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To survive and thrive in today’s competitive business world, organizations increasingly are looking for business graduates who are capable of managing their scarce resources efficiently and effectively.
Why this major is for you:
The undergraduate business administration management specialization equips you with the tools necessary to set strategic goals and objectives, to motivate and guide employees and to utilize the organization’s resources efficiently. Whether you work in the public, private or nonprofit sector, our management specialization will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to make effective business decisions. Students who graduate with the management specialization in business administration are prepared for careers in:
• general management • international business • management consulting.
What you'll learn:
As a business major, you will learn core elements of business, such as accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management and marketing. The management specialization includes extensive instruction in:
• strategic planning and change management • resource allocation • financial management • workforce management • supply chain management • continuous improvement.
Classroom courses are offered to full-time and part-time students during the day and in the evening; many courses are also offered online.
If you qualify, you’ll have the opportunity to select the Law School Early Entry Option, which allows you to count the successful completion of your first year of law school at the UB School of Law as the final year of your undergraduate study. For more information, visit www.ubalt.edu/prelaw.
You can also take advantage of the Automatic Admit Option to the UB School of Law. If you qualify, you will be automatically admitted to the law school following your graduation from the Business Administration program. For more information, visit www.ubalt.edu/prelaw.
As a qualified student, you can take advantage of our Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Option. Apply up to 9 graduate credits (three classes, typically) to both your undergraduate degree in business administration and your UB/Towson M.B.A., your M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services or your M.S. in Business-Finance. | <urn:uuid:934383ea-0a85-48a9-a10c-aab6c78515d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ubalt.edu/merrick/undergraduate-programs/business-administration/specializations-bsba/mgmt-specialization-bsba.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933977 | 439 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Division of Military Education
The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) has been an integral part of the Boston University academic community since 1919 (with a brief hiatus from 1970 to 1980), when the Student’s Army Training Corps was founded. Boston University is one of only 44 universities nationwide offering its students ROTC programs in all four services: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
The Division of Military Education is a program that provides college-trained officers for the Armed Forces. It is traditionally a four-year program of instruction culminating in a commission in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps. Today’s ROTC programs train students through hands-on leadership training unlike any other college programs. These programs build strong bonds of team spirit and camaraderie while they boost the individual’s self-confidence. ROTC training develops self-discipline, physical stamina, poise, and general management skills basic to success in any career.
The Boston University Division of Military Education is rich with tradition, strong with leadership, and built on high standards. Recognized for those highly sought-after qualities, the Boston University Army ROTC program was awarded the General Douglas MacArthur Award in 1993 for most outstanding Army ROTC program in the nation at a large university. The Boston University Air Force ROTC program was awarded the USAF High Flight Award in 1994 for most outstanding Air Force program in the northeast region and was recognized as one of the four most outstanding programs in the nation. The Boston University Naval ROTC program led the nation in student accessions for the extremely competitive 1996 Naval Medical School and Nuclear Power programs and graduated the top naval aviation student in the country.
All ROTC cadets and midshipmen at Boston University are eligible to participate in Project GO-BU. This project provides fully funded (tuition, room & board) language training on campus or abroad. Project GO-BU is sponsored by the U.S. National Security Education Program and is offered at only 21 colleges and universities nationwide. Studies include Department of Defense-identified critical languages such as Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, Wolof, and Hausa. | <urn:uuid:08b918d7-fc1c-4a22-9b8f-5eafc00f7a22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bu.edu/academics/rotc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951882 | 449 | 1.695313 | 2 |
- How often did I eat fast food?
- How often did I cook dinner at home?
- How much water and milk did I drink?
- How many salads and other vegetables did I include in my diet?
- Did I eat dessert more than I ate fruit?
- Did I eat more processed food than natural food?
- What is in my cabinet right now and will I want to throw that out come New Year's Day?
We can obsess over what we eat over the course of a day or a week but a good indication of how healthy you'll be later in life is the overall look of your diet. I am a dietitian and I have to show the world what I eat everyday--but even I have had weeks where I didn't do the best job meeting my exact needs.
This year I think I did a good job eating more natural (less processed) foods, less added sugar and drinking more water (thanks to finally getting an in-home bubbler). I think I could eat more fruit, more seafood and more yogurt. I am proud that I cooked dinner at home for my family at least 4-5 nights a week. We not only ate healthier because of this but we saved money which we could then spend on higher quality groceries.
In 2011 I hope to do an even better job eating right and feeding my family well. I look at diet as a way of maintaining my health (and as a result my weight) so I don't fret over a day or a week where I didn't do well. I keep my overall goals in mind and try to get back on track with them after falling off. If you have a few minutes this week, think about how you ate in 2010. Are you happy with your efforts or do you feel you could have done better? Instead of making specific weight loss goals for 2011 try to make lasting changes in your diet that will not only help you achieve weight loss but will improve your health for years to come. Check out how to jumpstart your diet in the new year (with Jillian Michaels!) and check out SELF's recipe archive for delicious ways to bring healthy cooking into your home. | <urn:uuid:79ee36e2-f862-4dfd-a8a0-04b7170d4259> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.self.com/blogs/flash/2010/12/what-did-you-eat-in-2010.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983296 | 445 | 1.507813 | 2 |
George H. W. Bush's career
A look back at the 41st president's career.
Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, back center, his daughter Irina Virganskaya, left, and adviser Pavel Palazhchenko, back left, visit with former President George H.W. Bush, center, and his wife Barbara, right, before having lunch in Houston. Gorbachev was in Houston to speak at the Brilliant Lecture Series.
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Potrero and the French Countryside print story
October 10, 2012
Abriendo Mentes, Costa Rica
Posted on October 9, 2012
Being that AM volunteer Nicole and her husband John have traveled extensively outside the United States, we asked Nicole to offer her observations on the culture here in Potrero in comparison with other communities in which they have been immersed. Nicole chose to compare Potrero to the French countryside, as France is the only other country besides Costa Rica and the U.S. where she has “lived both with locals and like a local for an extended period of time.” She acknowledges that her “observations are just that—observations,” and that her conclusions of course do not necessarily apply to all residents of either location.
Then there are things I’ve observed here that I have never seen in France. For example, in the morning there are men fishing at the beach using only rolls of fishing line and no poles, and I’ve seen a woman digging for clams on many occasions. From what I have experienced, Ticos don’t spend as long as the French at the table, but their food is just as fresh. The French do love their food and it’s a huge part of their culture, considering they spend at least two hours eating it at lunch time, but they don’t have to work as hard to get it. Though we can get any type of food at any time in the U.S., the freshness and therefore the taste certainly suffer. In both France and Costa Rica I have marveled over how tasty the strawberries are and how big and yummy the eggs are.
In terms of socializing, I have found the people of Costa Rica to be very open and friendly: from the store-owner putting alcohol on my scorpion wound and taking revenge on the bugger, to our landlords inviting us for dinner and offering their washing machine. And I can’t forget the doctor who gave John his crutches after an ankle injury. Ticos, to me, seem to be more content overall than the French, despite the economic disparity between the countries. More wealth certainly doesn’t mean more happiness.
Another comparison I find fascinating is the willingness that people here have to learn a foreign language. In Potrero, learning English can mean better jobs in the future. In France, like the U.S., most people do not learn a second language fluently. This makes the non French-speaking tourist feel a bit out of sorts when visiting, while an English speaker in Costa Rica may feel very much at ease.
Finally, I have noticed that the people of Costa Rica have made caring for the environment a hallmark of their culture. When I attended a Bandera Azul flag-raising to commemorate the cleanliness of the beach, many of the speakers commented on the importance of passing on the knowledge of environmental stewardship to the next generation. I have not witnessed such a large commitment towards protecting the environment in any other country I have visited thus far. | <urn:uuid:9620ab31-70ab-42c8-9d49-c3c7807617b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://omprakash.org/partnerstories/Story/Potrero-and-the-French-Countryside-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970313 | 689 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Gov. Sam Brownback will tout his tax cuts as key to economic growth this evening at the Lied Center, and his economic team will hit the road to do the same.
Brownback is speaking at 7 p.m. as the Kansas University School of Business 2012 Anderson Chandler Lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
Earlier this year, Brownback signed into law sweeping tax cuts that will reduce state individual income tax rates and exempt the owners of nearly 200,000 partnerships, sole proprietorships and other businesses from income taxes.
Brownback says the tax cuts will stimulate the economy and create jobs, but critics say the cuts are reckless and unfair, and will result in cuts to schools and other government functions. Legislative researchers say the cuts will produce a cumulative budget shortfall of $2.5 billion over the next six years.
Meanwhile, members of Brownback's Cabinet will visit seven cities on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with business owners, economic development officials and the public about the tax changes.
Commerce Secretary Pat George, Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan, Labor Secretary Karin Brownless, and Securities Commissioner Aaron Jack will participate in what is being called the Kansas Small Business Empowerment Tour.
The officials will hold meetings in Manhattan, Norton, Hays, Dodge City, Hutchinson, Wichita and Independence.
The officials will also discuss the state's latest efforts in recruiting businesses and provide an update on the Rural Opportunity Zone program. | <urn:uuid:5ec7a1df-8d3e-4ff5-a33a-645cb1d3fefe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/sep/10/statehouse-live-brownback-will-speak-lied-center-t/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940734 | 294 | 1.53125 | 2 |
A poll released Wednesday showed a majority of American voters think the Boy Scouts of America should lift their ban on gay Scouts and scoutmasters, the same day the group delayed a vote on the ban until May.
The Quinnipiac University survey indicated 55 percent of respondents said the ban should end, and 33 percent said it should remain in place. There was a gap among man and women in the poll -- 61 percent of women supported allowing gay members, while 49 percent of men supported such a move.
Differences also emerged among religious affiliation. White Catholics supported ending the ban 63 percent-25 percent, while white evangelical Protestants said the ban should stand, 56 percent-33 percent.
"Now that the Armed Forces ban on openly gay service members has been lifted, and polls show increasing acceptance of same-sex marriage, most American voters think it's time to open up the Boy Scouts too," Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said of the poll.
Quinnipiac's survey also showed a dip in the percentage of Americans who participate in scouting programs. While 54 percent of the voters surveyed said they were in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, only 36 percent said their children participated.
The Boy Scouts executive board was slated to vote on lifting the ban Wednesday, but delayed the decision, saying it needed more time to get input from its members. The full national council, which numbers more than 1,400, will vote on lifting the ban in May.
The issue has sparked an array of organizations to voice their opinions, with some conservative groups worried that allowing gays would erode the Boy Scouts' moral message, and gay rights groups saying the ban amounts to discrimination.
The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted from 1,772 registered voters nationwide by telephone from Jan. 30 to Feb. 4. The sampling error was plus or minus 2.3 percentage points. | <urn:uuid:df4b58a4-07b5-4902-9d16-52bbf35dc941> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wptz.com/news/politics/Poll-Majority-support-opening-Boy-Scouts-to-gays/-/8869804/18432960/-/mkuw6h/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961938 | 386 | 1.710938 | 2 |
IBM to Invest $100 Million for Big-data Analysis Research
Sensing a greater need in big-data analysis tools, IBM will invest US$100 million to research advanced large-scale analytics, the company announced Friday.
IBM also said it will have 20 new service offerings to help customers quickly analyze petabytes of data.
"We think it's a good time from a research perspective to double down on how we think about big data and how people can get actionable insights from it," said Rod Smith, IBM vice president of emerging technologies.
The money will be used to investigate ways of advancing software, systems and services to better analyze data. "Analytics are terrific, but if you can combine analytics with specific problems and expertise around certain problems, then you can define outcomes in unique ways," Smith said.
While the IT industry already has plenty of business intelligence and analytics software, tools are still lacking for analyzing large amounts of unstructured data, Smith said. About 80 percent of the data in an enterprise is unstructured, meaning it is not easily categorized in databases.
Smith said many IBM customers are collecting large amounts of data through sensors, either software- or hardware-based, but do not have ways of analyzing the results. "From a research perspective, we can ask, 'What does that mean, and what can we do in these new areas to help them?' " Smith said.
IBM will use existing locations for the research rather than open new centers. "Projects will be evaluated across the globe,"Smith said.
The service offerings being developed will include a range of analysis capabilities, said Steve Sams, IBM Global Technologies Services' vice present of site and facilities services.
One new tool, called Cloud Workload Analysis, will allow organizations to summarize their IT workload characteristics and identify which jobs could be moved to the cloud. Another tool will allow users to provision their own storage, rather than go through a storage administrator, reducing the time storage administrators spend managing resources.
IBM also announced a new software package that it said can help analyze petabytes of streaming data and derive results in under a millisecond, through the use of Hadoop.
The software, a combination of the InfoSphere BigInsights data analysis framework and InfoSphere Streams analysis tool, can quickly analyze text, video, audio, click streams, images and other forms of data. IBM claimed its software package can analyze data up to 350 percent faster than other offerings on the market.
In a recent survey of 3,000 chief information officers, IBM found that 83 percent agreed that analytics and business intelligence would play a pivotal role in their strategic growth. | <urn:uuid:5694363a-6afd-48f5-b5dd-4e5f1a72362b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/228334/article.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93731 | 542 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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At the end of the bill, add the following:
TITLE--DOMESTIC PET TURTLE MARKET ACCESS
SEC. __. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Domestic Pet Turtle Market Access Act of 2007''.
SEC. __. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Pet turtles less than 10.2 centimeters in diameter have been banned for sale in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration since 1975 due to health concerns.
(2) The Food and Drug Administration does not ban the sale of iguanas or other lizards, snakes, frogs, or other amphibians or reptiles that are sold as pets in the United States that also carry salmonella bacteria. The Food and Drug Administration also does not require that these animals be treated for salmonella bacteria before being sold as pets.
(3) The technology to treat turtles for salmonella, and make them safe for sale, has greatly advanced since 1975. Treatments exist that can nearly eradicate salmonella from turtles, and individuals are more aware of the causes of salmonella, how to treat salmonella poisoning, and the seriousness associated with salmonella poisoning.
(4) University research has shown that these turtles can be treated in such a way that they can be raised, shipped, and distributed without having a recolonization of salmonella.
(5) University research has also shown that pet owners can be equipped with a treatment regiment that allows the turtle to be maintained safe from salmonella.
(6) The Food and Drug Administration should allow the sale of turtles less than 10.2 centimeters in diameter as pets as long as the sellers are required to use proven methods to treat the turtles for salmonella and maintain a safe pet.
SEC. __. SALE OF BABY TURTLES.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Food and Drug Administration shall not restrict the sale by a turtle farmer or other commercial retail seller of a turtle that is less than 10.2 centimeters in diameter as a pet if--
(1) the turtle is raised, shipped, and sold using methods that are proven to keep the turtle free of salmonella, using salmonella safety standards that are comparable to such standards relating to other animals, including reptiles and amphibians, that are allowed for sale as pets, or animal products that are allowed for sale as food products;
(2) the Administration has approved a plan submitted by the turtle farmer or commercial retail seller involved relating to compliance with paragraph (1); and
(3) the farmer or other commercial retail seller includes, with the sale of such a turtle, a disclosure to the buyer that includes--
(A) information regarding--
(i) the dangers, including possible severe illness or death, especially for at-risk people who may be susceptible to salmonella poisoning, such as children, pregnant women, and others who may have weak immune systems, that could result if the turtle is not properly handled and safely maintained;
(ii) the proper handling of the turtle, including an explanation of proper hygiene such as handwashing after handling a turtle; and
(iii) the proven methods of treatment that, if properly applied, keep the turtle safe from salmonella;
(B) a detailed explanation of how to properly treat the turtle to keep it safe from salmonella, using the proven methods of treatment referred to under subparagraph (A), and how the buyer can continue to purchase the tools, treatments, or any other required item to continually treat the turtle; and
(C) a statement that buyers of pet turtles should not abandon the turtle or abandon it outside, as the turtle may become an invasive species to the local community, but should instead return them to a commercial retail pet seller or other organization that would accept turtles no longer wanted as pets.
(1) IN GENERAL.--A turtle farmer or other commercial seller that desires to sell a turtle as provided for under subsection (a) shall submit a plan to the Food and Drug Administration that details the manner in which the farmer or seller will ensure compliance with the requirements of subsection (a)(1) with respect to the turtles involved. The plan shall include use of non-antibiotic compounds that suppress or eliminate the presence of salmonella in turtle hatchlings.
(2) ACTION BY FDA.--Not later 30 days after the date on which the Food and Drug Administration receives a plan under paragraph (1), the Administration shall accept or reject such plan. If such plan is rejected, the Administration shall provide clear, specific guidance on the reasons for such rejection. The Administration may only reject such a plan if it is determined that the plan fails to achieve the same salmonella safety standards as such standards relating to other animals, including
reptiles and amphibians, that are allowed for sale as pets, or animal products that are allowed for sale as food products.
(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the Food and Drug Administration to hold the sale of turtles less than 10.2 centimeters in diameter as a pet to any greater salmonella safety standard applicable to other reptiles or amphibians sold as pets, animals sold as pets, or food products regulated by such Administration.
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Recreation, Department of[Record group 87]
Agency home page.
- The Philadelphia Department of Recreation manages and operates all City recreation facilities, including Veterans Stadium, and public parks and squares not managed by the Fairmount Park Commission. The Department strives to maintain safe, clean, fully functional, and professionally staffed facitlities in order to develop, coordinate, and implement recreational programs and activities. These programs are designed to develop the physical, cultural, artistic, and life skills of the participants of all ages and in all neighborhoods. The Department strives to make programs relevant and accessible to underserved communities, including minorities, women, the economically disadvantaged, and those with special needs. The Department strives to provide a positive alternative to drugs, violence, and crime. It seeks to instill the values of individual pride and giving to the community. In addition, the Department seeks to promote a spirit of cooperation, to build self esteem, to encourage healthy competition, and to develop life-long recreational interest among all its participants.
- Agency History
- A Department of Recreation was created by an Ordinance of June 8, 1911 with authority to organize and manage all City recreational facilities other than those under the control of the Board of Education and the Fairmount Park Commission. It was administered by a board of seven directors who included the Mayor, five members appointed by him, and the Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, and had been preceded in 1910 by a Public Playgrounds Committee established by an ordinance of July 27 of that year with similar powers. This Department was abolished in 1920 under the provisions of the Charter of 1919 and its functions transferred to a newly-established Bureau of Recreation in the Department of Public Welfare which continued to exercise them until the re-creation of the Department of Recreation under the terms of the City Charter adopted in 1951. At that time the Fairmount Park Commission was designated a departmental commission of the Department of Recreation, as were the Boards of Trustees of the Atwater Kent Museum, the Betsy Ross House, Camp William Penn, and the Tinicum Wildlife Preserve.
- Archival Records
- 87.1 Annual Reports (1913, 1914, 1940, 1941, 1943-1949, 1952, 1954-1979, 1981-1989)
87.2 Files (1953-1964, 1968)
87.3 Site Plan for the Demolition of Moyamensing Prison (30 August 1967)
87.4 Reports and Publications (1952-1968)
87.5 Recreation Coordination Board. Five-Year Report (1953-1958)
87.6 Atwater Kent Museum. Annual Reports (1991)
87.7 Atwater Kent Museum. Reports and Publications (1994)
87.8 Construction Specifications (1961)
- Current Records
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Court Youth Center
Fred Martino speaks with Court Youth Center Director Irene Oliver-Lewis.
Court Youth Center offers a wide range of after-school, weekend and summer programs in arts production, arts integration, and arts as business, public arts and arts in education. Youth increase their creative learning process, their academic performance, problem solving and group interaction skills in order to internalize responsible decision making and gain a sense of community by incorporating the creative learning process in all aspects of their lives.
Court Youth Center is a non-profit organization. All financial proceeds are directly invested into the after-school programs for high school and middle school students at the Court Youth Center. | <urn:uuid:cbd53eef-b004-47a1-9c0e-431b3e7cd6d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://krwg.org/post/court-youth-center | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943535 | 167 | 1.796875 | 2 |
In his 2009 inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared, "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
Thus far, the toughest regimes "on the wrong side of history" -- Syria and Iran -- seem to be defying history rather well. They also have not unclenched their fists, except maybe to hold a gun.
In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4, 2009, Obama made his conciliatory approach to Iran even more explicit: "For many years, Iran has defined itself...by its opposition to my country, and there is indeed a tumultuous history between us...Rather than remain trapped in the past, I have made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward...It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve." more >>
As the Obama administration tries to unbury itself from snowballing scandals, my apocalyptic thriller steadily crawls from fiction to fact. The Middle East is an insane place. And it's going nuclear. Yet too many optimists, isolationists, and self-deluded analysts think that rationality will prevail and keep us all safe.
Is it rational to take out the organs of a man you just killed and eat them on camera, as a Syrian rebel recently did? How about a senior Palestinian Authority official who recently, on Lebanese television, declared that the PA would nuke Israel if it had nuclear weapons? Jibril Rajoub, the deputy secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and the chairman of the PA Olympics Committee, apparently doesn't mind that the nuclear mushroom he wants over Israel would also kill millions of Palestinians, just miles away – the main goal is that Israel be nuked.
At best, one can say that there is a "twisted rationality" in the Middle East, as exemplified by Iran's former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. In a December 2001 speech, Rafsanjani said, "If one day the Islamic world [acquires nuclear weapons], then the imperialists' strategy will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything. However, it will only harm the Islamic world. It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality. Jews shall expect to be once again scattered and wandering around the globe the day when this appendix is extracted from the region and the Muslim world." more >>
Syria has been at civil war for the past two years, raging between Sunni rebels and hardline President Bashar al-Assad's Shiite-controlled government. More than 70,000 Syrians have been killed since March 2011, with millions more displaced. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered legislation earlier this month to allow the U.S. to provide arms to the Syrian opposition. Menendez's legislation includes $250 million for transitioning the government.
The U.S. is already supplying the Syrian rebels with food and medicine. In April, the U.S. started providing the rebels with defensive equipment like body armor, night vision goggles and other military equipment. The U.S. and several Western and Arab countries are part of a pro-opposition "Friends of Syria bloc," which is trying to broker peace in the country. Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Syrian government that if it does not negotiate in good faith during U.S. and Russian-brokered peace talks next month, the U.S. will increase its support to the rebels. Kerry has repeatedly said that Assad must go, "It is very, very clear as a starting point that mutual consent will never be given by any member of the broad opposition of Syria for Assad to continue to run that government," he declared.
But some members of Congress are speaking up against the legislation, which essentially picks sides between two radical Islamist factions. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) argued on CNN, "Unfortunately, to a large extent, al Qaeda elements have a lot of control within the rebel movements. My concern is that, by arming the rebels, we could be strengthening al Qaeda." Iranian-backed militias and al Qaeda affiliates are likely infiltrating the rebel opposition, and the weapons could end up in their hands. After the U.S. intervened on behalf of insurgents in Libya in order to topple Muammar Gaddafi, al Qaeda gained a stronghold in the country, and there are now signs of al Qaeda everything, such as an al Qaeda flag flying above the central courthouse in Benghazi. more >>
President Barack Obama spoke to 841 men and 206 women at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md., on Friday, telling them that sexual assault threatens the entire military and it should be stopped.
"Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that makes our military strong," Obama told the Navy grads. "That's why we have to be determined to stop these crimes, because they've got no place in the greatest military on earth."
Earlier this week, the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that in 2012, more than 85,000 veterans were treated for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military. Analysts said that the actual number is likely to be even higher, since many victims decide not to report abuse, for a variety of reasons. more >>
On November 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Bixby of Massachusetts, who had lost five sons in the Civil War.
He wrote her, "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save."
Then he added this beautiful prayer: "I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." more >>
The Department of Veterans Affairs has revealed that more than 85,000 veterans last year were treated for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military, highlighting a crisis that President Barack Obama has called "shameful and disgraceful."
"We will not stop until we've seen this scourge, from what is the greatest military in the world, eliminated," Obama told Pentagon officials last week at the White House. "Not only is it a crime, not only is it shameful and disgraceful, but it also is going to make and has made the military less effective than it can be."
The Associated Press reported on Monday that more than 85,000 veterans had been affected in 2012, based on information released by VA. Of those cases, most of the victims were women, but nearly 40 percent were men. Sexual abuse has been defined by VA as "any sexual activity where you are involved against your will," which can come in various forms – some have reported to have been raped, while others said they were groped or subjected to verbal abuse or other forms of sexual harassment. more >> | <urn:uuid:957fdc72-0326-4fa0-8dcc-96223a9e06fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.christianpost.com/topics/national-security/page3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973277 | 1,508 | 1.648438 | 2 |
|Drill Rig Nautilus, being "dry towed" by Black Marlin|
Their destination is almost certainly South Korea:
Both the much maligned Noble Discoverer and Kulluk, who have faced serious mechanical difficulties since completing Arctic drilling operations off of Alaska's Arctic Continental Shelf last summer, will be headed to Asia soon according to a statement from Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith.
The Kulluk, which has remained anchored off of Kodiak Island since its New Year's Eve grounding, will be towed from there to the international Port of Dutch Harbor pending a tow plan approval. From Dutch Harbor, the 266-foot diameter conical drilling unit will then be dry-towed to a ship yard in Asia with a suitable dry dock.
The Discoverer's operator, Noble Drilling Corp., will also dry-tow the Discoverer from its current location in Seward to South Korea.
“The outcome of further inspections for both rigs will determine the shipyard schedule and timing of their return to service,” Smith said in the statement.
When exactly the rigs will leave Alaska is unclear. A representative from Unified Command, the joint operation involving Shell, U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, could not say whether the vessel remained in Kiliuda Bay Monday. They noted that the latest information on the vessel was on the command's website -- which hasn't been updated since Jan. 30.A "dry tow" or "dry-tow" is movement of a vessel on the deck of a large, semi-submerible ship, or powered, floating drydock.
For some reason, the transponders of all the vessels in and around the Kulluk in Kiliuda Bay, were turned off on January 30th and 31st, two days after I announced the contemplated Asia decision, and the same day Dan Joling from the Associated Press picked up the story, so it is difficult to know where the tug Aiviq is right now, for instance.
Lisa Demer, writing on the new development early this morning for the Anchorage Daily News, notes:
It has big vessels for the dry tows lined up, and the Noble Discoverer will leave Seward in three to six weeks for a trip across the Pacific Ocean that should take two to four weeks, Smith said.
In a dry tow, a large vessel submerges through added ballast below the draft of the rig to be towed, Smith explained. That allows the drilling rig to float over the vessel's deck, and the tow vessel is raised up, with the drill rig on its deck for the tow. It's a faster method than towing on the water.There are rumors that Shell is searching the world for replacement vessels, as it appears neither the Kulluk nor the Noble Discoverer will even be reaching a yard before mid to late April.
Investigations into the grounding and Shell's 2013 Alaska Arctic drilling season by the U.S. Coast Guard; the U.S. Department of the Interior; the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard; and possibly the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, will begin within a few weeks. No precise information on any of these has yet been released.
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April 09, 2010 -- We are in the process of conducting a set of tests looking at how the performance of Ubuntu Linux has evolved through their Long-Term Support (LTS) releases beginning with their first 6.06 "Dapper Drake" version followed by Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron", and then the Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" release that will be released by month's end. These benchmarks will look at how the performance of Ubuntu Linux has changed over the past four years, but first we deviated from our original plans to get a look at how the current open-source ATI R500 graphics driver in Ubuntu 10.04 provided by the Mesa stack performs against older proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers.
March 29, 2010 -- Over the past two weeks, we have published a variety of articles looking at different aspects of the open-source Linux graphics stack. These articles range from comparing the Gallium3D and classic Mesa performance to comparing the kernel mode-setting and user-space mode-setting performance. Today we are continuing with this interesting Linux graphics coverage by publishing benchmarks comparing the performance of the Radeon Mesa DRI graphics driver to AMD's Catalyst 10.4 proprietary driver. Is the open-source driver finally catching up to AMD's highly optimized driver? Continue reading to find out.
March 26, 2010 -- NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU support have historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has been around that provides very basic 2D acceleration and a crippled set of features besides that (no proper RandR 1.2/1.3, KMS, power management, etc) while the code has also been obfuscated to try to protect their intellectual property. However, NVIDIA has decided to deprecate this open-source driver of theirs. No, NVIDIA is not working on a new driver. No, NVIDIA is not going to support the Nouveau project. Instead, NVIDIA now just recommends its users use the X.Org VESA driver to get to NVIDIA.com when installing Linux so they can install their proprietary driver.
March 26, 2010 -- Last week we published benchmarks looking at the ATI Radeon KMS vs. UMS performance and found the user-space mode-setting support with the ATI driver (that is also limited to using DRI1 with these older code-paths) to perform significantly faster than the newer kernel mode-setting routes in most instances. To see how the performance difference is on the Intel side between the kernel mode-setting and user-space mode-setting implementations we ran a set of benchmarks on this side as well using Ubuntu 10.04.
March 25, 2010 -- With Mesa 7.8 arriving this month, we took the time to benchmark a few recent releases of the Mesa 3D stack with the Radeon DRI driver to see how the OpenGL performance has changed -- if at all -- over the past few months. In this article are our R500 Mesa benchmarks from the Mesa 7.6, 7.7, 7.8-rc1, and 7.9-devel releases.
March 23, 2010 -- Earlier this month AMD rolled out a new workstation graphics card driver, which is effectively the same Catalyst driver used by the consumer-oriented Radeon graphics cards but with greater testing and certification for the ATI workstation offerings. The press release announcing this new driver was titled "Application Performance Increases By Up To 20 Percent with Latest ATI FirePro Graphics Driver," so we decided to see if this proprietary driver really lives up to its claims under Linux.
March 22, 2010 -- Gallium3D, the graphics driver architecture started by Tungsten Graphics to overhaul the hardware driver support in Mesa, has been around for a few years but it is finally getting close to appearing on more desktop systems. Now that the Nouveau DRM code is in the mainline Linux kernel and its main 3D driver is Gallium3D-based, we will hopefully be seeing that adopted by more distributions soon -- it's already being flipped on with Fedora 13. On the ATI side the "r300g" Gallium3D driver that provides Gallium3D support for the R300-R500 (up through the Radeon X1000 series) is also being battered into surprisingly good shape. To see where the Radeon Gallium3D support is at for these older ATI graphics cards we have run a set of tests comparing the OpenGL performance under the latest Mesa 7.9-devel code with the Gallium3D driver to running the classic Mesa DRI driver.
March 18, 2010 -- Earlier this week we published comparative benchmarks of Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, and openSUSE. In the discussion that followed, a number of people requested a set of tests that compare the performance of the ATI Radeon Linux graphics driver stack with kernel mode-setting (KMS) vs. user-space mode-setting (UMS), so today we have such results to deliver.
February 17, 2010 -- As we shared a few days ago, Fedora 13 will provide OpenGL acceleration support for NVIDIA graphics cards via the Nouveau driver when installing the Mesa DRI experimental drivers package. There is finally 3D acceleration for NVIDIA graphics cards using an open-source driver on Linux without having to depend upon NVIDIA's official binary driver. What makes this open-source 3D support for NVIDIA GPUs even more interesting is that it is atop the Gallium3D driver architecture rather than classic Mesa. With that said, we are providing early benchmarks of the Nouveau Gallium3D driver in Fedora 13 with two GeForce graphics cards as we compare the performance to NVIDIA's official Linux driver.
February 09, 2010 -- As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI Linux graphics stack with the Mesa R600/700 DRI driver. We have now carried out our first batch of R600/700 3D tests using this constantly evolving open-source driver to provide OpenGL acceleration and here are the results. | <urn:uuid:c04eeeb5-f7c7-4e49-a2d2-09df87e679ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=category&item=Display%20Drivers&selection=24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933042 | 1,243 | 1.679688 | 2 |
In the opening of The Driving Force: Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People (Leadership Publishing.com), Peter W. Schutz remembers an early day on the job back in 1981, a weekly luncheon attended by the company’s 40 top managers. The conversations were mundane, about the weather and such. But he asked the assembled—and they had to listen because he was the top man—what was going on in the company that truly excited them. “There was an uncomfortable silence,” he recalls. “I realized I had put my finger on a fundamental problem. Not a problem that would show up directly on a financial statement, but an opportunity that could hold the key to producing positive results in the future.” The company in question was having financial difficulties at the time that he’d just taken over. But he discovered that there was no passion, no excitement, and that if they were going to get on the right track, they’d need it.
The company Schutz became CEO of in January, 1981 was Dr. Ing h.c. F. Porsche AG. Yes, Porsche. The “driving force” that helped crystallize the company’s attention was racing. While attending a meeting during which the company’s forthcoming efforts at LeMans were discussed, he got a lukewarm response from the engineering team about Porsche’s prospects. “I thought about their responses for about ten seconds and heard myself reply: ‘Let me explain something. As long as I am in charge of this company, we will never go to any race without the objective of winning!’” And that statement, italicized for emphasis in the book, is at the core of what Schutz describes as the “driving force.” It helped galvanize people throughout the organization, not just the racing team. Other decisions that he made—like saving the 911 from extinction, producing a cabrio, engaging the trade union personnel, and staying true to the essence of the brand—also contributed to the company’s turnaround. Schutz’s explanations of what he did and why he did them at Porsche are invaluable. If there is one book that should be read immediately by executives and managers at OEM and supplier companies in and around Detroit, this is it. Schutz emphasizes the importance of having people at all levels involved in deciding what needs to get done because without their buy-in, there is little chance of achieving excellence. His approach—counter to common practice—is for managers to decide like a democracy and implement like a dictator. Many executives in Detroit are seemingly doing their damnedest to alienate their workers; without involvement of all, there is little chance of their extricating themselves from the seemingly swift spiral deeper into red ink.
It takes more than a little intestinal fortitude to do the things that Schutz did at Porsche. Not having passion, not committing to things that would be truly distinctive and remarkable, is by far an easier approach than to pursue what matters. Schutz broadens what he said about racing to what should be a mantra of any company: “We will never participate in any commercial activity without the objective of being the best at what we do.” You may not always win, but if you pursue that approach, you will never be a loser. People in this industry are always concerned with checking the metrics. They ought to start checking, as one of my learned friends puts it, their gutrics. Excellence is predicated on passion. And a passion for what one is doing, no matter what one does, is truly the driving force. | <urn:uuid:b9a4ff8a-9dce-4a66-9aae-d48d0db5f615> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.autofieldguide.com/columns/marginal-gut-check | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978573 | 748 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Tuesday April 7, 2009
Colony of artists in Kuantan
NINE artists seeking a place for an art gallery have finally formed an artist house cum gallery in Taman Bukit Setongkol, Kuantan.
The group’s leader Abdullah Jones said the colony called Komuniti Pelukis Rajawali would be a haven for the artists to concentrate on their projects.
“There are a number of young and senior artists in Kuantan, but they are scattered around and hardly meet to exchange ideas, share experiences and discuss their paintings,” said Abdullah.
This realisation led him to meet Abdullah Hamdan, Abi Wafi and Amin Daud and gave birth to the idea that they needed a place to work as a group, said Abdullah.
“By renting a house, we are free to work at leisure.
“Sometimes, we forget to sleep because we are consumed by work and to meet deadlines for orders,” Abdullah said the colony attracted part-time artists.
“The part-timers, Najihah Lee Abdullah, Radzuan Mat Piah, Badrul Nizam and Nurhashimah Husain, are art teachers.
“It is also a place for them to store their work and learn first-hand on our techniques, which they can share with their students,” Abdullah said.
Because of this relationship, the artists had been to schools to speak as guests.
“We also set up art tuition classes for students at RM20 per session on Saturdays.
“The fee is nominal as we use the money to buy equipment,” he said, adding that there were 20 students.
At times, they organised workshops for those sitting for the SPM and STPM examinations, he added.
The gallery has 200 art pieces of various mediums and themes.
“We have been invited to exhibit our works at a commercial building in Indera Mahkota and at Hyatt Kuantan in May. Both events are organised by The Women’s Institute,” Abdullah said. | <urn:uuid:8d5597e7-07e0-4b92-8ce7-bf018aea3c24> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/4/7/southneast/3637425&sec=southneast | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972353 | 439 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Imagine that God is the Universal energy, the white light source, one whole being or energy made up of love and joy and happiness, the Divine Source Energy—an energy that is omnipotent and can create all things and all experiences. But in order to really appreciate this love, joy, and happiness, God needed to look back at himself in different ways, through different experiences; and being one whole he could not do that. He then split off little parts of himself, little images of himself. These little images enable him to look back at himself. Each one can experience joy and love in different ways that could be experienced by the whole.
Each of us is one of these little individual images of God—an individual part of his energy, made in perfect duplicate to this energy, with all the same love and light, just in a miniature version. Now imagine that this little part of God within each of us is connected to our subconscious—this little part within us, made in his perfect image, with all the perfection that is God and yet individual. Our subconscious appears separate and individual, yet it is still part of God and remains connected to the whole. In the same way, cells of a body have different functions and can work independently, yet they have all the blueprint and knowledge and support from the whole body of which they are a part.
Now, imagine that some of us in this raw form of our subconscious energy, this miniature part of this Divine Source Energy, decided to experience life in a physical way; to experience love and joy and happiness but also to experience the lack of these emotions so that we can compare and appreciate them. Then some of us take the plunge to become a physical person. We are still connected to this Divine Source Energy through our subconscious and, as part of this energy, we have all the resources of the whole. We are able to connect through prayer, through meditation, and through love. In fact, we are continually connected on a soul level through our subconscious, and cared for and assisted through life.
Our physical body and conscious mind do not remember our source and our purpose in order that we may experience things as new, from which to gain a new perspective and thereby to learn. Yet, on a higher subconscious soul level, we have all the knowledge and all the supply from the great Divine Source Energy that God is.
What I have personally seen over and over is that our subconscious is connected to Source Energy. We are able to draw from, tap into, and manifest from this energy. Even though we are each working through life separately, we all draw from the same pool, the same endless supply of energy waiting to manifest all that we need and desire. As a whole entity, we are all benefitting from each other, learning and raising our collective consciousness together. | <urn:uuid:4ca91013-94cf-4b37-8592-9f0e02aa1898> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/using-the-subconscious-to-manifest-abundance-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96539 | 568 | 1.6875 | 2 |
SAN ANTONIO -- It’s a small and powerful pill and now Xanax is becoming the subject of abuse. Experts worry too many young people are illegally obtaining and abusing the prescription drug found in many homes.
Commonly used to treat anxiety, Abigail Moore, Executive Director of San Antonio Council on Drug Abuse, or SACADA, said if a child consumes the drug it’s the equivalent of six to eight beers.
According the Drug Enforcement Administration the abuse of prescription drugs is growing rapidly to epidemic proportions.
Sunday, police arrested 20 year old Julian Martinez.
Officers said Martinez admitted having sex with a 12 year old girl.
According to investigators he and the girl took Xanax and smoked marijuana.
Officers are checking to see if Martinez had other victims.
"I can't imagine what that young lady went through having been under the influence of Xanax and mixing it with marijuana," insisted Moore.
She doesn't know details of this case but she understands the prescription drug and how it affects people.
She said it can be highly addictive and dangerous for children.
"It's more for adults struggling with anxiety, stress disorder and panic attacks," stated Moore.
The SACADA spokesperson pointed to statewide statistics indicating how the drug is growing in illegal street level usage—even with children as young as 12 years old.
In 2011, Xanax made news after a San Antonio mother was arrested for having sex with a minor. She told police it was a 13 year old neighbor and Amanda Nabers stated they had several encounters.
She admitted taking Xanax, smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol before a sexual encounter.
So what exactly does it do to the body?
"It really impacts the breathing, the heart rate, the motor skills,” slowing responses down and possibly having a numbing effect said Moore.
According to the Medicine Abuse Project, 2500 teenagers get high on illegally obtained prescription drugs daily—the number is not exclusive to Xanax or benzodiazepines.
However, in 1999, a statewide report showed 55 deaths directly related benzodiazepines.
That number shot up to 389 deaths in 2011.
"This is a teachable moment,” said Moore who hopes parents talk to their children about abuse or contact agency for help.
The DEA also sponsors a program called National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day which will take place April 27 from 10am-2pm.
It’s a way for people to safely disposed of old or unwanted prescription drugs in their medicine cabinet.
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By Walt Meyer
February 19, 2013 (Lakeside)--New careers as the wave of the future was a key theme in a guest lecture February 12 given by Chuck Brands at El Capitan High School. Brands is a local sustainability and solar energy expert who is also vice-president of Heartland Coalition and director of its UnitedGREEN division.
Last fall, Brands coordinated a class at Southwestern College to teach a new technology that uses all relevant data to map a building so that owners and occupants can manage their energy consumption and plan to adapt the building for energy innovation. The students were team-taught this pioneering class by experts from across the country under a grant from SDG&E to the Heartland Coalition.
By Brian Lafferty
February 16, 2012 (San Diego) – A few years ago I wrote an essay that was published in the anthology book Voices of Autism. I was unaware of the significance until I saw how impressed my college professors, friends, and family were. Shortly after, I was featured in a piece by my alma mater.
The Grossmont College Adult Reentry Program will host “Recreate Yourself,” a free orientation meeting for adults interested in returning to school to learn a new career, earn a college diploma or upgrade workplace skills for a job promotion, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2.
March 5, 2010 (El Cajon) -- The Grossmont College Career Center will host “Be A Star Performer,” a free informational meeting on soft skills that can give you an edge in your job search and career success, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, at the Career Center, Room 627, on the college campus.
October 8, 2009 (El Cajon)--Grossmont College Career Center will present four free career workshops on campus at the Career Center office, Room 627, located adjacent to the Student Center, during its 2009 Career Week, Oct. 19 to 22. The public is invited to attend.
The free workshops include: “Job Search Tips” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 19; “Career Pathways in Health Care” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20; “Green Careers and Renewable Energy” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21; and “Meeting the Needs of Veterans” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22. | <urn:uuid:012f807f-787a-471a-a279-51b7b2ef2b4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eastcountymagazine.org/taxonomy/term/1595 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966654 | 551 | 1.710938 | 2 |
This folder contains unsolicited inquiries from the general public relating to Edison's well-known idiosyncrasies in nutrition and sleep habits. Included is correspondence with John W. Brethour about Edison's belief that people eat more than necessary. There is also a letter from longtime friend and associate Henry C. Demming about Edison's recent cold.
Approximately 15 percent of the documents have been selected. The unselected material includes unsolicited correspondence from the general public, such as recipes for home remedies, requests for advice on aging, circulars about programs for good health, and cover letters for publications sent to Edison. Some of the letters received a routine reply stating that Edison was too busy to consider them. Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park. | <urn:uuid:1c8f8d9d-dc46-45e4-9e06-bf5cfbb1a47c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edison.rutgers.edu/NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?gloc=E1847 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955971 | 149 | 1.8125 | 2 |
1A burden concerning the fall of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2Lift up a banner on high mountains, raise the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may enter the gates of the princes.
3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have called the mighty ones in my anger, even those who became strong with my excellency.
4The noise of tumult on the mountains, like many peoples; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Yahvah of hosts is performing wonders.
5Warriors are coming from far away, and from the end of the skies, even Yahvah and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6Howl; for the day of Yahvah is at hand; it will come from almighty as a plunder which is made suddenly.
7Therefore all hands will be faint, and every man's heart will melt;
8and they will be afraid; terror and pangs will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in travail; they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be as flames.
9Look, the day of Yahvah comes, which has no remedy, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation; and he will destroy its sinners out of it.
10For the stars of the skies and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the mighty.
12I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the gold of Ophir.
13Therefore I will shake the skies, and the land will be moved out of its place, in the rebuke of Yahvah of hosts, in the day of his fierce anger.
14And they will be like gazelles when they flee, and like sheep that have no one to gather them; every man will turn to his own people, and each flee to his own land.
15Everyone who is found will be thrust through; and everyone who escapes will fall by the sword.
16Their sons will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be spoiled and their wives ravished.
17Look, I will stir up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver, and have no delight in gold.
18The bows of young men will be broken in pieces; and they will not have pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not spare sons.
19And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean's excellency, will be as when god overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20It will never be inhabited, nor will it be lived in from generation to generation, nor will the Arabians camp there, nor will the shepherds make their folds there,
21but wild animals will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches will live there, and satyrs will dance there,
22and the screech-owls will cry in their houses, and jackals in their pleasant houses; its time is soon to come, and its days will not be prolonged.
1For Yahvah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and will set them in their own land; and strangers will accompany them, and they will add to the house of Jacob.
2And the Gentiles will take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of Yahvah for male servants and female servants; and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.
3And it will come to pass in the day that Yahvah will give you rest from your sorrow and from your anger and from the hard servitude in which you were made to serve,
4you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, How has the ruler ceased, the zealous one ceased.
5Yahvah has broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers;
6he who struck the peoples in wrath, striking without instruction, who chastised the peoples in anger and persecuted them without pity.
7The whole land is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing.
8Yes, the fir trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon saying, Since you are felled, no hewer is come up to cut us down.
9The grave beneath is murmuring at your coming; it stirs up against you all the mighty men, even all the rulers of the land whom you overthrew from their thrones.
10All the kings of the nations will answer and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us?
11Your pomp is brought down to the grave, the noise of your harps is dead; the dust is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
12How you are fallen from the skies, son of the dawn, for you have fallen down to the ground, reviler of the nations.
13For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into the skies, I will exalt my throne above the stars of god; I will also live on the high mountains in the outer regions of the north.
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high.
15From now on, you will be brought down to the grave, to the bottom of the pit.
16Those who see you will stare at you and consider you saying, Is this the man who made the land tremble, who shook kingdoms;
17who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities; who did not free his prisoners?
18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.
19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable person, and as the raiment of those who are slain, thrust through by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as corpses trampled under foot.
20You will not rejoice with them in the grave, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people; the seed of the evildoer will never rise again.
21Prepare slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with war.
22For I will rise up against them says Yahvah of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon the name, its offspring, the family, and its generation says Yahvah.
23I will also make it a possession for owls, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction says Yahvah of hosts.
24Yahvah of hosts has sworn saying, Surely as I have thought, so it will come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it will stand;
25I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot; then his yoke will depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26This is the end that is purposed against all the land; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.
27For Yahvah of hosts has purposed, and who can disannul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
Isaiah covers the vision of Isaiah.
Isaiah says, that he, Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw a burden concerning Babylon. This matches Isaiah, the son of Amoz, seeing a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
The 13th passage of Isaiah is a soliloquy. Up to this point, and in each passage following, the book of Isaiah speaks to stories in other books of the Bible, but here, he stops and reflects with/by/on himself, though we, the readers, get to look in on his contemplation.
If you prefer, passage 13 of Isaiah is a recursion of the book of Isaiah just as the book of Isaiah is a recursion of the whole Bible.
Or, put even another way, this 13th passage of Isaiah is the signature passage. The passage where the author signs his name.
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Whether you are a fan of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy novels set in the fictional world of Westeros, or the hit HBO series now in its second season, you’ve probably heard the title A Game of Thrones.
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Even those who don’t read fantasy are probably familiar with A Game of Thrones because the story—a gritty tale of warring factions scrambling for power, scheming families, sex, lies and betrayal—resonates across genres and fandoms. Folks who have never shown the slightest bit of interest in epic fantasy novels are now striking up conversations with me because they know that this is my wheelhouse—and they want to talk Game of Thrones.
Making the leap from print to a visual medium isn’t always easy. Everyone has a favorite book adapted to film that, in his or her opinion, fell short of the original material (The Dresden Files on SyFy comes to mind). Not only has A Game of Thrones been adapted into a successful TV show, there’s also a graphic novel/comic book series by Daniel Abraham (author of The Dragon’s Path), illustrated by Tommy Patterson (Farscape). A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One brings together in hardcover the first six issues of the comic originally published by Dynamite Entertainment.
It should be noted that this is not an adaptation of the HBO show, which aims to do a 13-episode arc for each book in the Song of Fire and Ice series. Instead, Abraham and Patterson are working from the original novel to create 24 issues for each book. This gives them room to more closely follow events featured in Martin’s books.
All the characters are here—Starks, Lannisters and Targaryens. The book covers six issues of the comic, which translates to the first few chapters of the original novel, including Robert Baratheon summoning Ned Stark to King’s Landing to become Hand of the King; Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister making their way to The Wall, a massive structure protecting the Seven Kingdoms from the Others, the race of creatures long since thought extinct; and Viserys Targaryen arranging a marriage for his sister, Daenerys, to Khal Drogo, warlord of the Dothraki horse warriors.
If you are a fan, there are no real surprises here. You might notice little details, nuances and subtle plot points here that, understandably, the HBO show can’t cover in an hour-long program. In a comic, the author and illustrator have more room to explore the rich world Martin has created.
If you are looking for a visual alternative to the TV show, this might be the solution, as the physical interpretations of the characters are very different. I will warn you that this hardcover has the same nudity and sexual situations depicted, well, graphically (all pun intended), so it’s probably not for the very young. The makers did have to change Daenerys’ age, showing her as more mature because of U.S. child pornography laws.
The art is all right to begin with, but improves as the story progresses. I had some issues with the look of some characters in that they seem too similar in design. I suppose you could chalk that up to familial resemblances. But the facial expressions, in particular, seem to be the same from panel to panel, scene to scene. Almost as if the artist, Patterson, paints with a one-dimensional palette. But even with the odd bits of art standing out, I found the book enjoyable and experienced a bit of nostalgia for the first time I read A Game of Thrones.
This hardcover edition includes 240 pages, the covers from the original comics as full-page breaks, and a ton of extra material like character-development sketches, explanations of how the novel was adapted, and a new foreword by Martin himself that might be worth the cost of admission. If there is a hardcore Game of Thrones fan in your life, this would make a wonderful gift/addition to their collection.
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One is published by Bantam/Random House and is available now.
Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo-nominated Podcast producer/host who lives in Colorado, writes science fiction and fantasy, and can usually be found hanging out on his Twitter feed. His Functional Nerds and SF Signal weekly podcasts have both been nominated for Parsec awards, and the SF Signal podcast is nominated for a 2012 Hugo Award. He writes for atfmb.com, SF Signal and Functional Nerds. | <urn:uuid:e466c941-562f-4375-9b82-f0dfd7bb8d23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/game-thrones-graphic-form/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951978 | 966 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Updated: Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010, 9:43 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010, 9:43 AM CST
Menopause is a natural occurrence in the body, but it can cause hot flashes, night sweats, and even decrease a person’s sexual drive.
Dr. Quint Jardine says bio-identical hormone replacement therapy with pellet implants is effective hormone therapy in woman and men.
A pellet the size of a grain of rice is inserted into the patient’s upper buttocks region. The pellet is made up of either estradiol or testosterone.
The process takes just a few minutes in the office. The patient is put under a local anesthesia, the pellets are inserted and the small incision is closed with a steri-strip.
Dr. Jardine says the pellet releases a small dose of hormones for four to six months. The time release helps to avoid fluctuations of hormone levels seen with other methods of delivery.
Dr. Jardine says the feedback from patients has been overwhelmingly positive. Patients say they’ve gained relief of menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats. They also say they have an improved sex drive, libido, sexual response and performance.
Dr. J. Quint Jardine, MD
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Bio on Dr. Jardine:
Dr. Jardine received a chemistry degree from Vanderbilt University in 1977 and graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham in 1981. He completed an internship and residency in OB/GYN at Vanderbilt in 1985 and returned to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama to practice.
Dr. Jardine is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist practicing on the campus of Springhill Medical Center for 25 years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Jardine is also a member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. He served as Chairmen of the Board for Springhill Medical Center for 14 years. | <urn:uuid:2330ecdb-a00a-4092-b865-ded296271565> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/studio10/healthy_living/hormone-therapy-uses-pellets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936808 | 438 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Crew camps, housing proposed for ND reservationNEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — A Fort Worth, Texas company has proposed building three crew camps on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota.
NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — A Fort Worth, Texas company has proposed building three crew camps on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota.
Enspire Management Consulting Group, LLC, said revenues generated from the crew camps will go toward building about 210 single-family homes for Three Affiliated Tribes' members living on the reservation.
The Fort Berthold Reservation is in the heart of state's oil boom and in dire need of housing.
Michael Bay, managing member of Enspire, told The Minot Daily News (http://bit.ly/Ks7dxN) that, initially, the project was for the Four Bears Segment but it has been expanded to include New Town and Mandaree.
Bay said the revenue from the crew camps would generate the necessary capital to build the new subdivisions and houses at no cost to the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Enspire officials presented their project and a resolution to the tribal business council last month.
The council's executive committee unanimously approved the resolution, and the full tribal council is slated to vote on it Thursday.
Bay said the company hopes to begin construction on crew camps later this summer.
Information from: Minot Daily News, http://www.minotdailynews.com
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By Neil Aitchison
Thirty-two years ago Wolverhampton butcher Jack Taylor swapped cutting chops to be watched by a billion people as referee of the 1974 World Cup Final.
Jack Taylor gave a penalty as the game started for a foul on Cruyff
He was working in the family business when he took charge of the West Germany v Holland game, the last Englisman to referee a World Cup final.
He will be remembered for his decisions, including giving a penalty against Germany in the second minute.
He said it was the greatest moment of
his life and changed it forever.
Football was his life from an early age, growing up living above the butcher's shop next to Wolverhampton Wanderers' Molineux ground and playing as a schoolboy for Wolverhampton Town.
Jack Taylor was inducted into the Fifa hall of fame in 1999
During 33 years as a referee he was in charge of more then 1,000 games, including 100 internationals in 60 countries.
He was inducted into the hall of fame run by Fifa, the world governing body, in 1999.
"I literally did swap my butcher's apron for the whistle to take charge of the World Cup final," said Taylor, who now lives near Shifnal in Shropshire.
"But it was the norm. I had a job to pay the mortgage and another life refereeing around the world.
"It was a schoolboy dream to referee an FA Cup final.
"But the World Cup final, there's only one referee every four years that does that, it was the ultimate."
But despite a worldwide audience tuning in to the game in Munich, West Germany, he treated it as an ordinary game.
"It wasn't anything new to me. If you're in a game in the park with five people watching or at Manchester United you just accept it.
"Of course it was a vital game, but I focused on the match."
The game is perhaps the most famous in World Cup history in refereeing terms.
Taylor awarded two penalties. The first against the Germans, the host team, in the first 80 seconds, when Cruyff was fouled before the Germans had even touched the ball.
The second later in the first half against Holland. The Germans won the game 2-1.
"The first penalty wasn't difficult to call. All I remember is thinking it was a 100% correct decision.
"As the ball went on the spot the whole stadium went quiet.
"Beckenbauer, the German skipper, came to me and said 'Taylor, you're an Englishman'. The kick went in and there was complete euphoria."
The coin flipped at the start of the game
Controversy surrounds the second penalty, with many claiming the German Holzenbein dived.
"What really does annoy me is the suggestion that I gave it to even things up. It was a trip or an attempted trip and the laws of the game are that's a penalty."
He has travelled the world since. He spent two seasons refereeing in Brazil after closing the butchers, was commercial director at Wolverhampton Wanderers for four years from 1979 and has coached referees in South Africa and Saudi Arabia.
"It's 90 minutes that's changed my life, it's given me a fantastic life," said the 75-year-old, who was given the OBE in 1975 for services to football.
He blamed the rules laid down by Fifa for refereeing hitting the headlines in this year's competition.
"The refereeing has gone mad, and mad is a strong word. But it's all due to the dictates laid down by Fifa, referees are trying to comply with that.
"In my day it was me and 22 players, it was man management. Now referees have to comply with all the regulations."
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Tourism Summit Generates New Ideas to Bring More Visitors to New York State
Governor: NYS Tourism Equals Business
Albany, N.Y. (May 8, 2014) - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of New York’s largest tourism campaign in decades, committing nearly $60 million to grow the industry, create jobs and attract even more visitors to the Empire State.
The Governor’s announcement came at the conclusion of the New York State Tourism Summit, where hundreds of tourism experts gathered in Albany to discuss ideas and new ways to bring tourists to every corner of the state. As the fifth largest employment sector in New York, tourism supported 714,000 jobs and generated more than $29 billion in wages in 2012. One out of every 12 jobs in New York is tourism-related. The more than 202 million international and domestic visitors to the Empire State last year resulted in $57 billion in direct tourism spending, and generated $7 billion in state and local taxes.
“New York State has some of the most beautiful tourist attractions in the world. From the peaks of the Adirondacks to the beaches of Long Island, no matter what you’re looking for you can find it here,” Governor Cuomo said. “I want the world to know about these assets, too, and am committed to making the State a ‘must see’ global destination and creating new jobs and investments in New York.” Read more »
Family-friendly event on May 4 features lumberjack skills, woodworking demonstrations, tree walks, children’s activities, and Mill tours
Kids 12 and under admitted free
East Meredith, N.Y. - Carving, cutting, chopping, building, sawing, shaping, and finishing. The Woodsmen’s Festival at Hanford Mills Museum celebrates the many ways people use and work with wood. A perennial highlight of the Festival, which will be held on Saturday, May 4 from 10 am - 5 pm, is the lumberjack skills demonstrated by the Woodsmen’s Team from the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill. The men and women of the Woodsmen’s Team, who participate in intercollegiate competitions and practice five nights a week, will demonstrate cross-cut sawing, overhand and underhand chop, ax throwing, and other lumberjack skills. Read more »
Albany, N.Y. - As spring spreads its warmth across New York State, festivals and activities celebrating the state’s bounty, outdoor attractions and heritage are sprouting up. New York State ranks among the top wine, fruit, dairy and berry producing states in the nation, and farms, wineries and breweries across the state are increasingly opening their doors to visitors. Factor in its protected wilderness–more state-designated wilderness land than any state (except Alaska)-and New York State’s many pivotal roles in the history of the country, it’s easy to see why the season of awakening is filled with activities for visitors.
What follows is just a sampling of the many festivals and special events happening statewide this spring: Read more »
Book Now and Save on Spring Getaways to New York’s Adventure Capital
Greene County, N.Y. - Start planning your spring break or summer vacation to the Great Northern Catskills of Greene County now and treat your family to an all-inclusive, family-friendly resort experience. Just two hours from metro New York and 3 hours from Boston, the Catskills are the perfect drive-to family vacation destination, offering an unparalleled adventure close to home.
Catskills all-inclusive resorts offer a family travel tradition that dates back generations. Stay and play at one of the region’s affordable resorts and enjoy nightly, on-site entertainment, meals and so much more for one bundled package price. Guests can take advantage of all that the Catskills have to offer without opening their wallets or leaving the resort. Read more »
Clark family’s “Indian Blanket” design featured in newly released American Quilt Trail Redwork Kit
Neversink, N.Y. - Artwork on a Sullivan County barn has been chosen to represent New York in the new American Quilt Trail Redwork Kit by historic needlework designer The Posy Collection.
The “Indian Blanket” design on Jack Clark’s barn is also featured in the book “Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement” by Suzi Parron and Donna Sue Groves.
Barn quilts from 12 states were selected for the redwork kit, which features a form of needle art that uses red thread on natural-colored fabric. Read more »
50% off lift tickets for registered guests during their stay
Hunter, N.Y. - Hunter’s lodging properties will be wrapping up the 2012/2013 season with competitive room rates as low and $100 per night. Registered guests of the Kaatskill Mountain Club will also enjoy 50% off lift tickets during their stay. This sweet spring deal will extend now through the end of the 2012/2013 ski season. Read more »
Enjoy a Golf Adventure in the Catskill Mountains Just Hours from Major Metro Areas
Greene County, N.Y. - Stay and play in the Great Northern Catskills of Greene County this spring and sign up for a free Adventure Passport to receive buy one, get one green fees at participating golf courses located throughout Greene County. Just two hours north of New York City and three hours west of Boston, Catskills golf courses are easy to get to and affordable to play.
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Safety shouldn't be target of cutbacks during recession, expert says
In a recent address to Canadian safety leaders, C. Christopher Patton, president of the ASSE, warned that businesses could significantly harm productivity, efficiency and profitability by slashing safety budgets during difficult economic times.
"The economy struggles to recover, and employers are increasingly tight with budgets," said Patton. "Layoffs and cutbacks have affected many of our members."
However, Patton said safety, health and environmental employees are not expendable.
"Safety should not be the place to look for reductions," he said. "In fact, a company can have significant competitive advantage by continuing to invest in safety, health and environmental during the hard times. This will reinforce their positive company image so when the economy does improve, they will recover quickly."
Patton said that maintaining these systems during a struggling economy is critical to survival.
"In order for a safety manager to be successful today, they must understand how they contribute to their organization and how to sell the value-added proposition to their employer," he said. "This means understanding the business and the language that goes along with that. It means integrating safety into everyone's roles and responsibilities so that it is viewed as a value, not a task."
In addition, Patton said employers should not let their guard down as the Obama administration ramps up its workplace safety enforcement activities and its regulatory rulemaking.
"The U.S. has a relatively new administration and a new regulatory mind-set," he said. "Enforcement, strong enforcement, seems to be the message we hear. Our Occupational Safety and Health Administration will set the bar high and will help ensure all employers are providing a safe and healthful place of employment."
Good management systems and solid risk control programs will take employers far beyond compliance, Patton added.
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C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., Executive Director at the Women of Color Policy Research Network at NYU, discusses how women of color, including immigrants, are often cheated when it comes to wealth management and asset building.
Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) discusses how women, particularly women of color, were especially hard hit by the great recession and the need for economic development and asset building for women at the Economic Security for Women Conference.
Doua Thor, Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Research Action Center, discusses the role of the asset building and economic development for women of color refugees at the Economic Security for Women Conference.
Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever discusses the wealth of women as a crucial issue in U.S. economic recovery at the Economic Security for Women Conference.
The national mood is sour and it is not because Americans think that Social Security is driving the country into bankruptcy -- as many fiscal hawks in Congress and their parrots in the media would have you believe.
Maya Rockeymoore interviews Dr. William Spriggs, former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor and current Chief Economist at the AFL-CIO, discusses creating policies that promote economic development, create jobs and wealth and increase income security among all workers.
Maya Rockeymoore interviews Tiffany Moore of Venable about the economic policies of free trade and global economic development.
Maya Rockeymoore interviews Avis Jones, Research Director at the National Council of Negro Women, to discuss the status of black women and girls in communities faced with economic and racial disparities, and the role of social insurance reforms in helping to close the racial and gender gaps.
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The three major credit bureaus say hackers who have posted credit reports on stars and government officials in recent days did not breach secure databases but relied on personal information they collected elsewhere on the public figures.
Representatives for Experian, Equifax and TransUnion wrote in statements that are cooperating with authorities investigating the website that has posted private financial data of stars such as Jay-Z, Tiger Woods as well as the vice president and first lady Michelle Obama.
The companies said they were also working to minimize the financial damage to the victims. Experian spokesman Gerry Tschopp said the company had frozen credit files of those whose info has been posted online.
The FBI and Secret Service are investigating the site, which remained active Wednesday morning.
Equifax spokesman Tim Klein wrote in a statement that an initial investigation showed the hackers exploited a website designed to give consumers a free credit report. The three companies all state that the hackers used a wealth of personal information on their victims to impersonate them and generate the credit reports.
Although Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are included on the site, their credit reports have not been posted.
The site includes Social Security numbers, credit reports, addresses and phone numbers on most of its victims.
It bears an Internet suffix originally assigned to the former Soviet Union, and many of the pages feature unflattering pictures or taunting messages of the person featured. Others whose information is posted include pop star Britney Spears, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A counter on the website indicated that it had received more than 450,000 views since its existence was revealed on Monday.
Social Security numbers posted on Jay-Z, Mel Gibson and others matched records in public databases. Social Security numbers are not public records, although they used to be included in some court filings. Many courts require the information be redacted from filings since the numbers can be used to steal a person's identity and open credit accounts in their name.
Online security expert Marc Maiffret said sensitive information can often be gleaned from a single database, but the varied nature of the people targeted made the site's motives less clear.
Maiffret, the chief technology officer for Carlsbad, Calif.-based security firm BeyondTrust, said the site contained information that, if accurate, could be very damaging to its
"Pretty much everything comes falling down once you have a Social Security number," he said. "Once somebody has that, the person has the keys to everything."
The information could be used to shut down accounts and utilities, although Maiffret said celebrities and government officials have more resources to protect themselves and their financial companies will likely be guarding their accounts since the site's postings.
Average consumers should consider adding a second password to their accounts to protect against hackers who have access to their Social Security numbers and other financial information.
Los Angeles police also are investigating, trying to determine how information was obtained, including the address and credit report of Police Chief Charlie Beck.
Beck told reporters Tuesday that detectives would work to bring anyone responsible for posting the info online to justice.
"We will vigorously pursue the individuals that have made me a victim and have made a number of other people that are in the public eye victims," he said.
Beck acknowledged that many hackers operate outside the United States but said there is often a connection stateside that can lead to prosecutions.
Frank Preciado, assistant officer in charge at the LAPD online section, said the postings are illegal. He said the information on the police chief was likely taken from what is supposed to be a secure database of city employees.
The site's page on Beck includes a reference to former officer Christopher Dorner, who apparently committed suicide after he killed four people during a multi-day rampage. Beck's page included the message "YouCantCornerTheDorner" and an image of a woman protesting police corruption.
Associated Press Writer Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles and White House Correspondent Julie Pace and writer Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.
Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP
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How To Make Sure You
Don't Miss The Really
Good Stuff On
Your Twitter Feed
Two months ago I got on Twitter and have discovered what many users of that social media already know: it doesn't take long before you are following 100's of people and the feed is moving so fast you don't have time to keep up.
Take me for example. I'm only following 482 people right now. Yet since I started this post by typing the headline and this far into the body text, look how many tweets are now waiting in my feed:
For a long time I'd just click on the 'new Tweets' and scroll down and try to find where I'd left off reading from before. I've quickly discovered once you get past following around 200 people this is essentially impossible
Here's a method I have come up with to make sure that I don't miss anything important. And you don't need a program like Tweetdeck to do it.
First, pick out about 20 people from your 'Following' list who's tweets you absolutely never want to miss.
In your browser (I'm using Google Chrome) create a new folder on your bookmark bar and label it 'Twitter'. Go through your Following list, open up the timeline for each of these 20 Must See people, and bookmark them one at a time into the 'Twitter' folder.
Now open up Twitter itself, in 2 separate tab windows. In one window, have your main feed where you see the tweets from everybody you are following. In the 2nd tab where Twitter is open, click on 'Connect' so you only see Tweets where other users interact with you.
Now start opening up new tabs and in each new tab go to your Twitter bookmark folder and open up one of your 'Must Follow' users.
Keep going until you've opened them all up.
When they are all open in separate tabs, go back to your main feed. As users in your Must Follow tabs make tweets, you will see numbers begin to show up on the tab menu showing you how many new tweets they've made.
Now you're free to read your timeline, and no matter how fast it goes, the tweets you really don't want to miss are being stored in the other tabs.
See the (2) in front of Adam Baldwin's name there? That means since I opened his Twitter page in that new tab window he's made 2 new tweets. Jammie Wearing Fool on the far right has made 1.
There's no chance a Tweet from one of your Must Follows will sneak by you now. They are all being stored in the other tab windows.
In the time it took me to write this post, over 270 new tweets came through my main Twitter feed. But that's OK because I have my 'Must Follow' tab windows up and I know who among my 'Must Follows' has been tweeting & how active they've been, and to see what they've been saying all I have to do is click on their tab window and view the new tweets. No more scrolling down, down, down, and further down vainly trying to see if I've missed anything. | <urn:uuid:3600fd59-c41b-4957-9b8c-ccefd1765bfe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://drawandstrike.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-make-sure-you-dont-miss-really.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961406 | 651 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Archive for the ‘Guest Contributor’ Category
When we say something is a good value in the wine business we’re talking about wines that could be $3- $3,000 a bottle, due to the relativity of that value in comparison with wines of the same quality, ilk, style, demand and score.
I have the perfect place here in Provence. It’s close to Avignon and not far from Chateauneuf du Pape. The restaurant is located in their home. You can enjoy the pleasures of Provencal, gourmet cuisine with a great selection of Southern Rhone wine!
Great tips of Kosher wines for the holidays from Bordeaux, California , Israel and other wine producing appellations.
2012 Napa wines are well structured, with good levels of acidity providing freshness and color stability. Based upon on all of these characteristics, we expect greatness for the 2012 Napa Valley vintage!
Philippe Cambie shares two decades of tasting notes from old vintages of Chateau Cabrieres. And even better, he provides some great winter ideas for pairing old Chateauneuf du Pape as well!
The La Crau sector has been particularly successful. I am very happy to present the wines. The more I taste of 2012 Chateauneuf du Pape, the more I like it!
The idea that the moon plays a role in planting is also a tradition that stretches back to the ancient Egyptians and was used for over 3,000 years. It is only because of the Victorians that we have dismissed this idea as being wrong.
2011 German Wines will be forever known as a wine drinkers vintage, which should be taken as great news for fans of German wines!
Charles Massoud of Paumanok vineyards in New York makes the case for machine harvesting grapes for wine.
Masi Tupungato experiments with the Apassimento technique on Malbec and Pinot Grigio. The Apassimento method uses grapes that, after harvesting, have been dried on straw mats to concentrates flavors, aromas and sugar, resulting in a more intensely flavoured wine. | <urn:uuid:2999c95d-f842-48d7-b89a-ed91c25a355f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/category/guest-contributor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937978 | 453 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom
Introductory note and chapters 6–12. Each title is a chapter.
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom was written by leafing through Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary choosing words at random by process of alexia, not as mental disorder but word-blindness: trance-like stream overriding meaning, choice, and inhibition. The intention to bring about an unknown future was offset by this action of alexia making as it happens sensual exquisite corpses—leading to the discovery that there isn’t any future, isn’t even any present. Such an exquisite corpse, read, is in an instant yet not even in ‘a present.’ Outside’s events unite gluing to each other a single object. That which had already existed is by chance.
The exquisite corpses are physical as if one such is flesh-butterfly-other-occurrences (real-time events such as the exploding of Mumbai), each event-cluster internally hybrid rather than being separate presentation as idea. That is, the writing is not the idea of the whole framework of occurrences after without its existence ever being.
That which had already existed is by chance: not only includes events in real-time but visual scenes existing before the writing was created—Jess’s collages, Kiki Smith’s prints, a painting by Masami Teraoka. These are not illustrations of the writing, nor are they the inspirations or the subjects of the writing; rather, the visual images were later (after writing) linked to passages of text that show the same reality, in randomly discovered composite actions (in the case of Jess’s collages), thus seen in the outside. Teraoka’s painting of an octopus sucking a woman’s front is linked to the same event in the text; a memory of his image was simultaneous at the instant of writing the first passage that has this image: seeing our memories making the present.
Out of which the silent dactylology from emerald wastes little girls crossing the roads arriving the green meadows full they do the cakewalk and are celebrated with cakes for their most intricate steps. Either reinventing or reading. Those arriving cakewalk everywhere others having perished or escaping locked dorms for the workers in mines and factories live in camps by cities edges. Some live in trees by the stream of girls stretched lying on the limbs at night girls pull plums from the trees “Give them to us” the Secretary had said (“rather than kill them,” was her meaning), announcing the opening of a single orphanage the first to be for the millions the female infants and children killed each year so obviously there’s overflow of the dazzling white streak small white wolfdog wolfwhitedog streamer-aura of them in the sky above floats. Outside the one orphanage mothers with caked breast having turned them in the other little girls are harnessed and given dog-tags, those not in the orphanage who are on floats through the streets. Have the dog-tags. The little white wolfdog Distaffer’s avatar is that of many children who play the shape of it left in the air as their (each child’s) shape is left there many are above the rose horizon Venus is resting red and brown crisp curled huge flowing leaves millions deterge by Venus resting that fallen from trees hurl vomiting the blue sky of the car flowing toward the leaves (flying that vomit the car’s blue sky coming hurtling to them) through the coursing flow of red-brown leaves a man skateboards crossing toward/and the skateboarder is before the windshield of the car’s flow overflow elation at brim or rim without horizon color or sides. The powder monkey jockey finds the orphan living with her in a tree before she’s lost again. To each other the floats move slowly parade yet the white wolfdog streaks playing at once each as briefly each shape has a manifestation in the rose and blue. Little wolfwhitedog having learned this like variation like touchless 4 blue weather is dysaphia. without senses
“Float” is paired with Jess Collin’s collage “Midday Forfit: Feignting Spell II [Spring]”, 1971
The notion of their being as young in its openness that all the while distich contained ending only in one alive at the same time seeing in them their reactionary being curtailing the Collective—none—the reactionary through distichous bright green leaves sees from the perspective of the eternal child. ‘Then’ becomes the subject of the other’s hate, no more than everyone.
The soft green meadows composed new blades of grass that rose. That rose grew in the midst of the baby blue sky growing from the meadow a bugout walking night then midst the meadow by the time a drone shoots over operated from outside soldier on its way to kill some people on the road they’re conjectured as terrorists by evidence not yet heard or assembled yet the cattle in the meadow’s swatch of floating black they are that, are in blackness as crowd and not evening or light while sky there undulant fever all the cattle passing as by line-of-sight looking at each other but no contagium other than their being alive there pass contagious abortion between them and begin to spontaneously abort the slick forms. The bugout doesn’t produce. Everything does? Is the katabatic wind that flowing downhill coming from the meadow of soft green—inferior vision in a dream reading, a man correcting oneself dreamer a woman reading as luminous green words appear—so the reader has to consider himself to be a woman fetuses of the cattle floating before their eyes part of them so that knitted to them permanently as disseminating in the wind in blades of grass the fetuses snagged beside them. Theogony, cattle not dictating ever hear and turn in the wind. A Dicktest named for G. F. Dick who devised it was for scarlet fever though, useless to them. The daughter the deb having learned to spit out others become Artemis is in hard joyous bounding a gentle deer kite by her side going into the war-torn regions. The reader who’d had the dream in green had been a brownie for only a short time when a little girl, but the only photo of her in her brownie uniform the bugout had not run retreated from combat or been in it yet is now permanently bound to the cabbagy fetuses of cattle as kites oar machine drones in a sort of dielectric at once a dielectric loss similar to—and the woman as it—the butterfly blood-reef (Chrysanthemum dyslogia), wrath deity/ Chrysanthemum does not see that she is separate from the butterfly blood-reef—ever, at any time.
The butterfly blood-reef had been—is—the woman encased in the whirring red chrysanthemum in being it can never be peeled away or pried out of her or from it for it is her is death-fan the purple forest creating limbs outside and plants doing so—dysphoria, she’s by being opposite of creating—its pair at once. Isn’t a dream though eminent rather fact emittance of her character—where there is no fate except people’s character, a person’s fate is their character emission nebula already in place? no, one resists this—no one, a sort of delay screen phosphorescent one does not deterge as or senses causal/while delay has the same effect. The horse rearing also is the petaline red Chrysanthemum whirring emergent for an instant. Insides coincide. Insects the emerald green crickets at night sing before the tramontana wind.
The Distaffer had come down gently (the plane) in the black flowers in black beds landing the plane lightly where all around lines of the orphan girls the main industry migrating coming up through holes of the underground petroleum and lines of them crossing the vast black beds could/can be seen. She had deposited her cargo/she deposits her cargo then, undetected by the scouts the jets.
Straying from her route in cloud beds the time she’s detected by the jets come close almost touching her flying plane flying above and below two zoom as a pair fire on her plane. The time over the ocean she sinks coming in the legs the center that hump of the avatar pink octopus spreads onto her sucking her middle the pudendum the girls separate slowly swim beside fins in the ocean. The fins glide beside them sunlight glancing off of the fins everywhere the lines of swimming girls go forward unseen from above in the sun [unseen by the jets their/jets and girls on the surface almost touching and blinded by it] giving her head air lying on the bed of sunlit waves the hump like cephalate on her front coming the jets go over blind as they’re reflected in the glints of waves.
“The” (if given permission) is paired with Masami Teraoka’s woodblock print titled “Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven.”
Man ruffled in wind and motion of his back seeming to be flying forward of blown back (away) ascending blackened backlit in halo of the illumined high sun it is seen it’s his front moving forward ruffling descending to light on the ground angelic. WHOK! of the ball from him slamming as he lights on the court again. Birds speaking come to one where zooms the small white wolf-dog in the air comes up. One first dreamed petting it now is. So it’s back wards and illumined.
Author of 30 books of poetry, poem-plays, fiction, and criticism, Leslie Scalapino’s most recent books include Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night published by Green Integer in 2007, It’s go in horizontal/Selected Poems 1974-2006 published by UC Press, Berkeley in 2008, and Floats Horse Floats or Horse Flows, by Starcherone Press, 2010.
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Discover the wonderful South-West.
The South West Region of Western Australia faces the Indian and Southern Oceans and is only two hours drive from the State capital, Perth. The region covers an area of 23,970 square kilometres and has a typically Mediterranean climate with dry summer months and a high rainfall in winter.
It is famous for its magnificent Karri, Jarrah and Tuart trees, unique cave systems, rivers, wetlands and spectacular coastlines and estuaries. Currently more than 141,000 people live here and by 2021 it is anticipated that 175,000 people will make this beautiful part of the world their home.
No wonder the rest of Australia is moving here.
Attracted by the great climate, affordable housing, magnificent natural environment and well-developed health and educational facilities, more and more people are choosing to live in the South-West.
Many enjoy an outdoor life and like to go hiking through the majestic forests, take their children to one of the many splendid and safe beaches or to go fishing.
Some prefer a tour through the world famous wine regions and summer nights are ideal for having friends visit for an outdoor barbecue.
And for those who enjoy sport, there are high-quality golf courses, yacht clubs, surfing beaches, international sports venues, race tracks, swimming pools and a great deal more.
It’s a wonderful place in which to invest and do business.
The South-West region of Western Australia has the State’s most diverse economy which generates around $8 billion annually.
Since 2002 the Region’s economy has been growing at an average of 10 per cent per year.
The South-West derives much of its wealth from a healthy mining sector (mineral extraction, mineral processing and mineral manufacturing).
Beyond this there’s substantial employment in a range of industries including forestry, agriculture, tourism, retail, construction and fishing.
The South West Development Commission even has a team in place to facilitate the migration of skilled labour to the booming Region.
The South West is also world renowned for its premium wine industry and is the State’s most popular tourist destination for local, national and international visitors.
There are millions of dollars worth of major projects under construction and billions of dollars worth under consideration in Australia’s South West.
Recently completed projects include the $250 million expansion of the Worsley alumina refinery near Collie as well as the newly built $260 million gas-fired power station at Kemerton.
There are many projects under consideration, from large-scale property developments, to new hotels, coal-fired power stations and new road systems.
There are many reasons why people choose to do business here.
The South West is close to Perth and the highly efficient import-export port of Bunbury.
It boasts well-established supporting infrastructure, including water, power, gas, telecommunications, road, rail and port facilities.
Moreover, it has a growing population, a highly skilled workforce, an abundance of natural resources, significant coal and gas reserves and a high-quality regional capability to service industry.
And as if that weren’t enough, the Region offers its envied lifestyle and low-cost housing, land and labour costs.
The Region is linked by modern bitumen-sealed roads and highways with the transit time from Bunbury to Perth only two hours by road.
Residents enjoy excellent telecommunications, with broadband Internet services available in many smaller regional centres.
Busselton is home to the main regional airport and airstrips for light aircraft are located at Bunbury, Margaret River, Manjimup, Collie and Boyup Brook.
A reliable passenger train service runs between the State capital, Perth, and the city of Bunbury, and there are also regular bus services throughout the region.
What’s more, there are many suitable light and heavy industrial areas in the South West.
A rich cultural heritage dating back 38,000 years.
The South West offers a rich and fascinating mix of cultural experiences.
The Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre hosts many substantial events.
Leeuwin Estate Winery has its internationally recognised concert series.
And there are music festivals in Bridgetown and Boyup Brook, a Wine Festival in Margaret River and other festivals from Balingup and Manjimup to Pemberton and Nannup.
The region is also home to many artisans and galleries and a thriving arts industry.
The South West has a rich history of Aboriginal occupation dating back to around 38,000 years ago.
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WHEN President Nicolas Sarkozy was mulling over a reshuffle of his government last autumn and thinking of replacing his prime minister, one name that almost never surfaced was that of Christine Lagarde. To outsiders, this might seem surprising. France's first female finance minister, and its longest-serving since 1974, has made a name in international circles as a widely respected and skilled professional. But there is something about her straight-talking, business-like approach that has never been fully appreciated by the score-settling, rumour-mongering world of French politics. It took her growing reputation abroad to finally win her respect at home.
This mix of Frenchness and internationalism is very much Ms Lagarde's hallmark, and can be a source of tension. When she stepped off the plane from Chicago, where she was global president of Baker & McKenzie, a law firm, to join the government under President Jacques Chirac in 2005, almost her first public comment was to criticise the rigidity of France's labour market. The French were horrified; Ms Lagarde carefully rephrased her thoughts, and an early lesson was learned about how far it is possible to bring economically liberal ideas into the French political debate.
Indeed, appointed finance minister in 2007 by Mr Sarkozy, Ms Lagarde has not hesitated to defend what she considers to be in French interests, such as the regulation of hedge funds or an international tax on financial transactions. This leads some commentators to wonder what her real convictions are, and whether she has sacrificed her more market-friendly instincts in order to forge a political career in statist France. Yet she has also quietly got on with some liberalising reforms. While dutifully pushing some of Mr Sarkozy's dafter ideas abroad, she has also done a fair amount to try to inject more competition into the French economy (such as strengthening the anti-trust watchdog), and to boost public-sector efficiency (such as merging the job-placement and unemployment-benefit agencies).
Ms Lagarde's main strengths are a mix of hard-working professionalism, an appetite for technical detail, and an ability to get her way with charm rather than bullying. She often seems more at ease at global summits than on the benches of the unruly French National Assembly. It is hard to find anybody who has worked for her in France over the years who has a bad word to say about her. As a teenager, she was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team, and she likes to joke that this taught her not only teamwork and self-discipline, but also how to hold her breath. Her quick wit, in fluent English as well as French, even managed to win over Jon Stewart when she appeared on the Daily Show, bearing a French beret as a gift. In the past she has said that there was “too much testosterone” in high-powered circles, a comment that now looks prescient.
At a news conference on May 25th, Ms Lagarde conceded that being European was not necessarily an asset for a candidate to run the IMF, but hoped that it would not be regarded as a handicap either. Her central role in dealing with the euro-zone debt crises, during which she has been a consistent advocate of bailing out debt-ridden governments, could put her in a potentially awkward position at the fund. More worrying for the French, there is an outstanding legal inquiry hanging over her.
A public prosecutor is investigating whether there is any ground for a full inquiry into a decision Ms Lagarde made as finance minister linked to a long-running damages case brought against the state by Bernard Tapie, a French tycoon. She ruled that it should be taken out of the courts and settled through an arbitration panel. As a result, Mr Tapie was awarded more than €200m ($280m) in damages. Ms Lagarde said today that she has a “clear conscience” over the referral. Her advisers say that she followed procedure, and was acting in taxpayers' interests, as the court case was costing public money every year that it went unsettled. But the timing, in the wake of the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is unfortunate. Right now, the French can ill-afford even the whiff of impropriety. | <urn:uuid:07e5ba99-6cc8-47b6-9e79-c58ba9225847> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/comment/927331 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983473 | 874 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Students who attend the EOP Summer Transition Program find their transition to college much smoother and more successful.
- Mandatory for all First-time EOP Freshmen
- 2-3 day program which occurs before the campus Freshmen Orientation Program.
- Social and Cultural programming provided.
Goals of the EOP Summer Transition Program include:
- Students will become familiar with college academic and social expectations, school policies, student services and learning resources of SUNY Delhi.
- Students will be provided with a variety of arenas to actively interact with faculty, staff, student and community members both in and out of the classroom setting.
- Students will establish new relationships, make new friends and be introduced to a diverse campus community.
- Students will discuss the importance of accountability, responsibility and positive citizenship at SUNY Delhi and beyond.
- Students will be involved with the educational, cultural and social activities that will enhance their quality of life in a rural college community. | <urn:uuid:f89e3550-2835-447d-9162-dc0670348216> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.delhi.edu/academics/learning_center/eop/summer_college.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937564 | 196 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Forced retirement appeal fails
A Supreme Court ruling in a key direct age discrimination case is a reminder to employers that a worker’s age should not be “shorthand” on which to base their ability to do their job, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
In the ruling, delivered on 25 April, the court dismissed an appeal by solicitor Leslie Seldon, a partner in theKentlaw firm of Clarkson, Wright and Jakes, who was forced to retire when he reached the age of 65 in 2006.
At the time, the default retirement age (DRA) of 65 still existed – it was scrapped in October 2011 – but as a partner rather than an employee, this did not apply to Mr Seldon. However, 65 had been agreed in the firm’s partnership agreement as the mandatory retirement age.
Mr Seldon – now 71 and still working as a notary – took his case to an Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal and, after losing in all three, to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled that the retiring of partners enabled the firm to retain younger solicitors who might otherwise go elsewhere by opening up partnership opportunities and was a “legitimate” aim of the partnership.
However, the court sent the case back to the Employment Tribunal “to consider whether the choice of a mandatory age of 65 was a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aims of the partnership”.
John Wadham from the EHRC, which is funding and running Mr Seldon’s case, said it was a reminder to employers “that a worker’s age is not shorthand for their competence and should never be used in that way”.
He added: “Every employer must think carefully about whether it really needs to have a policy that directly or indirectly discriminates against people based on their age. The court has made it clear that such policies must be justified on a case by case basis.”
Barrister Caspar Glyn QC commented: “Any employer which still has a policy of compulsory retirement would be well advised to review this in the light of the court’s remarks.”
Employers may still be able to retire employees lawfully at a set age provided that the retirement age can be objectively justified “as a proportionate response to a legitimate aim”.
According to guidance from employment relations specialist Acas, employers would need to justify such a policy by ensuring that the retirement age meets the legitimate aim test, for instance in workforce planning (the need for business to recruit, retain and provide promotion opportunities and effectively manage succession) or the health and safety of individual employees, their colleagues and the general public. | <urn:uuid:7a618411-0fda-4d76-a56b-e3a0c4ee8c45> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.haslers.com/1824-forced-retirement-appeal-fails/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975057 | 565 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Having a baby can be rough on your body, any woman who has been through labor and delivery (either vaginal or c-section) will agree with that. Between the hormones, the tearing and inevitable stitches, hemorrhoids, and lack of sleep you will find it takes you a while to get back on your feet. Taking the time to rest and recover is important. However, being the mother to a helpless little newborn means spending a lot of time taking care of their needs and a lot of time forgetting about your own needs. Even though there is something so much more important to think about remember to take the time to think about yourself, especially in those first few weeks postpartum.
Although, (thankfully) postpartum complications are rare they do occur. Being on top of things and aware of what is going on with your body is important. Knowing when things seem amiss and when you should be giving your doctor are a call will help make sure you don’t ignore a troublesome and potentially dangerous complication. I experienced my own postpartum complication. About a week after my daughter was born I hemorraged and at first I didn’t really think anything of the extra bleeding because I was too busy enjoying my daughter and taking care of her. I eventually had to call my doctor in the wee hours of the morning when things got progressively worse. I wish I had been paying closer attention and called earlier in the day, but luckily things worked out well anyway.
Here are some of the signs to look for. You should give your doctor a call if:
- Your bleeding does not slow down and stays bright red after the first few days.
- Heavy bleeding begins again after slowing down.
- You begin passing blood clots bigger than a quarter.
- You develop a fever as it could be a sign that you have developed an infection.
- Your afterpains get worse instead of better.
- You have persistent pain anywhere in your abdomen or pelvis.
- You have worsen pain, swelling, redness or discharge at your c-section incision site.
- You have worsen pain, a foul-smelling odor, discharge, or swelling around your episiotomy.
- You have severe or persistent headaches.
- You have severe or persistent vomitting.
- You are feeling extreme sadness or depression or have thoughts of harming your baby.
Postpartum complications are rare but they do occur. If you are at all worried about something you are experiencing call your doctor. Before you leave the hospital your doctor will talk to you about your specific situation and what to watch out for (if they don’t, ask). | <urn:uuid:53afef98-deb8-45f8-b414-a4d453e9d21d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.letstalkbabies.com/tag/postpartum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961019 | 545 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Penn States Walk for Prevention has help of Charlestons Darkness to Light
Penn State students James Bodenheimer, Lance Chappelle and David Lorenz stood together this summer between campus storms, the horrific Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal that rocked State College for most of the 2011-2012 school year and fallout they expected from an awkward football season.
Iconic head coach Joe Paterno was fired and died before Sandusky, his former defensive coordinator, was convicted of sexually assaulting eight boys. Mangled childhoods and wrecked legacies tarnished Penn State.
“Our school had taken some tough hits,” said Bodenheimer, a senior from New Canaan, Conn. “We decided we had to do something.”
So they did what smart kids at a great university do; they studied.
“We researched a lot, looking for the best child abuse awareness organization we could find,” Bodenheimer said by phone from State College. “Ideally, we would have wanted one a little closer to home but we kept coming back to Darkness to Light as a great match.”
They picked the Charleston non-profit, founded in 2000 with the aim of reducing child sexual abuse through awareness and prevention training programs.
Like a flower blooming out of volcanic ash, the resulting Walk for Prevention is scheduled for Sunday at Penn State. Funds raised will go to help child abuse prevention training programs on campus and elsewhere in Pennsylvania (make donations at www.d2l.org/psuwalk).
“You see that the culture of Penn State students is ‘It’s my responsibility to make a difference,’ ” said Darkness to Light’s Doug Warner.
It goes beyond current students. Penn State alums living in the Charleston area had their own call-to-action meeting last winter at Muse restaurant on Society Street. A group of 60 combined to raise $10,000 for Darkness to Light training programs in the Lowcountry, and a company wishing to remain anonymous matched the donation.
“You can’t change what has happened or what is said about the university, but I think most Penn State alumni and students want to make sure there are other things said about them in addressing this issue,” said Paul Vannatta, a 39-year-old Penn State graduate and Darkness to Light volunteer who manages a Merrill Lynch office in Charleston. “We will have an ongoing effort to bring light to this issue of child abuse, and it’s really a societal issue.”
We know, all too well.
“Locally we had issues with schools here, too,” Vanatta said, referring to Skip ReVille, a former coach, teacher and Bible study leader convicted in June of molesting 23 boys in the Lowcountry. “I think locally we understand this is not just a Penn State problem but a problem all over.”
It would be nice if The Citadel, Pinewood Prep, Moultrie Middle School and some of the other places ReVille worked or coached came together for child abuse prevention fundraisers in this heartwarming Penn State spirit.
Not running away
Vannatta graduated from Penn State in 1995. He enjoyed a 1994 season in which the Nittany Lions went undefeated and finished No. 2 nationally. Kerry Collins, Ki-Jana Carter, Bobby Engram and Kyle Brady led the way. Vannatta is proud of the “consistent messaging” on and off the field at Penn State this season, including helmet stickers to support victims of child abuse.
The Walk for Prevention will “not be the biggest thing ever,” Bodenheimer said.
But it’s already one of the best stories of the 2012 college football season, impactful and enduring well beyond results on a scoreboard.
“We’ve learned one thing here and that’s that you don’t run from anything,” Bodenheimer said. “A terrible thing happened and we’re trying to do something for the people who are hurt by this and, at the same time, show people what we’re about. We’re not sitting here just wishing all this would go away; we’re going to try to do something to help.”
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POSTVILLE IMMIGRATION RAID - 5 YEARS LATER
On Friday, May 10, 2013 a gathering commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Postville, Iowa immigration raid will take place in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The purpose of the event is to remember the 389 persons who were arrested on May 12, 2008, to reconcile with those who contributed to the injustices, and to advocate for the reform of immigration policies. JCUA was very involved in the efforts five years ago and we continue to be committed to worker and immigrant justice.
The event will begin at noon with a remembrance ritual in front of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, 111 7th Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids.
A “Walk for Justice” will follow at approximately 12:20 p.m. to Immaculate Conception Church, 857 3rd Ave. SE. Here an interfaith prayer for reconciliation and a call for reform of our immigration policies will take place around 1:00 p.m. The assembly is being planned by a wide coalition of those involved in the response to the raid as well as those affected. It will include immigrants who were part of the 2008 raid, church representatives who ministered to the immigrants and their families, lawyers who saw the injustice of the system, as well as others who are concerned about immigration reform.
The remembrance ritual is being held in front of the federal courthouse because of the court’s role in the raid and its significance to the ongoing national conversation about immigration. Postville was one of the largest raids in American history and it devastated families and ripped an entire community apart. We now must move forward to make sure Congress takes the necessary action to reform our immigration system—making sure we provide a path to citizenship, protect workers and end raids.
More information is at www.lirs/postville-anniversary.
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So we wondered what he thought of Mayor Steve Bach's downtown revitalization program. The program will soon bring us downtown surveillance cameras, could lead to a limited panhandling ban, and might result in smoking ban in Acacia Park.
Many of the steps are directly aimed at reducing the "riff-raff" downtown, which includes many homeless people. But what about that smoking ban in Acacia? Isn't that just aimed at smokers of all stripes?
Handen says that personally, he'd love to see smoking banned just about everywhere; he hates the smell of smoke, and the litter caused by butts. But he does think a ban in Acacia serves another purpose.
"I think people are trying to make the downtown not hospitable to poor people and they try to do it, I think, in a very nice way," he says. "... No smoking in the park, part of me says that would be a nice thing, because I don't want there to be smoking anywhere. But I do think it's a veiled way of getting homeless out of there."
Handen says that overall, he's willing to give Bach's new plan for downtown, and for the homeless, "a shot." But he notes that many other plans to end homelessness have come and gone, and many of the ideas proposed by Bach are old ones that didn't work the first time around. (The Marian House soup kitchen, for instance, was at one time planned to sit next to the city's homeless shelter, but the plan was ditched after an outcry from neighbors.)
Handen says the real way to help the homeless is to meet needs that aren't being addressed: mental health care, housing for people leaving prison, and jobs. But he's also quick to acknowledge that homeless populations tend to follow resources, so if the city provides more resources, it may end up with more homeless people.
In short, it's a tricky issue. | <urn:uuid:e559ddfd-b314-456d-8d95-60720ca14539> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.csindy.com/IndyBlog/archives/2012/10/12/lifting-the-veil-on-an-acacia-park-smoking-ban&show=comments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982748 | 397 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Benefits of Knee Replacement, cost in Mexico is considerably lower, fluent in English, friendly staff, Hospital staff members, hospitals in Tijuana, internationally trained, Knee Replacement, low costs, Mexico, physical therapy, renowned surgeons, Tijuana, Total Knee Replacement Surgery
Total Knee Replacement Surgery – Severe arthritis of the knee causing significant life altering pain or poor function is the main reason to have your knee replaced with a metal/polyethylene prosthetic. Knee replacement surgery is considered elective, meaning you can live without the surgery. Therefore you must understand all of the significant risks and benefits before opting for surgery.
If you’re considering a knee replacement in Tijuana, Mexico, you might initially be enticed solely by reports of low costs. After all, if you’re opting for either partial or total knee surgery in Mexico you can generally save between 30%-40% when compared with countries such as the USA and Canada. However, the cost of knee replacement in Mexico isn’t the only attractive feature of selecting this choice when making your surgery decisions. Good facilities, high standards of care and the option of a post-surgery vacation all make it an appealing proposition.
Benefits of Knee Replacement in Tijuana, Mexico
- The biggest benefit for many is that knee surgery cost in Mexico is considerably lower than in most of the developed world. This is not due to a decline in standards, but mainly because of a lower cost of living.
- There are a number of hospitals in Tijuana, Mexico which offer state of the art facilities, internationally trained and renowned surgeons and friendly staff. Many can be researched prior to your visit so that you can ensure the quality of care that you require.
- Hospital staff members are usually fluent in English and therefore there should be no need to worry about communication during your stay.
- Waiting lists tend to be considerably shorter than countries such as the UK, USA and Canada. This is a significant concern for people wishing to alleviate their condition as quickly as possible.
- Transport links to Tijuana are good. There is an International Airport which is a short distance from the downtown area – buses or authorized taxis are available to make the trip. Tijuana is also at a reasonable distance from the Californian border and is less than 20 miles from downtown San Diego.
- If you have the time and the inclination, Tijuana makes an excellent holiday destination. Following your surgery, you might like to check out the diverse cuisine, sites of historic interest and bustling markets.
- Recovering from a total knee replacement should take between 3-7 days and generally requires physiotherapy in the weeks that follow. If you require bilateral knee replacement in Mexico, surgery is either carried out on both knees at once or individually on different days. Check whether recuperation time is included in your quotation price.
- During your initial recuperation period, movement may be challenging so you might want to bring a companion for assistance. In addition, you may also require walking aids such as sticks, crutches or a walking frame.
- As with any procedure, there are certain risks associated with treatment. Therefore, if you decide to proceed with arthritis knee surgery in Mexico, you should discuss this fully with your surgeon.
- When you’re considering your surgery, research is critical. There are numerous facilities and surgeons who can carry out your knee surgery in Mexico; patient experience may offer you some useful insight into what to expect. | <urn:uuid:73ebab0b-e9ed-4655-a0fe-f95718957360> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://medtravelmexico.com/tag/tijuana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945135 | 711 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Extended family vacations, with their rich mix of boredom, frustration, and prison-like social entrapment, become laboratories of game innovation. From a sleep-deprived Christmas condo in Maui, I present to you:
NUMBER OF PLAYERS
Standard play: 2
Tournament play: 3 - Infinite
2 identical pillows
1 suburban-style kitchen island
- Players take their positions on opposite sides of the circular course.
- Each player balances a pillow on their head. For the duration of the game they may not again touch the pillow with their hands.
- Play begins as soon as one player begins walking (“Sumo-style”).
- Players move clockwise around the course.
WINNING THE GAME
The game ends when one player catches up to and touches the other, or when the pillow falls off a player’s head.
There are two known strategies, and infinite unknown strategies:
- Go fast and try to catch the other guy. The aggresive player will attempt to catch up to the other, focusing on moving as quickly as possible. This strategy relies upon SPEED.
- Pillow management. This more defensive policy focuses upon preservation of a balanced pillow. The player circles just quickly enough to avoid the other. This strategy relies upon ENDURANCE.
Better players may challenge less experienced onces by using a smaller pillow. Additionally, children may also compete against adults using the same variable-pillow-size approach. Very small children should not play, as they are likely to be killed. | <urn:uuid:b027300d-036d-4029-8b81-d651f051a184> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yourmonkeycalled.com/post/56089253/pillowdrome-extended-family-vacations-with-their | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932837 | 322 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Released: November 3, 2002
House Voting Intentions Knotted, National Trend Not Apparent
44% Republican, 46% Democratic Final Generic Ballot Measure
About this Survey
About this Survey and its Methodology
The survey results are based on 2,113 telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates from a nationwide sample of the voting age population, from Wednesday evening, Oct. 30, through Saturday evening, Nov.2, 2002. For results based on the total sample (N=2,113), there is 95% confidence that the error attributed to sampling and other random effects is +/- 2.5 percentage points. For results based on registered voters (N=1,610), the sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points, and for results based on likely voters (N=1,035), the sampling error is +/- 3.5 points.
In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.
The sample for this survey is a random digit sample of telephone numbers selected from telephone exchanges in the continental United States. The exchanges were selected with probabilities proportional to their size, with the first eight digits of the numbers selected to be proportionally stratified by county and by exchange within county.
At least four attempts were made to complete an interview at every sampled number, with calls staggered to maximize the chances of reaching a potential respondent. Non-response in telephone interview surveys produces some known biases in survey-derived estimates. To compensate, the sample data are weighted in analysis using parameters derived from a special analysis of the most recently available Census Current Population Survey. | <urn:uuid:b5b72f7a-4dfc-475c-8738-97cf82d505ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.people-press.org/2002/11/03/house-voting-intentions-knotted-national-trend-not-apparent/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936451 | 340 | 1.640625 | 2 |
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Kern County has declared a local emergency as heavy rains swamp the region.
The Bakersfield Californian reports that the weekend rains left many neighborhoods dealing with high waters with some homeowners stacking sandbags in hopes of staying dry.
There were no reports of serious damage but county officials declared an emergency, saying the order will allow responders to be able to quickly access county resources when needed.
The National Weather Service says nearly three inches of rain had fallen by 6 p.m. Sunday, making it the wettest December day on record for the city.
Around Kern County, flooding, mud slides, falling rocks, crested creeks and downed trees created havoc.
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Sorry, but you are wrong...
Posted Aug 17, 2010 22:58 UTC (Tue) by khim
In reply to: The consequences of avoiding GPL
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle
Section 7 (of GPLv2) is very clear what happens when you take enforcement actions on this: the licence terminates and the software becomes undistributable ... for everyone.
s/for everyone/for everyone except Oracle/... Big difference! Remember copyright assignments? That's why they are there. Sun itself does not need to obey GPL. You'll need to visit courtroom to find out if you actually got the patent license or not and while it's very hard to imagine that court will declare that unmodified version need yet another separate patent license it's not so easy to say what the resolution will be WRT modified version. There are enough loopholes in GPLv2 to make such interpretation plausible and if you are sole owner then you interpretation almost by definition is more plausible then someone who read license once and decided not to ask about clarifications...
If it came to a court battle on this point over some GPL derivative of Java, I'm pretty sure the entire GPL ecosystem would be lining up behind whoever had been threatened with a patent suit. My point is that this is currently not happening for Google because they chose not to be part of that ecosystem.
Funny, my view is 180 degrees different: Google got as much support as TomTom which used GPLed linux kernel. People are searching for prior art, inventing creative ways to overthrow these patents... what Google was unable to get but TomTom got?
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It has been a long time since I wrote a Tombstone Tuesday blog post, but yesterday’s newspaper article prompted me to think some more about William Trower and his wife Mary who were the victims of the crime.
This is the headstone for my 4x great-grandmother Mary, the wife of William Trower. The church in the background is St. Peter’s Church in Henfield, Sussex. Mary was buried on the 8th November 1855, her husband died nearly twenty years later and presumably he is buried in the same grave, although his death is not mentioned on the headstone.
The inscription is not particularly clear on the photo or on the actual stone, the lower part of the stone has a quotation which I don’t have a record of, but the top half reads:
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY WIFE OF
WHO DIED NOV 3RD 1855
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Despite the name, Temple Bar is not merely a bar in Ireland. Indeed, it is quite an ancient district in the heart of Dublin, with the Liffey River as its northern border and Dame Street at its southern border. Historians are still unsure as to where the name “Temple Bar” originated, though many believe it derives from William Temple, the provost of Trinity College, who lived in the area in the 17th century. The popularity of cobble-stoned Temple Bar has grown significantly since the 1990’s; indeed, there are a number of hotels in Dublin around Temple Bar to accommodate the huge flock of tourists that arrive.
Many come to see the famous “The Temple Bar”, located where William Temple is thought to have once had his house, and drink one of the best glasses of Guinness around with some true Dubliners. Others enjoy the various cultural centers, as well as the historical and artistic ambience of the district. After you visit Temple Bar, you should head to Trinity College, the oldest university in Ireland, Phoenix Park and Dublin Castle. It may be hard to find Dublin cheap hotels during the summer because of the crowds. Check out EasyToBook.com for Dublin hotels, discount hotels, Dublin attractions and other interesting Dublin attractions.
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At Seven Rocks Consulting we believe that Leadership is both an Art and a Mystery. We think of Leadership Development as learning the Art of Leadership and exploring the Mystery of Leadership.
Like any professional skill, the Art of Leadership can be developed. A Leader needs to have a strong desire to lead and serve others and needs to make an earnest commitment to hone fundamental leadership skills. We call these fundamental leadership skills the Seven Rocks of Natural Leadership. We call them “natural” because they arise from a deep and consistent contact with nature – both within and without.
Tens of thousands of well-researched, well-written texts about Leadership have been published – so why should the practice of good leadership be a mystery? The ability to recognise “mystery” depends on the ability of the questioner to probe deeply. Probing deeply into anything reveals that everything is mysterious. Connecting with mystery brings challenges and great advantages to anyone who is willing and able to do so and who is then capable of bringing that experience and knowledge into everyday life. The challenges include confusion, doubt and possibly fear and the benefits include the development of balance, presence, wisdom, creativity and optimism which together enable the leader to connect with others at a deep level, energising them to action and inspiring them to greatness.
Building from traditional Leadership best practice and drawing on many years of commercial business experience, we work with a range of personal insight strategies (including focus on change, focus on positive, focus on rest) and personal growth techniques (including working with painting to expand boundaries and broaden perspectives) to deepen leader’s perspectives, liberating qualities (often previously unrecognised) which enable Leaders to creatively engage, inspire and influence others, building trust and commitment to get things done.
On many Leadership workshops we are asked “Are Leaders born or made?” Our answer is “Both”. Leaders who may be naturally gifted in many core Leadership skills become great Leaders when they work consistently to develop and unfold their potential. Many people underestimate their true potential through ignorance (they never do any work to explore what capabilities they might have) and through a lack of focus (they fail to put their energy into areas which would enable them to develop key Leadership skills).
What transforms us from being “dull”, uninspired and “uninspiring” to living an effortless, energetic and meaningful life which impacts deeply on the lives of those around us, is the work we do to deepen our awareness of ourselves. This work liberates us from the drivenness of un-contacted emotions, beliefs, assumptions and prejudices which influence what we say and how we act and creates space in which wisdom and creativity flourish. Today’s Leaders more than ever need to be able to respond imaginatively and wisely to an increasingly more complex and faster moving world, engaging others to deliver innovative, effective solutions to ever more complex problems.
The Seven Rocks Natural Leadership programmes provide a platform to help you do the work to become a true Leader. We don’t promise quick fixes. We do promise a path to transformation which will profoundly and noticeably impact on how you behave and which will integrate your working life and your personal life, bringing deeper fulfillment, happiness and wisdom.
For those committed to long term growth, this will offer a life-changing opportunity. Through integrating the deep wisdom and understanding of our ancestors with the latest learning about human consciousness in fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, spirituality, neuroscience, physics, we work to develop a deep knowing of Leadership. At Seven Rocks we can offer unique insights into the facets of wisdom, awakening a natural capacity to lead ourselves and others.
During the first years of the new millennium, we have seen a wide and varied range of examples which demonstrate Leader’s inability to act ethically and wisely. These behaviours and the consequences are not new. What is new, is the depth and seriousness of the possible impact of this lack of ability on our economic and political stability and the increasing uncertainty of the sustainability of life on planet earth. The consistently high levels of economic growth experienced during almost a decade, fuelled by unprecedented development in China and India in particular (which until now has far from reached it’s full potential and impact) coupled with extraordinary changes in the way business is done (fuelled largely by technology, not least the internet), have resulted in a series of Corporate scandals and ultimately in a financial crisis which demonstrate that there is an urgent need for Leaders with integrity, Leaders capable of making long-term, courageous, wise decisions and capable of engaging their shareholders to follow their vision.
The ability to act ethically, displaying integrity and creating trust emanates from deep self-awareness, an ability and willingness to self-reflect, an ability to stay open to the widest perspective and an ability to create spaciousness in thinking and decision making.
Socrates said that self-knowledge is the path to happiness; Plato said that happiness is the result of finding deeper meaning and Aristotle believed that happiness comes from leading a complete and virtuous life. During the mid 20th Century, Abraham Maslow’s work emphasised how human potential can be unleashed, nurturing talents and improving the quality of life for others. This background has strongly informed Martin Seligman’s rejuvenation of Maslow’s thinking leading to the rapid growth in interest in Positive Psychology. Seven Rocks thinking overlaps with these areas, but we believe that we offer something more, both in terms of emphasis and experience.
The power and potential impact of Leadership decisions in all spheres of working life obliges Leaders to deepen self understanding and build new skills to work with others. This brings benefits for the world and personal benefits for the leader, including an increased sense of fulfilment and meaning. At Seven Rocks we do this by:
Seven Rocks Consulting builds on the insights of various wisdom
Abraham Maslow traditions and visionary thinkers including Krishnamurti, Daniel Goleman, Eric Fromm, Ken Wilber and Abraham Maslow.
Building on their inspiration, Seven Rocks Natural Leadership
Eric Frommexplores the nature of our human potential, barriers to unleashing our full potential and strategies and tactics to facilitate its unfolding. Leaders learn how to maximise their own potential and to facilitate the development of others.
Einstein: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty”
Seven Rocks Consulting seeks to help free an individual from this limited sense of personal identity through enquiry, dialogue, through practical and tested tools and techniques. | <urn:uuid:69747475-16e2-4e9c-b649-b126b4276de1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sevenrocksconsulting.com/emotional-intelligence-training-philosophy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951229 | 1,421 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Immendorff: copies, fakes or authorised reproductions?
Michael Werner, his dealer for 30 years, says “everything was out of control” before the artist died
By Bettina Krogemann and Melanie Gerlis. Market, Issue 194, September 2008
Published online: 17 September 2008
MUNICH. On 5 June, the Munich auction house Ketterer Kunst was due to offer a large Jörg Immendorff painting, Café de Flore, 1990-91, with an estimate of €90,000 to €120,000. However, the painting was withdrawn after the dealer Michael Werner—who had been the late artist’s primary agent for 30 years—raised concerns about the work’s authenticity. Mr Werner told The Art Newspaper that there are several “awkward”?Immendorff works on the market and that he is currently aware of at least 20.
These range from those he believes are copies to those that could have been authorised by studio assistants. A central question is whether Immendorff sold copies of his paintings that were made by assistants as originals created by his own hand, and whether or not this discredits the works. “No one knows which of these problem paintings came out of the studio and which are plain copies,” says Mr Werner. All that is known, he says, is that in the last five years of the artist’s life “everything was out of control”.
During this time, Immendorff was battling with a neurodegenerative disease and was not able to hold a paintbrush himself. He worked with several assistants who followed his instructions to complete works. It is also believed—but more difficult to prove—that, from the 1990s onwards, assistants copied his works which were signed and certified by the artist and then sold as originals from the studio.
Fellow Berlin dealer Michael Schultz believes that copies made by assistants are “authentic” and that “Michael Werner knew during Immendorff’s lifetime what was happening in the studio. Now he is just trying to focus the market on his own gallery,” he told The Art Newspaper. Mr Werner dismisses this, saying it “would not be in my interest to control the market”, adding that he does not represent the artist’s estate.
Other auctioneers have had problems with Immendorff’s works, even when the artist was alive. In November 2001, the Munich-based Neumeister Auctions was to sell another Café Flore-series painting, Café Flore with Joseph Beuys, 1991, (est $18,000), together with a certificate of authenticity. Before the sale, Katrin Stoll, the owner of Neumeister, was advised by Mr Werner’s gallery that the painting was “a fake” and the lot was withdrawn.
The consignor, a Munich-based lawyer, presented his invoice: he had purchased the painting in 1994 for DM35,000 (then equivalent to around $22,000) from a collector who had bought it directly from the artist’s studio. Galerie Michael Werner later sent a fax confirming that “Immendorff did not make this work”. At this time, the artist also confirmed the gallery’s claim and, in a fax of 10 July 2002, he wrote that “this work of art is a fake, as is the certificate”.
The consignor of the painting considered suing the seller and ordering a pigment analysis. After further direct communication between the consignor and the artist, Immendorff then said, by telephone on 19 December 2002, that the work was an original, writing the next day: “I confirm once more the originality of the painting Café Flore [with Joseph Beuys].” The work was then sold.
“In my opinion Mr Werner failed dramatically in his function as the main dealer of Immendorff and now he is trying to shift the blame onto the auctioneers,” Ms Stoll told us.
Mr Werner criticises some of the smaller auction houses for failing to respond to his warnings before putting an Immendorff from this series up for sale. “[These] auction houses need merchandise to sell and don’t really care if it’s real or not,” he told The Art Newspaper.
This month another contested work will be examined by a German court. Ready-made de L´Histoire dans Café de Flore, 1987, is, according to Mr Werner, not authentic. A collector bought the painting in 1999 directly from the artist’s studio for DM30,000 ($17,000), also with an authenticity certificate by the artist (Mr Werner told us “a certificate is even easier to fake than a painting.”) The collector then consigned the painting for sale at Dorotheum Vienna in May 2008, est €75,000-€90,000 ($112,000-$134,500). Mr Werner pressed criminal charges against the owner and at the end of July the court in Düsseldorf started formal legal proceedings.
Immendorff died in 2007 aged 61, and while famous for his paintings, he was also infamous for leading a colourful existence: in 2003 he was arrested, together with nine prostitutes, for cocaine possession during a party in his hotel room in Düsseldorf. Following this incident, Immendorff lost his professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, but was back in favour in 2005 when he was commissioned by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder to paint his state portrait, which is still on show in the chancellor’s office in Berlin.
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*BAUER, HAROLD WILLIAM
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The Most Important New Drug of 2012
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Forbes recently crowned Vertex Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: VRTX) Kalydeco the most important new drug of 2012. Forbes said that Kalydeco, used to treat cystic fibrosis, is a triumph of genetics and drug development and the first treatment to directly address the genetic defect that causes the disease.
Kalydeco will only help 4 percent of the 70,000 people who suffer from declining lung function, a damaged pancreas, and shortened lives due to cystic fibrosis worldwide. But it makes medical history for several reasons. It is a triumph for genomics because it is the first drug that could treat the defects caused by the mutation of the gene discovered 23 years ago.
Kalydeco's development was powered by a patient group which led to several notable disease foundations such as the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Kalydeco, when administered alone, will only help a few thousand patients worldwide, and like other treatments for very rare diseases, it is very expensive at $294,000 per patient per year. Kalydeco has been a huge commercial successful so far, generating $113 million in sales in the first nine months of 2012.
Vertex announced that Health Canada has approved Kalydeco (ivacaftor), the first medicine to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), for people ages six and older who have at least one copy of the G551D mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. Cystic fibrosis is a rare genetic disease for which there is no cure. It is caused by a defective or missing CFTR protein resulting from mutations in the CFTR gene. It is a rare, life-shortening genetic disease which affects approximately 70,000 people worldwide, including 30,000 people in the U.S., 35,000 in Europe, 4,000 in Canada and nearly 3,000 in Australia. The ongoing global launch of Kalydeco continues, and the treatment is now approved in the U.S. and in all 27 EU countries.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Incivek in May 2011, which made it one of the first new hepatitis C drugs to reach the market in a long time. There were expectations that it would be a blockbuster with revenues in the billions of dollars. However, sales have never really taken off. Instead, they are declining partly because research of hepatitis C drugs has moved forward rapidly and patients are waiting for newer drugs before they begin treatment.
Incivek is approved in combination with two standard drugs: Ribavirin, which is a pill, and Interferon, given by injection. Several companies are studying hepatitis C regimens that avoid Interferon because its side effects. Vertex is maintaining its guidance of around $1.2 billion in sales for 2012, but it is obvious that the drug is not going to be a major growth catalyst, and the future lies in cystic fibrosis treatments.
Meanwhile, Vertex updated the label on Incivek to include a boxed warning stating that fatal and non-fatal skin reactions have been reported in patients, taking Incivek combined with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin. Though there was an earlier warning about serious skin reactions, there was no mention that it could be fatal.
The Competition and Hepatitis C
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) released extremely positive results for an experimental hepatitis C drug which has been described as the 'best-in-class' treatment. Gilead presented results from its combination of sofosbuvir and daclatasvir that cured between 98 and 100 percent of patients within 12 weeks.
Over three million people in the U.S. suffer from hepatitis C, a blood-borne disease which results in 12,000 U.S. deaths each year, and traditional two-drug treatment cures only about 40 percent of people but produces unpleasant side effects. Analyst said Gilead's single-pill treatment could be revolutionary for patients and doctors alike.
Deutsche Bank has given Idenix a buy recommendation, with a target price of $7 per share. Its drug IDX-184 is still in development and has been on clinical hold because a similar drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb that had extremely poor results.
Achillion (NASDAQ: ACHN) is another development stage biotech company that focuses on treating HCV by targeting NS5A and NS3 drug targets. It has several candidates in its HCV pipeline: sovaprevir (formerly ACH-1625), which is a NS3 protease inhibitor; ACH-2684, which is a pan-genotypic NS3 protease inhibitor; as well as ACH2928 and ACH3102, which are NS5A protein inhibitors. This biotech has as many as four HCV candidates in the pipeline, two of which are being evaluated in phase 2 studies. It ended the third quarter with cash and cash equivalents of approximately $90 million, enough to fund ongoing drug development.
Kalydeco has a very small potential market, only treating patients with a very specific gene mutation, and Incivek, which must be combined with an interferon injection (a drug that causes side effects) clearly cannot be a long time growth driver. The future success of Vertex lies in finding combinations for Kalydeco to treat the larger range of gene mutations for cystic fibrosis. I don't believe this is going to happen in the near future. I do not recommend buying at this point in time. I am placing a "Hold" rating on the stock.
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The lights are on
This debacle has apparently gotten big enough for the government to take notice, as the Department of Homeland Security is now investigating the matter. "The Department of Homeland Security is aware of the recent cyber intrusion to Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service," says spokesman Chris Ortman. "DHS' U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is working with law enforcement, international partners and Sony to assess the situation."
Similar government departments in Australia are also looking into the matter.
Hackers that claim to have the stolen PSN data are attempting to sell credit card information on several message boards. They claim to have names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, and full credit card information (number, expiration, and security code) for sale. TrendMicro security expert Kevin Stevens says that they offered to sell the information back to Sony, but the company refused.
Stevens also says that 2.2 million credit cards are included in the database. Reports of fraudulent charges have been popping up on Twitter, on message boards, and in the inboxes of gaming journalists. There's no way to know for sure whether these claims are true, and even if they are there's no way to determine if they're tied to the PSN breach.
Sony has officially acknowledged that the recent security breach of PSN by hackers has likely resulted in the theft of PSN account users' profile info, and perhaps even credit card information.
The official Sony PlayStation Blog reads in part:
"Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain
PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was
compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion
into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:1. Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;2. Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and3. Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network
infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater
protection of your personal information."
As far as what those responsible may have gained, the statement details a list including your name, address, PSN/Qriocity account info – and possibly your credit card info.
"Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we
believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following
information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip),
country, email address, birth date, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password
and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your
profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city,
state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security
answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for
your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have
been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card
data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided
your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of
an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number
(excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained."
Finally, Sony says, "We have a clear path to have PlayStation Network and Qriocity systems
back online, and expect to restore some services within a week."
Check out Sony's full response at the Official PlayStation Blog for more info.
What a way to launch SOCOM 4.
[Original Story]: Playstation Network users have been left in the dark for days now, and Sony has acknowledged that the shutdown has everything to do with hackers. However, they've made no mention of who's to blame or what the hacking hoped to accomplish. Web group Anonymous previously announced intentions to attack PSN, but are denying involvement with this incident. Today, a user on Reddit claims to have knowledge of the specifics.
User chesh420 says he's a moderator at PSX-Scene.com, and the shutdown can be traced to a custom firmware that allowed users to validate fake credit card numbers on what PSN deemed to be a secure network. Here's the entirety of his post (all spelling in context):
Ok, I've seen a bunch of speculation of why people think PSN is down, and I thought I should just post what the community knows in comparison to what Sony is telling everyone. The truth is, there was a new CFW (custom firmware) released known as Rebug (link omitted). It essentially turns a retail console into a dev console (not fully, but gives you a lot of the same options that usually dev's only have access to). Anyway, this new CFW was quickly figured out to give CFW users access to the PSN network again via the dev networks. With a little manipulation of the URL's through a proxy server you could get your hacked console back online. Not that big of a deal, right? Well, it also turns out that some people over at NGU found out that you could provide fake CC# info and the authenticity of the information was never checked as you were on Sony's private developer PSN network (essentially a network that Sony trusted). What happened next was extreme piracy of PSN content. Sony realizing the issue here shut down the network. Now, before you go freaking out about the latest information posted about Kotaku, no ones personal information was accessible via this hack. Not to say they couldn't get it, but no one is admitting to it being available. Anyway, that's the real reason for the PSN downtime. Sony is now rebuilding all of it's PSN servers to be more secure and (hopefully) make sure the CFW users cannot get online anymore.
It would take something major for Sony to shut down the entirety of their network, and a custom firmware that allowed for rampant pirating is obviously reason for concern. Take this with a grain of salt, as we have no way of verifying whether this Reddit user has an inside track or not. We've reached out to Sony for comment and will let you know if we hear anything.
UPDATE: We received a response from Sony, which you can read below
We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party. If this is indeed caused by such act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers' continued support.
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Now that I fully understand what the reality of the situation is, I will become a little more patient. I just hope sony can get it back up soon, but best of luck to them. I hope the hackers realize that they affected millions of people, not just sony. And at least it gives me A LOT of time to stock up on my trophys. And finally beat the black ops campaign...
I see the problem,but I'm still angry.
Now that I fully understand what the reality of the situation is, I will become a little more patient. I just hope sony can get it back up soon, but best of luck to them. I hope the hackers realize that they affected millions of people, not just sony. And at least it gives me A LOT of time to stock up on my trophys. And finally beat the black ops campaign
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Most of us have a job where hard work is expected and necessary. We offer our knowledge and/or labor to the company we work for in order to get recognition, satisfaction and compensation in return. Although this is the way most people make money, the minute we stop working, the income stops.
On the other hand, a popular idea that’s been floating around the internet is passive income. The idea of it is that money is being earned with or without our involvement. Once it’s set up, the recurring income will come continuously.
Anyone can quickly see why this idea is popular. Here are three extremely good advantages:
If your passive income is higher than your living expenses, then you free yourself from the daily grind of working for someone at least 8 hours a day. You can enjoy your life and do what you want, while earning enough money to sustain your lifestyle.
To borrow a popular term from investing, passive income provides diversification. An extra income stream provides an extra layer of safety for you and your family. Nothing is a guarantee in life and unexpected events happen. You may lose your job or the money making opportunity might turn out to be a total scam. The more avenues you can earn money from, the more financially secure you are.
Passive income doesn’t stop coming when you stop working. Even if we love our careers and want to work 7 days a week, there comes a time when we need to retire. At that point, our income from our jobs will end. It doesn’t matter how valuable you were to the company. If you stop working, they will stop paying you.
Passive income on the other hand works even without you thinking about it. Even if you retire, the money will keep coming to you.
Creativity is the most effective way to generate passive income. All it takes is some thinking and you could be on your way. Here are a few popular passive income streams that we are all familiar with to help you get started.
Many companies distribute money (otherwise known as dividends) regularly to share holders to attract investors. In order to take advantage, all you need to do is buy the individual stocks of the company or own the mutual fund or index fund that holds the company stock.
Perhaps the most common of them all, interests earned on any financial accounts are really another form of passive income. You literally put your money in your account and watch your wealth accumulate. With the interest rate at 1% even with high yield online savings accounts, you might need to have a large sum in your account for the interest to be meaningful.
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Many people become rich because they created a unique product that they own the rights to. An author that gets royalties from a book that was written; a creator collecting licensing fees for an invention; and a singer making money from every CD sold are all good examples of this. Once it’s created, money flows to you as people have a need for the product.
There are many programs out there that allow you to make money off the efforts of people you refer. This type of scheme, sometimes also referred to as a pyramid scheme, got a bad name many years ago. At one time, many fraudulent companies that had no real business model used this scheme as a marketing tool. They would advertise the benefits of making money, while asking you to pay an initial fee to sign up. Once they had a bunch of people falling for the trick, they would close the business. Many people either lost money or heard of these stories, so they are skeptical whenever they see a company rewarding people using this scheme. However, if the company you build your network with has a legitimate product, it can be a powerful way to make passive income.
Many people think blogging is passive income but it really isn’t. Those who regularly read blogs know that many bloggers spend hours every day thinking and writing content, as well as managing the blog layout amongst other things.
One incorrect perception about passive income is that it is effortless. Looking at the examples of passive income above can explain this best. For dividends and interest to be significant, the principal (money that’s put in the financial account) must be pretty big. In order to generate this big base, you have to work for it. With any product, a lot of effort needs to be spent creating it. With network marketing, hard work needs to be put in to build the network of referrals. So if you think passive income is effortless right from beginning, you are misinformed.
The first step of generating passive income starts from having the right mindset. You need to be:
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The Gulf of Mexico’s coastline continues to recover from BP’s 2010 oil spill, but thanks to a three-day music festival, Alabama’s Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are back in business.
The 2012 Hangout Fest, held in Gulf Shores, Ala., attracted tens of thousands of visitors. (Photo by B. Cantrell)
Held on the sandy shoreline, Hangout Music Fest drew some 35,000 attendees per day in 2011, creating a $30 million economic impact on the area, according to Kim Chapman, tourism spokeswoman for Gulf Shores and Orange Beach.
The Hangout Music Fest, which was recently awarded “Best Festival of the Year” honors by leading concert industry outlet Pollstar and features main stage headliners The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Jack White and The Devil Makes Three.
While the festival doesn’t draw the number of attendees Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival touts in nearby Manchester, its economic impact is far from meager.
Following the oil spill, Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala. witnessed a 50 percent decrease, Chapman said. But since Hangout’s inception in 2010, business has picked up and taken off.
“This is a wonderful kick-off to our peak season,” Chapman noted. “Not only did we make up the difference from the oil spill, but we surpassed it and even set a new record (last year). We have high hopes for this year.”
The area continues to witness a residual impact of The Hangout Fest; newbies to the area fall in love with the beaches and opt for a trip back to the coastline, she added.
“(Hangout) is another reason for people to discover our amazing beaches,” Chapman said of the 32-mile island.
With the influx of more than 35,000 visitors to the area, condos, hotels and timeshares fill up fast. Village by the Gulf and Paradise Isle are at 100 percent capacity, said Scott Cooper, who manages the properties with his wife, Linda Williams.
“This makes up for the lull between Spring Break and summer season,” he said.
On-site manager Cathy Hodo noted how “the concert is good for condos, but for restaurants, I wouldn’t say it’s all that great” because she’d heard that several patrons left without paying last year.
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach aren’t strangers to the tourism industry -- the communities thrive on visitors to its sandy beaches year in and year out. Cooper pointed to Spring Break, 4th of July and a shrimp festival in mid-October that really bring in business.
He said all are essential in recovering after the oil spill and hurricanes that hit the coast in years past.
“We were hurt in 2004 with (Hurricane) Ivan and then Katrina in 2005. And just as we started to recover back from those two hurricanes, BP wiped us out,” Hodo explained. “But BP worked real hard down here to help us out.”
Coupled with The Hangout Fest, Cooper says, “Business is as good as before, if not better.”
Gulf Island Grill, located directly across from the festival, gets its fair share of patrons spending dollars on food and drinks.
Manager Chris Bridges has watched the festival grow from its beginnings in 2010. Business starts out slow, but as attendees opt to extend their stay, they flood local restaurants and bars.
“Just like the commercial says, “The Gulf Coast is open for business.”
It has always been open for business, though, Bridges noted. He expressed his frustration with the impact the oil spill had on tourism in the area.
“If people thought about how little time they actually spend in the water (when they’re here) … we were all still here and open,” he said.
“You don’t go into business on the beach and not be controlled by tourism. But by all estimates, we should be back on track where we were before the oil spill.” | <urn:uuid:d852cdaa-9971-4d59-ba4e-3b9916061f9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.murfreesboropost.com/music-fest-brings-needed-income-to-gulf-coast-cms-31217 | 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 | 0.960341 | 872 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Higher Ed's Role In Democracy Theme Of Starr's InaugurationSept. 21, 2010
Following a charge from Dary Stone, chairman of Baylor's board of regents, Ken Starr was fitted with the robes and medallion commiserate with a a presidential inauguration.
The moment was proceeded by the pageantry of processions, music, and addresses from a number of dignitaries. It was fitting that the inauguration fell on Constitution Day, and the idea of a democracy shaped by that document was a theme throughout. Starr chose Yale Law Professor and acclaimed author Stephen L. Carter to deliver the keynote address, entitled "The Future of Democratic Debate." Carter, who has known Starr for decades, said Judge Starr embodies the qualities necessary to advance a civil and democratic society.
Starr continued the theme of the day by pondering the role of education in a young democracy. This was followed by an examination of the role that faith plays in an educational system that he said, too often, does not know exactly how to handle it.
Judge Starr wrapped up his inaugural address by touching on a topic that has become a theme this week: the rising cost of education. His first initiative as president is a $100 million dollar scholarship campaign. Starr sees Baylor as a leader in addressing the issue for students nationwide For KWBU News, I'm Derek Smith. | <urn:uuid:0a54294a-6ca5-487e-bc10-0f133480de1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kwbu.org/news.php?action=story&story=80159 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970622 | 274 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Views in brief
Greek workers paying the price
IN RESPONSE to "How will the jobs crisis ever end?": I totally agree with this article. This is a quite representative description of what is happening in the U.S.
Meanwhile, there is also a need to describe what is happening in Europe and, specifically, in suffering Greece, where unemployment reaches 23 percent--and 50 percent for ages 20-40.
Many families are financially exhausted, because they still support their unemployed grown children. The German government and its supporters don't realize at all that this kind of austerity "medicine" won't ever heal the wounds of this crisis. On the contrary, the only result has been a rise in suicides and deaths. Don't take this as an overstatement. People are reaching their limits and there is the potential for a social explosion.
Our government, a three-party government, is striving to maintain political stability and to erase the danger of new elections, but these austerity measures don't seem to help. By continuing these policies, the European Union will face the danger that it tried--and finally managed--to avoid during the pre-election period.
The only result of this will be that a country that made huge sacrifices to be "led out" of the crisis will automatically face the start of its end. People and their lives are more important than fake amounts of debt. Social justice and humanitarian values must prevail against markets and their designs.
Theodoros Dimopoulos, Lamia, Fthiotida, Greece
A view of shop-floor solidarity
IN RESPONSE to "A view from the shop floor": Thanks for the thoughtful analysis. I was there, but in reading this I felt that you were there with me.
Gregg Shotwell, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Obama's hands were tied
IN RESPONSE to "Two friends of the 1 percent": I won't take too long in my response, but I just wanted to critique one point that was made, with some frequency, in the article. That is, I think that Barack Obama, when his party had strong majorities in both chambers of Congress, would have been an actual progressive--if the filibuster did not force him (and Sen. Harry Reid, et al.) to cater to the conservative members of the party in order to pass literally anything.
For instance, remember that in the health care debate the vote on the "public option" amendment to the Affordable Care Act got a majority, but then promptly failed because members like Sens. Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman joined the Republicans in a filibuster.
The same was true of the post-BP oil spill environmental bill, Dodd-Frank, and the economic stimulus package (way too small for a reason). Of course, conservatives (all elected Republicans) are going to stand up for their corporate masters, but not all Democrats are that way.
Jay Stephens, Clarkesville, Ga,
More to the story at Con Ed
IN RESPONSE to "Could the union have won more at ConEd?": I disagree with this. Con Edison has three unions: Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2, Local 3 in Staten Island, and Local 508 in Orange and Rockland (whose contract expired before Local 1-2).They are the ones that agreed to the two-tier pensions and sold us down the river. If they had fought for themselves, the company never would have come after Local 1-2.
Chris Meyer, Lindenhurst, N.Y.
A firebrand or an elitist?
IN RESPONSE to "An uncompromising critic of America's ruler's": As a novelist, critic and intellectual, Gore Vidal was one of 20th century America's heavyweights. But make no mistake about it: Vidal, especially toward the end of his life, was a nasty crank, a hater and a smug elitist of the highest magnitude.
Years ago, he left the United States to live in Italy because he detested American culture, finding the majority of this society stupid and lacking in values. Perhaps, deep down, he was right. Though his views were sympathetic to the left and to liberal causes, Vidal embraced grandiose ideas about humanity while he loathed most people.
Born in privilege, he was certainly no socialist or Marxist, and he had no particular love for the working class. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Vidal praised Obama as a potentially great leader and an intelligent man when compared to his predecessor. Then again, how hard could that be?
I can't comment whether or not Vidal was anti-Semitic, but as for his assessment of the "common folk," he looked upon the proletariat with disdain and contempt along with just about everyone else. I suppose such are the contradictions inherent in complex and widely traveled provocateurs like him. | <urn:uuid:6b87f09d-e9aa-4846-819e-0b609779da92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://socialistworker.org/2012/08/21/views-brief | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969829 | 995 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A Return To The Golden Age
By John Wyckoff
January 15, 2007
They were were all the rage back in the 1960s. Vespa and a few other lesser-known scooters were sold as cheap transportation mostly to high school and college students in high-density metropolitan areas. As British and European motorcycles lost out to the Japanese OEMs, scooters sales also slumped.
Inexpensive motorcycles from the Japanese OEMs offered reliability, availability of parts and very reasonable prices. That all but relegated the scooter to history in this country and there it languished until just a few years ago.
Now, almost a half-century later, scooters are once again a growing segment of the powersports market. The Chinese makers began the revival. They started exporting 50cc to 125cc scooters of questionable quality to the U.S. Soon they found that American buyers wanted higher quality and, more importantly, a reliable supply of spare parts along with competent service.
As is the case with trends, a rising tide raises all ships. The European makers re-established their U.S. distribution arms, began advertising and found the love of scooters had simply skipped a generation or two and was now back.
Now we go global. One European maker agreed to supply a Chinese company with their 181cc engines. The Chinese caught on to the fact that they need to improve quality and establish a more reasonable supply chain of replacement parts to their U.S. distributors. At the same time the Chinese government realized they could no longer look the other way when it came to recognizing copyrights and patents. A report from the Chinese indicates that few of the 100+ scooter manufacturers were actually profitable. They are all undercutting each other, especially in the small displacement commuter markets of the Far East.
China is experiencing phenomenal growth in all areas of manufacturing. That includes everything from textiles (no more quotas to stem the exports to the U.S.) to auto parts, electronics, computers, etc. In fact, China supplies more products to Wal-Mart than to all of England and Germany. Considering that Wal-Mart is just one company, you can see the emerging impact of China on what America buys.
We'll soon see an expanding market for Chinese-made large displacement scooters and motorcycles, too. However, that's another story.
The Japanese OEMs took a more serious look at the scooter market and began to realize that scooters, like motorcycles, have the ability to appeal to a wider market than previously thought. Now that the baby boomer generation is giving up some of its "macho" in favor of raising and educating their progeny, they no longer find it an imperative to buy the biggest and fastest bike on the road. Their offspring, known as the "Echo" generation seem to have opted to forego the macho phase of their maturity in favor of more productive pursuits.
Much has changed in America during the past 50 years. Those changes include even higher population density, fewer parking spaces, gridlocked roads and increased use of mass transportation in areas where they had foresight enough to create mass-transportation systems. Not all major markets were so visionary.
What benefits do scooters have over motorcycles? As a dyed-in-the-wool motorcyclist, I'd quickly respond: none. However, I'd be wrong. Scooters are easier to maneuver in very slow and tight traffic. Most have built in storage and the ability to carry a passenger.
The Japanese makers realized this was an opportunity to do two things: refocus on the scooter and blur the lines between a scooter and a motorcycle. Suzuki and Honda, for example, have been producing and exporting large displacement scooters (up to 650cc) with the ability to run at high enough speeds to keep up with traffic on fast-moving (often faster than the posted speed limit) highways.
Are there any disadvantages to scooters? In the U.S. where potholes are a problem, the smaller diameter wheels come quickly to mind. Obviously, the major OEMs are aware of this and have larger wheels and tires on their large displacement scooters. That feature alone is at least in part responsible for blurring the line between scooters and motorcycles.
What will the future hold? I expect to see a considerable amount of sorting out during the next few years. First, we'll see even more Chinese scooters, at least for a short time. Some of them will spend the time and effort to understand our market, others won't. They will leave the scene when sales don't meet their expectations and quality problems become too much trouble.
The European and Japanese makers seem to be more in tune with the American dealers and will do whatever they feel is necessary to develop the scooter market. Our roads will continue to become more crowded and parking spaces will continue to diminish. I expect that high schools, colleges and universities will realize the change and make more parking available for scooters. They must know that three scooters can fit in the same space as one car.
The market, in my opinion, will continue to grow. Some dealers will focus more on scooters while others will focus on different niches. I expect to see scooter sales grow more rapidly in major metropolitan areas than in rural America. The large displacement scooters will begin to catch on, but it will take clever marketing on the part of both the OEM and dealer.
If you have not taken a test ride on a scooter recently, say in the past 20 years or so, I suggest you do so now. When you do, you'll discover they have indeed changed and for the better. Then, if you have the opportunity to do so take a test ride on one of the large displacement scooters, you'll see how well they handle and how easy they are to maneuver.
The inhibitor to the growth of the scooter market is like the inhibitor to the growth of the recumbent bicycle market: "Recumbent bicycles just don't look right." Most hardcore bicyclists don't consider the recumbent to be anything but an anomaly ridden by a kook. However, the Echo generation doesn't seem to care about such things. They are your future, Mr. Dealer. Cater to them and you'll grow in the scooter market. | <urn:uuid:e636b122-8770-4577-aea7-1d4cef99627a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.motorcyclepowersportsnews.com/Item/76829/a_return_to_the_golden_age.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972077 | 1,296 | 1.71875 | 2 |
On May 8, 12:00 pm, FFMG <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:41:18 UTC+2, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:Neither. There is no requirement on the number of documents, and the
> > FFMG writes:
> > > > You have made an incorrect independence assumption. As both
> > > Sorry, that's not an assumption, that's the way the problem
> > > And they are independent variables, the presence of "naughty" is not
> > > The formula is P(C|F1...Fn) = P(C)P(F1|C)...P(Fn|C)
> > > So, given the problem in my original post, the result is not between
> > Probability theory only gives you
> > Then come the independence assumptions which allow you to expand
> > If "naughty" and "money" were exactly independent and probabilities
> > Since we don't want to accept 1/2 = 1 and we think that relative
> So, if I understand you correctly the 2 issues at hand are:
Bayes formula works. However, your original stab was certainly false,
since it contained "money" twice and did not contain "naughty" at all.
As such it is difficult even to figure out what you were trying to
> So, as the formula seem to be correct in my example, I guess my question would be, is there any way of binging the number back between 0 and 1? or can I simply assume that anything > 1 is in fact 1, (or almost 1).As Jussi explained, you have to use the data correctly, and you got to
think a little. What is Prob(spam|naughty)? What is Prob(spam|money)?
What then do you think of Prob(spam|naughty AND money)? Hint, in this
case you do not even need Bayes.
> Following on to that, I also see many examples where the denominator can be ignored as it can be regarded as constant. But then how can I calculate how close the probability of a number is to 1? (because without a denominator I have no idea how close the probability of a document is to be 'spam').You`ll have to explain better what you mean by this. As is, it make no
sense to me.
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Inquirer: Are Filipinos prepared for the Big One?
About 34,000 people dead instantly and 24,000 dead or dying in the rubble. About 110,000 injured and needing immediate treatment. Five hundred fires raging simultaneously.
Metro Manila faces these and several other horrific scenes should a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s most populous urban area, according to a report released by a multinational firm doing intelligence work for clients on business and security in the Philippines.
Pacific Strategies and Assessments (PSA) said in its report on Metro Manila’s quake vulnerability that while quakes were normal occurrences in the metropolis, the effects of a 7.2-magnitude tremor were likely to be made more terrifying by a lack of preparedness and failure to enforce zoning laws and building standards.
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In Fencing, private lessons are the ideal way to advance your fencing skills, create muscle memory, and get individualized instruction and mentoring.
A private lesson costs $20 for a 20 minute session. (Remember, fencing is very intense sport.) If you need fencing clothing or equipment for your lesson, there is an equipmnet rental charge of $5 per lesson.
We also package our private lessons with many of our membership packages.
Drop in Fencing
Are you just visiting Denver? A member of another club looking to fence some new fencers or just a different weapon? Then drop by the Denver Fencing Center during our open fencing periods. We charge a $10 daily drop-in fee for your visit. Check out the Schedule to find which nights are best for foil, epee, and saber.
Group Lessons/Birthday Parties
Fencing can be a great way to bring a group together or entertain a birthday party. We usually have available on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons to hold birthday parties. If you would like to hold a birthday party at Denver Fencing Center, here is the costs which includes equipment:
$20 per birthday fencer (1 1/2 hour party session)
Note: A party requires a minimum of four fencers. We usually max out at 16 fencers.
We have had boys scouts/girl scout groups, after-dance parties, and after-prom parties in the past. Please contact us to schedule the date and time.
Fencing can be a great event to have a corporate event. Who would want to poke their boss in friendly environment? We usually have available on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons to hold birthday parties. If you would like to hold a corporate event at Denver Fencing Center, here is the costs which includes equipment:
$20 per corporate fencer (1 1/2 hour party session)
Note: A event requires a minimum of four fencers. We usually max out at 16 fencers.
Please contact us to schedule the date and time.
We have helped many schools build sucessful before/during/after school fencing programs. Fencing is a great sport that works well to train critical thinking and keep kids in shape. Fencing has been described as 'chess at 100 miles per hour'. If your school is interested in a program, please contact us.
Denver Fencing Center had two coaches (Haley Ward and Bob Block) attend US Fencing Coaches' College and we are actively looking for a group of participants to start a wheelchair fencing program. Wheelchair fencing is a very active and exciting sport. We will be promoting our wheelchair program on Fox 31 Morning show with Dan Daru on November 13th.
If you are interested in trying Wheelchair Fencing, please contact us.
By request, we can come do various type of fencing demonstrations for schools, clubs, and other non-entities.
1. A History demonstration called "From Knights to Fencers: Swordfighting Great History" for all of Jefferson County Libraries branches.
2. We have taken over a elementary and a middle school gym classes and taught the whole class (26 kids in all) how to fence.
3. We have shown a gym class how fencing works and then proceed to teach them games and footwork drills from fencing.
Fencing is a fun and exciting sport and give kids and adults the ability to see something different that they will talk about. If you would like to talk to us about doing a demonstration with your organization, please contact us. | <urn:uuid:408e6753-23d0-486d-a6fb-4a5dc34f722d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.denverfencingcenter.com/otherservice.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950699 | 731 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Seattle Humane Society and Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine have entered a partnership in which senior veterinary students will provide spay/neuter surgeries and medical care for shelter pets as part of their clinical training.
“We are thrilled to be collaborating with WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine,” said Seattle Humane Society CEO David Loewe. “Working together, we can expand our services, help train the next generation of veterinarians, and create a stronger safety net for pets in need. This is just the beginning of a long-term partnership between our agencies.”
The agreement brings together two national leaders in the field of animal sheltering and veterinary medicine, respectively. Seattle Humane Society shelters nearly 6,000 pets per year, performs more spay/neuter surgeries than any other agency in the region, and has one of the highest save rates in the nation at 96.5 percent. The distinguished WSU College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked among the top veterinary medicine colleges in the nation for its exemplary training, research and innovative programming.
“This partnership presents a tremendous opportunity for our students,” said Dean Bryan Slinker of the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine. “WSU veterinary students who work at Seattle Humane will gain invaluable clinical experience, save lives, and serve the community. This is exactly the kind of educational experience we want to provide.”
By taking this next step in their partnership, many more WSU veterinary students will receive hands-on training at the Seattle Humane Society campus in Bellevue starting in May 2013. During their elective two-week rotations, the students will provide a wide range of medical care to the shelter animals, with an emphasis on spay/neuter surgeries, routine exams, vaccinations and other clinical procedures. The WSU students will also have the opportunity to work with Seattle Humane’s nationally recognized foster family network, helping the students hone their skills with both people and pets.
“This partnership will benefit the community in so many ways,” CEO Loewe said. “With the veterinary students on board, we will have the capacity to spay and neuter more shelter pets and offer additional medical services to other shelters in need. Ultimately this will reduce the number of unwanted, homeless and stray animals in our community. Our goal, in the end, is to see that every pet is well taken care of, loved and wanted.” | <urn:uuid:61300047-6e09-4716-8ef2-c4c6991b7012> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlehumane/tag/wsu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947593 | 502 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Be a hero and dress up in this great Naruto Costume!
“…an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.
The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Currently, the manga is still being serialized with forty-seven tankōbon volumes released so far. The manga was later adapted into an anime, which was produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex. It premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002. The first series lasted 220 episodes, while Naruto: Shippuden, a sequel to the original series, has been airing since February 15, 2007. In addition to the anime series, Studio Pierrot has developed six movies for the series and several original video animations (OVAs). Other types of merchandise include light novels, video games and trading cards developed by several companies.” | <urn:uuid:bdd14282-fa0c-48ed-b2df-2df145f67912> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.costumeshop.us.com/blog/?tag=manga-costume | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977485 | 274 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Make sure your loved one knows where to find your financial information, should something happen to you. When I was about 14 years old, my uncle suddenly and unexpectedly went home to be with the Lord. He had meticulously taken care of the finances for their family and left my aunt on a very solid financial foundation. Obviously, this didn’t take away the pain of him being gone, but his preparation eliminated additional stress that would have been present without it.
It’s one of those things we all prefer not to think about, but it is always better to be prepared. My aunt is still reaping from what my uncle sowed by having his things in order.
Being impacted by my uncle’s premature death and wanting to do everything I can do to help my wife, I decided to create a system for keeping things organized.
It has been a work in progress over the last few years, but has evolved into a very helpful tool. Simply put, it is a single file or location for all your financial account details. I call it a FLOP (Financial Life on One Page). FLOP sounds a little cooler than FLOOP, but not much.
In adding to it over the last few years it has come to have three main purposes. The first being that it is a:
One of the best pieces of advice I received about 5 years ago, when I started my journey to clean up my finances was to keep a balance sheet. I didn’t really understand why at the time, but I did it anyway. I have updated it twice a year since I started it and it has been a great source of encouragement as I have fought to get out of debt.
The reason it has been such a source of encouragement is because a balance sheet not only takes into account the debt you have been paying off, but all of your good financial decisions. So increasing your savings, paying down debt, making wise purchases all will affect your balance sheet in a positive way.
Also, looking at the size of your debts or assets does not necessarily give an accurate report of your financial condition. To get a accurate picture of your financial situation you need a balance sheet to calculate your net worth. It is very easy to do and is just a big subtraction problem:
Assets – Liabilities = Net Worth
If you have never started a balance sheet, I recommend doing it. It is a simple way to track your financial progress as you move towards your goals. For most people it shouldn’t take more than an hour to gather up all your account balances and asset values.
And as with most things, you are either moving forward, or you are going backwards. If you are increasing your assets or minimizing debts your net worth should be growing. If your net worth is getting smaller, then it is an indication that you should re-evaluate how you are spending your money. And even if your situation is not very encouraging, it will force you to see the financial truth so you can make adjustments as needed.
How to create a balance sheet
Another piece of good advice I got a few years back was to create an extremely unique login ID and use it for every website that I had an ID for. I followed the advice and it has helped, but it is not a fail-proof system. Some sites require your email address, some want more than 8 characters, some want less, etc. And in this day in age, where you just about need to login to open your refrigerator, it can be difficult keeping track of all your login information.
After adding all your accounts in the balance sheet section above, you should have all your account information listed already and you can just add a column to add your login for that company. If you use various passwords you could list them in another column as well, but consider using a password hint rather than the actual password. I still come back to my FLOP at least once a week to figure out a login that I forgot about.
The third and most important reason for my FLOP is for my wife. In most families, one person manages the finances and has a better understanding of the overall financial picture. I am that person in my family. Are you that person in yours?
If so, would your spouse (or other beneficiaries) know where to find your financial information? Insurance policies, bank accounts, investment accounts, safe deposit boxes?
I know for my personal situation I know a bit more about our financial details than my wife does. I use my FLOP to layout all of the pertinent details for my wife, if she ever needed them. It contains the name, phone number or web address of each institution, our account numbers for those institutions and any other pertinent info that may be needed.
I then burned the file to a CD and kept it in our safe. Every year or so I put a copy of the updated FLOP in there.
Losing a loved one is a terribly difficult process. Having a “roadmap” prepared in advance for your loved ones is a great way to help eliminate unnecessary stress.
If you are interested, you can download a copy of my template for my FLOP.
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Administration Building, the main office, pen and watercolor
another view of Administration Building, pen and watercolor
Jesuit Community connected with Administration Building, pen and watercolor
St. Ignatius House, pen and watercolor
The Statue of Christ in front of St. Ignatius House, pen and watercolor
Gymnasim and Arrupe Hall building, pen and watercolor
Ricci Hall building, pen and watercolor
Loyola Library, pen and watercolor
Albatross Tower, the symbol of Sogang University, pen and watercolor
Emmaus Hall viewed from Sports Ground, pen and soft pastel
(sketchbook 21 x 29.6cm)
Sogang university was established in 1960 by the Society of Jesus to provide an education based on Catholic belief and inspired by the Jesuit educational philosophy, in conformity with the Koreantradition of education.
The campus located at the foot of Nogosan Mountain, and lies close to Sinchon Subway Station in downtown Seoul. A few famous modern architecture and numbers of contemporary buildings are mixed together felicitously, and they are in harmony with nature and the surroundings around campus.
I sketched strolling in the elegant campus, and enjoying beautiful fall leaves pleasantly. | <urn:uuid:853e3119-cabd-486c-8c35-0a30fcff6845> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://urbansketchers-seoul.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-sketches-at-sogang-university-seoul.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949363 | 266 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Do you intervene or leave it to children to keep their rooms clean?
Almost any kid can make a room messy. It seems it's only a special, rare breed of child who consistently keeps a bedroom or other kid-area clean. What do you do about messy kids' rooms? Strictly enforce a cleanliness standard? Or let them learn a lesson by not getting involved? Or do you periodically do the dirty work yourself to help your kid start from a clean slate? It's "Cleanliness is next to godliness" vs. "She didn't make her bed, so let her lie in it." Which side are you on? Leave a comment below.
The first step is decluttering, and you won't believe how many resources there are to help right here in Golden Valley.
Editor's Note: As we've made our way through the tail end of what feels like the longest winter ever, we started to hear from local businesses and organizations with advice for spring cleaning. Not only is this a perfect way to rid of the lingering winter blahs and organize your home and yard, but we're hoping it'll help organize your mind a bit. This month we're giving you some advice and a plethora of Golden Valley resources to give your home a facelift. Our domestic goddess, Kathleen Riley-Daniels, starts with the first step: decluttering. Spring cleaning and decluttering are no longer a chore, and it will be fun! That’s how I wanted to start this article, but when I talked to people doing cleaning and decluttering, no one said it … | <urn:uuid:83bbfcf5-c6ef-49c1-847f-63da1c0e5eac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goldenvalley.patch.com/topics/Cleaning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954589 | 326 | 1.59375 | 2 |
On April 12, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced a five-year global cultural exchange program, titled “Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative,” that will culminate in three traveling exhibitions. Showcasing what the press release describes as the “most salient cultural practices and intellectual discourses” from three vastly defined regions—South and Southeast Asia as a single area, Latin America, and the Middle East together with North Africa)—it is a pointed, ambitious gesture away from the insitution’s Euro-American focus.
Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong stated in the release: “To a great degree, our view of art history remains Western-centric. Through this collaboration with UBS, we hope to challenge that view, and extend the art world to the real world’s horizons.” In addition to expanding on its previous transnational initiatives, such as the Asia Art Program, begun in 2006, and the building of the controversial Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (See AAP76 The Point), a big step in challenging a “Western” view of art history held by many—particularly in a modernist hub such as New York—will be to reevaluate the Guggenheim’s collection, which is heavily composed of American and European modernist art.
Although the Guggenheim has recently engaged with South and Southeast Asian art, notably in the current exhibition of Indian video- and sound-based art, titled “Being Singular Plural,” which was first organized in 2010 (See AAP71 Reviews), these regions remain underrepresented in the museum’s permanent collection.
Hence one of the driving motivations behind the Global Art Initiative is to invite curators from such underrepresented regions to advise the Guggenheim how to expand its programming in a meaningfully transnational direction, as well as to suggest new acquisitions. The first to do so will be independent curator June Yap, from Singapore, who is overseeing the South and Southeast Asia stretch of the project. Yap has previously worked in the curatorial departments of Singapore’s Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Singapore Art Museum. Most recently, she organized the Singapore Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
Yap, with the assistance of an advisory committee (consisting of specialists from the region, including Patrick Flores of the University of the Philippines, Kwok Kian Chow of the National Art Gallery, Singapore, and Kavita Singh of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, along with Guggenheim’s senior curator of Asian art, Alexandra Munroe and associate curator, Sandhini Poddar) will select new works by South and Southeast Asian artists to be showcased in New York in 2013. Artists from the following countries are being considered for inclusion: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
The exhibition will later travel to institutions in Singapore and Hong Kong large enough to accommodate the selected works, which will fill one of the Guggenheim’s annex galleries. Still, this is a comparatively small space for a show of such breadth and for the amount of money being pledged for the program by its main sponsor, the Union Bank of Switzerland (up to USD 40 million by some estimates). One difficult task will be to contextualize 15 countries’ artistic production in the space of approximately 700 square meters. According to Yap, “Time, and the diversity of practices having a relationship or ties to the region, are the main challenges.” Moreover, given the vastness and heterogeneity of South and Southeast Asia, neither she nor her colleagues at the Guggenheim, expect the show to be a “conclusive thesis of representation of the practices of the region,” she says.
Ultimately, the success of the Global Art Initiative will be seen in future transnational exchanges, curatorial residencies and the direction of the Guggenheim’s public programming, beyond the Initiative’s five-year lifespan. | <urn:uuid:790d354d-8e84-458e-bd94-01fc40c45aa9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://artasiapacific.com/News/GuggenheimUBSMAPGlobalArtInitiative | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939942 | 854 | 1.796875 | 2 |
After three weeks on the lam, John McAfee, the computer programmer and founder of the McAfee security software company, has been arrested by Guatemalan authorities for illegally entering the country, reports Reuters. McAfee is wanted for questioning in relation to the November 11th murder of his neighbor in Belize, 52-year-old Gregory Faull. Earlier this month, VICE traveled to Central America to document McAfee's run from the law, accidentally publishing a cellphone picture with embedded GPS data, CBS News reported. The data revealed that 67-year-old McAfee had managed to make it across the Belizean border to Guatemala, where he applied for political asylum in a press conference earlier today. AFP reports that McAfee appeared alongside his newly-retained lawyer, Telesforo Guerra, the former Guatemalan Attorney General. He is reportedly being held under police guard at a residence belonging to the country's immigration department.
His stay looks to be short-lived, however, as the Guatemalan Interior Ministry plans to expel McAfee back to Belize for crossing the border illegally. According to Reuters, a government spokesman said the process is expected to be completed by early Thursday morning. There is currently no international arrest warrant for McAfee, and he is only listed as a "person of interest," not a prime suspect, in Faull's death. In a recently-published video from VICE (below), McAfee states his alibi in the case, saying:
"I think there's nothing to prove. I was not there, I was with Sam (girlfriend Sam Vanegas) the entire night. I've had more than half a dozen witnesses to the fact. I had no motive. I had no access to a 9-millimeter (handgun) — I don't know what there is to prove, really." | <urn:uuid:4ea3f94e-6a6c-450e-a930-f1c7aba549f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/5/3734178/mcafee-arrest-murder-investigation/in/3524233 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979174 | 375 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Twilight of the Sun-King
Chotusitz - A Twilight of the Sun King Battle Report
Posted 27 Mar 2010 at 20:01
Tom Loback and Vincent Tsao provided this battle report...
The Corlears Hook Fencibles played a game of the Battle of Chotusitz last night, using a modified version of the Twilight of the Sun-King rules. This battle was fought in the War of the Austrian Succession between the Prussians of Frederick the Great and the Austrians of Charles of Lorraine. The game was loosely based on a Volley & Bayonet scenario posted on the V&B page. Dice determined that Tom would be Frederick. I was Charles and Bill was the Austrian subordinate.
The battle starts with the tired Prussian infantry of Leopold on the field in and around the town of Chotusitz. Their right flank cavalry is deployed south of some lakes – or one big lake, depending on which map you use. Other cavalry is arriving on their left flank. Frederick and some fresh, elite infantry are en route. Dice would determine when they arrived. The Austrians were marching onto the table in four columns, one of cavalry on each flank and two of infantry in the center. I commanded the two on the right, Bill the two on the left. My plan was to defeat the Prussian right flank cavalry and envelop their right before the reinforcements arrived. Then the plan met the enemy.
Prussian infantry at start
Prussian right flank cavalry at start
We have incorporated multiple moves inspired by Black Powder into our game, but only at a distance from the enemy. I decreed triple moves by my two columns and rolled no movement at all. Bill had some trouble moving onto the table but was going further than I was. I failed to move my infantry on the second turn while my cavalry made a single move forward. Bill's formations were further forward but fairly confused. The Prussian right flank cavalry advanced to see what they could do about this.
Austrian infantry deploys
Bill ordered his two leading cavalry brigades into line. One failed, the other deployed. I figured he still had a shot at holding since he had 5 cavalry brigades against 3. But he ordered a triple move. His third brigade would march in column forward, wheel across the front of his deployed brigade and then wheel into line. He ignored the stricken look on my face. His dice said two marches, which moved the column across the front of his deployed brigade but failed to form line. He wanted to back out of this but once the dice rolled it was too late. This error nearly did us in.
Flight of the Black Eagle
Buddenbrock's brigades thunder across the field through the Austrian 1st line
Austrian brigades flee or are ridden down.
The Prussian ride completely through the Austrians
The Prussian cavalry advanced into close range. One of Bill's brigades wavered under flank threat. In Twilight, cavalry can force morale checks by threats against infantry. We have extended this to flank and rear threats against other cavalry. There was still a chance to deploy both brigades but Bill's action dice went cold. Apparently the Austrian brigades were in confusion. The Prussians charged forward, breaking one brigade and knocking the other back. Bill attempted to wheel his other brigades onto the flanks of the Prussians, who just charged ahead and routed another brigade.
To the edge of the world!
Galloping up the heights into the Austrian rear
I was slowly getting my infantry deployed. I sent two of my three cavalry brigades across my rear in column to redress the disaster looming on our left. Meanwhile Tom was starting to roll for the reinforcements. On turns 6 and 7 he needed a 6; on turn 8 and 9 he needed 5 or 6, etc. Frederick was getting nearer but he wasn't there yet.
Prussian left flank cavalry rides to the right
The two Prussian cavalry brigades had plunged through our lines and reached our edge of the table, in part to avoid flank attacks. My reserve cavalry was nearly there. The Prussians turned to cut their way back out again. The third Prussian brigade had hit a Croat brigade in square and been repulsed. Other Austrian infantry came up on their flank and fired into them. This brigade was then routed by one of Bill's cavalry brigades.
About face - Charge!
The Prussians turn about and charge back down the heights
The Prussians cutting their way out now were facing a brigade to their front and my reserve brigades behind them. We charged. Prussian morale held. On our next turn the northernmost Austrian brigade broke while my lead reserve brigade was driven back. The Prussians moved off again, slowed by contacting another Austrian cavalry brigade. My last reserve brigade charged and threw the Prussians into disorder. The Austrians blocking the Prussian path were driven off. But my reserve brigade charged them again and broke a brigade of Prussian cavalry. The last brigade of battered Prussian elite cuirassiers rode off, with my reserves in hot pursuit a couple hundred yards behind.
Riding down the enemy's flank
Buddenbrock crashes into more Austrian Cavalry while their reserves come up
Surrounded on all sides!
Two Prussian brigades fight back to back!
Help arrives, too late
Prussian dragoons come to help, but only the Cuirassiers return from the charge
On the 10th turn Frederick arrived with his 4 brigades of elite infantry. By this time all of the Austrian infantry was deployed in two lines and our position battery was working over Leopold's infantry. The next turn saw Tom roll a triple move successfully. His elites formed into a column of deployed brigades. His left and center began to advance. It was looking rather dangerous.
Frederick arrives with reinforcements
Fredericks column: four brigades of grenadiers
Frederick's columns as seen from Austrian lines
Prussian line advances alongside Grenadiers
The last Prussian cuirassier brigade was almost back to the lakes. The pursuing Austrians were shouting "let's see how well they swim!" The cuirassiers turned to face their pursuers but were broken in the ensuing fight. The Prussian cavalry commander escaped and made his way back to the camp. Some cuirassiers were said to have drowned trying to swim the lakes.
Another cavalry clash
The Prussian elite column split into two and came forward against our left center. Leopold's infantry came up against our center and right. First we would pass morale rolls en masse on one turn, failing on other turns. The Prussians did the same. Losses mounted. I had been keeping track of what time each turn started. It was so intense that I forgot to note turns for an hour, and later for half an hour. So I'm guessing at how many turns we played. But when I kept track they usually took about 10 minutes.
Prussian grenadiers attack
Austrian Cavalry outflank Prussian Hussars on a hill
My right flank slowly crumbled under pressure. Since the cavalry fight on our left had drawn most of the mounted troops from both sides, the Prussians only had line infantry to exploit this. About the same time the Prussian line in front of my left center collapsed. A brigade of Hungarian infantry advanced through the gap. A brigade of dragons that had been supporting them wheeled to the left and threatened the next Prussians. The lead brigade advanced past the cavalry's front, since the Austrian infantry in front of them had broken. The lines were coming apart. Bill's infantry was under severe pressure from the elites, but my reserve cavalry was coming around the Prussian right, one brigade heading into the rear of the center. A shot up brigade formed square. The Hungarian infantry shot down the gunners of the Prussian position battery. Tom now had a run of low morale rolls and several shot up infantry brigades gave way. His two infantry generals were shot. This put him at his breakpoint. He had a 50/50 chance of his army breaking. He passed and remained in the fight. We hadn't yet hit our breakpoint.
Hungarians push deep into the Prussian line
Hungarian brigade volley into battered Prussian square
Austrian Dragoons amid Prussian line
Almost the last turn from behind Austrian right
We pressed everywhere we could and held or fell back where we couldn't. Tom now rolled high and passed all his morale tests. He broke another couple of our brigades and our breakpoint loomed through the smoke. We pushed hard again. Prussian grenadiers hit in front by infantry and from the flank by a hussar brigade held. Another shot up grenadier brigade in line charged by dragoons held. Several other shot up brigades likewise resisted attacks. But my Hungarian brigade advanced past the abandoned guns of the position battery and charged the shot up brigade in square. The square broke and forced another army morale check. Tom did not want to take the 50/50 test. He finally rolled and the Prussians collapsed. Bill and I exulted for a moment and then sat down, tired.
Austrian right steadies as cavalry moves on Prussian rear
Prussian sandwich - infantry to front and cavalry behind
We'd played about 20 turns (representing 5 hours of combat) in 3 and a half hours. Prussian losses were 2,500 cavalry, 3,000 infantry, a position battery and two generals (Jeetze and Leopold). Austrian losses were 2,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry. Both armies had been about 30,000 strong, slightly more for the Austrians. It had been a bloodbath, and an exciting game.
I've not seen cavalry charge its way through an army to the enemy base line before, not to mention the cavalry then cutting its way back to their start line. They were finally all broken, but had caused more losses than they sustained. They put our left flank, our plan and our timetable into complete confusion. Another unusual feature of the game was the movement of two brigades of cavalry from my right flank across the rear to our left, engaging the Prussians and then marching around the enemy right, finally charging into their center from behind. It was an exciting game, a real hoot.
I have a notion about generals increasing the breakpoints of their armies. Frederick would increase his army's breakpoint by 3, Ferdinand by 2, Daun or Charles of Lorraine by 1, and Soubise by none. This happens to match the values these officers were given in the old SPI game Frederick the Great. This might mean reducing the generic breakpoint to 40% or so. | <urn:uuid:dbea913b-f103-4c1d-aa23-0cdbfa7e990e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/twilight-of-the-sun-king/scenarios/chotusitz/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976576 | 2,223 | 1.648438 | 2 |
I'd say its about time. Anyone who has ever had his or her car washed at a hands on carwash can't help but come away figuring the workers there are getting screwed. I mean, you don't have the evidence in hand, but you're gut knows it.
Well, out in LA its out in the open for all to see as a campaign to unionize car wash workers is getting underway.
A coalition of labor, community, religious, and immigrant rights organizations announced a campaign to “clean up” Los Angeles’ multimillion dollar carwash industry. The Community-Labor-Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) is supporting the union organizing efforts of the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (CWOC).
"We will do whatever it takes to clean up the carwash industry," said Jon Hiatt, general counsel for the AFL-CIO.
At a news conference yesterday, union leaders urged consumers to ask owners about their pay practices, and to avoid carwashes that charged less than $8 for a complete wash or that the unions had targeted for picketing.
“Carwash owners are often operating below the radar of labor, health and safety and environmental laws,” Labor Federation spokeswoman Mary Guitierrez said . “Carwash workers are often illegally paid less than the minimum wage, sometimes working for tips alone … and are regularly subjected to health and safety hazards.”
The unions said their first major target in the campaign would be the Pirian family, which owns up to eight carwashes in Los Angeles County. Labor organizers plan to picket at three Pirian-owned washes on Saturday, including the family flagship, Vermont Car Wash, on North Vermont Avenue near Hollywood Boulevard, owned by Bennie Pirian.
Paid workers at some of the other 1,000 washes throughout Southern California earn as little as $1.63 an hour even though the minimum wage rose to $8 an hour in January.
"We sweat like animals," said detailer Manuel Varela, 42.
To survive, carwasheros pool resources, cram into cheap apartments, sleep side by side on the floor like, as one worker put it, "salchichas embolsadas," or stuffed sausages.
"Employers feel out the lowest amount these workers will take," said Timothy Kolesnikow, who represents carwasheros and others in his law practice. "People don't realize the human misery involved in getting their cars washed. There is a dark side to this."
But many undocumented workers won't complain for fear of being fired, threatened or deported.
A report in the Mail Tribune out of Oregon shines a light on what it's like working in a car wash.
At Pico Car Wash, a steady flow of vehicles rolled through the wash tunnel, pulled by a chain as workers rushed to soap them.
"The chain doesn't stop," said Erick Garcia, a "secador," or dryer.
He has done every job at Pico, which has paid or settled wage claims totaling nearly $22,000 since 2000 and is embroiled in a lawsuit over wages by 13 workers, including Garcia.
Soapers, or "jaboneros," wash 500 cars on the busiest days, crouching to brush wheel rims and climbing to scour SUV roofs, Garcia said.
"Your hands have to be like lightning," Garcia said, swiftly lathering one side in less than two minutes.
As customers waited in the shade, Garcia wiped the interiors of vehicles by the midday sun, then sprayed degreaser on the wheel rims.
He and the other workers, about a dozen men ranging in age from 20 to 40, wore baseball caps over wet rags on their heads to keep from overheating.
Garcia's boss, inside an air-conditioned office adorned with a "God Bless America" banner, watched his workers on security monitors.
By comparison, Garcia's job was easy. At the entrance of the carwash, "vacumeros" were suctioning dust out of carpets and plucking out debris, including rotten food, matted dog hair and used condoms.
"You spend all day stooped over," said Garcia, who spent his first year as a vacumero. After 11 hours bent over, his back would spasm as he bicycled home.
The following is from the AFL-CIO Blog
Time to CLEAN Up the Car Wash Industry
by James Parks, Mar 27, 2008
No city loves its cars like Los Angeles, and keeping those cars looking good is big business. The city of Los Angeles has more car washes—430—than any other metropolitan area in the country.
According to the Western Carwash Association, an industry trade group, car washes in Southern California average about $1 million gross annual income and can have a profit margin of up to a whopping 29 percent. But if you are one of the thousands of workers who shampoo, wax, dry and detail cars, you don’t see any of that profit—in fact, you may not get paid at all. You also may have to work long hours in 100-degree heat, with no lunch break, no fresh water to drink and risk getting sick by being exposed constantly to harsh and dangerous chemicals.
Today, the newly formed Community-Labor-Environmental-Action Network (CLEAN) Carwash Campaign, a coalition of community, religious, environmental and immigrant rights organizations, announced plans to support Los Angeles car wash workers’ efforts to form a union with the United Steelworkers (USW). The mostly immigrant car wash workers throughout Los Angeles have formed the Car Wash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (CWWOC) to raise their standard of living, secure basic workplace protections and address the serious environmental and safety hazards in their industry.
Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, told a press conference today:
For too long, carwash owners have operated in the shadows, violating labor and health and safety laws with impunity. This coalition is going to do some spring cleaning of a dirty industry, and bring these injustices out into the open.
The CWWOC released a report, Cleaning Up the Car Wash Industry: Empowering Workers and Protecting Communities, which confirms that Los Angeles car wash owners often ignore labor laws, health and safety regulations and environmental protections in their pursuit of the bottom line. Car wash workers are often illegally paid less than the minimum wage, sometimes working for tips alone.
Says Saturnino Hernandez, a car wash worker:
On a sunny day, hundreds of cars might come through the car wash where I work. The boss yells at us to work faster as the cars line up down the street. We are not allowed to stop for a break or for lunch. They don’t give us any fresh water to drink. Sometimes it’s hard to breathe because of the chemicals; my eyes sting and my skin sometimes breaks out in a painful rash. For all this, I’m paid about $35 for a 10-hour day and when I get sick, I have no insurance to pay the bill.
A Los Angeles Times investigation found that hand car washes “often brazenly violate basic labor and immigration laws, with little risk of penalty.”
Half or more of carwash owners flout the minimum-wage law, estimated David Dorame, the longtime lead investigator for low-wage industries at California’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement…employees at a fifth of Southern California’s carwashes in the last five years have formally accused owners of illegally underpaying them, The Times found.
Feliciano Hernandez, who has worked in car washes for more than 40 years, says the workers will gain respect with a union:
I am 63 years old now. I can tell you, it’s gotten much worse for the workers over the years. The boss used to pay us for all the hours we worked and for the overtime too. I could support my family working in a car wash back then. Now I have to work odd jobs in order to pay my rent and for gas and other bills. We used to get breaks for lunch and to take a rest. No more. Now it seems we just work for hours with no breaks and no water, even on the hottest days. And, in the end, the boss shorts our paychecks. I’m organizing with the union because I see how they treat these younger folks. The boss has no respect for us. We work hard and we don’t deserve to be treated like animals.
Many car washes use dangerous chemicals in the cleaning process. Workers are regularly subjected to health and safety hazards, such as exposure to hazardous substances without protective gear. According to the CWWOC report, car washes use highly toxic chemicals throughout the cleaning process, including benzene, zinc, hydrogen fluoride and other metals and acids. Workers regularly are exposed to these chemicals, either through direct contact or in wash wastewater, which is used to pre-soak and shampoo the cars.
Many workers do not have access to protective equipment such as gloves, boots, goggles or face masks. And many have not had any training in the use of hazardous materials as is required by law. Between October 2006 and September 2007, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued 99 citations for deficient hazard communications programs and 92 citations for ineffective injury and illness prevention programs for car washes statewide.
But in a statement, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti says things are about to change:
Working men and women in Los Angeles should be paid decent wages that allow them to support their families. We want to make sure that car wash employees are paid fairly and car wash owners abide by requirements to protect the health and safety of their workers.
Members of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign include the AFL-CIO, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, California Labor Federation, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Los Angeles-Orange County Organizing Committee, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Pride At Work and the USW, along with other unions and numerous immigrant rights, human rights and community groups. | <urn:uuid:ccd4f05a-a0d2-4e2f-9d18-bfc35fdf8d1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/2008_03_23_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966615 | 2,123 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The gangs that are running are town and city streets at night now need to realise that there is a difference--a very large difference--between respect and fear. Yes, we're afraid of them. Anybody in their right mind would be, given the number of people they've killed in the last seven months. Every night there's a new casualty on the tv news, or in the paper: he went outside to stop a bunch of kids throwing cans at his car, and in sixty seconds he was dead.
Yes, they are widely feared. But they're not respected.
I certainly don't respect them. You respect people who do things that you admire, or things you wish you had done. You respect people who do things that you realise must be difficult. Now, it would be difficult for any civilised person to pick up a gun and shoot somebody, or stab them fatally in the guts. But a civilised person wouldn't want to do that anyway. The kind of killing that the gangs indulge in routinely is behaviour normally associated only with diseased animals.
I might get onto what I think the reasons for the emergence of the gangs and the air of violence in our town streets at some other date. Undoubtedly it's due to the moronic manipulative music they listen to, and what they used to call shoot-'em-up computer games, though it can't only be those things because a lot of people listen to moronic music and play those games without killing anybody. Undoubtedly the poverty of the education they have received comes even before that, since they wouldn't be attracted to such intellectually destitute entertainments if their brains had been properly commissioned; and when I say education I'm referring to the nature of the school curriculum as well. Government have got to stop bending education to serve children with the minimum we can get away with and prepare them only for a life serving behind the counter at Primark.
But let me return, briefly, to respect, which all reports tell us is the prime motive for membership of the gangs.
I don't respect anybody who has to get his strength and exercises his cojones by walking with ten other people on either side of him. I don't respect anybody who solves his arguments with violence. That was fine when we were just coming out of the caves, boys, but after Dante wrote The Divine Comedy mankind reached a slightly higher plane.
I respect the solitary individual who has the courage to be himself whatever everybody else is telling him.
I respect--it seems contradictory, but it isn't--a sense of community. A sense of responsibility for one's community. (The person best equipped to protect those around him is the man who thinks for himself.)
I respect intelligence. Depth. Complexity. Maturity.
I respect, as laughable as the world might find it, Peace.
Everybody wants to live, and thrive, and be loved, if their minds have progressed beyond the natal stage. Taking a life, any life (human or animal), is a grotesque act in my book, and a crime against the natural way of things that the perpetrator will wind up paying for forever.
When I see you coming in the street tonight and I cross the road to avoid you it isn't because I respect you. It's because you lack all the qualities that I respect.
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Why does the media keep telling us that the Bowles-Simpson commission issued a report when it clearly did not. If we go to the commission's website and read its bylaws we can quickly find:
"The Commission shall vote on the approval of a final report containing a set of recommendations to achieve the objectives set forth in the Charter no later than December 1, 2010. The issuance of a final report of the Commission shall require the approval of not less than 14 of the 18 members of the Commission."
In fact, there was no vote on anything by December 1, 2010 and there was never a report that received the approval of 14 of the 18 commission members. Therefore, there was no report of the commission. That's pretty simple, isn't it?
Then why does the NYT refer to:
"the proposal by President Obama’s fiscal commission led by Erskine B. Bowles, the Clinton White House chief of staff, and former Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, a Republican."
The plan being referred to in this piece was a proposal of the co-chairs, it was not a report of the fiscal commission.
Come on folks, we know that a lot of powerful people in Washington like this plan. (According to reports, they have a full hand-written copy kept in a gold laced tabernacle in the penthouse at the Washington Post.) It is widely praised in Wall Street circles as well.
But the plan's advocates should have to push their plan the old-fashioned way -- work for candidates who support the plan, give money to their campaigns, buy billions of dollars of deceptive TV ads -- they should not use the news section of the NYT to give the Bowles-Simpson plan more credibility than it warrants.
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This important early view of Howth was painted by William Jones in 1745. An engraving by Giles King is dedicated to William St. Lawrence, 14th Baron Howth (1688-1748) whose house can be seen on the left side of Howth on the horizon. Literature, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 1913, Vol. 1, p. 565. Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, The Painters of Ireland c. 1660-1920 p. 62, ills pl. 46
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A KISS from me to you
With all the kissing going on today. I though I would give you a KISS and say that I love you all and am committed to our relationship. This is the editorial letter in the current edition of Messiah Journal, entitled, A Simple Vision.
I received a copy of Steve Job's biography as a gift for Hanukkah. I have been an Apple user for many years and have participated as a consumer in much of their (his) story. It was nice to get a behind-the-scenes view of the vision, the development, and the story of the products that have become such a valuable and appreciated part of my life. He was a remarkable man, and frankly, his work changed all of our lives. At least in regard to technology, he changed the world.
One thing that is clear from the book is that Steve Jobs had a clear vision and distinct disciplines that defined and guarded his work.
His story is defined by personal passion, trial and error, persistence, and a clear plan. It was amazing to me to see how certain things led naturally into others without any planning; in some ways Steve stumbled into them. For example, the iPod came as a result of Steve's insistence on not having a CD burner in the iMac; a CD burner would have hurt its aesthetics. He preferred the look and design of the machine over the need for people to be able to burn a CD to listen to downloadable music on the go. His insistence on the "look" of the iMac ultimately pushed him to envision the iPod. The iPod and iTunes soon became a massive 50% of Apple's annual revenue, transforming the company and leading millions to ultimately purchase an iMac. People thought: If the iPod is this cool, easy, and reliable--then I bet the Mac computer is just as easy.
The story made me think about my own work at First Fruits of Zion. Jobs saw the future--then he created the future. Thanks to the revelation of our holy Master in the Scriptures and the passion he has given me for restoring his people, I feel that I see the future as well--and I want to help create that future.
Here is my vision of the future--and since Steve Jobs demanded simplicity--I will try to be as simple as possible. Here it is.
I see the church recognizing its connection to Israel and all that that entails. I see the Jewish people recognizing Yeshua as the Messiah and all that that entails. Through this, I see all of God's people becoming one, living holy lives together as we prepare this world for the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Our revamped mission statement, "A Promise of What Is to Come," supports this vision. This new statement acknowledges that there is something greater taking place than just learning and understanding the Bible in a new way--we are part of a restoration and a return predicted by Moses, the other prophets, Yeshua, and the apostles. The modern state of Israel and the Messianic Jewish revival we see today is only the first blossoming of the great, final redemption, which will usher in the kingdom of Messiah. If you are like me and have glimpsed this BIG PICTURE, you share my passion to see this restoration fulfilled.
Now how do we create that future?
Just as faith requires action, so does our call and mission. While we rely on God for his ultimate stewardship of this work, we also labor to the best of our ability to accomplish something great for him. We can do this by being persistent, consistent, compelling, progressive, and connected.
Being Persistent. I just got off the phone with one of my advisors. We were catching up and reflecting on the work of FFOZ, our direction, planned resources, etc. He said, "One of the fundamental differences between you and I is that you are an optimist and I am a pessimist." He's correct. And while at times his pessimism balances my optimism, I am truly an optimist. I see great things for this message, and that reveals my persistence. David Bivin of The Jerusalem Perspective recently wrote me saying,
I'm well acquainted with disappointment. That's been the story of my life. I have to keep telling myself: "If you don't have unrealistic expectations, you won't be disappointed." Yes, we have a HUGE amount of reeducation ahead of us. Fortunately, there are bright spots and nahas here and there as individual students get a glimpse of what's out there and get excited.
Persistence will help create the future, no matter how far out it is, while remaining faithful and dedicated will bring it to fruition. And yes, there are bright spots and nahas here and there along the way. With God's help, you can expect FFOZ and VOD to continue the good race that we've started.
Being Consistent. One of my favorite Pauline statements is in Romans 12:10: "Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor." I frequently reference this in my teachings; I think it is vital. Having a message that is not in alignment or agreement with the majority requires our teachings to be consistent in this area. If our teachings come across as condemning, judgmental, unnecessarily controversial in tone, they will not go beyond those that are already in agreement with those positions.
Paul also tells us that, "If I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."(1 Corinthians 13:2)
Hebrew Roots zealots often chide my colleagues and me on various blogs, Facebook statuses, and in conversation. They consider us compromised because we do not condemn others. Perhaps you saw the recent 280 comments on one of my Facebook statuses. Here is a sample, "This is crap. FFOZ's scholarship has gone down the toilet now that their primary focus is giving Christians the warm fuzzies. As soon as you make the Torah optional, all these little issues (like celebrating Xmas) become moot points." This kind of vitriolic attitude is all too common in the Hebrew Roots world. Others see it and say, "No thank you."
Consistency in demonstrating love despite differences, and humility in understanding, will enable us to create the future. Consistent love for our fellow man, even if we do not share identical perspectives, will eventually bring us together. You can expect FFOZ to continue to be gracious, accommodating, and kind-spirited.
Being Compelling. We have to give people more than what they have. A couple of years ago FFOZ coined the term, "Know Jesus Better." That slogan resonated deeply with people. All disciples want to know Jesus better, and we feel that the way to do this is to understand or know him within his Jewish context. In order to compel people to seek out the real Jesus, we have to provide the side of the Master that has not been understood; we have to place him back into the world of Judaism and strengthen his message by a more thorough treatment of historical meaning and Jewish contexts.
Additionally, we have to show that this is NOT about education or a simple realignment of understanding. We believe that it is a prophetic move of God. Understanding the Jewishness of Jesus is not merely an option which Christians can take or leave as they prefer; it is essential. It will save the gospel message. Today's Christian world lacks a proper foundation, and it is collapsing under Postmodernism. Consider the prophetic message of Zechariah:
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew [the Jewish Messiah], saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'" (Zechariah 8:23)
People want to know they are a part of something big. This compelling message goes beyond a new understanding of Jesus; it is a prophetic attachment to the Jewish Messiah Yeshua that transcends everything else life has to offer.
Being Progressive. I was nervous at the onset of our last national conference. The topics that we were presenting are potentially controversial. Thrusting ourselves into another controversial topic did not sound appealing. The topic? Heaven and Hell. What is so controversial about that? Well, when you present on such a vital topic and challenge the traditional view in this area, you can easily be branded as a heretic--plus the nature of such a topic is emotionally charged and is full of speculation. I had the opening lecture, which was entitled, "Opening our Eyes." In that lecture, I appealed to our audience to give us the space to explore ideas and perspectives that may challenge some of our long-held views.
But I ask: If we are to look at our faith from a historical, contextual, and, most importantly, a Jewish perspective, then shouldn't we be allowed to be progressive in pushing Jewish ideas forward? Must we always be paranoid about a looming inquisition from other believers? Can we not, without alarmism, offer new ideas and perspectives for consideration? If not, then what is the point of this mission?
To create the future we have to be mature, balanced, fair, and yes progressive. We have to be able to think through old ideas and reconsider them from a new angle, with new insights and information. In the last issue of Messiah Journal we published such an article by Dr. Mark Kinzer, a Messianic Jewish scholar whom I highly regard. It was entitled "Final Destinies." As a result of our publishing this piece, I had my participation in seminars canceled, received harsh letters, and heard angry condemnation of our work. We expected this, yet we feel that Dr. Kinzer puts good thoughts forward that need to be considered by post-supersessionist Christianity. Rather than falling back on our Spanish Inquisition impulses, we need to think through these matters, discuss them, learn through them, and sharpen our understandings in this case and many other areas as well.
Being Connected. Steve Jobs was not afraid of difficult relationships. At one point, in order to make his product better, he enlisted the help of Microsoft. In order to create the future, we have to do it together. We are a team of disciples and we need each other. We are not rivals, and we should not act like it. We will not create the future if we continue to fight or exercise "baseless hatred" toward one another. Please take the time to read "The Writing on the Wall" (page 37). Please attentively consider the section that discusses "Baseless Hatred." It is a critical message for all of us.
I am proud to have this journal expanding and to have new authors and contributors that demonstrate our shared vision for the future. Working with great men like Mark Kinzer (Issue 108) and Russ Resnik and Tsvi Sadan (current issue) and many others will only make this journal better and bring the future sooner.
Make an iPod
I sense that one day we will stumble across our iPod. Steve Jobs experienced many obstacles in creating his vision for Apple. Yet his vision was clear and he constantly guarded that vision to see it come to fruition. His life ended prematurely, yet he accomplished more than most men who live out their years. Our time on earth is short as well, but through partnership, persistence, an unyielding passion for what the Father has for us to do, and with God's blessing and help we can change the world.
We can do this!
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The fashion industry is growing at an exponential rate, but it’s not just the big brands that are reaping the benefits; small fashion businesses are popping up everywhere and changing all preconceived notions of how the market’s served. Recently, we produced a piece on the ways crowdsourcing is changing the way fashion startups gain insight and grow in their space. The newest venture that we can’t get enough of, and has seamlessly integrated crowdsourcing in their funding plans, is Manufacture New York. This NYC incubator and factory hybrid is empowering designers through collaborative spaces and access to production.
There’s a buzzword we’ve been reading about more and more in the fashion community: crowdsourcing. By this point we know that crowdsourcing is “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.” (Wikipedia) It’s so popular in the startup community because it’s about the sharing of ideas and partaking in the collaborative process. Let us tell you, this is not a fad.
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Money. Every startup needs it, and it’s usually at the most vulnerable, early-stage, high risk point when it needs the most. Tech startups, for instance, are notorious for seeking out a number of different ways of receiving funding including: venture capital, angel investing, and other seed funding opportunities. This is because, typically, these types of startups are too small to raise capital in the public market, so they go to venture capital firms or independent venture capitalists and ask for funds in exchange for equity in their company.
But because venture capital has been less available in recent times, startups have to find the best ways to turn a profit and satisfy stakeholders, and even more more critical, they must be particularly creative and sharp before spending any money at all. Here are 3 things to consider before spending your company’s hard-earned cash. read more »
Last night we attended WIM Accelerator’s Meet the Innovators: Social Video Marketing event at the Apple Store in SoHo. Some of you may remember our recap of the Social TV event that happened earlier this year and we were thinking the same thing you were: “How’s this going to be different?” Well, it was… completely different.
Here are stories of the companies that participated that helped us embrace the amazing growth and potential in social video marketing. read more »
It’s February 18th and you know what that means! That’s right, it’s Social Media Week.
We’re geared up and ready to go for the next 5 social innovation and information packed days, and we couldn’t resist getting in on the fun. So, this Thursday we will be hosting an event at LIM College on Fashion + Social Media: How Brands Are Driving Sales. Be sure you come by and check it out!
In the meantime, here’s our list of 5 of the hottest, most disruptive events happening this week. read more »
Tech and fashion are losing their restraints and teaming up fast and furious in the new year. With the first-ever hackathons on the horizon (and happening back-to-back) we’re seeing a more in-depth exploration in the thing we love most, fashion tech. Last night Third Wave Fashion had the opportunity to collaborate with Hearst, Angel Hack, and Fashion+Tech NY, to talk all things high-fashion and high-tech.
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We recently lost a most beloved entertainer, Art Linkletter.
With more than his share of obstacles and tragedies in life, he remained optimistic, and through the course of personal hills and valleys, he climbed to the pinnacle of success.
Linkletter hosted the Golden Age TV shows of the 1950s and ‘60s, “People Are Funny” and “House Party,” the latter of which had Linkletter’s best-known segment called “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”
A pioneer of a different kind of reality show, he had the uncanny ability to elicit surprise statements from ordinary folks, especially kids. He was brilliant at what he did, making children feel relaxed enough to be themselves and say whatever it was that was on their minds. The gift he had would produce consistently hilarious spontaneous programming.
Linkletter’s wholesome programs would have few venues in our present-day culture. Branson, Mo., might welcome him, but I’m hard-pressed to think of too many others. Can you even imagine a show today with a title that used the word “darndest” in it?
The intellectual elite and many of the television critics of his day hated Linkletter and his shows. But Middle America couldn’t get enough.
“People Are Funny” was on NBC on radio and television for a combined 19 years. The show was in the Top Ten for more than a decade. “House Party” had a combined 25-year run on CBS radio and television and stayed at the top of the daytime ratings for its entire run.
Linkletter’s real-life story sounds as if someone may have made the whole thing up.
Born on July 17, 1912, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Arthur Gordon Kelly could have been a poster child for the “Choose Life” crowd, if there were such a dilemma back then.
His unwed mom put him up for adoption when he was just a newborn. A middle-aged couple that had tragically lost two children took him in. It wasn’t until he was 12 years old that young Art, while rummaging through his father’s desk, would discover that Fulton and Mary Linkletter were not his birth parents.
Linkletter’s adoptive father was a one-legged street preacher. Neighborhood corners provided the family’s stage and pulpit. It’s where they all performed and prayed together. He would later say that the religious faith instilled by his dad had been a wonderful gift.
At 16 years of age, Linkletter became what used to be called a “hobo,” hopping freight trains across the country and working odd jobs. He eventually took employment in a bank on Wall Street, right before the 1929 crash.
San Diego would later be the place where he would start his radio broadcast career. He and quiz show producer John Guedel would come up with an audition tape of a program with a rather generic title, “People Are Funny.” The rest, as we say, is television history.
Art and his wife Lois had five children. With his own kids, though, unlike his TV alter ego, Linkletter would have to deal with a tremendous amount of heartache. In 1969 his daughter Diane leapt to her death from her sixth-floor flat. Drugs were said to be involved. In characteristic form, Art used the tragedy to become an anti-drug advocate.
Linkletter’s son, Robert, died in a car accident in 1980. Another son, Jack, died of lymphoma in 2007.
“Life is not fair . . . not easy,” he said in an interview. “But I'm an optimist. Even though I've had tragedies in my life, and I've seen a lot of difficult things, I still am an optimist.”
No doubt he still is.
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in media psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, commentator, media analyst, and law professor. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court. Hirsen is the co-founder and chief legal counsel for InternationalEsq.com. Visit Newsmax TV Hollywood.
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PD Editorial: Will a new Congress be effective?
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 4:48 p.m.
A new Congress convenes today, and this much is certain: It doesn’t have a tough act to follow.
Descriptions of the outgoing Congress include disappointing, historically unproductive, even an abject failure. Beset by both partisan divisions and ideological splits within the parties, it produced stalemates more frequently than settlements.
Congress didn’t pass a budget for two years, and its squabbling over the debt ceiling in 2011 caused a reduction of the nation’s credit rating.
Even the last-minute agreement on the “fiscal cliff” only postponed an inevitable reckoning with budget deficits and public debt. It included a two-month deferral of $24 billion in defense and domestic spending cuts, leaving a final decision for the 113th Congress.
Among the other business left behind was:
Hurricane aid for New York, New Jersey and other states trying to recover from the Oct. 29 storm that caused billions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses and public infrastructure. A $60 billion relief bill passed the Senate, but the House adjourned without taking action.
A new farm bill. With dairy prices on the verge of doubling on Jan. 1, Congress hastily passed a one-year extension of the law that authorizes crop insurance, price supports, farm subsidies and food stamps. The Senate passed a five-year extension in September, but again the House failed to act.
There’s an opportunity here for the new Congress to revisit aspects of the Senate bill, including a new crop insurance system that’s good in theory but threatens to be more costly than the subsidies it would replace. A new bill also should enact a new standard for chicken cages based on an agreement between egg farmers and the Humane Society.
A fiscal crisis threatening the solvency of the U.S. Postal Service.
Postal officials asked for greater flexibility in setting rates, an end to six-day delivery, closure of some rural post offices and relief from a costly mandate to fund retiree health care in advance, but yet again the House failed to act.
There’s no guarantee that the new Congress will be any more productive. It’s still divided, with Democrats retaining control in the Senate and a Republican majority, albeit a smaller one, in the House. But with 84 new members in the House and 12 in the Senate, there may be some new energy and, we hope, new willingness to compromise.
Among the new House members is Jared Huffman of San Rafael, who was elected in a new congressional district stretching along the coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. He will be on the Natural Resources Committee.
After reapportionment, much of Sonoma County is represented by Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, who is starting his eighth term in Congress and will chair a task force on gun control legislation for the House Democratic caucus.
As they take their oaths, we hope it marks the beginning of a more cooperative, more productive session of Congress than the dismal spectacle of the past two years.
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Space Elevator Component Schematics
This page is for storing and discussing schematic designs that are perhaps too large or complex for other locations. These schematics are generally works in progress.
Edwards, split arm design with shock absorbers.
Edwards: This design I put together as an alternative concept to try to make a more robust system. This was originally designed as a competition climber but I believe it could be scaled up to a full scale design.
The force the rollers apply into the ribbon is partially from the spring in the middle roller but more so from weight of the climber itself. This design can be mounted to the ribbon by turning the climber at an angle and sliding it into place. A second design considered had both arms on the same side of the ribbon to make mounting easier. Motors are seen here on the upper and lower rollers though how many and which rollers is open to design constraints.
Another item here is that I attempted to shock mount the PV array to reduce its movement and any potentially damaging vibrations. I am not sure I got the entire dynamics correct but it should do vertical, horizontal and rotational damping of everything faster than about 1Hz. When I built a model of this it appeared to roughly work but I was unable to complete the construction. The issue I had was that the shocks as shown here and the way I built it bind under the off axis loads. Shocks designed to handle vertical bending loads are required - these are pretty straight forward if you think of sliding drawers. | <urn:uuid:efe278f1-cd98-4748-bd7f-81c0c2c234c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spaceelevatorwiki.com/wiki/index.php/ArchiveSchematics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967541 | 313 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Amanda Veiga, Economic and Social Development of Regions
“It's like having one-on-one tutors in a university setting.”
Amanda Veiga teaches seventh-grade social studies. When she decided to pursue a graduate program to enhance her career, she was drawn to UMass Lowell’s master’s program in Economic and Social Development of Regions.
Veiga teaches her students about ancient civilizations and compares them to modern day political and economic systems. The Economic and Social Development of Regions program is a good fit for her, and has already provided strong material for her own lesson plans. “By better educating myself, I am keeping up-to-date and informed with the topics I am covering in my own class,” she says. “I like to remind my students that I am also a student and that learning is a constant process for any career path.”
One of the more memorable projects she has worked on at the University was the St. Patrick’s Church excavation project
in Lowell. As one of six students selected to participate, the group searched for remnants of Irish immigrants. The team was led by visiting archeologists from Queen’s University in Belfast. It was an enlightening experience for the educator. “One week of participating in that dig was the culmination of many history, political, religious and economic classes put together,” says Veiga.
As a teacher, Veiga gives UMass Lowell and the Economic and Social Development of Regions program high marks. “When you have passionate professors who are working within their field and are consistently sharing new ideas and experiences, it’s like having one-on-one tutors in a university setting,” she says. | <urn:uuid:12041131-29df-4e7f-bbd3-23b5f6838a8f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mailto:[email protected]/Profiles/Amanda-Veiga.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965612 | 361 | 1.71875 | 2 |
In a January 1 interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Paul was asked if he still supported that position and basically said yes. Wallace then asked him if people with AIDS should be denied health insurance. Paul said no, but he directly implied that people with AIDS should pay more for their health insurance.
Paul points out that smokers are often asked to pay more for their health insurance, which is true. What he fails to see is that the smoking comparison doesn't really apply. Should the people who did not acquire HIV through unprotected sex pay more? Most people who acquired HIV through unprotected sex (like myself) did not intend to be harmed. Most people who smoke do so fully aware of the health risks. By Paul's logic, it seems to me that he should be in favor of higher health care costs for all people who have had unprotected sex.
Paul's beliefs notwithstanding, perhaps the most appalling thing in this interview was how Wallace asked Paul about health insurance for people with AIDS: "Congressman, do you think someone who suffers from AIDS should not be entitled to health insurance as opposed to, let's say, somebody who has a homo, heterosexual transmitted disease?"
Wallace committed many no-nos with this question. On style, enough with the "suffers from AIDS" phrase, please. Saying "has AIDS" is sufficient, thank you very much.
Just to back up my annoyance, here's the entry on AIDS from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) stylebook:
On substance, Wallace made an even more egregious error. By saying a "heterosexual transmitted disease" (I'm sure he meant "heterosexually"), he directly implies that HIV is essentially a gay thing. His slip up of including "homo" before "heterosexual" seems to underscore this belief.
AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a medical condition that compromises the human immune system, leaving the body defenseless against opportunistic infections. Some medical treatments can slow the rate at which the immune system is weakened. Do not use the term "full-blown AIDS." Individuals may be HIV-positive but not have AIDS. Avoid terms such as "AIDS sufferer" and "AIDS victim" because they imply powerlessness. Use "people with AIDS" or, if the context is medical, "AIDS patients."
Obviously gay people are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS, but the virus does not discriminate by sexual orientation. Wallace should know better. All journalists should know better.
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On 1 August, the Western Telegraph (Pembrokeshire paper) printed this article, but didn’t use any of the photos they’d asked for and I had sent, just the standard one of Brad that gets used everywhere, nor did they mention WISE Up.
Exactly two years after the WikiLeaks release of the Afghan War Diaries, Wednesday 25 July 2012, banners were unfurled at the summit of Snowdon to mark the anniversary.
The highest mountain in England and Wales, Snowdon rises some 1,000 metres above sea level. Reaching the summit via the Llanberis path entails a climb of almost 900 metres with the mountain railway running within sight of the path for most of the ascent, allowing passengers to wave cheerily at those plodding along on foot.
The weather conditions were muggy and windless on Wednesday as we sweated our way up the mountain from Pen Ceunant Uchaf above Llanberis just after lunch. We encountered fog, low cloud, drizzle and many fellow walkers heading in both directions as we slowly gained height.
Approaching our destination some three hours after departure, the clouds began to part to reveal the summit ahead…
…and we emerged into glorious sunshine and crowds of tourists who had arrived via the mountain railway as well as a smaller number of hillwalkers who had got there under their own steam.
We unfurled our banners: “FREE BRADLEY MANNING”
and “DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGERS! FREE ASSANGE. FREE MANNING. END THE WARS”.
We handed out stickers and answered questions about the action, then rested in the sunshine just below the summit to prepare ourselves for the return journey.
We took this action to remember all those killed, maimed, traumatised and bereaved in this futile war and to stand in solidarity with all those who have had the courage to resist and speak out.
As we stood on the summit – the highest point in England and Wales – looking out across the landscape, our thoughts were, in particular, with accused whistleblower Bradley Manning who has Welsh roots and who has been held for two years in pretrial detention, who has been denied his rights and subjected to torture at the hands of the US; with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange who has sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in fear of his life if extradited to the US either from Britain or Sweden; with Michael Lyons, the British Navy medic who was jailed last year for resisting the war in Afghanistan having studied the Afghan War Diaries.
Back at the hut, we rested our feet and quenched our thirst…
had forty winks…
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US Congress still divided as 'fiscal cliff' deadline looms
31.12.12 @ 10:08
BRUSSELS - US lawmakers remain divided over the so-called 'fiscal cliff' which would usher in spending cuts and tax rises worth $560 billion unless a cross-party deal can be brokered to cut the US budget deficit.
Failure to reach a deal before midnight on Monday (31 December) would automatically see tax rates go up for 88 percent of Americans, with over 2 million long-term unemployed losing welfare benefits.
The tax rises would be the result of the expiration of tax cuts originally passed in 2001 by George W. Bush before being extended under the Obama Presidency, as well as an end to exemptions on employee payroll taxes.
The impasse comes as Democrats and Republicans ponder the best way to cut its budget deficit and government debt pile.
Although the fiscal cliff would halve the US's 8.5 percent budget deficit rate in 2013, the Congressional Budgetary Office, as well as other analysts including the IMF, say it could lead to a double-dip recession.
On 17 December Democrats offered a package of $1.2 trillion in higher taxes over ten years, and public spending cuts of $925 billion over the next ten years.
However, Republicans, led by House speaker John Boehner, are demanding over $1 trillion in spending cuts and have so far maintained that they will oppose any tax rises. President Obama wants those earning over $250,000 a year to pay a larger share of tax.
The row over how to reduce the US debt and deficit levels comes as the fiscal compact treaty agreed by 25 of the EU's 27 member states enters into force on Tuesday (1 January).
The deal commits governments to a 'golden rule' capping budget deficits at 3 percent of GDP, reducing the scope for governments to put in place stimulus measures in a recession. The treaty, agreed by EU leaders in December 2011, also includes possible fines of up to 0.5 percent of GDP if countries fail to keep to the thresholds.
IMF officials are now urging France and other EU countries to rein in their deficit reduction targets, fearing that the cuts needed to meet the 3 percent benchmark would damage economic performance.
Speaking to German news weekly Die Welt, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde commented that "Germany ... and others ... can allow themselves to go a little more slowly than others in the push to straighten out their public finances."
Edward Gardner, head of the IMF mission in Paris, told reporters last week that the French government should focus on "the credibility of the medium-term orientation policy" rather than specific targets, adding that loosening the timetable for deficit reduction would be "more effective".
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It's all going according to plan -- Cloward-Piven -- the intentional destruction of the American economy. Thanks a lot, Barack, you must be mighty pleased with yourself.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
ObamaNomics: Number Of Americans On Food Stamps Rockets To All-Time High Of 45.8 Million, 15% Of U.S. Population…
"Or as Obama likes to call it, mission accomplished.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — 'Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
The number of Americans using the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — more commonly referred to as food stamps — shot to an all-time high of 45.8 million in May, the USDA reported. That’s up 12% from a year ago, and 34% higher than two years ago.
The program provides monthly benefits to low-income individuals and families, which they can use at stores that accept SNAP benefits.
To qualify for food stamps, an individual’s income can’t exceed $1,174 a month or $14,088 a year — an amount that is 130% of the national poverty level.
The average food stamp benefit was $133.80 per person and $283.65 per household in May.'"
If that weren't enough, the US credit rating has been lowered, after Turbo Timmy assured us it would not happen.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Obama's War on America: S&P Downgrades US Credit Rating
"He is destroying this country, our power, our economic engine, our sovereignty.
Standard & Poor's Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating to AA+
'The ratings agency Standard & Poor's has reduced the United States' credit rating from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook, the company announced late Friday, saying a bipartisan deal to reduce the nation's debt did not go far enough and citing crippling political gridlock.
The first downgrade of U.S. credit in history could cost the government and ordinary consumers billions of dollars by jacking up interest rates the U.S. must pay on its $14.4 trillion debt and a host of rates consumers must pay for items such as mortgages, car loans and credit cards.
The move by S&P follows decisions by Moody's and Fitch, two other major ratings agencies, to maintain the United States' AAA rating, though Moody's assigned a negative outlook.
"The downgrade," S&P said in a statement announcing its move, "reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics."
In particular, Standard & Poor's added, it grew more pessimistic about U.S. debt because of the dispute over raising the debt ceiling.
"The political brinksmanship of recent months," the company said, "highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed."
The agency pointed to political reluctance to make cuts to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, and Republicans' refusal even to consider increasing revenues by, for instance, ending the Bush tax cuts.
"Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place," the company said. "We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the [debt ceiling deal]."'
Below is a Wall Street Journal panel, back on July 29th, discussing what would happen if our rating was downgraded -- well it happened.
Turbo Timmy's prediction:
'Peter Barnes “Is there a risk that the United States could lose its AAA credit rating? Yes or no?”
Geithner’s response: “No risk of that.”
"No risk?" Barnes asked.
"No risk," Geithner said.'"
Our economy is so bad that even Iran under sanctions has an economy growing faster than ours. How pathetic is that?
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He extends a bridge to the other side, while standing firm in his convictions
Religion and reason
photo: Randa Shaath
A favourite visual image of Fahmy Howeidy with photographers is of him standing near a painting or work of art in his elegantly decorated home. The caption will typically read "Fahmy Howeidy, Islamist writer, standing next to a work of art in his house". This simple line might perhaps, more than anything else, conjure up the paradox that at times seems to beleaguer people's perceptions of who, exactly, Fahmy Howeidy is.
One of the Arab world's leading columnists, writing in the national daily Al-Ahram and syndicated to seven Arab publications, Howeidy over the past two decades has made his mark as a political analyst specialising in contemporary "Islamic" countries. He has produced articles and books, considered ground-breaking in Arab journalism, focussing on contemporary Iran, Afghanistan and Bosnia and shedding light on hitherto unknown terrain for the Arab reader, such as contemporary Islam in China and in African countries such as Senegal.
Bolstered by an analytical approach and by procedures of logical deduction based on facts, he espouses a world view in which Islam is a basic frame of reference for society and politics. For his many admirers, his reputation transcends that of the journalist to that of an intellectual "visionary" heralding a moral and political message. For his adversaries, mostly "secularists" and "liberals", Howeidy's unique combination of rationality and a religion-based disposition inspires more mixed reactions, from respect for his integrity and his desire to "engage in dialogue", to suspicions that beneath his logical discourse might, perhaps, be concealed some insidious agenda of militancy.
People who meet him for the first time are thus surprised to see, not a moralising pedant, but an unassuming, rather reserved man, whose wry humour and keen sense of the absurd made him start out his career as a cartoonist. An art-lover, his imprint is everywhere in the home he has filled with art-pieces scouted out on countless trips to China, Persia and Africa, and, when he had more time, the galleries and old antique shops of Cairo. Sitting in his home in Heliopolis, the 66-year-old Howeidy appeared to frown upon being, as he expressed it, "put in a slot".
"We have this thing about 'seals' in Egypt, you know, wanting to put a stamp on everyone, and say: this is an Islamist, this is a leftist, and so on. Look at any 'religious' programme on television and you will see the inevitable 'mediaeval' decoration, the 'oriental lantern' hanging in the background."
He poured out the tea, asking how much sugar to add. "But what is an 'Islamist' writer anyway? What should he look like? Must he be formidable looking with a beard? Should he be sitting in a cave with one eye and a dagger between his teeth? Should we all be Bin Ladens and Zawahris? Why can't a Muslim be a person like everyone else? It is a stamp that has been put on me."
He graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Law. And, like the lawyer he was trained to be, he measures his words, honing his writing to persuade and to confront. He "never really thought of becoming a journalist", he says, "let alone an Islamist writer for that matter. But one thing just flowed from the other." While he is perceived as having several persona, he sees himself first and foremost as a journalist, his business card still carrying the simple word "reporter".
Howeidy started his career by drawing cartoons "by way of political commentary" for Al-Da'wa, a publication issued before the 1952 Revolution by the Muslim Brotherhood. His father, an employee in the Ministry of Justice, had participated in founding the Brotherhood along with its leader Hassan El-Banna. Although Howeidy himself never joined the organisation, he was thrice imprisoned during the rule of the late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the first time at the age of 16 for two years, because of his father's affiliation. He will not elaborate on an experience that appears to have been traumatic for him. Nor does he attach much significance to the impact that his father's inclinations might have had on him.
For Howeidy, like the greater part of his generation of intellectuals, socialist and pan-Arabist ideas also had a strong impact on his intellectual formation. He joined Al-Ahram in the late 1960s, and it is telling that the man whom he considers to be a mentor, who guided him towards an interest in the contemporary Islamic countries, was the secular, left-wing writer Ahmed Bahaaeddin, a journalist in the vanguard of the intellectual and journalistic scene of 1960s Egypt.
In the mid-1970s, Bahaaeddin, as Al-Ahram's then editor-in-chief, assigned Howeidy to establishing the daily's first ever "religion" page. "It was called religious, and not Islamic, because the idea was to have a comprehensive outlook, to invite a national dialogue on religion, where clerics and laymen, Muslims and Copts, would participate."
Al-Ahram's religion page swiftly broke out of narrow bounds, he recalls, tackling topics like marriage, divorce and life insurance, on which "the views of respected authorities in fiqh (Islamic law) such as Sheikh Ali El-Khafif were solicited". However, the mid-1970s were also a politically turbulent era, where confrontations between the late President Anwar El-Sadat and a number of prominent intellectuals led to their ostracism and transfer from their positions.
Howeidy left Egypt for Kuwait in 1979 to become managing editor of Al-Arabi, a monthly cultural magazine edited at the time as well by Ahmed Bahaaeddin, who had also moved to Kuwait. Assigned to undertake a series on the contemporary Islamic countries, it was in Kuwait that Howeidy first witnessed Iran's Islamic Revolution in books written by Ayatollah Al- Khomeini and spirited under various pen names into the Shi'ite district of Beneid Al-Gar where Howeidy lived. He was the first Arab journalist to visit Iran after the 1979 Revolution, boarding a plane transporting Shi'ite clerics to Iran to congratulate Khomeini after the fall of the late Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Howeidy's book Iran from the Inside, published in 1987, was an instant best-seller, its three editions sold out. It boosted his readership and with it, his reputation for being "Iran's man". He recalls, with a hint of irony, that he would be asked "to attend functions and speak in the name of the revolution, as if I were some kind of spokesman". He sympathised with the revolution, based on his well-researched understanding of the ideological and religious outlook which became its catalyst. However, he never lost sight of its "non-religious" causes which he diagnosed as social inequality, political repression under the Shah, and forced westernisation. His outlook was never one of unquestioning admiration nevertheless. Indeed, he "stopped", he says, "regarding the Iranian Revolution as an 'Islamic model' a long time ago".
Today, Howeidy sees the Iranian regime as undergoing "pressures that will ultimately lead to its changing some of its fundamental concepts, such as wilayat al faqih (government by men of religion) and the mullahs' tight control over political life". He sees "the conservatives" in Iran as needing to "work together with the reformists. However, they don't want to, and this is where the problem lies."
In his 1979 book, Howeidy also took issue with the political repression exercised by the mullahs against their political opponents. He questioned the enforcing of the veil on Iranian women, "which would induce them, the minute they boarded a plane, to take it off".
A personally devout man, who characterises himself as an "orthodox Muslim", he perceives religious ordinances, such as donning the veil, to be "one more step along the path to piety, but not one that should be enforced".
"I feel that our society is becoming too fixated on what you wear, what you look like, more than how you are, how you act, as a Muslim. I would like to see my daughters veiled," Howeidy admits, but the way in which he and their mother have brought them up, he says, places paramount value on their "independence and their freedom to make a choice". His whole outlook is driven by a desire "to engage in dialogue, to accept differences", yet this has never deterred him, when he felt the need, to brace himself for challenges, and to engage in intellectual onslaught.
In his book The Discourse of Secular Militancy in the Balance, he turns the tables on what he describes as "the group of extremist secularists and Marxists who show intolerance and incite hatred and fear towards all that is Islamic."
Today, he argues for the principle of "the Islamic state, which is different from the religious state. In the Islamic state, God is the source of law, 'Shari'a', but the nation is the source of authority, holding its rulers accountable to it." Howeidy also believes that the formation of "an Islamic political party" is imperative "as part of a civilisational and political project in countries where Muslims are the overriding majority and where non-Muslims participate also, based on the principle of brotherhood. The Islamic state is a democracy where faith becomes a basic frame of reference, and it is one that will not violate the principles of Islam, by legalising what is religiously prohibited."
The formation of an Islamic political party is important, Howeidy argues, "because of Islam's strong historic roots, its sanctity as a faith, and its overriding influence in the lives of Muslims. It is important, because it represents the mainstream." Secular, even Marxist parties, could operate in an Islamic state, Howeidy says, despite their reservations over the degree to which religion should govern public life.
"The final judge must be the ballot box. The Islamists need have no fear, as long as we go about things according to our constitution, which states that Islam is the main source of legislation and as long as there is no derision of the principles of religion." His arguments sound much like those of secularists, and he concedes that for him, "what is at stake is the defence of Islam as a faith, of the right to uphold it as a frame of reference."
Howeidy's acclaimed book Citizens, not Dhimmis also endeavoured to develop a modern concept of political participation and citizenship based on the Qur'an and Sunna (the Prophetic Traditions), upholding the premise that Christians in the Islamic state are citizens with rights and duties equal to those of their Muslim compatriots. They should not be considered as "dhimmis", a minority of subordinate status falling short of parity with its Muslim brethren, as had developed over the centuries in the body of religious law. In his book, Howeidy called for "a discriminating look at fiqh, excising from it elements of militancy and the alienation of non- Muslims, which resulted from historical circumstances of self-defence."
Today, in the aftermath of the US-led war on Iraq, he sees the future of the Arab region as "quite dim", because of the "secular despotisms that are no less repressive than those of the 'men of religion'. We have an obsession with criticising the rule of the mullahs, people governing in the name of religion. I am against this, because the idea of wilayat al faqih, government by men of religion, is not even part of Sunni Islam. None of the Al-Azhar clerics ever ruled. But what about the rule of secular regimes like the Ba'ath? What about governance by family and inherited rule? What about all the secular despotisms? I don't think the crisis of democracy lies in Islam, inasmuch as it does in the Arab world. Why is Islam not seen as antithetical to democracy in Malaysia or Pakistan?"
He adds "in all cases, I don't think that 'Islam is the solution' should be the motto. It should be 'democracy is the solution'. When a ship is sinking, you don't go seeking one of the passengers -- the Islamists -- and let the whole vessel sink."
His relationship with 'the Establishment' has not always been smooth. No stranger to having his articles censored, especially when they have dealt with "political sensitivities related to Arab regimes", he has learnt "to manoeuvre, to hit at the ceiling of freedom, but never quite to break it. You can say what you want in pieces; it does not all have to be one hundred per cent. One can say 80 per cent in one article, the rest in another, for example." Howeidy's articles written for the Egyptian opposition daily Al-Wafd in 2002 boosted the paper's sales and dealt with issues such as corruption in the media, and Howeidy continued to write for the publication until he felt that "the margin of freedom had been lowered and the Wafd Party had been coopted by the Egyptian state, which today has totally nationalised the opposition."
Because of his wide readership and his critical and unequivocal outlook, Howeidy's articles reverberate in a manner that he himself sees as "attaching to them more than their real significance". A recent article in the Saudi daily Asharq Al- Awsat criticised him, he says, "for wanting to please all trends: men, women, left, right. Sometimes I end up pleasing no one 100 per cent. They can't believe the issue is not about 'wanting to please everyone'; rather, it is about trying to exercise some balanced thinking."
Howeidy's detractors have accused him of being an "apologist" for militant Islamist groups, who has never explicitly denounced their violent acts. "When you talk of the militancy of extremist groups, why not also talk of the violence of the state versus these groups, and of the vicious circle that this is creating them?", he retorts.
He had written a book entitled Taliban, God's Soldiers in the Wrong Battle. In 2001, he coordinated a visit to Afghanistan undertaken by Muslim scholars and intellectuals in an attempt to dissuade the Taliban regime from destroying the statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in the south of the country.
He remains, in the end, a combative writer who, though rarely naming his adversaries, will almost inevitably provoke them into responding to him. In the aftermath of the US-led war on Iraq he wrote of "the infiltration of the Arab media by the US, aimed at re-shaping the Arabs' perceptions of their identity, religion, and of the Arab-Israeli conflict to fall into line with what America considers its interests." His writings implied that writers favouring the US intervention in Iraq, or espousing its proclaimed "liberal" agenda, were "unpatriotic" to a degree bordering on treason.
"One can sometimes go off the mark, like any person who has his emotions and 'slip' sometimes," he admits. "When one is angry, this can happen." But then again, "I attack ideas, not persons. I think this is decisive in determining whether one is being objective or not."
"But I feel that those 'American' writers are writing with extreme audacity, and quite prolifically at that. Just as we condemn [former Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein, we must also condemn those who 'play' with the Americans. I feel one has to be 'harsh' because the wound they are probing is a deep one. It has to do with national dignity, and the fundamental principle of independence, which now, after 50 years, is being called into question."
He sees the concerns harboured by Muslims today as having made them "lose their sense of humour. As if you cannot be a Muslim and enjoy life." He speaks of a Canadian Muslim artist working in films, a girl "who is veiled and prays five times a day, but is also a comedian. She was interviewed and spoke about how Muslims need to bring fun into their lives, how they must bring the humour back into fundamentalism."
Today, his time is "totally closed", he says, "totally taken up with writing".
His only respite is when he travels on self- imposed assignments, or, more rarely, when he spends vacations by the sea with his family. He sees, in the visits paid to his home by his grandson, "which my wife and I wait for every day", a new lease on time, a chance to recapture moments he could have spent with his own son and two daughters, when they were younger "but never had the time to".
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"This is a recipe my mother-in-law made every fall, and the whole family loved it. Now that I make it myself, we look forward to having meals where we can use it. It's great on hot dogs and hamburgers." — OneKeeneKat
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13 1/4 pounds
green tomatoes, cored and cut into chunks
red bell peppers, seeded and cut into chunks
green bell peppers, seeded and cut into chunks
onions, peeled and cut into chunks
apples, cored and cut into chunks
cucumbers - peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks
distilled white vinegar
(1 pint) canning jars with lids and rings
Great recipe but I got nearly double the amount of jars.. more like 20 pint jars. I might cut back a bit on the sugar next time, but it is very tasty.
WAY TOO MUCH SALT!!!!
I rinsed and rinsed and soaked and rinsed and squeezed to get out some of the salt!!!! Most recipes this size call for 4 or 5 tablespoons of salt, not a cup. One tablespoon of relish, following the recipe, would contain as much salt as a human needs in a day. Also, this is an awful lot of vinegar. The quantity and mix of vegies is perfect, but it needs to be modified to be edible.
Made this recipe today. Would never know when tasting that this recipe was made with green tomatoes. Very tasty with a little zip.
I wasn't sure about this recipe, as I have no experience making relish. So I was delightfully surprised when it was easy to follow and tasty! I found the majority of the salt went down the drain with the excess water, I notices one user was afraid of all the salt use, however the salt draws the excess liquid out. I too like another user, used less sugar. The calculation for 130 servings made exactly 7 and 1/2 pints and calls for 4 and 3/4 cups of sugar, so I reduced it to 3 cups. The relish is so amazing!!! Zesty, delicious and the majority of it came from our own garden. Thank you Suzy!!! Its a keeper for future green tomatoes that don't turn by mid-fall.
This is the second year I have made this relish using the last of the tomatoes we grow in the greenhouse. This year I had seven pounds of green tomatoes and found that this recipe scales down very easy. It is tasty, sweet and compliments the food its used on. Thank you.
This was my first attempt at a green tomato relish. The mix of spices is fantastic! I will now look forward to my extra green tomatoes each year!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Suzy's Green Tomato Relish
Serving Size: 1/240 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 240
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 47
** Calories from Fat: < 1
This green tomato relish is a perfect sidekick to sandwiches or entrees.
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 10:04 PM
Updated: Feb 17, 2013 10:06 PM
NEW YORK (AP) The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's remarks that 47 percent of Americans "believe they are victims" is among the winners of the 64th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Winners also include journalists from Bloomberg News, The New York Times, CBS News, McClatchy Newspapers, GlobalPost, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the Maine Sunday Telegram, "Frontline," and the nonprofit California Watch.
The awards were announced Monday by Long Island University.
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Chalita Thongchua; Wenjin Yang MSE-2007-09, pp. 51. TEK/avd. för programvaruteknik, 2007.
It is reported that the market-driven product development is becoming common in the software industry. There are two challenges in the market-driven product development: time-to-market and meeting customers’ requirements. A rapid software development process is regarded as a good way to solve those two challenges. Streamline development process (SLDP) is aligned with a rapid software development process, which is an in-house development process of Ericsson AB.
In this study, seven completed projects from the streamline development process were investigated. The correlations between requirement attributes and process attributes were identified and quantified in the SLDP. Nine hypotheses were assumed. Four hypotheses were derived from the correlations from the other software development processes, and the other five hypotheses were derived from new requirement attributes and process attributes in SLDP. Two statistical software applications were used in the hypotheses testing. The results of those hypotheses showed that too much time
spent in the early phase of streamline development would not reduce the time to market.
A SLDP measurement program contains the measurements of requirement attributes and process attributes. This measurement program was mainly composed of four core attributes (size, effort, schedule, and fault), the requirement volatility, the completeness, the resource overrun, and the estimation accuracy. The results of the SLDP measurement program reflected four challenges in the SLDP: the requirement engineering process, the release planning, the estimation accuracy at each development phase, and the quality of the documentation.
At last, based on those four challenges (the requirement engineering process, the release planning, the estimation accuracy at each development phase, and the quality of the documentation) and the defined correlations between requirement attributes and process attributes in the SLDP, the improvement opportunities were proposed for the SLDP. | <urn:uuid:ed5b31f6-1965-446b-b39f-92594e0caa54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bth.se/fou/cuppsats.nsf/1d345136c12b9a52c1256608004f0519/32cd64f15f225ab3c12572c8003a9ece!OpenDocument | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951921 | 392 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Edward Felten, one of the most incisive minds of the digital age, has been appointed the chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission.
Scientific American gave the Princeton professor an award in 2003 for his critiques of digital privacy.
The squib we ran at the time read:
"Corporations intent on monopolizing the digital economy have come to fear Edward Felten, who has fought their claims with technical analysis sharpened by a sense of the ridiculous. When Microsoft, in its antitrust case, claimed that its browser could not be separated from its operating system, Felten separated them. When the Recording Industry Association of America unveiled a music-encryption technology, he found holes in it (and was almost sued for publishing the holes). Now he is fighting Hollywood’s efforts to introduce legislation mandating privacy devices for all digital products, particularly digital television. In testimony before Congress, he pointed out that a would-be pirate could already videotape a movie for a few dollars rather than go the digital route, which would cost hundreds of dollars. His Web site posts comical examples of devices, such as toys, that a proposed law would digitally bind and gag."
See Felten’s Wikipedia entry for the long list of similar tussles.
What of a gadfly taking on the ponderous title of "chief technologist"? Wonderful. It’s great when the best of the best make their way to Washington.
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A new research report titled "Sports and Fitness Nutrition Foods and Drinks: A Global Strategic Business Report" by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., San Jose, CA, documents a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, product overview, recent industry activity and profiles of major companies worldwide. The analysis provides market estimates and projections for product segments including Sports/Energy Foods and Sports/Energy Drinks.
According to the report, the role of sports nutrition products has witnessed a paradigm shift from ‘muscle building’ to one that promotes wellness and disease prevention. A fitness-crazy generation and the good-health image of sports drinks are factors driving growth in sports/energy drinks and sports/energy bars segments. Additionally, sports beverages are increasingly being used as refreshment drinks, which are further fuelling demand for these products in the marketplace. Presently, sports and energy bars are one of the fastest growing segments. Consumers who are on the move, or are too busy to have a proper meal are now more inclined towards sports and energy bars as healthy food alternatives.
Despite recovery from the impact of the global economic recession, uncertainty over stability of this recovery continues to persist. The Euro-zone sovereign debt crisis is proving to be a potential threat to market stability and global growth prospects. Sluggish recovery rates had a negative impact on the European economic growth and added to the macroeconomic uncertainties globally. In such pensive economic conditions, manufacturers of sports nutrition products find it extremely tricky to chalk-out near-term business expansion plans. The gloomy economic conditions are likely to reduce consumer spending and turn purchasing habits towards cheaper and economical alternatives. Further, financial shortfalls of suppliers and customers are likely to delay product introductions and aggravate inventory challenges. A large number of products in the sports nutrition market are premium products, and in a scenario where consumers are cutting down on unnecessary expenditure, it would be extremely difficult for manufacturers to generate profits out of the luxury and value-added product segments.
Sports and Energy Drinks market is no longer considered a niche segment in the beverage industry, with usage confined only to athletes and persons engaged in physical exercises and sports. The scenario has radically changed, with majority demand generated by active lifestyle users, keen on staying fit. Sports/energy drinks account for a massive chunk of the sports nutrition products market and are slowly foraying into the larger beverage market and are now becoming a part of the mainstream cluster. Major sports drink companies such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, are launching aggressive advertising campaigns to promote brands and capture attention of health conscious consumers. Energy beverage makers are also aware of demands of active lifestyle users while bringing about innovations in their product lines. Sales in energy and sports drink segment are also being driven by growing number of product introductions promising natural ingredients that offer long lasting and sustainable energy benefits.
Sports and energy bars, part of the effervescent Sports and Energy Foods category, represents one of the fastest growing markets, as consumers are turning busier day-by-day and are more impulsive towards their purchases of meals or meal replacements. Bars are mainly used as meal replacement snacks, which can provide quick medium of replenishing energy levels of the body. Ever since energy bars were first invented, efforts have been concentrated to develop products keeping in mind nutritional needs of both athletic and active lifestyle users. PowerBar, a pioneer in the food and energy bars business has played a revolutionary role in the category. Popular distributors of nutrition bars are food stores that garnered a big chunk of the market share. Drugstores are also the fast emerging distribution option in the bar category.
As stated by the new market research report on Sports and Fitness Nutrition Foods and Drinks, the U.S. constitutes the largest market worldwide. Favorable demographics, aging baby boomers and a sedentary lifestyle are the major growth promoters of the fitness industry in the country. The sports nutrition market witnessed exponential growth over the years due to new innovations, novel packaging and marked changes in consumer preferences. Sports supplements and sports nutrition functional foods are among the leading categories exhibiting strong growth. Latin America represents the fastest growing regional market displaying a CAGR of about 9.5% over the analysis period. Despite accounting for a small portion to the world’s food and beverage market, Latin America is expected to emerge as the hotspot in the coming years. The market for sports and energy drinks in Latin America is expected to surge in the near future primarily due to rising income levels, increased focus on health and wellness and willingness of consumers to spend on the category.
Major players profiled in the report include Abbott Laboratories Inc., Coca-Cola Co., Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Plc., GNC Holdings Inc., Monster Beverage Corporation, Optimum Nutrition Inc., PepsiCo Inc., The Balance Bar Company, Red Bull GmbH, and Rockstar Inc., among others.
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Awareness of Health & Fitness Propels the Sports Category
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Cultivating Health During Cancer Care:
A Perspective from Josh M.
“The changes I have made based on the Osher Center’s recommendations and resources impact my life daily. The approach I choose is not treatment focused; it is a way of life.”
I was referred to the Osher Center by my oncologist after being diagnosed with cancer almost two years ago. I have a rare, slow-growing cancer called “neuroendocrine pancreatic carcinoma,” which has metastasized to the liver.
When I had my first appointment with Donald Abrams, MD, I thought it would be interesting to see how my care would be dealt with through a non-Western approach. I went to listen and to see what this was all about. My oncologist had told me that even though I was going to an integrative oncology appointment, the word “cancer” might not be mentioned.
Integrative oncology is less about your disease and more about understanding your body. I learned about ways to create a place hostile to cancer; i.e., the weeds in your body that are growing and crowding out healthy cells, and at the same time create a place where the healthy cells in my immune system could flourish and do their best work. These are actionable steps to support what is going on in the conventional world, while making the body as strong as it can be.
Empowerment Through a Healthy Diet
Dr. Abrams will be the first to tell you-eat what your grandmother or great-grandmother ate. Just a few generations ago, the incidence of cancer was much lower. In communities that don’t rely as heavily on processed foods, the cancer rates are still at pre-WWII levels; they haven’t skyrocketed like they have here in the West.
For a lot of people, integrative oncology is difficult because it alters the way you do certain things, and diet is a big part of this. I began to look at food and other elements as fuel, either for the good cells or for the bad cells. You may need to give up certain things like red meat or sugar, and this can be tough for some. For me it all resonated, but with much more focus and understanding on how certain spices, herbs, and foods can actually help your immune system.
I was able to start doing something positive for my body and health. I started to add things to my diet, slowly at first. But then pretty quickly I was able to see what worked for me and what I was comfortable with. I ended up with a short list of supplements, mostly turmeric, medicinal mushrooms, omega 3, D3, and probiotics. I also incorporated weekly acupuncture, yoga, and massage into my routine.
It’s Not About the Diagnosis
Going to an integrative oncologist won’t change your diagnosis, but it will put your body in a better place to get healthy. I have been tumor-stable for nearly two years, and my oncologist is constantly wondering if the integrative oncology helps me stay that way. I had the longest period that didn’t require Western intervention in my oncologist’s experience. I went nearly 18 months before any standard therapy was used. Was it the integrative health? Perhaps.
What I think it has done is put me in a place where, now that I am having conventional oncology treatments, I’m responding better and recovering faster than expected. The integrative approach ensures that my body is at its peak and recovers more quickly from anything that gets to it-and hopefully makes sure the weeds take a longer time to grow back.
Having a support system is important. Talking with Dr. Abrams, I realized the importance of making sure you’re not holding onto a lot of stress or feeling isolated and alone. I am lucky to have a great support network. I also have my own blog where I talk with friends and family and keep them up to date with what is going on with me. Being able to freely converse really helps. Through my blog, a lot of people who hadn’t considered diet as so important have now changed their diets and the way they live their lives.
It’s a Long-Term Approach
There is a lot of talk about being at war or in battle with cancer. While the analogy works for many who are gearing up for a one-time or limited fight with cancer, the analogy does not work for those who need to treat cancer as a chronic disease. I cannot be cured of cancer (at least not in the foreseeable future), but that does not mean that I should live in a state of war with my body. That would be a stressful solution, and through integrative oncology I do not have to choose that path. I continue to learn how to work with my body, to be at peace with it, and to summon up energy for healing when I need it.
It is really important to recognize that this is not a cure for cancer. If you treat this as the only modality that you are going to use, you are in risky territory-that’s not what the Osher Center is about. You may have the notion that you’re giving up on conventional medicine, but you’re not. Integrative oncology works together with your cancer care. It puts your body and mind in the best shape it can be to respond well to conventional medicine and to recover from the toxicity that cancer treatment brings onto the body.
The changes I have made based on the Osher Center’s recommendations and resources impact my life daily. The integrative approach isn’t short term. It’s about the path. The path that this will lead you down will bring you to a healthier you. This healthier you is better equipped to deal with the cancer. The approach I choose is not treatment focused; it is a way of life. | <urn:uuid:dbefeb73-743f-4907-bdae-be57e40033d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/giving/inspiring-stories/421-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975679 | 1,243 | 1.71875 | 2 |
In landscape photography its the little things that count. One of the most important aspects of creating a well composed landscape image is knowing where “level” is. This is especially true when your background is hilly or mountainous. We use our sense of “level” so much every day that a person will look at an image on the web or in print and instinctively know if it’s not perfectly level.
Finding the perfect “level” has always been fairly easy for Nikon shooters since inclusion of a Virtual Horizon in the D3, D300 and D700 firmware and now owners of Canon’s EOS 7D or 5D Mark III have the same thing.
Before you run out and buy a new camera, there is a simple answer that works for all of us. The folks at Adorama sell a great little Hot Shoe Bubble Level 337 made by Manfrotto that takes all the guesswork out of finding a perfect “level” in our landscape images. For $34.00 it’s an inexpensive tool that every landscape photographer should carry with them in the field and it’s a required accessory during the Texas Landscape Safari. (Note: Adorama now sells their own Hot Shoe Bubble Level for only $5.95. Hard to Beat That) | <urn:uuid:d63c3021-2033-4d11-8531-41c09caa77a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jefflynchdev.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/workshop-preparation-post-2-flying-straight-level/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936808 | 271 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky’s sex abuse trial and allegations against local swim coach Rick Curl got everyone talking.
Montgomery County parents hope the conversation continues.
Parents say although school system officials have the responsibility to hire coaches, it is up to them to see that their children are safe.
If the community does not tolerate sexually abusive behaviors, then there will not be a place for sexual predators in the community, said Susan Burkinshaw, co-chair of the health and safety committee for the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations.
Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in June. A month later, a woman came forward claiming she and Curl had an inappropriate sexual relationship 29 years ago when she was 13. Montgomery County Police is investigating her allegations.
“As we saw in the Penn State scandal,” Burkinshaw said, “if the community culture tolerates a negative behavior — and not confronting it can be a sign of acceptance — it can spiral out of control for years. It takes a village to keep our community safe, and it starts with not being afraid to have courageous conversations about difficult subjects.”
It is critical for the school board, as well as the entire community, to continue to emphasize the need to encourage reporting of sexual harassment, said Shirley Brandman, school board president.
The board’s policies require all staff members who become aware of any inappropriate conduct by any employee to report it to the administration or authorities “as quickly as possible,” Brandman wrote in an email.
“When we adopt policies regarding student welfare — and when we review annual data around serious incident reports — the board publicly reiterates the need to encourage reporting of incidents to help foster a culture where students feel safe to seek help if needed and staff understand their obligation to report,” Brandman wrote in an email.
Fred Evans, a candidate this year for school board, said he hopes that the cases will put the topic of sexual abuse back on everyone’s radar.
“I think you use these situations as an opportunity to reaffirm what the standards are,” said Evans, a past principal, teacher and coach for the school system. “It is a topic that obviously needs to be discussed, and what I hope for is for the discussion to be rational and reasonable, without creating hysteria. There are behaviors that are appropriate and there are behaviors that are inappropriate, and that is it.”
Jim Joseph, booster club president at Walter Johnson High School, said events in the news provide opportunities for parents to discuss sexual abuse with their children.
“My sense is that it is the parents’ responsibility to protect the children,” he said. “... Teaching our own kids to be alert and aware.”
Last school year, about 704 teachers, 119 school staff members and 271 people not employed by the school system coached about 21,500 high school athletes in Montgomery County Pubic Schools, schools spokesman Dana Tofig said. Those numbers don’t include the volunteer coaches, which the school system does not track, Tofig said.
The school system vets the backgrounds of all its coaches just as thoroughly as it does all public school employees; not all coaches are paid employees, as some coaches volunteer.
All coaches, volunteer or paid, must go through two separate background checks, one through the state and one through the FBI, said William G. Beattie, director of school system athletics.
Principals and athletic directors at individual schools interview the coaches, Beattie said.
If a coach leaves his or her position for a year or more, the school system requires a new set of background checks, Beattie said. If an employee commits a crime while employed for the school system, the school system is made aware, he said.
Despite the precautions school system officials have taken, allegations of sexual abuse have occurred — three in the past school year.
In June, a Julius West Middle School teacher and part-time track and field coach at Richard Montgomery High School resigned from the school system after being accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl whom he taught in middle school and coached at Richard Montgomery. The charges against the coach were dropped because of a legal technicality.
Two educators, an English teacher at Neelsville Middle School in Germantown and a former media services technician at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, are awaiting court dates after being accused in May of engaging in sexual contact with students at their schools, according to county police.
It is important people realize that the events that make headlines are not isolated, said Dan Schuster, assistant director of coach education at the National Federation of State High School Associations, the umbrella organization for all state high school sports associations nationwide.
“This is something that is happening across the country,” Schuster said. “It is about awareness. There are things that we can do to help administrators, parents, coaches and students understand the situations, and understand the signs of this type of situations and what to do about it when you see it.”
All paid coaches for Montgomery County Public Schools must take two courses offered by the national federation, one about heat acclimatization and heat illness prevention, and the other regarding sports concussions.
The course that the federation offers that discusses sexual abuse, titled “Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment,” is not required.
After the Sandusky case, in July the federation began to offer the course for free; it used to cost $20, Schuster said.
The Penn State case “opened some eyes,” Schuster said. Since making the course free, the number of people taking the course has tripled, he said.
Beattie said the high school athletic handbook explains coaches must exercise appropriate behavior as a leader of their program and a role model. This also is stressed at a coaches meeting, although specific examples of what an appropriate relationship looks like are not given, he said.
Rebecca Smondrowski and Annita Seckinger, who are both running for the Board of Education this year, said they think the school system should give out guidelines on appropriate coach to player relationships.
That is not something that the school system currently does, Beattie said.
And although the national organization offers the classes and guidelines, the state branch of the organization, the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, does not give any, said Ned Sparks, the association’s executive director.
Longtime coaches say the guidelines should be common sense — there are certain things you just don’t do, such as be alone in a room with a player, or drive one home from practice without first talking to a parent.
Coaches who were interviewed said they knew from their teaching backgrounds what was appropriate.
One thing the school system could look into is making sure that everyone — volunteer and nonpaid coaches, as well as coaches who are employees — is getting the same information regarding what is appropriate, Evans said.
Peter Kenah, who has been coaching girls varsity basketball at Walt Whitman High School for 11 years, said the school system does a good job at teaching appropriate behaviors. He remembers that during his initial coaching job interview, he was surprised most of the questions were more about his personality than his background; they asked him how he would deal with certain situations, in the locker room or with parents.
Kenah, who teaches U.S. government at the school, said he doesn’t put himself in certain situations.
“Perception is reality is a great quote,” Kenah said. The only time he hugs his athletes is when they are walking across the stage at graduation, he said.
The coaching scandals, he said, frustrate him.
“[Coaching] is a wonderful experience, and it gets tainted when you hear about the various scandals, and because I do have daughters I see how impressionable adults are on kids,” he said. “It is unconscionable how coaches could take advantage of that position.”
Rob Curtz, girls soccer coach at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, said establishing a relationship with not just players — but also players’ parents — helps build trust.
“I want them to be able to come to me, and me go to them,” he said.
Parents also should attempt to get to know the adults who are in their children’s lives, Smondrowski said.
“I think that is huge,” she said. “I think that falls a little bit on the coach to do the initial outreach, but it also falls on the family ... these people can have a tremendously great influence on students’ lives.”
Joseph, who has a rising freshman at Walter Johnson High this year, agrees forming a close relationship with a coach is crucial for parents.
“The first level of defense is your level of involvement with your children,” he said.
Joseph said all parents are faced with the duty of protecting their children.
“It is always in the front of your mind,” he said. “It is a job we have until the day we die.” | <urn:uuid:00caf886-0595-4b1c-a699-3b50c05421dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gazette.net/article/20120905/NEWS/709059744/1122/montgomery-county-residents-say-no-to-proposed-pepco-rate-hike/Montgomery-community-joins-to-keep-student-athletes-safe&template=gazette | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976587 | 1,929 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Peace be to this house and all who live here.
During these days of the Christmas season, we keep this feast of Epiphany.
Through the guidance of a star, the coming of Jesus was made known to the Gentiles.
We celebrate Christ made known to the Magi, to John in the River Jordan, and to the disciples at the wedding at Cana.
Today Christ is made known to us! Today this home is a holy place!
The Magi came from the east to Bethlehem to adore the Lord.
We bow our heads and pray for God's blessing...
Lord our God, bless our home and all who live here.
May we be filled with health, goodness of heart, gentleness, obedience to Your law, and thanksgiving to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Help us love and respect one another and make your presence known by the way we care for others.
May this blessing remain upon this house and upon all who live here.
Through Christ our Lord.
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04.Phones and mobile devices
Smartphones can virtually perform as a mobile office. And whilst Apple's iPhone made these devices more accessible, Google’s Android operating system is making sure Apple doesn't have everything its own way. Android-based touchscreen phones, such as the HTC Desire, and the Samsung Galaxy S2, have created some tough competition for Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S. The Android OS has now eclipsed both Apple and Nokia as the most widely used smartphone operating system in the world. To find out which models come out on top, take a look at our Smartphones review. And see our article on smartphone operating systems to help you decide on the software, a factor to consider for your overall experience.
MP3 and MP4 players
MP3/MP4 players have evolved over the last decade to the point where the latest models provide an intuitive interface and a simple, effective way to get music from a computer into your pocket. Since the rapid uptake of the smartphone, prices for media players have dropped significantly in the last few years. Our latest review of 19 media players, including Apple's iPod Touch, Nano and Shuffle, as well as Creative's ZEN, reveals which models are the easiest to use, have the best sound and video quality, and are the most durable. For more information, take a look at our MP3 and MP4 players review.
At the moment, competition is increasing in the eBook reader space, and the steady trickle of computer tablets hitting the Australian market (offering eBook reader capacity), means manufacturers are making rapid improvements. Most eBook readers adhere to the basic requirements; long battery life and portability. In addition to this, you should look for a screen that's clear to read in all lighting conditions and does not cause eye strain. We've tested models such as the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and the Sony PRS-650. Take a look at CHOICE's latest eBook readers review to find out which models scored best.
A dedicated GPS for your car is a great Christmas present for those who do a lot of road-travel, and like to know exactly where they're going. While GPS-capable smartphones such as the iPhone are making some inroads in the GPS market, it seems most drivers still prefer the full functionality of a dedicated car GPS unit. Features such as lane guidance, announcement of school zones and text to speech are standard in most models. Some even come with preloaded maps of Australia. Have a look at our latest Car GPS review to see how models such as the Garmin Nuvi, Navman and TomTom compare. | <urn:uuid:828c42cb-f28a-42ca-bf55-b0e354b73990> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/money/shopping-and-legal/shopping/christmas-gift-guide-technology/page/~/link.aspx?_id=9b458b99b82e40e9b63899227994b2b8&_z=z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953475 | 536 | 1.773438 | 2 |
At least 250 dead, more than 2,600 injured in Iran quakes
Published Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:25AM EDT
Last Updated Sunday, August 12, 2012 10:23PM EDT
The search for survivors after two massive earthquakes in Iran has been called off, Iranian state television reported Sunday.
The quakes, which rattled the northeastern part of the country Saturday, are estimated to have killed at least 250 people and injured more than 2,600.
By Sunday, state television reported that search operations had ceased and that the government was shifting its focus to providing shelter to those affected, as well as removing debris.
Iranian officials said the search was cancelled because the affected areas are rural and sparsely populated.
The quakes, which had magnitudes of 6.4 and 6.3 respectively, hit just 11 minutes apart and levelled at least 20 villages, said state television.
Following the quakes, around 36 aftershocks rippled through the same area, jolting residents. The aftershocks were felt in a vast region near the Caspian Sea.
Ahmad Reza Shajiei, a senior government official in charge of the rescue operations, said more than 5,000 tents have been erected to accommodate those who lost their homes to the quakes. He estimates that there are more than 16,000 people requiring shelter.
Images broadcast on Iran’s state news channel after the quake depicted families sleeping on blankets in public parks in the mountainous region, near neighbouring Azerbaijan. Family members cried and shivered in the frosty weather.
State television reported that 44,000 packages of food and thousands of blankets have been distributed to the needy in the stricken area.
Television images also showed people being removed from the rubble on stretchers, while others were treated in hospital for broken limbs and concussions.
Both the United States, which is at odds with Iran over its nuclear program, and the United Nations said Sunday they are ready to offer assistance.
Christine South, operations support manager with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said while Iran has not asked for outside help to deal with the crisis, the country has a strong network of volunteers and relief workers given that it is located in an earthquake-prone region.
“They have a lot of relief workers, they have good search-and-rescue equipment, they have trained staff on the ground and they have huge stocks in warehouse of relief goods,” South told CTV News Channel.
According to South, the Iranian Red Crescent Society was active from theoutset with locally based search-and-rescue teams, search dogs, helicopters and vehicles and other equipment to help with the initial search for survivors.
The agency also sent dozens of volunteers and staff from other parts of the country to help.
South said the challenge with Saturday’s quakes is that they occurred in a rural area, which kept the death toll down, but also makes it difficult for crews to reach everyone affected.
But while the IFRC says Iran is equipped to handle the aftermath of earthquakes, Iran-based journalist Ghanbar Naderi told CTV News Channel Sunday that residents of Tehran are concerned about the government’s ability to handle the growing crisis, or another quake.
Iran is located on seismic fault lines making it prone to earthquakes. The country experiences at least one earthquake a day on average, although the majority of the quakes are too small to be noticeable.
“It’s not a matter of if, but when the next earthquake will strike,” said Naderi speaking from Tehran. “We are pretty much sure that we don’t have the necessity and capacity means to defend ourselves for the next major quake.”
Naderi said because the region that was struck by the quakes was a rural region, the death toll has not been as high as past quakes.
In 2003, approximately 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude 6.6 quake that destroyed much of the historic southeastern city of Bam.
Naderi said the Iranian government has given no indication they will ask for other countries to help with the rescue and recovery phase – something he believes they should do.
“I think this has something to do with national security or the fact that the government has come to the conclusion that it can control the situation on the ground,” he said.
“This is about the humanitarian effort and not about politics.”
Residents: ‘It felt like it was the end of the world’
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the first quake occurred at 4:53 p.m. Saturday, had a magnitude of 6.4 and struck 60 kilometres northeast of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 9.9 kilometres.
Crisis Committee chief Khalil Saei told state television that the epicenter was a region between the towns of Ahar and Haris, around 500 kilometres northwest of Tehran.
The second quake had a magnitude of 6.3 and struck just 11 minutes after the first, said the USGS. Its epicenter was 48 kilometres northeast of Tabriz at a depth of 9.8 kilometres.
The quakes rocked the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in the East Azerbaijan province.
Residents of the affected areas recalled the harrowing experience.
"The moment the earthquake hit, it was like a snake biting from underground. It was the worst experience of my life," said resident Morteza Javid.
"The walls were shaking and moving from side to side. It took about a minute before I could run out of the house," Javid said. "Seconds before the earthquake, crows were making a lot of noise, but I didn't understand why. It was only after the quake that I learned the crows were warning us."
Javid, 47, told the Associated Press he drove more than a dozen injured people to hospitals throughout the night.
Naimeh Alapour said that when she first felt the earthquake, she ran out of her home without the mandatory Islamic covering.
The 35-year-old lives in Tabriz, the provincial capital which lies about 50 kilometres from the epicenter of the earthquake.
"I simply took my kid and ran down the steps. The elevator was out of service. I don't know how I walked nine floors down. It felt like this was the end of the world," she said.
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On Monday, Attorney General Jay Nixon announced a higher education plan that he says would provide a way for middle-class Missouri students to earn a four-year degree tuition-free.
Nixon, a Democratic candidate for governor, said his Missouri Promise plan would create a path to a four-year degree for students who satisfy certain academic, community service and financial need requirements.
Students who complete a two-year associate’s degree at a Missouri community college or technical school under the state’s existing A+ Schools Program and meet criteria would be eligible to seek a Missouri Promise scholarship to cover college or university costs, Nixon said.
"With tuition skyrocketing at colleges and universities across the state, too many middle-class families in Missouri are getting squeezed by the cost of a college education," Nixon said in a prepared statement.
"While other states have been making college more affordable and accessible, Missouri has moved backwards. The Missouri Promise will create a pathway to a four-year degree for those families struggling to afford college tuition during these difficult economic times. We must make the dream of a college education a reality for all Missouri families."
Nixon said in order to implement the Missouri Promise, he’d expand the existing A+ program, which is currently available to only half the state’s high school students.
He said he’d also offer high school seniors who plan to access the A+ program the chance to sign the Missouri Promise contract between the student and the state.
Expanding the A+ program and implementing the Missouri Promise would cost about $61 million, said Nixon, citing estimates from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Nixon said his initiative is intended to target middle-class Missouri families who can’t afford college tuition. A family of four with one child in college could have an annual income of roughly $80,000 and qualify for the Missouri Promise.
Nixon outlined the plan during a news conference at the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. He also planned to announce his initiative at stops in Columbia and Kansas City later Monday. | <urn:uuid:9e04d15a-9ad6-4036-87da-a4bb87518488> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/102642/nixon-announces-higher-education-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963816 | 429 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Q&A with Obama Artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada
by Lindsay Talbot
How exactly was the sand mural, "Expectation," made? How long did it take?
I used GPS topography equipment to mark points based on an image I'd created of Barack Obama. At each point, we dropped a stake and joined the zones with twine. I then filled each zone with the appropriate sand or gravel. I struggled against a tight production schedule, zero budget, and four consecutive days of torrential rain!
Wow, so you must have had some help creating it?
The Barcelona Forum offered the use of a huge vacant lot and a local architect, Alex Gimenez Imirizaldu, offered to be my consultant. Once the project was on its way, people started to come by to help out. There were people from all over world using rakes and shovels to help make this a reality.
What do you think the world expects from Obama?
I think we would all like to see him achieve everything that he promised during his campaign. But even if he only gets to achieve a small portion of what he set out to change and fix, the world will be a better place because of it.
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Popular culture loves an underdog, an outsider, a maverick. We love stories of coming-from-behind victories and losers who become winners, and no wonder. If someone else can succeed against great odds, maybe we can too. I suspect we often see ourselves in these characters: in our minds, we’re Daniel-san, not Johnny; we’re the Rebels, not the Empire; Katniss, not President Snow.
However, being an outsider doesn’t always make your cause just or right. One of the hallmarks of crackpottery is claiming the rebel status, pointing out that many successful ideas came from beyond the mainstream. Common symptoms involve evoking Galileo, comparisons to Einstein, and generally grandiose claims—all with similar theme, that the person is an outsider with new ideas, and the community of science is too hidebound to accept anything new.
I’m most familiar with the physics variety of crackpot, but Brian Switek occasionally needs to deal with the paleontology subspecies: in the last few days, he’s taken on a cell biologist who claims dinosaurs must have all stayed in shallow water to support their bulk. The familiar symptoms are all there: an outsider to the field claiming to see something that the conservative establishment was unwilling to accept, and that was the narrative used by the BBC. (Even crackpot paleontologists aren’t immune to evoking Galileo!) At one point, it was pretty common to read that the biggest dinosaurs were swamp-living (that was true in a lot of the books I read as a kid), but by the time I was reading current stuff about dinosaurs, that view was pretty much dead. As Brian is swift and thorough in pointing out, there is strong evidence that dinosaurs were land-dwelling, and while at least some species evidently could swim, they couldn’t be called “aquatic” anymore than elephants can.
I’ve written extensively about crackpots (including a long piece for Culture of Science), and given my penchant for repeating myself, I doubt I’ll be done soon. (I admit: it’s also fun to mock some of the worst crackpots, or unleash some righteous indignation. We must laugh sometimes to keep from bursting into tears.) Partly this is because I want to understand both how to reach more people effectively in communicating science: while scientists are deemed as a holy priesthood with secret mystical knowledge, at least some crackpottery seems inevitable. If science is seen an exclusive club, then joining that club is just a matter of learning the secret handshake: it’s not about study, or a way of thinking, but a matter of cracking the code.
However, that stereotype isn’t true: science isn’t a club, it’s not a priesthood, and at its best it isn’t exclusionary. Yes, some scientists do seem to think they are possessors of the True Knowledge, and are fond of lording that knowledge over others, which is highly frustrating. My fellow physicists seem especially susceptible to arrogant behavior; I’ve known a number of colleagues who will happily condemn global warming findings to the dustbin because they find climate scientists’ models to be “too simplistic”, or some other such jargon. Nevertheless, I am convinced that everyone can understand more science than they do, even if they won’t ever be fully able to calculate Feynman diagrams (which I could do at one point, but I’m rusty on now) or sequence genes (which I haven’t the first clue about). That’s why I take this blog seriously, and why I believe strongly in universal science education, and wish a lonely death upon the racist, classist “tracking” and “magnet” system that plagues American schools. But I digress.
Ironically, many excellent scientists are plagued with a sense of inferiority themselves. As Sci Curious eloquently relates, the Imposter Syndrome is the feeling that, despite extensive training, experience, and obvious successes in the field, that you don’t actually belong, and that any slight mistake means you’ll be found out and exposed as a fraud. I know this feeling well: I suffer from it strongly, especially during these hard times while I’m hunting for work. When I’m sending out the umpteenth application or receiving yet another rejection letter, it’s hard to remember that I have a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from a top research institution, a number of publications in reputable journals, and six years of full-time teaching under my belt. Even though paying gigs are few and far between, I have a lot of chances to write, which means at least some people think what I write is worth reading. (I list these for my own reassurance, not to boast.)
The irony as I see it is that scientists suffering from Imposter Syndrome (IS, to acronym it) are far from being “outsiders” in the normal sense: they are true scientists, hardly wannabes. While crackpots think there’s a magical key to science, those of us with IS know there isn’t, and that’s part of the frustration. Chad Orzel wisely points out that even scientists may be susceptible to the genius stereotype, the idea that a ”real scientist” shouldn’t have to work at it, so if you’re struggling, you don’t have what it takes. Even though we know that Einstein struggled with math (though admittedly the math he did is pretty hard), and we know that Darwin wrestled with issues that delayed publication of The Origin of Species for years, we still are in such awe of their accomplishments that we still seem to believe they were handed their theories from on high.
So I appreciate Sci and others bringing IS into the light: if non-scientists see that we are as human as can be, maybe they’ll understand science a little better. Similarly, I think more scientists suffer from IS than are willing to admit it, for fear again that they will be “found out” or show weakness while in a position of vulnerability. Maybe if we acknowledge that it’s common, we can help each other pull through it. | <urn:uuid:e5afa693-3f9a-4f30-9f13-3c78a5a8e7af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://galileospendulum.org/2012/04/05/outsiders-imposters-and-aquatic-dinosaurs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964756 | 1,320 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Jordan's King Abdullah Blames Israel for Stalled Peace Talks
Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday blamed Israel for the deadlocked Middle East peace process, the official Petra news agency reported.
According to the report, the king made the remarks during a meeting with representatives of the New York-based Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations. The organization’s Annual Leadership Mission was held in Jerusalem this week.
Petra reported that King Abdullah was specifically concerned over Israel's “unilateral policies”, including changing the identity of the Arab sector in east Jerusalem and tampering with Muslim holy shrines there.
Speaking after the meeting with the king, Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents, acknowledged the king's concerns but said he had also been complimentary of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's peace efforts and had asked Hoenlein to convey a message of thanks for Israel's proposals in the latest round of peace talks.
Jordan recently hosted Palestinian Authority and Israeli representatives for a series of “exploratory” talks, which ended after the PA refused to continue them.
“[The king] praised Netanyahu and asked that we specifically give a message to 'my friend' that I appreciate his taking risks by putting forth the package that he did ... a package that he knew was difficult to do, but he created a climate to enable the process to move forward and for negotiations to take place,” Hoenlein was quoted by AP as having said.
The details of the exact “package” offered by Netanyahu were not revealed, but a recent unconfirmed report said that Netanyahu plans to announce a plan to uproot communities and carry out mass evictions in Judea and Samaria.
The report said that due to the political impasse between Israel and the PA, Netanyahu is expected to propose a final status solution that would leave Israel with only the major settlement blocs and eastern Jerusalem. | <urn:uuid:30d82462-793a-4d7e-aa4b-4f83c0a4371e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153018 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969854 | 398 | 1.664063 | 2 |
I am very new to bee keeping and have been reading everything in site. I have a question reguarding this topic. Background: so my two hives were in an orange orchard for the last month in Phoenix. They had a very strong build up over 4-5 weeks ending 1 week into the opening of the blossoms. There were several differnt speicies of citrus so the bloom lasted almost one month. I pulled them out with the last blooms and when I got them home I decided to do some maintenance and another inspection. There are two deep hives and three supers. the lower two suppers are 100% full of honey the third supper is partly full of honey but completely drawn. In the uppermost brood chamber there are 4 frames of capped honey and the rest are half honey half brood with every available cell filled with nectar. In the lower brood body I found my queen and an emergency cell cap which was empty. the cap at most has been there for 1 week. It was not there in a previous inspection. I pulled the brood frames that were honey and replaced them with empty frames. I was worried about swarming with the overflowing numbers of bees but never saw a swarm cell. I also split out 4 frames for a nuc with a russian / carniolan queen. Did this avert a swarm? everything I've read leads me to belive they have not. Will they build an emergency cell and not use it? | <urn:uuid:6de9bcba-be1a-4db9-9d1a-8f31671c4fee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?266489-Factors-contributing-to-Swarms-and-Swarm-Prevention&p=867392 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980886 | 296 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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