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Around 1900, the first orchardists began planting apples in the lower Methow Valley. The growing season was shorter than that of the main Columbia River apple region, the nights cooler, and the apples were smaller but exceptionally crisp and known in the industry as "good keepers". Methow apples could make the journey to the East Coast markets in better condition than apples grown elsewhere in the State, and commanded a higher price which offset lower yields. During the 1960’s controlled atmosphere storage was introduced to the apple industry, and the Methow Valley orchardists no longer had a competitive advantage. A severe freeze in the late 1960’s ended commercial apple production above Twisp, and only a few commercial orchards remained above Gold Creek.
In 2001, our family purchased one of the last remaining commercial orchards between Twisp and Carlton. The farm had been subdivided, most of the apple trees had been removed and the outbuildings were near collapse. We weren’t farmers (and still aren’t, if you ask someone who has been at it their whole life) but we decided to try and bring the orchard back from the brink. We had our first cider pressing that fall.
In 2004 we traveled to the apple growing regions of Northern Italy. The farms there are small and ancient by American standards – many had been held by the same families since before Columbus sailed to the New World. The Italian orchardists had converted to a trellis system with dwarf trees in the 1960’s, at the same time the Methow orchards were being abandoned. Dwarf trees on a trellis are not as picturesque as the older, traditional rootstocks, but make better use of space and light, and are far easier to prune, thin and harvest.
We returned to our farm and began converting the orchard to a trellis system. The apple variety we chose was Honeycrisp, a University of Minnesota cultivar that prefers a cooler climate, and with the minus 20 nights of January in mind, the Honeycrisp was grafted to a dwarf Siberian rootstock. We retained a number of the older red and golden delicious trees specifically for blending, and just because we liked the big trees.
Even with 8,000 new trees, our orchard remains small by Eastern Washington standards. Our orchard was certified organic in 2005, and our first commercial harvest was in 2006. We continue with new plantings, and look forward to experimenting with heritage varieties in coming years. | <urn:uuid:df89a6bb-7c5d-410f-b5a6-e5d6d5ac32ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mazamajuice.com/ourfarm.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975279 | 517 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Are Americans losing their taste for grapefruit?
Yearly per capita consumption of grapefruit has been on a steady decline since the late 1970s, according to an article in the Riverside Press-Enterprise. To boost the fruit's popularity and keep the industry in business, growers in Southern California have organized a cooperative and hired PR expert Kari Birdseye to put together a marketing program.
In 1976, Americans ate almost 9 pounds of grapefruit per year. As a late-baby boomer, that doesn't come as a big surprise to me. The popular "grapefruit diet" was one of the first weight-loss fads I can remember. By 2007, per capita consumption dropped to 2.76 pounds, the article said.
Birdseye told Press-Enterprise reporter Leslie Berkman that one of the cooperative's goals is to extend the appeal of grapefruit to the younger set. In the U.S., it seems to be eaten by people who are middle-aged and older.
Another issue is that warning labels on some drugs for lowering cholesterol and blood pressure say they should not be taken with grapefruit juice. Birdseye said she is enlisting scientists at UC Berkeley to review the research that has been done on the interaction of grapefruit with drugs and on the nutritional benefits of grapefruit, such as in fighting obesity, Berkman reported
"The first step is to do a comprehensive review of the scientific literature to determine what health benefits can be authentically claimed and to see where there might be some holes where more research is required," Birdseye was quoted. "Let's get the science behind us."
According to the article, Birdseye is planning to meet with Thomas Baldwin, dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside, to find ways UCR experts can help grapefruit growers, such as by breeding grapefruit varieties to enhance existing health benefits.
Tracy Kahn, curator of the UCR citrus variety collections, noted in the story that one reason for the growing popularity of pink grapefruit is that the pigment that makes it rosy, lycopene, is very healthful.
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Victory from the saddle
By Steven Martinovich
It is rare that fiction is just as strange as reality. Based on an 1888 Rudyard Kipling story, the 1975 movie The Man Who Would be King told the story of two ex-British soldiers who travel to Afghanistan. Armed with Martini-Henry rifles, then perhaps the best weapons technology in the world, and in concert with local tribes, they eventually take over a remote part of the nation and one declares himself the successor to Alexander the Great. Before their eventual downfall, the two have united warring tribes armed with little more than advanced technology and diplomacy.
One might be forgiven for being reminded of that movie when reading Doug Stanton's Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan, minus the bleak ending, of course. Stanton tells the story of handful of Special Forces soldiers who helped unite the tribes that made up the Northern Alliance and with the aid of American air power broke the back of the Taliban during the fall and winter of 2001. It's the kind of story that should inspire movies and stories in the future.
Stanton's account opens with a November 2001 uprising at the fortress known as Qala-i-Janghi just outside of Mazar-i-Sharif that was housing hundreds of Taliban prisoners, including one named John Walker Lind. The rebellion took days to quell and claimed the life of Special Forces officer Mike Spann, the first American killed in post-9/11 conflict. It was a tragic end to an opening campaign which was inspired in its originality and skilful execution and should serve as a template for future wars in the region.
From there Stanton moves the story back to September 11, 2001. The nation's black ops soldiers knew immediately that they would serve as the tip of the spear. Within weeks they were airdropped into Afghanistan with a unique mission: Join up with disparate elements of the Northern Alliance and assist them against their fight with the Taliban, host of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, by calling in airstrikes against targets. Along with the bullets they brought, the Special Forces soldiers were expected to use diplomacy to bring about the end of the Taliban.
For although it was named the "Northern Alliance", Stanton's account makes it clear that its key leaders were distrustful of each other. Each jockeyed for power and the favour of the Americans, and although they all despised the Taliban and wished their end, sometimes more petty concerns would intrude, such as requesting airstrikes on the homes of ethnic rivals. Complicating matters for the Americans was the fact that since most of the Taliban were ethnic Afghanis, Northern Alliance leaders often accepted them in their ranks after surrender, creating a potential fifth column even while victory was added to victory.
Even with American airpower, victory wasn't assured. Horse Soldiers chronicles the ferocious combat the Americans and their allies experienced in the mountains of Afghanistan. He tells of Taliban ostensibly surrendering and then taking his and a captor's life thanks to a hidden grenade. Sweeping charges on horseback were generally met with savage hails of machinegun and RPG fire, cutting men apart and horrifically wounding others. In the landscape of Afghanistan, every hill and valley held dangers for the unwary. Only the rain of American bombs terrified the Taliban and set them on the defensive.
Stanton managed to craft this incredible story thanks to unprecedented access to the men who fought the war, both American and Afghan, their families and by walking the same ground the campaign took place on. In his skilled hands he takes what could have been just another story in the war against terrorism and turns it into a page turning epic, effortlessly combining the personal tales of the men on the ground with the wider ramifications of the war. We come to know these men, who prefer to remain in the shadows, and their families intimately and ultimately grieve the loss of one of their brothers.
Americans are war weary these days thanks to a troubled Iraqi campaign and setbacks in Afghanistan and it's doubtful that Horse Soldiers can restore the zeal for justice that the nation felt in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. It should, however, serve as a testament to the brave souls and their allies who prosecuted America's war in Afghanistan. Although the final chapter in that conflict is yet to be written, and as of this writing the Taliban are resurgent, the accomplishments of Mike Spann and his fellow soldiers can never be forgotten – nor praised sufficiently. With Horse Soldiers Stanton came as close as a writer can.
Steven Martinovich is a freelance writer in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
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SAMUEL B. BURDICK, a prosperous and representative farmer of De Ruyter, residing on his fertile farm of ninety-two acres in School District No. 3, was born in the town of Lincklaen, Chenango County, November 29, 1831, and was brought to this town when but five years of age by his father, Jared O. Burdick. The latter was born near Utica, N.Y., in 1807, and died here at the home of his son, the subject of
this sketch, in July, 1888. He was a son of Benjamin Burdick, a carpenter, who came to this State from Rhode Island in early days, when this part of the country was new. He and his wife reared four sons and two daughters. One of the former, Joseph H. Burdick, is now a resident of Syracuse, and engaged
the book-binding business. Grandfather Burdick now sleeps in De Ruyter Cemetery. He was a well-known and respected citizen, and built the first frame house in De Ruyter, for Thompson Burdick.
Jared O. Burdick, the father of our subject, married Wealthy Benjamin, of this town, daughter of Samuel Benjamin, who was a son of Darius Benjamin, one of the pioneer settlers of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Burdick were the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, of whom our subject was the first-born. The others are as follows: Lydia Jane, who died when thirty-two
years of age; Cyrus A., a farmer of Lincklaen, Chenango County; and Daniel D., a carpenter, residing in Cortland, N. Y. The mother of these children died in 1861, at the age of fifty-five.
He of whom we write received his education in the district school, and was early reared to farm life and labor, working out by the month. At the age of twenty he was united in marriage to Sally Burdick, who,
though of the same name, was not a relative. The marriage occurred November 10, 1851; and the newly married pair began life together as tenant farmers a short distance south of De Ruyter, and came to their present home twenty-one years ago, when they engaged in cheese-making for a stock company. In 1876
they purchased their present farm of ninety-two acres, and erected their farm-house in 1883, the cost of their investment amounting to twenty-two hundred dollars. Here they are engaged in general farming, and keep a dairy of from ten to twelve cows the year round. The cheese factory on their farm is owned and
ably managed by their son, S. Dlloyd Burdick, who is unmarried, and resides at home. Mr. and Mrs. Burdick have also a daughter, R. Anna, wife of Acher Gillespie, a farmer of Chenango County. They are the parents of one daughter, A. Blanche Gillespie.
Mr. Burdick is a Republican in his political views, and casts his vote with an intelligent understanding of the principles of his chosen party. He is a man of industrious and persevering habits and of upright business methods, and he and his estimable wife are justly regarded as among the most useful and representative citizens of Madison County.
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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
by Eric Kimmel Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Reviewed by Yvoire L. (age 8) and Frankie P. (age 8)
Yvoire L. and Frankie P. are students in Class C103
Hershel, of Ostropol, is a more clever man than any other. One day he was walking to the village. He couldn't wait because it was the first day of Hanukkah. Instead of potato latkes, bright candles and merry songs, he found that the village was silent and dark. This is because the goblins hate Hanukkah. The goblins throw potato latkes on the floor, blow out menorah candles, and break dreidels. Hershel decides to go to the synagogue and get rid of the goblins by tricking them. For example, one of the tricks Hershel played was to teach the goblin how to play dreidel but he changes the rules. His rules make the goblin loose all his gold. The goblin is SO mad he said unhappily, "I'm leaving now. I don't like this game. I don't like Hanukkah, and I don't like you." And then . . . well, you will have to read the book to find out how Hershel stops the goblins from ruining Hanukkah.
We like this book because Hershel tricked the goblins. It reminds us of when we trick our little sisters, our family members, and when our family members trick us. The dialogue between Hershel and the goblins is very funny. For example, Hershel says, "Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah." The little goblin replied, "Oh no it's not! We don't allow Hanukkah. Not around here." "Is that so?" said Hershel. "Who's going to stop me? A little pip-squeak like you?" We also enjoyed the illustrations because we thought the goblins looked very funny.
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Early Church Fathers
43 For "Quod cupit his fieri, deest hoc virtute reduci," I venture to read, "Quod capit," etc., taking "capit" as = "capax est." "By these," of course, is by wisdom and art; and "virtue" = "power."
44 i.e., the Evil One.
45 i.e., may learn to know.
46 Oehler's "visus" seems to be a mistake for "vivus," which is Migne's reading; as in the fragment "De exsecrandis gentium diis," we saw (sub. fin.) "videntem" to be a probable misprint for "viventem." If, however, it is to be retained, it must mean "appearing" (i.e., in presence of God) "wholly," in body as well as soul.
47 i.e., the double gift of a saved soul and a saved body.
48 In aeternum.
49 I have so frequently had to construct my own text (by altering the reading or the punctuation of the Latin) in this book, that, for brevity's sake, I must ask the reader to be content with this statement once for all, and not expect each case to be separately noted.
50 The "foe," as before, is Satan; his "breathing instruments" are the men whom he uses (cf. Shakespeare's "no breather" = no man, in the dialogue between Orland and Jacques, As you Like it, act iii. sc. 2); and they are called "renegades," like the Evil One himself, because they have deserted from their allegiance to God in Christ.
52 Cf. John xv. 2, 4, 5, 6; Rom. xi. 17-20. The writer simply calls them "abruptos homines;" and he seems to mean excommunicated, like Marcion.
53 i.e., those recorded in the Old Testament.
54 I have followed Migne's suggestion here, and transposed one line of the original. The reference seems to be to Isa. lxiv. 4, quoted in 1 Cor. ii.9, where the Greek differs somewhat remarkably from the LXX.
55 Unless some line has dropped out here, the construction, harsh enough in my English, is yet harsher in the Latin. "Accipitur" has no subject of any kind, and one can only guess from what has gone before, and what follows, that it must mean "one Testament."
56 Harsh still. It must refer to the four Gospels - the "coat without seam" - in their quadrate unity; Marcion receiving but one - St. Luke's - and that without St. Luke's name, and also in a mutilated and interpolated form.
57 This seems to be the sense. The allusion is to the fact that Marcion and his sect accepted but ten of St. Paul's Epistles: leaving out entirely those to Timothy and Titus, and all the other books, except his one Gospel.
58 It seems to me that the reference here must evidently be to the Epistle to the Hebrews, which treats specially of the old covenant. If so, we have some indication as to the authorship, if not the date, of the book: for Tertullian himself, though he frequently cites the Epistle, appears to hesitate (to say the least) as to ascribing it to St. Paul.
59 Comp. Isa. vi. 9, 10, with Acts xxviii. 17-29.
60 The reference seems to be to Rom. i. 28; comp., too, Tit. i. 15, 16.
61 The reference is to Gen. ii. 9-14.
62 Fata mortua. This extraordinary expression appears to mean "dead men;" men who, through Adam, are fated, so to speak, to die, and are under the sad fate of being "dead in trespasses and sins." See Eph. ii. 1. As far as quantity is concerned, it might as well be "facta mortua," "dead works," such as we read of in Heb. vi. 1, xi. 14. It is true these works cannot strictly be said to be ever vivified; but a very similar inaccuracy seems to be committed by our author lower down in this same book. | <urn:uuid:f35a5853-9e3e-4096-b945-8c442424aeb2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-04/footnote/fn37.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968088 | 945 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Babies Born to Obese Mothers May Have Low Iron: Study
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THURSDAY, July 12 (HealthDay News) -- Obese women who become pregnant may give birth to babies with low levels of iron, a new study reveals.
The findings suggest that overproduction of an iron-regulating hormone, known as hepcidin, can interfere with the transfer of iron from an obese woman to her unborn child.
Children born with iron deficiency are at greater risk for developmental delays in their motor and thinking skills, the researchers noted.
The study was released online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of the Journal of Perinatology.
"The data on the impact of low maternal iron levels on the fetus comes from undernourished populations," the study's first author, Dr. Sarbattama Sen, a neonatologist at Tufts Medical Center and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, said in a university news release. "To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first study to demonstrate that obesity might hamper iron transfer from mother to child and offers some insight into the mechanism of how it occurs."
During pregnancy, a woman's hepcidin levels remain low to improve the transfer of iron to her unborn baby. Obese adults, however, have been shown to produce higher levels of hepcidin than people with a normal weight. Too much of this hormone, the study authors noted, can interfere with the transfer of iron from a mother to her developing fetus.
The research, from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and The Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center, examined 15 obese pregnant women and 15 pregnant women with a normal weight. The investigators conducted blood tests on the women during their second trimester. They also used cord blood to assess the iron status of their newborns.
Being born to an obese mother with high levels of hepcidin was associated with lower iron status at birth, the researchers found.
"When there is excess hepcidin in a cell, it binds to and inhibits the function of ferroportin, the protein that allows iron to pass through the cell membrane and into the bloodstream," senior study author Simin Nikbin Meydani, director of Tufts' Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, explained in the release.
The study's first author, Maria Carlota Dao, a doctoral student at the center, added: "The chronic low-grade inflammation that can result from being obese triggers an abnormal immune response, increasing production of proteins that increase hepcidin levels."
However, the authors added that more research is needed to investigate the link between obesity and hepcidin levels and the iron status of newborns before any changes are made to the dietary recommendations for obese pregnant women.
"During pregnancy, women should try to eat a varied, healthy diet while taking the standard prenatal vitamins recommended by their doctors," Sen said. "Weight-gain goals should be based on a woman's BMI prior to becoming pregnant." BMI, or body mass index, is a measurement that takes into account height and weight.
While the study found an association between maternal obesity and infants' iron levels, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas
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SOURCE: Tufts University, news release, July 9, 2012
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Stevia – The Zero-Calorie, All-Natural Sweetener
Last reviewed by Faculty of Harvard Medical School on August 28, 2012
By Jenna B. Damareck, B.S., Dietetic Intern
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rather than asking people how many sugars they would like with their coffee or tea, we should be asking what color they want: pink, yellow, blue or green.
People who are watching their calorie or carbohydrate intake, or need to control their blood sugar levels, have several no-calorie, artificial or natural sweeteners to choose from: saccharin (Sweet N' Low), sucralose (Splenda) and aspartame (Equal). Now there's another zero-calorie, all-natural sweetener to add to the list: stevia.
What Is Stevia?
Stevia comes from the Stevia rebaudiana plant. It first grew in Paraguay, a country in South America.
In 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed the import of stevia leaves. But the sweetener made from the leaves could only be used as a dietary supplement. There were not enough U.S. studies showing that stevia was safe to use as an ingredient in "conventional" foods. Also, it had a bitter, unappealing aftertaste, which limited its popularity.
Then in December 2008, after many years and dollars spent in research, the FDA added stevia to the list of food additives that are "generally recognized as safe." With this designation, stevia could be added to soft drinks, sports drinks, flavored waters and any other food or beverage product.
Here are terms you may see on products containing stevia:
- Stevia rebaudiana The South American plant from which the sweetener is derived
- Reb A or rebaudioside A One of the sweet compounds (gycosides) extracted from the stevia plant
- Stevioside Another sweet compound (gycosides) extracted from the stevia plant
- Steviol The digested form of Reb A and stevioside
- Rebiana A form of the sweetener that contains mostly pure Reb A as opposed to other stevia extracts
- Stevia The generic term for Reb A and rebiana
- Stevia extract A concentrated form of stevioside and Reb A
- Truvia A brand of stevia from Cargill and Coca-Cola
- PureVia A brand of Reb A from Whole Earth Sweetener and Pepsi Cola
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What Does the Research Say?
There is good evidence from animal and human studies to suggest that foods and beverages made with stevia are safe. Only 95% pure steviol glycosides (sweet extracts from the stevia plant) are approved for use in food and beverages.
The Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) reviewed the research on stevia in 2005. The members issued temporary guidelines for how much stevia a person could safely consume. They called it the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI).
For every kilogram of body weight, a person could safely consume up to 2 milligrams of stevia a day over a lifetime without risk. So, a 150-pound person (68 kg) could safely consume 136 milligrams (0.136 grams) of stevia per day. A 2007 study confirmed JECFA's recommendeded ADI, showing that people are likely to consume less than 2 milligrams of steviol for every kilogram of body weight per day. One packet of Truvia weighs 3.5 grams. But it isn't all stevia. It also contains rebiana and natural flavors. We don't really know how much is pure rebiana (See the Stevia Glossary.)
In 2007, the JECFA reviewed additional new research on stevia and made no changes to the guideline. Many important clinical studies are still in progress. We need to continue to monitor stevia's effects.
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Is Stevia Safe During Pregnancy?
According to animal studies, stevia is safe to consume during pregnancy. Animals are not the same as humans, but for now it's the best evidence we have. We don't know what future research will show about this new sweetener.
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The Bottom Line
There has been a great deal of buzz in the food science world regarding stevia and its safety. It appears to be a safe alternative to sugar for people, but there is no evidence yet that it can lower blood sugar.
So, don't get carried away by the excitement of a zero-calorie, all-natural sweetener. Keep in mind that anything in moderation, including real cane sugar, can be an acceptable part of a balanced diet.
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United Way of Lake County begins Feed Lake County Campaign amid rising need
Statistics show that a rising number of local people are reaching out for assistance with food and United Way of Lake County is doing its best to extend a hand.
This year’s goal for the annual Feed Lake County Campaign, which is taking place throughout March, is to top the 50,000 pounds of food and about $60,000 raised in 2012.
Reports from Lake County 211, the service which fields the calls, state that requests for food from needy people increased by almost 600 from 2011 to 2012.
And since January an additional 350 appeals have already been received compared to this time last year.
Nick Carrabine, director of communications and marketing for Lake County United Way, said the urgency seems to shift among the county’s 52 food pantries with which the agency works.
He added that the working poor as well as people without jobs are among those most frequently seeking help.
One reason pantry shelves may be emptying more quickly is because of a reduction in the government’s food assistance program — formerly foodstamps — put into effect Jan. 1, according to Matt Battiato, director of Lake County Department of Job and Family Services.
Though not all individuals have been affected by the cuts, some families are seeing an average of $30 less per month for groceries.
“If there was a decrease in food assistance it’s possible they’re turning to alternatives like Lake County food pantries,” Battiato said.
Marty Crews, who runs the food pantry at St. Bede the Venerable Church in Mentor, says parishioners are very generous in terms of donating food items, but shortages of items not eligible for purchase through government assistance are frequent. Continued...
These items include laundry detergent, soap, shampoo, dish washing soap, toilet paper and toothpaste.
“(Those) are the ones we’re in dire need of,” Crews said. “When we do have them the people really appreciate it.”
To create more awareness for the campaign, food sculptures created out of canned goods and other non-perishable items are on display at the Dillard’s south concourse at the Great Lakes Mall in Mentor.
Staffers from Mentor-based CT Consultants, Marous Brothers Construction of Willoughby and the Lake County Council on Aging donated the goods and built the structures.
An event during which the displays will be voted on by a committee and winners announced for various awards will be at 4 p.m. Friday, prior to United Way’s Super Raffle Drawing at 5:30 p.m.
Area organizations have donated dozens of prizes for the raffle including a car, cruise, numerous vacations and more.
Cost of a ticket is $5 each or 6 for $25. For details on obtaining tickets call United Way at 440-352-3166 or purchase them at www.uwlc.org by Thrusday.
A chance to win Super Raffle tickets is available from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today for those who bring three food items to the United Way food display at the mall.
The charitable organization works year round to supply food for Lake County’s needy.
In addition to the March campaign, a letter carrier drive is conducted each April. Continued...
Gayle Sikula, senior director of special projects for United Way of Lake County, said
when food is distributed attempts are made to package related items together, such as noodles with spaghetti sauce and pancake mix with syrup to provide ingredients for meals.
In the past, several organizations have made sizeable contributions to the campaign.
“We get a lot of involvement,” Sikula said. “Last year about 60 companies (contributed). There’s been a lot of support from the community. Mentor High School really took on the project from the get-go and has been very supportive.”
Last year the school collected 11,000 pounds of food for the cause.
United Way is encouraging companies and organizations to conduct food drives to help with this year’s campaign.
The public, businesses and organizations may drop off food at the former Ethan Allen space, north of Tony Sacco’s Restaurant, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, March 16 and 23; and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 19, 22, 26 and 28. Access is available from the outdoors only.
For details, contact United Way at 440-352-3166 or visit www.uwlc.org.
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“You want to make sure with a race in which you'll be flying home with other drivers that you don't crash into them. It's happened before, and it can make for a little bit of a tense situation.”
Dawn blew a gentle breeze through the entryway, but a few paces beyond, stillness prevailed. Unseen birds chirped wakeup calls and chalky dust stirred at my feet. I felt humbled as I trekked down the same path used by the Nabataeans, the people who prospered here 2,300 years ago.
I vacillated between wanting to rush forward or stop to savor the astonishing surroundings. I brushed along snaking corridors whose rock walls towered half as high as the Washington Monument. Then, about 30 minutes in, I stopped suddenly. Entranced by the protruding edge of the Treasury–Petra’s most elaborate temple ruins–I leaned into my camera lens to record the dramatic viewpoint.
Occasionally you live out a moment that etches into your memory. Your senses run on high speed, but your brain seems to record like a slow-motion video. Such was the case as I explored the mysterious Sig in Petra, Jordan.
The Sig (pronounced “seek”) is a mile-long ravine, a dry riverbed of sinuous twists and turns tucked between 300-foot salmon-hued boulders. The passageway alternately narrows to single file and then broadens enough to allow for a campsite–one of its original uses.
Keen observers notice niches, chiseled designs, water conduits and tombs blending with the sandstone. Miraculously, a few scrubby trees sprout through sun-baked crevices, bringing new life to the ancient desert.
At the end looms al-Khazneh–the Arabic name of the Treasury, one of the world’s most famous facades–which was recently hailed in a new listing of the Seven Wonders of the World. One by one, tourists step forward, file into the plaza and drop their jaws or gasp.
Here the wide-angle view of the Treasury emerges, a 130-foot stone edifice chiseled from a single slab. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade featured Harrison Ford and Sean Connery’s escape from the building. The columned site is the crowning jewel of “the red-rose city half as old as time,” so named by theologian John William Burgon. The delicate beauty and fine detailing intoxicate better than aged merlot and the pleasure is simply to stand in awe.
Petra was lost once when Middle East capitals and trading routes changed. Earthquakes twice ravaged the area. By the 13th century, only local Bedouin tribes remembered the city. In 1812, Swiss explorer Jean Louis Burckhardt disguised himself as an Arab and convinced a guide to take him to the Wadi Musa area. He rediscovered Petra’s tombs for the outside world but couldn’t fully inspect the ruins. His guide became suspicious and Burckhardt was forced to leave abruptly. He wrote about his findings but they remained hidden until his death.
Also treading the Sig each day are Bedouins, descendants of those who inhabited the complex from approximately 1,000 B.C. onward. In 1985, UNESCO declared Petra a World Heritage site and tribes were moved to nearby housing. Today, Bedouins fittingly pull camels and carts down the Sig, waiting before the shrine for tourists to purchase rides.
At one time Petra reigned as a capital city. A population of 30,000 flourished at the strategic north-south and east-west crossroads for spice and silk caravans. The ancient Nabataeans carved the rock walls, working from the top downward, sculpting tombs, temples, shops, an amphitheater and homes.
If the Sig and Treasury were all Petra had to offer, that would be enough. But the city also incorporates a 400-acre site that includes a 6,000-seat amphitheater and mountaintop Monastery. The typical half- to one-day visit most travelers allot is not sufficient.
When you finally venture beyond the Treasury, you can thread your way up Colonnade Street to the Royal Tombs. First comes the columned Urn tomb where you climb two stories of arched stairways and enter vaulted rooms. The much smaller Silk Tomb stands nearby, irresistible due to the spectacular coloring and variegations in the sandstone: ochre to saffron, mauve to baby blue. Next to the Silk Tomb rests the 80-by-90-foot-tall Corinthian Tomb.
The gigantic, architecturally complex Palace Tomb completes the street. Although missing the entire upper level, it is still the biggest at Petra: about 160 feet wide and taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Having investigated these tombs, you’ll likely begin to tire. Fortunately, an air-conditioned restaurant awaits, but only after you cross a wide, arid expanse, past Roman ruins and a museum. Around A.D. 100, the Roman emperor Trajan and his men conquered Petra, adding and renovating buildings. However, the Roman glory withered with time, leaving remnants of columns and arches that are not nearly as captivating as the Nabataean tombs.
Rest and enjoy lunch at the restaurant, because the 800-step climb to the Monastery requires fuel. The ascent begins on uneven, centuries-worn rock stairs and passes through wind- and water-swept corridors. The challenging route includes steeply inclined ramps and twisting paths. Donkey rides are an option, but either way the going is tough.
When you finally reach the summit, however, you’ll be re-energized by the unexpected, side-screened view of majestic El Deir (the Monastery’s Arabic name). Turn the corner and the near flawless urn-topped Monastery stands equally as impressive as the Treasury. The colossal facade faces west, onto a 200-foot open plaza believed to have been used for rituals and ceremonial processions. Time to sit and bask in the glory of an astonishing architectural achievement.
Unfortunately, the hike down is not much easier than the ascent. The vertical drop requires careful foot placement, but the plateau experience is incomparable.
On the way out of Petra, you can stroll along urban Colonnade Street, past Roman temple ruins, mosaic floors and what were merchant storefronts. In the distance you can take in the entire wall of Royal Tombs, a panoramic vista for the memory bank. Further on, you’ll pass the perfect semicircle seating in the amphitheater. The acoustics ring exceptionally clear and it’s easy to imagine performances.
By this time, you may be ready to hire a camel, donkey or carriage to ride back to the Treasury or all the way through the Sig–the only way in and out. Once you leave the archeological ruins, you might want to stop for a cool drink at the Cave Bar, which is aptly located just beyond the visitor center.
A compelling reason to allow more than one day in Petra is to return and experience the spiritual power of the sanctuary at night. Some evenings, 1,800 flickering candles line the pathway, creating glorious reflections. Haunting music adds to the atmosphere as visitors follow the eerily lit Sig and find the Treasury bathed in golden candlelight.
Another activity choice is the Petra Kitchen, a cooking school for novices, where the chef and staff will gently coach you through the steps of preparing a traditional Jordanian meal. The evening ends with a remarkable feast created by the students.
Don’t Miss Wadi Rum
No trip to Jordan would be complete without a visit to the desert of Wadi Rum. Lawrence of Arabia, British intelligence officer T.E. Lawrence, described the landscape as “red sands that stretch like seas between mountains of crimson sandstone. The rock monoliths sculpted by nature resemble the drippings of candle wax on a monumental scale.”
Bedouin tribes on camel still roam the territory where the sun’s rays reflect heat onto the desolate ground. Touring in 4x4 wheeled Jeeps has become the modern way to explore. You can cover many miles in a short time with the help of knowledgeable guides who include stops at ancient petroglyphs and photo-worthy natural sand bridges.
However, the favored and most authentic mode of transportation is still the camel. If you’re a first-time rider, you may find the initial minutes discombobulating as your dromedary makes an awkward, two-stage rise. Unnatural jostling to and fro follows, but you’ll soon adapt. The feel of the camel’s hooves compressing into the sandy sea is like nothing else. You’ll receive a view from the height that would guarantee a slam-dunk into a basketball net. To quote Lawrence again, the experience is “vast, echoing and Godlike.”
A tour of Jordan also calls for overnighting in a Bedouin tent camp, which is not nearly as rustic as it sounds. Each tent is made from goat hair or rug-like material and contains a double bed, table, chairs and one light bulb. Think of it as scout camp with a central bathroom–toilets, sinks, showers and warm water are available.
At nightfall, you’ll enjoy a traditional Bedouin meal, which has likely cooked for hours beneath the sand. Zarb resembles clay-pot roasted chicken, potatoes and onions. You can sip sweet Bedouin tea as the staffers play music on the lute and tabla.
The primary reason to camp is to experience the crystal-clear, star-filled night sky. The meditative cooing of doves awakens you in time to watch sunrise. Those who prefer an even more nomadic experience can arrange to sleep under the stars with nothing more than an air mattress and blanket.
You can also opt to tour the colorful desert by hot-air balloon, weather permitting. Whatever the chosen mode of transportation, you’ll leave Wadi Rum emotionally charged from the surreal scenery and full of material for your own tales of Arabian nights.
Traveler Fast Facts
What it is: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a Middle Eastern country that contains more than 12,000 archeological sites. It borders Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the West Bank. Jordan–the most stable government in the region–gained its independence in 1946 and is ruled by King Abdullah II, son of King Hussein.
Language: Arabic, but English is widely used and understood.
Climate: Long, hot, dry summers and short, cool winters. January is the coldest.
Currency: Jordanian dinars. Major credit cards accepted.
Getting there: Commercial flights arrive in Amman, the northern capital and largest city. Visas are required, but two-week tourist visas are available at Queen Alia airport and are easily extended. Check beforehand if entering Jordan at other locations. In the south, private jets use King Hussein International Airport or Aqaba Airport, which handles royal and general aviation. Jordan maintains two modern main roads, the King’s Highway and Desert Highway.
Clothing: Dress in the Middle East reflects heritage, tradition and religious beliefs. Many men and women still wear a thawb, a loose, long-sleeved ankle-length robe. Most women wear a hijab (headscarf) even if they don’t wear robes. Western visitors should be mindful of shorts, short skirts or bare shoulders.
Side trips: Options include the ancient Arab fortress of Ajlun; Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, where John the Baptist lived and Jesus was baptized; Byzantine mosaics at Madaba; and panoramic perspectives from Mt. Nebo.
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Accommodations (A-): Numerous four- and five-star hotels are in the major tourist areas: Amman (Four Seasons), Dead Sea (Kempinski), Petra (Moevenpick) and Aqaba (InterContinental). Basic but acceptable Bedouin tent camps are in Wadi Rum (Captain’s Camp).
Restaurants (B): Jordanian food is farm fresh, colorful and healthy. Meals begin with mezze, an array of appetizers like hummus, baba ghanoush, tabbouleh and olives. Bedouin tea is sweet. Hotel coffee is terribly weak, while Turkish coffee is extremely strong. Purchasing wine and beer can be difficult outside of the upscale hotels and restaurants frequented by Westerners, as much of the Arab population doesn’t consume alcohol. Smoking a waterpipe–also known as shisha, hookah or narghile–is commonplace.
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The Obama Administration has announced that it is relaxing deportation policies for young Latinos who are illegally residing in the United States, giving a sigh of relief and hope to the children of illegal immigrants, but garnering criticism from rivals who accuse that the president is bypassing Congress in making major national decisions.
Although, the decision taken by Obama was praised by many sections of the society, yet the president came under fire for not taking more actions to tackle the overall illegal immigration issue.
Critics allege that majority of the social issues; crimes and related problems are on the rise as a result of the 10 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. Besides, the announcement came as a pain across the Olympic Peninsula, where the Border Patrol has drawn national awareness for expanding its existence in the past several years.
Although no mistake of their own, an age band of children of illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. in their youth have continued living in the shade of American life. These young people, according to Obama Administration’s decision, will receive a 2-year official pardon from likely deportation. Moreover, beneficiaries of the offer who get endorsed can subsequently ask for official work permits.
According to a report in the Washington Post, “The reprieve is aimed at those who might be described as most likely to succeed: an estimated 800,000 people, under 30 years old, in school or having graduated or served in the armed forces, without a significant criminal record, who pose no threat to national security or public safety. In many cases they are strivers who have known only America as home. Deporting them to countries they left as children makes no sense.”
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Obama Administration’s decision was the result of more than ten years of continuous political efforts by Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and her associate immigrant rights activists.
"We organized. We pushed really really hard," Salas said, according to the LA Times. "It's great to know our hard work is paying off. But there is so much more to do."
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Neuroscience is the study of the brain and employs many of the basic sciences in attempting to understand the brain as the basis of all human behaviour. Important aspects of behaviour can be studied at the level of individual nerve cells, their properties and the ways they communicate with one another.
Neuroscience embraces studies that cut across boundaries between traditional subject areas. As reflected in the structure of this major, it ranges from anatomy to neuronal function, from the cellular and molecular biology of the neuron to complex phenomena such as perception and emotion, from the regulation of breathing and blood pressure to movement of the body, from development to ageing, from normal cognition to mental illness and neurodegeneration.
The study of the brain is informed by research in genetics, proteomics, cell biology, invertebrate biology, evolution, anatomy, histology, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, immunology, medical physics, bioengineering, psychology, computation theory and the history of the scientific method.
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A major in neuroscience is designed to provide you with a foundation in the basic biology of the brain and the fundamentals of cognition. You can focus your cross-disciplinary studies with a molecular, cellular, anatomical or behavioural concentration. Or you can choose to spread your studies across the whole range, or choose to concentrate on a particular approach in third year.
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Research in neuroscience is vibrant and an international priority area. New knowledge gained from the field of neuroscience has a significant impact on attempts to solve major problems in health, such as neural disease and dysfunction and current social problems such as addiction and longer term social issues such as aging. This major will allow you to pursue further studies in neuroscience, work in one of the many rapidly growing areas in the pharmaceutical, medical or biotechnology industries, or pursue a professional course in medicine or psychology. | <urn:uuid:25e0642b-07d0-454e-baac-ee49a9361977> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sydney.edu.au/science/fstudent/undergrad/course/study_neurosci.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933665 | 383 | 3.015625 | 3 |
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A Budgetary Impact Model
Payers' drug costs for human growth hormone are related to product waste that is related to the container in which the product is supplied
We assessed the economic impact to the United States payer of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) utilization, comparing the relative dosage efficiency of marketed pen-based and vial-based products in a pediatric and in an adult population. A budgetary impact model calculated drug costs based on product waste and cost. Waste was the difference between prescribed dose, based on patient weight, and actual delivered dose, based on dosing increments and maximum deliverable dose for pens and a fixed-percent waste as derived from the literature for vials.
Annual wholesale acquisition costs were calculated based upon total milligrams delivered, using a daily dose of 0.03 mg/kg for pediatric patients and 0.016 mg/kg for adults. Total annual drug costs were compared for two scenarios: 1) a product mix based on national market share and 2) restricting use to the product with lowest waste.
Based on the literature, waste for each vial product was 23 percent. Among individual pens, waste was highest for Humatrope 24 mg (19.5 percent pediatric, 14.3 percent adult) and lowest for Norditropin NordiFlex 5 mg (1.1 percent pediatric, 1 percent adult). Restricting use to the brand with least waste (Norditropin), compared to national product share mix, resulted in a 10.2 percent reduction in annual pediatric patient cost from $19,026 to $17,089 and an 8 percent reduction in annual adult patient cost from $24,099 to $22,161.
We concluded that pen delivery systems result in less waste than vial and syringe. Considering all approved delivery systems, Norditropin resulted in the least product waste and lower annual patient cost for both pediatric and adult populations.
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The social unrest roiling Quebec is colour-coded red. One cannot miss the hundreds of thousands of people with cloth of the colour pinned to their coats and satchels; the stickers pasted on street poles and storefront mannequins; and the sheets fluttering from balconies and windows. The red squares – punning visually on a French expression to be squarely in the red, or in debt – are a gesture of solidarity with university and college students on a massive general strike against government tuition fee hikes.
They have also become a symbol of the most powerful challenge to neoliberalism on the continent.
Canadian students have been furiously mobilizing for a freeze on tuition fees since last spring, when the Liberal provincial government announced hikes of 75% over five years. A general strike launched this February shuttered most of the province's colleges and universities.
In Montreal, family-friendly street-theatre and marches peaked with a historic rally of 200,000 on 22 March; business-unfriendly blockades of banks, bridges and government ministries have often paralyzed the downtown core. And over the last week, tens of thousands have joined a nightly protest ritual, marching through Montreal past the midnight hour.
Tuition in Quebec remains the lowest in North America, because of generations of student protest – but the militant coalition CLASSE, representing half the striking students, has always included in its program free and universal post-secondary education.
The government's response has been to wage a war on the students' right to collectively negotiate the conditions of their studies. It has mocked and vilified students in the corporate media; sought legal injunctions to dismantle picket lines and force teachers to class; and unleashed vicious police crackdowns and mass arrests against peaceful protesters as young as 15 and 16. Some students now wear red eye-patches after one was shot at close range by a flash-bang grenade and lost his vision.
In the painful tumult of daily protests, an entire generation of Québécois youth is learning a political lesson no class would ever teach: violence underlies all of society's inequalities, and power doesn't yield an inch without a fight.
The students' courage and creativity in the face of such brutality has lit a fire under Quebec. Their achievement has been to begin to clarify for a broad swath of society that a tuition hike is not a matter of isolated accounting, but the goal of a neoliberal austerity agenda the world over. Forcing students to pay more for education is part of a transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-class to the rich – as with privatization and the state's withdrawal from service-provision, tax breaks for corporations and deep cuts to social programs.
The fault-lines of the struggle over education – dividing those who preach it must be a commodity purchased by "consumers" for self-advancement, and those who would protect it as a right funded by the state for the collective good – has thus sparked a fundamental debate about the entire society's future.
Quebec is, in some ways, uniquely disposed for such a debate. During the long struggle to maintain a French identity under pressure of English Canadian domination and the homogenizing force of the market, Québécois have developed a strong sense of social solidarity. While neoliberalism has captured the two main political parties and incrementally encroached on the economy, its cultural victory – instilling values of rampant individualism and competition – has only been partial.
The ideal of free post secondary education – recommended in the 1960s by a famous state-commissioned inquiry, but long since snuffed out among the economic elite – has been kept alive for decades by the student unions. And as the federal Conservative government, increasingly indifferent to Quebec, shifts economic and political power westward to Alberta, such progressive yearnings could deepen.
Little wonder students' imagination was stirred by the past year of world rebellion. That inspiration has been distilled in the movement's main slogan, "Printemps érable," a clever play on words that literally means Maple Spring but sounds like Arab Spring.
The Occupy movement has also been a game-changer, here as elsewhere. Its spirit of direct democracy has clicked with the Quebec student union's history of grassroots organizing through decentralized general assemblies. And it has given students a fresh language with which to understand the 1%'s attempt to pass the buck to students: the emerging consensus of the neoliberal elite – whether in Quebec, Chile, England or the US – is that they would prefer their labor force pay for its own education and training, and then simply exploit them.
If students have brought the spirit of global unrest to Quebec, what the government fears most is that they may now spread it permanently to wider society. Students are deepening ties with laid-off and locked-out workers across the province. They have joined civic groups in criticizing a multibillion-dollar scheme to open up indigenous peoples' lands in Quebec's north to a frenzy of mining, oil and forestry operations, which the premier has shopped to investors in London, Tokyo and Rio De Janeiro. And the movement gave an electrifying jolt to an Earth Day mobilization on 22 April, helping to bring nearly 300,000 onto the streets. It is hardly a coincidence that, the same day, the Quebec government agreed finally to negotiations.
The government has delayed in the hope that the student movement will sputter out, succumb to division, or marginalize itself through street-fighting and property damage. They have badly miscalculated. Cracks are indeed appearing, but among the ruling Liberal party and their business allies. Policing costs will soon exceed the value of the tuition increase. Montreal's tourist reputation could take a hit. And students are beginning to garner international press and support.
The feeling taking root among students and others is that this is the chance to turn the tide of a generation. In the words of the French chant resounding daily in the streets, "On ne lâche pas" – we're not backing down. | <urn:uuid:6d1a1b89-9963-4b92-a551-bcf1366cccb5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://democracysquare.org/news/guardian-quebec-student-protests-mark-maple-spring-canada | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960896 | 1,224 | 2.125 | 2 |
This article studies developments in Turkish-American relations over the last decade. It starts with an analysis of the three parameters of the bilateral relationship that took shape at the height of the Cold War: Turkey’s geo-strategic and geo-political importance; cooperation in return for external assistance; and pursuit of a pro-US political-ideological role at the regional level. While the alliance relationship underwent transformations in following years, the learned behavioral habits from this era continued to impact Turkey’s foreign policy practices. The article argues thatTurkey’s policies over the last decade can be viewed as attempts to break those established behavioral patterns. In particular, it analyzes how the drive for autonomous action became a defining feature of Turkish foreign policy throughout the 2000s, as a result of which relations with the United States entered a new era, characterized by a growing number of frictions. Consequently, both cooperation and competition have become routine features of the bilateral ties, which is examined in various issue areas and regions.
Turkish-American relations, strategic partnership, model partnership, geopolitical position, anti-Americanism, regional power.
Relations with the United States occupy a major place in Turkey’s foreign policy agenda. Not only is the bilateral relationship undergirded by powerful systemic dynamics, it also cross-cuts Turkey’s other foreign policy issues, which makes US-Turkish relations unique in many ways. Any analysis of Turkey’s regional policies in the Balkans and Middle East, its problems with neighbors such as Greece and Syria, or its membership process into the European Union would be incomplete without taking into account the United States. At the same time, an analysis of US policies in the regions surrounding Turkey would remain incomplete without bringing Turkey into the equation. Turkish-American relations, thus, can be explained by reference to two interrelated dynamics: the place Turkey occupies in the US global and regional strategies, and Turkey’s expectations of assistance from the US in order to reach its foreign policy objectives. | <urn:uuid:06d480bd-3c45-4022-bb1f-11a5b351bb94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sam.gov.tr/turkish-american-relations-in-the-2000s-revisiting-the-basic-parameters-of-partnership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944725 | 405 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Reporters on the Job
• Afghan Patterns: Staff writer Scott Baldauf has been traveling to Afghanistan and hearing about corruption and drugs and the slow pace of reconstruction almost from the very fall of the Taliban in 2001. "For more than four years, I chalked this up to unrealistic expectations. But on this trip, I heard even the most optimistic of my sources - aid workers, diplomats, government officials - saying that things had taken a dramatic turn for the worst," says Scott.Skip to next paragraph
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He's a fan of the Afghan people and hopes the country turns around, so he wasn't eager to write a story that put all these various negative trends together into a single piece. "The last thing I would want is to give a sense of hopelessness, leading people to simply give up on Afghanistan. But these problems need to be seen, and when they combine to undermine the authority of the government and the foreign presence here, they can't be ignored," he says.
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Violence at Australia's oldest temple, the Sri Mandir Temple, in Auburn, Australia (near Sydney) was raised to a shocking level when eight rounds were fired on the temple at night on March 19, 2011. The temple's CCTV cameras captured images of two men on foot in balaclavas firing the shots.
The temple's priest, Jatinkumar Bhatt, who lives on the site, said he had been harassed by youths in the past but he was scared by the shooting. "I have a family as well, three kids and my wife," he said. "Throwing eggs and bottles at the temple is an ongoing process but these bullets really put us in a panic."
The president of the Council of Indian Australians, Yadu Singh, said the shooting was a sign that attacks on the temple were becoming more serious. There were no worshippers in the building at the time of the shooting--unlike an incident last November when two windows were smashed by people armed with metal bars. "The bottom line is that something needs to be done, because it is not a one-off event," Singh said. 'We have a right to exist. We have a right to practice our religion."
The temple was established in 1977. In 2001, a new building was erected with a contemporary design. The temple's main Deities are Radha Krishna. Other Deities include Ganesha, Lord Ram, Sita and Laxman, Hanumanji, Sri Nathji, Mahavir Swami, Shirdi Sai Baba, Jhulelal Bhagwan, Lord Shiva, Shankar/Paarvati Parivaar, Amba Mata and the Navagrahas.
Modern hypnotism began in the early 1800s and drew in part on the Hindu teachings on breath control and concentration. Age regression is one of its forms, used in theory to uncover and release early life experiences that may be the underlying cause of present day mental and even physical ills.
Hypnotic implant of suggestions is widely accepted, but age regression remains highly controversial. If the hypnotherapist takes you back to your birth and then asks, "Where were you before you were born?" are the details revealed from an actual past life or a fantasy of the incredibly creative dream power of the human mind released from the fetters of distraction? Whatever you may believe, there is plenty of clinical evidence that it works. People are being healed. Past life regression has become a huge growth industry. With a Hindu majority population that believes in reincarnation, India now has over 150 practitioners.
Whether it's in the privacy of a conservative psychologist's office, on stage on Oprah or India's hot reality show "Secrets of Previous Lives" or at a Past Life Regression Party with your friends, there are hundreds of hypnotists ready to help you release the memories at the root of your phobias. Debate over the practice is hot, which may be a good thing. Scientific auditing would root out fraud but also verify the facts in many cases and push the truth of reincarnation even farther forward in global awareness.
Cambodia's famed Preah Vihear Siva temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sadly, one of its wings collapsed under Thai military bombardment in February. The temple lies right on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. A 1962 international court ruled that the temple belonged to Cambodia, based on early French maps. But Thailand claims the area surrounding the temple. A Khmer Rouge refuge for three decades, the temple was opened after they surrendered, only to find itself at the center of another military skirmish early this year. Tensions still run high and the fighting continues, as everyone prays for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
The gopuram of Tamil Nadu's famed 1,250-year-old Siva temple, Kailasanathar, was on the verge of collapse. Rural Education and Conservation of Heritage (REACH Foundation) got involved. With three-foot wide cracks, replacement of stones would have been challenging and perhaps even dangerous. REACH recruited Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) a premier engineering institute, for advice. IIT's team analyzed the structure and deemed the cracks to be "non-progressive." Instead of manipulating the structure, the cracks were "stitched like cloth." Corrosion resistant high-chromium content stainless steel rods are placed at intervals spanning the cracks. They are anchored with epoxy, immobilizing both sides of the crack. which is then filled. Twenty locations were "sewn" together. See REACH's site: conserveheritage.org
Just three days away from India by ship, Dubai has a long history as a trading gateway between India and the Persian Gulf. Ships coming through the Straight of Hormuz find a calm, protected port at Dubai. As far back as the first millennium bce, Dubai's pearls were renowned all the way to China. Hindu gold and textile merchants thrived in ancient UAE. Since the discovery of oil, UAE has become one of West Asia's most developed nations. The 1963 population of 93,000 grew to 5.7 million by 2009. Nearly two million are Indian nationals, including 33,000 millionaires and legions of workers, who collectively send 5 billion US dollars a year back to India.
A relatively liberal Muslim state, UAE is tolerant of other faiths. You may practice Hinduism freely at home. But there is only one Hindu temple in the whole country, Dubai's Shiva/Krishna Mandir (built in 1958), to serve the Hindu population, estimated to be around 700,000. If your living space is a labor camp bunk, you won't have your own private shrine. To get blessings and a spiritual boost, you must stand in line for hours with ten thousand other faithful for a moment of darshan to make your weekly hook-up with the Divine.
When Anant Pai launched the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, it was an instant hit. He was a visionary who helped millions of children delve into the fascinating treasure trove of Indian sacred stories, mythology, history and legends through comics. The shy but affectionate man became a legend in his own lifetime. He signed handwritten letters to his young fans as "Uncle Pai." He died on February 25, 2011, at the age of 81 after a massive heart attack.
The Amar Chitra Katha series left an indelible mark on Indian popular culture. Uncle Pai started the series after a stint with The Times of India. He was motivated by a TV quiz in which contestants rattled off answers related to Greek myths but didn't know the name of Rama's mother. Most publishers were skeptical, but Pai persisted and the series finally began with the launch of the first title, "Krishna." He lent it the auspicious Indian touch by titling it number 11.
The early years were tough--there are anecdotes of Pai personally setting up display racks in restaurants. But today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year in more than 20 languages, and has sold over 100 million copies since its inception.Pai is survived by his wife Lalitha. The couple did not have any children, though Pai was adored by millions of young readers. See:
One of few hindu schools of its kind, Kanchi-puram's new Sri Kanchi Maha-swami Vidya Mandir at Rajakilpakkam, outside Chennai, offers academic as well as religious studies. V. Shankar, a Mumbai-based businessman who initiated the project, explains, "Students will be taught Vedas and Puranas every morning and evening, academic studies during the day and finish their school work before going to bed."Only Brahmin boys are accepted into the residential patashala, but girls may enroll for the academic studies program. Studies will be overseen by Kanchipuram's Shankara Math inaffiliation with the Central Board of Secondary Education. The Kanchi Shankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswati, inaugurated the new school on March 16, 2011. See: | <urn:uuid:8afd9117-8e2a-4588-b604-795acf44abe1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/print.php?itemid=5182 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969161 | 1,677 | 1.820313 | 2 |
I have only seven Astin’s so far in my family tree – it is a name I haven’t researched very much. The earliest Astin is my 3x great grandfather Robert who was born about 1805 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The other six are Robert’s children including my 2x great grandmother Ann who was born about 1831 in Rough Lee, Lancashire.
According to surnamedb Astin is of Old Scandinavian (Norse) origin, and is a Norman form of the Old Norse personal name “Asketill”. It was apparently a popular male personal name before the Norman Conquest of 1066, having been introduced by Viking invaders many years earlier.
The name can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086 as “Aschil”. There is a Robertus filius (a son of) Astin mentioned in 1219 in the Assize Court Rolls of Yorkshire.
The surname itself was first recorded in the early 13th Century, and one Hugh Astyn was listed in the Assize Court Rolls of Yorkshire in 1297. Also John Asketyn and William Hastin were both noted in the Assize Court Rolls of Kent in 1317.
Recordings from London Church Registers include: the marriage of Ales Astin and Amys Allin at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, on April 13th 1602, and the marriage of Henrie Astin and Jane Ginninges on October 16th 1615, at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney. There is a William Astin buried in the parish of St. Michael’s, in the Barbadoes, on July 30th 1678.
Modern day variants include Askin, Astins, Ashken, Haskin, Haskins and Hasting. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Astin, which was dated 1230, in the “Pipe Rolls of Devonshire” | <urn:uuid:cb8bad57-5aad-4ee5-9fac-b3639fcd121f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mikeydawson.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/surname-saturday-astin/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=c7a699f16c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966862 | 417 | 2.53125 | 3 |
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- At the LithoVision 2010 event here on Sunday (Feb. 21), Intel Corp. provided a glimpse of its lithography roadmap and disclosed a surprise: 193-nm immersion is expected to extend to the 11-nm logic node and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) is late--again.
At the event, Intel also disclosed its lithography roadmap. At present, Intel is using 193-nm ''dry'' scanners for the 45-nm logic node. The company is now using its first 193-nm immersion tools in the fab, which will enable chips at the 32-nm logic node. Intel is exclusively using Nikon Corp.'s 193-nm immersion scanners for 32-nm, which appeared in 2009.
At one time, Intel hoped to use EUV at 22-nm, which is due out in 2011. The problem is that EUV will not be ready in time for 22- or 15-nm in production--at least at Intel, said Intel senior fellow Yan Borodovsky, director of advanced lithography in the company's Technology and Manufacturing Group.
Intel, which last year disclosed its first details about 22-nm, will extend 193-nm immersion for that node, he said.
The company also reiterated that it could extend 193-nm immersion technology to the 15-nm logic node, which is due out in 2013. ''193-nm immersion with pitch division is the only option'' for high-volume manufacturing at 15-nm, he said.
At 15-nm, "we will be in pilot line production with EUV. If maskless is available, we will be in pilot production (with that technology),'' he said.
Then, at 11-nm, Intel is also looking at 193-nm immersion, with a quint--or five mask--patterning. ''ArF can do it with five masks,'' he said.
At 11-nm, it reiterated its concept of a ''complementary'' or mix-and-match strategy, in which 193-nm immersion could work hand-in-hand with EUV or maskless lithography to enable advanced chip designs.
It's unclear which technology--EUV or maskless--will get the nod at Intel. To get inserted within Intel, EUV must prove that it works by 2011 or 2012. Maskless must prove viable and that it works by 2012.
Logic devices require more relaxed IC design rules, compared to NAND flash. For that reason, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. wants EUV lithography by 2012 despite signs that the technology will not be ready by that time.
A principal engineer within the process development team at Samsung (Seoul) said that EUV and the associated infrastructure must be ready by 2012--at least for Samsung. In fact, seeking to get a jump on its rivals, Samsung itself wants to go into production--albeit limited production--by 2012 using EUV, provided that the technology has overcome the challenges and is ready to roll. | <urn:uuid:42574e32-1c50-4e06-8700-99795a41f8a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4087879/SPIE-Intel-to-extend-immersion-to-11-nm | 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 | 0.913749 | 614 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Originally Posted by gruessle
1) The kernel doesn't care where you place the files. Right now I use a debian system with Ferora and Gentoo in a chroot. Both work fine with the Debian kernel.
In other words, if you have a kernel that works for you then use that it should work with the rest of the installation.
2) I don't get what you mean with files are "split up into many files", I am just guessing but you must be extracting it wrong. Maybe it's a windows thing, I haven't used windows in 15 years so I wouldn't be able to help you with that.
3) I have included everything you need to duplicate what I got, which works for me, and it appears to work for others too. Now i don't use that phone much, and there might be bugs I am unaware of, but don't tell me it doesn't work at all, just because you can't get it to work.
To reiterate on what I said in an earlier post, it was my understanding that /system required files to be placed in a certain area under a certain name. Wether that name be /data or /bin or whatever. Maybe I stand corrected...
On the installation of the kernel, I used both the RUU and HardSPL methods (flash from win xp and flash from SD card). Neither process worked for me... Something I'm doing wrong?
I don't understand as much about Debian as I should, but since I wrote code and programs in SCO Xenix in the past, I should have some grasp on how Linux works.
As for Android, I'm just beginning to understand the different parameters that makes it work with phones and other devices. I apologize for any lack of knowledge that I show or mistakes I make in figuring this stuff out.
Development device (still running strong)
AT&T Tilt/HTC Kaiser 160
Fresh Froyo 8/29/11
Scoot's 188.8.131.52 N50Vc Kernel
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Debt & debt collectors know my rights
You are responsible for your debts. If you fall behind in
paying your creditors or an error is made on your account, you may be
contacted by a "debt collector." A debt collector is any person, other
than the creditor, who regularly collects debts owed to others.
This includes lawyers who collect debts on a regular basis. You
have the right to be treated fairly by debt collectors.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) applies to personal,
family, and household debts. This includes money owed for the purchase
of a car, for medical care, or for charge accounts. The FDCPA prohibits
debt collectors from engaging in unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices
while collecting these debts.
Your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:
- Debt collectors may contact you only between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.
- Debt collectors may not contact you at work if they know your employer disapproves.
- Debt collectors may not harass, oppress, or abuse you.
- Debt collectors may not lie when collecting debts, such as falsely implying that you have committed a crime.
- Debt collectors must identify themselves to you on the phone.
- Debt collectors must stop contacting you if you ask them to in writing.
The Score That Matters®
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an amendment by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to preserve $4.5 billion in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by trimming the guaranteed profit for crop insurance companies to 12% from 14%. The vote, which was part of the overall discussion on the Farm Bill, wasn't even close, and the amendment was defeated by a 66-33 margin.
Those of us who participated in Bread for the World's Lobby Day on June 12, asked our senators to support the amendment. Sen. Tom Udall was one of the 33 senators who voted yay, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman joined the majority who voted nay. Here is the Roll Call vote. (For Bread members in New Mexico, who would like to send a note of thanks to Sen. Udall, click here.)
This was a missed opportunity to protect funding for a program that helps countless of our brothers and sisters put meal on the table!
"Half of the food stamp beneficiaries are children, 17 percent are seniors, and unfortunately now 1.5 million households are veteran households
that are receiving food stamps," Gillibrand said in a quote published in an article The Huffington Post.
But there is also the other aspect of Sen. Gillibrand's amendment: crop insurance. Earlier this month, The New York Times published piece entitled Crop Insurance Proposal Could Cost U.S. Billions.
To understand the issue better, it's important to know about crop insurance. Here's how the Times describes it:
"Crop insurance has existed for decades, with the government now spending
about $7 billion a year to pay about two-thirds of the cost of farmers’
premiums. Under the federal program, farmers can buy insurance that
covers poor yields, declines in prices or both."
So how could it end up costing more to expand the crop insurance program?
"At the same time that high crop prices are prompting farmers to expand
into millions of acres of land once considered unsuitable for farming,
Congress is considering expanding a federal insurance program that
reimburses farmers for most losses or drops in prices."
"The combination could cost the government billions of dollars if the
newly farmed land does not yield enough crops and especially if crop
And here is an important point made in the article:
"Even some farmers argue that the subsidies are already generous to
agribusinesses, especially with the government facing large deficits.
Jim Faulstich, a farmer and rancher in Highmore, S.D., said he was in
favor of farmers having crop insurance, but added that the insurance
should not be used to make money at taxpayer expense."
And mind you, the Gillibrand Amendment was not calling for a drastic reduction in crop insurance funding: only a limit on the guaranteed profit for insurance companies.
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Northeast State Theater stages Oedipus Rex Oct. 13-16
An abandoned child. A murdered king. A deadly secret.
Northeast State Community College Theater Department will bring these classic elements of Sophocles' tragedy to life next month in a fierce and visually arresting production of Oedipus Rex.
A standard in most English and Theater classes, Sophocles' tragic story of love and doom is one of the first family tragedies with unspeakable drama. Set in classical Greece with the actors using masks, this ambitious production tells the story in a striking style.
"This is the most ambitious technical production we have ever attempted," said Brad McKenzie, the play's director. "With the masks, lighting, and entire production, we are raising the bar of expectation for what an audience can expect to see in community college theater."
The play opens with King Oedipus facing a terrible curse has befallen the city of Thebes. He sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to seek the advice of Apollo and restore order. Creon informs Oedipus that the curse will be lifted if the murderer of Laius, the former king of Thebes, is punished. Learning of Apollo's counsel, Oedipus dedicates himself to the discovery and prosecution of Laius's murderer. He questions unwilling citizens including the blind prophet Teiresias who gives him a warning that the new king may not be able to disregard. While his wife Jocasta begs him to ignore the prophecy, Oedipus obsessively seeks to learn why he was abandoned as an infant and adopted by another family. His search leads him to a series of horrifying revelations about Laius's death, his wife Jocasta, their children, and his fate.
Sophocles' masterful work of characters and chorus plays out through lighting and sound. As the actors portray the characters, the production's technical artistry creates the psychological anguish and tragedy through vivid effects making this an unforgettable theatrical experience.
Play performances are Oct. 13 – 16 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee showing at 2 p.m. on Oct. 16. All performances will be staged in the Wellmont Regional Center for the Performing Arts (map) on the College's main campus, 2425 Highway 75, adjacent to Tri-Cities Regional Airport.
Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for non-Northeast State students, seniors, military veterans, and emergency personnel. Performances are free to current Northeast State students, but they must pick up their tickets at the box office. Tickets can be purchased online now at www.NortheastState.edu or at the theater's box office one hour prior to the show.
The house open 30 minutes before show time. For more information, please call Northeast State Theater at 423.354.2479 or 423.323.0218.
Northeast State's Oedipus Rex showcases students' technical design talent
The Northeast State Community College Theater Department takes a bold step forward in live theater production with the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex debuting in October.
The production unites Sophocles' ancient story with postmodern staging to create an elaborate drama unlike anything attempted by Northeast State Theater.
"The costumes, the masks, and the single set lend credence to the old Greek style," said Brad McKenzie, the director of Oedipus. "There is a lot of work for the acting direction which is as ambitious as the design."
The play opens with King Oedipus seeking a way to lift a curse on the city of Thebes. The solution given to him from the god Apollo sets in motion a series of tragic revelations about Oedipus and his life.
"We are trying to appeal to a young college-age crowd," he says. "We really want to open up the possibilities of the live theater experience at the community college."
McKenzie and students Adam Honeycutt, Richard Curtis, and Derek Smithpeters began formulating the play's technical aspects earlier this year. The technical capabilities of the Wellmont Regional Center for the Performing Arts Theater make this one of the department's most anticipated productions ever.
"It is fantastic to have student designers spend this much time with a production," says Elizabeth M. Sloan, instructor and director of the Northeast State Theater program. "It is a lot of hard work, and as an actor, I'm excited to see the production come together with the cast and these creations."
Curtis found a formula online to create the masks using a combination of joint compound, boiled linseed oil, tissue paper, flour, and glue. The result yields sturdy flexible masks that hold paint and absorb light.
"I looked at the classic designs and developed a look we wanted," says Curtis, mask designer and assistant scene designer. "I took Brad's concept and put a modern spin on the masks."
In the tradition of Greek theater, each character wears a mask. The twist comes through the stage effects of lighting and sound that amplify the dramatic tension and gives the audience a surround-sound feel of a character's emotional state. Honeycutt worked behind the scenes as stage manager on Dracula and The Wizard of Oz. He creates the sound cues in Oedipus to work in concert with the dialogue and lighting design.
"We are all pretty competitive," says Honeycutt of his colleagues. "I've learned a ton of stuff from Brad."
Creating the deadly gashes and damaged bodies falls to Smithpeters and his skill with stage makeup. As it turns out, an artist can create the bloody effects of murder and mutilation with many common household products.
"We use liquid latex, coffee grounds, and oatmeal," said Smithpeters. "You work with the textures and add some color."
Curtis, Honeycutt, and Smithpeters are students and more, according to Sloan. All three have put in long hours for productions at Northeast State Theatre. This project, she says, showcases their talents on a grand scale.
"We have one of the best technical departments of any college theater program in this region," says Sloan. "I am delighted and amazed at the imagination and quality the students are putting into this production."
A Northeast Status alumnus, McKenzie earned a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Mississippi in theater design before bringing his talents back to Blountville. His work earned him a design award from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He hopes this production could find its way to a nomination for the Kennedy Center Awards next year.
Opening night for Oedipus Rex is Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the WRCPA. Performances continue Oct. 13 – 16 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee showing at 2 p.m. on Oct. 16. All performances will be held in the WRCPA Theater on the College's main campus.
Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for non-Northeast State students, seniors, military veterans, and emergency personnel. Performances are free to current Northeast State students, but those tickets must be picked up at the box office. Tickets can be purchased online now at www.NortheastState.edu or at the theater's box office one hour prior to the show.
Northeast State Theatre follows up the fall semester with the holiday performance of The Littlest Angel (rights pending) in December. The Christmas play doesn't give the techies any time off. Sets must be built, sound cues rehearsed, and the next show goes forward.
"We've set a pretty high standard," says McKenzie. "This is going to be a fun semester."
Elizabeth M. Sloan, Director of Theatre
American Civil War expert to lecture at Northeast State
Noted American Civil War historian Dr. David Goldfield will lecture on "The Tragedy of the American Civil War" Sept. 26 at noon at Northeast State's Wellmont Regional Center for the Performing Arts.
Goldfield, the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the author of the highly acclaimed American Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation. He has been praised for his new and provocative interpretation of the American Civil War era and his lecture will feature a large cast of characters including Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Stephens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass. Goldfield said the lecture would not be the usual "battles and leaders" account, but a broad cultural and literary history with many connections to today's events.
For more information about Dr. Goldfield, visit his Web site at www.davidgoldfield.us.
The Wellmont Regional Center for the Performing Arts is located on Northeast State's Blountville campus, 2425 Highway 75. For information, contact Jim Kelly 423.279.7669 [email protected].
Northeast State at Elizabethton offers RAD self-defense course
ELIZABETHTON – A free course designed to give women the basic tools of self-defense and confidence to use them begins this month at Northeast State Community College in Elizabethton. Women can learn the art of self-defense and survival through the Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D) course offered at the Northeast State at Elizabethton teaching site on Sept. 28, Oct. 5 and 12 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The R.A.D. System is a comprehensive, women-only course that teaches awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training. The course includes lecture, discussion and self-defense techniques, suitable for women of all ages and abilities.
The R.A.D. program was developed through the contributions of instructors across the United States and Canada. More than 250,000 women have attended a R.A.D. Basic Physical Defense course. Northeast State at Elizabethton is located at 386 Highway 91 across from the Elizabethton Municipal Airport.
The course is free to women ages 13 years and older. Registration is required. To register or learn more, contact course instructor Francis Canedo at 423.279.3694 or [email protected].
Jazz aficionado Wayne Goins plays Northeast State Sept. 22
Jazz musician and professor Dr. Wayne Goins deliver the seminal jazz music at Northeast State Community College on Sept. 22 at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to lecture and perform selection of his jazz material at the Wellmont Regional Center for the Performing Arts.
Goins' numerous jazz albums reveal a musician of deep feeling, unassailable generosity, and exquisite taste. He will both lecture about the intricacies of this American music and play selections from his formidable career in jazz.
Critics called his Chronicles of Carmela a "breathtakingly beautiful" jazz recording. Goins composed, arranged, and produced all 11 songs and gave his musicians plenty of room to improvise. On the opening tracks, Goins, tenor saxophonist Craig Treinen, and pianist Bill Wingfield conjure images of Wes Montgomery and/or young George Benson sitting in with Atlantic-era John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner. His collaborations are extraordinary with such jazz contemporaries as saxophonist Bobby Watson, organist Jimmy McGriff and many others.
Goins has experience in Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta, conducting jazz ensembles and teaching guitar at Morehouse College, Emory University, and Kennesaw State University. Goins authored the award-winning book, A Biography of Charlie Christian (2005), as well as The Jazz Band Director's Handbook (2003), and Emotional Response to Music: Pat Metheny's Secret Story (2001).
In addition to being an outstanding composer and guitarist, Goins is Director of the Jazz Studies at Kansas State University and co-author of A Biography of Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar's King of Swing. In 2006 Goins published The Wise Improvisor, a college textbook on jazz improvisation. Goins founded Little Apple Records, his own record label, and released West Coast Swing, Standard Fare, Smokin' at The Oak Bar, Bluesin' With The B3, Home…Cookin!, and Chronicles of Carmela, released in early 2011.
Goins writes for Jazz Ambassador and Jazz Inside magazine, where he has written extensive articles. Goins' first Little Apple release since 2006, Chronicles of Carmela, showcases not only his guitar but also his writing chops. "Carmela" is Wayne's guitar, and he says in the liners that he drew inspiration from her to write the music in this record. Don't miss the chance to hear Goins talk about the uniquely American musical style and hear a guitar style from one of the genre's most prolific artists.
The lecture and performance are free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the College's Cultural Activities Committee. Learn more about Wayne Goins at his web sitewww.waynegoins.com.
Jim Kelly, Assistant Professor, History and Humanities
[email protected] / 423.279.7669
Dr. Janice H. Gilliam, President
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1.6m of us live on just €50 a month
ALMOST 1.6million people have just €50 or less left at the end of the month once essential bills have been paid.
The figures were revealed in a shocking new survey by the Irish League of Credit Unions.
More and more people are seeing their disposable income decimated by increased taxes and welfare cuts as families struggle to make ends meet.
And of that 1.6million, 690,000 people say they are left with NOTHING in their pocket after bills.
Eight in ten adults say the Budget has had a negative impact on their finances, with 41 per cent saying the property tax will have the most significant effect on their lives.
A further 19 per cent believe they will be mostly hit by the removal of the PRSI threshold.
ILCU chief Kieron Brennan said: “Irish people continue to be squeezed and many are simply continuing to struggle to survive on a daily basis.
“Many individuals and families are sacrificing spending on other household items including food so that they can keep on top of their bills.
“One of the most worrying pieces of data emerging is the number of people who are aware of moneylenders operating in their community.
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The Return Path In the Know blog listed 4 reasons mailing those old addresses is a bad idea.
Ashley, the author, is completely right and I endorse everything she said. (Although I’d really like to hear what happened to the customer that added back all those addresses. What was the effect on that campaign and future email marketing?) As I was reading the article though, I realized how many times this has been said and how depressing it is that we have to say it again. And again. And again.
A number of folks have told me that the reason they don’t pay any attention to delivery professionals is because we don’t provide enough real data. They can show that sending mail to old addresses costs them nothing, and makes them real money.
That’s not really true, though. We do provide data, they just don’t like it so they don’t listen to it. Return Path publishes lots of numbers showing that mailing unengaged recipients lowers overall delivery. I can provide case studies and data but companies that are committed to sending as much mail as possible throw up many reasons why our data isn’t good or valid.
The biggest argument is that they want hard numbers. I do understand this. Numbers are great. Direct and clear answers are wonderful. But delivery is a squishy science. There are a lot of inputs and a lot of modifiers and sometimes we can’t get exactly one answer. The data is noisy, and difficult to replicate. One of the reasons is that filtering is a moving target. Filters are not, and cannot be, fixed. They are adaptive and are changing even between one hour and the next.
Delivery experts are about risk management. They are the parents requiring everyone in the car wear seat belts, even though the driver has never had an accident. They are the fire department enforcing fire codes, even though it’s the rainy season.
Risk management isn’t about the idea that bad things will absolutely happen but rather that it is more likely that a bad thing will happen in some cases.
In this case, it’s more likely that delivery problems will happen when mailing old addresses. And if those addresses aren’t actively contributing to revenue, it’s hard to argue that their presence on a list is more beneficial than their absence.
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Less than five months have passed since the assassination of the famous Arab-Israeli artist, stage actor, filmmaker and political activist Juliano Mer Khamis, 52, who was shot dead in his car on Monday April 4 2011 by masked gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin, which is under control of the Palestinian Authority.
Now, the body of another famous French-Palestinian artist, Francois Gaspar (Francois Abu Salem “Abu Jamil”), 60 years, was found on Saturday, October 1st 2011 in the suburb of Al-Tira, a district of Ramallah which is under the Palestinian Authority control. The news about the alleged suicide of the artist and his alleged suffering and deep depression spread quickly, as if it had been ready and waiting for publication even before the occurrence of the purported suicide.
Francois Gaspar did not have depressions under the Israeli occupation despite all the obstacles placed in front of his artistic work, so how and why did the depression hit the artist under the Palestinian Authority?
What did the fat cats in power, the obscene people who are members of the “presidential” circle, do to Gaspar that the depression hit him so hard that it killed him?
Who is the criminal among the many “presidential” thieves behind the death of the artist Gaspar, and before, who was behind the assassination of artist Mer Khamis and who proceeded to loot the history and work of these artists, who foisted himself upon the cultural scene and the National Theater of Palestina only to proceed to divert millions of dollars into his own pockets under the scam of “development of the theater stage”, which he actually destroyed over the heads of those artists who had worked tirelessly to build it in first place?
The death and the assassination of two artists living in Palestine in less than half a year is not ONLY a loss for the Palestinian artistic and cultural scene. It is a national disaster, a catastrophe and a disgrace firmly stamped on the forehead of the Palestinian National Authority in every sense of the word.
The Palestinian Authority bears full responsibility for these crimes which are directly related to the influential fat cats “working” at the presidential cycle around Mahmoud Abbas. These obscene criminals who are around President Abass and before him were around President Arafat, the ones who monopolize positions and use them to develop several “national” companies which they in turn use to loot funds belonging to the Palestinian people, these are the thieves behind the murder and death of the Palestinian artists. Simply said, they got rid of those artists who were seen as obstacles to their industrial-scale thievery.
The ambitions of these fat cats in power, which essentially meant that they grabbed the Palestinian Natinal Theater under the guise of “supporting and developing the artistic work and theater” by using stolen funds which were supposed to be used to help poor Palestinians, pushed away those who had built it up the cultural scene with crimes, or by paying others to commit crimes against those Palestinian artists who stood in their way.
Since the coming to power of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and before that in Gaza, the powerful fat cats at the “presidential circle”, established privately owned “national” companies in order to climb on the shoulders of the Palestinian nation suck its blood and the history of his national struggle at all levels. Finally, the theft and the conflict of the influential fat cats at the Palestinian Authority reached the National Theater and caused the death of the most prominent actors and exponents of the Palestinian cultural scene.
Francois Gaspar (Abu Salem) was born in 1951. His father was Hungarian- French poet and surgeon, Lorand Gaspar, and his mother was French sculptor Francine Gaspar. He was raised in east Jerusalem, Beirut and France. He returned to live in Jerusalem after an absence of several years during which he lived in Paris. He continued his career in the Palestinian Theater which he had started early in the seventies of the last century. During the seventies, Gaspar and others founded the “Blalin” music band. The band was a milestone in the advancement of the Palestinian theater. Abu Salem was also a co-founder of the El-Hakawati Theatre, which later grew into the Palestinian National Theatre in east Jerusalem.
Gaspar was considered the most prominent founders of the modern Palestinian theater. Since its beginnings and since the debut of the piece “Darkness”, which also highlighted the band “Blalin”, it was clear that Francois Abu Salem was inclined to adventure and to artistic experimentation. He directed several movies and received the Palestine Prize for theatre from deceased Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in 1998.
Juliano Mer Khamis, who was assassinated about five months ago, was the head of Jenin’s Freedom Theater. The Theater receives support from a number of international institutions. Mer Khamis was born in the Israeli-Arab city of Nazareth to a Jewish-Israeli mother and a Christian Israeli-Arab father. He served in the Israeli army as a paratrooper and portrayed Israeli Jews in many of his roles, both in film and on stage.
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Isolated Fractionally Charged Matter
"I have discarded one uncertain and unduplicated observation apparently on a singly charged drop, which gave a value of the charge on the drop some 30 percent lower than the final value of e."
Robert A. Millikan
Philos. Mag. 110, 209(1910)
Why search for fractionally charged free particles?
The scientific and engineering payoff if fractionally charged particles are found is very high.
- Discovery or lack of discovery constrains theory
- Stable fractionally charged particles may be technologically useful
The main evidence against the existence of isolated fractionally charged matter is that it has never been observed in a repeatable experiment.
- Quark confinement is not based upon fundamental theory but was invented to explain the lack of observation of free fractional charge
- Observations of fractional charge have been made
- None of the experiments were repeatable
Possible origin of isolated fractionally charge particles in bulk matter
- Creation of free fractionally charged particles in the Big Bang
- Attachment of these particles to normal atoms
- Condensing of these atoms with bound fractionally charged particles with the material of protostellar nebula to form planets and stars
This is analogous to the process of how rare heavy elements formed in supernova are mixed with the more common light elements.
Searching for isolated fractionally charged particles
Search in bulk matter
- Big Bang was the ultimate high energy event, much higher energy than accelerators
- Fractionally charged particles are stable
Search taking account altered electronegativities caused by fractional charge
- Fractionally charged atoms are chemically unique
- Exact chemistry is uncertain
- Best materials are substances that have not undergone complex chemistry that can unpredictably segregate out atoms with attached fractional charges
- Carbonaceous chondritic meteoric material and moon dust may be good candidates
Search using a high mass throughput technique
- Past failures to consistently detect fractional charge could have been due to inadequate throughput
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But some residents of Arizona, in their latest of fascist fear responses, are objecting to local media’s use of the term “haboob” in recent weather reports.
Haboob, a term for a specific type of sandstorm, is derived from Arabic.
Its origin is not just pertinent to a regional language, however, according to some folks in the state. “Haboob” is … Middle Eastern, according to a resident from Gilbert, who told of his objection to the term in a letter to the editor.
“While other countries in the world may call them that, this is the United States,” wrote Don Yonts, who stressed “this is Arizona, not some Middle Eastern nation.”
A few days earlier, another from the Grand Canyon State complained to the Arizona Star that use of the word “robbed” local residents “of our culture.”
Use of the word isn’t new in the area, either. According to a climatologist from Arizona State, “Meteorologists in the Southwest have used the term for decades.”
And you wanna know another interesting fact on this topic? “Haboob” isn’t the only word of Arabic origin frequently used in the United States, either.
Just fish the almanac out of your alcove to verify the historic occurrence of those haboobs striking the adobe style homes in Arizona. Those terms are Arabic, after all.
If you’re a closet meteorologist attempting to use algebra and algorithms to determine when another storm might strike, you’re using Arabic then, too.
You’ll have to skip the sugar from your coffee and the syrup from any candy, if Arabic words bother you so much, and refrain from eating any artichoke, apricot, lemon, lime or orange, too. Those are all Arabic (… I mean, “Middle Eastern!”) words.
Protest near the gazelles and giraffes at your local zoo; cancel all your magazine subscriptions; throw the saffron and tarragon from your spice cabinet; scrape those sesame seeds from the bun of your Big Mac; yank your children from chemistry class; put the cork back in your carafe of wine; remove the sequins from your wife’s satin dresses; and burn all of your own clothing made of cotton.
If this Arabic word usage in the country, not to mention its long and lengthy contributions to the English language, still bothers you so much, then maybe you’d like to step down from your patriotic rank of Admiral, only to become an assassin after robbing the arsenal to load up your .22 caliber rifle. Yeah, those are Arabic terms, too, pal.
This is only the latest xenophobic attack from rightwingers in Arizona, albeit a new format (linguaxenophobia?). It’s also the home of SB1070, the bill passed into law earlier this year that allows police to detain folks simply for not looking Caucasian enough, on the phobic proposition those persons may be illegal aliens.
Arizona Republicans want to remove the 14th Amendment, too, due to its granting of citizenship to persons who are born in the U.S.
This state also has large presence of privatized prisons detaining illegal immigrants, and which delay their deportation as long as possible – only to score as much money as possible from the government.
Before long, these rightwing Arizonans need to come to terms with fact: they have thousands and thousands of non-Caucasian neighbors whose families have lived in Arizona longer than their own families – and who’s families have held U.S. citizenship longer than a wide majority of white American families, too
And those Arabic words you now protest? They’ve been used in our English language for centuries – and for longer than most white American families have used English.
So give it up, already.
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Here is what I am reading today:
“When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested. Let’s look at how a different brands are using Instagram, Pinterest and Foodspotting to reach out to potential customers in novel ways. “
“As we grow older and more cynical wise, it becomes clear that these cartoons taught us how to not only be good people, but also good business people.
Want proof? Here you go:”
“Today Domino’s launched “Pizza Hero” a new semi-real-time advergame that challenges you to become just that, a Pizza Hero as you battle people from around the world to top the leaderboard. The app is pretty cool, and will have you kneading dough, spreading sauce, sprinkling cheese, placing toppings, and cutting slices as you race against the clock.”
“The sites — which combine elements of crowdsourcing, social media, and an old-fashioned recipe swap — are popular destinations on the Web. Allrecipes.com, a subsidiary of Reader’s Digest, claims more than 20 million unique monthly visitors. Scripps Networks says its Food.com has about four million. Other sites that feature user-submitted recipes, such as Cooks.com and the Recipe Wiki on Wikia.com, also attract millions of visitors each month and feature a gluttonous variety of menu choices. (Leeza’s is but one of more than 300 cranberry sauce options on Allrecipes.com.)”
“We identified the top Tweeters in the sports universe, about 4,000 in all, to see how they fit together. Starting with a handful of major sports voices and identifying accounts connected to them, we filtered those results and repeated the process until the universe became clear. (Data was collected in Sept. 2011). “ | <urn:uuid:e143418f-cff6-49ad-85f6-dfd19dd2508e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://karenfreberg.com/blog/?p=3224 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949298 | 432 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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Sermon # 32
“Living for Jesus in the Valley.”
In verses one through thirteen of this chapter Jesus had taken his inner circle of three disciples, Peter, James and John, up on the mountaintop and He was transfigured before them. We discovered that being transfigured means that Jesus became on the outside what he was on the inside. For a brief moment the veil of His flesh was put aside and the disciples were able to see the glory of his deity. The disciples saw Moses and Elijah and listened as they talked with Jesus about his impending death on the Cross. They even heard the voice of God the Father as He said, “This is my beloved Son, Hear Him.” The disciples must have been almost beside themselves with excitement as they came down the mountain. They certainly did not understand everything that had happened to them, but they were no doubt full of joy.
Suddenly the disciples find themselves in the real world. Verses fourteen and fifteen describe the situation, “And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes disputing with them. (15) Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him.”
When Jesus and the disciples came down from the mountain they find the other nine disciples engaged in an argument with some scribes. It was a noisy scene. The nine disciples who remained behind in the valley are being heckled and mocked by a group of smug and sneering scribes. It seems that a desperate father had brought his demon possessed son to Jesus for healing. But when he had arrived Jesus had already gone up on the mountain, so he asked the disciples to heal his son. They had been unable to cast out the demon and the scribes are contemptuous of them for their lack of power. No doubt the scribes were delighting in the failure of the disciples and were using the opportunity to put down the Savior. They were probably using the failure of the disciples to argue that Jesus was also lacking in power. The crowd judged Jesus by His disciples, and they still do.
When the people saw Jesus the text tells us that they were “amazed.” I believe that they are amazed because the sudden appearance of Jesus was at the very moment that His disciples needed him most. Jesus appears almost out of nowhere, at a time when he is not expected, yet moment that He was needed.
When Jesus arrives on the scene He asks for an explanation in verse sixteen. “And He asked the scribes, "What are you discussing with them?" (17) Then one of the crowd answered and said, "Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. (18) And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not."
Some modern commentators render this boy as an epileptic – to accommodate our modern sensibilities -but it is more, much more. The problem is not just neurological; it was demonic. The Bible teaches that evil is not just an impersonal force, - like the Star Wars, “the dark side.” But rather evil exists and is furthered through the work of Satan and his demons. Believers have no
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Biographer (Robert Graves, 1995; Ottoline Morrell, 1993) Seymour offers the tale of one Nancy Brewster, whose unstable life is blown out of the water (and into an asylum) by the unscrupulous Isabel March, a character based on the poet Laura Riding. The central event that we wait (and wait) for here is the 1939 stealing of Nancy Brewster’s putatively brilliant literary husband Chance by the putatively brilliant Isabel March/Laura Riding. Isabel has come to the Brewsters as a long-term houseguest, bringing her English non-husband Charles Neville, based on the poet Robert Graves, who in real life did live with Laura Riding but who could be eliminated here (he does in fact just go away) without loss. The sources of Nancy Brewster’s vulnerability are in no doubt as Seymour invents for her a deeply repressed childhood in Boston, a family who adored her brother but neglected her, a frigid mother, and a father who smothered Nancy with a pillow in order to molest her. Strange it can hardly be that Nancy at 18, when she’s moved to New York and marries the penurious but brainy Princeton grad Chance Brewster in 1925, is still afraid of the dark and has problems with sex. History repeats itself, too, when, like her own mother, Nancy dislikes the daughter born as her first child but adores the second, a son. When a beloved uncle dies and the Brewsters move to his big old house—Nancy’s one childhood Eden—on the sea near Salem, Mass., things seem bucolic on the outside, but when the imperious Isabel arrives and begins to steal Chance away, Nancy breaks down amid the symbols of war, witch-hunts, black magic, and danger gathered about her. Appealing glimpses of the day’s East Coast literary life (watch Edmund Wilson take a whipping), but credibility is strained as the psychology of characters is simplified to fit the tale that needs to be told. | <urn:uuid:b182727a-1d56-42c2-906d-483e120d257e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/miranda-seymour/the-summer-of-39/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953334 | 419 | 1.617188 | 2 |
There is a rather special phenomenon that occurs in the fall that we don't quite understand.
For some reason, bait fish and minnows gather around the points at which streams and rivers enter the larger inland lakes. According to one of the Department of Natural Resource's Fisheries Biologists, this gathering is brought on by some sort of subtle temperature change that causes microscopic organisms to gather at the river mouths.
This causes, in turn, a gathering of minnows and small fish, including small perch Those attract predators, including larger perch, pike, trout and walleyes. This fishing starts in mid-to-late September and continues until ice keeps the anglers off the lakes and it usually peaks in October.
The perch very often converge right at the river mouths and they may be in just a few feet of water. More often, they are found in 8-10 feet of water. The walleyes will usually be in somewhat deeper water and farther from the river mouth, but they can be caught in water as thin as eight feet. Most often, they are found in water around 10-12 feet deep.
For the perch, anglers most often seek them with the traditional perch rig, often sold in tackle shops as a "crappie rig." This is the familiar two-hook rig with a swivel on one end of an eighteen-inch piece of monofilament and a sinker on the other end, with two snelled hooks in between.
If you make up your own perch rigs and use those little nylon line-leader connectors, you can have a rig with hooks that are readily moved up or down and you can remove one if you find that one is sufficient or you want to be more frugal with bait. If you use the two-hook rig, you might want to try putting a wiggler on one hook and a small minnow on the other and see which is more productive.
Most of the time, the wigglers will get you more bites, but the minnows will attract larger perch. If you are catching too-small perch consistently, you can try using a larger minnow, but perch are school fish and a given school may be composed almost entirely of the same year class so if you are into small fish, you may have to move on and locate some larger perch.
The very largest perch, the "jumbos" of 11-12 inches, are apt to be mixed in with somewhat smaller fish (but not so small that you wouldn't keep them) or in small schools or running solo, right with the other predators.
If you are tired of spending a lot of money for bait, try fishing for perch (or walleyes) with cut bait. You can use any legally caught fish, including small perch.
Cut a fillet from each side and then cut each fillet into thin strips with the skin intact. Each piece should be about the general dimensions of a small minnow - perhaps and inch and a half long or two inches in length, tapered to be narrower at one end. Hook the strip through the wider end and it will take on much of the appearance of a small minnow, with some action and even a little shine.
Offer it on a small leadhead jig, perhaps an eighth of an ounce, with a small (inch and a half) plastic skirt added. This bait will look good, smell good and even taste good. While it may not take as many fish as a real minnow, every day, it will be a lot more durable and if the fish are biting well it will be just as effective as a minnow.
Leadhead jigs, tipped with small minnows, are one of the best ways to take the fall walleyes too. Find some good-looking water first, searching for a bit of a drop-off or perhaps a weed line or look for fish on your graph.
If you can spot a school of minnows suspended up off the bottom, that would also be a good place to start. The walleyes may be in as little as 8-10 feet of water at dawn, moving a little deeper as the light increases.
Cast your jig out, let it sink all the way to the bottom and then retrieve it in little hops, letting it settle in between hops or jigs. You may have to experiment with the rate of retrieve.
On occasion, you may have to give it just one hop before letting it settle, but most of the time you can give it an energetic two or three hops before letting it sink. The strike will invariably come as the jig is settling and if you are really tuned in, you can feel the slightest bump as the fish takes. Set the hook. | <urn:uuid:2d40941e-b9bb-42c7-84c7-84c337c9bdbe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2007-09-12/larger-perch_24023697 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969449 | 994 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Inside iPhone 2.0: iPhone 3G vs. other smartphones
Battery replacement: It's no surprise that the new iPhone 3G doesn't have a pop-out battery. Most other smartphones supply an accessible battery bay but use it as a crutch to support power-hungry features. That said, anyone using the iPhone away from a power source should consider investing in an external USB power pack, which solves the battery problem but also delivers a much more flexible solution that doesn't require disassembly or rebooting to extend battery life in the way extra removable packs do. External add-ons also provide a much longer potential charge.
As one Blackberry user sarcastically noted in an online comment about the iPhone, "I love the fact that I can remove my Blackberry's battery. In fact, it's absolutely necessary, when I get my daily BREW error and I need to pull the battery to revive the phone. The subsequent 5 minutes of churning hourglass gives me time to reflect on how lucky I am not to have a crappy iPhone." For many, that may well be the second reason for a removable battery: it forces a hard reboot in the same way the Control-Alt-Del shortcut worked for an old DOS PC. The iPhone can be reset by simply holding two buttons and thus has one less problem to contend with. All the same, the release of iPhone 2.0 has been somewhat crash-prone, and until Apple's first bug fix comes down through the Software Update trough, users might wish they had a quicker way to reset their iPhone just like their counterparts with BlackBerries or Palm Treos.
Touchscreen keyboard: Suffice it to say that the touchscreen keyboard makes the iPhone unique. While pundits have squawked non-stop about how consumers wanted tiny "real" keypads, the reality is that most iPhone users quickly adapt to the new input system and are able to type just as fast within a matter of days of regular use. There are some clear advantages to using virtual keys: they can be repositioned to landscape views and replaced with other character sets, making it easier to enter text in other languages. There's still room for enhancements (rumors suggest that rumble feedback might help some users type on the flat surface), but the iPhone's virtual keyboard is certainly not the inherent flaw that some have said it would be.
Most competing mini keypads, such as those on many BlackBerries or Palm phones (particularly the Centro) are simply too small to touch type on and too big to allow a large screen. Slide out keyboards are sometimes mechanically problematic and still can't offer anything approaching the usability of a real keyboard, often being too small to touch type and too big to work with your thumbs.
Other smartphone makers are now jumping on the touchscreen bandwagon, although few offer the same accuracy, usability, and smart correction tricks of the iPhone. The LG Dare and Samsung Instinct fleeting appear to look like an iPhone, but don't use a similar capacitance-sensitive screen. Both use a clumsy pressure sensitive screen instead, which not only lacks multi touch features, but also requires a concentrated effort to use. They're unwieldy to type on, and clumsy to even drag icons around on. One wonders why some reviewers have glossed over this potentially huge difference to suggest that both technologies are similar just because they both involve some form of touch.
MMS vs Email: The iPhone 3G and 2.0 software still does not support MMS picture messaging. That's a problem for people who want to send and receive pictures in MMS with other phone users who depend on it; it may be a blessing in the US, however, where e-mail costs nothing extra and MMS is relatively expensive through AT&T. While the iPhone can't MMS, many other phones can't easily send or receive photos via email. And computers also can -- so the iPhone's ability to send free photos to anyone, including to Facebook and other services, helps makes up for Apple's unwillingness to fall in line. It's nonetheless quite ridiculous that AT&T can't figure out how to at least relay incoming MMS to iPhone users via the web. Currently, it sends an SMS with a username and password that must be typed in manually. An automated URL hyperlink would enable iPhone users to see the MMS in their browser without a hitch.
The iPhone 3G's leading hardware features
While some features are a matter of subjective taste, in other areas the iPhone 3G's hardware clearly stands out as superior to other smartphones (and feature phones clearly aiming at leaching on to the iPhone's movement).
Data storage: The iPhone 3G, thanks to its iPod ancestry, supplies 8GB or 16GB of Flash RAM storage. At the original iPhone's release, few smartphones offered more than a scant 512MB of storage. While phones such as Nokia's N95 8GB have followed suit (and will soon be matched by the 16GB N96 and Samsung's Omnia), the iPhone still leads in its inherent ability to store a significant amount of media internally.
The iPhone 3G can haul around several full length movies, a number of music and photo albums, load up on lots of applications, and still have plenty of room left. Other smartphones typically require the user to juggle 2GB cards in and out of microSD card slots -- an added flexibility but a hassle and a potential security risk if the phone is left alone. Not all current phones can use larger 4GB+ microSDHC (high capacity) cards, either. Leaving $40 to $80 of memory out of your phone is not a "feature," particularly when selling the phone for the same price as a 16GB iPhone 3G.
In addition to just offering a significant chunk of storage, the iPhone's integration with iTunes makes loading content (or keeping it in sync) very easy. Additionally, the wireless App Store, the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, and MobileMe push messaging features in the new iPhone 2.0 software make that extra storage even more useful.
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J. Paul Henderson
April 10, 2011
There’s a basic quality of freedom. And Americans have forgotten it. Simply stated, freedom can only be to. It can’t be from.
You can be free to eat, but you can’t be free from hunger. You can appear to be free from hunger, but in reality, freedom from hunger is a privilege bestowed in exchange for giving up another freedom.
The natural state of freedom is always to. Governments can’t grant freedom to because freedom to is a natural right of human kind. We have natural rights and freedoms simply because we exist; not because governments dole them out.
In recent years, the government in this country has perverted the meaning of the word freedom, and in so doing has confused Americans as to the very nature of freedom.
Whenever the government grants “freedoms” to a specific class of citizens, it’s really granting special privileges. Privileges that come with costly strings attached.
Think for a minute about today’s concept of freedom. It’s freedom from hunger Freedom from worry. Freedom from discrimination. Freedom from medical bills. Freedom from anything and everything in life that one might consider unpleasant.
Freedom from discrimination in housing can only be accomplished by taking away the freedom to manage or dispose of one’s property as he or she chooses. The difference between a property owner and a property renter is that the owner may do what he chooses with the property, while the renter has to obey someone else’s rules.
When the government tells a property owner how to manage his property, or to whom he may rent or sell it, the property owner becomes, in effect, a renter. The government is the new landlord. In the name of freedom from discrimination, the government grants a would-be buyer the privilege of buying property the previous owner may not wish to sell him. For whatever reason. The property owner’s freedom to has been usurped by the government in order to grant the would-be buyer a specific freedom from.
But here’s one of those attached strings. As soon as the would-be buyer takes possession of the property, he becomes a property owner and subsequently loses his freedom to.
As more and more segments and classes of society are petitioning the government for special freedoms from, even more people are losing their precious natural rights of freedom to. And sadly, the very same people who’ve acquired special freedoms from are also losing their real freedoms. Their freedoms to.
As more and more privileges (freedoms from) are granted to the myriad of political special interest groups, an increasingly growing number of freedoms to are being forever taken by the government. Eventually, the end result of selling out our freedoms to for specific special privileges will result in the ultimate freedom from: Freedom from freedom itself.
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Marjorie L. Hilton. Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 344 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6167-3.
Reviewed by Krista Sigler
Published on H-Russia (April, 2012)
Commissioned by Randall Dills
Work on Russia's history of consumerism has surged since the turn of the century. Into this growing field comes Marjorie L. Hilton's Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930. Hilton's work, recently published in paperback form, speaks to the continuity of government economic strategies and consumer culture between the late Tsarist era and the 1930s. This is an ambitious effort to speak to a number of fields, including economic history, social history, urban history, gender history, and cultural history. Approaching such a number of fields is a daunting task, but Hilton demonstrates that breadth of vision is an asset for a historian, not a weakness.
Hilton's argument, as she notes, speaks to three overarching themes: the connection between state power and the retail sector; the relationship between city and retailing (including the place of specific groups, such as men, women, and Jews); and cultural transformation. Hilton's work, based largely on Moscow but also using comparisons to Odessa, raises significant points. She sees remarkable continuities, both of government processes and cultural views, between retailing life at the end of the empire and Soviet consumerism, and along the way a constant tension, due to the ongoing discussion of what modernity meant. Consideration of consumerism, she argues, in all of its aspects, served as a "flashpoint for a discussion of how a modern, just, more civil and democratic society should be constructed even after the 1930s" (p. 270).
This argument emerges through eight distinct chapters, each of which suggests avenues for further research. In the first, she sets the stage, describing retailing at the end of the empire. Through chapter 1, Hilton defines a cultural debate about retailing's form: the traditional lavka (associated with an array of negative images) versus the magazin (seen as a modern consumer emporium). The long-standing distaste for retailing, emerging from traditional views of the lavka, prompted the government and economic elite to seek a reconstruction of the consumer sector. That is the topic of the second chapter, tracing the developing of the Upper Trading Rows, thanks to a state-sponsored joint stock company. Consumerism and imperial government grew closer together by the reign of Nicholas II; Hilton describes, in chapter 3, how the monarchy increasingly used commercial techniques to reach out to the public. This included merchants celebrating state events, as well as the creation of consumer goods bearing the image of the double-headed eagle.
Having set the initial narrative in order, Hilton then turns to look more closely in the markets and department stores she describes. In chapter 4, she focuses on the role of gender in Russian consumerism. Both kupets (the traditional shopkeeper) and kommersant (the modern merchant) were exclusively male roles, she points out; women's involvement in Russian commerce was to be limited to a negative stereotype of the easily tempted shopper. In chapter 5, she fits these shopping women into a larger picture of the life of the marketplace--both the positive (memoirs glowing with stories of shop visits) and the negative (the haggler, a legacy of the lavka image). Government shifts, she explains, did little to change this culture initially; she describes, in chapter 6, commonalities in economic policy between the late empire, the Provisional Government, and the NEP period. (Most eye-opening here is her point that state seizure of property and goods was as much a late Romanov policy as a Soviet one.) Finally, in chapters 7 and 8, she turns to view how these trends molded life in the Revolution and after. While department stores like GUM advertised an "all for everyone" message, she argues, the Soviets did attempt to encourage a reversal of the consumer/merchant role. No longer was the consumer always right--indeed, Hilton shows us how even the development of the three-queue system shifted commercial power into the hands of the shopkeepers. While a culture of complaint (the topic of chapter 8) was developed, it served a double purpose: it allowed consumers to remind the state "of its failure to provide everything for everybody" (pp. 262-263), and it allowed shopworkers, judging their customers' commitment to an egalitarian life, an opportunity to define how to live a socialist life.
Hilton's work in this wide-ranging book is richly sourced. In order to speak to an audience beyond the imperial capitals, Hilton's work relies on a study of Moscow (the merchant capital of the later empire) and a study of Odessa, chosen for its ethnic and religious diversity. She has examined the major archives of both cities as well as the relevant state archives (GARF, RGIA, RGASPI, RGAE, and so on); her work reflects this with statistical analysis of commercial life (for example, the number of female shopkeepers in the Upper Trading Rows by the turn of the century) and use of memoirs (especially in describing retailing in the later empire). In addition, she turns to thirty-two contemporary newspapers from these cities, looking for stories (in the case of merchants' trade journals), advertisements, and news relating to financial events (like the creation of GUM). This is in addition to a significant body of historiographic literature that reaches far beyond Slavic studies, including works on the U.S. history of consumerism.
This body of research is one of Hilton's great strengths. It allows her to speak to a number of works and writers: Louise McReynolds (for urban leisure life), Sally West (for the development of consumerism at the end of the empire), Allan Ball (for NEPmen), Benjamin Nathans (for Russian Judaism at the end of the empire), Richard Wortman (for discussion of imperial rituals), William Craft Brumfield (for the connection between architecture and imperial merchant life), and more. She can address such an array of topics because her work, stretching across such an expanse of time and embracing the myriad ways in which commerce affects us, does not hesitate to include areas of potential connection. As a result,Selling to the Masses offers many opportunities for discussion of additional points. This is a work, therefore, in which government economic policy of dispossession is set alongside brief excursions into the history of Russian fashion, the role of Orthodoxy in Moscow merchant culture, the cultural dispute over haggling, and the use of agit-prop advertising for Ukrainian stores in the 1920s.
For anyone interested in culture at the end of the empire and into the Soviet period, Selling to the Masses has much to offer. Two other points are worthy of note: Although her book is mostly about Moscow, Hilton is advancing work on Ukrainian commercial history, particularly in her research on Odessa's Passazh. In so doing, she raises comparisons that go beyond the financial order of Moscow and Odessa; for example, she compares the choices of the Jewish merchant elite of St. Petersburg and Odessa to integrate "selectively" (p. 69). Second, and most noteworthy, is Hilton's insistence on including gender history at every point in her monograph. While she has a chapter exclusively devoted to gender and the retail marketplace (chapter 4), gender is treated throughout the work. For example, while tracing the construction of the Upper Trading Rows and issues with its management, she repeatedly marks the role of female merchants and attitudes toward women in shopkeeping. In her work on retail and the Revolution, she describes debates on fashion as a discussion of women's role in building the state retail sector, and socialist life itself. Under the culture of consumer complaint under NEP, she sees an "antifeminine bias" that manifested itself in hostility toward women's bodies, particularly those not of the slim, androgynous shape associated with the 1920s (p. 268).
There is little to critique in Hilton's Selling to the Masses. It is admittedly based on studies of two very Western imperial cities, Odessa and Moscow; a follow-up study using a less Western city would be valued. The book, moreover, takes such a broad stance that Hilton, while raising important topics, cannot go into them all with equal depth (attitudes toward fashion for women and men, or the life of Jewish merchants across the empire, for example). But this weakness is Hilton's strength as well: her breadth of coverage allows her to engage with a diverse scholarship for her main point, continuities between the imperial and early Soviet eras.
Marjorie L. Hilton's Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930 is an important book that fuses together works in a variety of fields, adding to literature on continuity between the end of the empire and the early Soviet era. The author's breadth of topic may be considered a flaw, leading to unequal coverage, but in reality this ambitious effort creates a work that can easily speak to a diverse body of scholarship, contributing significantly to our understanding of the passage from empire through the NEP period.
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Demonstrating just how traumatic an unfavorable outcome in the player likeness lawsuit currently making its way through the legal system could be, a recent court filing suggests that the lifting of the current rules on amateurism would result in some schools exiting Division I or Bowl Subdivision football. University of Texas, Wake Forest, Utah State, and the California State University system all contributed to the filing by expressing that the need to pay players would make it unlikely that athletic funding would then be able to support all the sports required and that it would also make it difficult to comply with Title IX.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany is even claiming that an outcome in the player likeness lawsuit that forces payments to players would result in the conference de-emphasizing athletics. While this is somewhat hyperbolic – there would still be far too much money to be made to take such an action – it does shed a light on the frame of mind the NCAA, CLC, and EA Sports have as they prepare for a possible negative judgment or agreement to settle.
The wave of momentum is certainly with the plaintiffs at this point. Many legal analysts believe a decision will go in their favor if it gets that far. Doing so would have huge impact on college athletics, as expressed by the NCAA reps in the filing and their public statements, but also on any video game representations.
EA Sports would likely shut down its NCAA Football series after being forced into paying a huge judgment and evaluating the lack of revenue potential going forward. The series has already seen dwindling returns over the years with little opportunity for growth. No other company would consider taking on any college-based video game if payment to players would be necessary on top of all the development costs. College basketball is already seen as a poor investment – which is why no company has made a game in over three years – and that is without even having to pay the players. The increase in sales that would come from having real players in a college game would not come close to the losses from paying out to those players.
The player likeness lawsuit against the NCAA, CLC, and Electronic Arts is the culmination of two high profile filings that were combined as led by Sam Keller and Ed O’Bannon. It alleges improper use of player likeness through various forms of merchandise and media including video games in which the parties in question conspired to avoid paying players for their rights. Some interesting details and claims regarding the case at hand were revealed when EA was reentered as a defendant after initially being dismissed.
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We need food to grow and prolong life. We consume various types of food according to our age, work or lifestyle. Geography and socio-economic factors greatly influence the availability and consumption of food.
Nutrition is the food that provides energy and good health. The human body needs nutrition or nourishment on a timely basis.
Nutrition science deals with the relationship between diet and health. Diet can be defined as the habitual nourishment intake. A balanced diet is needed to promote and maintain good health and longevity. It is vital for preventing chronic health risks, such as obesity heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Foods contain nutrients that help the metabolic functions in our body. Insufficient intake of these vital nutrients leads to improper functioning the body. This state is called nutritional deficiency.
A healthy diet involves appropriate intake of all nutrients and water. Nutrients are chemicals that organisms need to live and grow. They are used to build and repair tissues, regulate body processes etc. Nutrients needed in very small amounts are called micronutrients and those nutrients needed in larger quantities are called macronutrients. Organic nutrients include carbohydrates fatsproteins and vitamins. Inorganic nutrients are water, dietary minerals and oxygen. Nutrients are also classified as essential or non-essential. If a nutrient is obtained from an external source when an organism is unable to synthesizedit internally or insufficiently it called an essential nutrient. Non-essential nutrients are those which can be synthesized by the body.
Carbohydrates provide energy. They are compounds made up of sugars. Carbohydrates are classified by their number of sugar units: monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides.
Proteins help build body tissue. They are organic compounds that consist of the amino acids joined by peptide bonds. The body cannot manufacture some of the amino acids (termed essential amino acids); the diet must supply these.
Fats are a component of all cell membranes and are an important source of stored energy in the body. Fats consist of a glycerin molecule with three fatty acids attached. Fatty acids are unbranched hydrocarbon chains, connected by single bonds alone (saturated fatty acids) or by both double and single bonds (unsaturated fatty acids). The body does not manufacture certain fatty acids (termed essential fatty acids) and the diet must supply these.
Vitamins are organic compounds essential for the cellular functions of the body. They are chemical substances that help the body use energy, build proteins, make cells, and repair injuries. Vitamins are divided into two general categories: fat soluble and water soluble. The fat soluble vitamins are A, D, and E. Vitamin A is necessary for eyes, bones, and skin. Vitamin D is necessary to make bones and teeth, and it allows the body to use calcium from the diet. Vitamin E is important for the immune system and for the cardiovascular system.
The water soluble vitamins are vitamin C and the B vitamins. Vitamin C is important for fighting infection and for using the stored energy in the body. Vitamin C is generally found in citrus fruits and other vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. The B vitamins are important for building blood cells, nerve cells, and are vital for many of the body`s chemical reactions. These are found in many meats and vegetables.
Minerals, such as calcium, iron, zinc, and magnesium, are also essential for health.
Nutritional deficiency diseases
a) Protein-energy malnutrition
* Mental retardation
2. Dietary vitamins and minerals
b) Iodine deficiency
c) Iron deficiency
d) Selenium deficiency
* Keshan disease
* Growth retardation
f) Thiamine (Vitamin B1)
g) Niacin (Vitamin B3)
h) Vitamin C
i) Vitamin D
Dietary recommendations by World Health Organization
* Achieve an energy balance and a healthy weight
* Limit energy intake from total fats and shift fat consumption away from saturated fats to unsaturated fats and towards the elimination of trans-fatty acids
* Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains and nuts
* Limit the intake of simple sugar
* Limit salt / sodium consumption from all sources and ensure that salt is iodized
Other recommendations include:
* Sufficient essential amino acids ("complete protein") to provide cellular replenishment and transport proteins. All essential amino acids are present in animals. Some plants (such as soy and hemp) give all the essential acids. A combination of other plants in a diet may also provide all essential amino acids. Fruits such as avocado and pumpkin seeds also have all the essential amino acids.
* Essential micronutrients such as vitamins and certain minerals.
* Avoiding directly poisonous (e.g. heavy metals) and carcinogenic (e.g. benzene) substances;
* Avoiding foods contaminated by human pathogens (e.g. E. coli, tapeworm eggs).
An unhealthy diet is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases including: high blood pressure, diabetes, abnormal blood lipids, overweight/obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.
The WHO estimates that 2.7 million deaths are attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetable every year. Globally it is estimated to cause about 19% of gastrointestinal cancer, 31% of ischaemic heart disease, and 11% of strokes.
There are five food groups:
• Cereals and Pulses
• Poultry, Fish and Meat products
Some healthy foods
Cereals and Grains:
Brown rice is a rich source of magnesium, selenium, manganese and fiber.
Oatmeal is a good source of B complex vitamins, calcium, iron as well as protein
Wheat germ is a good source of vitamin E and Magnesium.
Pulses and Legumes:
The heart healthy fiber along with isoflavones from lentils may have a protective effect against breast cancer.
Folates from pinto beans have a heart protective effect and also reduce any risk of birth defects in new born infants.
A very good source of soy protein and omega 3 fatty acids, tofu offers cardiovascular benefits by lowering the low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in the body.
Nuts and Oilseeds:
Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acid from peanuts helps to decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases by a significant margin.
Omega 3 fatty acids in walnuts offer many protective effects to brain. It also have a heart protective effect.
Monounsaturated fats from almonds may reduce your risk for heart disease and also lower your low density lipoprotein cholesterol. In addition to healthy fats, almonds are also packed with vitamin E, magnesium and potassium.
An excellent source of omega 3 fatty acids, flaxseeds have anti-inflammatory benefits and protect against heart disease, diabetes, bone disease and cancer.
Fruits and Vegetables:
Cardio-protective fiber and flavonoids from apples also prevent constipation. Apple juice can prevent the formation of kidney stones.
Apricots are a rich source of beta carotene which gets converted to vitamin A in the body. Both beta carotene and vitamin A are potent antioxidants that help to scavenge the free radicals from the body and have a protective effect against many types of cancers and heart diseases.
Oleic acid from avocadoes helps to lower the total cholesterol levels and even increase the high density lipoprotein levels in the body. Moreover avocado also provides a good dose of fiber. Try an avocado dip or guacamole in your burger instead of other fat loaded dressings.
This dark berry can be a perfect excuse to include whipped cream in your diet. Raspberries are packed with vitamin C and fiber. The ellagic acid present in this tiny berry may help to halt growth of cancerous cells.
They are a powerhouse of antioxidants including lutein, an important component for vision.
Cantaloupe is packed with two important antioxidants; vitamin C and vitamin A. The pro-vitamin A in cantaloupe promotes your lung health, protects your vision and vitamin C helps to fight against infection and boosts your immune system.
Vitamin C from kiwi protects the body from any oxidative damage and phytonutrients from this fruit protects the DNA.
These bright red berries are rich in vitamin C and dietary fiber. Cranberry juice is valued for its ability to reduce risk of urinary tract infection. The hippuric acid along with other components from the juice reduces E. coli adherence on the walls of the urinary track, as a result of which it is flushed out in the urine.
Raisins are low in calories but rich in iron and fiber. The phenols from these little gems have an antioxidant property that helps to prevent oxygen based damage to the body. Add some raisins in your morning breakfast cereal to get the sweetness instead of adding sugar.
Phenols from plums offer a significant antioxidant protection by neutralizing the destructive free oxygen radicals that cause oxidative stress in the body.
Fiber from prunes offers intestinal protection, improves bowel regularity and lowers cholesterol.
Figs are a good source of fiber and potassium that can help you to lose weight and maintain healthy blood pressure levels.
Papaya is an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A, E and K. All these antioxidants along with the fiber in papaya surely promote good health and ward off a variety of diseases and conditions.
Bromelain from pineapple offers potential anti-inflammatory and digestive benefits. Pineapple is also a good source of manganese, ascorbic acid and thiamin which play a role in antioxidant defenses and energy production.
Limes and Lemons
Vitamin C from limes and lemons along with furocoumarins and limonene help prevent many types of cancers.
Besides being rich in vitamin A and vitamin C, tomatoes are an excellent source of lycopene. Lycopene, a carotenoid acts as a potent antioxidant in the body and offers a protective effect against several types of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Onions are rich in flavanoids, most notably quercitin as well as many phytonutrients and vitamin C. The chromium from onions helps the body cells to respond well to the hormone insulin.
Silymarin, an antioxidant from artichokes helps to prevent skin cancer and the fiber helps to control cholesterol.
Asparagus is rich in folate, an essential vitamin for cardiovascular system. Make asparagus a healthy addition in your meal if you are planning to get pregnant as folate is also a great birth defect fighter.
As the richest vegetable source of pro-vitamin A carotenoids, carrots offer protection against cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Beta carotene from carrots helps to promote good vision and also promote good lung health.
The organosulfur compounds in kale help prevent cancer, especially ovarian cancer. Kale is also a rich source of vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin K which help to lower cataract risk, promote lung health and boost immunity.
Gingerols from ginger may help reduce the queasiness. Other compounds in ginger may also help to ward off arthritis and migraine pain by blocking inflammation-causing prostaglandins.
It is packed with nutrients like vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin A and folate. Sulforaphane and indole-3-carbinol in broccoli may have a protective effect against breast cancer. Steam or lightly microwave the broccoli, avoid overcooking.
Sulforaphane, a potent plant phytochemical present in Brussels sprouts have a protective effect against various types of cancer including bladder cancer. Besides they are also an exceptional source of vitamin K, vitamin C and fiber. Add some of these sprouts to your cold salads if you don’t prefer them as your main dish.
Blessed with the healthiest nutrients like calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, beta carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin B6, spinach can be considered a leafy powerhouse.
Unique root storage proteins in sweet potatoes have been proved to have potent antioxidant effects. Sweet potatoes are a sweet source of vitamin A, vitamin C, manganese, copper and dietary fiber.
This Chinese cabbage is rich in brassinin, indoles and isothiocyanates all three may offer a protective effect against breast cancer.
Winter and Summer Squash
A variety of health promoting nutrients in both the squashes, like vitamin C, vitamin A, potassium, magnesium and fiber promote overall health.
Vitamins C and vitamin E along with phenethyl isothiocyanate and beta-carotene in watercress helps to keep cancer cells at bay.
The active components along with the sulfur compounds in garlic gives a typical pungent flavor but also helps to lower the low density lipoprotein cholesterol and also reduce the risk of colon and stomach cancer.
A concentrated source of vitamin E and monounsaturated fatty acids, olives provide cellular protection against free radicals support gastrointestinal health and prevent the development of colon cancer.
Dairy Products and Eggs:
Vitamin A along with riboflavin in skimmed milk helps to maintain healthy vision and also reduces allergies and eczema. It also contain calcium and vitamin D.
Calcium in active-culture yogurt strengthens the bones and the bacteria help prevent yeast infections.
Good quality proteins from eggs along with choline boosts brain health. Choline in egg yolks also helps reduce inflammation. Egg yolks are also a concentrated source of cholesterol.
Fatty cold water fish like tuna, mackerel and salmon are a rich source of omega 3 fatty acids. These good fats offer a protective effect against lowering cholesterol, protecting the heart, fighting inflammation to fighting many cancers and preventing Alzheimer`s disease.
Clams and Mussels
Vitamin B12 from these shell fishes helps to support brain and nerve function. They are also a good source of iron, potassium and magnesium.
Zinc and vitamin B12 from crabs will help boost your immunity.
Raw honey, besides being sweet golden nectar and a natural sweetener also has anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties.
Flavonoids from green tea are thought to have anticancer and antioxidant effects in the body.
Although water has zero calories and negligible nutrients it offers many health benefits.
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On March 8, 2010 on the Iowa Indian Reservation near Perkins, Oklahoma two Rottweilers killed a baby. The victim was an eight-month-old boy who was fatally mauled by two Rottweiler dogs brought into the home the night before for protection purposes.
Initial news reports indicated that just one dog was involved, but subsequent news reports that both dogs participated in the attack.
Both rottweilers were destroyed by animal control.
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For Release: September 6, 2000
FTC Releases Report on Consumer Protection In The Global E-commerce Marketplace
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection today released a report titled "Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace: Looking Ahead." The report looks at several issues receiving increasing attention from governments, businesses and consumer groups, including what laws and courts should govern when consumers shop at foreign Web sites. The report cautions against allowing online sellers to be governed only by their own country's laws and courts, or only by the laws they prescribe in their sales contracts, as some have proposed. The report recognizes that partial legal convergence, marketplace competition, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), private-sector initiatives and cross-border cooperation are also key to a safe global electronic marketplace.
The report makes several recommendations for ensuring effective consumer protection in the global electronic marketplace:
- Develop a workable framework for jurisdiction and applicable law. The current system generally allows consumers to rely on their own country's core protections. This approach raises concerns about predictability and compliance burdens for online sellers. The task now is to address these concerns without moving to adopt a system that subjects sellers only to the laws and courts of their own country or as prescribed in the sales contract. Such a change from the current approach risks undermining consumer protection, and ultimately consumer confidence in e-commerce.
- Encourage the development of alternative dispute resolution. ADR has potential as a practical way to provide consumer protection and remedies, and reduces the risk of international litigation for businesses and consumers.
The FTC and the Department of Commerce held a workshop in June 2000 on how to encourage the development of fair, effective and affordable dispute resolution for online consumer transactions.
- Pursue partial convergence of consumer protection laws. Common core consumer protections should be identified and partial convergence of laws should be pursued.
- Encourage continued development of private-sector programs that better inform consumers and prevent disputes. Private-sector initiatives that address consumer concerns, like certification programs, rating systems, codes of conduct and escrow and insurance programs, are key to the continued growth of e-commerce.
- Encourage the development of arrangements for cross-border judgment recognition and enforcement for both private and public actions. Judgments obtained by consumers and consumer protection agencies against foreign companies must be enforceable and effective across borders. These ends can be achieved through international agreements on judgment recognition and enforcement.
- Develop effective ways for consumer protection agencies worldwide to share information and cooperate. Effective international enforcement of consumer protection laws depends on extensive and systematic information sharing and coordinated action across borders.
The report also summarizes key findings from a June 1999 FTC workshop, as well as the guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") on this issue.
The Commission vote to approve the report was 4-0, with Commissioner Orson Swindle abstaining.
Copies of the Commission's report are available from the FTC's Web site at http://www.ftc.gov and also from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 877-FTC-HELP (877-382-4357); TDD for the hearing impaired 1-866-653-4261. To find out the latest news as it is announced, call the FTC NewsPhone recording at 202-326-2710.
Office of Public Affairs
Lisa D. Rosenthal
Bureau of Consumer Protection
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Summer Day Camp
|Bring your 5 to 12 year olds to discover and explore at the Ontario Science Centre Day Camps through hands-on science activities, an IMAX® Film and exclusive access to the exhibit halls. Your kids will have a thrilling, unforgettable and educational experience with our knowledgeable and energetic Camp Counsellors.|
Calling all astronauts! Embark on a week-long trip through space! Learn the secrets of aerospace engineers and astronauts as you discover innovative technologies to evade the hazards of space. Design a space suit to protect yourself and avoid black holes travelling through our solar system. You and your crew will encounter the many wonders of the Universe as you participate in the Mission to Mars Show and the Space Craze Challenge. Prepare to lift-off for a gravity-defying, out-of-this-world voyage! More -->
Registration and Availability
Detectives needed! Go undercover to scope out the mysterious science that’s going unnoticed all around you every day. Investigate electrifying connections on Machine Mechanics Day; spy on microscopic villains on Biology Battles Day; sniff out smelly concoctions during Cooking Chemistry Day; sort fact from friction as you put a new spin on Physics Fun Day; and uncover the key to the Power Patrol Puzzle on Energy Experts Day. Do you have what it takes to complete this mission and unlock the science secrets hidden where you’d never think to look? More -->
Registration and Availability
*Camp will take place on the holidays: Monday, July 1 and Monday, August 5, 2013.
Campers must be 5 to 12 years old while at Camp. They can be registered for one or two weeks of Camp, but cannot participate in the same theme twice.
Summer Day Camp runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. For additional fees, a Hot Lunch Plan is available and the Ontario Science Centre offers supervised extended care from 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. and from 4:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., with games, educational videos and quiet activities.
Campers receive a complimentary T-shirt per week to wear daily at Camp.
Campers are supervised at all times.
Camper Age Camper to Staff Ratio (minimum)
5-6 years 10:1
7-12 years 15:1
Counsellors have science backgrounds, experience working with children, training in First Aid and CPR, and are assisted by two to four responsible and enthusiastic youth volunteers. A certified First Aid Provider is also on site.
The Science Centre is unable to provide one-on-one supervision, adapted programming, specific medical support or a nut-free environment. Please notify us if a support person will be accompanying your child at Camp.
Fees waived for Support Persons accompanying campers with disabilities.
*To qualify for an Ontario Science Centre Member discount:
We accept AMEX, Visa or MasterCard.
Full payment is required at time of booking.
No refund for cancellations after Friday, June 14, 2013.
Office Hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday
24 hour voice mail
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DRG Renin-ELISA -
The worldwide first Sandwich-ELISA for the non-radioactive quantification of active Renin
The Benefits of Comprehensive Renin Testing Capabilities
The ability to conduct non-radioactive quantification of active Renin with an open platform is a prime concern for medical laboratory staff
By Dr. Matthias Herkert, DRG International
In the United States, one third of the American adults have high blood pressure or hypertension, and among those, almost one third even do not know that they had the condition. Even worse, among those who received treatment, only one third had their blood pressure under control. However, hypertension increases the chance for developing heart disease, stroke and other serious health conditions.
In today’s hard economic environment, time – and money – are of the essence. In the world of medical testing, doctors, nurses, and practitioners struggle to find the most significant and still cost-effective tools to offer patients quality care and early warning.
The enzyme Renin is a key factor in the regulation of arterial blood pressure. Renin belongs to the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS) that controls blood pressure, renal blood flux, glomerular filtration, and the body’s balance of electrolytes and fluids. Plasma active Renin is a good index for the activity of the RAAS. In case of dysfunction of the RAAS, the Renin assay will allow clinical implications for diagnosis, treatment, and follow up.
The juxtaglomerular cells of the kidneys produce Renin as a reaction to low intra-renal blood pressure, reduced sodium reabsorption, hypokalemia or activity of the sympathetic nervous system. When active Renin enters the bloodstream, it mediates cleavage of angiotensinogen into the precursor peptide angiotensin I, and ultimately leads to the production of angiotensin II, which causes a rise in blood pressure, while the increase of aldosterone helps the body to retain sodium. Once blood pressure has been stabilized, the additional Renin and aldosterone which were created are metabolized, and the body ceases their productions.
In some patients, the kidneys continue to produce Renin after blood pressure has been stabilized. This causes the patient’s blood pressure to rise. While dietary changes can alleviate the problem, it is sometimes necessary to take other measures. In these cases, doctors may request Renin tests in order to get a better estimate of Renin levels in the body and to see if Renin overproduction is the cause of a patient’s blood pressure problems.
Normal Renin values range from 1.9 to 40 pg/mL. A high Renin value can be a harbinger for kidney disease, a blocked artery located close to a kidney, Addison’s disease, cirrhosis, a hemorrhage, or malignant high blood pressure. Conversely, low Renin values may indicate the presence of Conn’s syndrome. Either condition is potentially life threatening. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 23,965 hypertension-related deaths in 2007.
Active Renin is an important marker for hypertensive patients and for the therapeutic follow up of high blood pressure. With a third of the US population affected by the disease, it is important to be able to get a high volume of tests accomplished with efficiency. This advancement is an important achievement for laboratory efficiency and expediency for patient results.
Existing methods to estimate Renin in blood either determined Renin activity or specifically measured the concentration of the active Renin. Both approaches had drawbacks as they either needed additional sample extraction, used radioactive quantification or were available only as closed systems.
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In July, the Boy Scouts of America announced it had affirmed its policy of “not granting membership to open or avowed homosexuals.”
The organization’s leaders reached that decision after a nearly two-year evaluation and will take no further action on a resolution that has sought a change in policy, the group said in a news release. The organization had said last month that it would consider a resolution asking that local units be allowed to determine their own standards.
BSA’s chief scout executive and national president had convoked a committee of volunteers and professional leaders to evaluate the policy.
On Wednesday, White House spokesman Shin Inouye said Obama recognized the value of the Boy Scouts, but disagreed with their ban on gays.
“The President believes the Boy Scouts is a valuable organization that has helped educate and build character in American boys for more than a century,” Inouye wrote. “He also opposes discrimination in all forms, and as such opposes this policy that discriminates on basis of sexual orientation.”
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has supported allowing gays to participate in the Boy Scouts, but he has also supported the Boy Scouts’ right to decide its own policies.
On its website, the Boy Scouts write that every president since 1910 — the year of the Scouts’ founding — has served as its honorary president.
In a statement, the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation hailed Obama’s decision while criticizing the Boy Scouts’ decision to remain closed to gay members.
“Our nation’s leaders from across religions and political persuasions have joined hundreds of thousands of Americans in speaking out against the blatant discrimination that the Boy Scouts of America teaches young adults today. It’s clear that this outdated policy will be changing in the future,” GLAAD President Herndon Graddick wrote.
“How long will the Boy Scouts continue to bully young gay Americans into hiding who they are and hurt children of gay parents by denying their parents an opportunity to participate in their children’s lives?”
In May, Obama publicly backed same-sex marriage for the first time in an interview with ABC News. Obama said soon after at a campaign fund-raising event that he believes marriage equality “strengthens families.”
“I want everyone treated fairly in this country,” Obama said. “We have never gone wrong when we’ve extended rights and responsibilities to everybody,” he said, drawing big applause. “That doesn’t weaken families, that strengthens families.”
Last week a committee drafting the Democrats’ party platform approved language endorsing same-sex marriage. If that position is approved by the full party, it would mark the first time support for same-sex marriage is included in the Democrats’ platform. | <urn:uuid:917371ef-4265-45c5-a500-01eb990541a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://outsmartmagazine.com/2012/08/obama-opposes-boy-scouts-ban-of-gay-members/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967202 | 595 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes (Hardcover)
Cocktails are bigger than ever, and this is the first real cookbook for them, covering the entire breadth of this rich subject. The Craft of the Cocktail provides much more than merely the same old recipes: it delves into history, personalities, and anecdotes; it shows you how to set up a bar, master important techniques, and use tools correctly; and it delivers unique concoctions, many featuring Dale DeGroff’s signature use of fresh juices, as well as all the classics.
Debonair, a great raconteur, and an unparalleled authority, Dale DeGroff is the epitome of Perfect Bartender, universally acknowledged as the world’s premier mixologist. From Entertainment Weekly and USA Today to the Culinary Institute of America and the nation’s best restaurants, whenever anybody wants information or training on the bar, they turn to Dale for recipes, for history, for anecdotes, for fun—for cocktail-party conversation as well as for cocktails.
That’s what The Craft of the Cocktail is—the full party, conversation and all. It begins with the history of spirits, how they’re made (but without too much boring science), the development of the mixed drink, and the culture it created, all drawn from Dale’s vast library of vintage cocktail books. Then on to stocking the essential bar, choosing the right tools and ingredients, mastering key techniques—hints worthy of a pro, the same information that Dale shares with the bartenders he trains in seminars and through his videos. And then the meat of the matter: 500 recipes, including everything from tried-and-true classics to of-the-moment originals. Throughout are rich stories, vintage recipes, fast facts, and other entertaining asides. Beautiful color photographs and a striking design round out the cookbook approach to this subject, highlighting the difference between an under-the-bar handbook and a stylish, full-blown treatment. The Craft of the Cocktail is that treatment, destined to become the bible of the bar.
About the Author
DALE DeGROFF has been called “the Billy Graham of the holy spirits” by the London Tribune and “a master” by Martha Stewart, and is widely acknowledged to be the preeminent mixologist in the world. He’s been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Penthouse, Food & Wine, and Forbes; his television appearances include Martha Stewart Living and Today. For twelve years, Dale ran the bar at New York City’s Rainbow Room and now serves as a consultant for such top restaurants as Balthazar. He has taught at the Culinary Institute of America (and stars in their bartending video) and the Institute for Culinary Education, among other venues. Dale grew up in Westerly, Rhode Island, and now lives on Long Island.
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Jacob wrestling with the angel
Oil on canvas
251 x 205 cm
Along with Jacob’s dream, this painting forms a triptych and again presents a night-time scene dominated by deep blues and purples. The composition is brought to life by the crossed diagonal lines of the angel and Jacob, who has fallen to his knees upon recognising his opponent. Their struggle is over and the angel seems to be blessing Jacob by touching his forehead.
The scene takes place high up in the sky, above a village where Chagall’s family home in Vitebsk can be picked out. Once again, the artist weaves his own story into that of the Jewish people.
Some of the episodes in the patriarch’s life unfold down the right-hand side: his encounter with Rachel at the well, the vision of his son Joseph stripped by his brothers and thrown in a well and finally his anguished sobbing over the coat of his son who he believe has died – curled up in the position that Chagall generally uses to depict the prophets announcing the Jews’ suffering. | <urn:uuid:63c4e9e1-258f-4a22-b2b7-4ab884505b47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/en/la-creation-de-l-homme.htmabraham-et-les-trois-anges.htmle-paradis.htmla-lutte-de-jacob-et-de-l-ange.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980779 | 225 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Some bitter gourds (Karela) growing in our balcony. Can someone tell me what are the right months for planting spinach, radishes, carrots, corianders, cauliflowers and tomatoes? I am trying to extract information from net but till now unsuccessful.
I was trying to grow vegetables in my balcony. First I took some unused buckets, put some soil in it and for two years threw fruit and vegetable peels, egg shells and chicken bones in those buckets and watered it almost everyday. We bought some bhindi seeds (ladyfingers seeds) planted those and waited eagerly. We were not disappointed. They came out looking so eager to grow up.
After a while they start bearing flowers. When I saw the first flower, I was simply elated.
Some of the ladyfingers sprang up soon. Our effort is bearing fruits.
These are bitter gourd plants. My camera couldn’t catch the small buds it is having right now. Subhanjan you are being missed here. But when it will start having karelas I will post those images in near future.
Two years back, we had a melon from our balcony.
When I saw the plant for the first time I thought it is bottle gourd (Ghiya or Lauki) when I saw the fruit, I thought it will grow into a pumpkin. After few days I thought of it as off season watermelon but it turned out to be a melon!
Amrit, displaying it proudly!
My efforts are bearing “fruit” now.
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We are very excited about the prospect of installing solar power on our house, something we were not sure we could afford. Through a new program that has just arrived in Massachusetts, we have signed up to have 4 kilowatts of solar panels installed on our roofs through what is called a power purchase agreement. The gist is that we pay very little up front ($1,000) and then sign a long-term power agreement with Sun Run Power, which charges us $0.14 per kilowatt hour for the next 18 years, which is about $.06 less than what we pay now. Even if electricity rates do not go up, we pay for the project in 6 years and then save money after that. If electricity rates go up, we save even more. And we expect that the 4200 kwh produced by these panels should provide more than half, maybe 2/3 of all our energy needs for the entire year! At least that's what we're hoping.
Alteris Solar was the local installer arm of this program and they came out a couple of weeks ago to do a roof analysis. Even though we have east and west facing roofs, their analysis showed that because our roofs are relatively flat, and we have very little shading, our production would actually be pretty good. We're very excited, given that our house will be all electric. | <urn:uuid:1a4cb41d-fa39-4dab-bd9a-377faec9ab01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://auburndalegreenrenovation.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981582 | 276 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Teacher's Guide for CALLIOPE ® William ShakespeareApril 2005
Teacher guide prepared by: Celestine Smith Candida.
Students will use the issue as the basis for their research on the life and times of William Shakespeare.
Read the article "All The World's a Stage" (Pages 3-7) to answer the following questions.
"Shakespeare's London" (Pages 12-13) describes 16th century London.
- Why did Shakespeare leave his family and go to London?
- What was life like as an apprentice for Shakespeare?
- What sources did Shakespeare use as inspiration for his plays?
- How often did Shakespeare go home to visit his family?
- Why did Robert Greene resent Shakespeare?
- Identify: Henry Carey
- What caused Shakespeare to change from writing plays to writing poetry?
- What was Shakespeare's role with the Lord Chamberlain's Men acting company?
- What events were happening to Shakespeare's family in Stratford while he was in London?
- How many plays did Shakespeare write?
- When were his plays finally published?
- Make a copy of the artwork on page 3. Use it as a story starter.
Read Act 2, Scene 2 of "The Tempest" (Pages 14-17) then answer the following questions.
- Imagine that you have traveled to the London of 1598 to seek employment. Write a letter to your family describing the city.
- Explain how Queen Elizabeth I and King James I supported theater during the Renaissance.
Read the article "From Lead to Gold" (Pages 28-31) to answer the following.
- Who was Caliban?
- What was Caliban seeking to do?
- Illustrate the following passage:
"A strange fish. Legged like a man,
and his fins like arms."
- After reading this excerpt, how would you describe Caliban?
- What did Caliban say he would do for Stephano?
"Shakespeare's Other World" (Pages 34-35) was made up of fairies and sprites who used their magic "to dabble for a time in human affairs."
- Who was Plutarch?
- Discuss the difference between Plutarch's passage and Shakespeare's passage about Antony Cleopatra.
- Explain the difference between poetry and prose. In Shakespeare's plays, which of his characters spoke in poetry, which spoke in prose?
Use the article "Dispelling the Rumors" (Page 36) as the basis for research on Edward deVere, Christopher Marlowe, and Sir Francis Bacon and the myth that they wrote Shakespeare's plays.
- Have students read A Midsummer's Night Dream and The Tempest to compare the mischief of characters Puck and Ariel.
- Make a copy of the artwork on page 35. Use it as a story starter.
Read the article "The Lure of Shakespeare" (Pages 37-39).
- Explain the causes of the English Civil War in 1642.
- Why were the theatres closed during the civil war?
- How had theatre changed after the war?
- Explain the connection to Shakespeare:
- Edwin Booth
- Ben Jonson
- David Garrick
- Sarah Siddons
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- Sir John Gielgud
- Richard Burbage
- Kenneth Branagh
- Ian McKellen
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Every day every parent faces challenges which cause frustration and disappointment. The problem becomes a child’s habit when it is not addressed. Yelling about it doesn’t change it. Look at each problem and decide how you are going to teach a new behavior. Remember to teach outside of the event, which means give your child the information at a time when you are not angry, and you are able to explain exactly what you want. Soon you will be solving problems and enjoying your child all day long. Read the entire article “Follow through is one key to problem solving“. | <urn:uuid:4be3dd37-4c82-4dcd-8ab5-aa2cbdb6c916> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.therecordherald.com/article/20121015/BLOGS/310159995/-1/blogs01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966148 | 120 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The Truman Study: Welcome to Lee House
In 1859, Francis Preston Blair built a house next door to his own for his daughter Elizabeth Blair Lee and her husband, Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee. The Truman Study is in what would have been the front parlor of that house, now integrated into the Blair House complex.
The room is named for the 33rd president, Harry Truman, who lived with his family in Blair House from 1948 to 1952 while the White House was undergoing an extensive renovation. Truman used the room during those years as his private "Oval Office."
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- Government Expenditures
API: American Petroleum Institute
bbl, Barrel: In the energy industry, a barrel is 42 U.S. gallons measured at 60ºF.
Casinghead Gas (or oil well gas): Natural gas produced along with crude oil from oil wells.
Chained Dollars: A measure used to express real prices. Real prices are those that have been adjusted to remove the effect of changes in the purchasing power of the dollar; they usually reflect buying power relative to a reference year. Prior to 1996, real prices were expressed in constant dollars, a measure based on the weights of goods and services in a single year, usually a recent year. In 1996, the U.S. Department of Commerce introduced the chained-dollar measure. The new measure is based on the average weights of goods and services in successive pairs of years. It is "chained" because the second year in each pair, with its weights, becomes the first year of the next pair. The advantage of using the chained-dollar measure is that it is more closely related to any given period covered and is therefore subject to less distortion over time.
Condensate: A low-density, high-API gravity liquid hydrocarbon phase that generally occurs in association with natural gas. Its presence as a liquid phase depends on temperature and pressure conditions in the reservoir allowing condensation of liquid from vapor. The production of condensate reservoirs can be complicated because of the pressure sensitivity of some condensates. During production, there is a risk of the condensate changing from gas to liquid if the reservoir pressure drops below the dew point during production. Reservoir pressure can be maintained by fluid injection if gas production is preferable to liquid production. Gas produced in association with condensate is called wet gas. The API gravity of condensate is typically 50ºF to 120ºF.
Crude Oil: Liquid petroleum as it comes from out of the ground as distinguished from refined oils manufactured out of it.
Dry Natural Gas: See Natural Gas.
FPP or First Purchase Price (oil): The marketed first sales price per bbl of domestic crude oil, consistent with the removal price defined by the provisions of the Windfall Profits Tax on Domestic Crude Oil (Public Law 96-223, Sec. 4998 (c)).
mcf: One thousand cubic feet of natural gas measured at standard pressure and temperature conditions and obtained at the surface as such.
National Offshore: The total amount produced offshore in U.S. waters. State offshore totals and Federal OCS totals combined.
Natural Gas: A naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases in porous formations beneath the earth's surface, often in association with petroleum. The principal constituent is methane.
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS): The offshore Federal domain is greater than 3 miles from coastline for most states, beyond 3 nautical leagues from the Texas coast.
State Waters Offshore: Offshore waters from 0-3 miles along a state's coastline except Texas, which extends up to 3 nautical leagues, or roughly 10 miles, out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Total Oil: Total liquids produced; crude oil and condensate combined.
Wellhead Price (Natural Gas): The value at the mouth of the well. In general, the wellhead price is considered to be the sales price obtainable from a third party in an arm's length transaction. Posted prices, requested prices, or prices as defined by lease agreements, contracts, or tax regulations should be used where applicable.
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“Social Mobility” is an installation put together by Temporary Services, a group that investigates public space. Their projects represent and raise questions about everyday places and people, rather than the colorful outpourings of privileged individuals. Relational art is not political per se, except that it generally takes place in the city, and simultaneously in the flow of signals we call the internet. Although the people who practice in this area likely have what we might call progressive ideas, their tactics often owe more to Dada, Situationism and punk rock than any theoretical or ideological position. “Social Mobility” centers on projects that challenge accepted (or hegemonic, if you like) channels of distribution of art and information by freely sharing information as pretexts for social exchange. Their current exhibition contains several vitrines of booklets and found ephemera, such as stickers, posters and religious tracts, some bookshelves that hold the Self-Reliance Library, an unpredictable collection of books and references regarding practices like self-publishing, nomadic living, herbals and weapons production.
Despite the aleatory nature and potential for disarray in its divergent collections, the installation seemed antiseptic (like a hospital waiting room) and just a bit too cerebral for the on-the-street strategies usually enacted by the group. Banners designed to call attention to the economic and political forces shaping the ubiquitous and homely personal petrochemical plastic shopping bag make an impact—they were quilted—but for all their admirable labor, they are very neat and drab. Among the banner slogans: “The inexperienced dreamer simply cannot survive alone—The Survivor.”
The focus of the installation is a computer with an encyclopedic, but disconcertingly minimalist, array of flash drives, called “designated drivers.” Each drive—nineteen artists and groups were invited to send a four-gigabyte flash drive—can be pulled from a retractable laundry line to the USB on the computer. The drives contain the artwork, experimental music, animation, manifestos, photographs, documentation of projects, diverse music videos and collections (more found materials) of contributing members which visitors can download for free.
I sat at the computer and downloaded some things; the visual (and aural) pleasures, if such a concept is still useful, lay hidden in the artist’s files. I liked what I saw of Lisa Anne Auerbach’s photographs of “Grand Opening” signs she encountered while riding her bike around LA. In her statement she remarks that she finds the signs and the ice cream trucks that roam her neighborhood “eerie and unwelcoming.” The files I copied (pictures of DIY housing from Matt Bua, which reminded me of the Whole Earth Catalog, speaking of collectives, DIY and information) took forever and I would have had to distract myself with a library book if it were not for the talkative museum guard, a retired man who writes books and makes films about a cappella street-corner singers (the style known as doo wop) in the sixties in Jersey City. A fortuitous meeting, since among its many salutary aims, Temporary Services seeks to valorize the art of everyday communications and hopes their file-sharing project will provide a chance for us to “get out of the house and mingle.” (Janina Ciezadlo)
Through August 14 at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston.
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Sending money can be a scary thought. There are many different ways that you can send money, but each of them will come with risks. While you are learning how you are going to send money you have to understand that there are some very secure ways that you can send your money. A Western Union money transfer is a fast and reliable way to send money all over the world. There are people that have started only using money transfers when they know that they are going to have to send money.
When you send a money transfer you have to make sure that you are going to stop by any Check City Location. After you come into the Check City Location, you will need to show a photo ID. After you have shown your photo ID, we will then need the cash or the form of payment that you have chosen for your money transfer. You can either have the funds transferred directly to the recipient’s bank account or you can send the money to any Western Union agent location in the world.
If you are having money sent to you via a Western Union money order, you simply need to stop by a Check City location and bring your photo ID. When you have shown your ID, you will be able to receive your money as cash, on a prepaid card or even money in your mobile wallet. So, rather than worrying about your check being intercepted, you can simply send the money via a money transfer. The funds will be protected throughout the time that they are sent. You will also be able to receive a receipt proving that you have sent the funds. Your receiver will also receive a receipt when he or she picks up the money, to ensure it was delivered safely. | <urn:uuid:30415d04-ebd4-4dda-9c74-14f9b982c926> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.checkcity.com/blog/2012/07/sending-money-safely-and-securely/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977155 | 339 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Published on ShanghaiDaily.com (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/)
China suffers short supply of kids' doctors
IN the waiting room of Beijing Children's Hospital full of crying children, Chang Xianliang leaned against a post with his eight-year-old son in his arms, as hundreds of other parents waited in line to register.
Chang, who came from Handan in Hebei Province, told Xinhua that he arrived at 6am but after queuing for two hours to see a neurologist, he was told the quota for the day had been filled.
There were many people like Chang who complained about the lack of medical staff. While parents complained about a lack of specialists to see their children, the huge number of patients was overwhelming for the doctors.
According to the website of the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, on January 31 one doctor at Beijing Children's Hospital saw an average of more than 53 pediatric patient. Zhang Jian, deputy president of BCH, said the hospital was designed to handle 4,000 patients a day but it now receives more than 7,000 patients, on average. It even received 10,000 patients in a single day.
China has 230 million children, but in 2008 it had only around 61,700 pediatricians - 0.262 pediatrician for every 1,000 children. In the United States, the percentage is 1.45 for 1,000, said Zhu Zonghan, chairman of the China Pediatricians Association.
"Only 5,000 pediatricians have been added in China in the past 15 years, and that's frustrating," said Zhu, adding that there are only 68 children's hospitals across the country - 0.52 percent of the nation's 13,000 hospitals.
Zhu said China's cancellation of pediatrics as an undergraduate major in almost all medical colleges in 1999 discouraged students. After 1999, students who wanted to become pediatricians had to study pediatrics in training centers for a three years after graduating from a five-year medical college.
Problems in government planning has caused the shortage of pediatricians, according to Liu Guiying, director of pediatrics of Anzhen Hospital affiliated to the Capital Medical University in Beijing. "Pediatricians are sorely needed but the government strictly limits the quota of pediatrics staff in hospitals," said Liu, "Even if we need more pediatricians, we do not have any vacancies for them."
Liu said the difficulties faced by pediatricians in finding a hospital job discourages medical students from choosing to become a pediatrician. Moreover, Liu said that pediatricians' work is "low income but high risk."
"I have been in this profession for 27 years, but I earn much less than doctors in other medical departments," said Liu. "The risks we shoulder are much higher since almost all Chinese families have only one child, which makes parents demand too much when their kids get sick."
Compared with the frantic scene in BCH, few people visit the pediatric departments in non-pediatric hospitals.
Pediatric departments generate little profit for comprehensive hospitals where the government has allocated almost no money for pediatrics in recent years, Liu said.
This makes hospitals unwilling to buy expensive equipment for pediatric examinations. Many parents like Chang were aware of the failure of comprehensive hospitals to treating sick children and therefore turned to specialized hospitals.
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The Boy Trap
by Michael Chesworth
Reviewed by MB (age 10)
The Boy Trap illustration will appear here.
MB is a student in Mrs. Hinkley's 5th/6th Grade Class
There are these two very bright girls named Emma and Louise that are very best friends. One day their teachers tell them they have to do a science project, so Emma decides to prove that girls are better than boys. They run some tests like politelness and who's got better grades, but the boys have sotlen their idea. Roger and Wally see who can make better paper airplanes and who's got better grades. Emma and Louise want to be partners with Roger and Wally. The boy's say "yes" and the girls are proud because they think the boys are cool. The first meeting is about how they are going to do this. They decide who ever wins the Young Inventors Contest are better. Roger has a rule, everyone has to do a mousetrap. Louise wins and they change the sign to girls are better than boys. Wally thinks it should be both because we didn't prove anything so we change the sign again.
I loved the story because it was funny and seemed realistic. I think it is fit for all ages because it's easy to understand and I now realize what the boy trap was.
I think the author's purpose was to entertain you and tell you you can't prove that girls are better than boys or boys are better than girls. My favorite character was Emma because she knew that girls are better than boys. My favorite part was when Louise won the Young Inventors Contest. When I read the book, I got a picture in my head and I felt like it was really happening. | <urn:uuid:313a0afd-87bd-4ae6-9354-ee14c045b482> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spaghettibookclub.org/review.php?review_id=1718 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984179 | 356 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Contralateral distribution of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer between older Hispanic/Latino and Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino Individuals
British Journal of Dermatology, 08/17/2012
McLeod MP et al. – Nonmelanoma skin cancer appears to be more common on the left side of older, Non–Hispanic/Non–Latino individuals, while it is more common on the right side of older, Hispanic/Latino individuals; likely secondary to an environmental factor, such as ultraviolet radiation. Nonmelanoma skin cancer is significantly more common in males relative to females, which may be attributed to differences in gender roles or referral practices. | <urn:uuid:7a30a09a-7900-4144-8525-5a5870537237> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mdlinx.com/dermatology/news-article.cfm/4176000/0/skin-neoplasms/next/12?source=scroller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904515 | 135 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Will We Finally Get Some Prison Reform?
A huge difference between former Gov. Bill Owens and current Gov. Bill Ritter is that the former refused to consider sentencing reform while the latter is open to it. Colorado's prisons have been bulging at the seams for years. The cost is enormous:
The state expects to add more than 6,000 prisoners by 2011, requiring $800 million in prison construction. That figure is more than twice the amount Colorado expects to have for all capital construction other than roads during that period of time. A number of officials have concluded the state cannot afford it.
The tough on crime stance of the 80's and 90's just doesn't work any more. We need to find a way to lower the incidence of new crimes (through prevention) and reduce the risk of recidivism (through rehabilitation programs.) We also need to stop incarcerating non-violent drug offenders and finding a way to get them into treatment and off of drugs.
According to Christie Donner, director of the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, the reasons for the rise in inmate population include:
- Many prisoners serving longer sentences.
- Prisoners not being released early on parole.
- Prisoners returning to prison on parole violations and on new charges .
Gov. Ritter is considering proposals to establish a sentencing reform commission to study the issue. He should be encouraged, prodded and propelled into doing it. Here's a good item for consideration for the Commimssion:
Mike Krause, of the Independence Institute, repeated his group's call for two changes to reduce Colorado's prison costs: Halve the sentences for drug possession and reduce the lowest class of drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor. When it was brought up in the debate over Referendum C in 2005, "You would have thought the sky had fallen" from the reaction, he said.
Let's use our jails for the most dangerous among us and use the money saved to train the inmates coming out to lead productive, law-abiding lives and to provide drug treatment to those who need it. Let's also encourage employers to hire ex-offenders so they can support themselves once they get out without resorting to a life of economic crime. I wish there was a way to prevent landlords from accessing criminal records for non-violent crimes. Ex-offenders also need a place to live and housing discrimination against them is counterproductive and another reason our recidivism rate is high.
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Beginner’s guide to climbing Colorado’s fourteeners.
Top Dentists: The 2013 List.
Hip-hop’s ultimate one-hit wonders.
Remodel the master bath?
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One of the more impressive cities I have seen on this cultural learning trip sits on the southeastern corner of the Korean peninsula. Busan is wedged between the mountains and the sea and is Korea’s most important port. It is the closest part of the country to Japan, giving it the misfortune of being the center of lots of conflicts. Today it is a bustling seaport building with some of the most immense towers I have ever seen, some as high as 100 stories! Given that there is little land that is flat in Korea, most people live in these gigantic buildings that soar up into the clouds. Imagine living on the 99th floor, getting in your car, and remembering you left your cell phone back in the apartment.
In the middle of the city is the largest department store in the world, Shinesgae. It is huge, towering up several stories as well! On the first floor, I was invited into another world, Spa Land. I was hesitant (after all, this is a working trip). But I was persuaded that this was an important part of understanding Korean culture, and I dutifully submitted to my hosts.
All I can say is that I have never seen, experienced anything like this. It is actually called shimspa, “a space in between to let it all go.” And I sort of did. It is the mother of all oases. I don’t know how else to describe it. There are 22 baths, hot and super hot, and cold and really cold, and jets that massage, and body scrubs that get rid of the old skin. And after these, there are 13 distinctively themed “Jjimjilbangs”, steam rooms around various themes-Finnish, Yellow Earth (good for mental stability so I stayed a long time), Roman, Pyramid (where energies are collected), Wave Room, etc. I tried to visit all of these. It took four hours to submit my body to the rigors of Spa Land (truly one of the roughest days of my life). After a major climb up towards Mt Hallasan on JeJu Island the day before, in a constant mist and rain, this was a welcome relief.
Two more things stand out. First, I have been finally converted to Korean food. I take back the insulting language I have used up till now. Something happened around my sixth day. Maybe it was starvation. But now, Bibimbap, Bulgogi, Pork Kimchi, fish heads—bring them on! The lettuce wraps over here put PF Chang’s to shame. I am even thinking that my next car should be silver. Something is happening to me. I walk in small stores and go for the rice drinks. I even walked by a rare Outback Steak Restaurant and sniffed at it.
The other part, and really the best experience in Busan, was sitting down with the director of Far East Broadcasting. He is an amazing visionary, seeking to reach Busan (some 4 million people) with the gospel through radio. About 10% of the population here are believers. Most of the rest are Buddhists or secularists. FEBC is an international Christian radio network that has ten centers in Korea, reaching 3.1 billion listeners (from North Korea to the underground church in China, to Russia, and beyond to nearly every continent). There are some 400,000 believers just in North Korea, many of whom depend upon this ministry. It is the only station that broadcasts 24 hours a day in Korea, so late night taxi drivers, many of whom are Buddhists, call in and give their lives to Christ. One of my great privileges before leaving this city was to be part of an interview on FEBC, and on it I shared the story of our church, Village (I am discovering that multicultural ministry is of great interest over here).
Following Busan, and after a very brief visit at Bulguk-sa (perhaps Korea’s most spectacular Buddhist temple), you can see and feel the spiritual war at work here. Seeing people bowing to Buddha, to a worthless idol, it made me so grateful I serve a living God who hears and sees and knows and loves and forgives me. | <urn:uuid:34ebca97-0ba8-4893-97fe-8d50b2a13d29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://johnjohnson.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969094 | 872 | 1.5625 | 2 |
November is American Diabetes Month!
American Diabetes Month (ADM) is an important element in helping the American Diabetes Association reach its vision of a life free of diabetes and all of its burdens. ADM includes programs designed to focus the nation's attention on the issues surrounding diabetes and the many people who are impacted by the disease. Here are a few facts about diabetes:
-- Nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States have
-- South Asians living in the U.S. have a higher prevalence of
Type 2 diabetes and Gestational diabetes than that of the general
-- Recent estimates project that as many as 1 in 3 American adults
will have diabetes in 2050 unless we take steps to Stop Diabetes.
--Two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke.
-- Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure.
-- Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults.
-- The American Diabetes Association estimates that the total national
cost of diagnosed diabetes in the United States is $174 billion.
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Advertising and Public Relations students in the department’s capstone Campaigns course create advertising and public relations campaigns for real clients every term. As part of the courses students meet with real area nonprofit clients, such as Hubbard House, to identify the client’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that lay the foundation of the campaigns they’ll create for the clients.
Based on their research findings, students create a multi-tiered campaign for the clients to use, including promotional content like press kits, PSA’s, broadcast and still advertisements, social media use, and media buying plans. Campaigns are pitched to the clients and their representatives after which the clients decide whether to use the campaign.
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Missouri State Archives
Missouri Governors Records, 1836-1897
The collection includes official records of 19th century Missouri governors. Missouri’s sixth governor, Lilburn Williams Boggs is the first for which the Missouri State Archives holds gubernatorial records.
Missouri governors from the19th century coped with tensions surrounding the expulsion of Mormons, slavery, violence along the Kansas border, guerilla bands, vigilantes and the outbreak of the Civil War. Other topics in the collection include emancipation, the ousting of elected officials, voter disenfranchisement, civil unrest, outlaws, veterans’ issues, inflation, economic worries, labor unrest, railroad construction and massive debts.
Records of governors currently on-line include those for the years 1837-1885. Forthcoming additions to the collection include the years 1885-1897. The Missouri State Archives does not hold records for governors in office from 1821-1836.
The records include correspondence, court records, advertisements, letters of recommendation, resignations, arrest warrants, extradition requisitions, pardons, rewards for capture, bills, invoices, receipts, oaths of loyalty and supporting materials, election notices, writs of election, and legal opinions by the Missouri Attorney General and the Supreme Court of Missouri. The collection also contains maps, memoranda, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, petitions, proclamations, reports, resolutions, statistics and telegrams.
Rights and Reproductions
Copyright is in the public domain. Please see each individual finding aid for the appropriate citation. Preferred Citation: [Item description], [date]; [Name of governor and dates of office]; Office of Governor, Record Group [number]; Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
How to Use This Collection
The official title lists dates of service from inauguration to end of term. Records refer to the date range of materials included within the collection. The records have been digitized in their entirety. All images are the best available.
Additional materials from the administration of each governor are noted within each individual finding aid.
Lilburn Williams Boggs, 1837-1843
Records of Lilburn Williams Boggs, including correspondence, commissions, resignations, resolutions, and state bonds. Topics covered include abolition of slavery, education of the deaf, Thomas Hart Benton, the Mississippi River, and the Second Seminole Indian War.View Collection
Thomas Reynolds, 1840-1844
Records of Governor Thomas Reynolds, including correspondence, petitions, proclamations, resolutions, and state bonds. Subjects include the attempted assassination of former Governor Boggs, the Mormon War, the Iowa Border War, Missouri politics, state borders, term limitations, and slavery.View Collection
Meredith Miles Marmaduke, 1844
Records of Meredith Miles Marmaduke, including correspondence relating to the annexation of Texas, the Missouri border dispute with Iowa, the Bank of Missouri, the Bureau of Statistics, U.S. Congressional interference in state disputes, and the repudiation of state debts.View Collection
John Cummins Edwards, 1844-1848
Records of Governor John Cummins Edwards, including correspondence relating to the boundary dispute between Missouri and Iowa; as well as materials documenting the tobacco industry, the Mexican War, elections, crime, banking, slavery, and proposed changes to the Missouri Constitution.View Collection
Austin Augustus King, 1848-1853
Records of Austin Augustus King, including correspondence, petitions, state bonds, the constitution of the Missouri Institution for the Blind, construction bids and agreements for the second State Capitol building, and materials concerning construction of the Pacific Railroad.View Collection
Sterling Price, 1853-1857
Records of Sterling Price, including correspondence primarily relating to circuit court matters, slavery, and commerce; as well as petitions, proclamations, and writs of election.View Collection
Trusten W. Polk, 1857
Records of Trusten W. Polk, including appointment files associated with the State Penitentiary system; and correspondence pertaining primarily to swamp lands, the Smithsonian Institution, Missouri State Guard supplies, and the boundary dispute with Kentucky over Wolf Island in the Mississippi River.View Collection
Hancock Lee Jackson, 1857
Records of Hancock Lee Jackson, including correspondence and petitions related to appointments, criminal cases, elections, extraditions, pardons, railroads, and swamp lands.View Collection
Robert Marcellus Stewart, 1857 - 1860
Records of Governor Robert Marcellus Stewart, including appointments, correspondence, petitions, and swamp land records. The collection also includes military files regarding the Missouri-Kansas border conflict.View Collection
Claiborne Fox Jackson, 1861
Records of Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson consist of four items of correspondence. Jackson aligned with the Confederacy during the 1861 state convention to determine whether Missouri would secede from the Union. He was subsequently removed from office.View Collection
Hamilton Rowan Gamble, 1861 – 1864
Records of Hamilton Rowan Gamble, who was named provisional governor after Claiborne Fox Jackson was removed from office. His chief concern was keeping Missouri in the Union while at the same time resisting federal control. His records reflect the political upheaval suffered by Missouri during the Civil War.View Collection
Willard Preble Hall, 1864 – 1865
Records of Willard Preble Hall, including commissions, correspondence, and petitions. When the state convention of July 1861 vacated statewide offices, Hall was chosen to serve as lieutenant governor. Governor Gamble died in office on January 31,1864, and Lieutenant Governor Hall became governor.View Collection
Thomas Clement Fletcher, 1865-1869
Records of Thomas Clement Fletcher, the first native Missourian to serve as governor. He dealt with amnesty for Confederate soldiers and sympathizers, emancipation of Missouri slaves, railroad bond defaults, and the reorganization of the public education system.View Collection
Joseph Washington McClurg, 1869-1871
Records of Governor Joseph Washington McClurg. During his administration, the state debt was cut by half, the School of Mines and Metallurgy was established at Rolla, and the college of agriculture at the University of Missouri was created.View Collection
Benjamin Gratz Brown, 1871-1873
Records of Benjamin Gratz Brown, primarily consisting of subject correspondence covering a wide range of issues facing Missouri during Reconstruction.View Collection
Silas B. Woodson, 1873-1875
Records of Silas B. Woodson. During his administration, Woodson reduced the state debt, lowered the tax levy, and signed an act to authorize a popular vote for a Constitutional Convention.View Collection
Charles Henry Hardin, 1875-1877
Records of Charles Henry Hardin. Correspondence comprises the collection. Topics include appointments, preparations for the U.S. Centennial, Civil War claims, state charitable institutions and penitentiary, drought of 1875, railroad bonds, and outlaws.View Collection
John Smith Phelps, 1877-1881
Records of Governor John Smith Phelps, consisting primarily of correspondence. Subjects include the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Centennial Anniversary of the Surrender at Yorktown, and the 1883 World's Fair and Exposition in New York City.View Collection
Thomas Theodore Crittenden, 1881-1885
Records of Governor Thomas Theodore Crittenden, consisting primarily of resignations and requests for appointments, as well as some supporting petitions.View Collection
John Sappington Marmaduke, 1885-1887
Records of Governor John Sappington Marmaduke, including correspondence regarding the Missouri Board of Agriculture, legal files relating to a murder trial, and many other types of documents.View Collection
Albert Pickett Morehouse, 1887-1889
Records of Governor Albert Pickett Morehouse, including correspondence pertaining to appointments, pardons, petitions, and resignations. The collection also includes reports.View Collection
Governors to be added:
- David Rowland Francis, 1889-1893
- William Joel Stone, 1893-1897
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Public opinion survey on developmentI wanted to pass along and discuss this short blurb I came across in the Wall Street Journal's real estate section:
Stop Right There
Landfills, casinos and power plants are the most unpopular types of development in the U.S., according to a recent survey conducted by the Center for Economic and Civic Opinion at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
The first-time survey, commissioned by the Hingham, Mass.-based Saint Consulting Group, which advises developers on local political issues, asked about 1,000 people around the country for their opinions on development and developers.
Landfills elicited the most opposition from those surveyed -- 82% said they would oppose one in their community. Single-family housing had the most support -- 75% were in favor.
About one in five of the people surveyed said he had actively opposed development in his community by signing a petition, attending a local government hearing, or some other form of active opposition.
"[The survey] shows that the American public is far more sophisticated about planning and zoning than we thought," said Patrick F. Fox, president of the Saint Consulting Group. "The most staggering number to me is that one in five people have actively opposed a project. "
In the highly developed Northeast about 29% of those surveyed said they were opposed to new development. About 22% in the West and 20% in the South said they opposed new development.
About 61% of those surveyed said local governments did a fair to poor job on planning and zoning.
- The single-family home suburban lifestyle is still far and away the most popular.
- Yet another reason to be thankful Houston has avoided zoning: more places get it wrong than right.
- Looking at the trend in those development opposition stats from the new South to middle-aged West to older Northeast, it looks like communities start off more supportive of development but drop-off over time - probably as the hassles of additional population and development start to outstrip the benefits because government can't keep up on infrastructure, especially mobility. There seems to be a tipping point, and while Houston seems to currently be on the "pro-growth" side of that point, I sense that we may be close to the inflection point. That's unfortunate, because growth brings economic opportunity and social mobility - stagnation doesn't. To delay that public opinion tipping point, we have to be aggressive on infrastructure investment ahead of growth - especially mobility and education (quantity and quality). | <urn:uuid:1cc30cba-d356-4759-9885-d80e63a7851d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.com/2006/01/public-opinion-survey-on-development.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973372 | 508 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Depression May Predict Mental Impairment in Elderly
A two-year study of individuals age 65 and older shows that depression puts seniors at risk for subsequent declines in executive function. Researchers tested 709 subjects yearly using the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, monitored patients' medical charts and conducted interviews to assess functioning, cognition and depression. They found that individuals with depression were at a greater risk for intellectual dysfunction at one and two years. Greater medical difficulties were also found to be independently associated with both cognitive decline and depression.
ABSTRACT: Does Depression Precede or Follow Executive Dysfunction? Outcomes in Older Primary Care Patients
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The previous post was PsychBriefs: September 30-October 6, 2007.
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Patients' own skin cells could restore vision in elderly with macular degeneration
A new study has suggested that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells - which are derived from adult human skin cells but have embryonic properties - could soon be used to restore vision in people with macular degeneration and other diseases that affect the eye's retina.
In the study conducted by Columbia ophthalmologists and stem cell researchers, adult stem cells developed from a patient's skin cells improved the vision of blind mice.
"With eye diseases, I think we're getting close to a scenario where a patient's own skin cells are used to replace retina cells destroyed by disease or degeneration," said the study's principal investigator, Stephen Tsang, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology and pathology and cell biology.
"It's often said that iPS transplantation will be important in the practice of medicine in some distant future, but our paper suggests the future is almost here," he stated.
The advent of human iPS cells in 2007 was greeted with excitement from scientists who hailed the development as a way to avoid the ethical complications of embryonic stem cells and create patient-specific stem cells.
Like embryonic stem cells, iPS cells can develop into any type of cell. Thousands of different iPS cell lines from patients and healthy donors have been created in the last few years, but they are almost always used in research or drug screening.
In Tsang's new preclinical iPS study, human iPS cells - derived from the skin cells of a 53-year-old donor - were first transformed with a cocktail of growth factors into cells in the retina that lie underneath the eye's light-sensing cells.
The primary job of the retina cells is to nourish the light-sensing cells and protect the fragile cells from excess light, heat, and cellular debris. If the retina cells die - which happens in macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa - the photoreceptor cells degenerate and the patient loses vision.
Macular degeneration is a leading cause of vision loss in the elderly, and it is estimated that 30 percent of people will have some form of macular degeneration by age 75.
In their study, the researchers injected the iPS-derived retina cells into the right eyes of 34 mice that had a genetic mutation that caused their retina cells to degenerate.
In many animals, the human cells assimilated into mouse retina without disruption and functioned as normal retina cells well into the animals' old age. Control mice that got injections of saline or inactive cells showed no improvement in retina tests.
"Our findings provide the first evidence of life-long neuronal recovery in a preclinical model of retinal degeneration, using stem cell transplant, with vision improvement persisting through the lifespan," Tsang said.
"And importantly, we saw no tumors in any of the mice, which should allay one of the biggest fears people have about stem cell transplants: that they will generate tumors," he noted.
Tsang hopes to begin a clinical trial for macular degeneration patients in the next three years, after more preclinical testing in animal models.
Already a similar trial - testing retina cells derived from embryonic stem cells - has seen encouraging preliminary results. A paper from this study, published earlier this year, reported that the stem cells are safe and have potential to improve the vision of two patients with macular degeneration.
"These results are encouraging, but iPS cells could be a more attractive option than embryonic stem cells," Tsang said, "because patients may not need drugs to prevent rejection of the transplanted cells."
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And that was it.
“I’ve explained to them [in the past] that some people believe God is waiting for them, but I don’t believe that. I believe when you die, it’s over and you live on in the memory of people you love and who love you,” she said this week. “I can’t offer them the comfort of a better place. Despite all the evils and problems in the world, this is the heaven — we’re living in the heaven and it’s the one we work to make. It’s not a paradise.”
This is what facing death and suffering looks like in an atheist home.
As so many millions of Americans turn to clergy and prayers to help their children sort out the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, parents like Drizin do not. They don’t agonize over interpreting God’s will or message in the event. They don’t seek to explain what kind of God allows suffering, and they don’t fudge it when children ask what happens to people who die, be they Grandma or the young victims of Newtown.
But that doesn’t mean atheist parents are alike in what they say, believe or do.
As the number of Americans rises who say they don’t believe in a supernatural God, atheists have become more public and confident, spurring a boomlet of church-like Sunday schools for children where secular ethics are taught, and parenting groups where people meet to discuss things like the overbearing religious grandparent, how to teach world religions in the home and ways to help children navigate conversations with religious friends.
Such institutions and groups reveal a range of child-rearing views among atheist parents.
Many want their children to have regular rituals tied to traditional religion, like attending a house of worship, lighting Hanukkah candles or decorating Christmas trees. Some began giving thanks before meals when their children were born, directing their gratitude to the people who grew and made the food. Others say a pre-meal thanks to “God,” a non-supernatural concept they have shaped. Polls show 11 percent of atheists say they pray occasionally (6 percent say daily) and many consider themselves highly spiritual, experiencing transcendence in the wonder of space, nature and connections with other human beings.
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Azerbaijan, Baku, June 18 / Trend M. Aliyev /
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's regime will not resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov told media today.
He expressed his attitude at a meeting of foreign ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in Paris today.
"Sargsyan's regime in Armenia came to power by shedding the blood of Azerbaijanis," he said. "So, it will never solve this problem."
"In this regard Russia must demonstrate its clear position. It must put pressure on Armenia and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries must join in this," the deputy Prime Minister said.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY
T he American family isn't what it used to be — it's so much more, suggest findings of one of the most extensive surveys ever done on attitudes toward families.
The definition of "family" has grown to include more than just the stereotypical married Mom, Dad and kids. The survey, by Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., was based on responses from 2,691 adults surveyed last month. Among findings:
•86% say a single parent and child are a family;
•80% say an unmarried couple living together with a child is a family;
•63% say a gay or lesbian couple raising a child is a family.
Meanwhile, 88% say a childless married couple is a family — but 54% say a cohabiting couple with no children is not a family.
MARRIAGE: Nearly 40% say it's becoming obsolete
"Families are more diverse and the structure of them is more in flux," says sociologist Kelly Musick of Cornell University. "One of the things that's happened is people have lot more leeway to design the families that work for them."
Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who assisted the Pew research team, says people think today of "family as a relationship rather than an institution."
"If you have a close relationship and act committed, then you count as family," she says. "If you're making obligations to partners and kids, you get counted as family, as opposed to older ways of thinking when it was purely the legal definition."
This changing definition of family has been a key area of research for Brian Powell, a professor of sociology at Indiana University in Bloomington, who detailed his findings in a book he co-authored, Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family, released in September.
"Americans are focusing less on the structure of family per se and instead they're focusing on the functions or purpose of family," he says. "Think about what families do. Families take care of each other. Families help each other out. They love each other. As long as Americans have a signal out there that a living arrangement is doing those types of tasks, then they're willing to accept the idea that these are families."
Powell's research has found that gay couples with children were included in 54% of Americans' definition of family in 2003, increasing to 62% in 2006 and 68% in 2010.
He says gay families portrayed in media "really reinforces the idea that there is a broader array of families than we used to think."
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Through blogs and comments, patients and experts explore what it takes to find good health care and make the most of it.
Dealing With Cancer
Jessie Gruman | October 23, 2012
I was interviewed, along with several other cancer survivors, for the October issue of Washingtonian Magazine.' Dealing With Cancer, by Karina Giglio, offers advice on how to choose your doctors, what websites you can trust, how to help a friend with cancer and other resources to help you or a loved one get through treatment.
Here's an excerpt from the introduction:
Last year, more than 70,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in the District, Maryland, and Virginia. Thus began, for these patients and their loved ones, a sort of tug of war that is life with cancer.
Survivors often speak of living with cancer as a complex balancing act: relinquishing reality as they've known it and surrendering control of their bodies while pursuing every possible means of healing.
This section is designed to help with that balance' to guide those facing treatment toward some of the complementary resources and support they need so they can spend time concentrating on the big stuff.
We also asked people who have gone through cancer to share their most useful insight or piece of advice. When you're battling cancer, survivors say, it's wise to lean on others.
"It's important to have someone who can be your advocate, whether it's a nurse navigator like me or just someone you trust who can help you take the next steps," says Susie Park, an oncology nurse navigator at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The first step: identifying the size and location of the cancer, where it started, and whether it has spread, as well as whether it's considered aggressive or slow-growing. An oncologist can then discuss treatment options, the success rate of each, and side effects.
There's good reason to remain optimistic: The national five-year survival rate for all cancers diagnosed between 1999 and 2006 is 68 percent. And the Washington area is home to some of the country's most reputable cancer-care facilities, including Georgetown University Hospital its Lombardi Center is one of only 41 in the nation designated as comprehensive cancer centers by the National Cancer Institute.
More on Dealing With Cancer:
- Dealing With Cancer
- Dealing With Cancer: How to Choose Your Doctors
- Dealing With Cancer: Four Ways to Help a Friend With Cancer
- Dealing With Cancer: Advice and Resources to Help You and Your Loved Ones
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After heart surgery and cancer treatments, a Watertown librarian’s medical bills are piling up. But the community is showing its support.
"You know, there isn't too much more they can do," Linda Bauman said.
After recovering from open heart surgery a few years ago, long-time library and bookmobile employee Linda Bauman went back to the doctor with more symptoms.
"I thought maybe it was something to do with the open heart. I never dreamed that it was ever going to be cancer, much less stage four," Bauman said.
But that reality is as true as the books sitting in the nonfiction section of her library. When you combine her time with the bookmobile and the library, you have more than 30 years reading books to kids. And they haven't forgotten.
Kids from a local day care spent Monday delivering cookies to people who made a donation to help Bauman.
"Because she's sick," a number of the kids said.
The kids say Bauman is allergic to cancer and they’re close enough. An allergy to the cancer treatments has left her relying on experimental treatment in Sioux Falls once every three weeks.
Setbacks like that have been disheartening for the librarian. But she's hopeful for as many days as possible reading to her grandkids and others in the community as they work to make her days left as special as possible.
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Organic hazelnut production involves the use of sophisticated agricultural practices to gain better cultivation of crops. Hazelnut is of oval shaped structure with hard shell covered. The overall dimensions of hazelnut would range about 25 mm in length and 15 mm in diameter. These are mainly employed in the production of confectioneries. Also these are ingredients of sweets and food in most of western countries. It satisfies certain essential dietary requirements for people such as vitamin e and dietary fibers. This is cultivated in orchards in some of European countries. Also there are certain considerations to make before going in for actual cultivation of crops. The basic cultivation requirements needed for hazelnut cultivation are given below:
Soil plays a major role in the growth of plant. The soil should permit the expansion of roots but it is limited only for about 75 centimeters or more as per characteristics of plant. Also the soil should be capable enough to retain sufficient level of moisture. This moisture content can be deciding factor for development of nuts. The soil should have abundant supply of organic nutrients required for growth of plant in faster pace.
Hazelnut plants generally prefer temperate climates. These grow extensively ending up in huge amounts of nuts when grown in moist atmosphere. The overall morphological feature of hazelnut can also permit farmers to grow them in hot regions. But cultivation at these regions can require sufficient level of watering to be carried out in order to yield good number of nuts. Presence of moisture in air can bring about extensive growth of nuts.
Farmers present all over world generally prefer organic fertilizers. Since they protect the nature of soil for prolonged period of time. Nitrogen fertilizers are employed to maintain better supply of nitrous compounds for the plant growth. The ph level of about 6 is to be maintained in order to have better growth of nuts. Also size of nuts can be determined by addition of added nutrients such as phosphorous.
Article Summary: Organic hazel cultivation has demanding requirements to be fulfilled by the cultivators in order to have better growth. Size and quality of seed depends on the several influencing factors such as climatic conditions, fertilizers used and plantation procedure adopted. Planned cultivation can amplify the returns to cultivator in appreciable manner. Recent hazelnut production practices are described in this forum.
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September 18, 2012. (Romereports.com)
A pediatric hospital in Rome run by the Catholic Church has entered an agreement with the Italian government to help improve medical care available to children in much of Latin America.
Representing the Vatican in the agreement was their Secretary of Relations with States, Monsignor Dominique Mamberti.
MSGR. DOMINIQUE MAMBERTI
Secretary, Holy See’s Relations with States
“It is called the continent of hope and this is a occasion, an opportunity, to develop a cooperation of high level technology and inspired by these principles that are a conception of health of the person.”
The two sides gathered in Rome to sign an agreement, where they committed to send medical goods and services to Latin America from the Roman hospital of Bambino Gesú.
The planned projects will provide assistance in cases of pediatric AIDS, serious illnesses or other special needs.
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
“We Italians have many things to say in the world of science and so I think this is an important step thanks to the study by the Italo-Latin American Institute and the sensitivity of the Holy See shown by the hospital.”
Also in attendance were many of the ambassadors from the 20 countries of Latin America that are part of the Italo-Latin American Institute. They noted that this new agreement was an important project for relations between the Vatican and Latin America.
Fernando Sánchez Campos
Ambassador of Costa Rica to the Holy See
"Here is something very concrete, the help from doctors which is above all for children. I think it's fundamental, not only for the Vatican which becomes closer to Latin America but also for the region of Latin America."
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IELTS Collected Papers
This volume brings together a set of ten IELTS-related research studies - four on Speaking and six on Writing - conducted between 1995 and 2001. The ten studies were funded under the auspices of the British Council/IELTS Australia Joint-funded Research Program which promotes research activity among IELTS test stakeholders around the world. Findings from the studies provided valuable evidence on the validity, reliability, impact and practicality of the IELTS test; they were also instrumental in highlighting aspects needing attention, and so directly informed the revised design and implementation of the IELTS Speaking and Writing Modules introduced in 2001 and 2005. The volume reviews and comments on the specific contribution of each study to the ongoing process of IELTS speaking and writing test development; it also evaluates the range of research methodologies used in the projects and discusses their usefulness for researchers working in the broader field of performance assessment. | <urn:uuid:2b1331a6-e669-41d0-bf85-29fcaa364bda> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/catalog/subject/project/item404849/IELTS-Collected-Papers/?site_locale=en_US¤tSubjectID=2489447 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923029 | 188 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Laser cut frosted polypropylene, exhibited as part of a site specific exhibit in the Sir Joseph Bank's Conservatory, Lincoln, curated by Anneka French.
Photo credit: Kirsty E. Smith
Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory
30 - 31 May 2010
Over the 30th and 31st May 2010, the Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory in Lincoln hosted a collection of multidisciplinary artwork in support of Cancer Research UK. Meleager’s Garland included a diverse selection of work explorig themes of biology, place, exploration and history. Meleager’s Garland included interpretations based on Sir Joseph Banks' recognised botanical notoriety - Kirsty E. Smith’s otherworldly specimens and Alex Pearl’s drawing evoke Banks’ spirit of discovery, while Julia Hembrow and Stan Lenartowi.
The word ‘anthology’ previously only described collections of plants and ideas of collection and classification were prevalent throughout; from Pamina Stewart, Alexis Rago, Helen Snell and James Wilkinson While Julia Hembrow and Stan Lenartowicz’s prints refer to Banks more directly, Banks’ lesser known local links were reflected by Rebecca Wombell’s installation, based upon his Lincolnshire home at Revesby.
Ideas inspired by the conservatory, of growth and environment, were epitomised by work from Zoe Maxwell, Kyle Kirkpatrick and Liam Herne. Andrew Bracey, Claire Brewster, Sarah Nicholson and Ruth Piggott used found materials to create work that treads navigates between the man-made and the natural, producing new possibilities and otherworldly experiences. Meleager’s Garland is named after the Greek poet Meleager who first assembled an ‘anthology’ of poetry, The Garland, referenced through Katrina Naomi’s poetry.
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Too many different types of flooring can make a house appear chopped up, designers said, and from a resale point of view, it can turn off buyers who quickly start adding up the cost to rip out everything and install new hardwood or carpet.
The dilemma is determining how many is too many.
"There is really no rule, but there are some principles that should be followed," said interior designer Niki VanEch, of VanEch Studio in Northern Virginia. "You want it to flow. Coming into a tiled foyer, a wooded family room, and then a different tile in kitchen, that's way too much."
The type of flooring that homeowners choose should reflect the size of the house, said Amir Bamdad, manager of Carpet Palace in Rockville. "If you have a huge foyer and a 7,000-square-foot house, you can easily put ceramic in the entry hall, cork in the kitchen, and hardwood across the living and dining rooms," he said. "But if your house is small or you live in a townhome, it will look more spacious if the flooring is similar."
Chris Spaulding, of Carpet & Floor Designs near Dupont Circle, said the goal is to have a person's eyes keep flowing from the entry into the home, and different textures and colors can stop that flow. "Think of a baseboard," he said. "Your eye will flow naturally up and down the wall, but an abrupt color change will disrupt the eye."
That does not mean one flooring type suits all rooms. Floors can mix and match as long as transitions are gentle in tone and texture.
VanEch suggested a good rule of thumb: Stick with two types of flooring on the main level, but if one of those choices is carpet, stay with the same carpet. She said hardwood and carpets generally work best together.
Spaulding said more than three types of textures is too many. Many people will choose hardwood in the main living areas and buy area rugs to top them off. "That's a nice look," he said. "In the kitchen, people tend to go with something softer and easier on the back, like cork or marmoleum."
For homes with stone such as marble or granite in the entry area, hardwoods are a good second choice for the main living areas.
"Wood works best if you use the same color -- the same species, such as oak or pine, cherry or mahogany -- throughout," Spaulding said. "You want to keep the floor from looking like a patchwork, so it's best to stick to one particular flavor."
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We realize that a lot of these boats weren’t all that far offshore, but that doesn’t mean that you should head out without the appropriate safety gear. No VHFs, and 16 violations in 19 boardings — really?! Boating is a lot of fun, but it can take a drastic turn for the worse if you aren’t well prepared.
Crewmembers from U.S. Coast Guard Station Cape Cod Canal responded to four search-and-rescue cases and conducted 19 vessel boardings over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
On Friday, crewmembers responded to a disabled vessel three miles east of the entrance of the canal in Cape Cod Bay. Aboard were two adults, two children and a dog. No injuries were reported.
On Saturday, crewmembers responded to two more disabled vessels three miles northeast of the east entrance of the Cape Cod Canal. One vessel had three people aboard and another had two. No injuries were reported.
On Sunday, Station Cape Cod Bay crews responded to an electrical space fire on the 42-foot fishing vessel Silver Star, homeported in Plymouth, Mass.
A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and a Station Cape Cod Canal 41-foot boat crew responded. The Plymouth harbormaster towed the Silver Star to Plymouth Harbor.
All but one of the above cases were called in using a cellular phone through a third party because the vessels did not have a marine-band VHF radio aboard. VHF radios allow Coast Guard crews and other responders to receive accurate, real-time information and use technologies that can identify the source location of a radio call-out.
In addition to these cases, Station Cape Cod Canal crews conducted 19 safety boardings over the weekend. Of the 19 boardings, boarding officers issued 16 violations.
- Four violations for not having a Type IV throw-able flotation device
- Two violations for not having a sound-producing device
- Three violations for not having valid boat registration
- Four violations for not having visual distress signals, such as flares
- Three violations for missing or non-operational fire extinguishers
All of the vessels without the operational fire extinguishers had their voyages terminated.
“I’m extremely proud of the work my crews did this weekend, but concerned about what we saw,” said Chief Petty Officer Robert Holland, officer in charge, Station Cape Cod Canal. “With the water and air temperatures falling, boaters need to be prepared.”
“Dont rely on cell phones working at sea,” Holland said. “Use a marine-band VHF radio and have all of your required safety equipment readily available at all times.”
Boaters can schedule a free vessel safety examination from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary or the U.S. Power Squadron. Both agencies also offer a variety of boating safety courses as well.
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For any sport, the right environment is key. Whether to attract new participants or to help them reach their true potential, facilities play a vital role in the growth of sport. Get it right and people will enjoy visiting; get it wrong and attendance and attitudes may be negatively affected.
To this end, the ITF established a working group of facilities experts from major tennis-playing nations, to design and develop an international Facilities Guide, which represents 'best practice' from around the world. This guide has been developed by the ITF as a simple reference for those wanting to build a tennis court whether domestic, tournament or club.
The Facilities Guide is supported by the ITF Suppliers' Directory: a searchable database of products and services used to create tennis facilities; and the ITF Recognition programme, which provides end-users with an independent assessment of the quality of their court.
Please note the following when reading these guidelines:
- Some of the information contained therein has been supplied by the industry and nothing within these guidelines constitutes an ITF endorsement or approval of companies or products. The ITF is not responsible for the accuracy of the information supplied.
- The information relates to the design of dedicated tennis facilities only and are not necessarily appropriate for a multi-sport environment where the same surface is used for a number of different sports.
The ITF acknowledges the participation of the following organisations in the development of Facilities Guide. These organisations have kindly agreed to the ITF incorporating, where relevant, their material within this site:
American Sports Builders Assocation
French Tennis Federation
Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain
The Sports and Play Construction Association
United States Tennis Association
In addition, the ITF thanks the following organisations for providing photographs and images:
California Products, USA
Edward Sports, UK
Sports Surfaces Technologies, UK
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon make major changes to sugar consumption.
The FDA, after being urged by the Center for Science and Public Interest, is going to explore creating a new sugar level for products, meaning a number in which added sugar can’t exceed in a given product. The goal is to boost oral health, in addition to combat diabetes and heart disease, among other health issues.
The CSPI filed a 54-page petition with the FDA. The petition goes in depth about the overwhelming evidence that added sugars cause major health problems.
The average 20-oz bottle of soda possesses 16 teaspoons of sugar from high-fructose corn syrup. The American Heart Association only recommends consuming half of that amount throughout the entire day. No person should consume more than 9 teaspoons of sugar each day, according to the AHA.
The CSPI and researchers involved with this data agree that diet soda is healthier than regular soda despite some studies that say otherwise.
Sugary drinks comprise the largest source of calories in the American diet, according to some studies. The average American consumes between 18 and 23 teaspoons each day.
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We put Arnie’s hind leg together using the same methods as we did his front leg. The bones below the hocks are very similar (but not identical) to the bones below the knees on the front leg, but the bones above the cannon bone are very different between the front and the hind.
Looking at the “bare bones” it is easy to point out where the joints and individual bones are.
Looking at a whole horse it can be a lot harder. The stifle joint, similar to our knee, is at the level of the flank, and the femur, our thigh bone, is hidden within the hindquarters. The hip joint itself is a lot lower than you would think, and what is termed the “point of the hip” is actually part of the pelvis, far forward and much higher than the hip joint.
While the front leg is joined to the body just by muscle, the hind leg has a solid attachment between the femur and the pelvis. This is a ball and socket joint where the head of the femur is attached to the inside of the socket of the pelvis by a very strong, short ligament. The joint capsule also attaches all the way around the joint, and muscles, tendons and other ligaments help hold things in there tight. The actual joint is fairly deep inside the horse, so to dislocate a hip means there is a LOT of damage happening.
The “socket” on the pelvis is solid on the top, front and back, so mechanically it really helps hold the head of the femur in place when the hind leg hits the ground. The ligament attaches right at the top of that upside down V in the “socket”. This pelvis came from Smudge, a small pony sized jenny mule, so a full sized horse pelvis would be a lot larger compared to my hand size.
This picture is looking at the left femur from the front. The “ball”, officially the head of the femur, isn’t at the top of the bone. Instead, it projects sideways on the neck of the femur in towards the pelvis. On the outside of the top of the femur are a couple of large lumps which together make up the greater trochanter. All lumps and bumps on bones are there for a reason. They are attachment sites for either muscles, usually via their tendons, or ligaments, which attach bone to bone. Very often, the larger the lump or bump, the larger the muscle that attaches there. These are large lumps!
Looking at it from the medial view (out from the middle of the horse), you see two important things. One is the upside down V which is where the ligament holding the head of the femur to the pelvis attaches. The second is that the greater trochanter actually rises above the head of the femur, so it sticks up higher than the hip joint. This means that anything pulling on this part of the bone will rotate the rest of the bone in the opposite direction around the head of the femur. And if you know anything about levers, you might guess this is probably a very important lump in terms of how the leg works. Any you’d be right. But we’ll talk more about that when we eventually get to muscles of the hind leg.
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Aug. 5, 2012 became more than just a Sunday; it represents the 50th anniversary of the passing of one of Hollywood's iconic actresses, Marilyn Monroe. One of the most written and photographed people of the 20th century, her passing on Aug. 5, 1962 ended one of the most promising careers but launching her into legendary status.
No other actress or historical figure has had more pictures, images, books and merchandise about them; Marilyn's picture graces thousands of projects, and the number is growing nearly every year. She is considered the wealthiest dead celebrity, right next to Elvis and James Dean. And her passing is one of the most controversial. Every moment of that night in August is up for grabs, from conversations with her housekeeper and doctor, to the involvement of the Kennedy brothers, to the speculation that she took her own life because she was despondent. All questions but no answers and any type of documentation related to those last few hours has all but disappeared. We'll always wonder what happened and wonder why.
Marilyn Monroe was more than just a sex goddess; she was a woman who took on an entire movie system and changed the image of women forever. She made it possible to be a size 16 and still be gorgeous. When everyone thought she'd be forever known as the dumb blonde, she took charge of her career and created her own production company -- a first since Mary Pickford -- which allowed her to pick and chose roles she wanted, to explore a deeper side of her soul and to become known as so much more. She wanted so much to be loved for more than her body, she wanted them to take notice of her brains and she fought like hell for that right but it wasn't meant to be, and in the end, it came back that she was found nude of a pill overdose.
We know the basic facts of Marilyn's life and how she came to Hollywood -- an orphaned child abandoned by her mother who was committed because she had suffered from mental problems all her life and Marilyn forced to marry at 16 so she wouldn't return as a ward of the state -- but what do we really know about her? What she felt and how she coped? We know that she tried to commit suicide several times; she wanted so much to be loved and give love back.
What would have happened had she lived? Would she have stayed in movies or left the business to finally have the family she wanted so badly, the baby she was desperate for? Would she have remarried Joe DiMaggio or would she have found a plain Joe and settled down to forget her movie star life? There are so many what-ifs and the possibilities are endless.
We don't look at Marilyn Monroe as a movie star; we look at someone who overcame adversity and abuse as a child to a grown woman who held the world at her finger tips with just a simple smile. We look at her as a role model of what hard work and determination pays off to be. That to reach for the stars isn't enough, we must reach beyond them and never let go.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. -- Marilyn Monroe
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Streaming vs. Blu-ray: The Battle for Movie Quality
The market for online video services is heating up with major players including Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon all competing with each other. These Streaming Video-on-Demand services offer a catalog of popular movies and TV shows for a monthly fee. With millions of households signing up for these streaming video services, why would anyone stick with packaged media like replicated Blu-ray discs? To answer that question, we’re going to look at some of the key differences between Blu-ray and streaming videos.
The first major difference is quality. In order to stream a full-length movie to a customer’s computer, the picture and sound quality must be heavily compressed. With some services, this may result in video that looks “blocky” or audio that sounds “tinny.”
Blu-ray movies look better than streaming videos because they are less compressed. The 25 or 50GB of space on a Blu-ray disc enables movies to be stored at 1080p for a true HD experience.
The next major difference is portability. Blu-ray movies can be viewed at home, on a plane, on a long car trip, and just about anywhere you can bring a laptop computer. Streaming movies only work in areas with Internet connectivity, and even then if you are on a wireless connection you may not have the best speed or signal strength.
A third major difference between streaming video and Blu-ray discs is selection. For example, Netflix offers more than 100,000 movies on Blu-ray and DVD discs, and only about 17,000 streaming titles. By comparison, Amazon offers a paltry 5,000 movies and TV shows in their streaming catalog.
It’s very clear that when it comes to variety, there are simply a greater number of choices available on discs. If you’re looking to watch more than just new releases, the selection among streaming services is pretty limited at the moment.
Finally, streaming videos and Blu-ray discs have a major price disagreement as well. Streaming services are based on a monthly subscription fee. Like a gym membership, you are paying for it even on the days you don’t use it. A Blu-ray disc is simple: you buy it once and then you own it. That’s it. There are no monthly fees or renewals to purchase the Blu-ray movies you want to add to your collection.
Last but not least, there is a convenience factor to having movies on discs. A Blu-ray disc will still be there if your computer crashes. A Blu-ray disc can easily be loaned to or borrowed from a friend. They can be given as gifts for a birthday or special occasion. You simply cannot do these things with a streaming file yet.
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Wahey, now we are really getting onto an area of speciality for me - I do this
sort of stuff for a living.
Most of the comments so far are along the right lines, although a little
confusion is still around.
Different engine layouts have different balance problems, and require different
balance shaft solutions. An in-line 4 would be perfectly balanced, if the
pistons moved up and down with perfect sinusoidal motion (as Donald
mentioned), which they would with infinitely long conrods. However, they
move faster in the top half of the stroke than they do in the bottom half -
this results in a force vibrating the engine up and down, at twice the engine
speed (and further forces at 4*, 8* engine speed etc, but these fall off in
size quite quickly). You therefore use two balance shafts, rotating in
opposite directions, at twice engine speed - using two counter-rotating shafts
allows their horizontal forces to cancel each other out, but their vertical
forces to combine to cancel out the force from the pistons.
An in-line 3 has a totally different problem. With evenly spaced firing, all
forces balance perfectly. However, while the front piston is on the way down,
the rear is on the way up - the forces balance, but one is at the front, the
other at the rear, so this will tend to tip the engine up. What you therefore
need is, again, counter-rotating balance shafts, but this time rotating at
engine speed, and the shafts designed to create a moment (rocking motion), not
a force. But, since one of these shafts is rotating in the same speed and
direction as the crankshaft, the crankshaft and one balance shaft can be
combined, so you only need one additional balance shaft, rotating at engine
speed in the opposite direction. As before, there are additional moments at
2*, 4*, 8* engine speed due to the piston motion not being perfectly
sinusiodal, but these tend to be left unbalanced, as too many shafts gets too
complicated. The 2* engine speed imbalance is still significant, however.
A V6 engine is essentially 2 in-line 3s stuck side-by-side, so the same balance
problems arise, and again, a single shaft at engine speed but opposite
direction is required.
An in-line 6 (and consequently V12) is the perfect situation - if you stick two
in-line 3s back to back, the front 3 will tip the engine forward while the
rear 3 tip the engine back. This engine is perfectly balanced (ignoring other
stuff like cam mechanisms etc.)
A V8 is not perfect, but is pretty good, without the use of additional balance
shafts. It depends on whether a flat-plane or cruxiform crankshaft is used.
However, I have yet to design a balance system for a V8 personally, so I'm
less clear on the issues here. With a flat-plane crankshaft, you essentially
have two in-line 4s set at an angle to each other, so each bank will still
give rise to the same forces it would as a 4. A boxer 8 engine should be
perfect, as it could be set up so each bank cancels the other out perfectly.
Cruxiform V8s, boxer 4s (e.g. Subaru) - I'd have to think about it, I don't
know off the top of my head what the situation is with these.
Well, that's enough education for this time of the morning. I bet you are all
glad you know this now - you probably understand engine balance better than
half the people in my office!
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Paul Stamets has been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years. Over this time, he has discovered and co-authored four new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation. He received the 1998 “Bioneers Award” from The Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 “Founder of a New Northwest Award” from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils.
In 2008, Paul received the National Geographic Adventure Magazine’s Green-Novator and the Argosy Foundation’s E-chievement Awards. He was also named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” in their November–December 2008 issue. In February 2010, Paul received the President’s Award from the Society for Ecological Restoration: Northwest Chapter, in recognition of his contributions to Ecological Restoration.
He has written six books on mushroom cultivation, use and identification; his books Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator (co-author) have long been hailed as the definitive texts of mushroom cultivation. Other works by Paul Stamets include Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies (out of print), Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, MycoMedicinals®: an Informational Treatise on Mushrooms, and many articles and scholarly papers.
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Recently I was at a dinner having a fascinating conversation with some very influential people. But one of the dinner guests had his head down the whole time. I thought he was falling asleep. He’s almost my age, and sometimes that happens! But, lo and behold, after dinner I discovered he had actually been reading his Blackberry!
Now I’m not wagging a finger at him, because I have been guilty of overindulging in technology myself. I like call it multitasking, but my wife, Patty, has another name for it. Recently we were able to get away from our normally hectic lives to celebrate her birthday for a few days. Do you know what she wanted for her present? A promise that I would put my iPhone away for the whole time!
Susan Maushart, author of the new book, The Winter of Our Disconnect, describes this kind of addiction to media with the marvelous term “infobesity.” Just as Americans have a growing reputation—if you’ll pardon the pun—for physical obesity, we also have an expanding commitment to staying “connected” through social media such as Facebook and devices such as smart phones.
And just as too much of a good thing—such as food—can be unhealthy for us, so also can too much social and electronic networking. And I mean that literally! In January some security cameras in Reading, Pennsylvania, recorded a shopper who was so busy texting as she was walking along in a mall that she didn’t see a fountain in front of her—and fell right into the pool.
The video went viral, and millions had a laugh at the poor woman’s expense.
Far less humorous is the fact that each day more than a million Americans send text messages or use their cell phones while driving. No wonder “distracted driving” fatalities are on the rise.
In her new book, Alone Together, MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes that technology—despite its many obvious benefits—is also threatening to increase our isolation and make us less human. Experts say e-mail, online games, social networking, and blogs are addicting in part because they are portable, provide instant gratification, and allow us an easy escape from relationships that may be difficult and require a lot more work.
Sharon Gilchrest O'Neill, a marriage and family therapist in New York, suggests that “Technology should be on the list of the top reasons why people divorce, along with money, sex and parenting.”
Of course, technology can be a blessing. Many people rightly point out that Facebook, rather than forcing them into isolation, has helped them find old friends and neighbors. Droids, iPhones, and other technologies can be seen as expressions of our God-given creative potential. Rather than dismissing them as evil, maybe we Christians should begin to think in terms of what’s prudent. How can we can use technology for God’s glory, rather than let it use us?
So how do we know whether we are suffering from infobesity? Why not try a tech-fast, maybe for a day, or even a week. Don’t use your iPhone, don’t sign in to Facebook, whatever your tech weakness is, just withdraw for a while, and see what happens.
If that seems too radical or impossible to attempt, then I’m afraid you probably do have an advanced case of infobesity. And, please, watch out for those mall fountains. | <urn:uuid:376e199b-f971-4f4f-9a18-15a3fd7e1a88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/16418 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975845 | 732 | 1.679688 | 2 |
An out of court settlement has been reached between 65 passengers on a British Airways flight which crash-landed at Heathrow and the aircraft’s manufacturers.
Action was taken in the American courts in Chicago against Boeing, who made the plane, and Rolls Royce, the company which built the engines.
There were 152 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777 when it suffered an engine failure on its approach to Heathrow following flight BA38 from Beijing in January 2008.
The aircraft narrowly cleared the perimeter fence and crash landed short of the runway.
The plane’s captain, Peter Burkill and co-pilot, John Coward, were hailed as heroes for their handling of the emergency.
At the time there were 13 injuries reported and an investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Bureau attributed the engine failure to a blockage in the fuel supply caused by ice after the aircraft flew through unusually low temperatures.
Details of the settlement have not been disclosed. Stewarts Law, who brought the action, said its clients had suffered “physical as well as serious psychological injuries, including developing a fear of flying and flashbacks".
Following the settlement James Healy-Pratt of Stewarts Law said: “This incident is a victory for the passengers and crew of BA038.
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Christian attitudes to women are well known. Ever since St Paul, in his best Elizabethan English, made the above comment (I Timothy 2:12), Christians have constrained women and their freedoms, always making them subordinate to an “owning” male – father, husband, or even grown sons. Christianity is not unique in this respect – Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and many other tribally derived religions have ossified on this strategy.
But we might have thought it would dissolve in our modern egalitarian post-feminist society. Apparently not. The Bristol University Christian Union has a policy, which apparently the’ve had for some time, that women may not speak at their meetings unless their husband is there. At a modern university. In a secular democracy. In Bristol.
But should we be surprised at this? Religions have a singular task: to determine who is in power. As a side effect of this, they regulate who may mate with whom, and how women may behave given that they are patriarchies. Any religious movement that deviates from this is likely to face severe sociopolitical reassures to move back, and we have seen this happen from the optimistic days of the 1960s and 1970s with inexorable inevitability.
Religion is, in my view, an outcome of our social dominance disposition as a species, under conditions of high population density and the subsequent social differentiation. In other words it’s a side effect of our mating strategies. So of course they have to control women. It’s why they exist. | <urn:uuid:acbb4184-6477-4343-b170-60754d016866> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/12/i-suffer-not-a-woman-to-teach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965366 | 319 | 2.296875 | 2 |
How to Reach Lahaul
The nearest air base from Lahaul is at Bhuntar, which is connected to major cities like Shimla and New Delhi. Travellers can hire taxis and cabs from outside the airport to reach Lahaul.
Joginder Nagar is the narrow gauge railhead closest to Lahaul. However, the major railway station is at Chandigarh which is directly connected to major Indian cities. To reach the destination, travellers can avail taxi and cab services from outside the railway station.
Lahaul can be reached by the National Highway � 21 and from Manali through the Rohtang Pass to Kaza. Travellers must note that the Rohtang Pass remains closed from mid-November to mid-May due to heavy snowfall. The Kunzum pass is another way of reaching Lahaul. However, most preferable route is via Kinnaur. | <urn:uuid:7fa5ef1a-06e8-4b45-b2ef-95711cbdd689> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nativeplanet.com/lahaul/how-to-reach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962528 | 182 | 1.507813 | 2 |
RADIOLOGISTS are physicians who diagnose and treat diseases of the human body, using x-ray and radioactive substances. They diagnose diseases by taking and interpreting medical images. Radiologists correlate medical image findings with other examinations and tests, recommend further examinations or treatments, and confer with referring physicians. Radiologists also treat some diseases by means of radiation (radiation oncology) or minimally invasive, image-guided surgery (interventional radiology).
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All states require physicians to be licensed. RADIOLOGISTS must graduate from an accredited medical school, pass a licensing examination, and complete at least four years of graduate medical education (residency). Radiologists are usually board certified, having taken and passed an examination and thus approved to practice in the field by either the American Board of Radiology or the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology. Radiologists can sub-specialize in areas of nuclear medicine, pediatric radiology, radiation oncology, radiobiology, neuroradiology, and diagnostic radiology. | <urn:uuid:91fe30dc-fcfd-488c-93a9-aff8c9094715> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.act.org/world/occs/occ502.html?TB_iframe=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930235 | 264 | 3.203125 | 3 |
THE name, "High School" has long been used and is still employed to designate a system of education which trains a horse to execute in the ring of a circus the low and high airs and the various figures of manege. It is a special kind of equitation, for which the state of equilibrium is not important. Baucher, Fillis, Franconi, and other civilian masters of the art have exhibited their horses in the circus, not alone for the immediate financial profit, but still more to make their systems known and appreciated. It was, in fact, from the circus that Baucher and Fillis were called by various European governments to teach their systems to army officers.
These masters, however, had already accepted the anatomical principles of Benton, Borelli, and Bishop, who, in their discussion of animal motion, emphasize the fact that, at walk and trot, the horse advances by the diagonal movement of its limbs. But in accepting this doctrine of locomotion, these masters at once comprehended that the lateral or direct effects of the two older schools are in flat contradiction to the newer ideas of horse anatomy. They found it necessary, therefore, to create the diagonal effects, in order to be en rapport with the movement in diagonal biped.
The horses exhibited by these masters executed all the movements of the high and low airs, but were maintained continually in the state of equilibrium; and they had gait, speed, and manners. So, to emphasize the distinction between their systems and those of the circus, the masters gave to their principles the name équitation savante. The term has been accepted by horsemen the world over, both in the armies and outside. Unfortunately, the only translation into English seems to be the very inadequate "scientific equitation."
As a matter of terminology, the right diagonal biped means the right fore leg and the left hind one; the left diagonal biped, left fore and right hind. Consequently, the right diagonal effect has to mean the effect produced by the right rein and the rider's left leg; while the left diagonal effect is that of the left rein and his right leg.
The equilibrium, which is the foundation of the whole scientific equitation, can be obtained only as the result of two forces opposed to one another, the one pushing the horse forward and the other holding him back. The first of these forces arises from the effect of the rider's legs: the second from the effect of his hands by way of the reins and the bits. If, let us say, the rider exerts ten degrees of effect with his legs to send the horse forward, and at the same time exerts ten degrees of effect with his hands to prevent this movement, the horse, between these two forces, must concentrate its native powers, and establish a center of gravity. The result is equilibrium, that is to say, balance. The effects of the legs are effects of impulsion. The effects of the hands are effects of retention. Thence arises the equestrian axiom: Equilibrium is the consequence of effects of opposition.
Suppose, then, that the horse is being maintained in equilibrium between ten degrees of impulsion and ten degrees of opposition. If, now, the impulsion is increased from ten degrees to fifteen, the opposition still remaining at ten, the horse must move forward, with the condition of equilibrium still maintained.
Precisely here lies the difference between the scientific equitation and the lateral or reasoned. The former, to produce movement forward, keeps the same opposition as before, but increases the impulsion. The others cease the opposition, and thereby allow the equilibrium to disappear. These last cannot do otherwise. They are employing the lateral effect only. Therefore, they cannot maintain the effect of opposition against a mechanism which is driving itself forward by a diagonal action. Only the diagonal effect can maintain opposition while the animal moves in diagonal.
The reader will note that it is always from the fore leg involved that the right or left diagonal biped takes its name. This, in my opinion, is a mistake. The hind leg is the one which gives the impulse and is the cause of every movement. The action of the fore leg is merely the consequence. It would, therefore, have been more logical to have named the bipeds from the hind legs; and more in accord with the equestrian maxim, "Forward, forward, always forward." This means impulsion, and impulsion is possible only by the effects of the rider's legs acting on the hind limbs of the animal.
It must, of course, be understood that when I discuss these motions in diagonal, I am considering only a horse in the state of equilibrium. Moreover, when any master speaks, let us say, of the right diagonal effect and the use of the right rein and the left leg, he does not mean that the left rein and the right leg are to cease their effects. What he means is that this rein and that leg are to increase theirs. Otherwise, the horse will turn its body, its spine in the dorsal region will no longer remain straight, and the forward impulse will disappear.
To accustom horse and rider to the diagonal effect, they should execute mounted the lateral and direct flexions, and mobilization by the reversed pirouette and backing. If, however, at the beginning of practice in the diagonal effect, a young rider training a young horse is confused in his efforts, it is better to begin the rotation by the diagonal effects on foot. For this, supposing that the movement is from left to right, the trainer places himself exactly as for the direct flexion, except that he holds in his right hand the right reins of both curb and snaffle and also the whip. By means of these two reins he secures a partial flexion to the right; and at the same time, by means of the curb rein held in his left hand, he maintains the head, mouth, and neck inclined to the right. Then, with the whip, he makes the animal execute the mobilization of the hind quarters from left to right, step by step. After some practice at these rotations, both from right to left and left to right, the trainer mounts and repeats the mobilizations by the same effects, but using his leg instead of the whip. But an experienced trainer begins these rotations by diagonal effect, mounted.
For the rotation from left to right, by the right diagonal effect, the cavalier mounted, the horse standing still and in equilibrium, both reins of the bit and the left rein of the snaffle are taken in the left hand, and the right rein of the snaffle is taken in the right hand. The left hand keeps the horse's head perpendicular, the "in hand" position, while the right hand, by a light opposition on the right snaffle rein, inclines the horse's head to the right. Meanwhile, the effect of the rider's right leg impels the horse forward, and the left leg, increasing its effect, pushes the haunches toward the right, the animal's right fore leg gaining a little ground to the front. (Figures 21, 22.)
The rotation must be executed calmly and step by step. It is completed when the horse has aboutfaced. In the rotation from left to right, the action of the rider's right leg is absolutely necessary for maintaining the forward impulse while the haunches wheel at the effect of the rider's left. The rotation is stopped at its completion by the effect of the rider's right leg; not by the cessation of the effect of his left. The rotation can be done also at the trot, but only upon a circle, and only after the horse has learned to make two pistes, which makes the figure a half-passage. The rotation at the gallop is very complicated, and cannot be performed until the horse can do the two pistes at a gallop.
The pirouette is asked only by the direct flexion of the mouth and neck and can be done at trot and gallop. Backing is asked by the diagonal effect. It is done step by step, and needs great care to avoid wear and tear of the hocks.
The trot is executed by the action of diagonal bipeds, precisely like the walk except that each biped, remains a longer time off the ground. (Figure 23.)
The gallop is the same as the run, but slower. The canter is still slower than the gallop. The run is natural and instinctive to the horse; the gallop is taken and held under the control of the rider; the canter is an artificial gait given by the cavalier.These three gaits have given rise to so many theories that the result has been and still is an endless confusion. Some theorists teach that run and gallop are executed by the lateral bipeds. All such
theories are the product of philosophizing by writers who do more riding with a pen than with hands and legs on a horse's back.
The saddle horse is useful to mankind only by virtue of its locomotion. This locomotion is the consequence of impulsion; and impulsion is given only by the animal's hind legs. To drive the body forward, therefore, it is absolutely necessary that the horse should have one or two feet on the ground. A foot in the air, so long as it remains in the air, can have no effect.
But if, let us say, the right hind foot is on the ground, the right hind leg may deliver its thrust either to the right or to the left fore leg. In the first case, the right lateral biped is set in motion, in the second case, the left diagonal biped.
In order, then, to pass from standing still, or from walk or trot, to the gallop upon the right lateral biped, the rider throws his entire weight upon the right lateral biped, and at the same time, by a quick inclination of the body forward to the right, the rider places the horse in the position to gallop. It then remains only to give the action to the whole machine, the legs of the horse moving in accord with the gait asked.
This action will be given by the effect of the right leg of a rider, who at the same time closes the fingers of the right hand upon the right rein of the curb bit or snaffle. These effects of the right leg and right hand have to be executed by a quick movement, yet without occasioning too much surprise. But the effects of right leg and right hand will have a tendency to send the haunches to the left rather than forward. Therefore the rider's left leg has also to be closed, partly to prevent the haunches from getting away to the left, and partly because the attack of the right leg first attracts the right hind leg below the center of gravity, and then calls the left hind leg to its support, the front legs being raised by the effects of the right hand, the right ready to extend to receive the weight as the foot comes back on the ground.
All these effects have to be executed with decision and precision, in a word, with equestrian tact. It is this employment of this left leg of the rider to maintain the horse straight at the beginning of the gallop to the right, which has created the mistaken theory that it is the function of the left leg to start the gallop to the right, and of the right leg to start the gallop to the left. Such was the foundation of the theory of the gallop executed by the diagonal biped.The motion in diagonal at the gallop shows itself only when the horse changes lead from one lateral biped to the other. With the gallop on the right hind leg, this leg, which is giving the impulse, is always in front of the left, which is the more continued support. But for the forcible change of lead from right to left, the impulsion alters first, and after this the support passes to the other leg. The right hind leg, therefore, stops, and the left hind leg moves forward into position for the impulse, while the right hind leg becomes the support. The right front leg also becomes a support; but the left fore leg extends forward to receive the impulsion. It follows, then, that before the left hind leg has made contact with the ground and taken over the duty of impulsion, the horse is upon a diagonal biped. (Figure 24.) In order, therefore, to execute the change of lead from right to left, the cavalier should, at the instant of change, lean to the right, in order to load the right lateral biped. This, thereupon, becomes the support, and leaves the left lateral biped unloaded and off the ground for the very quick movement called "change of foot in the air." This whole motion, but especially the action of the left hind leg, is so rapid that the eye cannot perceive the relations of the different limbs. Even photography is inadequate to show the action clearly. The camera can, however, be made to exhibit the left hind leg in the different parts of its stride. Thus in Figure 25, the left hind leg first disappears behind the right; and next after that the right fore leg is flexed. Finally, in Figure 26, the left hind leg is on the ground, in front of the right and ready for propulsion. The left fore leg is already raised. It will extend forward as soon as the right hind leg has arrived near the left, to assist as support and thus allow the left hind leg to continue the impulse.
Note, now, the difference between Baucher, Fillis, and myself. Baucher says, "I do not try to explain something inexplicable; it is for the equestrian tact of the esquire to discover how to execute the movement." Fillis says, "I make my horse gallop to the right by the effect of my left rein and my left leg. To change the lead, I employ the opposite effects."
I, on the contrary, sum up my directions thus: By the effect of my right rein, I lift the horse's right fore leg. (Figures 18-22.) By the effect of my left leg, I raise the horse's left hind leg—the diagonal effect. If, then, the horse's left hind leg is off the ground, his right hind leg is pressed forcibly against the ground. (Figure 18.) Thereupon, by the effect of my right snaffle rein, I compel the horse to extend its right fore leg. (Figure 22.) With my right rein and my left leg—diagonal effect—I obtain the right diagonal biped. With my left rein and my right leg—again diagonal effect—I obtain the left diagonal biped for the walk and trot. (Figure 21.) With my right rein, I raise the horse's right fore leg, while with my right leg I raise the horse's right hind leg—lateral effect. This right hind leg will come to the ground under the center of gravity, and drive the body forward. The right fore leg will thereupon extend forward for the gallop to the right—lateral biped. (Figure 25.) My body, being inclined forward, will carry forward the center of gravity, and the gallop will continue until other forces intervene.
And there is all the demonstration of the theorem and the solution of the problem!
Every horse, however, has one side which is more supple than the other; and it is better to begin practice in changing lead by shifting from the less supple to the more supple side.
Suppose, for example, that the more flexible side is the left. My horse being straight, I start it galloping to the right, by the method given above, and keep it going straight. I then reverse all my effects. If the horse changes lead, I stop it as soon as may be, and recompense its obedience. When it is completely calm, I begin again, galloping to the right. After several steps, I again change; and again recompense.
When the horse understands the change of lead from right to left, I proceed in the same way to teach the change from left to right. At first, I ask the change only after the horse has galloped ten or fifteen steps on the same foot. When the horse manages this, I reduce the interval progressively, first to six or eight steps, then to four, and finally to only two. I need not say that this training takes time that cannot be measured by days or lessons. I progress slowly, ask very little, rest my horse a great deal, and keep calm. I do not, under any circumstances, permit my horse to choose the lead for itself, nor to change foot on its own initiative. It is essential that the rider always impose his mastership upon the horse's intelligence. The rules are: short lessons, precision helped by moderation, recompenses, no overexertion or fatigue. With these, success is assured.
BY "false gallop," we mean galloping on one side when turning to the other. A horse is also said to gallop false when it leads with either side, after the rider has signaled for the other.
A horse galloping in a straight line leads with whichever side the rider determines. If this chances to be the left, the rider must change the foot before making a turn to the right. Otherwise the horse will gallop false.
Turning on the wrong foot is always dangerous. In turning, for example, to the right at the gallop, the center of gravity will be displaced toward the right, and the right lateral biped will take the longer step. All this occurs naturally if the horse is galloping to the right. But if it is galloping to the left, the right leg cannot reach out to receive the additional weight, and the horse may cross its legs and fall.
The false gallop is, nevertheless, employed in training the horse to gallop equally on the two sides, and also in teaching it the change of lead on a straight line without change of hand. But it should be understood that in all such cases the false gallop is always asked by the rider, never taken by the horse at its own will. It is essential to a well-trained saddle horse that it gallop equally to either side, and always at the signal of the rider. | <urn:uuid:5e43e6bc-cfe5-4782-b443-dec19bebb1c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Equitation/Chapter_22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956043 | 3,786 | 3.28125 | 3 |
For years now, Quadrant has been developing and producing glass-mat-reinforced thermoplastics (GMT) for automobile production and is considered the market leader in this segment. Hardly a car leaves the production line without lightweight components fabricated with the special semi-finished products from the Swiss materials developer.
Classic GMT materials consist of glass fiber mats manufactured to the company’s own patents, and these are impregnated with polypropylene in a second process step. The result is materials with outstanding impact resistance and optimum crash behavior. Even at low temperatures, GMT ensures high energy absorption before fracture and thereafter positive failure behavior without sharp lines of fracture.
GMT and GMTex reinforced with extra fabric are used for the production of semi-structural and structural components that meet the highest standards of crash safety for the protection of vehicle occupants and other road users. GMTex is even employed in areas conventionally reserved for metals.
Quadrant also produces a lightweight composite, a low-weight reinforced thermoplastic (LWRT), by the name of SymaLITE. This material consists of mixed-fiber fleeces of glass and polymer fibers supplied in rolls or boards. The moulder heats the material and produces the three-dimensionally molded component by low-pressure pressing.
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National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
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This report summarizes a comprehensive analysis of existing information on pesticides in bed sediment and aquatic biota of United States rivers and streams: their geographic distribution, sources, trends, environmental fate, and biological significance. It is one of a four-part series that synthesizes current knowledge and understanding of pesticides in the nation's water resources as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program.
About 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the United States to control weeds, insects, and other organisms. About 80 percent of this quantity is used in agriculture. Although the use of pesticides has resulted in increased crop production and other benefits, it has raised concerns about potential adverse effects on the environment and human health.
In many respects, the greatest potential for unintended adverse effects of pesticides is through contamination of the hydrologic system, which supports aquatic life and related food chains and is used for recreation, drinking water, irrigation, and many other purposes. Water is one of the primary pathways by which pesticides are transported from their application areas to other parts of the environment (see Figure 1).
Sediment serves as a habitat for benthic biota (such as insects and clams, which are commonly consumed by fish), as both a source and a removal mechanism for some contaminants to and from the stream, and as a vehicle for contaminant transport downstream. Aquatic biota also are important in the food web of terrestrial organisms, with some aquatic biota, such as fish, being consumed by people and wildlife. Analyzing contaminants in sediment and aquatic biota provides an efficient way to test whether hydrophobic contaminants are present in the stream. Hydrophobic chemicals have little or no affinity for water; such chemicals have a low solubility in water, a high solubility in lipids (fats), and a strong tendency to sorb to organic material in soil and sediment. Many hydrophobic chemicals also are resistant to degradation, so they persist for a long time in the environment. Persistent hydrophobic contaminants in a stream may accumulate in sediment and aquatic biota (Figure 1), even when concentrations in the water are too low to be detected using conventional sampling and analytical methods. Historically, the pesticides of primary concern in sediment and aquatic biota have been the organochlorine insecticides, such as DDT, which were heavily used in agriculture, termite control, and malaria control programs from the mid-1940s to the 1960s or later.
During the past 30 years, over 400 scientific studies have looked for pesticides in stream sediment or aquatic biota in the United States. These include five major national programs that sampled in rivers or estuaries. Most monitoring studies (97 percent) focused on organochlorine insecticides. These studies differed widely in their design features, such as site selection strategy, sample collection methods, and species and tissue type of biota sampled. The study durations ranged from less than one month to 24 years. Fish was the most common type of aquatic biota sampled, followed by mollusks and other invertebrates.
Because of differences among studies in study design and sampling dates, it is difficult to combine data from different studies into an overall national assessment. However, data from individual national programs can be used to assess the occurrence, geographic distribution, and trends of pesticides in fish and, to a lesser extent, sediment from United States rivers.
A large number of pesticides have been detected in stream sediment and aquatic biota in various studies over the last 30 years. Forty-four percent of the pesticides targeted (41 of 93) were detected in sediment, and 64 percent (68 of 106) were detected in aquatic biota (whole fish, edible fish, or mollusks). Most of the compounds detected were organochlorine insecticides or their degradation products. This reflects the hydrophobicity and persistence of these compounds, plus the fact that more monitoring studies looked for organochlorine insecticides (97 percent of studies) than for any other types of pesticides (27 percent). Figure 2 shows the detection frequencies for pesticides most commonly found in sediment and biota (fish and mollusks) by all the monitoring studies reviewed. Because these detection frequencies reflect the study designs and sampling dates of the studies that looked for specific compounds, they are not necessarily representative of all streams in the United States.
The organochlorine insecticides DDT, chlordane, and dieldrin were commonly detected in sediment and aquatic biota (Figure 2), even though their agricultural uses in the United States were discontinued during the 1970s. A few currently used pesticides also were detected in sediment or biota at more than 10 percent of total sites. These include dacthal, 2,4-DB, dicamba, diuron, and trifluralin (herbicides), and chlorpyrifos, dicofol, endosulfan, and lindane (insecticides). These pesticides tend to be intermediate in hydrophobicity and persistence, compared with other pesticides used now or in the past. For most organochlorine pesticides, detection frequencies generally were higher in aquatic biota than in sediment.
Figure 2. Detection frequencies for pesticides in aquatic biota (top) and in bed sediment (bottom) that were targeted at 15 or more sites by the monitoring studies reviewed and that were detected at 10 percent (or more) of total sites.
Figure 3. The relation between pesticide occurrence in sediment and aquatic biota in past monitoring studies (color symbols) and pesticide properties (water solubility-a measure of hydrophobicity, and soil half-life-a measure of environmental persistence). Only those pesticides targeted at 50 sites or more were included.
Two key properties of pesticides that control their accumulation in sediment and aquatic biota are hydrophobicity and persistence. Historical data were used to develop structure- activity relations between these properties and pesticide occurrence in sediment or aquatic biota (see Figure 3). Generally, pesticides were found to have the potential to accumulate in sediment and aquatic biota if they had (1) a water solubility less than 1 milligram per liter (mg/L) or an octanol-water partition coefficient (Kow) greater than 1,000, and (2) a soil half-life greater than 30 days. Kow is an indirect measure of lipid solubility, so that hydrophobic compounds tend to have a high Kow and low water solubility. Soil half-life is the best measure of relative persistence that is available for a large number of pesticides. Each point in Figure 3 represents a different pesticide, color coded according to the frequency with which it was detected in sediment and biota when data were aggregated from past monitoring studies. Figure 3 shows only the effect of hydrophobicity and persistence on pesticide occurrence and does not show the influence of pesticide use. The most commonly detected compounds (red squares) tend to have low water solubility and high persistence. Conversely, most pesticides that are rarely detected in sediment and biota (blue circles) have higher water solubilities and shorter soil half- lives. Several pesticides with intermediate detection frequencies (green-white squares) are moderate in hydrophobicity and persistence. Two pesticides-mirex and endrin (the two uppermost green-white squares)-have lower detection frequencies than predicted from their low water solubilities and long soil half-lives, probably because their use was relatively low.
These structure-activity relations were used to evaluate which currently used pesticides have the potential to accumulate in sediment and aquatic biota. Because most currently used pesticides have relatively high water solubility and short soil half- lives, they are not as likely to accumulate in these media. However, some currently used pesticides that are intermediate in both hydrophobicity and persistence (see Table 1) are likely to be detected if analyzed in sediment and aquatic biota, although at lower detection frequencies than the very hydrophobic, persistent pesticides such as DDT. It also would be important to consider where, and in what amounts, these pesticides are applied. Studies of the herbicide oxadiazon in California suggest that currently used pesticides that are intermediate in water solubility and persistence may reach fairly high concentrations in sediment and aquatic biota in areas of high pesticide use.
The occurrence of a pesticide in a stream depends on the sources of that pesticide in the drainage basin (such as pesticide use), the characteristics of the stream (such as water flow), and the physical and chemical properties of the pesticide (such as water solubility). Organochlorine insecticides are still detected in sediment and biota in many streams because of their environmental persistence and their extensive use in the past.
The occurrence of organochlorine pesticides during the 1980s still showed some association with its use in agriculture 20 years earlier. For example, Figure 4 shows the geographic distribution of total DDT (DDT plus its metabolites DDD and DDE) in freshwater fish from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program (NCBP) in 1986 in relation to regional estimates of agricultural use of DDT plus DDD in 1966, the decade of highest use. In Figure 4, each site is represented by a circle, color coded to represent the quartile in which its median total DDT concentration falls. For example, the red circles correspond to the 75th-100th percentile group. Agricultural land within each region is shaded according to the appropriate quartile of agricultural use of DDT plus DDD.
In 1986, the highest total DDT concentrations in fish were observed in the south, near the Great Lakes, along the northeast Atlantic coast, and at scattered Pacific sites. The southeastern sites correspond to the regions of highest agricultural use in 1966. Higher-than-expected levels of DDT in the Great Lakes and northeast Atlantic areas may be due to nonfarm use, incidental release from chemical manufacturing plants, or atmospheric deposition. High residues at scattered Pacific sites may reflect use on orchards, or proximity to agricultural cropland within the region. Other organochlorine pesticides in fish showed similar associations with land use. Dieldrin concentrations were strongly associated with corn production acreage. High dieldrin levels also occurred at sites in the northeast and Pacific regions, possibly because of urban use and proximity to farmland, respectively.
Figure 4. Total DDT in whole fish sampled by the National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program in 1986, shown in relation to 1966 agricultural use of DDT plus DDD by farm production region. Data are from U.S. Geological Survey, 1992 (DDT concentrations) and Eichers and others, 1970 (DDT use).
Some currently used pesticides (such as chlorpyrifos, dacthal, and trifluralin) showed an association with recent agricultural use in some studies. Some pesticides were associated with nonagricultural sources in some studies. For example, mirex was found in fish from areas treated for control of red fire ants (the southeast) or near manufacturing sources. Preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program (1991 to the present) indicate that urban streams have high concentrations and detection frequencies of DDT, chlordane, and dieldrin in sediment and whole fish (see http://ca.water.usgs.gov/pnsp/rep/bst).
Table 1. Currently used (1990s) pesticides predicted to have potential to accumulate in sediment and aquatic biota[Abbreviations: Kow, n-octanol-water partition coefficient; mg/L, milligram per liter; <, less than; >, greater than]
|Currently used (1990s) pesticides that meet the selection criteria1|
The existing data for pesticides in stream sediment are not sufficient to assess national long-term trends, but trends in pesticide concentrations in whole freshwater fish can be assessed using NCBP data from 1969 to 1986. Nationally, levels of chlordane, total DDT, dieldrin, endrin, and toxaphene have declined since their agricultural uses were discontinued. An example (DDT trends) is shown in Figure 5. For DDT and dieldrin, data for the 1980s suggest that concentrations may be leveling off, which is consistent with the slow degradation of these pesticides in the environment. For DDT, this trend is supported by changes in the proportional composition of total DDT residues in fish, with the degradation product DDE constituting an increasing percentage of total DDT over time. Organochlorine detection frequencies in the NCBP remain high, with total DDT detected at more than 97 percent of sites, and dieldrin at more than 70 percent of sites, each year.
DDT and other persistent organochlorine pesticides continue to enter surface waters from sources such as atmospheric deposition and erosion of soils that have been contaminated from past use. Field studies indicate that DDT half- lives in soil are on the order of 15 years or longer.
Figure 5. Trends in total DDT concentrations in whole fish sampled by the National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program from 1969 to 1986. Data are from U.S. Geological Survey, 1992. For the 90th (or 50th) percentile concentration, 90 (or 50) percent of samples were below the concentration shown.
Pesticide concentrations measured by the monitoring studies that were reviewed can be used to gauge potential adverse effects at the time the samples were taken. The maximum concentrations measured in each study were compared with guidelines for the protection of aquatic life, fish-eating wildlife, and human health. Because the maximum concentrations from each study were used, these comparisons indicate what percentage of studies may have adverse effects at the most contaminated site in each study, but not what proportion of sites may be affected. Such guidelines generally were based on the results of single-species, single- chemical toxicity tests conducted in the laboratory-therefore, they do not consider more complex issues such as the toxicity of chemical mixtures or the potential for endocrine-disrupting effects on development and reproduction. Also, the monitoring studies reviewed may not be representative of sediment and biota from streams throughout the United States.
The potential effects on aquatic life, fish-eating wildlife, and human health were assessed by comparing the maximum concentrations of pesticides measured by each study in sediment, whole fish, and fish fillets (respectively) with applicable guidelines. Sediment-quality guidelines were selected using procedures developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1997). Wildlife guidelines are from the State of New York (Newell and others, 1987), and consider chronic and reproductive toxicity, but not cancer effects. Human-health guidelines are recommended screening values from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1995), which consider both chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity.
Even when studies published prior to 1984 were excluded, sediment guidelines were frequently exceeded by maximum concentrations of total DDT (in 52 percent of studies), chlordane (42 percent), and dieldrin (29 percent), indicating a high probability of adverse effects on aquatic life at the most contaminated sites in these studies. New York wildlife guidelines were exceeded for total DDT (77 percent of studies) and dieldrin (25 percent), which indicates potential adverse effects on fish- eating wildlife at the most contaminated sites in these studies. EPA-recommended screening values were exceeded for chlordane, total DDT, dieldrin, and heptachlor epoxide in at least 50 percent of studies. This suggests possible adverse human health effects at the most contaminated sites in these studies, if fish from these sites were consumed at average rates by the general adult population. Adverse health risks may be higher for sport and subsistence fishers, who consume more local fish than the average population.
Human exposure to organochlorine pesticides has been documented by studies detecting these compounds in various human tissues, including breast milk. Consumption of contaminated food (including fish and shellfish) is a major route of human exposure to organochlorine pesticides. Organochlorine concentrations in human blood have been shown to increase after fish consumption and to be correlated with long-term fish consumption rates. Organochlorine compounds tend to be stored in high-fat tissues within the body, but can be mobilized during lactation or starvation. Levels of some organochlorine compounds in human tissues in the United States do not appear to have declined, at least through the early 1980s. Examples include DDT in breast milk and dieldrin in adipose tissue (fat).
The wealth of information on pesticides in bed sediment and aquatic biota in the scientific literature has provided a national perspective on organochlorine pesticides in United States rivers. Nonetheless, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the extent and significance of pesticides in stream sediment and aquatic biota. This analysis suggests a need for additional studies of pesticide occurrence in urban settings, together with more information on urban pesticide use. Also, researchers should look for currently used pesticides with the potential to accumulate in sediment and aquatic biota in areas of high use. Finally, questions remain about the effects of remaining pesticide levels on human and ecosystem health.
This Fact Sheet is based on the book by L.H. Nowell, P.D. Capel, and P.D. Dileanis, 1999, Pesticides in Stream Sediment and Aquatic Biota-Distribution, Trends, and Governing Factors: Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, Pesticides in the Hydrologic System series, v. 4, 1040 p. (Tel: 1-800-272-7737)
Eichers, T., Andrilenas, P., Blake, H., Jenkins, R., and Fox, A., 1970, Quantities of pesticides used by farmers in 1966: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Eco- nomic Research Service, Agricultural Economic Report No. 179, 61 p.
Majewski, M.S., and Capel, P.D., 1995, Pesticides in the atmosphere-distribu- tion, trends, and governing factors, Ann Arbor Press, Inc., Chelsea, Mich., 228 p.
Newell, A.J., Johnson, D.W., and Allen, L.K., 1987, Niagara River Biota Contam- ination Project: Fish flesh criteria for piscivorous wildlife: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Fish and Wildlife, Bureau of Environmental Protection, Technical Report 87-3.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1995, Guidance for assessing chemical contaminant data for use in fish advisories, v. 1, Fish sampling and analysis, 2nd ed.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 823-R-95-007.
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Information on technical reports and hydrologic data related to National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) pesticide studies can be obtained from:
Additional information on NAWQA and other U.S. Geological Survey pro- grams can be found by accessing the NAWQA home page on the World Wide Web at http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa.
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In the March 2011 quarter compared with the December 2010 quarter:
- The consumers price index (CPI) rose 0.8 percent.
- The main upward contribution came from transport (up 2.5 percent), reflecting higher prices for petrol and diesel.
- Cigarette and tobacco prices rose 9.4 percent, influenced by a rise of 11.64 percent in excise duty on 1 January 2011.
- Food prices rose 1.2 percent, with higher prices for grocery food and for meat, poultry, and fish.
From the March 2010 quarter to the March 2011 quarter:
- The CPI increased 4.5 percent*, including a 2.3 percent increase in the December 2010 quarter when GST rose from 12.5 to 15 percent.
* The CPI would have risen by 2.6 percent in the year to the March 2011 quarter if prices had been processed with a rate of GST at 12.5 percent. See the last two sections of the commentary for more information.
The CPI measures the rate of price change of goods and services purchased by households. Statistics NZ visits 3,000 shops around New Zealand to collect prices for the CPI and check product sizes and features.
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One of it's main features is the animation library. I'd written about it before.
To celebrate 3.0's release, I've put the animation library to good use by using their three animators - BiSizeAnimator, BiOpacityAnimator, and BiLocationAnimator - and created this dashboard.
It's an imitation of the cool looking IconDB Dashboard ( IconDB never had animated "transitions"; so, I've added these in various places of my example ).
Here's some functionality from the example.
Observe change in opacity by selecting a background from the Select Background container. Watch the background fade out and then watch the new one fade in.
Click on the expand button in the Welcome container and watch as the container transitions to an expanded container. Then, collapse and watch it shrink.
Drag one of the containers. Then, drag the other. Do this as many times as you'd like and then click on Undo Move. Watch as containers move back to their previous positions.
There's a lot in this example, but rather than talk about the design of the dashboard or how it's constructed ( I'll blog about that in a later entry ), for now, I'll focus on the animation library.
One of the nice things about the animators is that they're separate from the components. They animate BiComponents. So, if you've built a custom component from an earlier version of Bindows, you don't need to change your component to use the animator. You just simply switch to Bindows 3.0, construct an animator by passing in the component and then start the animation.
In general, the constructor for the three animators follow this pattern --
Animator([parameters for the type of animation], nSpeed, bLoop, nAccType, oComp, nFrameRate, bAutoStart)
Each animation type -- Size, Opacity and Location -- requires specific parameters to be passed and so, they differ depending on the type of animation that we want to do.
nSpeed is how fast you want your animation to occur in milliseconds. You can set it directly as a number or a constant ( i.e. BiSizeAnimator.SPEED1, BiOpacityAnimator.SPEED1, BiLocationAnimator.SPEED1, etc. Note that the speed constants differ depending on the type of animation ). You can even use strings - "slowest", "slow", "normal", "fast" and "fastest."
You can repeatedly do the animation by passing bLoop as true. In the dashboard example, all the animators have this set to false.
You can set acceleration, nAccType, for your animation. Typically, the animation is run at "constant speed" meaning that throughout the entire animation cycle, the animation is done in the same speed. You can accelerate, decelerate or "go slow then fast then slow" by using these constants - BiComponentAnimation.SLOW_TO_FAST, BiComponentAnimation.FAST_TO_SLOW, BiComponentAnimation.SLOW_TO_SLOW. Constant speed is BiComponentAnimation.CONSTANT_SPEED.
oComp is simply the component that the animator acts upon. Only BiComponents can be animated.
nFrameRate is the number of frames per second for the animation. We'll use the default -- BiFpsGenerator.DEFAULT_FRAME_RATE. Just pass in a natural number. We can play with this setting to get a "smooth" animation. In the dashboard example, using the default frame rate results in a smooth animation.
bAutoStart allows you to auto start the animation. We typically set this as false because we want to control when we want to start the animation.
It's Event Driven
So far, we've looked at what properties we can set on an animator. Though this is useful, it doesn't tell us how to interact with the animator. An animation is useless if you can't control it.
Starting an animation is easy -
Construct an BiComponent Construct an animator ( by passing in the parameters to the constructor as described above ) Call the start() method
The animation starts and then ends., but how do we know when it ends?
We'll listen for the "animationend" event. When that occurs, we can perform our next set of operations in the event handler. In the next section, we'll see in the dashboard example how we do this.
Note that during the animation, the animators constantly fire the "frameprogression" event. If we want, we can check for that, but in our example, we don't do that.
The dashboard's background opacity is controlled by the BiOpacityAnimator. Setting opacity allows you to fade components. Components can gradually fade in or fade out.
The fade out occurs when we select a background image ( ex. Olympia, etc. ). The current background fades out and once that animation ends, the fade in of the Olympia background begins.
Notice how the fadeOut animator listens for the "animationend" event. When that event is fired, the handleAnimationEnd method is invoked, which does three things --
- Starts the fade in animation
- Disposes the fade out animator
When the fade in completes, we dispose the fade out animator.
It's important to remember that the "animationend" event drives everything. We'll see this pattern in the other animations as well.
You can change the size of the container by controlling the BiSizeAnimator. In the Welcome container, click on the collapse button at the upper right. You'll see that the container acts like a drawer closing. Click on the expand button and the animation goes the other way.
There's not much difference between this example and the opacity one. The opacity animator does have an extra last boolean parameter, bForward, which allows the animation to progress forward or in reverse ( fade out ).
Changing the Location
Changing the location of the container is done by using BiLocationAnimator. Move the containers around the dashboard. Then, click on Undo Move. The container moves back to their previous position.
You can review the opacity and the location animators here. The size animator is found here.
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved birthdays, specifically my birthday! There were years that I proclaimed it a National Holiday, and not only would I have a birthday DAY, but there …
Single Parent Advocate kicks-off its back to school supply drive to help single parent families get ready for the upcoming school year. Donors are needed to help meet the growing need for school clothing and supplies.
Donations of cash and school supplies are needed. There are a number of designated collection points in various parts of the city.
Stay hydrated- water is tough many times as kids prefer the sweet drinks, try taking a pitcher of water and adding their favorite fruit (berries, limes, lemons) and let the fruit sit in the pitcher. The flavor of the fruit will make the water a bit sweet and keep them hydrated with the good stuff.
Dr. Minette Riordan, publisher of North Texas Kids, is a featured author and excited to participate in the
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With the advent of new technology and programming abilities, North Texas Kids has launched a browser-supported version of the June issue that is reader-friendly on almost any device. Today’s moms are very tech-savvy and embrace technology. As moms ourselves, the staff of North Texas Kids knows how important it is to make information accessible, easy to find and readable in a variety of formats. Liz Mangelsdorf, VP of Business Developments and mom of 2 says, “I love that we are continuing to develop and create ways to reach all more moms. As busy moms, the time we have to read can be limited. Having North Texas Kids magazine available on the iPad and smart phones is going to be invaluable for so many of us!”
According to Kidshealth.org, “Children who become anxious at the thought of a test often feel convinced they are going to fail. Test anxiety occurs for many reasons, such as lack of preparation, fear of disappointing the teacher or parents, or low self-confidence.” The statewide TAKS test are taking place in April across Texas and many children feel the pressure to perform or are afraid they won’t be able to pass their grade level if they don’t do well on the TAKS tests. There are a variety of ways that parents can help their children to overcome test anxiety and certain coping skills they can teach their children so they learn to manage their anxiety in stressful situations both inside and outside the classroom. | <urn:uuid:ca9e95a7-4aec-4f30-81e9-ed69b1c63458> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://northtexaskids.com/ntkblog/index.php/tag/child/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967428 | 545 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Mali: Security, Dialogue and Meaningful Reform
Dakar/Brussels | 11 Apr 2013
Mali and its international partners need to seize the moment for national dialogue to forestall renewed political and security crises.
Mali: Security, Dialogue and Meaningful Reform, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the situation in Mali after France’s military intervention to restore the north of the country to government control and as the UN Security Council considers the deployment and mandate of a stabilisation mission. Sporadic fighting in the north continues and formidable threats to security remain. The presidential election, currently scheduled for July, poses particularly acute challenges. An inclusive political process, involving national dialogue and reconciliation between Mali’s various communities, are critical to preventing a resurgence of violence. Over time, only improved governance can ensure sustained peace and stability.
The report’s major findings and recommendations are:
- Mali’s political leaders need to make public and well-publicised commitments to peace and reconciliation, or risk an election campaign that reinforces divisions, inflaming tensions after the vote, and jeopardising badly-needed reforms.
- Mass communication, especially through the radio and television stations listened to across the country, is crucial to encourage political participation and reduce tension. By the same token, a new mechanism for monitoring the media should check inflammatory or divisive language.
- Mali’s regional and international partners should help persuade the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) that its interests are best served by renouncing its armed struggle and participating in a political process. For their part, leaders in Bamako should avoid imposing conditions on armed groups that close the door to dialogue, however discreet. Such dialogue will be vital to give all northern Malians the opportunity to participate in the elections, without which the far north could again become a base for armed rebellion.
- A clear distinction should be maintained between, on the one hand, the planned UN stabilisation mission, with its large civilian component, and, on the other, a “parallel force” responsible for counter-terror operations, whose legal basis and geographic mandate should be clarified.
“Elections must be held soon but not at any cost”, says Gilles Yabi, Crisis Group’s West Africa Project Director. “Reconciliation must begin now, as should the provision of basic social and economic services to the north. The radicalisation of public opinion is a major risk and Mali’s leaders and institutions must take firm action to prevent people, especially those in the south, lumping together rebels, terrorists and drug traffickers with all Tuaregs and Arabs”.
“Focusing on terrorism alone risks distracting from the main problems”, says Comfort Ero, Crisis Group’s Africa Program Director. “Corruption and poor governance are more important causes of the crisis than the terrorist threat, the Tuareg issue, or even the north-south divide. The challenges for the region and the UN are to align their positions on the political process, and to insist that Malians, especially their elites, assume responsibility for reversing bad governance and preventing another crisis”. | <urn:uuid:52a54d97-2c05-4d7b-8015-387aa9cc6cfb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crisisgroup.tumblr.com/tagged/military-intervention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926252 | 659 | 2.0625 | 2 |
As the Union of Jewish Students visits parliament today to raise concerns over antisemitism on campus, Danny Stone explains why progressives must speak out
03 February 2010 (Progress Online)
Jews have been back in the news this week, as Sir Martin Gilbert – distinguished historian and panel member of the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry – accused newspapers of publishing antisemitic allegations relating to his Jewish heritage and supposedly consequential pro-Israel bias. Sir Martin rightly asked whether articles would also focus on the religions, characteristics or ethnic backgrounds of the other members of the panel. Gilbert is right to be outspoken. Antisemitic discourse is but one manifestation of a wider problem.
This week the Community Security Trust will publish their annual incident figures – and they are expected to be higher than ever. In the first half of 2009, there were some 609 incidents – a record level related mostly to the Israeli operation in Gaza. Jews, regardless of their views on the Middle East, were the focus for attacks.
Since the All-Party Inquiry into Antisemitism in 2006, members of parliament – led by All-Party Group chair and Labour MP for Bassetlaw John Mann – have been at the vanguard of the fight to combat all forms of antisemitism. Of particular and continuing concern have been campus antisemitism and the fight against hate speech. This week, in the shadow of Holocaust Memorial Day, Jewish students have come to lobby parliament about this very matter.
There is some evidence to suggest that Jewish students are not choosing their university places on academic grounds but on their perception of antisemitism on different campuses. Whilst the manifestations of this antisemitism are different, in particular, hate speech is amongst the most long-standing and problematic.
Following the failed attempt by former UCL student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate explosives on board a Northwest Airlines flight to the USA there has been an increased focus on campus radicalisation and inappropriate speakers. As Gordon Brown related to the Public Liaison Committee yesterday, this matter is a key concern for government.
There is a long history of invitations to and presentations from extremist speakers on campus. Among presenters to UCL students have been members of Hizb-ut Tahrir, supporters of Hamas and those that have spoken in support of domestic violence. Sheikh Riyadh ul-Haq, for example, was invited to speak at UCL and has spoken openly of his belief in Jewish control of the world economy. Whilst at SOAS, jazz musician Gilad Atzmon reportedly said: “I’m not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, but I can see that it is a rational act”
Whilst there is a historic and appropriate pride in free speech amongst universities and their student unions, hate speech is, of course, contrary to good campus relations, community cohesion and in some cases may breach the legal duties of universities and student unions. As the Union of Jewish Students puts it, rights come with responsibilities, and freedom of speech which is freely given must not be abused by those intent on preaching hate.
The Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism has set a progressive agenda for ministers, HE bodies and campus leaders on this issue. The ask is relatively straightforward. We are calling for a wide-ranging policy or guide for universities on how to deal with campus hate speech. We are encouraging universities to sign up to the attorney general’s ‘Race for Justice’ declaration which includes clear operational expectations and appropriate grievance procedures. We want to see universities adopting the EUMC working definition of antisemitism which sets clear boundaries to demarcate between legitimate debate and hate speech and we would like to see student unions organising Speaker Request Processes to allow for objections to be launched by concerned students.
The HE Sector is fiercely independent – and rightly so – but government needs to be leading the field, and action needs to quicken given the consequences of failure to act.
Unfortunately, progress has been slow. Perhaps this could be attributed to fear. Also unfortunately, as battles continue and intensify across the Middle East, there is increasing nervousness from the HE sector as to how to properly answer the question of when uncomfortable criticism turns to unacceptable hate talk. A similar problem is occurring in relation to academic boycotts of Israel – people are scared to speak out for fear of being tainted as supportive or not of a particular view on Middle East politics. Perhaps then, Sir Martin Gilbert and our All-Party Group can be taken as role models of sorts. When things are wrong, we must speak out and act. Things are wrong on campus – it is up to progressives to speak out and to act
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Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services
als. The committee’s conclusion does not negate the value of clinical judgment in selecting appropriate individual patients for such interventions.
Although the evidence base for “medically necessary dental services” is mixed and frequently based on weak research designs, the committee is concerned about interpretations of the current law that could preclude HCFA from approving further coverage exceptions for dental services to identify and eliminate oral infections or potential sources of infection for immunocompromised high-risk patients. As noted earlier, widely accepted clinical protocols for identifying and eliminating all infections and potential sources of infection before transplantation are based on biological principles and clinical experience, not controlled trials. The committee is also concerned about legislative proposals requiring that “medically necessary dental services” produce savings that exceed the direct costs of care. As described in Chapter 5, even elimination of the three-year limit on coverage of immunosuppressive drugs—drugs that clearly improve outcomes for transplant recipients—is unlikely to meet this standard.
Given the scientific and therapeutic advances since the creation of Medicare in 1965 and the concerns about current coverage interpretations, the committee concludes that it is reasonable for Congress to update the statutory language relating to coverage of dental services so that it would clearly cover dental care that is effective in preventing or reducing oral and systemic complications associated with serious medical conditions and their treatment. Specifically, the committee suggests that Congress should direct the Health Care Financing Administration (with assistance as appropriate from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institutes of Health) to develop recommendations—on a condition-by-condition basis—for coverage of dental services needed in conjunction with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or pharmacological treatment for a life-threatening medical condition. The phrase “in conjunction with” would allow HCFA to limit the window of coverage to a specified period before or after surgery or other treatment but would not require that the services be provided at the same time as or as an immediate part of a surgical or other procedure. This minimal revision in the 1965 exclusion of coverage for dental services would not alter Medicare’s basic focus on treatment of acute illness or injury.
If Medicare were to cover “medically necessary dental services” for some or all of the medical conditions reported here, it is uncertain how many beneficiaries in each category would avail themselves of this benefit. The referral for “medically necessary dental care” would likely come from the treating physician at the time of diagnosis or planning of the medical therapy. The patient’s physician would in this way serve as a gatekeeper for this benefit, especially among patients who are not under regular dental care. In addition, physicians would continue to manage many oral problems themselves, for example, by prescribing antibiotics and therapeutic rinses. | <urn:uuid:c86f2ef1-65ea-457b-9948-f7e17fdc289f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9740&page=98 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945057 | 609 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Grumble dreads being on call over those long public holidays we have at around Christmas. It is not necessarily that he minds working when everybody else is merrymaking. There used to be times when he quite enjoyed Christmas in hospital. In Christmas past there was an invigorating camaraderie. On Christmas Day the consultants would come in to carve the turkey properly kitted out with an enormous carving knife and a starched white chef's hat. Consultants would bring their families along and presents were exchanged. Grumble knows because his father would take him on Christmas Day to several hospitals. He saw how pleased the staff were to see him. He saw the joy of hospital life in those days. His memory is of there being masses of nurses everywhere you looked and there seemed to be very little work going on. Very occasionally, but much less commonly, he would see the junior doctors. He can still remember their pristine white coats. Everything was always spotlessly clean and hospitals smelt like hospitals. To this day Dr Grumble does not quite know what that smell was. It's not there any more.
So why does Dr Grumble dread the long holidays so much? Hospitals are no longer the places of merriment they once were over Christmas. Staffing levels don't allow any downtime these days. Turkeys have mutated into twizzlers and the kitchen was separated from the ward aeons ago. That's the modern world. More nose to the grindstone. Less joy. More a contractual relationship. Less duty. Minimal loyalty. Do these things matter? Of course they do. In the Grumble hospital sickness levels are rising. In the past junior doctors were never ever off sick. It's all about the loss of joy, duty and loyalty in the workforce. You can get a lot of work out of people just by stroking them a bit. They just need to feel valued, to love their work and have a sense of duty and loyalty to their patients and colleagues.
These things matter. They matter a lot but they are not the cause of the dread Grumble feels when there is a long public holiday. What worries Grumble about hospitals and holidays is patient care. As luck would have it, Dr Grumble used to work alternate Christmases. One Christmas he remembers an extremely sick man in his early fifties who was transferred from another hospital for Grumble's care. This was now some years ago but the patient's name is still etched in the Grumble mind. The details don't matter except that the patient was very ill and looked as if he would die. His chest radiograph is reproduced below:
For those who cannot read chest radiographs, the image above shows appearances consistent with widespread metastases. In other words the patient looked to be riddled with cancer. It would be wrong to go into any details but as Grumble has said the patient was very ill. It would be a struggle to keep him alive. And, if the cancer was essentially untreatable, keeping him alive would not be a kindness. Whatever we did he would probably die anyway.
But it was nearly Christmas. Dr Grumble needed more information. There were all sorts of options for getting this information but none of the expertise he needed was available over the long Christmas break. What should poor old Grumble do? Should he keep the patient alive on the off chance that there would be some treatment for this poor man? Or should he assume that, on the information available, no treatment was going to help? As luck would have it, on Christmas Eve, Grumble managed to get a CT scan carried out. And he was able to discuss the result with the top chest radiologist in the Grumble hospital. She agreed. The patient was riddled with metastases. Nothing else could realistically account for the appearances.
Dr Grumble would have liked a tissue diagnosis. He would have liked to have known that this cancer was not a sort of cancer that might melt away with the right treatment. But none of this was an option over Christmas. He would have to meet with the patient's relatives and he would have to convey all these uncertainties. Patients don't like uncertainly. Relatives certainly don't. Nor does Dr Grumble.
The case was much more complicated than this and Dr Grumble has no intention of giving you the full details of a real case. His purpose here is only to convey the sort of dilemmas that arise over public holidays when patients just cannot get the urgent tests that they need.
And so, Mr Cameron, you have gone down in the Grumble estimation. Because no Prime Minister should announce a new public holiday on the hoof without thinking through the consequences. Patients will die because of your decision to allow us a day off to celebrate a wedding. Did you check which day the wedding would be held on first? Why didn't you lean on those wretched royals and persuade them to hold their wedding at time when it wouldn't damage patient care quite do much? Did you look to check how many Bank Holidays there are then? Have you seen how few working days the hospitals will have that week? Do you know how difficult it will be for Dr Grumble and his colleagues? And do you know how many of Grumble's patients will die as a result of your decision?
Oh. I nearly forgot. Against all the odds Grumble fought tooth and nail to keep his patient alive over the prolonged holiday period. Some thought it would have been kinder to allow him to die. But Grumble had a clinical hunch that the appearances might all be due to infection. And the happy outcome was that the patient miraculously improved and the cannon ball 'metastases' just disappeared. It could so easily have been otherwise. | <urn:uuid:5b02f619-8a0d-4490-90eb-300d5653e683> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://drgrumble.blogspot.com/2010/12/off-with-their-heads.html?showComment=1292155101530 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981661 | 1,171 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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