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Politically correct Holocaust denial Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinadinnerjacket's Holocaust denial conference in Tehran has been greeted with worldwide condemnation and disgust. But there's another Holocaust denier who is treated as a statesman, who is greeted in capitals around the world as a head of state, and who embodies the hope of many in the western world that his 'people' will finally find 'peace' and 'security.' His name is also Mahmoud. Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen , the 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President. David Bedein tries once again to enlighten the world about this Holocaust denier at FrontPageMagazine.com On Monday, the Israeli government issued vehement denunciation of the conference convened by the Iranian government in Teheran to promote the denial of the mass murder of the Jews in World War II, in an act of holocaust denial. Our news agency asked the spokespeople of the government of Israel if they would also denounce the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, for the holocaust denial which has been an integral part of his legacy. However, the government of Israel would issue no such denunciation of Abbas, who wrote his doctorate in 1982 in Moscow, at the Institute for Oriental Studies. The institute was headed by Yevgeny Primakov, a Jew, an Arabist, an avowed friend of Saddam Hussein and other Arab rulers, and eventually the prime minister of Russia. Of all these qualities, Abu Mazen emphasized mainly Primakov's Jewish origin. The heading of his doctoral thesis was: "Zionist leadership and the Nazis." The introduction dealt, among other topics, with a loaded issue: How many Jews perished in the Holocaust. In the Soviet period, especially in the anti-Israel institute that Abu Mazen attended, they often dealt with such questions. The Soviet Union, more than any other country, was addicted to Holocaust denial. The victims were not recognized by their origin, but rather by their nationality. And this is what the diligent researcher Mahmoud Abbas wrote: World War Two caused the death of 40 million people from different parts of the world. Ten million Germans, 20 million Soviets, and more…Rumors at the end of the war said that 6 million of the world's Jews were among the victims in the war of extermination that was waged against the Jewish people and later on against other peoples. The fact is that no one can confirm this number or deny it. The number could be 6 million, but it could be much smaller, perhaps even smaller than one million. The controversy over the number must not divert us from the severity of the crime committed against the Jewish people. The murder of a human being is a crime that the cultured world must not accept."Many researchers who discussed the number reached the unconventional conclusion that it is no more than several hundred thousand," he wrote. Later on, Abu Mazen quotes a Holocaust denier who claimed that "at first the Zionists spoke about 12 million Jews who were killed in the death camps. They later narrowed the number down to 6 and to 4 million. It is not possible that the Germans murdered more Jews than existed in the world at the time." He quotes another Holocaust denier who counted 896,000 Jewish victims in all. Abbas has consistently refused to distance himself from his thesis. However, the Israeli government is not pushing him to do so. After all, there are political considerations, since the Israeli government is currently in negotiation with Abbas. In other words, to deny the holocaust in Teheran is reprehensible; to do so in Ramallah is acceptable. You might call this the first case of “politically correct” Holocaust denial. If the Israeli government is not pushing Abu Mazen to distance himself from his 'thesis,' why should anyone else?
Daniels, UT 84647 United States of America Call admissions department for current tuition. The average length of stay at Daniels Academy is from 10 to 12 months. However, lengths of stay vary in order to accomplish goals set forth in the treatment plan. Daniels Academy is a small, family living-style boarding school where students focus on academics, personal development, and quality recreation. Unlike a traditional boarding school, Daniels Academy provides a strong therapeutic base. We provide our students with the tools, experiences, and guidance that enables them to make successful life choices and live responsible, productive lives of service to themselves, their families, and their communities. From our first-rate academics, to proven clinical practice, to world-class experiential education, Daniels Academy offers the premier program for helping young men to achieve their potential. We look foward to discussing how Daniels Academy can help transform your son's life. Enroll Info: To enroll a student in Daniels Academy, contact our Admissions Director, Clayton Justeson. If necessary, Clayton can assist in arranging for student transport through USA Guides. Does your child struggle with any of the behaviors listed below? If so, Daniels Academy can help! Our program is successful in helping adolescent males ages 13 through 17 that are suffering at home, school and in their social lives. Low Self-Esteem ADD/ADHD Anger and Emotional Pain Substance Abuse Failure to Achieve Academically Problems With Authority Behavioral and Emotional Instability Peer Group Difficulties Bipolar Disorder Suicidal Tendencies Other issues are considered on a case-by-case basis The academics at Daniels Academy is project-based, experiential, and individually tailored to each student. Credit recovery and acceleration are available to help students reach their goals. Our academic program accommodates a wide range of learners, from a traditionally successful student to one who may be struggling in traditional learning environments. Executive functioning skills are taught and emphasized, preparing students to be successful well beyond graduation. Students will identify and learn how to manage learning issues that may have interfered with their success in the past. Daniels Academy uses a wide range of pedagogical approaches to prepare students to be successful in traditional college, university, vocational, or other educational environments. Quality recreation is an important part of any healthy person's life. At Daniels Academy, our experiential education program emphasizes artistic expression through a variety of media as well as true Adventure Education. Students have the opportunity to grow their skills in many areas, including: film making, ceramics, rock climbing, snowboarding/skiing, graphic design, cycling, and athletics. Besides allowing students to have FUN and be exposed to a variety of new and challenging experiences, these activities give students new in-roads to various aspects of their lives. By associating new experiences with old feelings and properly contextualizing coping behaviors, students learn to re-create their concept of leisure, wellness, and enjoyment in a healthy context. Students gain confidence and self esteem by developing new skills and refining previous talents. Student life at Daniels Academy is not all work and no play. Students have access to a wide variety of activities. students have the opportunity to participate in activities such as: Day trips to local lakes Cultural activities including trips to local museums and historical sites Our therapeutic program emphasizes awareness, self esteem, acceptance, relationships and inherent curiosity. We help students to identify and effectively manage significant emotions and emotional experiences. Working in conjunction with the student's family, academic faculty, and student living staff, our clinical team will consider all aspects of a student's life to design a tailored treatment plan. This plan will address the needs of the student from a holistic perspective of emotional, psychological, social, physical, academic and family relationship perspectives. The supportive therapeutic environment will set the stage for understanding and overcoming obstacles that have prevented success for the student in the past. 2000 square foot modern facitility for 18 young men in the beautiful Ut mountains At Daniels Academy we believe that family support and involvement are crucial to the success of our students. Parents and students are actively involved in Family Systems therapy throughout the treatment process. Every student has a phone call to his family on a weekly basis. Also, each students therapist has a weekly phone call with parents. Visitation is also encouraged and can be arranged through the students therapist. At Daniels Academy, you and your child are part of a team that is dedicated to promoting healthy growth and providing help. We do not consider your child a fix-it project. We know you don't either. Instead, we see all of us as a team, working together, each with an important role to play. We do not blame or find fault at Daniels Academy. Instead, we focus on solutions to problems by asking each team member to take appropriate responsibility and do their part to assist in the growth process. The truth is, when parent, child, and staff work together the probability for success is much greater - we really do need your help. Financing is available through various sources. Clarke Custom Loans Ed Calahan Program Director Brian Murdock Clinical Director The specialties we offer at Daniels Academy are Positive Peer Culture Family Systems Therapy We take diabetic students on a case by case basis
A Getting-to-Know Session with the Chevrolet Metro - The Chevrolet Metro actually had a different name prior to its release in 1998. Before it used the Chevrolet nameplate, the model was called the Geo Metro, which was a Suzuki-made model that was an evolution of the Suzuki Cultus. During the 50-50 joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, all Metro models were produced at Canadian Automotive Manufacturing Inc., one of GM's initiatives to learn Japanese automotive practices. - The station wagon version of the Chevrolet Metro appeared in two video games, namely, the Simpsons: Road Rage and The Simpsons: Hit and Run. The action-adventure video games were developed by Radical Entertainment and were released for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube. The Metro used in the games was owned by the character named Nedward Flanders, a next-door neighbor to the Simpsons who was loathed by Homer for having a perfect family. - Like other stylish cars, the Chevrolet Metro was also desired by Hollywood movie creators. The model appeared in several movies and TV series, including Grey's Anatomy (2005-2012), Criminal Minds (2005-2012), Ginger Snaps (2000), The Fast and the Furious (2001), Superbad (2007), and Bowfinger (1999). - The Chevrolet or Geo Metro models became one of the popular car choices around 2008 when gas prices reached their all-time high. According to US News and World Report, internet searches for fuel-efficient cars greatly increased. About the said phenomenon, the same newspaper said: As gas prices spike and consumers increasingly look for ways to get to work more efficiently, heavy media coverage has spurred interest in one particular old car: the Geo Metro. - In virtue of its commendable fuel mileage, the Chevrolet Metro was named by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy as one of the top vehicles (along with the Suzuki Swift) in their Top 12 Greenest Vehicles in 1998 and 1999. The Metro received high scores from the body on exhaust emissions, fuel economy, and other categories. - The third-generation models did not appear in public without some flair. During the 1995 release, General Motors had a car carrier drive the units to college campuses around the US. Aside from this, Metro University conducted a half-day seminar for local writers with some of the teams included in the production of the model.
Bartholomew's chief title to fame rests upon his remarkable book, "De Conformitate Vitae B. P. Francisco ad Vitam Domini Nostri Jesu Christi", begun in 1385 and formally approved by the general chapter held at Assisi in 1399. Enthusiastically received on its appearance and long held in high esteem, this work became the object of bitter and stupid attacks on the part of Lutherans and Jansenists. Against it Erasmus Alber wrote the "Alcoranus Franciscanus" (Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alcoran mit ciner Vorrede D. M. Luthers, 1531) in reply to which Henry Sedulius, O.F.M., published his "Apologeticus adversus Alcoranum Franciscanorum pro libro Conformitatum" (Antwerp, 1607). Subsequent writers on Franciscan history treated the Pisan's work with most unmerited ostracism; more recently it has come to be lauded in certain circles in terms which savour of exaggeration. Between these extreme views, the patient and discerning student will find the "Conformities" a book of very uneven value. The parallels between the lives of Our Lord and St. Francis which form its basis are sometimes forced, but nowhere does it make St. Francis the equal of Christ. Side by side with fantastic legends, ridiculous visions, and other absurdities, it contains much really credible and precious historical information, revealing besides a deep knowledge of Scripture and theology and a critical temper not usual at the time it was written. It is rightly considered a source of great importance for students of Franciscan history. It was first printed at Milan in 1510 and in 1513. The new edition published at Bologna in 1590 is mutilated and corrupted, especially in the historical parts, at almost every page. A sorely needed critical edition of the text has lately been published in tom. IV of the "Analecta Franciscana" (Quaracchi, 1906). In addition to the "Conformities", Bartholomew left some thirty other works, including an exposition of the Rule of the Friars Minor found in the "Speculum" Morin (Rouen, 1509) and a book "De Vita B. Mariae Virginis", published at Venice in 1596; his Lenten sermons were printed at Milan in 1498, Venice, 1503, and Lyons, 1519. Sbaralea and others have erroneously attributed to him the "Summa Casuum Conscientiae", which is really the work of Bartholomew a S. Concordio of Pisa, O. P., and the "Vita B. Gerardi", which was written by Bartholomew Albisi mentioned above. The Catholic Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive resource on Catholic teaching, history, and information ever gathered in all of human history. This easy-to-search online version was originally printed in fifteen hardcopy volumes. Designed to present its readers with the full body of Catholic teaching, the Encyclopedia contains not only precise statements of what the Church has defined, but also an impartial record of different views of acknowledged authority on all disputed questions, national, political or factional. In the determination of the truth the most recent and acknowledged scientific methods are employed, and the results of the latest research in theology, philosophy, history, apologetics, archaeology, and other sciences are given careful consideration. No one who is interested in human history, past and present, can ignore the Catholic Church, either as an institution which has been the central figure in the civilized world for nearly two thousand years, decisively affecting its destinies, religious, literary, scientific, social and political, or as an existing power whose influence and activity extend to every part of the globe. In the past century the Church has grown both extensively and intensively among English-speaking peoples. Their living interests demand that they should have the means of informing themselves about this vast institution, which, whether they are Catholics or not, affects their fortunes and their destiny. Copyright © Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company New York, NY. Volume 1: 1907; Volume 2: 1907; Volume 3: 1908; Volume 4: 1908; Volume 5: 1909; Volume 6: 1909; Volume 7: 1910; Volume 8: 1910; Volume 9: 1910; Volume 10: 1911; Volume 11: - 1911; Volume 12: - 1911; Volume 13: - 1912; Volume 14: 1912; Volume 15: 1912 Catholic Online Catholic Encyclopedia Digital version Compiled and Copyright © Catholic Online
A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure. Find accurate definitions of words and phrases. A theory of society that makes civil government totally independent of any religious principles. It is state secularism on the premise that religion is a purely private affair that the state may tolerate but in no way encourage, foster, and least of all allow to influence the policies of civil authority. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill turned the "people's house" into a house of prayer Wednesday. The event honors the first inauguration of George Washington and his devotion to daily prayer. Lawmakers present included: - Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. - Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif. - Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. - Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo. - Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C. - Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C. - Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla. - Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas They asked for humility and wisdom as they make decisions that affect the country, and they prayed that God would bless the nation so America can be a blessing to the rest of the world Wedesday's ceremony featured brief history lessons about Washington from guests like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Christian author Eric Metaxas. Metaxas warned that nearly 225 years after Washington's inaugural prayer, religious liberties are under attack. "If we lose religious freedom, if a secular orthodoxy rises and begins to force people to keep their faith in the shadows (and says) 'just in that building on Sunday morning, but once you come out you have to bow to the secular orthodoxy' -- once that happens, you understand that we can no longer be America," Metaxas warned. The service was held in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, which served as a church for lawmakers in the 1800s. Click on the clips below to watch the full service.
©2003 Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi Thanks to Stephen Bloch (Adelphi) and Terry Butler (Brigham Young University) for feedback on this exercise set. Professor Bloch recommends Don Saari’s book “Chaotic Elections!: A Mathematician Looks at Voting” for additional insight into this topic. He also suggests you look up the Condorcet method for counting votes. Source: Wall Street Journal, Friday March 14, 2003, page B1, column 1 Counting democratic elections poses a non-trivial problem. If we allow a voter or, more likely, a group of voters (say a state) to pick a sequence of choices, there are many strategies to evaluate these sub-elections. Here are three: the winner-takes-all strategy says that the winner of the most sub-elections wins the overall election; the approval-rating strategy gives the first and second place finishers each one point, and the candidate with the most points wins the overall election; the points-per-place strategy allocates 3, 2, and 1 point to the top three finishers, respectively. Again, the candidate with the most points wins the overall election. Different countries have come up with additional strategies with good justification for each of them. Not surprisingly, different strategies produce different winners. That is, given the same series of election results, the winner depends on the evaluation strategy. Indeed, any of the above strategies may produce more than one winner, so we also need a tie-breaking mechanism in the end. 12.3. Composing Functions, Revisited Again Exercise 1.1.1. Make up examples of elections. Consider the following scenario. Your class wants to organize a little reception for your teacher. (Yes, the teacher did a great job, teaching you things and doing so in a nice way.) You would like to cater at least two choices of food. You ask all your classmates to rank the following foods in order of preference: chicken, steak, and (triple-flavored) tofu. Each of your classmates turns in a ranked list of these foods and you need to figure out the winner. Use all three strategies to count (imaginary) results from this food-vote. Solution Exercise 1.1.2. Explain how real-world election laws incorporate elements from each of these strategies. Hint: Strategies 1 and 3 occur in the US in modified form. Solution A AssocList is either (cons (cons String N) AssocList) Develop the function bump. It consumes an association list al, a string name, and a natural number produces an association list. The given and the produced association lists are alike except for name is already associated with a number al, then the new list associates (+ i j); otherwise it associates Exercise 1.1.4. For each of the three evaluation strategies, develop a function that computes the winner. Each function consumes a list of election results and produces a sorted list of those candidates who won the election. An election result specifies the first three candidates as strings. Think of each election result as the first three in a state’s election or the ranking of three foods that the students in your school may select for a school party. The functions must accommodate write-in candidates. That is, every voter may add a name. The functions cannot assume that there is a fixed set of candidates. Note that this does not make the problem more difficult. The evaluation of an election consists of two tasks: tabulating the votes and determining the winner(s). Use an association list (ex. 1.1.3) to connect the two tasks. Sort the list of winners with ... string<=?). Solution Exercise 1.1.5. Find a list of subelection results for which the three strategies produce pairwise distinct winners. Solution 21.2. Abstracting From Examples Exercise 1.2.1. Compare the functions for tabulating the votes from elections. They are structurally alike except for the treatment of each election, which is determined by the election strategy. Abstract the functions that tabulate the votes over the strategy. Represent the strategies as functions with this contract: strategy : AssocList Election → AssocList;; to count the votes in the election-result(define (strategy results election-result) ...) The class of Elections represents the results of a single sub-election according to the solution of exercise 1.1.5. Create a single function eval-elections that computes the winners of an election according to all strategies that satisfy the above
- Salience, relevance, and firing: a priority map for target selection Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 8, 1 August 2006, Pages 382-390 Jillian H. Fecteau and Douglas P. Munoz AbstractThe salience map is a crucial concept for many theories of visual attention. On this map, each object in the scene competes for selection – the more conspicuous the object, the greater its representation, and the more likely it will be chosen. In recent years, the firing patterns of single neurons have been interpreted using this framework. Here, we review evidence showing that the expression of salience is remarkably similar across structures, remarkably different across tasks, and modified in important ways when the salient object is consistent with the goals of the participant. These observations have important ramifications for theories of attention. We conclude that priority – the combined representation of salience and relevance – best describes the firing properties of neurons. Abstract \| Full Text \| PDF (602 kb) - Goal-Related Activity in V4 during Free Viewing Visual Search Neuron, Volume 40, Issue 6, 18 December 2003, Pages 1241-1250 James A Mazer and Jack L Gallant SummaryNatural exploration of complex visual scenes depends on saccadic eye movements toward important locations. Saccade targeting is thought to be mediated by a retinotopic map that represents the locations of salient features. In this report, we demonstrate that extrastriate ventral area V4 contains a retinotopic salience map that guides exploratory eye movements during a naturalistic free viewing visual search task. In more than half of recorded cells, visually driven activity is enhanced prior to saccades that move the fovea toward the location previously occupied by a neuron's spatial receptive field. This correlation suggests that bottom-up processing in V4 influences the oculomotor planning process. Half of the neurons also exhibit top-down modulation of visual responses that depends on search target identity but not visual stimulation. Convergence of bottom-up and top-down processing streams in area V4 results in an adaptive, dynamic map of salience that guides oculomotor planning during natural vision. Summary \| Full Text \| PDF (687 kb) - Stimulus-Driven Orienting of Visuo-Spatial Attention in Complex Dynamic Environments Neuron, Volume 69, Issue 5, 10 March 2011, Pages 1015-1028 Davide Nardo, Valerio Santangelo and Emiliano Macaluso SummaryIn everyday life attention operates within complex and dynamic environments, while laboratory paradigms typically employ simple and stereotyped stimuli. This fMRI study investigated stimulus-driven spatial attention using a virtual-environment video. We explored the influence of bottom-up signals by computing saliency maps of the environment and by introducing attention-grabbing events in the video. We parameterized the efficacy of these signals for the orienting of spatial attention by measuring eye movements and used these parameters to analyze the imaging data. The efficacy of bottom-up signals modulated ongoing activity in dorsal fronto-parietal regions and transient activation of the ventral attention system. Our results demonstrate that the combination of computational, behavioral, and imaging techniques enables studying cognitive functions in ecologically valid contexts. We highlight the central role of the efficacy of stimulus-driven signals in both dorsal and ventral attention systems, with a dissociation of the efficacy of background salience versus distinctive events in the two systems. Summary \| Full Text \| PDF (1185 kb) Copyright © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 9, 346-352, 1 December 1997 ReviewAdd/View Comments (0) Characteristics and models of human symmetry detection Symmetry is everywhere - in natural objects, from crystals to living organisms, in manufactured articles of many kinds, and in art works from all cultures. Symmetry is a salient visual property that is detected efficiently and rapidly by the human visual system. In this paper, several decades of experimental research on human symmetry detection are reviewed. By examining the effects of several factors on symmetry detection, this research has revealed some important characteristics of how humans perceive symmetry. These characteristics constrain the general principles of putative underlying mechanisms and models of human symmetry detection. For example, the orientation of the axis of symmetry and its location in the visual field have effects that suggest that the bilateral symmetry of the visual system at cortical levels of the brain might partly determine the salience of vertical mirror symmetry. At the same time, there is a surprisingly high degree of flexibility and robustness that remains to be explained. Thus, symmetry provides a major challenge to model human flexibility and efficiency within the constraints of the biology of the visual system.
Grounded in a realistic assessment of technology, Matthew C. Waxman and Kenneth Anderson outline a practical alternative with which to evaluate the use of autonomous weaponry that incorporates codes of conduct based on traditional legal and ethical principles governing weapons and warfare. Stewart Patrick writes about the theoretical and practical implications of significant changes to the international political system over the past two decades in Geir Lundestad's International Relations Since the End of the Cold War: New and Old Dimensions. With the recent revelation of a United Nations inquiry into U.S. drone strikes policies and practices, Micah Zenko says the UN has actually been investigating U.S. drones for ten years—but to no effect. In the third of threeexcerpts from his new book, Democracy in Retreat, Joshua Kurlantzick says that emerging powers like India, Brazil and South Africa were supposed to be democracy's greatest proponents, but that it hasn't worked out that way at all. Jerome A. Cohen says, "Beijing's pending prosecution of deposed Politburo member Bo Xilai and the recent murder conviction of his wife, Gu Kailai , have again brought China's criminal justice system to world attention." With the passing of International Human Rights Day, Jerome A. Cohen says China still has no effective means of enforcing the rights enshrined in its constitution. Yet, once again, new Communist Party leaders reignite hopes for bringing government and the party under the rule of law. Kenneth Anderson and Matthew C. Waxman say some view automated technology developments as a crisis for the laws of war. But provided we start now to incorporate ethical and legal norms into weapons design, the incremental movement from automation to genuine machine autonomy already underway might well be made to serve the ends of law on the battlefield. Jerome A. Cohen says that while Bo Xilai and Chen Kegui "hail from opposite ends of China's political, economic and social hierarchies, they now have much in common, including the determination of the authorities to punish them for political reasons." Matthew C. Waxman argues that international law still plays a powerful role in justifying or delegitimizing the case for military action. Just like in the Cuban missile crisis, the United States needs to present a plausible case for self-defense in order to strike Iran. Tikki Pang and Laurie Garrett argue that the World Health Organization is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency, and to ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms. The Libya intervention of 2011 marked the first time that the UN Security Council invoked the "responsibility to protect" principle (RtoP) to authorize use of force by UN member states. In this comment the author argues that the Security Council's invocation of RtoP in the midst of the Libyan crisis significantly deepens the broader, ongoing transformation in the international law system's approach to sovereignty and civilian protection. Author: Captain Melissa Bert, USCG American Foreign Policy Interests Captain Melissa M. Bert, USCG saysnow is the time for the Obama administration to advance a comprehensive Arctic strategy that addresses both governance and acquisition requirements, or it risks further harm to the economic and national security of the United States. Authors: Gregory K. James, Larry Holcomb, and Colonel Chad T. Manske, USAF Joint Force Quarterly Colonel Gregory K. James, USA; Colonel Larry Holcomb, USMC; and Colonel Chad T. Manske, USAF argue that the success of Operation ODYSSEY DAWN, despite its complexity, validates joint planning processes, joint education foundations, joint training opportunities, and joint exercises. The interactive Global Governance Monitor tracks, maps, and evaluates multilateral efforts to address today's global challenges. CFR Experts Guide The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's "think tank"—is home to more than seventy full-time, adjunct, and visiting scholars and practitioners (called "fellows"). Their expertise covers the world's major regions as well as the critical issues shaping today's global agenda. Download the printable CFR Experts Guide. The author examines Pakistan's complex role in U.S. foreign policy and advocates for a two-pronged approach that works to quarantine threats while integrating Pakistan into the broader U.S. agenda in Asia.
Career advice, insights & tips for HR professionals Standard competency based interview questions: people & organisation competencies - task leadership 27/06/2012 Task Leadership - utilises appropriate interpersonal styles and methods in guiding individuals or a group towards achievement of a task. Click to jump to section - Question 1 - Question 2 - Question 3 - Question 4 - Question 5 - Question 6 - Question 7 - Question 8 - Question 9 - Question 10 How frequently do you meet with your immediate subordinates as a group? Why? What do you do in preparation? At the meeting? After the meeting? Tell me about a new policy or new idea which was considerably different from the standard procedure that you recently implemented. What approach did you take to get your associates to go along with the idea? Have you ever had a problem in getting your subordinates to accept your ideas or departmental goals? What approach did you use? How effective was it? (Look for involvement of subordinates in decision making). Tell me about a task or project with which you have been involved. What was you role? What did you actually do? Do you have any subordinates with performance problems? What have you done to get them to correct the problems? What specifically do you do to set an example for your subordinates? What sort of leader do your subordinates feel you are? How do you know? Are you satisfied? What have you done about it? Is there an established chain of command in your area? Describe some situations where you did not follow it? How often do you attend a meeting with peers? What role did you play at the last meeting? Have you ever led a task force, committee, or any group that didn’t report to you but from whom you had to get work? How did you do it? What were the satisfactions and disappointments? How would you handle the task differently if you could start again? Did you ever feel that you had an important impact on a group to which you belonged? What was the situation? How did you achieve the impact? How often did you hold meetings with your subordinates last year? What did you cover? Ortus is a leader in specialist Human Resources recruitment. We are one of the fastest growing specialists in this niche field and are growing internationally.
To find cures for children with cancer and other life-threatening disease through research and treatment. And no family ever pays St. Jude for anything. How do you help people in my community? As a research institution, St. Jude has a unique mission to generate the knowledge that will lead to cures and treatments for childhood cancers and other deadly diseases, helping to save the lives of children around the world stricken with these diseases. St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs it makes and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. In that way, a donation to St. Jude benefits children in communities across the country and around the world. St. Jude shared its research results in 775 articles published in peer-reviewed journals in 2012. That equals, on average, a new discovery shared every 11 hours. St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and around the world. And thanks to your generosity, no family will ever receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. Why do you need my support? Despite extraordinary advances in diagnosis and treatment, cancer kills more children over the age of 1 in the United States than any other disease. Although cure rates for the most common forms of childhood cancer continue to rise, many forms of childhood cancer are exceedingly rare, and families often don’t know where to turn for information or help. St. Jude is where doctors send their toughest cases, because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for the most aggressive forms of childhood cancer. And because the majority of St. Jude funding comes from caring donors like you, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situations. The hospital’s daily operating costs are $1.8 million and 75 percent of the operating costs are covered by donations. Almost 9 million people make contributions to St. Jude each year, yet the average individual donation is only about $31. Your donation truly makes a difference and supports the pioneering research and exceptional care that happens every day at St. Jude: • St. Jude is building the only proton therapy center in the nation that will be devoted solely to treating children. This therapy is more powerful in destroying cancer and reduces the risk of harmful side effects. • St. Jude creates more clinical trials for cancer than any other children’s hospital. • Nearly every pediatric cancer surgeon in the U.S. and Canada participates in training at St. Jude. • The St. Jude After Completion of Therapy (ACT) program is the largest long-term, follow-up clinic for pediatric cancer patients in the United States. The clinic's accomplishments are now an integral part of national guidelines for screening and managing the late effects of survivors of pediatric cancer. How can I be sure that you will use my money wisely and won't waste it? Millions of people from all walks of life have embraced the mission of St. Jude to find cures that save the lives of children. We take pride in being good stewards of the donations received from our various events and programs, and we strive to find ways to raise money at a lower cost so we can increase the percentage of every donation going to the hospital. For a copy of our annual report and combined financial statement, please send a request to firstname.lastname@example.org Can I Volunteer? How? There are a variety of volunteer-based fundraising opportunities for St. Jude. Through our Special Events for St. Jude program, participants take part in fun and meaningful activities benefiting St. Jude. Events can range from bake sales and car washes to bike rides and team walks. Our Volunteer Support Representatives can offer support and guidance on hosting a volunteer event for St. Jude. Give them a call at 1-800-457-2444 Monday through Friday. Every person who participates in Special Events for St. Jude helps fund the lifesaving research and treatment at St. Jude.
Private Property and the Endangered Species Act:Our whole nation benefits from the preservation of natural habitats and their diversity of animal and plant species—yet small groups of private landowners often bear most of the costs of setting land aside for conservation purposes. This imbalance has generated many conflicts since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973 and remains one of the most controversial issues to be resolved as the ESA makes its way through Congress for reauthorization.To provide policy makers, landowners, and other stakeholders in the ESA debates with impartial baseline information, this book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the role that private property plays in protecting endangered species in the United States. The opening chapter traces the evolution of the ESA and set forth the parameters of the debate over regulation of private property. Four subsequent chapters explore the judicial and economic implications of ESA and suggest how issues of scale and diversity affect the implementation of the ESA on private property. The volume concludes with eight principles to help frame the ongoing ESA reauthorization debate, developed by the University of Wyoming's Institute for Environment and Natural Resources Policy Board, the sponsor of the research presented in this book. Back to top Rent Private Property and the Endangered Species Act 1st edition today, or search our site for Jason F. textbooks. Every textbook comes with a 21-day "Any Reason" guarantee. Published by University of Texas Press.
Sodom Laurel Album:Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of the small North Carolina mountain community of Sodom Laurel, and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs, Sodom Laurel Album tells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together. Back to top Rent Sodom Laurel Album 1st edition today, or search our site for Rob textbooks. Every textbook comes with a 21-day "Any Reason" guarantee. Published by University of North Carolina Press.
When Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door, the Christian world was irrevocably changed. It was as if water were poured into thirsty sand. There was no way to get it back into its bottle again. The Roman Church and its champion, the Hapsburg Emperor Charles V, did not recognize that fact at first. Backed by the pope, Charles V met the Lutherans at Augsburg, demanding they return to the Roman Church. The Lutherans held their own in debate and presented him with the Augsburg Confession--a document which remains their fundamental statement of faith. Charles V determined to reunify his empire by eradicating Lutheranism from Germany. On November 19th, 1530, he issued a decree commanding the Protestant princes to return to the Roman fold. He gave them until April 15th to submit--or face war. Recognizing their danger, leaders of several German Protestant states met in the little town of Schmalkalden, in Saxony, Germany two days before Christmas. On this day, December 31, 1530, the meeting closed. Stating its grievances, it had agreed to form a League to resist the Holy Roman Emperor if he tried to compel them to abandon the Reformation. The leaders immediately wrote to other nations, asking them to join the league or at least offer it their assistance. They received favorable answers. A treaty was formally signed on February 27, 1531. Emperor Charles suddenly found himself in a vulnerable position. Not only had the Schmalkaldic League arisen to resist his armies, but the Turks were again threatening Europe from the East. France, too, was stirring against him. Thanks to these external threats, the emperor found it necessary to accommodate the German princes. He granted them free exercise of their religion until a church council or national diet could decide religious issues. Charles's involvement kept him from attacking the Lutherans for sixteen years. But in 1546 the blow fell. Disagreements among the Schmalkald leaders, the treachery of Prince Maurice, and the Protestants' military ineptitude gave the emperor as complete a victory as he could have hoped for. He imposed an "interim" creed upon Germany, one which made only a few small concessions to the Lutherans. Bad as the situation was for the Protestants, it did not last long. Alarmed at the emperor's successes, other powers rose to make his declining years unhappy. Rome fumed that the emperor had no right to draft a creed; that was the prerogative of the church. In 1552, Prince Maurice, fighting again in behalf of the Protestants, won significant victories and compelled Charles to sign the treaty of Passau which restored Protestant rights. Short-lived and seemingly unsuccessful though the Schmalkaldic League was, it served its purpose. To Protestants it seemed God's Providence had upheld their cause. - The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Editor in chief Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. - Various encyclopedia articles, internet articles, and histories of the Reformation years. Last updated May, 2007.
Don't see the answer to your question? Click here to email the Catholic FertilityCare Centers of WNY or call (716) 862-1944. Is this the rhythm method? The Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS), featuring the science of NaPro Technology, is not the old rhythm method, nor the temperature method. It is based on simple, natural signs of fertility and basic biology supported by years of solid, scientific research. Is this a Catholic method? Although Natural Family Planning has been researched and developed at the encouragement of the Catholic Church, Natural Family Planning is universal and can be used by anyone. There is no religious presentation in the instruction. NFP is universally accepted by all religious faiths. Is this method just for married couples? Any woman can learn about her fertility and is encouraged to do so, especially if there are difficulties in her cycle. However, instructions specific to achieving and avoiding pregnancy will only be taught to married couples or engaged couples preparing for marriage, as it is within the context of marriage that NFP is proven most successful and beneficial to couples. NFP cooperates with a couple’s fertility, respects the dignity of women and the integrity of marriage and promotes shared responsibility between spouses. Can I learn Natural Family Planning from a book? Natural Family Planning is best learned under the guidance of a professional, who can answer questions and identify your needs and concerns and work through them with you. What else can be identified with Natural Family Planning? The Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS) provides an excellent health record and abnormalities can be detected in a way that is unique. Some conditions that can be identified and evaluated further include: Watch the videos below to learn how women using Natural Family Planning found relief from insomnia, joint pain, and endometriosis. Is Natural Family Planning covered by insurance? In some cases, Natural Family Planning may be covered by insurance. Please check with your insurance carrier.
A low-pressure area in the rear of the car, similar to the front, can be created with a little innovation. Remember the four crew chiefs that were suspended by NASCAR; work in this area was their undoing. They had either accidentally or deliberately created holes where low-pressure pockets could be formed to create rear downforce. This was needed due to the hard compound tires that they had to run. The cars were very unstable in early practice.
Access to a health facility and care-seeking for danger signs in children: before and after a community-based intervention in Lusaka, Zambia. Source: Tropical Medicine and International Health 15(3):312-20. Abstract: Available at PubMed Institution: Department of Infectious Disease Control and International Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Japan. firstname.lastname@example.org
Pacific Bigeye Tuna Go Without Strong International Protections In the end, no one — at least none of those who were talking — seemed satisfied. Last month, after five days of intense negotiation in the Cairns, Australia, convention center, the tenth meeting of the Western and Central Fisheries Commission closed, having achieved little if anything to reduce pressure on stocks of bigeye tuna that have been subject to a decade or more of overfishing by both longline and purse seine fleets. Glenn Hurry, executive director of the commission, said he was disappointed by the group’s failure to adopt tougher measures to constrain fishing. Amanda Nickson, director of the Pew Charitable Trust’s tuna conservation project, described the entire meeting as “enormously frustrating.”
As we’ve noted before, Iraq is shaping up to be the defining issue in this presidential election. That’s why it’s so crucial that reporters get their facts right about it, particularly when they’re dealing with the politically sensitive topic of U.S. casualties. Unsurprisingly, they haven’t. In his Washington Post column yesterday, Jim Hoagland wrote: “[N]o one can express unhappiness about the overall decline in U.S. military casualties that has followed the change in tactics and the June 28 transfer of political responsibility. July’s U.S. death toll is expected to be less than half of the April figure.” And last Thursday, as an alert reader pointed out, Adam Nagourney and Richard Stevenson of The New York Times reported that one factor in President Bush’s favor in the election campaign was the fact that “[i]n Iraq, the transfer of sovereignty has led to some reduction in American casualties.” In fact, U.S. troops are dying at a slightly higher rate since sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis. Yes, July’s death toll has to date been lower than April’s, as Hoagland asserts. But April was by far the bloodiest month of the occupation. The only possible reason to use it as a point of comparison is to be able to declare that casualty rates are falling. To anyone but Hoagland, it would make more sense to compare the period directly after the transfer of sovereignty with the period directly before it. And as Hoagland’s colleague George Will pointed out yesterday in his own column which ran opposite Hoagland’s, “[m]ore U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq in July (48 as of Saturday afternoon, Eastern time) than in June (42).” Perhaps Hoagland and the Timesmen were using casualty rates over the entire occupation period as a point of comparison. That seems to us like the best way of all to consider the issue. But even by that measure, they’re wrong: Between May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared the end of major combat operations, and June 30, 2004, the average monthly death toll for U.S. soldiers was 53, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a non-partisan policy research group. Between July 1 and 24, 48 were killed, on average two a day — meaning that July’s death toll is on a pace to exceed the average rate. (To be sure, “casualties” technically refers to troops wounded as well as killed, and July’s projected tally of wounded appears to be slightly below the monthly average. But to use this fact to declare, without elaboration, that casualties are down, is beyond disingenuous. Besides, in Hoagland’s case, it’s he himself who makes deaths, rather than casualties, the crux of the argument, by pointing out that July’s death toll will likely be lower than April’s.) A Campaign Desk reader last week brought Nagourney and Stevenson’s error to the attention of The New York Times public editor’s office. In response, he was told there was no need for a correction, since “[t]he sentence is rather vague in that it does not refer to a time frame or give much in the way of comparison for casualty figures.” Which, of course, is part of the problem. Reporting that clearly conveys a misleading impression — intentionally or not — may not be fair game for The Times’ public editor, but it is for us. Both Hoagland’s column, and Nagourney and Stevenson’s report, fit the bill on that score. And there are few issues on which it’s more important to get it right.
Course material 2010–11 Lecturer: Dr D. Evans No. of lectures: 8 Prerequisite courses: Concurrent and Distributed Systems I, Operating Systems These eight lectures, together with the eight in the Michaelmas Term, form a single course of 16 lectures. The aims of this course are to study the fundamental characteristics of distributed systems, including their models and architectures; the implications for software design; some of the techniques that have been used to build them; and the resulting details of good distributed algorithms and applications. Lectures on Distributed Systems (Lent Term) - Introduction, Evolution, Architecture. Fundamental properties. Evolution from LANs. Introduction to the need for naming, authentication, policy specification and enforcement. Examples of multi-domain systems. Why things can get difficult quickly. Enough Erlang to understand subsequent examples. - Time and event ordering. Time, clocks and event ordering. Earth time, computer clocks, clock drift, clock synchronisation. Order imposed by inter-process communication. Event composition; uncertainty of ordering, failure and delay. Process groups: open/closed, structured/unstructured. Message delivery ordering: arrival order; causal order (vector clocks); total order. Physical causality from real-world examples. - Consistency and commitment. Strong and weak consistency. Replica management. Quorum assembly. Distributed transactions. Distributed concurrency control: two-phase locking, timestamp ordering. Atomic commitment; two-phase commit protocol. Distributed optimistic concurrency control and commitment. Some algorithm outlines: Election of a leader. Distributed mutual exclusion. - Middleware. Synchronous: RPC, object-orientated. Asynchronous: message orientated, publish/subscribe, peer-to-peer. Event-based systems. Examples of some simple distributed programs in Java and Erlang. - Naming and name services. Unique identifiers, pure and impure names. Name spaces, naming domains, name resolution. Large scale name services: DNS, X.500/LDAP, GNS. Use of replication. Consistency-availability tradeoffs. Design assumptions and future issues. - Access control for multi-domain distributed systems. Requirements from healthcare, police, emergency services, globally distributed companies. ACLs, capabilities, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Context aware access control. Examples: OASIS, CBCL OASIS, Microsoft Healthvault, ... Authentication and authorisation: Raven, Shibboleth, OpenID. - Distributed storage services. Summary and roundup. Network-based storage services. Naming and access control. Peer-to-peer protocols. Content distribution. Summary and roundup. Open problems for future years: transactional main memory; multicore concurrency control; untrusted components. Byzantine failure. At the end of the course students should - understand the need for concurrency control in operating systems and applications, both mutual exclusion and condition synchronisation; - understand how multi-threading can be supported and the implications of different approaches; - be familiar with the support offered by various programming languages for concurrency control and be able to judge the scope, performance implications and possible applications of the various approaches; - be aware that dynamic resource allocation can lead to deadlock; - understand the concept of transaction; the properties of transactions, how concurrency control can be assured and how transactions can be distributed; - understand the fundamental properties of distributed systems and their implications for system design; - understand the effects of large scale on the provision of fundamental services and the tradeoffs arising from scale; - be familiar with a range of distributed algorithms. * Bacon, J. & Harris, T. (2003). Operating systems: distributed and concurrent software design. Addison-Wesley. Bacon, J. (1997). Concurrent Systems. Addison-Wesley. Tanenbaum, A.S. & van Steen, M. (2002). Distributed systems. Prentice Hall. Coulouris, G.F., Dollimore, J.B. & Kindberg, T. (2005, 2001). Distributed systems, concepts and design. Addison-Wesley (4th, 3rd eds.).
Software-based floppy disc data separator pat at computer-refuge.org Sat Jun 19 17:47:37 CDT 2010 On Saturday, June 19, 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote: > "Having one on the shelf" is essential. For example, you might have > what looks to be a 5.25" floppy, but if it's a 2MB disk written in a > Drivetec drive, you'll need the drive to recover the data. Speaking of weird disk formats... Has anyone managed to read an IBM "2.4MB" 5.25" floppy, such as those used for microcode for 3174 terminal controllers and other mainframe bits? Hooking a drive up to a catweasel, and throwing a 2.4MB disk in the drive never managed to produce anything useful for me (though I think I could read DSHD "1.2MB" disks in it just fine that way. Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org More information about the cctech
Part Two begins after Santiago has worked for one month at the crystal merchant's shop. Santiago offers to build a display case for the crystal, which the merchant can put outside his shop to attract potential customers. The crystal merchant fears that passers-by will bump into it and break the glass. Santiago responds that business has improved since he began working at the store and that the merchant should take advantage of this trend. He explains the idea, learned from the king of Salem, of moving when luck is on one's side — the principle of favorability. After two more months, with the display case in place outside the store having generated an enormous amount of new business, Santiago figures that if he returns home with all the money he has made, he can double his flock in less than a year. Also, he can trade with the Arabs in Tangier or in Spain, because he has learned to speak Arabic. Hearing a tourist complain of thirst after climbing the hill to the crystal shop, Santiago suggests to the crystal merchant that they sell tea and serve it in the crystal, which in turn will help them sell more crystal. Meanwhile, Santiago's aspirations have encouraged the merchant to recall his own abandoned dreams. He uses the word that will feature prominently in this section of the novel: maktub, meaning "It is written." In Western terms, maktub means that something is destined, meant to be. Santiago and the crystal merchant offer tea at the store, and their venture is a huge financial success. After eleven months and nine days in Tangier, Santiago has earned enough money to buy one hundred and twenty sheep, a return ticket to Andalusia, and a license to import products from Africa. The crystal merchant has made enough to travel to Mecca, one of his own life's aspirations. But the merchant tells Santiago ". . . you know that I'm not going to go to Mecca. Just as you know that you're not going to buy your sheep." The merchant is right. When the stones Urim and Thummim spill out of Santiago's jacket, he recalls Melchizedek and his teachings. Santiago realizes that he will always be able to return to Andalusia and the life of a shepherd, but he will not always be able to visit the Egyptian pyramids. He decides to forge onward in pursuit of his Personal Legend. In literary terms, the crystal merchant is considered to be Santiago's foil, a character who demonstrates by contrast everything that another character is and isn't. For instance, Santiago innovates and works hard to better the crystal shop's visibility and appeal, while after thirty years the merchant has stopped trying to improve his business. In the greater scheme of things, Santiago is seeking his Personal Legend, whereas the crystal merchant is not. Once he desired to travel to Mecca, one of the five acts required of a devout Muslim. But even after Santiago's changes to the crystal business have brought in enough money to make that possible, the crystal merchant does not seek Mecca. He has abandoned his Personal Legend. By contrast, Santiago earns enough to return to the life that is most comfortable to him, that of a shepherd, yet he chooses to renounce this in his quest to reach the pyramids. The Arabic word maktub sums up the crystal merchant's philosophy: He does something because "it is written" — that is, fated — rather than as a result of his own hopes and desires. Unlike Santiago, he lives life passively, as one who reacts to events rather than as a shaper of them. Coelho offers readers the character of the crystal merchant as an example of how not to live, versus the active, questing ideal embodied by The Alchemist's protagonist, Santiago. The crystal merchant is not a bad man. In fact, he's quite ordinary. But it is precisely his ordinariness that the novel warns against. He is not a villain, or even an antagonist; he is simply Santiago's foil.
Education and Group Support for Diabetic Hispanics The purpose of this ongoing work in Starr County, located on the Texas-Mexico border, is to conduct clinical studies to determine the effectiveness of diabetes self-management programs designed specifically for Mexican Americans. The programs meet national standards for diabetes self-management education. They are provided in community settings with the primary purpose of improving the health of Mexican Americans with diabetes and their family members, who either have diabetes or are at risk for developing diabetes. The diabetes self-management programs are provided in Spanish and are directed by bilingual Hispanic clinical nurse specialists, dietitians, and community health workers. Key elements of the programs include instruction on nutrition, self-monitoring of blood glucose, exercise, and other diabetes self-management topics, as well as group support to promote behavioral changes. In the original study (1994-1998), 256 Mexican American adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and 256 family members or other support persons were enrolled. For one year, the people with diabetes, along with their family members, attended small group sessions held in churches, community health clinics, adult day care centers, and schools. Information on the effectiveness of the program was collected at 3, 6, and 12 months; and annually thereafter. Findings of the original study suggested that the program had a positive impact on diabetes metabolic control. Levels of diabetes knowledge and rates of glucose self-monitoring and attendance suggested that a shorter program - one that incorporated critical elements of the previous successful strategy - might result in similar improvements. Thus, the goal of the new study, funded in June 1999, was to shorten the original program and to compare it to the previous successful program in terms of short- and long-term health outcomes. To identify key components of the previous program, we are exploring differences between subjects who successfully integrated self-care components of the program and who experienced significant improvements in metabolic control and those who were not as successful. The program is being revised and shortened, based on this information. Beginning in April 2000, we will start recruiting participants for the clinical trial of the revised program. Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent Behavioral: diabetes self-management education \|Study Design:\|\|Allocation: Non-Randomized Primary Purpose: Prevention \|United States, Texas\| \|The University of Texas at Austin\| \|Austin, Texas, United States, 78701\| \|Principal Investigator:\|\|Sharon A. Brown\|\|The University of Texas at Austin\|
(This Old House) -- Kids' rooms have to fulfill some unique requirements. Besides being a place to sleep, they must provide space to play, study and store a mountain of clothes, toys and all other kinds of kid stuff. All this in what often is the smallest room in the house. A child's room needs to be cozy enough for sleep, safe enough for play, capable of storing kid's stuff and tough enough to take a beating. Kids' rooms also get a lot of rough treatment. And if you choose the wrong furnishings, the kids could outgrow their rooms long before you are ready for the next remodel. In addition to gathering a variety of inspired products that make creating the ultimate kid's room child's play, we spoke with veteran designers Dianne Carchesio and Kris Kaczynski, of Julian Katera in Freehold, New Jersey. Here are their tips for designing a kid's room that fits your child for years to come. Tip #1: Look down the road You can't decorate a room for a 2-year-old and expect not to update it for the next 20 years. But you can choose basic furnishings such as beds and dressers your child can use into young adulthood. Forget the red car bed or the bunnies painted on the dresser. Instead, select neutral colors and stains. And choose at least a twin if not a full bed. For wall coverings, stick with classic patterns that stay current longer, such as geometrics, stars and checks. Or choose a timeless theme like ecology, space travel or celestial motifs. You can also change looks instantly with Easy Ups wall appliques from Village, a wall coverings manufacturer. These stick-ups are available in several themes and come off easily. Tip #2: Think like a kid Sheets and curtains are a great way to indulge your child's current interest in boats, ballerinas or dinosaurs, because you can change these soft goods when they wear out or your child's interests change. Then use your child's favorite items to decorate the room. For example, tack kites, model planes or stars to the ceiling. Build a decorative ledge or shelf from moldings to neatly display favorite toys, books and collections. And paint the room, or at least one wall, your child's favorite color. Also provide a spot where your son or daughter can display an art project, an "A" paper and posters. One classic way to do this is to glue corkboard on an entire wall or a portion of it. Or buy a chalkboard at a school-supply store. You can turn all or part of a wall into a chalkboard with Benjamin Moore's Crayola Chalkboard paint. The best way to think like a kid is to involve your son or daughter in the process -- within reason, that is. While a child should have a voice in the final selection, protect your veto power by shopping on your own. Bring home samples of three or four colors, fabrics and furniture choices you find appealing and affordable. Tack them up. Then let your child choose. When shopping for furniture, bring a camera and let your child pick from photos. Tip #3: Get tough Look for finish materials and surfaces that can take the punishment kids dish out. Semi- or high-gloss paint is easier to wipe down than flat paint, for instance. Avoid any wall covering that isn't vinyl, unless it's commercial-grade. Every kid knows floors aren't just for walking on -- think crawling babies, kids at play and sprawled-out teenagers -- so plan accordingly. Durable choices include wood, which can be refinished; laminate, which doesn't stain or scratch as easily; and vinyl, which is inexpensive, easy to clean and can be replaced easily if damaged. Your child's age and interests are the keys to choosing flooring. For example, choose wipe-clean, nonabsorbent vinyl or laminate for a budding artist. And go with sound-absorbing, stain-resistant carpet for young gymnasts or teens who play their music loud. This Old House: On the carpet Tip #4: Make storage flexible Choose adjustable storage that can hold finger paints and puzzles today and books and clothes tomorrow. Include open and closed shelves, and locate storage at several heights; low drawers and shelves are convenient when kids are 6 but not when they're 16. Include wire shelving, stackable bins, hanging pocket storage and other closet organizers that hold odds and ends neatly .Stretch storage space with furniture that serves two functions. Trundle beds provide an oversize storage space or, when outfitted with a mattress, an extra bed for sleepovers. Also consider a flip-top toy box that doubles as a window seat. This Old House: Building wall cubbies Tip #5: Keep it safe Furniture with rounded edges is safest for all kids. Bins and boxes should include hinges that gravity can't shut on small fingers. Also keep toys and games on low shelves so kids don't have to climb to reach them. And bolt tall bookshelves to the wall. This Old House: Childproofing your home Bunk beds are a popular way to save space when two kids share a room. Besides choosing a model that can be separated later, be sure the bed has slats that screw in and a ladder securely attached at a comfortable climbing angle. Check that each child can sit on the bottom bunk without bumping his or her head. Use guard rails on any open side of the upper bunk, and keep it off limits for kids under 6. They might not have the coordination to climb up or the ability to stop themselves from falling out. Safe lighting can prevent accidents. For example, avoid floor lamps, which topple easily, and table lamps for the same reason until kids are older. For ambient lighting, use ceiling-mounted can lights installed on a dimmer; this way, you can turn the lights on partially when checking on the kids at night and not wake them. Movable track lights that slide, swivel and rotate are also ideal because they provide adaptable lighting. Then as children mature, suspend a pendant fixture from the track to create a hanging lamp over a desk or night table. Task lighting, such as a flexible clamp lamp set up next to the bed, desk or recreational area, is another essential as children grow up. To contain the jumble of wires from a computer, TV and sound system, a baseboard wire-management system like the Wiremold Access 5000 raceway ($5 to $8 per linear foot depending on finish) tucks all those wires safely out of the way. E-mail to a friend COPYRIGHT © 2009 THIS OLD HOUSE VENTURES, INC. \|Most Viewed\|\|Most Emailed\|\|Top Searches\|
By default when a thread is created in java it is a user thread. A thread can be made daemon by using setDaemon().Daemon threads work in background. JVM diffrentiates b/w these threads as follows : When user thread exits JVM checks whether there are more user threads to execute. If none present then JVM exits. It means that when only daemon threads are running JVM shuts down. An example of daemon thread is garbage collection. Daemon threads should be used for background processes..
I have a problem to compile the source code for a class that is in the book "head first servlets ...", and this problem is generated by the instruction: import com.example.model.*; from the code. How it was said in the book I had a folder tree like (beerV1\classes\com\example\model\) in which is the class that I want to import (BeerExpert.class). The BeerSelect.java file is in beerV1\src\com\example\web\ and I try to compile it, from beerV1 folder how it was write in the book. But I receive the following error: package com.example.model does not exist. I think this may happend because the compiler look in the root folder (beerV1) to find the com folder, but it is in the classes folder. If I try to compile the file being in the classes folder and using the comand: javac -d D:\Java\Java programs\Head first Servlets and JSP\beerV1\src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java I recieved the error: invalid flag: programs\Head Can someone help me in this matter? Thank you! You have spaces in your path. D:\Java\Java programs\Head first Servlets and JSP\beerV1\src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java. Either rename the folders to NOT have the spaces in the name or enclose the path in double quotes "......." Joined: Feb 16, 2011 I solved finaly the problem by using the comand set CLASSPATH=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\lib\servlet-api.jar;classes;.; and after I compile the code using the comand: javac -d classes src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java I don't know why the environment variables didn't work (I put in the variable value the same path, but didn't solve the compile problem), but I'm happy it finaly work!
A-Next is the hip, new and younger version of the Avengers from Earth-982. The previous incarnation of Avengers were very much like their Earth-616 counterparts until they learned of a monumental threat from the reality of Earth-9907. In this reality, the Nazis won World War II and the ruler of the entire world was Victor Von Doom (known to Earth-616 as Dr.Doom). He was on the verge of mastering a Universal Cube which would allow him to invade other realities. Earth-982's Avengers created a portal into Earth-9907 in which to stop Doom. The confronted their counterparts in that world known as the Thunder Guard, this universe's twisted version of the Avengers under Doom's control. Many Avengers of Earth-928 perished during that battle with the Thunder Guard, but they did succeed in slowing down Doom's plan. One of the few survivors, Captain America stayed behind in Earth-9907 to lead the local resistance against Doom. Only six Avengers returned to earth: Hawkeye (Clint Barton) whom had been blinded in battle; Hercules,whom was driven mad by his experiences and had to be sealed in an adamantium prison; the Scarlet Witch; the Vision whom later became adviser to the U.S President; the Wasp who was distraught over the death of her husband Hank Pym; and Iron Man. To prevent any further interaction with Earth-9906, Iron Man was forced to place the Scarlet Witch into a stasis field and used her powers to seal the rift. Shortly afterward, a weary Tony Stark decided that he could not longer continue as Iron Man and chose to retire. Other heroes couldn't just sit by and let the Avengers fail apart and make no effort to fix the situation so several heroes like Jolt, Jubilee, Nova, Speedball, and the Steel Spider tried to continue the Avengers; however, it ultimately failed and the group finally disbanded. The Avengers Headquarters was turned into a Museum and was cared for by one-time Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis. The Avengers were slowly turned into nothing more than a memory. Ten years later, Kevin Masterson (son of the deceased Avenger Thunderstrike), came to the Avengers Headquarters to claim his father's mace, which had been left their by Thor for Kevin to inherit. Although the mace's magic appeared to be gone, the trickster Loki dispatched trolls to Earth to steal it from Kevin when he found it. Loki's presence triggered a dormant program left by Tony Stark. The program activated Mainframe, a sophisticated robot (much like the Vision) based on Iron Man's mind and designed to ensure that there would always be Avengers. Mainframe sent out a signal to the Avengers; a call which was answered by the once disbanded team of Jubilee, Jolt, and Stinger; the daughter of Ant-Man (Scott Lang). The trolls' assault on Kevin was also witnessed by Speedball, and J2 (the son of Juggernaut), and six heroes came to Masterson's defense. Loki captured all six of them easily and brought them to Asgard while he tried to awaken the magic of the mighty mace. When he cast a spell, Kevin lunged at the mace which bonded the mace to him and granted him it's powers. Kevin freed the other heroes and defeated Loki and cast him into the darkness by summoning Thor who had succeeded his father Odin as the Lord, Master, and King of Asgard. After the crisis, Mainframe suggested that they form a new team of Avengers. Speedball, Jolt and Jubilee declined full time service as Avengers; but Stinger, J2, and Kevin Masterson who assumed the identity of the new Thunderstrike agreed and formed A-Next. Once more, Avengers Headquarters served as the base of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but was simultaneously open as a public museum. The New Avengers me other new heroes such as: Earth Sentry (John Foster), son of the old Avengers associate Bill Foster, and Doc Magus, whom was the current Sorcerer Supreme. Mainframe later recruited American Dream and her dream team which included: The Crimson Curse, Bluestreak, and Freebooter. American Dream was cousin to Sharon Carter who has been an ally and romantic partner of Captain America. She modeled her whole persona behind Captain America's style and principles. When Argo, the son of Hercules asked the Avengers to help find his father, the team located and found out where Stark had put him. They also learned why he was put there; his insanity. Jarvis was sought out for answers of why the first Avengers disbanded and he told them what little he knew. In their search for answers the team accidentally awoke the Scarlet Witch, placing their world in danger from the Universal Cube. After coming to the realization of what happened to their predecessors they decided they had to set things straight and venture out into Earth-9907. The reunited with Captain America whom the helped overcome the Thunder Guard and succeed where the previous Avengers could not. In this battle the Crimson Curse seemingly lost her life destroying Doom and the cube and Thunderstrike became acquainted with Stormtrooper whom is an alternate version of his father and he chose to remain there and be with him.
EMAIL SIGN UP! Most Popular This Week - What the US Media Won't Tell You About Ukraine - Heard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of International Law? - Bernie Sanders: 'I Am Prepared to Run for President of the United States' - New England on 'High Alert' After Canadian Pipeline Reversal Approved - Hundreds of Students Arrested Demanding Climate Action Today's Top News US to Release Photos Showing Alleged Abuses by American Personnel WASHINGTON - The Obama administration agreed late Thursday to release dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse by U.S. personnel during the Bush administration of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 44 pictures will be released by May 28 -- making public for the first time images of what the military investigated as abuse that took place at facilities other than the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Defense Department officials would not say exactly what is contained in the photos, but said they are concerned that the release could incite a backlash in the Middle East. The photos, taken from military criminal investigations of abuse, are apparently not as shocking as the photographs from the Abu Ghraib investigation that became a lasting symbol of U.S. mistakes in Iraq. But some show military service members intimidating or threatening detainees by pointing weapons at them. Military officers have been court martialed for threatening detainees at gunpoint. "This will constitute visual proof that, unlike the Bush administration's claim, the abuse was not confined to Abu Ghraib and was not aberrational," said Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the agreement as part of a long-running legal battle for documents related to Bush-era anti-terror policies. The photo release decision comes as President Barack Obama is already trying to quell a drive to investigate Bush-era anti-terror practices. But now the photos and a series of other possible disclosures stemming from the ACLU lawsuit threatens to fuel the already explosive controversy. Additional disclosures to be considered in the coming weeks include transcripts of detainee interrogations by the CIA, a CIA inspector general's report that has been kept mostly secret, and background materials of a Justice Department internal investigation into prisoner abuse. In each instance, Obama and his administration are being forced to decide whether to release material entirely, disclose it with redactions or follow the lead of the Bush administration and fight in court to keep the material classified. Last week, Obama opted to demand relatively few redactions when his administration released Justice Department memos detailing the Bush administration's justifications and strategies for harsh interrogations. But those disclosures created a problem for the president, prompting Democratic lawmakers and interest groups to demand that Congress investigate the Bush-era practices and possibly prosecute officials of the prior administration. With Obama trying to navigate ambitious health, tax and environment legislation through Congress, the White House fears that such an investigation could become a highly partisan distraction ¿ and Obama has for that reason already rejected the idea of a 9/11 Commission-style review of Bush's anti-terror policies, according to an official. Now, with the president must consider the release of new materials that could be inflammatory and heighten the already combustible mix of political pressures he faces. While the liberal base that elected him wants wide disclosure and an investigation of Bush practices, pursuing that course would likely alienate the intelligence and military communities that are crucial to Obama's success as president. Obama tried to walk that rhetorical line last week, heeding liberals' calls to release the torture memos but appearing to argue against further investigation or prosecution by saying that " "this is a time for reflection, not retribution." Instead, he managed to anger both constituencies. "My sense is the president was trying to please a lot of audiences at one time and that over the last (week) he has totally failed to put the mind of the intelligence community at ease," said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior adviser to CIA Director George J. Tenet. "He is going to end up with a national clandestine service that will not be willing to do anything because they feel he will not be there for them when they need him."
As a veteran, nothing offends me more than to see a politician pull on a flight jacket, combat fatigues or a ball cap emblazoned with the symbol of some legitimate military organization and mingle with young men and women serving our country in a war zone. Vice President Dick Cheney recently played out the Bush administration's version of this "patriot act" by joining the troops in Baghdad to drum up support for our misadventure in Iraq. Cheney's act gets no rave review in my book. His act of patriotism has little substance and no historical justification. This is the same Cheney who in 1989 told The Washington Post, in explaining his avoidance of the draft during the Vietnam era: "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service." So did I. So did, I have no doubt, the 55,000-plus young patriots who gave their lives in Vietnam. I cannot help but think that if Cheney were 20 years old today, the last place on this planet that either he or George W. Bush would be is in Iraq. Even so, there he is, a man a step away from being commander-in-chief, sitting down to a Halliburton-provided meal with some true patriots and urging them to sacrifice their young lives for Iraqi freedom and Halliburton's bottom line. How ironic is it that Cheney is sequestered safely within the fortifications of the Green Zone in besieged Baghdad? Just how green the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys have been for Halliburton and Cheney remains a matter of some conjecture. In 2003, Cheney stated on NBC's "Meet the Press": "I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years." Without boring you with the details, let me say that it has been verified that Cheney's statement was not entirely true. As we are all well aware, Cheney also claimed that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. This did not turn out to be true either. Now, while I don't want to accuse the vice president of being a liar, I would advise him if he were the protagonist in Pinocchio to steer clear of any lumber companies in the great Northwest. Cheney should instead concentrate more fully on the facts in Iraq. While it is highly unlikely that he would risk life or limb for Iraqi freedom, he is more than willing to sacrifice your sons and daughters to fulfill the administration's pipedream of democracy in the Mideast. Lyndon Johnson had a similar dream for Southeast Asia; that too turned into a nightmare. But not just for him. The drums of Washington's Beltway warriors sound all too familiar; in my case the call was to defend the freedom of the people of South Vietnam from the red peril; or was it that we were defending ourselves from the yellow peril? Or were the North Vietnamese defending themselves from the white peril? I don't recall. I just know it was a perilous world we lived in, and if Vietnam fell, so too would Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and all the rest, like dominoes. That theory, I'm sorry to say, is alive and well today in the Mideast. If Iraq falls, so too will Iran, Lebanon, Syria, etc. Dominoes déjà vu. The beat goes on. How many times have we heard that Iraq is not like Vietnam? I agree; it's not. It's much worse. And the guys who got us in there have no idea of how to get us out. This administration cannot comprehend that democracy is a process; it cannot be imposed on another country by military force. The will of the people must provide the foundation for a democratic government; the people who want it must be as willing to die for it as the people who so vehemently oppose it. We cannot do the killing and the dying for Iraqi freedom; Iraqi patriots must do it for themselves. Our failure in Vietnam was inevitable because we did not have the support of the people. When we pulled out of Vietnam under the Nixon administration's banner of "Peace with Honor," we left South Vietnam with a well trained and well equipped, albeit poorly led, army. However, that army, that government, did not have the support of the people. Did we learn nothing from the fall of Saigon in 1975? Did the loss of 55,000-plus American and millions of Vietnamese lives teach us nothing? Are elections supervised by an occupying army truly democratic? One can already sense, in spite of the spin by Bush administration, that their resolve to stay the course in Iraq is weakening. This month, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld announced that a gradual reduction in force levels would begin immediately. These cuts are more the result of politics that military success in Iraq. Because of political pressure and unrest at home, the administration is looking for a way out that can somehow justify to the wives and parents and children and husbands of American casualties that their lives were not wasted. Bush's admission that his decision to go to war was based on faulty intelligence in no way diminishes his poor judgment; nor does it excuse the senseless loss of life military and civilian, American and Iraqi. This administration will never indeed it cannot admit that invading Iraq was a horrible mistake. This war has made neither Iraq nor our country safer; Bush's lack of foresight has only strengthened the resolve of our enemies. But what's a president to do? Tell the families of the causalities that he made a mistake? No way. Not with his legacy at risk. Bush wants to pawn his failure and bad judgment in Iraq off on the next administration; he and Cheney want to be let off the hook for the causalities suffered in Iraq. That way, their patriot act might be recorded more favorably by historians. This country had a revolution because the people would no longer tolerate the abuses of King George. That is how the world works; that is how a democracy is born; democracy is not imposed at gunpoint by an occupying army. Political change must come from within, not from without. And the Iraqi people will never be truly free until they are free from us as well as their own history. That having been said, I still urge those young Americans of both parties who support the war to become patriots rather than just give lip service to the Iraqi cause-enlist, get a commission, sign up for the National Guard. Then if you enter politics at some time in the future, you can run on your military record rather than from it. You'll be able to sit down with your troops in a war zone knowing you're one of them; you won't have to fabricate a patriot act because you will have already demonstrated your patriotism through service. Dave Christner is a Newport, R.I., playwright. He fought in Vietnam aboard the USS Carronade from 1966-1969. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with a combat V, a Gold Star in lieu of a second Navy Commendation Medal, and a Combat Action Ribbon. Christner is also the author of an award-winning trilogy of Vietnam plays. His newest play, "Free Shot," will premiere in Broomfield in May. Copyright © 2006 The Daily Camera and Boulder Publishing, LLC
Panasonic demonstrated the world's first 3D high-definition plasma home theatre system at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The 3D full HD plasma home theatre system enables the viewing of "true-to-life" 3D full HD images by using a Panasonic 103in plasma HDTV and a Panasonic Blu-ray Disc player, capable of distributing full high-definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) images to the left eye and right eye. "This goes well beyond conventional 3D and Panasonic is fully committed to making it a reality, and soon," said Bob Perry, executive vice-president of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. He said, "Plasma is currently the only TV capable of delivering a 3D full HD experience, due in great part to its ability to refresh at a speed which enables multiple image display without loss of resolution. "The integration of Hollywood's 3D content with Panasonic's plasma, Blu-ray and 3D full HD technologies delivers a truly immersive experience, which will elevate home entertainment to a whole new level of excitement. You will no longer just be watching a movie, you will be experiencing the realism of a Hollywood film." The 3D experience occurs because the left and right eyes recognise different images. Panasonic's 3D full HD system comprises a 103in plasma HDTV and a Blu-ray Disc player that plays back Blu-ray Discs onto which 3D video (consisting of left-sided and right-sided 1080p full HD images) are recorded. Full HD processing occurs on both the left-sided and right-sided 3D image in every single process - from recording, playback and display. With a special pair of active shutter glasses that work in synchronisation with the plasma HDTV, the viewer is able to experience 3D images formed with twice the volume of information as regular full HD images, and enjoy them together with high-quality surround sound. Panasonic said previous consumer 3D entertainment systems encountered many problems, including the inability to deliver true high-definition picture quality in 3D due to the lack of bandwidth in transport and the limited capacity of the storage. Previous systems also suffered from reduced vertical resolution caused by a 3D display method that divides the scanning lines between the left and right eyes, and picture quality degradation caused by pixel skipping that results from the squeezing of two (left and right) screens' worth of full HD images into one screen of data capacity for image storage and transmission. Until now, said Panasonic, there has not been a system capable of displaying the equivalent quality to the original Hollywood 3D master.
Gaiam Goes Wild For Go Zero In 2006, as part of efforts to improve the environment, build sustainable economies and promote healthy lifestyles, Gaiam: an eco-healthy lifestyle company and the Fund, launched the world’s first sustainable shipping program. The ground-breaking initiative has given Gaiam’s online customers the opportunity to add a small donation at checkout that goes directly to The Conservation Fund’s Go Zero® program. Already, Gaiam and its customers have helped the Fund plant 120,000 trees across six national wildlife refuges. As the trees grow into healthy forests, they are expected to trap nearly 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Part 2: How Go Zero has helped tackle climate change and habitat loss: Q & A with Jena Meredith, director of the Go Zero program
By Rich Merritt, Senior Technical Editor AS WE REPORTED last month in this space, a veritable flood of truly new products is hitting our industry. It’s as if the floodgates of R&D have opened up, pouring out new, innovative and spectacular products into the control market. Temperature instrumentation is the latest group of products in which we have seen such progress. Networking is one example. Several of the products described in the roundup below come equipped with the usual analog and serial interfaces, plus Profibus, Ethernet, wireless, Modbus and HART. Some even have built-in Web servers, so you can monitor their readings from a browser, and one will send email messages with alarms. High technology is finally showing up, as the market researchers have been predicting for years. We are beginning to see the emergence of self-diagnostics and MEMS (microelectromechanical system) technologies, plus advances such as multilingual operator interfaces and safety-oriented systems with built-in backups. Nearly everything is programmable by the end user these days, from data loggers to signal conditioners, so you can tailor many of these products to fit your needs. Programming varies from PC downloads to adjustments on the control panel. Infrared sensors are particularly loaded with new features, such as laser aiming, on-board cameras, multi-wavelength sensors, and more. Ethernet Input Modules BusWorks 965EN and 966EN temperature input modules transmit thermocouple and RTD sensor data across any Ethernet media, including an existing IT infrastructure, CAT5 cable, fiber optics or wireless networks, without a network controller or software programming. They accept four or six inputs, and transmit to a remote output module that provides 4-20mA or 0-10V signals. Acromag; 800/881-0268; www.acromag.com. RTD Module Links Via AS-I The PT100 temperature module has an AS-Interface and four analog inputs for RTDs, is IP65-rated for operation in hazardous environments, and is field-mountable. Connection to the outputs is established through PG cable glands and cage tension spring terminals. Users may pre-address the module by plugging it onto the adapter of a hand-held programming device. It has a function display for bus and inputs. Pepperl+Fuchs; 330/486-0001; www.am.pepperl-fuchs.com. Talk to the Web TR-70W Internet-ready temperature data loggers have a built-in 10/100 base-TX Ethernet, a CF slot for a wireless 802.11b card, and a micro-web server. The built-in web server allows viewing of current temperature and humidity data, or a graph of the last seven days worth of data, via a standard web browser. Stored data can be downloaded via an Internet browser for further analysis using software supplied. Computer Aided Solutions; 440/729-2570; www.computeraidedsolutions.com. Temperature Controls Go Modbus Models ETR-8300 and ETR-4300 temperature controllers have Modbus communications, remote setpoint input, dual inputs, 18 bit A/D converter, and four independent programmable outputs for heating, cooling or alarms. Inputs include field-programmable thermocouples, two standard RTD curves, and six linear process inputs. Ogden Manufacturing; 847/593-8050; www.ogdenmfg.com. Hockey Puck Transmitter The Sitrans TH300 hockey puck temperature transmitter has galvanic isolation for maximum process safety in thermocouple applications. If a short-circuit between the thermowell and thermocouple occurs, the transmitter will not pull the 4 to 20 mA loop to ground. It has HART communications, a simulation function for commissioning, and a malfunction indicator. Siemens Energy & Automation; 215/646-7400; www.usa.siemens.com. You’ve Got Alarming Mail! The Mini-Sat field station and AD592 temperature sensor can control, monitor and/or set alarms anywhere in the world as long as an Internet connection is possible. Alarms can be sent to pagers, email addresses and phones. Automata; 530/478-5882; www.automata-inc.com. The dTron 300 controller has a multicolor LC display with background lighting, a PC setup program, and four buttons on the front panel for operation and parameterization. The operator can define up to eight freely programmed parameters at the user level. The link to a supervisory system or a PLC can be provided through an RS485 or Profibus interface. Jumo Process Control; 610/380-8002; www.jumo.us. The iDR series signal conditioners and PID controllers have an Ethernet connection, so the instruments can connect directly to a LAN and serve Web pages over the Internet. The devices are configured with a handheld programmer or from a PC with an Ethernet, RS-232, or RS-485 connection. Its universal signal input takes ten thermocouples, 100 and 1000 Ohm RTDs, DC voltage and current, and strain gauges. Newport Electronics; 714/540-4914; www.newportUS.com. The Model 3144P temperature transmitter meets IEC 61508/61511 safety specs. A Hot Backup function automatically switches to the backup sensor if the primary sensor fails, providing affordable sensor redundancy. A Sensor Drift Alert function notifies the user if an unreliable measurement is detected, allowing time for the degrading sensor to be replaced before failure. Existing 3144P users can upgrade to a safety certified transmitter by simply replacing the standard electronics assembly. Emerson / Rosemount; 952/949-5165; www.EmersonProcess.com.
Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean made a speech recently in which he revealed who he thinks should control American military interventions. Dean said he "would not have hesitated" to launch an attack on Iraq "had the United Nations given us permission and asked us to be part of a multilateral force." In other words, in matters of self defense, Dean expects the U.S. to ask permission from an organization that harbors the dictators and tyrants from whom we seek to defend ourselves. (Saddam's Iraq was a U.N. member). But Dean wasn't the first candidate to tout his willingness to sacrifice America's sovereignty to other nations. There was also this comment from Wesley Clark. Well, if I were president right now, I would be doing things that George Bush can’t do right now, because he’s already compromised those international bridges. I would go to Europe and I would build a new Atlantic charter. I would say to the Europeans, you know, we’ve had our differences over the years, but we need you. The real foundation for peace and stability in the world is the transatlantic alliance. And I would say to the Europeans, I pledge to you as the American president that we’ll consult with you first. You get the right of first refusal on the security concerns that we have. We’ll bring you in. [Emphasis added] Can you imagine France and Germany agreeing to let us attack any terrorist-sponsoring nation? Of course not. And that's exactly the goal of Clark and Dean: to humble the American giant before the world. Bush certainly has his multilaterist tendency that are cause for great concern. But these two would apparently relinquish control of our military as a matter of principle. Posted by Forkum at December 18, 2003 07:55 AM
Knit Toddler Dress Knit Toddler Dress Knitting Pattern - Toddler Dress Knitting Patterns - Toddler Dress Size: 2 years Materials: 4 balls Babyfair or Sock and sport yarn, 5 skeins. Knitting needles, 1 pair size 2., crochet hook, size 1. Gauge: Stockinette st - 8 sts = 1"; 11 rows- 1"; 20 rows of pattern = 1 3/4". Measurements: Chest 22 1/2 inches. Width around lower edge 44 1/2 inches. Length from lower edge to back of neck 15 1/2 inches. Back: Skirt; Cast on 178 sts. K 5 rows. 6th row: (wrong side) K 1, * p 3 tog; k 1, p 1, k 1 all in front thread of next st; repeat from , end k 1. P 1 row. 8th row: K 1, work 3 sts in next st as in 6th row, p 3 tog; repeat from , end k 1. K 4 rows (2 ridges on right side). Work stockinette st (knit 1 row, p 1 row) for 8 rows. Repeat these 20 rows of pattern 4 times. Waist: Dec. row (right side) K 1, then k 2 tog continuously to within 1 st of end, k 1 (90) sts. K 4 rows, p 1 row, k 1 row, p 1 row. Beading: K 1, yarn over needle twice, k 2 tog; repeat form , end k 1. P 1 row, purling st and first "over" and dropping extra "over" (90) sts. K 1 row, p 1 row, k 4 rows (2 ridges). Work stockinette st for 8 rows. Work first 12 rows of pattern. Armholes: Continuing pattern as for skirt, bind off 4 sts at beginning of next 2 rows for underarm. Dec. 1 st each side every 2nd row 4 times (74) sts. Work even until 1 3/4 inches above underarm, end with 12th row of pattern. Next row: K 37, slip remaining sts to holder. Turn, k 3, p to end. Continue pattern, always knitting the 3 sts at center of back, until 3 1/2 inches above underarm, end with 12th row of pattern. Shoulder: Bind off 8 sts from armhole side once, then 7 sts every 2nd row twice (22 sts for shoulder). Bind off 15 sts. Beginning at center of back, finish other side to correspond. Front: Work front same as back until armhole shaping is completed (74 sts). Work even on all sts, end with last row of 2nd stockinette stripe above underarm. Next row: (right side) K 23, bind off 28 sts for neck edge; on remaining 23 sts work 12 rows of pattern, decreasing 1 st at neck edge in last row. Shape shoulder as for back. Beginning at neck edge, finish other side to correspond. Sleeves: Cast on 40 sts. K 5 rows. P 1 row. Work 2 rows of beading as for waist. K 4 rows. Inc. row: K 3, inc. 1 st in each st to within 3 sts of end, k 3 sts (74 sts). P 1 row, k 1 row for 7 rows. Work first 12 rows of pattern. Continue pattern, binding off 4 sts at beginning of next 2 rows. Dec. 1 st each side every 2nd row 4 times (58) sts. Work 8 rows even. Bind off 3 sts at beginning of next 10 rows. Bind off 28 sts. Finishing: Steam each piece separately. Sew seams and sew in sleeves. Neck Border: Working form right side, pick up and k 14 sts across back of neck, 10 sts at side of neck, 26 sts at front, 10 sts at other side of front, 14 sts across other side of back (74 sts). K 2 rows. Bind off. Working from right side, work 16 sc on right half of back opening, continue on let side, work 4 sc, ch 2 for button-loop, skip 2 rows; repeat from * twice, end 1 sc at neck edge. Fasten off. Draw ribbon through beading at waist and sleeve.
Locker Hook Tutorial: Basic Preparation I fell in love with hook locking after I bought the book Hook, Loop ‘n’ Lock: Create Fun and Easy Locker Hooked Projects written by Theresa Pulido last November. The moment I saw the cover I knew I was not going to leave the bookstore until I owned it. Confirmed that I must get one after flipping through the books. The instructions and the projects in this book are so appealing and tempting, I can’t help myself for not trying 1 out. The way I hook and lock is a little different from the book, so if you want to know how Theresa did it, please refer to Hook, Loop ‘n’ Lock: Create Fun and Easy Locker Hooked Projects. As a beginner and without a proper locker hooking hook, I am afraid that I don’t have an even tension and might spoil the beauty of the crafts. So…. I made my own loop-lock tool by using a disposable chopstick. This method works, just look at how my first locker hook project turns out in my giveaway post!!! It is simple, just engrave a groove (approx. 0.5mm deep) about an inch from the tip of the chopstick so that you can tie a yarn or strong thread there. I used only about 3 inch length of the chopstick but you can use a full length if you prefer. Due to the details of this tutorial, I have to split it to 3 parts: To start off with the basic preparation of locker hooking, you will need to get the following materials: 1. Hooking rug canvas 2. Crochet hook (2-3mm size) & the locking “chopstick” or locker hook if you are able find one 3. Fabrics or pre-cut fabric strips (you can also use wool yarn, T-shirt yarn, or plastics strips) 4. Strong yarn or thread for the “locking” 5. Permanent marker 7. Measuring tape 9. Rotary cutter, ruler and cutting mat (if you choose to cut your own fabric strips) Prepare the Canvas Draw and mark the pattern [click the link to get the free pattern of the coasters] on your hooking rug canvas with permanent marker. Though it is not a must but it is easy so that you don’t have to refer to the paper pattern while lock-hooking. Leave at least 2 extra squares at the edge for a smaller project (eg. coaster) and 5 squares for bigger project (eg. rug). We are going to fold the edge in for a steadier construction. Snip off the corner of the extra square so that you can fold it in nicely. Prepare the Fabric Strips Cut the fabric by using scissors or rotary cutter. The latter will give you straighter and more even strips and it is faster then using scissors. As a rule of thumb, cut the fabric about 3 times the width of each small square of the canvas. For thicker fabric like upholstery material, cut 1/2 a square smaller, and for thinner fabric, cut 1/2 to 1 square bigger. To make the cutting faster, fold the fabric to 2 – 4 layers thick, press the cutter a little and cut it by using new blade. Which way to cut the strip, horizontal or vertical? Good question…. I would say both ways work depend on the type of fabric you use. Cotton or quilt-weight fabric can be cut in both way, you can even use “tear method” if you want a fray look on your project as tearing fabric strips create more frays on the bare edges. Since I am using poly jersey interlock material, I cut it vertically so that it won’t curl up like my T-shirt yarn. All set and we are ready for the lock hooking adventure!!! NEXT —> will be published tomorrow! PUBLISHED! Get all updates via email: Highlights from Our Partners Older post: Giveaway Winners – January 2010
The Hive was matchfunded by energyshare bringing the final total to £10,000. Check out this time lapse of the solar panels being added to The Hive. The Hive is an exciting project that we are working on at Upton Heath Primary School in Chester It's going to be a multi-purpose space in the playground that will provide: - a shady play space for the children at break times - an outdoor classroom - a springboard to our pond, woodland and newly sown meadows - a performance space - some shelter for parents waiting to collect children when its raining - last but not least it will be fitted with an array of photovoltaic panels and provide green energy to the school. Thanks to the Feed In Tariff, The Hive will also be a source of income for 25 years and mean that more of the school budget can be spent on education instead of electricity Why The Hive? The Hive was named by one of our Year 5 pupils during a morning challenge that the whole school took part in to find a suitable name for this exciting project. The Hive will be a fantastic focus for learning about our environment - it will buzz with learning, it will be a Hive of activity filled with (and producing) clean, green, energy I'm sure you agree that this is a project that needs to happen. Please pledge whatever you can and then spread the word to anyone else you know that might support us NB Please note the following information about pledging: When you go to the pledge page you will be notified of a 'GoCardless' commission charge YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO PAY THIS - all fees are being covered by Energy Share You can make multiple pledges using the same 'GoCardless' account, [e.g. if different members of the same family wanted to pledge separately]. You still need to create a new Energy Share / People Fund account. Simply create your new account, click on the Pledge button, but then when you’re redirected to 'GoCardless' log in using your previous details instead of adding new card details. We have noticed that when you go through 'GoCardless' there are some potentially misleading statements made about multiple direct debits. We have contacted Energy Share and they have confirmed that a pledge is only taken from the donor’s account once, only when our target is reached – and only the exact amount of the pledge is taken. For instance is someone pledges £10 in week 1 and we reach our target in week 6, then only £10 is then taken from their account. To reiterate, no money is taken from your account until the 6 week period is up - and only if we achieve the £5000.00 target. If we don't reach the target no money will be taken.
Bare-Faced Messiah: The true story of L. Ron Hubbard 390pp. Michael Joseph. £12.95. L. Ron Hubbard was an enigmatic and complex figure, an American guru in the tradition of Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White and others less well known. To his followers in the Church of Scientology he was the bearer of a new revelation, a "science of the mind" that would transform the human condition, causing the blind to see, the lame to walk, the ill to recover, the "insane become sane and the sane become saner" - as Hubbard put it in one of his books. To his detractors, which included the FBI, the CIA, the American, British and Australian medical establishments, as well as government, press and media in all three countries, he was either a madman or "one of the most successful and colourful confidence tricksters of the twentieth century", a totalitarian despot who surrounded himself with brainwashed zombies and made millions by exploiting human gullibility and personal distress. It is both a strength and a limitation of Russell Miller's biography of Hubbard, Bare-Faced Messiah, that he forces no thesis on his readers, allowing them to draw their own conclusion from the facts he uncovers. He contents himself with pointing out the obvious discrepancies between the canonized version of Hubbard's career contained in Church of Scientology publications and those revealed by his own research. Like other preachers and experts in the field of self-promotion, Hubbard lied about his early career or engaged in radical "image enhancement" to impress his auditors. His pre-war explorations and wartime exploits were mostly invented. Far from being a war hero he was sacked from the only command he led in the Navy for sheer incompetence; in one episode he fought a two-day "battle" with a magnetic deposit on the seabed, wasting hundreds of depth charges; in another, he shelled an uninhabited island off the coast of Mexico, almost causing an international incident. He was soon declared unfit for command and relegated to humble desk duties. After the war, however, he would hold his listeners spellbound with tales of heroism "told with perfect aplomb and in complete paragraphs", and claim he had been highly decorated, going to the length of having photographs made of medals he did not possess. In later years when the religion he created had made him a multi-millionaire, he returned to sea as commodore of a private navy consisting mainly of teenage girls, who were trained like robots to relay his expletive-ridden orders using his exact tone of voice. Con-man or fantasist? Manipulator or victim of delusions of grandeur? The facts presented by Miller be taken either way. But there are clues, in Hubbard's childhood, in his career as a writer of science-fiction and in the increasing Howard Hughes-style reclusiveness in which he spent the final years before his death in 1986, that suggest the second alternative. His is the type, not of fraud, but of imposture. The conflicts of his life developed, not from a perceived difference between truth and falsehood, but (as Fawn Brodie remarked of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church) "between what he really was and what he most desperately wanted to be". The con-man deliberately lies to deceive, deriving money or satisfaction from the gullibility of his victim. The impostor lies, or embellishes the truth in order to sustain his fantasy. For this he must have an audience, preferably one that will reflect and enhance his false self-image, making it real. Hubbard's penchant for science fiction and his prodigious feats of writing (he would type manically all night, never revising or even looking at his scripts before sending them to the pulp magazines which published them) suggest, an exceptional need to escape the mundane realities of ordinary living. His genius lay in embracing his followers in his fantasies of a modern, secularized version of the millenium. In particular, he seems to have had, like Joseph Smith, uncanny powers of suggestion, inducing visions or "out of body experiences" in his subjects, or enabling them to recall the traumas attendant on birth. Miller is to be congratulated for his meticulous research in separating fact from fiction, reality from myth in Hubbard's remarkable and ultimately tragic life. It is a pity, however, that he is so reticent in offering explanations, either of Hubbard's unusual powers or the reasons why so many bright and able young people allowed themselves to be ensnared by the cult he created, with its totalitarian power structure, spiritual junk-food and nonsensical quasi-theology.
- Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime Review of Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 3, July 2009, pp. 510-511. - The colonial carceral and prison politics in Hawai'i Thesis, ProQuest Information & Learning, 2009. Most attention given to the disproportionate incarceration of Kanaka Maoli concentrates on individual criminality. Rather than examine Hawaiians as criminal subjects, I analyze the carceral as a site of colonial conquest and neocolonial subjugation. Through historical and representational texts, I argue that the legacy of carceral violence against Kanaka Maoli must be contextualized as a strategy of land theft and political usurpation. Beginning with the public hanging of the grandfather of King Kalakaua and Queen Lili'uokalani under the first written constitution of 1840, I mark the start of a codified Western legal system that subjugated Kanaka Maoli through cruel and unusual forms of punishment. I follow this discussion with an analysis of nineteenth century opium discourses used to advance the Bayonet Constitution and illegal overthrow of 1893. I then move into the ways that twentieth century discourses about drugs and crime continue to be the focal point in the face of organized resistance to the taking of kanaka lands and sovereignty. These patterns continue well into the twenty-first century, where Hawaiians are not only imprisoned in the highest numbers, but also are disproportionately exiled to private prison warehouses thousands of miles away from their country. This policy of banishment, justified through the state's rhetoric of rehabilitation and supported by current studies, exacerbates the subjugation and displacement of Kanaka Maoli. The system of punishment, representing Kanaka Maoli as criminals, is deeply motivated by political agendas that are anchored by particular discourses, ideologies, and representational practices. This reality also extends to policies of rehabilitation. In response to current reintegration philosophies, I end with a discussion about a prisoner reentry curriculum I wrote to increase political literacy and civic leadership among prisoners. The disproportionate incarceration of Kanaka Maoli cannot be solely contextualized as a symptom of colonization, but also must be recognized as a mechanism of colonial and neocolonial conquest. This dissertation exposes and challenges the ongoing colonial practice of stealing kanaka lands and usurping the political authority of Kanaka Maoli through criminalization and incarceration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) - A crisis of identity: Nacro's bid to run a prison and what it means for the voluntary sector Howard journal of criminal justice, Vol. 48, No. 4, Sep 2009, pp. 401-410. The presence of a penal reform charity, Nacro, alongside private companies in a consortium bidding to run a new prison is a development that highlights troubling issues for the voluntary sector. This article argues that a combination of poorly implemented market reforms to the criminal justice sector, and the increasing dependence of many charities on government funding, is leading some voluntary organisations to compromise their campaigning and advocacy roles and openly risk 'goal distortion' (Kendall and Knapp 1996). There is a risk the voluntary sector will increasingly be split between quasi-governmental organisations and those charities that remain truly independent.; Reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers - The effects of private prison labor program participation on inmate recidivism Jeffrey D. Hopper. Thesis, ProQuest Information & Learning, 2009. The United States is experiencing a persistent increase in its prison population and, consequently, a steady increase in public spending on incarceration. One possible change to mitigate these trends is a return to historically cost effective inmate labor programs. Thus, the primary focus of this dissertation is on potential cost savings and inmate recidivism reduction from the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIE), a program that allows private companies to employ inmates while incarcerated. Existing economics of crime models and human capital theories form the foundation for the hypothesis that training and education efforts result in a reduction of inmate recidivism. The theories suggest that increasing the returns to legal activities should raise the opportunity costs of illegal activities and thus the agent will far legitimate, rather than criminal, activities. There is, however, the theoretical possibility that a prison training program may lower the cost of crime and therefore increase first offense rates. The historical basis for the use of inmate labor in the United States is explored as is the body of literature tied to inmate rehabilitation efforts and recidivism. The conclusion is that more thorough and effective analytical techniques would improve these assessments. The PIE program's effectiveness in reducing recidivism is explored using prisoner data from the Tennessee and Indiana Departments of Corrections. Contingency tables examine inmate characteristics and identify PIE participation as a potential explanitor of recidivism. Logit regression procedures, including an instrumental variable procedure to address endogeneity, are used to analyze the predictive value of the dependent variables and quantify the reduction in the odds of inmate recidivism attributable to PIE program participation. The results indicate that PIE participation contributes to a statistically significant reduction in the odds of inmate recidivism. Given the conclusion of PIE effectiveness, a potential framework for policy analysis is presented. A net return to participation model highlights the private benefits (including increased savings, future wages, education levels and employment probability) and social benefits (including increased tax revenues, victims' restitution, family support, and decreased incarceration costs) of the program. The monetary benefits are approximated to illustrate potential differences between participants and non-participants. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) - Evolving Function: Early Use of Imprisonment as Punishment The Prison Journal, Vol. 89, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 10S. This article examines the historical uses of imprisonment from its earliest recorded use 3,000 years ago to recent times. A work edited by Confucius notes the building of prisons around 2000 BCE. Although public or private prisons have always existed, their regular use as punishment rather than simply detention before trial--or in some cases, without trial--is more recent. The occasional use of prison as punishment in Greece and Rome spread to other parts of Europe; it was practiced more widely in England at an earlier date than in most countries. Houses of correction influenced either by English or Dutch models sprang up, especially in Belgium, Sweden, and Germany. Although intended for petty criminal offenders, they might also have housed disobedient children, lepers, orphans, or the mentally ill. Special institutions for juvenile delinquents were established gradually in Europe. The last two decades of the 18th century saw a remarkable concentration of influential reformers, who sought reform in the criminal law and reduction in the use of capital punishment and harsh prison conditions. In America, although William Penn achieved progress in more humane punishments in Pennsylvania, stricter punishment returned when he died. With the growth of the U.S. population and the associated increase in the need to house convicted criminals, new prisons continued to be built. Variations on the Auburn cellblock with multiple tiers of cells became common in the various States. Later changes in inmate populations, overcrowding, and a relaxation of discipline procedure led to problems of control in large-capacity prisons. In the late 20th century, this resulted in the design of small-capacity housing units. Hand in hand with the expansion of prison systems went more highly differentiated institutions in terms of security level, age of inmates, gender, and mental health status. 55 references - A further examination of antecedents of correctional staff life satisfaction Eric G. Lambert, N. L. Hogan, O. O. Elechi, et al. Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No. 4, Dec 2009, pp. 689-706. Working in corrections is not only a demanding job, but a socially important one. While a growing number of studies have examined how the work environment impacts the job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of staff, very few studies have examined how working in corrections impacts the life satisfaction of workers. The current study utilized OLS regression to examine the antecedents of life satisfaction among staff at a Midwestern private prison. Job satisfaction had a positive relationship with life satisfaction, while age, work on family conflict, family on work conflict, and job involvement all had statistically significant negative effects. Finally, perceptions of the level of financial rewards, job stress, organizational commitment, gender, race, educational level, tenure, supervisory status, position, marital status, and having children, all had non-significant associations with overall satisfaction with life.; All rights reserved, Elsevier - A Generic Multiple Constituency Matrix: Accountability in Private Prisons Harald Bergsteiner and Gayle C. Avery. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 19, No. 3, July 2009, pp. 631-660. Public and private sector organizations and their constituents are subject to numerous, often competing, accountability pressures. Guidelines are lacking on how to identify and depict the extent and nature of multiple constituency (MC) relationships. This article identifies limitations of five existing MC schemas. A proposed new MC matrix integrates seven accountability dimensions identified from the literature. The new matrix depicts potential accountability relationships and their nature and functions as a normative and diagnostic tool. The utility of this matrix for normatively depicting multiple accountability relationships and diagnostically monitoring accountability performance is illustrated by reference to prisons run by private operators. Adapted from the source document. - GEO Group, Inc.: Despite a Crashing Economy, Private Prison Firm Turns a Handsome Profit While the nation's economy flounders, business is booming for The GEO Group Inc., a private prison firm paid millions by the U.S. government. Behind the financial success and expansion of the for-profit security company, there are increasing charges of negligence, civil rights violations, abuse and even death. - Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy Jody Freeman and Martha Minow. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2009, viii, 528 Thirteen papers, resulting from a conference held at Harvard Law School in March 2005, examine the United States's pervasive use of government outsourcing and the implications of this outsourcing for the nation's commitment to the democratic values of public participation, accountability, transparency, and rule of law. Papers discuss public-private governance--a historical introduction (William J. Novak); the transformation of government work--causes, consequences, and distortions (John D. Donahue); the federal framework for competing commercial work between the public and private sectors (Mathew Blum); rent-a-regulator--design and innovation in environmental decision making (Miriam Seifter); outsourcing power--privatizing military efforts and the risks to accountability, professionalization, and democracy (Martha Minow); how privatization thinks--the case of prisons (Sharon Dolovich); achieving contracting goals and recognizing public law concerns--a contracting management perspective (Steven J. Kelman); federal contracting in context--what drives it, how to improve it (Stan Soloway and Alan Chvotkin); six simple steps to increase contractor accountability (Nina A. Mendelson); privatization and democracy--resources in administrative law (Alfred C. Aman, Jr.); private delegations, due process, and the duty to supervise (Gillian E. Metzger); outsourcing and the duty to govern (Paul R. Verkuil); and public values/private contract (Laura A. Dickinson). Freeman is Professor of Law, and Minow is Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law, at Harvard Law School. Index. - How privatization thinks: the case of prisons Sharon Dolovich, 2009. - I'm a Detainee; 'Get Me Out of Here': Predictors of Access to Custodial Legal Advice in Public and Privatized Police Custody Areas in England and Wales British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 49, No. 3, May 2009, pp. 399-417. This article examines anew the factors that predict whether detainees in police custody request legal advice, a due process right, and whether those requests are met. It is primarily based on quantitative data collected from custody records, in one public and one privatized custody area in England and Wales, which are analysed using logistic regression. By comparing these two types of custody area, I was able to develop new insights into a neglected area of research. I conclude that privatized custody areas have unexpected consequences for procedural justice. The newer and less austere conditions may facilitate a higher proportion of requests for legal advice, which, in turn, results in higher absolute numbers of legal consultations, although a similar proportion of unmet requests. And, surprisingly, given the wider context of a more vigorous form of managerialism, this suggests that there has not been a deepening of the tendency for due process values to be trumped by crime control values. Adapted from the source document. - Prison privatization: A meta-analysis of cost and quality of confinement indicators Brad W. Lundahl, Chelsea Kunz, Cyndi Brownell, Norma Harris and Russ Van Vleet. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 19, No. 4, Jul 2009, pp. 383-394. Objective: To examine the results of prison privatization. Method: In an effort to provide an empirical base from which decisions about privatization might be made, we conducted a meta-analysis of reports on head-to-head comparisons between an identifiable privately managed and publicly managed prison(s). Results: Our search identified 12 studies. Indicators of cost of confinement and confinement quality were assessed. Results suggest privately managed prisons provide no clear benefit or detriment. Conclusion: Cost savings from privatizing prisons are not guaranteed and appear minimal. Quality of confinement is similar across privately and publicly managed systems, with publicly managed prisons delivering slightly better skills training and having slightly fewer inmate grievances. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract) - Prison Privatization: A Meta-Analysis of Cost and Quality of Confinement Indicators Brad W. Lundahl, Chelsea Kunz, Cyndi Brownell, Norma Harris and Russ Van Vleet. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2009, pp. 383-394. Objective: To examine the results of prison privatization. Method: In an effort to provide an empirical base from which decisions about privatization might be made, we conducted a meta-analysis of reports on head-to-head comparisons between an identifiable privately managed and publicly managed prison(s). Results: Our search identified 12 studies. Indicators of cost of confinement and confinement quality were assessed. Results suggest privately managed prisons provide no clear benefit or detriment. Conclusion: Cost savings from privatizing prisons are not guaranteed and appear minimal. Quality of confinement is similar across privately and publicly managed systems, with publicly managed prisons delivering slightly better skills training and having slightly fewer inmate grievances. (Contains 3 tables.) - 'It was absolute hell': Inside the private prison Phil Taylor and Christine Cooper. Capital & Class, Vol. , No. 96, Autumn 2008, pp. 3-30. As part of a broader current of critique of the economic and political dynamics of prison privatisation - a critique that initially emanated from the USA - this paper focuses on Scotland and on research carried out at its then only private penal institution, HMP Kilmarnock. The authors dismantle the government's case for extending prison privatisation by drilling deep into the experience of Kilmarnock and demonstrating the deleterious effects of marketisation for prison officers and prisoners alike. Degraded pay and conditions and systemic understaffing corroded morale, exposed staff and inmates to risk, and contributed to massive officer turnover. Compelling evidence comes from sources ordinarily unavailable to critical researchers, such as internal company and government documentation. Adapted from the source document. - Soft Budget Constraints and the Property Rights Theory of Ownership Economics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 425-427. Modeling the government make-or-buy decision, Hart and colleagues [Hart, O., Shleifer, S. and Vishny, R.W., 1997, The proper scope of government: Theory and an application to prisons, Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 1127-1161] assume government providers are exogenously more replaceable than private providers. Instead, we posit government managers' soft incentives arise endogenously from their lack of control rights, because of rationally softer budget constraints.
Belarus crackdown strains ties with both EU and Russia Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's crackdown on the opposition has prompted the EU to consider sanctions. But some members say that could backfire. Belarussian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko appears to be accelerating the crackdown on Belarus' beleaguered prodemocracy opposition. There have been more than 600 arrests since riot police broke up a rally of about 30,000 people who were attempting to protest alleged fraud in the Dec. 19 presidential elections that brought Mr. Lukashenko back to power for an unprecedented fourth five-year term.Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Russia this week cut off oil supplies to Belarus in a "commercial dispute" – a sure sign of Moscow's displeasure with its wayward former ally – while the European Union is mulling renewed sanctions that would ban travel to Europe for top Belarussian officials. Authorities in Minsk claim that opposition leaders attempted to stage a coup d'etat on election night, when a small group of demonstrators tried to storm the central election headquarters on Minsk's central square and were beaten back by riot police. Thirty-one people, including five presidential candidates, have been charged with "incitement to riot," and could face 15 years in prison if convicted. "Things are very tense, and there is no sign of this campaign against civil society winding down anytime soon," says Yaroslav Romanchuk, who was the presidential candidate for the liberal United Civil Party in last month's election. "It's a general assault on all democratic forces. Nothing like this has ever happened in Belarus before." Mr. Romanchuk, who was reached by phone in Minsk Wednesday, says his own party leader, Anatoly Lebedchuk, is among those who've been held in prison for the past 3 weeks and face potentially lengthy sentences. "All of our efforts now are aimed at getting him out of jail," he says. "These charges are totally trumped up." The most poignant example of the current crackdown is 3-year-old Danil Sannikov, whose imprisoned parents are former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov and independent journalist Irina Khalip. Danil's grandmother, Lyutsina Khalip, has been informed by authorities that she's being investigated to see if she's "competent" to care for the boy. If they decide she is not, he may become a ward of the state. Reached by telephone in Minsk on Wednesday, Ms. Khalip was near tears. "The police have just searched my flat – for the second time," she said. "There is constant pressure on me, and constant tension. I'm trying to get together documents to to establish guardianship over my grandson, but it's very hard. Danil keeps asking where his parents are. What do I tell him?" Where is the media? Andrei Bastinets, deputy chair of Belarus' non-governmental Association of Journalists, says that independent media is on the verge of being wiped out. "We've had 25 journalists arrested, 20 of them beaten, and the majority of them are members of our association," he said by phone. "This is a very serious trial for us. Official media is waging an unrelenting campaign, with constant programming aimed at discrediting all democratic opposition. Almost every day there are fresh searches of media offices, journalists are summoned for interrogation, and many remain in prison. They seize computers, notebooks, everything. How can people go on working?"
Tunisians opened their homes and hearts to people fleeing Libya The outpouring of generosity came spontaneously – people simply responded with compassion, a new report says. Mariano Rivera's latest 'save' is a church Impassioned evangelist David Burstein urges millennials to get involved The Malala Fund spotlights need to educate child refugees Discipline with dignity: Oakland schools try talk circles Small sources could yield an energy windfall Subscribe Today to the Monitor The amazing generosity of Tunisians who opened their homes and hearts to people fleeing Libya is revealed in the latest issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR), which looks at last year’s Arab Spring revolutions in North Africa. “The response from ordinary Tunisians was remarkable in its altruism,” Antonio Guterres, the head of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), says in an introduction to the FMR report published on the eve of World Refugee Day. “I witnessed villagers sharing their homes and land while others drove for miles to provide sandwiches for those stuck in the crowds at the border.” The first people to arrive in southeast Tunisia were migrant workers who had been employed in Libya’s huge oil industry, agriculture, and elsewhere. Tunisian villagers organized cooking crews and took food to Djerba airport as the migrants waited for flights home, writes Katherine Hoffman, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University in the United States. As the civil war escalated, Libyan families also began pouring into Tunisia. "We helped the Egyptians, we helped the Chinese, we helped the Bangladeshis. So when the Libyans came to stay, how could we not help them too?” one man in Djerba, Tunisia, is quoted as saying. Another describes how he and his friends raised money for food, diapers, and mattresses, piled it into 20 trucks and headed to the border where tens of thousands of people were massed. Some 60,000 to 80,000 Libyans arrived in Tunisia during the revolution, which erupted in February 2011 and which eventually toppled strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Some went to camps, wealthier families rented hotel rooms or properties, but many Libyans ended up living with Tunisian families. In addition, Hoffman describes how one person in each village or town took responsibility for collecting keys for abandoned houses, emigrants’ summer residences, and other empty housing. Villagers cleaned and refurnished homes, put in stoves and fridges, and turned electricity and water back on.
NEW FAIRFIELD -- It was a sense of honor and duty, not the need for a job or college money, that led Todd "TJ" Lobraico to join the military in 2008 after graduating from New Fairfield High School, First Selectman Susan Chapman said Sunday. When the story is finally told of how the 22-year-old Air Force staff sergeant was killed in action in Afghanistan, residents of New Fairfield, where he attended school, and Sherman, where he lived, will know that he died as he lived, a "true American hero," she said. So far, the military has only said that Lobraico, a member of the New York Air National Guard, died from wounds he suffered when his unit was attacked Thursday with small arms fire near Bagram Airfield. "The full story will come out in due time, but he was directly responsible for saving the lives of his fellow airmen," Chapman said. Hundreds of Sherman and New Fairfield residents, friends, family members, and military and public safety personnel filled the parking lot in front of the New Fairfield Senior Center for what a week ago was intended to be the town's annual commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But on Friday, word came that Lobraico, whose father, Air National Guard Master Sgt. Todd Lobraico, is a Stamford police officer and whose mother, Maj. Linda Rohatsch, commands an Air Force medical group, had been killed. So a vigil in his memory was merged with the Sept. 11 ceremony. Lobraico's parents were seated in the front row during the service. "If it wasn't for 9/11, TJ would not have been in Afghanistan," Chapman said. "So it shows that we're still paying a price for that." The service almost seamlessly merged elements of previous Sept. 11 ceremonies, which honor the three New Fairfield residents -- Candace Williams, Christopher Blackwell and Robert Higley -- who were among the 3,000 people who died in the attacks, along with the New York City firefighters and police officers killed when the World Trade Center collapsed. "He now joins the nearly 1 million men and women who have died defending America" in this country's wars, Col. Timothy LeBarge said. New Fairfield firefighters and cadets from the Connecticut Wing of the Civil Air Patrol served as honor guards, and a dozen members of Lobraico's unit, the 105th Security Forces Squadron, stood at attention throughout. A number of Stamford police officers also attended. The service began with a haunting bagpipe medley of patriotic tunes and a return to New Fairfield of the Singing Policeman, Danny Rodriguez, the renowned tenor and former New York City police officer who was on duty on the morning of Sept. 11, and included a keynote address by Maj. Joseph Palys, commander of the Civil Air Patrol, who spoke about the CAP's role in the days after the terrorist attacks. It ended with a three-gun salute in Lobraico's honor, and with the crowd holding candles in his memory. "He never had a frown on his face. He was always smiling," recalled childhood friend Zac Doherty, of New Fairfield, who is going into the Air Force next week. Doherty said his enlistment wasn't because Lobraico had already chosen to serve, but he said his friend's sacrifice will serve as an inspiration to "make me succeed as an airman."
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In the Military: Legislators appeal to prevent loss of aircraft at Stratton GLENVILLE Looming cuts to defense spending has some federal legislators fearing that Stratton Air National Guard Base in Glenville could once again face losing its C-130H aircraft to military downsizing or consolidation. New York's senate and congressional delegations co-authored a letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last month urging him to leave the aircraft at the base. Relocating the planes to another base would have a negative impact on the readiness and training of the National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing and its missions at the polar caps, the federal legislators wrote in a letter dated Jan. 25. "Given the historical record which on at least two occasions has shown that the logic and economics of removing the aircraft from Stratton is without merit, we would urge the department in the strongest of terms to avoid the prospect of revisiting the potential transfer of C-130H airframes from Stratton Air National Guard Base as part of any upcoming force structure adjustments," the letter states. The 109th has nearly 500 guardsmen who sometimes fly 3,000 hours in a matter of weeks. The base employs nearly 1,400 people, has an economic impact estimated at more than $123 million and flies missions to both polar ice caps with the only ski-equipped LC-130 aircraft in the Air Force inventory. There are four C-130H planes based at Stratton. The aircraft are stationed there to help crews maintain proficiency on the 10 similar LC-130 planes used as support craft for the National Science Foundation's research work in Antarctica and the Arctic Circle. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force recommended moving the four planes and others from around New York to a new superbase in Arkansas. But the nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission rejected the move, ultimately finding that it would come at no real savings to the military, which was the intended purpose of the realignment. In the 2010 Force Structure proposal, the Air Force revisited plans to move aircraft from 10 sites across the country, including Stratton and the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station in western New York. The military later agreed not to push forward with the move, but instead loaned some of the planes to Little Rock, Ark., including one from Stratton. National Guard spokesman Eric Durr said the bases most vulnerable to defense spending cuts are the ones that have a less specialized function. Ones that serve a unique purpose are usually insulated from cuts. "The key is, do you have a unique capability?” he said. The defense department's budget is expected to be unveiled within the next two weeks. Durr acknowledge that there's a good chance New York could lose some of its aircraft, but wouldn't speculate where the cuts might be. "As they look at the defense budget, we could lose some aircraft, and that remains to be seen," he said. “The unique capabilities and expertise that enable our local guardsmen and women to fly that polar mission are a national treasure, as are the thousands of local jobs and millions in economic activity that Stratton brings to Schenectady County.” U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, praised the bi-partisan approach being taken by the Capital Region's delegation in trying to prevent changes that would impact Stratton. He said the base and its planes are a critical component to the region's economy and the 109th's mission. “The unique capabilities and expertise that enable our local guardsmen and women to fly that polar mission are a national treasure, as are the thousands of local jobs and millions in economic activity that Stratton brings to Schenectady County," he said. Stephanie Valle, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, said the congressman wants the military to weigh both the economic impact of potential cuts and how they might affect the future readiness of the soldiers stationed at Stratton. She said Gibson, R-Kinderhook, who served 24 years in the U.S. Army, is particularly concerned about how removing the aircraft could affect the 109th's training. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, said he will continue to work with the local congressional delegation to preserve jobs at Stratton. He said the 109th's "unique and critical" mission at Stratton should preclude it from the planned cuts. "Time after time, the 109th has supplied key missions and pulled off dangerous rescues," he said this week. "The base should continue to play a central role in our national defense, and in the Capital Region economy.”
Ultimate Sports, Inc. an off-road manufacturer and supplier, has announced a joint venture with EnSol, LLC, to fund the “Tire Converter Project.” The company says a fully-operational demonstration converter is the size of a truck bed. That mobile unit will not be a full-sized production unit, but is meant to show its capabilities for various customers. The units convert old tires to oil and solvents. The cost to fabricate and test a portable model is about $400,000. The oil generated from six months of operation is expected to provide $175,875 in revenue at $75 a barrel. The solvent revenue is expected to be around $1.076 million at $20 a gallon. The annual revenue from one mobile unit is expected to be in excess of $2,000,000, the company says. The companies describe the converter as “a closed-loop system that can process any organic material into usable energy. The first unit will be designed specifically to process tire chips. The tire chips will produce gas, carbon black and solvent. The type of feedstock will dictate the end product recovered. The best feedstock is truck tires, although the process can convert any hydrocarbon. The converter is capable of turning waste streams into oil, gas and other beneficial products such as fertilizer and carbon black. It can also create carbon credits.” A prototype unit was put to the test, showing that the converter yields more than 95 percent of usable product after it converts the materials put into it. The goal is to fabricate and test a portable unit that can be taken to remote sites for conversion and environmental cleanup jobs. "We expect the tire converter to be one of our most lucrative development projects, and therefore, we have placed it at the top of our priority list,” says Robert Matthews of EnSol. “We have reviewed many types of processes and have found that our modular design solves many problems relating to cost, size, maintenance, and down time. The joint venture will allow us to bring together the necessary funding to build a modular unit and to begin demonstrating the efficiency of the system. We are eager to have the chance to work with USI on this project." See http://www.usi-skis.com for more information. Posted by Holly Wagner
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Definitions for kazakhkəˈzɑk This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word kazakh Random House Webster's College Dictionary Ka•zakhkəˈzɑk(n.)(pl.)-zakhs or -zaks; -zakh or -zak. a member of a Turkic people of Central Asia, living mainly in Kazakhstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in W China. the language of the Kazakhs. a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan) Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazakh, Kazak(noun) a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991 the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak A person from Kazakhstan or of Kazakh descent. Of, from, or pertaining to Kazakhstan, the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language. The national language of Kazakhstan. Find a translation for the kazakh definition in other languages: Select another language:
\| 28 March, 2011 04:26 Colored pencils are usually made with a wax-based binder holding the pigment together. After some color layers have been applied to paper, the wax can be dissolved with a light wash of solvent to produce a smoother-looking blend and eliminate "speckles" from paper peeking through. It doesn't make the color bleed, it just drops it in place. Two popular solvents used for this purpose are Turpenoid Natural (citrus-based) and Gamsol (odorless mineral spirits). Turpenoid Natural is popular with artists who are concerned about toxicity, but when I tried it it added a yellowish tinge to my colors, and never seemed to evaporate completely, leaving a slight oily residue. Gamsol, on the other hand, doesn't affect the pigment color at all and evaporates quickly and completely, with no noticeable residue. See below my test on a small piece of Stonehenge paper: P = Pencil only; T = Turpenoid Natural; OMS = Odorless Mineral Spirits (Gamsol). Left column: medium pencil application; center column: heavy pencil application; right column: light pencil application. As you can see, the Gamsol didn't change the color at all, it simply smoothed it--the heavier the pencil application, the more smoothing possible (since there's more pigment to drop into place). I'm liking Gamsol a lot--now what shall I do with this whole bottle of Turpenoid Natural?
Logically, knowledge management should be quite simple. With the right technology, organizing and utilizing a company's knowledge shouldn't be a big deal, should it? But why then--regardless of the multitudes of cash dropped for high-tech solutions--do knowledge management initiatives fail? "Knowledge management is in some ways no different than any other management discipline," commented Edward Truch, director of the Knowledge Management Forum at Henley Management College in Oxfordshire, England. "There are quite a number of organizational behaviors that you have to have in place first." Truch's litany of necessities contains the usual suspects but places additional weight on establishing ground rules for integrating KM that should show up in all aspects of the company, most notably in the way employees work. Truch, who recently debated with David Snowden of IBM's Institute of Knowledge about the importance of proper processes and scientific approaches to KM, believes that while organizations are becoming much more complex, if company-wide programs such as KM are to succeed, they cannot be left to grow organically. There needs to be a level playing field and a consistently monitored environment keeping tabs on things such as company culture and upper management acceptance. According to Truch, the IT-focused approaches of the past few years are being proven inefficient and being replaced by a somewhat ironic but more beneficial people-to-people methodology. KM, says Truch, is all about proactive collaboration, which takes the focus off of the individual and how they can singly use information. And while he's quick to point out that after putting the basics in place, "you still need to find your papers in your filing cabinet," considering technology solutions the end all and be all could be a dire mistake. "Technology is necessary," explains Truch. "It's necessary but not sufficient." So, there's no question that if there's one thing KM isn't, it's simple. But, as Truch explained, most of a company's knowledge is personally controlled by employees themselves and cannot easily and automatically be captured. For KM to do its job, there needs to be an active balancing act going on--all the time. Because, he said, too much focus on one element of this diverse mix may turn the entire program sour.
04-09-2007, 11:18 AM I just heard back about the Math-a-thon with Six Flags/St Jude Children's reasearch center. Homeschoolers may participate. They ask each group to raise a minimun of $65 and each child who raises $40 earns a free ticket to Six Flags. There is a short video for the parents to watch about the program and then the children have 2 weeks to complete their math booklets. I found a link to the program on the Six Flags website. If you are interested in the program, call 800-386-2665 for more information. So it is a math-a-thon to raise money for St Jude Children's research Hospital and children who participate can earn a free ticket to Six Flags.
Doctors Lounge - Oncology Answers provided on www.doctorslounge.com is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician." Back to Oncology Answers List - Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:54 pm My dad is 67 year old. He has got swelling in the left side of the neck.The CT scan, endoscopy and the blood check-up says nothing abnormal.But an MRI scan report, after 9 months of its appearance says the following, 1. Irregular bordered lobulted mass lesion noted in the tail of right parotid region. Lesion measures 10x7.7x7.3 cm. Areas of necrotic changes noted inside the lesion. 2. Skin and subcutaneous tissues over the mass is hyperintense on T2W1 and STIR with irregularity of skin surface. Features suggest skin infiltration. 3. No e/o infiltration of masseter muscle or mandible 4. Multiple enlarged lymph nodes noted in right level I,II and III groups of neck 5. Carotid sheath structures are slightly displaced medially by the mass lesion. No e/c encasement of carotid vessels by mass lesion 6. Tongue, hard and soft palates, floor of mouth, naso, oro, and hypo phrynx appear normal. 7. Diffuse swelling and T2 hyper intensity noted in the arytenoids on right side. Glottic chink is narrowed. Left hemilarynx is normal 8. Trachea and thyroid gland appear normal He has undergone radiations and now Chemotherapy. He has got 2 doses of Chemotherapy. Please let us know how critical his condition is, and the possibility of complete recovery. \| Dr. Safaa Mahmoud - Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:00 pm I assume that FNA or open biopsy was done either from the parotid mass or the involved lymph nodes. It would be more helpful if you can inform us about the pathology of this swelling and or the lymph nodes. Lymph node metastasis is not uncommon and occurs in about 25% of parotid cancer patients at diagnosis however the level of lymph node involvement is not typical to primary parotid tumors. Proper pathologic evaluation is very essential to exclude lymphoma or melanoma as a primary tumor with parotid and lymph node metastases. Prognosis is completely different according to the pathology. It would be also more helpful if you can inform us about any other Scans done for the rest of the body and the treatment plan decided by his doctor. Please keep us updated.
by Francoise Sagan translated by Irene Ash published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics first published in 1955 With a name like Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), you know something bad is imminent in this novel. And the way that our narrator tells her story, with heavy foreshadowing throughout, one reads with one's heart in one's mouth. "I will pass quickly over this period, for I am afraid that if I look at it closely, I shall revive memories that are too painful. Even now I feel overwhelmed as I think of Anne's happy laugh, of her kindness to me. My conscience troubles me so much at these moments that I am obliged to resort to some expedient like lighting a cigarette, putting on a record, or telephoning to a friend. Then gradually I begin to think of something else. But I do not like having to take my refuge in forgetfulness and frivolity instead of facing my memories and fighting them." (p. 115) I was reminded of Briony in Ian McEwan's Atonement. While some maintain that she was innocent in terms of meddling in her sister's affair, I will always believe it was intentional. In this case, Cecile meddles with her father's affairs quite purposefully. They had enjoyed a life together of rather shabby morals; she accompanied him to bars, smoking and drinking like an adult, taking on Cyril has a lover when they vacation in the summertime. He went through mistress after mistress, never taking any of them seriously until Anne. Anne was a friend of Cecile's mother, now deceased, and when she re-entered their lives Cecile's father quickly abandoned his current amour, Elsa, for her. At first Cecile is happy about her father and Anne. But then she concocts a plan for this relationship's demise. Why does she do this? Because she wants to test her powers over her father? Because she resents Anne's intrusion into their happy life? Because she can? At any rate, it is decided that Cyril and Elsa will cavort around the beach, and in the woods, purposely creating the effect that they are lovers in order to distress Cecile's father. Cecile never thinks that anything will come of this; she seems to assume that her lover, and her father's ex-lover, will play this game until everyone returns to Paris and their normal lives. Sadly, this isn't what happens at all. Francoise Sagan wrote this novel when she was eighteen years old. While I question the power of its writing (such foreshadowing! Such telling of emotion rather than showing!) I can attest to the fact that she captures the heart of a selfish young woman spot on. And the suspense one feels while reading to the end is rather incredible. But, I will not tell you what the tristesse is. That you'll have to discover for yourself.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." -- anonymous Very few people think that Chief Justice John Roberts is a fool. Even fewer people have probably ever thought about Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado at all. Earlier this week, however, both chose to opine about something about which they clearly know little or nothing, and both made fools of themselves. Sadly, neither will ever know how ignorant they are, because their ignorance is a perfect distillation of current conventional wisdom on fiscal policy, budget deficits, and national debt. First, the Chief Justice. A short news article on New Year's Eve described an unfortunate attempt by Chief Justice Roberts to weigh in on the debate over extending the Bush/Obama tax cuts. As the article put it, he wanted to give politicians "a little nudge." That might be fine, if only he knew what he was talking about. The Chief wrote: "Our country faces new challenges, including the much-publicized ‘fiscal cliff’ and the longer-term problem of a truly extravagant and burgeoning national debt. ... No one seriously doubts that the country’s fiscal ledger has gone awry. The public properly looks to its elected officials to craft a solution." "Truly extravagant and burgeoning"? Well, maybe he just likes flowery language. But it would help, as a matter of substance, if he were to recall that having the Congress do absolutely nothing on New Year's Eve to address the non-cliff would have made the debt less truly extravagant, and shriveling. The deal that was ultimately passed has been scored as adding $3.9 trillion to the national debt over a decade, compared to doing nothing. (And of course, many people seriously doubt that the country's fiscal ledger has gone awry, at least in the sense that the Chief Justice obviously means it. Discussing that, however, would take us too far afield.) But the Chief is only getting started: "The federal judiciary makes do with a budget appropriation of about $7 billion, [Roberts] wrote, 'a mere two-tenths of 1 percent of the United States’ total budget of $3.7 trillion. Yes,' he went on, 'for each citizen’s tax dollar, only two-tenths of one penny goes toward funding the entire third branch of government!'" What is he talking about?! The cost of running the government cannot be attributed to any particular branch. The military is funded by Congress and administered by executive agencies, so which branch should be "billed" for the Pentagon? And is, for example, the budget for environmental remediation to be attributed to the judiciary, given how much litigation is involved in the process? This is utter nonsense, packaged as small-bore puritanical prudence. The Chief then went on to brag about how the judicial branch is cutting costs, saying that the Supreme Court "continues to set a good example," asking for less money in 2012 than in 2011. He did note that the request went up in 2013, "largely in response to new judicial security needs. ... Because the judiciary has already pursued cost containment so aggressively, it will become increasingly difficult to economize further without reducing the quality of judicial services. Virtually all of the judiciary’s core functions are constitutionally and statutorily required. Unlike executive branch agencies, the courts do not have discretionary programs they can eliminate or projects they can postpone." The mind reels. As the article pointed out, the Supreme Court issued 64 signed opinions last year, compared to 75 the year before. So it is, in fact, possible for the Court to exercise discretion to reduce its workload. Doing so is actually harmful, but if we are going to measure a part of the government by how well it shirks its duties, the Supreme Court is a champion. More importantly, does the Chief Justice of the United States really not understand that everything else on which the federal government spends money is also "constitutionally and statutorily required"? That is what a government is. The nation's top jurist then "called on President Obama and Congress 'to be especially attentive to the needs of the judicial branch and provide the resources necessary to its operation.'" Presumably, this would include those extra funds in 2013 for "new judicial security needs." In other words, Roberts is arguing that the budget should reward government agencies that have learned to live on limited budgets, and that Congress should be especially aware of such agencies' "needs." I am glad to know that he is in favor of increasing spending on anti-poverty programs, foreign aid, and every other agency that has learned to "tighten its belt" over the years, as Republicans (and many Democrats) in Congress continue to attack such under-funded programs for being "truly extravagant and burgeoning." Obviously, the Chief Justice is simply out of his comfort zone, merely repeating the cant that he hears at Republican fundraisers and from reading the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. At least, however, he could defend himself (if he even knew that he needed to do so) by pointing out that he is not a part of the political branches of government. Economic policy is simply not his job. In any event, he certainly makes it clear why we should be glad that there is a "political question doctrine," by which judges defer to elected officials on matters of policy. Senator Bennet has no such excuse. In "The Man Who Said 'Nay,'" Maureen Dowd devoted her January 1 column to what was obviously meant to be a very positive profile of Senator Bennet ("Frank Capra dreamed him up"), who was one of only three Democratic senators who (along with five Republicans) voted against the new tax bill. She suggests that he did so "to stake out some centrist and independent territory for a future White House run," but immediately reports that he modestly "demurred." In other words, he is running for President. (Dowd calls him "the future of his party.") It actually took quite a few paragraphs before Dowd got around to explaining why Bennet was a "no" vote. Was it that Obama had sold out his own campaign promises, to strike a deal that did not have to happen? Is he, in other words, with Senator Tom Harkin, who also voted against the bill? No, that would make him an extremist liberal, in the eyes of nominally liberal DC lifers like Dowd. When Dowd finally stops heaping on the praise ("freckled blond choir boy"), we learn why Bennet objected to the bill: "He said he did so because the deal did not have meaningful deficit reduction." Yes, Bennet agrees with Roberts that a bill whose entire goal was to reduce the austerity inherent in the expiration of reduced tax rates -- which was, in other words, a bill whose very purpose was to increase the deficit -- is objectionable because it did not have meaningful deficit reduction. And why is it important to have meaningful deficit reduction? "I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn’t accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation. Washington politics no longer follows the example of our parents and our grandparents who saw as their first job creating more opportunity, not less, for the people who came after." So, yes, Bennet also agrees with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, that the right way to think about deficits is to invoke a false generational conflict. But it gets worse: "He thinks the trouble is not so much a clash of Democratic and Republican orthodoxies as it is a clash of past and future. 'I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century,' he said." Note the wonk-speak, referring to the "rents" that special interests supposedly extract from the otherwise-efficient free market that makes us The Greatest Nation in the World. Not content to sound like a spokesman from a Republican think-tank, Bennet adds one last self-disqualifying statement: "I know this country is not going to allow itself to go bankrupt. It’s challenging, though, because in this town there are all kinds of people whose job it is to obfuscate the facts." Of course, anyone whose job was not to obfuscate the facts would know that the country is nowhere near going bankrupt -- indeed, that it is not even possible for the US government to go bankrupt. If we are to believe Maureen Dowd, Senator Bennet is apparently well-meaning. Unfortunately, he does nothing more than repeat Republican dogma about deficits. Again, Bennet is not only occupying a position in which he (unlike C.J. Roberts) is supposed to know that the heck he is talking about, but he is presenting himself as a moral beacon and policy authority. Everything he says, however, exposes him as nothing more than a guy who has mastered the talking points that he hears every day. And he is the future of the Democratic Party. Perhaps I have been too hard on President Obama. With guys like these feeding the debate in Washington, it is no wonder that fiscal policy is such a mess.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effects and safety of Adefovir Dipivoxil plus polyene phosphatidylcholine compared to Adefovir Dipivoxil alone in patients with chronic Minimum age: 18 Years. Maximum age: 65 Years. - Males and females between the age of 18 to 65 years with chronic hepatitis B. - HBsAg positive for a minimum of 6 months. - HBV DNA ≥4 log10 copies/ml, and ≤ 6 log10 copies/mL - Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≥ 2 times the upper limit of normal(ULN) and ≤10 times ULN, and documented ALT abnormal within 6 month prior to the study screening. - Had a liver biopsy performed within 6 months prior to randomization and has readable biopsy slides or agrees to have a biopsy performed prior to entry. - Willing and able to provide written informed consent. - Received any nucleoside, nucleotide or interferon therapy within 6 months prior to - Previous treatment with lamivudine, adefovir, entecavir or telbivudine and occurred viral breakthrough or genotype resistance. - Received immunosuppressive agents or other immunoregulates (including thymosin),systemic cytotoxic drugs, other antiviral agents including Chinese herb medicine within 6 months prior to the screening. - Active alcohol intake( more than 20g/d for female or more than 30g/d for male) or drug abuse within 1 year prior to screening. Alcohol or drug abuse considered by the investigator to be sufficient to hinder compliance with treatment, participation in the study or interpretation of results. - ALT is greater than 10 times ULN at screening or has the history of transient decompensated liver disease due to acute exacerbation. - Any of the laboratory test at screening as the following : - serum creatinine > 1. 5 mg/dl ; - prothrombin time ≥ 4 seconds prolonged or PTA <60%; - serum albumin<32 g/L; - serum bilirubin>3. 0mg/dL; - Hemoglobin<11g/dL(males) or <10 g/dL(females), white blood cells count<3. 5 x 10^9/L, absolute neutrophil count <1. 5 x 10^9/L, platelets<80 x 10^9/L. - Patient is coinfected with HCV, HDV or HIV. - Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or the presence of a mass on imaging studies of the liver that is suggest of HCC, or an alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)> 500ng/mL. - Decompensated liver disease as defined by serum bilirubin >3mg/dL, prothrombin time≥ 4 seconds prolonged, a serum albumin<32g/L, or a history of ascites, variceal bleeding or hepatic encephalopathy. - Presence of other causes of liver disease (i. e.alcoholic liver disease,autoimmune hepatitis, hemochromatosis, Wilson disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, - Any serious or active medical or psychiatric illnesses other than hepatitis B which, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with patient treatment, assessment or compliance with the protocol. This would include, may not limit to, renal, cardiac, pulmonary, vascular, neurogenic, digestive, metabolic (diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal disease), immunodeficiency disorders, active infection or - Patient is pregnant or breast-feeding. - Planned for liver transplantation or previous liver transplantation. - Need take hepatotoxic drugs (e. g.,dapsone, erythromycin, fluconazole, rifampin, etc) and nephrotoxic drugs (e. g., NSAIDs, aminoglycosides, amphotericin B, foscarnet, etc.) for long time. - History of hypersensitivity to nucleoside analogues. - Previous (or planned) participation in an investigational trial involving administration of investigational compound within 12 weeks prior to the study - Poor compliance of the patient considered by investigator.
Of Deferred Speech The sun has quite a few things to say. But it hops from a bend in the river to a downstream bathing place where there are no bathers, from there to yellow Aswattha leaves, and then to malignant tumours in ovaries. It thus squanders its time, and when evening comes it sets, without having said a thing. The river has quite a few things to say. But it flows on and on, trying to inscribe the sun’s wasted life on the restless paper of its waters. Its time terminates in the incompetence of an obese ocean. It’s always impossible to say even an infinitesimal part of what one intended to say. The soil, for example, swells with the intent to speak and, ultimately, disintegrates. The day’s light hovers around the stamen of flowers, around the raised hoods of snakes, but in the end settles on the wings of a kite and disappears into the immeasurable void. This, probably, is the destiny of the poet. Before he can relieve the mule of grammar of sacks filled with intended speech, crows descend and sit in a circle. Translated from the Oriya by Ramakanta Rath.
Industrial production in Europe’s biggest economy was disappointing in 2013, weighed down by falling activity in the machine tool and chemical sectors. Only Germany’s carmakers could convince. German industrial output in 2013 contracted by 0.2 percent compared with 2012, the country's statistics office, Destatis, announced on Monday. The surprise decline marked the second consecutive year of falling industry output, Destatis said, although it was lower than the 0.8-percent contraction in 2012. “Domestic industrial production shrank 1.6 percent, while activity of German factories abroad increased 1.4 percent,” the German statisticians added. They also noted that sales to eurozone countries slumped 1.7 percent in 2013 as demand for German industry goods and services outside the 18-country currency area rose 3.5 percent. Industry sectors hardest hit by the slump were machine tools, down by 2.2 percent in 2013, and the chemical industry where production was 0.6 percent lower. German carmakers were faring generally better, seeing their revenues rise by 2.2 percent overall. Doubts about an imminent recovery in German factories output mounted after Destatis reported on Friday that slipped further. The results were another setback for Germany, after disappointing export figures for December, analysts said. “With the numbers, the last faint hope that fourth quarter growth could still surprise to the upside has disappeared,” ING DiBa analyst Carsten Brzeski told AFP news agency. And Capital Economics expert Jonathan Loynes told the same news agency that the output data were a blow to hopes that the eurozone's main growth engine was picking up speed. uhe/msh (Reuters, AFP)
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A Jefferson Primer « Continued from previous page Other articles by Professor Jewett in which Jefferson played a prominent role: Thomas Jewett is Associate Professor in the Education Division of McEndree College in Lebanon, Illinois. He is also Emeritus Professor from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Author of eight books on history, science and education, Professor Jewett has also written 75 articles on the same subjects. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and scholarship, and is listed in Who's Who in America.
Car Emerges from ‘Sea Foam’ Blanketing Australia’s Coast (SYDNEY) -- Two traffic officers in Australia narrowly escaped injury this weekend when a car emerged from the sea foam that has blanketed the country’s coastal towns. In a scene captured on video and posted to YouTube, the officers appear standing with pedestrians on a windy, beachside road as a bus attempts to navigate the foam. Out of nowhere, another part of the foam begins to move and a car emerges with its headlights on. One officer quickly pushes the other aside, moving them both out of the path of danger. The foam, or coastal froth, is a result of extreme weather conditions in the country that included a tropical cyclone last week. The froth was formed when powerful waves forced air into the water, according to the Griffith University Centre for Coastal Management and reported by the Herald Sun. Australia’s Sunshine and Gold coasts were hit so hard by the foam that residents and tourists were asked to cancel all non-essential travel, according to reports. Witnesses also described seeing foam as high as nine feet at its peak. Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio
Charlie Trout, author of Code FAQs and Code Question of the Day, has retired. For the rest of 2013, enjoy these snippets from his daily responses. Calculating conductors and breakers We are about to wire a recreational vehicle campsite. The designing electrical engineer set up the loads using 2 AWG direct burial aluminum wire fed from a 90-ampere (A) breaker, which the electrical inspector specified. The pedestal is equipped with either 50- or 30A receptacles, including the proper breakers. The pedestals are fed in one and then out to the next, daisy-chained. A typical layout may feed into a 50–30 combination then out to a 30–30 combination using 2 AWG wire. The engineer used 4 AWG aluminum wire to feed the last 30–30 pedestal. The voltage drop calculations work out fine using 4 AWG wire. The electrical inspector says we have to use 2 AWG wire throughout because we are feeding the runs from a 90A breaker. I believe feeder conductors have to be big enough to service the calculated load and not be sized to the feeder breaker. I believe the 4 AWG conductor should be allowed. Am I wrong? Additionally, does the feeder breaker have to be 90A, or is a 100A breaker OK. The overcurrent device is there to protect the circuit or feeder conductors. The designer used the 75-degree column of Table 310.15(B)(16) and used a 2 AWG aluminum conductor rated at 90A protected by a 90A rated circuit breaker. You appear to be suggesting that a 4 AWG aluminum conductor, which is rated at 65A, should be allowed when protected by a 90A circuit breaker. The feeder conductors must be big enough to service the calculated load, but the circuit breaker must be sized to properly protect the conductors. The electrical inspector is correct, and the 4 AWG aluminum conductor cannot be protected by a 90A rated circuit breaker. A 2 AWG aluminum conductor must be used throughout to match the 90A breaker. A 100A circuit breaker will not properly protect a 4 AWG aluminum conductor. GFCI protection at in-ground swimming pool An in-ground swimming pool with a spa, light, filter motor, circulating motor and disinfectant light is served by a computer- controlled subpanel (i.e., compool) with three two-pole 20A circuit breakers and two one-pole 20A circuit breakers. None of these are ground-fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs). GFCI protection is from the main panel by way of a 50A two-pole GFCI, thereby protecting the compool subpanel and associated overcurrent protection devices (OCPDs). Is this type of protection applicable due to the fact a two-pole 50A GFCI will trip between 4 to 6 milliamps (mA) as a single-pole GFCI breaker would trip between 4 to 6 mA? The installation as described appears to meet the intent and GFCI protection requirements. The Code actually requires the branch circuits [680.21(C) and 680.22(A)(4)] to have GFCI protection, but a feeder protected by a two-pole, 50A Class A GFCI device provides the GFCI protection for all branch circuits in the panel supplying the equipment. But it’s not a service My question deals with replacing a panel that is fed from a 3-wire feeder in underground rigid conduit. The conduit run is longer than 100 feet, and the conduit has been buried so long it has begun to rust. Pulling new wires is not possible due to the condition of the raceway. Do I isolate the grounded conductor in the new panel and hope the rigid conduit provides an effective ground-fault path, or should I install a bonding jumper in the new panel and let the grounded conductor clear any faults? I realize the latter would possibly create a parallel path if the integrity of the conduit is adequate; however, it is perfectly legal to do so regarding services, and I would feel better knowing a fault would clear without question. You say your intended installation is perfectly legal to do regarding services, but your installation is not a service. Installing a bonding jumper between the grounded conductor (neutral) and a grounding conductor on the load side of the service disconnecting means is prohibited by 250.142(B). This would, as you say, create a parallel path for neutral current and create a potentially dangerous condition. There is a proper repair for this defect, and it should be used. Sections: 680.21(C), 680.22(A)(4) Emergency circuits in healthcare I am doing some work in a hospital. When lighting fixtures are installed in a suspended grid ceiling and connected to an emergency (generator) circuit, is it a violation to wire them with HCF-90 cable or flexible metallic conduit? I heard the entire circuit must remain in nonflexible metallic conduit, which would make installation difficult. Does the Code allow any exceptions for offices and corridors as opposed to patient care areas? Emergency circuits in healthcare facilities must have mechanical protection in accordance with 517.30(C)(3)(3). Installation of metallic conduit cable has to meet these requirements in list item (3) as acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction. The key is that flexibility is necessary for the type of equipment being connected. Based on the question, this type of lighting could be wired using a conduit or electrical metallic tubing system, and flexibility is not required after installation. There are no exceptions in emergency mode. Sections: 250.142(B), 250.24(A)(5) Parallel conductors installed in multiple raceways My application is a 2,000-kilowatt (kW), 480Y/277 generator with an integral 4,000/3 circuit breaker. There will be 11 sets of individual cables, 4/0 AWG Type W, between the portable generator and transfer switch. The transfer switch will pick up the entire building load (i.e., premise and equipment). I am trying to determine the size and number of the ground conductor(s) required between a portable generator and the transfer switch. Can you help me out please? Section 250.122(F) requires, where conductors are installed in parallel in multiple raceways, the equipment grounding conductors shall be installed in parallel in each raceway. Note the last sentence of 250.122(F): “Each equipment grounding conductor shall be sized in compliance with 250.122.” The equipment grounding conductors required for this installation in accordance with Table 250.122 are 400 kcmil copper. Grounds and neutrals If a 200A generator transfer switch with a 200A breaker is installed outside between a residential meter and the existing inside main panel, can the existing 3-wire SEU cable be reused? The grounds and neutrals would stay connected in the main panel. Or does this 3-wire cable have to be changed to a 4-wire, and do the grounds and neutrals in the main panel have to be separated? Based on the information provided in the question, the transfer equipment needs to be SUSE rated (suitable for use as service equipment) and contain a service disconnect. The feeder from that transfer equipment/service disconnect needs to include an insulated neutral and separate equipment grounding conductor. The existing service equipment panelboard on the dwelling becomes a panelboard on the load side of the service disconnecting means. You are required to separate the neutrals and equipment grounding conductors at that location. Check out these applicable Code sections: 250.24(A)(5) Load Side Grounding Connections; 250.142(B) Load Side Equipment; 702.5 Transfer Equipment; 408.40 Grounding of Panelboards; and 338.10(B)(2) Uses Permitted; 338.10(B)(2) Uses of Uninsulated Conductor. Sections: 250.24(A)(5), 338.10(B)(2), 408.40 Locknuts and bonding bushings Are standard rigid locknuts suitable for bonding when used with a conduit nipple installed between a meter socket and the service disconnecting means enclosure? There are bonding bushings installed on both ends of the nipple with a bonding jumper connected to each enclosure. This is fairly straightforward, and it seems you have answered your own question. First, standard locknuts, as a general rule, are not a suitable method of bonding in the line side of the service disconnect. Second, based on the information provided in the question, it sounds like bonding bushings are installed on each end of the conduit between enclosures, which would negate the need for bonding locknuts. Bonding locknuts is one method for bonding on the supply side of the service, and they must be used when no other method of bonding is installed. Since bonding bushings are installed, the use of standard locknuts is acceptable. Sections: 250.92(A), 250.92(B)(4) Sizing the grounded service conductor Can the grounded (neutral) conductor be smaller than the ungrounded service conductors when it is supplied a three-phase, 3-wire, corner-grounded delta system? In a corner-grounded, three-phase, 3-wire system, there is no neutral. I’ll answer the question on that basis. The answer is the grounded service conductor for this system must be the same size as the largest ungrounded phase conductor. Remember that the grounded conductor must also meet the identification requirements in 200.6, and overcurrent protection is not permitted in accordance with 240.22.
Hybrid concept superyacht is powered by onboard solar panels Eco Factor: Low-emission yacht powered by a hybrid engine. UK-based design firm Astheimer Ltd has conceptualized a low-emission superyacht that is propelled by a hybrid engine, with the electric engine getting powered by an onboard array of solar panels. The 75m superyacht features an explorer type hull and a fluid, sculpted superstructure that offers spacious interior and exterior spaces, allowing the owner and guests to connect with the marine environment. The aluminum exoskeleton of the superyacht maximizes the potential of the latest in solar panel technology by integrating formable transparent photovoltaic panels. Unlike conventional solar panels, which generate electricity from visible light, these panels convert ultraviolet light into electricity, which assists the hybrid drive. The atrium is adorned with a real tree, which is continually fed through osmosis. Moreover, a raised helm station with 360 degree views and connecting captain’s cabin and a master cabin with panoramic views have also been included. The superyacht also includes six social areas and nine luxury cabins with bathrooms. Via: Super Yacht Times
Fig. 2. Illustrative example of nonlinearities and thresholds in a Swiss mountain wooded pasture: impact of cattle activity on seedlings (< 1 year old), saplings (1-3 years), and browsed trees (4-8 years) relative to other survival and growth limiting factors. Trees were exposed to low (solid line) and high (dotted line) grazing pressures. Arrows indicate a higher (up) or lower (down) impact of cattle, which varies by deciduous (Acer pseudoplatanus, Fagus sylvatica) and coniferous species, (Picea abies and Abies alba). The impact of grazing increases with higher development stages and high grazing pressure. In contrast, low grazing pressure reduces the relative importance once the seedlings have developed to browsed trees. Deciduous species are generally more vulnerable to cattle activity, with the exception of the sapling stage when coniferous species are more sensitive. With changing management regimes, different tree species will show nonlinear survival and growth rates that may result in species shift under changing climatic conditions.
Actress and activist Pamela Anderson is speaking out for animals on behalf of PETA, her favorite animal rights organization. The “Baywatch” star tweeted, “Did you know that glue traps are inhumane and indiscriminate, capturing not just rats and mice but also birds,..” Anderson links to the PETA page about glue traps, letting PETA tell the public more about why glue traps are so cruel. PETA writes, “Glue traps cause slow, agonizing deaths to the animals—mice, birds, squirrels, kittens, and other small animals—who get caught in them. These animals can die of suffocation, dehydration, or starvation while stuck to a trap, or the glue can rip patches of skin, fur, or feathers from the animals’ bodies as they desperately struggle to escape. Death can take days.” The animal rights organization makes it easy for you to take action against institutions still using glue traps. Visit their campaign page to learn more about how. And if you happen to find a creature caught in a glue trap, PETA tells you how to free the poor darling. “If you find an animal who is stuck in a glue trap, pour a small amount of cooking oil or baby oil onto the stuck areas (avoiding the animal’s nose and mouth to prevent suffocation) and gently work the animal free. Injured or weak animals must be rushed to a nearby veterinarian or wildlife rehabilitator.” Or, if you see an empty glue trap, you can do what I do: step on that horrible device so no animal can be harmed. Flatten it like a pancake.
Fine-Tuning USDA Efficiency PlanBy Steven Johnson \| ECT Staff Writer Published: October 9th, 2012 NRECA says it strongly backs an Agriculture Department initiative that relies on electric cooperatives to help rural residents with the upfront cost of energy-efficiency upgrades. But a few changes to the proposed Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program could produce more participation and value, the association told the department. “Although the proposed program offers much-needed additional resources to enable cooperatives to implement energy efficiency measures, enhanced program flexibility and discretion will result in a more cost-effective, efficient and successful voluntary program that will be more fully utilized by cooperatives to meet identified local needs,” NRECA said in a Sept. 26 filing. The comment came in response to USDA’s request for input on the program, which would make about $250 million initially available to G&Ts and distribution co-ops through the Rural Utilities Service. Co-ops would make microloans to members for efficiency improvements, which could be repaid through a charge on monthly electric bills, or by other means. The program uses energy savings from the upgrades to help offset the loan payment. NRECA said the new endeavor will supplement existing efforts―about 96 percent of co-ops operate some type of efficiency program―and go beyond the smaller-scale Energy Resource Conservation loans that RUS currently offers. “ERC loans are for more limited purposes than the proposed program, which would add load-modifying renewable resources and demand-side management improvements, among others, as eligible activities,” NRECA said. In its filing, NRECA said USDA should make the new program more accessible by extending its five-year limit for demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of efficiency upgrades. “Changing the requirement from 5 years to 10 years will permit cooperatives and their consumers to dig more deeply and achieve greater total amounts of energy efficiency,” NRECA said. “It will enable co-ops to broaden their programs to include consumers who might not otherwise be able to participate.” To sign up for the latest Public Policy Watch news alerts, click here.
About Ecology's Director Maia D. Bellon is Ecology’s director, named to the position by Gov. Jay Inslee in February 2013. Ecology Director, Maia Bellon Maia began working for Ecology in June 2010 as the deputy program manager for the Water Resources program. On July 1, 2011, Maia became the program’s manager and responsible for overseeing a staff of 130 to sustainably manage the state’s water resources, including the allocation of water and protection of water rights, instream flows and environmental functions. Before joining Ecology, Maia served as an assistant attorney general with the Ecology Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. In that role she provided both client advice and litigation support for Ecology on a broad array of issues ranging from the State Environmental Policy Act to the Public Records Act. She was a member of the Waste Section of the Ecology Division from 1994 to 2000. During that time she served as the lead attorney for the underground storage tank program and was Ecology’s lead advisor on mining and Model Toxics Control Act voluntary cleanup issues. She also served for two years as the lead attorney for Ecology’s Air Quality Program. From 2000 to 2001 she served as the special assistant to the president for Civil Rights and Legal Affairs at The Evergreen State College. Maia then returned to the Ecology Division of the Attorney General’s Office in 2001 and focused her practice on water law for the next nine years. Maia also served on the Executive Committee of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association from 2005-2010. Maia is a graduate of The Evergreen State College and earned her law degree from Arizona State University. Find out more about Protecting Washington’s Quality of Life in the 21st Century. See Ecology's mission statement (PDF). Copyright © Washington State Department of Ecology. See http://www.ecy.wa.gov/copyright.html.
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\|Government Enterprise Architecture Framework\| Enterprise Architecture (EA) describes how organizational, information and technology structures support the strategy and operations of organizations. In the context of government enterprises – a coordinated set of activity areas involving one or more public organizations and possibly third-party entities from private organizations or civil society, an EA provides technical descriptions of the organizational goals, business and administrative processes, information requirements, supporting applications and technology infrastructure of the enterprise. These descriptions are typically captured in the form of models, diagrams, narratives, etc. A Government Enterprise Architecture (GEA) may be associated with a single agency or span functional areas transcending several organizational boundaries, e.g. health care, financial management and social welfare. Reasons for developing enterprise architectures in government include: There is increasing awareness on the importance of EA as most of the leading countries in e-government have well established EA programs. Presently, there are EA maturity models with defined relations to well known e-Government Maturity stages. The increasing popularity of EA practices by governments in both developed and developing countries is indicated by the different global surveys on EA. Despite the popularity of the EA practice in the private sector and increasingly in the government, the EA discipline is relatively new, lacking foundational theories and models and characterized by multiplicity of frameworks and reference models; even lacking an agreement on the definition and scope of the subject matter. From the earlier orientation of EA as a technological optimization or standardization concern, EA has gradually evolved to a management practice with stronger emphasis placed on the organizational-IT alignment. However, there are mixed results in terms of outcomes from EA initiatives. In general, demonstrating concrete benefits from EA program has been challenging for many organizations. This difficulty is attributed to lack of metrics for EA initiatives. Notwithstanding, a number of successful EA initiatives have been reported by some governments, particularly, in Canada and the US. Unfortunately, comparing and analyzing these EA initiatives and cases is difficult in the absence of assessment frameworks, techniques and tools. The project aims to provide policy guidelines for the development of Government Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (GEAFs), establish concrete requirements for such a framework in Macao, and provide recommendations on how elements of a Macao GEAF (MGEAF) could be built from existing Government EA Frameworks, Reference Models, Methods, and Modeling Framework. The project will also provide an example of agency-specific EA based on the recommended Macao framework.
updated 07:21 am EST, Fri November 9, 2012 How is Microsoft's first tablet PC shaping up? Much has been written about Microsoft's entry into the PC hardware space, competing for the first time directly with its Windows hardware partners. For whatever reason, Microsoft decided that it needed to 'make a splash' with its own hardware announcing the Surface tablets running Windows 8 or RT in June, ahead of their late October launch. Electronista is currently playing with a Surface RT tablet with 32GB of storage paired with the interesting and clever Touch Cover. So how is it stacking up so far, a few hours out of the box? It's hard to know where to start with the Surface RT tablet. Comparing it to the current tablets might seem natural in that the iPad remains the market leader in the compact tablet space. However, that might not be the best device to compare it to, nor even an Android tablet. In many ways it really is quite a different animal. As relatively complex as the Android UI is against the supreme simplicity of the iPad, neither compare to just how complex the Windows RT OS is to use and navigate. However, from a purely techno-geek perspective, it has so far proved to be both a fun and frustrating experience - at least early on. Like the iPad and current Android tablets, an ARM-based processor powers it. It is also a similar weight to the original iPad and the 10.6-inch Android tablets using alloy materials at 1.5 pounds. Our first impression is that as high quality as the materials and the fit and finish of the Surface RT, users who complain that the iPad is too heavy to hold one-handed will have same complaint about the Surface. In some ways, this is further exacerbated by the 16:9 aspect ratio of the Surface RT, which does not distribute its weight as well as the iPad with its 4:3 aspect ratio. When you take the general similarities between the hardware and the ARM-based architecture out of the equation and start to focus on the design and the operating system, the similarities become much less apparent, for better or for worse. We were always somewhat perplexed by Microsoft's decision to leave its ARM-based Windows Phone 7 OS to mobile phones instead of also developing a tablet specific version to tackle the iPad as Google did with Android 3.0 'Honeycomb.' After using Windows RT we are still left wondering. Windows Phone 7, and now Windows Phone 8, could still have tremendous potential as a tablet OS. This becomes most apparent when you discover that your 32GB Surface RT tablet only has around 17GB of available space out of the box for installing your own apps. As the Windows Store does not have even a tenth of the apps available for either iOS or Android, that is not so much of a problem at this time. While there are a number of pre-installed apps, including Office for RT, that really comes as a surprise given that Windows RT is a cut down version of Windows 8 - no wonder you can't buy a 16GB version of Surface RT! However, the Surface RT includes one USB 2.0 port and a sneaky little microSD card slot hidden under the rear stand flap. Great, you might be thinking - at least I can expand my storage with my microSD card. Yes, you can. However, at this time, for whatever reason, these can't be played from the Start screen apps - they must be stored on the local drive. Even Android could do this before Google and other OEMs started to think along Apple's lines and drop the microSD expansion option to help keep file management simple. In order to play files from your microSD card you actually need to go the legacy desktop mode and double-click on files in Windows Explorer and hope that the file type is supported on the built-in players. As for the Touch Cover, we wrote this article on it and quite frankly, we hated it. Touch-typing on the iPad onscreen keyboard is significantly easier, as cool as it is -- the Type Cover would seem to be a better bet, in spite of the weight penalty. Overall, though there is still much to like about the Surface RT tablet. The display is great and beats out the display in the iPad mini for color gamut and contrast, but not the display on the iPad with Retina display for sharpness. We will be back in a few days with our full and in depth review of the intriguing Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. By Sanjiv Sathiah
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, February 26, 2010 (ENS) - A massive iceberg has broken away from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory after another enormous iceberg, B9B, collided with the tongue of the glacier, a joint Australian – French study has discovered. The new iceberg and the one that rammed it loose could together affect world ocean circulation, scientists said today. Satellite imagery from the European Space Agency's ENVISAT shows the iceberg separation occurred on February 12 and 13, but the discovery was just announced today by the researchers at a news conference in Hobart. The new iceberg and the tongue of the Mertz Glacier (Photo © Australian Antarctic Division) One of the largest icebergs ever to be monitored by scientists, the giant piece of floating ice measures 48 miles long and 22 miles wide. It has a surface area of 965 square miles and an average thickness of 1,300 feet. In metric terms, the new iceberg is 78 kilometers long overall and 33 to 39 km wide with an average thickness of 400 meters. The joint Australian - French study, undertaken at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, and in France, was initiated in 2007 during the International Polar Year to study the tongue of the Mertz Glacier and the calving of icebergs from it. Australian scientists working on this study are: Dr. Rob Massom, Dr. Neal Young, and Dr. Barry Giles - all of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and Australian Antarctic Division. The French scientist working on this study is Dr. Benoit Legresy of the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiales, LEGOS in Toulouse, France. The Mertz Glacier has had a large crack in it for two decades. The scientists described the crack today, saying, "Two large rifts cutting through the southern part of the glacier tongue have been developing over many years. Rifting progressed from the eastern margin of the Mertz Glacier in the 1990s until 2002 when another rift started to develop from the western side." "Recently the two rifts had almost joined and the western rift subsequently became very active, leaving the northern part of the glacier tongue attached like a loose tooth," they said. This satellite image from ENVISAT shows iceberg B9B, lower right, breaking the new iceberg from the tongue of the Mertz Glacier. (Image courtesy ESA) The scientists say satellite images show that the recently calved Mertz iceberg is moving into the Adelie Depression, a coastal basin between the Mertz Glacier and the French Antarctic station of Dumont D'Urville to the west. This depression is one of the major sites of dense water formation which drives the world's deep ocean circulation. The dense water is formed from ocean water that circulates onto the continental shelf and interacts with the glacier tongue, and by high rates of sea ice formation in an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice near the glacier. The future position of the two giant icebergs will likely affect local ocean circulation, sea ice production, and deep water formation, the scientists said. The Mertz Glacier Polynya, an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice that forms each winter, occupies the area immediately northwest of the Mertz Glacier Tongue and in the neighboring coastal bays. The scientists say strong off-shore winds across this area maintain high sea ice formation rates which are crucial to the formation of very saline dense shelf water, a major ingredient of the world ocean circulation. "These polynyas constitute places of high biodiversity and food concentration for birds and marine mammals, in particular emperor penguins, the only birds to reproduce during winter in Antarctica," they said. The emperor colony at Pointe Geologie, next to Dumont d'Urville, is closely dependent on the ocean resources. Therefore, the scientists said, significant modifications in the marine environment may have large consequences, not only on the local biodiversity but also on this emblematic penguin colony, which was brought to world attention in the movie by Luc Jacquet, "March of the Penguins." Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2010. All rights reserved. \|Let's Keep the Upper Lillooet River Wild! Three-time EUEC Keynote Speaker Gina McCarthy Confirmed to Head the EPA Aquaponics Revolutionizes Local Food Growing by Recycling 90% Water\|
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Hosting and bandwidth provided by MacAce.net. If you find this page useful, please Bookmark & Share What version of OS X is pre-installed on the Retina Display MacBook Pro models? The original 15-Inch "Mid-2012" Retina Display MacBook Pro models first shipped with a version of OS X 10.7 "Lion," the "Late 2012" and "Early 2013" models shipped with a version of OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion," and the current "Late 2013" models ship with a version of OS X 10.9 "Mavericks." Specifically, these systems have shipped with these operating system versions: \|Retina MacBook Pro\|\|Original OS X\|\|Build Number\| \|Mid-2012 (15-Inch)\|\|OS X 10.7.4\|\|11E2068\| \|Late 2012 (13-Inch)\|\|OS X 10.8.0\|\|12C2034\| \|Early 2013 (13-Inch & 15-Inch)\|\|OS X 10.8.2\|\|12C3103\| \|Late 2013 (13-Inch & 15-Inch)\|\|OS X 10.9.0\|\|13A3017\| Regardless of the version of the pre-installed operating system, all Retina Display MacBook Pro systems are capable of running the latest version of OS X. No. Running Mac OS X software written for the PowerPC processor requires the "Rosetta Universal Binary Translator" which is not supported by OS X 10.7 "Lion" or subsequent versions of the operating systems (like Mountain Lion and Mavericks). If support for older software is important to you, you likely would be better off purchasing a used MacBook Pro capable of running Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" or Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." These versions of the operating system are capable of running both the vast majority of Mac software written for Intel-based Macs as well as the vast majority of Mac OS X applications written for PowerPC-based systems, as well. In addition, versions of the operating system earlier than the one that shipped with a particular Mac are not compatible. Mac OS 9 applications are not supported by operating system versions compatible with the MacBook Pro line, either. Site sponsor Operator Headgap Systems specializes in used Macs that are capable of running older versions of the Mac OS as well as modern ones. To install software or transfer files from a CD or DVD to a Retina Display MacBook Pro, you have to either purchase an external optical drive or use the "Remote Disk" function. Essentially, you just install the "Remote Disk" software on a nearby Mac or Windows machine, and then "borrow" its optical drive to install software or transfer files via CD or DVD. Of course, Apple would prefer that you buy all software through Apple's own Mac App Store rather than install software via other means. Some developers have been quite vocal in expressing that the App Store doesn't meet their needs or the needs of their customers, but Apple's Mac App Store may or may not meet your own needs. Nevertheless, additional information regarding "Remote Disk" is available via the Apple Support Site. It also is worth noting that this cannot be used to re-install the operating system. Some copy-protected CDs, DVDs, and games also cannot be installed using this method. Apple does not include a physical restoration method for the Retina Display MacBook Pro models. Instead, the operating system has a hidden "restore" partition containing an "OS X Utilities" application that is only accessible upon startup by holding down Command-R. Additional details about "OS X Recovery" is available on the Apple Support Site. This is the type of question that no doubt many technical users find funny. However, given that Apple is using the same "Retina Display" marketing terminology for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models, it is easy to see how one could think the "Retina Display" MacBook Pro would be able to run the same software as these "Retina Display" mobile devices. However, unless the increasing iOS-ification of Mac OS X leads to an "iOS X" operating system capable of running iPad apps on the Retina Display MacBook Pro line, the answer simply is "no" for now. Like all other Intel-based Macs, the Retina Display MacBook Pro models are capable of running Windows and a number of distributions of Linux via Apple Boot Camp or by using "virtualization" software. For more information regarding Windows on the Mac, please refer to the extensive Windows on Mac Q&A.
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The Most Expensive Sword in the World Written by Issa and published on The most expensive sword ever sold in an auction, for USD 6.4 million, is an ancient Arab sword once owned by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The 32-inch intricately decorated, yet fully-functional, slightly-curved battle sword is said to have been inspired by Arab swords that Napoleon observed to be very effective in “cutting off French heads” during his Egyptian campaigns. Napoleon wore the sword to the Battle of Marengo where he successfully pushed the Austrian army from Italy in a surprise attack. The sword was given to Napoleon’s brother and was handed down to generation until now. Prior to the auction, initial estimate of the sword’s value was at USD 1.6 million.
The amateurish computer-generated pictures show the Capitol being blasted and the White House in the cross-hairs of a ballistic missile sight before exploding in flames. The Pyongyang leadership announced yesterday that it had officially entered into “a state of war” against its South Korea rivals across the 38th parallel. The declaration of hostilities was backed by a barely veiled threat that it was prepared to press the nuclear button if it feels under threat from South Korea or the United States. Diplomatic analysts believe tensions are being racked up by the new and as yet unproven North Korean leader, 30-year-old Kim Jong Un, who is keen to impress his late father’s military advisers. In a belligerent statement, North Korea’s Central News Agency warned that it would deal with the leadership in neighbouring Seoul according to “wartime regulations” and was ready to retaliate against any “provocation” by the US. “Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war,” it warned. “Provocations will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war.” As if to underline its military capabilities, Pyongyang upped the rhetoric by showing the video of a missile attack on Washington titled “Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War”. Provocations will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war Over the almost comic pictures, a narrator warns: “Second by second, the fuse of a nuclear war is burning. There is no limit to the range of our strategic rockets.” The threats are also seen as an attempt by Pyongyang to put pressure on the new South Korean government to change its own policies as well as possibly winning aid from Washington. The White House said last night that it was taking the threat of nuclear war seriously and had already stepped up its military operations in the region. On Thursday, two B-2 stealth bombers dropped dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island as part of annual defence drills that Pyongyang sees as rehearsals for invasion. South Korea’s Unification Ministry has also responded by calling the North Korean threat “unhelpful” to both countries’ frayed relations and vowed to ensure the safety of hundreds of South Korean managers who cross the border to their jobs in Kaesong. The two states remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. Naval skirmishes in disputed waters off the Korean coast have led to bloody battles several times over the years.
By Antonio P. Mallarino, Professor, Department of Agronomy Producers often ask questions about tissue testing to decide "emergency" in-season phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertilization for corn and soybean. Previous articles(June 2010 and July 2008) have discussed the viability of post-emergence application of P and K fertilizers. A large application of granulated P or K fertilizer to soil during the very early crop growth stages may result in some grain yield increase although an economic benefit for the current crop is not likely. The probability of an economic response to foliar fertilization is likely with insufficient preplant fertilization or when soil and climate factors (other than drought) limit nutrient uptake. Traditionally, farmers and crop consultants have used soil sampling and testing of visually affected and seemingly unaffected field areas to determine if there is a nutrient deficiency. This is an effective practice when crop growth is limited by low soil nutrient supply, but will not be effective when soil or climatic factors other than low soil nutrient levels limit early nutrient uptake. Is tissue testing helpful for identifying fields responsive to foliar fertilization? No simple and reliable tissue test exists to identify the conditions that increase the chance of corn or soybean response to P and K fertilization. In spite of many field trials in Iowa, we have not been able to identify a useful critical or optimal P or K concentration in plant tissue. Figures 1 and 2 show a very poor relationship between the nutrient concentration in young plants or leaves and the yield response to fertilization across several fields and years. The reason is that many factors other than nutrient supply affect plant growth and influence the tissue nutrient concentrations due to nutrient uptake and also dilution and concentration of nutrients in the dry matter. Relationships (not shown) are acceptable for different fertilizer treatments or soil nutrient levels in a specific field and year, but a diagnostic tool should work reliably across fields and years. Attempts to overcome this problem by using nutrient ratios have not been successful and often suggest higher fertilizer rates than needed. Some universities suggest as a general guideline a high tissue test level at which there seldom is yield response to fertilization. The problem of using a "safe" but too high critical nutrient concentration is that such a level encourages farmers to apply fertilizers when the probability of an economic yield increase is very small or inexistent. Use of soil testing and fertilization before planting is the most effective way of assuring adequate P and K supply for corn and soybean. A practical and useful way of using tissue testing is to use test results in conjunction with in-season soil testing, comparing field areas with apparent deficiency symptoms or poor growth with nearby seemingly unaffected areas. This strategy may not solve the problem for this years' crop, but will provide clues to improve fertilizer or soil management for next year. Figure 1. Relationships between relative corn yield response to P and K fertilization and the nutrient concentration of small plants or leaves (at V5-V6 or silking) across several Iowa field trials. Relative yield represents the yield without fertilization expressed as the percentage of the maximum yield achieved with fertilization. Figure 2. Relationships between relative soybean yield response to P and K fertilization and the nutrient concentration of small plants or leaves (at V5-V6 or R2-R3 stages) across several Iowa field trials. Antonio P. Mallarino is a professor of agronomy with research and extension responsibilities in soil fertility and nutrient management. This article was published originally on 7/1/2010 The information contained within the article may or may not be up to date depending on when you are accessing the information. Links to this material are strongly encouraged. This article may be republished without further permission if it is published as written and includes credit to the author, Integrated Crop Management News and Iowa State University Extension. Prior permission from the author is required if this article is republished in any other manner.
Rouge et Noir (French, red and black). A game of chance; so called because of the red and black diamonds marked on the board. The dealer deals out to noir first till the sum of the pips exceeds thirty, then to rouge in the same manner. That packet which comes nearest to thirty-one is the winner of the stakes. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
i thought I would write about Jesus and my recent visit to the Gower Heritage Centre. This is a great place to visit whether young or old and as I visited with the familly we were lucky enough to feed the resident lambs at the end of the day. If they were still with their mother they would have been able to feed whenever they wanted so in a way it was a shame they are denied this for a plastic baby bottle for a full guzzle of milk at the end of the day. Lambs are amazing creatures – as they feed they dig their back heels into the ground reverse suckle and wag their tails like crazy. Perfect little creatures, something so perfect and amazing has to be created by God – i find myself grateful once more I dont eat them. Im a new Christian and studying Christianity at the moment and Jesus was a shepherd – he loved lambs, he compared human beings to sheep. Not in a derogatory way like sheeple but no because human beings need the same love and care as attention from God that a good shepherd showers on his flock. They need love and care and good company, defense from wolves, clean pastures and to be fed. In Christianity we need to be fed regularly on the Word of God. Jesus says He is the good shepherd and he gave the care of His sheep to His disciples also – He tells simon and Peter if you love me – care for my sheep – feed my sheep. Jesus: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. In John 10 Jesus talks about those who came before Him as thieves and rogues and presumably other religious leaders like Gurus are like hired hands – these people are just men they are not God and they are not the good shepherd, when trouble comes they flee and leave their flock to the wolves to save their own skin but Jesus is different – he lays His life down for His sheep and protects and frees them< he has the Power and Authority to do it even at His own detriment as the ultimate act of Love and sacrifice. He puts the welfare of His sheep above His own welfare even as God and loves every single one – as a good shepherd loves cares for and defends the trusting and gentle lambs in His care. If you died today, are you absolutely certain that you would go to heaven? You can be! TRUST JESUS NOW Read more articles by Michelle Smith or search for articles on the same topic or others. Good observations about sheep. Did you also know that sheep and goats make nearly the same sound? When you combine that with the fact the sheep do not see very well, it reveals why it takes Jesus to properly seperate sheep from goats. Earthly sheppards who are still sheep themselves have their work cut out for them. More here... http://managedsurrender.com/spilling-scripture/clearer-vision/the-example/
Warning over swine dysentery increase PIG producers are being urged to be on the lookout for symptoms of swine dysentery and step up defences after further cases of the disease have been reported across the North Yorkshire region. Helen Clarke, veterinary projects manager at Bpex, says: “The disease spreads rapidly, particularly in the current cold weather conditions.” She says as a highly economi-cally damaging infection, it is imperative any suspected symptoms are reported as soon as possible. “Swine dysentery causes a rapid loss of condition in affected pigs, and eventually loss of stock. “Clinical signs affecting growing and finishing pigs include bloody diarrhoea, but for outdoor breeding units, clinical signs may not be evident at all.” She recommends all producers tighten up on biosecurity measures. “The bacterium, which cause the disease, live in the large intestine and are passed out in dung. “This is why it is so easily spread on boots, vehicles and implements, as well as by rodents and birds, and why hygiene is so important.” - Affects growing and finishing pigs - Bloody diarrhoea and mucus - Causes inflammation of large intestine - Current strains showing resistance to medication
Public School Failures, Homeschool Successes Homeschooling Has Become a Serious Option NOVEMBER 01, 1997 by DENNIS L. PETERSON Mr. Peterson is a homeschooling parent and a frequent contributor to The Freeman, Teaching Home, and other periodicals. Once almost unheard-of and usually relegated to the province of educational quackery and political or religious radicalism, the homeschooling movement has in the last few years blossomed into a serious educational option. A recent study by the National Home Education Research Institute and the Homeschool Legal Defense Association demonstrates just how serious an alternative it has become. Conducted by researcher Dr. Brian D. Ray, the report made a number of startling finds: - The number of students being homeschooled across the nation is between 1,103,000 and 1,348,000. - The total number of homeschoolers equals the public school enrollments of the states of Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. - Homeschoolers outperform public school students by 30 to 37 percentile points on all subjects on standardized achievement tests. - Whether the parents ever held a teaching certificate had virtually no impact on student scores. Even homeschooled students whose mothers never finished high school scored 55 percentile points higher than public school students in similar circumstances. - Homeschoolers scored between the 82nd and 92nd percentiles regardless of their families’ incomes. - Students scored at the 86th percentile whether states imposed strict or minimal regulations. - Homeschooling parents pay an average of $546 per year, whereas the average per-pupil expenditure by public schools is $5,325, excluding all capital costs. - Homeschoolers’ test scores tend to increase the longer they are homeschooled, going from the 59th percentile for those who have been homeschooled for one year to the 92nd percentile for those who have been homeschooled for seven years. - More than half (53 percent) of all homeschoolers visit a library at least once or twice a month; 38 percent of them make three to five visits a month. - The average homeschooled child is involved in 5.2 community activities, such as volunteer work, classes outside the home, group sports, and church. An astounding 98 percent are involved in two or more activities. - Only six percent of homeschoolers, in contrast to 62 percent of public school students, watch three hours or more of television each day. - About 61 percent of homeschoolers are in grades K-6, more than 18 percent are in grades 7-8, and almost 20 percent are in grades 9-12. - Three percent of homeschooling parents intend to continue doing so through grade 6 or less; 89 percent plan to homeschool through grade 12. In short, homeschooling not only works, but is helping to erode the public school monopoly. The more this message gets out, the more serious will become the homeschooling option. —Dennis L. Peterson A copy of the complete study, Strengths of Their Own—Home Schoolers Across America: Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics, and Longitudinal Traits, may be obtained from the National Home Education Research Institute, P. O. Box 13939, Salem, Oregon 97309, (503) 364-1490. Forty Years Ago in The Freeman . . . Leonard E. Read: “Change is a law of all living things. That which is not growing is atrophying; that which is not progressing is retrogressing; that which is not emerging is regressing. The authoritarian act, or even thought, is time off from growth, progress, emergence. One cannot be attentive to the inner self while exerting coercion on others. The person who has me on my back holding me down is as permanently fastened on top of me as I am under him. To me, at least, this explains why Lord Acton was right when he said, ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ “For any person to become aware of how little he knows—not a very difficult attainment—is a sure way to reduce the number of authoritarians by one. Who knows? The awareness might even catch on. And, if it did? Millions of us would forsake society’s most corrosive pastime—meddling in the affairs of others—meddling not only through the political apparatus, but personally. Millions of us could then concentrate on the wholly rewarding venture of freeing ourselves from our own fears, our own superstitions, our own imperfections, our own ignorance. The individual human spirit, neglected while we play the futile and authoritarian game of imposing our wills on others, cries out for its freedom.” V. Orval Watts: “Every human being’s progress depends on the amount of effort that he himself exerts in pursuit of good purposes. “Among the essential conditions for this effort are the opportunities, the risks, and even the obstacles, of freedom.”
Doctor Blood’s Coffin by Jason Coffman Film Monthly Home Short Takes (Archived) Small Screen Monthly Behind the Scenes New on DVD Books on Film What's Hot at the Movies This Week MGM’s Limited Edition Collection continues to unearth fantastic treasures from the vaults, and continues to prove itself as one of the best services the major studios have ever offered die-hard film fans. One of the latest crop is 1961’s Doctor Blood’s Coffin, a British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring genre favorite Hazel Court, perhaps best known in the U.S. for her starring roles in Roger Corman’s 1960s Edgar Allan Poe film adaptations. Furie rarely directed genre films, and has had a long career in cinema directing such films as The Ipcress File with Michael Caine (1965) and returned to the genre after a few films in the early 1960s with The Entity (starring Barbara Hershey) in 1982. Doctor Blood’s Coffin has a distinct Hammer tint in its tone and style. Dr. Robert Blood (Ian Hunter) is the doctor in a rural village that has little contact with the outside world. The townsfolk tend to be healthy, leading the local funeral home owner to scold Dr. Blood for doing too good a job. Shortly before Dr. Blood’s son, Peter (Keiron Moore), returns from school, there is a mysterious disappearance in the town. While helping locals search some nearby mines, Peter deliberately leads them away from a strange makeshift laboratory. Why he does this is initially unclear, but what is clear is that Peter is not quite what he appears to be. Dr. Blood’s nurse Linda Parker (Hazel Court), recently widowed, finds herself falling for the handsome young doctor. However, as Peter opens up to her, his behavior becomes more and more unusual, and she finally learns the terrible secret of Peter’s research and exactly why he has come home from medical school. There are a few scenes throughout the film of Peter at work that feature what would have been fairly graphic and shocking violence for the day, pushing the envelope even a bit further than Hammer’s famed versions of the Dracula and Frankenstein stories. The film climaxes with a resurrection that is unfortunately somewhat spoiled by the promotional art, with a creepy and effective undead monster. The film looks and sounds fantastic on this new DVD, which is a notable improvement over previously available public domain releases of the film on VHS and DVD. This is definitely the best Doctor Blood’s Coffin has ever looked on home video, and again it’s a huge credit to MGM for taking the time to release the film with such care. The pace of the film is a bit slow, but thanks to great performances by Hazel Court and Keiron Moore— and some gorgeous location shooting— it’s certainly worth a look for fans of Hammer-style horror. MGM released Doctor Blood’s Coffin as part of the Limited Edition Collection on 18 October 2011. Jason Coffman is a film writer living in Chicago. He writes reviews for Film Monthly and “The Crown International Files” for Criticplanet.org as well as contributing to Fine Print Magazine (www.fineprintmag.net). Got a problem? E-mail us at email@example.com
Cape Town - The planned creation of a 26-nation African Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA) will draw industrial investment to South Africa by making it a springboard for low-duty access to other parts of the continent, trade and industry director general Lionel October said on Monday. "From the private sector side, two of the big markets in this FTA (are) Egypt and Kenya and if they can then get duty free access into those markets in north and central Africa then South Africa becomes a production base," he told a media briefing in Cape Town. "Currently, they pay big duties on that, most of the exporters coming from Europe or Asia and that (benefit) kicks in then immediately because of the bigger volumes. We begin to crack the numbers... so I think the benefits from investment (kick) in immediately because of the prospects of a big market." October said the announcement this weekend of the establishment of the free trade zone by 2013 would "absolutely" enhance South Africa's weight within the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) group of emerging markets. "We will no longer be a pimple." The proposed free trade zone will merge the three regional blocs covering southern, central and eastern Africa. These are the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), and the East African Community (EAC), which have a combined population of 580 million people. Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said the move to cut barriers in an area stretching from Cape Town to Cairo made sense in terms of global development trends. He pointed to the "very significant contribution" their big internal markets made to the development of India and China. "A free trade area across big areas... is very much compatible with what is needed at this stage of the development of the world economy which we find ourselves in. It is very compatible with what successful developing countries are doing. "Having large and significant internal markets and the development of those are a significant requirement of their growth processes." Davies said integration would enhance Africa's chances of capitalising on the two drivers of its faster growth rates - the mineral boom and the growth in the domestic market. "As individual countries, the prospects of that are limited. As regions, the process starts to crack the numbers that make some significant sense." He said that merely lowering tariffs would not give regional trade enough of a boost. The free trade deal was, therefore, only one leg of a complex process to promote inter-regional trade, which currently accounts for only 10% of total African trade, and to integrate development within Africa. Commitments made at the weekend's summit of leaders of SADC, EAC, and Comesa also saw an agreement to jointly develop infrastructure and to co-operate on industrial development. Also part of negotiations are plans to facilitate the movement of business people between African countries, which Davies said was hampered by regulations aimed at deterring crime and illegal immigration. "We need to make that much easier, so that when people come to trade, to invest that is much easier. That's what has been agreed upon," he said. Davies said tariff liberalisation would be "substantial" and might be phased in. He dismissed concerns that it could starve some smaller African nations of one of their main sources of fiscal revenue. "Many countries are trying to reduce their reliance on customs duties. Custom duties are an incredibly volatile source of revenue, that is the problem. If trade takes a dip, the customs revenue takes a huge dip. "That is the problem that is confronting some of our neighbours and their fiscal situations, those that are the most dependent on (Southern African Customs Union) Sacu revenue have been the most affected by the fact that there was a very significant drop in Sacu revenue during the recession. "I haven't heard anybody raise this as an objection to the FTA."
Leicester University has been a loyal Fisher Scientific customer for over 20 years. Recently, Dr Andrew Jamieson presented Fisher Scientific with the challenge of providing an energy efficient replacement for the out of date water aspirators used in the Synthetic Chemistry laboratory. Until recently, the synthetic chemistry laboratory at the University of Leicester used water aspirators to generate the vacuum required by the rotary evaporators used by its researchers. The vacuum created by water aspirators is inefficient and wastes around 250L of water per hour. Replacing the 8 water aspirators with vacuum pumps will save the laboratory around £2,000 per year in water costs and an astonishing 520,000L of water per year. Read the rest of this entry »
Last Summer, swimmer Dara Torres came home from the Olympics with three silver medals. An astounding feat for any athlete, but especially impressive since Torres was 41 when she competed in Beijing, making her the oldest woman to ever swim in the history of the games, and she was competing in pain. Days after her return from China, Dara had shoulder surgery to help alleviate shoulder pain caused from degenerative arthritis. Unfortunately her pain and surgeries did not end there — knee pain due to missing cartilage made simple acts like going up and down stairs impossible. Although she would like to compete in the 2012 games, Dara said she would also like to chase her young daughter without pain. These are the reasons she underwent a radical and cutting edge (pun intended) knee surgery. For details on her experimental surgery, read more. Prior to the surgery, Dara's knee was mined for cartilage cells — 10,000 cells, which all together were about the size of three Tic-Tacs. Over several weeks, the cartilage cells multiplied in a lab to 50 million cells. In surgery, a patch was sewn over the gap in her knee where the cartilage was missing and the new cells were injected into the patch. An MRI done six weeks post-op reveals that cartilage is growing. Dara is back in the pool, although not kicking, and she will be holding off on weight training for months. Already feeling the benefits of "fixing" her knee, Torres says, "The competition, the swimming — that's so not even an issue compared to trying to be there for your daughter." Leading a very physical life takes a toll on the body, but I think it's cool to hear about new surgical procedures to help heal age-old problems. Do you think she will compete in the 2012 Olympics?
Everyone since Jane Jacobs has said that people like smaller blocks better than larger ones, but how small should they be? The evidence from geotags suggests that they should be about 1500 feet in total (375 feet on a side if square) for maximum popularity per street distance. There is a wide range of popularity for every size, but that appears to be the peak, both in the scatter plot and in the 99th-percentile green line. The very smallest blocks do even better per linear foot, but it is impractical to build much of anything on blocks smaller than about 1000 feet in circumference (the standard size in Portland). Some very large blocks (like Disneyland or Golden Gate Park) also do very well by having unusually rich interiors. And of course the vast majority of blocks of any size are not particularly popular. This is street centerline distance, not curb, property line, or building envelope distance, so the buildable frontage of optimal blocks is more like 325 feet or less on a side after subtracting the width of the street. The blocks here are all United States blocks from the Census 2010 TIGER map data. Geotags from Flickr, Twitter, and Picasa.
This fish was originally named Sparus virginicus in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, a swedish naturalist. It was later renamed Anisotremus virginicus (Linnaeus 1758), the currently accepted scientific name. The genus name, Anisotremus, is derived from the Greek "anisos" meaning unequal and "trema" / "-atos" meaning hole. There are no known synonyms used in previous scientific literature referring to this fish. English language common names are porkfish, Atlantic porkfish, and paragrate grunt. Other common names include arroz con coco (Spanish), bandera spano (Papiamento), bonakanaal (Papiamento), burro catalina (Spanish), canario (Spanish), catalineata (Spanish), kuroobidai (Japanese), lippu rondeau (French), luszczyk wirginski (Polish), palriot (French), roncador-listado-americano (Portuguese), rondeau (French), salema (Portuguese), spaansevlag (Dutch), and svinfisk Porkfish occur in the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida south to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea as well as the Bahamas. It has also been introduced to waters off Bermuda. World distribution map for the porkfish Porkfish schooling over a reef © Doug Perrine Inhabiting shallow inshore waters over reefs and rocky bottoms, the porkfish is found at depths of 6-65 feet (2-20 m). It is nocturnal and often travels in large schools, occasionally swimming with white grunts. Porkfish make a grunting sound, common to all grunts, by rubbing their teeth together. © George Burgess Importance to Humans - · Distinctive Features The porkfish is a deep-bodied grunt with a blunt snout and thick lips. It has a higher dorsal profile than most other grunts. The caudal fin is notched. The mouth is small and positioned low on the head. - · Coloration Juvenile porkfish coloration The body has yellow and silvery-blue stripes, and two black bars. One bar runs diagonally from above the eye to the mouth while the other is more vertical, beginning at the anterior edge of the dorsal fin to the base of the pectoral fin. The fins are yellow. Juvenile porkfish have no black bars, but instead have a large dark blotch near the base of the caudal fin. Two black stripes run horizontally through the midbody and back. The head is a brilliant yellow. © Luiz Rocha The porkfish is the only grunt occurring in the Atlantic Ocean with this yellow coloration and two black stripes. It is closely related to the burrito grunt (Anisotremus interruptus) from the Pacific Ocean. This pair is referred to as germinate species, believed to have been separated millions of years ago by the isthmus of Panama. Porkfish reach a maximum length of 15 inches © George Burgess - ·Size, Age, and Growth Porkfish reach a maximum length of 15 inches (38 cm) and weight of 2 pounds (9 g). This fish commonly weighs only 4 ounces (113 g). Although the porkfish is a grunt, it lacks canines on the jaws and vomer teeth. Teeth are located on the pharyngeal bone of the jaw. - · Food Habits Invertebrates such as mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, and worms are preyed upon by nocturnally feeding adult porkfish. Juvenile porkfish pick parasites from the skin and scales of other species of fish, and are considered "cleaners". © George Burgess - · Reproduction There is very little known about spawning and larval development of the porkfish. The larvae are similar in appearance to other sparids, but have a distinctive caudal fin spot. The second dorsal and anal fins are the first of the fins to begin development, a common pattern among perciform fishes. - · Parasites Parasites of the porkfish include cestode larvae found in the gills and copepods found within the operculum. A dinoflagellate, Oodinium ocellatum, has been observed in the kidney and internal tissues of this fish. Large fish are potential predators of the porkfish· Predators Snappers, groupers, sharks and other large piscivores are potential predators of the porkfish. Porkfish are easily approached by divers Porkfish are of minor commercial fisheries value, however they are considered a good gamefish. Human consumption of the flesh of porkfish has been linked to ciguatera poisoning. Specimens are also collected for display in public show aquaria. In its natural habitat, porkfish are easily approached by divers. courtesy National Park Service The porkfish is not listed as endangered or vulnerable with the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The IUCN is a global union of states, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations in a partnership that assesses the conservation status
How are you learning Quechua!? \| Ask Benny \| Forum July 5, 2011 Coincidentally enough, when you started learning Quechua I was like, Why! That's so useless, but now funnily enough I am going to be living with a host family in a rural village outside of Cuzco for 8 weeks, so basically I am aware of the fact that there is going to be Quechua spoken in the village, which at first disappointed me, then I realized they're all bilingual… aside from the Elders. Which makes me think that I should definitely learn enough Quechua before I go, I just have to make sure that it's the Cuzco dialect! Which brings me to the next question, What resources are you using? I want to have a base before I get there, that way I will have some hope of being able to maybe communicate effectively in Quechua before I leave. I also can't find any native speakers here, I'm in Ohio! So what resources do you recommend? And is this even feasible to be able to get to a somewhat A2 level before I arrive? June 1, 2009 Lucky for you most books focus on the Cuzco dialect – the Lonely Planet phrasebook being one of them. Buy that right now Otherwise, I've got a lovely video entirely in Quechua coming up soon on the blog (tomorrow if I can get the captions finished this evening), and in another post later I'll summarise my experience learning the language and let any Peruvians laugh at my ridiculous accent speaking a few phrases of Quechua. Not sure if you can reach A2 before you arrive, as Quechua is a special case. It turns out there are way less natives than I was expecting to find, even in Cuzco city itself, although you obviously won't have that problem!! Learn the phrasebook and you'll be on the right path! That will give you an excellent head start, and people will be very helpful when you try to speak it Hope my summary post helps a wee bit more! July 5, 2011 Thanks a lot, actually that was the only peace of material I could find! Does the book come with audio? Because I've been listening to videos of Quechua spoken on Youtube and I find that it sounds crazy… like nothing I have ever heard before haha How much have you actually learned!? I know you prefer to not use the term, "Difficult Language" but would you say Quechua is very "Challenging"? And I am looking forward to the video! July 8, 2011 June 1, 2009 @Irish.Canuck The potato "fact" sounds like a very poor interpretation of the actual fact that potatoes come FROM Peru, and there are actually thousands of different varieties of them. And only handful were brought back to Europe. These are completely different to one another, but still technically from the potato family. If you saw them you'd give them different words too. It would be like saying modern societies have hundreds of words for "shoe" when in fact these are subsets (trainers, Doc Martins, etc.) @Drp9341 You are right – I do not prefer to use the term "difficult" and I never would. Despite obvious differences, I found the language very logical, and much more phonetic than French or English. The challenge was not grammatical or vocabulary or different phoneme based, but because there were less natives in Cuzco than I expected and the opportunities to really use the language lied in going to places like Chinchero where I shot the video. But that problem would have been the same for me in level of difficulty if learning an Indo European language with lack of speakers to be honest. Hope you enjoyed the video! As you can see, I framed the language as logical in my eyes. November 30, 2012 Most Users Ever Online: wp_m8bqz1_sferrorlog Currently Browsing this Page: Stephanie S: 489 Guest Posters: 9 Newest Members: smrdkaae, smfrost1, Haacke, pena, stephencahalan, ducksauce888 Moderators: Lingo (289), anno (205) Administrators: Benny (474), tweaky (0), AlexW (0)
Originally posted by JDJones snip..... but not in the Ohio Valley or what is generally considered the Midwest. What do you consider the "Midwest"? Wisconsin, Minn., & Iowa,(yes,Iowa), have native populations of brookies. I'd guess that the Mo. spring creeks were brook trout waters before the rainbows were planted about 100 years ago. That was probably the southern limit...???
netherlands and nigeria: taking shell to court for flaring and spilling FoE Nigeria / Environmental Rights Action is using legal channels to force oil companies in Nigeria to clean up their operations. Litigation to stop gas flaring is being pursued through the Nigerian courts, and FoE Nigeria has been closely involved in developing a legal case on gas flaring. At the same time, Shell, the leading corporation in the Nigerian oil and gas business, is being called to account in the Dutch courts for damage caused by its oil spills in Nigeria. FoE Nigeria and FoE Netherlands / Milieudefensie are supporting four Nigerian fishermen and farmers who filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Shell’s headquarters in the Netherlands in November 2008. For the first time in history, Shell’s international headquarters will have to appear in court to respond to charges of causing environmental damage abroad. The Nigerian plaintiffs, fishermen and farmers from the oil-rich Niger Delta area, suffered from the effects of oil spills related to Shell oil operations. On November 7, Dutch lawyers served a summons on Shell, accusing it of negligence. New investigation shows that the villages of the Nigerian plaintiffs have been heavily polluted and that Shell has not adhered to international standards for 'good oil field practice' in Nigeria. Anne van Schaik, campaign leader of FoE Netherlands said: “Here Shell would never treat people and the environment in the way it does in Nigeria. We hope that the Dutch judge will decide that Shell must clean up the pollution and that the victims must be compensated properly.” Nnimmo Bassey, director of FoE Nigeria said: “Shell hardly notices Nigerian court orders. We want a Dutch court to ensure that justice is done against Royal Dutch Shell.” As of June 2009, the case is still being tried in the Dutch court system.
We don’t need to trot out the old saying about “an apple a day” to convince you that Newton’s favorite fruit could help spare you from soaring healthcare costs. (Although this article spells it out very nicely and quite specifically.) You know apples are nutritious. You’ve known it since you were a kid. So isn’t it kind of ironic that apples lend such wonderful flavor to so many amazing (and, at times, decadent) desserts? There are so many different varieties of apples. Hundreds, in fact. Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, McIntosh, Fuji, Gala, Jonathan are some of the most popular. Some are sweet, some are tart, some are better for baking, and most are wonderful raw, right off the tree. But with autumn’s nip in the air bringing many of us back into a baking mood, we thought this would be a good time to focus on some wonderful desserts that help underscore the apple’s role as the favorite flavor of fall. Try these recipes and see if they don’t help you to savor the season. View our Video Musical Salute to Our Favorite Fruit.
Patrick Michaels, Contributor I write about the interface of public science and public policy Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are taking to the National Mall on Sunday to pressure President Obama into denying (via the State Department) a permit to build it. If completed, it will carry oil from Canada’s Alberta tar sands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. The opposition is down to a single issue—climate change. Weatherwise, they should have checked Washington’s climate history before scheduling on February 17. Some of the worst winter weather on record occurs in Mid-February, and right now it looks like Sunday is going to be one of the coldest days of the entire year, with very uncomfortable wind chills. A stray snow squall is not out of the question. Climate change is the last gasp for pipeline opponents as the other environmental concerns have largely evaporated because of a rerouting of the pipeline around the supposedly environmentally sensitive Sand Hills region of Nebraska. (Apparently the deep ruts created by ATV’s servicing the ugly windmills there aren’t a problem). The rerouted pipeline is replete with high-tech leak-detection systems as well, and it was recently green-lighted by Nebraska governor Dave Heineman. Opponents have locked onto climate change because they can portray it as a great big scary unknown. Robert Kennedy, Jr. said it’s “threatening the future of civilization.” That pronouncement came soon after he was arrested during a pre-game demonstration at the White House last week. With regard to Keystone, that’s climatic nonsense. It’s easy to come up with a ballpark estimate of the magnitude of the climate impact from the burning of the 830,000 barrels of oil that could be carried on a daily basis through the pipeline. The answer, with regard to the change in the global average temperature, lies somewhere between 0.01 and 0.001 degrees (C) of added warming per century, using the UN’s inflated estimates of future temperature. No one will ever be able to measure that. So, Keystone XL’s oil will not lead to stronger hurricanes, more powerful winter storms, more intense droughts, flood, or heatwaves. It will not increase tornado outbreaks in the Southeast, crop failures in Midwest, or superstorms in the Northeast. It will not cause famines in Africa, floods in Bangladesh, or the submersion of Pacific islands. It will not lead to the death of coral reefs, the loss of rainforests, or the extinction of polar bears. Keystone XL opponents are well aware of all of this. So, too, undoubtedly, is the President. With no direct climate influence itself, the Keystone XL pipeline is nothing more than a symbol of climate change, the latest in a series of symbols that are supposed to represent the threat resulting from mankind’s supposedly irresponsible use of fossil fuels. Those trying to galvanize action on global warming have tried polar bears, but their populations are at record levels and rising. They have tried the iconic glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro, but it turned out they were retreating as the climate cooled. They have tried drought and famine, but world food production continues to outpace population, despite warmer temperatures than 100 years ago. Now it’s the Keystone pipeline, an equally vacuous symbol. What they’re really alarmed about is the use of fossil fuel in general. That’s not going to stop. Because of the marriage of hydrofracking and horizontal drilling, the world is now awash in unconventional, but recoverable oil and gas. The final disposition of the Keystone XL pipeline will not alter this situation one iota. It is a complete irrelevance. If the President were to deny the pipeline permit, it would represent the triumph of symbolism over substance, but with a potentially large cost. The President knows that cap-and-trade, passed by the House in 2009, helped lose his party control of that body in the 2010 election. He’s not likely to make the same mistake again with Keystone, with the already-bad history of the incumbent party during off-year elections in a two-term presidency. Sunday’s protest is climatically and politically futile. Rather than spending their efforts to oppose the pipeline, maybe the protestors participating in the “largest climate rally in history” ought to be spending their efforts to attack the supply and demand equation from the other side. With the supply side already more than ample, they could reduce their own demand and stay home. Besides the fact that Sunday’s demonstration is pointless, there’s also likely to be some embarrassment, because both the politics and the weather are likely to be very chilly.
Pic Collage is a free service for quickly creating picture collages on your iPad or Android tablet. The app does not require you to register or connect a social network profile in order to create a collage. If you do connect a social network profile to Pic Collage you can pull in pictures from those accounts. Otherwise you can upload pictures that are stored on your device or take new pictures using the Pic Collage app. The Pic Collage user interface is easy to use. Just tap the blank canvas to import pictures from your device, from a social network profile, or by taking a new picture. To arrange the images in your collage just touch and drag them. You can expand or contract the images by pinching on them. Applications for Education Back in June Angela Oliverson wrote a great post about using collages pique students' interest in books. I encourage you to read that post.
To 'destroy' evolution is just to easy. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. [3/1/2003 12:00:00 ] Fundie Index: 5 \" To 'destroy' fundies is just too easy. It is like shooting retarded fish in a barrel.\" wow...you fundies are TERRIBLE shots, aren't you? 10/20/2007 1:14:41 PM [Responding to jr7's later comments in the thread about thousands/millions of biologists...] At least you can get a consensus among them. When was the last time fundies could agree with anybody on anything rational? 10/20/2007 2:29:44 PM The Celestial Dung Beetle To be fair, shooting fish in a barrel can vary immensely in difficulty. Try shooting an anchovy in a silo sometime. With a musket. Until somebody asks you how the fish came to be and asks you for evidence to prove it. this is "to" easy as well... Your English Teacher Destroying the English language is easy as well. Really? Go ahead then... Are you planning to shoot the fish best adapted and getting the remaining weaker ones to breed? If it's so easy, why haven't you destroyed it yet? Another John classic from that thread: Nope, things could have evolved, without using the evolutionary process. Evolve means to develop or achieve gradually. "To 'destroy' evolution is just to easy. It is like shooting fish in a barrel." Well, maybe it would be, if you had any ammunition. All Creationism has is blanks -- lots of noise, but no substance. On the other hand, destroying Creationism is definitely to easy -- it's like shooting fish in the gun barrel (with lots and lots of fossil ammunition). 10/23/2007 12:12:09 PM it WOULD be easy to falsify evolution with the right evidence. but Creationists don't understand evolution, so don't even know what that evidence would look like 10/23/2007 12:17:02 PM Mocking this is way too easy, it's like shooting a blue whale in a barrel. 10/23/2007 12:29:08 PM that thread is hilarious, It reminds me Church of the SubGenius. 10/23/2007 4:20:28 PM " To 'destroy' evolution is just to easy. It is like shooting fish in a barrel." Strange that someone hasn't done it then isn't it? 10/23/2007 6:04:23 PM I'm seeing this guy shooting fish in a barrel: "Dang, missed again!" "Dang, shot myself in the foot!" 10/23/2007 6:12:39 PM But the fish are reptiles... Refuting creationism is like shooting a fish in a pile of fishes. 7/10/2008 11:02:58 PM To 'destroy' creationism is just to easy. It is like shooting fish in a barrel with nuclear bombs. Not really fundie so much as cliche. a mind far far away I lol'd. If it's so easy to 'destroy', then why don't you try to do it. Then, we'll show you, using observable reality, why evolution is true and creationism is a fairy tale. Come get some, bitch. Then do it already. Submit an evolution-destroying thesis to a prestigious college and get an honorary doctorate in biology. Become world famous. Unless you are bluffing, that is. N. Onny Mus The reason he makes such a bald assertion without making good on it is that he thinks he already has. In his mind, he has so thoroughly and soundly refuted evolution and left it in ruin, that it's obvious to everyone except a few hangers-on that are desperate to cling to their faith. When asked to cite this, he will link to an argument which he clearly lost, and will interpret corrections as praise of his deductive skills. This has been the mind of a fundie. 7/1/2010 12:01:26 PM Another F in elementary biology. 7/1/2010 12:04:19 PM
Cowans Gap Lake Open To Year-Round Fishing New regulations recently implemented by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission now allow local anglers to partake in the sport of fishing on any given day at Cowans Gap Lake. As a follow-up to removing the lake from the “early season trout stocked waters” program, PFBC has declared the area will now be managed under the commission’s “approved trout waters open to year-round fishing,” according to Waterways Conservation Officer Anthony Quarracino. “Anglers can now fish in the waters at Cowans Gap Lake year round – 365 days,” WCO Quarracino announced to the “News” “There is no time that the lake is closed to fishing.” The waterways conservation officer said that in the past the lake had been closed to all fishing during a two-week time frame beginning April 1. The no-fishing policy was then lifted at 8 a.m. on the opening day of trout season. “Even though the lake is open to fishing year-round, anglers can only keep trout when the season is open for trout,” said Quarracino, adding that opening day here in Fulton County is Saturday, April 13. “Anglers used to be able to catch and keep three trout under the old regulations from March 1 through March 31. This is no longer the case.” Quarracino noted the change was prompted by PFBC’s desire to promote year-round fishing for all species of fish that swim at the lake. He does, however, caution fishermen of the large population of trout inhabiting Cowans Gap Lake. Therefore, while fishing, anglers should refrain from “specifically targeting” trout during the closed season. “There is no way to predict what will bite your line, but there are some things you can do to possibly prevent hooking trout during the closed season,” he said, urging anglers to refrain from using trout-specific baits or using barbless hooks. “These are just my recommendations and not law. However, a trout or any species of fish that is caught out of season must be immediately released unharmed to the waters from which it was taken. Fish that swallow hooks and are bleeding from the gills are harmed and may be deemed in the possession of the angler who caught the fish, resulting in prosecution for out-of-season possession,” he said. Regarding the change to yearround fishing, Quarracino said he viewed the new regulation as a “good thing.” “Now anglers can take advantage of it and target some of the lake’s panfish population,” he related. He indicated the lake is and will continue to receive plenty of trout stockings in the future. In fact, stocking was done as recently as Wednesday, February 6, through the ice. Anglers who may have additional questions regarding the new year-round fishing regulation at Cowans Gap Lake or on other laws are urged to contact the PFBC’s Southcentral Region Office at 717-486-7087.
Although most gardeners grow vegetables exclusively during the summer months, several types of vegetables grow throughout the entire year. Unlike annual vegetables, perennial vegetables continuing growing during the winter months in warmer climates and in protected locations in cool climates. Even without a greenhouse, some vegetables can be grown year-round. With proper protection from summer heat, some cool-season vegetables grow during the winter and summer. Plant some appetizing varieties of vegetables to enjoy fresh produce throughout the year. Many types of root vegetables grow throughout the year. Onions, parsnips, beets and carrots continue growing during the winter with a little help in chilly areas. These vegetables stay warm under a layer of soil beneath the winter snow. Increase the warmth by adding 5 or 6 inches of organic mulch before the onset of freezing temperatures. Continue harvesting these root vegetables when the weather turns chilly by pulling back a little mulch and removing the fresh produce from the soil. Replace the mulch to protect the remaining vegetables until ready to eat. Continue to eat these in early spring after the soil thaws, before other vegetables begin to grow. Tasty salad greens, such as leaf lettuce, arugula and spinach grow throughout the year in the vegetable garden. Rake the leaves from nearby trees to use as a thick layer of mulch over these leafy vegetables. Pile the leaves over the exposed plants before the beginning of winter to enjoy these vegetables the following spring. Harvest mature cabbages in the fall by cutting the ripe heads away from the remainder of the plants. Leave these stumps in the soil to enjoy newly sprouted cabbages the next spring. These interesting perennial vegetables begin manufacturing edible produce during the second year of growth. Foliage and roots form during the first year of growth. The flowering part of this plant contains the edible portion. Harvest these buds for culinary purposes before they mature and blossom into purple flowers.
By Heather Rhoades You have bitten the bullet. You are going to do it. The only question is exactly what the location of a vegetable garden will be in your yard. Choosing a garden location can seem complicated. How much sun? What kind of soil? How much room? Don’t panic. It is not hard to pick a spot for a vegetable garden as long as you keep a few things in mind. Tips for Where to Put a Garden The position of a vegetable garden should first and foremost be chosen for convenience. After all, a vegetable garden is for your enjoyment. If you have to walk 10 minutes to the location of a vegetable garden, chances are greatly reduced that your spot for a vegetable garden will be weeded and watered as much as it should and you may miss out on harvesting regularly. Another thing to consider when choosing a garden location is how much sun that spot gets. Typically, vegetables need at least 6 hours of sun, though 8 hours is better. Don’t fuss so much about if the spot for a vegetable garden gets morning or afternoon sun, just check to make sure it gets 6 hours total of sun. Plants can’t grow in waterlogged soil. The position of a vegetable garden should be somewhat elevated. If the location of a vegetable garden is at the bottom of a hill or in an indentation in the ground, it will have a hard time drying out and the plants will suffer. This should not be a factor for most people when choosing a garden location, but avoid areas where dangerous chemicals, like lead paint or oil, may have leached into the ground. These chemicals will get into your vegetables as they grow. Soil is not as much a factor in where to put a garden as you might think. If you are down to two spots and you are undecided as to which would be best, certain choose the location with the loamier soil. Otherwise, all soils can be improved and, if the soil is very bad, you can build raised beds. Now you know a little bit more about where to put a garden in your yard. If you follow these few tips for choosing the position of a vegetable garden, it will be easy to do. Remember, the location of a vegetable garden is not as important as having fun while tending it.
Single-Flank Testing of Gears - May/June 2004 The article "Single-Flank Testing of Gears" appeared in the May/June 2004 issue of Gear Technology. This article was originally published 20 years ago, in Gear Technology’s first issue. It describes a method of evaluating the smoothness, or lack of smoothness, of gear motion. This lack of smoothness of motion, known as “transmission error,” is responsible for excitation of gear noise and problems of gear accuracy and sometimes has a relationship to gear failure. The article "Single-Flank Testing of Gears" should appear in the box below, but if you do not see it, you can download it here.
Co. Galway → Monivea Civil Parish → Monivea Electoral Division → Corrabaun is in the Electoral Division of Monivea, in Civil Parish of Monivea, in the Barony of Tiaquin, in the County of Galway The Irish name for Corrabaun is An Chora Bhán Corrabaun is not matched up to Logainm.ie yet. It is located at 53° 21' 39" N, 8° 43' 19" W. Corrabaun has an area of: - 197,554 m² / 19.76 hectares / 0.1976 km² - 0.08 square miles - 48.82 acres / 48 acres, 3 roods, 10 perches Nationwide, it is the 57137th largest townland that we know about Within Co. Galway, it is the 3963rd largest townland Corrabaun borders the following other townlands: We don't know about any subtownlands in Corrabaun. Genealogy / Ancestry / Records Search Curious to see who lived in Corrabaun in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns? Corrabaun was added to OpenStreetMap on 12 May 2016 by Boggedy. The attribution for this townland is http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/asp/fullresult.asp?id=24110.
Boeing's Hypersonic Jet Could Take You From New York City to London in 2 Hours Fifteen years after the last flight of the Concorde, Boeing wants to bring back supersonic travel — to the extreme. At the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aviation conference in Atlanta this week, the aircraft manufacturer revealed a preliminary design for a “passenger-carrying hypersonic vehicle” that would be capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in two hours or the Pacific in three. Hypersonic is even faster than supersonic: Hypersonic speeds exceed Mach 5 while supersonic only needs to be faster than Mach 1 (the speed of sound). Boeing’s hypersonic aircraft would fly at Mach 5 — just under 3,900 miles per hour — and at a cruise altitude of 95,000 feet. The faster speeds would, according to Boeing, allow airlines to operate same-day return flights across the oceans. A Boeing spokesperson told Travel + Leisure that flying at Mach 5 would make it possible to reach most locations on Earth in one to three hours. For example, it could take two hours to fly between New York City and London, or three between Los Angeles and Tokyo. (Current flight times are 7 and 11 hours, respectively.) The plane could operate for military or commercial passengers — but it’s unlikely to be in service any time soon. Boeing announced a potential timeline of putting the hypersonic aircraft in flight by the late 2030s to 2040s. “We have tons more work to do, but we have some very neat ideas,” Boeing’s chief scientist for hypersonics, Kevin Bowcutt, told Aviation Week. Even though the hypersonic concept is decades away, studying and working on the technology is useful for the aircraft manufacturer today. “By looking decades ahead at what could be possible, we are smarter about what innovations and technologies we should be exploring now,” the spokesperson told T+L. And Boeing isn't alone in planning for a supersonic future: Aerion Corporation, a company based in Nevada and backed by Airbus, is planning a supersonic business jet, capable of reaching Mach 1.5. The plane would be able to carry 12 passengers and is expected to be ready for flight in 2023. And NASA is working on supersonic jets that could be ready as soon as 2021.
As the 4 x 4 bounced along a rutted dirt track, I gazed through swirling dust at an untamed landscape: cork trees, parched chaparral bushes, outcrops of golden rock. Fernando Romão, our guide and driver, pointed out short-toed eagles wheeling overhead as the vehicle lurched up a dry trough, engine roaring. In the front passenger seat, Simon Collier, a former safari guide from South Africa, wore a broad grin. “This is what Land Rovers are made for!” We were in the Côa Valley of eastern Portugal, a four-hour drive from Lisbon. It had taken only an hour to get from the medieval fortress town of Castelo Rodrigo, where I’d spent the morning, to the heart of the 2,200-acre Faia Brava Nature Reserve. Having reached higher ground, we parked and strode across a patch of earth strewn with bones: a feeding spot for vultures. On the periphery stood a small, camouflaged observation shelter. I spent a sweltering hour inside watching dozens of the scavengers circle, their six-foot wingspans silhouetted against the powder-blue sky. Video: The Wild Side of Portugal's Côa Valley I was still under the spell of their slow, corkscrew loops when, a little later, we came upon a group of wild Maronesa cattle. A massive bull, black as night, paused to glower at us before thrashing away into thorny underbrush. These undomesticated bovines couldn’t have been more different from the tranquil animals I grew up around in New England. Later, on our way back to the safari-style tented camp where I was sleeping that night, we stopped to observe a herd of wild horses—unfenced, unfriendly, evidently belonging to no one—grazing in the late afternoon sun. I didn’t see another visitor in the park all day. When we think about the world’s wild places, our minds typically turn to the South American rain forest or the savannas of Africa; we don’t usually picture Europe. Faia Brava, which was established as a nature reserve in 2000, was working farmland for centuries, but a consortium of environmental activists believes it can become truly wild again. It is a laboratory for “rewilding,” an environmental philosophy that has gained traction in Europe over the past decade. Proponents believe that lands abandoned by humans because of shifts in population or agricultural practice should be returned to their natural, undomesticated state. George Monbiot, the British author of Feral, a manifesto on the subject, has argued for the reintroduction of vanished species to their former habitats across the continent. He often refers to the wolves of Yellowstone, which have restored ecological balance since being brought back to the park in the 1990s. Iberian wolves, which have been spotted in the vicinity of Faia Brava, may soon become a regular part of life here, too. Even those who like the idea of rewilding—and many do not—are skeptical about its economic sustainability. This, says Collier, is where tourism comes in. He’s the wildlife tourism manager of Rewilding Europe, a Netherlands-based nonprofit that manages restoration projects across the continent, while also financing and marketing wilderness lodges connected to those efforts. Its current ventures include reintroducing red deer and bison in Croatia’s Velebit Mountains and building a mobile-camp facility in Italy’s central Apennines, the last holdout of the brown bears that once prowled the outskirts of ancient Rome. Earning local support isn’t easy. Rewilding Europe’s conservation goals sometimes conflict with the hunting and animal husbandry traditions of nearby communities. But Collier believes that rewilding can also create opportunities for inns, tour companies, and guides. “Rather than just buying up land,” he told me, “we want to create entrepreneurs.” If the model proves successful, semi-forgotten regions across Europe could become tourist destinations. Last summer, a pair of tented camps opened in the Côa Valley, giving the rewilding movement its first tourism test case. Star Camp, where I spent my first two nights, is currently the only lodging option inside Faia Brava. Run by Sara Noro, who also operates a bed-and-breakfast in the nearby village of Quintã de Pêro Martins, it’s a permanent compound of three canvas tents, each with running water, a composting toilet, and a king-size bed. Plenty of work remains to be done: Collier would like to see a once-abandoned stone shed, which the camp has been using as a minimal kitchen, transformed into a comfortable check-in area. But one thing that is already perfect is the location. From my tent, the views of the reserve’s steep granite cliffs were staggering. On my first evening, I watched the setting sun bathe them in an ethereal pink light, as a steady breeze sharpened the refreshing effect of my gin and tonic. The next day I drove south to meet a young naturalist named Filipe Martins. The hills, ribbed with centuries-old crop terraces, were a reminder that the Côa Valley has been inhabited for more than 20,000 years. My GPS was useless in its compact stone villages, and my rental Peugeot barely squeezed through the narrow cobblestoned streets. A white-haired matron hung laundry; older men sat chatting idly. It felt as if little had changed in the past few centuries—other than the disappearance of many residents. Martins and I strolled a four-mile segment of the Grand Route, a 125-mile walking trail and wildlife corridor that opened in 2014. “In America, one finds wilderness,” he explained as we tramped past short Pyrenees oaks and clumps of Spanish broom. “In Europe, though, there are basically no places that can be considered pristine.” As we followed the Côa River, we passed disused irrigation canals that ran from decrepit water mills. Nearby, pumpkin patches were still being neatly maintained. Later that evening, after a long drive on unpaved switchbacks, I found myself enjoying an aperitif of white port with tonic, goat cheese, and garlicky alheira sausage on the terrace at Quinta de Ervamoira, a vineyard in the rugged region of Trásos-Montes. My hosts were João Luis Baptista and Mafalda Nicolau de Almeida. Both work in the region’s wine-making business, and together they run Miles Away, a travel company specializing in food and drink. Last summer, they launched Fly Camp, a mobile-lodging outfitter that offers wildlife adventures in the Côa Valley. With us was Mário Reis, an excitable archaeologist who works in the nearby Côa Valley Archaeological Park. After a dinner of creamy cod casserole, he drove me there to see the Paleolithic rock art that serves as a record of what this region was like in prehistoric times. The faint etchings were best seen after dark, he said. When we arrived, he trained a spotlight on a mitten-shaped slab of rock. I could make out an aurochs, an extinct ancestor of the cow. There was a horse, too, rendered with its head turning back, as if it were evading pursuit. “The main part of the artistic culture of this period was depicting animals,” Reis explained. “And remember, all of these are wild animals." I spent the next night at Fly Camp with Collier and Nuno Curado, a mellow, ponytailed wildlife expert who told me about the long-absent species that have reappeared lately in Portugal. Iberian ibex, reintroduced in Spain in the late 1990s, have begun migrating across the border. The panicked bull I saw is being used by the Tauros Programme, an eight-year-old Dutch initiative, to breed an aurochs-like cow. Sightings of Spanish imperial eagles and roe deer are on the rise. Then there are the Iberian wolves, whose comeback has delighted conservationists but dismayed residents. The next morning Curado roused Collier and me at 4 a.m. to drive east, across the Spanish border, where we hoped to see a wolf. Our guide, José Luís Santiago, led us up a slope of pine forest, pointing out a fresh paw print along the way. We spent an hour in the morning sun, watching deer graze near a group of beehives—farmers use this land, too. Forest lay just beyond, and down below sat a cluster of stone houses. We never did see a wolf, but the scenery made it hard to complain. On the drive back to Portugal, I asked Collier if the arrival of wolves would require fences to be built around Star Camp. “The day we see wolves, it’ll be more of a reason to celebrate than a point of concern,” he said. He paused, then added that there’s more to rewilding than wildlife. “Whether it’s your surroundings or what you choose to eat and drink,” he said, “it’s about adding a dose of rawness and reality to your life.” The Details: What to Do in Today's Portugal The Côa Valley is a four-hour drive from Lisbon or Madrid. Renting a car at the airport is the best option. Cell and GPS service are unreliable, so be sure to bring printed directions. Miles Away: Choose from activities like lunch or dinner at Quinta de Ervamoira Vineyard, tours of Côa Valley Archaeological Park, and nights at Fly Camp, a mobile lodge that has bases in the Faia Brava Nature Reserve and other scenic locations throughout the valley. milesawaydouroandcoa.com. Casa da Cisterna: This 11-room B&B in the fortified medieval town of Castelo Rodrigo is a comfortable alternative to the region’s more rugged camps. casadacisterna.com; doubles from $77. Star Camp: Three platform tents in Faia Brava Nature Reserve offer uninterrupted mountain views; pull back the canvas to sleep under the night sky. starcamp-portugal.com; from $120. Côa Valley Archaeological Park: Fundação Côa Parque offers both day- and nighttime walking tours (from $11) to rock-art sites. Depart from the ultramodern Côa Museum. arte-coa.pt. Grande Rota: The best seasons to hike this 125-mile walking trail along the Côa River are late spring and early fall. Take a four-hour hike with Rotas e Raizes ($130). granderotadocoa.pt. Iberian Wolf Watching: Just across the border in Spain, local expert José Luis Santiago offers three-hour guided tours for $22, binoculars and telescope included. twobirdsonestone.es; overnight trips from $89. Quinta de Ervamoira: The 370-acre vineyard and winery is appointment-only and tricky to drive to, so you may want to book your visit through Miles Away. ramospinto.pt.
Sharing a common border with China, mountainous Hà Giang province is well known for its spectacular scenery and remoteness. It is home to over 20 different groups of minority ethnic people, who happen to be among the country’s poorest inhabitants. These subsistence farmers follow a way of life that has changed little in hundreds of years. Cultivating crops on steep rock-covered hillsides is backbreaking work which produces little in the way of reward. Mass tourism has not reached Hà Giang province, perhaps because of the lack of tourism infrastructure and poor roads. In most parts of the province very few local people speak English; hotels and restaurants cater to Vietnamese and souvenir stands are few and far between. The majority of Westerns who come here are adventure seekers who tour the area on motorcycle completing a route known as the Hà Giang loop. Getting to Hà Giang City, the provincial capital is easy as busses depart Hà Nội’s My Dinh bus station every morning and afternoon. Tickets can be purchased just before departure at counter number 16 for 200,000 VND. The bus I took was a sleeper-style bus, which I detest and had sworn to never travel on again, but I was informed that all busses traveling to Hà Giang are sleeper buses. In Vietnam, perhaps other countries as well, these particular types of busses do not have regular seats. Passengers lie, or try to lie, in a very small kayak-like pod, which is about two feet too short for the average Westerner. The key to surviving the journey, especially if you are tall, is to take a pod-free seat in the bottom row at the very back of the bus. Six and a half hours later we arrived safe and sound at a bus station two kilometers south of Hà Giang City, the gateway to Vietnam’s northern frontier. Most travelers only spend one night here, just enough time to organize the rental of a motorcycle and to purchase the mandatory travel permit required to visit the frontier area near the Chinese border. Ninety three miles (150 km) from Hà Giang City is Đồng Văn which is without a doubt the tourism capital of the province. It is considered to have the best trekking in the region and makes a terrific base for exploring the most northern reaches of Vietnam. Many travelers will head directly to Đồng Văn, which makes sense, particularly if you are short on time. Here you will find some English-speaking locals working in hotels and restaurants which provide menus in English, having become accustomed to serving foreign travelers. Since I was in no particular hurry, I slowly worked my way north by bus, stopping overnight in several small cities; breaking the six-hour trip to Đồng Văn in three segments. The narrow roads here are essentially carved from mountainsides. They are not too steep but are winding with many sharp blind curves. Traveling here is slow. It does not matter whether it’s by motorcycle, car or bus, you can count on doing about 15 MPH.

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