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Little, Brown and CompanyCopyright © 2007 Vincent Virga
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-0-316-99766-9
Introduction Theater of the World
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dark-times neither day nor night-the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they cast a mysterious shadow of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. -William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways
He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. -Malvolio, in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
As William Least Heat-Moon revealed in his travels across America in Blue Highways: A Journey into America, a map can be more than a guide to find one's route from one point to another. Through his attraction to the scenic blue high ways he found on a road map, Least Heat-Moon discovered an America where he could lose himself. He also learned that a map can be a storyteller, not only about the places documented on the map but also about the people who populate those places.
Like Least Heat-Moon's blue highways, the maps in the pages of Cartographia not only tell the story but themselves become the story. Maps, atlases, and related images serve as primary documents on a continent-by-continent exploration of the world. As each chapter traces the broad sweep of human history, the maps center on individual but representative images that illustrate major themes in the development of significant cultures and political empires. The maps are examined not only as a record of a specific place at a particular time but also as documents that have a story to tell, both about how and why the maps were created and about what the maps have to say regarding the culture in which they were created.
Cartographia begins by exploring the remnants of maps that have survived from the ancient civilizations that surrounded the Mediterranean Sea, setting the stage and establishing the base of geographical knowledge that was available to Abraham Ortelius and his sixteenth-century contemporaries as they entered a new era of gathering and disseminating geographic knowledge. These early geographers made not only Europe but also the other continents-the eastern parts of Asia, the southern parts of Africa, and the newly "discovered" Americas-part of Europeans' geographical consciousness.
Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is one of the earliest landmarks in the history of cartography and world geography. First published in Latin in 1570 in Antwerp (when Shakespeare was six years old), Ortelius's map book was subsequently translated into six other languages-German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, and English. Cartographically it is a landmark because it is recognized as the first modern atlas. This was the first time that a set of maps contemporary to the time of publication was designed, drawn, and engraved in a coherent style with the intention of publishing them in a bound book. Geographically it was important because it represents one of the first attempts to compile a composite treatise on the geographical knowledge of the world, incorporating the new geographical data that was becoming available to Europeans during the sixteenth century.
But Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum also represents a significant cultural development: the merger of two very important historical processes during the Renaissance-the advent of the printing press and the dawn of the European age of discoveries and exploration. Using a technology that was not quite a hundred years old, Ortelius employed movable type and copper-engraved plates and melded text with a uniformly designed set of maps that brought together the known geographic information about Europe and neighboring lands, as well as the Europeans' recently acquired knowledge of the Americas, southern Africa, and southern and eastern Asia. Through this technological development, Ortelius's atlas captured a period of transition and uncertainty as European culture attempted to synthesize and reconcile the information about the discovery of newfound lands. Geographic concepts that had been commonly accepted during the Middle Ages, such as a "flat earth" and "three continents," were suddenly challenged.
This first "atlas" is also important, symbolically, for Cartographia, and provides a conceptual framework for its story. Both the title and the title page of Ortelius's compendium use textual and pictorial icons, which were well known to the European audience, to symbolize the contents of the book. Ortelius's atlas, first published in 1570, was reissued in more than thirty editions over the next forty years. The title page's iconography was introduced in the first edition and remained the same throughout all the editions. Likewise, these icons highlight the theoretical basis of Cartographia-that maps are powerful storytellers, providing graphic documentation of human activity as it unfolded on the planet Earth.
Ortelius selected the title Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, meaning Theater of the World, possibly reflecting a custom in European Renaissance cities, where the city fathers staged pageants and parades with costumed figures representing the countries of the world. Applying the word "theater" to his book of maps, Ortelius suggests that it too was a microcosm representing the diverse parts of the world in a similar fashion. The decorative elements of the title page use an architectural framework, echoing the proscenium arch of the theater's stage. This massive structure is adorned with four female figures personifying the continents-civilized Europe at the top, ruling over the rest of the world, exotic Asia and Africa on the supporting pillars, and the savage Americas at the base, portrayed as cannibals. There is also a fifth incomplete figure, a truncated bust next to the Americas, representing Magellanica (Tierra del Fuego), or the unknown lands that were not yet explored. Such iconography epitomized the Europeans' worldview at that time, as well as the contents of the atlas. While the atlas included maps of the individual continents, the preponderance of the maps were of European countries and regions.
Applying the image of theater to Cartographia implies that the physical earth provides a stage for human action. It also allows the introduction of a concept from human or cultural geography: the cultural landscape. The action of the play's story unfolds amid an array of appropriate props and backdrops that enhance the setting. The action is cumulative, building on previous actions within the confines of the setting, until the play's story is told and the curtain falls. Similarly, human activity unfolds within the con fines of a physical setting or landscape. As each new generation and culture enters that setting, there are human modifications to it-the addition of roads, houses, fields, towns, place names, and political boundaries. These changes are cumulative, building on the past, saving some elements and replacing others. These manifestations of culture (the totality of human activity) leave an imprint on the physical landscape. As successive peoples inhabit a particular geographical area, they leave behind layers of their cultural heritage. Fortunately maps become one of the primary sources for reading through the palimpsest created by these cultural landscapes.
Ortelius's personification of the continents implies the need for regionalization, a major device used by modern-day geographers to organize and generalize data. In other words, how will we divide up the earth to talk about it in a coherent and meaningful manner? Region, simply defined, refers to a geographic area that displays common characteristics. Regions can be large or small depending on the generality or specificity of the criteria defining the area. Regions can have precisely defined boundaries, such as a state or country designating a geographic area where inhabitants are governed by the same laws, or may have ill-defined boundaries that fade imperceptibly into a neighboring region. Over the years geographers have developed innumerable regional constructs, many of which have entered into common usage-the South, the West, the Great Plains, the Middle East, or the Far East. Most people have a general concept of what geographic area and what cultural traits help define these particular regions. But on the other hand, it will be almost impossible to get any two people to agree on the specific boundaries or the exact geographic extent of any one of these regions.
One of the regional constructs that geographers and educators have used most successfully over the years is the idea of "continents," particularly as an organizing concept when talking about the earth at its grossest or most general scale. Continents, representing the earth's major landmasses, were a tried-and-true teaching device from the age of European discoveries until the end of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century.
In the twentieth century, as geographers became more interested in the human role in shaping the face of the earth, the continental concept of classifying geographical knowledge became less relevant and less useful. The concept of continents, which is based on a physical attribute, namely large, easily identified landmasses surrounded by water, was increasingly questioned. Is Antarctica really a continent, or is it a series of islands joined only by a massive ice shield? Aren't Europe and Asia actually one landmass? Their boundary was an arbitrary convention rather than a line following a recognizable natural feature. Then, from the 1950s to the 1970s, as the detailed mapping of the ocean floors progressed, the theory of plate tectonics was confirmed, providing a more precise definition of continental plates which established the geological basis for our supposed continental landmasses.
Is there a better way of regionalizing geographic data at a global level? Certainly, and geographers have proposed numerous schemes, many of which are based on single themes or topics such as climate, vegetation, or economic activity. Another scheme, which takes into account the totality of human activity, is cultural realms. In this categorization the focus is on identifying large groups of people with similar cultures, as defined by religion, language families, economic activity, and predominant settlement patterns. In this context, the Americas are divided into an Anglo-speaking realm (basically north of the Rio Grande) and a Latin-speaking world to the south. Or an Arabic-Islamic world occupies northern Africa and southwestern Asia, while sub-Saharan Africa forms another unit. Such a conceptualization is not without its problems, however. It was certainly a valid categorization until the middle of the twentieth century; but as society moves into the new millennium and the computer age, and as the world becomes more urbanized, modernized, and homogenized, it is less meaningful.
Despite the limitations of a continental categorization, Cartographia uses a combination of continents and cultural realms as its organizational device. This traditional approach to world history and geography works because the cartographic record from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, which serves as the anchor for our journey through the world of maps, strongly supports it. Whereas the first chapter focuses on the Mediterranean world before the age of European discoveries and the Renaissance, the succeeding chapters deal with the individual continents-Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. A fourth chapter deals with Ortelius's implied fifth part of the world, the lands that were primarily discovered and explored in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Australia, Antarctica, and the Pacific islands. However, throughout Cartographia, attention is paid to the major cultural realms represented in those areas, because the central point of our discussion is how maps help us read the ever-changing story of world civilization.
Ortelius's placement and portrayal of the continents on his title page, giving them superior and inferior positions on its architectural framework, suggests that there is a perspective or bias to the "story" he is about to present. A map by definition is a selective graphic representation, implying that the cartographer exercises a certain amount of judgment and bias, no matter how scientific the presentation purports to be. As in the case of Ortelius, the examination of this judgment and bias will guide the reader on a journey around the world through the maps presented in Cartographia. This examination will also lead the reader to find a beckoning, sometimes a strangeness, and always a place to lose oneself.
Ronald E. Grim, curator, retired, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress |
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March 15, 2009
Looking for a supplemental activity to round out your lesson plan about the Klondike Gold Rush? The following activities were designed by instructors for instructors limited by time and resources.
The Klondike Gold Rush, was a key event in the economic development of Seattle and the Puget Sound. In 1897, seventy thousand stampeders would head for Seattle to equip themselves with a year's worth of food, clothing, and equipment so that they could live in the Yukon Territory of Canada as they sought their fortunes. |
COALITION OF STATE, LOCAL LEADERS ANNOUNCE GROUNDBREAKING LITTER CLEAN-UP, ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—A bipartisan coalition of state, local and community leaders in Syracuse announced a comprehensive effort aimed at curbing the ongoing and serious problem of litter on city highways today.
Litter has been an issue in the city of Syracuse, as it is in communities across the nation. A national Keep America Beautiful survey conducted in 2009 indicated that more than 51 billion pieces of litter appear on U.S. roadways each year--6,729 items per mile of roadway. Fifty two percent of this litter originates from motorists, 23 percent from pedestrians and 16 percent from improperly covered trucks and cargo loads.
The new local effort is the result of a meeting convened by State Senators John DeFrancisco and David Valesky and Assemblyman William Magnarelli, which included representatives from the New York State
Department of Transportation, City of Syracuse, Onondaga County, Downtown Committee, Sierra Club, OCRRA and Syracuse University.
The initial meeting resulted in an agreement between the DOT, city and county to work together to pick up litter along a two-mile section of 690 between the Thompson Road and Teal Avenue exits during the week of July 9.
As a result, the City and County public works departments together assigned 24 personnel to the task. Supported by state DOT traffic control personnel, and using three city street sweepers and a half dozen other trucks, the city/county team cleared three tons of litter and debris from this single section of highway.
The city of Syracuse has approximately 17 miles of interstate highway inside its limits; collection from the entire system would equate to 25.5 tons—or 51,000 pounds--of garbage.
OCRRA, as a partner in the coalition, will be accepting the resulting trash at no charge. If, however, a regular charge applied, it would cost approximately $250 for disposal of the three tons of litter and debris collected in July. Correspondingly, disposal of the aforementioned 25.5 tons of litter would cost almost $2,000.
In addition, the coalition worked with city and county law enforcement and the District Attorney’s office to step up enforcement and prosecution efforts. Current state law provides for a fine of up to $350 or community service of a maximum of 10 hours for the first offense, and a fine of up to $700 or community service of a maximum of 15 hours for any subsequent violation.
In the weeks to come, the coalition partners will roll out an awareness campaign to increase the public’s awareness about the litter problem and associated short- and long-term costs to the community. The state, city and county will also continue to collaborate and schedule cleanups along sections of the interstates in the future.\
“New York state and Onondaga County spend an inordinate amount of money on trash cleanup from irresponsible citizens who litter. In this time of economic hardship, we need to enforce the litter laws so that money can be used for other pressing budget needs,” said Senator John A. DeFrancisco.
“The cost of litter and debris to our community is significant. This coordinated effort on the part of the tate, city and county is just the beginning—we need citizens to be vigilant about not littering,
make sure their trucks are covered, and stand with us to tell the community that it is not acceptable to litter,” Senator David J. Valesky said.
“All parties pulling in the same direction and with the same focus and goal have made all the difference. The NYS DOT, City, County and concerned community partners have put in place a model that can be replicated to clean up our community,” Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli said. “Collaborative efforts between my office and Senators’ DeFrancisco and Valesky have supported the efforts of the City, County and State workers who have collected an extraordinary amount of litter this past week. Now we need the collaborative efforts of everyone in our community to stop the littering.”
“Onondaga County is committed to this effort and I thank our DOT Commissioner and DOT crews for stepping up and contributing to this long overdue clean-up effort,” said County Executive Joanie Mahoney
“How we maintain our roadways is a reflection upon our entire community and when the litter ends up in our sewer system, it ultimately costs county taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove. I urge our motorists to care about our community and dispose of their trash properly.”
“This coordinated cleanup is proof that necessity really is the mother of invention. As the state's financial situation has reduced the number of state workers available to clean our highways, we had to find new ways to clear the depressingly large amounts of litter that accumulated,” City of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner said. “For years the city has continued to clean the on- and off-ramps from I-690 and I-81 even after state funds for that purpose were eliminated. But now, in addition we will schedule ongoing coordinated cleanups of sections of the 17 miles of interstate though the city.”
“For this combined cleanup effort to continue and be successful, lanes will have to be closed in the middle of the I-81 and I-690 interchange, which will affect traffic much more so than last week’s shoulder closure,” said NYSDOT Regional Director Carl Ford. “I ask that area motorists always consider worker safety when they come across lane closures and work zones and to obey all signs and warning devices.”
“For 21 years, OCRRA has organized and sponsored the annual Earth Day Litter Cleanup, which has removed over 2,093,880 pounds of trash from our County's streets, green spaces and waterways. This new effort is tackling a highly visible area that cannot be addressed safely by community volunteers during our annual Earth Day Litter Cleanup. OCRRA is thrilled for the opportunity to participate in this coalition and offer free disposal of the collected litter,” said Mark Donnelly, OCRRA Executive Director. |
In the debate over President Bill Clinton's legacy that is under way in his last year of office, one uncontested fact stands out: Mr. Clinton has presided over what this month officially became the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. It is conceivable that the expansion will one day become known as the Clinton boom.
That would be a phenomenal feather in Mr. Clinton's cap. Thanks to the boom, says John Makin of the American Enterprise Institute, the U.S. economy is in far better health now than at any time in the past century.
Mr. Clinton went even further in his final State of the Union speech last month, claiming that, thanks to his policies, the United States was in better shape than it had ever been.
But there is still no agreement as to how far Mr. Clinton was just lucky to be president at a time when other factors had combined to create the boom, and how far he can justifiably claim responsibility for it.
Mr. Clinton stakes his claim on the basis of his policies of deficit reduction, low inflation, open markets and investment promotion. But he obviously cannot take the entire credit, if only on chronological grounds.
We now know the boom officially started in March 1991, 20 months before he was elected, while his predecessor, George Bush, was still being castigated for economic ineptitude.
Many economists, however, date the boom's real origins much earlier, in late 1982, near the end of President Ronald Reagan's second year in office. They say the relatively mild 1990-91 recession that contributed to Mr. Bush's downfall was only a blip in a single 18-year expansion.
Since late 1982, says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, "the U.S. economy has been in recession for just six out of more than 200 months, or 3 percent of the time."
Of course such assertions — like so many in economics — can be influenced by politics. People to the right of center are more likely to date the expansion to Mr. Reagan's time and attribute it to his policies. Those on the left are most reluctant to accept that.
Even conservative economists, however, are prepared to give Mr. Clinton some credit. In the latest issue of the American Enterprise magazine, they addressed the question of who should be thanked for the boom, and a number of economists who would hardly rate as Clintonites agree that he did some good things.
Among the most important were to support Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, appoint Robert Rubin as Treasury secretary and back his strong dollar policy and sign important trade liberalization agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
In fact, Mr. Moore argues, by reducing inflation (a "quasi tax cut"), keeping the dollar strong, endorsing free trade agreements initiated by his Republican predecessors and signing the Republican Congress's capital gains tax cut, Mr. Clinton was effectively practicing the very Reaganomics that he has scorned.
Nobody, however, suggests that Mr. Clinton engineered the boom single-handed, any more than Vice President Al Gore invented the Internet all by himself. Among the other people who deserve thanks according to the conservative economists are "the thousand and thousands of mostly anonymous problem solvers running America's rippling private businesses" and all those who fought off interventionism over the last two decades.
In the latter part of the 1990s, Mr. Clinton was blessed with low commodity prices and the anti-inflationary effects of the Asian crisis. The Republican-led Congress kept him in line on the deficit and other economic issues.
Add to that the huge restructuring of American business that began, well before Mr. Clinton, in the 1980s, dazzling breakthroughs in information technology and the take-off of the Internet in the mid-1990s, and it begins to look as if almost any president could have propelled the boom forward simply by not interfering too much.
Indeed, for Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, the "golden key" to the expansion was political gridlock, which prevented government from imposing its will "on our fast-moving, radically changing economy, unprecedented innovation and economic growth."
Whatever truth there may be in that, the "gridlock boom" is probably not how Mr. Clinton will want it to go down in history.
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Russia has pressed its idea of an international Syria conference including Iran and again voiced opposition to the use of force to end the deadly violence.
Moscow said that denying Tehran - a key Damascus ally - a role in helping to negotiate an end to the 17-month crisis in Syria would be "thoughtless".
"We want this event to be effective," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters.
"To say that Iran doesn't have a place because it is already to blame for everything and it's part of the problem and not part of the solution, this is thoughtless to say the least from the point of view of serious diplomacy."
The Iranian government is one of the most important of a dwindling number of friends for Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad, who is facing mounting calls to go.
Lavrov said Moscow would be "glad" to support Assad's departure but only if Syrians themselves agreed on it.
Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has called Iran a "spoiler" and said it is "part of the problem in Syria." The United States has accused Iran of arming Assad's forces.
Russia has said a conference was needed to overcome differences over the implementation of the peace plan of UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, left in tatters by the continued violence.
Lavrov said permanent UN Security Council members Russia, the United States, France, Britain and China, Syria's neighbours including Lebanon and Jordan, as well as the EU and the Arab League should take part in the get-together.
Moscow wants to hold the conference "as soon as possible", Lavrov said, without being more specific.
He stressed it might be necessary to overlook ideological divisions to settle the Syria crisis and he suggested that the United States should do so over Iran.
"Americans are pragmatists. When they want, they do not pay attention to ideological problems," Lavrov said. "This is pragmatism. It's simply necessary in foreign policy."
"We are talking about saving people's lives."
The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, voiced doubt about involving Iran in any conference on the future of Syria.
"We are not against this idea in principle but in practice I do not see how we can bring states which still support the crimes of this regime to a conference whose goal is to find a solution," the SNC's outgoing leader Burhan Ghalioun said at a meeting in Istanbul to choose his successor.
Lavrov acknowledged that Annan's plan had begun to "seriously falter" but said the Kremlin saw "no alternative".
Diplomats said Friday that Britain, France and the United States would draw up a UN Security Council resolution proposing sanctions against Syria over the worsening conflict, which culminated in a fresh massacre earlier this week.
At least 55 people were killed in Wednesday's assault on the village of Al-Kubeir, according to activists. UN officials believe that Syrian government forces and allied militia were behind the attack.
But Lavrov again reaffirmed Russia's opposition to the use of force.
"We will not sanction the use of force at the United Nations Security Council," he said.
"The way the Syrian crisis will be solved will play a huge role in the way the world will be: whether it will rely on the UN Charter or whether it will be considered a place where the rule of force reigns."
The use of force would send shockwaves across the entire Middle East, he warned.
"All this risks the creation of a very large arc of instability from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf," he said, warning of "an absolutely real threat of a Sunni-Shiite standoff in the region." |
We have imaged the spatial distribution of macular carotenoid pigments (MPs) in the human retina, employing Raman spectroscopy. Using excised human eyecups as initial test samples and resonant excitation of the pigment molecules with narrow-bandwidth blue light from a mercury arc lamp, we record Raman images originating from the carbon–carbon double-bond stretch vibrations of the molecules. Preliminary Raman images reveal significant differences in the MPs of different samples in regard to absolute levels as well as spatial variation. This technique holds promise as a method of rapid screening of MPs in large populations at risk for vision loss from age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
(170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
(170.5660) Medical optics and biotechnology : Raman spectroscopy
(330.4300) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision system - noninvasive assessment
Werner Gellermann, *Igor V. Ermakov, Robert W. McClane, and Paul S. Bernstein, "Raman imaging of human macular pigments," Opt. Lett. 27, 833-835 (2002) |
May 12, 2002 The Denver Post by Theo SteinBOISE, Idaho - With a congressional hearing on chronic wasting disease scheduled for this week, biologists, agriculture officials and sportsmen called Saturday for massive federal funding to help study and control the fatal brain illness of deer and elk.
Idaho has not recorded a case of CWD, but outbreaks from Wisconsin to Canada brought wildlife supporters from across the continent to a weekend conference at Boise State University.
'I have not missed a hunting season since I returned from Korea 50 years ago,' said former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus, who served as Interior Secretary under President Carter. 'I hope to still have that opportunity, and I hope my children will have it.' Steve Huffaker, director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department, said the hunting-and-fishing economy is equivalent to the Idaho potato industry. 'It's not just on the sports pages anymore,' he said.
On Thursday, a joint session of the House Subcommittee on Forest and Forest Health and the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans will hear from 18 governors, scientists, sportsmen and wildlife advocates about the economic and cultural threat posed by the disease.
First identified at a Colorado State University wildlife research station in 1967, chronic wasting disease has resisted 30 years of efforts to discern its secrets.
The disease, which causes its victims to grow thin and die as it eats holes in their brains and spinal cords, infects wild deer and elk in a 16,000-square-mile area of northeastern Colorado, adjacent parts of Wyoming and the Nebraska panhandle. It has infected almost 60 ranched elk herds in seven states and two Canadian provinces, most notably Colorado and Saskatchewan.
Veterinarians at the conference said that closing the knowledge gaps is vital to the success of any control program. Mary Kay Tinker, veterinarian for the USDA Animal Health and Plant Inspection Service's Idaho office, said problems - including uncertainty about the mode of transmission, the length of incubation and the lack of a live test - have hamstrung efforts to contain CWD outbreaks. A lack of coordination among state and federal agencies also has hurt, she said.
A major battleground over CWD is Wisconsin, where officials announced this month they will try to kill 15,000 white-tailed deer in a 300-square-mile area where 14 infected animals were killed last fall and this winter.
'There's a lot of scared people in my state,' said Ralph Fritsch, wildlife chair of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. Fritsch said the group supports the control plan. 'We feel the longer we sit and wait, the greater the chance (the disease) will expand.'
But a group called Citizens Against Irrational Deer Slaughter has formed to oppose the plan, claiming that too little is known about the disease to justify it.
'When you get into the public-policy arena, you learn there's a whole lot of politics and not a lot of science that goes into it,' said Duane Hovorka, executive director of the Nebraska Wildlife Federation, where officials hope to sample 4,000 mule deer brains this fall to find out how far the disease has spread in the western panhandle.
While Nebraska officials say it's too early to determine the origin of the outbreak, the link between infected game ranches and new infections in wild herds has Hovorka and many others calling for bans on the alternative livestock industry.
The resurrection of game herds by U.S. and Canadian officials 100 years ago was 'the greatest conservation success story in history,' said Darrel Rowledge, director of the Alberta group Alliance for Public Wildlife.
But diseases spawned on game farms threaten to undo that success, he said. Canadian officials have slaughtered 8,000 elk and spent $ 65 million to control CWD outbreak in Saskatchewan.
Alberta just had its first case, despite a 10-year ban on elk imports to the province.
More than a decade ago, the Canadian government's decision to let ranchers import elk from the U.S. - despite warnings that the existing tuberculosis test was ineffective - led to an outbreak that cost the nation its TB-free status, something it hasn't recovered from, Rowledge said.
'What's the justification for (game ranching)?' he said. 'It's brown on the environmental side, and on the economic side it bleeds red ink.'
'The solution to the problem is not to run elk ranchers out of business,' said Dr. Rex Rammell, an elk rancher and veterinarian from Rexburg, Idaho. 'This is not our fault. We have a right to exist commercially, so there's no use talking about any more moratoriums on movement.'
Gloria Stigall, whose family was forced to euthanize a herd of elk boarded at a Del Norte, Colo., ranch caught up in last year's outbreak, pleaded for cooperation between wildlife and agricultural interests.
All 37 of her elk had to be slaughtered for officials to perform the brain tests for the infectious protein believed to cause the malady. None were infected.
'It absolutely ripped the soul out of me,' Stigall said in a quavering voice. 'Please take the money you're using to battle each other and develop a live test.' |
Translation of addition in Spanish:
- 1 1.1 uncountable/no numerable [Mathematics/Matemáticas] suma (feminine), adición (feminine) [formal] to learn addition and subtraction aprender a sumar y restarExample sentences
Example sentences1.2 uncountable/no numerable (adding) adición (feminine) she recommends the addition of brandy recomienda que se le añada or que se le agregue brandy
- That is addition, multiplication and the two inverse operations of subtraction and division.
- Yet addition and also subtraction are only an extension of counting.
- The Count Hoot section of the site helps with addition and subtraction as well.
Example sentences1.3 (in phrases/en locuciones) in addition además in addition to además de in addition to our previous order además de nuestro pedido anterior
- This suggests that Component 3 is not a vector addition but could be a single component.
- Superimposing the two logical operations we can define binary addition.
- We were reviewing vector addition this evening at a study session.
- A wakeboard is similar in shape to a snowboard, with the addition of two small fins on the underside.
- With the addition of a few commas and the striking out of the one paragraph, the deal already on the table will finally go through.
- The colour range favours warm and tropical colours, with the addition of blue and sea green.
- 2 countable/numerable 2.1 (extra thing) these rooms are later additions estas habitaciones se construyeron después a useful addition to your toolkit un práctico complemento para su caja de herramientas the latest additions to our library las últimas adquisiciones de nuestra biblioteca 2.2 countable/numerable (extra person) she is a valuable addition to our team su incorporación a nuestro equipo es muy valiosa we're expecting an addition to the family dentro de poco aumentará la familia
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- (of water) desagüe (masculine), flujo (masculine); (of capital) fuga (feminine) cash outflows salidas (feminine plural) de efectivoExample sentences
- Of course, the outflow of capital to foreign countries, stagnation of investment, and the steady decline of the stock market will become more serious.
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They utilize some dissolved nutrients and particulate matter in the water as food, but are photosynthetic so require intense lighting--the products of photosynthesis provide most of the nutritional requirements of most clams, especially larger clams. Clams smaller than about 1.5 inches can be somewhat difficult to maintain, larger clams are easily maintained with proper water quality and lighting due to the larger mantle and the clam's ability to produce enough food for itself from photosynthesis. All invertebrates, including clams, require full strength natural saltwater parameters. Clams smaller than about 1.5 inches can be more difficult to maintain due to their need for supplemental feeding.
Easy to Moderate. Clams love intense lighting, they feed off the products of photosynthesis and this demands intense lighting.
Not Aggressive, may be stung by aggressive corals and anemones, may be attacked by many types of carnivorous fish including angelfish and butterflyfish. It has been reported that small fish such as clownfish have been inadvertantly killed by clams as they naturally close when an intruder approaches or casts a shadow over them although this is a rare.
Metal Halides are optimum; higher levels of LEDs or T-5 Fluorescents may suffice. Maxima clams especially require 250 - 400 watt Metal Halide lighting or equivalent intensity. Without enough lighting clams will die within 1-2 months from starvation.
Low to Moderate
Bottom on rock rubble so the foot may attach. It is not recommended to place clams on rockwork because it is very detrimental for a clam to fall off and lay upside down for any period of time.
Maintain proper Calcium, Alkalinity, and Magnesium levels for shell growth. Low to very low Phosphate and Nitrate levels. Full strength Natural saltwater parameters are best including salinity.
Take care when unpacking your clam that you do not expose it to air. Internal air bubbles can cause problems, "burp" the clam by tipping to dislodge any bubbles.
Proper intense lighting and natural saltwater parameters are essential for long-term succes in maintaining larger clams. While these animals are not inherently delicate to maintain, they do require certain considerations as oulined above. We quarantine all clams for a minimum of 2 weeks before sale. |
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Yesterday, we told you about Edward Nejat’s research that suggests type O blood may be a possible barrier to fertility in women.
Well, another day – another study. And this time, we’ve got something for the guys.
Today, researchers are reporting from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine conference in Denver that men who consume high levels of saturated fats may produce fewer sperm. A study, helmed by experts from Harvard Medical School, monitored dietary patterns in 91 men seeking fertility treatment and found “men in the highest third of saturated fat intake had 41% fewer sperm than those in the lowest third.”
As for the reason for the link between fat intake and sperm count, additional research is required, but according to Dr. Tony Rutherford of the British Fertility Society, these findings should encourage people to eat healthily. [The Independent]
Tell us: Will this news affect your family as you try to get pregnant, or is a healthy lifestyle a no-brainer? Let us know in the comments below!Add a Comment |
LONDON (Reuters) - Technological advances have led to a sharp fall in the weight of women's handbags, research from British department store chain Debenhams has revealed.
Women's handbags now weigh an average of 1.5 kg (3 lb), 57 percent less than the average of two years ago, Debenhams said in an emailed statement on Thursday.
A new generation of smaller, lighter multi-purpose gadgets such as Apple Inc's iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd's Blackberry have replaced heavy laptops, old fashioned mobile phones, music players and paper organizers.
Debenhams Handbag Buyer Sue Tebbitts said that two years ago, women were carrying around 3.3 kg (7.3 lbs), the equivalent of three and a half bags of sugar, everywhere they went.
"Finally the burden placed upon working women is fallingand it's all thanks to technology," Tebbitts said.
Debenhams said it conducted research on handbags annually and that its study team asked 7,000 women to detail the contents of their bags and how much each thing weighed.
Results over the last 15 years have revealed the gadgets which have had the most impact on women's shoulders.
The mid-1990s saw the popularization of the mobile phone which added an extra 247 grams to Britain's handbags and taking the overall weight to an average of 1.4 kg. The introduction of the Apple iPod increased this further to 1.6 kg in the 2000s.
Weight continued to rise as more and more women began to carry laptop computers in their handbags, peaking at a back-breaking 3.5 kg in 2006 and 2007 when laptop sales were also at their highest.
During this peak, mobile phones, hand-held devices, chargers and MP3 music players joined laptop computers as items commonly found in women's handbags.
Since then the introduction of devices like iPhones and Blackberries has slowly brought the average weight of handbags down to the lowest it's been for seven years, with the trend for 2010 being smaller handbags, Debenhams said.
Despite technological advances, the greatest percentage of weight is still taken up by old handbag favorites such as make-up, mirror, purse, tissues, perfumes, brushes, toothpaste, receipts, address books and headache pills.
"No matter what advances in technology come our way, a woman's handbag will always have that 'Mary Poppins' reputation because women pack a bag ready for anything," Tebbitts said.
Acting editor and fashion director for online fashion and beauty website Handbag.com Belinda White told Reuters in an email that the trend for giant handbags peaked 2007/2008.
She said women have realized that convenient as it was to have a stylish bag that was big enough to literally carry your life in, it wasn't so great for your back.
"I've long believed that the bigger the bag, the more rubbish you carry around and often try to bring more of an evening bag to work and be strict with myself," White said.
"Of course the iPhone helps - no need for an A-Z (London street directory), camera, diary, phone book - plus even my iPod is a tenth of the size it was 3 years ago."
(Editing by Patricia Reaney)
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Microsoft Windows 7
Windows 7 gets the basics right. Here's what you need to know about the new OS.
- Windows 7 finally gives you control over UAC, Windows 7's Taskbar and window management tweaks are nice, but its changes to the System Tray are a postive improvement, drive-encryption tool BitLocker (only in Windows 7 Ultimate)
- HomeGroups aren't a bad idea, but Windows 7's implementation seems half-baked, Federated Search, a new Windows Explorer feature, feels incomplete, too.
Should you get Windows 7? Waiting a bit before making the leap makes sense; waiting forever does not. Microsoft took far too long to come up with a satisfactory replacement for Windows XP. But whether you choose to install Windows 7 on your current systems or get it on the next new PC you buy, you'll find that it's the unassuming, thoroughly practical upgrade you've been waiting for - flaws and all.
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File Management: The Library System
Compared to the Taskbar and the System Tray, Explorer hasn't changed much in Windows 7. However, its left pane does sport two new ways to get at your files: Libraries and HomeGroups.
Libraries could just as appropriately have been called File Cabinets, since they let you collect related folders in one place. By default, you get Libraries labeled Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos, each of which initially directs you to the OS's standard folders for storing the named items — such as My Pictures and Public Pictures.
To benefit from Libraries, you have to customize them. Right-click any folder on your hard drive, and you can add it to any Library; for instance, you can transform the Pictures Library into a collection of all your folders that contain photos. You can create additional Libraries of your own from scratch, such as one that bundles up all folders that relate to your vacation plans.
Libraries would be even more useful if Microsoft had integrated them with Saved Searches, the Windows feature (introduced in Vista) that lets you create virtual folders based on searches, such as one that tracks down every .jpg image file on your system. But while Windows 7 lets you add standard folders to a Library, it doesn't support Saved Searches.
HomeGroups, Sweet HomeGroups? Closely related to Libraries are HomeGroups, a new feature designed to simplify the notoriously tricky process of networking Windows PCs. Machines that are part of one HomeGroup can selectively grant each other read or read/write access to their Libraries and to the folders they contain, so you can perform such mundane but important tasks as providing your spouse with access to a folderful of tax documents on your computer. HomeGroups can also stream media, enabling you to pipe music or a movie off the desktop in the den onto your notebook in the living room. And they let you share a printer connected to one PC with all the other computers in the HomeGroup, a useful feature if you can't connect the printer directly to the network.
HomeGroups aren't a bad idea, but Windows 7's implementation seems half-baked. HomeGroups are password-protected, but rather than inviting you to specify a password of your choice during initial setup, Windows assigns you one consisting of ten characters of alphanumeric gibberish and instructs you to write it down so you won't forget it. To be fair, passwords made up of random characters provide excellent security, and the only time you need the password is when you first connect a new PC to a HomeGroup. But it's still a tad peculiar that you can't specify a password you'll remember during setup — you can do that only after the fact, in a different part of the OS. More annoying and limiting: HomeGroups won't work unless all of the PCs in question are running Windows 7, a scenario that won't be typical anytime soon. A version that also worked on XP, Vista, and Mac systems would have been cooler.
Federated Search, a new Windows Explorer feature, feels incomplete, too. It uses the OpenSearch standard to give Win 7's search "connectors" for external sources. That capability allows you to search sites such as Flickr and YouTube from within Explorer. Pretty neat — except that Windows 7 doesn't come with any of the connectors you'd need to add these sources, nor with any way of finding them. (They are available on the Web, though. Use a search engine to track them down.)
See security next...
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You’re basking, using solar cells left and right for the Sustainable Lifestyle and suddenly it hits you: “Wait! We’re talking about ultraviolet rays! My brain is being turned into a poached egg!” (Don’t take our word for it: you can trust the federal EPA – skin cancer, premature aging, eye damage, being mistaken for George Hamilton.) Not to worry. Startup SunSprite will save you with the SunSprite Light Tracker, the “first solar-powered personal sun exposure tracker.” This “personal energy coach” tracks visible and UV light “to improve your energy, mood, and focus, regulate your sleep cycle, and monitor UV exposure.” Price: $149.
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Simple answer : Yes
I would assume that your contact form mails to a limited list of people, and doesn't take a 'to' e-mail address from the form itself. (you might take an 'about' (subject) heading from the form, and translate that behind the scenes to the appropriate e-mail address, but don't accept a tainted e-mail)
If so, the only people they can spam are your company -- and when you have someone flooding one mailbox, it's annoying, but easily deleted. They'd have been able to have done it just as easily by getting an e-mail address of an employee there, or waiting for you to respond to the form submission, and then flooding you.
I don't know your exact situation, and why you believe there to be this need, but I don't think CAPTCHAs are the way to go (especially because they needlessly exclude people with poor vision). I'd suggest instead taking a look at Limit submissions over time?.
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One line web server? Way cool.
A couple of years ago I went back to uni for a network communication class I failed once. After completing the lab assignment of writing a "time-of-day" server in C, I showed the lab instructor the equivalent perl code (one-liner). He thought it was pretty cool (I know, the lab goal is not the end result, but the methods you use to get there, but still..)
Had I known about IO::All and one-line web servers at the time, I might have gotten extra points on the lab assignment :)
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Getting That Sport-Pilot Ticket
Sport-pilot certificates are an invitation to fly
It’s been official since September 1, 2004, and it’s working: the sport-pilot rule is a reality; light-sport aircraft (LSA) and flight training are available; and maintenance facilities are catching on. So, how does one get that sport-pilot certificate? What does it take, and how much does it cost?
What Does It Cost?
This is a tough question, a lot like, “How much is a car?” Unlike cars, though, you probably shouldn’t be looking for a junker, no matter how cheap it seems. LSA flight training is a lot less expensive than private-pilot training, because (1) you need half as many hours and (2) the aircraft are less expensive to operate. The basic flight regimen currently ranges from about $3,000 to $4,000, depending on geography and how much training you need. A private-pilot certificate, for reference, will cost a newcomer somewhere between $5,500 and $7,000. With your sport-pilot license, though, you can build flight time inexpensively, as you take additional ground training for your private, and LSA time counts toward air-time requirements for most advanced certificates.
The sport-pilot certificate is the best invitation to fly since the introduction of ultralights more than a quarter-century ago; furthermore, the aircraft are more practical, faster and safer. Simply stated, sport-pilot certification is the gateway to general aviation, and the gates are open right now.
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Originally Posted by dnsfpl
what are these algae? what causes them?
what is the best way to resolve this issue?
We need more information (or a photograph). There are many types of algae, and each one can be caused by something different.
In general, algae is caused by an imbalance of (one or a combination of) light, CO2 and/or nutrients.
Fixing the imbalance will get rid of the algae. |
[8 March 2010]
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
—Sir Francis Bacon
It’s not enough to simply survive. One has to be worthy of survival.
—William “Husker” Adama, Battlestar Galactica
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’,
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’.
—Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
Reading a new Jeff Lemire comic is like uncovering a lost memory from childhood; sometimes painful, sometimes joyous, but always enlightening and worth the discovery. To Lemire, the journey and the destination have always been inseparable, as the whole point of the journey is to arrive at the destination that invariably holds a pure, emotional catharsis. But none of Lemire’s prior stories could have prepared comics fans for the debut of his first ongoing series, Sweet Tooth.
Once again, the central figure of Lemire’s latest masterwork is a young, alienated child. This time a boy named Gus, who has known only his father his entire life. Gus’s father, (who one can’t help but think is based on Lemire himself and who, a short while ago, named his son Gus), has warned Gus his whole life of the dangers of going outdoors, of the wrath of God, of death, of a world that is no longer what it once was.
Immediately, the reader knows things Gus doesn’t, chief among them being that of course the world has changed: Gus was born with antlers. And, apparently, all other children born over the last several years have also been animal/human hybrids.
The main themes of Sweet Tooth, at least in its first arc, seem to be betrayal and change in all of their forms. Change comes into Gus’s life the moment his father dies, immediately resulting in the betrayal of every promise he ever made to the man: wandering out into the dangerous world just outside their home. Change comes again when Gus finds himself under the protection of Jeppard, a sort of amalgamation of Mel Gibson’s Mad Max and Clint Eastwood’s William Munny.
Jeppard’s sense of reality is betrayed when he discovers Gus’s age, which seems to fly in the face of established facts regarding the beginnings of the hybrid phenomenon. Disturbingly, Jeppard and Gus accidentally come across a brothel meaning to cater to ‘changing tastes’, wherein young girls are forced into wearing animal parts. There is, of course, one final betrayal towards the end of the arc regarding Gus’s new protector, one so heartbreaking and terrible that waiting for the next installment feels intolerable.
Like most of Lemire’s work, Sweet Tooth effectively touches upon issues of maturation in secluded environments, isolation and the uncertainty of what is to come. All of this, of course, is amplified by Lemire stepping out of the box once again, throwing himself head-first into the midst of what, for him, is a new, unexplored genre. As a writer/artist who has made a career out of re-inventing himself with each subsequent work, it is very clearly the next logical step.
With all of this under consideration, Sweet Tooth very clearly comes across as a story crafted out of concern not just for the future of the Earth, but for our children. Gus’s harrowing journey leads him to a futuristic concentration camp headed by a man who would have disgusted Mengele. Such a figure is clearly something Lemire sees, not necessarily literally, but as a metaphorical danger that could emerge from the world that we ourselves have created.
Sweet Tooth exists, much like P. D. James’ Children of Men, to show us how we as a society undervalue the gift that is our children. Moreover, how grave a sin it is to expect children to raise themselves, and to not fully prepare them for a world where, one day, we will not be there to guide or help them. Lemire’s concern for the Earth itself is also palpable. His landscapes are either emaciated forests or horrifying, burning wastelands of an alternate 21st century, populated by cannibals, lunatics, pimps, thieves and rapists. If the setting of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is the Beltway Sniper, calculated, methodical and terrifying, Lemire’s post-apocalypse is a more intimate, more terrifying threat. The quiet loner who you sat next to in math class before an anonymous call to the police led to the discovery of homemade bombs in his basement.
The world of Sweet Tooth, with all its admirable world-building, pulls off something most well-built fictional universes never can: it honestly creates the fear that anything could happen. And that this world, much like reality itself, is cruel, random, heartless, terrifying and altogether unexpected. In this regard, Sweet Tooth articulates a very different true-to-life than ‘real world’ comics like Ghost World or Road to Perdition. Consequently, Lemire’s latest opus has more in common with Vincent Bugliosi’s non-fictional Helter Skelter, Jason Aaron’s semi-fictional Scalped and the works of George Orwell and David Lapham.
Though a terrible cliché, the song lyrics are right: children are the future. Lemire believes this, and anyone who claims not to after reading the start of Sweet Tooth is either heartless or a liar. Through all of the horror and betrayal, and through Guses both real and fictional, Lemire is able to introduce his readers into a world he clearly has long-term investment in. Fans and the uninitiated alike would do well to give his latest tale a look. |
DENVER, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Salads used to be something Americans
ate only on the way to the main course, but a new Quiznos study reveals
that Americans have become addicted to salads, with one in three Americans
preferring to go a day without breakfast than a day without salad.
According to the Quiznos survey, Americans eat an average of three salads a
week and opt for salad for dinner an average of ten times a month.
Quiznos new Flatbread Chopped Salads are the perfect, quick solution to
America's need for greens. Available for a suggested retail price of $5.29,
these hearty salads are served on chopped romaine lettuce and include
premium meats and authentic cheeses, all layered together with toasted
Italian herbed flatbread. Quiznos is offering four Flatbread Chopped Salad
combinations: Roasted Chicken with Honey Mustard, Classic Cobb, Chicken
Caesar, and Antipasto.
"We've been so successful with our toasted sandwiches because we
understand that increasingly, Americans are looking for more sophisticated
lunch and dinner options that deliver wholesome, flavorful food," said
Quiznos Chief Concept Officer Tom Ryan. "Menu offerings like our Flatbread
Chopped Salads are a perfect extension of our high quality, chef-inspired
recipes because they give people the choice of a hearty meal without the
bother of making it themselves."
While Americans are addicted to salad, they're not necessarily addicted
to the idea of making them at home. More than half the country would prefer
to get their salad in a restaurant than prepare one themselves (54%),
meaning that Americans have no problem leaving the chopping to someone
The Flatbread Chopped Salads are so hearty they've been deemed "fork-
worthy," prompting Quiznos to provide metal forks with every order. This
makes Quiznos the first national quick service chain to provide metal
flatware to customers.
The introduction of Flatbread Chopped Salads and real metal forks
continues a trend of innovation for Quiznos. In May of 2006, Quiznos became
the first and only national quick service restaurant to serve up meals in
toasted gourmet bread bowls. At the beginning of the year, the restaurant
chain set a new standard for flavor with the introduction of the Prime Rib
and Peppercorn sub, a sub sandwich piled high with real prime rib.
The Quiznos survey also found the following: Summertime is salad
season. Nearly 70 percent of women say that they eat the most salad between
June and September, with 56 percent of men saying the same. Twenty-three
percent of adults eat salads simply because they taste great. Two-thirds of
Americans feel that restaurants with metal forks rather than plastic forks
offer better quality food (63%). More than a third of Americans would be
more likely to eat at a restaurant that currently uses plastic flatware if
they switched over to metal (39%).
Celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2006, Denver-based Quiznos Sub is a
national chain designed for today's busy consumers who are looking for a
tasty, fresher alternative to traditional fast food restaurants. Using only
premium quality, real ingredients, Quiznos Sub restaurants offer creative,
chef-inspired recipes for sandwiches, soups and salads. With more than
4,800 restaurants, Quiznos Sub is one of the fastest-growing quick service
restaurant chains. For more information, visit www.quiznos.com.
* June 2006 survey of more than 1,000 Americans, conducted by Kelton
Research and Quiznos. |
Hi my name is Roy Shaw, licensed paramedic and lead instructor for procpr and the profirstaid programs
for protrainings. The highlights of the 2010 American Heart Association guidelines for CPR and ECC
have come up with some recommendations and updates now that we're in the new 2010 guideline phase. As
a health care professional, some of these may make sense to you and some may not make sense to you.
The whole purpose of my being here and explaining this to you, is to try and synthesize this down and
have it make sense. It's one thing to look at the science and to look at all the consensus and it's another
to try and get our heads wrapped around it as professional rescuers or as health care providers and
get behind it and believe in what we're doing and why we're doing it. My hopes are that I'll simplify
the things that are maybe a little complicated and that I'll shine some light on the things that may
seem ambiguous to you. Let's get started. In regards to the cardiac arrest victim that may be present
with a short period of seizure activity or agonal gasps, that may confuse potential rescuers, we're now
teaching dispatchers that they should be trained to identify the presentations of cardiac arrest
that started this way. Okay, so let me explain. There was confusion when people would call 911 and the
dispatcher would ask, is the person moving, are they breathing? And in reality, you know as well
as I do, when a cardiac arrest victim stops circulating oxygen to the brain, it's a shock and it
may cause a cardiac related seizure. Well, while they are seizing, they are in the tonic phase
it could be misinterpreted as still being alive and moving. So, they might tell the dispatcher, yeah,
the patient is moving. If they are in agonal respirations, which is extremely common, now get this, agonal
respirations are extremely common in the first minute or two of cardiac arrest, the bystander who
isn't trained, may interpret this as the patient is breathing. So now the dispatcher's information is
that the patient is moving and breathing. Do you think that there's a chance that they will
initiate CPR? Probably not, because the dispatcher cannot see the patient. So, based on that information
and based on the science we've gathered, we now know that because most cardiac arrest patients, when
they go into cardiac arrest with a bystander witnessing it, may be misinterpreted because we're not
asking the right questions. So, these new 2010 guidelines are basically trying to train dispatchers
how to ask the right questions, to be able to steer through the fog, in order to determine if the person
is in a seizure or agonal respirations, thereby, giving the dispatcher the correct information and
helping to tell the lay rescuer what to do next appropriately which in this case would be, start
CPR and we're going to activate an ambulance get them right out there. So that's the idea behind
the new information which is now out and released. It will be incorporated into the EMD classes so
that they get up to snuff and know what good and qualifying questions to ask call-ins in order to determine
what is actually happening on scene. Now, this next one is one of those pet peeves of mine, because I believe
that with good training like ProTrainings, we can go the extra mile and teach lay people how to
give good quality CPR Including rescue breathing with personal protective equipment. However,
I understand that there are a lot of people that would never take advantage of the education
for whatever reason they will not get trained proactively and thereby, will be reactive when responding
to an emergency. Because that is commonly the case, dispatchers are now being instructed to tell lay
rescuers who have never been trained before or who are not comfortable giving mouth to mouth resuscitation
without personal protective equipment, to provide hands only compressions cpr, what they're calling hands
only CPR, or compression only resuscitation for adults in sudden cardiac arrest.
Now, I've told you the reasons why they're doing that now, so as a healthcare professional
when you arrive on scene prehospital or you see a bystander do this out of hospital,
remember, if they're doing chest compressions fast and hard only, and not giving rescue breaths,
that's what they've been told to do. So be aware of that. The good news is, there is some decent
science, limited as it may be, that is showing on pig, dog and some human models, that fast, deep compressions
in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest is helping to stabilize the patient hemodynamically.
Thereby, buying time, and saving brain and heart cells. So, let's think positively on this, and that's
why we'll see bystanders doing hands only CPR. Alright, some changes have been made to the
immediate recognition of no breathing or no normal breathing. Now, no normal breathing to a health
care provider means, agonal respirations. The gasping type of trying to take a breath,
the medulla oblongata, the brain stem activity which is last to die, when oxygen has been held back from
the brain and yet still gives the autonomic nervous system response to try and take a breath diaphragmatically but
doesn't have the tone quality or the strength to complete it. That is not breathing.
You know that, I know that, that does not qualify as breathing but it may be misinterpreted as breathing
to a lay rescuer. So, when we as health care professionals see agonal respirations, or no respirations
we're activating the code team or calling for emergency response right away. If that has taken place
and we've already activated the emergency response system, to retrieve an AED or we've sent
someone to do that, we are no longer taking more than 10 seconds to check for a carotid pulse.
Now catch this, because it can be difficult to determine whether an unresponsive, non breathing
patient, has a pulse, a weak pulse, a thready pulse or has an irregular pulse, if we can't
easily identify a definite pulse within 10 seconds and the patient is not breathing normally or moving
they get CPR period. So, no more extended time checking for pulses or pulse quality.
Check for no longer than 10 seconds and if it's not definite that you've found a pulse and
the patient is not breathing and not responsive...CPR. Okay? So, that's the emphasis for 2010
guidelines. Now check this out. Look, listen and feel...gone! For 2010, we are no longer
doing the head tilt, chin lift, look, listen and feel. The montra we've trained with forever,
is gone. I don't really know why it's gone. It's not a difficult skill in my opinion, in fact
it's one of the easier ones. In fact, I could have seen throwing out pulse checks before I could have
seen throwing out the look, listen and feel and no breathing. That's my opinion, however, maybe it saves
a little time. Maybe...Yeah. I don't know why they changed it, but they did. So, no longer look
listen and feel, we're just going to say if they're not breathing and they're not moving and we
can't feel a pulse...CPR. Chest compressions right away. The emphasis has been placed on the
high quality of the CPR which I believe is a good thing. The compressions are going to be fast,
they are going to be deep, we're going to allow for full recoil of the chest. We're not bouncing our
hands off the chest, but we're fully recoiling on the chest before we perform another compression.
And we're going to minimize interruptions. So, we're still giving 30 compressions to 2 rescue
breaths, but we're going to minimize the amount of time between giving the breaths and getting
right to chest compressions. The other major change is that we're doing chest compressions
first and then giving the two rescue breaths. So different than the airway, breathing, circulation
open the airway, give two breaths, check a pulse...no more. Not breathing normally, can't feel pulse,
right into chest compressions. 30 chest compressions deep and fast and then two full rescue breaths.
To get chest rise and fall. This high quality chest compression, high rate with full recoil,
is being shown through studies to increase intrathoracic pressures, as well as increase
circulatory percentages, which adds to better hemodynamics and ideally, better recovery and
better quality of life after resuscitation. That's what the science is pointing towards
that's why it's been implemented. So, good news in that area. Remember back when it was around 100
times per minute? Now, looking at the high quality chest compressions, it's at least 100 times per minute.
So, If I wanted to be kind of "bunk" about it, you could say, "well you don't want to go
160 times per minute!" No, that's true, but it's a pretty big stretch to think that we could do 160
compressions per minute. I don't think we have to worry about that. And if we're doing 120
compressions in a minute, that's what our heart rate is at if you're excited or exercising moderately.
So even that is not supraventricular tachycardia or ventricular tachycardia. So, it's going to be at
least 100 beats per minute or even a bit faster. In order to get pulse pressures up and increase
circulatory percentages. That's the idea behind it. And, we used to say between 1 and 1/2 and 2 inches
deep, now at least 2 inches deep. The pattern is that we're not compressing deep or fast enough.
It's not that we're doing to much. That's why the emphasis has come back. When it comes to
children and infants, we're going at least a third of the depth of the chest. You with me now?
Instead of 1/2 inch to 1 inch for infant 1 to 1 and 1/2 for a child, now we're doing
one third and that's it. It doesn't matter what the age of the patient is, we're going a third of the
depth of the chest. On an infant and a child. Again, trying to get full, deep, fast compressions
to get circulation up. Now, here's an interesting one. In some of your regions you haven't been
doing this anyway. That's the rule here for me. Cricoid pressure during ventilations is no longer
recommended. I don't think it's been recommended for some time in my region.
Here's why they were using it. They believed that if cricoid pressure was applied, which is
usually used when you can't see the epiglottis well. The Sellick's manoeuvre, cricoid pressure was suppose
to help air go into the trachea instead of the esophogus and the stomach.
That was the idea, to help reduce regurgitation and reduce gastric distention.
That's not recommended anymore. So, if you were in the group that was still using that
procedure, it is no longer consistent with the 2010 guidelines. There has been a continued
emphasis placed on the need to reduce the time between the last compression and shock delivery
and the time between shock delivery and resumption of cardiac compressions. That's pretty
consistent in ACLS and for BLS it's being re-emphasized not changed.
The goal is, get the chest compressions going and get the pulse pressures up, get the hemodynamics
stabilized, they're acidic most likely after 6 minutes, so by circulating well, and blowing off
CO2 with a bag valve mask even with room air and delivering chest compressions fast, hard, and deep,
the goal is that we can bring the ph balance back into it's parameters and all the things that go
with that so that when the patient is defibrillated, in V-fib or in V-tack, we can hopefully get them
into an autonomous rythm that is circulating on its own. And really getting those
pulse pressures up and getting really good circulation and getting everything stabilized
hemodynamically again. That's the goal. And the faster we get the chest compressions to defibrillation
and defibrillation to chest compressions the better. And that's where the emphasis is coming back
again. So, what we're really trying to say is let's minimize distractions like, hey, could you print
a strip off for me so I can take a look at that strip, get to the compressions and defibrillation and
back again, you know where your strip is? It's when they're taking better quality breaths on their
own because they are reviving and beginning to move. The best thing that someone could ever do if I
cardioverted them and give me the best success rate, is push my hands off their chest and say
they don't need CPR anymore, that would be awesome. So, let the signs and symptoms be the vote to say
now, we can chill out a bit and see how things are going or keep resuscitating.
There's an increased focus on using the team approach on CPR. This looks similar to the ACLS megacode.
Now, in our training library, we've added this, and I think it's a great idea. In group settings
where you have at least two to four team members, there's a way to choreograph that resuscitation
effort where you have many hands. Now, in my training what I did is I showed that the airway
management person, like in ACLS, has the birds eye view of the code. They make a great team leader,
now your protocols and algorithm may call for something different, follow you local protocols.
But, if you don't have one, I think that's a good default. The person who takes the airway management
and is doing the bag valve mask and is in a really good position to call out and direct and choreograph
who is going to do AED, chest compressions, how's airway management going, we're going to have to
log roll the patient because they vomited, and the team approach really makes for a smooth effective resuscitation.
And we have multiple people to change out for compressions so that fatigue doesn't degrade CPR
and we can continue the quality of compressions.
Last but not least, AED's have come a long ways. Because they are computers, the infant/child pads
send a message to the AED that we've got a different size patient and due to that, the joules dosage is
appropriate for infants one year and less. That's great news. Many of you were still overriding that
with adult pads or manual defibrillation, but AEDs with pediatric pads will reduce the joules
appropriately and attenuate the joule dosages properly for the pediatric patient.
It will show right on the pads where the pads go. We are still using the anterior/posterior method for infants
but that's great news to be able to use the AED. And these are the same AEDs that are coming
off child daycare walls and are located in schools and are becoming more readily available.
But that is something we needed to mention and I think that it is valuable and I hope you keep that in
mind as we move forward into this new five year, this half a decade of new science and new
recommendations. I'm excited to continue training for you and with you. Keep your questions coming
whether it's through RoyOnRescue.com or through the support email address for the customer
solutions department. Let's get going training and let's get you recertified. I hope this
update was helpful for you, dryer than a bone but thank you for hanging in there and staying with me,
and until next time, take care and we'll see you soon. |
A new lab-created substance reflects almost no light, making it possibly the darkest material ever.
Scientists have created a new material that is most likely the darkest material on the planet. This metamaterial is made of an intricately constructed array of tiny silver wires that are embedded in aluminium oxide and reflects almost no light. When light waves hit it, the metamaterial bends them in odd ways and sends them in unnatural directions. Scientists say that this material may find its use in military applications, specifically in developing equipment invisible to radar.
New Scientist reports:
Metamaterials consist of a regular array of two or more tiny components, each smaller than the wavelengths of the light they interact with. It is this array-like internal structure that gives them their unusual properties.
Evgenii Narimanov of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, realised that it should be possible to design a metamaterial with the right internal structure to absorb virtually all the electromagnetic radiation in a particular range. An object made of such a material would effectively be perfectly black. By contrast, ordinary black objects always reflect a little light.
In collaboration with Narimanov, Mikhail Noginov and colleagues at Norfolk State University in Virginia have now created such a perfectly black material. It consists of silver wires 35 nanometres in diameter, embedded in 1-centimetre squares of aluminium oxide, 51 micrometres thick.
Image by Vanessa Pike-Russell |
Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects, Second Edition
Edited by Ronald F. Dodson, Samuel P. Hammar
CRC Press – 2011 – 679 pages
The first edition of Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects received critical acclaim due to the interdisciplinary nature of its content. Editors Ronald Dodson and Samuel Hammar have carefully kept this popular focus while updating and expanding the topics covered in the first edition with the help of internationally known experts. While there are hundreds of books available on many different aspects of asbestos, none contain the encyclopedic, comprehensive coverage you will find here.
See What’s New in the Second Edition:
Copiously illustrated with diagrams, tables, and photographs, including some in color, the book remains an interdisciplinary resource on the major issues in asbestos exposure and human health, with coverage that spans history, pathology, and epidemiology as well as sampling, analysis, and regulatory issues. The editors’ expertise and careful updating set this book apart, making it a comprehensive resource that interlinks diverse specialties. They provide an updated and expanded state-of-the-art discussion of important interdisciplinary factors associated with asbestos-related issues in an easy-to-use reference.
Praise for the Previous Edition
"The authors clearly have a very detailed understanding of the relevant laws and provide a comprehensive overview of the links between these and environmental health. (The book's) value lies in meeting the generalist needs of public interest groups, high school teachers, first year introductory undergraduate courses and, possibly, environmental health practitioners."
—Progress in Physical Geography, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2004
The History of Asbestos Utilization and Recognition of Asbestos-Induced Diseases, D.W. Henderson and J. Leigh
Asbestos Analysis Methods, J.R. Millette
Analysis and Relevance of Asbestos Burden in Tissue, R.F. Dodson
The Molecular Pathogenesis of Asbestos-Related Disorders, S. Klebe and D.W. Henderson
Epidemiology of Asbestos-Related Diseases and the Knowledge That Led to What Is Known Today, R.A. Lemen
Asbestos and Carcinoma of the Lung, D.W. Henderson and J. Leigh
Asbestos and Mesothelioma, S.P. Hammar
Asbestos and Other Cancers, S.P. Hammar, R.A. Lemen, D.W. Henderson, and J. Leigh
Asbestosis, S.P. Hammar
Asbestos-Induced Pleural Disease, S.P. Hammar
Uncommon Nonmalignant Asbestos-Induced Conditions, S.P. Hammar
Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Nonmalignant Asbestos-Related Diseases, G.K. Friedman
Malignant Diseases Attributed to Asbestos Exposure, G.K. Friedman
Core Curriculum for Practicing Physicians Related to Asbestos, J.L. Levin and P.P. Rountree
Asbestos Regulations and Their Applications, D.T. Crane and A.C. Malott |
Typically, the population thronging the newsroom of any newspaper, news portal or news channel is diverse. However, there is a tie that binds them together: Google, the world's most popular search engine.
Has this story appeared before? Did Corus have a hand in building India's first railway line? What is the size of the pick-up truck market that Tata Motors can address through its joint venture in Thailand? How many years did Shyama Prasad Mukherjee serve in Parliament?
These questions, with the deadline looming, would have made a despondent wreck out of a reporter some years ago. These days, she will go back to her workstation and return with the answer in a minute, culled from 123,000,567 or 432,487,912 results thrown up in 0.37 or 0.29 seconds- by Google.
The only question journalists avoid pondering over is: what if Google were to wind up tomorrow?
Since as far back as 2003, following an op-ed article in the New York Times by Thomas Friedman, a debate has been raging whether Google is God. Much like God, Google is omnibenevolent, omnipresent and very close to omniscient. It is not yet omnipotent, but seems to be getting there. To begin with, it is teaching new tricks to old media.
As a force, Google has to be reckoned with. Last month, the number of visitors to its site rose 9.1 per cent to 475.7 million as compared with November last year. That put it in the slot of the second most visited web site, ahead of Yahoo! and next only to Microsoft.
In the month, Google accounted for 49.5 per cent of Internet searches - an estimated 3.1 billion queries, a 31 per cent rise over November 2005.
In the second place was Yahoo!, with less than half the number of searches: 1.5 billion. As the convergence of print, audio-visual and the web progresses, its influence grows.
Editors across organisation are being nudged to become more Google-savvy. The headlines must catch the search engine's 'bot' that crawls the web. It does not matter whether they are catchy to the human mind.
Journalists over the years have written for hard-to-please editors and the reader. The search engine is threatening to become the new litmus test of their work.
Already, 'Real Estate' is getting replaced by 'Homes' and 'Scene' is making way for 'Lifestyle'. Globally, a few news sites have begun to give two headlines, one to attract the human reader and the other to lure the algorithm-propelled search engine. There is also talk of limiting the number of characters in the headline, to 40 or so, to make it more net-compatible.
It has yet to be seen whether Google will, at some point, begin to influence the content below the headline, including news selection.
The hope lies in an old cliche, that today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.
The so-called inverted pyramid structure of a news article - placing the most important information at the top - was shaped in part by a new technology of the 19th century, the telegraph, the Internet of its day.But things did not turn out too bad. Eventually, they have a way of falling in place. |
As India rises, creating niche areas for itself in the Asian landscape, China and India are bound to step on each other's vital areas of importance, says Srikanth Kondapalli.
As the nation-wide polls indicate, the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to form the new government in New Delhi. Its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had, during his tenure as chief minister of Gujarat and during the election campaign across India, provided an inkling into his foreign policy priorities.
Foremost in these speeches were mentions made about India's neighbours, with cross-border terrorism from Pakistan, migration from Bangladesh and China's 'mindset of expansionism' dominating the discourse.
As prime minister, Modi has the primary responsibility under the Constitution to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and further the wellbeing of citizens. Of all the countries, the case of China offers a mixed picture for Modi as on many fronts it has been a touch-and-go relationship.
First, the territorial dispute is still unresolved even after three decades of talks between officials and there is no indication to suggest that this issue will be resolved in the medium term.
If China's recent spurt in aggressive responses towards the Senkaku Islands with Japan, South China Sea islands with Southeast Asian countries, and the Depsang Plains incident in April 15 to May 6, 2013, is any indication, then this issue is likely to demand Modi's utmost attention. Given China's stiff response, his choices clearly remain the strengthening of conventional and nuclear deterrence.
Indeed, his BJP predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee was credited with precisely this posture in 1998.
Second, while China had revoked the 'stapled visas' explicitly issued since 2009, its role in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir is ever-growing. With the recent unveiling of the Silk Road Economic Belt passing through Gilgit and Baltistan, China had made definitive choices, regardless of India's sovereignty concerns.
On the other hand, India was surprised to hear from China's foreign ministry spokeswoman that India should not be 'concerned' about the disputed South China Sea islands.
Third, under the UPA government, there has been a logjam with China on the membership issue at the United Nations Security Council, the Nuclear Supplies Group and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, despite seeming progress between the two countries on climate change proposals, BRICS and the like.
Clearly, then, Modi needs to take a deep look at the progress so far of 'strategic partnership and cooperation' between the two countries since April 2005 and a zero-based assessment needs to be made.
Fourth, Modi had advocated, during the election campaigns, the developmental route to resolve India's problems and to usher in Indian rejuvenation. On this issue, however, while China had enhanced investments in India and has been exploring setting up industrial parks, cumulatively Beijing's direct investment is less than $460 million in India in a over a decade.
Although project related investments from China had shown substantial increase, direct investments have been minimal, despite China possessing over $3.8 trillion in reserves.
On the other hand, Japan, South Korea and Singapore have enhanced their investments in India without strings attached.
Modi then has clear priorities. His experience during the visits to Tokyo, Singapore and Beijing could come in handy in making a holistic assessment on this issue.
A related issue -- that of the widening bilateral trade deficit -- which accounts for about $167 billion in favour of China since 2007, also needs to be urgently addressed by the new prime minister given the fact that this deficit is contributing to more than half of the current account deficit of India.
Exploring market economy status in China, seeking more investments, strengthening manufacturing sector's role in the Indian economy are some options.
Fifth, given the enormous pressure that China had been exerting on India in the Indian Ocean region -- reflected in the 16 naval missions to the Gulf of Aden, taking over of Gwadhar port in Pakistan and eyeing Hambantota and Chittagong in the longer run -- as well as the formal suggestion to consider the Chinese-led maritime silk road, Modi need to re-assess the naval and maritime strategies even as China is bent on edging India out of the South China Sea.
Finally, and more significantly, a comprehensive assessment about the strategic rise of China -- which is poised to become the largest economy in the world possibly during Modi's tenure itself and the largest defence spender in Asia -- and its implications for India at the global and regional levels, needs to be made.
As India had been rising, creating niche areas for itself in the Asian landscape, China and India are bound to step on each other's vital areas of importance.
While the policy formulation of 'enough space in Asia' for both the simultaneously rising India and China deflected any direct clash between these two Asian countries, the landscape of the region itself is undergoing tectonic shifts.
This situation needs radical overhaul of the Indian assessments on China's rise and what is in store for India in the coming years and decades.
The previous government had expressed concerns on China's rise essentially in three areas -- anti-satellite tests, competition for resources in the third markets and China striving for a 'low-level equilibrium' in South Asia.
Currently, with a 'new-type of major power relations' between China and the United States strengthening and the G-2 process becoming a reality, India needs to clearly think about its priorities and partners at the regional and international levels.
Image: Narendra Modi with Yu Zhengsheng, member of the political bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Committee, during his visit to the region in 2011 as part of his Beijing/Shanghai/Chengdu trip. Photograph: Consulate General of India in Shanghai.
Srikanth Kondapalli is Professor in Chinese Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. |
Eastern Fork-marked Lemur
The Eastern Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner furcifer), is found in the coastal forests of northern and western Madagascar. Its diet consists mainly of the gum of trees in temperate deciduous forests. It has become specialized for harvesting this substance. It has a dental comb-like filling that is used to scrape the gum that oozes out of holes in the tree’s surface. The structure consists of a row of lower teeth that are long and forward protruding.
The female can breed for only 3 to 4 days of the entire year, typically in June. She gives birth to a single offspring in November or December. The offspring initially lives in the tree hole of the parents, then is carried by the mother, first ventrally, then dorsally. |
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The word 'edulcoration' comes from a Latin word meaning 'making sweet'. |
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Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics.
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The word 'edulcoration' comes from a Latin word meaning 'making sweet'. |
Graph: Compare National Economy, Before and After Federal “Stimulus”
From Veronique de Rugy at National Review Online (click for graph):
“In 2009, President Obama promised that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would ‘create or save’ 3.5 million jobs over the next two years and that the unemployment rate would not rise above 8.5 percent. By the end of 2010, he promised, unemployment would have dropped to 7.25 percent. Furthermore, White House economists forecast that without ARRA spending, the unemployment rate would increase from 7 percent to 8.8 percent. Unfortunately, the administration’s estimates were wrong by a vast margin.”
Connect with Benjamin Hodge at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, The Kansas Progress, and LibertyLinked. Hodge is President of the State and Local Reform Group of Kansas. He served as one of seven at-large trustees at Johnson County Community College from 2005-’09, a member of the Kansas House from 2007-’08, a delegate to the Kansas Republican Party from 2009-’10, and was founder of the Overland Park Republican Party in 2011. His public policy record is recognized by Americans for Prosperity, the Kansas Association of Broadcasters,the Kansas Press Association, the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government, the NRA, Kansans for Life, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). |
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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA
A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912
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HENRY G. JACOBS *pg 17 & 18*
Henry G. Jacobs, who is engaged in the cultivation of two hundred acres of fine farming land which he owns in Sheridan township, was born near Salt Creek, in Menard county, Illinois, on the 7th of January, 1873. He is a son of John and Catherine (Meyers) Jacobs, natives of Germany, the father having been born in Hanover. He emigrated to the United States during Grant's second administration as president and located in Menard county, Illinois, where they resided for four years. In 1874 they removed to Iowa, settling on a farm which they acquired in Sheridan township, Carroll county, in the cultivation of which Mr. Jacobs engaged until his demise in 1896. Mrs. Jacobs passed away in the same year and was laid to rest beside her husband in Mount Hope cemetery. They both affiliated with the Lutheran church, in the faith of which they reared their two sons, Henry G., our subject; and George D., also a farmer of Sheridan township.
Our subject was only a child a trifle over one year of age when his parents located here and he acquired his education in the district schools of Sheridan township and the normal at Carroll. He remained a member of the parental household during the lifetime of his father and mother, giving his time and attention to the cultivation of the homestead. Twelve years ago he acquired the farm upon which he is now residing, during which time he has wrought many improvements. He engages in general farming in connection with which he also raises stock and is making a success of both.
Mr. Jacobs established a home for himself by his marriage in 1899 to Miss Caroline Louisa Lange, and they have become the parents of six children: George, Carl, Arvel, Lauretta, Helen and Elmer.
His political support Mr. Jacobs gives to the democratic party in state and national elections, but in the selection of county and township officials he votes for the man he deems best qualified to protect the interests of the majority, regardless of party affiliation. He is one of the widely known citizens of the township as well as one of the most prosperous agriculturists.
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Any tips for removing corroded bolts at rudder?
Good day everyone!
I am in need of some advice as to the best method to remove bolts that are corroded into their sleeves in a tight area. I am in the process of refinishing the topside, and I need to remove the rudder in order to do a proper job on the transom (the rudder is mounted to the transom).
There is a yoke (I'll call it that for lack of knowing its nomenclature) under the helmsman's seat to which the cables coming from the helm attach. This "yoke" is then attached to a protrusion imbedded in the rudder which passes through an opening in the transom. There are three 1/4" bolts about 2" long which connect these two pieces together. I have removed the lock nuts from each bolt, but I cannot get them to come out. Each appears corroded in its sleeve. One will turn but won't back out and the other two will not budge at all. I'm afraid to get too aggressive with them for fear of breaking them off. The location under the helmsman's seat is too confining to swing a hammer to drive them out. And, the yoke is too large to pass through the opening in the transom, so the two parts must first be disconnected to remove the rudder.
1. Any recommendations for something that would penetrate the sleeve and help dissolve the corrosion so the bolts will break free (WD-40, etc.)?
2. Any thoughts on a tool to press them out? I thought of trying to use a C-clamp as a press.
As always, any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
S/V "Spirit" - 1971 C&C 36R |
Originally Posted by Night_Sailor
That depends on the hull. Would you rather have a typical solid glass hull that is 1/4" or 5/16" thick, or a cored hull with 3/8" balsa sandwiched between glass with a total thickness of two inches?
Why would you bother with a 3/8" core if the total thickness was 2"? Why would you compare that to a single thickness of 1/4 to 5/16"? The purpose of using a core is to space the two loading carrying surfaces further apart thus making a stiffer beam. It does get much stiffer, but it actually loses strength against a puncture. Core only makes sense if the core thickness is a large percentage of the total thickness.
Gary H. Lucas |
Defiant China moves second oil rig closer to Vietnam, near three other drilling platforms
But Vietnam’s government is not expected to react strongly as it lies far north to the site of recent clashes
China says it is moving a second oil rig closer to Vietnam’s coast, showing its determination to press its territorial claims and continue searching for resources in disputed waters despite a tense confrontation with Vietnam over another oil rig to the south.
The 600-metre-long rig is being towed southeast of its current position south of Hainan Island and will be in its new location closer to Vietnam by today, the Maritime Safety Administration said on its website. It asked vessels in the area to give it a wide berth.
Vietnam’s government is not expected to react strongly to the placement of the second rig because it lies far to the north of the politically sensitive waters surrounding the Paracel Islands, where ships from the two countries have been ramming each other for more than 40 days near the first oil rig.
China already has three oil rigs in the South China Sea which are reportedly being moved to new locations. Their presence highlights how Beijing has been stepping up its exploration for oil and gas in the tense region.
According to coordinates posted on the website of China’s Maritime Safety Administration, the Nanhai number 2 and 5 rigs will be in southern China and the Pratas islands, which are occupied by Taiwan. The Nanhai 4 rig is close to the Chinese coast.
The agency, which did not say who owns the rigs, said all three would be in place by August 12. Moving such rigs is standard practice for the platforms which have been operating for years.
Earlier this week, the agency gave coordinates for the fourth rig, the Nanhai 9, which would be positioned just outside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone by today.
The Global Times, a popular tabloid published by the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, quoted Zhuang Guotu, director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Xiamen University, as calling the rig deployment a "strategic move".
"The increase in oil rigs will inevitably jab a sensitive nerve for Vietnam and the Philippines," Zhuang said.
China’s state oil behemoth CNOOC has said it had four new projects scheduled to come onstream in the western and eastern South China Sea in the second half of 2014.
It was unclear if the four rigs were part of those projects. A CNOOC spokesman declined to comment, but the company has long said that in a bid to boost production it wanted to explore in deeper waters off China.
CNOOC has said it would increase by up to a third its annual capital spending for 2014 to almost US$20 billion.
Protest in Vietnam
A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry official who spoke on normal condition of anonymity said Hanoi believes that no country should take unilateral action in contested waters, but that China has explored the area previously without causing a crisis in relations.
Vietnamese authorities broke up a small protest against the Chinese move yesterday. About a dozen people gathered at a park in central Hanoi and chanted slogans such as “Down with Chinese aggression” for several minutes before being dispersed. At least two protesters were taken away.
The shifting of the rig came as officials from both sides said they made no progress in talks on Wednesday over the deployment of the other Chinese rig on May 1 that sparked the current standoff.
Each country claims the Paracels as its territory and accuses the other of instigating the ship rammings around the rig.
The first rig’s deployment triggered anti-China demonstrations across Vietnam that led to attacks on hundreds of factories believed to employ Chinese workers, five of whom were killed and hundreds more injured. Many of the factories were built and run by investors from Taiwan, which has nothing to do with the current dispute.
China’s military expelled Vietnamese troops from two of the islands in the group in 1974, and in 1988 used force to kick Vietnam out of Johnson South reef in the Spratly Islands to the east.
The border between China and Vietnam in the area of the second rig near the mouth of the Tonkin Gulf has never been properly demarcated, despite five rounds of talks on the matter.
China claims virtually all of the South China Sea, which is rich in natural resources and crisscrossed by some of the world’s busiest sea lanes. That has brought it into dispute with other neighbours, including the Philippines, a US ally.
Vietnam and China held talks this week supposedly to help ease tensions over ship clashes near the Paracels and the first oil rig, platform 981. It had been operating 330 kilometres east of Vietnam and 370km from the southern coast of mainland island Hainan.
However, in a sign that the talks might make little progress, China's State Councillor Yang Jiechi told Hanoi to stop "hyping up" tensions over the oil rig.
It was the highest-level talks between the two countries since the oil rig deployment early last month caused a nosedive in relations.
The discussions were seen as an attempt to contain the worst diplomatic crisis between the ideological allies in decades. But analysts said Yang's sharp remarks indicated no progress was made during the one-day trip.
During a meeting with Yang, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged China to withdraw the rig Haiyang 981 and told Yang that China's behaviour severely violated Vietnam's sovereignty and offended the Vietnamese people, according to the state-run Vietnam News Agency.
But in another meeting with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Yang reiterated that oil rig 981 had been operating within an area of Chinese sovereignty
Yang said the current difficulty in the bilateral relationship was a result of Vietnam's "illegal disruptions", according to a summary of the meeting posted on the Chinese foreign ministry's website.
With additional reporting from Kristine Kwok and Reuters |
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There may have been a sign on the restroom door, but Chris paid it no mind. He felt as if he might lose control over his bladder if he didn't find a toilet immediately. Although nearly eleven years old, and well out of diapers, his bladder seemed a bit weak at times, and he was desperate to avoid an accident. As he stood in front of the last urinal (he always chose the one furthest from the door, back then), fumbling with the button on his blue denim shorts, he heard the door open, then close, then the snap of the lock.
“No big deal,” Chris thought. He understood the need some people have for privacy. “I'd have locked it myself if I wasn't about to burst.” Later, when he was finally able to use public restrooms again, he would never forget the lock, never. He heard footsteps, hard-soled shoes clacking across the room on the tile floor, echoing in his direction. “Probably going to sit down in the stall behind me,” he thought. The footsteps stopped behind him.
“This toilet is out of order, can't you read?” a voice boomed, a voice that was much deeper than any Chris had expected to hear in the boys' room of an elementary school. Chris jumped a little, quite startled. He forgot all about the button on his shorts and froze like a statue with a warm wetness filling his underwear and running down his leg.
“Look what you did,” the voice boomed. “Now you've made a mess. You should learn to control yourself, filthy little....” His voice trailed off, and he seemed to be deep in thought. “I know,” he exclaimed, and grabbed Chris' shorts, pulling them roughly down to the floor. “You can clean it up with those.”
Chris was so scared he could barely speak. His bladder was finally empty, about half of its contents soaking his clothes, the other half in a puddle spreading across the bathroom floor. He couldn't keep a thought in his head, they all flew away before he could grab them, but he kept thinking he had heard that voice before. Whenever he tried to place it in his memory, a wave of fear would overtake him and he had to struggle to keep his knees from buckling.
“Are you going to clean up after yourself?” the voice asked, sounding almost amused. “You can't just leave it there. Do you like being a messy little boy? Do you like peeing all over yourself?”
“N-no,” Chris answered.
“I think you do, and I'll have to teach you to clean yourself up. Now, take off those messy shorts.”
Chris wanted to run, but he couldn't move. He wanted to scream but his throat would produce no sound. Slowly, his muscles began to work, but instead of running, he was bending down, reaching for his wet shorts. A hand grabbed the elastic waistband of his soaked underwear.
“No, boy, these, too.”
Chris stammered, “Y-you can't do this, I'm n-not...”
“Not what?” the voice boomed back. “You're dirty, I watched you make that mess, now you're going to clean it up.” The hand pulled down on the waistband, it stretched a few inches, then the underwear started sliding down to join the shorts on the floor, around Chris' ankles. “Now you've got me dirty, too,” the voice said while the hand wiped itself on Chris' shirt. “You're in a lot of trouble, boy.” Chris stood as still as he could, he didn't know what was happening but he didn't want to make it any worse. He was all but paralyzed with fear, the world seemed to be moving in slow-motion, but his mind finally began to put a face with that booming voice: a squished-looking, moustached, round, and chubby visage that belonged to the school's security guard.
“He's supposed to keep us safe, right?” Chris thought. “What's happening here?”
“You're going to do as I say,” the voice warned. His breath seemed to be getting quicker and deeper. “If you don't listen, you'll be in detention for the rest of the year.”
Chris thought, “But the year's only just started.” He still couldn't move his legs, or his arms, but he thought he could turn his head. As he began to turn and look behind himself, another hand (not the dirty one) settled on top of his head and firmly held it facing forward.
“You don't need to see, just listen, and do as I say,” The guard said. “It'll be better if we just get this over with.” As he was talking, Chris could hear the sound of the zipper on the guards pants. “Put your hands on the urinal, and keep them there. Keep your feet planted.” Chris did as he was told, placing his hands on the cold porcelain. He heard the buckle on the guard's belt hit the tile, and felt something stiff and warm against his backside.
“Are you gonna spank me?” Chris asked, his voice trembling.
“No, boy, I think you're a little big for that. I've got a better idea.” The guard's hands cradled Chris' butt cheeks, rubbed them a little, then pushed them apart. “You'll like this, all dirty boys do.” The guard then knelt down and began to lick Chris' anus. “That should clean you up a little.” He spat into his palm and rubbed it on himself, stood up, and parted Chris' cheeks again. “I can see your little dick getting hard. Told you you'd like it.” Chris realized with horror that what the guard said was true. His dick was stiffer than it had ever been, throbbing with each beat of his heart. The guard placed the tip of his penis, glistening with saliva, against Chris' anus. “Just relax and take it like a big boy. You want to be a big boy, don't you?” He put his hands on Chris' hips, holding him steady, and pushed his penis into Chris' anus.
“Aaahhooww,” Chris exclaimed.
“Just be quiet, you know you like it,” the guard said. He pushed his penis in as deep as it would go, then pulled it almost out. “Dirty. Little. Boy.” With each word he thrust his penis in, and Chris thought it would burst out of his belly if it got any deeper inside him. His own penis was still throbbing, and somehow the sensation of his butt being filled by this man's dick excited him and terrified him at the same time. The guard kept thrusting, each thrust brought one word out of him. “Dirty. Little. Boy. Dirty. Little. Boy.” Suddelny, his pace quickened, and he was panting too hard to speak his mantra. He gave one mighty final thrust, burying his dick deep in Chris' butt. Chris could feel it throbbing and pumping something hot inside him. Then, with his penis still inside Chris, he slid one hand off of Chris' hip and caressed Chris' penis. “You like it, you all like it,” He said breathlessly. He began rubbing up and down Chris' little penis, lightly pushing his own into Chris' butt. “And now I'm inside you forever. You belong to me.”
Chris felt dizzy, and his whole body was starting to tingle. Each time the guard pushed into him from behind, he became more dizzy. Each time the guard pulled him in front, he felt more tingly. The sensations became more intense until he felt his whole being trying to squeeze out of his penis. As it went, he felt something coming into him, a new self that relished the thought of the guard's words.
“I belong to him.” Chris thought. The guard released Chris' penis and pulled his own out of Chris' butt. Chris kept his hands on the urinal. He had never let them leave, and he was proud of that. “I'm his now.” He felt very empty without the man inside him, but he didn't dare speak.
“I guess you don't cum yet, boy, which means you only have to clean one of us up,” the guard said. Turn around and face me, boy.” Chris did as he was told, turning slowly and keeping his eyes on the floor. His butt felt slippery, and he liked it. “Down on your knees, boy.” Chris knelt in front of the guard, his face inches from the guard's still-hard dick. “Open your mouth.” Chris opened his mouth. “Keep your lips over your teeth.” He put his hand on the back of Chris' head and pulled it toward him. Chris could smell his butt on the man, and something else. “Suck all that cum off there, boy.” Chris thought his penis might be getting hard again, but he kept his eyes shut and concentrated on the dick in his mouth. He didn't want to make the guard unhappy by gagging or choking, and he wanted to taste every last drop of the man's cum as it slid down his throat. “So you like this, too,” The guard said, noticing Chris' penis. He pulled Chris' head back, saying “You'll be a good boy from now on, and do everything I say, won't you?” Chris finally opened his eyes, and stared at the guard's penis.
“Yes, sir,” he said to the penis. “I belong to you.”
“That's good, boy.”
Chris began to feel very light-headed, his vision losing focus. He fell onto his side, his face splashing in the puddle he had made in another life. Some time later, Chris awoke with the feel of cold, wet tile on his cheek. His head was foggy, but he could see the bathroom, and the man fastening his belt in front of the sink. As Chris began to get his senses back he felt wetness all over him, and a throbbing in his backside. “I must have fallen,” he thought, but this was different from a playground bruise. “Why am I all wet?” he thought, but aloud he said “I guess I didn't make it to the toilet in time.” He pushed himself up onto his elbows, and looked at the man.
“Looks like you passed out,” the man said. ”We'll have to do this again some time, so you can learn to follow the rules. You look a little pale, you should go to the office and call your parents, I bet your mom can bring you a fresh pair of shorts so you don't have to wear those smelly wet ones all day.” Then, an afterthought: “I'll be watching you.”
“Th-thank you, sir,” Chris replied. He stumbled over to the sink, and began splashing water on his face. “What a nice guy,” he thought. “He'll never tell anyone about my accident.” |
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A collection of 50 favourite worship songs for children, scored for Piano and Keyboard.
Song(s) in this release:
- A wiggly, waggly worm
- All Over The World [Hardy, Francoise]
- Be Bold, Be Strong
- Be still, for the presence of the Lord
- Celebrate Jesus
- Come on and celebrate!
- Don't build your house on the sandy land
- Father God, I wonder
- From Heaven You Came
- Give Me Oil In My Lamp
- God is good, God is great
- God loves you
- God's not dead
- Hands, Hands, Fingers, Thumbs
- Have you heard the raindrops
- Have you seen the pussycat
- He's Got The Whole World In His Hand
- Higher, higher
- How did Moses cross the Red Sea?
- How great is our God
- I reach up high
- I want to be a tree that's bearing fruit
- I Will
- I Will Enter His Gates
- I'm Special
- I, the Lord of sea and sky
- If I were a butterfly
- If your output exceeds your input
- Jesus is greater
- Jesus Put This Song Into Our Hearts
- Jesus' love has got under our skin
- Jesus' love is very wonderful
- Lord, I Lift Your Name On High
- Lord, the light of your love
- Lord, you put a tongue in my mouth
- My God is so big
- My Jesus, My Saviour
- One More Step Along The World I Go
- Rise And Shine
- Shake a friend's hand
- The Spirit lives to set us free
- The wise man built his house upon the rock
- This Little Light Of Mine
- We Are Marching In The Light Of God
- We Want To See Jesus Lifted High
- We will praise
- When I look at the trees
- When I Needed A Neighbour
- Who Put The Colours In The Rainbow?
- Who's the king of the jungle?
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"I Scream Sandwich! Inspired Recipes for the Ultimate Frozen Treat" by Jennie Schacht (nonfiction) In "I Scream Sandwich!," cookbook author Jennie Schacht redefines this hugely popular sweet treat and shows us how it can easily be the star of a dinner party, child's birthday bash, family picnic or just a lazy summer afternoon. The book includes a variety of ice cream sandwich recipes, from the classic (chocolate cookie bars with vanilla ice cream), to the exotic (kaffir lime and lemongrass sorbet on five-spice cookies), to the seasonal (blackberry-buttermilk ice cream on crispy meringues), to the upscale (pistachio gelato on a brioche bun). In addition to cookies and ice cream, sandwiches are made with brownies, bars, cakes, brioche, crusts, gelatos, sorbets and dairy-free options. This idea-filled book also includes recipes for sauces, roll-ins and decorations.
"The Art of Doing: How Super Achievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well" by Camille Sweeney (nonfiction) What really separates the best from the rest? We all know it takes hard work, dedication and the occasional dose of luck for someone to make it to the top of their chosen field. Yet, we also suspect it takes a little something more - but what? "The Art of Doing" asks today's most successful celebrities, businessmen and iconoclastic achievers "How do you succeed at what you do?"
"500 Crochet: Fun Designs & Projects for Blocks, Triangles, Circles & Hearts" by Hannah Elgie (nonfiction) With designs from the traditional to the contemporary, "500 Crochet" is an indispensable reference for any crochet enthusiast. Comprehensive instructions and international charts show how to easily create individual motifs. Use the motifs to make wonderful projects for the home, including blankets, pillows, coasters and even a tea cosy; wearables with flair (wraps, cowls, brooches, headband and bag); and special fun and fanciful decorations for the holidays. Full color illustrations, along with helpful information on hooks and yarns, make this book accessible to the beginner, and the advanced crocheter will find inspiration and ideas galore. Perfectly portable and a great way to use odds and ends from your stash, these designs are enjoyable and satisfying to make. "500 Crochet" is the perfect addition to your crochet library.
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Jul 12, 2008, 19:36 #1
Playing sample sounds
Not being very experienced at this I was wondering if someone would share with me their thoughts on what the easiest and then teh best way to play mp3 files on a web page? There will be several sound son the same page and a link to listen next to each one. I was really wanting a toggle of some sort.
Jul 14, 2008, 00:09 #2
You can use Flash to load sound files and play them. You can also extend it by having an xml file containing the path of the song files and load xml in flash and pick up the song path from the xml file and play them.Good Luck!
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Alice Austen took these street photographs in 1896, hoping to capture the kinds of people you might see out and about in Manhattan. They’re part of an album that Austen titled “Street Types of New York.”
Unlike other urban photographers who worked in New York at the end of the nineteenth century, Austen didn’t set out to document blight or poverty. Nor did she look for the more unusual inhabitants of the city. Her “types”—a boyish bike messenger, a postman in the act of retrieving mail from a box, a smiling street sweeper, a grave and rotund policeman—were meant to stand in for any number of their similar colleagues who didn’t make it onto film.
Austen employed the technique of photogravure, in which a photographic plate is used in combination with an etching process to make a print with a deep, rich appearance. The backgrounds of these images offer great historical detail, showing us intriguing signage, passers-by, and even street litter.
Austen, a wealthy Staten Islander who began making photographs at the early age of ten, traveled the world with her photographic equipment. She’s one of a few examples of turn-of-the-century women who managed to leave behind a robust body of photographic work. The story of Austen’s singular life—full of ups and downs—is well worth a read. |
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Pine and Gilmore (1998) arguedthat from a macroeconomic perspec-tive, the economic offering of firmshas progressed from commodities togoods and from goods to services. Theyargued that from this progressionhas emerged the experience economywherein the economic function is notto extract fungibles, make tangibles ordeliver service but instead to stage ex-periences. The nature of the offeringis memorable. The seller is the stagerand the buyer, the guest. The demandfactor in the experience economy isthe memorable sensation. Despite the compelling natureof this framework and more recentepiphanies such as that reflected inthe Adweek excerpt below, there were spanning about 10 years: Brakus objective was to develop a system thatno substantive efforts to produce a (2001); Schmitt (2008, 2003); and could transcend the somewhat artifi-commercially viable, comprehensive Brakus, Schmitt and Zarantonello cial boundaries that delineate the do-system for measuring, tracking and (2009). The five experiential dimen- mains of brand and loyalty research.ultimately manipulating the charac- sions that represent the foundation The common currency involves the NICteristics of a consumer experience. upon which these authors developed five experiential dimensions describedThe modal treatment of consumer a brand-oriented architecture were above. If the five dimensions are the ROexperience during the last 10 years based largely upon Pinker’s (1997) common currency for transcendingfocused on its sensorial aspects (see work. Their programmatic efforts, brand and loyalty, then experience CT LYfor example Lindstrom and which spanned essentially the first touchpoints (XPs) represent a com- LE ONMichelli ). decade of this century, continually mon language. In this research, we “Whatever the methodology, it’s confirmed Pinker’s five dimensions: differentiate between vicarious and R E UTincreasingly clear that customers desper- sensorial, social, behavioral, cognitive direct XPs. The former include televi-ately want goods and services, commu- and emotional. sion ads, billboards, magazines, Web FO TPnications and marketing campaigns that Each dimension clearly measures sites and so on. In contrast, direct XPsdazzle their senses, touch their hearts a different nuance and each is also involve substantive involvement withand stimulate their minds – delivering a presumed to be important depending a product or service. These XPs tend OUpositive experience they will remember. on the idiosyncratic appeal of a given to be the domain of loyalty research.Businesses will live or die not by the experience. For example, brands such The distinction between vicariousattributes they promise but by the brand as Starbucks would certainly find the and direct XPs can be leveraged toexperiences and value they offer custom- sensorial dimension critical to the ex- change the focus of the measurementers at every touchpoint.” perience it offers. The extent to which system described in this article. It is Adweek, September 29, 2008 an experience should emphasize be- important to note that distinguishing havioral characteristics may also dif- between them is unnecessary and isMind modularity fer. Harley-Davidson’s core experien- done so here to illustrate the ability ofA unique aspect of GfK’s ConEx system tial value proposition is clearly more this research to transcend both brandis its integration of a concept devel- oriented to the behavioral, sensorial and loyalty research.oped by evolutionary psychologists: and emotional dimensions. Our research was driven by themind modularity. Although contro- A more in-depth treatment of the notion that any experience can beversial in the early 1920s when sug- Brakus et al research is beyond the characterized in terms of the fivegested by Dewey (1922, 1925) and even scope of this article. Suffice it to say dimensions introduced by Pinker andmore so in 1997 when championed by that in addition to Pinker’s five- later adopted by Brakus et al. In orderHarvard University’s Steven Pinker dimension architecture, these authors’ to make the dimensions more consum-in How the Mind Works, the notion programmatic research represents the er-friendly, we translated the originalthat the human mind has evolved in theoretical and empirical foundation labels into talk, think, sense, feel anda Darwinian fashion, yielding five upon which we have built a highly act and paired them with graphicdistinct modules to facilitate humans’ flexible, modular system for measur- icons as represented in Figure 1.interactions with their environment, ing and tracking consumer experience.has gained wide acceptance. Large sample sizes Our interest in the application Transcend the boundaries This study spanned five business sec-of mind modularity and brands was This study is based on a series of R&D tors. Within each sector we measuredpiqued by treatments of the subject projects spanning two years. The five brands and within each brand, To purchase paper reprints of this article, contact Rhonda Brown at FosteReprints at 866-879-9144 x194 or email@example.com.
category distributions yielding the most positive placements. The Feel icon distributions are presented in the fourth row of Figure 4 and sug- gest a stronger emotional component associated with the automotive and especially computer sectors. Finally, the Act icon distributions suggest that the automotive and computer categories left the most positive (va- lence) impressions. Figure 5 presents the y-axis (Memorability) experience distribu- tions. Recall that the anchors of this axis were strong/memorable and weak/forgettable. Again, a row-wise approach to examining the table will help us understand cross-sectordropped into the impression–memora- is the possibility that respondents differences. With respect to the Talkbility quadrant. utilize vertical and horizontal spaces icon distributions we see that only In total, we collected 3,000 differentially. Thus, we concede at the automotive sector data were as-completed interviews using GfK’s this point that had the axes been sociated with a significant number ofonline consumer panel. On average, reversed, it is possible the distribu- positive (i.e., positioned high on the NICrespondents completed 2.7 quadrant tions would reflect this. y-axis) icon placements.exercises each. This yielded a total Figure 4 presents the x-axis (im- The second row of Figure 5 shows ROof 8,145 completed quadrants. The pression) distributions for the five the Think icon distributions. Asresultant dataset provided rich depth sectors. Within each distribution, the shown, the automotive and computer CT LYand breadth for analysis both within data are aggregated across five brands sectors had the most memorable LE ONand across sectors. and eight XPs. A comprehensive treat- icon placements and as expected, The two 85-point quadrant axes ment of the data would necessitate 40 the shampoo category Think icon R E UTyielded distributions with more desir- distributions for each of the five sec- was typically placed at the bottomable characteristics than similarly ad- tors. Part one of this article is aimed of the y-axis, indicating its rather FO TPministered seven-point Likert scales1. at familiarizing the reader with the forgettable nature. The placementFigures 4 and 5 present the x-axis and common currency and language of of the Sense icon illustrates severaly-axis distributions for the five sec- consumer experience research. intuitively appealing patterns. For OUtors aggregated over all brands and The data presented in Figure 4 example, both the food and shampootouchpoints. Clearly, the data pre- exhibit some interesting patterns sectors enjoyed many icon placementssented in the figures cannot reveal despite the aggregation by brand and at the top of the quadrant, indicatingthe nuanced differences that more XP. If we examine the data in a row- strong memorability. In contrast, thegranular brand or XP-level treatment wise fashion and begin with the top bank sector was associated with thewould have allowed. Unfortunately, tier (Talk) there are some noteworthy most forgettable sensorial ratings.space constraints precluded treat- differences. The automotive data, for The Feel icon, which representsment of the brands within each sec- example, yielded many more positive the emotional impact of an experi-tor and this will be described in part icon placements. To a certain ex- ence, elicited the most positive place-two of this article, which will appear tent, the computer data distribution ments within the automotive sectorin next month’s Quirk’s Marketing appears to resemble the automotive and fewest in the bank category.Research Review. data. In the next row are the x-axis Interestingly, there was a significant distributions of the Think icon. As group of respondents who placedVery appealing distributions shown, the automotive and banking the Feel icon in the highest verticalThe quadrant data collection mecha- sectors resulted in the most positive position for the computer segment.nism yielded very appealing distri- icon placements and the shampoo Finally, the Act icon y-axis distribu-butions. Clearly, the x-axis distribu- category the fewest. The shampoo tions are presented in the fifth rowtions differed substantively from category emerged as essentially the of the figure. These clearly show thatthe y-axis distributions. Recall that inverse of these with a high propor- the behavioral dimension was verythe former reflected impression and tion of respondents placing the Think memorable in the automotive sector;the y-axis represented memorabil- icon on the far left of the quadrant. this left skew is also reflected inity (ranging from weak/forgettable The third row of Figure 4 pres- the computer sector and is notewor-to strong/memorable). One aspect ents the x-axis placements of the thy. The remaining sectors yieldedof the quadrant data collection Sense icon. In this case we see the bi-modal distributions since manymechanism that remains untested automotive, food and shampoo respondents placed the icon very high To purchase paper reprints of this article, contact Rhonda Brown at FosteReprints at 866-879-9144 x194 or firstname.lastname@example.org. |
As the sports world tries to make sense of what transpired with Manti Te'o and the dead girlfriend who never existed, many people are being exposed to a new term for the first time: Catfishing. What does it mean? Here's your quick explanation.
The term gets its genesis from the 2010 film of the same name, "Catfish." (And if you haven't seen the film, well, spoilers ahead.) The documentary followed the relationship involving a young man in New York (24-year-old Yaniv "Nev" Schulman) and a woman (19-year-old Megan Faccio), which was carried out entirely online and by phone.
Schulman also conversed with various members of Faccio's family, but there was one problem: The family didn't exist. Schulman was actually conversing with a housewife named Angela Wesselman at all times. The woman had taken photos of another woman, Aimee Gonzales, and used them to build an online persona for Megan Faccio. You can see a trailer for the film below.
Late in the film, Wesselman's husband, Vince Pierce, gives this quote: "They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They'd keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank god for the catfish because we would be droll, boring and dull if we didn't have somebody nipping at our fin."
This is where "catfishing" essentially became shorthand for faking the identity of a person online in the process of carrying out a relationship.
"Catfish" the film eventually became "Catfish" the TV show on MTV in 2012. Schulman is behind the TV show and weighed in on the Manti Te'o controversy on his Twitter account.
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As a child, Firchow experienced the horror of World War II. As a professor, he wrote extensively and inspired students to live up to his high standards.
Peter Firchow, of Bloomington, was a native of the United States who spent much of his childhood in Germany during World War II.
He was born to a Costa Rican mother and German father. Before the war, Firchow's father, Paul, worked in New York and Boston for a German shipping company. Then he worked at the German Embassy in Washington
The family -- which included three American-born children -- left the United States for Germany when war began.
Firchow, his siblings and parents endured Allied bombings in Berlin, evacuation to East Prussia until the Soviet Army closed in and life in a displaced persons camp after the war.
The family found its way back to the United States, where Peter Firchow eventually became a University of Minnesota professor of British literature. He died Oct. 18 in Bloomington at the age of 70.
He had spinal ailments and respiratory problems.
After leaving the United States, Firchow's parents settled their family in Berlin, and Firchow's father worked as a translator for the German Army in Holland.
As the war wound down, the family was pressed into an ever-shrinking Third Reich.
"They were continually fleeing," said Firchow's wife, Evelyn, of Bloomington. Firchow, his mother and siblings found refuge in what is now the Czech Republic before heading to Munich at war's end. That's where Firchow's father found them, in a displaced persons camp.
They faced constant hunger, eating "only potatoes that were usually fed to the pigs," said Evelyn Firchow.
Firchow's father found work at the camp, and in 1949 the family resettled in Boston.
Firchow returns to U.S.
Firchow received degrees in English from Harvard, and in 1965, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He joined the English department at the University of Minnesota in 1967.
Firchow examined British literature in the context of utopian dreams and schemes, including those imagined by the Nazis.
"Above all, he was a tremendous scholar," said Peter Reed, of Minneapolis, a retired University of Minnesota English professor. He said that for many years, Firchow was the most prolific author in the English department.
He wrote about 15 books, more than 60 articles and 100 reviews. He wrote about the works of George Orwell, H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley, among others.
His books "Death of the German Cousin" and "Strange Meetings" examined British literature in the context of the rivalry of Britain and Germany from the late 1800s into the mid-1900s.
He had "conspicuous standards and expectations of people," said Reed. "He was extremely loyal" and he punctuated his quiet charm with a "big, boisterous laugh."
Firchow and his wife, a University of Minnesota professor of German, often entertained students in their home.
Richard Cretan, of Portland, Ore., a nonfiction writer, is a former student.
"He viewed literature as a means to understand our world and improve our world," said Cretan. "If you were a student of Peter's, you came to understand that literature wasn't simply fancy writing, but an inquiry into humanity."
When his daughter, Pamina, of Minneapolis, was a teenager in a Swiss boarding school, she struggled with Latin.
Over three summers, her multi-lingual father tutored her. "He was an amazing teacher for me," said his daughter, now a Ph. D. candidate in political science. "If not for him, I probably would have quit."
He retired from the university in the past year but continued to write.
In addition to his wife of 39 years and his daughter, he is survived by a sister, Christina Eiff, of Germany.
Services have been held. |
Keith Simmons, MCT
Instant replay is not right for baseball
- Article by: Al Zdon
- August 20, 2013 - 6:43 PM
The base runner slides in, throwing up a cloud of dust and dirt. The catcher stands his ground as he takes the throw. There is a cataclysmic moment of collision between the baseball, home plate and the players’ wills. The umpire’s arm goes up. “Yer out!” he cries.
And the hometown fans stare in disbelief. “We was robbed,” they lament.
At this juncture in baseball’s long history, so intertwined with that of the country that calls the sport its national pastime, the game stands at the brink of the abyss. The leaders within the major leagues have decided to follow the money and opt for instant replay. Yes, we understand that the owners, umpires and players must all sign off, but it appears that the skids are greased on this watershed decision.
Over the years, baseball has evolved as people tried to make it better. The baseball itself has changed. The pitcher’s mound is different. You can’t throw spitballs anymore. And, of course, there’s the designated hitter — but that’s another debate.
Still, those tweaks never really altered the fundamental scheme of things. It is amazing that a game played on a diamond-shaped field, with bases 90 feet apart and the pitcher’s rubber 60 feet and 6 inches away from the back edge of home plate has survived from the 1880s until today. The athletes are bigger and probably better, but the game still works. Amazing.
It took the will of the baseball community all those years to preserve the game as it is. But instant replay will bring a fundamental change. It may increase short-term profits, but may destroy the beauty, charm and heart of the sport.
Baseball is what it is. People make mistakes, and mistakes are part of life and part of the fabric of baseball. The baseball scoreboard shows hits, runs and errors. Eighteen players square off on the field, and four umpires (at the major-league level) make the critical decisions that guide the sport. Every play is a decision. Every time the pitcher tosses one up there, the umpire must rule.
It’s a game of judgments, made by real people reacting to real situations. It’s a game where a lot of mistakes are made. It’s a human game.
We can understand why football in particular has gone the route of challenging calls made on the field using technology. It’s a technology sport. Football never really took off in America until television became its primary medium. It’s a made-for-electronic-media sport, and the replay challenge adds to the drama of the reality television.
And let’s be clear. The proposed instant replay in baseball is not about trying to get it right. We are not focusing in on some holy effort to bring perfection to baseball. It’s all about money. It’s all about bringing the younger television viewer into the ranks of fans. We’re sure the power brokers of the sport consider instant replay as a survival tool.
But what’s the likely long-term result? Nobody likes to see a pitcher’s perfect game lost by a bonehead call at first base, but thus it has always been. The capacity for human error has been built into the rules and soul of the sport. It’s the element of baseball that has been key in its perseverance in a changing world.
Instant replay may bring some instant rewards, but the marriage of technology to this human passion will in the end break its heart.
There is some good news for the time being. Baseball purists still will be able to take their seat cushions and head down to that American Legion game at the local ballpark. Or they can take in a Little League game, or a town ballgame, or a high school or college game. It will be a while before the technology for replay will reach those last vestiges of the true sport.
Years from now, America will look back to this sad event — the day the music died — and there will be lamentation over the loss of the heart of the great American sport. Fans will miss Ron Gardenhire storming out of the dugout and kicking dirt all over the umpire’s shoes. They will miss what prior generations had the sense not to fool around with — the magical inner workings of a great human game.
And they will say:
“We was robbed.”
Al Zdon is the secretary of Minnesota American Legion Baseball.
© 2014 Star Tribune |
Medical aid group MSF allowed to reopen some Myanmar clinics
Published on Mar 2, 2014 1:48 PM
BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Myanmar has allowed Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to resume work in parts of the country, days after it ordered it to close its clinics, but not in the western strife-torn state of Rakhine, the medical aid group said.
MSF did not give a reason for Thursday's suspension but media reported government officials had been angered by the charity's public comments on Rakhine.
The group has been giving care there to both ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, a mostly stateless minority who live in apartheid-like conditions and who otherwise have little access to health care.
The United Nations and human rights groups say at least 40 Rohingya were killed by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist civilians in a restricted area of the state in January.
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T01985 LEOPARDS AT PLAY 1780
Writing-engraving (in reverse): ‘TYGERS at PLAY’. at centre, ‘Painted and Engraved by George Stubbs.’ at left and ‘Published as the Act directs, 25 Feb. 1780, by Geo. Stubbs. London’. at bottom centre
Copper-plate, 15×19 (38.1×48.2)
Purchased from Miss Beryl Pomeroy (Gytha Trust) 1975
Coll: by descent from the artist to his mistress Mary Spencer and presumably in her sale, Phillips 30 April 1817 (no catalogue has been found but the sale was advertised in The Morning Post, 29 April 1817, as including ‘the original copperplates of this great master’);...; acquired by the London plate-printing firm of Thomas Ross and Son at an unknown date, probably in the late nineteenth century; by descent to Miss Beryl Pomeroy, a partner in the firm
Lit: L. Parris, George Stubbs A.R.A., ‘Leopards at Play’ and ‘The Spanish Pointer’, An illustrated Commentary and Notes, 1974.
T01985 is the original copper-plate, etched and engraved by Stubbs, of his ‘Leopards at Play’, or ‘Tygers at Play’ as he mysteriously titled it. Published in 1780, this was the second of his separately issued plates, following the ‘Horse frightened by a Lion’ of 1777 and preceding the great series of twelve prints which appeared in 1788. In the latter year Stubbs published an advertisement (reprinted in Basil Taylor, The Prints of George Stubbs, 1969, pp.8–9) in which the ‘Tygers’ plate was described as a companion to the 1777 horse and lion print, each being priced at 7s. 6d. No other reference to it during his lifetime is known and, as with Stubbs' other prints, there seems to have been little contemporary demand. The copper-plate was certainly in very good condition when discovered on the premises of Thomas Ross and Son in 1970. T01986 below is one of the impressions taken from the plate in 1974–5 and published in a limited edition by the John Boydell Press.
No satisfactory explanation has been found for the title Stubbs gave to the print, which clearly depicts leopards, not tigers. Two other prints of, or including, leopards, and one showing a cheetah, are also said to represent ‘tygers’ in his 1788 advertisement. Few knew better than Stubbs the differences between these animals, and the public he presumably had in mind would also have been reasonably well-attuned to the basic distinctions (see Parris, op. cit., for more detailed discussion of this and other problems raised by Stubbs' prints).
The following painted versions of the composition are known: 1. Private Collection, 40×50 inches, repr. Basil Taylor, Stubbs, 1971, pl.39; this shows the animals in an open rocky landscape; 2. Collection The Earl of Yarborough, 38×53 5/8 inches, signed and dated 1779; this and nos. 3–4 below show the animals at closer range in an enclosed cave-like setting, as in the print, but no. 2 differs from the other paintings and from the print in the disposition of the foremost leopard's tail and hind legs; 3. Collection The Earl Fitzwilliam, 54×71 1/2 inches, repr. Parris, op. cit., p.10; this appears to be the version closest to the print and it was almost certainly the ‘Two Leopards over the Chimney piece’ mentioned in the 1782 inventory of the Marquis of Rockingham's collection in Grosvenor Square (see H. F. Constantine, ‘Lord Rockingham and Stubbs; Some New Documents’ in Burlington Magazine, XCV, 1953, p.237); 4. Formerly Collection The Hon. Nicholas Villiers, 35×52 1/2 inches; a very worn picture and, if originally by Stubbs, much altered. At the R.A. in 1776 Stubbs exhibited a ‘Tygers at play’. It is not known which, if any, of the above paintings this was.
The Tate Gallery 1974-6: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1978 |
Heeding the warnings on nature's fury
BY 1918, insurers in the United States had decided there was enough evidence of "injurious conditions" for them to decline cover to workers in the asbestos industry. It was an early warning that was later forgotten, to the immense cost of thousands of workers and to the insurers. The hot topic in actuarial circles these days is the impact of climate change. Governments in the US and Australia remain in denial on issues such as greenhouse emissions. But insurance underwriters are already planning for future losses due to natural catastrophes in which global warming may have contributed to extreme weather events. Recent disasters such as floods in Europe in 2002, followed by a deadly heatwave in 2003 and an all-time record year of hurricanes and typhoons globally in 2004 already had insurers looking closely at the impact of global warming. The events on the US Gulf Coast this week will refocus that attention.
Hurricane Katrina is eventually expected to claim hundreds, if not thousands of lives. The only comparable events in US history are the 1900 flood in Galveston, Texas, which claimed 6000 lives, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that left 3000 dead and a city in ruins. This hurricane's destructive force is on a scale seldom seen in the developed world. Little wonder that comparisons are being made with the recent Asian tsunami. Entire cities have been inundated by floodwaters. New Orleans, a city of 500,000 people built below sea level, is 80 per cent under water. Up to a million people will have to be relocated across three affected states. Preliminary estimates of the economic cost suggest a damage bill of $33 billion 2½ times the economic cost of the Asian tsunami.
The impact of such catastrophes reflects other trends too. One is the growth of "mega-cities" populations measured in multimillions, usually sprawled along flood-prone coastal plains. Disasters in cities affect vast numbers and place impossible strain upon urban infrastructure. This is the situation being experienced in the US. Then there is the increased exposure of already impoverished populations in underdeveloped countries. Climate modellers anticipate more frequent and fiercer weather events, sometimes in previously unaffected areas. Governments and communities lag behind in planning and preparation for catastrophe. In the US, the juxtaposition could hardly be more stark. That country is spending vast sums preparing against the threat of terrorism, while its actual damage bill from natural disasters in just two years will top $70 billion.
There are no quick fixes to the new regime of natural terror, no instant technological solutions. That even the richest nation in the world is powerless in the face of natural forces such as hurricane Katrina is testament to that. But there is plenty that can be done in terms of prevention, mitigation and preparedness. This includes looking at fundamental questions of urban planning and resource use. It includes community education about disaster impacts and ways in which individuals can help themselves. The warnings are already there. Governments and individuals ignore them at their peril. |
February 7th, 1964. The Beatles arrive in New York.
Paul: "There were millions of kids at the airport, which nobody had expected. We heard about it in mid-air. There were journalists on the plane, and the pilot had rang ahead and said, 'Tell the boys there's a big crowd waiting for them.' We thought, 'Wow! God, we really have made it.' "
Today marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' US debut. On this date in 1964, The Beatles flew together across the Atlantic for the first time, in hopes of cracking the USA - something no British band had yet managed to do. By the time the third and last of their first Beatles Ed Sullivan broadcasts aired - a little more than two weeks after their arrival - the band would be back home, having made broadcasting history and their trip as a whole a phenomenal and unprecedented success.
The Beatles' U.S. albums collection and collection titles are available now exclusively on iTunes
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first U.S. visit and the band’s history-making debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” The U.S. Albums, a new 13-album collection spanning 1964’s Meet The Beatles! to 1970’s Hey Jude, is released January 21 by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol.
The Mastered for iTunes LP collection, including a 64-page booklet with Beatles photos and promotional art are available now exclusively on iTunes (www.iTunes.com/TheBeatles). All of the Mastered for iTunes albums (with the exception of The Beatles’ Story, an audio documentary album) are also available now to order on iTunes.
Celebrate 50 Years of Globe-Sweeping “Beatlemania” with The U.S. Albums, a new 13CD Beatles collection spanning 1964’s Meet The Beatles! to 1970’s Hey Jude. The albums have also been Mastered For iTunes and are available digitally from the iTunes Store.
On February 7, 1964, The Beatles arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, greeted by scores of screaming, swooning fans who rushed the gate to catch a glimpse of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as they took their first steps on American soil. Two nights later, on Sunday, February 9, 74 million viewers in the U.S. and millions more in Canada tuned in to CBS to watch The Beatles make their American television debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
You can order the U.S. albums and the U.S. boxset from the official Beatles stores and from your local retailer:
'We made some incredible music. It’s great how well it holds up. The songs are still relevant; the kids are listening to the music today. It worked. And there were many, many magic moments, when it really worked. When you’re together, the band is together and the audience is together, it creates a magic moment. It’s a spiritual moment.' Ringo Starr
We are running a mini-serialisation of Ringo's new book "Photograph" over the next week to show some of the incredible photographs that Ringo took during his life in The Beatles. |
|Hetero Sex-Condom Broke
Jul 30, 2001
I was having vaginal and anal intercourse using a condom. The condom broke. He did not ejaculate. What is the probability that I could have contracted any diseases, especially HIV or become pregnant? I am very worried.
| Response from Mr. Kull
Any time your mucous membranes, as the receptive partner in vaginal or anal sex, come into contact with HIV infected fluids (semen in this case), there is a chance for infection. While ejaculation inside your body most likely increases your risk for infection, exposure to pre-ejaculate (the small amount of fluid that is emitted from the tip of the penis during sexual arousal and activity) may be sufficient for HIV transmission. A woman can get pregnant by exposure to pre-ejaculate as well. The exact location of the condom breakage will have some influence on whether or not you came into contact with your partners pre-ejaculate.
The same rules apply to other sexually transmitted infections that are transmitted by fluids (mucous membrane exposure to infected fluids). Condoms do not always offer protection against STDs that can cause lesions or sores on the skin. Any area of the body that is not protected by a latex condom has the potential to be exposed to skin related STDs. See the Sexually Transmitted Disease Basics (http://www.thebody.com/safesex/stdbasics.html) for more info.
This all depends on your partner's risk for sexually transmitted infections. It is also important to keep in mind that the majority of condom breaks do not result in HIV infection, especially if there was no ejaculation inside of the body.
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Santa Clara County Snafu Means No Rapid HIV Tests -- for Now
January 11, 2007
A clerical error by a Santa Clara County worker has caused public health clinics to temporarily halt rapid HIV testing. County spokesperson Joy Alexiou said the tests will be unavailable in the facilities for up to two months while the bureaucratic mix-up is resolved.
California health officials must certify the county's program to offer rapid testing. The worker had faxed the required information to the state but failed to follow up with a hard copy, said Alexiou. "It's truly unfortunate that this happened," she said.
The county's ambitious expansion of its HIV testing program will suffer while the matter is worked out. As part of that effort, county health workers have collaborated with local nonprofit agencies to offer rapid tests to injection drug users, sex workers and others at high risk for HIV/AIDS. County health officials estimate as many as 900 Santa Clara residents could be HIV-infected but not know it.
Under the program, which was instituted last February, public health employees have tested more than 1,200 people at two San Jose sites. Just one of those tests was positive, said Alexiou. Around 80 percent of people tested chose the rapid test over traditional tests, which can take days to deliver results.
Santa Clara County officials are referring people who want rapid tests to public clinics in Fremont and Santa Cruz. The test is also offered at private hospitals and clinics, though a fee is usually charged and the test is typically not offered anonymously.
For information on other clinics offering rapid HIV testing, telephone the Crane Center at 408-792-3729.
San Jose Mercury News
01.11.2007; Barbara Feder Ostrov
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
PRO-LIFE LAWS MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.
What we sometimes forget is that while court battles get the glitzy media attention, the day-to-day work of slowing abortion-on-demand and saving lives is typically done more quietly.
Michael J. New is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT data center. He is the author of a fascinating new study published by the Heritage Foundation entitled, "Analyzing the Effects of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion During the 1990s."
Dr. New investigated the enormously positive impact that passing protective laws had in reducing the number of abortions. New analyzed data from all 50 states.
When comparing the number of abortions in 1990 with the number in 1999, New concludes that these laws helped account for a drop of 17% in abortions in the 46 states that reported data for both years.
Let me quote the basic outline of what Dr. New did in his thoughtful profile of state legislation. "Examining state abortion data for every year from 1985 to 1999, and holding a variety of economic and demographic factors constant, the Heritage study examines the impact of four common types of pro-life legislation: parental-involvement laws, Medicaid funding restrictions, informed-consent laws and partial-birth-abortion bans," he writes.
The thrust of Dr. New's conclusions are clearly true, although NRLC's tallies are slightly different. For example, NRLC's analysis shows that in the era following the Supreme Court's 1992 Casey decision, 21 states have passed effective informed consent laws, with 19 of them being enforced.
Likewise, when it comes to state enforcement of parental involvement statutes, the number has obviously jumped since 1992. NRLC estimates that 25 states currently have true parental involvement laws in effect. And, of course, there were no state laws banning partial-birth abortions in 1992.
What made these state breakthroughs possible? According to Dr. New, one big reason was the aforementioned Casey decision. By adopting a new "undue burden" standard for evaluating the constitutionality of state laws, the Supreme Court upheld some laws it had struck in prior decisions.
This additional freedom gave "pro-life legislators at the state level more freedom to enact laws designed to protect the unborn," New writes, such as informed consent.
In a summary analysis of his study written for National Review online, New also attributes the reduction in the number of abortions to "the fact that pro-life legislators made considerable and lasting gains at the state level during the 1990s." (And, as New notes, there are many more pro-lifers occupying seats in the halls of Congress as well.)
Dr. New found that while all four types of pro-life legislation helped reduce the number of abortion, "Restrictions on the Medicaid funding of abortions had the largest and most statistically significant impact." In addition,"The enactment of informed-consent laws resulted in statistically significant reductions as well."
Dr. New concluded his National Review online article with these encouraging words.
"Overall, the 1990s were a good decade for the pro-life movement. Pro-life sentiment increased and the number of abortions declined. Additionally, the right-to-life movement enjoyed success both in terms of enacting legislation and devising approaches that are effective in persuading women to seek alternatives to abortion. With a president and majorities in the House and Senate that are largely pro-life, the next decade might be even better."
Your work is paying dividends. Please go to page 22 where you can read about state pro-life initiatives that are being undertaken in 2004.
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It is a jolting experience. In the new, vividly detailed graphic novel of Macbeth, the perspectives jar madly as we march towards murder. "This castle has a pleasant seat," observes Duncan as he enters Macbeth's citadel, where he will meet a bloody end. But we see him doing so from a viewpoint somewhere in the moat, the castle looming at a crazy angle, the sky aflame. When characters say sinister things, the frame crops in hard on their eyes; when they are threatening, shadow swallows their faces. In Shakespeare's text, violence is frequently described, but only the murders of Banquo and Macduff's family unfold on stage. Yet on these pages, warriors do indeed unseam each other from the nave to th'chops.
There have always been attempts to persuade schoolchildren that Shakespeare is thrilling, but teachers will surely grasp at this: Classical Comics' unabridged graphic novel rendering of the Bard's most frequently taught play. It is the product of several hands, but mostly the work of comic book artist Jon Haward; before he set out to chronicle the fiendish rise and terrible comeuppance of the Thane of Glamis, he was the illustrator of Spider-Man comics.
Haward has every sympathy with reluctant Shakespeare students and remembers his own unproductive encounters at school. He has aimed to bring "a lot of whizzbang" to the great tragedy. There is certainly sensationalism in his version, but there is also something more interesting than just another attempt to make the Bard look flashy and relevant. The graphic novel helps the unschooled reader see that Macbeth - extraordinary as its language might be - is not just words. Every frame has people acting and reacting, pressed by events. Pupils reading the play often have difficulties simply understanding what is happening. Here, the illustrations will let them see, and leave them (you hope) free to absorb the words.
But there is another dimension: the graphic novel also makes visible what the words merely imply. "Is this a dagger, which I see before me?" asks Macbeth. And here it is glowing before us - just as the "gouts of blood" the murderer imagines are duly inked in. Everything has to be shown. Malignity in the text has to be made visually repugnant. The witches are green-skinned, red-eyed cadavers; the murderers Macbeth recruits to kill Banquo are, in the play, disturbing presences, men so "tugged with fortune" they are willing to commit any crime. Here, their absolute loss of any moral sense is interpreted as physical repulsiveness.
Classical Comics - which is publishing Henry V along with Macbeth, and plans to tackle Jane Eyre, Great Expectations and Frankenstein - has gone even further to entice reluctant classroom recruits, producing their graphic novels in three different versions. There is the "original text", with all of Shakespeare's play poured into the characters' speech bubbles; there is the "plain text" version, where the Jacobean language is translated into contemporary English; and, for the mere narrative addicts, there is the "quick text" version, which is not just modernised but radically boiled down.
To fit in all the words, the original text version has had to take some liberties: the verse is no longer in lines and is printed in the capital-letter-only text of comic book convention. This is a loss - but for one kind of Shakespearean speech, the comic book is oddly well adapted. What we have come to call the soliloquy is put to memorable, disturbing use in Macbeth, where the villainous protagonist is given some of the greatest exploratory verse in the English language. Most of Macbeth's great speeches are said to no one but himself. Here, they appropriately inhabit those thought bubbles that fans of tormented superheroes such as Spider-Man are used to.
A-level examiners might wince. Some will remember how Baz Luhrmann's film of Romeo and Juliet became the only way some teenagers could visualise the play, with less academic candidates praising Shakespeare for brilliantly staging his lovers' courtship around a tropical fish tank. Will the energetic comic book Macbeth have enthusiastic examinees discussing why Lady Macbeth whacks her husband in the face ("SLAAAP!!!") as she commands: "Go get some water,/ And wash this filthy witness from your hand"? Perhaps. But it will also, surely, suck some more young readers into the brilliant darkness of this play · Macbeth and Henry V are published today by Classical Comics, at £9.99 each. Details: classicalcomics.com |
Bob Dylan was criticised last week for failing to speak up on behalf of detained artist Ai Weiwei during his tour to China. He was also accused of allowing songs such as The Times They Are a-Changin' to be censored from his playlist. What a lot of nonsense: if you thought Dylan would ever take an obvious political line you haven't been following him carefully enough. It's understandable for human-rights campaigners to wish for public support from Dylan. It is obtuse, however, for them to suggest that he is somehow betraying his own values as a political songwriter by not protesting. Dylan betrayed those values, deliberately and gleefully, in the mid-1960s. He has never looked back.
A BBC blog claimed: "What's the world's most famous protest singer going to do about Ai Weiwei's detention, people are asking." Are they really asking that? If so, they need to wake up, man. They need to watch DA Pennebaker's documentary Don't Look Back, or Martin Scorsese's more recent film No Direction Home, both of which tell the story of how a young "protest singer" daringly broke from the political folk movement into a new world of electric guitars and pianos, loud amplifiers, obscure poetic images and scornful irony.
I would love to see Will Gompertz, who penned the BBC blog, ask Dylan face to face why he doesn't speak out on China. I suspect the response might rival the contempt Dylan levels in Don't Look Back at a journalist who asks about his "message".
Dylan's critics seem not to see that they resemble the folk singer Pete Seeger, trying in 60s legend to cut the cables when Dylan brought his rock band onstage at a folk festival. (Seeger now claims he was just upset by poor sound quality.) It was never simply Dylan's "going electric" that made people react so violently in the 1960s. It was what going electric stood for: the acceptance of pop culture, the embrace of mainstream America and modernity, the repudiation of old left nostalgia.
It is a long time since Dylan was a rebel against the political order. Instead, since he released Highway 61 Revisited, he has been rebelling against what the Victorians called "cant".
The canting voices on this particular story will fade, but they will be going strong on other subjects. We live in a time when people feel pressured to make sententious, pompous and completely false statements about the arts. Art does not have an inherent social or political responsibility. Today, with arts funding slashed, there are even more temptations than usual to pretend otherwise – to insist that art can save derelict urban areas, that it can heal the sick and make flowers grow. But the very language that claims to defend art can smother its wild nature. A work of art, if it is any good, is enigmatic, remote and takes centuries to understand.
In the 1930s a combination of economic misery and political crisis forced artists out of their studios and into the world of public argument – the world of cant. European modern art never really recovered from the dogmas and functionalism of that low, dishonest decade. Bob Dylan grew up in a folk movement rooted in the 30s, but he saw that politics is not life – whereas art is life, and life only. He is an example to emulate: a poet, not a politician, who acknowledges no duty except making great art. I don't think his critics will change that. What is comic is to see them call on him to be true to supposed beliefs he gave up long ago. |
Poet, playwright, librettist and critic, WH Auden was one of the greatest ever native masters of the English language. He possessed a technical virtuosity bordering on wizardry and a questing intellect that embraced and discarded, like a serial monogamist, some of the most challenging beliefs of the 20th century. In the end, he settled on his first faith, Christianity. His reputation flourished in the two decades after his death in 1973, as posthumous work emerged along with revealing biographical and critical books. Gay liberation made no secret more fashionable than the one he had loosely kept - that he was homosexual. Thus, in 1994, when John Hannah read 'Stop All the Clocks' over the coffin of Simon Callow in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Auden was the hippest poet on the planet - as he had been in the Thirties. Faber concocted a slim volume, Tell Me the Truth about Love, picturing a lovelorn Hugh Grant on the cover, and had something truly rare - a bestseller from a poet, a dead poet. But the gay revolution no longer forms the glamorous, transgressive edge of cultural life. Even though The History Boys has lately reaffirmed Auden as a god in the peculiarly English cult of the brilliant schoolboy, his centenary year comes none too soon to restore him to our attention.
Faber keeps his work in print. This week brings back Another Time, perhaps Auden's finest and most varied volume of verse, to be followed, among other things, by new editions of Selected Poems and Collected Poems and by volume five in The Collected Works of WH Auden, a third volume of prose. There will be a BBC Four film, a Radio 3 broadcast, a reading at the British Library, a conference in Auden's birthplace, York, a South Bank Show, mini-festivals at Christ Church and at Auden's school, Gresham's, evenings organised by the South Bank Centre and Poet in the City. But some of these will come after the birthday on 21 February, tardy upstarts of grass-roots determination.
Underneath it all lies a lasting ambivalence to the poet that can be traced to his departure for America in mid-career, which makes some reluctant to celebrate him. The impression prevails that he ran away from the Second World War. His biographers have shown that this is not accurate, and perhaps it should be put to rest.
Auden left England with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939, nine months before the war began. They had long planned to emigrate. Visiting New York on their way back from the Sino-Japanese War in July 1938, they were treated like stars and paid handsomely for magazine work, so Auden realised he would be able to earn a living in America by writing. As early as August 1938 he was already telling his brother he planned to move there permanently and to become a US citizen. This plan cannot be separated from his homosexuality, with which Auden was never at ease. His feelings of guilt are evident even in his first adolescent verse; he tried to change his sexual inclination through psychoanalysis and attempted several relationships with women. As a Christian he came to believe that homosexuality was a sin for which he hoped to be forgiven by God, but he could be funny, even camp, about it. His preoccupation with guilt perhaps invited people to wonder what explicit crime lay behind it. In any case, for both Auden and Isherwood, growing fame made living in England as homosexuals increasingly uncomfortable. The risk of scandal or even imprisonment was real and, for all their joking defiance, neither of them wished to embarrass his family.
Three months after arriving in America, Auden fell in love with Chester Kallman, whom he was thereafter to place at the centre of his life. To him, their relationship was a marriage, and it was the chief reason he remained in America when war broke out. Physical cowardice played no part in his decision.
In March 1940, Auden wrote to an English friend that he looked upon the war as a reason to return to England, not a reason to stay away. He had already been to observe the wars in Spain and China (where, according to Isherwood, he snored without anxiety through air-raid-threatened nights), and he said that, were he single, he would likely return home to do the same: 'Judging by my past behaviour, I probably should. Trouble is attractive when one is not tied.' That spring, he offered himself at the British embassy to do anything the government asked, but he was told that only technically qualified people were wanted back home.
Auden was not a pacifist. He registered for the US draft and was called in September 1942. He was turned down for being a homosexual, a rejection that made him feel 'very much sunk'. Still, by the end of the war, he did manage to get into uniform, and he served on the US Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany. To criticism in the British press and poorly informed questions in the Commons, he made no public reply. Obviously, in 1940, he could not say he was remaining in America because he was in love with a young man there.
Those coping with the war in England naturally found it hard to accept his position; they didn't know what it was. Criticism from friends was especially damaging, and it was partly motivated by a clique mentality that Auden had hoped to escape by going abroad. Some felt left out, even jealous, and they accused him of abandoning the socialist movement of which they liked to believe he had been a leader. But Auden's notoriety as a left-winger was based on rhetorical skill, not political certainty; he explored socialism convincingly in his work and convinced others, not himself. He also distrusted nationalism, and he left his English roots and his English success behind on purpose, in order to grow and to find out what he really did believe in: 'As an artist, I believe America to be the best place to live, because here it is impossible to deceive oneself... to attempt the most difficult seems to me the only thing worthwhile. At least I know what I'm trying to do... which is to live deliberately without roots....'
Nevertheless, he carried the English language with him, and this, along with his memories, was a homeland: 'England to me is my mother tongue/And what I did when I was young.' He loved the physical geography of England. Some of the most beautiful poems he wrote in America, from 'New Year Letter' to 'Amor Loci', are love poems to the English landscape - a spiritual home more vivid in his imagination once he cut himself off from it.
Some prefer Auden's intense early lyrics and decry his move to America; others argue that continuous changes of style mark him as a major and a cosmopolitan talent. He cannot be easily summed up. His attitude to his work, like his attitude to his sexuality, shows a mixture of dissatisfaction and high spirits. Ambition made him always certain he could do something better than anything he had already done. His determination not to deceive himself, or anyone else, led him by the mid-Sixties to reject some of his most popular work on the grounds that it was not true. This dismayed many fans. His qualities of self-doubt, his inclination to harsh self-criticism, seem to me quintessentially English. The English are hesitaters, questioners. It might be easier to celebrate something simple, but the world is complicated. How lucky this year, which invites us to re-read a poet whose work reflects that.
WH Auden: A poet's life
Born Wystan Hugh Auden in York on 21 February 1907.
Education Met Christopher Isherwood at boarding school in Surrey, and Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice at Oxford. Graduated from Christ Church with a third-class degree in English.
Early career TS Eliot published Auden's Poems at Faber in 1930. In the same year he began to teach at various boys' schools. Later in the Thirties Auden lectured at the GPO Film Unit.
Relationships Auden fell in love with Isherwood, with whom he collaborated on three plays. The pair emigrated to New York just before the war, to the derision of commentators at home. Shortly after, Auden moved to California where he met a young poet, Chester Kallman, who was at first his lover and then a close companion.
Literary output Auden published approximately 400 poems during his lifetime, as well as plays, opera libretti and a great deal of critical work. His poetry has enjoyed great popularity in recent years.
Died 29 September 1973 in Vienna. He is buried in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria.
· Katherine Bucknell is the editor of Auden's Juvenilia, his poems from 1922-1928 |
One of the most talked about books of last year emerges this month in paperback. Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman (Ebury), her scabrously funny engagement with modern feminism, won book of the year at the Galaxy awards. "I was expecting to find some tension between the dual purposes of memoir and polemic in Moran's book," wrote Zoe Willams, "but in fact, every word of the memoir is loaded with political importance." These words include mention of the unexpected erotic potential of Chevy Chase to a Wolverhampton teenager, as well as an update on practical feminist theory from Germaine Greer. But what makes the book important is something unique to Moran, continued Williams. "She and Greer have both attacked the elemental shame attached to being a woman, but where Greer was furious, Moran sloughs it off with exuberance. There is a courage in this book that is born, not made, and not borrowed, either. It is vital in both senses."
To show that there can be prizes for all, another winner – this time of the Costa best biography – was Matthew Hollis's study of the poet Edward Thomas, Now All Roads Lead to France (Faber). We often think of Thomas as "a pastoral poet of place and belonging, but his real subjects were disconnection, discrepancy and unsettledness", observed reviewer Robert Macfarlane. Thomas came late to poetry and in his lifetime he was better known as one of London's most powerful critics, "notorious for the sharpness of his pen". Hollis restores this largely forgotten aspect of Thomas's career before subtly dealing with his personal and professional relationship with the American poet Robert Frost and his fateful decision to enlist in the Great War. "The war saved Thomas before it killed him," says Macfarlane. "It gave him purpose and, obliquely, it gave him poetry." Hollis's fine book helps us to understand how much more there is to Thomas than willow-herb and meadowsweet and haycocks dry.
There is more emblematic plant life in Richard Mabey's Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants (Profile). Reviewer Andrew Motion describes Mabey as "the steward of a pastoral tradition in which highly personal responses to landscape are matched by expert environmental concern." Following on from his three co-authored Britannica books (Birds, Flora and Bugs), Mabey now turns his attention to Weeds. Taking his starter question as "what is a weed?" – "The usual answer is 'a flower in the wrong place'" – he follows the story of weeds from the Book of Genesis onwards, taking in the great herbals (Gerard, Culpepper), Dürer's Large Piece of Turf (1503), A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Day of the Triffids, which makes for an alarming ending to a resourceful book without overthrowing its presiding mood of celebration.
The idea of gardening as political act underpins Andrea Wulf's The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden (Windmill, £8.99). When the founding fathers of post-revolutionary America returned to their estates after eight years of war, they set out to make gardens that were American and revolutionary – defiantly not British – thus staging a second rebellion that was not only aesthetic and botanical but political and economic. Reviewer Katherine Swift praised this "engrossing" study that takes in a period of about 40 years, interweaving political life with events at home as each strove to express their political ideals through garden-making. George Washington at Mount Vernon, John Adams on his farm at Quincy, Thomas Jefferson in Palladian splendour at Monticello, and James Madison at Montpelier. So important was horticulture to these men that at the end of his career, Jefferson, thinking back over his achievements, "included his successful introduction of upland rice to Georgia and Kentucky on the same list as the Declaration of Independence".
With the 2012 Formula One season about to start a timely publication of No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone, by Tom Bower (Faber, £8.99). As reviewer Richard Williams noted: "Men who bluff and bully their way to enormous fortunes are Tom Bower's special subject, so it was probably inevitable that Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire ringmaster of Formula One, would one day wander into his authorial cross-hairs." This was a book "which had been expected, on Bower's past form, to contain more explosive revelations than turns out to be the case." But that said, there are still telling insights into Ecclestone's life and career and it comes as no surprise that, even now in his 80s, Ecclestone knows how to turn a buck. He was recently mugged outside his home and a £25,000 watch was among items snatched by thieves. A few days after the incident the watch's manufacturer took out a newspaper advertisement showing his badly bruised face next to the slogan: "See what some people will do for a Hublot". |
What's the Difference Between a Standard and an "EV" Certificate?
June 21, 2011 by Kevin
A certificate on the web is a sort of code issued to websites to verify that the site belongs to a specific individual. Certificates provide a secure connection between the site and the user. They are issued according to a specific set of identity verification criteria. These criteria require verification of the requesting entity's identity by a Certificate Authority (CA) before a certificate is issued. The applicant of an EV or Extended Validation Certificate undergoes a more rigorous background and verification check than those of a normal certificate. EV SSL certificates are intended to give confidence to users that a website operator is a legally established business or organization with a verifiable identity.
Certificates issued by a CA under the EV guidelines are not structurally different from other certificates (and hence provide no stronger cryptography than other, cheaper certificates), but are designated with a CA-specific policy identifier so that EV-aware software can recognize them.
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Act Locally » December 14, 2005
On November 14 Lewis Lapham, who has been editor of Harper’s since 1983, announced his retirement. Lapham is the originator of the widely imitated “Harper’s Index” and the author of numerous books, including Gag Rule and, most recently, With the Beatles. He recently spoke by phone with In These Times from the Harper’s offices in New York.
What do you think is the most important issue facing our country today?
The most important issue is how we define national security. The administration likes to define national security in terms of military aircraft, troops, nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers. In truth, national security rests in the strength, health and intelligence of the American people. If we can learn to define national security in those terms, we would possibly reverse the trend of our current politics.
You argue that the United States has been transformed from a democracy to a plutocracy. Could you elaborate?
First you can see the rapidly widening gulf between rich and poor. In 1974 the ratio between what a factory worker earned and what a CEO of the same company earned was something in the neighborhood of 14 to one. Today it’s closer to 431 to 1. And you see there’s been enormous wealth gathered in the prosperous decades of the ’80s and ’90s, but most of that wealth has come into the hands of fewer and fewer people. The average wage of the working man has actually declined in the last 20 years, while the corporate pay scale has mounted to the heavens.
You also see it in the privatization of public infrastructure. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was still possible to associate the word “public” with the common good–public square, public school, public health and so on. And “private” tended to connote selfish greed. Now, the meanings have been reversed. Public is now a synonym for slum, incompetence, corruption and so forth, and private is the source of all things bright and beautiful–private school, private stream, private plane and so on. And so the impulse has been toward plutocracy, and it’s celebrated in all of our news media. Every week we get a picture of a new handsome, debonair, exciting CEO on the cover of Forbes, Fortune, or Business Week. They glory in the radiance of money.
You recently wrote, “It does no good to ask the weakling’s pointless question, ‘Is America a fascist state?’” How does the America of George W. Bush differ from the Italy of Mussolini or the Spain of Franco?
Well, it comes with a smiling face. We don’t yet have as many parades. I was borrowing from an essay written by Umberto Eco a number of years ago in the New York Review of Books, in which he attempted to find the common denominators in the various forms of fascism that were in place in the ’20s and ’30s in Europe. He was taking into account not only Mussolini’s Italy, but Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s Spain and Stalin’s Russia. Now all of those are different in very important ways, but there are certain common themes, many of which I’ve found in our own increasingly authoritarian government.
And one of those themes is the recent merging of religion and politics?
Yes, Eco refers to the religious elements in Germany, “the Volk.” It’s not necessarily Christian, but it points to a divine presence, the notion of some supreme leader and absolute truth. With religion you often run up against people who already know all the answers and don’t find any need to argue the point. This goes against the democratic ideas based on the Enlightenment notions of reason and argument. I listen to you, you listen to me, and between the two of us we maybe find a third way, as Clinton used to say. With religion there isn’t any, it’s either true and revealed, or false and heretical. That is a tone of mind that you do not want to have running your political systems.
Do you think those in power care about what dissenters such as yourself say?
They only care about it if it can take some form of political force. In other words, I think the Bush administration is beginning to care about the rising tide of criticism and the more general recognition of its dishonesty and incompetence. Observations that three or four years ago would have been considered leftist or extreme are beginning to show up in the president’s approval ratings.
Do we have any reasons to be optimistic about our country?
I think so. I have reasons in the many young people I encounter as the editor of Harper’s. More young people today are anxious to get into the political melee than, say, in the middle of the ’80s.
Aaron Sarver is an independent audio producer and writer based in Chicago. His work has appeared in In These Times, The Chicago Reader, Alternet.org, and on Free Speech Radio News. For nearly three years he produced and co-hosted the radio program, Fire on the Prairie, which featured interviews with progressive writers and activists, and is archived at fireontheprairie.com. |
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Every week it seems another little surprise about Obamacare pops us. Sometimes its how the Obama Administration is waiving certain provisions with an eye on the political consequences come election election time. Today's nugget revealed by the NYT is about how states are signing up prison inmates for Medicaid. Medicaid won't pay for their care while they are behind bars but it will pay for their care should they have to leave the prison to get medical care.Costs the state paid for 100% before now become federal costs. It helps relieve pressure on state budgets but increases pressure on the federal budget. |
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1. Cupcakes are always a good option!
Pastry schools can teach you
how to create and design delicious
cupcakes for different occasions.
2. Make some cards for your friends!
3. Knit some mittens!
4. Create something wonderful with your kids...
5. Surprise someone with a cake... delish!
6. Makeover a piece of furniture...
7. Make a clothespin wreath...
8. Or maybe find a comfortable chair and take a nap? Have a wonderful day, whatever you do! |
MOSES BEN ABRAHAM OF PONTOISE:
Tosafist; lived in the twelfth century. He was a disciple of Jacob Tam, with whom he carried on an active scientific correspondence, and was one of the members of the assembly presided over by him. Moses was the author of a number of liturgical poems, several of which are still extant in manuscript (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl." No. 1083; "Cat. Halberstam," No. 353). He wrote also, partly under the direction of R. Tam, some frequently quoted tosafot on various Talmudical treatises. His Mishnah commentary is mentioned in Samson of Sens' commentary on Terumot xi. 9 (comp. the tosafot on Temurah 4a). The cabalist Ḥayyim ben Bezaleel (d. 1588) claims to have possessed a manuscript containing this commentary, some citations from which he gives in his "Or ha-Ḥayyim." Moses is mentioned in many works as a commentator of the Pentateuch.
- Zunz, Z. G. p. 74;
- Grätz. Gesch. vi. 216;
- Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 444;
- Renan, Les Rabbins Français, p. 446. |
Pritzker Prize–Winning French Architect Said To Be Selected For New NAMOC Design
Rumor has it that Pritzker Prize–winning French architect Jean Nouvel has been selected to design a mammoth new building for the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), renowned for its exhibitions of 20th-century and contemporary Chinese art, in Beijing. If reports prove to be true, Nouvel will not only have the distinguished honor of executing this highly coveted commission, but also to win bragging rights for outgunning his blockbuster contemporaries, L.A.-based Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, themselves both Pritzker Prize winners who have done work in mainland China as well as Hong Kong. While the official announcement is not due until November (after China’s decennial change in leadership), an anonymous, well-placed source reported that all three architects were informed of the decision on July 18. Unfortunately, renderings of Nouvel’s design have yet to be released to the public.
At 1.3 million square feet, the new structure will be an imposing structure in a city now filled with them. Planned to be one of a trio of buildings — the others being a museum dedicated to the arts and crafts and a Sinology center — the new NAMOC will occupy a site next to the landmark National Stadium, popularly known as the “Bird’s Nest.” Part of a broader effort to draw more people to visit the area, post-2008-Olympics, many contenders were inspired “to make a building so iconic that one day people will say that the Bird’s Nest is next to it.”
The intense selection process began in 2010 with more than 150 architects around the world in contention. Over time, that figure was narrowed down to 20 offices, among them OMA, UNStudio, and Chinese architects Yung Ho Chang, Zhu Pei, and Ma Yansong of MAD, who were invited to submit designs. From these 20, only five finalists, which included Herzog & de Meuron (who withdrew from consideration) and Moshe Safdie, were asked to make revisions. However, according to Architectural Record, it was Nouvel’s “somewhat softer-edged proposal offering a pastiche of envelope treatments: steel cut in decorative patterns, stenciled glass recalling Chinese ink brushstrokes, and a splash of parametricism, all explained via references to ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy” which ultimately won over the clients.
The architectural race seen in China particularly over the last half-decade has led many to consider China “one of the most exciting places to be an architect right now.” While the NAMOC commission has been surrounded with speculation on political opacity and China’s “soft power” ambitions, this competition also reflects China’s continued attraction as a site for new, progressive architectural ventures — not only in major cities like Beijing, but also lower-tier cities.
With a projected completion date of 2015, we look forward to seeing how Nouvel’s design adds to Beijing’s urban fiber as well as its contribution to the architectural scene in China. |
Texas Reaches Marriage Tipping Point
According to a new independent poll conducted by Texas Tech, for the first time more Texans support marriage equality than oppose it. But only barely.
“Texas remains a conservative state, and the overwhelming majority of citizens consider themselves Republicans,” said Mark McKenzie, associate professor of political science who instructs the class that did the survey. “For Democrats to stand a chance of carrying Texas, they either must convince Texans to switch their party loyalties or capture all independent and Democratic voters. There is absolutely no room for error on the part of the Democrats.”The poll also shows that 44% of Texans approve of the Tea Party.
On the other hand, McKenzie said, even though Texas remains a conservative state, attitudes about gay marriage have changed in Texas during the last year. “In the past, support for gay marriage in this state was below 40 percent,” he said. “Now, were closely divided on the issue. 48 percent of Texans think gay marriage should be recognized whereas 47 percent are against. Democrats and Independents strongly support gay marriage, while Republicans are strongly opposed to it.” |
1st November, 2007
I've been planning a post on what I see as the major problem with Facebook, MySpace and most other social networks: They are all walled gardens where the relations and content is kept inside the garden that is the specific site. Facebook suffers the most from this as their application interface is in effect creating a Facebook controlled internet within the internet and since profiles are only viewable by members. I have no doubt this will fail in the long run, much like AOL lost to the open nature of the web. (in spite of this Facebook was just valued at $15 billion!).
While refining my thoughts, I found a few other people also having trouble with Facebook's closed world view. My idea was to outline the basic requirements for a social network and suggest the creation of a standard protocol for setting the social web free. I wanted to let the users be in control of their relations and content.
In many ways this would be a refinement of the APIs that many sites provide for their content. Flickr, Google and more all have APIs for interacting with the services they provide programatically. Basically, a social network is nothing more than a set of clever hyperlinks and automatic updates. I used to keep track of (online) friends by visiting their websites and reading emails. The Social API would be an open system for allowing connections between profiles on any server, allowing me to view latest blog posts, twitter updates, Flickr photos and more in a single place. Think RSS on steroids with access control.
In effect it would be an open source, distributed social network with content (dynamic hyperlinks in a way). It would need to be open source to be truly trustworthy and distributed for users to keep control of content.
Here's a brief outline of the benefits:
Anyway, I was preparing a list of requirements and functional outline when I read that Google is working on something that look very similar. They call it OpenSocial and according to a Macworld article their OpenSocial documentation page should be up very soon and I'll be following this development closely.
With Google behind a social API, widespread adaption should be certain. Let's just hope it really is open. |
“What? The cancer treatment I had years ago puts me at risk for what?”
WENDY S. HARPHAM, MD...Image Tools
The drama is playing out all across America: Survivors are shocked to read in a magazine or hear at a survivorship event that the therapies that put their cancer in remission also put them at risk for future health problems. Any resulting confusion, anger, or fear colors survivors' understanding of the risks.
Given that many survivors completed their treatment before the advent of survivorship care plans, how can clinicians introduce the topic of late effects to these patients who are doing well? I mean, how do you do it without feeling like you're disturbing a hornet's nest?
Simply providing dry medical information can lead patients to think you don't realize how upsetting the news is—or you don't care. Waxing philosophical, such as by suggesting late effects are a luxury reserved for survivors of an otherwise lethal disease, can backfire, too.
I've never experienced the shock of learning about late effects. When my oncologist listed each drug of my initial chemo protocol, I mentally rattled off the potential long-term risks. The first time I lay frozen under the gantry of a linear accelerator, my imagination fired up images of mutagenic hit after hit to the DNA of my healthy cells.
But I was the exception. Talking with other long-term survivors in support groups and on listservs has convinced me that while fear of recurrence is nearly universal, fear of late effects—particularly of second malignant neoplasms— is rare. Why is that?
For starters, many patients have no recollection of late effects being mentioned when they weighed their treatment options. Either the topic was not discussed or they didn't process what information was provided.
Whatever, the omission leads many patients to believe radiation therapy selectively destroys cancer cells, like cherry-picking PacMen. And they believe chemotherapy wipes out the intended target plus occult cells of any other type of cancer that might be floating around. Consequently many survivors in remission presume they have less risk of developing a new cancer—a welcome bonus to offset their fear of recurrence.
In addition, patients have a tendency to assess their overall health based on their cancer status. The longer patients are in remission, the greater their confidence about the future, a feeling that can create blind spots to their risks of other diseases, malignant or otherwise.
In today's information age, the reality is that your patients will learn about late effects, sooner or later. And the risks to both their health and the clinician-patient bond are great if they first learn about late effects from sources other than you.
Your patients trust you and depend on you. For the same reasons I urge parents diagnosed with cancer to share the news with their children, I urge you to find a way to introduce your patients to late effects. Initiating a dialogue opens opportunities to:
Protect them from inaccurate and unduly frightening information.
Provide personalized and empowering information in a helpful, hopeful manner.
Strengthen clinician-patient bonds.
End-of-treatment visits provide a natural—and more neutral—setting for discussing late effects in the context of wellness. Until survivorship care plans are used universally, and as long as you care for patients who completed treatment years ago, here are a few tips that may ease the onerous task of introducing late effects to survivors in remission.
Warn Patients Before Delivering Emotionally Charged News
Nobody likes being surprised by bad news, particularly cancer patients enjoying a “good news” checkup. Survivors may take your mentioning potential late effects as salt thrown on the wounds of their post-treatment survivorship. So forewarn patients in a hopeful way.
“We need to talk about an aspect of your follow-up care that some patients find upsetting at first. It's a topic we can—and will—address in healthy ways: late effects.”
Emphasize the Value of Learning about Late Effects
Ignorance is not bliss when it means closing the window of opportunity to affect the outcome. Our ability to prevent late effects may be in its infancy, but researchers know enough for you to guide patients with valid recommendations.
“Learning about late effects is an investment in your hard-earned remission. I'll do what I can to prevent problems down the line, but you need to know what you can do, too. For example, your knowing when to call the office enables us to work as a team to nip problems in the bud whenever possible.”
After learning they are at increased risk for specific problems, some patients feel doomed. They don't realize that even a hundred-fold increased incidence of a rare event results in only a small increase in the number of new cases and that their risk of developing the problem is still relatively small.
“While learning about late effects, you need to keep in mind that most survivors do not suffer serious late effects of their treatments.”
Patients who never heard of late effects may lose confidence or trust in you if, now, they feel they were patronized or bamboozled with incomplete information when they made their treatment decision.
The best way to rebuild trust depends on the specifics of the patients' circumstances. Your job is relatively easy if your patient was desperately ill and had only one treatment option, or if your patient was treated eons ago, when little was known about late effects.
If the omission is regrettable, you can still mend the rift. I suggest that instead of talking about late effects as the price patients must pay for renewed health, focus on how your patients are always receiving the best care they can.
“We did what we had to do to save your life when you were diagnosed. If we had it to do again, we'd do the same thing. Now that treatment is behind you, let's focus on doing what we can do to take good care of you from now on.”
Comprehensive care of the cancer patient includes discussing late effects and guiding patients to adaptive responses. If done with compassion, patients may come to see late effects as I do: a luxury reserved for survivors of an otherwise lethal disease.
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What was the seder (schedule) of Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim (the one instituted by the Rebbe Reshab).
7:30 a.m. - Chasidus - Hasidic philosophy (in some locales such as Israel and Australia first classes start at 7:00 a.m.)
9:00 a.m. - preparation for prayers, including Mikveh immersion (for those who didn't do so before 7:30 a.m.)
9:15 a.m. - Shacharis - Morning prayers
10:15 a.m. - Breakfast
11:00 a.m. - Iyun - Morning in depth Talmud study
1:00 p.m. - shiur (lecture) - more advanced students receive lectures less often
2:00 p.m. - Mincha - afternoon prayers
2:15 p.m. - Lunch and break period
3:30 p.m. - Afternoon Talmud, including review of morning study and less in-depth Talmudic study known as girsa
6:00 p.m. - Halacha study
7:00 p.m. - Dinner and break period
8:00 p.m. - Night Seder: Hasidic philosophy - Chasidus
9:30 p.m. - Ma'ariv - Evening prayers
9:45 p.m. - Seder Sichos - unofficial study of Rabbi M. M. Schneerson's public addresses
But this is not the same one made by the Rebbe Reshab, because they obviously wouldn't learn Sichos from Rabbi M. M. Schneerson. |
Greens Creek Mining Co. can expand its tailings disposal area to accommodate two more decades of mining, as long as mine operators also add carbon to the tailings to prevent metals from leaching into the ground, according to a record of decision issued by the U.S. Forest Service.
The Forest Service decision, announced Monday, alters the mine's original proposal, which did not include carbon addition.
Operators of Greens Creek, an underground polymetallic mine on Admiralty Island that employs about 260 people, proposed to expand the tailings disposal area to accommodate more ore reserves. Tailings are what's left of the material removed from the mine after the metal has been extracted.
The tailings site covers 23.2 acres and is permitted to expand to 29 acres. Operators say that space will last two more years. The mine proposed to expand the site to 61.3 acres, allowing enough room for 22 years' worth of tailings if the mine continues at its current pace.
The Greens Creek mine, which mines silver, zinc, gold and lead, was discovered in 1975. It began operating in 1989. It closed in 1993 after metal prices dropped, and reopened in 1996. The mine is within the Admiralty Island National Monument.
The alternative approved by the Forest Service allows the 61.3-acre expansion, but shifts it to the east in order to minimize the impact on monument land. The approved alternative also requires a 30-month study to determine how much carbon should be added, what form of carbon would be most effective, and how to incorporate the carbon into the tailings, the Forest Service said.
"It addresses the long-range acid rock drainage and heavy metals leaching by providing for a continuous carbon addition to the tailings. We expect that that will improve the long-term water quality associated with the tailings pile," said Juneau District Ranger Pete Griffin.
Greens Creek General Manager Rich Heig said staff at the mine are pleased the decision has been issued.
"We'll be taking some time over the next few days to review the record of decision and develop our plan of operation around it," Heig said.
Kat Hall of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council said the Forest Service is ignoring concerns about the mine's impacts on water quality and wildlife.
"They have failed to ensure the long-term protection of Admiralty Island and are ignoring the release of toxic wastes into surface waters," Hall said.
The record of decision will be published Nov. 14, which marks the start of a 45-day appeal period. Appeals must be submitted to the regional forester by Dec. 29.
They may be mailed to: Regional Forester, Alaska Region; USDA Forest Service; P.O. Box 21628; Juneau, AK 99802-1628.
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Horticultural Laboratory, circa 1913. Note the parti-color shingles, the greenhouse at rear. Photo Credit: Beal, p. 88.
Liberty Hyde Bailey is often credited with designing this building, the first separate horticulture laboratory in the United States. Even the historic marker mounted by the front entrance makes this claim. However, this is not exactly true. Professor Bailey provided the general design concepts for the laboratory, and then a professional architect—William D. Appleyard—incorporated those elements into a solidly engineered building. Appleyard was also the architect of the Library–Museum and the original Abbot Hall.[Minutes, 1 Jun 1887, p. 524. Stanford, p. 60. Physical Plant, p. 14]
After the new Horticulture building, now known as “Old Horticulture,” was constructed in 1924, this became the home of the Basic College, and later the Honors College. In 1961 it was renamed in memory of Harry J. Eustace (M.A.C. ’01), Chair of the Horticulture Department 1908–1919. A $3 million donation by former honors student Jeffrey Cole (M.S.U. ’70) and his wife, Kathryn (M.S.U. MBA ’90), for renovations to the structure led to its being renamed as Eustace–Cole Hall in 1999.
The Old Old Horticulture building is on both state and national historic registers.
An ivy-covered hall: intricate patterns on the rear (east) wall of Eustace Hall, Autumn 1992. The ivy was removed during the 1998–99 restoration, for the sake of the building’s health. A later addition now hides much of this wall. Photo Credit: Kevin S. Forsyth. |
One area classroom got a big surprise Friday.
Specialist Drew Hibner, a pen pal to the class, is dropping in on them because he is back from Afghanistan until January 18.
The class at South Shelby Elementary School adopted Specialist Hibner, a deployed soldier, back in August of 2011.
"This experience has been a treasure for me because Drew is a positive male role model for my students," Natalie Nuttall, cross category first grade through fifth grade teacher, told KHQA. "I am so blessed and can't wait to see their faces light up."
The students write letters and send care packages each month to Hibner in Afghanistan and he writes each student back with a personal letter.
Hibner has sent memorabilia from his base to the class as well.
The kids were all decked out in their red, white and blue for this surprise assembly Friday and Specialist Hibner has arranged for pizza to be delivered.
KHQA's Kristen Aguirre was there with the class, so don't forget to watch the moving video above!
(Story by Kristen Aguirre.) |
My father was 17 years old when the stock market crashed in October of 1929. He told me that Grandpa Rang lost all the money he had saved from twenty years of farming except for the last couple of milk checks that he had deposited in a bank that survived the collapse. With cows and chickens and a big garden, the family had enough to eat, but clothes, hardware and other “store-bought” things were precious.
Women and girls mended clothing, darned socks, and turned flour sacks into dish towels, pillow cases, dresses and curtains–often embroidered with flowers or geometric patterns. Men and boys made tools, repaired equipment and salvaged anything they could. My father and mother passed on those frugal ways to their offspring.
For instance, the second carpentry job I learned was how to straighten nails. The first was how to bend them, but that was self-taught. Today I still find myself reusing nails and saving wood scrap.
Before I left home for college, Mom taught me how to sew on buttons and stitch up a seam, and she gave me a patching kit with some needles and spools of thread. This spring I actually sewed on a button when I was spending a few days by myself at the cabin. It is still on my fishing pants, which seem to be getting smaller.
People didn’t waste food either. Leftovers were saved and either warmed up and served again or used as ingredients in another dish. Here is an example. We called it “dough potatoes.” It’s not fancy–just leftover potatoes and onions fried in a thin batter of eggs, flour and milk–but made with a baked potato and served with ketchup, it is a good example of northern European comfort food.
Dad sometimes made this simple dish when Mom was not home to cook dinner. My sister Barb thinks that he learned the recipe from his mother, so it might have originated in Germany. I probably ate it at Grandma and Grandpa’s the year I lunched with them when we had lost our good cook at Blair School, but my most vivid memory of that year was Grandma’s Boiled Raisin Cake.
Anyway, here is how to make Dough Potatoes.
1 leftover baked potato (1 to 1 1/2 cups when sliced)
1/4 cup onion
3 T flour
2/3 cup milk
4 large eggs
1 scant tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
3 T butter, vegetable oil or bacon grease
Peel the potato, cut it lengthwise into quarters and slice 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Chop the onion medium fine. Heat the oil in a skillet and fry the potato and onion until they begin to brown.
While the vegetables are frying, beat the eggs until lemon yellow. Add the milk, flour, salt and pepper and mix well until you have a thin batter. Pour the batter over the potatoes and onions and stir continuously until the batter begins to set. Reduce the heat to very low, cover the pan and cook until done, about 3 minutes.
Dough potatoes are rather bland, so make sure that ketchup, salt and pepper are on the table.
NOTES: You can use leftover boiled potatoes, but baked potatoes give a better flavor, at least to our tastes. Once the eggs are nearly done, you can use a spatula to turn them over so the bottom does not get too brown. |
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Krebs is a city located in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,051.
Krebs is located at 34°55'46" North, 95°43'16" West (34.929538, -95.721064).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.9 km2 (3.4 mi2). 8.8 km2 (3.4 mi2) of it is land and 0.29% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,051 people, 858 households, and 560 families residing in the city. The population density is 232.2/km2 (601.6/mi2). There are 949 housing units at an average density of 107.5/km2 (278.4/mi2). The racial makeup of the city is 78.40% White, 1.17% African American, 13.60% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.49% from other races, and 5.90% from two or more races. 1.66% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 858 households out of which 33.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.3% are married couples living together, 15.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.7% are non-families. 31.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.39 and the average family size is 3.00.
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Tulsa Health Department Continues To Test Former Dentist Patients For HIV/Hepatitis
By Jennifer Cope
The Tulsa Health Department continues to test patients for possible HIV and Hepatitis B and C exposure.As of Tuesday afternoon, 2,232 people have visited the clinic. They are former patients of Dr. W. Scott Harrington, a midtown dentist who was reportedly found to have contaminated and unsanitary equipment. He possibly exposed up to 7,000 patients over the years in his oral surgery practice, according to health officials.Anyone who was a patient at Dr. W. Scott Harrington's dental practice should contact the hotline (918) 595-4500 to speak to a public health representative about testing for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV.Screening continues this week at the North Regional Health and Wellness Center at 5635 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Monday - Thursday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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DENVER -- Hundreds of thousands of people from other countries are sworn in as United States citizens every year.
But Tuesday's ceremony at the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services Denver field office was one unlike any held there before.
All 44 people sworn in Tuesday were between ages five and 18. They represented 19 different countries. It's the first time the office has held a special swearing in event just for kids.
Watch the story to see what the ceremony meant to one 14-year-old girl from Malaysia. |
San Antonio's crime rate was down one percent in 2012, with several types of crimes showing steep declines, City Council will be told on Wednesday.
Advance numbers obtained by 1200 WOAI news show the 72 homicides that took place in the city in 2013, down from 89 in 2012, was the fewest murders in one year in San Antonio since 1970, when the city's population of about 640,000 was leas than half what it is today.
Fully 75% of those murders ended with the suspect in custody, up from a 69% homicide clearance rate in 2012, and compared to the nationwide homicide clearance rate of 63%.
The two types of crimes which affect the most people, burglary and larceny, were also both down in 2013, burglaries down five percent and larceny, which is simple theft, like shoplifting or stealing items from cars, was down three percent. Overall property crime was down by 3% in 2013, with burglary and larceny at their lowest points in five years. The clearance rate for burglary, the number of burglaries which end with the burglar in jail, was up 35% last year.
Other violent crimes, like rape and aggravated assault, were up in 2013,and an increase in rapes is expected to continue in 2014, because the definition of the crime was expanded by the FBI. Even though violent crime rates were up, clearance rates for those crimes were also up.
The place the police are also ramping up their clearance rate is in motor vehicle theft. New in-car technology is helping police increase the clearance rate for auto theft to 33%.
The city says a 'variety of tactical strategies,' is behind the reduction in crime and higher clearance rates, including a 'concentrated effort' by property crimes detectives to clear burglary and robbery cases. |
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Composite Magnesium-II Core-to-Wing Index
The Mg II Index is a proxy for solar chromospheric variability. This composite data record is based on the work of Viereck et al. (2004) Space Weather, vol 2, CiteID S10005 for measurements from 1978 through 2003. Starting in 2003, the data from SORCE SOLSTICE is used exclusively. The SOLSTICE spectra have been convolved with a 1.1 nm triangular response function to improve the long-term agreement with other measurements. All of the data sets have been normalized to a common scale to create a single long-term record.
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It's not easy being green: Pet frogs are blamed for salmonella outbreak
Pet frogs are being blamed for a national salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 48 people.
The illnesses occurred from June through November, with reports coming in from 25 states. Health officials investigating the illnesses found that many of the people said they'd been in contact with frogs such as the African dwarf frog. The salmonella strain was found in aquariums with frogs in three homes where illnesses occurred.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the outbreak Monday.
Pet reptiles have been fingered as a source of salmonella infection before. At least 107 people were sickened in a recent outbreak blamed on turtles.
-- Associated Press
Video: African dwarf frogs swim in an aquarium. Credit: cambria2113 via YouTube |
Computers can be connected to the campus network in the library carrels, classrooms, study areas, and common areas, all of which are supplied with Ethernet connections and power. The recommended configuration should allow students to work in the same computing environment, whether at home, work, or school.
The wireless network is based on the “Wi-Fi” 802.11 g/n standard and is available throughout the rest of campus as well, including the student center and several outdoor areas.
Entering students should also be aware that Seattle University does not provide off-campus Internet access and you will need to provide your own ISP in order to have an Internet connection from home if you live off campus. Seattle University does provide an e-mail account and server space for individual Web pages. Additionally, campus IT is working with the School of Law to provide students with storage for their School of Law coursework. |
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
TRENTON - New Jersey is in the midst of an ambitious pilot program to find out what combination of services works best at keeping ex-inmates from returning to state prisons.
The $2 million program, called Another Chance, is part of the state's stepped-up effort to lessen the percentage of ex-cons who re-enter state prison. It's also a key component of Gov. Corzine's strategy to combat gang and gun violence.
The pilot program offers a range of social, job and medical services to 1,300 people with criminal convictions, then tracks the results.
Shavar Jeffries, who is overseeing re-entry programs until a permanent director comes on board this month, said data are being collected from newly admitted prisoners, those about to leave prison, and some on parole.
Every year in New Jersey, 14,000 adults and 1,600 juveniles are released from correctional facilities. As many as 65 percent of the adults will be re-arrested within five years, and 37 percent of juveniles will return to correctional facilities within two years.
The pilot program is limited to four prisons - Northern State, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, and Riverfront State - and to releasees returning to Camden, Newark and Trenton.
Inmates and parolees in the program can receive an array of services including job training and behavioral therapy, anger management, and parenting classes.
It begins with a diagnostic assessment, so services are customized to each person's needs. Those in the pilot are divided into three groups: newly admitted prisoners, who receive a full range of services; those who will be released within nine months, who get a discharge plan and are lined up to receive services once released; and those on parole, who receive only post-release services.
The idea is to collect data on all groups "so we can connect with what really works to reduce recidivism," said Jeffries.
New Jersey is "ahead of the curve" when it comes to reducing recidivism, said Jeffries, who said only Michigan and Kansas address the problem as comprehensively. [Mark Godsey] |
People with a History/CLGH Book Review:
Review of Duberman, ed., A Queer World
Review of Martin Duberman, ed., A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1997), xii + 705 pp, $65.00
from CLGH Newsletter 11:2-3 (1997)
It has been just over ten years since I first heard about and made a small donation to
the then-fledgling Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York,
and in that time I have received many "invitations" to attend the regular talks,
colloquia, and conferences that have become an increasingly important part of the Center's
activities. Material constraints, however, have made that impossible for me -- New York
City is expensive and far away. Although not all of the organized programs and lectures
have appealed to me equally, I have remained one of the many interested observers from a
distance who would have liked to have been there to benefit from and contribute to the
circulation of queer ideas in the various venues that CLAGS has created. That is, at last,
something of a possibility with the publication of A Queer World (and its follow-up
companion volume, Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures [New York:
New York University Press, 1997]). As Martin Duberman suggests in his introduction,
"The purpose of this anthology is ... to make available [to a larger audience and in
a more permanent fashion] some of the more substantial fruits of [CLAGS'] work to
date" (p. 1).
The fifty-two wide-wide ranging contributions to this volume reveal not only the
breadth of queer scholarship across and between the disciplines but also its historical
and intellectual depth within them. Like the project of CLAGS as a whole, A Queer World redresses some of the absences from and imbalances in previous queer studies scholarship
and publications by taking seriously the critical work of social scientific, biological
and psychological, and public policy analyses in thinking through questions of sexuality
and gender. Starting with troubled questions of identity, the necessary but (nearly)
impossible place to begin, the essays are grouped into five cohesive, if also
"porous" (p. 3) parts: on sexuality and gender, histories, mind/body relations,
legal and economic issues, and policy questions pertaining to youth, aging, and AIDS.
Part Two, "The Terrains of History: New Stories, New Methodologies" (pp.
177-279), consists of seven essays and the symposium "Twenty-Five Years after
Stonewall: Looking Backward, Moving Forward" (pp. 262-279) which includes
presentations by Cheryl Clarke, Martin Duberman, Jim Kepner, Karl Knapper, Joan Nestle,
and Carmen Vazquez. The individual strengths of these quite different pieces are mutually
elucidated and given fresh significance by the way they have been grouped here, offering a
comparative perspective on such topics as "Lesbians in Chinese History" (pp.
199-204), "The Lives of French Working-class Lesbians, 1880-1930" (pp. 236-247),
and "Homosexuality and the Sociological Imagination" (pp. 248-261) among others.
In addition to these historical investigations, several essays explore the nexus between
past and present itself as a site of never-simple political and cultural enactment.
Historical representation becomes an interesting problem in Yukiko Hanawa's essay on
"queer 'n asian" (pp. 39-62) which turns to the discourses of history "to
produce moments of productive contradictions that allows [sic] us to imagine how we might become"
(p. 57), and it takes on other, rather different shades of meaning in Nan Alamilla Boyd's
explicit argument in "Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories" (pp.
134-152) that "history ... is a battleground, an intellectual territory that serves
political purposes" (p. 137) and in Michael Moon's return to the miscegenated
histories of Oklahoma (pp. 24-34) to help excavate their radical, racially diverse, and
queer contents from both the "reactionary rhetoric" (p. 33) that has sought to
bury those histories and "the cheap if long-established practice of patronizing
places like Oklahoma" (p. 26) by those who wish not to know of -- or believe in --
rural America's varied complexities.
In a different manner, though one that is equally engaged with complex questions of the
social, Gilbert Zicklin's essay (pp. 381-394) and the four chapters on "Genes,
Hormones, and the Brain" (pp. 285-327) look through various lenses to explore the
larger cultural, political, and historical dimensions that have been neglected in
biological investigations into the (possible) cause(s) of homosexuality. Without calling
for the end of such research, these pieces critique and trouble the naively reductionist
starting (and ending) points of biological investigations of (homo)sexuality that
stabilize sexuality and gender and that take no account of the privileges wielded by
scientific forms of knowledge as culturally sanctioned explanatory devices. The chapters
on "Homo-Economics" (pp. 467-543) also delve into an important area. There is,
however, a pronounced contrast between Sean Strub's capitalist boosterism (despite being
occasionally "concerned" [p. 518] and informed about current developments) which
plugs the gay and lesbian market's growth and the much more critical skepticism of
the essays by M. V. Lee Badgett (pp. 467-476), Michael Piore (pp. 502-507), and Amy
Gluckman and Betsy Reed (pp. 519-525). The essays throughout the other sections of the
book map a queer world by covering queer lives, looking at queer cultural discourses,
practices, and locations, and challenging dominant (mis)conceptions of queer being.
As much as this volume accomplishes in bringing together and drawing out the vibrant
and conflicting tendencies within the growing and unstable field, its massive size and
scope just as surely point to the problematic subject(s) of queer studies. On the one
hand, the more discipline-bound as well as the interdisciplinary work in A Queer World makes it impossible to conceive of queer studies as "a" subject, even if -- or
especially because -- its academic, cultural, and political presence can no longer be
doubted (p. 270). On the other hand, the multiple differences among queers as subjects in
history, revealed, asserted, and addressed here, belie a unified or stable object of
study, whatever (inter)disciplinary approach one takes. In terms of this latter point,
though "recount[ing] or analyz[ing] the story of an organization" (p. 1) is
beyond the stated goals of this book, the question of how the "lesbian and gay"
of CLAGS has begun to disintegrate in its own multiple practices, as suggested by many of
the essays, might usefully have received some kind of attention at the outset, perhaps
offering a brief genealogy of queer scholarship within this important context.
Finally, A Queer World, while definitely and sometimes contentiously queer, is
still also very much a world: often unwieldy for being extraordinarily large,
multiply-fragmented if somehow variously connected, vastly absorbing in its complexities,
and as rich in promise as it is decidedly unfinished. The things we might make of such a
queer world as envisioned and enabled by the collective work of this anthology, then, must
also be complex, partial, and open-ended.
© The Committee for Lesbian and Gay History [CLGH] is an affiliated organization of the American Historical Association devoted to
promoting the study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* history, and the interaction of
scholars working in the field.
Twice a year CLGH publishes a Newsletter which contains extensive reviews of recent books in LGBT studies. This document contains a
review from the CLGH Newsletter. Primary citations should be to
the Newsletter [and to this site if you wish].
This text is part of People
with a History. People with a History is a www site
presenting history relevant to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people, through
primary sources, secondary discussions, and images..
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Ngari is what i consider the soul of Manipuri cuisine considering that almost all the signature dishes of Manipuri cuisine have ngari as the basic ingredient.
For the uninitiated, ngari is nothing but fermented fish. Ngari is prepared from sun dried phabou nga (Puntius) by fermenting in specially made earthen pots called kharung using traditional techniques.
The finished product is what you see in the picture above – not the prettiest of sights nor the most pleasant smelling but treasured all the same. Ngari is very much an acquired taste but once acquired, it is hard to forgo. Ask any Manipuri (or non-Manipur from Manipur who has had a taste of ngari) and you will know what i am talking about. It would be hard to find a household in Manipur (and even outside) without ngari in the pantry. It is one of the things never lacking in a kitchen, like salt.
Ngari is steamed or roasted and used in the preparation of Manipuri delicacies like eromba, singju, kangsoi, kaangsu to name a few. The smell of ngari is, to put it mildly, pungent (though most Manipuris would swear there is something comforting about the smell of roasted ngari) and needs a little (OK, a lot) of getting used to.
i love to call ngari the stinking gold, because for some Manipuris (like my husband) who stay outside Manipur (and thus deprived of an easy way of procuring this precious commodity), ngari is as precious as gold. If he had his way, i suspect my husband would keep the ngari under lock and key and count them before he retires to bed just to ensure i have not used more than the required quantity. Since you cannot get ngari outside Manipur (though some people say the shutki mach or dried fish sold in Bangladeshi shops can be used as substitute but it is a poor substitute), you have to depend on the stock you smuggle from home (packed in airtight container, wrapped several times in aluminium foil – i shudder to think how the sniffer dogs at the airport would react if they caught a smell of the ngari!) or ‘borrowed’ from friends just returned from a trip back home. |
Field of Corn LbNA # 6553
|Placed Date||Jan 27 2002|
|Found By||Spoiled Rotten|
|Last Found||Jul 9 2011|
** Reported found 3/26/08 **
** Replaced with new stamp 7/13/04 **
This box has been adopted by Book Bug and the Mad Gardener 11/26/03.
Field Of Corn
This box is Unclaimed.
Placement date: Jan 27 2002
Nearest city: Columbus
Number of boxes: 1
Art in Public Places - Box #2
Franklin County, Ohio
Please take your own stamp pad.
The 2nd box placed in the series: Art in Public Places. To find the
area where to look for these letterboxes all you have to do is go to
Once here you go to searching oosi, you can either enter the artist
name or the name of the letterbox title under advance query. This
will take you to the site about this sculpture and where it is
located. Once you find out where to head then read the clues to find
Malcolm Cochran's sculpture consists of 109 concrete ears of corn,
each approximately six foot high, into the ground in even rows.
Cochran finished the piece by creating a row of text panels that
explain the history of corn production and set them among Osage
Parking is on the side of the road that leads to a company building.
Once you have found the sculpture go to the panel that discusses the
Osage orange trees, from here look at the tree at 295 degrees. The
tree's landmark number is 4334, in the fork of the tree trunks sits
by Floatflute & Blue1 emu |
A report in Health Affairs shows how the high cost of dealing with American insurance companies and other third party payers greatly increases the overhead costs of American physicians compared to doctors in Ontario. Following is the abstract:
Physician practices, especially the small practices with just one or two physicians that are common in the United States, incur substantial costs in time and labor interacting with multiple insurance plans about claims, coverage, and billing for patient care and prescription drugs. We surveyed physicians and administrators in the province of Ontario, Canada, about time spent interacting with payers and compared the results with a national companion survey in the United States. We estimated physician practices in Ontario spent $22,205 per physician per year interacting with Canada’s single-payer agency—just 27 percent of the $82,975 per physician per year spent in the United States. US nursing staff, including medical assistants, spent 20.6 hours per physician per week interacting with health plans—nearly ten times that of their Ontario counterparts. If US physicians had administrative costs similar to those of Ontario physicians, the total savings would be approximately $27.6 billion per year. The results support the opinion shared by many US health care leaders interviewed for this study that interactions between physician practices and health plans could be performed much more efficiently.
Conservatives often use the cost of malpractice insurance to explain the higher health care costs in this country, but the cost of malpractice insurance is t rival compared to the cost of health care billing. Comparisons of physician reimbursement in this country to that in other countries must need to take into the account the need for American physicians to have at least one full time employee, and often more to handle tasks such as obtaining HMO authorizations. In an American medical practice the biller is often the highest paid employee, greatly adding to overhead costs. While large practices might gain from economies of scale, they also have a larger number of insurance claims to deal with which requires multiple employees. The addition of drug coverage for Medicare patients which is provided by multiple companies with different formularies also adds tremendously to office overhead due to time spent obtaining authorization for prescriptions.
A report released by the American Medical Association shows, as also has been demonstrated in the past, that there is a lack of competition in health insurance in four out of five markets. The report “is intended to help regulators, lawmakers, researchers and policymakers identify markets where mergers among health insurers may cause competitive harm to patients, physicians and employers.” Among their findings:
David Letterman: Top Ten Details of Rick Perry’s Tax Plan
10. Fifty percent tax increase for all guys named ‘Mitt’
9. Hunting camps with offensive names are tax exempt
8. It’s covered in rib sauce
7. Lets people choose regular tax, flat tax, or ‘El tax muy caliente!’
6. It’s called the 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 plan
5. The obese pay an additional 3 percent per chin
4. Free dance lessons (video of Rick Perry dancing with Orthodox Jews)
3. Not sure. Honestly, when this guy speaks I have no idea what the heck he’s talking about
2. All tax refunds now go directly to the Chinese
1. Punishment for filing late? Lethal injection
“Rick Perry unveiled his new tax plan. He says he wants a flat tax. He believes that tax should be flat, just like the earth.” –Jay Leno |
In order to manage the increasing cost of our journal collection, the Library, together with help from faculty in all departments, has been working to create a serials management system. We have traditionally dedicated a certain proportion of our budget for the purchase of books, journals, media and electronic resources. In order for the Library to continue to be able to purchase resources in all of these categories, we need to work with each department to review our journal collection and to determine which journals, and in what format, our students should be familiar with when they graduate.
We recently received a five
historical pricing analysis for our journal collection. It
was awe-inspiring to see that over the last five years, prices
have increased an average of 8.3 percent each year for a
majority of the titles to which we subscribe. (And that
really does mean that some titles have therefore increased in
price by 40 percent or more over that time period.)
In addition to the budgetary reason for
monitoring our journal collection, this is also a good
opportunity to ensure that it continues to reflect and support
our curricular needs. Many of you may have already been
contacted by your assigned subject bibliographer
to begin this process, and others will be hearing from us as we
continue to work upon this project.
User Satisfaction Focus Groups:
The Library is initiating outreach efforts to assess user satisfaction with Library services this spring. The first initiative will be a series of focus groups to be held the week of March 5. Professor Lee Bowkers students in Soc 584, Qualitative Research Methods, will run four focus group sessions lasting an hour each with paid student participants. These are expected to provide really valuable information on student views and needs. Faculty, staff and additional student comments will be collected later in the semester, probably using an online survey. If you have any questions, please contact Sharmon Kenyon or Mary Kay.
A new wave of efforts to develop successful models for electronic books has led the CSU to put together a group of six lead libraries to evaluate vendor offerings and test alternative models in a one-year pilot project during 2001. HSU Library is one of the pilot group. Project purposes include developing an understanding of the potential uses of eBooks in CSU Libraries; testing the viability of eBooks as a medium for increasing access; developing a model for cooperative collection development of electronic monographs for the CSU. Two vendors have been chosen for the project thus far: NetLibrary of Boulder, Colorado, and ABC-CLIO, an established publisher of print reference resources.
NetLibrary offers two models for testing: outright purchase of titles, and also a one-year lease model. The 1,400 selected titles can be accessed through a database link on the Library Databases menu, and also through records for the individual titles loaded into Catalyst, our online catalog. Titles were selected in the social sciences, sciences, education and psychology with single-user access. Books in business/economics, computer science/information technology, and general reference works were leased for a single year with three simultaneous users.
ABC-CLIO is in the process of bringing up electronic reference titles monthly, and will be providing 160 reference titles by the end of the year. These will be available for three years without further payment, and will be accessible as a database or as individual titles in Catalyst, as well.
The CSU system is fully funding this project, with a probable extension for 2002. You can help by providing feedback on your encounters with this new material. You can send comments to Mary Kay at email@example.com, or watch for the online evaluation form that youll be encountering as you use the titles.
There is a new http://library.humboldt.edu/
You may have noticed that the Library web site has a new home page. This is not just a new look, but a way to make the rapidly growing Library web site a bit easier and faster to use. The new home page allows us to put more direct links to content right on top. In addition to almost doubling the number of links into the Library, we were able to provide some extra information about where each link is leading. The search box, to quickly find a page, is right up front, for quick access. While weve added features and upgraded our graphics and presentation, the new page is smaller and fifty percent quicker to load, a particularly important factor on slower, at home connection to the Internet.
The changes are the result of a lot of study, discussion and effort from the Librarys Web Advisory Committee. The group looked at many other library sites and university sites, looked at new technologies, considered our goals and reviewed the comments, questions and suggestions from our users. We hope you can see the results of our commitment to improving our electronic services, by listening to you, our users, and making technology work for you. Let us know what you think and watch us online as we continue to improve.
You may have noticed a few changes in Catalyst, when you returned for the spring semester. Over the break, the Library installed a new version of the Endeavor Voyager software that runs Catalyst. The displays are providing more information about where the results of your search are located. The options for formatting the screen have improved, resulting in an easier to read display and better online help messages. Options for refining your search without re-entering it are now available, as are options to sort your search results as you are viewing them. We have added Fast Search options to the first page of catalyst, to save time and typing. If you are an advanced user who has had to remember to capitalize all of your boolean operators, you may quit typing AND, OR and save a little time, Catalyst no longer requires this capitalization. As with any software update, some of the changes in the software are behind the scenes, giving the system enhanced support for national information standards. These standards allow us to expand the catalogs contents and participate in some innovative resource sharing projects. Let us know what you think about the new Catalyst and help us improve upon it.
The Library's Public Workstations are getting a new look
The public computers in the Library are getting a new look and a new functionality this spring. Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5.5 will be replacing Netscape as the public interface of the Library's public computers. After years of supporting the Netscape Web browser for the Library's public stations, we have decided to make the switch to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Version 5.5. There are a number of reasons for this change. The version of Netscape that we are supporting is now obsolete, and has been causing more problems over time. Internet Explorer provides better support for the more advanced technology that we are now using on the Library's home page. The same technologies are used in more of the databases and information services that the Library subscribes to. The newest release of Netscape, version 6.0, is technically advanced in many ways, but is incompatible with a number of the services that the Library subscribes to. We will continue to watch the development of the new Netscape, but cannot support it at this time. With the change to Internet Explorer we will be able to provide better access to services, supporting more advanced programming that many of our information providers are using. We will be retaining an option to use Netscape as a web browser on the start menu of the public workstations.
The reach of the Humboldt State University Library card is going to extend in the next few months. The Library is participating in a project that will allow you to search all of the California State University libraries and borrow from them, using your HSU Library card.
The Pharos system will link all 22 CSU Libraries, beginning with a smaller test group, which includes Humboldt State. The diversity of collections in available in the CSU Libraries may make a surprising difference in the books you have available for your teaching, research and recreational needs. The technology involved is state of the art inter-networking, allowing multiple database searches from a single interface and real time status information on books and the people who borrow them. You will be able to find out that Chico State has the book you need, find out if it is checked out or on the shelf and request it to be delivered, all in one session.
Making the networking technology work to make connections between many different computer systems has been a major effort. Your Library and the other libraries we will be working with have been preparing for this for years. We have very powerful tools to design an interface that is both convenient and effective for your information needs. To do that we need to hear from you, the good, the bad and the what-if. Please, watch for our announcements, try it out, and let us know what you think.
Library joins new Cascade Pacific Library Network
Last fall, the Humboldt State University Library signed on as one of the charter members of the Cascade Pacific Library Network (CPLN). The CPLN is a new State-supported non-profit library consortium organized under the aegis of the Library of California Act. The 39 current members include academic, public, school, and special libraries from throughout the 13 northernmost counties in the state. Quoting from the CPLN web site at http://cascadepacific.org/index.html, "the purpose of Cascade Pacific Library Network is to promote cooperation and coordination of library collections and services to meet the educational, informational, research and other library needs of all residents of northern California." Within the next few years, the CPLN is expected to supplant the North State Cooperative Library System (NSCLS), another State-supported library network. For more than a decade, the NSCLS has been serving a similar mission, facilitating resource-sharing between libraries within the same geographic region, but with a more limited clientele of public and academic libraries.
For further information, consult the CPLN web site or contact Wayne Perryman, chair of the HSU Library Access Services Department and vice-chair of the CPLN Board of Directors. |
Title: Steamship WEST CALUMB sunk at pier 16, Brooklyn, NY, January 12, 1923 |
Accession Number: 2008.28.5.293
Type: gelatin silver print
Maker: Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Place: USA, NY, Brooklyn
Description: Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.5 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "7626", and on album page "S.S. 'WEST CALUMB'/ SUNK PIER 16 B'KLYN,/ JAN 12TH , 1923."; bow view of WEST COLUMB at pier 16, Brooklyn, NY, showing damage to starboard side; floating derrick COMMISSIONER alongside, and tugboat GEO. N. BARRETT in background; from original negative 1964.660.2618; see related photographs 2008.28.5.293-295.
Mystic Seaport Image ID m450332 Information regarding reproductions |
The KDE™ Community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon. We have a strong focus on finding innovative solutions to old and new problems, creating a vibrant atmosphere open for experimentation.
The best thing about KDE is our amazing community! We are open to new members, offering help and allowing them to experiment, learn and grow. Our products are used by millions of home and office workers, and are being deployed in schools around the world – Brazil alone has over 50 million school children using KDE-based software to browse, learn and communicate!
For users on Linux and Unix, KDE offers a full suite of user workspace applications which allow interaction with these operating systems in a modern, graphical user interface. This includes Plasma Desktop, KDE’s innovative desktop interface. Other workspace applications are included to aid with system configuration, running programs, or interacting with hardware devices. While the fully integrated KDE Workspaces are only available on Linux and Unix, some of these features are available on other platforms.
In addition to the workspace, KDE produces a number of key applications such as the Konqueror web browser, Dolphin file manager and Kontact, the comprehensive personal information management suite. However, our list of applications includes many others, including those for education, multimedia, office productivity, networking, games and much more. Most applications are available on all platforms supported by the KDE Development.
KDE also brings to the forefront many innovations for application developers. An entire infrastructure has been designed and implemented to help programmers create robust and comprehensive applications in the most efficient manner, eliminating the complexity and tediousness of creating highly functional applications.
More information can be found on the KDE Website.
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Turning Tragedy Into Celebration
For many, a child’s first birthday is about balloons, gifts and cake. But for one Sioux Falls couple, tragedy is forcing them to celebrate in a different way.
“I had 28 hours of labor,” says Alison Terhorst. “She was very laid back and happy. Our first born and the joy of our lives.”
But in July, at just barely four months old, the joy turned into sorrow.
“We were going to lay her down for the night. She was acting really fussy and that’s not normal and then she just went limp,” says Alison.
They performed CPR and took Quinn by ambulance to the hospital. When they arrived Alison was told to say goodbye.
“Forty-five minutes after we went to lay her down it was over. It all happened very quickly,” says Alison. “Talk about a shock.”
Quinn died on July 21, 2012. The autopsy showed healthy organs. Her cause of death was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
“Not what you would think of because she was in our arms at the time,” she says.
Alison Terhorst teaches Advanced Placement Psychology at Sioux Falls Washington High School. Because of her training she says she has self-awareness of the five stages of grief. She says it helps her keep her grief in perspective. Or, she says her personality and faith get her through each day along with a strong support system.
“I am convinced people pray me out of bed each morning,” says Alison. “That’s not to say I don’t have moments I’m angry about it or question God. I don’t know how I’d do it without our faith.”
Last September, Alison started a blog about her grieving process. She says she did it for her out of town family and friends so she didn’t have to repeat her story. She describes her grief as teetering through depression.
“I’ve mostly been heartbroken through the whole thing. I can’t be angry at anyone. I can’t fix it. I’ve been in the depressed heartbroken state,” says Alison.”
There’s nothing Alison would like more than to stay in bed and cry on what would have been Quinn’s first birthday.
“My biggest thing is I had all these hopes and dreams for my daughter,” Alison says as she begins to cry. “Of how she’d touch other people’s lives and in an instant those hopes and dreams were gone. And I feel if I stay in bed feel sorry for myself on her birthday then everything she was to me stays in bed too.”
Alison heard of people celebrating birthdays by doing random acts of kindness for others. She is encouraging family and friends and students at Washington High School to reach out to others on Quinn’s birthday and touch lives the way Quinn touched hers.
Alison put the idea on her blog and within a week it has received 25,000 views. She even wrote an article in the high school newspaper. Students are taking pledges as a way to hold them- selves accountable.
“People have pledged to pay for other students who can’t afford lunch and making gift packages with tags on it. I’ve heard of a couple of teachers who have gone out to eat and left big tips and a note explaining why they were blessed. My insurance guy is coming and serving the entire staff pancakes for Quinn’s birthday,” Alison says
For Alison and her husband Tim, they are planning to help other families in need and leaving a few things up to randomness.
“Little things leaving quarters at a car wash. Pay for someone’s groceries; those types of things and we also want to bless families who don’t have as much,” Alison says.
Alison doesn’t really want the acts of kindness directed toward her, but she knows people will. She also hopes this catches on and others take this idea to remember what she calls hard anniversaries or birthdays.
“Then we have acts of kindness all the time,” says Alison. “I would love for people to join just and love for people I don’t even know to be blessed by my daughter and because she lived and because she was born on March 12th.
Alison and Tim Terhorst have declared March 12th as "Celebrating Quinncidence" day – a day where kindness is not a coincidence. It is their family's way of turning tragedy into celebration and one mother's way for a reason to get out of bed in the morning. |
This is the kind of homework I did in college. I found this picture and though cool, I could’ve done this exact problem. This problem is easy because there’s only one right answer.
But with writing, it’s more complicated. I have to figure out the question. Then the answer. Then go back and figure out how to get to the answer.
So my homework will help me focus on how to get everything in between. Here are the things I need to determine.
-Chloe’s long-term goals
-Chloe’s short-term goals
-Chloe’s character flaws, which keep her from getting those goals
-Who Chloe is at the beginning and at the end (and for all the other important characters)
Additionally, I need to look at my plotting, by determining:
-the inciting incident that puts everything in motion
-the turning points, the crucial moments that change the direction of the story
-the black moment, when everything has fallen apart
-the ah-ha moment, when Chloe figures it out
Plus I needed to re-write things because I will be sending her my first 40-50 pages instead of 20. It’s a good thing I had two weeks this time, because I never would’ve finished this by the week after Easter.
I’ve got my first 50 pages. I re-arranged and added a new scene. I have most of the goals and now I need to decide how a few of the supporting characters change.
So for other writers out there, do you do things like these? Does it help you? |
I’ve been struggling for days trying to figure out how to write about Ruth Padawer’s article in the New York Times “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy.”
What made it hard, I think, to start was my complete inability to grasp the moral universe where the people described in this article are coming from. Story after story of women who, having invested so much energy and money into getting pregnant in the first place, decide to kill off one of the twins they are carrying, supposedly so they can provide the surviving twin with a higher quality of life.
Welcome to the world Roe has created, I thought. A world where children simply do not matter. A world where the only thing that matters in the end is what adults want.
It’s probably too much to hope, but I can’t shake the desire to see in this story the beginning of the end of our protracted national tolerance for abortion.
Think about it — rewind the clock — can you imagine if Roe v. Wade had made abortion legal because one of the women described in this article desired to kill one of her unborn twins? Abortion was forced upon this country and made legal in all 50 states because of horror stories. Women who had been raped by their father. Women who would surely die in childbirth (their doctors testified) if they were made to carry the baby through until birth.
But these horror stories (and many of them were just that, stories) were not what Roe fixed. Roe gave us this: “coin toss” abortions, where one twin lives and one twin dies simply because one twin is closer to the abortionist’s needle.
This is another aspect of the world that Roe and legalized abortion-on-demand has given us: moral illiteracy. How else to describe journalists being able to write 5,000 words about Coin Toss abortions, complete with mentions of the “Mount Sinai Medical Center” and the “National Institute of Health” and never, not once, not even once, mention the one glaringly-obvious ethical question in the heart of the debate: “isn’t this murder?”
The author, who is careful to ignore (or maybe couldn’t even realize she was ignoring) this foundational question still manages to evoke the question as she describes the emotional trauma felt by some associated with this barbaric practice:
The doctors who do reductions sometimes sense their patients’ unease, and they work to assuage it. “I do spend quite a bit of time going through the medical risks of twins with them, because it takes away a little bit of the guilt they feel,” says Stone, the Mount Sinai doctor. Sometimes, she says, couples disagree about whether to reduce a twin pregnancy, and she encourages them to see a therapist so they can be at peace with whatever they decide.
Guilty? Therapy? Why would people harbor such feelings after undergoing a “reduction” surgery? Do people experience guilt and sadness after undergoing a stomach fat reduction? Something else entirely is happening here:
One of Stone’s patients, a New York woman, was certain that she wanted to reduce from twins to a singleton. Her husband yielded because she would be the one carrying the pregnancy and would stay at home to raise them. They came up with a compromise. “I asked not to see any of the ultrasounds,” he said. “I didn’t want to have that image, the image of two. I didn’t want to torture myself. And I didn’t go in for the procedure either, because less is more for me.” His wife was relieved that her husband remained in the waiting room; she, too, didn’t want to deal with his feelings.
Torture? Avoidance of dealing with feelings? How lost these people are!
“How do we help make these people less lost?” I wonder, and still struggle with. A part of me feels overwhelming sympathy towards these parents who are so blinded, so self-deluded in their choices. But another part of me is angry. So angry, because their choices — whether selfish, ignorant, or more likely, a combination of both — are killing children. Real children. Right now.
Imagine what will happen to these children, these siblings of aborted brothers and sisters, when they grow up. Most of the parents interviewed in this story say they intend to hide their choice to kill off one of their twins from their friends and family. Shame on them. Abortion has gone on for so long because the victim never has a chance to speak. These children who have survived the abortion of their twin (or twins) have a voice already – ours.
Let’s talk about the reasons given for Coin Toss abortions. The cop-out used by almost all the parents interviewed in this article is that they choose to kill one of their children to provide a better life for the surviving twin. They’ll be able to be better parents, they say, if they have to parent less children. There’s a word to describe this, and it refers to something found at the bottom of bull’s stall.
Because guess what? Life isn’t planned. And if these parents truly believed that the quality of life of their children was dependent purely on their ability to focus on them completely, then instead of daycare for their children they should do what the Romans did – leave them out in the forest to be eaten by wild animals. The only difference between infanticide, and abortion in these cases of “twin reduction”, is when the child is chosen to be killed, not why.
Pro-aborts always try to force pro-lifers to justify not allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest. As Rick Santorum recently demonstrated, pro-lifers have a beautiful response to this attack. The truth is on our side, even in hard cases.
It’s time for pro-lifers to turn the tables. We must force pro-abort zealots to defend twin reduction abortion. To defend Coin Toss abortion. This is what Roe has wrought. It’s time for them to own it. It’s time for us to own it. So that together as a nation, we can disown the destruction of innocent human life.
We can’t afford to let innocent life remain up to chance.
UPDATE: William Saletan at Slate gets so much right when he writes:
… the main problem with reduction [i.e., Coin Toss abortion] is that it breaches a wall at the center of pro-choice psychology. It exposes the equality between the offspring we raise and the offspring we abort.
… Reduction destroys this distinction [between wanted and unwanted babies]. It combines, in a single pregnancy, a wanted and an unwanted fetus. In the case of identical twins, even their genomes are indistinguishable. You can’t pretend that one is precious and the other is just tissue. You’re killing the same creature to which you’re dedicating your life.
… That’s the anguish of reduction: watching the fetus you spared become what its twin will never be. And knowing that the only difference between them was your will.
[Cross-posted at CatholicVote.org] |
Isometric exercises are an effective way to build greater strength and muscle stability, and should be incorporated into a well-rounded strength-building program. While performing isometric exercise, your joints and muscles remain static while they work against something that does not move. You can easily modify common barbell exercises to make them isometric. For the best fitness results, perform isometric exercises at least twice per week on nonconsecutive days.
Build Powerful Biceps
The isometric barbell hold will help to increase your biceps mass and strength. Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Engage your core muscles and maintain a straight back throughout the exercise. Place your hands shoulder-width apart on the barbell, palms facing out, and bend your knees as you pick the barbell up from the floor or rack. Hold the barbell with your arms straight. Throughout the exercise, keep your wrists in line with your forearms. As you exhale, bend your elbows and curl the barbell toward your shoulders holding for three breaths. Lower the bar 30 degrees and hold for three breaths Lower the bar 30 more degrees and hold for three breaths. Lower the bar to 90 degrees with your elbows slightly in front of your hips and hold for three breaths. Lower all the way down, then repeat the exercise.
Tone and Enlarge Your Chest Muscles
The isometric bench pin press helps to develop your pectoral muscles and other supporting muscles including your deltoids, upper back and neck muscles, and your triceps. Set up your bench press with the barbell on the rack. Add a peg above the barbell to restrict how high you can lift. Lie on your back and place your hands on the barbell grips. The barbell should be in line with your nipples. Lift the barbell up and press it against the top peg. Squeeze your shoulder blades together, and continue to press the barbell up against the peg for three to five breaths before lowering.
Sculpt Your Butt and Thighs
The glute bridge with a barbell targets your glutes and quadriceps. Lay on your back, knees bent and heels close to your sitting bones. Your feet should be hip-width apart. Rest the barbell on the tops of your thighs and place your hands on the barbell to stabilize it. As you exhale lift your hips up toward the ceiling, keeping the barbell on your upper thighs. Slide your shoulders under your chest, press down through your feet and press forward through your knees. Stay lifted for three to five breaths, then lower back down.
Get Definition in Your Upper Back
The isometric upper back hold targets your trapezius muscle. Stand with your feet hip-width apart, knees bent and stacked over your ankles and abdominals engaged. Lean forward, keeping your back straight. Start by holding the barbell in this stance with your arms straight and your palms facing you. As you exhale, lift the barbell to your navel and squeeze your upper shoulder blades together. Hold for three to five breaths then lower back down.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
On April 22, 2014, Girl Scouts throughout the eastern half of Kentucky will honor their volunteers on Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day during National Volunteer Week. Our dedicated leaders give of their time on a weekly basis to plan and lead fun, educational Girl Scout troop meetings and field trips. Whether it’s teaching them about health and wellness, taking them on a caving expedition or out to the stables to learn to ride a horse, going to an international fair to experience different cultures, or creating a space rocket out of paper, a film canister and Alka-Seltzer, Girl Scout leaders have creative minds and caring hearts to share with the girls. They dedicate themselves year-round to helping girls grow into confident, resourceful young women.
I have seen first-hand the positive effect of volunteerism in Northern Kentucky and how Girl Scouts and their leaders make a difference in our community every day. For those of you who have a girl in Girl Scouting, take a moment to think about her leader. Think about how at every meeting the leader is there to help your girl experience new challenges and gain new skills for the future. Think about the amount of time the leader devotes to preparing for the meetings while balancing family, work, and other time constraints. Remember your Girl Scout leader with a note of thanks or a personal phone call or greeting. We would like to recognize and thank all of our leaders in Boone, Kenton, Campbell, Grant, Owen, Pendleton, Gallatin, Mason, Bracken, Robertson and Bracken counties.
You truly make a difference in the lives of girls. I encourage more people to follow in your footsteps by volunteering with the Girl Scouts. If you are interested in joining the ranks of these incredible leaders, please contact Rhonda Ritzi, Center Director at firstname.lastname@example.org or by calling 859-342-6263 ext. 15. We are Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council, where we build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Membership Center Director
Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council
2277 Executive Drive, Lexington, KY 40405
800-475-2621 ? www.gskentucky.org ? Facebook GSKWRC |
To tackle systems with UI and realtime determinisitc requirements Toradex and Antmicro have put together a solution based on a Colibri Vybrid VFxx Computer-on-Module (CoM) using Linux and eCos on a multicore ARM processor.
Building systems that combined a front-end user interface with real-time processing has often led to awkward and complex trade-offs in performance, architecture and costs.
To tackle these systems Toradex and Antmicro have put together a solution based on a Colibri Vybrid VFxx Computer-on-Module (CoM). Colibri modules are designed to be optimized for low cost and high performance. These small form factor modules are miniaturized and encapsulate complex CoM hardware and software technology for fast and easy embedded product development the companies said.
The Colibri VFxx is suited for a wide range of applications including HMI in appliances and industrial automation, control of infrastructure and manufacturing equipment, energy conversion applications such as motor drives and power inverters, ruggedized wired and wireless connectivity, and control of mobile battery-operated systems such as robots and industrial vehicles.
The Vybrid VF61 is the latest version featuring:
A dual-core (ARM Cortex-A5 plus ARM Cortex-M4) solution with
1 MB on-chip SRAM, DDR3 memory interface
Dual high-speed USB with PHY
Dual Ethernet with an L2 switch
A digital or analog video camera interface
On the software front, Embedded Linux runs on the Vybrid’s Cortex-A5 core with the open-source eCos realtime operating system (RTOS) running on a Cortex-M4 core. This maybe the first all open source solution for the Vybrid. For developers and manufacturers who have a firm open source requirement this combination will make the Vybrid more accessible. eCos is a free open source real-time operating system suited to a wide-range of embedded applications.
With prices starting at 19 Euro, this solution brings down technical and cost barriers, enabling customers to realize an entirely new generation of products with Embedded Linux, leveraging standard technologies for connectivity, data processing and user interfaces.
The porting work, together with a demo application showing the strengths of the entire software stack was exhibited during Embedded World 2014 and done in partnership between Toradex and Antmicro with the help of the emulation framework Emul8, co-authored by Antmicro.
“With an inexpensive module that is both, versatile and easy to adopt, compromise becomes a things of the past.” said Leigh Gawne, CTO of Toradex.
“A fully open software stack combined with an extremely low price paves the way for adopting Vybrid in areas previously reserved for microcontrollers”, added Michael Gielda, Business Development Manager at Antmicro. |
[Omega/Cinema Props’ C.P. Three, at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Bronson Avenue; via bing maps]
At some point, presumably, continuing to open our commentaries on The Infrastructural City by noting that the chapter of the week — in this case, Robert Sumrell’s “Props” — reads significantly different from the other chapters will ring false. But, once again, it’s the obvious place to begin.
Where each of the previous chapters described an aspect of Los Angeles that is reflected in many other cities — cellular networks, property, ubiquitous landscapes of material extraction, post-natural hydrologies — “Props” circles around an infrastructure, the “prop house”, which is essentially unique to Los Angeles, at least in scale and ubiquity. (One suspects that Mumbai, for instance, might rival Los Angeles in density of prop houses, but that is a similarly exceptional case.)
Noting the uniqueness of the prop house to Los Angeles, though, is rather getting ahead of myself, as I’ve neither described what a prop house is nor explained why it might be considered an infrastructure. Very quickly, a prop house is a warehouse that rents objects to the entertainment industry, but the best way to answer these questions is to quote Sumrell, who, after opening with a very specific anecdote about a single prop house — C.P. Three, pictured above — says:
“…no single prop house can claim anything close to a complete material survey of the world. Instead, a variety of prop houses offer highly specialized and themed fragmented utopias, each catering to different needs and subject matters…
There are no standard methods of operation or organization for prop houses. Some are rigorously organized, others are more haphazard. Nonetheless, all prop houses are logistics centers for the storage and circulation of objects. They allow art directors to compare a variety of similar goods to make selections, place the items on hold until final approvals are determined, let the objects out for an agreed upon rental period, and then retain the objects after the transaction is completed in case they should be required again…
Prop houses and film locations are one of the many networks of entertainment support services essential to the survival of Hollywood. While films can be made in any city, the concentration of camera rental facilities, lighting companies, film stages, agents, entertainment lawyers, trained labor, and celebrity talent that are unique to Los Angeles ensure that the region maintains its dominance. If Hollywood specializes in the production of immaterial culture, prop houses and locations are its largest material substrate in the city, grounding it in a prosaic, if extreme, reality.”
Further separating “Props” from the chapters before it is that while the previous chapters told us a great deal about the construction of Los Angeles — infrastructure as sinew — but “Props” is less interesting for what it tells us about the production of urban fabric (the prop house being a relatively rare and unremarkable component of that fabric, even in Los Angeles) and more for what a peculiar piece of that fabric tells us about ourselves.
“Props” accomplishes this by, in addition to relating a history of these peculiar warehouses, also situating the object housed — the “prop” — within a series of architectures, whose scope expands to explore the general cultural significance of the prop: first the prop house, but also passing through the televised dreamland of the commercial, and into the home (and the self-storage unit), which, Sumrell argues, can be understood as a prop house itself. The commercial is the key intermediary in this cultural process, as it is the valuation of the consumer good in advertising as a “purely symbolic” prop which causes goods taken into the home to perform in the same manner. “Once purchased and taken home, the consumer good has to serve both as the symbolic prop that seduced us on television while also performing the function it was ostensibly purchased to accomplish.”
When consumer goods are seen through this lense — as props which import symbolic value into our homes — the prop house can be understood not merely a fantastically odd iteration of warehouse typology, but also a distilled and concentrated architectural moment representative of the sort of broader cultural trends that The Infrastructural City has repeatedly sought to situate infrastructure within:
“The Protestant ethic of thrift and production that Max Weber observed in American culture is long gone. Instead, we have radical abundance propped up by massive debt. Even though consumption is still rampant, we have passed the point of needing to produce more things as a society. Our homes are still prop houses, filled with useless consumer goods that exist primarily to provide a context that we can react to. Our growing relationship to our objects, or props, is that of a programmer to bits of code. As programmers, we assemble these pieces of code into a context, or language, that builds a program to execute a series of actions. Network systems are the infrastructure on which these programs run and interact. No network is essential, just as no single node is vital — all that matters is movement within the network. What we are left with is a constant circulation of bits, like the elements and molecules in chemistry that create a living ecosystem — it is this constant cycle of change that keeps the system vital.
Prop houses provide a utopia for this condition. Not only do they suggest that our Long Tail desires might one day be valuable, they promise that objects can endlessly circulate in an infrastructural condition, provide context and meaning to produce momentarily perfect settings.” |
With Assange still in Ecuadorean embassy, the country tightens press freedom
A year after Julian Assange sought shelter in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, journalists say a restrictive new media law could make Wikileaks cables illegal to publish in local press.
While Julian Assange remains holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, back in Quito, freedom of expression is high on the agenda. But that's not because of the Wikileak founder's request for asylum. It is instead due to a new controversial media law.
Last week, Ecuador's National Assembly approved a bill that many say will regulate and constrict content of newspapers and broadcasts.
While critics argue the legislation amounts to a clampdown on free speech, government supporters say it is an important step toward achieving balanced reporting.
“Their party is over,” said President Rafael Correa during his weekly radio and TV broadcast after the law's approval. He was referring to the owners of private media, whom he has accused of serving the interest of the country's powerful elites, boycotting his government's attempts at change.
“What are the real objectives of the law? We are not seeking not to have a press, we are seeking to create a good press,” President Correa said.
Governing party congressmen first proposed the communications law in 2009, a year after the approval of a new constitution that mandated the necessity of a new law regulating the media.
Over the past four years, the government did not have a majority in the National Assembly to pass the law. But after last February's election, which gave Correa a third term in power as well as an unprecedented, absolute majority in the legislature, the law was approved in little over an hour.
This represented a victory for Correa, who has made private media a main target in his fight against Ecuador's old political system. He filed several libel suits against private media and at the same time created a large network of state-run media to "balance out" the quality of information.
The bill redistributes frequencies for radio and TV, giving 33 percent to private broadcasters, 33 percent to state media, and 34 percent to community radio stations run mainly by indigenous groups.
The new law updates a media law dating back to 1975, when Ecuador was under a military dictatorship.
“The law is a tool through which Ecuador can start a process to deepen the quality of information, better the professional aspect of journalists, which is positive in a society because it guarantees a democratic coexistence,” said Orlando Perez, director of the state-owned El Telegrafo newspaper, at a recent panel discussion in Quito.
But criticism abounds. Members of the opposition wore gags at the National Assembly, saying the law is trying to silence opposition.
Many journalists are worried, too.
“The law has an excessive eagerness to control and establish norms for the information that media can publish or broadcast. And obviously behind this eagerness there is a political intention to silence independent press,” says Monica Almeida, an editor at El Universo, a private newspaper.
In 2011, Correa filed a libel suit against El Universo after former editor Emilio Palacio wrote a column in which he called the president a "dictator.” The newspaper's three directors and Mr. Palacio were sentenced to three years in jail with fines totaling $40 million.
Correa eventually pardoned the defendants after they were sentenced publicly in a live ceremony, which was translated live in both English and French.
Critics say there are three aspects that particularly worry them about the law.
First, only those who have a degree in journalism will be able to work. Though high professional standards are supported, critics say this could be a barrier in a country where higher education is not very widespread.
Second, “information” is defined with precise words, saying it has to be “verified, opportune, contextualized, and corroborated.” It prohibits “media lynching,” defined as the repeated publication of information that can smear a person's reputation. Some fear this could extend to well-researched reporting on government policies or corruption, interpreting the law broadly.
(Within the context of the new law, satirical programming like The Daily Show would not be able to be broadcast in Ecuador, says Ms. Almeida.)
Finally, the creation of a media watchdog presided by a representative of the president that can impose fines and force media outlets to issue public apologies.
“Giving the government the power to decide whether or not information is ‘truthful’ will open the door to unlawful censorship. This is an especially alarming provision in a country where the president has a track record of using his powers to target critics in the press,” says José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.
“This law is yet another effort by President Correa to go after the independent media,” says Mr. Vivanco.
Ecuador offered Assange asylum and has said it will consider granting asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who disclosed the US National Security Agency surveillance program, as well.
Yet, journalists say that the new law would not allow newspapers to publish information leaked by figures such as Assange or Snowden.
Almeida was part of the team that processed the cables that were disclosed to El Universo newspaper by Wikileaks.
“With this new law, we would not be able to publish the cables. There are at least seven articles that would prevent me from doing so,” Almeida says. |
The Army is studying a potential biofuel-capable power plant at Schofield Barracks.
The public has an opportunity to provide input on alternatives, potential environmental impacts and other issues of concern that should be included in an environmental impact study. Public scoping meetings will be held Feb. 5 at Mililani Mauka Elementary School and Feb. 6 at Wahiawa District Park.
The Army says the proposed plant would be an inland source of renewable energy that benefits Oahu and communities surrounding Schofield.
The plant would provide backup power for Schofield Barracks, Wheeler Army Airfield and Field Station Kunia. Electricity produced from biofuels at the plant will help the Army achieve renewable energy goals.
Air quality, traffic and storm water are among the impacts that will be studied. |
Explore Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Bhopal Around Bhopal Pachmarhi Gwalior Datia Shivpuri Orchha Khajuraho Jabalpur Kanha National Park Bandhavgarh National Park Pench Tiger Reserve Indore Mandu Ujjain Maheshwar Omkareshwar Share Near the Urwahi Gate at the southern entrance to the fort, the sheer sandstone cliffs around the fort harbour some imposing rock-cut Jain sculptures. Carved between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, most of the large honey-coloured figures depict the 24 Jain teacher-saviours – the tirthankaras, or “Crossing Makers” – standing with their arms held stiffly at their sides, or sitting cross-legged, the palms of their hands upturned. Many lost their faces and genitalia when Mughal emperor Babur’s iconoclastic army descended on the city in 1527. The larger of the two main groups lines the southwestern approach to the fort, along the sides of the Urwahi ravine. The largest image, to the side of the road near Urwahi Gate, portrays Adinath, 19m tall, with decorative nipples, a head of tightly curled hair and drooping ears, standing on a lotus bloom beside several smaller statues. A little further from the fort, on the other side of the road, another company of tirthankaras enjoys a more dramatic situation, looking over a natural gorge. All have lost their faces, save a proud trio sheltered by a delicate canopy. The third collection stands on the southeast corner of the plateau, overlooking the city from a narrow ledge. To get here, follow Gwalior Road north along the foot of the cliff from Phool Bagh junction, near the Rani Jhansi memorial, until you see a paved path winding up the hill from behind a row of houses on the left. Once again, the tirthankaras, which are numbered, occupy deep recesses hewn from the rock wall. One of the few not defaced by the Muslim invaders, number 10, is still revered by Gwalior’s small Jain community as a shrine. |
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Speculative Research on Lemurian Timeline
This is a milestone in my personal research. But will still consider it as Speculative. there are still probabilities as Many Worlds Theory, Parallel Dimensions, even Synthetic Universe.
Will call it Ric Vil Hori's Speculative Research on Lemurian Timeline from Paleozoic Era and up to the Present:
The Map of MU/ Lemuria as shown, manifested the legendary supercontinent in contemporary with the Pangaea supercontinent during the Palaeozoic Era more than 250 million years ago and prior to the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event and the Continental Drift. The early inhabitants of Mu/Lemuria were a hermaphroditic race as narrated by the ancient knowledge of the Indigenous B'laan Tribe of Mindanao Island, Philippines and also by the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates as narrated by Plato. Mammalian species evolved only in the later Cenozoic era.
The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event occurred about 250 Million years ago after a complex series of conflicts ensued between Lemurians and another Alien race (said to be Dracos) as narrated by Mindanao's B'laan Tribe and by Socrates, which resulted to genetic splicing of male-female genders, relegation, lowering to denser dimension with the eventual involvement of another force, as narrated by Mindanao's Samal Tribe with its genesis, by ancient Sumerians, and the interplanetary collision as interpreted by Zechariah Sitchin and Immanuel Velikovsky. I highly suggest that the catastrophic formation of the Asteroid Belt may have occurred during this era, which may partly explain the presence of carbonaceous component found in C-Type asteroids manifested during the planet's Carboniferous Period about 360 to 290 million years ago prior to the collision. The catastrophic Extinction event nearly extinguished almost all life during this era, also known as the Great Dying. Surviving Lemurians may have escaped deep underground, with fragments of the Lemurian continent still existing. Other species such as coelacanths, cockroaches, also survived.
The Continental Drift occurred spanning 225 to 65 million years ago and Pangaea gradually transformed into the present day continents to heal the "wound" that destroyed a large portion of the MU supercontinent caused by the collision, through the wonders of gravity by the "Planet's Core Consciousness" similar to how in microcosmic level spherical shaped water behaves in zero gravity. In this light, the Expanding Earth Theory should be refuted.
New species began appearing, which was further enriched by water from priori-Mars after its front surface was bombarded by fragments from the catastrophic collision, as narrated by Mindanao's Manuvu creation mythology and interpreted by Velikovsky (minus his erroneous timeline). The first mammals appeared (and later evolved into apes) during the Triassic Period about 245 to 208 million years ago and flowers began appearing during the Cretaceous Period about 146 to 65 million years ago.
The Cenozoic Era approached about 65 to 1.6 million years ago. The Philippine archipelago began forming through the geological process Subduction (mostly during the Cenozoic -Tertiary/Quaternary Period starting about 65 million years ago). Mindanao Indigenous People's Mythology narrated Human Creation with Addan and Eba who were Created to be MAHARLIKA, meaning Noble, FREE CREATION (Earth Humanity being borne both from Evolution and Creation). Homo sapiens fossilized teeth aged 400,000 years ago were discovered. The remaining fragments of Lemuria sank sometime about 15,000 - 20,000+ years ago in consonance with the galactic wide phenomenon known as the Photon Belt, with sunken remnant of a possible ancient Lemurian city eventually found in Yonaguni, Japan during the 20th Century in the year 1987, also edifices such as the Gunung Padang Pyramid in Indonesia dtaed as much as 20,000 years old or more, Nan Madol in Micronesia, Banaue Rice Terraces in Philippines, the Moai statues of Easter Island, etc. |
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