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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war—that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by jurists, humanitarians, and soldiers, a body of rules that is now an essential, institutionalized part of the US armed forces and indeed all modern militaries—should simply click here and watch the video.
Wait a minute: that's the WikiLeaks "Collateral Murder" video! The gunsight view of an Apache helicopter opening fire from half a mile high on a crowd of Iraqis—a few armed men, but mostly unarmed civilians, including a couple of Reuters employees—as they unsuspectingly walked the streets of a Baghdad suburb one July day in 2007.
Watch, if you can bear it, as the helicopter crew blows people away, killing at least a dozen of them, and taking good care to wipe out the wounded as they try to crawl to safety. (You can also hear the helicopter crew making wisecracks throughout.) When a van comes on the scene to tend to the survivors, the Apache gunship opens fire on it too, killing a few more and wounding two small children.
The slaughter captured in this short film, the most virally sensational of WikiLeaks' disclosures, was widely condemned as an atrocity worldwide, and many pundits quickly labeled it a "war crime" for good measure.
But was this massacre really a "war crime"—or just plain-old regular war? The question is anything but a word-game. It is, in fact, far from clear that this act, though plainly atrocious and horrific, was a violation of the laws of war. Some have argued that the slaughter, if legal, was therefore justified and, though certainly unfortunate, no big deal. But it is possible to draw a starkly different conclusion: that the "legality" of this act is an indictment of the laws of war as we know them.
The reaction of professional humanitarians to the gun-sight video was muted, to say the least. The big three human rights organizations—Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and Human Rights First—responded not with position papers and furious press releases but with silence. HRW omitted any mention of it in its report on human rights and war crimes in Iraq, published nearly a year after the video's release. Amnesty also kept mum. Gabor Rona, legal director of Human Rights First, told me there wasn't enough evidence to ascertain whether the laws of war had been violated, and that his organization had no Freedom of Information Act requests underway to uncover new evidence on the matter.
This collective non-response, it should be stressed, is not because these humanitarian groups, which do much valuable work, are cowardly or "sell-outs." The reason is: all three human rights groups, like human rights doctrine itself, are primarily concerned with questions of legality. And quite simply, as atrocious as the event was, there was no clear violation of the laws of war to provide a toehold for the professional humanitarians.
The human rights industry is hardly alone in finding the event disturbing but in conformance with the laws of war. As Professor Gary Solis, a leading expert and author of a standard text on those laws, told Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine, "I believe it unlikely that a neutral and detached investigator would conclude that the helicopter personnel violated the laws of armed conflict. Legal guilt does not always accompany innocent death." It bears noting that Gary Solis is no neocon ultra. A scholar who has taught at the London School of Economics and Georgetown, he is the author of a standard textbook on the subject, and was an unflinching critic of the Bush-Cheney administration.
War and International "Humanitarian" Law
"International humanitarian law," or IHL, is the trying-too-hard euphemism for the laws of war. And as it happens, IHL turns out to be less concerned with restraining military violence than licensing it. As applied to America's recent wars, this body of law turns out to be wonderfully accommodating when it comes to the prerogatives of an occupying army.
Here's another recent example of a wartime atrocity that is perfectly legal and not a war crime at all. Thanks to WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs, we now know about the commonplace torture practices employed by Iraqi jailers and interrogators during our invasion and occupation of that country. We have clear US military documentation of sexual torture, of amputated fingers and limbs, of beatings so severe they regularly resulted in death.
Surely standing by and taking careful notes while the Iraqi people you have supposedly liberated from tyranny are getting tortured, sometimes to death, is a violation of the laws of war. After all, in 2005 General Peter Pace, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, publicly contradicted his boss Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by commenting into a live mike that it is "absolutely the responsibility of every American soldier to stop torture whenever and wherever they see it." (A young private working in Army Intelligence named Bradley Manning, learning that a group of Iraqi civilians handing out pamphlets alleging government corruption had been detained by the Iraqi federal police, raised his concern with his commanding officer about their possible torture. He was reportedly told him to shut up and get back to work helping the authorities find more detainees.)
As it turned out, General Pace's exhortation was at odds with both official policy and law: Fragmentary Order 242, issued by Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, made it official policy for occupying US troops not to interfere with ongoing Iraqi torture. And this, according to some experts, is no violation of the laws of war either. Prolix on the limits imposed on the acts of non-state fighters who are not part of modern armies, the Geneva Conventions are remarkably reticent on the duties of occupying armies.
As Gary Solis pointed out to me, Common Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention assigns only a vague obligation to "ensure respect" for prisoners handed over to a third party. On the ground in either Iraq or Afghanistan, this string of words would prove a less-than-meaningful constraint.
Part of the problem is that the laws of war that aspire to restrain deadly force are often weakly enforced and routinely violated. Ethan McCord, the American soldier who saved the two wounded children from that van in the helicopter video, remembers one set of instructions he received from his battalion commander: "Anytime your convoy gets hit by an IED, I want 360 degree rotational fire. You kill every [expletive] in the street!" ("That order," David Glazier, a jurist at the National Institute for Military Justice, told me, "is absolutely a war crime.") In other words, the rules of engagement that are supposed to constrain occupying troops in places like Afghanistan and Iraq are, according to many scholars and investigators, often belittled and ignored. | <urn:uuid:928f7c75-9eda-4fa1-8f12-01e0a90478d2> | 2013-05-26T02:49:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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> Magic Block
On a warm summer night, a farm house stands in an empty field. A gentle breeze disturbed the corn stalks, forcing them to sway ever so slightly. There is a feeling of isolation about the farm. It could be that the cattle had already been brought in, or it could be the lack of a neighboring house. It is cut off from the rest of the world. Hardly anything comes in, and almost nothing comes out.
Inside the house a young boy looks out of a window. What could this little rascal's name be? | <urn:uuid:910ddf0c-79b4-4d2b-91c6-bd3a0a9d1032> | 2013-05-26T02:43:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The waggoner, behoulde, is hedlonge throwen,
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That man, whoe hath affections fowle untam'de,
And forwarde runnes neglecting reasons race,
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Download Choral Christmas Sheet Music:
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One of my favorite comfort foods is mac and cheese, and I like it most when the traditional recipe is taken to an entirely new level. When I came across this recipe, it seemed easy enough to make and too hard to pass up.
- 2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
- 1 1/2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup seasoned dry bread crumbs
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, stir together the bread crumbs, olive oil, and salt; set aside.
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the macaroni and cook for about 8 minutes. (Should be a bit firm.) Remove from heat, drain, and return to pan.
- Stir in butter and egg until pasta is evenly coated. Reserve 1/2 cup of Cheddar cheese and stir the remaining Cheddar, milk, and Mozzarella into the pasta.
- Spoon into the prepared muffin tin. Sprinkle the reserved cheese and the bread crumb mixture over the tops.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until the topping is nicely browned. Allow the cups to cool for a few minutes before removing from pan. | <urn:uuid:cb0120ba-0fd7-4429-b323-090f4f4dd71e> | 2013-05-26T02:55:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For the bottom layer :
500 grms of grated tapioca/cassava - squeezed out all the water
1 cup of sugar/palm sugar
4 tbsp of tapioca flour
1 1/4 cups of coconut milk (enough to cover the cassava)
1 few drop of pandan paste (optional)
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2 cups of coconut milk
5 tbsp of rice flour
3 tbsp of cornstarch
1 tsp of salt
1) Mixed all the ingredients of the bottom layer. Pour into a greased pan and steam for 25 min.
2) In a mixing bowl mixed all top layer ingredients and cook over low heat until thicken.
3) Scratch the surface of the bottom layer with fork and then pour in the top layer.
4) Steam over high heat for another 20 minutes.
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Helsinki-based artist Jirka Väätäinen's Real Life Disney Girls series presents a composite image of what an iconic female character from a Disney animation would look like in real life. Väätäinen's mixed media process involves collecting several images of celebrities and random beautiful women on the internet and digitally assembling them. He blends different features together and even adds his own skillful hand at digital painting to create a realistic portrayal of his chosen cartoon character.
The Finnish digital illustrator's personal project first caught our eye in 2011 with his wonderfully life-like renditions of Disney princesses, including Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Jasmine from Aladdin, but has since expanded his collection to include Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Jane from Tarzan, and Tinkerbell from Peter Pan. These are in addition to characters like Cinderella, Snow White, Tiana, and Rapunzel who are actually princesses in the traditional sense.
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J. Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and Crusade. Straczynski wrote most of the Babylon 5 episodes, notably an unbroken 59-episode run including all of the third and fourth seasons. He is also a participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums (including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online) since 1985. He is a friend and collaborator with speculative fiction author Harlan Ellison, a student and friend of Norman Corwin and an outspoken admirer of the work of Rod Serling.
Straczynski is a graduate of San Diego State University, having earned Bachelor's degrees in psychology and sociology (with minors in philosophy and literature). While at SDSU, he wrote prolifically for the student newspaper, at times penning so many articles that the paper was jokingly referred to as the "Daily Joe." Straczynski currently resides in the Los Angeles area with his wife, fellow writer Kathryn M. Drennan.
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West Highland Tales.
In the land of Erin there dwelt long ago a widow who had an only son. He was a clever boy, so she saved up enough money to send him to school, and, as soon as he was old enough, to apprentice him to any trade that he would choose. But when the time came, he said he would not be bound to any trade, and that he meant to be a thief.
Now his mother was very sorrowful when she heard of this, but she knew quite well that if she tried to stop his having his own way he would only grow more determined to get it. So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging at the bridge of Dublin, and then she left him alone, hoping that when he was older he might become more sensible.
One day she was going to church to hear a sermon from a great preacher, and she begged the Shifty Lad, as the neighbours called him from the tricks he played, to come with her. But he only laughed and declared that he did not like sermons, adding:
'However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life.'
These words gave a little comfort to the poor woman, and her heart was lighter than before as she bade him farewell.
When the Shifty Lad thought that the hour had nearly come for the sermon to be over, he hid himself in some bushes in a little path that led straight to his mother's house, and, as she passed along, thinking of all the good things she had heard, a voice shouted close to her ear 'Robbery! Robbery! Robbery!' The suddenness of it made her jump. The naughty boy had managed to change his voice, so that she did not know it for his, and he had concealed himself so well that, though she peered about all round her, she could see no one. As soon as she had turned the corner the Shifty Lad came out, and by running very fast through the wood he contrived to reach home before his mother, who found him stretched out comfortably before the fire.
'Well, have you got any news to tell me?' asked he.
'No, nothing; for I left the church at once, and did not stop to speak to anyone.'
'Oh, then no one has mentioned a trade to you?' he said in tones of disappointment.
'Ye--es,' she replied slowly. 'At least, as I walked down the path a voice cried out "Robbery! Robbery! Robbery!" but that was all.'
'And quite enough too,' answered the boy. 'What did I tell you? That is going to be my trade.'
'Then your end will be hanging at the bridge of Dublin,' said she. But there was no sleep for her that night, for she lay in the dark thinking about her son.
'If he is to be a thief at all, he had better be a good one. And who is there that can teach him?' the mother asked herself. But an idea came to her, and she arose early, before the sun was up, and set off for the home of the Black Rogue, or Gallows Bird, who was such a wonderful thief that, though all had been robbed by him, no one could catch him.
'Good-morning to you,' said the woman as she reached the place where the Black Gallows Bird lived when he was not away on his business. 'My son has a fancy to learn your trade. Will you be kind enough to teach him?'
'If he is clever, I don't mind trying,' answered the Black Gallows Bird; 'and, of course, if ANY one can turn him into a first-rate thief, it is I. But if he is stupid, it is of no use at all; I can't bear stupid people.'
'No, he isn't stupid,' said the woman with a sigh. 'So to-night, after dark, I will send him to you.'
The Shifty Lad jumped for joy when his mother told him where she had been.
'I will become the best thief in all Erin!' he cried, and paid no heed when his mother shook her head and murmured something about 'the bridge of Dublin.'
Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned. By- and-by he was allowed to go out with the Bird and watch him at work, and at last there came a day when his master though that he had grown clever enough to help in a big robbery.
'There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little. Now it happens that, while he has received the money for the fat cattle, he has not yet paid the price of the thin ones, which he has in the cowhouse. To-morrow he will go to the market with the money in his hand, so to-night we must get at the chest. When all is quiet we will hide in the loft.'
There was no moon, and it was the night of Hallowe'en, and everyone was burning nuts and catching apples in a tub of water with their hands tied, and playing all sorts of other games, till the Shifty Lad grew quite tired of waiting for them to get to bed. The Black Gallows Bird, who was more accustomed to the business, tucked himself up on the hay and went to sleep, telling the boy to wake him when the merry-makers had departed. But the Shifty Lad, who could keep still no longer, crept down to the cowshed and loosened the heads of the cattle which were tied, and they began to kick each other and bellow, and made such a noise that the company in the farmhouse ran out to tie them up again. Then the Shifty Lad entered the room and picked up a big handful of nuts, and returned to the loft, where the Black Rogue was still sleeping. At first the Shifty Lad shut his eyes too, but very soon he sat up, and taking a big needle and thread from his pocket, he sewed the hem of the Black Gallows Bird's coat to a heavy piece of bullock's hide that was hanging at his back.
By this time the cattle were all tied up again, but as the people could not find their nuts they sat round the fire and began to tell stories.
'I will crack a nut,' said the Shifty Lad.
'You shall not,' cried the Black Gallows Bird; 'they will hear you.'
'I don't care,' answered the Shifty Lad. 'I never spend Hallowe'en yet without cracking a nut'; and he cracked one.
'Some one is cracking nuts up there,' said one of the merry- makers in the farmhouse. 'Come quickly, and we will see who it is.'
He spoke loudly, and the Black Gallows Bird heard, and ran out of the loft, dragging the big leather hide after him which the Shifty Lad had sewed to his coat.
'He is stealing my hide!' shouted the farmer, and they all darted after him; but he was too swift for them, and at last he managed to tear the hide from his coat, and then he flew like a hare till he reached his old hiding-place. But all this took a long time, and meanwhile the Shifty Lad got down from the loft, and searched the house till he found the chest with the gold and silver in it, concealed behind a load of straw and covered with loaves of bread and a great cheese. The Shifty Lad slung the money bags round his shoulders and took the bread and the cheese under his arm, then set out quietly for the Black Rogue's house.
'Here you are at last, you villain!' cried his master in great wrath. 'But I will be revenged on you.'
'It is all right,' replied the Shifty Lad calmly. 'I have brought what you wanted'; and he laid the things he was carrying down on the ground.
'Ah! you are the better thief,' said the Black Rogue's wife; and the Black Rogue added:
'Yes, it is you who are the clever boy'; and they divided the spoil and the Black Gallows Bird had one half and the Shifty Lad the other half.
A few weeks after that the Black Gallows Bird had news of a wedding that was to be held near the town; and the bridegroom had many friends and everybody sent him a present. Now a rich farmer who lived up near the moor thought that nothing was so useful to a young couple when they first began to keep house as a fine fat sheep, so he bade his shepherd go off to the mountain where the flock were feeding, and bring him back the best he could find. And the shepherd chose out the largest and fattest of the sheep and the one with the whitest fleece; then he tied its feet together and put it across his shoulder, for he had a long way to go.
That day, the Shifty Lad happened to be wandering over the moor, when he saw the man with the sheep on his shoulder walking along the road which led past the Black Rogue's house. The sheep was heavy and the man was in no hurry, so he came slowly and the boy knew that he himself could easily get back to his master before the shepherd was even in sight.
'I will wager,' he cried, as he pushed quickly through the bushes which hid the cabin--'I will wager that I will steal the sheep from the man that is coming before he passes here.'
'Will you indeed?' said the Gallows Bird. 'I will wager you a hundred silver pieces that you can do nothing of the sort.'
'Well, I will try it, anyway,' replied the boy, and disappeared in the bushes. He ran fast till he entered a wood through which the shepherd must go, and then he stopped, and taking off one of his shoes smeared it with mud and set it in the path. When this was done he slipped behind a rock and waited.
Very soon the man came up, and seeing the shoe lying there, he stooped and looked at it.
'It is a good shoe,' he said to himself, 'but very dirty. Still, if I had the fellow, I would be at the trouble of cleaning it'; so he threw the shoe down again and went on.
The Shifty Lad smiled as he heard him, and, picking up the shoe, he crept round by a short way and laid the other shoe on the path. A few minutes after the shepherd arrived, and beheld the second shoe lying on the path.
'Why, that is the fellow of the dirty shoe!' he exclaimed when he saw it. 'I will go back and pick up the other one, and then I shall have a pair of good shoes,' and he put the sheep on the grass and returned to fetch the shoe. Then the Shifty Lad put on his shoes, and, picking up the sheep, carried it home. And the Black Rogue paid him the hundred marks of his wager.
When the shepherd reached the farmhouse that night he told his tale to his master, who scolded him for being stupid and careless, and bade him go the next day to the mountain and fetch him a kid, and he would send that as a wedding gift. But the Shifty Lad was on the look-out, and hid himself in the wood, and the moment the man drew near with the kid on his shoulders began to bleat like a sheep, and no one, not even the sheep's own mother, could have told the difference.
'Why, it must have got its feet loose, and have strayed after all,' thought the man; and he put the kid on the grass and hurried off in the direction of the bleating. Then the boy ran back and picked up the kid, and took it to the Black Gallows Bird.
The shepherd could hardly believe his eyes when he returned from seeking the sheep and found that the kid had vanished. He was afraid to go home and tell the same tale that he had told yesterday; so he searched the wood through and through till night was nearly come. Then he felt that there was no help for it, and he must go home and confess to his master.
Of course, the farmer was very angry at this second misfortune; but this time he told him to drive one of the big bulls from the mountain, and warned him that if he lost THAT he would lose his place also. Again the Shifty Lad, who was on the watch, perceived him pass by, and when he saw the man returning with the great bull he cried to the Black Rogue:
'Be quick and come into the wood, and we will try to get the bull also.'
'But how can we do that?' asked the Black Rogue.
'Oh, quite easily! You hide yourself out there and baa like a sheep, and I will go in the other direction and bleat like a kid. It will be all right, I assure you.'
The shepherd was walking slowly, driving the bull before him, when he suddenly heard a loud baa amongst the bushes far away on one side of the path, and a feeble bleat answering it from the other side.
'Why, it must be the sheep and the kid that I lost,' said he. 'Yes, surely it must'; and tying the bull hastily to a tree, he went off after the sheep and the kid, and searched the wood till he was tired. Of course by the time he came back the two thieves had driven the bull home and killed him for meat, so the man was obliged to go to his master and confess that he had been tricked again.
After this the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad grew bolder and bolder, and stole great quantities of cattle and sold them and grew quite rich. One day they were returning from the market with a large sum of money in their pockets when they passed a gallows erected on the top of a hill.
'Let us stop and look at that gallows,' exclaimed the Shifty Lad. 'I have never seen one so close before. Yet some say that it is the end of all thieves.'
There was no one in sight, and they carefully examined every part of it.
'I wonder how it feels to be hanged,' said the Shifty Lad. 'I should like to know, in case they ever catch me. I'll try first, and then you can do so.'
As he spoke he fastened the loose cord about his neck, and when it was quite secure he told the Black Rogue to take the other end of the rope and draw him up from the ground.
'When I am tired of it I will shake my legs, and then you must let me down,' said he.
The Black Rogue drew up the rope, but in half a minute the Shifty Lad's legs began to shake, and he quickly let it down again.
'You can't imagine what a funny feeling hanging gives you,' murmured the Shifty Lad, who looked rather purple in the face and spoke in an odd voice. 'I don't think you have every tried it, or you wouldn't have let me go up first. Why, it is the pleasantest thing I have ever done. I was shaking my legs from sheer delight, and if you had been there you would have shaken your legs too.'
'Well, let me try, if it is so nice,' answered the Black Rogue. 'But be sure you tie the knot securely, for I don't want to fall down and break my neck.'
'Oh, I will see to that!' replied the Shifty Lad. 'When you are tired, just whistle, and I'll let you down.'
So the Black Rogue was drawn up, and as soon as he was as high as the rope would allow him to go the Shifty Lad called to him:
'Don't forest to whistle when you want to come down; but if you are enjoying yourself as I did, shake your legs.'
And in a moment the Black Rogue's legs began to shake and to kick, and the Shifty Lad stood below, watching him and laughing heartily.
'Oh, how funny you are! If you could only see yourself! Oh, you ARE funny! But when you have had enough, whistle and you shall be let down'; and he rocked again with laughter.
But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick, for the Black Gallows Bird was dead, as the Shifty Lad intended he should be.
Then he went home to the Black Rogue's wife, and told her that her husband was dead, and that he was ready to marry her if she liked. But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was, and she shrank from the Shifty Lad in horror, and set the people after him, and he had to fly to another part of the country where none knew of his doings.
Perhaps if the Shifty Lad's mother knew anything of this, she may have thought that by this time her son might be tired of stealing, and ready to try some honest trade. But in reality he loved the tricks and danger, and life would have seemed very dull without them. So he went on just as before, and made friends whom he taught to be as wicked as himself, till they took to robbing the king's storehouses, and by the advice of the Wise Man the king sent out soldiers to catch the band of thieves.
For a long while they tried in vain to lay hands on them. The Shifty Lad was too clever for them all, and if they laid traps he laid better ones. At last one night he stole upon some soldiers while they were asleep in a barn and killed them, and persuaded the villagers that if THEY did not kill the other soldiers before morning they would certainly be killed themselves. Thus it happened that when the sun rose not a single soldier was alive in the village.
Of course this news soon reached the king's ears, and he was very angry, and summoned the Wise Man to take counsel with him. And this was the counsel of the Wise Man--that he should invite all the people in the countryside to a ball, and among them the bold and impudent thief would be sure to come, and would be sure to ask the king's daughter to dance with him.
'Your counsel is good,' said the king, who made his feast and prepared for his ball; and all the people of the countryside were present, and the Shifty Lad came with them.
When everyone had eaten and drunk as much as they wanted they went into the ballroom. There was a great throng, and while they were pressing through the doorway the Wise Man, who had a bottle of black ointment hidden in his robes, placed a tiny dot on the cheek of the Shifty Lad near his ear. The Shifty Lad felt nothing, but as he approached the king's daughter to ask her to be his partner he caught sight of the black dot in a silver mirror. Instantly he guessed who had put it there and why, but he said nothing, and danced so beautifully that the princess was quite delighted with him. At the end of the dance he bowed low to his partner and left her, to mingle with the crowd that was filling the doorway. As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle but to place two black dots on his face, and one on the faces of twenty other men. Then he slipped the bottle back in the Wise Man's robe.
By-and-by he went up to the king's daughter again, and begged for the honour of another dance. She consented, and while he was stooping to tie the ribbons on his shoe she took out from her pocket another bottle, which the Wizard had given her, and put a black dot on his cheek. But she was not as skilful as the Wise Man, and the Shifty Lad felt the touch of her fingers; so as soon as the dance was over he contrived to place a second black dot on the faces of the twenty men and two more on the Wizard, after which he slipped the bottle into her pocket.
At length the ball came to an end, and then the king ordered all the doors to be shut, and search made for a man with two black dots on his cheek. The chamberlain went among the guests, and soon found such a man, but just as he was going to arrest him and bring him before the king his eye fell on another with the same mark, and another, and another, till he had counted twenty-- besides the Wise Man--on whose face were found spots.
Not knowing what to do, the chamberlain hurried back with his tale to the king, who immediately sent for the Wise Man, and then for his daughter.
'The thief must have stolen your bottle,' said the king to the Wizard.
'No, my lord, it is here,' answered the Wise Man, holding it out.
'Then he must have got yours,' he cried, turning to his daughter.
'Indeed, father, it is safe in my pocket,' replied she, taking it out as she spoke; and they all three looked at each other and remained silent.
'Well,' said the king at last, 'the man who has done this is cleverer than most men, and if he will make himself known to me he shall marry the princess and govern half my kingdom while I am alive, and the whole of it when I am dead. Go and announce this in the ballroom,' he added to an attendant, 'and bring the fellow hither.'
So the attendant went into the ballroom and did as the king had bidden him, when, to his surprise, not one man, but twenty, stepped forward, all with black dots on their faces.
'I am the person you want,' they all exclaimed at once, and the attendant, as much bewildered as the chamberlain had been, desired them to follow him into the king's presence.
But the question was too difficult for the king to decide, so he called together his council. For hours they talked, but to no purpose, and in the end they hit upon a plan which they might just as well have thought of at the beginning.
And this was the plan. A child was to be brought to the palace, and next the king's daughter would give her an apple. Then the child was to take the apple and be led into a room where the twenty men with the black dots were sitting in a ring. And to whomsoever the child gave the apple, that man should marry the king's daughter.
'Of course,' said the king, 'it may not be the right man, after all, but then again it MAY be. Anyhow, it is the best we can do.'
The princess herself led the child into the room where the twenty men were now seated. She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man after another, and then held out the apple to the Shifty Lad, who was twisting a shaving of wood round his finger, and had the mouthpiece of a bagpipe hanging from his neck.
'You ought not to have anything which the others have not got,' said the chamberlain, who had accompanied the princess; and he bade the child stand outside for a minute, while he took away the shaving and the mouthpiece, and made the Shifty Lad change his place. Then he called the child in, but the little girl knew him again, and went straight up to him with the apple.
'This is the man whom the child has twice chosen,' said the chamberlain, signing to the Shifty Lad to kneel before the king. 'It was all quite fair; we tried it twice over.' In this way the Shifty Lad won the king's daughter, and they were married the next day.
A few days later the bride and bridegroom were taking a walk together, and the path led down to the river, and over the river was a bridge.
'And what bridge may this be?' asked the Shifty Lad; and the princess told him that this was the bridge of Dublin.
'Is it indeed?' cried he. 'Well, now, many is the time that my mother has said, when I played her a trick, that my end would be that I should hang on the bridge of Dublin.'
'Oh, if you want to fulfil her prophecies,' laughed the princess, 'you have only to let me tie my handkerchief round your ankle, and I will hold you as you hang over the wall of the bridge.'
'That would be fine fun,' said he; 'but you are not strong enough to hold me up.'
'Oh, yes, I am,' said the princess; 'just try.' So at last he let her bind the handkerchief round his ankle and hang him over the wall, and they both laughed and jested at the strength of the princess.
'Now pull me up again,' called he; but as he spoke a great cry arose that the palace was burning. The princess turned round with a start, and let go her handkerchief, and the Shifty Lad fell, and struck his head on a stone, and died in an instant.
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oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). These include phenelzine (Nardil®),
and selegeline (Emsam®).
rare, there is an increased risk of serotonin syndrome when
venlafaxine is used with other medications that increase serotonin,
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energy, or appetite may show some improvement within the first 1-2
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by the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists
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and certain other psychiatric disorders are themselves associated
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suicidal ideation and behavior (suicidality) or unusual changes in
behavior, whether or not they are taking antidepressant medications.
This risk may persist until significant remission occurs.
short-term studies, antidepressants increased the risk of
suicidality in children, adolescents, and young adults when compared
to placebo. Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants
compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24. Adults age 65 and
older taking antidepressants have a decreased risk of suicidality.
their families, and caregivers should be alert to the emergence of
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|Genesis Spacecraft in Collection Mode||
This artist's conception shows the Genesis spacecraft in collection mode, opened up to collect and store samples of solar wind particles. The cover of the science canister contains one set of collection materials. It is the same kind of hexagonal silicon wafer array that comprises the stack of four arrays that were rotated out of the interior of the canister when the spacecraft began to orbit L1. The bottom three of the stacked arrays are controlled independently, and may be rotated out from the cover of the top of the stack to collect particular types of solar wind. Inside the canister is an electrostatic concentrator to increase the collection of light-weight solar wind particles. It is exposed when the array stack is rotated out. The two solar panels, shown in blue in this depiction, which extend to the side of the spacecraft bus, provide electrical energy for the functions performed by the rest of the spacecraft.
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The military ban on women in combat is coming to an end. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the overturning of a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, and infantry jobs.
This country has had a storied history of women fighting for the country, despite various forces dissuading them from doing so. As of last year, for example, more than 800 women have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan (where about 20,000 women have served) despite the combat ban. But the story is older than that, as old as the country even. A woman by the name of Margaret Cochran fought in the Revolutionary War, and hundreds of women disguised themselves as men just to take up arms in the Civil War.
According to the National Archives, as many as 400 women fought during the Civil War while concealing their gender. Mary Livermore of the U.S. Sanitary Commission wrote in 1888:
Some one has stated the number of women soldiers known to the service as little less than four hundred. I cannot vouch for the correctness of this estimate, but I am convinced that a larger number of women disguised themselves and enlisted in the service, for one cause or other, than was dreamed of. Entrenched in secrecy, and regarded as men, they were sometimes revealed as women, by accident or casualty. Some startling histories of these military women were current in the gossip of army life.
Let’s meet some of these women who, in a sense, paved the way for today's ban reversal. Here are four women who fought, compiled from Larry G. Eggleston's Women in the Civil War.
- Loretta Janeta Velazquez was a total badass. Born to a rich Cuban aristocrat, Velazquez’s wealth played a key role in her fighting for the Confederate army. When her husband, William, went off to war in 1861, Velazquez wanted so badly to be with him that she offered to fight beside him incognito. William wouldn't hear it, and went off to war without her. Not content with life alone, Velazquez decided to use her wealth to finance and equip an infantry battalion, which she would bring to her husband to command. She cut her hair, tanned her skin, and went by the name Lt. Harry T. Buford. She went on to fight in various battles, including Bull Run and Shiloh, but her gender was twice discovered and she was discharged. So, naturally, she became a spy, with disguises in both the male and female variety.
- It must have been hard to hide your gender while serving in the war. Take it from Lizzie Compton, who enlisted at the age of 14. Her gender was discovered seven different times. But each time, she packed up her things and moved on to another regimen. Compton was wounded twice during her service, the first time by a piece of shrapnel as she charged up a hill at Antietam.
- Louisa Hoffman has the distinction of serving for both the Union and Confederate armies. When the war first started, she left her home in New York to enlist (as a man, of course) in the 1st Virginia Confederate Cavalry. But, after fighting at both battles of Bull Run, she had a change of heart, and headed up north to Ohio.
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2T (1/4 stick) butter, softened 6-8 slices French Bread or Sourdough Bread cut into 1/2 inch cubes1 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled1/3 cup spinach, cooked, chopped, and well drained1 1/2 C cheddar cheese, shredded5 large eggs, beaten2 cups half and half1 t salt1t dried mustard3 scallions (white and green parts), chopped for garnish1T fresh parsley, chopped, for garnish
1.) Butter a 13/9 inch baking pan.
2.) Place bread cubes in baking pan.
3.) Add bacon and spinach.
4.) Top with cheese.
5.) Whisk together eggs, half and half, salt, and dried mustard.
6.) Pour over bread mixture, covering thoroughly.
7.) Cover baking pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
8.) Preheat over to 350F.
9.) Remove plastic wrap and bake for 35-45 minutes or until set and browned on top.
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2 cups of flour
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Director Guy Ritchie said he wanted to make it a "very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture." Judging by this studio-released still, we're thinking he achieved that goal.
In accepting the award, Downey gave the first truly spirited, freewheeling speech of the night.
"If you start playing violins, I will tear this place apart," Downey began, with a smile. "First I would like to thank Susan Downey for telling me Matt Damon was going to win -- so I have nothing to say... (If it weren't for her) I could be busing tables at the daily grill right now."
A strange slate of nominees helped pave Downey's path to victory. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was very good in a very OK "(500) Days of Summer," but is too little known. Matt Damon played a fat guy with a mustache in a film few realized was a comedy. Daniel Day-Lewis' "Nine" is widely considered a bit of a mess, it's mountain of noms notwithstanding. And Michael Stuhlbarg was brilliant in "A Serious Man," which while riddled with truly funny moments, was far from a comedy.
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Mitt Romney took over the "Top Ten" presentation duties from David Letterman on Monday — and got in a few digs at himself and one at arch rival Newt Gingrich.
As usual, the jokes came mostly at the expense of Romney's photogenic look and involved some puns on his unusual name — but one acknowledged the dead heat in which Romney and the former House Speaker are locked in the polls.
The former Massachusetts governor, who's been on "The Late Show" before, listed the "Top 10 Things Mitt Romney Would Like To Say To The American People."
Number 10: "Isn't it time for a president who looks like a 1970s game show host?"
Number two: "Newt Gingrich? Really?"
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Isis went to her adoptive home Wednesday with her new mom, Jeanne Bonk of Beverly. "She needs a lot of love," Bonk said.
A dog who suffered abuse will get a fresh start Wednesday.
A Shepherd-Terrier named Isis was put up for adoption after she was abandoned by her owner last year and later beaten by teens in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.
Bloody paw prints led authorities to Isis in December in a basement of the owner's apartment.
The woman who owned Isis admitted she let the dog run free after finding out she was not allowed to have pets in her new home.
The woman was charged with animal cruelty and animal neglect.
Isis will now get a new home, and Animal Care and Control turned the pup over Wednesday morning to her new owner, Jeanne Bonk of Beverly.
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When people sit down to watch "Water for Elephants"—the big screen adaptation of Sara Gruen's best-selling novel—will anyone really be focused on the beautifully composed shots by director Francis Lawrence ("I am Legend") and DP Rodrigo Prieto ("Babel," "Brokeback Mountain"), the glorious costumes by Jacqueline West ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), or the well-drawn performances by Christoph Waltz and Reese Witherspoon, both Oscar winners? Or will two hours go by with a singular question hovering in the audiences’ mind: "Can Robert Pattinson act?"
Well, yes, he can. He takes a giant leap away from the "Twilight" films which made the 24-year-old an uber-famous millionaire and turned Hot Topic into a lion's den of weeping tweens.
"Water for Elephants" follows a young veterinary student (Pattinson) who joins a Depression-era traveling circus to escape a tragic loss, only to find himself in a dangerous love square with the star performer (Witherspoon, who oddly enough played Pattinson's mother in 2004’s "Vanity Fair," though the scenes were later deleted when they were deemed too unbelievable), a sadistic ringmaster (Waltz), and the circus' last hope, an elephant named Rosie (Tai, "Operation Dumbo Drop," who steals the show from her human counterparts).
Though the film starts and ends by taking a page from the heavily contrived "Titanic" playbook (bookend scenes featuring Hal Holbrook as "Old Robert Pattinson"), once you're transported under the big top as it's hoisted aloft in a dusty field, the sun seemingly paused at Magic Hour, it soars like a contortionist shot out of a cannon.
Lawrence and Prieto serve up a feast for the eyes as Witherspoon saunters about channeling Jean Harlow, Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") continues his reign as Hollywood's most delightful bad guy and Pattison blossoms in a young Hugh Grant sort of way; adorably embarrassed by his charms. Still, the film's most winning moments come courtesy of the animals who melt the audience’s heart and bring them to tears.
While "Water for Elephants" isn't without some serious script-related stumbles (sorry, Hal), it's a pedigreed drama of great beauty that announces Pattinson as a star to be reckoned long after the dust of "Breaking Dawn" settles. | <urn:uuid:4a225afe-f1a4-4238-956a-031a6fb8bd1e> | 2013-05-26T02:41:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If you can save ten animals from extinction, which animals would you pick? Sir David Attenborough shows us his pick in his new TV series Attenborough's Ark [warning: auto-starting video]. The BBC has the slideshow of the ten animals he'd save, including this one above:
Another strange species highlighted by Sir David is the rare Hispaniola solenodon that has existed since prehistoric times but now only survives in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The unusual nocturnal animal has a venomous bite and an incredibly mobile nose thanks to a ball and socket joint.
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This delicious Cappuccino treat, sprinkled with golden cinnamon, is a wonderful combination of cocoa, milk and cream.
- Put the condensed milk into a cappuccino cup
- Add cocoa, cinnamon, and 1 tablespoon of milk at room temperature
- Stir with a long, slim whisk until smooth
- On top of this, prepare an Espresso with a capsule of either Roma or Decaffeinato Intenso Grand Cru
- Top with the cream, and a drizzle of caramel
- Garnish with the cinnamon stick and enjoy immediately.
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Sweet and Sour Sauce
This is a great sauce to use with meatballs, chicken, pork, or over rice. If you prefer a thicker sauce, add a tablespoon of cornstarch to get those desired results.
INGREDIENTS | MAKES 1 CUP
½ cup pineapple juice
3 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons brown sugar or honey
1 teaspoon soy sauce
½ teaspoon pepper
½ cup white vinegar
Heat all the ingredients together until the butter and sugar are melted.
If You Have Trouble with Gummy Rice
You need to use 2 cups of water or clear stock and ½ teaspoon of salt for each cup of rice. Bring the liquid to a boil in a large pan, then add the salt and rice and stir for a few minutes. As soon as the water boils again, cover with a tight lid. Cook white rice over low heat 15–20 minutes; brown rice cooks over low heat 40–45 minutes. Do not at any time open the lid. The water should be absorbed at the end of the cooking time and the rice should be dry and tender. Remove from heat and separate the grains with a fork. | <urn:uuid:0a8d5eb1-0702-44ef-965e-df84a5d433b9> | 2013-05-26T02:56:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Crackles in Inhaling
what is the cause of crackles? What can be done ?
"Crackles" refers to a non-specific, subjective description of an abnormal sound which is heard when someone listens to the lung. The list of problems which can cause crackles is quite long and varies. If indeed crackles are present, then some investigation to understand what might be causing this abnormal sound is important. This will likely be some picture of the lung. In general, abnormal findings should be investigated until a satisfactory explanation is obtained for the abnormal finding. Once a cause is identified, one can then define an appropriate course of action.
Robert Schilz, DO, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
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More properly JACOB TWINGER VON KÖNIGSHOFEN.
Chronicler, b. in 1346 at Königshofen, a village near Strasburg, in Alsace; d. at Strasburg, 27 December, 1420. Of his life we have only a few meagre details, as for instance that he became a priest in 1382, that for a time he held the parish of Drusenheim, and that in 1394 he became notary Apostolic and in 1395 a canon of St. Thomas at Strasburg, where he was placed in charge of the archives and kept the stock-books and registers. Very early in life he had devoted himself with special zeal to historical studies, and a Latin "Chronicle" is extant, written by him before he came a priest (edited by Duchesne in "Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für die Erhaltung der geschichtlichen Denkmäler im Elsass", second series, IV). This work, it is true, only contains extracts from different authors, and is in consequence a mere collection of historical matter, but it was undoubtedly an excellent preparation for his principal work, the "Chronik". The latter he began in 1382; he twice revised it, and brought it down to the year 1415. One of the first universal histories in German prose, it includes also a territorial history of Alsace and a local history of Strasburg. Recognizing the needs of his time, he wrote it for the Klugen, that is, cultivated, lay men, "who read such things as eagerly as learned parsons". His narrative is therefore popular, and frequently enlivened by legends, jokes, and interesting details concerning the lives of the people. He possessed a good knowledge and availed himself very freely of the sources of medieval prose and poetry (particularly Ekkehard, but also Eusebius, Bede, Hermannus Contractus, Martinus Polonus, and others). On the other hand, those sections which treat of contemporary history are very valuable. In politics he was an adherent of King Louis the Bavarian, and to his imperialistic sentiments united a very strongly marked feeling for German nationality. Greatly influenced by the Alsatian chronicler Closener, he has himself been in many cases the authority for later historians. The last chapter of the "Chronik" contains an alphabetical list of historical events with dates, forms thus a kind of compendium of history, and was often copied separately. The "Chronik" was printed as early as 1474, and later at Strasburg in 1698. The best edition is that of Hegel in "Chroniken der deutschen Städte", VIII-IX (Leipzig, 1870-1). In addition we possess a Latin-German glossary by Königshofen, which may, however, in its essential details be traced to Closener.
OBERLIN, De Jacobo Twingero Regiovillano (Strasburg, 1789); SCHNEEGANS, Notice sur Closener et Königshofen (Strasburg, 1842); POTTHAST, Bibliotheca, II, 1076-88. Concerning Königshofen as choralist see MATHIAS, Phototypische Wiedergabe des Königshofenschen Tonarius (Graz, 1903).
APA citation. (1910). Jacob Königshofen. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08689a.htm
MLA citation. "Jacob Königshofen." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08689a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Czeglédi Erzsébet.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Environmental History of Georgia: Overview
Native American Influences
Humans arrived in the Southeast roughly 12,000 years ago. Over the millennia, Native Americans interacted with the landscape in numerous ways. Fire setting, first used to promote hunting, had perhaps the most significant impact.
Fire setting was probably common in the Piedmont. Varying fire-setting regimes would have created a patchy landscape, in which frequently burned, open oak forests adjoined less recently burned areas crowded with saplings, briars, and shrubs or unburned areas with more thin-barked trees. In the Coastal Plain, lightning perpetuated longleaf pine stands carpeted with diverse herbs or wiregrass and bounded by firebreaks like cypress swamps; Indian-set fires may have supplemented the natural regime. Scholarly opinion differs as to the fire regime in the mountains. Fires from lightning strikes are rare and low in intensity in most montane sites. Native Americans certainly supplemented the natural fire regime by burning in the river valleys to promote agriculture and probably burned many dry mountain ridges. Moist coves would have burned less often.
The settlement of
Thus, the landscape prior to European arrival was not entirely pristine. Rather, in a complex mosaic, human riverine settlements punctuated landscapes of large, fire-fostered pines and oaks abutting unburned areas such as cypress swamps in the Coastal Plain and huge cove hardwoods in the mountains.
European Settlement and Landscape Transformation
Europeans transformed the forested mosaic promoted by the Native Americans to a land forged for the production of goods for foreign markets. Huge harvests of forest resources in early colonial days were the first to demonstrate the size of the export market. Ginseng was collected to scarcity, and animal pelts were taken from southeastern forests in huge quantities. From 1700 to 1715 more than 1 million fox, elk, otter, and other skins were shipped from Charleston, South Carolina; from 1739 to 1761 more than 5 million pounds of deerskins alone were exported from the Southeast. Beavers were nearly extirpated from the state, and buffalo and elk were disappearing by 1760. Of the commodities that followed, rice, cotton, and timber spurred perhaps the greatest changes in Georgia's landscape.
Rice and Cotton
In 1750 the prohibition on owning slaves was lifted in Georgia, catalyzing large-scale commercial agriculture. Rice was the first commodity to transform a portion of Georgia's landscape. Landowners cleared large swaths of forest to construct plantations and rice fields. However, tidal rivers inundated and drained the impounded rice, limiting the most intense human agricultural impact to the tidal deltas.
Upon Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton production spurred a landscape transformation across the Piedmont and the western and Upper Coastal Plain. Following a cascade of land cessions from Native Americans, farmers rolled across the land, growing cotton for profit and corn for livestock and human consumption. They cleared and farmed a plot of land for a few years, then abandoned the depleted soil and moved on. Staggering amounts of soil were eroded off the barren fields; on average, 7.5 inches of topsoil were lost. The eroded sediments washed into streams, burying milldams and depositing as much as eight to fifteen feet of silt on some streambeds. The higher streambeds and absence of plants to impede winter storm runoff caused widespread flooding. Intense cotton farming and its deleterious effects continued until the 1920s, when the boll weevil, plummeting prices, and depleted soils contributed to a precipitous decline in production.
Hence, by the 1930s commercial agriculture, industrial logging, and nascent urbanization had created a landscape far different from that first encountered by Europeans. The stumps and scraggly trees of cut-over land, silted streams and denuded hillsides of abandoned farms, and growing networks of towns and transportation corridors had replaced much of the forest mosaic.
Conservation and Reforestation
In the mid-1900s two trends changed the tenor of human impact on the Georgia landscape. First, soil and timber depletion spurred conservation efforts. Second, much of the barren land reverted to trees.
An impetus to preserve wild landscapes had gained national momentum in the early twentieth century. Following that course, many state and national wildlife refuges, parks, and forests were established in Georgia in the 1920s and 1930s, in a movement that continued throughout the century.
While many farms adopted better farming practices, others were abandoned. In a trend that peaked in the 1960s, abandoned fields underwent secondary succession, a process in which grasses, shrubs, pines, and hardwoods succeed one another over time.
In the 1930s Charles Herty, a chemist at the University of Georgia, revolutionized land use in Georgia when he stimulated the pulpwood industry by using young pines to make white paper. Many old fields, particularly in the Coastal Plain, converted to pine plantations.
Urbanization and Regulation
In the second half of the twentieth century, human-environment interactions became increasingly complex. By the 1960s a dearth of regulation had permitted severe pollution problems. Urbanization accelerated. The population of Georgia doubled from roughly 4 million people in 1960 to more than 8 million in 2000, exacerbating pollution problems, straining water resources, and fragmenting the landscape through urban sprawl. At the same time, the science of ecology came of age and fostered an appreciation of biodiversity and an understanding of the links among species extinction, urban sprawl, and invasive exotic species.
Pollution and Water Supply Regulations
In 1960 very few air or water pollution controls existed. Industries released more than 400 toxic chemicals into the air, drinking-water quality was not regulated, and 70 percent of the municipal sewage in Georgia entered rivers untreated. Fossil fuel use spawned high levels of ground-level ozone in large urban areas. Construction sediment coated stream bottoms, and water supplies became problematic as demand from the growing population, industry, and agriculture increased. While ozone, water supply, and sediment proved more intractable, state and national regulations successfully addressed many egregious problems, markedly improving the environment.
Urban Sprawl and Species Conservation
Several forces countered these trends. In 1973 the federal Endangered Species Act was passed, spurring the protection of species in Georgia. Land conservation by many groups accelerated, and the Georgia Community Greenspace Program was created in 2000 through an act of the Georgia legislature. The voluntary program provides funds to encourage counties to preserve 20 percent of their land and water permanently as greenspace for the protection of natural resources and informal recreation.
R. Harold Brown, The Greening of Georgia: The Improvement of the Environment in the Twentieth Century (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002).
Linda G. Chafin, A Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007).
Donald Edward Davis, Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Mart A. Stewart, & quot;What Nature Suffers to Groe & quot;: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996).
Mark V. Wetherington, The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994).
Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge, Eng.: University of Cambridge Press, 1989).
Leslie Edwards, Atlanta
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* - denotes footnote
A Letter to the Exiles
1 Jeremiah wrote a letter from Jerusalem to the elders, priests, prophets, and all the people who had been exiled to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar.2 This was after King Jehoiachin,* the queen mother, the court officials, the other officials of Judah, and all the craftsmen and artisans had been deported from Jerusalem.3 He sent the letter with Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah when they went to Babylon as King Zedekiah's ambassadors to Nebuchadnezzar. This is what Jeremiah's letter said:
4 This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives he has exiled to Babylon from Jerusalem:5 "Build homes, and plan to stay. Plant gardens, and eat the food they produce.6 Marry and have children. Then find spouses for them so that you may have many grandchildren. Multiply! Do not dwindle away!7 And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare."
8 This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Do not let your prophets and fortune-tellers who are with you in the land of Babylon trick you. Do not listen to their dreams,9 because they are telling you lies in my name. I have not sent them," says the LORD.
10 This is what the LORD says: "You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again.11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.12 In those days when you pray, I will listen.13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.14 I will be found by you," says the LORD. "I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land."
15 You claim that the LORD has raised up prophets for you in Babylon.16 But this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David's throne and all those still living here in Jerusalem—your relatives who were not exiled to Babylon.17 This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: "I will send war, famine, and disease upon them and make them like bad figs, too rotten to eat.18 Yes, I will pursue them with war, famine, and disease, and I will scatter them around the world. In every nation where I send them, I will make them an object of damnation, horror, contempt, and mockery.19 For they refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them repeatedly through the prophets I sent. And you who are in exile have not listened either," says the LORD.
20 Therefore, listen to this message from the LORD, all you captives there in Babylon.21 This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says about your prophets—Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah—who are telling you lies in my name: "I will turn them over to Nebuchadnezzar* for execution before your eyes.22 Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, 'May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!'23 For these men have done terrible things among my people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have lied in my name, saying things I did not command. I am a witness to this. I, the LORD, have spoken."
A Message for Shemaiah
24 The LORD sent this message to Shemaiah the Nehelamite in Babylon:25 "This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: You wrote a letter on your own authority to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, and you sent copies to the other priests and people in Jerusalem. You wrote to Zephaniah,
26 "The LORD has appointed you to replace Jehoiada as the priest in charge of the house of the LORD. You are responsible to put into stocks and neck irons any crazy man who claims to be a prophet.27 So why have you done nothing to stop Jeremiah from Anathoth, who pretends to be a prophet among you?28 Jeremiah sent a letter here to Babylon, predicting that our captivity will be a long one. He said, 'Build homes, and plan to stay. Plant gardens, and eat the food they produce.'"
29 But when Zephaniah the priest received Shemaiah's letter, he took it to Jeremiah and read it to him.30 Then the LORD gave this message to Jeremiah:31 "Send an open letter to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, 'This is what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Since he has prophesied to you when I did not send him and has tricked you into believing his lies,32 I will punish him and his family. None of his descendants will see the good things I will do for my people, for he has incited you to rebel against me. I, the LORD, have spoken!'" | <urn:uuid:9cfd642d-781d-4501-b663-2ea5cecf7f73> | 2013-05-26T02:49:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Small improvement in comatose Dutch prince
- From: AAP
- November 20, 2012
DUTCH Prince Friso, brain-damaged and in a coma after being caught in an avalanche eight months ago, is showing some signs of improvement, the palace says.
"Recently Prince Friso has been showing small signs of consciousness. This condition is referred to as 'minimal consciousness'," the palace said in a statement on Monday.
"The prognosis however remains very uncertain and the medical team is still very worried," the palace added.
"It will still take many months before there is any clarity on his condition," it said.
Friso, 44, was transferred to London's Wellington Hospital in March from Austria after being buried by an avalanche on February 17.
Doctors at the time said Friso may never regain consciousness.
The father of two, the second son of Queen Beatrix, was skiing off piste in the Lech resort with a friend when the avalanche struck.
At the time the avalanche alert level was at the second highest, meaning there was a particular risk away from the prepared ski slopes.
The Dutch royal family had been vacationing in Lech, where it regularly spends its skiing holiday, when the accident happened, and members of the family made daily visits to the prince's bedside in Innsbruck before his transfer.
Prince Friso has been chief financial director of Britain's URENCO group - dealing with nuclear fuel supplies - since 2011, and previously worked with the investment bank Goldman Sachs in London. | <urn:uuid:92819eeb-53cb-40cb-9020-177fa534a288> | 2013-05-26T02:58:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lance Armstong is still not telling the whole truth, says former teammate Tyler Hamilton
- From: News Limited Network
- January 21, 2013
LONG time Lance Armstrong antagonist Tyler Hamilton says his former teammate is still not telling the whole truth about his involvement in doping.
Hamilton claims Armstrong is still not admitting to testing positive at a cycling race 12 years ago and that the Union Cycliste Internationale helped cover up the result.
Last week, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong said the UCI never made incriminating evidence disappear at the Tour of Switzerland in 2001. His denial was backed by UCI president Pat McQuaid last week.
However, evidence Armstrong did test positive in 2001 exists in an affidavit put together by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
The evidence, as told by Hamilton, explains how Armstrong said he'd tested positive at the Tour of Switzerland and his understanding that "his (Armstrong's) people had been in touch with the UCI, they were going to have a meeting and everything would be OK."
And a former director of a Swiss drug testing laboratory, Martial Saugy, told USADA boss Travis Tygart the UCI told him to meet with Armstrong's team boss s Johan Bruyneel to explain to different ways to blood dope without raising alarms.
"If he didn't test positive then why did he tell me that morning?" Hamilton said.
"Dr Saugy ... he met with Johan Bruyneel and Lance Armstrong some time after the Tour of Switzerland and told them basically how to beat the EPO test. I'm not sure why he's (Armstrong) owning up to some things and not owning up to others."
In the Winfrey interview Armstrong said the Switzerland story was a myth.
"That story isn't true. There was no positive test. There was no paying off of the lab. There was no secret meeting with the lab director."
Armstrong also said reports he offered a $250,000 donation to USADA were false.
But But Tygart's former boss Terry Madden said "one of Lance Armstrong's closest representatives" called with an offer between $200,000 and $250,000.
Hamilton won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but handed it back last year.
The last drug test Hamilton failed was back 2009. After testing Hamilton was banned from cycling for eight years and then decided retire. | <urn:uuid:4890e2ac-8c2f-483f-8e12-632ce34fa90b> | 2013-05-26T02:55:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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ROME (AP) - Rocky's going soft.
Sylvester Stallone confessed Wednesday he's woefully outnumbered at home by his girls - and couldn't be happier.
Presenting his latest film "Bullet to the Head" screening at the Rome Film Festival, he said Wednesday: "I came into my life like Rambo, like Rocky: Boom, boom, no problem. And then one girl, two girls, three of them."
He continued: "Then I realized in my house, you got three girls, a wife, two housekeepers and all the dogs are girls, five dogs. It's just me and my dog that was castrated."
Stallone struck a humorous tone, regaling reporters with the wisdom he's gained over the years in Hollywood: "Never give up."
He didn't mention the death of his eldest child Sage, who died in July at age 36 of a heart condition.
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Police: Man injured in Freeport fight
An 18-year-old man was cut in the neck during a fight Friday night in Freeport, Nassau Police said.
According to detectives, two 18-year-old men were walking on West Merrick Road when they were approached by three unknown men.
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GSTAAD, Switzerland -- Roman Polanski's family waited eagerly at the director's Alpine chalet on Friday, peeking out the windows to look for him as Swiss authorities worked out the last-minute details of his transfer to house arrest.
Polanski's children _ Elvis, 9, and Morgane, 16 _ and his wife, French actress Emmanuelle Seigner, were seen at the windows of the luxury chalet in the resort town of Gstaad. Two police officers accompanied Elvis for a brief walk in the garden.
A private security firm guarded the house Thursday night, and a guard opened shutters on the building Friday morning. Four police officers in orange vests stood outside the building, keeping the curious and reporters at a distance.
Red-and-white striped police security tape and a wooden fence marked out an area around the house that was closed to strangers.
Police were expected to bring Polanski to the chalet later in the day because he has completed the conditions of his house arrest, including posting the full $4.5 million in bail, according to Swiss authorities.
Easing the transfer was a break in the weather after days of snow. Crews salted the roads to melt the ice that built up overnight.
Polanski was taken from the jail in Winterthur on Thursday to an undisclosed location for one night for "security reasons and personal protection," Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.
The 76-year-old director won't be allowed to leave his house while Switzerland decides whether to extradite him to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. He will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.
The director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" has been in Swiss custody since being arrested Sept. 26 on a U.S. warrant as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival. Authorities in Los Angeles want him returned to be sentenced after 31 years as a fugitive.
Polanski was initially accused of raping the girl after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude pill during a modeling shoot. He was indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molestation and sodomy, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.
In exchange, the judge agreed to drop the remaining charges and sent him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. The evaluator released Polanski after 42 days, but the judge said he was going to send him back to serve out the 90 days.
The filmmaker fled the U.S. on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was to be formally sentenced. He has lived since then in France, which does not extradite its citizens.
Polanski claims that the U.S. judge and prosecutors acted improperly in his case. His attorneys will argue before a California appeals court in December that the charges should be dismissed.
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CONYERS -- Two area Walmart stores were evacuated Thursday night after employees received bomb threats that turned out to be hoaxes.
According to incident reports, a caller who sounded like a black male called the Walmart stores on Dogwood Drive in Conyers and Industrial Boulevard in Covington. In each case, the caller used profanity and said he would blow up the store if it wasn't evacuated. The Covington store was called at about 8:30 p.m. and the Conyers store was called at about 10:30 p.m.
Both stores were evacuated and police conducted searches but found no explosives.
In other police news, two female roommates both went to jail on drug charges after police were called to their residence to settle a domestic dispute.
When police arrived, one of the roommates was in front of the residence at 1156 Pinedale Circle and was removing items from the residence. Kamila Madison, 33, told police that she and her girlfriend, Heather Draper, 36, had been involved in a verbal dispute, but no violent contact occurred.
Inside the house, police found Draper lying on the bed, crying hysterically. She had a cast on her leg due to a broken foot. Draper said that she and Madison had argued and that Madison had thrown a bag of Frito chips and hit her in the face.
While inside the house, police saw an open silver case in the living room. The case reportedly contained suspected methamphetamine, a lighter, cut straws, a digital scale and pipes for smoking meth.
Madison was placed under arrest. While talking with the police officer, she reportedly said the methamphetamine came from Clayton County but that it had been a while since she or Draper had used any. Draper was also placed under arrest. Both were taken to the Rockdale County Jail on charges of possession of methamphetamine. | <urn:uuid:d1bf4e17-a87e-4cf4-a909-e21d97bc3675> | 2013-05-26T02:44:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Shih-Poo - Shihpoo Breed Information
Breed Group: Not AKC Recognized
Weight: Male: 10-15; Female: 10-15 lbs
Height: 8-11 inches
Color(s): Variety of colors that include black, white, gray, brown, apricot; may be solid, sabled, and parti
The Shihpoo is created by the crossing of two breeds: Shih Tzu and Poodle. They are commonly referred to as "designer dogs" and are one of the most popular of the crosses.
The ideal Shih-poo is sturdy, compact, and solid. They should be well-proportioned in appearance and possess a lively and keen expression.
The Shih-poo is loyal, loving, and affectionate. They are not recommended for homes with small children. They do well with dogs and non-canine pets they have been raised with. They do not do well if ignored or left alone for extended periods of time. Boredom or loneliness will lead to destructive behavior and incessant barking. They are outgoing but very wary of strangers. Shih-poo's are quick to alert their family to visitors and out of the ordinary sounds.
The Shih-poo requires frequent brushing to prevent matting and tangling and occasional professional grooming. Bathing should be done when necessary. It is important to regularly clean the ears of debris and hair to prevent infection. The Shih-poo's have a low tolerance to extreme heat and cold. Dental hygiene is important to prevent early tooth loss. They may be prone to such health issues as ear infection, spinal disc disease, PRA, diabetes, anemia, heart disease, and epilepsy.
The coat of the Shih-poo may be long, straight, and profuse; curly; or a combination.
Early socialization and obedience are recommended. The Shih-poo may be difficult to housebreak. The crate training method works best. They will not respond to harsh or heavy-handed methods. Training must be done with firmness, fairness, patience, and consistency.
The Shih-poo is well suited for apartment living. They are relatively active indoors and should have a variety of safe toys to keep them occupied. Shih-poo's enjoy family play sessions, securely leashed walks, and off-lead play time in a fenced yard.
If you are looking for Shih-Poo - Shihpoo puppies for sale from reputable Shih-Poo - Shihpoo breeders or to adopt Shih Poo Shihpoos from a Shih-Poo - Shihpoo rescue then make sure you understand as much about the dog breeds you are interested in as you can. Every puppy breed is different. Begin your research by reading the breed information about the Shih-Poo - Shihpoo puppy above. Search our dog breeds section to find Shih-Poo - Shihpoo puppies that make great pets.
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Together, hydraulics and pneumatics are
known as fluid power. Fluid power is a partner in an evolving
high technology alliance that provides the world with
unprecedented control of force, torque, position and motion.
The combination of fluid power systems
with advanced electronics adds control and flexibility to the
strength of hydraulics and the speed of pneumatics. These 23
application examples show some typical applications for
this technology. The examples, though simplified for clarity,
are based on real applications.
As you read each one, you will learn
why fluid power was chosen as a power source (whether it be
hydraulic or pneumatic), and which categories of electronic
sensing and control were central to the design. The
applications are organized around four motion control
categories - force, position, velocity and acceleration - all
typical output requirements of a vehicle, machine or system.
Each application is also linked to NFPA's
Fluid Power Product Locator. This locator, with its links
to NFPA's manufacturing members, will facilitate your
exploration into the world of fluid power.
In addition to the applications below, see
the latest Case Studies of Applications Utilizing Pneumatic
and Hydraulic Technology.
The following applications in PDF
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A Jersey City man believed to be high on PCP tried to gnaw off his own wrist in a holding cell, defecated in the back of a Jersey City police cruiser and then gnawed his finger at Hudson County jail Sunday night, authorities said.
Jargget Washington, 29, of Union Street, is charged with carjacking, throwing bodily fluids at law enforcement officers and being under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance.
Police say that Washington stripped naked at the intersection of Communipaw and West Side avenues and started pounding his fists on cars and screaming incoherently.
Washington also tried to pull a driver out of a car at the intersection after he jumped on the hood and roof of the car, police said. The driver managed to fight off Washington before police arrived at 7:54 p.m.
When policed arrived, Washington took up a fighting stance and said, "Come on, come on," to cops, reports said. Washington was restrained and brought to the Jersey City Medical Center, where he was medically and psychologically cleared, police said.
While in a holding cell and still handcuffed, Washington became belligerent and began to spit at officers and ate the medical bracelet issued by the JCMC, police said. In an attempt to escape his handcuffs, Washington then began chewing on his own wrists, police said.
After refusing to cooperate with police, the 29-year-old was placed in a spit hood and leg irons, police said. He again was brought to the JCMC and later cleared to be processed by police.
It was on the way to the jail that Washington, still in hospital garb, defecated in the back of the police cruiser, police said. While at the jail, Washington gnawed one of his fingers, a spokesman for the county confirmed.
Jail officials could not immediately be reached for more details on the incident and Washington's condition. Washington is currently being treated and evaluated at the Jersey City Medical Center.
"When (Washington) was released the hospital felt that he wasn't a threat to himself or others," hospital spokesman Mark Rabson said.
Washington served slightly more than three years for selling drugs, according to Department of Corrections records. He was released in January.
PCP, or phencyclidine, can cause hallucinations and make the user extremely violent.
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Dolan made a right
decision by not signing Lin to a 25 mil. deal.
Lin's linsanity commercial value is more important than his limited basketball abilities and I believe that he is not the one could lead Knicks to a NBA championship.
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Here's the sh!tty (although unlikely) part ... what if one of them loses? Do you plug the winner against the other guy (i.e. Mayweather beats Mosley, Clottey beats Pacqiuao, do we get Mayweather vs. Clottey)? Or do we still get Mayweather vs. Pacqiuao with one of them coming off a loss? Either way the matchup has lost some luster. Or, if one of them loses, do they demand a rematch, as is so customary in this sport? That pushes this dream fight back even further, and even further still if it goes to a deciding third fight. Or what if one of them loses and a brand new challenger steps up to take on the one who won his bout? Again, pushed to the back burner indefinitely.
I don't think either of them will lose, but while it's great to see neither guy chose a slouch as their next opponent it also opens the door to the possibility of making this dream Mayweather vs. Pacquiao bout less realistic/desirable. Boxing needs both guys to win, then suck it up and get this fight done.
If one of them loses, I am 90% sure the fight will NEVER happen, ESPECIALLY if it is Pac that loses. Mayweather would not bother fighting Pacquiao if someone else beats him. If Pac loses and Mayweather wins, Mayweather would likely fight Clottey and beat him with ease. (he will then beat the man who beat "the man"- he will shout from the mountaintops that Pac was never on his level) Now if there is a rematch clause, it would surely be enforced in this scenario, leaving Pacquiao vs Clottey 2 and Floyd needing a new opponent. If Mayweather loses and Pac wins, Mayweather would likely invoke the rematch, creating Mayweather/Mosley 2 and Pac in search of a new opponent. If either loses their upcoming fight, we will likely never see the dream matchup. Hopefully they both take care of business and get the deal done. A September Pac/Floyd matchup would break PPV records. | <urn:uuid:11700ce3-025c-41c9-8b3b-47d3e5d44405> | 2013-05-26T03:02:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The IASTED international conference on "Internet and Mulitmedia Systems and Applications"
Conference date: 14-16 March 2007
The Second IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
The conference is organised by he International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED). The purpose of IASTED is to promote economic development through science and technology.
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New Orleans police are investigating a shooting in eastern New Orleans as well as assisting with a traffic accident on the high rise that may have involved the shooting victim.
Officer Garry Flot said he is trying to obtain information about the accident on the high rise. Meanwhile, officers are attempting to collect evidence at Benson and Bill streets.
At least one male suffering from a gunshot wound was found in a vehicle involved in an accident on the high rise, which has slowed traffic considerably. His age was not available immediately.
He was transported with multiple gunshot wounds from the high rise to a local hospital, according to preliminary reports.
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Perhaps its the spectacular scenery, or the clear air. Perhaps it is our small close knit community. Or perhaps its the astounding range of recreational opportunities that give Norman Wells the edge on great places to live and work.
Town of Norman Wells Budget 2012
Capital Budget 2012
General Operating Budget 2012
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Parents and Guests
Congratulations to the families and friends of our candidates!
Commencement is a recognition and celebration of academic achievement and the lasting contributions that students have made to the university.
Although often used interchangeably, the words Commencement and Graduation are not the same thing. It is important to understand that participating in a commencement ceremony does not mean that your student has completed his or her degree and has actually graduated. Commencement is a formal ceremony for candidates who have been cleared to participate by their school or program. | <urn:uuid:3cf72555-17a6-4029-b064-3d189b4d9fbd> | 2013-05-26T02:42:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Diva of the dancefloor Donna Summer has passed away at age 63, after losing a tough battle against cancer.
Affectionately referred to as the 'Queen of Disco' Summer was a five-time Grammy Award winner.
Her career peaked through the 70s and 80s with a string of huge hits including "Last Dance", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Love to Love You Baby" and "She Works Hard For Her Money."
Summer was the first female artist to ever achieve four #1 singles in a 13-month period.
Former publicist Michael Levine told CBSNews.com Summer was a force to be reckoned with.
"She had more energy in her early '50s than most artists have in their '20s," he said.
Elton John said her music would live on forever.
"Her records sound as good today as they ever did. That she has never been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a total disgrace especially when I see the second-rate talent that has been inducted," he said.
"She is a great friend to me and to the Elton John AIDS Foundation and I will miss her greatly."
A statement from Summer's family described her as "a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith."
"While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy," the statement, released by Universal Music, reads.
"Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."
Summer's music will certainly live on forever... Take a look at one of her biggest smashes - "She Works Hard For The Money"
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Filtered by: BASH
Simple Bash script that generates a report for documentation purposes.
Linux shell script to monitor Novell DirXML 1.1 and Identity Manager 2.x/3.x driver states with Nagios. Basically a wrapper for "dxcmd -getstate".
This tip from S. Koltogyan shows how to adapt the GWPOA Agent Monitor Script so it does an automated restart when manual folder deletes are necessary.
Creates a report of all users not logged in within a configured time frame. | <urn:uuid:74fdf2b7-800e-4ff9-8866-7b1dbbcf18bf> | 2013-05-26T02:51:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pigments in sixteenth-century European painting
Marika Spring, Scientific Department, National Gallery, London
Making Art in Tudor Britain
Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-8)
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Over the last few years, as part of the programme for revision of the scholarly catalogues, full technical examinations have been carried out on many of the sixteenth-century German, Netherlandish and Italian School paintings in the National Gallery. The results of analysis give a good overview of the pigments in sixteenth-century European paintings, which could provide a context in which to place the results from the Tudor paintings project. Many pigments were available all over Europe. However, it is interesting to consider whether there are distinct geographical characteristics in the way in which they were used, or whether local materials not available everywhere can be identified.
The pattern of use of blue pigments confirmed what had already been established; for example the more frequent use of high quality ultramarine in Italian paintings. It was also used extensively in Netherlandish paintings, but only three occurrences were found among the paintings in the German school catalogue. This may be for reasons of cost or availability, but it might also be because German painters had access to extremely good quality azurite. That in Saint Peter's robe in Saints Peter and Dorothy by the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece (NG 707, 1505-10) is of an intense colour that rivals ultramarine.
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
attributed to The Master of the Brandon portrait
Another new discovery was the extensive use of colourless powdered glass. There are references to the addition of colourless powdered glass to paint in a number of documentary sources, including Richard Haydocke's 1593 translation of Lomazzo, which expands on what Lomazzo says by specifically mentioning that it was used as a drier. Several seventeenth-century documentary sources, many of them English, also suggest it should be added as a drier (see Spring 2004 for references). The presence of glass was first confirmed in paintings by Raphael, mainly mixed with red lake. In every example that has been analysed the glass contains manganese, which is known to be capable of acting as a siccative for oil; indeed it would be very suitable as a drier for the glazy transparent red paint. Further evidence that its purpose was to act a drier is the context in which it was used. It was found in the mordant gilding on the throne in Raphael's Ansidei Madonna (NG1171), where it cannot have been included for aesthetic reasons as it is hidden beneath gold leaf.
The composition of vessel glass has been extensively studied by archaeologists, and clear geographical distributions, related to the local materials that were used to make the glass, have been established. The composition of the glass in paintings follows the same geographical trends: the Italian paintings have all, so far, been found to contain glass of the soda-lime type, while no soda-lime glass has been found in the Northern European paintings. Instead, high lime or mixed alkali glass was used. It is clear that this is a material which could help to establish the geographical location in which a work was produced, in the same way that a gypsum ground usually indicates a painting from southern Europe while a chalk ground is usually found on northern European paintings. As it is widespread in European paintings of this period, it seems likely that it was also used by artists in England in the sixteenth century.
L. Campbell, S. Foister and A. Roy eds, compiled and written by R. Billinge, L. Campbell, J. Dunkerton, S. Foister, J. Kirby, J. Pilc, A. Roy, M. Spring and R. White, Early Northern European Painting, National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Vol.18, 1997.
M. Spring, 'Occurrences of the Purple Pigment Fluorite on paintings in the National Gallery', National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Vol. 21, 2000, pp. 2027.
M. Spring, 'Pigments in sixteenth-century painting of the German School', in The pictorial technique of Grünewald and his peers, ed. P. Béguerie-De Paepe and M. Menu, Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar and C2RMF-CNRS, 2007, pp. 136144.
M. Spring, 'Raphael's materials: Some new discoveries and their context within early sixteenth-century painting', in Raphael's Painting Technique: Working Practices before Rome, Proceedings of the Eu-ARTECH workshop, London November 11th 2004, ed. A. Roy and M. Spring, Quaderni di Kermes, 2007, pp. 7786.
M. Spring, 'Perugino's painting materials: analysis and context within sixteenth century easel painting', Postprints of the workshop on the painting technique of Pietro Vannucci, called il Perugino, organised by INSTM and LabSTECH, Perugia April 14th15th 2003, Quaderni di Kermes, 2004, pp. 1724. | <urn:uuid:3c64984e-77ee-46cf-ab0a-1d6fbf89510f> | 2013-05-26T02:37:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Earlier today (March 29, 2011), a boy watched his father being screened for radiation at a shelter in Fukushima prefecture.
Earlier today (March 29, 2011), a boy watched his father being screened for radiation at a shelter in Fukushima prefecture. Wally Santana/AP
Here are some of today's headlines and latest developments related to the crisis in Japan, where a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami on March 11 killed thousands of people, caused widespread destruction along the country's northeast coast and crippled a nuclear power plant in Fukushima:
— "No major progress is reported in the effort to drain radioactive water filling the basements of turbine buildings near 3 reactors in the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility," Japan's NHK reports. "The delay is hampering work to cool down and stabilize the Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant."
Also from NHK: "Tokyo Electric Power Company says plutonium has been found in soil samples from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It says the radioactive substance appears to be related to the ongoing nuclear accident, but the level detected is the same as that found in other parts of Japan and does not pose a threat to human health."
"The presence of plutonium at the plant adds to the evidence that overheated fuel rods began to melt," NPR's Jon Hamilton reports from Tokyo.
— "Japan's leader insisted Tuesday that the country was on 'maximum alert' to bring its nuclear crisis under control, but the spread of radiation raised concerns about the ability of experts to stabilize the crippled reactor complex," The Associated Press writes. "Wan but resolute, Prime Minister Naoto Kan told parliament that Japan was grappling with its worst problems since World War II."
— "More than 28,000 people were killed or remain unaccounted for in the quake and tsunami," according to Japan's National Police Agency, Kyodo News reports.
— "Tohoku Disaster May Bring Automakers To Their Knees," says the top headline at the website of The Japan Times. | <urn:uuid:4c93ef6b-c691-4333-9431-1fa6b3c0af03> | 2013-05-26T02:50:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Standing Bear in his formal attire
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
On their journey westward in 1804, Lewis and Clark learned about the Ponca, a small tribe living on the west bank of the Missouri River and along what are now the lower Niobrara River and Ponca Creek in northeast Nebraska. The two did not meet as the tribe was on a hunting trip to the west.
Early Life And Movement To Reservation
Standing Bear was born around 1829 in the traditional Ponca homeland near the confluence of the Niobrara and Missouri rivers. About thirty years later, the tribe sold its homeland to the United States, retaining a 58,000-acre reservation between Ponca Creek and the Niobrara River. On this reservation the Poncas lived a life of hardscrabble farming and fear-the United States did little to protect them from attacks from the Brule Sioux.
When the federal government created the Great Sioux Reservation in 1868, the Ponca Reservation was included within its boundaries, depriving them of title to their remaining lands.
Eviction And Removal
In 1877, the federal government decided to remove the Poncas to Indian Territory. Standing Bear, a tribal leader, protested his tribe's eviction. Federal troops enforced the removal orders, with the result that the Poncas arrived in Indian Territory in the summer of 1878. Discouraged, homesick and forlorn, the Poncas found themselves on the lands of strangers, in the middle of a hot summer, with no crops or prospects for any as the time for planting was long past.
Since the tribe had left Nebraska, one-third had died and nearly all of the survivors were sick or disabled. Talk around the campfire revolved around the "old home" in the north. The death of Chief Standing Bear's sixteen-year old son in late December 1878 set in motion the event which was to bring a measure of justice and worldwide fame to the chief and his small band of followers.
Honoring A Son's Wish
Wanting to honor his son's last wish to be buried in the land of his birth and not in a strange country where his spirit would wander forever, Standing Bear gathered a few members of his tribe-mostly women and children-and started for the Ponca homeland in the north. They left in early January 1879 and trekked through the Great Plains winter, reaching the reservation of their relatives, the Omahas, about two months later. Standing Bear carried with him the bones of his son to be buried in the familiar earth along the Niobrara River.
The Court Case - Standing Bear v. Crook
Because Indians were not allowed to leave their reservation without permission, Standing Bear and his followers were labeled a renegade band. The Army, on the order of The Secretary of the Interior, arrested them and took them to Fort Omaha, the intention being to return them to Indian Territory. General George Crook, however, sympathized with Standing Bear and his followers and asked Thomas Henry Tibbles, an Omaha newspaperman, for help. Tibbles took up the cause and secured two prominent Omaha attorneys to represent Standing Bear.
The lawyers filed a federal court application for a writ of habeas corpus to test the legality of the detention, basing their case on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. The government disputed the right of Standing Bear to obtain a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that an Indian was not a "person" under the meaning of the law.
Death And Commemoration
The case of Standing Bear v. Crook began on May 1, 1879 before Judge Elmer S. Dundy in U.S. District Court in Omaha and continued into the evening of the following day. On May 12, Judge Dundy ruled in favor of Standing Bear, reasoning that he and his band were indeed "persons" under the law, entitled to sever tribal connections and were free to enjoy the rights of any other person in the land. The government appealed Dundy's decision, but the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear the case, leaving Standing Bear and his followers free in the eyes of the law.
Standing Bear died in 1908 and was buried alongside his ancestors in the Ponca homeland. At the eastern end of the 39-mile reach of the Missouri National Recreational River is a relatively new bridge. It links the communities of Niobrara, Nebraska, and Running Water, South Dakota. The official name of the structure is the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge.
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On August 3, 2006, at 1415 Pacific daylight time a Cessna 172M, N12626, impacted terrain and a ditch during takeoff from runway 13 at the Calaveras County Airport (CPU) near San Andreas, California. The certificated flight instructor (CFI), the dual student, and a passenger were not injured. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The airplane was registered to a company doing business as (d.b.a.) TDL Aero Enterprises, Merced, California. The instructional flight was conducted under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a flight plan had not been filed for the local training flight, which originated about 15 minutes prior to the accident. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
According to the CFI, he was providing instruction for the student pilot who was preparing for his private pilot check ride. They flew from Merced and landed at Calaveras County and conducted a couple of takeoffs and landings. They were in the process of practicing a soft-field takeoff when the accident occurred. The CFI's account of the sequence revealed that the student conducted the soft-field takeoff with the airplane established in a nose high pitch attitude. The CFI said that the airplane very quickly rose above ground effect and the student was a little slow in lowering the nose of the airplane to gain airspeed. The instructor said he delayed taking corrective action since the student's check ride was coming up and he wanted to see the student take action on his own. The flight continued and the student informed the CFI that it felt as though the right wing wanted to drop. The CFI took control of the airplane, lowered the nose and applied left aileron, but it was too late. The left wing dropped and the airplane descended to ground impact. | <urn:uuid:ac44d47e-f91d-4374-b5ea-38872a15ee77> | 2013-05-26T02:43:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A West German chemical company has agreed to pay $3.75 million to a woman who said her leukemia was caused by a detergent used to launder her diapers when she was a baby.
The woman, Fawna Wright, 23 years old, of Mound City, Ill., reached the settlement with the BASF Wyandotte Corporation on Monday. Her lawyers maintained that chemicals in the detergent Loxene might have harmed thousands of infants before it was pulled from the market in the 1960's.
''I'm amazed by it,'' said Ms. Wright, whose leukemia is in remission. ''Something that happened as a baby took part of my life.''
Ms. Wright sued in 1985, charging that her illness was caused by chemicals in Loxene that included pentachlorophenol, a substance more widely used as a pesticide and wood preservative. The detergent was used at Booth Memorial Hospital in St. Louis, where Ms. Wright was born. The trial was to have begun Monday.
Despite being warned as early as 1959 that pentachlorophenol was unsafe, the suit charged, the company instructed the hospital how to use Loxene on diapers, crib sheets and other linens. The hospital, now defunct, was operated by the Salvation Army for unwed mothers.
The Salvation Army agreed to pay Ms. Wright $5,000, and the Dow Chemical Company settled for $60,000, said one of her lawyers, Robert S. Bogard. Dow and Monsanto were accused of manufacturing chemicals in the detergent. Monsanto was dropped as a defendant.
In a statement, BASF said it was ''not directly responsible for her condition'' because the hospitals where it was used ''disregarded clearly stated use instructions and warnings.''
Ms. Wright became gravely ill when she was 5 days old but recovered. Her leukemia was diagnosed when she was 12 years old, the lawsuit said.
Because of sealed records, her lawyers said they were able to trace only eight other babies born at Booth at the time the hospital used Loxene.
Two died as infants and a third suffers from a learning disability, the lawyers said. In 1966, an outbreak of illness attributed to Loxene at Pembina County Hospital in Cavalier, N.D., left one infant dead, they said.
Mr. Bogard said Wyandotte Chemical, as the company was then called, should have recalled Loxene after the North Dakota outbreak instead of waiting until the product's registration was revoked more than a year later.
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Mortal Name: April Chase
Apparent Age: mid to late 20s
Actual Age: 27
Date of Birth: July 26th, 1984
April Chase, or Countess Anisavallach Speardancer ap Scathach, is a generally average young woman. Though Unseelie between Beltaine and Samhain, she is always a fair ruler, and is known to accept visitors at any time of day or night.
The status of her mortal life is relatively unknown, given that she keeps most conversations with those outside her immediate circle to Changeling matters only. Among the changelings, it is widely known that she undergoes the Oath of Truehearts with Duke Taranir on a yearly basis. | <urn:uuid:04510435-77da-415c-99c6-f7b615898561> | 2013-05-26T02:56:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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An old halfling and follower of Saint Mir, he holds the rank of Lord Protector in Lear and is an adivsor to the Emperor
Warmech is an old, bespectacled halfling cowled in a blue-gray robe. He has a kindly, almost grandfatherly smile, that is at odds with his piercing gaze. He is adorned in well made clothes with the markings of the Learen Empire on them. About his neck is a simple, silver Holy Symbol denoting him as a follower of Saint Mir.
Warmech Albeicht is a professed follower of Saint Mir, a Loyalist, and adviser to the Emperor of Lear. He holds the rank of Lord Protector of Lear and states that he is leader of the Peacekeepers. The party first encounters him on the docks in a city south of Lear. He is receiving a shipment of illicit goods from Baron Veritas through the Pharin and Benedict trading lines.
The party is found by the Peacekeepers on the ship and is escorted to the keep, where they are interviewed about their actions by Warmech. After hearing their story he encourages to eat their dinner. Warmech directed them to a processing room, so that they could go on their way. Instead the party saw a giant crystal that sapped away all hostile emotions from everyone that was affected by a toxin the food. The party would have turned, except the All-Father was angered at the corruption of his priest and took over Mikhail Pharin’s body and rained the wrath of heavenly fire upon the city. They last saw Warmech standing in the smoke of his ruined castle, glaring at them as they made their escape.
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Trees are amazing organisms. They are tall, massive, mighty and upright. But trees can be really really unusual. From deadly trees that throw exploding fruits, to those with rainbow branches and trunks, here are some of the strangest trees which will change the way you looked at these beautiful creatures.
Animals have always accompanied men at war. They have carried our soldiers and pulled our cannons. If you think that's all, then check out these stories of some of the craziest uses of animals in war.
This is one of the worst examples of war brutality. Anti tank dogs were first developed by the Soviet Union to take down German tanks during World War II. The idea was simple yet effective. Dogs were trained to find food under tanks and then starved before a battle. The dogs were then released in battle, jumping under tanks hoping for food. Each dog carried a 10-12 kg bomb which had a lever that detonated the bomb when the dog dived under the tank.
Anti tank Dogs
Socotra is a collection of 4 islands cut away from the rest of the world about 6 million years ago. It is one of the most isolated places on earth. Socotra's long isolation and fierce climate has given birth to a unique variety of endemic flora, giving Socotra the distinction of being 'the most alien looking place on earth'. | <urn:uuid:997fba63-cb55-47cf-bab0-e2c25d8c7e6b> | 2013-05-26T03:04:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tour: 14 years
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Incident Date: 7/17/1969
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Patrolman Kenneth Stiverson was shot and killed while attempting to negotiate with an escaped mental patient who had hijacked a bus. Patrolman Stiverson was sitting in the passenger seat of the cruiser and his partner was providing cover during the incident. The suspect opened fire, fatally wounding Patrolman Stiverson in the chest and shooting his partner five times, wounding him. The partner was able to return fire and kill the suspect.
Patrolman Stiverson had served with the Fort Wayne Police Department for 14 years. He was survived by his wife, daughter and five sons.
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Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War : Quarrel with the King tells the story of the first four earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants, and allies, following their high and glamorous trajectory from the 1520s through 1650 - the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history - across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. The Pembrokes were at the heart of it all: the richest family in England, with old blood and new drive, led as much by a succession of extraordinary women as by their husbands and sons. It is also the story of a power struggle, over a long century, between the family and the growing strength of the English Crown. For decades, questions of loyalty simmered: Was government about agreement and respect, or authority and compulsion? What status did traditional rights have in a changing world? Did a national emergency mean those rights could be ignored or overturned? These were the issues that in 1642 would lead to a brutal civil war, the bloodiest conflict England has ever experienced, in which the earl of Pembroke - who had been loyal till then - had no choice but to rebel against a king who he felt had betrayed both him and his country. At other times, the Pembrokes both threatened the Crown and acted as its bruisingly efficient and violent agents. They were ambivalent figures: flag bearers for an ancient England and time servers in some of the most corrupt courts England has ever known; fawning courtiers and indulgent landlords; puritanical aristocrats and rebel grandees. Nicolson's book amounts to a study in all the ambiguities involved in the exercise and maintenance of power and status.
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|Index number||Month on the same month a year ago||3 months on the same 3 months a year ago||Month on previous month||3 months on previous 3 months|
The seasonally adjusted index of production fell by 3 per cent in October 2012 compared with October 2011. This is the 19th consecutive monthly fall on the same month a year ago.
Between September 2012 and October 2012 this index fell by 0.8 per cent. The main downwards contributions were in the mining & quarrying sector where there was a fall of 3.9 per cent and, a fall in the manufacturing sector of 1.3 per cent. These falls were partially offset by an increase in the energy supply sector, which rose by 4.5 per cent, and an increase of 1.1 per cent in the water & waste management sector.
The seasonally adjusted index of manufacturing fell by 2.1 per cent in October 2012 when compared with October 2011. Nine manufacturing sub sectors fell and four rose. For this period the largest downward contributions in manufacturing output were: the manufacture of chemicals & chemical products, which fell by 9.4 per cent; the manufacture of wood and paper products, which fell 9.3 per cent and, the manufacture of rubber & plastic products which fell by 9.2 per cent. In contrast, the largest increase came from the manufacture of transport equipment, which rose by 6.0 per cent.
Seasonally adjusted manufacturing output fell by 1.3 per cent in October 2012 compared with September 2012, following no change in growth between August and September 2012.
Ten manufacturing sub sectors fell, two rose and one remained the same. The largest contributions to the month on month fall were: the manufacture of food products, beverages & tobacco, which fell by 2.4 per cent (largely due to the alcohol manufacturing industries); the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, which fell by 5.1 per cent and the manufacture of coke & refined petroleum, which fell by 19.6 per cent.
The large month on month fall in the manufacture of coke & refined petroleum was due to planned maintenance and lower production reported at a number of sites.
Output of the mining & quarrying industries fell by 20.9 per cent in October 2012 compared with October 2011.
The largest downward contributions came from extraction of oil & gas, which fell by 26.9 per cent, followed by the mining of coal and lignite, which fell by 27.8 per cent.
Between September 2012 and October 2012 the mining & quarrying sector fell by 3.9 per cent. The main downwards contribution was from the extraction of oil & gas, which fell by 4.4 per cent. Output for other mining and quarrying fell by 2.8 per cent for the same period.
Operational repairs in a large North Sea oil field continued in October 2012, reducing output.
Energy supply output rose by 9.1 per cent in October 2012 compared with October 2011. This was largely due to an increase in, electrical power generation, transmission & distribution of 10.2 per cent.
Between September 2012 and October 2012 energy output supply rose by 4.5 per cent. This was largely due to an increase in gas supply of 18.5 per cent. This was partially caused by increased demand for gas in the production of electricity.
Evidence also shows lower temperatures for the period - October 2012 was 2.9 degrees colder when compared with October 2011 and, 3.7 degrees colder in October 2012 than in September 2012.
Water & waste management rose by 2.4 per cent in October 2012 when compared with October 2011.
Between September 2012 and October 2012 water & waste management output rose by 1.1 per cent.
All revisions to Index of Production quarters are estimated to have minimal impact (less than 0.05 percentage points) on previously published estimates of GDP quarterly growth rates.
The Index of Production (IoP) measures the output of the production industries in the UK. Figures are adjusted for seasonal variations unless otherwise stated and the reference year is 2009=100. For an explanation of the terms used in this bulletin, please see the Background Notes section. Care should be taken when using the month on month growth rates due to their volatility. An assessment of the quality of the production statistics is available in the background notes.
|Description||% of production||Month on same month a year ago growth (%)||Contribution to production (% points)||Month on previous month growth (%)||Contribution to production (% points)|
Headline figures for the Index of Production are:
Total Index of Production; Sector B Mining & quarrying; and within this Division 06 Oil & gas extraction; Sector C Manufacturing; Sector D Electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning; and Sector E Water supply, sewerage & waste management.
Individual contributions may not sum to the total due to rounding.
|Sub-sector||Summary Description||% of production||Month on same month a year ago growth (%)||Contribution to production (% points)||Month on previous month growth (%)||Contribution to production (% points)|
|CA||Food, beverages and tobacco||11.9||-2.7||-0.35||-2.4||-0.31|
|CB||Textiles and leather products||2.0||-3.6||-0.07||0.2||0.00|
|CC||Wood, paper and printing||5.5||-9.3||-0.48||-0.6||-0.03|
|CD||Coke and petroleum||0.8||-29.8||-0.22||-19.6||-0.13|
|CG||Rubber and plastic products||4.7||-9.2||-0.44||-2.2||-0.10|
|CI||Computer, electronic & optical||4.3||8.7||0.34||2.1||0.09|
|CK||Machinery and equipment||4.8||-5.7||-0.37||-0.2||-0.01|
|CM||Other manufacturing & repair||4.5||-4.3||-0.20||-1.5||-0.07|
Manufacturing consists of 13 sub-sectors listed above with the percentage of the total they account for. The larger the percentage contribution, the more likely the impact on the overall manufacturing growth rate will be significant.
The seasonally adjusted index of mining & quarrying in October 2012 fell by 20.9 per cent compared with October 2011, while Oil & gas extraction decreased by 26.9 per cent contributing 20.2 percentage points to the fall in mining & quarrying.
The seasonally adjusted index of manufacturing in October 2012 fell by 2.1 per cent compared with October 2011. In detail:
Output decreased in nine of the 13 manufacturing sub-sectors and rose in four,
the largest contributions to the decrease in output came from the manufacture of chemicals & chemical products, which fell by 9.4 per cent, and in the manufacture of wood, paper products & printing, which fell by 9.3 per cent,
within the manufacture of chemicals & chemical products industries, the main falls were in petrochemicals, which fell by 19.5 per cent and, paints, varnishes & similar coatings, which fell by 14.8 per cent,
within the manufacture of wood, paper products & printing industries, the main falls were in the printing & reproduction of recorded media, which fell by 15.1 per cent and paper & paper products, which fell by 2.9 per cent,
chemicals & chemical products contributed approximately 0.8 percentage points to the 2.1 per cent month on same month a year ago fall in overall manufacturing with wood, paper products & printing contributing approximately 0.7 percentage points.
The seasonally adjusted index of the electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supply industries in October 2012 rose by 9.1 per cent compared with October 2011. The main movements were:
electric power generation, transmission & distribution which rose by 10.2 per cent, and contributed 8.5 percentage points to the 9.1 per cent month on same month a year ago rise,
manufacture of gas & gas distribution, which rose by 3.7 per cent, and contributed 0.6 percentage points to the 9.1 per cent month on same month a year ago rise.
The seasonally adjusted index of the water supply, sewerage & waste management industries in October 2012 rose by 2.4 per cent compared with October 2011. The main movement was in sewerage, which rose by 6.9 per cent and contributed 2.3 percentage points to the overall rise in water supply & waste management.
This release conforms to the standard revisions policy for National Accounts (67.8 Kb Pdf) . In this release, periods from January 2011 are open for revision.
Since last month, there has been a number of late responses to the Monthly Business Survey and the re-estimation of the seasonal-adjustment factors. This has resulted in a downwards revision of 0.4 percentage points for the month on month growth rate in September 2012.
The monthly United Kingdom (UK) Index of Production (IoP) provides a timely indicator of growth in the output of production industries at constant prices. The IoP is a key economic indicator and one of the earliest short-term measures of economic activity and shares exactly the same industry coverage as the corresponding quarterly series within UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The main output is a seasonally adjusted estimate of total production and broad sector groupings of mining & quarrying, manufacturing, energy and water supply & sewerage. In general, seasonally adjusted output estimates are available down to the National Accounts Supply Use Table (SUT) level.
Output estimates are calculated by taking value estimates and adjusting them to remove the impact of price changes, or by using direct volume estimates. The total IoP estimate and various breakdowns are widely used in private and public sector institutions, particularly the Bank of England and Her Majesty’s Treasury, to assist in informed policy and decision making.
Summary statistic tables (41.5 Kb Excel sheet) showing current growth rates compared with historical information for the IoP and the Index of Manufacturing (IoM) are available as part of this release.
This release conforms to the standard revisions policy for National Accounts. In this release, periods from January 2011 are open for revision.
An article outlining the ONS policy on special events is available.
Queen's Diamond Jubilee
As part of the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee there were changes to bank holidays in May and June 2012. The late May bank holiday moved into June, and there was an additional day's holiday. The change to the holidays counts as a statistical special event in line with ONS's policy on Special Events. Caution should be taken when interpreting the movements in affected outputs that involve May and June 2012.
Olympics and Paralympics
The Olympics took place from 27 July to 12 August 2012 (with a few events starting on 25 July), and the Paralympics from 29 August to 9 September. For most economic statistics, any direct effect of the Olympics was mainly reflected in the August estimate, although some of the Paralympics-associated activity took place in September. Wider effects, for example if the presence of the Olympics has influenced the number of non-Olympics tourist visits, may of course affect any of the summer months.
This commentary is intended to help users to interpret the statistics in the light of events. As explained in ONS’s Special Events policy, it is not possible to make an estimate of the effect of the Olympics and Paralympics on particular series, only on the basis of information collected in those series. More details of how certain series are affected are in an Information Note, and an article explaining how various elements are reflected in the National Accounts was published in July 2012.
The Index of Production release for November 2012 will have a revisions period back to October 2012.
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Understanding the data
Short guide to the Index of Production
This Statistical Bulletin gives details of the index of output of the production industries in the United Kingdom. Index numbers of output in this Statistical Bulletin are on the base 2009=100 and are classified to the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). The production industries, which accounted for 15.6 per cent of gross domestic product in 2009, cover mining and quarrying (Sector B), manufacturing (Sector C), gas and electric (Sector D), and water supply and sewerage (Sector E).
Interpreting the data
The non-seasonally adjusted series contain elements relating to the impact of the standard reporting period, moving holidays and trading day activity. When making comparisons it is recommended that users focus on seasonally adjusted estimates as these have the seasonal effects and systematic calendar related components removed.
Figures for the most recent months are provisional and subject to revision in light of (a) late responses to surveys and administrative sources and (b) revisions to seasonal adjustment factors which are re-estimated every month and reviewed annually (changes from the latest review are included in this release).
Definitions and explanations
Definitions found within the main statistical bulletin are listed here:
Chained volume measure: An index number from a chain index of quantity. The index number for the reference period of the index may be set equal to 100 or to the estimated monetary value of the item in the reference period.
Index number: A measure of the average level of prices, quantities or other measured characteristics relative to their level for a defined reference period or location. It is usually expressed as a percentage.
Seasonally adjusted: Seasonal adjustment aids interpretation by removing effects associated with the time of the year or the arrangement of the calendar, which could obscure movements of interest.
Use of the data
The IoP is a key economic indicator and one of the earliest short-term measures of economic activity. The main output is a seasonally adjusted estimate of total production and broad sector groupings of mining & quarrying, manufacturing, energy and water supply & sewerage. The total IoP estimate and various breakdowns are widely used in private and public sector institutions, particularly the Bank of England and Her Majesty’s Treasury, to assist in informed policy and decision making.
An article about the Index of Production methodology (42.7 Kb Pdf) is available on the National Statistics website.
Composition of the data
The Index of Production uses a variety of different data from sources which are produced on either a quarterly or monthly basis.
Most of the series are derived using current price turnover deflated by a suitable price index. This includes the Monthly Business Survey (MBS) data; an ONS short-term survey on different sectors of the economy. It is one of the main data sources used in the compilation of the Index of Production.
The index numbers in this Statistical Bulletin are all seasonally adjusted. This aids interpretation by removing annually recurring fluctuations, for example, due to holidays or other regular seasonal patterns. Unadjusted data are also available.
Seasonal adjustment removes regular variation from a time series. Regular variation includes effects due to month lengths, different activity near particular events such as shopping activity before Christmas, and regular holidays such as the May bank holiday. Some features of the calendar are not regular each year, but are predictable if we have enough data - for example the number of certain days of the week in a month may have an effect, or the impact of the timing of Easter. As Easter changes between March and April we can estimate its effect on time series and allocate it between March and April depending on where Easter falls. Estimates of the effects of day of the week and Easter are used respectively to make trading day and Easter adjustments prior to seasonal adjustments.
Although leap years only happen every four years, they are predictable and regular and their impact can be estimated. Hence, if there is a leap year effect, it is removed as part of regular seasonal adjustment.
It is common for the value of a group of financial transactions to be measured in several time periods. The values measured will include both the change in the volume sold and the effect of the change of prices over that year. Deflation is the process whereby the effect of price change is removed from a set of values.
All series, unless otherwise quoted, are measured at constant basic prices. Deflators adjust the value series to take out the effect of price change to give the volume series.
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Summary quality report
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Figures for the most recent months are provisional and subject to revision in light of (a) late responses to the Monthly Business Survey MBS and (b) revisions to seasonal adjustment factors which are re-estimated every period.
The Index of Production release for November 2012 will have a revisions period back to October 2012.
National Accounts revision policy (67.8 Kb Pdf) can be found on the National Statistics website.
One indication of the reliability of the key indicators in this bulletin can be obtained by monitoring the size of revisions. The table below is based on the revisions which have occurred over the last five years. Please note that these indicators only report summary measures for revisions. The revised data may, themselves, be subject to sampling or other sources of error.
The following table presents a summary of the differences between the first estimates published between November 2006 and October 2011 and the estimates published 12 months later.
|Growth rates||Value in latest period||Average||Absolute average|
|Production - 3 month||-1.0||-0.15||0.31|
|Manufacturing - 3 month||-0.7||-0.14||0.37|
|Production - 1 month||-0.8||-0.11||*||0.27|
|Manufacturing - 1 month||-1.3||-0.09||0.30|
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Enter KATHERINA and BIANCA
- Bianca. Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
To make a bondmaid and a slave of me-
That I disdain; but for these other gawds,
Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,
Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat;
Or what you will command me will I do,
So well I know my duty to my elders.
- Katherina. Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell
Whom thou lov'st best. See thou dissemble not.
- Bianca. Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
I never yet beheld that special face
Which I could fancy more than any other.
- Katherina. Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?
- Bianca. If you affect him, sister, here I swear
I'll plead for you myself but you shall have him.
- Katherina. O then, belike, you fancy riches more:
You will have Gremio to keep you fair.
- Bianca. Is it for him you do envy me so?
Nay, then you jest; and now I well perceive
You have but jested with me all this while.
I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
- Katherina. [Strikes her] If that be jest, then an the rest was so.
- Baptista Minola. Why, how now, dame! Whence grows this insolence?
Bianca, stand aside- poor girl! she weeps.
[He unbinds her]
Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.
For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit,
Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?
When did she cross thee with a bitter word?
- Katherina. Her silence flouts me, and I'll be reveng'd.
[Flies after BIANCA]
- Katherina. What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding-day,
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me; I will go sit and weep,
Till I can find occasion of revenge. Exit KATHERINA
Enter GREMIO, with LUCENTIO in the habit of a mean man; PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO as a musician; and TRANIO, as LUCENTIO, with his boy, BIONDELLO, bearing a lute and books
- Gremio. Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.
- Petruchio. And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter
Call'd Katherina, fair and virtuous?
- Gremio. You are too blunt; go to it orderly.
- Petruchio. You wrong me, Signior Gremio; give me leave.
I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,
Her affability and bashful modesty,
Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour,
Am bold to show myself a forward guest
Within your house, to make mine eye the witness
Of that report which I so oft have heard.
And, for an entrance to my entertainment,
I do present you with a man of mine,
Cunning in music and the mathematics,
To instruct her fully in those sciences,
Whereof I know she is not ignorant.
Accept of him, or else you do me wrong-
His name is Licio, born in Mantua.
- Baptista Minola. Y'are welcome, sir, and he for your good sake;
But for my daughter Katherine, this I know,
She is not for your turn, the more my grief.
- Petruchio. I see you do not mean to part with her;
Or else you like not of my company.
- Baptista Minola. Mistake me not; I speak but as I find.
Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name?
- Petruchio. Petruchio is my name, Antonio's son,
A man well known throughout all Italy.
- Gremio. Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,
Let us that are poor petitioners speak too.
Bacare! you are marvellous forward.
- Petruchio. O, pardon me, Signior Gremio! I would fain be doing.
- Gremio. I doubt it not, sir; but you will curse your wooing.
Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am sure of it. To
express the like kindness, myself, that have been more kindly
beholding to you than any, freely give unto you this young
scholar [Presenting LUCENTIO] that hath been long studying at
Rheims; as cunning in Greek, Latin, and other languages, as the
other in music and mathematics. His name is Cambio. Pray accept
- Baptista Minola. A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio. Welcome, good Cambio.
[To TRANIO] But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger.
May I be so bold to know the cause of your coming?
- Tranio. Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own
That, being a stranger in this city here,
Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me
In the preferment of the eldest sister.
This liberty is all that I request-
That, upon knowledge of my parentage,
I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo,
And free access and favour as the rest.
And toward the education of your daughters
I here bestow a simple instrument,
And this small packet of Greek and Latin books.
If you accept them, then their worth is great.
- Tranio. Of Pisa, sir; son to Vincentio.
- Baptista Minola. A mighty man of Pisa. By report
I know him well. You are very welcome, sir.
Take you the lute, and you the set of books;
You shall go see your pupils presently.
[Enter a SERVANT]
Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
To my daughters; and tell them both
These are their tutors. Bid them use them well.
[Exit SERVANT leading HORTENSIO carrying the lute and LUCENTIO with the books]
We will go walk a little in the orchard,
And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
And so I pray you all to think yourselves.
- Petruchio. Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,
And every day I cannot come to woo.
You knew my father well, and in him me,
Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
Which I have bettered rather than decreas'd.
Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
What dowry shall I have with her to wife?
- Baptista Minola. After my death, the one half of my lands
And, in possession, twenty thousand crowns.
- Petruchio. And for that dowry, I'll assure her of
Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
Let specialities be therefore drawn between us,
That covenants may be kept on either hand.
- Baptista Minola. Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,
That is, her love; for that is all in all.
- Petruchio. Why, that is nothing; for I tell you, father,
I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;
And where two raging fires meet together,
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
So I to her, and so she yields to me;
For I am rough, and woo not like a babe.
- Baptista Minola. Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed
But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words.
- Petruchio. Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
That shake not though they blow perpetually.
Re-enter HORTENSIO, with his head broke
- Hortensio. For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.
- Hortensio. I think she'll sooner prove a soldier:
Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
- Hortensio. Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me.
I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering,
When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
'Frets, call you these?' quoth she 'I'll fume with them.'
And with that word she struck me on the head,
And through the instrument my pate made way;
And there I stood amazed for a while,
As on a pillory, looking through the lute,
While she did call me rascal fiddler
And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms,
As she had studied to misuse me so.
- Petruchio. Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench;
I love her ten times more than e'er I did.
O, how I long to have some chat with her!
- Baptista Minola. Well, go with me, and be not so discomfited;
Proceed in practice with my younger daughter;
She's apt to learn, and thankful for good turns.
Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,
Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?
- Petruchio. I pray you do. Exeunt all but PETRUCHIO
I'll attend her here,
And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
Say that she rail; why, then I'll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.
Say she be mute, and will not speak a word;
Then I'll commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,
As though she bid me stay by her a week;
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.
But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak.
Good morrow, Kate- for that's your name, I hear.
- Katherina. Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
They call me Katherine that do talk of me.
- Petruchio. You lie, in faith, for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
But, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation-
Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town,
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,
Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife.
- Katherina. Mov'd! in good time! Let him that mov'd you hither
Remove you hence. I knew you at the first
You were a moveable.
- Petruchio. Thou hast hit it. Come, sit on me.
- Katherina. Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
- Petruchio. Women are made to bear, and so are you.
- Katherina. No such jade as you, if me you mean.
- Petruchio. Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee!
For, knowing thee to be but young and light-
- Katherina. Too light for such a swain as you to catch;
And yet as heavy as my weight should be.
- Katherina. Well ta'en, and like a buzzard.
- Petruchio. O, slow-wing'd turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?
- Katherina. Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
- Petruchio. Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
- Katherina. If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
- Petruchio. My remedy is then to pluck it out.
- Katherina. Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.
- Petruchio. Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?
In his tail.
- Katherina. Yours, if you talk of tales; and so farewell.
- Petruchio. What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
- Petruchio. I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
- Katherina. So may you lose your arms.
If you strike me, you are no gentleman;
And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
- Petruchio. A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books!
- Katherina. What is your crest- a coxcomb?
- Petruchio. A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.
- Katherina. No cock of mine: you crow too like a craven.
- Petruchio. Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour.
- Katherina. It is my fashion, when I see a crab.
- Petruchio. Why, here's no crab; and therefore look not sour.
- Katherina. Well aim'd of such a young one.
- Petruchio. Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.
- Petruchio. Nay, hear you, Kate- in sooth, you scape not so.
- Katherina. I chafe you, if I tarry; let me go.
- Petruchio. No, not a whit; I find you passing gentle.
'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,
And now I find report a very liar;
For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers.
Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,
Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk;
But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers;
With gentle conference, soft and affable.
Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?
O sland'rous world! Kate like the hazel-twig
Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue
As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels.
O, let me see thee walk. Thou dost not halt.
- Katherina. Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.
- Petruchio. Did ever Dian so become a grove
As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate;
And then let Kate be chaste, and Dian sportful!
- Katherina. Where did you study all this goodly speech?
- Petruchio. It is extempore, from my mother wit.
- Katherina. A witty mother! witless else her son.
- Petruchio. Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed.
And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
That you shall be my wife your dowry greed on;
And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;
For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,
Thou must be married to no man but me;
For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
Conformable as other household Kates.
[Re-enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and TRANIO]
Here comes your father. Never make denial;
I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
- Petruchio. How but well, sir? how but well?
It were impossible I should speed amiss.
- Katherina. Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
You have show'd a tender fatherly regard
To wish me wed to one half lunatic,
A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
- Petruchio. Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world
That talk'd of her have talk'd amiss of her.
If she be curst, it is for policy,
For,she's not froward, but modest as the dove;
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.
And, to conclude, we have 'greed so well together
That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.
- Katherina. I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first.
- Gremio. Hark, Petruchio; she says she'll see thee hang'd first.
- Tranio. Is this your speeding? Nay, then good-night our part!
- Petruchio. Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself;
If she and I be pleas'd, what's that to you?
'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,
That she shall still be curst in company.
I tell you 'tis incredible to believe.
How much she loves me- O, the kindest Kate!
She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss
She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
That in a twink she won me to her love.
O, you are novices! 'Tis a world to see,
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
Give me thy hand, Kate; I will unto Venice,
To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.
Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;
I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.
- Baptista Minola. I know not what to say; but give me your hands.
God send you joy, Petruchio! 'Tis a match.
- Gremio. [with TRANIO:] Amen, say we; we will be witnesses.
- Petruchio. Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.
I will to Venice; Sunday comes apace;
We will have rings and things, and fine array;
And kiss me, Kate; we will be married a Sunday.
Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHERINA severally
- Gremio. Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly?
- Baptista Minola. Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,
And venture madly on a desperate mart.
- Tranio. 'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you;
'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.
- Gremio. No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter:
Now is the day we long have looked for;
I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.
- Tranio. And I am one that love Bianca more
Than words can witness or your thoughts can guess.
- Gremio. Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
- Tranio. Greybeard, thy love doth freeze.
- Gremio. But thine doth fry.
Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth.
- Tranio. But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth.
- Baptista Minola. Content you, gentlemen; I will compound this strife.
'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both
That can assure my daughter greatest dower
Shall have my Bianca's love.
Say, Signior Gremio, what can you assure her?
- Gremio. First, as you know, my house within the city
Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;
In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,
Valance of Venice gold in needle-work;
Pewter and brass, and all things that belongs
To house or housekeeping. Then at my farm
I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls,
And all things answerable to this portion.
Myself am struck in years, I must confess;
And if I die to-morrow this is hers,
If whilst I live she will be only mine.
- Tranio. That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me:
I am my father's heir and only son;
If I may have your daughter to my wife,
I'll leave her houses three or four as good
Within rich Pisa's walls as any one
Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;
Besides two thousand ducats by the year
Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.
What, have I pinch'd you, Signior Gremio?
- Gremio. Two thousand ducats by the year of land!
[Aside] My land amounts not to so much in all.-
That she shall have, besides an argosy
That now is lying in Marseilles road.
What, have I chok'd you with an argosy?
- Tranio. Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less
Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses,
And twelve tight galleys. These I will assure her,
And twice as much whate'er thou off'rest next.
- Gremio. Nay, I have off'red all; I have no more;
And she can have no more than all I have;
If you like me, she shall have me and mine.
- Tranio. Why, then the maid is mine from all the world
By your firm promise; Gremio is out-vied.
- Baptista Minola. I must confess your offer is the best;
And let your father make her the assurance,
She is your own. Else, you must pardon me;
If you should die before him, where's her dower?
- Tranio. That's but a cavil; he is old, I young.
- Gremio. And may not young men die as well as old?
- Baptista Minola. Well, gentlemen,
I am thus resolv'd: on Sunday next you know
My daughter Katherine is to be married;
Now, on the Sunday following shall Bianca
Be bride to you, if you make this assurance;
If not, to Signior Gremio.
And so I take my leave, and thank you both.
- Gremio. Adieu, good neighbour. Exit BAPTISTA
Now, I fear thee not.
Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
To give thee all, and in his waning age
Set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy!
An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy. Exit
- Tranio. A vengeance on your crafty withered hide!
Yet I have fac'd it with a card of ten.
'Tis in my head to do my master good:
I see no reason but suppos'd Lucentio
Must get a father, call'd suppos'd Vincentio;
And that's a wonder- fathers commonly
Do get their children; but in this case of wooing
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An interprocedural framework for data redistributions in distributed memory machines
In a distributed memory multiprocessing system, the manner in which data and computations are distributed among the processors has a significant impact on the resultant performance. On account of the varying data reference patterns at different points of a program it may be more profitable to change the data distributions over the course of the program to adapt to these variations. This thesis proposes a framework to automatically select data distributions for different points of a program in the presence of procedure calls, at compile-time. Since modifying a distribution from one point to another involves interprocessor communication overheads called redistributionoverheads, it is critical to choose new distributions so that the resultant redistribution overheads are sufficiently offset by the computational gains contributed by the new distributions in subsequent phases of computation. In our framework, each procedure in the program is first analyzed to identify points at which data distributions may be required to be modified. These points are then associated with a set of distributions that favour its computations. These distributions form the distribution search space for that point. Each distribution is assigned a relative estimate of its ability to parallelize the computations for which it was chosen. Interprocedural analysis techniques are used to propagate the data distribution information across procedures. A dynamic programming strategy is then used to select distributions from these search spaces for different points along the execution path of the program. The selection is done so that the resultant computational gains in the presence of redistribution losses is maximum. The final selected distributions determine the data redistributions required along each execution path in the program. Experimental results obtained by testing the dynamic programming algorithm on some standard HPF programs indicate that it is possible to determine efficient dynamic data distributions for a program in the presence of procedure boundaries, at compile-time.
School Location:USA - Ohio
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:interprocedural data redistributions parallelism functional
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Safely consolidate multiple applications onto one system and increase your utilization rates with the advanced functionality of Oracle Solaris 10. Run Oracle Solaris 8, Oracle Solaris 9 and Oracle Solaris 10 applications in Containers (also known as Zones) on the latest systems and save on power, space, cooling, administrative, and support costs.
With the escalating costs of managing your vast networks of servers and software components, you're looking for new ways to reduce IT infrastructure costs and better manage service levels. Consolidating multiple applications onto a single system means changing the way they're deployed, and this can be a very expensive solution. And that's where Oracle Solaris Virtualization and the Oracle Solaris Operating System comes in.
Oracle Solaris Containers uses virtualization to allow you to maintain the one-application-per-server deployment model, while sharing hardware resources. Oracle Solaris Containers is part of a comprehensive offering of Oracle Solaris virtualization technologies which includes Oracle VM Server for SPARC (previously Logical Domains (LDoms)).
At a Glance
With Oracle Solaris Containers you can maintain the one-application-per-server deployment model while simultaneously sharing hardware resources. An integral part of the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System, Oracle Solaris Containers isolate software applications and services using flexible, software-defined boundaries and allows many private execution environments to be created within a single instance of the Oracle Solaris 10 OS.
You can also run your Oracle Solaris 8, Oracle Solaris 9, and Linux applications in Containers on Oracle Solaris 10 and the latest hardware. In other words, the ability to move to the latest hardware is decoupled from the corresponding need to move to the latest version of Oracle Solaris, reducing risks and giving you more time to upgrade your applications directly to Oracle Solaris 10.
Using the built-in virtualization features of Oracle Solaris Containers provides you the benefits of consolidation and business agility in your datacenter today. Oracle Solaris Containers isolate software applications and services using flexible, software-defined boundaries allowing multiple private execution environments to run side by side within a single instance of the Oracle Solaris 10 OS.With each environment having its own identity, separate from the underlying hardware, it behaves as if it's running on its own system making consolidation simple, safe, and secure. Be it a single system development and test environment, a model for rapid application deployment onto your production systems, a way to securely protect your web facing applications or even a consolidation platform; Oracle Solaris Containers provides the solution on choice for the enterprise.
The Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers product bundles together Oracle Solaris 8 Containers and Oracle Solaris 9 Containers. With Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers it's easy to move your existing Oracle Solaris 8 OS and Oracle Solaris 9 OS application environments onto new, cost effective, and more powerful systems running the Oracle Solaris 10 OS.
It's easy with Oracle Solaris 8 Containers and Oracle Solaris 9 Containers to move your existing Oracle Solaris 8 OS and Oracle Solaris 9 OS application environments onto new, cost effective, and more powerful systems running the Oracle Solaris 10 OS. This additional Containers software captures the entire environment of the original source system, either Oracle Solaris 8 or Oracle Solaris 9, and then transfers this environment to a Container running on the target Oracle Solaris 10 system. The automated process of capturing and moving the image makes it easier, safer, and faster to complete and decouples the hardware upgrade from a corresponding OS and application upgrade. Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9 applications can now run in Containers on Oracle Solaris 10.
This additional Containers software is a unique and elegant software and services solution, developed and supported by the same engineering team that created the original Oracle Solaris 8, 9, and 10 Operating Systems. The end result is either a Oracle Solaris 8 Container or a Oracle Solaris 9 Container: a run time environment that can run the migrated environment on an Oracle Solaris 10 system. Customers can then transition the original application to a native Oracle Solaris 10 application at their own pace while removing the dependency on the original OS. As a result, the migration can be completed in phases reducing risk and gaining more time as needed. The legacy environments can continue to run until they are either retired or redeployed into Oracle Solaris Containers. Multiple Oracle Solaris 8 and/or Oracle Solaris 9 environments can thus be hosted on a single SPARC system, saving money, space, and power while streamlining IT operations.
The offering consists of the following components:
The P2V (physical to virtual) Archiver tool which automatically archives, converts, and moves the original image, either Oracle Solaris 8 or Oracle Solaris 9, to the target Oracle Solaris 10 system.
The Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9 Containers which is the run time environment for the migrated applications.
A perpetual license and premier support for one year.
Software Support that is included with the product is only for support issues related to the additional Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers software and not for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS. Additionally, an Oracle Solaris 10 support agreement is required for Oracle Solaris 10 related issues. | <urn:uuid:fcf1bd0d-ea84-4d0a-9dd0-2096cc3464cd> | 2013-05-26T02:37:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Eric A. Hall has been involved with computers and networking for over twenty years, both personally and professionally. He got his start in computers as a child by writing games in Basic on an IBM S/360 at his father's office, and got his first real taste of distributed networking by running a FidoNet BBS node out of his home town in Nashville, TN.
More recently, Eric has served as the Labs Director for Network Computing magazine (designing and managing two of their test centers), has worked for two Internet startups, and has designed and managed Fortune 500 networks. Eric continues to serve as an independent consultant for a variety of network-related companies, and continues to write for the trade press on occasion.
Eric also tries to travel frequently, and has lived for extended periods on three of the seven continents. | <urn:uuid:607c5549-ee2d-42a5-b624-fa5b36cb8d65> | 2013-05-26T02:43:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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No. Pre-approval letters are known in the real estate industry as “hand-holding” letters. They say that the borrower has taken the time to work with a lender and that, in general terms, the borrower can afford to borrow a certain amount. In the best case, a pre-approval letter should be seen as an important negotiating tool.
However, pre-approval letters by themselves do not guarantee financing. The lender must also consider the value of the property; whether the property has good, marketable, and insurable title; whether the property is termite-free, and other factors. The result is that a pre-approval letter should not be regarded as a final loan commitment.
In addition, virtually all pre-approval letters contain “out” clauses for lenders. The interest rate is guaranteed — but not the number of points. The offer to finance is good — but not if market conditions change. And market conditions, of course, are always changing. | <urn:uuid:c0d5bf14-afe7-4993-b3fd-c9b7a09df47c> | 2013-05-26T03:02:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Malaria is a deadly disease spread by mosquitoes and is estimated to kill one person every 30 seconds, according to the World Health Organization. The majority victimized by this disease are children under the age of five, living in impoverished conditions throughout Africa . Yet, as the epidemic continues to escalate, more than 1.5 million people die from malaria disease each year, and more than 300 million cases are reported in over 90 countries worldwide.
In spite of these staggering statistics, an ancient Chinese herb known as artemisinin (also called ginghaosu) is proving to be a new weapon in the fight against this deadly disease. In recent test trials performed by the WHO, artemisinin-based drugs quickly reduced fevers and rapidly lowered blood-parasite levels, which can keep small outbreaks in mosquito-infested areas from becoming epidemics. Additional research findings showed the use of artemisinin was a cure for malaria in more than 90 percent of cases in certain countries.
It is estimated by the WHO that 40 percent of the world's population is at risk for malaria disease each year. While Westernized countries eradicated malaria back in the 1940's, third world countries constantly battle infections, primarily because they lack the medical resources to properly fight epidemic outbreaks. Countries where malaria disease can be predominately found include parts of Mexico , Central and South America , Dominican Republic , Haiti , Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, China , and Oceana.
In the indigent areas where the disease runs rampant, malaria is easily transmitted from person to person by a simple mosquito bite. Once bitten by a mosquito carrying the malaria infection, the iron rich blood cells in the host are attacked by the parasite through the bloodstream. The parasite then multiplies and causes the red blood cells in the human host to rupture, thus instigating immediate malaria symptom such as extreme exhaustion, high fever, shaking, chills, and severe sweating. Additional malaria symptom can include: fatigue, dizziness, headache, dry cough, nausea/vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and body aches.
However, artemisinin is not only a treatment for the disease, but a viable solution to the epidemic, as each patient treated with artemisinin then contains a sterile form of malaria disease, reducing the diseases intensity.
According to Jack Miller, licensed acupuncturist and President of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, "This is another example of science confirming the tremendous value of Chinese herbal medicine. It is very important that we make other herbs a part of mainstream treatments, for example antibiotic herbs. As more bacterial strains become resistant to pharmaceutical antibiotics, some reliance on herbs will become very important."
Discovery of the Healing Chinese Herb
The Chinese first extracted artemisinin from the sweet wormwood plant for medicinal use more than 2,000 years ago. In 340 AD a Taoist scribe finely grinded the wormwood plant, in order to extract the purifying agents to create an herb remedy for treating a high fever. Over a thousand years later, a Chinese sage known as Li Shizen discovered elements of the herb helped to ameliorate malaria symptom. Since this time, artemisinin's beneficial agents have continually been used by those practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine, applying the Chinese herb remedy to a variety of ailments including hemorrhoids, coughs and fevers as well as malaria.
However, Western medicine did not discover the healing properties of the herb until the 1960's. Chinese scientists became interested in the plant's reputed qualities and started to look at ancient Chinese herb remedies, only after testing traditional medicines had failed to produce an effective cure for malaria disease.
Once scientists discovered artemisinin was used as an herb remedy for fever, they set about distilling the herb into a tea, and then added chemicals trying to isolate the active compound in the plant. Next, the herb was manufactured in drug form and used to conduct tests on malaria patients in the 1980's. Their water-soluble form of artemisinin, called artesunate, was found to clear malaria parasites from patient's bodies faster than any drug in history. Before the Chinese launched their massive antimalarial drive, several million Chinese were infected with the disease each year. Now fewer than 100,000 fall victim to the disease.
Despite the success the Chinese had with transforming the herb into drug form, their accomplishments were not published outside of the country for more than two decades. Once the extraordinary powers of the herb become public information, researchers across the globe have become focused on how to manipulate artemisinin with modern synthetic drugs so they can inexpensively manufacture and mass-produce the remedy all across the world.
Providing a Crucial Cure for Malaria
In rural Africa , children suffer from as many as six bouts of malaria a year. In the past, this disease has been poorly treated, and the children affected by this disease die slowly of anemia. Those who survive are affected both mentally and developmentally in their growth. The primary reason these children are continually affected is because the current drug treatment Chloroquine, used since 1970, is practically useless as resistance is up to 90 percent in some areas and continuing to spread.
Artemisinin may prove to be the final solution to malaria disease as researchers are looking at the possibility that a patient may never develop resistance to the treatment.
According to Todd Luger, L.Ac., Director of Chinese Herb Academy, " Artemisinin shows promise in the treatment of malaria as well as other diseases as serious as cancer. It appears to affect the life cycle of the malaria parasite as well as the life cycle of cancer cells."
What makes this herb different from past remedies such as the drug Chloroquine, is that it kills the parasite before it has time to recognize the drug's structures. In order to prevent patients from becoming resistant to artemisinin, researchers are developing multi-drug cocktails. Using two drugs in conjunction with one another ensures destruction of the malaria parasite; therefore, if the virus was resistant to one drug, the other drug should prove to be effective. This has proven to be an effective method in treating other diseases that produce resistant strains such as AIDS and cancer.
Artemisinin is particularly effective because it acts like a bomb when introduced into the blood stream. The two main oxygen atoms that break apart in the presence of iron, filter into the red blood cells where the malaria parasite inhabits, and explodes, releasing lethal toxins that destroy the parasite. This process rapidly reduces the number of parasite in the blood to extremely small numbers. In fact, test trials have shown that artemisinin is an effective cure for malaria, killing 99 percent of malaria parasites within 48 hours, but to completely cure the infection the drug must be taken for week.
In a large scaled assault on the malaria epidemic, the WHO has dedicated itself to cutting the number of deaths from malaria over the next decade in half. This campaign will push the WHO to acquire more than 100 million doses of artemisinin it estimates it will need by late 2005. | <urn:uuid:437fcd51-3613-4cfc-a9b4-23e14e13241a> | 2013-05-26T03:08:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A soldier's romance
Disfigured Marine finds love despite injuries
Jason Poole didn't like himself after returning from three tours of duty as a Marine — two of them spent in Iraq. Once, he aspired to be a teacher. He had been tall, good looking and an athlete at Cupertino High School. But an improvised explosive device — an IED — changed his life forever in 2004.
Poole, 25, lost an eye and is deaf in his left ear as a result of the explosion. His body is peppered with shrapnel. He has sustained brain damage that impairs his ability to read, write and spell. As a result of his injuries, the Marine corporal spent two years at the Palo Alto Veteran's Administration hospital.
"I truly hated myself. I hated looking at my face," he said.
Poole thought he might never find a woman who would love him after the devastating blast.
Then, he met Angela Eastman.
Angela hadn't had great experiences with men. She had sworn off men for six years, she said. But a date with A.P., a friend of Poole's, brought Eastman and Poole together. The two met at A.P.'s home in November 2006 and became fast friends. A month later, Poole went to England for the holidays to visit his family. But Angela was constantly in his consciousness, and he wrote to her by e-mail every day for three weeks.
He wrote to ask her out, but she wrote back that she wasn't sure.
"I knew it would mean a lot of work," she said of Poole's injuries. For example, Poole can't drive and so far, can't work.
But Eastman's mother said that Poole must be someone special and caring if he would take the time to write every day from England. Eastman told Poole that when he returned from England, he would have to ask her out in person. When he returned to the By Area, he asked her out and she said yes. "Then I gave her a kiss," he said. The couple has been dating for a year and they are together every day, Poole said.
"The thing I like best — her best quality — is her lovingness and her caring," Poole said.
For Eastman, the challenge was to get Poole to love himself. When his eye was removed, he wouldn't look at her.
"He worries about his face, but I don't see that," she said.
"Jason is so special. He is very kind and funny. He tells me everyday that he loves me," she added.
Poole and Eastman face challenges, mainly with communication, they said. Sometimes in groups, Poole can't hear well and he gets mad at Eastman when he tends to get left out of the conversation. And Poole doesn't always grasp the subtleties of things Eastman says. She is learning to be more direct, she added.
But the minor spats don't dampen their greater relationship, they said. A year after their first date, Poole and Eastman are moving into a townhouse at Moffett Field.
"I believe we'll get married to each other someday," Eastman said, stressing that they are soul mates. "Jason completes my life." | <urn:uuid:ed61d2b6-e0f5-4bdd-9510-fe793ca64054> | 2013-05-26T03:03:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For patients whose vision is deteriorating due to hardening of their natural lens (cataracts), a lens implant may be appropriate. The Crystalens® is an advanced focusing implantable lens that can help you see more clearly far away, at arms length and up close without glasses or contact lenses.
In U.S. Food and Drug Administration studies, 98 percent of patients who received Crystalens® implants in both eyes had vision that allowed them to read Wall Street Journal-size print and to drive legally without glasses.
The Crystalens® is an artificial lens that is designed to replace the aging natural lens. Like the young natural lens, the Crystalens® uses the eye's muscles to change shape, which allows a person to see clearly at both distance and near without the use of glasses or contact lenses. Unlike the natural lens, the Crystalens® is designed to remain flexible permanently, which should allow good distance and near vision over a lifetime.
Crystalens® was modeled after the human eye. Like the natural lens, it uses the eye's muscle to change the shape of the lens in order to focus on objects at all distances. It dynamically adjusts to your visual needs.
The procedure for the implantation of the Crystalens® goes as follows:
- Anesthetic drops are applied to the eye for comfort.
- Cataract surgery is performed though a small-incision, clear-corneal technique using topical anesthesia.
- The Crystalens® is implanted. Crystalens® can be implanted quickly and without sensation.
- The recovery period is usually short. Most patients are able to pursue normal activities almost immediately after surgery.
- Discuss with your doctor what to expect before, during and after the procedure, as well as necessary eye drops and postoperative office visits.
- Most patients who have the Crystalens® notice an immediate improvement in the clarity of their vision and see further improvements over time.
Your doctor will perform a thorough exam to determine if Crystalens® is right for you. You may be a candidate if your eyes are healthy and you have decreased vision secondary to a cataract.
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Alejandro Garuz Is Now The New Top Spy In Panama
Friday, September 14 2012 @ 09:53 AM EDT
Contributed by: Don Winner
Garuz replaces Gustavo Perez in office. Perez was made the Executive Secretary of the Security Council on 11 March 2012, after being moved from his former position as the Director of the National Police, in the midst of a dispute with the Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino.
Garuz is the fifth person to hold the post since the start of the administration of Ricardo Martinelli, in 2009. He was preceded by Jaime Trujillo, who served between July and August 2009; Olmedo Alfaro, from August 2009 until July 2010; Julio Moltó, who was the Secretary from July 2010 to March 2012; and finally Gustavo Perez, from March to September 2012.
Garuz was named to the post one week after his daughter Marelisa married the youngest son of the President of the Republic, Luis Enrique Martinelli. As of yesterday, sources close to the state security agencies had not confirmed the reason why this change was taking place. Some indicated the change is taking place in response to certain flaws in matters of intelligence attributed to the Security Council during Perez's administration, while others said Garuz asked for the position and the president gave it to him.
However, sources reported that Perez would now become the Vice Minister of Government, replacing Javier Tejeira, and that Tejeira wound now become the Vice Minister of Security, replacing Garuz. Tejeira was also mentioned as the possible new Director of the Panamanian Sports Institute. (Prensa)
Editor's Comment: The National Council of Security and Defense is the highest ranking intelligence organization within the Panamanian government, and the Executive Secretary is in charge of that organization. They receive and have access to all of the most important and sensitive classified information in the government. For example, any intelligence information shared by the United States on matters related to drug trafficking, money laundering, arms smuggling, human trafficking, and other international crimes would be passed directly to the National Council of Security and Defense. It is their job to handle and analyze the intelligence information, and to turn it into "actionable" information which can be used by the officers of the National Police, the detectives of the Direction of Judicial Information (DIJ), the National Naval Air Service, and the National Border Service who are on the ground and in the field. And of course the National Council of Security and Defense also has operational control over Panama's domestic intelligence collection apparatus - things like their capability to monitor cell phones in the country - so they also generate their own domestic intelligence products.
Gustavo Perez has clearly fallen out of favor with Ricardo Martinelli. He started off as the Director of the National Police, a high profile position which he loved, managing a multi million dollar annual budget. But after a public dispute with his boss the Minister of Public Security Jose Raul Mulino over issues related to the control and discipline of the police officers, Perez was fired and moved to head the National Council of Security and Defense. This is obviously a position of trust for Ricardo Martinelli, and by moving Perez there, he expressed his continued confidence in him.
But (and, this is a really big BUT), the United States does not trust Gustavo Perez, due to his participation in "Plan Barricada" as a Lieutenant in the "Unidad Especial Anti Terror" (UESAT) (Special Anti Terror Unit) during the Just Cause invasion in 1989. Gustavo Perez participated in the kidnapping of US Citizens in order to be used as pawns and negotiating chips by the then military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega (See: Panama's Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Gustavo Pérez, UESAT, and "Plan Barricada" and Police Chief Gustavo Perez Denies Kidnapping US Civilians During Just Cause Invasion.)
Obviously, Garuz is one of Martinelli's most trusted advisers, even more now that their respective children have married. With this move Perez sinks even further on the food chain. As the Vice Minister of Government he will be responsible for things like the Fire Department, the National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC), and the Post Office. Not nearly as glamorous as being the Chief of Police, or the top spy in the country. But hey, he's still in the game. I suspect he will be back, sooner or later, one way or the other. | <urn:uuid:1a6e922f-41c2-4c1c-b91b-feef4de14c9a> | 2013-05-26T02:55:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Giving Advice to Your Grandchild's Parents
Spending time with your grandchild is contingent upon a healthy and friendly relationship with your grandchild's parents. Tread lightly when offering advice, and respect your child and in-law as parents. Remember that offering advice should never offend, control or modify your child's parenting style, but instead, provide a positive foundation for growth and learning.
With age comes wisdom, and you may be eager to share your wealth of knowledge about childrearing with your grandchild's parents. But be careful when giving advice to a daughter-in-law-she may be resistant to your requests. Make the distinction between offering advice, being bossy, and sharing opinions. To help you mind your manners, consider the following advice:
Never undermine and criticize the parents in front of your grandchild-this will send the grandchild mixed signals and upset the parents.
If something is truly irritating you, voice your concerns directly to the parent and not through or around the grandchild. Bottling up your emotions can also be a recipe for disaster.
Respect boundaries: this might require you to keep your opinions to yourself-even when you don't agree.
If you've offended someone, take the time to assess the situation and address the issue after both parties are calm.
Keep communication open and friendly; a hostile tone will be your own worst enemy.
Conflicts are inevitable, but let your grandchild's parents know you mean well. | <urn:uuid:0fd6c818-dfe1-41da-ab3f-279c2b6a56a7> | 2013-05-26T02:43:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I wholeheartedly agree with David McElrea's Letter to the Editor in the July 25 edition of the Roundup.
Mr. McElrea asks why numerous, troublesome questions regarding the Chediski Fire remain unanswered a year later.
Perhaps the investigation was never undertaken because of a conflict of jurisdiction -- whether BIA, U.S. Forest Service, tribal or other. Nevertheless, millions of taxpayer dollars spent in fighting the fire and untold heartache for those who lost everything as a result, gives us the right to demand answers as to what (Valinda Jo) Elliott and her companion were doing in a closed area; why she left the vehicle; how he found his way out; what happened to the vehicle; why there is no record of the television helicopter pilot's statement (if, indeed, one was ever taken) and other questions Mr. McElrea raises. Is this a case of criminal intent, or criminal negligence? Was there a cover-up?
Let's get to the bottom of this -- better late than never.
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disconnecting with limited access on wireless
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Hi, I'm using linsys WRT160NL router and it works fine with 2 laptops, but other 2 laptops have problems with disconnecting from network and them it says Limited access internet. It's happening very often and especialy when downloading.I updated firmware and tried different channels, didn't help. Network mode is Mixed, could this cause the problem? Could it be problem with internet provider? Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks PS: basic computer knowledge
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"Network mode is Mixed, could this cause the problem?"
Ideally the setting should match as closely as possible the network adapters being used. If you have "g" and "n" adapters, a "g&n" setting would be preferable to "b,g&n" for example.
Are the Laptops that work reliably using a different protocol (802.11g or 802.11n) from the ones that have the problem?
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"BTW, where from may I get a list, book etc. with all needed in Linux, you know... commands and all these things? "
Ready for some brain damage? really?
Open synaptic > bottom left Sections > Books.....
rute will do the trick, the HOWTOs will boggle your brain, bash-doc looks a possible. | <urn:uuid:60ba3862-303d-47f9-8377-fdf099654143> | 2013-05-26T02:36:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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All, Yes I want to run vmWare server on 2010 that's something I have been doing since v 0.92 (if memory serves) on pcLinuxos, I am currently running it on 2009.2 on my laptop, without issues.
Virtualbox does not seem to be a real solution for me as I need to start the VM in vmware first to remove the VMware drivers before they display anything in vb. and I have got more than a dozen VMs all setup with various OSes and versions that I use for testing, restarting all that from scratch in VB is not really appealing at this point in time. I'd much rather run Vmware : being a server I can also serve a handful of remote clients, something I don't believe VB can do (but I could be wrong)
Back to my problem, the issue is compiling the vmware local drivers (all to do with networking AFAIU) on 2.6.32 (I tried regular, .bfs and .pae kernels); there are a few patches I could find on the Internet but none fit PCLos or the exact version of vmware server; I tried patching manually the source code, but I am only pushing the issue a step further. | <urn:uuid:0468b62b-32a0-4f22-b01e-5a0df1cac347> | 2013-05-26T02:37:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Intel Closes Older Manufacturing Sites; 6,000 Jobs Affected
In total, the plant closures could affect up to 6,000 employees. However, Intel said that all of those affected would not be laid off, and could be offered contracts to remain with the company.
Specifically, Intel will close two assembly-test facilities in Penang, Malaysia and one in Cavite, Philippines. Fab 20, a 200-mm wafer plant in Hillsboro, Ore., will also be shuttered, as well as a small D2 development fab in Santa Clara, Calif.
Fab 20 is capable of producing just 8,000 wafers per month, according to SemiZone, which tracks fab production. Intel and its competitors manufacture its leading-edge products on 300-mm wafers, with correspondingly higher output. The D2 fab is larger, with an estimated output of 15,000 wafers per month, SemiZone estimated. Both use 180-nm technology; Intel's most advanced processors use 32-nm technology.
The company characterized the moves as necessary to "align its manufacturing capacity to current market conditions." However, the company is also reportedly in danger of reporting its first loss in years, although it reported a small profit for the fourth quarter of 2008.
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HP expands client consulting services
- — 15 April, 2010 06:01
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its consulting services to help enterprises get a better handle on the range of new client devices and software that have recently been introduced to the market, the company announced Wednesday.
"User experience is starting to change pretty dramatically now. The whole range of client devices is changing," said Alan Wilson, who is HP's vice president of HP's technology services' solutions infrastructure practice.
Wilson pointed to the usage of new devices such as the Apple iPad, netbooks and virtual desktop clients.
"That whole range of devices really wasn't there a few years ago," Wilson said. Another big task awaiting enterprises is migrating to Windows 7, he said.
The HP Client Infrastructure Services is a set of consultation and management offerings designed to help a business fold new client devices into their infrastructure, as well as help them with migrations to Microsoft Windows 7.
Such services would be particularly handy for companies that have a wide range of different hardware and software, and have difficulty managing these assets, said Tom Norton, an HP global practice director.
HP could help a company inventory its assets, find out what needs to be updated, and then establish a plan to streamline the infrastructure for easier management.
HP's strategic consulting services will help a customer align its IT strategy with its business strategy, and help the customer set up a road map for client infrastructure. The company also has individual consulting services for setting up client virtualization and Windows 7 migration. It can also help them package applications for virtualization and help them secure these applications. | <urn:uuid:b42a4ac0-7713-48b8-91c4-4c2f2728e918> | 2013-05-26T02:36:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The History of Information (III)
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A waste book was one of the books traditionally used in bookkeeping . It comprised a daily diary of all transactions in chronological order. [ 1 ] It differs from a daybook in that only a single waste book is kept, rather than a separate daybook for each of several categories. The waste book was intended for temporary use only; the information needed to be transcribed into a journal in order to begin to balance one's accounts. [ 2 ] The name of the book derives from the fact that, once its information was transferred to the journal, the waste book was unneeded. [ 3 ] The use of the waste book has declined with the advent of double-entry accounting .
Why Study Accounting History? The history of accounting is as old as civilization, key to important phases of history, among the most important professions in economics and business, and fascinating. Accountants participated in the development of cities, trade, and the concepts of wealth and numbers. Accountants invented writing, participated in the development of money and banking, invented double entry bookkeeping that fueled the Italian Renaissance, saved many Industrial Revolution inventors and entrepreneurs from bankruptcy, helped develop the confidence in capital markets necessary for western capitalism, and are central to the information revolution that is transforming the global economy. There are no household names among the accounting innovators; in fact, virtually no names survive before the Italian Renaissance.
John Harrison (24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and later a clockmaker . He invented the marine chronometer , a long-sought device in solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail . The problem was considered so intractable that the British Parliament offered a prize of £ 20,000 (comparable to £2.87 million in modern currency) for the solution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (c.23) (also known as Chesterfield's Act after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain . It reformed the calendar of England and British Dominions so that a new year began on 1 January rather than 25 March ( Lady Day ) and would run according to the Gregorian calendar , as used in most of western Europe . [ edit ] Reasons for change
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time , typically days , weeks , months , and years . A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system. Periods in a calendar (such as years and months) are usually, though not necessarily, synchronized with the cycle of the sun or the moon . Many civilizations and societies have devised a calendar, usually derived from other calendars on which they model their systems, suited to their particular needs. A calendar is also a physical device (often paper).
The Gregorian calendar , also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar , is internationally the most widely accepted and used civil calendar . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has been the unofficial global standard for decades, adopted for pragmatic interests of international communication, transportation, and commercial integration, and recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union . [ 4 ] The calendar was a reform in 1582 to the Julian calendar . [ 5 ] The motivation for the reform was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of the year in which the First Council of Nicaea had agreed upon in 325. Because the spring equinox was tied to the celebration of Easter, the Roman Catholic Church considered this steady movement in the date of the equinox undesirable. The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic countries of Europe.
Manuel Castells ( Spanish : Manuel Castells Oliván ; born 1942, Hellín , Albacete , Spain ) is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society , communication and globalization . The 2000–09 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social science scholar, and the foremost-cited communication scholar. [ 1 ] He was awarded the 2012 Holberg Prize , [ 2 ] for having "shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society." [ 3 ] [ edit ] Life
The term Network Society describes several different phenomena related to the social, political, economic and cultural changes caused by the spread of networked, digital information and communications technologies. A number of academics (see below) are credited with coining the term since the 1980s and several competing definitions exist. The intellectual origins of the idea can be traced back to the work of early social theorists such as Georg Simmel who analyzed the effect of modernization and industrial capitalism on complex patterns of affiliation, organization, production and experience. [ edit ] Origins
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer. Montagu is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient”. [ 1 ] [ edit ] Early life Lady Mary Pierrepont was born in London on May 15, 1689; her baptism took place on May 26 at St.
The first issue of the Journal des sçavans (title page) The Journal des sçavans (later renamed Journal des savants ), established by Denis de Sallo , was the earliest academic journal published in Europe. Its content included obituaries of famous men, church history, and legal reports. [ 1 ] The first issue appeared as a twelve page quarto pamphlet [ 2 ] on Monday, 5 January 1665. [ 3 ] This was shortly before the first appearance of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , on 6 March 1665. [ 4 ] The journal ceased publication in 1792, during the French Revolution , and, although it very briefly reappeared in 1797 under the updated title Journal des savants , it did not re-commence regular publication until 1816. From then on, the Journal des savants became more of a literary journal , and ceased to carry significant scientific material. [ 1 ] [ 5 ]
Joseph Moxon (8 August 1627 - February 1691 [ 1 ] ), hydrographer to Charles II , was an English printer of mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments , and mathematical lexicographer . He produced the first English language dictionary devoted to mathematics. In November 1678, he became the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society . [ edit ] Life Between the ages of around 9 and 11, Moxon accompanied his father, James Moxon, to Delft and Rotterdam where he was printing English Bibles.
Cover of the first volume of Phil. Trans. , covering the years 1665 and 1666 The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ( Phil. Trans. ) is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society of London. It was established in 1665, [ 1 ] making it the first journal in the world exclusively devoted to science, and it has remained in continuous publication ever since, making it the world's longest-running scientific journal.
John Graunt (24 April 1620 – 18 April 1674) was one of the first demographers , though by profession he was a haberdasher . Born in London , the eldest of seven or eight children of Henry and Mary Graunt. His father was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire. In February 1641, Graunt married Mary Scott, with whom he had one son (Henry) and three daughters. Graunt, along with William Petty , developed early human statistical and census methods that later provided a framework for modern demography. He is credited with producing the first life table , giving probabilities of survival to each age.
In the philosophy of science , a protoscience is a new science trying to establish its legitimacy. [ 1 ] Protoscience is distinguished from pseudoscience by its standard practices of good science, such as a willingness to be disproven by new evidence, or to be replaced by a more predictive theory. [ citation needed ] Compare fringe science , which is considered highly speculative or even strongly refuted. [ 2 ] Some protosciences go on to become an accepted part of mainstream science . [ 3 ] All sciences would have qualified as protosciences before the Age of Enlightenment , since the scientific method still hadn't been developed, and there was no structured way to prove legitimacy. A standard example is alchemy , which from the 18th century became chemistry , or pre-modern astrology which from the 17th century became astronomy . [ edit ] Definitions
Robert Boyle , FRS , (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was a 17th-century natural philosopher , chemist , physicist , and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology . He has been variously described as Irish, English and Anglo-Irish , his father having come to Ireland from England during the time of the Plantations . Although his research clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry , and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method . | <urn:uuid:9d0811dd-c0fa-4178-bf78-67af98610baa> | 2013-05-26T02:50:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In 1900, The Prohibition Act, sometimes called the "Scott Act", and described as "An Act Prohibiting the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor", was passed by the Provincial Legislature.
This Act replaced all previous legislation dealing with liquor and totally prohibited the use or sale of any form of liquor for beverage purposes. It did provide however, for the sale at wholesale, by persons known as "Vendors" to physicians, chemists, druggists, and persons engaged in art or trade in which alcohol was used. The physicians, chemists and druggists could in turn sell the liquor so purchased to any person presenting a physician prescription prescribing liquor for medicinal use.
The enforcement of the Act was in the hands of a Chief Inspector and such other Inspectors as were required. It would appear that these Inspectors had very broad powers to arrest, search and prosecute. It is noted in the minutes of the Council that there was a fairly large turnover in Inspectors. In a number of cases the dismissal would be based on a complaint from the Temperance Alliance or a petition from a community. During this period also, there were a number of disputes between the Alliance and the Government as to the advisability of granting vendors licenses to certain persons or in certain places.
In 1901, a further source of supply was established by an amendment to the Act permitting persons to establish themselves as dealers in liquor and to transact business both within and without the Province. As a result of this amendment, several warehouses were established - to sell to the wholesale Vendors and to export to other points.
Although a number of amendments were made to the Act in ensuing years, it was not until 1918 that any major changes took place. In that year, the Act was completely re-written. It provided for the establishments of a six-member Board of Commissioners to be appointed for a three year term by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council to administer the Act. The Commission were given the power to license one wholesale Vendor and as many retail Vendors as were deemed necessary. These retail Vendors were to replace the physicians and druggists who, up to this time had filled the role.
The Vendors were to be paid on a commission basis varying from 10% to 50% with the percentage increasing with the volume. The retail Vendors could sell to any person presenting a prescription 24 oz of wine or spirits or 12 quarts of ale not oftener than once a day. However, this quantity could be doubled if the person lived more than ten miles from the Vendor.
In 1919, an amendment to the Act introduced what came to be known as "Scripts". These were, in effect, pre-printed prescriptions, to be supplied to the physicians by the Prohibited Commission. They were serially numbered and it is believed that the number issued to each physician was controlled as previously there had been no limit to the number of prescriptions a physician could write and abuses were creeping in to the system.
The 1919 Amendment also provided for the holding, in 1920, of a referendum on the whole question of Prohibition. However, the Government changed before the end of the year, and as the incoming Government had campaigned on a Prohibition plank, the referendum was never held.
In 1920, funds were made available to the Commission to be used by the wholesale Vendor for the purchase of liquor. Salaried retail Vendors were established at Charlottetown, Summerside, Montague and Alberton selling at prices set by the Commission.
A list of the six Commissioners in 1920, shows them all to be clergymen.
The Act was again revised in 1928. The six member Commission was abolished and in its place, a new Commission consisting of a Chairman and two members, all salaried, was established. This Commission, like the previous one, was appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. This continued until 1937, when in another revision, the entire operation was placed under the direct control of the Attorney-General.
It was in 1945 however, that an amendment was introduced that marked the beginning of the end of Prohibition. This amendment stated that provided a physician felt that the use of liquor over an extended period would benefit the health of a patient, he could prescribe 26 oz of spirits, or 104 oz of wine, or nine full quarts of ale, to be delivered weekly over a six month period. Upon receiving such a prescription, the patient could exchange it for a warrant which had coupons on it redeemable weekly for the quantity above. These were not accumulative and had to be redeemed on the due date.
This particular amendment was refused Royal Assent at the conclusion of the Session on May 5th, but with the appointment of a new Lieutenant Governor, received the necessary assent in October, and came into effect.
This system prevailed, until a new Act, known as the "Temperance Act" was introduced in the 1948 Session. This Act provided for the repeal of the Prohibition Act and the establishment of a Government Liquor Control System similar to the other Provinces, with the rather curious difference that the Commission to be established to administer the Act, would be known as the "Temperance Commission". Under the Act, residents would require a permit to purchase liquor and a special permit would be available to visitors. The quantity an individual could purchase at any one time remained unchanged. A number of the permits were introduced for other specific uses of liquor. Among these was a permit permitting liquor in messes, canteens, Legion branches and non-profit clubs. The quantity that could be purchased was specified on the permit as were the hours of consumption.
This new Act was subject to the approval of the electorate by means of a plebiscite, held on June 28th, 1948. The result was in favour of the new Act, and the sale of liquor for beverage purposes became legal on July 6th, 1948.
The Temperance Act received a number of amendments in the next thirteen years. Two were of major significance to the public. In 1952, an amendment permitted four weekly rations to be purchased at any one time in the month; and in 1960, all quantity restrictions were removed.
The word "Temperance" finally disappeared in 1961, when the Act became "The Liquor Control Act", and the Commission, "the Liquor Control Commission".
As the result of a case in 1963, the Courts found that the special permits issued to clubs and canteens permitted possession only by the organization and any such liquor could not be re-sold. However, action was withheld until an amendment to the Act was passim in the 1964 Session providing for the regular licensing of premises as practiced in other Provinces. The outstanding special permits were then resigned and applications received and licenses issued to those qualified under the new legislation.
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A Harrisburg man who was shot during a robbery shortly after midnight this morning was taken to Hershey Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening wounds, Harrisburg police said.
They said that the 27-year-old man, whose name was not released, told them that two robbers confronted him at 12:15 a.m. at the home of a woman he planned to visit in the 300 block of Hummel Street.
The man told police that one of the robbers pointed a shotgun at him and demanded his valuables. When he ran, he was shot in the back, police said. They said the robbers stayed in the area for a few minutes as the victim continued to move away, then left without taking anything.
The victim had numerous pellet rounds and a shotgun wound to his back, police said.
They described the robbers as black males in their late teens, one wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and the other wearing a white Nike hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with information on the robbery may contact Sgt. Thomas Carter at 717-255-6586 or firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:119dca02-7ecc-4b5b-9b52-1fff5c193faa> | 2013-05-26T03:10:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The bad news for Mechanicsburg Area School District taxpayers is that they're likely to be paying more in the school year that starts July 1.
The good news is that based on a resolution the School Board approved at tonight's meeting, a tax increase for the 2013-14 school year could not exceed 2 percent.
The 2 percent figure is established under the state's Act 1 index, which determines the maximum increase for each school district based on a number of economic factors.
If the board raised taxes by that maximum percentage, the owner of a property assessed at $177,775 would see a tax increase of about $43.
Background: The board this past year raised taxes by 1.7 percent, the maximum allowed for the 2012-13 school year. That increase amounted to $34 for the average taxpayer. | <urn:uuid:d5d6160d-5a7c-4d8f-a132-e96eb51799de> | 2013-05-26T03:10:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Inflammation of the Middle Ear and External Ear Canal in Dogs
Otitis externa and Otitis media in Dogs
Otitis externa is a chronic inflammation of a dog external ear canal. Otitis media, meanwhile, is an inflammation of the dog's middle ear. Both of these terms are used to describe clinical symptoms and are not diseases in themselves.
Otitis externa often results when a change in the normal environment of the ear canal causes the glands lining the canal to enlarge and produce excessive wax. Gradually, the outer skin (epidermis) and the inner skin (dermis) produce excessive fibrous tissue (fibrosis) and the canal becomes narrowed. It is normally a secondary symptom of another underlying disease, such as an infection. Otitis externa causes pain, itching, and redness, and when the condition is chronic, it often results in a ruptured ear drum (tympanum) and otitis media.
Otitis media typically occurs as an extension of otitis externa, causing a ruptured membrane (tympanum) that separates the external ear and the middle ear. Otitis externa and otitis media affect dogs and cats of any age and breed, but long-eared dogs, such as spaniels and retrievers, and dogs with hairy external canals, such as terriers and poodles, are more susceptible.
The two conditions described in this medical article affect both dogs and cats. If you would like to learn more about how they affect cats, please visit this page in the PetMD health library.
Symptoms and Types
The most common symptoms of otitis externa and otitis media are pain, head shaking, scratching at the external ear flaps, and bad odor. In a physical examination by a veterinarian, a dog with the condition may exhibit redness and swelling of the external ear canal, scaling skin or obstruction of the ear canal. Signs such as tilting the head, anorexia, uncoordination, and occasional vomiting may indicate the development of otitis media, or otitis interna, if the infection and inflammation spreads to the inner ear.
Otitis externa and otitis media can be caused by a variety of things. The primary causes are parasites, food allergies, drug reactions, foreign bodies (e.g., plant awns), accumulation of hair, dead skin buildup (keratinization), and autoimmune diseases.
Other factors that may contribute to the onset of the inflammatory conditions include bacterial infections, mixed infections caused by bacteria and fungal species, and progressive changes in the environment of the outer ear canal. Excessive moisture caused by swimming, or overzealous, abrasive, and improper ear cleaning may also lead to otitis externa and otitis media.
These two conditions can be diagnosed in several ways. For instance, X-rays may be used to diagnose otitis media; an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may also be used to identify an accumulation of fluid or soft tissue growth in the middle ear.
Other ways of diagnosing these conditions include skin scrapings from the dog's ear flaps to test for parasites, and skin biopsies to check for autoimmune diseases. However, the single most important tool for diagnosing otitis externa and otitis media is a microscopic examination of the ear discharge (aural exudate).
Inflammation of the external parts of the ear
A medical condition in which the ear becomes inflamed
Inflammation of the inner part of the ear
Inflammation of the middle parts of the ear
A type of fungus that produces buds
A bundle of fibers that are used in the process of sending impulses through the body
The outside layer of the skin
Any drug that kills organisms in an animal's tissue or prevents the growth of more.
Referring to the ear.
Loss of hearing in whole or in part.
The skin; also referred to as the corium
Used to refer to any drug or medical substance that has the ability to slow down or stop the growth of bacteria and other such organisms.
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Poisonous to: Dogs
Level of toxicity: Generally moderate to severe
Common signs to watch for:
- Abnormal drinking or urination
Grapes, raisins, and even currants (some currants are actually small, black grapes) are toxic to your dog! In fact, there have been anecdotal reports of cats and ferrets being affected by these also. Ingestion of even a small amount of grapes, raisins, or currants can result in severe, acute kidney failure. All types of grape- or raisin-containing products (including grape juice, trail mix, bagels, etc.) can result in this. Even organic, pesticide-free, grapes grown in home gardens can result in toxicity. Although the mechanism of action is not clearly understood on how grapes, raisins and currants are poisonous at this time, this common fruit can result in anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, and potentially severe acute renal failure (which develops several days later). The toxicity is not necessarily dose-dependent, and symptoms can occur with even small ingestions. Decontamination (e.g., inducing vomiting, decontaminating with activated charcoal, etc.), aggressive supportive care, aggressive IV fluid therapy, and kidney function (e.g., BUN/creatinine) monitoring is recommended.
If you suspect your pet ingested grapes, raisins, or currants, call your veterinarian or Pet Poison Helpline for treatment recommendations.
Poison type: Foods
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Fourth Pennsylvania CavalryMade in United States, North and Central America
Artist/maker unknown, American
Oil on canvas
Currently not on view
1968-222-3The Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1968
LabelThe troops of the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry were mustered into service between August and October of 1861, under the leadership of commanding officer Colonel David Campbell, with orders to assist in the defense of Washington, D.C. The regiment's military successes were notably attributed to Colonel Campbell's strict discipline and personal supervision of drills, parades, and guard mounts, evident in this painting. The Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry went on to serve in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Wilderness Campaign, two of Sheridan's raids, and the Appomattox Campaign, and were present at Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. | <urn:uuid:1a7be027-f7aa-4d52-9ef4-359efbaa980e> | 2013-05-26T02:48:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Posted by Sphinx on July 21, 2003
In movie the Matrix: Reloaded, Morpheus said:
I believe it is our fate to be here.
It is our destiny.
I believe this night holds for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives.
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S-1. Sunlight & Earth
S-1B. Global Climate
S-3.The Magnetic Sun
S-4. Colors of Sunlight
Optional: Doppler Effect
S-4A-1 Speed of Light
S-4A-2. Frequency Shift
S-4A-3 Rotating Galaxies
and Dark Matter
S-5.Waves & Photons
Optional: Quantum Physics
Q3. Energy Levels
Q4. Radiation from
One widely used property of waves is the shift in frequency when the source approaches or recedes. If the engine of a train blows its whistle as it passes by, a listener standing near the track cannot help but notice that the tone of the whistle drops as it passes.
Actually, the tone is already raised above its normal note as the engine approaches, and then drops below it as it recedes. This shift in frequency, also noted in electromagnetic waves such as light or radio, is named the Doppler Effect after its discoverer, the Austrian Christian Doppler, born in 1803.
Earlier, a somewhat similar phenomenon was discovered by the Dane Ole Roemer in 1676. The story deserves to be told because it also led to the first determination of the velocity of light.
Those were the times when the sailing ships of seafaring nations – especially, France, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands (Holland) – fought to dominate the oceans and to establish (and protect) trade routes and distant bases. In such a struggle, one technology was crucial: commanders of ships had to somehow know at all times their position in mid-ocean, that is, their latitude and longitude.
Latitude was relatively easy: the elevation of the celestial pole above the horizon (deduced, for instance, from the position of the pole star) gave that. Or else, the elevation of the Sun when it was most distant from the horizon ("solar noon"), i.e. made the greatest angle between it and the horizon, gave the latitude (after being adjusted for the day of the year). The cross staff, or a later more accurate instrument, the marine sextant (or the octant) allowed "shooting the Sun," i.e. finding its elevation above the horizon, and by combining several timed observations, its greatest elevation for that day could be derived.
Longitude was much harder. It required knowledge of the time at Greenwhich (longitude zero) when a cross staff or sextant determined that the Sun was passing local noon. For example, if the Sun passed local noon when it was 1 p.m. at Greenwich, the ship was 15° west of Greenwich, because
To get this information, the captain needed a clock which kept accurate time for a many months: it could be set in Greenwich (or set to Greenwich time at a location of known longitude), and used later to give "Greenwich time" of local noon. Such clocks ("chronometers") were in fact developed in the 1700s, but clocks of the 1600s were not accurate enough, especially on a ship that rolled and pitched, and their errors accumulated rapidly.
A less precise clock may be used, if somehow it can be constantly corrected, reset to the correct "Greenwich time" at frequent intervals. In a later era this was done using time signals obtained by radio, but in the 1600s accurately timed celestial phenomena held the greatest promise. One class of such phenomena were the eclipses of the four large moons of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo and easily seen through even a small telescope.
In particular, Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter, seemed suitable: being closest to Jupiter, Kepler's 3rd law assured that it had the fastest motion, making its entry into eclipses and out of them particularly rapid. With an orbital period of 1.77 days, Io also offered the largest number of eclipses, and every one of its orbits crossed Jupiter's shadow. (In the satellite age Io was found to have other unique features, such as sulfur volcanoes.)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian astronomer who headed of the Paris Observatory, therefore assigned Roemer to make a table of the predicted times of Io eclipses, allowing sailors at sea to set their clocks (within a minute or so, deemed accurate enough). Roemer did so, but soon discovered that the period was not constant. When Earth (which moves faster than Jupiter) was approaching Jupiter, the observed period was shorter, and when it was receding, longer.
He guessed the reason: light did not spread instantly, but (like sound) did so at a certain speed. If Earth and Jupiter maintained a constant distance, the eclipses would have been spaced at regular intervals, equal to the orbital period of Io. When Earth is approaching, however, the return trip is shortened, compared to the time it would have taken if the distance stayed constant. When Earth is receding, the return trip is longer, and the time between eclipses is longer too
That gave Roemer convincing evidence that light spread in space with a certain velocity--later denoted by the letter c (lower case, not capital). However, he and his contemporaries had only a vague idea how big c was, because the dimensions of the solar system were uncertain. About that same time, the French astronomer Jean Richer used a telescope to estimate of the distance of Mars, and gradually, the value of c was obtained with increasing accuracy. Today it is known to an accuracy of 9 decimals, and has therefore been used to define the metre, the unit of length, replacing optical wavelengths or scratches on a metal bar kept in a vault (supposedly derived from the size of our globe).
And the problem of longitude?
It turned out that observing the eclipses of Io from a constantly moving ship, even in a calm sea, was a difficult task. Even a small telescope magnifies all motions tremendously, and early telescopes in particular showed only a small patch of the sky. Also, the method required a sky free of clouds. On the other hand, the method proved very useful for determining the longitude of ports, capes, islands and other features on land.
Consistent determinations of longitude from a moving ship had to wait for sophisticated clocks, using a balance wheel compensated for changes due to variation of temperature. One early model of such a "chronometer" accompanied Captain James Cook on his journey around the world.
(S-4A-2) The Frequency Shift and the Expanding Universe
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Author and Curator: Dr. David P. Stern
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Mechanics: Circular Motion and Gravitation
Circular Motion and Gravitation: Audio Guided Solution
A loop de loop track is built for a 938-kg car. It is a completely circular loop - 14.2 m tall at its highest point. The driver successfully completes the loop with an entry speed (at the bottom) of 22.1 m/s.
a. Using energy conservation, determine the speed of the car at the top of the loop.
b. Determine the acceleration of the car at the top of the loop.
c. Determine the normal force acting upon the car at the top of the loop.
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b. 30. m/s/s
c. 1.9 x 104 N
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- Read the problem carefully and develop a mental picture of the physical situation. If necessary, sketch a simple diagram of the physical situation to help you visualize it.
- Identify the known and unknown quantities in an organized manner. Equate given values to the symbols used to represent the corresponding quantity - e.g., m = 61.7 kg, v= 18.5 m/s, R = 30.9 m, Fnorm = ???.
- Use physics formulas and conceptual reasoning to plot a strategy for solving for the unknown quantity.
- Identify the appropriate formula(s) to use.
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Should I write: [itex](1-t)[(1-t)(2-t)-2 = -(t-3)(t-1)(t)[/itex]. This is the characteristic polynomial. Thus, the roots are 3,1,0. These are the eigenvalues. If I have equations,
(1-t)x + 2y = 0
1x + (2-t)y = 0
(1-t)z = 0,
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Because these vectors are linearly independent, and because the number of vectors = dim(R3), these vectors span R3. Thus, R3 is the eigenspace of T (???)
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Article Archive >> Community
Reflections: Why was the hatter mad?
Why was the hatter mad?
By William L. Bulla
What is a Mad Hatter? He is not something we experience in our every day life. However, he is something we read about, even as children, in the story of "Alice in Wonderland", and again, "Through the Looking Glass."
Over the years we have read about both the Mad Hatter and his partner the March Hare. Both of these characters have seemed a bit mad.
Recently my friend Sean asked, "why do they say 'mad as a hatter'?" I said I thought it came from Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland". He told me I was wrong. He said it had to do with the mercury used in preserving the furs from which they made the hats. Of course, I didn't believe him so I decided I should look into the issue. Sean was right. It was the chemicals used in preserving the fur used in making hats that caused the hatter's to go "mad".
The most famous Mad Hatter, of course, is the one from the Mad Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland, the partner of the March Hare. Both mad, of course. But Lewis Carroll did not invent the phrase, although he did create the character. The phrases "mad as a hatter" and "mad as a March hare" were common at the time Lewis Carroll wrote the first publication of Alice In Wonderland in 1865. The phrase had been in common use in 1837, almost 30 years earlier. Carroll frequently used common expressions, songs, nursery rhymes, etc., as the basis for characters in his stories.
The origin of the phrase, it's believed, is that hatters really did go mad. The chemicals used in hat-making included mercury nitrate, used in curing felt. Prolonged exposure to the mercury vapors caused mercury poisoning. Victims developed severe and uncontrollable muscular tremors and twitching limbs, which became known as "hatter's shakes"; other symptoms included distorted vision and confused speech. Advanced cases developed hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms.
The victims were the hatters, not the wearers of hats. The hatters were exposed to the mercury fumes, which would have been long dissipated, or of insignificant strength, by the time the hat was worn. This use of mercury is now subject to severe legal restrictions (if not banned) in the U.S. and Europe.
The March Hare and the Hatter make a brief reappearance in Alice Through the Looking Glass as the King's messengers, "Haigha" and "Hatta." These names are the only hint as to their identities other than the illustrations from the book published in 1871.
"In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be, said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
So, who knows for sure? Maybe we all become a bit mad in March.
William L. Bulla is a freelance writer residing in Washington County.
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November, I think its quite easy for crumbs, melted cheese, corn meal, or whatever to fall into the cracks, crevices and perforated holes of a cutter pizza pan. [...] I don't know for a fact, but I would guess the holes in a perforated cutter pan are smaller than the openings in a screen.
These two statements don't belong in the same post. If you've never used a perforated pan, and moreover are guessing that the holes are smaller than on a screen, I don't know why you would think it's easy for food to get stuck in the holes. A lack of information only supports a very questionable opinion.
It can't be too easy as I have been using a perforated pan for about 16 years and not once have I ever gotten anything stuck in the holes. That's a long time for something to not happen when it's supposed to happen easily. I think the only reasonable explanation for having sauce or cheese even coming in contact with the pan (whether it sticks or not) is Curt's:
Due to laziness or impatience, I have been know to cut a pie right out of the oven.
Which is something I would never do or recommend doing with a quality pizza pan. I've had pans around for a long time and wish to have them around for a lot longer, so I just use them to bake on and I leave the cutting for a cutting board. | <urn:uuid:5abb881c-be97-41b0-ac92-600cdbc888e2> | 2013-05-26T02:57:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Re: Kicking Off An Autistic Child Is Bad Business, American Airlines
by Zan - Posted Wed June 25, 2008 @ 6:56 PM
I'm going to reserve judgment until I hear the airline's side of it (if they make any kind of statement). This is a tough call. My heart definitely does go out to the child and his mother, BUT - depending on how out of control the boy was, it could have potentially caused a dangerous situation. If he was screaming and flailing, he could hurt people walking by, or they could trip over him. If the crew needed to make emergency announcements, passengers may not have been able to hear them over his screams. And if the pilot could hear him from the cockpit (since he apparently came out to speak to the mother), what if he was having trouble hearing messages from the control tower over the noise?
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Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 9, 1942, the Aram Khachaturian ballet "Gayane," featuring the surging "Sabre Dance," was first performed by Russia's Kirov Ballet.
On this date:
In 1608, English poet John Milton was born in London.
In 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
In 1911, an explosion inside the Cross Mountain coal mine near Briceville, Tenn., killed 84 workers. (Five were rescued.)
In 1912, longtime House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill was born in Cambridge, Mass.
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Originally Posted by sldghamr
what is your definition of bravery?? i don't know how to put my definition into words, i will give some examples instead.
all pilots of WWI
the pilots of the Doolittle raid during WWII
anyone who drives a Dodge
anyone serving in our Armed Forces (state side or over seas)
I'll take a shot at it ...
Integrity - Doing what's right even if no one knows or if it costs you something (lost opportunity, income, promotion opportunity, etc).
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