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and some modern paintings incorporate other materials including sand, clay, and scraps of paper. What Is Painting? is the fourth in a series of installations drawn from the Museum's collection of contemporary art. It presents a selection of artworks made since approximately 1965, including a number of recent acquisitio... |
responses to the question "What is painting?" are proposed in loose chronological sequence, ranging from ironic to sincere; from figurative to abstract; and from an embrace and creative reimagining of painting's possibilities to a critical engagement with its limits. The installation's title derives from John Baldessar... |
of painting and its place within contemporary art. Painting is a mode of expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still l... |
September 3rd, 2012 03:56 PM ET The Empowered Patient is a regular feature from CNN Senior Medical News Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that helps put you in the driver's seat when it comes to health care. While there's no ironclad way to keep hantavirus away, there are steps you can take to minimize the chances that it ... |
is relatively rare: Only 602 cases have been reported in the United States since 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recently, six cases of hantavirus were reported among people who visited Yosemite National Park in California. Two of those infected people died. However, it's very deadly:... |
National Institutes of Health. Though some people do get it from camping, such as the recent Yosemite cases, many more people contract hantavirus in their own homes, according to the CDC. The virus is spread by rodent droppings and urine. Here are some tips from the CDC and NIH for keeping hantavirus at bay: 1. Seal ho... |
rodents out. 2. Trap rodents around your home. 3. While camping, sleep on ground cover and a pad. 4. When opening an unused cabin, open all doors and windows. Leave for 30 minutes, and when you return, spray disinfectant and then leave for another 30 minutes. 5. Know the signs: Early symptoms include chills, fever and ... |
becomes hard to breathe. September 3rd, 2012 03:00 PM ET We all know stress is bad for you, but just how bad? It would be unethical to intentionally subject people to extreme psychological duress in the name of science. But ongoing military operations offer opportunities to see what happens to people exposed to stressf... |
who go into combat show impairment in function and structure upon returning, but that these effects largely go away over time. About this blog Get a behind-the-scenes look at the latest stories from CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen and the CNN Medical Unit ... |
Turning Of The Tide At Tonle Sap Tonle Sap is an interesting body of fresh water. Certain times of the year, it is a lake and other times of the year it is a river. During the dry season (November-May) the water drains into the Mekong in Phnom Penh creating a river and when the monsoon season hits (June-October), the |
flow of water reverses back and forms a lake. The lake/river hybrid is also an important element of Cambodia because of the area’s rich diversity of ecological life and the water’s importance to the villagers in the area. Bon Om Thong or the Khmer Water Festival is celebrated during late October or early November’s ful... |
its flow. For three days, the towns and villages along the river, including Phnom Penh bursts into life with fleets of luminously decorated boats filling Tonle Sap. Celebrations also happen in Angkor Wat, although smaller in scale it is still impressive, with the temple serving as a scenic backdrop. The highlights of t... |
huge crowds from all over and are contested by hundreds of boats comprising thousands of paddlers.The festival itself has ancient roots. Angkorian kings would hold competitions and see who the greatest warriors were. You can compare this competition to a joust in Europe as a means of training and a contest under the ki... |
Gallup has conducted an expansive survey in an attempt to determine how many people openly identify as a member of the LGBT community across the United States. While the difference between specific states was not particularly significant, research Gary Gates points out that the findings do show that states with |
more protections for LGBT people tend to have more out LGBT people: In general, states where residents express more liberal views are more accepting of LGBT individuals, while socially conservative areas are less accepting. Of the 10 states and D.C. where at least 4% of respondents identified as LGBT, seven |
are among the most liberal states in the country. Conversely, six of 10 states with the lowest percentage of LGBT-identified adults are among the top 10 conservative states in the country. The states with proportionally larger LGBT populations generally have supportive LGBT legal climates. With the exception of South D... |
all of the states that have LGBT populations of at least 4% have laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and allow same-sex couples to marry, enter into a civil union, or register as domestic partners. Of the 10 states with the lowest percentage of LGBT |
adults, only Iowa has such laws. With demographics, it’s always important to keep in mind that the number represents something very specific: the number of people who are willing to disclose their identity to an anonymous pollster. It doesn’t represent the number of people who are actually gay but don’t |
want to tell a pollster, who don’t yet know that they’re gay, who deny that they’re gay, or who don’t identify as gay but do engage in same-sex behavior. Still, these numbers are telling. The health benefits of coming out are well documented, so in an indirect way, these results |
show that having laws that protect LGBT people not only protect them from discrimination, but support their mental health and well-being. Indeed, the value of such positive climates is arguably a more compelling conclusion from this study than the demographics themselves. Here’s how the states ranked in terms of how |
Factors affecting the development of food allergy Allergy to food is a common problem affecting up to 1 in 20 children and 1 in 30 adults. It causes a great deal of anxiety, and interference in daily activities especially shopping and mealtimes. This Chapter in the ‘Thought for Food’ book will address what food allergy... |
food allergy is more commone than it used and why. It will also discuss how our body decides whether or not to make an allergic response to a food that we eat then? what sort of things might stop this from working properly? And what should I do to prevent my child from getting food allergy Author: Dr Robert Boyle, Clin... |
|12/7/1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at |
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was one of those watershed events in history that would make an impression on everyone whether they were there or not. The link is a |
page about Pearl Harbor presented by the Eye Witness to History site, where historical events are explored using interviews and reporting of statements from eyewitnesses. This site is always a |
good place to go to get a little more personal with your history. Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 World War Cycle - Depression / World War II Era - Fourth |
Turning, Crisis (1930-1944) b. 12/7/1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. April 24, 1947) Last year (12/7/2005): Nobel Prize in Literature winner Harold Pinter accuses Britain and the United States |
of engaging in state terrorism in Iraq and demands the prosecution of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. This Week's News / Tomorrow's History (12/6/2006): The Iraq Study Group, a |
bipartisan group chartered by the United States Congress, states that the situation in Iraq is "grave and deteriorating" and calls for a change in strategy including the removal of most |
An economist who put a premium on truth: Obituary of Leonid Hurwicz Financial Times comment, 19 July 2008 Leonid Hurwicz, the economist who last year became the oldest person ever to win a Nobel prize, helped transform economic thinking in |
the second half of the 20th century. For years economists had been passionately debating the rival merits of state planning versus free markets. In both systems, people had incentives to lie to bureaucratic planners or to employers about their interests, |
their skills or their circumstances. “Leo”, who has died at the age of 90, founded the field of “mechanism design”, a new way of thinking which focused on giving people incentives to tell the truth and to do so in |
a way that would benefit society as a whole. His mechanism design idea has applications in a range of practical areas, from the design of computer networks and voting systems to arbitration rules. The debate between state planning and free |
markets must have seemed far from academic to Hurwicz. His parents were Polish Jews who fled the Kaiser’s invading army, going to Moscow, where Hurwicz was born in 1917. They returned to Poland in a horse-drawn wagon to escape the |
Bolsheviks when he was two. He went to the University of Warsaw and took a degree in law, though he also studied piano at the conservatory. Throughout his life Hurwicz was a renaissance man whose interests included music, linguistics, maths, |
physics and meteorology. Yet as a student his interest was kindled in economics. He went to London to study and then, via Geneva, to the US, where he arrived in 1940. His parents and his brother joined him but only |
after fleeing another invading German army – this time the Nazis – and then spending time in Soviet labour camps. On his travels, Hurwicz had studied under both Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, who was at the London School |
of Economics as Hurwicz began his PhD studies there in 1938. Von Mises and Hayek argued that a centrally planned economy was doomed to collapse: because every individual knew his own needs and capabilities best, government planners could never hope |
to piece it all together and make sensible decisions. Other economists, such as Oskar Lange, disagreed. A burgeoning economic theory of competitive markets, and bitter experience of the failings of socialist economies, led many to conclude that von Mises and |
Hayek were right. Hurwicz was more interested in advancing the debate than declaring victory. “Panaceas are not to be found at either end of the spectrum,” he wrote in 1984. He agreed with Hayek and von Mises that a bureaucrat |
who simply demanded results would be met with slacking, budgetpadding and lies. But rather than giving up, Hurwicz attacked the problem directly. He asked what “mechanisms” an intelligent but ill-informed planner might use to extract information from others and then |
allocate resources fairly, efficiently or profitably. Such mechanisms are as old as trade itself, most obviously the auction, in which even an ignorant seller can expect a good price. But Hurwicz laid the foundations for thinking systematically about designing mechanisms, |
defining all the terms rigorously and showing what might be possible. Hurwicz described a mechanism as a kind of “message centre”, where market participants would submit information, true or false, and a pre-specified set of rules would adjudicate the result. |
That abstract description is a perfect account of an Ebay auction: a seller sets a minimum bid, a time limit and perhaps a reserve price, while bidders submit bids that may bear no resemblance to the true value they place |
on the prize. EBay is just one example of a message centre; Hurwicz showed that it was useful to think about many economic institutions in this way. Participants in a mechanism can always lie. A keen buyer can pretend to |
be an indifferent one; a brilliant worker can conceal his laziness. Hurwicz realised that in order to get a better bid from the keenest buyer, for example, the seller must give that buyer a reason to tell the truth. Similarly, |
an employer cannot persuade the ablest worker to work just as hard as the rest unless the extra effort brings extra rewards. The general problem of persuading the “best” agents to act differently from the rest is called the “incentive |
compatibility constraint”. One example would be an auction where the highest bidder wins but only has to pay the second highest bid. This strange-sounding rule is all it takes to persuade the keenest bidder to tell the truth about the |
real value he places on the prize. EBay uses a similar rule. Although Hurwicz studied with the greats of the field – including Nicholas Kaldor at the LSE, and Paul Samuelson – he never had an economics degree. “Whatever economics |
I learned, I learned by listening and learning,” he said, after winning the Nobel prize. A warm and charming man, he had an impish wit. Once, a seminar speaker wrote an equation on the board, declared that the proof was |
“obvious” and stared around, daring anyone to challenge him. “Is that proof by intimidation?” Hurwicz quipped. He joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1951 and stayed there all his working life, even as his reputation outstripped the |
department’s. “Self- promotion was completely alien to him,” said John Roberts, a professor at Stanford. “He could have moved and he chose not to.” He travelled widely, spending time as a visiting professor at many universities, including stints in Bangalore, |
Tokyo and Beijing. A long-time member of the Minnesota Democrats, he supported the anti-Vietnam war candidacy of Eugene McCarthy and sat as a delegate at the party’s national convention in 1968. He remained involved in the party up until his |
death. Some felt he should have won the Nobel prize sooner. He was not outwardly perturbed. “I never had the impression that the wait bothered him,” said Eric Maskin, who shared the prize with Hurwicz and Roger Myerson. He is |
Molybdenum is a trace element found in a wide variety of foods. Foods that grow above ground - such as peas, leafy vegetables (including broccoli and spinach) and cauliflower - tend to be higher in molybdenum than meat and foods that grow below the ground, such as potatoes. Foods particularly high in molybdenum include... |
as oats. How much do I need?You should be able to get all the molybdenum you need from your daily diet. What does it do?It helps make and activate some of the enzymes involved in repairing and making genetic material. What happens if I take too much?Some evidence suggests taking molybdenum supplements might cause joint... |
to know what the effects might be of taking molybdenum supplements. What is FSA advice?You should be able to get all the molybdenum you need by eating a varied and balanced diet. The molybdenum we get from food isn't likely to be harmful. |
It's easy at first glance to envision the Caribbean islands as all being the same sunny, sandy vacation destinations, but they are different in as many ways as they are similar. Just as political and economic factors determine the personality of the islands, so do various landforms that may, or may not, be shared from ... |
of the Caribbean, like all other islands, have water that surrounds them on every side. Individual islands and groups of islands belong to various nations. Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands belong to the United States. Among the territories of Britain are Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands. The islands ra... |
followed by Hispaniola and Jamaica. Many of the smaller islands are uninhabited. Some of the uninhabited islands, such as the Isla de Ratones just off the shore of Puerto Rico, are available for day trips and are reached by ferries, boats or kayaks. The larger islands of the Caribbean have enough land space to support ... |
rivers: Yaque del Norte, Yuna River, Yaque del Sur and the Artibonite River. Cuba's important rivers are the Rio Cauto, which is the longest, Rio Almendares and Rio Yurimi. Smaller rivers contribute to these three main rivers. The Grande de Arecibo is Puerto Rico's longest river. This river, along with several others s... |
run north. One river runs westward: the Grande de Añasco. The Bahamas have no rivers. Many of the Caribbean islands have mountainous areas. Most of Puerto Rico's mountains are located on the island's interior. Jamaica has mountains that cover almost all of its surface. The Dry Harbour Mountains run east-west along the ... |
Mountains on the east. Cuba is not a very mountainous country, but it has a few mountain ranges. The Sierra Maestra in Cuba are on the easternmost diagonal coastline, and the Cordillera de Guaniguanico is on the west coast. The Grupo Guamuhaya are in the center and south-center of the island. Because the Caribbean cons... |
prevalent landforms is the beach. Temperate weather and access to sand and surf have helped the Caribbean islands thrive as tourist destinations. The sand on the beaches of the Caribbean come in many different colors. Beaches in Bermuda and the Bahamas are known for their pink sands, formed by the shells of certain tin... |
the result of volcanic matter breaking down. Black sand is not as smooth as typical white, tan or pink sand, and many black sand beaches are pebble beaches. These beaches are found on Montserrat, St. Kitts and Granada, among others. Salt flats form when salt water evaporates, leaving the salt behind on large, flat area... |
of Puerto Rico, located in the Cabo Rojo region in the southwest part of the island, are protected as a part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge. Another place in the Caribbean that has salt flats is the small island of Bonaire. The salt is harvested from the flats that lie on the... |
tip of the island, but a portion of the salt flats of Bonaire is set aside as a sanctuary for flamingos. The central coastline is the tourist area of Bonaire which is a frequent port of call for Caribbean cruise ships. - World Atlas: Caribbean Landforms - Cabo Rojo Puerto Rico: Isla de Ratones - Hispaniola.com: Geograp... |
Republic - Havana-Guide.com: Major Rivers in Cuba - Welcome to Puerto Rico: Geography of Puerto Rico - The Bahamas Guide: Bahamas Geography and Geology - Sol Boricua: Geography of Puerto Rico - Geography and History of Jamaica: Physical Features - Hicuba.com: Geography of Cuba - Caribbean Magazine: Types of Caribbean B... |
Teaching Strategies: Effective Discussion Leading While lecturing is a fast and direct way to communicate a body of knowledge, discussion encourages students to discover solutions for themselves and to develop their critical thinking abilities. They learn how to generate ideas, consider relevant issues, evaluate soluti... |
these solutions. Thus, although discussion is not as efficient as lecture in conveying facts, it helps students learn how to think better and more clearly about the facts that they should learn from their reading and their lectures. Leading a discussion, however, offers its own set of challenges: participants can |
spend too much time exploring small, sometimes irrelevant issues, forget that they are progressing toward an identifiable goal, and become bored. The leader must guide the conversation carefully without stifling creativity and students' initiative and without surrendering to some students' desire for answers that they ... |
Here are four strategies that can help faculty and TAs encourage students explore issues themselves: We all know that creating a fine lecture requires research and planning; we sometimes forget that leading a good discussion requires the same research and planning and demands spontaneous responses in the classroom. The... |
of the extra demand is that developing the skills for intervening and directing discussions leads to exciting, productive exchanges that help students learn to think clearly and creatively, while simultaneously inspiring you to teach more thoroughly and carefully. "Discussions: Leading and Guiding, but Not Controlling,... |
February 11, 2011 > Low Fat Doesn't Have to Mean Low Flavor Low Fat Doesn't Have to Mean Low Flavor Lunch and Learn Cooking Demonstration Focuses on Heart Healthy Options In an ideal world, steamed broccoli and that slice of cheesecake in the refrigerator would have the same amount of |
calories and fat. Sadly, in the real world, that's just not the case. To stay healthy, we have to watch what we eat, and every day decisions we make regarding our diet can have an enormous impact-on a lot of things... The pounds on the scale, our waistline, how much |
energy we have, and our heart health. According to data published on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)'s Web site, the most common heart disease in the United States is coronary heart disease, which often appears as a heart attack. In 2010, an estimated 785,000 Americans had a new coronary |
attack, and about 470,000 had a recurrent attack. That means every 25 seconds, an American will have a coronary event, and about one every minute will die from one. Not surprisingly, heart disease represents the No. 1 cause of death in the United States. For both men and women. And |
although heart disease is sometimes thought of as a "man's disease," women account for nearly 50 percent of heart disease deaths, the CDC states. When it comes to risk factors for heart disease, there are some things we can't change, such as our gender, age and genetics. Other things we |
can. Making sustainable lifestyle changes, like eating a low fat diet, has been shown to help lower the risk of heart disease. But changing old habits isn't as easy as snapping our fingers, is it? Nutrition labels on our favorite foods can be hard to decode-and what about those recipes |
that call for things like butter, cream cheese and sour cream? Are they banished forever? On Wednesday, Feb. 16, Anna Mazzei, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator at Washington Hospital, will be whipping up a Low Fat Cooking Demonstration at the Washington Women's Center to help participants get an |
idea of how to modify their cooking and eating habits. "National Heart Month is recognized in February, and one of the things that people love are foods that are typically high in fat," Mazzei says. "The question is: how do we get the same satisfaction without as much fat?" During |
her demonstration, Mazzei says she won't be going for an all or nothing approach because, to be successful, it's more about being creative than cutting out anything and everything. "Now in the marketplace there are lighter products available," she says. "You don't have to go to nonfat, but probably to |
lighter products to help cut down some fat and calories." Items that are high in fat-like a slice of cheesecake-also pack in the calories with little nutritional reward in the form of essential vitamins and minerals. Whereas a serving of broccoli runs you about 25 calories, the same quantity of |
cheesecake is more like 250 calories. "I'm going to look at some of the highest fat items and how to scale them down," Mazzei explains. "We're going to do some taste testing and focus on how to take these things and make a satisfying, yet lighter version." Examples of items |
Mazzei is going to sample during the food demonstration include: * Fried chicken * Chicken nuggets * Recipes with butter and cream cheese Another great way to improve heart health-and something goes hand in hand with a low fat diet-is exercise. If you missed the evening Exercise for Your Health |
class at the Women's Center earlier this month, call to find out about the center's range of fitness classes, from gentle yoga to the official Arthritis Foundation's official exercise program. If you're interested in learning more about how to create a tasty, low-fat diet, join Mazzei for her Lunch and |
exercise programs and other services at the Women's Center, call (510) 608-1301 or toll-free at (866) 608-1301. Learn More About Heart Health Washington Hospital physicians Dr. Jon-Cecil Walkes, cardiothoracic surgeon and Dr. Michael Parmley, internal medicine, will discuss prevention and treatment of coronary heart di... |
Here are the basics about the Boy Scouts of America: Boy Scouts of America or BSA Founded on 8 February 1910, in Washington, DC, by Chicago publisher William Boyce Chartered by the US Congress in 1916 (a few other youth programs have congressional charters, including the Civil Air Patrol , |
Girl Scouts of the USA , the Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Future Farmers of America [??], and 4-H [??]) Headquarters in Irving, Texas (near Dallas) The BSA is the USA's only Boy Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (many countries have several |
Scouting programs). The BSA actually provides the Scouting program to three countries: the US plus the Pacific island nations of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, which are served by Hawaii's Aloha Council. The BSA is divided into about 300 local Councils. The BSA and its local Councils employ about 4000 |
full-time professional staff. The BSA is the second largest Scouting organization in the world (the largest is Indonesia). Total membership (from a March 2011 Fact Sheet on the BSA website, although its information varies slightly from other numbers on the BSA website) (12/31/2010) was 3 630 779 (2 588 326 |
youth and 1 042 453 adults). This does not include membership in the school-based Learning for Life subsidiary of the BSA, but does count 666 Lone Scouts and 43 310 adult Council Scouters. The BSA has four program divisions, three traditional Scouting programs based on grade or age, plus a |
fourth classroom-based non-traditional subsidiary: Cub Scouting Division (boys, grades 1 through 5) Members in grade 1 are called Tiger Cubs. Members in grades 2 and 3 are called Cub Scouts, and work on Wolf rank (grade 2) or Bear rank (grade 3). Members in grades 4 and 5 are called |
Webelos Scouts, and work on the Webelos rank and the Arrow of Light rank. Webelos Scouts usually graduate into Boy Scouting in about February of grade 5. The overall Cub Scouting program is family-centered, adult-run, and offers very little camping or outdoor activities. Adult leaders can be male or female, |
over age 21 (age 18-20 for certain assistant positions). The leader of the pack is the Cubmaster, and each den is led by an adult Den Leader. The only boy leadership position is Denner, rotated monthly among the den members, which consists mostly of helping the Den Leader and making |
a den report at the monthly pack meeting. As of 12/31/2010, Cub Scout youth membership included 226 211 Tiger Cubs, 707 868 Cub Scouts, and 573 522 Webelos Scouts, for a total of 1 507 601, a one-year loss of 7.8%. There are 47 259 packs, with an average size |
of 32 youth members. And there are 421 405 adult Cub Scout leaders. Boy Scouting Division (boys, age about 10-1/2 until 18) Two programs—Boy Scouting and Varsity Scouting Boy Scouting is traditional Scouting for boys age approximately 10-1/2 until 18. In addition to the general camping program for all Scouts, |
older Scouts in a troop can form a Venture patrol to do high adventure activities. Note that the troop's Venture patrol and Venturing (see below) are completely separate and unrelated programs, despite the confusingly similar names. Boy Scouts work on 6 ranks: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, Life, Eagle. |
Eagle Scouts can also earn Eagle Palms, but these are not ranks. The overall Boy Scouting program is mostly boy-run with adults providing guidance and training, and is strongly oriented toward a camping and outdoor program. At about age 14, a Boy Scout can choose to remain in the troop, |
or transfer to a Varsity team, or transfer to a Venturing crew. Adult troop leaders can be male or female, over age 21 (age 18-20 for Assistant Scoutmasters). The adult leader of the troop is the Scoutmaster. The boy leader of the troop is the elected Senior Patrol Leader, and |
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