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0.048671 | <urn:uuid:a2ca4087-cc8d-4b34-a3c9-675be0e86698> | en | 0.956524 | Dell Shareholder Southeastern Repeats Opposition to Buyout
By Drew FitzGerald
Dell Inc.'s (DELL) largest independent shareholder Tuesday accused the company of withholding information from investors in an effort to take the company private, a proposal the shareholder continues to oppose.
Southeastern Asset Management of Memphis, Tenn., repeated its charge that the computer maker placed management's interests above shareholders by backing a leveraged buyout lead by founder Michael Dell that valued the company at $24.4 billion. The fund manager, which holds 8.4% of Dell's common shares, attacked the February proposal shortly after its announcement, calling the bid "grossly" undervalued.
The fund Tuesday criticized Dell for declining to pass cash held overseas to shareholders, as many companies do to avoid incurring higher taxes, noting Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners plan to reverse that stance to fund the buyout.
"A more equitable approach would have returned the cash to all shareholders instead of using it to fund the proposed buyout at the expense of other shareholders," the fund's general counsel said in a letter filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
A Dell spokesman wasn't immediately available for comment.
Longleaf Partners Fund, Southeastern's largest client, also demanded access to shareholder information it could use to contact other investors as it continues to fight the proposal.
Southeastern also criticized Dell for allegedly refusing to comment on the proposed buyout or provide investors with certain segment results from last year. The fund accused Dell's management of reporting more recent results in a way that highlighted the company's declining PC sales to spur a buyout.
Southeastern last month told Dell it opposed the deal "as currently structured," suggesting instead that the company stay public, raise $9 billion of new debt and pay stockholders a $12 per-share dividend partly with cash now held overseas.
Southern Asset Management manages about $34 billion in assets and has a history of shaking up companies after their stock prices fall--most recently Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK).
Dell needs an absolute majority of public shares to approve the deal, not just a majority of those voting, so abstaining votes don't help the buyout proposal.
Dell shares were up four cents at $14.05 early Tuesday, above the buyout team's $13.65 per-share offer.
-Stephen Grocer contributed to this story.
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1. The C-Terminal 42 Residues of the Tula Virus Gn Protein Regulate Interferon Induction▿
Journal of Virology 2011;85(10):4752-4760.
Hantaviruses primarily infect the endothelial cell lining of capillaries and cause two vascular permeability-based diseases. The ability of pathogenic hantaviruses to regulate the early induction of interferon determines whether hantaviruses replicate in endothelial cells. Tula virus (TULV) and Prospect Hill virus (PHV) are hantaviruses which infect human endothelial cells but fail to cause human disease. PHV is unable to inhibit early interferon (IFN) responses and fails to replicate within human endothelial cells. However, TULV replicates successfully in human endothelial cells, suggesting that TULV is capable of regulating cellular IFN responses. We observed a >300-fold reduction in the IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) MxA and ISG56 following TULV versus PHV infection of endothelial cells 1 day postinfection. Similar to results with pathogenic hantaviruses, expressing the TULV Gn protein cytoplasmic tail (Gn-T) blocked RIG-I- and TBK1-directed transcription from IFN-stimulated response elements (ISREs) and IFN-β promoters (>90%) but not transcription directed by constitutively active IFN regulatory factor-3 (IRF3). In contrast, expressing the PHV Gn-T had no effect on TBK1-induced transcriptional responses. Analysis of Gn-T truncations demonstrated that the C-terminal 42 residues of the Gn-T (Gn-T-C42) from TULV, but not PHV, inhibited IFN induction >70%. These findings demonstrate that the TULV Gn-T inhibits IFN- and ISRE-directed responses upstream of IRF3 at the level of the TBK1 complex and further define a 42-residue domain of the TULV Gn-T that inhibits IFN induction. In contrast to pathogenic hantavirus Gn-Ts, the TULV Gn-T lacks a C-terminal degron domain and failed to bind tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor-associated factor 3 (TRAF3), a TBK1 complex component required for IRF3 activation. These findings indicate that the nonpathogenic TULV Gn-T regulates IFN induction but accomplishes this via unique interactions with cellular TBK1 complexes. These findings fundamentally distinguish nonpathogenic hantaviruses, PHV and TULV, and demonstrate that IFN regulation alone is insufficient for hantaviruses to cause disease. Yet regulating the early IFN response is necessary for hantaviruses to replicate within human endothelial cells and to be pathogenic. Thus, in addition to IFN regulation, hantaviruses contain discrete virulence determinants which permit them to be human pathogens.
PMCID: PMC3126157 PMID: 21367904
2. The Pathogenic NY-1 Hantavirus G1 Cytoplasmic Tail Inhibits RIG-I- and TBK-1-Directed Interferon Responses
Journal of Virology 2006;80(19):9676-9686.
Hantaviruses cause two diseases with prominent vascular permeability defects, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. All hantaviruses infect human endothelial cells, although it is unclear what differentiates pathogenic from nonpathogenic hantaviruses. We observed dramatic differences in interferon-specific transcriptional responses between pathogenic and nonpathogenic hantaviruses at 1 day postinfection, suggesting that hantavirus pathogenesis may in part be determined by viral regulation of cellular interferon responses. In contrast to pathogenic NY-1 virus (NY-1V) and Hantaan virus (HTNV), nonpathogenic Prospect Hill virus (PHV) elicits early interferon responses following infection of human endothelial cells. We determined that PHV replication is blocked in human endothelial cells and that RNA and protein synthesis by PHV, but not NY-1V or HTNV, is inhibited at 2 to 4 days postinfection. The addition of antibodies to beta interferon (IFN-β) blocked interferon-directed MxA induction by >90% and demonstrated that hantavirus infection induces the secretion of IFN-β from endothelial cells. Coinfecting endothelial cells with NY-1V and PHV resulted in a 60% decrease in the induction of interferon-responsive MxA transcripts by PHV and further suggested the potential for NY-1V to regulate early IFN responses. Expression of the NY-1V G1 cytoplasmic tail inhibited by >90% RIG-I- and downstream TBK-1-directed transcription from interferon-stimulated response elements or β-interferon promoters in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, expression of the NY-1V nucleocapsid or PHV G1 tail had no effect on RIG-I- or TBK-1-directed transcriptional responses. Further, neither the NY-1V nor PHV G1 tails inhibited transcriptional responses directed by a constitutively active form of interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF-3 5D), and IRF-3 is a direct target of TBK-1 phosphorylation. These findings indicate that the pathogenic NY-1V G1 protein regulates cellular IFN responses upstream of IRF-3 phosphorylation at the level of the TBK-1 complex. These findings further suggest that the G1 cytoplasmic tail contains a virulence element which determines the ability of hantaviruses to bypass innate cellular immune responses and delineates a mechanism for pathogenic hantaviruses to successfully replicate within human endothelial cells.
PMCID: PMC1617216 PMID: 16973572
3. Andes and Prospect Hill Hantaviruses Differ in Early Induction of Interferon although Both Can Downregulate Interferon Signaling▿
Journal of Virology 2007;81(6):2769-2776.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a severe respiratory disease which is thought to result from a dysregulated immune response to infection with pathogenic hantaviruses, such as Sin Nombre virus or Andes virus (ANDV). Other New World hantaviruses, such as Prospect Hill virus (PHV), have not been associated with human disease. Activation of an antiviral state and cell signaling in response to hantavirus infection were examined using human primary lung endothelial cells, the main target cell infected in HPS patients. PHV, but not ANDV, was found to induce a robust beta interferon (IFN-β) response early after infection of primary lung endothelial cells. The level of IFN induction correlated with IFN regulatory factor 3 (IRF-3) activation, in that IRF-3 dimerization and nuclear translocation were detected in PHV but not ANDV infection. In addition, phosphorylated Stat-1/2 levels were significantly lower in the ANDV-infected cells relative to PHV. Presumably, this reflects the lower level of IRF-3 activation and initial IFN induced by ANDV relative to PHV. To determine whether, in addition, ANDV interference with IFN signaling also contributed to the low Stat-1/2 activation seen in ANDV infection, the levels of exogenous IFN-β-induced Stat-1/2 activation detectable in uninfected versus ANDV- or PHV-infected Vero-E6 cells were examined. Surprisingly, both viruses were found to downregulate IFN-induced Stat-1/2 activation. Analysis of cells transiently expressing only ANDV or PHV glycoproteins implicated these proteins in this downregulation. In conclusion, while both viruses can interfere with IFN signaling, there is a major difference in the initial interferon induction via IRF-3 activation between ANDV and PHV in infected primary endothelial cells, and this correlates with the reported differences in pathogenicity of these viruses.
PMCID: PMC1866013 PMID: 17202220
4. The NY-1 Hantavirus Gn Cytoplasmic Tail Coprecipitates TRAF3 and Inhibits Cellular Interferon Responses by Disrupting TBK1-TRAF3 Complex Formation▿
Journal of Virology 2008;82(18):9115-9122.
Pathogenic hantaviruses replicate within human endothelial cells and cause two diseases, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. In order to replicate in endothelial cells pathogenic hantaviruses inhibit the early induction of beta interferon (IFN-β). Expression of the cytoplasmic tail of the pathogenic NY-1 hantavirus Gn protein is sufficient to inhibit RIG-I- and TBK1-directed IFN responses. The formation of TBK1-TRAF3 complexes directs IRF-3 phosphorylation, and both IRF-3 and NF-κB activation are required for transcription from the IFN-β promoter. Here we report that the NY-1 virus (NY-1V) Gn tail inhibits both TBK1-directed NF-κB activation and TBK1-directed transcription from promoters containing IFN-stimulated response elements. The NY-1V Gn tail coprecipitated TRAF3 from cellular lysates, and analysis of TRAF3 deletion mutants demonstrated that the TRAF3 N terminus is sufficient for interacting with the NY-1V Gn tail. In contrast, the Gn tail of the nonpathogenic hantavirus Prospect Hill virus (PHV) failed to coprecipitate TRAF3 or inhibit NF-κB or IFN-β transcriptional responses. Further, expression of the NY-1V Gn tail blocked TBK1 coprecipitation of TRAF3 and infection by NY-1V, but not PHV, blocked the formation of TBK1-TRAF3 complexes. These findings indicate that the NY-1V Gn cytoplasmic tail forms a complex with TRAF3 which disrupts the formation of TBK1-TRAF3 complexes and downstream signaling responses required for IFN-β transcription.
PMCID: PMC2546897 PMID: 18614628
5. Differential Antiviral Response of Endothelial Cells after Infection with Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Hantaviruses
Journal of Virology 2004;78(12):6143-6150.
Hantaviruses represent important human pathogens and can induce hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), which is characterized by endothelial dysfunction. Both pathogenic and nonpathogenic hantaviruses replicate without causing any apparent cytopathic effect, suggesting that immunopathological mechanisms play an important role in pathogenesis. We compared the antiviral responses triggered by Hantaan virus (HTNV), a pathogenic hantavirus associated with HFRS, and Tula virus (TULV), a rather nonpathogenic hantavirus, in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Both HTNV- and TULV-infected cells showed increased levels of molecules involved in antigen presentation. However, TULV-infected HUVECs upregulated HLA class I molecules more rapidly. Interestingly, HTNV clearly induced the production of beta interferon (IFN-β), whereas expression of this cytokine was barely detectable in the supernatant or in extracts from TULV-infected HUVECs. Nevertheless, the upregulation of HLA class I on both TULV- and HTNV-infected cells could be blocked by neutralizing anti-IFN-β antibodies. Most strikingly, the antiviral MxA protein, which interferes with hantavirus replication, was already induced 16 h after infection with TULV. In contrast, HTNV-infected HUVECs showed no expression of MxA until 48 h postinfection. In accordance with the kinetics of MxA expression, TULV replicated only inefficiently in HUVECs, whereas HTNV-infected cells produced high titers of virus particles that decreased after 48 h postinfection. Both hantavirus species, however, could replicate equally well in Vero E6 cells, which lack an IFN-induced MxA response. Thus, delayed induction of antiviral MxA in endothelial cells after infection with HTNV could allow viral dissemination and contribute to the pathogenesis leading to HFRS.
PMCID: PMC416501 PMID: 15163707
6. New World Hantaviruses Activate IFNλ Production in Type I IFN-Deficient Vero E6 Cells
PLoS ONE 2010;5(6):e11159.
Hantaviruses indigenous to the New World are the etiologic agents of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). These viruses induce a strong interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) response in human endothelial cells. African green monkey-derived Vero E6 cells are used to propagate hantaviruses as well as many other viruses. The utility of the Vero E6 cell line for virus production is thought to owe to their lack of genes encoding type I interferons (IFN), rendering them unable to mount an efficient innate immune response to virus infection. Interferon λ, a more recently characterized type III IFN, is transcriptionally controlled much like the type I IFNs, and activates the innate immune system in a similar manner.
Methodology/Principal Findings
We show that Vero E6 cells respond to hantavirus infection by secreting abundant IFNλ. Three New World hantaviruses were similarly able to induce IFNλ expression in this cell line. The IFNλ contained within virus preparations generated with Vero E6 cells independently activates ISGs when used to infect several non-endothelial cell lines, whereas innate immune responses by endothelial cells are specifically due to viral infection. We show further that Sin Nombre virus replicates to high titer in human hepatoma cells (Huh7) without inducing ISGs.
Herein we report that Vero E6 cells respond to viral infection with a highly active antiviral response, including secretion of abundant IFNλ. This cytokine is biologically active, and when contained within viral preparations and presented to human epithelioid cell lines, results in the robust activation of innate immune responses. We also show that both Huh7 and A549 cell lines do not respond to hantavirus infection, confirming that the cytoplasmic RNA helicase pathways possessed by these cells are not involved in hantavirus recognition. We demonstrate that Vero E6 actively respond to virus infection and inhibiting IFNλ production in these cells might increase their utility for virus propagation.
PMCID: PMC2887373 PMID: 20567522
7. Induction of Innate Immune Response Genes by Sin Nombre Hantavirus Does Not Require Viral Replication
Journal of Virology 2005;79(24):15007-15015.
Maladaptive immune responses are considered to be important factors in the pathogenesis of the two diseases caused by hantaviruses, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). While the intensity of adaptive antiviral T-cell responses seems to correlate with the severity of HCPS, there is increasing evidence that innate antiviral responses by endothelial cells, the native targets for hantavirus infection in vivo, are induced within hours of exposure to infectious hantaviruses. To investigate early events in the innate response to Sin Nombre virus (SNV), the principal etiologic agent of HCPS in North America, we treated human endothelial cells with live virus, or virus subjected to inactivation by UV irradiation at minimal doses required to inhibit replication, and assayed host expression of interferon-stimulated genes (ISG) by microarray and reverse transcription-PCR. We show herein that a variety of ISG are induced between 4 and 24 h after exposure to both live and killed virus. The levels of such induction at early time points (before 24 h) were generally higher in cells treated with SNV particles that had been killed by exposure to UV irradiation. Additionally, SNV exposed to increasing doses of UV irradiation induced ISG better than live virus despite increased disruption of viral RNA integrity. However, SNV replication was required for continued ISG overexpression by 3 days posttreatment. These results suggest that hantavirus particles may themselves be capable of early induction of ISG and that ongoing production of viral particles during infection could contribute to the pathogenic process.
PMCID: PMC1316025 PMID: 16306571
8. Alpha/Beta Interferon (IFN-α/β)-Independent Induction of IFN-λ1 (Interleukin-29) in Response to Hantaan Virus Infection▿
Journal of Virology 2010;84(18):9140-9148.
Type III interferons ([IFNs]IFN-λ and interleukin-28 and -29 [IL-28/29]) are recently recognized cytokines with innate antiviral effects similar to those of type I IFNs (IFN-α/β). Like IFN-α/β, IFN-λ-expression can be induced by viruses, and it is believed that type I and III IFNs are regulated in the same manner. Hantaviruses are weak IFN-α/β inducers and have surprisingly been shown to activate IFN-α/β-independent IFN-stimulated gene (ISG) expression. Here, we show that in Hantaan virus (HTNV)-infected human epithelial A549 cells, induction of IFN-λ1 preceded induction of MxA and IFN-β by 12 and 24 h, respectively, and IFN-α was not induced at all. Furthermore, induction of IFN-λ1 and MxA was observed in HTNV-infected African green monkey epithelial Vero E6 cells, a cell line that cannot produce type I IFNs, clearly showing that HTNV can induce IFN-λ1 and ISGs in the complete absence of IFN-α/β. In HTNV-infected human fibroblast MRC-5 cells, which lack the IFN-λ receptor, induction of MxA coincided in time with IFN-β-induction. UV-inactivated HTNV did not induce any IFNs or MxA in any cell line, showing that activation of IFN-λ1 is dependent on replicating virus. Induction of both IFN-β and IFN-λ1 in A549 cells after poly(I:C)-stimulation was strongly inhibited in HTNV-infected cells, suggesting that HTNV can inhibit signaling pathways used to simultaneously activate types I and III IFNs. In conclusion, we show that HTNV can cause type I IFN-independent IFN-λ1 induction and IFN-λ1-specific ISG induction. Importantly, the results suggest the existence of specific signaling pathways that induce IFN-λ1 without simultaneous type I IFN induction during virus infection.
PMCID: PMC2937636 PMID: 20592090
9. Lambda Interferon (IFN-λ) in Serum Is Decreased in Hantavirus-Infected Patients, and In Vitro-Established Infection Is Insensitive to Treatment with All IFNs and Inhibits IFN-γ-Induced Nitric Oxide Production▿
Journal of Virology 2007;81(16):8685-8691.
Hantaviruses, causing hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), are known to be sensitive to nitric oxide (NO) and to pretreatment with type I and II interferons (alpha interferon [IFN-α]/IFN-β and IFN-γ, respectively). Elevated serum levels of NO and IFN-γ have been observed in HFRS patients, but little is known regarding the systemic levels of other IFNs and the possible effects of hantaviruses on innate antiviral immune responses. In Puumala virus-infected HFRS patients (n = 18), we report that the levels of IFN-α and IFN-β are similar, whereas the level of IFN-λ (type III IFN) is significantly decreased, during acute (day of hospitalization) compared to the convalescent phase. The possible antiviral effects of IFN-λ on the prototypic hantavirus Hantaan virus (HTNV) replication was then investigated. Pretreatment of A549 cells with IFN-λ alone inhibited HTNV replication, and IFN-λ combined with IFN-γ induced additive antiviral effects. We then studied the effect of postinfection treatment with IFNs. Interestingly, an already-established HTNV infection was insensitive to subsequent IFN-α, -β, -γ, and -λ stimulation, and HTNV-infected cells produced less NO compared to noninfected cells when stimulated with IFN-γ and IL-1β. Furthermore, less phosphorylated STAT1 after IFN treatment was observed in the nuclei of infected cells than in those of noninfected cells. The results suggest that hantavirus can interfere with the activation of antiviral innate immune responses in patients and inhibit the antiviral effects of all IFNs. We believe that future studies addressing the mechanisms by which hantaviruses interfere with the activation and shaping of immune responses may bring more knowledge regarding HFRS and HCPS pathogenesis.
PMCID: PMC1951347 PMID: 17522204
10. Antagonism of Type I Interferon Responses by New World Hantaviruses▿
Journal of Virology 2010;84(22):11790-11801.
Evasion of interferon (IFN)-mediated antiviral signaling is a common defense strategy for pathogenic RNA viruses. To date, research on IFN antagonism by hantaviruses is limited and has focused on only a subset of the numerous recognized hantavirus species. The host IFN response has two phases, an initiation phase, resulting in the induction of alpha/beta IFN (IFN-α/β), and an amplification phase, whereby IFN-α/β signals through the Jak/STAT pathway, resulting in the establishment of the cellular antiviral state. We examined interactions between these critical host responses and the New World hantaviruses. We observed delayed cellular responses in both Andes virus (ANDV)- and Sin Nombre virus (SNV)-infected A549 and Huh7-TLR3 cells. We found that IFN-β induction is inhibited by coexpression of ANDV nucleocapsid protein (NP) and glycoprotein precursor (GPC) and is robustly inhibited by SNV GPC alone. Downstream amplification by Jak/STAT signaling is also inhibited by SNV GPC and by either NP or GPC of ANDV. Therefore, ANDV- and SNV-encoded proteins have the potential for inhibiting both IFN-β induction and signaling, with SNV exhibiting the more potent antagonism ability. Herein we identify ANDV NP, a previously unrecognized inhibitor of Jak/STAT signaling, and show that IFN antagonism by ANDV relies on expression of both the glycoproteins and NP, whereas the glycoproteins appear to be sufficient for antagonism by SNV. These data suggest that IFN antagonism strategies by hantaviruses are quite variable, even between species with similar disease phenotypes, and may help to better elucidate species-specific pathogenesis.
PMCID: PMC2977899 PMID: 20844031
11. In Vitro and In Vivo Activity of Ribavirin against Andes Virus Infection
PLoS ONE 2011;6(8):e23560.
PMCID: PMC3154477 PMID: 21853152
12. Andes Virus Infection of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Giant Cell and Enhanced Permeability Responses That Are Rapamycin and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor C Sensitive
Journal of Virology 2012;86(16):8765-8772.
Hantaviruses primarily infect endothelial cells (ECs) and nonlytically cause vascular changes that result in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Acute pulmonary edema during HPS may be caused by capillary leakage and failure of lymphatic vessels to clear fluids. Uniquely regulated lymphatic ECs (LECs) control fluid clearance, although roles for lymphatics in hantavirus disease remain undetermined. Here we report that hantaviruses productively infect LECs and that LEC infection by HPS causing Andes virus (ANDV) and HFRS causing Hantaan virus (HTNV) are inhibited by αvβ3 integrin antibodies. Although αvβ3 integrins regulate permeabilizing responses directed by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2), we found that only ANDV-infected LECs were hyperpermeabilized by the addition of VEGF-A. However, VEGF-C activation of LEC-specific VEGFR3 receptors blocked ANDV- and VEGF-A-induced LEC permeability. In addition, ∼75% of ANDV-infected LECs became viable mononuclear giant cells, >4 times larger than normal, in response to VEGF-A. Giant cells are associated with constitutive mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) activation, and we found that both giant LECs and LEC permeability were sensitive to rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, and VEGF-C addition. These findings indicate that ANDV uniquely alters VEGFR2-mTOR signaling responses of LECs, resulting in giant cell and LEC permeability responses. This suggests that ANDV infection alters normal LEC and lymphatic vessel functions which may contribute to edematous fluid accumulation during HPS. Moreover, the ability of VEGF-C and rapamycin to normalize LEC responses suggests a potential therapeutic approach for reducing pulmonary edema and the severity of HPS following ANDV infection.
PMCID: PMC3421700 PMID: 22696643
13. Varicella-Zoster Virus Immediate-Early Protein 62 Blocks Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 (IRF3) Phosphorylation at Key Serine Residues: a Novel Mechanism of IRF3 Inhibition among Herpesviruses▿
Journal of Virology 2010;84(18):9240-9253.
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is an alphaherpesvirus that is restricted to humans. VZV infection of differentiated cells within the host and establishment of latency likely require evasion of innate immunity and limited secretion of antiviral cytokines. Since interferons (IFNs) severely limit VZV replication, we examined the ability of VZV to modulate the induction of the type I IFN response in primary human embryonic lung fibroblasts (HELF). IFN-β production was not detected, and transcription of two interferon response factor 3 (IRF3)-dependent interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs), ISG54 and ISG56, in response to poly(I:C) stimulation was downregulated in VZV-infected HELF. Inhibition of IRF3 function did not require VZV replication; the viral immediate-early protein 62 (IE62) alone was sufficient to produce this effect. IE62 blocked TBK1-mediated IFN-β secretion and IRF3 function, as shown in an IFN-stimulated response element (ISRE)-luciferase reporter assay. However, IRF3 function was preserved if constitutively active IRF3 (IRF3-5D) was expressed in VZV-infected or IE62-transfected cells, indicating that VZV interferes with IRF3 phosphorylation. IE62-mediated inhibition was mapped to blocking phosphorylation of at least three serine residues on IRF3. However, IE62 binding to TBK1 or IRF3 was not detected and IE62 did not perturb TBK1-IRF3 complex formation. IE62-mediated inhibition of IRF3 function was maintained even if IE62 transactivator activity was disrupted. Thus, IE62 has two critical but discrete roles following VZV entry: to induce expression of VZV genes and to disarm the IFN-dependent antiviral defense through a novel mechanism that prevents IRF3 phosphorylation.
PMCID: PMC2937611 PMID: 20631144
Journal of Virology 2010;84(14):7405-7411.
Hantaviruses infect endothelial cells and cause 2 vascular permeability-based diseases. Pathogenic hantaviruses enhance the permeability of endothelial cells in response to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). However, the mechanism by which hantaviruses hyperpermeabilize endothelial cells has not been defined. The paracellular permeability of endothelial cells is uniquely determined by the homophilic assembly of vascular endothelial cadherin (VE-cadherin) within adherens junctions, which is regulated by VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR2) responses. Here, we investigated VEGFR2 phosphorylation and the internalization of VE-cadherin within endothelial cells infected by pathogenic Andes virus (ANDV) and Hantaan virus (HTNV) and nonpathogenic Tula virus (TULV) hantaviruses. We found that VEGF addition to ANDV- and HTNV-infected endothelial cells results in the hyperphosphorylation of VEGFR2, while TULV infection failed to increase VEGFR2 phosphorylation. Concomitant with the VEGFR2 hyperphosphorylation, VE-cadherin was internalized to intracellular vesicles within ANDV- or HTNV-, but not TULV-, infected endothelial cells. Addition of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) or sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) to ANDV- or HTNV-infected cells blocked VE-cadherin internalization in response to VEGF. These findings are consistent with the ability of Ang-1 and S1P to inhibit hantavirus-induced endothelial cell permeability. Our results suggest that pathogenic hantaviruses disrupt fluid barrier properties of endothelial cell adherens junctions by enhancing VEGFR2-VE-cadherin pathway responses which increase paracellular permeability. These results provide a pathway-specific mechanism for the enhanced permeability of hantavirus-infected endothelial cells and suggest that stabilizing VE-cadherin within adherens junctions is a primary target for regulating endothelial cell permeability during pathogenic hantavirus infection.
PMCID: PMC2898267 PMID: 20463083
15. Hantavirus-infection Confers Resistance to Cytotoxic Lymphocyte-Mediated Apoptosis
PLoS Pathogens 2013;9(3):e1003272.
Hantaviruses cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardio-pulmonary syndrome (HCPS; also called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)), both human diseases with high case-fatality rates. Endothelial cells are the main targets for hantaviruses. An intriguing observation in patients with HFRS and HCPS is that on one hand the virus infection leads to strong activation of CD8 T cells and NK cells, on the other hand no obvious destruction of infected endothelial cells is observed. Here, we provide an explanation for this dichotomy by showing that hantavirus-infected endothelial cells are protected from cytotoxic lymphocyte-mediated induction of apoptosis. When dissecting potential mechanisms behind this phenomenon, we discovered that the hantavirus nucleocapsid protein inhibits the enzymatic activity of both granzyme B and caspase 3. This provides a tentative explanation for the hantavirus-mediated block of cytotoxic granule-mediated apoptosis-induction, and hence the protection of infected cells from cytotoxic lymphocytes. These findings may explain why infected endothelial cells in hantavirus-infected patients are not destroyed by the strong cytotoxic lymphocyte response.
Author Summary
Rodent-born hantaviruses cause two severe emerging diseases with high case-fatality rates in humans; hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia and hantavirus cardio-pulmonary syndrome (HCPS; also called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)) in the Americas. A hallmark of HFRS/HCPS is increased vascular permeability. While endothelial cells are the main targets for hantaviruses, infection per se is not lytic. Patients suffering from HFRS and HCPS show remarkable strong cytotoxic lymphocyte responses including high numbers of activated NK cells and antigen-specific CD8 T cells. Hence, it has been suggested that cytotoxic lymphocyte-mediated killing of hantavirus-infected endothelial cells might contribute to HFRS/HCPS-pathogenesis. Here, we show that hantaviruses protect infected endothelial cells from being killed by cytotoxic lymphocytes. Further, we also show that hantaviruses inhibit apoptosis in general. Hantaviruses are negative-stranded RNA viruses encoding four structural proteins. Interestingly, the nucleocapsid protein was shown to inhibit the enzymatic functions of both granzyme B and caspase 3, two enzymes crucial for cytotoxic lymphocyte-mediated killing of virus-infected cells. Our study provides new insights into the interactions between hantaviruses, infected cells, and cytotoxic lymphocytes, and argues against a role for cytotoxic lymphocyte-mediated killing of virus-infected endothelial cells in causing HFRS/HCPS.
PMCID: PMC3610645 PMID: 23555267
16. VEGFR2 and Src Kinase Inhibitors Suppress Andes Virus-Induced Endothelial Cell Permeability ▿
Journal of Virology 2010;85(5):2296-2303.
Hantaviruses predominantly infect human endothelial cells and, in the absence of cell lysis, cause two diseases resulting from increased vascular permeability. Andes virus (ANDV) causes a highly lethal acute pulmonary edema termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). ANDV infection enhances the permeability of endothelial cells in response to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) by increasing signaling responses directed by the VEGFR2-Src-VE-cadherin pathway, which directs adherens junction (AJ) disassembly. Here we demonstrate that inhibiting pathway-specific VEGFR2 and Src family kinases (SFKs) blocks ANDV-induced endothelial cell permeability. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of Src within ANDV-infected endothelial cells resulted in an ∼70% decrease in endothelial cell permeability compared to that for siRNA controls. This finding suggested that existing FDA-approved small-molecule kinase inhibitors might similarly block ANDV-induced permeability. The VEGFR2 kinase inhibitor pazopanib as well as SFK inhibitors dasatinib, PP1, bosutinib, and Src inhibitor 1 dramatically inhibited ANDV-induced endothelial cell permeability. Consistent with their kinase-inhibitory concentrations, dasatinib, PP1, and pazopanib inhibited ANDV-induced permeability at 1, 10, and 100 nanomolar 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC50s), respectively. We further demonstrated that dasatinib and pazopanib blocked VE-cadherin dissociation from the AJs of ANDV-infected endothelial cells by >90%. These findings indicate that VEGFR2 and Src kinases are potential targets for therapeutically reducing ANDV-induced endothelial cell permeability and, as a result, capillary permeability during HPS. Since the functions of VEGFR2 and SFK inhibitors are already well defined and FDA approved for clinical use, these findings rationalize their therapeutic evaluation for efficacy in reducing HPS disease. Endothelial cell barrier functions are disrupted by a number of viruses that cause hemorrhagic, edematous, or neurologic disease, and as a result, our findings suggest that VEGFR2 and SFK inhibitors should be considered for regulating endothelial cell barrier functions altered by additional viral pathogens.
PMCID: PMC3067787 PMID: 21177802
Virology Journal 2008;5:3.
PMCID: PMC2253529 PMID: 18190677
18. TRAF6 and IRF7 Control HIV Replication in Macrophages
PLoS ONE 2011;6(11):e28125.
The innate immune system recognizes virus infection and evokes antiviral responses which include producing type I interferons (IFNs). The induction of IFN provides a crucial mechanism of antiviral defense by upregulating interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) that restrict viral replication. ISGs inhibit the replication of many viruses by acting at different steps of their viral cycle. Specifically, IFN treatment prior to in vitro human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection stops or significantly delays HIV-1 production indicating that potent inhibitory factors are generated. We report that HIV-1 infection of primary human macrophages decreases tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) and virus-induced signaling adaptor (VISA) expression, which are both components of the IFN signaling pathway controlling viral replication. Knocking down the expression of TRAF6 in macrophages increased HIV-1 replication and augmented the expression of IRF7 but not IRF3. Suppressing VISA had no impact on viral replication. Overexpression of IRF7 resulted in enhanced viral replication while knocking down IRF7 expression in macrophages significantly reduced viral output. These findings are the first demonstration that TRAF6 can regulate HIV-1 production and furthermore that expression of IRF7 promotes HIV-1 replication.
PMCID: PMC3225375 PMID: 22140520
19. Cellular Entry of Hantaviruses Which Cause Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Is Mediated by β3 Integrins
Journal of Virology 1999;73(5):3951-3959.
Hantaviruses replicate primarily in the vascular endothelium and cause two human diseases, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). In this report, we demonstrate that the cellular entry of HFRS-associated hantaviruses is facilitated by specific integrins expressed on platelets, endothelial cells, and macrophages. Infection of human umbilical vein endothelial cells and Vero E6 cells by the HFRS-causing hantaviruses Hantaan (HTN), Seoul (SEO), and Puumala (PUU) is inhibited by antibodies to αvβ3 integrins and by the integrin ligand vitronectin. The cellular entry of HTN, SEO, and PUU viruses, but not the nonpathogenic Prospect Hill (PH) hantavirus (i.e., a virus with no associated human disease), was also mediated by introducting recombinant αIIbβ3 or αvβ3 integrins into β3-integrin-deficient CHO cells. In addition, PH infectivity was not inhibited by αvβ3-specific sera or vitronectin but was blocked by α5β1-specific sera and the integrin ligand fibronectin. RGD tripeptides, which are required for many integrin-ligand interactions, are absent from all hantavirus G1 and G2 surface glycoproteins, and GRGDSP peptides did not inhibit hantavirus infectivity. Further, a mouse-human hybrid β3 integrin-specific Fab fragment, c7E3 (ReoPro), also inhibited the infectivity of HTN, SEO, and PUU as well as HPS-associated hantaviruses, Sin Nombre (SN) and New York-1 (NY-1). These findings indicate that pathogenic HPS- and HFRS-causing hantaviruses enter cells via β3 integrins, which are present on the surfaces of platelets, endothelial cells, and macrophages. Since β3 integrins regulate vascular permeability and platelet function, these findings also correlate β3 integrin usage with common elements of hantavirus pathogenesis.
PMCID: PMC104173 PMID: 10196290
20. Antiviral Properties of ISG15
Viruses 2010;2(10):2154-2168.
PMCID: PMC3185569 PMID: 21994614
ISG15; interferon; antiviral; ubiquitin-like molecule
21. Trex1 regulates lysosomal biogenesis and interferon-independent activation of antiviral genes
Nature immunology 2012;14(1):61-71.
Innate immune sensing of viral nucleic acids triggers type I interferon (IFN) production, which activates interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) and directs a multifaceted antiviral response. ISGs can also be activated through IFN-independent pathways, although the precise mechanisms remain elusive. Here we found that the cytosolic exonuclease Trex1 regulates the activation of a subset of ISGs independently of IFN. Both Trex1−/− mouse and TREX1-mutant human cells express high levels of antiviral genes and are refractory to viral infections. The IFN-independent activation of antiviral genes in Trex1−/− cells requires STING, TBK1 and IRF3 and IRF7. We also found that Trex1-deficient cells display expanded lysosomal compartment, altered subcellular localization of the transcription factor EB (TFEB), and reduced mTORC1 activity. Together, our data identify Trex1 as a regulator of lysosomal biogenesis and IFN-independent activation of antiviral genes, and shows dysregulation of lysosomes can elicit innate immune responses.
PMCID: PMC3522772 PMID: 23160154
22. Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay for the Simultaneous Detection of Antibodies against Clinically Important Old and New World Hantaviruses
In order to detect serum antibodies against clinically important Old and New World hantaviruses simultaneously, multiparametric indirect immunofluorescence assays (IFAs) based on biochip mosaics were developed. Each of the mosaic substrates consisted of cells infected with one of the virus types Hantaan (HTNV), Puumala (PUUV), Seoul (SEOV), Saaremaa (SAAV), Dobrava (DOBV), Sin Nombre (SNV) or Andes (ANDV). For assay evaluation, serum IgG and IgM antibodies were analyzed using 184 laboratory-confirmed hantavirus-positive sera collected at six diagnostic centers from patients actively or previously infected with the following hantavirus serotypes: PUUV (Finland, n = 97); SEOV (China, n = 5); DOBV (Romania, n = 7); SNV (Canada, n = 23); ANDV (Argentina and Chile, n = 52). The control panel comprised 89 sera from healthy blood donors. According to the reference tests, all 184 patient samples were seropositive for hantavirus-specific IgG (n = 177; 96%) and/or IgM (n = 131; 72%), while all control samples were tested negative. In the multiparametric IFA applied in this study, 183 (99%) of the patient sera were IgG and 131 (71%) IgM positive (accordance with the reference tests: IgG, 96%; IgM, 93%). Overall IFA sensitivity for combined IgG and IgM analysis amounted to 100% for all serotypes, except for SNV (96%). Of the 89 control sera, 2 (2%) showed IgG reactivity against the HTNV substrate, but not against any other hantavirus. Due to the high cross-reactivity of hantaviral nucleocapsid proteins, endpoint titrations were conducted, allowing serotype determination in >90% of PUUV- and ANDV-infected patients. Thus, multiparametric IFA enables highly sensitive and specific serological diagnosis of hantavirus infections and can be used to differentiate PUUV and ANDV infection from infections with Murinae-borne hantaviruses (e.g. DOBV and SEOV).
Author Summary
Hantaviruses are the causative agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) — serious emerging diseases, with case-fatality rates of up to 15% and about 35%, respectively. So far, over 21 human pathogenic serotypes have been described, which are classified into New World (circulating in the Americas) and Old World (Asia and Europe) hantaviruses. The prodromal phase of hantavirus infections — fever, myalgia, headache and gastrointestinal symptoms — is indistinguishable from those of many other viral infections. The cardiopulmonary phase of HFRS and diuretic phase of HFRS mimic the acute respiratory distress syndrome and renal failure, respectively. In this context, clinical diagnosis has to be confirmed by laboratory testing, which is predominantly based on serology. Although there is an increasing awareness of hantaviruses, infections are still underdiagnosed, in part due to a lack of available standardized serological assays. This study evaluated a commercial multiparametric indirect immunofluorescence assay for the simultaneous detection of antibodies against clinically important Old World (Hantaan, Puumala, Seoul, Saaremaa and Dobrava) and New World (Sin Nombre and Andes) hantaviruses. Test performance was found to be comparable to established highly sensitive and specific in-house assays.
PMCID: PMC3617148 PMID: 23593524
23. Hantaviruses Direct Endothelial Cell Permeability by Sensitizing Cells to the Vascular Permeability Factor VEGF, while Angiopoietin 1 and Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Inhibit Hantavirus-Directed Permeability▿
Journal of Virology 2008;82(12):5797-5806.
Hantaviruses infect human endothelial cells and cause two vascular permeability-based diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Hantavirus infection alone does not permeabilize endothelial cell monolayers. However, pathogenic hantaviruses inhibit the function of αvβ3 integrins on endothelial cells, and hemorrhagic disease and vascular permeability deficits are consequences of dysfunctional β3 integrins that normally regulate permeabilizing vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) responses. Here we show that pathogenic Hantaan, Andes, and New York-1 hantaviruses dramatically enhance the permeability of endothelial cells in response to VEGF, while the nonpathogenic hantaviruses Prospect Hill and Tula have no effect on endothelial cell permeability. Pathogenic hantaviruses directed endothelial cell permeability 2 to 3 days postinfection, coincident with pathogenic hantavirus inhibition of αvβ3 integrin functions, and hantavirus-directed permeability was inhibited by antibodies to VEGF receptor 2 (VEGFR2). These studies demonstrate that pathogenic hantaviruses, similar to αvβ3 integrin-deficient cells, specifically enhance VEGF-directed permeabilizing responses. Using the hantavirus permeability assay we further demonstrate that the endothelial-cell-specific growth factor angiopoietin 1 (Ang-1) and the platelet-derived lipid mediator sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) inhibit hantavirus directed endothelial cell permeability at physiologic concentrations. These results demonstrate the utility of a hantavirus permeability assay and rationalize the testing of Ang-1, S1P, and antibodies to VEGFR2 as potential hantavirus therapeutics. The central importance of β3 integrins and VEGF responses in vascular leak and hemorrhagic disease further suggest that altering β3 or VEGF responses may be a common feature of additional viral hemorrhagic diseases. As a result, our findings provide a potential mechanism for vascular leakage after infection by pathogenic hantaviruses and the means to inhibit hantavirus-directed endothelial cell permeability that may be applicable to additional vascular leak syndromes.
PMCID: PMC2395149 PMID: 18367532
24. Immunological Mechanisms Mediating Hantavirus Persistence in Rodent Reservoirs
PLoS Pathogens 2008;4(11):e1000172.
Hantaviruses, similar to several emerging zoonotic viruses, persistently infect their natural reservoir hosts, without causing overt signs of disease. Spillover to incidental human hosts results in morbidity and mortality mediated by excessive proinflammatory and cellular immune responses. The mechanisms mediating the persistence of hantaviruses and the absence of clinical symptoms in rodent reservoirs are only starting to be uncovered. Recent studies indicate that during hantavirus infection, proinflammatory and antiviral responses are reduced and regulatory responses are elevated at sites of increased virus replication in rodents. The recent discovery of structural and non-structural proteins that suppress type I interferon responses in humans suggests that immune responses in rodent hosts could be mediated directly by the virus. Alternatively, several host factors, including sex steroids, glucocorticoids, and genetic factors, are reported to alter host susceptibility and may contribute to persistence of hantaviruses in rodents. Humans and reservoir hosts differ in infection outcomes and in immune responses to hantavirus infection; thus, understanding the mechanisms mediating viral persistence and the absence of disease in rodents may provide insight into the prevention and treatment of disease in humans. Consideration of the coevolutionary mechanisms mediating hantaviral persistence and rodent host survival is providing insight into the mechanisms by which zoonotic viruses have remained in the environment for millions of years and continue to be transmitted to humans.
PMCID: PMC2584234 PMID: 19043585
25. Experimental Andes Virus Infection in Deer Mice: Characteristics of Infection and Clearance in a Heterologous Rodent Host
PLoS ONE 2013;8(1):e55310.
New World hantaviruses can cause hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome with high mortality in humans. Distinct virus species are hosted by specific rodent reservoirs, which also serve as the vectors. Although regional spillover has been documented, it is unknown whether rodent reservoirs are competent for infection by hantaviruses that are geographically separated, and known to have related, but distinct rodent reservoir hosts. We show that Andes virus (ANDV) of South America, carried by the long tailed pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys longicaudatus), infects and replicates in vitro and in vivo in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), the reservoir host of Sin Nombre virus (SNV), found in North America. In experimentally infected deer mice, viral RNA was detected in the blood, lung, heart and spleen, but virus was cleared by 56 days post inoculation (dpi). All of the inoculated deer mice mounted a humoral immune response by 14 dpi, and produced measurable amounts of neutralizing antibodies by 21 dpi. An up-regulation of Ccl3, Ccl4, Ccl5, and Tgfb, a strong CD4+ T-cell response, and down-regulation of Il17, Il21 and Il23 occurred during infection. Infection was transient with an absence of clinical signs or histopathological changes. This is the first evidence that ANDV asymptomatically infects, and is immunogenic in deer mice, a non-natural host species of ANDV. Comparing the immune response in this model to that of the immune response in the natural hosts upon infection with their co-adapted hantaviruses may help clarify the mechanisms governing persistent infection in the natural hosts of hantaviruses.
PMCID: PMC3561286 PMID: 23383148
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satellite state
country where the government is formally independent; the Marshall plan was not meant to shut out the Soviet Union or these, according to soviet view the Marshall plan guaranteed "American loans in return for relinquishing by the European states of their economic and later political independence
policy of containment
argued by George Kennen in July 1947; to keep communism in its existing boundaries and prevent further Soviet aggressive moves; became a U.S. policy; the split between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become a fact of life
arms race
when the U.S and the Soviet Union both countries built up their armies and weapons; the soviet union exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949; both sides came to believe an arsenal of nuclear weapons would prevent war
domino theory
U.S. policy makers saw conflict in these terms; if the communist succeeded in Vietnam, other countries in Asia would fall, like dominoes, to communism
Truman Doctrine
used in 1947; stated that the United States would provide money to countries (Greece) threatened by communist expansion
Dean Acheson
U.S. secretary of state; explained that "like apples in a barrel infected by disease, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all the East....likewise Africa, Italy, France..... not since Rome and Carthage had there been such a polarization of power on the earth", ties into ideas of truman doctrine
Marshall Plan
June of 1947; proposed by General George C. Marshal, U.S. secretary of state; the United States was now engaged in fighting communist aggression; part of European recovery program; soviets saw the marshall plan as an attempt to buy the support of countries
The Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed in April 1949 when Belgium, luxembourg, denmark, france, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal and Iceland signed a treaty with the U.S. and Canada; agreed to provide mutual help if one of them was attacked; later West Germany, Greece, and Turkey joined
Warsaw Pact
formed in 1955 when the Soviet Union joined Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, POland and Romania in a formal military alliance
South East Asia Treaty Organization formed by the United States, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand
Central Treaty organization that included Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain and the United States; meant to prevent the soviet union from expanding to the south; by the mid 1950s the U.S. allied with 42 countries around the world
Nikita Krushchev
emerged as the new leader of the Soviet union 1955; tried to take advantage of the American concern over missiles to solve the Problem in West Berlin
heavy industry
the manufacture of machines and equipment for factories and mines; increased for the benefit of the military; the testing of hydrogen bombs in 1953 and the first space satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957 enhanced the soviet state's reputation as a world power abroad
de- Stalinization
the process of eliminating the more ruthless policies of Stalin; at the 20th congress of the communist party in 1956, Krushchev condemned Stalin for his administrative violence, mass repression and terror
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
wrote the book One day in the life of ivan denisovich., a grim portrayal of what life was like in a Siberian Forced- labor camp
real name was Joseph Broz, the leader of of communist resistance movement, after the war he moved towards the creation of an independent communist state in Yugoslavia; refused to give in to stalin's demands
Imre Nagy
HUngarian leader that declared Hungary a free nation on November 1, 1956 and promised free elections; it was the end of communist rule in hungary
Alexander Dubcek
elected first secretary of the Communist party in January 1968
welfare state
a state in which the government takes responsible for providing citizens with services and a minimal standard of living; decline of Great Britain; created by Clement Attlee (new prime minister) under the labour party
a group of nations with a common purpose; the EEC was the world's largest exporter and purchaser of raw materials
real wages
the actual purchasing power of income
Charles de Gaulle
dominated a quarter of a century after the war, was a war hero in France; helped establish a new government called the Fourth Republic in 1946; the government was largely ineffective; wanted to make France into a world power
Christian Democratic Union
the head was Konrad Adenaur; served as chancellor for west Germany;sought respect for west germany to cooperate the US and France; experience the "economic miracle"
European Economic Community
(EEC), created by the Rome Treaty; was also known as the Common Market; trade area made up of 6 member nations, they imposed no tariffs on each other's goods; became important trading bloc
John F. Kennedy
At the age of 43, he became the youngest elected president in the history of the US; assassinated on November 22, 1963; VP Lyndon B. Johnson then became president; president during cuban missile crisis
Martin Luther King Jr.
leader of a growing movement for racial equality, led a march on Washington D.C., to dramatize the African American desire for equality; he advocated the principle of passive disobedience practiced by Mohandas Gandhi; King's march and his impassioned plea for racial equality had an electrifying effect on the American people; By the end of 1963, a majority of the American people called civil rights the most significant national issue
consumer society
a society preoccupied with buying goods; an increase in the real wages of workers made it possible for them to imitate the buying patterns of the middle class; this led to what some observers have called the consumer society
women's liberation movement
During the late 1960s, women had begun to assert their rights again. Late 1960s renewed interest in feminism, or the women's liberation movement
Simone de Beauvoir
In 1949, she published her highly influential work, The Second Sex; she argued women had been defined by their differences form men and consequently received second-class status; her book influenced both the American and European women's movements.
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from Ab-Soul (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Rapper Shit Lyrics on Rap Genius
A double entendre, when you decide to actually turn a finished product in its not just due, its due for a second time. Also, what your turning in is “doo-doo”, another way of saying shit.
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My OpenWRT 10.03.1 Router (Linksys WRT160NL) is ignoring my crontab (set via System->Scheduled tasks). I want to reboot the router every night, since it tends to get flaky after some days. So I entered this in my tasks:
0 5 * * * reboot
I also tried
0 5 * * * root /sbin/reboot
but this was also ignored. Is there some kind of setting that I have to do, so that cron will be actually run? When I log into the router via ssh, and run ps, I don't see any cron process.
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By default OpenWrt does not enable the cron service. To start it and enable automatic startup during subsequent reboots, you need to execute the following commands:
/etc/init.d/cron start
/etc/init.d/cron enable
The first command starts the cron service once, but does not change the startup configuration, so it will not be started automatically after a reboot. The second command changes the startup configuration (creates a symlink in /etc/rc.d) so that the cron service will be started during boot, but does not start it immediately.
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This worked perfectly! – Arne May 27 at 17:57
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Two years ago I sat in my Penn State dorm room with a calculator and a question: is it cheaper to live on campus, in my small but comfortable dorm, or in an apartment complex off-campus?
As I crunched numbers, the answer emerged: moving out of the dorms was best for my bank account. For the first time, I went apartment hunting.
I ran upstairs to grab a picture of the college student's living room. In hindsight, the mattresses and giant paper Christmas tree might not be average. Courtesy: Dulce-Marie Flecha
I wanted a picture of the average college student’s living room. In hindsight, my paper Christmas tree isn’t average. Courtesy: @DulceFlecha
Like cramming for a final exam, I had to learn a volume of real estate terminology in little time.
In hopes of diminishing another “First Timer’s” stress, I’ve compiled Apartment Search Cliff Notes, specifically, a glossary of important rental terms to bring on your tours:
Cosigner: A person who agrees to assume equal legal and financial responsibility for a rental contract which for many college students and recent graduates are their parents. Basically, if you mysteriously disappear without paying your rent, your cosigners will pay.
Credit Score: A number based on your credit report banks, businesses, and landlords use to gauge how reliable you may be paying debts such as loans, credit cards, or your monthly rent. As with a final exam, you want the highest score possible.
Grace Period: Rent is normally due on the first of the month (do you remember that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony song?). Often times renters have a penalty-free window–about five days–without racking up a late fee or interest. Reference point: when your professor lets you submit an essay a few days late without losing points.
Length of Lease: The amount of time–normally one year–you are legally responsible for the apartment.
Security Deposit: An amount that can be equal to one month of rent that serves as “proof of intent” or a guarantee you will not destroy the property or not pay utilities.
Most deposits are refundable minus cleaning and repair–you’ll get it within a limited time period after you’ve vacated the apartment provided there aren’t damages. This is separate from first and last month’s rent, which landlords will ask you to pay in advance.
Sublet: Studying abroad? Going home for the summer? Rather than pay for an empty room, many students will find subletters to live in the apartment and pay at least a portion of the rent for a negotiated time period. But be careful! You, not your subletters are still legally responsible if anything should go wrong.
Utilities: This refers to miscellaneous apartment costs such as gas and water. Always ask your potential landlord to define “utilities.”
Getting your own apartment can be scary, but using this glossary will give you confidence and the tools to make an informed decision.
When you moved into your first apartment, what did you not know then, you now know?
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->''"Spatula City! We Sell Spatulas... And That's All!"''
A Severely Specialized Store is a retail outlet that only deals with an incredibly narrow product range, typically one or two items of a very specific type. As this trope is almost always invoked due to RuleOfFunny, the store's products will be ''exactly'' what the protagonists need in their moment of crisis (unless it's closed when they get there). How such a business manages to stay in operation, or why the heroes can't just go to a general-purpose merchant, is never raised.
An infrequent variation is the inverse of this trope -- a store that sells ''everything'' except for one thing, typically what the protagonists need to solve the current crisis.
Also see CripplingOverspecialization, TheMagazineRule. Contrast WeSellEverything.
[[folder: Film ]]
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' features a commercial for "Spatula City." It sells spatulas "And that's all!"
* ''{{Freaked}}'' has the massive conglomerate Everything Except Shoes. [[spoiler:The BigBad eventually mutates the CEO into a massive tennis shoe just to screw with him.]]
[[folder: Literature ]]
* This is a recurring joke in some of Robert Munsch's children's books. ''Zoom!'' starts with the protagonists visiting a wheelchair store (an obvious {{Expy}} of a car dealership), while ''Smelly Socks'' includes a trip to the city's socks store, which is so large it can be seen from the river.
* Mr. Ollivander of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' sells wands. Just -- wands. Justified as each wand must fit its owner, much like a shoe or clothing store. Wands are also major purchases, as a wand does not appear to ever 'wear out', and since they are central to a wizards power, it is worth buying the highest quality you can afford. A wand store is basically a place that sells a product that must fit like a suit, is as expensive as a car, and important as a home.
** A great deal of the Wizarding shops seem to be this way, and all are rather justified. Potage's Cauldron Shop sells nothing but cauldrons, and Scrivenshaft's is a borderline example, selling almost nothing but quills.
* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' has Dave's Pin Exchange, which sells only pins (pin collecting serving as a parody of stamp collecting), with the owner being ''very'' adamant that he doesn't sell nails. However it's later expanded to Dave's Pin and Stamp Exchange, and by ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'' is Dave's Pin, Stamp and Smell Exchange. (Don't ask.)
* DouglasAdams' non-fiction book ''Last Chance To See'' recounts his befuddled trip through several of these.
* Inverted in ''[[Literature/CaptainUnderpants Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman]]'': To help Captain Underpants regain his powers, George and Harold need to get some fabric softener to counteract the spray starch that removed them. They run to a new store that opened nearby, which turns out to be "Everything Except Fabric Softener."
-->The store for all your non-fabric-softening needs!
[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* In an episode of ''NorthernExposure'', Shelly is interested in going to the Mall of America; she mentions that they have a whole store that's just socks. (This is true in {{Real Life}}. It's called "Just Socks.")
* A variation appears in a skit from ''Series/AllThat'', with a retail store that sells only a single pair of pants.
* On ''{{Roundhouse}}'', two AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents look for envelopes at the mall. The map indicates a store named [[OverlyLongName "Gee, I Can't Believe There's a Store in This Mall That Sells Nothing But Envelopes, Can You?"]].
* ''Series/{{Pixelface}}'' has an episode where the other characters enter Clairparker's game to do some shopping at the mall. Riley and Romford are looking for sausages and a remote control, respectively. They find everything they are after at a store called 'Sausages n' Remote Controls'.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''
** On early episodes, there was a series of sketches detailing "The Scotch Boutique", which sold nothing but varieties of Scotch Tape. Apparently, while somewhat of a failure when the store first opened, it apparently started doing major business when a new shopping mall opened up, and all the other local stores needed the tape to hang up their "Out Of Business" signs.
** An early sketch had {{Patrick Stewart}} running an erotic bakery that only made cakes of women peeing on things.
** "The Change Bbank. We make change. That's all we do."
* Parodied on ''{{Portlandia}}'' with the "Two Girls, Two Shirts" shop, whose entire inventory consists of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two shirts]].
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''
** Played with in the "Cheese Shop" skit, with a store that sells nothing but cheese... only they don't.
-->'''Customer:''' Have you in fact got any cheese here at all.
-->'''Owner:''' Yes, sir.
-->'''Customer:''' Really?
-->'''Owner:''' No. Not really, sir.
** In "The Cycling Tour". Mr. Pither keeps catching his pump in his trouser leg and crashing. At a small village:
-->'''Pither:''' Excuse me, madam, can you tell me of a good bicycle shop in this village, where I could find either some means of adapting my present pump, or, failing that, purchase a replacement?
-->'''Old lady:''' There's only one shop here. (points to a shop with large signs reading:'BICYCLE PUMP CENTRE. SPECIALISTS IN SHORTER BICYCLE PUMPS', 'SHORT PUMPS AVAILABLE HERE', and 'WE SHORTEN PUMPS WHILE-U-WAIT'
* ''IncredibleCrew'' has the Shorts and Spoons Superstore which sells only shorts and spoons ("No pants! No forks! And you have to buy one of each!")
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* A ''{{Zits}}'' Sunday strip features an establishing panel of the inside of the local mall; stores named Just Burlap, Wineglasses in an Hour (a parody of Glasses in an Hour), and Things That Start with Q can be seen in the background.
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* A common staple of roleplaying games where a store sells magic spells or gear so ridiculously powerful that only a very rich legendary hero could buy or use them.
* In ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, stores that sell more than three or four items are a rarity (and most stores have at least one exclusive item). Parodied on ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' with a photomanipulation of a RealLife storefront: "I Sell Three Things (And That's It)". [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#25 Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games]]
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* This is a recurring gag in ''Webcomic/AxeCop''. Need an awesome ramp to drive to the moon? Go to the awesome ramp store. Unicorn horn? Can be found at the unicorn horn store.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has the Polearm Shop. More general armories are also shown, but one strip has Roy go to a Polearm Shop. It's a reference to the "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Cheese Shop]]" sketch, so not only is the shop overspecialized, it doesn't actually have any polearms at the moment.
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* One of the ''KidHistory'' "Kid Snippets" videos takes place at the "Hot Dog Bun Store". Hot dogs sold elsewhere.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', Coop or the MonsterOfTheWeek often demolish bizarrely (and hilariously) specialized buildings during the fight. The implication generally being that they're unneeded and thus [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding conveniently empty.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", Spike needs to get a quill for Twilight Sparkle. So of course, he goes to Quills and Sofas ... which just so happens to be out of the former.
-->'''Spike:''' But the store is called Quills and Sofas! You only sell ''two'' things!
-->'''[[FanNickname Davenport]]:''' Sorry, junior. All outta quills 'til Monday. ([[{{Beat}} beat]]) Need a sofa?
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'', Retroville has stores like Cheese World, Mime World, and Rug World. Rug World actually had something Jimmy needed to defeat the [[MakesSenseInContext evil pants.]]
* This was a common gag on ''WesternAnimation/TomGoesToTheMayor''. Tom opened a store called "Big Cups", which only sold big cups. There was also a store that just sold bear traps.
** ''Two'' bear trap stores to be exact. Next door to each other. Owned by rival twin brothers both played by JackBlack. It makes sense they both managed to stay in business due to the lunatic mayor twisting Tom's child safety plan into "let's set ten thousand bear traps all over town."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Ned Flanders once opened up and maintained a "Leftorium" store for left-handed products for left-handed people. It was initially a bust, until Homer Simpson started feeling bad for [[ComedicSociopathy enjoying Flanders' misfortune]] and scrounged up as many left-handed customers as he could.
*** TruthInTelevision: A shop of this type called Anything Left Handed has existed in London since 1968. The writers may not have known this, though.
** When Homer wanted to buy a hammock:
-->'''Hank Scorpio:''' Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you?
-->'''Homer:''' Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
-->'''Hank Scorpio:''' Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third.
-->'''Homer:''' Uh-huh.
-->'''Hank Scorpio:'''' There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There.
-->'''Homer:''' Mm-Hmm.
-->'''Hank Scorpio:''' That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
-->'''Homer:''' Oh, the hammock district!
** The "Just [[Creator/MichaelCrichton Crichton]] and [[Creator/StephenKing King]] Bookstore", a parody of small bookstores overstocking on only the most popular authors, especially those found in airports. The cashier will not entertain a request for Creator/RobertLudlum.
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* Along some highways in rural parts of Virgina, you can find stores selling cigarettes, hams, pecans, and fireworks. Almost without fail, the store will advertise that it sells at least three of these four things.
* In New York, there is a store called "Just Bulbs." They sell nothing but lightbulbs.
* As mentioned in the ''NorthernExposure'' example above, the Mall of America has a store called "Just Socks," which sells nothing but socks.
* Batteries Plus, which does have an enormous variety of said item.
* Most malls will have at least one example: one that sells only guitars, or one that only sells candles of all sorts, or one that sells just hats...
* Flower companies, whether big and catering only to large orders, or small operations.
* Many UK airports and larger railway stations have shops like Tie Rack and Sock Shop, presumably selling to people who suddenly remember they haven't packed properly.
* Cinnabon, a chain of stores that sell only cinnamon buns (of a handful of types and sizes), most commonly found in malls and airports. The buns are just that good.
** Malls also have another food example of this in the pretzel shop.
** And of course, before the invention of the shopping mall, there were (and still are!) vendors on the street in heavily populated downtown areas selling various types of fast food, hot dogs being the most immediately familiar. Shopping malls were, after all, modeled after downtown shopping districts.
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Navigation and Breadcrumb titles need to be unique (6 posts)
1. Dave J
Posted 3 years ago #
I need to have my navigation and breadcrumb <a> titles unique from each other for my site to reach AAA validation.
I can edit the title's of the the <a>'s in my navigation through the static code, but I need a way to have different titles for the links in the breadcrumbs - if it's possible to add code or use a specific plugin that allows for this, I'm open to suggestions.
At the moment I'm using dimox_breadcrumbs but I don't mind changing if I have to.
2. esmi
Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
Posted 3 years ago #
Link text only needs to be unique if the links point to different resources. You can (in theory) have as many identical link text on a page as you want providing they're all pointing to the same resource.
3. Dave J
Posted 3 years ago #
Sorry I probably didn't make it clear enough.
Basically the navigation is being duplicated in the breadcrumbs, as in link text and destination. To get level AAA validation, if there are two links on the same page with the same link text and destination, they need to be differentiated by the title tag.
4. esmi
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Posted 3 years ago #
They do? Where does that piece of info come from? It's not part of WCAG 1.0 or 2.0 as far as I'm aware. In fact I'd argue that it's risky to depend on the title attribute being rendered at all. Most experienced screen reader users use a non-verbose setting in their software to stop the title attribute from being rendered as, 9 times out of 10, it's more "noise" than "signal".
Switch, VR and sighted keyboard users don't have access to the title attribute at all, which means your link titles wouldn't be Perceivable to these user groups - a primary WCAG 2.0 failure if you were relying on the title attribute in any way.
So, personally, I'd take that info with a very big pinch of salt.
If you want to use a real-life yardstick for AAA compliance, check out http://lflegal.com/ It's one of only 2 officially recognised WCAG 2.0 AAA sites. And it uses WordPress.
Personally, I don't push for AAA - if only becaue of all of the documentation that must also be made available on the site. I'm quite happy with strong AA.
5. Dave J
Posted 3 years ago #
Ok thanks for the help and quick reply!
6. sleekseo
Posted 3 years ago #
Dave, I see you were creating a WCAG 2.0 AAA Conformance Standard WordPress theme? Can you supply the link to it? Are you sharing or selling the theme? i'd love to hear back. Cheers. Al.
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Broadcast: 08/04/2010
Reporter: Whitney Fitzsimmons
Glenn Maguire from Societe Generale joins Lateline Business to discuss the economic challenges facing China and the risks to Australia should Beijing get monetary or fiscal policy wrong.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS, PRESENTER: Economic concerns aren't confined to just Europe or even the US for that matter. In recent weeks fears over the sustainability of China's growth have been increasing.
The central government is starting to tighten monetary policy in an effort to control inflation and dampen asset bubbles, particularly in the property market.
At the same time, Beijing needs to maintain high rates of growth to continue its urbanisation program and maintain political stability.
Glenn Maguire is the chief regional economist for Societe Generale. I spoke with him from his base in Hong Kong earlier this evening.
Glenn Maguire, welcome to Lateline Business.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: In your latest report, you say that with spring comes the first month of clarity on China's economic picture. Why is it only now that we're getting some clarity on this and what does that picture look like?
GLENN MAGUIRE: Basically it's only now because for the past 18 months we've seen several distortions to the economic data.
We've had the base effects from the Great Recession and the Great Financial Crisis and then in the past quarter we've had the lunar New Year.
And it's only when we move through the January-February period that we start to get a clearer picture on the economic data. Now we're starting to get that picture with the release of the March economic data. And that picture is unambiguously strong.
If we look at the data we're seeing for March we have industrial production growing around 20 per cent year on year. That's even stronger than it was during the 2005, 2007 period.
If we look at electricity production, which is one of the key supply side indicators for the Chinese economy, that's growing around 25 per cent. If we look at the trade balance, that's likely to have slipped into trade deficit over March.
And that's one of the key indicators that the sustained outperformance of Chinese economic growth or Chinese demand, relative to global demand, has been reflected in a narrowing, indeed a complete disappearance of China's trade surplus with the rest of the world.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: Is there a danger, though, that China's economy is overheating and a bubble is forming?
GLENN MAGUIRE: In terms of the property market, the equity market, whether we're seeing doubles, in an economy like China that has a closed capital account, you are always going to be see pocket of excess valuation.
And with China we note that property prices are up on average 23 per cent annual compound growth over the last five years. But we also note income growth is up around 25 per cent annual compound growth over the same period.
So what we're seeing in general is property prices are tracking income growth. There are some areas where valuations are stretched, but we don't necessarily believe it's a bubble. It's a function of an economy where growth has been strong and income growth has been extraordinarily strong.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: HSBC has recently said that tightening in China's monetary policy could pose a real threat to a sustainable and robust global recovery. What do you say to that?
GLENN MAGUIRE: Well obviously when we look at the market's attention it's primarily focused on the exit strategy of the US Federal Reserve and the exit strategy of the European Central Bank, when, for all effects, we should be more focused on the exit strategy on the People's Bank of China, given China has arguably done a lot more on policy in terms of stimulus and has done a lot more in terms of contributing to the stability of global growth.
Now China has made some very clear commitments that the pace of tightening or exiting these stimulatory measures will be very, very slow. At the National People's Congress two weeks ago, Premier Wen Jiabao said that bank lending would be 7.5 trillion Yuan this year.
That's a slowdown from the 9.5 trillion Yuan we saw in 2009, but it still represents credit growth of 20 per cent year on year. So, we're seeing a slowdown in the pace of lending, but we're still seeing positive lending growth.
And I think overall we have to put China's stimulus measures into context. We're still seeing broadly stimulatory policy settings in place in China. China has been extremely cautious with its exit strategy. And I think the risk is that we see policy is withdrawn too slowly rather than we see a premature tightening of policy in China.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: You mention a trade deficit for China in March. We've also seen the rise of inflation very sharply. In a global context, how concerning is this?
GLENN MAGUIRE: Look, I think the two dynamics are interrelated in a way. When China announced in November, 2008 its enormous stimulus package that was focused at boosting domestic demand, it made the clear policy choice that it was no longer relying on its traditional export growth model.
It was gonna focus on boosting domestic demand. Now, for an economy with a closed capital account, the obvious measure of whether that policy has been successful is the trade balance should move from surplus to deficit as domestic demand replaces external demand.
That is what we're seeing and it's confirmation that China's policy has been successful. The fact that the Chinese economy is growing at 12 per cent, 12 months after the greatest recession since the Great Depression, I think is a fairly small price to pay for that remarkable economic turnaround. And in the eyes of the Communist Party in Beijing, it's an extremely small price to pay.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: It's anticipated, though, in an effort to curb an overheating economy, Beijing will stop spending so much on infrastructure, which could have a negative knock-on effect on those economies such as Australia which rely so heavily on exporting to China.
GLENN MAGUIRE: No, Beijing won't slash spending on infrastructure, and it's important to recognise that when Beijing committed to this program it committed to multi-year infrastructure programs.
And one of the problem of '92-'93 was when you cut off infrastructure spending halfway through these programs, if you've only built half a railway or you've only built half an airport, it becomes a non-viable project.
You can't generate an economic rent or a future income stream from it, so it therefore becomes a non-performing loan for your banking system. So, one of the key lessons from China's previous policy mistakes is once you commit to these infrastructure programs you have to see them through.
So, we're looking at least at another two years of this type of infrastructure spending, at least to 2011, perhaps even 2012. So I don't Australia has to worry about any slowdown coming from China until that period.
The very resource intensive, very commodity hungry China growth model Australia has benefited so much is gonna remain in place for the foreseeable future.
WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: Glenn Maguire, thank you for joining Lateline Business.
GLENN MAGUIRE: Thank you, Whitney.
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Plan Would Replace Old Desktops with Netbooks, iPads
The list of equipment to be replaced includes 35 printers, 100 desktops, and 21 projectors. While the printers are going to be replaced with networked options, iPads and Netbooks will be the successors to desktops.
Dr. Nagler posed the question of the 1:1 initiative to the board where each student could be given a laptop for the cost of replacing the 100 desktops and the necessity of having dedicated computer labs “because every classroom now is a lab, in theory.”
An alternative would be “a combination of these as we start to replace equipment is something we have to grapple with and move ahead with,” he said, with one unknown factor being the impact on the district’s wireless network. The administration will be examining the middle school next year due to the heavy investments being made in those grades.
As part of the new five-year program the district will be purchasing 250 Netbooks, 90 iPads (30 additional iPads using grant money) joining the 100 that currently are in the district, 20 network printers (12 color, eight black and white), two servers and 10 WAPS (wireless access points), which allow the district to filter the Internet in the buildings.
A unique feature of the printers on the elementary levels is a queue system that “holds” each print job until that person walks over and uses their ID card to retrieve it, wiping it from the queue if not retrieved in a certain period of time. The new printers would also allow wireless printing from iPads.
The new multiyear plan is more expensive than the previous one, costing $47,000 in year one, whereas the first year in the previous plan cost $41,000.
“I want to make sure the investments we make in equipment are going to be on target when we see what the future holds,” the superintendent said. “Technology is very difficult when you plan for the future because it moves quickly as it progresses and education tends to move painfully slow as it progresses. So when you put those two phenomena together, they don’t always jibe.”
According to the Horizon Report, a document that analyzed technology in the K-12 education environment, a sharp rise in mobile and “cloud” computing is expected to occur within the next school year.
“We’re already there,” Dr. Nagler said. “That’s something where we’re ahead of the game.”
The report also indicates that more game-based learning is expected to occur in two to three years, according to Nagler. This coming school year, Mineola will be piloting a program for a company, which has developed a game on photosynthesis using Nintendo DS handheld devices in the middle school.
“They’re trying to see if with the gaming are kids more apt to learn the concept of photosynthesis,” the superintendent said. “They asked us to use our students as testers for this program.”
The company will be collecting data for a period of several weeks, and then remove the devices from the classrooms. Students will require parental permission to participate.
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CigarettesIn 1998, 46 states and numerous other jurisdictions entered into a historic, multibillion dollar agreement to settle consumer protection lawsuits filed by the states for the costs that they had incurred for treating the negative health effects of smoking. This agreement, referred to as the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), imposed several health-related and advertising restrictions. In addition, the MSA requires the settling tobacco manufacturers to make annual payments to the settling states. Arkansas received about $1.6 billion from the settlement, a portion of which is paid yearly by the settling tobacco companies. Arkansas’s annual payment is approximately $60 million. The money is used for smoking cessation programs, healthcare research and as an offset to some of the costs that fall on states because of smoking-related illnesses.
The Tobacco Division of the Attorney General’s Public Protection Department is responsible for enforcing the terms of the MSA in Arkansas.
In addition to this responsibility, several Arkansas statutes related to tobacco sales are enforced by the Attorney General’s Office. These statutes relate to escrow payments made by certain tobacco manufacturers, the development and maintenance of an “Approved-for-Sale Directory” of cigarette brands that may be sold in the State, and the reporting or cigarette and “roll-your-own” cigarette sales by manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers.
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You will know if you fuel regulator is bad if your car starts running really rough or if it won't start. You engine will stall and the biggest way will be a noticeable change in your mileage. Before you have it repaired always check your spark plugs. A bad spark plug can cause the fuel regulator to act up.
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My husband says there is a way to know if your fuel regulator is bad. Use a fuel pressure gauge and then turn the ignition switch on and off three times. When it is not running, your pressure should come up. If not, then it is probably bad.
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I've read that minors living in the us can hold copyright, but the laws that regulate the use of that copyright vary by state. What I want to know are the laws that regulate the use of copyright held by minors living in Florida.
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Answered . You don't need to be an adult, or someone living in the US, to own a copyright. As for "use," maybe you're referring to the age of majority, which can regulate someone's competency to enter into a contract or license, for examples. Minors are able to "disaffirm" a contract.
The age of majority does vary by state, and in FL, you have to be 18 to be considered an adult.
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Answered . Federal law governs use of copyrights. However, state law may sometimes come into play concerning whether minors can license or assign copyrights in their works to others. You should consult with a Florida copyright law expert on this issue, because it may require understanding of both Florida contract law as it relates to minors and copyright law. As a practical matter, anyone who wants to license a work created by a minor should get permission of both the minor and her parents.
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Artist's impression of the buckyballs being formed in planetary nebulae The football-shaped molecules are the largest molecules ever found in space
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The researchers report their findings in the journal Science.
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This provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has... existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy”
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Buckyballs consist of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a sphere. The atoms are linked together in alternating patterns of hexagons and pentagons that, on the molecular scale, look exactly like a football.
They belong to a class of molecules called buckminsterfullerenes - named after the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, who developed the geodesic dome design that they so closely resemble.
The research group, led by Jan Cami from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, made its discovery using Nasa's Spitzer infrared telescope.
Professor Cami and his colleagues were not specifically looking for buckyballs, but spotted their unmistakable infrared "signature".
"They oscillate and vibrate in lots of different ways, and in doing so they interact with infrared light at very specific wavelengths," explained Professor Cami.
When the telescope detected emissions at those wavelengths, Professor Cami knew he was looking a signal from the largest molecules ever found in space.
"Some of my undergraduate students call me a world record holder," he told BBC News. "But I don't think there's a record for that."
Geodesic dome (Image: Eyewire) The molecules were named after the developer of the geodesic dome
The signal came from a star in the southern hemisphere constellation of Ara, 6,500 light-years away.
Professor Cami said the discovery was perhaps not surprising, but was "very exciting".
"Lots of scientists have expected that they would exist in space, because they are amongst the most stable and durable of materials," he said.
"So once they've formed in space, would be very hard to destroy them.
"But this is clear evidence of an entirely new class of molecule existing there."
The researchers now want to find out what fraction of the Universe's carbon might be "locked up" in these spheres.
They also want to use the known properties of buckyballs to gain a better understanding of physical and chemical processes in space.
The discovery may even help shed light on other unexplained chemical signatures that have already been detected in cosmic dust.
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Back on Earth, the discovery of buckyballs' existence was also accidental. Researchers were attempting to simulate conditions in the atmospheres of ageing, carbon-rich giant stars, in which chains of carbon had been detected.
"The experiments were set up to make those long carbon chains, and then something unexpected came out - these soccer ball type molecules, which just looked weird," said Professor Cami.
"And now it turns out that those conditions that were deliberately created in a laboratory actually occur in space too - we just had to look in the right place."
Sir Harry Kroto, now at Florida State University in the US, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs.
"It's so beautiful that it's been hiding from us and it took an experiment trying to uncover what was going on in stars to find it."
He told BBC News: "All the carbon in your body came from star dust, so at one time some that carbon may have been in the form of buckyballs."
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My daughter...sleepy one minute, hungry the next, sensitive at one point but becomes hormonal during the next. Keeping up with what is going on inside of her is always a race for me. Her sleeping schedule is all wrong, her eating schedule is all wrong but I vow to be there for her whenever she needs me. I am the one that runs to the store for one of her famous craving. And I want it that way, wrong or right........more
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mellowmint writes:
in response to PainfulTruth:
Most of those who are attacking the wealthy have failed to grasp one of the basic tenants on which our nation was founded. Our economy is NOT a zero sum equation. If someone get rich, it doesn't mean that someone else must get poorer, and to believe it does is a fallacy.
And there is another word for "wealth redistribution": stealing. That's what it is when someone forcibly takes something that doesn't belong to them. This is just as true for a nation as it is for an individual. The sad truth is that most of those railing against the "rich" and screaming for their "fair share" of the pie are either too lazy or too ignorant (or both) to make it on their own, so they steal.
Check out the newest report from the Congressional Budget office. the top 1% has made out something like 240% better over the period 1979-2007, where as the rest of us has gained about 16%, so, as a proportion of the growth of GDP, the 99% has lost big time! Class warfare has been going on for 30 years, and so far the 1% has been winning big. Time to push back. The top families are not 240% more worthy of the American dream, they have just rigged the system.
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SoTxOilMan (Inactive) writes:
in response to ElwoodBlues:
It wasn't so much a Cowboys win as much as it was a Tampa Bay loss.If I had been one of the chumps who dropped $400-$500 on a ticket to that miserable excuse for a "game",I'd have been looking for "Jerra" afterwards demanding my money back.The Cowboys offense was inept,the offensive line was like a screen door,and when Romo WAS able to get the ball downfield,his recievers couldn't catch it.Fortunately for Dallas,Tampa Bay played even worse than they did..the Bucs' play calling was even worse than Garrett's.
Enjoy where you're at in the standings now,Cowboys fans,because you got a gift played probably the only team in the league that's more inept than yours is.If yesterdays' three hour waste of time is any indication of how the rest of your season is going to go,you'll be darned lucky to finish 4-12.
Ok, finally! Thank you Elwood Blues for bringing up very good issues and something worth discussing instead of the Cowboys previous Super Bowl wins.
First, you are absolutely correct. That offense was pitiful and they would have lost to most teams in the NFL and probably the Alabama Crimson Tide as well. And yes, that win was a gift as Freeman could not get anything started for the Bucs. However, I believe it is only a matter of time before the offense catches up and gets their chemistry back. Remember, the offense was never the problem last year, but our defense. Now that they have stocked up via the draft on defense and they are improving, this team should have a better record than last year. 4-12? Surely you are kidding. I would say a better guess would be nothing less than 9-7 and maybe as good as 10-6. Thanks for the good 'devils advocate' point of view.
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CalCatMom78410 (Inactive) writes:
Romney gives so much of his money to people in need.
Enough with this off shore bank account bull sh*t.
Why should Romney have to pay MORE IN TAXES than is required by law? Good Lord, gimmie gimmie gimmie. What's yours is MINE and what mine is MINE seems to be the general mentality.
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rickp#238841 writes:
See that Openletter is on another one of his anit-religion rants again this morning. But, as usual, there's more to it than he makes it out to be....
How did "church" get involved in the "marriage" business? Welfare of children and preservation of inheritance rights, that's how! Big problem in the Middle Ages with folks just packing up and moving on, leaving kids and spouses behind, then getting remarried without benefit of divorce or nullity. Governments had no way of tracking "who belongs to who" in matters of estate settlements, and providing for the material well-being of abandonded children. But, the churches had their "sacramental records" that recorded marriages, births, baptisms, etc. Over a period of about fifty years the churches became the "repository of record" for the government and society in general, often at the direction of the kings and princes of the territory.
Also note that monagomy is a relatively recent social phenomenon, and that multiple wives was the "norm" for most of the worlds societies until late in the Enlightenment. During this time the Western (European) governments subtly shifted away from the concept of women as chattel (property) due to Christianity's concept of individual dignity and self worth being applied to women, and children as well. Remember how Saint Paul teaches that a man should be willing to die for his wife, just as Christ did for his bride the Church?
Government, like the various Faith Traditions, is charged with doing everything it can to foster the "Common Good" of society and it's members. Preservation of the family as a cornerstone of the society is a legitimate function of government, decided from the social mores of the various tribes that constitute it. The form it is to take under rule of law is legitimate, and doesn't need to conform with fringe elements of society. In the case of Western society, this has taken the form of monagamous marriages. Nothing new here!
What Openletter is advocating amounts to both social and political anarchy, social relativism at its most dysfunctional. Nothing wrong with having social moral standards agreed to by the majority of society, for that's where true freedom begins....
One Daddy, One Mommy
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martymar writes:
in response to tortured_artist:
Sean Tuohy owns 85 Taco Bell's. I don't think he particularly cares if the kid he adopted ever makes a dime. I think he can make it on his own millions. "Shopped him"?...You have no idea what went on. I coached football at Briarcrest at the time, and can honestly tell you that you have no idea what you are talking about. Always glad to see people that try to run a conversation when they have no idea about the situation.
I know how Sean Tuohy makes his money.
I don't believe an assistant coach or even student coach knew how this situation came about either.
Obviously you have no idea how Oher came to Briarcrest or else you would be telling me your story.
The whole truth is distorted. Even Oher's little secret story you were told as an assistant coach or student coach.
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tjmurray writes:
in response to LTNBA:
I wonder why Tillery goes out of his way to dis Marcus Williams?In Tinsley's 2 games of significant minutes he has played OK- but WAS NOT a factor in winning. Seems more like a PR campaign to forget AI debacle and Conley's slow development. Tinsley's a good player- but Larry Bird doesn't just get rid of long term players for nothing- he had a good reason for dumping Tinsley. Tinsley needs floor time to get in shape and for the coaches to evaluate him- that is why he is getting the minutes- Marcus has played well when on the floor- and would get better with more minutes-it's too bad that he seems to annoy Tillery-he'll never get a good word written about his play!
You know, I was trying to keep that to myself because I thought maybe I was the only one feeling that way. For some reason Marcus Williams & OJ Mayo annoy Ron Tillery. Marcus had 1 bad game against the Bucks and he can't see the floor, unless Sgt. Hollins goes small. Even though he(Marcus Williams) played well this year, and he arguably played better than Conley this season. Conley continues to start though, even though he has played terrible off and on for 2+ years. Ron Tillery loves to tell people, well OJ Mayo isn't a point guard. Allen Iverson isn't a point guard. Well, neither was Ron Harper and he started for the Bulls and Lakers during their championship runs!!!
With the point guard play so shaky, I just can't believe Sgt. won't atleast try Mayo at the point, with Sam Young @ the 2. Atleast tinker with it. It is just crazy how Tillery can be critical of OJ and Rudy at times, but turn right around and say on his radio show that Mike Conley isn't the problem. This isn't the last chapter on Mike Conley. Read Charley Rosen piece on the Grizzlies and what he has to say about Mike Conley
He is never critical of the pg play, unless Marcus Williams is in his targets. It is just so damn obvious. I just don't understand why he does that. I don't understand why he plays favorites. I've just done a complete 180 on Tillery. I use to respect him as a beat writer, but like I said before he is just a puppet. I am not talking about a puppet you love like Pinocchio. I strongly believe that Ron Tillery is one of the Puppet Masters, lol. So, until Ron start to tell it the way it is, the way Scott Cacciolla does, he will be known as Jester. One of the Puppet Masters. See for yourself...
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mretienne#64592 writes:
It might be the law but how many people would actually be able to hold an office? Does this include public school teachers? As someone has already mentioned, it could include bank employees. Do vouchers count because that means it would include private school teachers also? Farmers receive subsidies. Somehow or another there is federal funding for most occupations. At what point is the line drawn to declare an occupation receives federal funds?
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BlindersRoff writes:
All of the Board are as guilty as she is. This has happened time and time again in our city government for many, many years. Any time there is money involved there should always be oversight. Our system is not set up to have one person in charge, it just isn't possible, especially when tax money and budgets are involved.
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Ah, summertime. What better excuse than hot days and nights to sit back and drink what is perhaps the South's greatest contribution to civilized drinking.
Pictured above is your basic mint julep along with the necessary ingredients. I take a few leaves of mint, a teaspoon of sugar, and a tiny bit of water and grind the sugar into the leaves with the back of a spoon so that the flavor of mint is released. Then I add close to two ounces of Jack Daniels and a bunch of ice cubes and stir. Decorate with some mint sprigs, find yourself a porch with a view to the west, and watch the sun set. | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/bert/dom.mint-julep.html | dclm-gs1-039160002 | false | false | {
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A. Varicose veins occur in about 25 percent of adults. They represent a failure of the veins to keep blood flowing toward the heart. There is a genetic component to varicose veins, but other risk factors include prolonged standing, multiple pregnancies, and being overweight. Varicose veins may cause legs to ache or throb.
Treatment usually starts with compression stockings, which help squeeze blood out of the legs and back toward the heart. The stockings should exert force below the knee, where the pressure that distends and disrupts veins is the greatest. We also recommend weight loss and keeping the legs elevated. Medications are not very useful.
If these measures don't stop the problem from getting worse or provide enough relief from symptoms, a more invasive intervention might be considered. These include surgical removal of the veins (vein stripping) or sealing off distended veins with a laser or radiofrequency energy.
Surgery tends to do a good job at providing short- and intermediate-term relief, but other vessels in the leg occasionally will become dilated. Varicose veins that are treated, but not removed, can be retreated if they reopen and become blocked again. -- Thomas Lee, M.D. and Richard Lee, M.D., Co-Editors in Chief, Harvard Heart Letter | http://www.ctnow.com/health/sns-201305071630--tms--premhnstr--k-d20130508-20130508,0,3096947.story | dclm-gs1-039180002 | false | false | {
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0.071478 | <urn:uuid:117dff3e-672c-4087-997d-b8d5bfe89b93> | en | 0.982881 | In 2001, Bill Simons was visiting his parents in Maine when he saw an ad in the local newspaper offering a "project car" - a 1949 Ford station wagon.
The 1949 model was the first Ford to receive a thorough makeover after the end of World War II. A total of 31,412 two-door, eight-passenger Custom Ford station wagons were produced. Each one weighed 3,543 pounds.
Simons investigated the advertisement in the paper and discovered the car for sale had been dismantled and partially reassembled. He thought the asking price was excessive, so he walked away. Besides, he knew that 1949 was a year of big change at Ford with more metal and less wood in the station wagons.
A few months passed, and Simons contacted the seller to see if the price of the Ford had become more reasonable. It had, and Simons purchased the station wagon in August 2001 in Limerick, Maine. He left the car there and went home to Arlington, Va.
Arrangements were made for Simons to fly to Maine, rent a truck and trailer and haul his treasure home. The flight he chose was scheduled on Sept. 13, 2001. Two days after the terrorist attack on the United States all flights were grounded, so Simons' plan was scuttled.
The seller then agreed to transport the Ford 10 days later to the annual antique car gathering in Hershey, Pa., where Simons could take delivery.
Once the 17-foot, 4-inch-long Ford was at his home, Simons began a careful inspection. The 329-cubic-inch, flathead V-8 engine was given a clean bill of health and was pronounced capable of 100 horsepower. Fluid capacities included 5 quarts of oil and 19 gallons of gasoline.
Fortunately, the metal bodywork had been completed. Simons says all of the original wooden parts of the car were intact, including the dark mahogany panels, as well as the lighter maple trim pieces.
On the inside of the metal shroud around the spare tire on the tailgate was a sample of the original Meadow Green paint. That color was perfectly matched when the metal parts of the car were painted.
When new in 1949 the Ford had a base price of $2,119 and was supported on a 114-inch wheelbase by 7.10x15-inch tires. As what turned into a 10-year restoration project progressed, Simons says that wherever he could keep an original piece of the car, he did so.
His Ford features three-row seating with original vinyl upholstery in the second and third row seats. Only the front seat has been reupholstered.
In a nod to safety, Simons has installed three-point seat belts, as well as adding a second tail/brake light that also permits turn signal indicators.
The side glass windows by the second and third row seats slide forward and backward. The glass in the car is all original Simon's reports, except for the two-piece windshield.
Simons has learned that Ford often went into the parts bin for parts such as the door handles that are from a Mercury sedan of the same year.
Early on, as the lengthy restoration was inching along, Simons was pleasantly surprised to hear from the man who had sold him the car. He had found a critical part that Simons had yet to discover was missing. The man was happy to give the part to Simons, who was even happier to get the part.
After a decade of what Simons describes as "countless frustrations" the Ford can now be steered in the same 20.5-foot turning circle as when it was new. The speedometer is ready to register 100 mph speeds. "It can go 70," Simons affirms.
"I know every nut and bolt on the car," Simons says. "It was a struggle," he says of the restoration project, "but the victory was worth it."
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Agribusiness and federal regulations have put small farmers out of business. The Chinese are buying up the rural properties because it gives them lots of room to expand. Plus there are less neighbors to cause a fuss and have to also buy out. | http://www.dailypaul.com/comment/2445961 | dclm-gs1-039250002 | false | false | {
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The question has boiled down to how to remove the incentives for others to do things that shouldn't be done. I think we've gotten past the part where I'm accused of suggesting we eliminate privacy.
So, on the incentives issue, removing the reason why Mexicans come here will stop most of them from doing so. Likely to the point that their immigration is below our national policy limits and the issue can then be handled by cutting bureaucratic red tape.
Removing the incentives for people to desire our private info would similarly remove most of them from going after it as well. We just have to be clear that there are two ways to remove an incentive. We can legislate it as illegal (or pass laws that the government can't do it) or we can de-fund whatever profit stream the criminals benefit from by using it. Each separate issue has their own set of money trails but I'll use just one as an example.
"There will always be some .. politician who wants to pass a law..."
Ok, fine. So we ask why they would want to. Does Senator Jones really have a lifetime quest to change his pet behavior? No. He absolutely does not. In 99.9999% of the cases, he was lobbied to support and then handed that bill. So, our investigation has led back to the lobbyists and we must ask why they do it.
For money again, from Acme corporation. Is it practical to chase down and stop it at this stage? Maybe, but probably not. Congress won't change this rule unless a vast majority of the people are really pissed and organized against it. Unlikely so far. So why do the companies do this bribery?
For money again, from increased profits and total market controlled monopolies. Ok, so change that? Never. ...say most people. But wouldn't it take less people to put Acme out of business than to change the lobbying laws? People boycotted BoA a couple years ago and dropped their stock about 5-10% in just 2 days. They didn't fall because we let off but what if we hadn't? What if we had an organized voice that said "Hey Monsanto, stop all GMO or we'll permanently boycott every company you have contact with." Who wouldn't join that battle? (Only sharmers - sleeping sheep farmers)
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Hawker Beechcraft Cancels U-Haul Reservations
Hawker Beechcraft is staying in Wichita, as we knew they would. Here's how we knew it.
By Robert Goyer / Published: Dec 21, 2010
Photo: courtesy of Hawker Beechcraft Corporation
I've moved my family three times in the past 20 years.
Every time we did, we swore we'd never do it again. I guess the need or the advantages outweighed the painful memories of trying to, as my dad would say, cram 10 pounds of happy memories into a 5 pound sack. We've been in this place for five years now, and I still shudder a little every time I see a Mayflower truck drive down our street. I really hate moving.
But why is moving so painful an experience? First, it's expensive, and the more stuff you have the more expensive it is to move it. Not to mention the drama. Let's say you have month to pack up and move. It will take you a month and three days to get ready. If you have a year, it will take you a year and three days. It's some little understood law of physics. You don't have to understand it, just accept it.
So when Hawker Beechcraft was making noises about moving to Baton Rouge over the past many months, my first thought was, "Ha, they can't afford to move." Not for all the millions of dollars of neatly packaged dollar bills in Louisiana could they afford to pack up all of their machinery in all of their plants peopled by thousands of workers and load them into those little U-Haul trailers--that's a metaphor--and drive them three states away to Louisiana. Not to mention the hassle. Our televisions and easy chairs were relatively compact. Some of their knickknacks weigh 70 tons.
So why would they even consider moving? They didn't.
They didn't have to. What they really wanted, after all, was to get some help from the state and to get some help from the union.
They discovered that in this case, threatening to move was cheaper and a lot less of a hassle.
It worked out perfectly for Hawker Beechcraft, which just got a great retention package from the state, the city and the county that came to around $40 million over the next four years. Which is probably about double what it would have cost the company to move, not counting the incentives that they were looking at from Baton Rouge and the state of Louisiana.
The strategy had included a negotiated contract concession from the machinist's union, but that part of the plan fell through when union members in a close vote decided to call Hawker Beechcraft's bluff and vote down the contract. So labor costs will be higher than if the company had gone to Louisiana and gone with a non-union shop.
And it gets to keep its current workforce, which counts for a lot, and to keep producing airplanes the way it knows how to do so well.
The politicians who were involved in this multi-million dollar retention plan are quick to say it's not a bailout, and it isn't. It is a jobs package, though. Every job the politicians saved by getting Hawker Beechcraft to stay in town translates into mutiple votes, a fact that's not lost on anyone. Another fact that shouldn't be lose on any one is that for every job this move keeps in Kansas, it also saves several more, for those folks working in supply chain businesses and in service sector jobs that owe their existence to Hawker Beechcraft's good-paying manufacturing jobs.
So it's good news all around for those at Hawker Beechcraft, and for the rest of us, too.
They don't have to rent those moving vans, and we all get to keep an icon of American aircraft manufacturing where it really seems to belong, right there in the heart of the country in good old Wichita, Kansas.
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7. 2 -3 tablespoons feta cheese, crumbled
1. Remove large stems from packages of spinach. Steam or cook until wilted (3 minutes). Refresh with cold water. Press to remove excess moisture. Set aside.
2. In a large skillet, saute sliced red onion and minced garlic on low heat in olive oil for 2 minutes. Add cooked spinach, balsamic vinegar, and freshly ground pepper. Saute until warm.
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Kim Jong Nam, who fell out of favor with his father for attempting to travel to Japan on a fake passport to visit Disneyland in 2001, was passed over in the race to succeed his father by his youngest brother, the little-known Kim Jong Eun.
Kim Jong Nam reportedly told Japan's Tokyo Shimbun newspaper in an email sent Jan. 3 and published Thursday that he had "doubts about how a young successor with some two years [of training as heir]" can retain absolute power in the nuclear-armed state.
"I expect the existing ruling elite to follow in the footsteps of my father while keeping the young successor as a symbolic figure," he said in the email. "It is difficult to accept a third-generation succession under a normal reasoning."
Kim Jong Nam is a reclusive figure who, prior to his father's death, was believed to live in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. A figure of interest in Japan, he has occasionally given interviews to the Japanese press.
Last year, Kim Jong Nam criticized North Korea's hereditary succession in an interview with the same Tokyo newspaper.
"Even Chairman Mao Zedong of China did not enforce hereditary succession," he said.
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mrhappyguy12345Posted 3/19/2013 5:18:49 PM
I love video games : )
Killah PriestPosted 3/19/2013 5:19:09 PM
0 replay value IMO.
pigout666Posted 3/19/2013 5:21:56 PM
The experience is amazing, and the story is great.
Once the game has been 100%'d though, you'll probably grow bored of it, since the multiplayer is kind of.... baad.
8/10 IMO, the story is good for the first run, but there isnt much replayability
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Perfect LightPosted 3/19/2013 5:34:24 PM
It's one the best single-player experiences I've ever had.
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mrhappyguy12345(Topic Creator)Posted 3/19/2013 5:37:21 PM
Perfect Light posted...
It's one the best single-player experiences I've ever had.
Would you enjoy playing through it again?
I love video games : )
velvet_hammerPosted 3/19/2013 5:58:03 PM
Killah Priest posted...
0 replay value IMO.
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JoeofmarsPosted 3/19/2013 6:02:44 PM
Best game this year so far and I can't see anything surpassing it for me. I have beaten it twice since purchasing it and plan on going through it again at least once more. The multiplayer isn't AS BAD as everyone is saying it is, but it is still not amazing by any means. I have no problem having payed 60 dollars for it.
Milk_CorePosted 3/19/2013 6:17:36 PM
I loved it.
I DID NOT buy it for MP, and it would be stupid for someone to do so. Great experience, but I am a big TR fan so it could be biased. I will say that replay ability is slim, so if you aren't a collector, you should just give it a rent from gamefly or pick it up used at GS and return it before a week is up. Amazing game though.
SunDevil77Posted 3/19/2013 6:40:59 PM
FanTASTIC game...but I would wait for a drop in price. Around $40 would be the sweet spot.
I wish they had been original with the multiplayer (if they had to even have MP), like SE did with Hitman...but it's bad. Therefor, there isn't any replay value.
175 burgers for $175...this country is winning.
ant1080Posted 3/19/2013 6:50:03 PM
I have been playing it for the last week or so, and I absolutely love it.. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/927749-xbox-360/65736462?dismiss=9 | dclm-gs1-039690002 | false | false | {
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TrackstarrunnerPosted 4/1/2013 6:12:36 PM
I recently bought an xbox 360 and it does not have a hardware system attached (used) but came with a separate hard drive.... that being said i cant save games.... can anyone help?
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staticxtreme5Posted 4/1/2013 9:43:50 PM
You need to download the memory.
Go there to solve your problem. Remember, you need to do this from your Xbox's internet explorer.
masblasPosted 4/1/2013 10:56:28 PM
Would love to help but not sure what your asking, what's wrong with the hard drive and or maybe you need to return it. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/927749-xbox-360/65852831 | dclm-gs1-039700002 | false | false | {
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"Pretty, but it doesn't feel like a Myst game."
After completing Myst IV: Revelation, I immediately went out and got Myst V: End of Ages, hoping for a spectacular finale to the series. Unfortunately, I found this game to be a disappointment when compared to the last game.
Let's start with some background. After letting Myst III be developed by Presto, and Myst IV by Ubisoft, Cyan Worlds, the team behind the original Myst and its sequel, Riven, decided to develop Myst V themselves. Unfortunately, Matel, the game's producer, only gave the team about a year to complete the project (Riven was developed over 4 years, to give some comparison). And it really does show. It's not so much that End of Ages is a bad game. It simply does not come close to measuring up when compared to its predecessors. Here is a breakdown:
Graphics: 7/10
Unlike all previous Myst games (with the exception of the remake realMyst, and Uru, which doesn't count), Myst V's worlds are rendered in real-time 3D. This allows the player to explore virtually ever square inch of the ages in the game. While some might see this as a great new feature, I feel that it comes at too high a cost. Gone are many of the effects that made the ages of Revelation feel so real. There are almost no trees, and the few there are don't move. There are a handful of animals, but they move in predetermined lines or circles, and they seem to be an afterthought, stuck in at the last second. In one age, the birds do not even move. Clouds do move, but very, very slowly.
Another aspect that needs to be mentioned is the people. All previous Myst games have used real actors superimposed on the prerendered scenes to great effect. You felt like you were in real worlds inhabited by real people (though you didn't ever see them much). In End of Ages, all the people are textures placed on motion capture bodies. While sometimes this works ok, there are many instances when the characters move in ways that seem completely unnatural. This contributes to the feeling that you are viewing computer generated environments rather than exploring real worlds.
Perhaps the only aspect of the graphics that comes close to Revelation is the water. The water effects are decent, though in one age the water looks more like plastic. Unlike previous games, you can walk in the water, but when you do you never disturb it for some reason. Similarly, you never make footprints in sand or snow. This really irritates me for some reason. It's one of those little things that would make the game seem more real. The only thing that saves the graphics for me is the fact that, for real-time 3D graphics, they are top notch.
Sound: 5/10
The sound was disappointing. Though, there isn't much of it to begin with. Unlike with Myst IV, you don't ever hear your footsteps on any kind of surface. Similarly, you can no longer tap on (or interact with in any way) any object that is not a puzzle. While these things aren't essential to the game, their absence does reinforce the feeling that you are walking around in computer generated worlds, instead of real places. The puzzles do have related sounds that are appropriate. But there are so few puzzles that this isn't any great accomplishment.
The music is similarly uninspired. Tim Larkin, the resident composer for Cyan, took over from Jack Wall for this installment. The music isn't bad, just very repetitive. Many of the pieces sound the same (a bunch seem to sound like Saavedro's theme from Exile). A few pieces were ok, but none of it was really special. I wonder if Larkin was as rushed with the music as Cyan was with the game.
What really killed the sound for me was the voice acting. In a word it was bad. Like with Revelation, the characters voices are heard reading their journals aloud (though unlike Myst IV, there is no explanation as to why you can magically hear their voices). The characters (well Yeesha really) are so melodramatic that reading is almost a chore, especially since you can't turn the voice off. After a while I would stop listening to what was being said, as it rarely proved to be important.
Gameplay: 4/10
The Myst series has been made up of games where you solve varied and complex puzzles in fantastical, yet realistic, worlds. There are few people to interact with, and puzzles are solved through logical deduction. To see why Myst V doesn't does not fit the series, several aspects of the gameplay have to be examined.
The story is the first thing that seems odd. It isn't the Myst story. The only character from any of the previous games is Yeesha, though she is so different from Revelation that she doesn't really count in my mind. The story instead revolves around a tablet, which has the power to restore the lost D'ni civilization. This, I have since found out, is a continuation of the story of Uru, which I have never played. That turned out to be my loss, as End of Ages apparently relies on a TON of back story from Uru. And, unlike previous Myst games, there is very little information on that back story provided to you in the game. There is virtually no explanation of what the Bahro (strange creatures that can be controlled with the tablets) are, where they came from, or what their relationship is with the D'ni. You never learn how Escher (a mysterious man you meet in the game) can just appear and disappear at will.
The tablets are another major source of irritation for me. The one innovative feature of Myst V was its inclusion of the tablet system. The game allows you to draw images on the tablets you will find throughout the game. Certain images will make the Bahro do certain things, such as change the weather. While this addition seems cool at first, the designers pretty much killed any positive contribution it makes to the gameplay by making almost every puzzle revolve around the tablets. In Myst games, you often solve puzzles by figuring out how something works (usually a machine). This has not changed with Myst V. But, by making almost every puzzle revolve around the tablet, the puzzles all become the same and fairly simple once you figure out how to work the tablet. And the overall goal for each age is the same: get the tablet from point A to point B. Not much variety.
The ages in which these puzzles are found are very empty. There is really nothing in them except the puzzles. You never get the sense that anyone might have lived there. The few unrelated items you come across cannot be interacted with in any way. In fact, unless something is involved with a puzzle, all you can do is look at it. This makes it very easy to see what is a puzzle and what is not. And the ages are all very small as well. The length of the game certainly left something to be desired.
End of Ages does keep some of the successful gameplay features of its predecessors. The first is the control scheme. Since the graphics are rendered in real-time, the game can offer you variety of control schemes. You can choose from the classic click-to-move scheme (Myst, Riven), where the game is a series of unmoving frames. Or, you can chose the classic advanced mode, where you move node to node by clicking, but can look around freely within each node (Exile, Revelation). Or, you can use the advanced mode, which is like a first-person shooter.
The camera and journal are also included in this game. End of Ages even innovates by making each picture function as a game save. The only downside is that you can no longer zoom in on pictures in your journal. You also get a journal where a transcript of everything characters say to you is written down.
All in all, it just doesn't feel like a Myst game. You cannot interact with the vast majority of the game. The worlds, though pretty, feel very empty and contrived. The puzzles are similar, repetitive, and fairly simple. And whoever took all the linking books, could you please return them? Linking, in this game, with the exception of one age, takes place by touching stone pedestals inside magical soap bubbles. And after beating the game, even after Atrus' speech, I was still so clueless as to what was going on that I didn't really feel I had accomplished something. Put another way, I solved the puzzles but didn't really know why I was solving them. I've never solved a puzzle in another Myst game without at least the overall goal in mind.
Replayability: 0/10
This game is short and not particularly interesting. I can't really imagine why you would play it again.
Overall: 5/10
Certainly a disappointment after Revelation. An ok game if you want to see the end of the Myst saga. Though, the story is so unrelated to the previous installments that I don't really see this as any more of a finale than was the ending of Revelation. For someone who has loved the Myst series, it is a shame the last installment is such a dud.
Reviewer's Score: 5/10 | Originally Posted: 07/26/06
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'Iceman': Profile of hit man never heats up
• Michael Shannon plays real-life hitman Richard Kuklinski in "The Iceman."
Like many a true-crime tale, the story of Richard Kuklinski sounds like it would make an incredible movie.
A mob-related contract killer, Kuklinski also murdered for the sheer sport of it; when he was arrested in 1986, his wife and children had no idea he'd been doing anything illegal. They thought he was a businessman.
"The Iceman," a new film based on Kuklinski's life, is further proof that not all true-crime tales make incredible movies. A dreary wallow in the mire, this one goes wrong almost from the start -- save for the central piece of casting.
The picture is draped around the formidable shoulders of Michael Shannon, the Frankensteinian actor from "Take Shelter" and "Boardwalk Empire."
Shannon carries with him the eerie focus of a man who could smite you down just for looking at him sideways, ideal for this role, though limiting for projects that don't require the unsettling threat of immediate death.
Somehow this outwardly quiet maniac finds a wife (Winona Ryder, suitably fragile) and settles into small-town Jersey life while prospering as a hit man for a second-rate gangster (Ray Liotta).
As in every gangland saga, the etiquette of the mob world is as rigid as an imperial court, so when Kuklinski breaks protocol, he has to improvise to make ends meet.
This leads him to the practice of deep-freezing his victims so they can be held for future disposal, a specialty that earns him the "Iceman" nickname.
Scattered through this grisly scenario, which goes on for decades, are stock lowlifes played by actors who clearly cannot resist the chance to slap on a vintage '70s mustache: Chris Evans, David Schwimmer, Stephen Dorff.
Everybody but James Franco, right?
Oh, wait, here he is. Ten-minute cameo as a sleazebag given an unusual opportunity by Kuklinski: As he splutters out prayers under the killer's gun, Kuklinski promises to wait a few minutes in case God wants to intervene.
That episode is drawn directly from Kuklinski's memories of his career. If director Ariel Vromen had stuck with a more documentary-style cruise through the man's appalling life, perhaps "The Iceman" would've found an appropriately chilling groove.
Instead, we hear about Kuklinski's abused childhood, and we even begin to root for him when the sleazy gangsters threaten his family (he makes a point of not greasing women and kids).
At some point he becomes like Billy Bob Thornton's "Sling Blade" guy; Yes, maybe he's a tad maladjusted, but surely we can understand his protectiveness of home and hearth?
All of which undercuts Michael Shannon's undeniable strength in the part.
It does make one eager for his upcoming turn as Superman's nemesis in "Man of Steel": There'll likely be little time wasted on exploring the psychological underpinnings of General Zod.
"The Iceman" (2 1/2 stars)
A mostly dreary wallow in gangland mire, about a real-life hit man named Richard Kuklinski, whose career was unknown to his wife and family. The movie's main draw is the central performance by Michael Shannon, who physical presence and eerie focus makes you feel he'd really kill you if you looked at him sideways.
Rated: R for violence, language, subject matter.
Showing: Alderwood Mall, Meridian and Varsity theaters.
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Preparation Time15 MinCooking Time30 Min
Ready In45 MinHealth IndexHealthy
SpecialityMain Ingredient
For 4
Mutton500 Gram (Middle Or Scrag End Of Neck Or Breast)
Potatoes1 Kilogram
Onions225 Gram
Pepper1 Pinch
Salt10 Gram
Stock/Water590 Milliliter
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 471 Calories from Fat 143
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16 g24.4%
Saturated Fat 6.5 g32.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 85.2 mg
Sodium 1290.2 mg53.8%
Total Carbohydrates 51 g17.1%
Dietary Fiber 6.5 g25.8%
Sugars 4.3 g
Protein 33 g65.5%
Vitamin A 0.3% Vitamin C 89.3%
Calcium 5.7% Iron 23.6%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
1. Wash and cut meat into neat pieces.
2. Peel and slice onions.
3. Peel and cut potatoes into large pieces.
4. Put meat, onions, seasoning and quarter of the potatoes thinly sliced into a pan and add water or stock.
5. Cook till meat is three-fourths done.
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Here's how you make and how you eat polenta the traditional way.
Cooking Time20 MinDifficulty LevelEasy
Health IndexAverageServings4
MethodMain Ingredient
Polenta600 Gram
Warm water1 1⁄2 Liter
Stock2 Liter (vegetable or meat)
Salt1⁄2 Teaspoon
Meat sauce/Store-bought regular pasta sauce1 Cup (16 tbs) (meat or vegetarian)
Cracked black pepper1 Teaspoon
Cheese2 Tablespoon, grated (Optional)
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 272 Calories from Fat 116
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13 g19.9%
Saturated Fat 4.2 g20.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 15.7 mg
Sodium 1746.7 mg72.8%
Total Carbohydrates 23 g7.7%
Dietary Fiber 0.89 g3.6%
Sugars 1.3 g
Protein 17 g33.9%
Vitamin A 3% Vitamin C 1.3%
Calcium 9.2% Iron 40.9%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
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2.Once the polenta is cooked start adding vegetable stock. Do wear gloves while doing it as you could burn your hand.
3. Add one ladle vegetable stock at one time and mix gently until absorbed.
4.Once the polenta is cooked to creamy consistency remove pan off the heat and turn the mixture onto a flat clean surface. You could use wooden cutting board too.
5.Spread the meat/tomato sauce over the spread polenta and sprinkle some cheese and black pepper.
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"Frenzy" may be the best way to describe what’s currently happening in higher education.
On one hand, there’s MOOC (massive open online course) mania. Many commentators, faculty creators, administrators, and public officials think this is the silver bullet that will revolutionize higher education.
On the other hand, there is the call for fundamental rethinking of the higher education business model. This is grounded most often in the argument that the (net) cost structure of higher education is unaffordable to an increasing number of Americans. Commentators point out that every other major sector of the economy has gone through this rethinking/restructuring, so it is only to be expected that it is now higher education’s turn.
Furthermore, it is often claimed that colleges and universities need to disaggregate what they do and outsource (usually) or insource (if the expertise is really there) a re-envisioned approach to getting all the necessary work done.
In this essay I focus on the optimal blending of online content and the software platforms underneath.
Imagine how transformative it would be if we could combine self-paced, self-directed postsecondary learning (which has been around in one form or another for millennia) with online delivery of content that has embedded in it both the sophisticated assessment of learning and the ability to diagnose learning problems, sometimes even before the learner is aware of them, and provide just-in-time interventions that keep the learner on track.
Add to that the opportunity for the learner to connect to and participate in groups of other learners, and, to link directly to the faculty member and receive individualized attention and mentoring. What you would have is the 21st-century version of do-it-yourself college, grounded in but well beyond the experienced reality of the thousands of previous DIYers such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Thomas Edison.
A good goal to set for the future? No. The great news is that we already have all the components necessary to make this a reality in the near term. First, it is now possible to build “smart” content delivered through systems that are grounded in neuroscience and cognitive psychological research on the brain mechanisms and behaviors underlying how people actually learn. The Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, which creates courses and content that provide opportunities for research for the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC), is an example of how research can underlie content creation.
Such content and systems depend critically on faculty expertise, in deciding exactly what content is included, in what sequence, and how it is presented. Faculty are also critical in the student learning process, but perhaps not solely in ways we have traditionally thought. That is, it may not be that faculty are critical for the actual delivery of content, a fact we have known for millennia given that students obtain content through myriad sources (e.g., books) quite successfully.
Still, effective and efficient student learning has always depended critically on how well faculty master both these content steps as well as the other parts of the learning process, as evidenced by the experience with faculty who are experts at doing it and the ease with which learning seems to happen in those situations.
Second, these “smart” systems exist in a context of sophisticated analytics that do two things: (a) monitor what the learner is doing such that it can detect when the learner is about to go off-track and insert a remedial action or tutorial just in time, and (b) assess what the learner knows at any point. These features can be used to set mastery learning requirements at each step such that the learner cannot proceed without demonstrating learning at a specific level.
Ensuring mastery of content has long been a major concern for faculty, who used to have to spend hours embedding pop quizzes or other learning assessments into their courses, set up review sessions, set office hours during which students may (or may not) attend, and implore students to contact them is they encountered difficulties. The dilemma for faculty has usually been figuring out who needs the assistance when and how.
The sophisticated analytics underneath content delivery systems help take the guesswork out of it, thereby enabling faculty to engage with more students more effectively, and, most important, design the engagement to address each student’s specific issue. Better student-faculty interactions will likely do more to improve student learning than most any other intervention.
Third, the platforms on which these “smart” systems are built and delivered include ways to create virtual teams of learners (both synchronously and asynchronously) and to include faculty interaction from one-on-one to one-on-many. This tool will make the long tradition of having students form study groups easier for faculty to accomplish, and enable students whose physical location or schedules may have made it difficult previously to participate in such groups to gain their full benefit.
Fourth, the creation of these “smart” systems has resulted in much clearer articulations of the specific competencies that underlie various levels of mastery in a particular field. As evidenced by the various articulations and degree profile work done in the U.S. and internationally, and by the development of specific competencies for licensure by several professional associations, faculty play a central role.
Fifth, the specification of competencies makes it easier to develop the rubrics by which learning acquired prior to formal enrollment in a college/university or in other ways not otherwise well-documented can be assessed, and the learner be placed on the overall continuum of subject mastery in a target field or discipline. Although faculty have always played a central role in such assessments, standardization of assessment has proven difficult. However, with the inclusion of faculty expertise, assessments such as Advanced Placement exams and learning portfolios can now be accomplished with extremely high reliability.
All of this could have enormous consequences for higher education. To be sure, we need more research and development of a broader array of content and delivery approaches than we currently have. In the meantime, though, three steps can be taken to meet students’ needs and to increase the efficiency with which colleges and universities provide the educated citizens we need:
• Define as many postsecondary credentials as possible in terms of specific competencies developed by faculty and practicing professionals. This will provide the bases for developing as many “smart” systems as possible for improved content and learning assessment, and for assessing prior learning.
• Meet students at the edge of their learning. Each student that arrives at a college/university is at a different spot along the learning continuum. Previously, we made at best very rough cuts at determining where students should start in a course sequence, for example. But more sophisticated prior learning assessment means we can be much more precise about matching what the student knows and where s/he should connect to a learning sequence. Not only would this approach minimize needless repetition of content already mastered, but it could also provide faster pathways to credentials.
• Design personalized pathways to credentials. Better and clearer articulation of what students need to know for a specific credential, plus better assessments of prior and ongoing learning, plus more sophisticated content, plus the opportunity for faculty to engage individually and collectively with students in more focused ways means we can create individual learning plans for students to complete the credentials they need. In essence, a learning gap analysis can be done for each student, indicating at any point in time what s/he still needs to know to achieve a credential. Faculty mentorship can become more intrusive and effective, and a student’s understanding of what and why specific knowledge matters would be deeper.
Institutions that have greater flexibility to address these steps will be the most likely to succeed. I am heartened by the many professors and administrators who are creating the innovative approaches to make the changes real, and to embed them in the culture of their respective institutions. They provide students with superior advising and clearer pathways to achieving the academic credentials students seek. In the longer run, those institutions are likely to see cost structures decline due to more efficient progress through academic programs.
The technology-driven changes described here may well enhance student learning, and help us reach the goal of greater access to higher education for adults of all ages.
But it raises a crucial, and largely unaddressed, question that gets lost in debates about whether costs can be reduced using such technology or whether it will result in fewer faculty jobs.
We have not yet adequately confronted the definition of “faculty” in this emerging, technology-driven environment. Although a thorough discussion of that issue necessarily awaits a different article, suffice it to say that just as technology and costs have changed the job descriptions of people in most other professions, including health care, it has also created new opportunities for those in them. For instance, even though the rise of nurse practitioners has changed key aspects of health care delivery, the demand for more physicians, whose job descriptions may have changed, remains.
In any case, the best part is that these new approaches do not replace the most important aspect of education — the student-teacher interaction. Rather, they provide more effective and efficient ways to achieve it.
John C. Cavanaugh is president & CEO of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area.
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Rarely have historians played as important a role in shaping the outcome of a public controversy as in the same-sex marriage cases. Legal, family, women's, and lesbian and gay historians provided key evidence on which U.S. v. Windsor ultimately turned: that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) represented an unprecedented and improper federal intrusion into a domain historically belonging to the states. As Justice Kennedy affirmed, "the federal government, through our history, has deferred to state law policy decisions with respect to domestic relations."
But historical scholarship did more than substantiate a single pivotal argument. It framed the majority’s broader understanding of marriage as an evolving institution and helped convince five justices that opposition to same-sex marriage is best understood as part of a long history of efforts to deprive disfavored groups of equal rights and benefits. In the end, the majority opinion hinged on "the community’s ... evolving understanding" of marriage and of equality and the majority’s recognition that DOMA imposed "a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the states."
Briefs filed with the Supreme Court by the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians demonstrated that far from being a static institution, marriage has profoundly changed its definition, roles, and functions, and that today's dominant marital ideal, emphasizing emotional intimacy, has nothing to do with gender. Currently, marriage's foremost public function is to distribute benefits, such as those involving health insurance, Social Security, and inheritance, making it all the more valuable for same-sex couples.
Furthermore, these briefs proved that contrary to the widely held assumption that marriage has long been defined by its procreative function, this was not the case. Marriage was justified on multiple grounds. Especially important were the notions that marriage contributed to social stability and provided care for family members. No American state ever forbade marriage to those too old to bear children.
Without reducing the legal history of marriage to a Whiggish, Progressive. or linear narrative, the historians showed that two broad themes characterize the shifting law of marriage in the United States. The first is the decline of coverture, the notion that a married woman's identity is subsumed in her husband's. A second theme is the overturning of earlier restrictions about who can marry whom.
Slowly and unevenly, American society has abolished restrictions on marriage based on people's identity. As recently as the 1920s, 38 states barred marriages between whites and blacks, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Indians, "Malays," and "Mongolians." It was not until 1967 in Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that threw out a Virginia ban on black-white marriages, that racial and ethnic restrictions were outlawed.
At the same time, there has been an ongoing legal struggle to recognize women as full rights-bearers within marriage. Instead of seeing their identity subsumed in their husband's -- the notion that spouses cannot testify against one another was originally rooted in this principle -- women gradually attained the right to sue, control their own wages, and manage their separate property.
Perhaps the most powerful recent symbols of this shift are prosecutions for marital rape and elimination of the presumption that a husband is head of the household for legal purposes. Opposition to the liberalization of marriage, the historians demonstrated, has rested on historical misconceptions and upon animus, rooted in ethnocentrism and religious sectarianism.
Marriage today bears scant resemblance to marriage even half a century ago, when the male breadwinner family prevailed and dual-earner and single-parent households were far rarer than today. The contemporary notion of marriage as an equal, gender-neutral partnership differs markedly not only from the patriarchal and hierarchical ideals of the colonial era, but from the notion of complementary spousal roles that predominated during the age of companionate marriage that prevailed from the 1920s into the mid-1960s.
Change, not continuity, has been the hallmark of the history of marriage. Even before the 20th century, marriage underwent certain profound transformations. Landmarks in this history included:
• Enactment of the first Married Women's Property laws in the 1830s and 1840s, which established women's right to control property and earnings separate and apart from their husbands.
• Passage of the first adoption laws in the mid-19th century, allowing those unable to bear children to rear a child born to other parents as their own.
• Increased access to divorce, beginning with judicial divorce supplanting legislative divorce.
• The criminalization of spousal abuse starting in the 1870s.
Marriage's persistence reflects its adaptability. DOMA represented an unprecedented federal attempt to fix the definition of marriage and impose this definition upon the states and their inhabitants. Specifically, DOMA represented a federal effort to prohibit lesbian and gay Americans from securing the same civil rights and benefits available to other citizens. DOMA stigmatized a specific group of Americans and represented federal discrimination based on a particular religious point of view. In Justice Kennedy’s ringing words: "The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity."
History, in the same-sex marriage controversy, was not simply "preface" -- an interesting but ultimately insignificant detail in cases involving equal treatment under law. History lay bare a series of dangerously misleading assumptions -- above all, the notion that same-sex marriage deviates from a timeless, unchanging marital norm.
Steven Mintz, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life and Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, signed the American Historical Association brief.
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A debt collection agency has been calling me over a debt that was charged off 10 years ago. I told them to send all the paper work they have and that I did not believe that I owe the debt. I told them that there was a time limit on collecting old debt and it has past. They told me every time they sell the debt the time limit restarts. Is this a debt that I should pay or be worried about after so long? Does the statue restart every time a collection company sells the debt? How do i resolve this without court?
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1. Lets see we had Buel that made the big time and won for the first time as an American bike in the sport bikes, but they dumped that whole market closed Buel and won't even let Eric build a street bike on his own.
Now we have a new Modified 5 race season on a street bike that can't cut it racing other bikes so they give it's ow class.
What we need is bikers back in Leadership at Harley-Davidson!
2. Great idea, close racing, affordable.
In Italy every H-D dealer has a racer.
Sorry , we don't need Eric, we have the XR 1200.
3. Ha! XR 1200, race bike? That's funny!
4. Well they can't sell them, so might as well race 'em. Typical H-D thinking!! ....Morons. What would be more interesting, would be to put a bunch of dressers out there on the track...then it could be like nascar! Lol
5. Excellent idea schrank! It would be slightly more exciting than nascar with all the helmet-less crashes. Definitely a gene pool cleaning "sport".
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1. Sooo..when Republicans can't win on their ideas, they try to change the rules until they can get rid of enough "bad" voters to win. How are they not ashamed to discuss this publicly? Isn't it a crime to try to systematically disenfranchise your opponents' so called base? Perhaps young people might be willing to vote Republican if they weren't actively pursuing policies that hurt young people!!!
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2. I guess Scott Walker just doesn't "get it" why the republicans lost the election.
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3. Walker, what does same-day voter registration have to do with your job -- your promise to create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin? Stop running away, all the way across the country, to say what you're going to do in Wisconsin. Stop running for national office.
Stay in Wisconsin and work on your promise to create 250,000 jobs -- or what happened to Ryan will happen to you. He couldn't even win his hometown, not even his own ward, the neighbors who know him. Walker, stop suppressing the vote and start creating the jobs.
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4. NOTE: My screen name has nothing to do with my political beliefs.
I have read a lot on both sides of this argument. The election workers that I have seen quoted (including this article) are not for this change. They are the ones that deal with this on election day - and do not see a need for this at all.
I know that many states do not have same-day registration. Does that mean we have to sink to their level? The argument that only 7 states allow same day registration - so we should't either isn't a reason to change simply by itself.
Getting more people involved in the political process IS A GOOD THING. I know that traditionally the higher the voter the turnout, the better that is for Dems, but in many ways - it is better for all of us. I know that the Motor-Voter option would still be in play, but if Same Day Registration is easier for people to use...just go to your local voting place and register, then how are we a better democracy by making it harder to vote.
Again, I am just trying to look at this evenly. I know some say that voter fraud happens during elections, I haven't seen any substantial documented case. This is a "fix" in search of a problem.
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5. Yeah like it's sooooo difficult to get your lazy butt(it's not like you have a job or are doing anything productive) down and register 15 days or a month earlier when there are no lines and there is time to verify that you are actually a legal voter... Everyone knows why the liberals don't want this passed and it has nothing to do with voter suppression... Wisconsin is one of only 8 states that allow same day registration.
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6. Roughly half the people disagree and the other half agree, usually with a 1% differential. If you want to vote, it is easy to do. Registering is easy too. Getting people to register on the day of is an unneeded complication to the process. What other serious thing in life can you register for and then do it a minute later? To be silly, even sky divers make you watch a video.
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7. We require a student to live in the state for six months somewhere other thanthe a dorm to get instate tuition but we let them vote after 28 days. If they are state residents then they should vote absentee back home
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8. The Republican Party continues to slouch towards irrelevancy and extinction and continued voter disenfranchisement is top priority coming outta the gates? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the classic definition of...of, oh forget it. Time for conservatives to get the excuse machine revved up for the top 100 reasons Scooter will never sniff the 250,000 jobs he promised. Bold prediction: all of them will involve mean ol' Democrats and that Socialist Kenyan President of ours.
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9. But if we did away with voter ID and same-day voting, how would the Democrats cheat?
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10. nothing walker does is for the overall good of the people of wis. he continues to spend all his time either appearing before extreme right wingers nationally or trying to steal more votes either through redistricting or voter registration laws. he is trying to take wisc back to what mississippi was.
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1. It was a really bad call. But I'm with Glazer. Come on, people.
But here is something else that Glazer (and the rest of them, too) should be digging into: Why is Slavin still working a replay booth in light of such gross incompetence? Does accountability not extend to replay officials? A game was turned because he was one of two people to see a simultaneous reception of the millions that saw the tape. Maybe the NFL ought not risk "damaging the shield" by trusting such faulty vision. Death threats are out of bound but a pink slip isn't.
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• He's still working because the NFL proclaimed that his call in Seattle was correct.
• The final call on replays in the NFL, unlike in college, is made by the on-field referee. The replay official can chime in, but it's the refs call. As bad of a call as it was, based on the video evidence it would have been hard to overturn that call whether it was called a TD or interception. I watched the replay over and over on my DVR and as much as I wanted to say it should have been overturned...from the two angles I saw it was difficult to determine where everyone's hands were (although you'd think Jennings having the ball pinned to his chest would give him complete control). The enlarged photo from ESPN that showed a lime green glove not on the ball was a nice try, but Tate had all black gloves, the lime green glove was that of another Seahawks receiver that ended up in the wreckage of that play. Long story short...since it was called a TD, there was no "conclusive" evidence to overturn it.
2. Today's officials should be thankful the Packers won. They would have found themselves in a similar predicament. These have been the two worst weeks of officiating I have ever seen. The pros were just as bad as the amateurs. I hope it was just rust today in the case of the returning pros. I couldn't take a whole season of this.
3. People are stupid. Last week, one person even posted Easley's home address and phone number and urged his fellow idiots to harrass the guy. Some people need to get a grip.
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rodentraiser (Inactive) writes:
Seems to me every time we've privatized a business, we've let them set up their own watchdogs. Nothing like the fox guarding the hen house to make profits, is there? And while private companies act like they are so busy pretending to look after us, prices go up and accountability goes down. After watching the airlines and seeing how well they do on their own airplane maintenance, I live in dread of the day when we don't have, for instance, the FDA. God knows, they're not that great, but if you think things are bad now, wait till you see what happens when the hog farms, the chicken farms and the like get to police their own businesses. Would you really feel safe eating food where the health of the animals and the cleanliness of the farm was in the hands of people who were poised to make millions if they cut corners on their own products? And that's just one industry example.
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ctmcmull writes:
Are these links causal, or merely correlative? That is, are the sort of people who adopt a restrictive vegetarian diet also more likely the sort to be more careful about the quality of their food generally, less likely to smoke, more likely to exercise? Probably, but that's more of a demographic relationship than a statement about eating meat.
Here's an idea: hunt, gather, or grow your own food - veggies, fruits, nuts, and animals - and quit worrying about this stuff. C'mon, man, we've evolved as wide-ranging, opportunistic omnivores. It's unseemly and preachy to pretend otherwise.
I'll keep my chickens and deer meat; you can keep your powerful lentil flatulence.
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PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. (AP) -- Five bodies burned beyond recognition have been found inside the shell of a charred sport utility vehicle in the Arizona desert, and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Saturday the case is likely connected to drug cartel violence.
Only 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Pinal County is concerned about the extent of the violence, Babeu said.
"This is pretty significant," he said of the latest homicide investigation. "Given all these indicators, you don't have to be a homicide detective to add up all this information."
"This happens far too often and usually our involvement is just a small percentage of what really goes on," the sheriff said. "Is it concerning? Is it troubling? Yes it is."
The latest case started around 4:30 a.m. in the Vekol Valley area when a white Ford Expedition was spotted by a Border Patrol agent. The vehicle disappeared despite an effort by federal and local authorities to track it down. Why the vehicle drew attention is unclear.
Agents could see the smoldering vehicle from a distance through binoculars.
The bodies were so badly burned that investigators could not immediately determine their gender or ethnicity. While it's unclear whether the victims were from Mexico, the sheriff's office has notified the Mexican Consulate.
The sheriff said the extent of the violence, particularly in the western part of the county - about 35 miles south of Phoenix - is a concern. He said it's more evidence that drug smuggling north of the border continues to be significant and has not subsided. | http://www.kmov.com/news/national/Arizona-authorities-find-5-bodies-in-burned-vehicle--156872245.html | dclm-gs1-040120002 | false | false | {
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jal3961 writes:
Why in the world don't the school system teach school work, instead of letting perverts play around on the internet. YOU TEACH school work at school, its not a dating service.
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cjensen writes:
HD...that linking to the Andeson News was just a computer fubar. I think they've fixed it now.
I know you are hyped to wade hip deep into that 'other issue', but take my word for it (though I don't know why you should), it's better to stay out of the swamp.
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0.018796 | <urn:uuid:29c6d4b5-2feb-41cf-9c4c-af5dceea7e36> | en | 0.97152 | Mr. President, meet M. de Tocqueville
Somewhere in one of Barack Obama's campaign speeches this election year, like a piece of barbed wire in an otherwise light and puffy soufflé of empty platitudes, was this remarkable comment:
There are certain phrases, like this one, so memorable that they come to stand for the whole of a speech. Indeed for a whole attitude, for the whole spirit of a man and maybe of an age. For instance: "Give me liberty or give me death!" "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Or, in our own, less elevated time: "I never had sexual relations with that woman."
Yes, the president's speech also included a grudging tribute here and there to free enterprise, the entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinkers in general, but it was clear all that was just lip service. There was no mistaking his general drift -- to the decided left.
Barack Obama's whole attitude was unmistakable to anyone game enough to plow through his long, wordy speech. Between liberty and equality, those two poles in the never ceasing tug-of-war over the meaning of America and the American dream, the president's tilt was clear. His speech was about as fair and unbalanced as Fox News--only in the opposite direction.
No wonder that single quote lit up the Internet. It inflamed the president's critics and reduced his defenders to the kind of long and tendentious explanations that don't really explain, and leave even those making them sounding defensive.
Soon enough these remarks of the president's will be offset by another of his appeals to American business to invest more, hire more workers and create more jobs. Even while he is proposing to tax businessmen more and wrap them ever more tightly in red tape. He seems completely unaware of all the contradictions he's wandered into, as if he had only been speaking, not thinking.
It was all enough to make his more appalled listeners wonder if this president understands how a free economy works. Or a free country.
Barack Obama was something of an unknown quantity when we elected him president. For many of us, it was enough to know he wasn't George W. Bush.
Now, almost four years later, Mr. Cool seems to have grown even more distant and detached. And the longer he speaks, the less we seem to know him -- or he us.
But there's no mistaking our president's tendency to dismiss the importance of the individual and celebrate the power of the collective: "We rise and fall together as one nation, and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for president because I still believe in that idea...."
Attaway, Mr. President! Spoken like a real community organizer! But not necessarily like a president of the United States.
As a French visitor named Alexis de Tocqueville explained almost two centuries ago, after his grand tour of Jacksonian America in the 1830s, democracy in America is a perpetual balancing act between those two competing attractions, liberty and equality. There is an inverse relationship between the two. As one waxes, the other must necessarily wane. If democracy is to endure, it cannot choose to pursue only one of those goals. It must balance them. Instead, the president extolled The People, the Nation, as if we were one undifferentiated mass. One nation, one people! Ein reich, ein volk!
The president's most severe critics make the equal-but-opposite mistake of celebrating freedom and the free market above all -- without recognizing the indispensable role the state plays in making that freedom possible through the rule of law, and by assuring not just a free market but freedom of opportunity. For the unrestrained power of the individual is as great a threat to freedom as the unrestrained power of the state.
But this president doesn't seem to recognize that, in its zeal for equality, democracy must also respect liberty. Maybe he needs to read less Saul Alinsky and more Alexis de Tocqueville. For a democracy must know itself, its limits as well as its power, if it is to control itself. And there is no better primer on that complicated subject than Alexis de Tocqueville's study of "Democracy in America."
When his book first appeared in France, a reviewer unhappy with its complexity, its lack of simple answers, its balanced view, demanded to know just where its author stood: Was he for or against democracy? Was he for liberty or equality? He was for both, of course, and for preserving the always uneasy balance between the two. As he wrote in response to his critic:
"I had become aware that, in our time, the new social state that had produced and is still producing very great benefits was, however, giving birth to a number of quite dangerous tendencies. . . . My aim in writing (the) book was to point out these dreadful downward paths opening under the feet of our contemporaries, not to prove that they must be thrown back into an aristocratic state of society ... but to make these tendencies feared by painting them in vivid colors, and thus to secure the effort of mind and will which alone can combat them -- to teach democracy to know itself, and thereby to direct itself and contain itself."
Mr. President, meet M. de Tocqueville. You might learn a thing or, in a nation of 313 million free-spirited, free-minded individuals, three hundred and thirteen million of them.
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2. Ghost in the Sheet may be more traditional than it first appears, but this spooky adventure still offers challenging puzzles amid a creepy atmosphere.
3. Ghost in the Sheet is an original, if low-budget take on the mystery/adventure genre, but poor narration and low-quality visuals make it a challenge to finish. [May 2008, p.64]
4. The voice work and graphic design are both well done, if a bit utilitarian, but the dialogue and story need polishing to create a strong immersive atmosphere that a game like this really requires.
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In the spring, tree pollen’s usually the culprit. In the fall, it’s weed pollens.
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Spring and fall allergies have the same symptoms: sneezing, runny nose, itchy or watery eyes, headache, sinus pain and pressure, and increased asthma symptoms. However, triggers differ and, according to ENT & Allergy Associates‘ Dr. Milo F. Vassallo, airborne allergens can worsen in fall.
“There can be far more culprits in fall,” says Vassallo, a pediatric and adult allergist and immunologist who practices in New York. “Overall, in spring, outdoor allergens are mainly tree pollens and, in the fall, it’s weed pollens, like ragweed. That’s also complicated by molds, which [grow in] early fall’s warm, wet weather.”
No matter what the season, for most people, dealing with allergies means avoiding triggers. “Limit exposure,” Vassallo recommends. “In the early fall, keep windows closed from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the yard, wear a mask to rake leaves.”
And don’t forget about indoor allergens.
“In late fall, when the weather gets colder, people close their windows and seal up their home. They pull out old comforters and quilts. Then, the dust mite problem escalates, and even sensitivities to their pets worsen. As I often say, people are potentially sleeping with the enemy.”
One piece of good news for allergy sufferers is that cold weather stops the outdoor triggers: “By first frost,” Vassallo says, “weed pollens and molds have ceased.”
Long-term, though, the ragweed season might be lengthening due to a rise in temperatures and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, says the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
“It’s complex; there are multiple factors,” says Vassallo. “But unfortunately, it’s not looking good for allergies in general.”
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Allergy treatment varies from over-the-counter medicines to ease symptoms to sitting down with an allergist to create a treatment plan, such as immunotherapy, for long-term relief. Immunotherapy works in a similar way to homeopathy.
“Shots can prevent allergies to airborne allergens very effectively and are an excellent long-term preventative solution,” says Vassallo. “We start with extraordinarily small amounts of the pollen and build to a therapeutic dose. It retrains the immune system and people can start looking forward to fall.”
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05-07-2010, 01:32 PM
I occasionally have a set of ghost titles appear, specifically they appear to be multiple sets of references to a single chapter of a random book in the book menus. I got rid of them once, but on resyncing it's happened again, and I don't recall how to eliminate them...
Any suggestions?
05-07-2010, 03:30 PM
How about deleting the ghosts in ADE?
05-07-2010, 05:04 PM
They only appear on the reader itself.
05-13-2010, 08:33 PM
Going to give this a bump with the better understanding of the SQLlite database thats floating around now... Any ideas?
As of now I get these blank titles all the time, but every time the device processes new content the title (always shared by each instance of the blank title) changes.
I would try deleting the database completely, but I don't want to lose the pre-installed books. I'm guessing that this has something to do with the database not clearing out deleted titles properly, but that's about as far as I've gotten.
05-14-2010, 07:11 AM
Can you provide some more details of what you mean Bureau? When I first read this post, I thought you were just referring to the popular quotes the Kobo displays when loading a chapter or book.
Where do these titles appear?
05-14-2010, 12:24 PM
In the book lists, both now reading and the full list. Sometimes its a book title that gets lists 12ish times rather than once (with only one of the entries working), other times it is a random chapter OF a book getting listed AS a book, but linking to a blank page.
Like I said, I suspect that my database is somehow corrupt, but with no real way to confirm that i'm hoping not to have to nuke the 100 included books.
05-14-2010, 06:58 PM
In theory, restoring to the factory default would clean up the database and it might restore the 100 books. On the other hand, at least one person reported getting a Kobo without the books, so maybe the default is an empty database. I haven't heard any reports of people resorting to the factory default reset, though.
05-14-2010, 07:27 PM
Well, if his actual database is corrupt, hitting the button reset probably wouldn't fix that. He has the option of deleting the dbase first and then doing the reset, which will recreate an empty dbase. But he mentioned the desire to avoid wiping the 100 free books.
I would recommend you just nuke the dbase Bureua.... all those 100 free books are in the public domain and you can very easily find DRM-free epubs of them (gutenberg.org)
05-14-2010, 10:39 PM
There is a (big) difference between using the reset button on the back, and using the menu to find the Advanced Settings to 'Restore to Factory Defaults'. The restore pretty much does a memory wipe. You can read up on it in the Help, at the very end, but it won't really tell exactly what it does about the 100 books.
05-14-2010, 11:23 PM
I have done a Restore to Factory Defaults and still had the 100 free books left.
05-14-2010, 11:32 PM
Thank you! I do love it when somebody does the experiment I'm afraid to try! :)
05-15-2010, 06:13 PM
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I have always hated doing things in front of people, but the irony is that I grew up studying music and being in choirs and performing in front of people. I did alright in high school, I play the piano and guitar and was even in a band and sang solos, but when I went to college, I was in music and I started having panic attacks and serious anxiety about it to the point that I could no longer participate in any of these things. I do have talent and could probably have a career or at least a fulfilling hobby using my musical abilities, but I cannot do it in front of others. I feel like a part of me is missing because I allow myself to never use those abilities because of the fear of having the anxiety issues over it again. All I'd like to do is be able to participate in a church Christmas program, maybe sing with someone or join a local choir. Nothing big, but I've tried in the past and immediately those feelings come back. Has anyone had experience with a similar thing? I've ignored my musical interests for at least the past 5 years and when I think about how I've let the fear destroy that part of me, I have a huge feeling of guilt and regret about it. I'd like to share music with my children and I really wish it could be part of my life.
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Not me, but my sweet husband. He had major issues speaking in front of others (going back to being forced to read out loud at school, being bad at it, and being laughed at). His job requires giving presentations in front of others. He was having panic attacks when he had to present.
He has used cognitive behavior techniques to make peace with this. I recommend working with a therapist. It's worth it.
He recently gave an hour long presentation in front of 250 people. He didn't enjoy it, but he didn't have a panic attack!
It's worth the time and expensive to take control of you life and LIVE your dreams! Really live. Live the life you were meant to!
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I don't have much stage fright anymore, I think in part because of my age, and in part because maybe I just don't care. I think some stage fright is normal, I always get a bit nervous when I have to perform. I played the viola when I was younger, and I got used to playing in front of people. I'm not sure I ever really liked it. But I would never sing in front of people. I'd even sing really quietly at church, trying to site read the alto line when I was trying to become better at site reading. A friend would encourage me to keep singing the harmony, but I hated for other people to hear my singing voice.
I would sing in groups with people eventually, and that was fun. Then I learned about karaoke, a part of me found the idea intensely interesting, but I couldn't imagine who would have the courage to do that. Eventually I started doing it, and the first few times I was so nervous I thought I'd pass out or something. And then it stopped having that effect the more I did it, which actually made me realize that part of the reason I was doing it was because I liked the sensation of being so nervous, and then getting relief. But I just stopped caring what other people thought because I realized how utterly bad some people are, yet people will still tell them they are good. Maybe I just stopped thinking it mattered.
So now I do sing solos in choirs, I've sung solos in my choir and I've sung at funerals. There are people in my church choir who can sing well, but absolutely refuse to try out for solos. They just don't want to sing alone. But your situation sounds worse since you won't even sing in a group with others, and you have panic attacks. Do you sing in front of your children? I don't sing in front of my husband very often because I feel like he won't like my voice. At church, though, it seems like whatever you do, people will find something nice to say. Oh well, I don't have any advice, but therapy sounds like a good idea to help you with the panic attacks. Good luck!
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Thanks for your thoughts! I only have 1 baby girl so far, and I do sing with her all the time but I hope to have more children and I don't want my fears to influence them negatively. I don't mind singing in front of my husband. He doesn't understand music at all so he wouldn't know if someone could sing or not :)
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I noticed this evening that the bite/scratch mark I saw this morning has become a swollen area extending from his upper forehead to the bridge of his nose. He has no pain, no redness. He is behaving normally and has not been ill. His eyes look okay except for the swelling nearby. We have no pets so I am guessing this is a bug bite reaction. It looks weird but that seems to be the extent of the problem. Help.
I am planning on waking every few hours to check on him in bed next to me and reassessing in the morning...
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Does it almost look like a welt? My dd (and myself) get wicked reactions to mosquito bites and other bug bites. One time dd had a bite on her calf, and half of her leg looked swollen! But it was just the bug bite and the way they make those welts on our bodies. It happens to me too.
I'd trust your instincts and keep an eye on him. Is he running a fever or anything? If your instincts tell you to get it looked at, I would, just for your peace of mind. I didn't take my dd in because I get the same reaction (and so does my brother) so I know our "sweet meat" kind of runs in the family
I usually make a little paste with some warm water and baking soda and put it on the welt if I can... it seems to help a little bit. I've had to go the hydrocortisone and benadryl route with mine because I have had several at one time that were bad... but that is up to you if you want to try those things. If you really feel it's a bug bite maybe someone has some more natural remedies to help speed the healing.
ETA: If it is more like a red "streak" then a swollen welt, I would definitely take him in to get it checked. As I mentioned earlier I have always reacted to bug bites, one time I got bitten in the arm.. and what started out as a routine bite turned into a staph infection. Thank goodness it was caught early... but I had this red streak running down my arm from the site of the bite and it wasn't pretty. I also don't remember any other adverse effects, just having that red streak, but it did turn out to be serious. So go with your instincts and see how it looks as you check on him at night.
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Thanks for your response. It really helps to see another mother's reasoning. We don't exactly avoid the doctor's office but we prefer to be reasonable about what needs medical attention. Sometimes I worry that I am being too hands-off when considering various ailments.
I am still leaning towards the bug bite scenaria. There is a raised area near his hairline but that is the only part that is even remotely pink. There is no streaking and he is not running a fever. I understand you about some people just being prone to more dramatic skin reactions. He has always been that way. It is a little scarier when it is his face and the tiny nose bridge area. He looks like a completely different child but he is acting fine so I will just continue to keep an eye on him.
Thanks again!
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I had this happen a few years ago. I concluded in the end that it was a bug/spider bite right at my hairline. My forehead swelled up and then the swelling moved down my face - the second day I was swollen around my eyes and nose. I looked weird! But it just passed in another day.
Antihistamine cream would probably reduce the swelling if it's causing discomfort. Otherwise I would wait it out.
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At the beginning of the bug season my DD always has a major reaction to her first few bug bites.
Just this weekend she got 2 black fly bites on her forehead that were oozing and really swollen.
She didn't even notice but people kept asking if she fell on her head or something.
Another thing you could try is mashing up some plantain leaf, (kind of a weed that grows close to the ground- it is all over the place in maine) I sometimes just chew it up a bit, and put the pulp on the site. It will draw out any *venom* left if it is a bug bite and help it heal.
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Glad it helped a little... is it getting any better? I will say that it usually takes a few days for ours to go down... but as the pp have said, my dd doesn't notice hers either.. mine tend to itch really bad, but hers don't, they just "welt up"
If it isn't streaky red or blue, and he isn't running a fever, i'd wait it out for a little longer unless something changes and your instincts tell you to go in.
I understand what you mean about worrying about being too "hands off" sometimes. I am the same way with dd. There have been times when I could have taken her, but I just felt that it wasn't really necessary so I waited. So far we've been alright. I think my instincts will tell me when she really needs to go in for something. It sounds like yours have served you well so far!
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I wanted to update all of you...
After a couple of days, the swelling is gone and he looks as he normally does. It must have been a strange reaction to a bug bite in a bad place. Thanks for thinking it through with me.
Btw, my natural style of caring for illnesses must have thoroughly indoctrinated him. The second day of swelling had him asking for vitamin C, chamomile tea, ointment, and a bandaid! He knew exactly what he needed at 3 y, 2 months!
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Watching the Banks
| Tue May. 5, 2009 5:01 PM GMT
I approve of this:
Banks that want to return Troubled Asset Relief Program funds will have to demonstrate their ability to wean themselves off another major federal program, according to senior government officials, making it less attractive for some banks to return the money.
The other program, a guarantee of debt issuance offered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., allows firms to borrow money relatively inexpensively. Banks have $332.5 billion of debt outstanding under this program, which began last fall.
If a bank is healthy and solvent and able to lend money freely, then it should be allowed to turn down extraordinary government aid and operate without extraordinary government oversight. But there's more to the federal bailout program than just TARP, and if a bank is really healthy it doesn't need to take advantage of any of the other extraordinary programs either. Until and unless that happens, however, Treasury should insist that they keep their TARP money and stay under TARP rules. No stealth bailouts, please.
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Taxing Carbon
| Tue May. 5, 2009 3:19 PM GMT
Should environmentalists concerned about global warming support a quick, simple carbon tax rather than a complicated, long-term cap-and-trade plan? James Hansen thinks so, but Joe Romm explains the facts of life to him:
1. A carbon tax, particularly one capable of deep emissions reductions quickly, is a political dead end....
2. A carbon tax that could pass Congress would not be simple. Advocates of a tax argue that simplicity is one of its biggest benefits. Again, those advocates seem bizarrely unfamiliar with the tax code in spite of the fact that they pay taxes every year....
3. A carbon tax is woefully inadequate and incomplete as a climate strategy. Why? Well, for one, it doesn’t have mandatory targets and timetables. Thus it doesn’t guarantee specific emissions results and thus doesn’t guarantee specific climate benefits. Perhaps more important, it doesn’t allow us to join the other nations of the world in setting science-based targets and timetables. Also, a tax lacks all of the key complementary measures — many of which are in Waxman-Markey — that are essential to any rational climate policy, but which inherently complicate any comprehensive energy and climate bill.
It's true that in some pure economic sense a tax is a more efficient way of pricing carbon than a cap-and-trade plan. But that's only if you get exactly the tax you want (you won't) and only if you accept a very specific sense of the word "efficient" (which you shouldn't). And even if you magically got the simple, efficient tax you wanted, a tax lacks the one critical thing that cap-and-trade provides: a cap. End of story. If you want to reduce greenhouse gases, the best way to do it is to cap them. This is something the public can easily understand. The trading scheme that comes along with it is, admittedly, complex, but it's only there to allow us to go after the low hanging fruit first and reduce the cost of complying with the cap. It's the cap itself that's key.
Like Romm, I don't really understand how it is that smart people don't get this. Politically, cap-and-trade is the only climate plan that has even a remote chance of getting through Congress, it's the only plan that institutes a firm limit on greenhouse gases, and it's the only plan on the table. Is it really worth giving all that up for the chimera of a tax that has some esoteric technical advantages on a whiteboard, but in the real world can't pass and wouldn't solve the carbon problem even if it did? It's hard to see why anyone serious about real-world change would buy into this.
Bloggers on the Bus
| Tue May. 5, 2009 12:54 PM GMT
If you're interested in the political blogosphere and the netroots in general, Eric Boehlert's Bloggers on the Bus is a great read. It's built around potted sketches of some of the best known liberal bloggers (Atrios, Digby, Jane Hamsher, John Amato, Arianna Huffington, Glenn Greenwald, and others) and some of the blogosphere's greatest campaign hits during 2008 (the Obama MySpace debacle, the John Hagee meltdown, the Sarah Palin eruption, the great sexism debate), and Boehlert really does a terrific job of diving in and explaining how everything unfolded. I followed almost all of this stuff pretty obsessively in real time, but I still learned lots of details I'd never heard of before.
It's a very fast, entertaining read, and since it focuses (almost) exclusively on the liberal blogosphere it mostly avoids the sense of triumphalism you might get in a more partisan book. Which is a good thing since it ends with this:
The bad news for liberal bloggers was that as the Obama campaign unfolded, as his new commuhity-based coalition was being built and celebrated, it became obvious that bloggers were never really invited to the party. Liberal bloggers simply never became active partners with Obama in the way they had been with the Dean insurgency four years earlier, and the way they had been with scores of Democratic politicians in skirmishes throughout the Bush years. Why? Mostly because Obama didn't seem to want the bloggers around.
That's true, isn't it? For all the hype, the liberal blogosphere in 2008 had its biggest impact in state and local races, just as it did in 2004. It's true that it was much more successful in pushing stories into the mainstream media than it was four years ago, but in terms of being active in the Obama campaign itself, it wasn't. And that was primarily a choice made by Obama himself, who apparently felt that the raw partisanship of the blogosphere was something he wanted to keep at arm's length.
There were a couple of things missing from the book that struck me. The first is specific: the Jeremiah Wright firestorm, which begged to be included in any book about the 2008 campaign, but which Boehlert inexplicably never mentions. The second is more general: Boehlert does a good job of showing how the blogosphere managed to gain attention for stories that might otherwise have gone unnoticed, but at times his account feels too blinkered. The mainstream media played a pretty big role in all this too, and even in a book about the blogosphere this deserves a little more attention. At the very least, there should have been a chapter devoted to the relationship between blogs and the MSM.
But these are nits. If you're looking for a blog's eye view of Campaign '08, Bloggers on the Bus is a terrifically readable and carefully reported book. Highly recommended.
Defending the Defenders
| Tue May. 5, 2009 10:00 AM GMT
From the Washington Post:
Ex-Bush Officials Launch Bid to Soften Interrogation Report
Can't say as I blame them, I guess. But surely they realized that someone at DOJ would rat them out, didn't they?
Civic Order
| Tue May. 5, 2009 9:11 AM GMT
David Brooks says that if Republicans had learned the right lessons from watching Westerns, they'd be a little less interested in rugged individualism and a little more interested in community and civic order:
I think this column suffers from Brooks' usual weakness for extending metaphors beyond their useful life, but his central point is a pretty good one. The American public is obviously in the mood for a little less cowboy capitalism and a little more stability, and there are both liberal and conservative ways of getting there. Democrats obviously support the liberal path, and to compete the GOP needs to stop offering up its usual menu of non-answers and instead figure out a conservative way to tell the business community to behave itself, a conservative way to produce more clean energy, and a conservative way to genuinely address everyday healthcare concerns. It's not impossible, but the true-believer rump of the party wants nothing to do with it — and they're suffering the consequences. They could do a lot worse than to spend a little less time listening to Rush Limbaugh and a little more time listening to Brooks.
Obama and the Business Community
| Tue May. 5, 2009 7:26 AM GMT
I nominate this for the least surprising news of the year:
Imagine! The business community was OK with the government shoveling hundreds of billions of dollars into the business community, but is unhappy when the government wants to take away their PO boxes in the Cayman Islands. Who could have guessed?
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Credit Report
| Mon May. 4, 2009 9:52 PM GMT
The latest on credit conditions:
Although credit conditions remain strained, an April survey of loan officers by the Federal Reserve found a smaller number of banks were tightening loan standards compared with a few months ago.
Glimmers of improvement were most notable in commercial lending. The Fed said 40% of the 53 domestic banks it surveyed between March 31 and April 14 said they tightened standards on commercial and industrial loans, a smaller percentage than the 65% that said in January that they tightened standards.
Other metrics apparently show the same thing: banks are still cutting back on lending, but they aren't cutting back quite as much as before. In other words, the economy is still getting worse, but not quite as fast as it was earlier this year. These days, that counts as good news.
Quote of the Day - 5.4.09
| Mon May. 4, 2009 3:34 PM GMT
Lovely, Lovely Pears
| Mon May. 4, 2009 2:44 PM GMT
Taylor's Gold pears are back in my local supermarket! Hooray!
The Bloated Financial Industry
| Mon May. 4, 2009 2:27 PM GMT
James Surowiecki writes that the reason the financial sector has grown so spectacularly over the past couple of decades is because, compared to the boring 50s and 60s, the demand of modern businesses for capital has also grown spectacularly:
The financial sector’s most important job is channelling money from investors to businesses that need capital for worthwhile investment. But in the postwar era there wasn’t much need for this....Thomas Philippon, an economist at N.Y.U., has shown that most of the increase in the size of the financial sector [during the period 1980-1999] can be accounted for by companies’ need for new capital....Philippon suggests that, given the demands of businesses for capital, a normal financial sector would be about the size it was in 1996.
But this is only part of the story. The need for capital may well have gone up considerably, but the combination of globalization, automation, and greater competition should also have made the finance industry far more efficient at providing it. As Felix Salmon says:
One would hope and expect that between sell-side productivity gains and a rise in the sophistication of the buy side, any increase in America's financing needs would be met without any rise in the percentage of the economy taken up by the financial sector. That it wasn't is an indication, on its face, that the financial sector in aggregate signally failed to improve at doing its job over the post-war decades — a failure which was then underlined by the excesses of the current decade and the subsequent global economic meltdown.
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CuriousMama Mon 28-Jan-13 23:34:27
The guy with the Jack Daniels T shirt on shock He's awful. Playing on his phone all the time, selfish twat.
firawla Mon 28-Jan-13 23:35:39
he comes across better as the episode goes on, have seen much worse in the previous seasons!
CuriousMama Mon 28-Jan-13 23:40:05
Does he? That's good then.
CuriousMama Mon 28-Jan-13 23:40:45
Just seen Myleene Class's name on the wall grin She must've opened the unit did she?
CuriousMama Mon 28-Jan-13 23:41:53
sad Poor guy (Columbian) talking about his mum.
AnyFucker Mon 28-Jan-13 23:42:28
Nah, My Kleen Ass is The First Person In The World To Have A Baby dontcha know smile
catladycourtney1 Mon 28-Jan-13 23:44:41
CuriousMama didn't they call their baby Jack Daniel as well? hmm
catladycourtney1 Mon 28-Jan-13 23:46:51
firawla I don't know which season it was but can you remember that bloke who's wife wanted a VBAC, and she was in pain (obv) and he was just sat there telling her it was her own fault for wanting to try to deliver naturally and generally having a go at her? Nob!
CuriousMama Mon 28-Jan-13 23:58:37
Thank goodness the Columbian baby and OH are ok. Bless him (dad). He's so lovely.
CuriousMama Mon 28-Jan-13 23:58:58
Oh don't know about the JD name? Hope not!
CuriousMama Tue 29-Jan-13 00:07:43
Aww JD guy's crying now, telling him mother baby's here.
CuriousMama Tue 29-Jan-13 00:08:08
Well he's Jack!
catladycourtney1 Tue 29-Jan-13 00:10:59
I'm sure earlier in the programme he said they were calling him Jack Daniel, and that's why he was wearing the T shirt. Poor little sod.
CuriousMama Tue 29-Jan-13 00:15:17
Oh right missed the beginning. Yes poor sod indeed.
MisselthwaiteManor Tue 29-Jan-13 14:01:34
I think they edit the show to make the dads look like the comedy character, there seem to be a lot of them that seem really annoying, I doubt they're really that bad.
carbondated Tue 29-Jan-13 18:26:56
I agree, he improved somewhat as the labour progressed but at the beginning when he was playing about on his phone, ignoring his wife, I wanted to slap the idiot. It was Jack Daniels they called their son! Eeeek! I do hope the editing shows some of these blokes in a worse light then they actually are in RL.
I was in tears at the Colombian man and his wife. You could tell they would be fantastic parents. The guy had had such a hard life sad It's terribly sad when people's families are so far away and there isn't the money for them to be able to be together at such a time.
CuriousMama Tue 29-Jan-13 20:06:51
I was close to tears too carbonated, so sad how his own mum died sad
DS1, who's 15, caught a bit of the show. I told him if he ever has babies he has to be like his dad (exdh) was when he and ds2 was born. I said he was fantastic in the labour ward and afterwards. DS1 had such a big smile on his face at the thought of his dad being so good smile Dss are both very sensitive though so I imagine they'd be great. Plus they both adore babies and toddlers.
SirBoobAlot Tue 29-Jan-13 20:15:00
That arse wore the t-shirt because they were calling the baby Jack Daniels. I despair with some people.
The other couple were lovely though, he was so so proud, bless him.
vj32 Sun 03-Feb-13 23:18:48
I haven't watched any since the early episodes, when it was in Southampton. Not impressed with the current series - have they got desperate to hold their audience figures? Some bad editing and attempt to make everyone into an extreme 'character' like the worst reality TV.
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torah101 - As usual, offensive and uninformed!
Re: Why isn't pork forbidden to Catholics?
Because God revealed to the apostles that the dietary laws of the Old Covenant were no longer binding upon Christians (Acts 10:9-16).
Acts.10 Verses 9 to 16
[10] And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
[11] and saw the heaven opened, and something descending, like a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth.
[13] And there came a voice to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
[14] But Peter said, "No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
Saint Paul also stated:
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath. These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ (Col. 2:16-17).
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Alcohol intoxication and hangover were studied in 12 healthy male subjects who participated in three 18-h experimental sessions; two sessions in which they consumed 1.43 g alcohol/kg body weight as mixed beverages together with food, and one control session when mineral water was substituted for the alcoholic beverages. In one of the alcohol sessions they received chlormethiazole, 1 g at bedtime and 0.5 g early the following morning, in the other, they were given placebo tablets. The following variables were studied: blood-alcohol concentration; blood pressure; heart rate; blood lactate; blood pyruvate; urinary catecholamines (only during hangover); psychomotor and cognitive capacities; as well as subjective reactions. During intoxication, heart rate and lactate-pyruvate ratio were significantly increased and performance efficiency was significantly deteriorated in comparison with the control condition. During hangover, heart rate, blood pressure, and lactate-pyruvate ratio were significantly elevated, and cognitive performance was still affected, in some tests to a significant degree. During this stage there was a great variation between subjects as regards subjective hangover. Chlormethiazole was found to lower blood pressure and adrenaline output and, furthermore, to relieve unpleasant physical symptoms, but did not affect fatigue and drowsiness. The cognitive test results were only slightly influenced by this agent, while psychomotor performance was significantly impaired. Subjects with severe subjective hangover seemed to benefit more from the chlormethiazole treatment than subjects with a mild hangover.
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I have a Sager Np8886
2.8ghz P4
1gb ram
40gb hdd
64mb Ati
It was bought in 2002. was working fine till now with only one problem. The fan wont turn off afetr coming on startup. now the computer is totally gone. when I power it and switch it on it lights up the capa/num and hdd led for a second and shuts down. If I didn press the power button then after few seconds the power led blings green and stays blinking. please help me reolve this issue. let me know what might be wrong - processor, board, hdd, graphics. any help would be really appreciated. thanks.
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That sounds sort of like what mine does when the battery is dead and it's not plugged into the wall. Maybe the power supply has gone bad? That's where I'd start if it were mine.
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hide captionThe oil spill of 1969 helped prompt the environmental movement.
Courtesy of Bob Sollen, The Environmental Defense Center
As the presidential hopefuls debate the pros and cons of offshore drilling, natives of Santa Barbara, California remember the huge spill of 1969. Many say that disaster was the catalyst for the U.S. environmental movement.
Long time residents of Santa Barbara, California still remember a huge oil spill caused by offshore drilling. It tarred their beaches nearly 40 years ago. Many say that disaster inspired the country's environmental movement. NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports.
MANDALIT DEL BARCO: In January of 1969, Union Oil Company workers were drilling 3,000 feet below the ocean floor from an offshore drilling platform stationed six miles off of Santa Barbara's coast. When underwater pipes ruptured, the blow out spewed more than three million gallons of crude oil. The spill killed marine animals and blackened beaches.
(Soundbite of ocean)
BRACO: We're standing on the shoreline at Santa Barbara with Charlie Eckberg, an environmental activist, and Charlie, you were here in 1969 when this spill occurred.
Mr. CHARLIE ECKBERG (Environmental Activist): The ocean at my door turned black with oil and then you had the dead and the dying animals that were having to be picked up.
BARCO: They were right here on the beach?
Mr. ECKBERG: Right here on the beach. And the birds that were not yet dead, there was such an effort, an outpouring, in trying to try to save them but we couldn't.
BARCO: I saw pictures of them and they were just covered with…
Mr. ECKBERG: Covered with this black tar.
BARCO: Eckberg says that oil clogged up blowholes of dolphins, causing them to suffocate and wash up on shore with sea lions. The clean-up effort took months and cost millions of dollars, with workers trying in vain to sop up the mess with straw. Many say the disaster galvanized activists and students to create the modern environmental movement. It even inspired the first Earth Day the following year.
Ms. LINDA KROP (Attorney, Environmental Defense Center, Santa Barbara): The 1969 oil spill definitely had a huge impact, not just on environmental awareness and public response to oil and gas development, but it actually led to almost all of the environmental laws that we know today.
BARCO: Linda Krop is the lead attorney for the Environmental Defense Center in Santa Barbara.
Ms. KROP: By January, 1970, we had the National Environmental Policy Act passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon saying, wow, federal agencies look before you approve some kind of activity from a private applicant or even a federal agency. You have to consider what the impacts would be and is it possible to avoid them? Well, we take that all for granted now.
Mr. TUPPER HALL (Spokesman, Western States Petroleum Association): Californians should be confident that every caution is being made to ensure that there are no more 1969s.
BARCO: Tupper Hall is a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, whose members include major oil companies. He says the Santa Barbara oil spill was a wake-up call for the oil industry as well.
Mr. HALL: It was a certainly a terrible accident, an accident that profoundly changed the way the oil and natural gas industry viewed its responsibilities when operating in the marine environment. And it has led to an explosion of technology that makes that activity, in our view, far less prone to accidents.
BARCO: Hall says since 1969 there have been only eight 850 barrels of crude oil spilled from accidents by offshore drilling in California. Compare that, he says, with the 100,000 barrels created in the state every day. There's long been a federal moratorium on any new offshore oil drilling and along the U.S. coast, in part because of the 1969 disaster. From this pier, you can look out and see these oil drilling platforms.
Mr. JOHN ABRAHAM POWELL (President, Get Oil Out!): You can see platform A from here.
BARCO: So they're still drilling for oil here?
Mr. POWELL: Of course, yeah. I mean, there's still oil here, so they're still drilling.
BARCO: John Abraham Powell looks out at the rusty oil platforms still offshore. There are 23 of them in federal and state waters in California. Powell was born two weeks after the 1969 spill. He's now the president of an environmental organization called GOO, Get Oil Out.
Mr. POWELL: People who are actively fighting pollution and polluters, but also the movement to try to figure out what's next. We're trying to figure out how to get over oil.
DEL BARCO: Powell says he's horrified by talk of lifting the moratorium on further offshore drilling.
Mr. POWELL: I would like to see us stop moving backwards. Drilling is yesterday and alternative energy is tomorrow.
DEL BARCO: He says he hopes that conservation is the most lasting lesson of the 1969 oil spill. Mandalit del Barco, NPR News, at the beach in Santa Barbara.
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By: Sydnee C. Winston, Project Coordinator
1. The Refrigerator
Refrigerators started popping up in some middle-class households as early as the early 20s. The conventional methods that women used to store food (ice boxes, root cellars) gradually became a thing of the past. In 1923, the cheapest refrigerator on the market cost about $450!
2. The Electric Stove
Electric stoves were still uncommon during the 1920s, even though they had originated around the turn of the 20th century. Fewer than one in 10 US homes were wired for electricity at this time. As America began to “plug in” more and more especially during the 1930s due to decreased cost of electric power, the electric stove gained popularity.
3. The TV Dinner
4. Electric Appliances
Electric appliances like cake mixers, waffle irons and toasters began to “pop up” during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The appliances helped to modernize American kitchen’s and make women’s easier!
5. Canned Foods
In the 1920s, many middle class housewives who did their own grocery shopping and cooking relied on new easy-to-prepare dishes and used newly available packaged and commercially processed foods like Wonder Bread, Wheaties, and canned pork & beans.
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By James Gavin
For some, seroconversion can feel liberating�in the short term, anyway. Though himself negative, �Morningwood��the assumed name of a San Francisco�based 24-year-old member of the Radical Faeries�has seen the �reward� claimed by so many who contract HIV, including one of his past lovers. �A surrender of fear happens,� he says, �and the sense that now you�re free to have whatever kind of piggy bareback sex you want.�
I watch bareback sometimes, even though I feel it�s politically wrong and potentially harmful. Danger is hot�hotter, often, than glossy commercial porn, much of which features escorts robotically going through the moves. By contrast, bareback films make me think I�m missing the party. And I wonder whether they have influenced my handful of slips from safety.
Michael Brandon, a partner in the studio Raging Stallion, might say yes. He dotes on fans who worship his porn persona: a lanky, bearded, horse-hung embodiment of his company�s name. At home he�s in a long-term condomless relationship. �We�ve been tested, and we�re comfortable with each other�s health issues,� he explains, but on-screen is another matter. �I feel I have a huge responsibility. If one of my fans or a teenager sees Michael Brandon fucking without a condom, they may think, Michael Brandon does it, so why can�t I?
That�s not Sam Dixon�s concern. Dixon runs 1 Distribution, a Los Angeles�based DVD distributor, along with Tipo Sesso Productions, which produces cut-rate bareback video. Doesn�t he feel that porn filmmakers have some obligation to promote safe sex? �We�re an adult industry,� he states with nonnegotiable firmness. �We�re not an educational industry. I think the best you can do is try to put a little PSA at the beginning of your films. Beyond that, I truly believe that one�s sexual practices are cemented by the time they�re watching porn.� As for his actors, he says, �If they don�t do it for me, they�ll do it for somebody else. It�s not my position to chastise them. That�s censorship.� Blame the rise in barebacking not on porn but on crystal, he says, and on neglectful parents. �Way before someone�s watching adult films, the education has to start: Here are the facts. Be responsible. And save bareback sex for your life partner.� Who�s communicating those messages today? �No one.�
Certainly not the Bush administration, which preaches abstinence and insists that condoms are unreliable. �We have this government that�s so sex-phobic it�s destroying safe-sex education all over the world,� says Howard Grossman, an eminent HIV specialist. Ignorance also pervades the bareback porn world, as Tim Valenti knows. As cofounder of, a Shangri-la of gay video on demand�none of it bareback�Valenti has met lots of the subgenre�s young models. �I found them to be extremely naive about what they were doing. Young people were being pushed into participating in something without having a clear understanding of the ramifications. I didn�t want to be part of it.�
In the Czech Republic, where bareback rules the industry, both gay and straight actors undergo regulated HIV screening. In the United States testing of gay actors is sketchy. Some producers do only quick screenings for antibodies, which may not appear until six weeks after infection. But if gay porn were to shut out HIV-positive performers, as straight porn does, the business would crash. �You�re looking at an industry where easily 50% of the actors are HIV-positive,� says Michael Stabile,�s marketing director. �I�ve talked to some of them, and they say, �The only time I ever have sex with a condom is on-screen.� So bareback isn�t any huge fall from grace for them.� | http://www.out.com/entertainment/2007/07/23/baring-truth?page=0,1 | dclm-gs1-040600002 | false | false | {
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0.035573 | <urn:uuid:2a0d195e-c84f-4cf8-a47b-7da993dc00f7> | en | 0.960039 | Oxfam America http://www.oxfamamerica.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 8. Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/oxfams-oil-gas-and-mining-program Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate meaningfully in decisions about the use of natural resources. It's a tragic paradox: Countries rich in natural resources often suffer from extreme poverty. Resources like oil, natural gas, and gold should help reduce poverty and promote economic development. Yet large-scale oil, gas, and mining projects frequently contribute to pollution, displacement, and conflict—violating the rights of people and impoverishing communities. Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate meaningfully in decisions about the use of natural resources.
No publisher Oxfam America water land natural resources environment oil, gas and mining transparency 2011-03-30T15:38:05Z Brochure
First the rivers, then the forests: a fragile balance http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/first-the-rivers-then-the-forests-a-fragile-balance Rural communities are struggling to survive as they lose their resources one at a time. One evening last December, Pim Ranh walked down to the Sesan River to wash up after harvesting rice.
The water running through the northeast highlands of Cambodia was brown and muddy, but she was hot and needed to cool off. Later that night, Ranh woke up scratching at a rash on her hands and legs. Several months pregnant with her second child, she traveled hours by motorbike to find a medical clinic.
Weeks later, her scabs still covered in purple ointment, Ranh said she was worried her skin condition might hurt her baby. But, like so many others living downstream from the Yali Falls dam who reported rashes, stomach illnesses, and diarrhea since the dam's construction, she feels like there's no alternative to using the river to bathe and drink.
"I don't have a well at home," she said. "Even if the water looks dirty, I have to wash."
Built upstream in Vietnam and Laos, hydropower dams are rising up on the Sesan, Sekong, and Srepok Rivers that flow through Cambodia's northeast provinces, Ratanakiri and Stung Treng. Dams, such as the Yali Falls, have changed the water quality, killed whole species of fish, flooded villages, and wiped out large fields of rice.
These problems are compounded by what's happening in the nearby forests. There, armed guards stand in the thicket, threatening to arrest anyone who enters. The guards hack ax-cuts into the tree trunks, marking off ancestral land the government has sold to the highest bidder—usually a foreign company looking to start a lucrative plantation. The forests have traditionally served as a safety net for the indigenous people, providing a source of income during the "lean months" when the fish aren't spawning and the rice is too young to harvest. But when the government sells off the land, the safety net goes with it.
These dangerous circumstances threaten the very existence of the more than 66,000 people who live in these remote hills. What's worse, the indigenous people here lack any real political power. Many feel marginalized by the mainstream Khmer, who dominate the government and still associate the rural minorities with the genocide of the 1970s, which began as an agrarian revolution.
"The people here, they feel very isolated. They feel like no one from the outside will come to help them," said Kim Sangha, coordinator of the 3 S Rivers Protection Network (3SPN), an Oxfam America partner.
First the rivers
As the scorching sun sets on the Sesan River, the people of Taveng Lou village get to work. Men take out their fishing boats and pull in their nets. Women fill their watering cans and irrigate their gardens and rice paddies. Families wade into the shallows, bathing and collecting water for household use.
Vietnam's Yali Falls dam disrupts this daily routine. Since it became operational in 2001, the Cambodians living downstream have noticed dramatic changes. Unexpected water surges have eroded the shoreline, depositing silt, sand, and rocks in the deep pools where fish live. And the fluctuating water levels have either swept away nets or left them high and dry.
All in all, villagers here say they've seen a 70 percent drop-off in their fish catch.
"Before, you used to be able to put a pot on the fire, walk down to the river, and catch some fish—all before the water boiled," said Em Vuthy, deputy governor of Taveng District. "Now you can spend a whole day and get one fish."
Beyond reducing the number of fish, the dam has altered the way people farm along the Sesan River. Traditionally, the villagers depended on the overflow of the river to water their plants and rice during the wet season. During the dry season, they would plant different crops that could handle the heat and scarcity of water. But now people like Mean Trosh, a mother of seven who grows cabbage, watercress, pumpkins, red chilies, eggplants, and rice along the water, can't plan around the seasons; the dam creates unexpected floods. Trosh says she tries to plant on higher ground, but even those gardens and rice paddies have been destroyed.
"When the water level changes, it rises quickly and goes down quickly," she said. "Last year, I tried to grow rice along the river, but it was damaged by the floods."
According to the villagers and Oxfam partners, the Yali Falls dam was built with no formal assessment of the environmental and social impacts downstream in Cambodia. And right now, more than a dozen dam projects like it are already in the works along the "3 S Rivers"—the Sesan, Srepok, and Sekong—that flow from the central highlands of Vietnam and southern Laos downstream to the northeast provinces of Cambodia.
Last August, a huge flood along the Srepok River inundated at least 15 villages in Stung Treng and Ratanakiri. More than 650 families were affected. Months later, sitting on the wooden floor of their village pagoda under a cascade of prayer flags, Dae Low villagers shouted over each other as they recalled what happened.
Villagers reported hearing a bulletin on the radio that one of the dams under construction would be releasing water for a few days. But by the time the bulletin aired, the Srepok was already rising. Many of the villagers didn't have access to radios. Those who did, lost time warning family and friends. When they returned home, their chickens, pigs, and water buffalo had drowned. Their vegetables had been washed away. More than 1,300 rice fields were destroyed—an entire year's harvest.
"We are very worried about the future," said the village chief, Prom Phally. "We don't know how to prepare for these floods."
Then the forests
The people of Cambodia's northeast highlands depend primarily on fishing and farming to make a living. But they have always looked to their forests as sacred places. They supplement their income by collecting local plants there and gather herbs for traditional medicines. During the dry season, when the green grass turns to yellow straw, they let their livestock wander into the woods for food and water.
At 67, Seth Gnal makes the three-mile trek to the woods near the Srepok River every three days. Together with family members, he collects tree resin to repair and maintain his fishing boats. He uses what's left to fuel the torches that illuminate his home in Kbal Romeas village.
Gnal feels threatened by his new neighbors: foreign-funded, Cambodian-fronted land concessionaires. These are the companies that make use of Cambodia's weak land titling laws to buy up what indigenous people consider their land. Even before these companies clear the land to plant single crops like teak—a hardwood requiring at least a decade to mature before it can be logged—they pay armed guards to prevent the local people from coming through.
"Before, the indigenous people in the village always went to the forests to gather vines, resin, rattan, and honey to sell," said Kim Deung, another villager. "Now, if we go into the forest, the guards will catch and arrest us. We're afraid to go in."
According to locals, the plantation owners have promised to give them work. But it's usually people from the larger towns who get hired. And even then, the pay is poor: less than $2 a day.
At the same time, the concessions often encroach on land the indigenous people use to grow rice. This situation forces them to remain on the few parcels of land they already occupy. For farmers and fishers who typically move every 15 years to allow the soil to regenerate, it threatens the farmers' ability to feed their families. Many people end up producing so little that they must sell the rice they grow and borrow the rice they eat.
"The Forest Administration tells us we can't clear some of the forest for more rice fields, yet the concessionaires are permitted to clear the forest and sell the trees," Gnal said.
To make matters worse, the land concession sales slowly strip the local people of their culture. As Estela Estoria, a program officer in Oxfam America's East Asia office explained, the 15-year interval of farming is so engrained in the highlanders' way of life that they use the Khmer word for these farms—chamka—to measure the ages of their friends and family members. A 15-year-old is one chamka. A 30-year-old, two.
"The indigenous people don't know why this is happening to them," Estoria said. Animists and Buddhists, "they feel like God or their ancestors are angry with them."
Now, slow but historic progress
The work of Oxfam's partners begins here, teaching the local people about the outside forces impinging on their lifestyle and working with them to advocate on their own behalf.
Local o rganizations like 3SPN, the Culture-Environment Preservation Association, and the NGO Forum on Cambodia encourage the highlanders to use their indigenous knowledge to keep written records about the changes in their environment. The records describe which species of fish are dying off, how quickly the water is rising or falling, and which plants have been eliminated by the clearing of the trees. Then the partners train members of the communities to form local networks. Through these networks, the network leaders, called "focal people," teach the villagers to consolidate their research, write petitions to land concession companies, and even speak out at stakeholder meetings of dam developers and governments.
As a result of this work, officials of Electricity of Vietnam, the agency behind the hydropower dams in that country, met to discuss the environmental and social impacts on the Srepok River basin this past January. It was the first time in more than a decade that the Cambodian indigenous people affected by these projects could speak directly with the Vietnamese government, the Cambodian government, and the donors funding the construction.
The indigenous people used the opportunity to ask for compensation for their lost livelihoods, fishing boats, and equipment. They asked for a share of the benefits of the dam, such as electricity transmission lines for their community. And they asked that no new dams be constructed without their consultation.
According to news accounts, the Vietnamese government agreed to "implement dam projects with bilateral agreements, follow international treaties, look to having the citizens of Vietnam and Cambodia gain income," and reduce environmental impact. The Cambodian government said it would work on reducing the impact of the dams on local people and the environment.
Having accomplished this much already, Oxfam's Cambodian partners hope to increase the participation of indigenous people in dam projects and land concession disbursements. It's a slow path to success, but in a country working to overcome so much, the progress is historic.
"It was amazing to realize that the ministries were all raising the same issues as the local authorities and villagers. Everyone was just waiting for a legitimate platform to speak out," said Sangha of 3SPN. "Now we need to follow up with the national governments to make sure they come through on their promises. That's the biggest challenge."
With additional reporting by Brett Eloff.
No publisher Andrea Perera water environment indigenous people Cambodia land 2009-05-28T18:38:17Z Feature Story
In Jiabi, Chinese government and local people build dike together http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/in-jiabi-chinese-government-and-local-people-build-dike-together Oxfam partner invites villagers and county officials to share ideas about development and the environment. Jiabi village hugs a mountain slope along the Mekong River in the rugged, northwest corner of China's Yunnan Province.
This land is dotted by native conifers and flowering rhododendrons, but through the years outsiders have come to exploit timber and other natural resources. Deforestation has led to landslides, and landslides have threatened villagers' crops and homes.
In the past, the plans and activities of the county government and the needs of the local people, mostly Tibetans, were not coordinated. When problems arose, the right solutions were hard to come by. Oxfam America worked to change that.
First, the research. Oxfam partner organization CBIK, the Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, has helped local government officials, academics, non-governmental organization (NGO) workers, school teachers, and villagers conduct research on issues related to their environment and development.
Then the sharing. CBIK has worked to share the research among the participants, creating multi-stakeholder forums where government officials sit down with local residents to discuss topics as varied as: animal husbandry, the collection of non-timber forest products such as mushrooms, water resource management, land use management, and even Tibetan medicine.
The forums give participants the opportunity to discuss issues of concern, and have inspired new projects in response to the issues raised.
After one multi-stakeholder forum, Jiabi villagers and county government officials agreed that a new dike needed to be built along a stream that flows through their village. The dike will guard against flooding, erosion and landslides, and help ensure that the people have access to a reliable source of water.
Instead of the government hiring an outside company to build the dyke—a typical solution in the past—the villagers built it themselves. The county government gave them financial and technical support.
"The old dike, built by a private company from outside, was so weak a small monkey could knock it down. But the dike we built is strong," said Riqing Pinchu, the head of Jiabi Village. "We used to wait for the government to come to us, but now we can take responsibility for our own development."
The county government learned that involving civil society—not always an easy concept in China—has its benefits. "When villagers participate in their own development and prioritize their needs, we get greater buy-in and can increase their capacity at the same time," said Lurong Yixi, the county director for minority affairs.
Experience has taught the Jiabi villagers an important lesson—their natural resources sustain their lives, so they must protect them. And by collaborating with the government, sharing their collective knowledge, and using venues such as the multi-stakeholder forums they can make decisions about their own future.
No publisher Annaka Peterson Carvalho China East Asia disaster risk reduction environment water 2009-04-16T19:34:03Z Feature Story
Cambodian fishers work to protect floating villages http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/cambodian-fishers-work-to-protect-floating-villages Oxfam partner trains community leaders to negotiate development on Tonle Sap Lake. Just a short drive from the ancient temples and Vegas-style hotels of Siem Riep, a community of fishers live as they have for generations, floating atop the Tonle Sap Lake.
Some live along the lakeshore in small shacks built on stilts. Others live on the water in moored houseboats, rafts, and barges. From these simple homes, the fishers hurl out their lines and pull up their baskets, hoping to catch enough to feed their families and satisfy the middlemen in the fish trade.
According to the Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT), an Oxfam-funded partner organization in Cambodia, the fishers help support about 1.5 million people.
"The Tonle Sap is very, very important, not only for the people who live on and around the lake, but for all of Cambodia," said Pen Raingsey, project officer at FACT.
Threatened waters
Each year, monsoon rains and melting snows from the Himalayas feed the Mekong River, swelling the Tonle Sap Lake. This yearly pattern nourishes a diverse underwater world of flooded forests and more than 100 species of fish.
But because the Tonle Sap is not only a source of food, but also a route for transportation and commerce, it faces increasing risks. Neighboring countries, corporations, and regional finance institutions want to blast rapids, develop hydropower dams, and build harbors on the Tonle Sap and its connecting waterways.
For fishers accustomed to picking up and moving with the changing tides, it's a difficult process to learn about these threats, let alone do anything about them. Water nomads as they are, fishers don't always meet up with their neighbors, or feel comfortable voicing their opposition to the government.
Creating a network of local leaders
That's where the Fisheries Action Coalition Team comes in. The group navigates the Tonle Sap, networking with fishers and bringing them to shore to meet, exchange information, and tell decision-makers what effect their developments will have. Then FACT compiles the research into a database and uses it to refute claims that certain developments would have no negative impacts.
Because of this work, fishers on the Tonle Sap say they feel empowered to protect their way of life.
Sitting on a small motorboat in the middle of the muddy waters of the Tonle Sap, Ly Saloeun, 53, said FACT trained him to write reports, and work with his neighbors to advocate for change.
He is one of many key fishers, each learning how to protect their community.
"We want to encourage the local community to raise their concerns to the decision makers," Raingsey said. "Before, people had no time or rights. Now, when a problem occurs, they can find a way to resolve that problem."
No publisher Andrea Perera water environment Cambodia 2009-04-13T21:37:56Z Feature Story
Green Watershed wins second award of the year http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/green-watershed-wins-second-award-of-the-year Oxfam partner in China wins water conservation-themed competition. Green Watershed, an Oxfam America partner, has won first prize in the environmental protection category of a Ford Motor Company conservation and environmental grants competition.
A five-person review panel, which included the former State Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) leader, Qu Geping, selected the winners.
The competition, which had a water conservation theme, awarded $123,457 to 16 organizations and individuals in Beijing. It was the first time since the competition?s start six years ago that a theme was identified.
Twenty-two projects from a field of 200 proposals were chosen as finalists. Awards were made for tertiary students? activities, and the category in which Green Watershed won.
Ford Motor Company "has seen the important link between water resources conservation and China's efforts to achieve sustainable development and build a harmonious society," said Dr. Yu Xiaogang, founder and head of Green Watershed, when accepting the award.
"It's an honor as well as an incentive for us to continue public participation, good river basin management, and environmental equity."
It is the second time this year that Green Watershed has been recognized for its work in China. In March, Green Watershed was one of 10 winners in a contest sponsored by Beijing's Economic Observer and Shell, which recognized groups that designed outstanding sustainable development projects in China.
No publisher Oxfam America China East Asia environment land water 2009-05-14T06:34:22Z News Update
Improvements big and small in East Asia http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/improvements-big-and-small-in-east-asia Oxfam America partner Green Watershed helps local villagers preserve their way of life through their own expertise. The woman crouched near the ground, balancing a notebook on her knee.
She was writing her name in Chinese characters, painstakingly shaping each slope and spike, trying to remember what she learned in school.
She'd lived her 30 years in this remote village on a mountain with no official name. She was a picture of dignity in a place facing difficult times.
For generations the people on this mountain had cut and sold timber. Then, just a few years ago, the Chinese government banned logging to conserve trees.
It was an important decision for the environment, one that helped protect the watershed of Lashi Lake. But it eliminated some important interaction for the Yi people who live here. An ethnic minority who only met with the lowland Han people when they sold their timber, they risked being left behind.
To survive the logging ban, the Yi needed a plan.
Green Watershed, an Oxfam America partner, came up with one. After consulting with the villagers, they discovered potatoes could replace timber as a cash crop. And the women who formed the backbone of the community could learn to speak Mandarin and write Chinese characters so they could sell and trade the potatoes to the Han at the base of the mountain.
In May, I went to China, Cambodia, and Thailand to capture stories like these, illustrating Oxfam America's work in Asia. I had never been to the region before. Like so many in the West, I knew about the extreme poverty only from the media.
But suddenly there I was filling notebooks with the results of our work, watching village after village preserve their way of life using their own expertise:
Rice farmers in Cambodia finding a niche in the market, creating the first organic rice mill in the country. Burmese refugees studying law, risking their lives to document human rights abuses back home. Fishers living on the Tonle Sap lake measuring the impact of over-fishing and developments planned for their community.
I marveled at the dignity of these men and women. They just wanted what we all want: to make a decent a living and feed their families.
Some sought to do the work their families had done for generations, only to watch the developed world encroach on their waterways and flood plains. Some needed to diversify and adapt their way of life.
But for others, the plan was even more ambitious. Let's say these communities make enough to get by.
Then what?
Then, it turns out, Oxfam partners help them learn how to participate in development decisions. They diversify their work options and insist on better governance. They put money away and buy farm equipment, fishing boats, tuition for their kids. They build health clinics, schools, and courtyards for meetings, traditional dancing, and singing with family and friends.
In short, when poor people aren't so poor anymore, they can effectively plan for the future.
What I saw during my travels illustrated the vast range of work Oxfam and its partners do in the regions.
And surrounding it all are the many challenges—few resources, limited participation in decision-making, outside interference, droughts, floods.
But somewhere in between, the work gets done.
A woman writes her name. A village survives.
No publisher Oxfam America China East Asia environment land minority rights water 2009-05-14T06:34:23Z Feature Story
Green Watershed earns top honors http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/green-watershed-earns-top-honors Oxfam partner wins award for sustainable development project in China. Oxfam America partner Green Watershed in China's Yunnan Province has beat out dozens of NGOs, small businesses, and local governments to win a prestigious award.
The environmental organization was one of 10 winners in a contest sponsored by Beijing's Economic Observer and Shell Corporation, which recognized groups that designed exemplary sustainable development projects in China.
An appraisal committee of economists, policy makers, NGO leaders, entrepreneurs, and environmentalists, selected the winners from a field of more than 100 contestants.
Green Watershed, an Oxfam America partner since 2000, won praise from the judges for their work in villages around the Lashi Lake. There, government conservation programs and dam developments threaten the livelihoods of local farmers and fishers, many of them ethnic minorities in China.
Based on their research and interviews with villagers, Green Watershed designed a project, which helped the people of Lashi Lake protect their environmental resources and make a living. Now former timber harvesters are growing potatoes, former fishers are nursing fruit trees and Chinese yams, and Yi and Naxi women are attending schools in their villages, learning to read, write and teach others innovative agriculture techniques.
Li Yue-Chun, 55, a Naxi woman, whose family was the first in her village to begin planting fruit trees and Chinese yams, said she now has hope her community will survive.
"Because of the riverway improvements, my land will never be threatened," she said.
Green Watershed is also working to form self-sufficient watershed committees in Lashi villages, which allow local people to advise their government representatives what kinds of plans would work best for them.
"The Lashi project is like a pilot for the whole of China," said Warwick Browne, Lead Regional Program Officer for Oxfam America's Mekong River Basin Management Program. "It represents what watershed management can be."
Dr. Yu Xiaogang, the director of Green Watershed, said the judges recognized the Lashi project because it demonstrated two key requirements. It could be replicated with just a modest amount of funding. And it involved the village's participation.
"They said this is a very alien concept in China—a process that involves the people participating in watershed management," Dr. Yu said.
Green Watershed received 10,000 Yuan (about $1,200) for the March 2005 prize.
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The Binky Breakup
toddler with a pacifier
Like many parents, Suzi Rush thought that her son EJ's pacifier was a lifesaver -- at least at first. But at age 2, EJ still craved his binky when he was upset, and if it was MIA when he needed it, all hell broke loose. His fits could be embarrassing -- as one was when Rush forgot to take along his beloved binky on an emergency-room visit. "EJ had hurt his arm playing and was so hysterical that he wouldn't cooperate for the exam or x-ray," she says. "The staff asked me to leave and come back when he had calmed down! I had to find a binky." Rush ended up begging the nurses in the maternity ward's nursery for one. When she popped it into his mouth, EJ relaxed, climbed on the x-ray table, and was the perfect little patient.
Anyone with a binky-obsessed toddler can relate. For many kids, using a pacifier satisfies a natural craving. "Babies are born with a built-in need to suckle," says George Cohen, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. But when it becomes a habit, kids need help letting go.
In a perfect world, all kids would give up their binky by the time they can hold a cup, or by age 1. Beyond that, constantly sucking on a pacifier can lead to dental problems, says Dr. Cohen. The pressure created by your child's mouth can lead to orthodontic trouble, such as protruding front teeth and a misaligned bite. Though this doesn't happen until kids start getting permanent teeth (usually around age 5), it's wise to start weaning your child off her binky well beforehand when the habit is easier to break.
Excessive pacifier use can also interfere with your toddler's developing speech and make him less interested in talking. "Parents should at least start limiting daytime pacifier use so that kids have a chance to hone their language skills and to socialize with others," says Kristin Hannibal, MD, behavioral pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
toddler with her head next to her pacifier
So how can you make it easier for your little pacifier devotee to kick the habit? Our smart tricks and techniques can help her part with it peacefully.
Time it right. Don't try to wean your child off her pacifier during a stressful time, such as the birth of a new sibling, an illness, or a move, says Dr. Cohen. Kids use their binky to cope with transitions and tough situations, so they're far less likely to hand it over when they're anxious.
Make it a team effort. Don't forget to tell your babysitter, family, and everyone else who cares for your child about your ban-the-binky plan -- and make sure they follow it. Otherwise, someone may slip your child a pacifier and undo all your efforts.
Limit binky time. Although some kids do respond to the cold-turkey approach, gradual weaning is usually more successful. Start by telling your toddler that the pacifier can't leave the house. Once he can handle that, restrict its use to naps and at bedtime.
Banish boredom. Many toddlers plead for their pacifier when they have nothing to do, says Dr. Cohen. The next time your child whines for it, try distracting her with a favorite blanket or stuffed animal, sing a song with her, or take a few minutes to sit and cuddle instead. Bonus: Since kids use a pacifier to self-soothe, these techniques show her that there are other ways she can feel calm and secure.
Tie the breakup to a milestone. Linda Haworth-O'Brien, of Palos Heights, Illinois, encouraged her daughter, Maggie, to give up her binky for her third birthday. A few weeks beforehand, she talked up what a big girl Maggie was and that she wouldn't need a pacifier anymore. Coincidentally, her supply of binkies "mysteriously" dwindled. On her birthday, Maggie went without her pacifier all day. That night, however, she cried and Mom caved in. "But the next morning, she handed me her pacifier and told me she was ready to give it up," says Haworth-O'Brien.
Keep it positive. Putting pressure on your child to give up her pacifier will do more harm than good. While it's perfectly fine to say that your toddler is a big boy or girl now and doesn't need to suck on a binky, don't stress her out or make her feel ashamed by saying that pacifiers are babyish, says Dennis Woo, MD, chairman of the department of pediatrics at Santa Monica-UCLA Hospital. But even if your child isn't swayed by your encouraging words, don't worry: Once she gets to preschool and sees that the other kids don't use a pacifier, she'll likely give it up on her own.
Check out these clever ways to make pacifiers disappear.
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Don't cut holes in a pacifier. Some parents try this to make binkies less appealing to kids, but it can create a choking hazard.
Do unplug to talk. If your child wants to say something to you, tell him he has to take his pacifier out of his mouth first.
Don't cave. If you break down and give your toddler her pacifier after an epic-length tantrum, she'll think that acting up is her ticket to getting it.
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Fallout 4 trademarked, teaser site found, and other unverified rumours
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Internet. Internet never changes. Which is why, once again, we're having to cross the irradiated wasteland of rumour and speculation. There's a chance - remote though it may be - that Bethesda are readying the broadcast signal and preparing to announce Fallout 4 to whichever isolated pockets of humanity care to listen. Of course, there's also a chance that this is nothing, and that Fallout fans will be left to starve on a diet of broken, empty dreams. It's how they would want to go.
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The Free Webgame Round-Up
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This week saw the return of *spit* Bubsy the Bubcat, but not quite in the way you may have been expecting. He's not the star of a misguided Kickstarter project - we've so far managed to avoid the likes of Zool and Cool Spot and Boogerman - but rather the hero of a fantastic indie platformy thing from the equally fantastic Arcane Kids. This week also features a lot of clicking, a lot of reading, a lot of dying repeatedly, and a lot of fun, free rogueliking - enjoy!
TowerFall Ascension: the multiplayer battler coming to PC with new co-op mode in tow
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Previously Ouya-exclusive knockabout archery multiplayer game TowerFall is coming to PC, as we already mentioned several times over the last few months. However, until now we haven't had a video to back up our outrageous claims. Now we do, along with a title: the pleasantly oxymoronic TowerFall Ascension. What new stuff is in this belated PC (and *cough* PS4) version? Well, co-op for one thing, plus a bunch of other stuff I'm saving until after the break. Hey, stop pelting me with arrows.
DayZ Standalone gets eight minutes of axey, compassy new footage
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I'm reliably informed by my spirit guide Ernest 'Don't Call Me Ernie' Ernie Shackleton that, before the age of iPhones and Sat-Nav and asking people for directions, compasses were once THE way to get around. Seeing as how satellites probably wouldn't work in the zombie post-apocalypse, it seems only right that DayZ's survivors are embracing the humble compass once more, as revealed in this new, eight-minute-long video of the upcoming standalone version. Also featured: the lovely new inventory system, and lots and lots of hitting zombies with an axe.
Mod of the Week: George Romero Mod, for State of Decay
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You kids these days, everything with you has gotta be fast. Your internet connections, your high-speed trains... even your zombies. In MY day we had dial-up, and regular-speed trains, and SLOW zombies. And we LIKED it. You should be an old coot like me, and add slow zombies to State of Decay (along with other changes) using the George Romero Mod.
There are a number of things the George Romero Mod does, or can do, for State of Decay, and you have the option of choosing exactly which changes you'd like to make and ignoring those you're not interested in. First and foremost, you can use it to adjust the speed of the zombies. In the game, the default zombie speed is somewhere between the slow zombies of the original Dawn of the Dead (1978) and the Usain Bolt zombies featured in the remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004). The mod slows them down a bit, so they’re more of the shambling, lumbering, more-staggering-than-sprinting variety, in keeping with the tradition of Romero's original vision of animated corpses.
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"Worst fruit/vegetable thrusting game I have EVER played." The Guardian's games critic Keith Stuart thus appraised the first game I ever made. It was built using PuzzleScript - Stephen Lavelle's puzzle game creation tool - and goes by the name of Avocado Pusher. You use a giant finger to push little avocados into swimming pools. "Typical Guardian," I shot back. "I bet if it had been 'Fancy Artisanal Loaf Pusher' you'd be all over that."
Everyone else had been far more impressed. Ex-PC Gamer critic and current indie dev chap Tom Francis gave it a probably-not-entirely-sarcastic 9/10 and illustrator and games critic Marsh Davies called it "The best 5x5 pixel rendering of an avocado I've seen in a game". One of the creators of endless runner Boson X, Ian MacLarty, even created a mod for the thing called Asparagus Pusher.
I'm saying this not just to point out that Keith was wrong, but to stress how easily you can use PuzzleScript to give you a working game. In the 20 minutes of time I had before I needed to head to the pub I worked out what the most basic commands in the game engine would achieve and created my own items and avatar by fiddling with the colours and pixel patterns in a pre-existing level editor. The end result was insanely straightforward but, crucially, worked as a puzzle game.
OCZ Vector 150 240GB SSD review
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Despite rumours of an OCZ collapse the wee SSD upstarts are still making new drives. This new OCZ Vector 150 is the cutting edge successor to their last top-end drive. It’s packing new memory technology and some funky Flash management to ensure this drive lasts and OCZ have also got some impressive real-world numbers to back the Vector 150 up. In comparison with the might of Samsung, and their hugely successful SSD range, OCZ is a tiny company. But they got into the solid state game early and made the bold move of buying up their own memory controller creators, Indilinx. This makes them one of the few manufacturers not just using off-the-shelf Marvell or SandForce silicon in their drives, much like the Korean giant.
I was a big fan of the original OCZ Vector drive, which popped up around a year or so ago. It produced impressive 4K random performance and was knocking around the upper limits of the SATA 6Gbps for sequential read / write performance. Importantly they also offered a five year warranty with it too, helping us all forget the reliability worries which plagued the OCZ Vertex 4. This new Vector 150 takes that even further. It still offers the same five year warranty, but OCZ are now claiming much improved endurance for the NAND Flash memory at the heart of the drive. The original Vector was rated at 20GB/day writes for its lifetime, but OCZ have boosted that by 2.5x up to 50GB/day.
Trove: a procedurally generated voxel-based sandbox which - stop me if you've heard this one before
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Voxels, eh? Can't live with 'em, can't - no, wait, that's women. What are voxels again? Oh, those little triangley things that are somehow powering the gorgeous Everquest Next. They're also powering the less gorgeous Trove, the next game from Rift and Defiance developers Trion. It's fair to say that this role-playing/crafting/sandbox title is a bit of a departure from their previous games. It's not quite as big a departure from Picroma's Cube World, however, which...well, just look at that strangely similar screenshot up there.
State of Decay's sandboxy expansion arriving November 29th
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Open world zombie survival game State of Decay took its sweet time coming to PC, but you can't say the same about its first chunk of additional content: the long-teased Breakdown DLC. Breakdown will hit a certain last-gen console and past-current-and-future-gen PCs on November 29th, which is when zombies traditionally celebrate the festive period. (They have zombie reindeer and a zombie Santa and everything - it's really quite lovely, actually.) What is in, on, or under Breakdown's bonnet, you ask? Why, a new, pretty-much-endless sandbox mode, along with "new achievements, survivors and weapons". All that and a bag of chips (warning: game might not contain chips) can be yours for $6.99.
Saturday Crapshoot: Chess Maniac Five Billion And One
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Every week, Richard Cobbett rolls the dice to bring you an obscure slice of gaming history, from lost gems to weapons grade atrocities. This week, a sexier take on the game of kings that stops somewhat short of descending into hardcore pawn. (Though the king, in check, can get a little matey)
What's the funniest game ever made? If you're thinking Twister in a poorly maintained nitrous oxide bottling plant, you're wrong. Strip Tickle Jenga? Uh. Pretty sure that doesn't exist. You might want to consider whether you're more gullible than you think, and prove you're not by sending me all your money.
As far as National Lampoon was concerned in the 90s though, no game had more potential for fun and frolics than chess. And they'd know! After all, they only put their names on the finest interactive comedy products. Like... uh... this! And, uh, Blind Date, which we may be getting to next Valentine's Day. And absolutely nothing else I'm aware of, which surely almost probably guarantees they brought their A material. Right? I see no reason to be a Doubting Debbie about this. None whatsoever!
XCOM: Enemy Within review
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Rest in peace, Major Evan “Mad Dog” Lahti. You single-handedly killed a Muton with a scatter laser, saving the life of rookie sniper Wesley Snipes. It’s too bad there were two Mutons, but seriously, you died a hero, and we all know that last 82 percent chance shot should have hit—that’s just total BS. And hey, you also completed a secondary objective that was really important, so we appreciate that. Sorry you’re dead.
Diablo 2 lives on: ladder system maintenance, another character reset inbound
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The battle may never end. More than 13 years after its initial release, Diablo 2 remains a reference point for the games we play today. It helps that the action RPG still gets some tender loving care from Blizzard, like the upcoming ladder system maintenance. New players will be able to jump into the competitive hunt for loot with minimal fuss, even after all this time.
ASRock releases motherboards designed to mine Bitcoins, generate internet moolah
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I'm about to write a bunch of really weird words in a row, but I need you to hang in there. We'll get through this together. Are you ready?
ASRock has just released a new motherboard series designed specifically to mine for Bitcoins. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time PC hardware has been built with Bitcoins in mind. Actually, these are the first PC components built to, theoretically, make you money.
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Shared office.. in a group that was 8 strong when I started 4 years ago (in several offices), now only 2 and integrated into a larger team.
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Re-programming of metabolic pathways is a hallmark of physiological changes in cancer cells. The expression of certain genes that directly control the rate of key metabolic pathways including glycolysis, lipogenesis and nucleotide synthesis are drastically altered at different stages of tumor progression. These alterations are generally considered as an adaptation of tumor cells; however, they also contribute to the progression of tumor cells to become more aggressive phenotypes. This review summarizes the recent information about the mechanistic link of these genes to oncogenesis and their potential utility as diagnostic markers as well as for therapeutic targets. We particularly focus on three groups of genes; GLUT1, G6PD, TKTL1 and PGI/AMF in glycolytic pathway, ACLY, ACC1 and FAS in lipogenesis and RRM2, p53R2 and TYMS for nucleotide synthesis. All these genes are highly up-regulated in a variety of tumor cells in cancer patients, and they play active roles in tumor progression rather than expressing merely as a consequence of phenotypic change of the cancer cells. Molecular dissection of their orchestrated networks and understanding the exact mechanism of their expression will provide a window of opportunity to target these genes for specific cancer therapy. We also reviewed existing database of gene microarray to validate the utility of these genes for cancer diagnosis.
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1. Seriously – why is GLAAD diminishing their reputation by aligning themselves with a disgusting homophobic bigot?
The guy is a homophobe and a BAD film director.
He needs to get out of the film induistry.
I expect we’ll see some ridiculous celeb-endorsed videos from him that a 1st year film student would have done a better job on.
2. vversatile 16 Feb 2012, 7:14pm
If it’s helped him change his mind and educated him about why abusive language like “faggots” is a damaging thing, then this is good.
I could be wrong, but this seems like the act of someone who is genuinely contrite.
1. Actually tt sounds like the action of a BAD tilm director who is doing some heavy duty PR to protect his career.
Which is fine – but WHY is GLAAD sponsoring him?
because GLAAD are irrelevant starf***ers that’s why.
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Lowry Bay
I am not here alone. A hidden throng
Is round me in the vesper of the sky.
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The lord that slew him when the day was long
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Reef-scattered far below all human ken.
Lo! God hath made a mighty angel beat
His wings, a benediction in their sound,
Above the roof of the most forlorn of men
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Bubble bath soap poisoning occurs when someone swallows bubble bath soap.
Use your small modesty towel to cover up when walking to the bath, but do not put the modesty towel in the bath water.
Bath bombs, after all, do not actually explode on contact with bath water.
Here is where a professional kitchen trick comes in handy: make an ice water bath.
In fact, you'll need to clear out a pretty big cupboard to store a water bath canner.
Put jars in a water-bath canner or on a rack set in a deep pot and cover with water.
Cool to room temperature or quick-chill in an ice bath.
Here bathing accessories replace standard bath accents.
In the morning, he took a bath, drawing the wartime five inches of lukewarm water.
She can't use her shower, but won't cooperate in even getting a bar put into her bath so she can steady herself.
He hoped to corner the market when he bought them, but he's taken a bath.
The plunge bath is stated to be the place where the earl's spots were first revealed.
After being developed in an acid bath would be placed onto a printing press.
The concierge rooms have both a full bath and a half bath, while the other rooms have only a single split bath.
Each has gained praise from travel critics or offers unusual amenities, such as a personalized bath service.
Hotel rooms with a shared bath are also available for a lower rate.
Two of the resort's three modular cabins have three bedrooms, a full bath and lake view.
It might be fun for me, but my two year old might not appreciate her bath toys being all mangled.
It is similar to deducing that the thin layer of ice on my backyard bird-bath this morning means that winter is returning.
Heck, it may even make bath time a few seconds shorter.
When you get out of the bath, you wrap yourself in a towel.
His kitchen contained a claw-foot bath, a stove and a table.
Guests should beware the infamous carp, bought in advance and kept for days in the bath to clean its gills.
Rather, a single artist's market may be hot and inflatable, but the overall effect is of a bubble bath.
Children's toys, plastic-encased gadgets, box sets and bubble bath.
Its make-up, bath-gels and accessories are cheap and innovative.
Slums where people used to sleep in bath-tubs to dodge the bullets are now clean and tranquil, says an aide.
New homeowner upgrades kitchen and bath on a budget.
The urn is filled up to the top with river rocks so birds can land on the top for a drink or to take a bath, and they do both.
When they emerge from their steam bath they're plump with natural juices.
Or, more accurately, they are only permitted to bath at birth and at marriage.
He had no bath the entire time, and he slept on the bare cement floor of the cell, which he shared with several others.
In the center of the bathroom is a sunken bath, four feet deep and ten feet long.
If only there were a way not to freeze afterward, she wouldn't mind taking a bath.
After twenty minutes, each panel is laid on the dishwasher's conveyor belt and run through a scalding steam bath.
Skin the rabbit-that's what my mum used to say when she pulled off my shirt and singlet for a bath.
The narrator longs for food other than meat, and a hot bath.
He could bivouac upstairs, set out all his toilet articles in the guest bath.
They then placed each muscle in a bath and tested its strength by exposing it to an electrical impulse.
Immediately transfer with tongs to an ice bath to stop cooking.
Pour the mixture into a metal bowl and set the bowl in an ice bath.
Watch a brief history movie of the park and another that shows a traditional bath.
When you allow yourself to ease into the run, as if you're easing into a hot bath, the sensations come to you gradually.
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Example sentences for ample
Breaking stock offerings were sufficient to ample for normal to over-time processing schedules.
Bears given ample food reproduce normally.
This fungal disease thrives in high-humidity areas with ample summer rain.
Large shade structures and manchineel trees provide ample shade.
The following two recipes, using pumpkin straight from the farm, are ample reward.
Workspace isn't ample, but the stainless dual-burner stove and sink are recessed .
Let's give scientists ample funding to solve potential complications and let the science lead the way.
Public workers still have ample protections and benefits, she says.
She had ample opportunity to leave on her own.
The forests provide ample habitat for endangered red pandas and takins, along with Asiatic black bears and snow leopards.
The report claimed there would be ample positions opening up near the end of the decade.
Of course, there remain ample grounds for skepticism.
But there is ample evidence indicating that the oceans are bearing the brunt of these changes.
Most refute the texts and offer ample evidence of their fraudulent nature.
The factory was still at less than capacity, with ample room for a new product line.
Hidden buttons and pockets provide ample, subtle storage options.
The ability to bring light to an utter standstill could find ample use in quantum computers.
Another set of variations typical of populations adapted to cold climates indicates he had a compact body and ample body fat.
They would open the policy process to the public to ensure ample and vigorous discussion.
There is ample neuroscientific evidence that clearly supports this approach to learning.
There is ample evidence that the climate models are wrong.
Fecal matter from fowl is commonly used for swine feed to cut costs, giving ample opportunities for virus transmission.
Apparently there is still ample room for error-five errors, in particular.
The ample productive capacity left idle by the crisis meant firms could expand without making big investments.
So if exports collapse, governments also have ample scope to boost domestic demand.
Yet there is ample evidence that he is part of the problem.
Therefore, there is ample scope for a tax on the component of the bonuses that is distributed right away.
They have also maintained adequate capital ratios and ample deposit funding.
There is ample spare capacity and thus little chance that inflation will take off.
The government has ample room to increase taxes, particularly on consumption, but lacks the political will to do so.
But ample showrooms and well-trained staff are costly.
The grant, paid out quarterly over five years, will therefore add to an already ample kitty.
He has been given ample opportunity and has not produced.
There is also ample global liquidity to fuel further gains.
And even simple reforms require each country to enact new laws, so there is ample scope for political interference.
Despite daunting seasonal and regional variations, it should have ample water for agricultural, industrial and household use.
Please allow ample time for ad copy and payment issues to be processed prior to this deadline.
Part of the stress of air travel is getting to the airport with ample time for the long queues at.
But there is ample evidence that industry-sector focused training can close the skills gap and provide worker mobility.
And as always, he added ample personality of his own.
For customers on four wheels, the low-key neighborhood has ample street parking, so you don't have to feed pesky meters.
The neighborhood has an ample supply of vintage apartment buildings.
The kitchen offers views of the dining room and has a pantry and ample counter and cabinet space.
The company had ample capacity and wanted to lure customers with the peace of mind offered by unlimited plans.
The hotel contains a pool, laundry facilities and ample limousine parking.
Each room includes patios or terraces, ample tiles and marble and hidden minibars packed with champagne.
Ample money is set aside to fund pensions, and it is invested prudently but not timidly.
To be sure, there is ample evidence that being poor causes unhappiness.
But the blocks and other movable materials provide ample opportunity to exercise the mind as well.
Ample parking is available for even the largest recreational vehicles.
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GFYM writes:
Faiella now assumes that since we filled the City Manager position we will no longer have shootings at the park. What a pathetic statement.
Greg will take more vacation time in place of a raise. He now has a month of PAID vacation. That means he gets $10,125 for being gone from work for those 30 days. Don”t forget there is a cash value to the vacation when he does not use it. Refusing the pay raise was disingenuous. See how things never change?
Now that Greg has been promoted to City Manager he will do a better job and work harder. Is the implication that he was not doing his job to the best of his ability before?
The Martin/Faiella cop union plot continues. Shinnamon, GONE. Bentrott, GONE. Reuther, GOING. Orr, GOING. Bartels will be the unions/councils next pick for Police Chief as he was part of Faiella's campaign team. Why go outside...”when the right candidate has been right under the council's nose the whole time.”
Once again, if Cooper and Bentrott were so bad for PSL, how is Oravec right? The only way to move forward is to start promoting from the outside. It seems the more we say this the less we do it!
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0.040736 | <urn:uuid:79bee99e-e239-485d-b7f7-f4838753e5ba> | en | 0.987543 | 'What's exciting is that writing has become a weapon'
1. Listening to Grasshoppers
2. : Field Notes on Democracy
3. Find this on the Guardian bookshop
This compulsion - towards reporting and polemic - Roy blames in part on the success of The God of Small Things. She wrote her novel for four and a half years entirely in secret; even her husband, the film-maker Pradip Krishen, did not know of its existence until it was finished. And she wrote it for herself. She had written a couple of film scripts before that and had come to despise the collaborative creative process. The book was an exercise in downshifting. She imagined when it was published that it would sell "maybe 500 copies in Delhi." In fact, it sold 6m copies worldwide and won her the Booker Prize.
"The prize," she says now, "was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class - they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition."
The essays in Listening to Grasshoppers are her collected hand grenades from the last eight years. Roy says the process of putting them together has been "totally sad for me in a way - to see that six years ago you said something was going to happen and then it happened. It is not as though I am a genius or a witch. When you start seeing the way the whole machine works, the structure of what is happening is so clear."
That machine is the engine of free market "progress" that politicians in Delhi call "Indian Shining". Roy sees it as the destruction for multinational corporate profit of everything that her nation should care about. Her book begins with a question: "Is there life after democracy?" and goes on to count the ways that successive Indian governments and businessmen have waged a repressive war on the poor and on minorities, and have pursued devastating environmental destruction for economic and political gain.
She has just returned from the Chhattisgarh region, which is "being targeted by corporates for its wealth of iron ore. In the name of fighting Maoist rebels, hundreds of villages have been forcibly evacuated and almost 40,000 people moved into police camps." It is, she says, heartbreaking to see what is going on, "the levels of violence, the levels of dispossession; if that was happening in Iran or some other country that didn't have a free market and a democracy it would have been on the front pages every day. Because it is India it does not rate a mention."
In her stride, she goes on to describe the "building of a hundred dams in the high Himalayas. When you see what is being done it is like it is being done to your own body." In 2002 Roy was briefly imprisoned for her protests against the Narmada dam project. When she talks of these things now - and of the horror of the ongoing war in Kashmir - it is with a rawness and a weariness that makes you half-expect her to scream with anger.
"Time is running out," she says, "rivers are running dry. But you cannot fight against dams. It doesn't involve just people; it involves a whole eco system and cropping patterns. But you cannot have an armed struggle against a rising river."
While the Indian miracle takes place, she says, the country is host to more than a third of the world's undernourished children. Only her compatriots could have celebrated the victory of Slumdog Millionaire on Oscar night. "The fact that the film - not even an Indian film - won these prizes sent people into orbit. But it is an odd movie for a country to be proud of. What were we celebrating? Child poverty? If it wasn't so tragic it would be comical."
When I ask her where she places her hope, Roy shrugs. She is tiny in stature, but her disillusion can fill a room. She has no faith in conventional politics to change anything. Obama "might be a symbol," she concedes, but nothing "about the relation of American capitalism with the rest of the world will alter ... To answer your question, it's not about my hope, it's about my DNA. There are people who are comfortable with power and people who are distinctly uncomfortable and made to question it."
In this respect, Roy is very much her mother's daughter. Before Arundhati was born, Mary Roy was a visible and vocal campaigner for women's rights. As a divorcee she set up an experimental girl's school; Arundhati was her star pupil. Does she feel like a creation of her mother? "No. We are temperamentally very different," she says quickly. "My mother runs a huge institution; she has hundreds of people working for her, and I am completely a loner, I don't even have a secretary or anybody. I am almost terrified of that. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me."
Roy left home as soon as she could, initially to become an architect and then to follow other dreams. "When I was 18," she has written elsewhere, "I chose freedom over the safety of a home, good clothes and Johnson's baby lotion. The fortunate thing was that I didn't need to be married, or oppressed, or beaten to decide that I wanted independence at all costs."
Roy speaks a lot about her activist mother but her father disappears from her story. What became of him? "My parents separated when I was two, and I never saw my father until I was 24 or 25," she says. "He was an alcoholic, completely. He died last year. I didn't really know him but I was there at the end. My aunt used to look after him and I used to help sometimes but you couldn't talk to him, not really..."
She must have felt that as an absence? "I think that in some ways," she says, "the fact that my father was missing from my life was not a bad thing. For one thing it gave my mother a lot of space to indulge her personality, and she needed at least enough space for two people! And it allowed me to avoid any kind of paternal battles. Just by experience I was a natural born feminist, I didn't have to be schooled. That is how it was."
Roy made a decision quite young not to have kids. Was that another strategy to protect her freedom? "Well in a way, growing up, I had always had kids. At my mother's school - when I was four I was looking after kids who were three. I did quite a lot of teaching. By the time I was 16 I never wanted to see another child again!"
She draws strength for her struggles from other writers; Noam Chomsky, John Berger are names that crop up repeatedly. "I see them occasionally, I read them. There is a shared affection I think."
If she hadn't won the Booker Prize, does she believe she would have written more novels by now? "I have no idea if I would have written more or less or none at all," she says. "But it did change things. Now I feel that I am ready to do it again, in some ways, but I am not finding the space. It is a difficult choice for me when there is always something happening. In a philosophical sense I know I am insignificant, but in the current moment I can make a bit of a difference." That belief makes her a constant irritation to Indian politicians; she is the scourge of the Hindu nationalists, of the BJP in particular. She rather relishes the role.
"For the past decade or so they have tried both ways to keep me quiet," she says, smiling." They have tried putting me in prison and they have tried giving me awards. In the run up to these elections the home minister LK Advani was mentioning me by name at rallies, you know, denouncing me as an anti-national ..."
I suggest to her that part of the freedom she covets is perhaps the freedom to fail; I have the sense, talking to her, that she distrusts intensely the idea of herself as a literary icon. "It is true," she says, "that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word. I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. When I was very small this mad uncle of mine who is one of the main characters in my novel took me on one side and showed me this horrible bauble. He said 'Do you want this?' I was maybe three or something, and of course I did. He said, 'Well I will give it you as long as you promise to fail.' That idea has certainly stayed with me."
It is hard, talking to Roy, to see where she finds the joy in her life that glittered in some of the sentences of her novel. Her husband has just written a book about the trees of Delhi, which has become a surprise bestseller. Is that a passion they share?
They have, she says, a different relationship to nature. "He was a person who grew up in Delhi and I grew up on the river in Kerala. I was frightened of being stuck there and married off to some dull Syrian Christian boy so I used to dream always of escape to the big city. My husband's dreams went in the other direction."
So they have found common ground in their city's trees? "He is a much more methodical person than me, he likes to name things. If I go into the forest I can appreciate its beauty but I almost immediately want to know the politics of it. I want to know who is buying the mangoes, what is under the ground."
As we talk, Roy from time to time expresses her concern not to be presented as a personality. "You know, this is not the life of Arundhati ... I have no interest in that at all." She hates to be boxed in, she suggests, even in a profile. Does she worry, I wonder, about losing the smaller voice, the individual one?
"Well, if I lose it, so what?" she says. "I am writing bits of fiction but then I get derailed by something happening."
Does she ever think a novel might sometimes be a more affecting way to express her politics? She says she doesn't know. And then she goes on to describe the brutal economics of bauxite mining in the state of Orissa.
Arundhati Roy: A Life
Born Suzanna Arundhati Roy in 1961, in Meghalaya, India, to a Keralite Syrian mother, women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali tea-planter father.
Studied at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
Married architect Gerard da Cunha in 1977. She divorced him after four years, and later married film-maker Pradip Krishen, whom she met in 1984 while appearing as a "tribal bimbo" in one of his films.
Career Screenplays including In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) and Electric Moon (1992). Began The God of Small Things in 1992; won the Booker Prize in 1997.
Political works include The Cost of Living (1999) and The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2002). Is an outspoken critic of US foreign policy, India's nuclear weapons and the conduct of Israel, and a supporter of Kashmiri independence.
Awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004.
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0.028854 | <urn:uuid:cdd04c35-9aa5-4121-8a44-40139ace51b9> | en | 0.986446 | On this day: Ethel Rosenberg is born
September 27 1998: Communist, wife, mother: the first woman executed for spying in peacetime America
From a New York Jewish family, Ethel Greenglass was one of only two people in American history to be executed for spying during peacetime. The other was her husband, Julius.
After a lengthy trial, the Rosenbergs were found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. It was the height of the Red Scare and Joe McCarthy’s witch-hunt. Americans were consumed with rooting out those people who were not true “patriots”.
As a young woman, Ethel had hoped to pursue her dream of being an actress, but when the Depression hit she found a secretarial job. Around that time, she joined the Young Communist League, where she met a young Jewish engineer named Julius.
The couple married in 1939. Four years later, Julius’ brother, also a committed communist, took a job with America’s atomic bomb programme; the Manhattan Project. Julius persuaded him to pass information to the Russians, and when the plot was revealed in 1950 Ethel was also implicated. The Rosenbergs were arrested and put on trial in 1951.
They were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing prison on June 19 1953. Their two sons, ten and six at the time, were adopted by a family friend. Before she died, Ethel wrote to them: “Always remember that we were innocent and could not wrong our conscience.”
In 2008, Morton Sobell, a friend of the Rosenbergs who was also convicted of espionage, admitted he and Julius had been Soviet spies. Of Ethel, he said: “She knew what he was doing, but what was she guilty of? Of being Julius’s wife.”
What the JC said: Amid widespread suggestions of “dual loyalty” and angry criticism of particular Jewish support for Communism, Jews in America felt vulnerable. Many went out of their way to demonstrate their patriotism...The trial became an arena for articulating differing conceptions of Jewishness, notably what bearing it had on the pointed alternative of loyalty to the United States or to a foreign power...Although antisemitism did not noticeably increase as a result of the trial, nor could the trial itself be said to have been antisemitic, the conduct of many Jews raised questions.
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ATI 4870 512 mb power cable confusion
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Hi all,
Have just upgraded from a 8800GTS 320mb to an ATI 4870 512mb.I have changed cards several times before,but have hit a snag this time.My old 8800gts only has one 6 pin power plug but the 4870 has 2.I have tried it in both on separate occasions but just get a power input error message on my monitor.
I have what looks like an adapter lead included but don't know which lead if any they would go in to.I don't want to get it wrong and fry it!
In my PC case is a mass of wires held with cable ties,and there are 3 spare 4 pin plugs if this helps? any help would be massively appreciated indeed!
Motherboard is an ASUS P5N-E SLI n Force(C55) Core 2 Duo.
ATX case +550W PSU
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You plug 2 of the 4 pin plugs into the "Y" adapter and then plug the 6 pin plug into the other slot on the video card.
You have to have 2 - 6 pin connectors to run the card.
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Thanks very much for reply swifty,I really appreciate it.Sorry,am not great with computers.My Y adapter has room for 4 pins but only has 3 pins with yellow/black and brown wires going in.Spare 4 pin plugs on PC have 4 pins with yellow/2 black and red wires.Bit confused!Am in UK by the way if that helps with anything electrical.
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I'll make a bet here...
That power adaptor goes to the same molex (power thingy) that goes from your PSU to you CD/DVD ROM or even to you HDD if it is SATA with both connectors. Also, the Y adaptor has 2 of those molex'es.
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That's the molex i'm talking about (kind off, lol) that goes to the CD/DVD ROM. The adaptor should have 2 molex with that form: female and male. Plug the correct one to the one that goes into the CD/DVD ROM, and the other one to the power cable. The last molex (the 6 Pin or 2x3 Pin) goes to the card like you already know.
Hope it works.
Thanks Yuka.Just wondered if I get the molex connections wrong,can it damage anything or will it just not work.Tempted just to do trial and error.
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It would be really really hard to get them wrong actually... All power connectors (molex'es) from the PSU are different from each other when they have different power throwoutput, even some with the same power, have a different design.
In the worst case, your card won't get enough juice and still complain.
Ok so I decided to bite the bullet and plug it in.It fired up first time and seems to be working well on Warhead/clear sky and COD4 for over an hour now.Thanks so much to Yuka and Swifty for all your help.It was really appreciated and I'm grateful for your time. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/255702-33-4870-power-cable-confusion | dclm-gs1-041250002 | false | false | {
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0.465459 | <urn:uuid:3fc5bdb9-d11c-45cf-9b3c-f6fafa6c63a4> | en | 0.967505 | Dorgan Grabs His Pitchfork!
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A new study from Congress indicates that two-thirds of corporations doing business in the United States did not pay taxes from 1998 to 2005. This has Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) in a tizzy.
"It's shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support our country," Dorgan vented. "The tax system that allows this wholesale tax avoidance is an embarrassment and unfair to hard-working Americans who pay their fair share of taxes. We need to plug these tax loopholes and put these corporations back on the tax rolls." He added: "It's time for the big corporations to pay their fair share."
This is fine, rabble-rousing stuff that has almost nothing to do with the study.
The Government Accounting Office explicitly states that its research did not conclude why taxes weren't paid. Perhaps it's because the U.S. economy has taken some heavy beatings since 2001 and businesses aren't doing so well. Perhaps, too, it's because corporate profits are being re-invested into infrastructure and innovation. Or maybe it's because the vast majority of U.S. corporations are start-ups or small businesses, which rarely run in the black immediately.
Or perhaps, as Dorgan seems to believe, there are more nefarious reasons.
Before Dorgan's huffing translates into more disastrous economic policy for the U.S., it's worth looking at his comments piece-meal.
1.) "It's shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support out country."
For starters, the GAO report said nothing about corporations making "big" profits—that's merely Dorgan's hunch. And as for "paying nothing to support our country," the senator might consider that these companies keep Americans gainfully employed, both directly and indirectly. These Americans in turn use their earnings to purchase goods and services, and to pay local, state and federal taxes of all sorts—income, property, sales, you name it. Dorgan might also remember that corporations are subject to property, state corporate income, and federal payroll taxes.
2.) "The tax system that allows this wholesale tax avoidance is an embarrassment...."
"Tax avoidance" isn't the crime; it's the symptom. If the tax system were less onerous or abusive, or if it were far simpler, then "tax avoidance" wouldn't be the issue.
3.) "We need to plug these tax loopholes...."
Like "tax avoidance," the term "loophole" is a populist catchword implying that perfectly legal behavior is somehow illegal. What Dorgan means to say is that, since corporations aren't rushing to hand over money to the IRS voluntarily—well, who is?—it's up to Congress to force them to.
4.) "It's time for the big corporations to pay their fair share."
Dorgan's pitchfork-rattling notwithstanding, the GAO study actually found that roughly 75 percent of "big corporations" did pay federal corporate income taxes. Given the battering airlines and cars, two of the biggest domestic industries, have taken in recent years, the disparity seems entirely in line.
The larger point here is that Dorgan takes a simplistic approach to companies and their profits. He seems to view them as mere pillagers, stuffing their pockets with as much cash as possible and transferring the rest to a subsidiary in a lower-tax country. With combined federal, state and local taxes currently socking U.S.-based companies for some 40 percent—the second-highest burden behind Japan—the senator ought to be grateful that these companies remain here at all. Other countries, notably Ireland, Germany, Great Britain and Canada, have slashed taxes to well below the U.S. rate in a bid to woo these companies to relocate. Taxing America's companies even more might make a C.E.O.'s decision easier - and then there really would be fewer companies paying income taxes.
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If he had actually read the GAO report, he'd see that of the 14,000 companies that control 90 percent of corporate assets, 75 percent of them in fact *did* pay taxes in 2005. Of the ones that didn't, most probably didn't make profits that year (which was a tough one for airlines and automakers, if you'll recall.) The problem with things like this dumb press release is Americans generally don't make the distinction between the Fortune 1000 or whatever and the local "corporation" down the street.
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Bleeding Heart for the Murderer!
I have taught my kids to understand the reality of the human psychological being as to how those we think that we know have multiple facets of their persona that doesn't truly reflect who they are.
This woman might be the most charming person one can ever meet, and have the cutest smile and the softest voice ect ect, so did other sociopathic killers such as Ted Bundy who was so charming he even had the Judge taken in.
This woman gave birth, and allowed her newborn baby, a him or her to suffer, and ignored the child's gasps and cries for his mother to protect him or her, only to be left to die a suffering death.
This woman is of the coldest of the cold and has no value for human life, but of herself a truly unapologetic, sociopathic killer of a helpless newborn baby.
It is as simple as that and for you to defend the indefensible is a serious blight on your own character, Theadora and you should thank God that you had someone who cared enough about you to allow you to live the life you have and not chosen the prevailing methodology of the modern Leftist Feminist.
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— NEW YORK (AP) - The delegations leave town Tuesday evening, and while many New Yorkers appreciate the business the United Nations General Assembly brings each autumn, few will miss the traffic and the sirens and the motorcades and the black 4x4s bristling with single-minded security types.
The gridlock can be excruciating, most of Manhattan's East Side seems off limits, hotel rooms are hard to find (and more expensive than usual, which is saying something).
Then there's the annual anti-Semitic rant offered by Iran's president, an event not usually well-received in a city with a substantial Jewish population.
New Yorkers love to complain, and some people complain about the U.N. General Assembly - loudly, in fact - but really it's a love-hate relationship, with the many people who house and feed the delegates perfectly thrilled to have so many high-powered guests in the city looking for something to do at night after listening to speeches all day long.
Consider the crowd: presidents, prime ministers and sheiks from all over the world, with a few royals thrown in. Anyone who wants to stay for the baseball playoffs that begin Friday night can probably afford those special seats at Yankee Stadium, the ones where waiters bring you gourmet food, or hot dogs if you prefer.
"These people have a lot of buying power," said Wanda Chan, general manager of the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel. "It's not just good for hotels, it's good for restaurants and conference centers, it's good for everyone. It's great for New York - we're very lucky to have the U.N."
Good for everyone? Don't ask a taxi driver.
The event, which draws 193 delegations to the aging U.N. headquarters on the East River, is tough on people who drive cabs for a living. New York's taxi drivers - their diverse nationalities reflecting an informal United Nations - depend on being able to get around the city quickly to generate multiple fares.
That doesn't happen when the General Assembly is in town, said Abdul Jalil, who saw his typical $170-a-day income plummet.
"They close everything down so we can hardly move," he said. "You go four blocks and then the passenger jumps out. They go three or four blocks in 20 minutes and then they give up. They can walk faster. My advice to the General Assembly is this: get out of my city. They should put the U.N. in the desert."
Jalil, 55, said his gasoline costs remain high - while revenues dry up - because he spends so much time burning up fuel while idling in traffic. He has come to resent the whole affair, which sees a number of big time diplomats enjoying the best New York has to offer while he sits and steams.
"They just come here and blah blah blah and stay in the nice hotels and eat in the nice restaurants and that's it," he said.
Taxi drivers may be frustrated, but many others take a far more benevolent view. The delegates are seen as bumping up New York nightlife at a time when the economy is sluggish. Theaters, high-end boutiques and even souvenir shops get a boost - so do stores selling items like genuine Levi's jeans, which are much less expensive in New York than, for example, in Europe or Africa.
The General Assembly also spawns what can become profitable meetings between top economic advisers to heads of state and New York businesses, said Helana Natt, executive director of the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce.
"Because their key economic people are in town, they call us to set up meetings and introduce themselves," she said. "It might be the Bangladeshis wanting to meet with people about energy and investment banking for Bangladesh. And they want to bring Bangladeshi businesses into New York. It leads to future trade missions."
She said these long-term benefits are in addition to the obvious increase in demand for restaurants, limousines, and security personnel.
The general assembly is a godsend for eateries in the area despite the heavy security that sometimes shuts even foot traffic, said Dawn Hussey, manager of Keats Restaurant on Second Avenue.
"You're packed for lunch and dinner five or six days without fail," she said. "You can't beat that. And it's a great buzz. We see lots of faces that only come once a year. And they do take care of us. It's a bit of a hassle but it's worth it."
At the Grand Hyatt hotel several blocks away, general manager Mark Pardue said the U.N. General Assembly brings some inconvenience but offers the city's economy a reliable lift each September after the generally slow summer season. He said it compares well to other big draws like the U.S. Open tennis championships, the New York City Marathon, and the first two weeks of December, the peak Christmas shopping season.
"It's right up there," he said. "We had five delegations staying here. They are here primarily for the business aspect, but they extend beyond the UNGA and take in the sights and sounds, the theater and the shopping."
Hosting world leaders poses some challenges, he said, including the case of a president who stayed several years ago and wanted his food prepared in his suite, not the hotel kitchen. It wasn't because of religious or security concerns, simply a case of a guest who wanted his food to taste a certain way and was accustomed to getting what he wanted.
"He wanted his homeland cuisine, so we made arrangements," Pardue said.
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Net_Wizard - 4:14 pm on Aug 8, 2002 (gmt 0)
Spam Sites - Sites that obviously have no beneficial content on it and employ techniques that are frowned by both SE's and webmasters alike.
The way I look at things is that there's two types of spammers;1. newbies and, 2. professionals.
1.Newbies - are just individuals who are new to the web and realize/hopeful that they can make a few bucks off the internet. Usually they are unsophisticated and most often a single domain with a few pages on it, nothing complicated.
This type of spam, I do let it pass through even if by chance they are in front of me. Just because, I've been there, we've been there. To me, I like to see this individual grow and gather web experience and develop the right kind of skill. It's more of a learning experience for this person and often times the person have real interest in the products or services s/he is pushing.
From there, it depends on this person which road s/he is going to take. Is it the road to fair play or is it the road to professional spamming?
2.Professinal Spammers - Believe it or not, spamming is a business in a very strict sense. Professionals, do their research as to which market/industry is profitable. Once they figure out which market to enter, they will invest time, effort and resources to flood that target. They have no morals and ethics in regards to ecommerce. To them it's just a numbers game.
This is the type of spammer that I'm after about. I know I can hurt them and I will. They are an insult to my categories and they have total disregard to the rule of fair play. They are confident and smug that they can get away with cheating. Their mantra is 'So what if they(SE's) caught one or two of our domains, we still have hundreds of properties...'. It's true that SE's can't catch them all but I'll hunt them down and it would be my pleasure :) .
So, Chef Brian to answer your question...
If your type A site is a full site, meaning, just a commercial site with no hidden tricks, no redirect then in my book, it's fair play. I have no problem with one domain supporting another domain. It's only when it gets out of hand with multiple domains having almost similar contents, redirect, etc., etc.
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How am I supposed to add shady looking ads to my filter when I can't determine the URL?
I'm guessing that's exactly the point. They want to take that control out of our hands and take care of it themselves thanks to routine purges. That makes me feel uneasy.
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ReMotivation: when the first time went wrong
Posted Jul 28 2008 8:14pm
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Exercise is something we all need to do. But it may not go correctly all the time. We might start - feel we’re getting nowhere and then just give up. When that happens, what we need is a bit of remotivation.
We need to do something that’ll make us get up and get back on the exercise path. Sometimes remotivation happens spontaneously when we just have the urge to exercise. Sometimes the worst needs to happen to us - we put on weight and no longer look like our ideal weight. Sometimes we just have to have some near-death experience to start rebuilding our ideal life. Sometimes a simple stock take on our life and ideal look is all it takes.
Here are three steps:-
1. Take stock of where you are. Answer questions such as how do you look now and is it how you wish to look? Where do you want to lose weight? Where do you want to gain weight? Where do you want to build muscles? What have you done so far and how do you look?
2. Devise some realistic goals. Within 4-6 months, where do you want to see yourself? Where do you see the muscles and what do you look like? How healthy are you and what does it feel like?
3. Come up with creative ways to achieve those goals. Make a list of things you could do, have or be in order to get remotivated with your health and fitness goals.
Here are three ideas to pick yourself up again:
• Set up a reward system. Come up with BIG rewards - rewards that will literally blow you away like a big vacation, a shopping spree, a weekend away, a spa retreat, whatever it is that takes your fancy. Give yourself these rewards once you reach a particular milestone that you set.
• WHY. Answer the why for your goals and you’ll have bigger emotional wants to get up and take action. That’s what Tony Robbins says: come up with as many reasons as you can for wanting to achieve your goals.
• Create your fitness playlist. I like how iTunes have created fitness playlists so you could download them and listen through them when you’re exercising.
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