.
If you want to avoid trouble and spending thousands on fines, you should know and understand this much.
Understanding can be improved by some research. Before going to London, ask not the bearded clowns from the crowd of fans or the fat-bellied co-drinkers at the pub; ask those who know better. But of course it would be naïve, at the very least, to expect such effort from persons who are now shrugging their shoulders and feel having stood for truth in an unequal battle with the darned judiciary of the darned England.
One can only hope that at least the fear of losing some dough on fines will help other fans realise that it is the owner who sets the rules in the yard which isn’t yours. They may thank Petras Leščinskas for this useful – albeit expensive – life lesson.
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US President Barack Obama touted his "close" relationship with Israel, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney attacked his decision not to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in separate interviews with CBS's 60 Minutes
"I have conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu all the time," said Obama. "I understand and share Prime Minister Netanyahu's insistence that Iran should not obtain a nuclear weapon because it would threaten us, it would threaten Israel and it would threaten the world and kick off a nuclear arms race."
Asked by Obama's interviewer Steve Kroft if he feels any pressure by Netanyahu to "draw a line in the sand" on the Iranian nuclear issue, the US president responded: "When it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American people. And I am going to block out any noise that's out there."
He added: "Now I feel an obligation, not pressure but obligation, to make sure that we're in close consultation with the Israelis on these issues because it affects them deeply."
Netanyahu has repeatedly called for the US to
set "red lines" on Tehran, giving voice to growing frustration with US President Barack Obama and the international community’s failure to stop Iran’s nuclear march.
Meanwhile, Romney took the opportunity to attack the president's foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel. "The president's decision not to meet with Bibi Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, when the prime minister is here for the United Nations session, I think, is a mistake," he said, "and it sends a message throughout the Middle East that somehow we distance ourselves from our friends and I think the exact opposite approach is what's necessary."
Romney has repeatedly accused Obama
of "throwing Israel under the bus," which has raised ire among Democrats for what they consider to be an unfair characterization of the president's record.
Both Obama and Romney used the majority of their interviews to discuss domestic issues, from the unemployment rate and the size of government to same-sex marriage and the Guantanamo Bay.
Obama also defended his record on the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings which took place throughout the Middle East and North Africa. "I think it was absolutely the right thing for us to do to align ourselves with democracy, universal rights, a notion that people have to be able to participate in their own governance," he said. He admitted that "there are going to be bumps in the road," but expressed hope that in the long run the region will be aided by the recent occurrences.
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Southern Island is ahead of the pack, but it is set to low power for now
Subject: General Tech | July 20, 2011 - 12:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: southern islands, nvidia, gpu, amd, 28nm
Thanks to some information garnered by SemiAccurate we have a very good idea of AMD's release plans for their new GPU family, what we have been referring to as Southern Islands. The confusion that we felt from AMD's announcement that Southern Island parts would be ready sooner than expected arose from the reported difficulties that TSMC was having with their 28nm HKMG process. Thankfully someone had a chance to take apart some 28nm TSMC field programmable arrays and inside found a HKMG design modified for lower power states than the original specs. That doesn't mean cellphone level graphics performance but certainly means that the first GPUs we see from Southern Islands will not be the high end cards. AMD did the same thing with previous generations of GPUs, so the release schedule is becoming a habit, even if not what would be preferred.
There are other side effects to this choice by AMD and TSMC which are probably going to hurt NVIDIA, who are hoping to get full power Kepler based GPUs out at the beginning of next year. Since NVIDIA tends towards more aggressive clocks, the experience that TSMC has with what is called the HPL 28nm process will not necessarily help NVIDIA's HKMG 28nm process. SemiAccurate has more.
"The final piece of the TSMC 28nm HKMG process puzzle was put in place at SemiCon last week, it now makes sense. Chipworks got ahold of a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA, and it revealed a few secrets on the operating table.
If you recall, AMD is on track to put out Southern Islands chips much earlier than most people, SemiAccurate included, expected, possibly even this quarter. The real question is what process they are going to make it on, the TSMC 40nm SiON or 28nm HKMG? 40nm would be big, hot, and limited, think volcanic island more than Southern, while the 28nm SHP HKMG process wasn’t supposed to be ready until late Q1, best case. The short story is that Southern Islands is very likely not on either one."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Local Attractions near Ridgway State Park
Ridgway State Park is located within a day’s drive of many national parks and monuments, including Mesa Verde National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado National Monument, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dinosaur National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Close-by towns include:
Montrose: about a 30-minute drive north of the park. Montrose is the closest place to find national food and retail chains. There are plenty of local shops and eateries plus some golf courses. The Ute Museum is located on the south side of town and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is just a short drive to the east. Link to the Montrose Chamber of Commerce Web site.
Ridgway: just a five-minute drive from the Dutch Charlie area of the park and the closest place to find gas, food, bait, etc. Ridgway has a beautiful town park and a number of nice restaurants and shops. Fly-fishing and rafting guides can be found here. The town hosts rodeo events in the summer. Link to the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce Web site.
Ouray: a premier hiking and ice climbing destination just a 20 minute drive away. Ouray also is known for its famous hot springs, the Batchelor-Syracuse Mine tour, and the Box Canyon tour. There are a variety of restaurants and shops to cater to visitors. Tourists can rent jeeps or buy tickets for touring the mining ghost towns and wildflowers of the alpine zones just south of town. A number of excellent hiking trails lead up into the mountains all around Ouray. Link to the Ouray Chamber Resort Association.
Silverton: located about an hour’s drive south of the park and rapidly becoming a top destination for extreme skiing. There are good museums, mining tours, restaurants and shops here as well as the northern terminus for the famous Silverton-Durango narrow gauge railway. Silverton hosts a folk music festival during the summer. Link to the Town of Silverton Web site.
Telluride: also about an hour away and well known as a great powder destination for alpine skiers. It is also a popular summer destination thanks to both beautiful hiking trails and several festivals featuring music, film and art. Telluride also offers great dining and shopping opportunities. Visit the Telluride Tourism Board.
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New York , NY — Carl Fischer Music, his long time publisher, mourns the passing of Lukas Foss, one of the foremost musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Of all the American composers of his generation, Lukas Foss was probably the most adventurous. Starting as a young composer very much in the Coplandesque American vein, he brilliantly used all the styles of the 20th century from the neo-classical approach of Hindemith and Stravinsky, through the atonal and serial manner of Schoenberg and Webern to the radical simplicity of the minimalists.
What made Foss remarkable as a composer was his singular ability to make every style or technique he used his own. Whether in the Hindemith-like gravity of A Parable of Death (1952), the serial angularity of Time Cycle (1960), the aleatory of Baroque Variations (1967) or the atonal minimalism of Solo for Piano (1981), the voice of Lukas Foss, sometimes stern, sometimes witty, but always questioning, comes through. Pieces like Time Cycle, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1978) and Renaissance Concerto (1985) have become staples of the repertoire and are performed frequently all over the world.
His love of the music of the past (from the music of the Renaissance and Baroque to the masterpieces of his own time), which his career as a conductor gave him considerable leeway to explore, is also demonstrated in compositions such as Cello Concert (1966), which comments on a Bach Sarabande, Baroque Variations (1967), which deconstructs music of Handel, Scarlatti and Bach, and Renaissance Concerto (1985), written for flutist Carol Wincenc, which views fragments of 16th-century music through a distinctly 20th century lens.
The two late string quartets, No. 4 (written in 1998 on commission from the Buffalo Chamber Music Society for the Muir Quartet) and No. 5 (written in 2000 for and premiered by the Guarnieri Quartet) represent a master composer at his peak, synthesizing every aspect of what he had learned and experienced in two extraordinary works that have begun to be taken into the repertory of the best young string quartets.
A comment by Lukas Foss quoted in Raymond Yiu’s overview of Foss’ career, Renaissance Man: A Portrait of Lukas Foss (Tempo, A Quarterly Review of Modern Music, July 2002) seems to sum up best what he stood for as a composer:
“When I compose, I explore. It is a kind of burning curiosity, dare I say divine fire. With every piece I write, I try to solve a new problem. That’s why I so often change techniques – which are not what people call styles…Actually, I don’t change style, because style is my personality. I make things my own, and the more things you make your own, the richer your vocabulary is…”
Carl Fischer Music has a growing and diversified catalog of musical products, now expanded to include DVDs and compact discs, as well as its traditional print music product lines. For more information about new publications from Carl Fischer Music or to locate a dealer near you, log on to www.carlfischer.com or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.org. For additional information about this news release, please contact Barry O’Neal at 212-777-0900 x228 send an e-mail to email@example.com at your convenience.
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"In 1983, a grand jury . . . indicted David Champy for aggravated felonious sexual assault. Respondent Bernard Rumery, a friend of Champy's, read about the charges in a local newspaper. Seeking information about the charges, he telephoned Mary Deary, who was acquainted with both Rumery and Champy. Coincidentally, Deary had been the victim of the assault in question and was expected to be the principal witness against Champy."
"The record does not reveal directly the date or substance of this conversation . . . but Deary apparently was disturbed by the call. On March 12, according to police records, she called David Barrett, the Chief of Police for the town of Newton. She told him that Rumery was trying to force her to drop the charges against Champy. Rumery talked to Deary again on May 11. . . . Deary told Chief Barrett that Rumery had threatened that, if Deary went forward on the Champy case, she would 'end up like' two women who recently had been murdered in Lowell, Massachusetts."
"Barrett arrested Rumery and accused him of tampering with a witness in violation of N.H.Rev.Stat.Ann. § 641:5(I)(b) (1986), a Class B felony."
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You are hereTeen News Page
Teen News Page
Join college planning expert Joseph Orsolini for an enlightening program that teaches parents of all income levels how to reduce the exorbitant cost of college so they won’t jeopardize their own retirement or strap their children with life altering debt.
Throughout his presentation, Joe focuses on strategies to help families maximize need‐based financial aid eligibility, target the right colleges for merit‐based financial aid, and exploit tax‐saving opportunities.
As a respected authority on college planning, Joe's work has been featured in a variety of media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger's Safe Investing, Chicago Parent magazine, savingforcollege.com, FOX Business, and WLS 890AM radio.
College Night - January 31st 5:00pm-7:30pm
End Higher Learning Month @your library with a special visit to the library between 5:00pm and 7:30pm on Thursday evening for a showcase featuring local colleges and learning opportunities.
Scores Back Session with Princeton Review - January 31st 6:30pm
For those who took the free ACT practice exam on January 12th, attend the free Scores Back Session where you will receive a personalized score report and a Princeton Review expert will share strategies to improve test scores.
Can’t get enough chocolate? Join us for a celebration of this sweet treat! Teens in grades 7-12 will have plenty of chances to satisfy their sweet tooth, so be sure to be here. Registration is required.
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), the professional organization for teen librarians, is currently awaiting YOUR help! Stop by http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten to vote for your three favorite books this year. Voting ends on September 15th, so make sure to vote today! Who knows? You might just see your chosen book on the top of the list! Check back at the library this October to see which books get the new “Teens' Top Ten” stickers put on their spines.
Volunteer applications for the 2012-2013 school year will be available beginning September 4th at the library. Priority will be given to teens that are required to volunteer hours for school, church or another organization. If you are a Proviso Township student, you must get approval with the Proviso Township Service Hours packet. Packets are available at the library at no cost. Please speak with Katie if you have any questions regarding service hours.
Talking, eating, and hanging out with your friends – what could be better? Teen Book Club meets to discuss a book together. Sign up and get your copy of the book at the Youth Services desk.
Tuesdays, June 19, July 17, and August 28: 5-6pm
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The 1970s were marked by fuel shortages and many Americans went from driving big cars to wanting smaller ones. A new company was born touting a 3-wheel sports vehicle that would get 70MPG. Geraldine Charmichael founded the 20th Century Motor Car Corporation. She claimed to be the wife of a NASA structural engineer. In reality she was on the run from the FBI on forgery charges. The reason they couldn’t catch her is because she was really a he. On the run from police a Jerry Dean Michael had undergone sex reassignment surgery to become Geraldine. Now, after collecting 3 million dollars from investors to build the car, she went into hiding. Eventually arrested, she was bailed out by a news agency for the exclusive rights to her story. But she ran again and was never caught!
New avatar!Mybrother made the car illustration for me a while back. I’d been meaning to add a few things…
Godawful kit car based on a Ford Cortina.
az én ízlésemnek túldíszített, de egy svédtől szép próbálkozás
1956 BMW Isetta - Meilensteine
Throwbacks Circa ‘12
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Dale Herspring: Rumsfeld's Wars
On the seventh anniversary of one of America's most tragic days, Dr. Dale Herspring will discuss his book Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power on Thursday, September 11, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Herspring, a political conservative and lifelong Republican, is a retired foreign servics officer and current distinguished professor in the Political Science Department at Kansas State University. In his book, Herspring offers a nonpartisan assessment of Rumsfeld's impact on the U.S. military establishment from 2001 to 2006, focusing especially on the Iraq War “ from the decision to invade through the development and execution of operational strategy and the failures associated with postwar reconstruction of Iraq.
Copies of Herspring's book will be available for sale, and the author will sign copies purchased during the event.
Admission is free. Click here or call 816.701.3407 to indicate your interest in attending. Free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore.
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Program saves fuel, cash for homeowners
Sharon Steuer just wanted to get her walk-in closet checked.
“It was like an icebox,” she said. “And there were certain times that my house would have drafts.”
Steuer, 66, of Smithtown, got more than she expected after she applied for the Long Island Green Homes program, which includes an energy audit of the home, recommendations on improvements to reduce energy costs and low-interest loans through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority that may allow homeowners to make upgrades with no out-of-pocket expenses.
In January 2012, contractors insulated Steuer's attic, replaced dryer vents, wrapped basement pipes and filled cracks in its foundation.
“It's one of the best things that I've ever done for my house,” she said, adding that she's saved more than $700 since the work was completed. “There are just so many places where you're losing air that I wasn't aware of.”
A representative from the Smithtown Planning Department and a licensed contractor are scheduled to discuss the program and answer questions beginning Monday night through Thursday at each Smithtown Special Library District branch.
Monday's presentation is scheduled at the main library branch at 7 p.m. but because of the weather, call the library at 631-265-2072 to see if the branch is open.
“The work pays for itself” through lower energy bills, said Allyson Murray, the town's environmental planner. “You are reducing the amount of energy that you're consuming . . . and you're going to be a lot more comfortable in your home.”
Matt Schwalb, 42, of Smithtown, said he was surprised by the difference in insulating his 24 high hat lights and attic.
“I definitely noticed a decrease in gallons used in the oil,” he said. “Anything that you can do to help out is a good thing.”
Smithtown belongs to the Long Island Green Homes Consortium, formed in 2010 with six other Long Island towns -- Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip, North Hempstead and Southampton -- and other organizations.
The nonprofit Community Development Corp. of Long Island received a $5 million federal-state grant in 2010 to act as a regional coordinator among the towns. Smithtown received $100,000 per year from the grant, which lasts through this fall, to market and administer the program. There have been 2,943 audits completed across Long Island between the inception of the program in 2009 and early this year, CDC officials said, and 1,543 of those homeowners have had retrofit work completed.
About 260 Smithtown residents have received energy audits -- free for homeowners with an annual income below $215,000, Murray said. At least 45 Smithtown residents have paid for improvements through a low-interest state loan, or loans that can be paid via the homeowner's electric bill, she said.
“The proof is in the pudding,” said Marianne Garvin, president and chief executive of the CDC. “There's a lot of work that can be done that doesn't cost a lot, but has a lot of savings.”
Green Homes workshops are set for the following days, but please call the library at 631-265-2072 to check if the branch is open:
Monday, 7 to 8 p.m., Smithtown Main Library, 1 North Country Rd., Smithtown.
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The following news comes from the Puskarich Public Library in Cadiz.
Local author to visit
Local author Kerry George will visit the Puskarich Public Library, 200 E. Market St., Cadiz, at 10 a.m. Feb. 16 to meet interested readers and sign copies of his new book "Black Damp Century."
According to a news release about the book, William "Buck" Storm is the tyrannical patriarch of his family and brutal coal mine owner whose war-time experiences have flawed him. He respects nothing and no one.
Jesse Kamin is the passionate son of a coal miner killed in an Ohio mine explosion and raised by a mother full of hate. Violence and anarchy in the United Mine Workers drive him to the government and by chance, he is pitted against Storm.
This is the story of strife, loyalty and fury as told with a backdrop of the historical events of the 20th Century, beginning with the bloody battle at Blair Mountain in West Virginia. The clashes deeply mar the coal operators, miners and the government for generations.
The miner's world holds multiple forms of black damp, which threatened to suck the oxygen from the lives of all involved.
George is a graduate of Ohio University and a retired U.S. mine inspector with the federal government. He lives in Adena with his wife, Christine and a daughter, Carrie.
Free tax clinics scheduled
The Ohio Benefit Bank will hold a free tax clinic on Feb. 2 and March 2 at the library from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The service is provided for any household making less than $54,000 a year.
Completed tax forms are E-filed for free, and refunds can be direct deposited in order to obtain reimbursement promptly.
The bank will determine tax credits a person can claim, including the Earned Income Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
Call the library at (740) 942-2623 to make an appointment and learn what papers to bring for the clinic.
There's a new addition
The Cadiz library has a new addition.
It's on the right side of its home page - a link to the Tumblebook Library with e-books that are always available to patrons of the library system. As long as the library client has an Internet connection and a device with browsing capabilities, patrons can view an e-book from the Tumblebook Library without ever waiting in line.
Help with losing holiday weight gain
Joseph Maiorano, family consumer science educator, will hold a program to shed holiday weight gain at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28.
This is a program with strategies for healthy nutrition and physical activity to aid in reducing the weight gained during the recent holiday celebrations. Contact the library for information.
Maiorano will hold a summer get-away program from 4 to 6:30 p.m. March 4. Participants will explore options for local destinations and ways to save money.
A class on scarf sewing
Marie Mader will be instructing a scarf sewing class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 30.
Stop at the library or call to get the list of materials needed for the project.
Attention, area hiking enthusiasts
The Outdoors Club will meet at 2 p.m. Feb. 17 to hike part of the Clendening Lake section of the Buckeye Trail. Hikers should meet at 1:45 p.m. at the state Route 799 pull-off at the start of the hill from the lake toward Kennedy Ridge.
Cherilynn Morgan will demonstrate the basics of jewelry making and then the class will create a special piece at the session at noon March 9 at the library.
Pre-school story hour will be held from 11 a.m.to noon each Wednesday for those 3-years-old through kindergarten. It will be held on Tuesdays at the Scio Branch Library from 1 to 2 p.m. Call (740) 945-6811. The Clark Branch Library will hold the story hour on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to noon.
Toddler Time, for children age 1 to 3, will meet on the second and forth Wednesday at the Puskarich library from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m on Feb. 13 and 27.
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The Masters of Healthcare Administration program at the David Eccles School of Business became the first school in Utah, and one of only 10 in the western United States, to earn accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (better known as CAHME).
The announcement of the program’s CAHME accreditation reached MHA Program Director Debra Scammon in mid-November, and while accreditation represents the end of a lengthy process, she said it’s really the beginning of a whole new phase in the program’s life.
“This is our first CAHME accreditation, and it’s the beginning of a process to ensure that we are always offering students the best education possible,” Scammon said. “In the healthcare field, continuous quality improvement is the rule of the land. If you’re not getting better at what you do all the time, you’re lost. Adopting that idea for healthcare education seems like a natural progression in what we do.”
Many universities with MBA programs have healthcare-related tracks, but not many have specialized program in healthcare management. Even fewer earn the CAHME endorsement, and accreditation doesn’t come easy. Schools must do an intense internal study of its students, curriculum and job placement, and to remain accredited they must continually evolve as the healthcare field changes. A CAHME accreditation is recognition that a program has the flexibility and innovative spirit needed to serve both students and the field of healthcare administration.
“CAHME is an organization dedicated to the improvement of healthcare management education,” Scammon said. “They know what the industry needs. They know what the schools need to be teaching. And their standards reflect the real world of healthcare management issues.”
While the work to achieve and retain CAHME accreditation is intense, the pay-off for students and for the business school’s MHA program makes it well worth the effort.
“A program’s accreditation is probably one of the first things a prospective students looks at when trying to decide what MHA program is best for them,” Scammon said. “And when students are asking about accreditation, they are asking about CAHME. All the most prestigious schools that offer an MHA program have CAHME accreditation.”
Now the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah is among the roughly 70 universities that have earned CAHME accreditation for degree programs ranging from the Master of Public Health to Master of Business Administration to Master of Public Administration. The U’s Master of Healthcare Administration program is one of just 43 MHA programs in the entire country to earn the CAHME distinction.
That makes the future bright for the program, Scammon said. “It will increase the number of applicants we get. It will make the quality of the applicants we get that much more competitive. And it will enhance the ability of our graduates to find great jobs, because CAHME accreditation is just as important to employers as it is for the schools.”
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When one dead battery is in the first bay #1, then the green charge light is solid and the first 50% green light blinks, and the other two green lights are off. As the battery charges then the first 50% blinking green light becomes solid and the next 80% green light starts blinking, and the third green light is still off. After fully charged to 100%, all green lights are now solid.
When the second battery is in bay #2 it will only have the single green charge light on, and the other three green lights are off. Then after battery #1 is charged, then battery #2 will start to charge, then it will follow the same process as battery #1 above.
When no batteries are in the charger, then no lights are on.
Also try another outlet in case there is an electrical short in the outlet.
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Pin & Flank
Pin and Flank
One of the standard problems faced in combat games like paintball, airsoft and Battlefield LIVE (Laser-Skirmish) is how to effectively destroy an enemy force that is behind cover.
No matter how much you fire at the target, your rounds will not penetrate the cover.
If you simply advance forward the enemy will pick you off as you try to cross open ground.
In this situation you have basically two viable options.
One is to form a skirmish line and charge the position hoping to rush the enemy.
The other option is to pin and flank the enemy, this option takes some team work.
Generally those gamers who have long guns in the squad (this could be one person) need to apply significant suppressive fire onto the enemy position.
This is not expected to do significant damage but it should force the enemy to keep their heads down and therefore not be in a position to spot or at least effectively engage those forces doing the flanking.
While the enemy is under suppressive fire the flankers usually choosing the flank with the most cover move around the enemy position to hit them from the sides.
You will find that most cover in combat games is one directional and therefore if you shoot at the enemy from two directions at once they will be exposed to effective fire.
The pin and flank movement is often used when gamers are working in pairs. One player pins and the other flanks, but can used with large formation moves as well.
In Battlefield LIVE, most clans are actually better at offence than defence.
Often the attacking team is able to easily create a local numerical superiority at some point of the front and rush through the defenders perimeter over-running the defenders headquarters (HQ).
In more advanced base offence games, a defending team that is not currently in control of their HQ, cannot get replacements (respawns) until retaken. The loss of the HQ is often fatal for the defenders.
In military operations, the defenders are expected to hold out against at least two to one odds, often more, whereas in Battlefield LIVE the attackers often win on a 1.2 to one ratio typically applied.
There is no doubt that the number of hit points used does impact this. The higher the hit points are, the better for the attackers because they can afford to take a couple of points of damage as they close with the defenders. Harder modes favour defenders when used, as the damage taken while advancing increases up to four fold.
With the regulars, hit point values from two to four are typical to give the defenders a fighting chance to heavily damage the attackers approaching their position. However the main problems for clans performing defence are caused by tactical errors.
Gamers, especially beginners, become virtually immobilized when defending a position. So even when spotted they wait until the attackers can get on their flanks and eliminate them. In Battlefield LIVE most times when the enemy knows your exact position it is advisable to move, even if it is only five meters to another piece of cover.
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Every day there are stories of how the fragmentation of health care hurts patients. A few, when a patient dies, make the media. Most often fragmentation causes small inconveniences, but there are many and they affect patients in very real ways.
December 19th’s story is about a patient with a serious chronic illness. She lives at home and manages her illness fairly well. Monitoring her condition requires weekly blood work which is taken by a home care nurse through a PIC line, a semi-permanent intravenous access port. She then walks the blood a fairly (Read more…)
Flu season is upon us, and it seems that the for-profit-health-care bug is infecting primary and preventative care. The yearly campaign to increase the number people vaccinated against the flu is coordinated by the public sector though the Ministry of Health and Public Health Units. After that it gets a bit murky.
Large multinational pharmaceutical companies produce the vaccine. GlaxoSmithKilne Inc. is Canada’s largest supplier. Putting the vaccine in the people’s arms has been primarily done by small family practice professionals or public health nurses. To meet the challenge of increasing immunization rates – over 40% (Read more…)
It seems so obvious in hindsight: if you want to know what is going on in business-side of community medicine look where doctors look – the classified section of The Medical Post.
After reading all of the articles, during a slow day at work, a big flashy classified ad for MCI: the Doctors Office caught my attention. It is one of the expanding chains of family practice centers that are the face for-profit primary care in Canada. The ad provided no further insights into the operations of the chain.
Below this ad was a more interesting offering: the (Read more…)
Andrew Duffy, in an article syndicated by Postmedia, made the logical equivalent of mixing metaphors when he used the Canada Health Act (CHA) to legitimize the use of private clinics. The result, as with mixed metaphors, is a “head-scratching” argument in favour of Centric’s takeover of the Shouldice Clinic.
Duffy uses a confidential government manual found by Jeffery Simpson, author of a recent book on Canada’s health care system, to argue that the CHA was not intended to prohibit the use of for-profit companies to deliver essential medical services. This expose, complete with grainy pictures, is used to undermine what (Read more…)
With the sale of the Shouldice Clinic to a health care conglomerate it is useful to review some of the literature comparing for-profit hospitals to non-profit hospitals. The results show that:
1) there is a higher risk of death in for-profit hospitals, http://www.cmaj.ca/content/166/11/1399.full :
2) private for-profit hospitals result in higher payments for care than private not-for-profit hospitals, http://www.cmaj.ca/content/170/12/1817.full, and:
3) on average, not-for-profit nursing homes deliver higher quality care than do for-profit nursing homes, http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b2732.abstract.
These studies stand-out because of their very large sample sizes. (Read more…)
The Ontario Government has missed an opportunity with the sale of the Shouldice Clinic to health care conglomerate, Centric Health. The government could have purchased Shouldice and integrated its services into the public health care system: after all, Shouldice was funded from the public purse.
A good comparator for the missed opportunity is the Kensington Eye Centre, a stand-alone non-profit facility which specializes in eye care. It has become an example of how specialized care can be given within the public system when there is sufficient demand for similar procedures.
Shouldice was established before Medicare and, like many other
. . . → Read More: False positive: private profit in Canada’s health care: Missed Opportunity: Corporate Conglomerate Buys Shouldice Center
One of Ontario’s little known private secrets is that most methadone, a staple of opiate addiction treatment, is primarily provided by for-profit clinics. Last week a doctor who works in one of these private clinics casually told me that her contract with the clinic forbade her from working for another methadone provider.
The context for the comment was that a clinic was looking for a part-time physician and she could not apply for the job. I guess her “employer” is concerned that she might steer some of her patients, and their money, to the other clinic.
This artificial barrier to
. . . → Read More: False positive: private profit in Canada’s health care: Methadone Clinic Limits Doctor’s Employment
Ontario’s recent decisions to cut fees for doctors’ services and move more services from hospitals to community facilities, called independent health facilities (IHF), raise numerous questions about doctors incomes, fee-for-service payment and for-profit clinics.
The Ontario government is arguing that they need to cut many fees because technology has changed making it less costly for doctors to perform certain services. The government wants “better value for money”. These arguments leave the impression that there is some measurable process to determine the value of medical services.
Predictably doctors are crying foul. They argue that the technologies are expensive,
. . . → Read More: False positive: private profit in Canada’s health care: Are OHIP Fees to High? – Part 1
It seems that the government is now using changes in the OHIP fee schedule give more work to the for-profit laboratory corporations. This reduction in patient access is documented by Rita Marshall in the June 22 edition of the Mitchell Advocate. Mitchell is a town in the Municipality of West Perth near Stratford Ontario.
Don’t like the fact that Mitchell Family Doctors send patients out-of-town for blood work now? Blame the province, says the office.
“Blood work is an important diagnostic tool and we were pleased to provide that service to our patients so they did not have to leave
. . . → Read More: False positive: private profit in Canada’s health care: More Local Lab Service Cuts
Who said these words and when?
We have three broad objectives: to develop a more community-based health care system to ensure that patients receive quality medical care as close to home as possible; that the procedures are carried out in a safe, effective manner; and to regulate facilities so that they are appropriately located and established in a planned way.
What we want to see is the freeing up of hospitals to do what they do best: provide the patient care and the patient care services that require a hospital setting. As a result, our institutions will be free to
. . . → Read More: False positive: private profit in Canada’s health care: Independent Health Facilities and For-Profit Delivery: Reassuring Words, Troubling Results
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