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Tags: Coach Carl, Every Child Healthy, Healthy Food For Kids, Organic Kids, Real Food
This show I broadcast via my Cell Phone while I was traveling in Southern California… I loved talking with Coach Carl, and every parent should be reading his informative and empowering web site daily.
Check out Coach Carl at EveryChildHealthy.com
I love his “Box Approach” to teaching kids to make wholesome food choices that make it fun, informative, and gives them LIFELONG TOOLS to achieving their personal best.
Coach Carl writes about this Box Approach on his web site, and what he does is put food choices [with yummy photos, preferably] into a box for his daughter to choose from a “menu” of healthy, organic, tasty dishes for her to have the next day for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Coach Carl is brilliant in this approach, because he explained that he is the one who is buying the food, so he wants to help build her self actualization and consciousness for eating healthy by giving his daughter an active part in her own health…. and you can start this at a very young age! Bravo!
I believe this also builds self-esteem in children because it gives them responsibility for their own lives and builds confidence in the new knowledge they are gaining and will have throughout their lives. Excellent.
Vaccines. We touched on the dangers of vaccines in our conversation. Coach Carl does not believe in this practice, and as all of my listeners know, I certainly do not either. I had a show with the lead singer of “The Refusers” on this particular topic and how dangerous and horrifying this life-robbing practice is.
High Fructose Corn Syrup. This was a big question I had for Coach Carl, and I knew that he has extensively written about this important topic in his web site.
It is very dangerous. Period. Sadly, it is everywhere. Look in store-bought ketchup, mustard, SODA, processed foods, and is always in fast foods.
Start to read labels. Be like a personal investigator for your own health. High Fructose Corn Syrup is also labeled, “Corn Syrup” and “Corn Sugar.” The corn refiners are actively lobbying the FDA as we speak. They are not concerned about your health, but they are concerned about their ability to sell a toxic substance at high profit without having to be held responsible for the disastrous results to an entire generation.
It damages your Adrenals, your Liver, your Kidneys, and causes Diabetes and Obesity, and kills brain cells. It can also cause cravings for MORE because it is a very potent drug in your system. It also is linked to behavioral disorders, ADD/ADHD, and other emotional and mental issues in both children and adults.
It should NEVER have been allowed into the marketplace. Who was the bureaucrat who accepted ‘face value’ promises from the Corn Refiners Association? ALL tests performed independently have so many scary results that I am astonished it has made its way to the food paradigm at all.
But knowing how Washington now works, with heavy lobbying by trade organizations, multi-national processed food conglomerates, etc., it somehow is not surprising that Americans are once again being poisoned for profit.
Check out my interview with Coach Carl on the “Archives” section of this blog. I was on my cell phone when we recorded this remotely from LA, but the fun and informative conversation is one of my favorites! Thanks Coach Carl!
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A bus run by the same company linked to a deadly Texas crash and being used by pilgrims heading to the same festival as the 17 victims failed an inspection and was pulled out of service, authorities said Sunday.
The bus was pulled from operation in Carthage, Mo., where members of three Vietnamese Catholic congregations in Houston were headed when their bus blew a tire and skidded off the highway, said Robert Accetta, the leader of the National Transportation Safety Board team investigating the crash.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Iguala BusMex and Angel Tours Inc. to cease commercial operations Sunday, finding that the companies posed an "imminent hazard." A second order issued to Angel De La Torre, owner and president of the Houston-based companies, finds that his "activities in connection with motor carrier operations pose an 'imminent hazard' to the public."
The bus inspected in Carthage was registered to Iguala Busmex, said NTSB spokeswoman Debbie Hersman.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
AP: Transportation and Safety Board orders bus companies to cease operations; bus sitting in Carthage taken out of service
A bus that did make it to the Marian Days observance in Carthage was among those shut down today when the National Transportation and Safety Board ordered the companies involved in the bus crash that killed 17 Friday to cease operations, according to Associated Press:
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Dumpster puppies healthy, ready for adoption
Balcones Heights police rescued pups last month
The San Antonio Humane Society reports five puppies thrown in a trash dumpster and rescued by Balcones Heights Police last month are healthy and ready for adoption.
"Why put them in the trash? I would never throw away a living thing," said Stephanie Whiting, one of two foster moms who took in the five puppies.
The other foster mom already has decided to adopt one of the pups, said Seamus Nelson, a spokesperson for the Humane Society.
Before they were taken into foster care, Whiting said the dogs were riddled with fleas.
"My husband and I spent nights picking out fleas with tweezers between their toes, around their eyes, and they were hungry," Whiting said.
She also said they were hungry but didn't how to eat, but they certainly do now.
The puppies are among many others also needing homes and foster homes.
Joel McLellan with San Antonio Pets Alive! said the group with offices next to Animal Care Services, has seen a surprising influx of puppies, products of the city's stray animal population.
"We've got all sizes, shapes and breeds on site here," McLellan said.
He said many puppies are ready for adoption, but others are under treatment for ringworm or mange, conditions commonly found among animals living on the streets.
"We need short term housing where they can have a few weeks to recover from their medical condition," McLellan said.
He said medications would be provided, much like at the San Antonio Humane Society that also covers similar costs.
To see a list of recent stories Jessie Degollado has done, click here.
Copyright 2012 by KSAT.com All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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- Admissions & Aid
- Student Life
2012 Soar Student
Hometown: Phillipsburg, N.J.
Project: Exploring the Applicability of the Dip Probe for in situ Spectroscopy Experiments
Project advisor: Dr. Carl Salter
Project details: Our SOAR project entailed studying the reaction between Fe (III) and Thiosulfate. We are continuing work started by previous SOAR students, and we worked to study the effect temperature and ionic strength play on the reaction. We also worked to see how and in what situation the dip probe would be more useful than other older methods for spectroscopy.
Why I wanted to participate in SOAR: I was very interested in conducting my own research and having the responsibility and accountability that comes along with it.
Results: We found that the dip probe can be very helpful in some situations with this reaction due to its transient nature and we also found that ionic strength plays a role in this reaction and can directly affect it.
Future plans: At this time I am undecided. I may enter a graduate program or go directly into the field of chemistry after college.
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New York City is not known for its music festivals. Sure, we have a lot of concerts here in the city year round, but festivals, not so much. Festivals usually occur outdoors over the span of two days and require large and open spaces from which to run. There’s not many open spaces in NYC except for Central Park in Manhattan, Randalls Island tucked away between Queens and the Bronx, Governors Island in the middle of New York Harbor, and Prospect, Commodore Barry, and Wingate Parks in Brooklyn. While there are a few exceptions here and there, these spaces are pretty much it in the city that are readily (for the most part) accessible to the public.
The recent CBGB Festival in New York and Brooklyn utilized a different festival pattern: it wasn’t contained at one space, but spread over many small venues. The Governor’s Ball held its second annual two-day festival this past June on Randalls Island, the same day as a smaller and grittier one-day festival, Punk Island, occurred on Governor’s Island (not Ball!). The Afro-Punk Festival occurs every year at Commodore Barry Park, although the 2011 festival was cancelled due to hurricane. (Afro-Punk this year occurs August 25-26.) Outdoor shows happen at the Waterfront at Williamsburg, Prospect Park (Celebrate Brooklyn!), and Wingate Park (Public Enemy with Salt-N-Pepa on July 30), but these latter concert spaces nor fledgling festivals can compare to Chicago’s Lollapalooza or Indio, California’s Coachella… yet.
This year marks a new entry into New York’s up-and-coming festival scene: the First Annual Catalpa Festival that’s being held this weekend (July 28-29) on Randalls Island. The headliners are The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg, with support from TV on the Radio, Matt and Kim, Umphrey’s McGee, Girl Talk, and Matisyahu, among others. In addition to the two stages, there’s also a Reggae Stage curated by High Times Magazine, headlined by the High Times Cannibus Cup Band featuring Ros Droppa with a full slate of other reggae bands performing as well.
The festival is put together by an Irish dude by the name of Dave Foran, who acknowledges that “NYC is a graveyard for musical festivals” and he’s right. He was recently interviewed on Billboard.biz and his rationale makes sense:
Billboard.biz: What was your inspiration for Catalpa and why bring it to New York?
Dave Foran: Bringing Catalpa to New York was trying to fill what, in my eyes, is a void for a large, well-done, comprehensive destination festival in New York. It’s one of the best cities in the world, and it doesn’t really have a festival to call its own…But what I’m trying to put together, if it’s done right, will have longevity. Essentially, it’s trying to establish something substantial that isn’t really here and is calling out to be done.
Time will only tell if his festival becomes a mainstay in a city that seems to be adamantly opposed to them. Festivals in surrounding areas of New York haven’t been too successful, but maybe Foran’s vision of not only bands, but “experience” may be a key in a city that likes things just a little weird. So if you get tired of music during the two-day festival, you can go and get yourself hitched to a stranger at the “Frisky’s Church of Sham Marriages,” or check out the Arcadia installation of military scrap art and other art installations, or the Silent Disco Tent. If you’re a big spender (which, believe it or not, a lot of people in NYC aren’t), there are VIP passes complete with food, or a cabana with a hot tub and bottle service, too. If you’re not into that, the slate of music should be satisfying enough.
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WISER THAN GOD vs. YOUNGER THAN JESUS
Expect a ferocious battle of the generations raging across New York’s Bowery . . . As two group exhibitions pitch the very centuries against each other.
At The New Museum a show entitled “Younger Than Jesus” gathers artists born in or after 1976, making them 33 at oldest . . .
Directly across from the museum at BLT Gallery, 270 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York, 212 260 4129
“Wiser Than God” presents worldwide working artists born in or before 1926, making them 83 at very youngest . . .
Some are considerably older, many born before the First World War, and several are amongst the most famous artists at work today including Hyman Bloom, Carla Accardi, Jack Youngerman, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Bougeois, and Lucian Freud, currently the most expensive living artist.
Indeed with a set of artists whose cumulative age might add up to a total of almost 5,000 years, the opening vernissage should hop.
“Wiser Than God” runs from May 27th until July 31st overlapping with the current blockbuster Gagosian Picasso show, featuring work made by that artist between the age of 83 and 92.
The show was conceived by Adrian Dannatt and co-curated with Jan Frank.
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I've been starting and stopping my greek studies for a couple of years now. Since research of textbooks and "best method" is a great procrastination, I've became familiarized with several books and ideas for self-teaching of greek and language in general
One of the first things I came by was this list
which is discussed in this recent post
and thought he sounded like he knew what he was talking about; so I became intrigued by the fact that the book he suggests as the best course for homeric greek (Schoder and Horrigan) is out of print, and extremely hard to find.
As luck would have it, I've found volume 1 of the 2nd revised edition (1985) in a library, and volume 2 of the same edition is not hard to find.
I've done the first twelve lessons of book 1 and this is my opinion:
First, it is absurd that this book is out of print. It is by far the best book I've seen (and used) on learning greek.
Pharr, which is well respected and well thought of, is in my opinion a very, very bad way to start learning greek. It is hard on the eyes, at times boring, at times dreary, unwieldy, old, old school, and poorly revised course. It's grammar, for consultation, is worth the price of the book, though.
Since I agree that starting with Homer is the best way to learn the language, that doesn't leave one with too many options (the only mention of Beetham's Beginning Greek with Homer in Textkit I could find is not encouraging).
Second, I don't think the new edition is on the whole an improvement
as I've compared a couple of pages, and thought the 2nd ed more welcoming. It (the 3rd ed) might have many valuable corrections, but the spirit of the writers, imprinted on every idea and suggestion, and in those lovely quotes at the beginning of each lesson, was effaced. Plus, the second volume is now due only in 2008. But if you have the 3rd, it's still better than other titles.
The answer key for the 2nd edition is, as Buadhaigh said, very hard to come by. But the link he posted solves this. Btw, thank you, Buadhaigh!
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1. Magazines: If you haven’t gotten around to reading that stack of old New Yorkers after a month, don’t feel guilty about it. Just let them go. Recycle them or leave them in the “free” box at your local library or at a Laundromat or gym.
2. Jewelry box and sock drawers: Weed out old, broken jewelry and single earrings. Toss socks that are missing their mates (or reuse them when you dust).
3. Say goodbye to plastic: Keep reusable bags in the trunk of your car for the grocery store, and make it a habit to bring them in every time. If you stash a couple in your daily bag, too, you’ll always have one handy. And if you’re buying just a few small items, tell the cashier you don’t need a bag at all.
4. Every time you leave a room, grab a couple of things that belong in whatever room you’re going to and put them back where they belong.
5. Stop buying things you don’t need: I saved this one for last because it’s so important. In my experience, the best way to keep clutter from building up at home is not to let it in your front door. I still spend money on things, but they tend to be consumables and experiences — food, dinner with friends, travel, etc. — instead of stuff. All of those things make me happy!
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This page was spun off of a
User contributed FAQ
due to space considerations on the FAQ page. In addition, before doing any of these procedures, the precautions
outlined on the
upgrade FAQ are recommended. But you should keep in mind the difference between each of these procedures below once
precautions have been taken.
"Clean install" is not a Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) installation option, nor an option to any version of Mac OS X. If you hear people say "Clean Install" about Mac OS X, please correct them as that is not the term Apple uses for Mac OS X installation.
Windows users are used to a clean install process which closely approximates the Mac OS X "Erase and Install." Mac users who have used Mac OS 9 and earlier, are used to a clean install process which closely approximates Mac OS X Archive and Install. As such it is recommended you only use the term Apple uses in its installer so that when other people discuss with you what installation to perform, your communication is clear. Otherwise one person may think you meant to erase the hard drive, while another thinks you only meant to disable the old operating system folder, and create a new one.
Clean install is what you do to Mac OS 8 and 9 ( 8.0, 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, 9.0 - 9.2.1) when you create a new System Folder, and rename the old one Previous System Folder and have to manually move Preferences, control panels, and extensions over to the new system folder from your old application installations.
In Mac OS X, you have five installation options, one of which is like a Clean Install but goes under a different name. There is:
1. Erase and install - erases the hard drive and installs a fresh copy of the operating system. Currently not recommended because of a bug which began in 10.3 that has caused some Firewire hard drives to become unreadable after installation of 10.3 or later. Unless of course you have two copies external of your internal hard drive of every critical file and know how to access them easily, erase and install will only leave you with the backup of your data, assuming the backup is accessible after the installation of the system. With 10.3 or later, there are no guarantees this will be the case with external Firewire hard drives. The problem has been narrowed down to Oxford 922 and 911 drives and Apple is working to solve this problem.
Note: When you erase and install, and if your machine is Mac OS 9 bootable, you need to make sure to add Mac OS 9 drivers when erasing the system to ensure that Mac OS 9 booting can happen after an erase and install.
For all intents and purposes, if instead of actually choosing erase and install, you use Disk Utility, or some other formatter to erase your hard drive before installation, you will have done the same thing as an erase and install. Granted, there is the zeroing with a Disk Utility which is not what an Apple erase and install does, but for purposes of simplicity and clarity, make sure when discussing what you do to install that you did this, rather than erase and install or clean install.
Another unintended side effect of an erase and install is that additional applications which were installed on the Mac initially have to be restored separately. With all other installation options on this page, the original applications which came with the Mac are preserved. To find out which original applications came with your Mac, I've constructed the Installed Applications on Mac OS X FAQ.
2. Restore system - restores the operating system and any applications that came with the Mac. Apple's Knowledgebase Article 61802, and 301486 describes several methods of restoring your system.
3. Archive and Install - first appeared under retail 10.2 CDs, and later to became available on 10.3 update CDs, in addition to 10.3 and 10.4 retail. It is unknown at this time if the 10.4 update CDs have this option. This gives you the option to create a new system folder, while renaming the old, and save user and network preferences. If you don't save user and network preferences, your installed applications that are non-Apple, and your Users folder get moved to the Previous System folder along with the previous operating system. This is the one most like the Mac OS 8 and 9 Clean Install option, but it is not called that by Apple. This is the currently recommended way to install a new operating system to make sure you preserve your data. Archive and Install may leave behind newer applications than will run with the operating system if you Archive and Install 10.2 over 10.3. It is recommended you move Apple programs replaced by Archive and Install out of the Applications folder before you Archive and Install 10.2 over 10.3. This option was terminated on the release of 10.6.
4. Upgrade Install - Available on upgrade disks of all versions, as well as retail disks. This will simply upgrade an existing X system to a new one, not concerning itself if any old system preferencees are incompatible with the new system. This is usually not the recommended option because of its lack of sensitivity to the possibility an old system may not have compatible parts. It is however, also the installation which happens if you select no installation option. As such, it is recommended you only do this if you have no non-Apple applications installed, and all your Apple applications are up to date.
5. Install Mac OS X for the first time. When you install Mac OS X for the first time, it will happen when your machine never had Mac OS X installed before, or you erased the drive manually with a hard drive formatter and it detects there is no Mac OS X on the system to be installed. Naturally, if there was a system already installed on your computer that was pre-Mac OS X version of the Mac operating system, it won't touch that system if the hard drive is in good shape. Be sure of course to follow the migration tips on Migrating from Mac OS 9 to X FAQ before doing this.
To continue learning how to do an update of Mac OS X, please see the Upgrade FAQ.
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WASHINGTON – Along with thousands of active-duty and National Guard troops, several commercial passenger ships are also reporting to duty to support hurricane-relief efforts along the Gulf Coast, U.S. Northern Command officials announced.
The ships, contracted by the Navy's Military Sealift Command, are part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's massive response to provide relief for displaced victims, officials said.
The command awarded contracts
for four ships to provide interim housing to those displaced by the hurricane and possibly relief workers, as well. Three of the ships, Sensation, Holiday and Ecstasy, belong to Carnival Cruise Lines and the fourth, MV Scotia Prince, to Scotia Prince Cruises, officials said.
FEMA Director Michael D. Brown called the cruise ship option just one of many efforts under way to provide housing for those forced to flee the Gulf region in Katrina's wake.
"FEMA is handling the Herculean task of coordinating the relocation of many thousands of individuals and families whose lives have been torn apart by Hurricane Katrina," Brown said. "Every available alternative, including creative options for immediate housing, is on the table."
The four cruise ships were immediately removed from commercial service in response to FEMA's request for temporary housing, and Military Sealift Command chartered the ships for six months, beginning no later than Sept. 10.
Beginning today, FEMA-contracted buses are transporting hundreds of hurricane victims from Houston's Astrodome to temporary quarters on board Sensation and Ecstasy in the port of Galveston, Texas, where the ships are currently moored. The Holiday, in Mobile, Ala., and the MV Scotia Prince, which will moor at another Gulf Coast port, will also serve as mobile platforms for interim housing, officials said.
The Sensation and Ecstasy each accommodate 2,634 passengers; the Holiday carries 1,848; and the MV Scotia Prince, 1,000.
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Good Secondary SchoolsBrowsing Living » Education » Secondary Schools
Welcome to the Good Secondary Schools in France section of the Directory where you will be able to find many secondary education schools in many towns, cities and regions of the country. Our user-friendly online directory will find what you are searching for in the region, and it will find it fast.
If you need to find a local Secondary School in the region you live in, then check out this section of the directory and find one that's local to you. We want to make your life as easy as possible so navigating through our directory is a pleasant experience and finding an answer to your questions done with the minimum amount of fuss.
If you are looking for a school in another part of France, then browse through this section of our directory and find the right person at the click of a few buttons in no time at all.
The Directory keeps all it's information as up-to-date as possible, so that you can find the right person, the best place or the highest quality service you are looking for. Our Secondary Schools section of the directory covers a large area of the country, so finding the right one that is close to where you live has been made that much easier for you to do.
Check out our Good Secondary Schools in France section of the Good France Directory and make it an easier task to find.
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COST SYSTEM AUDITS
Cortell provides a cost system management service for clients. The objectives could be as follows and will be based on client requirements.
The objectives with a cost system audit is to provide a diagnostic review of the organization’s costing system and to inform management about:
- The state-of-the-art of the costing exercise in their organization,
- The extent to which this supports organizational objectives,
- Expressing an opinion about the accuracy and practicality of the system
- The suitability of technology
- Expressing an opinion about the cost benefit of the system
- The use of information from the system
Resulting from the cost system audit is a report about findings regarding the above and recommendations about improving the cost system and the use of information.
As part of the cost system audit the following review will take place:
- Organizational objectives and to what extent this has been supported by the costing system
- The organizational structure and the need for cost calculation in the various parts of the organization
- The cost structure and the treatment of costs in the costing system
- The appropriateness of the links of revenue streams to products, customers, channels, etc.
- The model design and its fit to the objectives and structure
- Data collection and system integration
- Reporting of results and methods of reporting
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King Abdullah Chair for Dialogue established at University of Toronto
June 29, 2010
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz met yesterday with Saudi students studying abroad and officials from the University of Toronto, on the occasion of the establishment of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Chair for Dialogue among Civilizations. Honorary President of the University of Toronto.
In a speech to mark the occasion, King Abdullah said, “My sons and daughters on scholarship everywhere in this world, there is no doubt that you will understand that nations do not rise without the hands of their people, and you know that knowledge is a broad gateway and an effective tool in the development process, so it is the responsibility that lies on every student on scholarship – male and female – to make it obligatory to seek with tireless determination to acquire knowledge and learning.
University of Toronto Rector Dr. David Niller expressed his appreciation to King Abdullah for the establishment of the Chair, which he characterized as a generous gift to the University of Toronto and the Canadian people. The Chair of will work on spreading the culture of dialogue among followers of religions and cultures, including organizing an annual international conference under the patronage of King Abdullah. A budget of SR 20 million [$5.33 million] has been allocated over five years for funding the Chair’s research projects, scholarships, conferences and seminars.
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MMT decide to delay STS-122 to NET Saturday
A problem with two Engine Cut Off (ECO) sensors has led to the scrub of STS-122′s launch attempt on Thursday.
The launch date has moved to NET (No Earlier Than) Saturday, with evaluations to take place on if they can fly with two faulty sensors. Due to the complexity of the problem, engineers require further evaluations to pinpoint the cause of the sensor issues.
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Scrub and troubleshooting latest:
‘ET LH2 Low level liquid sensors 3, and 4 failed wet when SIM dry commands were sent,’ noted exclusive L2 MMT level live coverage. ‘This is a scrub condition. Must have 3 of 4. Recommend SCRUB.’ (8:30am)
Launch attempt is now scrubbed (ET recommendation via LCC rules around 9am, to MMT - concured). It was later noted on the loop – and then through PAO, before the turn of the hour (9:57am). Engineers will monitor the sensors during detanking to learn more data on the two sensors.
Troubleshooting may include engineers entering the aft, demating and remating the monoball electrical connections, in order to see if there are bad electrical paths between the ECO sensors and electronics.
‘(Appears it could be an) open circuit somewhere between the monoball producion break and the Point Sensor Box,’ was an initial finding, as per L2.
During the LH2 tank drain, the 5 percent sensor remained WET, even when the tank was empty. 10 minutes later, both the 5 percent sensor and ECO #4 went DRY. The ECO #3 was still indicating WET some time afterwards, before re-setting.
Engineers are still trying to find the cause, which now appears to be downstream of the monoball area – which contains multiple connectors that channel data and power from the orbiter over to the tank and SRBs.
Evaluations include the possibility of taking the option to enter the aft to check connections and wiring, which involves rollback of the RSS, door opening, platform installation, troubleshooting, PRSD tank refill etc. That decision remains fluid, and may be decided on Friday.
If that was called, engineers would then perform ’wiggle’ tests on certain connections in the aft of Atlantis. However, it is not certain if the issue is on the orbiter or ET side.
That process would mean at least three or four days of standdown.
At around 3:15pm local, LH2 ECO #1 suddenly went WET. An hour later, the sensor registered DRY on its own accord. This was a seperate event, with the ET empty at the time.
MMT have debated the possibility of a tanking test on Friday (which appears unlikely) with the launch date moving to no earlier than Saturday. The MMT will meet at 2pm Friday to evaluate if the launch needs to be delayed yet further, due to the complexity of the problem.
Currently, the MMT are trying to find rationale on flying as-is with a 2/4 LCC scenario. This will be discussed more on Friday.
A new article on status will published later today.
Preparations for launch have proceeded smoothly, with Fuel Cell loading completed on Wednesday. Engineers also repaired a leak detector sensor problem in the pad’s GSE (Ground Support Equipment) – caused by a dirty connector.
The OWP on the -Y side of the Pad/Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) gave engineers some additional work ahead of RSS retract, before being bypassed for repair after launch.
Pad workers were two hours down on the timeline earlier in the proceedings – caused by a longer than scheduled pad closure. However, this was caught up by the time a floodlit Atlantis was revealed by RSS retract last night.
MLP interior securing, and TSM closeout are complete, with Fuel Cell calibration in work. In total, five GSE issues have been reported during the countdown, but none are a constraint to launch.
Go for tanking was given, with a chilldown and slowfill of the External Tank on the timeline at just after 7am local time. Chilldown has been completed, with slowfill operations beginging (7:43am). Issue noted on SIM test of ECO sensors (see newsflash at the top of the article).
One issue is being troubleshooted, with communications between MILA and the Johnson Space Center – which tracks the Shuttle radio transmissions during the first 7.5 minutes of launch. The primary system (1) is suffering from ‘dropouts’ - LCC (Launch Commit Criteria) allows launch with one working system, though redundancy is preferred.
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STS-122 FRR Summary:
Shuttle management rounded up the points of interest at the Agency-wide (Level 1/SOMD) FRR (Flight Readiness Review), which was conducted last week. Items of interest included the ‘spalling’ issue with the RCC panels, and the mitigation of glove damage during STS-122′s EVAs.
‘It is widely recognized that the glove cuts seen in the last year on ISS are a hazard we do not yet understand, thus there is great concern for any planned EVA tasks without the overglove as a protection for this unknown problem,’ noted JSC/MOD shuttle manager Paul Hill.
‘In particular, the wording of an exception to doff gloves to prevent going late in the EVA timeline left some with the impression that there was not sufficient rigor in the criteria for using the overgloves.
‘MOD confirmed that we recognize the potentially catastrophic risks of glove cuts, have planned and will conduct EVAs with a bias towards wearing the overgloves as much as practical. The EVA Office was given an action to coordinate criteria for donning the gloves in response to glove RTV loss during an EVA.’
The concern with the RCC panels, noted by NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) ahead of STS-120, was again deemed as no threat to safe flight at the STS-122 FRR, although Hill noted they will take a closer look at three panels on Atlantis, after her return to Earth.
‘RCC panels 9R, 12L and 13R are being flown with thermographic IR responses in the range of concern to analysts. The NESC expressed concern with the damage growth model and the subsequent burn through analysis that was discussed in deciding to fly these panels as-is,’ added Hill.
‘Thus, the locations of interest on 9R, 12L and 13R are not burn through concerns for STS-122 entry, although they could present issues for the next flight of this vehicle (these panels) depending on post-flight thermography.’
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Human Rights chief concerned after Vietnam convicts bloggersListen /
Vietnam's decision to convict three bloggers for "conducting propaganda" against the State is cause for concern, says UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay.
On Monday the bloggers received sentences ranging from four years' imprisonment and three years' probation, to 12 years behind bars together with five years' probation, for posting material on a journalism club website.
Charles Appel reports
Ms. Pillay said the convictions reflect a trend of increasing restrictions on freedom of expression in Vietnam, particularly against those who voice their criticisms online.
The Human Rights chief also observed that the sentences were handed down only after a few hours of deliberations, thus raising questions about the defendants' rights to due process and a fair trial.
Ms. Pillay called the decision an unfortunate development which undermines Vietnam's commitments to protect and promote the right to freedom of expression.
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Nick Yulman has been doing the whole mechanical music thing for sometime. In fact, the first time he came to our attention was at Maker Faire a couple of years back, when he had a cadre of small robotic instruments set up on a table in a quiet corner near the food stands. For ITP's Spring Show, Nick decided to share the love and brought along his Bricolo mechanical music system. Comprised of a number of different modules, Bricolo is meant to simplify the act of incorporating robotics and physical objects into the creation of "electronic" music. The two main pieces are a drum arm, which can be mounted on a mic stand and uses and uses a simple actuator to swing a drum stick, and a platform with a small solenoid that can produce either percussive rhythms or melodic tones. All of the pieces can be easily controlled by any MIDI instrument or sequencer.
The small platform that can produce actual musical tones converts notes from any MIDI source into a frequency that the solenoid can vibrate at, creating sound by striking a surface extremely quickly. In the video below you can see as an old hard cover book is turned into a bass synth. Interestingly, by opening and closing the book, varying the weight placed on the platform, you're able to create a filter effect. For the moment the tiny musical motors are largely a proof of concept -- exposed components attached to black or clear acrylic, but the hope is to eventually sell them to curious creators. Our composing skills might not be quite up to Mr. Yulman's lofty standards and we'll never write a bass line as good as I Want You Back. But, we are big fans of noise, and you can make plenty of it with Bricolo. Check out the video after the break to see it in action.
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Fareed Zakaria Is Now Caught Up In A Plagiarism Scandal
The conservative media watchdog group Newsbusters (by way of media blogger Jim Romenesko) points us to this paragraph from Zakaria's "The Case for Gun Control," from Time's August 20 issue:
Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic. Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in 1820, Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 and Ohio in 1859. Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
Compare that with this from Jill Lepore's "Battleground America," which ran in The New Yorker on April 23:
As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced new book, “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,” firearms have been regulated in the United States from the start. Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana (1820), Tennessee and Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), and Ohio (1859). Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas explained in 1893, the “mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man.
We'd emphasize the similarities, but the gists of both paragraphs make the same point, have the same turns, and yeah, this doesn't look great for an award-winning big name journalist/columnist like Zakaria. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out that Zakaria in 2009 had lifted quotes from his interviews without attribution — today's piece runs without any mention to Lepore. So what gives and just how bad is this? Well, going by The New Yorker's Lehrer Plagiarism Scale, we'd say it ranks worse than Jonah Lehrer borrowing from himself (a misdemeanor according to editor David Remnick said at the time) but not as bad as Lehrer making up quotes (which eventually spelled his resignation from this magazine). And this offense seems a lot more serious than recycling a commencement speech, which Zakaria did this year at Duke and Harvard.
Updates 12:46 p.m.: Reached by phone, Zakaria declined to comment about the similarities between his Time column and Jill Lepore's New Yorker article, however we're told that he will be releasing an apology shortly.
1:08 p.m.: Zakaria's column also includes two more instances of similarities to Lepore's piece, the next two paragraphs after the one cited above, in fact. As the National Review's Robert VerBruggen points out (because he took issue with its accuracy) they both describe a Supreme Court decision the same way. Here is Zakaria:
... Robert H. Jackson, said the Second Amendment grants people a right that "is not one which may be utilized for private purposes but only one which exists where the arms are borne in the militia or some other military organization provided for by law and intended for the protection of the state." The court agreed unanimously.
And this from The New Yorker:
... Furthermore, Jackson said, the language of the amendment makes clear that the right “is not one which may be utilized for private purposes but only one which exists where the arms are borne in the militia or some other military organization provided for by law and intended for the protection of the state.” The Court agreed, unanimously.
Next, Zakaria writes about a quote from Chief Justice Warren Burger:
Things started to change in the 1970s as various right-wing groups coalesced to challenge gun control, overturning laws in state legislatures, Congress and the courts. But Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative appointed by Richard Nixon, described the new interpretation of the Second Amendment in an interview after his tenure as "one of the greatest pieces of fraud--I repeat the word fraud--on the American public by special-interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime."
That quote also appears in Lepore's piece, though she has a more detailed introduction.
According to the constitutional-law scholar Carl Bogus, at least sixteen of the twenty-seven law-review articles published between 1970 and 1989 that were favorable to the N.R.A.’s interpretation of the Second Amendment were “written by lawyers who had been directly employed by or represented the N.R.A. or other gun-rights organizations.” In an interview, former Chief Justice Warren Burger said that the new interpretation of the Second Amendment was “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public by special-interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
1:22 p.m.: Still no statement from Zakaria, but a Time spokesperson has just issued this statement: "Time takes any accusation of plagiarism by any of our journalists very seriously, and we will carefully examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter."
1:51 p.m.: And from a New Yorker spokesperson: "We don't have a comment on this right now."
3:45 p.m.: The statement from Fareed Zakaria, as we reported earlier, is an apology for inappropriately lifting material from Jill Lepore:
"Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 23rd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers."
4:18 p.m.: Despite his apology, Time has suspended Zakaria for his offense. Here's the official statement from Ali Zelenko, a spokeswoman for Time:
Time accepts Fareed's apology, but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well. As a result, we are suspending Fareed's column for a month, pending further review.
"We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s Time column, for which he has apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review."
Though CNN has pulled the blog post, we found it thanks to Google cache. It was posted on August 8th and included this passage which is similar to the Lepore article he has apologized for. Note that it's different and omits the Winkler reference, but reads very similarly to the Lepore passage:
And it even includes the "agreed unanimously" phrasing, which was pointed out earlier:
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"O most holy apostle, Saint Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honoureth and invoketh thee universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, and of things almost despaired of. ... Make use, I implore thee, of that particular privilege accorded to thee, to bring visible and speedy help where help was almost despaired of."
An integral part of my experience as a teacher has been struggling with apparently-hopeless cases, and by "cases" I mean students. These struggles are before, after, and during school: chasing down kids for homework and time to catch up on math; sitting side-by-side puzzling out some theorem; talking, cajoling, entreating them to think ahead, to set priorities besides "what seems fun right now," and to follow up those priorities with action; listening to--or trying to tease out--the details of why the most recent boneheaded decision seemed reasonable at the time. Some of these struggles have been successful, by some definitions of success, but--without resorting to a detailed tally--I suspect the successes are outnumbered. But these students matter: in fact, when I think about the students who have made the biggest impression on me over the years, about whom I find myself wondering "where is he now?", those "hopeless" students are in the majority. I suspect that, among long-term teachers, I am not alone in feeling this way.
Today I'm wondering not about whether, but about why, how, and "so what?" And, just to be clear, the hopeless cases I'm describing are not just "hopeless by the standards of gifted students" or "hopeless by prep school standards." I'm talking about actual orphans, victims of acrimonious divorces, children who bounce from one underserved home and neighborhood to another,.... Their behaviors reflect the broken circumstances in which they find themselves: whether because they're unwilling, unable, or uninformed, they don't work outside of class, don't successfully advocate for themselves, don't set and follow through on short-term or long-term goals, ... They are, in short, hard cases.
Why? The reasons why I'm drawn to these students are the reasons I'm a teacher:
- I want to improve the lives of young people.
- I don't believe that teachers should be in the business of giving up on kids or writing them off. I think the evidence is that we do a poor job of identifying who can and can't "make it", except for the self-fulfilling nature of those very prophecies.
- At some level, it's hard to accept that there are things I can't do. Taking on a challenging student is to take on a challenge. And yes, this shades into hubris: it's hard to believe there's a student I can't reach.
- I want to be "that teacher": when that kid gets a Grammy, or wins a Pulitzer, or snags a Fields Medal, or just looks back on his high school years from the perspective of a reasonably well-managed and -adjusted adulthood, I want him or her to say "It was Mr. K who turned me around."
- Our society doesn't believe in giving up on children.
- Our society shouldn't believe in giving up on children. The vast majority of circumstances that make these students lives' difficult are also totally outside their control. How can we tell a high school student that, after failing to provide him with a decent home, a decent wage for his parents, a decent neighborhood to live in, and decent elementary schools, we're writing him off as a doomed high school student?
- Some--many--kids in apparently-hopeless circumstances do in fact turn out okay, which benefits everyone. So increasing that number is an important priority.
- At the moment, I'm giving as much time to teaching as I have. So the situation is genuinely zero-sum: if I spend more time with one student, that's less time I have to spend with another, or on planning lessons that will impact the entire class.
- Similarly, at the societal level, unless we're willing to vastly increase the resources we allocate to public education, increasing the allocation for the weakest students means, at least in the short term, decreasing the allocation for other students.
- Both as individuals and as a group, many of these students are capable of succeeding. In fact, part of my unwillingness to write them off is that I don't trust my ability--or anyone else's, really--to make good, non-self-fulfilling predictions about who will succeed. As a society, we can't afford to squander talent; as an individual, I hate to see it go to waste.
More--the "how" and "so what?"--on this topic later. Post your thoughts in the comments!
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This Interactive Pavilion Makes Surveillance Fun
Surveillance is not usually something that results in much fun. Big Brother spying and recording your every offline/online move is no megalulz, but design firm Bios Design Collective have used the idea to create an interactive artwork that spies on people to create a colorful LED display based on visitors’ movements.
The piece is a new temporary pavilion in San Jose, there until February 1st, called Coloniatecne. It’s a responsive piece which monitors visitors passing through the tunnel using sonar sensors which are attached to the wooden structure. Their motion is fuel for the display that occurs on the plastic scales and LEDs which are also attached.
These LEDs are paired with microprocessors which receive and process the information from the sensors, translating the paths people take through the sculpture into shifting colors and patterns. Making it probably one of the only times you won’t mind being spied on by technology.
Photos: Peter Prato
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My friend, C, posted a great question on Facebook this morning. She wrote that when we were kids, we used to call friends' parents Mr. or Mrs. __________, and now kids call adults by their first names. She asked when this transition took place.
That's a great question. Beyond that, I'm wondering, what other differences do you notice about the way we grew up and the way kids grow up today?
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In the Gulf with President Obama
03:33 PM EDT
Earlier today, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner sent this email to the White House email list:
Today I am travelling to Louisiana with President Obama to review the efforts currently underway to respond to the massive oil spill and to lend support to the region. The Administration's efforts have been relentless from Day 1, and I know the President is eager to return to the region to check up on the progress and meet with those most directly affected by this tragedy.
Yesterday, the President briefed the press and the American people on this disaster. You can watch the video of his press conference here:
To give you a sense of where we are today: We have about 20,000 people in the region who are working around the clock to contain and clean up this oil, approximately 1,300 vessels are responding on site, over 11 million gallons of oil-water mix have been recovered, and over 3 million feet of boom have been deployed to the Gulf region.
Earlier this week, the Federal Government gave BP the approval to attempt a "top kill" procedure – plugging the well with densely packed mud to prevent oil from escaping. It's too soon to tell whether this approach will be successful at reducing or eliminating the flow of oil, so we are exploring every reasonable strategy to try to stop this leak before the relief wells are finished.
For people living in the Gulf Coast region, for Americans across the country, and for the Obama Administration, the only thing that really matters is stopping the leak, cleaning up the mess, and restoring the Gulf Coast's environment and the livelihoods of the people who live there. We will not rest until we've done just that.
Those who are responsible will be held accountable. That includes not only the obligations BP and other responsible parties have, but also the commitment we have, as public servants, to build an effective framework for regulation that protects the American people and guards this country's natural splendor.
In case you don't have time to watch the video from yesterday's press conference, I want to reiterate a key point the President made, because while stopping the leak remains priority #1 at the White House, it's also important to recognize the need for longer-term solutions. He said:
Let me make one final point. More than anything else, this economic and environmental tragedy – and it's a tragedy – underscores the urgent need for this nation to develop clean, renewable sources of energy. Doing so will not only reduce threats to our environment, it will create a new, homegrown, American industry that can lead to countless new businesses and new jobs.
Here are two important resources to keep track of the situation:
The first is the website of the coalition of groups, led by the National Incident Commander for the BP oil spill, Admiral Thad Allen of the Coast Guard. It has a number of links to assistance for those affected by the spill and many other resources:
In order to keep the Nation aware of everything its government is doing to in response to the spill, the White House has also created a web page that includes a daily report of the ongoing Administration-wide response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill:
As the President also said, we are going to make sure this leak is stopped -- but our work doesn't end there. This Administration will use everything in its power to protect the safety and livelihoods of our fellow Americans in the Gulf Coast.
Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
If you didn't get today's email from Carol Browner, you can sign up for the White House email list here.
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The Student Advocacy team strives to address emerging and ongoing issues that affect the quality of life at USF. The team supports the university mission by creating an environment that is stimulating, attentive, and promotes positive learning in all areas of Student Life. Student Advocacy administrators interact with other offices and departments to work in constructive partnership with students to address their concerns while being mindful of our obligation to provide a safe and respectful community. We want to hear from you, support you, challenge you, and advocate for your concerns. We want to know what’s on your mind.
SPARK: Town Hall
SPARK: Town Hall is a series of open community meetings that focus on issues and concerns of our students. All students are encouraged to attend and any topic of interest to the student body is brought forward for discussion. Guest speakers, presentations, panels, screenings — let us know what’s sparking your interest!
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Since becoming a teacher, any headline about the profession catches my attention and it seems like every week I read another article about a teacher getting fired or put on probation for an inappropriate tweet, blog, or facebook posting. Out of curiosity I searched “teacher fired facebook” and got 3,490,000 hits. “HS teacher loses job over Facebook posting” “Teacher Fired After Candid Facebook Comments” “Teacher Sues after being fired for Facebook Pics” It goes on and on. One teacher took a picture of a student’s hair, posted it on facebook and added a comment making fun of the girl’s hairstyle. Ultimately the girl’s mother saw the photo and the teacher’s comment.
Even if I accept the fact that American culture seems to no longer have any problem with adults insulting and tearing down kids (see: the entire Internet v. Rebecca Black), I can’t accept any educated adult expecting tweets and blogs to be private. The whole point of twitter it to communicate with many people instantaneously. This is not the place to discuss hiring a hitman to take care of your students.
I’ve only been teaching for four months but that is more than enough time to understand every teacher has days when she needs to vent. Venting is healthy. Venting fosters sanity. Venting should NEVER be done on the Internet. Unless you are Bill Maher and people follow you on Twitter specifically for the insults you hurl in 140 characters, do not post rants about your students, their parents or your administration online. Talk to your partner over dinner. Talk to your friends over drinks. Write it in a diary and save it for the bestselling memoir you’ll write when you’ve retired. Don’t update your Facebook status.
I agree with commenters who think teachers are held to unfairly high standard. The Georgia teacher fired because of a picture of her drinking Guinness at the Guinness factory is an example that school administrators in Barrow county are not held to this same high standard. Teachers are human and should not be fired for being such. I’m just waiting for the moment my pregnant and gassy body lets one rip in front of an entire class of teenagers. I hope it doesn’t get me fired. The experience will be scarring enough as it is.
However, typing and uploading your darkest thoughts in frustration or getting a few laughs from buddies at the expense of a child is unprofessional at best. Exerting some self control is a defining of an adult. And don’t argue an expectation of privacy because honestly, if you think something defined by the term “network” is an intimate forum, I’m not sure you should be teaching.
So I just realized I followed up a post on not judging other parents with one judging other teachers. Hmmm. Oh well. No one’s perfect. Gosh, it really is hard to keep opinions to yourself.
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03-05-2012, 12:10 AM
Join Date: Jan 2006
Professional Artist Survey
My name is David Weaver. I am currently a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. I am doing my final research project on what it takes to be a successful artist and what art teachers can do to help prepare their students for the real world. If you are a professional artist, I would love it if you could answer this survey for me. If you have any other friends or art associates that you could also pass this on to, I would greatly appreciate it. You can answer directly to the forum. I'm sure many would love to see and comment on your responses. You can also PM me or email me at fauxcalpoint at gmail dot com.
Thanks so much for your help. I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say.
- 1. What is your name? Can I use your real name or would you prefer I use a pseudonym for this study?
- 2. What mediums do you use?
- 3. How long have you been a professional artist?
- 4. What schools did you attend and what training have you had to become an artist?
- 5. What did you learn in your training that has been the most valuable to you as a professional artist?
- 6. In what ways did your art education help you succeed?
- 7. What areas, do you feel were lacking in your art education?
- 8. What things did you have to learn on your own, through personal experience, that you did not learn in school?
- 9. What are the most important skills, attributes, habits, etc. that you think are essential to become a full time professional artist?
- 10. Are there habits that you created for yourself on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule that have helped you to become the artist you are today? What are those habits?
- 11. What are the biggest problems or obstacles that you have encountered as you worked your way from student to professional? Could any of these problems have been avoided or lessened if you had more knowledge or different instruction at your institution?
- 12. What separates a good artist from a truly successful great artist?
- 13. What resources have helped you to become a professional artist? How important are mentors, critique groups, art groups, additional workshops or training, to becoming successful?
- 14. How important are learning the business aspects of art, such as marketing, negotiations, contracts, taxes, etc.? Where did you learn the business side to art? Do you do this yourself, or do you hire someone to do these things for you?
- 15. What are the best ways for an artist to market themselves and get their name out there?
- 16. What advice would you give to students and future artists on what they need to do to become a successful artist?
- 17. What advice would you give to art educators on how to help prepare students to become successful professional artists?
- 18. There are a large number of students graduating with art degrees with only a small percentage able to successfully transition from being a student to making it as a full time professional artist. Many continue to create art part time while working another job unrelated to the arts. Only a few actually succeed at making a career out of it. Why do you think so few artists are making that transition?
- 19. Do you feel that art programs are doing enough to prepare students to enter the workforce? If not, what should be added to the curriculum to better prepare students to make a living as a professional artist? What areas do you think should be improved in art education?
"When I look at art, I'm evaluating. Does it work? Is it beautiful? Does it influence me in a positive way? Does it encourage me? Does it make the world a better place? Has it given me more knowledge, more understanding, more purpose and show the dignity and power and beauty of mankind and its possibilities? Does it reflect the love and goodness and freedom that God gave us? All those great and wonderful things that we can be. Is this one of those things? That's what I expect of myself." -- Drew Struzan
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Plastics was the key word at the recent Columbia conference “Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering,” which featured some of the best architects working with polymers today. On opening night, Greg Lynn did away with traditional tectonics in favor of total composite design from recycled toys to beautiful racing boats. Several pieces were on display in the lobby, including a beautiful backlit ribbed column cover designed by Columbia associate professor Yoshiko Sato (assisted by Shuning Zhao and John Hooper). Sato, who’s known for her NASA design research and space course at Columbia, also designed the two over-sized plastic inflatable flowers suspended from the lobby ceiling, as shown above. The composite designs will be up and on view at the Morningside Heights campus at least another week.
The first panel of this week’s conference at Columbia’s GSAPP, “Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering,” got down to business a few minutes late on Thursday morning. After a brief welcome, Dean Mark Wigley ceded the floor to Michael Bell, the first speaker in the line-up for “The Emergence of Polymers: Natural Material–Industrial Material.” But the pace picked up as Bell and subsequent presenters took listeners on an intense romp through the role of plastics in architectural history, providing background for the nine panels to follow through Friday evening.
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On February 26, the Independent Electrical Contractors Rocky Mountain (IECRM) became the first state-approved electrician training school in Colorado. The distinction was unanimously granted by the Colorado Department of Higher Education Division of Private Occupational Schools Board after months of examination and deliberation.
As a result of the state's approval, IECRM students may now apply the GI Bill to apprentice training and continuing education tuition. Additionally, the State of Colorado will now recommend IECRM as an approved electrical training institution, and will include IECRM on its list of state-approved colleges that is distributed to Colorado high schools.
“This is the first step to the larger goal of having our students receive their electrical training in concert with an Associate’s Degree,” explained IECRM Director of Education, Jeff Macht. “The state approval is the culmination of many months of examination of our four-year apprentice taining program and 26 continuing education courses. Our entire team pitched in and worked together to make the approval happen.”
The road to state approval was lengthy and rigorous. IECRM and its instructors spent several months completing paperwork, creating a course catalog, and meeting several times with state representatives. The school’s academic records and facilities were examined thoroughly.
“This chapter has led the way in creating an electrical education program that is attractive to the next generation of professionals, which is critical to our industry,” said IEC National EVP/CEO Thayer Long. “IEC Rocky Mountain’s innovation in educating the electrical contracting community is something we are all proud of.”
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Images from Eltham Park
Is the Modern Church a Spiritual Church?
Where are many conflicts and problems in the world, from which we seek release (sometimes in our own lives). People are looking for answer to their problems and are seeking to resolve them in various ways. Some people turn to the church for their answers, but may be disappointed. Others find their answers with no problem. Because someone is a Christian doesn’t make them perfect; we have our flaws just the same as everyone else.
The modern church needs to be a spiritual church, a church where people are given inner strength to meet their everyday challenges. How then do we provide that in a meaningful way? Although the church has many practical issues to address, it needs to be a place where people can encounter the spiritual side of their nature and being. This can be expressed through welcome, preaching, teaching, prayer and often an atmosphere of inner tranquillity.
Many people think of ‘church’ as a building. To most Christians the building is just a place to facilitate an act of worship. Church is really the people; it is quite simply a group of people. Their collective spirituality depends on how these people work together. We all work together, supporting each other and practising our shared faith. Quite often we are challenged to reconsider our own lives and how we deal with people through the sermons we hear each week.
The Church of Christ in every age, beset by change but always spirit-led, is made up of people of different ages, races and backgrounds. It is not a building, but a church that longs to be a partner in Christ’s sacrifice and clothed in his humanity.
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The annual dog licenses sold in Butler County have decreased in number with the increased popularity of identifying a dog by implanting a microchip, as reported in the Jan. 14 Butler Eagle.
However, dog owners still must purchase a Pennsylvania/Butler County dog license as required by law.
At one time, Butler County’s annual license sales were more than 28,000, but that number has decreased because of the marketing of microchipping.
In mid-December, the Butler County Treasurer’s Office sent its annual dog license renewal reminders for 2013 dog licenses. License sales in 2012 totaled 25,222, with 4,577 of those by way of online sales.
So far in 2013, 12,000 dog licenses have been sold, with 2,322 online sales.
Among the 2013 licenses sold to date have been more than 100 lifetime licenses. In 2012, lifetime licenses increased 27.5 percent, with a record number of 673 licenses issued.
Lifetime licenses cost between $21.45 and $51.45; annual dog licenses cost between $4.45 and $8.45.
Dog owners in Butler County have looked for a renewal in their mailboxes the past 11 years. The mailing originates in the county treasurer’s office, but is paid for by the Dog Law Enforcement Office in Harrisburg.
In 2009, the treasurer’s office started offering online license sales. Online customers receive an email reminder to purchase their new dog licenses instead of the paper reminder.
By law, the treasurer’s office is mandated to be the administrator of all dog license sales in the county. As administrator, the treasurer has the authority to identify and partner with sub-agents located within the county to broaden the dog license distribution system.
This county has 11 sub-agents located throughout the county selling dog licenses.
The Butler Eagle’s Jan. 14 front-page article stressed the importance of having a dog properly identified to help ensure its safe return, if the dog is lost or separated from its owner. And, indeed, everyone in the treasurer’s office can attest to the importance of having a properly licensed dog.
The treasurer’s office maintains a complete file of all dog licenses issued going back to 2002. Through these records, the treasurer’s office helps lost and reported dogs be reunited with their owners throughout this county.
People whose dog has a microchip but does not have a current Butler County dog tag should get in touch with the treasurer’s office at 724-284-5149, or access the county website at www.co.butler.pa.us. The website has detailed information on dog licensing and sub-agent locations where licenses can be purchased.
Lifetime licenses are issued only through the treasurer’s office.
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There are one or two options that you can think of whenever there’a big file that you want to share on the internet. Certain services like Dropbox, Box.net and others help you do that, but all of them come with a minimum file size limit. Usually it’s not more than 250 – 500mb. There are other services that allow you to upload larger files, but only some of them are free. However, most people don’t use these services and prefer getting their data via email or a flash drive.
WinZip is one of our favorite tools when it comes to compressing data, including images, videos etc and they bring to us the all new ZipSend and ZipShare services that once again make sharing large files simpler. Whereas ZipSend can be used to send files and attachments via email up to the size of 2 GB, ZipShare helps you share large files with your friends on Facebook. Both of these can and are really very useful in our day to day lives.
To send large files up to 2 GB via email, you’ll have to first sign up with ZipSend and then download an application called WinZip Courier. There is a catch, as always, which says that only Pro members are allowed to send files as large as 2GB, but a normal user can send files as big as 50MB. You’ll have to shell $9.99 every month for a Pro account, so unless you send tonnes of email with attachments of 500MB – 2GB, then you don’t really need a Pro account.
ZipShare is another such web app started by Winzip, this being more interesting. Using ZipShare, one can upload and share large compressed files with their friends on Facebook. All you have to do is visit ZipShare, Login with your Facebook account and upload the files that you want to share. The maximum limit for a file is 20MB, and that’s not bad at all. You’ll be given a download link for the file that you uploaded, search for your Friend on the webapp and hit the Post button. But, there is a catch here too. Anyone can view and download the file that you uploaded, unless you send it just to your friend using Facebook messages.
Good applications don’t you think? Do give them a try and tell us what you think!
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China sidesteps South China Sea island disputes
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit and Forum on China-ASEAN Free Trade Area in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. / Xie Huanchi,AP Photo/Xinhua
(AP) BEIJING - China has sought to soothe neighbors it has feuded with over territory in the South China Sea, a stark contrast to recent angry statements and violent street protests targeting Japan over a similar dispute.
Vice President Xi Jinping China's presumed next leader emphasized economic ties and civic exchanges in remarks Friday to delegates from the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Xi played down South China Sea territorial disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam and others that have flared up again this year.
"I hope the situation would not reverse backward and bilateral relations could come back to the track of normal development," Xi told the Philippines' interior and local government secretary, Mar Roxas, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.
In his address at the annual meeting with ASEAN members, held in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, Xi said China was committed to "common development and steadily improving cooperation mechanisms in various fields." With two-way trade growing 20 percent annually to $362.8 billion last year, China and its southern neighbors are increasingly intertwined, requiring even greater cooperation across a range of fields, Xi said.
The contrasting approaches to the territorial feuds highlight Beijing's desire to keep the South China Sea disputes in check and avoid drawing in China's chief rival, the United States, which maintains close security ties with many countries in the region. While eager to assert its claims, Beijing needs a peaceful regional environment to achieve its development goals and has a limited capacity to handle multiple diplomatic crises simultaneously.
Fury at Japan followed the Japanese government's purchase last week of islands in the East China Sea from their private owners. The tiny, uninhabited archipelago, which is controlled by Japan but claimed by China, has been a lightning rod for simmering Chinese hatred toward Tokyo deriving from Japan's brutal invasion and occupation of parts of China in the first half of the 20th century.
On Wednesday, Xi told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that Japan must "rein in its behavior," while Defense Minister Liang Guanglie said China reserved the right to take unspecified "further actions" over the issue.
Chinese protesters gathered for days outside Japan's embassy and consulates, while mobs burned and smashed Japanese cars, factories, and businesses.
The fury has also been directed at the U.S., which includes the islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China under its Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with Japan despite claiming to take no sides in the sovereignty dispute. On Tuesday, a crowd surrounded a car carrying U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke and damaged it slightly, echoing an earlier incident in which the Japanese ambassador's car was blocked and its flag torn off.
The protests follow tiffs earlier this year with Vietnam and the Philippines over islands and reefs in the South China Sea. Chinese and Philippines ships were involved in a prolonged standoff over the Scarborough Shoal off the Philippine island of Luzon and China, and Vietnam issued tit-for-tat administrative orders asserting its rival claims over the Paracel Islands to the west.
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It seems like we still resort to C or C++ when we are going to do "serious" systems programming. We have some small languages which try to come up with new stuff inside systems programming such as Go and D (I have had a little experience with D and I like it a lot so far), but those aren't very widely used (Go is from 2009, so it shouldn't be that surprising but D is from 2001). There are non-language-technical reasons why these aren't so popular, such as there aren't many jobs, frameworks etc., but exclude such things and instead focus on what features should the next generation systems programming language come with?
What do you, as a systems developer, lack in the "traditional systems programming languages" (that is C, C++ etc.)? Why do these things matter now in today's world (concurrency etc. would matter, I guess)?
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Mystery 'Wiper' malware linked to 'Duqu', says security firm
April attacks on Iranian oil firm part of wider campaign
It appeared from nowhere last April, attacked computers in Iran and then destroyed almost all evidence of its existence. But what was the super-destructive malware now dubbed ‘Wiper’?
Evidence for the malware emerged in April after the Iranian Oil Ministry announced that some of its installations had been attacked by a ‘worm’ that was deleting numerous types of data files from hard drives.
At the time, security watchers were left guessing about what might have caused the attack but the fact that it appeared to be focused on Iran and the Middle East raised suspicions that this was another cyber-attack along the lines of 2010’s Stuxnet assault on the state's nuclear plants.
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Researchers set about trying to pin down what had become known thanks to its data-destroying capabilities as ‘Wiper’ and today, as Kaspersky’s latest analysis makes plain, the evidence remains tantalising but fragmentary.
Because the malware was designed to remove all traces of its existence, the job of hunting it down has proved hard work. The company’s best guess is that it was written on what is called the ‘Tilded’ cyber-malware platform which means it must be related to Stuxnet malware and its mysterious companion, Duqu.
The evidence? Mainly, tiny pointers that Wiper had named a registry key using the same file-naming format as Duqu as well as forensic evidence that it did the same for temp files.
Not much then, but in the world of software such common features are likely very unlikely to be a coincidence.
And this is what marks out these pieces of malware form the vast number of criminal and commercial malware that currently exist – the huge care taken over some aspects of their design.
Wiper didn’t just wipe files, it was set up using algorithms that had been chosen by an expert because they could cause annihilate the maximum number of files in the shortest possible time, that is before admins could react to what was happening. A nuisance or commercial attack would be unlikely to bother with such sophistication.
What was Wiper trying to achieve? Perhaps its destruction of hard drives was an end in itself or possibly it was attempting to destroy evidence of something that preceded it. Kaspersky doesn’t speculate on the latter point because there is, of course, no evidence to support the notion.
“Wiper’s destructive behaviour combined with the filenames that were left on wiped systems strongly resembles a program that used the Tilded platform [used by Stuxnet and Duqu],” confirmed Kaspersky researcher, Alexander Gostev.
They could find no connection to other famous malware types, Flame and Gauss, discovered in fact as a result of the company’s investigation into Wiper at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), another victim.
“Flame’s modular architecture was completely different and was designed to execute a sustained and thorough cyber-espionage campaign. We also did not identify any identical destructive behaviour that was used by Wiper during our analysis of Flame,” he said.
Whatever Wiper was, it was active in April 2012 and possibly as early as December 2011,
So far there is no evidence linking Wiper (or any of the other malware examples) to a recent attack, dubbed Shamoon, which recently assaulted at least two Saudi Arabian energy back using similar disk-wiping tactics. That looks more like a copycat attack picking up on Wiper’s success, possibly with a pro-Iranian origin.
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Yes, a small amount of cod liver oil is safe.
But you need to be careful. Cod liver oil is rich in vitamin A. And too much vitamin A can be harmful to you and your baby.
The recommended amount of vitamin A for pregnant women is about 7,500 units or 750 micrograms of vitamin A. Twice that much should be okay. But there is no evidence to suggest that a greater intake of vitamin A is better than what is recommended.
If you already take a prenatal vitamin and eat a balanced diet, you are getting enough vitamin A. If you still wanted to take cod liver oil in liquid or capsule form, be sure to read the vitamin A dosage on the product label. Some companies add extra vitamin A and other vitamins to cod liver oil and cod liver capsules.
By the way: if you were considering cod liver oil as a way to get more vitamin D, then just take a plain vitamin D supplement instead. An example is a daily 1,000 IU vitamin D3 supplement.
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One who has traveled 100,000 miles or more in one calander year.
One who lives on the road, outside of the normal rules of society, almost anarchistic in nature, often misunderstood, searching for the ultimate beauty in life.
A Wayward Traveler understands culture, politics, social causes on a personal level from experiencing those issues first hand. i.e. An opinion on immigration is based on actually watching people sneak over the U.S. border as opposed to reading about it.
These experiences often lead to people who fall into this catagory to develop a very strong sense of social responsibility, often putting themsleves after others.
Wayward Travelers are known for their survival instincts, craftiness, and their humble nature.
Also, totally killer tan.
I met a Wayward Traveler today. He was able to give me detailed, accurate directions to Yellowstone, while offering lodging, and restaraunt suggestings without having to use the internet.
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The change of mood in Plaza Bolivar could hardly be more dramatic. Less than three months ago jubilant crowds filled the main square in Caracas to celebrate another election triumph for Hugo Chavez with chants of " Oo, ah, Chavez no se va [Chavez won't go]".
On Friday night, however, supporters waited anxiously for any scrap of news from Havana, Cuba, where their president was fighting for his life in hospital after emergency cancer surgery.
"We have no idea what to expect. I pray for his recovery but I am expecting the worst," said Joaquin Cavarcas, as he scanned a newspaper for an update .
On Thursday, Chavez is due to be inaugurated for a further six-year term at a ceremony at the National Assembly, a short walk from the plaza. But the usually gregarious, publicity-loving president has not been seen nor heard since his operation on December 11, prompting speculation he will not recover in time.
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro said Chavez's formal swearing-in could be postponed if he was unable to attend, the clearest indication yet that the government was preparing to delay the ceremony while avoiding naming a replacement for Chavez or calling a new election in the South American Opec nation.
"The interpretation being given is that the 2013-2019 constitutional period starts on January 10. In the case of President Chavez, he is a re-elected president and continues in his functions," Maduro said, waving a copy of the constitution during an interview with state TV.
"The formality of his swearing-in can be resolved in the Supreme Court at the time the court deems appropriate in co-ordination with the head of state."
Maduro's position generated new friction with the opposition, which has argued that if Chavez doesn't make it back to Caracas by Thursday, the president of the National Assembly - Diosdado Cabello - should be named interim president.
Such brewing disagreements were likely to be aired yesterday when the congress, which is controlled by a pro-Chavez majority, convenes to choose its president and other legislative leaders. Whoever is elected National Assembly president could potentially end up being the country's interim president if Chavez's illness forces him from office.
The government said on Thursday that the president was suffering from complications brought on by a severe lung infection after surgery. The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, said it was painful to see his close political ally in this state. "The situation for our brother Hugo Chavez is very worrying," he said.
On the streets, nobody is giving up on Chavez, but there is a growing resignation that he will not attend his swearing-in as scheduled.
"We must wait for him to recover and then swear him into office," said Ruben Daza, a newspaper vendor. "I doubt he'll be back next week. The assembly will have to decide what to do, but he is the president and we must wait for his return."
Posters hanging from street lamps show Chavez alongside his daughter pointing down on a sea of supporters with a caption: "Now, more than ever, we are with Chavez."
For many of his supporters, it is unimaginable that anyone could fully replace Chavez, who has dominated the nation's politics for 14 years. But even if their worst fears are realised, they say, Chavez's legacy will endure.
"I want President Chavez to come back, I've prayed for his health from the beginning, but at this point I've lost all hope. I think the president of the assembly should take over and call for elections in the next 90 days, as the constitution says," said Sixto Zambrano, a retired soldier.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse, Associated Press
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Vision, Mission and Values
High-speed internet access is now a necessity, not a luxury. Availability of superior telecommunications service is as fundamental to the future of our communities as was electricity in the last century – and taking local initiative to ensure success is just as paramount today as it was then.
We need a network capable of handling the future bandwidth needs of residents, businesses, schools, healthcare providers and governments. We need a network that will enable regional commerce; be financially sustainable; and retain revenues from telecommunications services in the region. And we need a network that serves ALL.
The only construct that meets these requirements is a regional community-owned, universal, fiber-to-the-home network. It’s a large and complicated project, but nevertheless achievable through local stewardship and the economies of scale our vast region provides, which will ultimately enable us to secure the vitality and prosperity of our communities today, tomorrow, and for the foreseeable future.
Our mission is to – as expeditiously and prudently as possible – plan, build and operate a community-owned, fiber-optic network that enables the provision of comprehensive, affordable, reliable and high-quality internet, phone, television and ancillary services to all residents, businesses and institutions who are interested, in participating WiredWest towns.
- Universal Access: We believe every home and business deserves access to 21st century telecommunications.
- Community-Owned: Participating towns have a role in governance and oversight of the organization, to ensure policies represent the best interests of our communities and our region.
- Financially Sustainable: The business model must be realistic in its assumptions, and be built on the premise that revenues will cover operational costs, debt service and repayment of capital investment within a reasonable timeframe.
- Focus on Service and Affordability: We will strive to enable the provision of comprehensive, high quality services, with secure, reliable connections, and at affordable rates.
- Future-proof: Building a high capacity network for our region is essential – but the upfront costs are high. Thus, the network must last a long time and be capable of highly scalable, economic upgrades as needs increase.
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More than 600 cautions were issued for crimes that include rape and child abuse in Avon and Somerset since 2004, police admitted.
Cautions are handed out when guilt is admitted and mean offenders do not appear in court, do not have their names made public and they do not risk going to prison.
Instead guilty parties receive only a conviction against their name and have their DNA and fingerprints taken to keep on record.
Victim support and women's rights campaigners reacted with fury, labelling the figures ''deeply shocking".
The figures come after The Daily Telegraph disclosed in January that four in 10 serial criminals were being let off with a caution.
The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, showed cautions as punishment for sexual offences increased over the five years within the force area.
A total of 611 sex offenders were issued with cautions by the constabulary after the criminals admitted guilt, officers said.
These included 11 rapists who confessed their crimes. Four of those had admitted the rape of a child under the age of 13.
The figures also revealed 74 sexual assaults on women, seven on men and 28 on children were dealt with by caution rather being taken through the courts.
Four cautions were given for incest or familial sexual offences, two for abuse of children through prostitution or pornography and two for sexual grooming.
The most cautions, 333 in total over five years, were given to men who admitted soliciting women.
The number has almost doubled, from 46 in 2004 to 87 in 2009.
Campaigners on Monday said it sent the wrong message to victims.
''Rape and sexual assault are serious offences and have a damaging impact on the women and men that suffer as a result," said Vanessa Powell, manager of Bristol Rape Crisis, a support service.
''They need justice. What message does this send about the value of victims?
''I'm disappointed to see the figures are this high and I'd hope they would improve in the very near future."
Sian Norris, from the Bristol Feminist Network, added: ''I think the main problem in not bringing these people to justice is that women affected often find it difficult to get closure.
''If reporting a rape doesn't give them the chance to get justice, it also prevents other women from coming forward and having faith in the system.
''The sheer number of these attacks is shocking, let alone that these are just for those who have been cautioned.''
Detective Inspector Marie Wright, from Bristol CID, said: ''Cautions for sexual offences are issued on rare and exceptional occasions in accordance with national guidance and are issued only after careful consideration has been given to the full circumstances.
''There would need to be evidence and a clear admission of guilt, while age, welfare, mental wellbeing and the views of the victim would be taken into account.
''In September 2009. Avon and Somerset Police launched Operation Bluestone – a dedicated rape and serious sexual offences team in Bristol."
She added: ''Since the teams' launch there have been no cautions for rape offences.''
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I read an article about a YMCA that replaced its Santa with Frosty the Snowman. This was a decision by the local management, not some upper-level YMCA ruling. They said it was because they wanted to make their annual seasonal celebration more inclusive for everyone. I heard earlier from a friend that a YMCA in Pennsylvania was going to let them hold church services in their building, but then decided they shouldn’t. After all, that C in the name shouldn’t be misconstrued as implying that they support Christianity.
But back to the Santa thing. Please tell me when we got to the point that Santa Claus was a Christian symbol in America? I know there are historical roots in Roman Catholicism or Orthodox belief with Saint Nicholas and Father Christmas, but I always thought that Santa Claus as an American institution was pretty much non-religious. Frequently he has quasi-religious characteristics, such as keeping a watch and a list to see about that whole naughty and nice thing, rewarding the good (candy and toys) and punishing the bad (coal and switches), and the ability to travel the world and make his deliveries in a single night.
Some Christians hasten to point out that Jesus Christ most likely wasn’t born in December, that this time-of-year celebration has many pagan roots and elements and is hardly Christian anyway. Even those conservative Christians who are glad to celebrate Christmas have frequently spoken out against Santa as usurping the place of God. They object to Santa taking on some of God’s attributes and crowding out the birth of Christ entirely. Sometimes Christ is allowed to co-exist, but it has always seemed weird to see the nativity set alongside the sleigh and reindeer on so many lawns. The church I grew up in had Santa Claus visit the Sunday School children. That was weird, too.
The true meaning and purpose of Christmas has been leaking out of the American brain for years. I’m going to continue this ramble in a later note, but let me leave you with this thought. Are you just as guilty as secularists and the rest of the confused country of making this holiday, this “Holy Day,” incomprehensible to the world?
Every year there are politically correct government or management decisions to cut out nativity scenes, to say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” to stick to non-religious Christmas music, to avoid any reference to the true reason we have this holiday at this time.
More and more, however, Christmas trees are no longer welcome, decorations on desks at work are banned, and anything that reminds us that Christmas is anything but a winter holiday with possible time off from work is taboo. It’s okay to display lots of commercialism starting sometime in October, to go nuts with the lights and lawn displays, to max out the credit cards buying stuff. It’s also okay to make fun of Christmas, to emphasize that it’s totally mythological. Santa and Jesus are equally fairy tales.
The TV show “Bones,” about a forensic anthropologist and an FBI agent who solve crimes, apparently loves to do Christmas shows. One had a murdered temp agency Santa who seemed to be the “real” Santa. He refused to work on Christmas Eve, designed toys, and wore real ermine on his suit.
Another one had Dr. Brennan (Bones) expounding on how she takes a trip out of the country at Christmas to avoid the whole ridiculous celebration. She is reluctant to even enable her incarcerated father and brother to celebrate Christmas together. Brennan objects to lying to her brother’s adopted children and pretending he is not in prison, just visiting his father. Booth (the FBI agent who is a practicing Roman Catholic and very badly represents the faithful) states that to make all this happen they are going to have to practice deceptions, and that you have to tell lies at Christmas. It’s part of the deal, apparently.
Secular Humanism has been taking aim at Christmas for years. They’d like to wipe it out of existence. Kwanzaa seems to have been invented to further that purpose. Every year you see t-shirts and bumper stickers proclaiming “Festivus for the rest of us.” (If I understand it right, Festivus is some sort of celebration invented on the TV show “Seinfeld” and adopted by secularists as if it were real). Winter Solstice is another great one to bring up. Pagans can celebrate their holiday, but not Christians.
Hannukah seems to have been squeezed almost into non-existence as well. When we delivered to Michaels craft stores in Jewish areas they complained that management never sent them any Hannukah supplies. Nothing even remotely connected with Christmas or the true God in the minds of Secularists can be permitted. Every year they push the envelope further. Sometimes people push back. Even Jews want the trees, they want Santa, but do they want the true God or Christ?
The movie “Charlie Wilson’s War” deals with a congressman who, in one scene, speaks to a constituent who wants to keep a creche (nativity scene) at a firehouse. There is opposition and the man wants Wilson to make the opposition stop. Wilson says to him, with the wisdom of Solomon, knowing his people and his towns so well, that he should move the creche to a nearby church lawn, and adds, “everybody lives.” Wilson is depicted in the movie as a hard-living, hard-drinking, womanizing reprobate, but a man who still takes his political and social responsibilities seriously. And he wants to keep Christ out of secular life, over on the church lawn where He belongs.
So, see, in a way, this incident with the YMCA kicking out Santa means secularists are trying to attack Christianity when they attack Santa, and trees, and Christmas carols. I guess our culture is so warped now that we may have to consider Santa an ally, though I’m not necessarily ready to fight to keep him in Christmas celebrations. I am ready to point out that this is another attack by Secular Humanism, and we should take it seriously.
I’d lots rather fight to keep the creches at the firehouses (the town I grew up in had one for many years), the wise men and the star up on the hill near Arizona State University in Arizona. I’d like to see stars or angels on treetops and along city streets (though the depiction of angels is a whole other subject). Now and then someone speculates that maybe the reason we give presents is because the wise men gave gifts to Jesus. I’d fight to keep that in too.
We read the Christmas story with whatever family we can gather at Christmas. The whole thing, from Zacharias to the return from Egypt, out of the Bible, not a Bible Story Book. I would definitely fight to keep that. That’s the most important thing to keep, honoring and recognizing the importance and authority of the Word of God. We should do it all year long, but maybe if you haven’t really studied the Word of God and accepted its authority in the past, this is a good time to start. To keep Christ in Christmas and in America we have to keep the Word on our lips, in our minds and in our Hearts.
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Ten Commandments Judge speaks at WMU
Jan. 13, 2005
KALAMAZOO--Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, also known as the "Ten Commandments Judge," will speak at Western Michigan University Thursday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. in the East Ballroom of the Bernhard Center.
Moore's lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled "God and the First Amendment."
In November 2003, Alabama's Court of the Judiciary expelled Moore from his position. This ruling came after Moore refused to move a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery. Moore had the 5,280 pound granite monument placed in the rotunda in August 2001.
"Chief Justice Moore is a courageous hero, who has relentlessly defended the state's right to acknowledge God," says Matt Hall, chair of the College Republicans at WMU, which is sponsoring Moore's presentation. "His stance has served as motivation to millions of Christians and First Amendment defenders across the country."
Moore is a native of Etowah County, Ala. He completed his Juris Doctorate degree in 1977 from the University of Alabama School of Law. He served as a captain in the military police corps of the U.S. Army and also served as a company commander in Vietnam. During his professional career, Moore became the first full-time deputy district attorney in Etowah County and served in that position from 1977 to 1982. In 1984, Moore undertook private law practice in Gadsden, until he became circuit judge, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit in 1992. He served in this capacity until his election as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in 2000.
For more information, call the WMU College Republicans at (269) 381-4018 or visit the group's Web site at <www.rso.wmich.edu/gop>.
Moore's lecture at WMU also is sponsored by the Young America's Foundation.
Media contact: Thom Myers, 269 387-8400, email@example.com
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Troopers said they will be making a strong push for seat belt safety during the busiest travel week of the year.
Officials said that 11 people died over the Thanksgiving weekend in South Carolina last year. They said three died the year before.
"Our goal for Thanksgiving weekend is zero fatalities," said state Department of Safety Director Leroy Smith. "One death is unacceptable to us, and we will use every toll we have to prevent highway tragedies."
Nearly 730 people have died on South Carolina roadways this year, and 279 of those were not wearing seat belts, officials said.
In addition to promoting seat belt use, troopers urge drivers to follow these tips during the holiday travel:
Take frequent breaks.
Keep a safe following distance - at least three seconds behind the car in front of you.
Report aggressive drivers or driving exhibiting signs of impairment.
Be aware of work zones and observe move-over laws.
Refrain from traveling at night or after a large meal, when most drivers are fatigued.
Officials said that during the holiday travel period, troopers will be stationed at rest areas across the state, educating drivers on safety techniques.
Copyright 2012 FOX Carolina (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.
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Date: Sun Apr 26 1998 - 11:14:10 EDT
McKay family wrote:
> A new Christian is perplexed by apparent contradictions in the accounts of
> the conversion of Saul.
> In Acts 9:7 we read
> hOI DE ANDRES hOI SUNADEUONTES AUTOi EISTHKEISAN ENEOI, AKOUONTES MEN THS
> FWNHS MHDENA DE QEWROUNTES
> but in Acts 22: 9 we read
> hOI DE SUN EMOI ONTES TO MEN FWS EQEASANTO THN DE FWNHN OUK HKOUSAN TOU
> LALOUNTOS MOI.
> and in Acts 26:14
> PANTWN TE KATAPESONTWN hHMWN EIS THN GHN HKOUSA FWNHN LEGOUSAN ...
> F. F. Bruce points out that we have Luke saying that Saul fell to the ground
> in 9:4, and in 9:7 the companions stood speechless, but Paul says in 26:14
> that they had all fallen to the ground. And in 9:7, Luke says the companions
> heard the voice or sound, but in 22: 9 Paul tells his hearers that the
> companions saw the light but didn't hear the voice.
> Moulton and A.T. Robertson argued that the genitive in Luke's account refers
> to a sound, but that the accusative in Paul's accounts refers to
> intelligible speech. Is this reasonable?
> The NASB translates THN DE FWNHN OUK HKOUSAN in Acts 22: 9 as "but did not
> understand the voice."
> F.F. Bruce suggests that the sound Paul's companions heard [according to
> Luke] may have been Paul's own voice.
> What think ye?
Welcome your 'newbe' friends to the GNT!! Then have them serve jury
duty where they listen to two eye-witness accounts of the same event.
Then have them notice that neither Luke nor Paul are 'eye' witnesses.
[Saul was blinded.] Then have them observe the character of the event
being described. Invite them to think about it. Then welcome them
AGAIN to the GNT!! AND to Christianity!!
This is 'backward thinking' through the contradictions, and has no
grammatical implications. It involves imagining the event itself, then
taking another look at the grammar to see how that event is being
described, [and by whom]. It only provides a way for the grammar used
to become textually intelligible, contradictions and all. Working
'backwards' like this from a theological perspective [preconception]
can quickly lead to grammatical error, however, as was pointed out in
another posted response already, so it should be done very carefully.
Its virtue lies in the fact that the accounts describe real events,
and are SUPPOSED to avail the reader of such a 're-creation' of the
events described. The rub is that they are events with sacred
implications, or events that are themselves spiritual in nature.
Accounts can and do differ, which forces the 're-creation' of the
event itself in the imagination of the reader/student.
What think YE?
George [Perhaps the 'newbe'est of the newbies] :-)
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Preserving University History
In the early '70s following service in the U.S. Army Reserve, Edward L. Galvin volunteered to help the historical society in his hometown of Winchester, Massachusetts, vacuum a collection of books that had been stored in an attic. "I kept looking at all the books and thinking, ‘You have to get this organized,'" says the University archivist and director of Archives and Records Management. He soon joined the society's board and, when the town established an archival center as part of its bicentennial celebration, became the first archivist. During that time, he also worked as a genealogist for the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Galvin has been amassing information, preserving records, and digging through archives ever since. As University Archives marked its 50th anniversary in 2009, Galvin achieved a career milestone of his own: He was recognized as a 2009 Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) for outstanding contributions to the profession. Before arriving at SU in 1995, he managed archives at two engineering firms—MITRE Corp. in Massachusetts and Aerospace Corp. in California—and oversaw the local government records program for the New York State Archives and Records Management Administration in Albany. "I can still name most of the 62 counties," says Galvin, a certified archivist who holds a master's degree in historical agencies and administration from Northeastern University.
From their sixth-floor offices in Bird Library, Galvin and his four-member staff provide a vast array of services. They ensure that University legal documents and other records are properly stored, readily accessible, and disposed of at the appropriate time. They build and maintain a collection featuring nearly everything connected to SU, create exhibitions, manage an ever-growing web site (archives.syr.edu), and field all sorts of queries-substantive, trivial, and otherwise. Amid all that, they must keep pace with the rapid changes in technology that pose new storage and preservation issues. "We support members of the University community-people working on campus, students, alumni, and the general public-in whatever their needs are involving the history of the University," he says.
Case in point: When filmmakers of The Express, the movie about Orange football legend Ernie Davis '62, needed information to give the film an authentic look, they turned to Archives. Among Galvin's favorite holdings in Archives are the historical photos (an estimated 750,000 images); the papers of George Fisk Comfort, the first dean of the fine arts school, which include family history dating back to the 1700s; and a series of letters written by Henry Dickinson of the Class of 1882. "I took it upon myself as a fun project to transcribe all the letters," says Galvin, who also researched faculty and others mentioned by Dickinson to add context to the letters.
The collection closest to his heart is the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives, which includes items donated by families of the 270 people lost in the 1988 terrorist bombing, as well as other materials and records. Galvin has come to know many of the families and is leading a $2 million fund-raising effort to create and endow an archivist position for the collection, which continues to grow. In addition, he regularly gives talks about the collection and is working closely with archivists at other universities that have experienced tragedies to create a special SAA publication. "It's an incredibly personal collection," he says. "For us, it's a way to memorialize the victims, commemorate what they did, and make sure that people don't forget these lives."
Galvin attributes his interest in preserving history to his own longtime genealogical searches for information on his ancestors, whose roots are in Ireland. In his office, amid books, files, and photos of his wife, Beth, their three children, Amanda '08, Hilary '10, and Zac '13, and beloved basset hound Salamanca ("Sallie," for short), Galvin has a bumper sticker that reads: "Archivists Make It Last Longer." And in this era of so much fleeting information, they must be vigilant in saving content for the long haul. "We face issues of preservation all the time," he says. "How do we preserve something and make it available to people for years to come?" —Jay Cox
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In Romans 3:20-31 Sha’ul/Paul writes concerning salvation, not by Torah or works but by belief/faith. Do we nullify Torah?
“Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before him (Psalm 143:2), for by the Torah, is the knowledge of sin (Exodus 20:20, Romans 4:15, Romans 7:7). But now, apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being witnessed by the Torah and the prophets, and the righteousness of Elohim is through belief in Yahusua messiah to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned (1 John 3:4) and fall short of the esteem of Elohim, being declared right, without paying, by his favour through the “redemption” which is in messiah Yahushua, whom Elohim set forth as an ‘atonement’, through belief in his blood, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins that had taken place before, to demonstrate at the present time his righteousness, that he is righteous and declares righteous the one who has belief in Yahushua.
Where then, is the boasting? It is shut out. By what Torah? Of works? No, but by the Torah of belief. For we reckon that a man is declared right by belief without the works of Torah. Or is he the Elohim of the Yahudim/Judeans only, and not also of the nations/gentiles?
Yes, of the nations also, Since it is one Elohim who shall declare right the circumcised “by” belief and the uncircumcised “through” belief. Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be. On the contrary, we establish the Torah (Romans 7:12).
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The GCC does not have a well developed market for mortgage-backed securities, and with the exception of a number of MBS sukuk issued by Cagamas in Malaysia, Islamic finance has seen few MBS sukuk. One notable exception was an MBS issued by Sorouh Real Estate, which I described in a blog post and which was later redeemed (which revealed a limitation for investors since the sukuk was redeemed by the issuer (scroll down to the July 18 newsletter) and not through pre-payment on the underlying assets).
However, with Tamweel considering the issue of $235 million in asset-backed MBS, there is a potential benefit for the sukuk market from more sukuk like this. The estimated redemption date is 2046 according to Moody's who rated the MBS significantly higher than both Tamweel and its parent company, Dubai Islamic Bank.
Before you start commenting on the post and suggesting that Islamic finance shouldn't use any of the products which played a part in the financial crisis, I want to offer a rebuttal. The development of MBS was not at fault in the credit crisis by virtue of their structure. In fact, they offer an asset-backed product which is demanded in the market (with potentially longer maturities for takaful and pension funds). The role that MBS (in contrast to CDO and CDS) played in the crisis was more effect than cause: as home prices fell, many MBS lost value. In addition, the MBS which lost the most value were those backed by bad mortgages that would not have been issued in earlier years.
There are risks to MBS that aren't present in a sukuk. For example, in the Sorouh MBS sukuk, the issuer could refinance and redeem the sukuk early, even before the underlying assets had paid out. But that was more an issue of that structure that gave the issuer a call option on the portfolio but left the risk with the sukuk investors. The structure of the Tamweel may not include a similar provision (I have not seen the documents for the Tamweel MBS sukuk).
Apart from this redemption risk, there is also the risk that the underlying assets are redeemed earlier (introducing reinvestment risk, as the investor is paid out earlier than anticipated and may not be able to find another investment with a similar return).
The benefit for the Islamic finance industry from more MBS issuance is that it can free up more funds for Islamic banks and mortgage lenders, while also offering additional sukuk to the market, potentially with longer maturities than most sukuk issance. This will expand the capacity of Islamic banks to finance other projects and expand their scope, while also offering a more complete fixed income market, which has been so far dominated (particularly in the GCC in recent years) by sovereign issues.
The potential ability of MBS to attract higher credit ratings than their originators is a mixed benefit. It is good, of course, to have a larger supply of highly rated sukuk to fill the portfolios of conservative investors like pension and takaful funds. However, this benefit should always be carefully weighed against the potential to replicate the ills of the MBS market leading up to the crisis where ratings schemes were gamed by originators to get higher ratings so they could push out more and more issuance, the risk of which is largely transferred to investors.
All in all, I think more MBS issuance should be a good thing for the Islamic finance industry and it can offer a way for investors to get Shari'ah-compliant fixed income investments. There are risks to be sure and, given the recent financial crisis, there should be vigilance to ensure that the MBS markets are not flooded with MBS sukuk backed by low quality assets. But if done correctly, it could be a boon to sukuk markets.
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I couldn't miss showing you one of our traditional Sicilian cart artists. Tommaso Provenzano worked on one of his smaller pieces for the whole 10 days we were at the exhibition, willingly talking and explaining his work to visitors.
These traditional carts are now used for display and events such as weddings, a full size decorated cart can cost up to 10,000 euros. The whole thing is hand carved in wood and then passed on to the artist. Tommaso uses acrylics to paint every single part, inside the wheels, underneath the cart....not one inch is left untouched.
Most of the scenes painted are from Sicilian folklore and history featuring red, blue and yellow (the colours of the Sicilian flag). Originally brought over by the ancient greeks, the carts showed pictorial history to those who were illiterate, becoming popular in the 1800's.. The craft has been handed down generation after generation and there were three such artists in our exhibition all local.
Tommaso has a web site www.tommasoprovenzano.net
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About half of students who take the SAT do nothing to prepare. Grockit, an education start-up, wants to change that by making test prep social and taking it online.
On Monday, Grockit announced that it raised $7 million in venture capital, for a total of $24 million, from investors including GSV Capital and NewSchools Venture Fund, which invests philanthropic donations in education businesses and nonprofit organizations.
“A lot of problems in education are just related to the fact that people have to go to big buildings, live near schools or buy books or test prep classes,” said Roy Gilbert, Grockit’s chief executive. “The advantage of software to do this is, you remove the constraints of time and space and deliver it in places you’ve never been able to deliver test prep education before.”
For example, Grockit is gaining many users in India, and it plans to use the fresh capital to expand internationally. It also recently partnered with Facebook so students can study on Grockit with their Facebook friends and brag about their achievements on Facebook.
Grockit joins a host of online education ventures, which are spurring debate over whether students can learn as well – or better – online.
Grockit’s algorithm presents students with easier or more difficult questions based on their progress. Students learn best when they answer 7 of 10 questions correctly, Mr. Gilbert said, so they don’t feel defeated or overconfident.
The courses are social, so people can study with other people, chat with them while they are taking the classes, leave notes about their strategies for answering questions and share their achievements. Grockit’s founder, Farb Nivi, formerly taught Princeton Review teachers and discovered that students learn best when they teach one another, he said.
It offers courses for tests including the SAT, GMAT, LSAT and the exam for entrance to Indian business schools, and has partnered with schools and textbook publishers to offer courses specific to their curricula.
Its competitors include test prep leaders like Kaplan and Princeton Review, as well as private tutors and other online programs. Mr. Gilbert said it was aiming for the students who use none of these options.
“We’re never going to compete with $1,000-an-hour tutors in Manhattan,” he said. “Our biggest competitor is doing nothing.”
Grockit is free for users for a few days and then charges $25 a month for studying online or $50 an hour for tutoring sessions.
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A lot of XNA users get flak for it because lots of older and simpler video cards won’t run it. A good example of this is Intel HD graphics, which are common on laptops.
Did you know you can fix this? Well you’re about to.
XNA has two profiles. Each profile has different minimum requirements, and as a result different capabilities. If you were developing a retail game you might stop me here and say “But FireSlash, I need shader model 3.0!”. However, in almost all Ludum Dare cases you’re never going to break outside of the XNA Reach profile’s limitations. These limitations are effectively the limits of DirectX 9, which are fairly generous for most games.
The best part of this is that using Reach is very easy; especially if you’re using the XNA content pipeline. Simply right click on your project
Now click properties. You’ll get defaulted to the XNA studio tab (probably, if not it’s a mere click away!) where you can change your profile to Reach. Do this early in your project as it saves you possible issues later with recompiling textures.
Also note that if you use any kind of engine or supporting libraries, you’ll need to adjust the profile there as well. If your engine has compiled textures in HiDef you’ll need to remove these and recompile them for Reach. I suggest doing this before you start as it saves time and rage later.
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Investigation cites abuse at Guantanamo
Published: Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m.
WASHINGTON - A high-level military investigation into allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has concluded that several prisoners were mistreated or humiliated, perhaps illegally, as a result of efforts to devise innovative methods to gain information, senior military and Pentagon officials said.
The report on the investigation, which is still a few weeks from being completed and released, will deal with accounts by agents for the FBI who complained after witnessing detainees subjected to several forms of harsh treatment.
The FBI agents wrote in memorandums that were never meant to be disclosed publicly that they had seen female interrogators forcibly squeeze male prisoners' genitals, and that they had witnessed other detainees stripped and shackled low to the floor for many hours.
Although the Pentagon has issued other reports about allegations of abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo, the new investigation, by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt of the Air Force, was intended to be the first major inquiry devoted solely to determining what interrogation practices were used at Guantanamo.
The investigation was initiated in response to the disclosure of FBI messages that especially concerned Pentagon officials because the bureau's complaints carried great credibility.
It remains unclear, however, how high up the chain of command the report's authors will assign responsibility for the abuses. Pentagon officials have been criticized for absolving high-level officers in previous investigations.
The new report by Schmidt also comes as an increasing number of Guantanamo prisoners who have been released are providing accounts of their treatment for the first time to journalists and supportive American lawyers.
One recently released detainee, interviewed by telephone from Kuwait, said he had witnessed or learned from fellow inmates about many of the abusive practices that have been described in previous reports by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But that detainee, Nasser Nijer Naser al-Mutairi, also said in a series of interviews with The New York Times that detainees sometimes prevailed over the authorities after protesting conditions with campwide hunger strikes. Al-Mutairi said there were three major hunger strikes in his more than three years of imprisonment at Guantanamo. He said that after one of them, a protest of guards tossing Qurans into a pile and stepping on them, a senior officer delivered an apology over the camp's loudspeaker system, pledging that such abuses would stop. Interpreters, standing outside each prison block, translated the officer's apology.
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- THE MAGAZINE
- CSTD MAGAZINE
The overall design of Disney California Adventure was initially created to resemble various aspects of California culture, modeled to look like a postcard of the Golden State. The goal of the new project was to create a look reminiscent of the 1920’s in Los Angeles, homage to when Walt Disney first arrived there.
To create the desired look, every detail of the construction and the products used had to be perfect, as creating a 1920s three-dimensional visual almost 100 years later was no easy task. The project required an enormous amount of tile and stone to accurately depict the era. Continental Marble and Tile of Corona, CA, was contracted to handle the task of installing the tile. “This was a huge project in every account,” said Curtis Ballantyne of Continental Marble and Tile.
“For example, there were over 578 types of tiles and 26 types of stone.” Because Disney was so specific on what it wanted, installers were often at times working with handmade tiles. “It would get tough sometimes because handmade tiles are not always uniform in size. You are inevitably going to come across tiles that are not completely straight, or the exact same size as the others,” explained Ballantyne. “This made it very difficult, because it can be such a tedious job that if one item is off size-wise, it throws the whole alignment out of whack.”
To deal with the difficulties of installing the handmade tiles, Continental depended upon the Laticrete® System. “To accomplish this work, we used tons of Laticrete products,” Ballantyne said. “Everything from Laticrete Hydro Ban® on the floors to Laticrete SpectraLOCK® PRO Grout. We needed the best, most high-performance materials on the market. I am no expert on the Laticrete catalog of products, but I am willing to guess for this project, we used most everything they make.”
To add to the complexities of Ballantyne’s work, the job had to be done while the park was operational. This meant closing off certain sections at a time while undergoing construction. “Obviously, anytime you are working in an operational area, especially where there are tourists that include children, there are time and safety constraints. Deadlines are pressing, as the park wants to be back up and running at 100% as soon as possible. So, we needed to work efficiently under the conditions.”
Originally, Ballantyne noted, another company’s installation products were specified. Continental Marble and Tile adamantly lobbied a total switch to Laticrete products, as the firm was highly aware of the necessity of getting the job done correctly within the rigid time parameters set before them. One of the key product characteristics of Laticrete materials that Ballantyne specifically noted was the strength of the adhesives.
“It was a huge help having Laticrete products available to us. When we adhered the tiles, they stuck right on to the substrate; there was no sliding or any movement whatsoever. I could not even imagine how much harder the job would have been if our tiles had been sliding around, especially dealing with those non-uniform handmade tiles. Because of the efficiency of the Laticrete products (e.g. Laticrete 255 MultiMax™ multipurpose thin set mortar — a high strength, non-sag, polymer fortified thin set mortar), we were able to speed up the installation process overall. We did not have to go back and check on a one-at-a-time basis that every tile was staying in place.”
A professionally executed tile installation is only half of the installer’s job, if the adhesives do not work at optimal levels, the entire project may be jeopardized. “It is great to get a high-profile job, like this one at Disney California Adventure,” said Ballantyne. “But no matter how confident we are in our own abilities, we need to be confident in the products we are using as well.”
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• Enormous variety of tile and stone — 578 types of tiles and 26 types of stone from various manufacturers
• Installing handmade tiles with irregular edges and non-uniform sizes
• Work had to be done while park was operational
• Project needed to be completed on a fast track
• Laticrete Hydro Ban®
• Laticrete SpectraLOCK® PRO Grout
• Laticrete 255 MultiMaxTM
Installer:Continental Marble and Tile, Corona, CA
Architect: Cunningham Group Architecture, Marina Del Ray, CA
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JAKARTA -- The search continued Friday for five European scuba divers who disappeared in the waters of Komodo National Park in Indonesia.
The group included three Britons, all living in Indonesia and involved in diving, and women from France and Sweden, The Telegraph reported.
One of the missing divers, Kathleen Mitchison, runs a turtle sanctuary and diving school with her husband, Ernest Lewandowski. Lewandowski, who was leading another dive party nearby when his wife vanished Thursday, said that the darkness of the new moon had hampered the search.
"Time is critical," he told The Telegraph. "It's absolutely blistering hot out there. There were three boats out today searching. I was on a speedboat going around all the beaches and everything to see if they had washed up."
He said that Indonesian police and military vessels were participating in the search. The area where the divers vanished is known for strong and erratic currents.
Copyright © 2008, by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
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penelope tree has both a name and a face that we will never forget. born in 1950, penelope was the only daughter to socialite marietta tree and journalist and investor, ronald tree. when she was the age of 13 legendary photographer diane arbus spotted and photographed her. her parents objected to her career as a model but once tree reached the age of 17 she moved into david bailey's flat in london's primrose neighborhood, a hang out for hippies during the 'swingin sixties.' she had the most unique and amazing style, vogue covers in her portfolio and was the ultimate sixties it girl. at 21 she broke out with a serious skin disease which left bad scars on her face which abruptly ended her career. i choose penelope to be this weeks style muse for her unique beauty & incredible style.
source: google images.
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Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
1365-C Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
Doctors Affiliated with this Treatment Facility
If you have been told you have asbestos cancer (such as pericardial mesothelioma and peritoneal mesothelioma), you would be wise to consider several factors before choosing which cancer center or treatment program might be best for you. The number of alternatives for mesothelioma treatment is constantly rising as scientists learn more about malignant mesothelioma and as pharmaceutical companies perform clinical trials on newly developed cancer-fighting drugs. As a result, general practitioners and smaller, community hospitals might not possess the expertise and experience needed to provide the most effective care for those who have mesothelioma. In addition, it's also wise to choose a facility run by caring professionals who will take the time to explain the treatment options and with whom you and your family are comfortable. Some regions of the country don't have state-of-the-art facilities for hard-to-treat diseases such as pleural mesothelioma, in which case you may be required to travel so as to obtain the highest chance of remission.
The Winship Cancer Institute was founded in 1937. It was recently designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), it is one of only thirty-nine cancer treatment facilities in the U.S. to have such designation. It has also been named as a Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare Cancers by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia. Most recently, the Winship Institute was awarded a five-year, $12.5 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant, the first institute in the state of Georgia to be awarded such funds.
In 2004, Winship received a $10 million grant from the National Institute of Health for the study of nanotechnology (microscopic machines) and their use in the treatment of prostate cancer.
The Winship Cancer Institute currently has four full scientific programs with several more in development. Each program is run by researchers whose interests in a specific area are complementary and synergistic. Some of these are:
- Cancer Control and Population Sciences
- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics (CGE)
- Discovery & Developmental Therapeutics
- Molecular Pathways & Biomarkers
Winship Cancer Institute Website
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My World View – Something From Nothing
Well, this argument goes on and on; Why is there something rather than nothing – or The Cosmological Argument for God. I can’t say that Lawrence Krauss‘ argument answers all the questions this spawns, but he does a good job of explaining why physicists can say that something does come from nothing – no god required. This video is well worth watching – several times.
There are perspectives which start with the idea that the big bang was just a spark between two rocks and our entire universe exists within that spark. Our ‘something’ might be nothing after all. What the real answer is has not been agreed upon. I have my own ideas that it might be a big splash and not a big bang but either one is the dispersion of energy which decays toward equilibrium in a medium (space).
The take away from all of it is that gods are not required to explain the existence of the universe as we know it. There is one less gap that gods can hide in.
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by Rob Williams on April 9, 2008 in NVIDIA-Based GPU
It’s not too often that the fastest single-GPU available is also affordable, but the 9800 GTX is just that. At just over $300, it delivers incredible performance at all resolutions and also turns out to be amazingly overclockable. It’s just too bad that the 8800 GTS 512 is not much slower…
Each graph for our benchmarking results are labeled with the resolution that the game was played at, while omitting secondary settings such as Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, texture quality, et cetera. To view all specific settings that we used, please refer to our testing methodology page, where we have screenshots for each game.
Post-apocalyptic FPS games have been done over and over, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl was unique in many ways. First was the fact that the story was loosely based off of a real-life tragedy, the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion, with the player starting out post-disaster working to survive in the now very brutal world.
One of the areas where the game excelled was with the depth. It was an open world with non-linear gameplay. AI was not top-rate, but reacted in a mostly realistic way, so it’s pretty much impossible to just stroll through the game and not expect to die. Coupled with the ability to keep an inventory and sell artifacts you find along your journey makes this game an immersive experience.
The level we use for our testing is a “Thumb Drive” mission that occurs earlier in the game. The premise is simple… walk into a small camp that’s being inhabited by enemy Stalkers, wipe them out and go deliver a thumb drive to a lone Stalker huddled around a campfire. The entire quest takes between four and five minutes from our starting point.
Settings: Static lighting and medium quality is used for our lowest resolution here, while 1920 and 2560 use full dynamic lighting along with high quality settings.
STALKER is another game that can benefit from having more memory on hand, but primarily at higher resolutions where the memory requirement is much higher. Because of this, though, the 8800 GTX once again outpaced the 9800 GTX in the test, but not by much. We did gain almost 3FPS over the stock-clocked 8800 GTS 512 at our highest setting, however.
Unreal Tournament III
The Unreal series has always been one that’s pushed graphics to the next level. Surprisingly, though, as the graphics improve, the game still remains playable on a reasonable machine, with good FPS. How often is that the case?
“Gateway” is our level of choice for a few different reasons. The first and most notable is the fact that it’s a great level, and chock-full of eye-candy. The entire level consists of three different areas that can be accessed through portals, or “gateways”. The area we begin out in is a snow-filled wonderland, similar to Lost Planet’s winter levels, with a futuristic city and waterfall area also being accessible.
Settings: All in-game settings are maxed out, with physics and smooth frame rate disabled.
Again, the 9800 GTX held it’s own here. In reality, our top offerings all display similar results, so no higher mid-range card is going to hold you back. Dual GPU’s make a huge difference in this particular title.
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Head of the Georgian Public Broadcaster, Gia Chanturia, is in Paris trying to convince Europe’s leading satellite operator, Eutelsat, to continue hosting Georgia’s Russian-language First Caucasian Channel. The First Caucasian Channel was launched early this month, initially on Internet and it became available on satellite on 15 January.
For less than two weeks the channel was hosted on Eutelsat’s new W7 satellite operating at the 36 degrees East - a key location for broadcasting in Russia and other CIS states, as well as in Europe and Africa. The Georgian Public Broadcaster’s First Channel, is also available on the same location, as well as many Russian TV channels.
Eutelsat took the First Caucasian Channel off the satellite, citing the end of testing period, without yet signing a new contract with the Georgian Public Broadcaster. Le Figaro ran an article on 27 January suggesting that Russia could be behind Eutelsat’s decision to take the First Caucasian off its satellite without prolonging a contract with the Georgian Public Broadcaster. The newspaper quoted unnamed Tbilisi-based diplomat saying that Eutelsat “is under strong pressure” from Russia not to strike the contract with the Georgian Public Broadcaster. Russian officials have publicly condemned the First Caucasian Channel as Georgia’s “anti-Russian propaganda” and an attempt “to plant ideology of extremism” in North Caucasus.
Gia Chanturia told RFE/RL’s Russian-language Ekho Kavkaza on January 29, that “situation is strange.” He said that after the testing period, the contract was due to go into force from 31 January. “But suddenly problems have emerged and we are now trying to settle them,” Mr Chanturia said. He added that Eutelsat initially complained about the content of the channel, but then cited technical problems behind the suspension of the First Caucasian’s satellite broadcasting.
(Source: Civil Georgia)
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With the explosion of new media from Twitter to Facebook and everything in between there is no shortage of technology vying for people’s attention. And yet one form of entertainment that dates back to the 1950s in America is thriving.
Dinner theater, sometimes known as “dinner and a show,” is a classic combination that made its formal debut in the U.S. at the Barksdale Theatre in Richmond, Va., in 1953. Since then the fad of one-stop entertainment has come and gone and now, seemingly, come back again.
“I wish I knew the magic formula ... about why it so successful,” said A. Robert Dionne, artistic director at The Majestic Theatre. “A few years ago we had two shows; now we put on five dinner theater shows a year and it has really taken off.”
Part of that popularity may be due to the fact that dinner theater is a bit of a novelty. Very few theater houses in New Hampshire offer the option.
Michael Gendron of the Greater Derry Arts Council said he would love to have dinner theater shows but because the Adams Memorial Opera House is a public building its managers would have to jump through hoops to be able to have alcohol served. Still, Gendron thinks it might be worth it.
“It is something that is convenient for people,” Gendron said. “They love to go out to dinner. It would really bring people into the seats.”
But as Dionne pointed out, that dinner has to be worthy of a fancy restaurant.
“It can’t be spaghetti on paper plates,” Dionne said. “You have to have real china and cloth tablecloths. It’s the little details. People hold us to a higher regard and are expecting a classy event.”
Class often comes with a price, and dinner theater can get a little expensive. However, there are options. Dionne said the Majestic recently introduced dessert theater, which allows audience members to sit in the balcony, enjoy the show and consume light dessert treats, which satisfies the belly but is lighter on the wallet.
While it is smart business to appeal to a variety of checkbooks, it also helps, in the case of The Majestic Theatre, to offer a variety of shows to a diverse demographic.
The appeal of dinner theater is often in the experience more than the show.
“I’m not going to show The Diary of Anne Frank because that is a downer,” Dionne said. “But we don’t have to put a well-known show because the dinner theater sells it.”
Dionne said he usually picks a comedy or a musical. And of course a murder mystery, which, by adding audience participation, adds to the interactive experience.
The Majestic Theatre will be premiering Murder’s in the Heir, written by Billy St. John, directed by Larry Pizza and Kim Cassetta, beginning on Friday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. In the play, billionaire Simon Starkweather is murdered and any one of his numerous heirs had the ability and motive. Secret ballots gathered at intermission from the audience will determine the killer.
“We’ll have three shows and we could have three endings,” Dionne said. “We really like to incorporate audience participation but we only involve the audience as much or as little as they like.”
Murder’s in the Heir
Where: The Majestic Theatre, 281 Cartier St., Manchester, 669-7469, majestictheatre.net
When: Dinner theater is Friday, May 7, and Saturday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 9, at 1:30 p.m. Dessert theater is at 8:30 and 2:30 p.m., respectively.
Tickets: Dinner theater $35 Friday and Saturday, $31 Sunday. Dessert theater $22. Advance reservations are required.
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BURLINGTON — What’s in a name? For Fletcher Allen Health Care, some good and some bad.
The medical complex based in Burlington and Colchester could soon be rebranded, partly in order to highlight its link to the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine. A change of name might also be seen as a move intended to speed the health center’s recovery from the Renaissance Project scandal that smudged its reputation in the early part of this decade.
Fletcher Allen employees, affiliated physicians and residents of the region are being asked their opinion of the current label as part of a months-long “branding project” that seeks to gauge perceptions of the 128-year-old institution. The survey is being carried out by Denver-based Monigle Associates, which describes itself as a “brand consultancy and design firm.” Maria McClellan, a Fletcher Allen spokeswoman, says Fletcher Allen paid Monigle $325,000 to complete the survey. She was unable to provide an estimate of what the actual rebranding might cost.
No date has been set for completion of the project, which was launched last December. It’s also not clear when a choice will be made to retain, change or “enhance” the organization’s name, Fletcher Allen spokesman Mike Noble says, explaining that decision-making power rests with the hospital’s top executives and board of trustees.
More than 2000 people have taken part in the survey so far, Noble adds. He could not say how many of Fletcher Allen’s 6300 employees accepted an emailed invitation from CEO Dr. Melinda Estes to answer a set of questions posted online.
Many workers regard the survey as a comparatively unimportant exercise, says Jennifer Henry, president of the Fletcher Allen nurses’ union. “To many of our members, a name change is not at the top of the list of priorities we’re concerned about at the hospital,” Henry comments.
She does suggest, however, that Fletcher Allen should think carefully before committing to a full-scale rebranding. “For some of us, the legacy of those two women honored in the title is really important to preserve,” Henry says.
Vermont’s first hospital opened in 1879 with a $200,000 gift from Burlington philanthropist Mary Martha Fletcher, who had also endowed the city’s library six years earlier. Mary Fletcher Hospital was renamed the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in 1967.
Meanwhile, The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph founded a Catholic hospital in Colchester in 1894. The nuns named the place for one of their own: Frances “Fanny” Allen, the eldest child of head Green Mountain Boy Ethan Allen.
The two institutions were formally combined in 1995 along with the University Health Center. The merger agreement stipulated that the new entity would carry both the Fletcher and Allen names.
But “as far as I know,” Noble says, the organization is not under any current obligation to retain either name. “We do need to respect our history and preserve our identity,” Noble acknowledges.
The branding project involves more than selecting a title or a logo, Estes says. At public meetings earlier this year, the CEO defined a brand as “a big organizing idea that resonates on multiple levels.” One benefit of a strong brand is that “it builds awareness, loyalty and credibility,” Estes added.
Fletcher Allen does not lag in public awareness, but it continues to grapple with loyalty and credibility issues in the aftermath of the convictions of four senior executives for conspiring to conceal the true cost of a $380 million expansion project.
Former CEO William Boettcher was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to repay $700,000 in benefits for his role in the scandal. David Demers, former senior vice president for development, was fined $25,000 and given two years’ probation. Thadeous Krupka, who resigned as chief operating officer, pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors that required him to forfeit $170,000 in benefits. And ex-Chief Financial Officer David Cox pleaded guilty to state charges and forfeited $25,000 under a federal stipulation.
Fletcher Allen itself was fined $1 million, while Renaissance Project architects Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, Mass., paid a $1.3 million settlement. Construction manager Macomber/Barton-Malow, also based in Massachusetts, paid $150,000. Vermeulens Cost Consultants, headquartered in Ontario, paid $50,000 as its share of the settlement.
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Brussels blinks over imposing a carbon emissions fee on foreign airlines against the united opposition of China and America
The news that the European Union has suspended the imposition of emission trading scheme charges on non-EU carriers flying to its airports is being reported very selectively, although accurately, in stories like this one.
The real story is that China has stopped buying larger Airbus airliners until the unilateral action taken by Brussels is dropped.
In a contagion of amnesia, the European media appears to have forgotten that in May Airbus officials told aviation writers in Toulouse that what is now the world’s largest aircraft maker would not open a second assembly line for its A330 jets until the carbon emission scheme dispute with China was ‘resolved.’
The EU’s attempts to impose its rules on non-EU carriers has also put it in strong dispute with the US, however it is China that is believed to be sitting on a large number of orders for the A330 family, the A350 family that will take over from it during this decade, and the A380.
This isn’t the case in America, where government has no role in centralised aircraft ordering policy.
Of course phrasing the decision to suspend the tax that the EU levies on foreign carriers under its ETS in such base terms as the loss of tens of billions of dollars in Airbus orders would have been tactless, but truthful.
Nor is it clear at this early stage if Beijing will allow all those orders to go ahead for a ‘suspension’ that in practical terms would extend not to the last quarter of next year, but to 1 April 2014, when it wants a ‘cancellation’.
Airbus must be hoping so, since while Beijing has shut down big Airbus orders, there hasn’t been any concurrent surge in Boeing orders. Although that could change in a flash.
As the Reuters story does make very clear, the EU is backing off to allow a determined effort to reach a global agreement on how emissions trading or carbon tax schemes will be applied to airlines. China has also made it very clear it isn’t opposed to a universally applied scheme that would reward or encourage airlines and aerospace enterprises for measures that reduce the use of fossil-carbon releasing fuel.
The issue comes down to unacceptable arrogance and chauvinism in Brussel, which proved so distasteful that it caused Beijing and Washington DC to actually agree on a trade issue on the grounds of Europe’s contemptible treatment of their respective sovereignty.
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On Saturday, when describing Steamer’s methodology at Saber Seminar, Dash presented the following graph:
Referring to this graph, he suggested that, for a hypothetical left-handed reliever who throws 95 mph, our best “prior” would be the 27% strikeout of his “peers” rather than a league average rate of 18%. Dave Cameron pointed out that a left-handed reliever who throws 95 mph actually has few peers and asked how narrowly we defined our peer groups. This got us wondering, how narrowly *should* we define our peer groups? Does it matter? How large is the uncertainty in priors for pitchers with extreme velocities?
The four charts above show LOESS smoothing lines that attempt to describe the relationship between fastball velocity and strikeout rate for left handed relievers. The gray regions around the lines show the uncertainty in each model. As you can see, the uncertainly is dramatically larger for extreme velocities. We have a very good sense of the best prior for a pitcher throwing 90 mph and little idea for someone throwing more than 98 mph. The charts on the left have a “span” of 0.5 and the ones on the right have a span of 1.0. The smaller the span, the narrower the peer group, thus the line with a span of 1.0 is smoother and less sensitive to individual data points. Choosing a span of less than about 0.4 creates a noisy graph that fails the eye ball test. Steamer is currently using a smoother fit, much like the one on the upper right.
When our hypothetical pitcher becomes less hypothetical, say the we’re forecasting Matt Thornton, we stumble upon another issue. A number of the data points in the neighborhood of 95 mph are, in fact, Matt Thorntons of years past. These points are shown in blue in the top row and have been removed from the data set in the bottom row.
Here’s the good news (for lazy forecasters): neither changing the span nor removing Matt Thornton makes much of a difference. In all four scenarios, our prior for Matt Thornton lingers near a 27% strikeout rate. This is, however, something we’ll need to be wary of in even more extreme cases. We shouldn’t let Aroldis Chapman’s peer group be dominated by Aroldis Chapman and we should recognize that his prior will always come with a great deal of uncertainty.
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By The Associated Press
WIDENING SCANDAL: THE BBC said it is investigating claims of sexual abuse and harassment against nine staff members and contributors, in addition to the late disgraced children's TV host Jimmy Savile.
CONTEXT: Alleged victims say they were abused as children or teenagers, sometimes on BBC premises. Some have accused other entertainers and BBC staff of participating in abuse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Police have identified more than 200 potential victims.
FALLOUT: The BBC, one of the world's largest and most respected broadcasters, is under fire for failing to stop the abuse and for spiking an expose on Savile last year.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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What it is and What it does
Holy cow! Each deliciously creamy, non-dairy chew contains as much calcium as an 8 ounce glass of milk, plus Vitamin D & Açai Berry. Just one chew a day helps to support bone strength and health, a healthy heart, teeth and skin, and energy production.
Calcium plays an important role in building denser bones early in life and keeping bones strong and healthy later in life. Adequate Calcium and Vitamin D throughout life, as part of a well-balanced diet, may reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
Vitamin D aids in the absorption of calcium, helping to form and maintain strong bones.
Açai Berry is recognized as a leading superfruit due to its high antioxidant properties. Helps support connective tissue for healthier, younger-looking skin.
* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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Justice Department officials took the controversial step yesterday of invoking the government's state secret privilege to try and dismiss a terrorism lawsuit over the "targeted killing" of a U.S. citizen.
Anwar al-Awlaki—the New Mexico-born Muslim cleric who's been linked to al-Qaeda, this spring's failed Times Square bombing, and the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead—was placed on the CIA's kill list in April.
In July, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit to have al-Awlaki removed from the list. They sought an injunction to prevent the killing and an order for the government to disclose the standards under which American citizens are "targeted for death."
Now, the Obama administration is making a seemingly last-ditch effort to block the suit by invoking its state secret privilege, essentially shielding its actions from judicial review on the pretense of protecting national security.
The strategy is controversial not merely because it involves the government-sanctioned assassination of a U.S. citizen (!), but because of its stark ideological contrast to Obama's promises for increased government transparency and openness. (Incidentally, this isn't the first time the Obama administration has asserted the state secrets privilege — earlier this month, it used the same argument to successfully block a case involving a Bush era torture program.)
But if it's any comfort, Obama knows he's stepping in it. The Washington Post says DOJ officials decided to use the state secret argument "reluctantly," and they were "mindful" of the attacks critics levied against George W. Bush on similar issues.
Which doesn't exactly make "waging the fight against terrorism with excessive secrecy and unchecked claims of executive power" okay, exactly. But hey, at least they thought about it long and hard first.
[Photo of Department of Justice in Washington via Wikipedia]
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Virttex driver distraction simulator from Ford
When it comes to simulators, most of them are there to help us experience something similar to what the actual feeling is like, such as a flying simulator or a driving simulator. These tools are meant to teach, but what happens when you take the word simulator and add an interesting twist to it? This is exactly what Ford did with the Virttex – short for Virtual Text Track Experiment Cockpit Simulator). The Virttex can be deemed to be a driver distraction simulator, helping create scenarios where an accidental crash will happen. It works in very much the same way as that of a simulator for pilots, where this domed virtual world on pitching and sliding stilts has seen action since the turn of the latest century to test car cockpits and instruments. It has also been used to research more into what are the factors involved in causing driver inattention, as well as help Ford engineers figure out the kind of countermeasures that can be implemented into their cars so that lives need not be snuffed out n
When it comes to simulators, most of them are there to help us experience something similar to what the actual feeling is like, such as a flying simulator or a driving simulator. These ...
Thu 2 Aug 12 from Ubergizmo
A 45-megapixel, 360-degree display helps Ford engineers measure driver distraction and test safety devices. We got a change to test it out and write about the experience.
Wed 1 Aug 12 from Extremetech
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France's new government announced a cosmetic 2 percent increase in the minimum wage on Tuesday as it seeks to soften the blow from tax hikes and spending freezes to the struggling economy.
President Francois Hollande is pushing for Europe to refocus away from austerity towards measures to boost growth and is relying at home largely on planned tax increases to shrink the public deficit within a target of 4.5 percent of gross domestic product by the end of 2012.
His five-week-old Socialist government will drop 1 billion euros ($1.25 billion) of planned spending this year, on top of a three-year spending freeze that kicks in in 2013, Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said.
Eager to show that belt-tightening is not its sole concern, the government agreed to raise the minimum wage from July 1 by 2 percent, although the increase fell far short of union demands.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told cabinet ministers on Monday that overall spending at ministries and regional government departments would be frozen from 2013 for three years, excluding debt costs and pensions.
France has avoided deeper cuts thanks to investors who shun debtors such as Spain or Italy but want better returns than they can get on German debt, seen as the ultimate euro safe haven.
French central bank Governor Christian Noyer warned the country not to take the market's confidence for granted.
"The market is convinced that France is determined to stick to the targets for improving the public finances," Noyer told journalists at news conference.
"As always with market trends, we must be careful to remain on track and not drift because the markets are volatile and can change opinion very quickly," he added.
As data showed France running a growing current account deficit, he also urged the country to become more competitive.
BUDGET REVISION ON WEDNESDAY
President Francois Hollande's Socialist government has pledged to cut the public deficit to 4.5 percent of gross domestic product this year from 5.2 percent in 2011, mainly through a series of tax increases.
Cahuzac said this year's freeze would affect all departments except the education, justice and interior ministries. "A billion euros which should have been spent between now and the end of the year will be frozen," he told BFM television.
French state spending for 2012 is expected to total around 360 billion euros, but the government is due to announce revisions to its budget bill next Wednesday to reflect flagging growth that is hitting revenues.
The adjustments will follow a national audit office report on public finances expected to show the country struggling to meet a 2013 deficit goal of 3 percent of GDP.
Hollande aims to compensate for the 60,000 public sector jobs he has promised to create over five years by not replacing all workers who retire.
His plans for Europe include channelling unused EU structural funds into investment and joint European infrastructure project bonds.
The government has ruled out a broad austerity drive such as those under way in Italy and Spain on the grounds that it would hit the middle classes hardest and weigh heavily on consumer spending, the traditional engine of the French economy.
Consumer confidence was stable in June compared with May, bringing a recovery underway since December to a halt, figures from the Insee national statistics institute showed on Tuesday. The confidence measure remains far below its long-term average.
Labour Minister Michel Sapin said the 2 percent increase in the minimum wage would work out to 0.6 percent after taking into account inflation since the last increase in January.
"We had to allow the most fragile workers on the minimum wage to benefit from this additional purchasing power," Sapin told a news conference.
Some 1.6 million workers, or nearly 10 percent full-time workers and 25 percent of those in part-time jobs, earn the minimum wage, which will be raised to 9.4 euros an hour.
The government is seeking a delicate balance between boosting workers' purchasing power without discouraging companies from taking on staff at a time when unemployment is already at a 13-year high.
Among the tax increases being prepared, Cahuzac said a new 3 percent tax on company dividends would be put in place in coming months and a tax-free threshold for money inherited from or gifted by relatives would be lowered.
The government will also scrap a sales tax increase due to come into effect in October and a tax shield for the wealthy, which he said cost the state around 800 million euros in lost revenues in 2011.
Daily Le Parisien reported that the tax shield had cost France around 3 billion euros since former conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy created it in 2007. DM
Photo: French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (C), Foreign Affairs minister Laurent Fabius (L) and Justice minister Christiane Taubira attend a meeting with French government to discuss strategy for 2012-2017 public finances at the Hotel Matignon in Paris June 25, 2012. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
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- Post 08 February 2013
- By Hiram Jackson, CEO, Real Times Media
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Hiram E. Jackson - CHRONICLE PUBLISHER
No one makes it on their own. And the many great leaders, who walked the halls of the Michigan Chronicle before me, left a lasting mark on this organization and the community we serve. I am honored to have the opportunity to add to the legacy of this great institution.
The Chronicle has always been known for its support of positive social change. As a result, we have become smarter, wiser and better for it. I have learned that individuals with great ideas can often accomplish what government or large organizations cannot.
That is why I decided that it was time for us to have a section dedicated to business. A section focused on the key innovation that underlies much of the gains that have been made by the African American business community in Detroit and the many companies that have partnered with them in order to make our city great again.
It’s important that we recognize the role played by entrepreneurs in advancing positive social changes. I don’t mean businesspeople solving social ills, but people spreading new approaches — through nonprofits and businesses, or within government — to address problems more successfully than in the past.
I know that at times, it can be hard to believe that progress is happening, but it is. Unfortunately, most of our news focuses on problems, not creative responses to them.
One of the most interesting stories in the business community in Detroit today is how much creative problem solving is being done by citizens who are taking it upon themselves to fix things and who, in many cases, are outperforming traditional organizations or making systems work better.
Is this something new? No.
There have always been people who built organizations that demonstrated new possibilities and sparked change. In business, they were given the name “entrepreneurs.” As their role came to be understood, societies instituted a wide array of supports to help them.
We will do our best to identify leaders in our communities whose main mission is to employ and help Detroiters, not only get back to work, but find careers vs. jobs.
What I want to do is give young African Americans a view of what can be done if they come up with a plan and work that plan to live their dreams.And while a degree certainly provides graduates with an edge in the job market, unemployment statistics have repeatedly shown that one’s race plays a role in securing employment.
Fortunately, we seem to be doing something about it. A recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed that Black self-employment has been on the rise. The number of self-employed Blacks grew by 5.7 percent from 2007 through 2009, in contrast to the 3.4 decrease experienced by self-employed Whites.
It is our job to show our readers that it can be done. I like to believe that African Americans are a group of people who embody the American promise of success driven by will and resolve.
Furthermore, it’s important that we remain transparent as a business community. Our goal is to help people change habits that can hopefully motivate them to pursue greater opportunities. In the end, strategic decisions matter. By turning our attention to habits — those decisions that have profound impact — we know we can change people’s lives.
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Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductors for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Founded under the name Atheros in 1998 by experts in signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the private industry, it became a public company in 2004. The current President and CEO of the company is Craig H. Barratt.
On the 5th January 2011, it was announced that Qualcomm has agreed a takeover of the company for an enterprise valuation of US$3.5 billion. The acquisition was completed on May 24, 2011 and Atheros became a subsidiary of Qualcomm operating under the name Qualcomm Atheros.
Atheros chipsets for the IEEE 802.11 standard of wireless networking are used by over 30 different wireless device manufacturers, including Netgear, D-Link and TRENDnet.
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Literature: The Expanse
aka: Leviathan Wakes
Described as a Space Opera
, The Expanse
is a series of science fiction novels by "James S. A. Corey", actually a collaboration by Daniel Abraham (who also wrote The Long Price Quartet
) and Ty Franck. Set a few hundred years in the future humanity is still limited to the solar system but large parts of it have been colonized. As of the beginning of the series, the three main powers are Earth, Mars, and the unorganized "Belters", who inhabit the asteroid belt and many of the outer moons. Those three groups have been in economic dependence and conflict for almost as long as they've existed, but now it seems that someone wants to push that conflict into outright war.
The technology used is hard
but not described in detail. An unexplained breakthrough in fusion drive technology has made interplanetary travel possible but no FTL drive has been discovered and no interstellar voyages have been attempted... yet.
The series includes the following books:
- Leviathan Wakes
- Caliban's War
- Abaddon's Gate (forthcoming)
Provides Examples Of:
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The series in general
- Abusive Precursors: Responsible for the protomolecule.
- Asteroid Miners: A lot of this goes on in the belt though it doesn't directly impact the plot much.
- Auto Doc: Military ships come equipped with automatic medical systems.
- Body Horror: The effects of the protomolecule.
- As the author puts it in the afterword:
"I've never written anything in my life that didn’t at least blur the line into horror. If I wrote greeting cards, they'd probably have a squick
- The Butcher: Fred Johnson, the Butcher of Anderson Station, a rare example of The Butcher also being a Reasonable Authority Figure.
- Casual Interplanetary Travel: Acquiring a small ship capable of interplanetary travel seems to be about as difficult as acquiring a house is now. With all the attendant risks of defaulting on your loans and having it seized by bank.
- Colony Drop: Never actually used, but discussed a lot. Asteroid drops are the new Mutually Assured Destruction.
- Cool Starship: Both present and averted. It is noted that the lack of atmosphere to deal with combined with efficient designs has resulted in mostly ugly, blocky looking ships. Some of them very large and impressive but still looking like a simple warty skyscraper laid on its side. Some of the ships however, as exemplified by the Rocinante, are very cool on the inside.
- Domed Hometown: It is mentioned that Martian cities are under domes.
- Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Mars is in some ways more technologically advanced and both Mars and the Belt view themselves as independent of the home planet, but more educated people are pretty sure that they couldn't survive without access to the resources of the home planet.
- Fantastic Racism: Earthers vs. Belters.
- Future Slang: Belter slang.
- Generation Ships: None have been used yet, but there is one under construction.
- Meat Moss: Anywhere the protomolecule has had time to take over ends up looking like something from Dead Space.
- Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness: 4. Corey acknowledges in an interview that he/they wanted to make the universe plausible without letting the science get in the way of telling a good story.
- Hardness: slower-than-light travel, no Stealth In Space, generally excellent physics where described.
- Softness: ships powered by Applied Phlebotinum fusion reactors, almost everything about the protomolecule (which is acknowledged in-universe as being pretty close to magic, as it plays by very, very few of the rules people are used to).
- Son of a Whore: Amos
- Space Pirates
- Stealth In Space: Earth and Mars both have stealth ships. It's a hard sci-fi version of stealth is based on not radiating any heat, which means that firing the engines gives them away.
- Terraform: A project to terraform Mars is ongoing, but it is currently still reliant on imports from Earth.
- Thrown Out The Airlock: Happens at least once and is mentioned numerous times as appropriate punishment for especially unpleasant people.
- The Virus: The protomolecule
- The War of Earthly Aggression: This is one of the things that the Belters are worried about, although they're more immediately worried about a War Of Martian Aggression. Mars itself has also prepared for war with Earth, both in terms of military buildup and running elaborate battle simulations.
- United Nations Is A Super Power: The UN literally controls Earth and its armed forces.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: In universe example - "real" Belters who grew up under low gravity are tall and skinny and look slightly deformed to people who grew up on Earth or Mars (apparently Mars' 1/3rd g is enough to avoid this effect?) They also have their own dialect that can make it difficult for "Inners" to understand what they're saying even when theoretically speaking the same language. It is speculated that many Inners don't even view Belters as real humans anymore and that is part of the reason why conflict has developed between them.
- Wrench Wench: Sam, the Tycho engineer who works on the Rocinante while it's employed by the OPA.
- The Ace: Holden.
- The Alcoholic: Miller describes himself as a functioning alcoholic.
- All of Them
Naomi: We’ve got ships on their way from all over the system.
Holden: How many are coming?
Naomi: At a guess? All of them.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Dresden specifically, but Protogen in general. Reality Ensues when Miller meets Dresden and blows his head off, and afterward everyone learns what they did on Eros, and the corporation collapses almost immediately.
- Genius Loci: Eros Station after it's turned into an incubator for the protomolecule.
- Hardboiled Detective: Miller.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Miller and Julie.
- Humanity Is Infectious: How Julie is able to retain control over Eros.
- I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight: Miller to Julie at the end.
- Imaginary Friend: Miller starts having conversations with a hallucinatory Julie Mao.
- Kansas City Shuffle: Holden's plan to intercept the missiles involves pulling this kind of con on the UN.
Holden: We'll tell them we're going to trick them so they stop listening, and once they're not listening, we'll trick them.
- Love Before First Sight: Miller to Julie Mao.
- N.G.O. Superpower: Protogen, having enough firepower to bring down the Martian flagship with ease. But Reality Ensues when Earth and Mars learn they're responsible for Eros, and tear the company apart almost immediately.
- Potty Failure: Julie Mao in the prologue.
- Reality Ensues: The evil, corrupt Mega Corp Protogen, an N.G.O. Superpower with enough political connections to let them push Earth to attack Mars, is seemingly invincible. Nope. They get outed as being responsible for Eros and go down almost immediately.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: A nameless Martian officer who learns about the protomolecule on Phoebe responds to it by immediately nuking the moon to atoms so no one else can use the damned thing.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: Used by the Donnager after it is boarded.
- The Sociopath: Dresden. And he had all his employees clinically altered to be sociopaths, too.
- Spaceship Girl: Julie Mao is a pretty nightmarish take on the trope.
- Useless Spleen: When Holden is performing a sustained high-g burn, he complains about his spleen.
Holden: My spleen is collapsing. Hurry up.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Holden gets these pretty often from just about everybody, as he tends to publically broadcast whatever everyone else is trying to keep secret and is personally responsible for two open conflicts as a result.
- Miller also gets one when he shoots Dresden, an act which results in Holden disliking and distrusting him for the remainder of the novel.
- Artistic License - Physics: Bobbie's suit gun fires 2 mm rounds at "more than a thousand meters per second", which is treated as something awesomely powerful and being able to penetrate an entire ship. In reality, it's actually firing tiny bullets at a normal rifle velocity - the rounds would have roughly an order of magnitude lower momentum than a modern assault rifle's.
- Dramatic Gun Cock: Deconstructed when Prax accidentally turns a Mexican Standoff into a Blast Out by cocking his gun, which he just thought was the appropriate thing to do in the situation from what he'd seen in movies.
- Explosive Leash: The protomolecule-monsters are fitted with them. However, after the first one explodes, the others figure out how to remove them.
- Gender Blender Name: In a highly obscure example, Prax is named after Jupiter's moon Praxidike, which his parents didn't realize was named after a Greek goddess.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: The protomolecule monsters.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Admiral Nguyen's ship gets taken over by one of the protomolecule-monsters he launched at Mars.
- Immune to Bullets: The protomolecule-monsters. Bullets pass right through them, and they heal immediately afterwards.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Holden grows a beard in an attempt to disguise himself. It fools exactly no one.
Avasarala: What happened to his face?
Soren: The reporting officer suggested the beard was intended as a disguise.
Avasrala: Well, thank God he didn't put on a pair of glasses, we might never have figured it out.
- Powered Armor: Bobbie's Goliath suit.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: The protomolecule monsters.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Avasarala. When she gets through an entire phone conversation with her boss without swearing, he knows something is badly wrong.
- Super Soldiers: The human/protomolecule hybrids.
- Was Once a Man: The protomolecule monsters.
- Weaponized Exhaust: Used by the Rocinante.
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Demolition begins at old Chrysler plant in Kenosha
Take-down effort will continue 5-6 months, mayor says
Demolition efforts have begun at the Chrysler engine plant in Kenosha that closed down two years ago.
A Kenosha News report said crews began tearing down some of the larger buildings this week. Kenosha Mayor Keith Bosman said the demolition will continue for five or six months until the property is completely flat.
Once the demolition is complete, the city has the option of taking control of the property. If it did, it would be responsible for future development and cleanup of the site.
Kenosha has received about $16 million in federal and state funding to assist with those efforts.
Cleanup and remediation would take about 18 months.
Bosman said he'd like to see the site used for some sort of industrial development.
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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It was August 14, 1945. It was VJ (Victory over Japan) Day. More than 750,000 people gathered in New York City’s Times Square to celebrate the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II.
Among the excited crowd was Edith Shain, a nursing school student, along with her roommate who had taken the subway to Times Square upon hearing the news that the war was over.
“We ran to Times Square because that’s where celebrations happen in New York City,” Shain said.
According to historical documents, the Times news ticker in Times Square went dark at 7 p.m. and then at 7:03 p.m., the crowd roared in jubilation as the words “OFFICIAL—TRUMAN ANNOUNCES JAPANESE SURRENDER” blazed across the news scroll.
Elated by the news, people in the crowd were embracing and hugging and crying tears of joy, but it was a far different experience for Shain.
“This sailor just grabbed me and kissed me,” she said. “Any female closes her eyes when she’s about to kiss so I never saw the guy, and then I walked away. I was kind of embarrassed. I didn’t say anything about it to anyone.”
While browsing a copy of a Life magazine a week later, Shain, then 27-years-old, recognized herself in what has became an iconic photo titled “V-J Day” (Victory over Japan) of a sailor slightly dipping a nurse in a white uniform and kissing her.
The famous photo was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, a photojournalist for Life Magazine. In his memoirs, Eisenstaedt explained that when he saw a sailor running along kissing any girl in sight, he ran ahead of the sailor while making sure to look back so that he wouldn’t miss anything.
When the sailor hit on a nurse whose white dress contrasted nicely with his dark suit, Eisenstaedt snapped the shot. But he failed to get their names. Coincidentally, another photographer, Victor Jorgensen, took the same shot from a slightly different angle and also forgot to get the subjects’ names.
Jorgensen’s version ran in the next day’s New York Times, but as a working military photographer at the time, he didn’t own the rights to his work. So while Eisenstaedt received glory and royalty checks for his image, Jorgensen simply got a nice clipping to hang on his fridge.
The photo was plastered all over newspapers and was seen as a symbol of a new era of peace, love and hope. The image became synonymous with the end of World War II and the sheer delight at being alive that many people felt.
The sailor in the photo has never been identified though about 20 men claimed to be the sailor in the famed photo.
Though Eisenstaedt died in 1995 at the age of 96 and Shain died on June 20, 2010 in Los Angeles at the age of 91, the celebrated picture has not lost its significance. The kiss captured by the photo has often been hailed the most iconic kiss in history.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City says it will appeal today's ruling from a judge who struck down the city's ban on large sugary drinks, just hours before the ban was supposed to take effect.
The judge said the measure is arbitrary, applying only to some sweet beverages and only to some of the places that sell them. He also said the city Board of Health, in approving the rule, had intruded on the authority of the City Council.
It's a defeat for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who promoted the ban in an effort to fight obesity, and a victory for the beverage industry and others who challenged the 16-ounce limit.
A lawyer for the city says he's confident that the ban will "ultimately be upheld." He says city officials believe that the Board of Health has "the legal authority -- and responsibility" -- to tackle the "leading causes" of obesity.
Officials say about 24 percent of new York adults are obese -- up from 18 percent in 2002 -- and they point to studies tying sugary drinks to weight gains.
Soda makers, theater owners and others argue, among other things, that the measure is too limited to have a meaningful effect on the waistlines of New Yorkers.
232-v-32-(Warren Levinson, AP correspondent)--A state judge has struck down New York City's planned new restrictions on large sugary sodas. AP correspondent Warren Levinson reports. (11 Mar 2013)
APPHOTO NYR102: FILE - In this March 8, 2013 file photo, a Coca-Cola poster about the city's anticipated beverage ban is displayed at a pizza shop at New York's Penn Station. New York City's groundbreaking limit on the size of sugar-laden drinks has been struck down by a judge shortly before it was set to take effect. The restriction was supposed to start Tuesday, March 12, 2013. The rule prohibits selling non-diet soda and some other sugary beverages in containers bigger than 16 ounces. It applies at places ranging from pizzerias to sports stadiums, though not at supermarkets or convenience stores. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (8 Mar 2013)
APPHOTO NY124: FILE - This May 31, 2012 file photo shows a display of various size cups and sugar cubes at a news conference at New York's City Hall. A judge struck down New York City's groundbreaking limit on the size of sugar-laden drinks Monday, March 11, 2013 shortly before it was set to take effect, agreeing with the beverage industry and other opponents that the rule is arbitrary in applying to only some sweet beverages and some places that sell them. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (31 May 2012)
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
This fox plays like a cat when he gets his paws on a golf ball. (Video)
While waiting for help, one man chose to entertain himself.
Germany seizes the pet after the Biebs fails to get it from customs.
Something unusual: Acupuncture for ailing sea turtles. (Photos)
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We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called War—and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War. It is very ugly. There are many little lives foaming up in the backwash. They are loosened by the sweeping current, and float to the surface, detached from their environment, and one glimpses them, weak, hideous, repellent. After the war, they will consolidate again into the condition called Peace.
s, carrying no lights. Inside, the man continued his imprecations, but they could not hear him.
"Strangers! Sightseers!" he sobbed in misery. "Driving a motor, when it is I who should drive the motor! Have I not conducted a Paris taxi for these past ten years? Do I not know how to drive, to manage an engine? What are they here for--France? No, only themselves! To write a book--to say what they have done--when it was safe! If it was France, there is the Foreign Legion--where they would have been welcome--to stand in the trenches as I have done! But do they enlist? Ah no! It is not safe! They take my place with the motor, and come to get me--when it is too late."
Then the morphia relieving him, he slept.
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In a field hospital, some ten kilometres behind the lines, Marius lay dying. For three days he had been dying and it was disturbing to the other patients. The stench of his wounds filled the air, his curses filled the ward. For Marius knew that he was dying and that he had
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The Dominican Republic
The new president risks governing in his predecessor’s shadow
ECONOMIC storms have battered the Caribbean of late, blowing away the tourists and remittances on which most islands depend. Most of the region has barely seen any growth since 2009. Several governments have been washed away by the slump: in the past six months unhappy voters have kicked out the ruling parties in Jamaica and the Bahamas. But the sun still shines in the Dominican Republic, where growth has continued at over 5% a year. On May 20th Dominicans duly rewarded the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). But only just: Danilo Medina, its presidential candidate, won 51% of the vote, amid allegations of fraud.
Mr Medina faced a weak opponent in Hipólito Mejía of the Dominican Revolution Party, who campaigned under the enigmatic slogan “Here's Daddy”. Mr Mejía mishandled a banking crisis when he was president between 2000 and 2004. He cried fraud this week. Observers from the Organisation of American States certified the election result but confirmed reports of vote-buying. Participación Ciudadana, a local NGO, says that both main parties offered between 500 and 2,500 pesos ($13 to $65) to buy people's voting cards. No one knows the scale of the fraud, but the electoral authorities received 400,000 applications for duplicate cards in the weeks before the poll. The government's vote-buying appeared greatly to exceed that of the opposition, claims Francisco Álvarez of Participación Ciudadana.
Mr Medina takes over from Leonel Fernández, who as president for 12 of the past 16 years has dominated his country's political life, restoring confidence after the banking crisis and bringing inflation down from 50% to 8%. Mr Fernández wooed foreign investors in perfect New York English. He was a beguiling salesman for his country: “When businesspeople go to speak to Fernández, they hear what they want to,” says a diplomat, who calls him “the oracle of Santo Domingo”.
His opponents' claim that Mr Fernández exercised a “constitutional dictatorship” is an exaggeration. But the PLD, which will control both houses of Congress until at least 2014, has colonised all branches of the government. As head of the National Council of the Judiciary, Mr Fernández was able to oversee the appointment of members of the Supreme Court and the Electoral Tribunal. He also chose the members of the Chamber of Accounts, which keeps an eye on government spending. Patronage is baroque: the government at one stage included 334 deputy-ministers, and the foreign ministry employs 113 ambassadors despite having only 45 embassies. The PLD outspent its opponents in the campaign.
Mr Medina promised “safe change”. Certainly some things require reform. Nearly a third of Dominicans still live in poverty, a higher figure than before the banking collapse. Fast-growing telecoms and finance industries do not provide many jobs. Temístocles Montás, the economy minister, says the country needs to develop higher-value tourism and swap textile factories, vulnerable to Chinese competition, for high-tech ones. That requires more highly skilled workers. Education spending is equal to only 2% of GDP, less than half the Latin American average. Doubling it, as promised, means expanding tax revenues, which are a paltry 13% of GDP. Consumers must also pay more for electricity, which is heavily subsidised and subject to power cuts.
Squeezing people will be hard when many suspect that taxes are misspent. Some officials connected with public works have become inexplicably wealthy, according to local media. Transparency International, a watchdog, labels the country the most corrupt after Haiti among the larger Caribbean states. It is the worst of 142 countries studied by the World Economic Forum for wastefulness of public spending, the second-worst for “favouritism in decisions by officials” and third-worst in diversion of public funds. (But it scores well for investor-friendliness.)
Crime is another worry. The murder rate has risen from 14 per 100,000 people to 25 within the past decade, as drug smugglers seek to evade the crackdown in Mexico. Last year police killed 289 people in a country of fewer than 10m. Again, corruption is hindering progress: leaked cables from the United States embassy linked senior officials to drug trafficking.
Mr Medina risks having to govern in his predecessor's shadow. Mr Fernández's wife, Margarita Cedeño, will be the new vice-president. Mr Fernández himself will be eligible to run for a fourth term in 2016, and many suspect he will do so. Many of the country's problems pre-dated Mr Fernández, and were even worse before him. Even so, if Mr Medina wants to make his own mark, he could start by trying to clean up public life.
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After a report of suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation has been made to the Hotline, the information is referred to the appropriate CD county office. The law requires that a CD children's service worker initiate an investigation/family assessment within 24 hours of the receipt of the report, unless the incident relates to educational neglect only, in which case an investigation/family assessment must be initiated within 72 hours. The purpose of the investigation/family assessment is to detect cases of actual or potential abuse or neglect and to help the family and the child. If the child is reported to be in immediate danger, the children's service worker must immediately and directly observe the child.
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By Ed Ernstes (firstname.lastname@example.org)
5:25 PM EST, January 9, 2013
ELKHART – An Elkhart nonprofit group which helps those with limited mobility is expanding.
“Wheelchair Help” provides everything from wheelchairs to scooters to walkers for people who can’t afford them. The need for their services has grown as money becomes tighter for people.
Director Joe Lidy has spent the last couple of months relocating the operation to a much larger building off of East Street near the police station into a huge building that once was home to an auto dealership and repair shop.
Their old location was getting too cramped while the new location fits the bill.
“The need is increasing,” said Lidy. “Most of our clients are seniors. Ironically, three-fourths of the people cannot get the equipment they need, much less when they need it.”
The new location is handicapped-accessible. With so much open space, they now have a large display area as well as a huge warehouse.
“Things are still cluttered, because we are still moving in, but the possibilities are amazing,” Lidy added.
With the move there, Lidy says they will be able to serve two to three times as many people and create a relaxed environment to serve clients with a variety of needs.
“Here, people can just come in and browse and see things maybe they didn’t even know existed, and volunteers will be more comfortable, and that’s very important for volunteers to have a friendly environment,” Lidy said.
Jim Robinson, who has congestive heart failure, is a “Wheelchair Help” client happy to see the expansion take place.
“They do a lot of things that other people won’t do, like loaning you equipment,” said Robinson. “They give you equipment without any costs at all sometimes.”
“Wheelchair Help” is believed to be the only organization of its kind in Indiana and southern Michigan.
Copyright © 2013, WSBT-TV
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In the years after Mr. Johnson and Mr. Whitney died, the National Trust had to replace several windows after wild turkeys broke the quarter-inch glass, perhaps spotting their reflections and rushing at the windows in a territorial act or because they simply did not see the glass.
The fake coyotes, which caretakers rotate frequently to trick the wayward turkeys, seem to have done the trick. Other than damage from broken tree limbs and other occasional weather problems, none of the panes has needed replacement in the past few years.
A few steps away from the Glass House, a 1949 structure known as the Brick House offers in solitude what the transparent cube provides in openness. With silk-covered wall panes to block the light from its circular windows, it was Mr. Johnson’s refuge for naps or contemplation.
Guests frequently stayed in the home, where Mr. Johnson’s love of blending opposites shows in the contrast between the intellectual heft of his book collection and the whimsical purple carpet in the library that houses it. He also blended so-called “safe danger” in designs throughout the property, such as an eyebrow bridge over a shallow gorge that offers in simple aesthetics what it lacks in handrails.
Circles and rectangles also are an opposites-attract Johnson theme throughout the site, such as the round pool and its rectangular off-center deck.
A few steps away, the 3,778-square-foot Painting Gallery is built into
the side of a hill, its unassuming doorway flanked by simple red sandstone panes. The tomblike doorway dampens expectations before dramatically revealing vibrant works by longtime Johnson friend Frank Stella, an Andy Warhol print of Mr. Johnson and other notable pieces.
The nearby Sculpture Gallery, built in 1970 and home to an eclectic collection of art forms and themes, was another favorite contemplation spot for Mr. Johnson and Mr. Whitney. Today, guests are limited to viewing the expansive interior from a site just inside the entry rather than traversing the series of stairs that jut at 45-degree angles from the walls.
The tour concludes at the 990-square-foot, black-and-red modernist structure that Mr. Johnson completed in 1995 and deemed “Da Monsta.”
Built in what he called the “structured warp,” it is inspired by Mr. Stella’s work and intended to resemble a sculpture with uneven forms and no continuity to the angles.
The Glass House, the other buildings and the surroundings will be the site of a lecture series beginning in the fall, a fellowship program that is to start in 2008 and other events Mr. Johnson and Mr. Whitney supported in the name of culture.
The property, which sits behind an avant-garde entrance gate flanked by 20-foot concrete forms inspired by medieval monuments, had a 2003 market value of more than $19 million. The bulk of that value, more than $10 million, comprises the portion that includes the Glass House, Brick House and the sculpture and art galleries, according to town assessment records.
New Canaan Assessor Sebastian Caldarella says it includes the value of materials and replacement costs along with an estimate of its unique value as an architectural icon.
“How do you set a value on that?” he says. “There’s no right answer and no wrong answer. It’s irreplaceable.”
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Maybe it sounds a little perverse, but I usually try to avoid seeing any movies made from stage plays or musicals I have particularly enjoyed. A natural curiosity about how the material has been translated into a new medium tends to be outweighed by a general foreboding born of past experience. Too often the particular delights of a stage production evaporate considerably — if not entirely — in the translation.
The past few months have, alas, borne out my commitment to avoidance. For various reasons I broke my rule and caught the movie versions of two shows I adored: the head-banging, hair-band jukebox musical “Rock of Ages” and the stiletto-sharp Off Broadway comedy “Bachelorette.”
Oh, dude. Oh, dear.
Although the movies are different in scale – “Rock of Ages” is a bigger-budget, star-bloated production, while “Bachelorette” is an indie picture directed by Leslye Headland, the author of the play – both had me wincing more often than I laughed. The dispiriting part is trying to keep intact in your memory file the delight you took in the material onstage when it has been so thoroughly flattened onscreen — to say nothing of trying to explain its allure to people who saw only the movie version. How many ways can you say, “You kind of had to be there”?
Making plays work as movies is always challenging, but comedies and musicals pose particular problems that often prove insurmountable. Both genres rely more deeply than drama on the immediacy of the audience’s response. Although you hear the occasional sob during a fine production of “Death of a Salesman” or “King Lear,” the reactions of the audience do not really become part of the rhythm of a dramatic play onstage.
But with comedies and musicals the laughter (and, at musicals, the applause) weaves its way into the texture of the material, feeding the actors and warming up the room. The audience is a participant in the production, and as actors will firmly attest, a bum audience can let the air out of the balloon pretty definitively.
Obviously at the cineplex the audience is still present, but the rhythm of the movie can’t be relaxed to accommodate it. Film is immutable once it’s in the can — metaphorically speaking, in this digital age. Moviemakers have to somehow negotiate this new distance between the material and the audience, and it can prove a treacherous proposition. Read more…
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Michael Hines, M.D., named UTHealth professor of cardiovascular surgery
ECMO expert to expand pediatric program to adults in Memorial Hermann System
HOUSTON – (August 9, 2011) – Michael Hines, M.D., has been named professor of pediatric cardiovascular surgery and medical director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
ECMO is a heart-lung bypass technique that removes blood from the body, oxygenates it and then pumps it back in, giving the heart and/or lungs a rest so they can heal. Patients include infants, children and adults who are victims of various forms of heart or lung failure including infections, sepsis, trauma and other correctable or reversible congenital and acquired diseases of the heart and lungs.
Hines, who has served as chair of the national Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, will be expanding the pediatric program at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital to include adults, said Kevin Lally, M.D., M.S., the A.G. McNeese Chair in Pediatric Surgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, part of UTHealth.
“There are not many ECMO centers dedicated to adults,” said Hines, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. “Children’s Memorial Hermann has a successful, longstanding infant and pediatric program that we want to expand to the care of adults with lung and heart failure from all hospitals in the Memorial Hermann System.”
The new center is scheduled to open at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and the Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute in September.
Hines joined UTHealth in May from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and Brenner Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was associate professor of surgery at Wake Forest and medical director of the ECMO and Perfusion Services at Brenner Children’s Hospital/North Carolina Baptist Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University and completed fellowships in ECMO/pediatric critical care and cardiothoracic surgery at Children’s Hospital in Boston.
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Media Hotline: 713-500-3030
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Two dozen students in the food science program at Rome High toured the Center of Innovation at Southeastern Mills on Wednesday, getting a first-hand look at food development.
Natalie Roesler, director of product development for Southeastern Mills, said the food industry is the second largest manufacturing sector in the United States with more than $600 billion in retail sales.
“That’s why we’re here,” said Rome High teacher Margaret Henderson. “We want them to be aware that there are food science jobs and careers right here in Rome.”
Roesler told the students there are generally more positions available than there are graduates to fill them. She added that, in 2011, the median starting salary was $44,000.
“There are internships all over the industry,” Roesler said.
Jeff Waters said he interned with Southeastern Mills while he was in the culinary program at the Art Institute of Atlanta.
“During that internship I inquired about any open positions and was fortunate enough to get hired,” he said. “For the past eight years, I’ve been working in seasoning, batters and breaders for some of the largest processors and some national accounts as well.”
Roesler also briefed the juniors and seniors on the developing field of culinology — blending the education of the traditional chef with the food scientist. She cited The Food Network’s Alton Brown as a leader in the culinology field.
Brandon Williamson said he hadn’t really been considering a career in food science before the trip but was giving it some consideration now. He said he enjoyed the tasting opportunities and liked the regular hours a food science jobs typically offers.
Elliott Coble, with Southeastern Mills, said the 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. regimen of his job in the breadings and batters lab was a lot better than operating a restaurant where you might work from 8 a.m. to midnight.
The students took turns rotating through the various sections of the Center of Innovation, learning everything from sensory taste skills to the development of breads and batters used on products all across the industry.
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From Weeping Icons to Crop Circles: Investigating with Gusto
Browsing through a bookstore, someone comes across a cover featuring an eerie illustration of a boy opening a door into the unknown—a volume about “adventures in paranormal investigation.” Inside are chapters on spirit writing, stigmata, crystal skulls, Satan, ghost towns, UFOs, lake monsters, and even Frankenstein. Drawn in by the discussion of stranger things than are dreamt of in his philosophy, he buys the book in the hopes of an evening of entertaining reading.
Entertainment he will get, as will all readers of Joe Nickell’s latest book, Adventures in Paranormal Investigation, taken largely from his “Investigative Files” columns from Skeptical Inquirer. At no extra charge, the reader will also be imparted with knowledge leading to the realization that when the hard light of reality shines on these mysterious phenomena, they tend to dissipate like the fog on the cover.
Readers of this magazine need no introduction to Joe Nickell, who has devoted much of his life to the critical examination of strange reports and folklore. Perhaps the title and cover, however, will attract a larger audience who will discover a witty and absorbing private eye who has attempted to walk the fine line between critical inquiry and mere “debunking” (which is, as he points out, an a priori assumption that paranormal claims are not real and need disproving). Nickell approaches all such claims with gusto and an open mind.
It must be hard to maintain that attitude. Crop circles, ghostly hitchhikers, and weeping icons (to name but a paltry few) surely have gone beyond the need for serious examination into the realm of the merely kooky. Don’t we have more urgent mysteries that need answering? Aren’t these smaller and more ridiculous claims what Daniel Loxton, in a recent Skeptical Briefs article, called “unsinkable rubber ducks”?
Yes to both questions. But we can all be thankful that someone like Nickell is still out there plugging away at the myriad paranormal claims, some silly and some downright absurd, that saturate our human cultures. Given their ubiquity and the harm that can come from a habit of uncritical thinking, “somebody has to do it,” as Loxton said.
Nickell points out that his main challenge is in deciding which claims to investigate, especially those originating with “one puzzled person” or perhaps an “attention-seeking hoaxer.” A good guide should be the popularity of the purported phenomenon. Sure, Peter Popoff’s seeming gift for clairvoyance was exposed as fake years ago, but his act (via a receiver hidden in his ear) fleeced people out of millions of dollars and deserved the special attention that James Randi’s exposure gave it. And now that he’s back, Popoff is indeed deserving of even more than this Nickell’s worth of scrutiny.
Besides, it’s such fun! We armchair skeptics can sit back and watch a master at work. Some may look upon Nickell as a professional “wet blanket” telling people that their cool sightings or weird experiences were likely more human than supernatural. But who can resist lively accounts of examining an “alien” hand, a haunted gas chamber, ships of the dead, or fortune-telling birds?
Nickell is unfailingly thorough in his approach to investigations. Looking into the healing properties of a spa? The reader gets a short history of health spas, from ancient Greece to Aztec culture and on to medieval practices in a resort named Spa in Belgium. Interested in haunted castles? How about a history of Burg Frankenstein or Blarney Castle? And where else will you get a discussion of the possibility that the word “baloney” derives from “blarney” and the difference between the two? Quoting Fulton J. Sheen, Nickell explains that “baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we like it.”
The author turns briefly to personal issues as well. He discusses the joy of learning that he was the father of a previously unknown daughter and is curious about the “intuition” that had led her to first question her parentage while in her thirties. He gathers information about her upbringing and discovers several clues that came her way that could have led her to half suspect that her father was not who she had been told all along. Intuition is a powerful feeling that can be based on many such subtle hints “assembled unconsciously,” and when it turns out to be right, intuition can seem almost paranormal. As Nickell rightly cautions, it is not a consistently reliable indicator of the truth. It did, however, lead him to a new daughter and two grandsons.
There are, of course, serious issues mixed in with the fun. While some benign fortune-tellers may merely sell harmless optimism (“You will come into some money”), hucksters who “talk to the dead” generally prey upon the grief of others merely to line their own pockets. Psychic detectives cater to the credulous and waste the time of legitimate law enforcement. One shot at Randi’s million-dollar challenge would expose them all, so they wisely avoid skeptics. And a special place in the inner circle of shame and approbation must be reserved for psychic healers who exploit fear, detract from sound medical attention, and provide cruelly false hope.
For all of these reasons, someone like Joe Nickell is priceless. If that person who was attracted to the mysterious cover and tantalizing title discovers that testimonials and breathless eyewitness accounts are unreliable and that it can actually be more fun to exercise one’s critical-thinking faculties than to indulge in mere fantasy, then the reader will see that the door on the cover indeed opens into the sunlight.
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It was the single fact that mobilized me to work again in the political realm – with the return of this man, we were lost, again. One could not let his return be witnessed without an active daily resistance to it and to the fate he had in store for us. 1
Having lived in Beirut with my family and friends, and having worked, and fought, and unexpectedly stayed alive throughout the Israeli invasion that he engineered, in the spring and summer of 1982, there was no doubt what he had in store for us when he began his final climb back to power. And just so: in the spring of 2001 he replayed his dark arts across the West Bank and Gaza, a mad echo of his practices of twenty years before in Lebanon: the assassination and destruction of the fighters, the local defence committees, the refugee camps, the women and children and young men dead, our buildings demolished, our institutional infrastructure, our records, our art, broken, gone. And, of course, our leadership, encircled and besieged. If he destroyed our leader, he believed he would destroy our collective aspirations for freedom, and for an independent Palestine. His epic vision of our destiny was quite simply one of apocalyptic proportions: he was no politician, nor elder statesmen. To us, he was the classic military conqueror and adventurer. We never found him “controversial”, nor his motives opaque. He never left us guessing. His practices, his aims, his intentions were made clear through his policies. Every Palestinian man woman and child witnessed, lived, or died under that vision, and they each understood it well.
But during the 2001 war Sharon launched against our people in the second intifada, the generation of 1982 that I was part of were more scattered, further flung to the four continents, farther away from being able to do anything to help, even more powerless than before. So to those of us who had fought in those earlier battles and were still living, his return did something more cruel than simply bring back haunting reminders of those days, and how many friends had died. It changed the look of what we did, our luck, our motives, of how we had failed to stop him when younger. Sharon shapes everything for us: young, or old, in exile, or at home in an Israeli prison under occupation. He is emblematic of our condition; worse than emblematic, it is his very fist we feel. To this day I cannot watch him on television, but must avert my eyes at the immense presence of this avatar – there is no one else that evokes this terrible reaction. I know it is shared by Palestinians everywhere, especially the survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, for which, let us not forget, he was culpable, according even to an Israeli tribunal, the Kahan Commission. They recommended that he never be allowed to return to public office.
To us, to me, his mission had always been thus: to kill our resistance, our organizations, our solidarity, our institutions, and above all our national liberation movement. He did not want us to have a national framework, his desire was to reduce us to small quarrelling groups and factions trapped under his prison rule, disorganized, disintegrated, or co-opted; he planned actively and provocatively (and carefully) to create such an impoverishment of our people’s public and private life. This he did through the iron tools of military rule: assassination, imprisonment, violent military invasion. His fate for us was a Hobbesian vision of an anarchic society: truncated, violent, powerless, destroyed, cowed, ruled by disparate militias, gangs, religious ideologues and extremists, broken up into ethnic and religious tribalism, and co-opted collaborationists. Look to the Iraq of today: that is what he had in store for us, and he has nearly achieved it.
His great skill was breaking ceasefires. Whenever he felt cornered to make apolitical concession to wards peace, he sought to provoke an inevitable response, which could then be used to advance his military aims, and free his hands to expand settlements, expropriate land in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. He never cared for Gaza, it was a military asset. Indeed, he won internationally uncontested control of the West Bank (which was always his goal), by withdrawing from Gaza. An empty gesture anyway: in practice it is still owned and run by Israel, but now turned into a tragedy of heartbreaking proportions, a destroyed place, corrupted beyond description by the devastation of Israel’s terrible role there since 1967.
We Palestinians saw how well he understood the West, how far he could push it – he had an almost magical ability to measure how craven the response could be to his violations of common decency and international law, how much he could get away with. He would test, and test the limits of his actions: would he get a red light? Would the Americans stop him? I watched him at this, day after day during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, from besieged Beirut, which was in flames. Every time he would break the ceasefire, break his words to the Americans. We could see his handling of the West because we, on the other side of this equation, were waiting, hearts in mouths, for international protection, intervention, help of any kind not to be left at his mercy. We understood him well, could read him like a book. How many times in these last years did he break the ceasefire in Gaza through a provocative assassination, an aerial assault, a military raid killing dozens of civilians in order to provoke Hamas to attack Israel? His pattern was set in stone, a stone around our necks.
He began his military career, if career one can call it, in the notorious Unit 101 during the 1950s, murdering and massacring Palestinian refugees in Jordan that were trying to quietly return back to their homes, from where they had been violently expelled in 1947 and 1948. He held to this path, he never swerved. But he will forever be remembered by me, by all of us, as the man who was responsible for the massacres of thousands of civilians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut in September of 1982. Two summers ago, I went back to Shatila Camp where I had lived and worked for so many years, the firsttimesince1982,andI have returned many times in the last two and a half years. Twenty three years ago we had been evacuated from the city, with the rest of the PLO, at the end of the siege of Beirut, and only two weeks before the massacres. But we only agreed to leave with international guarantees in place that the civilian refugee camps would be protected from the fascist Lebanese militias. Instead Sharon broke the US brokered deal, invaded Beirut (which he could not take while we were there), surrounded the refugee camps, prevented anyone from leaving, and had his armed forced light up the night sky with flares, while the Lebanese militia did their work with knives and axes and guns, day after day. He let busloads of them in, no Palestinians allowed out. In Sweden, in Denmark, in the cities of Malmo, and Copenhagen, Uppsala and Stockholm, now live thousands of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, many of whom are from Shatila or Sabra, the survivors of that massacre. I have talked a lot with these old friends about those days. What it meant to have left under orders, what it meant to have been trapped behind. For those that had to stay behind when the fighters left, you see, already understood Sharon well.
Dr. Karma Nabulsi was a PLO representative in Beirut, Tunis and London, as well as at the UN, between 1978 and 1990, and an advisory member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks between 1991 – 1993. She currently teaches at Oxford University.
(1) An edited version of this article appeared in the Guardian on 6 January, 2006.
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Sweet bedtime stories. Almost every night the kids cuddle up with Hubs for one of their traditions – story-time with Daddy! I don’t know who looks forward to the time more, the kids or Levi! Over the years we have had several stories for kids that have been nightly favorites – these are the ones that my toddlers and preschoolers love to hear over and over again, the ones I know by heart. We at Kids Activities Blog hope that you can find time for some kids bedtime stories with your little one.
The Going to Bed Book, by Sandra Boynton. This is a cute board book with silly characters who go through their bedtime routine. Toddlers can easily relate to the story.
Goodnight, Goodnight; Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker & illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld. Boys will enjoy listening to this story about a collection of trucks, tractors and work vehicles going to bed at a construction project.
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown & illustrated by Clement Hurd. This book is a great asset for toddlers who are learning language. It has been invaluable with our English as a second language child. We use this book to help identify common items found in a house.
Stories for Kids
Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson. One night, Harold is supposed to be sleeping… and instead goes on an adventure with his purple crayon. This is a cute tale, and one that I had as a child and now enjoy with my own crayon-loving kids.
Love you Forever, by Robert Munsch. This is one of the stories that I remember my mother read to me when I was a child. I love getting to tell my kids I love them forever as we read and snuggle before bed.
Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney. Do you ever tell your child I love you “this much” with your arms measuring farther and farther out? If so, you’ll love this story about a bunny family and how their love reaches the moon.
Kids Bedtime Stories
Wherever You Are, by Nancy Tillman. The art work in this book is just stunning! The words and images express how love will follow the reader, even if they go to the highest mountain, the most remote ocean, ride with the wildest animals and several other adventures.
Drummer Hoff, adapted by Barbara Emberly. This book is based on a folk tale about a variety of characters who work together to fire a cannon – the illustrations and rhymes are darling – this classic is one of *my* favorite books to read to the kids.
Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gag. Do your children love animals, do you want to help instill a love of life and animals in your kids? This is a cute story about a couple who go to find a cat for a pet… and come home with “millions” of cats.
The Real Story of Stone Soup, by Ying Chang Compestine. This “Stone Soup” book is based on the Chinese version of the fable. What I enjoy about this book is that it is a book that holds my older kids attention – the pictures and the words tell two conflicting stories – as a man, the narrator, is taking credit for the work the boys are doing making “stone soup”.
What are your kids favorite books to read??
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Gulf Coast Readings Showcase UH Talents
At the April 10 installment of the Gulf Coast Reading Series, three award-winning student authors from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program will be showcased: fiction writer Irene Keliher, poet Matt Siegel and Oindrila Mukherjee, who writes both fiction and non-fiction. Readings begin at 7 p.m. and are free to the public.
Keliher is a UH master of fine arts (MFA) candidate and will graduate this semester. At Brazos Bookstore, she will read from her novel "Motherlands," which also is her senior thesis.
"In my fiction, I'm interested in communicating across and about distances, whether within families or across physical borders," Keliher said. "I try to understand the differing identities and oft-conflicting loyalties contained in my characters as they transgress and strive to come to terms with boundaries of class, culture, sexuality and geography."
Recently, Keliher finished third in the Atlantic Monthly's student writing contest. Her stories have also appeared or are forthcoming in Quarterly West, the Mississippi Review Online and the Pebble Lake Review.
Her fellow MFA candidate, Siegel, also will graduate this semester. Recently, he was notified that he is a recipient of the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship. This award will transplant him to northern California to continue his studies at Stanford University. During the Gulf Coast readings, he will read from his thesis manuscript "Lullaby for Medication."
"Being part of UH's Creative Writing Program helped me be the writer I wanted to be," he said. "I've received tireless support from my peers and faculty mentors, and the program has done much to prepare me for this next phase in my career.
Mukherjee, a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing, will read excerpts from her novel, which has the working title "Boundaries." A multi-faceted writer, Mukherjee has a journalism background and contributes articles to Indian newspapers. In 2007, she received the Diana P. Hobby Prize in fiction.
Like Keliher and Siegel, Mukherjee will graduate in May. She is grateful for her experience at UH and is particularly pleased to share her work with Houstonians in an intimate setting.
"Events like this provide writers with exposure to new audiences and their responses," said Mukherjee. "Readings also allow lovers of literature to get a very different sense of the works than when they read it themselves."
Founded in 1986 by Donald Barthelme and Philip Lopate, "Gulf Coast, A Journal of Literature and Fine Art" spotlights the literary and visual arts communities. The journal is a partnership between CWP, the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston and the Menil Collection. It reviews submissions from artists and writers from around the country. To learn more about the Gulf Coast journal and reading series, visit www.gulfcoastmag.org.
As part of UH's English department, CWP offers poets, fiction writers and non-fiction writers intensive training in both creative writing and literary studies. It offers two graduate degrees: the Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. CWP's noted faculty includes award-winning authors and poets such as novelist Antonya Nelson, poet and non-fiction writer Nick Flynn, graphic novelist Mat Johnson and poet Tony Hoagland. To learn more about the program, visit www.class.uh.edu/cwp/.
About the University of Houston
The University of Houston, Texas' premier metropolitan research and teaching institution, is home to more than 40 research centers and institutes and sponsors more than 300 partnerships with corporate, civic and governmental entities. UH, the most diverse research university in the country, stands at the forefront of education, research and service with more than 36,000 students.
For more information about UH, visit the university's Newsroom at www.uh.edu/newsroom.
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New York and New Jersey Consider BSN Requirement
Publish Date: 2/1/2012
New York legislators are considering Assembly Bill 01977B which would require new registered nurses to earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing within 10 years of becoming licensed. The bill indicates the need for this requirement is based on the increasing complexity of the American healthcare system, rapidly expanding technology, and a growing body of evidence that suggests a correlation between additional education and better patient outcomes.
All currently licensed nurses in New York and students in programs preparing for registered professional nursing would be exempt from the new requirement. In addition, the Department of Education could issue a conditional registration to a licensee who fails to complete the bachelor’s degree but who agrees to meet the additional requirement within one year. A01977B has been referred to the Assembly Committee on Higher Education.
New Jersey is considering a similar bill, Assembly Bill 553, which would also require professional nurses to attain a Bachelor’s degree in nursing within 10 years of their initial licensure. Should either of these bills pass, they will be the first states in the country to require a bachelor’s degree for registered nurses.
According to AORN’s 2011 Salary Survey, 38.4% of respondents currently have a Bachelor’s degree in nursing. AORN’s board-approved position statement Entry into Practice sets forth AORN’s belief that the minimal preparation for future entry into the practice of nursing should be the baccalaureate degree, which is consistent with the recommendations in the recently released IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change; Advancing Health, to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020.
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Tuition costs rising and unpredictable stock market.
And saving for college -- become more and more tricky many parents put their money in what's called by 29 plans you know the state sponsored programs that offer tax free investing.
But aren't say the best option joining me now Joseph Hurley saving for college dot com founder Joseph it's great to see you again.
Hi thanks for coming in and I happy holidays -- -- your -- busy right now.
But I wouldn't talk to you about some of the concerns very important concerns that by 29 investors have with these plans.
They haven't been performing -- very well mostly because the stock market volatility.
How do you respond to that.
To the extent that your account is invested in stocks or even long term bonds they can go up and down in value just like your 401K.
Many people have seen their 401K.
-- -- -- in value -- but you know some people don't realize that if you wanna get away from the stock market most 529 plans do you have.
Very conservative options you can choose a money market account.
Or even a bank savings account and some of these programs so it's really up to you to -- -- investment option that you feel most comfortable with.
Other problems of people report with these plans that there are limits on on your ability and change your investment.
And this is because of IRS rules you can't move your money around willing -- You've really got to stick to the planned three year how do you respond to people it says this today and that's just too limiting I don't like that.
Well some people are seen -- then and it is a -- that I'd like to see go away.
But the fact is that you can't change your investments once every year couple years ago the -- -- that up to two times per year and very few people took advantage of that.
And so for most families one time.
Per year one investment changed for years planning for and if you really want to change in and and and you're you're under that restriction if you have two children all you have to do is change the beneficiary and the account you can change your investment at the same time.
-- -- -- Well a lot of people complain to -- too few options.
That they can invest in May be the mutual funds they want to work that they asset class they want would you say that.
Well -- every 529 plan -- did you select.
A limited number of investment options for its participants so if you're not going to be able to choose your own stocks or bonds.
Or choose from a long list of mutual funds there's gonna be maybe ten or fifteen options -- that plan which for many people is more than sufficient.
It makes the whole process simpler if you throw.
Fifty different options that then they're just not -- to know what to do.
So the states have actually vetted these investment options.
They've chosen what they feel would be the best investment options for college savers.
-- that's what you had to choose from so works very well unless you are engaged trader or market timer then you're not gonna be happy with anyone in.
Do that anyway now with the 529 plan out -- but what you do have benefits of these -- -- list of them.
At course we talked about tax free savings that's not nothing that's very meaningful you also talk about a potential state tax deduction tell me about that.
While most states -- actually 34 states will give you a state income tax deduction.
-- a tax credit for your contributions.
Usually today I don't see in into your own State's 529 plan.
In some states -- will match contributions for lower income families.
So there are these extra benefits that states later on -- their 529 plans that you're not gonna get -- any other type of investment.
While that's a big benefit also the flexibility to change beneficiaries that's important -- because.
You never know when that's gonna happen right.
Yeah you don't know if if that child that you set up the account for is actually going to be going to college -- spending all that money for their college.
Sort can be transferred to a to a sibling or to a cousin or -- -- passed down to -- and -- other great grandchild she do have that flexibility to move money around.
To different family members show great stuff thanks for coming and tonight Merry Christmas.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “Atheism is another religious belief”. “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.” “Someone curdled the contents of my brain pan and replaced them with a thurible.” Yeah, familiar nonsense, isn’t it? And now a Canadian “legal philosopher, writer, professor and practicing legal consultant”, Iain Benson, is forcefully regurgitating them again, with the added bonus of amazingly false claims.
“Atheists, agnostics and religious of all forms are believers and all have faith. The question is not whether they are believers but rather, what they believe in,” he says and insists the “new atheists” such as the late Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins, who pride themselves on “not having any beliefs,” are wrong.
“Atheists are men and women of faith. Their faiths are different but they are still faiths and their beliefs still beliefs, no matter how much Dawkins and those like him wish it was different. Humans are stuck being believers, and that’s all there is to it,” he says.
We pride ourselves on not having any beliefs? Really? I have lots of beliefs, and I question them whenever necessary; I also expect my beliefs to be supported by evidence. I believe the earth orbits the sun, and I have evidence for that. I believe the earth is 4½ billion years old, and I have evidence for that. I believe life evolved, and I have evidence for that.
I don’t have faith, though, unless you’re willing to redefine “faith” to such a degree that it has no relationship at all to what theists mean by the term.
Here’s the problem: it’s not belief, because of course everyone has beliefs. It’s false beliefs. It’s beliefs that contradict reality, or are internally self-contradictory, or dogmatic beliefs that cannot be revised in the face of new evidence. Atheists try their best to get rid of those (although even there, we’re not perfect), while theists like Benson embrace such nonsensical jibber-jabber enthusiastically, and try to use their demonstrably false beliefs to guide public policy.
We all have a body of common beliefs: you’ll die if you jump out of a tenth story window, you should have a competent mechanic check out that used car you’re planning to buy, we can learn more about the world by observing and testing it. These are the set of pragmatic beliefs that allow all of us to function from day to day.
Then there are the set of entirely bogus and nonsensical religious beliefs layered on top of the useful common beliefs: you will live after death, a god cares about what you do in the privacy of your bed, we’re all damned sinners who will go to hell unless we belief in a zombie blood sacrifice. Sensible people reject those.
Although “dogmatic” doesn’t necessarily mean being rude, common usage helps prevent any real understanding of what dogma is. “Which is why so many atheists and men and women in the street think, like Dawkins and Hitchens, they don’t believe in anything. But they do.”
But a lack of understanding has enabled contemporary atheists to present their belief system as the only one that should have public recognition, forcing their own so called “non beliefs” on others.
No, you can believe whatever you want. What you can’t do is determine public policy by your dogma, which poorly reflects the realities of the physical world, nor can you use the state to indoctrinate children into your set of falsehoods.
Contrary to Benson’s freaky views, atheists aren’t trying to demand that politicians and teachers be atheists — we insist that they be secular. Big difference. Use secular principles to work out what is best for people in the material world. Weirdly, Benson seems to understand what “secular” means.
“We need to reclaim the true meaning of the ‘secular,’” Professor Benson says, pointing out that the word is misunderstood in today’s world and taken to mean “non-religious” when its real meaning, and legal definition is derived from the Latin word “saeculum” meaning “world.”
“Secular was used historically to distinguish between those things that were deemed to be ‘in the world’ and those that were expressly and technically ‘religious,’” he explains using the Catholic tradition to distinguish “secular priests” or those who work “in the world” from “religious” for those men and women who have taken specific religious vows and may live a cloistered life.
Yeeeeeessss? Atheists know what “secular” means. Perhaps Mr Benson should talk to a few sometime — his babblings reveal a profound ignorance.
According to Professor Benson, religious believers have as much right as anyone else to function in society according to these beliefs.
“Likewise religious institutions have as much right as non-religious institutions. Everyone has a belief system of some sort and those who draw on religious sources should not be put at a disadvantage,” he insists.
His support of equality for religious and secular institutions is commendable. Then I suppose he’d agree with me that the special privileges of tax exemptions and lack of regulatory oversight for changes should be abolished?
Since both religious people and atheists can share secular values, I don’t think it’s depriving the religious of their rights by insisting that everyone should be competent at their secular role; the special knowledge of religion/spirituality ought to have as much relevance to secular positions as knowledge of the rules of Dungeons & Dragons.
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January 24th, 2008 03:44 AM
Want to code a network mapper
I am toying with the idea of making a network mapper/visualizer app as my final year project..
could you please shed some light on what all work needs to be done in order to get and going with the work...
Features that i have thot that it would be having would be -
- listing neighboring machines
- OS detect using basic techniques.. or maybe using methods that nmap uses
- detecting open ports
- guessing possible services, doing banner grabbing etc
- app will also allow parameters to be passed to few external networking utilities
As I said nothing too complicated, have got 2.5 months to work on it ... I am open to learning concepts, reading RFCs etc.. gimme a light please.
Have decided to code in Java, I don't really have any experience coding network apps but since I plan to pursue career in networking/security.. some project work in this field might prove helpful in self learning and personal gains for my post graduation...
\" Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE , because IMPOSSIBLE itself says I M POSSIBLE \"
January 24th, 2008 04:31 AM
CPAN has source code for a Port Scanner in Perl, if you know Perl you could use it as a blue print of sorts for what you'd like to do.
January 24th, 2008 04:39 AM
Looks like you are trying to code something like Cheops. Its an opensource tool and has been around for quite sometime. The first thing i'd recommend you to do would be to understand how Cheops works inside out.If you think you know enough Java, you should try reading "Java Network Programming - O'Reilly". Your project is a bit complicated, considering the fact that you are planning to code from a scratch ( or are you?). I'd really not recommend you reading any RFCs right now. They are great, but they tend to be very vast and too arcane for a beginner.
Cheops - http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/
Java Network Programming - http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/jnp3/
Best Of Luck :-)
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"More than 9,500 children are in C.M.S. Schools in West Africa Mission Stations. Owing to Christian influence, the superstitious practice of murdering twin infants is being abolished." Twin children are shown on the left, one wearing traditional dress and the other wearing a striped dress. They are both holding dolls in their arms. Under the picture of the two says: "Prize winners." and under the picture of the one child says: "The call from darkest Africa." There is also printed information about the mission agency: "Church Missionary Society, Salisbury Square, E.C. "Picture and Fact" Post Cards."; The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in English.
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They should be centered over the drain openings, but you can put them as high, or low, as you want to.
: Hi! We are int the process of installing a new bathtub. Can you or anyone, share information about where the faucets and the spout should be placed? Thanks! Lyle and Becky Wilson
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Utility sinks can be hung with a bracket instead of dealing with legs. Tim Carter of AsktheBuilder.com demonstrates how to ...
install utility sinks or a laundry sink without needing legs. No legs helps with storage underneath the laundry utility sink.
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Years ago, when I built my house, I reefed in the drain for a utility sink down in my basement but I have waited until now to put it in and I am going to use one of this great utility sinks but I do not like the ones with legs. I like the ones that had a bracket that comes with it that allows you to hang the entire sink on the wall and not have any legs in the way when you want to store things or clean the floor.
I determined before that this is where I want the top of the back of the sink to be, and this vertical line is permanent, it represents the center line of the sink. Those are two very important lines we need to know and here is why. This bracket is attached to the wall and once it is on the wall and you drop the sink on to it, it interlocks with the back of the sink in this fashion. The distance from here to the back of the sink down to the center line of these holes happens to be two inches and we need to make a second line on the wall that is two inches down from the one I just made. It just so happens that the center of the bracket is right here, it is at the center of this hole. Align all of your marks, center of the bracket on the wall and then just draw where we are going to drill. This stationary tub when it is filled with water will weigh hundreds of pounds, that is a tremendous amount of weight so you have to make sure whatever wall you attach it to, that it is not going to pull out of the wall. And in concrete, I prefer this stud anchors, these are 387 inch in diameter extremely strong and when I tighten this knots, therefore I am done, you will not be able to pull that still bracket off of the wall. When you are working with this stud anchors, it is really important not to make a mistake. You have to get them ready where they will go in the holes but you got to put the knots on to the bolt portion before you start to hammer them, if you do not that and you hit this too hard, you will mess up the treads and you will not be able to get the knot on. The last step is just a finger tighten the knots and just use a wrench to tighten them the rest of the way. The bracket is in place. The last step is just to slide the sink over, drop it down on to the bracket, were done, it easy, you can do this. I am Tim Carter, ask the builder.
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- About Cal
- Book Club
- The Foundation
- Coaching Drills
For as easy as it looked for Davis and Co. during their 38-2 domination of college basketball, the struggles of this past year confirmed what Davis knew all along: His team didn’t just show up and win because it was better than everyone else. They worked hard. They sacrificed for each other. They came together. As 2012-13 proved, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Of our 10 players who have been eligible to graduate by the end of their senior years, all 10 will have graduated after this weekend. For you math majors out there, that’s 100 percent. We’ve also had a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average over the last three years. It’s the norm, not an aberration.
Dreams of playing in the NBA may be common for Kentucky Wildcats, but those dreams don’t always come true. Sometimes, life finds a different path. New dreams arise. For Joe Crawford, a Wildcat star from 2004 to 2008, his dreams have shifted from a starlit life in the NBA to a journey across the world, playing in China and Israel, and now promoting basketball worldwide.
Never one to hide what happens within his program, John Calipari has launched an online store for coaching drills that will allow coaches, players and fans across the world to watch the drills and teaching points he has used in guiding teams to four Final Fours and the 2012 national championship.
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i just went for an ultrasound at 13 weeks and the heartbeat was arouns 170 i think , and everyone i know with fast heartbeat are having girls, anyone with fast heartbeat know that they are having a boy ? or had a boy with a fast heartbeat?
im asking cause i already have 2 girls and soooo hoping for the boy!!!!
i think the fast heartbeat myth is for later in pregnancy, late second and third trimester. i heard if you're over 150 its a girl. not sure if its accurate since it depends on what the baby is doing. if its sleeping it will be low, if its active it will rise.
I went to the OB when I was 13 weeks, and the BBM was at 148. I asked if the myht was true for a girl or boy. The higher the hearthbeat it is a girl? She said no. It depends on the sugar intake and caffeine intake. If you drink chocolate milk and have a coffee, it will beat a lot faster and if baby is wiggling arround in there, then you will find the heartbeat more elevated than if just resting.
I went for a fetal echocardiogram at 20 weeks (now I'm at 24 weeks) to check the development of the babys heart as my mom has a heart condition called Hypotrophic Cardio Myopathy. Since its a genetic condition, we were advised to make this appointment. I wonder if its recommended for others even without family history of a specific condition. I personally would want to check the development of my baby's heart regardless. Yeah hearing the heartbeat as absolutely amazing as it is makes you nervous because it sounds sooo rapid. In the beginning our babys bpm was 160 then went down to 140 at our following OB visit. They said that was normal...I am hoping that it is. Since Sept/Oct have you all noticed the same thing?
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Fixing Air Leakage in Connecticut Town Houses
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issue of Home Energy Magazine.
July 01, 2008
After energy improvements were made to some town houses, a second look revealed big opportunities for energy and money savings.
Skyrocketing energy costs are driving the owners of many residential buildings to dig deeper than ever for energy-saving opportunities. Even in buildings that have undergone energy-related improvements in the past, it is possible to find previously missed opportunities—as was the case with one building located in rural Connecticut. Thanks to an owner/manager who agreed to cut access openings in a series of invasive inspections, and to funding provided by the gas and electric utilities, Steven Winter Associates, Incorporated (SWA), succeeded in finding and fixing an envelope problem that had previously gone undiscovered. Mill Pond Village is a 360-unit affordable housing development built in 1975 and located in Broad Brook, Connecticut. Owned and managed by Winn Companies, this property has undergone many improvements over the past few years, but energy costs continue to concern the company. Winn Companies is committed to providing high-quality housing for its low-income tenants. By purchasing properties in decline and investing in a wide range of improvements, Winn is able to bring new life to properties that would otherwise languish in neglect. In 2000, when Winn acquired this property, the buildings were in disrepair and crime was a serious problem. Winn’s initial investments went ...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
I had a vaginal hysterectomy with cystocele and rectocele repair 2 months ago. I was feeling great until this week. I have a vaginal odor similar to post surgery but no obvious discharge, I also feel more pelvic pressure. I used a mirror to look at my vagina and saw what appeared to be a prolapse of some sort. It does not protrude out of my vaginal but if I spread my vagina open I can see a sac. Would I be able to see my bladder? Could it be my bladder already dropped again? I have been very good about not lifting or straining.
It is unfortunate that you are not feeling as good following your surgery. The odor you are describing is either urine or yeast infection. For which you should contact your Gynecologist.
As for the bulge in the vaginal area, it could be the recurrence of the cystocele, rectocele or the development of another condition called Enterocele. The Enterocele, unlike Cystocele contains small bowel. It does not cause urinary or fecal problems unless in its extreme form. Unfortunately, it requires surgery again but after the sufficient time has elapsed to overcome your prior pelvic surgery.
Ahmad Hamidinia, MD
Professor of Clinical Surgery
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
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President Obama today delaying his request to raise the debt ceiling by -- more than a trillion dollars.
The White House said the delay was a technical maneuver designed to give congress time to vote on the issue.
Right now lawmakers are on their holiday break joining me now -- do -- -- from Americans for tax for.
Which is pushing members of congress on a series of tax and spend issues.
Coming up earlier -- -- the show great to have -- here.
Now here's my question for you though we're talking about a one point two billion or two sorry trillion dollar increase right.
This credit be enough that's not gonna take its -- that the election right.
Right so this is the deal that was agreed to back in August -- that would give you -- -- not a barn authority that will take us past the election.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans and the president won't have to have this try to get ahead of the election hot rallies not to work -- Exactly because all the spending we're doing because of the interest -- that we have right now it's likely we're not going to make it -- Electoral College be hitting the debt ceiling again sometime in August September.
-- -- October so what this dies it -- dot.
Democrats air public and in the president to be a politically vulnerable position again to be having this debate.
-- that's gonna be a nightmare right in the middle of a presidential election.
In the -- is one of the most weighty issues that they could possibly discuss the thing that nobody can come to terms with their own spending.
How about play out vis a -- the politics.
Blood -- I think what we've sought after the August debt limit deal on all that maneuvering both Republicans and Democrats walked away thinking that was a political loser for not -- -- came out of that debate with their hands clean so what.
The president and congress had hoped to do was avoid the debate had the election if that's not going to happen while Republicans need to do is continue to show taxpayers that.
They're on their side they're ready continue to cut spending they're gonna continue to reduce the size of government and he's Delano debates along with the spending debate -- -- having -- and perhaps here.
How does -- that Republicans are committed to that ideal.
You know they say they are but sometimes they spend -- -- -- I wanna ask you about -- the other spending issues out there that we spent a lot of time talking about just in the last few weeks -- payroll tax cut now.
We're really back at it you know on a couple months here at ground zero on this issue what's gonna happen there.
Right so payroll tax cut -- kind of become mired 'cause of Christmas past present and future now since we're going to be having this debate we thought it was going to be done this month it's going to be happening and two months and probably at the end of the year as while because what we've seen from both sides of the aisle in congress is back.
They're unwilling takes and it really be on a year because for having so many are temporary tax fight.
With the expiration of the bush tax cuts -- business that senators coming down the pipe -- tax cut what Republicans need to do is remind taxpayers that this is their idea to Begin -- and we saw on that battle that they really ceding ground to the president.
Who could just took hold took ownership this idea saying that we need to be allowing employers and employees.
To keep this rebate and -- to keep their on tax money now Americans for Tax Reform.
Has been in -- -- -- the payroll tax cut odd because we don't want to see Americans have their tax they'll raise a thousand dollars.
Over the next year.
But again this is a good example of what we've seen from this I'm administration and from the Democrat congress is temporary fix -- right Castel at -- And I -- IEA you you can accuse both sides of doing and I think it's fair enough to say -- There's gonna concern about -- tax reform would really get that that's ever gonna happen given all the things we have lined up.
The bush tax cuts what's gonna happen there and -- we never ever get broader tax reform.
Why it'll be interesting to see it's good that we have presidential candidates for at least talking about broader tax reform this is the first time that we've seen.
I can't net and lawmakers on the national -- talking about the need.
For an overhaul of our very -- -- -- very punitive tax cut -- however you know this is why we're in the position we're in right now the bush tax cuts were -- I'm only with a -- -- national because you can't get permanent tax reform done in divided congress -- just doesn't happen however with the expiration of the bush tax cuts which are now the Obama tax cuts by the way he sentimental locked in December with a Democrat congress yet ownership of these rates as while.
I added these are coming you know attack had -- and 2013 and we're going to have to see this debate play out so hopefully.
The fact that we're going to be having this debate I was so close together with the presidential election with a dot limit debate going -- going.
Will see some I had traction gaining and corporate tax -- -- on individual rates coming down permanently.
But this is probably the best atmosphere what have for that we'll see if the environment.
Allows lawmakers Hitler Morris opted -- about in the past well -- That is your -- guys who can't agree on where to get -- shall I -- I'm -- you're hopeful.
-- a dubious frankly but thanks for coming on absolute pleasure having you on the show appreciate think -- -- happy new year happy new year to you -- well.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden and the parents of a student killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School are scheduled to speak at a conference on gun violence being held at Western Connecticut State University.
Adam Lanza, the man who killed his mother and 26 people inside the school on Dec. 14 before taking his own life, attended the college in Danbury, less than 15 miles from Newtown.
Chris and Lynn McDonnell, whose 7-year-old daughter, Grace, was among the first graders shot by Lanza, will take part in a discussion on guns. A second panel will discuss mental health and school safety initiatives.
Biden plans to address Thursday's conference on the president's gun-control proposals. Gun makers and lobbyists were not invited to participate in the conference.
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by Nancy McDermott
Facebook’s ban on photos of women’s exposed breasts is silly, but lactivists’ campaign against it is even sillier.
Facebook recently added to its extensive list of public-relations blunders by banning two photos of little girls pretending to breastfeed their dolls. When the friends of the Express Yourself Mums’ page complained, Facebook removed the entire page, only to reinstate it a short time later with a mumbling apology.
Facebook has removed photos of women breastfeeding their babies in the past. Back in 2008, ‘lactivists’ - breastfeeding activists - staged a nurse-in outside Facebook’s Palo Alto offices and thousands more women protested by posting their breastfeeding pictures online. Facebook eventually backed down. Sort of. It still doesn’t allow pictures of women’s exposed breasts and nipples but generally overlooks them, unless someone complains. Then Facebook will remove the ‘offending’ pictures, until someone complains, and then allow them back up again, until someone complains… It’s arbitrary. It’s opaque. It makes no sense.
Incidents like these, and any of the other mysterious bans that have become part and parcel of Facebook, might lead a reasonable person to question the wisdom of having a group of faceless dogsbodies enforce a sketchy standard of public decency on a user base of 845million people. On the other hand, you might start a campaign for Facebook to allow nipples instead. Enter the Guardian.
When news of the story about the Express Yourself Mums Facebook page broke, the fearless folk at the Guardian’s Comment is Free site decided to do a little Facebook-busting by inviting readers to submit pictures of their ‘nipple-accessorised’ breastfeeding, promising to post them to the Guardian’s Facebook page.
Facebook wasn’t actually stopping anyone from breastfeeding, but digital campaigns and communications consultant Rowan Davies explained that, as ‘one of the most influential cultural mediators in the world’ their ban on nipples ‘gives succour to every shopping-centre security guard who’s ever told a nursing mother to put it away or leave the premises’. She continued: ‘A mother who is told by Facebook that her breastfeeding photos have been removed because her nipples were showing is quite likely to be humiliated, upset and one step closer to giving up on breastfeeding.’
Alternatively, this theoretical mother might simply conclude that Facebook has a stupid policy of banning anything anyone might find offensive instead of leaving it to users not to view material they don’t like. In any case, the hundreds of mothers who sent in photos proudly displaying their nipples did not seem terribly humiliated. But if they’d hoped to provoke Facebook into changing its policy, they must have been disappointed. The campaign quickly degenerated into amateurish farce.
Not only were the women’s photos not posted on the Guardian’s Facebook page as promised, they were not even posted on the Comment is Free Facebook page. The site moderators said they could not possibly post the hundreds of photographs, that they didn’t want to overwhelm Facebook’s moderation team or ‘behave like trolls’. Rather, they chose to post a gallery of 10 ‘beautiful breastfeeding images’ to their Tumblr blog, earnestly declaring that they hoped ‘someone at Facebook’ would look at the gallery and agree that ‘Facebook is the real loser here’.
In the face of such polite indifference, National Childbirth Trust chief Belinda Phipps launched a fresh appeal last week using a series of new and creative arguments. She claimed, for instance, that nipples, like hands and lips, aren’t just for sex, and so Facebook doesn’t have the right to ban nipples any more than hands or lips. She claimed there is evidence that seeing mothers breastfeed may enable future parents to consider it themselves. Further, she said, by refusing to show nursing nipples, Facebook is contradicting public-health messages and UK equality legislation which grants women the right to breastfeed anywhere. Facebook is also going against the grain of public opinion, Phipps said, as 84 per cent of people in England apparently are not offended by breastfeeding, which is even broadly acceptable in conservative societies like the Philippines and Taiwan. By not showing nipples, Phipps argued, Facebook is undermining mothers’ ability to see what breastfeeding really looks like.
These lactivists are labouring under many misapprehensions about what Facebook is or should be. It is not a benevolent educator interested in promoting breastfeeding. Nor is it likely to ‘make a big difference to mothers and their babies across the globe’, as the campaigners claim. Davies writes that ‘a society that is not prepared to accept the odd flash of nipple is a society that is not prepared to accept breastfeeding’. But, while Facebook is a sizeable forum for social communication, it is not society itself. Indeed, this very episode reveals that Facebook’s policies are often out of step with the sentiments of many of its users.
The idea that women will get help with breastfeeding by looking at other women doing it is also flawed. Breastfeeding assistance involves a fairly technical discussion of cracking, bleeding, itching, latching, weight change, fore milk, hind milk, weaning and breast pumps. None of this really requires images and most breastfeeding forums don’t include them. Of course, breastfeeding can take some getting used to. For people learning to do it, finally getting the hang of it does create a sense of camaraderie with other breastfeeding mothers - even to the point of swapping triumphant photos. But let’s not confuse looking at breastfeeding photos with the real moral support that comes from a shared experience.
As the lactivists’ campaign shows, breastfeeding has become more than simply a way to feed babies. It is a potent form of personal identity for many people. It makes a statement about who they are and what they value - and what better way to display your identity than posting pictures on Facebook? Such photos are not simply about the babies in them. All babies are beautiful to the people who love them. They are as lovely when they fall asleep nuzzling against our necks as when sleeping at a breast. They would be arguably as sweet when feeding from a bottle. And yet, because formula-feeding is looked down upon, there are no equivalent ‘beautiful formula-feeding images’ being posted online. Instead, anything that seeks to normalise or even celebrate bottle-feeding, like Old Navy’s infamous ‘Formula Powered’ onesie, is greeted with hostility.
So let’s stop pretending that breastfeeding mothers are a persecuted minority. If anything, the gushing official approval for breastfeeding turns mothers who do breastfeed into an admired elite. Yes, there are the proverbial hostile security guards who don’t like the sight of breastfeeding mums, but they are invariably acting off their own backs. As the Guardian itself points out, the vast majority of people in the UK and elsewhere have no problem with women breastfeeding in public. Perhaps this is why very few people, let alone Facebook, are taking the lactivists’ campaign very seriously. Isn’t it time now to knock this one on the head?
Nancy McDermott is a writer and mother based in New York.-----
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It's hard to think back and remember that 2012 had a dry start to the year, with February being unseasonably dry. The first four months of the year were so dry that a hosepipe ban greeted us before the Summer had started.
The last eight months have made up for it - bringing enough rain to herald 2012, in Northern England, the wettest on record since records began in 1910. 129% of the average rainfall fell this year despite average amounts of sunshine - 1253mm up until 26th December and more rain forecast for the final few days remaining.
The year 2000 holds the record for the whole of the UK with 1337.3mm but we could beat that over the next few days.........we are just 46mm short.
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Its brutal regime keeps this fascinating country isolated from the rest of the world. But does staying away help?
The rising sun is burning the mist from the mountains that flank Inle Lake as my wife and I set off from our hotel in a long, narrow wooden boat.
For an hour we glide through some of the astounding villages of bamboo homes on spindly stilts that dot the 40 sq miles of hyacinth-strewn water.
We pass great floating beds of matted weed on which the lake-dwellers grow cucumbers and tomatoes. We watch fishermen balancing on one leg on their rickety wooden canoes while they use the other to paddle, leaving a hand free to plunge their conical nets
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Nonexistent. You're smart, or you're a jock.
There's no such thing as a Smart Jock.
an individual who is somewhat obsessed with sports, but does not beat up the small kids. That would be one of the differences between jock and smart jock.
an individual who gets straight A's to secure his athletic scholarship to college.
an individual who plans to make sports his life's work, but has a back-up plan, like Personal Training, in case he gets a career-ending injury.
an individual who still uses phrases like "ripped" and "hey man, what's up?" but will associate with anyone, not just jocks and cheerleaders.
an individual who recognizes that the smart kids have something to offer: like tutoring in a subject the smart jock may find difficult. In exchange for tutoring, the smart jock will often train the tutor to be big and strong like he is.
"Wow! You guys are really smart! I can't believe you got 90 in Physics!"
"I told you dude; we're not just jocks; we're smart jocks!"
"I plan to take Sports Management in College, just in case I get a career-ending injury. I love my sport and I want to be a part of it, even when I can't play anymore."
"I never thought you would associate with a skinny runt like me."
"Hey, don't put yourself down dude! In case you didn't notice, I didn't refer to you as a skinny runt, did I?"
"Why would a cool jock like you hang out with a skinny runt like me anyway?"
"I told you not to put yourself down man! I knew that you could help me get my Physics mark up so that I don't lose my athletic scholarship! In exchange for tutoring, I'll help you get big and ripped like I am!"
The exceptional individual who is not only extremely intelligent, but also an All Star athlete. This rare individual defies the "dumb jock" stereotype.
Hey, I know this smart jock who can hold and read Crime and Punishment in one hand while making a 3 point shot with the other!
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