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Aortic valve replacement surgery may be done as an open-heart surgery or as a less invasive surgery (where the surgeon makes smaller incisions and does not open the chest). This slideshow shows the surgery as an open-heart surgery.
To replace the damaged aortic valve, the surgeon first makes an incision in the chest and cuts through the breastbone (sternum).
Then, the surgeon opens the chest with a retractor to expose the heart. The surgeon opens the lining that protects the heart (pericardium).
Next, the surgeon removes the damaged aortic valve.
Finally, the surgeon inserts the artificial valve into the aorta. The artificial valve (also called a prosthetic valve) may be either mechanical or made of human or animal (pig) tissue. The surgeon sews the valve to the annulus, which is a ring of tissue that connects to the leaflets of the aortic valve.
|Primary Medical Reviewer||Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology|
|Specialist Medical Reviewer||John A. McPherson, MD, FACC, FSCAI - Cardiology|
|Last Revised||November 2, 2011| | <urn:uuid:0871fcaf-5cbd-49b1-a9d1-7c0c458adca9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cigna.com/individualandfamilies/health-and-well-being/hw/aortic-valve-replacement-surgery-zm2793.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903505 | 260 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Vineyard Nursing Association, Vineyard Health Care Access Program and Island Health are collaborating on a pilot program for people who are living with or are at risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes, congestive heart failure and COPD. Called The Martha’s Vineyard Partnership for Health, the free program aims to help people connect with resources, education and health care needed to improve their health.
The program has been funded by a community grant from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, and is modeled on a nationally-recognized chronic care model developed in Seattle, Wash. The program will offer health coaching, diabetes education classes, a chronic disease management class, walking groups and other exercise and wellness programs. Classes and health coaching are offered in English and Portuguese.
The program is initially open to anyone who is at risk, including people who have been diagnosed with or are experiencing acute symptoms of chronic disease. Referrals to the program can come from a primary care provider, a nurse, a friend or self-referral. For information, contact Lindsey Strug at 508-687-7118 or visit the website vineyardhealth.org. | <urn:uuid:f22abc0a-7f85-42da-bb52-65720518e465> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mailto:[email protected]/news/2013/02/28/chronic-care-program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958818 | 233 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
The University of Michigan Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) offers outstanding undergraduates underrepresented in their field of study the opportunity to conduct intensive research across a variety of disciplines. The goal is to prepare students for advanced studies in a Ph.D. program at U-M.
The Summer Research Opportunity Program was initiated in 1986 by the Graduate Deans of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) to encourage talented undergraduate students to pursue graduate study, and subsequently, academic careers. SROP allows undergraduates the opportunity to work on graduate level research projects with faculty. Students work with faculty mentors either on an individual basis or as part of a research team. Research teams may also include graduate students, research scientists, and other SROP students.
In addition, all participants engage in a series of academic, professional, and personal development seminars. Participants present their research at a concluding U-M research symposium. A central goal of the program is to prepare participants for graduate study at U-M. Students in SROP build professional and personal networks that support their interest in joining the academic community.
SROP participants are expected to participate full-time during the 8 week program. Participants may not enroll for classes, concurrent summer programs, or hold other employment during the period of the program. SROP is held on the U-M Ann Arbor campus.
Detailed information about the application process for participation in U-M’s Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP).
Information about stipend, travel, and room and board for participants.
Undergraduates who will be entering their Junior or Senior years are eligible for participation in the program.
Information about expectations of participants.
Examples of past project titles and objectives.
Examples of student presentation titles.
Other SROP programs, prospective graduate study
Summer Research Opportunity Program
1530 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington Street, Suite 1530
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Phone: (734) 647-4013
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Recently, I got an e-mail from the Foundation Beyond Belief, which is working with USAID to raise awareness of the continuing drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. The toll in lives is already appalling, including over 29,000 deaths from starvation and outbreaks of measles and cholera, and hundreds more dying every day. The crisis has produced almost a million refugees, including over 400,000 at the Dadaab camp in Kenya.
I have to admit that my first reaction to this news was a feeling of hopelessness. Sometimes it seems that occasional famine is a painful fact of life, especially in poor, overpopulated regions of arid, sub-Saharan nations, and that any effort to help, however well-intentioned, is only going to delay the inevitable. I won't deny that I've had some of these thoughts myself. But I was brought up short by a passage that Johann Hari wrote in a recent book review:
As recently as the mid-1980s, it was thought that famine was usually an "act of God" - a "biblical" failure of rains or crops or seasons. But in the 1990s Amartya Sen, the Nobelwinning economist, showed this was wrong by proving one bold fact: "No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy." Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly - because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.
Although a natural disaster, like drought, is often the trigger, the ultimate cause of famine is almost always a corrupt, greedy, or unaccountable government that siphons off food from the needy. For example, during the infamous Irish potato famine of the 1840s, Ireland was producing more than enough food to feed itself, but the imperial British rulers of the time demanded that the majority of it be shipped abroad for export. The only space left for the Irish to grow their own food was on small and marginal plots, and when the potato blight wiped out their chief crop, disaster followed.
And the same thing is happening now in Somalia. As Nicholas Kristof writes, the country is experiencing a historic drought - aggravated, no doubt, by climate change - but that alone wouldn't have caused such a severe crisis. Kenya and Ethiopia, which are also affected by the drought, are coping better thanks to technological advances, like drought-resistant crops and irrigation systems. But the closest thing to a government in Somalia is the violent, ignorant Islamist movement called the Shabab that's the only authority in most of the country. Kristof puts it chillingly:
The area where large numbers of people are dying almost perfectly overlays the regions where the Shabab is in control.
The Shabab has actively kept out aid workers and relief shipments, apparently viewing them as unwanted intrusions from corrupt and godless Western countries. They've blocked rivers and stolen water from villagers to divert it to farmers who pay them bribes. They've even tried to prevent starving people from fleeing.
So, yes, famine is an "act of God" - but only in the sense that it's caused by God's self-appointed agents, the forces of religious darkness that don't value human life and are perfectly willing to allow suffering and death. Famine is not inevitable, even in a warming and overpopulated world. The question is whether we, the defenders of humanity and civilization, the people who care about this life, are willing to act to prevent it.
Whenever I think of Somalia, I'm reminded that the brilliant, amazing Ayaan Hirsi Ali came from there. Could there be other minds like hers swept up in the famine, people with the same potential as her even now cradling their dying children or trudging to refugee camps? Will we stand by and permit the strangling darkness of theocracy to snuff out these bright sparks?
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Biology makes good use of numbers both small and large. Try these questions involving big and small numbers.
You might need to use standard biological data not given in the question.
Of course, as these questions involve estimation there are no definitive 'correct' answers. Just try to make your answers to each part as accurate as seems appropriate in the context of the question.
Extension: In mathematics, a bound for a measurement gives two numbers between which we know for certain that the real measurement must lie. For example, a (not very good) bound on the height of the members of a class would be 1m < heights < 2m. In the previous questions can you find bounds on the quantities?
First suggest a really rough bound which you would know to be true and then see if you can sensibly improve on it. | <urn:uuid:dcbb3a89-97c6-49a9-bf83-8639f5f45beb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nrich.maths.org/6140/index | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959849 | 170 | 2.96875 | 3 |
California law allows “small estates” to be collected without probate. It is typically a very simple and inexpensive process, especially when compared to probating an estate. One downside has been that a small estate’s gross value, until now, had to be less than $100,000.00.
However, as of January 1, 2012, this amount has increased to $150,000.00. See Probate Code §13100.
In order to use the procedure, all of the following must be true:
- No probate proceedings have been initiated;
- 40 days must have elapsed since the decedent’s passing; and,
- The total gross value of assets is no greater than $150,000.00 not including the following assets:
- Joint tenancy property;
- Beneficiary designations;
- Motor vehicles registered with the DMV;
- Manufactured homes, campers, etc.
This applies to both real property (houses and land) and personal property (all other property). However, if real real property is involved, a court request is necessary but is far quicker and less expensive than a full probate. Personal property can be collected by a affidavit so long as it meets certain requirements. See Probate Code §13150.
It should be noted that some websites (including a publisher of well known legal “do it yourself books”) say that real property cannot be collected without a full probate unless it has a value of less than $50,000. However this is incorrect. These sites are seemingly referring to a procedure at Probate Code §13200, not Probate Code §13100 – 13150. | <urn:uuid:23f7e16f-e4bf-4ddb-ad54-b1e8af817c6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://caltrustattorney.com/small-estates-increase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941484 | 349 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The world chess champion, the Indian Vishwanathan Anand, has yesterday played simultaneously against forty mathematicians, a selection from the participants to International Congress of Mathematicians at Hyderabad, in India.
The result has been Anand 39,5-Mathematicians 0,5 i.e. Anand has won 39 games and draw one. (Note: this doesn’t say that Anand is forty times more intelligent than a mathematic: it just says that he has studied more chess technique.)
Many have played successfully both games: we remember the Cuban José Raoul Capablanca, world chess champion since 1921 to 1927; the American Emanuel Lasker, he too world chess champion, defeated by the same Capablanca. Lasker wrote the chronicles of the Anglo-American match Culbertson-Buller in 1933, the first Schwab Trophy. Last but no least, Lasker has been a “strong” mathematic: his researches have driven Emily Noether toward her discoveries (for mathematicians: see the Lasker-Noether theorem).
Need to signal also Victor Korcnoj and Bobby Fisher: they hadn’t been strong bridgeplayers, but loved our game.
The best Chess-Bridgeplayer of today is a woman: Irina Levitina. She has won three Venice cups and, when younger, has been runner up twice in world female chess championship. | <urn:uuid:7faf423c-566b-4fce-8769-6552cd8ed9b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://neapolitanclub.altervista.org/eng/bridge-chess-by-paolo-enrico-garrisi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957404 | 295 | 2.0625 | 2 |
June 29, 2006
Barros and Alito on Legal History Methodolgy
Been reading my employer's (Ben Barros') Nothing 'Errant' About It: The Berman and Midkiff Conference Notes and How the Supreme Court got to Kelo with Its Eyes Wide Open, which is up on ssrn. I highly recommend it. Ben has some pretty interesting moves in the paper. He uses notes from the Justices' conferences in Berman and Midkiff to understand what the justices thought they were doing. Dedicated propertyprof readers have already seen some of Ben's thoughts on parts of this.
As an approach to legal history, reading judges' papers has much to recommend it. Barros goes a little beyond, I think, purely legal history questions: he's interested not just in what the justices thought they were doing. He's interested in how that might affect our thinking in subsequent cases. And his paper suggests that Kelo's in line with Berman and Midkiff.
So here's where I see Barros and Alito overlapping in methodology. Alito's Note in the Yale Law Journal took a similar approach. Alito read the justices' notes in the "released time" cases (separation clause challenges to schools' giving release time to students to attend religious instruction). Alito had, I thought, a very fine reconstruction of what the justices thought they were doing. And it was more limited than how subsequent cases interpreted what the justices thought they were doing. From that, I read Alito as suggesting that subsequent interpretations of those cases ought to be limited. Pretty interesting methodology for reading precedent, actually: we should go behind what the justices wrote to further limit their opinions. (Barros and Alito depart on outcome, because Barros says that Kelo's in line with previous cases.)
I thought when I read Alito's Note last December that it might get some play in his confirmation hearing, because I think that is a window into his thinking (at least as a student). Pretty interesting to think that Alito was writing advocacy-oriented legal history (of a conservative kind, I think) at the same time that Robert Cover was writing advocacy-oriented legal history (of a more liberal, though not necessarily so) kind. Alito published his Note in the same year that Cover published Justice Accused: Anti-Slavery and the Judicial Process. Wow--lots of exciting ideas in circulation in New Haven in 1975. I wonder what Laura Kalman would have to say about this?
Now, I'm a huge fan of student works; some of my most memorable and enjoyable moments are working with students on their notes. And I've been real fortunate to supervise some terrific ones on property in the last few years, including Amy Wilson's on the jazz influence in property law (got to read it--I'm not going to give away the punchline); Kitty Rogers' on integrating the city of the dead (catchy title, eh?); Leah Green's on the Erie Canal in American legal thought; and Fred Wright's on the effect of New Deal residential finance and foreclosure policies on property law. I'm skeptical of how much we can read into a student's jurisprudence, thought I think they may give us a sense of a person's thinking.
Now two closing questions: so, Ben, should we start calling Alito, Barrolito? Or, perhaps, calling you Alitorros?
Endnote: As I was looking on the Library of Congress website for a public domain image to illustrate this post, I was surprised to see how many photographs there are of "blight" from the 1930s. (The photograph I used here, for instance, was taken in 1935 and is of a apartment house that's been converted in a gas station. Looks pretty nice to me, but it's described as blighted.) No surprise that there are lots of photos from the 1930s, but what does surprise me is how many homes are defined as blighted.
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Thanks, Al. I kind of like Alitorros – sounds like a large spiny dinosaur. Since I disagree with all of the justices about half of the time, I figure I’ll do the same with Alito. We’ll have to see what he does on takings.
The methodology question is an important one, and I’ve been giving it some thought recently. I think it is possible to over-read the conference notes, and it is important to keep in mind that the printed opinions are the only official statements of the Justices’ positions on particular issues. But the Justices themselves aren’t above making arguments about what particular Justices thought about various issues. E.g., Justice O’Connor’s assertion in Kelo that some language in Berman and Midkiff was included in error, or Justice Blackmun’s assertion in Lucas that Justice Holmes appeared to buy into the methodology of Miller v. Schoene. The conference notes show that both of those assertions are wrong. The Justices also use a lot of vague language, and the conference notes provide a sort of legislative history of the opinions (with many of the same pitfalls of legislative history in the statutory context). But to me, the most interesting thing about the conference notes is the insight they give us into the Justices’ struggles with very complex issues. In this context, I think of the Justices as scholars with differing viewpoints, and the conference as a symposium on the issues in a case. Even if you disagree with them, many of the Justices had robust and interesting ideas on takings issues – for me, Justices Holmes, Brennan, Scalia and Stevens are most the interesting.
Posted by: Ben Barros | Jun 29, 2006 11:15:02 AM
All very interesting stuff. The notes are immensely useful; I've benefitted a lot from Dickson's mamouth volume. More data points are better in this case, of course.
But then there's the question: what do we make of the extra knowledge. For Alito's very well-crafted Note, I think the implication was we should be more circumspect in using precedent. He had (perhaps still has?) a preference for a modest interpretation of the precedent. I'm not sure that I want to be bound by justices' notes in interpreting precedent, though. That's a subject worth some (electronic) ink for another time.
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Rumors speak of barbarians that hold secrets of transforming the body into the form of animals. The Circle of Magi denies such rumors, but this rare art survives in the forgotten corners of Thedas. Mastery of their bodies allows shapeshifters some protection, even in human form, making them durable opponents and staunch allies.
Shapeshifters in Thedas Edit
Rumors speak of barbarians that hold secrets of transforming the body into the form of animals. The Circle of Magi denies such stories. But this rare art survives in the forgotten corners of Thedas. While the Circle of Magi would prefer that it be so, theirs is not the only tradition of magic in Thedas. Prior to the Circle’s formation, magic was either practiced by the Magisters of the Tevinter Imperium or in remote areas, knowledge handed down from one generation of practitioners to the next. “Hedge mages,” as Enchanters of the Circle refer to them, or “witches” as legend would name them, do not always employ forbidden magic. Quite often their talents lie in the creation of charms, the use of curses and the ability to change their own forms.
This skill is also known by Keepers of the Dalish clans, as revealed in a possible conversation between Morrigan and the Dalish Elf Origin Warden. Abominations also appear to have limited shapeshifting abilities such as:
- Connor Guerrin
- Lady of the forest (the host is a worf in this case)
| Spider Shape|| Sustained |
Requires: Level 7
|The shapeshifter can transform into a giant spider, gaining a large bonus to nature resistance as well as the spider's Web and Poison Spit abilities. The caster's spellpower determines how powerful the form is. With Master Shapeshifter, the mage becomes a corrupted spider, growing still stronger and gaining the Overwhelm ability.|
| Bear Shape|| Sustained |
Requires: Level 8
|The shapeshifter can transform into a bear, gaining large bonuses to nature resistance and armor as well as the bear's Slam and Rage abilities. The caster's spellpower further enhances this bear's statistics and abilities. With Master Shapeshifter, this form transforms the caster into a powerful bereskarn and gains the Overwhelm ability.|
| Flying Swarm|| Sustained |
Requires: Level 10
|The shapeshifter's body explodes into a swarm of stinging insects that inflict nature damage on nearby foes, with the damage increasing based on the caster's spellpower and proximity. While in this form, the caster gains Divide the Swarm, and any damage the shapeshifter suffers is drawn from mana instead of health, but the caster regenerates no mana. The swirling cloud of insects is immune to normal missiles and has a very good chance of evading physical attacks but is extremely vulnerable to fire. With Master Shapeshifter, the character gains health whenever the swarm inflicts damage.|
| Master Shapeshifter|| Passive |
Requires: Level 12
|Mastery of the shifter's ways alters the forms of Bear Shape and Spider Shape, allowing the caster to become a bereskarn and a corrupted spider, both considerably more powerful than their base forms. In those forms, the shapeshifter also gains Overwhelm. Additionally, the Flying Swarm shape drains health from foes whenever the main swarm inflicts damage.|
- Morrigan will teach this specialization if her approval of you is neutral; she is not willing to do so once her approval rises above 25.
- You can purchase a Shapeshifter Manual from Varathorn in the Dalish Camp at the Brecilian Outskirts for around 12.
Shapeshifting Mechanics Edit
When the caster assumes a new form, the Strength, Dexterity and Constitution attributes may be replaced by those of the chosen form, which are based on Spellpower. Any attribute which would be higher in unshifted form will remain unchanged. Bonuses given by equipment to any stats (including Armor, Armor Penetration, Defense, and Damage) are calculated after changing forms.
Build and form strategies Edit
There are generally two types of Shapeshifters: the "mage", who focuses on spell-casting and only uses the Shapeshifter talents for the specific use of an ability/form or after the depletion of mana; and the "specialist", who aims to make their shifted forms as strong as possible.
The "mage" does not invest at all in the Strength and Dexterity attributes. They primarily shift forms to tank specific bosses (as the forms are immune to powerful boss abilities like Grab and Knockback). The "specialist" invests in the Strength, Dexterity and Magic attributes, as all three will usefully improve the Shapeshifter forms.
Spider Shape is the most versatile of the forms, with two ranged attacks as well as the powerful Overwhelm (ability) gained with Master Shapeshifter. The Spider Shape's attributes scale the slowest with increasing Spellpower, however, making it the weakest form for "mage" Shapeshifters.
Bear Shape is the toughest form and does the most Physical damage. Its attacks are much slower than the Spider Shape's, so equipping a staff (for auto-hit and Armor Penetration) before shifting is recommended, especially at lower levels. Bear Shape also scales faster with increasing Spellpower than the Spider Shape, remaining useful throughout the campaign.
Flying Swarm Edit
Flying Swarm's damage-over-time attack does not harm allies and is capable of doing greater damage (per target) than most damage-over-time spells at the same level of Spellpower. It is the fastest of the forms and the only one that does not alter any of the mage's main attributes. Instead, Flying Swarm improves the mage's base Missile Deflection stat, making it particularly useful for "specialist" Shapeshifters.
Notable specialization combinations Edit
"Mage" Shapeshifters may wish to consider the passive benefits of any given second specialization.
Arcane Warrior Edit
Arcane Warrior gives greater flexibility in equipment, making higher stat values possible when in shifted form.
Spirit Healer Edit
The Shapeshifter's versatility works well with the Spirit Healer's focus on defense, helping them avoid damage until their talents are needed, at which point they can shift instantly back to human form to cast them.
Battlemage enables a mage to inflict high area-of-effect damage. Switching to the Spider form allows the mage to use its Web ability to hold enemies within the area, and to Overwhelm enemies that manage to flee it.
- Sustained spells are automatically deactivated by shapeshifting.
- Casters do not have access to potions and other items while in shifted form.
- If the weapon equipped prior to shifting is a staff, then the shifted form will not deliver critical hits.
- Most defensive bonuses (e.g. Physical, Mental and elemental Resistances) from equipped items are carried over when shifting.
- Armor rating for Spider or Bear form is either a default, fixed value or from the mage's base armor from equipment (whichever is higher). If the mage's Armor is higher than Bear Form's base armor, Bear Form increases it by 10.
- The mage cannot Level Up while shifted. Experience will appear to halt at the amount required for the next level. The next experience gain while in "natural" form will trigger the level advance. (No earned XP will be lost in either form - it will be added retroactively when the level is properly gained.)
Known shapeshifters Edit
See also Edit
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The disparate prospects of each continent have little in common. To the extent that they can be linked by a single theme in 2013, however, it is the idea of the unraveling of the global economy and the political integration that supported it. After two decades of globalization, this year will see each of the big political theaters re-erecting barriers and focusing more on domestic repairs than on global expansion. The unraveling has its roots in longer-term trends, but it is set to step up in the next year.
There has been a remarkable stabilization within the euro zone since European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s intervention in the summer of 2012. But even as the euro zone integrates, the politics and economics of the wider European Union are likely to diverge. In practice, the measures toward an integrated banking union, increased parliamentary accountability and more incentives for reform could go hand in hand with the de facto economic and political disintegration of the EU. Economically, as Sebastian Dullien argues in a paper, “Why the euro crisis threatens the EU single market,” there is a significant risk of a gradual unraveling of the EU’s single-market system. A full euro zone breakup would shatter the euro, while a great leap toward political union could see shrinkage of the single market, as countries such as the United Kingdom withdraw from the heart of Europe.
Even muddling through the crisis seems likely to diminish the depth of the single market. In recent months, banks in the euro zone have withdrawn from trans-border business. Even poorly-managed German companies are paying significantly less interest on capital than well-managed Spanish companies. These new barriers between euro zone members will lead to a renewed focus on domestic markets. For Europe, this means less competition, less growth and higher prices for consumers.
Europe’s economic unraveling will be matched by a new political geography. The continent is already seeing a reshuffling of its elite, as the traditional political forces in many countries – from Greece to Italy to Finland to Austria – find themselves besieged by an emerging anti-political class of populists from left and right. There is also a renegotiation of the relationship between the “core” and the “periphery” – with many EU member states, including larger nations such as the UK, Poland and Spain, deeply concerned that integration is forcing them to the periphery of the European project.
Most worrying is the fragmentation of the core itself, with possibly irreconcilable differences emerging between Paris and Berlin over the future shape of the EU polity. | <urn:uuid:6f990cba-eccb-4b2c-ad7e-5913e209e550> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.reuters.com/mark-leonard/tag/economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963399 | 528 | 2.296875 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service has dispatched a top Colorado-based epidemic specialist and a Washington-based public health official to investigate the dangerous airborne disease that recently killed two Yosemite National Park visitors and potentially endangers others.
Some 1,700 Yosemite visitors who stayed in the park’s privately run Curry Village “signature” tent cabins since mid-June are being warned of their potential exposure, park officials said Tuesday. The tent-dwellers are being advised to watch for signs of the often-lethal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, caused by proximity to infected rodents.
“We’re asking people that if they exhibit any signs of the disease to seek immediate medical attention,” Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said Tuesday.
Though no definitive proof yet connects the Curry Village tents to the recent hantavirus cases, three individuals known to have contracted hantavirus this year had stayed at the popular Yosemite facilities in June. Two died. Officials say they have also identified a probable fourth Yosemite hantavirus patient.
Already, this makes the Yosemite hantavirus episode one of the park service’s most severe public health challenges.
“Most cases of hantavirus occur as isolated cases; the cluster of cases associated with Curry Village is unusual,” Dr. David Wong, a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service and chief of the epidemiology branch of the park service’s Office of Public Health, said Tuesday.
In all of 2011, the park service recorded a total of 50 public health “incidents” nationwide. These ranged from E. coli infections at the Grand Canyon and measles at Bryce Canyon to valley fever, a fungus that enters the lungs. An archeology student digging in the dust at Pinnacles National Monument in California came down with it.
Though a Yosemite visitor survived a hantavirus bout in 2010, no hantavirus exposures occurred in any National Park Service property last year, according to the Office of Public Health’s annual report. A Grand Canyon visitor died from hantavirus in 2009, as did the deputy superintendent of Glacier National Park in 2004, Wong said, though the victims’ routes of exposure were not clear.
Nationwide, 24 hantavirus cases were reported in 2011 to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the patients died, though the average mortality rate since the disease was first identified in 1993 has been about 38 percent. The disease is typically caused by inhaling small particles of mouse urine or droppings that have been stirred up into the air.
The illness starts between one and six weeks after exposure, marked by fever, chills and muscle aches. Fluid eventually fills the lungs, with one survivor telling the CDC that the feeling was like “a tight band around my chest and a pillow over my face.”
To oversee the new Yosemite investigation, veterinary epidemiologist Dr. Danielle Buttke arrived on Sunday from Fort Collins, Colo., and public health specialist Adam Kramer, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Service, arrived from park service headquarters. Buttke had already been to Yosemite about a week and a half ago, following the initial hantavirus discoveries. California Department of Public Health staffers have also been on scene.
In addition to being a veterinarian, Buttke holds a doctorate from Cornell University and a master’s in public health from The Johns Hopkins University. She has served as an “epidemic intelligence service officer” with the CDC.
“Staff from various offices at Yosemite are putting a great deal of time on this issue as well,” U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Charles Higgins, director of the park service’s Office of Public Health, said Tuesday.
Among other tasks, Buttke and her team have been trapping and testing the deer mice prevalent in Yosemite Valley. Between 15 percent and 20 percent of the deer mice population test positive for hantavirus, Gediman said, though he noted that the likelihood of human exposure also depends on factors like the rodent’s population density and the animal’s ability to get into tent cabins. Additional rodent-proofing and trapping measures have been instituted since the hantavirus patients were identified.
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On today's show I introduced you to Thomson Mason, George Mason's brother. Thomson was heavily involved in the writing of Revolutionary War tracts asserting the rights of the Colonists living in their sovereign "states". Mason is the author of the letter I read on today's show which read in part. "It is objected that this measure strikes at the Navigation Acts, which we have long submitted to.
The very objection evinces the folly of trusting the decision of this dispute to posterity, who, familiarized to oppression, will never resist it, and who, by long use, will be accustomed to look upon every badge of slavery with as little horror as we do upon the Navigaion Acts, which ought certainly to be considered as impositions of the strong upon the weak, and as such ought to be resisted as much as any of the other Acts we complain of ; nor will the dispute ever be ended till, by refusing submission to them, we remove so dangerous a precedent.
"You must draw your swords in a just cause, and rely upon that God, who assists the righteous, to support your endeavors to preserve the liberty he gave, and the love of which he hath implanted i n your hearts as essential to your nature."
And now, my friends, fellow-citizens, and countrymen, to convince you that I am in earnest in the advice I have given you, notwithstanding the personal danger I expose myself to in so doing ; notwithstanding the threats thrown out by the British aristocracy of punishing in England those who shall dare to oppose them in America ; yet because I do not wish to survive the liberty of my country one single moment ; because I am determined to risk my all in supporting that liberty, and because I think it in some measure dishonest to skulk under a borrowed name upon such an occasion as this, I am neither afraid or ashamed to avow that the letters signed ' A British American' were written by the hand and flowed from the heart of " | <urn:uuid:75f1c2db-4a6c-4281-9f6b-0f331b30e653> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mikechurch.com/liberty-institute/founders-corner/thomson-mason-the-revolutionary-founder-you-never-heard-of/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969441 | 400 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Bail Pola – often the epitome of irony for bullocks
The annual Bail Pola holiday—a day when bullocks are supposed to be paid respect—is often the epitome of irony. Celebrated in rural communities, the festival is intended to be a time for owners to show their appreciation for the bullocks on whom their livelihood depends, but the bullocks would be surprised if they knew that.
Traditions include decorating the bullocks with colored powder, painting their horns, and parading them through the village. But often the powders and paints are toxic and can cause serious harm, including horn cancer. The festivals also attract professional horn raspers—men who are paid to shave down bullocks’ horns with knives in order to make the animals appear younger and thus fetch a better price if sold. However, the process exposes nerve endings in the horn and can be very painful.
Animal Rahat used this year’s Bail Pola celebration to discourage horn-rasping and promote safer adornments. Everyone who promised not to have their bullocks’ horns rasped was given free materials from Animal Rahat such as nontoxic powder that doesn’t irritate bullocks’ skin and brightly colored tape to be used instead of paint to decorate bullocks’ horns. (The tape is also reflective, which increases the bullocks’ visibility on the dark roads at night and helps prevent collisions with vehicles.)
It worked! Not only did hundreds of owners take the pledge not to rasp their bullocks’ horns, the village of Taradgaon also banned horn-rasping entirely! In addition, several newspapers covered Animal Rahat’s activities during Bail Pola, which allowed tens of thousands of readers to learn about the harm that these practices cause. | <urn:uuid:988e428b-c378-4277-97aa-b86b2860d798> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.animalrahat.com/bail-pola-often-the-epitome-of-irony-for-bullocks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966919 | 378 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Planning for your next vacation? Consider booking a room at an eco-friendly hotel. There are numerous things to think about ranging from organic linens to environmental certification. The truth is that being organic means a lot more than recycling and eating organically.
This certification is the gold standard for hotels, restaurants and other buildings. It stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The certificate is meant to tell whether a facility fulfills rigorous sustainability standards regarding material and water usage and energy efficiency. There are some other seals as well that you could be thinking about.
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One of the simplest things that the hotels and motels can do is not to change the sheets on a daily basis. If you are looking at the offers of a given hotel, you should check whether it has a towel and sheet re-use program.
In the majority of the cases they have a system where you can signal whether you would like to have your sheets and towels changed or not. Just consider that such a simple thing can save a lot of energy and water.
It is important to know whether the hotel that you are planning to stay at has a recycling program. Usually the hotels recycle paper and plastic, but some of them also recycle gray water. This is the water used in the kitchen and laundry room. It can be recycled to water the grounds. Otherwise it would be discarded as waste.
One of the things that a hotel could do to become an eco-friendly one is to opt for non-toxic cleaners. The customers shouldn’t be shy about asking about such things. If the hotel uses cleaners of this kind most probably they have some information about it on their website and they will be more than happy to tell you about it.
This is the place you should check out if you want to learn more about the sustainability of the hotel. If they use local and organic produce or if they have a rooftop garden, if they recycle frying oil or if they have any other kind of eco-friendly projects they will surely advertise it. If this is the case most probably the hotel has the same practices.
These are some of the guidelines that you should consider when choosing your next vacation destination.
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Growing Fears in Japan As 2 Volcanoes Erupt Again - Two volcanoes on Japan's southern island of Kyushu erupted on Tuesday. A volcano at Sakurajima, the Minamidake crater, erupted early Tuesday followed by an eruption at Shinmoedake in the afternoon. Shinmoedake erupted for the first time in 52 years last month and has erupted more than ten times since. Amid growing fears that a massive eruption could still be on its way, the latest eruptions covered nearby villages with rocks and ash. The two volcanoes spewed plumes of smoke and ash up to 2-thousand meters into the air resulting in multiple injuries and destroyed homes. A resident said, "This is crazy! Strong winds suddenly came and blew everything away."
A lava dome in the Shinmoedake crater is growing and could spill out creating a lava flow. Authorities therefore are maintaining a restricted zone of four kilometers around the volcano. A level 3 alert is being maintained for both regions with 5 being the highest level when evacuations are carried out. And volcanic experts are warning that the recent eruptions on Shinmoedake and other peaks in Japan resemble the highly destructive blasts that occurred 300 years ago which killed more than 30 people.
Another Icelandic volcano 'set to erupt' - Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano looks set to erupt and threatening to spew-out a pall of dust that would dwarf last year's event. Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano. The area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides "good reason to worry". A low number of seismometer measuring devices in the area is making it more difficult to determine the scale and likely outcome of the current shifts. But there was "every reason to worry" as the sustained earthquake tremors to the north east of the remote volcano range are THE STRONGEST RECORDED IN RECENT TIMES and there was "no doubt" the lava was rising. The lack of coverage from measuring devices means they cannot accurately detect the depth and exact location of the increased number of localised earth movements and much of the area is covered with glaciers. "This is the most active area of the country if we look at the whole country together. There is no doubt that lava there is slowly growing, and the seismicity of the last few days is a sign of it."
The Icelandic Met Office had on Sunday warned of the increased risk of a eruption in north-west side of Vatnajökull glacier due to the high earthquake activity in the area, and added: "It is clear that only time is going to tell us if there is going to be a eruption in this area soon or not."
The last recorded eruption of Bárdarbunga was in 1910, although volcanologists believe its last major eruption occurred in 1477 when it produced a large ash and pumice fallout. It also produced the largest known lava flow during the past 10,000 years on earth. It is the second largest volcano on Iceland and is directly above the mantle plume of molten rock. By comparison, Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which shut down most of Europe's airspace last year after its ash cloud drifted across the continent's skies.
changes the world,
but the most probable change
is to a more violent world.**
LARGEST QUAKES -
This morning -
5.3 SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA
5.0 OFF COAST OF OREGON
5.1 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
5.4 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
5.0 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
5.1 VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
5.6 ATACAMA, CHILE
5.1 BANDA SEA
TAIWAN - The National Science Council will set up a station to monitor volcanic activity in the Datun mountain group north of Taipei this year. Volcanic observation must be carried out continually to provide a basis for comparison. Taiwan has no such volcano observatory at present. The measurements necessary for monitoring volcanic activity are chemical analysis of the gases and water emitted from the underground magma, and observation of changes in seismic activity and topographical transformations.
The Datun group lies on the edge of the Taipei Basin and is thought to be the only potentially extant volcano on Taiwan proper. Whether or not the Datun volcano group is capable of becoming active again was a scientific question worthy of further study. “The observatory's most important objective will be to connect with existing observation facilities through the Internet to establish a real-time monitoring system. Whenever there is seismic or volcanic activity in the Datun Mountains, we will be able to assess it immediately.” At present the Datun volcano has not reached the eruption stage, so there is no need for concern.
TROPICAL STORMS -
No current tropical cyclones.
Cyclone Zaka weakens off the east coast of New Zealand. Tropical cyclone Zaka - the latest storm to develop over the Pacific Ocean after cyclone Yasi pummelled Queensland last week - was last night passing the East Coast as a small storm. After passing west of Raoul Island, the largest and northernmost of New Zealand's main Kermadec Islands, Zaka headed for New Zealand in a weakened state as it entered cooler waters. "Despite the centre being just 200km away from land, the system may not even bring cloud to the eastern tip of the North Island. The system is so small it may only bring a period of easterly winds for an hour or two this evening north of Gisborne." But the "low" could drive in some rough seas over the next 12 to 24 hours around East Cape, Gisborne and Mahia Peninsula. Swells near the centre of the low will be around 5m high with waves reaching 2m to 3m around East Cape and Gisborne.
High chance of cyclone developing off Pilbara coast on Thursday - A low pressure system is expected to develop off the north west Kimberley coast in Australia today and is expected to move west south-west and develop into a tropical cyclone. "Well off the coast though by the looks of things and the expected track is further west or south west. So, it doesn't look like it will do much for us, most of the rain associated with it will be off the coast."
Outback floods give way to muddy mess - Floodwaters which lapped at outback homesteads and communities across northern South Australia have started to ease. The waters still cover much of the northern grazing lands but buildings are now drying out. "We're in the process of cleaning everything up and just trying to again salvage what we can." Torrential rain and storms across a wide area of SA were a result of ex-Tropical Cyclone Yasi heading inland.
The flood recovery will take time. "This is going to be a bit of a marathon for us....Once we can get access to the roads of course the problem is if we get another storm like we did the other day it's just going to turn into another river again and we're just going to have to go through the whole thing all over again."
Queensland towns remain cut off after Cyclone Yasi - More than five days after a category five cyclone battered northern Australia, help has still not reached some remote communities in Queensland. While loss of life has been minimal, Cyclone Yasi caused widespread damage to homes, roads, bridges and crops. The army has been cutting its way through mountains of debris to reach smaller townships and farms. Essential services are slowly being restored but some smaller communities have yet to receive the help they need. The task - after the state's worst storm in a century - is immense. The coastal town of Cardwell, south of Cairns, was very badly damaged. "The lifeblood of this place is the highway out front of us and my fear is that if they don't get this highway going, up and going again that our future, we won't have one." The Australian government says that the impact of Cyclone Yasi and recent flooding in Queensland will affect economic growth during the first quarter of the year.
SEVERE RAIN STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES -
AUSTRALIA - More Queensland extreme rainfall events expected. Queensland's summer of 2010-2011 will be long remembered for its widespread flooding and the impact of Cyclone Yasi, but it may not be an isolated occurrence for the state. Research from the Australian Institute of Marine Science shows the frequency of extreme rainfall events has been increasing since the late 19th century.
Some latest research supports predictions that tropical rainfall will become more variable in a warming world. Scientists at AIMS have investigated several long coral cores from the Great Barrier Reef and that has allowed them to reconstruct northeast Queensland summer rainfall back to the late 17th century, providing more than 300 years of records to examine past climate variability and change. The 1973-1974 summer wet season, when Brisbane experienced its previous major flood, was the wettest in at least the past three centuries. Extreme wet and dry events had always occurred in Queensland, but the cores provided evidence that they are happening more frequently now than they did in earlier centuries. "The fact that extreme wet and extreme dry weather will happen more often and can potentially impact on thousands of people and millions of dollars worth of property, is something that the community will have to consider."
HEAVY SNOW / EXTREME COLD -
US snow melts leaving mess, and bodies - The mountains of snow that have covered the northeastern US landscape for the past month and a half are finally melting, revealing oozing lumps of garbage, gaping potholes, bicycles, rat-infested sofas, discarded Christmas trees - and even bodies. More than 145 centimetres of snow has fallen on New York City this winter, ITS SNOWIEST JANUARY EVER, and the story is similar elsewhere around the northeast. Residents welcomed warmer weather this week before an expected plunge back into the freezer, but they weren't so thrilled about the side effects. "This is disgusting. I can't tell if it's snow or garbage or some sick other thing," said one resident, finding discarded bills, paper cups and sludge in the shrinking mound of snow and ice covering her car. "This stinks."
Since a post-Christmas blizzard dumped more than 0.6 metres of snow on parts of the city, the snow piles have forced pedestrians to weave single-file through snow-packed footpaths. Two bodies were found in vehicles last week. In both cases, a passer-by spotted someone slumped over the wheel after snow melted away from the windows. One man was found dead on February 1 of an apparent gunshot wound; he had been reported missing a week earlier. And on Friday, a day after he was reported missing, a body was found in the driver's seat of a BMW. Authorities believe he may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning. At least one other body was discovered in the New York area in late January, in a parking lot. The man had been dead of hypothermia for several days before anyone noticed.
After complaining for weeks about the city's failure to plough enough snow, many New Yorkers are now griping about the garbage piles and big pieces of furniture, some crawling with rats. During the many snowstorms to hit the city, the Sanitation Department suspended garbage collection for days at a time in order to use trucks for snow removal, which meant about 11,000 tons of rubbish per day didn't get collected. Some of it got buried by the succeeding storms. Garbage collection has since resumed, but it's not proceeding fast enough for some New Yorkers. "It's like we've replaced the snow walls with garbage walls. Even the parks are covered in mud and filthy snow."
SPACE WEATHER -
Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CA7 is flying past Earth today only 63,000 miles away, or 1/4TH THE DISTANCE TO THE MOON. At closest approach around 1700 UT on Feb. 9th, the VW-Bug-sized space rock will zip through the constellation Orion glowing like a 17th magnitude star.
[Several small asteroids passed close to earth in the last few days.
The 1 meter-sized 2011 CQ1 came closest and on 2/4 passed only 0.03 lunar distances from earth. Asteroid 2011 CQ1 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on February 4 and made a RECORD CLOSE EARTH APPROACH 14 hours later at 19:39 UT (14:39 EST). It passed to within 0.85 Earth radii (5480 km) of the Earth's surface over a region in the mid-Pacific. This object is the closest non-impacting object in our asteroid catalog to date. Prior to the Earth close approach, this object was in an orbit that was mostly outside the Earth's orbit. Following the close approach, the Earth's gravitational attraction modified the object's orbit to an orbit where the asteroid spends almost all of its time inside the Earth's orbit. The close Earth approach changed the asteroid's flight path by about 60 degrees. Because of their small size, objects of this size are difficult to discover but there are likely to be nearly a billion objects of this size and larger in near-Earth space and one would expect one to strike Earth's atmosphere every few weeks on average. Upon striking the atmosphere, small objects of this size create visually impressive fireball events but only rarely do even a few small fragments reach the ground.
The 3 meter-sized 2011 CF22 on 2/6 passed only 0.1 LD (one tenth the distance to the moon).
The 4 meter-sized (VW Bug sized above) 2011 CA7 on 2/9 will pass only 0.3 LD (1/4 the distance to the moon).
The 23 meter-sized 2011 CZ3 on 2/10 will pass 2.5 LD (Two and a half times farther away than the moon.)]
Formerly quiet sunspot 1153 is suddenly crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. Because sunspot 1153 is rounding the sun's western horizon, these eruptions are not Earth-directed. They are, however, Venus-directed. The second planet from the sun could receive glancing blows from solar plasma clouds in the days ahead. | <urn:uuid:893b4939-fca0-44fd-8a2f-e43cb8079342> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://globaldisasterwatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/wednesday-february-9-2011.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955111 | 3,031 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Thai society needs to resurrect the question of coup-related legal consequences, particularly those undermining respect for people's rights, scholars and progressive red-shirt and Nitirat members told a university forum.
They also challenged long-embedded conventions they said suppress the virtues of a citizen's rights when standing before the courts of justice.
Worachet Pakeerut (Photo by Patipat Janthong)
Worachet Pakeerut, Thammasat University associate law professor, said judges must learn to open their minds and accommodate the democratic rules of the rights of the people.
Mr Worachet, a core member of the Nitirat (Enlightened Jurists) group, was speaking at a forum themed "Thai Court and the (In)justice in Thai Society - Lese Majeste Verdicts" organised by the Campaign Committee for Article 112 Amendment (CCAA) and its network at Thammasat University on Sunday.
The courts, Mr Worachet said, need to realise that they have a connection with and receive legitimacy from the public, not other institutions.
Among his suggestions was a change to the usual ending of a written motion submitted to the court by an attorney, which conventionally ends with the phrase "Upon your benevolence, please. Your Honour."
Mr Worachet recommended that the final paragraph be changed to, "Kindly be informed so and adjudicate to serve the interests of law and justice."
"With that, hopefully, the culture and the procedures the court has long been familiar with will be changed to bring them more in line with democratic principles," said the Thammasat University scholar.
Nidhi Eosriwong, historian and independent scholar, said justice in Thai society was defined by the ruling power and neglects the freedoms and liberty of the people.
Lawyers who uphold democratic principles had a tough job interpreting and applying the core principles, said Mr Nidhi.
"Judges and lawyers should stay afloat and lend their ears to what society is caring about and advocating. The court and all parties involved need to show that they are part of and acting in line with the democratic forces that are striving in our society," the Chiang Mai-based intellectual said.
He agreed with Mr Worachet's views on judges' independence. Their presence and authority should be rooted by the people's endorsement.
The audience at the "Thai Court and the (In)justice in Thai Society - Lese Majeste Verdicts" forum listens closely to a speaker at Thammasat University on Sunday. (Photo by Wasin Pathomyok)
Sawatree Suksri, a Thammasat University law lecturer, said the post-coup judgements and behaviour of the judges on politically motivated cases were questionable.
The controversial lese majeste rulings, Ms Sawatree said, included Ampon Tangnoppakul's 20-year term of imprisonment and the 10-year sentence for Somyot Prueksakasemsuk.
The Ampon verdict showed the judge had little regard for the principle of a defendant being innocent until proven guilty, while the ruling in the Somyot case put too much weight on prosecution testimony, said Ms Sawatree, a member of the Nitirat group.
She said the constitutional right to temporary release had not been heeded or applied to lese majeste detainees like Ampon and Somyot.
"Uncle SMS" Ampon had applied unsuccessfully for bail seven times, United States citizen Joe Gordon applied eight times, and Somyot 13 times, she said.
The judiciary had stayed undemocratically aloof and above public scrutiny for a long time, she added.
The CCAA issued a statement at the end of the seminar, challenging judicial judgements that cause public mistrust and saying that judges have upheld the coup-installed guidelines rather than universal human rights principles.
The statement, read to an audience of hundreds in Sriburapa Hall, inside the Thaprachan Campus by former deputy supreme court judge Sathit Pairoh, said the Constitution Court, the Courts of Justice and the Administrative Court had made adjudications relating to the 2006 coup which did not convince the public that the law had been invoked and interpreted in conformity with the principles of democratic rule.
The public, the statement said, feels distrust towards the judiciary because arbitrary orders issued by coup-makers have been stipulated and enforced in various court rulings, even though the coup-makers are no longer in power.
"The judiciary is deemed complicit to an attempt to purge democratically elected civilian governments," said the statement. Various rulings made in relation to the Sept 19, 2006 coup not only compromise democratic principles, they also yielded concrete benefits to certain individuals and political groups.
The courts also claim the rulings and decisions as legal precedents, while ignoring the fact that the rulings and decisions were based on the illegitimate and undemocratic usurpation of power.
They also cited controversial court decisions that indicate how laws can be retrospectively applied in the disservice of a person, or even the over-interpretation of criminal provisions or the invocation of other irrelevant laws simply to hold a person liable.
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Private foundations are a popular, longstanding form of philanthropy in the United States.
Private foundations are generally founded by an individual, a family or a group of individuals, and are organized either as a nonprofit corporation or as a charitable trust. You can appoint yourself, as well as other family members or friends, to sit on the foundation’s governing board.
One common form of a private foundation is a family foundation. Families sometimes use a family foundation as a forum in which family members can work toward common goals, or as a way to instill the value of charitable giving in future generations of the family. Another common option that families use to accomplish the goals of their family philanthropy is to establish a donor advised fund at a community foundation (see Give to or Through a Community Foundation). To learn more about the differences between donor advised fund and a private foundation, see the Giving Options Summary Chart.
Since a private foundation is a charitable organization, it is exempt from federal income tax on its income, although it must pay a 1-to-2 percent excise tax on its net investment income. The gifts you make to establish a new foundation or grow an existing foundation can afford you certain tax advantages; income, gift and estate tax deductions are available under the law. Consult a professional advisor for details.
For some examples of private foundations, see the list of MCF's Private Family Foundation and Private Independent Foundation members.
There are three main types of private foundations: private endowed foundation, pass-through foundation and private operating foundation.
Private Endowed Foundation
This is the most common type of private foundation. The foundation’s financial assets create a principal — or endowment — that is invested, and income from the endowment is paid out annually to charity. Generally, the principal or endowment is not spent, only the investment income. Therefore the principal can increase with good investment, ensuring the foundation's continuation and growth to meet future community needs. Private foundations are required by law to pay out annual grants and other qualifying distributions totaling a minimum of 5 percent of the fair market value of their assets.
A pass-through foundation is a private grantmaking organization that distributes all of the contributions it receives each year (not just 5 percent of its assets). The pass-through option may be made or revoked on a year-to-year basis.
Private Operating Foundation
A private operating foundation uses the bulk of its income to actively run its own charitable programs or services. Examples include the operation of a museum, library, research facility or historic property. Some private operating foundations also choose to make some grants to other charitable organizations.
Association of Small Foundations: The Association of Small Foundations (ASF) is a membership organization for donors, trustees, employees and consultants of foundations that have few or no staff.
Council on Foundations: The Council on Foundations, a national membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations, offers this helpful "Starting a Foundation" section.
National Center for Family Philanthropy: The Center focuses on matters of importance to families engaged in philanthropy and their effective giving. The Center has several useful publications and programs on starting and operating a private family foundation.
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Still, regional turmoil can still raise the price of oil, regardless of the source. Analysts say concerns about violence in North Africa and Middle East have put a "fear premium" that's added about $10 a barrel.
Consumers and businesses would feel pinched by $100-a-barrel oil -- and not just motorists. Stock prices, which have lost more than 2 percent this week, could sink further. That would reduce household wealth and consumer confidence. As fuel costs price rise, so would prices for travel services and products containing plastics.
Air travelers would pay more. This month, several airlines tacked on fuel surcharges -- extra fees that help cover fuel bills. Surcharges had nearly disappeared after fuel prices tanked in late 2008.
Since then, rising oil prices have pushed jet fuel close to $3 a gallon. Fuel accounts for roughly one-third of the budget for U.S. airlines, up from less than one-fifth a decade ago. Fitch Ratings analyst William Warlick said if jet fuel reaches about $3.20 a gallon, "the whole industry will be challenged to stay profitable."
Airlines may soon decide to eliminate some flights and ground older jets to cut fuel consumption, Warlick said. Delta Air Lines has already scaled back plans to add flights this year.
Analysts estimate that over a year, $100 oil would reduce U.S. economic growth by 0.2 or 0.3 of a percentage point. So rather than grow an estimated 3.7 percent this year, the economy would expand 3.4 percent or 3.5 percent. That would likely mean less hiring and higher unemployment.
The global economy wouldn't be affected as much. In part, that's because emerging economies consume less oil, per person, than industrialized countries do. Global growth would slip about 0.1 percentage point, economists said. In addition, many developing countries regulate or subsidize the cost of gas.
But oil prices around $100 a barrel pose a risk for European economies, many of which are net importers of oil and gas, haven't fully recovered from the financial crisis and face heavy debt loads. Spain and Italy, for example, where gas at the pump already goes for about $8 a gallon, face years of a slow, grinding recovery. A spike in oil would deal their economies another setback.
Pricier oil would also push up inflation in Europe, where it already exceeds official targets, and in countries with surging food prices, like China, Brazil and India. Those countries might then have to raise interest rates to cool inflation. Doing so, in turn, would slow growth in Latin America and Asia.
A darker possibility -- one that few analysts expect -- is that oil prices will keep rising until they reach $150 or more and then stay there for months. Under that scenario, another recession is possible, economists say.
Gasoline prices would near $5 a gallon. Consumers would spend much less. So would businesses, which would slash jobs.
"It would nail the economy," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "All the benefits of the tax breaks we got in last year's tax-cut deal would be completely wiped out and then some."
One reason the United States and other developed countries can still grow with oil at $100 a barrel is they've become more energy-efficient since the oil-price shocks of the 1970s. U.S. retailers and manufacturers that use oil-produced plastics, for example, have been shrinking packaging and packing more items onto their trucks. A new wave of redesigned products, like ultra-thin plastic bottles of water, has also emerged.
Marc Rosenberg, a marketing official for WowWee Toys, says its products use 30 percent less plastic compared with five years ago.
Natural gas and other alternatives have also emerged as alternative fuel sources. Brian Bethune of IHS Global Insight and other economists say rising oil prices could spur more use of solar, wind and geothermal energy sources. Less consumption of imported oil would reduce the United States' trade deficit.
"Can we live with $100 a barrel oil?" said economist Ken Mayland of ClearView Economics. "I think so. Can that economy still grow if oil is at $110 a barrel? Yes. But past that, you start getting uncomfortably close to the point where people start curbing their spending." | <urn:uuid:2a906bca-a55e-439e-8ccc-c0e066d9fc22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2011-02-24/news/29162027_1_oil-prices-gasoline-prices-fuel-accounts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966187 | 903 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Bojutsu (3.5e Feat)
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Bojutsu [General]
You are trained in Bojutsu, the art of staff fighting, and can use a number of staves to trip the enemy and block attacks
Prerequisite: Proficiency with the Bo/Quarterstaff, a Base Attack Bonus +1, a Medium Sized Character or larger
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to all attack rolls made with a bo or quarterstaff from weapon familiarity. While equipped with a bo/quarterstaff, you can perform trip attacks and gain a +2 block bonus to your Armor Class. Also you can use the eku, jo, and other staff weapons as though you had proficiency with them, but take a -2 penalty on all attack rolls due to weapon difficulty.
Normal: Without bojutsu, a character can wield an eku, but is considered an improvised weapon, and you take -4 penalty on all attack roles.
Special: A Monk can choose this feat as its extra Monk feat at the first level.
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Just as the pre-registration of chemicals in the EU will move to the registration phase on June 1, 2008, and the registration of phase-in substances begins, the European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) will hand off its responsibilities to the newly created European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
For the last 15 years, the ECB has been responsible for assessing and controlling the risks posed by chemical substances, reports EUBusiness.com. The ECB's work has been essential to the scientific and technical preparation of the Commission's proposals to update the list of dangerous substances for which harmonized classification and labeling have been agreed to at the community level, as well as updating the classification criteria.
Reportedly, the official inventory of classification and labeling for hazardous substances with toxicological and eco-toxicological potential currently lists about 3,400 entries, corresponding to around 7,900 substances. In full operation, the ECB coordinated many activities, such as chairing more than 400 meetings with member states' competent authorities and other stakeholders, helping them to reach a consensus.
In the last five years, the bureau worked on implementing an online management system, as well as archiving all relevant material for new REACH chemicals regulation. The management system now has 8,400 registered users and has been downloaded approximately 6,900 times by worldwide users.
The ECHA, located in Helsinki, Finland, will now take over from the ECB the primary responsibility for managing the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction processes for chemicals. Its work will thus ensure a benchmark of standards and consistency across the European Union. The ECHA is also responsible for maintaining REACH regulation standards. | <urn:uuid:c4a765bd-a683-4c87-b2e6-96cdd9dac463> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/regulatory/region/europe/18696114.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94661 | 372 | 2.375 | 2 |
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OREM, Utah (AP) — The offer seemed too good to be true: A four-year scholarship at Utah Valley University just for the asking.
Turns out, it was a mistake that disappointed hundreds of parents and students.
Administrators apologized and blamed the confusion on a clerical error discovered after they had alerted 300 high school seniors they were eligible for a full tuition award worth $4,122 a year.
University officials said the scholarship is actually based on grades and academic achievement testing, but only the test scores were considered while sending the scholarship notices.
Utah Valley University has more than 28,000 students, making it Utah’s second-largest after the University of Utah. UVU boasts that its tuition is a bargain at little more than half the national average. | <urn:uuid:53f8184c-084a-4bad-b90f-b5f342a82163> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.trentonian.com/article/20130208/NEWS04/130209650 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966775 | 168 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Volunteer work day planned April 16 at Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
Volume 39-078 (For Immediate Release)
For more information: 573-751-1010
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., MARCH 28, 2011 – Celebrate Earth Day by enhancing Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site near Ash Grove at a volunteer work day Saturday, April 16. The work day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the public is invited to attend and participate.
During the volunteer work day, site staff will lead volunteers in projects to improve the appearance of the historic site. Volunteer projects will include whitewashing the Nathan Boone home and yard fence, trail maintenance, weeding and mulching young trees, and repairing boundary fences at the site.
Participants will need to sign up as state park volunteers and should bring gloves and wear clothing appropriate for outdoor work.
Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site preserves the last home and grave of Missouri frontiersman Nathan Boone. The historic site is located 1.5 miles north of Ash Grove on State Highway V. Call the historic site at 417-751-3266 for more information.
For more information on participating, contact the historic site at 417- 751-3266 or the Department of Natural Resources toll free at 800-334-6946 (voice) or 800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). For more information about Missouri state parks and historic sites, visit mostateparks.com. | <urn:uuid:e3cdcf43-5eba-465e-a20d-d9da08e5e76e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dnr.mo.gov/newsrel/data-2011.asp?param=078 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90197 | 322 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Standing by Obama: Washington DC residents reveal why they will vote for him
Despite poverty, gun and drug crime, the predominantly African-American district of Ward 8 is sticking with President Barack Obama as the man who can turn the economy around.
Obama does not have to travel far if wants to find out what life is like for millions of Americans.
Take a 20-minute ride on the Metro from the White House to the south east of Washington DC and you find a very different side to the capital.
Four years ago, Obama was elected promising hope. Ward 8 in the south east of DC is the place the hope forgot.
According to Mirror, this is an area where child poverty rates are more than 30 percent, gun crime is a daily occurrence and drug dealing takes place in the classroom.
But despite the problems, this predominantly African-American district is sticking with Obama as the man who can turn the economy around.
Ward 8 resident Consuella Henry, a 55-year-old security guard, has fared well in the Obama years and will vote for a second term for the President.
"Money is able to go that bit further," she said, adding: "And there are jobs. There are a lot more jobs, they say there isn't but there is."
Student Lauren Moses, 19, from Maryland is also sticking with Obama.
"We've made a whole bunch of progress in the last four years. Romney would take us back to where we were," Moses said.
According to the report, campaigner Nancy Altman from the organisation Social Security Works based in DC said the poorest could suffer if Romney is re-elected. | <urn:uuid:842573dc-b2fe-4702-bca2-e1bf3aaacbeb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-98148.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972263 | 337 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Places of Interest
An edited version of the ‘Historical Walks Through Bandon’ by Mr Paddy Connolly
1 Main Bridge – Built in 1773 and enlarged in 1838. The site of an earlier bridge lay to the West of the current bridge.
2 Milk and Vegetable Market – This was on the site of the Allin Gardens and was in use up to 1903. It was originally built in 1881.
3 Allin Institute – Was originally donated by James Allin, a native of Youghal, for use as a Protestant recreation centre. It had three stories at one point but this was burned by the old IRA on 23rd June 1921 in reprisal for some of its members being involved in the destruction of the Maid of Erin monument in the April of that year.
4 Ragged or Penny Bun School – Located in a building adjoining the Allin Institute closer to the river.
5 Old Post Office – This building was originally built as a branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland in 1839. When the bank merged with the Munster & Leinster bank in 1974, it changed use to that of a private residence, but this was later bought by An Post in 1985 where it was reconstructed and opened as a new Post Office. Post Office services are now available at the Bandon Shopping Centre on South Main Street.
6 Sean Hales Monument – Erected by former comrades of Sean Hales. He was the O.C. Bandon Battalion of the old IRA 1918-21, a TD in South Cork1921-22 and Brig General in the New Free State Army 1922. Another memorial once stood at this site due to a dispute over a grave in Christchurch graveyard. This memorial was later re-erected on the original grave c1909. An outline of this memorial is carved into the
top of the stone tablet on the eastern wall of the bridge.
7 Gap between Post Office and building west of it – The old town wall passed through this site and the gate known as Watergate was in the centre of the roadway. This gate did not have a castle or gatehouse similar to the other three town gates.
8 West Cork Heritage Centre – Also known as Christ Church. Built in 1610 on the site of Carews Old Fort. It is the oldest surviving post reformation church in Ireland. The present tower and steeple were erected in 1856. There were many splendid memorials in this Church. The oldest being that to Richard Croft, builder of a portion of the Town Wall and Burgess of the Corporation in 1613, who died in 1629. The church was deconsecrated in 1973 and some of its’ furnishings were moved to St Peters, as well as Crofts memorial.
9 Church Lane North – The original entrance to Christ Church and is the only spot to have remained constant since the town was founded.
10 The Shambles or Meat Market – Built by the Devonshires in 1818 to replace the North Market House (built in 1754 according to O’Donoghue’s Book). It had 22 stalls rented out to individual traders, a veterinary office and a market jury room. This fifteen sided building is a rare find in Ireland today.
11 Maid of Erin (Once on the main bridge) – The Bandon ’98 Centenary Memorial was erected on Bandon Bridge in 1901 on the foundation stone laid on 26th December 1989 which still remains on the bridge. The statue was pulled down in April 1921 and the shattered pieces were dumped in the river. A new figure of Italian marble on a column of Dublin granite was erected on the original plinth. The monument was dismantled and re-erected at its site in May 1986.
12 Hamilton High School – Houses built for the Duke of Devonshire as the nucleus of a square in 1810, occupied as private dwellings and a portion of it by Bandon Grammar School from 1837 to 1957 when the school was moved to a new premises at Richmount. The school portion was bought by Sean Hamilton in 1958 and the other houses during the subsequent 7 years to make up the present school campus.
13 Kingdom Hall – Built in 1835 as the Bandon Savings Bank and survived until 1890 when the building became the Masonic Hall of Lodge ’84 or Ancient Boyne. There was a clock on the apex of its roof.
14 The Courthouse – Built in 1806 for the Duke of Devonshire who then leased it to the County Grand Jury. It was reconstructed in 1840 and again in 1886. It was partly burned in 1922 and reconstructed in 1927. It was again refurbished in 1989.
15 The Town Hall – The Hall was built in 1862 and was officially opened by the Duke of Devonshire on 9th October 1863.
16 Coolfadda Mills / Brennans Mills – There was a mill on this site from the time the town was established. It was in turn a Grist Mill, Wool Mill, Cotton Mill, and Flour Mill.Messrs Allman & Dowden had a new mill built in the 1860’s . On the outbreak of WW1 a shortage of flour was anticipated by Joseph Brennan and he leased Coolfadda Mills. When America entered the war in 1917 there was a great demand for oatflakes to feed the troops and Brennan began to manufacture and continued to do so for 50 years up to the time the Mill was burned in 1968.
17 The Footbridge – The present bridge was constructed in 1908 by John Buckley. It replaced a timber bridge built in 1853.
18 Stores for Kelleher’s Agricultural Supplies – The slated section was once the Unitarian Presbyterian Church (1813 – 1908), then became a bakery owned by different groups until 1971.
19 Kelleher’s Agricultural Supplies – This beautiful stone built store was once the goods store of the Cork and Bandon and successive Railway Companies.
20 County Council offices – Built in 1894 as the passenger station of the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway replacing the station built in 1848.
21 Old Allmans Distillery – Established in 1825 by George Allman. The output varied from 200,000 gallons of whiskey by 1860 to 600,000 gallons in 1886. Power was provided by a giant 36ft in diameter waterwheel that was 8 ft wide. There was also a steam engine. The company did a lot of its foreign trade through Kilmacsimon
Quay. The introduction of prohibition in the US had a terrible effect on the business.
22 War of Independence Memorial – A memorial dedicated to the memory of those who fought and died in Ireland’s War of Independence.
23 Bandon District Hospital – Built in 1928 on the site of Bandon Workhouse, itself built in 1841 to accommodate 900 persons and over the following 4 years had between 4,000 and 5,000 inmates.
24 Bandon Fire Station – Based on the site of the old West Cork Bottling Company. Prior to this, Preston’s Timber Yard was on this site. There also stood the Bandon Dispensary and fever Hospital was on an elevated site at the rear of the station.
25 Munster Arms Hotel – Gen Michael Collins had his last meal here on the evening he was killed at Beal na mBlath on 22nd August 1922. The western part of this was the Charitable Repository and Female School of Industry established in 1814 and continued up to 1881 when it became Ballymodan Girls National School.
26 Irishtown Bridge – Built in 1864 to replace a bridge built by a Mr John Lodden in 1636. Immediately west of this bridge was the East Gate of Bandonbridge. Adjoining this site was the site house in which George Bennett, Historian of Bandonbridge and Bandon Oregon was born.
27 Foundation Stone – The foundation stone of the 1898 memorial was laid on 26th December 1898. The Gaslamp standard on this site is one of the originals erected by the Gas Commission in 1835
28 Methodist Church (Wesleyan Church) – Built in 1821 to replace a Meeting House. The inside of this church has remained the same since its creation and is of great architectural significance.
29 Bridge – This bridge was built in 1858 to replace one built by John Lodden in 1636.
30 Public car park – The Earl of Cork once had an Alms house on this site. It was later turned into a sawmill and timber yard by the Pope family in 1840 and later the Harte family from 1928 to 1984.
31 Old Potato Market – On the site now occupied by a supermarket in the Bandon Shopping Centre. It was established in 1620 and continued up to 1950. A cinema was built nearby in 1926.
32 South Market House – The Library is now situated on this site. It was originally built in 1620 and contained Municipal offices, a Courthouse and Market Jury room. The area was once used for church services and in more recent times, used as a garage from 1923.
33 St Peter’s Church – Built on the site of a former church, this church was designed by John Welland of Dublin. The foundation stone was laid on 9th March 1847 and consecrated on 30th August 1849. The only surviving council book of the Old Bandon Corporation is preserved within the Church. The old town walls forms its western and southern boundaries and the remains of a flanker tower can be seen at the south
western junction. A lot more interesting facts about St Peters is available on the bandon.ie website.
34 The Old Town Wall – At the rear of the Garda Station there stands some of the best preserved sections of the old Bandon Town Wall. North of the Garda Station is another section of the wall. It contains a tower by the river and a small section was crudely rebuilt in 1980. Across the river is what looks like a small island
overgrown with trees and vegetation. This is the base of another tower.
35 McSwiney Quay – Built by the Duke of Devonshire in 1807. Along this roadway it was proposed to build a canal from Innishannon to Dunmanway. When the roadway was constructed, culverts were built to facilitate those who had established rights to water animals at the river. These openings can still be seen on the quay wall.
36 St Patrick’s Church – The foundation stone was laid on 17th March 1856 and was formerly opened on 9th June 1861. Some of the stained glass windows in the church were donated by families as memorials. The West Cork Railway Company had a right of way through a section of the church grounds. A new entrance and steps was created in 1883. The church bell was donated by James P Murphy, Brewer of Cork in 1895.
A lot more interesting facts are available on the bandon.ie website.
37 Charlie Hurley GAA park – Formerly the lawn and gardens of Clancool House and bought by Bandon Hurling and Football Club in 1953.
38 Kingston Buildings – Built in 1802 and leased as a Militia Barracks up to 1873. These buildings have also been used as houses, a barracks again, a Free State Army Billet, a technical school and again as private houses.
39 Sealey’s Brewery -Was operating in the 1780’s.An original arch still standing marks the entrance to the yard. TheWest Gate of Bandon stood here. The laneway between the houses on the northern side of the road was where the Town Wall passed through. The line of it can be traced up through Ballymodan graveyard. | <urn:uuid:c2d52eb9-3826-49d1-8550-5325b4629220> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bandon.ie/information/tourist-information/places-of-interest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980396 | 2,415 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Psychiatric News has a thought-provoking article criticising the current definition of major depression, suggesting that it has lead to normal sadness being diagnosed as a serious mental illness.
The authors give an abbreviated version of the argument they make in their book The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Misery Into Depressive Disorder.
They argue that the diagnosis contains no qualifications about whether the reaction is appropriate in the context of the person’s life, meaning that people who have suffered unemployment, relationship break up or other forms of personal tragedy are considered equally as ‘mentally ill’ as people who have similar mood disturbances but without a specific trigger.
Ample scientific evidence—ranging from infant and primate studies to cross-cultural studies of emotion—suggests that intense sadness in response to a variety of situations is a normal, biologically designed human response. Recent epidemiological analysis suggests that the consequences of stressors can be either normal or abnormal, similar to those for bereavement.1 In its quest for reliability via symptom-based definitions that minimized concern with the context in which the symptoms appeared, DSM unintentionally abandoned the well-recognized, scientifically supported, indeed commonsensical distinction between normal sadness and depressive disorder.
The blurring of the distinction between normal intense sadness and depressive disorder has arguably had some salutary effects. For example, it has reduced the stigma of depression and created a cultural climate that is more accepting of seeking treatment for mental illness. Many people with normal sadness might benefit from medication that ameliorates their symptoms. However, the usefulness of medication for normal sadness, and especially the trade-off between symptom reduction and adverse effects, has not been carefully studied—partly because the necessary distinctions do not exist within the current diagnostic system.
One of the most worrying effects of this trend has been a boom in the prescription of antidepressant medication and quotes the worrying figures that “Roughly 10% of women and 4% of men in the United States take antidepressant medication at any time. By 2000, antidepressants were the best-selling prescription drugs of any type”.
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Let’s try to imagine what it’s like to live without electricity. It’s going to be boring for sure – no internet, no television, no Youtube, no mobile phone. Can you imagine how disconnected and paralyzed you would be? Guarantee that you can actually do some reading, but at night you won’t have light. Perhaps the flicker of light from the kerosene lamps or candlewicks. And both the kerosene lamps and candlewicks are capable of exposing you to danger more than you can imagine. The smoke can turn the air inside your home far more toxic compared to that in industrial areas. You will be worrying about your roof getting burnt as they’re prone to fire hazards. The money spending on purchasing the oil could very well used on other necessities such as providing more food on the dinner table, buying textbooks and even be kept as savings as capital for a future small business. You’re poor, and the lack of light ensures you to stay that way.
This is the life for 1.3 billion people across the globe that lacks access to the electric grid. Do you know that 1 out of 4 people in the world still do not have access to light? Energy poverty has continued to serve as a problem for developing countries in the world. Sad to say that energy poverty hasn’t gotten the attention like human trafficking or HIV have received. Compared to other global issues, energy poverty has never been the easiest to be conveyed to the public. When you talk about starving children or human-trafficking, there are millions of close-up shots of doe-eyed, half-naked, skinny African children in conveying the dire situations they are in.
This is not to say that the other global issues do not deserve the concern they already have or should have, but it’s time for us to look at the less tackled issue – energy poverty.
For the past 2 years, I’ve had the honour in working together with a group of enthusiastic youth in eradicating energy poverty in Indonesia. Never have I taken part in something so gratifying as many youth-led humanitarian projects tend to lack the long term sustainable aspect. The 3 years long Project Light has proven otherwise.
The first gasp of that salty air, accompanied by the familiar smell, made me dizzy with euphoria. Here I was, back in Pulau Air Raja, back at the place with the people to whom I had waved goodbye months ago before. I was warmly welcomed by the villagers who had crowded around the pier, as though they were waiting for my return as eagerly as I had.
Everything still remains the same; the shaky wooden plank dock, the way the cats greet us good morning by brushing their tails against our feet, the salivating fried calamari, the beautiful starry nights of Air Raja and not to forget, the villagers’ enthusiasm.
What’s different now compared to 2 years ago is that all the kerosene lamps at this island are now replaced with a safer, cleaner and cheaper alternative source of lighting that is solar-powered lamps. I vividly remember that back in 2010, during the first phase of our project, 20 of us arrived in a boat on a sole mission to eradicate energy poverty which is lurking beneath all the beautiful landscapes and warm smiles. Then, all the houses were in complete darkness when night fell because they couldn’t afford electricity. Kerosene lamps and candle wicks are their only source of light, which has been shown to cause fire hazards and respiratory-related illnesses.
The idea of a solar-powered lamp was as mystical as a unicorn. Our initial plan was to sell only 5 lamps.
To date, we managed to reach out to over 400 households across more than 10 islands while creating jobs for 8 rural women. How did we manage to do that?
It’s definitely no easy work to introduce the idea of solar-powered lamps to people who had never heard of it. Sleeves had been rolled-up and brains are cracked open. A lot of hard-work and effort were put into starting right from the planning stage till the execution part of the programme. We adopted a social entrepreneurship model in which the lamps are not given away for free but are paid for through a simple instalment scheme. A huge amount of time was spent on educating and interacting with the villagers.
Our first phase was focused on introducing the solar powered lamps whereas during the second phase in 2011, we focused on training the local women to be solar lamp entrepreneurs.
The training session wasn’t as easy as conducting English lessons. Our training classes for the local women relied heavily on pictorial representations to teach modules such as Product Knowledge and Marketing skills. Most of the volunteer-conducted classes aimed to just get the participants to parrot some modules and move on, leaving them with very little understanding. We didn’t want that, hence direct participation by the women are emphasized throughout classroom assessments in which they had to put into practice what they had learnt. The 1 to 1 sessions between the facilitators and the women was to ensure a close-knitted and more personalized training.
Moving on to the third phase of the project this year, the team will definitely soldier on to bring more light to people. This measure of success might be perceived as small when compared on a global scale. However, it’s important that we wake up every morning, realizing the fact that everyone deserves light – one lamp at a time. As Charles Bukowski once said, “You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
Images are courtesy of Nusantara Development Initiatives.
For more information, check out: http://www.nusantaradevelopment.org/
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By Thomas A. Westerkamp - February 2006 - Maintenance & Operations
Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) are designed, in part, to help maintenance and engineering departments effectively control the supply and flow of parts and equipment. But the software can only do so if managers, supervisors and front-line technicians fully understand the software's features and capabilities.
By developing a comprehensive training program, managers can ensure that supervisors and technicians fully use the inventory management capabilities of a CMMS.
Identifying key training topics, carefully considering the role of a CMMS developer in providing training, and setting up systems that measure the effectiveness of training are essential steps managers will need to take to maximize the organization’s investments in the CMMS and the accompanying training.
The key topics addressed by inventory-management training relate directly to inventory objectives and policy goals that managers set. The main objective of inventory management should be to deliver high availability and low cost — that is, providing all needed parts and materials at a reasonable cost.
The emphasis on availability does not mean high cost. Instead, it means that both high availability and low costs are achievable, not mutually exclusive. When one of these objectives becomes a priority to the exclusion of the other, however, inventory programs get into trouble.
For example, if management says, “All work orders must be completed on the day they are requested,” then material costs will skyrocket as maintenance supervisors scramble to cover every unknown future need. Conversely, if management says, “The backbone of our maintenance system will be scheduled predictive and preventive maintenance, completed on time,” then supervisors will place a greater emphasis on anticipating maintenance needs, and the department will receive fewer emergency requests.
The latter approach keeps facilities fully available and operational for occupants’ scheduled activities. Supervisors can plan for and order material and spares just prior to need, rather than storing them for long periods, “just in case.” The anticipation approach also increases availability, reduces inventory cost, and provides users with a highly reliable, safe and secure facility.
The Developer’s Role
Generally, a training process is divided into two phases: threshold learning — the first exposure to basic fundamentals — and reinforcement learning — the repeated exposure to various examples and practice, as well as advanced applications learned over time.
The roles of CMMS developer and any independent training provider are to develop user understanding of the system, using both basic training and specialized training to cover unique needs of each user.
Software developers in some cases have received complaints that their training too often follows a canned lesson plan and doesn’t adequately address specific user needs. Managers can avoid this potential training pitfall by examining the department’s training needs and insisting that developers provide comprehensive and seamless training based on those needs.
Managers can best achieve this goal by requiring that developers provide both basic initial training, which can be canned for the most part, and subsequent ongoing, customized training after the users have become familiar with the basics.
Another option is to have the developer provide the basic training, then bring in an independent trainer to provide the customized, ongoing training to address specific needs. One example of this approach uses a two-step solution.
First, the CMMS developer explains the basic modules related to inventory management in a classroom setting for all users, each of whom uses a workstation to navigate through the program. Usually, the developer also provides special training for the system administrator, who can use the training to set up user accounts, passwords and permissions to access various modules.
Second, the developer or independent training provider delivers ongoing training and coaching in setting up an inventory-item-numbering system and preparing inventory item masters. This complex step occurs over a longer period of time, but it is the key element in a good CMMS inventory module.
Often, managers are tempted to shortcut this process by, for example, filling in only the item number, description and a few other fields on the master. As a result, many of the CMMS’s best functions and reports become unusable because when the software’s report-writing function searches the database, it finds nothing but empty fields. Another essential topic during initial training relates to ongoing help in implementing bar coding.
Front-end help with these two parts of the structure — targeting shop management with no experience in these matters — will result in a much smoother, quicker and better implementation, and the payback to the department and organization will be immense.
CMMS users also can take advantage of developers’ help desk for ongoing guidance and support. Users can access to subject-matter experts by calling or e-mailing the developer’s customer support group. The service usually is available 24/7/365, and if bugs in the software arise, the developer often can tweak the system quickly and online.
The place to start preparing a training program for inventory management is to review the stores attendant’s job description, which listed in the article on page 29. Often, this initial review will indicate areas to update, including new duties, especially if a new CMMS inventory module has been introduced.
At a minimum, this training should cover all of the attendant’s duties. This approach will ensure a seamless relation between the CMMS component of the duties and the shop-floor component.
For example, using work-flow training aids, CMMS developers can create practical process-flow training exercises for creating a new item master, ordering and receiving parts, entering the quantity into inventory, applying bar codes, and dispersing parts for a work order.
Measuring the effectiveness of the inventory-management function is greatly enhanced when the department properly uses the CMMS’s inventory functions. With a complete and up-to-date database of item masters and good control of receipts and withdrawals, managers can run control reports instantly by querying the database to sort the information needed.
Armed with this information, managers will be able to identify problem areas and identify the needed steps — perhaps including more training — to address the problems.
Two types of reports are crucial: stock-outs and total value of inventory on hand. Stock-out reports show how well parts and material availability is managed, and total value shows how well costs are managed.
In most software, users can run standard reports already included and can create new reports. Other reports that extend the usefulness of the software include: a parts list by stores location; allocated items and quantities; a parts list based on the need to reorder; and a list of locations where parts are used.
Training on inventory management also should include instruction on running reports and creating new queries. These two capabilities will enable managers and supervisors to ensure the system performs as required.
In the end, managers can use two measurements to evaluate whether their departments’ inventory management is improving — and whether training has benefited the organization. They are the reduction in material-related downtime cost and the reduction in material-inventory value.
Managers who start the training-development process with a sound objective and policies, develop good procedures, train the users well, and execute the game plan, will be more successful in ensuring that the CMMS’s inventory management module delivers excellent material availability and contribute to high operating efficiency by holding the line on costs.
Job Description as Training Blueprint
Developing a training program to improve inventory management starts with understanding the typical duties of the stores attendant. Here is a sample list of these duties:
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Internship Program: This Program is designed to provide students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions, from high school to graduate level, with opportunities to work in agencies and explore Federal careers while still in school and while getting paid for the work performed.
Eligibility - Current students in an accredited high school, college (including 4-year colleges/universities, community colleges, and junior colleges); professional, technical, vocational, and trade school; advanced degree programs; or other qualifying educational institution pursuing a qualifying degree or certification.
- The Internship Program has two types of Internship appointments: (1) appoint a student on a temporary basis, not to exceed 1 year, to complete temporary or short-term projects; or (2) appoint a student for an initial period expected to last more than 1 year and may lead to permanent employment.
- Interns may work part- or full-time.
- USGS and the Intern must sign a Participant Agreement that sets forth the expectations for the internship.
For additional information about USGS’ Internship Program visit: Student Internship Program or visit US Office of Personnel Management Internship Program Fact Sheet.
Recent Graduates Program: This Program affords developmental Federal experiences intended to promote possible careers in the civil service to individuals who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs. Recent Graduates who successfully complete the program may be eligible for conversion to a permanent job in the civil service.
Eligibility - The Recent Graduates Program is for individuals who have completed a qualifying associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate educational program within the preceding 2 years (with exceptions for certain veterans and individuals graduating from December 27, 2010 to July 10, 2012).
- Orientation program for Recent Graduates hired for the program and mentorship throughout the program.
- USGS and Intern must sign a Participant Agreement that sets forth the expectations for the internship.
- Individual Development Plan (IDP) to create and track Recent Graduates' career planning, professional development, and training activities.
- At least 40 hours of formal, interactive training each year of the program.
- Positions offer opportunity for career advancement.
For additional information about USGS’ Recent Graduates Program visit: Graduates Web page or visit US Office of Personnel Management Recent Graduates Program Fact Sheet.
Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program: This employment program is designed to attract outstanding graduate students to the federal service upon graduation from their advanced degrees. The Program attracts and selects the best candidates possible, but is really designed with a more narrow focus - developing a cadre of potential government leaders.
Eligibility - The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) coordinates this program on behalf of federal agencies. Finalists are pre-qualified at the GS-9 level, although agencies may initially appoint at the GS-9 through 12, or equivalent. OPM provides agencies access to a list of the finalists’ resumes, access to post agencies PMF opportunities, and OPM conducts an annual career fair so that agencies can interview PMF candidates for selection under the program.
- PMF selectees receive an initial two-year excepted service appointment.
- Fellows receive 80 hours of formal classroom training each year (for a total of 160 hours) and participate in a 4 to 6 consecutive month-long developmental assignment during their two-year fellowships. Agencies can also sponsor Fellows for rotational assignments.
- After successful completion of the program, PMF's are eligible for conversion to permanent career-conditional appointments.
- The agency provides a reimbursement fee to OPM per Fellow includes recruitment, assessment, selection, and placement of Fellows; PMF Program sponsored events (e.g., Job Fair, Orientation, Forums, and Graduation); and training and support for agencies and Fellows.
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I’ve been very erratic at participating in Saturday Centus, but I realized it was silly to put pressure on myself for something that is supposed to be fun. So I figure I’ll do it when I can and not worry about it when I can’t. This week’s prompt is: “This is the scariest story I’ve ever heard…”
THE RULES: Saturday Centus asks you to write a story (up to 100 words) based on the prompt provided. The only real rule is that you cannot split up the prompt … it must be left intact. However, you don’t have to count the prompt words in your 100 words. Your story can be fact or fiction. After you post, you should link up over at Jenny Matlock’s wonderfully creative blog off on my tangent. And keep it clean.
After several terrible attempts at writing horror, I realized I needed to think closer to home—something that I would find terrifying and would strike fear into my heart. So forget zombies or ax murderers. What would really scare me is if this was a news story I heard.
Breaking News Story
Good evening and welcome to Action News. My name is Monica Fairweather. Our top story tonight is a report released by the Federal Health Administration, which reveals that chocolate has been definitively linked to a host of fatal diseases, including heart disease, cancer, and paralysis. Scientists are telling the public to immediately stop eating chocolate in all forms. The only known antidote is three servings a day of Brussels sprouts, which must be eaten raw. If you are regular consumer of chocolate—now known as The Brown Death—scientists also recommend consuming regular servings of buckwheat groats and raw onions. This is the scariest story I’ve ever heard. | <urn:uuid:b07019f0-1604-4e73-a19d-9f2a41277085> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lifewithbooks.com/2010/10/saturday-centus-scary-story/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962925 | 379 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Failure Investigation and Analysis and Spicer Heavy-Duty Drive Axle Service Training
Duration: Three Days
This course is designed to give a basic understanding of how to determine the root cause of various component failures of Roadranger products. Technicians will learn to determine what failed, how it failed, and possible causes. The objective is to increase the technicians understanding of gear life and various failure modes of the Roadranger components while understanding which failure modes are covered under warranty. This class will also provide a basic understanding of the operation and overhaul of Spicer Heavy-Duty Drive Axles. This includes all DS series and S series heavy-duty tandem axles.
This course will be delivered in two possible ways. In most cases, the failure analysis material will be covered at the end of a particular product training class (transmission, axle, clutch, driveline, or brake). The class can also be delivered as a standalone failure analysis program covering all Roadranger products such as: transmission, axle, clutch, driveline, and brake.
During the classroom portion, technicians will be exposed to the theory of operation, power flow, wheel differential systems and an in-depth review of inter-axle differentials.
Technicians will review a descriptive failure analysis section consisting of various axle components to increase their understanding of service life and various failure modes of the components. Upon completion of the classroom presentation, the overhaul portion will continue into a hands-on tear down and reassembly of the DS-404 and the S-170/190 models using the correct tools and techniques. | <urn:uuid:61defc88-102d-4169-9f51-752c33fe38b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eaton.com/rr/CustomerSupport/Training/RoadrangerAcademy/CourseDescriptions/FailureInvestigationandAnalysisandSpicerHeavy-DutyDriveAxleServiceTraining/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913423 | 321 | 1.6875 | 2 |
©January 2011 by Fabienne Lopez
If you were born between January 21 and February 19, give or take a day, you were born under the sign of Aquarius.
To celebrate Aquarius during their birthday month, I thought I would continue picking information from Lucy Ashe’s book “A Taste of Astrology”.
Some of the keywords associated with Aquarius are:
- Detached, eccentric, futuristic, humanitarian, original,
- Inventive, unconventional independent, individualistic,
- Progressive, unique, independent, altruistic, visionary,
- Perceptive, intellectual, logical, ingenious, inventive,
- Unpredictable, detached, friendly, scientific.
How these characteristics would that translate in the Aquarius host? The Aquarius guest? Or the Aquarius cook?
Uranus Foods of Choice
According to Lucy Ash, Aquarius has an intense love for anchovies, coconuts, olives, bread, spinach, water chestnuts and watercress.
Their herbs and spices of choice are dill, fennel leaves, parsley and winter savory. As for meat, she cites birds in general, and more specifically ducks and geese.
From that list, I am only puzzled by the mention of coconuts. Upon reading the section on Aquarius, the author indicates that coconuts are associated with Juno, goddess of light and air who was particularly honored during the month of February. The other food being associated with this sign that had me puzzled was spinach. Too mundane for an Aquarian! But maybe it is a reflection of Saturn’s traditional rulership of that sign.
Aquarius as Cooks
It you are invited over for dinner, expect an unconventional meal! As a cook, Aquarius will take this opportunity to experiment and play mad scientist in the kitchen. With mixed results. The dish might come out as a brilliant fusion of exotic and unusual flavors or a total bust. Be forewarned and be prepared.
Either way, it will be an adventure centered around brilliant conversations and unorthodox dishes.
Aquarius as Guests
As a guest, Aquarius is difficult to pin down. If he decides to accept your invitation, he will totally enjoy the evening, mingling with the other guests, spurting witticism and engaging in intelligent debates. He will be thoroughly charming and friendly. In other words, an ideal guest.
The hard part will be to have him commit to come to the event. Aquarius is a sign that is very independent and loves to keep his options open. Hence the difficulty is knowing if this particular guest will show up.
Suggested Dishes for Aquarius
Lucy Ash suggestions for dishes includes:
- Brussels Sprouts Mayonnaise
- Watercress and almond Soup
- Any type of soufflés
- Chicken Liver Risotto
- Coconut cheesecake
Aquarius, what do you think? Does this ring true? Do you love to experiment in the kitchen? Do you have problems in RSVP an invitation?
What are your favorite foods and dishes?
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Toys & Games
Keeping children occupied is about more than just giving them something to do. You want toys and games that will keep their minds engaged. That’s why Sam’s Club offers childcare toys, childcare games, school toys, school games and puzzles that kids will not only have fun with, but find challenging and learn from as well.
Educational Toys & Educational Games
The childcare toys, childcare games, school toys, school games and puzzles from Sam’s Club are often designed to keep children occupied for hours, but there’s also a great deal of variety, so kids won’t soon run out of new, fun things to do. Just as important, these childcare toys, childcare games, school toys, school games and puzzles are affordable, so you should be able to buy as many as you need to keep groups of children involved and busy for a long time without straining your toys and games budget.
The types of child care and school toys and games you’ll find through Sam’s Club run the gamut from products that test and improve balance and physical ability to ones that challenge a child’s mind. We’ve got tug o war ropes, potato sacks and balance buckets for fun ways to build body control and endurance, as well as puzzle mats, magnetic play and learn kits and even games like Connect Four to encourage new and more effective ways of thinking. And remember, you get them all at great Sam’s Club prices.
Great school toys and games often pay great dividends. You can enjoy playing with these toys and games with children or let them experiment and learn on their own. There’s no time like the present to help your children have fun and learn, so make all your childcare toys and games and school toys and games selections from the Sam’s Club catalog today. | <urn:uuid:3b954eaf-ecef-4191-8145-50fef66d57b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.samsclub.com/sams/childcare-toys-childcare-games/2083.cp?navAction=jump&iid=Header%7CSHOP_BY_BUSINESS%7CToys%20and%20Games | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970809 | 383 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Masters: ARM atomic operations
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Right, but an outside master that has to snoop in to the ARM's memory hierarchy could see writes commit in a different order than the CPU sent them, on the basis of the snoops landing in L2, L1D or the write merge buffer. A DMB effectively draws a line for snoops, too.
FWIW, another source of fun, at least on processors like A15, is the fact that snoops have to deal with the run-ahead OoO pipeline. There may be loads and stores in flight that are on a mispredicted path, and need to be unwound. That can be yet another source of memory reordering wackiness in the memory system.
What I've seen is that a processor like A15 will respond faster to a snoop that hits L2 and misses L1D than a snoop that hits L1D also, because it doesn't need to sync with the OoO pipeline. Depending on your access pattern, you could have later writes that got flushed out to L2 ahead of earlier rights. For example, A15 will stop write-allocating in L1D if you stream too many write misses. So, you could easily have some older writes in L1D, some middle-aged writes write-allocating in L2 and the youngest writes in the L1D write-merge buffer. (More info here. Look at bits 25 thru 28, which control the L1 and L2 write streaming no-allocate threshold.)
A DMB after the write stream should ensure that snoops that come in see all these writes, if the snoops could also see a write that followed the DMB, regardless of which of these three places the write stream landed.
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FREEPORT, Maine — He’s arguably Maine’s best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror writer Stephen King. To his customers, he was simply known as “L.L.”
But as outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean celebrates its 100th anniversary, it’s still not 100 per cent clear what the famous founder’s initials stood for. Was it Leon Leonwood Bean, as the company claimed for decades, or was it Leon Linwood Bean, as his grandson suggests?
The answer appears to be both.
Leon Gorman, L.L.’s grandson, said he was told that his grandfather was born Leon Linwood Bean and that it somehow morphed into Leon Leonwood Bean.
“There was some incident that happened years ago. I can’t remember what it was. They misspelled Leon’s name from Linwood to Leonwood,” Gorman, the company’s chairman, said. “L.L. was so taken by the new version of his middle name that he adopted it.”
His grave marker sheds no light on his middle-name preference; it says simply, “Leon L. Bean.” There’s no birth certificate, either.
In his autobiography, L.L. Bean talked about having a birth certificate, but no one knows where it is. Kim Sparks, town manager in Greenwood, where Bean was born, said a birth certificate can’t be located. And the state archives don’t have a copy, either.
“The town has lost it somewhere, along with quite a few other records,” said Blaine Mills, president of the historical society in Greenwood. “I’ve never seen it.”
In 1872, when Bean was born, only about half of Maine’s births were recorded, and the records were often kept in homes of the town clerks, and transferred from home to home, said Art Dostie, of the Maine State Archives. It wasn’t until 20 years after Bean’s birth that the state began keeping birth records in Augusta, Dostie said.
There is some documentation, however.
There’s a birth announcement written by L.L.’s wife in 1900 for another son that lists the proud papa as Leon Linwood Bean, but he’s listed as Leon Leonwood on his draft registration in 1918.
Leon Leonwood was apparently a name of his own invention. “He liked the ring of it. Everyone called him L.L., anyway,” Gorman said.
This much is known: Bean was born in the western Maine town of Greenwood, where he lived for a time before the family moved to a farm in Bethel, Mills said. His parents died when he was young.
Like many Mainers, Bean took an interest in hunting and fishing, and he parlayed his enthusiasm for the outdoors into a business with projected sales of $1.5 billion this year.
Bean’s business is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a giant Fourth of July celebration this week with fireworks, music and a parade, for which Gorman is the grand marshal.
The company got its start in 1912 when L.L. Bean obtained the state’s list of out-of-staters with hunting licenses, and sent mailings touting his rubber-soled hunting boot.
Ninety of the first 100 pairs sold were returned by customers after the leather separated from the rubber. But Bean managed to win goodwill by returning customers’ money. Then he borrowed more money, made improvements and sold more. He opened his store five years later in Freeport.
Over the years, Bean’s Yankee sense of values came through in his catalogues, in which he sold only items that he personally tested. His oddball choice of items reflected his tastes, like wooden duck decoys, Underwood Deviled Ham, horseshoes, and pipes and pipe tobacco.
After his death in 1967 in Florida, Bean was buried in Freeport’s Webster Cemetery.
As for Maine shoppers, they’re more likely to be interested in the inventory than the initials.
“Lawrence Leon Bean?” guessed shopper Rick Biskup, a Freeport resident as he stood next to a giant L.L. Bean boot outside the store on Tuesday.
His wife, Dru Sullivan, said she knew it was Leon something.
“I don’t know the rest of it,” she said. “We refer to it going to Bean’s, not L.L.’s.”
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Trailblazing EMT-P Headed for Cambodia
In 1994, a speeding vehicle struck Paramedic James Garcia as he worked a highway crash scene in Lexington County, S.C., breaking his arm and leg. When the S.C. Highway Patrol let the driver off the hook but faulted„ the„paramedic„ for being on a dark road wearing a dark uniform, Garcia took action. He found that South Carolina gave first responders no rights to„be„ on a roadwayƒlet alone require drivers to move over to protect them.„
Garcia convinced state legislators to pass a "move-over" law in 1996 and then to strengthen it several years later. The U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies adopted his stronger version as a model for such state legislation. We gave Garcia a Thumbs Up for this work in September 2002.
Now, having made his mark on EMS safety in the U.S., James and his wife Cara, an RN, are off to make a difference in another country.
When they visited Cambodiaƒone of the world_s poorest countriesƒon vacation in April, the Garcias saw babies dying in the streets. They also saved a dehydrated elderly woman_s life with Gatorade, multivitamins and Ensure.„
"All the things we take for grantedƒschools, health care, government services, immunizations, ambulances and fire departmentsƒsimply don_t exist [in Cambodia]," the Garcias note.
They_re returning to Cambodia in January with their 9- and 11-year-old daughters for a two-year stay. They plan to set up a free clinic in the Phnom Penh area and train a Cambodian staff to make the clinic permanent. They_ll provide first aid, minor trauma care, routine immunizations, infection treatment and control, and disease-prevention education. James says he expects to see anything from cobra bites to typhoid to land-mine trauma.„
"There_s an emotional component to what we_re doing, but we have to do it intelligently," he says.
The Garcias aren_t rich and have no corporate backingƒalthough they_ve been writing grant proposals day and night. They_re simply a middle-class, working couple who couldn_t ignore the misery and despair they saw.„
They welcome donations via their Web site,„www.sharethehealthcambodia.org. „And their home in Cambodia will have two extra rooms for volunteers willing to help for two days or two months.
Teaching Teens Continuous Compressions
What would it be like to have an entire generation of citizens comfortable doing chest compressions if they saw someone collapse? Arizona is working on it.„
In October, the Arizona Department of Health Services "Save Hearts in Arizona Registry and Education" (SHARE) program launched "Your HandsƒTheir Heart."„
All 1,800 of the state_s public and private middle and high schools got a kit to train some 100,000 students in continuous chest compressions, the type of CPR the American Heart Association now promotes for bystanders. The kit includes a nine-minute video, a plastic sheet with a torso outline, a PocketCPR training device (from Bio-Detek Inc., a division of ZOLL) and associated documents. (For a brief description of the Pocket CPR, read "Hot Products" in June 2007„JEMS.)„
After watching the video, students practice compressions using the plastic sheet, spread on a firm pillow, and the training device.
SHARE Director Lani Clark says the program created all 1,800 kits for less than $100,000 from Arizona_s Health Crisis Fund. A Tucson business produced the video, and Bio-Deteck gave SHARE a price break on the PocketCPR devices. (Information about the program and the training video are at„www.azshare.gov.)
Arizona EMS Medical Director Ben Bobrow, MD, says, "Arizona is the only state that tracks bystander CPR rates," and has found that sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survival rates triple when bystander CPR is administered. Arizona has some 5,000 SCA cases annually, so this could save a lot of people.
A big Thumbs Up for "Your HandsƒTheir Heart," an innovative program with lifelong, life-saving potential.
Investigation Afoot„for Florida Paramedic
When firefighter-paramedic Cindy Economou took a patient_s severed leg to train her cadaver dog, the St. Lucie County (Fla.) Fire District was forced to clarify its policy regarding transportation of severed limbs and Economou was all but forced to resign. The former firefighter of the year and several colleagues are currently under investigation for the Sept. 19 incident, in which Economou put the foot in double biohazard bags and brought it back to the station, where coworkers photographed it on personal cell phones before she took it home and stored it in her freezer. It_s the fire district_s policy to take dismembered body parts to the hospital with the patient if there_s any chance of reattachment; however, it_s unclear why that protocol wasn_t followed. For the full story, visit„www.jems.com/news_and_articles/news/severed_foot_goes_missing.html. | <urn:uuid:7eb03cdf-0ea5-4329-88e7-9fb5b1b9984c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jems.com/print/4351 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944857 | 1,151 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Anyone seeking to purchase a gun — even those buying weapons at a show or through a private dealer — should be required to pass a background check through a national database, according to recommendations drafted by a panel of violence reduction experts convened by the Johns Hopkins University.
"It is really indefensible that we have a system where someone is able to obtain a firearm with no background check or record-keeping," said Daniel Webster, director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The panel, which announced its recommendations Tuesday at the close of a two-day summit, also said that people convicted of violent misdemeanors, multiple drug or alcohol offenses or drug-trafficking, or those who commit violent crimes as juveniles, should be barred from buying guns for 10 or more years.
Other recommendations include:
•Banning the sale of assault weapons through a carefully worded law that would eliminate the loopholes in a similar ban that expired in 2004;
•Prohibiting the sale and possession of gun magazines containing more than 10 bullets;
•Requiring all gun sales to be facilitated by a federally licensed gun dealer;
•Making 21 the minimum age to buy or possess a handgun;
•Permanently banning convicted gang members and drug dealers from buying guns;
•Restricting people who are seriously mentally ill and believed to be dangerous from buying guns;
•Naming a permanent director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and increasing the bureau's power to crack down on dealers violating laws;
•Requiring the surgeon general to produce regular reports on gun violence.
Hopkins officials hastily organized the summit after a 20-year-old armed with an assault weapon burst into a Newtown, Conn., elementary school last month, fatally shooting 20 children and six teachers and administrators.
"Given the drastically high rates of gun violence in the United States, starkly illustrated by numerous mass shootings in movie theaters, shopping malls, houses of worship, and now, an elementary school, but also experienced on a daily basis in neighborhoods across our country, we knew at Johns Hopkins that we could not let this moment pass," said Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels.
"We wanted to do all that we could to bring together national and global experts, advocates and leaders on gun violence and policy to present their research, analysis and perspectives," he said.
Research presented at the summit will be published within two weeks and distributed to every member of Congress, Daniels said.
Gov. Martin O'Malley was one of the first speakers at the summit Monday and used the platform to sketch out his ambitious plans to curb gun violence in the state, including requiring people to submit to fingerprinting before buying guns.
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, head of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and a Hopkins alumnus, also laid out his seven-point plan to curtail gun deaths.
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Graeme Taylor made a couple of high speed videos shot from from a moving train of people on a railway platform, which when played at normal speed creates an interesting Matrix like bullet time effect.
In all my slow-motion work so far, I’ve used a static camera to capture a high-speed event. But, I wondered, what would happen if the camera was the fast-moving object? For instance, if you use a 210fps camera at 35mph, on playback at 30fps it’ll seem to the observer that they’re moving at walking pace- but everything observed will be operating at 1/7th speed.
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All our conservatories are custom made to meet your requirements with strong bases, insulated floors and walls, double-glazed windows, steel-reinforced structures and are available in different styles and finishes. We can help with all your design and planning needs to ensure you get the best use of space and add an extra room to your home for use all year round, for a low cost affordable price right for you. Just imagine what you could do with the extra space...
Conservatory Building Regulations
Conservatories are normally exempt from building regulations when:
- They are built at ground level and are less than 30 square metres in floor area.
- At least half of the new wall and three quarters of the roof is either glazed or translucent material.
- The conservatory is separated from the house by external quality door(s).
- Glazing and any fixed electrical installations comply with the applicable building regulations requirements (see below).
You are advised not to construct conservatories where they will restrict ladder access to windows serving rooms in roof or loft conversions, particularly if any of the windows are intended to help escape or rescue if there is a fire.
Any new structural opening between the conservatory and the existing house will require building regulations approval, even if the conservatory itself is an exempt structure.
Conservatory Planning Permission
Under new regulations that came into effect from 1 October 2008 adding a conservatory to your home is considered to be permitted development, not needing an application for planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:
- No more than half the area of land around the "original house" would be covered by additions or other buildings.
- No extension forward of the principal elevation or side elevation fronting a highway.
- No extension to be higher than the highest part of the roof.
- Maximum depth of a single-storey rear extension of three metres far an attached house and four metres for a detached house.
- Maximum height of a single-storey rear extension of four metres.
- Maximum depth of a rear extension of more than one storey of three metres including ground floor.
- Maximum eaves height of an extension within two metres of the boundary of three metres.
- Maximum eaves and ridge height of extension no higher than existing house.
- Side extensions to be single storey with maximum height of four metres and width no more than half that of the original house.
- Roof pitch of extensions higher than one storey to match existing house.
- No verandas, balconies or raised platforms.
- On designated land no permitted development for rear extensions of more than one storey; no cladding of the exterior; no side extensions.
- Where work is proposed to a listed building, listed building consent may be required.
* The term "original house" means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date). Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so.
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Towards the final stage of the journey in the desert, after Miriam’s wellspring dried up upon her death, Moshe is instructed to provide a new source of water for Jews:
קַח אֶת-הַמַּטֶּה, וְהַקְהֵל אֶת-הָעֵדָה אַתָּה וְאַהֲרֹן אָחִיךָ, וְדִבַּרְתֶּם אֶל-הַסֶּלַע לְעֵינֵיהֶם, וְנָתַן מֵימָיו; וְהוֹצֵאתָ לָהֶם מַיִם מִן-הַסֶּלַע, וְהִשְׁקִיתָ אֶת-הָעֵדָה וְאֶת-בְּעִירָם – Take your staff, gather your brother Ahron, and the entire nation, and you should speak to the rock before their very eyes, and it will provide its water. Extract water from the rock for them, and make them drink, and their animals too. (20:8)
But Moshe did not do this:
וַיָּרֶם מֹשֶׁה אֶת-יָדוֹ, וַיַּךְ אֶת-הַסֶּלַע בְּמַטֵּהוּ–פַּעֲמָיִם; וַיֵּצְאוּ מַיִם רַבִּים, וַתֵּשְׁתְּ הָעֵדָה וּבְעִירָם – Moshe raised his hand, and struck the rock with his staff, twice. Water gushed out, and the people and their animals drank. (20:11)
Immediately after this, Hashem berates Moshe, and informs him that he will not be permitted to enter the land of Israel.
R’ Shimon Schwab notes that the Mishna in Avos assures that someone who causes the public to improve and better themselves is saved from sin. Why was Moshe – “Rabbeinu”, ultimate teacher extraordinaire – not saved from stumbling?
R’ Schwab explains that it was no mistake. It was a calculated decision.
There is something in Hashem’s command that doesn’t seem to fit – וְהִשְׁקִיתָ אֶת-הָעֵדָה – making them drink. If there was water, they would drink of their own accord; what was the role Moshe and Ahron played in “making them” drink?
Perhaps Moshe made an alarming connection between what he was told, and what he’d experienced earlier in their travels. Moshe knew had heard this sort of instruction before:
וְהִשְׁקָה, אֶת-הָאִשָּׁה, אֶת-מֵי הַמָּרִים, הַמְאָרְרִים – The woman is made to drink the bitter water… (5:24)
וַיִּקַּח אֶת-הָעֵגֶל אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ, וַיִּשְׂרֹף בָּאֵשׁ, וַיִּטְחַן, עַד אֲשֶׁר-דָּק; וַיִּזֶר עַל-פְּנֵי הַמַּיִם, וַיַּשְׁקְ אֶת-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל – He took the Golden Calf they had made, burnt it, ground it finely. He scattered it in water, and made them drink (32:20)
The sota – a woman suspected of adultery – is made to drink a concoction that would identify if she were guilty or not, resulting in her gruesome death if guilty. The Golden Calf water similarly clarified allegiance, causing a plague that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths too, as per the Gemara in Avoda Zara.
Moshe made a decision here. He identified what would happen if וְהִשְׁקִיתָ אֶת-הָעֵדָה were to take place, and wanted no part in it. They were on the cusp of entering Israel, and he did not want to see another plague take place. Another generation ripped apart! So he took the initiative, and engineered a way around וְהִשְׁקִיתָ אֶת-הָעֵדָה – which was וַיַּךְ אֶת-הַסֶּלַע בְּמַטֵּהוּ–פַּעֲמָיִם; וַיֵּצְאוּ מַיִם רַבִּים, וַתֵּשְׁתְּ הָעֵדָה. There was no making them drink, because וַתֵּשְׁתְּ הָעֵדָה. He had saved them.
In his farewell speech, he reminds them of the terrible price he paid for them:
גַּם-בִּי הִתְאַנַּף יְהוָה, בִּגְלַלְכֶם לֵאמֹר: גַּם-אַתָּה, לֹא-תָבֹא שָׁם – Hashem was also furious with me, for you! He said, “Neither will you enter”. (1:37)
Moshe did it בִּגְלַלְכֶם – for you! – he did what he felt to be right for the greater good, even though it violated what he was told, and bore a terrible price for it.
It takes a lot of knowledge to be able to weigh up the data to make this kind of decision, and should not be made lightly. The decision would still be legally wrong, and the perpetrator would be hounded and vilified; a vigilante. And the critics would be correct – the decision should not really have been made.
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Swallowed or Inhaled Objects
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Sometimes when you try to swallow, the swallowed substance "goes down the wrong way" and gets inhaled into your windpipe or lungs (Reference aspirated). This occurs most often in children who are younger than 3 years and in adults who are older than age 50. When you do inhale a substance, coughing is a normal reaction of the body to clear the throat and windpipe. The cough is helpful and may clear up the problem. Inhaling a substance into your lungs can cause a lung inflammation and infection (Reference aspiration pneumonia Opens New Window).
The situation may be more serious when:
- Reference Signs of choking (complete airway obstruction) are present. When the windpipe is blocked, air cannot move in and out of the lungs and the person cannot talk, cry, breathe, or cough. A blocked windpipe is a life-threatening emergency.
- Signs of a Reference partially blocked windpipe are present. When the windpipe is partially blocked, some air can still move in and out of the lungs. The person may gag, cough, or have trouble breathing. Coughing will often pop out the food or object and relieve the symptoms. The choking rescue procedure is not recommended when the windpipe is partially blocked.
- An Reference object is stuck in the esophagus.
- A Reference poisonous object has been swallowed, such as a wild mushroom, a plant, or a chemical. For more information, see the topic Reference Poisoning
- A potentially poisonous object, such as a condom filled with illegal drugs, has been swallowed.
- A Reference button disc battery, magnet, or object with lead has been swallowed.
- A swallowed object doesn't show up in the stool within 7 days.
About 80% to 90% of swallowed objects, like chewing gum, are harmless and pass through the gastrointestinal tract without problems. But some types of objects can cause more serious problems when they are swallowed. These include:
- Sharp objects, such as open safety pins, bones, toothpicks, needles, razor blades, or broken thermometers.
- Long objects.
- Large objects that may get stuck in the digestive tract and require removal.
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Dutch Profile: Droog
In the beginning of the nineties, a group of young dutch designers was presented in Milaan under the name of DROOG. Their designs were immediately recognized as something new. Anti-glamour, sober yet funny, and all telling a story or commenting on society. For a while, DROOG design even became synonymous with dutch design. Founders of this collective are Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers.
Many of the early DROOG designs found their way to galleries and museums all over the world. They became icons, sometimes crossing the line between art and design. One of the very first to acquire them was the museum of modern art in New York.
Since the beginning, Droog has evolved. It has become more of a thinktank under the name of drooglab, which aims to detect global trends in design, and then reflect on those trends from a new perspective.
Dutch Profiles is a series of short documentaries about architects and graphic, product and fashion designers in the Netherlands, commissioned by DutchDFA. The shorts are meant to spread freely over the web, but also to be shown as part of lectures, exhibitions and business presentations. “Dutch Profiles focuses on the conceptual, context-oriented and research-based practice of Dutch designers, telling the story behind some of those well-known images,” says commissioner Christine de Baan, programme director of Dutch Design Fashion Architecture. Dutch Profiles includes interviews with, among others: MVRDV, 2012 Architects, Jurgen Bey, Claudy Jongstra, Gerard Unger, Paul Mijksenaar, Marlies Dekkers, Alexander van Slobbe and G-Star.
CREDITS: Director: Noud Holtman, Camera: Pierre Rezus, Sound: Bram Meindersma, Carla van der Meijs, Editing: Dominique Kools, Kleurcorrectie: Maurik de Ridder, Music Sound Design: Big Orange, Commissioning editor Submarine: Geert van de Wetering, Producer Submarine: Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, Research assist: Liselot Francken, Produced by Submarine, Commissioned by DutchDFA | <urn:uuid:e26ea0c9-b962-4f4d-a3f4-160690447056> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.submarinechannel.com/profiles/dutch-profile-droog/page/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919233 | 458 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Press Release – Auckland Council
A major 10-week engagement period on the rulebook that will shape the way Auckland grows has been given the green light today.
Councillors today voted to put the draft Auckland Unitary Plan out to Aucklanders from 15 March, so that they can have their say on the planning document that will be the key tool in making Auckland the world’s most liveable city.
Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse says: “The Unitary Plan sets out to ensure that growth is well managed. That includes making town centres stronger and more vibrant, whilst protecting their character and heritage, ensuring a greater range of housing choices, encouraging businesses to grow in attractive areas, making public transport more viable, ensuring our rural land remains productive and looking after the things we most value in our rural, coastal and urban areas.
“It’s a critical document for our communities, tackling many, sometimes difficult, issues. The debate today reflected the wide range of views that our communities hold. That’s why today’s vote was so important. It shows members back Aucklanders’ right to influence the plan while it is still a work in progress. We want as many people as possible to have their say to ensure we get a plan for all Aucklanders. That’s why we’re putting the draft out for such an extended period.”
The Deputy Mayor says the informal engagement period will give people the opportunity to try out the draft plan online, including the new user-friendly digital maps, to see what’s proposed for their own home and community.
At the same time, she says, there is likely to be considerable debate on a range of topics that the draft Auckland Unitary Plan covers. This makes it essential to find the right balance for communities that will have the best outcome for Auckland as a whole. These issues include:
1. Increasing heights in, and around, many town centres, but restricting high-rise (nine+ storeys) to the city centre and major metropolitan centres.
2. Changing density and subdivision controls to enable many people to do more with their land.
3. Identifying new greenfield land with clear parameters of where and how Auckland will grow.
4. Increasing protection for Auckland’s heritage by managing demolition for pre-1944 homes in areas yet to be surveyed for their historic heritage and historic character value.
5. Discouraging sensitive activities directly below electricity transmission lines by requiring consent.
6. Protecting significant ecological areas, while balancing this with the interests of landowners.
7. Being more permissive to allow clearance of mangroves to 1996 levels, balancing the need to manage their impact while protecting their environmental value.
Auckland Council will be providing a wide range of opportunities for people to have their say, from local roadshows and events throughout Auckland, to an online forum that will go live next week before the engagement starts. Feedback forms will also be available online and in libraries. There will be a public expo on Saturday 16 March at the Viaduct Events Centre for people to find out more, talk to experts and give their views.
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Many of the mother and the father likes the idea of home-school their children, but fear that they may not be able to display all subjects in turn. Technology is often one of those topics. Parents fear that either do not know enough science to prove the concept effectively, and fear that they will not be able to manage to buy specialized equipment with which to show the science. There are, however, many ways to overcome these obstacles and other science training at home. This article gives you some options to solve the “I do not know enough science to show my children!” situation, motivate and hopefully not to provide up to provide your children the education and learning that you want for them.
Walking into a home school co-op team is a great way to meet the education at home and other family members to learn and discuss the sources and ideas. These categories generally meet once a week to team action or go to field trips. Often, the mother and father in the co-op will change workspace or training sessions in their own specialization to all the boys in co-op. If there is a special niche specialist (as science) in which none of the mother and father feel comfortable training, co-op will choose to seek out the services of an instructor to provide training for the team. In this way, the members of the family discuss the cost of training, thus providing a much cheaper alternative to the training staff.
If there are opportunities in a home school co-op in your place (group size is often limited to be able to keep the romantic, family atmosphere that education at home, many members of the family and the desire to learn) , and you do not want to start one yourself, you could find someone who provides sessions, individually, in your place. You could also seek the services of a personal teacher, but this could be quite expensive. On the basis of where live, the rate of go anywhere for the formation varies from $ 30 per hour for more than $ 100 per hour. Group sessions are generally cheaper.
If you do not want to have other people to teach your child (ren) science, or you can not find a group or class, there are many scientific books and scientific system of excellent sources available for all ages and stages. Many of these tutorials have to make assessments and actions at home. If you want the strategy of your system, determine which subjects you want your children to search first to check and head for your collection or local bookstore. select one or two references in books (for you and / or your children). Do not think you need to look through every publication that there is topic. You will get confused and waste a lot of your energy and energy this way. Starting books usually cover the same basic information. Once you know the basics, then, if you want to learn specific topic, you can search for books more details later. Originally, you just want to get a review. Get a book or two referrals for you (if you think you need to understand the concept of self in the first place), and two or three for your child. As for the child’s age, you can search for books that have detailed and vibrant images. Next look for books of shares and / or assessments. These will be designed for different ages and different stages, so be sure to look at both the problems of assessments and details (date) and if necessary materials are available for you to get. Finally, you want to get books and a computer, laptop ebook is not limited to spiral your child will use as a “lab book” in which to record the results and conclusions of their evaluations. Once you have made your choices, you are ready for the strategy of your system. It is much easier to select the actions or assessments that you want to do and then contact the appropriate areas of the reference books to understand and teach the concept required qualifications, rather than trying to discover a proper things to go with the concept that you’re training . Also, if you start with trying things, then you can use the books references to show your child how to discover the answers to his questions that have been stimulated by doing things to try.
If the preparation of the system of science seems to be too complex, or simply do not have time to do all that preparation, there are many pre-packaged, commercially available curriculae that are very simple to use. The advantages of these applications are that are made all the content you need to see the referral system. Many compounds guide students, pupils’ workbooks, books, action, further postponements content such as maps and study / flashcards, evaluations of the students and instructor books that provide step-by-step instructions on how and when to show each session. They walk you through the system from start to finish and are very thorough. The drawbacks, however, is that these applications are typically very expensive, does not have as much flexibility to customize the system to the passions of your children, and also are generally country-specific (eg Canada, United States, Australia, English etc.). If you choose to purchase a commercial system science, will soon discover that there are many, many available. It ‘makes sense to get a reasonable system (these are often provided by home education and learning organizations and support groups) or contact the manufacturers of each system that you are considering, to make evaluations before spending money by one. | <urn:uuid:b1ccb126-6193-4815-be91-fc400e0c9ad5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ace-screen-capture.com/how-to-show-the-technology-at-home-help-for-the-home-schooling-parent.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968976 | 1,102 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Explanation of Learn by Teaching Others by Ron Kurtus - Getting Good Grades: Strategies to Succeed in School. Key words: learning, recall, verbalizing, education, homework, teachers, self-improvement, excellence, training, high school, college, Ron Kurtus, School for Champions. Copyright © Restrictions
Learn by Teaching Others
by Ron Kurtus (revised 7 July 2012)
A good way to help in learning a subject matter—and thus getting better grades—is to teach the material to others. This forces you to review the material and also reinforces it in your memory.
One way to informally teach others is to simply explain the material to your friends or other students who are having trouble with the lessons. Statistics show that you learn more by teaching others.
Questions you may have include:
- How can teaching others help me to learn?
- Who can I teach?
- Will I be sure of getting better grades?
This lesson will answer those questions.
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How can teaching others help?
It is well know that when you explain or try to teach a subject to someone else, you learn it better yourself. A big problem with only learning things in class is that shortly afterwards much of the material is forgotten. Studies say that soon after you learn something in class 80% is forgotten.
You can recall better
Although you seem to forget what you've learned in classsuch that your mind goes blank about some things when you take a testthe information is still really hidden in your brain.
Emma helped Raul learn American History. She was able to explain about the U.S. Bill of Rights to him.
When a test was given in class, both of them received good grades.
You may not be able to dredge up the answers on a test, but it is surprising how you can recall these things when you try to explain them to another personeven years later.
You learn by verbalizing
When you explain or verbalize something, you are using a different part of your brain than when you heard the material, and this increases your ability to understand and remember the information.
You organize your thoughts
Another good thing about trying to explain a subject matter to another person is that any questions or misunderstandings you may have had come out when you have to explain the subject. Often you must work things out in your mind at that time to properly explain that material.
It makes you feel better
Another benefit of helping others learn is that it makes you feel better about yourself and the contribution you are making to making the world a better place.
Who can I teach?
Finding someone to teach or explain the subject to can be a challenge. Even finding someone to discuss the subject, so you can verbalize what you have learned, is often not easy.
Friends and classmates
One thing you can do is to try to explain study material to your friends. You can even take turns in teaching each other to reinforce your knowledge. Teaching each other on a regular basis can even be part of doing your homework together.
Jennie was having trouble understanding Chemistry. John offered to help her learn the subject. They would meet after school to go over the lessons.
But also, John was interested in Jennie and soon asked her out. They started going together.
I guess this was an added benefit for John.
Some schools have programs
Some schools have programs where students go to last year's class to help teach the younger kids.
Those kids will often listen to someone a year or two older better than to the teacher, so they learn better. And of course, the student doing the teaching refreshes his or her knowledge of the material.
Although this will not directly improve your grades in classes you are presently taking, knowing last year's material better will give you a better background for this year's work.
Guaranteed better grades?
Will you be guaranteed of getting better grades if you teach others? Unfortunately there are no guarantees in life, and you just do the best you can. But, you probably will do better.
Learn more from what you teach
Common statistics in education are that you retain 10% of what you hear, 20% of what you read, 50% of what you do, 75% of what you discuss and 90% of what you teach.
Probably will do better
After teaching others, you probably will know the subject more thoroughly and thus do better in class and on tests, resulting in higher grades.
Verbalizing your knowledge, explaining lessons to others and teaching what you have been studying are good ways to learn the material better yourself. Teaching last year's material gives you a better background for this year's work.
Getting a better understanding about your subjects should help you get better grades in those classes. Besides that, it can be fun to help others learn what you know.
Feel good about yourself
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Ask the Doctor: Pes Anserine Bursitis + Marathon = Hamstring Problem
How long will it take to recover and rehab?
Q: I was experiencing pain behind my knee (toward the inside) while training for a marathon and was told it was Pes Anserine Bursitis. I was given a cortisone shot, the pain disappeared, and I ran the marathon.
I ran a pain free PR of 2:50 and took the next 5 days off completely from running. I went out for a short run on the 6th day and noticed some dull pain in my hamstring on the same leg that received the cortisone shot. I ignored it.
The next day I went out for another short run but after only 3 minutes I felt a sudden twinge (more toward the middle of my hamstring), and then had sharp pain up and down my hamstring on this leg. I stopped running. I started seeing a PT who said I must have aggravated the hamstring during the marathon. After 4 weeks of physical therapy to stretch and strengthen my hamstring, I was walking around completely pain free and feeling ready to run. The PT told me to try a short run.
I felt fantastic as I started out on this run, but suddenly after only the first minute, I felt a sudden twinge in my hamstring and severe pain. This was more toward the middle of my hamstring. I stopped running immediately. The pain lingered all day. The next day I woke up with some light pain in the leg.
My question is - what they heck could be going on in my leg, I feel like there is something more severe than just "aggravated it while running the marathon". It has been a month and even though the pain subsided completely it immediately returned when I attempted to run again. If a month was too soon to return to running, could there be something more serious going on than I was told?
-- Terri, MA
A: The pes anserine is compromised of 3 muscle tendons, one of which is a hamstring. There was probably a strength deficit that caused the development of the bursitis and running the marathon was too much stress for the hamstrings. The hamstrings are a very large group of muscles that effect motion of the hip and knee. Rehabilitation requires strengthening the muscles at both joints, in addition to core muscles; many hamstring problems are due to weak back/ core muscles, placing greater stress on the hamstrings. Significant hamstring injuries may take months for full recovery. You may just need more therapy.
It is important to make sure that another problem is not present. A stress fracture in the femur may cause muscle pain (more commonly the quadriceps). A nerve injury, such as a ruptured disc in the lower back, may cause leg pain, most commonly along the back of the thigh.
See a sports medicine specialist to make sure that there is not another problem causing your symptoms. Be patient with recovering from a hamstring injury – it is a slow process.
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Strawberry plants are either June-bearers, ever-bearers or day-neutrals, depending on how the fruit grows on the plant. June-bearers fruit over several weeks in the spring, usually in June. Guardian and Honeoye are good June-bearing varieties. Ever-bearers have two major fruiting cycles with additional limited fruit production throughout the growing season. Quinalt and Fort Laramie are dependable varieties in this area. Ever-bearers are considered hardier than June-bearers. Day-neutral varieties, developed from genetic material found in the Rocky Mountains, fruit in six-week cycles with three or more cycles throughout the growing season. Tribute and Tristar are good day-neutral varieties.
Plant strawberries away from wind where they will get full sunlight for at least eight hours a day. Avoid planting strawberries in soils which have had raspberries, cherries, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants or peppers growing in them within the past five years. These Crops may have been infected with diseases that can affect strawberries.
Plant strawberries 12 to 24 inches apart in rows 42 inches apart. A solid mat of plants will form. It is important to place the crown of the plant, where the leaves attach to the root, just above the soil. If planted too low, the plant will rot; if too high, the plant will dry out. In the first year, remove the flowers to encourage the development of the plant.
Drip irrigation will conserve water and keep the foliage dry. Overhead watering can lead to an increase in diseases such as leaf spot. Birds, which eat ripe fruit, can be controlled with one-quarter to one-half inch plastic mesh netting over the strawberry bed.
Mulch, such as clear or black plastic sheeting, can discourage some insects, conserve moisture, moderate temperatures, decrease erosion and reduce weeds. Cover the soil with the plastic and plant the strawberries in holes cut in the plastic. In warmer climates, plastic mulch may need to be covered with an organic mulch to prevent burns on the foliage. In the winter, two inches of straw over the plants after the ground freezes will help protect against damage.
For more information, see the following Colorado State Extension fact sheet(s).
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Diversified ETFs vs. Sector Funds
February 13th 2012 at 6:00am by Tom Lydon
When is comes to exchange traded fund investing, there are plenty of approaches to take. The diversified, broad-based fund has many benefits, however, a sector specific fund can take portfolio construction to a new level.
A sector-focused fund contains shares within a specific area of the market such as pharmaceuticals, consumer discretionary or technology, for example. They can also hone in on specific countries or nowadays, a specific sector with a certain country, according to Investopedia. If the certain sector performs well, a portfolio can make substantial gains, however, if the sector tanks, so does the portfolio. [Worst to First: Financial, Materials ETFs Lead Markets]
A sector ETF can pinpoint an area of the market and give an investor diversified exposure to a basket of related companies. This can be a good strategy over single stock picking, especially if the sector is volatile. For instance, the biotech sector is filled with up-and-coming companies, where about 50% do not make it in the long run. A biotechnology-focused ETF can give investors exposure to many companies in the sector, mitigating the risk of a bankrupt stock.
Many investors are inclined to use a diversified ETF, one that is broad-based and covers many sectors in one shot. These so-called plain vanilla funds can be a core holding in a portfolio and can also stand alone. A fund that holds 30 U.S. large-cap stocks is diversified against company specific risk however, there is risk in being overexposed to too many large-cap stocks.The expense ratios for these types of funds tend to be lower than the sector-specific funds. [State Street lowers Expenses on Sector ETFs]
There are also diversified country-specific ETFs that give investors various exposure to the target country. The choices are varied from Japan, to Great Britain and even Australia. The exposure to other economies can be essential to a properly diversified portfolio. [January Barometer Bodes Well for Stock ETFs]
Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.
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With the appointment, just before the Vatican comes to a virtual Summer standstill - of the new heard of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – in times past know as the Universal Inquisition (which never fails to raise hackles in some media) – there is the question: who is Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller?
On the website of his former Diocese of Regensburg we find an extensive biography in English which shows that Bishop Müller is very much the pope’s man. Like Benedict, he is a professor, at home in the world of academia. A former position as professor of Catholic dogmatics at Munich, and since a few years as the official coordinator of the publication of Pope Benedict’s collected works, cements this theological and academical closeness to the Holy Father.
Another aspect of the new prefect’s career coincides with the pope’s priorities of advancing ecumenism with the Orthodox Churches of the East. Within the German Bishop’s Conference, Bishop Müller, who received the personal title of archbishop upon his appointment, was co-responsible for contacts with the Orthodox.
There are more elements in his biography which gel well with his new duties as the Church’s ‘third man’. Succeeding Cardinal Levada, a red hat is a certainty for Bishop Müller, as are the presidencies which come with his new position: those of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, and the International Theological Commission.
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And we’re up for another round of curial changes, as prelates retire from their offices and are replaced by new names. While many Vaticanistas are eagerly awaiting the appointment of a new prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (currently headed by 76-year-old Cardinal Levada) and even a new Secretary of State (Cardinal Bertone, the incumbent, is now 77), today we see a number of appointments which may not be as high-profile, but no less important.
Arguably the third-most important Congregation, that of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, sees a switch in secretaries. American Archbishop Joseph Di Noia is leaving to become vice-president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, directly assisting Cardinal Levada. Succeeding him at Divine Worship is English Bishop Arthur Roche (pictured at left), formerly of Leeds, who will be made an archbishop.
In the Congregation for Catholic Education, we note the departure of Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès. He had been that Congregation’s secretary since 2007, and will now take up duties as the archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Library. His predecessor, Cardinal Farina, had resigned for age reasons earlier this month.
In the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli resigns as adjunct secretary. Succeeding him as the congregation’s third man, is Archbishop Protase Rugambwa (pictured, right), until today the ordinary of the Tanzanian Diocese of Kigoma.
Then, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli resigns as President of the Pontifical Council of the Family. He held the office since 2008. His successor is Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, until today bishop of the Italian Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia. With the office comes the personal title of archbishop.
In the Apostolic Penitentiary, one of the three tribunals of the Church, there is a new regent to succeed Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, who held the office since 2002. The new regent is Msgr. Krzysztof Nykiel, a Polish curial official.
In many ways, the Curia of the Catholic Church can be seen as a government, with ministries and secretaries. They are not only responsible for the daily affairs of the Church as institution, but also for essentially everything that has to do with the life of the Church and all her faithful. They give hand and feet to the Church’s eternal task of communicating and guarding the faith that has been given us. It is good for us Catholics to have a passing familiarity with the Curia.
The question now is… what will the coming weeks bring?
At Catholica, editor Tom Zwitser shares some discouraging news. After two Masses, the celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin rite of the Mass at the cathedral of St. Joseph is to be discontinued immediately. Sad news, and the reasons for this decision not only highlight the lack of communication (which I, in a different context, have also experienced) within the parish and the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden, but also the contradictory position with the world Church taken by the diocese. Both the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum and the Instruction Universae Ecclesiae, issued by Pope Benedict XVI and Ecclesia Dei respectively, are quite clear in the duties that a diocesan bishop has towards a group of faithful who wish to attend the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
Aforementioned texts are quite clear in the regulations surrounding the celebration of the Extraordinary Form in any given diocese or jurisdiction. Below a summary from the texts:
It is the task of the Diocesan Bishop to undertake all necessary measures to ensure respect for the forma extraordinaria of the Roman Rite, according to the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. [UE 14]
In parishes, where there is a stable group of faithful who adhere to the earlier liturgical tradition, the pastor should willingly accept their requests to celebrate the Mass according to the rite of the Roman Missal published in 1962, and ensure that the welfare of these faithful harmonises with the ordinary pastoral care of the parish, under the guidance of the bishop in accordance with canon 392, avoiding discord and favouring the unity of the whole Church. [SP 5.1]
A coetus fidelium (“group of the faithful”) can be said to be stabiliter existens (“existing in a stable manner”), according to the sense of art. 5 § 1 of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, when it is constituted by some people of an individual parish who, even after the publication of the Motu Proprio, come together by reason of their veneration for the Liturgy in the Usus Antiquior, and who ask that it might be celebrated in the parish church or in an oratory or chapel; such a coetus (“group”) can also be composed of persons coming from different parishes or dioceses, who gather together in a specific parish church or in an oratory or chapel for this purpose [UE 15].
Three paragraphs only, which illustrate that priests and bishops are to generously grant the wish of a stable group of faithful (the size of that group does not factor into the occasion) to celebrate the Mass in the Extraordinary Form. These texts are not difficult or unclear.
But what is now happening in Groningen? After two EF Masses in April and May (announced as to take place on every first Sunday of the month, celebrated out of necessity by priests from outside the diocese, initially until summer, but with the implied possibility that they may continue after that if an average of 30 faithful would be attending at that point), a decision was made to limit the number of Masses to four per year. This, as Mr. Zwitser quotes, “not to encourage a division of spirits within the parish”. It must be said, at this point, that finding qualified priests, acolytes and volunteers willing to organise and celebrate these Masses is difficult in this diocese, with such a small number of clergy and faithful to begin with. This difficulty, coupled with, in his words, the lack of cooperation he received, led Mr. Zwitser to decide not to continue as the lone mandated organiser.
Maybe the diocese will continue offering EF Masses, but this first attempt can be considered a failure. It’s quite sad that there seems to be such opposition to the older form of the Mass, especially when Rome has been quite clear in this respect. Of course, lack of volunteers, clergy and personnel are hurdles to overcome, but Universae Ecclesiae foresaw in this:
In Dioceses without qualified priests, Diocesan Bishops can request assistance from priests of the Institutes erected by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, either to the celebrate the forma extraordinaria or to teach others how to celebrate it .
Again, this is not difficult, and it works: the two Masses in Groningen have been offered by qualified priests from the Diocese of Roermond and the FSSP. Travelling costs remain as the sole obstacle.
Rumours have it that EF Masses may continue at the church of St. Martin in Sneek. A place and church not as easy to reach for people as the cathedral in Groningen is, and also lacking a qualified priest. This is then a rumoured solution that only relocates the problem.
At this moment, the reintroduction of the Extraordinary Form in Groningen seems to be nipped in the bud. Promises seem to be broken, cooperation not given as much as it could, and the instructions from Rome and the personal wish of the Holy Father not given due consideration.I expressly say ‘seems’, because much of this is hearsay and second-hand information. As in the world Church, the local Church too has much to grow in communication.
The big Church news today was of course the publication of Universae Ecclesiae, the long-awaited Instruction that clarifies the practical implementation of 2007′s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, which deals with the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. The embargo on the text was officially lifted at noon today, and I am secretly quite proud to be able to present a Dutch translation on the same day.
Tomorrow I plan to offer some thoughts on the Instruction (hence this post’s title), published by the Pontifical Council Ecclesia Dei. The official English text is available here.
As announced before, Raymond Cardinal Burke will be offering Mass in the Extraordinary Form on 17 September at the church of St. Agnes in Amsterdam. That day marks the fifth anniversary of the FSSP apostolate in that church.
But today Catholica announces that the cardinal will also speak at the annual Catholica conference, on the afternoon of that same day. His topic will be Summorum Pontificum and the Church after Vatican II. The high-ranking prelate is known to celebrate Mass in both forms, and is in many circles considered to be a man to be watched. The 62-year-old Burke was made a cardinal during the most recent consistory and serves as prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the Church and overseer of the administration of justice in the Church. Before his appointment, Cardinal Burke was bishop of La Crosse (1994-2003) and archbishop of Saint Louis (2003-2008) in the United States.
Catholica is, in the Dutch Catholic media landscape, a voice for orthodoxy, made clear in its advocacy for the Extraordinary Form of the Mass as well as a return to a Catholic practice that has mostly disappeared from the Netherlands. In recent months, it has been a platform for debate about the nature of the Second Vatican Council and how it should be understood and implemented.
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Fraunhofer working on smudge-free touchscreens
24 July 2012
Touchscreen smudges could fade away as Fraunhofer scientists, working to protect garden furniture, make an interesting side discovery.
Titanium dioxide molecules have been successfully used to destroy organic substances that cause algae, moss, bacteria and fungi and mark outdoor furniture. Now, Fraunhofer scientists argue that opportunities offered by titanium dioxide extend well past garden chairs, claiming to have developed a self-cleaning coating for glass surfaces.
Dr Michael Vergöhl, head of department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig and head of the Fraunhofer Photocatalysis Alliance, said: "If you apply a thin coating of titanium dioxide to a glass surface such as a smartphone screen, the skin oils and fingerprints gradually disappear from the display by themselves."
The molecules do need one hour of sunlight to be activated so would be suitable for outdoor displays but this time remains a barrier to many applications. However, researchers say the next step is to develop materials that can be activated by artificial light.
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We are six weeks into the 2010-11 school year, and now that the dust has settled, some inspiration has hit to get me blogging again.
Recently, a third grade teacher asked me if there were any podcasts “out there” that taught the parts of speech. She was looking for some reinforcement for the nouns work that they were doing in the classroom. This would be a good avenue to reach the different learning styles in her classroom. Excited to get iPods into the hands of third graders, I did a little searching and came across this tremendous resource that I would like to share: mrcoley.com .
This site has wonderful examples of podcasts by both students and teacher (and one fit the bill for the parts of speech topic); however, this site is has even more to offer beyond podcasts. It has gotten me and some of the teachers at my school thinking about how we can use our Nanos in a whole new way: for flash cards.
It’s a basic concept that Mr. Brent Coley, a 5th grade teacher, explains with step by step directions and tutorials (Thank you!). Using PowerPoint or Keynote, make simple slides that teach or review a concept. Then save them as pictures that can be loaded on an iPod. By clicking “next” on the photo album’s contents on the iPod, a student can review at his/her own pace. By having the iPod “play” the slide show, it now is more advanced for such subjects as math facts, adding in the element of a timer. Now, third graders are trying to “beat the iPod” to the answer!
Sure, the students could do their fact practice with paper flash cards, but this “hook” of using the iPods makes the learning very exciting and motivating. One teacher reported to me that 19 sets of earbuds came in on one day’s notice. (Students have to supply their own earbuds to use our Nanos, and if you don’t have earbuds, you can’t use them.) She said that getting permission slips back in a timely fashion never happens, but using an iPod got their attention! Engagement is up! (Even in the bus line on the way home, students enthusiastically were telling me that their teacher was signing out the iPods again for another lesson.)
Wondering how slides will look on something as small as an iPod Nano? Here’s what an Explorer review that I created looks like:
Nothing fancy, but it is easy to read. Its linear fashion allows a student to review for the benchmark by reading a question on one slide and then following up with the answer on the next one.
Everything doesn’t have to be in a quiz format either. Perhaps, a teacher could take a PowerPoint that was used to teach a lesson and convert it to work on the iPods, too. Students could use the lesson for reference to do assignments or to study at school or at home on their own device. The implications for special education and ELL students are vast. I’m even thinking that students could create their own “flash cards” or content slides to share their learning.
My brain is percolating! Where could this take us? I’d love to hear others’ thoughts.
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This is a thoughtful piece about money, life and balance.
It was sent to me from the Himalayan Institute.
Here is the text:
"Must you "sell your soul" to be financially successful? This question has long troubled spiritual seekers.....Buddhist teachers regularly "renounced the world" and relied on donations for their livelihood. But what if you want to run a successful company, live in a nice neighborhood, send your kids to a private school . . . and live a spiritually rich life? Is it possible?
That's the question that Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D.—spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute and author of the autobiographical book Touched by Fire: The Ongoing Journey of a Spiritual Seeker (Himalayan Institute Press, April 2005, ISBN: 0-89389-239-4, $16.95)- addresses.
"Real spirituality means to come to the center of your own life and become aware of who and what you are and not be affected by other people's opinions of you," Tigunait explains. "You gain respect for what you are and for what you are doing. You have full confidence that your work, your lifestyle, your job, and your business support what you believe in and support your own self-understanding. If you become financially prosperous in the process, that doesn't negate the spirituality."
Here are just a few of the points that Tigunait addresses:
* The real meaning of prosperity. People think that prosperity means you make lots of money. You can buy the car of your choice, go on vacation to the island of your choice, and do anything you want to do. That is fine. However, prosperity to me is that which makes you really become a happy and healthy person, that which makes and brings happiness in your life. That's called prosperity. So it's inner prosperity that infuses your external world with happiness.
The End Goal of Money
* How money furthers your spiritual growth. Money has one simple purpose: to help you gather all the means and resources to make your life comfortable so that you preserve your time to do something that is more meaningful. Without those tools and means, without the comforts and conveniences, you would have wasted that time running after worldly success. Now that success is at hand, how will you further reinvest that success? How will you reinvest your worldly prosperity, your worldly wealth, to further regain and further recapture that inner wealth that is inside you? This is what spirituality does for you.
Spirituality does not mean detaching yourself, renouncing the world, and becoming a recluse. On the contrary, says Tigunait, it means to become successful, to become useful, to become productive . . . concepts businesspeople understand very well.
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D., the spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute, is the successor of Swami Rama of the Himalayas. Lecturing and teaching worldwide for more than a quarter of a century, he is a regular contributor to Yoga International magazine, the author of twelve books, including the best-selling At the Eleventh Hour: The Biography of Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and the force behind Sacred Link-The Healing Revolution.
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AT&T Wireless has been campaigning against texting and driving, including bringing its texting-while-driving simulator (above) to high schools. While it makes sense for mobile operators (AT&T won a Cannes Lion nod for its efforts; LG has also been promoting "Text Ed") to take on the issue of safe driving, it also behooves automakers to step up.
After all, as cars get closer to being iPads on wheels, it's the technologies and systems designed to make vehicle "infotainment" easier and more attractive that are also distracting to drivers. Just this week, for instance, Hyundai debuted a new mobile application for its Blue Link platform that allows subscribers to remotely access various features and services through compatible mobile devices.
But auto brands operating in the U.S. market could be on a collision course with federal regulators who keep warning them not to make the in-car information experience too rich or distracting.
"If the auto manufacturers focused as much on safety as they do on marketing their products, we would save a lot of lives," Deborah Hersman, chairman of the federal National Transportation Safety Board, told Automotive News. With accidents and road deaths increasing due to texting and driving, promoting safe driving and educating consumers (and particularly young drivers) could become a core part of automakers' corporate citizenship efforts, too.
Since Ford launched Sync a few years ago, automakers have been attempting to leapfrog one another to provide the most digital-rich environments in their vehicles, at the same time that they say they've been striving to keep the driving experience safe by emphasizing hands-free operation and voice activiation of infotainment features. GM, Nissan and Audi are also embracing in-car systems that access social media updates and sharing.
Of course, everyone understands that even if they're "hands-free," the capabilities of these systems inherently create more distractions for the driver. So far, the U.S. government has only encouraged the industry to voluntarily heed its concerns, using suggested guidelines but not attempting to restrict any activities just yet. Friday is the deadline for industry and public comment on the proposed voluntary standards.
In 2010, more than 3,000 people, or 9 percent of road fatalities, were killed in crashes related to driver distraction, the government says. While just about every other aspect of vehicle and driver safety is getting stronger, distraction remains a soft spot.
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Restavek is the common practice of child slavery in Haiti. It means "to stay with". It should mean "to trap" because the children who are restaveks are not encouraged to "stay with". They are not priveledged to "stay with". They are forced to "stay with". They are forced to work and labor under the harshest of conditions. They are, simply stated, exploited.
Child exploitation is what human trafficking is all about. It is what gives trafficking life and breath because innocence is the easiest thing to exploit.
I wanted DFC to support organizations that would fight child exploitation - who would rescue, heal, prevent harm to and restore children. In the brief moments of searching that day, I found the Restavek Freedom Foundation and something happened inside me.
When I was growing up, and into my early adulthood, I vowed I would never go to a third world country. I would never do a mission trip. I would never voluntarily go some place unsafe. I simply was too afraid.
The Restavek Freedom Foundation changed all of that for me. My heart, after learning about this organization, about child slavery in Haiti, yearned to go. Through DFC, you have helped us sponsor Benitha, a child who is advocated for and receives schooling because of the Restavek Freedom Foundation. I longed to meet her. But no doors opened in the "Haiti direction". Every time I pursued the option to go, the doors shut for me. It was incredibly frustrating, but there wasn't anything I could do but trust that there was a reason.
Three years later, I have still not been to Haiti, but that is soon to change.
The love I began to develop for Haiti three years ago has turned into something I never anticipated. I continue to love and strongly believe in what the Restavek Freedom Foundation is all about, but now, NOW I get to go to Haiti for a completely different reason. I get to go meet my son. Exactly a year ago today, my husband and I decided to adopt from Haiti. And in just a few short weeks, we get to meet him. WE GET TO GO TO HAITI!!
One of my most favorite things about DFC is what it changes. A simple product, a burlap tote, taught me about human trafficking, led me to learning about restavek and Haiti and has now changed our family forever as we work to bring our son home. I've heard of so many of you who have changed in ways you didn't expect from one of our products. You shop different, think different, pursue different journeys than you otherwise would have because of something as simple as a bag or a bracelet.
So, in honor of this journey, your journey and advocating for those who need us the most - children - we are honored to work with The Restavek Freedom Foundation as our Change It Today program for the month of March. 10% of our profits for the month of March (excluding fundraiser orders) will benefit the Restavek Freedom Foundation. Please follow along on the side bar to see our progress as the month goes on.
As we anticipate meeting our son and finally getting to go to Haiti, our family would so appreciate your prayers. I have no idea what this trip will do in my heart or head, but I bet it will be something. | <urn:uuid:a7784e61-3b8b-4ed4-a512-877d9b78c039> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.delicatefortress.com/2013/03/the-begninning-of-journey-personal-post.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974878 | 693 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Lizard she-males survive longer
Posted by Miqe on March 2, 2009
The Augrabies Flat Lizard (Platysaurus broadleyi), a star of Sir David Attenborough’s recent series Life in Cold Blood, adds another twist to its tale. A team of South African and Australian researchers have discovered that some males of this dramatically coloured lizard mimic females during early maturity and thereby avoid the costs of broadcasting their masculinity.
As juveniles, all males look like females before gradually developing extravagant adult male coloration at the onset of sexual maturity. These young males are most vulnerable to aggressive adult male rivals when these first tell-tale signs of masculinity begin to develop and adults are quick to capitalise on a soft target by chasing and sometimes biting these young males.
Assoc. Prof. Whiting pointed out that “by delaying the onset of colour to a more convenient period, these males (termed she-males) are making the best of a bad situation”. An immediate advantage is freedom of movement in the normally treacherous zones which make up the territories of highly aggressive males that already have extensive fighting experience. At the same time, these female mimics are able to court the myriad of females that share the territorial male’s residence.
The authors of this study (Assoc. Prof. Martin Whiting of the University of the Witwatersrand; Dr. Jonathan Webb of the University of Sydney; and Assoc. Prof. Scott Keogh of the Australian National University) also tested whether she-males are able to mimic the chemical ‘signature’ of females.
In a clever experiment performed in the wild, they removed all pheromones and skin lipids that might signal gender and relabelled a group of females and she-males with either male or female scent, before presenting them to typical adult males. Males use their tongues to sample chemical scent and responded by courting she-males labeled as females, but not she-males labeled as males. “Males are fooled by looks, but not by scent” said Dr. Webb.
She-males are able to maintain this deception by staying one step ahead of a prying male, and thereby avoiding a nosey tongue that might give the game away. Assoc. Prof. Keogh said that “young transvestite males appear to have a dual advantage: the avoidance of potentially dangerous bouts with dominant males and access to normally inaccessible females”.
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Spunky Southern heroine's coming-of-age
Susan Gregg Gilmore hit the Southern fiction scene with a bang with her delicious debut, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen. Her second novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, is a coming-of-age story set in Gilmore's own hometown of Nashville during the 1950s and 1960s. As the title indicates, Bezellia is not the prim and proper Southern belle that her white-glove aristocratic family wants her to be. As she finds her way in a society that is changing by the day, Bezellia faces the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam and debutante balls with grace and courage. Gilmore, who now lives in Chattanooga, took some time from her busy tour schedule to answer a few questions about the novel and its charming heroine.
You grew up in Nashville, and this book makes a lot of references to iconic Nashville institutions that still exist today. Which one were you happiest to include? Was there something else you wish you could have fit in to the book?
I'm not sure I had a favorite. But it was deliciously fun to write about all of these places that are a part of my childhood memory. It is a bit like taking a ride in a time machine.
Bezeillia's story begins around the time you were born. How did you research this time period?
I spent a lot of time down at the Nashville Public Library reading through old copies of the Nashville Banner, particularly the society and obit pages. I also watched every film in the Civil Rights Room as well as talked to Nashvillians who would have been of age during the 1950s and '60s. Beyond that, I was a child of the '60s and '70s and I applied a lot of what I saw then, the emotions that I felt then, to Bezellia.
As Bezellia comes of age, she begins to notice the discrepancies between the way blacks and whites are treated. Was this something you experienced growing up in the South as well?
Most definitely. Even as a little girl, I was very aware of racial inequality in the South and in Nashville specifically. I knew it was wrong, not to the extent obviously that I do as an adult, but I knew in my bones it wasn't right. I was very fortunate that my parents set an excellent example for me—they believed in a world where people are not judged by the color of their skin.
Without giving too much away, this above all a realistic story and you're not afraid to put your main character through the wringer. Is it hard as an author to see your characters suffer?
Actually it is. And quite truthfully, there are times when the writing makes me physically uncomfortable, and I desperately want that section or chapter to end so I can turn to something a bit more lighthearted. But on the other hand, those are the days I know I'm probably doing something right.
The mother-daughter relationship is very central to this story—Bezelia is never quite sure that her mother loves her. How does this affect her life? Her sister's life?
In some ways, I think it ultimately empowers Bezellia. She becomes determined to know a better life, a life where she is genuinely and honestly loved. Her poor sister, Adelaide, does improve and comes to know a better way, but I think those early years with her mother clearly damaged her sweet spirit.
The novel makes a lot of jumps through time, and articles from the Nashville social pages or newspaper help the reader through. As a former journalist, were these mock articles fun to write?
Actually the articles only move the reader forward a bit, not big leaps in time, until the very end. But they were extremely fun to write. They were particularly fun because I had to write them in a style specific to the 1950s and 1960s. It was a little different, especially the society page. And I have missed writing for newspapers so it gave me a chance to do something I will always love to do.
Name one thing people should know about the South, but probably don't.
If we're talking to people outside the South, hmm, I would have to say that although our history of racial equality has been tragic at times, we are a people fiercely proud of the land that we call home. And at the end of the day, our tea really is sweeter than anybody's!
What are you working on next?
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A lot of smart grid news has come out of Asia this week:
- First off, China. On Tuesday, Honeywell announced the first project for a U.S.-Chinese government smart grid partnership aimed at bringing faster demand response technologies to market.
The north China city of Tianjin is the target, and the goal is to cut energy use in office buildings, government centers, factories and industrial facilities to prevent blackouts or forced outages when grid power demand is at its peak.
It was almost a year ago when Honeywell first announced it would work with State Grid Corp. of China on demand response, which gives a sense of how slowly a bilateral government research effort can take to develop. Jeremy Eaton, VP of Honeywell Energy Solutions, wouldn’t say when the newly announced project was expected to be complete, how much it might cost or how much power it would harness, though Honeywell’s system is designed to drop megawatts within minutes.
It could be big. Honeywell’s agreement is with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), one of China’s mega-growth industrial/technology zones, and the city itself has about 11.5 million inhabitants, which means there’s a lot of power to shed.
Indeed, China has struggled with peak power demands for decades, and the country’s rapid economic growth has only multiplied the problem, Eaton said. At the same time, China’s massive wind power farms in its Western desert regions will be delivering gigawatts of intermittent electricity to grids that weren’t built to handle it, stressing the system all the way down to the level of individual users.
But all of China’s demand response is manual today -- and much of it is done via government decree. I visited Chongqing in 1992, where some apartment buildings only got electricity every other day during the smog-choked summer afternoons when peak demand was at its highest. Today, State Grid imposes curtailment quotas on residential, commercial and industrial users on a regular basis, Eaton said -- a reflection of the Chinese government’s power over private enterprise.
Honeywell’s technology is based around OpenADR, a standard for automating utility-customer communications and the way they talk to building management systems (BMS) that control power use. Akuacom, which Honeywell bought in 2010, makes the servers that translate the utility’s digital commands into orders that BMSs can react to in a predictable way to do everything from idling HVAC systems and lighting banks to ordering factory lines to shut down for awhile.
Getting response times down to minutes, or even seconds, gives demand response much better flexibility to manage intermittent wind and solar power, rather than just reacting to requests sent hours or days in advance, Eaton noted. It’s also cheaper and more predictable -- although in the United States at least, the customer has a final say on whether or not to comply with power-down orders.
Honeywell has deployed about 80 megawatts of OpenADR load for Southern California Edison, and recently launched a project in the U.K., so “the technology works,” Eaton said. But equally as important will be how China decides to mix mandates with the utility incentives, subsidies or even power price-based markets needed to get private property owners to sign up, and a big part of the project involves testing out those incentive and business models, he added.
China’s latest five-year economic plan calls for spending RMB 1.5 trillion on its energy infrastructure by 2015. While the lion’s share of that is going toward the massive transmission lines needed to bridge western wind with eastern cities, the government also has energy efficiency decrees that could be served by adding energy efficiency installations on top of demand response, Eaton said.
- India, the world’s second most populous country after China, is even worse off when it comes to its power grid. Much of the country lacks power at all, and the towns and cities that do have it face frequent blackouts and power quality issues.
Seems like a good place to modernize, and India’s government is getting the ball rolling with plans to direct about 5 billion rupees (nearly $100 million) toward approximately eight smart grid pilot projects, for 500 million to 600 million rupees ($10 million to $11.5 million) apiece, according to Monday news reports.
That’s not much money, compared to the roughly $4 billion in stimulus money that U.S. smart grid projects received over the past two years. But it’s certainly needed, not only to tackle the country’s existing grid problems but also to integrate the wind and solar power that the government has mandated over the coming years.
Demand management and “reduction of aggregate technical and commercial losses” -- i.e., better efficiency and less energy theft -- were also on the list of goals for the projects. ZPryme projects the Indian smart grid market could reach $1.9 billion by 2015, giving a sense of how far the country has to go to upgrade the grid it has before it takes the next steps.
- Finally, there has been some activity in Vietnam, where San Jose-based Echelon recently announced a second big Asian project to network streetlights in the city of Hanoi. Echelon is a streetlight networking leader in the U.S. and Europe, and launched its first streetlight projects in China in early 2011.
Echelon hasn’t gotten its smart meters into Asia yet. The company's devices are popular in Europe but have been used in only one small-scale U.S. deployment with Duke Energy. Echelon is working with Chinese smart meter maker Holley Metering on technology for the Chinese smart grid market. | <urn:uuid:8870d581-9eb4-4a8f-91b8-33d8a35193e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Asian-Smart-Grid-Indias-Big-Push-Honeywell-in-China-Smart-Streetlights-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949323 | 1,219 | 2.125 | 2 |
What is a corporate video?
If your involved in the business world, it’s safe to say you’ve probably heard the term “corporate video” used before. And based on the title, most of us would assume “it’s a video about a corporation”. Good so far, right?
But what do you do with a video about a corporation? And why do you need a corporate video?
Corporate videos have multiple uses: business-to-business, business sales, shareholder meetings, award ceremonies, documentaries, training, etc. The ever-shrinking attention span of the average internet-age person has forced everyone to think outside the box to get noticed. Video is the user-friendly approach to accomplishing that goal.
Great corporate videos tell stories about real businesses and real people:
- The old-school corporate video is dead. You know the one with the stiff script read by the even stiffer narrator. The old-school corporate video contains visual images that lacked artistic composition. They came off as fake and unprofessional.
- New-school corporate videos are thick in their texture. They contain art-directed visual images, motion graphics, engaging music tracks, and real people speaking from their heart and not reciting the words from a scriptwriter.
- Today’s corporate videos use today’s technology to explain what was once mundane material. Graphs and financial statements can be animated and flow with colors and sound that leave a lasting impression on viewers.
- Technological advancements also allow corporate videos a limitless number of viewing options. Sure you can show the finished product in the ole corporate boardroom, but that’s only the beginning. If you can digitize it, then you can watch it anywhere. From the big boardroom to the phone in your hand.
Corporate videos of yesterday have become image videos. They are becoming the universal language of business. It’s not a matter of if your company needs a video, but rather how badly you’ll hurt your business without one.
Additionally, many companies are able to repurpose elements of their video production to create vignettes and commercials. Vignettes can be used to further explain a product or service in more detail. The vignette can be placed on the specific website page for that product or service offering.
What’s the most interesting and creative use of a corporate video that you’ve seen?
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Democrats are moving to eliminate from the party's national convention the superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders whose role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s closely-contested primary.
Those superdelegates provided, for a time, a lifeline to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton's flagging campaign, and the effective end of their independent role would be a major step toward reshaping the Democratic Party — and its internal politics — in President Barack Obama's image.
A group created by the Democratic National Committee to examine the role of the superdelegates, the Democratic Change Commission — steered by the Obama campaign's top delegate counter, Jeff Berman — held a conference call Wednesday to recommend that these unpledged delegates cast their votes based upon the electoral results of their states rather than on personal preference.
The recommendations of the commission, co-chaired by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, will now go before the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee.
While the elimination of superdelegates isn’t likely to have any impact in 2012, when the party is all but certain to renominate President Obama, commission members say it will help democratize future presidential primaries.
"I think the goal here was to get away from what felt like almost a disenfranchisement at some point in time to the voters and to the caucus members in the various states,” McCaskill said.
The move follows an epic 2008 Democratic primary process in which all 50 states and the territories cast votes in a race that was effectively deadlocked between Obama and Clinton. For a time, there was grave worry among some in the party that the superdelegates, who were not bound by their states’ votes, could decide the nomination in favor of a candidate who received fewer elected delegates from primary voters and caucus-goers. | <urn:uuid:f6fdec89-8cab-4423-9b28-075e5f4cd65a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=E1BC6FF3-18FE-70B2-A8ED5EFA5DA07A07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961835 | 393 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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Smarter drugs to save lives
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Bernard Schwartz, ed. The Warren Court: A Retrospective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x + 406 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-510439-4.
Reviewed by Thomas M. J. Bateman (Augustana University College, Alberta)
Published on H-USA (May, 1998)
The Court that Earl Warren Built
The "Warren Court" has been called a continuing constitutional convention, the greatest Supreme Court since the one presided over by John Marshall, and the bright light of justice, fairness, and impassioned activism in a climate of stubborn political resistance and institutional paralysis. Alternatively, it has been labeled the usurper of the Constitution; a cabal of bleeding hearts intoxicated with the belief that the world can be changed with the stroke of a pen; and the final, exhausted thrashings of a reformist legal liberalism rapidly losing its intellectual foundations. This book grapples with these various reputations and in so doing helps us all see clearly again what the passage of time and the accretion of received wisdom has obscured.
This book is a compilation of the proceedings of a conference commemorating the Warren Court, its members, its jurisprudence, and its wider impact on the United States and the international community. Earl Warren is something of an icon for many Americans of a reformist liberal political cast, and some of the contributions to this book are fawning, even gushing. He is variously called the "Super Chief" (p. 10), a "hero" (p. 277), and "one of the two greatest Chief Justices" (p. 256). The accolades extend to the Court as a whole. But this is more than a "love-fest" (p. 377); it is also a collection of some thoughtful remembrances, analyses, and critiques of the Warren Court and the era it helped shape.
The twenty-five essays in this collection vary as much in length (from four to forty-four pages) as they do in style and depth. Some of the pieces are personal reminiscences authored by a fellow justice (William Brennan) and former clerks. Other essays are more academic reviews of the decision making of the Warren Court in particular areas such as race, criminal law, takings, freedom of speech, and religious freedom. Others examine the Court more broadly, for example from the perspective of legal theory. Still others are notable as much for their authorship as for their particular subject matter. Prominent professors of law, jurists active and retired, and others associated with the law are included in the list of contributors.
Given this diversity, perhaps the best way to proceed is to identify a number of recurrent themes. Throughout, certain decisions receive sustained attention. In racial equality it is, unquestionably and unsurprisingly, Brown v. Board of Education that is probably most responsible for the esteem in which the Warren Court is held. In apportionment and the enunciation of the principle of strict voter equality it is Baker v. Carr. In criminal law, Mapp v. Ohio and Miranda v. Arizona stand out. In the emergent constitutional right to privacy, it is Griswold v. Connecticut. In free speech, it is New York Times v. Sullivan. The decisions are cited again and again and subjected to different kinds of analysis from essay to essay. The student of any of these cases can fairly glean a good sense of the arguments for and against each one by working through many of the essays.
The first theme is the that of decline. Several contributors lament the passing of an era of seemingly boundless extension of rights and of judicial courage in the face of intransigent majorities in the political halls as well as in the country as a whole. Anthony Lewis compares the Warren Court to the Rehnquist Court: one acts like a "second constitutional convention" and other like a salon de refus (p. 398). David Halberstam in his essay sees a descent from the high-mindedness of the Warren Court to a more prosaic meanness of spirit in the Rehnquist Court.
The second theme informing many essays is what can be called the political default theory of judicial review, for which the Warren Court became the touchstone. Taking account of the institutional rigidities and political incentives inherent in a strong system of checks and balances, and the implacable prejudices against blacks and criminals in the political culture, progressive reform could not be expected from the executive and legislative branches of government. If the Court did not act, no one would. The Court merely stepped into a political breach, goes the theory (See the Schwartz essay on Warren, pp. 264-69). It boldly went where others feared to tread, several argue, much to the betterment of the American polity. In a twist on the political default theory, Richard Neely argues that the Supreme Court is the only central institution able to set uniform legal rules of product liability for the country as a whole, the effect of which would be to put a damper on the costly awarding of liability claims against firms from out of state. He wants the contemporary Supreme Court to do for product liability law what the Warren Court did for standardizing criminal procedure.
The third theme concerns the jurisprudential cast of the Warren Court, and here contributors are almost unanimous in claiming that it was simple faith in the rightness and justice of its decision that drove the Court, not any sophisticated theory of constitutional interpretation. Earl Warren especially was a "pragmatic instrumentalist," arriving at the right decision on the facts and then coming up with the reasons for doing so. Such a realist instrumentalism drove Felix Frankfurter to no end of dismay, and he must have been doubly annoyed when Warren would receive praise for the simplicity and clarity of his opinions. They were opinions, Frankfurter can be imagined saying, but they were not careful, reasoned judicial opinions. In the most probing and academically rigorous contribution to this volume, Stephen M. Feldman places the Warren Court at the last, fleeting stage of modernist jurisprudence, arguing that the Court had to rely on widespread agreement on the basic rightness of its decisions, not on the uncontestable jurisprudential way of arriving at them, in order to secure its legitimacy. Since then, Feldman argues, the law has slid into a post-modernism in which one can no longer assume that there are stable conceptual foundations for law, legal reasoning, and the practice of judicial review.
The fourth theme concerns the consequences of the Warren Court for American constitutional law and society. Again, several contributors suggest that the bright light of the Warren Court shines to this day, illuminating state constitutional law and even British legal reform; at the very least, the Warren period remains the standard against which successive courts are to be judged. A couple of contributors are not so sanguine. While he agrees with the result in Brown, federal Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski, for example, claims that it was unfortunate, in a sense, that Brown came so soon in Warren's tenure. It gave the Court an overweening confidence in its own power and mission. He takes aim, among other things, at the apportionment cases, arguing that it is simply not self-evident that strict voter equality is the best constitutional policy. "There is something to be said," he argues, "for the view that voters should not be able to take their political power with them quite as easily as they root up their possessions, leaving those who stay behind--those on the farm, those in the inner city--with a decaying infrastructure and no political base to sustain it" (p. 381). While several authors praise the Court for what it did, they criticize it for its omissions, noting that the Court was too selective in its reformism. The Warren Court all but neglected economic aspects of the Constitution.
Other themes emerge in the essays, including internal Court politics. As several contributions make clear, one cannot assume all the justices thought as one on matters of substantive law or constitutional interpretation. In the end the reader has a satisfying panorama of the Warren Court years.
It is hard to imagine an undergraduate politics or history course for which this would be assigned a required text. The essays are uneven in purpose, length, and depth. They are collected together by their preoccupation with a brief period of U.S. constitutional history.
But what a historical period. The Warren Court's activism has cast a long shadow over subsequent constitutional law and politics in the United States. And as a student of the Canadian constitution, I can assuredly say that this Court has exercised a tremendous influence over Canadian politicians and interest groups who successfully sought an entrenched Charter of Rights that would invite the Canadian judiciary to embark on a constitutional program of legal and social reform in the manner of the Warren Court.
This, then, is a book for every library and for every advanced student of the constitution in America and abroad.
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David Clarke has created a new work of net art called Sign After the X in collaboration with Marina Roy and Graham Meisner. Sign After the X is structurally similar to some of Clark’s earlier works such as A is for Apple and 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein. The form of these works is one that Clark has been developing for some time now; A is for Apple, the first of them, was published in 2002.
The nodes or chapters/sections of these hypermedia works are done in Flash. They’re multimedia approaches to a subject. We hear a voice reading a text about Freud or Lacan or Wittgenstein or X (etc) while Clark’s animated visuals improvise with/on the text–in the sense that the visuals illustrate or explicate/explore/expand/riff/noodle on the text’s meaning. Sign After the X is organized into five categories: Mind, Body, Land, Language, and Law. Each of these contains anywhere from four to thirty nodes/Flash works.
The putative subject of Sign After the X is “the letter X and it’s multiple meanings in our culture“. And, yes, I can see it in some of the material presented. But it seems there’s more going on than that. | <urn:uuid:dd859608-1c33-48fe-a066-15de2b8f7b07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://netartery.vispo.com/?tag=freud | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945827 | 285 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Hundreds of patients had to be evacuated from NYU Medical Center during the storm when the hospital lost power and backup generators failed. The staff had to stabilize and carry people down flights of stairs using only flashlights to illuminate their path. Babies and infants on ventilators were helped by nurses hand-pumping air into their chests.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta was given exclusive access to the NICU at The Mt. Sinai Hospital, where 10 babies were transferred from NYU. He reports on a baby girl, Emma, who weighed only 2 lbs. when she had to be moved about 70 blocks from NYU Langone Medical Center. Her parents found out their child needed to be evacuated when they were watching one of Mayor Bloomberg's press conferences on T.V. But they lost power, and were stuck in New Jersey desperate to be with Emma.
"It's frightening. It's about as challenging as you can get, and when you're dealing with tiny little babies like this who are so fragile it really can be an extraordinary circumstance," said Dr. Kenneth Davis, CEO of Mt. Sinai.
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Look out Leave-It-To-Beaver, there is a new wave of pet acupuncturists, homeless college grads and extended roommates changing the traditional family dynamic. This New Family rationalizes treating their pets better than their children (“Of course we give our puppy acupuncture. It makes little Snuggles feel relaxed and rejuvenated!”), asks if they can have their old room back (“Mom. Dad. I know you turned my old room into a study, but can you turn it back because I need a place to stay for a while?”) and are returning to dorm life with communal apartments. Multi-Gen Roomates, Extended Companions and Pet-Centrics are the segments changing the way we view the traditional family in the 21st Century.
Multi-Gen Roomates are trading in their queen for a twin bed. Just one of the many sacrifices of returning to mom and dads’ to reduce the high cost of living. They are Boomerang Kids, or late 20s to 30s individuals that need to bide some time by living at moms’ and dads’ until they can get back on their feet. The G.I Generation (parents of Baby Boomers) are also making the same migration to their children’s homes. As the economic slump has depleted their retirement funds, the G.I. Generation find themselves in the same position as their grandchildren.
- There are more than 4 million multi-generational families in the U.S., according to a U.S. Census Bureau report
- About 40 percent of 2008 grads still live with their parents, according to Monster’s 2009 Annual Entry-Level Job Outlook
Brand Profile: Netflix, Wal-Mart
Extended Companions are not willing to bite the bullet and move back in with mom and dad. Instead, they are pooling funds to get a place with their friends. While most Extended Companions envisioned a white picket fence in their near future, they are faced with the harsh reality that financially they just can’t afford it. For the meantime, they can bunk with their friends until they can get back on their feet.
- The share of 3-bedroom searches in the area around the Washington DC grew by 87% as more people bunk with roommates to reduce the high cost of living — a rising trend across the country, according a study by MyNewPlace.com
Brand Profile: IKEA, Craig’s List
Dogs and cats are the brothers and sisters or sons and daughters of Pet-Centrics. The seek companionship in animals. Pet-Centrics are typically older couples or singles that put pets on an impossibly high pedestal, sometimes higher than their own children. These are the people that spend $15 on a rubber toy or $20 on organic, fine-dining dog food because, of course, their dog or cat has to eat the best. As they have sufficient disposable incomes, why not spend $25 on a designer dog collar?
- Pet owners spent an estimated $US41 billion ($43.9 billion) on their animal friends last year which was almost double the $US21 billion ($22.5 billion) spent in 1996, according to The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association
- “We’re noticing more baby boomers are pet owners and they are treating their pets like members of the family,” said APPMA President Bob Vetere
Brand Profile: Fancy Feast, Pampered Puppy
Human Bond: Revisited — The Human Bond trend is about meaningful relationships and developing deep connections. Whether the connection is with a Boston Terrier, your parents or friends, more and more individuals are seeking meaningful relationships as they search for companionship and a home.
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But, until then, the king had not realized the consequences of having his own separate well. So he turned to the prime minister for advice. The prime minister said, “Now there is nothing left for which to seek advice. Just escape by the back door, drink the water of the well outside and hurry back; otherwise this palace is in grave danger.”
The king asked in horror, “You want me to drink water from that well? You want me to go mad?”
“There is no other way you can save yourself except by becoming mad,” replied the prime minister.
The king and his queens rushed to the city well and drank its water. That night a great celebration took place in the city. The people expressed their joy, singing and dancing the whole night. They thanked God for restoring the king’s mental state, because now the king was also dancing in the crowd and shouting abuse. Mentally, the king had become normal.
Since our state of sleep is so common, so universal, and because we have been asleep since birth, we remain unaware. In this state of sleep what do we understand about life? We understand only that the body itself is life and that one is unable to penetrate the body. This kind of understanding is similar to a man mistaking the outer wall of a palace for the palace itself, or a man walking on the parapet and thinking he is in the palace, or a man sleeping, leaning on the outer wall, thinking he is resting in the palace. One whose understanding revolves around the body is like this fool who imagines himself to be the palace’s guest while standing outside its walls.
We have no access inside the body. We live outside the body. We are familiar only with the outer layer of the body; we never come to know its inner layers. We don’t even know the inner sides of the palace walls, let alone the palace itself. We consider the outside of the wall to be the palace, we remain ignorant of the inside of the wall.
We know our bodies externally; we have never gone inside and seen the body from within. For example, we are all seated in this room; we can see this room from within. A man, wandering around outside, sees this house from the outside; he can’t see it from within as we do. Man is not even able to see his own body, his own house from within – he knows it only from the outside. And this gives rise to the idea of death.
That which we know from without is only the sheath, it is only the outer covering. It is only the outer wall of a house, it is not the master of the house. The master of the house is within, and we never get to meet him. When we don’t even know the wall from the inside, how will we come to know the master seated within? | <urn:uuid:1c5e0898-adab-4aa3-9883-528a055059ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-dancing-outside-palace-a7dba153-8f6.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973189 | 605 | 2.359375 | 2 |
2011 AAUP Meeting, Baltimore, MD
Rising tuition fees, falling endowments, an exodus of undergraduate students to pre-professional majors, and a spate of recent books critical of the liberal arts professoriate — such developments have raised questions about the value of the humanities as taught in U.S. universities. Cost-conscious institutions have responded by cutting budgets and tenure-track positions in core humanities departments. In this lively, debate-style forum, three distinguished academic guests addressed the current crisis — if indeed it is a crisis — from very different points of view. Ohio State’s Frank J. Donoghue, Pomona College’s Kathleen Fitzpatrick, and the Institute for the Future of the Book’s Bob Stein, specifically considered the role of university press publishing in the future of the humanities, and the role of the humanities in the future of the university press. Will either survive the 21st century and if so, as Shakespeare might have asked, how will it? | <urn:uuid:e379657e-4e38-4d00-9a0a-63a6146d9160> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fordhamimpressions.com/?p=2583 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909346 | 201 | 1.53125 | 2 |
I use Dina Zikes Foldables in my classroom. We create them using notebook paper or construction paper. After each chapter we look back and include key concepts and examples in each part of our Multi-Part Lesson Foldable booklets. Basically, it helps students organize their notes. They refer to their Foldables while completing the Study Guide and Review and the night before a test. On this day, we created Foldables to review Functions and Inequalities. | <urn:uuid:3e358402-4160-43de-926c-2f4c4ec40405> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mathconcentration.com/photo/creating-foldablesstudy-guide-1/next?context=latest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909944 | 94 | 2.78125 | 3 |
UPDATE - Nextbigfuture has coverage of where the current US gigabit internet deployments are being made and the companies and organizations behind them.
Google fiber is mostly deploying in February and April of this year in Kansas. There are some areas that already have installation in progress.
Confirmation of Lazy Money Grubbing Evil
While Verizon operates the fiber network serving the largest number of home subscribers in the nation, the company is backing off from installing additional U.S. fiber connectivity. The company’s fiber service, called FiOS, offers basic service starting at 15 megabits per second (which can be upgraded in some areas to as much as 300 megabits per second).
Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said in a conference call last fall that there are no plans to expand FiOS beyond those areas. “At this point we have to capitalize on what we have invested,” he said. The basic goal is to sign up more people in the existing service areas, which adds the most revenue without increasing capital costs.
The other cable and telecom companies are focused on capitalizing on existing cable infrastructure, not emulating Google Fiber by building out fiber connections to homes and businesses. In Kansas City, Time Warner Cable in late January (likely in response to Google Fiber’s presence) boosted speeds and lowered prices, offering download speeds of 100 megabits per second for $75 a month. For $199 users can get cable bundled with TV and phone service, with two DVR.
Google Fiber, Gig.U and some City Gigabit Efforts
During an earnings call earlier this month, Google CFO Patrick Pichette said the company plans to finish building out the whole city, on both the Kansas and Missouri sides of the state line, and added that the effort “is not a hobby: we really think that we should be making good business with this opportunity, and we are going to continue to look at the possibility of expanding.”
Universities supporting the Gig.U initiative want to make sure they stay attractive to students and researchers who might want to access data and computing resources, and competitive with other institutions around the world that have such speeds. Their efforts include a deal with a private company, Gigabit Squared, to deliver one-gigabit service in Seattle and Chicago in collaboration with local governments and universities. A similar effort is taking shape among several universities and communities in North Carolina.
A final kind of special case is cities that are taking matters into their own hands. One example is Chattanooga, Tennessee. There, the local power utility in 2010 managed to score $111 million in federal stimulus money to speed up the build-out of a one-gigabit network for a smart electric grid (see “City with Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play”). It is now offering one-gigabit Internet access, albeit for about $300 a month, depending what TV service you get with it.
Nextbigfuture covered the google fiber rollout status in fall of 2012.
Other Screwed Up Problems
Even if costs (interest rates for competitors) and legal barriers are lowered, fiber economics won’t work for private companies everywhere—not even for Google. After all, as Levin points out, 80 percent of the cost of running fiber is in the labor, not the fiber and equipment, and not all houses are as closely spaced as the tidy bungalows on Francis Street, where the Carpenters live. “There are a lot of cities where the math wouldn’t work—areas not densely built enough or where construction costs are too high. In California, the environmental permitting provisions make it cost-prohibitive,” Levin added.
Nextbigfuture covered the problems faced by the internet provider startup Sonic.net in California in 2012.
Sonic.net is already building out gigagit fiber in Sebastopol, California.
When it comes to building out infrastructure, from broadband to roads, someone, be it environmentalists or neighbors leery of the project’s components, are bound to raise a fuss. When it comes to better broadband, the cabinets holding the electronics raise the ire of residents who would rather not have refrigerator-sized boxes on their lawns. For example, residents of San Francisco have banded together to sue to stop AT&T’s planned U-verse deployment, which requires more than 700 cabinets to hold the electronics gear be placed around the city.
Jasper says because Sonic.net is deploying fiber to the home, he will use fewer cabinets (he estimates 188) but he’s still worried that San Franciscans will step up to hold up or halt his permits. ATT originally had received its permits, but those permits were halted by the court while this suit goes forward.
Jasper is worried that the suit could take another three to six months, and will hold up his deployment, but he’s hoping that fewer cabinets and a willingness to share Sonic.net’s infrastructure with other providers might make city residents view his cabinets with a bit more favor.
The Press Democrat had an update on Sonic.net from May 2012.
FCC talks about Helping but Still Incompetent and Weak
The FCC says it wants to help. Last month, at a U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called for broadband providers and state and city officials to build out at least one “gigabit community” in all 50 states by 2015. And the FCC plans to hold workshops in which broadband providers and state and municipal leaders can find and remove barriers, lower costs, and boost incentives for getting it done. Requests to the FCC for interviews went unanswered last week.
To help keep labor costs as low as possible, Google secured guarantees from the Kansas City government that it would get rapid responses on mundane but important matters like city inspections, access to rights-of-way, and even free rein to run fiber in sewers. Kansas City says it will provide the same breaks to other companies willing to provide similar service. Google also adopted a novel preregistration scheme, which had it start stringing fiber in a given neighborhood only after a certain percentage of residents—5 to 25 percent—committed to the service.
SOURCE - Technology Review, Sonic.net, Google Fiber, Gigaom, ArsTechnica, Wall Street Journal, Press Democrat
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University of Delaware students interested in pursuing environmental careers had the opportunity to learn from UD alumni who are now professionals in various environmental fields at the second annual Environmental Career Morning held on Saturday, March 9, in Townsend Hall.
The seven panelists at the Environmental Career Morning included:
- Maia Tatinclaux, a graduate student studying environmental engineering at the University of Maryland;
- Samantha Loprinzo, associate at ICF International;
- Matthew Loaicono, market analyst at Monitoring Analytics;
- Kristen Atwood, research assistant at ICF International;
- Chelsea Halley, environmental scientist at the Site Investigation and Restoration Section of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control;
- Kristen DeWire, assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General, Maryland Department of the Environment; and
- Alex DeWire, environmental scientist, Tetra Tech Inc.
The panel was moderated by Steve Hastings, professor and associate chair of the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, who organized the event and taught all of the former students on the panel.
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) Dean Mark Rieger was in attendance and he addressed the panelists, saying he was pleased to see all the alumni come back to help educate the current students. “Our graduates go out and do wonderful things and they change the world. So I’m so glad that you took the time to come back here and tell about your journey and how best to get from here to do that,” Rieger said.
The panelists talked about their personal experiences, ranging from trips to Cameroon with the Peace Corps to spending months working places part-time before finally landing a job in their desired field and, of course, the differences between college and the working world.
“Working and having a job and having bosses and deadlines, there are definitely higher stakes,” explained Atwood. “If you miss a paper, or if it’s a day late in college, you can apologize to the professor and maybe get a little markdown, but if you miss a deadline in the working world, it’s definitely a bigger deal. I had to learn how to keep better track of what I was working on and what I needed to get done.”
Loprinzo echoed those thoughts, saying, “You really have to be on top of your work and it’s important to set your own deadlines. You have to motivate yourself to get everything done and be organized enough to keep on top of everything.”
While the panelists did offer individual nuggets of wisdom, there were some pieces of advice that were universal. For instance, all the panelists agreed that taking some sort of communication or public speaking course while still at UD would be incredibly beneficial to the students.
“No matter what job you do, you have to be able to communicate well,” explained DeWire.
Tatinclaux agreed, saying, “Communicating and public speaking and being confident, that’s really important. Just in the interview process, it’s so important to be friendly, open and have a level of confidence when you’re talking to your potential employer because that goes so far.”
Loprinzo even talked about taking advantage of places on campus like the Career Services Center, as she explained that she went there as a student and took part in mock interviews to prepare for the real world interviews she would face.
Other important skills mentioned by the panelists were an understanding of statistics, the ability to manipulate large data sets and proficiency in software like statistical software and geographic information systems.
All of the panelists also stressed patience in applying for jobs and perseverance because with so many people applying for a finite number of jobs, it might take students awhile before they are hired. Loaicono explained that he applied for about 200 jobs before finally landing the one that he wanted.
Loaicono also said that when going in for an interview, it is important to learn about the company and to come up with 5-10 questions to ask about the firm during the interview. “The more you know about the company, the more that you’re interested in what they’re actually trying to do,” is beneficial, he said, adding, “Even if you know this is going to be a steppingstone, you definitely want to ask good questions.”
Other pieces of advice included looking at job descriptions posted on-line for “buzzwords” to be included in resumes, tailoring resumes every time to fit a particular company’s needs, attending career fairs and making connections, remembering names and faces and the importance of a master’s degree, while at the same time understanding the risks of incurring mountains of debt in student loans.
Halley, who graduated just one year ago, stressed that it is important for the students to take a wide range of courses while they are undergraduates, as it will help to inform them — like it did her — on what they like and what they don’t like.
“When I was choosing classes, part of me just wanted to take all science classes but I did branch out and take some economics classes. It is important to have that wide background and also to see what you like and what you don’t like. I took a wildlife course about birds and I hated it and it made me realize that I don’t want to work in fish and wildlife. But I didn’t know that until I took that course so I think you learn something from every course, whether it’s negative or positive.”
In the end Hastings summed it up for all those in attendance, saying that finding a career is “not a straight road. It’s a crooked road to get where you want to be and you just need to keep that in mind.” And though the road is crooked, he added that the crooked road can also be “kind of exciting, as well.”
Article by Adam Thomas
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The city of Gijón is located in the Spanish region of Asturias. Located along the coast, this city was once known as a large fishing village, however over the years the port of Gijón has become the key harbour where all the coal mined in the area is shipped, as well as glass and ceramics. Gijón is the largest city in the region of Asturias with beautiful buildings and landscaping. While in the Asturias region, a Gijón weekend trip is well worth considering. There are a few hotels in Gijón along with restaurants, parks and museums. Gijón discount hotels and Gijón cheap hotels can be found at EasyToBook.com.
One of the main beaches in the city of Gijón is the Playa del San Lorenzo with its sandy beaches it is a popular site during the warm summer months. Located on the peninsula that divides the port in half, is the old quarters of the city – and old fishing village of Cimadevilla. This fishing village has many narrow cobblestone streets that are lined with colourful fishing cottages that gives a glimpse into the past. The Cerro de Santa Catalina is a park located at the tip of the peninsula that boasts beautiful views of the coastline. Located on the peninsula is the Eligio del Horizonte, a large sculpture the size of a house.
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In an article from The Times Free Press, it’s stated that the Veterans Administration reports that about 1,000 veterans a month try to commit suicide and that acts of rage and violence are common in the group. Many victimized by that rage and violence are the wives, children and friends of those veterans.
The rising and frightening number of suicides and suicide attempts by U.S. combat veterans is a shameful legacy of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For too long, the military has been reluctant to admit the existence of the problem, but recent events have finally forced the Pentagon to confront it. To its credit, the military seems to have done an about face on the issue.
While the newfound understanding is welcome, it’s painfully overdue, and much more needs to be done to provide mental health assistance to veterans and active-duty troops. Many veterans and active-duty personnel refuse to seek assistance when confronted by mental health issues. That unfortunate attitude is a legacy of past military practices.
For decades , the military encouraged an independence and self-sufficiency among its members that suggested that an injury to the body was a sacrifice for one’s country, but that an injury to the mind is somehow cowardly or a figment of an over-active imagination. The latter caused many members of the armed forces to avoid treatment. Continue reading 'The Ongoing Battle to End Military Stigma of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder'» | <urn:uuid:2eb7757a-7620-45c9-a053-a3f491898fed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://winoverptsd.com/wp/tag/reluctance-to-seek-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95948 | 291 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Davis Community Church will begin a Lenten devotional season this week with the opportunity to read and discuss a book that includes the historical and political context for the events of the last days of the life of Jesus. ”The Last Week,” by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, chronicles the mounting tensions of that week, tensions that make clear the choice between the path of imperial power and the way of love and equality.
The congregation is forming small-group discussions of the book. Those who are curious about the events of that holy week are invited to read the book, available at The Avid Reader, and to join in discussion groups. Contact Julie Herdt in the church office, [email protected], for more information.
Lent is a season of renewal for Christians — a time of reflection and commitment. All are welcome at DCC — lifelong Christians, those who are new to Christianity or just curious — to explore Christian spirituality in a progressive, inclusive community.
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News: a trawler fishing net that filters out young and endangered fish from the catch has won this year's James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions.
“This tangible technology approaches a serious environmental problem, we should celebrate it," said industrial designer James Dyson, founder of the award. "SafetyNet shows how young graduates like Dan can tackle global issues ignored by established industries in new and inventive ways.”
Since graduating, Watson has started a company, SafetyNet Technologies, to try and commercialise his technology. “The escape rings are designed to be low maintenance," he says. "The rings are illuminated, acting like an emergency exit sign for the fish. Water flowing through the wide open meshes guides the smaller fish to freedom while retaining the larger ones.” Read more about the SafetyNet sustainable trawling net in our earlier story.
Watson receives £10,000 in prize money, which he'll use to further develop prototypes and finalise government testing for the system. His university department, Innovation Design Engineering, also receives £10,000.
Two runners up each receive £2000: Jason Hill and Liz Tsai of the Art Center College of Design and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US were awarded for the Beth Project, a self-adjusting prosthetic limb, while James McNab of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand was awarded for his Revival vest for divers, which automatically inflates if it detects signs of drowning and brings the wearer to the surface. See all the runners up on the James Dyson Award website.
The James Dyson Award is an international student competition organised by the James Dyson Foundation with a simple brief: “Design something that solves a problem.” Last year's winner was a system that extracts moisture from air like a desert-dwelling beetle by Edward Linacre from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne - read more in our earlier story on the 2011 James Dyson Award winner.
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March 6, 2008
Are sex offender registries effective?
A new paper available here via SSRN asks "Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?". The piece is authored by J.J. Prescott and Jonah Rockoff, and here is their abstract:
In recent decades, sex offenders have been the targets of some of the most far-reaching and novel crime legislation in the U.S. Two key innovations have been registration and notification laws which, respectively, require that convicted sex offenders provide valid contact information to law enforcement authorities, and that information on sex offenders be made public. Using detailed information on the timing and scope of changes in state law, we study how registration and notification affect the frequency of sex offenses and the incidence of offenses across victims, and check for any change in police response to reported crimes.
We find evidence that registration reduces the frequency of sex offenses by providing law enforcement with information on local sex offenders. As we predict from a simple model of criminal behavior, this decrease in crime is concentrated among local victims (e.g., friends, acquaintances, neighbors), while there is little evidence of a decrease in crimes against strangers. We also find evidence that community notification deters crime, but in a way unanticipated by legislators. Our results correspond with a model in which community notification deters first-time sex offenses, but increases recidivism by registered offenders due to a change in the relative utility of legal and illegal behavior. This finding is consistent with work by criminologists suggesting that notification may increase recidivism by imposing social and financial costs on registered sex offenders and making non-criminal activity relatively less attractive. We regard this latter finding as potentially important, given that the purpose of community notification is to reduce recidivism.
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J.J. Prescott, of Michigan, and Jonah Rockoff, of Columbia Business, have posted a very interesting empirical study concerning the efficacy of sex offender registration and notification laws on SSRN. Here is the abstract:In recent decades, sex offender... [Read More]
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If I'm reading all the Greek correctly, the notification laws deter because the dissenters in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84, were correct. Notification is punitive. Notifications may deter first time offenders because notification itself is so punitive, but at the same time notification is so punitive that it "may increase recidivism by imposing social and financial costs on registered sex offenders and making non-criminal activity relatively less attractive."
Maybe it is accidentally rational. What a world.
It is easy to wonder though if the study took the already falling sex crime rate into consideration and controlled for that falling rate. Maybe the Greek sections explained that.
Posted by: | Mar 6, 2008 11:44:46 PM
The authors use reported offenses as their base but deal poorly with the likelihood that the increased attention to these crimes will lead many victims not to report. Their section on this possibility is very cursory and ignores the simple measure of looking at reports by victim before and after institution of the laws. Their results on their face would be exactly what we would predict if the often feared failure to report "Dad," "Unc," or Coach or Reverend rose as a result of those individuals' likely subsequent vilification in the community. Interesting paper but more work is needed before accepting its results.
Posted by: Michael Connelly | Mar 7, 2008 10:30:35 AM
Michael, aren't unreported offenses down by about 50%? That is to ask if the public debate itself, excluding the punitive sanctions as a factor, is enough to drive down the rate. And if so, by how much?
Posted by: George | Mar 7, 2008 1:00:58 PM
It's funny to me when proponents of registration say that sex crimes are under reported and now say that because unreported sex offenses have dropped so much that it is because of registration requirements. What happened to 'sex crimes are not being reported?'
Posted by: JWK | Mar 7, 2008 7:12:03 PM
Hmmmm...no impact on "stranger danger." Villification increases recidivism. First time offenses down because people aren't reporting them...although the proponents of draconian laws were claiming that there were millions of unreported victims throughout the 80s and 90s, a sensationalist tactic that when combined with "novel" psychotherapy destroyed many innocent lives.
A failed experiment. It should be tossed into the trash bin of history, along with our drug "war."
Posted by: Alec | Mar 8, 2008 2:01:56 PM
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
The sex offender laws have certainly created more so called criminal behavior. Childs play and teenage love, is not what it used to be. Registries are loaded with Americans youths check out:
CRIMINALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD SEXUALITY
As previously shown, the language used to label children who behave in a sexual manner typically confuses indecent or socially inappropriate behavior with coercion and violence.4 It is one thing to prohibit such behavior and discipline children for it. It is quite another to describe almost any sexual activity among children, even when it is mutually desired, as “molestation,” “abuse,” “assault,” and “rape.” Such language is a slap in the face to those children who have been truly victimized by real abuse. It also misleads the public into thinking that all children who act sexually are dangerous and merit criminal charges.
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Although the people who gathered together for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia during the hot summer of 1787 would have read philosophy they were not there to “do” philosophy in order to gain tenure; they were there, consciously and deliberately, to create a new world order. In integral language they were there to usher in the era of the orange movement.
All people who were a part of this community were treated with dignity and were listened to. They managed to hammer out a pretty good document that helped to change many parts of our world. These people were aware of at least three kinds of government;
· Despotic - This type of government and leadership relies on fear to keep the community together. You can recount the epic, historic, and valiant integral revolution against this type of government here http://integrallife.com/member/stanley/blog/integral-fascism and here http://integrallife.com/member/stanley/blog/public-apology
· Monarchism – This type of government relies of honor to hold the community together.
· Republic – This type of government is led by the people and administered by administers who are elected, serve for a limited period of time and only serve as long as they serve the people well and practice good behavior. (This is the intent anyway).
For a republic to have any chance whatsoever to stand the test of time it must be based on values and ethics that are so widely believed and accepted that they appear self-evident. Without these shared values and ethics it is likely that there is no real community, just a heap of individuals scattered on the floor. This writer questions if such a heap of individuals could ever get a new movement, like the integral movement, rolling out in the wider world the way the community referred to above was able to achieve their movement. | <urn:uuid:963514e6-07ad-4e2d-b16b-362fa8e13986> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://integrallife.com/member/stanley/blog/western-enlightenment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974159 | 379 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Ed Malin, owner of Angie’s Sub Shop in Jacksonville Beach, Florida posted this this sign at the famous sub shop.
Archive for July, 2010
We all know that a crisis like the spill in the Gulf is hurting BP’s brand. But what can we, as marketers learn about how to manage a crisis?
The emergence of social media as a driving force in shaping public opinion has been accelerating over the past five years. The influence of social media “buzz” can have significant impact both positive and negative to a brand and/or issue, from politics to corporate performance.
The case study presented in this paper is an “initial” data collection and analysis of the social media patterns associated with the BP / Deep Water Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in spring 2010. The incident and ongoing, expanding crisis have had major impact on the principals – BP, the Gulf Coast states, including business, political and government leadership – in profound and unanticipated ways as all players try to solve an unprecedented environmental and industrial crisis.
Ronaldo may be the top footballer in the world, but he’s also the most valuable.
According to a study conducted by Fisheye Analaytics, only one CEO ranked in the top 5 most talked about people on the web during the World Cup. Fisheye compared the major soccer stars against the top CEOs of the world, and measured overall reach and mentions.
Only one CEO made the top 5 – Steve Jobs.
Ok, I admit it. I love Breaking Bad.
It’s the middle of summer, in between Season 3 and Season 4, and my Sunday nights just aren’t the same while the show isn’t on. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, and want to get caught up, here is the scoop:
1. A middle aged guy gets screwed in a business deal, loses millions and settles for middle America, where he teaches high-school chemistry, and seems to hate his life.
2. He gets diagnosed with terminal cancer.
3. He breaks ‘bad’ and decides to start cooking meth (he’s a chemist afterall).
4. All kinds of drama happens, including the mexican drug cartel trying to kill him and almost killing his brother in law, who works for the DEA.
5. His wife finds out and leaves him.
6. His wife finds the money and gets back with him.
7. He becomes the largest supplier of high-grade meth in the southeast.
8. He kills a few scumbags (including running one over with his piece-of-junk car).
9. His cancer is cured (with the help of all of his new money) and now he wants out.
(Season 3 ends)
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Information for parents
Joining the library
Your child is never too young to join the library – a baby can become a member from the day it is born! It is free to join the library and to borrow books and getting a library card couldn’t be easier. Simply visit your local library with your child, answer a few simple questions and the job is done. You can even join online!
If you are a foster carer, please join your child in the usual way, but let library staff know that the child is in care. They can then contact the children’s section at library headquarters and arrange for a special welcome pack (with age appropriate goodies, including a book and a book token) to be delivered to the library. This may take a week or so, but someone will contact you to let you know when the pack has arrived.
The publisher Barrington Stoke produces a range of books specifically for children with dyslexia and those who are struggling or reluctant readers. These are shorter stories that are easy to read on cream coloured pages.
The are kept in author order in the main children’s stories and teen sections and are slim books, but the publisher’s name Barrington Stoke can always be seen on the spine. If you cannot find any on our shelves, please ask a member of staff for help. You can also reserve items from home using the library catalogue for a small charge.
- Barrington Stoke titles on the Library Catalogue
- Barrington Stoke website
We do have a few titles available in large print. Look in the ‘stories’ section for books with ‘Large Print’ written across the top of the spine. They may not be easy to find, so ask staff to check on our catalogue under children’s fiction large print in our ‘collection’ field (you can also access this at home) and we can request any title for you.
If you need to borrow books in Braille there is a small collection of ‘Clearvision’ books which contain a transparent Braille overlay page. Library staff can obtain these for you from library headquarters.
Children’s books in different formats are available from many branches – ask about stories in CD, cassette and ‘Playaway’ format.
We do have dual-language picture books in stock, often kept with our other picture books. To find what we have available, look on our catalogue. Library staff can help you to find these books and may also be able to request books from a collection held at library headquarters.
Childcare Books for Parents
The library has books on child care and development, ideas for children’s parties, collections of finger and action rhymes to use with children, games to play at home or with friends . . . . and so much more!
Childminder and Playgroup Loans
There are special library memberships available for people who care for groups of children.
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To mark their territory and warn off rivals, 21st-century gangsters still depend on the street language of graffiti. “Graffiti is a big part of how gangs tell their story and pick their turf,” says Steven Schafer, a detective in the criminal gang unit of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. A new software program called GARI (Gang Graffiti Automatic Recognition and Interpretation) is now helping Schafer and other investigators decipher the scrawlings, monitor gang activity, and fight crime.
GARI connects officers in the field with a searchable database of graffiti information and images snapped by cell phones and digital cameras. An officer can take a photo and submit it to an app, which tags it with location, date, and time. The software also scans the graffiti for distinguishing features, including color and shape. Officers can then enter queries into GARI to check for similar images logged within a certain area and derive local gang affiliation, territorial disputes, and even the identity of the members who left their mark.
Because GARI is so new, Schafer and his team must manually tag many of the submitted photos to build up the app’s information bank. The program is also still honing its ability to identify graffiti on a variety of materials, from wood to dirty cement. But even in these early stages, more than a dozen police agencies in Indiana have signed up with the program. “The real challenge is acquiring and processing images,” says Edward Delp, an electrical and computer engineer developing GARI with researchers at Purdue University. “It’s not like reading a sign on the street—every image is different.” The photos displayed here have been fed into GARI as part of ongoing police investigations in Indianapolis. The app itself is not available to the public—including members of gangs who could use it to avoid getting caught.
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In early May, officer Steven Schafer snapped this picture of a vacant building conveniently located, for taggers’ purposes, in a dead-end alley near railroad tracks. Schafer keeps an eye on this spot since it reflects local gang activity at a school two blocks away. To keep tabs on new members looking to make a name for themselves, officers can manually annotate images in GARI to document taggers’ names. From there, linking real names to aliases and seeing where else the names show up can indicate where particular gang members operate or live. | <urn:uuid:d478be3b-11d7-4981-b0dc-a3924cdb9adc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2012/sep/25-the-graffiti-code-breaker | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936138 | 503 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The Expected Approval of Velcade Will Be a Significant Driver of Growth in the Graft Versus Host Disease Drug Market
BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the expected supplemental approval of Millennium (Takeda)/Johnson & Johnson’s Velcade for the treatment of chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) will be a significant driver of growth in the GVHD market through 2021. In particular, Velcade’s uptake in the first-line treatment setting will displace lower-priced standards of care such as corticosteroids and small-molecule immunosuppressants.
According to Niche Markets and Rare Diseases: Graft Versus Host Disease, expert physicians report that Velcade’s market potential could be even greater, based on their interest in employing Velcade in the prophylactic setting. The market opportunity for prophylactic therapies, based on underlying population sizes, is up to three times larger than for primary or later-line treatments.
The report also finds that although the current clinical pipeline is sparse, several drug developers have nevertheless been drawn into GVHD drug development by the potential to secure orphan-drug designation for novel agents.
“GVHD is an excellent illustration of the orphan drug designation working effectively — without the benefits of the orphan designation, companies might be reluctant to develop drugs for such a small, specific population,” said Decision Resources Senior Vice President Cynthia Mundy, Ph.D.
GVHD is a relatively rare condition that occurs in a patient population — severely ill oncology patients eligible for hematopoietic stem cell transplant — who already have access to costly specialized treatment. Interviewed hematologist/oncologists report that cost concerns have little to no impact on current treatment decisions, and do not anticipate major changes in payers’ attitudes toward GVHD reimbursement following launches of novel therapies.
About Graft Versus Host Disease
Graft Versus Host Disease is offered as part of Decision Resources’ Niche Markets and Rare Diseases service. Each report assesses opportunity in a select drug market across the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The report provides detailed coverage of patient populations, current therapies, unmet needs and emerging therapies, and includes primary research with country-specific thought leaders.
About Decision Resources
Decision Resources (www.decisionresources.com) is a world leader in market research publications, advisory services and consulting designed to help clients shape strategy, allocate resources and master their chosen markets. Decision Resources is a Decision Resources Group company.
About Decision Resources Group
Decision Resources Group is a cohesive portfolio of companies that offers best-in-class, high-value information and insights on important sectors of the healthcare industry. Clients rely on this analysis and data to make informed decisions. Please visit Decision Resources Group at www.DecisionResourcesGroup.com.
All company, brand, or product names contained in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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Mar. 10, 2008 Research from The University of Nottingham has shed new light on the way in which people co-operate for the common good -- and what happens when they don't.
In a new international study of 16 countries, published in the journal Science, economists studied the extent to which some people will sacrifice personal gain to benefit the wider public, while 'freeloaders' try to take advantage of their generosity.
Marked national differences arose when freeloaders were punished for putting their own interests ahead of the common good. And whether they accepted their punishment or retaliated in kind depended on what kind of society they lived in, the researchers found.
In countries like the USA, Switzerland and the UK, freeloaders accepted their punishment and became much more co-operative. But in countries based on more authoritarian and parochial social institutions such as Oman, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Russia, the freeloaders took revenge -- retaliating against those who had punished them.
Co-operation for the common good plummeted as a result.
In societies where the modern ethic of co-operation with unrelated strangers is less familiar and the rule of law is perceived to be weak, revenge is more common and co-operation suffers, the study found.
Economists are keen to understand the decision-making processes behind co-operation, as working together for the common good is crucial for progress in any society -- not least for effectively addressing big issues such as recycling and tackling climate change.
Professor Simon Gaechter and Dr Benedikt Herrmann at The University of Nottingham and Dr Christian Thoni at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, studied the behaviour of people in 16 cities around the world, from Boston and Bonn to Riyadh, Minsk, Nottingham, Seoul and others. Volunteers played a 'public goods' game in which they were given tokens and told they could either keep them all for themselves, or put it into a common 'pot' that would yield extra interest that would be shared out equally among all players.
If all volunteers pooled their money then all would come out with more at the end of the game. But if individuals chose to keep the money for themselves -- and not contribute anything -- they could keep all of it and also benefit from the generosity of others, by sharing in the pooled interest.
Levels of co-operation were remarkably similar across all 16 nations. However, behaviour changed dramatically when everyone's contributions were revealed -- and players were given the ability to 'punish' other players. Players could punish each other by taking tokens away from each other, although this option cost the punisher a token as well. As previous studies have shown, players were willing to part with a token of their own in order to punish low investors or freeloaders.
But the Science study also uncovered a new phenomenon. In subsequent rounds of the game, the freeloaders took revenge and hit back at their higher-paying counterparts in what is described as 'anti-social punishment'. Or at least, they did in some cities -- most notably in more traditional societies based on authoritarian and parochial social institutions such as Muscat in Oman, Athens, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Samara in Russia, Minsk in Belarus, Istanbul, Seoul and Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine. Players in these cities showed the highest levels of 'anti-social punishment'.
The ultimate effect of this is to decrease co-operation between individuals, bringing down contributions and earnings to very low levels.
In other cities -- most notably Boston in the US, Melbourne, Nottingham, St Gallen and Zurich in Switzerland, Chengdu in China, Bonn and Copenhagen -- this occurred much less often and only freeloaders tended to get punished. These eight cities saw the least 'antisocial punishment' meted out, and earnings in the game increased over time.
Simon Gaechter, Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision-Making at The University of Nottingham, said: "To our knowledge this is the largest cross-cultural difference in experimental games that has been carried out in the developed world.
"Our results correlate with other survey data in particular measures of social norms of civic co-operation and rule of law in these same societies. The findings suggest that in societies where public co-operation is ingrained and people trust their law enforcement institutions, revenge is generally shunned. But in societies where the modern ethic of co-operation with unrelated strangers is less familiar and the rule of law is weak, revenge is more common.
"There are numerous examples in everyday life of situations where co-operation is the best option but there are incentives to take a free ride, such as recycling, neighbourhood watch, voting maintaining the local environment, tackling climate change, and so on. We need to understand why people behave in this way because co-operation is very strongly inhibited in the presence of anti-social punishment."
Norms of civic co-operation cover general attitudes to the law, for example whether or not citizens think it is acceptable to dodge taxes or flout laws. In societies where this behaviour is widespread and the rule of law is perceived to be ineffective -- ie. if criminal acts frequently go unpunished -- anti-social punishment is more common.
In a commentary in the same edition of Science, Professor Herbert Gintis of the Santa Fe Institute said: "Anti-social punishment was rare in the most democratic societies and very common otherwise.
"Using the World Democracy Audit evaluation of countries' performance in political rights, civil liberties, press freedom and corruption, the top six performers among the countries studied were also in the lowest seven for anti-social punishment. These were the USA, UK, Germany, Denmark, Australia and Switzerland."
He adds: "Their results suggest that the success of democratic market societies may depend critically upon moral virtues as well as material interests, so the depiction of civil society as the sphere of 'naked self-interest' is radically incorrect."
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When the prisoner’s CAT scan finally appeared, I was floored. “Holy cow,” I muttered at the screen. The radiologist’s read was definitive: “Small bowel obstruction originating from thickened and enhancing terminal ileum. Associated with left gluteal abscess and perianal fistula tract.” (A fistula is an abnormal connection between one organ, vessel, or intestine and another.)
It looked like a year’s worth of abdominal pain. I thought of the young Irish American woman. Her colonoscopy had confirmed the same diagnosis: Crohn’s disease. But each patient had exhibited an unusual and misleading trait. For the prisoner, it was the duration of his pain—nothing goes a whole year without declaring itself. For the young woman, it was how localized and specific her discomfort was: a feeling of constipation rather than the signature Crohn’s symptom, diarrhea.
in 1932, doctor Burrill Crohn and two colleagues at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City described an intestinal condition unlike the widespread intestinal tuberculosis of the day. “Terminal ileitis,” they named it, because it often targeted the ileum as it opens into the large intestine. But “Crohn’s disease” is the moniker that stuck.
Crohn’s exacts a huge toll; some half-million North Americans are afflicted. Its cause remains maddeningly elusive. Officially it is an inflammatory bowel disease, but it is neither wholly infectious nor exclusively autoimmune. Current consensus pins the blame on an immune overreaction to normal gut flora. Bacteria-free mice, for instance, don’t get Crohn’s, and the stools of Crohn’s patients are loaded with the body’s own inflammatory proteins.
Why some people’s immune systems blast away at benign gut flora we all share (and need), no one knows. There is clearly a genetic component: A number of gene markers for Crohn’s have been found, and it definitely runs in families and some ethnic groups, striking Jews more often than African Americans, for example. But four-fifths of all Crohn’s patients lack affected relatives.
At its worst, the inflammatory process of Crohn’s can burn through intestinal walls to tunnel fistulas into the bladder, into other loops of the intestine, indirectly to the vagina, or, as in the case of my patients, out to the skin. Fistulas lead to abscesses, which can require surgery.
Wielding its branding iron anywhere along the gastrointestinal tract, Crohn’s can cause everything from aphthous ulcers (canker sores) in the mouth to abscesses around the anus. More eccentrically, it can spark iritis, a painful eye inflammation, skin ulcers, and full-blown arthritis. Peak onset is between the ages of 15 and 35, but septuagenarians can be stricken too. It can lurk for years as nonspecific fatigue, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever. One study found an average delay of seven years from onset of symptoms to diagnosis. A child or teenager with diarrhea and weight loss should be investigated for Crohn’s.
Problem is, a complete diagnosis usually requires a full colonoscopy with a push into the ileum. Even that can be imprecise: Some lesions that look like Crohn’s (or ulcerative colitis, the other major inflammatory bowel disease) on colonoscopy are caused by infections like salmonella and campylobacter, or by medication. The diagnosis is ultimately clinical—a synthesis of symptoms, ileo-colonoscopy findings, stool cultures, and response to treatment.
Standard treatment for Crohn’s is three parts anti-inflammatories and one part antibiotics. The workhorse anti-inflammatory drugs are aminosalicylates, chemical cousins of aspirin, backed by potent steroids in serious cases. Steroid use is fraught with side effects, however, so the hunt for alternatives has been relentless.
The most promising new agents are synthetic antibodies that incapacitate a major inflammatory protein. Alone or combined with older chemotherapy treatments, these antibodies can seal up fistulas and achieve impressive remissions. Alas, these potent immune modulators
can also unleash life-threatening infections. As a last treatment option, portions of diseased intestine can be surgically removed, but that creates the risk of malabsorption, future obstructions from
scarring and adhesions, and recurrences elsewhere.
With so many risks in play, doc
tors tend to stick with the tried-and-true aminosalicylates for non-dire cases of Crohn’s. I was sure my prisoner, given his horrendous CAT scan findings, was headed for an extensive intestinal resection. Nevertheless, the surgeons and gastroenterologist decided first to try antibiotics and an aminosalicylate called Pentasa. To everyone’s happy surprise, the old standbys worked wonders, maybe because the patient had smoldered unaided for so long.
Within 48 hours he was eating and walking. In six days a repeat study of his small bowel appeared near-normal.
We were on a lucky streak: The Irish American woman, whose Crohn’s had presented with terrible urgency, also cooled off rapidly on aminosalicylates. She was sent home in less than a week. Neither one required the surgery that I had feared.
For my young man, though, the miracle went only so far. On the seventh day he rested—back in prison.
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Combating the Silent Epidemic of Viral Hepatitis Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is committed to ensuring that new cases of viral hepatitis are prevented and that persons who are already infected are tested; informed about their infection; and provided with counseling, care, and treatment. On May 12, 2011, HHS issued Combating the Silent Epidemic of Viral Hepatitis: Action Plan for the Prevention, Care & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis (PDF 672KB) which outlines robust and dynamic steps to increase viral hepatitis awareness and knowledge among health care providers and communities, and improve access to quality prevention, care, and treatment services for viral hepatitis. Some of these life-saving actions already are well underway. Other actions, representing innovations in practice, technology, and therapy, will require new strategic directions and commitment. | <urn:uuid:a5afa3e2-7eb0-4712-852e-8eaab0dedaa1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nvhr.org/content/combating-silent-epidemic-viral-hepatitis-action-plan-prevention-care-and-treatment-viral-he?mini=calendar%2F2013-01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9169 | 193 | 2.515625 | 3 |
ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES
Abraham Lincoln in Illinois
A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives
LINCOLN'S SALARY WARRANT NO. 256 FOR SERVICE AS A STATE REPRESENTATIVE
July 22, 1837
A pay warrant was the equivalent of a modern day paycheck. The state treasurer and state auditor signed the preprinted warrant, which in this case was made out to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had to pick up the warrant, sign a receipt for it, and then take it to a bank to be cashed. Eventually the cashed warrant, endorsed on the backside by the payee, was returned to the state and kept in its official records.
The Tenth General Assembly started in December 1836 and was Lincoln's second term as a state representative. During the regular session, Lincoln joined with most other state legislators in approving legislation known as internal improvements. Illinois legislators felt the state's population growth and economic development were being hindered by a lack of infrastructure, specifically roads, canals, bridges and railroads. With the nation's economy booming, they passed legislation committing the state to building such infrastructure. However, in May 1837 a national bank panic started that quickly devalued Illinois bank notes and began a five-year depression. Far from being able to build infrastructure improvements, Illinois was now greatly in debt.
Only a few miles of railroad track were ever built under the internal improvements legislation and it wouldn't be until 1881 that Illinois would pay off the last of its debts from this program. In response to the debt, Governor Joseph Duncan called a special session of the General Assembly to meet to resolve the state's new financial crisis. This warrant is for service during that special session, which met from July 10 to July 22, 1837.
Points to Consider
What are "internal improvements" and why would Illinois need them in 1837?
In what ways does the state now pay for improvements to roads and bridges?
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Reveal Lives Through Music
Regardless of whether you are working with children in groups or individually, music can change a child’s life.
The students of Emily Follensbee have multiple – what the world would call challenges – but really are strengths. Strengths of character, clarity of emotion and a determined work ethic (most anyway – they are kids for goodness sake). Through improvised music these students have the opportunity to demonstrate their gifts.
The use of improvised music in an improvised manner is the cornerstone of music therapy. London based music therapist, Mercedes Pavlicevic states “that music improvisation has always been. Before music was notated, oral tradition ensured that songs and pieces were kept alive through performance, and each performer added something distinctive to the music, which transformed it, albeit subtly” (1997, p.73)
By: Jennifer Buchanan, BMT,MTA, Author of Tune In
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Obama urges Israelis to compromise for peace
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned appeal Thursday for Israel to recognize that compromise will be necessary to secure peace and lasting security for the Jewish state.
Telling an audience of university students that the United States is their country's best friend and most important ally, Obama said the U.S. will never compromise in its own commitment to Israel's defense, particularly against threats such as the one posed by Iran and its nuclear program.
But he also stressed that Israel must make peace with the Palestinians if it is to ensure its survival and long-term viability as a homeland for the Jewish people. Israeli occupation of areas that the Palestinians claim for their state must end, he said.
"The Palestinian people's right to self-determination and justice must ... be recognized," he said. "Put yourself in their shoes - look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day."
Obama made no explicit demands of Israel but said its people should understand that specific actions, notably ongoing construction of Jewish housing on disputed territory, can hurt the chances for restarting stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, who have made a halt to such building a demand for returning to negotiations.
"Israelis must recognize that continued settlement activity is counterproductive to the cause of peace, and that an independent Palestine must be viable -- that real borders will have to be drawn," Obama said.
Earlier Thursday in the West Bank, standing alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Obama made similar comments but essentially abandoned his previous support for the Palestinian demand that settlement activity end before talks resume.
Obama said the United States continues to oppose the construction of Jewish housing on land claimed by the Palestinians but stressed that issues of disagreement between the two sides should not be used as an "excuse" to do nothing.
"If the expectation is that we can only have direct negotiations when everything is settled ahead of time, then there is no point for negotiations, so I think it is important to work through this process even if there are irritants on both sides," Obama said at a joint news conference with Abbas in Ramallah.
Abbas and other Palestinian officials said they would not drop the demand, noting that much of the world considers the settlements to be illegal and not merely an impediment to peace talks.
"We require the Israeli government to stop settlements in order to discuss all our issues and their concerns," Abbas told the news conference, a marquee event during Obama's brief visit to the West Bank on the second day of his Mideast visit. "It's the duty of the Israeli government to stop the settlement activities to enable us to talk about the issues in the negotiations."
During his first four years in office, Obama had sided with the Palestinians on the issue. He and his surrogates repeatedly have demanded that all settlement activity cease. However, when Israel reluctantly declared a 10-month moratorium on construction, the Palestinians balked at returning to negotiations until shortly before it expired and talks foundered shortly thereafter.
The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem -- territories Israel captured in the 1967 war -- but are ready for minor adjustments to accommodate some settlements closest to Israel. Since 1967, Israel has built dozens of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that are now home to 560,000 Israelis -- an increase of 60,000 since Obama became president four years ago.
Obama's comments in Ramallah echoed those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly called for the Palestinians to drop preconditions for re-launching the stalled peace talks. Obama's remarks were sure to reinforce deep skepticism among Palestinians about whether he is willing or able to use U.S. influence to push Israel on key issues.
In what appeared to be an attempt to blunt such criticism, Obama used his speech to the Israeli students to appeal to their love of freedom, respect for human rights and common values with Americans to do the right thing.
He offered profuse praise for Israel's history as a haven for refugees fleeing social and religious persecution. He hailed the technological innovations made by Israeli scientists and engineers.
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Name of several Irish saints.
Founder of the See of Balla, subsequently merged into that of Tuam, Ireland, flourished in the period 596-637, d. 30 March, 637, but his Acts are more or less of a legendary character. However, it would appear that he was educated at Bangor, under St. Comgall, and founded a monastery at Gael, among the Feara Rois of Louth and Monaghan, whence he migrated to Fore and Tehilly. Passing through Hy Many, he journeyed to Connacht, in 616, and founded the church and Abbey of Balla, of which he was first abbot-bishop. Numerous miracles are recorded of St. Cronan Mochua, and are minutely described in his Irish life. His feast is celebrated on 30 March, though, through a misconception, his Acts are given by the Bollandists under date of 1 January.
Abbot-Bishop and Patron of Roscrea, a see afterwards incorporated in that of Killaloe, Ireland; b. in the territory of Ely O'Carroll; d. 28 April 640. After spending his youth in Connacht, he returned to his native district about the year 610 and founded Abbey Roscrea, where he established a famous school. Previously he settled at a place known as Sean Ros or Loch Cre, a wooded morass far from the haunts of men; in fact, it was utterly wild, so much so, that St. Cronan abandoned it and moved to the wood of Cre, that is Ros cre, County Tipperary. Like those of so many other Irish saints the Acts of St. Cronan abound in miracles. The most surprising, perhaps, is the legend as to the transcribing of the Four Gospels by one of his monks, named Dimma. It appears that Dimma could only undertake one day's task, from sunrise to sunset. St. Cronan, however, bade him write, and then Dimma set to work, never ceasing till he had finished the Four Gospels, the sun continuing to shine for the space of forty days and forty nights - the scribe himself being unconscious that the work occupied more than one day. Whatever may be thought of this legend, it is certain that a magnificent Evangelistarium, known as the "Book of Dimma", was for centuries preserved in St. Cronan's Abbey at Roscrea, and is now in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. The scribe, Dimma MacNathi, signs his name at the conclusion of each of the Gospels, and he has been identified with Dimma, subsequently Bishop of Connor, who is mentioned with St. Cronan in the letter of Pope John IV in 640, in regard to Pelagianism in Ireland, but this identification cannot be sustained. The case containing the "Book of Dimma" was richly gilt by order of O'Carroll, Lord of Ely, in the twelfth century. Notwithstanding the conflicting statements arising from the number of contemporary Irish saints bearing the name Cronan, it is more than probable that St. Cronan of Roscrea, as les Petits Bollandistes say, lived as late as the year 640, and his death occurred on 28 April of that year. His feast is celebrated on 28 April and as such is included in all the Irish calendars, as also in the Kalendar of Drummond.
A number of other saints of this name find a place in Irish calendars. The three most important are St. Cronan Mochua, of Clashmore (10 February); St. Cronan, Abbot of Clonmacnoise (18 July); and St. Cronan, Abbot of Moville (7 September). Another saint frequently quoted as of this name is really St. Cuaran (Cuaranus Sapiens), whose feast occurs on 9 February. There is also a St. Cronan Mochua of Sliabh Eibhlem (4 May).
ST. CRONAN MOCHUA: COLGAN, Acts of SS. Hib. (Louvain, 1645); BUTLER, Lives of the Saints; Acta Sanctorum, Jan. I and III; TODD AND REEVES, Martyrology of Donegal (Dublin, 1864); O'HANLON, Lives of the Irish Saints (Dublin, 1875), III; KNOX, Notes on the Dioceses of Tuam (1904); WHITLEY STOKES, Anecdota Oxonien. (1890). Acta SS., III, 28 April; BUTLER, Lives of the Saints, IV; O'HANLON, Lives of the Irish Saints (Dublin, 1875), IV; GILBERT, National Manuscripts of Ireland (1884); Les Petits Bollandistes (Paris, 1880), V; LANIGAN, Ecclesiastical History of Ireland (Dublin, 1829), III; HEALY, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars (4th ed., Dublin 1902)
APA citation. (1908). Cronan. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04514d.htm
MLA citation. "Cronan." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04514d.htm>.
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Summary: Peer Power explodes existing myths about children's friendships, power, and popularity, and the gender chasm between elementary school boys and girls. Based on eight years of intensive insider participant observation in their own children's community, the authors discuss the vital components in the lives of preadolescents: popularity, friendships, cliques, social status, social isolation, loyalty, bullying, boy-girl relationships, and afterschool activities. They des ...show morecribe how friendships shift and change, how children are drawn into groups and excluded from them, how clique leaders maintain their power and popularity, and how the individuals' social experiences and feelings about themselves differ from the top of the pecking order to the bottom. The Adlers focus their attention on the peer culture of the children themselves and the way this culture extracts and modified elements from adult culture. Children's peer culture, as it is nourished in those spaces where grownups cannot penetrate, stands between individual children and the larger adult society. As such, it is a mediator and shaper, influencing the way children collectively interpret their surroundings and deal with the common problems they face. The Adlers explore some of the patterns that develop in this social space, noting both the differences in the gendered cultures of boys and girls and their overlap into afterschool activities, role behavior, romantic inclinations, and social stratification. Peer culture contains the informal social mechanisms through which children create their social order, determine their place and identity, and develop positive and negative feelings about themselves. ...show lessEdition/Copyright: 98
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About 600 returning hatchery coho are used for reproduction, and the rest -- ranging from 8,000 to 20,000 depending on the year -- are killed and used for stream enrichment upriver or donated to the Oregon Food Bank. Because of the way the hatchery has been operated, there has been no way to allow a run of wild Cedar Creek coho salmon to continue up the last 12 miles of the creek to spawn.
That's changing because of different rearing methods started two years ago and now $3.7 million from the city of Portland to construct new holding ponds, diversion weirs and traps at the hatchery. So this fall, instead of also having to put wild Cedar Creek coho back into the Sandy River, where they had to compete with other spawning salmon, hatchery workers are collecting and trucking them up their native creek to take advantage of 12 unused miles of spawning ground.
"This is a big, big advance in the recovery of wild coho salmon," said Todd Alsbury, district fish biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Of all the things we could do in the lower Columbia, this is one of the biggest ones."
State and federal agencies are trying to do more to improve the run of lower Columbia River wild coho salmon because it is one of 13 salmon or steelhead species in the river listed as threatened or endangered. The wild coho that have been returning to the Sandy River Hatchery are just one small portion of that endangered run.The big hatchery sits a mile up Cedar Creek from its confluence with the Sandy River, each year pumping 1 million coho and spring chinook salmon, and summer and winter steelhead smolts into the river. Above the hatchery lies 12 miles of creek-spawning habitat that since 1952 has been inaccessible to wild fish because of the limitations of the hatchery's operations.
Until two years ago, coho salmon were raised in the hatchery's big concrete pond until they were released each spring. To protect the health of fish in the pond, the hatchery blocked salmon-spawning access to Cedar Creek because of worries about disease getting back into the hatchery from other fish. Also, during the summer, the hatchery needed to funnel almost all of the creek's water through the rearing ponds.
Then in 2008, the hatchery started collecting and fertilizing coho eggs in October and November, and in December shipping those eggs to rearing hatcheries at Bonneville Dam and Cascade Locks. Fifteen months later, the fish are returned to the Sandy River Hatchery as four-inch smolts to spend a month before release down Cedar Creek.
"We found ways to operate the hatchery that allows passage of fish but minimizes disease risk in the hatchery," Alsbury said. "The Sandy River Hatchery has essentially become a collection and acclimatization facility."
In the past, the hundred or so wild coho that made their way to the hatchery were captured with the hatchery fish, then sorted out by technicians and taken up the Sandy River for release.
The hatchery remodeling money is coming from the city of Portland as part of its habitat conservation plan for the nearby Bull Run Water Supply project. The city has committed to spending as much as $90 million over the next 50 years to mitigate for the impact to fish habitat caused by drawing its domestic water supply from the Bull Run River, the Fish and Wildlife Department said.
In turn, the department will use the money this winter to construct a state-of-the-art system of fish weirs, traps and intake screens that will enable wild salmon and steelhead to move beyond the hatchery with limited handling.
For the past three weeks, hatchery workers have been sorting the wild coho, as usual, but for the first time trucking them to release areas a half mile to 1 1/2 mile up Cedar Creek. Because of the robust returns this year, the number of wild coho should be at least 200, said Ken Bourne, hatchery manager.
Alsbury said if the project works out as hoped, Cedar Creek could provide permanent habitat for as many as 600 wild coho.
"It's a great opportunity to get a black mark off our list," Alsbury said. "As an agency we have several of these facilities that block fish passage, and this is one that we can change."
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In today’s reading we find one of the references to the famous “holy kiss” (1 Corinthians 16:20). It is a favorite passage of those who like to argue over the need for biblical authorization. They believe they can claim folks who believe in the need for authority don’t practice it because the holy kiss is not practiced today. My response to that is simply, I believe the holy kiss authorized. I believe this passage authorizes it. I simply don’t believe this passage binds it as the only form of greeting, especially since this letter itself contains a greeting that is not a holy kiss (see 1 Corinthians 16:19-21).
However, with the events of the past couple of weeks, this passage and the other references (Romans 16:16; 2 Corinthians 13:12; I Thessalonians 5:26) have been weighing heavily on my mind. I think these references are apropos for consideration when we think about sexual boundaries in our relationships with others, especially with our brothers and sisters.
I know there is disagreement about what this “holy kiss” is. One of my friends believes we can’t practice it because we don’t know what it is. That is, in his mind the holy kiss was a special form of a kiss, a kind-of secret handshake if you will, among Christians that hasn’t been passed on to us. I guess that could be right. But I think the point is actually more mundane and yet more profound than that.
A kiss was a common form of greeting in that culture, just as it is in some cultures even today. Note what Spiros Zodhiates says about “worship” and how it impacts our understanding of this kiss: “The ancient oriental (especially Persian) mode of salutation between persons of equal rank was to kiss each other on the lips; when the difference of rank was slight, they kissed each other on the cheek; when one was much inferior, he fell upon his knees and touched his forehead to the ground or prostrated himself, throwing kisses at the same time toward the superior” (The Complete Word Study Dictionary, Spiro Zodhiates, AMG Publishers, Chattanooga, TN, 1993, p 1233-34; Strong’s Number 4352). The “kiss” of worship was to be offered only to God. However, there was a kiss offered to each other. It was that kiss of common greeting, perhaps on each cheek, perhaps full on the mouth.
Why does Paul make reference to a “holy” kiss? I believe it is because this greeting can very easily become unholy. Can’t you image the number of men who might get just a bit too much pleasure out of kissing some of the women? I think that would have been the case in Bible times as it is today. A kiss was a common form of greeting. I have not doubt that men in the world with eyes full of adultery looked for opportunities to embrace and kiss the objects of their lust. However, in the church, while this greeting was practiced, it was not to be about lust. It was to be about respect and holiness.
Let’s fast forward to American culture. We rarely kiss in greeting, though I have known some who do. However, we often hug. I remember once after a very pretty mid-20s sister responded to the invitation with confession to the congregation and wishing to be restored to fellowship. One of the brothers said to me later, “I sure hope I didn’t enjoy that hug too much.” That is a problem.
We need to greet one another with a holy hug. We need to greet one another with a holy handshake. Yes, even that can be taken in the wrong direction when those who wish to take from others make the handshake an opportunity to caress the person’s hand or even rub their back. Those actions are not in themselves wrong, but can be opportunities for improper thoughts and lust.
Here is the point. Paul established a boundary. Greet with a kiss, but keep it holy. We need to do the same. All of our contact with others needs to be governed by this desire for holiness and uprightness. Do not use any of our interactions as an opportunity to lust. Keep it holy.
***Question: How do you keep your relationships with others holy?
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Opponents found it easy to underestimate the 1930s debate team of Wiley College, a small, all-black institution in a remote corner of Texas, but they did so at their peril. The same will likely hold true for those who underestimate the new film on the Wiley phenomenon, "The Great Debaters."
Because it is so old-school Hollywood, with a weakness for standard moments and pat situations, "The Great Debaters" initially comes off as easily dismissible. Largely saving it from that fate is the presence and ability of Denzel Washington, who costars with Forest Whitaker and directs from Robert Eisele's script. Working hard on both sides of the camera, Washington has grafted his intensity onto this production, giving it a kind of backbone it would not otherwise have.
USC in 1935.
Washington plays Tolson, and his first classroom appearance is striking. He strides into the room, leaps up onto a table and recites the first few "I am the darker brother" lines from Langston Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America." In period clothes and hairdo, Washington not only looks the academic part, he brings an intriguing air of danger to the role of a firebrand who is determined to advance social justice in both the classroom and society at large.
Tolson is especially passionate about debate, which he considers to be "blood sport." He's fussy about whom he picks for his four-person team and has his own mind-game techniques for turning them into winners.
"The Great Debaters" focuses on the year 1935 and three Tolson debaters, two of whom are frankly composites, though inspired by real Wiley students. Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett) has transferred to Wiley with the hopes of being the school's first female debater. Free spirit Henry Lowe (Nate Parker) is smart and fearless, but he's not sure he wants to debate or even be in college at all.
The third student is based on a real person, James Farmer Jr., who went on to found the Congress of Race Equality in 1942 and be a key player in the civil rights movement.
In "Debaters," we meet Farmer, played by Denzel Whitaker (no relation) when he is the youngest debater on the team, all of 14 years of age. His teenage crush on Miss Booke is one of the film's more schematic elements, but his conflicts with his learned father, the college's president (the quietly powerful Forest Whitaker), are considerably more substantial.
Also unexpectedly powerful are the places and times when the Wiley students and faculty have to confront the pervasive racism of the day, whether it's stumbling on a lynching or having to endure humiliation at the hands of mulish white people.
Because the real-life Tolson was also an organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, the film also throws a bracing whiff of Depression-era class warfare at the audience.
It is "The Great Debaters' " unwillingness to downplay the harsh reality of prejudice that gives this film its authenticity. These scenes and moments may have been seen before, but they are presented with real fierceness, as are the debates themselves. It can be a shock to realize at moments that the issues that plagued America 70 years ago are still very much with us today.
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I am in the process of creating my first route! I have thus far been successful using the tutorial "Train Simulator 2012 Route Building" posted by "imnew" in the File Library here, but I'm stuck because the USGS Seamless viewer doesn't seem to be working on my computer (under the help section, it said to change screen resolution to 1280x1024, but I am on a laptop that doesn't seem to be able to change to that resolution). The map won't show up, so I can't proceed with the instructions.
Is there any other way to import terrain data? If so, can instructions be given so that a stupid new guy like me who hasn't done it before can understand them? I'd greatly appreciate it!
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I've done this so many times on so many different vehicles, I figured I'd post it step by step so that anyone considering doing this could get an idea of what they're in for. I've seen alot of people give up on a car because of a little bottom end noise or just keep driving it until the engine is completely wrecked.
The only reason I can see for this is that they mistakenly believe that a complete engine overhaul is the only solution and they lack the time, experience, or money. While this is sometimes the case, often if caught in time, the problem can be solved simply by swapping in a new set of bearings.
First off I'll go over how and why this works. Most modern engines use a pressurized oil system with babbit bearings. Babbit is the soft grey material on the surface of a new bearing. During normal engine operation, the only time the bearings will touch the crank is during startup. The babbit being a soft material allows this to happen without damaging the crank. Once the engine is running, oil from the pump is being forced between the crank and bearings at high pressure. This pressurized oil holds the bearings away from the crank so that there is no contact between the two.
Now here's the problem. Over time the bearings will wear from startups, debris in the oil, running the engine low on oil, etc. and the gap between the bearings and crank will increase. Once the gap becomes excessive, the oil pump can no longer maintain enough volume of flow to hold the necessary pressure. The result is that the oil between the bearings and crank will get pushed out of the gap and the bearing will touch down on the crank. This is what is happening when you hear a knock. The only solution to this is to tighten the gap back up between the bearings and crank by replacing the bearings.
Now that I've bored you to death, we'll get into the fun part.
Rod Bearing Swap
- Raise the front of the car with ramps, jack stands, or if you're real lucky, a lift.
- Drain the oil and remove the filter.
- Remove the oil pan bolts, lower the pan and set it out of the way.
- Using a socket on the crank pulley bolt, turn the engine so that the #1 and #4 rods are at the bottom of their travel.
- matchmark the #1 rod and cap so that you can be sure it goes back together the same direction it came apart.
- Remove the nuts from the #1 rod cap and using a soft drift (I use a wooden hammer handle) tap the rod bolts to free the cap.
- Remove the cap and inspect the bearing half and crank journal. If the crank journal isn't scored badly, you're probably in good shape to go ahead with the bearing change.
- Place 2 short pieces of rubber fuel line or vac hose over the rod bolts to protect the crank from nicks and using your thumbs, push the rod/piston up in the cylinder until the rod bolts will clear the crank.
- remove the old bearing halves from both the rod and cap and replace them with the new bearings making sure to line up the locks on the bearings with the coresponding notch in the rod and cap.
- Coat both halves of the new bearing with assembly lube and pull the rod back down over the crank.
- Remove the pieces of rubber hose from the rod bolts and reinstall the cap making sure to line up the match marks you made earlier.
- Using a torque wrench, tighten the nuts to factory spec.
- Repeat steps 5-12 for the rest of the rods, reinstall the oil pan with a new gasket, install the drain plug, fill with oil, and install a new filter.
- Disconnect the HEP wires coming from the distributer and crank the engine over until the oil pressure guage starts to come up.
- Reconnect the HEP wires and start the engine. After checking for leaks, lower the car and take a testdrive.
That's prettymuch it. At first, changing rod bearings seems like a big job, but after doing it a time or 2 it's really not that bad. For a first timer, I'd allow about 2-2.5 hours for the entire procedure.
Main Bearing Swap
In car main bearing changes require the fabrication of a simple "tool". I've had the best luck starting with a small cotter key. Simply flaten the head of the cotter key so that when your done it resembles a "T".
- Perform steps 1-3 of the rod bearing procedure.
- Number and matchmark the main caps and block so you can replace them in the same place facing the same direction.
- Remove the oil pump pickup.
- Remove the first main cap and inspect the crank journal and bearing half. If the crank isn't badly scored then you're probably in good shape to continue.
- Using a ratchet on the crank bolt, rotate the engine until the oil passage in the crank journal is just ready to start passing behind behind the upper bearing half ON THE SIDE OPPOSITE THE LOCK.
- Insert the "tool" you made earlier into the oil passage. The crossbar of the "T" should be the only thing sticking out.
- Have an assistant turn the crank with a ratchet while you watch from underneath. The "tool" should catch the side of the bearing and spin it out of the block with the crank. It is extremely important that you turn the bearing out away from the lock. In other words, so that the bearing comes out lock side first.
- coat the new bearing with a thin layer of assembly lube on the front side.
- Place the new bearing against the crank journal in the direction that will have the locks lined up properly when it is in place. You will probably be able to start it a good way into the block by hand.
- Make sure that the bearing is started into the block straight and then using the "tool" have your assistant GENTLY and SLOWLY rotate the crank to spin it the rest of the way in. Stop when the bearing just sits flush with the block on both sides of the crank and remove the "tool".
- Coat the lower half of the new bearing with assembly lube and install it in the cap.
- Replace the cap taking care to line up your match marks. Install the bolts and torque to factory spec.
- Repeat steps 4-12 for the rest of the mains.
- Reinstall the oil pump pickup, the pan with a new gasket, make sure the drain plug is tight, refill with oil, and replace the filter.
- Follow steps 14-15 of the rod bearing procedure.
That's all there is to it.
I should mention that the rear main isn't accessable on either the early or commonblock engines without removing the trans and rear seal plate. Also, the front main on the early engines requires removal of the front seal plate which means pulling the crank pully and timing sprocket. Unless the old bearings show extreme wear (missing babbit), replacing all but the rear (commonblock) or all but the front and rear (pre commonblock) should do the trick.
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A bead work student of Samuel Thomas and Lorna Hill, Karen Ann Hoffman creates beaded art that speaks, embodies, preserves and expresses the Iroquois worldview. Iroquois raised bead work is an art form of the peoples of the Eastern Great Lakes Region and its forms and designs reach back over ten thousand years. This art form was first executed with bone and shell, later with moose hair and hide and now with glass beads and velvet. A member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and identified as a Master Folk Artist by the Wisconsin Arts Board Karen Ann Hoffman’s award winning bead work has been displayed at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, The Eiteljorg Museum, Wisconsin Arts Board’s Lobby Exhibit and is also part of the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Children’s Museum. Come to the Midwest Folklife Festival and meet Karen Ann Hoffman as she shares her bead work with us! | <urn:uuid:7b05cd56-d62a-4f97-ab56-ed182295ed15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://midwestfolkfest.blogspot.com/2011/08/language-of-beads-karen-ann-hoffman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947359 | 196 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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35 Mu 5, Ban Huai Sai Mun, Nam Pai Sub-district, Mae Charim District, Nan 55170,
Tel. 0 5477 9402-3
Category : National Parks & Marine Reserves
Attraction Details :
The national park is in Mae Charim district, 60 kilometres from Mueang Nan along Highway 1168 and 1243, covering an area of 270,000 rai or 432 square kilometres. Geographically, they are undulating mountain ranges, an origin of a tributary flowing into the Nan River at Wiang Sa district. It comprises hill evergreen forest, deciduous dipterocarp forest, and mixed deciduous forest, as well as, various kinds of wildlife.
Interesting Attractions within the National Park are as follows:
Rock Paintings at Pha No The trip starts at Ban Nam Pu. In the first part, visitors will have to cross the Wa River and walk along the mountain ridge, passing the deciduous dipterocarp forest and the mixed deciduous forest, and later climb the steep limestone mountain. The most appropriate season to visit is winter. The rainy season might be too dangerous due to a collapse of soil and very slippery route. Contact the National Park officers for a leader. The total distance is 8.7 kilometres and takes 8 - 9 hours.
The Trekking Route along the Paeng River is a route connecting Ban Rom Klao – Ban Huai Sai. It is a local route for gathering wild products from the forest, starting from Ban Rom Klao – Pak Nam Paeng at the Kaeng Luang area. Visitors will pass through various kinds of forest for a distance of 9 kilometres, taking approximately 4 hours.
The Route to Admire the Sea of Fog of Ban Nam Phang – Ban Rom Klao is on Highway No. 1259 between the Nam Phang and Rom Klao villages. It is suitable for mountain biking or driving and sightseeing the scenery on both sides of the route, especially in winter when there is a sea of fog and sunrise to be admired. The first 10 kilometres is an asphalt road, while the rest is a laterite one cutting across the steep shoulders of the mountains.
Ban Rom Klao Trekking Route Visitors have to walk for 3.8 kilometres, starting from Ban Nam Phang. Then they have to walk along the shortcut up to the mountain ridge, passing through many forests at different levels from the sea; namely, deciduous dipterocarp forest, a mixture of deciduous dipterocarp forest and pine forest, hill evergreen forest, and mixed deciduous forest. The condition of the forests along the route is still perfect. The total distance from Ban Nam Phang to Ban Rom Klao is 9.6 kilometres or takes 5 hours. However, it takes only 3 - 4 hours if using a car to the crossroad into the forest. The route is not very difficult to access, but visitors have to be healthy. The most appropriate seasons are winter and summer. Contact the National Park officers for a leader.
Various activities to experience the nature at the Mae Charim National Park are as follows:
White-water Rafting along the Middle Part of the Wa River The rapids are of level 3 to 5 difficulty with a length of 100 kilometres. It takes 3 days and 2 nights passing the Doi Phu Kha National Park and the Mae Charim National Park.
White-water Rafting along the Lower Part of the Wa River It was originally a transporting route for teakwood, which was illegally cut from the forest in Mae Charim and Wiang Sa districts. The Wa River runs through the valleys. On both sides are high undulating mountains, and more than 22 rapids. The level of difficulty is at level 3 - 5 (level 3 is medium, level 4 is difficult, and level 5 is very difficult). The biggest and the most difficult one is Kaeng Luang. Some parts of the stream are sandy beach where a raft can be stopped, and it is suitable for swimming. Some parts are the location of elephant camps where visitors can take an elephant to Ban Hat Rai. The period when the tide is the highest is during August, while the lowest one is in April. The most suitable time for white-water rafting is from November to January.
There are 2 routes for rafting along the Wa River as follows:
- Sailing route by inflatable rubber dinghy: It starts from Ban Nam Pu, Nam Phang sub-district, Mae Charim district, and ends at Ban Hat Rai, San Na Nong sub-district, Wiang Sa district, being a total distance of 19.2 kilometres or takes 4 hours. However, if visitors start in front of the Office of the National Park , the total distance will be only 15 kilometres.
- Bamboo rafting route: It starts from Ban Nam Wa up to Ban Nam Pu for a distance of 4 kilometres or takes approximately 4 hours. Contact the Nan Pang Chang Company, Tel. 0 5478 1316, the River Raft Company, Tel. 0 5471 0940, 08 9835 1506, and the Inter Tour, Tel. 0 5471 0195 for information of the Wa River Tour and elephant riding.
Mountain Bike – Trekking along the Paeng River – White-water Rafting along the Wa River The trip starts at the Mae Charim National Park Ranger Station (Ban Mai) in the area of Ban Nam Phang. Cycle along Highway No. 1259 to Ban Rom Klao for 2 hours and walk along the Paeng River to the Wa River in the area of Kaeng Luang, taking 4 hours. Then, take a raft from Kaeng Luang to Ban Hat Rai for a distance of 15 kilometres or 2 hours. The total trip can take 1 day or visitors can stay overnight at Ban Rom Klao and start trekking along the Paeng River early in the morning and do white-water rafting along the Wa River in the afternoon.
Sightseeing – Trekking along the Paeng River – White-water Rafting along the Wa River The starting point is at the Mae Charim National Park Ranger Station (Ban Mai) within the area of Ban Nam Phang. A sightseeing tour can be done along Highway 1259 to Ban Rom Klao for 1 hour. Then, walk along the Paeng River to the Wa River in the Kaeng Luang area. The total time is 4 hours. Then take a raft from Kaeng Luang to Ban Hat Rai for15 kilometres or 2 hours. The total time estimated for this trip is 7 hours.
Trekking from Ban Nam Phang to Ban Rom Klao – Trekking along the Paeng River – White-water Rafting along the Wa River The starting point is at the Mae Charim National Park Ranger Station ( Ban Mai) in the area of Ban Nam Phang. Take Highway 1259 to Ban Rom Klao for a distance of 3.8 kilometres or 5 hours. Then, walk along the Paeng River to the Wa River in the Kaeng Luang area, which takes 4 hours. Then, continue by rafting from Kaeng Luang to Ban Hat Rai for 2 hours. The total time estimated for the trip is 11 hours. This activity takes 2 days and 1 night.
Climbing at Pha No – Admiring the Rock Paintings – White-water Rafting along the Wa River The starting point is at Ban Nam Pu to the No Cliff. Then, walk to the Kaeng Luang for 8 hours and do rafting along Kaeng Nam Wa to Ban Hat Rai, which takes 2 hours. The total time might be 1 day or visitors can stay overnight in the forest area of Ban Huai Hat Khom at the foot of the No Cliff.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What kind of Jewish life is there on the Susquehanna campus?
- Could you tell me if the Hillel is in place and active at Susquehanna? How many students are members? What activities do they sponsor?
- Is SU Hillel in contact with Hillels at other colleges in the area? Do they ever meet for joint events?
- Is there a rabbi on campus?
- My daughter was brought up in a Reform environment. Would this fit in with the other Jewish students?
- What does Susquehanna’s affiliation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church mean for non-Lutherans?
- Is there a synagogue nearby?
- If my son takes off for the High Holidays will he be penalized by his teachers for missing class?
- Does the cafeteria offer kosher for Passover food? Kosher food in general?
What kind of Jewish life is there on the Susquehanna campus?
Students who want to connect with Jewish life or learning while attending SU will find a variety of academic and extracurricular activities from which to choose. For example, the university’s Jewish Studies program offers a regular cycle of courses and programming, and also can be chosen as a minor.
There are currently about 60 self-identified Jewish students on campus or roughly 2.3% of the student body, who reflect a diversity of Jewish affiliations.
Could you tell me if the Hillel is in place and active at Susquehanna? How many students are members? What activities do they sponsor?
There is an active and growing Hillel on campus that organizes Jewish religious and cultural events throughout the year. Hillel meets every Sunday evening to plan and arrange events and activities. Check out the Jewish Life pages to see what Hillel is up to this year!
Is SU Hillel in contact with Hillels at other colleges in the area? Do they ever meet for joint events?
Yes, there is an active e-mail exchange between Hillels at Bucknell University, Dickinson College and Bloomsburg University. SU Hillel has participated in a number of joint events with the Bucknell Hillel, and members from both schools have worked together teaching in the Sunday Hebrew school at Congregation Beth El.
Is there a rabbi on campus?
Rabbi Kate Palley, ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary, is an important part of our SU community. Learn more about her on the Meet the Rabbi page.
My daughter was brought up in a Reform environment. Would this fit in with the other Jewish students?
Absolutely! SU has attracted all kinds of Jewish students, from Orthodox to secular Israelis. The majority of students here are from Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative backgrounds.
Susquehanna and its students benefit from an historical relationship with the church, which continues today. Like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the university is open and ecumenical, and seeks to develop an understanding of our ethical and spiritual responsibilities. For example, all students take a course to help them understand the implications of ethical questions in life and society.
There is an active campus ministry which encompasses several student religious groups. About 12 percent of students report being Lutheran. The remainder represent other faiths and denominations, or have no religious affiliation.
Congregation Beth El in Sunbury is about 15 minutes away. Beth El is a non-affiliated congregation that supports Jewish life in the Central Susquehanna Valley region of Pennsylvania. There are also Reform, Conservative and Orthodox synagogues within driving distance of SU. Speak with Rabbi Palley if you are interested in attending any of these synagogues.
No. In setting assignment deadlines or scheduling examinations, university policy requires instructors to make allowances for students who may be returning to their homes for the holidays or who worship locally and, consequently, may miss class.
Evert Dining Room has a limited selection of kosher for Passover food during the holiday, though students who strictly observe the dietary laws may not find this suitable for their needs. In such situations, students may arrange eating options with Rabbi Palley. Kosher food in general is not available in the cafeteria, though the dining room has a range of vegetarian options The Hillel House has a kosher kitchen, and students who choose to may make arrangements with Rabbi Palley to use that space. | <urn:uuid:9bb38b9a-ca82-45d6-ac12-05202d5e8ff5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.susqu.edu/studentlife/23961.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955148 | 910 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Posts tagged: decentralized net
Becky Kazansky writes:
Through a mesh network first launched in November 2011 through a local nonprofit, residents after the storm were able to alert people to their needs over social media and check up on relatives. Access is limited and the network could, at the time, support only about 100-150 connections simultaneously. But in the wake of a disaster that created a new camaraderie in Manhattan around cellphone charging stations and free wifi, New Yorkers can appreciate that when the neighborhood goes dark, even a scrap of a link to the outside world is better than nothing.
My interview with The Doctor is here.
See also: Government-less internets
According to the Associated Press’ sources, Osama bin Laden routinely typed e-mails on an Internet-less computer in his compound, saved them to a USB thumbdrive and had a courier e-mail them from cybercafes in nearby towns. Apparently this went on for years, undetected. According to the AP, Navy SEALS found about 100 flash drives that apparently contain series of these e-mail communications.
This is what’s referred to as a sneakernet, and as Internet crackdowns occur all over the world, it may become an increasingly popular way for people to communication.
A couple years ago, in these very pages, Trevor Blake wrote:
Now is a good time to establish lines of electronic communication that are not entirely (if at all) reliant on the Internet as it currently exists. Hand delivery of a stack of media is still one of my favorites. At a certain point it the best bit-per-second value known, it has certain privacy features that can’t be beat and it requires very little technical know-how or fancy equipment or money. For all the gnostic freakout of The Matrix, the scene where a disreputable character knocks on Mr. Anderson’s door and passes him a data disc might be the most prophetic.
Learning about cryptography, fidonet and the postal system won’t do anyone any harm. Nothing beats trusted person-to-person connections established in many only-partially overlapping social / professional circles.
Contact is an unconference organized by Douglas Rushkoff on the subject of building new, government-less Internets. The event will be held in New York City on October 20 2011.
Here’s part of Rushkoff’s explanation of the event:
At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda.
Contact will hope to revive the spirit of optimism and infinite possibility of the early cyber-era, folding the edges of this culture back to the middle. Social media has come to be understood as little more than a marketing opportunity. We see it as quite possibly the catalyst for the next stage of human evolution and, at the very least, a way to restore p2p value exchange and decentralized innovation to the realms of culture, commerce and government.
Content was never king. Contact is. Please join us, and find the others.
I did a follow-up to my story last week about wireless mesh network projects, adding four more projects to the original list of three.
Also, I’ll be on This Week in Cloud Computing tomorrow around 3:45 PST talking about wireless ad-hoc networks.
I wrote about three different projects that are working to create a government-less Internet over at ReadWriteWeb:
In Cory Doctorow’s young adult novel Little Brother, the protagonist starts an wireless ad-hoc network, called X-Net, in response to a government crack-down on civil liberties. The characters use gaming systems with mesh networking equipment built-in to share files, exchange message and make plans.
The Internet blackout in Egypt, which we’ve been covering, touches on an issue we’ve raised occasionally here: the control of governments (and corporations) over the Internet (and by extension, the cloud). One possible solution, discussed by geeks for years, is the creation of wireless ad-hoc networks like the one in Little Brother to eliminate the need for centralized hardware and network connectivity. It’s the sort of technology that’s valuable not just for insuring both freedom of speech (not to mention freedom of commerce - Egypt’s Internet blackout can’t be good for business), but could be valuable in emergencies such as natural disasters as well.
Here are a few projects working to create such networks.
I also wrote a piece on how some Egyptians are getting around the Internet crack down.
Glenn Greenwald reports that the U.S. has subpoenaed Icelandic member of parliment and WikiLeaks supporter Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s Twitter history:
What hasn’t been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter — which is actually an Order from a federal court that the DOJ requested — seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks’ Twitter account.
The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the “means and source of payment,” including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present. A copy of the Order served on Twitter, obtained exclusively by Salon, is here.
The Order was signed by a federal Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, Theresa Buchanan, and served on Twitter by the DOJ division for that district. It states that there is “reasonable ground to believe that the records or other information sought are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation,” the language required by the relevant statute. It was issued on December 14 and ordered sealed — i.e., kept secret from the targets of the Order. It gave Twitter three days to respond and barred the company from notifying anyone, including the users, of the existence of the Order. On January 5, the same judge directed that the Order be unsealed at Twitter’s request in order to inform the users and give them 10 days to object; had Twitter not so requested, it would have been compelled to turn over this information without the knowledge of its users.
It’s possible other companies like Facebook, Google and Skype were subpoenaed and complied with the requests silently.
The fact that Twitter is being targeted by the government is another sign of how important the network has become as a real-time publishing platform, and also of how centralized the service is — something that could spark interest in distributed and open-source alternatives such as Status.net, just as the downtime suffered by the network early last year did. It is another sign of how much we rely on networks that are controlled by a single corporate entity, as Global Voices founder Ethan Zuckerman pointed out when WikiLeaks was ejected from Amazon’s servers and had its DNS service shut down.
See also this post about Douglas Rushkoff’s call to abandon the corporate Internet and the supplemental links I supplied there. I’m tagging further links on the subject of a decentralized Internet with decentralized net.
I just interviewed J Chris Anderson, the CFO of CouchOne, for ReadWriteWeb. CouchOne is the corporate sponsor of an open source database and programming language called CouchDB. Anderson recently started hosting a demo/proof of concept app called Twebz - a decentralized Twitter Client - built with CouchDB and node.js. Anderson explains how CouchDB could be used to decentralize not only Twitter, but most other web applications as well. It’s pretty geeky but could have big ramifications: This tech could help build a more resilient Internet in the face of disasters, cyberwarfare and censorship.
The aim is to allow you to interact with Twitter when Twitter is up and you are online. But if Twitter is down for maintenance or you are in the middle of nowhere, you can still tweet. And when you can reach Twitter again, it will go through.
If lots of folks are using it, then they can see each other’s tweets come in even when Twitter is down.
Mostly the goal was to show the way on how to integrate CouchDB with web services and APIs.
So if you did release this, and people started using it, and then one day Twitter decided “We’re done. We’re going to go raise pigs in the Ozarks,” Twebz would actually still be up and running fine basically forever and everyone could keep reading each other’s Tweets.
Yep. And as a side effect you have a complete personal Twitter archive of the folks you follow.
There’s even a feature to pull in the complete history of a user, so you can get the back fill of your closest friends if you want. […]
Could CouchDB and Node be used in conjunction to create some sort of decentralized darknet? Something along the lines of Freenet?
Node is a good fit for CouchDB because Couch encourages asynchronous background processes, but people also use Ruby / Python / Java for the same purposes. But yes, eventually the plan is that CouchDB will make web applications a lot more robust because they will no longer depend on a centralized point of failure. E.g., even if Twitter goes out of business, people can continue to share messages.
The turnover of Web 2.0 startups is so fast that I think users get discouraged from signing up for services. Why bother with a new photo share if there’s a chance it won’t be around in a year? But when those are CouchApps, users can continue to use them even if no one is maintaining them, which makes it more rational to invest time in using them. Imagine if Pownce or Dodgeball were still being run by fans.
For another example of how CouchDB is useful in low-connectivity settings, check out this case study on how Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessments is using CouchDB in rural Zambia.
Installing the software takes barely a couple of minutes and requires minimal computer skills. You find the Freenet website, read a few terse instructions, and answer a few questions (“How much security do you need?” … “NORMAL: I live in a relatively free country” or “MAXIMUM: I intend to access information that could get me arrested, imprisoned, or worse”). Then you enter a previously hidden online world. In utilitarian type and bald capsule descriptions, an official Freenet index lists the hundreds of “freesites” available: “Iran News”, “Horny Kate”, “The Terrorist’s Handbook: A practical guide to explosives and other things of interests to terrorists”, “How To Spot A Pedophile [sic]”, “Freenet Warez Portal: The source for pirate copies of books, games, movies, music, software, TV series and more”, “Arson Around With Auntie: A how-to guide on arson attacks for animal rights activists”. There is material written in Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish and Italian. There is English-language material from America and Thailand, from Argentina and Japan. There are disconcerting blogs (“Welcome to my first Freenet site. I’m not here because of kiddie porn … [but] I might post some images of naked women”) and legally dubious political revelations. There is all the teeming life of the everyday internet, but rendered a little stranger and more intense. One of the Freenet bloggers sums up the difference: “If you’re reading this now, then you’re on the darkweb.”
(via Atom Jack)
Last week the hackers working on The Freenet Project corrected the Windows installer.. so now anyone with Windows and Java should be able to use it. For those who don’t know, Freenet is a decentralised information storage and retrieval system. It works by chaching and mirroring content and allows people to distribute data without fear of censorship. Currently in the works are a Freenet based e-mail program, a music sharing program, and the system can be used to serve web sites. | <urn:uuid:1078eccc-ad81-4251-b63f-febe72770ae8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://technoccult.tumblr.com/tagged/decentralized-net | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936441 | 2,780 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Can Philosophy help when when faced with deciding between competing theories? William of Occam's abiding contribution to philosophy is a principle simplicity and economy, known as Occam’s razor. It states that ‘entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.’ In modern language Occam’s razor would translate something like: Given we have a potential set of solutions to a problem, which one is the most likely to be true: The one with the least amount of pre-suppositions and the theory which contains the simplest ideas.
The train could have come off the rails assisting the bridge to collapse. Dynamic effects and fatigue could have been a contributory factor although they are weakly supported by evidence. Bad workmanship may have exacerbated the situation. But these are secondary issues. The stongest evidence points to the bridge being underdesigned for wind. It blew over due to inadequate bracing.
In terms of loss of life, the Tay Rail Bridge disaster is one of the worst structural collapses in the UK in recorded history. The loss of the Stranraer to Larne Ferry Princess Victoria in 1953 is the worst maritime disaster on the UK coast outside wartime. To mark the 50th anniversary of this tragedy a new account of the event has been published (16). In this book the author attributes the fundamental source of the disaster to bad design and suggests that for those who died it was 'death by design'.
In the case of the Tay Bridge the wind loading was seriously underestimated; in the case of the Princess Victoria the stern doors (see picture above) were inadequate to withstand heavy seas and the scuppers were not large enough to efficiently drain water from the car deck. Could it be said that, as for the Princess Victoria disaster, for those who perished in the cold waters of the firth of Tay that night, it was death by design? | <urn:uuid:5e26c56d-1905-4362-8801-4337611cfdeb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://taybridgedisaster.co.uk/index/conclusion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968122 | 380 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The first of the Command Series
of tactical wargames released by MicroProse
in the mid-1980s, Crusade in Europe is the descendant of Meier's first wargame, NATO Commander. Sid Meier
and Ed Bever, Ph.D.
, collaborated on Crusade's design, which (along with the game's manual) shows an enormous amount of research and attention to historical detail.
As the title suggests, the game's focus is the European Theater of World War II in 1944-45, and the Normandy Invasion in particular. Although there are only five scenarios, each can be customized through multiple variants (with different initial deployments and reinforcement schedules) and levels of difficulty. Another nice feature is the ability to play using either tradtional boardgame symbols or unit icons. Both sides (Allied and Axis) can be played, and two players can play head-to-head in hotseat mode.
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According to the manual, Sid Meier
programmed the original Crusade
in Europe for the Commodore and converted the game to the Atari. Jim Synoski
converted it to the Apple and Don Awalt
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By Ron VandenBoom
It must have been a horrified Elian Gonzalez that was snatched from the home of his Miami relatives Saturday morning by armed federal agents.
They removed the 6-year-old child by force after five fruitless weeks of effort on the part of Attorney General Janet Reno to reunite the boy with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez.
While the majority of Americans agree that the child needed to be reunited with his father, the lingering question now seems to be: was the amount of force excessive and were negotiations about to resolve the issue without the use of force.
Reno, after the raid, characterized negotiations as "stalled" and claimed the Gonzalez family continued to move the goal posts. Left with little choice and frustrated by the lack of agreement, Reno felt she had no option left.
I too watched the weeks-long negotiations wondering when the government would finally say "enough" and move in to take the boy.
I know, deep down inside, that if it were my family holding a child illegally, there would be no hesitation on the part of authorities to retrieve the boy.
The political issues, the large crowds in the street, and the involvement of local, state, and federal, political figures, were the only things allowing the Gonzalez family to escape enforcement of the order immediately.
They were also what ultimately necessitated the use of heavily armed federal agents.
It was no longer possible for one or two sheriff's deputies to casually knock on the door and politely ask for the child. The early morning raid complete with automatic weapons, riot gear, and military style tactics, were the only option that would guarantee the safety of the agents and the success of the mission.
Let's not forget, the goal of the Miami family had always been to keep Elian from being returned to Cuba and therefore from being returned to his father. It was a completely political reason standing in the way of the transfer.
I am convinced the Lazaro family also was caught up in the spotlight reveling in the national attention that came with their newfound status as spokespersons for the anti-Castro, Cuban-American community.
A lot of truth seems to have gotten brushed under the carpet in the haze of anti-Castro rhetoric. It has been common over the last several months to hear anti-Castro supporters claim that Elian's mother lost her life seeking freedom from Castro's Cuba. The comments imply Elian's mother was a martyr who died escaping tyranny and wanting only freedom for her son.
The reality is she was an apolitical figure who, as near as can be determined, was trying to reach her boyfriend in the United States. Her decision to leave Cuba had nothing to do with freedom and taking Elian with her was nothing more than child endangerment a criminal act in this country.
I have also wondered why there was such deep concern over the psychological health of Elian, and the need for psychologists, when discussing the custody transfer, but virtually no attempt was made to provide counseling when he first arrived here and was suffering the loss of his mother and near death at sea.
I still believe parents possess certain inalienable rights in relationship to their children. Among those rights is the right to custody. Also included is the right to chose where you will raise your children and in what political atmosphere. It is a right you possess regardless of whether I agree with your decision or not.
It is not up to me, or the government, to decide what a parents religion, politics, employment, education, or ethnic background should be in order to measure up to the yardstick of political correctness.
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