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Yet those things are harder to change.
This makes the argument for making change where we can even stronger.
Improving the quality of available early childhood education may be the easiest and most profound investment a society can make.
In Dunedin, the true number of those affected is much greater.
The families of these 2900 children directly affected are involved too.
Some won't be able to afford fees.
And - to widen the circle further still - those centres aspiring to employ 100% qualified teachers in the future can no longer afford to.
Dr David Clark is warden at Selwyn College and the Dunedin North Labour Party candidate for the 2011 general election.
Even the sharpest looking kitchen appliance will quickly lose its appeal if it doesn’t make life at home easier. Just looking good is not enough.
When it comes to groundbreaking and stylish kitchen design, chances are products from Scandinavia or even Japan come to mind first. But these days, some of the most exciting kitchen innovations are coming from New Zealand, where pioneering designers are reinventing appliances based on how modern families cook and live.
Sleek appliances have to be practical, too.
One of the leaders of New Zealand kitchen design is Fisher & Paykel, which has been challenging assumptions about conventional appliance design since 1934. With a commitment to innovation and a passion for smart design, Fisher & Paykel has revolutionized the way appliances are created.
Before making a new product, Fisher & Paykel designers spend extensive amounts of time inside homes, watching how families interact with their kitchens and their appliances.
“We are curious about people—how they live, where they live, what they do, and how they use things,” says Daniel Witten-Hannah, Fisher & Paykel’s vice president of product development.
For example, after observing families using standard dishwashers and noticing their preference for drawers over cabinets, Fisher & Paykel designers envisioned and then created a drawer-style dishwasher that was completely different from any in the world. The DishDrawer Dishwasher is an attractive, compact, efficient, and ergonomically intelligent alternative to standard bend-and-load dishwashers. “Our design breakthrough came when we stopped looking at dishwashers and began spending time in real homes, studying people using their appliances,” says Mark Elmore, head of design at Fisher & Paykel.
The Fisher & Paykel DishDrawer dishwasher was developed after in-home research with real home cooks.
A similar approach inspired the creation of the CoolDrawer multi-temperature drawer-based refrigerator, which provides five different temperature settings: fridge, freezer, chill, pantry, and wine mode. The CoolDrawer uses innovative refrigeration technology that continuously adjusts the flow of cold air based on daily use and ambient temperature, ensuring optimal cooling throughout the refrigerator.
And it still has a sleek design that accentuates any kitchen style.
Details like a lightweight door that’s cool to the touch go a long way.
While spending time with families in their kitchens, designers learned that people wanted an oven with more internal cooking space than standard ovens offered. But customers were not eager to sacrifice cooking quality and efficiency to get more space. That’s how Fisher & Paykel came to create its popular, award-winning, which typifies New Zealand design.
Consumers also wanted an oven door that stayed cool and was easy to maneuver. By incorporating a cool-touch feature with an innovative venting system and using lightweight construction materials, designers created an oven door that can be opened and closed easily and safely with just one hand. And knowing that customers wanted an intuitive control panel that made all of the oven’s functions simple to use, designers created an interface that clearly explains what each function does.
Aesthetics and quality are as important as innovative functionality in New Zealand kitchen design. Consumers around the world choose appliances designed in New Zealand not only for their performance, but for their clean lines, modern simplicity, and emphasis on craftsmanship.
Fisher & Paykel appliance designers use the best available materials for every part of every product, including high-quality metals and glass. Every detail is thoughtfully considered, from the weight of an appliance dial to layout of control panels.
Simple, sleek, functional appliances are major keys to a happy home.
When today’s consumers purchase kitchen appliances, they want the whole package: gorgeous style, smart design, and innovative functionality. To find all these qualities in one appliance, look no further than New Zealand, where collaboration between design engineers and customers is reinventing the world of kitchen design.
Leather, as a material, hasn't made a big splash here at TreeHugger; aside from one lonely post, we haven't given it much time. Yet, it remains a very popular material for clothing, accessories, furniture, luggage and shoes, from the runways in Milan and Paris to just about every mall in the US. So, what's the deal?
It's true: from a TreeHugger's standpoint, it's best if leather is simply avoided. Why? First of all, it's dead animal skin, which means that animal has to be raised: fed, watered, pastured, and eventually slaughtered. Most leather (about 66% of it) comes from cows, and it takes 8 acres of land, 12,000 pounds of forage, 125 gallons of gasoline & other petroleum derivatives for fertilizer, 2,500 pounds of corn, 350 pounds of soybeans, 1.2 million gallons of water & 1.5 acres of farmland (to grow the crops for feed), plus various insecticides, herbicides, antibiotics & hormones to grow one cow from an 80 pound calf to its full size, when it can be slaughtered and the hide harvested. Something like bison, on the other hand, takes less land and less water, and they're primarily pasture-raised, meaning they aren't stuck in feedlots getting fat for half their natural lives. Since they're on the pasture, and their hooves are smaller and sharper, they help till and fertilize the soil (with their waste as fertilizer), and though they require more feed per pound, they aren't picky about where the food comes from; it can be prairie grass or whatever they happen across. Regardless, the point remains: it takes a ton of resources to grow cows.Once the animal skin becomes available (usually as a byproduct of the beef industry), it doesn't get much prettier. Before tanning, the skins are unhaired, degreased, desalted and soaked in water over a period of 6 hours to 2 days. To prevent damage of the skin by bacterial growth during the soaking period, biocides, such as pentachlorophenol (a synthetic fungicide that is toxic to humans), are used. Hides are then either vegetable tanned or mineral tanned. Vegetable tanning employs tannin, from which tanning gets it name, which occurs naturally in tree bark; the primary barks used these days are chestnut, oak, tanoak, hemlock, quebracho, mangrove, wattle, and myrobalan. Hides are stretched on frames and immersed for several weeks in vats of increasing concentrations of tannin. Vegetable tanned hide is flexible and is used for luggage and furniture; Q Collection, one of TreeHugger's favorite sustainable designers, uses vegetable-tanned leathers in their furniture (this gorgeous chair is an example).
Mineral tanning, on the other hand, usually uses chromium and is a fairly chemistry-intensive process. The hides are "pickled," raising the pH to a high acidity level (about 3) and enabling chromium tannins to enter the hide. For preservation purposes, fungicides and bactericides are also applied (yum). After pickling, when the pH is low, chromium salts are added. To fixate the chromium, the pH is slowly increased through addition of a base of magnesium oxide and more fungicide -- sounds like something you'd really want to snuggle up against, no? Chrome tanning is faster than vegetable tanning -- less than a day for this part of the process -- and produces a stretchable leather which is preferred for use in handbags and garments.
Chromium is not very nice stuff for people; studies have clearly established that inhaled chromium is a human carcinogen, resulting in an increased risk of lung cancer. While people aren't as likely to inhale once it's been ingrained in the leather hide, it doesn't bode as well for the people tanning the leather, and, on the whole, isn't something that will really benefit you by rubbing up against your skin all the time.
For the most part, cow leather is a bi-product of the beef industry; this is a double-edged sword. Cows raised for beef aren't going anywhere any time soon, so beef-eating TreeHuggers will note that we may as well use as much of the animal as possible, but tanning leather is a dirty, energy-intensive, potentially toxic process. Further, the synthetic "versions" of leather include vinyl and other plastics, which aren't really very good for anybody either (but that's another post).
Unfortunately, there aren't any regulations or certifications for "organic" or "certified humane raised & handled" leather, as there is with beef and some other leather-producing animal meat, so there is no easy way to insure that your leather products came from an ethical and/or planet and animal-healthy environment, short of raising the animal yourself. So, in the end, the best thing is to avoid it altogether; replacing a leather product with a vinyl one won't be doing anyone any good, so for those who simply must have it, we recommend finding it repurposed or second-hand or otherwise reused, rather than buying a virgin product, and if you absolutely, positively have to have new leather, vegetable-tanned is the only way to go.
Director of rugby Andy Robinson and his assistant Sean Holley speak to BBC Points West about their first full season in charge at Bristol.
Robinson arrived in February 2013 and brought in former Ospreys coach Holley two months later.
Together, they helped Bristol finish top of the Championship table at the end of the season and will now lead the side in the play-off campaign, which starts on Saturday in the semi-final first leg at home to Rotherham.
Almost 100% of the time whilst surfing, any advertisements, andale counters (Ebay), etc, etc, show the message "The Page cannot be displayed" or a red cross icon is shown. A good example is the main page for this 'Browser' forum - the top central advert cannot be displayed or any at the right hand side. I have tried the 'Windows Update' and the advice given by the '...cannot be displayed' error message but still no good. How can I solve this?
Whenever I look at a streaming video file with WMP (I have WMP10), the first time round the video 'stutters' really, really badly. Once I've waited for it to run through and then play the second time around, it's ok - but this can be really annoying having to wait!!
I have tried what Microsoft said about reducing the video acceleration in the performance section but still no good. And my video card (NVIDIA) settings/drivers should be ok as it has just come from the dealer - but then again...! What can be done?
I want to try and solve the matter at home rather than take it back in again.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for your time, Annabel.
I have just downloaded the new Netscape Navigator 8 to see what happened while browsing.
"Alert: That domain name could not be found. Please check the name and try again."
Does this mean it's more a computer / connection settings problem rather than a browser issue?
That's good research you did. You're quite right about the advertisements. It's a much discussed problem here. Apparently, they decided to protect you against advertisements and other things you'd better not see (like spyware and some links related to adult sites) by installing a HOSTS file for you that blocks those sites (like the ones used by cnet). It's a good practise, but it shouldn't come as a surprise.
Find your HOSTS file and make a comment line (starting with #) of view.atdmt.com and adlog.com.com, and you'll see the advertisements again. Or leave it as it is, if you prefer it once you know the cause.
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6121-0.html?forumID=45&threadID=107033&messageID=1223219&tag= to name but two posts of a whole bunch written by moderator Grif Thomas.
So that's something you can solve yourself.
The stuttering of the streaming video is stranger, especially the fact that it goes better the second time. Streaming video is played right as it comes from the net, and not stored on your computer, so it only depends on the connection speed how it sounds. I don't have WMP 10 here, but I know there's a setting somewhere in older versions where you can set the connection speed to what you really have instead of let WMP find it out. If it's set too high or WMP decides to use a too high speed, video will stutter because the signal just doesn't come in fast enough. It might help to set the speed of the connection to something fixed that works satisfactory.
should be turned to maximum to make the best use of it. The only reason to lower it is if for some reason a program aborts or hangs the system by using it wrongly.
With a lower hardware accelleration the CPU must do more work, and so has less time for other things, which could cause stuttering more than remedy it.
Great stuff - thank you so much for your help - both problems are now solved, and everything appears to be back to normal.
If I come across any other hiccups, I hope you don't mind if I pick your brain once again.
In reply to: Great stuff!!
And you should certainly contact the store (send them a mail?) about their installing a hosts file without telling you. It doesn't come from Microsoft, it doesn't come with Windows, it's not standard. It's good they care for your safety, let me stress that, but they should have warned you about what they did.
If you point that out to them (politely, of course) you'll indirectly help their other customers who surely would face the same problem.
Castilleja senior Natasha von Kaeppler became the school's all-time leading scorer with a 23-point effort in a 55-24 win over Gunderson in the semifinals of the Gold Bracket at the Dons Club Holiday Classic in San Jose. Photo by Keith Peters/Palo Alto Online.
Castilleja senior Natasha von Kaeppler is picking a good time to rewrite the school record book as the Gators have benefited from her scoring and rebounding during the holidays.
On Wednesday, von Kaeppler scored 23 points and grabbed 18 rebounds to power the Gators to a 55-24 thumping of Gunderson in the semifinals of the Gold Bracket at the Dons Club Holiday Tournament at Del Mar High in San Jose.
The victory put Castilleja (7-3) into Friday's championship game against San Benito at 3:30 p.m.
The 23 points by von Kaeppler included a free throw in the first quarter that made her No. 1 in school history for free throws made, moving her past Nikki Perlman. One game earlier, von Kaeppler surpassed Perlman as the school's all-time career rebounder.
Castilleja put the game away in the first quarter with a 23-0 outburst as von Kaeppler tallied nine points, including a free throw to break the school scoring mark. Junior guard Riya Modi hit a 30-footer as time expired to end the first-quarter highlight reel.
In addition to her 23 points and 18 rebounds, von Kaeppler added five assists, five steals and a career-high eight blocks. While she became the first player in school history to record 50 career double-doubles, von Kaeppler became the first Gator to have at least five points, five rebounds, five assists, five steals and five blocks in the same game.
Castilleja sophomore Olivia Nicholls pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds to go with 11 points. Castilleja outscored Gunderson in the paint, 40-10, and 17-1 in second-chance points.
At the St. Ignatius Sand Dune Classic, Pinewood advanced to the championship game with a 53-31 romp over Olympian in San Francisco on Wednesday. Senior Hailie Eackles led the Panthers (8-2) with 20 points, including four 3-pointers as Pinewood outscored Olympian in the second quarter, 22-0, to pull away.
At the annual West Coast Jamboree, Palo Alto captured the consolation title in the Jade Division by defeating Natomas, 48-39, on Wednesday at Alhambra High. The Vikings (8-3) got 13 points from senior Katerina Peterson and 10 from Sydney Davis.
In the elite Platinum Division, Eastside Prep suffered its third straight loss while falling to host Deer Valley, 59-54. The Panthers (7-5) trailed by eight after one quarter and by 13 at halftime. Senior Takara Burse led Prep with 18 points while junior Hashima Carothers scored 10 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Senior guard Ahjalee Harvey added 11 points for the Panthers, who are playing in the tournament's toughest division this week.
In nonleague action, Drew Edelman and Maddie Price combined for 41 points as Menlo School rolled to a 70-56 victory over Hawaii Prep in the second game of a three-game tour of the Big Island of Hawaii on Wednesday. Price, a freshman, made nine of 12 shots to go with four steals and three assists. The Knights (8-2) will play nationally ranked Konawaena High on Friday, a team that recently beat Central Coast Section power Mitty.
Menlo School advanced to the fifth-place game of the Chaminade Christmas Classic with a 54-44 victory over Granada Hills on Wednesday at Chaminade Prep in West Hills. The Knights (4-4) got 17 points and four steals from Mac Osborne while Richard Harris added 11 points and 12 rebounds. Jonny Halprin contributed 11 points and four assists for Menlo, which will face the St. Bonaventure-Dominguez winner on Thursday.
At the Tim Cole Classic in Fremont, Michael Culhane tallied 13 points and Myles Brewer added 10 but Menlo-Atherton couldn't get anyone else in double figures as the Bears (5-6) dropped a 46-39 overtime decision to Washington (Fremont) in the second round at American High in Fremont on Wednesday. Ian Proulx pulled down 10 rebounds for M-A.
At the Gryphons Holiday Classic at Crystal Springs in Hillsborough, Mid-Peninsula dropped a 44-41 decision to Hillsdale in the semifinals. Lydell Cardwell was limited to 13 points as the Dragons fell to 6-2. Mid-Peninsula will play for third place.
At the St. Francis Holiday Basketball Classic, Palo Alto (6-4) got 15 points from E.J. Floreal and Hakim Israel in a 67-46 victory over Aragon in a consolation semifinal game. The Vikings will play Deer Valley for the consolation title on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
Sacred Heart Prep advanced to the semifinals of the Excalibur Tournament in Santa Ana with a 1-0 victory over Capistrano Valley High on Wednesday. The Gators (4-2-1) will face No. 6-seeded Los Alamitos in the semifinals on Thursday at San Clemente High. A victory will put SHP into the championship match at 6:30 p.m.
Michael Capellas of MCI calls a press conference to announce not much at all.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present an exclusive.
We have Michael Capellas, the chairman and CEO of long-distance phone giant MCI, speaking on the cascade of recent bad news that has engulfed his company. This is MCI (née Worldcom), the company with the credo, We’re the second-largest long-distance company in the country — but when it comes to creative accounting, we’re second to none!
It is hard to do the right thing, isn’t it?
Michael Capellas shared all this — and more! — on the afternoon the federal government temporarily barred MCI from more government business. A year after MCI filed the largest corporate bankruptcy in history, its accounting and ethical practices still didn’t meet the entry-level standards set for federal contractors. Also that week, three large competitors lodged detailed complaints that MCI disguised and rerouted calls to avoid paying millions of dollars in fees.
In the face of these rather bleak tidings, Capellas called an urgent press event. Four-hundred reporters, including those from the Associated Press, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal, all participated. Capellas thanked us all several times for coming. He had an opening statement, he fielded more than a dozen questions, he had a closing statement — and he said absolutely nothing.
We have become so accustomed to speechifying and blathering that we hardly notice anymore. Public and company officials routinely spend 30 minutes talking solemnly, without saying anything on the topic they’ve come to discuss. And no one calls them on it. Regarding the government’s withering judgment of MCI’s accounting and ethics, Capellas had this to say: “We respect it.” Capellas respects being suspended from government contracts? What does that mean, exactly? We’re still a mess, thanks so much for noticing?
Next time, just put it in a press release.
A version of this article appeared in the October 2003 issue of Fast Company magazine.
Following months of acrimonious debate over whether circumcision was legal in Germany, the Justice Ministry in Berlin has now presented a draft law that would ensure the procedure remains unpunishable. The German Jewish community has welcomed the move.
Germany's Justice Ministry has formulated a draft law that would allow circumcisions.
Germany's Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has formulated two brief paragraphs in an attempt to solve a problem that had earned Germany global critique: She introduced a draft law on Tuesday that would ensure that circumcision remains unpunishable. The law would require parental consent and would require that the procedure "be performed according to the standards of medical practice," according to the Justice Ministry draft, which SPIEGEL ONLINE has seen. Circumcision would remain prohibited in cases where the procedure might endanger the child's well-being.
Legal clarity became necessary following the verdict last June by a regional court in Cologne which found that circumcision for religious reasons was an indictable offense. It was a ruling which resulted in international condemnation from religious groups and sharp words from Germany's Jewish and Muslim communities -- and triggered an intense debate in Germany. German parliament passed a resolution in July calling for the Justice Ministry to draft a law to ensure that the circumcision of boys remains possible when performed by a medical professional.
The proposal from the Justice Ministry would also allow mohel -- those who perform circumcisions in the Jewish tradition -- to carry out the procedure. "In the first six months following the birth of a child, those designated by a religious community to carry out circumcisions, even if they are not doctors, may do so should they be especially trained and competent to perform a circumcision," the draft reads.
Despite the language specifically pertaining to religious circumcision, the draft law would also allow parents to consent to circumcision for health reasons. It does not require the use of anesthetic, saying merely that the phrase "according to the standards of medical practice" also covers the "necessary and effective treatment of pain in individual cases."
The Justice Ministry plans to present the draft law to a group of experts for discussion on Friday.
Dieter Graumann, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, commented on Tuesday that the draft addresses many of the concerns German Jews had about the Cologne court ruling. "The Justice Ministry deserves our respect and appreciation for presenting such an intelligent draft," he said in a statement. Graumann added that the draft is a good basis for further discussion, saying that some minor adjustments will have to be made. "Now," he said, "it is time to focus on convincing opponents of circumcision."
Houses that can help withstand natural disasters; drones that can improve forest management and enable rapid response; India’s first electronic public toilet integrating electronic and web-mobile technologies; necklaces that tell doctors your entire medical history; India’s next mission to the moon; and video games that help fight violence: our journey to 2030 has begun!
To commemorate the 71st anniversary of the United Nations, the UN, NITI Aayog and the XPRIZE joined together to recognise Indian innovators who are helping transform the lives of people in the country. Innovators from government, the private sector, civil society, and educational institutions from around the country shared innovations that will help the country achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The impressive display at UN House was accompanied by speakers and panellists including Sujata Mehta, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India; Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog; Dr. Gopichand Katragadda, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Group; Zenia Tata, Executive Director Global Expansion, X Prize; Shiv Khemka, Executive Chairman, tGELF, Naveen Jain, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist; and Yuri Afanasiev, UN Resident Coordinator.
UN Day also provided an exciting opportunity for XPRIZE, a highly leveraged, incentivized prize competition that pushes the limits of what’s possible — to change the world for the better, to announce two new Prizes for India. Marcus Shingles, CEO of XPRIZE, and Zenia Tata, executive director of Global Expansion at XPRIZE, announced the launch of the Water Abundance XPRIZE and the Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE.
Aimed at sparking breakthrough solutions to two urgent grand challenges, the US$1.75M Water Abundance XPRIZE sponsored by Tata Group and Australian Aid aims to alleviate the global water crisis with energy-efficient technologies that will harvest fresh water from thin air. The Water Abundance XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to revolutionize access to fresh water by creating a device that extracts a minimum of 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere using 100% renewable energy, at a cost of no more than 2 cents per liter.
The US$1M Women’s Safety XPRIZE sponsored by Anu and Naveen Jain will leverage technology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety. The winning team’s solution will autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert and transmit information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds and at an annual cost of US$40 or less.
Your favorite predictions reveal more than you think.
Heading into Season 8 of Game of Thrones, every fan has their favorite theories on what will happen, when, and to whom. Can Cersei take the Iron Throne? Will Arya finish off her kill list? Does Bran hold the key to ending The Long Night? The list goes on.
Of course, HBO is keeping a tight lid on the final secrets of Thrones' epic saga — and only time will tell which fan predictions, if any, are correct.
But there's more to be learned from this song of fire and ice than who survives and who perishes. How you picture the ending of Game of Thrones says a lot about how you see the real world and the real people in it.
So, let's take a look at some of the top theories floating around the fandom and what your favorites say about you. Enjoy!