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The Blue Box Creative Learning Centre
Sometimes when a child is feeling sad or hurt it is good to have a safe place and someone to help you.
The Blue Box Creative Learning Centre is working with schools and families in Limerick City and environs to provide just that space and to provide trained professionals to help guide our children through difficult times. Driven by innovative Arts Therapy programmes we are making a real difference.
In 2009 we operated 23 therapy centres in preschools, primary and secondary schools and in community settings in Limerick City, working with 770 children, young people and families.
Our children need your support to sustain these essential interventions. Please donate.
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- Station Info
- Featured on 4
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 00:58
The Yselta Independent School District decided to oppose the construction of an international bridge along Yarbrough near Riverside High School.
It's been a controversial topic since the City proposed the bridge back in 2009.
YISD approved a resolution at a meeting tonight, opposing "any border crossing that brings heavy traffic through ysleta isd neighborhoods near a campus."
This is despite the City's International Bridges Department saying back in may they are not pursuing a new port of entry there after all.
Also discussed at tonight's meeting was YISD's cell phone policy on campus, which bans cell phone use in schools.
Parkland High School students say the current policy needs to change and the District should allow students to use their cell phones during lunch periods and breaks.
The Board did not vote on that issue tonight.
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§ MR. BLACK (Banffshire)
I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the officials in the Signet Office in Edinburgh decline to signet summonses running in the name of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward unless the words "the Seventh" are added; and whether, in view of the fact that no Sovereign bearing the name of Edward has hitherto reigned in Scotland, instructions will be given to discontinue the practice in all writs and documents running in the name of the Crown relating to Scotland alone.
§ MR.JOHN DEWAR (Inverness-shire)
Before the right hon. Gentleman answers, may I inquire whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Oath; of Allegiance taken by hon. Members was to "King Edward'' and not to "King Edward VII."?
§ MR. PIRIE (Aberdeen. N.)
Is the Lord Advocate aware that, if a rigorous rule were enforced as to the words '' the Seventh," a precedent would be created which was not adhered to in the similar case of William IV.?
*MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAY
The answer to the question on the Paper is that it has been decided, after full consideration, that His Majesty shall sign as Edward VII. all writs passing the signet and other documents running in the name of the Crown in Scotland. The Secretary for Scotland sees no sufficient ground on which to suggest an alteration of this decision as is suggested in the question. In answer to the question of the hon. Member for North Aberdeen, I have made inquiry into the 241 matter, and find that in the time of William IV. signet letters and summonses always ran in the name of "William the Fourth," so that precedent is adhered to. As to the question of the hon. Member for Inverness-shire, I candidly confess I have tried in vain to find a Scotch grievance in the King's designation as Edward VII. It seems to me to be really a matter of convenience of citation, and that it would lead to considerable confusion if the statutes were cited in Scotland as those of Edward 1. of Scotland. His Majesty was proclaimed under the title of Edward VII., and the old idea in Scotland in regard to King James does not arise, because the statutes were not cited in the same way as now.
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There are two approaches to taxes: you can either make it hard on yourself, or easy on yourself. Most people who end up stressing about meeting the April deadline and panicking as they face the stacks of paperwork aren't properly prepared. But those who put a little forethought into getting organized before they file find that it's not so bad - though getting a refund will always make the effort worth it.
While it's true that the task isn't made any easier by the complex tax forms and confusing instructions that come from the government, having everything you need close at hand will definitely simplify the process. If you've been putting off filing, use this checklist to make sure you have the necessary documents, information and supplies to make filing your taxes as stress-free as possible.
1. Do a document round-up. Doing your taxes requires you to know a lot of information that might not be accessible off the top of your head. You'll want to have a tally of how much you gave to charities over the past year, any paperwork involved in buying a car or a home and any information that might pertain to tax breaks. It can also help to have bank statements from the past year handy, in case you need to double-check any numbers.
2. Collect the forms you need. Your employer, your bank and your mortgage company will all be sending you tax information - make sure that you have all of the documents filed together. When it comes to choosing which tax form to use, remember that simplest is best. For most Americans, form 1040EZ or 1040A will be the applicable options.
3. Make sure your office is well-equipped. Having to hunt down a stapler, go out for printer ink or find a paperclip is an unwelcome interruption in the tax-filing process. Stock your home office, or the area where you'll be working on your taxes, with all the essentials, from address labels to scissors, pens, envelopes and stamps. Make sure your printer is stocked with paper and ink for the printing you'll need to do.
4. Find out what you need to save - and what you can throw away. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by a tide of paperwork during tax time, and it's only natural to want to throw some of it away. But before you start tossing and shredding, remember that you might need some of those documents in the future. Keep these rules of thumb in mind:
* Tax records - seven years
* Bank statements - one year
* Credit card records - until paid
* Home purchase and improvement records - as long as you own the property
* Investment statements - until you sell the investments
* Receipts for large purchases - until you sell or discard the item
* Social Security statements - shred the old statement when you receive a new one
* Insurance information for home, car, etc. - until you renew the policy
Remember that when you're organized, doing your taxes is faster and easier. And once you've got it all completed, keep these tips in mind for next year, so that you'll be even better prepared when tax season rolls around again.
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Through our diverse educational programs, we cultivate the gifts of developing dancers.
The Training Program is a two-year, year-round program designed for young professional and pre-professional dancers ages 17-24. Working with a world-class faculty that includes Company dancers as well as master teachers, the program’s goal is to help students reach their full artistic potentials, while pursuing professional careers.
The Summer Program’s intensive four- and five-week courses are designed for aspiring dancers ages 11-24 with a focus on exposing young artists to process-oriented work, exploring a variety of dance techniques, with ballet as its core discipline. Young people will study techniques designed to cultivate strong, well-trained, educated dancers, and will work a minimum of 40 hours per week.
The Discovery Project is an exciting new outreach program. These three-to-five day intensive workshops are designed to diversify the scope of LINES Ballet's impact on young artists and communities. The Discovery Project addresses ways to use dance to bridge gaps created by diversity of experience, perspective, culture, and socioeconomic background.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Dominican University of California join forces in this exciting and completely unique four-year program, which culminates in a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance. During the program, students acquire the skills and knowledge needed for a professional dance career along with the life-long benefits of an excellent liberal arts education.
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Why should politicians do yoga? Here are just 5 reasons:
1. Make better decisions. Lobbyists, businessmen and women, members of their party, and constituents all try to persuade politicians to vote in a particular way. I’m sure it can be hard to discern what’s right and wrong at times. I believe yoga helps you to make better decisions because by learning to listen to your body’s intuition, you also become more in touch with your authentic self and learn to listen (and trust) your own truth.
2. Cultivate Compassion. Empathy and compassion are vitally important attributes for our elected
officials because they are responsible for making decisions for so many different people. As yoga students learn to be more aware of their own bodies and actions, they often notice they’re able to more easily put themselves in others’ shoes.
3. Manage Stress. I can’t even begin to imagine the stress politicians feel on a day-to-day basis. Most of us feel incredible stress just having the responsibilities of our work and family lives. Elected officials carry the burden of a community, state, or the whole country on their shoulders. That’s a lot of pressure. A regular yoga practice helps keep stress at bay so you can focus on doing your job!
4. Model a Healthy Lifestyle. Health care might be one of the biggest issues of this election in a lot of places. No matter where you stand on the issue, you can’t deny that we’d all be better off if we stayed healthier to begin with. If more elected officials did yoga (and/or maintained a healthy lifestyle), it would send a message that healthy lifestyle is important. Two sayings come to mind: Actions speak louder than words. And practice what you preach. Just sayin’!
5. Ethics. The yamas (truthfulness, non-harming, non-stealing, greedlessness, and sexual responsibility) are important principles that yoga students try to live by. But really they’re just a basic code of ethics. Does practicing yoga immediately turn you into a better person? No. Are all yoga practitioners upstanding moral people? Nope. But I do believe that the practice of yoga gives you more tools for self-reflection and a clearer view of your impact in the world. And I think that makes you want to be a better person.
This post was adapted from a post on my blog at YogaJournal.com.
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Does Pandora’s Box actually exist? If so, it is alleged to possess the power to destroy men, planets and gods. Ancient myth and popular speculation allege that the Box --- actually in the form of a jar --- not only exists but contains a deadly amount of dark matter.
Dark matter can be both a limitless source of potential or, in the wrong hands, a deadly weapon. PANDORA’S TEMPLE opens with a 2008 event in which a ship named the Aurora comes across a huge and powerful force in the Mediterranean Sea that completely annihilates them. Jumping to present day, a similar event claims the lives of everyone aboard an offshore rig named the Deepwater Venture in the Gulf of Mexico.
"PANDORA’S TEMPLE is a highly engaging and enjoyable adventure from start to finish and a smart entry in the Blaine McCracken series."
When the Deepwater Venture crew drilled a bit too deeply in a certain spot, it brought about a huge force that erased them from the planet. The captain of the Deepwater Venture happened to be a very close friend of Blaine McCracken. McCracken is now 60 years old but still a rogue agent who is occasionally called upon by Homeland Security to assist in activities that threaten national security. With his long-time friend and sidekick Johnny Wareagle assisting him, they are called into action once again to uncover the threat that claimed the Deepwater Venture crew.
What McCracken and his team begin to piece together appears to be the stuff of myth. While calling upon the assistance of a bizarre and usually stoned character by the name of Captain Seven, they are regaled with stories of ancient Greece and the alleged super-human power that is found within the original jar of Pandora’s. The dark matter contained within that is indeed very real and similar to the type of power that many labs, including CERN, have attempted to recreate. The mere fact that this mythical jar may exist has brought about many different groups all willing to do anything to claim it.
The first character to cross paths with McCracken and company is a woman named Katie DeMarco, who was on the Deepwater Venture and survived the event that claimed the entire crew. Claiming to be a representative from an environmental group gave her access to the oil rig. McCracken and his Homeland colleagues recognize that she very well may be part of an eco-terrorist faction that had more sinister intentions towards the Deepwater Venture.
Throw into the mix an extremely wealthy magnate named Sebastian Roy and the Japanese leader of a doomsday cult --- each of whom want to possess the power of Pandora’s Jar for their own nefarious needs --- and you have the making of a potential conflagration that can spin out of control quickly. McCracken and his team not only have to face those threats but also need to locate the mythical underwater Pandora’s Temple to find the jar. This will not be easy because the Temple is allegedly guarded by a sea monster that destroys all who attempt to gain entry. In a terrific homage to Jules Verne’s 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, the sea monster engages in fierce battle with McCracken’s submarine.
With this release, just six months after his well-received novel STRONG VENGEANCE, author Jon Land has put together another top-notch read for 2012. It deals with the historical premise of Pandora’s Jar dating back to 1672 Greece but does not continuously shift timelines. Instead of being distracting, the backstory is there to provide the impetus for the modern-day adventure that ensues. The action and pace of the novel are pitch perfect and challenge the reader not to put the book down before finishing the tale in one fell swoop.
PANDORA’S TEMPLE is a highly engaging and enjoyable adventure from start to finish and a smart entry in the Blaine McCracken series.
Reviewed by Ray Palen on December 7, 2012
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A History of Brown Athletic Facilities, Part IV:
The Sports Foundation Era Begins - 1983 - Present
By Peter Mackie ’59
The creation of the Brown Sports Foundation in 1983 ushered in a new era of support and expansion for Brown Athletics. The brainchild of
Artemis A.J. Joukowsky ’55 P’87, this innovative organization has been instrumental in spearheading new and upgraded facilities for men and women for the past 25 years. The first visible imprint of the Sports Foundation was the installation of the University shield on the facade of the OMAC on September 30, 1983.
In 1988, Aldrich-Dexter Field became the Wendell R. Erickson Athletic Complex, in honor of Wendell Erickson ’19, who had been a catcher for the baseball team. Erickson’s $6 million bequest was designated primarily for maintenance of athletic facilities. At the same time, the intramural playing fields in the Erickson Complex were named The Dexter Fields, thus perpetuating the name of Ebenezer Knight Dexter, the philanthropist who created the Dexter Asylum in the early 1800s.
With the closing of venerable Marvel Gym in 1989, a long-awaited new facility for varsity athletics was completed. The Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center, formally dedicated on April 22, 1989 and billed as “the final piece of the Erickson Complex,” was named in memory of Paul B. Pizzitola ’81, whose father Frank Pizzitola ’49 provided the lead gift toward the $7.6 million project. Quickly nicknamed “the Pitz,” this compact multi-purpose facility incorporated playing and practice venues and administrative and coaches’ offices under one roof.
This year, the gym at the Pitz was completely renovated, thanks to $650,000 in gifts to the Sports Foundation. A state-of-the-art spring-loaded floor, similar to those found in NBA arenas was installed, and new lighting, spectator seating and scoreboards were also included in the project.
In addition to Pizzitola, the Sports Foundation has raised funds for numerous facility upgrades. Brown Stadium underwent a major renovation in 1988, and a spacious new locker room (The Joukowsky Family Locker Room) was completed in 1991. A new composition track was added in the summer of 2001.
On the Seekonk, an expanded and modernized Marston Boathouse was rededicated on November 12, 1994. This $2 million project provided Brown’s men’s and women’s crews with top notch facilities to match their outstanding on-the-water accomplishments.
Back at Erickson, the varsity tennis courts have been resurfaced twice, in 1988 and 2007, while permanent stands were installed in 1999. In addition, the Warner Roof field was resurfaced (2000), the Kate Brodsky ’89 Memorial Squash Pavilion was retooled to include five international glass courts (2003), and Stevenson Field received new lighting and a new playing surface (2001).
Meehan Auditorium, the oldest building at Erickson, underwent a $4.2 million renovation in 2003. The expanded new lobby (named for John Berylson ’75), lounge (named for Foster B. “Pete” Davis ’39), and men’s and women’s locker rooms were the showpieces of the project. The ice surface was named the Pollard Family Rink in honor of the Pollard family, which provided the lead gift of $1 million.
Before its untimely demise, the Smith Swim Center was enhanced by the addition of six international squash courts in 2003, as well as, in 2006, the D. Barr Clayson ’58 P’81 P’86 P’87 lobby, and swimming and diving locker rooms, funded by E.R. Ted Garcia and Jane Hoerig P’08 P’10. The temporary aquatics bubble, erected behind the OMAC, was completed in December 2007, at a cost of $3.8 million.
The pace of construction has quickened in the past few years. Thanks to Terrence and Suzanne Murray P’84 P’94 and their children, longstanding Brown Sports Foundation Vice President Paula McNamara ’84 and Christopher Murray ’94, Murray Stadium, which surrounds the Edward B. Aldrich Baseball Field, was dedicated in 2007. This completed a series of improvements that began in 1996, which featured new bleachers and a press box. The nearby softball facility also was upgraded in 1996, with new stands and press box.
As athletic offerings have continued to expand, Brown has created additional playing fields to alleviate growing demand for spaces to play. A new field was created on the site of old Aldrich Field, after the 2002 demolition of Marvel Gym. Informally called “Marvel Field,” it is used for rugby and other club and intramural sports. New state of the art outdoor field turf surfaces have also provided extended playing time for varsity, club and intramural athletes, with the recently completed Meister-Kavan Field and stands, as well as the illuminated Berylson Family Fields and stands, completed in the fall of 2007.
Pembroke Field has just received a total makeover with a new grass field, two outdoor volleyball courts, and attractive fencing and landscaping. A lighted pedestrian path leads to an open plaza at the northeast corner, across Hope Street from the entrance portal to the Erickson Complex and the start of the Buonanno Esplanade.
From their informal and modest beginnings on the College Green in the early 1800s, athletics at Brown have evolved into a vast educational enterprise encompassing 37 varsity teams and a plethora of club sports, intramural squads, and physical education programs. Thanks to a succession of benefactors, students at Brown have been supported by ever-improving facilities. As the Sports Foundation completes its 25th year, Brown is poised to continue the development of facilities which reflect the excellence of the University.
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Brooklyn, it seems, is more than ready for its close-up.
With city centers of film production humming, Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined other elected officials on a tour Monday morning of the Brooklyn set of the ABC period drama, "Pan Am"—one of a record 23 primetime TV series filmed across the five boroughs this pilot season.
"We’re working to strengthen and diversify New York City’s economy and create jobs, and our thriving entertainment industry is a prime example of those efforts paying off,” Bloomberg said, citing the 400 positions created on the Pan Am set at Steiner Studios at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Pan Am joins another buzz-worthy TV show, HBO's Boardwalk Empire, in establishing a strong working presence in the borough. With interiors shot at Steiner Studios, the 1920s period crime drama's cast and crew have frequently been spotted on location throughout Brooklyn—including at a scheduled film shoot Monday at Borough Hall.
Also at Monday's tour, Borough President Marty Markowitz credited Bloomberg, city Media and Entertainment commissioner Katherine Oliver and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for providing "vital" tax incentives to attract more film and TV productions.
That incentive, which provides a 30 percent tax credit on "below the line" production costs for TV shows and films shot in New York, was extended through 2014 by the State Legislature in August 2010—during the administration of former Gov. David Paterson.
"Below the line" costs include spending on things like set-building, electrical work and lighting design. Other costs, such as actor salaries, are not eligible for the tax credit.
It was those behind-the-scenes positions that elected officials like state Sen. Daniel Squadron, D-Brooklyn, hailed as the primary benefit of the increase in city-based TV and film productions.
"The TV and film industry creates jobs for countless New Yorkers," Squadron said. "I'm proud to have Steiner Studios here in my district, joining the Brooklyn Navy Yard in creating new jobs in the heart of the city."
The tax break costs the state up to $420 million a year.
On the other side of the coin, the Mayor's office estimates that the media and entertainment industry contributes over $5 billion to the city economy every year and employs over 100,000 New Yorkers.
Pan Am premieres Sunday, Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. on ABC.
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Last year, organizers of the annual USD Wacipi had an easy time getting a head count of the number of participants.
Dancers, organizers and family members from tribes across South Dakota and surrounding states found themselves packed in the ballroom of the Muenster University Center on the USD campus in 2011.
Last weekend, as the Wacipi marked its 40th anniversary at USD, it returned to its former, and much larger home – the DakotaDome.
"This event has been held in the Dome in the early 1990s," said Wyatt Pickner, a senior at USD majoring in American Indian Studies/Clinical Lab studies who is a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. "I believe 1992 was the last time the Wacipi was held here. This is the first year that the event has returned to the Dome."
The USD Wacipi was held in conjunction with the 15th annual Building Bridges Conference and Native Weekend at USD March 17-18.
"Saturday was really our big day, we use Sunday as a time for wrapping up, tying up loose ends and making sure we finish up all of the contests," said Pickner, who served as president of Tiospaye.U in 2010 and 2011. This year, he is serving as one of two student advisors for the organization.
"We have so much room here … it's hard to estimate how many people have attended," he said. "We have a really good number of dancers and quite a few drums."
The 40th annual Wacipi at USD serves as milestone, he said.
"We were really happy that, with the significance of the 40th anniversary, we were able to have this in the Dome," Pickner said.
Presented by the Tiospaye Student Council, the Wacipi is a powwow featuring Native dancers, drummers as well as Tiospaye competitions, including Miss, Junior Miss and Little Miss USD Tiospaye.
The 40th annual Wacipi was part of the 2012 "Realizing the Dream" Native Weekend at the University of South Dakota. Additional activities included a Native American Symposium, the Native American Alumni Banquet, the 15th annual Building Bridges Conference and Native U Weekend Visit.
The Wacipi was open to anyone who wished to attend. Those not familiar with the customs of a powwow soon noticed different styles of dance taking place on the wooden basketball floor of the DakotaDome.
The men's traditional dance symbolizes a battle or the story of a hunt. The men's grass dance is said to have come from the past, when dancers were sent in first to stomp down long grass to make a clearing for the other dancers during a powwow.
Men's fancy dancing became a traditional part of Wacipis in the late 1900s. Boys and young men, who wear brilliantly colored bustles and dance regalia, prefer this style.
The women's traditional dance is simple in appearance, but plays a very important symbolic role. The dancers move their feet to the beat of the drum to represent the heartbeat of mother earth, to heal the world.
Many of the women and young girls wore jingle dresses. The small jingles that adorn their clothing, made of twisted tin, represent waves of water and thunder as they performed what is known as a healing dance.
It was impossible to not notice the female dancers who performed in the style commonly referred to as fancy. These dancers wore elaborately beaded dance regalia, covered by long, decorated, fringed shawls. These Wacipi participants made efforts to resemble butterflies, spreading out their shawl-covered arms as they spun in tiny circles on the DakotaDome floor.
Amy Whiting of Mission sat in the bleachers Sunday afternoon, watching her two granddaughters, Anika Whiting and Alayah Whiting, participate in a contest dance.
"There is a jingle dance, and a fancy dance, which Anika dances in, and Alayah dances in both traditional and jingle," Amy said.
Amy and her two granddaughters are members of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. They find themselves on the road quite often, so that they may participate in Wacipis regularly scheduled each year in the Midwest.
"It's important, and I like them not to be able to get in trouble," she said. "That's why we do it – to keep them involved in positive activities."
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Qutb and Marx
A week or so ago, Isaac Schrodinger blogged about this excellent Theodore Dalrymple piece. Whenever I read about the Muslims, I have the same thought as that which Isaac excerpted from Dalrymple's article:
During my reading, I found myself swinging like a pendulum between taking Islam as a threat very seriously indeed, and not taking it seriously at all. The reasons for taking it seriously were that a large proportion of humanity was Muslim, that an aggressive and violent minority had emerged within that population with apparently very widespread, if largely passive, approval, and that the leadership of western countries was very weak and vacillating in the face of this, or any other, challenge. The reasons for not taking Islam seriously were that, in the modern world, it was intellectually nugatory, that the disproportion in power between the rest of the world and the Islamic world appeared to be growing rather than contracting, and that behind all the bluster about the certain possession of the unique, universal and divinely ordained truth for man was an anxiety that the whole edifice of Islam, while strong, was extremely brittle, which explained why free enquiry was so limited in Islamic countries. There was a subliminal awareness - and perhaps not always subliminal - that free philosophical and historical debate could quickly and fatally undermine the hold of Islam on various societies. Fundamentalism was therefore a manifestation of weakness and not of strength.There are also other excellent observations in the article, including the comparison of Islamism with Marxism and the recognition that theocratic and communist governments are both species of totalitarianism -- and therefore both have to rely on force to be implemented.
Curiously, though, Qutb’s thought has many parallels with Marxism. Where Marx has Historical Inevitability, Qutb has God‘s Law. Marx, you remember, envisages a time when the state will wither away and history will end. In Marx’s vision, political power will have dissolved, and the exploitation of man by man will have ceased, to be replaced by the mere administration of things. (How anybody of minimal intelligence could have believed such a thing beats me.) In Qutb’s vision, all political power will have dissolved, replaced by man’s spontaneous obedience to God’s law. Just as the administration of things in Marx’s utopia will not confer power on the administrators, presumably because everything will be so plentiful that no one will be tempted to appropriate more than the next man, so in Qutb’s utopia no one will have to interpret the law and gain power from doing so. God’s law will be as evident as thing will be abundant in Marx’s classless society.Finally, Dalrymple observes that the political form of each doctrine depends on its more fundamental philosophic views:
Marx understood that the classless society could not come about by merely preaching socialism, as if it were merely an ethical demand or theory. Violence would be necessary. Similarly, Qutb denies that the world will become Islamic merely by preaching the word of God. He refers to Mohammed’s Meccan period, when the Prophet did not resort to arms. This, he says, was merely tactical; it would have been impossible in practice to impose his rule by force. But when he went to Medina, he had no hesitation in fighting his enemies, including those who simply did not accept his message.
Just as Marx says that a showdown between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is inevitable, leading to the triumph of the former and the subsequent establishment of a classless society, so Qutb thinks that a showdown between believers and infidels is inevitable, leading to the victory of Islam, which will eliminate all religious conflict. Is this Marx or Qutb speaking:[there] is a natural struggle between two systems which cannot co-exist for long.It is Qutb; but it could have been taken from the writings of thousands of followers of Marx, if not from Marx himself, including Mao Tse-Tung.
The violent imposition of a socialist and Islamic society is justified in the same way in Marx and Qutb: if people were really free, that is to say suffering from neither false consciousness not jahilliyah (ignorance of divine guidance), they would accept the socialist or Islamic state not merely without demur, but joyously, as being for their own good freely chosen. True freedom in both Marx and Qutb is the recognition of necessity. Everything that prevents people from seeing the truth of their messages is an enemy of real, as against merely apparent, freedom.All in all a very worthwhile read.
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The Westside fisheries on Kodiak Island broke out of a multi-year slump that was straining fishermen, especially setnetters who are unable to reasonably transfer districts. Sockeye underperformed forecasts by 20% with a harvest of 2.17M, but not too far off the 10 year average of 2.43M. Pinks were the bright spot for the island, exceeding forecasts by 25%, with a total harvest of 16.62M; leaving room for improvement, the harvest falls short of the 10 year average of 20.53M. One area that fell substantially short was the coho harvest at 183K, 56% of forecast, though, this smaller fishery is of much less value than the pink and sockeye.
Area M, representing the Peninsula and Aleutians, had a rough salmon season. Nelson Lagoon experienced such dramatic returns that the Aleutians East Borough has asked for disaster protection. The harvests of 75K were only 50% of the preseason forecast, and 34% of the 5-year average, and the past three years have not been strong. Personal accounts from the Sand Point fleet report that the early season sockeye catches saved their season from being a total bust, as the season never really got going again after June. In aggregate, if the preseason forecast of 2.3M would have been met, this would have been one of lower harvests since 1978; the 50% interval is in the range of 5M to 7.2M. Unfortunately, the total pink harvest of 489K was only 21% of the 2.3M forecast. The nearly 2M sockeye harvest was 800K less than last year. Further up the line in Chignik, strong sockeye runs continue to surprise, surpassing the strong harvest forecast of 1.68M with an actual harvest of 1.82M sockeye.
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Of Troubled Marriages, Sexual Compulsions and Depression
News headlines are packed with information about the life and loves of athletic hero, Tiger Woods. Many other celebrities and national leaders have been caught in extra marital affairs. Men such as former President Bill Clinton, former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer, present day Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and many others, have been forced by the media to confess to their extra marital sexual escapades.
Regardless of political views,most people start out admiring these people who are viewed as successful, with wealth, power, happy marriages, and healthy and well adjusted children.
That is why people are perplexed by the basic question that these lurid affairs raise: Why?
At first glance, it is easy to demonize these people for having committed such offenses against their wives and children. They become further examples of the stereotypical view that men simply cannot keep their pants on and their "zippers zipped."
However, this immediate reaction is neither fair nor accurate. First of all, men are not the only people who have problems with extra marital sex. Wives can be guilty of this as well and studies show that women are quite capable of engaging in multiple sexual liaisons while married. Therefore, rather than blame one gender or the other, it is more important to explore what might really be happening to cause these painful problems.
Possible Explanations for Multiple Sexual Affairs:
It might come as a surprise to the reader that many of the types of people who seemed to go from one person to the next in the pursuit of sexual pleasure are really depressed.
Before any of you protest against this hypothesis by stating something like, "Oh sure, Dr. Schwartz, Bill Clinton was really depressed! Are you kidding?" No, I'm not kidding.
Depression can express itself in many ways. Low self esteem along with fears of rejection, often do form the basis of why some people cannot seem to be involved in truly intimate relationships.
It is true that many depressed people can be shy, passive and unassertive. This is the type of individual whom many will refer to as a "nice person who never hurt anyone." This is also the type of individual who could, and often does, pursue prostitutes and pornography even if they are married. In other words, the individual lives with the chronic fear that they are inadequate. In the search for reassurance as to their masculinity, they go from one sexual partner to the next. At home, their wives and children fail to be the source of self confidence and self esteem.
Paradoxically, the another type of depressed person is the one who is aggressive and gregarious. They compensate for their fears and self doubts by pursuing power, wealth and sexual conquests. This is why it is within the realm of possibility that a man like Bill Clinton, and the others, can be depressed.
Here is Tiger Woods, the source of admiration and envy for millions of people. Yet, his sexual activities captured the headlines because they are so much in opposition to what everyone expected of their golf hero. However, it is true that even a man like Tiger Woods can live with depression, low self esteem, deep self doubt about masculinity and have a constant need for reassurance.
I can anticipate some of my readers scoffing about this by saying such things as, "Oh come on Doc, what about the hurt he caused to his family. Besides, didn't he know the hurt he would cause? Isn't it the same with Bill Clinton and the others?"
The answer to that protest is, no, they did not know they could cause such hurt.
The people who are sexually compulsive, such as the ones who are being discussed here, are guided by such powerful forces that very little thought is given to consequences and if those thoughts do occur, they are quickly dismissed.
It must be emphasized that only some of these men are sexually compulsive or "addicted." The others avoid sex and tend to go to prostitutes because they are timid around women and out of feelings of guilt.
Whether avoidant of sex or sexually acting out, both types of men feel guilty about their sexual feelings and that is why they avoid intimacy at home. Over the years, I have spoken to many wives who expressed deep frustration with their men for not having sex with them. When they arrive in the consulting room, many of these men admit that it is easier for them to have sex with anonymous women than with their wives.
In some ways, this goes back to what is called the "Madonna-Whore Complex." These are people who think of their wives as mothers to their children and are, therefore, pure, just like the "Madonna." To admit to having sexual strivings toward them and to even understand that their wives could have sexual strivings, is too much for them. As a result, they reserve the major part of their sexual lives for pornography or for prostitutes.
Extra marital affairs can occur for other reasons than depression or compulsive sexuality. If one or both of the people in the marriage is unhappy and is not expressing it, there is fertile ground for an affair. One reason for an unhappy marriage sometimes has to do with the fact that partners have very different libidinal drives. If one of the dyad likes frequent sex and the other does not, trouble can quickly set in. By the way, it is not only the husband who can have this complaint. Over the years of my practice, plenty of wives come to the consulting room with the complaint that their husbands never want sex.
Regardless of the factors that caused an extra marital affair, the consequences are always devastating. Volcanic eruptions of feelings of hurt, betrayal, disbelief, fear, outrage and rage all come flooding in. Deep distrust and resentment also set in. Children are caught in the middle of the maelstrom resulting from the deadly secret being divulged. No one is spared, including the one who is blamed.
Can marriages survive an affair?
Statistics show that a large percentage of marriages disrupted by an affair end in divorce. However, there are marriages that are able to continue and even improve after the crisis passes. A lot depends upon who had the affair and for what reasons.
It is said that it is easier for a marriage to survive if the sexual tryst was with an anonymous person and no relationship was formed. Another way of saying this is that if the affair did not involve a romance but was in the nature of a "one night stand," it is much easier for the partner to be forgiving. If there was a romance, one or both partners may prefer divorce.
Another important factor is the extent to which a couple wants to repair the marriage and is willing to go for help. Help may come in the form of individual psychotherapy as well as marriage counseling.
For psychotherapy and marriage counseling to succeed, everyone needs to have a lot of time to work on and resolve feelings of anger, guilt and betrayal. There is no short term solution to this.
Perhaps the deepest issue the couple will have to face, if they want the marriage to succeed, is to work on the problem of trust. A sexual affair outside of the bounds of marriage always creates feelings of betrayal and distrust. This, along with anger, takes a long time to resolve. The deep wounds of hurt do not just disappear.
There is also a need for the couple to explore what went wrong in the marriage that might have caused the affair. It is often said that an extramarital affair can be a cry for help.
I always point out, when working with intimate couples, that problems in the relationship are never the fault of one person. Even in the face of an affair, it is a mistake to demonize that person and to place all the blame on him or her. By and large, people in a relationship mutually make their own contributions to the problems that are disruptive.
Iraq and Afghanistan:
Some have said that the discussions about Tiger Woods are a waste of time because of deeper and more troubling issues such as unemployment and war.
However, the deep crisis created by both wars and the economy are having devastating effects on many marriages. Veterans, both female and male, are coming home to marriages that are in a state of ruin because the husband or wife has moved on to another partner and now wants a divorce. With regard to the economy and such problems as unemployment, I do not know if there are any statistics on the rate of divorce or affairs but my guess is that the economy is not helping, to say the least.
What are your comments about this painful and difficult topic? I am not referring to Tiger Woods or other celebrities but to your own personal experiences with discord in marriage caused by sexual acting out. Your comments, questions and experiences are encouraged.
Allan N. Schwartz, PhD
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Letter Re: Rules of Engagement and Escalation of Force for the Armed Citizen
Recently Fox News published an article about a Hew Hampshire man being arrested on reckless endangerment for discharging a firearm into the ground as a warning shot to stop a burglar. Reading that article got me thinking about what rules of engagement and escalation of force would look like for civilians. As a former infantry officer and combat veteran of the U.S. Army, I am familiar with the Army’s rules of engagement (ROE) and the use of escalation of force (EOF).
Soldiers have a clearly defined set of rules of engagement and escalation of force for different scenarios from peace-time guard duty to combat operations. I believe responsible armed citizens should have them as well. What I would recommend for each firearm owner is to determine what your top 2 to 3 most likely scenarios for dealing with a possibly armed and dangerous individual would be, researching the state and local laws regarding self defense and the defense of others, then developing your
A useful model of rules of engagement to base your own off of is the U.S. Army’s ROE for guard duty. The acronym RAMP may help you develop your own ROE:
Remember, this is a base model and should be modified for your specific scenarios. I would argue that there is little property that you may have that a jury would deem worthy of protection by the use of deadly force. Therefore, my personal ROE excludes the use of deadly force to protect my personal property and property of others as I do not wish to face an arrest and/or conviction over stuff that can be replaced. Develop your own ROE with what you are comfortable with that is in accordance with state and local laws. State and local laws vary greatly on the use of deadly force to protect personal property so make sure you check the applicable laws in your area before adding that to your ROE and actually using deadly force to protect your property or the property of others. The use of a firearm against another individual, whether they survive or not, may be considered using deadly force.
Next is your escalation of force or EOF for short. The U.S. Army model for EOF is below:
It should be noted that military installations are generally around a populated area and the most likely scenario they will face is a protest and/or riot so the guard duty ROE and EOF do not allow for warning shots in order to prevent collateral damage and unintended civilian casualties.
For my own personal EOF guide I have removed the Shove step as a bad guy within range of physical contact is too close and would leave precious little time to anticipate an attack. Therefore my personal EOF guide is Shout, Show, Shoot. In the case of the New Hampshire man who fired a warning shot, checking state and local laws regarding warning shots could possibly have saved him from the ensuing legal battle he was faced with. Again, be absolutely certain to check your state and local laws before adding warning shots to your EOF and/or actually firing a warning shot. Ignorance is not a valid defense and you should not turn yourself into a criminal by firing a warning shot if they are not permitted in your locale.
Another great place to learn about state and local laws for the use of a firearm for self defense is a state approved concealed carry course. Some states, such as Florida, do not require a course if you can prove you are proficient in the use of firearms (such as a DD-214 discharge document from the military). If your state does not require a course, attending an NRA or other licensed instructor course for concealed carry will educate you on where you can and can not carry as well as provide you with different scenarios on when to use force. Each year the NRA also publishes the Traveler’s Guide to Firearms Laws of the Fifty States which will inform you as to what states recognize other state’s permits. Remember, that publication is only a resource and should not be substituted for checking with state and local laws on where you intend to carry.
By having a thought out and planned set of Rules of Engagement and Escalation of Force guide you will be better prepared to react to adverse situations and will have a better defense against criminal prosecution if you use that level of force only which is necessary to neutralize the threat and/or diffuse the situation. Sincerely, – B.K.
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Words, words, words. That's what we're made of. Herewith some of my thoughts on what we're doing with them.
Writing Right with Dmitri: Storyboarding
No, not snowboarding. Figure that out on your own.
Have you ever read a tale in a workshop and ended up with lots of questions? I have. Questions like:
- Where are these people?
- What are they holding in their hands?
- What are these events they're talking about?
- How did Joe get from the living room to the cellar all of a sudden?
- Where did that murder weapon come from?
You get the idea.
Most of our continuity problems come from being unable to visualise the sequence that's going on in the storyteller's head. (Rather like some of the emails I get at the Post.) The problem is that the writer is expecting the reader to fill in the blanks. That's dirty pool, and we won't have it.
The answer, of course, is to get the setting, the props, and the sequence of events firmly in your mind before writing. A bit of preparation is called for. That's where a storyboard – a sketch of events – comes in handy. Let's try it.
Dieter and Heidi are courting. Dieter invites Heidi to come on a picnic. They end up in a romantic setting on a bluff overlooking the beautiful Blue Danube. Dieter's planning to pop the question.
Let's break this down:
- Dieter calls Heidi with an invitation.
- Heidi packs lunch, tells her mom.
- Dieter prepares.
- Dieter picks Heidi up. (Car? Horsecart?)
- There is a trip.
- They unpack lunch at the picnic site.
- The view is splendid.
- Dieter clears his throat.
What does this look like?
Dieter and Heid's Day Out
See? Now you've got it in your head. You don't have to draw it, or even write it down. But you should be able to see it. If you've got it in your mind, the reader will follow you. Then you can fill in the telling details.
Write us some storyboards. Plenty of space below.
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So I went and did some looking around online and was somewhat surprised at how many legitimate links turned up when I Googled "guided meditation, children". Some of it might need to be modified somewhat to work for your situation.
Guided Meditation for Primary Students. This one seems like it's specifically focused on using guided meditation in the classroom, but if some of her anxiety is coming from school, then these might be helpful for her if she starts feeling anxious while she's at school and you're not there.
Relaxation Scripts for Children
And another script CDs and Mp3s are also offered here for kid's meditation and relaxation.
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"The Northern Iowa and Northern Iowa athletics really have a great sense of community here so we wanted to be great athletes, but we also feel it is important to be great citizens and great students," head coach Dan Steele said.
Along with the wrestling program, the UNI track and field program brought 60-plus student-athletes to interact with the children.
The student-athletes got to participate in games, face painting, playing sports and got to eat "walking tacos" with the children.
"I think the Panther student-athletes get as much out of it as the Boys and Girls Club does," Steele said. "Being able to connect with something bigger than themselves helps them develop as better human beings."
Visiting the Boys and Girls Club is an annual event for the Panthers, and the athletes involved realize the effect they have on the community.
"I think some of us don't realize how much of an impact we are on the community around us and it is great to see that these kids love UNI athletes and they love to see us as much as we love to see them," sophomore Jamie Lindstrom said.
To view more of the track and field team's experience at the Boys and Girls Club fans can view the video attached to the feature.
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With Britanny Stallings demonstrates making Greek theatre masks
Amy Cohen, associate professor of classics, organized a joint panel at the 140th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 10, 2009. The panel, "Linen in War and Drama: A Demonstration and Hands-On Workshop," was presented with Gregory S. Aldrete of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Cohen and her student Brittany Stallings '09 discussed ancient Greek theatrical masks, presenting the masks worn in the recent Randolph College Greek Play performance of Elektra, as well giving a hands-on demonstration of how to make them. Aldrete and his student Scott Bartel demonstrated the research they've been doing on ancient linen armor, such as worn by Alexander the Great's army.
The masks are a continuation of research which includes two Summer Research program projects - with Naomi Fritts '08 in 2006 and Stallings and Katrina Wiechmann '09 in 2007.
Cohen and her students' work has been published in the journal Didaskalia . This is the second academic conference at which she's presented the masks.
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Critics Say Administration Failed to Press Originalist Arguments in Health Law Case
Posted Jun 25, 2012 6:44 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Critics say the Obama administration failed to appeal to conservative justices when it portrayed health care as a unique marketplace that could be regulated under the commerce clause.
Instead, some observers say, the administration should have referred to early legislation in an effort to show the framers accepted regulation similar to the health law's insurance mandate, the Washington Post reports. One law, signed by President George Washington, required able-bodied men at least 18 years of age to buy a musket and ammunition. Another law required ship owners to buy medical insurance for their sailors and required the sailors to fund their own hospital insurance.
Administration officials told the Post that those arguments were considered and rejected because the early laws were different. The ship owner law didn’t apply to all Americans, and the musket law fell under a different constitutional provision. “There are always people in the academic world who think about clever arguments that one might make here and there,” a senior official told the newspaper.
The musket law had been included in several lower court arguments before Donald Verrilli was sworn in as solicitor general. It didn’t persuade one federal appeals judge, Jeffrey Sutton of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“To argue that Congress’ power to enlist individuals to defend the country’s borders proves that it may enlist individuals to improve the availability of medical care gives analogy a bad name,” Sutton wrote. “There is a difference between drafting a citizen to join the military and forcing him to respond to a price quote from Aetna.”
One law professor, Jeffrey Rosen of George Washington University, says the Obama administration made a mistake when it abandoned an argument made in the lower courts that would answer justices' concerns about a slippery slope to regulation of other activities (the eat-your-broccoli-law argument).
“The limiting principle goes something like this,” Rosen wrote in the New Republic. “In previous cases denying Congress the power to regulate local activities such as guns in schools or violence against women, the court has drawn a distinction between activity that is truly local and activity that is truly national, in the sense that the states aren’t able effectively to regulate the activity on their own. When it comes to violence against women or guns in schools, states arguably have the will and the resources to respond to these problems.
“But when it comes to providing insurance guarantees for the uninsured, any state would be worse off if it tried to solve the problem on its own, because it would end up attracting uninsured people from other states seeking to take advantage of its benefits.”
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People, and the media, are happy to talk about brands, products, services or advertising – but only if you tell them stories that are worth relating. We find, or create, such stories. Stories which fascinate, generate discussion and become the stuff of media reports.
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(This is a full list of films produced in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country came into existence in April 1992. For an A-Z list see Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina films)
Because Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of Yugoslavia prior to its independence in 1992, all movies in that region were credited as being produced in Yugoslavia, and not in their respective countries, regardless of the producers or director. Wikipedia thus has a full list of movies from 1992.
Cinema in Bosnia as part of Yugoslavia dates back to the 1920s when it started producing silent films. Bosnia and Herzegovina now is home to the largest film festivals in the Balkans and one of the largest in Southeastern Europe; the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF), established in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo by Mirsad Purivatra, who still presides as the president of the festival. It has hosted guests such as Steve Buscemi, Katrin Cartlidge, Bono, Nick Nolte, Michael Moore, Alexander Payne and many more. Another undoubtedly notable festival is the annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) established in 2003, held in the TriBeCa area of New York City. The festival's aim is to promote movies from various young promising directors in Bosnia and showcase them to the American public in hopes of getting recognition.
Arguably the two most famous and celebrated modern-day Bosnian directors are Danis Tanović and Jasmila Žbanić, who directed No Man's Land and Grbavica, respectively. No Man's Land won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, among 42 other awards, while Grbavica won the Golden Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, and countless other awards. The country has many more respected and internationally-renowned filmmakers, including Stefan Arsenejević whose 2003 short film Atorzija was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2003, and Pjer Žalica whose 2004 film Fuse won a substantial amount of European and international awards. Today, Bosnia has a large concentration of internationally acclaimed and multiple international award winning screenwriters, filmmakers and cinematographers; only some of which include: Hajrudin Krvavac-Šiba, Mirza Idrizović, Aleksandar Jevđević, Ivica Matić, Ademir Kenović, the late Benjamin Filipović, Jasmin Dizdar, Dino Mustafić, Srđan Vuletić, Aida Begić and many more.
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Voluntary amputation article
cloudburst at prodigy.net
Tue Apr 10 06:51:00 PDT 2001
> I can't help thinking that anyone who would voluntarily cut off any part
> their body must be slightly mad.
Does that include people who undergo elective plastic surgery?
>If other people with amputations think
> that their amputated limbs are attractive, then I'm happy for you.
> Personally I don't find them attractive, and would much rather have a
> complete body.
That's where we differ, Angela. I think our bodies are perfectly complete,
the stigma attached to impairment leads people to feel otherwise. IMO,
there's nothing inherently ugly about an amputated limb or, for that matter,
a body that shakes with cerebral palsy or is stiff with paralysis.
> I think the author's argument that if you create a diagnosis, then more
> cases will be identified, is very true. For example, you only have to do
> little research to see the appalling damage done (to women in particular)
> the widespread "diagnosis" of hysteria, following Freud's work.
That's an interesting point. However, there's also no way to assess all the
people who have injured themselves trying to amputate their limbs in what is
made to look like an accident or have committed suicide or otherwise damaged
themselves because they feel so much shame about their desire. Further, I
think it's important to consider that homosexuality was considered a
legitimate psychiatric disorder, subject to a variety of inhumane
treatments, until recently.
> what he is saying is that creating a diagnosis is likely to legitimise
> surgery to remove perfectly sound limbs. Frankly, given the problems with
> funding health care, the money would be better spent elsewhere.
And I would rather a person have access to surgical technology than lie down
on a train track to sever his or her limbs.
> In response to your post, some people have identified themselves as
In my opinion, the only perverts are people who force sexual contact upon
others, physically or through coercion.
More information about the Amp-l
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SPC is the building block for total quality management, ISO standards, six sigma and a host of other methodologies to control variance and reduce waste in manufacturing processes. Food engineers have applied SPC in some fashion for a quarter of a century. Though its use is expanding, the number-crunching essence of SPC remains unchanged. "We keep adding more algorithms to meet more rigorous requirements," allows Jeffery L. Cawley, vice president at Northwest Analytical Inc. (NWA), "but the core functionality is the same."
The automotive industry was the first to apply statistical data to control processes, but many questioned the application in food, where inconsistent raw materials created variability nightmares. Food engineers overcame that roadblock, and the data mined from SPC is migrating to other users. Whether it's the line operator or the CEO, users of SPC data are gaining a better understanding and control of their company's products.
The same is true of customers. Part of the SPC evolution is delivering more user-friendly data to these data users. "A lot of our customers are asking us, 'How can we get histograms, run charts and other analytical data on what you're shipping on the Internet?'" reports a flour miller's head of quality, who requests anonymity. "Right now all they would get is a line with ingredient declarations. Wouldn't it be great to give them current averages for moisture content, protein, ash absorption and stability without forcing them to invest in the statistical training needed to read our data charts?"
Web browser access to data charts is a capability many software suppliers have added to their programs, among them NWA, GE Fanuc and Zontec (see related supplier's list). Windows-based operating systems are another development in recent years that has expanded data accessibility.
"We went through three generations of our product," beginning with a DOS-based application, says Warren Ha, Zontec's president. "Most people have moved to Windows, particularly in the last two years. Compatibility is the big advantage, and once you learn one application under Windows, the rest should be fairly self-explanatory. The user interface is much better, and you can run multiple tasks."
Rockwell Software originally offered the SPC module of its RSView32 HMI package as an add-on module, but today it's part of the core functionality. "That change was definitely customer driven," according to Darrell Walker, marketing manager. "Manufacturers insisted on the inclusion of the SPC function."
As SPC has become more mainstream, more bells and whistles have been added to the basic packages. E-mail messaging, remote monitoring and alarm systems help broaden the audience for the data, but there is the potential for undermining one potential benefit: operator empowerment.
"If we empower operators in the appropriate manner, do we really need pagers carried by managers to go off?" asks John G. Surak, a professor at Clemson University and an expert on food applications of SPC. "We're transforming these people to be able to monitor and analyze process data and take the appropriate action, including the decision not to make adjustments if a predictable cause for variation has occurred.
"You really want the operator to make the decision that a change has occurred that requires altering the process," Surak continues. "If the process is out of control, operators should go through a decision tree to determine the appropriate corrective action. If all else fails, then you call the manager."
Operator involvement is critical, concurs Syed Hussain, director of technical services at ConAgra Foods, particularly if processors are going to move SPC from a monitoring tool to a process improvement methodology. "Giving control to your operators not only makes them responsible and accountable, it motivates and increases their enthusiasm." Not coincidentally, it enhances company profitability (see related story).
Quick service restaurants have been a driver in getting food processors to adopt SPC-oriented production. Zontec's Ha cites the client who produces frozen dough that will be baked off as biscuits at Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets. "If the size is not constantly monitored and controlled in the factory, the stores end up with a bad presentation to their customers, and that is unacceptable," he says. An inspection-based approach would likely result in rejected shipments and, ultimately, loss of the account.
While SPC is well accepted for controlling product weight, portioning, fill levels and other physical characteristics, proponents have been circumspect in advocating SPC's role in HACCP. That is beginning to change: the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of USDA is going forward with a program that will essentially require suppliers of ground beef for school lunch programs to implement approved processes for pathogen control.
The policy shift began last summer, when the department performed lot-by-lot inspections of 116 million lbs. of beef delivered by 17 meat companies. About 8.6 million lbs. failed microbial tests for coliforms, Salmonella and other pathogens, including 1 million lbs. contaminated with E. coli 0157. The results underpin the department's decision to shift from the approval or rejection of finished goods to a process-based approach that will force suppliers "to be proactive up front," according to Barbara L. Cope, an administrator in the department's livestock and seed program.
"The main purpose is to get suppliers to implement and maintain effective HACCP systems," she explains. "We're going to be monitoring companies instead of finished goods."
A similar SPC-oriented approach to young animal slaughter is being eyed for the Food Safety and Inspection Service's HIMP program.
While AMS's new program should reduce the amount of "distressed meat entering the system," Cope doubts it will have much impact on overall beef supplies. SPC proponents take a different stand: suppliers who buy into the concept and change their inspection-based mindset will shift from a process-control to a process-improvement orientation. That will add value to their finished goods, and that value will be reflected in the company's bottom line.
"Technical people understand the value of SPC, but they need support and resources from management if they are going to expand its application," insists NWA's Cawley. "Management may want to scrimp on data collection, but data collection serves a vital role. It's minding the business in a meaningful way."
"Fact-based management needs SPC," agrees Surak. "It is the key to process improvement based on statistical thinking." The three tenets of statistical thinking are: all work is done in a process; all processes show variation; and the key to marketplace success is reduction or elimination of the causes of variation.
In recent years, GE has adopted the six-sigma quality initiative popularized by Motorola. As a practical matter, six sigma (two defects per billion processes) is more realistic for discreet processes than food production. "We can achieve perfection in sanitation," believes ConAgra Foods' Hussain, "but for a meat product where there is so much variability, it is not realistic to go for even two sigma." His SPC-based quality goal: 1.3 sigma, or about 63 out-of-spec products per million pieces produced.
Real-time data monitoring by operators, engineers and upper management can help, believes Ha. And wireless is the next step in making that real-time data accessible, he says. "Wireless communication is the next direction the technology is taking," and his firm recently introduced a wireless control system for SPC monitoring.
"It's going to take time before companies go completely wireless, but there's a lot of interest," he adds. "There's tremendous potential in the food industry, where the washdown environment argues against PCs on the plant floor."
Regardless of what hardware and software a company selects, Surak says the key criteria for evaluating SPC systems are ease of use and ease of integration. "To me, database conductivity is the most important consideration," he says. "If the software looks like a proprietary database, you could be wed to that supplier forever."
"Highly manufactured products were early adopters of SPC, but now we're seeing it in raw commodities," concludes Cawley. "Food doesn't have to feel ashamed about where it is at."
The application of SPC in food manufacturing is spreading. Now companies are using the resulting data and their understanding of their critical process parameters to slash waste and enhance profitability.
Fortunately, many excellent SPC packages remain. Process control has become so fundamental in manufacturing, SPC has been incorporated as a basic component in comprehensive automation systems. SPC packages include:
Greater employee involvement has produced additional process improvements, resulting in higher quality products, greater productivity and enhanced plant capabilities, according to Syed A. Hussain.
The SPC project involved fully cooked and sliced muscle meats sold in 12.5 oz. packages to restaurants. "During initial process startup, statistical analysis revealed that the process was stable but the variability made it incapable of meeting specifications," explains Hussain. He used SPC software from Northwest Analytical Inc. to help control those other specs, such as the number of slices of meat per package.
Hourly weight checks are performed to verify that the average weight meets or exceeds the declared net weight; two consecutive weight checks below that level result in a product hold. Consequently, "the process frequently exceeded the upper specification level but never fell below the lower specification level," Hussain says. "The problem was identified and a corrective action team formed."
Sharper slicing blades and tighter control of the chill process were among the changes recommended by the quality improvement team. Team members' involvement in the project also boosted their job satisfaction and productivity, he adds. Workers now regularly recommend process improvements that have a direct impact on corporate profitability, Hussain says.
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Skeptical Voters believe that evidence should be at the centre of all public policy making. This site intends to identify which parliamentary candidates embrace the use of evidence as a means to inform their decisions and which prefer to obfuscate, ignore or suppress the evidence for political convenience.
Visit the Wiki pages here!
Thank you so much to everyone for the interest and support you have given us so far. We'll look through all the Endorsements you sent us and will pick a few representatives to put on the site. Also, we're hugely impressed and grateful for how well the Wiki is turning out already, even only after a few weeks of opening. This is a great start and something I hope will only get more useful as we go on.
Hello, and welcome to Skeptical Voter, a new website where we aim to discover and catalogue the political positions of Members of Parliament and candidates in next general election, specifically with regard with issues that 'Skeptical' people are interested in. These include the attitude of candidates to evidence-based policy, the role of the libel laws in science, and the teaching of creationism in schools.
Which policy areas do you really care about that would benefit from an evidence-based approach? Would you be interested in tracking your MP's (or potential MP's) views on the importance of evidence in drug policy, healthcare, crime, education for example? Please add your comments below.
Assuming that there will be 646 seats in the House of Commons up for grabs at the next election (http://bit.ly/13hSoU) then, even if we only track the main three parties, that's 1,938 candidates whose opinions on evidence-based policy that we wish to track and perhaps 1,292 candidates with no recent voting record to examine. This means that we will have to settle for gathering survey data from potential candidates so we could really use some help in showing politicians that it is worth their while to respond. The more constituents who show an interest, the easier it will be to get a useful response so please register your interest on our Pledge Support contact page.
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MIAMI _ Sandy Brondello grew up in the sugar-cane fields outside Mackay, Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef. She learned to play basketball on a grass court with a backboard her father built in the backyard.
"That grass court probably helped me develop my pull-up jump shot at a young age," said the 5-foot-7 guard. "I couldn't dribble so much because I would lose the ball with all the rocks in the grass."
Elena Baranova was born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and was handpicked to play basketball because of her height and athleticism. At 17, the 6-5 center was playing for the Soviet national team and honing her skills at the Academy of Sport Moscow.
"She was considered one of the best players in Europe, if not the best player in the world," said Marynell Meadors, the Sol's director of scouting.
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HandyDart Strike Leaves Disabled Passengers Out in the Cold
By Matthew Burrows
How would you assess TransLink’s handling of the HandyDart strike?
Lawyer and one of the creators of HandyDart
“If I had to give it a grade, I’d give it an F. When you put a contract out to tender…surely one of the elements…that you assess the vendors on is the ability to deliver the service. If you are so poor at labour relations that you are unable to deliver the service, because you cannot work with the people that deliver the service for you—the employees—surely that’s the deal breaker.”
HandyDart user and UBC instructor of counselling psychology
“TransLink hasn’t handled the HandyDart strike. TransLink is claiming an inability to intervene in the strike and seems to overestimate MVT [Canadian Bus’s] current performance and future potential.…It’s unfortunate that the system was set up this way, and it speaks to the problems of privatization. That’s my response in a nutshell to that.”
NDP labour critic, former union official, and MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds
“I think TransLink, by contracting out the HandyDart services, has shown very poor leadership. These are very important services. Thousands of people, it seems, are now neglected by this private company. It doesn’t look like they handled it well. Even though they are trying to wash their hands off, TransLink still has the responsibility. They should ask MVT and the union to come back to the bargaining table.”
Executive director, B.C. Coalition of People With Disabilities
“I think it’s unfortunate that TransLink hasn’t been more involved with trying to encourage the two sides to get together and sort out this problem.…[BCCPD] is very concerned about the impact that this is having on the people with disabilities and seniors, particularly with respect to the social isolation that can occur when people are not able to get out into their communities.”
Since the onset of the HandyDart strike, UBC counselling psychology instructor Vaughan Marshall has been teaching three-hour classes in her rain gear.
A single mother who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis since she was a teenager, Marshall told the Georgia Straight that she regularly used HandyDart—a service set up to help people disabled to the extent that they can’t use regular transit—before its drivers began striking on October 26. She commutes from the side of the campus she lives on to the other. Now she has to travel the whole distance in her power wheelchair.
Marshall also has to get to the G. F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre on Laurel Street so she can teach vocational rehabilitation courses part-time. Things were supposed to be better for people like Marshall and the system’s estimated 30,000 users, after TransLink contracted out the 27-year-old HandyDart service to the for-profit MVT Canadian Bus Inc.
In October 2008, MVT—a subsidiary of California-based MV Transportation Inc.—was awarded a $113-million contract to run the HandyDart system in Metro Vancouver for three years. Within 10 months of MVT’s takeover of the system on January 1, however, the HandyDart operators went on strike.
“For several months, I thought, ‘Okay, we’re in a transition period and things are going to get better,’ ” Marshall said of MVT. “Things have not gotten any better. I’m really busy, I work more than full-time, and I’m a single parent. I don’t have time. It’s so disrespectful of people’s time to keep people waiting.”
HandyDart’s Vancouver founder, Tim Louis, called it “utterly dreadful” that MVT is in a labour dispute with Local 1724 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents HandyDart workers. Assessing the impact of the work stoppage on people’s lives, the former Coalition of Progressive Electors city councillor and park board commissioner recalled the 2001 transit strike.
“As bad as that was, there were other alternatives: hitchhike or hop in a car with a friend,” Louis told the Straight. “With the thousands of people in the Greater Vancouver area that use HandyDart, people that don’t have the ability to hitchhike or to hop in a car, the alternatives are very few or none. What that means is we have got thousands of people literally homebound as a result of the labour dispute.”
Louis added in a later call that Vancouver never had a HandyDart work stoppage before MVT came into the picture.
ATU Local 1724 vice president Tim Johnston told the Straight that HandyDart workers have always supported Louis’s vision of having several nonprofit societies running the service. Now TransLink has brought about the amalgamation of the regional nonprofits into a private “one-service provider,” he noted.
MVT has proposed hourly wages of $21 “upon ratification” and $21.25 effective January 1, 2010, according to figures MVT spokesperson Zdenka Buric e-mailed to the Straight.
But Johnston said this is not retroactive, and he added that a SkyTrain worker makes $28 an hour standing on a platform checking tickets. Johnston has driven for HandyDart for 17 years and has two sisters in the same job. He said they try not to talk shop with each other in private because of how steamed they are about what’s going on in the workplace.
“Our main issues are definitely pension,” Johnston said. “They are trying to eliminate our pension. They are trying to eliminate, or reduce, our benefits.…There are several other issues, but they are insignificant compared to these major ones.”
Both Marshall and Louis agree with Local 1724’s position that MVT should agree to binding arbitration.
The Straight asked Buric if this was a possibility, and she replied: “Not at this time.”
TransLink spokesperson Ken Hardie told the Straight the regional transportation authority’s hands are tied.
“We have no legal right to do that,” Hardie said by phone of bringing MVT to arbitration. “They are a contractor. We don’t run their business.…We have no legal standing in this regard.”
Marshall said she is so furious about the strike that she wants TransLink to punt MVT and negotiate a new contract with another party.
Numbers behind the HandyDart strike
HandyDart drivers’ current hourly wage: $20.25
Wage MVT is offering: $21 upon ratification, $21.25 in 2010
Wage ATU Local 1724 is demanding: $25.35
Percentage of HandyDart employees covered under existing pension plan: 60%
Percentage of HandyDart employees ATU wants covered under pension plan: 100%
What MVT is offering: all employees move to self-directed RRSPs in lieu of pension plans
Sources: ATU Local 1724 vice president Tim Johnston, MVT spokesperson Zdenka Buric
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Bank of Tanzania governor Benno Ndulu has said the country’s economy is expected to grow by as much as 7 per cent this year, faster than 6.4 per cent last year.
He said this here yesterday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Africa, noting that the country faces fewer problems with power shortages.
Prof Ndulu said the country had revived dormant plans for a Eurobond to help with its infrastructure spending, although the amount and timing of the issuance had yet to be decided.
“The number of problems that we had with power, et cetera, are not of the same magnitude,” he said, adding: “For this year, between 6.6 to 7 per cent (growth)... we have worked on the numbers.”
Earlier this week, National Bureau of Statistics said frequent power blackouts caused economic growth to slow to 6.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year from 6.7 per cent a year earlier.
Power output fell by 22 per cent in the third quarter of last year, due partly to low water levels in hydroelectric reservoirs.
Economic analysts say increasing investor interest in Tanzania’s telecommunications, energy and financial services sectors should help drive economic growth if the world economy recovers.
The country is attracting a lot of investor attention to its natural gas deposits, whose reserves the government says stand at more than 10 trillion cubic feet following recent discoveries.
Tanzania is Africa’s fourth-largest gold producer and its mining sector has attracted major investment over the past decade.
The International Monetary Fund said in March it expects the country’s economy to expand by 6.5 to 7 per cent in 2012-13.
Prof Ndulu said the country had revived its plan to issue a Eurobond although he gave few details, adding: “Even the amount has to be determined... We have to first complete the country rating. After we have done the country rating, we have to do the usual road show and marketing.”
Earlier this year, the government said it planned to start opening up its capital account this year, enabling it to attract more investment initially from other members of the five-partner East African Community and then from the rest of the world by 2015.
The BoT governor also pointed out that the country was gradually working on relaxing its capital controls in order to gain its sovereign debt rating.
“We are working on that. We have made a commitment under the East African market protocol and we’re going to keep to those commitments,” he said, adding: “We’re going to gradually remove most of those, but we’re aware that every country now works with speed bumps just because currencies have become so volatile.”
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Originally Posted by Tyburn
People cant be "bishopricks"
A Bishoprick is a geographical area covered by a Bishop
...and no I dont think Reuban Duran is a Bishop
Another name for a "Bishoprick" is a "Diocise" in some denominations they might even be called "provinces
There are Bishopricks, and their are also ArchBishopricks...which are a collection of Bishopricks all under one archbishop.
YES the same applie "Archdiocise" although ive never heard the term Archprovince, technically speaking I suppose its correct.
I know Dave. You gotta stop taking stuff so literally. I'm fully aware what a Bishoprick is.
It's a great joke because it looks like a word that the forum rules disallow!!
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A sure way to lighten your workload and instantly boost your productivity is by way of delegation. Or there is another option to that. If you cannot delegate, automate.
This is how it usually works. You delegate or automate the least important stuff on your To-Do list to pave way for more space, and thereby time, that you will put back to your main work pool.
By delegating or automating, you’re accomplishing two things – One, getting rid of yourself of the extra load that is likely to cause you open loops and, two, gaining more time for more important tasks you have at hand.
But how do you take your hands off these least important stuff tasks – stuff like things you need to get reminded of, little notes you need to track, etc.?
These are some of the least important things that I have on my plate now:
Read It Later
I am following some great blogs that I love to read on a regular basis but I don’t just have the time during my work day to peruse all of them.
Take Notes From Specific Email
I am receiving email with specific subject which I want to take note of in an online note application. But I don’t have the time to check my email every hour. Usually when I check my email service at the end of the day, these emails are nowhere to be found in my email mill. Plus I have other more important emails to track (i.e., work-related emails)
Announce My New Blog Posts via RSS
The social network sites are a big source of web traffic. Friends may want to get notified via these sites of the latest article. I post links to my new articles to at least three sites. I want to set this action once, and forget it.
On A Certain Date At An Exact Time Reminder
I want to receive a SMS message to my cellphone to remind me to pay my bill on certain accounts. I don’t want to miss any payments on these accounts. I need a reminder when I need to pay them. And I don’t want to see things like this on my To-Do List.
I Want To Get A Voice Call At Certain Time Of The Day
I may need to receive wake up calls when away from home. Or I need to get preset message at particular time. I just want to have somebody or something to do this for me.
I Want To Know Immediately When Free Kindle Books Become Available
I don’t know when is the exact time these free Kindle books become available. I just want to know, via email, when they become available.
This is just a partial list of what I would want to delegate to a personal or virtual assistant. These tasks may not be as important as the tasks that I perform at my day job but they hold certain level of importance in my personal life. They are not to be left out in my regular To-Do’s.
If you are like me, and the conditions I described above resemble your current needs, I have a good news for you: You don’t have to hire your personal or virtual assistant. Or you can fire your current assistant if you already have one.
If This, Then That (IFTTT) is your answer. IFTTT is a free web service that will help you automate many parts of your life.
IFTTT is an intuitive, easy-to-follow web application. You basically instruct it “when something happens (this) then do something else (that).” In short, it’s a simple but very useful notification service (and more).
The service is made up of four components: Tasks, Triggers, Actions, and Channels.
Task is the result you want to achieve – when this happens, do that. Trigger is just that – trigger. It is the “this” in the equation. Action, on the other hand, is the “that” part.Channel is an app or another service that will bridge the “this” with “that”. Users might have already created the tasks you need. They can share their tasks as “recipes”. A recipe is a template of a particular task.
Photo courtesy of flickr user Victoria Sanderson
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President Obama's bus trip starting Monday is designed to make sure voters know he will keep pushing Republicans to pass his job-creation proposals even though the Senate rejected his comprehensive jobs bill earlier this week.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today, "The Senate vote was the beginning of the fight, not the end. And we aren't going to stop talking about jobs and the economy until we have the kind of economic growth and job creation that this country needs and deserves....And so you can expect to hear us, hear the president making the case for the need to take action until Congress takes action on every item in the American Jobs Act."
Since the bill stalled in the Senate, the president has called on Congress to pass it in sections. Among his priorities are building more roads and bridges, which would put many construction workers back on the job; enacting tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses, and increasing taxes on the wealthy.
Obama is scheduled to make several stops in North Carolina, including Asheville and Greensboro, and Virginia, including Emporia and Hampton, from Monday to Wednesday.
Obama made a similar three-day bus trip in August to Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota.
All are battleground states that will be key to the outcome of the 2012 election.
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The Boston Globe reports today that, according to the editor of the journal Cognition, Professor Marc Hauser of Harvard fabricated data.
Gerry Altmann, the editor of the journal Cognition, which is retracting a 2002 article in which Hauser is the lead author, said that he had been given access to information from an internal Harvard investigation related to that paper. That investigation found that the paper reported data that was not present in the videotape record that researchers make of the experiment.
“The paper reports data … but there was no such data existing on the videotape. These data are depicted in the paper in a graph,” Altmann said. “The graph is effectively a fiction and the statistic that is supplied in the main text is effectively a fiction.”
. . . “If it’s the case the data have in fact been fabricated, which is what I as the editor infer, that is as serious as it gets,” Altmann said.
It’s absolutely unbelievable that, as a sanction for this kind of crime against science, Hauser was given just a year’s suspension without pay. (There may also have been sanctions about his future ability to mentor graduate students and postdocs.) Although funding agencies like the NIH and NSF may impose further sanctions, he’ll nevertheless get to keep his job—forever. I’m deeply ashamed of my alma mater.
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Reflection by Andrew Walker
And so Lesslie has slipped away, leaving a wealth of personal memories and achievements almost too many to mention. His tireless work as a missionary in India, and particularly his role in the establishment of the Church of South India, seems set to stand the test of time. Lesslie will long be remembered by his friends in the Student Christian Movement, among Christian Socialists, the World Council of Churches, Pentecostal and Evangelical movements, and in recent years, The Gospel and Our Culture.
We could say much of the intellectual formation of Lesslie of his influence by Barth and Polanyi, for example or of his achievements of recent years in teaching us to become missionaries to our own culture. But for many of us, as we search for the right words to express the essential Lesslie Newbigin, what remains freshest in our minds was Lesslie's goodness. And yet behind that old-world English courtesy lay something even deeper than mere decency or even goodness: the only appropriate word seems to be holiness.
Dr Andrew Walker is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Education at King's College, London, and former Director of Gospel and Culture.
Andrew Walker | Iwan Russell-Jones
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Click here to view maps of The Great Southern Region and the Mount Barker townsite.
An attractive old style town, Mount Barker lies on three important tourist routes - Albany Highway from Perth to Albany, Muir Highway linking the South West to the Great Southern through Manjimup and the Porongurup Road.
The spectacular spring wildflower season attracts large numbers of tourists, with both self-drive and coach travel being popular. The most popular forms of accommodation are caravan and camping parks and self-catering accommodation such as motels and chalets.
Good road systems provide attractive and well signed access to the south coast, with the spectacular coastline in the Denmark and Albany areas a comfortable half hour trip from the Mount Barker area. A few days stay at Mount Barker with planned daily trips to the many nearby tourists attractions will be a rewarding experience for any traveller.
Mount Barker Heritage Trail
Click here to download a copy of the Heritage Council's guide to the Mount Barker Heritage Trail.
Westrail provides daily passenger bus services on its Perth-Albany route with two services on Friday. In addition, tourist coaches pass through Mount Barker regularly and, during wildflower season, often en-route to local and regional tourist destinations. Skywest Airlines provides morning and evening services on weekdays and a daily flight on Saturday and Sunday from the Albany Airport, approximately 40km (25 minutes) south of Mount Barker on Albany Highway.
Copyright 2011 - all rights reserved
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Banner images by Rob Olver
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Holograph manuscript of recipes comprised of 22 sewn leaves pasted into a linen cover.
Eight other leaves have also been pasted in, presumably at a much later date since some
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Dismissing an entire genre or subgenre out of hand is, to say the least, unfair. One never knows what literary miracle lurks on the next shelf. Still, I suspect that all of us feel consistently dissatisfied with at least one genre--and, in my case, it happens to be the historical mystery. Quite frankly, as someone who specializes in historical fiction, I wish that I liked historical mysteries rather more than I do. But still, there they are, and here I am. While there are well-established formal links between historiography and detective fiction--something made explicit in the title of Robin Winks' famous manual, The Historian as Detective, and explored from a literary angle in Suzanne Keen's Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction--something about the historical mystery per se fails to click for me.
Part of my dissatisfaction may derive from the historical limitations on mysteries as a genre. In their introduction to The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Ray Browne and Lawrence Kaiser argue that the crimes in mystery novels are, in effect, transhistorical. A murder is a murder is a murder, after all. The problem, though, is that while murder may spring eternal, the motives for same may not (just as other actions or natures may become or cease to be criminal). It's not very likely, for example, that a twenty-first century man would kill a blackmailer who had threatened to reveal that--horrors!--he had cheated at cards. (All things are possible, but still.) Most of the historical mysteries I've read do a much better job delineating historically accurate background than they do delineating historically accurate motives--and therein, I suspect, lies the rub. It's not just that the criminals tend to feel modern, but that the detectives often feel that way as well. (Sister Fidelma comes to mind.) As a result, historical mysteries often strike me as "narrower" than their more straightforward generic companions, for lack of a better word.
Anachronism has always haunted the historical novel; one of Sir Walter Scott's reviewers argued that his female characters would be repulsive if they were really true to their times. In other words, nineteenth-century writers and readers always fetched up against certain pockets of resistance when it came to historical accuracy, and things haven't changed. Patricia Finney's Gloriana's Torch is an interesting example of this point, especially because Finney includes a disclaimer at the end: "Lastly, please remember that the religious opinions of my characters are not necessarily my opinions and nor are their various prejudices" (452). My dissatisfaction-with-the-historical-mystery rule usually finds its exception in Finney, whose Gloriana's Torch is the third in a series of Elizabethan spy thrillers (and, from internal evidence, perhaps the last, although one never knows). To begin with, Finney's prose has real flair. Beyond that, her work takes more formal risks than is usual in this subgenre. Gloriana's Torch, for example, incorporates a moderate degree of metafiction, throws out linear narrative in favor of a "stacked" storyline that constantly doubles back on itself, and switches back-and-forth between "real" and "alternative" historical plots. While the cliffhangers are sometimes a bit too, well, obviously cliffhanger-y, the narrative moves along at an entertaining clip. And her characters are engaging.
Ergo, I'm not panning the novel, which I enjoyed a great deal. But the disclaimer was a bit puzzling, because Gloriana's Torch has some quite noticeable "pockets of resistance" in and around its religious themes. Although Finney shifts POV from one focal character to another, only one speaks in the first person--an African slave/servant and witch ("upside-down woman") named Merula. The most culturally and politically marginal of the novel's marginal characters, in terms of her relationship to the dominant Protestant and Catholic figures, Merula is also the least subject to either distancing or irony. Moreover, since she speaks retrospectively, her narrative voice comes equipped with a self-awareness missing from the POVs of the others. While there's certainly plenty of room to interpret Merula's hallucinatory moments of insight in purely rationalist terms, her polytheistic, universalist worldview stands out in bold and positive relief against that of the novel's sundry monotheists. Moreover, her theology threatens the Christians (and Jews, for that matter), but not vice-versa; one of her encounters, with the Catholic Edward Dormer, actually draws on a standard trope of fictional religious critique--what one might call "the laughing servant":
And she opened her onyx eyes very wide and started to laugh very heartily, slapped her thigh like a man. At last she said, "How can the Almighty be a man? You say He--does God have privates?"
It was evidently heresy, and yet it was difficult to argue against. And embarrassing. (391)
As is usually the case in such encounters, the "simple" servant's laughter reduces the theologically "sophisticated" speaker to silence; there is never an effective answer. (Such servants are standard issue in anti-Catholic fiction, but you can find two of them in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.) None of the overtly Christian characters come off particularly well: Dormer, besides flunking Theological Debate 101 and suffering from lust, is also a bit of a fool, while the inquisitor Josef Pasquale has an ironic taste for light bondage. And so on. (The Muslim character doesn't exactly do much better, but that's getting us into plot spoiler territory.)
Along the same lines, the novel consistently puts sixteenth-century Catholic antisemitism in the equivalent of scare quotes. Either the characters are "anxious," to use a worn-out turn of phrase, or they're so over-the-top as to be blatantly in the wrong according to the novel's own established criteria for moral behavior. As a result, the antisemitism is not so much disturbing--except in the most superficial of ways--as it is a clear marker of historical difference: this is how people in the sixteenth century thought, but we don't agree with them. (You could write a novel in which the reader was forced to confront the antisemitism without the figurative scare quotes, in which case you'd have something far more demanding and, indeed, frightening--but also, I suspect, far less marketable.) Whatever the characters think about religion, the narrator makes it clear which are to be blamed and which praised. Given the degree of textual insulation, as it were, why bother apologizing? (I suppose one could apologize for everybody's attitude to sex outside the missionary position...)
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Handmade Turquoise Star of David Necklace is 925 Sterling Silver, decorated with Swarovski Crystals, Copper accents and hand painted. The Star of David (Magen David in Hebrew) or the Shield of David, also known as the Seal of Solomon, is generally a recognized symbol of Judaism and Jewish identity. The Star of David Handmade Necklace is also known as the Kings Star, it is possible that it was the Kabbalah that made first use of this sign. The Star of David Pendant is 1.3cm (0.5in) in diameter and the Necklace is 40cm (15.7in) long. Signed by the artist Ester Shahaf.
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Corporate travel managers were quick to jump on the SARS-related travel ban to China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto, and other affected areas—and now they’re beginning to jump back off again, according to the results of the Business Travel Coalition’s fourth SARS survey, released May 8.
The first survey, released April 1, found 27 percent of companies banning travel. That percentage jumped to 58 percent on April 7, rose again to 61 percent on April 16, and now is sliding downward, with 59 percent of companies saying they are banning travel to and from SARS-affected areas. Those who are still banning travel say it’s because of concerns that travelers couldthe disease or could unknowingly carry the disease back to the office. Fifty-nine percent indicated that they were banning travel to spare employees the hassle and worry of traveling to SARS-affected locations. One hundred percent say that when the World Health Organization indicates that travel to a certain country is again safe, they’ll normalize their travel policies to that area.
For the full report, go to BTC Travelogue
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BPF slams attack on PVC-U windows
By Hamish Champ
Posted 3 May 2012
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has labelled as ‘inaccurate’ an article in the Financial Times which suggests PVC-U windows are damaging the planet.
Writing in the FT, Dr Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said PVC-U windows caused “serious damage” to the cultural value of historic town and village centres.
He wrote that an estate agent survey in 2009 found house prices could be depressed by the installation of PVC-U windows and doors, some of which had been fitted illegally.
“Research has now shown that the energy savings generated by PVC-U windows will never cover their capital cost because most have a life of less than 20 years,” Thurley further claimed.
The BPF hit back, arguing that organisations such as the Building Research Establishment had put the lifetime figure at a minimum of 35 years.
Nor was any credit given to PVC-U window’s energy efficient characteristics, the trade body said.
Describing the article as “misleading”, the BPF said it had written to both Thurley and the FT to state the material’s case.
In a statement the BPF said: “The unfortunate article alleged that most PVC-U windows had a life expectancy of only 20 years and that consumers installing PVC-U windows were ‘damaging the planet’.
“To permeate the text with more misinformation, the article says that PVC-U windows are ‘instantly recognisable because they cannot imitate historic mouldings, glazing bars and proportions’.
“The BPF has written to Dr Thurley pointing out the inaccuracies of his article, with details including case studies of successfully installed PVC-U windows where heritage designs were required,” it concluded.
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Kentucky Seating Chart
Kentucky Cities - Tickets On Sale Now!
Choose the city closest to you and find your venue. From there you are just a few clicks from buying those premium seats for the event of your dreams.
All Kentucky City Guides - Find your City/State and choose from the venues. Click Tickets or picture for seating and schedules.
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Note that cites are sorted first by state (e.g., Wrightwood, CA comes before Arvada, CO.). You can also use our zip code, venue and city search at the top left of every page by clicking the appropriate option first.Select Kentucky City Guides:
Find tickets online or call 888-489-7070.
Kentucky's central location and diverse geography has influenced visitors to the state even in prehistoric times. Native Indians had long been there long ago but none had permanent settlements when settlers stared showing up in the mid-1700s. It was the hunting grounds of Shawnees and Cherokees. Dr. Thomas Walker documented the area in 1750 and the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1768) and Sycamore Shoals (1775) purchased the rights to most of the land in the state.
The settlements grew quickly with settlers reaching west of the Appalachian Mountains. The famous Daniel Boone was one of the state founders. The Shawnees were displeased and joined with the British in the Revolutionary War.
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There are many factors to consider when choosing a cosmetology school, including location, tuition cost, class sizes, technical facilities, and general atmosphere. However, perhaps the most important criteria are the quality of education offered and whether the institution is licensed by its state board of cosmetology. Students graduating from a school with a good reputation may find it easier to get a job. In addition, for a student to be eligible to take the state licensing exam after graduation, the school's diploma must be accepted by the state board of cosmetology. Otherwise, you may not be able to get a license and your degree may be of little worth. Another possible indicator of quality is when the school is accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences or the NACCAS, (N-A-C-C-A-S). Accredited schools must undergo periodic inspections in which financial records and instructors are scrutinized, students are interviewed, and other attributes are checked. They must also furnish information on how long it typically takes to complete a given program, what percentage of their students graduate, and how many pass the state licensing exam.
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The library at the Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District serves the justices and research attorneys at the court and is not open to the public. The library contains approximately 30,000 volumes, including the justices’ chamber collections.
If you are a self-represented litigant, you may find the following resources to be of general assistance:
- California Courts Online Self-Help Center (Prepared by the Judicial Council of California)
- Basic Civil Appellate Practice (Prepared by the Appellate Courts Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association)
The Sixth District Self-Help Manual is under construction at this time. There are various Self Help Manuals prepared by other districts of the California State Court of Appeal that may be of general assistance. Please keep in mind that other districts may have local rules which will be reflected in their manual.
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DALLAS , Oct. 30 -- Three wars. Three photographers. Still the same hope for peace.
The famous piano on which John Lennon composed "Imagine" in 1971 will be shipped to the United States by superstar musician George Michael as the centrepiece of a specially curated photography exhibition celebrating peace. This is the first time the piano has left the United Kingdom. Michael bought the piano, considered the most expensive piece of pop memorabilia, at an auction in October 2000 reportedly for 1.45m pounds sterling(US$2.1 million).
The work of three photographers, Don McCullin, Gabriele Basilico, Tomas Munita, that have confronted themselves with war zones will accompany the piano display at Goss Gallery in Dallas, along with the "Gimme Some Truth" video of John Lennon playing the song for the first time to wife Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band.
The show will premiere in Dallas on December 5 and continue through January 13, 2007. Plans call for a tour of the exhibition throughout the United States and Europe with a schedule of venues to be announced in the near future.
Goss Gallery is a leading contemporary modern art gallery and is owned by George Michael's long-time partner, Kenny Goss. Michael and Goss conceived the show to underline their belief in delivering a theme of world peace to the people who will see the art, using the notoriety of the piano to draw attention to that message. Goss Gallery Director and Curator Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi carefully selected the photographers and images for the "Imagine"show, matching the emotions of the art with the overriding theme of peace.
In conjunction with the show, six images of the piano, each in a limited edition print series signed by the photographer, will be available through Goss Gallery. The images were taken by the United Kingdom's noted celebrity photographer Richard Young, who has photographed iconic stars in stage, screen and music. A collector's edition catalogue of the show will also be available for sale exclusively through the gallery with net proceeds, estimated to be 60% of the cover price, to benefit amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
McCullin is one of the most famous war photographers of his generation. McCullin has witnessed and reported from almost every conflict in modern history, from the 1960s in Cyprus , the Congo , Vietnam and Biafra, to the 1970s in Northern Ireland and Cambodia , to the 1980s in Lebanon.
Basilico is one of today's best-known documentary photographers in Europe. Focusing on cities and industrial landscapes as his fields of investigation, Basilico was one of the first western artists to be invited to Beirut in 1991 to document the desolation left behind by 10 years of civil war.
Munita represents the young generation of photojournalists. Working with the Associated Press, his images in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2005 present the viewer with a unique compassion and lyrical composition.
The song, "Imagine", was first released in 1971 and was already John Lennon's most famous post-Beatles song, but it took on a whole new life of its own following Lennon's murder in December 1980 . When first released, "Imagine" reached No. 3 in America and No. 6 in Britain but after Lennon's death in December 1980, the song gave him a posthumous No. 1.
Lennon bought the piano in December 1970, had it delivered to studios at his home in Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, composed and recorded "Imagine" on it. The piano is a simple upright style instrument, not the white piano which graced the cover of the album. In 1992, it was bought by a private British collector who put it up for auction in October 2000 .
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Monday, March 26 2007 - 9/11 Commission
BREAKING NEWS! Rep. Kucinich Publicly Acknowledges Need for 9/11 Investigation
"Kucinich brings hard-nosed arguments" In an article published today at TimesUnion.com Kucinich
said that as chairman of a House subcommittee on domestic policy, he plans to launch an investigation of "a narrow portion" of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He offered few details, but said his subcommittee would be looking at "a few, specific discrepancies in the public record." The 9/11 Commission that published its final report in 2004 never resolved some conflicting facts, Kucinich said. He announced his own look at 9/11 in answer to a question from an audience member. The man complained that the 9/11 Commission was too tied to the Bush administration to offer an unbiased report, and Kucinich agreed.We encourage readers to share this information with your lists, and to contact Rep. Kucinich with a note of support at http://kucinich.us/contact. You might also wish to express gratitude to this TimesUnion reporter, Dan Higgins, by e-mail at email@example.com. Secondly, Rep. Kucinich is asking blog readers, "Impeachment: I'm asking you. Do you think it's time?" http://kucinich.us/node/3696 Please take a moment and reply to Rep. Kucinich's question at that page ... "Yes, and please include Articles of Impeachment for criminal negligence and obstruction of justice arising from the crimes of September 11th, 2001."
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A recent post
on PR Daily
offered some great insight into everything you can gain by waking up earlier. You automatically give yourself more time for just about anything—breakfast, reading, exercising, an easier commute.
I used to be an early riser—rise at 4 a.m., get to work by 5 a.m.—and experienced all of these benefits. But today I could no more get up that early than I could stop using the serial comma. Getting out of bed to go to work is excruciating.
I’ve tried going to bed earlier. I’ve tried not reading before I go to sleep. I’ve tried drinking water first thing in the morning. But none of this seems to make a difference. The alarm goes off and it starts. I snooze, where I never snoozed before. I lie to myself so I can stay in bed longer. “Traffic won’t really be so bad today. It’s Thursday and I’ll bet a lot of people are taking off to get an early start to the weekend,” or, “I’ll sleep 10 minutes longer and just drive 80 miles per hour to work.”
So now, it’s time to try some gimmicks. Apparently, there is an entire industry built around getting people out of bed in the morning.
Here are some noteworthy products:
1. Moving alarm clock.
At the allotted time, this alarm clock “shrieks annoyingly” and then rolls away. You have to chase it to turn it off. (A simpler solution may be to put your alarm clock across the room so that you have to get up to turn it off.)
2. Puzzle Alarm Clock.
When your alarm goes off, this clock launches three puzzle pieces into the air. You must return all three pieces to their holes before the alarm turns off.
3. Carpet Alarm Clock.
You have to stand on it to turn the alarm off.
4. Throw alarm clock.
You have to bounce or throw this alarm clock to turn it off. Great for those who have always wanted throw their alarm clock across the room.
5. Silent alarm clock.
The product description states: “Each person wears a wireless rubber ring with an integrated vibration device that generates a tactile alarm. The snooze function is engaged by shaking your hand. However, each successive time you want to snooze, more movement is required.”
6. Natural light alarm clock.
The Light Sleeper alarm clock is a pillow and duvet cover made with “electroluminescent threads” that light up as it approaches your set waking time. It simulates a natural sunrise so you wake up spontaneously.
7. Bacon alarm clock.
That’s right; you can wake up to the smell of cooking bacon with the Wakn’ Bacon alarm clock. It’s a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock. You place a piece of frozen bacon in the clock before you go to bed. You set your alarm and it starts cooking the bacon 10 minutes before wake time. It uses a halogen bulb for cooking and shuts off after 10 minutes.
8. A bed that kicks you out.
OK, so this one is fiction. But perhaps Wallace from “Wallace and Gromit” has the right idea. Attach his contraption to an alarm clock and problem solved!
readers, care to share your tips for getting up in the morning?
Laura Hale Brockway is the author of the writing/editing/random thoughts blog, Impertinent Remarks.
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John Winters: Listen and learnColumn by JOHN A. WINTERS
In our household, certain phrases are oft repeated during movie time.
The second most-used is “can’t you be quiet.” If you’re curious, the third is “what did he/she say?” I’ll get to the first in a minute.
I’d say “how about this?” The Little Black Dress would give the approval nod and I’d get popcorn ready. I say easy because Eldest SON of Thunder was in bed, Middle SON was nursing and Youngest was in the womb.
As the SONs have grown, so have their movie tastes. And so has the time it takes to select something we can all agree on and thus enjoy our precious “family movie time.” Eldest prefers anything with “zombie” in the title, Middle tends toward things with “Star Wars” and Youngest is pretty much all over the map, but does love those pandas.
Lately, the LBD has pushed for more “inspirational” and “happy” movies. I just want to see something we haven’t seen more than some number with three digits.
For new movies, the result is we have to “proof” them beforehand because I have, on very rare occasions, blown it and had the SONs watching something I wouldn’t even watch, but we do so until The Dress comes down, sees the SONs freaking out and says A). “Boys, you are not watching that, go read a book” and B). “What were you thinking?” That last remark always aimed at me.
When we don’t agree, The Dress will entice one SON to at least watch part of The Tale of Despereaux while the others head off for The Empire Strikes Zombie Land. Which to me kind of defeats the whole point of “family movie time.”
A few nights ago, we were at an impasse regarding a movie. So I’m flipping through the 1,342 regular TV channels and come up with an idea - one The Dress immediately agreed to I’d like to point out.
“We’re watching ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’” I say.
Here we go: “Huh?” “Who’s killing a bird” “What’s is about?” “Who dies?” “Are their zombies?” “Are there clones?”
“It’s about honor, doing what’s right, standing up for your family and racial injustice,” I finally say, which quiets them for a moment. “It’s like that movie ‘A Time To Kill’ (which they all liked). And it’s in black and white.”
“Black and white! Ugh, we hate black and white” etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. They refuse to believe there was a day when television was just black and white.
So we watch. And the questions start right off the bat.
Which leads to the number one phrase I say in every movie: “Listen and you will learn.”
“Why did they arrest that black guy”? (Listen and you will learn). “Why does the girl keep fighting everyone?” (Listen and you will learn). “Why is he going to shoot that dog?” (Listen and you will learn). “Who’s chasing them in the woods?” (You get the point).
It’s like getting a surprise. You want the surprise, but yet you want to know what it is beforehand and still be surprised. Doesn’t work that way.
Frustration is compounded because right when they ask the next question and I respond with an increasingly louder “listen and you will learn,” the script gives the answer. And I say “see” and they respond with “rewind it please.” Ugh.
They, we, want to know everything immediately. We hear, as in absorb, noise ... we don’t listen. We are so impatient we don’t let the journey unfold.
There were a few questions where I actually said to wait for the commercial. The movie didn’t give an answer.
Why were they calling Tom a Negro and boy? Why couldn’t black people go inside the fence? Why did all those white people lie? Why did Atticus lose some friends simply because he was defending that black man? And I tried to explain.
Afterward, there was some discussions amongst the three: Tom was innocent, they convicted him just because he was black; God says we are all equal. Scout got into fights to defend her dad. Jem and Scout took care of each other like mom wants us to. Atticus stood for what was right, regardless of the consequences, just like dad wants us to. Boo was a good person, but people didn’t know him so they made up stuff.
So maybe they did listen.
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In the hospital where I spent my critical care rotation, the patients in the intensive care unit (“the unit,” for short) weren’t as sick as those in some other hospitals. They were all more or less aware and oriented to their surroundings. You could have a conversation with them.
On one not particularly busy day, a team of doctors was standing in a patient’s room, chatting. The full-length windows (a common feature of ICU architecture) showed a sunny day. We were talking both to and about the patient, shifting easily between including him in the conversation and cutting him out of it. A nurse popped into the room occasionally, to take care of something or to confer with one of the interns. The other students and I hung out in the back of the room, talking about what residency programs we matched with and about our upcoming vacations. It was strangely peaceful.
Once again, a nurse again came into the room; she whispered to an intern. The intern’s face assumed an expression of practiced frustration, and he left the room with a sigh. Purely out of curiosity, we three students followed him into an adjoining patient room. There the electronic monitor showed a grossly irregular heartbeat, and the elderly man in the bed said he felt uncomfortable and couldn’t breathe. We couldn’t breathe for a second, either — we knew that the heart irregularity we were looking at was deadly, more often than not.
Then everything started to happen at once. Someone called out, “Let’s bag him!” and a mask was placed over the man’s nose and mouth to help him breathe. He was still conscious and could state his name clearly through the mask, even though the beat on the monitor was still irregular. “He won’t be conscious for long with that rhythm,” someone said.
Someone else called a code, or a signal over the loudspeaker connoting a medical emergency. More generally, a “code” is the high drama of resuscitation made mundane by repetition. It’s a combination of shared concentration, workplace banter and choreography that no one ever should have to witness as a bystander. This was the last code I saw as a medical student, which means it was the last code I could spend flattened against a wall, hoping no one would run into me, and occasionally running tubes to the laboratory or trying to page someone on the phone. I couldn’t see the patient from the corner where I was standing, but the elderly man was now lying quietly on the bed as the team maneuvered around him. I hoped for his sake that he was already unconscious.
To the uninitiated, a code is chaos. I’m definitely not fully initiated yet, but I know enough to say that the chaos is only apparent. People participating in a well-run code, like any other piece of complicated teamwork, have their well-defined roles.
But even in this lifesaving drama, people can demonstrate their flaws. One doctor — whose specialty I won’t reveal — wasn’t able to do what he was supposed to do. And when the senior resident, who was running the code ( i.e., giving orders and directing the choreography), told him to take a minute and do what he should have done, he responded with an expletive.
To everyone’s great credit, no one paid any attention. There were smirks and raised eyebrows, but people kept on doing what they were supposed to do. This was the first remarkable phenomenon of the code: Conflicts that ordinarily might have disrupted the choreography only served to emphasize how smooth it was.
One other thing happened, which is horrible to relate. Despite everyone’s best efforts, the patient died. Half an hour after the 20 or more people in the not-so-large room had begun their unsuccessful struggle, only a few people remained with the deceased, and it was time for our team to resume rounds. We went back out into the hall and talked about the other patients. Then, finally, we retreated to the on-call room.
But even then, when we were safely out of view of everyone else on the unit, it was not a time to cry or to mourn. We kept talking. The attending physician who was rounding with us said that we should not beat ourselves up about the patient’s dying, that everything had been done the right way. He made a few observations about the code, we shared our impressions, and that was that.
In the cold summary of hospital jargon, the patient had “coded.” A hospital doesn’t allow much deliberation during the aftermath. Perhaps the only lesson to be learned is that best expressed by Robert Frost in his poem “Out, Out,” about a horrible accident:
Except there is a saving grace. The affairs we turn to in the hospital are the saving of other lives. For good or ill, this is the only ritual observed in every hospital on the death of a patient: going back to work.
Zackary Sholem Berger is a frequent contributor to the Forward. He will start his primary care residency at New York University in July.
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( b. circa 1932 Bronx, New York, USA - d. Nov 26, 2012 ) Male
A flamboyant and effusive man who relished the good life, and had the money to bankroll it, Marty Richards was known as a great talker, a font of showbiz stories, and a thrower of opulent parties (Cy Coleman would perform alongside Neil Sedaka). He was also an open admirer of talent, his fascination with artists he respected never dimming. "I've always been terribly intimidated by Stephen Sondheim's genius, and I was afraid to approach him," he once said. "But he's the least stubborn composer. If you need another song, he just goes home and writes one and brings it back the next day."
As a producer, he could be tenacious. The Oscar for Chicago was hard-won. Mr. Richards began his quest to convert the Bob Fosse-directed Kander and Ebb musical, about a couple of merry Chicago murderesses who love the spotlight, into a film shortly after the show premiered on Broadway in 1975. Miramax optioned the movie rights to Chicago from Richards in 1991. Ten years later, the film was finally made. Mr. Richards was ever-present, arriving early in the morning every day of the shoot and leaving last, and fighting with the creators when he felt they were diverting from Fosse's original vision.
He was born Morton Richard Klein, the son of Sid Klein, a stockbroker, and Shirly Klein, a housewife, in The Bronx. His parents, noticing their son's fine voice, enrolled him in the Marie Moses School of Dance and Singing. His classmates included Donna Reed and Rita Moreno. When he was 10, he was cast in the 1944 musical comedy Mexican Hayride. His voice changed at age 13, however, and the opportunities dried up. Still, he persevered, singing in nightclubs under the name Martin Richards, while he studied architecture at NYU.
He struck out on his own as a producer in 1972, raising the money for an Off-Broadway show called Dylan. The play won an Obie Award. The producers Robert Fryer and James Cresson were impressed and invited him to help out on Chicago. Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon didn't particularly like the over-eager newcomer. But when the show was delayed by Fosse's heart attack, and Mr. Richards kept the cast together by finding them temporary jobs, Fosse was appreciative. A friendship was born.
Around this time, Mr. Richards met Band-Aid heiress Mary Lea Johnson, daughter of Seward Johnson of the Johnson & Johnson empire. Johnson and her then husband, Victor D'Arc, were interested in investing in theatre and movie projects, and turned to Mr. Richards for help. Together, Johnson and Mr. Richards founded Producer Circle Co. in 1976. When Johnson divorced D'Arc, she stayed with Mr. Richards. Though she knew he was gay, they married in 1978, eventually living in separate apartments in the same building. The union, by all accounts a happy one, afforded him a luxurious lifestyle. As a wedding gift, she gave him a Southampton estate on the beach with a swimming pool and a tennis court. Johnson died in 1990.
The first hit show that Mr. Richards and Johnson co-produced was On the Twentieth Century. Mr. Richards subsequently won Tony Awards for The Norman Conquests, Sweeney Todd, La Cage aux Folles, The Will Rogers Follies, The Life and the 2005 Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles. Less successful were A Doll's Life, Rockabye Hamlet, Grind, Mayor, Goodbye Fidel and Roza.
Mr. Richards was also a generous philanthropist. He, along with his late wife, was instrumental in founding Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Meals on Wheels. He went on to establish the liver and kidney transplant unit at the NYU Medical Center which bears his wife's name. Mr. Richards also created the New York Center for Children to care for abused children and their families.
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After traditional marriage advocates came out en masse for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day last week, gay marriage activists are planning to swarm Starbucks on Tuesday to show their support for companies that offer same-sex partner benefits.
Today's National Marriage Equality Day is a "direct response" to conservative commentator Mike Huckabee's Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, which the chicken company said led to "record-setting" sales last week.
"It felt like the right wing groups were showcasing Aug. 1 as 'This is how America feels,'" said Kirsten Ott Palladino, the editor of an online same-sex wedding magazine, Equally Wed, who, along with her wife, started the equality day effort. "We are wanting to say, 'This isn't all of America and we can come out and support our businesses too."
The controversy began after Chick-fil-A's president, Dan Cathy, was widely quoted as opposing same-sex marriage. "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,'" he said.
Palladino told ABC News the day was originally planned as Starbucks Appreciation Day, to show support for a company that, unlike Chick-fil-A, supports same-sex marriage and offers benefits to same-sex couples. But Starbucks managers asked Palladino to expand the effort to include other companies that are supporters of LGBT rights, a change Palladino said she happily made.
"In the end I think that I'm happier with it becoming this because it's not just supporting businesses that support marriage equality, but also non-profits that are working tirelessly and sometimes thanklessly to support marriage equality in this country," she said. "At the end of the day it's not just about seeing how many lines we're wrapping around Starbucks."
Starbucks did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment. To see a full list of businesses the equality day is celebrating click here.
More than 28,500 people have said on Facebook they will join in Tuesday's appreciation day, about twice as many attendees as there were for the Chick-fil-A kiss-in that other LGBT advocates held on Friday. About 12,000 people signed up on Facebook for the kiss-in, which urged same-sex couples to take a photo of themselves kissing outside a Chick-fil-A.
It's still a fraction of the 650,000 people who said on Facebook that they would attend Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day last Wednesday.
Palladino said Huckabee's "household name status" is what made his pro-traditional marriage event so popular. Big name conservatives like Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum also posted their support for the Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on Twitter and Facebook.
The marriage equality day, on the other hand, does not have that star power. Palladino said she hopes for hundreds, maybe thousands of people to choose to spend their money at businesses like Amazon.com, Nike and Starbucks for National Marriage Equality Day.
While much of the furor over Chick-fil-A died down following Wednesday's appreciation day, advocates are continuing their call for companies associated with the chicken chain to break ties. On Tuesday activists will deliver 80,000 petition signatures to HarperCollins, which publishes the Berenstain Bears books being given out with Chick-fil-A kids' meals.
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House approves oil spill reform bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Passing the bill as the House leaves for its six-week recess gives lawmakers the opportunity to return home boasting they reined in Big Oil and held BP responsible for the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.
The vote was 209-193 on the bill supported by President Barack Obama.
But first, Gulf Coast Democrats won an amendment ending the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil companies that met new safety requirements.
The Obama administration's moratorium would end in November. By the time the full Congress completes action on this offshore drilling bill -- and it is uncertain that it will -- it could be November or later.
A similar offshore drilling bill is pending in the Senate, without the House's new provision to end the drilling moratorium. But it was unlikely that measure would pass before that chamber begins its summer recess on August 6.
House Republicans warned the bill would slash U.S. oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, a major supplier of domestic energy, and cut high-paying drilling jobs.
"The Obama moratorium on deepwater drilling has already costs thousands of jobs and this bill will eliminate even more American energy jobs, making it harder and more expensive to produce both energy on and offshore," said Republican Representative Pete Sessions.
"It will drive American companies out of the Gulf," said Republican Representative Kevin Brady. "This is a choice between American energy workers and foreign oil."
Democrats said the bill would make offshore drilling safer for workers, while also protecting the environment and Gulf Coast business from future oil spills like the one caused by BP that damaged wetlands and hurt the region's fishing and tourism industries.
"This legislation is about safety, about establishing new safety standards, safety for the workers on the rigs," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"If you want to apologize for Big Oil, go right ahead, but the American people are not on your side on this one," Democratic Representative Jim McGovern told his Republican colleagues during a long day of debate.
Before passing the bill, the House also approved an amendment to help smaller oil companies compete for Gulf of Mexico drilling projects under the proposed reforms. The amendment would let them pool their resources in demonstrating they have the financial resources to deal with potential oil spills.
The House vote on the bill was close, as several Democrats representing districts with strong oil industry interests joined Republicans in opposition.
Representative Gene Green, from the oil industry-dominated city of Houston, was one of those Democrats. "There are a lot of things in there that have nothing to do with safety" of offshore drilling operations, Green told reporters.
A sticking point in the Senate is opposition from Republicans and some moderate Democrats to removing all liability limits oil companies would face for economic damages stemming from the BP disaster and any future spills.
Current law requires companies to only cover up to $75 million for damages to local economies. The BP spill could end up costing billions of dollars in lost tourism, fishing and other Gulf Coast revenues.
BP has said it would pay for all costs related to the spill, but many lawmakers worry that the company could put victims through years of litigation.
The Senate energy bill has an added component: new incentives to encourage more natural gas-powered trucks and electric vehicles to clean up the environment. It also provides $5 billion to help improve home energy efficiency.
But Senate Democrats abandoned attempts to attach climate change provisions that would have set mandatory limits on some companies' carbon dioxide emissions.
Senate leaders plan to hold a test vote next Wednesday to gauge support for the bill, according to a Democratic aide. But Republicans, and possibly some moderate Democrats, might block a full debate, forcing senators to take it up in September.
The House also approved a separate bill on Friday to give whistle-blower protection to workers who report violations in offshore drilling rules.
(Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Sofina Mirza-Reid)
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As I have mentioned in my previous blog posts, I am a music major. I love music and it is my life. The one thing that many people don’t know about music majors is our schedules. A music major has classes all day and they aren’t just classes that start at noon. Actually, most classes have started before or by 10 in the morning. Another part to our schedule is recitals. We are required to attend and participate in a certain number of recitals every semester or our grades for lessons will go down. Being a freshman, I just completed my first recital performance and let me just say I was very nervous, but I played my bassoon piece well.
Even though our days start pretty early, that doesn’t mean we don’t go to bed early. In fact, many of the classes we take require practicing parts. Basic Musicianship is a class taken all through freshman and sophomore year and it requires a lot of practice. The class helps music students learn what they will need to be teaching or using in music.
If anyone ever has the chance, come over to Cope and hear some wonderful music. There are always recitals going on and there are many amazing musicians in this building!
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From Melbourne's Astor Theatre, a harrowing tale of the way that the DRM on digital projectors -- intended to stop exhibitors from leaking high-quality videos onto the Internet -- can interfere with legitimate exhibition. Punishing the innocent to get at the guilty is never a good answer, morally or commercially. The most secure way to manage theatrical exhibition is to ban it altogether; the DRM scheme used by digital projectors comes pretty close to that "solution."
Unlike 35mm film prints that are tangible, come on spools, and run through a mechanical projector, DCPs are files that are ingested into the digital projector which is in many ways simply a very high-tech computer system. Because the physical file is ingested into a projector it can – if the cinema has enough space on its server – be kept there indefinitely and so, having created this situation themselves, the studios and distributors lock the files so that they can only be screened at the times scheduled, booked and paid for by the cinema. This means each DCP comes with what is called a KDM (Key Delivery Message). The KDM unlocks the content of the file and allows the cinema to play the film. It is time sensitive and often is only valid from around 10 minutes prior to the screening time and expiring as close to 5 minutes after the scheduled time. Aside from the obvious fact that this means screenings really do need to run according to scheduled time, it is also means the projectionist can’t test to see if the KDM works or that the quality of the film is right before show time. This isn’t always a problem. But when it is…
When it is a problem we have what happened last night. The KDM we received for Take Shelter didn’t work. We discovered this about ten minutes prior to show time. Being a cinema, and holding evening screenings we couldn’t just call the distributor to get another one because they work office hours. So, our steps began with calling a 24 hour help line in the US. Once we went through the process of authenticating our cinema and scheduled screening we were told we had to call London to authorise another KDM for this particular screening. After calling London and re-authenticating our cinema and session, we were told we could be issued another KDM, but not before the distributor also authorised it. This meant another 5-10 minute delay as we waited for the distributor to confirm that we were indeed allow to show the film at this time. Once confirmation was received we waited for the new KDM to be issued. The KDM arrives as an email zip attachment that then needs to be unzipped, saved onto a memory stick and uploaded onto the server. This takes another 5-10 minutes. Once uploaded the projector needs to recognise the KDM and unlock the programmed presentation. Thankfully, this worked. However, until the very moment when it did we were as unsure as our audience as to whether or not the new KDM would work and therefore whether or not our screening would actually go ahead.
This is one example of one incident in one cinema. There are thousands upon thousands of screenings at cinemas just like us all over the world constantly experiencing these same issues.
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#The War That Never Ends
Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection
Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. Huffington Post:
On Wednesday morning, as many Americans sifted through the voter data and exit poll numbers of President Barack Obama’s reelection the night before, the Twitter feeds of close watchers of Yemen lit up with reports of another sort of presidential event: an apparent U.S. drone strike had killed several individuals in that country.
There was no way of being certain if the strike was indeed American, or for that matter if it was a drone strike at all, although it had all the markings of one.
“All signs (after dark, suspicions of locals, target) point to Sanhan strike being a US drone,” Yemen-based freelance journalist Adam Baron wrote on Twitter.
Several other analysts concurred.
A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. If it were a American strike, of course, it would have to have been authorized by Obama.
The drone war violates both domestic and international law, and the Obama administration’s vehement disdain for transparency in government is the only thing keeping it from public and legal scrutiny. Beyond the law, it’s terrorism.
(Source: jayaprada, via topmetesla)
"We did not know that America existed. We did not know what its geographical location was, how its government operated, what its government was like, until America invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. … We have become victims of Americans. We don’t know how they treat their citizens or anything about them. All we know is that they used to support us, and now they don’t. … We know that the consequences of drone strikes are extremely harsh. Our children, our wives now that our breadwinners — when they go out to earn a livelihood, they might not come back, and life may become very miserable for them in the years to come. … Now we are always awaiting a drone attack and we know it’s certain and it’s eventual and it will strike us, and we’re just waiting to hear whose house it will strike — our relatives’, our neighbors’, or us. We do not know. We’re just always in fear."
New Stanford/NYU study documents the civilian terror from Obama's drones →
A vitally important and thoroughly documented new report on the impact of Obama’s drone campaign has just been released by researchers at NYU School of Law and Stanford University Law School. Entitled “Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan”, the report details the terrorizing effects of Obama’s drone assaults as well as the numerous, highly misleading public statements from administration officials about that campaign. The study’s purpose was to conduct an “independent investigations into whether, and to what extent, drone strikes in Pakistan conformed to international law and caused harm and/or injury to civilians”.
The report is “based on over 130 detailed interviews with victims and witnesses of drone activity, their family members, current and former Pakistani government officials, representatives from five major Pakistani political parties, subject matter experts, lawyers, medical professionals, development and humanitarian workers, members of civil society, academics, and journalists.” Witnesses “provided first-hand accounts of drone strikes, and provided testimony about a range of issues, including the missile strikes themselves, the strike sites, the victims’ bodies, or a family member or members killed or injured in the strike”.
Here is the powerful first three paragraphs of the report, summarizing its main findings:
Whilte noting that it is difficult to obtain precise information on the number of civilian deaths “because of US efforts to shield the drone program from democratic accountability”, the report nonetheless concludes: “while civilian casualties are rarely acknowledged by the US government, there is significant evidence that US drone strikes have injured and killed civilians.”
But beyond body counts, there’s the fact that “US drone strike policies cause considerable and under-accounted for harm to the daily lives of ordinary civilians, beyond death and physical injury”:
In other words, the people in the areas targeted by Obama’s drone campaign are being systematically terrorized. There’s just no other word for it. It is a campaign of terror - highly effective terror - regardless of what noble progressive sentiments one wishes to believe reside in the heart of the leader ordering it. And that’s precisely why the report, to its great credit, uses that term to describe the Obama policy: the drone campaign “terrorizes men, women, and children”.
"Herein lies the real function of the American justice system, clearly revealed time and again. It is to protect high-level actors from accountability even for the most egregious of crimes, while severely punishing those who reveal or take a stand against those crimes, thus deterring and intimidating any future opposition."
#The War That Never Ends
It is this same mentality that has led the US federal judiciary to produce the most disgraceful political fact of the last decade. Not a single victim of America’s “war on terror” abuses – even those now acknowledged by the US government to have been completely innocent – have been allowed even to have their cases heard in an American court on the merits. They’ve all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in their faces by courts that have accepted the US government’s claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice. Crimes committed by the state or in advancement of its agenda are simply immune from the rule of law in the US.
The same exploitation of the justice system is glaringly evident in the Rachel Corrie travesty. As the Guardian’s former Israel (and now Washington) correspondent Chris McGreal writes, the dismissal of this suit is simply a by-product of the “virtual impunity for Israeli troops no matter who they killed or in what circumstances”. That’s because Israeli courts, like American courts, have submissively accepted the supreme fiction of both governments: anyone impeding government actions is a terrorist or terrorist-enabler who gets what they deserve, while the actions of the state, no matter how savage, can never be anything other than legitimate.
NYPD official: Muslim spying by secret Demographics Unit generated no leads, terrorism cases →
In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.
The Demographics Unit is at the heart of a police spying program, built with help from the CIA, which assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed. Police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames.
Police hoped the Demographics Unit would serve as an early warning system for terrorism. And if police ever got a tip about, say, an Afghan terrorist in the city, they’d know where he was likely to rent a room, buy groceries and watch sports.
But in a June 28 deposition as part of a longstanding federal civil rights case, Assistant Chief Thomas Galati said none of the conversations the officers overheard ever led to a case.
“Related to Demographics,” Galati testified that information that has come in “has not commenced an investigation.”
The NYPD is the largest police department in the nation and Mayor Michael Bloomberg has held up its counterterrorism tactics as a model for the rest of the country. After The Associated Press began reporting on those tactics last year, supporters argued that the Demographics Unit was central to keeping the city safe. Galati testified that it was an important tool, but conceded it had not generated any leads.
"Yet no politician is calling for federal hearings on the threat of white supremacists in the U.S. — the type of neo-Mccarthyist agit-prop staged by New York congressman Pete King earlier this year when he held a hearing on the dangers of “Islamic radicalization” within Muslim-American communities. In 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security issued a nine-page report on “Right-Wing Extremism”, the U.S.’s right-wing punditocracy went into overdrive, lambasting the report as an attempt to smear Republicans as a whole. The analyst who wrote it would leave the DHS a year later; his small team of domestic terrorism analysts was effectively shut down. One of the report’s findings warned of growing numbers of disaffected Army vets turning to neo-Nazi hate groups."
"Last year over 14,000 Americans were murdered on US soil. Zero by Islamic terrorists. I hope Rep Peter King and his type will start focusing more on who is truly killing our fellow Americans in an effort to save American lives and less on demonizing Muslims for political gain."
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Former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R), who seemed to back off his previous support for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants during an interview with NBC’s “Today Show” early Monday, said in a later interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd that he could support one under the right circumstances.
“I think we need comprehensive reform, and if there is a path to citizenship that has enough of a realization that we have to respect the rule of law, then so be it,” Bush said.
Earlier Monday, Bush seemed to agree with NBC’s Matt Lauer when Lauer noted that his new book doesn’t call for a path to citizenship.
Asked to explain why, Bush said: “Because our proposal is a proposal that looks forward. And if we want to create an immigration policy that’s going to work, we can’t continue to make illegal immigration an easier path than legal immigration. And so I think it’s important that there is a natural friction between our immigrant heritage and the rule of law.”
A spokesman for Bush told Post Politics that Bush’s book doesn’t, in fact, rule out a path to citizenship.
“The book provides a set of recommendations based on what is needed and what can generate bipartisan support,” said the spokesman, Jaryn Emhof. “It is a comprehensive proposal, including a path to legal residency for those here illegally. The book does not prohibit individuals here illegally from ever earning citizenship.”
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How To Fix A Car Speaker
At some point everyone's car speakers will begin to make strange crackling noises, so everyone needs to learn how to fix a car speaker. Fixing a car speaker is not as difficult as it sounds and doing it yourself can save you the money and time it takes to have someone else fix it for you. The following guide will help you learn how to fix a car speaker.
To fix a car speaker, you will need:
- Your car
- Replacement speaker
- Nine volt battery
- Check your owners manual for the location of your speakers and how to access them. They are probably located in the dashboard or in the trunk.
- Once you have access to the speakers, attempt to remove the grill. If there are no screws, you can pry off the grill with a flat object, such as a screwdriver.
Remove the speaker from its harness so that it can be removed from its location inside of the car.
- Next, tighten the butt connectors on your car speakers. This may solve the problem.
Connect your car's speakers to a nine volt battery. If a popping sound is heard than the speakers are probably working properly. If you do not hear a popping sound, they probably need to be replaced.
- Check the car speaker cone and determine if it needs repaired. You can fix the car speaker with glue if there are any minor tears or holes in the cone. Heavy duty glue will be more durable and longer lasting. You can buy heavy duty glue at a home improvement store.
If the coil or magnets of the speaker appear to be damaged, you will need to install a new speaker.
- If your speakers appear to be functioning properly, but are still making strange noises, you may want to plug in a functioning speaker. If the speaker you know to be functional does not work, than you probably have a wiring problem and need to replace the wires.
- If none of the above fixes your car speakers, than you may need to replace a fuse. Check your car manual for the fuse locations and how to replace them.
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Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) officials announced today that a portion of the Marquette to Munising rail-trail has been temporarily closed for resurfacing. Approximately 6.2 miles of trail southeast of Marquette, between the Marquette Welcome Center on US Highway 41 S and the Ojibwa Casino on State Highway M-28 E, will be closed. The rail-trail is expected to reopen on Sept. 1.
The trail resurfacing project will improve the rail-trail for nonmotorized use in the summer months by replacing the current aggregate with a crushed limestone surface. The crushed limestone will improve conditions for biking, hiking, strollers, wheelchairs and other nonmotorized uses. The multi-use trail is open for nonmotorized use only during the summer, while snowmobiling and nonmotorized uses are allowed in the winter.
"The rail-trail resurfacing project is designed to make the trail more user friendly and more of an asset to the community," said DNRE recreation specialist Ron Yesney. "Increased use in the summer will make this trail as much of a community asset during the nonmotorized season as it has been during the winter snowmobiling season."
As part of the resurfacing project, the trail will be treated with an herbicide between Aug. 4 and Aug. 7. The use of herbicide is necessary to eliminate weeds and other vegetation that would negatively affect the new limestone surface application. The herbicide is commonly used on trails and road shoulders throughout the state. The herbicide is similar to Round-Up and will not affect groundwater supplies or residential lawns. Signs have been placed along the trail announcing the use of the herbicide; as a precautionary measure, the public is asked to avoid the area while the herbicide is being applied and for 48 hours following.
Gerou Excavating of Munising is contracted to perform the trail resurfacing work and herbicide application. The Marquette to Munising multi-use rail-trail resurfacing project is funded through a federal Recreational Trails Program (RTP) grant administered by the DNRE. RTP grant funds are used exclusively for recreation development projects and cannot be applied toward nonrecreation projects.
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Greece is now officially a ward of the international community. It has no real independence when it comes to fiscal policy any more, and if everything goes according to plan, it’s not going to have any independence for many, many years to come. Here, for instance, is a little of the official Eurogroup statement:
We therefore invite the Commission to significantly strengthen its Task Force for Greece, in particular through an enhanced and permanent presence on the ground in Greece… The Eurogroup also welcomes the stronger on site-monitoring capacity by the Commission to work in close and continuous cooperation with the Greek government in order to assist the Troika in assessing the conformity of measures that will be taken by the Greek government, thereby ensuring the timely and full implementation of the programme. The Eurogroup also welcomes Greece’s intention to put in place a mechanism that allows better tracing and monitoring of the official borrowing and internally-generated funds destined to service Greece’s debt by, under monitoring of the troika, paying an amount corresponding to the coming quarter’s debt service directly to a segregated account of Greece’s paying agent.
The problem, of course, is that all the observers and “segregated accounts” in the world can’t turn Greece’s economy around when it’s burdened with an overvalued currency and has no ability to implement any kind of stimulus. Quite the opposite: in order to get this deal done, Greece had to find yet another €325 million in “structural expenditure reductions,” and promise a huge amount of front-loaded austerity to boot.
The effect of all this fiscal tightening? Magic growth! A huge amount of heavy lifting, in terms of making the numbers work, is done by the debt sustainability analysis, and specifically the assumptions it makes. Greece is five years into a gruesome recession with the worst effects of austerity yet to hit. But somehow the Eurozone expects that Greece will bounce back to zero real GDP growth in 2013, and positive real GDP growth from 2014 onwards. Here’s the chart:
Note that the downside, here, still looks astonishingly optimistic: where’s all this economic growth meant to be coming from, in a country suffering from massive wage deflation? And under this pretty upbeat downside scenario, Greece gets nowhere near the required 120% debt-to-GDP level by 2020: instead, it only gets to 159%. And to make things worse for the Eurozone, the report explicitly says that under the terms of this deal, “any new debt will be junior to all existing debt” — in other words, there’s no way at all that Greece is going to be able to borrow on the private markets for the foreseeable future, so long as this plan is in place.
As in all bankruptcies, the person providing new money gets to call the shots. And it’s pretty clear that the Troika is going to have to continue providing new money long through 2020 and beyond. Under the optimistic scenario, Greece’s financing need doesn’t drop below 7% of GDP through 2020. Under the more pessimistic scenario, it’s 8.8%. And here’s the kicker: all of that money is being lent to Greece at very low interest rates of just 210bp over the risk-free rate. Much higher, and Greece’s debt dynamics get even worse. But of course even with well-below-market interest rates, Greece is still never going to pay that money back.
The cost of this plan is €130 billion right now, and €170 billion over three years, through the end of 2014; it just continues going up from there, with no end in sight. Remember that total Greek GDP, right now, is only about €220 billion and falling.
Oh, and in case you forgot, this whole plan is also contingent on a bunch of things which are outside the Troika’s control, including a successful bond exchange. The terms of the deal, for Greek bondholders, are tough: there’s a nominal haircut of 53.5%, which means that you get 46.5 cents of new debt for every dollar of existing bonds that you hold. The new debt will be a mixture of EFSF obligations and new Greek bonds; the new Greek debt will pay just 3% interest through 2020, and 3.75% until maturity in 2042.
The plan assumes that 95% of bondholders will accept this deal, which seems optimistic to me. Bondholders are by their nature a fractious and contrarian bunch, and Greece is not saying that it’s going to default on holdouts. As a result, bondholders have to guess what might happen if they fail to tender into the exchange: they might get defaulted on and receive nothing; they might get paid out in full; or they might get defaulted on while being offered, for the second time, the same exchange they’re being offered right now. Some of them, especially the ones holding English-law bonds, might well be tempted to hold on to at least some of their bonds, just to see what happens.
More to the point, the plan assumes that Greece’s politicians will stick to what they’ve agreed, and start selling off huge chunks of their country’s patrimony while at the same time imposing enormous budget cuts. Needless to say, there is no indication that Greece’s politicians are willing or able to do this, nor that Greece’s population will put up with such a thing. It could easily all fall apart within months; the chances of it gliding to success and a 120% debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020 have got to be de minimis.
Europe’s politicians know this, of course. But at the very least they’re buying time: this deal might well delay catastrophic capital flight from Greece, and give the Europeans more time to work out how to shore up Portugal if and when that happens. Will they make good use of the time that they’re buying? I hope so. Because once the Greek domino falls, it’s going to take a huge amount of money, statesmanship, and luck to prevent further dominoes from toppling.
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Trawls drag Mississippi waters for fresh shrimp | News
BILOXI, MS (WLOX)- The first nets splashed into the Mississippi Sound at 6:00 Wednesday morning. Fishermen steered their vessels back and forth, hoping those nets would reap a bountiful harvest of fresh gulf shrimp.
After years of struggles and hardships, there is a lot of optimism about this year's Mississippi shrimp season. When the season opens Wednesday, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources says this will be the second earliest start on record.
DMR officials said we have reached 68 count per pound that state law requires to open the season. They said early indications are it's going to be a good and plentiful harvest, so they're hoping for a bigger shrimp fleet.
Down at the docks in Biloxi, the excitement was growing about the start of shrimp season on Wednesday.
Shrimper Tam Tran said, "The sooner they open, the sooner we make some money. I am very happy."
What would make the Department of Marine Resources happy is to see a lot of boats out on the water on opening day. Officials said over the years, the size of the shrimping fleet has been on the decline.
"There have been many hardships for our commercial fisheries," said Traci Floyd of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. "The shrimpers, they've seen high fuel costs increase. They seen competition from imports, and manmade and natural disasters. Last year on opening day, we counted 162 boats. That's down from around 300 following Katrina and only 20 percent of what we saw 10 years ago."
At the DMR office, people lined up Tuesday to get shrimping licenses. Commercial shrimpers said they're optimistic that not too many of shrimp have migrated out of Mississippi waters.
"Hopefully we got a good catch and a nice size shrimp to work on," said Eric Hebert, a 20 year shrimper. "It's been slow, but it's looking good. There are a few shrimp outside the line so hopefully they didn't all leak out."
"What we've seen in our samples is we've seen average to good numbers and really nice size this year, so I'm hopeful that's what they will see as well," Floyd said.
Shrimpers said depending on how well they do out on the water, they should be back at the docks either late Thursday or early Friday, hopefully with plenty of shrimp to sell.
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Biblioburro by Jeanette Winter is a true story from Colombia that tells us the story of Luis. Luis, in company with his burros Alfa y Beto, travels around the country to bring the opportunity for everyone to read. From crossing hills and streams, Luis gets to his destiny to bring books and stories for the kids. Enjoy this colorful and interesting book.
Book Reviewed by Helgi M., Patron Assistant South Branch
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Porsche made a big splash here at the Paris Motor Show with the debut of the Panamera Sport Turismo Hybrid concept. First off, it was unexpected. Secondly, it is gorgeous. Seriously, it's beautiful.
And third, it has some pretty awesome tech under the hood. This is how it works.
Taking a cue from the uber-sexy Porsche 918 Spyder, the Panamera Sport Turismo is a plug-in hybrid, much like the Chevy Volt or the Toyota Prius Plug-In. But, being Porsches, they're far from boring. Or cheap.
Porsche is now giving their plug-in hybrids the designation "e-hybrid." The intention is for the Panamera Sport Turismo to achieve 30 km, which is about 18 miles, on electric power alone. It should also be able to reach 130 km/h, or about 80 MPH, on electric power alone.
The Sport Turismo Concept is a parallel hybrid, which means that the wheels can be driven by the electric motors, the gas engine, or both at the same time. When working together, the car produces 416 horsepower, enough to make it accelerate to 60 in under six seconds.
It always defaults to electric mode, which Porsche calls e-power. That's how they get such great efficiency, with a claimed 67 MPG on the European Cycle. When needed, the engine will drive the wheels or charge the battery... or both.
Porsche also has a quick charger, which apparently can charge the battery in 2.5 hours, depending on the infrastructure. That is mega fast.
Now, I couldn't get Porsche to confirm that the car was coming, but Martin Winterkorn, the head of the VW Group, did say something interesting this week that leads me to believe it's imminent.
The VW Group believes that plug-in hybrids are the future of cars, and especially those from Porsche. There will be the 918 Spyder hybrid, but he also said there will be plug-in versions of the Panamera and the Cayenne on the way as well.
Porsche rarely makes a concept car just to make a concept car. They have a frighteningly awesome record of turning them into production cars. The Boxster, Carrera GT, and the 918 Spyder all started off as concepts that made it to production relatively unchanged.
I'm willing to bet that this is the next Panamera gussied up a little for the show circuit. It took a minute, but Porsche may have finally gotten the design right for a four door.
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By Mary Grady, Contributing editor
Early reports say the pilot and one person on the ground were killed when a helicopter hit a construction crane on top of a 50-story building during rush hour in central London Wednesday morning. The AgustaWestland 109 helicopter fell straight to the ground and exploded, and the fire spread to nearby cars in the busy traffic. Thirteen people were hurt. Witnesses said they thought it was a bomb going off, especially since it was so close to the Parliament building. Reportedly there was fog in the area. Pilots had been warned about the crane, but a witness told The Associated Press that fog and mist were covering the building, and he didn't see any lights on the crane.
The pilot, Peter Barnes, 50, was an experienced pilot whose career included flying in Hollywood films, including "Saving Private Ryan" and the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," according to the AP. Barnes had requested to divert and land at the London Heliport, close to the crash scene, because of the weather. "He was a very highly skilled pilot, one of the most experienced in the U.K., with over 12,000 flying hours," said Philip Amadeus, managing director of RotorMotion, the executive helicopter charter business that operated the flight. "We are devastated by the loss of a highly valued colleague and very dear friend."
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CBO: Four Million Americans Will Pay Individual Mandate Fine
A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the health insurance individual mandate included in President Obama’s health care law will force approximately four million uninsured Americans to pay a sizable fine by 2016.
“Among those who are subject to the penalty, many will voluntarily report on their tax returns that they are uninsured and pay the amount owed. However, other individuals will try to avoid making payments,” the CBO reported in a letter to Congressional offices. “Therefore, the estimates presented here account for likely compliance rates, as well as the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to administer and collect the penalty.”
Under a complex system of waivers and caps put into place for households which fit certain criteria, the annual penalties will average a little more than $1,000 apiece by 2016, according to the CBO.
Could Be Big Underestimate
CBO’s methodology could be undercounting the number of people subject to the fine, says Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, a California based think tank,.
“CBO estimates that about 14 million people will make conscious decisions not to buy health insurance if they deem it too expensive,” Pipes said. “But by 2016, when the mandate goes into effect fully, CBO claims only about 4 million of them will be paying a fine. Since CBO does not release their methodology for these types of claims, we have little way of analyzing its accuracy—it could end up being a much higher figure in terms of liability.”
According to Mark Pauly, professor of health and economics at the Wharton School of Business, this makes it difficult to predict the outcomes of the program.
“You take a reasonably precise number and you multiply it by a more or less made up number, and that's how you come out with a conclusion,” Pauly said.
No Methodology Provided
According to Robert A. Book, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the four million figure originated in a November 30, 2009 report CBO sent to Democrat Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, which did not provide a methodology.
Pauly believes the figure is based more on conjecture than fact, noting higher premiums may make insurance less attractive to younger, healthier individuals, who may choose to pay the fine rather than obtain costly coverage.
“Surveys of people by their income level and insurance coverage and so forth give you a pretty good idea how people would be subject to the penalty,” Pauly said. “But that doesn't tell you how many will pay the penalty versus how many will go ahead and buy the insurance. That calculation is made based on an estimate of how responsive people are to financial incentives, and estimates of whether insurance they will purchase can be had for a reasonable price.”
Wide Margin of Error
Obama’s law contains provisions for guaranteed issue, which forces insurance companies to disregard the health status of new customers. A provision of that type has allowed sick individuals to exploit Massachusetts’ individual mandate. But Book notes Congress included flexibility for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allow for a waiting period before newly insured people are eligible for public benefits, which could discourage some people from gaming the mandate.
Another incentive to comply with the individual mandate could take the form of an increased IRS presence, though the agency’s enforcement ability is not expanded under the law.
“Congress is adding 16,000 IRS agents to step up enforcement, which I assume will be in localities rather than in Washington,” Pipes said. “But we’ll have to wait and see.”
These provisions create a very wide margin of error around the CBO estimates, according to Pauly.
"The CBO is not allowed to attach confidence intervals to its estimates, but if you were a statistician you would say, even if that is your central estimate, that it could be a lot more, or it could be a lot less,” Pauly said. “It’s a starting point, but that’s all it is.
Loren Heal (firstname.lastname@example.org) writes from Neoga, Illinois.
Congressional Budget Office Report on Individual Mandate Penalties: http://www.heartland.org/healthpolicy-news.org/article/27722/CBO_Report_Mandate_Penalties_in_PPACA.html
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It’s the beginning of a strong economic recovery. Just ask the folks at Intel. The chip producer is smiling because companies “have some breathing room in the economy and their budgets”, as chief executive Paul Otellini put it on Tuesday. Or maybe it’s the end of a weak recovery. Tom Albanese, the boss of miner Rio Tinto, subsequently noted “fears about a possible double-dip recession in OECD countries and a slight slowdown in Chinese growth”.
Both chiefs are optimistic for the long term. Why not? The enriching of most of the world’s five billion or so relatively poor people will be great news for suppliers, whether of the most basic raw materials or of the most sophisticated electronic components.
But for the next few quarters, investors have a lot to worry about. Tech companies may be doing better — Dutch chip equipment maker ASML increased its 2010 forecasts on Wednesday — but the macroeconomic data from the United States and much of Europe remains largely mediocre. Euro zone industrial production in May, released on Wednesday, grew less than expected.
Investors are torn. They’ve been optimistic for almost two weeks, but that hardly makes a trend. The mood improvement came after a pretty bad second quarter. Indeed, since last September stocks have been up and down, but have generally made little progress while credit spreads have widened.
Financial markets look more fragile than markets for goods, despite near maximal fiscal and monetary support from governments and central banks. Or maybe because that support could end. Modest tightening in China is probably hurting asset prices there and in commodity markets. The fear of similar policy moves elsewhere, especially if they come before economic growth is well established, is restraining investors’ exuberance.
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Breast cancer survivor and mother of two, Terri Russell puts a face to that number.
"You wonder how long you'll be able to live and if you'll be at your kids weddings," said Russell.
Russell was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2011.
After undergoing six weeks of radiation therapy, she's now in remission -- cancer-free and nearing the finish line of what doctors call the most troubling period.
"They say the first two years are the most crucial times as far as having a recurrence," she explained.
Her son, Cooper High linebacker sophomore Nick Russell, is now front and center in a cause that's close to his heart.
"I wanted to get involved because it's affect me and my family very directly, with my mother having breast cancer," Nick said.
He's talking about Coogs for the Cure. Last year, students raised $23,000 dollars from t-shirt and wristband sales with the fundraiser.
Every cent of that goes to the Hendrick Vera West Hope Fund, which provides mammograms to women who cannot afford the procedure at no cost.
"It was a mammogram that saved my life," Russell said, who had been getting the procedure every year after she turned 40 years old.
On the back of the pink Cougar Fight Club T-shirts are 219 names from the Cougar Nation -- breast cancer survivors and warriors.
"It is our chance to be able to pay tribute to those who have struggled, provide encouragement to those who are fighting the fight and to celebrate with those who have won," said Cooper High Head Coach Todd Moebus.
The second annual Coogs for the Cure football game is Friday night at Shotwell Stadium against Midland.
A check will be presented to the Hope Fund just before the game.
You can still purchase T-shirts for $15 or wristbands for $2 at Cooper High during school hours.
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City and area communicators have pulled their resources and information regarding the one-year anniversary of the May 22, 2011 tornado into a centralized website, www.joplintornadoanniversary.com .
The site features a calendar of events noting various activities commemorating the anniversary, as well as news releases and fact sheets from organizations involved in the recovery efforts of Joplin.
“We pulled together many of the key communicators that have been distributing information throughout this past year to provide a kind of one-stop shop for anniversary-related questions,” said Lynn Onstot, Public Information Officer for the City. “There are a lot of events planned by numerous groups and organizations that people want to know about and attend. This site will help share that information.”
Onstot also noted that the site should help with general inquires that many of the communicators have received from international and national media along with the local and regional reporters, university researchers, and general public.
“Our community has had hundreds of inquiries from a wide variety of groups and individuals because this disaster has many different angles,” said Onstot. “From weather-related questions, emergency response, rebuilding and community outreach – all of these have much depth and bring many questions and areas to study. We’ve included community and business fact sheets along with recovery and rebuilding statistics on the site to help address some of these.”
Businesses and organizations may link to the site to share information with their audiences as well. The anniversary site is designed as a "splash site" and will only be maintained through May 31. After that, it will be available for archive purposes. It was developed and is hosted by the Department of Web Services of Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. Several members from MSSU are part of the communications group working to distribute information about the recovery efforts and anniversary.
This group of communicators is not new in its formation. Shortly after the disaster last year, the group came together to share their updates, answer questions, brainstorm on best practices, and provide support to each other about unique challenges they faced due to the tornado.
“This is our version of a ‘Joint Information Center’” said Onstot. “In emergency management following a disaster, JICs are formed to offer communication resources, but often representatives are centrally located. In our case, we still work out of our own offices, and utilize this great network we’ve established to help reach out to our audiences. It’s a talented group and provides an abundance of support and resources.”
In addition to the website, the JIC is working on a one-year anniversary press kit that encompasses much of this information, as well as other resources for the news media.
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The archpriest of the Roman Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls is opening an "ecumenical chapel" in the basilica's baptistery so that "non-Catholic Christian communities [can] come and pray at the basilica and celebrate liturgy". I find this upsetting. It reminds me of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Divine in New York. They have chapels for "special groups" and it rubs me the wrong way.
I do not have a problem with non-Catholic Christians praying in Catholic churches. However, I do have a problem with granting them liturgical space to celebrate rites that visibly demonstrate our disunity with one another. Liturgical space is sacred and celebrating side-by-side borders on communio in sacris.
That's just my opinion. Any others care to opine? Full article below from Zenit.org:
ROME, DEC. 21, 2007 (Zenit.org).- An ecumenical chapel at St. Paul's Outside the Walls is one of the first initiatives of the upcoming Pauline year.Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica, announced plans for the chapel in an interview with L'Osservatore Romano.
The chapel will offer "the possibility for non-Catholic Christian communities to come and pray at the basilica and to celebrate liturgy," he said. It will be placed in a Greek-design baptistery, which was remodeled in the early 20th century.
"The altar, restored, will be one we found and removed during the recent excavations near the tomb of Paul, which have made the tomb visible to pilgrims," the cardinal explained.
On Monday, Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo presented Benedict XVI with a program of the Pauline Year, to be celebrated from June 28, 2008, to June 29, 2009.
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We’ve been so busy pointing fingers at the people who caused the MLLA crisis here in Mammoth that we have hardly touched a couple of central questions.
What would it feel like to put a town of 7,000 people at risk? How does a person sleep comfortably, knowing that a little, small town in the mountains would have to reduce its resources to below bare-bones levels?
What would it be like to forge faux friendships and relationships in a small little town, only to figure out a way to con them into a $29.5 million grift and make them pay for 23 years?
Those are the questions we have for Terry Ballas and the Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition lawyers. Does it feel good? Does it feel like it was the right thing to do?
It is not a legal question. It is, rather, a moral one.
There is no question that the MLLA lawyers badly outmaneuvered then-town attorney Peter Tracy in the Bridgeport courtroom, resulting in the astonishing judgment of $30 million in damages over Ballas’ hare-brained condo/hotel/retail airport project.
The Court of Appeals agreed and the Supreme Court rightfully turned the case away, such was our dreadful legal advice.
OK, so Mammoth lost the legal battle, fair and square, and we can live with that, probably. In retrospect, it was like sending the Little Sisters of the Poor up against the 1927 Yankees. But the question before us is not about a legal victory or loss. It is about greed.
Greed, by definition, is wanting and taking more than one morally deserves. Many people confuse greed with avarice. Avarice by itself does no harm, and may even do good by pumping fairly-earned money into the collective American economy.
But greed is different. Greed depends on the absence of sympathy. Greed also exploits ignorance—the kind of ignorance that informed the woefully hoodwinked jury in Bridgeport.
The real tragedy is that we’d like to believe that we don’t really think of ourselves as Gordon Gekko types up here in the mountains. Everybody knows everybody, and there is a collective effort to make things right for everyone and his or her neighbor.
Then along come the hardball players, playing smash-mouth capitalism, and all it’s going to cost us is a loss of seven police officers and six others on the town staff. Maybe Ballas himself should tell the families how it is that they are responsible for a lost job and income.
It means we lose the use of our swimming pool and a park; it means we put up for sale our open space (the Bell Shaped Parcel), and that our services will be reduced across the board. We’d like one of the MLLA lawyers to explain that to the kids on the Mammoth Sharks swim club and maybe even to the deer and bears that cross our open spaces.
The roads are not going to get needed ongoing maintenance. Over the next few years, they’ll likely deteriorate. Maybe Ballas should explain personally why it is such a good thing that he caused that to happen.
Had the town not reached the settlement that it did, U.S. Judge Elizabeth Perris suggested that Mammoth itself might have ceased to exist as a government.
We’d like to hear from the Gekkos at MLLA how any of this is fair.
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• Made in America!
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One of the exciting and affordable ways for students to spend the summer exploring the world is summer camp programs. By applying for a camp counselor or a support staff for U.S. camp program you can combine an awesome traveling experience with a fun way to make money. Camp America brings more than 8,500 foreign students and young people into the United States each year to work as camp counselors and support staff in U.S. summer camps. Camp counselors teach sports, crafts, performing arts and other skills to campers. Support staff participants contribute maintenance, kitchen and office support. Camp America is designated by the United States Department of State as a J-visa sponsor. On weekends and breaks you can indulge in traveling around the state your camp is in as well as getting to know your fellow camp staff from all around the world.
Within the States such agencies as Adventure Student Travel provide student travel tours that are tailored to fit the educational needs of your class or student group. Each of the destinations and field trips combine unique learning opportunities with exciting activities. Student travel tours, field trips, educational travel tours, and senior class trips have never been more popular or easier. From sea to shining sea, Adventure Student Travel takes you to exciting field trip destinations throughout the United States.
Various companies provide student travel tours in Europe, China, Mexico, Africa, Australia and to the Americas. ACIS, along with eTrav and NETC have tours that are priced a bit higher than passports, CHA, EF and Explorica. For your benefit, check out all of the companies as they are each geared to individual travelers with specific budgets and travel preferences.
If you are a student preparing for careers in tourism, hotel management and food service or other you can have an opportunity to come to the United States with a J-1 visa by recruiting as seasonal staff for U.S. resorts, hotels, conference centers and other facilities. It's a good way to travel America after the seasonal work is over or during days off. Resort America matches seasonal staff to resorts, hotels, conference centers and other facilities. Work expertise ranges from maintenance, office, dining room, kitchen, housekeeping, landscaping, sports, waterfront and other related functions.
Student travel tours is your chance to experience foreign cultures, live and work with different communities and see many wonders of the world. All of these enriching experiences will provide memories that will last a lifetime. In other words, wherever the fun is, that's where you want to be, right?
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Social Security Desperately Needs Reform
November 18, 2003
Unfunded Liability Threatens All Other Government Activities, Says NCPA
November 18, 2003 – The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), one of the nation’s leading think tanks on entitlement issues, has warned that if Social Security is not reformed soon its unfunded liability will threaten the government’s ability to do anything else.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham should be praised for moving the Social Security debate forward. This is arguably our nation’s single most important domestic policy issue,” said NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore. “If Social Security is not responsibly reformed soon, the government will be unable to afford most any other project.”
According to a recent NCPA study, Social Security and Medicare are already promising $50 trillion more in benefits than they can afford to pay.
- In 2008 payroll tax collections will no longer be enough to pay all the Social Security and Medicare benefits people have been promised.
- By 2013, just ten years from today, the federal government will have to redirect 5 percent of all federal income taxes — about $100 million — to Social Security and Medicare to pay full benefits in that year.
- By 2040, nearly half of the entire federal budget will have to go to Social Security and Medicare. And the costs continue to grow.
What does that mean for the average worker? If you are 30 years old, for example, you’re going to pay 27.3 percent of your income for Social Security and Medicare in the year before you retire — a 56 percent increase from today. A 20-year-old will pay 29.2 percent in the year before they retire. A newborn will pay 35 percent — more than a third of his income — just for Social Security and Medicare.
While Social Security reform is important to all Americans, it is especially important to minorities.
“Blacks, on average, pay far more in Social Security taxes than they can ever expect to receive in benefits,” said National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford. “Using personal retirement accounts to reform Social Security will allow not only blacks, but all Americans, to save for a better retirement and also provide an asset to pass on to heirs.”
The National Center for Policy Analysis has partnered with the NBCC to expand Team NCPA — the national all-volunteer Social Security education network — to reach into the black community to educate them about the need for Social Security reform.
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Analysis: How counter-terrorism has blinded our intelligence community
In the last 24 months, unpredictable events have caught U.S. policymakers by surprise: the "Arab Spring" movement in 2011 and the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. In the wake of both surprises, many in Congress and the public have been wondering: why didn't we see this coming?
Over the last decade of counterterrorism operations, the U.S. intelligence community (IC) has undergone a remarkable transformation. A relatively modest part of the national security community before the 9/11 attacks, by 2010 the IC had swelled to encompass nearly a million people largely focused on prosecuting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the global counterterrorism mission.
In their landmark 2010 series, the Washington Post reported that the IC "has become so large, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work."
While the sheer size of the IC is staggering -- the 2013 budget for intelligence activities tops $75 billion -- its mission is also of serious concern. Large areas of the IC have move away from their traditional role of analyzing a broad range of current events for policymakers and toward supporting the global counterterrorism mission. News stories about this shift suggest the counterterrorism mission has become the overarching concern of the national security staff.
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At the conclusion of one of our recent training courses, an attendee from Wyoming approached the instructor with a form to sign. It was a Wyoming Workforce Development Training Fund form. The attendee informed the instructor that the state of Wyoming would reimburse his training fees, up to $2,000, through a grant from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services. Essentially, the attendee was receiving free training by gaining pre-approval of the course and then providing documentation of the training fees. That seemed simple enough.
So if the state of Wyoming was providing free training fees, why wasn’t everyone taking advantage of it? Did I mention FREE training? Perhaps employees didn’t know this grant was available. Or maybe businesses weren’t informing their employees of this opportunity. Whatever the case, the Workforce Development Training Fund was established to help build a workforce of competitive and competent Wyoming workers. Training compensation is available to employees with an existing position at work who require a skill upgrade or new employees who require training in their area of work.
If you are an employed worker in the state of Wyoming this grant is for you! Below is a list of the requirements to become approved for a training grant. See if you qualify or your employer qualifies.
- A business entity that is registered with the Wyoming Secretary of State to conduct business in Wyoming.
- The business entity must be in good standing with the Wyoming Unemployment Insurance program, Wyoming Workers Compensation program, Wyoming Secretary of State’s office, and the Workforce Development Training Fund.
- Training will either correct an employee’s skill deficiency or upgrade an employee’s current skill level.
- There must be a direct relationship between the training and the trainee’s occupation or craft.
- The training is not normally provided by the business entity.
- The business entity will not substitute funds normally provided for training or funds obtained from another source with Business Training Grant funds.
- There is a need for the skill upgrade provided by the training for the business entity to remain competitive in the industry or economy.
- The skill upgrade provided by the training will enhance the business entity’s productivity or profitability, reduce employee turnover, or enhance employee wages.
Grants of up to $2,000 are renewable each fiscal year for qualified employees or businesses. You can find out more at http://soswy.state.wy.us/Rules/RULES/5535.pdf.
ASPE’s training courses have previous success of gaining grant approval. If you are a software developer working for a company that still utilizes waterfall techniques our Agile Boot Camp can help your company transition to higher productivity. See all of our course offerings at www.aspe-sdlc.com which include,
- Business Analysis
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- PMI & IIBA Certifications
- Virtual Training
Wyoming isn’t the only state to establish training grants for employees and employers. These five states also offer training compensation with similar requirements and value of compensation.
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Rewrite of 2nd Site Evaluation and Nan's Seal
As I was looking out at the pond again, I had in mind Gary Snyder's suggestions, to see the wild, the unspoken parts of nature. To concentrate on the grit and the hunger and the survival rather than the peaceful. This was really hard still, but the closest I got was to notice the continuous ripples in the pond. They came very often, and I remember hearing somewhere that if there was a ripple, that meant something in the pond had just been hunted or eaten. Thinking about this, I saw the ripples differently, and started wondering what exactly was going on under those waters. There was a sports game going on to my right (probably soccer judging by the sound the ball was making, I didn't actually go and check to confirm) and the players were cheering on eachother loudly, and in general communicating with eachother about maneuvers in the game. I wondered then vaguely, if they were under water, how their loud voices might make the sound ripple. Then that lead me to imagine the organisms in the water. Were they also 'shouting,' 'yelling,'did they make enough noise to make the water ripple? What did it sound like under there. I took this pic of the water ripples, and also a video, but I couldn't manage to post the video, as the software wasn't compatible :(
Bohm and Snyder:
Walking to pond looking, thinking Gary Snyder, seeing wild unspeaking nature. Concentrating on gritting, hungering, surviving. Rippling in pond, the water. Meaning what? Something hunting eating? Thinking, viewing rippling differing. Sporting to the right, soccer balling? Cheering playing loudly, communicating, maneuvering. Wondering under water sporting, how loud? Rippling any? Imagining organisms gathering, ‘shouting,’ ‘yelling,’ creating rippling? Sounding how? Picturing rippling but no movie making :(
(I think I might have been doing a little bit of both Goatly and Bohm; the rewrite became more about the pond and the verbs were everywhere, and I attempted some of Goatly's nominalization by not making it as clear what the nouns performing the actions were. Like "rippling" is up for interpretation, what exactly is rippling at what time is unclear. I also felt like I was writing poetry, especially the line "Rippling in pond, the water." In poetry writing, it is often encouraged to make such inversions on the ways we usually speak, so switching the verb to the beginning makes a big difference, for example.)
I'd now like to comment on Nan's rewrite of her story about Honesty, the baby seal. Her original really emphasizes the gaze between the mother and baby seal on the rock, how they were literally looking each other in the eye. In her rewrite, that detailed exchange is reduced to "One glowing eye." I read the detailed one first, then the rewrite, so I was affected differently. I felt that the interpretation of this one phrase could be taken in various ways. The two seals were staring at eachother so focused and in tune with each other, that it was as if they were one, thence the "One glowing eye?" Nan manages to bring the feel, the tone, the mood of the longer piece through this rewrite, but the actual seals are not mentioned at all in the first paragraph. It isn't until you get to the second paragraph that the seals are named. I find this VERY similar to poetry, and therefore I was very much pulled in. The waves action of pulling Honesty under the ocean is made vague in the rewrite: Footprint of the sky. Crash and thunder of waves, rising and swinging, seeking the soft underbreath of the waiting world.
Her rewrite achieves what we discussed earlier, the necessity of returning and revisiting works of writing in order to better understand the 'signifieds.' And what Nan does in the second paragraph is even more exciting, she focuses on the bloody, very violent case of a seal's birth:
"Tails lift. Red bulging, writhing. Balloon of wriggling bloody seal birth. Seal pup hungers its way out, biting its placenta. Cannibalistic. Sea gulls squawk. Greedy midwives peck and pull the afterbirth in sharp beaks. Tear it to bite-sized pieces."
Here diction like "tear," "greedy," "cannibalistic," "writhing," "bulging," "bloody" really creates a scenario of the type that Snyder wants nature writers to focus on. It speaks very frankly of the bloody and almost violent circumstances of a seal birth. There is no shying away from the details, in either the original or the rewrite.
I would like to ask Nan to briefly discuss "Womechorus/ Womechorate Mode." It is very intriguing and reminds me of the Vagina Monologues in a way; one of the monologues was about the narrator's presence at the birth of her granddaughter. That account also does not shy away from details, is very bold and frank and honest. I'd like to know more about this mode, about using the "gruesome" or "uncomfortable" or even "gory" to somehow create awareness, appreciation, and even awe of 'nature,' in this case the circumstance of a birth. What effects does this mode have? What is it's purpose and what ends does it possibly achieve?
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Terrorism to some people considered as a holy act. Wrapped in religious dogmas, this act of terrorism is becoming complicated as it sometimes interwoven with political agendas.
The socio-political dynamic in this era of globalization sharpens the conflict of any interest based on different ideological view, the gaps between rich and poor, conservative economic versus so called neo-liberalism, and also what is stated by scholars as clash of civilizations.
Armored by the possibilities of advance technology on communications, information, and weaponry, all the idea even on single living individual is ready to be operated in combative action. All radical actions find its way to act. In this turmoil and delicate atmosphere we now live in.
To die for religion consider holy and can purify ones and or collective sins and for believers in this action they declare war against impurities or any bad influences outside of their religion dogmas. History has its darkest ages that religion became too dogmatic and then corrupted as it was twisted by some of the leaders. Religion is hijacked by the idea to homogenize the world, the universe, into one single belief that claims itself the righteous one.[link]
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I won’t go over the already well done ground of the current pig farming fuss, but I will take this opportunity to point out something that will be lost under the rumble of little trotters as the pigs break free into free-range farms.
Country of orgin labelling.
Pork is very cheap at the moment, in fact if you look at the kg price, it’s cheaper than lamb and beef.
The only problem with, as with bacon, is we often have nop idea where it’s come from. While we fuss about the condition of pig farms here, it’s relevant only in the locally produced pork context, but what about the imported pork, ham and bacon, how’s that produced?
We have no idea because 90% of the time we don’t know where that products come from, is it Canada or China, if we knew, then we could decide whether we want to eat it and can factor in how it’s produced – I’d hazard a guess that the space the pigs in China are kept in would be secondary to what they’re being fed and medically treated with.
As consumers we should be able to make informed decisions on the food we eat, and in order to do this we need not only nturicional information, which is now of 99% of all foods, we also need to know where it’s made or grown.
I’ve seen the myriad of reasons why it can’t be done, but these look like pretty thin excuses to me. It can be done, sure it might be a bit of as hassle, and it might add a few cents onto the cost, although I personally doubt it. Will it change consumer habits, possibly. But at the end of the day it’s about choice. We deserve to have the option to buy or reject a particular food based on it’s origin. Some countries have very different food standards to us and the Food Safety Authority does not, and cannot, check everything that comes in. The fact that they continually find issues with food, some of it serious, implies that for everyone they catch at the border, there are more that are never caught.
It’s not too much to ask and it’s about time it was a legal requirement.
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Carlton J. Zdanski, MD, describes his role as researcher in a variety of settings:
Through the concerted efforts of many individuals within the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, The Department of Pediatrics, and multiple individuals within the University of North Carolinas Hospitals system, we have been awarded a generous grant from The Duke Endowment for the formation of the North Carolina Children’s Airway Center. The Airway Center specializes in the coordinated delivery of cutting edge, multi-disciplinary, specialized care for children with airway disorders. The Center will also seek to educate patients and their families as well as clinicians regarding airway disorders and to perform research. The Center’s multi-disciplinary clinics began formally seeing patients in September of 2007. Multiple areas of research are currently being explored and protocols fro efficient and safe evaluation and management of more common airway problems are being developed and fine tuned.
In the laboratory with Drs. Jiri Prazma and Allen Marshall, we continue to examine the problem of subglottic stenosis of the airway in the pediatric population and to examine etiologies and diagnostic tools for Meniere’s Disease. Research into the mechanisms of otitis media, continue in the laboratory with Drs. Ebert, Blanks, Eapen, and Prazma examining the role of immunomodulatory oligonucleotides in the prevention and treatment of OVA-induced Eustachian tube dysfunction.
Research is being conducted into imaging in GBJ related sensorineural hearing loss with Michael Stadler, MD. These data will be presented at the upcoming AAO-HNSF Meeting in San Diego, California this Fall.
Additional clinical research in the area of the Pediatric Airway has been in collaboration with Dr. Amelia Drake. We investigated the social impact of tracheotomies on school aged children.
Clinical research has primarily revolved around our excellent Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program at UNC. This is one of the most active pediatric cochlear implant programs in the country. Our Internal Review Board approved protocol for the study to determine the optimal protocol for the auditory rehabilitation of children with Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-synchrony continues and data collection continues. These data were again presented at international meetings, this time in Seattle, Washington. Our group was also privileged to write about our philosophy and share some of our data for a chapter in an upcoming book. Interest has been intense on an international level and across disciplines. We plan to continue to collect, present, and publish our data on as it matures.
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Founded in 1861 and affiliated with the Lutheran Church (ELCA), Luther College offers students of all backgrounds a dynamic and supportive academic community rooted in a strong liberal arts tradition. Luther is a place where students, faculty, and staff challenge one another to learn in community and to serve with distinction for the common good.
Luther’s campus, located in the vibrant town of Decorah, is nestled against the Upper Iowa River, among northeast Iowa’s rolling hills, lush woodlands, and picturesque limestone bluffs. Luther is a true residential college, with 90 percent of its 2,500 students living on campus.
The college’s curriculum—including more than 60 majors, minors, and preprofessional programs—is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach to learning that strives to make connections between subjects and to connect individual learning to the larger world. An emphasis on experiential learning—from collaborative research with professors, to work-study and internship positions, to study-away programs—allows students to engage in meaningful learning while gaining real-world experience.
The Luther student body is highly engaged in campus life through more than 110 student-run clubs and organizations, 19 athletic teams, and 15 student music ensembles. In addition, 70 percent of Luther students volunteer, exemplifying the high service ethic intrinsic to the college.
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You Go Girls!
By Laurie Lynn Fischer/Women@Work
Gail Wilson-Giarratano directs the Capital Region chapter of Girls Incorporated. This national, nonprofit empowerment program gives girls between ages 6 and 18 positive female role models and a space of their own. The Girls Club of Schenectady and the Girls Club of Albany merged to form the local chapter. Branches are at 962 Albany St., Schenectady, and 301 Washington Ave., Albany (second floor).
W@W: How did Girls Inc. get started?
Wilson-Giarratano: Girls Clubs began in the 1800s as the result of women going to work in factories. In the 1990s, we wanted to move away from the club. We put it out to our membership, and a girl in Dallas came up with the name Girls Inc. We liked the name because growing up is serious business.
W@W: What’s your mission?
Wilson-Giarratano: To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold, healthy, intelligent and independent. It’s about leveling the playing field and having girl-centered environments. Economic leadership is a huge part of our program. Workforce development is a big piece. Nationally, Girls Inc. is the largest grantor of college scholarships for girls and young women. Locally, we give about $25k per year.
W@W: Who do you serve?
Wilson-Giarratano: Our programs are free for all girls. Because we’re located in urban settings, the girls who come to us usually walk and live right around there. They’re under-represented and underserved. They don’t have access to a lot of educational enrichment programs. Girls Inc. surveyed girls nationwide. Twenty percent could not name three adult women whom they could turn to, whom they could confide in about anything.
W@W: What does Girls Inc. offer?
Wilson-Giarratano: We have vacation camp programs, summer programs in the city and field trips. Each quarter, girls sign up for after-school classes, like Operation Smart, Health and Sexuality, Sports and Adventure, Culture and Heritage and Media Literacy. We have an adventure course in Schenectady. The girls put the harnesses on at 16 feet and they “fly.”
W@W: Growing up, did you have access to anything like that?
Wilson-Giarratano: My sister and I went to the Girls Club in Endicott, N.Y. Other places, you could feel racism. The Girls Club helped me form strong relationships and believe that I could be friends with anybody. It gave me the confidence to try things — to swim even though I had weight issues.
W@W: What makes your day?
Wilson-Giarratano: When the business community and those with resources say, ‘I get it; I want to get involved,’ whether that means providing computers or internships. Most of the folks that I’m after to make the point to are men. But they have daughters.
W@W: How do you keep your spirits up in the face of hopelessness?
Wilson-Giarratano: I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I’m making a difference.
The Download on Gail Wilson-Giarratano
Title: President and CEO of Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region
Family: She has a sister with the same birthday, a husband, and an adopted son in his 20s. Her father was in the Army and then with IBM. Her mother, a classically trained opera singer, was in the arts. “Whenever they want the face of slavery in this country, they use my mom,” Wilson-Giarratano says.
Educated: Bachelor’s degree in education from Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C.; Masters of Science in Leadership and Policy from Wheelock College in Boston; Ph.D. in Applied Management/Decision Science from Walden University in Baltimore.
Surprising fact: In high school, Wilson-Giarratano kept 12 pet reptiles. “I had boas, pythons, anacondas and a South American Teagu lizard,” she says. “We used to walk with her with a leash like a Chihuahua. We were living in inner-city Detroit. The Burmese python was 15 feet. She ate two 10 pound rabbits at a sitting.”
Dropping Out: After her parents separated, Wilson-Giarratano couldn’t afford to stay in college. “We were living in a trailer, picking up cans because you needed it for gas and driving the old clunker station wagon with the duct tape,” she recalls. “It was terribly embarrassing. We were black, poor and in a rural mill town in South Carolina. That’s when I became more sensitized to the haves and have-nots. That’s when I got it that life is not fair. There are no guarantees, so grow up. ”
Reinventing herself: To raise scholarship money, Wilson-Giarratano dropped 30 pounds and entered every beauty pageant she could. She won her first title in her mid-20s and won first runner-up in Miss Black America in 1989.
“I still have my crown,” she says. “If I hadn’t done it, I would never have gotten the money to go to school. I was like a pageant machine. I literally can hold a smile for 10 minutes or more. I had these great drag queens in Charlotte; they told me to wear two same-color swimsuits to suck you in. They helped me with my gown and my make-up and my hair. I had to walk the whole stage and they gave advice. They told me, ‘You can’t afford to come in Miss Congeniality. You have to win.’”
Career: “I’ve always been involved in nonprofit work. It could be ‘Save the fill-in-the-blank.’ I went from early childhood education to mental health to domestic violence and sexual assault to residential treatment. I ran the National Association for Mental Illness in Western Massachusetts. Then the job at Girls Inc. came up here.”
Guilty pleasure: “I love going to bed as early as possible. I keep my Blackberry under my pillow.”
Want to get involved?
For an online donation form, go to:
Print it and mail it to:
Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region
962 Albany Street
Schenectady, NY 12307
To discuss donating, call Laura Marx at (518) 374-9800, ext. 231 or Allison Smith at ext. 226.
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You may have thought it was too good to be true when you first heard that the sci-fi author Neal Stephenson was personally leading the development of a motion controller-enabled sword fighting simulator, but the project has passed its first stumbling block. The game's called Clang, and it has achieved its $500,000 goal on Kickstarter, about a day before its deadline at noon. It looked like the project was in jeopardy — it was $90,000 short of the goal with five days left — but with support from over 8,500 backers the game will come one step closer to reality. Of the multiple pledge levels, eight coughed up $10,000 for a full-size steel longsword, a studio tour, and lunch with the team. The Kickstarter page says the pledge gifts are due to go out in February of next year, but no word yet on when development will begin. Stephenson is certainly excited to have the project funded, however, saying that "words are somewhat lacking right now, but we are so thrilled! Thank you all so much!"
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Often when I am walking on the moor and it's a cold, wet, muddy day and I am dry, warm and comfortable I often wonder what it would have been like one hundred years ago. People like William Crossing would venture out over the moors in all weathers wearing stiff leather boots, a heavy raincoat and possibly a hat of some kind. The coat was probably not 100% water-proof and the boots more than likely leaked - that is dedication.
This for me is a very emotive subject because I believe that walking gear is one of the biggest rip-offs in this country, there are companies selling garments that do a good job but are extortionately prices and there are others selling ridiculously cheap garments that are as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. Either way it's hard to reach a happy medium and end up with walking gear that will last and stand up to the rigours that Dartmoor will throw at them. Go to a moorland town on any weekend and you will see people walking around in walking gear that must have cost a good £1,000 and they will be going nowhere near the moor. Ok, in this age it seems to be important to be seen in the 'right' clothes with the 'right' labels and for those who want to ponce around in them then they must have more money than sense. But if you are going out on the moor you must have walking gear that you can rely on, there's nothing worse than being stuck out six miles from anywhere in a storm and then feel the water seeping through your coat and down your back. As with equipment this is again a very personal choice, I know walkers who are perfectly happy walking in a wax jacket and wellingtons just as I know people who will be dressed head to toe in Gortex or some such material. Remember Dartmoor is not the local nightclub and you are not out to impress anybody just to feel comfortable, dry and warm. There is no reason why you can't get a decent walking outfit for around about £500 that will last for ages, look sensible and do the job. So this is my personal advice and what, after trying many combinations I am now happy with.
Walk into any outdoors shop and you will be told that for walking in exposed areas you need to work on the layer system of clothing, ie you need a base layer, a middle layer and an outer layer. The base layer consists of a shirt of some kind, vest, tee-shirt, polo shirt or ordinary shirt it's down to preference. Next is the mid layer which these days can be a fleece jersey or jacket or a woollen jersey etc. Then comes the most important layer - the outer which must be water-proof and wind-proof and can be made from a vast array of modern materials. So here we go:
BASE LAYER - As someone who seems to be able to maintain a good body heat I prefer to wear a tee-shirt or polo shirt as my bottom layer. However if you feel the cold then the thermal options may be a good idea in wintertime. As to the lower part of the body then cover that with whatever floats your boat and I will no go into that any. Apart from saying, even though they might keep you warm, I can see no excuse (apart from the obvious) for men to wear women's tights?
MID LAYER - This depends on the time of year or weather conditions and will range from a fleece jacket in winter to a fleece body-warmer in more favourable conditions. I cannot stand having sleeves around my arms so the body-warmer suits me better but even in cold times the jacket gets its sleeves rolled up. It is when you get to this layer that there is cheap rubbish around and also over-priced garments. I would not reckon to spend a lot of money here, make sure the fleece is non-pilling as there's nothing worse than looking like currant bun. I have a Regatta fleece body warmer and a Berkhouse rip-off fleece jacket, hence the warning about high priced clothes.
OUTER LAYER - It is here that it will be worth spending a decent amount of money, there is no need to be looking at the £300 ones but conversely don't be tempted with the £20 sort that appear on market stalls. Also bear in mind that probably a lot of time your jacket will be sitting in your rucksack and so give some thought to the weight. There are excellent water-proof, wind-proof, and lightweight coats around for about £100 - £150 and although that's a lot of money it will ensure a dry and warm walk and that makes for a happy soul. Vander (opens in new window) produce quality clothing at reasonable prices and in the past they have provided gear for the Dartmoor Mountain Rescue Team and if it's good enough for them that must be one hell of an endorsement.
TROUSERS - Having taken care of the torso it is a good idea to take care of the legs. Again in this department you can spend a pile of cash, T
there is no need, for all the years I have walked Dartmoor all I have ever worn is army surplus combat trousers. They are cheap, lightweight, durable, have plenty of pockets and when wet dry fast. Denim is a definite no-no, although they may be comfortable and warm if they get wet they take ages to dry and in cold conditions this can lead to problems and if you're wearing wet jeans next to the skin, you will get even colder not to mention miserable.
In the summer comes the debate on shorts, well again shorts are shorts so don't break the bank on a pair. There is however one thing you may like to take on board. Over recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the tick population which has led to serious problems with Lyme's Disease. Ticks will move onto bare skin to feed without a moments hesitation and any bare flesh is asking for a visit, so although very comfortable in warm weather, shorts aren't always a good idea.
SOCKS - Basically all these need to be are thick and hard wearing, some people say that wearing both a thin pair and a thick pair tend to reduce blisters but providing your boots fit well and are worn in this shouldn't be a problem. I have acquired a pair of Gortex socks and I must say when sploshing around the mires and bogs they do give some extra water-proofing for the feet but I would regard these as a luxury. The reason I have them is that I was given them at a trade show, I would not have actually paid for them
GLOVES - As a lot of body heat is lost through the fingers gloves are an important piece of clothing in cold conditions. I prefer the thin, water-proof ones as opposed to wool or leather. Both the latter become uncomfortable to wear when wet and can make the hands and fingers feel even colder - again no need to spend a fortune.
HAT - This is another garment that doesn't need a stack of money, in cold times I wear a simple woollen hat which was bought from an army surplus store. Providing it will cover the ears then its very much down to taste and budget. Just don't get one of those multi-coloured things that the Peruvian Indians wear, this is Dartmoor we are talking about not the Andes and none of the locals can play the pan-pipes. In hot weather you may need to cover your head depending on your skin sensitivity and cover of hair but in the end what type of hat is down to personal choice. However, there should be a law which bans men over the age of 50 wearing baseball caps, unless they are happy looking like they have stepped out of a scene from Deliverance and have sons that can play the banjo very well.
BOOTS - Out of all the above this is where the money should be spent but that doesn't mean you have to buy a pair from which the shop attendant can go to Crete for a week on the commission. Dartmoor is a rocky place full of clitters, holes and stony tracks so it is vital that you have plenty of ankle support and tread with your footwear. This will protect against twists and sprains should you ever turn an ankle and believe me I do it every time I'm out on the moor. In this light I would never recommend walking on Dartmoor in lightweight shoes or trainers. The choice you have to make is firstly do you go for a fabric pair or the traditional leather ones. The fabric ones are obviously lighter but are not as hard wearing as leather and having tried both I have now ended up with fabric boots. Again there are a few things with boots, never, ever go for long walks in a brand new pair of boots, always wear them in first. I know they are like a new car and you want to see how fast they go but if you don't want painful blisters it's best to soften them up first. Simply wear them around the house for a few weeks prior to going for a hike, you may look stupid but not as half as stupid as when you're limping back to the car. Having made an investment in a good pair of boots always make sure you look after them, fabric or leather, they both need cleaning after each walk and regular water-proofing will ensure years of service. The boots that I get on best with are from the Karrimor Ksb 300 GTX range and today their prices are around £100.
In the summertime there is also the debate about wearing walking sandals and again this is a personal choice but you get no protection with these whatsoever. Be it from ankle sprains, sharp granite, gorse, ticks, and on the odd occasion even adders so I know what I prefer.
LEGGINGS & GAITERS - I am not sure whether these come under walking gear or rucksack essentials but they can be a blessing in wet weather. As far as gaiters go then the most practical kind I have found are the ones with the zip down the front as opposed to the side, they are easier to get on and off. Try to get the ones with a leather or plastic strap that goes under the sole of the boot, these last longer than the cord ones as they don't rot so easily. Again, don't be tempted with the cheap ones (£10) the zips break for a pastime which is a real embuggerance in wet weather. With water-proof leggings it is better to spend a little bit more on the lightweight kind as they are not heavy to carry or wear. The other thing is to get ones that are easy to get on and off, this may sound obvious but in showery weather you will spend a lot of time doing this and its a sod if you have to struggle.
So if you are looking to start walking on Dartmoor or any other upland area get a good balance, don't get ripped off for the sake of a trendy label and don't by something that's cheap and will fail at the first hurdle. Stick to the middle of the road if possible and get affordable gear that will serve you well. For walking equipment see - Essential Equipment.
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Digital devices are great work tools. But always keep a notebook and pen or pencil handy. They don’t use batteries, are as instant as use gets, and can help you think in different ways. And then store them somewhere convenient so that you can sort through them when necessary.
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View Full Version : How to install the Mounce Vocab .vrt file
07-29-2004, 03:06 PM
I just bought BW 6 today. It is an awesome tool. I picked up because I am going to learn Greek. I am wondering how to install the Mounce plug-in. There is only a .vrt file and in the //Bibleworks 6/init folder there are .vrt and .vrc files. And it looks like you need both. There seems to be corresponding .wav files that go with this file. Does anyone know where to find or have .wav files for the greek words that can be used in the Flash Card Module. I would like to be able to hear the words pronounced.
07-29-2004, 03:23 PM
Go to the Help section in BW6, do a search on vocabulary to bring up the section entitled "Vocabulary Flashcards." Basically all you have to do is go into the Vocab Flashcard program and make an import from that version, but the help file will direct you specifically how to do that. On recordings of words. I believe right now the option is to record them yourself. So it assumes you know how to pronounce them. Otherwise unless someone out there wants to record all the words and put them on a website or something, I don't believe that has been done. Of course whoever does it will forever be chastised for not picking the right way to say things...there are always critics out there :p
MA Classics Student Washington University
MDiv Student Concordia Seminary
07-29-2004, 03:35 PM
I want to thank you. I have the vocab list working. I guess I can see your point and the proper pronunciation. It won't hurt for me to create my own.
07-29-2004, 03:44 PM
If you are using Mounce's BBG textbook I would recommend also purchasing the audio lectures (which includes audio of all the vocab). It is well worth the $89.00. Or you can purchase the vocab only CD for $20.00.
07-29-2004, 03:57 PM
I did just buy that CD today. I am really looking forward to starting the through BBG book and workbook. I also picked up a couple CD's Greek reading and Greek vocab. I don't want to buy too much but I also want to have what I need since I will be doing this with my brother and a friend. No formal training.
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ERS: Evaluating Reputations of Scientific Journals
Current methods for evaluating research are based on counting the number of citations received for publications. Thus, the more an article is cited and the more its impact is considered as important. In this article, we propose a new method for assessing the reputation of scientific journals, based on aWeb application in which are gathered the votes of expert researchers. The voting results indicate degrees of preference for one journal over another. Our system uses, in addition, the publications of an expert in order to quantify his expertise in specific fields. These values are coupled with those of votes to determine the relevance, according to the field, of each journal in each topic. An iterative process of transferring values given to journals by experts to values of the experts themselves given their publications has been implemented.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 2 - 19 January, 1923
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - PURCHASE OF TENANTS' HOLDINGS.
DOMHNALL O MOCHAIN DOMHNALL O MOCHAIN
DOMHNALL O MOCHAIN: To ask the Minister for Agriculture whether the tenants on the estate of Mr. F. Barry, of Macroom, signed an agreement to purchase their respective holdings in November, 1906, and whether the estate was not vested until the end of the year, 1922, and if the Minister could state the reason for the delay. Further, whether the landlord's representative, Mr. W.C. L. Sullivan, assured the tenants at the time of the signing of the agreements that the estate would be vested not later than four years from that date; and, if on such representation, the tenants agreed to pay and have been paying 3¾ per cent. interest, in lieu of rent, on their respective purchase moneys, and whether the tenants have now been sued for twelve months arrears of interest by the Land Commission. Further, to ask what steps the Minister proposes to take to secure a refund of the excessive interest paid for the past twelve years by these tenants, and to have a fair adjustment made to settle the matter amicably.
MINISTER for INDUSTRY and COMMERCE (Mr. J. McGrath), for Minister for Agriculture Joseph McGrath
MINISTER for INDUSTRY and COMMERCE (Mr. J. McGrath), for Minister for Agriculture: Agreements dated 1st November, 1906, for the purchase of their holdings on the estate of Mr. Michael F. Barry, County Cork, under the Irish Land Act, 1903, were entered into by the tenants with the owner at prices agreed upon between the parties and were lodged with the Estates Commissioners in April, 1907.
Estates pending for sale under the Land Purchase Acts are proceeded with in their order of priority, so far as may be practicable. Preliminary requisitions in respect of this estate were issued in 1915, and the property was inspected during 1917. The Requisitions of the Estates Commissioners arising on such inspection were not disposed of until 1922, and then only as to 45 Agreements. These 45 holdings were vested in the purchasing tenants and the purchase money therof advanced on the 5th May, 1922. There are 18 holdings as to which the Commissioners' Requisitions as to title and other matters have not yet been complied with.
In their Purchase Agreements the tenants contracted to pay interest in lieu of rent at the rate of 3¾ per cent. on their agreed purchase moneys until advanced. The Estates Commissioners have no knowledge of any such assurance by the Landlord's representative as referred to in the question. The Commissioners have no power to remit any portion of the interest payable under the Purchase Agreements, and they are under a statutory obligation to collect it and pay it over to the persons entitled, and in the cases in default they have had no option but to institute legal proceedings for the amounts still outstanding.
Dáil Éireann 2 CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. PURCHASE OF TENANTS' HOLDINGS.
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The "Fort Laramie Rendezvous" is a Mountain-Man-Style Rendezvous in celebration of the Fur Trade Rendezvous Era that occurred in the Rocky Mountains between 1804-1840 … It is one of the newest Mountain Man gatherings in the nation.
Now held annually every "Father's Day Weekend" in June, in the Town of Fort Laramie, Wyoming, our Mountain Man Rendezvous is an experience your family will be sure to remember for years to come.
Admission for the general public is still currently F R E E for everyone!
The "Fort Laramie Rendezvous Association" was formed for the sole purpose of providing a cultural experience for the whole family through authentic, historic reenactments and educational demonstrations … The "Association's" goal of keeping alive the Pioneering Times between 1804 and 1840 when Traders of furs, clothing and necessary supplies was prevalent here on the plains of the West is now being fulfilled.
A "Rendezvous" of authentic period Fur Traders will be established to educate the public about life on the plains and numerous, various items will be offered for sale from that time period.
Native American Indian Dancers, as well as, Mountain Man Singers are scheduled for an educational experience and family entertainment … An assortment of period correct games, for public participation playing, will be available for young and old and hopefully a wholesome fun time will be had by all!
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There I’m sitting, at work, the time is 03:22am and for some reason I’m googling pictures of the old boardgame HeroQuest when one image catches my eye. It’s by this guy; Mattias Gustavsson, posted over at RetroGameDev, who has made a pixel shader for a project he’s working on. The shader makes your images look like tmhey are viewed on an old worn-out TV. As it happens, Mattias made an executable of his filter, but unfortunately, it’s for Windows only…
As I’m in love with (or, at least, very fond of) all things retro, this was right up my alley. Clearly, nostalgia is the proof of that you’re getting older.
I have been looking for ways to mathematically convert RGB colors to other color standards. My intention is to create some script or routine that would, either automagically or manually, make it easier to pick similar colors out of a predefined one. My first thought was that the HSB standard would be a good choice but forum posts pointed to Lab instead. A quick google later I found EasyRGB, which came very much in handy. The people over there have a long list of functions in a generic programming language for converting between several (if not all) of the most common color standards.
Much to my joy, they also listed a function for calculating ΔE, color difference. More on this subject can be read in this Wikipedia article. Lets just say that I went with the CIE94 (or Delta E 1994 or ΔE94, there doesn’t seem be a formal name for it).
I have bundled together a collection of swatches based on old computers and video games that may come in handy for any project involving the retro style of games from the 80′s, pixelart or whatnot. Most colors come from various Wikipedia articles such as these two [1, 2], so I can’t vouch for their fidelity, except for the gamma corrected Commodore 64 which is probably as close to the original as humanly possible.
Just as a way to get my brain going I have put this little script together. I found a similar thing in a Flickr gallery and thought that it wouldn’t be at all hard to replicate and it might just get me back in creative mode. Or, at least keep my brain from going soft and forget everything I know. It doesn’t do much, it just draws some concentric circles in different colors depending what color scheme is used (RGB, CMY, Gray or Black/White).
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"Time rolls his ceaseless
The race of yore,
Who danced our infancy upon their knee,
And told our wondering boyhood legends store
Of their strange ventures happ'd by land and sea;
How are they blotted from the things that be!"
MR. WILSON certainly seemed
to have some influence with the clerk of the weather, for there was not a
speck in the sky when Philip drove up. The carryall was a big, awkward
looking affair, but a peep inside showed many possibilities of comfort;
then the top could be folded back, and let down until it did not offer the
least obstruction to the vision, while spread out and with curtains
closed, it afforded a most complete shelter against a storm. Mrs. Wilson
stared as a groom dismounted from a big black horse and respectfully
stepped to the horses' heads, when Philip clambered down from his high
seat to help arrange the sittings in the carriage.
"You made a point of a
groom, Mrs. Wilson," said Philip, "and as I changed my office to that of
coachman, I brought along a substitute."
Mr. Wilson preferred a seat
inside to one on the box beside Philip, in fact the soft cushions seemed
to have attractions for everyone.
Philip turned to Phemie:
"Would you mind a seat on the box, Miss McGregor? You would be a few
inches nearer the sky, and your counsel might keep me out of some awkward
situations with the horses."
"I think I would like
riding up there very much; it would be my first experience in such an
They drove over slowly, and Philip pointed out all the interesting spots.
"I suppose Mrs. Wilson has
told you the history of the building of Kilchurn Castle, Miss McGregor?"
"Only that it was built by
a noble lady, whose husband was fighting the Saracens in one of the
Crusades. She said it were better to reserve the traditions until there,
and under the glamour of its beauty, as I would then more readily believe
them." "She is right," said Philip, "and I will not spoil the effect by
any untimely narrative, but the ground over which we are driving is
historic enough to form a basis for many a winter night's tale. Just
across where my whip is pointing, a monastery stood, one of the first
built in Scotland ; the monks waxed fat and lazy; the soil is fertile, and
they owned the land for miles around; cattle, sheep and goats grazed here,
hundreds of them; fields of grain yellowed under the summer sun, and the
same agent reddened the plums and purpled the grapes over many acres of
ground; bees flitted to and fro, filling with honey hives innumerable."
Phemie was so quiet, Philip stopped a minute; "am I tiring you, Miss
"Oh, no," Phemie said, "do
go on, please; what happened? There is nothing of the building, unless
those irregular piles of stones had something to do with it."
"Individually they had,"
said Philip, "but not as piled now. This is what happened: Up in the hills
where lived your ancestors, Miss McGregor, and mine, for I am half
Highland, there was famine. Your father would tell you there was not much
to be gotten by tilling the soil, principally because there is not much
soil to till; and this time a total of a rival house; also the
staircase—what remained of it, which was but little—down which she slipped
to be carried "ower th' borders and awa," to return many years after with
her son, who was heir to both houses, for she was an only child.
Once more in the carriage,
with their horses' heads turned toward home, there was many a sigh from
the little party for a pleasant day gone into the annals of the past.
Philip, however, was looking grave, for other and less sentimental
reasons; an hour past clouds began to gather; he was too well acquainted
with weather signs in this locality to be quite at ease about the homeward
trip. Hints thrown out by himself, and respectfully tendered by the groom,
were not heeded. As Mr. Wilson had said, Mrs. Wilson and Phemie were
enthusiastic dilletante antiquarians; they saw everything but the weather.
At last, however, just as
they were settling into their places, Mrs. Wilson remarked,—
"It is very well we came
to-day: see that black cloud over there! We will have a rainy day
"I do not wish to alarm
you, Mrs. Wilson, but I am afraid you will have to prepare for a touch of
that cloud before we get home," said Philip; "when we reach the Glen, I
will have Briggs put up the top."
And this was done none too
"You would better go
inside, Miss McGregor," Philip said, and both Mrs. and Mr. Wilson also
insisted on this; but Phemie protested, she was not afraid of either
lightning or rain, and wanted to watch the shower from the outside. A hood
projected over the coachman's box, having side-curtains, and Philip
wrapped a plaid, that had been stowed away somewhere inside, around Phemie,
and she stayed on the box, watching the storm and his masterly handling of
the spirited pair.
There was little chance for
conversation. The horses were rearing and plunging; as the bright flashes
shot across the road in front of them, and branches twisted from trees hit
them smart raps. Still as a mouse, Phemie sat through it all. When home
was finally reached, and Philip had lifted her to the ground, there was
not much time for leave-taking—the storm was still raging; but Philip took
time to say:
"Nature's fireworks have no
terrors for you, Miss McGregor; you are a true Highlander."
The truth is, Phemie was
afraid; but, thinking it would be ungrateful of them to all creep inside
and leave Philip to weather the storm alone, she curbed her fears and
remained at her post. And we might infer from the above that her presence
had cheered the way.
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Sound of silence as new debt woes grow
America has plenty of enemies but they can probably relax. Who among them could do to the US the amount of damage that it is doing to itself?
Terrorists brought down some buildings in New York and punched a hole in the Pentagon. But it was not a terrorist who brought down the US economy at a staggering cost of more than $US20 trillion ($19.4 trillion) in losses in the value of family homes, shares and retirement funds.
It was, of course, poor US policy and weak governance. In other words, it was self-inflicted, man-made and entirely avoidable. The enemies of the US can only dream of inflicting this much damage on the superpower.
Illustration: John Shakespeare
Chinese cyber assailants may have caused damage to the US economy valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars, we heard last week. This marks them as serious underachievers compared with the US's legislators, regulators and central bankers.
Yes, the terrorist attack in 2001 did kill nearly 3000 Americans. But the pointless and unjustified invasion of Iraq two years later killed almost twice as many.
Similarly, a terrorist cell or hostile power might conceivably blow up the US Congress or kill a bunch of its political leaders. But who is capable of inflicting an attack so severe that it could force political paralysis and dysfunction on the country so that it cannot make vital decisions? Not just for a day but for years?
To create this much havoc requires the special skills of the US Congress and presidency. This week, for the third time in three years, the US stands on the brink of a fiscal cliff.
If the Congress and the President can't agree on the national budget by Friday, automatic cuts to government spending of $US85 billion will kick in. This is known as ''the sequester''.
It's not a large sum in a country with a national budget of $US3.5 trillion. But consider some of the effects.
First, national economic growth will fall by about a quarter, or 0.6 per cent of gross domestic product, with the loss of 700,000 jobs, according to the well-regarded consultancy Macroeconomics Advisers.
Second, the cuts will crimp welfare payments to millions of Americans. Almost 2 million people who have been out of a job for six months or more will see a cut of 11 per cent or $33 in their weekly payments, for instance. Payments to the poor for nutrition assistance and low-income housing will be cut, too.
Third, the government will cut payments to its own workers and services, including a cut to the defence forces equal to 13 per cent of their budget over the rest of the fiscal year, to the end of September. In anticipation, the Pentagon has delayed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group scheduled on a routine rotational deployment to the Persian Gulf, for example. Some of the effects would not be overcome for years, according to the Defence Department.
Fourth, US credibility will suffer. The new Secretary of State and one-time presidential candidate John Kerry said last week that ''the greatest challenge to America's foreign policy today is in the hands not of diplomats but of policymakers in Congress''.
Kerry said: ''It is hard to tell the leadership of any number of countries that they must resolve their economic issues if we don't resolve our own.''
The former Australian treasurer Peter Costello said in 2009 that the US had ''lost its bragging rights''.
Bruce Reed, now the chief of staff to the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, said in a speech in Melbourne that year: ''You know you've hit bottom when Peter Costello is telling you you've lost your bragging rights.''
The sequester was never supposed to happen. It was conceived by the Obama White House to have ''a consequence that would be so unacceptable to everyone that we would be able to get action'' as Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, said.
But surely, if it's so serious and so soon, there must be earnest negotiations under way in Washington to avert the crisis, at the very least? Wrong. There are not.
Obama and the Democrats have made a proposal; the Republicans have not even made a formal counter-offer.
Obama has tried to pressure the Republicans into a response: ''Are they willing to compromise to protect vital investments in education and healthcare and national security and all the jobs that depend on them, or would they rather put hundreds of thousands of jobs and our entire economy at risk just to protect a few special interest tax loopholes that benefit only the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations?''
The absence of a Republican response, so far at least, would seem to answer the question. Is there a great outcry from the American public? ''We're one week away from a massive cut in federal spending,'' wrote the former secretary of labour in the Clinton administration Robert Reich at the end of last week, ''yet the silence is deafening''.
Why? A prerequisite for outrage is awareness. The polling firm Pew last week reported: ''After a series of fiscal crises over the past few years, the public is not expressing a particular sense of urgency over the pending March 1 sequester deadline. With little more than a week to go, barely a quarter have heard a lot about the scheduled cuts, while about as many have heard nothing at all.''
And even if this impasse is resolved, another fiscal crisis looms in March and more will follow every few months about spending cuts, debt ceilings and tax increases.
An exasperated Reich said: ''It's no time for showdown fatigue. It's time to fight.'' Without much public awareness, there's not much public concern, and without public concern, it's hard to generate a fight.
And this may be the ultimate problem. The US system of problem-solving, otherwise known as national politics, is not working. And the country seems to be in danger of neither knowing nor caring.
Yet you can assume that just about everyone in the US will know something about the Oscars. The Roman satirist Juvenal saw the decay of the Roman Empire as a problem of the distraction of the people with ''bread and circuses''. What would he say about America today?
Peter Hartcher is the international editor.
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Towing with your Tender
These three techniques help you safely move your boat when the engine, or the wind, doesn’t cooperate.
Although the modern marine engine has become very reliable, at some inopportune time, as with all mechanical devices, it may fail. Or you may find yourself in a position to help another sailor whose boat is disabled. Or you may find yourself becalmed in a less-than-ideal situation. Becoming proficient at the three primary towing configurations here will give you confidence that you can safely and efficiently handle these situations.
Much can be learned from professional seamen. Many of the finest boathandlers in the world are tugboat captains. The scale is different, but the techniques that they’ve developed for moving ships and barges are the same ones that cruising sailors use for towing and docking disabled boats.
Most sailboats today carry inflatable tenders with outboard motors of reasonable power to move the boat. A 10-foot inflatable tender with an 8-horsepower motor can easily maneuver a 50-foot boat in moderate conditions. In calm conditions, much less power will do the job. The first step is to have your tender, whether it’s a small inflatable or a hard dinghy, set up for the task. Inflatable tenders should be at their maximum recommended pressure. On our 11-foot inflatable RIB tender, we have 18 feet of 1/2-inch braided nylon for the bow line, several 12-foot lengths of 1/2-inch braided nylon that can be used as spring lines, a 5/8-inch braided nylon towing bridle with a stainless-steel snap on one end, and 100 feet of 5/8-inch braided nylon for the towline. The size and strength of the lines depend on the size and horsepower of the tender. Braided nylon makes a good choice because of its superior combination of strength, stretch, and chafe resistance. We also carry on board a sharp sheath knife should a line need to be cut in an emergency.
If the need arises (and it has), we can quickly hitch up and move a boat using any of these three configurations. When pushing or towing, always wear a life vest, preferably a work or sport style that’s comfortable and doesn’t inhibit movement.
The Side Tow, or On the Hip
The best method for short tows in calm to moderate conditions where you’ll be docking the boat and are unlikely to encounter large wakes from passing vessels is the side tow, known in the commercial world as “on the hip.” First decide which side of the boat you’ll put next to the dock, then hitch up on the other side. Set up fenders for the tender; secure them alongside as shown in Diagram 1. The tender should be as far aft as the boat’s shape allows.
Sailboats with long stern overhangs won’t allow you to hitch up as far aft, but if the tender’s motor is aft of the boat’s rudder, maneuverability will be adequate. Double-enders tow well on the hip as the tender is able to push nearer to the boat’s centerline. On the hip doesn’t work well with catamarans.
Lines should be snug and secured properly to cleats in such a way that they won’t bind. It’s very important to be able to release lines in a hurry if a large wake should approach or you need to rapidly reconfigure. If towing in limited visibility or where other boats may be operating, give a sécurité call on VHF 16 with your description, location, and intended course. The last thing you want to encounter is a big sport-fishing boat roaring by unaware of your situation. As you begin towing, be aware that because you’re off center, extreme leeway will develop. The helmsman will need to crab the boat to make good on your desired course. As a reasonable speed is attained, the boat’s underbody will get a better “grip” on the water, and holding course will become less difficult. Until close-in maneuvering is required, steering should be done with the boat. Oversteering with the tender will make holding a course difficult. If the tow is configured as in Diagram 1, rapid turns can easily be made to port. Turning to starboard will be much slower and have a large turning radius. If a rapid turn to starboard is required, put the tender in neutral or even in reverse, allowing the boat’s momentum to carry it through the turn. This ability to crab the boat will greatly facilitate coming dockside. The key is to plan ahead and to get a feeling for the boat’s forward momentum and your ability to control and stop it. Always “test the brakes” prior to docking. Approach the dock (see Diagram 2) at an angle of between 30 and 45 degrees, keeping the bow pointed at the midpoint of the space on the dock where you want to end up. You should maintain only enough speed for steerage. Just before the bow of the boat reaches the dock, put the tender in reverse. As the boat continues to slow and stop, the bow moves out and the stern pivots in. This is a very satisfying maneuver when done properly. If you have to back the boat into a slip, reconfigure as in Diagram 3. If docking in a strong current, always plan your approach and final maneuver so that you’re pushing into the current. It can be used to your advantage when crabbing into a tight spot.
Pushing from Astern
Pushing from astern is my preferred method for covering longer distances in moderate conditions when good control is required, as in a waterway or a harbor’s entrance channel. In Maine’s Penobscot Bay, many of the passenger schooners have no engines. The crew rely on their tenders, or yawlboats, to push them in and out of the harbor in calm conditions. They have become very skilled at handling these large and beautiful vessels in this manner.
Pushing the boat from astern, as in Diagram 4, is efficient because you’re pushing from the boat’s centerline, eliminating the need to crab. Depending on what type of stern your boat has, this method can be used in rougher conditions than the side tow. Some sailboats have extreme reverse or scoop transoms that make pushing awkward. Self-steering gear, boarding ladders, and stern-hung rudders can also preclude this method. It does work well for most boats, however.
As in all hitch-ups, ensure that lines are secured in a way that can easily and rapidly be unhitched or adjusted. The spring lines must be tight and well secured, as they carry a lot of strain when turning. The unexpected release of one of these lines when turning poses a danger to the tender operator, as the tender will quickly scoot to one side, possibly tripping and throwing the skipper overboard. Pushing should be steady, with the outboard centered. Most motors have steering dampers that can easily be adjusted. It’s worth setting it so that the motor doesn’t swing easily on its own.
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In the history of the Christian Church there have been few people more eloquent than Charles Spurgeon. That makes his words about silence all the more striking.
Priceless as the gift of utterance may be, the practice of silence in some aspects far excels it. Do not think me a Quaker. Well, be it so. Herein I follow George Fox most lovingly; for I am persuaded that most of us think too much of speech, which after all is but the shell of thought. Quiet contemplation, still worship, unuttered rapture, these are mine when my best jewels are before me. Brethren, rob not your heart of the deep sea joys; miss not the far-down life, by for ever babbling among the broken shells and foaming surges of the shore. (Lectures to My Students, 51).
If you want your words to awaken “deep sea joys” in the hearts of your hearers, take the time for “quiet contemplation” over your “best jewels.” And beware of “forever babbling” in the shallows.
Recent posts from John Piper —
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An enjoyable piece of entertainment that falls short of greatness. On the surface, characters stating themes seems to achieve the goal of communicating meaning to an audience. However, a more effective means calls for an Author to actually show that theme in action. When Authors prove that what they’re trying to say actually works, the intended message becomes a part of the Audience’s psychology instead of simply a thoughtful fortune cookie message.
Hot girlfriend Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto) tells us early on that “some things aren’t meant to be changed” but it only applies to the substory surrounding Will Rodman (James Franco) and his ailing father. The authors prove quite the opposite with the main story.
Featuring chimp Ceaser in the Main Character role, change—or evolution if you will—brings great happiness to those locked in cages. In an effort to show empathy towards Ceaser’s plight, the Authors end up with two competing stories—two conflicting messages. Are some things not meant to be changed or are they? Rodman shuns it, Ceaser embraces it. Both win out—so what exactly is being said here?
As a result, the story as a whole means nothing. Rise of the Planet of the Apes tells a tale, not a story. This happened, then this happened, then this happened. And then it ended. Nothing more than what appears on-screen. The lack of a compelling emotional argument in either the main story of substory leaves one feeling cold and fulfilled.
Still, the pacing maintains interest, the callbacks to the original delight, and the film begs for a sequel. Definitely one to see, just don’t expect more than a really great yarn.
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Posts about China
Capital Bikeshare is the largest bike sharing system in the United States, but do you know where the world's largest is? Paris, with 20,600 bikes?
Nope; it's in Hangzhou, China, and this Streetfilm shows how the Chinese are using its 51,500 bikes to take 240,000 trips a day.
Hangzhou is smaller than New York City, so a 50,000 bike sharing system would be a good and entirely achievable goal for New York. Meanwhile, Hangzhou is striving to grow to 175,000 bikes by 2020.
Many, many people have sent in tips about this project in China to build huge buses the width of two car lanes, which can run on guideways straddling the road and travel above the cars:
But wouldn't it be easier just to dedicate a bus lane? Via the Huffington Post.
- Cyclists are special and do have their own rules
- M Street cycle track keeps improving, draws church anger
- O'Malley announces first projects using new gas tax money
- Can Loudoun grow while protecting its rural areas?
- ICC losing bus service in classic bait and switch
- Silver Spring mall could get massive facelift, new name
- WMATA launches "Short Trip" rail pass on SmarTrip
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Roster of experts available for interviews with journalists
‘Mangroves being destroyed in the name of development’
Monday, April 30,…
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Singapore, 12 April 2012 – Nexus launched an initiative to enable companies and public institutions to support access to clean energy and water for the poorest populations of developing countries.
An increasing number of organizations are “offsetting” their greenhouse gas emissions, by supporting clean development projects in…
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Ha Thi Ngan is a young woman with a buzz about her. She’s a beekeeper and her story provides a snapshot of the way poverty, nature and climate can combine to affect lives and set questions with no easy answers.
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Climate change has a women face -A salty pathway ahead
By: Nasir Aziz, ActionAid Pakistan
The old mechanical thought would not work any more and it is the time for a paradigm shift in our behavior and attitude to empower the resource poor women. The threats of climate change are no longer hidden by any means and the affected most is no other than the resource poor women. The link is loud and clear that the Climate change as a women face. If we are still…Continue
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It is now recognized worldwide that the agricultural and farming systems need to be improved beyond their capacities now if the human race is to avert from a Malthusian catastrophic prophesy as a result of ever increasing population growth against a gradual increase in food production. The prophesy seems to be likely when you consider the billions of people that will be food insecure in 20 years time if we take the business as usual scenario in farming systems.
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Nguyen Viet Nghi’s enthusiasm was infectious as he showed off a scene of remarkable renewal in what was once a disaster zone.
We were in Da Loc commune, a sleepy part of Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province. It’s a place that on a single day witnessed both the fury and the protective power of nature.
The community learned well from the experience, but only after they overcame the attention of some tiny animals that threatened to spoil the story.…Continue
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The Climateand Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is launching a three-part series of reports, “Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report” covering each of the Asia, Africa and Latin American and Caribbean regions.
The reports highlight the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (…Continue
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Sketch to Still
From Sketch to Still: The Lush Costumes and Art-Deco Set Design of The Artist
In a recurring series, Vanity Fair pulls back the curtain on awards season’s most visually enticing films, revealing exclusive details of the creative process of art directors, costume designers, makeup artists, cinematographers, and more. This week, production designer Laurence Bennett and costume designer Mark Bridges discuss the black-and-white magic behind The Artist—including where to get Peppy’s dress.
In Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, silent-film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) and unknown dancer Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute outside his movie premiere. He’s basking in public adoration; she’s standing in a throng of fans. But when she drops her autograph book and ducks under the velvet rope to scramble for it, she crosses the line between obscurity and fame, landing on the front page of Variety under the headline “Who’s That Girl?”
From a viewer perspective, Peppy seems destined to be a star from the moment she’s on-screen. You just can’t stop looking at her. Is it her Claudette Colbert cheekbones? Her Mary Pickford curls? Nope. It’s her black-and-white hat.
“My secret’s out! I did that on purpose,” says costume designer Mark Bridges (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights). “It’s a subtle thing. Your eye goes to her right before she bumps into George.” In another film, that attention-grabbing piece would have been a bright color (see Freida Pinto’s reliance on red in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger), but in a black-and-white world, contrast is king. Bridges used the limitations of a grayscale film to drive the story, dressing the principal characters in true black and white—rather than something with less contrast—when they’re at the peak of their success.
“Even though Peppy’s first costume is, in reality, a kind of a coral color, the way it reads in black and white is a medium-value gray,” Bridges explains. “[George] is in black-and-white tails. So he’s high contrast; she’s gray. He’s at the top of his game; she’s unknown. We see the transition between them in the scene on the stairs. He’s going down; she’s going up. He fades into the background; she is in glowing white.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly in the age of Instagram, The Artist was filmed on color stock and translated to black and white. Production designer Laurence Bennett (Crash, The Next Three Days) says the decision was made for pragmatic reasons, but also because the finer definition and richer quality evoked the era more effectively.
Even still, there are some quirks inherent to black and white, and Bridges and Bennett had to collaborate seamlessly to avoid them. Bridges says, “I had to be mindful of the graphics separating the actor from the background, and ask, ‘What color are you doing the backdrop, or what are the walls like at the auction house?’ If the actor is in brown and the wall is brown, it looks like exploding heads,” she says. “You want to avoid that.” Most prints, he says, were out: “They looked like mush.” Textures worked. “Spangles, brocades, and lamé really photographed like a dream. They caught the light. You could almost touch those fabrics.”
At times, though, the costume designer was able to use a binary palette to his advantage. In what may be the film’s most charming antic—save Uggie playing dead—Peppy threads her arm through George’s hanging tuxedo coat to give the impression that they are dancing together. It’s astoundingly convincing, and one wonders why modern gals haven’t mastered this 1920s slumber-party trick. Bridges reveals the secret. “Bérénice had taken that jacket home to practice over the weekend, but the physics of it just weren’t going to happen. She came to me on Monday morning and said, ‘Mark, is there any way you could help me with this jacket thing?’ So we opened up the armhole underneath and put a huge, oversized gusset in there. It’s another piece of black fabric, so when she reaches in, it’s closer to where her actual shoulder is. At that time I was familiar enough with what you’d see and what you won’t see, so I knew we could get away with it. The scene went off without a hitch.”
Meanwhile, Bennett was challenged to create a world both realistic and hyper-realistic. “We had this weird dichotomy where we had the ‘real world’ and films within the film,” he says. “We decided that, to whatever extent possible, the sets that were seen in the studio or seen entirely within film would be rendered in black and white, and the ‘real world’ scenes were done in naturalistic color.” By way of example, he cites the restaurant where George and Peppy dance together for the first time. “That set was done entirely in black and white—the wood grain, the paneling in the set, is entirely faux, and it was all done in black and white and gray,” he says. “It literally photographed differently. Secondly, that’s also for the cast and crew—I think that helped them get more into the period.”
Bennett also captured the spirit of the period by using 1920s and 1930s architecture, backdrops, and sets wherever he could. For instance, the stairs on which George and Peppy meet again—when she’s at the height of her career—are seen in many 1930s movies, although “never quite in that way.” And when Peppy gets the news about George’s accident, she’s sitting on a set faithfully rendered from a popular Cedric Gibbons set that was used in a couple of films. “George’s house is an existing house in Fremont Place in Los Angeles. It’s the home of Shane Black, the screenwriter. For Peppy’s house we managed to find the house where Mary Pickford lived a couple years before she and [Douglas] Fairbanks got together.”
The overall result is a film that feels even more lush, light, funny, and tragic than the works it references—but Bennett dodges direct comparison. “Most people’s received impression of works from the 20s and 30s is so wrong, because it’s [based on] 2nd-, 3rd- and 15th-generation redubs of images shown at the wrong speed, with chatter and degradation and damage to the nitrate stock,” he says. “It really gives the wrong impression. When you see good work from the mid-20s on, the best of it has beauty and sophistication that’s unsurpassable.” Just like The Artist.
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Born 1942 in Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon.
Barak completed a first degree in Physics and Mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jersualem in 1968, and a second degree in Systems Analysis at Stanford University in California in 1987.
In June 1976, Barak was one of the planners of the Entebbe rescue operation during which Air France passengers were hijacked to Entebbe, Uganda. Barak was later promoted to the rank of major-general and appointed head of the Planning Division of the General Staff. During the Operation for Peace in the Galilee, he served as deputy commander of the force that operated in the Lebanese Valley. Barak's appointment as head of the Intelligence Branch came in April 1983, and his appointment as head of the Central Command came in 1986. In 1987 he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff, and then in 1991 he became Chief of Staff of the IDF. During his military career, Barak earned the largest number of decorations in the history of the IDF.
As Chief of Staff, Barak was informed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin about the Oslo peace talks. Following the signing with the Palestinians of the Declaration of Principles in September 1993, Barak implemented the security arrangements of the agreement and began the redeployment of troops in Gaza and Jericho which were handed to the Palestinians. Prior to his January 1, 1995 retirement from the armed forces, Barak met twice with his Syrian counterpart during bilateral talks with Syria in Washington.
Following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, Barak became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government under Shimon Peres.
In the elections for the 14th Knesset, Barak was elected Knesset member on the Labor Party list on which he was ranked third. When Shimon Peres lost the elections for prime minister, Barak announced that he would run for the position as head and Prime Ministerial candidate of the Labor Party. On June 4, 1997, Barak was elected from among four candidates by a 50.33% majority. Subsequently, Barak stated that he is not interested in joining the government under Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the elections for the Prime Minister and fifteenth Knesset on May 17, 1999, Barak, as head of the One Israel List, secured 56.08% of the votes and defeated Benjamin Netanyahu. On July 6th, Barak formed a coalition which included the One Israel, Shas, Meretz, Center, National Religious, and Yisrael Be'aliya parties.
Immediately upon taking his post as Prime Minister, Barak gave his word that within one year, he would withdraw the IDF from South Lebanon. On May 24, 2000, the IDF left South Lebanon.
Barak's attempts at achieving permanent-status agreements with Syria and the Palestinians reached a dead-end despite his willingness for far-reaching and controversial concessions. In the negotiations with the Syrians, Barak was prepared to withdraw from the Golan Heights to an international border, but not the one of June 4, 1967 when the Syrians were sitting on the shores of Lake Kinneret.
In the negotiations with the Palestinians, Barak agreed to recognize a Palestinian state and to discuss Jerusalem in the future with the possibility of dividing rule of the city. However, Barak was not willing to recognize Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount or the Palestinian refugee Right of Return to the State of Israel.
During his tenure as Prime Minister, much criticism was directed at Barak from within his party and on the political left for not doing enough to change the social and economic agendas of the state. The secular community also criticized Barak for not keeping to his stand against the exemption of Yeshiva students from military service.
Following the July 2000 Camp David talks between Barak and Arafat, initiated by US President Bill Clinton, Barak's coalition lost the Shas, National Religious, and Yisrael Be'aliya parties because of Barak's readiness for far-reaching concessions. Meretz had withdrawn from the coalition two weeks earlier because of irreconcilable differences with the Shas Party. The collapse of the Camp David talks, together with the prolongation of the Palestinian violence and the formation of a Knesset majority interested in ending the current government, led to Barak's announcement on December 5, 2000 that he supports the early disbanding of the Knesset. Five days later, Barak resigned as Prime Minister which forces a "special election" for prime minister only. That same day, he convened the Labor Party Center which reelected him to be the Labor Party's Prime Ministerial candidate.
Born 1928 in Moshav Kfar Malal.
Attended high school in Tel Aviv.
Sharon studied History and Oriental Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem during the years 1952-1953. From 1958-1962, he studied Law at Tel Aviv University.
In January 1954, his unit merged with a paratroop regiment of which Sharon became the commanding officer, and continued to carry out unconventional operations across enemy lines.
In 1956, Sharon was appointed commander of a paratroop brigade and fought in the Sinai Campaign. In 1957, he attended the Camberley Staff College in Great Britain. From 1958-1962, while studying Law, Sharon commanded an infantry unit and directed the Infantry College.
In 1964, Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin appointed Sharon as the head of the Northern Command, and two years later, he became the head of the Training Division. In this capacity, he was promoted to Major General. In the Six-Day War, he served as an armored division commander, and was acclaimed for his tactical successes. Following the war, Sharon returned to his position in the Training Division and transferred the training bases to the West Bank.
In 1969, Sharon was appointed Commander of the Southern Command, and in this role, he fortified the Bar Lev Line and played and active part in the War of Attrition. After the cease-fire along the Suez Canal went into effect in August 1970 and throughout all 1971, Sharon concentrated on repressing Palestinian terrorism in the Gaza Strip.
Sharon retired from the military in June 1973 in order to run for Knesset as a member of the Liberal Party. During the short period until the Yom Kippur War, Sharon worked at establishing the Likud Party. During the Yom Kippur War, Sharon returned to active military service to command an armored division with which he crossed the Suez Canal.
After one year of political activity, Sharon resigned his Knesset seat and accepted an emergency appointment in the IDF.
From June 1975 to March 1976, Sharon served as special advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and began to plan his own return to the political arena. With the approach of the elections for the ninth Knesset (1977), he established his own political party by the name of Shlomzion. Shlomzion secured two Knesset seats, but shortly thereafter merged with the Herut Movement within the Likud.
In the government that was formed by Menachem Begin in June 1977, Sharon was appointed Minister of Agriculture and chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement, in which capacity he advocated the establishment of a dense network of Jewish urban and rural settlements in the West Bank.
Following the elections for the tenth Knesset (1981), Sharon was appointed Minister of Defense. In April 1982, in accordance with the terms of the peace treaty with Egypt, Sharon carried out the last phase of the Israeli evacuation from the Northern Sinai. In 1982, the General Staff of the IDF completed a plan for a military operation in Lebanon which was implemented as the "Operation Peace for the Galilee." The main declared goals of this operation were to free Israel's northern settlements from terrorist attacks, to remove the PLO from Beirut, to bring about the establishment of a friendly government in Lebanon which would sign a peace treaty with Israel, and to force the Syrians out of Beirut.
In the National Unity government formed after the elections to the eleventh Knesset (1984), Sharon was appointed Minister of Industry and Trade. In this role, which he continued until June 1990, he developed his plan for dense Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
After the collapse of the National Unity government on March 15, 1990, Sharon was appointed Minister of Construction and Housing in the new narrow government formed by Yitzhak Shamir. Within this framework, he once again intensified Jewish settlement activities in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. He was also responsible for the purchase of tens of thousands of caravans and a vast construction effort in order to house the mass immigration that began to pour into Israel form the Soviet Union in 1989.
Toward the end of 1991, Sharon objected to Israel's participation in the Madrid Conference. When he ran for leadership of the Likud party in 1992, he came in third place after Yitzhak Shamir and David Levy with 22% support from the voters.
After Yitzhak Rabin's victory as Prime Minister in 1992, Sharon decided not to run for Likud leadership against Benjamin Netanyahu. When Netanyahu became Prime Minister in 1996, he appointed Sharon as Minster of National Infrastructures. When David Levy resigned as Foreign Minister in 1998, Sharon took over that position as well.
Following the 1999 elections and Netanyahu's resignation from the Likud leadership, Sharon ran for the position and won with a 53% majority.
Following the breakdown of the Camp David peace talks in July 2000, Sharon and Barak were in contact about the possible formation of a National Unity government. However, it never came to pass. On the 28th of September, during a well-covered visit to the Temple Mount, Sharon announced that every Jew has the right to visit the Temple Mount.
Despite Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to return to political life when elections looked like a real possibility, Sharon decided to defend his political position and to run against him for Likud leadership. However, the Knesset decided not to dissolve itself, leaving only the special elections for the Prime Minister. As a result, Netanyahu decided not to run, and Sharon remained the Likud's Prime Ministerial candidate.
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Math Chair Named D.C.’s Top Professor
November 20, 2008 –The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Georgetown’s James Sandefur the 2008 District of Columbia Professor of the Year.
Sandefur, professor and chair of the mathematics department at Georgetown, received the title after being selected from a pool of faculty nominated by colleges and universities throughout Washington, D.C.
“It is very exciting to have received this honor,” says Sandefur. “I was honored just to be nominated by Georgetown, considering all of the wonderful faculty we have here.”
The professor says he owes this recognition to his collaborations with the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) [link to: http://cndls.georgetown.edu/]. Through CNDLS, he has gotten involved in the Engelhard Project, a program that helps Sandefur infuse health issues into his general education math course. Students in his course solve problems of alcohol metabolism specific to their gender. They address alcoholism, drug interactions, obesity, the environment and other questions relevant to their new college life and decision-making process away from home.
Sandefur also has been investigating ways to improve students’ abilities to reason about complex mathematical problems. Since 2001, he has videotaped students as they work individually and in groups as part of the project. By asking them to verbalize what they are thinking as they work through a given task, he gets a unique view of their thought processes. His method, known as “think-aloud,” combats a chronic roadblock in creative thinking by asking students to talk through their problem-solving process.
“We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Sandefur on this important and well-deserved recognition of his work,” says Chester Gillis, interim Georgetown College dean and professor of theology. “Throughout his time at Georgetown University, Dr. Sandefur has investigated how students learn best and has tailored his teaching to respond to the preferences and impediments of his students.”
Sandefur’s research interests include mathematics education at secondary and college levels, differential equations, and discrete dynamical systems. He has written nearly 40 mathematics papers and is author of “Discrete Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications,” “Discrete Dynamical Modeling” and “Elementary Mathematical Modeling: A Dynamic Approach.”
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The trip will intensify the president's effort to hike pressure on Republicans to agree on tax increases to avert $85 billion in automatic spending cuts this year, which experts warn could stagger the fragile economy.
The White House said the cuts, known as "the sequester" which are due to hit on March 1, would see 90,000 civilian defense workers furloughed in Virginia alone and would hurt companies in 50 states that supply shipbuilders.
An official said that the cuts would also delay the maintenance of 11 ships in Norfolk, Virginia, as the administration argues that the sequester would badly impact US defense readiness.
Obama will argue "that the only reason these cuts will take place is if congressional Republicans choose to protect loopholes only enjoyed by the wealthiest and big corporations at the expense of jobs in Virginia," the official said.
Newport News Shipbuilding, which Obama will visit, is building the new generation of Gerald R. Ford class nuclear powered aircraft carriers, and also supplies nuclear submarines to the US navy.
On Monday, the White House warned of a "perfect storm" of airport delays and less secure US borders when the cuts happen, but top Republicans accused Obama of using "scare" tactics.
Officials also laid out a daunting state-by-state list of possible sequester impacts, foreseeing teacher layoffs, funding crunches for emergency workers, air traffic delays and overtime bans for public sector employees.
The idea for the automatic, arbitrary budget cuts emerged as a way to ease a previous spending showdown between Obama and Republicans in Congress.
The massive reductions to the military and domestic budget were supposed to be so severe that both sides would be forced into a deal to cut the deficit. But Washington is so dysfunctional that no agreement has been reached.
The president wants congressional Republicans to help stave off the cuts by closing tax loopholes he believes benefits the rich and corporations, and to carry out a program of targeted spending cuts.
Many Republicans agree that the sequester is a bad way to trim the budget and reduce the deficit, but they argue that Obama is not serious about reining in spending so does not deserve more revenue.
There seems little prospect that Washington's feuding politicians will agree to halt the sequester before it comes into force.
The first point of possible compromise may then come with a bill due at the end of March to fund the government's operations.
Republican Senator John McCain predicted on Monday that there would be more incentive for lawmakers to fix the problem once the cuts hit.
"I think the forcing mechanism, if there's going to be one, it'll be the job losses and the warnings and the military," he said.
"What we're doing to the men and women in the military is just disgraceful. They don't know what their future is. They don't know where they're going to be next week."
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Nepal is famous in mountaineering field. It is best known in every corner of the world as the homeland of the Mt. Everest & other several series of mountains peaks. Nepal offers such concentrations of high snow capped mountains that you could find anywhere else & also have the opportunity to climb some of the highest peaks in the world too. No doubt, everyone is familiar about the name of the Mt. Everest in Nepal, besides, it has got other seven peaks over 8000m & innumerable other between six to eight thousand meters. There are about 236 peaks currently available for expeditions & further 18 minor peaks are being designed for trekking purpose.
Taking into consideration of your budget, these Trekking Peak climbing trips are undertaken which are rewarding for those who want to make challenging climb in the Himalayas, a taste of being in the `white wilderness,' is another highlight. These Trekking Peaks locating in the popular trekking spots offer climbing trips can be organize in short period of time. Of course, with relatively easy access to the mountain, these trekking peaks give greater possibilities to explore the spectacular views of the Himalayas.
Participants must be in position of good physical condition. Since previous climbing experience is not essential, having some outdoor background will be useful. Moreover, in order to ensure safe climbing trip, you are provided basic knowledge about handling ropes as well as about other climbing equipments before starting the actual summit. During trekking, our experienced guides- registered with the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), give you accompany with a view to assist you fully who are mostly locals & obviously very much familiar with the routes of trek & the mountain peaks they make summit. Its a privilege, with little challenging but very exicting experience in the high Himalayas, if you do summit one of our Trekking Peak climbing treks that once was reserved only for the fabled 'expedition climbers.'
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Isolation and identity themes of play
'Hosanna' takes intense look at relationships
Julie Chadwick, The StarPublished: Friday, February 08, 2013
Western Edge Theatre's new artistic director Eliza Gardiner takes the 'edge' part of their name literally in her first production with the independent theatre company.
Following in the footsteps of her mentor Frank Moher, Eliza Gardiner has made a fresh and lively choice in French-Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay's 1973 drama Hosanna.
Centred on the tension between transvestite Hosanna and her biker lover Cuirette following a tragic Halloween party, the play caused a stir when it was first unveiled to Quebec audiences.
Its subject matter of alienation, isolation, and the search for identity was seen as a controversial metaphor for the feelings of the Quebecois as they struggled to find their way in the wake of the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s.
Tremblay's work, with its early examples of openly gay characters and strong women, was part of a movement of theatre away from tradition and by extension, the control and censorship of the Catholic Church.
"The themes are still valid, the questions the play asks are still valid, especially around relationships: around gay relationships, around sex relationships, around dynamics and love and ultimately, how we all want to be accepted for who we are," said Gardiner, who is also a theatre professor at Vancouver Island University. "It's going to hit people as a play that asks that age-old question of 'If we're all celebrating how unique we are, why are we all so hard on each other?'"
With a cast of just two characters, Gardiner said the choice of who would play the duo was crucial.
After auditions, she called back Rick Meyers (who many know as local drag queen Vikki Smudge), who had tried out for the part of Hosanna and Vancouver Film School graduate and local actor Blaine Nosworthy, who sought the part of Cuirette, to see how their characters might work together.
"Even though everyone who auditioned had skill, talent, quality and personality, it was about the relationship. I needed to see the two guys together," said Gardiner. After reading their parts, Meyers asked if they could reverse the roles and try it that way. "It was like one of those magical theatre moments. It just went 'click,' right there."
Set in Hosanna's funky apartment near "The Main," the Montreal thoroughfare immortalized by Tremblay in various plays and novels, Hosanna begins with the aftermath of the ill-fated Halloween party.
It goes on to explore the story hidden beneath the makeup of Hosanna's former life as Claude, a Quebec farmboy who constructed a striking, confident, persona as Hosanna and now, perhaps, must face the possibility of having to disassemble it.
Hosanna plays Feb. 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee Feb. 17 at 2 p.m., at Nanaimo Centre Stage, 25 Victoria Rd. Tickets $20 adults, $17 seniors and $10 students, at 250-668-0991, www.westernedge.org,or at Lucid Records, 35 Commercial St.
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Helpful tips for undergraduate admission
Marquette admissions experts offer their advice to high school students:
It's never too early to start thinking about college. As early as your sophomore year, you should be taking tough classes - and doing well in them.
The college application process spans a lot of time, and you will likely apply to several schools. Make a file for each school and keep them organized for easy reference. Have your materials (transcripts, essays, etc.) prepared and neatly organized.
Be Aware of Deadlines
Marquette's application process is deadline intensive. Make sure you know the deadlines for all paperwork and deposits. Be familiar with our deadlines and give yourself enough time to complete all of the necessary materials.
Read application materials carefully and be sure to follow instructions. Ask parents, teachers or guidance counselors to review your application materials, especially essays, before sending them in.
Be the Difference
Brag about yourself in your application! We want to know more about you than your GPA and test scores. Talk about what you have accomplished outside of the classroom in activities or organizations. Marquette students have a reputation for academic excellence and service to the community; we look for those qualities in potential students. But we also want to learn more about your interests and your passions - the things that make you who you are.
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Highway 1 study
Anyone hear on the news about how Caltrans is putting fiber optics along El Camino Real and hooking all the lights and intersections to better control the traffic lights during peak times? The spokesman for Caltrans was talking about how, with the aid of cameras, they can make all lights green for backups and with electronic signag, control the flow to alert traffic of emergency vehicles or other problems. Why can't Caltrans do that here also, instead of putting extra lanes in? I would call upon the new city council to check on this for our commute times. That, or have them place four people to manually operate the lights during peak times and special events down the coast. If a two-year period of this proves to be the best way to handle the problems here, then put in the remote control to the command center.
Another thing the new council should look into is the widening of Highway 92 that was to happen many years ago. I swear I saw an article with a picture of a groundbreaking to make Highway 92 four lanes from Highway 1 to Interstate 280 with traffic lights in the lower area. What happened to that? I say do that first, place people to manually control the lights during peak times, and if that works modernize our area to be remotely controlled. Don't let them touch our four lanes until they turn Highway 92 into four lanes in Half Moon Bay. An if they still want to touch our highway, put their feet
Hey city council, maybe that last point should apply to you also. Have a newspaper "bucket site" for us to point out things in a few words and your response to them. Let's say we keep it to no more then 60 words and you visit the area and look into it. Post your findings and how it will be addressed and the priority it has with you and the departments that will address the problem.
A T Romero
Move that money
Last week's letter from Marie Martin deserves a small but gracious response. Historically and currently, 80 to 90 percent of our retractable roofs are installed on single family homes owned by middle-class homeowners. Somehow, they are able to splurge on one or more of our retractable roofs.
The Mitt Romneys of America also, from time to time, splurge on our products. Unfortunately the Mitt Romneys have not been splurging because of uncertainty caused by this president's screwy ideas of how to run and ruin the largest economic concern in world. The Mitt Romneys are reluctant because of this uncertainty and are sitting on their money rather than investing. As a result, we are not as busy as we would otherwise be and our employees, who happen to be "middle class," are more frequently sitting at home due to a lack of work.
When people aren't investing, spending or splurging, money sits, as do workers. When money moves, people work, earn and spend. This is what produces a strong economy. And when money moves, whether a small amount or a large amount, it is taxed. The more frequently it moves, the more frequently it is taxed. This is what produces real tax revenue.
Regardless, it's after election day. Hopefully, we have found that adults will be in charge in Washington in January. If that's the case, never mind about all of the above. Go out and celebrate your victory. If it goes as I hope it will, this is a huge and important victory. If it does not, we are in for some very dark times ahead.
Thanks from Hanni's
To my family, employees, wonderful friends and customers. I want to thank you for 20 years of loyalty and patronage at Hanni's Fine Gifts. It has been a pleasure and a great journey. I will take many fond memories with me. I will be closing my store in December so I can spend more time with my family and friends. I will miss you and my store.
Thanks to all
I have never written to the newspaper before, but today I feel I should. This is a good time because it's near Thanksgiving. I would like to express my gratitude to all the wonderful folks of Pacifica who have made mine and my family's life so much better. To the police and fire department for coming when needed. To the staff and personnel of The Greenery for their rehab work and always good attitudes. Good Shepherd Church and School. The nice people at Lucky and all the others businesses around our town. And last but not least the wonderful folks at the Pacifica Senior Center. The staff is the greatest. They have made a difference in my life. Thank you all.
Shame on you for publishing on the front page Nov. 7 the illegal overhead casting on the pier, which is dangerous. This implies, "Let's do it, they won't catch me." Thank you for all your stories about pier fishing.
I'd like to clarify a point that was raised in Oct. 31's letters to the editor regarding library hours. Currently, the San Mateo County Library System funds 60 hours a week that must be split between Pacifica's two libraries. This results in the limited days/hours of operation that can be so confusing. One of the major benefits of a single new library is that it will be open seven days a week, with evening hours on four of those days. I can hardly wait.
Co-President, Pacifica Library Foundation
Rockaway Beach Avenue
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