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Narrow your search A Time magazine staffer got a call from a telemarketer who sounded not quite human. That's when the fun -- and the weirdness -- started. Agency awards $50,000 in cash prizes as it turns to the private sector for help eradicating long-running annoyance of the technology era. Two companies face fines of nearly $5 million for allegedly making millions of artificial voice messages without consumers' prior consent. CNET's Charlie Cooper got a call one day from the IRS -- or so the caller claimed. But it was an all too common social-engineering scam. And you could be next. A menace to business and consumer alike, robocall removal is now under the eye of the Federal Trade Commission. The free Nomorobo service and AT&T's Privacy Manager help reduce the number of nuisance calls that aren't blocked by the Do Not Call registry. A default setting in the app's signup routine causes issues for some users and poses a new problem for the startup, which is developing a reputation for being reckless with personal information. You can ask your phone service provider to block calls from specific numbers, but it may be more practical to screen all calls from unfamiliar numbers and respond only to the legitimate callers. Doing so is easy using the Do Not Disturb feature for iPhones running iOS 6, and Groups on Android phones. Project Orca was supposed to give the Romney campaign a technical advantage over Obama on election day. It got harpooned instead. NetTalk Duo's number-portability feature transfers your landline number to the company's low-cost VoIP service quickly and simply.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The man who led the response to the 1976 swine flu outbreak is defending the vaccination campaign that led to more deaths than the disease, but says he's sorry for the people killed or sickened. Dr. David Sencer says with today's knowledge, officials' 1976 recommendations would have been different. Federal officials urged widespread vaccinations after swine flu broke out among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, killing one of the 14 diagnosed with the illness. But the program was suspended after at least 25 people died from vaccine reactions. Other estimates put the death toll at 32 people, while about 500 others later suffered from Guillain-Barre syndrome, which damages nerves and can lead to paralysis. The results cost Dr. David Sencer his job as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was fired in 1977, after 11 years on the job. Now 84 and retired, he said this week that health officials "acted on the best knowledge that we had and believed that we were doing the right thing." But he added, "We know a lot more about viruses than we did then." "If we were faced with what we had in 1976 today, where it was limited only to Fort Dix, we probably would not have recommended a universal vaccination until we saw spread outside of Fort Dix," he said. In the aftermath, the government was criticized for pushing Americans to get unnecessary vaccinations. "But we also have to feel if we didn't do something and swine flu spread, more people would have died," Sencer said. Asked about those hurt by the vaccine, he said, "If you're not sorry, you're not a human being." But he said the government paid settlements to those hurt, "So that we tried to make at least reparations in that standpoint." Sencer said officials were worried about a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 flu outbreak that killed an estimated 21 million people worldwide. The vaccination campaign, which featured televised ads showing how an epidemic could spread rapidly, led to 43 million people receiving flu shots. Then-President Gerald Ford was photographed receiving his shot, and Sencer said he took the vaccine. The pictures of Ford getting vaccinated, Sencer said, injected a measure of politics into the situation that he said the Obama administration has so far avoided in its response to the current outbreak. "I think we tried to stay out of the politics, and the politicians kept getting in our way," he said. This time, he said, the government has let scientists and physicians take the lead in battling the H1N1 strain that emerged in Mexico in April and has been confirmed in at least nine other countries, according to the World Health Organization. \|Most Viewed\|\|Most Emailed\|\|Top Searches\|
LAGUNA DE BAY, Philippines (CNN) -- Water is a lifeline for the farmers and fishermen who live along Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines. The rich ecosystem also serves as a reservoir to catch floodwaters to save Manila, on its western shore, from drowning. People use a canoe to cross floodwaters in Manila's Laguna de Bay neighborhood. But water became the Philippines' biggest enemy last week as Typhoon Parma dumped as much as 36 inches of rain in some parts of this nation of islands, compounding misery in areas already flooded by earlier storm Ketsana. Fears of disease are rising. So are the tempers of residents, who blame the government for doing too little too late. Parma made landfall Saturday in Cagayan Province in the northern Philippines, with maximum sustained winds measured at approximately 148 kph (92 mph). The Philippines National Disaster Coordinating Council reported that the storm affected more than 338,000 people, displaced 85,000 and killed at least 16. Tuesday morning, Parma, known locally as Pepeng, was still hovering off the northwestern coast of the Philippines with wind gusts up to 135 kph (84 mph). Its predecessor, Ketsana, affected more than 3.9 million people, displaced more than 335,000 (many of whom remain in shelters) and left 295 dead. It swallowed homes and buses, and dumped more rain on Manila than it has seen in 40 years, leaving 80 percent of the bustling capital submerged. The water -- rancid, stagnant, infested -- has now been standing for 10 days. Read about the fate of a farming community in Cagayan As many as 2 million homes are partly submerged in metropolitan Manila, according to the government. People wade through the murky stuff in flip-flops or bare feet. They use tractors, boats and makeshift barges to navigate the main thoroughfare. Wooden furniture stands soaked, on the verge of rotting. Valuables like stereo systems sit atop chairs and tables, and families have been sleeping on elevated beds. Garbage is clogging the city's aged drainage and sewage systems. Watch Manila residents battle floodwaters » Manila generates 6,700 tons of trash a day, estimates the Asian Development Bank. Much of it is dumped on the streets or illegally into waterways, all of it under water now. Children play -- some with water guns -- in it, as though it were the neighborhood swimming pool. Fears of water-borne disease have permeated the area. "All the children have diarrhea," said resident Jojo Gadista, who, like everyone else, has floodwater inside his house. "I don't know how to fix the situation." Parma is forecast to remain almost stationary over the next 24 hours. That means more rain will surely fall in the northern Philippines. Scattered storms are forecast for Manila. The government offered a grim prognostication. Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, who is in charge of relief operations, said the water may not fully recede until Christmas. "That is why we have to work to try and dredge things and try to clean up," he said. But many poor families are desperate to get their lives back. Hundreds of people waited at a bridge for government boats. Some were there all night. They were promised food at 10 in the morning. At 4 p.m., they were still waiting. They stretched their arms when a private relief truck stopped to hand out to each person two packages of noodles, a bottle of drinking water, a canned good, rice and coffee -- donations from wealthy Filipinos. Teodoro said many people in cities and towns around Laguna de Bay opted not to evacuate; that it was a challenge to ensure their safety. "They really will not leave their most valuable worldly possessions," he said. When you are poor, it is hard to leave the only thing you have, Gadista said. "This is where our livelihood is. We can't leave this place." This place, where normally, water is a godsend. CNN's Eunice Yoon and Pamela Boykoff contributed to this story. \|Most Viewed\|\|Most Emailed\|\|Top Searches\|
Asked by Anonymous, United States I noticed some blood in the corner of my eye when I woke up this morning. My eye doesn't hurt and I can see fine. I don't remember poking it with anything. What could this mean? Living Well Expert Dr. Jennifer Shu Children's Medical Group Thanks for your question. Without seeing your eye, but hearing that there hasn't been any traumatic injury, my best guess is that you have what's called a subconjunctival hemorrhage, or bleeding beneath the clear outer layer of the eyeball. Subconjunctival hemorrhages often appear without an apparent cause but may be caused by simply sneezing, coughing or vomiting. I also frequently see them in the eyes of newborn babies and their mothers within the days just after delivery. These spots usually go away on their own within a few weeks. Sometimes they change colors -- such as to a green, brown or yellow tint -- much as a bruise might. It's important to see your doctor if the hemorrhage doesn't improve or keeps happening. Also seek medical care if you have other areas of bleeding in your body, are taking a blood-thinning medication, have signs of an infection (such as fever), or or if you have pain or problems with your eyesight. Is it OK to take antidepressants while breast-feeding? \|Most Viewed\|\|Most Emailed\|\|Top Searches\| CNN Comment Policy: CNN encourages you to add a comment to this discussion. You may not post any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate the law. All comments should be relevant to the topic and remain respectful of other authors and commenters. You are solely responsible for your own comments, the consequences of posting those comments, and the consequences of any reliance by you on the comments of others. By submitting your comment, you hereby give CNN the right, but not the obligation, to post, air, edit, exhibit, telecast, cablecast, webcast, re-use, publish, reproduce, use, license, print, distribute or otherwise use your comment(s) and accompanying personal identifying and other information you provide via all forms of media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity. CNN Privacy Statement. The information contained on this page does not and is not intended to convey medical advice. CNN is not responsible for any actions or inaction on your part based on the information that is presented here. Please consult a physician or medical professional for personal medical advice or treatment.
Editor's note: Liz Tyson is Director of UK charity, The Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS). She previously lived and worked in the Colombian Amazon on conservation projects. She is a board member of conservation charity Neotropical Primate Conservation and a doctoral researcher at the University of Essex's school of law. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely hers. (CNN) -- Copenhagen Zoo, which gained notoriety last month for killing a young giraffe named Marius and feeding his corpse to the lions, has hit the headlines again, as a healthy family of lions has now joined its growing death tally. Two adult lions and two cubs have been killed so that a new male can be introduced into the captive group to "make room for a new generation." In remarks reminiscent of those made to justify the death of Marius, the zoo's director Steffen Stræde claimed the lions had to be put down "partly to avoid inbreeding between the two young lions and their father." In any case, it was stated, the young cubs would likely have been killed by the new male. Unsurprisingly, the response to the newest development has been one of incredulity, with members of the public calling for a boycott and the sacking of those staff responsible. But this is not the answer. There is no quick fix which will see an end to the killing of healthy animals by the zoo industry. Zoos manage animals in confined spaces. Animals will breed and produce offspring. With the exception of those used in aquariums, few animals are now taken from their natural habitat to populate zoos and so the genetic diversity of the captive population is finite, as is the space available to house them. Individuals can be moved from one zoo or another on a case-by-case basis, but this will not make the problem go away. It is clear that while there are zoos, the killing will continue. There may be no quick fix, but there is a solution, and that is to withdraw support for the zoo industry and accept that the exhibition of animals as entertainment is no longer acceptable. This view may be seen by some as radical but we really have very little to lose by ridding ourselves of our affection for zoos. The animals, on the other hand, have so much to gain. Many people now believe that holding animals captive is distasteful and the zoo industry has sought to reinvent itself in recent years to suggest that its work is founded in conservation and education, but animals born in zoos are rarely released to the wild and the vast majority will spend their entire lives in captivity. Conservation efforts are most effective when carried out in situ, as it is only in the animals' natural habitat that the complexities of habitat destruction or poaching, for example, can be addressed in any meaningful way. A report commissioned and published by the zoo industry in 2011 demonstrated that it lags behind charitable organizations The Nature Conservancy and the WWF Global Network in its financial support for conservation efforts. Indeed, the report demonstrated that the financial contribution of the "global zoo community" collectively is less than the contribution made by two individual not-for-profit organisations independently of one another. The traditional argument put forward by zoos that people need to see animals in order to support conservation is, therefore, not borne out by the evidence. Education may be a laudable aim for zoos to pursue, but the suggestion that animals should be incarcerated for their entire lives in order that we fulfil our desire to learn about them is morally questionable, at best. This is particularly true when we consider that there are so many other sources we can use to teach ourselves about animals and conservation. Indeed, a study commissioned by the UK government, published in 2010, made clear that, while zoo education programmes exist, their efficacy has never been proved. It may seem difficult to imagine a world without zoos, but it is not such an extreme concept. If we are serious about conservation, our efforts should be focused on natural habitats. If we care about animals, we should not support an industry which treats them with such callous disregard. If we want the killing to stop, we must stop going to the zoo. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Liz Tyson.
Editor's note: John Bare is vice president of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and executive-in-residence at Georgia Tech's Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. (CNN) -- The Ice Bucket Challenge invites eye rolling. By definition, all gimmicks are designed to jump the shark, eventually. And gimmicks that look like one big selfie orgy may run into backlash faster than most. Considered another way, however, I side with those who see the Ice Bucket Challenge as a marker of something larger and something special occurring across the culture. It's not the funny videos that matter. It's the power of the peer-to-peer economy, driven by young people, now rippling through the social sector. Businesses such as Airbnb, Uberx and "P2P" lending firms such as Prosper Marketplace have demonstrated the heft of peer models. While the Ice Bucket Challenge itself will come and go, peer-to-peer fundraising and activism will stick around. Beth Kanter, an author and expert on nonprofit trends, points to "PhilanthroKids" who are leading the way. Kanter writes that "we are starting to see a rise of crowd funding projects done by and for kids. ... These are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook." With the Ice Bucket Challenge, she explains, "this was not a campaign started by the ALS Association, but young people who wanted to support the cause." The dual forces matter. With the arrival of the sharing economy and the generational shift in deciding how to allocate scarce resources -- charitable donations and volunteer time -- donation-dependent and volunteer-dependent organizations must prepare for a new and different future. Arts researcher Alan Brown was the first person I met who figured out how peers influence how we decide which social and cultural events are worth our time and dollar, and which are not. Indeed, our study from a decade ago showed the importance of peer influence on interest in classical music concerts. In more than 11,000 interviews across 15 U.S. cities, we found 20% of adults reported attending a classical music concert in the past year. Yet nearly three times that share -- 56% -- said they would accept an invitation from a friend or family member to attend a classical music concert. What we hinted at then and now see as brutally clear is that it's all about who's doing the asking. When my sister participates in a fundraising run and sends an email asking me to donate, I do. When the professional expert from that same nonprofit organization asks me to donate, I treat the note as spam. So the critical innovation of the Ice Bucket Challenge is not the funny visual. It's what comes at the end of the videos, when the soaked participant looks into the camera and challenges family or friends to do the same. As the great songwriter Steve Goodman knew, we all want to be called out by our names. When I phoned Alan to get his take on the Ice Bucket Challenge, he noted the "social validation" produced through this kind of interchange. Most charitable giving is private and personal. This peer-based alternative creates a lasting good feeling that can only be realized through a kind of social alchemy, not a private act. "There is also a generational thing we're seeing," Brown said, "where young people are moving from relying on an expert critic to relying on a peer. I guess this is an extreme manifestation of that. I'm shocked by how many people have thrown buckets of cold water over their head." A hundred years ago, Andrew Carnegie was in the midst of building 2,509 libraries around the world -- becoming, almost literally, the bedrock of American philanthropy. His money, his deal. Today, formal authority has lost some of its value. Instead of outside experts driving the allocation of volunteer time and charitable donations, "in our world, it's the power of suggestion, when a friend invites you to something or suggests a piece of music," Brown told me. "It's not just the music coming your way. It's the social imprimatur." Because individual donations as a percentage of disposable personal income do not fluctuate much, we may find that the overall level of giving remains steady but that young people seek out charitable causes that provide the best peer-to-peer connections and honor informal influence over traditional authority. If so, the Ice Bucket Challenge is causing more than a shock to the system of the person doused. It may be sending a shock to the system of traditional fundraising.
28 Dead. 28 young people. Boys and girls, sons and daughters. Since January, 28 public school students have been murdered. At least 20 were shot. Some were stabbed or suffocated. Most of the killings were gang related and took place on Chicago's south side. Outside the city, the murders have received scant attention. Some believe it's because of race. "If these kids were dying in the wealthy white suburbs, the world would hear about it," said Arnie Duncan, the chief executive of Chicago Public Schools. It's hard to disagree with him. One of the young victims was 16-year-old Blair Holt. He was an honor student. He had dreams of making it big in the music business. And he was shot to death by reputed gang member who boarded a bus and opened fire. Students say Holt was protecting another student when he was shot. Holt's father is a Chicago police officer. His mother a captain with the city's Fire Department. Both want to know when the killing will stop. We'll be in Chicago tonight to try and understand what is happening here and around the nation. A rise in juvenile crime has contributed to rising crime statistics around the country. These kids should not be statistics however. Their names should be known, their deaths reported on around the country. We are here to start a conversation about these kids, their deaths, their lives, and about so many other kids whose lives many of us probably don't even begin to understand. We'll talk to Mayor Richard Daley, school officials, young residents of Chicago's South Side, and Blair Holt's father. We'll see you tonight. --By Anderson Cooper
New Bush-Bashing Website Debuts July 7, 2008 - 7:30 PM (CNSNews.com) - MoveOn.org, a nonprofit, liberal advocacy group, is lending its support to a new Bush-bashing website that claims to track the Bush administration's "environmental misdeeds." BushGreenwatch.org, a news-and-information website, debuted on Monday, offering what it called an "expose" on the Bush administration's "conflicting" messages on the dangers of mercury. BushGreenwatch says it is "devoted to providing accurate and timely information on the Bush Administration's assault on the environment and public health." Every weekday morning, the website plans to feature a news item "that goes beyond the headlines to uncover policies and actions that may have been overlooked." "This week," a press release noted, "BushGreenwatch will include stories about a secret 'sweetheart' deal between the EPA and the agribusiness industry on factory farm pollution, as well as one about a Bush judicial nominee...who once argued that environmentalists actually benefit from the U.S. military's bombing of migratory birds on the grounds that the more rare -- and dead -- the species, the more birdwatchers would enjoy spotting them." BushGreenwatch says it is a project of Environmental Media Services, "a nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues, with support from MoveOn.org..." BushGreenwatch describes MoveOn.org as "an online organizing group with nearly two million members across the United States." MoveOn.org is the group behind the TV ads that portray President Bush as a "misleader." Send a Letter to the Editor about this article.
Shaken vs. Stirred: Martini Temperature Why would someone care about the manner in which their martini was mixed? Stirring is the world's favorite manner of mixing fluids, probably because it is much easier and requires less equipment than shaking. If shaking is superior, I was determined to find out why. I needed to find a club which served drinks. Just kidding! Every club serves drinks. I wanted to find the ideal spot for this project, a club which would let me take photos of their bartenders while being entombed in a house music. Also, I didn't want to pay a cover. After several minutes of bribing doormen and ignoring Yelp reviews, I found one. The lucky location was called "The Mix" in Sacramento. If anyplace knew how to mix, it would be this place. I knew this experiment would require some help, so I recruited a candidate to fill the role of Bond girl: Brooke. We ordered two vodka martinis, one shaken, one stirred. We had informed the bartender of our test. She knew the stakes and prepared the drinks simultanously to help eliminate any time-critical discrepancies. The finished martinis looked spectacular. Next, I pulled out my assassin's thermometer from a hidden pocket and took some readings. The shaken martini was incredibly cold. 32.9°F. Just a hair above the freezing point of water. Brooke and I puzzled for a moment, forgetting if the temperature of a water-based drink could dip below freezing. Yes. It can. Ice in the solution can be frozen to temperatures far below zero, and the alcohol in the vodka would move the freezing point of the martini down to many degrees below zero Celcius. Next we measured the temperature of the stirred martini. It was slightly warmer! 33.6°F. At the time, I thought that wasn't a a very large temperature difference. Less than one single degree Fahrenheit. Later research filled in the gap. Here's what I learned: Vodka martinis are vile drinks. At room temperature they are described as "having a taste like lighter fluid ". Very cold temperatures are one of the only ways to make the drink palatable. So, although the temperature difference in our two drinks wasn't significant, we had evidence to support a case for shaking as the best method of mixing where high drink temperature could be a spoiling factor. Would a secret agent find himself in such a place? Perhaps. IF refrigeration is controlled by a single multi-national company, and IF their pricing scheme is squeezing the ordinary citizens dry... Then yes! Agents are needed! Hop in your Austin Martins Gentlemen! We are driving to mystic Siam! The Cockeyed Cocktail Cost Calculator
Instructions For Data Entry Total Rain and Melted Snow Enter only the amount of rain or melted snow that fell into the rain gauge for the past 24 hours ending at 7:00 A.M. the day of entry. If warm water was added to help melt snow, be sure to subtract that amount. If there was no precipitation, report 0.00. If some precipitation fell, but the total was less than 0.01 inches, enter T in this blank "field". This is the depth of the new snow (not its water content) that fell in the last 24 hours. This is measured with a ruler and reported to the nearest one-tenth (0.1") inch.The New Snow is the maximum accumulation of fresh snow during the past dayprior to melting or settling. Since snow melts and settles, you may have to measure during or soon after the snowfall ends since by 7:00 A.M. the depth may be reduced. If snow fell in the past 24 hours, but you did not measure it, please do not leave it as 0.0". Instead, please enter NA ("not available"). Total Snow on Ground This is the total amount of snow (new and old snow combined) on the ground, measured to the nearest 0.5 (1/2) inch. The Total Snow on Ground is reported even on days when no new snow has fallen. If there is snow on the ground but you did not measure the depth, then leave "NA" on the form ("Not Available"). If there is no snow at all on the ground, replace the "NA" on your form with 0.0Details about variations in snow may be added in the "Notes" section. Uneven Snow: If the wind has blown and the snow is uneven, or if melting has occurred in some areas but not in others, then please take several measurements, average them, and enter that value. Melted Value From Core If you believe your gauge has not caught all of the precipitation that has fallen (or if you're just curious), then you can take a core sample of the new snow that has fallen using your 4 inch diameter rain gauge, on your snowboard. If the amount is less than 0.01 inches, enter T in the field. The snow begins to fall in mid-morning. At 3 P.M. the snow stops falling and you measure the depth at 4.2". The sun then comes out and the snow quickly begins to melt and settle. At 7 A.M. the next morning you measure 2.6" of snow on your snowboard. There was little wind with this snow, and your rain gauge has likely caught most of the snow that fell. You melt the contents of the gauge and find 0.41". What do you report for each entry? Total Rain and Melted: 0.41" (the melted snow and/or rain) New Snow: 4.2" (the amount of snow received in the previous 24 hours, prior to melting and settling) Total Snow on Ground (in inches) 2.5" (assuming bare ground prior to this snow)
Thursday, March 21, 2013 Next Generation Simulators Next Generation Simulators for a Next Generation - People play games, Games have evolved exponentially over the last 10 years. People learn a lot from games, Gen Y people learn more efficiently in an experiential environment. How Are We Approaching This - 3D/Virtual Training also evolved a lot, together with Gaming technology, Many examples, and also in industry now we have many options from many vendors, Excellent generic training modules are available for a wide variety of applications, Similar to generic vs. plant specific simulator argument, the same goes for 3D/Virtual training, Subject matter expert can fairly quickly provide the relevant info, but to compile the training module in virtual environment takes a substantial amount of time to configure, more than most people are willing to pay for, 3D game engines helps a lot to give you the visuals and realistic look and feel but very little to make it easy to translate procedures to training modules, and evaluate and certify trainees on these. Simulator Framework with 3D PACT - Optimally leverage and enhance existing 3D assets and integrated engineering information to Add more continuous operational value over the complete lifecycle, i.e. from engineering and construction through to de-commissioning. System Identification - Increase and Evaluate Staff’s Knowledge of Plant Systems. Tracing and ‘walking’ a system. Review interconnections and dependencies between systems. Increase and Evaluate Effective Teamwork & Ability to Operate the Plant. Perform operating sequences on the plant (individual/crew): Commissioning, Startups, Shutdowns, Abnormal/Infrequent Operations, Emergency Operations, etc. Equipment Operations - Increase Staff’s Understanding of Process Phenomena: View and navigate internals of equipment. Go to areas and spaces impossible to access under normal conditions. Maintenance and Inspection - Plan and verify complex and time critical maintenance/inspection tasks for quick, safe execution to limit production loss to a minimum, Instructions, visualization and evaluation of disassembling / assembling equipment, including tools and PPE to be used. Includes crane/hoist movement and space management. Evaluated on following safest path and approach, especially on equipment located in hazardous areas. Review procedure and obtain relevant information before executing work.
Fat robins perch on branches where they chirp and join chorus with sparrows, flitting from fence to tree and stem to bush. Green leaves unfurl from budded sleep and morning dawns, the first day of a new week. Daffodil trumpets burst forth swaying in the breeze while tulips shoot forth in colourful array. Such splendor, quiet magnificence, earthly beauty created for us to enjoy and marvel at our creator. Oh our thoughts Lord, are sometimes in such contrast to the beauty of this day. We get stuck in the miry clay. We see our lack, the consequence of our sin. We see our failings and get stuck there. Oh Lord, we serve You at times with broken and worn out tools. Is a heart of desire enough, Lord? Seeking, longing, and waiting. With David, we call out: Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord. Lord hear my voice! Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If Thou O Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, That Thou mayest be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope. My soul waits for the Lord. More than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning. O Israel, hope in the Lord; For with the Lord there is lovingkindness, And with Him there is abundant redemption. Psalm 130: 1-7 NASV Hoping, trusting, believing. Waiting on the Lord. Finding humility of heart, exchanging our sorrows for His joy. Drawing on His strength. We serve anyway. We let go. Carpe Diem. Seize the day. Look, see the blue sky, clouds scudding in the wind. The day is bright. Feel the warmth of the sun...the warmth of His son. His mercy washes anew, His grace falls like rain. His truths renew hope and purpose. We serve with a smile today. We offer a sacrifice of praise. We offer all we are to Him. What will He do through us today?
Add contacts and whatsapp in use To use whatsapp go back to your home screen of youwave or bluestack. For Bluestack users Just open your whatsapp application and click on the black menu button on the bottom left. When you click on it you see contacts in the list. Click on it and add contacts. After adding contacts, you can just click on your contacts to chat with them via whatsapp. Here is a very usefull video, which shows all steps. For Youwave users Keep in mind this application is a replacement for a mobile phone. This way the contacts have to be added in the android application and not in whatsapp, like other messengers request. Youwave is the main programm and whatsapp is an add. On the home page of youwave we click on the green phone icon. We get a sort of call screen. Here we type in the number of a contact, who uses whatsapp. Next we click at the bottom on menu and click on add to contacts, next we click on create a contact and fill in the name details. This way we can add many contacts. When you are in the contact list just click a contact and when he or she has whatsapp you can click on Whatsapp icon and chat with this contact. You also can click on the whatsapp icon on the home page of youwave and click on the pencil for all contacts that use whatsapp. Enjoy your whatsapp on your computer! Here is a very usefull video, which shows all steps. Thanks to youtube user xNAILEDxITx for making this video.
I know I don’t greet you anymore because I am a lazy ass, but you should know every time I see that little number go up I smile. So thank you for clicking follow even though I’m a ball of issues. I like it when boys play this kind of game hahaha S I L E N C E W I L L F A L L - 2 5 . 1 2 . 2 0 1 3 weaping angels, daleks, silence, and cybermen In the Victorian era, hand-fans were used not only to cool oneself but also as a secret way to communicate the language of love. For example, by running one’s fingers through the fan’s ribs, one is trying to say, "I want to talk to you." The enigmatic language of the fan was widely used by both men and women. I. A fan placed near the heart. "You have won my love." II. A closed fan touching the right eye. "When may I be allowed to see you?" III. A closed fan moved threateningly. "Do not act so impudently!" IV. A half-opened fan pressed to the lips. "You may kiss me." V. Covering the left ear with an open fan. "Do not betray my secret." VI. Hiding the eyes behind an open fan. "I love you." VII. Shutting a fully open fan slowly. "I promise to marry you." VIII. Fanning oneself slowly. "I am married." IX. Letting one’s fan rest on the right cheek or the left. "Yes" and "No", interchangeably. X. Opening and closing the fan several times. "You are cruel." XI. Fan in front of the face. XII. Twirling the fan in the left hand. "We are being watched." XIII. Fan held over left ear. "I wish to be rid of you." XIV. Carrying an open fan in the left hand. "Come and talk to me." XV. Opening a fan wide. "Wait for me." XVI. Placing the fan behind the head with finger. [Artwork: Secret, by Lee Yun-hi.] WHAT IF YOU WERE JUST HOLDING A FAN AND NOT TRYING TO SAY ANYTHING BUT YOU ACTUALLY PROMISED SOME GUY YOU’D MARRY HIM - so i'm doing a little social network-y experiment which involves knowing the most popular (meaning most members in) the fandoms of different networks! so if you could reblog this by December 25th (christmas day) and add a tick mark next to the fandom you're in! if yours is not on the list please add it with a tick mark next to it indicating you're part of the one you've added! that's all and thank you so much! - One Direction: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Doctor Who: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Harry Potter: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Teen Wolf: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Game of Thrones: \|\|\| - Glee: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Supernatural: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Once Upon a Time: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - One Tree Hill: \| - Orphan Black: \|\| - The Vampire Diaries: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Grey's Anatomy: \|\|\|\| - Pretty Little Liars: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - American Horror Story: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - The Hunger Games: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Divergent: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Sherlock: \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| - Les Miserables: \|\|\|\| - Nerdfighters: \|\|\|\| - Cirque du Freak: \| - Next to Normal: \| - RENT: \|\|\|\| - Wicked: \|\| - Starkid: \|\|\|\|\| - Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters: \|\|\| - Heroes: \|\| - The Avengers: \|\|\|\|\| - Reign: \| - Once Upon A Time In Wonderland: \|\| - The walking dead: \|\|\| - Arrow: \| - Almost Human \|\| - Pirates of the Caribbean: \|\| - Psych: \| - Bones: \| - Mindfreak: \| - Frozen: \|\|\| - Star Trek: \| - EDM: \| - Pixar: \|\| - Kingdom Hearts: \| - Ender's Game: \|\|\|
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WILL GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE DIVIDE BLACK ELECTORATE? (NNPA) Right on the heels of North Carolina becoming the 31st state in the Union to pass a ban on homosexual marriage, President Barack Obama announced his support of matrimony between same sex couples. The president’s public support of same sex marriage could either be a boon or a curse for his re-election campaign; it’s too soon to tell, despite the fact that he’s just received a million dollars in campaign contributions. But one thing is certain; the president’s public stance in favor of homosexual marriage has drawn a dividing line among voters. Will it have an affect among African-American voters, some members of the Black clergy think it will. ”I think it will to some extent,” said Bishop Ernest C. Morris Sr., Jurisdictional Prelate for Koinonia Jurisdiction. ”A large percentage of Black Christians believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. What he may be banking on is the African-American community’s love for the first Black president but he should consider that large numbers of Black churches won’t agree with this. There are too many passages in Scripture that denounce homosexuality and I can’t see how to fully justify it from the Word of God. Don’t misunderstand me; this is not about hatred of homosexuals because we are all sinners in need of a savior and God is so gracious. It is the continuous practice of this that the Bible is against. I also think that as the nation’s first Black president, he’s seen not just as the political leader of our country but as more than that. Many people see him as a moral and spiritual leader as well.” On Wednesday May 9 President Barack Obama took what some political experts are saying was a risky move – especially during an election year – and voiced his support of same sex marriage. Like the issue of legalized abortion, same sex marriage is one of those hot button issues that draw a clear division between those who support it and those who oppose it. Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney said he opposes same sex marriages. ”Well when these issues were raised in my state of Massachusetts, I indicated my view, which is I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender, and I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name,” Romney said in a published report. A bill that would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado died in the legislature this week. The president’s public endorsement of homosexual marriage followed a vote in North Carolina where constituents came out in favor of a ban against same sex marriage. North Carolina is now America’s 31st state to enact legislation against it. In a prepared statement, the president said he was asked a direct question and gave a direct answer regarding same sex marriage. ”I believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry,” the president said. ”I’ve always believed that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. I was reluctant to use the term marriage because of the very powerful traditions it evokes. And I thought civil union laws that conferred legal rights upon gay and lesbian couples were a solution. But over the course of several years I’ve talked to friends and family about this. I’ve thought about members of my staff in long-term, committed, same-sex relationships that are raising kids together. What I’ve come to realize is that for loving, same-sex couples, and the denial of marriage equality means that, in their eyes and the eyes of their children, they are still considered less than full citizens. So I decided it was time to affirm my personal belief that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.” The president also said that he respected the beliefs of others and the right of religious institutions to act in accordance with their own doctrines but he said that he believed that in the eyes of the law all Americans should ne treated equally and no federal law should invalidate same sex marriages in a state that enacted it. Reverend Clarence James, a Black minister based in Chicago said he definitely believes the president’s move is going to hurt him among African-American voters, many of whom oppose same sex marriage. ”Many of us oppose this in every form and may decide to vote against the president because of this,” James said. ”From a medical and psychological point of view homosexuality is a mental illness; for male homosexuals anal sex is medically dangerous. The president is coming at this as a civil rights issue but there is no correlation even though the homosexual community is trying to make it one. The Civil Rights Movement was about freedom and equal rights, this is a moral issue. For the president and other elected officials it’s easier to go along with popular opinion rather than to do what’s right.” But some members of the African-American clergy have a different point of view regarding this issue. They believe the African-American community should find ways to address same sex relationships and that there can be reconciliation between sex and spirituality. ”If every gay person in our church just left or those who have an orientation or preference or an inclination, or a fantasy, if everyone left, we wouldn’t have – we wouldn’t have a church,” said Bishop Carlton Pearson who heads Chicago’s New Dimensions Ministries in a published report. ”Homophobia is hardly unique to the African-American community. It’s a social malady that’s due largely to the influence of fear based-theologies, particularly fundamentalist Christianity, Islam and Judaism, all of which grow out of the Abrahamic tradition. The African-American church has traditionally used a kind of ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ approach toward homosexuality.” Dr. Janice Hollis who heads Progressive Believer’s said the African-American community should look at the president’s record not just on this issue but on others and determine if the quality of their lives has improved. ”I think it’s an insult for the president to intellectualize on morality as if the Church doesn’t already have a mandate from God on this,” she said. ”This is a political move and even though he may not see it, he’s only a fleeting moment in history; God has always been there. I think the president is promoting a way of life that deters people away from the Word of God.” Reverend Bill Owens, a minister with the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and who is based in Memphis, Tennessee, said there’s no doubt that the president’s endorsement of same sex marriage is going to hurt him among Black voters. ”Absolutely it will and especially among the Black churches where the conviction against same sex marriage is so strong,” Owens said. ”I think many Black Christians feel somewhat betrayed by the president on this – this is something that Black churches have always stood firmly against.”
Flying High Outside the Classroom A college in central Pennsylvania is welcoming a donation that promises to be a huge upgrade for its aviation students. It’s a bird. No it’s a plane, but it’s not just any plane. It’s a 150,000 pound donation to the aviation department at Penn College near Williamsport. FedEx used the Boeing 727 for more than 30 years. Its last flight ended at the Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville, where it will stay. “We’re delighted to have the aircraft here and have it retire at Penn College. It’s a wonderful program here and we’re excited to be able to be part of this,” said David Sutton of FedEx. Students in Penn College’s aviation department say they can now take their lessons outside the classroom. “With this we can have a fully functioning engine, avionics, hydraulics. We can see what they’re supposed to do, not just what we’re told they’re supposed to do,” said student Michael Reser. Students will be able to work on all sections of the plane, including inside the cockpit. Students said they are excited because all 100 of them in the aviation department will be able to work on the plane at the same time. “It’s a lot bigger than I thought it would be. It’s gonna be a great addition to the school. I’m ready to start tearing things apart and seeing the inside of it,” said student Ryan Enders. Students said that having this jet airliner to work on is much better than what they have been using. “The ones we have now have been grounded for a few years, so things are broken and we can’t get replacement parts,” said Reser. Students hope that working on…and learning on the Boeing 727 will help them land jobs in the future.
Skip to Content 4-09-2009 @ 8:48PM The methodology is in the .pdf"For electronic measurement of PC games, the Nielsen MegaPanel® sample of more than185,000 US tracked PC’s is used. The software based metering technology allows for individualprograms to be identified. When a program is run on a PC, the program name as well as theperson(s) using the PC is collected by the meter."I, for one, have never heard of this, so I assume I wasn't represented in this study, and even if I somehow had this tracking software without my knowledge, I don't believe they'd be able to distinguish my gender.All I'm saying is: WoW Insider sucks at reporting things. Their articles are almost always incorrect or extremely biased. Why am I here? First time? A confirmation email will be sent to you after submitting. Members enter your username and password. Enter your AOL or AIM screenname and password. Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password. To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.
[School-counselors] FW: ESSCP Grant Competion Assistance: Free Webinar bashcraft at access.k12.wv.us Fri May 4 14:50:23 EDT 2012 Webinars to assist with grant writing. See below! Web Bug from http://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?t=1109927695661.0.1101436446206.15290&ts=S0762&o=http://ui.constantcontact.com/images/p1x1.gif <http://www.mailscanner.tv/1x1spacer.gif> News from ASCA <http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs064/1101436446206/img/13.jpg> The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Safe and Healthy Students will sponsor two technical assistance webinars on May 4 and 8, 2012, to help applicants better understand various aspects of the 2012 application for grants under the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program. Specific information regarding this technical assistance opportunity is listed below. The ESSC power point presentation will be available in the webinar presentation. Applicants can join the online meeting and dial into the teleconference to participate in the webinar. You can submit questions to be read and answered during the Q&A portion of the presentation. The webinar will be presented on Friday, May 4, 2012, at 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Eastern, and Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at 2-3:30 p.m. Eastern. Call in info: 1-877-951-6686 Participant Code: 5828011 To join the online meeting 1. Go to http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001IGLYkOCi-fem5sU_Wx2NRQWQRY4I8D9rkq-FO4WtcpPFA_4vlPu8MrANJnvdfvqHISIqy0gof715KSou-Ku7Nu2oEZnmtFZigxv5Eh-N-Ro= 2. If requested, enter your name and email address. 3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: OSHS 4. Click "Join." To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link: http://bit.ly/IZCI2A <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001IGLYkOCi-fem5sU_Wx2NRQWQRY4I8D9rkq-FO4WtcpPFA_4vlPu8MrANJnvdfvqHISIqy0gof715KSou-Ku7Nu2oEZnmtFZigxv5Eh-N-Ro=> To join the teleconference only Please call: 1-877-951-6686 Participant code: 5828011. American School Counselor Association email: <mailto:ascaaspects at schoolcounselor.org> ascaaspects at schoolcounselor.org Forward email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=5pzulzbab&m=1101436446206&ea=bbb1798%40yahoo.com&a=1109927695661> This email was sent to bbb1798 at yahoo.com by ascaaspects at schoolcounselor.org \| American School Counselor Association \| 1101 King St., Suite 625 \| Alexandria \| VA \| 22314 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... More information about the School-counselors
In 2001, Nike set a target to reduce CO2 emissions from business travel and facilities to 13% below 1998 levels by the end of 2005. Nike also committed to create baselines for major subcontracted footwear and clothing manufacturing facilities, and determine an emissions reduction strategy. Nike pledged to examine its supply chain for opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and by 2005, determine a GHG reduction strategy for logistics. Between 1998 and 2006, Nike revenue increased 57%, while emissions declined 20%. Nike also phased out GHG emissions from its products, and completed its goal of measuring the GHG emissions from its contracted manufacturing and shipping operations. “Going forward, we also see that energy efficiency measures can help reduce our costs. In a world where fossil fuels become increasingly expensive, a transition to more green energy sources could put us ahead of the predicted cost curve,” said Sarah Severn, Director at CR Horizons. Nike created a CO2 model that calculates the emissions for every leg of all international shipments of Nike products, and the company is working to identify ways to reduce emissions from sea freight. Even though the emissions from suppliers and logistics operations were outside the widely accepted boundaries of a company's footprint, Nike recognized the need to address them. For more information:
Online courses have some clear advantages over the traditional degree programs and courses. Taking an online course allows you to study at the time and pace that suits you. Online courses are relatively cheaper because you save the time and cost of traveling to faraway places. And the best part is … you get to study from the comfort of your home. Because of all these reasons and many more, we can expect to see a gradual increase in the demand and recognition of online training and courses. Even if you don’t agree with the idea of pursuing a full-fledged degree online, you can still consider taking short courses. Doesn’t matter which profession you belong to, you can easily find some online course that will give the much needed boost to your career, for example rn to bsn online or master of arts in teaching. That doesn’t mean you should go for the first course that turns up in Google search. Instead, you should take a closer look at the course contents, and make sure that you are spending your time any money on learning from a credible institute or individual. How Online Courses can help Bloggers? Blogging is a great way to spend your spare time while doing something meaningful, and at the same time earning some extra income. But an ever increasing competition and higher stakes mean that you will have to go one step ahead for establishing yourself as a successful blogger. Keep on reading to know about the five different online courses that will help you stand out as a blogger amidst fierce competition. Being able to write meaningful and interesting prose is the first and foremost requirement for bloggers. You can be successful as a blogger even if you are not good at SEO or Internet Marketing, but you cannot be a blogger unless you are not capable of writing down your thoughts in a clear and precise manner. A writing course will teach you to think, write, and self-edit like professional writers. Not only it will improve the quality of your posts, but it will help you save a lot of time and energy throughout your blogging career. Maybe you are naturally good at writing, but English is not your first language. Problem is … if your blog is full of grammatical mistakes, poor sentence structure, and weird expressions, you will fail to make a mark, in spite of having exceptional knowledge and command on the topic, mainly because a common user will find it hard to take you seriously. A simple English language course will help you get the hang of English as a language. You can churn out one brilliant post after another, but what’s the point if you don’t have enough readers to appreciate or admire your post? Unique traffic is what will keep your blog up and running, and as of this date, Google is by far the biggest source of traffic and unique visitors. However, there’s no free cake, and you will have to fight for each and every visitor by optimizing your blog for relevant keywords. An online course in search engine optimization will help you do exactly that. So far, petty commissions from ad clicks and the commissions from the sales of affiliate products were the only options to earn from a blog. However, if you have good knowledge about a particular topic, and a good fan following, you can earn even more by arranging a webinar on relevant topics and charging a registration fee. Learning how to conduct online classes and market a course or seminar will help you with this. As you can see, the aforementioned courses will only address different aspects of blogging separately, but a blogging course will incorporate almost all of these factors, including English language, writing, marketing, SE optimization, and monetizing. There are some veterans bloggers offering such courses online, in case you are looking to take on blogging as a full time career, going for any of these courses is well worth the investment.
April 29, 2012 It was a while ago Erik Pettersson (snille) designed and made the inspiring gear painting on his eMaker Huxley 3D printer. Since then Snille has been working on another project: A big kinetic art project - Gear Project 2. Having an empty 2mx4m wall at home gives him a big space to design and test his project. Inpired by the work from other Thingiverse users, Snille came up with this six framed kinetic pieces with mechanical transmission between them. The project is designed in Google Sketchup and then printed on a eMaker Huxley 3D printer. It took him 91 hours and used up 316.65 meter 1.75mm filament to print out totally 120 printed parts. What a great job! (photo credit: snille.net) Read his full story and working process here. Snille plans to update the last parts (the electronics box) when he got his new motor. So stay tuned. All STLs and the SketchUp file is available on Thingiverse. Watch below a short presentation of the Gear Project. Posted in 3D Printing Applications Maybe you also like: - 10 super beautiful 3D printed mathematical sculptures of Henry Segerman - Make your own 3D printed zoetrope - A phenomenal 3D printed puzzle that challenges your brain - Tardis Cookie Cutter - an easy and fun use of a 3D printer - 3D print your own tie - Eyewear made through 3D printing and traditional needlework - MK7 filament guide spring loaded with ball bearing - 3D print you home to be a snow globe scene - Minecraft Village printed on a 3D printer - Super lightweight bike using 3D printed stainless steel lugs - Mysterious Gömböc built by Objet 3D printer - 3D Printer brings a Robotic Hand from design to life - Designing and 3D printing a synchro gearbox - 3D printing and 111 five euro cent coins - Experimental kite features 1700 3D printed connectors - Nature-inspired greenhouse created using a 3D printer - GE shares a 3D printed Christmas Tree ornament - 3D printed Kindle Kapsule Lightstand for your beloved
ABC South West online emergency coverage exercise third stage Today, ABC South West is giving you a chance to see how our site will look in an emergency. The bushfire season is early this year. The dryness of the bush is what would be expected in mid-December according to Drew Griffith, Information Officer with the Department of Environment and Conservation. In its role as the emergency broadcaster, ABC South West Online is preparing for the coming season. Today, we will change our sites to emergency mode. There are three stages. During this third stage, the banner on the top of the home page will change to red and display an emergency beacon. The site will continue to carry official warnings from authorities such as FESA and DEC. It will have links to useful sites and other information which may be useful at this stage. Some useful links FESA - up-to-date information Bureau of Meteorology - weather information. Main Roads - road closure information. Western Power - information on power outages. Other local emergency contacts Emergency information and important links can be found at all times on our emergencies page. :Look for the emergencies tab on the front page.
Ask a question about 'Burke Centre, Virginia' Start a new discussion about 'Burke Centre, Virginia' Answer questions from other users is a census-designated place A census-designated place is a concentration of population identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes. CDPs are delineated for each decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places such as cities, towns and villages... (CDP) and planned residential community A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are less frequent in planned communities since... -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 57,737 people, 19,215 households, and 15,756 families residing in the community. Burke is the largest community in Virginia recognized by the Census Bureau, other than counties and incorporated cities . The population density was 5,008.0 people per... , Fairfax County Fairfax County is a county in Virginia, in the United States. Per the 2010 Census, the population of the county is 1,081,726, making it the most populous jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with 13.5% of Virginia's population... The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there... , United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... . As of the 2010 census, Burke Centre had a total population of 17,326. Burke Centre Conservancy is a homeowners' association (HOA) which all of Burke Centre belongs to.
AccessFayetteville provides numerous ways to stay informed about your local government. Celebration of Trees Event Bring Home a Tree with Fayetteville's Celebration of Trees Celebration of Trees is Fayetteville's annual tree giveaway event where city residents select and take a tree to plant at home. Properly located trees around the home can add property value, reduce residents' utility bills, and protect skin from the sun's UV rays. Many native trees and shrubs that residents have planted through the program also provide excellent benefits for birds and pollinators. Created to bring citizens a hands-on opportunity in growing the urban forest, the City of Fayetteville Parks & Recreation Department and the Urban Forestry Advisory Board host Celebration of Trees in October. Participants should bring proof of a Fayetteville residential address to take home a tree. The City provides information sheets on characteristics of each species, planting suggestions, and management tips. Celebration of Trees is a one day event, but growing a tree is a sustained endeavor. Tree giveaway participants are encouraged to plant and manage their trees or shrubs as an essential part of the urban forest. 2013 Celebration of Trees Date: Saturday, October 12 Time: 7:00 AM Location: Fayetteville Town Center Plaza, at Mountain Street on the Downtown Historic Square Required: Proof of Fayetteville residency; commitment to planting and maintaining plant(s) received Optional: Follow-up is encouraged. Let us know how your new tree doing. If you like your new tree, send a photo of yourself with your tree or shrub to email@example.com. Your photo could be selected to put on the City's website to help encourage others to plant as well. Quantities: Limit (1) tree and (1) shrub OR (2) trees per adult Fayetteville resident that is present at the event. Therefore, no one may take more than (1) shrub. Questions? Call (479) 444-3486 While supplies last, trees and shrubs this year may include White Oak, Chinquapin Oak, Blackgum, Yellowwood, Shadblow Serviceberry, Blackhaw Viburnum, and Common Ninebark. How to plant your new tree: How to Plant a Containerized Tree or Shrub Parks & Recreation Director Connie Edmonston and Mayor Lioneld Jordan (Left); Fayetteville residents bringing home trees. Parks & Recreation crews load trees for the event, which is held at the Fayetteville Town Center Plaza, adjacent to the Downtown Historic Square. 2012 Celebration of Trees 2011 Celebration of Trees
The Blizzard of '96, which was a blockbuster snowstorm, and arctic cold hammered the Northeast U.S. early in January of 1996, before the pattern changed abruptly with deadly consequences. A massive January thaw, snowmelt and a quick-hitting, intense rainstorm led to extreme flooding across the region during the middle of January. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, flooding in January 1996 claimed 33 lives. Compared to Normal at Williamsburg, Pa. at Dixon, Pa. "There was 2-3 feet of snow on the ground in Pennsylvania," AccuWeather Expert Senior Meteorologist Dave Dombek said. "A big warm-up followed and then at the end of the week a big rainstorm came. It looked like a given that things were going to get bad. I've never seen snow disappear so fast." The flood swollen Monongahela River, right, joins the cresting Allegheny River, left, to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh Saturday, Jan. 20, 1996. The Allegheny crested at mid-day at 34.6 feet, the highest level since 1972. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Setting the Stage Three snowstorms, including the Blizzard of '96, left deep snowpack across portions of the Northeast during the first half of the month. According to NOAA, snow depths of 2-3 feet were common from central Pennsylvania into New York. Philadelphia, the hardest-hit city from the Blizzard of '96, received its biggest snow ever from one storm, nearly 31 inches. For the entire month of January, Philadelphia's total snowfall was 34 inches, more than five times the normal monthly snowfall of 6.5 inches. Compared to Normal January Thaw, Massive Snowmelt Following all of the snow, it was like a switch was flipped with the weather pattern. Record-challenging warmth spread into the East during the second half of the month. Temperatures were below normal in Philadelphia through Jan. 16, 1996, before the significant warming took place. Temperatures went from as much as 20 degrees below normal during the first part of the month to as much as 22 degrees above normal during the second half of the month. Highs climbed into the 50s and 60s across much of the Northeast. In Philadelphia, highs on Jan. 18 and Jan. 19, 1996, soared to 58 degrees F and 62 degrees F, respectively. Moisture in the air and wind blowing contributed to even faster snowmelt. "Snowcover will melt fast when the humidity is high and the wind is blowing," AccuWeather Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity said. "Light winds and low humidity will allow evaporational cooling to occur millimeters above the snow cover, which creates a cold blanket above the snow. When the wind blows and the humidity is high, that cold blanket of air is removed allowing the higher-humidity air to melt the snow." The high snowpack generally melted over the course of 18-30 hours. Ice jam flooding was a problem along many area rivers and streams, since they were icy before the rapid thaw hit. This is an aerial view of flooded houses and businesses in West Nanticoke, Pa., Saturday, Jan. 20, 1996. The Susquehanna River spilled over its banks causing flooding in low lying areas in the Wyoming Valley. (AP Photo/George P. Widman) While flooding was almost a sure bet from quickly melting snow and ice-jam flooding, a rainstorm made matters worse. "This was one of those cases where we knew flooding was a sure bet," Dombek said. "One of those times where you can go out with bold and definitive statements like 'There will be serious and major flooding.'" Widespread rainfall amounts of 1-3 inches with local amounts of 5 inches added to run-off, according to Dombek. While heavy snow and ice are not expected to fall over much of the Midwest Sunday into Monday, some slippery roads and travel disruptions are likely. Fresh cold is setting the stage for the weekend to end on an icy note in Pittsburgh. A storm coming Sunday night has the potential to bring wintry travel problems to Boston and New England. The return of colder air was accompanied by a few inches of snow early Friday night with the next chance of wintry precipitation before the end of the weekend. A storm arriving later in the day on Sunday has the potential to bring snow, some ice and travel problems to the New York City area. The worst of the ice headed to the eastern U.S. will focus on the I-81 corridor from Virginia to southern Pennsylvania. Riverview, FL (1996) A tornado killed one person; 6 mobile homes were destroyed. Cairo, IL (1917) 17.0" snow set 24 hour snowfall record and single storm total for city. Connecticut River (1740) Early snows and hard freeze followed by a thaw and heavy rains produced the greatest flood on Connecticut River in 50 years; on Merrimac in 70 years.
Summer Food Program What is the summer food program? The Summer Food Service Program for Children is a federally funded program operated nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered by the USDA regional office. The agency reimburses sponsors (such as schools) for meals served at approved feeding sites in low-income areas to children 18 years and under. Who can receive meals at summer school sites? Anyone in the community up to 18 years of age is eligible to receive summer meals. Is there a charge for meals? All meals will be served free of charge, regardless of what a child's meal benefit was during the regular school year. How will the children be fed in summer school? Students come through the cafeteria line and pick up the meal. They may eat in the cafeteria or in the classroom, at the discretion of the principal. There is space at each site for community members up to age 18 to enjoy their meal. Times of service are posted on each school door. The Alexandria Health Department has approved our summer feeding procedures and will be frequently monitoring our feeding operation, as they do throughout the school year. Hungry children can't learn. School Nutrition Services is committed to helping our students improve their academic performance through good nutrition. We are pleased to feed them all year round and continue to help them be successful! Free lunch for children up to age 18. All Alexandria children up to age 18 may receive a free lunch and afternoon snack through the Alexandria Recreation Centers. Please check with your local center to participate in their feeding program.
C&EN launches redesigned website WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2011 — C&EN, the popular weekly newsmagazine published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, unveiled a more streamlined and user-friendly website today. The new C&EN Online marks a milestone in the evolution of the magazine, enabling easier access to breaking science news while engaging readers in a whole new way. C&EN is the “go-to” newsmagazine and website for the chemical enterprise, attracting scientists and non-scientists alike with updates on the latest advances in a wide range of scientific disciplines including pharmaceuticals, life sciences, genomics and environmental sciences. C&EN also provides up-to-the-minute news and analysis on the business, government, policy and career aspects of science. The C&EN Online homepage has a fresh new look and is less dense and easier to navigate. Access to various features such as the C&EN Archives, specialized collections of stories and the SCENE news channels is straightforward. Latest News, which accounts for nearly 40% of C&EN Online page downloads, and the CENtral Science blogs are front-and-center in the new design. One of the most important new features of C&EN Online is the ability for readers to comment on any C&EN story. Now, readers can immediately respond to a story with additional commentary, links to related material or criticism. The new website was two years in the making and concludes the first phase of the C&EN Production Automation Program. Also included in the initial phase were C&EN Archives — the digital collection of issues from 1923 through 2009 — which launched in November 2010, and C&EN Mobile — providing free access to ACS members to all C&EN issues on smartphones and tablets — which launched in August 2011. To automatically receive news releases from the American Chemical Society contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
Ever wonder how politically active your fellow citizens are? Well the answer is not as much as they should be! All joking aside, here are the sobering numbers from the 2012 election. Roughly 57.5 percent of people that are eligible to vote chose to cast a ballot. This is down from the 62.3 percent that turned out to vote in 2008. The highest turnout was 74.6 percent in Minnesota. It would be an incredible thing if we could get every state to match those numbers. The lowest turnout was 43.6 percent in Hawaii. This is especially sad since the President grew up in Hawaii. Ideally everyone that can would vote, but in the meantime we should try to emulate Minnesota and the active citizens that live there.
Our 1984 paper Airports for Sale, by the noted transport economist (and now Irish Senator) Sean Barrett, put airport privatisation on the agenda in the UK. Dr Barrett showed why the six airports of the then British Aviation Authority (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted around London, and Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen in Scotland) should be sold separately rather than as a unit, so that competition and fresh thinking could come in to the UK's state-run airport sector. Sadly, the Thatcher government – rarely as radical as people on either side suggest it was – thought it much easier to privatise BAA as a unit. A company of that size could be sold easily to the public through the stock market, a monopoly provider would bring in a higher price, there would be none of the legal or accounting problems that might be caused by a break-up, and the sale could go through much faster. Competition, they told us, could come later. So the state airports monopoly (or near-monopoly: there were other notable local-government owned airports such as Manchester, East Midlands, Bournemouth and Luton) was turned into BAA plc and sold as a block. It has taken nearly thirty years, though, for the first prospect of competition cracking that block, and the cracks aren't all that deep. Spanish-owned company Ferrovia took over BAA a few years back, but the Competition Commission later ruled that it should sell three of its airports – Gatwick and Stansted and one of either Glasgow or Edinburgh - to help create competition. Gatwick was at least sold to a private consortium, the US-based investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners. Though GIP also owns London City Airport, so you could argue that there is still a monopoly element in that. And as I explained in January, Stansted has been sold too - but to Manchester Airports Group, which is entirely owned by local authorities. So that is hardly an injection of dynamic private-sector thinking. And what are local authorities doing running airports anyway? The most promising sign is that Gatwick is now pushing the regulatory, the Civil Aviation Authority, for more operating freedom. It is demanding freedom to expand, and wants to be allowed to offer discounts to Far Eastern airlines. It sees a niche in attracting more flights from China, Indonesia, Korea and Vietnam. Current CAA regulation insists that all airlines should be charged the same, around £8.80 per passenger. Why? Steven Wingate, chief executive of Gatwick, says his plan would be a victory for competition over regulation. He's right.
Home Content Area Following the reduction of military strengths in connection with Armed Forces 95 and Armed Forces XXI, various weapon systems were decommissioned, mothballed, sold, or disposed of. The Leopard 2 Battle Tank (Pz 87 Leo) is one of many systems which are no longer needed in the originally procured quantity. Part of the Pz 87 Leo fleet was therefore mothballed at various storage sites. Since in its Armed Forces Report the Federal council defined the basic data for a smaller defence force, the way was cleared for the sale of the Pz 87 Leo no longer needed, or parts thereof. From the units of the Pz 87 Leo fleet of the Swiss Armed Forces, which are not foreseen for the quality maintenance program and not among the vehicles designated as spare material, 42 vehicles are now sold to the German company Rheinmetall Landsysteme, which will use these vehicles as basis (chassis) for support vehicles. Takeover of the vehicles destined for Rheinmetall will begin still this year. Rheinmetall Landsysteme is part of the consortium in the Federal Republic of Germany, which produced the Leopard 2 Battle Tank. The Pz 87 Leo delivered to Rheinmetall Landsysteme are not sold in fully equipped condition. Among others, the following assemblies are removed: armament, radio-and inter-phone systems. The components which are not supplied are used as spare parts by the Swiss Armed Forces. armasuisse, the Competence Center for the procurement of complex systems, was tasked by the Head DDPS with the performance of the contract and the sale of the surplus equipment. Sales of surplus armaments are subject to the War Material Ordinance, and to approval by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in Bern, and are in compliance with the Federal Council decision of 10 March 2006. The parties agreed not to disclose the terms of sale. Background on Pz 87 Leo The Pz 87 Leo (Leopard 2) was procured for the mechanised units of the Swiss Armed Forces with Armament Program 84 (AP 84). Of the 380 Pz 87 Leo originally deployed with the forces between 1987 and 1993, 134 combat vehicles were subjected to a quality maintenance program with Armament Program 06. The battle tanks, which have reached the first half of their planned service life, are adapted to the changed requirements with the necessary maintenance work. Of the Pz 87 Leo decommissioned in connection with the reduction, twelve vehicles were converted to armoured engineer and mine clearing vehicles. This special tank, which is used in combination with the Pz 87 Leo, is based on the tank chassis with corresponding new superstructures and additional equipment for the engineer service and for mine clearing.
Hope and History BY Michael Joseph Gross April 26 2010 2:00 PM ET “When push comes to shove, we always get pushed,” says Rich Tafel, founding president of Log Cabin Republicans. “I want the chaos, the anger, the truth, whatever it is, to come out. Otherwise it’s a big Kabuki dance in Washington, fund-raising letters about nothing. Who’s willing to fast? Who’s willing to get handcuffed? This president will actually care. The last one didn’t. “People like it when you appeal to their better angels. Because people want to be better. Most people do. They want to be appealed to.” And we are going to have to make the appeal. It’s true that where we’re concerned he has expressed no shortage of understanding and good intentions. To the NAACP, he said, “The pain of discrimination is still felt in America…by our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights”—reiterating the analogy he made in the East Room. It’s as if he’s daring us: showing us the door is open, telling us to come in and get him. Even if his heart is in the right place, Barack Obama is not going to just wake up one morning and put you at the top of his list. His primary task right now is learning how to govern, learning how to work with Congress to get things done. His primary link to the Democratic caucus, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, is one of the most risk-averse human beings in Washington. Marsha Scott, a straight woman who worked closely with Emanuel when she was chief of staff in Bill Clinton’s personnel office (Scott also served as Clinton’s first liaison to the LGBT community), says, “Rahm can never stop thinking about winning elections. Rahm is good at governing effectively, but he’s not good on social justice issues. Rahm’s goal is to not lose one seat in Congress at midterms.” He looked like a hero, and that was the problem. His apparent integrity frightened us at first. Then it became the reason we chose him. We voted for Obama because he appealed to our better angels, because we wanted to be better. - WATCH: Elton John Slams 'Inhumane, Isolating' Anti-LGBT Laws In Russia - Colo. Bakery's Refusal to Bake Gay Wedding Cake Is Discrimination, Judge Rules - Op-ed: Why I Filmed My Coming Out Journey - WATCH: What Do These Gay Hockey Players Want for Christmas? - In the Galleries: Transformer - WATCH: Ben Affleck and SNL Crew Go to Ex-Gay Camp - Entertainment News Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Score 7 Grammy Nominations 11 min 58 sec ago - Marriage Equality Washington's Weddings Were 17 Percent Gay Last Year 8:00 AM - Marriage Equality Colo. Bakery's Refusal to Bake Gay Wedding Cake Is Discrimination 7:00 AM - Art In the Galleries: Transformer 4:00 AM - Politics WATCH: Elton John Slams Russia's Anti-LGBT Laws Onstage December 06 2013 8:40 PM - Women American Horror Story: Coven -- Ritual Witch-ual December 06 2013 8:30 PM - Travel Wanna Win a Wedding in West Hollywood? December 06 2013 7:26 PM
Politicians are in a tizzy over how much corporate leaders make--about $8 million this year for CEOs of S&P 500 companies, according to the Financial Times. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has even introduced a bill titled "The Protection Against Executive Compensation Abuse Act. Resident Fellow James K. Glassman Critics, notably Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard, argue that corporate boards are held captive by CEOs, who essentially dictate their own pay. Actually, though, rising pay has coincided with a trend toward more powerful and independent boards. Kevin J. Murphy and Jan Zabojnik of the University of Southern California offer a more sensible explanation: Our new global high-tech economy, companies are less likely to promote insiders who may be chummy with the board and instead pick CEOs outside not just the firm but even the sector--take Alan Mulally, who came to Ford from Boeing. These talented generalists are scarce and can have a huge effect on profits. Sure, they command high pay. Too high? The Yankees' Alex Rodriguez earned $29 million from June 2005 to this summer. Jeff Immelt of General Electric makes less than Dr. Phil does. If a good CEO can boost profits by $200 million, he's easily worth $10 million, or more. Certainly, some CEOs, like some ballplayers, make more than they deserve. Angry shareholders have a remedy--dump the stock. The bigger problem, as we show in The American, the magazine I edit, is that publicly traded companies--because of pressure from politicians, the media and unions--could be underpaying CEOs. The best and brightest managers are migrating to private-equity firms, hedge funds and privately owned businesses out of the spotlight. With 5% of the world's population, the USA is home to half the world's largest companies. Our system of compensating CEOs has served the nation well. Let's not let politicians mangle it. James K. Glassman is a resident scholar at AEI and editor in chief of The American.
- "Each #tax extender should either be made permanent or allowed to expire." - In 2001, 13 #tax provisions were set to expire, a decade later 129 #tax provisions were set to expire in 2011/2012. - Two questions to evaluate #tax extenders: does it reflect sound policy & would it be effective if permanent? - US #fiscal outlook is troubling, annual #deficits exceeded $1trillion for a number of years. Download PDF Chairman Tiberi, Ranking Member Neal, and members of the subcommittee, my name is Alex Brill, and I am a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you this morning to discuss the regularly expiring tax provisions commonly known as "tax extenders." As you carefully define in the document setting forth this hearing, "tax extenders" are a subset of the tax provisions extended by Title VII of the "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010" (Public Law No. 111-312), as well as a number of other tax provisions that have expired or will expire this year. Before elaborating on my views, let me lead with my conclusion: "Each tax extender provision must be considered individually, on its own merits, and against clearly defined objectives." - Each tax extender provision must be considered individually, on its own merits, and against clearly defined objectives. Each and every tax extender must be shown to be appropriate against one or more of these objectives. Later in my testimony I suggest two criteria that could guide this decision-making process. - No tax policy should be intentionally temporary. Any tax extenders deemed appropriate should be made permanent and the rest should be allowed to expire. - A successful evaluation of tax extenders—keeping the good and eliminating the bad—may set a useful precedent for the bigger challenges of tackling other tax expenditures. In this testimony, I first present a brief background on recent trends in tax extenders and then discuss how to evaluate which tax extenders should be made permanent and which should be allowed to expire. I then highlight four harmful effects of intentionally preserving a set of temporary tax provisions. I conclude with a comment regarding tax reform. Background: Tax Extenders Are Growing, and Thus Are a Growing Concern The number and budgetary magnitude of regularly expiring tax provisions have ballooned in recent years. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) releases a report almost every year listing expiring provisions and the date on which they are scheduled to expire. Table 1 reports the number of expiring tax provisions by year for each of the JCT reports on expiring provisions since 1998. The table reveals a rapid increase in the number of expiring tax provisions, particularly provisions that are set to expire within the current year or the following year. In 2001, 13 tax provisions were set to expire that year or in 2002. A decade later, in 2011, 129 tax provisions were set to expire in 2011 or 2012. The great majority of tax extenders are credits, deductions, and exclusions that can be viewed as tax expenditures. Therefore, the increase in the number of tax extenders contributes to the increase in tax expenditures. The JCT tracks the number of tax expenditures over time and recently noted the rise in the number of tax expenditures from 100 in 1981 to 150 in 2003, and then to 250 in 2009. The budgetary consequence of tax extenders has also increased significantly over time. For example, in September 2004, Congress enacted H.R. 1308, the "Working Families Tax Relief Act," which contained a one-year extension of 23 tax extenders, ranging from the research and experimentation (R&E) tax credit to the above-the-line deduction for teacher classroom expenses, with a net revenue loss of $13 billion over the budget window. In 2010, a two-year extension of tax extenders cost $55 billion. If Congress were to extend the set of tax provisions for an additional year, the cost would be even higher. How to Evaluate Tax Extenders As I said at the outset, each tax extender should either be made permanent or allowed to expire. To guide this determination, I advocate assessing each tax extender's appropriateness and effectiveness. Policymakers should ask two questions about each tax extender. 1. Does the Intent of the Provision Reflect Sound Tax Policy? First, policymakers should consider the intent of each provision individually and evaluate whether those intentions improve economic efficiency, increase growth, promote fairness, or achieve some other desirable policy goal. For example, the R&E tax credit is intended to increase the aggregate level of R&D in the United States because of the "positive externality" R&D generates (i.e., benefits to society beyond those realized by the firm conducting the R&D). This tax credit is intended to promote innovation and foster productivity growth. In my view, these are sound policy objectives, and I support making the credit permanent, in the context of the current tax code. The deduction for state and local general sales tax, another tax extender, does not seek to promote economic growth, but rather to provide parity between resident of states with state income taxes and residents of states with only sales taxes. In my view, a more appropriate means to achieve parity would be to repeal the deduction for state and local income taxes. With regard to a tax extender that is intended to subsidize a given activity, special care must be taken to properly evaluate its net economic benefit. Most tax subsidies will increase the subsidized activity or product, but that need not mean that it will produce a net positive economic benefit or improve economic efficiency. In the absence of externalities, a tax credit or other subsidy for a given activity will generally lead to a misallocation of resources in the economy—more of the subsidized activity, but less of everything else. A provision that simply leads to more of a particular activity does not necessarily promote overall economic growth. This first question has examined each tax extenders' appropriateness based on its intent. 2. Would the Policy Be Effective If It Were Permanent? Second, policymakers should evaluate the likely effectiveness of the policy if it were made permanent, a more complicated question than its effectiveness in its current temporary form. For example, numerous analysts have noted that the temporary structure of the R&E tax credit inhibits its effectiveness. As the Technology Policy Institute's Scott Wallsten has testified: Because firms tend to smooth their R&D spending over time, their responses to temporary policies are likely to be muted. A temporary tax credit will, therefore, have limited effectiveness. That is, if firms do not have confidence that the credit will remain in effect, they will probably not increase their R&D spending by as much as they would if the credit were permanent. A permanent R&D tax credit would be more consistent with the way companies make decisions regard R&D spending and is more likely to have the intended positive effect on private spending. Some tax extenders may be ineffective due to their temporary nature, but would be effective if made permanent. Other extenders may be ineffective, distortionary, or undesirable regardless of whether they are temporary or permanent. Additional Concerns Raised by Tax Extenders To explain why I advocate either eliminating tax extenders or making them permanent, I now highlight four harmful consequences that the constant expiration and reinstatement of tax extenders have for businesses, the economy, and policymakers. 1. Tax extenders distort the fiscal budget baseline, thereby complicating revenue and deficit forecasts. The fiscal outlook for the U.S. economy is severely troubling, to say the least. Not only have annual deficits exceeded $1 trillion for a number of consecutive years, but spending on health care and Social Security is projected to increase by more than 5 percent of GDP in the next twenty-five years. However, forecasting the budget outlook has become increasingly complicated as the number of tax extenders and the associated revenue loss have increased. While the majority of the revenue uncertainty is attributable to the expiration of tax policies originally enacted in 2001 and 2003, the portion attributable to tax extenders is significant. Making all of the extenders permanent would reduce revenue by approximately $400 billion over the next ten years. Budget forecasts made by the Congressional Budget Office therefore present both a "current law" and a "current policy" baseline, which illustrates the uncertainty of expected future tax receipts given the expiration of "tax extenders" and other temporary policies. The gap between these two scenarios is widening, making plausible budget forecasts more difficult. Furthermore, new tax extenders are often created as a result of budget scoring maneuvers to mask the long-term budgetary consequences of a new provision. For example, the American Opportunity Tax Credit enacted in 2009 for calendar years 2009 and 2010 at an estimated cost of $10.2 billion was extended in 2010 for two years at a cost of $17.6 billion. 2. Tax extenders create financial reporting problems for publicly traded companies. When tax extenders expire and are retroactively reinstated, this introduces unavoidable discrepancies in public companies' quarterly reports, as they report information based on a policy's having expired, only to then have to account for the policy's subsequent reinstatement. 3. Tax extenders exacerbate the uncertainty facing businesses. While all tax policy is temporary in some sense, because Congress has the authority to change any provision it chooses, the uncertainty of policies scheduled to expire but likely to be extended (or reinstated) is an unnecessary burden on an already burdened private sector. This burden worsens the economic environment for firms by increasing uncertainty. For a visual representation of how this uncertainty has increased over time, see Figure 1, drawn from a paper authored by Scott Baker and Nicholas Bloom, both of Stanford University, and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago. This index is, in effect, a discounted summation of the data that I presented in Table 1. Their research, which examines policy uncertainties beyond just tax policy uncertainty, concludes that an increase in fiscal policy uncertainty similar to what was experienced from 2006 to 2011 would have had a very significant impact on U.S. employment and economic production. 4. Tax extenders are intended to ensure oversight, but they are generally extended without much consideration. In theory, forcing periodic reconsideration of tax policy may facilitate congressional oversight of various provisions. Numerous spending policies require periodic reauthorization, which permits reforms and policy adaptations. Obviously, today's hearing and this Committee's previous hearing on this issue could be considered elements of such an oversight effort. However, I would humbly suggest that given the budgetary magnitude of the extenders, such oversight has been woefully inadequate. My view is that much more oversight regarding the effectiveness of these policies (and other tax expenditures) should occur. However, that oversight should not be driven by scheduled tax policy expirations, but rather by the constant pursuit of tax reform. While various spending policies that are scheduled for periodic reauthorization have spurred ample research in these areas, tax extenders have not served to create a framework for research around the provisions, with the exception of the R&E credit and occasional reports on a few other provisions. Conclusion: The Rise of Tax Extenders Is Evidence of the Need for Tax Reform "Given the budgetary outlook and need for a more rational, pro-growth tax system, lawmakers must seriously evaluate each and every tax extender provision." The expansion in the number and fiscal impact of tax extenders serves as strong evidence that the quality and efficiency of the tax system has further eroded. Given the budgetary outlook and need for a more rational, pro-growth tax system, lawmakers must seriously evaluate each and every tax extender provision. Even extenders with relatively small budgetary impact deserve scrutiny, as their economic burden or benefit could be much larger. As I outlined above, the first question is whether the extender is intended to serve a valid policy goal, such as promoting economic growth or tax fairness. The second question is whether the extender would be effective at achieving its intended goal if it were permanent. Extenders that meet these criteria should be made permanent and the others should expire. No revenue should be forgone for policies that do not serve an appropriate purpose or are limited in their effectiveness. The tax extender "momentum" that has existed over the last decade, whereby new tax extenders are added while few terminate, is not sustainable. As this Committee knows well, the tax base has eroded significantly over the last twenty-five years. A proliferation of tax credits, deductions, and exclusions has left a tax system with a myriad of provisions that misallocate resources, create complexity, and introduce compliance problems. The discussion of tax extenders offers a modest opportunity to reduce complexity and uncertainty within the tax code. I hope that a successful effort to curtail ineffective or inappropriate tax extenders will set a positive precedent for the greater challenge this Committee will face if it embarks on broader tax reform. Alex Brill is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
S Y N T H E S I S Selections from the Agni Yoga Series Presented before the Agni Yoga Society, December 4, 2007 1. Only the most all-compromising and most clearly understood synthesis can create the benevolent co-operation of which humanity is at present so greatly in need. From the highest representatives of our spiritual world to the most materialistic shopkeeper, everyone agrees that without a synthetic co-operation no activity can be created. We see in the culture of whole countries, that wherever a wide synthesis is understood and submitted, the creativeness of the country bears fruit and advances beautifully. No separation, no chauvinism, can create such progress as is attained by the radiant smile of synthesis. Fiery Stronghold, Nicholas Roerich, p.44 2. Synthesis of spirituality is the rarest gift; it alone kindles the light of the world. Nothing can be compared to the light of the world. The light burns, but its ray is being sought. 3. Let us see wherein lie the similarities and differences between Agni Yoga and the preceding Yogas. Karma Yoga has many similarities with it as far as earthly realities are concerned. But when Agni Yoga provides ways to the realization of the far-off worlds, the difference becomes apparent. Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga are all separate from the realities of routine life, and because of this they cannot enter into the evolution of the future. Of course, an Agni Yogi should also be a Jnani and a Bhakti, and the development of the forces of his spirit makes him a Raja Yogi. How beautiful is the possibility of being fit for performing the tasks of the future evolution without rejecting the past conquests of spirit! One should not boast of bringing innovation, because only by a synthesis of the old and the new is a renewal of possibilities attainable. Agni Yoga, 161. 4. One should observe certain precautions in Agni Yoga. Beyond a certain level one may notice pains in one's back. One should then take care not to bend down, because the pillar of energy is rising like quicksilver in a thermometer. Therefore an upright position of the spine is advised. Similarly undesirable is work that requires a tension to one side, such as tree cutting. The flame is vertical in its structure, and thus does each fire act. The taking of slight precautions will not separate people from life. One can quite unnoticeably introduce into life ways of action that are not harmful. Only a sense of beauty can lead to synthesis. Power comes not from the muscles, but from the consciousness. Even in everyday life, the nerves rule the muscles. Agni Yoga, 302. 5. There are two kinds of logic: the logic of external reasoning, which one attempts to learn from textbooks, and that of mental synthesis, by which one collects and links the sparks of spatial thought. These sparks may seem to be a happy accident, even though this "accident" may have been ripening in space for an entire century. The broadened consciousness provides the best possibility of grasping the nodes of spatial thought. Of course, from the point of view of external reasoning, apparent lapses in the processes of mental synthesis can always be found. As rings of the spiral show to the observer the outer turns and conceal the inner turns, so mental logic proceeds according to the limits of the outer turns while the inner turns are still merged in the streams of collective thought in space. Hence, We take such care about the broadening of the consciousness, in order that union with spatial thought may be approached. This must be accepted as simply as is the vital importance of oxygen. Equally simple should be the idea of the spiral nature of all that exists, and of creative explosions. Thus the breath of the Cosmos will be realized as an ascending spiral. The pure fundamental essence, which might be compared to oxygen, emerges with the help of Materia Lucida from unmanifest space and, encountering the refuse of life, produces a series of creative explosions. Of course it is necessary to understand that without the Fire of Space these explosions would have no rhythm, for Fire is the regulator of the pulse of Cosmos. We all rejoice if you are applying the rhythms indicated to you. Of course the rhythms vary with each individual, and the current condition of one's organism determines the results. One should accept the transmissions from space into the open Chalice. This is the guarantee of synthesis. Likewise, one must follow one's inner rhythm, because the developed consciousness cannot be without rhythm. The combination of two dodecahedrons is useful for promoting the rhythm of fire. When enough energy has been accumulated, I shall demonstrate it, because this fleeting rhythm is necessary for the approach to Agni Yoga. Agni Yoga, 361. 6. The level of one's psychic energy can be determined according to its quality, not its power. Generally, the lowest quality of energy is possessed by mediums; it is susceptible to all surrounding conditions, even atmospheric ones. The Teachers are greatly concerned about this. The next level produces partial, spontaneous manifestations of psychic energy, but without synthesis with spirit. One can see or hear psychically, without having merged with the Teaching.Certainly, the type of psychic energy most needed for evolution is that possessed by mediators. Possessing true sensitiveness, they always maintain synthesis with the Teaching. This quality of synthesis, accumulated by the experiences of ages, protects them from dark influences. Mediums may spark one's interest, but mediators must be esteemed and appreciated. Agni Yoga, 447. 7. Intellect is not wisdom. Straight-knowledge is wisdom. Intellect is reason. Wisdom makes decisions that long ago had already germinated. Intellect is at the threshold of wisdom, and when sharpened it moves into the realm of synthesis. Reason and a mind trained to one specialty are only corners of the future house. Those with narrowly specialized minds can pave for themselves a brilliant future, but they must continue to incarnate until their minds lose their narrow specialization. Only when the intellect loses this can it become wise. Each specialty is meant for conditions of life on Earth, whereas the synthesis of spirit opens all spheres. Spiritual tension accumulates spatial psychic energy. Spiritual tension can lead into any sphere of the astral plane. Agni Yoga, 508. 8. It is correct to define the Kundalini as an abstract principle. When the conditions of earthly life were crude, it was necessary to direct the spirit to higher spheres. At first, the symbol of the Eye of Brahma held priority; then it was followed by the triumph of the Kundalini. But with either, the attainment of Samadhi by some did not protect humanity from the horrors of slavery and treason.Now is the time to insist upon synthesis of action. Straight-knowledge will provide this synthesis during earthly existence. The treasure of straight-knowledge is contained in the Chalice, therefore one should add to the two mentioned centers the blossoming of the third center. The rainbow of the Kundalini can draw one upward, but here on Earth, earthly construction is needed. One has to build a foundation for the pillar, just as writing does for thought. The long-silenced Chalice will again come to life, and humanity will tread a new path. Three Lords, these three centers, will lead to true cooperation here. Whoever understands the relation of the Chalice to the Kundalini will understand how the father transmits the earthly kingdom to the son. The Kundalini is the father, the impeller of the ascent. The Chalice is the son, awakened by the father. Whoever knows the principle of the father will, at the change of races, embrace the son. The Chalice of attainment initiates action. Thus nothing is rejected, but only strengthened. The Eye of Brahma is the natural complement to this order. Agni Yoga, 549. 9. The centers of Cosmos are identical with the centers of man. Man bears within himself all manifestations of cosmos. Significant are the evidences in man of the functions of Cosmos. When he reflects in himself all cosmic functions, he measures through himself the possibilities evidenced in Cosmos. The Agni Yogi–Lion of the Desert–bears in his heart all human lamentations. He bears all explosions of Cosmos and senses all shiftings of consciousness. He bears all the streamings of cosmic currents. He possesses that synthesizing knowledge which attests the gathering of manifested spirits for the regeneration of consciousness. When a synthesis of spirit is built, from the cosmic fires and the psycho-life of the heart, then man can be told that the centers of cosmic fires show analogy to the centers of Cosmos, that this parallel relation can grant a better life, and that the principle of creativeness is established as infinite fire, as infinite vision, as infinite hearing, as the all-containing heart. Strive toward attestation of the Fire of Infinity! Infinity I, 200. 10. To behold with the eyes of the heart; to listen with the ears of the heart of the roar of the world; to peer into the future with the comprehension of the heart; to remember the cumulations of the past through the heart; thus must one impetuously advance upon the path of ascent. Creativeness encompasses the fiery potentiality, and is impregnated with the sacred fire of the heart. Therefore, upon the path to the Hierarchy, upon the path of Great Service, upon the path of Communion, synthesis is the one luminous path of the heart. How can the manifested rays be radiated if the flame is not affirmed in the heart? It is precisely the quality of the magnet that is inherent in the heart. The highest creativeness is imbued with this great law. Hence, each consummation, each union, each great cosmic unification is achieved through the flame of the heart. By what means can the foundation of the great steps be laid? Verily, only through the heart. Thus the arcs of consciousness are fused by the flame of the heart. Thus, we shall keep in memory the beauteous attraction of the magnet of the heart, which links all manifestations. Verily, the silver thread that links the Teacher with the disciple is the great magnet of the heart. The union between Teacher and disciple affirms the essence of all evolutions.
by Lori Melnitsky, MA CCC-SLP Homework, tests, acne, and dating are stressful enough for teenagers. Imagine on top of that not being able to easily say your name or confidently ask a question in class. It’s no wonder teenagers don’t want to deal with issues as devastating as stuttering. Stuttering is characterized as a disruption in the normal flow of speech fluency. A person who stutters might prolong sounds, repeat whole or parts of words or use filler words, such as um, like, uh. Sometimes a person who stutters opens their mouth to say a word and nothing comes out. They might also display secondary characteristics such as eye blinking or kicking their leg to force a word out. Many people who stutter will substitute words, or say as little as possible to avoid talking. Many students will often choose to say “I don’t know” in class rather than risk stuttering. Others will select an undesired food item at a restaurant because it is easier for them to say. When such avoidance tactics are used, it leads to feelings of fear and isolation. Stuttering is a communication disorder that affects over 3 million people in the United States. Its exact cause is unknown, but it is thought to be physiological in nature. The good news is that many people have overcome the challenges of stuttering through speech therapy, hard work and persistence. Speech therapy can teach specific fluency tools and support groups can help overcome feelings of isolation. It takes continuous practice with specific drills to learn how to speak without tension. The teen years often produce increasing motivational factors that encourage teenagers to seek out improvement in fluency. These include dating, participating in class, trying out for school plays and making new friends. There are several important things family members can do while listening to their child’s dysfluent speech pattern. It is important for parents and family members to listen to what their child says rather than how it is said, not interrupt, and not say “slow down” or “relax and take a deep breath”. Although this advice is given with good intention, it can actually exacerbate stuttering. Also, if your child isn’t using the fluency tools taught to them, it might be due to feelings of embarrassment and fears of being perceived as different. The Stuttering Foundation of America (www.stutteringhelp.org) and National Stuttering Association (www.westutter.org) are excellent online resources for teenagers and their families. Parents need to realize that even though their child may not be “cured”, there is help available through speech therapy, practice groups and support groups. It is however, important to seek out a therapist who specializes in stuttering treatment. If your child has received speech therapy previously and did not appear to make progress, don’t despair. Many people who eventually improved their fluency felt they were not initially helped in the past. Why? It’s possible the therapist you saw did not specialize in stuttering therapy. Also, there are different approaches to stuttering treatment and you may not have found the one that works best for you and your child. Finding the appropriate therapist is often a difficult task. Although the tools your child learns might appear simple to use, they are often quite difficult to apply in conversational speaking situations. Truthfully, therapy is often stopped too quickly without adequate time allotted for maintenance. It takes a skilled therapist to work with your child in transferring newly learned skills into everyday speaking situations. Teenagers often become increasingly motivated to seek out speech therapy due to the realization that effective communication skills are needed to succeed in academic, work and social settings. Realistically, it takes determination, motivation and continuous practice to improve fluency!! It is vital to seek out a speech pathologist that specializes in stuttering treatment. For more information, please contact Lori Melnitsky. Lori is a speech language pathologist (SLP) who stuttered severely as a child and overcame communication obstacles to become a stuttering specilialist. She is the chapter leader of TWST (Teens who Stutter-National Stuttering Association) and founder of the LI Stuttering Connection (a practice group for people who stutter). Lori is in private practice in Plainview, NY and treats children and adults who stutter as well as other speech and language disorders. She is Lidcombe Trained and PROMPT Certified. Lori can be contacted at 516-776-0184 or via e-mail: Lori@allislandspeech.com (www.allislandspeech.com)
Introducing Dream Medicine The practice of discovering insight from our dreams and then integrating the energies into the healing of mind, body and spirit is good medicine... Introducing Dream Medicine Working with dreams is good medicine. It is a practice of discovering insight from our dreams and then integrating the energies into the healing of mind, body and spirit using those healing dreams. The power of healing dreams has been recognized since ancient times. Dreams were credited in the earliest known medical book, The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, dating back to the third century BC. They were held in high regard by both Greek and Roman physicians including Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen of Pergamum. By the second century AD, there were more than 300 active temples for healing throughout Greece and the Roman Empire. Most of these were dedicated to the god, Aesclepius. In these temples, the primary healing practice was the use of dreams as a vehicle for both diagnosis and treatment. With the fall of the Roman Empire and throughout the Dark Ages, the importance of dream healing began to fade and remained dormant for centuries. By the 19th century there was growing awareness of the existence and importance of the “unconscious.” Then at the beginning of the 20th century, through the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, the “healing dream” was reexamined. The importance of dreams as a major factor in the healing process was once again acknowledged and appreciated. Today, working with dreams and dream healing is practiced not only by many psychiatrists, analysts, and psychologists but also by physicians in the integrative medicine movement, a growing movement that brings together alternative and complementary practices with standard medical care. Larry Dossey, M.D., in his book, The Reinvention of Medicine, advocates the use of dream medicine as part of the diagnostic process. Bernie Siegel, M.D. is a surgeon who for many years has encouraged patients to explore their dreams. He joins Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., Andrew Weil, M.D. and many other physicians who teach complementary and integrative healing practices, including dreams, to students in medical schools. In the 1980's, psychoneuroimmunology researcher, Candace Pert, Ph.D., discovered that even tiny immune cells have receptors for neuropeptides, which she nicknamed “molecules of emotion”. She emphasized that for maximum functioning of the immune system, it is important to free any emotions that are blocked and to find creative expression for all emotions. Working with dreams is a process for approaching this goal. Candace Pert has worked with her own dreams for many years. The Nightmare as a Medicine Dream Can a nightmare be a healing dream after all? Dreams highlight inner conflicts that produce hidden stress. Dreams help to identify fear, anger, loss of control, and other attitudes and emotions that produce stress and inhibit immune functioning. Nightmares are therefore particularly important. Nightmares help pinpoint issues, attitudes and emotions that need transformation. When nightmares are confronted, the symbols and energy they carry begin to transform in a direction of strength and resolution. These transformed attitudes and emotions positively affect the immune system. Though dreams spotlight fears and conflicts, they also lead toward a sense of hope and a sense of purpose. Research shows that a sense of hope and purpose correlates with immune enhancement. Working with a "medicine dream" over time brings an experience of a compelling movement toward completion and wholeness; an experience of a growing synthesis among conflicting thoughts and patterns of behavior. Research confirms that a sense of unity and harmony corresponds not only with enhanced immune functioning but also with multiple indicators of good health. *Working with dreams over time evokes a strong sense of connection with awesome supportive Presence. Carl Jung called this powerful, central energy the Self. Jung taught that encounter with this awesome “numinous” power is the primary path to healing experience. Dreams often bring a sense of connection with this healing power. Such experiences affirm that working with dreams is good medicine. Additional information about her work with cancer patients can be found on her web site, www.healingpowerofdreams.com. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org and invites your comments and suggestions. About the Author Every aspect of working with dreams positively impacts immune functioning.
The keyword/phrase "fulfill that duty" relates to, and is part of, the classification(s) listed below, as used in the text or auxiliary documents of the QUFD website and in Father Jerome's scientific writings. philosophy of mind theology of reality Veil of Separation Veil of Unknowing The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is: The term refers to Jerome's reference to the old days, in the early times of our nation and society, when representative democracy was apropos to the necessity of fulfilling the duty to vote, in that many individual voters just could not attend each and every vote-taking-meeting and thusly "representatives" were necessary. In today's society, with the advent of modern technology and more, the need and reality for truly participatory democracy is now greater than ever. Father Jerome's DICTIONARY of KEYWORDS/PHRASES used in his scientific writings and at his QUFD website Father Jerome's PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL DICTIONARY of Terms/Phrases used in Monograph III of his QUALIA Series Father Jerome's SPECIALIZED DICTIONARY of KEYWORDS/PHRASES pertaining to Bose-Einstein Condensates of Non-Matter and Incorporeality, as used in his Works, in QUFD Physics and in the 'QUFD Textbook' Website Also see Father Jerome's BLOG, for info about his latest Book, "God, Lucifer and You! A ScienceBook of Quantum Physics and Reality, for 5 year old Kids and Adults!"
Let Go Of Your Mad Baggage Part of the Spiritual Path! Book On Anger And What To Do About It! A funny book about anger? Mads! What are we to do with those sudden bursts of irrational anger that come about unexpectedly? How To Let Go Of Your Mad Baggage is the book for you if you want to learn about dealing with those pesky emotions that keep popping up and keep you stewed up. If you are a human being reading this, then you probably have some mad baggage. Wouldn't you like to learn to let it go? Our world would be a peaceful place if more people let go of their anger. Let Go of Your Mad Baggage expands on the energies of anger as described by The Celestine Prophesy, which illustrated how negative energies spread from one person to another. This humorous book teaches you to view anger as a spiritual lesson from which to learn. The book provides peaceful, practical tools for dealing with conflict and confrontation. It explores the spiritual dimensions of being a human being who has the emotion of anger and how to move from anger to empowerment. It offers peaceful solutions to the deep seated anger present on our planet. book promotes peaceful ways to change the world. We humans can learn to use our anger constructively to improve our society, as did Ghandi, Martin Luther King and other peacemakers. How To Let Go of Your Mad Baggage offers hope and humor as it shows readers how to observe and detach from strong emotions, and learn to accept and balance their emotions. It helps us to create peaceful solutions to our angry, chaotic times. We can use our oh-so-human anger constructively to change our world!
MEMBER ALERT: AOPA will be closing at 1:45 p.m. Eastern on Dec. 6 and will reopen at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on Dec. 9. March 1, 2006 It's quite surprising that in addition to all the information a pilot must remember in order to fly safely, there are important data the FAA doesn't expect us to know. Military training routes, or MTRs, are a prime example. Short of being able to identify them as thin gray lines on the sectional chart, most pilots understand very little about the military's means of moving from point A to point B. (See " How Low Do They Go?" January 2005 Pilot.) MTRs are classified into two categories — instrument routes, or IRs, and visual routes, or VRs. The basic difference between them is altitude. Instrument routes are flown under instrument flight rules above 1,500 feet agl. Logically then, visual routes are flown under visual flight rules on or below 1,500 feet agl. The key thing to consider when crossing that thin gray line on the chart is that there is no telling (without being advised by air traffic control, that is) what is coming the other direction. More important, there's no indication as to how fast it is going. In most cases, the FAA restricts civil aircraft to fewer than 250 knots indicated airspeed below 10,000 feet msl. But this isn't the case with military aircraft on MTRs. In fact, count on aircraft flying along these routes to be sailing well in excess of 250 knots. This obviously makes closure rates much faster than those normally encountered below 10,000 feet. Ultimately, speed is the purpose for MTRs. They are developed in order to allow the military to practice tactical, often low-altitude, flying. There are routes for slower military aircraft, called "slow routes," but the FAA doesn't chart these. It's also important to consider that the charts are somewhat misleading in their depiction of MTRs. Whereas Victor airways typically extend four nautical miles from either side of the center of the airway; MTR widths vary even within a single route. For example, a proposed route in Texas calls for widths from about four miles to nine miles. This of course means you could potentially encounter fast-moving traffic in a greater area than what you simply see on the chart. The best place to find useful information on MTRs is in the Aeronautical Information Manual at AOPA Online. And as always, give the professional staffers of AOPA's Pilot Information Center a call at 800/USA-AOPA. They can assist with all aviation matters during business hours from Monday through Friday. Answers to frequently asked questions about your AOPA membership Q: Where can I buy an AOPA shirt or other merchandise with the AOPA logo? A: You can order a wide variety of AOPA insignia products from Sporty's Pilot Shop. 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And if you use an AOPA Mastercard or Visa, we'll give you a $2 discount every year that you participate in the program. Q: I can't log into the members-only section of the Web site. What should I do? A: If you aren't able to gain access after typing in your username and password, use the Forgot Password link on the login page and we'll send a new password to the e-mail address that you have on file with us. If you're still having trouble, contact us. Member Services contact information: Phone: 800/USA-AOPA (872-2672), 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday After hours: Renew your membership, reset your Web password, or enroll in Automatic Annual Renewal using our self-service touch-tone phone option. Web: Update your personal information, renew your membership, and much more by clicking on My AOPA in the left column of our home page. FAA Procedures and Services SocialFlight users can now publish events via Facebook and Twitter. Candler Field Flying Club is a young group focused on teaching young people to fly. Thought about participating in a charitable flying event? Many nonprofit groups host a day at the airport in which volunteer pilots can give flights to eager fledglings. Check with your local airport about what may be scheduled for 2014. AOPA thanks our members for their continued support in protecting the freedom to fly.
How Caregiving is Defined Some studies require a minimum amount of care to be provided by a family member (e.g., 4 hours per day or help with at least one activity of daily living or ADL). Others simply require some level of impairment on the part of the care-recipient (e.g. having two impairments in instrumental activities of daily living or IADLs). Using a lower threshold for defining a person as a “caregiver” can be beneficial for recruiting a larger sample, but some of the individuals identified may actually be doing little or no “hands-on” caregiving (particularly with respect to ADLs). This can be an important issue because studies that include caregivers who have minimal caregiving responsibilities may show less impact of family caregiving.
OECD Talks Convergence, Creativity, Confidence - Answers Welcome! Universal access to networks also was mentioned as key by Anriette Esterhuysen of the Association for Progressive Communication (APC). In her closing remarks for civil society, she said, “Without universal broadband access the benefit of the internet will be superficial.” Waiting to bring access for all could cost hundreds of thousands of lives, Esterhuysen said. Read the full article here Read the OECD Seoul declaration
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow by A. B. Mitford Tales of Old Japan Once upon a time there lived a little old man and a little old woman. The little old man had a kind heart, and he kept a young sparrow, which he cared for tenderly. Every morning it used to sing at the door of his house. Now, the little old woman was a cross old thing, and one day when she was going to starch her linen, the sparrow pecked at her paste. Then she flew into a great rage and cut the sparrow's tongue and let the bird fly away. When the little old man came home from the hills, where he had been chopping wood, he found the sparrow gone. "Where is my little sparrow?" asked he. "It pecked at my starching-paste," answered the little old woman, "so I cut its evil tongue and let it fly away." "Alas! Alas!" cried the little old man. "Poor thing! Poor thing! Poor little tongue-cut sparrow! Where is your home now?" And then he wandered far and wide seeking his pet and crying, "Mr. Sparrow, Mr. Sparrow, where are you And he wandered on and on, over mountain and valley, and dale and river, until one day at the foot of a certain mountain he met the lost bird. The little old man was filled with joy and the sparrow welcomed him with its sweetest song. It led the little old man to its nest-house, introduced him to its wife and small sparrows, and before him all sorts of good things to eat and "Please partake of our humble fare," sang the sparrow, "poor as it is, you are welcome." "What a polite sparrow," answered the little old man, and he stayed for a long time as the bird's guest. At last one day the little old man said that he must take his leave and return home. "Wait a bit," said the sparrow. And it went into the house and brought out two wicker baskets. One was very heavy and the "Take the one you wish," said the sparrow, "and good fortune go with you." "I am very feeble," answered the little old man, "so I will take the light one." He thanked the sparrow, and, shouldering the basket, said good-bye. Then he trudged off leaving the sparrow family sad and lonely. When he reached home the little old woman was very angry, and began to scold him, saying, "Well, and pray where have you been all these days? A pretty thing, indeed, for you to be gadding about like this!" "Oh," he replied, "I have been on a visit to the tongue-cut sparrow, and when I came away it gave me this wicker basket as a parting gift." Then they opened the basket to see what was inside, and lo and behold! it was full of gold, silver, and other precious things! The little old woman was as greedy as she was cross, and when she saw all the riches spread before her, she could not contain herself for joy. "Ho! Ho!" cried she. "Now I'll go and call on the sparrow, and get a pretty present, too!" She asked the old man the way to the sparrow's house and set forth on her journey. And she wandered on and on over mountain and valley, and dale and river, until at last she saw the "Well met, well met, Mr. Sparrow," cried she. "I have been looking forward with much pleasure to seeing you." And then she tried to flatter it with soft, sweet words. So the bird had to invite her to its nest-house, but it did not feast her nor say anything about a parting gift. At last the little old woman had to go, and she asked for something to carry with her to remember the visit by. The sparrow, as before, brought out two wicker baskets. One was very heavy and the other light. The greedy little old woman, choosing the heavy one, carried it off with her. She hurried home as fast as she was able, and closing her doors and windows so that no one might see, opened the basket. And, lo and behold! out jumped all sorts of wicked hobgoblins and imps, and they scratched and pinched her to As for the little old man he adopted a son, and his family grew rich and prosperous.
I'm going to say this very simply ignoring all intricacies.... Push - treat the film as higher ISO than rated on box Pull - treat the film as lower ISO than rated on box Stop - relative unit measure of exposure. 1 stop means twice as much or half as much So say you have a film rated at ISO 400. If you put it in your camera and set your ISO dial to 800, you are PUSHing. Further, you are pushing by ONE stop because your aperture/shutter speed combination will provide half as much light to the film. Also, say you have a film rated at ISO 400. If you set your camera to ISO 200, you are PULLing. Further, you are pulling it by ONE stop because your film will get exposed twice as much. Because your film will be over/under exposed, most of the time, development time gets adjusted. Typically more or less 20 to 25%. This is done to get the density/darkness of the film about right. It gets infinitely complex from here but that's pretty much the basics.
Source Citation: A Genealogist's Best Friend Have you heard the saying that "Diamonds are a girl's best friend?" Well, source citations should be considered a genealogist's best friend. You might think that genealogy documentation or the family tree is most important, but without the source citations, the documentation and therefore, family tree are not worth much. Unfortunately for most of us, genealogy is a passion that sometimes overrides good sense. The mystery of an ancestor, just like a diamond, evokes many emotions. Whether research results are a birth certificate, a tombstone or even a family history, the adventure of the search, the excitement of the find and the consuming obsession to find that next genealogy diamond is overwhelming. Once the genealogy 'happy dance' is done, this passion for finding another genealogy diamond causes many family researchers and genealogists to skip the source citation. Yes, it can be difficult to remember what to record for each type of documentation and the extra copies for title pages, etc. does cost more. These excuses will put you in source citation purgatory - a place where genealogists have reams of documentation, but no source citations to prove them. It is a genealogy existential hell and my personal example is this photo of my great, great grandparents' tombstone. This wonderful photo has valuable names and dates, but I have no idea which cemetery it is!! Source: Butler S. and Norma E. Smiser tombstone; Unknown section, Unknown Lot, Unknown Cemetery, Atoka (Atoka County), Oklahoma; photo taken by Melody K. Porter August 2006; GenealogyArchives.com. A diamond would never be accepted without citation of accepted standards (4 C's - clarity, color, cut and carats), a genealogy diamond needs one, too. Without a reference for genealogical documentation, vital components are lost that downgrade the documentation and family history that uses it. Are you a collector of diamonds without sources? Beware. Many of you are thinking, so what? I have copies of documentation or a picture of the tombstone and I know the data was good. However, if you have found a diamond for your documentation that attests to your family data, citations are a must to establish value. You cannot just look at a diamond and know if it is real and the same is true of documentation. Falsifying documentation is not uncommon and genealogy is no exception. Whenever documentation is found, there are three reasons to record the source citation. The 3 C's for providing genealogy documentation standards are different than for diamonds, but incredibly important. They are Confirmation, Comparison and Confidence. Any documentation may seem to provide confirmation or it may even have some items that confirm and conflict. However, years from now if someone else is reviewing your genealogy, how will they know that this documentation is not a fake? If a grandchild wants to use your data for a lineage society or to write a book, they must have a source citation. Confirmation is provided not only by the document, but by the ability of the readers to check out the item for themselves. The standard for genealogy now requires a source citation to validate your claim. Like any diamond, it must be graded to be accepted and the source citation is the grade for genealogy. In addition, there are other reasons for confirmation of sources. How many times have you found a document in other genealogies or online that perfectly corroborates a date or a place in your family history, but you have no idea where it came from? If this has happened to you, then you know the mighty source citation can also be a great time saver. A source citation means that you know where to find this information again and so does everyone else. AND after you have looked it over, you might realize that there is more information to be had from your source. Well, if the source is a mystery, you are at a dead end both for your current document and for any future data it could provide. How do you know what you have? Comparison is an overlooked reason to provide a source citation. Your documentation may confirm a piece of data, but what if more documentation is found that refutes it. Without the source particulars, it will be hard to compare the new documentation. The 4 C's of diamonds are all about comparison shopping and when you have multiple documents with possibly conflicting data, how do you decide which one is more accurate? A source citation is the basis for that comparison. For example, if you have two documents with similar data, only with a source citation for each can you make a assessment on which is more accurate. This is the same judgment that buyers make when comparing diamonds - one is always better than another and that information is imperative in the evaluation process. Genealogists should not forget that they are collectors of diamonds of documentation and they need to be prepared to demonstrate their documentation's worth when necessary. Not all documentation is perfect, but without a source citation, it is at the very least, incomplete. Make your citations as detailed as possible. You can use the MLA format, but genealogy is producing its own set of documentation that is not commonly used in other areas such as for tombstones, quilts, etc. Elizabeth Shown Mills is the source citation guru for genealogy, and has books that give detailed formatting help. Once you have a source citation, the documentation can help confirm data and be used to compare it to additional documentation. Confirmation and Comparison of your documentation are the building blocks for the third C - Confidence. Authentication of your documentation and measuring it against other documentation gives a genealogist Confidence about their family tree. A diamond owner that knows the value of their diamond is proud to display it and you can have that same knowledge and pride in your documentation and family tree by including source citations in your research. Only a researcher who includes source citations in their research documentation can provide the Confirmation, the Comparison and the Confidence to withstand review of the material by others and the opportunity for evaluating new finds. Remember to save yourself from the source citation purgatory that many genealogists find themselves. Just like that girl who proudly wears her diamond, every genealogist should know the source citation is their best friend - so show off by citing that source! Sign up for a free trial account and begin tracing your family history today.Start 7-Day Free Trial »
Lesser Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) \|Size\|\|Body length: 9.5 – 13 cm (2)\| Tail length: 15 - 19 cm (2) \|Weight\|\|45 – 75 g (2)\| Classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (1). This small rodent is sometimes likened to a tiny kangaroo due to its incredibly large hind legs, and hopping form of locomotion (3) (4). The lesser Egyptian jerboa has three toes on each of its hind feet and a very long tail, used for balance when jumping (2) (3). It has large eyes and ears and a rather stubby snout (4), and its coat is a pale or dark sandy colour with a paler underside (5). This species is particularly abundant in Egypt, hence its common name, but its distribution also extends across North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, from Morocco as far east as Iran (1) (5). The lesser Egyptian jerboa inhabits desert areas, which may be either sandy or rocky (1) (5). The lesser Egyptian jerboa is a strictly nocturnal species, feeding on seeds, insects and succulent parts of desert grasses, which it detects using its acute sense of smell. Amazingly, it does not need to drink in order to survive the arid desert conditions, relying on its food to provide it with all its water needs (4) (5) (6). The lesser Egyptian jerboa can travel long distances in search of food, up to ten kilometres a day, which it easily covers thanks to its large feet and hopping stride; the jerboa is known to leap up to three metres in a single bound (6). The lesser Egyptian jerboa lives in burrows, dug in counter clockwise spirals with its forelimbs and teeth, which it uses for a variety of functions. The permanent burrows are often complex systems with multiple entrances and exits, consisting of storage chambers, hibernation chambers and a nesting chamber at the very bottom. The burrows are well-hidden and sealed with a plug of sand in late spring and summer to keep the heat out and moisture in, providing an ideal place for the animal to rest, evade predators and escape from the heat of the day. During particularly hot or dry spells the jerboa will aestivate in the burrow and in winter it is thought to hibernate, but this has only been reported in a few individuals (5) (6) (7). Not much is known about the breeding habits of jerboas due to their solitary and nocturnal nature. However, breeding is known to occur at least twice a year, between June to July and from October to December. Males attempt to attract females by performing a bizarre ritual display; standing on its hind legs in front of an approaching female, the male faces his potential mate and then begins to slap the female at regular intervals with his short front limbs. A successful mating usually produces a litter of four to five young that become independent at around eight to ten weeks, and sexually mature at eight to twelve months (1) (8). On the whole, the lesser Egyptian jerboa is silent but when disturbed or handled it can emit grunting noises or shrill shrieks (6). The lesser Egyptian jerboa is not currently considered to be at risk of extinction, due to its wide range and large population (1). Despite this, the species still faces some threats, primarily hunting for use as bait in falconry and as a food source for humans in certain areas (1). There are currently no specific conservation measures in place for the lesser Egyptian jerboa; however, this species’ range does fall into a number of protected areas (1) (5). This information is awaiting authentication by a species expert, and will be updated as soon as possible. If you are able to help please contact: - Aestivate: to become dormant during the summer or dry season, analogous to hibernation in winter. - Hibernation: a winter survival strategy characteristic of some mammals in which an animal’s metabolic rate slows down and a state of deep sleep is attained. Whilst hibernating, animals survive on stored reserves of fat that they have accumulated in summer. - Nocturnal: active at night. IUCN Red List (March, 2010) - Qumsiyeh, M.B. (1996) Mammals of the Holy Land. Texas Tech University Press, Texas. - Hoath, R. (2009) A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, Egypt. - Hellyer, P. and Aspinall, S. (2005) The Emirates: A Natural History. Trident Press, London. - Nowak, R.M. (1999) Walker's Mammals of the World. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. - Kingdon, J. (1997) The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press Limited, London. - Roots, C. (2006) Nocturnal Animals. Greenwood Press, Westport. BBC Science and Nature (November, 2009)
Submitted to: Proceedings of International Research Conference on Methyl Bromide Alternatives Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: November 9, 2000 Publication Date: November 9, 2000 Citation: Papiernik, S.K., Gan, J., Dungan, R.S., Yates, S.R. 2000. Products of propargyl bromide degradation in soil. Proceedings of International Research Conference on Methyl Bromide Alternatives. Orlando, FL. Nov. 6-9, 2000. Paper No. 27. pp. 27-1 to 27-3. Technical Abstract: Propargyl bromide (PrBr) is being investigated for its potential to partially replace methyl bromide (MeBr) as a soil fumigant. Information on its environmental fate, including mechanisms of degradation, is required to evaluate PrBr's capacity for sustained usage. We have conducted several studies on the degradation on PrBr in soil, and monitored the formation of some of the products of PrBr degradation in soil and water. Results indicated that hydrolysis of PrBr formed PrOH and Br in equimolar amounts: for each mole of PrBr degraded, one mole of PrOH and one mole of Br were formed. Similar results were observed for MeBr. The pattern of product formation indicated that degradation of PrBr in soil was not primarily due to hydrolysis. Degradation of one mole of PrBr formed one mole of Br, but much less than one mole of PrOH. No other degradation products were identified. Similar results were observed for MeBr. The rate of PrBr and MeBr degradation increased with increasing soil organic matter content, consistent with a nucleophilic substitution reaction mechanism. Degradation of 14C-labeled MeBr in soil resulted in the formation of bound (unextractable) residues of the carbon-containing portion of the molecule, with concurrent release of Br. Soil-bound 14C residues increased as the extractable 14C decreased and increased with time, suggesting that degradation of 14C-MeBr was via alkylation of soil organic matter. A similar mechanism is proposed for PrBr degradation in soil.
Submitted to: Meeting Abstract Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: June 15, 2010 Publication Date: September 8, 2010 Citation: Greenlee, J.J., Smith, J.D., Kunkle, R.A. 2010. White-tailed deer are susceptible to sheep scrapie by intracerebral inoculation [abstract]. Prion 4(3):144. Technical Abstract: Interspecies transmission studies afford the opportunity to better understand the potential host range and origins of prion diseases. The purpose of this experiment was to determine susceptibility of white-tailed deer to scrapie after intracerebral inoculation and to compare clinical signs and lesions to chronic wasting disease (CWD). Deer(n=5) were inoculated with 1 ml of a 10% (wt/vol) brain homogenate derived from a sheep clinically affected with scrapie. Non-inoculated deer were maintained as negative controls. Deer were observed daily for clinical signs of disease and euthanized and necropsied when unequivocal signs of TSE were noted. One animal died 7 months post inoculation (PI) due to intercurrent disease. At that time, examination of tissue by IHC and WB were negative. However, deer necropsied at 15-22 months PI were positive for scrapie by IHC and WB. Tissues with PrPd immunoreactivity included brain (at levels of cerebrum, hippocampus, colliculus, cerebellum, and brainstem), trigeminal ganglion, neurohypophysis, retina, spinal cord, and various lymphoid tissues including tonsil, retropharyngeal and mesenteric lymph nodes, peyer’s patches, and spleen. This work demonstrates for the first time that white-tailed deer are susceptible to sheep scrapie by intracerebral inoculation. To further test the susceptibility of white-tailed deer to scrapie these experiments will be repeated with a more natural route of inoculation.
Read about Théodore Géricault in the March 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, where Jerry N. Weiss writes about The Artist’s Left Hand, which Géricault was driven to record while on his deathbed. The following is an excerpt from the article. I’m waiting for Hollywood to make a movie about Théodore Géricault, the progenitor of French Romanticism. A man subject to deep bouts of depression, Géricault was by turns manically creative and recklessly self-destructive. In his mid-20s, he ended a romance with his married aunt, who bore him an illegitimate child, and fled to Italy. Inflamed by the work of Michelangelo, he returned home and made studies for The Raft of the Medusa, an immense canvas that depicted human suffering in the aftermath of a shipwreck; the shipwreck was a national scandal, and The Raft was a masterpiece. It revealed his flair for high drama, as well as the attribute of social consciousness—in one fell swoop, he transformed the convention of history painting into a vehicle for conscientious outrage (painted several years earlier, Goya’s The Third of May ought to have the honor but was probably not exhibited publicly until the mid-1800s). In every sense of the word, The Raft was one of the most sensational paintings of the 19th century.—Jerry N. Weiss Gericault’s ambitious, early work (he was 27) is a vast, Romantic account of what happened after the French naval frigate Meduse foundered off the coast of Mauritania on July 5, 1816. Those on board created a makeshift raft; of the 147 people who embarked on the journey, only 15 survived during 13 days at sea. To research this catastrophic event, during which men resorted to cannibalism, Gericault interviewed survivors and made sketches at a morgue. From the moment it was first exhibited in the Salon, Le Radeau de la Meduse caused controversy, as the tragedy was blamed on the incompetence of the ship’s captain, who had been newly appointed by the restored French monarch, Louis XVIII. Goya’s Third of May is “the first great picture that can be called revolutionary in every sense of the word—in style, in subject, and in intention,” according to Kenneth Clark. Goya’s picture documents the tragic execution of Spanish laborers, rounded up a day after a rebellion of Spaniards against the Napoleon’s invading army. Click here to get your copy of the March 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine and read more about Géricault’s work.
Physicist: There’s more to this than you might think. If you’ve seen a movie involving spaceships of any kind, then you’ve probably seen the wrong answer. We’re used to thinking about airplanes (flying through the air) and walking (on the ground), so the basic intuition we have about how to move around (turning and starting and stopping) doesn’t apply in space. Every possible motion always conserves momentum, which just means “if you want to move, you need to push on something else”. Airplanes can bank in order to turn because they can push on air, and we can get up and walk across the room whenever because we can push on the ground. But in space those luxuries are missing, since there’s nothing to push on. Moving in space is the most frustrating damn thing ever. Think about trying to maneuver on infinitely slippery ice. Worse than that. If you want to turn and face a new direction in space there aren’t a lot of options available to you. One technique is to literally throw things and getting a push from the recoil. If you want to move to the right you need to chuck a bunch of stuff to the left, and if you want to turn one way you have to chuck a bunch of stuff in the other. Flying around like an airplane in space doesn’t work at all (other than slowing down, this is a fair approximation). However, if you just want to turn in space without moving (thrusters always push you around), you can “push on yourself”. This is how the Hubble telescope points at stuff. If it used tiny thrusters it would run out of fuel pretty quick (that thing is always looking at stuff) and it would pollute its tiny corner of space with exhaust. Instead Hubble uses flywheels, which run on electricity, to turn. Scattered throughout Hubble are an arrangement of little motors attached to basically nothing. Just by turning on those motors, and by spinning them in one direction, the entire craft turns (slowly) in the other direction. So, if you want to move in space, you’ve got to move something else, and if you want to turn, turn something else.
Mission, Guiding Principles and Learning Outcomes The Division of Student Services at Augustana College supports the Mission of the College by creating campus environments, programs, and services that promote student success. Our work as administrators, educators, advisers and advocates is focused on teaching through student development, community engagement, personal responsibility, leadership and service. Guiding Principles/Core Values Learning through Student Development - We value the development of mind, spirit and body. Student Services staff members facilitate learning through holistic student development inclusive of the intellectual, social, emotional, vocational, physical and spiritual dimensions. Our approach is to encourage continued growth by challenging and supporting students toward the next level of personal or intellectual development. Community Engagement - We seek to build a community of engagement in which everyone recognizes and respects the individuality, diversity, and interdependence of one another. We believe that student involvement inside and outside the classroom promotes learning and student success. We offer a vast array of programs and activities, facilities and services designed to assist students in achieving a sense of belonging while learning how to be contributing community members. Personal Responsibility - We strive to create a culture of responsibility where students take ownership for their learning and personal needs, and are held accountable for their choices and decisions. Our approach is developmental and encourages students to perform to their highest potential. Leadership and Service - We empower students and student groups, and assist them in developing their potential as leaders and citizens. We forge partnerships beyond our campus to enlighten students of community needs and to encourage student involvement in community and service opportunities. Our approach is to teach and facilitate the development of leadership skills and competencies through active learning and practice in order to create a vibrant, service-oriented campus community. Students will demonstrate competence in life skills (which includes time management, communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution) as a result of professional staff mentoring and through participation in programs such as living/learning communities, student organizations, student employment and other outside the classroom opportunities designed to promote student success. Students will demonstrate multicultural competence through participation in multicultural organizations, community service projects and diversity programs offered on- and off- campus. Additionally, professional staff will expose students to diversity by intentionally engaging them in conversations and creating diverse environments which will challenge students to seek and gain knowledge and understanding of a variety of perspectives. Students will develop leadership competence (which includes the ability to influence others, collaboration, communication, and holding self and others accountable) through professional staff mentoring, leadership programs and practice. Students will practice and hone leadership knowledge and skills through involvement in residence halls, student organizations, athletic teams and other community and co-curricular experiences. Students will develop interpersonal competence (which includes self awareness and critical, satisfying interpersonal relationships, interdependence and self authorship) as a result of peer and professional staff interactions and mentoring, student employment, student organizations, athletic teams and other co-curricular experiences. Students will demonstrate good citizenship by being positive contributors to the greater community and by behaving in ways consistent with institutional values (which includes integrity, accountability, civility, personal wellness, and respect for others and their property).
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 28, 2008 – College students from Illinois and Wisconsin have completed six-week internships at EADS Socata’s headquarters in France as part of an ongoing cooperation with the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) in the “Young Eagles” program. The two students, Margaret A. Viola and Matthew J. Woodruff, are attending this week’s EAA AirVenture show at Oshkosh in Wisconsin, where they will outline their EADS Socata work experience at the Gathering of Eagles Dinner on July 31. The EAA Young Eagles program was launched in 1992 to provide first-hand general aviation experience for young people. This activity is offered free of charge, and is made possible by the generosity of EAA members, its volunteers and corporations. Viola, a student in physics and Chinese at the University of Chicago – and an active EAA volunteer for six years – was tasked with a strategic business case for the company’s general aviation sector during her internship at EADS Socata’s Tarbes, France, headquarters. Woodruff, who is involved in the EAA’s Fond du Lac chapter, and a graduate from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, researched noise regulations for EADS Socata’s next generation of aircraft. Woodruff brought his previous experience as a research assistant at the NASA Langley’s Flight Research Center. “We were highly impressed by our 2008 Young Eagles interns,” said Nicolas Chabbert President of EADS Socata North America. “They brought a high level of enthusiasm, skills, energy and a U.S. viewpoint to our company’s projects, and accomplished a significant amount of work in a limited period of time.” Chabbert added that EADS Socata has agreed with the EAA to continue the Young Eagles project again in 2009. Woodruff and Viola said they appreciated the friendliness and openness of EADS Socata employees, and were impressed by their devotion to work. They found the company to be exciting and fast-paced. "EAA encourages excellence through scholarships and internships among EAA members,” explained Elissa Lines, Vice-President Business Development at the Experimental Aircraft Association. “With the relationship we’ve developed with EADS Socata, we hope to help outstanding students to achieve a career in aviation." About EAA (www.eaa.org) EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, is an international aviation membership association founded in 1953 and headquartered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. EAA sponsors many aviation education programs including the EAA Young Eagles program. More than 170,000 people currently belong to EAA, with local Chapters located in all 50 states and many countries. Members are aviation enthusiasts of every age group, including many airline and commercial pilots, engineers, business people and even astronauts. About EADS Socata (www.socata.eads.net) EADS Socata is one of the world’s leading general aviation manufacturers, with more than 17,000 aircraft built since its creation as Morane-Saulnier in 1911. Current products include the TBM family of high-speed turboprops, TB GT piston aircraft, aerostructures for Airbus civil airliners, the A400M military transporter, Dassault Falcon jets, Eurocopter helicopters and Embraer regional jets. EADS Socata is expanding its customer service activities, to support its growing fleet of TBM and offer its light aviation expertise for aircraft below 5.7 metric tons through avionics modernization, maintenance, repair and overall package offers. Headquartered in Tarbes, France, with North American operations in Pembroke Pines, Florida, EADS Socata is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS group. Dassault Aircraft Services is a Falcon service provider. Falcon warranty. For technical support contact Lawrence Harting at (302) 322-7326 or email@example.com. Hours: 24. Those chosen will visit France for a five-week internship, June 6-July 10, 2007, where they will work at an EADS Socata facility and be exposed to a variety of aviation disciplines.
Financial Aid At ACI At Arizona Culinary Institute we believe the decision to pursue a diploma in Culinary Arts, Baking, and Restaurant Management is a wise one and an investment in your future. We understand that pursuing your post-secondary education is a major decision and one that involves sound financial planning. In order to make the process easier and less intimidating, Arizona Culinary Institute's Financial Aid department provides personal assistance through all phases of the financial planning process. We are pleased to offer a wide variety of financial programs to help you reach your educational goals. Arizona Culinary Institute voluntarily complies with the Arizona Student Loan Code of Conduct. For more information about the Code of Conduct, please click here. Please review our Financial Aid Pamphlet to learn more about financial aid, your eligibility, scholarships and other tuition payment options. Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) NOTE: ACI's FAFSA school code is 041209 To apply for financial aid you must first complete the FAFSA to determine your eligibility for the Federal Pell Grant, Federal Stafford Loan, Federal PLUS Loan and other scholarship programs. This free application can be filled out online by visiting http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ . This website will walk you through the application process- please remember to enter ACI's school code (041209) on the form. Shortly after you receive electronic confirmation from the federal processing center, an ACI Financial Aid Representative will send you a letter outlining your awards and requesting additional information for you to submit. You must respond to this request and honor all deadlines to avoid losing your eligibility. (FAFSAs are reviewed for accepted students only) Apply for Student Loans Enrolled students who have completed their FAFSA and received an award letter from ACI may use one of the links below to apply for their Federal and Alternative Loans. Please remember that your award letter was accompanied by a financial aid packet which included instructions for completing the Master Promissory Note applications for Stafford Loans, Parent PLUS Loans, and Signature Student Loans as well as an optional lender list. Have this packet on hand for reference while applying for loans below.
THE WRITE STUFF The Letters of Noel Coward (Knopf, $37.50) The sheer output of the late Coward – plays, musicals, operettas, revues, movies, television and radio shows, verses, poems, short stories, autobiographies, diaries and a novel – might suggest to future generations that he was actually a brigade of bright young things banded together to bring wit, sophistication and a touch of class to the twentieth century. To this vast mountain of popular writings has been added a new book; at almost 800 pages, it is a massive volume, packed with a seemingly unending pile of trivia and minutia. There is actually painfully little of any worthwhile information not more readily available in the diaries and autobiographies, and the new information frequently falls into gossip or treacle and is not really pertinent to a study of either the artist or his time. Purporting to tell the entire story, finally, of Coward as sort of an effete James Bond-type during World War II, there are letters that state that Coward was a spy for England. This has been said many times before, and the tome offers no new exciting anecdotes, breathless chases or heroic escapes. The backstage gossip is ephemeral to the point of absurdity: Marlene Dietrich had an unrequited crush on Yul Brynner; former Dennis resident Gertrude Lawrence may have had a lesbian relationship with Daphne du Maurier. And the weekly letters to his mother are downright embarrassing. Edited and arranged by Barry Day in a very clever manner including letters to Coward from his famous friends (along with Coward’s replies) it’s important to remember that these pieces were never really meant for publication. The wittier lines were always recycled into the public writings, and, unfortunately, there really isn’t enough new material here to warrant the price or the girth of the work. Day has done yeoman work in turning Coward into his own cottage industry (this is the seventh book he’s done on Coward’s life and work), yet Coward’s own dictum of responsibilities to an audience – shock them, amuse them, entertain them but never bore them – has been sadly ignored in this book. For greater fun, grab the DVD collection, below. FOR THE RECORD Get the Party Started (Lock Stock and Barrel/Decca) There is nothing like a dame. And no one like Dame Shirley Bassey. Loyal readers know that I worship at her shrine; there is simply no greater diva living (and working) today. Case in point: Her new CD, her first new recording in a decade, and released in conjunction with her 70th birthday. Don’t expect easy listening ballads of yesteryear. They’re here, but they have been remixed and reworked by some of music’s biggest techno names. It may be a bit jarring – at first – to hear her trademarks “I (Who Have Nothing),” “You Only Live Twice,” “This is My Life” and “Hey, Big Spender” so daringly twisted, but they work,,, provided you’re not in a car but somewhere where you can crank up the volume. Two of the tunes are brand-new: Pink’s cover of the title tune and “The Living Tree,” an ambitious ditty that many would consider vulgar for a grandmother. (We’re not gonna give it away.) She may not totally change with the times, but Dame Shirley is, unlike many of her contemporaries, smart enough to sway with them… And land herself smack-dab back on the record charts. DVD QUICK PICK The Noel Coward Collection (BBC Video) Throughout the years, the BBC has broadcast any number of Coward’s immensely witty and wise works, and they are here, in what may be called a true embarrassment of riches. They have been cut and re-arranged for television, and some of the casts may leave a bit to be desired, but all in all it’s a great collection of stuff by one of the masters of entertainment of the twentieth century. Margaret Leighton plays the besotted mother in a 1969 broadcast of Coward’s 1924 smash The Vortex; Alec McCowen plays Elyot in a 1976 Private Lives; the ever lovely Rula Lenska essays Gilda, the female corner of a ménage in Design for Living; the magnificent Donald Sinden plays the narcissistic actor in Present Laughter and Geraldine McEwan, Deborah Kerr and Sir Paul Scofield are in Coward’s last masterpiece, Suite in Two Keys. And, as someone once said, you ain’t heard nothing yet. Coward wrote a number of short stories that were, with greater and lesser success, adapted for television. That Coward, a master at play construction, chose to write these in prose should tell us something, and some of these programs have a weary sense of tediousness and lack of focus. However, with British stars such as Tom Courtney, Dame Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Susannah York, and each clocking in at less than an hour, they are curiosities worth investigating. The greatest curiosity is the Joan Collins Repertory Company doing eight of the one-act plays from Tonight at Eight-Thirty. The plays, their casts and production values are quite fantastic. Collins rises to the occasion brilliantly, giving a star turn in each – beautiful, warm, touching, hysterically funny and a far cry from the sex-ridden harridan she usually plays on this side of the pond. Added to this intoxicating mix are several radio adaptations of the plays, including Dame Judi in Hay Fever and Stephen Fry in Private Lives, a bizarre but fascinating 1978 variety television show called The Songwriters that features cabaret like performances of Coward’s songs, and best of all, a couple of BBC interviews with Coward on acting and writing. This collection is a delight, and proves that Coward had vastly more than merely a talent to amuse.
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Atlapedia Online - Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. Multimap - Global mapping service including street maps of Europe, North America and Australia. TerraFly - Searchable aerial views of cities and towns in the United States. United Nations: Cartographic Section - General country and special issues maps. Atlas of the Biosphere - A collection of maps, schematics, and information about human-environment interactions, directed at the education community. Maps of World - Online maps showing countries of the world and continents. Too wide for smaller monitors. TerraServer - View maps and aerial photos of various parts of the Earth. Great Circle Mapper - Shows great circle path between specified points on the globe with an aviation focus. Readmap Project - Online maps collection with political and economical overview of each country. Google Maps - Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as type of business. Expedia Maps - Offers searchable listing in the United States and Europe by address and driving directions. United States Library of Congress Map Collections - Top-level categories include cities and towns, cultural, landscapes, conservation and environment, military battles and campaigns, discovery and exploration, transportation and communication. Searchable by keyword, location, creator, subject, and title. Planet Observer - Displays country and ocean maps, followed by demographic data on each reviewed area. Map Up - Provides continental, oceanic, and country-specific maps, followed by geopolitical analysis. Cornell's Digital Earth - Use this interactive atlas to create maps displaying land, oceans, borders, roads, lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, faults, mines, seismic, and other geological, geographical, and geophysical data. Requires Java. ABMaps - Online interactive map of the world, with detailed street atlas for North America. National Atlas of the United States - U.S. government map portal providing access to many government branches including USGS, Census, U.S. Forest Service, NOAA, National Park Service and others. Maporama - Generates maps for a desired address or point of interest. Output is also viewable on handheld computers. Windows Live Local - Combines online mapping and local search, uses a scratch pad to take notes, and allows to search questions around the United States in a geographical context. Fallingrain Global Gazetteer - Look up countries, cities, and airports and obtain topographic maps, weather data, and selected satellite imagery. Shaded Relief Map of the World - Interactive global map, including topographic relief, satellite imagery, and political information. Includes place finder. World Atlas - Get maps and relevant information about every country, every U.S. state and dozens of major American cities. CIA World Factbook - Reference Maps - Various maps of the world in both jpeg and pdf format that are updated annually. Worldmapper - A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on according to the subject of interest.
First regular hi-definition television service 2 November 1936 At 3pm on 2 November 1936 the BBC began the world's first regular hi-definition television service, from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace in North London. As part of this, two different technical systems were being tested on alternate weeks for six months: John Logie Baird's mechanical system producing pictures of 240 lines, and the EMI-Marconi electronic system, which produced images of 405 lines. On the toss of a coin, Baird's system inaugurated the service, followed by EMI-Marconi's. The latter was to prove the winning system. The formal opening ceremony was followed by a Movietone newsreel and then a variety show, featuring Adele Dixon and the BBC Television Orchestra. A short documentary, Television Comes to London, revealed the preparations leading up to the launch. In all, the service was on the air for two hours on its first day. BBC Director General John Reith did not like the new medium, and in later life said he never watched television. However, he was in a minority as television became the dominant medium of the twentieth century. The term hi-definition as used in 1936 was defined as a minimum of 240 lines, and was applied in contrast to Baird's earlier system which used only 30. Today, standard definition at 625 lines is being replaced by digital hi-definition, which offers picture resolution of 1080 lines. Hancock's Half-Hour 2 November 1954 Hancock's Half-Hour started on 2 November 1954 and ran on radio and later on television until 1961. The first episode of Hancock's Half-Hour was The First Night Party. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Tony Hancock was Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock. Hancock was surrounded by a cast of supporting players, chiefly Bill Kerr as his best friend, Sid James as a questionable friend, and Moira Lister as his girlfriend. Also in the first episode were Gerald Campion as Coatsleeves Charlie and Kenneth Williams as Lord Dockyard. Hancock was already known to radio listeners from Educating Archie and Star Bill. Galton and Simpson took Hancock's character as it appeared in Star Bill and developed a more subtle, reactive style of comedy that put the curmudgeonly man at the centre of the action. Together with Hancock and producer Dennis Main Wilson they helped to popularise the situation comedy format. Galton and Simpson went on to create Steptoe and Son and remain one of Britain's most successful comedy writing teams. Main Wilson continued to produce comedies including Till Death Us Do Part and Citizen Smith. He died in 1997. Hancock never recaptured the success of Hancock's Half-Hour, and died in 1968. However, such was its influence that 40 years after the last original episode was transmitted, Tony Hancock was voted the greatest British comedian of all time. Life with the Lyons 5 November 1950 Life with the Lyons was first heard on 5 November 1950. The situation comedy was written by popular American actress Bebe Daniels, who starred in it along with her real life family - husband Ben Lyon, and children Barbara and Richard. Daniels played a scatterbrained version of herself, and the script drew on events from her own domestic life. The show attracted over 11 million listeners, and transferred to television, the West End stage, and became a feature film. Daniels and Lyon were a well known Hollywood couple - Daniels had starred in many films including Rio Rita and 42nd St. They were appreciated by British radio audiences for choosing to remain in London during the war to make Hi Gang, which continued on air throughout the Blitz. By the time Life with the Lyons started the family were settled, with Barbara studying at RADA and Richard at school in the country. The sitcom reflected their real lives to the extent that when Daniels and Lyon moved home, the sitcom family moved too. Life with the Lyons ran until 1961. After two series on the BBC the television version transferred to ITV, but continued on BBC radio. As one of the first family situation comedies it formed the template for many sitcoms that followed, up to and including My Family and Outnumbered. The Goodies 8 November 1970 The Goodies made their television debut on 8 November 1970. The Radio Times described the show, featuring an agency of three men who promised to do "anything, anytime", as a situation comedy. However, it was full of cartoon humour, with slapstick visuals and surreal diversions. The tone was set by the Goodies favoured mode of transport, a bicycle made for three - or trandem - on which they made their wobbly way. The Goodies was written by and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, who had previously worked together on sketch show Broaden Your Mind. The characters they played were exaggerated versions of themselves. As described by Bill Oddie, "Tim is the respectable front-man, representative of the Establishment, Graeme plays the back-room boy who produces all the clever stuff and me, I'm the aggressive one". Music, written by Oddie, was a big feature of the programme, and The Goodies had considerable chart success with their comedy songs, such as The Funky Gibbon. The Goodies ran until 1980 on the BBC before moving to ITV for two seasons. All three performers have had subsequent success on BBC programmes. The show's lasting influence can be seen in comedies such as The Mighty Boosh and We Are Klang. BBC Radio Leicester opens 8 November 1967, local radio network launched Radio Leicester went on air on 8 November 1967. The station was the pioneer in the BBC's experimental local radio network, the first of 8, broadcasting on VHF. It was joined later in the month by Sheffield and Merseyside. Local radio was very much the brainchild of Frank Gillard - the former war reporter turned Director of Radio - who saw it as a chance to present "the running serial story of local life in all its aspects". Radio Leicester opened with speeches from the Postmaster General and the Lord Mayor of Leicester. Following a preview of forthcoming programmes, came Insight: The Fire Service, For Children, The Leicester Scene, At Your Request, Termtime – about education in the area - and then, before the news and weather, highlights of the Lord Mayor's Lunch. The significance of the launch was underlined by the fact that the listings were featured in the national press. Local radio stations overcame suspicions that their content was purely trivial, proving their worth in their response to regional weather stories. The government put the experiment on a permanent footing in 1969, and gave permission to expand the number of stations. Today there are 40 BBC local radio stations serving England. Monitor - Elgar by Ken Russell 11 November 1962 The 100th edition of the arts television programme Monitor was broadcast on 11 November 1962. It was a special film dedicated to the life of Edward Elgar, made by Ken Russell. A straightforward documentary approach was abandoned, in favour of what is now known as docu-drama, with actors taking the parts of Elgar and his family. However, there was no dialogue and only a dry commentary from Huw Wheldon. Instead Russell filled the soundtrack with Elgar's music and created a serious yet expressive film that has become a classic of its type. Elgar was filmed in the composer's homes, and in and around Gloucester and the Malvern Hills, where he lived for much of his life. The cameraman was Ken Higgins. Edwardian archive footage completed the picture. The artifice of the dramatized scenes was emphasised by the closing credits, which showed stills of the film crew at work. The programme revealed the breadth of Elgar’s music and aided his rehabilitation following several decades of relative obscurity. Russell's success with Monitor led directly to feature films, though he also made more programmes for the BBC, on subjects including Debussy and Bartok. Russell died in 2011, but today it is standard practice for documentaries to contain the dramatizations of the sort that he pioneered. Panorama 11 November 1953 The world's longest running current affairs programme was first aired at 8:15pm on 11 November 1953. Panorama was the brainchild of Dennis Bardens and Andrew Miller Jones and originally intended as 'a fortnightly reflection of the contemporary scene'. Yet despite an audience of almost half of the adult viewing public, the first show was very nearly the last, following a number of technical hitches and a shaky performance by host Patrick Murphy. The programme was taken off air for a month, and when the second edition was broadcast it was presented by Max Robertson. Despite this uncertain start, Panorama gained new ground and in 1955 it was revamped as a 'window on the world', extending its running time to an hour and recasting Richard Dimbleby as the front man. It became responsible for a number of television firsts, including broadcasting the birth of a baby in 1957 and interviewing a member of the royal family, the Duke of Edinburgh in 1961. From frontline reporting such as the 1970 interview with King Hussein of Jordan as civil war broke out, to the humour of the 1957 April Fool's Day spaghetti crop film, Panorama has been the face of BBC current affairs for sixty years. The BAFTA and Emmy winning programme continues to break new ground and new stories. BBC begins daily transmissions from 2LO Station, 14 November 1922 On 14 November 1922 the BBC began daily radio broadcasts. The first programme, at 6 pm, was a news bulletin, supplied by news agencies. This was followed by a weather forecast, prepared by the Met Office. They were read by Arthur Burrows, Director of programmes. Burrows read the bulletin twice, once fast and then slowly, so that listeners could take notes if they wished. The broadcasts came from 2LO, the transmitter in The Strand that the new British Broadcasting Company acquired from Marconi for the purpose. 2LO got its name from the number of the Post Office broadcasting licence issued to Marconi. The BBC was initially restricted in what and when it could broadcast, amid fears from the government that it would drown out official communications, and from the newspapers that it would steal their readers. As listeners and broadcasters began to realise the potential of the radio to entertain as well as inform, the call sign "2LO calling" became well known. BBC broadcasts from Birmingham and Manchester started the following day, adding innovations such as the first children's programme. Gradually the restrictions on broadcasting were relaxed, and radio became an integral part of life in Britain. The 2LO transmitter is now in the Science Museum in London, preserved as an icon of broadcasting history. Colour television on BBC One 15 November 1969 BBC One launched a full colour service on 15 November 1969. At midnight, An Evening with Petula - Petula Clark in concert from the Royal Albert Hall, was the first transmission. The channel then closed down until 10am. Programmes showing in colour on the 15th included Star Trek and Dixon of Dock Green, The Harry Secombe Show and Match of the Day, plus the feature film The Prisoner of Zenda. The launch of the colour service was preceded by a promotional programme Colourful One, in which Julian Pettifer looked forward to the advent of colour on BBC One, and Maurice Wiggin of the Sunday Times offered an analysis of the pros and cons of colour broadcasting. The new service was also extended to ITV, bringing it and BBC One in line with BBC Two, which had been offering colour programmes - including Wimbledon, the Olympic Games and The Eurovision Song Contest - since 1967. BBC One was initially only available in colour to about 50% of households, as transmitter upgrades took time to install, but by 1978, 11 million homes had a colour licence as viewers saw for themselves the benefits of colour television. Cathy Come Home 16 November 1966 Cathy Come Home was broadcast on 16 November 1966, in the regular Wednesday Play slot. The drama, written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach, exposed Britain's chronic housing shortage. It follows the story of Cathy Ward, played by Carol White, on a downward spiral from young mother - living with husband Reg in a new flat "with parquet flooring and tin openers fixed to the walls" - to the point where she is homeless and alone. In the memorable final scene her children are forcibly taken from her by Social Services and put into care. Cathy Come Home demonstrated the ability of television drama to affect audiences, put homelessness on the public agenda, and gave a huge boost to the charity Shelter. The play was mostly filmed on location using hand held cameras. The naturalistic action was contextualised by a voiceover that provided facts on the housing crisis. The issues raised by the drama were widely debated, and policy changes followed, so families were not broken up so readily. Cathy Come Home was voted the best drama in the BFI100 poll of British Television. Stanford went on to write Edna the Inebriate Woman. Loach has had notable success in the cinema, from Kes, to The Wind that Shakes the Barley. The BBC has continued to make original dramas that raise social concerns, such as the acclaimed Five Daughters. The Singing Detective 16 November 1986 The first episode of The Singing Detective, Dennis Potter's original drama series, aired on 16 November 1986. The drama, in which Potter's non-naturalistic style was perfected, was directed by John Amiel and produced by Kenith Trodd. The cast featured a BAFTA Award winning performance from Michael Gambon, with support from Bill Paterson, Imelda Staunton, Joanne Whalley, Patrick Malahide, Alison Steadman, and Janet Suzman. The success of the drama was not compromised by the controversy surrounding a sex scene in episode three. Gambon played a writer called Marlow, hospitalised by psoriatic arthropathy - the same condition that affected Potter. As Marlow lay in bed he hallucinated scenes from his novel, which also featured a character called Marlow, and from his childhood in the 1940s. The different elements of the plot were united by the use of vintage songs in musical sequences, and characters would lip synch to old recordings. Elements of Potter's life appeared in the drama, but he always denied that it was autobiographical. Today The Singing Detective is recognised as a high point in television drama, which acted as a successful calling card in the participant's subsequent careers. When Potter died in 1994 the series was repeated. Although it is such a singular work and hard to emulate, it was remade in the US in 2004. Its influence can also be seen in the musical drama Blackpool. Start of television broadcasts from the House of Commons, 21 November 1989 First discussed in 1964, television cameras were finally allowed to transmit proceedings live from the House of Commons on Tuesday 21 November 1989. The first broadcast was of the Queens's Speech Debate, with Ian Gow the first MP to speak. Broadcasting came to Parliament gradually, with regular radio broadcasts from the House of Commons starting in 1978, and television entering the House of Lords in 1985. Filming of the Commons was heavily regulated. Eight cameras were installed and allowed to film head and shoulder shots of any MP who was speaking, shots of the Speaker and occasional wide shots of the entire chamber. Reaction shots of MPs were not permitted, and the rules agreed by the Select Committee on Televising of Proceedings of the House stated that this applied particularly during "incidents of disorder or altercations between the Chair and other Members". These rules were relaxed as the experiment was a success, arguments that television would somehow trivialise Parliament were swept away, and MPs realised the benefits of having their words reach a wider audience. Today almost all proceedings of both houses of Parliament are available on the dedicated channel BBC Parliament. First TV gardening programme 21 November 1936 Television gardening began on 21 November 1936 when Mr Middleton presented In Your Garden from a purpose-built garden at Alexandra Palace. The programme was in the first month of the BBC's official television service, at a time when very few people had television sets. However, it inaugurated a programme genre that has remained an evergreen favourite. Cecil Henry Middleton - invariably called Mr Middleton - was a well established voice on the radio, known for his relaxed tone at a time when many radio voices were stilted and formal. Introducing Mr Middleton to television was a move intended to provide more popular programming and encourage the uptake of televisions. By the end of 1937 some 2000 sets had been sold. When the war started the television service ended for the duration. Mr Middleton became involved with the war effort on the radio, and the Dig for Victory campaign that encouraged people to grow their own food crops. Mr Middleton died in 1945 but television resumed after the war, and eventually programmes such as Gardening Club and In the Garden made new gardening stars, like Percy Thrower. Gardeners' World began in 1968, and continues to flourish through changing fashions in horticulture. Doctor Who first episode 23 November 1963 The first episode of Doctor Who was aired on 23 November 1963. The cover of the Radio Times that week announced "a new Saturday-afternoon television series of adventures in time and space". Viewers heard the ominous theme tune - written by Ron Grainer in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and arranged by Delia Derbyshire - and saw the title sequence designed by Bernard Lodge. In an Unearthly Child, Jacqueline Hill and William Russell play teachers who are intrigued by their pupil Susan Foreman, played by Carole Anne Ford. They follow her home to an old junk yard and - in a revelation that took the audience into the realm of science fiction - are surprised to discover that the police box in which she lives has a bright futuristic interior, much bigger inside than out. Susan's grandfather is the Doctor, played by William Hartnell. Alarmed that the teachers will reveal the secret that he and Susan are time travellers, the Doctor kidnaps them. The final shot shows the Tardis in a barren landscape as a human shadow falls across it, setting the scene for future adventures. Doctor Who ran until 1996. However its lasting popularity ensured its return in 2005, and that it played a large part in the revitalisation of Saturday evening family viewing. In 2013 Peter Capaldi was introduced as the 12th Doctor. That Was The Week That Was 24 November 1962 That Was The Week That Was began on 24 November 1962. The late-night satirical show took aim at the establishment in a way that had never been seen on the BBC before, inspired by the success of the stage review Beyond the Fringe. TW3 - as it was known for the sake of convenience - was produced by Ned Sherrin, and presented live by David Frost. The talented cast joining him for the first programme was Millicent Martin, Kenneth Cope, David Kernan, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Levin, Lance Percival and William Rushton. It quickly became essential Saturday night viewing. Each week TW3 mixed songs with sketches and cartoons in a free-wheeling format overseen by Frost. The incredible team of writers were helped by the fact that the programmes coincided with the Profumo scandal, and were not afraid to highlight the murkier areas of political life. TW3 only ran for two series, and was cancelled before the 1964 Election year, as the BBC Governors worried about its impact. Despite this fact, it came to symbolise the new freedom of the "permissive" Sixties. Many of the stars and writers went on to further success, with Frost in particular helping to recreate the show in the US. Today political satire is alive and well on the BBC, with programmes like The Now Show on radio, and The Thick of it on television.
Farmers across the country were beginning last night to look at the cost of the freak weather conditions on their livelihoods. Hundreds of acres of fields were still under water after rivers across the province burst their banks and the torrid water ravaged everything— including crops, plants and soil —in its path. Animals were spared no less, with hundreds of cows, sheep and lambs thought to have been killed by the weather over just two days. Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph last night, Graham Furey, president of the Ulster Farmers’ Union, said it was too early to put a monetary value on the damage. “A certain number of individuals have been badly hurt by the flooding,” he said. “We can’t put a value on the damage at the minute. We don’t know exactly how many hundreds of acres of crops are underwater. But the number of livestock killed is running into a couple of hundred at least.” One farmer in Hilltown watched helplessly as 16 acres of potatoes were submerged under five feet of dirty, moving water that was “flowing hard”, according to Mr Furey, who said the damage could amount to £60,000. In other areas, farmers lost barley as well as cows and lambs. In Hilltown, a dead sheep was discovered up a tree. On Sunday night, a farmer in Saintfield lost 50 lambs out at field. Although Environment Minister Sammy Wilson yesterday called for a compensation package for houses damaged by the flood, there has been no mention of a similar package for the farming community. But Mr Furey said something had to be done. “Farmers are shell-shocked at the amount of damage causing by moving water. The common comment I’ve been hearing is that no-one has ever seen a flood like it, except maybe once in the last 40 years or so, and even then it was in the middle of winter,” he said. “The force of the water and its speed created a lot of damage to fields. It took soil, plants and potatoes with it and some farmers even found fish in drills afterwards. It was surreal .” He added: “Farmers have asked about compensation and that’s something we’re going to be looking into immediately.” Sinn Féin Agriculture spokesperson Pat Doherty MP MLA visited a number of farms affected by the flooding. “This flooding will cause genuine hardship for farmers who have lost crops or livestock and affect key farm projects such as the need to finish building slurry tanks by the end of year deadline,” he said. ‘We’ve lost everything. We feel so helpless’ A heartbroken pensioner last night spoke of his distress after he returned from a short trip to discover he had lost his home during the severe flooding at the weekend. Walter Flaherty (67) was still trying to pick up the pieces yesterday after his terraced house was ravaged in the treacherous weather conditions which saw a month’s rain fall in just a few hours. And he described how his distraught wife, Ellen (64), was stranded, alone, upstairs for several hours before being rescued by their son, as filthy water poured into their property, reaching 5ft at the height of the storm. Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph last night, Mr Flaherty, who lives at Meadowside, Dublin Road, in Antrim, said the damage to their house — and car, which was also flooded — had run into thousands of pounds. “We don’t know what we are going to do. We have lost everything. Ellen has been sweeping and trying to clean up the house but we feel so helpless. We don’t know where we are. “We were in the process of changing our insurance company, so we won’t get any money back for damage to the house contents. And the car is probably a write-off,” he said. Mr Flaherty, a retired welder, described his wife’s terror when she awoke in the early hours of Saturday to find that the downstairs of their home was completely underwater. “I was in England staying with one of our sons so Ellen was alone in the house,” he said. “She had gone to bed and woke up when she heard noises. She heard shouts from next door and went to the bathroom window to find out what was going on when she realised she couldn’t get downstairs. People were being taken out of the estate in boats. But she was stuck in the house from about 3.45am until after 7am, when our son Alan climbed in the window to help. She then had to wade through brown, stinking water that was up to her chest to get out.” The father-of-four said that a number of properties in the estate — including his 93-year-old father’s house — had been severely affected by the deluge after the Six Mile Water river that runs nearby, burst its banks. “Our house is uninhabitable,” he said. “Everything was destroyed. All our papers are gone. All the clothes in the hotpress were ruined. All the furniture was floating around in the water, the kitchen appliances and work surfaces were all destroyed and the wooden floorboards have all sprung. It’s a disaster. “We have been staying in a hotel while we wait for the Housing Executive to rehouse us. But we’ve been told we’re only entitled to a one-bedroom flat despite explaining that two of our sons are at university and have no income. “Mark (29), a mature student, is due home from Strathclyde University today and we have nowhere for him to stay. The Housing Executive has said he is an adult, and therefore not a dependant, but we pay for his accommodation when he is at university. We don’t know what we are going to do.” Environment Minister Sammy Wilson said that while he recognised the limitations of the Government’s compensation package, he hoped it would go some way towards helping householders get back on their feet. “When you look at the scale of damage in people’s houses I accept that £1,000 is a small amount of money,” he said. “It’s not meant to be an alternative to insurance. It’s really designed to help people get back on their feet and to bring some semblance of normality to houses.”
Have you seen this error before on you Team Foundation Server Lab Management virtual machines? “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” You’ll probably see it on VMs that 1) are joined to a domain, 2) you don’t use very often, and 3) use Hyper-V snapshots (aka SCVMM “checkpoints”). In reality, this error has nothing to do with TFS Lab Management or Hyper-V and everything to do with Active Directory and how computer account are managed and updated for domain members. What’s going wrong? Here’s my understanding of how to cause the error: 1. You create your VM and join it to the domain. 2. You work with the VM for a while, shut it down, and then take a snapshot of the machine in Hyper-V. 3. After taking the snapshot, you work with the VM for a while. 4. You don’t start the machine for a while (weeks or months), you revert to the snapshot, start the VM, and then try to log in. BOOM! “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” Ever machine in your Active Directory domain has a computer account that has a password. This password is automatically changed on a schedule without you having to worry about it. Well, usually you don’t have to worry about it but somewhere during step #3, that password got changed. Then you go to step 4 and roll back the VM to the snapshot. At this point the domain controller has the new password and the snapshotted VM has the old password. That’s the cause of the “trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed” error message. The Fix for the “Trust Relationship” Error You can either remove the computer from the domain and then rejoin the domain (aka. “the hard way”) or you can run “netdom resetpwd” (aka. “the easy way”). netdom resetpwd /server:MYDC /userd:MYDOMAIN\myuser /passwordD:* /securepasswordprompt Reboot the server and now everything’s working again. The Permanent Fix If your servers are not considered to be “high risk” and “high security” servers, you probably want to disable the computer account password reset. Here’s how you’d do it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc962289.aspx and here’s the registry script (*.reg) file that you can run if you don’t feel like using RegEdit.exe. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 Once again, thanks a ton to Jérôme Laban for the information on this! – Looking for help with Team Foundation Server Lab Management? Want to talk about incorporating Microsoft Test Manager and Coded UI tests into your software development process? We can help. Drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Bible Versions NAS Genesis 1:7; Genesis 1:9; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 4:25; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:19; Genesis 18:4; Genesis 18:8; Genesis 21:15; Genesis 22:13; Genesis 24:2; Genesis 24:9; Genesis 30:2; Genesis 30:15; Genesis 35:4; Genesis 35:8; Genesis 36:33-39; Genesis 41:35; Genesis 44:33; Genesis 47:29; Genesis 49:25; Genesis 50:19 Genesis 1:7; Genesis 1:9; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 4:25; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:19; Genesis 18:4; Genesis 18:8; Genesis 21:15; Genesis 22:13; Genesis 24:2; Genesis 24:9; Genesis 30:2; Genesis 30:15; Genesis 35:4; Genesis 35:8; Genesis 36:33-39; Genesis 41:35; Genesis 44:33; Genesis 47:29; Genesis 49:25; Genesis 50:19 (New American Standard) New American Standard Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) American Standard Version Bible in Basic English Common English Bible Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha Complete Jewish Bible Elberfelder 1905 (German) English Standard Version Giovanni Diodati 1649 (Italian) GOD'S WORD Translation Good News Translation Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha Hebrew Names Version Holman Christian Standard King James Version King James Version w/ Apocrypha La Biblia de las Américas La Biblia Reina-Valera Lexham English Bible Louis Segond 1910 (French) Luther Bible 1912 (German) New Century Version New International Reader's Version New International Version New King James Version New Living Translation New Revised Standard New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha Revised Standard Version Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha Riveduta 1927 (Italian) Sagradas Escrituras (1569) The Darby Translation The Latin Vulgate The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha The Webster Bible Third Millennium Bible Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha Today's New International Version World English Bible Young's Literal Translation God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse ; and it was so. Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear "; and it was so. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept ; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. Adam had relations with his wife again ; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him." "Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven ; everything that is on the earth shall perish. The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. "Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree ; He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate. When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes. Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns ; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, "Please place your hand under my thigh, So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb ?" But she said to her, "Is it a small matter for you to take my husband ? And would you take my son's mandrakes also ?" So Rachel said, "Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes." So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem. Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak ; it was named Allon-bacuth. Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place. Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites became king in his place. Then Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab, became king in his place ; and the name of his city was Avith. Then Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place. Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place. Then Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king in his place. Then Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar became king in his place ; and the name of his city was Pau ; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab. "Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh's authority, and let them guard it. "Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers. When the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Please do not bury me in Egypt, From the God of your father who helps you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of heaven above , Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. But Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in God's place ? 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Heb. 'ayalah ( 2 Samuel 22:34 ; Psalms 18:33 , etc.) and 'ayeleth ( Psalms 22 , title), the female of the hart or stag. It is referred to as an emblem of activity ( Genesis 49:21 ), gentleness ( Proverbs 5:19 ), feminine modesty (Cant 2:7 ; 3:5 ), earnest longing ( Psalms 42:1 ), timidity ( Psalms 29:9 ). In the title of Psalms 22 , the word probably refers to some tune bearing that name. the female of the common stag or Cervus elaphus . It is frequently noticed in the poetical parts of Scripture as emblematic of activity, ( Genesis 49:21 ; Psalms 18:33 ) gentleness, ( Proverbs 5:19 ) feminine modesty, ( Solomon 2:7 ; 3:5 ) earnest longing, ( Psalms 42:1 ) and maternal affection. ( Jeremiah 14:5 ) Its shyness and remoteness from the haunts of men are also alluded to, ( Job 39:1 ) and its timidity, causing it to cast its young at the sound of thunder. ( Psalms 29:9 )
Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols. Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars. For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us? You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of the field. The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it. For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will. Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water. And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us. From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the battle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall not overtake them. According to my desire, I will chastise them: and the nations shall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised for their two iniquities. Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself. Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice. You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones. A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the house of him that judged Baal in the day of battle, the mother being dashed in pieces upon her children. So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Since Sunday, hundreds of mental health professionals trained by the Red Cross in disaster response have provided services to thousands of people affected by the California wildfires. Estimates of the number of homes lost are growing and some have lost loved ones, pets and treasured possessions. Mental health workers are currently screening, assisting and providing referrals in Red Cross shelters, client intake centers and local government aid centers. "Anyone who experiences a disaster can be affected in some way, whether directly or indirectly through location, loved ones or exposure to media coverage," said Rob Yin, Manager, Disaster Health and Mental Health Services. "Attending to the mental health needs of those affected is an important part of the larger Red Cross disaster response." The Red Cross offers the following tips for those dealing with the emotional impact of this disaster: Tips for Dealing with Stress: -- Take a few deep breaths to relax -- Count to ten -- Prioritize your tasks -- Tend to everyday activities and try to keep to your normal routine as much as possible -- Take time to assess your physical health and seek medical care when Tips for Helping Children: Disasters come in many forms and affect children and adults differently. Children take their cues from their parents and other adults and when these important people in their lives cope well in a disaster, children are more likely to respond positively. Adults can help children cope with the recent wildfire disaster by following some general steps: -- Encourage children to talk and listen to their concerns -- Take time to provide factual information about the disaster and plans for ensuring their ongoing safety -- Offer them a sense of protection. Speak with confidence about the situation, and work with them t \|SOURCE American Red Cross\| Copyright©2007 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
DYFED LLOYD EVANS WSRDLE at cardiff.ac.uk Wed Jan 10 11:55:09 EST 1996 As a part of our continuing commitment to furthering the public understanding of science at the University of Wales College of Medicine, we are setting up an evolution-based society for those actively working on, or interested in aspects of evolution in Wales. I am posting this as generally as possible, to let the widest possible audience know about this (and hopefully join in). Anybody who is interested is encouraged to reply to me Dyfed Lloyd-Evans at WSRDLE at CF.AC.UK. We are hoping to get both evolutionary biologists in Wales, paleobiologists with an interest in Wales and other interested parties togethet under the auspices of a single forum, which is also intended as a liaison with Schools and Colleges. Details of the first events are listed below. Please note that the web site is unlikely to be up and running until the middle of next week (18/19 January) at Thank you for your interest. Dyfed Lloyd Evans, Department of Surgery, University of Wales College of Medicine, As part of SET '96, the Darwin-Wallace society proposes to hold a day of seminars and presentations on all aspects of evolutionary biology on Tuesday 19 March 1996, Insole Court, Llandaff. The aim is for an academic session in the morning, starting at 09-30 and running until 14-00, with a schools- oriened session from 14-00 to 16-30 in the afternoon. The aim is to get evolutionary biologists, and those interested in Evolution in Wales together under the auspices of the Darwin-Wallace society, with the society's first AGM to be held at the end of the day. Registration for the day is stlg5.00, to cover lunch andd coffee. If either yourself, or one of your colleagues are interested in attending the event, and would like to give a presentation (either oral, or poster) please contact me at the numbers above, or by e-mail at WSRDLE at CF.AC.UK. A further event for the Society in 1996 will be the first annual Darwin-Wallace dinner, to be held on Thursday 14 November 1996, where we intend to invite a guest speaker from the field of evolutionary biology. If you would like further details of the dinner, or are merely interested in the Society, then, again please let me know. Further information on the Darwin-Wallace society and its aims and events can be found on our web page Proposed Itinerary for Science Aglow, 16 March 1996 09.00 Arrival and poster mounting. 09.30 Introductory Lecture 10.15 Distant relationships from protein structures D. Lloyd Evans, Surgery, 11.00 Evolution of Bioluminesence AK Campbell, Biochemistry, UWCM. 11.30 Evolutionary aspects of cell death ID Bowen,PABIO, UWC. 13.45 Evolution for Schoolchildren (Introductory Lecture) 14.30--16.30 Schools Session More information about the Mol-evol
jaldr at onramp.net Tue Nov 19 21:36:23 EST 1996 I was going to try some plant tissue work, and I have a question about media sterilization. I'm using baby food jars with Magenta caps w/ As the sterilizer (a stove top unit) cools and is finally vented, unsterile air is drawn up into the chamber and, I suppose, into the baby food jars (the caps don't fully seal the threads). Should I be worrying about this? Is there any way to minimize the problem? James Aldridge - Fort Worth, Texas, USA jaldr at onramp.net or aldrjame at tenet.edu More information about the Plantbio
Best Known For Marxist Cuban political leader Fidel Castro helped lead the Cuban Revolution, and served as president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008. A look at the CIA's failed attempts at the assassination of Fidel Castro. A brief look at Fidel Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis. CIA and a Cuban brigade planned an invasion on Castro and Cuba, but the plan quickly unravelled. A brief history of the Cuban Revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro. Think you know about Biography? Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.Play Now In October 1962, his increasing reliance on Soviet aid brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Wanting to deter another U.S. invasion of Cuba, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived an idea of placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. He justified the move as a response to U.S. Jupiter missiles deployed in Turkey. An American U2 reconnaissance plane discovered the missile base construction before the missiles were installed. President Kennedy responded by demanding the removal of the missiles with orders for the U.S. Navy to search any vessels headed for the island. Over the course of several anxious days of secret communications between Khrushchev, Kennedy and their agents, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the United States' public agreement not to invade Cuba. The Kennedy administration also agreed to secretly remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey. Both leaders saved face and gained some admiration for restraint. Castro, on the other hand, was humiliated: Both superpowers completely left him out of the negotiations. Furthermore, the United States was able to persuade the Organization of American States to end diplomatic relations with Cuba, in response to Castro's "shameful" actions. But Castro wasn't shamed for long. In 1965, he merged Cuba's Communist Party with his revolutionary organizations, placing himself as head of the party. Within a few years, he began a campaign of supporting armed struggle against imperialism in Latin American and African countries. In 1966, Castro founded the Asia-Africa-Latin America People's Solidarity Organization to promote revolution on three continents. In 1967, he formed the Latin America Solidarity Organization to foster revolution in select Latin-American countries. In the 1970s, Castro promoted himself as the leading spokesperson for Third World countries by providing military support to pro-Soviet forces in Angola, Ethiopia and Yemen. Though Cuba was heavily subsidized by the Soviet government, those expeditions ultimately proved unsuccessful and put a strain on the Cuban economy. The U.S. agreement not to invade Cuba didn't preclude toppling the Castro regime in other ways. Castro was the target of CIA assassination attempts (an estimated 638 in all, according to Cuban intelligence) over the years. These ranged from exploding cigars, to a fungus-infected scuba-diving suit, to a mafia-style shooting. He took great delight in the fact that none of the attempts ever succeeded. Castro was reported as saying that if avoiding assassination attempts was an Olympic sport, he would have won gold medals. Castro's regime has been credited with opening 10,000 new schools and increasing literacy to 98 percent. Cubans enjoy a universal health-care system, which has decreased infant mortality to 11 deaths in 1,000 (1.1 percent). But civil liberties have been whittled away, as labor unions lost the right to strike, independent newspapers were shut down and religious institutions were harassed. profile name: Fidel Castro profile occupation: Sign in with Facebook to see how you and your friends are connected to famous icons. Your Friends' Connections Included In These Groups Political Criminals 7 people in this group Hispanic Political Figures 25 people in this group Because they're in the public eye, celebrities are subject to being the butt of many jokes, and on the Internet, it seems the best way to knock 'em dead is to ... well, claim that they're dead. Among the most famous celebrity death hoaxes, favorites include Bill Cosby, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Sean Connery, Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman, among many others. Celebrity Death Hoaxes 51 people in this group
Jiaxi Ding1 , DeChen Jiang2 , Michael Kurczy3 , Jennifer Nalepka1 , Brian Dudley1 , Erin I Merkel4 , Forbes D Porter4 , Andrew G Ewing3,5 , Nicholas Winograd3 , James Burgess2 and Kathleen Molyneaux1 1Department of Genetics Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 2Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 3Department of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 5Department of Chemistry, Gothenburg University, Kemivägen 4, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8:120 [Open Access] Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the embryonic precursors of the sperm and eggs. Environmental or genetic defects that alter PGC development can impair fertility or cause formation of germ cell tumors. We demonstrate a novel role for cholesterol during germ cell migration in mice. Cholesterol was measured in living tissue dissected from mouse embryos and was found to accumulate within the developing gonads as germ cells migrate to colonize these structures. Cholesterol synthesis was blocked in culture by inhibiting the activity of HMG CoA reductase (HMGCR) resulting in germ cell survival and migration defects. These defects were rescued by co-addition of isoprenoids and cholesterol, but neither compound alone was sufficient. In contrast, loss of the last or penultimate enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis did not alter PGC numbers or position in vivo. However embryos that lack these enzymes do not exhibit cholesterol defects at the stage at which PGCs are migrating. This demonstrates that during gestation, the cholesterol required for PGC migration can be supplied maternally. In the mouse, cholesterol is required for PGC survival and motility. It may act cell-autonomously by regulating clustering of growth factor receptors within PGCs or non cell-autonomously by controlling release of growth factors required for PGC guidance and survival.
PORT HUENEME, CA--(Marketwired - October 21, 2013) - Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. ("Stellar" or "the Company") ) (TSX VENTURE: KLH ), announced today presentation of positive results from a preclinical study of the Company's KLH-conjugate active immunotherapy vaccine demonstrating protection against Clostridium difficile ("C. diff") infection in mice. The study results are being presented this week at the 8th International Conference on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia (ClostPath 8) in Queensland, Australia, October 22-26, 2013. Clostridium difficile is a bacteria found in the intestines that can cause severe and life-threatening intestinal conditions. C. diff infections are at an all-time high and related hospitalizations have tripled in the last decade. The oral presentation titled "An Anti-C. difficile PSII Polysaccharide-KLH Conjugate Vaccine is Efficacious in Mice" is the result of preclinical research conducted together by scientists from Stellar and the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) ("Guelph"). The work relates to Stellar's newly acquired active immunotherapy technology targeting the treatment and diagnosis of C. diff. Stellar's active immunotherapy technology for C. diff targets cell-surface antigens expressed across many strains of C. diff bacteria. Stellar's approach combines selected polysaccharides of C. diff with Stellar KLH as carrier and adjuvant. The presentation at ClostPath 8 describes the design of a PSII-KLH immunotherapy vaccine and its evaluation in a murine model of C. diff infection. In the study, the data demonstrated that vaccination with a PSII-KLH conjugate vaccine was effective in conferring protective immunity against C. diff infection, by improving survival in vaccinated mice compared to unvaccinated controls. The study results suggest that Stellar's PSII-KLH active immunotherapy technology shows promise as an effective approach to treating C. diff. Additional preclinical research is underway. ClostPath 8 is the preeminent scientific conference in the field of clostridial pathogenesis. The meeting covers the latest discoveries presented by leading international researchers. About Clostridium difficile Clostridium difficile is a major and growing cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized patients. C. diff is a type of bacteria normally present in the intestine, but which can overgrow as a result of antibiotic use. It causes severe diarrhea and life-threatening intestinal conditions such as colitis. Incidence of C. diff is at a record high in the U.S. with more than 330,000 cases reported annually. Deaths related to C. diff increased 400% in recent years. The cost of C. diff related treatment in the U.S. and Europe is estimated at more than $7 billion annually. About Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KLH) (OTCQB: SBOTF) is the world leader in sustainable manufacture of Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH), an important immune-stimulating protein used in wide-ranging therapeutic and diagnostic markets. KLH is both an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in many new immunotherapies (targeting cancer, infectious diseases, and immune disorders) as well as a finished product for measuring immune status. Stellar Biotechnologies is unique in its proprietary methods, facilities, and KLH technology. We are committed to meeting the growing demand for commercial-scale supplies of GMP grade KLH, ensuring environmentally sound KLH production, and developing KLH-based active immunotherapies. To receive regular updates, enter email at http://stellarbiotechnologies.com/contact/ Visit www.StellarBiotech.com and the KLH knowledge base www.KLHSite.com. Forward Looking Statements There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on such statements. Except in accordance with applicable securities laws, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking statements that are incorporated by reference herein. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Company's securities set out herein in the United States, or to, or for the benefit or account of, a U.S. Person or person in the United States. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of these releases.
Laws, Regulations & Annotations Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2013 Sales and Use Tax Annotations 395.0000 OCCASIONAL SALES—SALE OF A BUSINESS—BUSINESS REORGANIZATION—Regulation 1595 (f) SALE OF A BUSINESS GENERALLY 395.1140 Escrow Transactions—Time of Sale. An escrow transaction involving the sale of an on-sale liquor business was cancelled and the operation and possession of the business was returned to the owners by the intended purchasers when their application of a transfer of the on-sale liquor license was denied. There was no sale. Since the escrow did not close, there was no transfer of title. The transfer of possession to the intended purchasers was not a transaction where title was retained to secure payment of the purchase price, nor was it a transfer of possession in lieu of a transfer of title. 4/14/58.
It had been a long day for the Dalai Lama. Even by the time he had eaten his meager breakfast of tsampa and tea at 7:30 a.m., he had already been up for four hours, completing his rigorous daily regimen of prayer, study, and meditation. After breakfast he began his usual workday, and that day there was a full line-up: meeting with one person after another, he saw an Indian government liaison officer, the head lama of one of the ancient lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the president of a member republic of the Russian Federation, a high official in the Tibetan government-in-exile, and various members of his private office staff. And scheduled among these private meetings, I watched with admiration as he met with a group of newly arrived Tibetan refugees. They had made the arduous journey across the Himalayas by any means of conveyance they could find, lucky if they could afford a ride on an antediluvian bus, but more likely to have caught a lift, riding in the open bed of a shuddering pickup truck. Some had crossed the rugged border on foot, climbing high-altitude passes with grim determination. Here and there one could see a child missing a finger or a toe--casualties of frostbite. Many arrived penniless, destitute, their traditional chubas (native Tibetan costumes) tattered and dusty from the long journey. In some of the older faces, ruddy faces, weathered and creased by winds and harsh climate, one could detect traces of untold suffering, spirits hardened by years of mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese Communists. For many of these people, however, a mere glimpse of the Dalai Lama, the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, was enough to revive their withered spirits and infuse them with renewed hope and joy. He offered them all, young and old, words of hope and encouragement, as well as hardheaded practical advice, ranging from "Education is critical to success" to "Now you men should be careful of going with prostitutes--you could catch a disease." Finally, it was 2 p.m., his last scheduled appointment for the day. And here was I. I had been allotted several hours each afternoon to collaborate on our book, and I was here to collect. Our meetings were far from chatty téte-â-tétes, however. In fact, I often gave him no end of difficulty as we struggled to reconcile East and West, pestering him with endless questions, a fair proportion of which he labeled so silly or impossible to answer that it had become a running joke between us, trying even his legendary patience. Standing outside on his bougainvillea-draped porch, with the majestic snowcapped Dhauladhar Mountains of northern India as a backdrop, the Dalai Lama greeted me warmly as he led me inside his home. Little had changed in this room since our first meeting twenty years before. The same traditional Tibetan thanka paintings lined the pale yellow walls, the same Buddhist shrine covered with ornate Buddhist icons at one end of the room, and the same floor-to-ceiling relief map of Tibet dominating the opposite wall. Even the modest furniture appeared to be the same, although it's possible the sofa may have been reupholstered. As I unpacked my notebooks and fumbled with my tape recorder, we spoke casually about some of his activities and meetings earlier that day. The Dalai Lama generally scheduled our meetings for his last appointment of the day, so as I loitered in the attached reception room waiting for our meeting to begin, I often had the opportunity to observe the collection of individuals who came to meet with him. On that day in particular I was struck by the diversity of individuals seeking his time and counsel, people coming to visit him from all corners of the earth. Thinking about this as I began our session, I said, "You know, I couldn't help but notice how many different kinds of people come to see you, people with various professions, all sorts of jobs. And I was thinking about how you also are involved in so many different kinds of activities. Now, this week I want to focus on the topic of work . . ." From The Art of Happiness at Work. Copyright The Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher, Riverhead Books. A Man Called Intrepid author dies aged 89(Dec 03 2013) William Stevenson, a journalist and author who drew on his close ties with intelligence sources to write two best-selling books in the 1970s, A Man Called...
Wuthering Heights Topic Tracking: Madness Madness 1: Heathcliff does not know that Mr. Lockwood is sleeping in Catherine's room. Therefore, when he hears the screaming, he thinks it is Catherine's ghost. He is sorely disappointed to see that it is Mr. Lockwood, and after he orders him to leave, Heathcliff opens the window and calls outside for his beloved, dead Catherine. He receives no answer. Madness 2: Heathcliff secretly leaves Wuthering Heights when he overhears Catherine say that it would degrade her to marry him. Guilty for what she said, Catherine looks for him even in the pouring rain. When he cannot be found, she becomes detached. But when Hindley starts to yell at her, Catherine has a fit of madness. The doctor is called, and does what he can. She is so mad and delusional, the doctor is fearful that she will kill herself. Madness 3: Heathcliff returns after Catherine's marriage. When he visits, he and Edgar Linton have a terrible fight, which upsets Catherine. She determines to become frenzied, which will hurt them both. Raging, she hit her head against the sofa and her lips became bloody. She was out of breath, and when Nelly told Edgar about his wife's decision to act madly, Catherine's rage hit its peak. Her muscles stood out irregularly, her eyes were wild, and Nelly feared she would turn violent. Madness 4: Catherine refuses all food and drink for several days. She does not understand why she is not getting her way, and becomes paranoid that her former friends are now enemies. The knowledge that her husband has been in his library, seemingly unconcerned about her welfare, makes her hysterical. She feels alone in the world, and wishes to be out on the moors, or with her Heathcliff. Madness 5: Catherine plucks the feathers from her pillow, and starts to confuse the past with the present. She recalls a time when Heathcliff shot a bird, leaving the babies to die. Catherine talks about elf-bolts and cows, the black press, and her bed in the fairy cave. She talks as though she knows more than Nelly, as though she is better off. The black press turns out to be a mirror. Catherine, lost without her Heathcliff, cannot recognize her own reflection in the mirror. Afraid it is a ghost, she makes Nelly cover it. Madness 6: Hindley, crazed with the loss of his wife and his land, tells Isabella about his plan to kill Heathcliff. Every night he tries to open Heathcliff's bedroom door, and when one night it is unlocked, he plans to shoot him. He believes some kind of devil urges him to settle the score this way. Madness 7: Heathcliff tells Nelly how blinded Isabella was to him, and how every act of meanness and violence just made her come back for more. He did nothing illegal, so she would have no grounds for divorce. Nelly is horrified at this speech and thinks Heathcliff is crazy. Heathcliff suggests to Nelly that Isabella isn't capable of taking care of herself because she is crazy. Before coming to the Heights, Isabella never exhibited any such behavior. It is only her association with Heathcliff that seems to have brought it out. Madness 8: Heathcliff insists he has another visit with Catherine, despite the disastrous effects of his last one. She is dying, and her face is wild and pale. He sees that she is mad, and it hurts to see her so tortured. They embraced almost violently, and Heathcliff foams at the mouth like a wild animal. Madness 9: Like her mother, Cathy's fits are frightening. She married Linton, but Heathcliff still has not released her. With her father near death, Cathy becomes crazy with the idea that she may not see him before he dies. Unlike her mother, whose fits were selfish and meant to hurt others, Cathy's arise from a fear of hurting her father. Her frenzy scares Linton so much that he agrees lets her out. Madness 10: After nights of wandering the moors, and many days without food, Heathcliff is going mad. His face and eyes are altered; he seems excitable and agitated. There is also a strange happiness in his face. When he returns home the night before his death, Nelly hears him say Catherine's name as though she was present. She can also hear him mumbling in low tones, talking to someone who isn't there. He believes Catherine has been haunting him for years, and now that he is near death, he acts as though Catherine's spirit is closer than ever.
And Boston Italians are truly certainly among the most colorful. Listening to Italians debate, about who makes the best espresso (Some say Wy, the Chinese American who has worked behind the counter at Hanover Street’s Caffé Paradiso for decades. Others insist that only an Italian can make a truly Italian espresso and opt for the Café Napoli on Salem Street.) is like listening to a song of the streets. That poetry was created by the long history that Italian forged here from 1920s when they arrived to America’s waterfront and climbed the East Boston’s “Golden Stairs” to the immigration station. The “Golden Stairs,” which remain there today and I run up often to take in my neighborhood’s beautiful panoramic view of the best city on the planet (except maybe Rome), earned its nickname because it represented the final climb to the land of golden opportunity. Men like Fred Tobia made much of that opportunity. Eight decades ago, the cabinetmaker was among the Italians to climb those stairs and set up roots not far away with a small shop in Maverick Square. After WWII, Tobia expanded his business — New England Casket Company — to its current location on Bennington Street. His son succeeded his father in the early 1960s. In 1990, the third generation of Tobias joined the company, which has provided caskets for funerals all over the world. Most recently, there were whispers that the Tobia’s built the casket for the singer Whitney Houston, which was then dipped in 24-karat gold. But because they treasure their clients’ privacy, the family would not confirm or deny that they were involved with the singer’s funeral.Another example is Sterlingwear, the Italian family-owned maker of the original pea coat. Yes, the very pea coat worn by our heroes in the United States military. When the news broke that the 2012 Team USA Olympic ensembles were made in China, and even sported embarrassing labels courtesy of Ralph Lauren, I was apoplectic. How can an American Olympic medalist wear Chinese-made clothing, with a beret no less, when there is an iconic American clothing designer like Sterlingware with three generations of Italian tailoring behind it? And to find out that Ralph Lauren charged the U.S. Olympic committee exorbitant prices for the ugly outfits was even more infuriating given the that Eastie-based Sterlingware is still priced for the workaday American. There is Italian influence in each one of the 351 cities and towns that comprise the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I have driven an hour just to buy bread at Virgilio’s Italian Bakery and Deli in Gloucester and sip a cappuccino across the street at Café Sicilia. I have organized overnights to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts just to eat at Mazzeo in Pittsfield after a night under the stars at Tanglewood. And I have been known to wangle my friends into a long day trip to Cape Cod just for a scoop of egg custard ice cream, Italian-style of course, at Caffé Gelato Bertini. So when Nicola Orichuia told me he was starting a magazine expressly for tapping into Boston’s Italian-American voice, that song of the streets I have loved so much as an Italian-Irish American, I knew immediately that I wanted to profile the very people who have made Boston so eclectic, so exciting, and frankly, so uniquely European. Just like the journalist Joseph Mitchell profiled the wonderful characters that made New York City and Mike Royko dug up dirt on the people who made Chicago a world-class destination and Gay Talese told us stories of the rich and famous in Los Angeles but also wrote of the down-and-out with the same passion, I knew I wanted to capture the spirit of Boston in the same way. And there is no community more celebrated than the Boston Italians. I hope to use this column space to write about our family-owned businesses, the very people who built our cities by hand and the men and women who have carried on those legacies through the decades. Italy is renowned for its food, its art, but mostly for its people. I know Boston has that same passion and energy. Bostoniano is exactly the forum we have been craving to tell the stories of the people who keep it that way. - Michele McPhee / [email protected]
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) Published on the occasion of the exhibition Spain between 2 centuries from Zuloaga to Picasso (1890-1920), Musée national de l'Orangerie until 9th January, 2012. Although the Spanish painters of the Golden Age are well known by the French public, less so are the artists of the transitional period between the 19th and 20th centuries, with the possible exception of Sorolla. Many of them, however, like Zuloaga, Casas, Camarassa and Rusiñol, spent long periods in Paris, and regularly exhibited at the Salons. This generation opened the way for those who would become giants in the history of art: Dalí, Miró and Picasso. The exhibition presents two visions of Spain: Black Spain, with Zuloaga and Solana as its major representatives, and White Spain idealised by Sorolla's luminous, shimmering palette. Taking these two different sensibilities and the proliferation of artistic movements that appeared one after another at the dawn of the 20th century, the exhibition demonstrates how constant contact with Paris, the capital of New Painting, led the majority of these artists to adopt new idioms, while still remaining the heirs to El Greco, Ribera and Goya, and retaining part of their Hispanic identity.
Robert Neuwirth is a writer who spent two years living in squatter communities in four continents. These neighborhoods--which dominate most of the cities of the developing world--are vibrant and energetic, but horribly misunderstood. His book, Shadow Cities, is an attempt to humanize these maligned settlements. Neuwirth's articles on cities, politics, and economic issues have appeared in many publications, including The Nation, The Village Voice, Newsday, The New York Times, Metropolis, and City Limits. Before becoming a reporter, Neuwirth worked as a community organizer and studied philosophy. In his new book, Stealth of Nations, Robert Neuwirth examines the global reach of the informal economy, with first-hand reporting from Lagos, Nigeria, Guangzhou, China, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The book argues that the informal is normal and that it is growing faster than the formal sector in most countries around the world. In gross economic terms: rationality is irrational....and we better get used to it. When we think of the informal economy, we tend to think of crime: prostitution, gun running, drug trafficking. Stealth of Nations opens up this underground realm, showing how the worldwide informal economy deals mostly in legal products and is, in fact, a ten-trillion-dollar industry, making it the second-largest economy in the world, after that of the United States. Having penetrated this closed world and persuaded its inhabitants to open up to him, Robert Neuwirth makes clear that this informal method of transaction dates back as far as humans have existed and traded, that it provides essential services and crucial employment that fill the gaps in formal systems, and that this unregulated market works smoothly and effectively, with its own codes and unwritten rules. Combining a vivid travelogue with a firm grasp on global economic strategy—along with a healthy dose of irreverence and skepticism toward conventional perceptions—Neuwirth gives us an eye-opening account of a world that is always operating around us, hidden in plain sight. Neuwirth lived in the urban slums in Brazil, Turkey, Kenya and India, and, through stories of his own experiences and of the friends he made in these communities, he shows that these "squatters," with hard work and determination, are building stable neighborhoods and improving their cities and lives, not unlike America 100 years ago. While not minimizing global and local inequities, he argues that these communities that seem so degraded from the outside are not simply emblems of misery. Instead, they are vital and vibrant additions to their cities and countries, and in some cases are so well developed that they have become more desirable than the legal neighborhoods that surround them. Some of the unusual issues he tackles are: why the residents of slums of Rio prefer the drug dealers to the cops; why high tech investment-computers, mobile phones, wireless technology-is not the key to improvement in people's lives in the developing world; and how Live Aid and most debt relief projects-though well intentioned-will not work without massive changes in how governments and non-profits do business. Finally, he provides a counterweight to Hernando de Soto's view that the only thing needed to help poor squatters is land titles. From his experience on the ground, Neuwirth learned that title deeds can actually make things worse for squatters and that political rights and access to fresh water are more important than property rights. TAGS: College and Universities, TED, World Affairs
Flows of official development assistance (ODA) to recipient countries have been highly volatile and this reduces their value. At the macro level, empirical evidence suggests that volatile ODA can negatively impact growth through several channels. At the micro level, volatility can affect fiscal planning and the level and composition of investment. This working paper develops a simple financial metric that policy makers can use to estimate (and reduce) the cost of aid volatility. Unlike other estimates, our measure does not depend on parameter estimates from cross-country regressions, nor on country-specific model simulations. We treat aid flows as the uncertain return on an unobserved asset of “global goodwill” held by developing countries. We then calculate the certainty equivalent value of the volatile aid flows as well as an associated dead weight loss, using a capital asset pricing model. Our measure of the deadweight loss per dollar provided in aid permits a comparison of costs across donors and over time. We find that the costs of volatility rose steadily until 2002, and have since fallen. Aid volatility is similar for low and middle income countries; weak states and strong states; aid dependent and low-aid countries; and across regions. Aid volatility differs substantially, however, by donor. We infer that donor policies contribute to volatility and that they should make reducing volatility a strong priority. - ODA is much more volatile than major macro variables: five times as volatile as GDP and three times as volatile as exports for the average recipient. ODA typically magnifies real business cycles in recipient countries. - The aid system generates massive negative income shocks to some developing countries (on rare occasions). These large negative shocks account for the high cost of volatility. The impact of aid shocks has been as large and as frequent as income shocks faced by developed countries during the two World Wars, the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War. - The deadweight loss associated with aid volatility is between 15 and 20 percent of the total value of aid in recent years. At current aid levels, this loss is about $16 billion. - From the average recipient’s perspective, the deadweight loss is about 1.9 percent of GDP. - Volatility costs between $0.07 and $0.28 per dollar of aid, depending on the donor.
I get worried when I see that the projected life span of a bulldog is 8-12 years. I try to give my bulldog's a healthy diet of grain free food, the best medical care, etc. I am interested in any ideas you can pass along that might increase their lifespan. My dogs are a little pudgier than I would like them to be. They are 52 and 56 lbs. and get a total of 1-1/2 cups dry food w/a spoonful of wet food stirred in. I don't think that is too much food, especially as my beagle, who is half their weight, gets a 1/2 cup a day + a little wet. They are not the most energetic of dogs though! Any ideas? Joe & the girls
As recently as late 2010, mobile commerce was only 3% of e-commerce. But, that number has steadily been on the rise. At the end of last year's holiday shopping season, that number it had soared to 11%. That's approximately $18.6 billion in consumer spending - and that doesn't even include travel-related purchases. Thanks in part to a new ecosystem of retail and shopping apps, mobile-generated retail spend could rise to 15% of retail e-commerce by the end of this year. In a new report from BI Intelligence, we examine the why mobile commerce is exploding and dig deeper into the numbers underpinning the explosive growth. We also analyze the growth and success of new mobile merchandising trends — merchandising being the art of selling people products they didn't know they wanted — like mobile catalogs and coupons. Here's a few reasons why the number should continue to rise dramatically: - Currently, 54% of adults in the U.S. own smartphones and about 25% own tablets. In roughly three years, the number of tablets alone will overtake the number of PCs. By 2016, about 450 million tablets will be sold annually worldwide. - Statistics already show that a disproportionate share of mobile traffic to e-commerce websites comes from tablets. With only a 25% penetration rate, tablets account for well over 40% of mobile traffic to e-commerce sites. - For close to 50% of 12-17 year-old smartphone owners, the smartphone is their primary internet access device. It follows that for younger consumers mobile commerce and buying via smartphones and tablets will be a habit and much less of a novelty than it is for older consumers. - Mobile commerce is driving incremental e-commerce revenues that would not have happened without the availability of tablets and smartphones as new shopping mediums.
(Corrects ninth paragraph to remove sugar reference, in story originally published Oct. 18.) Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A plan to shift some farm subsidies into a revenue-protection measure may cost more than expected and won’t make necessary changes to agricultural programs, according to advocates for lower payments. A bill backed by Democratic senators Richard Durbin of Illinois and Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Republicans Richard Lugar of Indiana and John Thune of South Dakota would consolidate several subsidy programs into a plan to aid farmers when revenue declines. The proposal would save $19.8 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The agriculture committees of both houses have pledged to come up with $23 billion in cuts by Nov. 1. Subsidies are an inviting target for congressional budget cutters, after the Department of Agriculture forecast record farm profits of $103.6 billion this year as livestock sales expand and exports set records. Still, the bill proposed by the four senators may not save as much as projected, as moving to programs that guarantee revenues could tempt lawmakers to boost farm aid further should prices plunge. “It’s a way to lock in high prices,” said Sallie James, a farm-policy analyst with the Cato Institute, a policy center in Washington that advocates for reduced government spending. “If you think commodity prices will stay high until kingdom come, this saves money. Color me skeptical.” $23 Billion in Cuts Spending on agriculture, rural development and nutrition should be cut by no more than $23 billion, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate farm panels last week told the supercommittee charged with reducing the federal deficit yesterday. Higher crop prices, which result in lower subsidies, already will drive down payments to an estimated $10.2 billion this year, less than half the record $24.4 billion in 2005, according to government data. The 12-member bipartisan supercommittee has until Nov. 23 to come up with a plan to reduce the federal budget deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. The law that created the panel requires automatic, across-the board spending cuts if Congress doesn’t approve its recommendations. Several plans for saving money while protecting farmers have been proposed by groups and lawmakers, including the American Soybean Association and Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat. The recommendations the agriculture committees will adopt will probably incorporate elements of the major proposals, said Chandler Goule, the chief lobbyist for the National Farmers Union, the second-biggest U.S. farmer group. The bill backed by Durbin, Brown, Thune and Lugar would create a program to protect farmers of major crops including corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton from “shallow losses,” providing income during periods of long-term price declines or extended weather disasters. The plan “is not your grandpa’s farm policy,” Brown said in an e-mailed statement. “Our proposal saves billions of taxpayer dollars by consolidating four existing farm programs into one that is tied to the market” so farmers receive assistance only when they need it, he said. The measure would guarantee income within an average of prices in previous years, smoothing out some of the recent volatility in futures trading: Wheat traded in Chicago, for example, has seen annual gains of 77 percent and 47 percent since 2007 and a loss of 31 percent. “These programs will protect from long-term declines from drought or precipitous declines in prices,” said Sam Willett, a senior policy director for the St. Louis-based National Corn Growers Association, a lobbying group for the biggest U.S. crop. Aid When Needed Unlike a $5 billion annual “direct payment” program of subsidies that go to farmers regardless of price -- an initiative the new plan may replace -- “this is designed to assist producers only when they need it,” Willett said. The plan may have some support among lawmakers trying to maintain a safety net for farmers while spending is being reduced, James said. Still, it may not go far enough in reforming farm policy that critics say distorts trade and fails to promote the most nutritious food supply possible, said Jim French, a farmer outside Hutchinson, Kansas, and an agricultural advocate with Oxfam America, the U.S. arm of the global humanitarian group. “It looks like an end-run maneuver against programs that would serve an equitable food system,” said French, who grows wheat and sorghum. With the demand for cuts creating a chance to re-examine agriculture subsidies in general, the new proposed payment is a missed opportunity, he said. “It benefits the same crops when we should be broadening what we support,” he said. Willett said the new program may help ensure a consistent safety net is applied to the crops U.S. consumers depend upon most. “If you look at prices, the market tells us we need more corn,” he said. In the current budget environment, “you have to be innovative and accepting of reforms,” he said. Corn futures traded in Chicago rose 14 percent in the past year through yesterday. Federal subsidies encourage greater production and reduce raw-materials costs for grain traders such as Cargill Inc., Bunge Ltd. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. Meatpackers that rely on corn-fed livestock, including Tyson Foods Inc., and food processors such as Kraft Foods Inc. also benefit. --Editors: Daniel Enoch, Steve Geimann. 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Nonprofits can raise more money in less time by offering their Warren Buffett lunches and Michael Jordan sneakers for bidding on the Web It used to take Cynthia Thomashow as long as six months to raise the $100,000 or so her nonprofit organization needs to run for a year. But with the help of an online charity site, she can raise that sum in as little as a month. "It changed our lives," says Thomashow, executive director of the New Hampshire Center for Environmental Education, a group that provides environmental educational tools to schools. "It's a quick and efficient way to raise an operating budget." Since 2004, Thomashow has raised about $500,000 with the help of online charity sites. The Web has wrought a sea change in the way nonprofits raise funds through auctions. Charities have long hawked donated items through live auctions, where bidders try to outbid each other publicly, often with the help of a fast-talking auctioneer, or through so-called silent auctions that let potential donors browse through items, then submit bids in writing. But with online auctions, nonprofits say they can raise more money in less time, selling a coveted item or service, often donated by a celebrity or socialite—say, a meal with Warren Buffett (BusinessWeek, 6/8/06) or Michael Jordan's sneaker collection—to the highest bidder from across the Web. Monkeys, Yachts, and Warren Buffett Online charity auctions have raised at least $250 million, according to figures provided by the largest sites, including eBay (EBAY), which runs a program called Giving Works. Others include Charity Folks and Charitybuzz. The biggest player, eBay, has raised $150 million for charity since 1999. Of that total, $50 million was raised in the last year alone. Its Giving Works helps more than 84 million eBay users "support the causes most important to them" and gives 15,000 nonprofits "direct access to this key constituency," says Kristin Cunningham, general manager of eBay Giving Works. No item, it seems, is off-limits for auction. Online casino site Goldenpalace.com placed the winning bid for the right to name a new species of titi monkey discovered in Bolivia by the Wildlife Conservation Society. With $650,000, the casino outbid Ellen DeGeneres to name the monkey callicebus avrei palatti, or "Golden Palace." Other prizes that have been auctioned for a cause include a 90-foot Ferris wheel and five days on a 157-foot private yacht. Two auctions have even reached seven figures: The most recent lunch with Warren Buffett fetched $2.11 million, and a letter signed by 41 Senate Democrats demanding that Rush Limbaugh apologize for calling antiwar veterans "phony soldiers" hauled in $2.1 million. The auction-hosting sites get a share of loot, too. CMarket's Biddingforgood.com started in 2003 and has raised nearly $46 million for nonprofits through 4,500 online auctions. Similar to other hosts, cMarket gets 9% of sold items, up to $4,500; the rest goes directly to the charity. Fund-Raisers Tap Facebook Besides helping nonprofits save time and money, online auctions often attract a broader audience—and they can build buzz for weeks as bids rise. Best of all, the money is typically unrestricted, so it can be used for operational costs; direct donors often favor specific programs. As successful as online auctions are, though, most charitable giving still happens off-line. The $1.1 billion in gifts on the Web last year made up just 1% of overall fund-raising, according to a 2008 survey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. And the online total includes giving through all charity Web sites, not just online auctions. But charity auctions aren't the only new way the Web is being used to raise money. Fund-raisers are increasingly tapping social-media tools and sites (BusinessWeek, 2/14/08) such as Facebook, and Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have sophisticated Web fund-raising operations (BusinessWeek, 6/27/08). This month, Charitybuzz is auctioning a painting of Obama by artist Shepard Fairey with the word "hope" beneath it. Proceeds will benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, a group founded by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons that exposes disadvantaged urban youth to the arts. The current high bid? $108,000 and counting.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill is urging her supporters to call on the National Rifle Association to back substantive efforts to improve gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. “Silence from the NRA will be a clear signal that they don’t want meaningful change,” McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, wrote in an email to her supporters. “That’s why I’m asking you to sign my petition, calling on the NRA to come out of hiding, and come to the table.” The push by McCaskill, a moderate Democrat and historically a defender of Second Amendment rights, is the latest in a series of public statements by moderate and conservative Democrats who have suddenly found themselves rushing to the left on gun control. McCaskill’s email also comes one day before the NRA is scheduled to hold a major press conference to announce some unspecified new initiative. See the full email below: I was stunned and sick to my stomach — and as a mother, I was horrified — when I learned about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It’s appropriate that while we grieve for the students, faculty, and their families, that we’ve also begun a long-overdue discussion of how to prevent this kind of tragedy. The constitutional right to own guns is not the issue. The issue is commonsense laws that respect that right, but prevent the mass slaughter of innocent Americans. But as we start work on banning assault weapons and limiting the rounds in magazines — both commonsense proposals that I strongly support — too many members of Congress worry about their “score” from the National Rifle Association. The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues — and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns. Well, I’m a former Jackson County prosecutor who’s seen gun violence. And more importantly, I’m a mom, and a grandmother. And I’m delivering a message to the NRA this week: Come to the table to prevent this from happening again. Click here to sign my petition to the NRA if you agree. Emerging from the tragedy in Newtown, the NRA has an opportunity to lead. An opportunity to come to the table, be a constructive partner, and make their voice a part of the solution to prevent mass murders of innocent children. But it’s their choice. Silence from the NRA will be a clear signal that they don’t want meaningful change. That’s why I’m asking you to sign my petition, calling on the NRA to come out of hiding, and come to the table. Click here to sign it now. Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings. Now, I’m calling on the NRA to use its considerable political influence to help us accomplish those goals. Click here to sign my petition today. To solve this problem, we need all parties at the table. Thank you for your support,
LESSON FOUR: UNDERSTANDING PRIMARY SOURCES People of all times leave clues with which historians interpret history. These clues, called primary sources, include photographs, audio recordings, diaries, letters, videos, and personal narratives. What clues help us understand the lives of people in the past? The students will: Display the Russell Lee photograph of a sign of segregation in Texas and the Handbook of Texas article about segregation side by side on the overhead. Ask students to read the article and examine the photograph, then compare the two items. Discuss the students’ observations, noting that the two items deal with the same historical issue (segregation). Point out that the Handbook of Texas article was written about segregation long after it had been outlawed, while the photograph was taken during the time of segregation to document current conditions. Explain that the Russell Lee photograph and article on segregation in Texas are both tools that can be used to understand Texas’ past. Ask students to identify other tools that we use to understand the past. Record student answers on the overhead, separating their responses into two groups: primary and secondary resources. If necessary, prompt student responses with clues; their answers should identify primary sources, including letters, journals, diaries, audio recordings, maps, newspaper articles, videos, interviews, personal narratives, and clothing. Secondary resources identified should include textbooks, articles, and books. After brainstorming, ask students to consider why you have arranged their responses into these two groups, leading them to identify that one group of tools was created by persons who witnessed the event (primary sources), while the other tools were created after the event by people who were not there to witness it (secondary sources). Label the two groups appropriately. Explain to students: Discuss both kinds of sources with the class, considering: Review the meaning of primary and secondary sources and inform students that during upcoming lessons they will use primary sources—the photographs of Russell Lee—to understand the lives of Mexican-Americans in Texas during the mid-20th century. Display the following list for students. Ask students to write down the name of the source and identify whether it is a primary or secondary source. Check student work for comprehension. Separation based on race and nationality in Texas is a practice historically applied to African and Mexican Americans. Attitudes regarding racial separation probably arrived in Texas during the 1820s and obviously accompanied views toward the "peculiar institution," slavery. Anglo-Americans begin extending segregation to Mexican Americans after the Texas Revolution as a social custom. Tejanos formed a suspect class during and after the revolution, and that fact led to a general aversion of them. After the Civil War, segregation went hand-in-hand with the violence often employed as a method of group control. For both minority groups, segregation existed in schools, churches, and most public places, including residential districts. By the latter years of the nineteenth century, institutionalized segregation flourished legally in places with a visible black population, and was extended informally to Tejanos. Most Texas towns and cities had a "Negro quarter" and a "Mexican quarter." Although the law specified until 1890 that black schools were to have equal access to the common school fund, they often did not. In the early twentieth century, black and Mexican schools faced lamentable conditions endemic in an antiquated educational system, and educational reforms of the Progressive era did not improve matters. During the 1920s, black schoolchildren were more likely to miss school than white students, black teachers received less pay and training than their white counterparts, and teaching accommodations ordinarily amounted to one-room buildings generally under the tutelage of a single teacher. The same circumstances applied to Hispanic students, who were segregated because some whites thought them "dirty" and because some white employers desired an uneducated, inexpensive labor pool. Whatever schools existed often suffered from inadequate financing, poor educational facilities, and racist curriculum. Shunned by white society, minorities formed their own PTAs and school organizations, and in the case of the black campuses, their own sports and academic rivalries. Parallel clubs and athletic teams were not as common in Mexican schools since Mexicans were considered "white" and thus did not receive the budgeting African Americans did from the "separate but equal" policy. These educational inequalities persisted into the 1950s. An elaborate system of legal codes kept black Texans apart from the mainstream of Texas life. Railroad-car segregation began in 1891. In 1910 and 1911, the legislature passed laws dictating that railroad companies provide separate waiting rooms in railroad stations. Several Texas towns adopted residential segregation laws between 1910 and the 1920s. Legal strictures called for segregated water fountains and restrooms. By 1930, black citizens could not attend sports or cultural events, eat at the better restaurants, or get lodging at the finer hotels unless these facilities provided separate accommodations. None of these laws specifically had Mexicans in mind, but white society nevertheless generally excluded them. Often, Mexican Americans could not commingle with whites at barbershops, restaurants, funeral homes, churches, juries, theaters, or numerous other public places. Excerpt from Handbook of Texas article: Segregation
From Engineering on August 04, 2008 in General Oh yes, you feel safe now that you know your home is somewhat fire proof. At ease while you sleep knowing that if anything happened you’d be ok, your house would be ok. Sorry to burst your happy bubble, but even though there are fire retardants in your home, doesn’t mean that they are safe. In fact, the most commonly used fire retardant that has been used since the 1970s, PBDE, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, have been found to be toxic. In science labs this toxic fire retardant has shown health effects of neurological and developmental defects in mice and rats. PBDE’s are everywhere! They are found in your couch, TV, computer, house and office dust, toaster, hair dryers, microwaves, carpet padding, mattresses, and upholstered furniture. When you sit on a cushion seat, you release this invisible toxin right into your air, into your clothes, and onto your skin. You breathe it in, you wash it off and down the drains and into the sewage, which believe this, gets used to fertilize our very own farm fields!! Scientists have found that this chemical sticks to fat. Scientists have done breast milk tests and have found that this chemical sticks to breast milk, the women who bare families and breast feed their babies are feeding them this chemical too. This PBDE chemical contaminates our food too, mainly the meat and dairy products, but these foods are abundantly eaten. There’s no getting around it. It has also been found that while this chemical burns, hence it is a fire retardant, it creates a toxic substance with a form of dioxin- a deadly carcinogen. Firefighters probably have the worst of it all, their uniforms are made with this chemical, but still the heat and smoke stick to their bodies and clothes and they are breathing this stuff in for up to a month or two after the fire they fought. It’s a scary thought isn’t it? I was shocked to have learned this myself. Fortunately, at this time the government is trying to ban this product from ever being used again, and some furniture stores don’t even carry furniture that have PBDE’s in them any more.
It's been a few months since Travis Pike had solar panels installed on his home, in the West Adams neighborhood of L.A. But the novelty hasn't worn off. He finds himself proudly gazing at a control panel on the side of his house at least a few times a day. For Pike, this control panel represents a victory of good over evil. And he's not talking about the fight against global warming. He's referring to his Quixotic battle against his "friendly" neighborhood homeowners association, called the Harvard Heights Neighborhood Preservation Overlay Zone. When Pike wanted to install solar panels on his historic mansion, the board representing the zone nixed the idea, telling him it would ruin the neighborhood's historic curb appeal. Pike fought back. In the end, a compromise was reached: He could install panels on the east side of his home, where they can't be seen from the street. But that meant Pike had to remove a chimney and a water heater, which doubled the cost of the project, not to mention the savings he'll never see from having to install the panels on the shady side of the house. "It's not really the ideal situation for me for generating the power, but at least I'm able to do some," said Pike. Neighborhood zones; building permits; local, state, federal requirements: These are some of the obstacles to making solar affordable for Californians. Barry Cinnamon is CEO of Akeena Solar, based in Los Gatos. If it's not a battle with a preservation zone, he says, it's reams of paperwork that take weeks to fill out. "The utility wants copies of it, California Solar Initiative wants copies, the city wants copies--it's a mess," said Cinnamon. "Every single page of paper had a reason, but nobody sat down and said 'Is this really important?'" Cinnamon says the amount of paperwork required for his solar installations has tripled in the last decade. For the consumer, he estimates, the cost to cut through all this red tape makes up a quarter of the price of an average solar installation. "This is no more difficult than putting an air conditioner on my house," said Cinnamon. "And as it gets really simple, the absurdity of all the paperwork and questions is, I think, going to provide pressure to make it easier." And that's exactly what has already happened in Japan. Japan's Simple Solar System A cramped office in downtown Tokyo, the headquarters for Japan's Photovoltaic Owners' Network, is the seat of a solar rebellion. Fifteen years ago, when Japan started offering subsidies for solar panels, homeowners were burdened with the same requirements as a large-scale utility: several building permits, blueprints, inspections, and lots of paperwork. Network president Ken Tsuzuku says all this bureaucracy sparked a public outrage that led to the creation of his group. Tsuzuku said, "We appealed to the government to eliminate this cumbersome process, and after two years of fighting, they finally got rid of these requirements. That significantly reduced the amount of paperwork that was required." And that, in turn, says Tsuzuku, brought down the installation price. Now, he says, solar is affordable for Japan's middle class. A typical five-kilowatt rooftop solar array costs up to $10,000 less in Japan than it does in California--if you have to install anything. Ready-Made Solar Homes A couple of hours south of Tokyo in the city of Machida, Atsuko Sugawara pours tea for her husband Jun as he flips through the family's electricity bills. The tea he's about to sip was heated with electricity generated by solar panels atop their new prefabricated home. This home is part of a new trend in Japan: manufactured homes. Now 15 percent of the country's housing stock, they're starting to come with solar panels already built in. Next month, Japan will begin offering something called a "feed-in tariff," which will pay solar panel owners for generating more electricity than they use. Sugawara is doing the math on that. "This means that I'll be able to pay off the price of my solar panels in just seven years," Sugawara said. "After that, I'll start making a profit." Sugawara estimates he'll net the equivalent of about $1500 a year from the sun. He's not alone. Nearly half a million homes in Japan already have solar panels, and news of the new feed-in tariff has spurred 50,000 households to install solar panels in the past six months; that's more than the total number of homes in California that have solar panels, period. Keeping the Heat On The Golden State is working on increasing that number, and they've already taken some lessons from Japan on how to do so. The California Solar Initiative, the state's successful subsidy for solar, was modeled after Japan's wildly popular solar subsidy program of the 1990s. "It was very successful," says Julie Blunden, who studied Japanese economic models to formulate California's solar program, " It took technology that was almost, in many ways, an off-grid technology, and brought it on-grid over the course of the late '90s and early part of this decade." Blunden, who's now Vice President of SunPower, admits California still needs to work on decreasing the amount of red tape involved in installing solar panels. Travis Pike, the homeowner in L.A. who's spent tens of thousands to appease his skeptical homeowners association, agrees. "Personally, as a homeowner, I think it is an intrusion on my rights," said Pike. "This is the modern age, the world is asking us to put in solar panels." And the key to accomplishing that in California, says Pike, is to get out of our own way.
Those of you who live in the 20th century are aware of the bare facts of my life. You know thatI was born in Calverton towards the middle of the sixteenth century, the eldest son of a prosperous yeoman farmer. You may also know something about my education at a local school and later at Christ's and St. Johns College, Cambridge where I received a thorough grounding in languages, theology and the classics to prepare me for my proposed vocation as a clergyman. You will almost certainly know how I strayed from this intended path to become an inventor and how this new career took me to London and to France in order to promote the stocking frame. But I wonder how many of you understand what all this meant to me and to my family - to reject the settled and respectable life of a clergyman in a sleepy English village in favour of the life of an inventor and pioneer with all its risks, hopes and misfortunes. I would like to share with you my own view of these strange and unpredictable events. After obtaining my Bachelor of Arts degree in 1582/83, I returned from Cambridge to the bosom of my family. My hope was that I could help with the Church services and also be of use to my father William about the farm. How I looked forward to wandering once again in the lanes and hills of my native Calverton. Many historians, I know, have written about my supposed romance at about this time with a lady who knitted incessantly, and have accorded this a certain significance in my future career. I can assure you that this rumour quite false. To have watched even the most beautiful woman knitting constantly would have annoyed me to distraction, and in fact I frequently pondered upon the burden placed upon womenfolk in the village by the requirements of hand-knitting. Queen Elizabeth had issued an edict that "her people should always wear a knitted cap". Knitters were the only means of producing such garments but it took so long to finish the article. I began to think. I watched my mother and my sisters sitting in the evening twilight plying their needles. If garments were made by two needles and one line of thread, why not several needles to take up the thread? I discussed this with my young brother James whilst we tied up the cows or rounded up the sheep. He was a good and patient listener, young as he was, and the only one of my brothers not too busy to pay attention to my lofty ideas. My mother and sisters were intrigued by the notion of a "loom to knit" releasing them from the slavery of spinning and knitting which had occupied womenfolk from time immemorium, but they refused to take it seriously. After all, was it not a woman's job to knit by hand? As my ideas and enthusiasm grew, my poor father was annoyed beyond belief that I should "waste my time" and energies on a "woman's work". He considered that my time which had been spent in learning ought now to be devoted to work in our Church of St. Wilfrid. I retorted that the Protestant system of moral principles, which I upheld, was not opposed to working for trading purposes, as well as for the services of God. Despite my vehemence. I was rent in two. My duties to Church and family I began to neglect. The idea of my machine and the creating of it ate into my heart and brain. I set aside the notion that my loom would do harm to the poor who were set to work with pauper children and the infirm to produce garments which only required two pins and a skein of wool. All the necessary requirements for my contrivance were to hand - wood from the forest which edged my father's farm;coal which had recently been found near Nottingham. I would go and get acquainted with our village blacksmith and the carpenter, visiting their abodes and learning from them as I had learned from the thinkers and dreamers in Cambridge. My sister Isabel sat with me in the garden one evening and taught me how to use the knitting pins and then I had a clearer idea in my mind. I could picture my machine. Perhaps a long bar which could hold the row of stitches, as knitters held them on the pin in their left hand. Another bar to oppose the one with the row of stitches. Somehow each loop had to be picked up and transferred to the first bar. Suddenly as a bolt of lightening, the solution came to me. Why not a piece of wire formed as a loop to pick up the thread and cause it to form a loop and somehow cast it off? At church services I was as one bewitched - the words in the psalter became hooks picking up lines of print as if it were thread. The chanting and plainsong and the rhythm of my frame as it shuttled back and forth along the rows of knitting. My fellow worshippers wondered and complained about my far-away mind. At eventide my candles burnt low whilst ideas came and went in the dim light . I was tortured, a long drawn-out agony but this dream of mine just had to become a reality. Sometimes as I worked on my father's farm,I whittled sticks hoping to form hooks to pick up my thread. I watched the thrush wresting and tugging with a worm reluctant to leave the soil. All these activities became my machine. Gradually, but with surety, I worked out all the complicated movements and with patience my frame came into being. I swayed between heights of excitement and the lowest depths of despair as I laboured to produce some fabric - slowly the results were becoming more recognizable as a piece of material. Soon I could bring the frame to the notice of the citizens. James and I were quite devastated! Imperiously she cried, "Thou aimest high, Master Lee. Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects. It would assuredly bring to them ruin by depriving them of employment, thus making them beggars."Turning to Lord Hunsdon, she declared, "Had Mr Lee made a machine which could have given me silk stockings, I would perhaps have been justified in granting him a patent". Looking down at me she declared, "To enjoy the privilege of making stockings for everyone is too important to grant to any individual." I was devastated and humiliated. All my hopes and dreams collapsed in that instant. Lord Hunsdon was less cast down than James and I. If silk stockings were what was required instead of woollen ones, then my noble Lord was quite sure that I could improve my machine and make them. William Carey, son of Lord Hunsdon, also believed in my ability to improve the frame. It was agreed that I should teach Sir William the "arte and misterie" of framework knitting. Thus a Knight of the Realm became my apprentice. James also encouraged me to devote all my energies to perfecting the loom. The task of supporting James and myself was a growing problem. We had no rich patrons. It was necessary to try and sell the woollen stockings while at the same time trying to improve the frame. I needed Guild membership to sell my goods openly on the market. This was yet another mountain to climb. Many customs and regulations had to be obeyed before one was admitted to the Weavers Guild. I was sworn to pay £3. With great difficulty and given time, I paid. Now I was qualified to obtain the Freedom of the City. It took me about 10 years to perfect the frame and produce silk stockings but it was by then too late. My sponsor and friend Lord Hunsdon died in 1596. Lord Burghley, Adviser to the Queen, died nearly two years later. The Queen herself died in 1603. In desperation, I began to look towards France as the land where my dream might be realised. At this time many French refugees were living in London, seeking safety from the frequent religious conflicts in their country. Among their number were excellent artisans, clockmakers and weavers skilled in the handling of silk yarns. I became particularly close to Pierre de Caux and some members of his family. They had taken refuge in Spitalfields. Pierre's brother Salomon, eminent architect, inventor and author, served whilst in England as tutor to Henry, son of James 1st. At this time, every effort was being made to introduce new industries to France. Henry IV was actively involved in every aspect of economic life. James and I were particularly intrigued by stories of life in Rouen. It was a town renowned in France as an important city, famous for its arts, commerce, printing and textiles. And textiles was my business. So persuasive were the entreaties of my friends the De Caux brothers, I was moved to load my nine hand frames onto conveyances and ship them by river and sea to Rouen where we arrived in a state of high excitement and trepidation. A very complicated but precise contract was drawn up between De Caux and myself. "For the manufacture of Stockings of Silk and wool on the machine at present introduced in the realm by the inventor Lee." My association with the De Caux brothers led to a direct introduction to the court of Henry IV where I became a protege of his prime minister, Sully. Sully was the most impressed with the knitting frame and proved an invaluable ally, offering funds for me to build more machines and successfully petitioning the King for a monopoly for my invention. James and I felt peace, hope and confidence in our new surroundings. So many exciting things were happening in England now. Our trouble with Spain. New plays by a new poet. The science of astrology was commanding the attention of Queen Elizabeth. Could I journey to London town and present my machine to her? If I could only shape a pair of woollen stockings - would her Majesty deign to look at them? I was no courtier versed in flattering and honeyed expressions. Would she even consent to see me? Would she grant me the patent so necessary to me in my work? Our first sight of London town was momentous. After the quiet of Calverton and the countryside through which we had journeyed, it was hard to understand the tumult and shouting of the throngs in the narrow and smelly streets. The rows of shops and houses from which the cities of traders came, deafened us. The filth we had to wade through was indescribable. We eventually found a wooden building which would serve as a workshop - it was near to the river and to the edge of the countryside. I immediately set up the frame and made plans to see the Queen to persuade her to see my products and grant me my licence. I realised that my engine might take away the need for hand knitting but people at court would be bound to appreciate the advantages of a hundred needles rather than two. Richard Parkyns, our member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire, arranged for me to meet Henry Carey, Lord Hundson, a member of the Queen's Privy Council. Lord Hunsdon seemed the perfect sponsor in helping me to get my patent since he was a cousin of the Queen. The great day dawned at last. James and I were beside ourselves with trepidation. This was that day when we must perform and exercise the invention of a "loom to knit" before her majesty. Accompanied by Lord Hunsdon and others, she arrived to inspect the frame. I bowed and handed her the woollen stocking. 1889: Painting, housed at Leicester Polytechnic, to commemorate the 300th centenary of the invention Our friends identified themselves with the Protestant religion which was of comfort to me. I was now set to fulfil my obligations to the contract which was to supply new machines and "to teach the operation of the loom, to teach how to build and dismantle the loom, and to teach others how to teach." But our settled and busy life was to be suddenly threatened by a horrifying event which took place in Paris. King Henry IV was cruelly assassinated and the accession of Louis XIII revived the religious intolerance which was terrifying to my brother and myself. Scenes in the streets of Rouen were upsetting. My fears for my English workers grew. Higher and higher fees were demanded for registration with the Guilds. Restrictions were imposed on national origin and religion. Quest for work wasthwarted from all sides. So discontented were the workers, the value of the livre having disappeared to the level of a sou. The prevailing conditions were giving birth to revolt. Secret associations were being formed and those measures which were taken to ensure the protection of the English workers were unavailing to us. Voices of workers were being raised against the long-endured injustices. More frightening, the handcraft workers agitated for the return of the old ways of working by hand. Cruel episodes were enacted in the towns. These conditions led me to believe in the heartbreaking thought that it would be well to return our men and looms to England. So ended my earlier dreams of additional frames being built and worked, but intuitively I knew this was the end of my long travail. Loyal James did get our machines back into England and was able to set up workshops in Bunhill Row London, from whence we had set out such high hopes. With James gone, I am now quite alone in a hostile land, miserable and ill. Often I think of the tranquil and uneventful life that could have been mine had I chosen to remain in Calverton. I have had my share of excitement and drama along with many cruel disappointments but I often ask myself whether my invention will be a worthwhile legacy to future generations. Perhaps you in the 21st century will judge.
When it was first published in 1983, Baseball's Great Experiment received glowing praise from virtually all quarters. The Chicago Sun-Times called it "a thumpingly good baseball book," and Red Barber wrote in The New Republic that it was "by far the most comprehensive single book on the subject." "Eminently readable," added Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post Book World, "not only is this a book that is long overdue, but it turns out to be a book that was well worth the wait." Baseball's Great Experiment tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history, an event now enshrined in folklore. Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946 shook America almost as profoundly as the Supreme Court's decision upholding desegregation in public schools a few years later. But this book doesn't end with Robinson: Baseball's Great Experiment follows the entire saga of baseball integration through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox--the last all-white Major League team--brought up the black infielder "Pumpsie" Green from the minors. As Tygiel makes clear, the integration of baseball transformed not only American athletics, but American society as well. Two characters tower above all others: Robinson the gifted athlete, and Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tygiel goes behind the scenes to recount Rickey's meticulous planning--his motives, his search for the right player, even his handling of sportscasters. Against the backdrop of a postwar America unprepared for the Civil Rights struggle, the story proceeds from Robinson's chilly reception among teammates and opponents alike, through his daily ordeal of taunts and death threats both on and off the field, to his triumph as rookie-of-the-year, when he led the Dodgers to the 1947 World Series, and ultimate recognition as one of the greatest players of all time. Robinson, however, was only the first of many blacks to play in the Majors, and Baseball's Great Experiment traces the complete, painfully slow process of desegregation, in the process telling the often neglected stories of men like Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and many other pioneers. Tygiel also offers a unique look at integration in the minor leagues, and the role that the lifting of the color barrier played in the battle against Jim Crow in the South. Based on interviews with dozens of players and baseball executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and the personal papers of those who were there, this is the moving story of true courage--an unforgettable re-creation of a bygone era in America. Biographies & Memoirs, Ethnic & National, African-American & Black,
You've heard much in recent years about positive thinking. Out of the recessions and lean years another term has been born "prosperous thinking." The word "prosper" means "to flourish, succeed, thrive, to experience favorable results." This book plainly shows how prosperous thinking has helped people in every walk of life to experience these results. Furthermore, it shows how prosperous thinking can do these things for you, too! As you read this book, chapter by chapter, you will automatically begin to develop the power of prosperous thinking, and, almost as easily, you will begin to reap a harvest of prosperous results.
RochesterSeptember 18, 2013 State releases local school district bus inspection report By Mary Beth Almond C & G Staff Writer ROCHESTER — Buses have hit the roads for the 2013-14 school year, and a new report suggests parents in the Avondale Schools and Rochester Community Schools districts can rest assured their children are in good hands as they travel to and from school. The Michigan State Police Traffic Safety Division conducts school bus inspections throughout the state each Sept. 1-Aug. 31, and publishes a report of its findings. Inspections cover a district’s ability to maintain a vehicle’s mechanical areas, such as brakes, steering and suspension; as well as whether it supplies items like first-aid kits, warning lights and safety equipment. According to the Michigan State Police Traffic Safety Division, 113 buses of RCS’s 117 fleet — which travels more than 1 million miles each year — passed state inspection in the third quarter of 2013. Durham School Services began providing transportation services for RCS at the start of the 2012-13 school year, under a three-year contract that is expected to save the district approximately $4.7 million over the three-year period. Under the contract, Durham operates 104 home-to-school routes transporting approximately 7,500 general education students and 800 non-public school students each day. Out of the four Durham buses that didn’t pass immediate inspection, three were red-tagged and one was yellow-tagged. A red-tagged bus indicates at least one defect that has the potential to cause a breakdown or is a passenger safety hazard, and the vehicle is immediately taken off the road for repair, while a yellow tag indicates defects that do not affect safety but must be repaired within 60 days by law. The three buses that were red-tagged had various issues — one had an air leak in the dashboard, one had a minor exhaust leak, and one had a loose battery, according to Colleen Mayes, general manager of Durham School Services. She said mechanics replaced the leaking dashboard valve and the ceiling clamp, and secured the battery, all before the state inspector completed his report. “The state inspector is only here for five days maximum … and they were back out on the road prior to him leaving,” she said. A broken exhaust hanger, along with a crack in the door glass that Mayes said was missed by mechanics because it was right next to the rubber, earned the fourth bus a yellow flag. She said both parts were replaced, and the bus was given the OK to head back on the road. Mayes, who also managed the district’s transportation system for a number of years before being hired by Durham as party of the privatization process, said she is “ecstatic” about the results of the inspection. “We’ve never been under 10 red flags under my management, and I’ve been the manager for about 15 years. This year, we only had three, so it’s the best we’ve ever had,” she said. “Our goal is always zero red tags, and we’re going to get there.” The positive report is a testament to the transportation staff’s high level of performance, according to Mayes, who said three mechanics and a fleet supervisor check RCS’s bus fleet every 120 days and all the bus drivers conduct daily inspections on their vehicles prior to driving, as well as after their shift is over. “They start the bus up, they look at all the lights on the dash in the inside of the bus, they check the inside of the bus, check to make sure that the seats are secure, and they walk the entire inside of the bus. Then they go outside and make sure their flashers are working, all their lights are on, all headlights are on, the engine compartment door is latched, the emergency doors work; they check the roof hatches — they have a very intense pre-trip check every morning and afternoon, and then when they get back, they do a post-trip inspection which ensures that they do a child check to make sure that there are no children left on the bus, and then they walk around the bus one more time outside to make sure that there is nothing wrong with it,” she added. The Avondale Schools district busing system received a perfect score from Michigan State Police inspectors. “It’s great news,” said Avondale Schools Superintendent George Heitsch. 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September 13, 2013 Ever since Thomas Malthus published “An Essay on the Principle of Population” in 1798, positing incorrectly that humans’ proclivity for procreation would exhaust the global food supply within a matter of decades, population growth has been a hot button issue among those contemplating humankind’s future. September 13, 2013 I knew long before I published my very first commentary online that I was inviting insults -- not only to my intelligence, but also to my very being. Which, incidentally, is why my heart goes out to all of the kids whose online chats, pictures, observations, etc., incited such degrading and dehumanizing abuse. September 11, 2013 Climate change has over time posed many challenges, especially to economic development! More so, the enormity of global warming is often a daunting and dispiriting phenomenon and requires a number of changes to slow and reverse climate change! The idea of carrying out integrated assessment... September 3, 2013 CASTRIES Saint Lucia -- The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat is in final preparations to host its third climate change seminar, which is to focus on ‘strategies and innovations in tourism and agriculture’. The seminar will take place in Saint Lucia on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. August 26, 2013 Food waste is indeed an untapped resource with great potential for generating energy. Some one third of all food produced around the world gets discarded uneaten, and environmentalists, energy analysts and entrepreneurs are beginning to take notice. Diverting even just a portion of this waste to so-called waste-to-energy... August 10, 2013 ST THOMAS, USVI -- US Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh joined several of his fellow governors in applauding President Obama’s efforts to combat climate change and pledging cooperation to meet the urgent challenge of a warming planet. De Jongh signed a letter along with 13 other governors... August 6, 2013 There has never been a better time to renovate green, given the abundance of Earth-friendly building material choices as well as contractors well-versed in energy- and resource-efficiency. Many homeowners don’t realize that they can save money in the long run, despite the upfront costs... July 22, 2013 Since sea level measurements were first recorded, in 1870, global averages have risen almost eight inches. The annual rate of rise has been 0.13 inches over the past 20 years, which is close to twice the average from the previous 80 years. Future estimates for sea levels vary according to region but most... July 17, 2013 Over the last 20 years, the World Bank Group has helped countries lift 663 million people out of poverty. In the next 20, we believe it is possible to end extreme poverty. This goal is within our grasp. But poverty reduction and climate change are linked. We have powerful new evidence that even if climate change falls... July 15, 2013 If by pollution you mean greenhouse gas emissions, then definitely yes. According to Maria Diuk-Wasser at the Yale School of Public Health, the onset of human-induced global warming is likely to increase the infection rates of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus... July 10, 2013 NEW YORK, USA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday applauded the journey of the first solar-powered plane to cross the United States from coast to coast and declared that the historic flight could serve as an inspiration to tackle climate change and promote sustainable development. July 9, 2013 In what’s being billed as the greatest environmental initiative of his presidency, Barack Obama announced on June 25, 2013, that his administration is instituting stringent mandatory restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions by power plants, factories and other industrial sources. July 6, 2013 ROAD TOWN, BVI -- Deputy premier and minister for natural resources and labour, Dr Kedrick Pickering, has raised the British Virgin Islands’ environmental profile at the European Parliament where he outlined the government’s conservation and green initiatives. Pickering delivered a statement last week to the... June 26, 2013 ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- The 70 square-mile island of Aruba is on track to becoming the world's first sustainable energy economy and achieving the goal of running on 100 percent sustainable energy by 2020. In recent years, sustainability efforts within the travel industry have progressed from a niche consideration... June 19, 2013 WASHINGTON, USA -- Latin America and the Caribbean’s renewable energy endowment is large enough to cover its projected 2050 electricity needs 22 times over, according to a new report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The report, Rethinking our Energy Future... June 15, 2013 The metaphysical phenomenon of global climate change has evoked equivocal chords! Moreover, empirical evidence about global climate variations in weather systems has recreated unpredictable trends in an environment that potentially have severe consequences to our being and how we understood the world. June 10, 2013 A few years ago biofuels were all the rage. Environmental advocates to national security hawks alike were extolling the virtues of ethanol and biodiesel as a carbon-neutral bridge to our energy future. But the bubble burst when it became apparent that there wasn’t enough agricultural land... June 3, 2013 Wetlands include swamps, marshes, bogs, riverbanks, mangroves, floodplains, rice fields -- and anywhere else, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development.
February 18, 2013 \| 2:45 pm \| Print Above: the CARICOM Summit in Haiti (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Caribbean’s relationship with the European Union is becoming increasingly one-sided, St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony told the CARICOM Summit in Haiti Monday. “The truth is that our relationship with Europe is becoming even more and more one-sided, with Europe seemingly having its way at ever turn on every occasion,” he said. “Europe had its way with bananas, sugar and EPA [the Economic Partnership Agreement] and now it is having its way with differentiation.” “Differentiation” is part of a proposal by the EU to change the way it determines its aid, particularly to the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). The proposal would mean the application of different levels of development cooperation to different countries, using “needs and performance criteria.” Crucially, it would target resources towards Least Developed Countries, while cutting allocations to High Income and Upper Middle Income Countries; the latter two categories describe many of the countries in the Caribbean, and could mean significant cuts to the region. The ACP has expressed its “concerns” over the plan.” “This issue must be fought resolutely,” Anthony said. “The relationship between EU and the CARIFORUM [which includes CARICOM and the Dominican Republic] countries is not just economic but profoundly political — Europe as will as CARICOM will have to determine not just the diplomatic but also the political value of the existing relationship.” The plight of Caribbean economies remains a major issue for the region, he said. “The unvarnished truth is that our economies need each other to survive,” he said. Anthony, who preceded Haiti President Michel Martelly as CARICOM Chairman, urged the Caribbean to have a “big conversation about the future of our economies, not just the future of CARICOM.” 1 of 1
Insurance companies typically request that a claim be made promptly and within a reasonable amount of time. Some states might have a law or statute that regulates this and thus dictates that the claim must be made within a certain time period, such as a year. You can contact your state's insurance regulator or department of motor vehicles to find out what the time limit might be set at in your specific state. This time period would generally be the same whether there was a police report made or not. If you are the one filing a claim, you might have to explain why there was not a police report filed and why you delayed reporting the incident to the insurance carrier. The insurance company will then investigate the claim to decide if it is valid or not and if they will cover the loss.
The University of Washington Geotechnical Engineering Program is one of the oldest programs in the United States. Beginning in 1935, our program has produced outstanding students who have achieved great success in practice and academia. Our program provides a solid background in all traditional areas of geotechnical engineering, and allows students to focus on areas of particular interest including geotechnical earthquake engineering, numerical analysis, landslide hazards, and other contemporary topics. Students also interact with leaders in the local professional community, many of whom are UW graduates, through special courses taught by practitioners, field trips, seminars, and professional society meetings. UW students and faculty conduct research in a broad range of areas of geotechnical engineering, including seismic site response, earthquake- and rainfall-induced analysis, numerical modeling of flow slides and other large-deformation problems, soil liquefaction, soil-structure interaction, and partially saturated soils. Our research is funded by federal and state agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Washington State Department of Transportation. I chose to pursue my graduate studies at UW CEE because of its respected program, excellent faculty, and variety of research opportunities. The geotechnical engineering group has the camaraderie and power I was looking for in my area of study. I am also an avid alpinist and photographer, having scaled hundreds of challenging summits in North America, so it was a great perk to be nearby my favorite stomping grounds - the beautiful and rugged North Cascades. My research is part of a 3-year Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) project investigating earthquake liquefaction initiation and effects. This project is an multi-institution project which includes researchers from Alaska, California and New York, and includes both analytical and experimental work. I have specifically been looking into identifying time-evolving ground motion intensity measures that can accurately predict the occurrence and timing of liquefaction, and to explore the use of timing information to improve the accuracy of predictions of the effects of liquefaction. This will inform more accurate design and emergency preparedness decisions in liquefaction-prone areas. The Geotechnical Engineering group is proud to partner with the ASCE Seattle Geotechnical Group in research projects and promoting the professional development of the local geotechnical community.
Biophysical Journal, Volume 77, Issue 1, 1 July 1999, Pages 70-84 Diane E. Sagnella and John E. Straub The vibrational energy relaxation of dissociated carbon monoxide in the heme pocket of sperm whale myoglobin has been studied using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation and normal mode analysis methods. Molecular dynamics trajectories of solvated myoglobin were run at 300K for both the δ- and ∈-tautomers of the distal histidine, His64. Vibrational population relaxation times were estimated using the Landau–Teller model. For carbon monoxide (CO) in the myoglobin ∈-tautomer, for a frequency of ω0=2131cm−1 corresponding to the B1 state, T1∈(B1)=640±185 ps, and for a frequency of ω0=2119cm−1 corresponding to the B2 state, T1∈(B2)=590±175 ps. Although the CO relaxation rates in both the ∈- and δ-tautomers are similar in magnitude, the simulations predict that the vibrational relaxation of the CO is faster in the δ-tautomer. For CO in the myoglobin δ-tautomer, it was found that the relaxation times were identical within error for the two CO substate frequencies, T1δ(B1)=335±115 ps and T1δ(B2)=330±145 ps. These simulation results are in reasonable agreement with experimental results of Anfinrud and coworkers (unpublished results). Normal mode calculations were used to identify the dominant coupling between the protein and CO molecules. The calculations suggest that the residues of the myoglobin pocket, acting as a first solvation shell to the CO molecule, contribute the primary “doorway” modes in the vibrational relaxation of the oscillator. Abstract \| Full Text \| PDF (243 kb) Biophysical Journal, Volume 61, Issue 2, 1 February 1992, Pages 381-391 J. Fidy, J.M. Vanderkooi, J. Zollfrank and J. Friedrich Mesoporphyrin IX substituted horseradish peroxidase was studied by fluorescence line narrowing and hole burning techniques at cryogenic temperatures. The spectral data reveal that four pyrrole tautomeric configurations of the chromophore are populated within the protein under the influence of irradiation and/or thermal treatment, and the existence of a fifth and a sixth tautomeric configuration is also likely. The relative population of the tautomers changes upon deuterium substitution through modification of the phototransition rate, and also depends on pH, which changes the protonation of neighboring amino acids in the heme pocket. The energy separation of the origins of the tautomers is approximately 100 cm-1. The distribution of barrier heights separating the different tautomeric forms in the ground state and their distribution was determined by temperature cycling hole burning. The distributions can be approximated by Gaussians. The experiment directly yields the distributions on a relative temperature scale, and a model is presented to transform the barrier heights into energy values. It is suggested that the energies for the tautomers are split partially due to the protein crystal field and that the trapping of the tautomeric forms is the consequence of interactions with neighboring amino acids within the heme pocket. Abstract \| PDF (1038 kb) Copyright © 2001 The Biophysical Society All rights reserved. Biophysical Journal, Volume 80, Issue 4, 1973-1985, 1 April 2001 * Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20133, Italy † Istituto di Scienze Biochimiche, Università di Parma, Parma 43100, Italy ‡ Istituto di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Parma, Parma 43100, Italy § Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Università di Parma, Parma 43100, Italy ¶ Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase, a homo-dimeric enzyme from Salmonella typhimurium, covalently binds one pyridoxal 5′-phosphate molecule per subunit as a fluorescent coenzyme. Different tautomers of the Schiff base between the coenzyme and lysine 41 generate structured absorption and fluorescence spectra upon one-photon excitation. We investigated the protein population heterogeneity by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and lifetime techniques upon two-photon excitation. We sampled the fluorescence intensity from a small number of molecules (∼10) and analyzed the distribution of photon counts to separately determine the number and the fluorescence brightness of excited protein molecules. The changes in the average number of molecules and in the fluorescence brightness with the excitation wavelength indicate the presence of at least two fluorescent species, with two-photon excitation maxima at 660 and 800nm. These species have been identified as the enolimine and ketoenamine tautomers of the protein-coenzyme internal aldimine. Their relative abundance is estimated to be 4:1, whereas the ratio of their two-photon cross sections is reversed with respect to the single-photon excitation case. Consistent results are obtained from the measurement of the lifetime decays, which are sensitive to the excited-state heterogeneity. At least two components were detected, with lifetimes of ∼2.5 and 0.5ns. The lifetimes are very close to the values measured in bulk solutions upon one-photon excitation and attributed to the ketoenamine tautomer and to a dipolar species formed upon proton dissociation in the excited state.
I am attempting to grow the best pepper plants I can indoors (grow box) so I started with jalapeno peppers. They grow relatively small 2-3 feet and require 2-3 gallon container for growing. While this is fine for an outdoor garden, though indoors I can only sacrifice 1 gallon container. This summer I grew several jalapeno plants which spent half of their life in the grow box and spent our warm summer outdoors. All of the plants produced but there was definitely a clear winner which had incredible early yields even with its small growing quarters. I used several immature peppers (green) for salsa this year but allowed several peppers to mature (red) which I will be saving the seeds for planting this winter and next summer for future plants. By hand selecting the best parent plants should be good old natural selection at work. The process to collect pepper seeds is pretty simple though I must first provide this warning: WARNING: Peppers are hot, especially the veins. When handling peppers use caution and wash your hands well with dish soap. Under no conditions do not rub your eyes or pick rub your nose before washing your hands or you will be regretting it for a couple hours. Using gloves is also recommended. That being said slice the peppers lengthwise with a sharp knife. Use a fork or spoon to gently dislodge the seeds into a small bowl. If you are lucky enough to have hot sunny weather still (week of rain here) lay they out in the sun for a couple days and store them in a cool dry place until you are ready to plant them. If you are sun challenged like me set them on a windowsill for a few days. As I have said before saving you own seeds is very easy and free and as an added bonus you can personally pick the best plant to be the donors of seeds for your future plantings. In my case I also have the benefit of a plants that is genetically grown to following my sporadic watering and care patterns.
Every spring at the Chicago Botanic Garden, thousands of Narcissus bloom. Come enjoy the spirit of spring, and be inspired to try some new varieties in your own garden. The Beauty of Spring The Narcissus genus includes 13 divisions of cultivated daffodils and wild Narcissus that epitomize the perennial beauty of spring. Their multiplying blooms explode on hillsides, meadows, and woodland walks, or form elegant swaths in formal gardens. The thousands of cultivars range from the great giants, growing to 20 inches with strong stems, coronas (trumpets), and perianths (petals) that can withstand spring winds and rain, down to charming 4-inch miniatures perfect for rock gardens or containers. Colors extend well beyond yellow and white to shades approaching apricot, pink, and flaming orange. The flowers themselves include the majestic trumpets as well as the intriguing doubles, frilled cups, flat cups, split coronas, and flared-back forms. Daffodil bulbs are planted in fall but bloom in spring, as early as March or as late as May, depending on the cultivar. They require excellent drainage in a rich soil. Most prefer full sun but will perform admirably in shadier conditions, especially the pastels. They love spring rain during their active growth, summer drought when they go dormant, and autumnal showers as they develop strong roots. Plant the bulbs at a depth equal to three to four times the height of the bulb, measuring from the bottom of the planting hole. For backyard gardens, create clusters of five to seven or nine bulbs per group, leaving 3 inches between bulbs. Gardeners with larger spaces can imitate nature by using thousands of bulbs in swelling drifts. Narcissus are perfect in ground cover beds or in perennial borders where emerging plants hide their yellowing foliage. It is crucial that the stems and leaves remain attached to the bulbs until they begin to lose their green color. In fall, apply a slow-release bulb booster-type fertilizer into the top layer of soil above the planting hole of new bulbs or existing clumps. This helps the bulbs set roots in the fall and produce vigorous growth the following spring. Narcissus are insect-and disease-resistant and, for those who garden with wildlife watching, they are of no interest to deer, rabbits, and other rodents due to a poisonous alkaloid in the bulb. This chemical is also responsible for the daffodil's inability to coexist with other cut flowers in a vase.
SACRAMENTO -- When Gov. Jerry Brown decided he wouldn't defend California's ban same-sex marriage in court, he was following in the footsteps of his father, former Gov. Pat Brown. Both men decided they wouldn't go to bat for voter-approved measures because they considered them unconstitutional. The ballot initiatives -- Proposition 8 in 2008 and Proposition 14 in 1964 -- are the only two in California history to go undefended by state leaders. Proposition 14 was an attempt to undo fair-housing laws championed by the elder Brown, who wanted to prevent landlords from discriminating based on race, sex and other factors. Black residents sued after voters approved the measure, saying they were being unfairly denied housing. Brown refused to mount a legal defense of Proposition 14, and it was ruled unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court. The decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. The battle over Proposition 8 ended differently and could affect the future of ballot initiatives in California and other states with similar systems. Jerry Brown, both as attorney general and governor, refused to defend the ban on same-sex marriages. Neither would former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger or Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris. That became a key factor in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Proposition 8, which essentially voided the measure. "We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to," wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the majority opinion. "We decline to do so for the first time here." Justice Anthony M. Kennedy disagreed, saying that Proposition 8 supporters should have been allowed to defend the measure in federal court. "Such an appearance is essential to the integrity of its initiative process," wrote Kennedy, a Sacramento native. The Supreme Court’s decision has raised concerns that elected officials will be able to undo initiatives they don’t like simply by refusing to defend them in federal court. Brown downplayed that question on Thursday, saying the situation was "very, very unlikely to occur again." He added, "If it does, we'll be able to deal with it."ALSO:
Born Learning: Help Shape Your Child's World Everyday life is a learning experience for children. Born Learning is a public engagement campaign that helps parents, grandparents and caregivers explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning opportunities. Read the articles below to get a few ideas of how caregivers can turn activities into educational experiences for growing children. Learn more creative ways to shape your child's world by visiting the Born Learning web site. There you can get ideas on how to connect with children at home, while traveling or in public places through crafts, songs, stories or games, for example. You can also discover the developmental stages that children go through and the role that health and nutrition play in those formative years. Born Learning is here to help parents, grandparents and child care professionals face one of life's most rewarding and challenging experiences - raising and/or caring for a child.
(But How Do You Know That?) By Zhuangzi [Chuang Tze] Chinese text \| Story \| Classics One day Zhuangzi and Huizi are strolling on Bridge Hao. Zhuangzi : "Look how happy the fish are just swimming around in the river." Huizi : "How do you know they are happy? You are not a fish." Zhuangzi: "And you are not me. How do you know I don't know the fish are happy?" Huizi: "Of course I'm not you, and I don't know what you think; Zhuangzi: "Look, when you asked me how I knew the fish were happy, - ZhuangZi (369?-286? b.c.) tr. Brian Bruya
The Surge Comes to Salinas A plan to apply counterinsurgency doctrine to gang violence Communities beset by seemingly unbreakable cycles of violence; law enforcement overmatched to the point of essentially ceding sovereignty to an organized and heavily armed resistance; citizens so intimidated by thugs that they wont report them to authorities, for fear of retribution. Eight years into the War on Terror, this scenario sounds familiar. But its location isnt the Sunni Triangle in 2006 or southern Afghanistan today; its a farm town on Californias Central Coast. In Salinasa predominantly Hispanic, blue-collar community best known for producing John Steinbeckviolence has spiraled out of control. With a population of under 150,000, the citys homicide rate has rocketed to three times that of Los Angeles, largely the result of fighting between the rival Norteños and Sureños gangs. With murders at an all-time high in 2009 (29 as of late December), residents are understandably frightened. When the police go searching for answers in the aftermath of a gang killing, self-interest prevails. Citizens more confident in the gangs ability to retaliate than in the cops ability to protect them stay mum. Salinass mayor, Dennis Donohue, and his new police chief, Louis Fetherolf, want to reverse this vicious cycle. They think that they may have found a solution 7,500 miles to the east and 17 miles to the west. Those are the distances to Iraq, where General David Petraeuss counterinsurgency strategy, generally known as the surge, saved a nearly failed state from implosion; and to the city of Monterey, where the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hosts students and faculty eager to apply the surges lessons to Salinas. A team of NPS volunteers is combing through the citys law enforcement data in granular detail. Once the work is complete, they plan to recommend ways that Salinas can apply counterinsurgency strategy to its pervasive violence. If the application of military strategy to domestic law enforcement leaves you feeling queasy, youre not alone. Be careful what you wish for, cautioned Nathan Hodge, writing on Danger Room, the national-security blog of Wired. Counterinsurgency is still a tool for dealing with political emergencies, and it involves a heavy degree of population control. And at home, its a bridge too far. Warning against the dangers of checkpoint operations and cordon and knock procedures (a genteel version of door-to-door searches), Hodge approvingly quoted Lieutenant John P. Sullivan of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department: The liberty issues are vital. What gives you legitimacy in the long haul is preserving liberty while providing security. If you dont end up doing it right, it ends up enhancing the legitimacy of the gang. Sullivan is rightup to a point. The freedom-security balance is the sine qua non of free societies under conventional circumstances. But it borders on irrelevant in the middle of chaos. As in pre-Petraeus Iraq, Salinass worst neighborhoods are hotbeds of violent anarchyHobbesian atmospheres where talk of ordered liberty is academic. While Sullivan is correct to note that the tactics applied in the Iraqi counterinsurgency campaign shouldnt be grafted onto the domestic front without alteration, his experience in Los Angeles should steer him away from a wholesale rejection. For the City of Angels may be Californias best example of why the lessons of counterinsurgency deserve a broader hearing. On taking the reins of the Los Angeles Police Department in 2002, Chief William Bratton began implementing many of the same policies that he had used to transform New York City from a crime-ridden cesspool into Americas safest large city. By the time Bratton departed L.A. in 2009, he had achieved a similar renaissance. Some of his tactics show a surprising resemblance to counterinsurgency fundamentals. Through community policing, Bratton emphasized the need for a permanent, visible police presence, just as Petraeus realized that establishing enduring safety begins with convincing local populations of the sincerity and efficacy of security forces. Likewise, the use of software to analyze security threats and predict future behaviora key tactic in Iraqis essentially an application of Compstat, the method for analyzing crime through precise metrics that Bratton used to great effect in both New York and Los Angeles. According to a recent profile of the Salinas project in the Washington Post, the new strategys NPS architects hope that, if successful, it can be replicated in similarly ravaged communities. Violence can reach gruesome extremes in gang-heavy pockets like Compton, Fresno, Oakland, and Santa Ana. Local governments have tried everything from filing injunctions to prevent gangs from congregating in public to sponsoring after-school programs to keep at-risk youth off the streets. Results have been mixed, at best. With gangs predominating in California neighborhoods where civic bonds are usually weakthanks to language barriers, ethnic sectarianism, and abysmal public educationlaw and order become the last links to meaningful citizenship. And with the nations highest rate of criminal recidivism, California can ill afford to lose young residents of urban neighborhoods to lawlessness en masse. Some people claim that preventing this fate is an impossible taskbut then, thats what they told Petraeus and Bratton. Troy Senik is a former presidential speechwriter and the coauthor of the forthcoming Bold Colors: How to Create the Next Republican Majority.
Terry Wolverton is the author of the novel Baileys Beads, two collections of poetry, Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. She has also edited numerous anthologies of gay and lesbian fiction, including His and Hers (Vols I-III). Life and Art at the Woman's Building In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the...

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