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Kobyluck was out of luck if it had been hoping for quick approval from the Conservation Commission last week.
to construct a stone processing facility at 28 Industrial Drive now measures about a foot high in terms of paperwork, commissioners were still left with questions about the timeline for the project and its overall environmental impact on the site.
“A breakdown on the impacts, that’s what we’d really like to see,” Waterford’s Environmental Planner Maureen Fitzgerald said. “There’s no discussion of any impacts, indirect or direct, during construction or after. It should be part of the application.”
Commission members were not convinced by CLA Engineers’ soil scientist Robert Russo’s assurances that the project would have no negative impact in terms of water runoff that might lead to sediment in wetlands and soil erosion.
Russo went one step further to say the work involved in removing sediment from the stream to build the bridge needed by the project and the excavation of the site as a whole offered environmental benefits because would restore habitat and solve an ongoing erosion problem in the area.
Either way, the commission members decided that “this is a significant impact activity.” As such, it will need to be given further consideration.
The Commission also voted to hire a third party to analyze the application. This is the first time the Conservation Commission has voted to take this step but by state statute, it’s appropriate if an application is particularly complex.
“This is a complex application in my mind,” said Commission Chairman Gary Johnson.
Accordingly, the town will now issue a request for proposals in order to hire a third-party to review the permit. Specifically, the town is looking for a hydro-geologist to review the water flow issues and a wetland scientist to consider the impact of the project on the surrounding environment.
CLA Engineers offered to clear up some of the confusion expressed by commission members over the schedule for the project by writing up a simplified timeline. The next public meeting on the Kobyluck Brothers’ proposal is scheduled for January 26.
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[Computerbank] too many repeated problems
davidth at melbpc.org.au
Thu Jan 10 22:43:15 UTC 2002
Bruce McCubbery wrote:
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>> So, about the following:
> Superglue a plastic tag to each computer sent out with their User Name and
> Password on it. OK, it defeats its purpose for the user BUT it solves two
> of our worries in one go? A small sacrifice to get a free computer ... and
> it can be stuck out of site somewhere where you can remind them it is.
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> At 21:51 9/01/02 +1030, Shaun Branden wrote:
> >The recipients need the password to log in- that is the machine is
> >unusable as a desktop without a password. It is indeed possible to ship
> >out machines without passwords, but no-one would suggest doing that.
I have to agree with shaun here, indeed I believe that there is a good
case for all internet capable computers to *ALWAYS* have user/password
set up (even Windows!). If they aren't internet capable, then it might
not matter quite so much, although Mum and Dad won't be pleased if
junior logs in to their account and blows away the spreadsheets and
reports for the local craft society just for a lark.
So, I hear you cry, why the fuss ?
If our recipients, or any other user for that matter, have a login set
up with no need to enter a username or password, anyone can use that
computer as if they were the legitimate user, and the system can't
detect the difference. Indeed, it is possible to have the usernames
displayed on the GUI login screen so that no-one forgets them (a bad
development) - and a potential intruder/"friend" doesn't even have to
guess! Having to use a username/password provides some assurance that a
minimal level of user authourisation is present and has been
successfully negotiated by said true user.
And the system, I would strongly suspect, can only be set up to
automatically log in to one account - not sure about this, one of our
linux gurus will be able to confirm or deny ? If this is so, it would
remove a key advantage of linux, ie/. the ability to have separate
accounts and hence separate private areas for users to keep their files.
So without the requirement to enter a username/password, the system is
'wide open' to anyone who happens to pass by. Further consider that our
true user may well have his/her browser set up to do things like
accessing a newsgroups and/or mailing lists, accessing electronic
banking, (banks like that!) and perhaps accessing an ecommerce site
like, say, a book store.
Of course, all these setups are made 'easy to use' by getting the
machine to remember all the fiddly details, including those pesky
usernames and passwords etc that the banks insist on, so using these
things is often just a matter of pointing and clicking.
So our hypothetical intruder has potentially open slather access to the
true users' bank account, email (to post *really* hostile and defamatory
messages), and a bookshop where a substantial bill can be run up in no
Now, even if our hypothetical intruder can't quite get what he/she
wants, they can cause enough mayhem to keep our true user running off to
the solicitors for quite a while, not to mention the expense and time
wasted in cleaning up the mess!
Perhaps the above scenario is a little exaggerated, but you get the
I believe we should firmly resist the urge to 'dumb down' the computers
we supply by removing the one minimal user security requirement -
granted it will require persistence and at times lead to frustration,
but I think we should aim for the situation where one of our recipients
takes a look at a friends' Windows box and asks - why is there no login
on this computer?
If a recipient absolutely insists on having an automatic login, we will
ask them to sign an additional undertaking, to which there are no
exceptions, that they bear the *sole* responsibility for any
unauthorised use of their system and if such unauthorised use occurs,
they are not entitled to any assistance from Computerbank.
<Sigh> - That feels better - I'll go quietly now ...
David T. Hatton
(davidth at melbpc.org.au)
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Managing distributed software teams
Increasingly software development teams are becoming bigger and more dispersed. This is particuarly true in the free and open source community where many of the members of project teams may never meet one another face to face.The main challenges in this trend are that it is difficult to share information, monitor progress or even just to develop a common culture and ethos.
The Johannesburg Centre for Software Excellence’s XP Forum will be hosting a discussion on March 6 on the challenges faced by dispersed development teams. Speaking at the event will be Tetyana Loskutova, an embedded systems developer and the technical documentation manager for the db4objects database project. The db4objects team is located in nine countries around the world and has developed a management system based on agile processing and extreme programming that could be called Remote XP.
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The fatal shooting of two young mountain lions in Half Moon Bay earlier this month has prompted a Monterey-based wildlife rescue group to petition the state Department of Fish and Game about its policies toward such animals.
On Dec. 1, game wardens shot the mountain lions that had taken refuge under the porch of a home in the 800 block of Correas Street earlier that week. The cubs were about 10 months old and each weighed about 30 pounds.
The decision to kill the animals was made in the name of public safety, Fish and Game officials said.
But according to Rebecca Dmytryk of the animal aid group Wildlife Emergency Services, the big cats “would have been excellent candidates for rehabilitation.”
She said shooting or tranquilizing the cougars would have been the last thing wildlife rescuers would resort to, especially since Dmytryk said she believes the cubs were hungry and desperate, leading to their strange behavior around humans.
The animals appeared to be habituated to humans and did not try to hide or run away, Fish and Game officials said.
Dmytryk has put together a petition asking the department to change its policies on how to deal with mountain lions found in public spaces. Once it reaches 1,000 signatures, it will be delivered to Fish and Game Director Charlton Bonham.
Dmytryk said she hopes to form a collaborative effort with wildlife rescue organizations and Fish and Game to discuss constructing a rehabilitation facility for the state to use for mountain lions, instead of killing or capturing the big cats.
Fish and Game said in the days after the lethal action that the mountain lions were deemed a safety threat after several days of monitoring the cubs and giving them a chance to return to the wild.
Other options such as tranquilizing the cats were not plausible given the proximity of the animals to a populated neighborhood. That course of action ran the risk of having two possibly agitated young mountain lions on the loose near humans, Fish and Game officials said.
The Wildlife Emergency Services cougar petition can be found at www.wildrescue.org.
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I first met Tram in 2006 in a tiny bar on Pham Ngu Lao Street in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), in a neighborhood frequented by backpackers from abroad.
Tram and other sex workers in the bar, disguised as bartenders, catered to Western budget travelers seeking brief encounters or longer relationships-for-hire. They were the bar’s key attraction, but the women received no wages from the owner; they were independent entrepreneurs in a niche of the sex trade.
Tram, 27 years old and adorned with bracelet, rings, and a diamond necklace, was a model of success and economic mobility. She lived in a brand-new luxury condo with two servants, a full-time housecleaner and a cook who prepared Western foods for her new American husband. Tram had come from a poor village, she told me, where the only jobs were in the rice fields. In Ho Chi Minh City, she worked first as a maid and then in a clothing factory. But after two years of earning no more than the equivalent of US$70 a month, Tram had saved no money, could barely cover food and rent, and saw no hope for improvement. “Life in the city is so expensive,’’ she said. She saw sex work as her best route out of poverty.
Tram met William, 70, as a client, and quickly began to develop a more intimate relationship with him, hoping that her emotional labor might lead to ongoing economic support—in a remittance relationship, or marriage. Many Western men come to Vietnam seeking wives, or they become attached to women they hired once there, sympathizing with their plight, and wanting to take them out of the sex trade and care for them. Six months after they met, William asked Tram to marry him and move to North America. They were married in 2007.In 2009, I reconnected with Tram, along with William and their three children at an airport outside of Montreal, Canada. As we drove the three hours to their home, passing lumber farms, acres of undeveloped land, and pastures sprinkled with sheep, I commented on its beauty and tranquility. But Tram expressed no such sentiments. She had never intended to escape small town Vietnam, she said, only to end up in another small town in rural Canada. She had hoped to move to the United States, and had dreamed of living in Los Angeles or New York, “a big city, like the movies.”
Instead, she found herself isolated, in a cold climate and working long hours. Williams’ savings had dwindled, thanks to the expense of immigration, and they had arrived in North America smack in the middle of a global recession. For a year and a half, she worked nights and weekends for her brother in-law’s lumber company. She did see progress: By June of the year I came to visit, she had saved over US$20,000 and, with her sister in-law, opened a small shop selling local produce. But she was now the primary breadwinner, while William, retired but without much of his savings, stayed home with the children. “This is not what I thought my life would be like,” she lamented.The story of Tram and William, like that of other couples in my study, suggests a reversal of the usual trajectory of marital journeys. Ethnographers Denise Brennan and Amalia Cabezas have shown that sex workers often feign love as a strategy to obtain visas to migrate abroad. In Vietnam, the opening to the West in recent decades has inspired some women, usually between the ages of 17 and 32, to seek strategic marriages with Western men through sex work. Of the 71 sex workers I interviewed, 30 got married, and of the 30 just 12 women were able to obtain visas and emigrate. While 12 may not represent a large sample, I followed them for three to six years, spending as much as a week at their homes after they landed in the United States, Australia, France and Canada. While women who traveled from Vietnam to Western countries to be with their husbands did not intend to seek out employment, two-thirds of the women in my study ended up becoming their family’s primary breadwinner—reversing typical expectations.
William, like most men in my study, had come to Vietnam deliberately seeking a wife, while others discovered these opportunities once they arrived on visits. Either way, they were eager to find women who would enter a marriage with traditional gender roles that were fast disappearing at home. Their expectations were simple; the men would provide the economic support and the women would provide care, housekeeping and emotional labor.
What happened instead was a classic case of “gender vertigo.” Sociologist Barbara Risman used this term to describe the dizzying effect on people who adopt, or find themselves having to embrace, a radical and unfamiliar social role that upends their ideas of how family structures and society work. Dating back to the 1970s at least, this vertigo hit couples engaging in egalitarian role sharing, where husband and wife occupy both roles—breadwinner and nurturer. But in recent years, especially since the Great Recession that began in 2007, this model has shifted 180 degrees. In my study, most of the women had expected to end their working days once they reached their destination. Instead, most of them quickly ended up finding jobs, looking for income to supplement their husbands’ and hoping to send some home to family in Vietnam, and 8 of the 12 women quickly became the main breadwinner, often working double shifts, with husbands working less lucrative jobs or at home doing childcare.
In Tram’s case, she was able to move beyond the daily grind to open her own business. Others struggled more—and longer.
From Sex Worker to Wife
Thy, then 28, had met her future husband, Mitchell, in 2007. “When I first met him I did not really love him,” she explains. But “life in Vietnam was hard, and I was looking for a way to get out. Even after we married I had other boyfriends because I did not think that he would get me out [of Vietnam].” But after two years of visits back and forth, and paying fees to immigration lawyers both in Vietnam and Australia, Thy was finally able to migrate.
In the mid 2000s, stung by marriage scandals, and wary of enabling sex trafficking, more visas were denied by the United States, and the emigration process became increasingly long and arduous, taking an average of two years after a couple married. Most of the men in my study depleted their savings on attorney fees, on the cost of flights back and forth, and by sending money from the United States to support wives or fiancés waiting in Vietnam. The uncertainty in turn could complicate the marriage dynamic; many women hesitate to make the commitment unless it came with some kind of assurance that they would be supported; nor did they want to drop out of the sex business if they weren’t assured support.
Thy landed in Melbourne in 2010. Using Skype, she walked me through her and Mitchell’s modest apartment, joking about how her standard of living in Australia was much lower than the one that she had in Vietnam. “The first time I went to the grocery store was a shock,” she remembered. “Eggs were $4 (Australian dollars) and a whole chicken was $15. Mitchell just kept filling the cart. The bill was $150. It was so expensive.” Soon both spouses were working just to cover the necessities.
“I feel like a machine,’’ Thy said, tears welling in her eyes. Everyday we wake up at 6:30 to make breakfast and pack lunch. He leaves, and then around 8:00, I walk to his mom’s house,” where she works as a maid for neighbors. Mitchell’s mother had introduced Thy, and spent three weeks working alongside her to instruct her on how to meet each homeowner’s personal expectations. “I work [all day] in empty houses when everyone goes to work, and when I come home, Mitchell is all I have,” said Thy. She has come to love Mitchell and to be grateful for all he sacrificed to bring her to Australia and in his work there. “Everyone in his family is very nice to me,” says Thy. “His mom buys me clothes in the winter, and she always tries to make me feel welcome. But it is very lonely.”
None of the 12 women thought of returning to sex work. Most held typical working-class jobs, although one told me in confidence that she worked in a local massage parlor that offered a number of erotic services (but not sexual intercourse). Her husband didn’t know this about the spa. She agreed to perform some of these services in order to earn more money, but she drew clear boundaries for herself around the kinds of sexual practices she would perform. What she did like about the job was that she didn’t have to struggle to speak English to colleagues or customers. “I don’t have to talk to anyone. It is mostly body language.”
For their part, many of the men in these relationships felt great anxiety and guilt that they couldn’t provide for their wives as they had promised. Most of the couples had arrived in the men’s countries in the middle of the worldwide financial crisis, and many found that they had lost their savings or retirement funds in the faltering markets. If they wanted to keep working, or to come out of retirement, they had trouble finding jobs, especially the older men.
Lawrence, in his 60s, living with his wife Nhi in Florida, told me that she “didn’t know much about life in the United States—except that I promised I would take care of her and provide her with a better life than the one she had in Vietnam. She wants so many things, and it’s hard to say no when she asks for things.” Brian, who spends idle days in Vermont, just says he’s afraid to turn on the TV to hear more news about how bad the economy is doing. His 401(k) fund is nearly gone and his $1200 a month Social Security payments are “barely enough for us to just get by.”
Younger husbands too had been through futile and humiliating job searches; 3 of the 12 were unemployed. Even for couples lucky enough to have two jobs, money was tight. Jeremie, a French man in his early 40s, had traveled to Vietnam as a tourist, and found that he and his lover, Quyen “could live it up.” Food was cheap, housing was cheap, and labor was cheap. Western men also had more opportunity; they could take up jobs as English teachers or as editors or translators for local Vietnamese companies. Back in the West, the exchange rate and status they had enjoyed in Vietnam evaporated.
But it didn’t help many of the couples to seek out other Vietnamese immigrants abroad. Some of the women found jobs in the Vietnamese ethnic enclaves, in nail salons, restaurants, or coffee shops. But when the details of their marriages were revealed, they suffered new isolation. The stigma associated with being a young Vietnamese woman married to a Western man made it difficult to establish trust or social bonds with them.
Hoai told me, “When the [Vietnamese] owners [of a nail salon] found out that I was married to an older white man, they started to trust me less with the money. They look at me like I might steal something from them because I was a bar girl in Vietnam. The female boss always watches me around her husband.”
Between Love and Money
As I heard more stories of struggle and isolation, I began to wonder—and ask—why some of the women didn’t leave their husbands, either to live on their own, in different locations or communities in their new countries, or to return to Vietnam. Most of the women in fact, believed that they could easily escape their marriages but remain in their new countries if they claimed that their husbands were abusing them; authorities would believe they were victims of human trafficking. But none wanted to do this, and none wanted to return home.One reason was pride. Like many immigrants who boldly leave home, full of grand expectations, some of the women hid the truths of their new lives from family at home. Thanh Ha, age 26, was painfully reluctant to reveal what she was doing to earn a living in the United States. She told me at first that she had found work in a tortilla chip factory. I spent nearly four days with the family in their cramped apartment before she finally revealed what she was doing. “I work in a chip factory,’’ she said, haltingly. “But I don’t work on the line.” She hesitated. “My job is to collect garbage.”
Struck by her emotion, I tried to reassure her that this kind of job could be a stepping-stone to better things. Shaking her head, she said, “When I was in Vietnam, my first job [in a wood factory] was a step-up from my village; the bar was another step up. I was making more money. Picking up trash in America is both a step up and a step down.”
When Jeremie suggested returning to Vietnam to live, his wife Quyen was unwilling. She couldn’t imagine returning without enough money or Western luxuries to display. One of the reasons the women wanted to send money home, in fact, was to maintain the veneer of upward mobility.
But perhaps the bigger surprise in these developments is the way the women and men began to acclimate to their vertiginous situations. One pleasure for the women was how supportive their husbands were about their earning money—even when they out-earned the men. Thu was surprised by her husband Roger’s approach to the money she earned. “He never tells me how to spend it. If I was married to a Vietnamese man, it would probably be hard for him to accept. But Roger is proud; he calls me superwoman.”
“I’m lucky because Thomas lets me work,’’ says Xuan, 26, “and he never asks me how I spend the money I earn.” Xuan’s Vietnamese co-workers who are married to Vietnamese men “always have to ask their husbands if they can send money to Vietnam.’’ These immigrants may “look down on me for my past life in Vietnam, but I have more freedoms, and I live a more carefree life than they do.”
Not only were many of the men supportive, they were comforted to know that their wives would be self-sufficient without them. Stanley, a man in his late 70s, said, “She is young, and I want her to be able to take care of herself when I pass away. I had my whole life to work and build my career. She should get to do that too.” The women, meanwhile, seemed to have developed affection, even love for their husbands, and certainly a sense of loyalty, a belief that they owed their husbands a great deal. “When I married Jeremie he took care of me and paid for everything,’’ said his Quyen. “When you marry an older man you will have to pay back your debt to him and take care of him too.”
Several of the women were still optimistic about their economic prospects, and they maintained the pragmatism that had made them marry these men in the first place. Van explained to me, “We are saving money to open a small shop together. He knows English and can handle the paperwork, and I can run the shop.”
Seeking economic security and a pathway out of Vietnam, the women in my study found themselves, thousands of miles away, in marriages where they became the breadwinner. Although they wanted women whom they could support financially who would offer them emotional security, the men found themselves in non-traditional relationships they had not bargained for. This experience of transnational gender vertigo reframes our understandings of sex work, migration, and gendered relationships across transnational spaces.
These couples stayed married, for better or for worse, as the transformation of marriage, migration, and love gave rise to new and different dreams for the future. As Van said, “Do Tinh Den Bac,” a phrase that means when you have luck with love or romance, your economic luck may decline. While she and the other women I studied embarked on migration journeys believing that they were sacrificing love for economic fortune, many ended up struggling economically—and some found love along the way.
Brennan, Denise. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Duke University Press, 2004). An ethnographic exploration of how sex work- ers strategize to get married and migrate.
Cabezas, Amalia. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic (Temple University Press, 2009). This book examines the emotional labors that sex workers perform in their relations with Western tourists.
Cheng, Sealing. On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). This book examines Filipina migrant sex workers relations with American GI’s in South Korea.
Kempadoo, Kamala. Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor (Routledge, 2004). This ethnography examines the racialized and gendered relations in the Caribbean’s sex tourism industry.
Schaeffer, Felicity. Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (New York University Press, 2012). This book looks at the commercialization of intimacy in marriage tourism between the United States and Latin America.
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"Earlier, most of the frauds were in procurement. In recent times, there has been an increase in financial frauds...even though the volume of such frauds may not be high, the value of such frauds is very high. Cyber crimes are increasing," says Rohit Mahajan, partner and co-head, KPMG India.
KPMG Forensic has investigated over 500 cases including the Commonwealth Games and Satyam scams and more recently, OnMobile. The division has over 600-odd people. It has nearly 250 people who check through 40,000 resumes a month.
The modus operandi of investigating complex economic crimes has also changed considerably, thanks to technology. "Financial fraud investigations are very different, from what they were 15 years ago," says Sumit Makhija, senior director, forensic and dispute services, Deloitte India.
"Back then, one had to manually go through the ledgers of the companies, correspondences with vendors and third parties, as all of it was maintained in physical form. Today, we have specialised proprietary tools - which can run through these millions of transactions - and pull out the red flags or suspicious transactions," he adds.
Industry folks believe that the market for "preventive" services - like resume verifications, background checks, and fraud and security audits - is likely to increase as companies are waking up to the possibility of large internal scams.
In March, Mumbai Police arrested detectives of a private agency for selling call records of high-profile citizens including Bollywood actors and businessmen on behalf of their rivals.
"Such stuff can happen because you really don't need a licence and there are no regulations to monitor the private investigations business in India," says the head of an investigating agency, pointing out that a bill called Private Detective Agencies (Regulation) Bill, 2007 has been in the works for a while now. For now, most large investigative agencies say that they don't cross legal boundaries, though smaller agencies, hungry for business, do indulge in dodgy practices.
So, do the spooks need a regulator? No, say most firms. But what they want is a set of guidelines and a law that will recognise their business. This spy story might have just begun.
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Work took me to Cincinnati this week, where I was introduced to one of that area’s regional culinary specialties. Not chili smothered in a mountain of shredded cheese, but a delicious German specialty called goetta. Pronounced ged-da or get-uh, it’s a rustic sausage made with ground meat (usually pork) and oats that became popular among poor families trying to stretch out their food supply in the early 19th century. (Thus the oat “filler.”) It’s usually seasoned with a blend of salt, pepper, bay leaves, thyme and rosemary, and can include minced onions and vegetables inside as well.
Peasant food no more, goetta’s modern-day popularity has garnered it the nickname “Cincinnati caviar” among aficionados. You’ll find it served on a bun with spicy mustard and onions, of course, but it also pops up in omelets, pastas, pizzas and a number of other dishes, too. I loved my goetta omelet and – because of the oats inside – even pretended it was “good” for me. Not a chance, but it tasted so good I didn’t care.
Go get ya’ some goetta!
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EAS tries first its national test
Baton Rouge, La (NBC33) — The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says they're preparing to test run a National Emergency Alert System later this week.
It's the first time testing a national version of the Emergency Alert System.
The test, set for one Wednesday afternoon will last just 30 seconds.
"All these things have just kind of brought to light that there may be a time where the President may want to address the nation as a whole,” stated GOHSEP Chief Benjamin Bourgoyne. “So the question was asked, well if the president wants to do that, do you use EAS? Can it happen?"
The test will run on the bottom of your television screen; it'll start with the words "This Is Just A Test".
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Topic: Kim Jong
The North Korean attack on a South Korean island not only killed soldiers but injured civilians. The provocation comes 60 years after the North invaded the South. What is the North's aim this time?
The son of 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il who seems favored to lead North Korea, Kim Jong-un, is probably not even 30 years old. And yet he may soon have his finger on a nuclear trigger.
Uncertainty over who will replace Kim Jong Il could complicate negotiations over the country's nuclear program, Clinton said.
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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) June 07, 2011
It’s the midnight call that can strike terror in the hearts of so many local family caregivers. “Mom has suffered a stroke,” or “Dad accidentally overdosed on his medications.”
A local senior care company has unveiled a new resource for those adult children who live in fear of getting “the call” that tells them their senior loved one is in trouble. Research conducted for the Home Instead Senior Care® network has revealed that many grown children don’t know all they should about their older adults’ medical histories.*
That’s why Home Instead Senior Care has worked with Humana Points of Caregiving® to develop a variety of resources to help families be better prepared.
The Caring for Your Parents: Senior Emergency Kit, an information management tool, can help family caregivers keep important information at their fingertips such as their senior’s doctors, pharmacy and insurance company, medications and dosage details as well as allergies. For more information, go to http://www.SeniorEmergencyKit.com or call your local Home Instead Senior Care office at 602-588-7725.
A survey of future family caregivers conducted for the Home Instead Senior Care network indicates a widespread lack of knowledge including the fact that less than half (47 percent) say they know about their parents’ medical histories in case of an emergency.
“We’ve seen the turmoil that such an emergency creates and we’ve also witnessed how much smoother it can go when families are prepared,” said Debbie Seplow, owner of the Home Instead Senior Care office serving the Greater Phoenix area. “This resource will provide family caregivers with the tools they need to be ready for the unexpected.”
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Editor's note: This winter I made a challenge to readers. It was called 'You got to try this'. Basically I asked readers to challenge me to try something unique and then write a story about it. I did receive a few challenges. One of them was from a neighbor of ours at the lake. Gary and Jean Svobodny have a cabin next to our home spending weekends there. They live and work in Willmar which is where I went to do this story. Their challenge to me was to make an ink pen out of wood.
Take a piece of wood, add a few metal components, turn it on a lathe and magically you have a unique and beautiful ink pen.
Sounds easy, but it is far from a simple process. Hancock Record Editor Katie Erdman learned the ins and outs of the process through Gary and Jean Svobodny of Willmar. For the Svobodny's it is a hobby, for Erdman it is a story and much more.
About ten years ago when the Svobodny's son Cory was a senior in high school he watched his brother Ryan work at a place that made fishing pole handles out of wood. Cory came up with the idea of making pens and was soon introduced to a guy who told him where to order the components that would be needed for a pen. He also learned more about ordering different types of wood for the pens.
Soon Cory and his dad started making pens. Cory took some of the completed pens to school and everyone loved them. He sold all the pens they had made and he came home to start making more.
Gary and Cory soon found themselves making and selling pens of all types of wood. They started to look around for more unique colors and even tried some antlers and ivory. Some of the woods are very rare but create beautiful pieces. Other woods are softer and needed to be sent to a special place in Iowa where the wood is stabilized. Sometimes in this process the wood also takes on a unique and beautiful color.
After experimenting with different mediums Cory and Gary began making pens and also a few letter openers. During the Montevideo Fiesta Days they set up a both and sold out entirely. They used this money to buy more inventory and started to go to more shows. Their business grew and they began to spend many nights and weekends dedicated to making and selling the popular pens.
In some instances the orders were large and personalized. One company placed an order for pens to be presented to employees to mark a milestone year of employment. These pens were engraved using a laser engraver owned by a friend. Another order was placed as gifts for groomsmen and the demand continued to grow.
After Cory left home Gary and Jean continued to make the pens. The process seems to be relatively simple but actually requires a lot of careful and delicate work. The first step is to drill a hole lengthwise into the center of a 2 1/4 " x 3/4" block of wood. Into this hole the first metal component, a brass cylinder, of the pen is glued in place. All excess glue is carefully removed after it is dry.
The block of wood is then placed on a wood lathe. The wood is turned while carefully removing and shaping the wood. This process takes a great deal of care since you do not want to break the wood or break through to the metal component.
The wood is turned until there is less than 1/8" thickness around the brass tube. The wood is then sanded slightly, the final sanding done with a strip of grocery bag. The wood is once again turned but this time wax is applied to shine and draw out the color of the wood.
The piece is then removed and final components of the pen are glued on. The result is a sturdy, serviceable and very beautiful keepsake.
Gary now has 137 kinds of wood on hand in his shop. He can make pens, letter openers and has even made darts. The darts require a lot more specified work as the weight also needs to be considered. The pens can also be done in different forms such as fountain, calligraphy or ink. He orders a good deal of the wood and the components from a catalog however whenever he and Jean are on trips they are always on the look out for new wood.
In fact during one trip to the East Coast they toured Mt. Vernon and noticed a piece of wood lying on the ground. They asked a guide on the tour if they could take the wood and were given permission to remove it. The pens they made from this stick were very popular as the wood had a 'history' connecting it to our country.
Gary and Jean have slowed down a great deal when it comes to making pens and now only do it for special orders. They no longer sell at shows or advertise a great deal. Instead they take the time to share their wonderful product and talent with friends and neighbors any time they happen to stop by.
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The independent report, Does IFRS Convergence Affect Financial Reporting Quality in China was prepared by Dr Edward Lee and Professor Martin Walker of Manchester University, together with Dr Colin Zeng from the University of Bristol.
The researchers examined all Chinese companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2003 and 2009 in order to understand whether IFRS convergence made their reported earnings more informative for investors.
The study looked for changes to the value-relevance of earnings – the degree to which changes in reported earnings affect share prices – and found that this increased following IFRS convergence in 2007, and was almost certainly the result of convergence itself.
Manos Schizas, senior economic analyst at ACCA, explained: 'The researchers took advantage of something close to a natural experiment, set up unintentionally by Chinese policymakers. Although IFRS-converged Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) only came into force in 2007, many companies (issuers of ‘B’ shares intended largely for foreign investors) were required to provide IFRS reconciliations for years long before this. By observing differences between them and other listed companies, they were able to distinguish changes brought about by IFRS convergence from changes brought about by other trends in the Chinese and global economies.'
The research also revealed that IFRS convergence led to companies improving the quality of disclosures only where there were other strong incentives for them to do so, such as:
- A high level of dependence on the equity markets for funding
- Being outside of direct Government control and lacking access to Government subsidies
- Being based in a less-developed region
- Having significant foreign ownership
- Being a manufacturer.
Manos Schizas added: 'IFRS convergence is a good example of how Chinese policymakers have matched and integrated accounting reforms with economic ones – it is actively helping China achieve more balanced, equitable and sustainable growth led by the private sector. Like most recent reforms of the accountancy profession in the country, convergence has been closely associated with the China’s development as a market economy.'
For ACCA, the findings give further weight to the importance of IFRS as the international standard for financial reporting, with Manos Schizas concluding: 'We’ve always argued that global standards benefit investors; convergence has worked for China, and other markets are sure to take notice.'
Professor Martin Walker of Manchester University commented: 'Other studies have suggested that emerging economies such as China would not necessarily benefit from IFRS convergence because of their legal enforcement and investor protection frameworks are still incomplete. This study shows that IFRS convergence has been beneficial where companies have had appropriate legal, governance and commercial incentives to provide high-quality disclosures; and that seems to have been the case for most, but not all, companies. As China’s capital markets continue to develop, the benefits of IFRS convergence will grow.'
ACCA believes that these findings vindicate the views of such stakeholders as the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA), who argue that local application of international standards is of paramount importance and will remain a challenge for years to come. ACCA shares the belief that, in order to consolidate and build on the benefits of convergence, the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the accountancy profession will need to be enhanced on a continuous basis.
- The full academic research report is supported by a policy summary which discusses the importance of value relevance, the research methodology and China’s capital markets’ performance relative to other advanced and emerging economies, as assessed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2013.
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If you didn’t know, this is what a “Plucked Chicken” looks like. No longer the wild roosters of The Forward Look, the next-to-last Chryslers that Virgil Exner doodled up are a delightfully whimsical bunch of beasts to feast your eyes upon. And due to some name debasement, the Mighty 300 could now be had on a Windsor budget!
Chrysler didn’t always have three or four models comparable to Buick, the most direct rival of Walter P.’s namesake brand. For a time around the introduction of the Hemi, the Saratoga took over the Super 88/Buick Century type role of having the large V8 in the smaller Windsor chassis. It disappeared in 1953 only to return for 1957. When it reappeared for 1957, it was more Buick Super themed: Bigger bodied and lesser trim, just a whole lot of Chrysler for your money. This lack of identity for what was once the “sporting” Chrysler allowed it to fade away after 1960.
In 1961, a pair of crazy eyed Chryslers performed double homicide: The new Newport stabbed the DeSoto line in the back and out of existence. Meanwhile the Windsor bumped off the Saratoga and stood into its old slot in the Chrysler hierarchy. Which is ok, The Windsor would soon get what was coming to it.
There was one name that held a remarkable amount of brand cachet for Chrysler in the early 1960s that even the oddest styling couldn’t slander. That was the vaunted 300 “letter series” models, which proved to be some of the most fearsome cars available throughout the late 1950s through the early 1960s. What other cars could possibly out accelerate and out handle Corvettes while having appointments that rivaled those of Cadillacs? From the United States, the only answer to that question was with the 300.
But why didn’t the 300s sell in any significant volume? Besides “being Chryslers” (for better and worse all at the same time), they were prohibitively expensive. A 1960 model started at $5,411, which put it well into Cadillac DeVille or Imperial territory. Also the Ram Induction 413s weren’t all that adept to average suburban driving and wanted to be flogged in an S&M kind of way that frightened most drivers in 1960. Frisky behavior would soon become acceptable in Corvairs and Imports, because they were different. But love of Sado-Masochistic Big Blocks would be about 2 years and a Beach Boy Song away.
When Chrysler saw Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick crafting bucket seat bombs in varying degrees of success with the Ventura package, Starfire and Invicta, Chrysler decided to upstage all of them in 1962 by giving those three magic numbers a wider swath of the market.
Available as a 4 Door Hardtop, a 2 Door Hardtop Coupe and a convertible (some pillared sedans may have been made as well), these “regular” 300s had most (if not all) of the trim of the 1962 Letter 300. But there were some key differences, mostly in the engine room. For one, the base engine was the 383 with 305 Horsepower. And the long list of standard equipment over in the letter series was optional or not available in the Sport version. Even then, performance wasn’t anything to sneeze at, as the 383 and Torqueflite were one of the best powertrain combinations out of the United States at the time.
None of the powertrain refinement could make up for that funny face that first appeared (cockeyed) in 1961. Although not the first American car with such a dubious headlamp arrangement (honors there go to the 1958-60 Lincoln models) there’s something whimsical, puzzling and endlessly fascinating about the face of these Chryslers.
I have a few theories on how Virgil Exner came up with this face. The more positive one is that he took the 1959 300F face and thought “How can I show how powerful that new ram induction 413 is? Slant the headlamps around the grille so it looks like the engine is strong enough to warp the sheetmetal!” My other theory is that he left a 1960 Styling clay in the sun too long and the front of it melted into this position and he called it a wrap.
As wild as these could be, full sized American automobile styling was going a decidedly different route by 1962. Both Ford and General Motors were ironing crisp creases in all of their offerings while Mopar decided to continue bulging at the seams. The whole Mopar family looked like a stylish 1962…in an alternate universe, otherworldly kind of way.
All of this effort gave the non-letter 300s a grand sales total of slightly over 25,000 cars. A significant amount more than any letter 300′s production, and it bested by more than 10 times the volume of Buick’s new Wildcat coupe. But, even with that respectable showing, it trailed the one model only debut of the Grand Prix, or the total sales of the quite pricey Starfire line for 1962. Thus from our 20/20 vantage point, the non-letter 300′s seem like a complete failure. When a competitor that costs nearly $1000 more than you (in 1960s Money) handily outsells you by 15,000 units, there’s got to be something wrong.
So out with the funny headlamps, and a re-appropriation of what was supposed to be the S-Series Imperial to the Chrysler line up for the “Pacesetter” 1963 300 Sports. Decidedly less weird (and pretty handsome), they didn’t sell any better than the 1962 models, despite having the honor of being the Indianapolis 500 pace cars that year. These cars’ poor reception speaks more to the damaged reputation Chrysler was dealing with in the early 1960s than the viability of the cars.
Although premium models, they didn’t carry the cachet of a Buick, or even an Oldsmobile. My Great Grandmother was one of the Chrysler faithful, dutifully trading in a New Yorker every 5-7 years (depending on durability) until 1987. My mother still reminisces in disgust how they used to cower in the back seat of her 1963 New Yorker, because it wasn’t as well regarded as the Ninety Eights, Deuce and a Quarters or even the Mercury Park Lanes the other church ladies drove to Sunday Services. About 4 years ago, I threatened to buy a 1964 New Yorker on Craigslist just for fun. She threatened to disown me.
Which is shameful. With few reservations these flamboyantly definned rides of a bygone era deserve more respect for marching to a different drum, quickly.
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Clem Paul begins his case for Metis Treaty Rights
Yellowknife, N.W.T. - 15 boxes of evidence were dropped off at the Yellowknife courthouse Friday as the former president of the North Slave Metis Alliance, Clem Paul, begins his fight for Metis treaty rights.
Paul said he has been fighting for 25 years and claimed he is trying to make the government make good on the promises that were made to his people.
Paul said he has heard no opposition or support from the other aboriginal communities in the NWT and he is taking this fight on solo.
"Me I’m just doing my own thing, I’m sure now everything else and is now public it will be subject to a lot of debate and discussion, and I don’t think anyone will be offended by anything I've found."
Paul said something else he has been fighting for is a band for his people, a fight which he had once given up hope on.
"Going through the motions I had finally given up 15 years ago because I got tired of the run-a around, but I guess that is one of the things are that are going to heard quite profoundly through those boxes."
Paul will be returning on Friday October 12th to speak with other lawyers and continue discussion surrounding this case.
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By Susan Kim*
October 31, 2012—The view of just one house in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a microcosm of the incomprehensible magnitude of Sandy’s aftermath.
The home, sitting in floodwaters that overwhelmed a fuel oil tank in the basement, is surrounded by thick, black sludge. Behind the garage, chemicals are seeping out of a flooded factory, forming a thin film on top of the muck.
Cleanup isn’t even on the minds of these homeowners, who have no power and hardly any access to communications. Survival is.
As the Rev. Chris Heckert walked in Hoboken, a fire truck and another emergency vehicle traversed the street, responding to a call from a resident with a downed tree.
“People were following the fire truck, asking the firefighters to come here, come over here, just following the truck, begging to be helped,” said Heckert, pastor at the Morrow Memorial United Methodist Church in Maplewood, New Jersey.
He is doing his part to help, opening the church to the surrounding communities as a place to simply exist. “People are coming in to do work, use the wireless internet, get coffee and let their kids play,” he said.
Churches in hard-hit areas have become an oasis for people who, since Sandy hit, have been cut off from civilization. “No one has scratched the surface of what’s going on in New Jersey,” said Heckert.
People in New York City are in similar isolation, reported Peter Gudaitis, president of the New York City-based National Disaster Interfaiths Network.
“There is water damage all over Manhattan, in the Lower Eastside immigrant neighborhoods, including Chinatown,” he said. “Nobody can access those. Power is still out. Nobody can report problems, so the assessment process is complicated.”
With no electricity, internet, or mass transit, people who don’t have cars can’t get to work, the store, or even to their churches.
“There is a perception that coastal areas are where rich people live. That’s not the case in New York City,” added Gudaitis. “Every day of missed work hurts people from working class families, who rely on a weekly paycheck. They’re not on a salary–they’re hourly.”
Stores are reopening very slowly, he added. Most can’t accept credit cards and, with no power, getting cash from ATMs is difficult as well.
Even as communities in New Jersey and New York City were in the grips of daily survival, they were worrying about the long haul.
“I hope we see some enormous national generosity for long-term recovery,” said Gudaitis.
UMCOR will be there for the long haul. Please help. Donate to UMCOR US Disaster Response, Hurricanes 2012, Advance #3021787 ,. You can also text the word RESPONSE to 80888 to give an immediate $10 donation.
*Susan Kim is a journalist and regular contributor to www.umcor.org.
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A feature for the Guardian
You may remember Louis Cole, the man who eats strange things. He became a YouTube celebrity by munching live scorpions, maggotty turkey legs, giant ragworms and the like. In April this year, he uploadeda video of himself eating a live goldfish (YouTube has since removed the video but, inevitably, it’s available elsewhere): he lifted the creature out of its bowl, held it up briefly then bit down on its head, chewing up the animal and swallowing it. Tasteless and crass the act may have been, but the creature was dead in a few seconds. If it suffered, it didn’t suffer for long.
At the end of April, Cole received a hand-delivered letter from the RSPCA telling him that he might have broken laws relating to animal cruelty, and threatening that the police would come to arrest him if he didn’t reply. Fish, like all animals with a backbone, are covered by legislation in a way that scorpions and tarantulas are not. Faced with an official-looking document and the risk of arrest, Cole got himself a lawyer. He was told he faced a £20,000 fine and up to six months in prison. For eating a goldfish.
Whatever you think of Cole’s brand of shock eating, the RSPCA’s approach towards him over the course of this year looks heavy-handed. “I felt from the start they wanted to pin me up and make an example of me,” he says. He was initially interviewed at a police station. On one occasion, “I was told I needed to see them within a couple of hours or a warrant would be issued for my arrest. They drove to meet me and I sat in their van answering questions. I didn’t have my lawyer with me and he felt this behaviour was underhand.” The RSPCA confirms these events, though it says he was free to leave at any time.
Cole chose to fight the accusations because he worried “if I’d admitted any guilt it might be taken into court, and I might end up with a hefty fine or a prison sentence”. Throughout, he claims, “I was under the impression that they had some level of power, that they could enforce certain things.” In fact, the RSPCA is merely a well-funded charity that, among other actions, brings private prosecutions against individuals. It has no special powers whatsoever, although it sometimes looks as if it might. Its inspectors wear uniforms that look very similar to those of the police, and turn up unannounced at people’s properties asking to inspect, for example, animals’ living conditions. (You have every right to refuse and shut the door if this happens.) Its number ends in 999.
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Dyson Racing's Lola/Mazda uses an isobutanol-blend fuel Photo: Anne Proffit
Everyone speaks platitudes on Earth Day, claiming to do their part in saving this orb we all live on.
No racing sanctioning body backs their play as much as the American Le Mans Series, which has been proclaimed the Global Leader in Green Racing by no less than the U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and SAE International, all of whom endorsed ALMS as the only one to meet all standards for Green Racing that this group of agencies established in 2008.
There are several ways that ALMS walks the walk where it pertains to environmental friendliness.
For starters, there is the Go Green Auto Rally, held in most instances the same week as a race. I had the opportunity to test skills in driving efficiency, conserving fuel and leaving a smaller footprint during the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Given a route book that took me around the Long Beach city, using stop-and-go traffic as well as steady-state cruising on the internet, I did my best to look ahead and plan my maneuvers throughout the half-hour drive. It was a fun challenge.
"A big part of green driving is awareness," notes three-time ALMS champion Allan McNish. "On and off the racing circuit we have to be efficient and the Go Green Auto Rally brings that across to people in a new way."
In 2010 ALMS moved from traditional power to solar for its timing and scoring tabulations. No longer using gas-powered generators, ALMS' personnel rely on new HotSpot solar generators to power their timing and scoring traps. According to Lynda Polk, chief of timing, the new system has proven to be "extremely cost-effective both in time and effort."
ALMS tire supplier Yokohama uses race tires constructed from a blend of natural rubber and orange oil - in place of petroleum products. The new racing rubber has performed so well that, in addition to use by the entire GTC class in 2011, Yokohama tires are being used by two teams in the most competitive GT class. Reduced petroleum tires are available to the general public as well.
All ALMS' GTC-category cars use E85 Photo: Anne ProffitEnlarge Photo
Green Earth Technologies makes its motor oil from renewable resources, sponsoring Gunnar Jeannette's LMP Challenge car in 2010. This year Dyson Racing uses G-Oil in its LM P1 prototype, a Lola/Mazda that continues to run on an isobutanol-blended race fuel.
Nearly all ALMS teams run 80-percent ethanol fuel in their racing cars; other teams utilize 10 percent ethanol while many of the international LM P1 entrants focus on biodiesel fuel for their turbocharged racecars.
Finally, ALMS has teamed with the Boy Scouts of America and Coca-Cola Companies to enhance recycling efforts at race venues. At the season opening Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, the effort was so successful that Coke had to bring out "a special new sorting trailer for the effort," said local Coke representative John Higgins.
At Sebring, the Boy Scouts set a new record for the amount of plastic, glass an aluminum collected, the increase aided by ALMS teams' efforts and a number of campers at the Sebring venue.
The American Le Mans Series celebrates Earth Day whenever it competes and in its everyday activities. Racing can not only be green - with ALMS it is green!
© 2011 Anne Proffit
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BBC F1 introduces driver tracker
This weekend BBC Sport is launching a new aspect of its online Formula 1 coverage.
We will be adding to the selection of video feeds available to UK users on the website a graphic showing the live location of all the cars on the track during the race.
The animation, which will be selectable in the video section at the top of the F1 live page, is provided by Formula 1 Management (FOM) - who call it a driver tracker - and we hope it will prove a nice complement to the rest of the BBC's F1 coverage.
The best use of it is probably in addition to the TV coverage as a way to better understand the race. It could be a huge help, for example, in the pit-stop period, when the TV coverage does not always show whether a driver emerges from his stop ahead or behind a rival. The driver tracker will show you all this live.
The driver tracker will be added to our live video module - which we locate at the top of our live page on the website whenever there are cars on the track. This module also has live video coverage of every on-track session, an in-car camera channel, alternative commentary streams and rolling highlights.
The driver-tracker option features a top-down circuit map, on which the drivers are identified by colour-coded shapes bearing their standard FOM three-letter abbreviation (ALO, for Fernando Alonso; HAM, for Lewis Hamilton; BUT for Jenson Button etc). These identifiers move around the track as the cars do, allowing viewers to track the progress of the drivers and the visual gaps between them.
After a recent update, the live player, as we call it, automatically gives you the best quality video your broadband connection can tolerate - and we have discovered that at least 80% of you are now getting the high-quality video at all times.
We are making this available for this weekend's British Grand Prix as a trial, with a view to introducing it for the rest of the season.
So please do try it out and let us know your thoughts.
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you have come upon Ellen Moody's website as constructed by her husband, Jim Moody. At present she has divided the literary terrain and scholarship on her website into different areas, each containing various scholarly materials (chronologies, bibliographies, lists of editions, original texts not readily available elsewhere). Some of these are organized under the names of individual authors: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882); Jane Austen (1775-1817); Frances (Fanny) Burney d'Arblay (1752-1840); Isabelle Polier-de Bottens de Crousaz, baronne de Montolieu (1751-1832); Samuel Richardson (1689-1761); Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720); Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547); and Veronica Gambara (1485-1550).
There are also sections organized by genre, era and type of author, e.g., epistolary, literature; illustrated books, poetry by women, the Renaissance through 18th century (where, for example, the reader will find an essay on the poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu); travel literature; gothics; novels (e.g., Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis); and there are reviews of books and original essays and essay-reviews on individual authors (George Eliot, the 19th century English novelist), and film adaptations of books.
For Anthony Trollope and in conjunction with her book, Trollope on the Net published by Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, Ellen has placed upon this website a complete chronology listing when Trollope wrote a particular novel or short story, the first publications in serial instalment or volume form for both, and who illustrated them. She has provided a separate section on the illustrations of early publications of the novels as well as a selection of those illustrations. She has also placed on this website a series of extensive bibliographies, some annotated, for Trollope's life and works, for studies on his mother's life and works, on 19th century novelistic art and life in England and Ireland, and for book illustration.
Finally, she has placed here essays and threads from conversations on the Barchester Chronicles, Trollope's relatively unknown novels, La Vendée, Rachel Ray and The Belton Estate, Is He Popenjoy?, John Caldigate, Ayala's Angel, and Trollope's Anglo-Irish novels, e.g., The Kellys and O'Kellys and Castle Richmond as well as off-topic threads on ourselves by all the group members of Trollope-l. and essays from a group read of all Trollope's short fiction
In conjunction with an essay Ellen wrote (published by
Philological Quarterly) "A Calendar for Sense and
Sensibility", Ellen studied all Austen's novels minutely and
detailed calendars from them that
are in these books and provide the undergirding of of
all Austen's serious realistic fiction. The calendars are accompanied by
a chronology of
Austen's writing life based on a study of these
calendars and relevant contemporary documentation;
the chronology includes a list of literary sources for
the novels. Ellen includes a summary essay which she posted
to Austen-l and C18-l to demonstrate the hitherto unremarked
astonishing recurrence of Tuesday in all her novels but
Northanger Abbey as the day on which her
characters have mortifying, humiliating, displacing,
and pivotal events in the plot happen to them.
She also includes on her website essays she wrote on Austen-l during a group read of Austen's Mansfield Park, her review-essay of Jane Austen Goes to the Movies, and a record of a group read of Fanny Burney's Cecilia.
For Samuel Richardson upon whose two epistolary novels, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison Ellen wrote her dissertation, Richardson, Romance, and Reverie, she has placed a record of a group read performed in real time following the time scheme of Richardson's Clarissa over the course of a year. Included here are postings by others scholars and readers of this novel during that time. It forms an interpretative conversation linked to each of the letters in this novel.
For Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, she has printed those chapters she has completed of her study of Anne's life and poetry I On Myself Can Live, a bibliography of all the primary and secondary manuscripts and books in which Anne's poems occur and of all the secondary scholarly studies of her work that have been published to date as well as several important unpublished Ph.D. dissertations. Ellen has also placed a masterlist of all these sources with an account of where each text by Anne comes from, as well as an annotated chronology for all her poems: this chart includes the date, source, reprint history, relevant biographical and historical data for each poem Anne wrote -- and this includes the poems which have not been printed or publicly attributed to Anne in printed books until now as well as a listing of the various anthologies in which Anne's individual poems have been printed as well as all the partial editions of her poetry which have been published from 1713 up to the present time.
She has gathered and placed on her website 43 texts, 36 of which are certainly by Anne Finch, and 7 of which may be by her, and which have gone unprinted, are printed in censored versions, have not been attributed to her partly due to her own desire for anonymity, or occur in books which have become rare and were unknown to Myra Reynolds who attempted the only complete edition of Finch's poems we have. In this section she has also described the manuscripts and books in which these poems are found and presented all the arguments for attribution.
These texts, combined with those printed by Reynolds andthe recent edition of the Wellesley manuscript by McGovern and Hinnant, provide the student all the poetry that Anne Finch wrote.
She has also placed on the sit an essay she wrote comparing the poetry of Anne Finch to the poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and an essay on Anne Finch as a translator, with a Bibliography of Translation Studies.
For Vittora Colonna she is placing a complete
translation of Vittoria Colonna's famed
Rime, arranged in a comprehensible order,
with each footnoted with a list of all previous
translations of the particular poem, and
accompanied by the text in Italian from
the 1840 Visconti edition of the
poems, and a cross-reference to
Bullock's 1982 edition. She has included an extensive
bibliography of good editions with a list of important or recent
studies. She has provided a
brief life of
Vittoria Colonna, a briefer
portrait of Ferrante
Francesco d'Avalos, an
outline of her projected biography, A Dark Voyage
its first chapter, "Pawn and Wife."
For Veronica Gambara she has placed upon the Net her translation of Veronica Gambara's Stanze, "Quando miro la terra ornata, e bella," together with a copy of the original text in Italian, and some relevant annotations. She has again included a bibliography of all the editions of Gambara's poetry to have been published; a list of the anthologies in which the reader may find more of Gambara's work, and a bibliography of scholarly works about Gambara's life and poems. Finally, Ellen has placed on the site an essay on the process of translation as she practiced it for the poetry of both Gambara and Colonna, a brief sketch of Gambara's life, a longer essay on the misattribution of poetry by Gambara to Colonna, and a translation and ordered arrangement of a selection of Gambara's poems, Secrete Selve Reverende, Secret Sacred Woods: A Selection of Poems by Veronica Gāmbara.
She has placed onto her website one of the earliest sonnet sequences written by a woman poet, Anne Cecil de Vere, the then Countess of Oxford's "Six Elegiac Poems" (first published in 1989 in English Literary Renaissance) and "an essay on the poetry of Katherine Philips known as "Orinda" in which she identifies many of the people alluded to in the poetry and sets the poems in understandable autobiographical and generic matrices (first published in 1987 in Philological Quarterly), and reprints of Philips's beautiful and almost unknown translation of a pastoral "Golden Age" poem, "La Solitude" by Antoine Girard Saint-Amant (1594-1661) as "Solitude". Both essays have been revised and updated to take into account new perspectives and information available in the more than 10 years since their first appearance.
Also included is a select bibliography of works by and on other early modern English, French and Italian women poets and Ellen's review of Gabriella Zarri's important Per lettera: Le scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia secoli XV - XVII.
She is now working on several related projects. She has made a Fanny Burney page where the reader will find three published essays by her on Fanny Burney, "Fanny Is Us", "On First Encountering Fanny Burney d'Arblay", and "On Reading Divergent Fanny Burney d'Arblays" -- as well as scholarly essays,a chronology, bibliography and cyberspace postings which occurred during a group conversation on Fanny Burney's Evelina and Cecilia. She has also made an Isabelle de Montolieu page where the reader will find Montolieu's important and delightful partly epistolary novel, Caroline de Lichtfield, along with a brief life, information on and links to other texts by Montolieu, a bibliography for studying her life and works, and one contemporary illustration of this novel.
She has also created "Reviewer's Corner" where the interested reader will find a group of reviews and review-essays she has published in academic journals where she deals with the recent critical and scholarly reception and film adaptations of Renaissance, 18th and 19th century texts.
Finally, she is in the midst of placing upon her homepage records of conversations posted to the Net on Trollope-l and other lists. Ellen's website will eventually include variety of materials taken from other group reads in cyberspace and her teaching: the focus will be 19th (e.g., Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis) and 20th century novels, travel books, gothic and and ghost stories (e.g., Margaret Oliphant's "Old Lady Mary" as a reverse Dickens A Christmas Carol), Arthurian romance and group and individual interactions on listservs.
Ellen's site also includes the syllabi for those courses she is currently teaching or has taught at George Mason University. Her syllabi includes short essays, information and bibliographies on science writers, gothic literature (including commentary on ghost and vampire stories), "Western Literary Masterpieces" before the 18th century, some travel writing, autobiography and various 19th and 20th century literary figures.
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A few years ago, my wife and I were walking along the bank of the Danube River in Budapest. Across the river is an absolutely breathtaking view of the Hungarian Parliament, an enormous gothic structure that dominates the waterfront. We saw a young woman sitting by herself near the bank, and we asked her to take a picture of us. I will never forget her answer.
She said, “No.”
Despite traveling to cities all across America and Europe, that has never happened to us anywhere. Ever.
It wasn’t the only bad experience we had in Budapest. While eating in a restaurant near Parliament, my wife overheard a child singing loudly about how America was not normal. And an older Irish lady on the subway told us about how, when she was lost, a Hungarian gave her wrong directions - on purpose.
Were we just random victims of bad luck and grumpy people? Possibly. Or is there something deeper going on, something of greater consequence? Sadly, the answer appears to be the latter. Indeed, the Magyars may have a real problem getting along with other people.
For instance, their lingering racism toward ethnic Roma - who usually live in utter poverty - is nothing new. However, the far right-wing Jobbik party recently took things to a new level when they formed a group of uniformed vigilantes to combat “gypsy crime.” They even refer to the paramilitary force as “gendarmes,” which, during World War II, referred to the people who helped deport Jews to concentration camps.
Also, there appears to be a movement to purify the Hungarian culture of foreign influence. Leadership at Budapest’s “New Theater” insists on performing only Hungarian plays, and it has banned the performance of “foreign garbage,” a term that carries a xenophobic undertone.
Now, it appears that this intolerance for dealing with other people is starting to harm relations with the European Union.
Just how bad is the problem? Bad enough that the former United States Ambassador to Hungary warned that the country is in danger of being ejected from the European Union. That seems a bit drastic and therefore unlikely, mostly because the EU is not known for drastic action. But such a strong warning coming from an ambassador should be taken seriously. What has Hungary done to put itself in this position?
It started when Viktor Orban’s conservative, nationalist Fidesz party came to power in 2010. Shortly afterward, they began an assault on the freedom of the press, threatening to issue fines for any coverage that was deemed unbalanced. About a year later, the government shut down Klubradio, a popular opposition radio station.
However, the final straw came when Orban tried to influence the Hungarian central bank, in direct violation of EU treaties that insist on the complete independence of central banks from political manipulation. Hungary is in need of financial assistance, but the EU and IMF refused to assist unless Orban’s government retreated. It now appears as if they have.
While an immediate confrontation appears to have been averted, this situation reveals yet another fissure in a political union that is becoming increasingly unstable. As tumultuous as 2011 was for Europe, it is quite possible that 2012 will be far worse. Europe has enough problems to deal with, but Hungary’s petulant intransigence is just making things worse.
Rising nationalism is becoming a problem throughout all of Europe, but it is particularly worrisome in Hungary. Its eagerness to pick fights with anyone perceived to be an outsider is quickly turning Hungary into a pariah within the European Union. For its own sake, as well as that of Europe, it needs to quickly relinquish its embrace of embittered nationalism. Otherwise, it risks financial ruin and political isolation.
Hungarians need to learn to play nicely with others quickly. Because if they don’t, they’ll be the only ones left in the sandbox.
(AP Photo: FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012 file picture Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, talks to guests participating in the foundation of the new National Public Administration University in the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary.)
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Hand gesture controls coming to a car near you?
It looks as if the gesture-sensitive interface for the Cadillac Cue infotainment system is just the beginning of gesture integration in our vehicles. Wired reports that Microsoft is already investigating ways to incorporate technology lifted from its Xbox Kinect. Likewise, Harman has unveiled a new system that recognizes both hand and facial cues to control various cabin features.
Drivers can reportedly use eye blinks to turn the stereo on, tilt their heads to turn up the volume and even tap the steering wheel to skip songs. Temperature adjustment gets taken care of by raising or lowering a hand above the gear shift, while pulling up a Bluetooth-connected phone is as simple as mimicking a phone with a hand.
How does it work? The system relies on an infrared sensor to “watch” for certain gestures. When it sees them, it passes a signal to separate processor, which in turn handles the connected hardware.
That sounds all well and good, but as anyone who’s stood cursing at a motion-activated faucet in an airport restroom can tell you, these systems aren’t foolproof. Fortunately, Harman says it won’t have anything ready for market until it’s been thoroughly tested, which may be up to three years from now.
SOURCE via Wired
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Communities In Schools of Jacksonville is a leading dropout prevention organization helping kids successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life. We reach more than 6,400 at-risk students in 39 Duval County Schools through mentoring, literacy tutoring, after-school enrichment, and case management.
Our Mission: The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Our Values: Provide a personal one-on-one relationship with a caring adult; a safe place to learn and grow; a healthy start and a healthy future; a marketable skill to use upon graduation and a chance to give back.
There are many more young people in our schools who are close to giving up. They are searching for a future. Together, we can make a difference in their lives. When will we see the last dropout?
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A House of Representatives committee revisited past hearings and presented key findings Wednesday in an attempt to draw conclusions on radicalization within the Muslim American community, but was left undecided. The hearing was the fifth in a series of discussions on the controversial issue.
One member of Congress likened the hearing to reality TV and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Another grilled the witnesses on their security clearances.
The hearing, “The American Muslim Response to Hearings on Radicalization Within Their Community,” convened by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, was supposed to draw conclusions from the previous four hearings. While some members and witnesses pointed to progress, others questioned the hearings’ purpose.
The previous hearings had covered the topics of radicalization and response within the Muslim American community, radicalization in prisons, terrorist recruitment and threats to military communities.
“Fifteen months ago this committee – the Homeland Security Committee, which was formed in the wake of the tragic attacks of 9/11 – held the first in a series of hearings into the radicalization of the Muslim American community,” King said in his opening statement. “The necessity of these hearings was obvious – and there should have been bipartisan support.”
Referencing past opposition, he stressed the necessity of the hearings and said they’d led to numerous revelations.
King released a report with the committee’s key findings, including the severity of the threat of radicalized Muslim Americans to homeland security, the presence of al Qaida recruitment in the country – specifically in prisons and military communities – and what the findings said was a lack of cooperation between Muslim Americans and law enforcement to “confront the Islamist ideology driving radicalization.”
Top committee Democrat Bennie Thompson of Mississippi remained skeptical of the hearings.
“We are holding today’s hearing to discuss the effect of previous hearings. I am not sure we have ever had a hearing to gauge the effects of prior hearings,” Thompson said. “Given the challenges the nation faces in homeland security . . . I am not sure that a hearing to gauge the effects of our hearings is the most effective use of congressional time and attention.”
Three of the four witnesses, all Muslims – M. Zuhdi Jasser, the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy; Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and Islamic culture instructor to the U.S. military; and Qanta A.A. Ahmed, a physician and political and religious writer – supported the hearings and said they’d opened up a much-needed dialogue within their community.
“Immediately after my testimony, we received literally hundreds of emails, over 90 percent of which were extraordinarily complimentary, from American Muslims,” Jasser said of his organization.
Jasser has asserted continually that the American Muslim community needs to do more to differentiate between spiritual Islam and political Islam.
“I’m a devout Muslim, and I’m doing this because I acknowledge that there’s a problem,” Jasser said in an interview before the hearing. “We want to wake up our own community to things that radicalize them. Until you have that platform,” he said, there isn’t going to be increased initiative.
“Shame is such a critical part of our culture, but we need to move beyond that,” she said after the hearing. “We have to clean our dirty laundry, and that only happens in the light.” Nomani, who was at the first hearing and found it frightening, said there’d been progress and that the discussion was “more thoughtful than before.”
But witness Faiza Patel, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, and other members of the committee disagreed, seeing the hearings as potential alienation of the Muslim American community.
“The hearings drive a wedge between Muslims and their fellow Americans,” Patel said.
“When members of Congress hold hearings about the ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims and expressly place an entire community under the spotlight, it sends the message to all Americans that the government views this community as a security threat. And the public appears to be receiving this message loud and clear.”
Patel cited a Pew study that showed Muslim Americans as generally opposed to violence against civilians and holding a “very unfavorable” view of al Qaida. She said American Muslims were also key to uncovering homegrown terrorism.
Other critics of the hearings included Democratic Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Gene Green, both of Texas. Jackson Lee said actions taken to address American Muslim radicalization had infringed on civil liberties. Green said the hearings were unfair and that there should be hearings on the radicalization of Christians and other groups, too.
“I want to be fair to Muslims,” he said. “To be fair, you have to go beyond discussing the radicalization of Islam, and we’re not doing that.”
King and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, however, urged the committee not to overlook the correlation between Islam and national security, saying the threat is there even if the Islam in question is extremist and not representative of the majority of Muslims.
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The closing of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ended four days of bliss for the many tech geeks in attendance, and for those of us watching online.
Live streaming video feeds were broadcast from numerous webcasters direct from the CES.
With nearly 2 million square feet of space being used, an estimated 140,000 people participated at this year’s CES.
Of this total, 30,000 came from outside the US.
To nobody’s surprise, tablet computing devices were found in abundance at this years show along with many other high-tech goodies.
Once again, 3D TV’s made news at CES.
These were not the “revolutionary” 3D televisions seen at last year’s CES; they were more “evolutionary.”
New “passive polarized” 3D technology TVs were shown by three companies: Visio, LG, and Toshiba.
Passive 3D TVs possess the ability to present high-quality theater 3D viewing using lightweight and less expensive passive polarized 3D glasses which do not require a power source.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer said, “. . . many people find passive polarized to be more comfortable. The weight of the glasses is better; it works better over (eye) glasses. It seems to provide a really comfortable long viewing experience.”
The other surprise in 3D demonstrated by Sony was their “glasses-free” autostereoscopic organic light emitting diode (OLED) 3D TV.
To see the 3D effect, you must stand in a specific location in front of the TV to correctly receive the light images being directed to your eyes.
In fact, black foot prints were painted on the floor in front of the Sony OLED 3D TV where you needed to stand.
The people who viewed it said they did see the full 3D effect, without having to wear 3D glasses.
The autostereoscopic 3D display screen works by sending two images to the right and the left eye by way of rays of light at different angles. Our brain connects this and creates the illusion of the 3D images we see without wearing 3D glasses.
There is not much 3D video content out there yet, but movie makers and game developers are beginning to create more.
Any one of us will be able to create our own 3D content using the new 3D camcorders Sony, JVC, and Panasonic are coming out with.
JVC’s 3D camcorder shown at the CES is called the Everio GS-TD1.
This camcorder has two sensors which capture 1080i 3D video. It contains an internal flash storage of 64GB and a 5X optical zoom.
The camcorder uses 4 to 8GB per hour while filming.
This is a full high definition (HD) camcorder and includes a 3D flat panel view finder.
The JVC Everio GS-TD1 camcorder includes 3D editing software and will be available for us in March at an estimated cost of $2,000.
Consumer 3D technology is still in its infancy, but I look for this medium to become more commonly used in the future.
Outdoors at the CES parking lot, General Motors demonstrated their futuristic autonomous vehicles.
These two-seat, self-enclosed electric urban transportation concept vehicles can travel about 25 miles in-between charges at a top speed of 30 mph.
This concept vehicle is called the EN-V, which stands for Electric Networked Vehicle.
These vehicles are built to communicate with other EN-Vs while traveling, in order to better manage the flow of traffic between them.
Folks were given rides in working red and blue EN-Vs while representatives of GM answered questions.
To see the GM EN-V in action at the 2011 CES, go to tinyurl.com/4chhame.
Ford Motor Company took the wraps off their new 2012 all-electric Ford Focus automobile during the 2011 CES.
The 2012 Focus uses a 23 kilowatt-hour liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack and has a top speed of 84 mph.
Recharging time from a 240-volt source is three to four hours.
Best Buy stores have been authorized by Ford to install the 240-volt charging stations for owners of the Ford Focus electric car.
The vehicles traveling distance has not yet been officially made known, however, one Ford spokesperson at the CES said it was about 100 miles.
To see the details of the 2012 Ford Focus Electric automobile, go to the Ford web page, http://tinyurl.com/49z7o3v.
The CES not only showcases larger company’s new product concepts, but also smaller independent inventor’s creations, as well.
Being this columnist is pretty much of an independent sort, I would like to devote some liquid (and virtual) ink to an inventor who came to CES with a unique product.
Her name is Nancy Tedeschi, and she came up with a practical new method for permanently attaching small screws to optical eyeglass frames and brought it to CES looking for dealers and distributors.
Her company is called “Snapit.”
To see how the product is used, watch the video at tinyurl.com/4eh3oq8.
Their website is www.snapitscrew.com.
The 2011 CES “Best in Show” award went to Motorola, for their new Xoom 10.1-inch personal computing tablet, which will be released to the public later this year.
Even as the 2011 CES was ending, a few live video streams were still broadcasting.
In one stream, I watched a small group of people aimlessly walking around the showroom floors.
Venders were tearing down their booths and talking amongst themselves.
A few people stood in one place gazing at the emptying booths appearing not wanting to leave.
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Each of our four-year BA (Hons) degrees in Art shares common elements of study during your first year. Subsequently you will explore photography in its broadest sense, acquiring skills in handling small, medium and large-format cameras.
You will gain knowledge of film processing, studio practice, and printing black & white and colour photographs, both chemically and digitally. Projects will explore ideas such as the relationship between image and text, documentary photography and landscape photography.
As your technical proficiency develops, you will place your output within a definable context, and discuss and present it accordingly. Elements of moving image production and web publishing are introduced. Research will continue to play an important role in your development.
Towards the end of your study you will undertake a major project, in which you will be given the opportunity to explore and research your subject matter in depth, make personal observations, explore your interests and interpret themes. You will share your work with staff and students through regular discussions.
The climax of the final year is the Degree Show where previous photography students have exhibited an impressive range of work, from mainstream fine printing to installation pieces, film, video and multimedia productions.
The department has a range of small, medium and large-format cameras, a full-length portraiture studio and analogue and digital darkrooms.
Specialist technical support is provided to all students.
Digital cameras and image manipulation software and hardware are available.
Photography students also have access to digital image cameras and editing facilities.
In addition to ongoing feedback through tutorials and crits, there is a formal mid-year review of all coursework.
Students are formally assessed at the end of each year before progressing to the next level.
The final degree award is based on the final year’s work and normally comprises of the following:
This article was published on Apr 19, 2012
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The following is the beginning of an essay I am writing. I thought I would share it here.
Phenomenology is a name for a variety of approaches that take experience seriously. In these approaches, the common desideratum is to describe concretely the constituting subject acts in relation to the constituted object. The core of phenomenology is the systematic description of this co-relational act-object structure in which neither act nor object is privileged more than the other. If descriptions are not concrete enough, then the phenomenologist has either privileged one-side of the relation or neglected a dimension of lived-experience that should remain explored in her descriptions of that co-relational structure. I argue that Scheler’s description of intentional feeling loses sight of the concrete lived-body and this encounter with Scheler through pragmatism opens up the deeply felt dimension of reality that underlies both James and Scheler’s philosophy. In trading the relevance of the lived-body for enduring psychic and spiritual feeling, Scheler reveals how feeling intends the values of the Holy and culture. In these feelings, the values acquire a sense, but no mention is made of how those values manifest in the experiencer involve the lived-body.
With the dearth of the lived-body, one could insist that Scheler is neglecting a crucial aspect of overall phenomenological experience. Thus, there is a crisis to be faced. On the one hand, Scheler gives a description of intentional feeling and the value correlates that constitute experience. In saying that, Scheler’s values involve our world. They appear on the back of deeds, persons and things. They illuminate aspects of our lived-experience in this world, and yet by denying the relevance of the lived-body in the experience of values in feeling, the disembodied nature of the higher feelings calls into question exactly how concrete Scheler’s phenomenology is beyond its articulation in vital feeling. By revealing the embodied relevance of the lived-body in psychic and spiritual feeling, we no longer must face a crisis of concretion in Scheler’s thought. The crisis is dissipated once we start to read Scheler’s thought pragmatically, even when we move beyond the lived-body.
However, I do not stop with the crisis of making Scheler’s notion of the lived-body more concrete. This is only an opening. Instead, meditating on Scheler’s lived-body opens up a common pragmatic ground revealed by James. Both Scheler and James regard feeling as constitutive of experience before we can articulate anything about experience. Experience is shot through with feeling. Moving from the relevance of the lived-body and feeling, I start to open up the basic insight that James not only saves Scheler from his own irrelevance, but the commonalities on the very relation to reality can open up a powerful pragmatic interpretation of Scheler’s later metaphysics. Let me describe how I see this paper unfolding.
First, I outline the problem of disembodied feeling in the four value-rankings that appear in the Formalismus. In the second section, I introduce William James’s pragmatic thought as a way to conceive of feeling situated in a body. Working from James’s Principles of Psychology, I argue that the James-Lange hypothesis can remedy the observed defect of Scheler’s intentional feeling. In the third section, I defend three points of agreement between Scheler and James and what I take to be a Jamesian reading of how the divine is felt in James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the fourth section, an analogy is made from James’s Varieties as a way to regard Scheler’s later metaphysics. Since Scheler’s later metaphysics articulates life’s energy as an impulsion (Drang), and Scheler works from the bottom-up tracing impulsion in the lived-body, I interpret this transition as Scheler coming to grips with flaw I observed in his disembodied intentional-feeling in its higher forms. Regarded pragmatically, the activity of intentional feeling described on the side of impulsion and its relation to spirit (Geist) is shown to have the pragmatic consequence of putting embodied-ness back into feeling. While I confess that one could read Scheler’s metaphysics as an internal solution to the problem I point out, a pragmatic reading avoids the charge of metaphysical dualism, and illuminates Scheler’s pragmatic appeal to a larger world that may benefit from it.
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A sprawling campus with spacious structures and lush green grounds, and commodious classrooms that spread a sense of desire to learn are the hallmarks of any good school.
The Aga Khan Academy near Hardware Park perfectly fits into bill of a modern school that respects the age-old ethos and promotes space for every activity a child learns for apart from studies. Within a year of its establishment it has made the mark for which it is established. The kids look relaxed in classrooms and totally engrossed in co-curricular activities when outside the classrooms.
“Purpose of education should be to create leaders than just imparting knowledge. With this motto the Aga Khan Academy has been set up in Hyderabad, the second in the 18 academies proposed in 14 countries across the world,” says John Puddefoot, Head of Academy. The academy was set up on an invitation by the State government to Prince Aga Khan during his visit to the city a few years ago.
Dr. Puddefoot, former deputy head of Eton College, one of Britain's renowned schools further says that many education theories suppress child's energy but at AKA their natural energy will be tapped. “We make education joyful, rewarding and creative in the process of shaping ethical leaders and fearless learners.” The infrastructure is also created to support the belief. The school follows International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum and minimum of 20 per cent of teachers are from various nationalities with international experience in teaching.
As of now the junior school is in operation with classes 1 to 6 and from the academic year 2012 senior classes from class 7 to class 12 will be opened.
“We don't want to promote it as an elite school since the motto of AKA is to bring the best education to students from all levels of society,” says Aaron Ninan Jacob, Deputy Dean of Admissions. Financial assistance is extended to all needy students. “In fact, 60 per cent students get financial assistance ranging from 40 per cent to 100 per cent of fee,” he says.
Apart from a cricket ground, the school has a hockey turf, football ground, swimming pool and squash courts. Construction is on for residential facilities for teachers and students apart from other facilities on the 100-acre campus. Further details can be had on ‘www.agakhanacademies.org
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The LS1 was an evolution of the earlier LT small-block V8 but shares little other than similar displacement and external dimensions. It is an all-aluminum 5.7 L (5665 cc) pushrod engine and produces between 305 and 350 hp (228 to 261 kW) and 375 ft·lbf (508 N·m) of torque, depending on the application. Beginning in 2001, the LS1 received the higher-flowing intake from the LS6, and a smaller camshaft to keep power at the same level; this also allowed GM to remove the EGR system. The block is very similar to that of the higher-output LS6; beginning in 2002, some LS1 engines were actually built using the LS6 block instead. The LS1 was on the Ward's 10 Best Engines list for 1998.
* 1997-2004 C5 Corvette base model
* 1998-2002 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, SS
* 1998-2002 Pontiac Firebird Formula and Trans-Am
* 2004 Pontiac GTO
* 1999-2005 Holden Commodore as an option
* 1999-2005 Holden Statesman/Caprice
* 2001-2005 Holden Monaro
The Trans Am's engine is an LS1.
The most powerful engine there is. It is extremely underated, and can produce massive amounts of power.
people think the Earth spins because of gravitational forces....completely wrong......there is an LS1 in the core of the planet that is causing the spin....a few have been put in space to move the planets around the sun too
A V8 built by General Motors. Ricers call it old-fashioned because it is a pushrod engine, however, they completely ignore the coil-per-cylinder distributorless ignition, plastic intake manifold, and aluminum block and cylinder head.
This engine was found in all Corvettes built from 1997 to 2001, and in all 2004 Pontiac GTOs.
It has evn higher performing variants, like the LS6 which features a more aggressive camshaft profile and higher flowing ports, the LS2 which displaces 6.0L and has displacement on demand, and the LS7 which is 7.0L in size and features CNC ported cylindr heads.
The LS1 is featured in many high performance vehicles by General Motors.
The Badass 345 Horespower engine in my car.
I just smoked ANOTHER Nissan 350Z with my Trans Am's LS1.
A 3rd generation small block chevy sbc found under the hood of 1998 and up Camaro Z28's and SS's, Pontiac Firebird Formulas, Trans Am's, and GTO's up to 2004. This hairy beast of an engine is conservatively rated at 325 horsepower, when many cars see 315 at the wheels bone stock. It is 5.7 liters or 346.7 cubic inches displacement. 500+ horsepower is attainable without the use of forced induction.more...
Also, it is the sore spot to an ricer. Touted by said ricers as "old technology" because it has pushrods, the LS1 motor and its various LSX companions will continue to be the bane of many ricers' existence.
Common excuses made by those slain by the mighty LS1 include (but are not limited to):
-I (losing car) have better hp/liter
-I (losing car) get better gas mileage
-It's an unfair race because you (LS1 owner) have more displacement***
-It's to hot for turbos
-I'm running pump gas, so I can only run 10 psi.
-If I had C16 race gas, I'd kill you
-I had a boost leak.
-Blow off valve (BOV) is stuck.
-Clutch was slipping
***Note: I did not make you buy a car w...
A GM motor that was used from 1997-2004. Was very underrated at the factory, and stock, had about 350-360hp.
The LS1 is an AMAZING motor, in that it takes to very slight modifications well, and if taken car of, lasts a VERY long time.
It has been known to make around 900-1000hp with forced induction, and a few supporting modifications.
Man, my car has an LS1 which is said by some to be superior to the LS2!
one of the best engines, but unfortunately, has become a ricer excuse for not being able to afford a legit cat. an example of this would be a 240sx, miata, or an rx7 with the engine swapped with an ls1. i am not saying they're bad cars, because there are good engines that go with those cars well and can make them fast, but when someone puts an ls1 in an import, especially a low level cheap one, thats just asking for trouble. for example you could put an sr20 in a 240sx, and i could crush alot of good cars, same with another variant of a 13b in an rx7. when you use an engine made for another car, it shows you have no respect for what you are driving, and are jealous of other people's nice cars.
240sx owner: my ls1 240 will smoke your pos fat rusty american f body!!!! fuck government motors!!!
camaro owner: at least my ls1 is meant for my car, and wait a minute, you're using an american motor so fuck you.
serious 240sx owner: dude you're a faggot. i got an SR20DET and i like it better than the ls1. it goes with the car. of you dont like the 240sx, then get a car with an ls1 you fucking pussy.
240sx owner: I dont have the money for a camaro.
serious 240sx owner: you fucking ricer, just stay off the road. you give us serious import owners a bad rep. just go back in your house and jack off to fast and fabulous.
camaro owner: yeah, seriously, those guys are really gay. they might be fast, but they're still retarded.
mustang owner: thank God i don't see any faggots with 5.0s in their civics.
serious 240sx owner: not yet
ricer 240sx gives ricer flyby and drives away
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Multiplace started in 2002 as a coordinated event organised by people who had common interest in presenting new forms of creativity. Multiplace is network of people and organisations interested in interaction between media, technologies, art, culture and society. Network activities culminate every year into the festival, that is happening parallely at several locations in the world. Its program is open to workshops, installations, discussions, concerts, performances, exhibitions, presentations, screenings and especially new forms of creativity. Original focus on the new media culture has been evolving since 2002 and besides the technological aspect of digital media in art, the focus shifted also to questions related to its aesthetical, social, cultural, legal and political issues. The aim of the festival-network Multiplace is to create the fertile ground for media art, to support the creativity in an open and collaborative environment and to encourage critical reflection on the life in the culture shaped by technologies. Multiplace NGO was founded in 2004. In January 2008 we launched the free art server, Sanchez.
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An airport security staffer faces discipline after using a whole-body imaging machine to ogle a co-worker, according to this report. It’s another signal of what’s to come when the machines are in regular use. (In a previous post, I aired my doubts about the veracity of reports that a famous Indian movie star had been exposed, but the story foretells the future all the same.)
I’ve written before that whole-body imaging machines in airports create risks to privacy despite TSA’s efforts to minimize those risks with carefully designed rules and practices.
Rules, of course, were made to be broken, and it’s only a matter of time — federal law or not — before TSA agents without proper supervision find a way to capture images contrary to policy. (Agent in secure area guides Hollywood starlet to strip search machine, sends SMS message to image reviewer, who takes camera-phone snap. TMZ devotes a week to the story, and the ensuing investigation reveals that this has been happening at airports throughout the country to hundreds of women travelers.)
Rules against misuse of whole-body imaging are fine, but they are not a long-term, effective protection against abuse of “strip-search machines.”
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Hornsea Hotels: Hornsea, located in East Riding of Yorkshire, is a small seaside resort town. The town was once home to a pottery factory. Today Hornsea Museum features exhibits regarding the local pottery industry. The town also features a promenade that is home to shops that sell a variety of wares and treats, including ice cream and fish and chips. Visitors to the area will also want to visit Hornsea Mere, which is a large bird sanctuary and lake. The lake, which is a natural lake and not manmade, is a popular destination for sailing. There are ample accommodation options located in Hornsea as well as in the surrounding area.
Book Hornsea hotels, Hornsea Bed and Breakfasts or other Hornsea accommodation below.
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The small English seaside resort that is known as Hornsea is part of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The town is also a civil parish and it is located on the eastern end of the trail that is known as Trans Pennine. The town of Hornsea has a population of about eight thousand two hundred and forty two. The town of Hornsea is well known for the old pottery factory that operated within the town up until 2000 and the factory was home to the company that was known as Hornsea Pottery. The town of Hornsea forms part of the parliamentary constituency that is known as Beverley and Holderness.
There is a museum located within the town of Hornsea and it contains displays of local history and also a vast display of Hornsea Pottery. The museum is located on the main street across from the Folly.
The other large resort town that are within the local area are places such as Filey, Scarborough, Withernsea and also Bridlington to name a few. The town of Hornsea features a promenade, which is home to a vast array of shops that sell a variety of items that includes buckets and spades, ice creams and also fish and chips. As with a lot of other seaside resorts the buildings have been allowed to deteriorate over the years.
Within the town is Hornsea Mere and this is a large lake, which is also home to a bird sanctuary, and it is very popular for sailing. Hornsea Mere is not man made it is a natural lake that was created by movements of glaciers during the Iron Ages.
We hope you enjoy your stay in one of our cheap Hornsea hotels, mid range or luxury Hornsea hotels.
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Prince El Hassan of Jordan has written to Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster and Archbishop Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, to offer his support for the two-day conference focusing on the Christians of the Holy Land taking place at Lambeth Palace.
In his letter, Prince El Hassan bin Talal reinforces the fundamental role Christians play in the region:
"In short, Christians aren't simply part of the Middle East's rich religious patrimony, but an integral part of its history, its culture, and its civilization"
Prince Hassan also offers his thoughts on the way forward:
"Perhaps we should start thinking less and doing more. Perhaps instead of speaking of 'understanding' and 'coexistance' we should begin, quite simply, by working together with each other towards common goals in our local communities?
"In Education and Charity why can we not work together? Who wants to see Jerusalem in the state it is in today? The human face of Christianty, of Islam, or Judaism so often remains hidden - but each in simplicity and silence is in a way undeniable, and greatly needed."
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Hon. Alcee L. Hastings, Chairman
Hon. Benjamin L. Cardin, Co-Chairman
For Immediate Release
June 19, 2008
HASTINGS AND CARDIN LAUD U.S. COMMISSION FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS’ 2008 WORLD REFUGEE SURVEY
(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Co-Chairmen of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), made the following statement on the U.S. Commission for Refugees and Immigrants release of their 2008 World Refugee Survey:
“The refugee crisis has unfortunately continued to spiral out of control, where we are seeing the number of refugees worldwide reach over 14 million – the highest level since 2001. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportion. I commend the U.S. Commission for Refugees and Immigrants for releasing their 2008 World Refugee Survey. The survey uncovers some of the world’s worst violators of refugees’ rights, where refugees are raped, abused or even deported back to their persecuting countries – a fact that I find to be utterly deplorable, said Chairman Hastings.
“The United States has a moral obligation and a security interest in trying to alleviate the suffering of Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons, particularly those who risked so much over the past few years to help our military and diplomatic efforts in their country,” said Senator Cardin. “The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants’ survey released today is truly eye-opening. It shows the United States still has far to go to support the rights of refugees worldwide.”
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, is a U.S. Government agency that monitors progress in the implementation of the provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. The Commission consists of nine members from the United States Senate, nine from the House of Representatives, and one member each from the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce.
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Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
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|3 week test
Mar 5, 2013
Why are the guidelines to test at 3 weeks if it won't be conclusive until the 3rd month? Is the 3 week test a good indicator of your status? My last "exposure" was January 28th and I tested negative on Feb. 26th? Is this a good sign? Sorry to keep bothering you but I am very anxious about this whole thing and don't know how I am going to wait 3 months?
| Response from Ms. Southall
Hi The reason for the 3 week and then again 90 day test is because what the test is looking for is your body developing antibodies against HIV and everyone develops those antibodies at different rates. So we call this the window period, because during this time if the test comes back negative you can still be positive and able to transmit the virus. One of the things scientist are working on is increasing the sensitivity of testing. When I was tested 21 years ago I had to wait a week for my results and now we are down to 10 minutes and it used to be get tested for one year, it was reduced to 6 months and now it's down to 3 months and I know that we are getting closer to getting it down to one month.
Hope this helps, be well and stay safe, Shannon
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The BBC’s sustainability strategy and action plan is called “The Difference”. It focuses on how we run our business, as we strive to be a responsible steward of our human, natural and financial resources. Our aim is to embed sustainability into every day working practices across the organisation, and make a difference in the wider broadcasting industry by leading the way in sustainable programme productions.
We want to make a positive difference to both current and future generations.
To meet this goal and to exemplify best practice to our staff, audiences, business partners and fellow broadcasters, we have a five point plan.
We’re supported in this by senior managers across the organisation as well as by the efforts of dedicated staff. We’re committed to reducing our impacts on the natural environment, and have a series of targets to achieve. These include major reductions in carbon emissions from energy and transport and the reduction of water use and waste. You can see our progress to these targets here.
Our people are encouraged to make the difference and get involved in many ways, from using Albert, the BBC’s carbon calculator for productions, to participating in campaigns to increase recycling. We have a network of sustainability representatives across the organisation who lead by example and encourage their colleagues to do the same.
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Here are some favorite food-related traditions and recipes from the Lee & Low staff:
Keilin, Marketing/Publicity Intern:
One food-related Thanksgiving tradition that my family does is something AFTER the actual meal. My family takes all the turkey meat to save for sandwiches, but we also save the turkey bones! We use them to make a Chinese rice porridge called “jook.” Usually, jook is made with chicken and pork bones, but for the next week or so, my family gets to enjoy turkey jook! It has a different (albeit subtle) taste, and it’s something I look forward to every year!
Jessica, Associate Editor:
Every year, my mother makes her signature stuffing from gizzards, walnuts, raisins, and eggs. My brother and I refused to eat it when we were younger because it looked strange and had gizzards. Then a few years ago, as “adults”, we dared each other to try it. It was delicious! We couldn’t believe we missed out on it all those years.
Samantha, Editorial Assistant:
The food I always look forward to most on Thanksgiving is my mom’s potato souffle. She started making this instead of regular mashed potatoes when I was in high school, and now I request it every year. A few years ago, my family went out to Ohio for Thanksgiving, and I was left at home. A friend and I made Thanksgiving dinner for ourselves, and I was very careful about following my mom’s recipe to the letter. Unfortunately, the recipe didn’t include a note about proper handling of the souffle dish. After scooping my first serving of souffle, I picked it up towards the top of the dish, and the thing shattered. Pieces of glass fell into the potatoes. I stood there for a minute, wondering if I could salvage any of the souffle. I figured I could just pick out the glass. Luckily, clearer heads prevailed and I didn’t try to eat glass-filled potatoes, but I was bummed that I only got one scoop that year (I normally have several).
-5 pounds of potatoes
-1 stick of butter
-1 8 oz package cream cheese
Boil the potatoes with about 2 teaspoons salt until tender. Drain.
Add butter and cream cheese and mash or whip with an electric mixer. Taste for seasoning. (You can add pepper)
Beat in the eggs.
Pour into a 2 quart souffle dish.
Bake 30 minutes in a preheated 350 degree oven. If it is not puffed and brown on the top, bake a little more.
If you’ve got favorite recipes or food traditions for the holiday, we’d love to hear them!
Further reading: Mama’s Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
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Fences. Fences are horrible. Terrible. Very Bad. No Good.
Whenever people start talking "fence," things go wrong. Maginot line, basically a really big, well built, fortified fence. Nothing good came of it. Israel's "security fence." I'm not totally up to date on how that's doing, but it has mad a lot of people mad, and Israel's still not exactly what one generally calls "secure." Except in the Orwellian sense. The fence on the America-Mexico border. That proposal's still lurking around on the Hill -- it'll never really die -- but it hasn't done it's proposers and proponents prospects a whole world of good. The Berlin Wall. No caption necessary. Oh, and then there's China's fence, the Great Wall. That worked out all right, at least in the large scale, but how many people died building it?
What I'm really talking about, though, are not these kinds of big, geopolitical scale fences. What I'm really talking about are little fences. Suburban scale fences. Backyard fences.
As an example of what I'm talking about: I've lived in my present abode for nigh on five years now. I know the name of one of my neighbors, because he has a dog who's friends with my dog. One. Name. And that's out of all the neighbors I have: next door, across the street, down the street, up the street, the other side of the backyard fence. All of them. Some of them I see every day, but I don't know their names.
Of course, this probably says more about me than anything else. But fences are a handy metaphor. There's a feeling of isolation, here in the depths of suburbia. Even though there are people all around me, I don't know any of them. We all have our individual houses, our individuals yards, and individual families. Serving sized.
It's there on a larger scale, too. Just look at all the effort countries put into fences, borders, boundaries. I listed some of the bigger ones earlier, but plenty of countries have some kind of physical boundary at their border, even it's just a chain link fence for a couple of miles.
We don't need that. There's enough division, enough isolation, inherent in the human condition without cutting ourselves apart with even more artificial distinctions.
Besides, what if they really are evil? In the very literal, ambulatory sense? It's possible. I can see it now: quaint little countryside, marred by monstrous marauding lines of picket and steel, with great horrible fangs, chewing up everything in their path. So quick, before it's too late! Get rid of your fences! Tear down those walls! Before they destroy us all!
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RICHMOND, Va., May 8, 2012
RICHMOND, Va., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In Hanover County, 600 families live below the poverty line, 146 families have no source of heat and nearly 200 families lack complete plumbing supplies. In the majority of these homes, there are children under the age of 18. The rise in the price of land coupled with the economic downturn has forced even more families out of the housing market. Hanover Habitat for Humanity seeks to eradicate substandard housing in Hanover County by building safe, decent and affordable housing for low-income families. Virginia Women's Center is taking action in more ways than one.
In response to the needs of the Hanover community, the physicians of Virginia Women's Center, a Richmond-based women's health practice, have donated 1.8 acres of land on Pleasant Grove Road to Hanover Habitat for Humanity. Virginia Women's Center isn't stopping at that, their staff and physicians will be involved from start to finish. Following the groundbreaking on May 19, the staff and physicians, as well as other community volunteers, will begin the 16-week process of building a home for the Goodman family.
Lifelong residents of Hanover County, Jimmy and Lori Goodman have three children; the youngest is two years-old. To live within their means, the Goodmans have rented a home for 15 years that currently has no running water, a woodstove as their only source of heat, and all their meals must be prepared using a hot plate or microwave. The Goodmans pay very little to rent their current home and have willingly endured these conditions to save money for a home of their own. Jimmy comments, "I appreciated the opportunity to move out on my own at just 17 years old and was blessed with a good and honest family to rent from. I can live on what I've got, but I'm excited to have a new home for my family." The Goodmans emphasize that owning a Habitat home will be a profound improvement and opportunity for their family, and it is a financial step they are finally ready to take.
Practice Administrator at Virginia Women's Center, Brenda Burgess, said, "As a practice, we were familiar with Hanover Habitat for Humanity and the life-changing work that they do; we are thrilled to be able to partner with them." Burgess noted that the gift of land has special significance as one of Virginia Women's Center's locations, in the Medical Office Building at Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center, is right around the corner from the land on which the Goodman's home will be built. Since 1993, Virginia Women's Center has provided much-needed health care to the women of Hanover County. As Burgess remarked, "We are now excited to be able to further respond to the needs of Hanover County by partnering with Hanover Habitat for Humanity and working together to invest in the community where we serve."
About Virginia Women's CenterVirginia Women's Center is a full-service women's health care provider specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, urology, high-risk obstetrics, obstetrical genetic counseling, ultrasound, mammography, bone health, psychology, nutrition and clinical research. The practice sees patients in four locations in the Richmond area and has an additional office in Kilmarnock. For more information, visit www.VirginiaWomensCenter.com, or find us on Facebook and Twitter.
About Hanover Habitat for HumanityHanover Habitat for Humanity is an interfaith nonprofit Christian organization, committed in partnership with qualified families and community volunteers to create and sell homes with no-profit mortgages. We seek to eradicate substandard housing in Hanover County by encouraging all stakeholders to make affordable housing a matter of action and conscience. To volunteer, donate or learn more please contact us at 804-569-6108, email@example.com, or visit our website at www.hanoverhfh.org.
SOURCE Virginia Women’s CenterPR Newswire
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Introduction to Electronic Training Collarsby Geoffrey English
Announcer: Birdhunter on Point brought to you by GundogsOnline.com
0:05 Good girl. You know without a doubt one of the most taboo subjects in dog training is the usage of electronic collar. And for good reason. When these collars were first designed they were only capable of emitting one level of stimulation. So what a trainer would do is they would go and take the highest level of stimulation and bring that out into the field for them.
Well, in recent years manufacturers have changed the design of these collars considerably. Now the collars are capable of offering multiple levels of stimulation and the intensity can be adjusted at the transmitter, which makes this one of the best tools a dog trainer can have.
0:35 Here. Sit.
0:40 Another feature of today's collar is non electrical forms of stimulation. There are two types. There's tone and there's vibrate. The tone feature is great (beep) when you're working a dog at a distance. It's actually an audible sound that gets emitted from the collar. The vibrate is similar to a pager or cell phone in that it vibrates on the dog's neck which can be very desirable if you have an older dog with hearing difficulty.
Both the tone and vibrate can be incorporated into training as a praise or a warning command.
1:10 As you can see electronic collars have come a long way. And when used properly, they can be the most valuable tool a trainer has at his disposal. For more information, video tips and products to help you get the most out of your hunting dog, please visit GundogsOnline.com
1:25 Announcer: GundogsOnline.com helping you get the most from your hunting dogs.
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|Living near high tension electric wires|
22 September 2012
Stride into any market or street in Pindi and the spectacle of clumsily set mesh of electricity cables near houses is a familiar sight. The city is full of houses built dangerously close to power lines, with every citizen witness to the unpleasant sight in their neighbourhoods.
Electricity wires hanging down in clusters from electrical poles, passing through houses or lying on the street is not a very pleasant sight. A casual look at many of the streetlight poles or electricity poles in the city will always reveal such ugly scenes. Despite many cases of electrocution every year, the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) seems least bothered with addressing the problem.
During Monday’s spell of rain, high voltage electricity cables in many parts of the city sunk dangerously low, drooping to ground level and posing a danger to residents nearby. Many electricity poles were seen slanting.
The snare of wires not only mars the area’s face, but also keeps our hearts racing in fear, says Rana Nadeem, a resident of Bhabra Bazaar, an architectural heritage zone.
The residents and city managers of Rawalpindi have come to ignore this ugly trap of wires as these same wires carry electricity to thousands of small basement shops and offices in dark alleys where even sunlight and fresh air cannot penetrate.
But every so often, this pretence of innocuousness is exposed. Not long ago, an IESCO worker was electrocuted when he was working on a wet pole during a downpour on Asghar Mall Road. Even last year, a pedestrian was electrocuted at the turn towards Pirwadhai Bus Stand on IJ Principal Road after a live wire dropped on him.
Unwieldy webs of electricity wires hanging on electricity poles appear to be overlooked. Visits to several parts of Pindi city not only show sights that defy attempts at creating a visually aesthetic city, but also one that pose danger to residents.
Areas such as Bahbara Bazaar, Lunda Bazaar, Sarafa Bazaar, Moti Bazaar, Bara Bazaar, Iqbal Road, DAV College Road, Gawalmandi, Qasai Galli Pak Crockery Market, Dhok Najoo and Kashmiri Bazaar, are just a few of such places where heavy webs of electricity wires dot the roads.
Apart from the visual irritant created by the clutter of electricity wires, they also pose a danger to human lives. This is because many of the wires feebly hang off heavy-laden poles and as a result, their weight pulls them earthwards. At times, they fall off the hook and hurt passersby.
Asif Khan, a resident of Railway Colony, Loi Bher, said that until recently, all the connections on his street were illegal. “I had to cry out to Railway authorities to avoid a case of electrocution.” The connections were done on an electricity pole on Salahuddin Avenue and transmitted to buildings in Railway Colony. Sparks often emanated from them and the wires were resting on the roofs of some buildings in the area, he added.
There are several cases of illegal strings of connections resulting in a web on the road running through Faisal Town to Gangal Town and Gulzar-e-Quaid to Airport Housing Society and Judicial Colony. Also, some specific cases on the Airport Link Road route are Tajabad, Shah Khalid Colony, Dhok Hafiz and Chungi No 11, where poles are entangled with disjointed cables.
While episodes of electrocution are mainly restricted to the rainy season, fires ensuing from short circuits are a recurring dilemma. The number of electricity wires keeps growing with increasing demand. Every day, a new business enterprise opens, and with it the power load also goes up. There have been some occurrences of transformer fires inside the markets due to short-circuiting, says Akbar Hussain, who runs a garment store in Commercial Market, Satellite Town.
IESCO does not even cover the main power boxes. Hawkers display their goods on them. An accident is waiting to happen, says, Haider Ali, the owner of a general store on Saidpur Road.
Traders claim they had informed IESCO of the slanting electricity poles and naked live wires issues, but IESCO officers told them that they were unable to do anything as they lacked funds.
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|Re-polling for 4 seats in Bannu, Khuzdar, S. Waziristan underway|
21 May 2013
BANNU/KHUZDAR: Polling at 13 polling stations for four seats of national and provincial assemblies in Bannu, Khuzdar and South Waziristan underway to continue until 5.00 P. M. on Tuesday, Geo News reported.
On May 11 general elections, voting on three polling stations of Bannu PK-71 and on four polling stations of Bannu PK-72 was deferred due to some irregularities and re-polling is being held today on the directive of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
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|51 dead as massive tornado roars through US suburb|
21 May 2013
MOORE: A tornado of rare power roared through an Oklahoma City suburb, killing at least 51, flattening neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph (320 kilometers) and destroying at least one school. Officials said children were among the dead.
The death toll was expected to rise, an Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman said. Rescuers swarmed the debris as darkness fell. More than 140 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 70 children. Some were in critical condition.
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|Power supply to Lahore drops below half of its demand|
21 May 2013
LAHORE: Power supply to Lahore has dropped below half of its requirement and many of the areas have plunged into darkness for several hours.
According to Water and Power Ministry, it has started receiving furnace oil after which the situation would get better today.
LESCO official said that it is getting only 1700MW power supply against the demand of 4200 MW.
The official said that Ali Raza Abad, Valencia, Harbanspura, Batapur, Sabzazar, Awan Town, Thokar Niaz Baig, Chah Miran and ... Full Story
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The world will see big political changes with leadership shifts in China, Mexico, Russia, Europe, Egypt and particularly in the Middle East during 2012, according to David Rothkopf, a contributor to Foreign Policy Magazine.
"We're halfway through the initial wave of these [Middle Eastern] revolutions," says Rothkopf, adding that much more change is to come.
But it is possible that one of the biggest political changes won't happen in a physical location, but on the Internet. Rothkopf thinks that we could see a big escalation of cyber wars between nations.
He also predicts that a critical piece of U.S. infrastructure will be shut down by a cyber attack, bringing online wars to the forefront of politics.
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One of the subjects that fascinates social media users is news about technological innovation. Last week was no exception as rumors about new smartphones-one from Apple and perhaps one from Facebook-triggered intense speculation and some high-tech sleuthing on blogs and Twitter.
For the week of May 28-June 1, the No. 2 subject on blogs was news about Apple, with some of it focusing on the expected release of the iPhone 5. And on both blogs and Twitter, news of a possible Facebook phone in the offing registered as the No. 3 topic, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The Facebook speculation was driven by a New York Times story, citing anonymous Facebook employees, suggesting the company hopes to release a smartphone by next year. The news about the iPhone came from an Apple news site that appeared to provide some visual evidence about how the next version would look.
Read the full report, Smartphone Speculation Soars on Social Media, on the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism website.
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President Obama outside the White House West Wing, Feb. 10, 2011.
President Obama outside the White House West Wing, Feb. 10, 2011. Charles Dharapak/ASSOCIATED PRESS
As part of his larger pledge to change the way Washington works, President Obama as a candidate said he wouldn't have lobbyists working in his administration.
It must've seemed like such a good idea at the time. But then reality struck.
When it became clear that some of the best people to fill certain positions were lobbyists, Obama issued waivers to get them around his self-imposed ban.
On Thursday, Politico.com reports on another way the White House has had to deal with the reality that lobbyists have useful expertise and connections.
His aides have held meetings with lobbyists off the White House campus, the news outlet reports. The implication is that his aides have doing so in order not to undermine the president's pledge. And to keep all the lobbyist meetings out of the White House visitor logs. To which many will say: "tsk, tsk."
"They're doing it on the side. It's better than nothing," said immigration reform lobbyist Tamar Jacoby, who has attended meetings at the nearby Jackson Place complex and believes the undisclosed gatherings are better than none.
The White House scoffs at the notion of an ulterior motive for scheduling meetings in what are, after all, meeting rooms. But at least four lobbyists who've been to the conference rooms just off Lafayette Square tell POLITICO they had the distinct impression they were being shunted off to Jackson Place — and off the books — so their visits wouldn't later be made public.
One of the best tidbits is that in addition to the conference rooms in a building across Lafayette Park from the White House, there's a Caribou Coffee that's been the site of many meetings as well.
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As Guinea prepares for its first legislative elections since a 2008 military coup, the role of the nation’s security forces during the election period has come to the fore.
In 2010 Guineans participated in a democratic election that brought President Alpha Condé to power. Though the armed forces played a constructive role in providing security for that poll, a massacre in 2009, in which the military opened fire on unarmed civilian protesters, still weighs heavily on the minds of Guinean citizens.
To air these issues, high-level participants from the West Africa Election Observers Network (WAEON) and representatives of the security forces came together for a five-day training academy in Conakry Oct. 20-24 to discuss how to tackle security for the upcoming polls, which could occur as early as the first half of next year. Representatives from all of WAEON’s 11 member organizations, including its Guinean member, the Consortium for Domestic Election Observation (CODE), discussed the security sector’s role in ensuring peaceful and credible elections. And they exchanged experiences about the security sector’s involvement in electoral processes in Francophone and Anglophone West Africa. The academy was organized by WAEON in cooperation with NDI and CODE.
In televised remarks, Guinea’s Defense Minister, Maître Abdoul Kabélé Camara, and the Minister for Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Alhassane Condé, emphasized the need for civilians and the military to cooperate to ensure peaceful elections. NDI consultants and experts—including retired General Fernand Amoussou of Bénin, former commander of the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (ONUCI) and an expert on the role of defense forces in democratic transitions, and Mustapha Abdallah, a researcher at the Koffi Annan International Peacekeeping Center in Accra, Ghana—covered practical strategies for improved collaboration between the civilian and security sectors. These included citizen observation plans that include regular and systematic communication with security forces.
During the training, WAEON held its first-ever public discussion forum on Oct. 23, inviting citizens to comment on the role of the security sector in keeping elections secure and credible. The forum, led by Dr. Chris Fomunyoh, NDI’s director of Central and West Africa programs, attracted nearly 100 representatives from civil society organizations, political parties, the security sector and the media, and was broadcast by major television and radio networks in Guinea. During the forum, General Amoussou said it was necessary for the military to remain neutral and subordinate to civilian authorities, urging his military colleagues to refrain from political or ethnic partisanship. He noted that members of the military and civilians are already working side by side in Guinea.
Many participants said that candid public exchanges like this one contribute to Guinea’s healing and reconciliation process. However, they also expressed concern about the security sector having enough resources—such as vehicles and gasoline—to assert their presence in remote areas to ensure peaceful elections across the country, not just in urban areas.
Another issue facing the country has been the delay in the legislative elections, a result of tensions surrounding the leadership of the National Independent Election Commission (CENI). Protests by opposition parties have called for the membership of the CENI to reflect changing alliances among ruling and opposition parties, as well as more transparency in organizing elections. A new law passed last September provides an equal number of committee seats for ruling and opposition parties and mandates that the head of the CENI is a member of civil society.
In connection with the academy, WAEON members visited several high-level organizations and government officials to discuss the make-up of the CENI and the reasons for the delayed legislative elections. They met with the multi-party Code of Conduct Monitoring Committee (CCMC); the Working Group of Women and Girls in Guinean Political Parties (CCFPPG); the National Transition Council (CNT); as well as the minister of territorial administration and General Ibrahima Baldé, commander of the National Police Force and Coordination of Special Forces for Securing the Elections (FOSSEPEL), who discussed lessons learned by the security sector during the 2010 presidential election.
At the end of the academy, WAEON released a statement commending Guinea’s government and people on the progress that has been made in strengthening their democracy, as well as the progress preparations for the next parliamentary elections.
- Guinea Youth Election Guide (French)
- Young Guineans Promote Peaceful Elections
- In Guinea, Political Parties Strive to Improve the Next Elections
Published Nov. 27, 2012
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14-year-old Karishma holds a paint brush in her trunk and gives a selection of wooden elephants a splash of colour.
Metro reports that keepers at the zoo hope that her paintings will help to "raise vital funds for the zoo's worldwide elephant conservation and research projects".
Keeper Elizabeth Becker said: "Karishma really enjoys painting, and she's very talented at it.
"It demonstrates just how dexterous elephants' trunks really are and we think the end results are pretty amazing, if a little abstract."
A collection of pieces, which represent the nine elephants at the zoo, have been decorated by students at the Central Bedfordshire College.
On September 22 and 23 there will be an Elephant Appreciation Weekend, where the paintings will be displayed.
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A post explaining why popular objections to the cosmological argument are weak, from Ed Feser’s blog. This is a MUST-READ.
Most people who comment on the cosmological argument demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. This includes all the prominent New Atheist writers. It very definitely includes most of the people who hang out in Jerry Coyne’s comboxes. It also includes most scientists. And it even includes many theologians and philosophers, or at least those who have not devoted much study to the issue.[...]In particular, I think that the vast majority of philosophers who have studied the argument in any depth – and again, that includes atheists as well as theists, though it does not include most philosophers outside the sub-discipline of philosophy of religion – would agree with the points I am about to make, or with most of them anyway. Of course, I do not mean that they would all agree with me that the argument is at the end of the day a convincing argument. I just mean that they would agree that most non-specialists who comment on it do not understand it, and that the reasons why people reject it are usually superficial and based on caricatures of the argument.
Here’s the list of his corrections to common atheist misunderstandings of the cosmological argument:
- The argument does NOT rest on the premise that “Everything has a cause.”
- “What caused God?” is not a serious objection to the argument.
- “Why assume that the universe had a beginning?” is not a serious objection to the argument.
- “No one has given any reason to think that the First Cause is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good, etc.” is not a serious objection to the argument.
- “The argument doesn’t prove that Christianity is true” is not a serious objection to the argument.
- Science has shown such-and-such” is not a serious objection to (most versions of) the argument.
- The argument is not a “God of the gaps” argument.
- Hume and Kant did not have the last word on the argument. Neither has anyone else.
- What “most philosophers” think about the argument is irrelevant.
Excerpt: (number 1 in the list)
Lots of people – probably most people who have an opinion on the matter – think that the cosmological argument goes like this: Everything has a cause; so the universe has a cause; so God exists. They then have no trouble at all poking holes in it. If everything has a cause, then what caused God? Why assume in the first place that everything has to have a cause? Why assume the cause is God? Etc.
Here’s the funny thing, though. People who attack this argument never tell you where they got it from. They never quote anyone defending it. There’s a reason for that. The reason is that none of the best-known proponents of the cosmological argument in the history of philosophy and theology ever gave this stupid argument. Not Plato, not Aristotle, not al-Ghazali, not Maimonides, not Aquinas, not Duns Scotus, not Leibniz, not Samuel Clarke, not Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, not Mortimer Adler, not William Lane Craig, not Richard Swinburne. And not anyone else either, as far as I know. (Your Pastor Bob doesn’t count. I mean no one among prominent philosophers.) And yet it is constantly presented, not only by popular writers but even by some professional philosophers, as if it were “the” “basic” version of the cosmological argument, and as if every other version were essentially just a variation on it.
Don’t take my word for it. The atheist Robin Le Poidevin, in his book Arguing for Atheism (which my critic Jason Rosenhouse thinks is pretty hot stuff) begins his critique of the cosmological argument by attacking a variation of the silly argument given above – though he admits that “no-one has defended a cosmological argument of precisely this form”! So what’s the point of attacking it? Why not start instead with what some prominent defender of the cosmological argument has actually said?
Suppose some creationist began his attack on Darwinism by assuring his readers that “the basic” claim of the Darwinian account of human origins is that at some point in the distant past a monkey gave birth to a human baby. Suppose he provided no source for this claim – which, of course, he couldn’t have, because no Darwinian has ever said such a thing – and suppose also that he admitted that no one has ever said it. But suppose further that he claimed that “more sophisticated versions” of Darwinism were really just “modifications” of this claim. Intellectually speaking, this would be utterly contemptible and sleazy. It would give readers the false impression that anything Darwinians have to say about human origins, however superficially sophisticated, is really just a desperate exercise in patching up a manifestly absurd position. Precisely for that reason, though, such a procedure would, rhetorically speaking, be very effective indeed.
Compare that to Le Poidevin’s procedure. Though by his own admission no one has ever actually defended the feeble argument in question, Le Poidevin still calls it “the basic” version of the cosmological argument and characterizes the “more sophisticated versions” he considers later on as “modifications” of it. Daniel Dennett does something similar in his book Breaking the Spell. He assures us that the lame argument in question is “the simplest form” of the cosmological argument and falsely insinuates that other versions – that is to say, the ones that philosophers have actually defended, and which Dennett does not bother to discuss – are merely desperate attempts to repair the obvious problems with the “Everything has a cause” “version.” As with our imaginary creationist, this procedure is intellectually dishonest and sleazy, but it is rhetorically very effective. It gives the unwary reader the false impression that “the basic” claim made by Aristotle, Aquinas, Leibniz, et al. is manifestly absurd, that everything else they have to say is merely an attempt to patch up this absurd position, and (therefore) that such writers need not be bothered with further.
And that, I submit, is the reason why the stupid “Everything has a cause” argument – a complete fabrication, an urban legend, something no philosopher has ever defended – perpetually haunts the debate over the cosmological argument. It gives atheists an easy target, and a way rhetorically to make even their most sophisticated opponents seem silly and not worth bothering with. It‘s a slimy debating trick, nothing more – a shameless exercise in what I have elsewhere called “meta-sophistry.” (I make no judgment about whether Le Poidevin’s or Dennett’s sleaziness was deliberate. But that they should know better is beyond question.)
What defenders of the cosmological argument do say is that what comes into existence has a cause, or that what is contingent has a cause. These claims are as different from “Everything has a cause” as “Whatever has color is extended” is different from “Everything is extended.” Defenders of the cosmological argument also provide arguments for these claims about causation. You may disagree with the claims – though if you think they are falsified by modern physics, you are sorely mistaken – but you cannot justly accuse the defender of the cosmological argument either of saying something manifestly silly or of contradicting himself when he goes on to say that God is uncaused.
This gives us what I regard as “the basic” test for determining whether an atheist is informed and intellectually honest. If he thinks that the cosmological argument rests on the claim that “everything has a cause,” then he is simply ignorant of the basic facts. If he persists in asserting that it rests on this claim after being informed otherwise, then he is intellectually dishonest. And if he is an academic philosopher like Le Poidevin or Dennett who is professionally obligated to know these things and to eschew cheap debating tricks, then… well, you do the math.
I don’t agree with Ed Feser on everything, but this post is dynamite. It is very forceful. He has 168 comments at the time of writing. It’s long, so you might want to print it out. But it is awesome.
I remember one day when I was having a closed-door conversation with one of my liberal atheist co-workers following the completion of a grueling project. I asked him why he was an atheist. He said he didn’t really know other that he didn’t want to be bothered. So I listed out about 10 arguments against Christian theism and he finally said that in college he had read an argument against God from evil. I asked him “human evil or natural evil”. He said human evil. I said “deductive or inductive”. He didn’t understand, so I explained the difference between the logical and probabilistic problem of evil. It was deductive. I said, “is it from J.L. Mackie?” He shot out of his seat and put his hands on the desk “how did you know that!”. I told him to sit down, and I refuted the argument using Plantinga’s work. Then I told him about William Rowe’s probabilistic version of the problem of evil. “That’s a better version of the argument, but I can defeat that one too”. We went to lunch and I did so. Christians have to know everything, and we have to be able to articulate our opponent’s point more forcefully than they can. It shows intellectual honesty to be able to help the person see the most forceful version of their objections. We need to be able to do that.
Here’s an excellent peer-reviewed paper by William Lane Craig on the science of the cosmological argument. It was published in a peer-reviewed astrophysics journal.
Debating the Kalam cosmological argument
Here’s a basic lecture explaining the kalam cosmological argument that leverages the Big Bang cosmology to argue for God’s existence.
Watch and see!
You can also find a more technical version of the lecture here on video. This version is based on a research paper published in an astrophysics journal, and was delivered to an audience of students and faculty, including atheist physicist Victor Stenger and prominent atheist philosopher Michael Tooley, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Craig has previously debated Stenger and Tooley. And they both asked him questions in the Q&A of this lecture.
You might also be interested in this exchange in which William Lane Craig takes on prominent atheist Daniel Dennett. And you can watch an entire debate between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens here. The cosmological argument is Craig’s first of five arguments.
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New economic numbers and reports are easy to come by, but they don't seem to help us understand what's going on in the U.S. economy. One day things look positive, then there's reason to worry. Why are we getting mixed economic signals, and how can we make sense of them?
From The Washington Post:
"Just as economists began hoping that the recovery was reaching takeoff speed, Britain has slipped into a double-dip recession.
'Now you have boomlets... but you don't have a sort of consistent pattern,' said Dennis Jacobe, chief economist at Gallup. 'It's trying to run with weights on your legs.'"
Jacome will join The Daily Circuit Tuesday to help us make sense of the latest economic reports. Russell Roberts, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, will also join the discussion.
We've also received a lot of general questions from listeners about the economy. We'll take some time to answer questions about some of the basic economic ideas that are shaping our world today.
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WWW.truthinlabeling.org -- Home page
Some ideas for those who are having trouble avoiding MSG
If you have already studied the list of ingredients that cause or exacerbate MSG reactions, have eliminated those things from your diet yet continue to have MSG-type reactions, the following hints or reminders may be of value to you:
- Produce may have been sprayed with MSG. At one time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California approved virtually unrestricted use of MSG for use on growing produce.
- Milk is a possible source of hidden MSG. Pay particular attention to ultra pasteurized milk and anything made with low fat, skim, or nonfat milk. Also, carefully read labels on other dairy products.
- There is almost always MSG in basted chickens and turkeys. Anything basted is suspect.
- We have had reports of MSG-type reactions from
chickens, particularly chickens from major suppliers such as Tyson and
Perdue. Realizing that there is a citric acid solution approved for
rinsing chickens in the processing procedure for chickens, and that citric acid
causes reactions in MSG-sensitive individuals with other than a high tolerance
for MSG, we have suggested that people avoid major brands of chickens and
purchase organic brands or chickens from local chicken suppliers. We have
also cautioned people to only buy chicken parts, such as breasts and thighs, that have been cut from whole chickens at the store,
since many chicken parts are delivered to markets in bulk bags that contain trisodium phosphate. (Some MSG-sensitive people react
to phosphate as if it were processed free glutamic acid (MSG).)
Furthermore, we have suggested that MSG-sensitive people avoid all basted or
injected turkeys and turkey rolls in deli sections.
We learned from a November 6, 2007 article in the Washington Post entitled “Crying Foul in Debate Over ‘Natural’ Chicken” that there is cause for additional concern. The article states that about 30% of fresh chickens are now enhanced with some kind of solution, and some of those chickens are labeled “natural.” The article, by Cindy Skrzycki, discloses that Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride are injecting chickens with a “solution of ingredients such as salt, broth, and seaweed extract.” According to the article, “Pilgrim’s Pride uses chicken broth, salt, and carrageenan, or seaweed extract.” The injected ingredients add up to 15% in weight to the chickens. The article also discloses that Gold’n Plump Poultry, St. Cloud, Minnesota, enhances its chickens, although the ingredients are not disclosed in the newspaper article.
- Dietary supplements, processed food used by vegetarians, and products labeled "organic," are some of industry's favorite places for hiding MSG.
- In 2003, manufacturers were set to flood the market with personal care products containing synthetic chemicals as well as processed free glutamic acid (MSG) that carry the label "organic." Included would have been soaps, shampoos, and other body care products that contain glutamate surfactants, and products that contain “amino acids” and/or hydrolyzed proteins.
In 2003, the National Organic Standards Board did not cover body care products, leaving the door open for the unscrupulous to include synthetic ingredients (as defined by the National Organic Program) like MSG in products they call "organic."
- Some manufacturers are still claiming "no MSG" or "no added MSG" on labels of products that sure look like they contain MSG.
- There is MSG in some pet food.
- Reactions have been reported to soaps, shampoos, hair conditioners, and cosmetics. The most common hiding places are in ingredients that begin with the word "hydrolyzed" and in ingredients described as "protein," "amino acids," or “chelated with amino acids.”
- Disodium guanylate and disodium inosinate are relatively expensive food additives that work synergistically with inexpensive MSG. They would probably not be used if there were no MSG present.
- Binders, fillers, and/or carriers (used in "enriched" products, for example), and flowing agents, may contain MSG, but are not always mentioned on labels. In pharmaceuticals, these ingredients are usually listed in product inserts under "inert ingredients" or “other ingredients.”
- The food ingredient "monosodium glutamate" should not be found in, or on, products labeled "organic." However, MSG-containing ingredients such as autolyzed yeast, yeast extract, and citric acid are found in some "organic" products; and "hydrolyzed" ingredients are being used in some "organic" fertilizers. "Organic" does not mean free of MSG.
- MSG-type reactions have been reported following ingestion of fish, seafood, and poultry, rinsed with phosphates. A phosphate rinse for meat is also available. Rinses are not mentioned on food labels.
-There is no prohibition against using MSG in kosher food.
- There have been some reports of reactions to some sugar, some salt, and to meat that has been wrapped in cryovac (a thick, viscous plastic).
- Just as poultry can be "basted" with an MSG-containing substance, meat can be injected with MSG. Some restaurants use basted steaks.
- When "broth" is sold as "broth," its ingredients must be listed on its label. However, when "broth" (or any other product) is used as an ingredient in something else, its ingredients do not have to be disclosed.
- Salad mix and prewashed vegetables may have been rinsed with citric acid.
- MSG has been found in wax used on some raw (non-organic) produce.
- Drinks, candy, and chewing gum are also potential sources of hidden MSG. Also, aspartic acid, found in aspartame (NutraSweet), Neotame, AminoSweet, and Equal may cause MSG type reactions in MSG-sensitive people, depending on their tolerance levels. Aspartic acid, primarily in aspartame and AminoSweet, is found in some medications, including children’s medications. Check with your pharmacist.
- Binders and fillers for medications, nutrients, and supplements, both prescription and non-prescription, enteral feeding materials, protein drinks and powders, and some fluids administered intravenously in hospitals may contain MSG.
- Many multi-vitamins include minerals that are chelated with an amino acid. This is also true of individual minerals. Avoid minerals with names that include the words “glutamate,” “aspartate,” or “citrate.” Also, avoid minerals with names that include a parenthesis or footnote which state “an amino acid chelate,” “an aminoate complex,” “chelated with a protein,” or “chelated with a hydrolyzed protein.”
- Chicken Pox vaccine and other vaccines contain MSG, most often in "hidden" forms.
- Reactions have been reported to produce fertilized or sprayed with MSG. As of January 1, 2008, AuxiGro, a spray containing more than 29.2% MSG, was no longer registered by the CDPR for use in California, but was still registered by the EPA. As of January 1, 2010, AuxiGro was no longer registered by the EPA.
- Protein drinks often recommended for seniors, enteral feeding products (tube feeding), infant formula, protein powders, and protein drinks are all sources of MSG and the aspartic acid found in aspartame. Hypoallergenic formulas contain more MSG than other formulas.
- Foods with labels that say "No Added MSG," "No MSG Added," and "No MSG" almost always contain MSG. There is very little processed food that contains no MSG.
Be aware that many companies that sell products that contain MSG fail to respond to consumer questions about MSG in their products with total honesty. To have any chance of getting honest answers to your questions about MSG, you must choose your words, and phrase your questions, carefully.
1) When questioning a food company regarding MSG, never ask if the product contains MSG. That's because to some people in the food industry, "MSG" stands only for the food ingredient monosodium glutamate; while to other people "MSG" stands for processed free glutamic acid in any ingredient or in any form. Food companies often wrongly assume (or pretend to assume) that the acronym "MSG" only applies to the food ingredient "monosodium glutamate." So they may tell you that their product contains no MSG while it actually contains processed free glutamic acid in ingredients other than monosodium glutamate. In other words, they might respond to your question about "MSG" saying that the product is totally MSG free, even when it contains processed free glutamic acid (MSG).
2) When questioning a food company about processed free glutamic acid in their products, ask if the product contains any "free glutamic acid." It will be more difficult for a company to respond inappropriately to this question, although in some cases they avoid responding appropriately. Sometime a company admits to the presence of free glutamic acid in their product(s) but may attempt to confuse consumers by telling them that their free glutamic acid is "naturally" occurring and, therefore, "safe." No matter how "natural" is defined by a food company, the MSG in a product is never "safe" for an MSG-sensitive individual.
3) If you are not satisfied with a response that you receive from a company regarding processed free glutamic acid, ask if they have had, or would have, their product(s) tested for free amino acids. An assay of free amino acids will tell you how much free glutamic acid (and, therefore, approximately how much MSG) there is in the product in question. Ask for a copy of the amino acid assay results. An amino acid assay is easily obtained by a food company and will cost them less than $150.
Kinesiology is the study of muscles and human motion. Kinesiology can be used to tell whether a person is allergic/sensitive to a particular substance or combination of substances (be it inhaled, ingested, or in contact with the skin).
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Complete House Exterior Painting Tutorial - Paint Selection for a House Exterior Painting
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Hi, my name is Steve White with MasterCraft Painting.
We’re just going to talk about color selection. This is a process which a lot of people have a lot of difficulty with and we actually at times recommend that the designers get involved but it’s not necessary.
The biggest thing to keep in mind if you want to choose colors for your home is to just drive around your neighborhood and take a look at similar homes, find some colors that you like and don’t be ashamed to go up and knock on the door and say, “I really like your colors, where’d you get them?” Find out about the colors and then visit your paint store and pick out some colors you think might work and actually put some samples on the wall, it’s the best way to visualize it.
What we’d done on this house is we show the owner one of these what they call Fan Decks that you can get at any paint store. It has hundreds and hundreds of colors and what she’s done is she has picked out some greens that she’s liked and we’ve got samples and we actually apply them to the wall over here.
One of the most important things to do when choosing your paint is to make sure that you use high quality paint. There are some what they call contractor grades or low grade paints and I really don’t ever recommend using those on your home’s exterior because the cost that you’ll save is not really worth it in the long run.
The premium quality paints have a higher acrylic content and they’re going to stand up to the sun, wind and the rain a lot longer than your low grade paints. The difference is really minimal and I recommend premium acrylic paint.
So now that we’ve got our colors selected let’s move on to the most important part of any paint job and that’s surface preparation.
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BITEF ON FILM
Editor: Vera Konjović
September 14th , 15th, 16th and 17th, 17: 30
Muzej jugoslovenske kinoteke
FILM EXPEDITION TO THE TRUTH: DICTATORS
Three things cannot be hidden: the Sun, the Moon and the truth
It is fortunate for the rulers that people do not think
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth had a chance to get its pants on
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth
There is nothing better than visiting a nice, idyllic or amusing place. You set off, arrive, have a good time or not so good time and come back.
It is also interesting to set off on an expedition to the truth. A sea of surprises awaits us there. It is, however, easy to lose one’s way, easy to be tricked and end up in a mire of untruths in no time at all. How much rubble, earth and lies the archaeologists need to remove to dig out the truth several thousand or hundred years old?
But don’t we know or see the truth not yet covered by the deposits of time? We who have facts, experience and knowledge bout events, our contemporaries at our disposal, we who have experienced, learned, touched it all?
Wherefrom the fascists and the communists in Europe and the rest of the world? How is it possible that we do not remember what happened yesterday? How are we to understand or justify the fascist groups and movements here and elsewhere, let alone how are weto understand Hitler’s fans in Israel?
This year’s BITEF on Film wishes to refresh memories about things and people we believed have disappeared from the historical stage once and for all; that they are no more and will not be, that they have been and will be prevented from acting; the historical déjà vu and the dictators wo have existed always as they were made possible by those who did not recognise and stop them in time believing they were cleverer, laughing at them because they looked funny. And – let us not forget those who are not politically active because they despise it.
In the films to be shown during 35th BITEF on Film the stars are Hitler, Franco, Mussolini and many others as well as people who elected them, people who admired them, people who suffered because of it and paid for it.
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VOL. 37 | NO. 20 | Friday, May 17, 2013
EMPHASIS ISSUE: TECHNOLOGY
Brentwood firm’s video glasses offer glimpse of future for police, health care
They look like a pair of fashionable sunglasses. Yet these shades have a high-tech secret.
The owner of Brentwood’s Applied Technology envisions hands-free video sunglasses finding a niche in Nashville’s health care industry.
It is not a criminal act to record someone while in public, and Nashville attorney Brent Horst says that fact makes his job increasingly difficult.
In the far eastern corner of Tennessee, patrol officers use a high-tech tool that their big city counterparts may well envy.
“Star Trek” characters use a replicating device to whip up instant meals of all varieties. While 3-D printers aren’t yet at that level, advocates say it’s just a matter of time.
Have you heard about the Detroit couple convicted of stealing hybrid car secrets from GM and trying to sell them to China?
You know that e-mail or Facebook post that you deleted at work? It’s not really deleted.
The Midstate economy is expanding so rapidly that hundreds of jobs are going unfilled. So it’s no surprise home sales are surging as employers recruit workers from other states to fill those positions.
Home inspections are one of the most necessary functions performed in the home buying and selling process. A home inspection also can ruin a wonderful day for either the buyer or the seller.
Marvin ‘Bud’ Wood has assumed the role of chief human resources officer for Saint Thomas Health’s nine-hospital network.
The future of push vs. pull marketing is a hot debate. With social media continually on the rise, there’s a trend to disregard push marketing in its entirety.
THE WORLDLY INVESTOR
Total stock market returns combine dividends with a change in earnings and a change in multiples. Right now, the dividend yield on the S&P 500 is 2 percent.
SMART STUFF 4 WORK
OK, I was trying to be somewhat nice in the title. This article is really about answering those questions that you have heard hundreds or perhaps thousands of times. Questions that make you think, “If I have to answer that question one more time, I might just go crazy!”
ATLANTA, GA. – On a weekend trip to this, the city where we honeymooned four decades ago, Susan and I find ourselves in a place touting the “best burgers in Atlanta.”
KAY'S COOKING CORNER
How much do you know about this fennel? That’s about how much I know, too! One thing is for sure, however, I made a great chicken dish for dinner using this spice/vegetable.
NASHVILLE (AP) - Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles is releasing a solo album. Nettles says Friday in a news release that she is working with Rick Rubin and will release the album in the fall.
NASHVILLE (AP) — When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.
NASHVILLE (AP) - Members of special Senate panel are raising questions about University of Tennessee fees being used to pay for speakers at a student-initiated program about sex.
NASHVILLE (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a reduction in the state's sales tax on groceries.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill that allows school districts to let people with police training be armed in schools.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee's ignition interlock law will apply to more drunken drivers under legislation signed by Gov. Bill Haslam.
NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee Department of Transportation announced this week that state aeronautics grants totaling more than $316,000 have been approved for seven Tennessee airports.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee will receive a portion of a $500 million settlement with generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy.
DETROIT (AP) — Shares of General Motors reached an important milestone on Friday, topping their initial public offering price of $33 for the first time in more than two years.
NASHVILLE (AP) - Six people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Nashville after being accused of running a scheme to defraud Nissan North America of more than $570,000.
MILAN (AP) — The European automaker's association says car sales grew in April, ending 18 consecutive months of decline.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of the U.S. economy's future health rose in solidly in April, buoyed by a sharp rise in applications to build new homes and apartments.
NEW YORK (AP) — Encouraging news about the U.S. economy pushed stocks higher on Wall Street Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil followed a familiar pattern Thursday, moving higher despite some less-than-stellar economic reports.
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Dell's first-quarter earnings plunged 79 percent as the shift to smartphones and tablets reduced demand for the company's personal computers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The organic food industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and its entry into traditional farm states. But that isn't going over well with everyone in Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A rule intended to loosen the largest U.S. banks' control over the trading of complex investments and help safeguard the financial system was weakened Thursday by regulators.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas production.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ticketmaster has agreed to settle claims for up to $23 million over a lawsuit affecting more than a million people who, after buying a ticket online, were enrolled in a rewards program that cost $9 a month but never gave them any benefits.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans said Thursday they would not support five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, raising the possibility the troubled agency could be rendered mostly inoperable later this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and social advocacy groups have searched for and exploited loopholes and fine points in the federal tax code.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation's new energy secretary.
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Crandall residents are seeing red after opening their latest water bills. Many say the bills have doubled from last year after the city raised water and sewer rates a combined 125%. Some also blame the new water meters the city installed for charging them for water they didn't use
Crandall residents are seeing red after opening their latest water bills.
The city has raised rates twice since last October -- a total increase of 125% for water and sewer combined.
"The residents have every right to be angry, they have every right to be frustrated," said Crandall City Manager Health Kaplan. "However, they need to know that this is, unfortunately, what we need to do as a community to pull together to get money in the bank to get ready for future growth."
Former City Councilman Victor Morales said he saw his bill jump to $460 and complains he's paying for water he didn't use.
"Even along with the pain of the increased cost, is the fact that you know you didn't use that type of water," he said.
Morales and others blame new water meters the city installed.
Larry Potter, the owner of the Crandall Cotton Gin Restaurant said the high water bills have hurt his business.
The restaurant's water bill topped more than $3,000 for July.
"My water bill has gone up $1,500 roughly a month," Potter noted.
He said he is also seeing fewer patrons.
"Our local traffic had diminished incredibly," he said. "Their disposable income is now being spent on their water and sewage. When you got a family of four that all of a sudden has a $330 water bill, well, there goes their disposable income."
The city council will meet next week to find a solution. Some members promise residents will get relief.
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A Florida city council has granted local law enforcement the powers of a fashion police after they passed a law banning the wearing of saggy pants in public.
Granting Cocoa Police the ability to control a dress code, yesterday the council banned pants that expose underwear or skin more than three inches below the waistline on streets, sidewalks and other designated city property.
Claiming that the law is to make sure the city of over 17,000 is known as a family orientated community, critics claim that it instead gives police the right to increase their stop and frisk under the guise of the new ordinance.
(Hat tip to Reason commenter Sarcasmic)
Source: U.K. Daily Mail. Read full article. (link)
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Getting Started in Hold'em
Author Ed Miller
Synopsis of Ed Miller's Getting Started in Hold'em
Recently, countless people have started playing poker, hoping to quit their jobs and strike it rich. Sadly, most of these "professional" players will wind up broke. While many people play, few win consistently. In Getting Started in Hold ’em, noted poker authority Ed Miller guides you onto the winning path. As someone who made the leap from beginner to professional in less than a year and a half, Ed is uniquely qualified to show new players the quickest route to hold ’em success. This book presents the critical principles that expert players use: preflop hand valuation, domination, betting for value, protecting your hand, semi-bluffing, pot equity, pot odds, implied odds, free card plays, the importance of stack size, why chips change value in tournaments, and much more. Whether you want to play limit, no limit, or tournament hold ’em, this book provides you a solid foundation. It’s perfect, not just for the would-be pro, but for anyone who wants a serious edge on the competition. Getting Started in Hold ’em teaches you more than just how to play; it teaches you to win.
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One side effect of the recent headlines about our various generals is that they led me back to remarks General Petraeus made in March to the In-Q-Tel CEO Summit. Here are a few excerpts:
“In the digital world, data is everywhere, as you all know well. Data is created constantly, often unknowingly and without permission. Every byte left behind reveals information about location, habits, and, by extrapolation, intent and probable behavior…”
“The current “Internet of PCs” will move, of course, toward an “Internet of Things”—of devices of all types—50 to 100 billion of which will be connected to the Internet by 2020. As you know, whereas machines in the 19th century learned to do, and those in the 20th century learned to think at a rudimentary level, in the 21st century, they are learning to perceive—to actually sense and respond…”
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing.”
He sounds like us, or we sound like him. Take your pick, we are all talking about the inevitable rise of sense and respond strategies.
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He and creative partner Max Goldman chop strips of wood into three-and-one-half-inch square blocks (each under an inch thick), crop photographs submitted by friends and strangers online, and glue them together. Each piece costs only a dollar to make, and to date, the two estimate they’ve created more than 2,000 in their Humboldt Park studio and gallery, Chicago the Beautiful. They give them away for free at exhibitions and coffee shops, often with a donation box to keep the project running, and they’re looking to expand into free art vending machines across the city.
“Any money I’ve ever put into any free art has come back that night,” Rosen says. “If I make 500 blocks, the money for 500 blocks is in the donation box. Every time, without fail, when I’ve done it with twenty-five blocks or 200, the universe totally works.”
More free art is on the way. Goldman and Rosen launched a Kickstarter campaign at the end of September to feed the machine and produce more blocks. They originally asked for $8,000 to assemble 8,000 new pieces, but they raised nearly triple that amount, and received photography submissions from countries including Russia, Spain, India, Brazil and England. What started as a pay-what-you-want art experiment celebrating Chicago urban photography has become a full-fledged initiative to make the art more accessible.
“We’re trying to break that preconception in people’s mind that art has to be a certain way,” Goldman, thirty-two, says. “People are really afraid of the art scene and the gallery scene.” Rosen, twenty-four, says price is often what keeps people from becoming a collector or getting into art. “It opens up their mind,” he says of their model. “It totally changes the way you view art. It’s suddenly accessible because it’s not a $10,000 piece of art.”
It’s not every day you get to walk into a gallery and take a piece off the wall without paying a dime. And because the pieces are somewhat anonymous—only the photographers’ initials are on the back of the block—visitors can take home work from amateurs and veterans alike without ever fully knowing the difference. But both Goldman and Rosen say the process of taking a step back and picking a favorite block to keep is what really gets viewers, especially gallery newcomers, to engage with the art.
“Do you remember as a kid, before digital photography went nuts, you would get four-by-six prints from disposable film?” says Daniel Butler, a Chicago photographer whose work appears on the Free Art Machine blocks. “It’s like that. When you’re holding these glossy film prints in your hands, almost like home movies, it strikes you. Like gravity, it just reached out and grabbed me.” The universe willed it so. (Nolan Feeney)
The Free Art Machine Completion Party is on Saturday, November 3 at Chicago the Beautiful Gallery, 914 North California, from 6pm-11pm.
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Meth User Burns Down World's 5th Oldest Tree
A young woman who climbed a 3,500-year-old tree to smoke meth is arrested after a predictable outcome.
There are some amends you just can't make. A 26-year-old woman was arrested in Florida yesterday for burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world. "The Senator," a famed bald cypress in Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida, was once used by the Seminole Indians as a landmark; surviving hurricanes and lightning, it stood proudly on the site for an estimated 3,500 years. That is, until this January 16, when unemployed, reportedly sometime-nude model Sarah Barnes clambered into The Senator's majestic branches to smoke some meth with a friend. The result was a blaze that burned the ancient tree "from the inside out," reports say, leaving a smoldering stump just 20 feet tall. Authorities announced they were looking for an arsonist and Barnes—who now admits to lighting a fire so she could see what she was doing—was arrested after some anonymous tip-offs. She hid her face as she was led away in handcuffs. Barnes apparently took pictures of the burning Senator and downloaded them onto her cellphone and computer, showing her handiwork to friends and exclaiming, "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus!"
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On Sunday April 10th, students from the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) held a press conference to release a report (No Closer to College Report) as the first step in our No Closer to College: Fix Or Schools! Campaign. UYC was joined by parents from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, the United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, NYC Council Education Chair Robert Jackson, and Members Jumaane Williams and Charles Barron, all of whom echoed UYC in calling on new Chancellor-designee Dennis Walcott today to begin his tenure by fixing the City’s failed strategy for dealing with struggling schools.
Mayor Bloomberg’s Department of Education (DOE) has focused its systemic school improvement efforts on one key strategy — closing poorly performing high schools. The DOE has privileged school closure as its primary school improvement policy, as opposed to major initiatives to transform struggling schools from within. If this policy continues, more than 65,000 students – more students than the entire Boston public school system – will have had their high school experience marked by school closure.
Because the DOE has a responsibility to ensure that those students do not become policy casualties, it must invest as much effort in ensuring a rich, rigorous, college-preparatory education for students in the final years of a closing high school as in developing and nurturing the new small schools they continue to create.
This report examines what happened to students in the 21 schools that have completed their phase-out since 2000, when the DOE announced the first school closings, and predicts the destructive impact that school closings may have on students in the high schools that may be at risk of closing next.
The students who attended the 21 closed high schools, almost all of whom are Black and Latino, had significantly higher needs and were much more academically under-prepared than the students across the city’s high school system.
• 74% were eligible for free lunch, compared to 55% citywide
• 21% of students were English Language Learners, compared to 13% citywide
• 46% were overage for grade, compared to 29% citywide
• 89% were below grade level in ELA and 91% below grade level in math – compared to 67% and 70% respectively, citywide
Predictably, the academic outcomes of these 21 schools in their final years before closure were also much worse. A much lower percent of the students in the 21 schools graduated, a much higher percent dropped out, and a sharply higher rate were discharged. At some schools, discharge and dropout rates skyrocketed in the final years of phase-out:
• At Taft High School, the dropout rate spiked from 25% the year closure was announced to 70%
the year that the school closed
• At Morris High School, the discharge rate rose from 33% the year closure was announced to 55% the year that the school closed
Given that some 33,000 students attended the 21 high schools in their final years, the absolute numbers behind the percentages are quite startling:
• 5,612 dropped out,
• 8,089 were still enrolled,
• 9,668 were discharged,
• Only 9,592 actually graduated.
Moreover, indications are that only 15% of the graduates in the closing schools received a Regents diploma, compared to 41% citywide. Similar outcomes can be predicted for students at the schools currently at risk of closing unless the DOE changes policy and invests in ensuring a high quality education for those students.
Instead of intervening aggressively to help the lowest performing schools improve, the DOE has consistently neglected to provide the comprehensive guidance and supports that struggling schools need.
Reports from the NY State Education Department (SED) on 17 schools identified by the state as Persistently Low Achieving (PLA) found that at least 14 of the schools were not provided the assistance from the DOE necessary to raise student achievement. Furthermore, SED reviews of the 11 schools currently implementing the federal transformation model found that the DOE had largely not met their commitment to guide and support the school transformation plans.
The destructive policy of school closings now threatens two additional groups of the city’s high schools: 14 high schools that the Panel for Educational Policy recently voted to close, and 24 PLA high schools. To improve the prospects of poor and working class students of color entering high school academically under-prepared, the Urban Youth Collaborative proposes that the DOE suspend its high school closing policy and instead implement a set of comprehensive interventions to improve the schools:
1. Invest in struggling schools instead of closing them
• Create a central High School Improvement Zone that brings together struggling and closing schools to help them assess and meet the needs of students
• Create a set of interventions that are put into action when a school is at risk of closure
• Ensure that all schools have the resources and capacity to meet the needs of ELLs, students with special needs, and overage students that are assigned to them
2. Build meaningful partnerships with students and community
• Create stakeholder committees at struggling and phasing out schools that include parents, students, teachers, administrators and community organizations to assess the school’s strengths and weaknesses, identifying and creating plans for improvement, and hiring staff
3. Provide an engaging and rigorous college preparatory curriculum
• Emphasize and integrate literacy and math skill development across courses in
• Offer a wide range of subjects instead of just those assessed by high-stakes tests
• Provide access to hands-on, high-level and college credit-bearing courses
• Support teachers through ongoing professional development and mentoring
• Create advisories and summer academies for incoming ninth graders
4. Support students in accessing college
• Implement early college preparation and orientation programs
• Hire one college counselor per every 100 students in struggling school
• Create an early warning system that immediately identifies students who are struggling and off-track for graduation or college, and triggers interventions to help
5. Ensure a safe & respectful school climate
• Create supportive school environments that utilize non-punitive approaches to safety and get at the root of problems, such as Restorative Justice or Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
No student should be abandoned as a casualty of school reform policy. High school students from low- income communities of color across the city call on the DOE to launch an aggressive effort to provide these supports to all struggling schools, as a step towards the common goal of guaranteeing a college and career-ready education for all students.
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Brandon man is first victim of EEE virus
Staff Report | September 05,2012
The first principal of Otter Valley High School in Brandon, Richard Hollis Breen, is the state's first victim of Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Breen was the former head of the state headmasters association, now the Vermont Principals' Association, his son Peter Breen said today.
The 87-year-old was bit by a mosquito five days prior to his death, according to the death certificate released by the Department of Health today.
Peter Breen, the co-founder of Naylor and Breen Builders in Brandon, said his father was near living on his emu farm with him and his wife when he got infected with the rare but deadly virus, which is carried by mammals and was first detected in songbirds, he said.
Breen said in late summer 2011, 19 of his emus on his Neshobe Farm located on Richmond Road were killed from EEE.
Breen said the local mosquito district ground sprayed the farm after the emus tested positive for EEE and once again this year.
All of his 100 emus have been vaccinated since.
"No, I have no idea where he was bit. We haven't seen hardly any mosquitos this year. Truth of the matter is, I'm sure it was in this area. He plays golf every day. It could have been there and there's a swamp closer to here," Peter Breen said from his farm today.
"It's kind of a shame they don't have a vaccination for people. It's been such a rare disease, I'm sure the pharmceutical companies didn't find it profitable. I'm sure that if they took the initiative to develop one now it would be popular with the two cases here in Vermont now."
He said his father didn't have any other ailments and was active, outdoors often.
"He was a great dad, but more than that he was one of my best friends too. He had been here (on his farm) for the last six years since mom had died. I got to spend every day with him. I was lucky to have him," Breen said.
On Thursday from 8 to 11 p.m., the state will be doing aerial spraying in two locations to kill the area's mosquito population.
A map of the spray area is located at healthvermont.gov.
The department declared an immenent health risk for the Brandon area Saturday.
Another man from Sudbury is infected with EEE and hospitalized.
For the complete story, see Thursday's Rutland Herald.
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To Call or Not to Call
is interested. Now, your next step: sit quietly and wait. Easy? Far from it. You want the tom to walk up within easy shotgun range—now. Seldom does it work this way.
Toms typically take their time coming into a call. It may not be all that long: maybe 30 minutes to an hour, but that seems a long time when you’re sitting there with a shotgun on your knee, expecting a gobbler to appear at any moment. When the tom doesn’t appear right away, the tendency is to call again. It’s as though a little gremlin materializes on your shoulder and whispers urgently in your ear: Call! That tom may be walking away. Come on, call! You need to determine where that gobbler is!
Ignore that gremlin. Often, more calling simply encourages the gobbler to stay put. He’ll wait for the hen he is hearing to come to him. You want the gobbler to come looking for the hen. To encourage this response, don’t call again. A 2-year-old tom will often gobble plenty while you make no calls. When he goes silent, it’s time to be alert. Often the gobbler is approaching.
Make Your Calls …
When a gobbler is gobbling from the roost at first light. Call once—and lightly. Within 60 to 150 yards from a roosted tom, you make one call to let the tom know you are there. Then go silent. If he doesn’t answer your call, no problem. Often, toms don’t. Your job now is to wait and not make a sound.
When a gobbler flies out of the roost. If you like making lots of calls, now is the time. Listen for the tom to fly down from the roost. As soon as you think his feet are on the ground, call to him with some short, snappy yelps. If he gobbles at that, give him some more. If he doesn’t, switch to another call. Maybe a box call or a slate will do the trick. The point is to get the tom excited and make him gobble—lots. Get him to the point where he gobbles several times without a break. Hunters call it double and triple gobbling. Then go silent. Again, your strategy here is to entice him to come looking for the hen he heard.
If a tom fails to answer your calls, there could be several explanations. Your calling might need improvement. Something could have spooked the gobbler.
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Telon de Boca is autobiographical fiction. When the author’s life enters a novel it becomes literature and must be accepted as such. There are many autobiographical elements, but they are included as and when the story dictates. I did not speak to Mephisto, or to the Demiurge, or to God...
All these lives, my own included, seem like nothing more than deceptive bursts of light. That is the sad reality. When I started writing Telon de Boca I did not feel that there was much bitterness, even though it took me six years to write. I think that in the end it contains a fair amount of lucidity.
Poetry doubtless conveys a deeper message than philosophy: in particular I’m thinking about Holderlin and Nietzsche. The aim of a novel is to strike that delicate balance between poetry and plot. Depending on the decantation process, a novel can be turned into poetry or prose, or even a film script. Some novels are written for screen adaptation, but they are merely plots. Novels that interest me are those that, through the process of decantation, are transformed into the essence of prosody, the purest music of words and beauty of language; into something far greater than mere plot. But a balance needs to be struck and that is hard to achieve.
Although each section or chapter of this book may be read separately, plot does exist. Argumentation runs through it to the end.
Some authors write to sell, others to be read. Or to be read and reread. I would like to be the author with the greatest number of re-readers.
In Telon de Boca the image of a crushed thistle in Chechnya, trampled by the boots of the Russian army and the tsar, later by Yeltsin’s boots and now by Putin’s, is a recurrent theme: the absurd and constant renewal of human barbarity. Given the choice between society’s progress and its bestial heritage, the latter often prevails. Not much has changed in that respect. The brutality of the Spanish civil war is replayed in every civil war. One might be forgiven for wondering if the human race has improved at all. Would it not more aptly be named the inhuman race?
The writer’s true creative commitment is to his or her own language. There may be ignoble creators, such as the Spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), the epitome of a real bastard. He was a misogynist who railed against homosexuals, Jews, blacks and Arabs, but nevertheless exhibited faultless patriotism until the day he was found to be a spy in the service of the French. A real bastard - but a brilliant poet.
My personal commitment has always been to words: giving something back to my culture and to my community, offering a different way of writing from that which prevailed when I set out on my creative journey. I have also been active in a number of civil causes, firstly against Franco, now against all nationalisms and fundamentalisms, including the fundamentalism of technoscience, which, in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous fundamentalisms of all.
Interview by Javier Valenzuela
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28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
In today's (American, at least) culture, the idea of having a woman marry her rapist is utterly ridiculous and reprehensible. In addition, this has been mentioned multiple times in connection to the debate over homosexuality, particularly homosexual marriage, and always in a negative light. (That is a tangential discussion and is only marginally relevant to this question.) However, I have heard that this practice actually protected the woman as she would now have someone legally responsible for her.
So, my question is: what's the point? Why institute this law?
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Let’s talk dessert - a devilishly delicious taboo for anyone trying to follow any type of “diet.” But what if you could make your dessert count as something more than just sugar and starch, perhaps with some wholesome veggies? And what if you could even make it a seasonal dessert by using winter root vegetables? Even more, gather your roots from the farmers market, and you're a locavore. Well, I’d say you’re onto something there. And then I’d ask what’s for dessert.
Wonder no more. Here are 5 ways to eat root vegetables for dessert.
1. Put them in your cupcakes.
Most root vegetables, including parsnips, turnips, beets, and more make fabulous additions to cupcake batter. Check out 5 Vegetables to Put in Your Cupcake for ways to make it happen.
2. Make a crisp out of them.
It’s not your Aunt Nelly’s famous apple crisp, but it’s soon to become your famous recipe. Take any fave crisp or cobbler recipe and replace the fruit with gently steamed cubed root veggies.
3. Puree them and use in a baked custard.
Custard? Don’t freak out. It’s what you have every Thanksgiving with dessert—like sweet potato casserole. Pureed root veggies are creamed with milk, eggs and a bit of sugar, and they get baked into a sweet pudding-custard thing. Just substitute any pureed root vegetable in place of sweet potato in a standard recipe and you’re all set.
4. Candy them.
You’ve done candied orange peels or ginger before, but we’re switching it up a bit with root vegetables. Cook cubed root veggies of your choice in lots of butter (up to a stick) until slightly softened, then add just enough juice or cider to steam the veggies, along with ¼ cup to ½ cup of sugar. Cover and cook until completely softened, then reduce the liquid to a sweet syrup, and serve. Move over candied yams.
5. Add them to your brownies.
This is just about the same as adding them to your cupcake batter, but with a slightly more cosmic experience. Chocolate plus root vegetables equals divinity, so you can’t go wrong. Experiment adding grated beets or carrots to any brownie batter and get ready for veggie bliss.
Image: Nick Harris 1
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'It's worth it. One vote makes the difference,' says one
As a throng of expatriate voters from Venezuela belted out the country's national anthem near him Sunday, Daniel Griffith gazed at them and smiled. "Let's scream out loud: Death to oppression!" they sang in part. "Faithful compatriots, your strength is in your unity."
Griffith remarked, "If you listen to the words, that's what we are doing here today."
Griffith, 27, took a 14-hour bus ride from Miami to New Orleans with his cousin and mother and cast his expatriate ballot for Venezuela's presidential election at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. To vote, thousands like Griffith were forced to figure out a way to get to New Orleans and wait in a line in front of the convention center that stretched several downtown blocks, from Julia to Calliope streets. Throughout the day, new voters would join that line upon disembarking from buses and other vehicles.
The vast majority of them were expected to support candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski, the opponent to Venezuela's incumbent socialist president, Hugo Chavez. Capriles supporters say Chavez has failed to solve persistent problems such as a staggering murder rate, periodic electricity blackouts and poorly-equipped hospitals. Chavez's camp counters that he has supported social programs benefiting the poor with Venezuela's oil wealth.
Usually, for Venezuelan elections, the country's consulate in Miami serves 20,000 expat voters living in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, by far the largest concentration of Venezuelans outside the home country. But Venezuela shut down the Miami consulate in January, after State Department officials expelled the consul, who was suspected of participating in an Iranian cyber-attack conspiracy against the U.S.
Venezuelan electoral officials subsequently announced that any expats registered to vote in Miami could now do so only by reporting to the nearest consulate in operation Sunday: the one in New Orleans, more than 860 miles away.
Atlanta husband-and-wife Alberto Adrianza, 37, and Vincenzina Adrianza, 35, illustrate the trouble Venezuelan expats went through to exercise their right to vote. They left their home with their two daughters, ages 4 and 7, at 2 a.m. Saturday. They arrived in New Orleans 16 hours later so only Vincenzina Adrianza could cast a ballot Sunday.
Alberto Adrianza couldn't vote due to complications with his registration, but he said of the trip, "It's worth it. One vote makes the difference." Adrianza was alluding to some surveys prior to election day that suggested the race between Chavez and Capriles was neck-and-neck.
Discussing her motivations for traveling to New Orleans with her family, Vincenzina Adrianza added, "My parents and my sister are still in Venezuela. It's the country where I was born. ... I want to see that country do well."
Griffith, who moved to the United States when he was 11, expressed similar sentiments. He paid $175 for his bus ticket to New Orleans. His return trip to Miami was supposed to leave later Sunday and arrive early Monday, just hours before he has to go to work at his hardware store job.
Griffith said he voted for Capriles for the sake of his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, who remain in Venezuela. Griffith, after voting, wore a Venezuela baseball cap and a sticker declaring, "I voted." Griffith said he would be checking the election returns on the bus on his cell phone and was praying Capriles would emerge the winner.
"I'm tired, but I'm happy," he explained. "I'm hopeful."
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foreach()-How to find out which index number you're on?
While looping through a multidimensional array with foreach(), how do you know which index you are on? Reason being: if you want to search through the multi. array to delete a value, there may be two instances of the same value. So, I figured the index would be unique to the value. I just don't know how to find the value of the index once the foreach() loop has found the item to delete.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hisss, don't use unset during a foreach. Altering arrays during traversals such as foreach or using iterators may cause undefined behaviour. Typically it is fine, but intermittent issues may occur. While would be a better option, but IMO you shouldn't alter it unless you are pushing and popping the stacks. You can also get the internal pointer location of any array item by pulling the key() off of the item in question (ie: print key($myArray);). Key works on the array level, not on an item within the array.
If its treated as an array with incrementing indexes, use a for loop instead. If you are looking for duplicate values within an array, you can use the array_keys method with the second option to search which will return an array of keys matching the value. These can then be unset successfully outside of a traversal. If you don't care about which duplicates are handled, you can simply use array_unique to dump any duplicates.
It was meant to remove the files, and the initial "." and ".." from the directory scan. I don't use it at the moment, I'm still wondering if that was bad use of unset (scandir seems a little more predictable, your comment seemed like a catchall).
I wouldn't suggest that doing that is a good idea, although you will typically see issues if you alter the positioning of the pointer or swap locations. Can cause interesting issues when using unset with cyclical lists though. Biggest problem is that the keyword here is *may*. May is the worst to come across as that indicates intermittent which is a nightmare to debug unlike absolute failure.
So short answer, don't manipulate the array in a foreach that would change the internal structure. Setting a new value is fine, but removing one may be problematic. Same goes with adding, use a while loop instead. I would also suggest a while loop for an unset.
For something simple like above, you should instead make use of array_filter to remove what you don't want. It creates a new array with everything that passes the filter.
I suppose that's the kind of thing you can do and everything is fine, until a year later you make some changes to the environment it's in and then can't work out why the script is suddenly misbehaving. Problems like that are such a headache. Thanks for the help, I am trying to stop tip-toeing around arrays and get some confidence with using them.
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Coworking community takes first steps towards green business practices
One of our New Year’s Resolutions at CoLab is to create a greener office environment and help lower our carbon footprint. We’re making an effort to recycle more and waste less. This means we’ll be rolling out some new initiatives to make this happen.
One minor change we’ve already implemented is the use of re-manufactured toner for our printers. Ink cartridges take years to disintegrate in landfills. Re-manufactured toner cartridges are reused instead of being thrown away. We also recycle our empty cartridges because one returned cartridge keeps about 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of landfills.
In addition, we’re implementing a program our members can be a part of as well. Those crumpled up pieces of paper and empty Diet Coke bottles don’t have to be garbage. In the coming weeks everyone will see individually marked bins in the kitchens and kitchenettes to allow our members to separate their recyclables into the correct bins. This, with every one’s effort, will be a huge ongoing step in the right direction.
We understand that although it sounds simple, it’s not always straight forward as to what materials can go where. For this, and many other recycling tips, we are hoping to bring in a member of the newly formed Institute for Sustainable Practices at Lipscomb University for our Lunch and Learn on April 4th. We are sure this will not only be very informative as to what we can do around the office but how we can make it as simple as possible. As an added bonus, you’ll also gain some skills you can take home with you.
More information about our green initiative will be rolling out soon, but in the mean time, keep your eyes peeled for our changes and give going green a shot in your own office. Every little bit counts.
For more information about CoLab Nashville, Lunch and Learns or coworking downtown, visit www.nashville.colabusa.com.
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Arafat's body exhumed, tested for poison
Former PLO leader will be reburied with a military ceremony
Did Yasser Arafat die eight years ago of natural causes or was the 75-year-old Palestinian leader poisoned, as his widow believes?
That's the question forensic investigators from at least three nations are trying to answer by testing samples taken from Arafat's body, which was exhumed Tuesday and reburied a short time later.
Tests are being performed on those samples for the presence of polonium -- a toxic, radioactive element found on some of his personal belongings earlier this year.
For five decades, Arafat was the most prominent face of Palestinian opposition to Israel, first as the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which carried out attacks against Israeli targets, and later as the head of the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority, which runs the West Bank, says it is convinced Israel is behind any poisoning of Arafat.
"We had nothing to do with it," Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "Those charges are ludicrous and it's conspiracy theories which, as you know, sometimes have legs of their own. But, as you know, there is no truth in it whatsoever."
French authorities -- responding to a request from his widow -- opened a murder inquiry into Arafat's death this year after high levels of polonium-210 were detected on Arafat's toothbrush, clothing and his keffiyeh, the trademark black-and-white headscarf he often wore. France opened the investigation partly because Arafat died there in 2004.
While France is leading the investigation, forensic experts from Switzerland and Russia took their own samples for independent analysis.
'Proof in our hands'
Arafat's widow, Suha, told CNN on Tuesday that she doesn't feel comfortable accusing a person or a country of poisoning her husband, but she wants the investigators to keep working. "I will tell you everybody is accusing Israel," she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "I can't just conclude without having all the proof in our hands."
Amanpour asked the widow whether she regrets turning down a chance to have her husband's body undergo an autopsy when he died. Suha said it never occurred to her to have one performed.
"Nobody asked me to do an autopsy," she said.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas subsequently approved the exhumation from Arafat's mausoleum in the Palestinian presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
But the presence of high levels of polonium-210 on his belongings does not mean Arafat was poisoned, according to François Bochud, director of the Swiss institute that carried out the tests.
Some details in Arafat's medical records are not consistent with polonium poisoning, he explained, and "the only way to resolve this anomaly would be by testing the body."
Polonium-210 is not a radioactive substance that emits gamma particles, which can travel through walls at extremely high energies. Instead, as polonium-210 decays, it releases alpha particles, which can't even pass through a piece of paper.
But alpha particles are still dangerous. They travel short distances and retain a high amount of energy.
Bottom line: It may be very difficult to determine if Arafat was poisoned with the substance, but taking samples was less of a task. This week experts retrieved the samples from Arafat's body without disturbing the whole of him so officials would not have to do a military reburial as was planned, according to Tawfiq Tirawi, head of a Palestinian investigation committee. Palestinian leadership placed flowers at Arafat's mausoleum, Tirawi told reporters.
For Suha Arafat, that event was difficult to watch.
"I will tell you something very emotional today while I was seeing his, you know, reburial and his remains," she told Amanpour. "I thought I would promise all my Palestinian people that his remains will go ... to Jerusalem, as he always wanted to be buried in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem."
Arafat died at age 75 at a Paris military hospital after he suffered a brain hemorrhage and slipped into a coma. Palestinian officials said in the days before his death that Arafat had a blood disorder -- though they ruled out leukemia -- and that he had digestive problems.
Rumors of poisoning circulated at the time, but Palestinian officials denied them, and then-Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath said he "totally" ruled them out.
Two weeks after Arafat's death, his nephew said medical records showed no cause of death. Nasser al-Kidwa, who was the Palestinian observer to the United Nations, said toxicology tests showed "no known poison" -- though he refused to exclude the possibility that poison caused his uncle's death.
"The suspicion that he was killed, that he was deliberately murdered, has been there all along and most Palestinians believe that," said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee. "I personally believed it because I was with him; I saw him; I saw the transformation and it certainly was unnatural."
Ashrawi said she had spoken with Arafat's doctors, who told her that they could not rule out the possibility that he had been poisoned.
"But we didn't have any kind of thread, any kind of evidence," she told CNN in July. Referring to the report that showed polonium-210 on some of his belongings, Ashrawi said it "in many ways, tells us our suspicions are founded that there is sufficient evidence to say that he was killed, that he was assassinated using polonium."
Only a few countries, including the United States, Israel and Russia, have stocks of polonium-210, a fact that would limit the list of possible suspects, according to Cham Dallas, a professor and toxicologist at the University of Georgia's Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense.
"You would only use polonium if you were making a statement, not if you were trying to hide," he said.
Someone trying to get away with murder would be better off using pharmaceutical agents, since a number of of them "disappear in the body" and cannot be identified later, he said.
"I can't figure out why they would use it, frankly," he said. "There are so many really cool agents to kill people if you want to be secret and even if you want to make a statement."
Polonium-210 made headlines in 2006, when it was used to kill Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who came to Britain in 2000 after turning whistle-blower on the FSB, the KGB's successor.
In a deathbed statement from a London hospital, Litvinenko blamed Russia's President Vladimir Putin, an accusation the Kremlin strongly denied.
But it's hard to compare the cases of Arafat and Litvinenko, who was diagnosed when he was alive, Bochud said.
Arafat's symptoms when he died were not entirely consistent with polonium poisoning, he said.
"For example, the bone marrow stayed in good shape until (the) death of Arafat. In other cases of polonium poisoning, there is a decaying of the bone marrow," the medical expert said. "Another point, he did not lose his hair as would be expected in the case of polonium (poisoning)."
Scientists performed more than 50 measurements on the belongings between February and June, he said.
Palestinians who view Arafat as a symbol of resistance are also quite emotional about the suspicion he was poisoned.
Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for their work on the Oslo accords in 1993. The Oslo agreement was perceived at the time as a breakthrough that could lead to an independent Palestinian state and a permanent peace with Israel.
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Dave Muyres moderated a discussion about design’s role in transportation on MSU’s Troy, Michigan campus. The panel included the chief designers of Navistar and Visteon along with design futurist and Detroit icon Larry Erickson. The theme of this year’s conference was Sharing the Road and took a broad look at transportation from the new Dreamliner to the RV industry. You can find more about this event at IDSA Michigan.
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Dave Muyres presented at the 5th annual PodCar City Conference in Stockholm Sweden on September 7th, 2011. The international audience was convened to discuss the world’s growing interest in PodCars as a new form of urban transportation. A highlight of the conference was the recent announcement that the new PodCar system at Heathrow was fully up and running. Several other new initiatives around the world were also announced including new systems in Korea, India, the United States and the Middle East. Dave shared thoughts about how to build the same level of passion and allure into PodCars as we currently have for today’s cars. We need to build excitement around what happens next or change towards new sustainable and energy efficient forms of transportation will be very slow. Dave speaks frequently about the role of Innovation in driving change within the transportation industry in partnership with NewNorth Center for Design in Business and OnGoing Transportation.
David Muyres recently addressed a gathering of designers during the press week at the Detroit AutoShow. The AutoWeek Design forum annually brings together top designers from around the world to discuss the future of the car industry. This year the focus was on Design Renaissance, and David Muyres was chosen to open the event with a presentation on the emerging role of the designer. David chose to broaden the focus from car design to how Detroit could develop new and profitable business models while still solving people’s need for mobility. David strongly believes that Design Thinking is the key to developing fun, exciting and sustainable alternatives to today’s over dependence on the car as our main form of transportation in the United States. You can see more at: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20100114/CARNEWS/100119935
We are please to announce the recent publication of the OnGoingTransportation White Paper, titled Futurama II Mobilizing America’s Transportation Revolution. The White Paper was co-authored by David Muyres, formerly a Vice President at the Art Center College of Design and Executive at Johnson Controls Inc. and now with HuntGreen LLC, and Geoff Wardle, the Director of Advanced Mobility at the Art Center College of Design. OnGoingTransportation is a siren call for a bold new approach to the future of American transportation. The OnGoingTransportation initiative calls for the creation of a team of the best and brightest minds to develop a new long term vision that will serve as a blueprint for the next 50 years of transportation needs in the U.S. The vision will inspire well-designed, environmentally and economically sustainable options as part of a totally integrated national transportation system. The blueprint will inform sound, long-term policy and legislation, facilitate innovative technology and financing, and encourage entirely new business models, allowing American entrepreneurs to create jobs and lead the world in transportation solutions. To download the paper click here.
In 2007 I went on a month-long road rally across the US, Mexico, and most of Central America using waste grease and biodiesel. Pictures and descriptions from our visits to sustainable biodiesel producers along the way can be found here. One of my fellow travelers was Bjorn Kruse, the advanced vehicle specialist for the Norwegian environmental non-profit organization “Zero”. Bjornar decided to organize a shorter rally for high tech Zero Emission Vehicles in Norway. Ford Motor Company and the Hynor Group sponsored myself and race car driver Leilani Munter and provided us with a Hydrogen fuel cell Ford Focus, and on May 10th we were in Oslo and ready to go. Unfortunately the vehicle had been damaged in transport and we went to sleep thinking that we were out of the rally.
Twenty minutes before the start our car arrived and we were off. At one of the first stops we were greeted by a number of car fanatics with their classic vehicles and replicas like the one shown here of the first electric vehicle.
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On Monday, Microsoft said it is in the process of moving its European logistics operation to the Netherlands. The decision has meant severing its distribution deal with Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato, which is based in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
"We have a great relationship with Arvato, and we are pleased with the quality of their service. But Motorola's refusal to live up to its patent promises has left us no choice," Microsoft said in a statement. "We would have preferred to keep our European distribution centre with Arvato in Germany as it has been for many years, but unfortunately the risk of disruption from Motorola's patent litigation is simply too high."
Motorola is suing Microsoft in Germany over H.264 video compression technology. It has accused the software maker of using its patents in Windows 7, the Xbox gaming console, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player without permission, and the Mannheim Regional Court is due to rule on the matter on April 17.
If the court finds in Motorola's favor, it could prohibit the sale of Windows 7 and the other products in Germany — a decision that would also affect any distribution happening from that country. FRAND terms
The suit is central to a complaint Microsoft made to the European Commission's antitrust division in February. Microsoft says the patents in question are essential to the H.264 standard and should therefore be licensed out on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
Apple has also complained to the Commission over Motorola's allegedly abusive patent licensing tactics. In December, Motorola succeeded in having some iPad and iPhone models banned from German shelves over 3G-related patents that Apple said should have been licensed on FRAND terms.
In its suit, Motorola is looking for $4bn (£2.5bn) in annual royalties for Microsoft's use of 50 patents in Windows. This figure is equivalent to 2.25 percent of the Windows retail sales price, and is the same proportion that Motorola has demanded from Apple over the cellular patents.
Apple and Microsoft say that percentage is far too high for standard-essential patent royalties, but Motorola — and its soon-to-be owner Google — maintain that it is appropriate.
Samsung is being investigated by the Commission over similar FRAND issues, although its attempts to have German courts grant injunctions against Apple over cellular patents have been less successful than Motorola's.
According to German patent expert Florian Mueller, courts in that country are increasingly willing to grant injunctions to companies that use standard-essential patents aggressively, and Microsoft's decision shows that this trend may damage the German economy.
"A country in which such patents can be easily abused to win injunctions is not an advisable place for a European distribution operation," Mueller wrote in a blog post on Monday. "It's also an irresponsibly risky location for hosting websites that implement industry standards such as H.264."
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Those who wish to use fasting for fat loss will frequently have two basic, overriding questions when they begin: How long shoud they fast, and how often? These are questions without easy answers, but if you’re willing to consider all the factors and move through it patiently, you’ll certainly find the answer that’s correct for you. Some general guidelines, however, are applicable to all individuals, and it is helpful rules like these that we’ll use to show you the correct method to fast. And it doesn’t matter if you’re using water fasting diets, detox fasting, or some other form of fasting..
. these foundational principles apply to all of it!
There’s no mystery behind fasting for individuals who want to lose fat. It’s really intuitive: you stop eating and keep yourself fueled having a minimum amount of liquids, forcing your entire body to adjust by burning off body fat. Nevertheless, done improperly it will cause your health to degrade rapidly. And you definitely shouldn’t try a fast whilst maintaining a physically demanding lifestyle! Thus, fasting is best carried out by those who can afford to not tire themselves out frequently. If you’re on an exercise regimen, you may need to drop it for a little while to fast properly. One way around this would be to fast regularly, but in short periods. By fasting once every two or more days, you can work it into your normal schedule safely. However, while this is superb for temporary weight loss, it’s not always greatest for long term fat loss.
You need to begin by understanding that a fast has to last longer than twelve hours to be effective at losing weight. That’s simply because the body use body fat as its first, preferential fuel source. It has to burn through several other sources very quickly, and only by the time twelve hours have passed will it finally begin utilizing fat. Precisely how long you are able to fast depends on your body type, and how much fat you have stored up. People with much more overall body fat will be able to fast for a lot longer than somebody having a skinny, light build. You might be surprised at how long you can last… you’re definitely not going to die from just a few days, and in most cases not even from a week or two. Even thirty or forty days isn’t out from the question for those prepared for it!
The signal to end your fasting is when you’ve lost nearly all your fat, and your appetite is sharply increasing. This is really a message from your entire body telling you that it requires food soon, because it is almost out of reserves. Obey your entire body, and give it what it wants. Most of the time, you’ll have broken your fast voluntarily far before this ever becomes an issue. So do not be afraid of fasting… it can be your friend, if you’re willing to let it be.
Dr. Michael Allen
Fitness Instructor & Fat Loss Factor Founder
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When AMD launched its ‘Northern Island’ series of GPUs, first with the HD6870 and HD6850 cores (code-named ‘Bart’), and more recently the ‘Cayman’ cores (HD6970 and HD6950), the one everyone really wanted to see was the dual-cored flagship Antilles, now released as the Radeon HD6990. With the wait over, we leapt at the chance to take a look at the fastest GPU on the planet, in the shape of this card from AMD stalwart Sapphire.
Inside the beast
At the heart of the HD6990 are two GPUs sitting on a large PCB. Did we say large? This thing measures a staggering 305mm (12in), in length and weighs in at an impressive 1.14kg – so unless you’re the owner of a huge tower case, this won’t be the card for you no matter how deep your pockets are.
The two GPUs in question are a pair of high-end Cayman XTs, as found on the HD6790 cards but with slightly lower core and stream processor (all 3072 of them) clock speeds than the standard XTs – 830MHz, compared to the usual 880MHz. Also running slower is the memory clock; the 4GB of GDDR5 (running through a 256-bit bus) is clocked at 1,250MHz (5GHz effective) instead of 1,375MHz (5.5GHz effective).
As with other recent Northern Island-based cards, the Sapphire has a BIOS switch, but on the HD6990 it works differently from those of earlier releases. In the default position 1, it supports the factory clock settings for the core of 830MHz at 1.12 volts. Switching to the position 2 provides an increase in the core clock speed to 880MHz, with an increase in the voltage to 1.175 volts.
So far, so good – but the fly in the ointment is that grey area concerning the voiding of the product warranty by overclocking even when the overclocking is done via a manufacturer fitted switch, so it may be best to play safe and leave the switch alone considering how much this thing costs.
Feeding the beast
On top of the card there is two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. Yes this card takes some powering up, as you might imagine with two top-end cores inside it – especially if you choose to ignore the warnings and use the BIOS switch to run it at 880MHz.
From the ground up ,the HD6990 has been designed to consume a whopping 450 Watts of power in its overclocked state. Even running at the stock speeds, it still requires 375 Watts – so you’d better make sure your power supply is up to the job. All this power means one thing – heat, which leads us on to the cooling.
Noisy or what?!
Keeping all this lot cool is a tough challenge, and AMD has taken the it’s for gamers, so it doesn’t matter how loud the fan is route with its reference cooler design. When the going gets tough, the fan spins up and makes an almighty racket. It’s the loudest graphics card we have heard for quite some time.
Sapphire has used AMD’s reference design, the only difference between that and the cooler on this card being the sticker on the front. It will be interesting to see if, further down the road, the company tries to keep the HD6990 both cool and quiet with one of its own designs of cooler.
Out the back
The HD 6990 has an unusual set of outputs on the I/O plate, in as much as there’s only a single DVI port. The other four outputs are mini-DisplayPorts, but Sapphire has bundled enough dongles and cables with the card to cater for just about any eventuality: passive mini-DP-to-DP cable, passive mini-DP-to-SL-DVI and mini-DP-to-HDMI dongles. There’s also an active DP-to-SL-DVI dongle, as well as the usual DVI-to-VGA adaptor and a CrossFire bridge cable. In Eyefinity mode, the HD6990 can currently support up to five screens; however, when the DisplayPort 1.2 drivers eventually surface you’ll be able to daisy-chain additional DisplayPort 1.2 monitors to each DP output.
So is it fast, then?
Simple answer: yes, very. In fact, it’s very hard to find a game or benchmark that the HD6990 doesn’t make mincemeat of – even at very high resolutions.
Running Crysis Warhead at a 3840×1200 resolution with 4x Anti-Aliasing and 4x Anisotropic filtering with all the in-game detail levels at their highest settings, the card still managed to produce an average frame rate of 50fps. In DiRT 2 at the same resolution, it produced an average of 102fps.
Needless to say it’s the fastest card we’ve ever tested, with Futuremark’s latest 3DMark11 benchmark giving it a score of 8727 in the performance test.
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- Superhuman Durability: Grotesk's body is tougher and more resistant to physical injury than the average human being. He was once knocked from the top of a building into a garbage dumpster without injury.
- I-Gore: Wayne Franklin invented a technology which he referred to as I-Gore. I-Gore was a cybernetic robotic interface that could act as a surgeon's hands even if he or she were miles away. The I-Gore design was later stolen and fabricated by Franklin's competitor's at Omnimed.
- In social circles, Wayne Franklin has been referred to as the "black Bruce Wayne" - an accolade that Franklin found quite offensive. He retorted by asking why people don't refer to Bruce as the "pale Wayne Franklin".
- 4 Appearances of Wayne Franklin (New Earth)
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Gun Reciprocity Law
Since August 1, 2001, the state of Alabama had the legislative authority to recognize reciprocal concealed weapons permits with other states, due to the passage of Act 2001-494 (Senate Bill 122) which was signed by the Governor on May 15, 2001.
This law allows Alabama concealed weapon permit holders to take their weapons into states which recognize Alabama licenses. It also allows residents of other states to bring their weapons into Alabama as long as the state issuing the license recognizes Alabama's gun licensing law. The chart below provides updated information on which states have such a reciprocal agreement with Alabama. Generally, for another state to reach an agreement with Alabama, both states' licensing laws must be substantially similar. Permit holders are reminded that while carrying a valid concealed handgun in another state, they are bound by that state's law concerning concealed handguns. A permit or license holder from another state shall carry their handgun in compliance with the laws of Alabama while they are in this state.
Please note that not all states have entered into this agreement. If a state does not accept Alabama's concealed handgun licensing laws as substantially similar, the reasons they will not enter into reciprocity with Alabama are listed by numbers and the statement of the REASONS given is set out below this table by the corresponding numbers 1-13.
Note: Please see the statement below regarding other states' NON-RESIDENT concealed handgun licenses.
The following list contains frequent reasons given to our office by states with more stringent concealed handgun licensing laws as to why they will not recognize Alabama concealed handgun licenses. This list is complete and accurate to the best of our knowledge. It will be updated as we obtain additional information or as the laws of either state are changed to add or delete reasons for denial of concealed handgun license reciprocity.
1. Has a statutory requirement of a signed agreement to establish reciprocal recognition of concealed handgun licenses.
2. Require by statute that an NCIC background check be done on all applicants for concealed handgun licenses.
3. Require fingerprint card to do criminal background check on applicant.
4. Require minimum age of applicant for concealed handgun license to be twenty-one (21) years of age.
5. Require a centralized, one phone number or on-line database which can give 24/7 verification and status of concealed handgun licenses in Alabama prior to recognizing Alabama concealed handgun licenses.
6. They are a "shall issue" state. If an applicant meets the statutory requirements for issue of a concealed handgun license, the state "shall issue" him or her a license. Alabama is a "may issue" state if the Sheriff determines a person has a "proper reason for carrying a pistol, and that he is a suitable person to be so licensed," the Sheriff, "may issue" the person a license. Ala. Code Sec. 13A-11-75. They will not recognize handgun licenses unless they are issued by a state that is also a "shall issue" state.
7. Training requirements or proficiency requirements. 5-, 8-, or 16-hour training requirement, and some states require passing a handgun proficiency test.
8. Permit must contain biographical information and a photograph of the permittee.
9. History of violence is a restricting factor.
10. Applicants must meet all requirements of 18 USC 922(g).
18 USC 922(g) is a section of the U.S. Code which states it is unlawful for anyone who is convicted of a felony, who is a fugitive from justice, who is an unlawful user of controlled dangerous substances, who has been adjudicated mentally defective or been committed to a mental institution, who is an illegal alien; who was dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces, who has renounced his citizenship, or who is under restrictions of a protective order to own or possess a firearm.
11. Applicants must make a sworn application.
12. Prohibit convicted felons from obtaining a concealed handgun license.
13. Require a mental health background check.
NOTE REGARDING NON-RESIDENCE LICENSES
Will Alabama honor a non-resident concealed handgun license in addition to honoring the concealed handgun licenses issued to a resident of one of the states that recognizes and honors Alabama concealed handgun licenses?
Alabama issues concealed handgun licenses only to residents of Alabama, through the sheriff of their county of residence.
Some states, with whom we have reciprocal recognition of concealed handgun licenses, issue handgun licenses not only to residents of their state but also issue "non-resident" concealed handgun licenses to residents of other states.
At the present time, Act 2001-494 does not specifically address the issue of Alabama's recognition of a non-resident handgun license issued by a state with which Alabama has reciprocal recognition of concealed handgun licenses. Nor is there a formal Attorney General's Opinion, or Alabama case law on this subject. If an Alabama law enforcement agency requests and receives an official Attorney General's Opinion that opinion will be available to the public on our web site in the Opinions section.
Until the Legislature, or a court of competent jurisdiction, or an "official" Attorney General's Opinion addresses this question, our office's "unofficial opinion" is that, at this time, Alabama will honor non-resident concealed handgun licenses from a state which recognizes handgun licenses issued to Alabama residents. Since this is a new area of law and subject to change, we do urge caution. It is suggested that persons whose state of residence does not recognize Alabama concealed handgun licenses periodically check our website and the website of the state which issues their non-resident concealed handgun license, as well as being aware of news stories and court cases on the subject.
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Following is text from the Department of Public Safety's synopsis of Alabama's pistol law:
RE: Alabama Pistol Laws and Carrying/Transporting a Pistol
The following synopsis of Alabama law is furnished for general information only, and does not constitute legal advice or counsel:
Alabama law prohibits any person from carrying a pistol in any vehicle or concealed on or about their person without a pistol permit license. Ala. Code § 13A-11-73 (1975). Under Alabama law, a "pistol" is defined as "any firearm with a barrel less than 12 inches in length." Licenses to carry a pistol are issued by local county sheriffs in Alabama. A person must be a resident of that county to apply for and be issued a pistol permit license. Alabama as of August 1, 2001 under Act 2001-494 has provisions for recognizing pistol permits or concealed weapon licenses issued by states who will recognize pistol permits issued by Alabama.
The license requirement of section 13A-11-73 does not apply to "regularly employed" law enforcement officers; to members of the armed forces or National Guard while on duty or going to or from duty; to persons engaged in manufacturing, repairing, or dealing in pistols; or to any person permitted by law to possess a pistol while carrying it unloaded in a secure wrapper, from the place of purchase to his home or place of business, or to or from a place of repair or in moving from one place of abode or business to another. Ala. Code § 13A-11-74 (1975).
It is our interpretation of the Code of Alabama that "regularly employed" law enforcement means full time, sworn law enforcement officers. Such persons are exempt from the requirement to possess a permit and may carry their pistols concealed or unconcealed.
The State of Alabama does recognize pistol licenses or permits to carry concealed weapons issued by other states who will recognize Alabama pistol licenses. [See the list posted above.] Also, a person may carry or transport a long gun (rifle or shotgun) without a permit. A person may lawfully transport a firearm, including a handgun, from one state in which they are legal to possess to another state without a permit as required under Alabama law, provided the following conditions are met:
- The firearm is unloaded.
- Neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle.
- In case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver's compartment, the firearm and ammunition shall be in a locked container other than the glove box or console.
18 USC § 926 (a) (2006).
Under Alabama law, no person convicted in this state or elsewhere of a "crime of violence" may own or possess a pistol. Ala. Code § 13A-11-72 (1975). Crimes of violence are defined as murder, manslaughter, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and larceny. No person addicted to drugs or habitually intoxicated may own or possess a pistol. Ala. Code § 13A-11-72 (1975). Any person in violation of Alabama's pistol laws may be arrested and upon conviction, subjected to a term of imprisonment of not more than one year and a fine of not more than $500, or both. The pistol will be seized and may be forfeited by court order.
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Ex-Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Blass dies
by Ross Reily
Published: October 24,2012
JACKSON — Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice William Joel Blass died Tuesday, four days after his 95th birthday, a spokeswoman for the court said.
Funeral arrangements are pending for Blass, of Pass Christian, said Beverly Pettigrew Kraft in a statement late Tuesday. She did not provide further details.
“He was a great legal scholar and outstanding leader of the bar for many years. He lived professionalism by example and was an inspiration to attorneys and judges,” said Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr., of Jackson.
Former Gov. Ray Mabus appointed Blass to fill a vacancy on the court in 1989. He served through December 1990 but was defeated in his bid for a full term by Justice Chuck McRae.
Chancery Judge Jim Persons, of Gulfport, said Blass touched all parts of the legal profession — lawyer, law professor, legal scholar and judge. He also represented Stone County in the state Legislature for seven years.
“He was very progressive and was one of my heroes and inspired me to go on and study law,” said Leonard Blackwell II, former president of the Mississippi Bar. “He was a leader in racial reconciliation (in the 1950s). He was a real stalwart and an example of what a lawyer ought to be.”
He was much admired by the bench and the bar “for his civility, integrity, honesty and forthrightness and his legal ability and intellect,” Persons said. “He had a brilliant mind. He was a good man and a good lawyer.”
Blass was born in Clinton on Oct. 19, 1917, and earned degrees from LSU. He was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1940 and the Mississippi Bar in 1947. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1946, including combat duty in Europe during World War II. He was awarded the Bronze Star for action in Germany and later served for a year during the Korean conflict.
From 1946 to 1965, he practiced law in Wiggins. In 1965, he began teaching law and was named director of research at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He joined the law firm of Mize, Thompson and Blass in Gulfport in 1971 and remained in private practice until his Supreme Court appointment.
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Plainfield Town Hall
Plainfield, NH. Location: Route 12A
Site Type: Town Hall
UTMs: (Zone 18) E: 713750. N: 4823470.
National Register Nomination Information:
Exterior Architectural Description:
The facade of the Town Hall is dominated by a windowless projecting gable. The central entrance contains a six panel wooden door capped by a six light transom above which a wooden plaque reads: "Town Hall/Plainfield N.H./ Inc.1761". Three concrete steps with a cast iron pipe railing on the right, rise to meet the doorway. To the right of the entrance is a glass-enclosed notice board. To each side of the doorway is a twenty light fixed sash window, half the size of the windows on the slide elevations. Although it may appear that the windows were originally larger and the upper portion was filled-in with clapboarding, the original construction agreement for the building specifies the half windows seen today. Blinds. apparently originally flanked the windows. The only other window on the facade is a small 6/6 doublehung sash above and to the left of the main doorway. Six inch wide plain cornerboards and a wide clapboarded baseboard frame the simple structure which features a projecting boxed cornice. In the front gable the eaves do not protrude from the front wall surface. Symmetrical plantings on either side of the concrete steps partially obscure the the facade. This landscaping consists of lilac trees, fir trees and assorted shrubbery. In front of the greenery on either side of the stairs is a concrete flower box, presently unfilled.
On the south elevation, three tall 20/20 doublehung sash windows with simple surrounds mark the original section of the building. A single casement window is cut into the fieldstone foundation. In the original section but adjacent to first addition, is a four panelled wooden door. Seven cast iron steps complete with a handrail lead to this side entranceway. The south elevation of the stage addition contains two 15/15 doublehung sash windows. There are only two other features on this section's south elevation: a single light casement window in the concrete foundation and a single panelled wooden door leading under the stage area. The south side of the shed addition, which.is only ten feet wide, contains a square panelled door leading into a storage area.
The rear or east elevation of the shed section contains two 15/15 doublehung windows, behind which are the dressing rooms for the stage area. A tall brick chimney projects from the shed roof north of the ridge.
Five windows light the north elevation. Like those on the other side elevation the two of the rear section are 15/15 while the three in the front are 20/20. A corbel-capped brick chimney protrudes from either side of the ridge near the front of the building.
A dirt driveway is located along the south side of the Town Hall with the remains of an outbuilding's concrete foundation located at the end of the driveway.
The original floor of the town hall was laid with floorboards salvaged from the old meeting house located in another part of town. The Town Meeting of 1846 describes the seating: "The seats are the same thickness stuff as those in Lebanon (NH) townhouse and finished in the same manner with good merchantable pine stuff."(1)
In 1908 the tiers of seats were removed and the floor relaid. The seats were replaced with benches and .tables, and at the same time kerosene lighting was installed. In 1915, the kerosene lighting was replaced with electricity.
The most important aspect of the interior is the stage set designed by local resident, Maxfield Parrish in 1916. The backdrop portraying nearby Mt.Ascutney, adds color and life to the entire auditorium. Painted in tones of blue and purple, the backdrop was designed to portray varying skies, from daybreak to dusk depending on the stage lighting used. Parrish also designed the six side props which flank the woodland scene, consisting of birch and oak trees with large boulders. The set and props were painted by unidentified professional scenepainting technicians, following Parrishıs design, using gouache or tempera paints.
The Plainfield Town Hall has both local and national significance. At the local level, the building is significant because of its importance in the areas of architecture and theatre. At the national level, the Town Hall is significant because it contains a stage backdrop and wings designed by famous painter Maxfield Parrish.
The builders of the Town Hall were Bradbury Dyer and Col. Charles Eggleston. Eggleston (1787-1858), a master builder in the Plainfield-Cornish area also is thought to have been responsible for the Baptist Church (1840) and Blow-me-down Grange in Plainfield and the United Church of Cornish Center (1841-2) among other designs. Much of his work resembles that of Ammi Burnham Young (1798-1874), a Lebanon architect who later gained national prominence.
A detailed account of the erection of the Plainfield Town Hall was recorded at town meeting in March of 1846. The Town of Plainfield paid the builders eight hundred dollars to complete the job. The contract include the dismantling of the first Plainfield Meeting House built in 1804, and reusing its materials on the new structure. The specifications given at the 1846 town meeting recreate a structure very similar to the one now standing minus its two rear later additions. Constructed in 1916 to accommodate a stage these additions continue the lines of the original structure without diminishing its simple effect.
In 1885, the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens arrived in Cornish, the town south of Plainfield, where he set up a studio. His presence in the area attracted other artists and eventually this group of artists was refereed to as the Cornish Colony. The Cornish Colony was composed of both summer and year-round residents who were writers, poets, artists and actors. Among the more famous residents of the Cornish Colony were: Winston Churchill (1871-1947) a novelist; Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), actress; Peter Finley Dunne (1867-1944), humorist; Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), an artist and illustrator; and William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910), a poet and playwright. Another famous frequenter of the Cornish Colony was etcher and painter Stephen Parrish. In the summers when Stephen Parrish would set up studio in Cornish, he would bring his son Maxfield with him.
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was born in Philadelphia in 1870, graduated from Haverford College in 1888, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1892. After gaining fame as a magazine cover designer for Harpers, Scribners, Colliers, Life and the Ladies Home Journal, Maxfield decided to settle in Plainfield to be able to work in peace and quiet. His original home, The Oaks, burned in 1979,but the studio, begun in 1905, still survives about a half mile south of the Plainfield Town Hall.
Beside designing magazine covers, Parrish also designed posters, advertisements, calendars, greeting cards, murals and theatre scenery. So when William Howard Hart, a landscape artist of the Cornish Colony, asked Parrish to design the set for the Plainfield Town Hall Stage in 1916, Parrish gladly obliged, Parrish's 16 x 22: rendition of Mt. Ascutney was then gridded and enlarged by a professional painting firm on the backdrop canvas, painting each square separately from the corresponding grid of Parrish's original.
After the stage was built, the Town Hall was the scene of many plays by groups such as the Ladies Aid of the Baptist Church and the Mother's and Daughter's Club. Perhaps its most famous group of actors and actresses was the Howard Hart Players. Albert Boyd, a writer, artist and Plainfield summer resident, created the Howard Hart Players Group in honor of the benefactor of the Plainfield Town Hall stage, William Howard Hart. Many of the Cornish colony artists who spent their summers in Plainfield and Cornish participated in the Howard Hart Players.
Briggs, Frederick A. "Rambles in Plainfield." Claremont, NH: The National Eagle, September through October 1886.
Colby, Virginia. "Stephen and Maxfield Parrish in New Hampshire," Antiques Magazine, June 1979.
Hood, Vernon. A History of Plainfield: a collection of papers. (No specific date)
Ludwig, Coy. Maxfield Parrish. New York, N.Y.: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973
Quimby, William C. "A Brief History of Plainfield, N.H." Wesleyan University Thesis, 1952. (Town Library)
Assorted playbills for Plainfield Town Hall Theatre production over the years. (Cornish Historical Society)
Parris, Maxfield, Jr. Letter to Stephen H. Taylor, former Plainfield selectman, regarding the Plainfield Town Hall set and props designed by his father. June 18, 1977. (Plainfield Historical Society)
Sketch for backdrop by Maxfield Parris. Owned by Harold Knox, West Lebanon, New Ham=pshire.
DATE ENTERED: June 6, 1985.
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As of 4 p.m. Thursday, more than 760 marriage licenses had been issued statewide to same-sex couples, with more than half of them -- 459 -- being issued in King County (487 as of 6 p.m.).
But Washington's new marriage law continues to draw criticism from opponents.
"It's not a celebration, I see an element of sadness, a nation that's turned it's back on God and is going a different way," said Joe Fuiten, pastor at Cedar Park Church in Bothell.
Fuiten said he hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately weigh in and overturn the law. In the meantime, he said he will continue to preach that marriage is "between a man and a woman" -- including at his service this Sunday, the first day same-sex couples can get married.
With the passade of R-74 last month, Washington state joined several other states that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. R-74 had asked voters to either approve or reject the state law legalizing same-sex marriage that legislators passed earlier this year. That law was signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) in February but was put on hold pending the outcome of the election. Nearly 54 percent of voters approved the measure.
The law doesn't require religious organizations or churches to marry gay or lesbian couples. Same-sex couples who previously were married in another state that allows gay marriage, like Massachusetts, will not have to get remarried in Washington state. Their marriages became valid in the state on Thursday, when the law took effect.
Washington was joined by Maine and Maryland last month to become the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. They joined six other states -- New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont -- and the District of Columbia, which had already enacted laws or issued court rulings permitting same-sex marriage.
Couples in Maryland also started picking up marriage licenses Thursday, though their licenses won't take effect until Jan. 1.
"I really imagined my life as being just with a partner and never having a wife, so to have this day come about and to be a part of it, it means everything to me," said Kim Hinken, who was the first person to get a marriage license in Anne Arundel County, Md.'s Circuit Court. The 52-year-old Edgewater resident said she has waited nearly 10 years to become legally married to Adrianne Eathorne.
Maine's law takes effect Dec. 29. There's no waiting period in Maine, and people can start marrying just after midnight.
In addition to private ceremonies that will start taking place across Washington state this weekend, Seattle City Hall will open for several hours Sunday, and several local judges are donating their time to marry more than 140 couples starting at 10 a.m. In Olympia, a group of local judges has offered to perform wedding ceremonies just after midnight on Sunday at the Thurston County courthouse.
Washington state has had a domestic partnership law in place since 2007. The initial law granted couples about two dozen rights, including hospital visitation and inheritance rights when there is no will. It was expanded a year later, and then again in 2009, when lawmakers completed the package with the so-called "everything but marriage" law that was ultimately upheld by voters later that year.
This year, lawmakers passed the law allowing gay marriage, and Gregoire signed it in February. Opponents gathered enough signatures for a referendum, putting the law on hold before it could take effect.
(Note: The photo of the two bearded men applying for a marriage license that appears in the video associated with this story was used with permission from Meryl Schenker.)
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Oberstdorf is not just a holiday paradise embedded in the Alps of the Allgäu. Here, in this remote southernmost village of Germany you’ll find the famous Heini Klopfer ski jump – a ski flying hill and the second largest ski jump in the world. If you are plucky enough you can ride a unique diagonal elevator to the top of the Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze. Cheer up! Nowadays, Bosch takes care of safety and security at this ski jump.
It's over 20 years since ski-jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards soared to glorious failure at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The older of us may recall raising the Labatt Blue glass (despite the own nationality) to Michael “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards, the British ski jumper with the Hubble-telescope specs, massive underbite, and permanent grin. Though many thought he was too tall, too heavy, and too old, Edwards got to the Calgary Games through determination and his unmatched enthusiasm. Despite finishing 58th out of 58, Edwards embodied the Olympic spirit for millions of viewers.
These days, Bosch Security Systems managed to draw the attention to Oberstdorf again – besides the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which was officially opened yesterday by FIS president Gian Franco Kasper accompanied with an spectacular opening ceremony. Bosch has developed and implemented a comprehensive security concept for the Heini Klopfer ski jump in Oberstdorf. The concept comprises protection against fire, intrusion detection technology and video surveillance at the ski jump itself as well as in the mountain and valley stations of its chair lift. Reaching a height of 207 meters, the Heini Klopfer ski jump is one of the six largest in the world. It is architecturally unique and represents an extraordinary structural feat, since it is anchored into the mountain at the height of the takeoff platform only using rock bolts.
At the ski jump itself and in the mountain and valley stations, fire detectors from Bosch’s the 420 series were installed, which are connected to the control panel via the cableway’s existing control wires using two-wire converters. The intrusion detection system’s dual-technology motion detectors are also connected to this NZ 300 LSN universal control panel, so that the operator has an integrated and easy-to-use system. An ISDN module integrated into the control panel enables the remote transmission of alarms to the operator as well as the remote parameterization of the system.
The fire and intrusion detection system is complemented by a system for video surveillance with cameras in the mountain and valley stations as well as on the ski jump itself. One camera surveys the cash register area in the valley station in particular, and helps to protect employees who are changing money at the tills as well as providing a more complete record in the event of burglary or vandalism. The camera images are recorded centrally on a Divar MR digital video recorder. These images, too, are transmitted via the cableway’s control wires, so that no additional infrastructure had to be created.
Mr. Edwards returned to Oberstdorf in 2004 when the ski jump Schattenbergschanze was inaugurated after being rebuild. It is said that this was his last jump. Edwards was the best ski-jumper in the United Kingdom, setting a British record of 73.5 m in one of his Calgary jumps in 1988. At the closing ceremony, the president of the Organizing Committee, Frank King, seemed to single out Edwards for his contribution: "At these Games, some competitors have won gold, some have broken records, and some of you have even soared like an eagle." At that moment, 100,000 people in the stadium roared "Eddie! Eddie!". It was the first time in the history of the games that an individual athlete had been mentioned in the closing speech.
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Find Desktop Standard, by IdeaSolutions S.r.l.is a powerful product that does full-text indexing on yourcomputer. What does that mean? It means that you can search yourcomputer and find the exact document you're looking for. Look for oneword or a phrase and Find Desktop Standard goes out and finds it.In testing it out I found the program to be easy-to-use and intuitive,perfect for users with all levels of experience. And it's very fast.
Find Desktop Standard also utilizes O.C.R. which stands foroptical character recognition. That means that it can really get intoyour documents and find what you need. In testing it out I had it indexmy Reviews folder and my Editorial folder. In the screenshot you can see the listing it provided when I did a search on aspecific word. The program will also highlight the search term you use.I also indexed my email which was very cool. It allowed me tosearch through all my email (I have email going back 10 years) and findthe communications I wanted. Slick!Find Desktop Standard is a powerful tool for finding textanywhere on your computer. I like it so much that I'm planning an extendreview in the near future. I'm also making it a Dr.File Finder Favorite and those are few and far between. So,if you have lots of documents and you'd like to be able to pull up thecomplete text when you do a search, this is the product you needto try. I recommend it!
Michael E. Callahan, known around the world by the trademarked name Dr. File Finder, is regarded as the world's leading expert on shareware. Dr. File Finder works with software programs and developers full-time, and in the average year he evaluates 10,000 programs. Since 1982 he has evaluated over 250,000 software and hardware products. Mr. Callahan began evaluating software online in 1982 and no one has been at it longer. He currently works doing online PR and marketing for software companies, and is the Senior Content Producer for Butterscotch.Com.
In this episode, we'll be looking at setting up a Bluetooth accessory, we'll offer a few power-saving tips and we'll take a quick look at how copy and paste works on the Samsung Galaxy SII 4G. view it
In this episode, we'll be taking a look at some of the pre-installed apps on the Galaxy SII including the Android Market, Gmail, the browser and the camera. view it
In this episode, we'll be taking a look at some of the Android tweaks that Samsung has made with its TouchWiz interface. We'll also take a look at adding widgets and app shortcuts to our homescreens, including Samsung's own specialized apps and widgets. view it
In this episode, we're going to take a look getting the SII setup with our Google and other accounts so we can begin using it right away. view it
The Samsung Galaxy SII 4G, AKA the Samsung Galaxy Epic Touch 4G, is a top-tier smartphone. view it
In this episode, we’re going to offer a few battery saving tips so your phone will last the whole day and beyond plus we’ll take a look at how copy and paste works on the Photon 4G. view it
The Motorola Photon from Ting features App Shortcuts and Widgets from Android and Motorola. view it
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Different types of envelopes are available at the Mail Center. The Mail Center provides envelopes of various sizes as well as those provided by the USPS, Federal Express, and UPS. Keep in mind that envelopes are important. Do not over stuff any envelope as it might be damaged and end up in the dead letter file. Conversely, do not place small items in an envelope that is much larger than the piece that is being mailed. The piece will move around within the envelope and may be damaged enroute to its final destination. Plan accordingly and have your mail properly prepared.
When using these envelopes the enclosures must be designed so that the address appears in the window without using a staple or paper clip to prevent slippage of the enclosure from window view. If the enclosure does not properly fit in the window, use an envelope without a window and refrain from stapling. Always make sure that only the address is in the window so not to confuse the OCR. Be sure no art work can be seen from the outside of the envelope. USPS regulations require that the window or the address be no higher than the maximum or 2 3/4" high and a maximum of 6 3/4" long from the left side of the envelope to the right.
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These can be used for all classes of mail. Please specify if it is to be shipped other than first class.
Padded envelopes contain a cushioned lining to provide a degree of safety for mailing small and fragile merchandise. These are available at the Mail Center for your convenience. With the increase in automation, all mail will eventually go through some piece of equipment. These envelopes would be best to use for discs, tapes, and anything that could be damaged by a machine.
There are a variety of envelopes at the Mail Center from the USPS, Federal Express, and UPS. They are free to the Mail Center and are available upon request.
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I recently published a new app: B-Rhymes Pro iPhone app. The most frequent request I get from users of the standard B-Rhymes iPhone app is to make it not require internet access so that you can find rhymes on your iPod Touch, or when you have no service etc. So I did that and also threw in full rhymes as well as slant rhymes. Putting the full rhyme database in there was a bit tricky, but I managed to fit it in <50MB. Price is $2.99.
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Canada finally (well, since September or something) has cell phone providers with interchangeable networks (for newer phones)! Incredible. It’s taken forever, but you can now not only take your number with you to a different provider, but also your phone… provided you can unlock it.
Cell providers don’t want to make it easier for you to leave than they legally have to, so they apply a ‘lock’ on phones you get from them which prevents their use on other providers’ networks.
Fortunately with many (most?) phones you can get a code that unlocks them for a small fee. I’ve done this on my last two phones. The first being a Rogers Blackberry 8900, and my new one, which is a Telus Motorola Milestone, an Android phone. I unlocked both to use on Fido.
Steps (for Motorola and Blackberry):
- Buy phone from store like BestBuy.
- Get imei number (a phone id number) by typing *#06# into the phone.
- Send imei to unlocking service like mobileincanada.ca
- Pay $20, receive unlock code.
- When you put in your sim from a different provider, type in the unlock code and you’re done!
This is an hilarious/genius Firefox plugin for people learning kanji. It replaces the first letter of English words in your browser with the corresponding Japanese character. Unexpected and funny, but I can kind of see this working. I’ll try it out. BTW I’ve been learning kanji through Remembering the Kanji and Reviewing the Kanji for the last 5 months. I’m up to 1532 characters! It’s an amazing system.
So Pat got this ridiculous and awesome game where, get this, you test your reaction time against others by pushing a button when a light goes off, and if you’re the slowest, and here is it straight up, you get electrocuted! Check it out: Lightning Reactions
Of course we had to get some suckers… I mean friends over to try it out. So we had a party at me and Kerry’s place.
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I wonder if any cuts will ever be proposed for the military that won't be met with arguments of them placing our soldiers in danger and/or weakening our "Military Preparedness" or something along those lines.
Both positions are nonsense and reflect either a total ignorance of the military or a political position based strictly on votes and monetary influence from various connected industries.
Right now, for example, there are plans to build and purchase eight new nuclear submarines, at a cost of $350 BILLION EACH! Yes, each! Now, eliminating just one of those would obviously go a long ways toward reducing the military budget.
Each branch of service has a weapons "wish list" each and every year. There is little if any cooperation between the branches of service on any of those purchases, from helicopters to handguns. In fact, if the branches of service were just limited to weapons related to their main function, many, many billions of dollars could be saved.
Why do we have Marine and Army pilots? Isn't that the job of the Air Force? The Marines have insisted on developing a Vertical Take Off fighter and transport plane, even though both are very difficult to fly, have been replete with cost overruns, and the transport in particular is a sitting duck on takeoff, far easier to shoot down than even helicopters, with a larger loss of life. You want to bet those planes are built in some Congressman's district, or built by a company that has contributed large piles of money to various Congressional campaigns?
We maintain a nuclear arsenal big enough to destroy every inch of this planet, yet we still continue to build and/or maintain more warheads. Speaking of warheads and missiles, we're currently in the middle of developing a "Missile Shield" that not only has demonstrated very little success, but is basically unneeded in today's political climate. War has changed, and changed dramatically. The Missile Defense system originally proposed with great diplomatic stupidity by the Bush administration, and of course fought for ever since by the military hierarchy, will not work. Billions have already been spent on development.
Base closings are another way to save money, but not if it's in MY DISTRICT say all those with power! Why in the world would the Niagara Falls airbase be turned into a Drone Site, an entirely different mission? Easy answer - money!
How about just a few cuts to various programs? The Marines and Air Force have versions of the Osprey, a Vertical Take Off airplane, at a cost of over $53 billion. Basically, they do what a helicopter does. Yes, a few differences, but don't you think maybe we could cut that program just a tad?
The Pratt and Whitney F135 engine is for the Marine variant of the F-35 jet. It is not feasible to use in high-speed high-altitude aircraft, so obviously it's very limited in scope. Cost? $63.8 billion! What do you think, maybe just a few less?
The Navy is using, and has been using, DDG-51 Guided Missile Destroyers since the 1980s, a program costing $87.3 billion. The newer version, the DDG-51s will cost $2.4 billion each. Hmmm maybe we could build a few less of those, or just stay with the ones we have for a while longer?
Right now the government is beginning to test a Ballistic Missile Defense System that will require laser technology that doesn't exist, as well as space based devices and other things we are decades away from having. Yet the cost of that system right now is pegged at $126.2 billion! Read that number again, slowly. Heck, write it out for more impact, $126,200,000,000!
No missile defense system has yet to work as advertised, and have all been guilty of gigantic cost overruns. Right now, the justification is to combat a missile threat from North Korea. North Korea has about two missiles, and we could take out their entire nuclear capability with the ordinance of just one nuclear submarine. So, what do you think, could we spare just a few dollars from this particular program?
The armed forces are fighting for a program for jet planes, the F-35, which has three variants, one for the Air Force, Marines and Navy. The cost of that program has reached $331.9 billion! The jets they are replacing are already better than the jets used by any other country. Why do Marines have to have their own jets? The Navy, with Aircraft Carriers, I understand. These jets, by the way, have been subjected to cost overruns from original estimates that have more than doubled the cost of each air craft.
Looking at the above, without even mentioning the waste of the average branch of service, the unbelievable bureaucracy involved with each, the overabundance of Generals and other high ranking officers, a 10 percent cut to each program would total over $56 billion. That's just 10 percent! Obviously, much more than that could be saved if certain programs were just dropped entirely.
Remember now, not one of these programs is protecting even one soldier, ending or cutting them won't place anyone on danger, not one bullet, not one rifle, not one protective vest will be lost. The cry of a weakened military, already bigger and more technical than any other, is just nonsense. What is at play is pork barrel spending in well-placed elected officials' districts. Yes, there are blue collar jobs involved. But think about the money we'd have for roads and bridges and school buildings and other things if the military industrial complex wasn't bleeding the country dry, and they are.
Most people like to think our military leadership is above politics. The fact of the matter is, most of our military leadership is totally about politics, that's how they get promoted and assigned. There is a revolving door between retired officers and various military suppliers and their lobbyists. There is as big a connection between the suppliers of those systems and campaign donations to those who support them.
Before you join those lamenting the weakening of our military by those trying to insist on some cuts in its funding, do a little research. What I've written here is literally the tip of a very, very large iceberg.
Paul Christopher is a Dunkirk resident. Send comments to email@example.com
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For small values of , how good is the approximation ?
By "small values", how small does the question want x to be? Less than 1? Less than 0.1? Less than 0.01?
Also, how do I proceed to get an approximation of the error? After expressing in terms of its Taylor series, at a point , I get the error term in terms of .
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Shechem, Then and Now
Those who have traveled with me can readily attest that one of my favorite sites in the land of Israel is the Shechem area. In recent years, I’ve been able to do no more than stand on top of Mount Gerizim or view the area from the east, but even that is quite satisfying. My love for the area is not necessarily related to anything the eye can see today. There are other hills, valleys, tells, and impressive views. But the acts of God make this area unlike any other. Here the Lord promised the land to Abraham. Here Jacob erected an altar and apparently dug a well. Here the twelve tribes recited the blessings and curses. The list goes on, and it is long and rich.
Shechem area from Mount Gerizim, 2006
Standing atop Mount Gerizim and gazing over this panorama is one of my favorite things to do. But it could be better. It would be better if dense urbanization did not obscure the historic sites. It would be better if the loud noises of modern city life did not disturb my thoughts. It would be better if Israeli soldiers weren’t on guard around the corner. And it would be better if there was peace in the land and I could walk down the slope, into ancient Shechem, and then up the slope of Mount Ebal.
If I had lived 100 years ago, I could have done all of that. I can’t do that, but I can enjoy the beauty of old photographs. This is one of my favorites.
If you prefer to view the photos in a PowerPoint file where you can flip back and forth between them, you may download that here.
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A paralysed woman is to become the first to take on the London Marathon in a bionic suit.
Claire Lomas, 32, from Eye Kettleby, near Melton, will be attempting to complete the 26-mile route in her ReWalk suit after being left paralysed from the chest down following a horse riding accident in 2007.
The mother of one will start the race with thousands of others this Sunday and hopes to complete 1.5 miles each day. Celebrities including Gabby Logan and former tennis star Tim Henman will be lending their support by walking a mile each with her along part of the route, while her husband Dan, mother Joyce and 13-month-old daughter Maisie will be cheering her on from the sidelines.
The challenge is expected to take Mrs Lomas several weeks to complete, depending on the weather, and she is hoping to raise more than £50,000 for Spinal Research, a charity which funds medical research around the world to develop reliable treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck.
Taking a break from training in her suit at a clinic in Hull, Mrs Lomas said: "Even standing in it is a challenge. The suit so far has been difficult, challenging and frustrating but it's got better. It's took some getting used to but once you've found your balance it's ok.
"When you've not been used to being upright and you haven't got sensation, you feel vulnerable and you know you can fall so it's about getting confidence on your feet but after spending hours in the suit you can get that."
Mrs Lomas broke her neck, back and ribs and punctured a lung when her horse Rolled Oats threw her off as she took part in the Osberton Horse Trials in Nottinghamshire in 2007.
She said: "I suffered a spinal chord injury to my back which left me paralysed from the chest down. I'd just got to the top level and competed at the Burley Horse trials so it was a massive shock to suddenly realise you're not going to walk or event again."
Mrs Lomas had the idea to take part in the London Marathon about a year ago after speaking to others with spinal injuries. She said: "I wanted to raise some money for spinal research because when I was in hospital, and since then, I've seen a lot of people with catastrophic spinal injuries and how it can change your life in a split second. There's a lot of people who are worse off than me and haven't got the support I've got, so I want to raise as much as I can."
The £43,000 RealWalk suit, designed by Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer, enables people with lower-limb paralysis to stand, walk and climb stairs through motion sensors and an onboard computer system. A shift in the wearer's balance, indicating their desire to take, for example, a step forward, triggers the suit to mimic the response that the joints would have if they were not paralysed.
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Saint Paul University Manila
, 680 Pedro Gil St., Manila
St. Paul University Manila (also known as SPUM) is a private, previously a women's college and recently turned co-ed beginning school year 2005-2006 in Manila, Philippines. The college was established in 1912 by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres (SPC), a Congregation founded in Chartres, France in 1698.
1904 – On October 29, 1904, seven Sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, France established its first foundation in the Philippines in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines. The Sisters, coming from their mission in Vietnam, responded to the invitation of the Most Reverend Frederick Rooker of the Diocese of Iloilo, to which Dumaguete then belonged. The seven Sisters were Mother Marthe de St. Paul, Superior, Sr. Marie Louise du Sacre Couer, Sr. Ange Marie, Sr. Anne de la Croix, Sr. Charles de Genes, Sr. Catherine, and Sr. Josephine. St. Paul’s College, Dumaguete was founded as St. Paul Academy, becoming the first St. Paul’s College in the Philippines.
St. Paul Academy which was located near the Cathedral, accepted boys and girls and prepared them for their First Holy Communion. The Sisters were installed in the old Convent of the Augustinian Recollects that Bishop Rooker had offered. The Parish Priest transferred his residence somewhere else.
January 09, 1905, the new school opened with 30 girls (15 of whom were aged 15 to 20), four of them were boarders, and six boys. Children, women, and young men came to the school for religious instruction. Besides the regular academic courses, there were supplementary classes in music, drawing, painting, French, sewing, and embroidery. The medium of instruction was English. However, since the Americans had been in the Philippines only for five years, very few pupils were acquainted with the language. Hence, the Sisters were obliged to learn Visayan and Spanish to be able to communicate with their charges.
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Quo vadis,the old buddies?
Web site with us – and worldwide – fully used around since 1995. His older users. There is a new phenomenon – a pensioner on a network, which is interesting for sociologists, perhaps for politicians, but especially for retailers, manufacturers and IT advertisers. By betting on the young and restless already not enough.
A web of pensioners will rapidly increase. Today we talk about a generational digital divide. Part of the old generation had to learn new technology does not handle it, no desire to change established habits. The gap disappears completely, because there are still news, the use of separating younger from older. Still brewing that the situation will be much smoother. Even today, the older lady moved from long telephone conversations to email and chat. It is more convenient and fun, except that you can talk with their grandchildren, because the digital divide has paradoxically shifted to the other side: technology of the twentieth century, such as phone, do not like the youngest.
Business is the new trend now too adaptive, which means that there is plenty of opportunity. Definitely worth to create Web content for the older generation – the equivalent of a sort of oldies radio. For reflection would also cost a social network, where an unwritten condition of entry was forty-five age and above, because the meet is on Facebook with their grandchildren is embarrassing for both parties.
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Minister of Finance Sets Export Duties, Including a 20% Export Duty on Raw Mineral Ore Exports
After four months of mixed signals from the government, the Ministry of Finance has issued Regulation No. 75/PMK.011/2012 on the Determination of Goods Subject to Export Duty ("Regulation"), which imposes a 20% duty on the export of any mixture of two or more raw minerals, ores or rocks if at least one constituent is listed in the Regulation.
In February, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Regulation No. 7 of 2012 was issued, and purported to ban mining companies from exporting raw minerals, ores and rocks. Then in early May, Minister of Trade Regulation No. 29 of 2012 was issued to allow such exports to continue, but only on the condition that mining companies become registered exporters and gain permission from the Ministry of Trade via obtaining a recommendation from the ESDM. ESDM then issued a press release stating that in order to export, companies would be expected to adhere to a host of requirements that appear to be designed to further the intention to implement a full export ban by 2014.
Basically, the Ministry of Finance Regulation forces miners to refine or pay. Appendix IV of the Regulation lists 65 materials (21 metal ores and 10 nonmetal ores and 34 types of rock) that are subject to the export duty. If a company exports a mixture of materials that contains any of the listed materials, it must pay 20% of the "highest price" as the export duty (Articles 10 through 12).
The implied goals of the regulation (and the 2014 ban) are twofold: support and grow the domestic refining sector and make more raw materials available for domestic use. However, such redirection of supply to the refining sector that lacks capacity to handle existing production risks having a severe effect on the industry, and it remains unclear how companies are supposed to finance the construction of refineries, especially with the additional burden of the 20% export duty.
The Regulation also addresses exports of palm fruit (40%); oil cake (20%); crude palm oil (CPO) and various distillates (0-22.5%); cocoa (0-15%); unprocessed leather (15-25%); and certain timber (2-10%).
Source: Minister of Finance Regulation No. 75/PMK.011/2012 on the Determination of Goods Subject to Export Duty
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Very wealthy donors are likely to play a greater role in this election cycle in the wake of recent court decisions that have loosened rules for campaign contributions. That will only heighten one of the dominant narratives of the 2012 campaign: the nation’s rising income inequality and the outsize political influence of the super-wealthy.
This year is shaping up to be a reprise of the 2004 cycle, which saw big donations flow in for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) an President George W. Bush.
Although donors are limited to giving no more than $5,000 directly to a campaign, new rules allow them to give to “super PACs” that run independent ads supporting the candidates. Donations to super PACs are not limited, so billionaires can donate as much as they want. And, given the changes in campaign laws, it is likely that one of those donors will top the record $24 million that hedge-fund founder George Soros spent in 2004 to support Kerry.
“The only limit on the resources is the willingness of the donors to give,” said Anthony Corrado, a professor of government at Colby College and a former Democratic official. “It doesn’t take long to transfer $500,000 from one account to another.”
Romney’s richest donor so far is hedge-fund titan John Paulson, who is worth an estimated $16 billion, according to Forbes. Paulson has given $1 million to the Restore Our Future super PAC, which former Romney aides set up to support his candidacy. The PAC and a spokesman for Paulson declined to comment. The Romney campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Obama had a large head start, having amassed $157 million by the end of September for his campaign and the Democratic Party, more than the GOP candidates combined. But the Republicans could tip the balance going forward, given widespread disenchantment with the president’s policies — especially among the wealthy.
This campaign will represent a marked difference from the 2008 cycle, which had a rare drop in big donations and spending by interest groups, largely because Obama and Republican nominee John McCain eschewed their support.
But this time, the Obama campaign no longer objects to help from interest groups. That was broadly interpreted as a tacit admission that, after major GOP gains in the 2010 midterm elections, the outside help was critical.
Romney has attracted the support of Redskins owner Dan Snyder and other billionaires, including California real estate developer Donald Bren, who is worth $12 billion, and developer and publisher Sam Zell, who is worth $5 billion. A spokesman for Snyder declined to comment and those for Bren and Zell did not return requests for comment.
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Needed: Innovative thinking on innovation
L Naiman ©2010
It’s the same story every year. Canada’s performance in productivity and innovation remains poor.
Eugene Lang and Diana Carney in a Globe and Mail article published today, say “Successive governments have attempted to tackle the issue, yet progress is as elusive as ever.”
I suspect it’s because much of the focus in the past has been on technology. We need also need to create a culture that support creative thinking, and innovation in spheres beyond R&D.
Lang and Carney ask some great questions:
What makes Canada a less entrepreneurial country than the United States? Why are Canadian university graduates less focused on bringing their ideas to market than their counterparts to the south? And can we change this culture or, at the very least, encourage Canadian entrepreneurs to stay here, rather than setting up shop south of the border?
They make some sound recommendations to help Canada compete globally:
Making government support to innovation more transparent (and accountable) would also help. At present, the federal government delivers a disproportionately high proportion of its support to innovation through indirect tax credits. This results in long-term but opaque funding. Grants and loans would be far easier to track – and cancel if they were not working – and more likely to have a stimulating effect.
A further option for government is to become more strategic in supporting those sectors in which Canada has clear advantages (not just natural resources, but agriculture, aerospace, infrastructure and education, for example). This would require a change in culture: regional sensibilities have militated against such support in the past. It would also require more attention to stimulating trade.
All mature economies wish to increase trade with the dynamic Asian countries: what can take Canada to the front of the queue? Our natural resources clearly give us leverage, but we cannot take that for granted. If we want to ship gas and oil to Asia, we must make sure we have the domestic infrastructure (think pipelines and shipping terminals) in place. But we have to bring more to the table. We have to collaborate and cross-invest in the development of innovative energy products and services. We have to strengthen ties and mutual understanding through educational links between our countries. We have to find ways to help Asian countries respond to their own pressing challenges, including resource issues but also social and environmental concerns.
Source: Needed: Innovative thinking on innovation – The Globe and Mail.
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Poll: Michiganders meh on tree height
Are the trees in Michigan the right height? Mitt Romney obviously thinks so, having said so back in February.
In a curious survey question, Public Policy Polling has asked Michigan voters whether they agree with the vertical quality of their trees.Continue Reading
The results? A collective shrug.
While 38 percent said yes when asked, “In Michigan, do you think the trees are the right height, or not?,” and 8 percent said no, 55 percent said they were “not sure.”
For those who really want to get into the weeds (or is it roots?) on this question, the crosstabs revealed that more Obama supporters believed in the perfection of Michigan trees: 44 percent of those who backed Obama in 2008 also backed the height of Michigan trees as compared to 27 percent for McCain supporters.
The poll has some other interesting results: Only 24 percent of voters think of Romney, who was raised in the state, as a Michigander, versus 65 percent who do not. And the polling firm tweeted out another tidbit (not in the poll): “Eminem has a better net favorability in Michigan than Mitt Romney.”
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As a taxpayer, I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. They consume a lot of money, pay themselves extravagant (and tax-free!) salaries, and generally promote statist policies.
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a prime example. Originally created for benign purposes such as gathering statistics, it now is a bloated bureaucracy pursuing an anti-free market agenda.
But international bureaucracies also have a nasty habit of operating in the shadows and using thuggish behavior to thwart critics. And I have the scars to prove it from my efforts to protect fiscal sovereignty.
- Back in 2001, the OECD threatened to boycott its own global anti-tax competition meeting because one of the low-tax jurisdictions had the nerve to make me an adviser to its delegation.
- In 2008, the OECD threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the “crime” of standing in the public lobby of a hotel and providing advice to representatives of so-called tax havens.
But it’s not just the crowd in Paris that doesn’t believe in openness and fair play. A journalist recently traveled to South Korea to report on a World Health Organization conference on tobacco.
This doesn’t sound like the type of event that would involve skullduggery, but here’s part of what the reporter wrote for the Korea Times.
A monumental session during the World Health Organization’s (WHO) convention on tobacco control turned into an alarming attack on transparency, accountability and press freedom. …delegates of the member countries of the conference stripped the media of the ability to cover the meeting and escorted public onlookers from the premises. The decision to meet behind closed doors occurred when a discussion began about efforts to decrease tobacco use by increasing the price of tobacco products. Specifically, the convention attendees were discussing the framework for an international tobacco tax. This is one of the most controversial topics for debate in Seoul this week.
As a reporter covering this meeting, this was not only a frustrating stance, but it raises some serious questions about an organization that for years has operated largely behind the scenes and without the benefit of much public scrutiny. When is the media more necessary than when an unaccountable, shadowy organization that devours millions of tax dollars each year from people across the world debates getting in the business of issuing global taxes? This effort to silence the press is particularly chilling since it is in direct conflict with the U.N. — the WHO’s parent organization—claims to fight to advance “free, independent and pluralistic media” across the world. Apparently, U.N. and WHO leaders believe in media rights in all cases except when the media covers them.
And remember, you’re paying for this thuggish behavior.
All of which is consistent with the broader ongoing push by the United Nations to get worldwide taxing power.
Needless to say, any form of global taxation would be a terrible development, but governments are sympathetic to such schemes since they view tax competition as a constraint on their ability to pursue redistribution and thus a limit on their efforts to buy votes with other people’s money.
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TODAY | November 23, 2012
>>> planning for retirement. the day you'll walk away from your job is ten years or less away, it is time to get serious. "money" magazine donna rosato has good ideas. good morning.
>> good morning, willie.
>> first tip surprised me frankly. you said you'll need seven times your salary to retire, if you make $50,000 a year you should have 350 grand socked away.
>> seems like a big chunk of money. that doesn't include social security which is 20% more of what you're earning. there are things you can do, ten years out you still have time. plan to work longer. that will make a big difference. if you can cut back on your spending now, you could probably save more, or people just learn to live on less, plan to live on less when they retire.
>> and you say still for ten years out, it's never too soon to schmooze a little bit. you can keep doing it, ten years out from here?
>> that's right. nothing that can derail your retirement savings and plans than getting laid off so keep dazzling your boss still. retain good relationships with your co-workers, but just as important is making connections and good relations with people younger than you. some of that next generation might have a say in whether you say or go later on.
>> five years out now. the kids have moved out of the house. time to downside.
>> that's right. housing for most people is the big expense. if the kids are grown and hopefully gone, then do you really need a bigger house? do you need it in a good school district ? a study by brookings institute said a home in a school district that is highly rated costs 2.4 times more than one in a lower rated distrifnlt lower your housing costs you can savemore for retirement is there what about working part-time after you retire. when do you start thinking about that?
>> answer the for a lot of people to work longer, at least in some capacity. want to do it five years out, fresh skills, up-to-date skills and fresh contacts. easier to lay the groundwork five years out than once you retire.
>> move one year out from retirement you say it's really time to start getting conservative with your investments.
>> lower your risk levels. we know from 2008 , if you were retiring then, the market would have had a huge retirement. get more conservative. the rule of thumb is 40% to 50% in stock.
>> what about living on less income? tips for people, what's the bottom line?
>> before you actually retire, try to practice living on less, see what that's like. can you live on the income that you expect to have with your savings, and if not think about those options again, maybe you work a little bit longer and make sure you get that part-time job, always things you can do to improve things.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is the television mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Larry McMurtry. It tells the story of retired Texas Rangers in the 1800s who lead a cattle drive to Montana. At the end of the story (spoiler alert!!), the Gus character, played by Robert Duvall, dies from an infected arrow wound. But before he dies, he asks his best friend Woodrow, played by Tommy Lee Jones, to carry his dead body all the way back to Texas for burial. Angry and grief-stricken, Woodrow nevertheless agrees to this enormous request, and the final episode depicts his difficult journey back to Texas to fulfill his friend's dying request.
There's something about the wishes of the dying that carries a unique power and weight. When a dying parent, spouse, sibling or friend makes a request, don't we try to fulfill them, even if they are inconvenient or difficult? It's at the heart of one of my favorite organizations, the Make a Wish Foundation, which grants the dying wishes of children. When the dying ask something of us, we do whatever we can to make it happen.
Well, what if the dying wish came from Jesus? Wouldn't we be that much more willing to grant it?
In Sunday's appointed gospel we hear Jesus' dying wish. It comes as part of a prayer, but aren't most dying wishes framed as prayers? "Holy Father," Jesus says, "protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as you and I are one." In essence, Jesus' dying wish is that his followers embody unity. "Let them be one."
As a church, we don't always agree on everything. Sometimes we disagree on goals, let alone the specifics of how we'll get reach them. We have different ideas about worship, or fellowship, or social positions. But unlike the society around us, in which unity is only ever demonstrated when people agree, and disagreement almost instantly triggers broken relationship, as followers of Jesus we are called to more. His dying wish is for us to be one. To embody unity, even when we (inevitably) disagree.
The world is looking to the church to see if we're really any different, if we have something unique or different or precious to offer. And my God do we! We have joy and sacrifice and generosity and forgiveness and love to offer. But no one will pay any attention unless we first live into the crazy and lofty wish of a dying man we call Lord.
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What can I do to stop spam?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 9/28/07 12:55 PM
I'm not what you would call an experienced user, and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. Is there any way that I can get rid of a whole list (was recently on holiday for a month and there were 350 of these!)of spam from people (all seemingly with real names!), wanting to increase the size of my xxxxxxx, give me my winnings from lotteries, sell me cheap pharmaceuticals, give me a new mortgage--and a whole lot of other stuff. I delete them without opening them and wonder if I shouldn't open them to find an unsubscribe button? Is the only solution to change my e-mail address? I've had this one for a long time, and that might create some interesting glitches. It's only within the past couple of months that these delights have been showing up, and it seems to be increasing at a horrifying rate! How did this all start? What can I do to stop it? Any suggestions? Thank you!
--Submitted by CNET member Jo B.
Answer voted most helpful by our community newsletter readers
Dealing with SPAM...
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, UNDER PAIN OF DEATH, NEVER, EVER, EVER SEND A REPLY TO SPAM!!!!!!! Not even if you think your life depends on it.
With that disclaimer out of the way, I'll tell you why. Spammers sometimes send out an email with a destination that's "close" to your email address. For instance, your email might be firstname.lastname@example.org. The spammer might send one out to jobS@somewhere.com - note the extra S. Many email servers, thinking they're doing you a favor, will automatically forward such emails your way, thinking the sender may have misspelled your email address by mistake. It happens.
So what happens when you open spam and worse yet, send a reply? You're doing something that puts a smile on the spammer's face. You're VALIDATING your email address. Even if that spammer is "honest" enough to not send anything your way, they WILL sell their list to others and now they can actually TARGET you for far more spam than you can shake a stick at.
And if you think that's bad enough, it gets worse. MANY bits of spam have nasty payloads attached to them in the form of viruses and other crapware that can infect and slow down your system. All you have to do is open them and due to vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Firefox, etc..., you can get infected - even if your AV is up to date.
Third, they may also contain tracking elements - tiny 1 pixel x 1 pixel graphic images that log your opening and downloading of the email. More often than not, they log your IPA address.
Even if the email itself is "harmless", more often than not you won't find any "unsubscribe" links - just a link that WILL more often than not lead to very dangerous web sites that can infect your system with some sort of downloader or other nasty malware.
Changing your email address is not a long term solution either. Ok... You will, no doubt, in the short term, make your inbox seem quite empty. But as you pass out the new email address to the sites you normally visit, and if any of those sites are unscrupulous and desperate enough to SELL their email lists to other people, odds are, you'll be back to square ONE - namely the vast volume of spam in the inbox. This, btw, is more often than not how the whole spam cycle starts. You visit a site, you sign up for a newsletter, and they sell your email address as a part of their list to one of their "affiliates" who in turn may sell it to someone less scrupulous. And that person will sell it to even lower forms of human scum and so forth.
Sadly, there's no easy way to stop spam. As long as even 1 in a million people actually open and out of desperation, stupidity, or by way of some other brain fart, click on the link and god help them spend money on the spammer's sites, the spam will keep on multiplying.
As PT Barnum once wisely spake, "There's a sucker born every minute." Unfortunately, this is still true. If it weren't true, spam wouldn't be an issue. Spammers, like anyone else in business, do it because there's money in it for them.
The bottom line - it's best to delete spam wholesale, sight unseen, punitively, without mercy or giving it a second thought. It's a fact of modern life like getting up in the morning and going to work. And done right, you never have to get past the sender's name and the subject of the email. Just highlight the whole batch, look through it and find and unmark those that are legit and send the rest of the spam where it belongs - oblivion.
--Submitted by CNET member Wolfie2k5
Please read on for more advice and recommendations on this topic below. There are many great advice and suggestions from our members!
If you have additional advice for Jo, let's hear them! Click on the "Reply" link to post. Please be detailed as possible in your answer. Thanks!
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During any class at my dojo, there are those who believe that a student can only learn a technique if they are lectured to/at. Then there are those who say nothing and expect the junior ranked student to get it through osmosis. Then there are those who use a combination of a little talk and a little action (my preferred method). We all know the different ways people learn (auditory,visual etc).
I use the same method with everybody. I find students (or most students, myself included) learn more efficiently this way.
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Poll Finds Fox News Is Worse Than No News at All
The saying "no news is good news" takes on a whole different meaning in light of a new study [PDF] out of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Released last week, the study surveyed more than 600 New Jersey adults about current events and, later, what news media they consumed. The goal was to ascertain how informative and healthy certain news diets are. What the researchers found out may not surprise you:
For example, people who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18 points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors). Fox News watchers are also 6 points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news.
The study controlled for partisanship, which suggests that something specific to Fox News programs—not party affiliation—makes people more ignorant to certain questions. In other words, when attempting to become a well-informed adult, in some cases it's probably better to just ignore news altogether than spend any time watching Fox News.
Researches noted that, by contrast, the most informed Americans were those who watched Sunday morning news programs and, to a lesser extent, read national newspapers and listened to NPR. So perhaps its time to stop paying for cable and start paying for that New York Times subscription you've been holding out on.
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Jerry Sparkman emerges from the back of his office at his downtown architectural firm, Sweet Sparkman Architecture, holding a baseball-sized chunk of unpolished quartz crystal. The stone, which he bought from a street-side vendor, holds a special significance to the local architect: The vendor dug it out of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Tennessee, which Sparkman also knew happened to be the origin of Siesta Key’s nearly pure quartz sand. Hailing from Tennessee, himself, Sparkman says it was an easy sell.
“I never used to think about the origins of materials,” he says. “The sand we sit on came from those mountains millions of years ago. It fascinates me. I realized that I’ve been walking around for 45 years taking that kind of thing for granted.”
Sparkman’s new interest in the origins of materials was piqued while working with his business partner, Todd Sweet, and six Ringling College of Art and Design students on a collaborative architectural exhibit in Venice, Italy, which incorporated two tons of Siesta Key sand.
The exhibit, aptly titled, “Origins,” is currently on display at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture, where both established and young architects and designers are invited to showcase their work.
Sparkman’s vision for “Origins” was to construct a space in which guests could experience a representation of his own origins as an architect. The exhibit consists of a large room, in which Siesta Key sand is re-circulated like a waterfall, raining down from the ceiling and collecting in a small mound before spilling between the floorboards and starting the process over again. Behind the “waterfall” sits a wall of nearly 800 glass bricks, crafted by the Ringling students, from Siesta sand.
“I wanted it to be very experiential,” says Sparkman. “It was quite a unique notion to take our Siesta Key sand; ship it 5,000 miles across the ocean to Italy and shine Venetian light on it.”
// More than a job
Architecture is more than blueprints, drafts and drawing boards to Sparkman. It’s not the cut-and-dry profession it’s often made out to be, he says, existing purely out of the need to create space for people. Sparkman sees architecture as akin to art, and, for him, it provides a rousing creative outlet.
“Throughout the whole process of design, there’s a sense of discovery,” he says. “When you’re challenged with a design, you’re driven by your own curiosity. It’s a self-perpetuating thing. I like the opportunity to click on the right side of my brain; it’s invigorating.”
Sparkman’s passion for creativity isn’t surprising. Always fascinated by art, and drawing in particular, much of his childhood Sparkman spent in art classrooms. After high school, the Tennessee native moved west to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music, before following in his father’s footsteps in the field of architecture.
Having grown up drawing in his father’s drafting room, Sparkman says his familiarity with the process made the career choice a natural one. After a year in California, he moved backed to his home state to get an undergraduate degree in architecture and eventually earned his master’s in drafting from the University of Virginia.
For the past 11 years, Sparkman has called Sarasota home, and he says he draws a lot of inspiration from the city’s Sarasota School of Architecture-era buildings.
“When I moved here, I saw a really interesting body of work from the ’50s and ’60s,” he says. “So, I was inspired by the culture, and the town had a good vibe and great people.”
He and business partner, Todd Sweet, have worked together since 2004, and their work has earned them international design industry recognition.
// Artistic opportunity
When Sparkman and Sweet first heard from Dutch artist, Rene Rietmeyer, who invited them to participate in this year’s Biennale, the two were convinced they’d been contacted by mistake.
“We thought it was bogus,” Sparkman says with a laugh. “We joked that it was like those emails you get from a Nigerian prince; all they need is our routing number!”
But, there was no mistake. Rietmeyer, the curator of the event, had seen the award-winning Casey Key guesthouse designed by Sparkman and Sweet and felt the two would be a perfect fit for the Biennale. The theme of this year’s event was “Common Ground,” and its goal was to display the shared experiences of architects.
After a few weeks of deliberation, Sparkman and Sweet decided that the exhibition was something they’d like to participate in, but they didn’t want to merely display their completed architectural works.
“We wanted to make an exhibit about what inspires us,” says Sparkman. “Our work often has us working along the coast, and we wanted to look at the ground that we put our projects on and incorporate that in some way.”
After some brainstorming, they landed on the sand concept, and Sparkman saw an opportunity to involve students from Ringling, so he called Ringling President Larry Thompson to pitch the idea. Thompson loved it, and soon, Sparkman and Sweet were working alongside six students in the fine-arts, sculpture, action-design and management programs.
“The students were great,” says Sparkman. “They inevitably influenced and shaped the exhibit. They had a big hand in making it more of a conceptual display.”
After receiving permission from county commissioners to borrow the sand, Sparkman and the students went out to the beach, equipped with 60 five-gallon buckets and began digging. From there, the buckets were sealed, put through customs and shipped to Venice.
Partnering with Ringling, which underwrote half of the expenses, and with sponsorships from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Visit Sarasota and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, Sparkman, Sweet and the students began preliminary work, developing mock-ups as artists in residence at the Conservation Foundation’s Bay Preserve. The group traveled to Venice a week before the exhibit’s August opening to construct their home away from home.
Of the nearly 60 exhibits, only a handful of architects chose to pursue a conceptual exhibit, and Sparkman says the slice of Siesta Key was well-received by patrons.
“It kind of set the tone for the whole Biennale,” he says. “It became sort of a gathering place. The adults were a little apprehensive, but the kids got it. They knew to get in there and interact with the sand.”
Sparkman says “Origins” will be returned to Sarasota at the end of Biennale in late November, and he hopes to find a place to display it locally, with the possibility of drawing some national attention and a tour around the country.
Sparkman says the whole process was a great learning experience in fusing art and architecture, and he hopes to find ways to combine the two fields in the future.
“It really made me rethink what architecture is about,” he says. “Working with the students and the overlap in disciplines helped me explore what it could be. I’d like to explore other opportunities to do that.”
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At the opening keynote of Intel Developer Forum, Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel Corp. said that the demand towards higher-performance mobile devices from the end-users will spur growth across both in the client hardware and cloud hardware segments. Naturally, the next-gen devices will bring a number of never-before-seen features and qualities, e.g., devices based on code-named Haswell chips will deliver 10-days of standby battery life.
"Computing is in a constant state of evolution. The unprecedented demand for computing from the client devices to the cloud is creating significant opportunity for the industry. Intel is innovating and working with our partners to deliver computing experiences that are more mobile, secure and seamless. I'm excited about the new experiences that will be created across a range of devices, and we're just getting started," said Mr. Otellini, describing the opportunities and challenges facing Intel and the industry.
The chief executive officer of Intel predicted that lighter, sleeker and higher-performance ultrabook systems will provide the most satisfying and complete computing experience. Mr. Otellini highlighted the broad enabling work between Intel and Microsoft, and pointed to the future opportunities that Windows 8 will present across tablets, hybrid devices and new form factors such as ultrabooks.
Paul Otellini also described the new class of platform power management in development for the 2013 "Haswell" products for ultrabooks. The advances in silicon technology and platform engineering are expected to reduce idle platform power by more than 20 times over current designs without compromising computing performance. Mr. Otellini said he expects that this design change, combined with industry collaboration, will lead to more than 10 days of connected standby battery life by 2013. The advancements will aid in delivery of always-on-always-connected computing where ultrabooks stay connected when in standby mode, keeping the e-mail, social media and digital content up-to-date.
Looking further into the future, the head of Intel predicted that platform power innovation will reach levels that are difficult to imagine today. Intel's researchers have created a chip that could allow a computer to power up on a solar cell the size of a postage stamp. Referred to as a "Near Threshold Voltage Core," this Intel architecture research chip pushes the limits of transistor technology to tune power use to extremely low levels.
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What cities are best for seniors? Try Provo, Sioux Falls
Seniors looking for the best city to grow older in may be better off flocking to the Midwest than sunny Florida, according to a recent report.
While recreation and community engagement are a plus, the best cities for aging offer quality health care, educational and employment opportunities, and transportation and an economy that work for seniors, according to a national index released today by the Milken Institute, a non-profit think tank based in Santa Monica, Calif. The institute found the best large cities for successful aging helped keep seniors over 65 working, learning and healthy.
Rather than survey seniors, researchers consulted an advisory council and developed a set of 78 different indicators of success for seniors, ranging from cost of living and number of available doctors to number of fast-food outlets. Paul Irving, chief operating officer at the Milken Institute, says the findings are a more realistic and complete picture of what it takes to grow old happily and healthily.
MORE: See the Milken report
"These are not just opinions, these are facts," Irving says. "The traditional notions about retirement, about pulling up stakes and moving somewhere warm, doesn't really reflect accurately the notions of retirement in America. … Seniors are as complex and motivated as any other population."
The study found Provo-Orem, Utah, topped the list of the country's 100 most populous metropolitan areas, offering the best success in terms of wellness and third-best conditions for finances, employment and education.
Researchers also studied 259 small cities, taking into account the differences in resources and manpower. Leading in opportunities and environment for successful aging was Sioux Falls, S.D., with the highest employment rate for those 65 and older, and many hospitals that offer rehabilitation services and hospice care.
The best cities for aging
Top 10 Large Cities
(Out of 100 most populous metropolitan areas)
1. Provo, Utah
2. Madison, Wis.
5. New York
6. Des Moines
(tie) Salt Lake City
8. Toledo, Ohio
9. Washington, D.C.
Top 10 Small Cities
(Out of 259 remaining metropolitan areas)
1. Sioux Falls, S.D.
2. Iowa City
3. Bismarck, N.D.
4. Columbia, Mo.
5. Rochester, Minn.
6. Gainesville, Fla.
7. Ann Arbor, Mich.
8. Missoula, Mont.
9. Durham, N.C.
10. Rapid City, S.D.
Other top cities included Madison, Wis.; Omaha, Neb.-Council Bluffs, Iowa; and Bismarck, N.D., according to the report; Iowa City, which ranked second overall of small cities, was on top for seniors over the age of 80. And higher education-rich regions, like the No. 4 Boston area — also the highest ranked large city for seniors over 80 — provided opportunities to engage in the community and train in new skills, the study found.
"University towns provide a lot of engagement," says Milken Institute chief research officer Ross DeVol.
"(The report) validates what we say about people as they age," says Larry Minnix. The CEO of LeadingAge, a national non-profit group for senior care providers, wasn't involved in the Milken study. "I think the novelty of this is if communities, cities take this seriously, it'll make them think about their city, their community through an aging lens."
Gary Small, director of the UCLA Longevity Center, said the report offers valuable insight into seniors' priorities.
"There's more than just good weather that determines how well we age," Small says. "(Policymakers) can think about how they can shape their urban centers, think about transportation, think about wellness programs, ways they can engage people in social activities."
Researchers found room for improvement in even the most successful cities. Although New York and Northern New Jersey ranked fifth overall, the cities' high poverty rate and cost of living burdens made it one of the worst cities in the country for seniors' financial success.
"We hope that civic leaders will get into the detail and really be able to do a deep dive and look at where they did well or very poorly," Irving says. "There are already a number of cities where mayors have initiated pilot projects and initiatives focused on seniors, and we think that's going to happen more commonly."
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Entering their fifth cycle of the WDC (World Design Capital) initiative, Icsid (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) is currently calling for submissions of applications for the biennial designation, where a combination of many factors contributes to the final selection. Although applicants are encouraged to prepare a creative proposal for review, it is essential, that applications clearly define the aims and objectives of the city to hold the designation, as well as provide a detailed account of the city’s contribution to design from a social, economical and cultural point of view. More information after the break.
The World Design Capital designated city is a hub for design and creativity. It is an innovative city that drives urban development through design, while using design as an economic development tool. It is a leading city, one that aims to participate among the international network of design effective cities and strives to share best practices and strategies.
The application should be carefully completed in English; particular attention should be given to the requirements for government support, prior to submitting the final application.
An applicant city must specify how, during the WDC calendar year, it intends to:
- Express the specific relevance of design for the quality of life in the city;
- Ensure the mobilization and participation of large sections of the population;
- Promote the dialogue between the design community and other groups of the society: business, academics, youth, etc.
For more information, and to download their application package, please visit here.
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