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At this year’s Academy Awards, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger will reunite with the rest of the “Chicago” cast to present an Oscar. Zeta-Jones won an Oscar for 2002′s !). More: Is there such a thing as an “Oscar curse”?	http://www.scenereleases.eu/is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-oscar-curse/	2013-05-18T11:02:58	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.scenereleases.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/b031mf.gif", "Is there such a thing as an “Oscar curse”? b031mf Is there such a thing as an “Oscar curse”?" ] ]
Creep For some reason, I can't shake this one particular memory lately. It must have been 1985 or 1986. A friend of mine was coming by to pick me up. Tamara wanted to ride bikes, but I knew that was just code for heading to the mall parking lot to circle the perimeter until some boy noticed her. Secretly living in gender/sexual no-man's land, my female friends' desires to dress in feminine clothing and put on makeup for males was a mystery to me. There had been many attempts to cajole me into lip gloss and cute tops, and each time I felt like a freaking clown. Of course, a lot of those attempts were carried out by well-meaning fourteen-year-olds armed with blue eyeshadow and discounted, brand name knock-off t-shirts. They would swivel me around on a bar stool borrowed from the basement to face the mirror after they'd sighed over their handiwork and assured me that I'd love it. I never did. I don't know what my friends saw, but I saw a kid whose electric blue mascara didn't seem to be teasing out her beauty the way they claimed it was. In order to avoid another disheartening bout with a friend's makeup kit, a bout with which I had already been threatened earlier, I put on a light dusting of of my mother's brown eyeshadow, one of her more fitted tanktops, and a pair of her earrings before Tamara picked me up. I thought I looked passably girly, and I knew by the creeping sense of shame and embarrassment I felt that I must be close to the mark. We rode our bikes to the mall. I could feel my mother's earrings bobbing heavily on my earlobes, and the top stuck to the thin sweat that rose on my back. My attire was unnerving me. I wanted to head home and wash my face. Tamara's apparent boredom with the mostly empty parking lot gave me some hope, so I waited patiently while noodling around on my bike behind her, weaving my way around painted lines. Then, I looked up, and I felt cold. She was talking to a couple of guys and waving me over. I pretended not to notice and kept riding my bike in slow circles. "Schmutzie!" she called. I kept my head down, trying to make it look like I was really concentrating on the asphalt or being deeply philosophical or something. She called out a couple of times more, but nothing was going to make me go over there. The boys looked scruffy. I could imagine their goat-scent worked into their jean jackets. I didn't want to be seen like this, in eyeshadow and earrings. The whole thing smacked of sad facades and desperation. Later, when she was done talking to them and we were walking our bikes out to the street, she complained about my behaviour. "You made me feel stupid," she said. "They thought you were weird, you know." "I felt weird." "You always feel weird." I pulled the earrings out and pocketed them so that I wouldn't have to feel them bounce around on the ride home. I felt stupid for dressing up to ride in circles in a parking lot like a creep. I worried that maybe I really was a creep, a creepy creep who gave other people the creeps. It depressed the hell out me. When I got home, I mulled over what kinds of things I could wear that wouldn't make me feel so weird and would keep my friends' makeovers at bay, but nothing came to mind, so I pulled off all the clothes I had on and stretched out naked on top of the bed covers. I would just be naked like the Emperor in that story, only I'd know I was naked. If I was going to be creepy, I at least wanted to feel comfortable while doing it. Reader Comments (9) What an amazing story. When I look back to those awful teen years, I realize that my friends often took pity on me because I came across as stupid or uninterested. But really, I was just avoiding that same feeling of not knowing what the hell to do with myself as you describe here. I always love how well you write all of your posts. I have similar stories, but somehow they still feel so close to me to write about on the internet. I'll have to dig in there sometime and just release them. i've never been really good with makeovers either, i always feel like a clown. i am a firm believer that the more popular a person was in their early years, they tend to peak there. i've always been drawn to the dark horses, their solidarity and strength gave me permission to be different too. (not that it was always comfortable, it wasn't.) who knew being weird would allow you to become so well loved and accepted in your present day? Great post. It's not creepy that you listened to your inner voice telling you you're not ready for boys. (I wish I'd listened to mine...) The fascinating thing to me about adolescence was finding out, years later, that those boys who were the rugby team stars, who all the girls swooned over ... those guys hated themselves at the time lots more than I hated myself. I was shocked to hear their recollections a few years ago. We're all weird when we're teenagers. That's something I would not want to repeat. I wonder what it is that makes some of us want to hide and others want to be seen. I think there's an ounce of everyone in this post, but then I think some people would relate more than others. Like my best friend, for instance, still to this day does not want to stand out. And somehow she's best friends with me, who faced a lot of social awful in high school yet still wanted to shine. Weird huh? I'll tell you one thing, I don't want those years back. Thanks for sharing this. An awful memory, beautifully written. So you had to get dressed sometime I imagine. I wonder what you chose to wear going forward. And do you still dress that way today? Of the few things I read online today, I'm glad this was one of them. You capture undefinable things and make them graceful.	http://www.schmutzie.com/weblog/2009/2/20/creep.html	2013-05-18T10:31:21	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "/universal/images/transparent.png", "Date Date" ] ]
Bruce Schneier Crypto-Gram Newsletter Books Essays and Op Eds News and Interviews Audio and Video Speaking Schedule Password Safe Cryptography About Bruce Schneier Contact Information A blog covering security and security technology. « Terrorism Entrapment \| Main \| Parental Fears vs. Realities » If you're a typical wired American, you've got a bunch of tech tools you like and a bunch more you covet. You have a cell phone that can easily text. You've got a laptop configured just the way you want it. Maybe you have a Kindle for reading, or an iPad. And when the next new thing comes along, some of you will line up on the first day it's available.? More and more companies are letting you. They're giving you an allowance and allowing you to buy whatever laptop you want, and to connect into the corporate network with whatever device you choose. They're allowing you to use whatever cell phone you have, whatever portable e-mail device you have, whatever you personally need to get your job done. And the security office is freaking. You can't blame them, really. Security is hard enough when you have control of the hardware, operating system and software. Lose control of any of those things, and the difficulty goes through the roof. How do you ensure that the employee devices are secure, and have up-to-date security patches? How do you control what goes on them? How do you deal with the tech support issues when they fail? How do you even begin to manage this logistical nightmare? Better to dig your heels in and say "no." But security is on the losing end of this argument, and the sooner it realizes that, the better.. It might even be the CEO, who wants to get to the company's databases from his brand new iPad, driving the change. Either way, it's going to be harder and harder to say no. At the same time, cloud computing makes this easier. More and more, employee computing devices are nothing more than dumb terminals with a browser interface. When corporate e-mail is all webmail, corporate documents are all on GoogleDocs, and when all the specialized applications have a web interface, it's easier to allow employees to use any up-to-date browser. It's what companies are already doing with their partners, suppliers, and customers. Also on the plus side, technology companies have woken up to this trend and -- from Microsoft and Cisco on down to the startups -- are trying to offer security solutions. Like everything else, it's a mixed bag: some of them will work and some of them won't, most of them will need careful configuration to work well, and few of them will get it right. The result is that we'll muddle through, as usual. Security is always a tradeoff, and security decisions are often made for non-security reasons. In this case, the right decision is to sacrifice security for convenience and flexibility. Corporations want their employees to be able to work from anywhere, and they're going to have loosened control over the tools they allow in order to get it. This essay first appeared as the second half of a point/counterpoint with Marcus Ranum in Information Security Magazine. You can read Marcus's half here. Posted on September 7, 2010 at 7:25 AM • 63 Comments To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. JKordish • September 7, 2010 8:04 AM I think mobile devices will only become the launching pad to a virtual desktop employed through some fancy new VDI solution. So the security of the end-user device is moot. richrumble • September 7, 2010 8:14 AM >In this case, the right decision is to sacrifice security for convenience and flexibility. Corporations want their employees to be able to work from anywhere, and they're going to have loosened control over the tools they allow in order to get it. I think it depends on your data, we issue our BB's to our users and have some control over them, but when we assert full control over them, what app's they can and can't install, some "higher-up" needs an exception, and his buddies at the company too, then everyone else feels slighted. We've even tried to "coup" only the have our jobs threatened for a stupid calender app... something the BB has anyway, but isn't as easy as this 3rd party. I agree with the rest of the statements by Marcus and Bruce, the consumer devices are the driving forces, and the corporate needs are an after thought, much like security in general with said devices. I don't agree with Bruce's tradeoff, there is no way we would let iPhones/iPads etc on the corporate side of our network, and we take steps to try to prevent that (mac filters, NAC which is a joke no matter what vendor; and IDS). We can't prevent it 100%, but we are making it known through polices and training our users that it's a big no-no to use their personal gear, whatever that is, on our corporate network and why that is so. We seem to have made a bigger impact with this training/awareness campaign than we did when trying to block the activities without telling them of the corporate view, even if they were told when first hired about doing such things, the refresher was a lot less effort for us and paid off better (we think). As for our own company supplied devices, were still in the same boat, people want these apps for this and that, and they are for certain non-work related, but they bitch and moan like babies until some SVP/VP/CEO agrees for whatever reason, and overrides our "authority". Exceptions were to be made for business case's, we have no issue with that, it's the "because I said so" override that irks us, and spits in our faces. These same overriders are the ones who signed off on these policies, blindly I'm sure, so it's a tough road to hoe, but we are still fighting to regain some "teeth" in these matters. I'm sure we will once one of these apps proves to be a back door, and then it's CYA time, we like CYA time, we finally get to do our "we told ya so" dance. -rich Matt White • September 7, 2010 8:17 AM This is a very interesting and timely response to this article:... Chris Swan • September 7, 2010 8:22 AM For too long this corporate versus consumer debate has been about the network rather than the data. At last things are starting to move along. The whole NAC/NAP thing was the last gasp of a lost war. Protecting the network by insisting on standard builds was just too difficult to accomplish, and didn't serve the objective or adapt to the realities of globalisation. The result - standard builds that were supposed to be hardened for security but that ended up months behind regular consumer systems with auto update turned on. I disagree with JKordish about VDI. Whilst VDI provides a convenient way to put a control bubble around data it doesn't resolve the occasionally connected state management problem. Luckily the VDI vendors have woken up to that one and come up with means to carry state around when off net and sync it up later. Of course if we're going to look after the data rather than the network then there needs to be effective means to do this - particularly where there's local state on an easily lost/stolen device. Some platforms do this well, others less so. The Jericho Forum talked a lot about deperimiterisation, but I prefer to think about it as reperimiterisation. The perimeter has moved from a network defined by physical boundaries (of the building holding the network) and become virtual and around the data that belongs to the corporation. That virtual boundary needs to be well defined and have the right controls at its ingress/egress points. HJohn • September 7, 2010 8:22 AM @: "Should enterprises give in to IT consumerization at the expense of security?" ___________ The answer (IMHO): it depends. Depends on the data, the function, the how who what when where and why. I can definitely see this been a legal liability nightmare for some companies. Luigi Rosa • September 7, 2010 8:29 AM But if you let everyone use their own newest tech toy, you end up in a babel of formats and "standards". People want to have their address list updated in every device, want to access to the Sent Mail, want to check the calendar and want all these data backed up and restored. How can you give this services considered "basic" if you have various and different versions iOS, Symbian, Android, RIM and God only know what other platforms? What happens if the schedule is updated on RIM, partially updated on Android (except for, say, the recurring events) and not updated at all on iOS? And who pays for all this different platforms, programs, data plans...? Clive Robinson • September 7, 2010 8:30 AM @ JKordish, "So the security of the end-user device is moot" Far from it that is where the attacks will come from. Effectivly the device via the user is in the corperate network. Thus anyone who works out how to do an end run around the Encrypting tunnel, will have the equivalent access as the user (maybe more). mcb • September 7, 2010 8:47 AM @ Matt White Thanks for the link to the tasty blog post. The most thought compelling bit: "If you want to keep those millennials that are already in the organisation, then perhaps it's time to move to adopt their ways of working rather than enforcing yours?" Here's a link to source article... May you live in interesting times. Larry Lard • September 7, 2010 8:48 AM Somewhat hilariously, it would appear that 'Information Security' magazine have attempted to implement a paywall, but have put their 'printer-friendly' pages outside it... Anonymous coward • September 7, 2010 9:21 AM @Larry Lard: link? gary • September 7, 2010 9:27 AM "In this case, the right decision is to sacrifice security for convenience and flexibility." I hope they're not responsible for protecting my data. How about you? Antonio Rodriguez • September 7, 2010 9:56 AM On a completely unrelated note, the techtarget.com website that Bruce's links point to has a weak spot. Confronted with a reg-wall when I first clicked on the link, I couldn't remember which of my e-mail addresses I had used before (or even if I had registered), so I entered one of them, and was confronted with the standard form for new registrants. Not wanting to fill the form out again if I already had registered with a different e-mail, I clicked back, only to find that the reg-wall had disappeared and that I could see the whole article. AC • September 7, 2010 9:58 AM... Chris Swan • September 7, 2010 10:19 AM Another important point for consideration is that whilst many enterprises still forbid consumer devices from connecting to their network they allow them into the building. It's almost impossible to use 3G data in places like Canary Wharf due to the density of iPhones, iPads and Netbooks with 3G cards. Where corporate policy blocks consumer sites like Gmail, Facebook and Twitter, consumer devices route around that blockage. Of course the next step is that those consumer devices leave the desk side and come into the meeting room. They become the one thing that's taken on the business trip due to travel weight. They're where the meeting minutes and customer notes end up regardless of policy (perhaps emailed to the corporate account later for integration with 'official' systems). When this happens there are only two choices remaining - confiscate devices at the turnstile (as happens at sensitive government and military sites) and make the workplace even more hostile, or embrace consumerisation and make security work within it. Nick P • September 7, 2010 10:49 AM @ Chris Swan "When this happens there are only two choices remaining - confiscate devices at the turnstile (as happens at sensitive government and military sites) and make the workplace even more hostile, or embrace consumerisation and make security work within it." No, there are alternatives. This isn't always an all-or-nothing game. Take Kroger for instance. They have a cell phone ban that doesn't work and they have thin clients that use browsers to access confidential data. Everything on the thin clients is logged and access anomalies are investigated. People could be storing massive amounts of confidential data on their phones or iPads, but they don't. It's too inconvenient to copy it all by hand. So, they just use the company provided tools. In the area of mobile phones and laptops, certain RTOS vendors are producing strong hypervisors that allow devices to have a "work VM" and a "personal" VM. INTEGRITY Global Services and LynuxWorks already offer this. So, if businesses demand it, cell phone vendors might start loading the hypervisors on smartphones to isolate business data from risky personal browsing. This could also work for laptops using Intel VT. This scheme is already used in products like the Sectera Edge, QubesOS, Turaya Security Kernel, and the Motorola Evoke (for baseband processing isolation, though). So, there are more options to consider. Businesses just aren't looking into them. Many businesses can get away with forced restrictions, although they might needs an IDS for the executives' devices. (rolls eyes) I've seen so many successfully employ the approach that I know more could. Not every company, but many companies. Not every risk or piece of data, but much of it. What's their excuse? The Apple-loving workers will quit their job during the recession? Heh, maybe... probably not... Mark Hanby • September 7, 2010 11:01 AM The war is on between corporate assets and personal assets. Companies are just beginning to understand the most important asset the company has: DATA!. Once a company loses it's data the company has lost it's cyberspace presence. I am responsible for the company's cell devices, laptops/desktops, the the company's network (plus a other technology). The direction we go always includes dollars in the decision. I see relaxation on personal cell phone access to the network for mail and I also see the early seeds of data protection sprouting. A lot of companies will need to invest heavily to move legacy systems and ideas from 1980's to the present. This will be long road with lots of frustration. The fustration is the preception that once data is in the cloud resources can be removed from the company. People will still need to manage the data and security no matter the access device. Brian T. O'Hara • September 7, 2010 11:16 AM I have held for quite some time that one of the biggest challenges facing us today in networking as well as security is that we keep wanting to shift control, responsibility, blame etc. ( I believe you call it the CYA syndrome or something to that effect) onto the someone else when what we as security professionals ought to be doing is developing a standards based criteria for apps and devices to comply with as an industry. If we built security into both the devices and applications from the ground up, we would surely have fewer problems. What I would propose is a consortium much like the IETF or WiFi Alliance who take on the responsibility of developing criteria that would certify an application or device having passed differing levels of compliance. FIPS would be a an example but a bit of overkill in this situation. Then in order for vendors to attain the "seal of approval" they would have to meet certain criteria for secure communications. A huge undertaking but maybe one step at a time we can get there. Meanwhile let's get on to IPV6 :) Just my two cents. Brandioch Conner • September 7, 2010 11:25 AM @Nick P "In the area of mobile phones and laptops, certain RTOS vendors are producing strong hypervisors that allow devices to have a "work VM" and a "personal" VM." I think you missed the point. Even if that is an option, the users will still want to use THEIR systems on the corporate network. Whether their system can be set up in a hypervisor nor not. The problem here is the age-old problem of whether the executives have to conform to the rules they set down or not. You have more status if you have the latest, coolest toy. And none of the executives will settle for having obvious signs of reduced status. Nor for their people. Don Marti • September 7, 2010 11:31 AM Whoever is running the IT Department as the "Department of NO" is not paying attention to the last 20 years of outsourcing, offshoring, and working with contractors and vendors instead of 100% in-house teams. Almost any project of meaningful size is going to have participants "outside the firewall" on their own IT systems. So, except for a few highly regulated industries, the in-house people who have to get some work done are going to put the project's info on 37signals or Google Docs anyway. At that point, enforcing a clunky browser for the in-house staff doesn't buy you anything. Not really anonymous • September 7, 2010 11:45 AM I would expect someone to be crazy to use the same machine to keep both personal and corporate data on it. When you leave, you may end up losing your personal data when the machine is repossessed by the company. Even if the hardware belongs to you they may be able to make you give up the machine temporarily using the legal system, in order make sure you don't have proprietary data on it. While that could happen anyway, you have a much better case for opposing the seizure if you can claim a strong separation between work and personal stuff. Brandioch Conner • September 7, 2010 12:18 PM @Bruce "But security is on the losing end of this argument, and the sooner it realizes that, the better." Just because an executive over-rules you does not mean that you are wrong or that he is right. It just means that in that specific instance, he had more authority than you did. Now, what happens when that "losing argument" becomes the company's bank account info and passwords? I cannot agree with that. It is an easy statement to make in a vague, generalized fashion. But it is difficult to justify AFTER the bank account passwords have been compromised. "Also on the plus side, technology companies have woken up to this trend and -- from Microsoft and Cisco on down to the startups -- are trying to offer security solutions." And like most retrofitting, these will have massive holes and edge-cases that allow information to leak out. Instead, I'd recommend that IT be provided with a budget for "new toys". And be allowed to evaluate such PRIOR to allowing them on the network. And to maintain a listing of the devices / services that are NOT allowed and the specific criteria where they were not sufficiently secure / manageable to be allowed access. Amare • September 7, 2010 12:22 PM I've got a situation.......unbeknownst to me. I've been having issues with my Blackberry and I stumbled across my certificates. I've got ALOT of DOD certificates ROOT CA-2 (listed 1-24) and DOD CLASS 3 EMAIL- ca-7, ECA ROOT ca-5, DOD intermediate CA-11 ROOT CA 2, IDEN TRUST ECA 1 , ECA ROOT CA, ORC ECA FOREIGN NATIONALS CA....a whole bunch of them, no two alike all issued by Department of Defense. I do not nor have I ever worked there deeper into them the read PKI= serial 1f key usage-digital sig , key 1 cert...and RSA-PKCS1/SHA1..........okay i'm worried and there is more but i need advice. I've already contacted appropriate agencies to give them my info and I got the brush off. When I know its so much more. I done my research for hours now this came about last night. worried mcb • September 7, 2010 12:50 PM @ Anonymous coward "link?" Just to the right of the article title labelled printer-friendly. Or... Some weary boomer probably assigned their website scut work to some millennial intern... Amare • September 7, 2010 1:18 PM @bruce. Okay bare with me- I don't blog. Came across Bruce's site and here I am. I have 50 of these certs on my BB! I pulled more stuff off net that pertains to them- here it goes. Fairfax, Va Operational Research Consultants, INC put into full operation the ORC External certificate Authority for issuing DOD authorized digital certs to contractors, vendors, allied partners, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, foreign nationals, members of goverment. Commencement of full operational status follows the recent memorandum of agreement of external certificate authority policy management as signed by the acting asst. Secretary of Defense. JUNE 29. 2004 - there is some sort of infastructure with VPN on my BB too. I don't use a VPN . I think these certificates are trying to copy, mimick or gain access to CAC cards and maybe there are modules on BB devices to read them properly so "people" may use just their handheld to access data. REGARDLESS this crap is on my phone. Still worried .....be back with somemore "printer-friendly" stuff ............Amare Sam • September 7, 2010 1:38 PM Great example of what Bruce is talking about is Obama wanting to continue to use his blackberry after becoming President. Muffin • September 7, 2010 2:46 PM Executive Summary: The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers. (Computer systems that employees use, this time, not star systems.) In fact, this quote seems to be quite worth remembering for security in general, both IT and non-IT. Millennial • September 7, 2010 3:14 PM Personal devices (laptops, smartphones, etc.) connecting to the company network accessing company data? It's possible as long as all the parties are "on the same page", regarding security and privacy matters. There are many things to consider which will impact both the company and the employee. Do employees accessing company data on their personal devices understand they will lose access to their device (and all their personal data on the device) when a legal hold is put in place? How will privacy matters be handled when company support personnel need to access personal devices to fix problems? Who owns the software licenses for company required software installed on the employee device? What about personal devices used for company business with unacceptable software or images (which might violate acceptable use policies for company owned devices). Lots to consider. James • September 7, 2010 6:23 PM Bruce, I think there's a lot to be said about companies that make these consumer goods to collaborate on security to a point where they can be trusted more by companies. It's what should happen anyway. James • September 7, 2010 9:01 PM "security decisions are often made for non-security reasons" Because they don't understand the risk of something going bad and they rather milk all the money and spend as little as possible. Gustavo 30something • September 7, 2010 9:13 PM So why is it when we wanted to uses Linux devices in the corporate network it was okay to tell us no, but we can't tell the new kids they can't use Apple devices? Are we really concerned about losing talent? Aren't most people still just trying to keep the job they have? Matt M • September 7, 2010 10:13 PM How can you allow these devices while keeping risk down, and being able to show compliance with regulations when you have no insight into the device access and connecting with your data and network? With increased regulation requirements, data retention laws, and E-discovery requirements Nick P • September 8, 2010 1:55 AM @ Brandioch Conner and others Good point about the devices. My main point, though, is that if the low level employees are dictating corporate behavior, rather than management, then the company has serious problems. A policy requiring certain devices to process internal data and strong enforcement usually insures compliance. Even people who don't like to do something they will often do it if there is a real risk that exposure results in their firing. The hypervisor solution provides a compromise in that, while it's not their phone, they get to use a nice phone with the latest apps or OS's. They don't necessarily have to look at dinosaurs with horrible interfaces and apps, yet security is still maintained. Classification of data is also useful here. Nonsensitive data may be allowed on personal devices, whereas confidential data may only appear on work approved devices. Data like human resources or marketing plans might not ever be allowed to leave the corporate network or certain in-house machines. The use of classification can give the user more freedom, while providing measurable risk reduction for sensitive data. This assumes they have dedicated work devices and the company does strong policy enforcement. Again, there are thousands of companies that do this in practice and still innovate, keep talent, etc. Tom T. • September 8, 2010 2:33 AM I thought "cloud computing" was a stupid idea the first time I heard about it. Nothing since has changed that; the more I hear, and the more it spreads, the stupider it seems. It's hard enough to control the data, sw, and hw in my own hands, but at least I can try, and know what efforts I have made. I know that this trend isn't going to change, and nobody asked, or asks, my opinion before implementing it. But there will be some satisfaction in being on record the day that the cloud becomes a mushroom cloud, in having been the boy who said aloud that the Emperor has no clothes. The same goes for everything else in the article, about letting whiny babies bring their shiny toys inside the corp. Go dig ditches for a living, and then you can listen to your iTunes all you want to while you do so. There's a reason why computers at CIA don't have USB ports.... Cheers. Robert • September 8, 2010 4:03 AM Maybe it is a little bit cynical but I always assumed that IT security guys job was answer ever simple question with confusing gobbledygook, say no to every reasonable request AND gracefully resign whenever the S*T hits the fan. Are you guys trying to change the job definition? :-) AC2 • September 8, 2010 6:12 AM Everyone has already cherry picked this line, but here goes anyway.. "Security is always a tradeoff, and security decisions are often made for non-security reasons. In this case, the right decision is to sacrifice security for convenience and flexibility." Sorry but to state that as a universally applicable truth is just dumb. There are still far too many situations for corporates (e.g. financial institutions - customer financial data) where this can result in losses well in excess of any benefits gained from the convenience and flexibility gained. James Sutherland • September 8, 2010 6:53 AM Sensible security requires considering what you are trying to guard against and what is really needed. If you're the CIA with informant identities, or indeed a bank with a big pile of cash, you stick it in a vault, surround it with armed goons and don't let anything in or out without serious searches - but most companies just aren't in situations comparable to that. Is letting a utility company sales rep access company email from an iPhone rather than a BlackBerry a problem? It shouldn't be - apart from anything else, it's almost certainly the user rather than the device which poses the relevant threat, intentional or otherwise (letting slip about the big new offer starting next month, planned price rise, etc). Working (sometimes remotely) for a university is an interesting experience. There is a firewall - but with email being outsourced off-site and the majority of users accessing services from outwith the university network, is it really any use? As a kneejerk response to some malware using malicious DNS servers, it blocks port 53 - forcing users to go through what was, at the time, an unpatched and vulnerable BIND installation rather than using something more secure; no doubt future versions of that malware will implement the DNS service locally rather than rely on an outside server anyway, eliminating what little benefit that gave entirely - but of course leaving the downside in place. End result of this and other port blocks? Increasing numbers of users VPNing out to get proper Internet access despite the firewall. When increasing fractions of both the resources and their users are external to the network, what exactly can a firewall or restrictive connection policy achieve besides getting in the way? Protect the resources themselves appropriately, and accept that the real role of your internal network is little different from a regular ISP: one possible route for your users to access resources. Malicious users - and remember, statistically most of them are internal ones - WILL compromise your network if it benefits them, whether installing packet sniffers or probing for vulnerabilities, and they won't worry about any "policy" against doing it. If your security relies on controlling end-user devices, it's already failed. AppSec • September 8, 2010 7:56 AM @Tom T: I initially hated the concept of the cloud from a security and architecture perspective. It seemed like we were going back the client server days and reliance more on things out of our control (corporations to manage servers). And then our data was out of our hands. Then I got to thinking about a small company that is trying to start up. It's not necessarily in their skillset, financial means, or business need to manage the infrastructure. And even some large companies might be better off not doing it. So now, I'm conflicted. I understand and agree with the theory.. The implementation leaves a lot to be desired. goom • September 8, 2010 8:12 AM We all here, because we have some experience of security, more or less. We give our advice about secuirty for other people. But the problem, that many people don't realizing everything about what they should do. They try to do choise, by asking google or "Grandma Tips Telegraph". Only equal individuals do their choise by investigation of technology. Theres nothing to be change. It's alwayse be better by feeling the chain of faith. Amare • September 8, 2010 11:26 AM @ Bruce. Hmm...Well I'm here to update you on my status of my nightmare BB device. I'm the one with the. +40 Department of Defense Certificates that magically appeared on my device. After searching for hours I came across Bruce's site and this seemed the place to be to let it all out. ROUND2. IT's gotton worse and well here it goes.. In my frustration and angst; I decided to take the dive and go through my BB device for more possible clues. I went in 0ptions, than Apps, and nothing special until I clicked menu and than clicked modules from there. In this long list I came across MIDP Root certificates. I didn't see those under my security section like the others. So I researched for awhile and pulled this- its a Two-factor Authentication. that verifies that a BB device is bound to a smart card. It prompts the user to type the smartcard password to turn on the two-factor authentication by using the smartcard. Then binds to the smartcard by storing the binding information in the store in the BB device memory that the user cannot access. Than it needs the name of the java class that the BB smart card reader requires. Then binding that information so it can format the smartcard type and name of the java class the smartcard code requires a unique 64 bit identifier that the smartcard provides a smartcard label that pushes the current IT policy to the BB smartcard reader. So now I was left with DOD certs and this MIDP cert and I thought oh sht my info gathered a day prior to this lead my to CAC cards from the DOD certificates. So panicked now I went through the long long list in the same modules for anything relative and BAM I came across this exactly as I list now..net_rim_smartcard_gsacac. What caught my eye aside from smartcard was the lettering CAC in the gsacac. I clicked on that and it didn't give any significant info that said I'm a goverment issued CAC card it was looking like what I guess a normal property module but its description listed it as unavailable. I know squat about smartcard so I researched again just on the lettering of gsacac. Low and behold its a CAC. That's how its listed apparently. So now how and when and WHY?? Is this here, what's the deal? So. After my findings I brought it to the attention to Home Land Security and the NSA. Why is it my damn BB? And who put it there? And what's the purpose that what really blows my mind. I'm off to follow a lead and to make sure it won't serve its purpose for whatever reason it was put there. And to backtrack it all the way to the source. Any advice ? Ideas? Plz share.. BY THE WAY- earlier posted by J. Sutherland. .I'm not a malicious user nor am I a statistic of "oops" malware. I'm a Mom of three and I don't get all cyber happy and let it consume my time. I shop occasional QVC here and there nothing big. And my email has around 3000+ and hasn't been checked I'm months. Until recently I upgrading like all the people out there from a simple flip phone to this Blackberry. I dont have any clue as of yet. But I'm also not ignorant to the computer world either my Dad was a very smart man and forced me learn all about computers, programs, langs ETC. He was a programmer in the Air Force years and years ago. He taught me really young and I had no childhood. Thus why I'm a HOUSEMOM for more than seven years not a malicious user. With that note ...off to yoga and to ponder with my grey matter. I will be back for sure..later though. Help me figure this out!! Ms. Nay • September 8, 2010 12:47 PM New services and business changes are always created WITHOUT security in mind. Security doesn't become an issue to the overpaid airheads until something happens. Security should always be a vital part of the planning stages. BF Skinner • September 8, 2010 12:56 PM @Amare "Why is it my damn BB? And who put it there? And what's the purpose that what really blows my mind." Disclaimer. Don't have a BB and you've gotten deeper into the internals then I ever have... At a guess; RIM pushed out the certs for USGov to all BB devices by default? (Sounds stupid to me but maybe it's easier to do all by default than just some devices.) You have indeed found a Common Access Card (what DoD calls CAC) certificate store. That GSACAC would be listed is not surprising. GSA has management responsibility for the HSPD12 system. The HSPD12 system is the Identity Management system for all Government employees and contractor employees on contract to the department and agencies. In accordance with Excutive Order HSPD12 it provides all USGov workers with a strong Personal Identification Verification credential and a horse for it to ride on. The output of the HSPD12 process is a CAC (a smart card with photo, data and fingerprint biometric and a pki certificate(s)). USGov is a heavy user of the BB (other phones haven't yet been certified though Apple has great hopes for Iphone v4) so it makes sense that they would do a mass push of certificates (if in fact they didn't come with your phone when purchased.) Maybe an overly broad distribution of public certificates but unlikely to be nefarious. DHS should have been able to give you some information; just gotta find the right person there (not easy). NSA won't care since they doubtless have back doors into the RIM servers. Nick P • September 8, 2010 2:59 PM @ BF Skinner Yeah, you're probably right about them pushing the certs in. I actually wish they did the same for IE and Firefox. I don't mind having a few certs' because I know what they mean: an identity has been verified by someone to some degree. They say nothing of certainty or trust. Of course, this could be dangerous for lay people and I wouldn't recommend it. But it would be nice to have an option to download all the CA certs for one's government and military. Back to preloading being useful, I remember when I originally went to DOD portals to get info on EKMS and certain Type 1 platforms I got warnings that the CA's were invalid and the site "may be untrustworthy." That made me a tad nervous, considering the potential MITM-attack value of these portals. Ever the paranoid, I spent a decent amount of time looking into the DOD PKI and validating their CA certificates. Then, I added them, made a written note of them for later reinstalls, and proceeded to enjoy peace of mind. "NSA won't care since they doubtless have back doors into the RIM servers." Will be at the firmware, driver, or OS level. Quite a few avenues for attacks in a phone with no backdoors. I've always thought that, if NSA was given source code, they'd probably sit on any zero day they find that's sophisticated to exploit and hard to remove. I know they backdoored Lotus and made secret modifications to Windows 2000's public release, so assuming backdoor by default is a reasonable thing to do. Nick P • September 8, 2010 3:04 PM @ jkordish You're actually right about VDI or thin client approach moving to mobile phone. You might want to look into the OK Labs Nirvana phone. It runs a phone OS and a Citrix remote desktop client side-by-side using the OKL4 "microvisor" (microkernel w/ virtualization support). You plug a monitor, keyboard and mouse into it, load the software, and BAM! you have a desktop PC to work with. It might be at your house, at your office desk, or a VM in a server farm. Best of all, the microkernel's isolation is stronger than most OS's and this helps in data loss prevention. duffer • September 8, 2010 4:45 PM I imagine that many of us are trying to work out how the trend of consumerisation is going to work out where we have information assets of high value. It boils down to how can we deliver services to all legitimate users without having to care (much) about the client device or the network. Some clues above, but not many. And such services will frequently need to cross organisational boundaries. I don't see any real solutions in the near term, although I could find a use for them. csrster • September 9, 2010 1:33 AM Our security policy forbids installation on our company PCs of any software not approved by the IT department. As I'm a software developer, this means I'm technically in breach of the regulations any time I compile my code. (As a workaround I have considered only writing code that won't compile.) Matt • September 9, 2010 6:13 AM "...if the low level employees are dictating corporate behavior, rather than management, then the company has serious problems." I used to be the sysadmin for a high school, and this is exactly what happened. When the school district set a GPO above my head requiring secure passwords, teachers flew off the handle over having to set their passwords to "MathIs#1" instead of "math". Fast forward 90 days into the school year, and there was another round of teachers flying off the handle over having to change their passwords. I was actually quite happy the GPO was set above my head, so I could truthfully say I couldn't do anything about it. One teacher in particular went to the assistant principal because she did not want to participate in the whole "screen locks after 1 hour idle" thing. This was a GPO I had set myself, but when I was asked about giving just this one teacher an exemption, I told a white lie and said that there was no way to do that. What did we learn here? That if management lets employees dictate security policy, you don't get security. If the university housing department allowed dorm residents to dictate security policy, no doors would ever get locked. goom • September 9, 2010 6:49 AM Don't familiar with Matt about management policy. I think that there is many ways to be secure by regarding policy of your organization. Do you mean that security require some special software? So, it's whery easy to bypass corporate ips. For ex. using ssl anonymizer from home machine and have too much problems. ylo • September 9, 2010 10:00 AM Maybe the solution to this will be to provide a virtual machine... at the moment, Paragon go-virtual software is used by many employees willing to work with more comfort from their desktop at home (compared to their corporate laptop)! For Paragon, maybe we can be confident with the tool... but this use could make their mind to others willing to break-in employees generated VMs! So maybe providing what people want is the best way to keep some control and virtualisation can help a lot. As well, just having a machine on the internal network having a SSH server that do not administratively prohibit tunnels (and so, reverse tunnels!)... combined with an HTTPS proxy not white filtering (or at least filtering dyndns and no-ip domains)... and anyone can go trough the most severe controls with proxytunnel on corporate machine (supports adding an ssl layer to avoid ssl banner detection and can be given another less suspicious process name! Great tool!) and an stunnel4 on the home side able to get traffic from 443, remove the ssl, and forward this to 22 on the ssh server: So you make you own VPN and as the tools exists on almost any OS (desktop+mobile)... problem solved for 99% corporate environments. Simon Jester • September 9, 2010 1:39 PM The problem with the consumeration(sp?) is that the Security department will be the ones getting axed when the VP's Iphone is used as a remote access point and the company db servers puke private data to outside entities. M Jones • September 9, 2010 2:27 PM Along with TARP came greater levels of scrutiny by the banks of their vendors. One of the most frequent questions we get these days is 'Do you allow non-company owned assets on the corporate network?". To answer yes to this question is to invite almost certain death as a bank vendor. Jim • September 9, 2010 6:21 PM Security is about risk management at the end of the day. You can decide to allow your users to use their own devices to access/store/process your business information but you need to understand the risks of doing so and then do a cost/benefit analysis to see whether the risks is justified. If you can't retain staff because your secure operational environment makes it too hard for them to work then that is a risk to your business. It has a real cost that can be evaluated and compared to the possible cost of staff using unmanaged devices - malware/data loss/etc. I can't imagine achieving PCI compliance if every admin used their own PC or mobile device for convenience. Pat Cahalan • September 9, 2010 10:01 PM You really want to prevent this sort of thing? "You can use whatever you want, knock yourself out. If it's not A, B, or C, don't call the helpdesk. If you lost Accounting's database it's on the director of Accounting to explain it to the CEO... and it's on the director of Accounting to pony up the budget funds to pay for data recovery. And the next time the director of Accounting tries to convince me to use something, I get to throw this in their face and say, "No." It's not coming out of my budget. If you're using an iPhone, don't ask my network guy to fix it for you. I can't budget for things I can control, any more than you can. You can't complain that nothing works right when I have no predictive capability to build infrastructure because you get to change the specs tomorrow." I agree, Bruce, that to disallow people to use toys is largely a losing battle... but it's a losing battle because the IT department (in most organizations) is considered to be a value-neutral or value-negative part of the organization. Sort of like government oversight: at best, a pain in the ass to be worked around. And, for the most part, we let them do it. Read CIO magazines, they're all talking about doing whatever the users want, whenever the users want, and doing it all on less budget than last year and with a grin on your face. Don't lead. Enable. It's the industry trend.. Davi Ottenheimer • September 10, 2010 1:12 AM Kind of disappointed that you didn't emphasize that the upgrade might be FOR security. Cars, for example, that boast better braking and handling etc. are being sold on the premise that cool and new also actually means much more secure. The only sacrifice is your wallet. Clive Robinson • September 10, 2010 1:27 AM @ Pat Cahalan, "No other profession allows itself to be treated this unprofessionally." Are we a profession in anything other than our own minds? Think how users see us, we are the "reparman who play with toys and speak nonsense" Think how users see their computers some like phoness, some like cars, others like personal jewellery, but in nearly all cases as "unreliable". You ask a user about their computer experiances at work it's about "how it let them down" Once upon a time kids who had been lazy said "the dog ate my homework" and quite rightly the teacher did not believe them. Now however they say "Dad fixed the computer and my homework vanished" and the teacher believe's them. We have an image problem we are seen less favourably than that shady guy selling rust bucket auto's on that downtown corner on the other side of the tracks. Our whole "profession" is about being confidence tricksters on the make, you only have to read the first few paragraphs of an End User Licence Agreement to see it, then try and negotiate a site licence to feel it. But then think how we look as we get close to the board room... We cannot give any predictability about function only failure, we cannot show return on investment, at best we offer a high risk of liability. Which brings us around to "security" we cann't measure our effectivness in a testable and verifiable way. We cann't even offer any assurance that we will know when data has been stolen. What do we put on the table when it comes to budget appropriation time? doom gloom and sunk costs. And what of the budget competitors, even the building manager can say he can keep the lights working, the doors locked and the toilets clean with more certainty than we can. So what happens we don't do "security" any more we do "compliance by audit" to minimise liability. We do "best practice" as done by our competitors who say they have not done as badly as we have, but the reality? Who knows they certainly don't any more than we do. Do we honestly look like a "profession" to others? Sasha van den Heetkamp • September 10, 2010 7:24 PM If one sacrifices security for convenience and flexibility, why have security at all? I don't like the cliché of the weakest link in a chain analogy, I rather compare it to a rubber band; one can stretch security and provide more flexibility. But the more you stretch it, the more tension on the rubber. And eventually it either snaps or wears out in elasticity. Eventually, humans demand even more flexibility, and thus the rubber band of security wears down and looses all it's flexibility: the rubber band just lost it's functionality, so why have it all? The trade-off, I guess, is to let the rubber band of security bounce between restriction and release. Nick P • September 11, 2010 11:17 PM @ Pat Callahan Nice post. If you don't mind, I'm archiving these three paragraphs for use in future business presentations (with credit given): ." It was just so well said. :) Amare • September 12, 2010 2:59 AM When I wrote a couple of days ago, - stated my last resort of help. All the big-wigs gave the brush off. But- rest assure somewhat I did not reveal what I know is detramental and what common consumerism gone haywire for hacks. I put my contigencies in order before I did this. Sercurity Hill has been informed. before I went on a search for knowlegde of why, how, when. There is really nothing I've stated that wasn't available at the right click. I did walk away with lots of info and great advice from here. And - hold Bruce in my highest respects he is the man that is far more surpassed than I or you will ever be. I have figured out the "big components" to this . It was just a matter of turning on the lights and seeing which ones scatter. I did this in a way to protect my country and its security. So feel free to copy the blog and post it at your schools "this is not what to do" its like seeing um..let's a James bond movie in the 80"s and "what's that 9ue" it's a liquid crystal image-sharpest of its kind. But 9ue has. Had it in the goverment padlock a long long time. So believe me when I say I left the BIG stuff out and that going inder our goverment padlock. And let's say some things out there to think about and worry over too. We don't need this kind of tech float freeky in certain places, situations, or hands for that matter. On that note - some of these blogs have the right idea and some a decade behind. First post I quotes the Asst.acting Second. of Defense and that was ten tears ago. And that was about the new and improved CAC cards and they chunked the old ones because they we proven Hmm..flexalbe rubber bandish. So yes let's keep certain things that can cause big problems out of plaaces that need serious security. And yes make sure we run ports and components and apps only for certain issues thatwould need it. Bruce is right Do we really need like five different ways to check. Our email? With that note I bidd you good night and farewell. Tom Dibble • September 12, 2010 11:39 PM Two notes. First there are a few "what, are the employees going to find another job in a recession???" comments above; IT policies tend to not change when the economy picks up, and if you start playing capriciously with your employees they will treat the company the same way. Sorry, that's not a good argument to make. Moreover, the employees that are really hard to replace are also the ones who can get a job elsewhere the most easily, even in a recession, and they also tend to be the ones most likely to bristle at needlessly overbearing controls. Finally, the company is also facing the realities of a recession, and losing key personnel because of this type of issue can tip a company over the edge as well. Second topic: I think the main issue that a lot of folks have with their IT department is that security is seen as black and white. Someone's email might contain sensitive information, thus everyone may only ever view their email on an approved device all the way down to the secretary. The email server is on the company network, so no non-approved devices may use that network. Some folks deal with credit card info, therefore all access to the corporate network must be "guarded" by password rules that make the Gestapo seem friendly. What happened to security zones and adjusting levels of security to the specific needs of the data being secured? It's harder, yes, but (again, only in my experience) this is an area where, if IT was more "on the side" of the folks who just want to get work done, they'd have a much better relationship with the rest of the company and we'd end up with better security, not worse. The main problem is that folks "in the trenches" of the company's line of business end up seeing IT as that evil org that puts loads of "lockdown" crapware on every employee desktop/laptop (which crashes certain computers at 4:00 every day like clockwork but can't be taken off until the vendor puts out a fix because that would compromise security) and keeps the contractors in Costa Rico from being on VPN and accessing WebEx at the same time. They aren't a part of the org helping us keep data safe; they are the part of the org keeping us from creating that data in the first place. Anyway, just a thought. If you are already customizing zones of control and working with the rest of the company to make sure you achieve the right balance of security vs obstruction, that's great. It just seems like a very rare thing from the non-IT side of the "fence", especially when the company has more than a few hundred people in it. Clive Robinson • September 13, 2010 7:18 AM @ Tom Dibble, "What happened to security zones and adjusting levels of security to the specific needs of the data being secured?" Two things happened to it the first is the resourses required expand not with the number of zones but the complexity of interaction between the zones. Secondly moving to a "web based solution" to reduce resource issues on the users machine means that the zone issolation that is possible at the OS level is not realy available at the browser level (although this is changing). As was once remarked "you get what you pay for" thus a resource straped IT department is looking to reduce complexity to be able to perform at all. Most users and managers assume either a linear relationship between "objects" and resources required, or one that decreases per object resources as the number of objects increase. Few understand (even when explained carefully) that from the security asspect complexity is the driver and even at the simplest level complexity goes up by the number of simple relations between objects ( ie a half n^2-n). So if you have a browser with shared memory between open windows there is the issue of how many open windows or "tabs" and how you ensure adequate segregation between memory spaces to ensure security whilst still providing a secure mechanisum by which information can be moved from one window to another (ie simple cut-n-past) whilst maintaining adequate mechanisms to prevent accidental or deliberate disclosure. Batsy • September 13, 2010 2:12 PM Security is an area of ebbs and flows. I agree that it 'll be harder and harder to say no especially if the CEO says to do it and security has been and always been a balance. While the consumerization of IT will shift the balance of power over to the 'left', all it will take is for a number of high profile incidents or an increasing rash of incidents for the pendulum to swing back to the 'right'. Personally, considering the issues surrounding Android security and that all of the smart phone platforms are have or are starting to have banking apps on their platforms - I feel that this may happen sooner rather than later. billswift • September 13, 2010 6:05 PM Bruce, how about you and Marcus publishing your point/counterpoint essays on a non-spammer, or maybe talk Marcus into posting his halves on ranum.com like you do here? In the less than a week since I signed up to read this I have received more than a dozen emails from all sorts of IT related stuff that I am not interested in. Nick P • September 14, 2010 1:22 AM @ billswift Yeah. That's why it pays off to give them false information. Sad, but true. Kevin Cantu • September 16, 2010 2:36 AM This is why bringing your own device is risky to the user, though: Exchange's killer remote wipe capabilities....	http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/consumerization.html	2013-05-18T10:13:10	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Lesson Plan Awesome Ancient Ancestors! Discussion Guide - Grades: 3–5 About this book Discussion and Seriously FUN Study Guide to: America's Horrible Histories: (Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth & Awesome Ancient Ancestors) By Elizabeth Levy Illustrated by Daniel McFeeley “The word horrible comes from the Latin word ‘horree’, which means ‘to bristle or make your hairs stand on end,' and it's the horrible parts of history that can keep you awakeÂ…and interested!” — author Elizabeth Levy Why Is America's History So Horrible? Well, it's not really horrible, but it can be weird, gross, and downright surprising at times! Elizabeth Levy's books offer a zany but fact-filled journey before recorded history — all the way back to the time of T-Rex. From there, Levy invites readers to explore the evolution of North America and learn about American pyramids, ancient rats the size of cows, and the hairiest mammalsÂ…including our first ancestors. Levy wants kids to know that America never was a "new" world. At the time of the Greeks and Romans, in the Americas there were great cities, and even pyramids along the Mississippi. With cartoons, timelines, and "travel" guides to museum exhibits and other landmarks of pre-history, the engaging format of America's Horrible Histories will capture the attention of readers at all levels. Plus, it provides a fresh way to supplement a school social studies or science curriculum. Sassy sidebars and cultural facts throughout the books will have readers laughing while they learn. So What Are These Books About Anyway? Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth? Almost 250,000,000 years ago, North America and other continents were joined as one super-continent called Pangaea (Greek for "All Earth"). In this prehistoric time, it was every dinosaur for himself (or herself), whether roaming alone or in packs. But life back then was much more than hungry dinosaurs. Plants and insects were evolving, too. With the shift in tectonic plates, and climate changes, the Americas drifted west. Pangaea started to break up. When the Ice Age arrived, all-new creatures began prowling the area we now call North America. Soon, two-legged creatures (our distant relatives) joined them! Levy examines numerous theories on how these North American changes happened, and describes the many ways creatures either adapted or became extinct. Readers have a chance to look at prehistoric facts and see where they fit in this country's history. Awesome Ancient Ancestors Picking up where Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth? left off, this book shares theories on how humans came to settle in America — and what they did once they had arrived. When did humans first get here? Did all humans walk or ride across the Beringia Bridge? Why was corn so important to humans? What did people do for fun back then? Levy introduces readers to numerous ancient peoples — from the Olmecs to the Mound Builders to the Mayans. She explains how people changed from nomadic hunters and gatherers to farmers living in permanent settlements. Her tongue-in-cheek examination of myths, legends, fossils, artifacts, and art shows readers how American civilization, as we know it, got its start. And it was way before Christopher Columbus! Before You Read the Books — Try This! Timeline for the Ages How can we understand history unless we understand the passage of time? We can't! Levy provides ongoing timelines in both books to help show when the prehistoric events she describes happen. But before diving way back in time into America's Horrible Histories, create and discuss a historical timeline based on the world you know today. Make your timeline on a piece of paper or across a blackboard. First, think about key dates from your own life. When were you born? How old are you now? When were your parents or grandparents born? Mark these dates near the right side, or the end, of the timeline. Next, think about the lives of other important American historical figures. Where would Abe Lincoln fit on your timeline? How about Christopher Columbus? Plot these dates onto your timeline. They should fall somewhere close to the right side (not in the center, as you might expect!). Now, think about the books you're about to read, and the time when they take place. Where would 65 million years B.C.E. go your timeline? What about 8000 B.C.E? Now you're really ready — literally — to go back in time! P.S. Don't toss your timeline! Add to it as you read the booksÂ… "I Was A 2,000 Pound Bison" and Other Writing Prompts As you read, take time to write while thinking about the facts from the books and using your imagination. From Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth? - Read pages 44–59 and examine the different extinction theories Levy has included. Which theory do you believe? Support your argument with facts. Or, just for fun, invent wacky ideas from your imagination. Did angry space aliens land in a Sauropod's backyard? Did every volcano on Earth erupt at the same time? Could dinosaurs have died because of their own gas, or did they get crisped from staying out in the sun too long? - Read pages 64–70. What if you boarded a time machine back to the swamps for a visit with some of the earliest mammals? Describe what you find — from the teeniest to the biggest mammals alive. Which mammal would you want to have as a pet and why? - Read the top ten list of American Ice Age mammals starting on page 101. Levy describes giant sloths that look like Jabba the Hutt, beavers the size of bears, and even enormous camels. Why do you think the animals were so big? (Hint: there are other clues throughout the book.) Make list of these reasons. If you were a prehistoric mammal, what would you want to be and why? - It's millions of years ago and you are a human crossing the Beringia Bridge. What five things are you carrying and why? Where are you going? From Awesome Ancient Ancestors - If there were an Ice Age version of the hit TV show, Survivor, the winner would be the bison! Why did he survive when other animals didn't? Write a short story about an encounter between a bison and a human. What happens? Go for that gruesome endingÂ…it's okay when we're talking about horrible histories! - Read pages 83–87. Now, put yourself in the shoes of the first archaeologist who discovered TeotihuacÃ¡n, the great ancient city located in Mexico. Think about what life in that city must have been like. Research it and describe it. Now, travel to Chaco Canyon. What do you see there? Why is this place so like the Emerald City of Oz in The Wizard of Oz? - On page 111, Levy describes how Mayans offered blood to the gods so crops would grow. What other rituals did they perform? There are many legends about the power of a Native American "rain dance." Can you think of some other rituals people today perform to get things done? - Some of the ancient peoples had funny names, like the Stinkards described on page 144. If you were given the task of renaming all the ancient animals and peoples, what would you call them and why? Try to rename them based on how they act, what they look like, or what they eat. Science, English, and Art…Oh My! Even More Activities for You To Do America's Horrible Histories are about history, of course, but they're about lots of other stuff too. As you read the books, think about how dinosaurs and ancient American civilizations relate to you, living in the twenty-first century. Let Levy's fun facts help you to explore science, art, and more! Wanna Pangaea? - Get a flat map of the world (also called a "mercator"). Trace the continents. Then, cut out their shapes in construction paper (or any paper) like the pieces of a puzzle. Now, make Pangaea by pushing them together. What land masses look as though they were fit together before the big break-up? - When Pangaea split apart, it split into two major masses called "Laurasia" and "Gondwana Land." Using an encyclopedia or the Internet, look up information on these "lost" continents. Where were they moving? As you explore the formation of the seven continents we know today, you can learn about how mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquake zones formed. Big things to think about, even beyond America. o How did Australia end up down in the Southern hemisphere — and why does it have so many unique plants and animals? o When India crashed into Asia, the Himalayan Mountains formedÂ… so why is Mount Everest still getting taller? o A woolly mammoth was recently discovered buried deep in Siberia. What do you think lies underneath the snow and ice of frozen places on Earth like Greenland or Antarctica? - Ancient peoples often explain natural occurrences with myths and legends. Make up your own myth about how and why Pangaea came apart. How could you imagine what happened to Pangaea happening again to North America or any of the other continents? Will parts of the world ever crash into one another again? Dinosaurs are Dyn-o-mite! - Choose a North American dinosaurs and research it. When did it live? What were the differences between dinosaurs from the Palezoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras? Put your research together with others to create a group dinosaur timeline. - Levy has included "travel" boxes in both books that explain where you go to see fossils, bones, and other prehistory relics. How many places have you visited? Is there somewhere special you would like to go? - Look for fossils online, too. Take a virtual visit to the Petrified Forest in Arizona, or explore the La Brea Tar Pits in California. There are special places all over North America where fossils are the main attraction! Where will you go? Try these search words: fossil, paleontologist, or anthropologist. - Check out page 47 in Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth? You can make your own Dino-Trading cards using facts from the books and facts you gather on your own. Write these "Dino-Stats" on the back of each card. Have your friends do the same — and swap 'em! - Imagine you have been chosen to design your own amusement park. You decide that the theme will be "Prehistoric Dinosaurs." What are the rides and what is the amusement park layout going to look like? Make Me A Prehistoric Fossil! - Well, we don't want you to be a fossil — but you can make your own. Here's what you will need: plaster of Paris or molding clay (available at any crafts store). Press leaves, shells, sticks, and other objects into the plaster or clay before it has dried. After it hardens, write about what these fossils could tell someone from the future. Do the objects tell a story about people, animals or a special place? What do the objects say about our climate? How do the objects help to describe our habitat? For example, if you do this exercise and fill your fossil with shells and sand, chances are you live by the beach. - You bug me! Get a tube of clear-drying glue and some waxed paper. Take it outside on a sunny day. Leave a glob of glue and wait to see what it attracts. Chances are that a wandering ant or mosquito may find its way into the glue. Once the bug is trapped in the glue, add another drop on top. Wait for the glue to harden. It will be transparent — your version of a bug that has been found in amber. Can you examine its parts? - Does your state have a state fossil? Nebraska's state fossil is the mammoth, while California's is the saber-toothed cat. Look up facts about your state fossil or a neighboring state fossil. If your state doesn't have one, what do you think it should be? Ancient Travel Brochures - Glacier Getaway with Free Woolly Mammoth Breakfast Every Morning! Pretend you're a travel agent from the year 40,000 B.C.E. What would you feature inside your travel brochure to encourage prehistoric peoples to visit North America? What would the "hotels" be like? What food would be served? What would be your travel warnings? What would you advise visitors to pack? Where are some of the most popular destinations and why? - We Build It — You Come! Now, prepare a special brochure especially for more "recent" ancient peoples. Try planning a "Visit to the Mound Builders." Then, imagine a "Trip With the Mayans." What's special about traveling back in time to visit these civilizations? What do the "visiting" settlements look like? Are tourists welcome at ancient Mayan Death sacrifices — or are the tourists the sacrifices? Yikes! What's On the Menu? - Hungry for…chocolate? In her books, Levy explains how ancient Americans ate and grew some very cool foods that the rest of the planet didn't even know existed! Take some time to research the history of some of these foods and how they (and we!) changed the world. Sometimes they made it betterÂ…sometimes not. Investigate! Potato Tobacco Corn Tomato Chocolate Vanilla Pumpkin Avocado Peanut Turkey Pineapple - Hungry for… Pleistocene? The Pleistocene Epoch (Ice Ages) lasted from about 1.65 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. Many of the animals from that era are now extinct, but others live in select states. Following are two lists. The one labeled "Extinct" is a list of some animals that are extinct. The other labeled "Survivors" includes ancient animals that still survive in the U.S.A. Divide up your group so that each person researches one of these animals. Look up information about them (and other animals mentioned in both books), then combine your findings and discuss why you think some species died out while others survived to the present day. Extinct - Ground Sloth - Beautiful Armadillo - Short-faced Skunk - American Lion - Saber-toothed tiger Survivors - Grasshopper Mouse - Starnose Mole - Northern Bog Lemming - Snowshoe Hare - Cockroach Weather or Not - Take a look at how "cool" prehistory really is. How did Antarctica cool off the rest of the planet and create new land on some continents? How did cool weather make grass? Why did grass become so important to animals and people in North America? - In prehistoric times, animals adapted their bodies and feeding habits based on changes in climate. For example, in Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth? we learn that when it got cooler, animals like bison and cattle developed multi-chamber stomachs in order to digest grass properly. Think of other ways in which animals have evolved as they adapted to climate changes. - Have you ever watched The Weather Channel? You can see how different temperatures and storm systems all over the country can affect where you live. How do we adapt our "settlements" (i.e. houses, apartments, farms) to fast changing weather patterns? We use lightning rods, tornado cellars, and flood walls, to name a few. Make lists of the ways that different parts of the country adapt their lives to deal with weather. Don't forget major weather events like El Nino and La Nina. What about global warming? Don't Be Petrified by Petroglyphs (And Other Ancient Art) - Rock On! Materials you need: rough sandpaper (a few sheets), black spray paint, and a nail or sharp-tipped object (to scratch design). - Apply black spray paint unevenly on your sandpaper so it looks like the surface of a rock. Let it dry. - Cut sandpaper into several, equal-sized pieces. - Prehistoric people used symbols on cave art to relate ideas and messages. Make up your own symbols and carefully scratch them into the pieces of painted sandpaper. Scratch the outline of a bison, or a fish, or maybe your little brother! - Mix and match your rock art to make up different messages. You could decorate your bedroom door with an ancient "Keep Out" message if you want! P.S. If you're really feeling expressive, step outside with some chalk and draw petroglyph symbols right on the real rocksÂ…or the sidewalk. - This Art's For the Birds In Awesome Ancient Ancestors, Levy describes giant bird art created and rediscovered in a place called Poverty Point, Louisiana (see page 62). Enormous ridges made the shape of a giant bird that could be seen from overhead. Make your own art based on this idea. What shape or symbol would you make and why? Materials you need: pencil, colored construction paper, white glue, and colored or beach sand. - Put down a piece of paper and trace your design or symbol in pencil. Make a silly face, another giant bird, or "Stick Man." Anything goes! - Drip a trail of glue over the pencil marks so now your symbol is outlined in glue. - Sprinkle colored sand over the glue and let dry. - Getting A-HEAD of Prehistoric People In Awesome Ancient Ancestors, Levy describes the creation of giant head sculptures by the Olmecs that stood more than 9 feet tall and weighed up to 50 tons each. What was the significance of these heads? You can make a slightly smaller version of your own with this simple paper-mache recipe. Materials you need: powdered wallpaper paste, water, one inflated balloon, strips of newspaper, and a pin. You'll also need some time — the mold will take time to dry between layers! - Use your balloon to make the basic head shape. - Make your paste solution mixing together the water and the powdered paste. - One at a time, dip each strip into your paste, making sure it's completely covered, but not clumpy. Lay the strip over the mold and press it into place with your fingers. Not too hard-don't injure the balloon! - Dip next strip and overlap the first. Repeat until balloon is covered. - Let these strips dry, then repeat the procedure again, creating a second layer of paper over the first dried layer. As you build layers, begin to shape the newspaper into a nose, eyes, mouth and other head features. - Once the paper has all dried into the mask shape you want, stick a pin through the paper into the balloon. It should pop and you have your own Olmec or Mayan head! P.S. If you're feeling really inspired, decorate your head with glitter, feathers, magic markers, paint…or even petroglyphs! Meet the Awesome Author I don't just use jokes to make us laugh at our history (because a lot of what's happened over the years isn't all that funny, actually); but I do think that we've got to learn to laugh at ourselves and see how much we have in common with people through all ages. If you can share a joke, it's hard to hate . . . history is too important to be taken seriously because kids have to learn that we all do odd, strange things and no one has a monopoly on making mistakes! Elizabeth Levy Author Elizabeth Levy is the award-winning author of over eighty books for children, including If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution, Invisible Inc. Mysteries (Scholastic), Seventh Grade Tango (Hyperion), and My Life as a Fifth Grade Comedian (Winner of the Maryland and Georgia State Awards, and included in the New York Public Library Top 100 Books of the Year). 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For example, the part A source question, I spend 5minutes on the plan (reading sources and plan) At the moment I look through each source, and pick up the evidence which is "for" and "against" and make a brief note on the provenance of the source. I then try to plan the paragraphs by trying to find cross references i.e. Paragraph 1: Source 1 and Source 3 support this point as seen through this piece of evidence Paragraph 2: Source 1 and Source 3, and source 2 also support this point with another different bit of evidence Paragraph 3: On the other hand, source 2 differs from 1 and 3 because of.... Paragraph 4: In addition to source 2, source 1 contains some evidence to go against the claim.. Paragraph 5: conclusion Would that be a suitable structure for the first? Secondly, for the part B question, would it be advisable to spend at least 10minutes on the plan for this, and then have about 40minutes to write it up? Again I adopt a similar method, by going through the sources and jotting down own relevant knowledge, then I spend time making very brief outlines of what sources I am going to link together. How many points would be ideal if I was aiming for an A. I know this is very subjective and it's quality more so than quantity, but would four main paragraphs for the body of the essay ( two for FOR and two for Against) be okay? Excluding the conclusion. One last question: I noticed in another thread that provenance isn't assessed in the part B 40 mark question. However, if it isn't an historian and say it was Gandhi/Jinnah making a very biased claim, could we still refer to the provenance to answer the question, or would this be unnecessary? I'm sorry for my convoluted question and I hope it isn't too hard to read! Though, thank you in advance	http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforum/index.php?showtopic=7070&st=0&p=28161	2013-05-18T10:22:04	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforum/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif", ":)" ] ]
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Servicios Personalizados Articulo Indicadores Links relacionados Bookmark Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia versión impresa ISSN 1415-790X Resumen CONSOLMAGNO, Denise Camargo et al. Training 7-10 year-old students to complete a food diary. Rev. bras. epidemiol. [online]. 2009, vol.12, n.3, pp. 404-412. ISSN 1415-790X.. INTRODUCTION: Although the effectiveness of training to improve the accuracy of diet self-reporting in adults is recognized, few studies evaluate its success in children. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of training 7-to-10-year school children in their abi-lity to complete a food diary (FD) correctly. METHODS: attri-buted scores ranging from 0 to 5 to aspects such as identification, detail and quantification of foods in FDs. Medium score for each aspect was subsequently calculated. Wilcoxon test was used to compare depen-dent samples. RESULTS: There was evidence of statistical difference in the three aspects when before-and-after training scores were assessed: identification (p<0.001), detail . Palabras llave : training; Food diaries; Dietary intake; Students; Child.	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1415-790X2009000300009&lng=es&nrm=iso	2013-05-18T10:16:00	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Services on Demand Article Indicators Related links Bookmark Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária On-line version ISSN 1984-2961 Abstract ROCHA, Christiane Maria Barcellos Magalhães da et al. Perceptions about the biology of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus among milk producers in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais. Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet. (Online) [online]. 2011, vol.20, n.4, pp. 289-294. ISSN 1984-2961.. One hundred semi-systematized interviews were applied with the aim of surveying the perceptions of milk producers in the municipality of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais regarding the biology of the tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Content analysis was conducted on each of the variables surveyed and their descriptions, highlighting the higher frequencies in order to construct profiles of perceptions about each of the matters surveyed. In addition, each of the producers was categorized regarding their readiness to proceed with efficient control, from the assessment of their responses. Among the variables surveyed were the tick lifespan, duration of parasitic life, time of greatest incidence, survival in pastures and egg-laying volume. These questions are considered important for defining the knowledge needed for rational combat. It was concluded that the information needed for adopting effective practices to combat ticks was insufficient among the milk farm properties in Divinópolis. Moreover, the producers interviewed had a good perception of what they observed in their daily routine, but did not have complementary information about the tick life cycle. Keywords : Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus; tick; interview; milk producer; knowledge.	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1984-29612011000400006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en	2013-05-18T10:31:32	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Serviços Personalizados Artigo Indicadores Links relacionados Similares em SciELO Bookmark História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos versão impressa ISSN 0104-5970 Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos vol.18 supl.1 Rio de Janeiro dez. 2011 ANALYSIS Gender and assistance: historical and conceptual considerations regarding assistance practices and policies* Ana Paula Vosne Martins Professor, Department of History/Universidade Federal do Paraná. Rua General Carneiro, 460, 6º andar, 80060-150 - Curitiba - PR - Brasil. ana_martins@uol.com.br ABSTRACT The article offers some theoretical and historical reflections on the concept of gender as it relates to the notion of assistance. Explores the political dimensions of both concepts and problematizes the dichotomy between the gender-marked realms of the political and the pre-political, a dichotomy that has greatly influenced modern political theory and thought. It examines the modern state's care practices and the transformations in assistance which occurred within the charitable and assistance organizations that took shape in parallel and in consonance with this state action. Keywords: gender; assistance; politics; care; Brazil. Much to the contrary of what has been said, woman has always been and will always be the holy soul that guides men in the great destiny of the fatherland and especially in matters of assistance, where their knowledge is more refined than that of men. Much has been said about woman's role in organized societies, but everything that has been said about her is little compared to how great, truly very great, she shall be in the future. Otelo Renzo Turi (1946, p.12). Social assistance is a science that demands of those dedicated to it their perseverance, work, dedication, and moral superiority. Boletim da Legião Brasileira de Assistência (1946, p.1.) Founded on August 28, 1942, the Legião Brasileira de Assistência (Brazilian Assistance Legion/LBA) had a long life and represented a milestone in the organization of social assistance in Brazil. Its first efforts focused on the needs of the families of soldiers fighting in Europe, following Brazil's entry into World War II. The organization's very name in fact has a military connotation. First Lady Darcy Vargas gathered women from the country's most well-to-do classes to form a legion of women fighters who would never see the battlefields of Europe but would nevertheless serve as veritable soldiers in Brazil, doing what they were able to: caring for the needy, above all the families of recruits. Soon after the war ended, the LBA newsletter explained that in peacetime the organization would provide social assistance in collaboration with government agencies and private institutions, covering a broad gamut of services (O programa..., 1945, p.6). Structurally speaking, the LBA was organized along the lines of a super-ministry or super-department, with services ranging from social assistance to healthcare, education to housing, social research to publicity - in other words, it was active on a number of fronts, not incidentally priorities under the Vargas administration.1 The organization of the LBA and its specialization in social assistance illustrate how the Estado Novo laid the foundations for exercising what we might call a feminine citizenship based on women's social usefulness, thereby extending their maternal role in moral terms to society. This quite conservative strain of citizenship was also found in other political contexts, like Salazar's Estado Novo, Fascist Italy, and Francoist Spain. These regimes enjoyed substantial support from women organized in associations much like the LBA, grounded on the idea that women should participate politically using their specific skills for social intervention, that is, their naturally endowed ability to nurture. The creation of the LBA was contemporaneous with the organization of social assistance rooted in the political rationale of welfare states and based on the scientific research norms, strategies for action, and human resource training approaches employed by Western countries. This new political scenario is the point of departure for this article, which explores the links connecting three distinct words, both theoretically and historically: state, assistance, and women. In principle, these words have different historical origins and could hardly be aligned, as I'm proposing here; after all, they belong to distinct lexicons: the term state belongs to the political lexicon, while women and assistance form a duo that is associated with other moments of life, that is, reproduction and care - outside the bounds of politics. However, these words and the agents that lend them substance meet, mix, and mutually sustain and transform themselves over time along multiple, complex pathways. Taking historical and philosophical feminist scholarship on gender and politics as my point of reference, my analysis articulates the category of gender with historical experiences in care, in the intent of arriving at an understanding of the links between state, assistance, and public action by women. I am including assistance as part of a set of activities and values that Joan Tronto (1996, p.142) has called care: "caring [can] be viewed as a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our 'world' so that we can live in it as well as possible". In this article I am not adopting a differentialist or essentialist view of the concept of care. If care-related activities have historically been associated with women and therefore gender-marked, we must take a step beyond that, as Tronto (1996) has underscored. This step is both hermeneutical and theoretical. Analysis should not serve to second the dichotomous thinking that pits politics against care, public against private, the ethic of justice against the ethic of care, or masculine against feminine. On the theoretical level, we must understand the role that gender plays in defining human activities and their social and moral status. Likewise, gender is a cognitive category that sanctions places, positions, status, privileges, and authority in the construction of power relations and social hierarchies. As a category, it is key in establishing symbolic values and creating binary oppositions between spaces, bodies, and different human actions. The gender approach pushes us to construct more comprehensive, complex, and plural interpretations of politics, object of this article; this examination of the discourses and practices of assistance ultimately leads me to propose a resignification of both terms, care and politics. From moral duty to assistance policy under the modern state Caring for those who for a wide variety of reasons need help and attention entails a range of distinct activities: taking care of children, the infirm, and the elderly, or, more usually, caring for people classified as poor and for those who are not minimally able to survive and must depend upon others to do so. These activities were long associated with the realm of the household and with patriarchal and slave/master power, at least until modernity. According to Aristotle's Politics, home and family - as determined by the natural order of things - exist to provide for our more immediate material needs, like food, childcare, and care for the sick and elderly; thus they fulfill their natural purpose, which is the reproduction of life. In his differentialist, hierarchical view of the political order, Aristotle argues that family constitutes the first natural order of power, based on the principle of men's preeminence and superiority. Persons involved with care are not citizens, according to Aristotle, but non-political subjects, like women and slaves. According to Politics - a classic of political thinking even in modernity - care activities are secondary and even inferior to political action because they are limited to technique and to dealing with bodies and matter; they entail relations of dependence and do not generate autonomy. In the Aristotelian view of the political order, care activities are restricted by circumstances and are quite localized in time and space, and only those who manage to transcend these limitations can participate in the dynamic, lofty sphere of politics. From this viewpoint, the world of politics stands in stark contrast with the world of specificities, needs, and care, leaving a deep ontological and functional dichotomy between both, marked by social condition and gender. In Aristotelian thought about the differences between the patriarchal world of family and the political world of citizens, gender is a key category. Within the family, power belongs to the man - husband, lord, father - while it is here that women play their role in the reproduction and sustenance of life. Women are expected to comply with the dictates of nature, thereby remaining confined to this space and to the limits of their duties. The dichotomy between politics and pre-politics (family) in Aristotelian political thought means that these two worlds are considered interdependent spheres, closed to the possibility of interconnection because the world of politics comprises free and equal people at a remove from any interference by bodily needs or by the misfortunate social conditions of inferior people. This dichotomous view that contrasts politics with care long held sway in political thought, at least until the Christian notion of charity was introduced. As underscored by Tronto (1996) and Geremek (1995), neither Christian authors nor followers of the new religion saw poverty and its attendant forms of suffering as a misfortune but rather as a sign of salvation - after all, the son of God had dwelled among the less fortunate and had defended humility and the poor. The ascetic, monastic traditions of Christianity held poverty and caring for the neediest in high regard, but Christians interpreted these practices from an angle that differed from the Aristotelian opposition between politics and care, that is, from the angle of religious and spiritual experience. Caring for the needy thus occupied a realm quite different from that defined by Aristotle. The notion of care became associated with compassion for those who truly suffer, whether the cause is wretchedness, illness, or any other inability to care for oneself. In the ideological and moral framework of Christianity, giving alms, sustenance, or even one's time to care for the ill, the abandoned, or the persecuted became a lofty spiritual virtue. According to Tronto (1996), such actions were seen as rising above worldly values and goals, and thus above politics, which was usually concerned with the immediate and sometimes not very Christian interests of the 'earthly city.' Those who sought the true joy of salvation and their share in the blessings of the 'city of God' possessed the talent of charity. The care they offered those who were suffering - the poor, the infirm, children, women, the persecuted - did not make them either subjects of a realm prior to politics or political subjects per se; rather, the charity and compassion they showed sufferers and the needy set them apart, in a place belonging neither to the realm of apolitical exclusion in the home nor to the political arena of equals. Their place lay above these; it was defined by talents, faith, and the spiritual motivation of salvation. Seen as an activity that was either pre-political or above politics, care has always been associated with certain social positions and positions of power. In the Aristotelian dichotomy, care had to do with the reproduction of life and thus belonged to an essentially female world. Caring for, assisting, providing for, helping, and protecting were all activities that could only be performed by subjects who were closer to the lowly, be the latter lowly by condition or by temporary circumstances. In the social order as conceived by Aristotle and his Western readers, women, owing to their natural condition, were linked to the world of matter and its vicissitudes and thus excluded from politics by their immanent inferiority, left to occupy a place outside politics and public affairs, a place reserved for care. In Christian ethos, gender was not at first so relevant or even defining when it came to care activities. Since care was not associated with politics but with religious life and its spiritual dimension, both men and women could possess and develop the talent of charity. In hagiographies, we see how the men and women who walked the path to sainthood did so not only through martyrdom but also by making a preferential option for the poor and by helping the needy and misfortunate. Starting in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, mendicant orders lent greater visibility to the question of renouncing the world of wealth and sin. The biographies of female saints thus depict them as women who loved poverty (even though some had been members of the nobility) and devoted themselves to aiding the needy. Hagiography and mariolatry, which also spread through the medieval Christian world, strengthened this connection between charity and femininity. Among the many titles given Mary, mother of Jesus, we find lady of charity, of aid, of the needy, and of the afflicted - along with many other names that reflect her willingness to care for her many children. Hagiographic models certainly played a vital role in the education of noble women and in constructing a notion of what was expected of them not only as women but also as the daughters and wives of great lords, who should display this Christian virtue-action, that is, charity (Duby, 1989). Subsequent to the union of the Aristotelian and Christian concepts, care acquired a double meaning in modernity. On the one hand, it was still associated with the sphere of the home and with female management. On the other, following the sixteenth-century religious reforms and what we could call a spiritual revival that commenced among both Protestants and Catholics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, charity not only represented a most praiseworthy Christian virtue but was also associated with moral worthiness, in the case of both men and women. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that the initial distinction between the realm of care and of politics remained nearly unchanged, reinforcing gender marks, because even if Catholics and Protestants did not assign care exclusively to women, women were always at the fore in both actual daily practice and in the establishment of charitable institutions; likewise, charity was just as important as virtue and modesty in defining female qualities (Davis, 1990, 1997). We should also bear in mind that when the aristocracy underwent a reconfiguration in modern Europe, especially in countries like England and France, the traditional notion that the privileged classes should support the needy through almsgiving or by donating money to build hospitals and orphanages was fortified. According to this paternalist tradition, aristocratic women were expected to play the role of protectors and providers of aid to the lowly, as well as the role of intermediaries between their powerful fathers, husbands, sons, or brothers and the subaltern. Despite these subtle changes in the concept of care from the view of the Christian ethos of charity, there was no shift in the dichotomy between the realms of care and of politics, just as there was no shift in the places assigned the genders within these two realms. Power and action in the world of the Republic were the attributions of men, while care was the attribution of women, starting with care for those closest, like children, the elderly, and the infirm inside the family nucleus. In compliance with the norms of Christian life, women should also look out for those who deserved their aid, despite distance between social classes. An important, double-faceted change transformed the Aristotelian-Christian view of care, inaugurating what we could call the political problematization of care. This was first manifested in the organization of institutions and the drafting of laws meant to ameliorate the harsh effects of urban impoverishment that ensued from the introduction of capitalist production and new forms of labor. This new economic organization was a corollary of the formation and strengthening of modern states around the concepts of political sovereignty, centralization, and the personalization of political power. The second sign of change lies in the formulation of political thought or, more precisely, of political philosophy, which defined the Otherness of the state and in so doing expanded its attributions, including those in the realm of care. In Leviathan, Hobbes leaves no doubts about the fact that this matter is political: Uncharitablenesse in any man neglect the impotent, so it is in the Sovereign of a Commonwealth to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.2 Christian rhetoric notwithstanding, in this passage Hobbes calls attention to the political dimension of assistance, or care for the needy. In his homeland of England as in other European nations, the state began organizing the principles of what we could call public assistance, with varying degrees of direct presence. Since the sixteenth-century drafting of the Poor Laws, social assistance had been emerging in England and other European countries in the form of hospitals and institutions to protect invalids, the sick, and orphans. More precisely, the modern state did not take it upon itself to organize the work that was in the hands of private charities, as Hobbes points out, but it did begin to intervene, even if only in localized or sporadic fashion, in a sphere that had previously lain outside politics (Geremek, 1995; Himmelfarb, 1988). It must be emphasized that this intervention by modern states in the field of charity or care for the needy differed greatly from what would later become public assistance policy. Within the context of the solidification of modern states, the paternalistic, Christian ethos of charity was reiterated, now led by the sovereign and his ministers. Despite limitations, it is remarkable how philosophical texts written in that context began to introduce into the political lexicon, even if only in localized fashion, words and activities that had previously been absent from both political vocabulary and political practice. This signaled a significant change, which commenced in the West and was to have substantial impact on gender politics. Despite the persistent dichotomy between the spheres of care and politics, the subjects of both began interacting more often. Perhaps even more pertinent was the resignification of care when it became part of the political agenda of liberal states. Inaugurated in the late nineteenth century in Europe and the United States, and in some Latin American countries as well, this process opened up new possibilities for women, not only bringing their practices and values into the sphere of politics but also affording them the chance to participate professionally through the enforcement of new assistance policies. From the gender of assistance to gender politics The paternalist tradition governing assistance to the poor through the mid-eighteenth century saw both men and women taking part in charity efforts. Yet the women historians who have studied the ideology of domesticity and its correlate configuration in gender relations have shown that women were the ones who began devoting themselves more heavily to charitable activities, in consonance with the ideological values of gender in the middle classes, in both Europe and the United States (Elliott, 2002; Smith, 1981; Prochaska, 1980; Poovey, 1984; Perrot, 1998). In England and France particularly, the conjoining of religious and philosophical discourse resulted in a utilitarian moral definition of women. If we turn to the main educational texts published as of the late seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century - a long tradition, of which Locke, Fénelon, Madame de Sevigne and Rousseau are some eminent representatives - we will observe the unfolding of a model of women that represents neither the 'genteel' woman eager to enter the world of letters and philosophy nor the aristocrat from the superficial world of luxury and appearances but the maternal figure who personally sees to raising and educating her children, without ever forgetting her Christian duty towards the weak and needy. This educational, advice literature ushered in the maternal empire that was to have a long and contradictory existence. So women's place had been well defined: it was in the home, as loving wives, devoted mothers, and benevolent ladies. Their natural, moral qualities equipped them for maternity and domestic affairs, but from both a religious and a moral-philosophical point of view, they were also expected to place these skills at the service of others, those who were suffering and in need of care. According to a meticulous analysis by Elliott (2002), the ideology of domesticity constrained female ambition and bridled women's thirst for knowledge, the right to express themselves, and a role in the public world, while concomitantly suggesting it might be possible to take part in the world precisely from the place that had always anchored women outside of public and political life: the place of care. A good share of women from the elites began devoting themselves to this socially sanctioned work, through the religious discourse of charity or the new secular discourse of philanthropy, formulated in the context of the Enlightenment. At first, not-for-profit work unconnected with need or with survival was not marked by gender, and male forays into charity and philanthropy are well known, especially on the part of successful middle-class businessmen who won renown for their benevolence (Elliott, 2002). However, as women began to participate ever more actively in charitable work and as it grew more closely associated with woman's gendered place as defined by the ideology of domesticity, the link between philanthropy and femininity steadily tightened until the former eventually came to be seen as a female activity.3 So it was on the basis of gender policy which excluded women from the public world that assistance became defined as female work that did not jeopardize a woman's morality or virtue. This feminization of care and assistance for others developed into part of the middle-class imagination in the mid-eighteenth century, a tendency that literature of a moral nature as well as novels helped spread. Many female characters in novels devoted themselves to philanthropy and were generally described as women of lofty morals, sympathetic to the suffering of others, benevolent and empathetic. They were examples of how women could and even should concern themselves with others, perhaps thus finding the happiness that eluded them in their relationships. This female construction of assistance and care was also an expansion of the notion of maternity, including single women who were not mothers. So even if women played ever more public roles through philanthropy, this work was not antithetical to the ideology of domesticity, because it was grounded on the notion that this activity complemented maternity and those qualities that had been deemed feminine, extending them into the world beyond home and family. In this regard, it is worth noting how the female professions occupied by educated middle-class women came to be defined in areas consistent with this gendered construction of assistance, like nursing, medicine, teaching, and, later, social work. Defining the gender of assistance was not a process devoid of contradictions. As a political procedure inherent to the development of the ideology of domesticity, the separation of public and private harbored a conflict that many nineteenth-century observers wrote about: the contradiction between the place women should occupy in the private sphere and their participation in the public world through philanthropic work (a trend that was on the rise albeit not in linear fashion). If many advocates of feminine philanthropy saw nothing incongruous in this two-way movement, some of the more conservative feared that women's constant exposure at assistance institutions, the dwellings of the poor, in the streets, at public events, and in the anterooms of politicians and ministerial offices could be prejudicial to the decency, morality, and even health of such fragile, sensitive beings. Elliott (2002) remarks that writers did not fail to feature this contradiction in their novels, especially Dickens, a social observer. Female characters who worked in philanthropy began to be depicted in pejorative, stereotyped terms, like the impertinent, authoritarian, unfeminine spinster who stuck her nose into the lives and homes of the poor. This inversion challenged the maternal ideal of the woman who worked in philanthropy and made it clear that women should not use the good purposes of philanthropy to cross the lines between public and private. Care was required and necessary, but clear lines had to be drawn, putting limits on just how far outside the home this shift could take women. Despite such conservative, derogatory reactions, women did not retreat. Many embarked on another movement that carried them definitively into the public and even political world. Organized on both sides of the Atlantic, the reform movement mobilized women from a broad scope of ideological bents, from Catholic and Protestant conservatism to socialism and feminism. There are a variety of reasons why so many women became involved with the reform movement in European countries and the United States. The early nineteenth century was marked by temperance campaigns, women's participation in the abolitionist movement (especially in England and the United States), and wide-ranging forms of female participation in what we could call social issues. The growth of cities and factories drew increasing numbers from the countryside and smaller towns, a phenomenon in turn tied to a sharp rise in poverty and its attendant ills, triggering social criticism. It was precisely in the nineteenth century that the problems deriving from capitalist society became the object of analysis within social thought. In this endeavor to understand reality and intervene in it, women participated in the sphere of social issues through their recognized 'natural talent' to provide assistance to the needy (Himmelfarb, 1988; Koven, Michel, 1990; Elliott, 2002; Perrot, 1998). Until quite recently, feminist historians paid little heed to women's participation in philanthropy because they understood it as an example of the mechanisms that serve to reproduce the ideology that public and private life belong to separate realms, as well as the notion that women are subaltern and passive. Many women doing philanthropic work certainly defended the idea that they were naturally different from men and that this difference determined their places in society. Nor can we forget that many of these women agreed with this separation of place and also that boundaries had to be established for the activities of men as well as women. Ergo, if women could not and should not take part in the public world through politics and business, men could and should not occupy themselves with affairs of the home and of care. The notion of a physical and intellectual as well as moral difference between men and women underlies this dichotomous thinking, a point constantly driven home by reform women and women engaged in philanthropy. In this female reshaping of the differentialist discourse present in philosophy and medicine since the eighteenth century, their sensitivity and maternity reinforced the notion that women possess greater moral stature. This view of female morality explains why women believed they were better equipped not only to gestate and bear children but also to provide care. For many reformers, the meaning of care grew ever broader, encompassing such work as participation in abolition movements, the fight against child labor in mines and factories, support for single mothers and working women, and the creation of various assistance organizations. As women grew active in the reform movement and they became prized for their morality, one political and ideological outgrowth of philanthropy came to have sizeable significance in the drafting of gender policies by liberal states, starting in the latter half of the nineteenth century and especially at the dawn of the twentieth: maternalism. This development did not come about in the same way or at the same time in all Western countries. Nor did the women who took part in assistance practices grounded in maternalism share the exact same political ideals and moral values. Here I am adopting the concept of maternalism employed by Koven and Michel (1990), a term used by female historians who study women's social and political participation from the viewpoint of the moral and social defense of maternity and the glorification of maternal qualities related to care for others (not only children) and to assistance: "Maternalism always operated on two levels: it extolled the private virtues of domesticity whyle simultaneously legitimating women's public relationships to politics and the state, to community, workplace, and marketplace. In practice, maternalist ideologies often challenged the constructed bounderies between public and private, women and men, state and civil society" (p.1081). But why was maternity the road that effectively led many women to challenge such well-guarded boundaries between public and private? Why was the defense of maternity and of its moral value one of the paths by which women entered the public world, the world of politics, and the world of professionalization, awakening in some a feminist consciousness? To answer these paradoxical questions, we must understand why maternity gained such visibility as a social issue starting in the nineteenth century. As of the 1830s and 1840s, both fictional narratives and official reports published in England showed that the extreme poverty mounting in popular neighborhoods of cities like Manchester and London was hitting women and children the hardest. Statistics on child mortality started to be released in England during the Industrial Revolution, as well as in France and Germany. With the intent of warning authorities about the problem, physicians and philanthropists were the first to make use of these data, incomplete yet very revealing of the effects of poverty. Looking at the whole of medical texts published between the 1850s and 1870s, particularly in France, we realize how much this social issue was transformed into a moral and political one. The high infant mortality rates in Europe's industrialized countries were basically a reflection of poverty. Studies by doctors highlighted the housing situation and child nutrition as the main causes of death and disease rates. Yet rare were those who sought more comprehensive solutions to the matter, questioning, for example, the organization of labor relations or, more specifically, family relations. On the contrary, physicians started blaming mothers for infant deaths, pronouncing a moralist discourse about the value of breastfeeding while ignoring these women's need to work. The doctors rarely addressed the question of female labor and when they did, it was to condemn it, as if it were a matter of individual choice and not of women being forced into factories by economic pressure. As Alexandra Kollontai (1916) made so clear in one of the most thoroughgoing early twentieth-century analyses of maternity, those engaged in this debate had an outdated, anachronistic view of the family, since in capitalist society the family was no longer a productive unit where all activities entailing childcare and care of the elderly, infirm, and incapacitated were performed without greater ado or hardship. With the profound changes generated by the Industrial Revolution and capitalist production, all family members had been brought into the world of wage labor, and this change had a direct effect on women, who for the first time ever had to find individual solutions for childcare while they continued to work, without any resources or any type of help. Authors like Kollontai who were engaged in the defense of women's and workers' rights pointed up the enormous hardships that laboring women faced, since most had to leave their children alone or had to put the youngest with wet nurses. What physicians and others involved with the matter failed to or did not want to see, according to Kollontai (1916), was that raising and educating children could no longer remain the sole responsibility of the family and women but had to be assumed by society and the state. The government had to be more active, intervening in the relations between capital and labor in order to protect working mothers and children - for example, by offering maternity allowances, creating institutions that provided milk and food for mothers and children, and establishing daycare facilities and shelters. A number of those taking part in the debate defended this idea, or variations thereof. The central question in Kollontai's text and other writings by female reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is that protecting maternity and childhood could no longer be confined to the sphere of the family and dealt with as a private matter. Motherhood and childcare were matters of public interest and a woman's right; therefore, they would be treated as such, that is, protected by the state. While physicians, women activists, labor organizations, philanthropists, and religious figures had different focuses, the issue of maternity and childhood gained in both visibility and importance starting in the 1870s, when it found its way onto the agendas at medical association meetings and labor and women's congresses. The issue also touched a chord with a few representatives of the employer class, who introduced certain protective measures, like compensation funds that provided family allowances; however, these measures were meant to supplement the wages of the heads of large families, indeed as a way of ensuring that the worker's wife would remain in the home (Beltrão, 1962, p.129-131). As ties between the issues of maternity/childhood and women's labor grew more apparent and irreversible, the more conventional, conservative ideas were supplanted by others of a reform nature, giving rise to the first laws to protect women's and child labor as well as maternity. Some representatives of Catholic thought, however, defended the need for men to receive higher wages (the family wage) so they could fulfill their role as family provider, keeping their wives from leaving home to work. Perhaps one of the texts that best synthesizes these ideas that opposed women's work with the intent of protecting the family and children is German Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler's The Labor Question and Christianity (1864), a precursor to the ideas later expressed in Rerum Novarum (Van Gestel, 1956, p.85). Worker grievances included a ban on child labor and on women's work in factories, "especially mothers of families. Religion ordains that a mother should spend her day at home fulfilling her holy, lofty mission towards her husband and children" (p.85).4 Ideas about the dichotomous roles played by each gender persisted in this debate. Even among representatives of non-Catholic worker organizations, it was a challenge to broach the issue of female labor and maternity in social terms, as Kollontai (1916) explained in her comments on the first European worker congresses, which began in the 1860s. According to this author, while labor leaders debated whether working mothers should be offered protection, the measures they proposed lacked solid foundations and were generally contradictory, therefore not representing workable solutions. The bibliography on welfare and the shaping of policies to protect maternity and childhood reveals that viable arguments and solutions were advanced by physicians and women activists, both feminist and non-feminist. Hygienists, obstetricians, and pediatricians used statistics on infant mortality as their main argument, defending children's right to be near their mothers, who could care for, nurse, and educate them. For physicians, the question had very serious moral and political implications, thereby requiring cautious interference, timid as it might have to be in order not to threaten domestic privacy or authority within the family. Physicians constituted the most conservative reform group, although some were quite daring in their humanitarianism, espousing measures like the establishment of maternity shelters for women who needed to hide their pregnancies, investigations of paternity, maternity insurance for single mothers, and an end to the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children for the purposes of legal protection.5 Another group quite active in drafting laws and policies to protect maternity and childhood were activist women. In addition to the aforementioned women's organizations that grew out of religious and lay philanthropic work, another form of activism sprung from the women's rights movement. Generally comprised of educated, well-informed, middle-class women, this group also advanced the notion that women and maternity had claim to a special moral stature. But its representatives went beyond moral discourse, politicizing maternity by affirming that it was not simply a natural function, limited to the sustenance of family, but rather one of the most important social functions, demanding of women much dedication, time, and work. Since maternity had a social purpose, then it also had rights, and these the state should guarantee. It should be noted that this type of political activism that valued maternity also stemmed from a differentialist view of gender. Although women should develop their talents and skills and exercise their rights as citizens, it was not a matter of making women equal to men but rather of protecting them in their differences; maternity and housework should not be considered inferior to other activities or bereft of rights. Gisela Bock (1995, p.453) explains that these women "did not underestimate the gender difference but insisted on a woman's right to be different, a position seen as expressing a woman's pride, power, and self-affirmation and not her lack of power or her resignation." Maternalist political action consisted of activities in organizations, the development of programs among poor women, and participation in international meetings and congresses where women exchanged ideas and learned about the forms of political action used by other women and organizations. In most European countries that adopted the earliest legal protection measures, the proposals put forward by women's movements were at least partially adopted. In analyzing the first laws to protect workers and specific social groups like the infirm, elderly, incapacitated, and mothers and children, it is important to note that the actions that became known as social policies - related to education, housing, sanitation, health, welfare, and social assistance - were, even if sporadically and partially, formulated and implemented by private groups and organizations of the most varied political and ideological stripes. Taken as a whole, they represent social welfare thought, ranging from religious-based philanthropy and humanitarian and reform activism to ideas of socialist inspiration. The common thread running through them all was an awareness of the social question, the need to be responsible for the weak and powerless, and the need to improve or even transform the realities of those concerned. This clarification is necessary because these welfare policies were not necessarily a product of new arrangements in the relations between state and society or even of the welfare state. To the contrary, the policies were advocated and enforced by very different organizations, at times working alone and at other times in collaboration with other organizations or even in collaboration with local authorities. Perhaps this explains why the first welfare state policies to be adopted were those already implemented by civil organizations, which were, after all, the ones that could count on enough political mobilization to pressure the legislative branch and also had experience working with the social groups targeted for assistance. This was the case with policies to protect maternity and childhood. It is worth highlighting at least two initiatives later adopted by municipal authorities and central governments, taken from the experience of women activists working with poor mothers: 'social visitors' and maternity homes. Activism by women in both England and France was aimed at improving the living conditions of poor mothers. Periodical visits were made to their homes in order to learn about the popular classes' customs and more urgent problems. The visitors were not always well received by the poor, as middle-class women generally judged the latter by their own moral values and ultimately blamed them for their own poverty. Yet not all observations produced class prejudice. Many of the women committed to social reform managed to overcome cultural differences between the classes and arrive at quite realistic diagnoses of poverty and social causes. They also helped ensure that the information on hygiene and eating habits disseminated among poor women was more accessible and less authoritarian (Thane, 1996). Local British authorities adopted this model as part of its visiting physicians service, intended to prevent disease and disseminate information on nutrition, hygiene, and health. As historian Françoise Thébaud (1986) has reported, the other initiative, that is, to create maternity shelters or homes for unwed mothers, emerged in France and was meant to serve the needs of single mothers - the 'pariahs' of motherhood - most of whom came from small towns and villages or were immigrants. Motherhood outside of wedlock was vehemently condemned, but feminists and some doctors tried to protect these mothers, as much for natalist reasons as for humanitarian ones. Pregnant women could find shelter in these homes until their babies were born or could give birth and nurse there. A woman's identity was confidential in these places; there were no formalities or any type of investigation. The women and children also received medical consults, and efforts were made to prevent disease and infant mortality and encourage mothers to breastfeed. Generally speaking, almost all European countries had private assistance policies for mothers and children that served poor women, generally unwed mothers, widows, or women abandoned by their husbands. But these policies were not enough, as they reached only a very small number of women. Both the public receiving these services and the services themselves had to be expanded, and in this regard a combination of voluntary efforts and the action of local authorities proved quite fruitful, during the time before central or federal governments moved to enact maternity and childhood policies, creating institutions, providing personnel, and allocating funds. In principle, female maternalist activism lays bare a paradox, since it was the experience and values associated with the world of care and private life that allowed many women to cross this frontier and become active in the public world. In moving from the margin to the center, many women activists, feminist and not, resignified the actions and values of care in political terms, blurring the lines between public and private, between politics and care. In this sense, when we observe the diverse forms of political action taken by maternalist activists, we can see that many women transformed their exclusion into action through a restrictive, exclusionary gender ideology, the gender of assistance. In so doing, they contributed to the formulation of a gender policy devised by social welfare states that, despite its limitations, tried to respond to the most urgent needs in the areas of health, income, food, housing, social security, and education. Some political dimensions of assistance in Brazil So far we have explored the tense, ambiguous, contradictory, and yet historically convergent relations between care activities and care values and the institutional and professional dimensions of politics. But there are other political dimensions of assistance that merit an examination, besides the inclusion of demands from the care experience on social welfare state agendas. In order to avoid the pitfalls of the dichotomy addressed in the first part of this article, I will begin by looking at criticisms of the concept of care, or of assistance. Tronto (1987) has forcefully criticized the concept of an ethic of care as put forward by Carol Gilligan (1985) and employed by other feminist authors, as Tronto believes Gilligan's contrast of an ethic of justice with an ethic of care is problematic. In brief, the argument goes, the ethic of justice is the product of the moral development of men, underpinned by values like right and wrong and the premises of equality and universality, with the individual serving as the moral reference point. The ethic of care, on the other hand, is the product of women's moral development, grounded in responsibility and relationships more than in the individual and in the interconnections between people, everyday experience, and the problems of particular historical, cultural people rather than on abstract, universal values. Like Tronto (1987), I believe it is questionable to equate care with women since this implies that one originates from the other or that there is a necessary relationship between gender and morality, and between women and the ethic of care. As much as Gilligan and the women authors who have drawn inspiration from her research may have understood that the moral and ethical differences between men and women are the result of historical and cultural processes, their studies did not include the political dimension of other variables, like class, race, and ethnic-cultural issues, and so they failed to avoid the pitfalls of differentialism's dichotomous thinking. On this basis, I would argue that the discussion about the political dimensions of care and assistance should not be associated with gender alone, relegated to the world of women and their supposed drive to care for life. Differentialist and even essentialist thought ultimately debilitates both gender politics and care politics. According to Tronto (1987, p.662), unless we move beyond gender in this discussion of care and assistance, we run the risk of reproducing the discourse of difference that was historically constructed on contrast and on relegating women's place to the segregated activities of care. Going beyond gender does not mean neglecting it; rather, it means directing our attention to the political, institutional, and symbolic forms assumed by this category in the conception and organization of care. This raises some important questions not only about historical investigation but also about the care policies developed by the state and by civil society. With this in mind, I will turn my analysis to some specificities of the issue in Brazil. If we start with a more general question, like the boundaries of care, we can think about how the agents involved with care in Brazilian society built models of benevolence and of beneficiaries based on social hierarchy, especially the hierarchy of a society historically marked by slavery and paternalism. Research on patronage relations, kinship, elitist sociabilities, and relations of subalternity can help us understand the historical construction of these boundaries. This means we must understand, from the early days of the country, what values and references shaped the concept of who was considered deserving of care (family members, neighbors, slaves, soldiers, the infirm, foundlings, orphans, the dead) and to what extent and how this boundary was loosened or tightened, in consonance with interests, the assignment of merit, and a willingness to care for and assist. This issue should be further investigated as it relates to the organization of social assistance in Brazil, a terrain about which we know only a little to date. There are inarguable documental limitations, but access to the little-known records of charitable and philanthropic organizations (especially those founded as from the 1910s, which later worked in partnership with the state) could help us elucidate not only the question of the boundaries of care but many others as well. Brazil's federal and state archives hold well-preserved records on the organization of social assistance.6 Minutes of meetings, reports, letters to the authorities, and, as available, interviews with those who took part in these organizations can supply information on changes in the motivations of agents of benevolence and especially on the relations between the two care models. The first model was founded on the Christian, moral duty to care for the needy, while the second - the rational model under which care would target different social groups - was established by the scientific discourse of medicine and social service and by government bodies, especially starting in the 1930s and 1940s. There is a political dimension to care that warrants greater consideration, especially in research on the topic in Brazil. Because of the attention that U.S. and European historiography has directed to maternalism and its ties with feminism and with the awakening of a consciousness about more far-reaching movements, like civil rights and women's rights, power relations and differences within maternalism itself and within the practices and policies of care and social assistance have been overshadowed or disregarded. As Linda Gordon (1991, 1992, 1994) has suggested, views of care, welfare, and the people whose needs should be met, and even the very definition of these needs, have been forged at the intersection of gender, class, and race differences and inequalities. Gordon's research on the organization of U.S. welfare policies uncovered differences between the models and actions of black and white women activists. We know that in Brazil public care work was first tied to the moral concept of Christian charity, conducted under the responsibility of men and women from the most well-to-do classes. The agents of benevolence were people who shared the idea that poverty was a fatality and that it was up to good Christians to ease the misfortunes of the poor and helpless. This understanding found resonance not only within Catholicism but also within the networks of protection and dependence formed by both the master-slave society and by other social groups, like slaves, freedmen, and whites and those of mixed-race who often times lived on the edge of poverty, forced to rely on protection from their peers or the charity of masters and their benevolent wives. Starting at the close of the nineteenth century, there was a growing perception within medical circles that the problems stemming from poverty could not be left merely to charity or the good will of some. Influenced by the critical thinking of their French colleagues, Brazilian physicians began defending the need to implant public assistance in Brazil, organized by the government, founded on rational, scientific, objective bases, and equipped with an institutional structure as well as technical and administrative personnel. In this late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century context, this moral model of care began interweaving with the new rationalist, public model that Brazil was just beginning to implement, then called philanthropy. Two important agents of assistance were most directly involved in this interweaving: physicians and women from the upper and middle classes, not all of whom had ties to experience in assistance or charity work. With the help of these women, physicians also began enjoying more space, a larger clientele, and the infrastructure that would allow them to put their assistance ideas into practice. Institutions that served mothers and children were organized in a number of Brazilian cities, like the women's associations to protect maternity and childhood, Protetorados do Berço (associations that provided clothing for newborns), Gotas de Leite (modeled after the French Gouttes de Lait, which furnished sterile cow's milk), milk dispensaries, crèches, and children's and maternity hospitals (Leite, 1997; Martins, 2005; Mott, 2001; Rodrigues, 2004). Records from women's associations await further exploration, as do the records generated in their relationships with government, particularly after the 1930s, a period when an intricate web of agreements and interactions developed between public agents and women working with assistance. Access to these records and to the memories of people active in philanthropy and social assistance could clarify a number of questions: how women became involved with the public activity of care; under which circumstances and in accordance with which values they decided to work with assistance associations; how the type of assistance they rendered was organized; and what support strategies were used (familial, friendship networks, or political and governmental means). In other words, this information would allow us to understand the motives and mechanisms behind assistance action. This type of investigation interrupts the dichotomy between care and politics by looking for their contact points and, above all, by realizing that the definition and social organization of care must necessarily take place in the realm of politics, even when in ideological terms care seems connected to the realm of women's good will and kind hearts. Assistance activists knew they had to learn to work resourcefully within public spaces and to organize politically if their assistance work was to be successful. Another outgrowth of an analysis that emphasizes the political dimensions of care has to do with the production of alterities, that is, of those who deserve care. Assistance activities are necessarily based on the perception of social, cultural, and racial differences. The groups and individuals who receive care are defined by benevolent agents on the basis of their needs, degree of vulnerability, and how difficult it is for them to support themselves. But these definitions are not givens; that is, the parameters or criteria for establishing alterity are not defined by need or happenstance (for example, droughts, famine, joblessness, loss of income, war) but by the ideas and values that have been historically constructed about the Other. These ideas and values reflect ideologies of gender, class, and race, and thus the organization of assistance work and the decision about who does or does not deserve care is determined by places of power. This means that a relevant research question would be the exploration of the power relations between benevolent women and beneficiaries. Not much import has been assigned this topic in research on women in Brazil, as researchers have overlooked class and race conflicts and inequalities in their eagerness to bring to light women's actions and organization. Thinking about the political dimensions of care leads us to another facet of the matter, which is how the meanings of gender have slipped into the political realm and the political lexicon. As discussed in the first part of this article, care has historically been organized and articulated in tune with the binary opposition between public and private, male and female, practical reason and feelings. When the meaning of care underwent a political rearticulation based on a profile of humanitarian, secular, scientific, and rational values - a process that got underway in Brazil at the dawn of the twentieth century and gained institutional form under Vargas - the boundaries of this gender contrast began to be blurred by the era's nationalist ideological discourse, which called for women to participate in building a new social order. Women were supposed to contribute politically to the nation and the state from their place, using their own 'natural' skills. An appeal to women's natural sentiments, like goodness, solidarity, and sympathy for the suffering of others, urged them to go beyond domestic and family care, engaging in assistance work among the poor and needy. When the meanings of gender entered political practice and discourse another outgrowth was that it opened up new professional possibilities for middle-class women. Women teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, lawyers, and civil servants from the administrative area of services took active part in organizing Brazil's welfare state - a process about which we have little information as yet. We must bear in mind that the era's political discourses - exemplified by this article's epigraphs - fostered an overlapping of values and meanings by asserting that qualities previously defined as female and related to the world of feelings and care should be extended to the rational, practical world of politics. Especially under authoritarian political regimes, as was the case of Brazil, the state and personalized political authority were defined according to a set of values and concepts that were familial and emotional in nature: the state should care for workers as if they were all one family. The head of state was thus made to resemble a paternal figure who protects his children and guarantees them security and proper living conditions, while women were called upon to play a role in this political arrangement - and the familial state should be transformed by these so-called female qualities. The partial research agenda on care and the organization of assistance in Brazil presented in this article may contribute to expanding not only social policy studies and studies on the specificities of the welfare state but also studies of the intricate networks linking private assistance institutes and the government, from a gender perspective. A political approach to care and assistance could certainly shed light on the complex ways in which gender takes form politically and how it is shaped within political orders and discourses. NOTES * A preliminary version of this article was presented at the International Seminar on Government, Philanthropy, and Assistance (Seminário Internacional Estado, Filantropia e Assistência), sponsored by the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz and held in Rio de Janeiro in November of 2009. The reflections in this article are based on research conducted as part of my postdoctoral work at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, with funding provided by CNPq. 1 A systematic study of the LBA has yet to be undertaken but in her book, Simili (2008) offers a thought-provoking analysis of Darcy Vargas and the LBA. 2 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London, Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651, p.251. 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Servicios Personalizados Articulo Indicadores Citado por SciELO Links relacionados Bookmark Revista médica de Chile versión impresa ISSN 0034-9887 Resumen SPENCER O., Eugenio. Chronicle of an announced pandemic?. Rev. méd. Chile [online]. 2005, vol.133, n.9, pp. 999-1001. ISSN 0034-9887. doi: 10.4067/S0034-98872005000900001. In the last years our country has been affected by several outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Cholera and Hanta virus and recently, by pathogens associated to red tide. Chile was able to manage those emergencies using the local health system. The new threat that may emerge and could eventually overcome that capacity, is the possible H5N1 influenza virus outbreak. Influenza is responsible for the most destructive pandemic, the Spanish influenza, that killed over 40 million individuals in 1918. The new influenza strain (H5N1) is at present endemic in poultry in Asia and has been associated to human fatal cases in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Even though this strain is not able yet to be transmitted among humans, evidence has accumulated that such ability could be reached by the new strain, since it was already detected in pigs. That particular evidence may indicate that the virus could adapt to infect humans, since a similar situation was observed in several of the influenza pandemics. The World Health Organization set a "task force" to develop a strategy that may help to control the virus spread. Several countries are already stocking anti-flu drugs and others are developing new vaccine that are currently been assayed in human volunteers. It is possible that we may have a vaccine before the outbreak; this development is even faster than for SARS. The mayor question to be addressed for developing countries is: What will be done if we do not have the vaccine on time? (Rev Méd Chile 2005; 133: 999-1001). Palabras clave : Influenza virus; Orthomyxoviridae; Viral vaccines.	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-98872005000900001&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en	2013-05-18T11:05:00	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
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Dec. 18, 1998 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, using a National Science Foundation (NSF) microwave telescope in Antarctica, have made a crucial measurement of cosmic background radiation that may help science to settle a fundamental question of whether the universe will expand forever or collapse back upon itself. Scientists measured the dimensions of extremely distant gas clouds with the Viper Telescope, operated by the Center for Astrophysical Research (CARA) in Antarctica at NSF's Amundsen Scott South Pole Station. Jeffrey Peterson, a Carnegie Mellon astrophysicist and the lead scientist on the Viper project, announced the findings on Dec. 18 in Paris, France at the Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. The biennial meeting attracts the world's foremost astronomers and astrophysicists. widely accept that if the expansion of the universe were slowing, the glowing clouds of gas observed with Viper would be, in astronomical terms, relatively close by and would measure as much as one-half degree of arc across the sky. The discovery announced this week -- that the size of extremely distant gas clouds is, indeed, one-half degree on the sky -- indicates that the expansion of the universe is slowing at just the rate predicted by inflation theory. Inflation theory holds that just after the Big Bang, as the universe expanded and cooled, it passed through a critical temperature, currently thought to be 100 billion degrees -- which changed the character of the laws of physics. As the proto universe passed through this critical temperature threshold, there was an enormous release of energy, which caused the universe to "inflate,' or to dramatically increase in size. This inflation process would have caused the universe to expand with a precise "escape velocity," which would provide an explanation for the Viper findings. The newly released measurements indicate that the universe has just such an escape velocity, Peterson stressed. The anisotropy measurement is just a small part of the data collected from the telescope, which provides a snapshot of the universe as it was 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the cataclysmic event that set in motion the forces that created today's universe. Previous cosmic background telescopes have been smaller than Viper and have not been able to focus in fine enough detail to measure the clouds as viper can. However, the CARA group's work with these earlier prototypes was critical to the new discovery. Karl Erb, the director of NSF's Office of Polar Programs, said "This advance is a fitting testament to the vision and dedication of the CARA scientists whose pioneering work proved that the South Pole is an ideal site for these delicate measurements." The two-meter Viper telescope began operation only last February. Further observations by Viper and other telescopes under development by CARA's member institutions are planned to verify the newly released result..	http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/12/981218080629.htm	2013-05-18T10:25:33	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Aug. 2, 2005 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., July 26, 2005-- Research described in the latest issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest reviews the science behind false confessions and argues for reform. Saul. Other social bookmarking and sharing tools: Story Source: The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Williams College, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above. Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.	http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050802055624.htm	2013-05-18T11:05:48	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
May 16, 2009 How will the Netherlands, dominated by water, be affected by future climate change? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen hopes to answer that question by analyzing stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru as a way analyzed. WOTRO focuses on funding innovative scientific research into development issues, especially sustainable development and poverty alleviation..	http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090515084039.htm	2013-05-18T11:04:46	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Feb. 14, 2013) between 1975 and 2008 and who were treated with chemotherapy. SEER data files were reviewed to determine tAML risk based on first type of cancer, time since diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and year of diagnosis. Among the 426,068 patients whose data were eligible for analysis, Dr. Morton's team confirmed 801cases of tAML, nearly five times more than the number of cases expected in the general population. To help explain the changes in relative risk over time, investigators compared the trends in the data with evolving treatment recommendations and major therapeutic discoveries as described in the medical literature. While patient information in the SEER database did not include data on specific drugs or doses, the incidence trends were consistent with changing treatment practices and the toxicities associated with certain chemotherapies. Notably, the proportion of patients receiving chemotherapy, both with or without radiotherapy, increased during the study period for many malignancies. As the team compared tAML risks with trends in cancer treatment over time, they analyzed several factors that likely contributed to the differences in risk between patients, including the type of cancer initially diagnosed and the year of diagnosis. For example, trends in risk for breast cancer patients (which comprised roughly one-third of tAML cases in the study) correlated to changes in breast cancer treatment protocols over the last several decades, suggesting that the decrease in tAML risk observed among breast cancer survivors in the 1980s might be attributable to an increased use of cyclophosphamide-based chemotherapy, which is less likely to cause leukemia than earlier treatment options. A similar decline in risk was observed among ovarian cancer patients, possibly linked to a shift in ovarian cancer chemotherapy treatment in the 1970s from melphalan, a type of chemotherapy that has been shown to trigger leukemia, to a less toxic platinum-based chemotherapy. In contrast, tAML risks increased over the last several decades among patients treated with chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), possibly as a result of improvements in survival for patients who received multiple courses of treatment. Further, Dr. Morton's team identified newly elevated tAML risks for patients treated with chemotherapy since 2000 for esophageal, anal, cervical, and prostate cancers, and since the 1990s for bone/joint and endometrial cancers -- risks that could potentially be related to expanding use of chemotherapy in recent years. Patients diagnosed with myeloma today still face some of the highest risks for tAML, possibly due to the ongoing use of melphalan to fight the aggressive disease. The database analysis also found that relative tAML risk for many patients tended to decline with increasing time since initial cancer diagnosis. For those with non-hematologic malignancies, there was no evidence of elevated tAML risks more than 10 years following diagnosis, whereas risks persisted more than 10 years after diagnosis for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), NHL, and myeloma. Heightened tAML risk among these patients could be linked to the higher intensity and longer duration of their treatment. "Future studies should identify patients at the highest risk of tAML so that the risks can be weighed against the benefits of chemotherapy, particularly for cancers with favorable long-term survival," said Dr. Morton. "Further research is also warranted to assess the risks associated with new targeted and immunomodulatory agents by including secondary malignancies such as tAML as endpoints in prospective clinical studies of new agents or new uses of standard agents." Other social bookmarking and sharing tools: Story Source: The above story is reprinted from materials provided by American Society of Hematology. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above. Journal Reference: - L. M. Morton, G. M. Dores, M. A. Tucker, C. J. Kim, K. Onel, E. S. Gilbert, J. F. Fraumeni, R. E. Curtis. Evolving risk of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia following cancer chemotherapy among adults in the United States, 1975-2008. Blood, 2013; DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-08-448068 Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.	http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214103824.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29	2013-05-18T10:53:19	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
March 1, 2007 Doctors are now using a new kind of brain scan called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures brain activity in real time. In some cases, MEG can pinpoint the source of an epileptic seizure much more accurately than the traditional method of electroencephalography (EEG). Using a combination of MEG and MRI, neurosurgeons have a detailed brain map that allows them to remove just the damaged tissue while preserving healthy cells. See also: Dawn Helton has tried just about everything available to stop her seizures so she can get back to living her life. "I mostly, um, just lose my hearing and my speech ... confusion. Then, of course, I'm really tired and stuff," she says. Epilepsy is a frustrating and often debilitating condition. Medication may control seizures in about 75 percent of cases, but neurologists say surgery is the only potential cure. A Geodesic Sensor Net was supposed to help doctors pinpoint where Helton's seizures happen, but it didn't work. Now there's new hope when all else fails. A powerful new brain scanning tool could make all the difference. Magnetoencephalography, or MEG, works by measuring the magnetic field created by brain activity ... And it does that in real time. "Unlike other, other imaging tools that sample it several or tens or hundreds times, this imaging technology can take thousands of samples every second," Anto Bagic, M.D., a neurologist at the Center for Advanced Brain Magnetic Source Imaging at UPMC in Pittsburgh, tells DBIS. That means in some cases MEG can pinpoint the source of an epileptic seizure much more accurately than the traditional method of electroencephalography (EEG). Using a combination of MEG and MRI, neurosurgeons have a detailed brain map guiding them during surgery to remove just the damaged tissue, while preserving healthy cells. Researchers say in the future, the MEG brain scanner may aid in the diagnosis and study of other disorders like dementia, migraines, Parkinson's disease, depression and traumatic brain injuries, in addition to epilepsy -- a breakthrough that could lead to helping patients like Helton. "I think it's fabulous," Helton says. "I think if anybody can come up with even anything more, more advanced, it's even greater! Stop these seizures. Or slow 'em down, or something." BACKGROUND:. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine contributed to the information contained in the video portion of this report. Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.	http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0312-pinpointing_problems_in_the_brain.htm	2013-05-18T10:53:27	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Roboticists Create Rover To Move And Drill On The Moon Astronomy Students Find 1,300 New Asteroids: 137,075	http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/space_time/moon/	2013-05-18T10:23:27	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "/videos/images/2008/2008-10-10.jpg", null ], [ "/videos/images/2008/2008-10-07.jpg", null ], [ "/videos/images/2008/2008-07-08.jpg", null ], [ "/videos/images/2008/2008-05-12.jpg", null ] ]
Web edition: March 20, 2012 THE WOODLANDS, Texas — “I think I’m not supposed to say ‘got whacked.’ Am I allowed to say ‘got whacked?’” asked John Grunsfeld, NASA associate administrator for science, while considering how to describe the cuts dealt to planetary sciences in President Obama’s proposed 2013 NASA budget. It’s no secret that planetary sciences got hit badly, cut by more than $300 million (more than 20%) from the year before. Funds are running kind of like water on present-day Mars — one of the hardest-hit exploration programs — seeping, not flowing, and leaving planetary scientists parched and scratching around for answers. On March 19, Grunsfeld and Jim Green, NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, addressed a room packed with hundreds of scientists who’d gathered for the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. “Heading to #LPSC2012 for what is sure to be an incredible conjunction of amazing planetary science and amazing planetary science outrage,” tweeted scientist Jim Bell, president of The Planetary Society, before the event. Had I been Grunsfeld or Green, I might have considered donning a catcher’s mask, just in case someone in the audience used their advanced knowledge of orbital mechanics to questionable advantage. But people were civil (and Grunsfeld and Green are quite popular among the community), even when suggesting the administration had decapitated planetary science. Among the casualties of the downsized budget are jobs — employment for scientists whose missions are delayed or cut, staff at places like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that manages many of the NASA missions, and opportunities for scientists in the early stages of joining the community. “Nobody understands fiscal austerity more than recent graduates like myself and other graduate students in the audience,” said Britney Schmidt, a post-doc at the University of Texas at Austin. She also noted incongruities between the fallout from the budget implosion and the recommendations of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, which establishes priorities within the community for the next decade. We’ve aborted a joint mission to Mars with the European Space Agency, and prospects are dismal for any flagship mission that might fly to the outer planets in the near future. Europa, Enceladus, Uranus — you’ll just have to wait to pay those guys a visit. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t like waiting. I want to know what’s beneath or within Europa’s ice shell — now. And what the deal is with that cranky little spitter Enceladus. What secrets to planet formation are hidden in Uranus? The recipe for baking planets is probably stashed inside that most unfortunately named ice giant. And, I want to know if Mars was as good an incubator for extraterrestrial life as everyone thinks it might have been. But instead of planetary sciences, NASA has prioritized such projects as the James Webb Space Telescope and human exploration programs. JWST will peer into the deepest reaches of space and time, and neither I nor the people attending the town hall want to hear griping about it. Meanwhile, manned spaceflight more than doubled its budget. Perhaps as a ceremonial Band-Aid, Grunsfeld offered the explanation that human exploration and planetary science might not be so different after all. Sending people to Mars or an asteroid, for example — President Obama’s goals for the next few decades — involves both fields. “I really think that the planetary program in the Science Mission Directorate is part of that grand exploration and that when we link humans and science, that both win,” Grunsfeld said. He might have scored a victory when demonstrating how the two areas aren’t such strange bedfellows. “If you could go to Mars today, if you could be a geologist on the surface of Mars, or an astrobiologist on the surface of Mars, would you want to go? I’m going to raise my hand,” he said. Most of the hands in the room shot up, too. “We don’t send [a rover] to Mars so [a rover] can discover things, because it doesn’t discover things. You do,” he replied. “It’s the human experience.” At its essence, planetary science is a story of adventure, a tale of scientists casting their eyes skyward and flinging machines far from Earth with the singular purpose of scrutinizing our neighbors, the solid spheres and cratered rocks that spangle our evening skies. The study of these bodies is the study of life on Earth — where did we come from, and are we alone? How do these roasted, bruised, icy, shrouded worlds compare to ours? And in place of a round trip and tons of frequent flier miles, what can we learn from a thousand-kilometer stare or epic, backwards wheelie across the Martian Meridiani Planum? Maybe that’s why the cuts sting so much. “At your recommendation, I applied to be an astronaut several times. I am ready to go,” Bill Nye said to Grunsfeld. Nye, aka the Science Guy, is now the chair of the board at the Planetary Society — the world’s largest non-governmental space organization, as he describes it. Founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman, the Planetary Society has been slinging angry words at NASA since the 2013 budget proposal came out. “I can tell you we’re outraged and dismayed by these proposed cuts,” Bell said. “If implemented, they will represent a step backwards in NASA’s plan to explore our solar system and other planetary systems for evidence of present or past habitable worlds, which is a key focus of public interest in our solar system.” It really is like being in a candy store (or in my case, a wine bar) and not knowing which tempting wares to spend some time with. In this case, it seems that no matter which are chosen, both sides — and anyone who cares about these things — lose. Partial listing of current and planned NASA planetary science missions: Current: MESSENGER, at Mercury GRAIL, at the moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, at the moon Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, at Mars Opportunity, still wheeling around Mars Cassini, at Saturn En route: Dawn, now at the asteroid Vesta and leaving for Ceres this summer Curiosity, en route to Mars, arrival August 5 New Horizons, zipping toward Pluto and the Kuiper belt, arrival 2015 Juno, heading to Jupiter, arrival 2016 Planned: MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, to Mars LADEE, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, to the moon OSIRIS-REx, to asteroid RQ36 Discovery-class missions under consideration (selection this summer): Titan Mare Explorer, to Titan Chopper, a comet-hopper InSight, to Mars Axed and/or delayed: ExoMars, to Mars (joint with the European Space Agency) Europa (proposed) Uranus (proposed) Enceladus (proposed) Please alert Science News to any inappropriate posts by clicking the REPORT SPAM link within the post. 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On the Kinetics of Structural Relaxation in Metallic Glasses Authors: A. van den Beukel 3 Mechanical Alloying: Technology and Properties of Prepared Materials Authors: Andrzej Calka 17 Crystallization of some Amorphous Alloys Authors: M.A. Hughes, Keisuke Ishii, Won Tae Kim, A.R. Bhatti, Brian Cantor 25 Structure Analysis of FeNbCuSiB Alloy with Different Fe/Si Ratio Authors: P. Duhaj, P. Svec, Igor Matko, Dusan Janickovic 39 Phase Analysis in Materials Prepared by Mechanical Alloying Authors: Stefano Enzo, Giorgio Cocco, P.P. Macrí 49 The Effect of Interface Kinetics on Crystallization Processes of Alloys at High Cooling Rate Authors: Hasse Fredriksson, N. Jacobson 59 Studies of Amorphous Alloys Using Multilayers Authors: A.L. Greer 71 Structural Modelling of Quasicrystals Authors: Pierre Guyot, M. Audier, M. de Boissieu, M. Boudard, Nobumichi Tamura, J.L. Verger-Gaugry 73 Non-Equilibrium Solidification of Undercooled Metallic Melts Authors: Dieter M. Herlach 83 Observation of a Structural Phase Transition in Al-Cu-Fe Quasicrystals Using Positron Annihilation Techniques Authors: D.W. Lawther, R.A. Dunlap 95:	http://www.scientific.net/KEM.81-83	2013-05-18T10:12:18	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
By Michael J Coren The sales of electric vehicle sales are rising. They're now on track to hit 400,000 annually by 2020, and a slew of new all-electric models from VW, BMW, Audi, and Toyota are poised to enter the market as carmakers race to meet new federal rules that require doubling their fleet average fuel economy by 2025. While it seems electric and hybrid vehicles are here to stay, sales are still well below the 1 million electric cars on U.S. roads by 2015 targeted by President Obama in his 2011 State of the Union address. Since passing the Recovery Act, the U.S. government has invested $2.4 billion in three electric vehicle factories in Tennessee, Delaware, and California, as well as $2 billion in matching grants for 30 factories that produce batteries, motors, and other EV components. Within a few years, the funding should give the U.S. the capacity to produce the goal of churning out the 1 million electric cars. Demand for such vehicles, however, is still lagging behind. Priming the EV market as the sector moves beyond early adopters to curious potential customers will need to be a central part of any electric car strategy. There's plenty of interest: One in 10 of today's new-vehicle owners are contemplating an EV for their next car. Yet few have much experience with them. For those on the fence, electric car clubs are now springing up in Europe and the U.S. to help make the decision (and replace your current automobile). The U.K.'s club for the EV-curious, E-Car Club, gives its members access to an all-electric fleet of Renault's Zoe, Nissan's Leaf, and Renault's Kangoo Maxi. At prices similar to car-sharing services in the U.S. ($8.80/hour), the E-Car Club members in the city of Milton Keynes can travel between 95 and 120 miles per charge, and test out some of the newest electric vehicles. "We believe E-Car is being launched at a very exciting time for motorists, as many want to experiment with driving an electric car before they make the decision to own one," said company chairman Andrew Wordsworth in . "We hope to grow the E-Car network over the coming months." Here in the U.S., existing car-sharing services and government fleets are transitioning over to electric vehicles. ZipCar will roll out Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicles next year for public use in San Francisco, and nonprofit car-sharing services such as CityCar Share are doing the same. BMW has launched its DriveNow car-sharing service for urban EV rentals (after starting in Germany) with an initial fleet of 70 ActiveE vehicles available in San Francisco at price schemes similar to ZipCar's. City, state, and federal car fleets are also licensing ZipCar's technology to turn their automobiles into green, electric vehicle fleets in Houston, Washington, D.C, Chicago, and Boston. Perhaps one day of driving with a silent engine under the hood will start to push EV adoption higher.	http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=electric-vehicle-car-clubs-let-hesi-2012-10	2013-05-18T10:23:08	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://fastcompany.com.feedsportal.com/c/34823/f/645625/s/24d7f3e7/mf.gif", null ], [ "http://www.scientificamerican.com/assets/img/global_elements/fastcompany.gif", "Fast Company" ] ]
EARLY SPRING in the Lamar River Valley: several wolves chase elk while an interested grizzly bear awaits the outcome. Grizzlies can drive wolves off a kill; more often they scavenge after the wolves have eaten their fill. Image: DIANE HARGREAVES." Ripple gestures at the sprawling mountain valley around us and points out that although numerous other cottonwoods dot the landscape, this knot of saplings comprises the only young ones--the rest of this part of the Lamar is a geriatric ward for trees. The stately specimens that grow in the valley bottom are 70 to 100 years old, and not a newcomer is in sight to take their place. On the hillside, aspen trees present a similar picture. Groves of elderly aspen tremble in the wind, but no sprouts push up in the understory. Already a Digital subscriber? Sign-in Now If your institution has site license access, enter here. 1 CommentsAdd Comment wow i never knew thatReport Abuse \| Link to this \|	http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lessons-from-the-wolf	2013-05-18T10:31:55	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "/media/expiredImg_320x320.gif", "EARLY SPRING" ], [ "http://assets.pinterest.com/images/pidgets/pin_it_button.png", null ] ]
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Quality Improvement, targeting at zero-defects, is based on a healthy Lean Kaizen style and on the intelligent use of a number of tools, generally called the "old and new quality tools". The very same tools are well suited for the overall enterprise's Performance improvement. They include, inter-alia: The PARETO DIAGRAM, used to identify, quantify, and "weigh" the "entity" of quality problems and non-conformities, so that actions will be addressed there where the most beneficial results can be achieved. Normally, an ABC ANALYSIS is associated to a Pareto Diagram. This gives at a glance an indication of the "weight" or "entity" of phenomena. The CAUSE-EFFECT DIAGRAM (Ishikawa Diagram - Fishbone Diagram). This is used to identify all causes and causes of causes (first, second, third.... level causes) that contribute or may contribute to generate the quality problem (negative effect) under consideration. By analysing all causes and by excluding the non-significant ones, eventually a number of "likely" causes are discovered. These are thoroughly investigated, and, if actually contributing to generate the problem, eliminated once and forever with a poka-yoke method. The RELATIONS DIAGRAM. In many instances, there is not a simple and linear relationship between causes and negative effect. It is in fact possible that a complex inter-relationship exists between causes, thus making more difficult their identification and positioning. This is where the Relations Diagram comes very handy, allowing the Quality Improvement Team to highlight complex relationships between causes and investigate the "likely" ones. The final target is always the permanent elimination of causes actually contributing to the quality problem. Based on similar methods, but richer in features, are "thinking" tools such as the AFFINITY DIAGRAM and CEDAC (Cause and Effect Diagram with the Additions of Cards). The target is always the identification of causes contributing to the undesired effect. Several types of MATRIX DIAGRAM. These are extremely powerful tools when it comes to establishing complex relationships between causes and effects, in a "multi-cause-multi-effect" situation, e.g. when there are quality problems possibly inter-linked each other, and generated by a large number of inter-related causes. Relationships are not only identified but also "weighted" (to assign a "size" to each correlation between cause and effect). 3D Matrix Diagrams are used in very complex technical problem areas. (---> more tools)	http://www.scodanibbio.com/site/access/homeaccess/52c.html	2013-05-18T10:30:29	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Adding micronutrients to people's diet could reduce psychological disorders November 20, 2012 A University of Canterbury (UC) lecturer believes research into changing diets might help treat mental illness and psychological disorders. Associate Professor Julia Rucklidge said 47 percent of New Zealanders will experience a mental illness and / or an addiction at some time in their lives, according to an earlier New Zealand mental health survey. One in five people Kiwis are affected by mental illness within one year and NZ rates of mental illness are some of highest in the developed world, she said. ``Younger people have a higher prevalence of mental disorders. Prevalence of disorder is higher for those economically disadvantaged and for Maori and Pacific people. In New Zealand, people with mental illness have the highest rates of unemployment, at 44 percent. Only 27 percent of these people were likely to be in full-time work. Of those with mental illness, 48 percent of people were claiming some sort of benefit. ``There is some data suggesting that rates of disorders could be increasing, with lifestyle factors playing an important role in these changes. ``Clinical psychologists are well poised to tackle some of these difficult social issues, with a unique training in the science and practice of psychology. Graduates of clinical psychology training programmes depart with two degrees: one a research degree and one in the application of research to clinical practice. ``This week marks 50 years since the first clinical psychology training programme began in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury. UC has graduated hundreds of students assisting New Zealanders with mental health issues, from depression, to ADHD, to treating sex offenders.’’ To celebrate the UC anniversary, a two day seminar will take place on campus on November 23 and 24, discussing some challenges clinical psychologists face today. The clinical psychology programme at UC is the oldest training programme in New Zealand and providing ground breaking research and investigating new treatments for mental illness. Associate Professor Julia Rucklidge said she had been has been investigating dietary influences on mental disorders. International research is establishing that the western diet increases risk for developing depression, anxiety and ADHD. Children, malnourished in first six months of life, are at greater risk for developing depression and ADHD 30 years later. During times of famine, women malnourished in pregnancy had a higher risk of producing offspring who developed schizoid personality disorder and depression. She has been conducting trials looking at whether providing additional nutrients can affect the expression of common mental disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety and depression, with trials to date showing positive effects. ``Clinical psychologists are faced with high rates of psychiatric disorders for which treatment response varies across treatment and across disorder. Clinical psychology training provides students with the skills to research the impact of various treatments for psychological disorders in order to best inform current practice.’’ Clinical psychology senior lecturer Dr Janet Carter said there was a high rate of depression and anti-depressive medication use in NZ, and especially Christchurch. ``Increasing our knowledge about psychotherapies for depression and what predicts who will respond to which psychotherapy will mean that we are better able to target psychotherapies to individuals, and has the potential to decrease antidepressant use,’’ Dr Carter said. ends	http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1211/S00055/micronutrients-could-reduce-psychological-disorders.htm	2013-05-18T10:42:40	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Picture: Contributed OVER the long term, Nick Cave is probably the most consistently brilliant songwriter we have, so much so that excellence is pretty much a given each time he releases new music. * * * * So I guess we all know what to expect from his 15th album with the trusty Bad Seeds, right? But even though it’s here now, I really didn’t see Push The Sky Away coming. It’s customary for artists as imaginative and assiduous as Cave to set themselves new challenges, to react to and against their own work. His fans may be content but Cave is restless. He has had his fun in the incorrigible Grinderman and on the previous Bad Seeds album Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! and, while it provides enormous entertainment value for the listener, he needs a break from all that priapic roistering, so those mighty Bad Seed cylinders go unfired on Push The Sky Away. But, despite the slow, even sombre pace of the album, this is not Cave in his typical alternative guise as primo love balladeer either. Push The Sky Away has little of the devastating confessional depth of The Boatman’s Call, still his finest collection of love songs, and more of the dark storytelling vein which was threaded through No More Shall We Part and Nocturama. But it is entirely its own prowling beast, big on atmosphere, not so big on tunes, deft in its poetry but also liberally dipped in overt black humour. Environmental lamentation We No Who U R is Nick Cave’s version of Earth Song which, naturally, sounds nothing like Earth Song. Rather than the disaster movie of the Michael Jackson video, Cave gives us something closer to the scarred landscapes of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake album. The backing is spare, resting on the sonorous snare sound of a drum machine and chiming keyboards, eventually embellished by a stately, soothing siren chorus. Cave has started as he means to go on. He has been settled in Brighton for years now but this is the first time it appears as a character in his songs. Push The Sky Away is awash with seaside imagery. The wordplay, such as the double meaning of “waves” or interior rhyme of “your dress sides with your wide lovely strides”, begins in earnest on Wide Lovely Eyes, an impressionistic valediction set in the coastal town they forgot to shut down. Water’s Edge observes the modern courtship game on the seafront, with Brighton boys painted as aquatic predators and London girls as knowing sirens with “legs wide to the world, like bibles open”. Cave is in creepy preacher mode issuing a cold warning, while Warren Ellis’s baleful, eastern-influenced violin and Jim Sclavunos’s menacing jazz rolls provide the foreboding backing to match this unsettling scene. Jubilee Street evokes a whole world with a tight turn of phrase but melodically and atmospherically it’s not among Cave’s most engaging. However, this anatomy of a relationship with a prostitute may have haunted its writer sufficiently to invade his subconscious life, as he goes on to describe a sexual anxiety dream about a young bride on the eerie Finishing Jubilee Street. Or, y’know, maybe he just made the whole thing up. He’s good at that. Mermaids hits the spot melodically, and lyrically it’s an audacious ride, contrasting the ebb and flow of the longing refrain with witty, colloquial nuggets such as “I do husband alertness course”. Cave is on such irreverent form throughout, casting a line like “Wikipedia’s heaven when you don’t want to remember” into the brooding rumble of We Real Cool with its otherwise romantic talk of planets and heartbeats. The pinnacle of this mix-and-match approach to tone comes a couple of songs later on Higgs Boson Blues, a stealthy eight-minute banquet of beat poetry and word association which leads off with the discovery of the ‘God particle’ in Geneva – allowing a writer who has consistently pondered man’s place in the universe to explore science and religion in one fell swoop – before taking in the Devil and Robert Johnson at the crossroads, the assassination of Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and Hannah Montana going tribal. Personally, he had me at the title – the rest is a bonus. Higgs Boson Blues is as much swagger as this album has to give. Push The Sky Away ends where it began, in downbeat, reflective mood with the funereal synthesizer and solemn philosophy of the title track, and a whole lot for Cave fans to ponder, not least that a musician with such a distinctive aesthetic can still surprise 35 years into his career. • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Push The Sky. 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Better Together chief Alistair Darling was Chancellor when financial crisis started Scottish news: Libor scandal discredits 'Better Together' chief Evidence is piling up, from the Libor scandal revelations, that Britain's banks may have been awash with fraudulant practices, causing untold damage to lives of ordinary people and raising questions over why taxpayers' money was used in a seemingly futile attempt to rescue the UK financial sector from insolvency. In terms of who should take responsibility it is the UK Chancellor who has overall responsibility for regulation of the UK's financial sector and so in the lead up to the near collapse of the banking industry, Alistair Darling, was 'at the wheel'. Now Darling, chief of the Scottish independence 'Better Together' campaign finds that his credibility during the financial crisis has been ‘fatally undermined’, according to the SNP, following a spate of criticisms from those close to him at the time. Also Read: - Red Collective launch independence referendum campaign - Scottish independence risk to UK single market, says CBI chief - Scottish independence 'No' camp launches - Scottish people feel shut out of independence debate - Bank chaos blamed on 'computer glitch' During a House of Lords debate on the Libor scandal this week, Lord Tunnicliffe, speaking for the Opposition,.” This follows claims last month from Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King that Darling’s failure to act quickly in the Northern Rock crisis cost Britain a million jobs. If true this would translate to around 100, 000 jobs in Scotland. Two weeks ago, FSA Chief Executive Hector Sants said that Darling had ignored advice which could have prevented the run on Northern Rock, the event which precipitated the crisis in the UK. SNP Treasury Spokesman Stewart Hosie." Leveson inquiry for the banks Since the financial crisis emerged in 2008 few journalists have had the courage to ask important questions over how the banking sector works and how it is regulated. Instead they preferred to look the other way and advance their own careers. Those who did ask difficult questions were often labelled as 'extreme'. Most reports on the state of the banking sector and the economy have shamelessly and unthinkingly repeated City propaganda and the consequence is that what was a financial sector collapse has now become an economic crisis threatening the way of life of millions. With the journalistic class effectively acting as PR flunkies for a widespread confiscation of the citizens' wealth a new culture of citizen journalism has sprung up on the web. The lack of media exposure given to those economists who dared challenge the views of conventional economists, those who neither predicted the crisis nor yet know how to deal with it, has been scandalous in itself. Instead of reporting that our economic crisis stems from systemic fraud in the financial sector the media has reported that the economic crisis was merely a deep recession. In so doing they have allowed politicians to lavish taxpayers money on suspect banks and impose austerity measures on the population in order to further bail out these zombie institutions. Now, internationally renowned economist Ann Pettifor has launched a petition calling for a Leveson-style inquiry into conduct in the British banking sector. The petition states "We the undersigned call for an independent, judicial public enquiry into fraud, wrongdoing and ethics of British banks, their management and their staff, and the role of the British Bankers Association." Ms Pettifor is Director of PRIME Policy Research in Macroeconomics and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, London. She is the author of books on sovereign debt and international finance. To access the petition click here. Support Our INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM APPEAL Scottish News News Scotland	http://www.scottishtimes.com/libor_scandal_discredits_better_together_chief	2013-05-18T10:41:58	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "/assets/pages/401/alistair-darling.jpg", "alistair-darling.jpg" ], [ "http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/assets/icons/fugue/balloon--plus-1bfbe4ea2b9abf45ab44c7d20bb03ad7.png", null ], [ "http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/assets/icons/fugue/document--arrow-ef340d71a2792645709bd0f...
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OC Register sale to 2100 Trust LLC is a full acquisition of Freedom Communications The Orange Country Register's parent company, Freedom Communications, has been acquired by a Massachusetts investment group. Freedom.	http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/tagged/minneapolis-star-tribune	2013-05-18T10:21:12	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://a.scpr.org/i/f1faba5334cab5d92636ac9c117c0fe2/39867-eight.jpg", "OCR-Front" ] ]
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Preserve My Precious Memories! a digital memory preservation service Where are your precious memories kept? Do you have your photos printed, labelled, and put into albums? OR Are your photos still sitting on your computer(or your camera), just waiting for disaster to strike? Maybe you don't have the time, or don't know where to begin to preserve your memories... If this sounds like your situation, I can help. I have more than 15 years of experience in memory preservation. I know how special your photographs are to you and your loved ones and how wonderful it is to be able to share and enjoy those memories again and again anytime you want to. WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU - Organize your photos for you so that you can find what you are looking for when you need it, saving your files to disk for you. Photos can be sent to me digitally or by mail/courier. - Scan photos & other memorabilia items such as ticket stubs, programs, or kids artwork and gifts. - Use your photos to create decorative digital memory pages that suit your style, adding in information to tell a bit of a "story" about your photos. You can provide me with as much or as little information as you wish. Even just having the names of the people in your photos and the dates included on your pages will be of benefit when it comes to reliving your memories. - Memory pages can easily be shared with friends and family by email, facebook, CD's, etc. and I can (or you can) make as many copies as you wish since they make great gifts for grandparents and other family members. - Memory pages can be made into digital presentations and/or professionally printed and bound photobooks for you to enjoy anytime you like. (Photobooks make great gifts for family and friends) - I can also create photo greeting cards, birth and wedding announcements, wedding invitations, calendars, individual photo memory pages suitable for framing. - Wedding, Baby's 1st Year, Childhood, Birthdays and Anniversaries, Family Gatherings, Life's Milestones...I can preserve them all so you can enjoy them forever! PRICING FOR MEMORY PRESERVATION SERVICES PHOTO ORGANIZATION $12 per hour Photo's can be sent to me digitally, or physically for me to scan. Please note that the procedure for organizing physical photos will take longer than dealing with digital files. Price includes organization of all photos provided, by date and event, as per information that I collect from you. Photo files will be saved to disk and sent to you. Digital files will be sent to you by mail. The return of physical photos and/or memorabilia and the organized scanned disk will be returned to you by courier of your choice. *Disk(s) and Shipping Extra* DIGITAL MEMORY PAGES $12 per page (A 50% deposit will be required to start your project with the balance due upon completion) I will create digital memory pages containing your photos and "story" information using digital elements that suit your individual style. Memorabilia can also be scanned and added to your pages. Your digital memory pages will be sent to you by email for you to use as you wish, or I can save your digital memory pages to a disk and send to you by mail. *Disk(s) and Shipping ExtraIf you wish to slowly build up your album so that you can work toward having enough pages to have a photobook printed, I can email you the pages as they are completed, but hold your file open for you and add to it as you are ready. MEMORY PHOTOBOOKS Memory Photobooks can be printed from the memory pages I create for you. The minimum number of pages required to create a photobook is 20 pages. I will set up the pages appropriately for printing and can have the books printed for you for the additional cost for printing and shipping. Since printing is professionally done, rates will vary depending upon the company used to complete your memory photobook and the photobook size and quantity you want. Another option is for me to load your completed photobook pages onto my Shutterfly shared site for you to have printed at your leisure. MEMORY VIDEOS A Memory Video Presentation can be created from the memory pages I create for you. There is no minimum page requirement for creating a video presentation. If you wish to add music to your video presentation additional charges will apply. Why the additional charge for music? I must use royalty free music in my video presentation so as not to infringe on copyright laws so must purchase music, in some cases on a per use basis. Your Memory Video Presentation will be saved to disk in the usage format of your choice and sent to you by mail.Consultations, review of your pages, and as much communication as you wish - all free. Disk(s) and Shipping Extra* OTHER PHOTO ITEMS Please contact me for a quote on photo greeting cards, birth and wedding announcements, wedding invitations, calendars, individual photo memory pages suitable for framing. CONSULTATION There is no charge for consultation for your project. Feel free to contact me as much as you like! I love working to pull your memories together so you and your family can enjoy them for a lifetime! Contact Me! scrapbookingwithann@hotmail.com PAYMENT FOR SERVICES Payment for all services is accepted by PayPal. 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The Screaming Sponsorship program is here to help University-based or non-profit teams that are dedicated to pushing the envelope and seriously advancing the state of robotics, embedded systems, communications or other similar 21st century technologies. Some of the most creative and audacious electronics research comes from University and other non-funded organizations but one of the challenges with advanced electronics today is that the components are so small or complex that they can no longer be reliably hand soldered. By performing the electronics assembly, Screaming Circuits is enabling selected groups of this type to use the newest and most advanced components in their designs. Spotlight Program: PSAS The Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) vision, or long-term goal, is to “put nanosatellites into orbit.” To do this, PSAS is developing an open source framework including electronics hardware, software, and mechanical systems for guidance and telemetry that someday will be capable of placing small objects into earth orbit. So what exactly does this mean? PSAS is performing some of the world's most advanced rocketry research and development outside of government and big industry. And, as they make progress, they share their work with anyone else that has the common vision. Visit the Portland State Aerospace Society. Learn more about Screaming Circuits' PCB Assembly service. Other Sponsorees Cornell Our longest running sponsorship. We build the electronic engine control module controller for their Formulae SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) race car. These students will be the engineers designing the next generation of automobiles. OpNeAR Established in March 2001, the OpNeAR Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas brings together those professionals and students who share an interest in the general area of networking. The team OpNeAR specializes in the advancement of research for the wired and wireless networking world. Screaming Sponsorship spots are limited. If you would like to apply, send an email to sponsorship@screamingcircuits.com. Include your contact information, details about your organization, details about the project and other sponsors involved. How Can We Help You? It's easy to get PCB Prototype Assembly fast, with online quotes, ordering, and order status. Get your free assembly quote now!	http://www.screamingcircuits.com/Home/Sponsorship	2013-05-18T10:53:36	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://i.screamingcircuits.com/images/hdr-about-sponsorship.jpg", "Sponsorship" ], [ "http://i.screamingcircuits.com/images/img-rocket-launch.jpg", "Rocket Launch" ], [ "http://i.screamingcircuits.com/images/img-rocket-component.jpg", "Rocket Launch" ], [ "http://i.screami...
Global Screen scores more EFM deals Among the deals, A Thousand Times Goodnight [pictured] has sold to Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Middle East and Taiwan. Global Screen has announced further deals on its EFM slate, including Erik Poppe’s A Thousand Times Goodnight. Poppe’s drama starring Juliette Binoche has now sold to Spain (Golem), Brazil (Art Film), Portugal (Lanterna de Pedra Filmes), Middle East (Italia Film), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), as well as the already announced Benelux deal with Wild Bunch. Offers from France and the US are on the table. Other EFM deals for Global Screen include the German drama Ludwig II selling to Japan (Broadmedia Studios), Mr Morgan’s Last Love selling to A Contracorriente for Spain and documentary Camp 14 going to Japan (Maxam), Australia (SBS) and Latin America (HBO). Global Screen’s 3D animated titles also saw further business with The 7th Dwarf preselling to Czech Republic and Slovakia (AQS) and to the Middle East (Italia Film), who also picked up Niko 2. Ooops, Noah is Gone has presold to Kino Swiat for Poland. German drama My Beautiful Country has sold to France (Chamade) and Latin America (HBO), while Omamamia was acquired by Eden for Japan and HBO for Latin America as well as Russian Report (CIS) picking up all rights to Men Do What They Can. Have your say You must sign in to make a comment.	http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/berlin/european-film-market/global-screen-announces-further-efm-deals/5052044.article?blocktitle=News&contentID=17	2013-05-18T10:45:36	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Lee Chang-dong named Asian Film Academy dean Busan’s Asian Film Academy (AFA) has appointed Korean director Lee Chang-dong as dean of the workshop this year. Previous Busan New Currents Award winner Aditya Assarat (Wonderful Town) from Thailand will join him as a directing mentor as well. Previous AFA deans include Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hou Hsiao Hsien and Abbas Kiarostami. Lee’s sophomore feature Peppermint Candy (2000) was the 4th Busan International Film Festival’s opening film as well as screening in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. His Oasis took Best Director at Venice in 2002 and Secret Sunshine earned Best Actress for Jeon Do-yeon at Cannes in 2007. Poetry took Best Screenplay in Cannes 2010. Set to run Sept 26-Oct 13 this year AFA is currently taking fellowship applications until April 30. (See) The workshop includes master classes, mentoring and short film production. AFA graduates include Indonesian director Edwin whose Postcards From The Zoo was in Berlinale Competition last year and Kazakhstani director Emir Baigazin whose Harmony Lessons was there earlier this year. Have your say You must sign in to make a comment.	http://www.screendaily.com/news/asia-pacific/lee-chang-dong-named-asian-film-academy-dean/5053069.article?blocktitle=News-archive&contentID=278	2013-05-18T10:36:11	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
The Other (El Otro) Dir:.	http://www.screendaily.com/the-other-el-otro/4030959.article	2013-05-18T10:57:17	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
In news that's the equivalent of your girlfriend frequently threatening to leave your ungrateful ass and actually, for once in their miserable existence, going through with it, Chevy Chase has quit Community effective immediately. His decision to quit is no surprise given his... frequent outbursts about how much he hates working on the show; with his feud with former showrunner Dan Harmon being the most infamous. What is surprising, though, is the state that this leaves the show in. Of the 13 episodes ordered for Season 4, only 11 have been written and/or filmed leaving 2 to go. This leaves the question of exactly how the show plans to deal with the loss of Pierce Hawthorne, considering that Chase's resignation came out of the blue. So... is it just me, or does this pretty much guarantee that we are not getting a back 9 for this Community season, let alone a 5th season? Despite Chase's... less-than-intelligent on-set behavior, I still find Pierce a vital part of the show and one that I just don't see the show coping without. Of course, being British, I'm yet to see Season 3, so this is based on my limited view, but my point still stands. How could the group work without Pierce? Hang on! Just remembered! Leonard still exists, right? There's our Pierce replacement, then! So long, Chevy! Been... interesting knowing you! Altogether, now: Six seasons and a movie!	http://www.screened.com/forums/general-discussion/8/chevy-chase-has-actually-quit-community-for-real-this-time/23077/	2013-05-18T10:54:58	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
TOP VIDEO Honest Trailers – The Amazing Spider-Man NOW TRENDING: This is a selection of the best Yoda quotes. Yoda, the captivating and wise Jedi character created by George Lucas, appeared in the original Star Wars trilogy, “Star Wars Episode V,” and“The Empire Strikes Back.” Yoda was definitely the greatest Jedi Master of all the time in the Star Wars world. Lucas also confirmed that Star Wars philosophy was influenced by Joseph Campbell. Dr. Campbell was an American mythologist whose work was inspired, among other influences, by Taoism. This is probably why Yoda’s quotes much like Jabba's interior design are, indeed, timeless. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Fear is a big motivating factor. Sometimes, it motivates people to go to the dark side of their character. Once on the dark side, this may lead people to anger, and anger against someone or something specific may lead to hatred. Hatred invariably leads to suffering. “May the Force be with you.” May the best in the universe be with you, whatever you call it: a divinity, an inner strength, a spiritual guide, etc. This is a modern way to wish someone good luck. “You must unlearn what you have learned.” It’s impossible to get superior results if the same old rules or concepts are applied over and over again. Sometimes, it’s necessary to give up or forget what has been done for years, in order to achieve better results. “You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.” Making important decisions in a moment of rage, desperation, or anxiety will lead to worse results. Guaranteed. A minute of anger can damage a relationship or anything else worthwhile forever. It is better to wait for calm and make a detailed evaluation about your choices and the paths available. “Strong am I with the force.” This is a positive affirmation. . Identifying and mastering your inner force, whatever that may be (skills, convictions, faith, etc.), will provide you with originality, individuality, and." Success depends on your talents and how well you take advantage of them, not on physical attributes such as size. A brilliant brain can belong to anybody. It doesn’t matter if the person is tall or short. "Always in motion is the future." The future is always changing. There is no such thing as one definitive destiny for every person. The actions you take in the present, will affect your future, for e good or bad. “Always pass on what you have learned.” There is a feeling of pleasure and pride when people share anything to others in need, even if it’s something small. -Flor Walker Consider posting a comment.	http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/genres-movies/scifi/listen-you-must-to-these-yoda-quotes/	2013-05-18T10:31:47	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://cdn2.screenjunkies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/honest-trailer-spiderman-220x165.jpg", "honest-trailer-spiderman Spider-Man" ] ]
Film Television People History Education Tours Search Actor, Writer Despite once professing himself averse to television - believing it a poor medium for stage comedians - Eric Sykes (born in Oldham on 4 May 1923) forged for himself a successful career both in front of and behind the camera. A gifted comic performer in his own right, he was also an acclaimed writer and director for some of the best comedians in the business. This is all the more remarkable considering his hearing and sight disabilities (he has been deaf since the early 1960s and, following years of gradual eye failure, blind from the early 1990s). Following war service, Sykes found his first foothold in the business writing material for comedians Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd, both of whom he had worked with in army entertainment units. The Howerd connection proved the more significant, with Sykes providing the comedian with material for his appearances, between 1946 and 1950, on the popular radio show Variety Bandbox (1944-52), the success of which made Howerd a household name. This in turn led to further radio work for Sykes himself, not just on subsequent Howerd shows but also on other popular series, including Educating Archie (1950-60), and that comedy milestone, The Goon Show (1951-60). For television, Frankie Howerd was again to be one of the main beneficiaries of Sykes' writing skills, with such shows as The Howerd Crowd (BBC, 1952; 1955) and The Frankie Howerd Show (BBC, tx. 10/9/1953), the latter co-written with Spike Milligan. Other notable television writing in this period includes The Tony Hancock Show (ITV, 1956-57) and two all-star Pantomania specials (BBC, tx. 24/12/1955 and 25/12/1956). In addition to his writing credit, Sykes was also credited as director and lyricist on the first of those Pantomania specials, an indication of the high regard in which he was now held within the business. After years of appearing in small roles in the shows he wrote for others, Sykes was finally awarded his own starring vehicle, Dress Rehearsal (BBC, tx. 31/3/1956). Further specials of his own followed over the next three years, including Opening Night (BBC, tx. 22/8/1956) and Gala Opening (BBC, tx. 7/3/1959), the latter co-starring an actor with whom he would become closely associated in the ensuing years - Hattie Jacques. It was with his first series of his own, Sykes and a... (BBC, 1960-65), in which he and Jacques played brother and sister, that they were to become firmly linked in the public's mind as a comedy duo. The domestic misadventures of the bumbling Eric and the long-suffering 'Hat' (Jacques was, as ever, a joy to watch) struck a chord with viewers, the success of the series helping to win Sykes a Society of Film and Television Arts award for his performance in 1962. Following a seven-year break, Eric and Hat successfully reprised the format with Sykes (BBC, 1972-79). During the 1960s and 1970s, in addition to these two series and a run of television specials (all featuring Jacques), Sykes was becoming increasingly occupied with appearances in feature films, invariably in supporting roles - although he did star in an adaptation of the N.F. Simpson play One Way Pendulum (d. Peter Yates, 1964). However, it was a short film, not a feature, that would showcase Sykes at his best. Inspired by his love of visual humour, The Plank (1967) was a virtually dialogue-free comedy, written and directed by Sykes, in which he and Tommy Cooper appeared as two accident-prone workmen attempting to transport a plank from a lumber yard to a building site. The film was successful enough for Sykes to revisit the 'silent' format on six further occasions between 1969 and 1994, including his remaking of The Plank for television (ITV, tx.17/12/1979), with Arthur Lowe replacing Cooper. Although it was rare for Sykes to appear -on television - in works written by others, one writer whom he deigned to work for was Johnny Speight. The first series of Sykes and a... had actually been written by Speight (the remainder were primarily down to Sykes), and subsequent projects with the writer included the controversial Curry and Chips (ITV, 1969) and The Nineteenth Hole (ITV, 1989), a disappointing sitcom set in a golf club. The latter was to be the final comedy series in which Sykes would participate in any leading capacity; blinkered television executives now viewed him as too old-fashioned. His final 'silent' comedy, The Big Freeze (1994), was even refused a television screening, and was released direct to video instead. Television's loss, however, was the theatre's gain. Despite his disabilities, Sykes found a new lease of life on the stage, enjoying renewed success in works by Ray Cooney, Molière, Alan Bennett and others. He was awarded an OBE in 1986 and the James Carreras Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Variety Club of Great Britain in 2002. John Oliver More information From the BFI's filmographic database Related media Selected credits Notorious sitcom starring Spike Milligan as an Irish/Pakistani worker First sitcom pairing of Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques Hancock's first TV series, more sketch and variety-based than his later work Related collections Related people and organisations Actor Writer	http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1058088/	2013-05-18T11:02:08	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Locations Scripps Health offers expert care at locations throughout San Diego County. Use the tool below to find our hospitals, outpatient clinics, well being centers and corporate office. Showing 1-10 locations of 42 total La Jolla, CA Scripps Green Hospital Scripps Green Hospital has served the La Jolla and greater San Diego communities with distinction since 1977, offering a variety of medical "firsts"—including San Diego’s first liver transplant program and one of the nation’s first hospitals to provide stem cell transplants. We ... Encinitas, CA Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas provides expert specialty and emergency care in state-of-the-art facilities. Our specialty programs and services include North County’s first Primary Stroke Center, a regionally recognized brain injury program, state-of-the-art imaging center, 24-hour ... La Jolla, CA Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla Established in 1924 by Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla has been one of Southern California’s premier medical centers for more than 80 years. We offer a wide range of clinical, surgical and specialty services. We are consistently recognized for quality patient care ... San Diego, CA Scripps Mercy Hospital Scripps Mercy Hospital has campuses in San Diego and Chula Vista. Together they comprise the largest hospital in San Diego County and one of the largest in California. Providing outstanding care at two locations allows us to serve San Diego and the South County with an extended network of primary ... Chula Vista, CA Scripps Well Being Center, Chula Vista The Chula Vista Well Being Center provides a variety of health and wellness classes including: Chronic disease management and healthy lifestyles support groups and classes Programs for people living with diabetes, including the ability to participate in ongoing clinical trials, through a ... Encinitas, CA Scripps Well Being Center, Encinitas Scripps Well Being Center in Encinitas offers a variety of health and wellness programs including monthly CPR classes. Classes include: Family and Friends Infant and Child CPR Heartsaver Basic Life Support (BLS) for the Healthcare Provider San Diego, CA Scripps Mende Well Being Center, La Jolla More than 3,000 San Diegans take advantage of the health education services provided at Scripps Well Being Centers. Prenatal education classes, lectures on staying healthy, and caregiver support groups are just a few of the many offerings available to the community. Scripps Mende Well Being La ... San Diego, CA Scripps Wellness Center, City Heights The Scripps Wellness Center in City Heights provides a variety of health and wellness resources and programs including: Prenatal outreach and education Culturally-adapted nutrition and fitness education Breastfeeding education Parenting classes Women, Infants and Children (WIC) services Ask a ... La Jolla, CA Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine is located atop the Torrey Pines mesa in La Jolla, Calif. Parking is available on-site for a fee. Mon. – Fri., 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.: $3 for 3 hours with a $1 charge for each additional half hour Maximum of $15 per day San Diego, CA Physical Rehabilitation	http://www.scripps.org/locations	2013-05-18T10:31:02	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Patient Education Our certified diabetes educators help you learn how to take control of your diabetes through a variety of programs, at locations throughout San Diego County (PDF, 241 KB). All of our programs are recognized by the American Diabetes Association. All education appointments and classes require a physician order (PDF, 33 KB) and are subject to insurance authorization. Find out how to register. The Scripps Whittier Diabetes Program provides people with diabetes the knowledge and tools they need to make the best day-to-day decisions about their health and well-being. Programs and services include: - Individual appointments for people with diabetes and gestational diabetes - Certified Diabetes Educators provide information on self-management skills and home blood glucose monitoring. Education on associated cardiovascular risk factors and other complications is included. - Group classes for Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes - Nurses, dietitians and diabetes health care providers share their expertise and address topics related to managing diabetes. Individual questions are answered in an open discussion format. Program includes four core classes and one follow-up. - Individualized training for insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring. - Certified Diabetes Educators provides training on how to start using, and live with, insulin pumps or continuous glucose monitors. - Nutritional counseling, meal planning and exercise strategies for weight management - Registered Dietitians offer patients, physicians and the general public a variety of medical, nutrition therapy services for the treatment/prevention of disease. Personal meal management, education and support are also provided to promote wellness. - Support groups to maintain control For more information about our patient programs, call 858-626-5672, or find out how to register.	http://www.scripps.org/services/metabolic-conditions__diabetes/patient-education	2013-05-18T10:40:42	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://assets2.scripps.org/sparkle-assets/images/project_dulce_story_image_2.jpg", "Project Dulce patient story image 2" ] ]
Opinions represent that of the author and not necessarily of Scrum Alliance. The sharing of member-contributed content on this site does not imply endorsement of specific Scrum methods or practices beyond those taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Trainers and Coaches. View a recommended reading list for students of Scrum. Read studies from Carnegie Mellon and other research on Scrum. Presentations & White Papers Presentations to help you advocate for Scrum. Browse presentations from Atlanta. Browse presenations from London. Got a story to tell or news to share? Here's an idea of what we're looking for.	http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles?author_id=120503	2013-05-18T10:14:55	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
A group of interested persons sharing information and questions about conducting successful school community garden programs in South Carolina. Thursday, May 26, 2011 SC School named in Top 10!! Memminger Elementary School in Charleston, SC, is listed 7th in the Top 10 for the Root4Kids contest! The Root 4 Kids contest launched April 5th and runs through May 31st. The school that receives the most sign-ups will win their choice of a school garden or a Farm-to-School program. To generate votes for your school go to:. Posted by S.C. Department of Agriculture at 12:00 PM No comments: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 SC schools are creating healthier lunch menus. District meals will not only look out for overweight students, but healthy students too! Anderson county has begun revising their lunch menus to ensure healthy kids are getting the nutrition they need to stay active. Posted by S.C. Department of Agriculture at 5:30 PM No comments:	http://www.scschoolgardens.blogspot.com/2011_05_22_archive.html	2013-05-18T10:31:50	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zx9KVzX91jI/TdvbvfxB0SI/AAAAAAAAAhI/5HSHeun2qUc/s320/home-logo-overlay-news.png", null ], [ "http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zx9KVzX91jI/TdvbvfxB0SI/AAAAAAAAAhI/5HSHeun2qUc/s320/home-logo-overlay-news.png", null ], [ "http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif",...
Back to Blog In March, the Engineering Education Service Center ran a "Sing the Song of Engineering" Contest. Of 32 submissions, 3 of the 7 winning entries came from SCU's freshman class taking our Introduction to Engineering course, ENGR 1! Patrick Neill won first place with his band Infinity Squared and their song "Ode to Engineers." Brian Hammond, Robert Golterman, and Robert Ross took third place for their song chronicling great engineering innovations over time. And the band, Mech Attack, featuring Arturo Nunez Perez, Jasper Adamek-Bowers, and Victor Ojeda, received an honorable mention for their tribute to engineering. Freshmen were offered the chance to submit an entry in the contest as one of a number of options they could choose from for their final project, reports Ruth Davis, associate dean of undergraduate programs. “We were very impressed with the talent exhibited by our engineers,” she said, “and we’re delighted the students performed so well in the competition.” Find the songs and lyrics here. SCU Stories Mechanical engineering majors give an ordinary motorcycle major updates and piques BMW's interest. Read the full profile »	http://www.scu.edu/engineering/more/blog.cfm?b=83&c=9870	2013-05-18T10:54:57	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
New Divers and Those Considering Diving [Archive] - ScubaBoard - Scuba Diving Forum - Diving Social Network ScubaBoard - Scuba Diving Forum - Diving Social Network > Scuba Diving Central > New Divers and Those Considering Diving PDA View Full Version : New Divers and Those Considering Diving Sponsored Link Pages : [ 1 ] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 My 12 Year Old Nephew wants to dive with me. Mask Fit Issues To dry suit or not to dry suit I may need to get a second job Signed up to take my OW certification dives this weekend! Just want to stress the importance of testing and checking equipment Im hooked! Dry suit course failure Depth watch 6 months in 50 dive later - My advice for those considering getting certified. PADI temp card question Learning to dive in WI Tipping your dive instructor OW almost complete. Some advice please..... :) One more class to go and the ow dive weights? 1/3 Rule? Question on the Padi RDP Dental crowns and implants Open Water Certification Exam Starting Our Certification Path! Want to learn SCUBA in Finland. (Expensive)... Kinda starting over Weight question Safety stops Finning technique advice helmet diving vs scuba Question about PADI E-Learning, and training New to Scuba, and completely LOST! Question about comfortable depth First time Saltwater/Boat diving. Am I fit for scuba diving ? Can't find travel insurance that will cover me while getting certified! Getting your C card with PADI How to practice leg muscles in gyms? Incident during OW training Is Light DCS Possible with Very Shallow Dives? Neutral buoyancy question. Some questions - Renting and Buddies Started certification path... black ice bcd bouyancy and weighting advice Question about getting lost under water. how much weight do I need? PADI confined and open water skills list weight at depth OWD experiences: Rayadivers Phuket OW Course duration reduced by 25%... opinions? New diver, questions regarding weight belts and buoyancy. Just certified....? Starting Over After a Few Years and Terrible Experience phobia of suffocation Advice on drill, first pool dive.. Reviewing my first dives New Diver -- Lessons Learned -- Nassau questions per private divemaster/dive guide trouble recovering bc from pool bottom New wannabe diver dive flag? First Dive Experience in 2013 First time diving vacation Belize Not so good certification. New Diver - question boat diving Assistance with equalizing for someone with narrow ear canals Anthropology Graduate with Interest in Maritime/Nautical Archaeology completely new, and needs advice! Helping Wife Learn Scuba lost log book! Recommendations on a place to get certified in Thailand Return to diving - what to expect? Need some advice moving up Free flow disaster! Help! 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Embarassing Moment - Shore Dive FAIL Need help with RDP calculation Overcoming Fear Just can't get Horizontal. Here we go again, our LDS is offering another Groupon 1 tank over within 36 minutes New to diving, PADI OpenWater Question Dangerous dive shop ? what do you think ? watch out here I come The first dive is an adjustment dive Question about Boat Diver Cert Newly OW and Nitrox certified couple! Are these symptoms of Stage 2 Scubaitis? Another new nitrox diver here! New diver in Daytona Beach, Fl Can the prior experience of your instructor save your life? Failed Open Water Dive non-diver to DM? is it worth the money? Dive tables... Thanks can mean a ton. Equipment hire prices Dyslexic Diver needs advice! Wanting to get a start in diving, humbodt county? We did it! 25 logged dives in our first year! Mr and mrs new divers ow cert passed in sharm Question about PADI AOW dives Weightloss = adjust the weight belt... FINALLY !!!!!! I finally did it..... OW Certification is complete!!! What would you do different, if you had PADI OW certification to do all over again? New diver seriously considering pro. Small bit of advice for new divers Another official new diver! :) Cave Country Dive Shop certifies two new divers this weekend! contact lenses Disappointed, but..... Completed my Open water cert last weekend Question about Open Water SSI Congratulations to 6 new certified open water divers at Cave Country Dive Shop! Questions after first dive I have developed a disease Diving Physicians in Wiltshire or Hants UK How long before you get your certificate? What's the trick to the giant stride? Two more divers join the sport :-) Returning to Diving Senior diving Got my gear! Will it make it easier to go diving more often? One more confined session. Nervous about Diving WOOT! It's official! I am now OW Certified and could not possibly be more EXCITED!! Another New Diver With Some Questions! Boat diving questions Log book mockery?! USING dive tables during OW course. New to the forum AND diving! Class Started!! Equalizing ears but air leaks from around the eyes Scuba diving Paramedic Senior Husband and Wife OW certified yesterday, absolutely thrilled . VICTORY POST! Open water certified i need a refresher...do i NAUI again or Padi...whats the difference? Requirements for NAUI Advanced Diver Cert? Whats your trick to keep the weight Belt from slipping I am officially a PADI OW Certified Diver!!!!!! Shooting an SMB Is it safe to dive next to a pier used for fishing? Langstone Harbour, Portsmouth Another new guy, just signed up for PADI e-learning.... What constitutes a loggable "dive" Got my wife underwater for the first time! Need someone to join a Night Diving Certification class with me in my Area!!! 9/19/12 Woo Hoo!! We are certified!!! First Dive / Training (Am I wrong? Or, is the instructor crazy?) Another "Yay! I did it!" post, and a question about dive travel Tips for managing Dive Flags? 13 year old and Padi JOW cert Are my certifications still good? I want to become an instructor. My Shameless Personal Post! Which PADI OW Crewpak? Small mud puddle, big learning - LONG New Diver - What is a good first dive post certification? Logging Dives - why exactly? What is an experienced diver Completed Day 2 of my PADI OW Certification! Starting My OW Cert Next Week... One stupid thing I did that new divers should avoid Is the late forties too late to train to become a divemaster How do YOU keep fit? OWC - a big fear was realized, but everything is ok Looking to get certified! Started my PADI Open Water Certification today!! Dive shop requirements for equipment purchases Medical conditions No fly time after "discover scuba"? Fresh open-water diver Ear problem and Seasickness - should I keep trying? Is "learning the hard lesson" necessary? Just got OW certified! Choosing DM? Wicked diving? Can you dive all day under 20' Got my OW cert, but SOB! You can have a good dive, even in bad conditions What is the best school for me? Shameless Personal Post Sharks vs Lightning What should I review? Had problems equalizing on Tuesday, trying to figure out if I can dive Saturday Fear of sharks (don't hate me!) Fear of uncontrolled ascent Newly Certified OW pool training quick questions is there a big differnece in 100 cu ft Al vs 80 Cu ft Al or 100 cu ft If you ascend too fast... Is diving a good idea in my case?. Is that normal? Got our Nitrox certs today Tank Size and Weight AL80 to LP85 Kids & Scuba Things to do while waiting for a diver. How can one apply gentle sympathetic persuasion to a non-diver Requirements for dry suit diving How do you choose a dive shop for Open Water certification? Intermittent diving - is it safe?... and a question about diving styles. New Diver! Which agency to certify with in Spain? A little extra weight in the beginning. If you can breathe, you're ok Great first day in the pool. Practicing Buoyancy and Skills in A Pool Need course and gear advice for trip to Hawaii April 2013 What it feels like when you finally get good stable neutral buoyancy near the bottom. air consumption, what to expect? Shallow Diving Blog of learning to dive About to start PADI Open Water - how much prep time? Sponsored Link Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.6.1	http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-6.html	2013-05-18T10:42:21	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest and best-known dive destination, is freighted with divers’ expectations. This series of fringing, platform and barrier reefs spanning 1,400 miles. Sites just outside Cairns provide a sample of what lies beyond, but to truly tap into the awe factor of this dense ecosystem, you have to commit to a live-aboard. Day 1 — Dine on your own in Cairns, then make your way to Trinity Wharf at 6 p.m. for boarding. Check-in follows a champagne toast. Overnight trip to (1) Ribbon Reef 10. Day 2 — Get your bearings with two dives at (2) Challenger Bay, home to cuttlefish and spotfin lionfish. Dives three and four are at (3) Cod Hole, where the resident giant cod make ideal photography subjects. Overnight to (4) Osprey Reef, weather permitting. Day 3 & 4 — Osprey Reef. At current-swept wall dives such as Round the Bend and Halfway, watch for hammerheads, chevron barracuda, sharks and other predators attracted to fast-moving water. At the shark feed at North Hole, become mesmerized by the competition for tethered tuna heads between the potato cod, whitetip reef sharks and silvertip sharks. Overnight to (5) Lizard Island. Day 5 — Half-week guests depart while weeklong guests hike among the pandamus trees. After new guests board, it’s back to Cod Hole and Challenger Bay. Day 6 — At (6) Lighthouse Bommie schools of trevally, batfish and snapper patrol the blue, while Olive Ridley turtles, stonefish and sea snakes claim resident status on the pinnacle. At (7) Pixie Garden, think small and scout for nudibranchs and leaf scorpionfish. Overnight to (8) Ribbon Reef 3. Day 7 — (9) Steve’s Bommie, just a half mile from Ribbon Reef 3, offers a wealth of color, from the school of snapper blanketing the reef to the anemonefish holding court in anemones and the array of nudibranchs inching along the corals. Finish the day diving at Ribbon Reef 3. Overnight back to Trinity Wharf. Day 8 — Depart. Departing from Cairns, Mike Ball’s Spoilsport threads along the Barrier Reef to reach sites so remote that only one or two boats dot the uninterrupted panorama of glittering turquoise and cobalt. It’s here in the Coral Sea that the reefs and their inhabitants, untouched by water runoff or development, can swell to epic proportions and numbers. Tucked within lagoons of the various Ribbon Reefs,. One of the most memorable dives, Osprey Reef’s Round the Bend, aka Fast Eddie’s, requires use of dinghies to deliver divers to the heart of the action. Drop into the swift current just where the reef wall juts in at almost a right angle to a sandy cove. Stay low to the wall and wait for the curtains of snapper and goatfish to part, revealing tuna, giant trevally and silvertip sharks. Then fin over to the shallows, where nearly a dozen whitetip reef sharks sleep on the sand. To ensure a breezy week of maximum diving and ample downtime for as many as 29 guests, Spoilsport’s nine crew and three volunteers vibrate behind the scenes on a timely, seamless schedule. They ensure tanks are always full and a meal or snack is just minutes away. Serving up variety, the chef prepares a mix of Australian, Thai, Mexican and continental fare to keep palates satisfied and energy levels high. In between dining and diving, visitors can spread out in sun or shade on the two lounging decks, or on the sofas in the air-conditioned cabin with its library, entertainment system and computer. There, the onboard photographer and nature expert host fish and invertebrate talks that cater to guests’ hopes of developing stronger understandings of the marine life that makes the Great Barrier Reef the world’s most expansive underwater wonder. Need to Know Travel Tip — An hour’s drive from Cairns, the Rainforest Habitat in Port Douglas showcases much of the country’s wildlife and ecosystems, ranging from dry savannah to rainforests, coastal areas and tablelands. Arrive in time for breakfast with the parrots, parakeets and other birds that help eat your Corn Flakes. Don’t forget a camera, as you’ll also get the chance to feed kangaroos. When to Go — Minke whales migrate off the coast in June and July, making sightings almost inevitable at sites such as Lighthouse Bommie. Dive Conditions — Water temperatures can climb to 85°F in January and February and dip to 73°F in August. Getting There — Qantas flies to Cairns (CNS) from Los Angeles, with most flights routed through Brisbane. Price Tag — The cost of the seven-night Coral Sea Safari starts at $2,750 per person and depends on cabin selection. The package includes up to five dives per day, all meals, nonalcoholic drinks and one glass of wine a night. Nitrox is available for $150 for the week. More Info — If the Boat Fits Two other live-aboards travel similar itineraries departing from Cairns. Along with the Mike Ball, these two also offer three- and four-day journeys, giving the option of diving either half of the safari. Spirit of Freedom Built in 1992, this 120-foot-long vessel serves a maximum of 26 passengers in 13 cabins. The boat also carries paddle skis, wave skis and a wind surfer. Your cruise on the Spirit of Freedom ends (or begins) with a low-level flight over the reefs between Cairns and Lizard Island for a bird’s-eye view of some of the world’s best dive spots. Prices start at $2,675 per person for the quad-share cabin. TAKA A smaller boat at 100 feet long, the Taka can offer slightly more affordable rates — $2,460 for those who wish to share a cabin with three other passengers. The boat carries a maximum of 30 passengers in 13 cabins, served by a crew of 11. If you’re really looking for a deal and will be in Australia anyway, they occasionally offer standby spots on the boat at significant discounts.	http://www.scubadiving.com/travel/other/australias-premier-natural-wonder	2013-05-18T10:42:27	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.scubadiving.com/files/_attachments/australia-liveaboard-map_0.jpg", null ] ]
Indigo Divers from 23 reviewsfrom 23 reviews The Cayman Islands are known for their spectacular wall dives, & will forever be one of the worlds' most popular dive destinations. So what is it about INDIGO DIVERS that makes us so different from the rest? At Indigo Divers we have raised the bar on Grand Caymans' dive industry. With just six divers maximum, we guarantee an exclusive experience. Our top of the range sport cruisers combine first class service with unrivalled comfort & relaxation - far & away the most stunning dive boats in the Cayman Islands. Everything about Indigo Divers is handled with the care & attention to detail, that you'd expect from an owner-operated dive company. We believe your time above water should be as enjoyable as your time below. We will introduce you to the breath-taking wall dives and spectacular reefs of Grand Cayman. We have looked at all those elements you love, and enhanced them. We have also eliminated the points you were not quite so fond of.. All those little extras add a touch of class to an already stylish dive trip. Reviews 22nd February 2013 by thijaz Great Diving in Grand Cayman Visit Date: February 2013 I went diving a couple of days in a row with Chris and Kate from Indigo Divers. Particularly as a relatively new diver, I'm really glad I chose them because I had a great experience. They were both really friendly and fun, professional and safe, and really knowledgeable about the dive sites and the marine life. The next time I'm back on Grand Cayman, I definitely plan on diving with them. 6th February 2013 by mjrecorvits First Class Diving Visit Date: January 2013 I dove with Indigo Divers for the first time on January 21, 2013 as well as January 22, 28, and 31 for a total of 8 GREAT dives. And in a few words diving with Captain Chris and Kate is simply FIRST CLASS DIVING. I’m a relatively new diver (even though I’m 68) becoming certified in June of 2011. So far I’ve dived in Grand Cayman and Hawaii with six different boat diving operators and several on-shore dive shops. And I have a pretty good idea what makes for a great diving experience. While I have personally experienced First Class Diving with Indigo Divers (), in this trip report I’m sharing with you some facts that substantiate why Chris and Kate make Indigo Divers a First Class operation. It’s somewhat lengthy; however, I hope that it will help you chose a dive operator based on facts and examples. 1. Kate and Chris love diving and they want divers on their boat to enjoy it as much as they do. Once you dive with a maximum of six divers on a fairly large boat with comfortable padded seats, you will never want to dive on a “cattle boat” or be squeezed in on a “six-pack” boat. 2. One thing that I have not experienced before, and will always remember, is the best exit out of the water at the end of a dive. You swim up to the boat, you remove your BCD with tank, and Chris hauls it into the boat. You then take off your fins and have a easy climb onto the boat. Fabulous if you’re young, if you are older, or if you are in between! 3. Kate and Chris are helpful without being intrusive. In previous boat dives my entry was the giant stride. I was hesitant to do a forward roll. They not only explained the how to, but also provided encouragement that gave me confidence. Yep, it’s the best way to enter the water. And this being my first dive in six months, I was a little nervous. Again Kate and Chris coached me and made sure that I was able to “get under” using the mooring line. After this first dive, I was all set. 4. Prior to your dive Chris sets up the gear, and when you are ready he brings it to you, helps you get the BCD on, doesn’t rush you, then you sit down, do a forward roll, and a great dive begins. Easiest entry ever into the water. You will appreciate this entry if you’re young, if you are older, or if you are in between! And by sitting and not standing up, especially if the sea is a little rough, even makes for an additional level of safety. After the dive Chris changes the tanks and you get to relax. 5. For me, safety is by far the most important element in diving. Kate and Chris keep a careful eye on the divers, making sure the dive is not only fun, but also safe. Their many years of experience makes for a team that is professional and careful. 6. Chris makes brownies and chocolate chip cookies that rival those found in the best bakeries. And it’s a great energy boost between dives (okay, my rationalization for enjoying the pastry). Water, soda, oranges, and fresh towels really rounded out the non-dive interval. 7. In each of the four days that I dove with Indigo, my dive companions were enjoyable to be with. Many had much more experience than me, however, I felt welcome. Of course, Kate and Chris providing some lighthearted banter afforded even more enjoyment during the interval. 8. The pre-trip paperwork was done efficiently via email. You fill out then necessary forms, and then scan, and email the documents back to Indigo Divers. This of course enhanced the experience by not taking time during the dive trips. However, I’m sure Kate and Chris would make the paper work as painless as possible, with or without technology. 9. Email communication prior, during, and subsequent to my diving were handled by Kate and Chris with promptness. Each of my questions was answered thoroughly. I felt not like a customer but as a friend during these email exchanges as well as during the in person encounters. I’m sure the telephone communication is well done also. 10. Valet pickup – on time—was offered and most appreciated. Kate is well organized and this makes for efficiency to get us on board and diving. During the trips it’s amazing how well Chris and Kate work together. Working like a fine tuned watch, this results in an efficient operation with no hassles making for a most enjoyable dive experience. Being back at the hotel or condo between 11:30 and noon also was greatly appreciated. 11. As noted in other trip reports, Kate really knows her critters. She not only finds them and points them out but also provides information on those puzzles that crop up in a dive. For example, she explained to me that the parrotfish I took a picture of didn’t really have its tail in the sand – you just can’t see the tail in the picture I took because the fish is turned, hiding the tail. 12. Experienced divers will enjoy the maximum bottom time while those less experienced, or not great on air, will be directed to the mooring line (while being watched by Kate or Chris), and will surface and will find Chris ready to help you with the best exit out of the water possible. 13. One of those sometimes not thought of activities that occur that will hopefully help ensure plentiful fish in the future in Grand Cayman is Chris’ (as well as other dive masters) lookout and elimination of lionfish (an invasive fish). On one of the dives, Chris eliminated at least six lionfish. By reducing the number of this invasive specie our prospects for diving and seeing plentiful fish in the future will be maintained. Hats off to Chris. I highly recommend Indigo Divers (Kate and Chris) for your diving in Cayman. Both are wonderful people and everything is done right. First class all the way! I hope you found this trip report helpful in choosing a dive company in Grand Cayman! Happy and Safe Diving. 2nd February 2013 by dasiba Best diver operators on Grand Cayman! Visit Date: January 2013 Four years ago I did my first open water dives with Kate and Chris along the North Wall. Since then my husband and I have dived multiple spots in the Caribbean and Fiji - with a variety of dive boats/ guides along the way. I can't stress enough how much better Kate and Chris are than anyone else we've been out with. They make me not want to dive anywhere else. As other reviewers have noted, they provide a personalized dive experience, quickly assessing the ability/ comfort level of their divers and providing as much or as little direction as required to keep everyone comfortable and safe. They clearly love what they do, and their enthusiasm is inspiring. Kate is amazing at spotting tiny little critters that you'd normally miss. Also, since they have such a loyal customer base, chances are you'll be out on the boat with polite, considerate and down-to-earth folks. (and never more than 6 guests). We loved every dive we did with them and can't wait to get back down again soon. 2nd February 2013 by Thecamerons New Diving Family - Great Vacation! Visit Date: December 2012 We are a newly certified family of divers with kids ages 15 & 12. Captain Chris & Kate were excellent and allievated our first time jitters. They gave us the individual attention when needed. We brought our own equipment and it was ready for us each dive. Kate did an excellent job making a video of our last day of diving. We are planning our next dive trip and it will definitely be with Indigo Divers. 27th January 2013 by jneufeld Indigo Divers - Grand Cayman's best Visit Date: December 2012 We have been diving with Capt Chris and Kate for several years now - usually 2-3 trips per year. You can believe their website... a very comfortable and fast boat, with no more than 6 divers. Personal service for your gear setup and entry/exit from the boat. They know all the best dive sites and they love to show you all the fish and critters (big and small) to be found on the beautiful Cayman reefs and wall. Not to mention, they are two very wonderful people running their own business. My wife and I always book in advance to ensure we can go out with them.	http://www.scubadviser.com/destinations_1.aspx?id=1:35219&company=0:18189&review=0:3196	2013-05-18T10:11:59	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "assets/images/loading.gif", "Loading..." ], [ "assets/images/loading.gif", "Loading..." ], [ "assets/images/loading.gif", "Loading..." ], [ "assets/images/loading.gif", "Loading..." ], [ "assets/images/loading.gif", "Loading..." ] ]
The Locust Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs (Anti-) Even for fans of hardcore punk, The Locust must’ve been a jarring sight back in the late ’90s. They wore short-shorts and buggy goggles. They stood perfectly still and made droll wisecracks at the audience. As they churned out quick bursts of sci-fi grindcore, they let out a chorus of incoherent, blood-curdling screams. As the years went on, The Locust gained a bigger reputation and got even weirder. Stripping down to a four-piece in 2001, they donned full-body insect outfits, brought in squeakier-sounding synths and threw down even more dizzying time-signature changes. Though they eventually brought a touch of refinement to their screams—you could finally understand what they were saying part of the time—they still attacked musical convention with merciless, savage zeal. You can hear the band’s gradual evolution on Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs, a compilation of Locust material from 1997 through 2003. While the comp opens with cuts from Plague Soundscapes, released via Anti- in 2003, most of the tracks were previously released in various forms by Gold Standard Laboratories, an excellent label that went out of business in 2007, leaving some material out of print until now. Though The Locust are famous for their supershort songs (many don’t break the one-minute mark), they cram every moment with intensity: Dissonant, metallic guitars get crushed against buggy-sounding synthesizers and harried, schizophrenic rhythms. “Moth-Eaten Deer Head” (the intro to The Locust’s 1998 debut full-length, included on the comp), with its tense, buzzing intro and gnarly, fist-pumping synth riff, feels epic even at 73 seconds. And the song titles alone are entertaining. A mix of absurdist toilet humor (“Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe”) and biting social commentary (“Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees”; “Kill Roger Hedgecock”), they’re as provocatively eccentric as The Onion’s headlines are hilarious. Of course, a hardcore Locust fan would probably already have most everything on Molecular Genetics. But it makes an ideal entry point for the uninitiated listener: At 44 tracks and 37 minutes, it’s the most comprehensive view of The Locust yet. And for a band whose debut “full-length” album clocks in at a mere 16-and-a-half-minutes, that’s a deal you can’t pass up.	http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10819-new-compilation-surveys-the-locusts-evolution.html	2013-05-18T10:42:03	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/imgs/media.images/8987/smoking2.widea.jpg", "smoking2" ] ]
NOW PLAYING AT TEATRO SEA Teatro SEA offers a year round season of professional puppet and children’s theatre. Listed below is the current season calendar. All shows are on Saturdays at 3:00pm unless otherwise indicated. For our complete season brochure in PDF format: » Download Brochure To receive information by mail, join our » Mailing List For tickets, visit our » Reserve & Buy Tickets Page SEAson 2012-2013 - @ Teatro SEA, NEW YORK FAMILY SERIES FREE! El Día de los Reyes Magos/Three Kings Day The most important Latin American holiday for children is celebrated every year at Teatro SEA. Thousands of children from the community are invited to meet the 3 Kings, enjoy traditional Latino Holiday Music and receive a free gift. Dates: Sunday, January 6, 2013, 3-5pm La Plenópera del Empache/The Belly Ache Opera A Puerto Rican children’s theatre classic by Leopoldo Santiago Lavandero including Puerto Rican plena Dates: January 19, 26; February 2, 2013 » PURCHASE TICKETS Cinderella/Cenicienta A bilingual musical of the classic fairytale about a humble girl who works very hard to realize her dreams. Dates: Feb. 9; March 2, 2013 » PURCHASE TICKETS The Encounter of Juan Bobo & Pedro Animal/ El Encuentro de Juan Bobo y Pedro Animal A comical play about famous offbeat characters from Puerto Rican and Dominican folklore who discover their self-esteem and friendship. Dates: February 23, 2013 » PURCHASE TICKETS 2010 UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence! Winner of 5 2008 HOLA Award including Best Musical & Best Production Design! Winner of 2 2009 ACE Awards for Best Costumes and Best Direction! La Muela del Rey Farfán/The Toothache of King Farfan This "Zarzuela", Spanish Operetta from Spain, tells the story of the lessons learned by a stubborn king who refused to love and respect others. Over twenty life-size puppets bring to life this tale from the early 1900's. Dates: March 9, 16, 21, 23, 30, 2013 » PURCHASE TICKETS Los Títeres de Cachiporra/The Billy-Club Puppets García Lorca’s folkloric Andalusian Punch and Judy style story in which the bully, club-wielding Cristóbal takes a sweet young woman, Rosita, as an unwilling bride. Dates: April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013 » PURCHASE TICKETS La Cucarachita Martina/Martina, The Little Roach A Latin Rock 'n' Roll musical based on a popular Cuban and Puerto Rican children's tale of a little roach who learns many lessons on her journey to find true love. Dates: May 4 2013 YOUTH AND ADULT SERIES Winner of the 2004 ACE Awards and 2003 HOLA Award for Best Musical! A Tres Voces A musical revue of some of the most romantic songs from Latin America's greatest "TRIOS". Performed in Spanish but understood by everyone who has loved! Dates: October 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 2012 & November 18, 2012& Feb. 14, 15, 16, 17, 2013	http://www.sea-online.info/SEA_NowPlaying.html	2013-05-18T10:12:43	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
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To comment on this blog, you must be logged in as a member. If you are already a member, log in here. If you’re not a member, click here to activate your complimentary membership. Monday,22 February,2010 16:36:12 This Wednesday, thousands of fishermen, commercial and recreational, will pour into Washington and assemble at the Capitol in an effort to elicit legislative and public support for retooling the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This is a very big deal. Fishermen pride themselves on their independence, not because they are vain or selfish, but because what they do demands self-sufficiency in a hostile environment. Aversion to rallies, sign-waving and long bus trips to confront, of all people, politicians, is more or less hardwired into the fisherman’s psyche. And yet, fishermen up and down the East Coast — and from the Gulf of Mexico and as far away as the West Coast and Alaska — will travel to Washington next week, at significant personal expense, to come together as one and to rally, wave signs, and let the politicians know that enough is enough. The Magnuson Act does many things, but it does not live up to its mandate “To provide for the conservation and management of the fisheries,” a fishery, Merriam-Webster informs us, being “the occupation, industry or season of taking fish or other sea animals.” The drafters of the Magnuson Act knew where they were going, they just got lost along the way. Help them find their way. Find your way to Washington on Wednesday. For more information, check out unitedwefish.com. Thank you for your time. Jerry Fraser Editor & Publisher, National Fisherman Cozy Harbor is the largest processor of Lobster in the US. We are a primary processor with our main processing plant in Portland Maine. In business for 38 years, Cozy Harbor has established itself in the US and world markets as the most respected source for high quality seafood products from Maine.... Get a free subscription to SeafoodSource News, the newsletter that delivers global seafood news to your e-mail inbox each weekday, when you become a member of SeafoodSource.com. View sample newsletter >Basic Membership is free. Premium Membership is USD 195 per year.	http://www.seafoodsource.com/blogs.aspx?blogmonth=2&blogyear=2010&blogid=4294991205	2013-05-18T10:13:20	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
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Home > Affordable Rental Housing Development > Pre-Closing Borrowers of OH funds will be required to meet a number of due diligence and other requirements prior to closing on the OH loan. For specific requirements for each OH-funded project, please refer to the Reservation Letter and contact the OH project manager assigned to the project. On typical projects, OH will require borrowers to document before loan closing that the project has: Insurance Requirements For detailed insurance requirements, contact the OH project manager assigned to the project. Contractor Selection The Housing Levy A&F Plan requires that borrowers competitively select contractors. Competitive contractor selection requirements will be published in each NOFA.	http://www.seattle.gov/housing/development/pre-closing.htm	2013-05-18T10:53:02	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
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The District will now forward Frockt's name—along with two other "placeholder" names—to the King County Council. The Council will make the official appointment. State Rep. Phyllis Kenney (D-46) dropped out of the race. Frockt had an unusually successful first session for a freshman, passing a nationally recognized environmental bill regulating coal tar sealant and passing a domestic violence victims rights bill. A crowd of people, including former house candidate Gerry Pollet (who originally lost to White) and Justin Simmons, chair of the Metropolitan Democratic Club, are now lining up to take Frockt's house seat. One of the contenders got an immediate boost. US Rep. Jim McDermott, who doesn't typically weigh in on hyper-local stuff like this (I think he endorsed Peter Steinbrueck for City Council in 1997) endorsed longtime Democratic Party activist Javier Valdez. McDermott sent out an email yesterday, stating: I’m writing to let you know that I have endorsed Javier Valdez for the 46th District State House Appointment. I have known Javier for many years and have watched him serve our party with intelligence, fairness, and skill. I know he has the necessary qualities to make a great legislator. Valdez, who chaired the District between 2007 and 2009 and the 43rd District Democrats between 1997 and 2002, is a longtime State Democratic board member and works at Seattle City Light as a manager in the women and minority-owned business program.	http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/46th-district-nominated-rep-frockt-for-scott-whites-seat	2013-05-18T10:20:40	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
1. Business consultant Albert Shen, who's running against Seattle City Council liberal Mike O'Brien, hasn't reported any contributions yet, just some initial filing papers on his early expenditures (such as $2,700 on a campaign website). However, Fizz hears Shen has raised $40,000 in the past two weeks since announcing. Shen, who consults on major infrastructure projects (his firm has worked with the Port of Seattle on the third SeaTac runway), has been on the board of several local Asian civic boards including the Northwest Asian American Theatre and the Seattle Chinatown–International District Preservation and Development Authority; he also once ran the the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. O'Brien, the council's premier urban environmentalist (Sightline Director Alan Durning and Program Director Clark Williams-Derry have both contributed to him), has reported raising about $20,000, with more than half of it coming in small (mostly $10) contributions. In addition to being a green, O'Brien champions campaign finance reform and raised his first $10,000 in small contributions. 2. Two weeks ago, Fizz noted that the state house passed a tax break ... in a good way. The break requires companies to pay the state back if they end up moving jobs out of state. Why were we excited about the break? Because: for the first time ever, a tax break (an estimated $2 million per biennium exemption for wood pulp companies that use wood production waste as fuel) came with some accountability. It required companies to pay the state back if they ended up failing and moving jobs out of state. This weekend the Olympian reported that the Republican-dominated state senate is skeptical of the accountability provision. However, Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-36, Queen Anne), the house finance committee chair who championed the accountability provision, told the Olympian he's not backing down. Carlyle kicked off phase two of this year's session in Olympia, the negotiations over a budget deal (which will likely hinge on fights over tax breaks), with a quite a quote. The Olympian reports: “If that provision comes out, the bill goes down to a violent and ugly death and the tax exemption goes away,” he said bluntly. “It expires. It is not worth that game. I’m not playing fiddlesticks with this.” 3. Speaking of tax breaks, Gov. Jay Inslee has said he'll be releasing a list of breaks this week that the legislature should do away with to help deal with the $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion (and likely more after this week's revenue forecast) budget shortfall along with the estimated $1.4 billion extra needed to meet the K-12 funding mandate from the state Supreme Court. Inslee's spokeswoman Jaime Smith tell PubliCola Inslee's list will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Tax breaks are easier to close than before—it only takes a simple majority as opposed to a two-thirds vote—now that the Supreme Court has declared the voter-approved two-thirds requirement unconstitutional.	http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/morning-fizz-tax-breaks-march-2013	2013-05-18T10:20:31	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Colleen Bonniol is president of MODE Studios, Inc. Parsifal marks her projection design debut at Seattle Opera, although she has worked on lighting for several operas with the company, including Wagner’s Ring cycle in 2001. Her projection designs have been seen in the national tours of Footloose and Godspell and she designed video projection and lighting design for the world tour Burn the Floor. In addition to lighting work in theater, C. Bonniol has spent many years working on lighting in the film and video industry as well. This summer, C. Bonniol completes a permanent lighting installation for the Pacific Science Center. Other current projects include projection design for an Asian tour of Wedding Banquet and a new show scheduled to debut on Holland America’s Oosterdam. Save up to 50% on tickets and have fun with people your age. Receive all the latest news from Seattle Opera plus special offers too.	http://www.seattleopera.org/bios/index.aspx?name=colleen_bonniol	2013-05-18T10:31:26	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
May 7, 2013 May 16, 2013 The June 1962 photo caption read: Anne Merbury, 21-year-old California coed, is tapped by Pinkerton guard C.E. Frazier as the millionth visitor to the Million Dollar exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair. Miss Merbury was given 100 silver dollars by Walter D. Behlen, the exhibit's sponsor. (seattlepi.com file photo) Photo By seattlepi.com file	http://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattle-history/slideshow/P-I-archive-1960s-Seattle-Center-scenes-14863/photo-983194.php	2013-05-18T10:14:23	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
My 25-year marriage ended about two years ago. I met a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent woman. (This is the second woman I've dated since the divorce.) She is just out of an 11-year relationship. I love her. Here is the problem: After a slow but steady increase in the passion, lots of rubbing, and even some oral sex, she suddenly closed down. I went away for a week, and when I came back she said we needed to have "a talk." She said our relationship wasn't going anywhere, that I wasn't the one to stir her soul, I didn't ring her bells, etc. However, she calls me almost every day, we do something together almost every evening. Things like dinner, workouts, walks on the beach—all of that. But any time I try to get some type of affection, she shuts me down. "That isn't appropriate" and "Let's just be friends" are her lines. I know she likes me, and we have become really close. She nags me about all the things that mean that she cares about me. She made me go to the doctor for a checkup. (My former wife just made sure the life insurance was paid!) What is going on? There is no one else that she has her eye on (so she says). She gets hit on by guys constantly and never goes out with anyone else. What is she doing to me? I've tried to be cool, play hard to get; it doesn't work too well, since I really like to be with her and self-control isn't my strong point. Is there any hope for passion in our relationship? Should I just give up and go on a big drunk, then after I sober up, lower my sights and settle for something warmer but maybe not as perfect? Should I just realize that I'm just a dull person and subscribe to satellite TV and give up on ever having a relationship? Help. I'm crazy about this woman, and I really don't want to not be with her, but this is making me nuts. Going Insane My buddy Colin and I both had the same thing happen to us (simultaneously!) just last year. I've bored everyone to tears with my dreary dramas, so I'll tell you his instead. Colin meets girl, falls in love; girl seems to fall back and then, outta nowhere, flees, claiming she only wants to be friends. Yet she still calls constantly, goes out with him all the time, and sometimes even fools around with him, only to declare "backsies" hours or days later. He was miserable and kept asking me what he should do. I really couldn't say, because I was too busy crying over that chick's male emotional doppelgänger. End result: Colin is not with that bitch, I am not with that bastard. (Truth be told, she was not a bitch and he was not a bastard, but they broke our little hearts and so they must pay!) This woman says she wants nothing more than a friendship from you, so you must accept that. This does not make you a dull or unattractive person. If anything, being dumped makes one more interesting. Hell, I've made a career out of it. You've been out of a 25-year marriage for two years, drama queen—you're hardly a hopeless case. And how perfect is she if she doesn't like you back? If you pulled your head out of your own ass (and, incredibly, I mean that in only the nicest way), I'll bet you could come up with a few other imperfections. (Colin's woman had a penchant for hideous one-shouldered shirts, and my man was bandy-legged.) I could tell you exactly what you should do to make yourself feel better (cut her off—cold turkey—at least for a while), but you wouldn't listen to me. (Hell, I didn't listen to me.) Instead, you'll do what Colin and I did, which was to hang on for far too long, hoping she'll come around to your way of thinking. You'll most likely make an ass of yourself, and there's a good chance there'll be tears. Probably yours. I wish I had a magic formula for you, but if I had, I would've drunk it myself. Don't get drunk and give up: Write Dategirl at dategirl@seattleweekly.com or c/o Seattle Weekly, 1008 Western Ave., Ste. 300, Seattle, WA 98104.	http://www.seattleweekly.com/2004-05-12/diversions/why-can-t-we-be-friends/	2013-05-18T10:45:12	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
February 26, 2012; Anaheim, CA, USA; Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook (7) during a break in the game against the Anaheim Ducks during the first period at the Honda Center. Mandatory Credit: Kelvin Kuo-US PRESSWIRE - CSN's take on ads on hockey sweaters. [CSN] - Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook: a pair of aces. [blackhawks.nhl.com] - Kings and Canucks might be interested in Cristobal Huet. [CSN] - Still no counteroffer from the NHLPA. [CSN] - Fehr sounds optimistic. [Globe] [CBC] - Jeff Skinner gets paid. [PD] - Near misses in statistical breakthroughs. [NHLNumbers] - The Flyers are in trouble defensively. [Globe] [BSH] - Jack Jablonski is making great progress. [Hockey Wilderness] - An intern is suing the Predators after having been made to do intern things and breaking his ankle. [PD] - The failed attempt to bring NHL hockey back to Hartford. [Courant] There are 292 Comments. Load Now. Shortcuts to mastering the comment thread. Use wisely. C - Next Comment X - Mark as Read R - Reply Z - Mark Read & Next Shift + C - Previous Shift + A - Mark All Read Live comment alert: Hide it!	http://www.secondcityhockey.com/2012/8/8/3227747/morning-links-8-8	2013-05-18T10:41:57	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://cdn0.sbnation.com/images/chorus/components/lazy-load-image-gray.vc5f04cd.gif", null ] ]
8 Days / 7 NightsMiami's the boating capital of the world! With an enviable position on the Intracoastal Waterway and Biscayne Bay, Miami is just a short sail away from the marvelous beauty of the Florida Keys. Our natural affinity toward boating shows each year when we host the Miami International Boat Show..	http://www.secure-res.com/res/vn4/pdetail.aspx?hotelid=234&packageid=103366&culture=1&culturename=en-US&wtpid=1&scid=1&scdomainid=0&ResStart=1	2013-05-18T10:11:54	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
. Shock. Grief. Outrage. Those are some of the feelings we’ve all experienced in the aftermath of the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Now I’d like to add “frustration” to the list. That’s an emotion expressed by some fire installers who say they’re frustrated that school officials don’t realize how valuable an emergency communications system/mass notification system can be in situation like the one at Sandy Hook, where a young man gained entrance to the school and shot the students and staff. Adding a mass notification component to a fire system, particularly if the system already has speakers, typically is a pretty simple job. Yet many school officials are unaware such an important option exists, fire installers say. Among those expressing frustration is Carter Rierson, president of Best Defense Security & Fire Protection, based in Waunakee, Wis. Here’s his very articulate summary of the situation:. I’ll be talking more to Carter and other fire companies about what the industry can do to make sure the word does get out about ECS/MNS! Stay.”. Did. Find out moreSubscribe Now On the Editor's Desk Martha Entwistle Monitor This!Rich Miller This Blog's on Fire (And Other Stuff)Tess Nacelewicz Guest Blog	http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blogs?page=7&p=2484&qt-recent_popular=0	2013-05-18T10:36:07	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
War Horse New London New London, Drury Lane, London, London, WC2B 5PA. Doors Open: 7:00PM Starts: 7:30PM More Information about War Horse Tickets Please Note: A £1 restoration levy (collected on behalf of the theatre) appears as part of the ticket cost. CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR WAR HORSE: INSIDE THE HORSE AND GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE INTERNATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER WAR HORSE! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Sunday Times, Time Out, Sunday Express Booking Period Until 15 February 2014 Age Recommendation 10+ BOOK THE UNDER 18 RATE ONLINE! £10 off top 2 prices for Monday to Thursday performances from 14 January 2013. (subject to availability and exclusions. Presented by the National Theatre and National Angels Access Performances Sign Language Interpreted Performance for Deaf people: Saturday 8 June 2.30pm Captioned for Deaf and partially hearing people: Saturday 16 February 2.30pm Saturday 20 July 2.30pm Audio Described for Blind and Visually Impaired people: Saturday 9 February 2.30pm with Touch Tour at 12.45pm Saturday 27 July 2.30pm with Touch Tour at 12.45pm Please call 020 7452 3000 or email boxoffice@nationaltheatre.org.uk to book tickets for these performances. Wheelchair bookings are made through SEE Tickets please call 0844 412 4648 for more information and to book. Please note: the lift will not be working from 11 March to 8 June 2013 Full access details are available by clicking here War Horse Dawn Neads This area is intended for discussion only. If you have a question about your order, or require customer service you can get in touch via our Customer Service Area. Comments enquiring about existing orders, including personal details, or with questions will be deleted.	http://www.seetickets.com/Event/WAR-HORSE/New-London-London/626392	2013-05-18T10:33:23	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://c.ststat.com/Content/SeatingPlans/ffa0c65e-aa47-4a2e-bf3b-f7dfb00ce2c4.jpg", "New London" ] ]
Seibertron.com - The Ultimate Transformers Fansite Moderators: Cyber Bishop, Dead Metal, Seibertron by M3Gr1ml0ck » Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:52 am by M3Gr1ml0ck » Mon May 21, 2012 3:53 pm Return to Fan Artwork Cyber Bishop, Dead Metal, Seibertron Users browsing this forum: No registered users and,220 pages were recently viewed by 469 unique visitors. This page loaded in 0.16633 seconds and was viewed 1 times on Saturday, May 18th 2013 7:05am EDT	http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/seeds-of-deception-sentinel-prime-act-ii-pages-7-13-p1382020.php	2013-05-18T11:05:35	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Respecting and stretching the personality of each and every student through cultivating meaningful human relations through small group instruction. Seigakuin University has been known as “A Caring University” and as “ A University Where You Can Grow and Improve" and has been highly regarded by the mass media in recent years. Even though Seigakuin University is relatively new, having been established only 20 years ago, it has responded to requests from the community ever since its inception, with the goal of creating a type of university that had previously not existed in Japan. In response to a situation in which the significance of spending four years at a university is lost when the final target of many students is merely getting into some school, we maintain the belief that there can be significant growth during those four years if the students “desire to enter the University with a specific goal” and they begin to think about what they would like to do after they graduate from the time when they first enroll. To this end, each department is limited to 100 students, and many classes have less than 50 students. This is particularly true in classes where the student’s self-expression is especially important, in which cases most such classes are conducted in small groups of 10 students or less. On a scale in which the instructors know the students' names and faces, it is possible to respect and stretch each students' personality while concurrently cultivating meaningful human relationships in the classroom. In addition, there is a group advisor system at Seigakuin University in which one of the faculty members serves as an advisor to approximately 10 students, and there are assembly hours where various topics are approached at the department level; through it all, the student's independence as an individual is highly respected. There is also positive support for challenging volunteer work, while at the same time there are a number of avenues available should problems arise or should students simply wish to converse within a cooperative network that plays the role of a safety net. Christianity is the backbone of our school, and surely the Lord’s words "Ask, and it shall be given to you” indicate the essence of “caring" that emphasizes personal dignity, freedom and autonomy. Our stance is that we desire to admit those students who will work towards creating a positive university life based on an understanding of Seigakuin’s unique type of education. Therefore, we have published our school’s formal “Admissions Policy” and changed the entrance examination. We declare a posture in which “we strive to admit those students who are suitable for our university by focusing on each one’s unique personality and character, which cannot be quantified”, and not to formally require the National Center Test for University Admissions used by many private universities. Therefore, examinees are not selected based solely on one-sided academic ability as assessed by the written examination. We are continuing to reform our examination to “discover motivation and ability”, and to “determine the school most appropriate for the individual" who is taking the exam. We like to consider our exams as being learning exams, and, as such, we believe that "education at our school begins with the exam". We use careful interviews and theme-based reports where we take time to investigate those students who are considering each department with "report-type Admissions Office (AO) exams” and “one- day lecture-type AO exams”. The information gleaned regarding the merits of the examinees is then presented from a positive viewpoint, starting with the daily application status, the minimum points required for passing, the average points for the test, and the correct answer ratio. Our school will illuminate those students who have the motivation and willingness to grow and develop their abilities with an eye to the future. We plan on supporting them from every possible angle in meeting this challenge. * Published in the free paper, “Lock On!” Vol. 1, University Entrance Plan Research Newspaper	http://www.seigakuin.jp/english/news_200807_identifyingmotivation.html	2013-05-18T10:31:06	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
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Last wants to be on a reality TV show, she said, “I think the most important thing is that you have some kind of connection with the camera. People don’t understand what that means. It means you have done some soul-searching. You know who you are and you are comfortable in your own skin. You do need to be a good cook but you can’t be uncomfortable in front of the camera. The camera can be a problem for some people. Sometimes they clam up, sometimes they become a wholly different person.” OK, so here it is again! You have to be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin. So, if you are going to try for a reality show, or even if you are just presenting on a video or at a meeting, get grounded in your body so that you can be comfortable in your skin. It makes such a difference in how you look and feel. If you need help with grounding, try my audio Ground Yourself for Star Quality Presence. Thanks Giada for reminding us all that we just need to be ourself in order to shine! What do you think? Leave a comment. Alternatively, write a post on your own weblog; this blog accepts trackbacks.	http://www.self-expression.com/speaking-freely/so-you-want-to-be-a-reality-tv-star/	2013-05-18T10:53:17	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
After! According to research, sleep not only has the power to re-energize your body, it also regulates your metabolism (lack of sleep can slow down your daily calorie burn), and keeps your appetite in check too! The magic number for me is eight. Eight hours of sleep each night is my new goal. During this crazy time of year, are you snoozing the right amount for you and your body? Here's a few tips to help get you sleeping. 1. Set a Specific Bedtime: Even though this is a busy time of year try planning on jumping under the covers around the same time each night. Aim for 7-8 hours of sleep. 2. Leave Your "To Do List"Behind: If your mind races with last minute gift ideas, party dates, and grocery store lists, like me, try writing down tomorrow's plan before closing your eyes. Put your thoughts to rest, so you can too. 3. Turn off the TV: Holiday TV specials are great, but it's also important to turn off the shows (or put down your book) before your set bedtime. Try relaxing your mind when you hit the pillow, not stimulating it.Still can't sleep? Do some de-stressing yoga moves and then try these tips to fall asleep fast!	http://www.self.com/blogs/flash/2010/12/the-power-of-sleep-during-the.html	2013-05-18T11:03:57	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
6hp Fourstroke Mercury little beauty ! *Clearing out old stock to make way for next years models Call 07 8671280 We want to move this 6hp Fourstroke we have on the shelf, as it is last year’s model Retail price $2437 super deal at just $2200 which is a saving of $237 Even cheaper than a 6hp 2stroke! Comes with the Mercury 5 year waranty … The seller: Mercury Bay Marine (0) Member since: October 2010 Location: Coromandel, Thames-Coromandel Similar items $12,895 Rotorua, Bay Of Plenty Listed Monday, 6 May 2013 $4,495 Rotorua, Bay Of Plenty Listed Monday, 6 May 2013 - $3,995 Auckland City, Auckland Listed Tuesday, 14 May:	http://www.sella.co.nz/motoring/boats-marine/parts-accessories/outboards/x0vpf5/	2013-05-18T11:03:17	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://cdn.sella.co.nz/images/icon-new.gif", "New" ], [ "/images/thumb/6/p/x/gbz6px-210x158-bg.jpg", "6hp Fourstroke Mercury" ], [ "http://cdn.sella.co.nz/images/icon-verification-12.png", "Verified" ] ]
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If your state does not and you do not pass, you will need to register for and complete your course again. We do not offer refunds for failed or incomplete courses. - Is there a time limit for completion? - You have 180 days to complete your Seller Server course. If you have not successfully completed the course within 180 days, your course enrollment will be terminated, and you will not be eligible for a refund. - How do I save my work? - If you are taking your Seller Server course online, we save your work for you, and you will automatically resume where you previously left off when you log back in to your course. If you are using the course DVD, simply pause your course or fast forward to the point where you had stopped before. - How quickly will I get my certificate of completion? - We offer many low-priced fast delivery options, same-day delivery by e-mail in some states! 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The grant, under the Recovery Land Acquisition program, will support plans to place the environmentally important Marquette Island in public hands and protect habitats for endangered least tern, pallid sturgeon and Indiana bats. The property is 835 acres of sand and woodland. The acquisition lies within the Cape Hills Conservation Opportunity Area and was identified a few years ago as a prime target for acquisition by the Middle Mississipi River Partnership, a coalition of 16 public and private agencies working to promote the environmental health of the river. The grant announced this week, however, is only one-third of the amount requested and makes a decision on moving forward difficult, said Peggy Horner, a wildlife manager for the conservation department. "Because it is not full funding, we may not accept the funding at all," Horner said. "We don't know the specifics at this time." In all the partnership identified seven islands from Cape Girardeau County to the Arkansas state line as envrionmentally or historically important. The islands are being purchased through a public-private partnership, with the American Land Conservancy taking the lead to purchase property from private owners and selling it to the government as appropriations become available. For more information, check back at semissourian.com or read Saturday.	http://www.semissourian.com/story/1533747.html	2013-05-18T10:21:03	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Danielson calls for delay on changes to Iowa’s teacher preparation requirements State Senator Jeff Danielson (D-Cedar Falls) is calling on Iowa’s Administrative Rules Review Committee to delay changes to the educational requirements and financial costs to students studying to be teachers at Iowa colleges and universities. The rule is being proposed by the Iowa Department of Education. “This is a significant change for enrolled students in Iowa teacher preparation programs, at public and private universities. While I’m supportive of improving teacher preparation programs, the proposal is unfair to enrolled students, changing the rules in midstream or worse yet, just as they are prepared to cross the finish line.”	http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/tag/jeff-danielson/	2013-05-18T10:41:54	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Unanswered: Multiple icons within one cell in a TreeGrid? Unanswered: Multiple icons within one cell in a TreeGrid? I); I tried a ContentPanel in this case but it adds a header and footer which I do not want. Any suggestions on what container to use in this case? OK, it appears that a HorizontalPanel works in this case. The icons appear next to each other horizontally in the treegrid cell. So this has been answered. HorizontalPanel hp = new HorizontalPanel(); List<ColumnConfig> configs = model.getColumns(); IconButton newBtn = new IconButton(style1); IconButton saveBtn = new IconButton(style2); hp.add(newBtn); hp.add(saveBtn); configs.add(1, hp); Is there any special reason why you want to use widgets at all? If you just want to display icons you can better simple put in the html markup as string	http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?148471-Multiple-icons-within-one-cell-in-a-TreeGrid&p=653183&viewfull=1	2013-05-18T10:16:35	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Tree with multiSelect on view doesn't behave accordingly Tree with multiSelect on view doesn't behave accordingly; }); I think that multiselect is not supported in 4.1.1 as a configuration option. It's not in the Api docs.<br>But you can provide selection model with mode: multi Code: selModel: Ext.create('Ext.selection.RowModel', { mode: 'MULTI' }) Thank you for reporting this bug. We will make it our priority to review this report.	http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?189420-Tree-with-multiSelect-on-view-doesn-t-behave-accordingly&p=892602	2013-05-18T10:32:26	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Taunton, July 8: South Africa captain Graeme Smith has set his side the challenge of displacing England as the world's number one Test side during their forthcoming three-match series. Eng can be a reward for our consistency," said Smith. "We have been touching the (top of the) rankings for a long time now. "We had a taste of it for a small while (in 2008). We've been top two and top three for a long time now and very close to the pinnacle. . "We have come here with a degree of quiet confidence," added Smith, recently recovered from an ankle injury. We have performed well away from home for a period of time now. "We have that strength within the squad and strength in confidence to know we can perform well away from home. Having had a success here in 2008, we are hoping to build on that and taste that again.” The first Test at The Oval starts on July 19. Agencies	http://www.sentinelassam.com/sports/story.php?sec=2&subsec=5&id=123861&dtP=2012-07-09&ppr=1	2013-05-18T10:13:17	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Details Keep Firemouth and Convict Cichlids (Thorichthys meeki/Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus) together? Hello, I would like to know whether Firemouth Cichlids (Thorichthys meeki) and Convict Cichlids (Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus) live in exactly the same biotope in nature? "exactly the same" is maybe a bit too strong, but at least they originate from similar biotopes. Do they get along well in a species only tank? The species do not get along very well with each other (if both are in the tank, it is not a species only tank anyway), except the tank is very large (more than approximately 2 m length). Both species are rather (T. meeki) or very (C. nigrofasciatus) aggressive and territorial. Furthermore, they have quite some physical strength, therefore they will try to enforce territorial requirements with the corresponding vehemence. Best regards sera GmbH Dr. Bodo Schnell	http://www.sera.de/gr/pages/sera-servicewelt/sera-interaktiv/faq/haeufig-gestellte-fragen/article/feuermaul-und-zebrabuntbarsche-thorichthys-meekicryptoheros-nigrofasciatus-gemeinsam-pflegen.html	2013-05-18T10:21:59	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Serious Eats - seriouseats.com 'Modernist Cuisine' by Nathan Myhrvold: The Ultimate Cookbook Itching to know more about Modernist Cuisine, and the insane dinner I covered last week? You can find a full report in my article over on Gourmet Live. If you've got an iPad, the app is a free download away (and Serious Eats has a monthly contribution to the magazine, so it's worth taking a look!), though this particular article is also available online. It's a two part series. The first discusses what goes into the making of a book like this, while the second talks more about the photography, and the dinner itself. Here's an excerpt: On March 16th, 2004 at 3:44PM, a question was posted on the online messageboard eGullet under the username nathanm: "I am wondering if anybody has sources for recipes for sous-vide cooking--which is to say, cooking done in sealed vacuum bags." This was the humble first step on a path that would lead eventually to Modernist Cuisine, a six-volume tome that David Chang of New York's Momofuku empire calls "the cookbook to end all cookbooks. To describe Modernist Cuisine as "a cookbook" is a bit like describing Mount Everest as a hill. With 2,438 pages, 3,216 full color photographs and 1.1 million words, Modernist Cuisine will surely be the longest, most thorough examination of food ever published. It hits the market next month with a price tag of $625. (Or only $467.62 if you pre-order on Amazon!) Its release was delayed by months because the custom-designed plexiglass case that houses the volumes kept cracking under their astonishing 43-pound weight. The ink alone weighs over 4 pounds--that's about the same as Thomas Keller's entire French Laundry Cookbook. Every one of the traditional publishers balked at the scope of this project," says Dr. Nathan Myhrvold the eccentric multi-millionaire behind Modernist Cuisine (there just had to be an eccentric multi-millionaire backing this one), "which is why I had to found my own publishing company to get it done." Fortunately, as former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft and current CEO of Intellectual Ventures, a $5 billion patent portfolio development company, the real-world nathanm had the necessary resources--and not just financial ones. Head on over to Gourmet Live for the rest of the article. Thanks for commenting! Your comment has been accepted and will appear in a moment.	http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/02/modernist-cuisine-cookbook-nathan-myhrvold.html?ref=excerpt_readmore	2013-05-18T10:14:00	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.seriouseats.com/images/Trad8_Broccoli_HalfPanWet_0280small.jpg", "Trad8_Broccoli_HalfPanWet_0280small.jpg" ], [ "http://www.seriouseats.com/images/Modernist%20Cuisine_5%20vol%20image_FINAL121210small.jpg", "Modernist Cuisine_5 vol image_FINAL121210small.jpg" ] ]
Serious Eats - seriouseats.com music line-up was just announced this morning: Phoenix, Passion Pit, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gary Clark Jr., Gary Clark Jr., Solange, Kendrick Lamar, and Lindsay Stirling will all be there. We'll be there too, rocking out while flipping sliders—the ultimate sliders. Steam-griddled beef patties on a bed of onions squished between pillowy potato rolls. If you've ever wanted Kenji to make you sliders, here's your big chance. A bunch of other awesome food vendors will be at the festival too. Luke's Lobster, Jose Andres' Pepe Truck, Toki Underground, Peak Organic Brewery, and more. Anyone who came out last year and tried our muffulettas (see photos) knows it's a deliciously good time. We hope to meet more of you—and feed more of you!—this year. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 8. Stay tuned for more details, and watch the festival's promo video here. Thanks for commenting! Your comment has been accepted and will appear in a moment.	http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/02/sweetlife-festival-food-serious-eats-sliders.html?ref=title	2013-05-18T10:15:25	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.seriouseats.com/images/2013/02/20130205-sweetlife-fest-poster.jpg", "20130205-sweetlife-fest-poster.jpg" ], [ "http://www.seriouseats.com/images/2013/02/20120205-sliders.jpg", "20120205-sliders.jpg" ] ]
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ServiceSource’s Delaware Regional Office continued a tradition of exceptional services to individuals with disabilities through innovative and valued employment, training, habilitation, housing and support services by serving nearly 500 of Delaware’s most vulnerable citizens during the past year. In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Delaware Regional Office is pleased to acknowledge the following businesses that helped individuals with disabilities realize their goal of valued and long-term community employment: If you are an employer seeking committed, motivated and well trained employees for a current opening, please contact the Employment Services Team at our regional office. Our placement counselors will work with you to not only meet your staffing needs, but help you strengthen your community by creating a meaningful employment outcome for a fellow Delawarean. To learn more, please visit.	http://www.servicesource.org/component/content/article/323-servicesource-helps-delawareans-with-disabilities-find-and-keep-jobs	2013-05-18T10:41:46	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Emergency Plans and Kits Even though it's easy to think that disasters won't happen to you, emergency situations can happen anywhere, at any time. It’s important to have a plan, and to know what to do in an. Emergency Plans Creating an Emergency Plan takes very little time and may help save your life or property during an emergency. We have a created a comprehensive guide to help you create your Emergency Plan, which will guide you step-by-step through the process. - Home Emergency Plan Guide.pdf (1.88 MB) Things to think about when creating your Emergency Plan: Who should I include in my plan? Consider all members of your household including regular visitors, pets and people who may stay with you part-time. What emergencies could affect me? Think about where your property is located and the way it looks. Think broadly about the kinds of emergencies that could impact you. Don’t fall into the trap of focussing on one emergency at the expense of others. Where will I go if I need to evacuate? Make sure that you and your family all understand when and how you will leave, and where you will go. Think about the safest routes, and what you will need to take with you if you go. Where will I find emergency information and warnings? Know where to go for official emergency information. Keep a list of emergency phone numbers and website addresses handy, and know how to tune in to your local emergency broadcaster. Where will I meet my family if we are separated? Determine a safe meeting place in case you are separated, and make sure your family members, friends and neighbours are aware of the location. What if I have special needs? If you have special needs, you need to think carefully about your plan. If you have a carer or council support, ask them how to help you prepare or check over your plan. Start by thinking about: - Whether you will need help to leave your home - Having a pre-arranged safer place to stay - Whether you will need to take any special equipment with you - Whether you will need an alternative power source to run life-support equipment Even if you only need help from a neighbour, talking about it now will ease your mind and ensure everything is in place before an emergency occurs. Red Cross Australia has excellent emergency planning advice for people with a disability and their carers. Emergency Kits Your home emergency kit should include everything that you and your family need to cope in an emergency. We have created a simple flyer that can help put together your own emergency kit. - Emergency Kit Guide.pdf(1.85 MB) - Emergency Kit demonstration video (YouTube) A basic home emergency kit should contain: - Portable radio with spare batteries - Torch with spare batteries - First Aid kit - A copy of your emergency plan - Bottled water - Enough non-perishable food for three days - Rubber gloves - Food and special requirements for pets If an emergency occurs, add the following items to your emergency kit: - Important documents such as passports, birth certificates and insurance papers - Mobile phone and charger - Strong boots or shoes - Medications and prescriptions	http://www.ses.vic.gov.au/prepare/quakesafe/emergency-plans-and-kits	2013-05-18T11:02:07	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
For Immediate Release March 2, 2013 Seventh Star Press Announces Upcoming Release of Vampires Don’t Sparkle! Anthology Seventh Star Press is proud to announce the upcoming release of Vampires Don’t Sparkle!, an exciting new anthology from editor Michael West that features the talents of many of the best writers in the speculative fiction arena, including Gary Braunbeck, Tim Waggoner, Maurice Broaddus, Lucy A. Snyder, and several more exceptional authors. Featuring cover artwork from the award-winning artist Matthew Perry, the anthology will be available in trade paperback and eBook formats by the end of March. Vampires Don’t Sparkle! poses the.” Below is a full list of authors and stories included in Vampires Don’t Sparkle! F*** sales of the anthology will be going to cancer research institutions, which was a prime motivation for editor Michael West in putting the project together. The author of highly-acclaimed novels such as Poseidon’s Children, Cinema of Shadows, The Wide Game and Spook House, Michael decided to take on the editor’s role for Vampires Don’t Sparkle! for some personal reasons. As Michael recently stated, “It is a very personal cause for me. One year ago, I lost one of my closest friends, author Sara J. Larson, to cancer, and then my wife was diagnosed with the disease last fall. I hope that, with this anthology, we can help win the fight against this real-life horror. And what an anthology it is! My fellow horror and dark fantasy authors will take you down some very twisted paths, each putting his or her own unique spin on the age-old legend of the vampire. Some of these tales are fanciful, some humorous, and some as black as an endless night. These are stories that will once more strike fear into your heart and make you dread sundown. These are tales to make the vampire cool again.” To get further information on Michael West, or the Vampires Don’t Sparkle! anthology, please visit Michael’s site at or the Seventh Star Press site at Contact: C.C. James Public Relations, Seventh Star Press ccjames (at) seventhstarpress.com Seventh Star Press is a small press publisher of speculative fiction located in Lexington Kentucky	http://www.seventhstarpress.com/2013/03/02/ssp-proudly-announces-upcoming-release-of-my-vampires-dont-sparkle-anthology/	2013-05-18T10:21:13	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
seoul, south korea Korea National University of Arts Korea National University of Arts, or K-Arts, was founded in 1990 and built its mission on providing the best educational environment for “the creative few” who will go on to change art as we know it. The professors at K-Arts encourage and stimulate students and act as facilitators, rather than teachers, to provide a comfortable setting for students to grow and learn independently. K-Arts is made up of two Seoul-based campuses—the Seokgwan Campus and the Seocho Campus, both easily accessed by public transportation—and has about 2,600 students and over 700 professors and lecturers. K-Arts also has its own gallery that is used for exhibitions, experimental performances, and film screenings. For more information about the school, please visit the K-Arts website. About Seoul Seoul is the largest city in South Korea and one of the largest in the world with a population of over 12 million. The city is home to over 100 museums, including the Seoul Museum of Art, Ilman Museum of Art, the National Museum of Korea, and the Korean Film Archive. There are also many palaces, Buddhist temples, and historical landmarks to explore. The city is rich in culture and history and offers activities that appeal to all ages. (Source: Seoul City Travel Information) Courses of Study K-Arts offers 29 majors in the following departments: School of Drama, School of Dance, School of Visual Arts (Fine Art, Design, Architecture, and Art Theory), School of Film, TV & Multimedia, School of Music, and School of Korean Traditional Arts. Students can take classes in painting, sculpture, crafts, and media as well as workshops on woodcraft, etching, bronze casting, photography, metal, glass, and pottery. The university does not offer Urban Studies or New Genres. Students studying these subjects are welcome to apply for an exchange at K-Arts if they can find courses in other departments that are relevant to their SFAI major. Language and Curriculum International exchange students are enrolled in classes with degree students and other exchange students. Classes are primarily taught in Korean, so knowledge of Korean is important. Every course requires the completion of a project by end of each semester. Studio space varies between schools and departments. In the School of Visual Arts, exchange students can have a small space of their own in a large room to use throughout the semester. There are some individual rooms available that students must sign up to use a few days before, such as editing rooms for the School of Film/TV/Multimedia. Term Dates The spring semester begins in early March and ends late June. The fall semester runs from the end of August until late December. Deadlines to apply - April 1 for the fall semester, September 20th for the spring semester. Housing Overview Student housing is available. The cost of housing varies, and for non-student housing, most websites are in Korean. Students often find non-student housing independently through Craigslist.org, Facebook Marketplace, and other classified ads. Application Requirements SFAI students who are interested in studying at K-Arts should submit the following: - SFAI Study Abroad Application - K-Arts Application - Two letters of recommendation from SFAI faculty - Official SFAI academic transcript - Study plan - Certificate of enrollment - Two passport photos - Copy of passport bio page - Portfolio - Medical clearance (results of general medical check-up including vaccination)	http://www.sfai.edu/seoul-south-korea	2013-05-18T10:31:08	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.sfai.edu/files/styles/background_image_popup/public/STUDYABROAD_bg_Seoul.jpg", null ] ]
OVERVIEW: should enroll in a doctoral level program. Physicaltherapists must then pass a national exam administered by the Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examine According to the Texas Workforce Commission, the annual average salary of a physical therapist is $59,660. Related career fields include physical therapy assistant/aide and occupational therapist. Click on the following to link to Texas Physical Therapy Programs: Angelo State University Hardin-Simmons University Texas State University Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Texas Woman's University University of Texas at El Paso University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Click on the following link to view the Pre Requisite Courses for Physical Therapy: Physical Therapy Pre requisites	http://www.sfasu.edu/prehealth/114.asp	2013-05-18T11:02:53	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Before I sat down to watch the 49ers-Rams game on Sunday, I scrolled down to the Pac-12 Network to record the Cal-Duke women’s basketball game. The network prides itself on covering everything from soccer, to volleyball, to wrestling; surely they’d televise this compelling matchup between two Top 10 teams. No luck. This was particularly frustrating because it was the second time in less than three weeks that I’ve gone out of my way to watch college women’s basketball and I was stood up both times. The first was on Nov. 16 when Stanford and Baylor connected in Hawaii for a rematch of last season’s national semifinal. At the time, Stanford was ranked fourth in the nation and Baylor, of course, was No. 1 having won 42 straight contests, including last season’s national championship game. The Cardinal was an even bigger underdog this year. Taking down Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims without Nneka Ogwumike seemed highly improbable to anyone outside of Tara VanDerveer’s locker room. But Stanford did the unthinkable, knocking out Sonny Liston. Unfortunately, the only witnesses were the fans in the arena. ESPN didn’t televise the game and the Bay Area didn’t have a single reporter on hand to chronicle the historic win. Granted, if the game wasn’t played halfway across the Pacific Ocean, this wouldn’t have been the case. Covering a game in Hawaii isn’t cheap and the ninth game of a long-winded NBA season will still smother women’s basketball in the ratings. But women’s hoops needed this game to be aired. Griner is one of those transcendent sports figures, like Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky and Lance Armstrong (pre-scandal), who can bring a sport out of the fringes and into the mainstream. At 6-foot-8, she could do for women’s basketball what Wilt Chamberlin did for the NBA five decades ago. She draws intrigue because people are attracted to geniuses in every realm and in sports we want to see if they can be beaten. This year’s Stanford-Baylor game could have been a watershed moment: you get pulled in by a compelling upset, you realize there’s more to the sport than Griner and you stay tuned because you want to see how the drama concludes. Here’s my confession: until two years ago, I had no interest in women’s basketball, in fact, my dismissive attitude toward it was inadvertently sexist. But my curiosity was roused when UConn strung together 90 straight wins and was finally beaten by Stanford right in my backyard. Last year’s overtime bout between Stanford and Cal was probably the most exciting basketball game I attended all season. The action was fast-paced, the women played with heart and I walked out of Maples Pavilion craving more. It didn’t hurt that the Bay Area’s most creative point guard, Brittany Boyd, plays for Cal — no offense, Stephen Curry. If you haven’t seen Boyd in action yet, make sure you swing by Haas Pavilion this year. She’s dynamic, fun-hearted and she plays the game with an infectious passion. I was looking forward to watching her go toe-to-toe with Duke’s Chelsea Gray, who earned All-America honors last year as a sophomore, but as I mentioned earlier, the game wasn’t televised. It’s hardly a deathblow to the sport that these games weren’t aired, just a missed opportunity. The season is young and more than a hundred games will be televised. But David doesn’t slay Goliath every day. Paul Gackle is a freelance writer and regular contributor to The San Francisco Examiner. He can be reached at paul.gackle@gmail.com and followed on Twitter @PGackle.	http://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/college/2012/12/women-s-basketball-deserves-more-media-exposure	2013-05-18T10:32:15	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]
Star Wars: The Old Republic bounty hunter trailer unveiled If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Last week we heard the news that Star Wars Galaxies will be closing down at the end of 2011. Of course, as we pointed out it’s not all doom and gloom for Star Wars gaming fans, even with the Death Star poised to strike on the world of SWG. Because there’s another Star Wars MMOG around the corner, Bioware’s Old Republic. And there’s a new trailer out showing off the bounty hunter class, the one would-be Fetts will be keen to try out. Have a look here on YouTube. It shows the character progression for the bounty hunter, which splits down two paths, that of the powertech and mercenary. The powertech player gets access to all sorts of gadgets on his (or her) power armour, such as sprays which stun enemies, and grappling lines which can yank fleeing prey back for a timely execution. There are area-of-effect flamers, too. Yum. As for the mercenary path, that looks more straight weapon focused with an emphasis on rockets that make things go boom in a big way, and jet-pack uppercuts that can knock out a fifty foot towering beast. If you listen carefully enough, you can probably hear people already whispering “over-powered” down on the Old Republic forums… We’re sure the trailer isn’t a straight-up representation of the bounty hunter’s power, mind, but more of a cinematic piece to excite for the game. The clue is the word trailer, we guess… Although there doesn’t really seem to be a massive difference between the two paths when it comes to the bounty hunter, with powertech just looking like it has a bit less damage and perhaps more crowd control potential. We reckon the combat looks perhaps a little flat and stilted, too, but it’s far too early to judge that sort of thing yet. Star Wars: The Old Republic is undoubtedly one game we’re looking forward to, and many others will be, as well. While Bioware will no doubt nail the story in the MMOG angle, we just hope that they can keep the other facets such as combat equally polished. Visited 1101 times, 1 so far today Trackback URL \| Comments RSS Feed There are no comments yet. Why not be the first to speak your mind.	http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/2011/07/05/star-wars-the-old-republic-bounty-hunter-trailer-unveiled/	2013-05-18T11:03:11	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[ [ "http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic.jpg", "Star Wars The Old Republic" ] ]
Bay Area rapper Spice 1 is recovering in an East Bay hospital after being shot in his car outside his parents' Hayward home, authorities said Thursday. The rapper, 37, whose given name is Robert Green, was shot in the chest about 12:30 a.m. Monday in an SUV on the 26000 block of Chiplay Avenue, said Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom. Green told officers that he was sitting in his Cadillac Escalade when someone came up to the window and shot him through the glass. He suffered a collapsed lung, his family said. No motive for the shooting has been established, and no arrests have been made, Lindblom said. "He's in pain, but otherwise he's coming along really well," his mother, Jean Green-Craven, 57, said Thursday from Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley. "He's a very lucky young man," she said. Green has put out more than a dozen albums and has worked with rappers Method Man, Too $hort, Ice-T and the late Tupac Shakur. Green's stepfather, Jerry Craven, 57, said that "everybody loves him" and that "my son would always tell me if he had got into a confrontation or an argument at party, and that has never happened." Green would "give you his last dime," his stepfather said. He told his family that he had been listening to music and talking to his girlfriend on the phone while sitting in the Escalade. Someone then walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle and tried to "jimmy" the door, Craven said. Green demanded to know who it was and was shot, Craven said. Craven said it was possible that someone was trying to steal the Escalade without realizing his stepson was inside. The vehicle has tinted windows, and it was dark, Craven said. "I don't think it was rap-related," Craven said. Green was born in Texas and moved to the Bay Area when he was 5. He attended Mount Eden High School in Hayward and got into rap in the early 1980s, his family said.	http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rapper-Spice-1-shot-recovering-in-hospital-3299868.php	2013-05-18T10:34:43	CC-MAIN-2013-20	1368696382261	[]

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