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Sugar Coating is usually the aqueous solution of coatings based predominantly on sucrose as a raw material. The coating leads to a 35% to 100% weight gain. Sugar coating is used to significantly improve stability, apprearance and odor of the product, as well as make it easy to swallow.
O'Hara's production conventional pans have an optimized design for thorough coating and great cleanability. These systems have unique pressed in anti-slide ribs that regulate the flow of tablet bed inside coating pan, creating a better angle for spray gun than traditional pans. Available spray systems have a high impact flat spray pattern with narrow spray angles for uniform spray distribution.
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I love the idea of science fiction turning its lens on the present, of finding the same frisson of futuristic speculation in looking around at the contemporary world. Gibson's insights on the subject are laser-focused, as his commentary on film adaptations of literature and several other subjects.
TVP: But having said that, isn't it a bit uncanny that all of the dystopian texts of science-fiction appear to be aiming at the present that we're experiencing right now?Link (via Futurismic)
WG: Well, I would find that spookier if I had been believing all along that those sort of dystopian themes in science fiction were about some sort of vision of the future. I think they were actually like being perceived in the past when that stuff was being written. 1984 is a powerful book precisely because Orwell didn't have to make a lot of shit up. He had Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin as models for what he was doing. He only had to dress it up a little bit, sort of pile it up in a certain way to say, "this is the future." But the reason it's powerful is that it resonates of history. It doesn't resonate back from the future, it resonates out of modern history. And the power with which it resonates is directly contingent on the sort of point-for-point mimesis, like sort of point-for-point realism, in terms of what we know happened.
I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.
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Darren. 19, Sydney.
Wanderlust and the French language. International Studies and Law student at the University of New South Wales.
Recent revelations in Australia about Gloria Jean’s Coffees’s hefty donation of $30,000 to the Australian Christian Lobby in 2009 have resulted in public scrutiny of the business’ philanthropic dealings, pushing headspace to withdraw their support for R U OK? Day this year.
The misconception that the religious beliefs of their Management Team, some of which are parishioners at Hillsong Church, do not manifest in their dealings must be addressed. Each Gloria Jean’s franchisee was required to display a collection box for one of their initiatives, Mercy Ministries, until the program was forced to close in 2009 due to Herald investigations and ACCC reports of misrepresentation. As well as this, it is Jireh International that trades as Gloria Jean’s Coffees, and Jireh is a compound name for Jehovah. Take of that what you will.
Their Facebook post on Friday reeks of the idea disproved by genetics research that sexual orientation is a choice, using language like “freedom to choose who they love” and “freedom of choice… marriage or otherwise”.
The statement was also quick to assert their non-affiliation with Hillsong, but said nothing of the religious foundation of the other NGOs they support: Waterhope partners with a program that “integrates Christian values into the regular learning modules”, Opportunity International is “founded on Christian values” and, as pointed out by Chrys Stevenson, Compassion International clearly states:
Compassion funds will not be used to purchase or promote the distribution of condoms. The message of “safe sex” to youth is contradictory to the Biblical message of sexual purity.
A personal note: I never knew Christian values had anything to do with the universal rights to water access and economic self-determination, but all right. In addition, GJ’s declares that they have a “strong belief in diversity”, there is no evidence that there is any desire for religious diversity.
Now, some comments/refutations:
Bigotry is “intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself”. Such a word implies that there is room for tolerance or a middle ground between conflicting views of marriage, which there clearly isn’t: you either believe that marriage is between a man and a wom*n, or you believe that it is between two persons. In addition, to call the movement for marriage equality bigoted is to simplify the cause. It is a movement that is intolerant of differing opinions of marriage for the aforementioned reason, but also of the clear violation of the civil right to marriage equality.
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Editor's Note: Learn from a panel of experts and entrepreneurs who have successfully financed their own ventures and are helping others do it at the Thought Leaders Live 2013 event May 29, in Long Beach, Calif. Event and ticket information can be found here.
Angelia Kane, founder of Bedtime CEO, advises clients on how to bootstrap a startup
Photo Courtesy of the company
Angelia Kane was so sure the corporate world wasn't for her that she began freelancing right of college in 1993. She started with web design, moved into consulting and then after the Internet bubble burst, ultimately, marketing. Becoming a mom led her to want more structure in her work life, while keeping the flexibility she coveted being her own boss. She launched New York-based Bedtime CEO, which offers coaching and other services to those balancing entrepreneurship and parenthood. Kane is a firm believer in bootstrapping -- using savings to launch a company -- having financed her solopreneur career this way. She encourages her clients to bootstrap and shared her reasons and strategies in an interview. Edited excerpts follow.
Entrepreneur: What's the biggest misconception about bootstrapping?
Kane: That it's impossible to do. It's possible. It just takes more planning and time than if a bank cuts you a check. For example, instead of paying a lot of money to lease office space right away you can rent desk space, sometimes by the hour. Also, kitchen incubators are popular [for those starting food businesses]. You can rent a certified licensed kitchen by the hour. As for office furniture, the first place I would look is Craigslist or Freecycle.
Entrepreneur: Why should entrepreneurs start this way?
Kane: You're more careful spending your own money than someone else's. When I started my business I didn't want the overhead of traditional office space. I had competitors who started around the same time. They had well-lit open office space and [high-priced] Aeron chairs, but they didn't make it. I had a rocky start, but even with the [economic] ups and downs, it wasn't as hard for me to become profitable. Also, the average entrepreneur has a few failures behind him before he succeeds. If you bootstrap, each attempt won't cost you too much.
Entrepreneur: Is there a down side?
Kane: It could take three times longer [to get your business off the ground], though that is changing. For example, you could have a successful viral marketing campaign that costs nothing or maybe $100. But if you can't write a check whenever you need to get something going, you'll have to put in the time to figure out how to do it yourself. But if you're maxing out all the time you have to put in, and it's not enough, that's when bootstrapping will slow you down.
Entrepreneur: How do you get around that?
Kane: Think about how you'll grow or who you'll target. Going after businesses might be a better use of your time than targeting individual consumers, for example. There is this concept of a "force multiplier," where one set of actions has a larger reach or serves multiple purposes.
Entrepreneur: Are there businesses for which this approach won't work?
Kane: Any business where you need to buy lots of equipment to get started. Most people can't bootstrap a restaurant. You can't really bootstrap a franchise. But, for example, one client wanted a baking business and that's expensive. You need equipment, licenses and a certified kitchen. So I suggested renting a kitchen by the hour. She probably saved $10,000 over a month.
Entrepreneur: You can also bootstrap, and get funding later.
Kane: Absolutely. Slow growth in the beginning benefits you in the [long run]. During the dot-com era, I saw how too much access to capital too soon can make you lazy and [undisciplined]. If you put up your own money, you'll know where every penny went and be more deliberate in all financial decisions. Being a tight money manager will differentiate you to investors.
Entrepreneur: Are there best practices for bootstrapping?
Kane: Think service. A service you can provide is the fastest way to beef up cash flow. Don't spend much on [website] design. There are many free and affordable options. I'm a fan of what Wordpress can do. You can also get logos designed cheaply on 99designs and deals on business cards at Moo.com, for example. Some of the best ways to market your business don't cost money. I did tests last year on strategies, and contests were the most successful to draw attention to a [business]. You can register with sweepstakes sites to promote your giveaway. I tested different price points for the giveaway and found if it's under $10, people don't care. But if the item is $100 or so, people will pay attention.
Entrepreneur: What common mistake do entrepreneurs make when bootstrapping?
Kane: Thinking cheap and free are the only ways to get things done. Sometimes you have to pony up. If you need skilled expertise -- legal, programming, information technology or public relations, for example -- you might as well spend that money. If you need a lawyer, you don't want to spend $50 [on something that should cost a lot more], because the lawyer is your cousin's friend. That will backfire on you.
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Posted by Henry on June 15, 2003
In Reply to: "I'm Your Huckleberry" posted by PurdueLiz on June 15, 2003
: Does anybody know the origin and meaning of this phrase? Am assuming it's related to Huckleberry Finn, but not sure. Thanks!
What it means is easy enough. To be one's huckleberry-usually as the phrase I'm your huckleberry-is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission. Where it comes from needs a bit more explaining.
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WASHINGTON — Americans are more confident in the economy than they have been in seven months, an encouraging sign for President Barack Obama with six weeks left in the presidential race.
A new survey of consumer confidence rose Tuesday to its highest level since February on expectations that hiring will soon pick up. And a separate report showed home values rising steadily, signaling sustained improvement in housing.
Los Angeles Times
Mitt Romney's semantic misadventure with the "47 percent" helped alienate some of the narrow band of undecided voters whom the Republican needs to beat President Barack Obama in November. That's the single strongest sentiment registered this week by previously undecided voters interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
None of nine uncommitted voters from a month ago said in follow-up interviews that they had warmed to former Massachusetts Gov. Romney. Five said they now planned to vote for Obama, two said they leaned toward the president, one remained entirely undecided and the ninth said he would not vote at all.
Although the tiny sample is far from statistically significant, it offers a glimpse of a group of voters expected to determine the outcome of the Nov. 6 vote. The same voters had told the USC Annenberg/Los Angeles Times Poll on Politics and the Press a month ago that they were open to both candidates. In the intervening month — which included the two conventions, Romney's 47 percent comment and unrest in the Mideast — not a lot of positive news accumulated for Romney.
Of the nine who described their feelings about the candidates in detailed phone interviews, six knew about Romney's comment — captured on a hidden-camera video — that 47 percent of the American people believe they are "victims" and are dependent on government, unwilling to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
"This is like an opinion poll on the economy without the political parties attached," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics, a consulting firm. The confidence survey "says people are feeling better. If so, they are less likely to vote for change."
The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence shot up in September. The jump surprised many economists because the most recent hiring and retail sales figures have been sluggish.
The increased confidence could help explain recent polls that show Obama with a widening lead over Mitt Romney in some battleground states.
The consumer confidence index is closely watched because consumer spending drives nearly 70 percent of economic activity. The index jumped from 61.3 for August to 70.3 for September. It remains well below 90, the level that is thought to signify a healthy economy.
Among those feeling more optimistic about the economy is Darlene Johnson of Silver Spring, Md., who works for the National Institutes of Health. The value of Johnson's 401(k) account has risen. Home sales in her neighborhood have ticked up, too, and are commanding higher prices.
"I feel like things are stabilizing," she said. "I don't feel as uneasy as I did a few months ago."
But Johnson, who voted for Obama in 2008, remains undecided on which candidate to back. And she's still a bit nervous about the future.
"It will depend on how my pockets are looking," she says. "Everyday circumstances will drive my decision on how I am going to vote."
Economists point to some key reasons why consumers have grown more confident.
Stocks are up: The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has surged nearly 15 percent this year. Gas prices have leveled off after rising for several months. And the broad increase in home prices is likely giving would-be buyers more confidence. When prices rise, buyers don't worry so much that a home might lose value after they bought it.
Home prices are up: National home prices rose 1.2 percent in July compared with a year ago, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday. That was the second straight month in which year-over-year home prices have increased.
Some economists question whether the higher level of confidence is sustainable. They've seen the index spike briefly before since the Great Recession ended more than three years ago. Some say confidence could be affected by negative campaign ads that focus on the economy.
But others note that even a weak economy doesn't feel so bad to many consumers once it begins to make steady improvement.
"The economy is perceived in relative rather than absolute terms," noted St. Louis University political scientist and pollster Ken Warren.
Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo, suggests that former President Bill Clinton might have helped boost confidence with his rousing speech on Obama's behalf at the Democratic National Convention in early September. The Conference Board's consumer confidence survey was conducted Sept. 1-13.
Clinton "rekindled memories of better economic times" and assured voters that the U.S. economy was on the right track, Vitner said.
The consumer confidence survey polled 500 people. The part of the survey that gauges consumers' confidence in the economy now and the part that gauges their outlook for the next six months both rose. Consumers were much more optimistic about the short-term outlook for business conditions, employment and their financial situation.
The rising home prices could also help Obama's prospects. Prices are rising in many large cities in swing states such as Florida, Colorado, Michigan and North Carolina. Prices have risen 3.6 percent in Tampa, Fla., in the past year, for example. And they're up 5.4 percent in Denver, 6.2 percent in Detroit and 2.2 percent in Charlotte, N.C.
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An independent survey of 500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) across the USA and Europe found that enterprises are still not experiencing the full benefits that virtualization brings to data protection.
The survey found that capabilities, complexity and cost all affect implementations.
Indeed, in a number of areas enterprises’ data protection capabilities have actually diminished since the last report in late 2011.
- Key findings:
- 68% of CIOs feel that their backup and recovery tools will become less effective as the amount of data and servers in their organization grows.
- Recovery of virtual servers is only a little faster than that of physical servers, at 5 and 6 hours respectively. This is actually worse than in 2011, when recovery took 4 and 5 hours.
- Every hour of downtime costs an enterprise $324,793: meaning that downtime is, on average, costing organizations at least $1.6 million per incident.
- Recovering individual files and application items can take even longer: for example, recovering individual emails takes on average 14 hours.
- Regardless of recovery times, enterprises experience problems with more than 1 in 6 recoveries.
- 88% of CIOs experience capability-related challenges with backup and recovery, 84% with complexity and 87% with cost: showing that data protection is still not a simple task.
- 58% of CIOs are planning to change their backup tool for virtual environments by 2014.
- Currently, virtual infrastructure accounts for 51% of enterprise servers, with this expected to grow to 63% in 2014.
- CIOs are not blind to the data protection issues these growing virtual infrastructures present.
- 88% of CIOs identified capability challenges affecting their ability to backup and recover virtual servers, while 84% recognized complexity challenges and 87% cost issues. Similarly, 77% of those enterprises using agent-based backup tools were experiencing problems or management issues with the technology.
- These included excessively complex management (43%), backups failing too often (32%), restores failing too often (28%), the cost of the technology (20%) and agents slowing the performance of servers (18%).
- One sign that enterprises are beginning to recognize this is that 58% are planning to change the backup tool used for virtual servers by 2014.
- The primary driver for this is financial, with 51% changing due to Total Cost of Ownership and 42% due to current hardware and software costs.
- Complexity is a reason to change for 47%, while failure to meet Recovery Time Objectives (32%) and Recovery Point Objectives (24%) are also factors.
- Study says: Virtualization could transform business data protection
- Five app recovery challenges and how to fix them (infographic)
- Five tips on overcoming backup challenges in virtual environments
- Six steps to deal with increasing data center complexity
- Cloud storage tops list of cloud initiatives planned, survey says
© 2013, TechJournal. All rights reserved.
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Wealthy in California may pay nation's highest taxes
Bush-era rates set to expire with coming New Year
High-income Californians would pay the nation's highest marginal income tax rates with the passage of Proposition 30 last month. If President Barack Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," the Bush era tax cuts on high-income taxpayers would expire with the arrival of 2013. Rates will revert to their previous levels.
High-income Californians would pay the nation's highest marginal income tax rates with the passage of Proposition 30 last month.
The scholars noted that Proposition 30 added three percentage points to the marginal state income tax rate for California's highest-income taxpayers, which brought it to 13.3 percent, raising California over other high-tax jurisdictions to a marginal rate of 51.9 percent, slightly higher than New York City's level.
Hawaii was the only other place with a calculated rate above 50 percent.
Lawmakers are currently engaged in a battle over how to solve the "fiscal cliff" issue by the end of 2012. If nothing is done, a series of tax cuts expire for all Americans and taxes will go up. Republicans favor a continuation of the tax cuts for everyone, including the wealthy. President Obama and Democrats have thrown their support behind continuing the tax cuts for individuals who make $200,000 or less and couples who make $250,000 or less, but they oppose continuing the cuts for wealthier Americans.
Republicans also want to cut more spending than Obama. The poll indicates that Americans are reluctant to cut Social Security, Medicare and defense spending, which may lend some weight to Democrats' arguments against major cuts. However, a recent poll also found that more Americans favor cutting government services to reduce deficits than raising taxes, a Republican-held view that the GOP may be able to use in their favor as both parties try to reach an agreement on how to avoid "going over the cliff."
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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.
Keywords: Wealthy, California, Bush-era tax cut, tax breaks, Obama
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It just so happens that I have just purchased szu's monitor on eBay.
Apparently, szu was looking for help in getting the right cable in order to snap pictures for the auction.
But don't worry, I'm not here to claim "lemon!" (Yuk, get it?) In fact, far from it. It's a really nice monitor, and it survived the trip all the way from Michigan to Anchorage. However, I'm having...not dissimilar issues!
Oh, I know all about the Y/C video cable, and have made a few myself, and I'm just fine with THAT input. My question is regarding the mysterious RGB port, which legend has it will allow a Commodore 128's RGBI output to hook up to it.
I'm unable to find anything on the net regarding the pinout for this port, as it's different from the DIN-8 that the Commodore 1084 series monitors uses (which I have one of also). When I tried that cable, I got no results, just a dark screen.
I did some research on the net today, and I found a site that at least explained what the different "modes" are in the mysterious Mode I/Mode III switch...according to the site, Mode I is CGA-style RGBI, Mode II is Apple IIgs style analog RGB (not present on monitor) and Mode III is Apple III-style digital XRGB.
Based on this, I'm assuming I can't wire up a custom cable to use the analog outputs of my Amiga with the monitor, but I'd be perfectly happy to use it with the C128...IF I can get the pinout.
Research today also led me to the following Mode I DIN-8 pinout which I tried:
1 - Intensity
2 - Red
3 - Green
4 - Blue
5,6 - Ground
7 - Horizontal/Composite Sync
8 - Vertical Sync
You'll note it differs from the DIN-8 for the 1084s, in that pins 1 and 5 are swapped. However, when I wired up a DB-9 to DIN-8 cable at work per this pinout and tried it at home tonight, I still get nothing....almost. If I fill the 80-column screen with text, I can see horizontal and vertical bands of noise, in blue and red, and just a hint of the green text, as if it were an analog channel tuned in very poorly.
Wondering if it was the addition of vertical sync -- I've actually had some issues with "sync" in dealing with Amiga analog video to RGB converters, and I removed the vertical sync and tried it out...and now there's only a vertical stripe of blue "interference"! What the heck? If that wasn't vertical sync but BLUE, then the CGA-ish pinout I've been following is WAY off.
Anyway, I see mentions on other forums of people with this monitor, the Teknika MJ-22, saying "they got a service manual" or "they got a pinout", but my Google-fu has come up dry. There's even a cable for sale online that'll supposedly work for $7 mentioning this exact brand of monitor, but...c'mon! Hasn't ANYONE got the pinout for this, so I can just wire my own cable? Any hints or help appreciated! If anyone has a DB-9 to DIN-8 cable for this monitor pre-made, can you tone it out and tell me the pinouts?
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Girls rule the world! Egypt photo competition goes for gold
The fifth photography competition organisedby the European Union’s delegation to Egypt concluded on Thursday with an awards ceremony for the top 12 photographs, attended by the head of the delegation, Ambassador James Moran.
The ceremony took place in Zamalek’s Marriott hotel, a former presidential palace, with multiple luxurious salons and ballrooms. The theme for this year was the role of women in Egypt and the title of the exhibition was Women of New Egypt.
The ambassador presented the photographers with certificates while the top three images won prizes ranging from €1,000 in cash for first place, a digital SLR camera for the runner-up, and an honourable mention for the third-placed photograph.
A new award titled the Mohamed Hassan award was created this year, in the memory of one of the winners of the first EU photography competition in Egypt. The award is presented for the photo with the best “journalistic skills.”
The remainder of the 30 photographs will be shown on the delegation’s website and will be exhibited around the city throughout this month.
The competition was open to anyone who is an amateur photographer in Egypt, a term the delegation defines as “photographers living in Egypt who do not receive a major part of their income from photography.”
The pictures focused on women’s roles in rebuilding Egypt and most took a special interest in the revolution and numerous protests that took place over the last two years. One of the images featured a woman, dressed colourfully, against a sea of central security forces, taken during the 18 days of the revolution.
Others like Marwa Morgan’s “Optimistic” featured a female friend and inspiration of the photographer, holding her hand up with the word “optimistic” and a smile drawn on it.
The images were said to have been judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit, with personal vision being taken into account by the jury, which included photography experts.
From teaching children to leading protests and screaming in anger over the revolution’s martyrs, the photographs captured the different roles women play in the changing Egyptian landscape. Though most images focused on the revolution itself, others displayed a different kind of impact that lies outside the political scene. Where some photographs focused on feminist concerns, others struck a more general, nationalist chord contributing to a diverse exhibition.
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High Flyers and the rest
And the horses are in!!! This might as well have been the headline in the dailies as the results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) were announced.
The focus, as usual, was on the ‘high flyers’ – the top 100 or so performers out of the 17,138 candidates who wrote this examination this year. The top 10 marks were shared by 32 students with the highest possible total score obtainable at 563.
When in 2003, the Common Entrance Examination was reorganised as the NGSA, the operational change was from ‘examination’ to ‘assessment’. With great fanfare, it was announced that the children were being assessed to discern strength and weaknesses that the educational system would take into consideration as they moved through it. The simultaneous introduction of National Grade Two and Grade Four Assessments was intended to supplement the NGSA.
Around the same time there were several other innovations introduced. The first, related to the ‘assessments’, was the announcement that the ‘cream of the crop’ that came out of the Common Entrance and traditionally proceeded to the ‘elite’ secondary schools in Georgetown would be phased out. Secondary schools in all Regions were to be upgraded to reach the same standards as the Georgetown schools and soon students would simply proceed to secondary schools in their own Regions.
The other change was the ‘no child left behind’ policy, which was interpreted in Guyana as no child failing and left in his/her original class. There were to be remedial classes after regular school hours and during the holidays that would bring lagging children up to scratch. The announcement of the NGSA results forces us once again to ask what exactly has been the fate of the set of supposedly related changes. It does appear that in reality, not much has actually been implemented and all we are left with is the NGSA in place of the Common Entrance.
The top five hundred or so performers will still be going on to the ‘premier’ Georgetown schools headed by Queen’s College. What has happened to the vaunted egalitarianism that was going to be created in the secondary schools? The country schools are still being treated like Cinderella’s step sisters.
The other side of the coin is that if we are going to continue to have ‘elite’ schools – and there is a large body of opinion that supports this option – when are we going to treat the identified schools as such? For instance, if every year we are going to send our top 100 NGSA students to Queen’s, should we not have a salary structure and other incentives in place to attract the requisite quality of teachers?
Then there is the vexed question of the ‘assessments’. All the Grade Two and Grade Four Assessments appear to have done was to introduce ‘lessons’ further down the educational food chain. After all, part of the marks announced as NGSA results came from these ‘assessments’.
We have asked the question several times over the years, but without any response from the Ministry: in how many schools are the results of the ‘assessments’ scrutinised by teachers and the children given individual attention based on their strengths and weaknesses? And for the NGSA, which of the high schools that accept the graduates utilise the scores for the stated purpose?
Finally there is the ‘no child left behind’ policy that has come into severe fire throughout the country – most recently during the new Minister of Education’s interactions with educators on the issue of corporal punishment. It does not appear the policy has found favour with the key constituencies or stakeholders: parents and teachers.
In our opinion, it is time for the new Minister of Education to take a deep breath and revisit the innovations that were introduced almost a decade ago, with, we are sure, the best of intentions. We have had enough time to evaluate them – whether on their individual merits – or whether we have the resources necessary to implement them.Finally, hats off to all Grade Six graduates.
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coverage for "slips and falls" and other perils.
Coverage to protect your business against claims of bodily injury or property damage to others, arising out of injury on your premises, products you make or advertising and personal exposures. Claims are subject to occurrence and aggregate limits.
Usually involves claims for injuries or loss caused by property owner, manufacturing operations, contracting operations, sale or distribution of products, and the operation of machinery, as well as professional services.
This is a broad term that simply means liability insurance (excluding automobile) that provides third party protection. This would include premises risks and operations, contractual liability, products and completed operations. Larger corporations tend to carry a significant amount of general liability insurance, while smaller companies usually carry smaller policies that are more adaptive to their specific needs.
Coverage for liability that arises out of the conduct of a business. This could cover premises and operations exposures arising out of the location of the business, and also products and completed operations to cover damage from defective products or operations performed. There are other coverages which may also fall under the general liability label.
A FORM OF INSURANCE DESIGN TO PROTECT OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF BUSINESSES FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF LIABILITY EXPOSURES SUCH AS LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF ACCIDENTS RESULTING FROM THE PREMISE OR THE OPERATIONS OF AN INSURED, PRODUCTS SOLD BY THE INSURED, OPERATIONS COMPLETED BY THE INSURED AND CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY.
A form of insurance sold to businesses to indemnify the business for third party liability claims due to negligence. Coverages can include premises and operations liability for onsite and jobsite accidents and products liability claims for products that injure third parties.
Unlimited responsibility for an obligation, such as payment of debts of a business.
For the most part, claims for injuries or damage caused by ownership of property, manufacturing operations, contracting operations, sale or distribution of products, and the operation of machinery, as well as professional services.
An insurance claim for damages or injuries resulting from patronage of a private company.
This cover protects the policyholder's legal liability for injury, property damage or financial loss caused to others.
In lieu of a complete Business Owner's Policy, this coverage protects your business for covered third party liability damage. This policy provides no Property coverage.
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Many folks who live in a condominium community usually come and go about their business never thinking about those who serve or work for their community. For many, as long as their care-free lifestyle is uninterrupted and building systems are maintained there is no need for concern.
Who protects the care-free lifestyle for everyone?
The community manager, of course! The role of a professional community association manager is to facilitate the decisions of the board of directors. In addition a community manager will:
- Advise and provide managerial, administrative, best-practices and operational advice to the board of directors
- Inspect the property to ensure all the facilities are operating as expected
- Supervise maintenance activities and contractor expectations
- Communicate issues and concerns to property vendors, staff and residents
- Exhibit professionalism and dedication to the board of directors
- Exercise diligence in carrying out duties on behalf of the board of directors
- Control expenses and work within the annual budget approved by the board of directors
- Be familiar with the community’s governing documents, rules & regulations, state statutes and federal law
Successful managers are able to work in balance with the homeowners, board of directors and also within the goals and parameters of a management company, if applicable. They are good listeners, understand apathy, able to problem-solve and are multi-task oriented.
Who sets the tone for a community and is ultimately the responsible entity for community governance?
The board of directors, of course! This body is made up of homeowners who volunteer to serve their community and are elected by their peers.
A successful board will provide a perspective of maintaining, protecting and enhancing the property and quality of life for all residents. Usually a board’s goal is to govern smoothly, enforce rules, ensure all homeowners are paying their dues and establish an annual budget for operation of the community.
Typically a board will consist of four officers - President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. Additional board members may be known as Members at Large.
The President acts as the chief executive officer and leader of the association. They preside over all meetings, sets meeting agendas, controls meetings and will execute legal documents on behalf of the association.
The Vice President performs all the duties of the president in his/her absence. They may also perform additional duties as determined by the board or president.
The Secretary is responsible for the record keeping of the community. The secretary will prepare and distribute meeting minutes, attest to the legitimacy of certain documents and maintain all official records of the community.
The Treasurer will maintain the financial records of a community. Usually they will work with the board or others to develop the annual budget. The Treasurer should review monthly financial data and provide a monthly report to the board and the community.
If you live in a condo or homeowner’s association – take a moment to thank those neighbors who volunteer to ensure your care-free lifestyle is maintained. Oh, and if you have a good property manager – thank him or her too.
Midtown resident Tim Huffman is a licensed Community Association Manager and holds the CMCA®, AMS® and PCAM® designations from Community Associations Institute.
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IRS or State Tax problems can have a demoralizing effect on an individual, family and or, business that may seem unsolvable. Are you fighting to settle, reduce tax debt but have no results to show for your efforts? Perhaps a No Non Sense DWK Tax Group Tax Attorney is the remedy you been searching for.
DWK Tax Group's staff is rational and reasonable individuals looking for comprehensive options and solutions that best fit the troubled Taxpayer, most importantly, satisfying the aggressive federal and or, state taxing authority.
Have you ever wondered why tax bills grow so quickly? Have you ever considered the ramifications of incorrect W-4 exemption claims or neglected self employed income quarterly estimated tax payments? Today, we will focus on what additional charges that are tacked on to existing tax amounts owed, specifically with the IRS.
As commonly known, tax returns and taxes owed are due on April 15th each and every year or receive a refund if proper withholding mechanisms are in place. Tax returns are examined by the IRS for mathematical errors, accepted and posted. If a discrepancy is discovered a bill will be sent. For the lesson's sake we are going to use an example of $1000.00 owed after an elapsed time of 1 year.
Make sure you are sitting, the news is staggering.
Generally, interest is charged on any unpaid tax from the due date of the return until the date of full payment. The interest rate is determined quarterly and is the federal short-term rate (3%) plus 3 percent. Interest is compounded daily.
If you file a return but don't pay all amounts shown as due on time, you'll generally have to pay a late payment penalty of one-half of one percent (0.005) of the tax owed for each month, or part of a month, that the tax remains unpaid from the due date, until the tax is paid in full or the 25% maximum penalty is reached. The one-half of one percent rate increases to one percent if the tax remains unpaid 10 days after the IRS issues a notice of intent to levy.
If you owe tax and don't file on time, the total late-filing penalty is usually five percent of the tax owed for each month, or part of a month that your return is late, up to five months. If your return is over 60 days late, the MINIMUM penalty for late filing is the smaller of $135 or 100 percent of the tax owed. YIKES!
Cumulative balance after 1 year (4/15/2013):
Balance due: $1000.00 Balance due (4/15/2012)
Interest: $61.83 ((0.06 / 365 = 0.00016438356 + 1= 1.00016438356 ^365 = 1.06183131 X 1000 = (6% compounded daily))
Penalty for a late payment: $3.60 (.005 X 12= $3.60)
Penalty for failure to file on time: $135.00 (After 60 days $135 or 100% penalty)
Total Balance due in 1 Year: $1200.43
In all actuality our world consists of balances ranging in the $10,000+ range. Do the math...WOW! Are you kidding me?
DWK Tax Group advises, YOU must file your return and pay your tax by the due date to avoid interest and penalty charges.
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The lowest fare found to Athens (ATH) was £135 with EasyJet and Business Class was £432 with Aegean Airlines. The fares shown here are the lowest flight prices to Athens obtained in actual searches by Just The Flight customers. To search and book flights to Athens in 2013 and 2014, please enter your requirements and click the search button above.
Although Athens is now a very modern city its history reaches back over more than 3,000 years, to when the first prehistoric settlement was established on the rock now known as The Acropolis (highest city). During the golden age (when Pericles ruled from 495-429 BC) monuments such as the Parthenon were built. Of course, the city would inevitably rise and fall in importance, but today that all lends to its charm and historic appeal. It was in 1834 that Athens became the official capital of Greece and it has since grown into the city that we know and love today.
Despite being so rich in ancient history, Athens now has a new airport; new tram line, new metro line, a new railway, sports stadiums, shopping centres, and just about anything else you can think of to be found in any modern city today. The city's port at Piraeus has now become one of the most important in the Mediterranean. As the city has expanded over the years many locals have moved to the outskirts, making Athens even more sprawling in nature.
The setting of Athens is certainly a beautiful one. The city lies in the basin of Attica and is surrounded on most of its sides by mountains. Mount Aegaleo to the northwest, the Parnitha and Penteli mountains to the northeast, and Mount Hymettus on the southeastern side. What's left is a wonderful border with the Saronic Gulf, not far from the beautiful, deep blue Aegean Sea.
Because Athens is so rich in history, many people visit the city every year to spend time exploring the historical centre. There is simply so much to see that you may want to spend at least two days to really enjoy it and take it all in. The Democracy of the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and all the other monuments, theatres, and museums left behind by the ancient Greeks are great sights to see. In fact, you can walk the entire historical centre by using the Pedestrianisation, which is surrounded by a triangle comprised of Dionysiou Areopagitou, Plaka, and Keramikos streets. The Acropolis museum is included in this area, so be sure to stop by for a visit. Nearby you will also get a chance to explore the ancient Agora that is home to the Temple of Hephestus.
The architecture is another outstanding thing to behold in Athens. With many neo-classical buildings, it is hard to choose just one or two to visit. A walking tour of the city will help you get a glimpse of the dazzling architecture. If you don't opt for a tour you should make the effort to see the Athens Academy, the Historical Museum, the National Library, and the Archaeological Museum. Panepistimiou, Stadiou, Patission, and Athinas streets surrounding Omonia Square are also the location of some really fabulous buildings and neo-classical homes.
Getting around Athens is quite easy as it has a good variety of transport services. Of course you can take a taxi, but many visitors find it much easier on their wallets to take the trolley tram, bus, or metro, all of which run on schedule and are easy to use. Walking is a great way to get around town as well, and you really get a feel of the city that way.
Though many people book flights to Athens simply to get a look at some ancient history, others still come for the beaches. Remember that it is a Mediterranean city, which means some deep blue sea and white sands await your arrival. During the warmer months, the beaches, especially those of Glyfada and Sounion, are prime destinations. They also lead you to ports where you can sail to the popular destinations of Crete, Mykonos, and Rhodes.
The shopping is also very good in Athens. From the famous shopping areas on Ermou Street and Aiolou Street to the area of Kolonaki, you will be able to find all sorts of treasures; books, music, art, and some of the latest fashions are all available right here. The authentic Greek markets for local fare and produce are also worth some time, especially if you have rented a house or villa and are self catering.
When booking flights to Athens, you will definitely need to consider the time of year in which to visit. Spring and late autumn are the best times to enjoy the weather, as the summer can be extremely hot. Winter, though sometimes quite cold with some days of rain and snow, does allow you to find cheap flights to Athens, as it is the off-peak season. Many people opt for the winter simply because there are less tourists around and it is far more affordable. However, no matter when you choose to visit, Athens is a wonderful place for a holiday.
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One of the key roles of a youth worker is speaking to teenagers. For some this is a gift that comes naturally—lots of youth workers are gifted speakers, while others have had to learn how to communicate effectively to an audience. Regardless of your skill level, these tips will either affirm what you’re already doing or help you push forward in your skills on stage.
Find Your Preferred Outline Style
Everyone has a preferred style of notes—I (Kurt) prefer a simple student outline with a few speaker notes written in the margin. I (Josh) prefer a fully written out manuscript when speaking to teenagers. Experiment with both and you’ll quickly find what works best for you and gives you the most comfort on stage.
TIP: Kurt’s style allows for more spontaneity, while Josh’s ensures what is meant to be said actually gets said!
Practice It Once or Twice By Yourself
Prepare your lesson early enough to provide time to run over the talk out loud as if you were giving it live on stage. Work on your delivery, and add new thoughts and ideas to your outline as you progress through the run-through. So often great lines, dramatic pauses, or a fresh idea come through when you’re practicing. Too often what looks good on paper doesn’t work verbally, so get the kinks out before you’re in front of your students. I (Josh) have made this a non-negotiable part of my lesson prep. Kurt, on the other hand…well, the results speak for themselves!
Ruthlessly Debrief Your Talk
There’s nothing more vulnerable than walking off stage and allowing someone to critique your message…BUT, it’s a key component of improving your delivery. Fight through the pride and let your volunteers, a key leader, or your spouse (man oh man are our spouses honest with us) help you get better each week.
You’ll improve greatly if you open yourself up for honest feedback. The truth of the matter is this: People are critiquing you anyway; why not give them permission to share their observations!
So there are a few ideas to help you teaching teens. Add one in the comments!
This post was written by Josh Griffin and Kurt Johnston and originally appeared as part of Simply Youth Ministry Today free newsletter. Subscribe to SYM Today right here.
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Excessive heat watch issued
August 14, 2012 · 5:13 PM
The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Watch for most of western Washington effective Thursday afternoon through Friday evening. High temperatures could reach into the mid to upper 90s in the southern areas and upper 80s to lower 90s in the northern areas.
The NWS recommends that people make a plan to stay cool, if posible, and to drink plenty of water. Authorities also remind pet owners keep pets from areas where temperatures could reach dangerous levels, such as cars.
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WEIL AM RHEIN.-
In the second half of the 20th century, Italian design attained worldwide recognition. The Milanese photographers Aldo Ballo and Marirosa Toscani Ballo played a considerable part in this success - there is hardly a design icon from that era which was not photographed in their studio. The exquisitely precise, dispassionate shots of the Ballos emphasized the beauty and functionality of the objects. This helped to convey their message: in the context of discussion of the relationship between object and medium, these images have influenced our perception of Italian design. Today, the archive of Studio Ballo documents an important chapter in Italian design history, of which it forms a significant part. Presenting outstanding objects with the Ballos' photographic interpretations, the exhibition presents this story as a discourse of empathy and interpretation, of the signs of the times and their transmission into the future - from Albini, Aulenti, Bellini and Castiglioni to Colombo, Mendini, Pesce and Ponti, to Sarfatti, Sottsass and Superstudio.
A unique design culture evolved in Italy which positioned the country as a leader in the realm of international design. It was characterised by the creative collaboration of visionary entrepreneurs with innovative designers, by a close relationship to the fine arts and by a sure feel for contemporary style. Functioning as mediators between these spheres were a number of new Italian weekly journals with a focus on interior design, which made an early appearance on the market in multilingual editions and had an essential influence on the international image of Italian design. The collaborative work of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo between 1953 until 1994 coincided precisely with the heyday of Italian design, and from the outset they were two of the most sought-after object photographers for magazine covers, advertising campaigns and editorial articles.
The Ballos photographs are distinguished by their fresh perspective and concentration on the inherent qualities of the objects they portray. They are based on precise, clean settings and a restrictive selection of props. They were created for prominent manufacturers such as Pirelli, Olivetti, Artemide, Danese or Kartell, and for magazines including Casa Vogue, Domus and Abitare. Along with specific object portraits, the Ballos also photographed painstakingly staged arrangements, architecture, and home interiors, as well as personalities from the Milan design scene. Up until the present day, these photos have been reproduced in every important catalogue or publication on Italian design. They have etched themselves in our collective memory and have fundamentally shaped our view of Italian design.
Based on the holdings of roughly 146,000 photographs in the archive of Studio Ballo, the exhibition Zoom presents a new view of Italian design and its history. It focuses not only on the legendary design classics that were created during this period, but also examines the intense dialogue between objects, media and marketing that first facilitated the worldwide dissemination of these designs. Over 300 photographs, numerous original publications, film clips from Italian motion pictures and a documentary survey of the most important exhibitions on this topic sketch a fascinating panorama of this grand epoch in the history of Italian design. The core of the exhibition comprises photographs by the Ballos as well as a selection of approximately 75 objects from the collection of the Vitra Design Museum
, including spectacular artefacts like Archizooms seating landscape Safari from 1968, and classics such as Mario Bellinis stereo system Totem from the year 1970. Nearly all of the leading designers of the period are represented from Franco Albini, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini and Alessandro Mendini to Gaetano Pesce, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass and Marco Zanuso.
An exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
26 March 3 October 2011
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The Ultimate Solutions to Heart Disease, Stroke and Alzheimers, part 3 – Niacin & CoQ10
Alternatives for Red Yeast Rice
Additional supplements may also be beneficial for those taking a statin drug. Chief among these are the plant sterols and stanols, which prevent the body’s absorption of the cholesterol found in food. These substances are structurally almost, but not quite, identical to cholesterol. They are very poorly absorbed through the intestines, and interact with “regular” cholesterol in a way that also blocks its absorption. Afterwards, they simply pass out of the body in bowel movements. Two commercially available margarines, Benecol (a plant sterol) and Take Control (a stanol), may lower LDL cholesterol levels as much as 10% to 14%. Basikol, a vanilla-flavored powder sold in health-food stores, is a plant sterol, and if used according to package instructions (2 scoops daily), should provide a 14% drop in cholesterol.
The B vitamin niacin has been used as a cholesterol-lowering agent for decades. In fact, niacin is the only therapy that positively affects virtually all cholesterol abnormalities. Niacin will lower total and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, raise HDL cholesterol, and lower lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)], another blood fat associated with heart disease. And, of course, consider policosanol, which is now appearing among cholesterol-control supplements from several different manufacturers under a variety of brand names.
Other Heart-Healthy Supplements
Certain nutritional supplements should also be included in any program designed to protect your heart. One of the most important is coenzyme Q10, a cell-protecting antioxidant normally produced in the heart and other tissues. “Statins can deplete CoQ10 levels,” warns David Edelberg, M.D., WHMD Advisor’s chief medical consultant. “And low levels of this nutrient can damage the heart, especially if you already have heart disease.”
In addition, those concerned about high cholesterol can benefit from the antioxidant vitamins, vitamin C and vitamin E, which together help to prevent the “bad” (LDL) cholesterol from converting to a form that can clog arteries. An herbal supplement to consider is milk thistle, which protects the liver from damage caused by various chemicals, including possible toxicity induced by statin drugs or red yeast extracts.
Suggested dose for red yeast rice substitutes:
Policosanol: 10 mg, once or twice a day with food; plant sterols: 800 mg a day (2 scoops) Basikol powder, with food. In addition, to help lower cholesterol take coenzyme Q10 (50 mg twice a day),slow release Niacin 500 mg two or three times a day), vitamin E (400 IU a day), and vitamin C (500 mg a day). Add milk thistle (150 mg twice a day) if you’re concerned a bout liver problems. Be sure to consult with your doctor before you start on Niacin.
THIS JUST IN (02/02/2007)
It has been suspected that Policosanol made from rice reduces the stickeyness of blood platelets. (Plavix is prescribed for this) The New England Journal of Medicine has announced the results of a study to confirm this effect. I now take 3 of the 10mg a day.
It is now clear that statins are highly effective in preventing heart attacks and strokes among individuals at increased risk. Researchers recently reported the preliminary results of the Heart Pro¬tection Study (BPS), which examined the effects of long-term therapy with simvastatin (Zocor) in more than 20,500 people. The findings showed that statin therapy reduced the incidence of heart attacks and strokes by about one third. Statins were effective with those with existing heart disease as well as in those with diabetes, peripheral arterial dis¬ease, or a history of stroke. Even peo¬ple with pretreatment cholesterol levels within the normal range benefited, indi¬cating that lowering cholesterol below current target levels may offer addi¬tional protection.
One finding that suggests statins may work in multiple ways is the rapidity with which statin therapy reduces heart attack risk. The question thus arises: What effects of statins, other than their effect on cholesterol, might account for this observation? One pos¬sibility is that statins quell inflamma¬tion. A recent review in Circulation describes the critical role that inflam¬mation plays in coronary heart disease (CHD). More than a dozen studies have shown that baseline levels of the C-¬reactive protein (CRP), a marker of chronic inflammation, can predict the future risk of heart attack. Inflamma¬tion appears to render fatty plaques in the coronary arteries more vulnerable to rupture, blood clot formation, and heart attack. Statins apparently short-circuit this process by curbing the havoc wreaked by inflammation, an action that seems to be independent of their effects on cholesterol because statins counter the destabilizing effect of inflammation. All of the various statin drugs carry with them a substantial risk of liver and mussel problems. You should have you liver enzymes tested a regular intervals. A product that appears to have no side effects on liver or mussel tissue is one used by the Chinese for the past 1800 years, called Red Yeast Rice.
The statin group of drugs were developed from extracting and synthesizing one of the active ingredients in Chinese Red Yeast Rice, a by product of making rice wine. This product was sold by many supplement stores including major drug and department stores until the FDA declared it a drug and the stores had to take it off the shelves. The condiment version is the only one allowed to be sold in the United States. It contains the same cholesterol lowering benefit as the standardized version sold in the rest of the world except there is only a fraction of the active ingredient in it. It has been found that 20mg per day of the standardized Red Yeast Rice reduced cholesterol by over 34% in 87% of the test patients.
Much of the problem with heart disease lies with arteries that are 30% to 40% blocked. These are the silent killers. Many become restricted because of inflammation of the artery lining, which causes breakdown of tissue and build up of contaminants including fatty deposits. They are the ones that doctors are most concerned with. You can get a C-Reactive Protein (CRP) test on your next blood test for a fairly accurate prediction of future heart attack. Readings should be below 4; but preferably around 1 or 2. Fortunately Homocysteine can be controlled by taking 100mg of B6, 400mcg Folic Acid and 500mcg B12 each day. To lower inflammation which causes soft plaque to rupture and cause heart attacks, you need to take 40mg per day of Chinese Red Yeast Rice until you clear up the arteries. Then maintenance dose of 10mg per day. To prevent platelets from sticking, you need 20mg per day of Policosanol. To provide heart attack protection take 100mg per day of CoQ10 because the Red Yeast Rice or a statin drug will restrict 60mg production in the liver each day and it vital to a healthy heart.
Usually we turn our attention to the arteries that are 80% to 90% blocked because they are the ones that are obvious; however the lower percentage blocked arteries can have cracking in the lining, which in turn leads to blood clots and further damage. Therefore the goal is to lessen the irritation of the blood vessel lining. Statin drugs and RYR do a good job of lessening the irritation. (otherwise known as inflammation). For many years it was believed that a gradual build-up of fatty deposits lead to the narrowing of an artery supplying blood to the heart, causing the state of oxygen deprivation that characterizes an attack. While that certainly causes some attacks, it turns out that a more insidious type of deposit is the major cause of heart attacks. “Ninety percent plus of heart attacks are not occurring at the tightest blockage that a person has in their anatomy,” explains Dr. Richard Page, head of the division of cardiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. “The great majority are due to vulnerable plaque.” So-called vulnerable plaque, also known as unstable plaque, is a fatty deposit that triggers inflammatory responses in the body, which in turn attracts immune cells. These immune cells, acting in the body’s defense, eat through and weaken the deposits, which can lead them to burst or rupture, suddenly blocking the flow of blood through the artery. What was once a relatively minor blockage that did not cause any symptoms such as chest pain or even show up on clinical examination can quickly become lethal.
Research done over the last 20 years has proven as much as 40% of heart attacks and strokes are a result of high levels of Homocysteine in the body. The AMA and N.E. Medical Journal now agree with this research. Apparently this problem is hereditary. The liver excretes Homocysteine and in normal bodies it is broken down and assimilated. In others it is not broken down and attacks the lining of the blood vessels which leads to coronary heart disease. The good new is that it can be remedied by taking high potency vitamin with Folic Acid, B6 and B12 at prescribed levels once a day. Normal levels of Homocysteine should be between 4.9 and 11.7 micrograms per liter of blood.
Because the statin drugs can provide both a reduction in vessel lining irritation and cholesterol production in the liver, it serves very well except for the liver damage it causes. The Red Yeast Rice however provides these benefits without liver damage.
The Statins came about when research on Red Yeast Rice produced a statin called Lovastatin which was approved by the FDA for clinical reduction of potentially harmful cholesterol. Merck, the company that chemically synthesized it, named this drug Mevacor. The key point here is that the drug used only one of the “statins” while the naturally occurring supplement contains many. The use of the natural product produces no side effects in long term use. If you are taking the commercial statin drug, do not take Red Yeast Rice also. Ask your doctor before you switch. Statins and RYR inhibit coenzyme C0Q10 so it is recommended that you take daily supplement of 60 mg. CoQ10 is vital to a healthy heart and cost about 45 cents each. A side effect of CoQ10 is softer skin and you will find it available in face creams because it bathes the epidermis.
CoQ10 has a nice side effect. It bathes the epidermal (the under layer of the skin) and keeps it soft and smoothes out some wrinkles. It is found in expensive body creams for women, so buy a cheep bottle of lotion and dissolve 2 CoQ10 pills in it and use it after your shower.
Niacin appears to be superior to “statin” drugs as a lipid lowering agent.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
Niacin is an essential B vitamin. Lack of Niacin causes the disease, Pellagra. Large doses are used in treating hypercholesterolemia (high blood cholesterol) as it lowers bad cholesterol and raises good cholesterol. It works particularly well with Chromium. Niacin also lowers triglycerides. The Coronary Drug Project demonstrated that Niacin is the only lipid lowering agent that actually reduced overall mortality. It appears to be superior to the “statin” drugs. Be sure your product contains Nicotinic acid. Many No-Flush do not.
A head to head comparison with the popular prescription drug, Lovastatin (Mevacor™) showed the following results in percentages:
Group Week 10 Week 18 Week 26
LDL Cholesterol reduction
Lovastatin 26 28 32
Niacin 5 16 23
HDL Cholesterol increase
Lovastatin 6 8 7
Niacin 2 29 33
Lp(A) Lipoprotein reduction
Lovastatin 0 0 0
Niacin 14 30 35
Niacin was the old original treatment for high Cholesterol!
It was thought that the results would be even more impressive except that the subjects could not tolerate the itching that comes with a full niacin dose so the dose was reduced from its most effective level. Slow release Niacin does not have as much of this problem.
Niacin has also been shown to enhance memory. In one study, subjects performed 10 to 20% better on memory tests after taking 420 mg of Niacin.
Large doses of Niacin have been used by orthomolecular physicians to treat chizophrenia.
Niacin has also been shown to be effective in Raynaud’s disease and Intermittent claudication. Claudication (pain in lower legs and calf’s) is an indication of clogged heart arteries.
Slow Release Niacin is superior to ordinary niacin as it does not cause the usual niacin side effects such as flushing, itching, heat and redness in the skin. If a physician has prescribed Niacin, it might be advisable to discuss changing to Slow Release Niacin.
None known. Large doses of any form of Niacin should be taken under the supervision of a physician and monitoring liver enzymes. Extract should not be taken with LARGE amounts of niacin (2 grams or more/day) but small amounts of niacin will also help lower your cholesterol, and folate is desirable to help protect against buildup of homocystiene. Homocystiene levels have been shown to play an even more important roll in preventing heart problems. It should be keep between 5.0 and 15.0 MMOL /L.
CoQ10 and Claudication
Numerous research has proven that high concentrations of CoQ10 in the heart muscles significantly improve chances of avoiding heart attacks, heart failure, or serious rhythm abnormalities. Research over the past 30 years has shown that this nutrient protects the heart, helps prevent heart disease and helps repair the heart after an attack. If you research CoQ10 on the Internet, you can find many references to recommending it. A secondary effect of CoQ10 is softer skin. It bathes the epidermis and helps prevent wrinkles. You will find it a number of skin lotions for women.
My note: These creams are costly (Rite Aid has 12oz for $12.00) I dissolve a few CoQ10 caps into a $2.00 bottle of lotion, then I know how much CoQ10 is in there..
Back in 1969, a study revealed that doses as low as 100 mg per day dramatically increased the survival rate of patients with heart disease. The survival rate of seriously ill, CoQ10 treated patients was 62 % compared with the average survival rate of 25%.
In a landmark case in 1985, Dr. K. Folkers treated 12 patients who had not improved with the standard treatment of digitalis and water pills. Two thirds of the patients showed remarkable improvement on just 100 mg of CoQ10 per day for 30 days. When treatment was stopped, all of the patient’s health rapidly declined. They experienced liver congestion, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, swelling of the ankles and over-all complained of “feeling lousy”. When the daily dose was resumed, their symptoms declined.
Coenzyme Q10 ( CoQ10 )
January 6, 2007
Sometimes called Vitamin Q, this enzyme is produced by the liver and is vital to a healthy heart. The “Statin” drugs as well as “Mevacor”, the active ingredient in Statin drugs, found in Red Yeast Rice, reduces the amount of CoQ10 the liver produces. It is recommended that the doctors who prescribe Statin drugs, suggest 60mg per day of the CoQ10 to replace the lost amount. CoQ10 has no known side effects except one, it makes the skin softer, which should please the women. This enzyme increases the suppleness of the skin’s epidermis (under layer).
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I have read somewhere (forgive me I cannot remember) that it is illegal to bring cacao pods into the States (and probably many other countries). Something to do with the possibility of introducing foreign bugs or something into our ecosystem and all that. Anyway, the only way that I know of for some people who DO have cacao pods here is that they went to a plantation and collected the pods themselves. Then they either didn't claim them at the airport or weren't found out, and got them back here.
I tried to get some cacao pods for my thesis project in college and I definitely couldn't get my hands on any without trouble. :( Though you could always ask around the community to see if someone out there can get some for you. Or, if you have amazing Photoshop skills, you can always purchase a shot of cacao pods and add it in to your shot. :)
It's not illegal to import pods into the US. There is a shop in the flower district of New York that advertises them and I know that exhibitors at The Chocolate Show in NY have purchased pods from them for use at the show.
Caribbean Cuts. Click on the "Unique Flowers" link in the left-hand nav, then cocoa pods.
The only challenge is how long they take to get and what it'll take to get from NY to Portland.
I just got two pods from Montoso Gardens that I will use for a seminar. Any idea how to preserve them? I'm considering anything from spray varnish to doing nothing - letting them dry out in a cool place. If anyone has ideas, please let me know.
I got two pods from Montoso Gardens a couple of months ago. I just let them set out on the counter to dry. They turned dark brown and now feel like they are made of plastic. I did not use any kind of varnish or anything. I plan to use them in a class that I'm teaching and am very happy with the way they turned out.
I'm so pleased to have found that website. I just ordered one and we'll see how it arrives. Perhaps the fact that it is coming from a US colony (Puerto Rico) influences the rules about importation. I read something from the USDA a few years ago that said I could only bring dry beans from Jamaica.
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"This is a great state."
That was the greeting from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who rallied the faithful in a brief but energetic rally.
A crowd of nearly 4,000 people packed the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal Saturday to see Romney.
Mr. Romney criticized President Obama, but kept most of his message positive, laying out his plan for job creation.
"He was going to heal the planet," Romney said of Obama. "We’re going to help the American people and help the families of America."
"We've seen these last 4 years a lot of disappointment, a lot of families having hard times," Romney continued. "The jobs we lost were middle income jobs and the jobs we're getting back are low income jobs."
He cited a figure that median income has dropped $4000 per family, even as the cost of living has gone up.
The speech then turned to a vigorous rallying cry for unity. He used the example of Neil Armstrong, whose memorial was just yesterday, to make his point.
"The courage and character of that one man combined with the unity of so many who came together... it's a model for the nation."
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The Department of Foreign Affairs strongly recommends that you obtain comprehensive travel insurance which will cover all overseas medical costs, including medical evacuation, before travelling to Morocco. You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for the activities you want to undertake.
Irish Citizens should note that the Irish Government does not provide funds for emergency medical repatriation or for repatriation of remains.
Irish passport holders do not require entry visas to Morocco for tourist visits. Before travelling it is sensible to contact the nearest Embassy or Consulate of Morocco.
It is advisable to take a number of photocopies of your passport with you. During your stay you should carry a photocopy of your passport at all times.
SAFETY & SECURITY
Regional developments have the potential to trigger popular unrest. Any Irish citizens in Morocco are advised to exercise caution and avoid all demonstrations and public gatherings.
Terrorism poses a serious threat in Morocco. The exercise of vigilance and alertness is strongly advised.
There was a terrorist attack on the Argana restaurant in Marrakesh on 28th of April 2011, which killed 16 people, the majority of whom were foreign tourists. The location suggests that places popular with tourists may be deliberately targeted.
Several attacks took place in 2007, including one in the vicinity of a crowded bus in the city of Meknes in mid-August 2007. In 2003, 45 people were killed in a wave of terrorists attacks in Casablanca.
Visitors to Agadir resorts should be aware of the often dangerous rip currents in the sea off the main resort.
Most visitors find Morocco relatively trouble free. However, you should take the usual, sensible precautions with regards to your valuables, travel documents as well as the areas you visit e.g. badly lit areas of cities.
LOCAL LAWS & CUSTOMS
Morocco is a Muslim country. You should respect local customs and sensitivities at all times, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. Women, especially when travelling alone, attract attention. You are advised to dress modestly and avoid wearing clothes that could be regarded as provocative, except on the beach.
Homosexuality is considered a criminal offence in Morocco. Sexual relations outside marriage are also punishable by law.
The penalties for possession of even small amounts of drugs are severe.
Irish citizens are advised to take extra care if driving in Morocco, which has a much worse road safety record, and to stay well within speed limits.
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CasAnus Hotel: Belgium’s Colon-Shaped Hotel
If you ever feel the urge to sleep inside a giant human colon, then Belgium has the perfect place for you: the Hotel CasAnus.
Truth be told it’s actually a replica of the human organ, but imagine the stories you’ll be able to tell after a night spent inside the structure. It’s huge, red, and the design even includes an anus.
That’s right, folks — a human anus.
If you would like to visit, The Huffington Post writes that the giant intestinal replica can be found on a small island in Flanders, Belgium. Initially an art piece by Joep Van Lieshout, the hotel has become part of the Verbeke Foundation, an edgy art and sculpture venue in Western Europe.
The park hosts over 20,000 visitors each year and is owned by art collectors Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens.
Surprisingly popular, the hotel has received positive feedback from its overnight guests. Writer Tom Hall of Lonely Planet had this to say about his stay:
“Before anyone reading this recoils in horror, staying here was a genuine pleasure. The small staff who work here, including Geert and Carla Verbeke, are passionate about their foundation and the art being made and displayed here. Mr. and Mrs. Verbeke fund and operate the foundation themselves and were on hand during my visit. They seem both devoted to their work and immensely welcoming.”
Costing $150 per night, the hotel offers heating, double bed, bathroom, and breakfast. If you’re in the mood to chat about your colon-shaped adventure you can visit the onsite bar-cum-cafe for a little socializing.
Would you like to stay at overnight at Belgium’s colon-shaped Hotel CasAnus?
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Women in Weight Lifting; Women in Science
I don't know if you have been following the brouhaha about women in weightlifting. If not you haven't missed much and you probably can figure out what's being said- yup- it's all about what women should do, be and look like- sound familiar? You may notice there are no links- no way I'm giving that stuff more notice.
What I would like to highlight is the response of these amazing young women- Zoe Smith the 18 year old English had this response. She has some great lines that you younger women in science may want to keep in mind if the need arises (hope it won't but...) like:
The obvious choice of slander when talking about female weightlifting is “how unfeminine, girls shouldn’t be strong or have muscles, this is wrong”...This may sound like a sweeping generalisation, but most of the people that do think like this seem to be chauvinistic, pigheaded blokes who feel emasculated by the fact that we, three small, fairly feminine girls, are stronger than them.
What makes them think that we even WANT them to find us attractive? If you do, thanks very much, we’re flattered. But if you don’t, why do you really need to voice this opinion in the first place, and what makes you think we actually give a toss that you, personally, do not find us attractive? ....
This may be shocking to you, but we actually would rather be attractive to people who aren’t closed-minded and ignorant. Crazy, eh?! We, as any women with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble.
Salon's piece on this was nice. My take away line:
... if you look at a woman who’s one of the greatest athletes in her field in the entire world and not just have thought that she’s fat or she’s mannish or she’s ugly but have publicly expressed it, stop talking right now, you ridiculous, ridiculous little worm.
You know there are days that I think we women in STEM are way, way, way too polite,
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Pastoral letter on the occasion of the opening of the jubilee year marking the fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan in the year 2013
Beloved people of God:
The Church of Lingayen Dagupan is rich and wealthy in the golden graces of God! Indeed the true treasure of the Church is the Lord who is always present amongst His people. And God has always been with us. The Diocese of Lingayen was created on May 19, 1928 with Bishop Cesar Maria Guerrero as the first bishop. It was renamed Diocese of Lingayen Dagupan on February 11, 1954 due to the destruction of the Lingayen Cathedral caused by the Second World War. On February 16, 1963, it was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese with the late Archbishop Mariano Madriaga as the first archbishop. It is now the time of grace to prepare ourselves for the golden year of the Metropolitan Archdiocese in 2013.
This jubilee year is a year for remembering and beholding the greatness of the Lord. Indeed, every year, month and day since we were made a diocese is an epiphany of his goodness and bounty. Our thoughts return to the crib where the mother and her child were visited by the wise men: “They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. (Mt.2:11).
GIFTS OF GOLD
We offer the Lord our gift of golden thanksgiving for blessing us with pious and fervent bishops since we were made a diocese. Our first bishop, Bishop Cesar Maria Guerrero died in the sweet odor of wisdom and sanctity, as acclaimed by one Franciscan priest, at the time of his death. Archbishop Mariano Madriaga, our wartime shepherd, led the diocese during its most trying times—the Commonwealth period, the hostilities of the Japanese occupation, the destruction during the liberation unto the years of the Second Vatican Council reforms—as a faithful sentinel and guardian of the faith. Archbishop Federico Limon, SVD guided our Church to give birth to two new daughters—the Dioceses of Alaminos and Urdaneta. Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz gave a new kind of fire to the call for the Church for social engagement and transformation. With his characteristic passion, he gave his best to bring the Gospel of Christ to every aspect of human reality.
The golden years behind us were blessed years in the company of the missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word and the Order of Preachers. The Mary Help of Christians Minor Seminary in Binmaley and the Mary Help of Christians College Seminary in Bonuan have been bringing forth holy and zealous pastors for the Church indeed more precious than silver or gold. These seminaries have contributed numerous pastors for the people of God faithful to the mandate of the Lord of the harvest: “Don’t take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts” (Mt. 10:9). The “woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet (Rev. 12:1), whom we know in Pangasinan as Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag, has guided us through the years leading us to the heart of Jesus her Son. We cannot forget the innumerable lay leaders of our Catholic organizations and basic ecclesial communities who form another array of soldiers for Christ ready for battle, faithful and loyal, courageous light and salt for the world. The laity of Lingayen Dagupan are golden gifts from God!
SCARLET AND GOLD
And yet our golden year as an archdiocese is not purely lustrous gold for indeed “the mother church dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, has in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and impurities” ( cfr. Rev. 17:4).
This jubilee is also a time for repentance. It is time for contrition for blessings wasted, for opportunities squandered, for allowing the powers of malice and sin to prevail among us. We admit as we strike our breasts that we, pastors and flock, are responsible for the endless crosses on which the Good Shepherd continues to be crucified even until now in Pangasinan. The blasphemies, to which our Lord and the Church are constantly subjected to, need to be confessed, healed and forgiven. The neglect of the Sunday duties and laziness to pray; the irreverence shown toward the Mother of God; the calumnies and slanders we throw against one another; the sacrilege thrown against the spiritual treasures of the Church. The Church our mother is in agony and travail as she holds in her hands the abominable crimes of her children.
During this jubilee year we kneel in contrition before the poor whose cries for help we have often ignored. We kiss mother earth and caress with our bloodied hands our dead rivers and ripped sea beds and say “We are sorry!” We have raped our forests and leveled our hills with relentless logging and quarrying blinded by our greed and avarice. Mother Earth is in travail and in agony and we have caused it on her.
We shake our heads with shame and guilt at the scandals caused by the men of the Church upon the Church they were called to serve. When the priests’ lifestyle is inconsistent with his vocation, the Church is hurt. When priests act more like hirelings than shepherds who must be willing to die for the sheep, the lambs leave the herd confused and puzzled. When celibacy is violated, when human respect is not observed, when basic courtesies are laid aside, when revenge is allowed to prevail over forgiveness, when service is always linked to the returning benefit, the Lord is crucified again and again. Our golden chalice is filled with our sins, in fact overflowing. Our golden robes are stained by the blood of our iniquity. Let us lay aside our gold and put on ashes. We beg pardon from the Lord. Let this jubilee renew us. Let this golden year make us new.
GOLD WE HAVE NONE
And Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" (Acts 3:6). The jubilee is a time for mission. Celebration without contrition is triumphalism. Contrition without courage is lame. Let this jubilee year be a year of courage for the mission of the Lord. We will not be afraid to have neither silver nor gold.
Gold and silver we have none! I hope we will be able to say that with conviction. Our first and only power is the Lord and our first and only way to the Lord is love. We must pray but it is not enough to pray. Our prayer must make us think and talk and listen and act and be like Jesus—that is the apostolic action that we need in the Church. Any pastoral action or assembly that does not come from prayer will fail. Any prayer that does not lead us to apostolic charity will wither. Love without service is mere sentimentalism. Service without prayer is social activism.
We have a dream. We dream of a church renewed. Gold and silver we have none but we are a people who believe profoundly in the love of Almighty God. We are a people poor in the things of the world but courageous in the faith we profess. We stammer when we speak but we pray fervently from the heart and we teach with zeal and conviction. We are ourselves are a people in need but we serve generously disinterested in rewards. We are more than a million Catholic faithful but we are close to all and each one is friend of everyone. Our real gold is God. Our gift of gold is our love.
YEAR OF GRACE
We are opening a year of grace. It is a blessed time to celebrate and blow our trumpets for the Lord. This is a time of grace to seek forgiveness and share forgiveness with hearts humble and contrite. The year of grace is a year of hope. We look beyond our horizon and see beyond the rainbow a renewed and revitalized Church courageously and boldly proclaiming God’s love and joy.
We entrust this year to Mary Help of Christians whose guiding hand has brought many of our young men to the altar as priests of her Son. As we now break the ground for the construction of the theology seminary, may our Mother guide us, give us courage and bring us to live for Jesus her Son.
From the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist, February 16, 2012
+SOCRATES B. VILLEGAS
Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan
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Government bought 8,600 Games tickets
The government has confirmed it bought more than 8,600 tickets at a cost of nearly £1.2m for the London Olympics.
About 4,000 tickets, costing £916,000, were paid for by central government, with the rest - worth about £300,000 - bought by staff or London councils.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it wanted to maximise the economic boost from the Games.
In November 2011 the department revealed it had bought just over 8,800 tickets at a cost of nearly £750,000.
At the time the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was understood to have put in bids for the entire government with the allocation to be shared across departments.Costliest ticket
Latest figures show ministers used 60 tickets, the most expensive a £725 seat at the athletics.
While former Treasury minister Lord Sassoon used the costliest ticket, Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt received the most tickets totalling £605 and watched two cycling events, diving, football and gymnastics.
Of the remaining tickets 2,381 were bought by staff who had worked long-term on the games or Ambassadors.
A spokeswoman from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport told BBC News they would not go into details about why one particular minister was given tickets to a particular event or why the amount of money spent on tickets had gone up since November 2011.
"We were clear that we wanted to make the most of hosting the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics as a driver for growth, and decided that it was right to invest in order to maximise the economic benefits for the country," she added.
"The government paid-for tickets were used to invite and accompany a number of international and domestic political and business leaders, as well as guests with a close connection to the Games and its legacy.
"All invitations were issued against the following criteria: encouraging growth, encouraging health and sports participation, encouraging community engagement and volunteering."
The National Audit Office said 11 million tickets were sold to the London 2012 Games.
More than seven million people visited Olympic venues during the games with 2.5 million people visiting the Olympic Park.
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Universal Design Showcase
Project Categories: Residential, Universal Design, New Construction, Ultra Series
Featured Kolbe Products
- Ultra Series Crank-Out Casements
- Ultra Series Radius
- Ultra Series Swinging Patio Doors
- Ultra Series Entrance Doors
- Larger crank handles & locks are easier to operate
- Motorized operators simplify window operation
- ADA-compliant sills and sill ramps on doors
- Wider doors accommodate wheel chair passage
- Lever handles on doors are easier to operate than knobs
Universal Design Options Showcased in Model Home
It's an uncomfortable thought, but the longer we live, the more likely we are to develop physical limitations. In fact, one out of six Americans will experience a major disability during their lifetime. And it's no secret that America is aging significantly – by 2012, there will be more people aged 65 and older than in all the other age categories combined. These figures make it easy to see the growing need for universally accessible living accommodations that enable people to live independently.
Surprisingly, the burgeoning consumer need for accessible housing has not resulted in a proliferation of accessible single-family residences. It was this very absence that prompted Wayne Geurink and his nonprofit group, Chairs & Cares, to develop a demonstration model accessible home in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Officially opened in October 2007, the Chairs & Cares Model Accessible Home was designed by Roger Plamann, an architectural instructor at Wausau's Northcentral Technical College (NTC), with input from a 16 person advisory board. General contractor Keller Builders started construction on the 4,700-square-foot, $1.2 million project, which is sited on the college's campus, in Spring 2006. The prototypical residence is operated by Midstate Independent Living Consultants, a nonprofit agency that serves people with disabilities in north-central and northeastern Wisconsin.
Virtually all of the model home design elements and building components were donated. Committed to the project from its earliest stages, Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co. contributed 51 windows, 21 interior doors and entry doors. "Kolbe was the very first contributor to sign on to the project," says Geurink. "We were very impressed with their enthusiasm and commitment, and their superior products provide the design and operation flexibility that accessible design demands," says Geurink.
"Wayne and his team have done an outstanding job with this model accessible home," praises Mike Salsieder, president of Kolbe & Kolbe. He comments that "as an organization, Kolbe is sensitive to the fact that there are many people with physical limitations and that a significant portion of our population is aging. We were privileged to be able to work with Wayne, and members of NTC, as well as other companies in our area to help provide a facility that showcases construction methods that allow people with physical limitations to live independently within a residential setting."
Geurink suffered paralyzing injuries from a car accident in 1991. In 2001, the idea for the Chairs & Cares Model Accessible Home came to him during discussions among members of a spinal cord injury group. He discovered that there wasn't a single example of a universally-designed accessible residence in the central Wisconsin area. The home is intended to give architects and builders ideas about what can be done to make new or remodeled homes more functional for people with physical limitations.
The project has already made an impression on at least one builder: Lewis Reeves, president of Lewis Reeves Homes in Atlanta, who says, "I've been building houses for 30 years. Until I met Wayne, I had no idea where I'd turn – professionally or personally – to help someone with a physical disability to live as comfortably and independently as possible."
"Surveys show that most of us want to remain in our own homes as we age. Enabling more people to live on their own for as long as possible means huge dollar savings for individuals, families and for society as a whole," says Geurink. "To people with low strength and/or less control of their upper body, an inch here or there can make the difference between dependence and independence," Geurink adds.
Navigating doors and doorways, and opening and closing windows are among the biggest challenges for people with limited mobility. Throughout the model home, quality casement windows enable operation for a person with limited strength. Larger crank handles make windows easier to open and close. Oversized lever locks are located near window bottoms, making them more convenient to secure. For bay windows, locks were placed closer to the interior and motorized operators were installed to make operation accessible for people in wheelchairs.
Geurink notes that accessible windows aren't just about operability, but enjoyment, too. The windows have a maximum sill height of 33 inches, allowing viewing from a seated position. "Variety in window types is also important, which is why the home has some floor-to-ceiling windows. These allow for an unobstructed view, as well as letting in lots of light.
To make entry and exit easier, the home's exterior doors feature a flush-to-floor sill. Engineered into the door frames as integral components, the sills ensure that the level of the finished floors align with the thresholds for wheelchair accessibility. People using crutches, canes, or walkers also benefit from the flush thresholds.
All of the exterior and interior doors are wider than usual (36 inches) to comfortably accommodate passage by people in wheel chairs. Interior swinging doors are fitted with lever handles, making them easier for people with limited dexterity to operate than doors with knobs or latch handles. The utility closet door is not only oversized, it has an additional pull bar mounted to its surface to make it easier to close.
Similarly, the closets feature double doors and bi-fold doors, making them easier to open and close for people with restricted mobility and diminished hand strength. Pocket doors provide unobstructed interior openings to a laundry and bathroom.
The windows and exterior doors all feature energy-efficient LoE²-270 glass with double glazing and weatherstripping to prevent draft and temperature variations. For minimal exterior maintenance, the Ultra Series windows are finished in hartford green 70% fluoropolymer, and are trimmed in oak to match the interior doors' classic look.
NOTE: Visitors to Kolbe's facilities in Wausau, Wisconsin may inquire about a tour of the Chairs & Cares Accessible Model Home, which is operated by Midstate Independent Living Consultants, a nonprofit agency serving people with disabilities in north-central and northeastern Wisconsin
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Shortly after the Economic Action Plan 2012 was announced, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney spoke to media on the several immigration policy changes that come into act in the next several weeks, including elimination of 300,000 immigration applications.
“All the applications in the skilled worker category that we received prior to February 28, 2007 will be returned. That will reduce the backlog from 420,000 to 160,000,” he said, adding the application fees will be refunded in the following months.In response to a question from the Canadian Immigrant, Kenney said some 20,000 applications received during the period between 2001-2008 have been partially processed and depending on how far along the process the application is, it may be assessed or returned.
While he blamed the previous Liberal government for creating the backlog and being unfair to skilled category applicants as well as Canada, he avoided responding to the question on his government being unfair to those applicants who had waited as long as 11 years in queue.
According to Minister Kenney, the new system is created “to making our immigration system truly fast and flexible in a way that will sustain Canada's economic growth” and “make Canadian economy better and wealthier.”
Other important changes to immigration system featured in the Economic Action Plan 2012 are:* Realign the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to better meet labour market demands.
* Support further improvements to foreign credential recognition and identify the next set of target occupations beyond 2012.
* Move to an increasingly fast and flexible immigration system where priority focus is on meeting Canada's labour market needs.
* Return applications and fees to certain federal skilled worker applicants who have been waiting for processing to be completed.
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Here's what you need to know about what happens to various debts you may have — while you're living, and even after you die.
Debts You Owe Right Now
With intergenerational households on the rise, it's not uncommon for aging parents or grandparents to live with adult children or grandchildren. None of us plans to burden our families financially. But you need to be aware of how your debt may — or may not — impact your loved ones right now and later, in the event of your death.
Generally speaking, while you are alive, your relatives are not responsible for paying any debts you may have incurred. But there can be many, many exceptions to this rule.
For instance, spouses may be responsible for each other's medical debts depending on the state they live in.
Also, if a loved one cosigned for a debt, all bets are off. Once you don't pay what's owed, any individual who cosigned is legally obligated to pay whatever is due. That goes for credit card payments, student loans, car notes and mortgages.
To minimize exposing family members to potential financial woes, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys recommends that you use caution in cosigning loans, and in asking for anyone to cosign your debts.
Next: How to handle debt collectors. >>
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The mag issue 7
On the ground
Being able to share electronic documents between health professionals in order to monitor patients is certainly useful. Being able to read them easily is even better
Patients discuss the role of the electronic health record (DMP) in their medical care.
3 questions for...
We caught up with Rémy for an interview
Service of tomorrow
Digital technology has revolutionized ongoing medical training and the therapeutical education of patients. Reflecting the important role that e-learning now plays in training ...
Social work and community health, EHPAD, SSIAD, Maisons et centres de santé (MCS - Health and care centres). But what exactly is the community health sector ?
Even though the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is one of Europe’s smallest states with 500,000 inhabitants, it is no less focused on the digitalization of its healthcare system...
Though the efforts made in Germany to implement e-health structures seem to be starting to pay off, the road has been long and lined with challenges.
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Heavy rain on Saturday resulted in four sewage spills in the Ross Valley Sanitary District system in Fairfax, Larkspur and San Anselmo over the weekend.
The largest spill, currently estimated at about 3,000 gallons occurred at 9 Willow Way in San Anselmo.
It is believed the overflow was caused by a brick lodged in the syphon that runs under Sleepy Hollow Creek. That blocked syphon also caused a 5- gallon spill at 14 Willow Way.
District officials said Monday that cleanup at both locations has been completed, and water samples from the creek are being tested to determine how much sewage entered the creek.
They said warning signs have been posted at the creek.
A blockage caused by roots is suspected to be the cause of a 730-gallon spill at 20 Steven Court in Fairfax. Sewage escaped into storm drains and some effluent entered Fairfax Creek. Cleanup efforts are complete; water samples of the creek are being tested; and signs have been posted there as well.
District officials reported a 20-gallon spill at 150 Magnolia Ave. in Larkspur. That spill, they said, was caused by roots entering a sewer pipe. The sewage has been cleaned up, and no waterway is believed to have been affected.
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If you're getting started with your backyard or container garden and want to be ready for when the inevitable unwanted guests move in, you don't have to run out and grab a couple of bottles of commercial pesticide from your local hardware store—there are safer, more natural options that won't leave your fledgling produce covered in chemicals. Best of all, you probably have the ingredients for them in your pantry already.
We don't mean to bemoan the use of all garden pesticides—not all of them are bad, and you should use whatever makes you comfortable and keeps the pests away on your personal garden. However, the folks at Apartment Therapy have some great bug-repelling concoctions that you can load into a few spray bottles to keep your plants happy and the pests away. Just raid your spice drawer for some garlic, chili powder, baking soda, and cooking oil. Head to the bathroom and pick up some lemon or essential oil, and come back to the kitchen for a little dish soap, your spray bottles, and some water. That's all you'll need to make three different repellants.
The dish soap repellant will make your plants inhospitable to common pests like aphids, white flies, and the like, while the garlic chili spray is supposed to keep away beetles, slugs, and even larger animals. The baking soda spray on the other hand is great for treating plants suffering from fungal diseases. Of course, depending on what you're planting and your local climate, your mileage may vary with these tricks, but we've heard good things about the dish soap spray and the baking soda formula. Have you tried any of these yourself? Any other natural pest control methods you employ in your garden? Share them in the comments below.
How to Make Natural Garden Pesticides | Apartment Therapy
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Are you having a secret love affair?
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
~Harriet Van Horne
You already know about the advantages of eating healthy— a stronger immune system, reduced risk of many diseases, physical fitness, and so much more. But did you know you were born with an inner guidance system for preparing life-enriching foods? The world’s best chefs already know this. When you build a connection with food and trust your inner guidance system, the process of healthy cooking will naturally fall into place.
Here a some tips for bonding with your food and strengthening your intuition to create delicious, healthy meals:
Organic food is delicious all on its own. The simple process of steaming some organic carrots can really bring out their flavor. However, if you are entertaining or just in the mood for something different, flex your creative muscles and change a dish up. You can use additional ingredients- like sauces, herbs, spices, and condiments— to enhance the food’s natural flavors. Condiments can also help to balance a dish, enhancing flavors and boosting the energy.
2. Use all of your assets.
You may want to try time-honored family recipes to get in touch with your cultural roots. However, don’t get locked into just following those recipes over and over. As your creativity expands, you can create new dishes centered around your family’s culinary heritage.
By making some mistakes along the way, you’ll learn to balance ingredients in a meal and how to make substitutions. This is an empowering process, and it allows you to make more informed decisions instead of just following someone else’s advice or instructions. You might prefer the dish to be more spicy, less spicy, or seasoned differently. When you cook without a recipe, you can adjust the seasonings and ingredients to make it your own. You can infuse a meal with your unique flair by trusting your energy and intuition.
3. Start a love affair.
One of the easiest ways to incorporate healthy cooking into your life is to develop an intimate relationship with food. Really make it a love affair— get truly passionate about healthy food. For example, incorporate one new vegetable or whole grain into your meal plan each week.
It’s sort of like getting to know someone you’ve just met. At first, it’s a little scary, because you don’t know how to behave around each other. And then after you spend some more time with them and you get to know each other, you start to build a mutual trust and feel safe around them. Eventually, you can’t imagine life without them. The same concept can be applied to your relationship with food. In the beginning, it will be a little scary, but after a while, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without your vegetables and whole grains.
As you build a love affair with food, you’ll not only make better tasting dishes, you’ll also develop an all-encompassing confidence that you can take with you out into the real world— your job, your relationships, and anything else that requires truth and intuition.
Posted on February 14, 2012, in All, health, intuition, love, macrobiotics and tagged creative muscles, culinary heritage, natural flavors, organic carrots, spices and condiments, stronger immune system. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.
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USA Today has a fantastic little interactive map of the U.S. attached to an article about how money from stimulus contracts has been divvied up across states. I wish I could reproduce it here, but I can't. So I strongly suggest you check it out and scroll over some states to see how they've fared. The article itself is critical about this distribution of stimulus money, complaining that states hit hardest by the recession have not been blessed most abundantly by federal dollars.
In Michigan, for example -- where years of economic tumult and a collapsing domestic auto industry have produced the nation's worst unemployment rate -- federal agencies have spent about $2 million on stimulus contracts, or 21 cents per person. In Oregon, where unemployment is almost as high, they have spent $2.12 per capita, far less than the nationwide average of nearly $13.
Of course, in the case of Michigan, examining stimulus alone fails to take into consideration the auto bailouts, which if included would raise the government assistance per capita substantially. It also ignores the mortgage bailout, which almost certainly disproportionately helped states hurt by the housing bubble. Neither of these explanations, however, necessarily absolves Washington for failing to target the states that need stimulus spending the most.
Numerous other potential excuses could also be made. One might be that existing industry prevents certain spending, like clean energy or broadband infrastructure projects, from being aimed at specific suffering states, but long-term benefits might make that spending worthwhile. Another might be timing: due to their nature, many of the stimulus projects cannot get off the ground immediately, so that cash might not be spent a mere 100 days in. Similarly, Washington might argue that the benefits of such projects outweigh the delay.
Of course, both of these reasons also fail to address the criticism that congress should have targeted the worst state economies and provided more immediate relief. That is, after all, the purpose of a stimulus package -- to help people in economic distress as quickly and effectively as possible. Funding for projects that Washington believes will have long-term benefits to the nation? That's just regular old spending.
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Each week, DNAinfo.com talks to a principal from one of Manhattan's schools. This week, it's Sister Mary Dixon of Holy Cross School at 332 W. 43rd St. A Dominican nun who lives just up the street, Mary Dixon has been principal at the 125-year-old school for 25 years, and has seen the school — and the neighborhood — change over that time.
How has the school changed since you've become principal?
The school was always a school full of immigrant children. Originally, they were the children whose fathers worked down at the piers, so they would come here, drop their children off, go down to the piers and work, come back and pick them up.
Now, the population is still immigrant, but it’s changed. Within the building we have some 30 languages.
What is the most important thing that you want students graduating the school to have learned?
I always want them to know that they have a place to come back to. That we rejoice with their successes, and that we've always pushed them to be the best that they can be, and to be able to perform up to their abilities. I think I've seen that happen when former students come back to school and say ‘I thought it was tough when I was here, but I realize now what I know.’
It’s an inner-city school, challenges here you might not have anywhere else. Many of the children are bilingual, English is not their first language. You deal with that wanting to respect their culture and their language, yet wanting them to be the best they can be in society, in New York, or wherever they’re going to be — and that they’re competitive. I want them, when they get to the eighth grade, to be able to have options.
What makes this school different from other schools?
I think what sets it apart is a great diversity. I also think that it’s different in that many of the parents bring their children here to school on their way to work, you don’t have a lot of that in other schools, they’re more contained. They’re like a neighborhood. We do have neighborhood students, but we do have a number of students who travel because their mothers work here in the city, and that’s what makes it different.
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"There are fewer relationships that will be as vital in the 21st century as our growing ties with India and its people," he said.
Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat and an erstwhile Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 who challenged President George W Bush [ Images ] and lost, said, "On all of the most critical global challenges that we face, India really has a central role to play. And that means that Washington is going to be looking to New Delhi [ Images ] not only for cooperation, but increasingly for innovation, for regional leadership."
"Given the significance of that relationship," he said, "We are particularly pleased that President Obama [ Images ] has nominated Nancy Powell to represent us in New Delhi."
Noting that Powell -- a former ambassador to both Nepal and Pakistan who has also served tours of duty in both India and Bangladesh, "making her one of the foremost South Asia experts in the Foreign Service" -- Kerry predicted, "She is one of our best and it is only appropriate that she be tasked with one of the State Department's most important postings."
"I think Ambassador Powell would agree with me that the US and India interests and values are converging today as perhaps never before. And consequently, America is an interested stakeholder in India's increasing ascent to greater economic and greater global power and participation."
Kerry said, "As our economies and education systems grow more intertwined -- and I'm convinced they will -- our peoples will have a greater opportunity to work together on technological breakthroughs. Already, India's playing a leading role in clean energy innovation."
In this regard, he said, "A report released last week found that India saw a 52 percent growth in clean energy investment in 2011 -- a rate higher than any other significant global economy. With leadership from companies like Suzlon [ Get Quote ] and Reliance [ Get Quote ] Solar, India has the world's fourth largest installed wind capacity and incredible solar energy potential."
Kerry reiterated, "It is clear that India's strategic role is also growing. We all agree that the dynamism of the Asia Pacific Region requires India's sustained presence and engagement, whether to combat nuclear proliferation, to promote economic stability in Afghanistan or to encourage human rights in Burma and Sri Lanka [ Images ]."
However, he acknowledged, "There is no doubt that even as India moves forward and even as we celebrate the pluses that I just enumerated, it is clear that India will also have to continue addressing its own complex domestic challenges, including the challenge of building its own infrastructure, of dealing with booming energy demand, of dealing with some restrictive trade and investment practices, and also the problem, which is not just India's but a global problem, of human trafficking."
"Moreover, there are some 500 to 600 million people living in poverty, but clearly India is moving rapidly through its own economic development to address that, and I'm confident that that will continue to change."
Echoing Kerry's sentiments, Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the committee, said, "I start from the premise that enhancing our relationship with India is a strategic and economic imperative."
Lugar spoke of how "the US and India are working to build a strategic partnership that will benefit both sides, and we have an ongoing cooperation with India on many fronts. This includes efforts to ensure security in South Asia."
"Energy cooperation between the United States and India should also be at the top of our bilateral agenda. India's energy needs are expected to double by the year 2025. The US has an interest in expanding energy cooperation with India to develop new technologies, cushion supply disruptions, address environmental problems and diversify global energy supplies. The US's own energy problems will be exacerbated if we do not forge entity partnerships with India and other nations experiencing rapid economic growth."
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Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist and Patriot.
In the article below Christopher Logan a true Islamic scholar whose writings have appeared on this site many times unloads on the concept of a “Moderate Islam”
Whether Muslims takeover through violence or by using our freedoms against us to advance Islam, the final goal is the same. That is an America governed by Sharia Law. While the laws of America are equal for all, Sharia Law discriminates against non-Muslims, apostates, homosexuals, and women. I believe if more Americans knew what Sharia Law demands they would take a stand against it.
As many of you know I have pointed out numerous times that many high-profile names who are supposed to be helping us win the war with Islam, have no real long-term answers. The list includes ACT!’s Brigitte Gabriel, the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney, human rights lawyer Brooke Goldstein , FOX New’s Sean Hannity , and the Middle East Forum’s Daniel Pipes.
Pipes states he has been studying Islam since 1969: (From an article written in 2005 about a Lawrence Auster who also called Pipes on the fantasy he is pushing,)
Lawrence Auster characterizes my approach to Islam as “ecumenist” and his own as “civilizationist.” I prefer to call my approach historical and his essentialist. That is, I emphasize that things change over time and he sees them as static. I focus on the vast changes since I began studying Islam in 1969.
If he really has been studying Islam since then he only sees what he wants to see, and quite frankly I do not think he has the courage to face the harsh realities of Islam itself.
At the core of his argument is the view that “moderate Islam cannot exist.” To which I reply that Islam can be whatever Muslims wish to make of it.
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Cairn Energy oil spill plans published
Cairn Energy's Arctic oil spill contingency plans have been published by the Greenland government.
The move follows a series of protests by Greenpeace activists, who disrupted the exploration firm's drilling activities off Greenland in a bid to force publication of the plans.
Officials said they released the plans after their "options for countering sabotage actions" had improved.
Edinburgh-based Cairn said it welcomed the move.
News of the publication came as Shell estimated more than 200 tonnes of oil could have entered the North Sea after a leak in a flow line leading to the Gannet Alpha oil platform 113 miles (180 km) off Aberdeen.
In a statement, the Greenland government said it had been necessary to keep Cairn's contingency plans confidential until now because of the "large number of unlawful actions aimed at the safety measures at oil exploration".
It said: "The opinion has been that it would be possible to launch even more attacks against safety if the plans were presented openly."Arctic protests
Greenpeace has staged a number of protests at Arctic drilling operations over the past year.
They included one incident in April, when 11 Greenpeace activists forced entry onto the drilling rig Leiv Eiriksson in Turkish waters while it was on its way to Greenland.
In another incident in June, 18 activists broke through the rig's safety zone and locked themselves into its crane cabins.
Responding to the publication the response plan Greenpeace oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe said there was a "lot of spin" and "very little to allay the concerns of experts".
He added: "Cairn never wanted to release this document, they were forced to by international outrage from tens of thousands of people who bombarded them with emails. In a classic PR move they've now published the plan late in the day European time.
"Our experts will now analyse it and fully expect it to confirm what the UK government said in private documents, that an Arctic spill would be 'near impossible' to clean up."
End Quote Simon Thomson Cairn Energy chief executive
Safety is our priority and the focus of our operations remains on prevention”
Greenland officials said following evaluation of the Greenpeace incidents by the ministry of foreign affairs in Denmark, it was now possible for authorities to take measures against "unlawful actions" within a radius of 5 km from the safety zone around drilling operations.
Ove Karl Berthelsen, Greenland's Minister for Industry and Mineral Resources, said: "The government and the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (BMP) have always wanted to make the plans available to the people of Greenland.
"We had reasonable concerns, however, that the balance between transparency of information and the possible impact on safe operations was outweighed by the regular violation of safety procedures.
"We are now confident that the security of operations is better protected to the extent that we now feel able to provide people in Greenland with access to as much information as possible about our country's search for hydrocarbons."'Safety focus'
Cairn Energy chief executive Simon Thomson said his company was pleased to share its plans with the people of Greenland.
He continued: "Throughout our operations globally and including offshore Greenland, we are focused on safety both in terms of people and the environment.
"Safety is our priority and the focus of our operations remains on prevention.
"We have state-of-the-art equipment and a team of experts with more than 1,000 man years experience in similar environments for the 2011 offshore Greenland exploration programme."
He added: "In the unlikely event of a serious incident, such as an oil spill, we believe we have put in place a thorough and robust contingency plan."
Cairn, through its subsidiary Capricorn, operates 11 blocks off Greenland which cover an area of approximately 102,000 square kilometres.
It plans to drill up to four wells off Greenland this year.
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|Articles, Arts, Forthcoming Media, Live Events, United States on 2013-06-18 17:46Z by Steven|
(Los Angeles, Calif.) — When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined to attend the wedding altogether.
Seeking to understand why he chose not to participate, DiGiovanni began a trek through family history — and time and space — that ultimately led to her M.F.A. thesis project: the multimedia one-woman play, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval.”
DiGiovanni will perform the hour-long show on Friday, June 21st at 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 28th at 4:15 p.m. and Sunday, June 30th at 6:00 p.m. at the Lounge Theatres (www.hollywoodfringe.org/venues/11). The cost of the two Friday perrformances is $12 per ticket. The Sunday show is a fundraiser for MASC – Multiracial Americans of Southern California (www.mascsite.org) – all proceeds ($15 per ticket) will go to MASC. This show is also a Los Angeles celebration of Loving Day (www.lovingday.org).
Incorporating filmed images, photographs, and animation DiGiovanni tells the story of how the notion of race came into existence in the United States, and its effects on her relationship with her father. To tell her story, DiGiovanni travels back in time to the first US census in 1790, to cities across the United States, and to West and East Africa, where both father and daughter spent time in search of their racial roots. A leading activist on issues related to mixed cultures and ethnicities, DiGiovanni is an actor, comedian, producer, and educator. She developed “One Drop of Love” as the thesis project for her Master of Fine Arts degree in film, television, and theater from California State University Los Angeles. She will use footage from her performances—the most recent was at the University of California, Santa Barbara—to produce a documentary film. DiGiovanni, who appeared in the Academy Award-winning film “Argo,” is also the co-creator, co-producer, and co-host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat, and co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Fm & Literary Festival®.
Read the entire press release here.
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By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. wholesale prices in August rose by the largest amount in more than three years after a late-summer resurgence in the price of oil, according to the latest government data.
The producer-price index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.7% last month, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s the biggest increase since June 2009.
The advance in wholesale costs stemmed from a spike in the price of gasoline and natural gas. The wholesale cost of gasoline rose by 13.6% while natural gas climbed 11.9% — both three-year highs.
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• Leading economic indicators rise in April
• Consumer sentiment hits post-recession peak
As a result, the energy index jumped 6.4%.
Rising oil prices caused the cost of gas to rise nearly 8% a gallon in August to $3.84, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That was the highest level since the first week of May and prices at the pump continued to rise in early September.
An increase in energy prices makes it more expensive for companies to produce their goods and services and could hurt profits unless businesses pass along the costs to customers. Yet, by and large, companies have resisted doing so to prevent the loss of business to lower-priced rivals in a time of slow economic growth.
Food prices, meanwhile, also rose sharply last month. The wholesale cost of food shot up 0.9% primarily because of higher prices for dairy and eggs. The increase was the largest since last November.
A major drought in the U.S. over the summer is expected to boost the cost of food in coming months amid shortages of many key agricultural goods.
“The next few months will show more inflation. Energy prices have continued to rise in September and food prices will be affected by a drought,” economists Brian Wesbury and Bob Stein of First Trust said in a note.
Minus the volatile categories of food and energy, so-called core wholesale prices rose a much smaller 0.2%. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had predicted a 1.5% increase in overall producer prices and a 0.2% increase in the core rate.
Over the past 12 months, wholesale costs have risen a modest 2.0%. The core rate has risen faster at 2.5%.
Sustained increases in wholesale costs eventually translate into higher prices of consumer goods and services, but the relationship is not precise. Companies raise or lower prices for a number of reasons.
A better measure of whether Americans are paying more for goods and services, the consumer price index, will be released Friday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch project that the CPI climbed 0.6% in August to reflect the higher price of oil.
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(PRWEB UK) 8 February 2013
It has been reported that the OLED Displays Market- Global Industry Analysis, Market Share, Growth and Forecast, 2012-2018 has predicted that global demand for lighting will increase 12.3% year on year through 2016 to £49.79 billion. Part of the reason behind this can be attributed to the move towards higher value lighting technologies that are more efficient, as many companies phase out general use, incandescent lamps.
LEDs and other energy efficient light sources also have a big part to play in this growth, with their rising availability and more affordable prices. Simple Lighting co. specialise in a variety of LED lighting including under cabinet lighting, LED strip lights and LED tape. As such, the team were naturally intrigued by the recent report and a representative from the firm shares their thoughts on the matter.
“As the market expands, there is more competition and naturally this leads to more attractive prices for the customer. At Simple Lighting we provide a fantastic range of LED lighting, providing products that are usually priced well below the normal RRP.
“In terms of demand, it is easy to see why LED lights are growing increasingly popular. As well as making considerable savings in the long term, they are more environmentally friendly and are extremely versatile.”
Established in 2009, Simple Lighting Company aims to provide high quality lighting at some of the most competitive prices on the web. The company has grown considerably in recent years and supplies over 4000 products, specialising in LED lighting, LED tape, LED strip lights as well as indoor and outdoor lighting. Simple Lighting Company considers customer service its priority, regularly adding new products to the website.
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Nexen Inc. (Nexen) is an independent global energy company. The Company�s conventional oil and gas assets consist of large acreage positions in select basins, including the United Kingdom North Sea, deep-water Gulf of Mexico and offshore West Africa. Nexen operates the Buzzard field and platform in the United Kingdom. In the Gulf of Mexico, the Company holds deep-water and shelf producing assets, as well as several undeveloped deep-water discoveries, including Appomattox, Vicksburg and Knotty Head. The deep-water Gulf of Mexico is near infrastructure and continental United States markets. Nexen�s oil sands investments include interests in the Long Lake project, the Syncrude joint venture and 656,000 undeveloped acres (gross) in the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired a non-operated interest in Poland and by beginning to test shale gas opportunities in Colombia.
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Mitt Romney assailed President Barack Obama for foreign policies he said have weakened the U.S., charging the administration with leaking security secrets, proposing dangerous defense-spending cuts, and mistreating allies including Israel while failing to effectively cripple Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
In a wide-ranging speech on the eve of a six-day trip overseas, the presumed Republican presidential nominee called for a tougher U.S. negotiating stance with Iran and a special counsel to investigate what he said were politically motivated disclosures of national security information by Obama’s aides.
Romney told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nevada, that Obama’s policies have “exposed the military to cuts that no one can justify, compromised our national- security secrets, and in dealings with other nations, he has given trust where it is not earned, insult where it was not deserved, and apology where it is not due.”
The former Massachusetts governor called for the U.S. to insist that Iran cease all enrichment of uranium -- rather than limit it to 5 percent, as administration officials have indicated they might accept -- as part of any agreement on its nuclear program.
“A clear line has to be drawn,” Romney said, taking a position that mirrors Israel’s on Iran. “There must be a full suspension of any enrichment whatsoever, period.”
The proposal was part of a lengthy policy paper his campaign released as the candidate spoke outlining what it called “The Romney Plan for an American Century.” The document frames his stance on international issues before Romney embarks this evening on a trip to the U.K., Israel and Poland.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki, in comments on Air Force One as the president traveled to Oregon today, said Romney has a “high bar he has not yet jumped over to convince the American people that he wants to have a serious conversation about foreign policy.”
She also said Romney had delivered “baseless attacks” on Obama.
During a campaign dominated by domestic economic issues, the overseas visit provides Romney, who has no direct foreign policy experience, with his first opportunity to assert himself on the international stage. His advisers say the trip offers him a chance to demonstrate statesmanship and fluency on foreign affairs and reassure U.S. voters that he can be an effective global player.
“This is very simple: If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on earth, I am not your president,” Romney said in his speech today. “You have that president today.”
He accused Obama’s team of divulging secret national- security information -- including details of the raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden last year -- for political reasons.
“This conduct is contemptible,” Romney said, calling for an investigation and punishment of the perpetrators before the November elections. “Whoever provided classified information to the media, seeking political advantage for the administration, must be exposed, dismissed and punished. The time for stonewalling is over.”
White House press secretary Jay Carney, asked on Air Force One whether any of the classified information Romney spotlighted was leaked from the White House, didn’t directly answer the question.
“There are two experienced federal prosecutors investigating the leaks in question,” Carney said. “As a general matter, the president has made abundantly clear that he has no tolerance for leaks and he thinks leaks are damaging to our national-security interests.”
After today’s address, Romney plans to leave politics largely at the water’s edge. Campaign aides have said he will refrain from attacking Obama while abroad, in line with the custom of not speaking ill of a sitting president from overseas.
He took the opposite tack before the VFW, denouncing Obama’s treatment of Israel and arguing that the president has undermined that nation’s position in the Middle East conflict.
“Since I wouldn’t venture into another country to question American foreign policy, I will tell you right here -- before I leave -- what I think of this administration’s shabby treatment of one of our finest friends,” Romney said, referring to Israel.
He also blamed Obama for automatic defense cuts put in place by Congress last summer in an effort to force a bipartisan compromise on reducing the national debt that has yet to materialize.
“This is not the time for the president’s radical cuts in the military,” Romney said, calling the reductions a path to “devastation” that would weaken the Department of Veterans Affairs. “If I am president of the United States, I will not let that happen.”
In a speech before the same audience yesterday, Obama stressed that his record -- ending the Iraq war, setting a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, authorizing the bin Laden raid and creating economic benefits for soldiers returning home -- demonstrates his support for current and former service members.
“As we look ahead to the challenges we face as a nation and the leadership that’s required, you don’t just have my words, you have my deeds,” Obama said. “You have the promises I’ve made and the promises that I’ve kept.”
While Obama never mentioned Romney by name, he addressed the Republican’s criticism of him over the timetable for the troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and his accusation that the president’s policies have weakened the U.S. globally.
“There are those who argued against a timeline for ending this war, or against talking about it publicly,” Obama said. “But you know what? That’s not a plan for America’s security either.”
Veterans, who exit polls showed accounted for about 15 percent of the electorate in the 2008 presidential election, may be influential in such toss-up states as Virginia, Florida and North Carolina.
Republican John McCain, a decorated former prisoner of war in Vietnam, captured 54 percent of the veterans’ vote in the 2008 presidential race compared with 44 percent for Obama. Still, support for Romney isn’t a foregone conclusion. Veterans narrowly favored Democrat President Bill Clinton, who was criticized for avoiding military service during Vietnam, over World War II veteran President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
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dear all -
during one of the fall jewish feasts days makes 'moore' sense. personally i see it happening around that TIME of the year, whenever that particular year/day/time does come around. many think it will also fall during an eclipse of the sun. the problem in setting a precise date is when exactly do we go from the day 2 to day 3 according to Hosea 6:1:
"Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
Jesus' birth? when He knew He was God? when He first sent the apostles off two by two to preach? at His death? when He arose? at His ascension? how about at pentecost? maybe, even with the death of John the beloved (last apostle standing)? THAT is the theologian's quandary, and why we have so many confusing, conflicting dates given.
revelation, and other books of the Bible give many "Signs of the TIME of the Rapture," without going into a specific, singular point in TIME, though we are certainly pointed towards one day that will happen, when this and this and this and this occurs.
oh, absolutely - couldn't agree 'moore':
either it is ALL "the word of God" or none of it is.
either Jesus is EXACTLY WHO He said He was, or the Jews were perfectly within their rights under Moses' Law to kill Him for claiming to be the I AM, which if He was not, He was for sure one colossal liar.
we disagree on the following:
The Bible does not contradict itself. From the beginning of Genesis where God promises Eve from her seed will come the savior of the world, to Revelation where Jesus says, "Behold I come quickly," there is no jot nor tittle out of place.
Jesus is God - Jesus is the son of God (the two being one and the same).
finally, regarding olde harold camping. of course he is basing everything he figures on his study and his interpretation and his understanding of the Bible. he is just sincerely wrong. he is not
rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15 (King James Version)
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth
PS: and i am very please to see his followers do read revelation, for even pastors in my own denomination refuse to teach out of the last book of the Bible, let alone what the rest of Christendom is doing or not doing. but even as we speak, my church is currently studying revelation every sunday night, and we are at present on chapter 11. i read revelation more than i read any other book of the Bible. why? well, it is the only book that promises a blessing on all WHO take the TIME to read it.
Revelation 1:3 (King James Version)
"Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."
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The White House, however, points to a number of women named to top jobs, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis (who announced her resignation Wednesday), Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice was a top contender to replace Clinton at the State Department, but she withdrew her name from consideration last month.
The administration also says that more than half of the White House staff is made up of women, many in key senior leadership roles.
But Rangel added when "women and minorities don't get a chance to rub elbows," then people at the top have a harder time getting to know them and their experiences.
"And if you don't know it, you don't use it," he said.
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OSHA - 350 Winter Street NE Room 430 - Salem, Oregon 97301-3882
For Immediate Release:
May 12, 2005
Contact for more Information:
Kevin Weeks, Public Information Officer, 503-947-7428
U.S. Department of Labor recognizes Oregon for workplace safety and health
Oregon became the 17th state in the nation to gain final approval for meeting the requirements of the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act during a ceremony today in Portland.
Acting Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor Jonathan Snare presented the signed approval of ‘Final State Plan’ authority to Governor Ted Kulongoski. The approval means that the U.S. Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) has formally relinquished federal enforcement authority in areas currently under Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA) jurisdiction. Federal
OSHA will continue to monitor Oregon OSHA’s annual performance and provide funding for a portion of Oregon OSHA’s budget.
“This is the latest development in a very long-term commitment by this state,” Governor Kulongoski said. “Oregon OSHA is an outstanding example of government at its best in Oregon – innovative,
collaborative, and committed to long-term, sustained progress to address difficult challenges in a manner that benefits all concerned.”
“We applaud the state of Oregon for their ongoing commitment to the safety and health of their workers,” said Jonathan L. Snare, Acting Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor for OSHA. “We welcome Oregon
as the latest state to be granted final approval.”
“The granting of final approval is a big step for Oregon,” said Peter De Luca, administrator of Oregon OSHA. “Many of the states that have received similar recognition have rules and statutes identical
to federal requirements. Oregon has tailored its safety standards to consider local working conditions, and to gain approval for a plan that is different from the federal program on many regulatory
issues is a significant achievement. It underscores my belief that Oregon’s occupational safety and health program is a leader across the United States.”
Oregon has served as a workplace safety-and-health innovator for decades. The State established the Accident Prevention Division (the forerunner of Oregon OSHA) in 1943, and Oregon in 1971 became
the second U.S. state to request occupational safety and health authority after the passage of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. The OSH Act (also known as the Williams-Steiger Act)
created the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The OSH Act permits states and territories to establish their own workplace safety and health programs subject to federal approval and monitoring. Twenty-six (26) U.S. states and territories operate
OSHA-approved State plans. The state of Oregon has operated a state plan under provisional approval since 1972.
Since passage of the Oregon Safe Employment Act in 1973, workplace fatalities in Oregon have been reduced 62 percent while injuries for private-sector employers have been reduced 55 percent.
Oregon OSHA is a division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, and administers Oregon’s plan to cover all Oregon employers except those on Tribal lands, federal agencies, the U.S.
Postal Service, contractors on military reservations, and most maritime and interstate commerce employers. These employers remain under federal jurisdiction.
Oregon OSHA is committed to partnering with employers and workers to keep Oregon’s injury rates low and workers’ compensation costs under control. One of the best actions an employer can take to
prevent injuries is to train employees properly. Oregon OSHA offers free training, free safety and health consultations, and education and training materials from the Oregon OSHA Resource Center.
The division urges employers to keep their workers and workplaces safe through a commitment to training, education and elimination of hazards.
As Oregon's economy improves, safe jobs are smart business. More information and resources are available on Oregon OSHA's Web site, www.orosha.org
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Five ways to help kids boost their brain power
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Summer has officially arrived, and with it, the busiest restaurant season of the year. Families will use the soaring temperatures as an excuse to get out of the kitchen and opt instead to dine out, savoring a taste of summer before the season ends. Regardless of the season, healthful menu options are a growing trend.
How to cross your dream adventure off life's to-do list
Run a marathon. Visit the rainforest. Backpack through Europe. You might have a to-do list for chores around the house, work tasks or errands, and while those are all intended to keep you on track for the more mundane, but necessary, tasks in life, have you thought about compiling a more exciting kind of to-do list - fil...
How to create the perfect kids room
Nurseries and playrooms on television and in magazines might have you thinking your child could use a more playful environment. Some of the more elaborate designs undoubtedly cost more time and money than you may want to spend, but don't let that discourage you. Creating a space your kids can call their own doesn't need ...
Six tips for boosting back-to-school success
Excitement, anticipation, anxiety - back-to-school time is filled with many emotions for both kids and parents. By planning ahead, parents can make gearing up for the start of the school year a fun experience that eases the transition while boosting enthusiasm.
How teens can make a difference and do something good this summer
If you're a parent, it's smart to encourage your teen to get involved in the community. It makes you both feel good and can be a wonderful learning opportunity. The first step is to find an idea that inspires you both and can make the most of teen's downtime during the summer. Here is what you both need to know.
The marriage merge: practical tips for combining your lives
Your wedding is sure to be the happiest day of your life, but marriage stretches well beyond those 24 hours. Merging your lives as husband and wife starts even before you say your "I do's" and will require some effort and patience - which will be good practice for your future life together.
Creating super summer snacks with grapes is a breeze
Early summer marks the beginning of the California grape season. These bite-size treats are the perfect snack - crisp, sweet and only 90 calories per 3/4 cup serving. Grapes are also very juicy, making them a welcome source of hydration as outdoor activities and temperatures increase.
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| What is Pecunix?
Pecunix is a gold based currency and payment solution that allows people on opposite sides of the world to make and receive payments instantly via the Internet. Because gold has an internationally agreed value, Pecunix is a system that is perfectly suited to the specific demands of e-commerce.
Pecunix is an extraordinarily safe system to use because it is 100% underwritten by gold at all times. In other words, every currency unit in the Pecunix system is supported at all times by an equivalent amount of gold, which itself is stored in an independently monitored, internationally approved storage vault.
How does Pecunix work?
The idea of using gold to underwrite an Internet payment system is not new:
Gold Based Internet Currencies - or GBICs - have been around on the Internet since 1995. GBICs have now processed billions of dollars in Internet transactions, and that figure will only get larger as more consumers and merchants tune into the benefits of using gold as a payment medium.
Pecunix is, however, unique among GBICs. Pecunix has been designed to take the GBIC concept to a whole new level by offering:
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- absolute privacy
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- unparalleled security at both the technical and financial levels
- very low operating costs.
Pecunix provides an alternative to fiat currencies, as do the other competing digital gold currencies. One benefit claimed by many proponents of digital gold currencies is that by keeping assets out of fiat currencies, one avoids some inflationary risks. Another claimed benefit is low fees. Transactions made in the Pecunix system are charged a fee of 0.50% of the payment amount up to 100 grams of gold and 0.15% of any amount over 100 grams up to a maximum fee of 3 grams. The minimum fee payment is 0.0001 gram.
Using Pecunix is simple. Create a free account through the Pecunix website, using your e-mail address as your account name. You can immediately access all the benefits of the Pecunix system, from shopping to retailing to exchanging currencies. It's that easy.
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Today, the shingled house, perched on a hill with a view of Vineyard Sound, is a welcoming, airy space, featuring a cathedral ceiling with beautiful reclaimed Douglas fir beams. But mostly, the family loves the property for what is outside. “My son and I love to go fishing and clamming in Menemsha Pond,” the owner says. His wife has an organic garden, and the family enjoys nothing more than having their neighbors over for striped bass they’ve caught that day and vegetables fresh from their garden.
Provincetown builder Deborah Paine set eyes on a broken-down waterfront cottage in Provincetown’s West End and immediately knew she had a challenge. “The post-and-beam frame wouldn’t even hold a bolt,” Paine recalls of the historic three-story home. Zoning and historic regulations restricted her to the same footprint, which meant a total of just 1,620 square feet on all three floors. Paine began with plans drawn by architect Derick Snare of Snare & Snare in Somerville and embellished them along the way, constantly conferring with her crew and the homeowners, Elise Cozzi and Penny Sutter.
Paine knew from the start that Sutter and Cozzi were kindred spirits. Although the cottage had to be torn down, the homeowners encouraged Paine to repurpose, recycle, and reclaim whenever possible. All the siding and flooring was saved and used in projects such as the winding staircase, complete with drawers built into the steps and a custom-made iron handrail. “All the carpenters made things by hand,” Paine says. “Ideas came up as we went along; we were always devising and creating.”
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Despite the current situation in animal husbandry, the intentions to invest in farmyard operations in Germany have risen and are higher than in other European countries.
This was one of the results of the latest Trendmonitor for the autumn of 2012, organised by the German Agricultural Society (DLG). These were made public during the EuroTier press conference in Göttingen, Germany.
The expectations for the future of German and European farmers offer a divided picture, explained Dr Reinhard Grandke, CEO for the DLG. While farm managers in Germany and France are starting the next few months more confidently than they were at the time of the spring survey, there are clouds in the sky in the UK and Poland.
The DLG Trendmonitor is based on a survey of around 3,800 farmers from six European countries conducted every six months by the market research company Kleffmann on behalf of DLG.
Source: Argentine Beef Packers S.A.
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Ft. Benning | January 30, 2013
The nonprofit organization Embracing Military Families was started by Cathy McMullen at the beginning of the U.S. entry into Afghanistan in 2001. McMullen, who lives in Peachtree City, said she had a soft spot for military children. Being part of a military family, she understood the sacrifices military Families often had to make when spouses were gone because of military duties.
EMF is part of the United Charitable Programs and in the past has collected toy donations and school supplies to give to students at participating Fort Benning schools, including Wilson, Dexter and Loyd elementary schools.
With money from her own pockets and with the time she had, McMullen began collecting donations for children. She said, the first time she was able to collect around 2,000 Easter egg baskets. However, when people wanted to donate money for toy donations, she was warned that it could be illegal to do so. So she started EMF. “I wanted the children to know that there were people out there who care about them,” McMullen said.
McMullen’s husband, a retired Air Force pilot, was often gone on military assignments. Although they were living overseas and there were no wars at the time, the nature of his job often kept him away from McMullen and their two children.
McMullen’s willingness to help children extended to mentoring children and helping Soldiers that had been wounded. And through all of this, McMullen has had lung cancer and two bouts of breast cancer.
“I’m a survivor and I was very, very very lucky,” she said about the cancer. “I’m at a time in my life where I can do this.”
Recently, she had knee-replacement surgery, but despite needing to recover from the surgery and going through physical therapy, she still collects for EMF — just Thursday, she took items, including dozens of beanie babies, to Wilson Elementary School for children whose parents were deployed.
Evelyn Montgomery, a school counselor at Wilson, said EMF and McMullen’s influence has had a large impact on the school.
“Her contributions have improved the quality of life for so many children and Families,” Montgomery said. “It has made Wilson a brighter place because of all the love and caring that she has provided through her tangible gifts.”
“We owe it to the children of our men (and women) in arms to make sure they have a nice Christmas, they have a cuddle buddy or a book they can read,” McMullen said.
With things winding down overseas, McMullen said she is shifting focus to Soldiers who are wounded, although exact plans are still up in the air at the moment.
For more about EMF, visit www.embracingmilitaryfamilies.com. To donate, email McMullen at EMF_Cathy@att.net.
Read more here: http://www.thebayonet.com/2013/01/30/392076/charity-helps-students-with-deployed.html#storylink=cpy
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"Cardio Kool Kids" creator Amy Head says the instructors go into schools, churches and rec centers, wherever the kids are.
The group meets weekly over several months.
"We bring the program to the children. It encompasses really the whole child. We talk about nutrition, and lots of topics around health and wellness," Head says. "What I should and shouldn't eat."
School officials say this after-school program simply adds to what the students are learning in school.
"It is fun but it's also becoming part of a healthy lifestyle that we try to promote here. They know it's a good thing to be doing, and it just falls in line with the other things that we promote throughout the school day." Head says.
Learning, pllus fun with friends, an equation worthy of an 'A.'
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I've been thinking some more about spooking and how we think about horses who spook, and in particular horses that develop a habit of repeatedly spooking at certain places, say near one corner of an arena. I think a lot of people, and I would have included myself in this group until only a few years ago, would say that a horse that repeatedly spooks at an object, or in a place, that we consider safe, is being "dishonest" or "cheating" or being stupid or a "butt". I think the reaction of a lot of people to this behavior is impatience and irritation, usually followed by a whack with the crop or reins. And I also think both traditional horse training methods of the "make them do it" schools and the "make your horse respect you" natural horsemanship schools of thought influence people to think of horses as dishonest or sneaky.
Now if you train a horse using those methods, will they be successful? Often the answer is yes, and the results you can get are often very quick. But in my opinion, what you get, at best, when you think of your horse as dishonest or sneaky, and train them that way, is a horse that is compliant on the outside but not really with you on the inside. I used to ride and train my horses that way, and had a lot of success. I've done a lot of thinking and learning since, and I've changed my mind. I think attributing dishonesty or sneakiness to horses is inappropriately applying human traits to horses which horses don't have, and is also thinking of the horse as an adversary to be overcome or controlled. Even if it's called natural horsemanship, that's traditional make-them-do-it horse training in another costume.
A quote from Mark Rashid's Whole Heart, Whole Horse:
A horse that offers us "good" behavior is simply telling us he's okay with what's going on at that particular moment in his life. A horse that's offering up "bad" behavior is telling us there's a problem, sometimes a major one . . . that needs to be addressed. A horse that is offering up "worrisome" behavior [such as bit chomping, head-shaking, pawing, tail-wringing, etc.] is telling us he doesn't understand something and is struggling with it. . . . [I]t is my belief horses don't distinguish between how they feel and how they act. So if they act a certain way, their actions are reflecting the way they feel. . . . If this is the case, then any behavior a horse offers, good, bad, or indifferent, falls under one category: the horse supplying information about how he feels. (p. 82)
So just as an experiment, instead of thinking that the horse who spooks repeatedly in one spot, or begins to get nervous and "pre-spooks", is dishonest or a cheat, what if instead we were to think that the horse is expressing how it feels and asking us a question: "I'm a little worried about something here, and maybe you could help me out with it, or else I'm getting out of here?" To my mind, if that's what the horse is feeling, then giving them a whack is about the last thing I'd want to do. At best, I'd make the horse comply and clearly communicate that I really wasn't interested in helping the horse with its worry, and at worst I'd end up with a horse that was convinced that things were even worse than it thought - not only should it worry about that place in the ring but now it should also worry about the whack it will get for being worried - for certain horses that's a great way to turn a small worry into a big one.
I also believe that there's a lot going on with the horse before we get to the scary end of the arena where we can pay attention and give the horse the direction and assistance it needs. First, if I'm dealing with this sort of thing, I pay really close attention to what I'm doing, perhaps unconsciously, in anticipation of the spook - am I starting to tense up? - this will often reinforce the horse's tendency to spook. Also, if I wait until we get to the scary place to give the horse direction and assistance, it's often too late to keep the worry from coming up. And I think we often just don't keep riding - I've had to learn from scratch how to do this and it's hard and requires a lot of concentration and I don't always succeed - I think if we can keep riding and give the horse active direction a lot of these issues just go away and others become easier to work with. The horse needs leadership, and that's what the horse is asking for.
At this point in my life with horses, I'm interesting in having more than a compliant horse - that's nice but compliance on the outside doesn't necessarily mean that the horse is with you on the inside. There's a big difference between a horse that's willingly compliant and one that's merely compliant - I've seen the difference. Is it easy? No, and it takes a lot of time, patience, attention and effort on my part. But I believe it can be done, and that's what I'm working for with my horses. I'm on the road, and it's an amazing and exciting journey so far! If you want to read more about where I'm trying to go, and my work plan for Dawn, check out my post "The Horse is Thinking About Leaving . . ."
Have a great weekend, and may it include horses!
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Mr. Belt of Tennessee has been doing a fascinating series on the old Governor - "warts and all" - which I quite like. He has recently posted a very interesting article on Sevier and slavery on the old frontier, well worth the read.
My take? The sins of an age are reveled in by a few, opposed by fewer still, and taken for granted by most. Sevier in this case looks to be in that "most." Or rather -
Thank you for your fascinating discussions in Tennessee history!
Respectfully however - I'm not certain your letters support a particularly egregious case against Sevier here. He does his duty under the law, yes - but in all the letters you've posted he seems interested far less in "demanding their return to servitude" than preventing war between the Creeks and Cherokee (letter one), restoring a <i>kidnapped</i> mother and two children (letter two - and do we know if she had other children at home?), and again smoothing over relations between two native nations (letter three).
Racist by modern standards, yes - accepting the sin of his times too easily - absolutely.* But if anyone reads like the villain of the piece in these letters, I'm afraid I have to say it's the Cherokee.
Bad enough to say "negroes are not horses, though they are black" - how much the worse to have to be reminded of the fact?
* As I fear we do today - for if God is just, will He judge us more lightly than our forefathers? They accepted slavery in their midst. We keep it at a palatably safe emotional distance - but still buy the fruits of it by the container-ship load.
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Davide and I went to interview the refugees from Darfur, we were told that we
must neither photograph them nor publish their surnames. If we violated those
ground rules, we would “…be responsible
for endangering the lives of their relatives in Sudan,” warned a UN refugee
representative who looks after the interests of the refugees from Darfur in
Sudan are officially “enemies,” which makes the status of the 300 or so
Darfur refugees in Israel very complex, because Israeli law does not permit the
granting of asylum to citizens of enemy states. So when those refugees surrendered themselves to the Israeli
authorities after crossing the border from Egypt, they were detained and jailed
under the Law to Prevent Infiltration [from enemy states]. The stories of those jailed refugees, who
had seen their families murdered and / or experienced horrible torture at the
hands of the Janjaweed, were
widely and sympathetically covered by the Israeli media, and many Israelis
responded with horror: Given the all-too-fresh memory of what happened to the
Jewish people during the Second World War, how could Israel fail to grant
asylum to refugees fleeing genocide?
Israeli NGO’s, under the umbrella of the Committee for Advancement of
Refugees from Darfur (CARD), are calling on the Israeli government to find
a humane solution. Last year the
Immigrant Workers’ Hotline and the Refugee Rights Legal Clinic at Tel Aviv
University successfully petitioned the Supreme Court for a temporary review
mechanism; as a result, the courts can now grant permission, on an individual
basis and with the agreement of the Ministry of Defence, for Darfur refugees to
be temporarily settled on host kibbutzim. We went to visit five of those
recently released men at Kibbutz Maagan Michael, near Haifa.
are Ali, Hussein, Hassan, Guzuli and Jama, and their ages range from 26 to 32.
They share two Spartan rooms furnished with single beds and a table. There is a
modest kitchenette outside each of the rooms, and a bathroom. Everything was
spotlessly clean, but there were none of the little luxuries that most of we spoiled
westerners consider near-necessities – no books, no portable stereo, no CD’s.
The men work in the kibbutz factories and they are proscribed by law from
leaving the kibbutz without written permission. But they have no complaints
about kibbutz life, given what they went through over the previous few years.
All spoke warmly of the reception they had received at the kibbutz. They had
been assigned adoptive families that hosted them for coffee and cake on Friday
afternoons, before the Sabbath meal in the dining hall; the families made sure
their needs were taken care of and offered what one of the men called
We sat on
the beds and started the interview, but Hassan interrupted politely. What would
we like to drink? They served us mineral water and Sprite, and insisted we
accept pieces of homemade strawberry shortcake, baked by one of the adoptive
families. Then they told us their stories.
used to be a farmer. He last saw his wife and newborn baby the day after a
Janjaweed militia attacked his village three-and-a-half years ago. They killed 40 of his family members in
one day. He, his wife and baby managed to escape to another village, but when
Ali went out to collect some thatch to build them a shelter he was ambushed by
some Janjaweed and taken to one of their camps. There he was kept in a 2 metre
by 2 metre container for three days, without food. Every few minutes, his
captors put a cobra in the container and then removed it, in a primitive game
of Russian roulette. Released on condition that he become an informant, Ali
managed to escape and make his way to Egypt. That dangerous journey took nearly
two months, and it took another six months to receive UN refugee status in
Egypt. Not that it helped much. According to Egyptian law he was forbidden to work,
and the local UN office told him that only families were eligible for food aid.
But he had
to eat, so Ali worked illegally, was caught and jailed for one week. When he
was released, the police warned him that he would be deported to Sudan if
caught working again. Meanwhile, his only two friends had received refuge in
the USA and Australia. “I was starving, I was totally alone and I felt
helpless,” said Ali. He had never heard of Israel, but someone told him that it
was a democracy and he should try his luck there. So he did. He spent a total
of 17 months in various Israeli jails before a judge agreed to his release. He
does not know whether his wife and child are alive or dead.
(29) explained that he first heard of Israel during the two years he worked
(illegally) in the Sinai. He met many Israeli tourists there, he said, and
formed a positive impression of the country through those interactions. He
smiled and spoke smoothly when he spoke of the time he spent in the Sinai, but
as soon as he started telling us about what happened to him in Darfur, Hussein
developed a pronounced stutter. And the second he finished recounting his
ordeal, he quietly left the room and went outside to smoke a cigarette.
Hussein was a subsistence farmer. He was captured by the Janjaweed during a
shootout with rebel fighters, accused of being a rebel and jailed for two
weeks. His captors fed him only bread. “It did something to my stomach,” said
Hussein. After Hussein was released, his uncle took him for the surgery
necessary to unblock his digestive system, then smuggled him to Egypt “because
we have tribesmen there.” But the tribesmen were nowhere to be found, and
Hussein, too, found himself a refugee denied UN aid and forbidden to work. He
stayed in Egypt for four years, but realized that he would never be granted
permanent status and would always have to work illegally for a bare living. The
Egyptians, he said, regularly humiliated him in everyday interactions.
So in May
of 2005 he paid a Bedouin to smuggle him into Israel, where he was promptly
detained by a patrol of border police. “How did they treat you?” we asked.
“Great!” answered Hussein. “They took care me – gave me food, clothes and
blankets. One of the officers spoke to me in Arabic. I wish I could have stayed
longer with the army.”
All the men
experienced different types of trauma, torture and loss in Sudan, but their
stories about Egypt are remarkably similar: the Catch-22 of being
simultaneously forbidden to work and denied refugee aid; humiliation at the
hands of the Egyptians; the realization that they could not stay there
indefinitely. I asked if they were worried about being perceived by the Arab
world as traitors for saying positive things about Israel to journalists. “We
don’t have any confidence in the Arab world after the way the Egyptians treated
us,” one responded, as the others nodded in agreement. “And the Arab world
didn’t do anything to stop the Janjaweed from perpetrating genocide on our
asked if they were learning to speak Hebrew. A little, they answered, bashfully
demonstrating their small vocabulary. Then Hussein told us that a 76 year-old
kibbutz woman named Jeanine volunteered to teach them Hebrew for two hours a
we wanted to meet her. So I took Jeanine’s number from Hussein and called her,
offering to come to her home because I assumed that a 76 year-old woman would be
rather frail. “I’ll come to you,” she said, decisively.
minutes later a human energizer bunny with fluffy, short white hair and
twinkling blue eyes, wearing jeans and a fleece jacket, came bounding into the
room. She greeted us all, plonked herself on one of the beds, waved away the
proffered slice of strawberry short cake (“I ate too much today”) and looked at
me and Davide expectantly.
I asked if
she would like to speak in English or Hebrew, with me translating. “I speak
only French and Hebrew,” she said, “So you will have to translate.”
out that Jeanine had immigrated to Israel in 1949 from Tunisia, and that she
had been a schoolteacher for 35 years. She referred to the men from Darfur as
she said emphatically, “Is crucial. If the boys want to buy a ticket for the
train, how will they manage without Hebrew? The person who sells the ticket
doesn’t speak English. When I heard that the boys were working full time in the
factories, I knew they wouldn’t have time for ulpan classes. So I volunteered
to teach them. And together we are discovering that there are many similarities
between Arabic and Hebrew. Isn’t that right, boys?”
men looked at her affectionately and nodded as they responded in unison, like
obedient schoolboys, “That’s right, Jeanine.”
you’re from Tunisia, don’t you know Arabic?” I asked.
said, with a mischievous smile, “You don’t know what a French colonial
education is like. I was raised to speak only pure, proper French. My parents
spoke Arabic to one another when they didn’t want me to understand what they
were saying. So no, I don’t speak Arabic.”
turned to Davide and said, in halting Italian, “My father’s family came to
Tunisia from Livorno,
about 300 years ago.”
why the kibbutz had decided to accept refugees from Darfur.
looked at me sternly. “Do you know what happened at the Evian Conference in
1938?” she asked. “When all the countries gathered to try to find a solution
for the Jews of Germany and Austria but no-one was willing to give them
answered, of course.
why,” answered Jeanine. “We knew that we had a moral obligation, after what happened
mention that at the meeting? I asked.
Jeanine. “They didn’t have to. It was understood.”
As we were
driving away from the kibbutz, I asked Davide if he planned to use Jeanine’s
quote about the Evian Conference in his article. “Of course,” he said.
the paper will probably get letters from the knee-jerk anti-Israel crowd, you
know,” I said, “Accusing you of being biased toward Israel for writing about the Darfur refugees while the Palestinian refugee issue is still unresolved.”
said. “But I don’t think they can really say that, because I already wrote about the gay
Palestinians who come to Israel for refuge, and what a hard time they
have.” (more on that subject here).
wrote an email about Jeanine to Jill,
who’s living in London now. In her response she wrote: “Oh, that's what
I miss about Israel: the stories, the people, that unique and pure goodness of eccentric old ladies that sometimes shines out through all the crap.”
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Tag Archives: Lawrence Halprin
Construction work has begun on the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive which, all things going well, is slated to open in the summer of 2016, bringing bold contemporary architecture into the heart of Berkeley.
The UC Berkeley-owned museum, which includes the Pacific Film Theater, has raised $95 million worth of pledges towards the $100 million goal it needed to create a new home on Center St. at Oxford, the site of a former printing plant owned by the university. The new BAM/PFA is to be designed by New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, architects of New York’s High Line and several museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.
BAM/PFA has been planning to move since 1997 when it was determined that its current building on Bancroft Way — built in 1970 and designed by Mario Ciampi — did not meet present-day seismic standards. It cannot be upgraded without eliminating open exhibition spaces required for the galleries. … Continue reading »
News today of another death of someone who left a significant mark on Berkeley.
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin was responsible for the original design of UC’s Sproul Plaza, as well as the grounds of Greenwood Common (above). Beyond Berkeley, Halprin was one of the creators of Sea Ranch in Sonoma, and designed San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square.
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These are the cool iPhone Applications we are developing so far!
iJog is your personal treadmill for iPhone. The perfect exercise for the geek, lazy or busy guy! Check out the video! :-)
people are already submitting their distance and calories records for our Hal of Fame... check this out.
According to Wikipedia, a talking board, generically referred as "Ouija Board" (correctly pronounced "wee-jah" /wiʤə/ although often pronounced "wee-gee" /wiʤi/ and commonly known as a 'Spirit Board' )... (more info)
Express your thoughts, your feelings, everything you want to say, using small speech bubbles, like comics, thanks to your iPhone.
SpeechBubble is cool! It's all fun! It's priceless!
Sometimes you just like to relax and not have to concern on anything around you. Observing a landscape, a bird, a painting, a sculpture can relax you and help achieving a stress-free state.
Solboard - Solitaire Board Game (also known as Peg Solitaire) is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes, invented in the 17th Century. (more info)
Photoshop Pirate Guide – the first book about Photoshop ever written without using a single word – is a visual step-by-step guide to helping people to more effectively create and deliver visually rich content, using a few, fairly simple Photoshop techniques that even beginners can grasp. (more info)
more apps are coming...
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GOD IS NOT MOCKED
An accursed people are defined as those who, contrary to God's will, are contracepting and aborting themselves out of existence
How many children do you have, Mr. and Mrs. White Nationalist?
"If the U.S. depended on white births alone, we’d be dead." -- Dowell Myers, Professor of Demography, University of Southern California
Whites now account for under half of the births in the U.S.
By Sabrina Tavernese | New York Times | May 17, 2012
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.
Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history.
Such a turn has been long expected, but no one was certain when the moment would arrive — signaling a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict immigration.
While over all, whites will remain a majority for some time, the fact that a younger generation is being born in which minorities are the majority has broad implications for the country’s economy, its political life and its identity. “This is an important tipping point,” said William H. Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution, describing the shift as a “transformation from a mostly white baby boomer culture to the more globalized multiethnic country that we are becoming.”
Signs that the country is evolving this way start with the Oval Office, and have swept hundreds of counties in recent years, with 348 in which whites are no longer in the majority. That number doubles when it comes to the toddler population, Mr. Frey said. Whites are no longer the majority in four states and the District of Columbia, and have slipped below half in many major metro areas, including New York, Las Vegas and Memphis. A more diverse young population forms the basis of a generational divide with the country’s elderly, a group that is largely white and grew up in a world that was too.
The contrast raises important policy questions. The United States has a spotty record educating minority youth; will older Americans balk at paying to educate a younger generation that looks less like themselves? And while the increasingly diverse young population is a potential engine of growth, will it become a burden if it is not properly educated?
“The question is, how do we reimagine the social contract when the generations don’t look like one another?” said Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, co-director of Immigration studies at New York University.
The trend toward greater minority births has been building for years, the result of the large wave of immigration here over the past three decades. Hispanics make up the majority of immigrants, and they tend to be younger — and to have more children — than non-Hispanic whites. (Of the total births in the year that ended last July, about 26 percent were Hispanic, about 15 percent black, and about 4 percent Asian.)
Whites still represent the single largest share of all births, at 49.6 percent, and are an overwhelming majority in the population as a whole, at 63.4 percent. But they are aging, causing a tectonic shift in American demographics. The median age for non-Hispanic whites is 42 — meaning the bulk of women are moving out of their prime childbearing years.
Latinos, on the other hand, are squarely within their peak fertility, with a median age of 27, said Jeffrey Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. Between 2000 and 2010, there were more Hispanic births in the United States than there were arriving Hispanic immigrants, he said.
The result is striking: Minorities accounted for 92 percent of the nation’s population growth in the decade that ended in 2010, Mr. Frey calculated, a surge that has created a very different looking America from the one of the 1950s, when the TV characters Ozzie and Harriet were a national archetype.
The change is playing out across states with large differences in ethnic and racial makeup between the elderly and the young. Some of the largest gaps are in Arizona, Nevada, Texas and California, states that have had flare-ups over immigration, school textbooks and priorities in spending. The nonrural county with the largest gap is Yuma County, Ariz., where just 18 percent of people under 20 are white, compared with 73 percent of people over 65, Mr. Frey said.
Perhaps the most urgent aspect of the change is education. A college degree has become the most important building block of success in today’s economy, but blacks and Latinos lag far behind whites in getting one. According to Mr. Frey, just 13 percent of Hispanics and 18 percent of blacks have a college degree, compared with 31 percent of whites.
Those stark statistics are made more troubling by the fact that young Americans will soon be faced with caring for the bulging population of baby boomers as they age into retirement, said William O’Hare, a senior consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, on top of inheriting trillions of dollars of government debt.
“The forces coming together here are very clear, but I don’t see our political leaders putting them together in any coherent way,” he said, adding that educating young minorities was of critical importance to the future of the country and the economy.
Immigrants took several generations to assimilate through education in the last large wave of immigration at the turn of the 20th century, Mr. Suarez-Orozco said, but mobility was less dependent on education then, and Americans today cannot afford to wait, as they struggle to compete with countries like China.
“This is a polite knock on the door to tell us to get ready,” said Ruy Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. “We do a pretty lousy job of educating the younger generation of minorities. Basically, we are not ready for this.”
But there are bright spots. Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said the immigration debate of recent years has raised the political consciousness of young Latinos and he is hopeful that more will become politically active as a result. Only half of eligible Latino voters cast ballots in 2008, he said, compared with 65 percent of eligible non-Hispanic voters. “We have an opportunity here with this current generation,” Mr. Vargas said. About 50,000 Latinos turn 18 every month, he said.
And the fact that the country is getting a burst of births from nonwhites is a huge advantage, argues Dowell Myers, professor of policy, planning and demography at the University of Southern California. European societies with low levels of immigration now have young populations that are too small to support larger aging ones, exacerbating problems with the economy.
“If the U.S. depended on white births alone, we’d be dead,” Mr. Myers said. “Without the contributions from all these other groups, we would become too top-heavy with old people.”
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Testimony taken on voter ID bills
All Minnesotans would be required to show a government-issued photo ID card before voting, under a pair of bills laid over by a House committee.
HF89, sponsored by Rep. Mike Benson (R-Rochester), and HF201, sponsored by Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer (R-Big Lake), would both require voters to produce photo identification at their polling place before receiving a ballot. Kiffmeyer's bill also provides for electronic polling place rosters and would make various other changes to election statutes.
Members of the House Government Operations and Elections Committee took public testimony on the bills, but laid them over without acting on them. Chairwoman Joyce Peppin (R-Rogers) said a committee vote is planned for Feb. 8.
Both bills are modeled after an Indiana law requiring photo ID at the polls. They would eliminate the state's voucher system, where voters who cannot provide the appropriate documentation can be vouched for to register to vote, and provide for a provisional balloting system for registered voters who cannot produce their photo IDs.
Supporters said the bills would improve the integrity of the state's elections, and cited polls that show broad public support for a requirement. Benson said requiring photo ID would boost the public's confidence in election results.
"Letting people vote without a photo ID creates the ideal conditions for fraud," Benson said. "It is in fact very easy to impersonate someone if you don't have to prove who you are."
Opponents argued the bill would wrongfully discriminate against senior citizens, students, disabled voters and those who frequently change residences. They argued a provision to supply free photo ID cards to voters who can't afford another state-issued ID would not help those who have limited mobility and resources to obtain them.
"There's no question that these bills will disenfranchise thousands of senior citizens," said Mary Lou Hill, a 94-year-old resident and member of the League of Women Voters.
Rep. Ryan Winkler (DFL-Golden Valley) likened the bills' photo ID requirement to a "poll tax" that created obstacles to voting for specific groups of people.
Neither bill has a Senate companion.
© 2011 Session Daily
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Every day, the Daily Dot finds something that people on Facebook are sharing and, in turn, shares it with you—with a little explanation. Here's today's share.
In memory of Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak: a boy who loved Sendak’s drawings, so much, he ate one.
Sendak, who died Tuesday, was widely mourned around the Internet. Almost 7,000 Facebook users have shared a paragraph from an NPR interview in which Sendak told the story of a devoted young fan to NPR’s Terry Gross.
When Sendak sent the boy a personal drawing, the boy swallowed it whole. It’s the perfect embodiment of one of Sendak’s favorite themes: the ferocious carelessness of youth
“He saw it, he loved it, he ate it,” Sendak noted.
“He really understood kids and how they imagine so vividly,” noted Facebook user Johnie Beth Matthews.
“I know I did when I was a kid,” she added.
Photo by BruceTurner
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May 17, 2011
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If you have ever attended one of my presentations on BlazeDS, LiveCycle DS, or Flex/ColdFusion, you have heard me talk about how bad the data-connectivity wizards are in ALL of the IDEs available for the Flex SDK. Even the new Flash Builder 4.5 dosen’t address the white-hot mess they call the data connectivity wizards that they started including in 4.0 (Side note: I love most of the features in Flash Builder — I use it every day, but some of the wizards they included to make life easier really don’t).
Even including the services-config.xml document as a configuration option in your application will often lead you to troubles in the long-run. This is included for you when you tell Flash Builder that you want to use ColdFusion or Java as your server model. When you do this, the compiler inspects your services-config.xml configuration document on your server, and builds a table of the channels (endpoints) and destinations that are configured on the server. You can then call the destination by name in theortags and not have to worry about how your client actually connects back to the server…
… untill you need to move your application…
… or you need connect your AIR application to your server…
… or you have a mobile or television application that needs resources on your server…
… or your server’s configuration changes.
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May 16, 2011
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In my last blog post I mentioned that there were various properties available when you create your own BlazeDS / LiveCycle DS destination at runtime. The properties available to you are based on which type of adapter you are using.
Each set of properties is baked into a ConfigMap instance that you pass to the initialize() method of the adapter. In my research, I’ve found that there are some adapters that fire up ok without any properties defined (these tend to be the open-source ones), and some which cause all sorts of issues unless you have certain magical properties defined (these tend to be the closed-source ones).
In addition to the regular properties, there are also “ServerSettings” and “NetworkProperties”, which are not covered here. By not setting those properties, your destination will assume the defaults.
So, what are the available properties that you can set? Below is a list of the service/adapter/properties:
- remoting-service (used for Flash Remoting, Remote Object connections, and “AMF” connections)
- ColdFusionAdapter ”cf-object” (used to connect AMF messages to CFCs)
- access (as ConfigMap)
- use-mappings (true/false) ***
- method-access-level (“public”/”remote”) ***
- property-case (as ConfigMap)
- force-cfc-lowercase (true/false)
- force-query-lowercase (true/false)
- use-accessors (true/false)
- use-structs (true/false)
- Java Adapter “java-object” (used to connect AMF messages to Java classes)
- include-methods (if defined, this is the list of methods that are allowed to be called)
- exclude-methods (a list of methods that are blocked from being called. do not use with include-methods)
- messaging-service (used for realtime messaging applications)
- cfgateway (used to have ColdFusion mediate messages on the destination)
- gatewayid (the dot-location to the cfc that will handle the message) ***
- gatewayhost (used to define which host is hosting the cfcs, if it is not localhost – for example if your BlazeDS server is different from your CF server)
- allowedIPs (which servers are allowed send data onto the destination back to the clients)
- remote-username (bakes in this username into all the packets sent to CF)
- remote-password (bakes in this password into all the packets sent to CF)
- (there are no properties for ActionScript. Send in an empty ConfigMap)
- jms (as ConfigMap)
There are also services for proxying and data-management, however I’ve never used them (well, I have used data-management a lot, but since the licensing changes to LCDS, it’s pretty much dead to me). I don’t know much about the jms adapter, so I can’t really say what all the properties mean, but I do know they are there.
I have marked some properties with a ***. If you see that, you need to include it, or you will get varied results in creating the destination at runtime (most likely, it will fail the first time you send data to it, rather when you create it).
October 12, 2009
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So, I’m back from LA, and the Adobe MAX 2009 conference. Just like the MAX tagline of “Connect, Discover, Inspire,” I truly able to accomplish all of those. This year’s conference packed in a lot of announcements, and gave everybody a good idea of where Adobe is heading in the marketplace. All of the keynotes and sessions were recorded, so make sure to check them out on Adobe TV!
So, lets first talk about some of the major announcements:
- ColdFusion 9 was released. This has been in the works for about a year and a half, and offers a bunch of new features. Some of the new things that are most compelling include the ability to work directly with Microsoft Office documents, ORM, integration with Sharepoint, and certain features pre-packaged as a service.
- LiveCycle ES2 was released. I’m sure this effects all of 20 people on earth, but this product is just plain awesome. LiveCycle ES is a workflow management applications (for those of you who only deal with consumer applications, think of the process that your paperwork has to go through when you hire somebody new. You have multiple interviews, background checks, etc. that all belong in a workflow. This allows you to manage that process, and make sure nothing is missed). With it, a bunch of new Flex components have been released that allow you to integrate your applications with these workflows. Yet another important part of this suite is the “LiveCycle Collaboration Suite,” formerly known as Cocomo. This suite allows you to make your own interactive / collaboration services.
- Mobile Devices. So, there was lots of fanfare about Adobe’s push to make mobile devices 1st class citizens in the computing landscape. 21 of the top 22 device manufactures have signed on with Adobe including RIM, Symbian, Google, Microsoft, etc. The only one that is missing is Apple, of course, but Adobe didn’t waste time shooting a warning shot over their bow. Adobe announced that in CS5, they expect to be able to publish full-fledged iPhone/iPod Touch applications that can be published on the iTunes store. This does not mean that the Flash Player will be available for the iPhone, but simply that you can publish applications that were created in Flash/Flex/Catalyst.
A few things that were not released, but were talked about:
- Flash Builder 4 - This looks like it was delayed until Q1 of next year. It’s a shame, because a lot of the Adobe tooling is based on it now (interesting thought), so many of those applications have to wait too. This included some ES2 apps, etc. Adobe did release Beta 2 to allow people to refresh their builds, and play with things a bit more.
- ColdFusion Builder – This also looks like it was delayed until Q1 of next year. It is a LOT closer than people have been anticipating, and, personally I really like it. They have really done a lot of research on the workflow model, and I think they will win over a lot of developers who have been using Allaire ColdFusion Builder, Dreamweaver and all the other products.
- Codename Stratus – This project allows users to build truly P2P applications with the Flash Player or AIR. It allows IP Multicast or some sort of “home” server to point copies of FP together an allow them to communicate without the use of a server. This saves bandwidth for the server, and makes the experience better if the users are geographically near by. The shear thought of being able to use IP Multicast in FP is a huge win for me. This will require FP 10.1.
- LiveCycle Data Services 3 – It is coming, and very soon. This brings a whole slew of new features to the LCDS package that will make huge data applications faster and will allow data to flow better. One of the coolest things about LCDS3 is the data modeler. It brings the features of a UML designer, and allows you to both deploy databases via your model, or to build the skels of your applications via the model! This, to me, is one of the coolest things I saw at the show. How much was an LCDS server again?
- Adobe Connect for Mobile – So, this one blew me away, but only a peep was said at the conference. During the Day 1 keynote, they showed the iPhone, among other devices using a mobile version of Adobe connect to join meetings! This, to me, is one of the features that has the potential to keep Adobe Connect ahead of all the other web conferencing suites out there. They said that we can expect the iPhone, RIM, Android and Microsoft connect clients to come out “soon”.
- Flash Player 10.1 – Lots of neat stuff coming in this one. FP 10.1 will be smaller, meaner, and mobile ready. It will feature lots of stuff like the Stratus support, and hopefully will make my bed and pour me a beer. Make sure to check out the online sessions on this one
I also had the chance to catch up with a lot of the evangelists, and talk shop with a lot of the people I usually only communicate with online. It was great to see everybody, oh, and yeah, I went to a lot of sessions and labs too. I’m hoping to go through all my notes from the action-packed week from my labs and get cracking on some new apps I have floating in my head (yes, I was inspired).
April 7, 2008
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I will be doing a remote usergroup meeting for the Queensland CFUG, out of Brisbane City, in Austrilia tomorrow (4/8 @ 5:30 am EST.. I forget what time that is in upside-down land…) on LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS).
If you want to join along, email me at email@example.com — This will be broadcast live via Breeze, so anybody with an internet connection will be able to view it.
Presentation and samples will be posted here.
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It is no secret that I dislike Rush Limbaugh and the likes of Hannity and Savage. I believe they have done more harm to this country than we can accurately assess. "Ditto Heads" are called that for a reason--they let Rush tell them what to think. When someone with a political agenda has three hours a day, five days a week for decades to tell people that the opposition party are demons and enemies, it's no wonder we have been a divided nation.
But perhaps talk radio's influence is coming to an end. This piece in The Boston Globe spells out the whys and how of Rush's waning days as Demagogue in Chief of the conservatives.
ONE MORE note on the significance of the presidential election of 2008: It's the first one in more than 30 years on which talk radio had no major impact.
Perhaps the Carter-Ford contest in 1976 was the last in which talk radio was so irrelevant to public opinion on candidates and issues. In retrospect, 1979 (the year the Iranian hostage crisis began) and 2004 (the year of George W. Bush's reelection) may well be regarded as bookends of talk radio's greatest influence on American politics.
Consider some of the major stumbles this year by the medium's 800-pound gorilla. Rush Limbaugh vigorously promoted three separate political objectives over the past year, all of which failed: derailing John McCain's quest for the Republican nomination, sabotaging Barack Obama's drive for the Democratic nomination by fomenting Republican crossover votes for Hillary Clinton, and ultimately stopping Obama's march to victory in the general election. Contrast this with the impact talk radio once had on local taxes, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, congressional pay raises, a mandatory seat belt law, etc.
Most radio people hate to discuss the primary factor: overall use of their medium is in decline. Although the trend is affecting news and talk (including public radio) less than music programming, it is inexorable.
Alternatives to broadcast radio have proliferated - satellite, netcasts, downloads, blogalogue, iPod entertainment, cellphone updates. As a result, younger listeners largely ignore talk radio, and its existing audience is calcifying.
New ears - even middle-aged or senior ears - are vital to talk radio's influence because they are attached to brains that are available for persuasion, rather than brains that have already made a choice. In other words, if Limbaugh and Michael Savage (not to mention Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, and other more recent adventurers in talk) fail to attract many new listeners, they end up talking only to those who agree with their opinions, and thus have a smaller chance to affect the ideas of the electorate in general.
Beyond the shift in media usage are three factors of content and style.
First, news-and-comment television has gradually usurped talk radio's position as the destination of choice for freewheeling opinion. Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly are the major faces of the form, but news with an edge now defines the programming on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. Talk radio, even when its sounds stimulate imaginary pictures in the minds of listeners, is low-def.
Second, American listeners no longer expect talk-radio hosts to be reasonable - or even rational. Most listeners now assume that when they strike a talk show as they cruise across the dial, the talker will be a (sometimes rabid) promoter of a particular point of view.
Third, talk radio no longer even pretends to be a "town meeting of the air." The telephone call itself, which was a primary reason for the form's wide acceptance, has become an inconvenient appendage to most programs. Hosts, along with the usually inaudible producers, programmers, managers, and owners, ordinarily do not perceive callers' contributions as valuable use of airtime.
Phone calls from listeners once occupied 40 to 50 percent of a typical program. A host would often spend five to 10 minutes, and sometimes much more, with an individual caller, if the caller's ideas warranted it. Past paragons of talk familiar to many Bostonians - hosts like Jerry Williams, Paul Benzaquin, and David Brudnoy - actually argued with their callers. They asked them questions like, "What makes you say that?" or "Why do you feel that way?" This led the majority of listeners, the people who never made calls themselves, to value the medium as a place they could sample the ideas of others - even if they didn't agree with them.
But there's no going back, even if a modern host wanted to try. The American mass audience is dispersing, and talk radio, if it is to survive, will have to adapt to a nichified world.
Steve Elman worked for WBUR for 30 years. Alan Tolz is executive vice president and chief operating officer for Marlin Broadcasting. They are the authors of "Burning Up the Air: Jerry Williams, Talk Radio and the Life in Between."
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The company that has been chosen for this case study is John Deere Equipments. This company was founded by John Deere in 1837 and was incorporated in 1868 as Deere & Company. John Deere started this company as a one-man blacksmith shop and it is now a worldwide corporation that has its offices in more than 160 countries and employs more than 46,000 people. John Deere is one of the oldest industrial companies in the United States and it is guided by the original values of quality, innovation, integrity, and commitment that John Deere instilled at the beginning. The business strategy of John Deere, in their own words is: “We aspire to distinctively serve customers — those linked to the land — through a great business, a business as great as our products. To achieve this aspiration, our strategy is: Exceptional operating performance, Disciplined SVA growth, Aligned high-performance teamwork Execution of this strategy creates the distinctive John Deere Experience that ultimately propels a great business and, for all with a stake in our success, delivers…Performance That Endures” … click here to read ahead
Business Management Quality Innovation with Market-Based Global SCM System Implementation
Samsung Electronics, a leading Korean company as well as a symbol of the IT industry, carried out an innovative project to strengthen its global Supply Chain Management (SCM) execution ability, gaining the industry’s interest. Samsung Electronics placed its emphasis on the business management scenario of predicting and preparing for future environmental changes and competitiveness, which is one of the survival strategies of an industry with an unpredictable future. The company is aggressively establishing the foundation for enhancing business management speed and efficiency-oriented business management innovations since early this year. In accordance with this type of scenario, Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (BI) Platform provided life to Samsung Electronics’ SCM system. Samsung Electronics decided to implement an action-oriented BI solution that enables on-demand changes of business management plans and reflects these adjustments. As such, it decided to deploy SQL Server 2008, which can satisfy all three major requirements of BI solution, including ‘performance and reliability’, ‘cube write-back’ and ‘user convenience’, and the company is thoroughly experiencing the benefits of this IT innovation. In the face of enterprise-wide application, it has completed application in only its video display business division, so it is still too early to mention any fixed quantity of benefits. However, with this system implementation, Samsung Electronics expects to increase its forecast accuracy for product demands by more than 20%.
Read More @ http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000003889
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About 10 minutes ago, we experienced a sizeable quake here in Kathmandu. Our house swayed and we made our way fairly quickly down the stairs and out into the yard. Gabe did stop at the door to ask if he should bring a cricket bat. (He thought that the reason we were hustling him out of the house was because of robbers trying to get in.) But other than that we were quickly out in the yard.
I know the advice is generally to squat, hold and cover, but building standards being what they are in Kathmandu we’ve made the decision as a family that we will try to get out from wherever we are if we’re close enough to an exit.
The power went down for a few minutes and in the dark we could feel the earth rolling beneath our feet. Trees in the garden swayed.
I haven’t heard of any damage yet, nor heard what size quake it was. Though our landlord said it is the biggest quake he has felt in Kathmandu for 22 years.
It is a very unsettling feeling to be reminded that the solid earth on which we stand is moving. And sometimes with an abrupt violence.
Update: It seems that we were feeling this quake: a 6.8 Richter scale tremor centred on Sikkim in N-E India.
Update: Three people have been reported dead in Kathmandu after a wall collapsed on them, with two other deaths reported in another district. The article also reports 6 deaths in Sikkim.
Update: The latest reports say that 36 people have died (most of them in India, but a few also in Nepal and Tibet) as a result of the earthquake. The toll could go higher as debris is cleared.
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President Obama's Second Term Agenda
President Obama’s second inaugural address outlined a liberal vision for his last term in office. He linked the struggle for civil rights and women’s rights to the debate over same-sex marriage. He also promised to address immigration and climate change. But much of the president’s proposed agenda will require action from an often hostile Congress. And while a new proposal from Congressional Republicans may extend the nation’s borrowing authority for three months, more fiscal battles lie ahead. The president’s speech also suggests the Nobel Peace Prize winner will pursue a modest foreign policy agenda over the next four years. Diane and her guests discuess President Obama’s second term.
current White House correspondent and former diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times.
national political correspondent for National Public Radio and a contributor at Fox News Channel
director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
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From the vineyards of South Burgundy: when wine and perfume are a marriage of Principles…
This is the view I will enjoy every morning for the next 6 months from the apartment where my partner and I are staying in a small rural village on a hill in the heart of the famous ”Pouilly Fuissé” South Burgundy wine region!
There is a good reason why I am here: it is just inspiring and for me to be able to deliver the accredited Level III perfumery course I have put together, inspiration and quietness were needed… Plus it was just the good opportunity to reconcile with my French roots but above all, to proceed with one of my strong interests: the traditional wine-making process or Terroir wine-making! And I could not find a better place than Pouilly-Fuissé in South Burgundy to look more into how wine and perfume are a ‘Marriage of Principles‘!
” Terroir”- From the French word ‘terre’ (land)*
The concept of terroir is at the base of the French wine ‘Appellation d’origine contrôlée‘ (AOC) system that has been the model for appellation and wine laws across the globe.
‘Terroir’ is originally a French term in wine, coffee and tea used to denote the special characteristics that the geography, geology and climate of a certain place bestowed upon particular produce. Agricultural sites in the same region share similar soil, weather conditions, and farming techniques, which all contribute to the unique qualities of the crop. It can be very loosely translated as “a sense of place,” which is embodied in certain characteristic qualities, the sum of the effects that the local environment has had on the production of the product.* Source: Wikipedia
Naturally, I wanted to learn more about similarities between perfume-making and wine-making and in the short 2 weeks since I have arrived in South Burgundy, I had the chance to meet Roger Saumaize, one of the most reputed wine makers and growers of white grapes for Burgundy superior quality wine. He is a practitioner in ‘biodynamic wine‘, a holistic and ecological form of agriculture based on a spiritual/practical philosophy, called ‘anthroposophy‘, which includes understanding the ecological, the energetic, and the spiritual in nature.
I prefer calling the likes of Roger, Natural Winegrowers… And like Natural perfumers, their methods which are basically Ancient and Traditional methods going back centuries are controversial. One of the aspects I learnt about the ‘biodynamics’ principle is that the alcohol in the wine is created just by adding sugar in the grapes! After having crushed and pressed the grapes, the mixture is transferred into a drum and sugar is added. During the fermentation process an every other day, the blend is BEATEN UP with a special stick (bâtonnage process) because the stirring of the fine lees (sediments) remaining in the barrel of unfinished wine enriches the wine flavours and gives it this ‘animalic’, ‘earthy’ taste while ensuring that the fruity aromas are equally present. In other terms, this very traditional and painstaking process is the equivalent of stirring your perfume everyday for several weeks, allowing the sediments of natural essential oils to blend and impregnate the scent before you start the decanting process.
I was stunned when Roger showed us blackboards on the barrels in his cellar in which various acidic levels were written including ‘lactic acid’, an acid derived from milk! Who could have known that this could come from grapes! But then Roger explains that it all comes from the way they treat the soil (the Terroir). Because lactic acid comes from a bacteria and this very bacteria creates the FERMENTATION process! And in biodynamic growing, the focus is not on adding chemical fertilisers but on digging deep in the soil to extract the minerals and bacteria and brings them up to the grapevines who will ‘feed’ and ‘grow’ organically.
Another similarity between wine and perfume-making is adding ‘new’ on top of ‘old’ where the old takes over the new. In the traditional Art of perfumery, and because the essential oils can be altered year on year by the quality of the crops, we always keep a good percentage of the old recipe from a fragrance and add the new blend on top of it. This mainly allows for consistency in the smell because the ‘old’ blend that has been sitting for much longer will tend to impose itself over the newly added concentrate.
During my visit in the cellar, I learnt that the white wine-makers are faced with a similar ordeal: how to achieve balance and ensure that the wine does not taste too powerful? New wine is added into old wine barrels! It is worth noting here is that the oak-tree wood from the barrel will also exude into the wine and give it its Terroir taste. In traditional perfumery, if you want your perfume to smell woodier or to fix more, one of the method is to let it sit in an oak-tree barrel… This is how a Grand Cru wine can be accomplished. In perfumery, this is how a VINTAGE perfume will be achieved!
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Earlier this week, Jeff Pulver posted an analysis of two vastly opposite approaches to the regulation of VoIP on the state level. I’m including a few short excerpts below, but you really should go read the full article:
Last week two states – New Jersey and Missouri — took radically different approaches to VoIP regulation that could have far reaching consequences for the future of Internet communication.
New Jersey – helping consumers take advantage of new technologies. On the one hand, New Jersey’s Governor Jon Corzine (D) — joining a number of other forward looking states – signed into law new legislation prohibiting state regulation of many aspects of VoIP.
Missouri – stuffing tomorrow’s technologies into yesterday’s regulatory boxes. But last week the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) took a starkly different approach. After a year-long proceeding, the PSC found that Comcast’s fixed VoIP service, unlike Vonage’s service, is offering a telecommunications service in Missouri and therefore it is requiring Comcast to get certified by December 10th, or stop offering their VoIP service. …..
Implications: This decision is likely to set off a chain of reactions including a possible appeal, and if left in place, unleash a number of other state actions similarly adopting state regulation of fixed VoIP. These actions are like to raise rates for consumers and slow innovation as state seek to require Internet technologies to subsidize the 100 year old phone network through the application of state universal service contributions, and the application of state access charges. It would be like having the first automobiles subsidize horse and buggy’s, or e-mail subsidize postal mail, or PCs subsidize mainframes.
I again urge you to read Jeff’s complete post:
The Jeff Pulver Blog: VoIP in America: A Tale of Two States
The strange thing to me about this is that although the big phone companies often have their way with state legislators (because legislators sell their votes like cheap prostitutes, though often in non-obvious ways so they don’t run afoul of the poorly-enforced ethics rules), most of the larger phone companies are smart enough to realize that regulation on VoIP isn’t even in their best interest. The reason is that the vast majority of customers ditching landlines are going to cell phone service, not VoIP, and the day may come (and for some companies, already has come) when they will want to offer their own VoIP service.
My point is that I don’t think that the Missouri PSC type of regulation is something that the big phone companies have been pushing hard for – even if there might be a slight short-term gain (by making it more costly for the cable competitors to do business), in the long term it will hurt the phone companies as much as the cable companies. But I may be wrong – nobody ever said the big phone company executives were the brightest bulbs on the tree, and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that they would go for the short-term gain, and leave it to their successors to deal with the resulting mess.
So far, Michigan has taken a “hands off” approach to VoIP, but that’s consistent with their growing reluctance to regulate any aspect of the telephone industry except for “PBLES” (the “Primary Basic Local Exchange Service” that few customers are aware exists, and that even fewer actually subscribe to). So the fact that Michigan doesn’t seem to want to regulate much of anything having to do with telephone service anymore probably works in the favor of fixed VoIP providers.
The interesting thing is, the cable companies in Missouri could probably avoid regulation altogether by offering an associated “nomadic” VoIP service (the type where you have a VoIP adapter that you can take with you and use anywhere you have a broadband connection). If, for example, they were to develop a VoIP adapter and system that incorporates the best of both worlds – the reliability of fixed service combined with the portability of nomadic service, that might put them into the realm of providers that the states are unable to regulate.
(How would such a system work? Perhaps something like this: Normally, it detects that you are at home, and uses the “reserved” VoIP bandwidth of your local cable company – in other words, it bypasses the public Internet and essentially uses the frequencies reserved for local phone service. Should you unplug the adapter and take it to another location served by the same cable company – for example, you take it to a neighbor’s home and plug it in there – it will still attempt to use the reserved VoIP bandwidth, if technically feasible. If for some reason it can’t use the reserved bandwidth, or if you take it to a place served by another provider, it falls back and uses the public Internet to connect you to your cable company’s switch. Oh, and to make it a true “nomadic” service, the cable company would have to offer the ability to get a number from a ratecenter of the customer’s choice, rather than one dictated by the geographic location of their home. It seems to me that if that type of system were used, there would then be no functional difference, at least from the customer’s perspective, between the cable company’s service and the “nomadic” VoIP service offered by other VoIP companies).
Somehow, I doubt the cable companies will develop and use an entirely new type of technology just to bypass the backward-thinking regulators in a particular state. It’s probably a lot cheaper for them to lobby the Missouri legislature to get a VoIP-friendly law passed.
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Erzo G.J. Luttmer - Visiting Scholar
Published October 1, 2006
This paper presents a simple model of search and matching between consumers and firms. The firm size distribution has a Pareto-like right tail if the population of consumers grows at a positive rate and the mean rate at which incumbent firms gain customers is also positive. This happens in equilibrium when entry is sufficiently costly. As entry costs grow without bound, the size distribution approaches Zipf’s law. The slow rate at which the right tail of the size distribution decays and the 10% annual gross entry rate of new firms observed in the data suggest that more than a third of all consumers must switch from one firm to another during a given year. A substantially lower consumer switching rate can be inferred only if part of the observed firm entry rate is attributed to factors outside the model. The realized growth rates of large firms in the model are too smooth.
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Free movie, March 21 at the Milton Library
A free movie, The Snows of Kilamanjaro, will play at the Milton Public Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton (02186) in the Keys Community Room (lower level) on Thursday, March 21, 2013, beginning at 6:15 pm with refreshments and a movie trivia quiz. The film will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. After the movie, prizes will be awarded to trivia quiz winners. The event is hosted by Milton middle school teacher Jeff Stoodt, and is sponsored by The Friends of the Milton Public Library. For more information, visit the library’s website, www.miltonlibrary.org or contact Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at (617) 698-5757.
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Peck plays a writer on safari in Africa. Immobilized due to a wound, he lies outside his tent reflecting ruefully on his life. Based upon a short story some critics consider Ernest Hemingway’s best, the film also stars Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward.
Gregory Peck was an imposing figure. If you remember him, you immediately visualize a rail-thin man who stood at 6 feet 3 inches. With his full head of hair and his shoulders thrown back, he was the very definition of “tall, dark, and handsome.” But in his time Peck wasn’t merely a matinee idol. Viewers came to expect him to play roles where he could evince moral rectitude. His greatest role was as Atticus Finch in 1962‘s To Kill a Mockingbird. Of the part Peck said at the time, “I can honestly say that in twenty years of making movies I never had a part that came close to being the real me until Atticus Finch.”
He was a lifelong liberal. An outspoken critic against the Vietnam War, he wound up on President Nixon’s enemies list. A devout Roman Catholic, he disagreed with the Church’s positions on abortion and the ordination of women. He once even considered running against Ronald Reagan for the governorship of California.
As Time magazine’s Richard Corliss put it, “Peck was liberal when liberal was cool.” Peck had “a long prime with a Mount Rushmore visage and the voice of Yahweh on a good day.” He was a “sonorous pitchman for movie humanism. He showed how a strong man could also be a gentle man.”
Peck had great success early in his film career. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times in his first five years of film acting. (He would eventually win this award with his fifth nomination for To Kill a Mockingbird.)
With his popular appeal firmly established, Peck had the opportunity to work with the towering directors of the 1950s: Alfred Hitchcock (Spellbound and The Paradine Case), John Huston (Moby Dick), and Stanley Kramer (On the Beach).
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| Research > Scheduling
scheduling objectives include makespan reduction, overload reduction,
and throughput maximization. OTS has developed state of the
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Squeaky Wheel Optimization (SWO)
SWO was used to acheive the best results in the world for aircraft assembly and fiber-optic cable manufacturing. A generalized version of SWO has been used in generic project management scheduling to minimize makespan and overload. We are currently working to apply SWO to the scheduling of television commercials.
with the shipbuilding industry has made it apparent that traditional
objectives are often not appropriate. In many cases, the primary
goals of scheduling is to minimize cost while maintaining robustness.
OTS has developed ARGOS, a radically new set of algorithms, to tackle these
objectives for large-scale projects. Details...
development of new scheduling algorithms has lead to interesting
question concerning their effectiveness in reality. Given that
nothing ever goes exactly as planned, will the theoretical cost savings
of systems like ARGOS be acheived in the real world? To answer
this question for the shipybuilding industry, we have developed SimYard, a simulated shipyard. SimYard shows that most, but not all, of ARGOS savings will be realized. Details...
Our scheduling research has resulted in a number of commercially available products.
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Gaza: many injured civilians inaccessible, says hospital director
Monday, January 05, 2009
GAZA CITY — Civilians injured by bombings are stuck in their homes without food and water and are unable to seek medical attention, says the director of an Anglican hospital in Gaza City. Nurses working in the hospital are unable to reach their own injured children at home.
The ACT-supported Al Ahli Arab Hospital has treated more than 100 patients since the onset of the latest conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants. The director of the hospital, Dr. Suhaila Tarazi, has been working sixteen-hour days trying to make the best use of increasingly scarce resources. She shared the following report with ACT:
The situation in Gaza is worsening by the hour. Yesterday we received 17 patients suffering from bombing and shrapnel injuries. Most of the injured were civilians who were sitting in their homes. However, there are even more injured people in areas where they are simply stuck in homes without food, water and electricity -- and we are unable to reach them.
As some injured people do come to the hospital, we treat them and if they are stable then we send them home. We have treated more than 100 patients since the most recent attacks began. And we are currently housing 30 injured patients along with persons rejected from other hospitals. We are a church hospital and so we do not turn anyone away.
The hospital is in urgent need of medicine and supplies. There is no electricity in all of Gaza and so we are currently running off of generator power. We have very little supplies left -- enough to last for another week. If this crisis continues, we will be in a very dire situation.
The attacks are also hitting close to our area here in Gaza City. Yesterday, the main square beside the hospital was bombed -- just 30 meters away. The attack left a big crater and injured seven innocent civilians who were just walking on the street.
And the crisis is also affecting the families of our own staff.
Yesterday, one of our nurses, Hania Murad, received a call from her husband while she was working here at the hospital. Her husband was calling for the hospital to send an ambulance to pick up her kids, who had been injured in a bombing. However, their home was located near the American School where are not allowed to go -- even with an ambulance. The Red Cross was also unable to send an ambulance into the area. For eighteen hours her kids sat waiting and injured.
One of Hania’s kids died.
This is the life of our staff. While their hands are working hard to save the lives of many, their hearts are at home with their own kids.
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- Gaza: Response continues despite restricted access
- Gaza: bombed clinic to rise from the rubble
- Gaza: "People still look at the sky"
- Gaza: should Israel pay compensation for destroyed clinics?
- Gaza: Food distribution between skeleton houses
- Gaza: ACT starts risky food distribution
- Much-needed aid reaches Gazans
- Gaza: food and medicine on way
- Gaza: The poorest lost their only heath care
- Gaza: food, medicines, blankets and trauma therapists on their way
- Gaza: Israel bombs three mobile clinics
- Gaza: many injured civilians inaccessible, says hospital director
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BT Group PLC
- BT Group PLC
- No. of employees
- 101,700 (2011)
- £20 billion (2011)
- United Kingdom
BT Group PLC is a UK-based telecommunications company that operates in over 50 countries and provides products and services in 170. The core of its business is in the provision of communications infrastructure and services, including telephone lines and calls, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as managed networked IT services.
Within the UK, BT is a leading provider of communications services and products to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises and the public sector and BT’s Openreach is involved with the UK Government’s planned roll-out of super-fast broadband. BT Global Services provides managed networked IT services to multinational corporations, businesses and government organizations.
BT has attracted much praise for placing sustainability at the heart of its business model. It believes that by doing so it will be better able to provide long-term profitability for its shareholders in a changing world. BT currently consumes 0.7% of the UK’s electricity and is one of the top ten users in the UK, but since 2004, all of this electricity has come from renewable sources.
The group is specifically committed to contributing positively to society, the economy and the environment through its operations, its employees and its services, and is consistently awarded gold sector status in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
The group’s global climate strategy includes reducing the impact of the group’s operations, empowering its customers to reduce their impacts by offering innovative products and services, influencing suppliers to provide more energy efficient products and services, and encouraging employees to reduce their carbon footprint at home and at work.
BT has reduced its carbon footprint in the UK by 59% since 1996. It is now committed to achieving an 80% reduction in CO2 intensity in their worldwide business by 2020. In total, BT's environmental programs have saved it £365 million.
BT set its first carbon reduction target in 1992, and since 2004 has purchased all of its energy from sustainable sources. It is a leading member of the CBI’s Climate Change Board which is helping tranform the UK into a low carbon economy.
In 2010 it was recognized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as the first company to reduce employee flights by 20% in one year. BT is also one of the six sustainability partners involved in the planning of the London 2012 Olympics, taking the opportunity, “to inspire and support people to change the way they build, live, learn, work and travel to create a more sustainable society”.
Through its Build a Sustainable Organisation program, BT's portfolio of solutions and services has been specifically developed to help other companies build a sustainable organization - saving energy, reducing travel burdens, and deploying workforces more flexibly. Through intelligent use of information and communications technologies (ICT), BT shows others how to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions while delivering a host of other benefits.
Renewable energy projects
BT Wind for Change is the UK’s biggest corporate wind power project outside the energy sector. Seven sites around the UK have been granted planning permission for the project, and BT aims to produce 250 megawatts of renewable electricity for itself by 2016 (around 25% of its current needs).
BT has also worked with Solar Power Partners to build a solar energy system to power the North American headquarters in El Segundo, California. The system has been in successful operation since 2010 and is one of the biggest urban solar installations in the state. And in London, BT won planning permission in 2011 to build the city’s largest rooftop solar power installation, the first of many planned for BT sites around the UK.
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to all those who are in medical profession or have keenly observed the medical practice, what is that one strongly held religious belief that annoys doctors or other people in medical or paramedical profession, makes practice difficult for them (even if they are theist themselves)?
well in india, applying cowdung to the umbilical cord stump of neonates (resulting in increasing neonatal tetanus incidence) is such a practice stil prevailing despite rampant measures
This is a fascinating question. I'm just a manager in the medical field, but I've never heard the providers talk about being irritated by the religious beliefs of patients... They've talked about certain magical beliefs, like when the patients want some magical pill for their obesity that doesn't involve any sort of exercise and eating less. My providers are two catholics, one "agnostic", one unknown and one secular humanist.
One belief that drives me nuts is related to my research directly. I don't get it a lot, but for some reason when I tell some Christians that I do biomedical science and research the area of aging they say its unnatural and against gods will to prolong life. I immediately ask them if its unnatural to treat cancer in any way, because doing so would prolong the lifespan of individuals that have it. Or perhaps it is unnatural to treat someone with Alzheimer? Should I just sit back idly as I watch a family slowly lose a loved one to age induced dementia? Even after explaining that all I'm doing is trying to make them maintain the healthy state of their body for a few more years, prevent dementia, and slow the increase in the risk of cancer associated with age, they still say 'it's unnatural.' On a related note, I find even 'non-religious' people seem to treat 'nature' as a replacement for god as if it has some kind of narrative and will. They promptly make the same aforementioned argument, replacing 'its against gods will' with 'that goes against what nature designed.' Nature does not design; traits are selected for based on the ability to survive pressures exerted by the environment, via competition with other organisms, and predation/parasites. If these pressures do not kill the organism or prevent it from mating, the traits that it had are passed on. The trait 'non-aging' is not something selected for, it is very non-competitive considering a stable population is an easy target for parasites (red queen hypothesis explains that well). So perhaps I'm going 'against nature' by trying to support traits that were not 'naturally selected for.' But this is the real world and I'm not going to sit idly by as I see my loved ones get ill without lifting a finger.
I'm so glad that I'm on the back likes of medicine so I don't have to directly deal with this that often. Usually when surrounded by other medical personal its more of an issue of defeatism, which I can deal with easily.
RJ, yeah, we know these people are hypocrites. i guess u should tell them their existence is unnatural because its with interference of man that they have lived that longer, giving the improved life expectancy. ask them if its not against the will of god to allow their own popes be so old and healthy. ask them if their pope wil allow himself to die without medical assistance to be along the guidelines of god of non-intereference. But sooner or later they wil themselves bring their loved old ones or their old self with a common geriatric ailment to the hospital and know at the back of their minds that they are hypocrites. but they wil stil do what tey have done all their lives, covering up their shortcomings in the name of god, and wil cook up another argument to support their approach to medical faculty at an age where should be dying commonly of the age. they may go so lo as exactly reversing their argument and saying that its god's wil again.
and about the natural selection, well its quite clear that if natural selection (the rule itself) operated in a way that humans rule the world, its directly responsible for the human tendancies of not respecting the rule itself. whether we do or not is an extended logic, its the mere arousal of the thought in human mind that is sufficient to make us realise that natural selection is ultimately responsible for its own invalidation by humans
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On Friday local dignitaries from local and state levels will gather at 8:30 a.m. for a formal re-dedication ceremony hosted by the Redlands Unified School Districts.
Student performances and speeches from community members - including Dr. Gary Thomas, San Bernardino County superintendent of schools, and local historian Tom Atchley, who will talk briefly about the history of Mission - are event highlights.
The ceremony will conclude with a ceremonial ringing of the Mission School Bell, which is the original school bell from when it was founded in the 1800s.
In the evening, the school will hold a screening of the Emmy-award winning film, "Mendez vs. Westminster - For all the Children/Para Todos Los Ninos" at 6 p.m.
On Saturday, Atchley will give a lecture on the history of Mission School from his book, "Mission School: A History," at 6 p.m. sponsored by the Loma Linda Parks and Historical Society.
On Sunday, the 8th annual Loma Linda Fair and Grand Re-Opening Celebration of Mission will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. and will feature staff and student reunions, bell-ringing, guided tours, displays, vintage autos and tractors.
All events will take place on the school's campus at 10568 California St.
Build in 1853, Mission School played a key role in the state's civil rights movement when the school opened its doors to students of any color in 1942, five years before racial integration became California law, said event organizers.
The school was closed for two decades - in the 1990s and 2000s - before the Redlands Unified School District and the city of Loma Linda took up a revitalization effort to restore the school.
Construction was in two phases, with the first completed prior to the 2011-12 school year.
"While we opened Mission last year with half the student population, the second phase - which is the main older building everyone sees from California Street - still needed another year for completion. So the re-dedication is being held this year because now the revitalization is complete and all the buildings and the grounds are the way it was planned to be," said Tim Hoch, Mission's principal. "We needed to make sure everything was done and the school was ready to present to the community.
"It's a fabulous looking building, campus."
Hoch said he is excited to see the campus buzzing this weekend.
"The community gets to see the culmination of the vision and the perseverance that our superintendent and the school board put into remaking this school a reality because it has such a long history," Hoch said. "We're a little biased, but we think it's the best resource the city of Loma Linda and the Redlands school district has to enjoy...., we think it's the prettiest gateway to Loma Linda."
Atchley, also a former Redlands High School teacher, said it was an honor to be considered to speak and share its history with the community.
Most recently he held a slide-show presentation on Mission to the Redlands Contemporary Club. His speech on Saturday will be similar and based on his book, which was published through the San Bernardino County Museum.
Books will be on sale at the event.
Atchley said he is hoping for a big turnout for his presentation, especially those who are current Mission students.
"What I know about their school is the coolest thing," he said.
For more information, contact the school at 909-307-2480.
Reach Kristina via email, call her at 909-793-3221, or on Twitter @TheFactsKris
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The Financial Times is running a good series this week on Amazon, one of the country’s most fascinating and frustrating companies. This piece on how Amazon has transformed itself from an online book retailer into a retail and outsourcing giant is particularly interesting.
The Wall Street Journal reported a couple of weeks ago that some of Amazon’s third-party Marketplace vendors are complaining that the company is unfairly using its inside knowledge of their sales to compete against them.
The FT’s piece delves deeper into how Amazon is turning itself into a third-party logistics company that lets other companies outsource much of their operations to it. You can start up a business now and pay Amazon to handle your shipping, warehousing, payments, Web hosting—basically everything but figuring out what to sell. And its Marketplace has grown so fast that it’s become something lots of online vendors can’t afford to ignore.
The paper gets a good anecdote in a Virginia retailer called GoVacuum (which gets about half its sales through Amazon) that shows the upside and downside of having Amazon effectively run most of your operations:
The deliveries are done by Fulfillment by Amazon, a distribution service, which is why the hoovers on the storehouse pallet are just passing through GoVacuum’s drab facility en route to an Amazon warehouse. They will be stored and shipped to customers for fees equal to roughly 10 per cent of each sale, depending on size and weight - a rate that is cheaper than any of the alternatives.
Amazon processes the payments of GoVacuum customers, keeps their email addresses to itself, and handles after-sales support. GoVacuum even uses the databases of Amazon Web Services to store information.
Basically, Amazon is an enormous digital consignment store. You find the stuff to sell and pay Amazon a cut to retail it for you. The problem with that is Amazon knows what you’re selling before you do and can use its inside knowledge and its heft to undercut you when you find a big seller.
So it’s not surprising that its third-party retailers say the company works against them:
Diane Buzzeo, the founder of Ability Commerce, a software group that retailers use to manage their presence on Amazon, says: “They do look at your product mix and then go to the manufacturer and say: ‘Hey, why don’t we sell this direct?’ It’s amazing they haven’t been hit with some kind of non-competition lawsuit.”
One toy seller who did not want to be named says: “The work we and others have done has paved the way for Amazon to understand what sells and what doesn’t.” He tries to stay ahead by finding new designs and new manufacturers. “We have to protect ourselves against Amazon, which has perfect knowledge of everything.”
The FT quotes an investment banker comparing the company’s conflicts here to Goldman Sachs’s on Wall Street:
“People complain about conflicts of interest. But you still have to do business with them.”
Which is why it’s good to raise questions about Amazon’s strategy for becoming the critical infrastructure—the platform—that underlies much of online retailing.
An RBC analyst estimated three years ago that one-third of all U.S. online shopping dollars flowed through Amazon, either directly or through its Marketplace third parties.
That’s an enormous concentration of power in the hands of one company. We think of Walmart as a huge bricks-and-mortar retailer—and it is—but it accounts for 11 percent of U.S. retail sales.
This is yet another reason to keep a close eye on Amazon.
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When You Don't Need a "Diet"
Losing added holiday pounds is as simple as eliminating 100 calories per day.
By Gina Shaw
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario
Maybe you put it all on in the last couple of weeks -- an extra helping of mashed potatoes here, a slice of pecan pie there, two or three holiday parties' worth of drinks and noshes, and you find yourself 5 pounds heavier on Jan. 2 than you were on Dec. 2. Or maybe you've been carrying an extra 5 or 10 pounds all year long, and you've made that classic New Year's resolution: It's time to take the weight off.
You don't need The Zone delivering meals to your door, a lifetime membership to Bally's, or a Bowflex in your living room, says Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center, and associate director of the UPMC Nutrition Center. All you need is a little strategy -- and some patience.
"By cutting out 100 calories a day, you can lose about a pound a month, and by summertime you'll have all that weight off," says Fernstrom (remember, that's cutting 100 calories a day from your usual caloric intake, not the overstuffed holiday version). "That's by doing almost nothing. It's really not that hard."
Really? OK, so where do you find those calories, and how do you trim them? Fernstrom has a few tips:
Boost Your Calorie Burn
While you're cutting out 100 calories a day, you can also boost the number of calories you burn -- and you don't need a gym to do it. The best investment you can make in increasing your exercise quotient, says Fernstrom, is a pedometer. You can buy a pedometer for under $10, and by wearing it for just a week, you'll have a much better idea of how active (or inactive) you are.
"We always overestimate our physical activity and underestimate our calorie intake," says Fernstrom. "If your pedometer shows that you're walking less than 10,000 steps a day, you're not moving enough." For the average person, walking 1 mile -- or about 2,500 steps -- burns an average 100 calories. This of course will depend on the individual, the terrain being walked, the speed at which the individual walks, etc.
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Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. He is the third of six children (the eldest son) born to Charles Joseph and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy (he has two brothers and three sisters). Originally named Charles (after his father), he renamed himself Cormac after the Irish King (another source says that McCarthy’s family was responsible for legally changing his name to the Gaelic equivalent of “son of Charles”).
In 1937, when he was four, the family moved to Knoxville, and his father became a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority (legal staff 1934-67; chief counsel 1958-67). In 1967, the McCarthys moved from Knoxville to Washington, D.C., where Charles was the principal attorney in a law firm until his retirement.
Cormac was raised Roman Catholic. He attended Catholic High School in Knoxville, then went to the University of Tennessee in 1951-52. His major: liberal arts. McCarthy joined the U.S. Air Force in 1953; he served four years, spending two of them stationed in Alaska, where he hosted a radio show.
From 1957-59, McCarthy returned to the university, where he published two stories, “A Drowning Incident” and “Wake for Susan” in the student literary magazine, The Phoenix, calling himself C. J. McCarthy, Jr. While at the university, he won the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960.
McCarthy left the university again, this time for good. He went to Chicago, where he worked, apparently as an auto mechanic, while writing his first novel. He later married Lee Holleman, who had been a student at the University of Tennessee, and the couple settled in Sevier County, Tennessee. They had one son, Cullen. Some time later, their marriage ended. (Lee McCarthy is the author of several books of poetry, including Desire’s Door.)
Before his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published (1965—McCarthy’s editor at Random House was Faulkner’s long-time editor, Albert Erskine), McCarthy had received a traveling fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1965, using this money, he left America on the liner Sylvania, intending to visit the home of his Irish ancestors (a King Cormac McCarthy built Blarney Castle). While on the trip, he met Anne DeLisle, a young English singer/dancer working on the ship; they were married in England in 1966. Another grant was given McCarthy in 1966, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant (1966-68). He and Anne toured southern England, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain. Then they settled on the island of Ibiza, which was a kind of artist’s colony at the time. Here, McCarthy completed revisions of Outer Dark.
In 1967, though, possibly at Anne’s urging, the McCarthys returned to America. They moved to Rockford, Tennessee, a town near Knoxville. According to Anne, the McCarthys lived in a rented house ($50 per month—to live at a pig farm). Outer Dark was published by Random House in 1968. The reviews were again good, as they had been for The Orchard Keeper.
1969 saw the arrival of another fellowship, this time the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing. He and his wife moved into a barn near Louisville, Tennessee. McCarthy renovated the barn himself—entirely. Anne states that he added, among other things, a stone room and chimney. All the stones he gathered, all the wood he cut and kiln dried himself. Additionally, for his new fireplace, McCarthy salvaged bricks from the boyhood home of James Agee, which was being leveled to make way for downtown urban renewal in Knoxville.
From 1974-75, McCarthy worked on the screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener’s Son, which premiered in January 1977. This screenplay, too, was based on actual historical events; the locale was South Carolina. A revised version of the screenplay was later published by Ecco Press.
Anne DeLisle and Cormac McCarthy were separated in 1976 (no children), and McCarthy moved soon after to El Paso, Texas, where he lived for many years. They were divorced a few years later.
In 1979, McCarthy published his fourth novel, Suttree, a book which had occupied his writing life on and off for twenty or so years. It was said by many to be McCarthy’s best work to date, and some critics still maintain that it is his finest novel. However, the book drew some negative reviews, too. At least one reviewer (who wrote for the Memphis Press Scimitar) was roundly rebuked in a letter to the editor written by novelist and historian Shelby Foote.
1981 brought another grant to McCarthy’s door (or, more literally, to McCarthy’s room in a motel run by a friend in Knoxville), this time a MacArthur Fellowship—one of their so-called genius grants. McCarthy used this money to live on while writing his next novel, an apocalyptic western set in Texas and Mexico during the 1840s and based heavily on actual historical events.
Blood Meridian was published in 1985, but received little review attention at the time. Now, however, it is considered a turning point in his career. Some critics prefer his recent western writing, of which Blood Meridian was the first example. Others feel that he has strayed too far from his roots, that his westerns lack something. But Blood Meridian, followed closely by Suttree, is now generally regarded as McCarthy’s finest work to date. McCarthy did extensive research for the novel. The author visited all the locales of the book and even learned Spanish to further his research.
After the retirement of Albert Erskine, McCarthy moved from Random House to Alfred A. Knopf. There, under the editorial advisement of Gary Fisketjon, McCarthy began to get exposure. In connection with the book’s publication and as a favor to his retiring editor Albert Erskine, he granted The New York Times Magazine the sole interview [link requires registration] to which (at that time) he had ever submitted. All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border Trilogy, was published by Knopf in 1992. Unlike McCarthy’s earlier books, this one became a publishing sensation, garnering many excellent reviews. It became a New York Times bestseller, and sold 190,000 copies in hardcover within the first six months of publication. It finally gave McCarthy the wide readership that had eluded him for many years.
McCarthy used the money he had made from All the Pretty Horses to buy a new pickup truck. He kept on writing.
McCarthy edited and revised a play he had written in the mid-1970s, which was published in the summer of 1994 by Ecco Press. Called The Stonemason, the tragedy explores the fortunes of three generations of a black family in Kentucky. Shortly after the publication of The Stonemason, Knopf released the second volume of The Border Trilogy, The Crossing. It began life with a first printing of 200,000 copies, a large printing for a work of literary fiction. Sales were brisk enough to justify the second printing of 25,000 more copies before the end of the first month after publication. The book features the tale of Billy Parham’s attempt to return a trapped she-wolf to its home in the northern Mexican mountains and the tragic consequences of his adventure.
The third volume of The Border Trilogy was published in 1998; Cities of the Plain unites John Grady Cole, the main character of All the Pretty Horses, with The Crossing‘s Billy Parham, and centers on Cole’s doomed relationship with a Mexican prostitute. Not as well-received by critics as the first two books in the Border Trilogy, Cities of the Plain is nonetheless notable for its epilogue, which reaches back to Suttree in its imagery and simultaneously casts the entire Border Trilogy in a new and fascinating light, unifying the previous two volumes of the trilogy.
Sometime around the publication of Cities of the Plain, McCarthy married for a third time; he and his wife Jennifer Winkley have one child, John Francis, born 1999. The McCarthys have also moved from El Paso; they now reside in Tesque, New Mexico, on the outskirts of Santa Fe. McCarthy has taken a position as writer in residence with the Santa Fe Institute.
2005 brought the publication of No Country for Old Men, which was adapted into an award-winning film by Joel and Ethan Coen.
In 2006, Alfred A. Knopf published The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. McCarthy granted an interview with Oprah Winfrey, who had chosen The Road for her Book Club. The Road was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Literature, and it also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
The Sunset Limited arrived in 2006. Commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater, it premiered in May, with publication thereafter. The play takes place in a shabby tenement apartment, where Black (a former convict) and White (a university professor) discuss “big questions” about God, faith, life, and death following Black’s saving White, who had attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming subway train. HBO subsequently produced a successful adaptation of The Sunset Limited starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones (directed by Jones).
Early 2012 brought the announcement that McCarthy had penned an original screenplay, The Counselor. Little is currently known about the screenplay, but Ridley Scott has been attached to direct. The story apparently deals with territory and themes similar to that explored in No Country for Old Men.
Except for a few odds and ends (his favorite novel is Melville’s Moby-Dick; he doesn’t care for the work of Henry James, he doesn’t like to talk about writing, etc.), that’s more or less what we know about Cormac McCarthy.
The Cormac McCarthy Society respects the author’s clearly expressed desire for privacy. If you wish to contact him, please write to Mr. McCarthy care of his agent:
c/o Amanda Urban
International Creative Management
730 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10019
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Deep in the middle of the state of New Hampshire, about an hour and a half north of Manchester, between colonial home villages, "cross country" paths and dense forests, there lies quietly, unassumingly a very special jewel - it is a school called Sant-Bani, a home for about 175 kids beginning with the "K" grade and all the way through to the 12th grade. I was invited to the school four years ago to give a recital, and visited it annually ever since.
What attracted me to this school was its independence from the stagnancy of the educational system which surrounds us. Each pupil is an entity, a free spirit which is being cultivated and nourished to search for his own individual path - a "cross country" path. A special emphasis in the school seems to be that education and art are inseparable elements in humans growth.
Each of my visits culminates with a solo recital which I give at the school's assembly hall. For me, one of the true climaxes each visit is also the one-on-one interaction with the kids the day before, or the morning of the recital.
This year I had seven different activities at the school in addition to the recital which was at the Old Opera house in Franklin, NH - in itself a historic landmark worth a special visit when touring the area. At the school I was playing separately for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, as well as giving a masterclass to selected kids, and talking to the 12th graders etc. Having said all that, it was the one hour session which I had with the entire school that stood above everything else during this trip. This session opened a secret door, one that was somewhat hidden in the heart of my understanding of music communication and inspiration - A door that when opened, allowed me to experience "reading late Beethoven to young kids".
My recital program included the heavenly, though at times tumultuous, yet ending serenely, late Beethoven sonata no. 30 in E major op. 109. When introducing young people to classical music, this piece is not really on the radar for first (or second) choices. Written more than ten years into Beethoven's deafness (1820), this sonata is much more introspective, introverted and reflective than many of the other sonatas he wrote. I feel, as with other late Beethoven works, it requires a certain state of concentration that unless one is elevated to that state, it becomes totally meaningless to listen to such a work. This kind of concentration touches upon one’s internal dialogue within his own self, searching for possible equilibrium, inner balance, possible answers to eternal questions, raising new ones, and so on and so forth. Expecting such concentration from six, seven year olds or for that matter also from the seventeen year olds, seemed to me a musical suicide. What's the point? What will they get out of it?
I started the session with playing Myra Hess's arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" from Bach's Cantata no. 147 - to "get in the zone". The rest of the time was then spent on Beethoven's late sonata. This was not only the first time that I played the piece for such a young audience, but altogether this was the first time that I played the piece in public. Well, I thought to myself what could be more challenging than to play the piece in front of an audience that will not hold back when a sense of boredom creeps in. I was prepared to do the "unthinkable" - to make cuts in the long last movement if I hear too much movement coming from the little ones.
Nonsense! How short sighted was I, how pessimistic... to my credit, though, I would say that none of the teachers (or parents) believed that this would work.
I played the Beethoven in its entirety experiencing silence in a way I have only rarely experienced. Alfred Brendel said in an interview that all he expected from his audience is to be "Silent" which when changing the order of the letters becomes "Listen". In this morning session - six year olds, seven year olds, eight year olds and all the way to seventeen year olds, and their teachers, and some parents - they were not only silent, they were not only listening, they were making an internal dialogue. Each individual, in his own way, with his own vocabulary and emotional resources made a conscious and ultimately very successful effort to connect with this divine music, and through it each individual discovered a wealth of new subtleties, new "colors" new "shades", within himself.
One day I will probably have more perspective and knowledge to understand these human connections to music, to silence, and to that miracle that is in-between. I hope to know more how to open peoples' heart to classical music, to get them to be passionate and in need for it more and more. I also want be able to understand the concentration that is needed and that state of mind that makes for a dialogue with such pieces as the Beethoven sonata to be creative and reciprocal. But for now, the ability to present this masterpiece and get such enthusiastic responses was overwhelming and truly meaningful. I will never forget that.
The following week, I went to play another solo recital, this time at the "Bell concert series" in Jackson Mississippi. I came two days earlier, and went to four different schools playing for about 2000 high-school kids (and some younger ones). The center of my 50 minute sessions was, of course, the Beethoven sonata no. 30 in E major op. 109 which I played each time in its entirety.
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Shannon's objective was objectivity
Most fans never had heard of Bill Shannon before Tuesday, when the long-time press box fixture and official baseball scorer died in a house fire in New Jersey at age 69.
But the emotional reaction from the baseball world offered a glimpse of one of the colorful behind-the-scenes characters who enrich sports.
Shannon’s passion was evident in a quirky 48-page booklet he wrote several years ago called “Official Scoring in the Big Leagues.’’
It includes everything from scorer trivia – J.G. Taylor Spink worked a record 11 World Series from to 1910 to 1920 – to philosophy:
“Popularity is not an objective for a scorer; objectivity is.’’
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- Post 10 December 2012
- By News One
- Hits: 475
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who was airlifted to a Pretoria hospital on Saturday, will undergo further testing for an undisclosed condition but is said to be “doing well,” according to theLos Angeles Times.
At first it was reported that the country’s first Black president was hospitalized for not being able to speak. A close unidentified source spoke to the South African newspaper, The Sunday Times, revealed that “he [Mandela] has not been talking … he is not looking good. It’s clear that something is troubling him.”
The 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader, who spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist White rule in his country, was previously hospitalized this past February for persistent abdominal pains, but a keyhole examination revealed there was nothing wrong with him. Mandela has since stayed mostly at his home in the village of Qunu located in the Eastern Cape province.
Increasingly frail and no longer able to make personal appearances, Mandela, who is also affectionately referred to as “Madiba,” which is his Xhosa clan name, was visited this year by such luminaries as former U.S. President Bill Clinton and last year by First Lady Michelle Obama.
During his present hospital stay, South African President Jacob Zuma visited the elderly anti-apartheid hero on Sunday and his office released a press release the following day informing the public that Mandela looked well and “had a good night’s rest. The doctors will still conduct further tests today. He is in good hands. “
Mandela is a cancer survivor and underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate gland in 1985. Six years later, he would go through a series of chemotherapy treatments for prostate cancer, ultimately beating the disease.
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Via The New York Review of Books, an attempt to explain Blogs. It's a long article, mentioning ten books about blogging, but this is the author's key misunderstanding:
Bloggers assume that if you're reading them, you're one of their friends, or at least in on the gossip, the joke, or the names they drop.
They often begin their posts mid-thought or mid-rant—in medias craze. They don't care if they leave you in the dust. They're not responsible for your education.
Bloggers, as Mark Liberman, one of the founders of the blog called Language Log, once noted, are like Plato. :-) The unspoken message is: Hey, I'm here talking with my buddies. Keep up with me or don't. It's up to you.
Much of the article is a calm, patient explanation of what blogs are, intending for people who sincerely don't know. Both the quote above and that calm, patient explanation seem to me serious misunderstanding about writing for the web.
The review, Sarah Boxer, assumes that her readers need this background about blogging because they don't know anything about it. She assumes that bloggers don't provide this background because they've all already got it.
For some teenage blogger writing for an audience of six or seven, the background may indeed be there. But for anyone trying to gather and disseminate serious information through a blog, the background is always doubtful.
On my blog Writing Fiction, I see that a striking number of my visitors arrive on the site after googling "How many pages in a novel?" Whether or not they've written a novel, that question means they're novice novelists. They lack the exformation of more experienced writers.
Similarly, people visit my bird flu blog, H5N1, with wildly different levels of knowledge about the subject. Some are officials with the World Health Organization, others are epidemiologists, and most know nothing at all except that bird flu is supposed to be bad.
Apart from assuming a basic level of English reading ability, I don't expect anything from my readers. For both blogs I have to find some way to bring the newcomers up to speed without boring the experienced visitors. I really do feel responsible for my readers' education, and I don't want to turn anyone away.
So on H5N1 I provide an introductory page, showing the new visitor what's on the site. Currently, I'm also providing definitions of Indian words like lakh, crore, and panchayat, because they keep turning up in Indian newspapers' reports on bird flu.
On Writing Fiction, I keep responding to comments to the "How Many Pages" post, which I originally made three long years ago. I also provide a link to Write a Novel, a self-guided online course containing the basic materials now lost in the archives of Writing Fiction. (Look for it in the Writers' Resources list.)
Some blogs, like some graduate courses, can assume a cozy familiarity with little-known material. Shared exformation creates an intimate atmosphere, a feeling of belonging that newcomers may not share. If anything, they'll feel deliberately excluded.
But most webwriters, whether serious amateurs or professionals, can't afford to think about the happy few who share our private jokes and roomed with us in college. We have to reach as many people as possible, and to provide something useful for each of them.
So we have to write in simple, clear language. We have to format our material for easy navigation and response. We have to think about our visitors' needs, not our own egos. That, it seems to me, is the exformation that Sarah Boxer doesn't yet have.
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Baines scares me. Even when she goes to him willingly he looks like such a beast. Maybe it is his size compared to hers but he looks violent to me even in the end when they are happy in love and kissing. How did she fall in love with this man? Did she love him because he loved her? Did she love him because he loved her piano playing? This brings me to question what the piano symbolizes. I don't know so I will just throw out some ideas. The piano could symbolize the voice of a woman's desire. Obviously she cannot speak and so I think piece of what the piano symbolizes must be her voice. I think the piano is part of her or she lets herself become a part of it because as a woman she could not be heard through speech. Maybe the piano is her power because it makes people listen to her. Maybe Ada cannot love her new husband because he does not care about her voice. He leaves the piano on the beach and then sells it to Baines. He doesn't see her as a person. But baines badly wants her voice. Not just to own it but to listen to it. Maybe that is why she loves Baines. In the end when her finger is cut off and she cannot play piano she thinks her voice is gone and she has no power left. I think that is why she goes down with the piano. Now why she comes up I don't have the energy to try and figure out now, but I want to ask the question, in the relationship between Ada and Baines, who has the power?
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 2:30 PM(Note: this post has been translated into English from our German blog.)
In 2006 one of our initiatives in the area of communication was to notify some webmasters in case of a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines (e.g. by using a "particular search engine friendly" software that generates doorways as an extra). No small number of these good-will emails to webmasters have been brought about by spam reports from our users.
We are proud of our users who alert us to potential abuses for the sake of the whole internet community. We appreciate this even more, as PageRank™ (and thus Google search) is based on a democratic principle, i.e. a webmaster is giving other sites a "vote" of approval by linking to it.
In 2007 as an extension and complement of this democratic principle, we want to further increase our users' awareness of webmaster practices that do or do not conform to Google's standards. Such informed users are then able to take counter-action against webspam by filing spam reports. By doing so a mutually beneficial process can be initiated. Ultimately, not only will all Google users benefit from the best possible search quality, but also will spammy webmasters realize that their attempts to unfairly manipulate their site's ranking will pay off less and less.Our spam report forms are provided in two different flavors: an authenticated form that requires registration in Webmaster Tools, and an unauthenticated form. Currently, we investigate every spam report from a registered user. Spam reports to the unauthenticated form are assessed in terms of impact, and a large fraction of those are reviewed as well.
So, the next time you can't help thinking that the ranking of a search result was not earned by virtue of its content and legitimate SEO, then it is the perfect moment for a spam report. Each of them can give us crucial information for the continual optimization of our search algorithms.
Interested in learning more? Then find below answers to the three most frequent questions.
FAQs concerning spam reports:
Q: What happens to an authenticated spam report at Google?
A: An authenticated spam report is analyzed and then used for evaluating new spam-detecting algorithms, as well as to identify trends in webspam. Our goal is to detect all the sites engaging in similar manipulation attempts automatically in the future and to make sure our algorithms rank those sites appropriately. We don´t want to get into an inefficient game of cat and mouse with individual webmasters who have reached into the wrong bag of tricks.
Q: Why are there sometimes no immediately noticeable consequences of a spam report?
A: Google is always seeking to improve its algorithms for countering webspam, but we also take action on individual spam reports. Sometimes that action will not be immediately visible to an outside user, so there is no need to submit a site multiple times in order for Google to evaluate a URL. There are different reasons that might account for a user´s false impression that a particular spam report went unnoticed. Here are a few of those reasons:
- Sometimes, Google might already be handling the situation appropriately. For example, if you are reporting a site that seems to engage in excessive link exchanging, it could be the case that we are already discounting the weight of those unearned backlinks correctly, and the site is showing up for other reasons. Note that changes in how Google handles backlinks for a site are not immediately obvious to outside users. Or it may be the case that we already deal with a phenomenon such as keyword stuffing correctly in our scoring, and therefore we are not quite as concerned about something that might not look wonderful, but that isn't affecting rankings.
- A complete exclusion from Google´s SERPs is only one possible consequence of a spam report. Google might also choose to give a site a "yellow card" so that the site can not be found in the index for a short time. However, if a webmaster ignores this signal, then a "red card" with a longer-lasting effect might follow. So it's possible that Google is already aware of an issue and communicating with the webmaster about that issue, or that we have taken action other than a removal on a spam report.
- Sometimes, simple patience is the answer, because it takes time for algorithmic changes to be thoroughly checked out, or for the externally displayed PageRank to be updated.
- It can also be the case that Google is working on solving the more general instance of an issue, and so we are reluctant to take action on an individual situation.
- A spam report may also just have been considered unjustified. For example, this may be true for a report whose sole motivation appears to attempt to harm a direct competitor with a better ranking.
Q: Can a user expect to receive feedback for a spam report?
A: This is a common request, and we know that our users might like verification of the reported URLs or simple confirmation that the spam report had been taken care of. Given the choice how to spend our time, we have decided to invest our efforts into taking action on spam reports and improving our algorithms to be more robust. But we are open to consider how to scale communication with our users going forward.
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Most radio stations have entered the digital age where not only is all the music, commercials, and other sound elements stored digitally on hard drives, but sophisticated software is also used to either automatically run the station
when a human can't be there or to help in assisting a live DJ
or personality in running the station.
There are various types of software designed to do this and it usually displays directly in front of the audio console where it it clearly seen by the person on-air.
This screen is displaying each element that has played and will play over the next 20 minutes or so. It is a digital version of the station's log.
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In the early days of the Tsunami disaster every western country volunteered aid proportional to the number of known victims. As this number increased so did the amount of aid offered. Each and every country adjusted as incoming figures indicated the problem was far greater that originally thought.
In each and every country this was accepted as reasonable except in the case of the US. Because Bush and the US are so hated by left wing commentators it become a case of ‘Bush was embarrassed into giving more’.
Over at Surfdom Tim is ranting – in full stride – castigating Bush. He even accused Bush of being so terrible that he ‘Ordered’ flags to be flown at half mast as if this was a sin in itself.
To quote Tim in all his snide ignorance
But wait, I’m being unfair. There’s more:
US President George Bush said the carnage defied comprehension and ordered that flags be flown at half-mast across America in honour of the tsunami dead.
Don’t you love the way they use the word “ordered” in that sentence? He ordered the flags be flown at half mast.
Makes you quiver. And sure enough, as we continued along Pennsylvania Avenue, there atop the National Archives building was a half-mast stars-and-stripes. He ordered that.
Such amazing ignorance from an educated man. Flags are always ‘Ordered’ to be flown at half mast for occasions such as this.
It’s an Executive order you idiot.
Otherwise how do you think the entire nation would co-ordinate the event.
The Indonesian President orders flags to be flown at half mast;
President Yudhoyono, who is on his way to Sumatra’s Aceh region to witness the extent of the damage and inspect relief efforts, has ordered flags to be flown at half-mast.
but gets no flack.
French President..British PM…Australian PM…German President… Finnish..Swedish..In short, everybody ?Orders? the nations flags to fly at half mast but only Bush warrants snide comments.
People leaving comments at Tim’s post likewise show an amazing amount of ignorance. One, going by the alias of Link leaves us with this wisdom
2,300 Marines aboard the Missouri, parked off the coast of Sumatra – doing what? Turning a disaster into a war opportunity. How could Indonesia allow it? Malaysia apparently rejected offers of Israeli aid because they wanted to bring troops with them. Did Indonesia have any say in this? Can we tell the Missouri to leave a big cheque, perhaps a big helicopter but for the most part to fuck right off?
What appalling ignorance. I can imagine that Link’s vision is impaired with a red mist occasioned by hatred for Bush and all things American and therefore could not see that in the TV reports the lines of supply – roads, rail, airports etc are all damaged. Having a carrier group off the coast compensates for all this. The helicopters have their own maintenance hangars, their own fuel supply and a large ship for storage and handling of emergency supplies.
Oh, and?Link, it’s the USS Abraham Lincoln, not the Missouri (which, coincidently is a Battle ship)
En route to South Asia: the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group, equipped with 12 helicopters, and a Marine expeditionary force with seven ships and 25 helicopters.
The carrier group most probably costs millions a day to operate but never mind – the left have worked out how to belittle the US contribution.
The USS Abe Lincoln off Aceh
It’s great and if Australia had a carrier our support would be the better for it.
There has been talk of a Marshall Plan for Asia. In a recent News. com article Tim Costello raises the issue as does the LA Times. It makes sense and may be the way to go. It could impact on terrorist recruitment in Asia as well.
Indonesian terrorists have been reasonably successful in painting Australia as evil, particularly in the light of East Timor however the hue has changed. The people know who is helping and it isn’t the Moslem world.
For those unfamiliar with the term Marshall Plan, I have provided links for your information. Left wing types should be cautioned – it is very difficult to fault the US in this matter so you may find it unsettling. In fact, thinking about it, maybe you should stay away from facts and maintain you?re ignorance. Others should visit USAID’s Marshall Plan home page and also check in at the Marshall Foundation
Knowledge. The ammo in the war against the stupid Left
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Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. politicians love to celebrate, not chastise, big-time college athletics.
There were two exceptions: More than 100 years ago, when President Theodore Roosevelt intervened to clean up the brutality of college football, and almost 40 years ago, when Congress passed Title IX, requiring colleges and universities to allocate a fair share of their athletic budgets to women. Both worked.
Washington may be about to step in again. Top-level intercollegiate athletics, particularly football and basketball, are corrosively corrupt: cheating, paying players under the table and taking advantage of other athletes, while turning a blind eye to criminal activities, including, most recently, the sexual abuse of children.
The driving force is money; academic values are secondary. The term student athlete too often is a travesty. Powerful coaches run roughshod over academics, including college presidents.
Pennsylvania State University is illustrative. The fabled football coach, Joe Paterno, the president and the athletic director have been fired for covering up the alleged systemic abuse of young boys by one of the former assistant football coaches.
What makes the story more astonishing is that Paterno and Penn State were considered among the better people and programs in college football.
At the core, it’s about a lack of accountability. Penn State football games draw more than 100,000 fans into Beaver Stadium and the sport came to overshadow the university itself. Anything that threatened that money-making machine was swept under the rug. Penn State football was insular and arrogant. Coach Paterno was accountable only to himself.
Weeks after scandal erupted at Penn State, similar charges surfaced at Syracuse University. This time, they involved a powerhouse basketball team. An assistant coach was charged with sexually abusing boys. The omnipotent head coach, Jim Boeheim, called the accusers liars and implied it was all a shakedown.
“I’m not Joe Paterno” he said, adding, “nobody can keep me quiet.”
One alleged victim said Boeheim saw him in a hotel room on a trip with the accused assistant coach. When evidence came out buttressing some of the charges, Boeheim’s credibility plummeted. The basketball program at Syracuse is a smaller universe than Penn State football. Probably sensing the threat, the head coach changed his tune, saying he regretted the angry charges he had leveled at the alleged abuse victims. The assistant coach was fired, but so far the Syracuse chancellor is vowing support for Boeheim and the lucrative program.
Although there are no suggestions that the abuse of kids was involved, the cherished college basketball programs in Kentucky offer other examples of lack of accountability.
At the University of Louisville, Rick Pitino, one of the game’s more successful coaches, stresses family values, travels with a priest and in another job featured the Pope in his basketball guide. In 2009, he admitted that he had sex with a woman in a local bar and to later giving her $3,000 either for, in his account, health insurance or, by her account, for an abortion. The woman later was convicted of extortion. He was depicted as the victim, and she went to jail. He’s still highly compensated and celebrated by the university.
In Lexington, 76 miles away, the University of Kentucky’s coach, John Calipari, is treated like a god. Before coming to UK, he took two other teams to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Final Four Men’s Championship. Both successes were later vacated because of cheating violations. Kentucky is now a basketball factory, bringing in great high school players who stay for a year, win games and turn professional. The president of this academic institution showers praise on the coach.
When accusations of NCAA rules violations were leveled against Ohio State’s powerful football coach, Jim Tressel, a few years ago, the university president, Gordon Gee, was asked if he was considering firing him.
Gee’s reply: “I’m just hoping the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”
Ultimately, Tressel was forced to resign. Buckeye fans now are celebrating the hiring last month of the legendary former Florida coach Urban Meyer. When Meyer was at Florida, in addition to winning two national titles, 25 of his players were arrested during his tenure, half on charges of felonies or violent misdemeanors.
And then there’s the fiasco called the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, where, based on financial interests, major universities and colleges decide who is going to play for the national championship and in post-season bowl games. Unlike almost every other college sport, there’s no playoff system. Defenders of the BCS say playoffs would hurt student athletes even though they would be held during the holiday season when schools aren’t in session.
Lawmakers led by Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch successfully persuaded the Justice Department to consider the antitrust implications of the BCS and college athletics.
On the other side of the spectrum, U.S. Representative Bobby Rush, a liberal Illinois Democrat, has likened the governing body of intercollegiate athletics to Al Capone and the Mafia. He called the NCAA “one of the most vicious, most ruthless organizations ever created by mankind.” Representative Joe Barton, a conservative Texas Republican, and Representative Steve Cohen, a liberal Democrat from Tennessee, are forming an anti-BCS caucus.
It probably would be foolish for Congress to legislate. No one has devised a sensible policy initiative. Oversight hearings with the power of subpoena are likely and easier to justify. Some of the most prestigious U.S. universities are participants in a system that debases academic values.
The best palliative would be for university presidents to take charge of their football and basketball coaches and athletic directors.
With all the money at stake, that’s unlikely. Several years ago, well before the sex abuse scandal broke, the president of Penn State, Graham Spanier, went to the home of Paterno, who was then 77, and asked him to retire. He was sent away.
(Albert R. Hunt is the executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
--Editors: Max Berley, Mark McQuillan.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two alternative energy companies plan to buy a shuttered Ford Motor Co. factory in southeast Michigan and convert it into a renewable energy park.
The $725 million project at the sprawling Wixom Assembly Plant could employ at least 2,800 people within five years. Production would start in late 2011.
Xtreme Power of Kyle, Texas, and Clairvoyant Energy of Santa Barbara, Calif., told state lawmakers Wednesday they are looking to buy the plant if state tax incentives and federal loans are approved.
Ford says it plans to sell the plant to the companies, which plan to lease extra space to suppliers and other energy companies.
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In one of my corona apps, I've to apply transition to objects with certain id. How can I do this? local ball = display.newImage("ball.png") -- sample, actually there are random no. of balls ...
my code run smooth when I run in main file but when I make write this code in some other lua file and call that file with the help of director.lua, it doesnt recognized ended event phase on touching. ...
I went through the docs and couldn't find anything. Is it possible to create a custom transition? I have to simulate a throw with custom easing etc. In cocos2d I was able to just create a custom ...
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I just completed a minor upgrade to my system, including the addition of a brand-spankin’-new Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU. My question: When you right-click a process in task manager it gives you the option to set affinity. If I’m right, this gives you the ability to set a process or task to a particular core of your CPU.
It seems like this would help distribute the load of everything running and keep things flowing smoothly, but it looks like every process is set to use all four cores.
Is there a right or wrong way to go about changing these settings? Is it advisable to change them? I would think that if you divided them up, you could gain a performance advantage.
The Doctor has not manually set the affinity for an application, but he doubts that it would yield any performance benefit that would be worth the time spent setting the affinity of each program on your machine. You’d also have to reset the affinity each time you started the application. While this can be done automatically with Innes.org’s ROPE utility, it’s a moot point. The Doctor thinks it’s best to let the OS handle thread-scheduling.
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Engaging PQ students with different prior academic experiences in successful learning.
Paper presented at JSWEC 2009 Conference. It seems that students' capacity to benefit from the learning experience is influenced by their previous level of study, previous successes, the length of time since they last studied, their perception of the relevance of the study to their professional development and by the support they receive from their employer. This paper will describe our preliminary findings from a project looking at the satisfaction of students undertaking Post-Qualifying (PQ) Awards in Social Work with Children, Young People their Families and Carers. These students are qualified social workers who are currently in practice. Their qualification may be either a Diploma in Social Work (BA Levels 1 and 2) or a Bachelors Degree in Social Work (BA Levels 1,2 and 3). We have observed dissatisfaction with the entry modules to the programme from some students who feel that they are not receiving enough ‘teaching’. These students appear to be those with Diploma qualifications who have not previously studied at BA, level 3 and specifically have not undertaken an undergraduate dissertation which can be argued develops autonomous learners. Students undertaking any continuous professional development are under the scrutiny of their employers and if they are finding these studies difficult are likely to blame this on the course provider rather than expose their own capacity. This is therefore an important area to investigate as these students need the PQ qualifications and this may be best achieved by pre-course preparation programmes, to develop capacity, for some candidates. If our hypothesis is correct this will also lead to improvement in student satisfaction and completion rates. Shared with: World
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Neil Hopkinson (ed.), Lucian: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 239. ISBN 9780521603041. $34.99 (pb).
Reviewed by James Brusuelas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project, University of California at Irvine
Though far outside the classical canon, the influence of Lucian of Samosata upon Western literature is unquestionable. One simply has to read Erasmus, Rabelais, or Swift. Yet even in 2009, and with two decades of contemporary scholarship reevaluating the literary merit of the Second Sophistic, commentaries, let alone a seminal commentary to his corpus, are sorely lacking. Hopkinson's current edition for the Cambridge green and yellow series thus attempts to fill a marked gap in classical scholarship. For undergraduate and graduate students -- the primary targets -- this edition and commentary is much needed. We finally have an adequate reading text that reflects current models of Imperial Greek literature. However, as welcome as this edition may be, it has some noticeable gaps of its own. Although it is canvassed with the classical tradition, excellent philology, and a good understanding of the textualist culture of the second century, a presentation of how Lucian transforms the classical tradition and the Attic fetishisms of his time is often missing. And if we miss the joke, or to what end a classical myth is comically parodied and reinvented, then we miss Lucian.
Hopkinson's edition contains seven works: The Dream, You're a Literary Prometheus, The Ignorant Book Collector, Praise of the Fly, Sigma vs. Tau: the Court of the Vowels, Timon, and Dialogues of the Sea Gods. Accordingly it is a fine selection of Lucian's comic and satiric writing. Accompanied by a concise preface to current models of the Second Sophistic, this is a useful introduction to Lucian for both students and scholars.
The text itself is nearly indistinguishable from Macleod's OCT. Overall this is not a bad thing. Macleod constructed a usable text. But in light of Bompaire's new Budé and Nesselrath's lengthy, scathing review of Macleod's work, any editor of Lucian needs to address these scholars. While Bompaire and Nesselrath are not entirely absent, Hopkinson never critically positions himself (or defends Macleod) in context. In fact, nowhere does the reader glimpse the editorial controversy -- established by Nesselrath -- that still haunts the last Oxford edition.
Beyond this, one cannot pass serious criticism upon Hopkinson's linguistic observations. His Greek is impeccable. He is, however, a conservative critic. There are places where established conjecture seems quite preferable to manuscript readings. As Shackleton Bailey once brought Sir Richard Bentley back into the text of Horace, a uniquely critical text to Lucian is possible. An editor still has the opportunity to affect this text. Unfortunately I do not see Hopkinson's mark on the Greek.
The real criticism rests with the commentary. Although Hopkinson's notes are full of keen philological comment and understanding of Greek culture, his analysis is often limited, if not incomplete, when it comes to Lucian's comic voice. This unfortunately stems from his general approach. "A Callimachus or an Ovid seems to invite learned comment, but Lucian does not . . . The apparatus of scholarship feels somehow awkward when applied to these effortless compositions. For my part I have tried to evade the charge of pedantry by keeping the notes brief," Hopkinson says in the preface (p. vii). It is one thing to evade pedantry. It is quite another to ignore the humorous mechanisms of Lucian's seemingly simple prose. The few following observations may illustrate this.
The most pressing issue is that too often we find detailed mythological and literary comments that fail to illuminate Lucian's comic writing. Yes, we need to recognize the Greek tradition at Lucian's fingertips, whether this is Theocritus, Aristophanes, or Herodotus. But without any notion of how Lucian reworks this material, we simply have lots of paint on the canvass, but no picture.
To give one example, and there are many, in the eighth Dialogue of Sea Gods Lucian recasts the myth of how Poseidon saved Amymone from a lustful satyr, resulting in the creation of an eponymous spring. Hopkinson gives a complete account of the myth's appearance in Greek literature, and then simply notes that Lucian's version is lacking the satyr and has an "uncharacteristically frenzied" Poseidon (p. 213). Nowhere does Hopkinson recognize that Lucian's mythic recycling is a comic travesty of a divine affair. Thus, as accurate as his philological comments may be, they do not accentuate Lucian's travesty, nor even bring out why the dialogue is funny.
Similarly, numerous jokes and important Lucianic words lack comment. In The Ignorant Book Collector, after sarcastically comparing the man to Hesiod, Lucian claims that the Muses would have nothing to do with him, that they would bestow lashes μυρρίνηι and μαλάχης φύλλοις instead of δάφνης. In conjunction with the sexual accusation of an impure mouth, Hopkinson fails to see the comic, invective charge of effeminacy. μυρρίνηι is "unexplained" and μαλάχης is ignored (p. 123).
In You're A Literary Prometheus, when comparing his own literary composition to the artistic talents of the mythic Prometheus, Lucian explains that his goal is entertainment and play. Here the pun in παιδιά goes unnoticed. In defining his hippocentaur, Lucian programmatically exploits the linguistic connection between gaming (παιδιά) and intellectual activity (παιδεία). In Greek they are separated by only an epsilon! This is fundamental to understanding Lucian's creation of the comic dialogue, not to mention how it works. It is intellectual entertainment. Go ask Erasmus.
The metafictional consciousness of Lucian's work receives no comment either. Whether a piece depicts a theme from contemporary Antioch, Fifth-Century Greece, or involves a talking rooster, Lucian's text refers to itself as a rhetorical and even performed composition. In The Dream, for example, Lucian describes his tear-soaked introduction to sculpting as the prelude (προοίμια) to his art (τέχνης). Predicated upon his tears, this word underscores the rhetorically fabricated and performed biography that ensues. Similarly, important terms such as σχῆμα, σκηνή, and πλάσμα, which explicitly refer to the stage and rhetorical composition, riddle Lucian's corpus. Yet Hopkinson is unconcerned with how these words function and invigorate, both comically and satirically, Lucian's writing. The Syrian is always commenting upon the second century, always commenting upon the job. This self-consciousness is another seminal aspect of the humorous, inner workings of the comic dialogue.
In terms of a classical text, a classical commentary, and as a reader for students of classics, Hopkinson's edition is very usable. Lucian is linguistically and culturally well situated in the second century. However, we must remember the words of Ewen Bowie: "Lucian developed a form of rhetorical entertainment very different from the standard declamations . . ."1 Indeed, Lucian's text is something different, and thus requires something more than the usual commentary. You can isolate and throw the weight of the classical tradition at him. Yet, if his parodic recycling and the mechanisms of his humor are absent, then you have only scratched the surface of Lucian. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Hopkinson's comments are reminiscent of the much-respected, yet older approach of Bompaire; it is a rhetorical stitching together of classical literature and myth. A greater sensitivity to the complex nature of comedy and the comic dialogue would have made this work stronger. After all, as the saying goes, "drama is easy, comedy is hard."
1. Bowie, E. 2007: "The Ups and Downs of Aristophanic Travel," in E. Hall and A. Wrigley (Eds.), Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs. London: p. 34.
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The harsh tone, the unkind word, the apparent indifference of another is usually over in a few minutes. What price am I paying by holding on to those few minutes? I don’t have to like reality, only to accept it for what it is. This day is too precious to waste by resenting things I can’t change. When I accept everything as it is, I tend to be reasonably serene. When I spend my time wishing things were different, I know that serenity has lost its priority.
While I AM responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands.
“By yielding you may obtain victory.” Ovid
Excerpt from: Courage To Change, pg. 129
In everyday life whether it be a stranger or someone close to you unkind and harsh words may fly. The words that come out of someone else’s mouth are not my responsibility, but theirs, what is my responsibility is the way I choose to respond. Sometimes responding is the right thing. Sometimes not responding is the right thing. This is where the Serenity Prayer always fits. We can pray for the wisdom to know the difference. In those moments that there is quiet, may I be quiet and still and listen for that wisdom. Sometimes quiet is the wisdom it takes to yield. ~Adrienne
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SPHHS toy drive brightens holidays for children at Springfield's Square One
The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) collected more than 200 toys to benefit the children at Square One, the Springfield-based early childhood education program whose building was damaged in a gas explosion last month.
Together, students, faculty, and staff in each of the school's four departments, along with many others throughout the campus community, donated toys for children ages 15 months to 5 years.
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VATICAN CITY, JULY 25, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See has recalled its nuncio in Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, to Rome for consultations with the Secretariat of State, the Vatican reported today.
A communiqué issued by the Vatican press office said the recall comes after "the release on July 13 of the report by the Irish government commission of enquiry into allegations of abuse of minors by clergy in the diocese of Cloyne (the Cloyne Report), and in particular in the wake of the subsequent reactions."
The Report by the Commission of Inquiry into the Diocese of Cloyne found that nine of 15 cases of sexual abuse were not reported to authorities between 1996 and 2009, which violates the child protection guidelines set down by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference.
Additionally, it cited a 1997 curial letter sent to the Irish bishops' conference that expressed "serious reservations of both a moral and a canonical nature" regarding the "mandatory reporting" that was stipulated in the guidelines.
The Cloyne report noted that this letter "effectively gave individual Irish bishops the freedom to ignore the procedures."
In comments made last Wednesday, Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, called the Cloyne report "a tale of a frankly brazen disregard for protecting children."
Speaking to Ireland's lower house of Parliament, or Dail, the leader of the moderate Fine Gael Party said that the "revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture," and added that the government "awaits the considered response of the Holy See."
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The Blast Feel Me of the Holy Spurt ("The Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit" AKA "The Blasphemy Challenge")
Am I taking the “Blasphemy Challenge?” (google the phrase, see what you get). I strongly suspect it’s not necessary, because, “Blasphemy Challenges” aside, isn’t it a major Protestant view that people are simply damned if they reach the age of accountability and don’t convert? No need to do anything, the damnation of everybody simply “is,” unless they convert and say they believe, and believe it too. Some Protestants and Catholics still even defend the centuries old Christian notion of “infant damnation,” i.e., if a newborn is not baptized and dies it goes straight to hell; again no need to “blaspheme” in order to be damned. And Catholics, whose church membership is about as large as that of all Protestant denominations put together (according to adherents.com), believe that even if you are baptized and confirmed (when you reach the age of accountability, though Catholics don’t call it that), you can still be damned if you die with a single “mortal sin” on your soul that hasn’t been confessed and repented. Even the Protestants who believe that you “can’t lose your salvation,” or that the righteous are “predestined” to receive saving grace and hence can’t be damned, even those folks have difficulties convincing themselves sometimes that they indeed display all the proper and convincing “signs” of being one of the “eternally chosen,” and hence even Calvinists can experience dark doubts that they might not be among the chosen since in the end it is God choice to save or damn whomever. Therefore there is plenty of damning going on according to various Christianities (or fear of not being among the righteous) without even the need to commit “blasphemy.”
But let’s look at the verses themselves, as found in the earliest Gospel, Mark (upon which the two later Gospels, Matthew and Luke were built literarily speaking):
“He [Jesus] had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. Whenever the evil[a] spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, ‘You are the Son of God.’ But he gave them strict orders not to tell who he was. [...] the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, ‘He is possessed by Beelzebub! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.’ So Jesus called them and spoke to them in parables: ‘How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can rob his house. I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.’ He said this because they were saying, ‘He has an evil spirit.’” (Mark, chapter 3)
“...the beneficial effect of [Jesus’] exorcisms was so self-evidently of God and wrought by his Spirit, that to attribute it to Satan was the worse kind of perversity -- deliberately to confuse the Spirit of God with the power of Satan was to turn one’s back on God and his forgiveness (Mark 3:29)” [Dunn].
It’s too bad that Jesus didn’t have the knack of expressing himself as precisely as Dunn does above, putting each of his sayings in such clear theological perspective. It also appears to me that Dunn might be going beyond what Mark 3 says by adding perhaps an overly elaborate theologically driven explanation, though note that even the author of the Markan Gospel felt that the saying about “an unforgiveable sin” needed a bit of commentary, so he followed it with his little explanation, “He [Jesus] said this because they were saying ‘He has an evil spirit.’”
Personally I prefer concentrating on the other passages of Jesus above, in which Jesus asks whether a person accused of having an evil spirit would go around casting out evil in others? I agree that doesn’t make sense, because why or how would Satan cast out Satan? It’s also self evident that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” Those sorts of points are all that’s needed to be said in a case of somebody accusing somebody else of casting out Satan via Satan’s own power. It’s like pointing out, how can I be evil if I’m helping other people, and even casting away evil?
But Jesus (or whomever wrote or spoke the words above, since I doubt every word attributed to Jesus in the Gospels must necessarily have been spoken by him) went farther than just making the self evident points about why evil would cast out evil, and perhaps later the line was added about the “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” being “unforgivable.”
In fact, the New Interpreter’s Bible raised a similar question:
“The ‘unpardonable sin’ saying of 12:31–32 came from Jesus in the form of an absolute and universal pronouncement of forgiveness to the ‘sons of men,’ but in subsequent modifications the exception of ‘blasphemy of the Holy Spirit’ was added and ‘sons of men’ became the Christological title ‘Son of Man.’” [See endnote #1]
Another question is based on the recognition that Luke-Acts [which were composed after both Mark and Matthew] separates the story about Jesus’ exorcisms from his declaration concerning “the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.” The author of Luke-Acts appears to have separated the exorcism story from the declaration for a theological reason, namely to broaden the notion of what “the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit “ meant, by no longer limiting it as the Gospels of Mark and Matthew did to Jesus’ miracle working ability being confused with the power of “Satan.” According to the author of Luke-Acts the “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” now refers to rejecting any spirit-filled or God-filled message, and is no longer connected with blaming Jesus’ miracle-working powers on “Satan.” See Luke 12:9-12:
“And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man shall confess him also before the angels of God; but he who denies Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. And everyone who will speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him. And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not become anxious about how or what you should speak in your defense, or what you should say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” (Luke 12:9-12. See also Acts 5:1-4 in which Ananias “lies to the Holy Ghost” holds back some money from the church, and dies.)
“The blasphemy against the Holy Spirit here [in Luke] is the rejection of the Spirit-taught witnesses who confess the Son of Man before men.” (Mark Horne, “Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit?” [online])
“In Mark’s context, then, the sin against the Holy Sprit involves deliberately shutting one’s eyes to the light and consequently calling good evil; [but] in Luke it is irretrievable apostasy.” (Bruce, F. F. The Hard sayings of Jesus. Illinois: InterVarsity Press; 1983, p.93).
So the author of Luke-Acts appears to have sought to broaden the definition of the “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.”
Another question to ask about such a statement is whether or not it was born of ancient Near Eastern hyperbole (or exaggeration)? There is plenty of hyperbole in the O.T. and N.T. like “plucking out your eye and cutting off your hand” rather than “sinning” with them, and going to hell with both of them left intact, “because it’s better to enter heaven with one eye or one hand rather than be cast into hell.” That’s hyperbole. So are the lines about having to “hate” parents and brothers and sisters in order to be a disciple. (I won’t go into why such hyperbole sounds offensive, including the line about “letting the dead bury the dead” when one disciple asked to return home for the funeral of a relative). Psalm. 51 is hyperbole too, a psalm about the sin of adultery--In that psalm its author declares that he was “a sinner from the womb.” Note that the psalm is about personally debasing oneself before ones God [Yahweh] in order to gain forgiveness, like cringing before an ancient Near Eastern potentate or monarch, whipping yourself to show them how sorry you are, “I was bad! I’m sorry, I was so bad, um, that I was a sinner even from, the womb!” Hyperbole. Exaggeration. So if you consider that the line about a sin being “unforgivable” might be the result of the ancient Near Eastern love of hyperbole, then Jesus (or whomever came up with the “unforgivable blasphemy” line) might have been adding to points already made about how stupid a person is to believe that helping people and casting away demons comes from being possessed by evil. In other words, to assume such a thing is unforgivably stupid, and maybe not literally unforgivable, but certainly hyperbolically so. And as I said above, such a saying might also be the result of someone other than Jesus pondering the story and trying to sum up a message theologically. Or it might be the result of a misinterpretation of the phrase “son of man,” as the Interpreter’s Bible pointed out above.
Trouble is we didn’t live back then, and our “sources” cannot be proven to be inerrant recordings, certainly not tape recordings or videos. So we are left pondering questions of authenticity, change, varying interpretations over time. As for the meanings of the words we possess in the different Gospels, their interpretation raises further questions. Though we can study the language from a distance and know what the literal meaning of words were back then, we can’t be certain concerning the poetic or rhetorical or hyperbolic meanings or intentions of written words for that culture or that audience at that time and in that instance. It’s tough enough trying to understand how to take some of the sentences people send each other in emails today during a discussion.
I would also add that some scholars view the Gospel of Mark (the earliest written Gospel) as not teaching that Jesus was God, but rather an adopted “Son” of God at his baptism (with which the Markan Gospel begins, i.e., citing a psalm at Jesus’ baptism that was recited at the enthronement of Hebrew Kings that said, “You are my son, this day have I begotten you,” or adopted you to be my “son”). So what if the earliest view among the first Gospel writer’s community was that Jesus was chosen and empowered by God, but not God, and hence, “all manner of words spoken against the son of man [Jesus]” would be forgivable because he simply was not God, but God’s chosen adopted vice-regent, chosen at baptism, not birth. But in contrast to the “Son of Man,” the “Holy Spirit” was indeed God. Such an interpretation of the saying is yet another one that makes sense for scholars who argue that Mark, the earliest Gospel, was based on an “adoptionist” Christology.
Lastly, if you believe that Jesus was part of a “Trinity” and all parts of the “Trinity” were equal parts of one whole God, then why make words spoken against Jesus forgivable, but words spoken against the Holy Spirit of God “unforgivable?” Can you really get away with blaspheming some parts of the Trinity but not others? (Or was Jesus, according to the author of the earliest Gospel, not as much “God” as the “Holy Spirit?”)
Let’s just say that the verse about an “unforgivable” sin has caused even the most devout believing Christians restlessness and worry over the centuries. Some have feared quite deeply that they might have committed a sin that damns them for all eternity, especially when the “unforgivable” sin is interpreted as broadly as it is in Luke-Acts as ignoring or not listening to the “Holy Spirit of God” as spoken through even a human prophet. (See what I wrote above about the “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” according to Luke-Acts.)
Such talk of an “unforgivable sin” creates fear that some sort of sin exists out there that is not defined very clearly, or defined differently in different Gospels. A sin worse than “all the sins and blasphemies of men,” as Jesus said about it in Mark 3, and that such a sin can “never be forgiven.” All Christians would probably like to be able to read in the Bible exactly what the unforgivable sin is in order to calm their fears, but the verses in Mark 3 (not to mention the verses in Luke-Acts) are not as clear in explaining themselves as the interpretations from Dunn and J.P. Holding are. I haven’t checked the history of interpretation of those verses over the centuries by learned Christians but I bet there’s a book written by a theologian who has made such a comparison. And I bet interpretations have differed.
At any rate, if the verse means what J. P. Holding (quoting Dunn) says it does, then is it speaking about people who reject Holding’s and Dunn’s Nicean/Chalcedonian/Trinitarian Christian theology? That doesn’t sound right either, because Jesus wasn’t speaking to an audience that knew of such orthodox creedal statements, but instead was speaking to an audience that merely knew, say, “The Lord’s Prayer,” which even Jews can pray today. [See endnote #2 for J. P. Holding’s take.]
I also wonder what “sin” I am committing if I say “to hell with the whole question?” Who cares what the author of Mark wrote? I’m going to live my life based on everything I have learned during my life, and admit that there will always be things I don’t know and that I honestly don’t feel right dogmatizing so clearly about them all, especially things beyond death, in another supernatural realm, beyond touch and sight, etc. The world and ancient books no longer seem as clear to me exegetically as they once did when I was a born again Bible believing (and later, tongue-speaking) Christian.
#1 The author of the interpretation I cited is E. Boring (Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University) who writes on Matthew from a mainline critical perspective, affirming Matthew’s use of Mark, Q and M. He believes that Matthew was written by an anonymous author around 90 CE, presumably in Antioch. (See, The New Interpreter’s Bible. Vol. 8: General Articles on the New Testament; The Gospel of Matthew; The Gospel of Mark. Edited by Leander E. Keck et al. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995.)
#2 Below is a statement by J.P. Holding at Tektonics about the Blasphemy Challenge from his Whazzup! page: http://www.tektonics.org/newstuff.html
December 11, 2006
I’ll be improving some files in the Classics collection today, and we also have an anti-blog note. The self-alleged “Rational Response Squad” (aka Fundy Atheists on the Run) has now launched a program in which they give away 1001 copies of The God Who Wasn’t There to anyone making a video of themselves, posted on “YouTube” (the video version of Wikipedia, to the extent that it is an exercise in unrestrained anarchy), blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Of course their understanding of what that means
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There was an excellent article in the NY Times, a couple of days ago, titled Sweet Potatoes Are Not Just for Thanksgiving Anymore chronicling the growing popularity of sweet potatoes. The basic message is, sweet potatoes are good for you because it is a vegetable that has protein, which is fairly unusual, but it also has complex carbohydrates that don’t spike insulin. Apparently, "sweet potatoes have become the darling of the diabetic and weight-loss set, a lifeline for parents whose children demand fries for nearly every meal and a boon for Southern farmers who are looking to replace tobacco". I must admit, I am very partial to the fries myself. Though, what I cook at home is more healthy since I do not know exactly how to fry them to get that mouth-watering crunchy texture. Sweet potatoes is a common vegetable in India ( I was pleased to find the wikipedia article on that vegetable including its Tamil and Hindi names).
The popular variety of preparation in most parts of India is roasted slow over kitchen coals peeling, cubing and seasoning for a vegetable dish as part of the meal.
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By Jennifer Ehidiamen
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Nigerian sex workers and their allies are pressing for the decriminalization of commercial sex work. While officials talk about educational and job-training initiatives, they are silent on changing the criminal code.
LAGOS, Nigeria (WOMENSENEWS)--Patricia Okana, in her early 30s, is a commercial sex worker.
"It is just like every other thing you do," she says. "There are challenges, but I thank God it puts food on my table."
Okana, a widow, says that poverty is the main catalyst driving women into commercial sex work, which is a crime that can be punished by imprisonment here.
Nearly 65 percent of Nigerians live below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day, according to UNICEF's latest statistics. Official statistics on the number of sex workers in Nigeria are unavailable.
After her husband died, Okana struggled to support herself. Frustrated, she eventually listened to a friend's advice to try sex work.
"Everything that tastes bitter must first be sweet, and everything that must be sweet must first be bitter," she says.
Earlier this year, 50 commercial sex workers marched around Falomo, a popular district on Lagos Island in southwestern Nigeria, calling for respect for their rights.
A key organizer was Margaret Onah, executive director of Safe Haven International, a Nigerian advocacy group for girls and women and especially commercial sex workers, and Nigerian coordinator of African Sex Worker Alliance, a regional project to end human rights violations against sex workers.
The march marked International Sex Worker Rights Day, celebrated annually on March 3 since 2001.
"It is a global thing," Onah says. "It was inaugurated in India, where about 25,000 sex workers gathered together to celebrate sex work. Other countries have been doing it."
By Amy Lieberman
By Alizah Salario
By Anna Louie Sussman
By Ajitha Menon
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US costs soar 6 times for new war supply routes
Posted 07 April 2012 - 03:59 PM
According to new reports, Pakistan fears deisolation because of the depresence of US and so they opened their supply routes. US has already a new and better supply route through Central Asian Stans which are much cheaper for them than through Pakistan. If Pakistan don´t get money from US, Terrorism will be weakened, so the Taliban and Northern ALliance will finish them within 1 month and all those who speak the language of Taliban or support them. At the end only partition will be the result.
Posted 12 April 2012 - 08:44 AM
How is it cheaper route when thats a much longer route than pakistan and as such more logistics are involved.
Posted 03 June 2012 - 04:45 PM
I hope, now you can answer your question by your own.
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If you’ve ever wondered about the origins of foursquare, look no further than this walking tour of New York’s East Village created as a foursquare list by co-founder Dennis Crowley.
The tips he’s left on the list cover foursquare’s history, from the beginnings of Dodgeball and the later creation of foursquare to the current official after-work hangout for foursquare staff. The tip at Think Coffee even describes how Chad Stoller led them to create the “mayor” feature:
Naveen & I built 1/2 of the foursquare prototype here (mostly at the back table near the bathroom). The “mayor” feature in 4SQ came from our buddy Chad making fun of us for camping at that table
Foursquare is Crowley’s second major location-based social network. He created Dodgeball, a similar service that operated solely through text messages, as part of his thesis for NYU’s ITP program. It was later purchased by Google and shuttered a few years after Crowley and curent foursquare head of product Alex Rainert left the company. Foursquare was born from its ashes and launched at SXSW in 2009.
Covering the history of the service is an innovative way to use foursquare’s lists feature. It creates a single place where people can go to learn more about the creation of foursquare and it offers small tidbits to other users who check in at the places on the list.
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