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Tom Booth, The Bear Essential, no. 5 (Spring 1995): 69
With a hint of resignation in his voice, Eugene C. Hargrove, editor in chief of
Environmental Ethics, admits that his journal is not easy reading. Still, for
the serious reader,Environmental Ethics offers the sort of deep thinking that is
lacking in most environmental magazines in the mass media's dumbed-down coverage of environmental
topics.
The latent field of environmental philosophy coalesced with the founding of Environmental Ethics
in 1979 (I publish, therefore I am"). Issued quarterly by the Center for Environmental
Philosophy at the University of North Texas, Environmental Ethics continues
to define the field and to present the work of its leading authors. Its mission,
according to Hargrove, is to provide common ground for people working in philosophy
and environmental affairs. The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach to environmental problems,
drawing contributions in fields ranging from geography to business, theology to
engineering.
The lead article in the spring 1995 issue, "Selling the Nature or Selling Out? Exploring
Environmental Merchandising," by L. M. Benton, analyzes the growing commercialization
of the environmental movement since the early 1970s. Focusing on the Sierra Club and Greenpeace,
Benton raises important questions about the contradictions involved in promoting
an environmental ideology in a consumer-driven culture. Although Benton's arguments might
make you think twice about pulling on your newest environmentally hip T-shirt, her ultimate
conclusions will allow you to wear it with pride and perhaps new insight.
Other articles critique biospherical egalitarianism and explore the idea of respect
in relation to the natural world. The issue concludes with two thoughtful book reviews.
Interest in environmental philosophy is growing: college courses are being offered and books published on the subject. In documenting this philosophic approach, Environmental Ethics gives careful readers new ways to consider and understand environmental issues. | http://www.cep.unt.edu/reviews/bear.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Learning Objectives:Demonstrate knowledge of specific clinical interventions and assessments used in a short-term behavioral health care model. Describe current approaches to implementing a short term care treatment model in a large community health care agencySummarize factors to consider in order to make organizational changes involving short-term behavioral health care
Instructor: Kathleen Reynolds, MSW
Kathleen Reynolds has a long and distinguished career devoted to improving the lives of persons with mental illness and substance use disorders. Ms. Reynolds was executive director of the Washtenaw Community Health Organization in Ypsilanti, Michigan and a leading proponent in integrated health, bringing together primary care and behavioral health services for vulnerable populations. Reynolds received the National Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and is the co-author of Raising the Bar: Moving Toward the Integration of Healthcare. As a member of the Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards, Reynolds did much to help shape state policy in support of behavioral health. She serves as adjunct faculty at Eastern Michigan University and previously taught at Madonna University and the University of Michigan, where she received a master's degree in Social Work in 1982.
Course Topics:Leadership, Management Or Supervision, Treatment Or Service Planning
Learner Types:Behavioral Health Assistants, Behavioral Health Professionals, Case Managers Or Service Coordinators, Corrections Behavioral Health Professional, Other Learner Type, Social Services Assistants, Social Services Professionals
Service Populations:Other Population, People In The Corrections Or Criminal Justice System, People With Physical Health Conditions,. | http://www.cequick.com/Adopting-A-Primary-Short-Term-Care-Treatment-Model.aspx | 2013-05-18T10:31:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Summer price from: 350,00
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Total capacity of beds: 12
Additional beds: 4
Types of room: suites
Number of suites: 2
ATM: 5 km
Bank: 5 km
Post office: 6 km
Shop: 6 km
Railway station: 5 km
Bus stop: 0,4 km
Open air swimming pool: 3 km
Downhill runs: 2 km
Golf: 6 km
Bowling: 6 km
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Accommodation in the heart of the Nature “CHALUPA NA PALOUČKU” (Chalet at a Clearing) – suites Price: in the main season (July, August, Christmas and New Year’s Eve): 300 CZK, children from 2 to 10 years 250 CZK Low season discount: 260 CZK, children up to 10 years 220 CZK Location: The chalet is located in a romantic place at the highest hill of the Bohemian Paradise with a breathtaking view of the Krkonoše (Giant) Mountains and the Bohemian Paradise. It is a peaceful, isolated place, located 50 m from the edge of the forest and 500 m from the village (picturesque village pub and a cosy eatery). Characteristic features: There are two newly built suites in an independent part of a one-family house. Each suite has its own bathroom and toilet, kitchenette and a bedroom with 4 beds (two extra beds can be added at a discounted price). There is an outdoor relaxation area at the chalet with the possibility of barbecue, bicycle storage room, beach volleyball court, arbour with a fireplace, children’s little house with see-saws and a ropeway. There is a small slope behind the chalet for children to play in the snow in winter and for skiers-beginners. Possibilities for sports: Directly in Kozákov (approximately 2 km far from the chalet) there is a ski-lift (450 m long) with three downhill courses and floodlights in the evening. There are traces for cross-country skiing near the chalet. In its surroundings, there is a dense network of marked hiking trails (Golden Trail of the Bohemian Paradise) and of biking trails. In the summer season, the visitors can use the tourist buses which transport bicycles too. Paragliding courses can be organized at the Kozákov hill or you can experience the flight with a two-person slope parachute glider with an experienced instructor. In the distance of 2 km there is a riding school and tennis courts. Rock-climbing lovers will find a large number of climbing routes in the nearby Rock Town, Klokočské and Betlémské Rocks, in Suché Rocks etc. | http://www.cesky-raj.info/dr-en/3879-chalupa-na-paloucku.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
One person has been airlifted to Royal Inland Hospital after a motor vehicle accident in the 44 hundred block of Westsyde Road this morning. RCMP haven't released details yet but the driver of this car is believed to have been taken by air ambulance to hospital suffering from serious injuries. It happened just before 7:30am Wednesday morning. Investigators were on the scene this morning trying to determine what led to the crash. A van believed to be parked on the side of the road was extensively damaged as well. | http://www.cfjctv.com/story.php?id=13582 | 2013-05-18T10:51:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
School Forums
Schools Forums are local consultative bodies, whose role is to scrutinise, and potentially challenge, each local authority’s school funding proposals for each year. They are a means to increase the involvement of schools themselves in authority funding decisions and thereby provide a check on local authorities. Local authority’s are required to consult Schools Forums on the proposed school funding formula for each year, on particular issues relating to the budget (such as provision for special educational needs and free school meals), and on service contracts agreed by the local authority.
Forums should have 15 members, and are composed of ‘elected’ schools members (headteachers and governors) representing the schools within each local authority, with an additional quota of non-schools members appointed directly by the local authority (which can be no more than one-fifth of the total membership).
Forums' views should also be sought before an local authority applies to the Department of Education and Skills for an increase to the limit on central expenditure items (limits are set by the Secretary of State). Ministers themselves are required to take the views and advice of Schools Forums into account when considering an individual local authority’s requests for amendments to their budgets. | http://www.cfps.org.uk/school-forums?stylesheet=high-contrast | 2013-05-18T10:52:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Wheels for Wellness is an opportunity to cycle for a cause! On Friday, June 14 you can cycle with your family on a 10km ride and enjoy a BBQ and music. On Saturday, June 15 you can choose between a 50km or 105km route which will bring you on a scenic tour of West Ottawa. | http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=89384 | 2013-05-18T10:31:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
1. How has the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) been affected by budget cuts and early retirements? Is there any essential function that it can no longer perform due to lack of funds?
2. Your position on the board requires you to represent the views and interests of the victims affected by the crimes acquittees committed. How often do victims come to board hearings to make statements? When this happens, do you act as their advocate? Do you generally give their views more weight than your colleagues?
3. For years, PSRB's strategic plan has included a goal of improving collaboration with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) and Connecticut Valley Hospital administrators. Why is this worth pursuing? What still needs to be done to reach it?
4. The governor has submitted a bill that would make PSRB a Division of DMHAS rather than the autonomous body it is now. What are the arguments for and against this change?
5. Legislation passed last year gives the public access to documents used in PSRB hearings. Has this change had any impact on the evidence introduced at hearings? How often have members of the public asked for copies of these documents and for what purpose?
6. Are there currently enough community-based services available to allow each person the board finds suitable for conditional release to be placed without delay? How many service providers have received PSRB training and how many slots are available? Do any programs have waiting lists?
7. There is an ongoing national debate about whether PSRBs (in Connecticut and other states) place so much emphasis on protecting public safety that acquittees who no longer need inpatient care are being “warehoused” in psychiatric hospitals. How do you respond to this argument?
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2012-R-0232
Susan Price, Senior Attorney
June 6, 2012
NOTICE TO READERS
This report provides brief highlights of new laws affecting Crime and Public Safety enacted during the 2012 regular session. Each entry indicates the public act (PA) number.
Not all provisions of the acts are included here. Complete summaries of all 2012 public acts will be available when OLR publishes its Public Act Summary book; some are already on OLR's website. (). All acts summarized here take effect October 1, 2012, unless otherwise noted.
Readers are encouraged to obtain the full text of acts that interest them from the Connecticut State Library, House Clerk's Office, or General Assembly's website ().
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE ON PENALTIES 5
courts 6
Court Operation 6
Veterans' Eligibility for Pretrial Diversion Programs 6
crimeS and penalties 7
Animal Cruelty 7
Bank and Credit Union Robberies 7
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of a Child 7
Death Penalty Eliminated 7
Desecrating or Stealing War or Veterans' Memorials 8
Domestic Violence 8
Failing to Report a Child Missing 9
Fraudulent Fundraising 9
Habeas Corpus Reform 9
Legalizing the Palliative Use of Marijuana 10
Motor Vehicles 10
Completing Repealed Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Program. 10
Drunk Driving. 11
Expressions of Remorse 11
“Move Over” Law 11
Poaching 12
Regulated Professions 12
Fine Art Secured Lenders 12
Massage Therapists. 12
Mechanical Contractors 12
Public Utilities 12
Unclassified Misdemeanors 13
Voter Intimidation and Interference 14
Zappers and Phantom-Ware 15
crime victims 15
law enforcement 16
Federal Probation Officers 16
Stolen Property Inventories 16
Traffic Stops and Racial Profiling 16
Training Fish and Game Constables 16
public safety 17
Firearms Evidence Databank 17
Public Safety Data Network 17
E 9-1-1 Program 17
Recording Pistol and Revolver Sales 17
Sexual Violence on College Campuses 18
The law authorizes courts to impose fines, imprisonment,.
PA 12-133 makes numerous changes in court operation, including:
1. allowing the Judicial Branch to enter into agreements with other agencies on a broader range of security matters;
2. expanding the courts' use of electronic documents and communications;
3. indemnifying attorneys appointed by the court to inventory the files of inactive, suspended, disbarred, or resigned attorneys in the same way as state employees;
4. specifying that someone who pleads not guilty to an infraction or certain violations can agree with the prosecutor on the amount of the fine and pay it without appearing before a judicial authority;
5. requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to give the jury administrator the latest updated file of people holding identity cards to use when compiling the master list for summoning jurors;
6. requiring a defendant to make a motion for a nolle 13 months after a prosecutor continues a case and there is no prosecution or disposition in order to have the records erased, instead of having them automatically qualify for erasure;
7. allowing Court Support Services Division (CSSD) personnel to use videoconferencing to interview defendants at police stations, when determining bail and conditions of release; and
8. requiring the court to determine that a matter is not frivolous before it waives a court fee or the state pays service of process costs for an indigent party.
PA 12-208 (1) allows veterans and surviving spouses to use the accelerated rehabilitation program twice rather than just once and (2) broadens eligibility for diversionary programs for (a) people with psychiatric disabilities and (b) drug education by adding certain veterans and spouses. It also gives veterans and spouses access to state and federal departments of veterans' affairs services as alternatives to those offered by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
PA 12-86 increases the penalty for subsequent convictions for specified types of animal cruelty as defined in existing law. Under prior law, for first or subsequent offenses, violators could be imprisoned for up to one year, fined up to $1,000, or both. The act increases the penalties for subsequent offenses to imprisonment for up to five years, a fine of up to $5,000 or both.
PA 12-186 establishes the crime of 2nd degree robbery when certain activities are committed at a bank or credit union. Under the act, someone is guilty of this crime when, during the course of a larceny, he or she intimidates an employee by intentionally engaging in conduct that causes someone else to reasonably fear for his or her physical safety or the safety of another. The actor's purpose must be to (1) prevent or overcome resistance to the taking of the property or its retention immediately after the taking or (2) force the property owner or another person to deliver the property or engage in other conduct that aids in the crime's commission.
Second-degree robbery is a class C felony (see Table on Penalties).
PA 12-141 creates the class C felony (see Table on Penalties) of commercial sexual exploitation of a minor, which involves knowingly purchasing advertising space to advertise for a commercial sex act depicting a minor. (The act does not define “minor” but presumably it means a person under age 18.) The act specifies that (1) lack of knowledge of the depicted person's age or (2) reliance on a non-government identification are not defenses.
It permits the accused to avoid conviction by proving he or she made a reasonable, bona fide attempt to ascertain the victim's age by (1) requiring him or her to produce a government-issued identity card and (2) keeping and producing a copy. is commuted by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, or reduced by a court, to life without the possibility of release.
These inmates must be placed in administrative segregation (AS) while DOC reclassifies them. The options for these prisoners are: remaining in AS, or possess, buy, or attempt to buy one knowing that it has been unlawfully removed from its official location; or (3) transfer or dispose of any part of it.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
PA 12-114 gives family violence victims greater support from the courts, law enforcement agencies, and court-based victim service providers. Among other things, it:
1. extends, from six months to one year, the maximum period that a civil restraining order can remain in effect without a court-ordered extension;
2. makes stalking or patterns of threatening between family or household members forms of family violence;
3. modifies the Judicial Branch's CSSD's uniform, weighted, release criteria by adding that conditions be sufficient to reasonably ensure that a pretrial release will not endanger the safety of others;
4. adds to conduct that constitutes 1st degree threatening;
5. requires probation officers who notify the police that they suspect a probationer of violating his or her terms of probation to also notify (a) the crime victim if he or she has given contact information and (b) the Office of Victim Services (OVS);
6. allows OVS to award medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social and rehabilitative services as restitution to children who witness domestic violence, including those not related to the victim; and
7. establishes a statewide model family law enforcement policy that agencies must use.
PA 12-112 makes it a class A misdemeanor (see Table on Penalties).
PA 12-195 makes it a Class C misdemeanor (see Table on Penalties) to fraudulently solicit funds on behalf of a veterans' charitable organization in order to benefit financially from such contributions.
Regarding habeas corpus petitions, PA 12-115:
1. requires the court, on its own or if asked by a party, to determine if there is good cause to proceed to trial on the petition and
2. requires courts to dismiss petitions related to a criminal conviction that are not filed before certain dates unless the petitioner proves good cause for the delay.
Prior statutes and court rules did not authorize such preliminary reviews or impose filing deadlines.
The act does not apply to petitions (1) claiming actual innocence, (2) challenging prison conditions, or (3) challenging the imposition of the death penalty.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012 and applicable to petitions filed on or after that date.
Legalizing the Palliative Use of Marijuana, “dispensaries” (pharmacists), or growers from being (1) subject to prosecution or civil lawsuits or (2) denied any right or benefit for specified actions relating to palliative usage. The protections do not apply when the patient ingests marijuana at work or school, in the public or moving vehicles, or in front of children. The act also directs that palliative use be curtailed when required by federal law or to obtain federal funding.
The act allows the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) to designate other debilitating conditions and charge various fees to cover direct and indirect costs. He must also:
1. set licensing, administrative, and practice rules and standards;
2. determine the number of dispensaries (the act specifies between three and 10); and
3. establish a board of expert physicians to (a) hold public hearings to evaluate petitions claiming that other conditions be designated as debilitating conditions, (b) recommend inclusion of new conditions, and (c) submit regulations making marijuana a Class II rather than Class I drug (the latter are subject to the most stringent regulation).
The act makes it a misdemeanor to tell certain lies to law enforcement officers about palliative marijuana use and specifies that insurers are not required to cover this treatment.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012, except the provisions (1) defining various terms, (2) providing for dispensary and producer licensing, and (3) creating the Board of Physicians are effective upon passage.
Completing Repealed Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Program. PA 12-121 allows an individual (1) whose motor vehicle license, privilege, or certificate was suspended or revoked, under certain circumstances, on or before December 31, 2011, and (2) who was participating in, or eligible to participate in, the alcohol and drug treatment program eliminated by PAs 11-48 and 11-51, to complete it or an equivalent program the commissioner designates, and then seek reinstatement of his or her license or privilege.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
Drunk Driving. PA 12-178 makes a number of changes in the driving under the influence (DUI) laws, including:
1. placing restrictions on the first year of driving with an ignition interlock device after a second DUI conviction;
2. allowing a DUI offender whose license has been permanently revoked to request restoration after two, rather than six years, but be subject to lifetime use of an ignition interlock device after restoration, subject to a request for removal of the device for good cause after 15 years (under prior law, the first request could be made after 10 years) ; and
3. increasing, from $25 to $75, the maximum participation fee an organization conducting a victim impact panel program can charge a DUI offender the court orders to attend the program by the court (previously they could charge $75 for panels in the pretrial alcohol education program).
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012, except the provisions on lifetime ignition interlock use after license reinstatement for third or subsequent DUI offenders are effective January 1, 2013.
Expressions of Remorse. PA 12-124 makes certain statements or other conduct by someone convicted of a motor vehicle offense that resulted in death or serious physical injury inadmissible as an admission of (1) liability or (2) against interest in a civil or criminal proceeding. The act applies to apologies and other expressions of remorse made to the victim or the victim's relative or representative after conviction but before sentencing.
PA 12-19 applies the “move over” law to highways with two or more lanes in each direction. The previous law applied to highways with three or more lanes in each direction.
The “move over” law requires a motorist approaching one or more stationary emergency vehicles, as defined by law, located in the travel or breakdown lane, or on the shoulder of a highway with their flashing lights activated to (1) immediately slow to a reasonable speed below the posted speed limit and (2) move over one lane if traveling in the lane adjacent to the location of the emergency vehicle, unless this would be unreasonable or unsafe.
A violation that results in the injury or death of the emergency vehicle operator carries a fine of up to $2,500 and $10,000, respectively; any other violation is an infraction.
PA 12-84 increases the penalty for poaching from a class C to class B misdemeanor (see Table on Penalties). By law, a person commits this crime by entering on any premises to hunt, trap, or fish despite knowing that he or she is not licensed or privileged to do so.
Fine Art Secured Lenders. PA 12-131 creates a fine art secured lending license that anyone, including a pawnbroker, in the business of loaning money on the deposit of fine art must obtain from designated town officials. Among other things, the act subjects licensees to performance and recordkeeping requirements and authorizes penalties similar to those that already apply to pawnbrokers.
Under the act, anyone who willfully engages in the fine art secured lending business without a license or after being notified that his or her license has been suspended or revoked commits a class D felony (see Table on Penalties). Any violation for which no penalty is specified is a class A misdemeanor.
Massage Therapists. PA 12-64 extends regulation of the massage therapy field to people who employ massage therapists, instead of just the practitioners. It also expands the list of practices and services that cannot be advertised unless performed by licensed massage therapists.
Mechanical Contractors. PA 12-18 establishes a penalty for unregistered mechanical contractors who willfully direct their employees, or supply someone else with unlicensed employees, to engage in plumbing and piping or heating, piping, and cooling work. Violators are subject to a $1,000 fine for a first offense and $2,500 for second and subsequent offenses.
Public Utilities. PA 12-148 requires the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority act requires PURA to open a proceeding to establish standards for restoring intrastate telecommunications under certain circumstances after an emergency. It also requires telephone telecommunications companies to issue credits to customers who lose service under certain circumstances.
The act also:
1. requires cell phone service providers to report on the backup power generation capabilities of their cell towers and
2. requires the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), in consultation with the utility companies, the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP), and an association of municipalities, to develop a procedure for expedited road clearing for public safety personnel after an emergency by January 1, 2013..
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage, except the provisions regarding civil preparedness planning and training are effective July 1, 2012.
PA 12-80:
1. creates a new misdemeanor classification (a class D misdemeanor),
2. adjusts the penalties of currently unclassified misdemeanors to fit them into classifications while deeming others to be classified,
3. reduces the penalties for some unclassified misdemeanors to fine-only violations,
4. sets the possible probation term for the class D misdemeanor and changes the terms for some unclassified misdemeanors, and
5. repeals some unclassified misdemeanors.
By law, misdemeanors are punishable by imprisonment for up to one year. They are classified according to severity as class A, class B, and class C. There are also unclassified misdemeanors, which are punishable by imprisonment but not designated under one of these classes.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012, except the changes to probation terms are effective October 1, 2012 upon. They are used primarily by retailers and restaurateurs to hide a portion of their profits, thus reducing tax liability.
Under the act, these programs are contraband, thus, the Department of Revenue Services may confiscate them along with devices on which they have been installed. Also, the government may initiate forfeiture proceedings to seize profits obtained as a result of a user's unlawful activities.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
PA 12-133 makes several changes in laws concerning services for crime victims. It:
1. authorizes victim compensation when OVS or a victim compensation commissioner reasonably concludes that (a) an alleged crime of sexual assault or risk of injury to a minor occurred and (b) the personal injury was disclosed to certain individuals;
2. eliminates the $100 deductible on the total amount of victim compensation determined for an injury;
3. expands OVS's lien for reimbursement of compensation paid to someone; and
4. extends, from June 30, 2012 to June 30, 2013, the termination date for the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners Advisory Committee, which advises OVS on a program to train sexual assault forensic examiners and make them available to sexual assault victims at participating hospitals.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012, except the provision extending the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners Advisory Committee's termination date is effective upon passage.
PA 12-177 gives federal probation officers performing their duties access to the names and addresses of people issued (1) permits to sell or carry handguns, (2) eligibility certificates to possess them, or (3) certificates of possession for assault weapons.
Under prior law, police had to hold as evidence property valued at $250 or more seized in connection with an arrest or under a search warrant. PA 12-72 increases the threshold from $250 to $1,000.
PA 12-74 suspends police departments' duty to record and report traffic stop information on July 1, 2012. It requires them to resume recording the information starting on July 1, 2013, and annually reporting summary data starting on October 1, 2013, if the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) has developed new standardized methods. It creates a Racial Prohibition Project Advisory Board to work with the Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board and help OPM develop the methods. It makes other changes related to data recording, reporting, retention, and evaluation; review and disposition of complaints; officer training; and penalties for noncompliance, among other things.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012, except the provisions concerning the Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board are effective upon passage.
PA 12-181 exempts certain fish and game protection constables from certification as police officers by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council (POST) if they (1) are appointed by a town in Hartford County having a population between 44,000 and 50,000 (i. e., Enfield) and (2) successfully complete a basic police training course tailored to their duties and provided by a POST-certified Enfield police officer. To carry a firearm in the course of their duties, they must be certified by a firearms trainer used by Enfield's Police Department and meet the recertification requirements that apply to the department's regular sworn officers.
PA 12-16 makes changes in the laws dealing with the state's firearms evidence databank.
Among other things, the act:
1. conforms the law to practice by expanding the types of images of discharged ammunition the databank must store to include images of other firearm ammunition, instead of just handguns (pistols and revolvers);
2. gives laboratory personnel discretion in determining what discharged ammunition to enter in the databank, and
3. eliminates the mandate for the laboratory to complete tests on handguns submitted to them within 60 days of submission.
PA 12-68 requires the (1) Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) to establish an electronic public safety data network (PSDN) for exchanging information among public safety and criminal justice entities. It requires the (1) Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications (OSET) to create technical and operational standards for the network's establishment and (2) E 9-1-1 Commission, in consultation with the Coordinating Advisory Board, to advise the DESPP commissioner on its planning, design, implementation, coordination, and governance.
The act adds the expenses associated with implementing and maintaining the PSDN to the other expenses the commissioner must consider when determining the amount of funding necessary for the E 9-1-1 program.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage for the establishment of the PSDN; July 1, 2012 for the remaining provisions.
E 9-1-1 Program. PA 12-114 requires OSET to study the cost, feasibility, and public safety considerations of redesigning the E 9-1-1 system to allow text messaging or communicating using other forms of mobile devices.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
PA 12-191 requires gun dealers to (1) keep their handgun sales records in a form prescribed by federal law, rather than report budgetary resources, to offer (1) sexual assault and intimate partner violence primary prevention and awareness programming for all students and (2) ongoing prevention and awareness campaigns.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012
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Substitute Senate Bill No. 303 Substitute Senate Bill No. 303 SPECIAL ACT NO. 98-4 AN ACT CONCERNING MANUFACTURED HOUSING. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Notwithstanding section 14-270 of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a pilot program beginning July 1, 1998, and ending June 30, 1999, for the purpose of issuing permits allowing the following vehicles to be operated upon any highway or bridge: (1) Manufactured housing with a width greater than fourteen feet but no greater than sixteen feet; or (2) manufactured housing attached to a towing vehicle which has a combined length of one hundred four feet if such manufactured housing has a length of eighty feet or less. Such permit shall specify conditions under which such manufactured housing shall be permitted to operate, including, but not limited to, the period of time such operation shall be authorized. A denial of such permit shall be required to be accompanied by a statement of the basis for such denial. On or before January 1, 2000, the commissioner shall submit his findings and recommendations concerning the operation of said pilot program to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to transportation. Approved May 19, 1998 | http://www.cga.ct.gov/ps98/Act/sa/1998SA-00004-R00SB-00303-SA.htm | 2013-05-18T10:13:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A beta video of DarkCorner calculating ambient occlusion for an image sequence rendered in LightWave. The GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin has just been released commercially.
AGF Multimedia has released DarkCorner, a GPU-based ambient occlusion plugin for After Effects.
DarkCorner uses Z-depth to calculate AO for still images or image sequences. Users can either supply the images in formats in which Z-depth information is automatically embedded, such as .rla or .rpf; or supply the Z-depth data via a second image sequence. Normal data can also be used to help the calculation.
According to the developer, it has tested the plugin with a range of 3D software, and has had “successful results with output from 3ds Max, LightWave, Maya, Cinema 4D, modo and Softimage”.
Interestingly, the plugin is OpenGL-based, rather than using a GPGPU API, so it is compatible with any graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.3 or higher.
DarkCorner is available for After Effects CS4 and above, on Windows only. AGF Multimedia is considering an OS X version, depending on demand.
DarkCorner currently costs $89.90 as part of a special launch offer that also includes JaggyBuster, a GPU-based anti-aliasing plug-in, for free.
Visit the DarkCorner website
(Includes download link: output of trial version is watermarked)
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March 1996
It is useful, indeed it is often the reason to perform a simulation, to be able to print-out and to plot reaction rates, rates of production of species, the heat-release rate, and the elemental composition. The print-out is activated as follows:
In addition, the elemental composition is printed at the monitor point whenever the monitor data is printed.
The elemental composition is calculated as follows:
Ej = sum (Ajk*Wj*Yk/Wk)
where the summation is over all species k, Ej is the mass composition of element j, Aij is the number of atoms of the element j in the kth species, Yk is the mass fraction of species k, Wj is the molecular mass of element k, and Wk is the molecular mass of species k.
Mole-fractions are computed and printed at completion, and whenever the NPRINT settings etc. indicate that the STOREd dependent variables are to be printed. The mole-fraction print-out is always generated, and does not require storage of extra variables.
However, if desired, the user may STORE the mole fractions for printing in the RESULT file and also for plotting purposes with PHOTON and AUTOPLOT. This facility is activated by setting:
STORE(Mxxx)
which activates storage and print-out of the mole fraction of the species xx, eg. STORE(MH2) for the SOLVEd hydrogen species H2.
The mole fractions Xi are calculated from:
Xi = Yi*W/Wi
where W is the mixture molecular mass, and Wi is the molecular mass of species i.
In order to ease the setup of models employing the CHEMKIN interface, a SATLIT code, CHEMST, and two PIL fragments have been supplied. Prior to calling CHEMST the user should, where appropriate:
When called, the routine CHEMST does the following:
9.1 Developments
9.2 Modifications Made to CHEMKIN Routines
There are a number of areas in which work remains to be done, and these are:-
Much more can be done in many areas, but what should be done depends upon the demand for further deveopments.
No modifications have been made to any subroutines in the CHEMKIN or TRANLIB libraries. The only software associated with CHEMKIN to be have been modified is the TWOPNT solver. The modifications made are:
Further information can be found in the references cited below, and a lecture is provided under the POLIS entries: 'Lectures on PHOENICS', 'Turbulence and Combustion'. Additional information on running CHEMKIN can be found under the POLIS entries 'About PHOENICS 2.2', 'How to run PHOENICS modules'.
See PHENC entry: Turbulence Models in PHOENICS
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Don't worry if you have a phobia of spiders, it is safe to keep reading! That's because this wonderful new picture of a star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula doesn't show the bright lines of gas that usually make it look like it has the legs of a spider.
Instead, this picture gives us an unusual view of the Tarantula Nebula. Astronomers had to combine observations made with two space telescopes to create this photo. It shows the X-ray radiation given off by very hot gas (the blue parts, captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory) and the cooler gas that surrounds it (the orange parts, taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope).
The Tarantula Nebula is already big - it would take light about 650 years to cross from one end to the other - but it's getting even bigger! Astronomers have two ideas about what is causing the Tarantula's growth: Some astronomers think that explosions of the hot gas (shown in blue) are making it bigger, while others think that radiation from massive stars is causing the gas in the nebula to expand. To find out what is going on once and for all, astronomers need to take another look at this region.
When astronomers observe the Tarantula Nebula again, they won't be looking to prove their own ideas right. All they can do is look at what their observations tell them - even if it means acknowledging that they had been wrong.
Cool fact: The Tarantula Nebula contains the heaviest star known, weighing in at more than 300 times the mass | http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/30dor/kids.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Madison, Palo Alto mayors make Rose Bowl wager
Losing city will organize tree planting
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh have agreed to a Rose Bowl wager.
The Pac-12 champion Stanford Cardinals call Palo Alto home. The eighth-ranked Cardinals and Wisconsin Badgers kick off on Jan. 1 at 4 p.m. in the 99th annual Rose Bowl.
The losing mayor will wear the opposing team's hat during a Common Council meeting, and will display the flag of the winning team for a day in January.
The losing city will organize a tree planting in honor of the winning team.
"Any city can benefit from additional trees, and we're delighted that Mayor Yeh and the city of Palo Alto are going to provide them," Soglin said in a news release. "I think it's great that we can have fun with the game and provide a benefit to a community and I'm confident Barry and the Badgers will come through for us."
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Gok has been asking his celebrity mates about their teenage years and to share their tips for teens today. Here's what they had to say.
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I originally discovered CP while looking for local IDPA (International Defensive Pistol Association) competitions - which CP hosts every 3rd Tuesday of the month.
I have had quite an ordeal trying to get an SLR95 through them. As a result, I intend to give them as little of my business as possible.
Contact info for the Nockamixon range:
Pennsylvania Game
Commision: (610) 926-3136
Nockamixon State Park: (215) 529-7300
It used to be called "Twin S". Costs $15 per person per day (memberships are available). They have a short range where you can set up targets any where up to and including, I believe 50 yards. This is where I began sighting in. They have another range where we spent most of our time where you can set up targets every 100 yards up to 500. Doug and barry brought a bunch of water filled plastic bottles. I mostly shot at paper targets, trying to perfect my scope adjustments. The worst part about the range is the backstops - they have some rather beat up palates that you can attach targets to (with dirt mounds behind them). The best part was that the benches have a roof over them. It rained pretty substantially for a short time while we were there. We and our guns stayed completely dry and continued shooting. It may have occurred to you that 500 yards is really long - there's a stone covered road you're allowed to drive down to set up your targets, which is.. quite thoughtful.
They also have a very nice skeet shooting set up with at least 4 very substantial pigeon launchers, which I must try sometime. It costs significantly more than the rifle range to use. | http://www.chaosreigns.com/guns/ranges.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Orange County laptop parents head back to school
Parents of students in new program get high-tech guidance
A.L. Stanback 6th grader Maddie Vavrousek concentrates on a book report session on her school-issued laptop during and open class session Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 in English language arts teacher Michele Johnson's class. At the start of this school year, late August 2012, over four thousand (4,000) 6th - 12th grade students in Orange County schools were issued the first laptop computers to begin the transition from textbooks.
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HILLSBOROUGH - Hundreds of Orange County parents can now say they graduated from Laptop 101.
After the August debut of the 1:1 laptop program in Orange County Schools, which gave every student in middle and high school a laptop for the school year, some parents said they felt left behind by the new technology or worried by their children’s new access the Internet.
Lenovo representatives and Orange County technology employees held a class for more than 350 parents at a Laptop 101 Family Academy held at A.L. Stanback Middle School last month, providing guidance on Internet safety and laptop care.
“I didn’t grow up in a world where we had computers in schools, or even at home,” said Nita Morley of Chapel Hill, whose daughter Delaney is a fourth-grader at New Hope Elementary. “It’s much different now. [Students today] have the world at their fingertips.”
That world now comes to Orange County students through Lenovo’s X131E laptops, which the company specifically developed for use by children in schools in collaboration with superintendents and teachers. The computers are “ruggedized” for heavy use, with domed lids, recessed ports and reinforced hinges and bezels.
“We made that piece of plastic stronger, because despite telling kids don’t do this… they do this,” Sam Morris, Lenovo education solutions manager, said in a breakout session as he held one of the laptops up by its screen.
The hinges on the district’s laptops can be opened 50,000 times before replacement, said Morris, a former mathematics teacher at Cary Academy, because children typically open and close their laptops in the course of a school day much more than adults do.
In a session on Internet safety, A.L. Stanback technology facilitator Matthew Fry talked about helping their child become a good “digital citizen,” careful with their digital footprint and setting appropriate privacy levels on social networks.
“These kids now really do live in a world that’s far different from previous generations,” he said, so we have to understand there is that gap and be prepared to change how we see things.”
Realistic advice
Although some parents might be tempted to outlaw Internet use altogether, Fry said, that is unrealistic in a world in which the Internet is so prevalent and useful.
David Ekstrom of Hillsborough, who works in information technology in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, attended because his daughter goes to Orange County High School. He said Orange County Schools has done a good job using free, open-source technology, helping teachers incorporate the technology into their lessons and advising students on what they post online.
Shannon and David Hall’s daughter Chloe, a Gravelly Hill Elementary sixth-grader, won a laptop given away by Lenovo at the event.
“I came because I have a 14-year-old son,” Shannon Hall, of Mebane, said. “As parents, we know that our children are always going to be smarter than we are – but I just wanted to make sure I’m on top of things when it comes to the Internet.”
Some students have taken advantage of their laptops to surf the web during class, Fry said, but teachers, other students and the state’s Internet filters prevent it from being a huge problem.
“There are times, walking around the classroom, when teachers have to refocus students,” he said. “For every roadblock we put up, there’s always going to be a way around, unfortunately.”
Proxy servers, which allow students to visit blocked websites like Facebook, are constantly being updated and blocked by the district’s IT workers, as well as the state. Students are quick to tell school workers about other students who are accessing blocked websites or have downloaded gaming software, Fry added.
“Students are very good at ratting each other out,” Fry said. “We’ve had some instances where a student may have downloaded some games or put things on the laptop – not necessarily lewd or anything.”
Since the schools only allow approved software on the laptops, if a child has downloaded unauthorized software, school workers will return the laptop to its original state and give it back to the student. IT personnel can remotely enter students’ laptops and check their entire Internet and search history, but rather than spying on students, the district has emphasized teaching responsible use.
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Was this review helpful? 0 0 Heartbreaking and wonderful! by Kristilyn @ Reading In Winter 10 months ago I had been hearing so many amazing things about Morgan Matson’s novel, Second Chance Summer — the follow up to her amazing novel, Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour — that I immediately put myself on the hold list when I saw my local library was getting it. Admittedly, I wasn’t going to read this one immediately because the hardback was such a beautiful book that I wanted a copy of it for my shelf, but I needed something that was really going to keep my interest so I dove in. I was not expecting to completely fall in love with this book! As it starts off, Taylor’s family isn’t very close, but her dad has been diagnosed with cancer with a time frame, so they go to the lake for the summer. I loved seeing the family get closer and closer as the summer goes by, as well as seeing how the family reacts to the changes in the father’s, Robin’s, demeanour as he succumbs to his disease. But the book isn’t all sad — it’s not just a book about losing a family member, but also a book about getting second chances. It’s been five years since Taylor’s family has even been to the lake and there were many loose ends after the last summer. We meet wonderful characters — Henry, Lucy, Elliot, as well as Murphy, the dog. I loved seeing all of the relationships as they evolved throughout the book — they were all touching, all heartbreaking, and all so believable. The only book that made me feel so many emotions was John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. The only difference between that one and Second Chance Summer is that there’s definitely a lot more humour in Green’s book — BUT, even though there’s not a lot of wisecracking going on, there is so much of everything else. I honestly loved this book and would read it again and again. Despite the sadness that takes place, this is the perfect summer read. It made me want to sit on a dock, with my feet in the water, the sun on my face, the sand on my skin. It was all just so beautiful. Have lots of tissue when you read this one because I had about three major instances where I bawled like a baby! This book is a masterpiece. It was put together so perfectly and I finished it with a feeling of love and sadness. Morgan Matson has gone to the top of my list and I cannot wait until her next book is released. | http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Second-Chance-Summer-Morgan-Matson/9781416990673-634098-Review.html | 2013-05-18T11:01:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. —2 Corinthians 5:10
Have you ever wondered what it will be like at the judgment seat of Christ? I don't know where it will be—whether at a place on the earth, in the sky, or in a newly created part of God's universe. But you and I will be there. It is hard to imagine having confidence, or boldness, on that day even though John said that this is possible if "love is made complete among us" (1 John 4:17).
It seems to me that our hearts will be pounding out of our chests. Surely it will be the most sobering, terrifying moment we have ever experienced.
You and I will be judged at the judgment seat of Christ in part by whether or not we accepted our anointing and whether we lived within the limitations of that anointing. The reason is this: we will not be rewarded because of a gift God gave us.
Whether or not we receive a reward will be determined by our accepting our anointing (which requires obedience) and living within its limitations (which means not disobeying), whatever the profile that follows.
We will also be blessed here below on the basis of how we lived within the grace given to us. We may or may not be pleased with the profile that comes with that anointing. But the greatest thing that can happen to you or me at the judgment seat of Christ is to hear Jesus say, "Well done."
To the degree that we accept and live within our anointing we can sense God saying even now, "Well done." It brings a wonderful feeling that comes from knowing you are pleasing God. Not man. God. And it is within the grasp of every single one of us.
Excerpted from The Anointing: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Charisma House, 2003). | http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/devotionals/by-love-transformed/?aid=5951&devFor=2013-02-14 | 2013-05-18T10:31:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This is not a popular message among Christians in America but many leaders are beginning to sense a turn in history that America may not be able to recover from unless God brings on a Third Great Awakening in our nation.
Many see the economic problems that face our country and hope that they will be solved by merely electing a new president with exceptional business experience. Unfortunately, the choice before us is between a professing liberal Christian with a secular world view and a Mormon that shares our values but maybe not the Holy Spirit that is so needed in these trying times.
But what about the decline in our culture and the headlong charge towards same-sex marriage and the continuing secularization and the increasing demonization of Christianity in the public square? What about the very real decline in religious freedom in our nation? Pastors being arrested for holding Bible studies in their homes. Social change trumping the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom. Secularists claiming that conservative Christians that stand up for traditional marriage and hold to Biblical teaching when it comes to homosexuality are ‘immoral’ unethical discriminatory bigots that need to be silenced and controlled. Liberal church leaders claiming that homosexuality is ordained by God and evangelicals who oppose it are actually opposing the teaching of Jesus to love one’s neighbor?
What about the upheavals in nature and changes in climate? Are they just happenstance or has God lifted some of his protection from our nation? The fact is that the problems facing America are greater than any one person or group of people will be able to solve. Without a new download from heaven I fear that America is headed for the dust bin of history along with other great world powers of the past that have seen their day and lost their power. Does this sound overly pessimistic? I hope it’s just that.
For a long time I have been convinced that a major revival in America was just around the corner and now I am really concerned that we may miss it at the very time when we need it the most. I am still convinced that revival will come to some areas, some churches, and some communities in our nation regardless. But it is a Third Great Awakening from coast to coast that is really needed to bring our nation back from the brink.
I am not the only one concerned about this. Here are a few recent articles on the same basic subject:
“Rosenberg: US Will Implode Without Third Great Awakening”
“Charismatic Leaders Unite to Pray for Great Awakening”
“714-Project Calls for Day of Prayer, Repentance”
“Best-Selling Author Outlines Solution to US Debt Crisis”
“Sen. Rand Paul Calls For ‘Reawakening’ in US” | http://www.charismatica.com/2012/07/13/america-needs-a-third-great-awakening-or-its-over/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Some.
The survey showed 51 percent of N.C. residents disapprove of the president's job performance, while 42 percent approve. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Just 35 percent of North Carolinians said they would encourage their member of Congress to vote for the president's jobs proposal. Thirty-six percent don't like it and 28 percent aren't sure. Jim Morrill
Cuomo in '16?
On Monday a New York Post headline read: "2016 White House poll: Run, Andy, run!"
It reported the results of a poll of New Hampshire Democrats asked who they'd like to see run in five years. N.Y Gov. Andrew Cuomo won going away in a hypothetical field that didn't include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The poll, by Raleigh's Public Policy Polling, isn't exactly new. It was released in July and was overlooked. Jim Morrill
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On HGTV
Kitchen Works: Jonathan and Maria are nearly finished renovating their 90-year-old home, but have no idea how to tackle their super tiny, completely dysfunctional kitchen. Designer Genevieve Gorder comes up with a new layout, giving the kitchen great flow. Then she injects some modern style with a color palette that makes the room feel larger. Dear Genevieve airs at 9 a.m. Monday.
Clutter clean up: With two young kids and a gaggle of pets, Cristal and Scott are struggling to keep clutter at bay. The family is desperate for more room, but before they start shopping for a new place, they've got to clean up their current home. Drew and Jonathan reveal their plan for a dramatic overhaul, but Cristal's extravagant taste clashes with the design plan. With time running out, what will they do? Buying and Selling airs at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
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A fresh start: Ben and Katie have a charming home surrounded by parks and scenic views. Their home is full of color and designed for comfort except for the kitchen, which is a white box filled with aging appliances surrounded by a layer of dirt and grime. It needs a major overhaul. This episode loosens up the layout, maximizes the storage space and gives Ben and Katie's kitchen a fresh start. I Hate My Kitchen airs at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Observer. | http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/05/3579453/tvs-best-bets-dear-genevieve.html | 2013-05-18T10:15:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
by Robert Sperber
I couldn’t help thinking, when I read about Vaclev Havel’s death last month, how short life is and how important it is that we use whatever time we have to stay true to what we believe in. Whether it’s fighting a totalitarian regime ̶ in Havel’s case, the Soviet Union ̶ or something smaller and more personal, like pursuing medical research or a legal cause you care about, the race goes not necessarily to the swiftest, but to those who stay the course.
Sometimes it seems hopeless. And sometimes it is, at least for a while. Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia (later The Czech Republic), was a dissident award-winning playwright who spent years imprisoned by the puppet Czech government and then given menial labor jobs because he persisted in his dream of a free, independent country. That he succeeded in his lifetime may have been as much a surprise to him as to his countrymen, but I doubt whether he ever questioned that his cause would eventually succeed.
In his heart, he knew what all who achieve their dreams know: we are here only so many years, those years go by quickly and we all eventually die. Better to die for something than die for nothing.
Persistence is the key.
Most of us, of course, are not engaged in global struggles. Many fight smaller, but no less brave, battles: proving the innocence of those wrongfully convicted, proving the guilt of those who got away with crimes, persevering in breakthrough medical research, or helping a child with a learning disability make sense of processes the rest of us take for granted.
For some, it’s more personal: Overcoming a speech impediment, fighting alcoholism or drug addiction, standing up to bullies, winning over that girl (or guy), or excelling in javelin throwing. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that we all believe in ourselves and the cause we fight for, get through those dark hours and carry on.
I face this myself as I write the sequel to my first novel. Writing is a wonderful, yet agonizing, process. There are days of exultation, when the words sound right and I can do no wrong. And there are days when that doesn’t happen. But I remind myself that I felt the same way with my first book, Lines of Control, now doing remarkably well. So I persist, keep at it, and soon that second book, followed by others, will be out there.
My characters, particularly Charlotte Westbrook and her colleague Lewis Sullivan, are no different in their quest for justice. Charlotte doubts herself, gets herself in trouble for overstepping her bounds to the point that she risks her career, but she persists. And in the end (at least so far), she has won.
There’s a lesson there for all of us. Moments of inspiration in your cause, whatever that cause is, are great, but you can’t wait for them. Force yourself to move forward every day. You’ll reach your goal and know that your persistence made all the difference. | http://www.charlottewestbrook.com/?tag=czech | 2013-05-18T10:12:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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CHICAGO, IL (January 8, 2013) – RBS Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (RBSCFG) today named Marc Paulhus as President, Charter One and RBS Citizens, Illinois.
The President of RBS Citizens’ Asset Finance group since 2008, Paulhus succeeds Scott Swanson, who is resigning to pursue another opportunity. Paulhus joined the bank in 2003 and has been based in Chicago since 2005. He will continue to lead the bank’s equipment finance unit.
“Marc is an experienced banker whose understanding of economic trends and the financial needs of both companies and families today will serve our Illinois customers well,” said Robert Matthews, Vice Chairman for Commercial Banking. “Scott has contributed significantly to our success in growing our retail and commercial businesses. We thank him for his dedicated service and wish him well in his future endeavors.”
“I look forward to this opportunity as Charter One and RBS Citizens continue providing top-notch service to consumer and corporate customers in the communities we serve,” Paulhus said. “From our innovations in online and mobile banking to our investments in economic development and fighting hunger, this is a very exciting time for our bank and I look forward to doing what I can to help continue growing our business and serving our customers in Illinois.”
Paulhus, a member of RBSCFG’s Executive Leadership Group, the company’s senior leadership team, came to RBSCFG following senior leadership roles at PureMarkets Corporation, The CIT Group, Fleet Credit Corporation and LB Credit Corporation.
Paulhus graduated with a degree in business administration from Providence College and received his MBA from the University of Rhode Island.
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I’m subscribed to your newsletter. Lovely cutting board!
I am excited about this give away! Thanks .
I’ve been eyeing this cutting board for a while!!!!
Ann Marie – This is the best cutting board and I would love to win it. Thanks for all the wonderful prizes you give in your contests.
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Would love the Boos cutting board to showcase my cheeses at farmer’s market!
Trying to figure out this system…sorry for double post! still liked to win the Boos block
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Thanks for the chance at a great looking cutting board.
i love your kitchen tours on here………………… my cutting board has seen its best days. i would realy enjoy this one that youre giving away. thanking you in advance.(smile)
Just what I need. My cutting boards keep getting glutened and the one I have now is too small.
I’ve always wanted one of these cutting boards. My dad got one a couple years ago and I’ve been pinning over it ever since.
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Notting Hill charm.
Well, I'm all out of clean clothes which means its time to go home to New York (and my guy). I fell in love with London over the past few days and its cool, quirky charm. I knew I would, and it's pretty much exactly how I pictured London to be but the genuine Brits with their adorable accents and idioms really won me over. I'm sad to leave my little sis behind and am already planning my next trip as I'll be needing another London-fix soon. Here are the last of my photos... until next time!
Wearing my new Abbey Road Beattles tee that I bought at a t-shirt stand on Portabello Road partially because I thought it was cool and partially because I was down to my last clean shirt.
Sampling scents at the Diptyque boutique in Notting Hill.
I could have spent an entire afternoon here (and be sure to grab tea in the cafe).
This checkered tile and pale blue door made me smile.
I passed by this Mini almost everyday... isn't he a cutie?
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Eat / Afternoon Tea: Sketch
Sweets: Primrose Hill Bakery, Hummingbird Bakery
Shop: Liberty of London
Tate Modern Museum (note: all museums are free)
And on my to-do list for my next trip: Columbia Road Flower Market
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such a lovely pictures ! great post !
XX Luba
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Lovely pictures!! London is a great city!! I wish I could go there more often myself. :)
xo Andrea
Wonderful and Marvelous
nice post, love the added tips at the end! x
These pictures are so great. I'm sure with your sister in London you'll definitely be back soon. Looks like it was a wonderful trip.
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nice pictures!!
Looks like you had an amazing time & I'm sure your sister will do beautifully there! xx Sallie
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Alicia, you are capturing such GREAT shots....love them all!
xo Amber
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Great photos! I'd love to go to London, looks like you a had a great time! Safe travels back! :)
Amberly
I find London to be oh-so-charming as well! These pictures are beautiful and will be sure to check out your recs next time I am across the pond!
Chelsea
Great pics!
Liberty of London is one of my dream destinations -- loved your pics from the trip!
I've loved your London posts so much! Can't wait to catch up when you are back. xo
I need to visit ASAP!
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Beautiful photos!! xo, Christina
I want to go SO bad. Looks amazing. Love your hair, as always.
Beautiful pictures!
Love from India
Ahh London, I'm ready for another fix and I was already there at the end of March and the July before that XD
I love all these photos, your new tee is perfection! Gotta love the Beatles
So loved seeing your adventure! Thank you for sharing =)
great pictures
What camera do you use?
Lovely photos, you've made me want to visit London so badly! I'm glad you had a great trip!
Keep calm and carry lipstick.
Beautiful photography! Hope you had a fab time :)
xoxo
Cassidy
I loved stalking your London adventures, but also happy you're back in NY!
xo, Courtney
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Great outfit!
Théa Unknown
I love the photos from your trip, looks like you went to some amazing places.
Stay in the Lines
@Anonymous - I use a Canon Rebel Ti1 ;)
Awww, what an amazing round up of images. Welcome back to NYC!
GREAT photos! great post...
Amazing pictures.
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London is so beautiful, these pictures are beautiful no wonder you didn't want to leave : )
xo,
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I just adore London!! One of my favorite cities. I agree with you - Covent Garden is one of my fave places in London as well. Also, one of my favorite little haunts in the city is Gordon's Wine Bar - it's the oldest wine bar in London, near Embankment Station on the tube, and it's like a hidden underground cave with the best wine selection. If you're a wine fan, it's a fun place to check out!
I absolutely fell in love with London when I visited also! Such a wonderful place with soooo much to see.
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amazing photos and it looks like you had a lovely trip. good thing you're new york based now so you're only a hop, skip, and jump across the pond!
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Svidler wins Russian Championship Super Final with round to spare
Peter Svidler has already secured victory at the Russian Championship Super Final. On Sunday he defeated 2010 champion Ian Nepomniachtchi and with one round to go, Svidler has a 1.5-point lead over Grischuk, Karjakin and Morozevich.
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Svidler played another excellent game on Sunday, which started as a Symmetrical English. Instead of snatching a pawn on the queenside, which might have been possible, Nepomniachtchi decided to play differently, keeping his king in the centre. A well-timed pawn break d3-d4 opened up the position and even after the queens were exchanged, Black's king couldn't find a safe haven.
The only player left with a chance to catch Svidler was Alexander Morozevich, but playing Vladimir Kramnik with the black pieces he never came close to winning chances. Both Alexander Grischuk and Sergey Karjakin joined Morozevich in shared second place; they beat Alexander Galkin and Artyom Timofeev respectively.
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arkan
1 year 9 months ago
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What a beastly result, congratulations
Adolfo
1 year 9 months ago
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Now I am really happy for this result. Svidler is such a nice smart open minded person with a great sense of humour and outstanding communicational skills. He is an “eternal” top 20 or even 10 but u can be sure he will talk to you like any other guy around the corner (even in the same type of language), and he won’t shy away from whatever topic u throw at him, anything either within chess or else whatever comes to your mind.
I cant wait for the day he decides to make some DVD ( in his case he shouldn’t “waste” his capabilities in a book), I hope a huge series about whatever he likes, be that his best games or some Russian school (remember he was a Dvoretsky pupil some day) stuff, with lots of insights of that strange internal world, including his several times as second for few distinguished colleagues, his various runs in the WCH, etc.. What else could be better? Chessbase and producers elsewhere, please wake up for us!
Knallo
1 year 9 months ago
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I agree wholeheartedly, Adolfo!
Nima
1 year 9 months ago
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Well said Adolfo. He is also the only GM whom I have heard say on more than one occasions about a position: "I have no idea what is going on here". To hear a player of his caliber say it is so liberating.
Remco G
1 year 9 months ago
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I have had a team called "Batting for Svidler" in cricket-management game Battrick for a while now. Every bit helps, Svidler is the greatest :-)
Estragon
1 year 9 months ago
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Svidler is showing, as have Ivanchuk, Gelfand, and Shirov, that being one of the elite few Super-GMs is more than the latest rating list.
Congratulations to the once again Champion!
welwitchia
1 year 9 months ago
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Svidler always enjoys great luck at the Russian champs.I wanted Moro to win......
christos (greece)
1 year 9 months ago
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This is an unbelievable result. Such a comfortable victory against players who are in great playing form.
Just look at Karjakin's and Kramnik's rating, Morozevich's recent performances and Grischuk's recent run at the Candidates tournament.
But they all are at least 1.5 point behind Svidler!
noyb
1 year 9 months ago
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It's nice to see both Svidler and Moro back!
Axel
1 year 9 months ago
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Congratulations Peter!
rogge
1 year 9 months ago
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Keep Kramnik away from Dortmund, and he's just an "ordinary superGM".
Sander
1 year 9 months ago
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A contradictio in terminis!
Anyway congrats to Peter-good-old-Svidler. 5 out of 6 is extremely impressive!
rogge
1 year 9 months ago
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Really? I thought 2700+ was considered to be the superGM "threshold level" :)
But maybe the term should be apllied to 2800+ only (excluding Kramnik).
Thomas
1 year 9 months ago
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Once upon a time (but within my own lifetime) the "threshold" was 2600. If facts - including those that don't support your theories - mean anything to you, you have to acknowledge that Kramnik is a stable top5 player. Basically this means: being capable of winning strong events AND consistent enough in all events to maintain whichever rating is required, currently at least 2770. Several other players (e.g. Ivanchuk, Shirov, maybe Morozevich, recently Nakamura) can do the former but not the latter.
If anyone rated above 2700 is a super-GM, Kramnik is one of a few super-super-GMs ... who just doesn't do that well at the Russian Championship.
Csaba
1 year 9 months ago
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What's up with this crazy ..a6 QGD? Will it be the new chigorin (played by almost no other GM but Morozevich)?
TMM
1 year 9 months ago
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A nice victory today by Morozevich against Svidler. So for Svidler it's a good thing he was 1.5 points ahead and already clear 1st... Anyway great tournament for both Svidler and Morozevich.
Final standings:
Svidler 5
Morozevich 4.5
Grischuk, Karjakin, Kramnik 4
Nepomniachtchi 3
Galkin 2
Timofeev 1.5
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Cheyney Police Blotter for week ending 12-12-10
Brief summary of police calls from 12-6-10 to 12-12-10.
December 13, 2010
12/06/2010 07:35 – While on patrol, Cheyney Police observed an abandoned vehicle behind the Carver Science Building. The vehicle had damage to the rear passenger side, front hood open and a cracked windshield. No valid registration. Said vehicle was towed from the property.
12/06/2010 18:21 - Cheyney Police were dispatched to the 5th floor of King Hall for possible Act 64 violations. Upon arrival, police detected a strong odor of marijuana coming from a room. The male occupant of the room opened the door to the room and the smell of marijuana came rushing out the door. The male occupant quickly slammed the door when he saw police. Cheyney Police knocked on the door and several minutes later, the door was opened by a female occupant who had a strong odor of marijuana and red eyes. Visibly found in the room were two blunt type marijuana cigars, one soaked in liquid. All were processed and/or referred for Judicials.
12/06/2010 21:08 - Cheyney Police responded to a room on the 2nd Floor of King Hall for a report of persons smoking marijuana in a room. Upon arrival, there was a strong odor of suspected marijuana detected. The room was occupied by four persons. The occupant of the room opened the door for police and the odor of marijuana became stronger. Visibly found in the room was residue from consumed marijuana cigarettes. All students acknowledged they had been smoking marijuana in the room. All were processed and/or referred for Judicials.
12/07/2010 08:55 - Cheyney Police received a report of an accident with the Shipping and Receiving vehicle. Complainant was exiting the Wade Wilson parking lot area and felt the vehicle scraping against the wall as she drove out of the parking area. Complainant also stated she did not know if she hit any other vehicles in the area. The owner of a Mercedes called police headquarters a short while later and reported damage to his vehicle while parked in the Wade Wilson parking lot. The two accidents are under investigation.
12/07/2010 18:15 – Cheyney Police responded to a report of a disturbance in the Ada George Dining Facility. Upon police arrival, the disturbance was quelled and students were observed eating in the facility. Complainant stated that the staff was being harassed by several male students. Witnesses indicated the disturbance was escalated by the Metz dining staff. Staff admitted to allowing a student to go behind the food counter and make a sandwich after he complained about the slow service. The student responsible, surrendered and apologized for his actions, but indicated he was hungry and the staff appeared as though they didn’t care. The complainant acknowledged this was the incident and stated her staff should have maintained policy and procedure. No charges were filed at this time.
12/07/2010 17:40 – Cheyney police responded to a report of a sexual assault that occurred three days earlier. An arrest was made. This incident is currently under investigation.
12/07/2010 21:24 - Cheyney Police were dispatched to Truth Hall for a report of theft. Student reported his XBOX was stolen from his room. Complainant indicated his roommate left the door unlocked. This matter is currently under investigation.
12/07/2010 17:55 - Cheyney Police responded to Truth Hall for a report of an assault that occurred. Female student reported that during the campus power outage, she was punched in the face and shoved against a wall by a male student because he did not like her comments. This matter is currently under investigation.
12/08/2010 16:34 – Cheyney Police responded to Yarnall Hall for a report of theft. Student reported he was away and returned to his room to find his flat screen TV and digital camera was stolen. The door was unlocked. Then, the roommate indicated he was away for three weeks and returned to find his laptop stolen but he did not report it. This matter is currently under investigation.
12/08/2010 21:45 – Cheyney Police responded to Tubman Hall for a scheduled fire drill. All floors were cleared and students were cleared to re-enter the dormitory.
10/08/2010 22:45 - Cheyney Police responded to King Hall for a report of a fire alarm. Upon police arrival, it was discovered that the 4th floor pull station was activated. King Hall was found to be free of smoke and fire. Alarm was reset and the building was cleared for re-entry.
12/09/2010 09:22 - Cheyney Police responded to the rear of Marcus Foster Bookstore for a report of vandalism to a vehicle. This matter is currently under investigation.
12/09/2010 23:20 - Cheyney Police responded to King Hall for a possible fight on the 6th Floor. Upon arrival, police did not find a fight on the 6th Floor. Police then started a building check and discovered a large group on the 2nd floor. Police also noticed a strong odor of alcohol while dispersing the group. Within the group, a non-resident student was advised several times to leave campus. The male non-resident student left the 2nd floor but was found loitering in the lobby. He was placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters where he was processed and referred to Judicial.
12/09/2010 19:55 - Cheyney Police while on patrol, observed two males and one female in the restricted construction area. Identities were verified, all were given warnings.
12/10/2010 23:30 - Cheyney Police, while handling other incidents at Truth Hall, were contacted by a female student who indicated she was assaulted. Complainant stated a female knocked on her door looking for her roommate. The complainant indicated the female was intoxicated, became irate and began pulling the complainants hair and punched her. Police checked the area with negative results. The suspects name was given to police. This incident is under further investigation.
12/10/2010 00:12 - Cheyney Police responded to the 6th Floor of Truth Hall for an unconscious person. Upon arrival, a male was found laying on the floor in front of a room. A physical altercation occurred and visible injuries were present. Medics were called to transport the student to the hospital. An arrest was made. This incident is currently under investigation.
12/10/2010 00:30 - Cheyney Police responded to Tubman Hall for a complaint of harassment. Complainant stated a student posted pictures up on Campus and FaceBook with comments. This incident is currently under investigation.
12/09/2010 23:29 - While handling numerous calls for service in Truth Hall, Cheyney Police were dispatched to the 2nd floor of Truth Hall for a possible illegal party. Upon police arrival, numerous bottles of alcohol were visible. Dorm director was on location – students will receive Judicials.
12/11/2010 16:00 – Cheyney Police were dispatched to Tubman Hall for a report of a unauthorized student in the dorm. Student was placed under arrest for defiant trespass.
12/11/2010 20:45 - Cheyney Police responded to the 2nd Floor of Truth Hall for a fire alarm activation in the trash room. Residents were evacuated from the building. A smell of burnt popcorn was evident. Nothing was burning and the source was located in a room where the residents confirmed they burnt popcorn. These residents did not evacuate and will be issued judicial for not following procedure.
12/12/2010 08:51 - Cheyney Police were dispatched to Truth Hall for a report of an unconscious person. Upon police arrival, they observed a male subject who appeared to be sleeping in front of the elevator on the 4th floor. An investigatory search of the subject produced an empty small glassine bag used for packaging marijuana. The subject was taken into custody and transported to police headquarters for processing. It was learned the subject was a former student who is no longer enrolled and was inside Truth Hall celebrating with a friend who was accepted into Moo Psi Moo. The subject was cited for Criminal Trespass and Disorderly Conduct and escorted off campus.
12/12/2010 19:49 – Cheyney Police were dispatched for a disturbance in the area of the bus stop at University Circle and Alumni Lane. Upon arrival, police observed the female actor and detected a very strong odor of alcohol on her person. Her speech was slurred and she was very confrontational. She was transported to the police station where she admitted consuming alcoholic beverages. She was cited for violations of Pennsylvania Crimes Code 5505.
12/13/2010 00:05 - Cheyney Police were dispatched to Tubman Hall to investigate a disturbance viewed on the surveillance cameras. Upon arrival, police observed several females in the first floor lobby involved in a heated argument. Police discovered that someone had dumped a trashcan full of bleach water in a room on the 7th floor. The occupant of that room was accusing another group of females of having something to do with it. Police separated the parties and gathered information. The Dorm Director was advised and indicated he would conduct an investigation of the incident.
12/12/2010 18:41 - Cheyney Police were dispatched to King Hall 6th floor for a report of a theft that occurred over the weekend. Upon arrival, police were met in the lobby by the complainant and her roommate whom she was accusing of taking a purse from the closet. During this incident, police were called away to investigate a possible assault in progress with a weapon. This incident is under investigation. | http://www.cheyney.edu/news/Cheyney-Police-Blotter-for-week-ending-12-12-10.cfm?grp_id=5698 | 2013-05-18T11:02:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Mary Ellen Podmolik
The Homefront
4:45 PM CDT, October 4, 2012
Property.
The Chicago area's year-to-date flipping volume mirrors that of the nation, where the almost 100,000 flips that took place in the year's first six months were a 25 percent increase from a year ago.
By RealtyTrac's definition, a house is flipped if it's first sold at a discounted price and then resold, typically within 90 days, for market value, which assumes that improvements were made to the property. The majority of flipped properties are thought to have come from distressed sales.
It can be a profitable endeavor for the right person. In Cook County, for instance, the average gross profit for a flipped property, not including the rehab costs and carrying costs, was more than $55,000, and it took an average of 114 days to flip a property.
That profit potential was the reason why Mike Baird and Doug Clark, of Spike TV's "Flip Men," got into the business in Salt Lake City.
Baird became interested in real estate and flipping after graduating from college but knew nothing about home repair and maintenance. His father took him to a hardware store, where he learned the difference between a Phillips and a flat-head screwdriver.
Clark was a commercial airline pilot who says "the only thing I knew about real estate was they paid me to fly over it." After meeting Baird at a real estate auction, he began to shadow him to learn the business and the two formed a company together in 2005.
In a recent webinar for RealtyTrac, the two shared their advice for newcomers to the business.
Do plenty of research. Pick an area, a small area, and know it thoroughly, including the average selling price per square foot for homes, when homes most recently sold and how that price compares with historical trends for the neighborhood.
Clark and Baird would play a game of sorts, driving around looking at homes for sale and their square footage and guessing what their selling price would be. Eventually, they started making accurate guesses, which they said meant they understood the value of the area.
Be patient. Be prepared to look at a lot of properties before deciding to move forward with an offer. Baird and Clark may look at the descriptions of 50 to 100 properties a day and only bid on a few of them.
"It's much worse to buy a bad deal than no deal at all," Clark said.
"Don't get frustrated if your first offer, your first deal, your first day, doesn't work out."
Forget real estate's unwritten rule. Adopt a new way of thinking. "In real estate, it's location, location, location," Baird said.
"In flipping, it's price, price and then price again."
When an opportunity then presents itself, in a well-researched area, potential investors know what price to bid, what renovations would be needed to make the house marketable and what the market price should be.
Consider becoming a landlord. Think about whether the goal is short-term gains or building a portfolio that produces passive income. The flip men have a sizable portfolio of rental properties in addition to their flipping business.
"Holding is a guaranteed victory, in my opinion," Clark said. "Everyone looks like a genius when you hold a property long enough. Over time, land values go up. I call it BYOR: Bring your own retirement."
Free foreclosure prevention workshop
The Illinois Foreclosure Prevention Network, a state-supported effort to assist homeowners, will conduct a free workshop from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 13 at South Holland's community center. Mortgage lenders, housing counselors and staff from the state's Hardest Hit Fund will attend.
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Chris Jones
Theater critic
4:36 PM CST, January 13, 2013
"Side Effects May Include …," the new solo comedy from the "Seinfeld" writer Marc Jaffe and playwright Eric Coble, bills itself as a play about Parkinson's disease. By Act 2, it feels very much like a show about sex.
That's because an increased libido is one of the side effects of a common drug, Ropinirole (or Requip), taken to control the onset of this debilitating and uncurable condition. For Phil, the middle-age, stand-up comic (married to a doctor) whose musings and monologues make up the short two-act show, this is a highly desirable new state of affairs. And he gleefully reveals how a marriage with a hitherto moribund sex life morphs into an energetic series of several-times-a-day couplings that almost wear out the necessary equipment, at least on one side of the bed (or kitchen table).
In many ways, you can see why Jaffe clings to this particular theme. Writing a comedy about Parkinson's is not easy, and sex is funny. Phil is, of course, a version of Jaffe himself, and the way the character struggles with the woman he loves developing young-onset Parkinson's is a reflection of the real situation faced by Jaffe and his wife, the Ohio physician Karen Jaffe. The two have made their situation public on Fox News and on other local and national media outlets, and have started a comedy foundation, "Shaking With Laughter," designed to raise funds for, and awareness of, the medical advances against the disease. (A portion of the box office revenue from this show is going to that fight.) This show is part of the message that it's not a good long-term strategy for anyone to keep Parkinson's secret from family members and supporters.
"Side Effects May Include …" is thus a very worthy project, although that sexual theme does, in fact, overwhelm the show's initially promising deeper themes of change, support and struggle, which are raised but dropped much too quickly here. Many people with medical situations like Parkinson's do, in fact, see the humor of all aspects of their situation — even the ones for which they keep their clothes on — and the show does not need to skip away from those more difficult issues in quite such a rush to the bedroom. The jokes may be less obvious elsewhere, and they may require more risk, but the rewards would be greater.
In Chicago, "Side Effects" is performed for MadKap Productions by local actor and comic Andrew J. Pond, working under the direction of Wayne Mell. Given the small size of the Greenhouse studio — here filled with a terrific set from Robert D. Estrin that makes a collage from pills, a bed and the stage of a comedy club — a more subtle level of performance would be desirable. Pond is quite a funny, wacky guy, but everything in this show tends to be slightly overplayed — a repetitive tendency you can also see in the script, which has a habit of carrying its gags one step too far, diminishing both thematic and comedic surprises. Along with more pace and subtlety, the script also needs heightened dramatic tension. We want to see Phil arrive somewhere new by the end of the piece, but it feels more like he has just arrived at the end of his routine, his mental state mostly unchanged.
Writing such a piece, such a personal story, is far from easy. The hard truth, of course, is that once another actor in another city takes it over, the story has to be about far more than one couple and offer insights for others whose struggles may or may not involve this particular situation, which is hardly the only monkey-wrench that can be thrown into life. "Side Effects May Include …" has the potential to be an important contribution to the argument that adversity can be made more bearable by love and laughter, but that means confronting the very toughest stuff. Jaffe and Coble should give the work another pass-through; mostly, the show needs more risk, a concept not unfamiliar to anyone with facing down Parkinson's or any other life-changing challenge.
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The pretzel crosses its arms in the universal sign language for "no way." In fact, "pretzel" comes from "crossed arms." But it's not the surly sort. Salty, sure. Knotted, often. Hard, sometimes. Never surly.
The pretzel is easygoing. Good with beer. Good without beer. Good as a snack or bite or pregame distraction. Rarely the main event, except when dispensed from a sidewalk cart, hot, with mustard.
So I was surprised one evening when a pretzel snagged my attention. Not just snagged, but stapled it. I was drinking something fruity and bubbly when the waiter dropped off a basket of "Amish" pretzels.
They looked like nondenominational pretzels, albeit drab. No twists or yoga poses. Simply straight, a bit puffy, matte finish. And compellingly delicious.
I called chef Chad Gauss, who explained his technique: no looping, no boiling, lots of butter and a sprint through the hot oven. I liked his method, and his results.
Now it's my go-to pretzel. Way better than those crunchy rods and nuggets, those bland ballpark baldies, all of which inspire the crossed arms of "no way."
Amish-country soft pretzels
Prep: 1 hour 15 minutes
Bake: 5-8 minutes
Makes: 32 sticks
Ingredients:
1 1/3 cup warm water
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon dry active yeast
2 cups bread flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
Clarified butter, melted
1 cup cold water
1 tablespoon baking powder
Kosher salt
Mix:
In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk together warm water, brown sugar and yeast. Measure in both kinds of flour. Using the dough hook, knead to a soft ball, about 4 minutes.
Rest:
Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rest until doubled in volume, about 1 hour. Meanwhile, brush a rimmed baking sheet with clarified butter. In a small bowl, mix together cold water and baking powder.
Roll:
Cut dough into four equal portions, then into eight equal portions, yielding 32 dough packets. Roll each into a fat finger, about 4 inches long.
Dip:
Dip each dough finger into baking powder mixture, then pack snugly onto the buttered baking sheet. Fingers will touch. Let rest until just tacky, 5 minutes. Brush with clarified butter. Sprinkle with kosher salt.
Bake:
Slide into the center of a 500-degree oven and bake until pretzels are crisp outside and chewy inside, 5-8 minutes. Pull apart and enjoy warm.
Provenance:
Chad Gauss of The Food Market, Baltimore.
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September 1972, Team
Canada and Team
USSR took part in the Summit
Series between the best hockey powers in the world.
This epic event became one of the most fascinating sports
spectacles of the XX century. Its magnitude was so huge
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and web sites about the Summit.
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that made me an avid fan of the game.
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game of hockey but the appeal of the Summit to me is not
limited to the game per se. Obviously, the 1972 Summit
had a tremendous impact on hockey. As a matter of fact,
I think it changed the game. But, I have no ambitions
to create the best site pretending to capture all these
changes.
The
Summit in 1972 is a personal web site. It is rather
about one of the biggest experiences in my life that went
well beyond hockey. The Summit taught me something about
winning and loosing, courage and dedication, pride and
honor, respect and appreciation. For me as a kid growing
up in Russia in the 1970s, it was a glimpse of life outside
the Iron Curtain. In a way, it helped me to better understand
myself, to see a bigger picture and to become the one
who I am now.
The Summit in 1972 is
my personal tribute to the 1972 Super Series. It is dedicated
to the 30th Anniversary of these historical games. Needless
to say, The Summit in 1972
is a non-commercial venture. Therefore, no hockey league,
no federation, no specific product, no political system
are being intentionally endorsed by this site.
The Summit in 1972 is
brought to you by chidlovski.com
and, like everything else within this catchy domain name
, this project
presents strictly its author's point of view. Although
the site showcases various statistics
and complete game summaries,
the commentary part is
just a matter of its author's reflection on the Series.
Other than that, welcome to the site! | http://www.chidlovski.com/personal/1972/about.htm | 2013-05-18T10:30:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Does any member of your household own:: MOBILE TELEPHONE, BICYCLE, MOTORCYCLE OR SCOOTER, TRACTOR, CAR, TRUCK, MOTHOR BOAT. | http://www.childinfo.org/mics/mics3/archives/serbia/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var116.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
News ViewsSaturday, August 1st, 2009
Adding to the Ennals Annals
Last month we reported Paul Ennals’s knighthood. This month he has been appointed Chair of the Children’s Workforce Development Council, following the untimely death of Mike Leadbetter. It is good news for the CWDC, as Sir Paul is an enthusiast, but level-headed, well connected and well respected, i.e. just the sort of person they need if they are to have the impact they seek, influencing Government, trying to attract the necessary funding in the face of the recession, and needing to motivate and professionalise the workforce. It is a tall order, but if anyone can provide the inspiration Sir Paul Ennals will.
Toni Julia
Most readers of Children Webmag will not have heard of Toni Julia. Top entertainers, sportspeople and politicians are known world-wide, but not child care workers. Toni was a major - and very energetic - figure in the European child care scene, playing a large part in AIEJI. He did much to promote the profession of social education / pedagogy, especially in Spain and in the Spanish-speaking world. He also had a great impact on the children in his care. He died on 17 July 2009 of leukaemia; he will be much missed and remembered by those who knew him.
Stephen Shaw
Stephen Shaw has sent us an email (attached here), arguing in detail about the housing needs of young adults and other homeless people in Cornwall, and requesting support. As we have not checked the story, we are simply drawing readers’ attention to the case he makes.
Certainly the clientele he has served need both housing and support. Given those, they may achieve the stability they need to address other problems and perhaps gain employment. People who have the “three-legged stool” of home, job and social life have a chance of success. Without any one of the three, their chances are seriously diminished. If any reader can advise Stephen Shaw, please respond. If any of the authorities involved wish to reply, we shall be pleased to publish their views.
A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good
That is what they used to say, and certainly young children, left to themselves, will orally test out just about anything which they can get into their mouths. We remember one child who had to be confined in the family car because he had such a penchant for eating sand when he went to the beach. This process may, however, have helped us during childhood to consume small quantities of all sorts of things and so gain immunity against a variety of lurgies and chemicals.
Our bodies contain, use and indeed manufacture a very wide range of chemicals for different purposes, often in very weak dilutions. The chemicals which we take in when downing pills and medical potions, we suspect, are fairly blunt weapons by comparison, which could be the cause of side-effects.
There is still a lot to learn about the way the body copes and how we can best help it. In a recent piece of research Dr Pamela Ewan of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has enabled twenty patients who had peanut allergies to take minute quantities and build up the amounts until they can now eat a handful of peanuts. They have found this a liberating experience.
This is good news, but it’s not new news. Mithridates VI of Pontus accustomed himself to drinking small amounts of poison, in case anyone tried to kill him. He eventually died at the age of 71. Unhappily for him, he tried to poison himself and was unsuccessful, as he was immune, and according to Appian he had to ask his bodyguard to finish him off with his sword.
We wish those with peanut allergies a happier outcome.
Cleared to Make Contact
Philip Pullman is one of a number of authors who have objected to the introduction of vetting. He described it as “ludicrous and insulting”. He may be well-known and we certainly have no evidence that he or his fellow-objectors pose any threat to children, but just because they were not vetted in the past does not mean that the system should never be introduced, and the fact that some of them are famous does not mean that all of them necessarily have impeccable credentials. Unfortunately some famous people do not, and there is no reason to suppose that writers are more moral than everyone else.
We think that they should come off their high horses and be like the rest of us. The rule is that if we are likely to work with children we need to be vetted. Tough.
It reminds us of a well-known psychiatrist who was visiting a secure unit for children when a fire practice took place. He declined to take part. He finished dictating his reports and, as he was leaving, he said to the Senior Fire Officer, “My uncle was a fireman”, getting the response, “And what does that make you, bloody fire-proof?” The assembled staff and children who had just completed the practice did not sympathise with the psychiatrist.
Backing Jackson
Both in life and in death Michael Jackson attracted a massive amount of attention and caused a massive amount of controversy - as a fetching child singer, a pop superstar, an inventive musician and a somewhat strange person who had something of Peter Pan about him.
What fascinated us, however, was the general reaction to his death. Whether the allegations were true or not, it had been alleged that Michael Jackson shared his bed with teenage boys and that he had paid a large amount of money to avoid court action. For this sort of thing paedophiles have been locked up for life, hounded out of their homes and had their lives destroyed. This did not happen with Jackson; his fans stood by him. Why?
Was it just the power of money? Was it that nothing was ever formally proven? Was it that fans simply could not believe that he would abuse children? Was it the childlike qualities which he had, which made him at times seem more of a peer than a parent figure to children? Was it that he was so adored for his music that fans were prepared to overlook his foibles? Whatever the reason, others, such as Gary Glitter, have not got away with it.
From a Report by a Residential Worker
I sign in, and cheek which staff are on duty.
Deserves to be smacked.
Tags: AIEJI, CWDC, Housing, Michael Jackson, Paedophiles, Peanut allergies, Sir Paul Ennals, Vetting | http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/editorial/news-views-19 | 2013-05-18T10:12:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Third Annual Child’s Play Invitational 2013 - jdillion@childsplaycharity.org.
Course: Inglewood Golf Club
Date: Monday, May 20, 2013
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Tushar's Feedback on 14-Day China Tour
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All the Best to Mr. Simon & Hope that our Tour also Turns up the way it has been Promised.
Regards,
Tushar
Hi Steven,
We are getting really excellent service like Quick Replies, Suggestions, etc., on our Group Tour planning, to visit China from 9 th July., from Mr. Simon Huang.
We surely are interested to book the Tour. Let's hope for the Best.
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I would like to make a Special mention of our Guide in Xian Ms. Echo, she was very knowledgeable about the city's History.
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Labor passed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal with 206 votes to 185, reversing a decades-old policy excluding New Delhi from Australia's uranium trade because it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Gillard argued that it was neither rational nor intellectually defensible to sell uranium to rising powers such as China and not to India, “the world's largest democracy” and a fast-growing nation of increasing global clout.
“Let's just face facts here — our refusal to sell uranium to India is not going to cause India to decide that it will no longer have nuclear weapons,” Gillard told the Labor summit.
“We can honor the treaty, we can change our platform, we can — under the most stringent of agreements — sell uranium to India if we so choose and, delegates, I believe that we should make that choice.”
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd warned that India would need to meet “onerous” conditions before trade could begin and said it would be “a very long, detailed and, I think, tough negotiation.”
Although Australia does not use nuclear power, it is the world's third-ranking uranium producer behind Kazakhstan and Canada, exporting 9,600 tons of oxide concentrate each year worth more than AU$1.1 billion (US$1.1 billion).
It also has the world's largest reserves of uranium, holding 23 percent of the total, according to the World Nuclear Association.
Canberra ships the nuclear fuel to China, Japan, Taiwan and the United States but has refused to sell to India — long a sticking point in usually cordial relations between the key trading partners.
Defense Minister Stephen Smith backed Gillard's proposal, saying India had voluntarily submitted to civilian nuclear checks by international regulators and was a “rising power ... which is deserving of being accorded that status.”
New Delhi agreed to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and abide by International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards under a 2005 agreement with the United States which Gillard has cited as a precedent for her decision.
Strong views were voiced against lifting the ban, with British-born Communications Minister Stephen Conroy choking up with emotion as he described how the 1957 Windscale nuclear fire in Cumbria had affected his family.
Windscale was Britain's worst atomic accident, rated at five out of seven on the international scale, in which a blaze inside a reactor released substantial amounts of radioactive contaminants into the local area.
Parts of Australia's desert interior were left uninhabitable by British atomic tests in the same period (1955-1963) and one delegate said local people were “dying of cancers to this day”.
Peter Garrett, former front man for the rock band Midnight Oil, got a standing ovation for his impassioned speech, as did Transport Minister Anthony Albanese, who criticized the move following Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster.
“Nine months after Fukushima we are being asked to sell more uranium for more nuclear reactors to a country that does not have nuclear safeguards,” Albanese said.
Anti-nuclear campaigners said it was a “major blow to the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.”
“The Labor Party has put profits before the peace and security of the region,” said Tim Wright, Australian director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
India is expected to increase its use of nuclear power from three percent of electricity generation to 40 percent by 2050, and Australia's uranium lobby believes it could be selling 2,500 tons a year to the Asian giant by 2030. | http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/australia/2011/12/05/324963/Australian-Labor.htm | 2013-05-18T10:22:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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If you would like to apply for a Macao visa at the Chinese Embassy in the U.K., please go to 31 Portland Place, London, W1B 1QD with the following documents.
1.Diplomatic/Official Visas
1) a completed Application Form
2) the valid passport with at least one blank visa page as well as a photocopy of the bio data page
3) the valid UK visa acquired and a copy of it
4) a recent 1.5-inch full face light-colored background color photo
5) an Official Note from the relative institution
2.Visiting Visa
1) For Tourism
A. a completed Application Form
B. the valid passport with at least one blank visa page as well as photocopies of the bio data page and all used inside pages
C. the valid UK visa acquired and a copy of it
D. a recent 1.5-inch full face light-colored background color photo
E. the bank statements for last 3 months (balance should be over £500 per month)
F. a letter from your employer or school or a copy of your own company license
G. booking information of your return flight tickets, accommodation and itinerary in Macao, tour receipt
H. pages carrying important information in a travel document previously used to enter Macao (if any)
2) For Family Visit
G. booking information of your return flight tickets, accommodation and itinerary in Macao
I. information of relative in Macao including name, address and telephone number, and photocopy of residence/stay document of relative in Macao
3) For Business
I. an invitation letter from the invitee in Macao
4) For Study
I. the admission document of a high-educational institute in Macao
5) For Work
I.The copy of the Proof of employment approval by the Macao authorities. For first-time applicants, the copy of the application form of "Non-resident Worker's Authorization to Stay" that passes the examination of the Immigration Department; for renewal, the copy of the application letter of "Renewal of Non-resident Worker's Authorization to Stay" that passes the examination of the Immigration Department
6) For Dependant
I. Macao identity card of the family, document of kinship, etc
7) Stay as relative of non-resident worker
I. The copy of the approval document of Macao authorities to stay in Macao ("Approval Letter" of Special Authorization to Stay granted to family members of non-resident worker)
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2. Nationals of Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam have to apply for Macao visas at the Chinese Embassy in the U.K.
3. National from countries other than the above 72 may choose to apply for Macao visas at the Chinese Embassy in the U.K. or make a visa-upon-arrival (entry permit) application upon their arrival at Macao.
If you have any enquiries or need more information about the visa application, you may check on Macao SAR Public Security Police Force Immigration Department website or contact them by fax at 0085387967360, or through email at migsi@fsm.gov.cn. | http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/visa/rcgadq/ | 2013-05-18T10:42:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Embracing the “Mom New Year”
Posted by onceamonthmom on 08.09.12
I’ve been using the term “Mom New Year” to refer to the month of August for the last several years. Having written a family-centered meal planning blog for over 3 years now you start to notice cycles. Whereas January is a big month for goal-setting, reorganizing and the like, August seems to be the “New Year” for moms. It means the start of new routines, new schools, new schedules, new sports, new homework and new friends. It is a time to settle into routine and shed the spontaneity of the summer months.
And since my kids are heading off to preschool themselves for the first time, I find myself in the throes of the “Mom New Year”. Here are a few of my goals as we head into this new season of life.
- Exercise – Use at least 2 of the days they are in school to participate in a workout of some type. There is a gym close to the school or come home and do a workout video. Regardless, I have been saying I’m going to do this when they start back to school so I MUST.
- Cleaning – Oh how I hate cleaning. I really do. Anyone with me? My usual excuse is that the kids undo things as fast as I clean them so getting things done when they are around is impossible. Well, they won’t be around for 3 hours each day so I don’t have that excuse anymore!
- Blogging – I do have a full-fledged resource site and after the summer adventures it is in some need of some TLC. I will definitely be spending much of my time and energy here.
- Freezer Cooking – this kind of goes hand and hand with #3 since I run a freezer cooking site but this is more of a personal goal as well. We are more likely to sit and eat as a family at home if I have freezer meals at the ready so I want to make sure that we have our family favorites in addition to blog features.
What about you? Do you have any goals for the “Mom New Year”?
Tricia Callahan (aka Once A Month Mom)
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Tricia, I once again want to sing your praises for onceamonthmom.com Thank you very much for all you do! With that being said, I have all of the goals you have, plus some. I need to get better at exercise, cleaning, and blogging. I also will be doing some freezer cooking (thanks to you!) soon. | http://www.chiquitamoms.com/2012/08/embracing-the-mom-new-year/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This week’s chosen recipe was Dorie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is my second time making them. The first time they spread too thin because I used diet margarine. This time around, I decided to use my brand new heart cookie pan. I was really hoping to get the cookie texture you find in cookie cakes from the Great American Cookie Place at the mall or even your grocery’s bakery, but this cookie cake was more…cakier? It was still a good recipe, just not my type of cookie. I like my CCC more chewy and not so soft.
I didn’t bother decorating it because it wasn’t the texture I was looking for and I was too lazy. If anybody has a recipe for a cookie cake just like the one from mall, let me know. I tried a second recipe last night, but still turned out too soft compared to the mall one.
Thanks goes out to Kait of Kait’s Plate for hosting this week’s recipe! You can check out the recipe on page 68 of Baking: From My Home To Yours or on Kait’s blog. | http://www.chocolatemoosey.com/2010/02/16/tuesdays-with-dorie-chocolate-chip-cookies/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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September 27, 2012
Contact: John Ascenzi, Public Relations Department, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 267-426-6055, Ascenzi@email.chop.ed,v. 2011 under the partnership between CHOP and BGI to focus on discovery of genes underpinning rare and common pediatric diseases using next-generation sequencing.
Robert W. Doms, M.D., Ph.D.,.D., 5, M.D., and Nancy Spinner, Ph.D.). The Center’s service portfolio includes human whole exome sequencing, targeted sequencing, whole genome re-sequencing, specialized applications such as ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq, and NGS data analysis.. For more information, visit.. | http://www.chop.edu/news/chop-bgi-to-offer-ngs-services.html?calYear=2012&calMonth=8&calDay=28&range=month&view=events | 2013-05-18T10:42:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
April 5, 2012
Contact: Joey McCool Ryan, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 267-426-6070 or mccool@email.chop.edu
In the largest multicenter clinical trial of children undergoing early-stage surgery for single-ventricle heart defects, differences in intraoperative management did not significantly affect neurodevelopmental outcomes at 14 months of age. Instead, the strongest influences were innate patient characteristics and general medical morbidity during the child’s first year of life.
Children born with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome (HLHS) and related single-ventricle defects have long been known to be vulnerable to developmental impairments, and researchers suspected that variations in heart shunts and in cardiopulmonary bypass might affect outcomes. However, the study leaders concluded that substantial improvements in neurodevelopmental outcomes are “likely to require interventions that occur outside the operating room.” For example, because infants delivered closer to term had better neurodevelopmental outcomes, the researchers suggest postponing elective delivery from 37 weeks to 39 or 40 weeks might benefit patients.
Researchers from 15 hospitals in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Pediatric Heart Network published these results from the Single-Ventricle Reconstruction (SVR) trial online March 28 in the journal Circulation. The lead author was Jane W. Newburger, MD, MPH, of Children’s Hospital Boston.
The SVR trial, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, is the largest prospective study of children undergoing the Norwood procedure, the first in a series of three staged surgeries used for this complex, life-threatening heart defect. The trial compared outcomes after the Norwood procedure for two types of heart shunt: the Blalock-Taussig shunt and the right-ventricular-to-pulmonary artery (RV-to-PA) shunt. The current study reported on an important secondary trial outcome, neurodevelopment assessed at 14 months of age.
The study leaders hypothesized that children in the RV-to-PA shunt group would fare better in neurodevelopmental tests, reasoning that cerebral blood flow was improved compared to that provided by the Blalock-Taussig shunt. However, neurodevelopmental delay remained common in both groups, a finding that was “discouragingly similar” to results from earlier studies, said J. William Gaynor, MD, pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and senior author of the study. Factors such as the presence of genetic syndromes, lower maternal education and lower birth weight led to lower development scores.
The current study included infants from 15 participating centers, recruited between May 2005 and July 2008. The researchers evaluated 321 infants at 14 months of age. Neurodevelopment was assessed using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development Second Edition, a standardized assessment of cognitive and motor development, with two scores: the Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) and the Mental Development Index (MDI).
MDI scores for the infants who had the Norwood procedure were significantly lower than in the general population, and PDI scores for the cohort were profoundly lower—greater than 2 standard deviations lower in 44 percent of the patients. Infants with both shunt types had similar developmental scores. No characteristics such as center volume or surgeon volume had an effect on PDI or MDI scores, nor did the type of perfusion. The subgroup of patients with the highest PDI and MDI scores, as well as a shorter post-operative hospital stay, were children with no genetic syndrome and birth weights higher than 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs.).
The authors suggested that birth weight might be improved by postponing the time of elective delivery to 39 to 40 weeks. Recent studies have shown that babies with critical congenital heart disease were delivered electively as early as 37 weeks.
The study team found that infants with more post-operative complications tended to have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes. “Between Norwood discharge and age 12 months, a greater number of complications were also associated with worse development, a novel finding that highlights ongoing brain vulnerability and opportunities for intervention,” said Newburger. Longer recovery times and prolonged mechanical ventilation may involve other factors during hospitalization, such as adverse events, low cardiac output, poor feeding or comorbidities.
“The finding that postnatal factors had only modest effects on neurodevelopment is consistent with growing evidence that the risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes begins in the prenatal period,” added Gaynor. Patients with HLHS have a high rate of abnormal cerebral development and smaller head size, suggesting that genetic factors and epigenetic changes contribute to brain abnormalities. Researchers have identified abnormalities in fetal cerebral blood flow and in brain metabolism and microstructure, all indicative of brain immaturity in fetuses and neonates with this heart defect. These delays in brain maturation, said Gaynor, may increase the infant’s vulnerability to circulatory injury in the brain during the operative period.
Further studies may reveal interventions that improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in these children, conclude the authors. In addition to discouraging elective deliveries before 39 weeks, they suggest evaluating further measures to protect the brain from hemodynamic instability before and after the surgery, and improving developmental support after the infant is discharged following the Norwood procedure.
Co-authors with Newburger and Gaynor were Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD, New England Research Institutes; David C. Bellinger PhD, MSc, Children’s Hospital Boston; Caren S. Goldberg, MD., MS, University of Michigan Medical School; Sarah Tabbutt, MD, PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Minmin Lu, MS, New England Research Institutes; Kathleen A. Mussatto, RN, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Ismee A. Williams, MD, MS, Morgan-Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Kathryn E. Gustafson, PhD, North Carolina Consortium; Seema Mital, MD, Wake Forest University; Nancy Pike, RN, PhD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Erica Sood, PhD, Nemours Cardiac Center; William T. Mahle, MD, Emory University; David S. Cooper, MD, The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida; Carolyn Dunbar-Masterson, BSN, RN, Children’s Hospital Boston; Catherine Dent Krawczeski, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center; Allan Lewis, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Shaji C. Menon, MD, Primary Children’s Medical Center and the University of Utah; Victoria L. Pemberton, RNC, MS, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Chitra Ravishankar, MD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Theresa W. Atz, MSN, Medical University of South Carolina; and Richard G. Ohye, MD, University of Michigan Medical School. | http://www.chop.edu/news/neurodevelopmental-outcomes-not-improved-by-heart-defect-surgery.html?calYear=2012&calMonth=10&calDay=26&range=month&view=events | 2013-05-18T10:32:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
November 29, 2012
Contact: Alison Fraser, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 267-426-6054, or frasera1@email.chop.edu
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is celebrating 50 years of caring for critically ill infants in the Harriet and Ronald Lassin Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU) with an anniversary event. CHOP established the nation’s first surgical neonatal intensive care unit in 1962 under the leadership of C. Everett Koop, MD, then surgeon-in-chief at the Hospital and later Surgeon General of the United States.
What began as a one-room 12-bed unit now houses 95 licensed beds, with more than 400 staff members who care for about 1,200 infants each year using sophisticated technologies unimaginable in the 1960s.
“Today, we take for granted that hospitals have a special unit dedicated to critically ill infants, but in the 1960s, NICUs were a cutting-edge idea,” said Steven M. Altschuler, MD, chief executive officer. “CHOP was a pioneer in the field, and through the decades our research has helped clinicians worldwide learn how to better care for neonates. We continue to lead the way in neonatal care.”
CHOP’s Division of Neonatology is ranked among the best in the nation, and its N/IICU has the expertise and technology to provide the highest level of care for critically ill neonates, including premature infants – some born as early as 22 weeks – as well as those with congenital anomalies or rare disorders. Aside from the 15 percent of babies in the unit who are diagnosed with birth defects prenatally in CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and born in the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit, most are transported to CHOP’s N/IICU from other hospitals, many from beyond the Philadelphia region. These infants benefit from the entire range of pediatric subspecialties available at CHOP.
Years of experience and research have led to the development of multidisciplinary programs at CHOP for neonatal conditions such as airway disorders, chronic lung disease and neonatal stroke.
“Babies in our N/IICU are cared for by a clinical team with decades of experience treating infants who have the most serious diagnoses,” said Phyllis Dennery, MD, chief, Division of Neonatology. “Our neonatal staff is leading the way at the bench and bedside, conducting research and seeking out new treatments and techniques to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable neonates.”
Many of the Division’s physicians are active researchers, studying areas such as understanding and preventing lung injury in premature babies, evaluating the effects of the maternal environment on neonates and developing markers to predict illness in babies.
The neonatal program at CHOP has grown over the years to extend beyond the Hospital’s walls, through the CHOP Newborn Care Network, which runs the intensive care nurseries at 11 community hospitals. | http://www.chop.edu/news/niicu-celebrates-50th-anniversary.html?calYear=2013&calMonth=0&calDay=18&range=month&view=events | 2013-05-18T11:03:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
October 6, 2010
Contact: Ashley Moore, Department of Public Relations, 267-426-6071
A group of artists, young people and medical experts are involved in a groundbreaking project at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that uses the intimate process of portrait painting to help children and young people with craniofacial problems see themselves in a different light.
For 13-year-old Emily, whose life has been filled with reconstructive surgeries and long stretches away from home, it was a chance “to be me.” For veteran painter Robin Frey, the program was a special chance to marry the technical aspects of her craft with a sense of spirituality.
Face To Face: The Craniofacial Program Portrait Project, is an innovative collaboration between The Craniofacial Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Studio Incamminati, internationally renowned portrait artist Nelson Shanks’ realist art school. Face to Face is the first of its kind in the US. The program assesses the experiences of children and adolescents with craniofacial problems by using a novel intervention – sitting for a portrait. It also scientifically documents the impact of the psychosocial functioning of the participants.
Eight portraits of patients ranging from age 7 to 25 have been completed and plans call for Face To Face to be a continuing project. In addition to adding to the scientific body of knowledge, the paintings will be exhibited publicly in Children’s Hospital Colket Translational Research Building as part of the effort to highlight the challenges and strengths associated with living with a facial disfigurement.
Linton A. Whitaker, MD, senior surgeon at Children’s Hospital, professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and director of the school’s Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance; Scott P. Bartlett, MD, chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and David B. Sarwer, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine helped conceive and implement the project.
The artists are Stephen Early, Robin Dawn Frey and Kerry Dunn, instructors at Center City realist art academy Studio Incamminati, and Studio alumnus Debbie Schafer. They were chosen in 2007 after careful screening by Dr. Crerand.
“This proves the transformative power of art,” said Jay Pennie, executive director of Studio Incamminati. “It reminds us that, beyond our enjoyment of the finished painting, the very act of creating art can have a profound effect on those involved.”
One of the artists, Steve Early added, “I wanted to put the facial differences in the context of the whole person…to catch the spirit and beauty of this child, the hope and energy in her eyes.”
The project was funded by a grant from The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance.
Learn more about the Face-to-Face Portrait Project
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May 7, 2012
Contact: John Ascenzi, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Phone: (267) 426-6055, Ascenzi@email.chop.edu
Researchers studying the molecular signals that drive a specific type of lymphoma have discovered a key biological pathway leading to this type of cancer. Cancerous cells have been described as being “addicted” to certain oncogenes (cancer-causing genes), and the new research may lay the groundwork for breaking that addiction and effectively treating aggressive types of B cell lymphoma.
B cell lymphomas, which occur both in children and adults, are cancers that attack B cells in the immune system.
“Our research suggests ways to devise more specific therapies to selectively kill tumor cells in a subset of lymphomas,” said study leader Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Ph.D., an oncology researcher at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The study, conducted in animal cells and human cell cultures, appeared May 1 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
An oncogene is a type of gene that normally produces a protein active in cell growth or regulation. However, when the gene is mutated or otherwise overproduced, it can cause cancer. One family of oncogenes is called MYC, and the current study focused on how the MYC oncogene drives B cell lymphoma. MYC codes for Myc, a type of protein called a transcription factor. At high levels, Myc causes the uncontrolled cell growth that is a hallmark of cancer.
The researchers focused on the crucial role of the cell surface receptor CD19, a protein residing on the surface of all B cells that normally recognizes foreign invaders. “We found that CD19 is absolutely required to stabilize the Myc protein,” said Thomas-Tikhonenko. “When Myc is stable and present in high levels, it fuels cancer.” Patients with high levels of the Myc protein are more likely to die of lymphoma.
Patients with high levels of Myc also had high levels of CD19, and the current study describes a previously unknown molecular pathway that depends on CD19. It also implicates CD19 as a molecular on-off switch on that pathway. Usually, said Thomas-Tikhonenko, when you inhibit one pathway, another pathway compensates to produce the same end result. But in this case, there is no such redundant pathway: “Without CD19, there is no Myc,” he added, “so controlling that on-off switch could represent a powerful tool against lymphoma.”
The findings are particularly relevant, said Thomas-Tikhonenko, to current oncology clinical trials that are testing antibodies that act broadly against the CD19 receptor. Such antibodies kill all B cells, and thus weaken the immune system. His study suggests that understanding the CD19 pathway could enable researchers to design a more specific therapy that selectively kills tumor cells while sparing healthy B cells.
Further studies in his lab, he added, will further investigate these molecular pathways and how to translate this knowledge into future anti-cancer treatments.
The National Institutes of Health, the V Foundation and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust supported this study. In addition, a co-author, Elaine Y. Chung, Ph.D., was a fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Other co-authors, all from Children’s Hospital, were James N. Psathas, Ph.D., Duonan Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Yimei Li, Ph.D., and Mitchell J. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
“CD19 is a major B cell receptor-independent activator of MYC-driven B-lymphomagenesis,” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, published online May 1, 2012, doi:10.1172/JCI45851 | http://www.chop.edu/news/protein-a-switch-to-turn-off-b-cell-lymphoma.html?calYear=2013&calMonth=0&calDay=31&range=month | 2013-05-18T10:54:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
thumb|Ben Folds Five's self-titled debut album Ben Folds Five (1994–2000) was a three-member band formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina who were a mainstay of piano rock until their breakup in 2000. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending.
Ben Folds was lead singer, pianist, and main composer; Robert Sledge played bass, and Darren Jessee played drums and co-wrote some of the songs. Sledge and Jessee also delivered backup vocals. Their first radio single was "Underground" from their self-titled debut album, but their biggest success was the single "Brick" from their second album in 1998, a ballad which Folds later revealed was written about an experience with a high school girlfriend having an abortion.
After the band's reportedly amicable breakup in October 2000, Folds began a moderately successful solo career, Robert Sledge took up singing and bass playing duties with International Orange (which broke up in 2005), and Darren Jessee now fronts the band Hotel Lights.
Folds once described their music as "punk rock for sissies", a reac... | http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songartist/Ben+Folds+Five/index.html?filter=refsexolenceriadaru | 2013-05-18T10:54:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Today Robert Kirkman announced at his Skybound panel that he would be teaming up with G-Man creator Chris Giarrusso to release THE WALKING DEAD: FOR KIDS.
Robert described the series as follows:
“THE WALKING DEAD: FOR KIDS is going to be word-for-word, panel-for-panel like the regular Walking Dead books, with all the violence, all the sex… but for kids!”
Giarrusso added: “It’ll be adorable.”
[...] finally, at Emerald City Comic Con, Robert Kirkman announced The Walking Dead For Kids, to be illustrated by G-Man artist Chris Giarrusso, a panel-by-panel recreation of the powerhouse [...] | http://www.chrisgcomics.com/the-walking-dead-for-kids-announced-today-at-emerald-city-comicon/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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When you hear the word "fearlessness," what do you think of? I think of being able to overcome our fears. For example, I have a fear of heights, and so when I am able to do something that involves heights, I am being fearless.
But fearlessness has to do with how we live our every day lives as well. Many people called Brother Lawrence "fearless," because he was able to elevate himself above all that was not God. "He coveted nothing; nothing astonished him; he feared nothing. This stability of his soul came from the same source as all his other virtues. He had an exalted concept of God which made him think of Him as sovereign Justice and infinite Goodness. He was confident that God would not deceive him and that He would do him only good..."
Now this is a challenge for us, because we get so locked into this world, that we get caught up in the petty concerns and worries of life. We have difficulty raising ourselves above this notion that we don't have to covet or own anything to be happy. Our happiness can rest in God alone; the God who provides for us all that we need. We don't seek God and love God because of the benefits that He gives to us. We seek God and love God because God is our creator, and the One in whom we find our being and purpose.
Another aspect of Brother Lawrence's life that challenges us is the fact that he sought to act without any self-interest. This is a great challenge, because we have difficulty living our lives without being selfish. We are given this challenge by the apostle Paul in Philippians 2:3-4, "3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." Can we live our lives without seeking a reward? Can we be fearless by living our lives differently than those who don't know Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord? | http://www.chrislogan.blogspot.com/2007_10_21_archive.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Window of the Church, by Richard Caemmerer
What is pastoral ministry like these days, and how is it being shaped in new ways? The Century talked to pastors about the challenges and surprises of their early years in ministry.
Ministry in the 21st century
family is a good model for thinking about the church, says Moravian pastor Jennifer Benson Moran. It’s biblical, everyone in a family matters and belongs, and our own images of broken family can be redeemed in the church. Not so fast, says Lutheran pastor Cheryl M. Fleckenstein. A family suggests a closed and exclusive identity. There is the temptation for the pastor to fall into the role of parent and be expected to meet everyone’s needs. When the church functions as family it gives invitation to people to live out their own family dysfunctions in the church. It raises unrealistic expectations about the church being a community of intimates. The church is better understood as a company of strangers who are engaged together on behalf of God’s world, says Fleckenstein (Word & World, Spring).
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I’ve been wanting to do this for quite sometime. Now that 2012 wedding season is shaping up nicely I think it’s time to let it fly.
I’m giving away a wedding package. On me. Free. Giving back has been a huge part of my journey in photography-so I’d like to keep that going. I want this to be simple and easy for all you couples out there so here’s the goods.
One couple will win the following:
-All day wedding coverage with one photographer
-Digital Rights of your wedding photos
-Engagement session (or session of your choice)
-Online gallery for friends and family
-12×12 Coffee Table album
($2700 value)*
HOW TO ENTER
1. “Pin” this post (you can use the “pin it” button at bottom of post or post yourself) to your own Pinterest Board.
2. Email link to your Pinterest pin of this post AND the following info to christiangideonphotography@gmail.com
a) Name of bride and groom
b) Wedding Date (must have date set)
c) Wedding Venue and location
d) Tell me about yourselves
3. That’s it!
4. Oh yeah one last thing. Ever couple that enters will be eligible for 15% off any wedding booked in 2012!
Winner will be chosen by random drawing Feb 8th at noon
Rules:
1. Must send email with above info
2. All entries must be received by February 7, 2012
3. Travel costs are not included in giveaway.
4. 2013 weddings are also included
5. Weddings already reserved/book with Christian Gideon Photography are not eligible.
*travel not included
**Wedding Giveaway is in no way affiliated with Pinterest
If you know someone getting married in 2012-13 be sure to pass this along!
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- ( opted to attend outpatient drug therapy in Mexico for seven days, following the postponement of drug charges last week.
Muller was arrested in Aspen on Dec. 3. She is being charged with the possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and a misdemeanor assault charge, after being reported by a woman in a night club.
Mueller, is who is an actress and the former wife of Charlie Sheen, had already been sentenced to 30 days in rehab according to RadarOnline. New reports state that she will now spend another seven days in a Mexico rehabilitation center, to attempt a new form of treatment.
"This is a dramatic turn of events for Brooke as this is the first time she has ever voluntarily decided to stay in rehab," a close source reported to RadarOnline. "Brooke is getting sober for herself, and that is the first time she has ever said that. In the past, family, friends have forced her into rehab, but not this time. Brooke is taking an active role in her sobriety,"
In the middle of last year, Mueller completed a 45-day outpatient rehab program, for alcohol and drug addiction. This is her third arrest since, the last one in 2001 was also for the possession of cocaine.
Mueller is the mother of twins, with Charlie Sheen who was arrested in 2010 for third-degree assault and criminal mischief after attacking his wife in Aspen. The couple officially divorced in 2011, and now share joint custody of the children.
Reports suggest that Muller's current attempt at therapy is her best yet, as the star has gone far beyond her requirements and even decided to quit smoking.
"Brooke quit smoking on her own, she doesn't want to do anything unhealthy to herself anymore," a source told Radar. "Her treatment team is so impressed with her accomplishments. Brooke has said instead of smoking cigarettes, she will take vitamins!" | http://www.christianpost.com/news/brooke-mueller-extends-rehab-stay-quits-smoking-68075/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
- (Photo: Reddit/F.L. Medic)This rescued pit bull photo has gone viral.
A rescued pit bull photo has gone viral this week as animal lovers everywhere express their outrage at the treatment of numerous dogs forced by owners into a suspected dog fighting ring in Plant City, Florida.
Animal lovers have been unanimous in their condemnation of those behind the suspected dog fighting ring, and have called for them to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
However, amid the troubling news, a photo of one of the pit bulls rescued from the dog fighting ring has gone viral, and acted as a light in the darkness to the story.
The touching photo was uploaded to the Internet by Reddit user F.L. Medic, who uploaded a shot of a member of Hillsborough County Animal Services, Pam Perry, cradling one of the pit bulls in her arms.
The photo immediately went viral and has warmed the hearts of animal lovers everywhere.
Many have commented on the fact that many dogs that are bred for fighting find it extremely difficult to adapt once saved from that life. Once put in a normal setting in a loving home they sometimes have difficulties accepting their new environment, and especially trusting their owners and other people.
However, the photo has led many to suggest that this particular pit bull has hope, and might deal with the transition better than most.
The pit bull is shown in the arms of the Hillsborough County Animal Services staff member with what people have described as a "look of contentment" on its face.
Since being published the photo has been up-voted thousands of times, and has become so popular it has been featured on Reddit's main page.
Pam Perry - the woman cradling the dog lovingly in the photo - has also received much praise, with many compassionate people complimenting her for her job. | http://www.christianpost.com/news/rescued-pit-bull-photo-goes-viral-dog-rescued-from-fighting-ring-lovingly-cradled-by-rescuer-89226/print.html | 2013-05-18T10:13:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
After months of mulling over the issue, the voting members of the Boy Scouts of America will consider a resolution to lift the ban on gay members, but not gay leadership.
Deron Smith, spokesman for the BSA, told Reuters Friday that the resolution will be voted upon in May at the national youth organization's Board Meeting in Texas.
"No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone," reads the proposed resolution...". more >>." more >>
A University of Sioux Falls student is claiming that she was fired from her job as a counselor at a Christian summer camp after voicing her support for same-sex marriage on her personal blog.
Dannika Nash, a native of Sioux Falls, S.D., and a junior at the University of Sioux Falls, claims that she was dismissed from her job as a camp counselor at a summer church camp after writing the April 7 blog post, "An Open Letter to the Church from My Generation."
In the blog, Nash urges the Christian church to change its position on same-sex marriage or risk losing the younger generation of Christians. more >> | http://www.christianpost.com/topics/homosexuality/page12.html | 2013-05-18T11:03:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
How does it work?
When you connect your Social Account to us, you allow us access to parts of your social graph, including the ability to analyze your comments and posts. This analysis uses machine learning and a technique called ‘Sentiment Analysis’ to uncover the overall sense of your post or comment.
The more accurate data into the analysis engine, the more likely we are to get good results out. We are initially linking to your Facebook comments and posts, but have designs on analyzing other networks that you consent to share with us (Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.).
When a text block is submitted for analysis, we receive a polarity rating of 0, 2 or 4, where 0 implies negative sentiment, 2 is neutral, and 4 implies positive sentiment. For most of our analysis, we examine upwards of 50 posts or tweets per subject, and this normally gives us a good baseline to draw inferences. To counteract the fact that a lot of text is neutral, we disregard 90% of neutral statements.
Once we have sufficient data to analyze, we assign it a certain weighting (that is, how much it contributes to the overall score), convert it to a percentage from 0 to 100%. On this scale, 0% is back-the-entire-coal-truck up naughty and 100% is Santa Claus-himself niceness.
Can you tell me more about Santa’s List of Celebrities?
While the Santa-lzyer was designed in large part for individuals to assess how naughty they have been (and thus influence the Santa in their life), we thought it would be enlightening to see how those in the public eye perform to act as comparison points to the rest of us.
Where things differ slightly for the celebrities analyzed, is that we were using our beta Twitter version to analyze their public statements vs. Facebook post data for everyone else. We have been analyzing Tweets since approximately October 15th and the results are a snapshot in time. For our analysis of the US Presidential Candidates, we did even greater analysis which is described below.
What was interesting to us is that global sentiment increased and people became much nicer in the buildup and throughout the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, where those being analyzed sent out well wishes and positive thoughts to those affected.
Why were these celebrities chosen?
There was not much rhyme or reason for most of these people being chosen, with the obvious exception being the Presidential Candidates. We thought that the people selected provided a nice baseline for comparison.
How did Christmas.com Analyze the Naughty or Nice Factor for Brands?
We initially intended to use our Santa-lyzer technology to assess individuals, but a few sample tests found us querying several of the brands found around the office. Unlike our analysis of our Christmas.com members (which uses social stream data from individual Facebook accounts), our list of celebrities (which used public tweets), some famous politicians (which used speeches, Tweets, and debate transcripts), for Brands we used public mentions of the brands within the Twitter firehose.
If a comment made about a brand had positive sentiment, then we gave a check in that column. If a comment made about a brand had negative sentiment, then we indicated it as such. 90% of the ‘neutral’ comments were disregarded. Thus, if people were saying generally positive things towards a brand (e.g., “I love my Mercedes Benz”) they received positive sentiment. And as we describe below, we believe that positivity relates to niceness.
Can you analyze my company brand?
For Santa’s naughty or nice list, we have used the Sentiment Analysis API provided by Sentiment140. Type in a brand into their search engine and you can get similar results. Of course, to find out if YOU are naughty or nice, you will have to connect via Facebook.
Obama vs. Romney - Who is naughtier?
Given the intense public interest in the US Presidential Election (even outside the United States), we thought we would perform a more in-depth analysis of the two primary contenders: President Obama and former-Governor Mitt Romney.
This analysis included the following:
- Analysis of the speeches given by the candidates at their party’s national convention
- Analysis of the transcripts from each of the three Presidential debates
- Analysis of the candidates Twitter feeds (even though the words typed were often by staffers)
For the debates and the speeches, we analyzed the transcripts as provided by NPR and treated each paragraph as an independent text block. Each debate, speech, and Twitter stream contributed 20% to the Candidate’s total score.
Obama vs. Romney – The Results
The following table shows the raw polarity from our analysis:
So you are saying that Romney is Naughtier than Obama?
No… We are saying that 18 of 20 Santa’s Elves believe that former-Governor Romney is naughtier than President Obama based on the text that we analyzed.
However, we are also saying that both candidates are naughtier than 29 of the other 32 celebrities that were analyzed (though the data sources were different)
Can you provide an example of nice vs. naughty sentiment?
Sure.
The following text excerpts were determined to contain Positive sentiment:
." President Obama, 2nd Presidential Debate
.” Mitt Romney, 1st Presidential Debate
The following text excerpts were determined to contain Negative sentiment.
"But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America?" Mitt Romney, Speech to Republican National Convention
.” President Obama, 3rd Presidential Debate
A few more examples would include:
POSITIVE - @EvaLongoria (who scored the highest) “Hey east coast! How ya holding up? Watching the news and it looks scary! Be safe and god bless!”
NEGATIVE - @Nasty_Santa (a persona we created who scored the lowest) “The only thing worse than 2 cookies on christmas eve, is no cookies on christmas eve.”
Any other interesting observations you can share?
Hmmm. One thing that we found interesting is that President Obama’s sentiment has been steadily climbing since his low point at the Democratic Convention. However, we also analyzed the "Yes We Can" speech that then candidate Obama gave in 2008 which has been recognized by many as being "positive". That speech scored a polarity of 3.60 or 90% on our Santa-lyzer.
We also found that those celebrities who scored highly rarely say anything negative. This holds true the maxim of, "If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all."
What is ‘Sentiment Analysis’?
According to Wikipedia, "Sentiment analysis or opinion mining refers to the application of natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials.
Generally speaking, sentiment analysis aims to determine the attitude of a speaker or a writer with respect to some topic or the overall contextual polarity of a document. The attitude may be his or her judgment or evaluation affective state (that is to say, the emotional state of the author when writing), or the intended emotional communication (that is to say, the emotional effect the author wishes to have on the reader)."
The sentiment engine that we use is provided by Sentiment140 via their public API.
Does positivity equate to ‘niceness’?
Scientists have learned that a person’s perceptions are primarily formed by first impressions and by feelings, how we feel about one another. First impressions are driven by both verbal and non-verbal communication, and thus, if a person communicates positive statements, that same person is deemed to produce a ‘nicer’ first impression.
Is this Christmas hooey or is there science behind this?
Science rules. In a 2012 paper submitted by L. Dang-Huan and S. Steiglitz (see: Impact and Diffusion of Sentiment in Political Communication – An Empirical Analysis of Political Weblogs), they concluded…
"Results of the negative binomial regression (see Table 2) support our hypothesis as the coefficient of the quadratic term entry_sentiment2 is positive and highly statistically significant at one-percent level (b = 0.21, p < 0.01). In other words, clearly articulated sentiment (either positive or negative) in blog entries positively affects their likelihood to receive feedback. This result also implies that blog entries which are rather sentiment-neutral (i.e., neither positive nor negative references) or of mixed sentiment nature (i.e., similar quantities of positive and negative references which would cancel out each other according to the sentiment polarity measure as defined in equation) tend to trigger less feedback."
So in other words while it is fun to find out if people are ‘naughty’ or ‘nice’, the ability to predict or increase audience engagement is kind of cool.
Am I really that naughty?
Once again according to Wikipedia, “the accuracy of a sentiment analysis system is, in principle, how well it agrees with human judgments. This is usually measured by precision and recall. However, human raters typically agree about 70% of the time. Thus, a 70% accurate program is doing as well as humans, even though such accuracy may not sound impressive. If a program were "right" 100% of the time, humans would still disagree with it about 30% of the time, since they disagree that much about any answer. More sophisticated measures can be applied, but evaluation of sentiment analysis systems remains a complex matter. For sentiment analysis tasks returning a scale rather than a binary judgment, correlation is a better measure than precision because it takes into account how close the predicted value is to the target value.”
How can I increase my score?
The Santa-lyzer reads your Facebook status updates, so the easiest way to improve your score is to "say positive things" in your communications and updates. If you do so, your score will slowly creep up to a higher level. You can also do positive things, like donate to a charity or sponsor a cause (See these good causes we've added to Christmas.com). Come back any time you want and try again after a few status updates and you may see some movement.
The Santa-lyzer is for entertainment purposes only. While it is based on science, mashing up sentiment analysis with your social graph, you should not fear being put on Santa’s real Naughty or Nice list if you do come up with a ‘naughty’ ranking. After all, he knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.
The Santa-lyzer was initially built by a group of hackers, marketers, and designers that met at the Facebook World Hack Day <Vancouver> who thought it would be kind of fun to create a Naughty or Nice list using a social stream and science. After all, why can’t Santa have access to the latest tools and science to let him do his thing?
The tool itself has been supported by Christmas.com and Left of the Dot Media. You can read more about us here.
Initial contributors include:
Alan Bailward, Left of the Dot
Deesa Smirnov, Leetr
Rachel Cheng, Invoke Media
Joe Deobald, Front Row Marketing
John Lyotier, Left of the Dot
Questions about the app? Are you with the media?
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Copernicus' remains believed found in Poland
Reuters News Service | November 5, 2005
WARSAW, Poland - Polish archaeologists are all but certain they have located the skeletal remains of Nicholas Copernicus, the 16th-century cleric whose heliocentric theory was to revolutionize astronomy.
Professor Jerzy Gassowski, whose team of archaeologists had been searching for the astronomer's final resting place for over a year, told a symposium on Thursday he believed the remains found beneath an altar of mediaeval Frombork Cathedral on Poland's Baltic coast were those of Copernicus.
The age of the skull and bones, the place of burial reserved for canons like Copernicus, as well as certain facial features prompted Gassowski to declare he was "97 percent certain these are Copernicus' remains, but only DNA testing could fully authenticate the find."
A computer reconstruction of the skull carried out in cooperation with police forensic experts showed the head of a gray-haired man of 70, the age Copernicus died. It matchedolve around the sun, toppling the then widespread belief that the world was the center of the universe.
The astronomer did not announce his heliocentric theory during his lifetime for fear of antagonizing his Church. | http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Copernicus-remains-believed-found-in-Poland-1525289.php | 2013-05-18T11:03:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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We’re Shocked, Shocked! To Find David Frum Engaging in Character Assassination
Over at NRO, the online home of David Frum until January of this year, Frum's former colleagues are expressing shock and dismay at his attacks on Rush Limbaugh, most prominently in a cover story for Newsweek. Today, Andy McCarthy noted that Frum had insinuated to Chris Matthews on television that Limbaugh might be racist. McCarthy offered sarcastic congratulations to Frum on his notoriety and wrote, "David has arrived. From nowhere to Newsweek in a nanosecond."
Frum's attack on Limbaugh should surprise no one at NR. Frum has a long history of seeking to advance himself by smearing others, from his 1991 American Spectator cover story attacking Pat Buchanan as an antisemite to his 2003 National Review cover story denouncing Buchanan, Tom Fleming, and Sam Francis as "unpatriotic" for opposing a war that turned out to be as disastrous for America as they predicted it would be. If National Review is sincerely repentent over having provided journalistic cover to Frum for years, it might, in the spirit of Lent, announce that it regrets publishing Frum's 2003 attack and apologize to the "unpatriotic conservatives." But I'm not holding my breath.
What is bugging me about a lot of this Limbaugh business is that some paleos are so desperate to disparage Limbaugh and the conservative movement that he represents that they end up sounding like Frum or Steele or any of Limbaugh's other critics in the process. (As far as I know, no one at Chronicles has been guilty of this.)
Limbaugh and the movement clearly deserve criticism, but rightward criticism of Limbaugh and the movement must be identifiably rightward. And in the grand scheme of things deluded conservatives like Limbaugh's listeners are less of an enemy than are self conscious moderates like Frum, Steele, Parker, and the rest.
I never believed for a moment that Limbaugh is a pillar of conservative philosophy. Cliff Kincaid wrote an expose in the pages of Chronicles over a decade ago regarding his non-existant voter registration, his serial monogamy, etc. And Howard Stern once described Rush as a shill for the GOP, also true. But is he entertaining? I think so, and I tune in as often as my schedule permits. Limbaugh said early on that he wanted to make AM radio worth listening to again, and in this goal he has been spectacularly successful. So the fact that a pathetic, cringing milksop like Frum would bite Limbaugh in the butt only proves that Rush is out front. When the Obama White House attacks Frum (it won't) it'll be because he's a thorn in their side.
I think AM radio which once used to be Christian, is now almost exclusively Mexican, which must be a source of delight to the left-wing tolerance crowd.
I can't listen to Rush. His shilling for the GOP and phony conservatism drives me nuts. It just that he is less of a problem than the moderate boot Rush crowd. At least Rush's listeners think they are conservatives.
Red Phillips: "...but rightward criticism of Limbaugh and the movement must be identifiably rightward."
I completely agree.
Long, long ago, I listened to Rush primarily because he was often a source of information not disseminated by (note, I did not say "unavailable to") other media. Those days are long gone.
It was not long after he lost his monopoly (thank you, Internet) on hard-to-find information that he morphed from a semi-credible "conservative" into a swivel-chair, chemically-dependent, rich-as-Croesus warrior/fascist. It is no coincidence that he also ceased to be entertaining--to me, at least.
Unfortunately, his only legacy today are his pathetic "ditto-heads." I'd let them speak for themselves, but, well, they delegate their thinking entirely to the Maharushi.
I place much - maybe most - of the blame for the current disaster unfolding in DC in the lap of Rush and his cronies. Any marginally principled conservative would have told his listeners in '00 that they did not have a dog in the hunt, and repudiated W with the same vigour they attacked the Dem (whoever the hell it was) with. Same with W in '04 and McCain in '08. Harrumph.
Frum attacking Limbaugh shouldn't even be a story. But Frum is right in saying that the Republican party is extremely unpopluar. While it's worth hearing Mark Levin wipe the floor with Frum,it has not occured to either of them why the republicans are so unpopular; it's the war. and in the end it's all about Israel.
Etienne,
I'll be damned if you arent a very entertaining sort to read.
Beyond that, I would find much humor in David Frum sponsoring a single entry (that being him) lawn dart tournament.
McCallum
It is rather humorous to read that David Frum is complaining about being ostracized by others on the Right as he has been a prominent hitman on many occasions, most notably the "Unpatriotic Conservatives" rant that graced National Review just before the Iraq invasion. Frum is an odd mix of Talleyrand, Iago and Richard III, faithless to all but himself. But most readers of Chronicles knows that already.
Yet Pat Buchanan, Tom Fleming, Taki and the late Samuel Francis, among others, were right on Iraq and David Frum, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Rich Lowry, Michael Ledeen, the Kristols and the Podhoretzes, among others, were wrong. As long as oil flowed from Iraq in an orderly way and Iraq remained within its borders, who governed Iraq was unimportant to the interests of the American people. The invasion of Iraq has cost the lives of 4300 American soldiers, has caused over 20,000 other American casualties, has cost nearly $ 1 trillion so far, has created two Democratic political tidal waves which have reduced the Republicans to minorities in Congress and elected an inexperienced Gramscian Marxist as president. More importantly, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has soiled the credibility of conservatism.
David Frum thinks the cause of the last two Republican political debacles has been a Republican overidentification with Christian interests and a lack of effort in seriously addressing environmental problems. But he is wrong. Mr. Frum, along with all the other neo-conservatives and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, should be honest enough to own up that it is their reckless adventure in Mesopotamia that has been the root cause of Republican political misfortune. David Frum only has to look in the mirror to locate a source of Republican and conservative decline.
Frum is, of course, a dishonorable courtier. Limbaugh, a shrewd carnival barker. My somewhat dissent from Dr. Phillips would be whether, in fact, Limbaugh's audience is reachable. I am skeptical.
And Frum's assertion of the over-influence of the "Christian Right" as the cause of the GOP's troubles is quite amusing given that GOP corruption was a substantial issue in 2006. Corruption exemplified by . . . the lobbying/corruption scandal master-minded by Orthodox Jew and ultra-zionist Abrahamoff (not exactly a Christian Right representative although he allied himself with Christian Zionists as did all the neocons), and the perverted flirtations of the homosexual Congressman Mark Foley. Neither of those reflect "social conservatism" or "Christian Right" by any stretch.
Maybe we could have Limbaugh and Frum fight a duel, and plug the barrels of both guns?
Frum attacks Limbaugh. Gingrich attacks Limbaugh. Limbaugh attacks them both. Let them cut each other up. We don’t have a dog in this fight and to watch it is simply entertainment.
As Dan Larison said, this is not a fight between “elites” and the “grassroots.” People who have private jets and live Citzen Kane style in a Palm Beach mansion are not “grassroots.” Limabugh has always wanted to be a part of the elite and now he is and is probably wealthier than Frum or Gingrich combined. The elite media in turn defers to him and makes him into a “leader.” No, this is a fight amongst Cosmos and so much the better.
That being said, Limbaugh and his talk show brethern (notice that we’re talking about him and none of the other would-be "leaders" like Hannity or Savage or O’Reilly which shows you the pecking order still remains) have a right to be upset that those politicians and former administration officials turned pundits and media talking heads, who would be nothing without all those Dittoheads voting for them, are turning on them and blaming them for their problems after spending a nearly two decades calling Rush “Leader of the Opposition” and “Honorary Member of the Class of 1994″. You can’t put that genie back in the bottle. After legitimizing Rush by the cover of your magazines and using his supporters as your political shock troop army, to turn around and try to kick him out of the cocktail party for being an uncouth is not only the height of hypocrisy, but also basically sums up what the phrase “being used” is all about.
And once again Frum maddens with his lack of prespective and or history. Apparently being ostratcized and being read out of the “movement” by his former collegues has not made him reflective or and wiser about his attempts to do just that to paleos in the pages of NR itself. Frum goes from being a Gramm Conservative of 1994 to being a Tom Dewey Republican of 2009 and doesn’t inform you as to why, you just have to accept evolutionary theory I guess. It only makes him look as shallow as the talk show hosts, always riding different popular waves. The same is true of politicians like Gingirich. No one amongst these Cosmos has any fealty to principle. No one.
As the old African proverb goes, when the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. Getting trampled of course are the very grassroots who are now forced to pick sides among people they once considered allies or whose books fill their bookshelves at home. Red talks about the people hurt in “friendly fire” and I think it good point to be made. I have been critical of Rush and all the aforementioned, but to go after the Dittoheads too is counterproductive in the long run. I think there are a lot of us as young paleos who grew up as Rush and talk show listeners who ultimately stopped listening because we didn’t like what he was saying anymore. But we came to that decision on our own or were influenced by publications like Chronicles.
The talkshow audience is going to have to make up their own minds in the same way. Right now they blame the politicians for their problems and it may take more election defeats to get them to realize that the critiques of Larison and Derbyshire and others of whole genre are true in that what you are trying to sell, most U.S. citizens aren’t interested in anymore. But assulting them and scapegoating them only makes them cling to Limbaugh and other talk show hosts all the tighter as a defensive reaction.
The important thing is that when they realize that all their gods have failed, we are around with an alternative, a natural alternative that’s no longer poisioned by ideology or litmus tests or loyalty oaths. But they can only come on their own accord and only they can lead themselves to water when they thirst.
Great post, Mr. Scallon. And it is going to have to take more political defeats for the Republicans to re-examine themselves. Looking back to the Age of Reagan won't cut it; political life moves on. Jeffersonian Republicans, Jacksonian Democrats, Lincoln Republicans and FDR Democrats all had their day but now are relegated to the history books. So will go the Reagan Republicans.
Frum is an embarrassment to use Canadians, believe me.
I have always found Limbaugh entertaining. Believe it or not, he had a TV show about 15 years ago that was quite a lot of fun. He was doing the Stewart/Colbert stuff long before they existed, and he was doing it better, but his show lacked production values.
In Limbaugh's case, it's an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation. I'm delighted that he attacks socialism, feminism, etc. Thank God someone with a voice does. How I wish traditional Conservatisim had at least one voice with Limbaugh's reach.
Frum, on the other hand, is to U.S. conservatism what Joe Clark was to Canadian conservatism (and I guess only Canadians will get that reference) -- a traitor and an impediment to success. And that's just from a practical perspective. As a human being, he's pure scum.
As for causes of the Republican downfall, yes the Foley scandal and the concurrent Pastor Ted debacle were devastating. But before that, it was Katrina. Katrina did in the Republicans at least as much as Iraq did. You can mark the point of Bush's plummet in the polls right from Katrina. It made the left's accusations of incompetence stick.
I think Katrina was convenient for the left. After all it was a big ball of wind, the President - or any political leader - has no control on that. If the hurricane had not happened perhaps we could track the poll plummet directly to Iraq.
Thanks for the kind words Mr. Leadberry.
@9 Thanks McCallum!
The best conservative talk show is the Ron Smith Show on 1090 WBAL from 3 until 6 p.m. It can be streamed on your computer. But it's a Baltimore station, so quite a bit of the content is local. But Baltimore is a way more interesting city than either Washington or New York.
@17. Mark Levin but for domestic affairs only, not foreign policy.
@18 Jack
I disagree wholeheartedly. Levin is an Isreal-first loudmouth.
@19. Yes. that's why domestic only.
Like a good rat,Frum is abandoning a sinking ship.But the causes of the ship's sinking have little to do with Frum or his treachery.
Limbaugh and his moronic "ditto-heads" are relics of a dubious and malfeasant "Reagan Revolution."The sacred flame of Divus Ronnie's tomb has expired,and only embers remain to console his priestly colleges and forlorn votaries.
Est honor et Tumulis,as Ovid put it.
Limbaugh is a pretty good personification of "conservatism" as well as a broader "Americanoism."Ignorant,stupid,vulgar;so fat his swollen jowls look about to explode.With the manner and dress of a clown,had he showed up at a recent shindig in Washington dressed in bell-cap and motley,it would have hardly made a difference.
Ditto-heads are under the impression that tax-cuts can cure all ills.Thats all you've really got to know.Add some anachronistic nationalism,best displayed in contempt for Europe,and a few odds and ends,and our charming three-hundred pound loud-mouth can "earn" $33 million per year while sitting on a cyst,located on his ass, that conveniently kept him;cyst,ass,and all,out of Vietnam.
In a better country,Rush would have a lot more to concern himself with,than Frum.
Anyone who can stand to listen to Levin has a strong stomach and a tin ear. His voice alone is a real sign of what this pathetic country has become. Of course he is an Israel-firster and with good reason, but what is his second priority and his third, certainly not to whatever is left of this country.
What is the point of making fun of Limbaugh's weight or whatever? That just comes off as nastiness and like some kind of personal grudge. We need to make principled rightward criticisms of his policies that are not conservative.
As a public figure,RL's persona is fair game.He reeks and drips vulgarity.As for his girth,I was pointing to its emblematic nature.I would also add that,while looks are not relevant to political disputes,freakishness (Lincoln?) is not without legitimate concern.Certainly we all have some control over our weight.Is Rush "being the best that he can be?"
As for principled criticism,rejecting tax-cuts as a panacea is a start,no?
@24 Why in the world would anybody, remotely on the right, reject tax cuts for any reason? Who cares if they are a panacea? Good heavens, man. Talk about hyperbole. Just to make sure everyone knows you think RL is vulgar?
Because a better way of helping humble working Americanos would be some combination of spending restraint,especially with regard to defense and a faulty foreign policy,an end to immigration and labor arbitrage-falsely known as "free trade"-and some form of debt relief for the long suffering working stiff.And thats just for starters.
Mealy-mouthed "tax-cuts" are for the birds.
Beyond that,addressing non-economic concerns-too numerous to list-would go quite a way towards improving the lot of decent folk;North and South,East and West.Tax cutters tend to neglect so much that doesnt fall within their narrow purview.
RL's vulgarity is integral to his approach both to economics-classicly,"household management"-as well as broader issues.That is,when broader issues are attended to at all.
Huckleberry Finn's Pap told him to never pass up a chance to steal a chicken, if he couldn't use it somebody else could. That is the attitude we should have concerning tax cuts.
Limbaugh was not always wealthy. Despite both his father and grandfather being attorneys, he shunned college and worked in radio and for the Kansas City Royals. He regularly recalls his down-and-out days with a certain fondness. And the man who gave him syndicated fame, Edward F. McLaughlin of EFM Communications, is (or at least was) a proud liberal.
How interesting that Frum minds words over actions.
He's one of the core neocons who wanted the US to go to war with Iraq, doing his bit by terming the 'axis of evil'-phrase and crappy books titled 'an end to evil'. I don't have to tell anyone here about the consequences of that (mass killings, chaos, billions of money lost, ethnic cleansing, torture,...)
But don't be fooled by the support for all of this ruthlessness, deep down there's kind, gentle soul inside who's very concerned about racist comments against people of colour (no matter how privileged they are and how much they use their race for their career.)
"Sometimes, he [Rush]."
Think about that. Frum is morally responsible for a war that's bleeding the US and the Middle East respectively financially and literally, but he's more concerned nowadays with Rush Limbaugh's occasional crimethink. Real crimes go unpunished, thought crimes are on the front cover of Newsweek Magazine. How shameless.
What a complete and utter failure of a human being Frum is.
Marciano, I think David Frum's Kempian view on race might be altered if he switched his habitation from Foxhall Road in upper Northwest Washington with views of the Potomac River to Minnesota Avenue or Benning Road in Southeast Washington with views of the mighty Anacostia River.
From the left: I cannot think of two more wretched blowhards than Frum and Limbaugh. Frum has attacked Chronicles repeatedly and may I say with cro magnon intelligence. Rush Limbaugh is beyond wretched--he once supported Pat Buchanan a most honorable man--and then dumped him. One post remarks "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" but I would urge the writer not to be deceived. Limbaugh has no honor and would easily were it to his advantage become what I call a "neo-liberal". I do like the idea of Frum and Limbaugh fighting a duel; however do not be deceived neither are Col. Brandon. Both are some decayed form of Willoughby. | http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2009/03/10/were-shocked-shocked-to-find-david-frum-engaging-in-character-assassination/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Posted: 02 Nov 2006 @ 00:00
The animal within all of us can be an interesting diversion, writes
Simon Parke
I CAN’T quite remember what I am supposed to think about zoos. I know I’m
meant to think something, and think it most strongly. But, like a lawyer
without a brief, I’m a bit hazy on my precise line of attack.
Is it that zoos are an anachronism of animal exploitation? Or is it that
they are at the cutting-edge of developing environmental awareness among the
young?
Is a visit to the zoo something you do privately, like pornography, or is it
something to be done publicly, like reading The Independent, hoping
everyone sees and admires your integrity. I so wish I knew because summertime
is zoo time.
Should it turn out that we cannot go, because we discover officially that
zoos are really evil, here’s a game you can play instead — "animal house". This
is based on the fact that everything physical is a pattern of something
psychological in you, that the whole world is in you in psychological form —
including the animals.
So, for instance, there is the waspish, stinging me; the foxy, scavenging
me; or the smooth and cowardly ever-changing chameleon me. Then there is the
mole in me, blind and determined; the hard-shelled beetle, all shiny and
separate; the buzzing, brainless fly; the secretive rat; the savage tiger; the
closed-down sloth, all denial and stupor. And look: the bouncy rabbit; the
playful puppy; the honourable, yet sad, dolphin; and the fawning cat, rubbing
legs to get what it wants.
I am an animal house of thoughts, attitudes and actions. At one moment, the
unstoppable rhino; the next, a nervous and noticing sparrow; the eagle soaring
high in the big sky; or the hyena ripping at the victim’s carcass with shrill
and merciless abandon.
Ambitious competitiors in the game — that is, those looking for a podium
finish on the day of judgement — should note the number of animals present with
them over the past 24 hours. But they should do so without any sense of
judgement, and they should also try their utmost not to identify with any of
the animals. They should just notice them.
The Olympic qualifying number of animals noticed should be five. Anything
less than that, and you will need to go away and work on your self-awareness
levels. But, be warned, lottery funding can’t be guaranteed.
If, however, you do get to the zoo this summer, forget the silly game,
wonder at the strange creatures, and rest assured that no animals were hurt in
the writing of this article.
The Revd Simon Parke was formerly Vicar of St George’s, Tufnell Park,
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What are the best things to use for sound holes
Just been looking at your lap steel,It looks great Gary
ary, is this near you? get along there if it is..
Gary'
The piece of wood on the right is the end of the neck, I had to lie on the floor to take this photo as the thing is clamped to a bench glueing the fingerboard in place.
Will send another photo when the glue has set
Gary
I've posted a couple of photos.Do you have enough depth in the box to glue a thick piece of ply to the back of the through neck ?
The pots will probably be marked A and B
Use A for volume and B for the tone
Honoured to have you as a buddy, Gary. I need a Welsh Dragon button badge for my hat now. Back to work, get on with your practise!
Cutting a rod piezo will not affect the sound, "tip" cut the rod on it`s side. There`s 2 tiny brass plates in the rod, if they touch it won`t work. I cut the 1/8" plug off the rod wire and solder it up to a regular input jack. The braided wire is the ground, you just need to fish out the plastic coated wire [ hot ] out of the braided one,an ice pick works good to do that.
Hi Gary.
Good to have you as a friend on CBN. I will have a go at the tabs, but so far I have only played it on a double neck guitar. It shouldn't take too much to reduce it to three strings.
All the best.
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popularity : impossible. «They managed to touch the monk, they won’t be able to touch the Catholic priest» Le Figaro declares. But who has ever thought of «touching the Catholic priest» ? No one has ever thought, no one thinks to prohibit the cult or even cause any trouble to it. On the contrary, every precaution must be taken, all the transitions must be provided so that the continuity of the cult is maintained, so that worshipers can gather, according to the law, the necessary resources for its functioning. When the country sees, in the precise debate of the bill, that no breach in the right of conscience will be made by the separation, and even that no trouble will be permitted in the country’s custom, when the country is able to observe that the only solution in conformity with the right of the secular State and with the principle of the Revolution is also the only one that might put an end to the inevitable conflict created by the Concordat, the separation will be accepted with joy by every citizen.
Mr. Meline’s paper vainly opposes the moderate elements of the Bloc that they did not campaign on a separation programme in the elections. Because they promised to defend energetically the independence of the civil power against any encroachment of the clerical power, and that independence is threatened every day by the Pope’s actions. Strangely, the French Republic forgets «the new facts» which have multiplied since the general election. It forgets the seditious resistance which has been opposed in many points in the implementation of the law on congregations. It forgets the bishops’ illegal and insulting protest. It forgets that with the new Pope a violent aggressive mood is becoming manifest in Rome. It neglects the incredible document in which Pope Pius X, assuming the right to interfere in our foreign policy and to subordinate it to the interests of his temporal power, was insulting the President of the Republic who was guilty because he had reasserted in Rome the friendship of Republican France with modern Italy. Can the most moderate republicans forget all that ? And under the pretext that they did not foresee in 1902 the upcoming denunciation of the Concordat, will they have to suffer on behalf of France an interpretation of this Concordat that leaves all the charges to the government of the Republic and that withdraws all guarantees from it ?
Pope Pius X’s aggressive policy, replacing Pope Leo XIII’ diplomacy, has not modified the core of the issue. Under Pope Leo XIII as well as under Pius X, there was a contradiction between modern law, that reserves religion to individual conscience, and a half-baked theocratic regime which, although it did not brutishly enforce dogma, constitutes a State religion nonetheless; but Pius X has certainly hastened the course of events beyond what the country was able to foresee in 1902. He has exacerbated so deeply the essential conflict between Revolution and the State Church that the Concordat combination cannot work any longer. And one wonders in vain how the most moderate republicans would be able to elude a problem that the Vatican imposes on the Republic. Now, there is only one way out left to this problem. It is impossible to maintain the Concordat, or rather to re-establish it. It is impossible to establish an new Concordat, for how could you get the Papacy and the Republic to agree with this new contract since both parties think insufficient, in an opposite way but equally, the guarantees of the previous one ? Therefore, if you do not want a state of chaos and crisis to persist, with every feeling becoming exacerbated, if you want to proceed to the separation in quiet, wise and sensible conditions, in which every right is assured, you have to hurry. Indeed, it is strange to object that in 1902, at the time of the general election, the issue was not raised in this form by all republicans. Neither did they announce the upcoming breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Papacy, the suspension of the Concordat.
The crisis was caused by force of circumstance, and now the separation of the Churches and the State is the necessary, inevitable consequence of the breaking off of the French government with the Vatican. Just as the country, in local elections, ratified and approved the strict enforcement of the law on congregations, just as in the recent department elections it ratified and approved the law prohibiting congregation education and the breaking off with the Vatican, it will ratify and approve, in the next general election, the separation, which is the logical end of the secular work and which can only bring peace through liberty in this country. To postpone the issue would be the worst mistake now, or rather it is an impossibility. The time has come for this great but haunting issue of the relationships of the Church and the State be settled at last, so that republican democracy is able to devote fully to the immense and hard task of social reform and human solidarity that the proletariat demands, that they have a right to demand and that the Republic must achieve with the concentration of all its energy and all its thoughts. It is not necessary to change the agenda. As soon as the October opening of Parliament, we have to debate and pass the law on the income tax.
As soon as January, we have to debate and pass the law on the workers’ old age pensions, and just after this vote, the debate on separation of Churches and the State will be opened. But it is important that right now, the country is well informed that it will not be an academic debate, neither for the government nor for the majority. We have to succeed : the separation must be voted in the early months of 1905. It will be the best answer to those who hope to throw the country into a panic. The debate and the vote of a precise law will dispel all the ghosts and quieten all fears. The government is holding this great task in its hands. If it hesitates, it will collapse, dragging its majority as well as its policy down in its fall. If it understands at last that it cannot postpone or elude the inevitable consequence of all the events and all the actions, if, as soon as the October opening, in reply to questioners, its explains the core of the issue, if it declares not only that it maintains the agenda which it had accepted for the debate of the Briand draft of the law but also that it will intervene in favor of separation, the republican majority will gather around it, and since the extreme left radical and socialist groups are determined to make any concession to the moderate groups provided it does not mar the principles, the republicans will join unanimously will give all the required moral authority to this great and necessary reform in order to bear its fruits of liberation and peace. | http://www.cilalp.org/spip.php?article17 | 2013-05-18T11:02:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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19/01/2012 - "A crazy visionary of enormous talent who delightfully refuses to play by the rules”: the programme for the Sundance Film Festival, which opens today, is full of extravagant praise for French director Quentin Dupieux, who will unveil Wrong [trailer] (pictured) on Saturday in Park City, in competition in the World Dramatic section. This is the filmmaker’s third feature after the outlandish and fascinating Steak [trailer] (2007) and Rubber [trailer] (unveiled as a special screening in Cannes Critics’ Week 2010). Shot in Los Angeles, the feature stars Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little and William Fichtner. Dupieux also did the cinematography, editing and part of the film score (under the name of Mr. Oizo).
Scripted by Dupieux, the film centres on Dolph Springer who gets up one morning and realises he has lost the love of his life: his dog Paul. In his quest to find him, Dolph radically transforms the lives of those he encounters: a nymphomaniac pizza deliverer, a neighbour addicted to jogging, a French-Mexican opportunist gardener and a strange animal detective. But on his odyssey in search of his dog, Dolph could end up losing something even more essential: his own mind.
Produced by Grégory Bernard for Realitism Films, Wrong received co-production support from Arte France Cinéma and an advance on receipts from the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC). UFO Distribution will launch the film in French theatres in June and international sales are being handled by Kinology.
A total of 11 titles will battle it out in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition, including five other 100% European features: L [trailer] by Greece’s Babis Makridis, Four Suns by the Czech Republic’s Bohdan Sláma, Madrid 1987 [trailer] by Spain’s David Trueba, Brit production My Brother the Devil [trailer] by Sally El Hosaini and Teddy Bear [trailer] by Denmark’s Mads Matthiesen.
Seven other French (co-)productions are taking part in the festival: Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York [trailer] (see news - sales: Rezo) in the Premieres section; Valérie Donzelli’s Declaration of War [trailer] (sales: Wild Bunch); Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? [trailer] (Pathé International); and the co-productions Corpo Celeste [trailer, film focus] by Italy’s Alice Rohrwacher and This Must Be The Place [trailer, film focus] by fellow Italian director Paolo
Sorrentino in the Spotlight line-up, Denis Côté’s French/Canadian co-production Bestiaire in News Frontier Fiction and directorial duo Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras (co-production with Israel and Palestine) in the World Documentary line-up.
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Since 1984 Cirque du Soleil has considered the safety of its artists on all its show and training sites as an absolute priority. Deeply rooted in its corporate culture, the concern for the artists’ health and safety takes precedence over any artistic endeavor or business decision.
Cirque du Soleil has established working methods that ensure the artists’ work is done in highly controlled environments, day in and day out, in order to effectively manage performance risk. The company leaves nothing to chance, making sure that its equipment and work environments comply with the highest safety standards.
Customized training programs for a safe learning experienceFrom the moment a professional artist is hired at Cirque du Soleil right up to his integration in a show, that artist undergoes a comprehensive training program provided by expert trainers. A customized training and performance program and optimal working conditions are imperative for an artist to execute his act safely.
Prior to being integrated in a show, the majority of the artists Cirque du Soleil recruits must undergo personalized training for several weeks, even several months. Whether the performers are former high-level athletes or specialists already well versed in the circus arts, they will be trained on two levels: the acrobatic component teaches them to master all of the movements the act requires, while the artistic component helps them to develop their ability to express emotions in order to play a character.
Artist training unquestionably includes an important safety component. Particular interest is given, among other things, to teaching the various maneuvers involved in handling the equipment and safety lines as well as the proper positioning of the artist on the acrobatic equipment. The staff makes sure the artist is brought through his training safely. Close to 100 trainers hailing from the four corners of the world are involved in artist training. These experts come from backgrounds as diverse as sports, acrobatics, dance, music and theatre. On the basis of their area of expertise, each one supervises the artists individually and accompanies them along their path every step of the way. In 2010, nearly 600 artists will benefit from custom-designed training in Montreal so they are adequately prepared to take part safely in any one of the shows.
Accompaniment by elite specialists as a means of preventionIn addition to these coaches and trainers, an interdisciplinary team of highly qualified specialists is made available to each artist, ensuring his physical and psychological well-being. The presence of these experts helps create a controlled and safe environment.
Two or three physiotherapists are on hand on each show site and approximately 10 are available continuously at the international headquarters in Montreal. These professionals provide care on a daily basis whenever required, and work with the trainers and physical fitness specialists to implement specific training programs designed to improve posture and flexibility or to correct weaknesses. Performance psychologists provide psychological support to the artists, assisting them in developing and integrating both mental and professional skills such as concentration and relaxation. In addition to helping artists manage certain difficulties such as fatigue, stress and the anxiety of being away from their family, they also help those with a sports background—more than 50% of Cirque du Soleil’s 1,200 artists—to adapt to the realities of the arts and entertainment world. A nutritionist is also on hand to respond to those who request nutritional advice or seek ways to maintain a balanced diet.
Cirque du Soleil is also constantly in touch with a medical network, available anytime and anywhere on the planet.
Safety protocols and detailed risk analysesIn the industrial sector (e.g., aeronautics), safety protocols and risk analyses are all part of a regular day. At Cirque du Soleil—where artists leap or are flung in the air and where complex automation systems are used to move huge set elements—, risk analysis and safety protocols are part of the landscape too.
Precise protocols and detailed performance risk management analyses are required for all of the acrobatic acts performed in every Cirque du Soleil show. Nothing is improvised; each acrobatic element is analyzed and scrutinized, whether it’s a piece of equipment used by an artist or an individual physical performance.
This analysis grid is documented meticulously and extensively. It is developed in conjunction with all equipment and acrobatic performance designers in order to provide artists with the safest workplace.
In addition to the risk analyses linked to the various acrobatic acts, Cirque du Soleil has also developed a series of strict and comprehensive safety protocols that cover a wide variety of aspects related to its operations. Emergency and rescue procedures, acrobatic equipment certification and inspection and performance risk management are some of the processes that are governed by protocols. The scope of these protocols covers even the weather! In the case of outdoor performances, for example, weather conditions—wind, rain, humidity and cold—entail risk factors that must be taken into consideration.
Low incidence of injuriesA series of preventative measures thus ensure the health and safety of Cirque du Soleil artists. These include optimal training conditions and experienced staff qualified to provide proper training; experts in every field to see to the artists’ physical and psychological well-being; precise protocols and risk management processes that ensure equipment safety and reliability allowing the artists to execute their acts safely.
It is not surprising, therefore, that a comprehensive epidemiological study of the nature of injuries at Cirque du Soleil conducted between 2002 and 2010 by physician-scientists affiliated with five universities in Canada and the United States concluded that the incidence of severe injuries at Cirque is markedly lower than for National Collegiate Athletic Association sports such as football, hockey, soccer, basketball and gymnastics in the United States.
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• End-to-end application latency requirements should be the main criteria for determining LAN switches with the appropriate latency characteristics.
• In most data center and other networking environments, both cut-through and store-and-forward LAN switching technologies are suitable.
• In the few cases where true low-microsecond latency is needed, cut-through switching technologies should be considered, along with a certain class of store-and-forward low-latency switches. In this context, low, or rather ultra-low, refers to a solution that has an end-to-end latency of about 10 microseconds.
• For end-to-end application latencies under 3 microseconds, InfiniBand capabilities should be examined.
• Function, performance, port density, and cost are important criteria for switch considerations, after true application latency requirements are understood.
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Figure 2. Cut-Through Ethernet Switching: in theory, frames are forwarded as soon as the switch receives the DMAC address, but in reality, several more bytes arrive before forwarding commences
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Figure 3. A Cut-Through Forwarding Decision is made as soon as enough bytes are received by the switch to make the appropriate decision
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• Tightly coupled applications: These applications are characterized by their significant interprocessor communication (IPC) message exchanges among the computing nodes. Some tightly coupled applications are very latency sensitive (in the 2- to 10-microsecond range).
• Loosely coupled applications: Applications in this category involve little or no IPC traffic among the computing nodes. Low latency is not a requirement.
• Parametric execution applications: These applications have no IPC traffic. These applications are latency insensitive.
• Petroleum: Oil and gas exploration
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• Financial: Data mining and market modeling
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• Climate and weather simulation: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Weather Channel, etc.
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• Function:
After determining the required function of the switching platform, enterprises must make sure that the switches being considered satisfy all those requirements, functional as well as operational, without decreasing performance or increasing latency.
For example, features such as Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) snooping, if required, must be supported with no performance decrease. Similarly, enterprises should thoroughly investigate a switch's capability to support IP addresses and TCP/UDP port numbers for load balancing across a PortChannel. For instance, packet filtering that goes beyond MAC-level ACLs, such as IP address and UDP/TCP port number filtering, may be required.
Enterprises should also be sure that vendors support sophisticated monitoring and other troubleshooting tools, such as the capability to debug packets within the switch and tools that check the software and hardware functions of the switch while it is online in a live network. The capability to monitor hardware and software components to provide e-mail-based notification of critical system events may be important as well.
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To meet connectivity and application requirements, a switch must either support wire-rate performance on all ports with the desired features configured or be oversubscribed and have lower performance thresholds, which is a viable option so long as the performance limitations are well understood and acceptable.
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Satisfying the functional and performance requirements with the minimal cost-effective number of switches is important, especially in low-latency HPC environments, where applications will run on servers within (ideally) a single switch.
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The total cost of running and supporting a switch in the data center needs to be considered. The cost must incorporate not just the price of the switch itself, but also the expenditures necessary to train the engineering and operations staff. Enterprises also need to consider the availability of sophisticated proactive and reactive monitoring tools and their overall effect on reducing the time needed to troubleshoot and fix any problem that may occur.
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This paper reviews a number of methods for the exploration and modelling of spatial point patterns with particular reference to geographical epidemiology (the geographical incidence of disease). Such methods go well beyond the conventional 'nearest-neighbour' and 'quadrat' analyses which have little to offer in an epidemiological context because they fail to allow for spatial variation in population density. Correction for this is essential if the aim is to assess the evidence for 'clustering' of cases of disease. We examine methods for exploring spatial variation in disease risk, spatial and space-time clustering, and we consider methods for modelling the raised incidence of disease around suspected point sources of pollution. All methods are illustrated by reference to recent case studies including child cancer incidence, Burkitt's lymphoma, cancer of the larynx and childhood asthma. An Appendix considers a range of possible software environments within which to apply these methods. The links to modern geographical information systems are discussed. | http://www.citeulike.org/group/17273/article/1128399 | 2013-05-18T11:02:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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This paper discusses the highlights of the EU-funded "Assimilation of Envisat data" (ASSET) project, which has involved assimilation of Envisat atmospheric constituent and temperature data into systems based on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and chemical transport models (CTMs). Envisat was launched in 2002 and is one of the largest Earth Observation (EO) satellites ever built. It carries several sophisticated EO instruments providing insights into chemistry and dynamics of the atmosphere. In this paper we focus on the assimilation of temperature and constituents from Envisat. <br><br> The overarching theme of the ASSET project has been to bring together experts from all aspects of the data assimilation problem. This has allowed ASSET to address several themes comprehensively: enhancement of NWP analyses by assimilation of research satellite data; studies of the distribution of stratospheric chemical species by assimilation of research satellite data into CTM systems; objective assessment of the quality of ozone analyses; studies of the spatial and temporal evolution of tropospheric pollutants; enhanced retrievals of Envisat data; and data archival and dissemination. <br><br> Among the results from the ASSET project, many of which are firsts in their field, we can mention: a positive impact on NWP analyses from assimilation of height-resolved stratospheric humidity and temperature data, and assimilation of limb radiances; the extraction of temperature information from the assimilation of chemical species into CTMs; a first intercomparison between ozone assimilation systems; the extraction of information on tropospheric pollution from assimilation of Envisat data; and the large potential of the Envisat MIPAS dataset. This paper discusses these, often novel, developments and results. Finally, achievements of, and recommendations from, the ASSET project are presented. | http://www.citeulike.org/user/pbett/article/12120105 | 2013-05-18T10:21:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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