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This #blog4nwp guest post comes from Patsy Pipkin.
I am a retired teacher and a University of Mississippi Writing Project TC. And I will forever sing its praises. Writing project teachers help their students and people in their community when they come to them for help with content, coherence, and unity in writing.
Although I am retired, I still use what I learned as a writing project teacher to help my neighbors, former students, and people they send to me.
When a student has a writing project teacher teach him or her, he or she uses the writing process taught in the classroom to help him/herself and others–peers, friends,and family. Therefore, a writing project teacher and his/her stidents are success makers for life which can be be summarized as a “win, win learning experience for all”– both present and future.
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By Philip Rucker
The Washington Post
Mitt Romney said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's signature health care law amounts to a tax increase for middle- income Americans, directly contradicting one of his senior advisers who said earlier this week that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee believed it was a penalty and not a tax.
Getting in line with a recent GOP talking point, Romney said in an interview with CBS News that he accepts the Supreme Court's ruling last week upholding the Obama law as constitutional by calling the individual mandate a tax, saying "that's what it is" and adding that there was "no way around" the majority's decision.
"While I agreed with the dissent, that's taken over by the fact that the majority of the court said it's a tax, and therefore it is a tax," Romney told CBS. "They have spoken. There is no way around that. You could try and say you wish they had decided a different way, but they didn't. They concluded it was a tax, that's what it is, and the America people know that President Obama has broken the pledge he made. He said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle-income Americans."
Romney made the comments in an interview he taped Wednesday morning with CBS correspondent Jan Crawford before marching in a Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro, N.H., where he is spending the week vacationing with his family at their lakefront home. CBS released a portion of interview Wednesday but has not yet provided the full interview.
This was Romney's first public comment on the subject since one of his senior advisers, Eric Fehrnstrom, said Monday that Romney "disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax." Fehrnstrom's comments stood in contrast to the statements of most other Republican leaders, who had seized on the ruling that the law was a "tax" to open a fresh line of attack against the Affordable Care Act.
Obama's campaign issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying Romney "contradicted his own campaign, and himself."
"First, he threw his top aide Eric Fehrnstrom under the bus by changing his campaign's position and calling the free rider penalty in the president's health care law - which requires those who can afford it to buy insurance - a tax," Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner said in a statement. "Second, he contradicted himself by saying his own Massachusetts mandate wasn't a tax - but, Romney has called the individual mandate he implemented in Massachusetts a tax many times before. Glad we cleared all that up."
Romney has pledged to push for full repeal of Obama's federal health law but championed and signed similar state legislation when he was governor.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said the Supreme Court's decision means "the American people know that President Obama has broken the pledge he made. He said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle- income Americans."
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Ramon F. Llaneza
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Ramon F. Llaneza
Ramón Llaneza’s career spans over 35 years. He start scuba diving in 1970 with his father and brother. Ramon is an active technical diving instructor and environmental scientist who has been involved in recreational, commercial, and scientific management positions in the diving and environmental community. His first technical and scientific dives were in 1974 with the Oceanographic Institute of Venezuela when he began underwater marine research, deep diving, shipwreck diving, and search and rescue diving. Ramon was certified as an Instructor by World Underwater Federation (CMAS) in 1980. He is a technical Instructor by International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD). His advanced training specialties are closed circuit rebreathers, deep diving, nitrox and trimix mixed gas diving, and rescue diving.
Ramon has Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine Biology and a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). He is certified in Hazardous Materials Management and completed the safety science program at Florida Atlantic University. He is a certified Commercial Investment and Business Broker in Florida.
As a professional, Ramón has been involved in environmental and scientific underwater projects, executive business management, directing and coordinating scientific and commercial projects. He has experience deep diving with mixed gas closed circuit rebreathers in marine constructions and inspections, environmental impact assessment over the aquatic ecosystems, water quality determination and hydrological measurement of the seawater and wastewater related projects. He has been involved with oceanographic studies, hydrodynamics, bathymetric surveying and the designs, and installation and inspections of marine outfall systems.
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PITTSBURGH, December 11-Supporters of the House of Hope, a unique shelter and counseling center for chemically-dependent, pregnant woman, rallied today at UPMC Braddock, calling on UPMC, the largest hospital corporation in Western Pennsylvania, to keep the facility open, to expand its services in Braddock, and to replicate these services in other low-income communities throughout the UPMC service territory.
UPMC has announced its intention to close House of Hope on January 2. In 2005, UPMC “challenged its community partners to develop new ways to address health care disparities in the localities served by [UPMC Braddock].” One of those new ways was supporting the House of Hope, which led to a dramatic decrease in the percentage of low birth weight babies. In 2007, UMPC boasted that “a robust and sustainable program that brings together UPMC, local clinics, government agencies, and other organizations is in place [in Braddock] to improve the care in the community.”
Ed Grystar, Vice President of the Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare noted, “The tragedy surrounding the cut in funding for the House of Hope amplifies the crying need for a total reordering of the nation’s health care delivery system away from the current insurance run profit first approach. Under a single payer plan embodied in [US House of Representatives bill] HR 676, citizens would receive heath care services based on their need and funding would be earmarked based upon the needs of the communities, not on the whims of profiteering health care corporations.” | <urn:uuid:979e78c1-4e15-4c5d-89b3-22b644d5331d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://beavercountyblue.org/2008/12/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956293 | 336 | 1.53125 | 2 |
For Manhattan adventurers, there's no image that shines as brightly as Times Square. The icon of NYC's Theater District, Times Square is the city dressed up in its most showy regalia. Once known as New York's de facto Red Light District, it was transformed in the 1980s to a towering display of commercialism and performing arts. You can't get more central than New York City's "Crossroads of the World."
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UK gov gets twitchy on Google feature creep
Less lassitude on Latitude please
Comment Google was the target of MPs' ire yesterday as four of them signed an Early Day Motion expressing concern about the chocolate factory's latest feature, one that allows willing subjects to be tracked through their phones.
Google's Latitude is a feature of Mobile Maps, and allows one to share one's location with selected friends. Most concerns revolve around the premise that users might be "encouraged" to count their boss amongst those "friends", but the Early Day Motion is more specific in asking that the UK Government "examine the privacy implications of Google Latitude and to take action to ensure that Latitude does not represent a privacy threat".
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Early Day Motions aren't expected to be actually debated by Parliament - they are more of a way of attracting attention to MPs' pet issues. This one competes with a call for St Piran's day to be public holiday in Cornwall, and congratulatory recognition of Sir Bobby Charlton getting the Freedom of Manchester, as well as rather more pressing issues.
But we should be concerned about wider knowledge of tracking technology; once bosses start to exert subtle (or not so subtle) pressure on employees to "voluntarily" sign up to Latitude and share their location, the fear of being observed all day every day becomes real. Latitude does allow users to lie, but keeping up an effective fiction isn't as easy as it sounds, and the next service to be launched might not allow such er, latitude in the truth. ® | <urn:uuid:31a74f71-70a5-4637-859a-f6d29de0d49f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/10/early_day_motion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95242 | 471 | 1.585938 | 2 |
There is a difference between hurt and injured. I learned this playing Babe Ruth league baseball.
Playing right field one game, a teammate in center dove for a fly ball, missed it completely and landed flat on the plush grass. The miscue turned a one run lead into a one run deficit. My teammate stayed flat on the grass while myself, the team manager and few other fielders gathered around to check on his injury. The left fielder came over just to ask him why the fuck he dove for the ball but that kid was always kind of an asshole.
“Are you hurt or are you injured?” coach asked, not even bending down to actually check on his fallen player.
None of us had any idea what the hell he meant. The asshole in left field walked away because he didn’t care about the question or the pending answer.
“Injured. I think.” he responded, holding his crotch with his glove and his stomach with the other hand. “What’s the difference?”
Coach explained that injured meant an actual physical injury that would require medical attention. Hurt meant he was emotionally injured – embarrassed and eager to hide from the fact he might have just cost his team the game.
Turns out the kid was just hurt. He was eventually injured after the game, when the asshole left fielder punched him in the chest for costing us a win.
I hadn’t thought about the hurt or injured thing until recently, thanks to my 2-year-old kid. One always seems to follow the other – hurt and then injured.
Here’s how to goes down – he wants to do something that the Permanent Roommate (my name for my wife) and I don’t want him to do like climb the steps without one of us helping, scream his little balls off in the middle of Target or stick Matchbox cars up the cat’s ass. We tell him “no” and immediately his feelings are hurt because we’ve yelled at him. In reaction, he finds a nice open spot on the floor, the wall or any other unforgiving surface and smashes his head against it. Hard. Harder with each thrust. He goes from hurt, to injured, in a matter of seconds.
I’m not sure how to really deal with either hurt or injured in these situations. I’ve got to tell him to stop doing bad things so that’s not going to stop but I’ve got to keep him from injuring himself because he might do real damage or turn into a violent adult. At the very least he could become that asshole left fielder and no one wants that to happen.
Here is what I’ve tried so far:
- putting my hand in front of his forehead to keep it from hitting anything hard, which just angers him more
- picking him up off the ground, and away from all hard surfaces, which just leads to a couple head butts to my nose
- yelling even more for him to stop it, which never, ever helps any situation
- clapping in rhythm to head slams (I ran out of ideas)
None of it worked. It wasn’t until last week that I finally found a working solution.
It went down like this — the kid did something where I had to reprimand him. I don’t quite remember but I’ll assume it was the Matchbox thing because he is obsessed with the cat’s anus. Right after I sternly told him to knock it off, he dropped to his knees and bounced his head off the wood floor. I dropped to the floor next him and did the exact same thing. He went for a second shot but I got my head down before him and bounced my dome off the hard planks one more time. He stared at me.
“What daddy doing?”
“Daddy’s mad too. Isn’t this what we do when we’re mad?”
He looked at me like I was half a moron, got up off the floor and went back to playing with his cars.
I stood up and rubbed my head.
“Are you hurt or injured?” the Roommate asked.
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The Edmond Trinity Christian Church in Oklahoma City became the second Disciples of Christ Church in the state to become open and affirming, according to the Daily Oklahoman. There are 170 churches in the denomination within the state.
It’s curious why this story has been all over the gay blogs, however. Midway Hills Christian Church in Dallas is a member of the denomination as well. According to member Roger Wedell, his church joined the Gay and Lesbian Affirming Disciples (GLAD) Alliance in 1992. And they were fairly late in actually aligning themselves with GLAD.
“Well, that’s when we took the vote,” he said.
The movement in the denomination began about 1976 but Midway Hills has welcomed everyone since its founding in the 1950s.
“Gays and lesbians have been in leadership throughout our history,” Wedell said.
The church was one of the few places that welcomed Turtle Creek Chorale to rehearse when the group organized 32 years ago and P-FLAG Dallas formed there in the early ’90s.
So what took so long for the church to officially become open and affirming, Wedell said, was simply taking the vote. There wasn’t a need before that, he said, but finally, the church decided to become a witness to the community and to make sure anyone looking for an open and affirming church would find Midway Hills more easily.
The history of Edmund Trinity appears to be similar. The vote to become GLAD-affiliated followed a history of welcoming a diverse community that included two years of study of the treatment of gays and lesbians in the church.
Wedell said things in the Christian Church, as it’s known, are done on a congregational level. Midway Hills was and apparently remains at the forefront in the denomination on the subject of LGBT inclusion. Only about 100 of the denomination’s 3,600 churches nationwide are open and affirming through the GLAD alliance. | <urn:uuid:b32a1fd1-da49-4c26-8734-d43439ce2ee8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dallasvoice.com/tag/edmond-trinity-christian-church | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979717 | 415 | 1.546875 | 2 |
This universe seems to have a similar time line to Earth-1610, up until the event known as Ultimatum, where differences can be noticed; one difference being that the Human Torch of this universe was killed in the Ultimatum Wave.
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Susan Storm, driven by the grief of the death of her brother, has become a despot in charge of ridding the world of mutants and super powers. Reed Richards managed to create a machine he dubbed "The Promise", which he used to remove Ben Grimm's condition. Unfortunately there was an accident and he himself also lost his powers, along with Cyclops, Jean Grey and Captain America, among others.
Susan turned on Reed and dumped him in the N-Zone (where he later took on the alias of Nihil) and began a relationship with Namor. Together they reformed the Fantastic Four, along with Iron Man (Ben Grimm) and Firestar. Susan created the N-Zone Facility and used it as a prison to hold any captured mutants, or anyone with abilities for that matter, policed by Sentinels that are modeled after Wolverine to make them better hunters and killers.In an effort of desperation, the X-Men travelled to the past to kill Reed Richards in an attempt to change history.
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Sudan Says It Hasn’t Stopped South Sudan’s Oil Exports
Sudan’s government said it hasn’t blocked South Sudan’s oil exports, contradicting a statement by its oil minister two days ago that shipments have been halted.
“The government of Sudan has not and will not stop or impede the flow and export of oil of the Republic of South Sudan through its territory and facilities,” Sabir al-Hassan, a spokesman for Sudan’s delegation at talks with South Sudanese officials in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, told reporters today.
Sudanese Oil Minister Ali Ahmed Osman on Nov. 28 announced a blockade on South Sudan’s oil exports that pass through its pipelines and said it would be lifted only when the two countries agreed on payments for the shipments. They failed to reach a deal in African Union-backed talks this week, al-Hassan said, and negotiations will resume next month.
While South Sudan took control of about three-quarters of the former unified Sudan’s output of 490,000 barrels a day when it seceded on July 9, it relies on the north for access to an export terminal on the Red Sea.
Sudan rejected an offer by South Sudan of $5.4 billion compensation package for the loss of its oil fields, the south’s chief negotiator, Pagan Amum, told reporters in Addis Ababa. Sudanese authorities responded to the offer with “hostility and threats,” he said.
“South Sudan insist they have the right to continue exporting oil through our facilities without paying charges,” al-Hassan said. “If we do not find an agreement on fees and charges, we are under obligation to take our dues.”
He also criticized Sudan Sudan’s seizure on Nov. 8 of stakes held by Sudan’s state oil company, Sudapet, in joint operations in the south with companies such as China National Petroleum Corp., Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC)
“Their assets that were more than $2 billion dollars were confiscated by a presidential decree issued by the president of the Republic of South Sudan,” al-Hassan said.
Amum said that Sudan has kept revenue owed to the south for oil exports from May to July. Since a 2005 peace agreement that ended a two-decade civil war until South Sudan’s independence, the north and south split earnings from crude pumped in southern fields.
“The claim that they need us to pay them processing and transportation fees is not true because we are paying those to the companies,” Amum said. “We are paying the Chinese. What the north is talking about is extortion.”
China yesterday urged the two sides to reach agreement in negotiations.
“Maintaining normal production of oil is important to both South Sudan and Sudan,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters in Beijing. “We hope North and South Sudan can stay rational, show restraint, and resolve relevant problems through neighborly pragmatism and friendly talks.”
To contact the reporter on this story: William Davison in Addis Ababa at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at [email protected]
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I was just wondering for future reference, can you seperate a male and female betta using one of those dividers at the pet stores. Would it make them act weird and try to attack/mate all day or would they still be normal? Just wondering in case I ever get snowflake a little girlfreind.
BTW, do different breeds (crowntail, halfmoon, regular, etc.) mate or only the same.
Well breeding a halfmoon to a veil teil is going to give you veil tails, or maybe a few deltas in there. That's why you don't really see 'half breeds.' Combtails are about the only easily identifiable mix of the tail types. They are all of course capable of being interbred, they're all betta splendens. Just like all household dogs are canis familiaris, whether they be german shepard or poodles, they can still interbreed.
And a lot of the more rare types you won't see in your LFS because they aren't going to buy a $50-200 fish just to stick it in one of those tiny cups where it is just as likely to die as the other bettas they. Too much of a potential loss of profit. To find a lot of those sorts of bettas, you'd probably have to either find a local breeder if there is one, or go online and find one (Aquabid is a great place to look at all the wonderful colors and types of bettas that are being bred out there).
You can divide the tank and the fish will be able to entertain themselves by seeing each other. I've yet to keep males and females next to each other, but the female may develop eggs, but that shouldn't be a problem, if she doesn't breed she'll just drop the unfertilized eggs, or reabsorb them. The male will probably flare and try to court her, and build a bubblenest, but that's not really unusual behavoir. Or he may show no interest at all. I've heard of some males that show no real interest in some females. "Sorry babe, you're just not my type." xD
Yeah, its possible to divide the males and female with a divider. I've done it before, with a ten gallon aquarium. It worked pretty well, but I did see a change in behavior. The divider was clear, so they could see eachother. They were always flairing at eachother, to the point where I substituted an opaque piece of plastic for the original clear divider piece just so they would leave eachother alone.
If you choose to divide the fish, be careful when you're doing maintenance. There were several times that after I cleaned the tank, the divider wasn't fully secure. One of the bettas would slip through the crack and fight with the other. It never got deadly, but my male was pretty beat up.
But, if you're looking to mate them, one time when the female got onto the male's side, I walked in on them mating. Apparently one of my friends has ben trying forever to get his bettas to mate, and mine breeded on accident. I don't know if it was because they could see eachother, but it could have been. And yes, different types of bettas will breed with eachother, so you can have mixed breeds.
Neons are schooling fish, I'm not sure why you'd want to separate them? They work best in schools of at lest five anyhow, so not sure what good splitting them up would be. If you want a 10 gallon split to keep a betta on one side, and neons on the other so the betta couldn't get to them, I suppose that could work? | <urn:uuid:bcd876fa-a754-4ce9-84aa-0f43c6a70a67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bettafish.com/showthread.php?t=22864 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977234 | 792 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The head of Iran's atomic agency said the Islamic Republic will not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for a research reactor in Tehran.
Iran is set to start enriching its stockpile of uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, in a step sure to antagonize Western nations that fear the enrichment work could eventually yield material for a nuclear weapon.
France and the U.S. said Monday Iran's action left no choice but to push harder for a fourth set of U.N. Security Council sanctions to punish Iran's nuclear defiance. Russia, which has close ties to Iran and has opposed new sanctions, appeared to edge closer to Washington's position, saying the new enrichment plans show the suspicions about Iran's intentions are well-founded.
Ali Akbar Salehi, a vice president as well as the head of the country's nuclear program, said the further enrichment would be unnecessary if the West found a way to provide Iran with the needed fuel.
"Whenever they provide the fuel, we will halt production of 20 percent," he told state TV late Monday.
Iran has so far enriched uranium to a level of 3.5 percent, which is suitable for use in fueling nuclear power plants. The process is of concern to the West, however, because at higher levels — around 90 percent — the material can be used to make weapons.
The West fears that Iran's enrichment program is ultimately geared toward military purposes — a charge Iran denies.
On Tuesday, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters the higher enrichment will be done with the cooperation and supervision of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, adding that "if other countries or the agency could provide the fuel, our attitude can be different as well."
Mehmanparast said any plan by the West to impose new Security Council resolutions would not be helpful.
"If they attempt another resolution, they are making a mistake. It is not helpful in resolving the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West," he said. "They are completely wrong if they think our people will back down even a single step."
Salehi said Iran has been trying to buy the higher enriched fuel for its research reactor for the past several months, but the West made providing the fuel conditional on Iran's acceptance of a U.N.-drafted agreement to ship its uranium stockpile abroad first.
That plan would come with some safeguards, because the enriched fuel provided to Iran would be in a form that would be difficult to further process to make weapons.
Salehi said Iran would begin 20 percent enrichment on Tuesday by injecting gas into a cascade of centrifuge machines. Salehi said Iran needs some 1.5 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium a month for the Tehran research reactor, which produces medical isotopes.
Salehi said 164 centrifuge machines were ready in a laboratory in Iran's main enrichment facility in the city of Natanz to produce 3 to 5 kilograms of higher enriched uranium per month.
Salehi said inspectors from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency are expected to be present when Iran begins the higher enrichment.
"The agency continues to have inspectors in Iran conducting normal safeguard operations," IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor said Tuesday when asked if they would be present.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates believed the United Nations should slap new sanctions on Iran in "weeks, not months."
Morrell said Gates believes a U.N. resolution would lay the legal groundwork countries need to impose sanctions independently and pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear program.
No new U.N. Security Council sanctions can be passed, however, without unanimous agreement from all members, including China, which has been reluctant to impose new punitive measures on Iran.
China called for more talks on Tuesday, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, saying "I hope the relevant parties will step up efforts and push for progress in the dialogue and negotiations."
Russia, another Security Council member, has also been reluctant to back new sanctions.
The nation's security chief said on Tuesday, however, that Iran's decision to enrich uranium to higher levels has added to doubts about its nuclear program.
"Iran says it doesn't want to have nuclear weapons. But its actions, including its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent, have raised doubts among other nations, and these doubts are quite well-founded," Nikolai Patrushev was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
Iran says it needs the 20 percent enriched fuel for a research reactor producing radio isotopes to treat cancer and manufacture radiography materials. Iran says more than 850,000 people need the products for their illnesses.
Iran purchased 116 kilograms of the fuel in 1987 from Argentina, through the IAEA.
Before 1979 Islamic revolution when Iran and the U.S. had close ties, the U.S. provided fuel to the reactor in 1967.
The center also has an educational role in training Iranian researchers on nuclear issues.
Associated Press Writer Veronika Oleksyn contributed to this report from Vienna.
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Feb. 16, 2011 Patients newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, and their families, need better guidance from their physicians on how to plan for the patient's progressive loss of ability to handle finances, according to a study led by a physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
"When a patient is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, the chance that their physician will discuss advance planning for finances is miniscule," said lead author Eric Widera, MD, a geriatrician at SFVAMC. "And yet when family members and caregivers are asked what's important to them, finances are near the top of the list."
Writing in the Feb. 16, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors use a case study of an Alzheimer's patient who progressively lost the ability to handle finances as a springboard for a review of medical literature on the topic of dementia and financial impairment.
"The literature tells us that financial incapacity occurs very early and very rapidly in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias," said Widera, who is also an assistant clinical professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF. "Patients start having difficulty managing bank statements and paying bills in the pre-dementia phase -- mild cognitive impairment -- and then, often within a year, lose more basic financial skills like counting coins and paying with cash."
This rapid progression of financial incapacity, said Widera, makes it "essential" that physicians proactively counsel patients and their families on financial planning "early in the disease, while the patient still has the capacity to make the decisions" that will allow trusted caregivers to take over finances.
"This is about giving patients with dementia a choice, respecting them as individuals, and working to maintain their autonomy even beyond the point where they can't make decisions anymore," Widera said. "Proper financial planning will leave both the patient and the caregiver with more financial resources to deal with the consequences of the disease."
As a first step in financial planning, the authors recommend that early in the course of the disease, the patient sign a durable power of attorney authorizing a family member or other trusted caregiver to make financial decisions on the patient's behalf. "If you wait until it's too late for the patient to be involved in the decision-making, you have to go to court, which makes it much more difficult and expensive" for the caregiver to take over financial responsibilities for the patient, warned Widera.
Another strategy is for the patient and a trusted caregiver to open joint financial accounts. "The caregiver can go online and see where the money is going," noted Widera. "This can protect the patient's autonomy while giving the caregiver a bit of oversight, and provide an early warning system as the disease progresses."
Co-authors of the paper are Veronika Steenpass, MD, of UCSF, primary investigator Daniel Marson, JD, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Rebecca Sudore, MD, of SFVAMC and UCSF.
The study was supported by funds from the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Hartford Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and a Pfizer Fellowship in Clear Health Communication.
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Recall, the Brotherhood is committed to implementing Sharia law in Egypt, is deeply antisemitic, encourages Muslim men to treat women like chattel, advocates death for homosexuals, despises Western democracy, seeks the destruction of Israel, and believes in permanent underclass status for religious minorities.
So how does Quinn characterize the group?
Then, there's this reassuring news:The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 and seeks to promote its conservative vision of Islam in society, has made dramatic gains since a popular uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak last year and launched Egypt on an unpredictable political course.
And this amusing piece of sophistry:The FJP candidate, Khairat al-Shater, said in comments reported on Wednesday that introducing sharia law would be his "first and final objective," but the FJP group in Washington sought to dismissed fears this meant they aimed to establish an Islamic theocracy.
Leading to this inadvertently hilarious juxtaposition:Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, an FJP lawmaker from Luxor, said the party was dedicated to the principle of a "civil state" and the objectives of sharia law rather than its specific practice.
All reported on by Quinn with absolutely no background or critical insight on the Brotherhood, its fanatical founder, its dogma, or its, shall we say, less politically correct spokesmen.The FJP team took pains to appear both reasonable and flexible during their Washington visit, quoting both from the Koran and from the U.S. self-help manual "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," and depicting themselves as the true heirs of the uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square. | <urn:uuid:29522140-38bb-4001-b36f-20c46b8a94ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://r-mew.blogspot.com/2012/04/reuters-handles-pr-for-muslim.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959433 | 337 | 1.59375 | 2 |
It’s disturbing enough when a candidate for President lies about a significant matter, but even more troublesome when the lie is part of an effort to politicize a tragedy for our country - on September 11, no less.
Rioters in Egypt and Libya attacked embassies of the United States to “protest” an anti-Muslim film that was being promoted by the Koran-burning nitwit Terry Jones. The rioters in Libya killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. An employee in the Cairo Embassy tweeted a condemnation of the film for its anti-Muslim bigotry. According to Talking Points Memo, “the embassy and multiple press reports assert that the statement came before the protests and was intended to head off a confrontation.” The State Department and the White House both disavowed the statement from the embassy employee because it did not also include a defense of freedom of speech by Jones and the film maker.
Here is Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s first comment on the crisis:
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
After an opportunity to reflect, he came up with this:
“We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people. It’s also important for me — just as it was for the White House, last night by the way — to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values ….”
(Both quotes are from Andrew Sullivan’s blog.)
One of Romney’s recurrent themes - uttered most recently in his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention - is that Barack Obama began his Presidency by engaging in an “apology tour.” Romney even named his book No Apologies. The reality, of course, is that Obama did no such thing, but that has not stopped Romney from repeating this lie. Now he has done it to gain political advantage from the murder of four Americans serving their country in one of the world’s most difficult spots. I think the most apt description for such behavior is “despicable.” | <urn:uuid:f62e0c55-5e20-4f6f-9318-4b2973a5200d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tenoonan.com/2012/09/12/can-mitt-romney-tell-the-truth-about-anything-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970952 | 505 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Farmer adopts calf found in basement of home
Beloit police discover calf during domestic disturbance call
The woman who adopted a calf found in a Beloit basement earlier this week is working to get the malnourished animal to gain weight.
Word spread quickly about a calf found in the basement of a home in the 800 block of Vine Street in Beloit.
"I was in tears when I read the Facebook message," said Renee Mann. "I got on the phone the next morning. I was on the phone for probably two hours trying to find him."
Mann, a Columbus-based farmer and dog rescuer, got ahold of the University of Wisconsin Veterinary Hospital where the calf was being treated, signed the necessary paperwork and made the adoption official.
Confined to a filthy basement, the calf was rescued when police responded to a domestic disturbance at the home and discovered the animal.
"(Police) discovered the domestic disturbance originated over the fact that the children were not feeding the cow that was being kept in the basement of the house," said Capt. Vince Sciame, of the Beloit Police Department. "The husband was upset that the cow hadn't been fed properly by the children, or children were supposed to feed the calf and they hadn't done so; he got upset about that and assaulted his wife."
Mann said the calf she has named Gaston is about 10 pounds underweight.
"He should be around, maybe, 60 pounds," said Mann, who estimated Gaston will grow to weigh more than a 1,000 pounds and live another 17 years.
Despite having 25 head of cattle, Mann said Gaston won't grow up only to be sent to market. She said the calf will instead be a longtime friend.
"I do have a special connection, especially with (Gaston). He's going to be famous now," Mann said.
Mann has also rescued hundreds of dogs over a decade.
"This is my first rescued calf," Mann said.
Before calling Mann's farm home, Gaston was treated for a couple days at the UW Veterinary Hospital before being adopted.
Police have since declared the Beloit home where the calf was found uninhabitable, and while the homeowners face building code violations, officers also cited them for keeping livestock in city limits.
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Oh My God! I learnt so much in church yesterday, I have to slowly meditate on them one after the other until it permeates into my mind, spirit, bones and marrows.
The Word of God is not just an ordinary alphabetical letter or mere words, Jesus said the His Words are Life and Spirit. John 6:63, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." It's very important we understand the efficacy of God's Word. The Word of God that comes out of your mouth can change and create anything. The Word of God spoken in faith brings healing to you. Proverbs 4:20-22, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."
If you are Christian, you are born of God's Word and you can only live a victorious life by sticking to the Word of God. Never allow a day to pass by without meditating of God's Word. Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." You must take this seriously, get the Word of God inside you always..ignorance of God's Word is one of the main reasons why bad things may happen to a good Christian. God said in Hosea 4:6, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee." | <urn:uuid:323fa9be-a2dd-4d12-97bf-b514ffebe191> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thebanquethall.blogspot.com/2013/03/go-for-word_4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954904 | 379 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Test confirm oil washed up by Isaac came from BP spill
by Associated Press
Published: September 6,2012
GULF COAST — Laboratory tests show that globs of oil found on two Louisiana beaches after Hurricane Isaac came from the 2010 BP spill.
Tests run by Louisiana State University for state wildlife officials confirmed that oil found on Elmer’s Island and Grand Isle in Louisiana matched the biological fingerprint of the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed from BP’s Macondo well.
Yesterday, BP said oil from its spill had been exposed by Isaac’s waves and that the company would work to clean it up.
Ed Overton, the LSU chemist who did the state tests, said the oil found on Elmer’s Island had not degraded much while oil at Grand Isle had.
Two other samples collected from another barrier island did not match the signature of oil from the BP well.
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After the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, Michael Cagno, executive director of The Noyes Museum of Art of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, knew he wanted to do something for citizens of the ravaged country.
Noticing a strong Haitian community in Atlantic County, Cagno realized local galleries were not celebrating Haitian art. So the Vineland resident suggested that representatives of the Noyes reach out to the country’s residents culturally.
Cagno, along with Linwood’s Dorrie Papademetriou, a director at the Noyes; Hammonton’s Celeste Safeer, a Stockton student; and Florcy Morrisset, who owns a Haitian art gallery in Philadelphia, brought Project HEART (Haiti Emergency Art Relief Team) to Haiti.
The quartet worked at children’s camps for seven days, giving students the opportunity to explore new art materials and to express themselves through a variety of mediums. In January, in commemoration of the earthquake’s one-year anniversary, the Noyes will sponsor various exhibits: artwork made by the children will be on display at the Noyes’ Artport at the Atlantic City International Airport; professional artwork purchased in Haiti will be featured at the Noyes in Oceanville; and photography from the trip will be on display in Hammonton.
“When you look at U.S. tragedies such as Katrina and 9/11, art was there for people to help cope … to make sure life goes on,” Cagno said.
Woman happy to be ‘bra lady’
Marla Wink is not just happy to be known on Long Beach Island as the “bra lady,” she makes a living from it.
The 52-year-old, who lives in the Holgate section of Long Beach Township, owns Indian Summer, a women’s boutique in Beach Haven’s Bay Village shopping center.
Wink, who has owned the business for 23 years, said she always did pretty well, but taking advantage of an Oprah Winfrey episode about five years ago — in which Winfrey informed women they were probably wearing the wrong size bras — transformed Wink into the bra lady.
Advertising that she not only fitted women for bras, but that she also had bras for well-endowed women — including the one Oprah touted — in stock, Wink’s business changed overnight, and she has now measured more chests than she ever thought she would.
Her store features thousands of bras, and Wink said she has at least 20 bras per size — from 28A to 48JJ — to offer her finicky customers.
“Oprah was right,” said Wink, whose store also offers fitted bathing suits and other women’s apparel. “I would say that 85 percent of women are wearing the wrong size bra, and they are way off when it comes to their size, too. They call me the ‘bra lady,’ and I am fine with it. It’s actually pretty funny.”
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A story from Allan, Phnom Penh.
At one stage I counted ten young street children injecting heroin in the alley around me. Monks slowly walked by on their morning alms. For a Westerner it was an unexpected juxtaposition.
We had arrived on motos some time earlier carrying small sporting bags packed with clean syringes, sterilised water, medical supplies, condoms, empty oil bottles, BBQ tongs and food packages soaked in sugar. One by one, children appeared from flimsy doorways and alley corners. Some brought cane baskets filled with used syringes. Others arrived empty handed, took medical kits, food and began injecting not even a metre away.
Some of the young children spoke with the outreach teams about their problems or asked for specific medical treatment. Others it seemed wanted to share a joke and have a conversation with somebody outside of their world. The children, always polite and courteous, seemed fully aware the outreach team was there to help. Several children took rubber gloves, empty oil containers, BBQ tongs and begin clearing used syringes.
That afternoon I was exposed to many confronting images but none more horrific than the sight of a young male who had two seriously infected wounds on his left calf. Each wound was roughly sixty millimetres in diameter and five deep. The areas surrounding the wound were black and when the outreach doctor squirted a clear solution it sent each wound bubbling in a pool of white foam. The doc applied mercurochrome and bandaged the wounds. The patient did not flinch. I asked the doc if the patient should be in hospital to which he replied in broken English “He not want to go. We do best we can and come back next week to apply more treatment.”
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The parables of Octavia Butler: a science-fiction writer's rich libertarian legacy.ON FEBRUARY 24, 2006, the novelist Octavia Buffer died at age 58 after falling and sustaining a head injury at her Seattle home. Her work, however, will long outlive out·live
tr.v. out·lived, out·liv·ing, out·lives
1. To live longer than: She outlived her son.
2. its author. In 13 books, Buffer struggled with themes of coercion, responsibility, and the individual's relationship to the community, making her novels not just compelling stories but important additions to the literature of liberty.
Born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936 and the 160th largest city in the United States. The California Finance Department estimates the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. , the only child of a shoeshine man and a maid, Butler as a youth was a lonely, marginalized figure in almost every possible way: a shy, stammering stammering: see stuttering. , unusually tall black girl, a dyslexic dys·lex·ic or dys·lec·tic
Of or relating to dyslexia.
A person affected by dyslexia. , and a lesbian. Writing and speaking came to her with difficulty, yet Octavia Buffer became one of the most imaginative and respected voices in science fiction, the winner of two Nebula Awards, two Hugo Awards, the Tiptree Award, and the PEN Center West Lifetime Achievement Award. Her accolades transcended her genre: Buffer was the first, and so far the only, science-fiction author to be honored with a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
In books such as the Patternist novels, published from 1976 to 1984, and the Xenogenesis xenogenesis /xeno·gen·e·sis/ (-jen´e-sis)
1. heterogenesis (1).
2. the hypothetical production of offspring unlike either parent.
1. trilogy, published from 1987 to 1989 and now collected in the omnibus volume Lilith's Brood, Butler employed the stuff of hard science--biological engineering, interspecies hybrids--to create settings and situations that are both literally and figuratively alien. But the stories are less concerned with the specific details of science than with the broader issues of what it means to be human--most specifically, how we abuse, are abused by, and experience power.
Butler's greatest achievements may be Parable of the Sower (1993) and its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents For the novel by Octavia Butler, see .
The Parable of the Talents (sometimes just the Parable of Talents) is a parable of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 25:14-30). It was told to illustrate an aspect of the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven. . The books are set in a futuristic Los Angeles violently pulling itself apart as the homeless and drug-addicted many prey on the employed, suburban few. The plot follows the young Lauren Olamina, left orphaned and destitute after her walled community is attacked.
As she travels north, as much in pilgrimage as in flight, she establishes a secular belief system she calls Earthseed, a faith that "God is Change" and "We shape God." Olamina and her fellow travelers argue that human beings need to value adaptability, diversity, and responsibility if they are to halt social entropy and make something of the ruins left to them. In the second novel, Earthseed and the community built on it come under attack from religious fanatics, who prove as brutal as the urban gangs that plagued the city streets.
Whether she was describing human beings who serve as breeders for superior aliens or telepaths who use others' bodies without their consent, Butler had no qualms about discomfiting the reader as she explored questions of liberty and servitude servitude
In property law, a right by which property owned by one person is subject to a specified use or enjoyment by another. Servitudes allow people to create stable long-term arrangements for a wide variety of purposes, including shared land uses; maintaining the . In Fledgling (2005), matriarchal ma·tri·arch
1. A woman who rules a family, clan, or tribe.
2. A woman who dominates a group or an activity.
3. A highly respected woman who is a mother. vampires, themselves the victims of prejudice, feed on human beings whose ability to provide or deny consent is questionable, to say the least. Although they seemingly enter the contract as "volunteers" and receive prolonged and peaceful life in payment for their blood, they surrender their autonomy, becoming addicted to a powerful narcotic narcotic, any of a number of substances that have a depressant effect on the nervous system. The chief narcotic drugs are opium, its constituents morphine and codeine, and the morphine derivative heroin.
See also drug addiction and drug abuse. in the vampires' saliva, more victims than equals. Readers are not certain whether to be disturbed more by the human hosts' dependency or by the fact that they can "seem perfectly happy" in such a powerless role. The master-slave dynamic, with its many variations, never ceased to fascinate and terrify ter·ri·fy
tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies
1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten.
2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. Butler; she continually considered how power imbalances limit individuals' choices and identities.
Such works explore not only the foundations of the institutions of power but how freedom can be lost and why it is given away. Buffer didn't merely empathize em·pa·thize
To feel empathy in relation to another person. with the alienated, dominated, and oppressed op·press
tr.v. op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es
1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny.
2. . She inverted inverted
reverse in position, direction or order.
inverted L block
a pattern of local filtration anesthesia commonly used in laparotomy in the ox. readers' expectations, forcing them to examine their own assumptions and instincts, to perceive how they might identify with and even become the alienator, dominator, and oppressor OPPRESSOR. One who having public authority uses it unlawfully to tyrannize over another; as, if he keep him in prison until he shall do something which he is not lawfully bound to do.
2. To charge a magistrate with being an oppressor, is therefore actionable. . In Kindred (1979), for example, a time traveler can protect her own existence in the 20th century only by encouraging a slave woman's bondage and rape in the past. When the protagonist asks, "See how easily slaves are made?," the reader, with a new appreciation and terrible understanding of the dynamics of brute force and the survival instinct, cannot help but answer in the affirmative.
Butler challenged how well we understand ourselves and, without preaching or oversimplifying the subjects she broached, she pointed out how we may be at fault in the inherent cruelty of the human story. In Parable of the Sower, Olamina has a condition called "hyperempathy," through which she feels the suffering of all of those around her. What the reader expects to be a crippling experience instead leads to enlightenment, causing Olamina to ask, "But if everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?" In the dissolution of her own self, Olamina learns to respect the dignity of each individual and his or her experience. Buffer challenges the reader to do likewise--to see casual unkindness and more extreme inhumanities as different in scale but not in nature.
Institutions of coercion, from governments to religions, were Buffer's targets. Individuals, not groups, were her protagonists. Through her fiction, Butler exhorted readers to act rather than be acted upon, to cede power only to leaders wisely chosen, and to examine the origins of our ideas, so that we might not simply "think what we are told that we think."
If she expected a great deal from her readers, she asked just as much from herself. Her self-description was not entirely flattering: "a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist always, a Black, a quiet egoist, a former Baptist, and an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." The Washington Post offered a shorter, more fitting evaluation, calling her simply "one of the finest voices in fiction, period."
Amy H. Sturgis Amy H. Sturgis is an author, speaker, and scholar of Native American Studies and Science Fiction/Fantasy Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Vanderbilt University. (amybsturgis.com) teaches science fiction and fantasy studies at Belmont University. Her new edition of Baron de la Motte-Fouque's The Magic Ring will be available from Valancourt Books this summer. | <urn:uuid:1b60d297-4738-4016-a3d9-063aaf0e0849> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+parables+of+Octavia+Butler:+a+science-fiction+writer's+rich...-a0146345622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942439 | 1,964 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Fri March 23, 2012
Trying To Save A Broke City
This is the second of two stories we're doing today about Harrisburg. Read the first story here.
Harrisburg is broke.
The Pennsylvania city is deep in debt. It's still spending more than it takes in. And, as David Unkovic described it to me last week, there's a cash-flow problem.
The governor of Pennsylvania decided Harrisburg can't manage its own finances, and appointed Unkovic as the city's receiver. Unkovic is supposed to be the solution to the city's financial woes. But he wouldn't put it that way.
He's a gentle, soft-spoken guy who's lived in Pennsylvania his whole life. And being the receiver for a broke town is a pretty lonely job.
"The unfortunate situation is there's simply not enough money to pay for everything," he says.
Last week, he decided to skip the city's regular debt payment so that the police and firefighters could get paid.
But the head of the firefighters union, Eric Jenkins, is still suing Unkovic, arguing that having a technocrat in charge of an American city is undemocratic. Nevin Mindlin, another plaintiff in the suit, says it isn't personal.
"Unkovic as a human being seems like a very decent soul," Mindlin says. Then he quotes Patrick Henry: "Suffer not thyself to be betrayed by a kiss."
Unkovic has to figure out what to sell off, who to pay, and who not to pay. The longer this takes, the harder it is for Harrisburg to clear its debts. New payments are coming due all the time.
Unkovic is pushing hard for cutting spending, selling off city assets, asking creditors for a break. He hopes that his plan will serve as a model to help out other struggling cities — in New York, California, Michigan.
But he also called Harrisburg a house of cards that's finally come tumbling down. | <urn:uuid:f8f0dc62-79a3-4049-8073-498fa495abc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kios.org/post/trying-save-broke-city | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978861 | 418 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Rollkur Controversy, How YOU Can Help!!! By: Melodye Sweetin
Submitted by: Melodye Sweetin
Email Address: MelodyeSweetin(at)gmail.com
Date Added: 5/12/2012
“Rollkur” is a horse training system used by some trainers from many disciplines including dressage, jumping, & some Western disciplines such as reining. It is typified by riding the horse’s head with his nose behind the vertical, in a state of extreme hyperflexion. Whenever you see a horse whose poll is not the highest point you are witnessing “rollkur”. The sad reality is that many people have seen SO much of this type of riding that they don’t have a clear mental picture of what correct riding should look like anymore.
“Rollkur” has become increasingly evident at all levels of dressage competition, from small, local schooling shows through the Olympic levels. The problem with this type of riding is that it causes physical & mental anguish to the horse because it causes pain & leads to permanent physiological damage.
Unfortunately more & more Olympic level riders using “rollkur” to train their horses are winning with HUGE scores. Of course this sends a confusing message to other riders. In the past 15 years the picture of competitive dressage has changed dramatically. Very few horses are now seen in true self carriage, which is not a common by-product of “rollkur”.
2012 is an Olympic year, and many of us who are actively engaged in attempting to bring an end to this abuse are banding together to attempt to make an impression with the FEI to stop “rollkur” at the top international level of competition. Our goal is to cause a return to classical, humane methods of horse training. The consensus is that hobby riders look to Olympic competitors as their role models. If top riders are forced to stop using “rollkur” the message should eventually trickle down to amateurs & weekend warriors.
If you are interested in learning more about how you can help make a difference for the welfare of our beloved companion, the horse, please visit www.No-Rollkur.com, or visit them on Facebook. There is a lot of educational material & a petition to the FEI is being put together. Putting an end to “rollkur” is the least we can do for the animal that has carried us high above the fray throughout history. It is our responsibility to speak on behalf of the horse out of respect to this amazing creature!
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In fashion, a little tension is good. Not the kind that causes stress and wrinkles, the kind that causes heads to turn. Like, say, rustic/urban. Or handmade/sophisticated. A perfect example of this design paradox can be seen in these metal cage clutches by Anndra Neen duo Phoebe and Annette Stephens. Soldered together by blacksmiths in the sisters’ native Mexico, they’re the height of chic. Which, given the Stephens sisters’ background, is no surprise. Their grandmother was the artist and jewelry maker Annette Nancarrow and their grandfather was the avant-garde composer Conlon Nancarrow; the two lived in Mexico City in the 1930s and ’40s, where they were friends with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Anaïs Nin. ??Thanks to their open design, the clutches, which are available in a paperback-sized rectangle or a palm-size oval, give you the opportunity to act as your own collage artist. Throw in something a little unexpected—a vintage compact, a lace-edged hanky—and see what sort of comments you get. | <urn:uuid:4184b21d-8cc6-4c5b-90ae-c9a0e9650bb7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ahalife.com/41/anndra-neen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952727 | 242 | 1.585938 | 2 |
A big spike in flu cases across the nation and here in our area is putting a strain on hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies.
And some local pharmacies ran out of the flu vaccine this week, doing a brisk business giving shots.
News 3 spoke with patients and pharmacists about the flu outbreak and area stores are seeing a steady stream of people getting vaccinated.
We've been talking about how flu season came a month early and now the illness is widespread in all but three states. Healthcare experts say it's not too late to get vaccinated, but some pharmacies are now running out.
"Have you had a flu shot before? You've never had any trouble with it?," asked Heather Davis, a pharmacist at H-E-B.
It's a common request at pharmacies across Bryan - College Station these days.
People like Richard Pitts of Bryan are rolling up their sleeves to fight the flu.
"I seen it last night on the news and it's saying if I get the flu it's still gonna be better than not having the shot at all," said Pitts.
Christina Russell and her 7-year-old daughter Isabella were getting their flu shots for the first time.
"Oh just being sick. We don't want to be sick, we have plenty of things to do this year, so anything to help out that," added Russell.
Heather Davis is the Pharmacy Manager for H-E-B in north Bryan. They still have plenty of vaccine but gave more than a dozen today.
They also are filling prescription orders for Tamiflu for those who are already sick.
"If they've been exposed the flu shot won't help them all that much. It does take two weeks for your body to build immunity once you get the flu shot," said Davis.
Some stores are running out though.
Brookshire Brothers Pharmacy in Downtown Bryan ran out of flu shots Friday and they don't think they'll get any more.
The Target in College Station turned down 11 people after running out.
They are ordering more.
"Have you been feeling well the last few days?," questioned Judy Voyles, before giving a flu vaccine to a patient.
She is a Staff Pharmacist at the Walgreens on 29th Street in Bryan.
"There's pretty much traffic from morning 'till night. All of our pharmacists are licensed immunizers, so we give 'em in the middle of the night if somebody gets off work and needs one. They can come in any time of day or night," Voyles said.
"I understand it that that flu that's going around is really bad so I hope everybody takes precautions," said Kenny Mallard, a Brazos County Commissioner for Precinct 3.
Mallard just got his flu shot at Walgreens.
The places we went to Friday sold flu shots from between $27 and $32 but there may be a discount depending on insurance.
The Brazos County Health Department tells us they still are well stocked.
Flu vaccines there go for 20 bucks.
Children under 7 will need a prescription from their doctor to get vaccinated at area pharmacies
There are signs the flu may have already peaked in some states. | <urn:uuid:bdb2791a-b1f0-4c3b-b5df-6fc783682094> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kbtx.com/news/local/headlines/Requests-For-Flu-Vaccines-Up-At-Area-Pharmacies-Some-Running-Out-186576941.html?site=full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977763 | 665 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Commissioner: Dave Peixoto
What is NERVA?
NERVA is the acronym for the New England Region Volleyball Association. The New England Region is one of many Regions in the United States that aid in the governing of the sport of volleyball. Regional Volleyball Associations (RVAs) are member organizations of USA Volleyball (USAV). The RVAs serve as the grassroots function for the USAV and individually and collectively serve as a catalyst for USAV functions. Each Region is independently operated and is lead by a Regional Commissioner. Click here to see a map of the USA Regions.
Looking for more Volleyball and shopping? Try one of the links below. | <urn:uuid:87910bb0-81ec-4b2a-a3db-4bf0905a46e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nevolleyball.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947563 | 143 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior: a variety of brief, superficial relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
Casey has a long list of conquests including a string of one-night stands around the time that Caylee was conceived. Some she only knew by first names. It is no surprise that Casey cannot tell us who Caylee's father is. She used Anthony Rusciano mercilessly, leaving him feel like dreadful when she rose from his bed and walked out without a word. She had a string of overlapping, serial relationships--still having sexual relations with Rico Morales as she transitioned to Tony Lazzaro.
Early Behavior Problems: a variety of behaviors prior to age 13, including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away from home.
No know evidence of these problems in Casey Anthony.
Lack of realistic, long-term goals: an inability or persistent failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
Casey couldn't even manage to stick it out long enough to graduate from high school. She expressed an interest in photography and her father tried to help her get into school to study, she dropped that ball without looking back. She hadn't worked for years and led an empty life filled with parties and sex without an apparent thought for tomorrow.
Impulsivity: the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation, frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without considering the consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
She murdered Caylee without having a plan to dispose of the body. She hid her pregnancy without a thought for her ability to conceal it forever. She lived her life one day at a time, making up one lie after another to buy time before the inevitable revelation of Caylee's death.
Irresponsibility: repeated failure to fulfill or honor obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing to honor contractual agreements.
She lost her job by not showing up. She didn't not graduate from high school by being absent. She did not work to pay her bills, preferring to steal from others including her parents, friends and elderly grandparents.
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions: a failure to accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate others through this denial.
It was always someone else's fault. It was the high school's fault that she did not graduate. It was George, Lee and Cindy's fault that she lied. It was an accident that Caylee died. It was Roy Kronk's fault for dumping the body in the woods. She was a victim, she insisted, not a perpetrator.
Many short-term marital relationships: a lack of commitment to a long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
Casey bounced from one relationship to another, although engaged, she'd not ever been married. Her interpersonal relationships with her family members were mercurial, more like that of a 13-year old than that of a young woman in her twenties.
Juvenile Delinquency: behavior problems between the ages of 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous, ruthless tough-mindedness.
Casey Anthony did not have a juvenile record. Her manipulation of others, however, was clearly evident as was her habit of lying about everything and nothing at all.
Revocation of condition release: a revocation of probation or other conditional release due to technical violations, such as carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
Casey Anthony did not violate conditional release when she was out on bail on the check theft charges. She did not have the opportunity to do so after she was charged with murder because she was never released on bail.
Criminal Versatility: a diversity of types of criminal offenses, regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them; taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
Repeated theft from parents, grandparents and friends. False statements to the police. Suspected homicide of a child.
Casey Anthony easily meets the definition in seven of these final ten points. That gives her a positive response on 17 out of 20 of the items. However, taking it a step further, scoring each point on a scale of 0-2. By my calculation, that would give her a total score between 32 and 38. A diagnosis of psychopathy is met when the subject scores 30 points or more.
I am not a mental health professional, but it seems clear to me that Casey Anthony fits the diagnosis. It explains why Caylee Marie Anthony is now dead. | <urn:uuid:94bbd99d-4070-4ce3-958f-f995bed60c60> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dianefanning.blogspot.jp/2011/07/casey-anthony-and-hares-checklist-part.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969347 | 1,072 | 1.773438 | 2 |
From the toy-chasers to the lap-snugglers, everything we do is for the love of pets. Take a look at all the ways we make pet adoptions even more special, including behind-the-scene SFSPCA stories, special events, and other pet-centric matters.Visit the official San Francisco SPCA website to learn more.
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Are your children animal lovers? Our Humane Education department offers lots of opportunities for kids to learn about animals. Register online for our Spring courses!
The holidays are over, but there are still animals in need. Volunteer your time and your love. You will be rewarded beyond measure. | <urn:uuid:649f24c0-6fe4-46b5-a25b-1612b8022612> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.litterdidyouknow.org/?cat=11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935672 | 273 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Yang Yujun, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), made the statement at a regular MND press conference on September 27, 2012 that the Chinese military will take appropriate measures to faithfully perform its duties under the national unified deployment.
When answering questions concerning the purpose of the military exercises held domestically as well as the comment on the issue of the U.S.-Japan joint military exercises, Yang Yujin said the recent military exercises held by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) were organized according to plans with the purpose to improve the capability of the PLA in winning local wars under information-based conditions. These exercises have achieved the desired purposes.
What should be emphasized is that the Chinese military carries the responsibilities of safeguarding the country's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, added Yang Yujun. The Chinese military will take appropriate measures to faithfully perform its duties under the national unified deployment based on the development of events.
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After and extensive period in Graphic Design and Marketing, Calleri decided to move to Flagstaff and take advantage of the history, scenery, people and especially the astounding light offered in the western regions of the U.S.
By studying artists such as Zorn, Sargent, Vermeer, Sorolla and many others as well as living masters today -Calleri aims to reproduce classic and romantic images using the master’s palette and mood to create an emotional reaction. Currently Calleri uses each piece as a new lesson. The desire is to have a goal for each piece that may relate to mood, palette, light or expression. By looking at the way Sargent used his palette or Vermeer’s light and use of pattern Calleri is able to garner a small lesson from that and use it from that point onward.
As he explores different paths, the figure resonates throughout each piece. While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go. By distorting the image the bonds of reality and style become less commanding and the piece developes a style on it’s own.
Fred still keeps a hand in the graphics and marketing world where he finds the computer skills are absolutely essential as it relates to his painting profession. Often his illustrations are seen in magazines and publications throughout the southwest. Today, while Calleri feels especially compelled to paint the most classical of artistic subjects, the human figure, his body of work also includes landscapes and still lifes – whatever subjects manage to capture his interest as he continually searches the world around him for reasons to record an image with the brush. | <urn:uuid:80fc7c5d-517d-4475-8514-47d052df0b41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eisenhauergallery.com/bio.php?id=21&iframe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968544 | 348 | 1.5 | 2 |
maybe.. seen some people saying on the help me build my rig forums get the 920 bloomfield.. what the heck is that? is it the xeon? argh.. i only see that and i7 920 nehalem's on newegg..
Bloomfield is a Xeon chip, but it is built for regular X58 motherboards with the LGA1366 socket. What they are telling you to get might be this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... which is the i7 920 equivalent. There is a $20-30 price difference between the two, which is probably not worth it.
edit: The i7 950 and the i7 975 Extreme are also Bloomfield chips.
- Nehalim is the name of the microarchitecture. This microarchitecture could (and will) appear in a lot of chips.
- Bloomfield is the project that created the first family of processors using the Nehalim microarchitecture: the "Core i7 9xx" series as well as the Xeon "W35xx" series.
The Core i7 processors are intended for use in desktop systems, while the equivalent Xeons are intended for workstations. For example, the Xeon W3520 is essentially identical to a Core i7 920 except that it supports ECC memory.
Current Xeon's will work in X58 mobo's. Big difference is that they have a 2nd QPI to communicate with a 2nd processor
^ except the W35xx series.
Exactly - the Xeon W35xx series chips are uniprocessor systems that really are clones of the Core i7 9xx chips, except for the added ECC capability. They will not work in dual-socket systems.
The Xeon E55xx and X55xx series processors are dual-processor capable and designed for use in motherboards with 2 sockets. This means you can have up to 8 "real" cores in a system, and 16 hyperthreaded cores. But you pay a lot extra to get the dual-processor capability...
ok..think i get it.. although i have seen most non xeon 920's labeled as a nehalem and a few labeled as bloomfield. are they the same?
Sort of. There are many processors that use the Nehalim microarchitecture. The first family of processor types produced this microarchitecture were from the "Bloomfield" project. The Core i7 9xx and Xeon W35xx processors are the names of the processors that were produced by that project.
I don't believe any of the 920's should be Bloomfield. The older i7 920, 940 and 965 were Nehalem based while the newer i7 930, 950 and 975 are Bloomfield chips
You have no clue, Nehalem is the General Architecture and Die size, in Nehalem's case it refers to Core iX 45nm.
Bloomfield is features and number of cores, 'Bloom' referring to the processor having a triple channel IMC, and 'field' referring to the fact that it is a Quad core processor.
so you have, Nehalem -> Bloomfield, Lynnfield and Gainestown.
In Lynnfield, 'Lynn' refers to the processor using the 45nm die size, having onboard controllers and having a dual channel IMC.
Then in Gainestown, 'Gaines' refers to having the same features as Bloomfield, except it can use ECC memory. and 'Town' refers to it being a Server CPU and that it can be either a dual or quad core processor.
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Student Handbook - Confidentiality
Statement of Confidentiality
“What is said here, what is heard here, what is seen here, stays here.”
All University of Maine athletic training students must adhere to the following Confidentiality Statement. This is in effect for each ATS while he/she is enrolled as a student of the KPE Department in the Athletic Training Option.
As an allied health professional, it is the law that you withhold any information which you acquire either professionally or socially that is considered “professionally confidential”. This includes any information you hear in athletic training rooms, physicians’ offices, locker rooms, or other. Information regarding an athlete’s medical condition, treatment of this medical condition, or any other patient information that is not considered public information is not to be discussed with anyone other than your immediate supervisor.
Please adhere to this policy as a breach of confidentiality will lead to dismissal from any clinical educational opportunities. This is all part of professionalism. It begins now. | <urn:uuid:4c7b69cb-dc01-40c7-80ac-57e5e510375b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://umaine.edu/edhd/athletic-trainning/at-student-handbook/clinical-education-professionalism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954882 | 210 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Sometimes when you read reports about the Middle East, you get the impression that corporate journalists think Palestinians are another species entirely. Here's the New York Times' Mark Landler (3/4/09) explaining the theory of how better relations with Syria could help create a peace deal between Israel and Palestine:
By seeking an understanding with Syria, which has cultivated close ties to Iran, the United States could increase the pressure on Iran to respond to its offer of direct talks. Such an understanding would also give Arab states and moderate Palestinians the political cover to negotiate with Israel. That, in turn, could increase the burden on Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, to relax its hostile stance toward Israel.
Israel just recently launched an assault on the Gaza Strip that killed nearly 1,300 Palestinians, including 280 children under the age of 18 and 111 adult women. The Israelis killed roughly 1 out of every thousand residents of Gaza; the equivalent death toll in the U.S. would be almost 300,000.
If you were writing about human beings, you would assume that those massive losses, rather than a lack of "political cover," would probably result in a "hostile stance" toward the country that inflicted them. Since Landler doesn't seem to think that those deaths are a significant factor in the political situation, he must think he's writing about a very different sort of creature. | <urn:uuid:7041b60c-b68f-42c1-9ee1-56b6aad01128> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/03/04/palestinians-as-alien-creatures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97409 | 281 | 1.5 | 2 |
What is Freemasonry? The short answer is that it’s a group of good men who choose to come together with the goal of becoming better human beings and providing assistance when needed for each other and for the community at large...
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Don't get me wrong, we love a nice 1820's piece of S.O.W. ever so much, but you'll never see this amount of detail in a sheaf which some brawny silversmith made by whacking a swage with a big hammer.
Inscribed “To Louis Ettlinger from his friends and associates in the American Lithographic Co...
Whiting could easily have incorporated the rocaille design into the dies which were used to strike the body of this piece. Instead, they chose to use applied decoration along the foot and below the lid, a more difficult and costly technique. The resulting three-dimensionality lifts this tureen out of the realm of "good" and into that of "exceptional".
Scroll down our main catalogue page a bit and you'll find two others, monogrammed and slightly more moderate in price, but equally functional.
Readers of our little web page know that there's not much coin silver flatware here-- that is, pieces made between 1825 and 1868 in the good old U.S. of A. Why? Because most of it was thin, mass produced, and of inferior quality...
We've bought and sold many Jensen bracelets over the years and are well aware of the insults which they often suffer, but this one is free of deep scratches, hasn't been excessively polished, and has a wonderful smokey gray color.
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The Hartford CourantOne unlikely benefit of the North Korea crisis is that the world may be getting fed up with the country's pugnacious young leader, Kim Jong Un. In his belligerent talk of war, Kim appears to have crossed a line, upsetting traditional allies such as...
Marine insurance, or lack of it, may yet turn out to be the most effective sanction used by Western nations in 17 years of tightening the screws on Iran's nuclear program. A European Union oil embargo on Iran, set to take effect in July, prohibits EU...
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The Hartford CourantDanbury-based FuelCell Energy Inc. announced today that it is partnering with a South Korean power producer to sell the main components of its fuel cell generators in the country. As part of the agreement, POSCO Power, an independent power producer based...
With Charm And Money, The Scientific Elite Join The Battle. The Uconn Embryologist Vies With His Own Mortality.The Hartford CourantDressed in a dark wool coat that protects him against the bitter November wind of the North China plain, Xiangzhong ``Jerry'' Yang looks down at his grave site as television cameras record the moment. The right half of his face, the half not disfigured...
Courant Staff WriterArmy Staff Sgt. Thomas E. Vitagliano was killed, along with another member of the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, by a car bomb on Jan. 17, 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq. He was 33 and had been engaged to marry. -------------------- A West Haven native...
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| Travel Photography Desert Mexico > Baja California Sur
the elephant seal, once slaughtered to the brink, the gray whale is a
triumph of Mexican environmentalism. I walked for a mile before finding
Father on the top of a dune, where we walked across another half-mile
of sub-quicksand; a kind of happenstance of the tides which left a consistency
of wet mushroom. I found Brother Hans some time later, sitting on a dune.
He said, ""There are four elements here.sand, wind, sunlight, and philosophy.
Watch this." I followed him to a crescent dune where he inserted his hand
at its base and dug out a handful of sand. A few particles of sand began
to fill the gap, and in a matter of minutes, the entire dune began to
readjust itself until the rim caved in and reacquainted itself a few inches
is history accelerated, a model of geology, and everything they taught
me about in physics," Brother Hans said: limestone had deposited in these
broad, flat coastal plains in times of flooding, and loosened in a constant
Aeolian depth of time to form stretches of barren dune-lands.
walked along the shore, the three of us, until I stepped into a sand that
quivered and shook like jello. "Uh, I am afraid this is quicksand," Brother
Hans said. "We better watch where we step." So instead we walked the rest
of the way along the dune-ridges. At night, we cooked for hours as the
mist of the sea turned into a deep fog. Everything turned to black, so
we opened the truck doors, played Ennio Morricone's soundtrack 'The Good,
The Bad, and the Ugly' at high volume.
The inherent creepiness of this
album was enough to scare us out of our being frightened, of being in
the middle of nowhere, so we finished the last of our bottles of tequila.
In the morning, in a thick Pacific fog, we packed camp and headed north.
Everything was green here - the goofy datilillo's, which extend above
everything, and the coastal agave's were in full bloom, the sands were
covered with Checkerblooms and Devil's Claw and yellow pricklypoppy, a
carpet of yellow and violet.
the immigration checkpoint north of Guerrero Negro, we were waved by a
triplet of Officiales. "Immigration papers," one said, peaking in the
back window of the truck.
"Oh, shit," Father said.
"We don't have any immigration papers," I said.
"No immigration papers?" the officialle looked angered. "Okay, park
your car, go in that room over there."
We complied, and seated ourselves in a dimly lit,
gray room filled with forms and stampers. I have always been prejudiced
against people with stampers, ever since going to the library. "So,
you have no immigration papers?"
I said, "they are supposed to give us the papers at this checkpoint.
But nobody gave us any."
The Officiale was not happy. He was droopy-eyed, and looked more Spanish
than Mayan, which meant he was probably imported here from Mexico City.
Punishment for poor service at a higher post, perhaps?
is very bad," he said, stamping papers with his stamper like he was
the most important man in the world. And not just stamping, but thrusting
his stamper on the paper with the force of a psycho with a knife.
expression on Father and Brother's faces suggested they thought he was
"What do we need to sign?"
"You need to fill out this form, and this form, and you need to go
to Guerrero Negro and pay the bank 180 pesos for each of you
would come out to a total of about sixty-three dollars. The amount sounded
familiar. Looking at our passports, the Officiale stamped some more papers,
and sent us on our way. I told Father that we already paid our immigration
fees to some corrupt cops in Tijuana, and that we weren't going to pay
we passed again through the canyons of El Rosario, where a plentitude
of white bags had been freshly stacked along the highway. Later, passing
the modern vineyards in the pine and scrub backlands south of Ensenada,
we saw them, the truckloads of white bags headed for the United States,
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Part of Main Street was transformed into a movie set Monday afternoon for the filming of the upcoming movie "After the Fall" starring David Duchovny.
Set designers prepared the Toy Chest and Baskin-Robbins for the scene.
The film will be a drama based on the story of a 13-year-old Greenwich girl who died of rabies in 1995 after being bitten by a bat.
"After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process," the film's imdb.com's profile reads.
The girl, Maria Fareri, was a third-grader at Central Middle School in Greenwich when she became the first person to die of rabies in the state of Connecticut since 1932. Fareri was admitted to the Westchester County Medical Center on Sept. 25, 1995, and died 10 days later, on Oct. 3, according to an Oct. 5, 1995, article in The New York Times.
Once a person has demonstrated symptoms of rabies, it is too late for treatment, and death is certain, the article said.
"My tragedy as a physician is, she comes in, and I can't do a thing for her," a pediatric neurologist at the hospital, Dr. Tony Wolff, is quoted as saying in the article.
Shooting for the film in New Canaan was delayed because of Hurricane Sandy, according to Town Administrator Tom Stadler.
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The Tennessee Historical Commission is now accepting nominations for its Certificate of Merit Awards to honor individuals or groups that have worked to preserve Tennessee’s cultural heritage during 2012.
The deadline for submissions is Nov. 30, 2012.
“Although much of our work at the Tennessee Historical Commission focuses on efforts to preserve and to restore historic structures, we also want to recognize people for the work they do in the areas of publication, commemoration, and education to safeguard our history and heritage,” said Patrick McIntyre, executive director of the Tennessee Historical Commission.
The awards program recognizes individuals or groups throughout the state who have worked to conserve or highlight Tennessee’s cultural heritage during the past year. The awards recognize historic preservation projects as well as work in the field of history. Award recipients will be honored in 2013.
The Tennessee Historical Commission Awards program began in 1975. Certificates of Merit are presented annually to individuals, groups, agencies or organizations that have made significant contributions to the study and preservation of Tennessee’s heritage during the 12 months prior to the application deadline.
To make a nomination for a Certificate of Merit Award, please contact the Tennessee Historical Commission and request an application or visit www.tnhistoricalcommission.org. The Commission can be reached by calling (615) 532-1550, by writing to 2941 Lebanon Road, Nashville, TN 37214, or by contacting Angela Staggs via e-mail at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:7300cf6e-0779-4c54-9a92-7c0d8041e3e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.elkvalleytimes.com/?p=8403&wpmp_switcher=desktop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931406 | 312 | 1.5625 | 2 |
PLENTY The Ran Blake/NEC Pawnbroker concert was exasperating but also indelibly brilliant.
Film noir has been a running theme in composer/pianist Ran Blake's work since the beginning of his career — his very first album, TheNewest Sound Around (RCA, 1962), with singer Jeanne Lee, began with David Raskin's theme to Otto Preminger's Laura. Blake has played improvisations based on the work of soundtrack composers, or composed wholly new pieces based on films that he loves. On occasion, he's performed with a favorite scene from a movie projected silently on a screen behind him.
At New England Conservatory — where he has been a teacher since 1968 — on November 9, Blake and NEC's Third Stream–Contemporary Improvisation Department presented Sidney Lumet's 1964 film The Pawnbroker. If you've attended one of these annual Blake-NEC cinema-music mash-ups before, you know that this wasn't standard "live soundtrack" accompaniment. Here, The Pawnbroker (from Edward Lewis Wallant's 1961 novel) was a hybrid film screening, student-faculty recital, and illustrated lecture. Instead of the usual Halloween noir date, this year's concert was scheduled for November 9, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom in Germany that marks the unofficial beginning of the Holocaust. So The Pawnbroker — with Rod Steiger as Sol Nazerman, a Jewish concentration-camp survivor living in New York — was also billed as a memorial.
There was a lot that was frustrating about the event, much of it endemic to recitals of this kind, where broad student participation is encouraged and — as we used to say in school — all the kids should get a chance to play. There were at least six different ensembles, from unaccompanied piano and percussion solos to a big band, so there were set changes between nearly all 24 "scenes." Those scenes — in a sharp DVD transfer of Boris Kaufman's rich black-and-white cinematography — were played on a screen over the stage. Much of the time, they ran silently, with subtitles, while live musicians played. Or the soundtrack faded in and out, so that the dialogue and Quincy Jones's recorded score alternated with the live music. At times, it was as if one were watching a silent film with old-fashioned "title cards" and live music. But there were at least a couple of times when the live music and the soundtrack clashed, and at one point a singer had to compete with spoken dialogue. Perhaps most annoying were the several interruptions for spoken-word commentaries on film versus novels versus music. The event ran three hours with intermission.
That said, this was a riveting evening of music. It was fleshed out with faculty ringers, true, but I'd be eager to hear any of these students play again — or any of these pieces. The concert began with the film's opening scene: Steiger, bespectacled, lumpy, and dour, closing up shop with an assistant. Then, lights down, violinist Mia Friedman and cellist Ari Friedman elaborated on the minor-keyed Yom Kippur lament "Kol Nidre," their overlapping phrases a continuous line of sighs and effusions. Following a spoken introduction, Ken Schaphorst led a big band in his arrangement of the Quincy Jones jazz theme over the daylight title sequence of Nazerman driving through Harlem. | <urn:uuid:2e2eea20-7236-438a-b2e0-d388b8dd400a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/92989-Mixed-media/?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974278 | 724 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Chicken coop plans – Chicken Pens Produced Straightforward
write-up by Randall Webster
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SEA GIRT — Kids built Legos and rode bikes instead of playing video games. Dogs were walked twice as often as usual. And movie nights with friends — the lucky ones with generators — were cause for celebration.
In the well-kept inland sections of Sea Girt on the Jersey shore, Superstorm Sandy did little property damage. But it did knock out power, and four days later, no one knew when the lights would come back on.
For sure, living in the dark for 13 hours a day is an inconvenience. But for Dawn DeMarco, a holistic health practitioner and a divorced mother of three, it brought at least one unexpected pleasure.
“It’s kind of a blessing” for the kids, DeMarco said, “because all they want to do is play video games and be on the computer and watch TV, and they can’t do it!”
As darkness fell Friday evening, the only illumination along Laurel Avenue in Sea Girt came from a Verizon Wireless truck at the end of the road. Parked next to a pitch-dark Verizon store and blasting techno music, the generator-powered truck — which usually hawks its wares at food festivals and state fairs — gave residents a chance to charge their phones while browsing the latest tablets and smartphones from Apple, Samsung and Motorola.
“There was a lady actually crying,” said Kent Bernard, the Verizon employee who manned the truck. “She was so thankful to just have a phone charging. She hadn’t been able to talk to her parents since the storm.”
Farther down the street, homes with recessed lighting and high-definition TVs were illuminated only by the warm, faint glow of candlelight. The only sound was the humming of the occasional gas-powered generator. Debris had been swept up into neat piles, awaiting pickup by the curbside. Bored teenagers strolled down the street, and the occasional bicyclist whizzed by, all but invisible.
Jamie Shannon and his girlfriend were passing the time in their candlelit living room with their dog and three cats, listening to a battery-powered radio. On their front porch, they had a cooler stocked with beer and wine.
“I think we’re kind of lucky here without power,” Shannon said. “We’re getting around. The dog’s been walked four times a day, just out of boredom.”
Gordon Hobbis, a volunteer firefighter and the owner of an industrial-supply company, has been logging long hours during the storm. Although he hooked up a generator to his house on Wednesday and was planning to have neighbors over to watch a movie, he’s still living more simply than usual.
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I just thought to pen down some of the open thoughts that come to me on this very topic. Most often, even when I am on road, SQL is always projected as a very dev-dev topic. But there is so much on the administration point of view that is often neglected. I am a big-time believer that you need to have a fulltime DBA for SQL Server managed systems too. No second doubt in my mind !!!
Now, who on earth is a DBA – People simply feel that person responsible for giving access to your backend database is a DBA. I think this is an understatement and we need to look into this bad-practice more deeply. I know big enterprise understand to some extend but not all.
A DBA can have multiple responsibilites of which the core is to keep the server up running and available 24×7 and also provide appropriate access to the information requested by end-users. He is also responsible to protect the database and take preventive actions before any possible data loss happens. This is a fair statement, next we need to understand “Who are considered DBAs” next.
This is a bigger debate all by itself. For me, DBA must be strong in his database design, OS installation and configuration, understands SQL Server architecture and has sound administrative skills. These are critical !!! Now that can be a programmer who volunteers to take responsibility in a project or can be a system administrator who doubles up to become a DBA for a particular environment or can be a Network Admin or anyone else. But as easy as it sounds, a GOOD DBA is always in demand as far as the industry is concerned. You MUST know what you are doing esp when the system is mission critical and involves millions of $$$’s or transactions. So before you say you are one - read till the end and then think if you are right on the top to be called as one.
Now though I set the context before for a DBA as far as responsibilities – There are somethings that are implicit and not called-out as part of the profile. Let me just list some of them:
- Knowledge on upgrade or migration paths
- Installs the service packs or hotfixes
- Knowledge on system tuning and health checkpoints to get maximum performance from the given hardware
- Understands the storage system in-&-out (SAN, RAID, NAS etc) and get reports if needed
- Creates the Disaster Recovery Documents
- Makes the backup plans and able to quickly do recovery procedures
- Manages Database Users and Security around the same
- Creates, maintains and generates reports on Manintenance tasks
- Generates proper auditing techniques for system compromises if any
- Creates database standards with the Developer
- Creates scripts for non-compliances
- Is able to suggest tweaks and tune the operation database
- Understands the ETL process and the database schema affecting the same
- Understands the replication topology or High-availability options enabled
- Schedules alerts (like HDD space minimum)
- Understands different deployment techniques for different subcomponents IS/AS/RS
- Has knowledge on scripting techniques with SQL Server – WMI, SMO, DMO, TSQL (must know to do it via TSQL ALSO apart from the GUI mode)
- Knowledge on MOM and/or DPM is a bonus
Lastly, most important, has a passion to keep learning and innovating his own work :) …
Whew – now you must be wondering that DBA isn’t that easy of a job as you first thought. Let me tell you, it is a fun job and GOOD DBA’s are hard to get :) … I just hope this post will help you become that one in a million !!!!
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LOWELL -- The city is turning to Mammoth Fire Alarms of Lowell to monitor the nonemergency fire signals that wireless fire-alarm boxes send to the city's dispatch center, City Manager Bernie Lynch announced Tuesday night.
The city sought an outside firm for the job last May because dispatchers complained they did not always have time to acknowledge receiving the signals identifying maintenance issues with an alarm system and notify property owners of them.
Mammoth will start monitoring the signals in May.
Lynch also said the city will pay East Coast Security Services of Salem, N.H. $50,000 to reprogram the wireless alarm system so that the nonemergency signals are sent to Mammoth Fire Alarms and the fire signals are still sent to the city's dispatch center.
East Coast designed and installed the city's wireless fire-alarm system a couple years ago.
The nonemergency alerts, also known as "nonfire" signals, identify issues with fire-alarm systems that need addressing, such as problems with water flow in a sprinkler system or a low battery.
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Rugs are an integral part of any household. The color and texture of the rug has a significant role in determining the feel of the room. Not just selection of a particular rug, but cleaning it as well is vital for setting the mood of the room.
Cleaning and caring may vary depending on the size, construction and material of the rug. Various types of rugs demand various treatments. Here are some basic tips you need to know while handling rugs at home.
To avoid damage of the rug while storing, have it professionally cleaned and wrapped well – particularly during the hard winter season. Make sure that you have kept safe the care tag that comes along with the rug that will be useful for later references.
You may use a vacuum cleaner for cleaning a rug. Moderate sized rugs can be taken outside and shaken vigorously until the dust and dirt are largely removed. If it doesn’t work, hang them over a clothesline and beat it with brooms to remove the dirt. You have to comply to the manufactures instructions while cleaning a rug. Some rugs are not ideal for spot cleaning/ normal washing. Dry cleaning is the best option for rugs for avoiding color loss and tear.
If the rug is certified washable, make sure you hang wet rugs over a flat surface like on a clothes-drying rack, a table, or several bricks stacked on a porch, patio, or breezeway. This will avoid the rugs from losing their shape when hung on a single clothesline.
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Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2013
On January 21th, Apps for All launched their latest app: Little Lost Sheep. Parents together with their toddler can use their iOS device to play hide-and-seek to find a digital lost sheep. It’s a simple game: the toddler is the shepherd who has to close his or her eyes tight. Then the parent will hide the iPhone somewhere in the room. In a shoe, under a seat, in the dollhouse, anywhere!
Once the device has not moved for three seconds, the screen will go black and the phone ‘transforms’ into a Little Lost Sheep. This virtual sheep will call for help every 5 to 10 seconds. Now the shepherd can start their search; they can hear the sheep, but not see it! Using only their ears the shepherd must then continue to search for the sheep, then once found it’s time for a party because the herd is complete again!
Little Lost Sheep has been specifically developed for toddlers and gives consideration to specific constraints to ensure a healthy and fun experience that also aids their development. Toddlers can’t read, their attention span is very short and, as most parents will agree upon, they should not sit behind a (big or small) screen for too long. Little Lost Sheep’s innovative mix of real-world and digital gameplay takes this into account in a very friendly and engaging app.
Little Lost Sheep is a game for toddlers, with which they cannot and must not sit still. The app can be played where-ever the iPhone goes, so new hiding places are endless. Therefore Little Lost Sheep will become ‘new’ for the little ones over-and-over again. The app can of course also be played by two (or more) kids, whilst toddler and parent can even switch roles - to the child's delight when the adult cannot find a well hidden sheep.
Until now, Apps for All have focussed on small and boring utilities like address book cleaners and small photo editors. Lead developer Wim de Nood explains the shift towards Little Lost Sheep: "The simple truth is that the idea for the app came to life when my 3-year old daughter asked me, with that angelic smile, to ‘pleeease’ make her an app. How could I refuse?"
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CUDA Spotlight: Lorena Barba, Boston University
by Calisa Cole, posted Apr 16 2012 at 04:44PM
GPU Computing for Scientific Discovery
This week's spotlight is on Lorena Barba, Assistant Professor at Boston University. Professor Barba is a computational scientist and a fluid dynamicist. She was recently presented with the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award and is a CUDA Fellow. This interview is part of the CUDA Spotlight Series.
NVIDIA: Lorena, how did you get involved in using GPUs for scientific computing?
Lorena: Towards the end of 2006 (while I was in England), I was working with a visiting student from Chile, whose visit I was able to fund thanks to a program of collaboration of the European Union with Latin America. This student—Felipe Cruz, who now has graduated as my first PhD student and is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Nagasaki Advanced Computing Center—was making excellent progress understanding a rather complicated algorithm, the fast multipole method.
As his visit gave rise to a desire to do a PhD in computational science, I began to look for funding for him. It turned out, we’d had a presentation from Airbus recently about their urgent need for dramatically increasing their capability for fluid mechanics simulations. They talked about “mega-class” simulations, a million times faster, within a decade, and were eager to increase their collaboration with academia.
With the help of a staff scientist at the HPC center in Bristol University, we reached out to Airbus with a proposal to investigate new algorithms for fluid simulation that would scale and achieve very high performance. My proposal also said we would “explore possible increases in simulation capability of novel architectures such as multi-core processors and heterogeneous computing,” mentioning GPU, ClearSpeed coprocessors and IBM Cell as examples. This was in March 2007, and CUDA was just out, but through phone conversations with Airbus, we knew they were interested in this avenue of research. I got the funding from Airbus, and they also gave us access to an experimental cluster that had a sample of all the latest hardware coming out, including some GPUs.
NVIDIA: Why is GPU computing so compelling?
Lorena: There are several reasons why I find GPUs compelling. First, how they showed up in the ecosystem of high-performance computing is fascinating. It was the result of the insatiable market demand for games that fueled huge R&D budgets to innovate in computer hardware. Did you know that about five million people in the US play online games for more than 40 hours a week? That’s like a full-time job. At the same time, game designers have demanded more innovation to be able to let loose their artistic expression. This is how the “graphics processing unit” was born. The fact that some scientists started to experiment with GPUs to do numerical computing is remarkable. But scientists are always craving for more computing power, and they will try anything. Then we have the fact that NVIDIA paid attention and responded with CUDA, and less than four years later the number-one supercomputer in the world was using GPUs. That’s pretty amazing.
The second reason that I find GPUs interesting is that they make you take a big plunge into parallelism. A GPU chip has hundreds of processors that work in parallel. It is built to process many objects in the same exact way, as required in the rendering of video. Its fundamental architectural features make GPUs ideal for performing computations that have a high level of data parallelism. We all know that parallel programming is hard, but the crux is that parallelism is the only avenue for increasing computing performance in the foreseeable future. So if most coding will have to be parallel, why not take the plunge and take advantage of the most parallel hardware around? That is the GPU right now, and will be for the foreseeable future.
GPUs are without a doubt a disruptive technology in the world of high-performance computing. But they should no longer be talked about as “novel hardware”; they are now prominent in the supercomputer centers of the world and are probably the best candidate for reaching exascale computing. As an interesting sign, a recent article on InsideHPC focusing on the K computer (current #1 in the world) says that it is “unique in what it doesn’t use: accelerators.” So now not using GPUs is called “unique”!
NVIDIA: We hear a lot about “exascale” as a milestone. Why is it important?
Lorena: The current worldwide race to reach exascale computing is really about maintaining growth in computer performance. No technology has ever grown as fast as computing, from the three operations per second that the Harvard Mark I could do in 1944, to the current level of 10 petaflop/s (peta equals 1 with 15 zeros) for the K computer.
In the lifetime of, say, my graduate students, computing performance has multiplied a billion times. What most people don’t realize is that society is completely dependent on maintaining this growth. In practically all sectors—science, government, health, financial services, education—there is an expectation that computing will keep getting faster and cheaper. A recent report by the National Academies analyzes this point in detail.
If computing performance has been increasing at such an accelerating pace, what is special about reaching exascale computing? This milestone is different because there are formidable obstacles. The clock speed of CPUs has hit power limits and, to quote the National Academy report, “there is no known alternative to parallel systems for sustaining growth in computing performance.” Basically, every computer programmer will need to develop parallel programs in the near future, and most have not been trained to do it.
"GPUs are without a doubt a disruptive technology
in the world of high-performance computing"
NVIDIA: What is your vision for educating the next generation of computational scientists?
Lorena: Bridging the skills gap is a monumental problem, and we need to dedicate coordinated efforts to solving it. There are several aspects to this. For example, technology businesses need thousands more engineers and computer scientists, yet we continue to have a high attrition in these degrees and a low participation of women. Only about 13 percent of computer science students are women, and this is down substantially from previous years. If we could convince more young women to enter into this field, we’d be on our way to increasing the numbers of graduates.
And if educational methods that have been proven to work were more widely applied, we would be able to reduce attrition and increase success in engineering and computer science programs. The first recommendation in a recent report of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on STEM education is to “catalyze widespread adoption of empirically validated teaching practices.” As an educator, I am thoroughly invested in this, and I am dedicating consistent efforts to improve student learning using the latest cognitive research and teaching methodologies.
In addition, I take a stand in advocating and contributing to open educational resources (posting lectures on iTunes U and You Tube, for example), and have developed several extra-mural opportunities for students in computational science. For example, the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute's Scientific Computing in the Americas: the Challenge of Massive Parallelism event in January 2011 hosted 68 students and participants, who learned from 14 world-leading experts. Several of these students participated in the “CUDA Research Fast Forward” presentation at the NVIDIA booth in SC11, which I also organized.
Educating the future generation of computational scientists is crucial for success in exploiting computer performance for scientific discovery. My vision for this endeavor is founded on promoting collaboration, advocating and contributing to open science and open source, and using technology for open education.
NVIDIA: Tell us about your most recent initiative to improve learning in a computational course.
Lorena: This Spring, I’m teaching a class in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Instead of the traditional format, where I would lecture and cover the theory in class, and assign homework to get the students to practice problem-solving, I am doing the opposite: the transfer of information is assigned for “home work” by means of lecture videos, and class time is spent in purely practical problem-solving. This model is recently being called the “flipped class”. For a computational course, it is an excellent method to increase student success.
Who has ever learned computing through lectures? You really need a collaborative problem-solving environment, ideally with well-designed tasks given for you to solve. So I’m not lecturing at all in this class. Instead, I design tasks that will embed knowledge and get the students talking and collaborating. One example: students had previously completed writing a Python code to solve a one-dimensional transport problem (a traveling shock wave); in the next class, I had students work in pairs with one student reading his code out loud to the other while explaining the functionality. The students then had to discuss things they had done differently and find the best solution by agreement.
The task was inspired by the methodology of code reviews in software engineering and, sure enough, most students found bugs or better ways to solve a problem. Even some students who thought their code was completely correct found a bug. They were throwing arms in the air and you could hear an occasional shriek from behind a computer screen. I can tell you that no student can fall asleep in such a class!
Lorena A. Barba obtained her PhD in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology in 2004, and then joined the University of Bristol, England as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics. In 2008, she took a position in Boston University as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include computational fluid dynamics, especially immersed boundary methods and particle methods for fluid simulation; fundamental and applied aspects of fluid dynamics, especially flows dominated by vorticity dynamics; the fast multipole method and applications; and scientific computing on GPU architecture. Prof. Barba is an Amelia Earhart Fellow of the Zonta Foundation (1999), a recipient of the EPSRC First Grant program (UK, 2007), an NVIDIA Academic Partner award recipient (2011), a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early CAREER award (2012), a CUDA Fellow (2012) and a leader in computational science and engineering internationally.
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In a recent post to the Buffalo Poetics list, CA Conrad remarked that following Jonathan Williams' failing health was like watching a library slowly burn to the ground. The remark is not overstatement and the loss is heavier than most of us will immediately realize.
Since 1951, the year he founded Jargon Society, Williams worked inexhaustibly to produce, publish, and promote the whole
art, following without discrimination the shifting landscape of poetry, prose, the visual arts, and music. Friends and correspondents ranged from Black Mountain luminaries Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Edward Dahlberg to British figures such as James Furnival, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Basil Bunting to outsider artists like Georgia Blizzard and Howard Finster to photographers Guy Mendes, Raymond Moore and Reuben Cox.
Spending much of the 1950s and '60s hauling around the country in a battered old station wagon packed with Jargon titles, Williams devoted a good deal of time to recovering important poets that had somehow slipped between the cracks. Mina Loy and Lorine Niedecker are two. In 1958 Williams brought out Lunar Baedeker & Time-Tables
, Mina Loy's first single-author publication since 1924. A decade later he brought out Tenderness & Gristle
, the first comprehensive collection of Niedecker's work published in the US.
Williams' exquisite portrait photographs also stand as evidence of his commitment to the arts, if not his restless need to wander the landscape. With nothing more than a simple Rolleiflex or Hasselblad in hand, Williams snapped indelible portraits of poets, artists and musicians which, in addition to Niedecker and Loy, include Harry Partch, William Carlos Williams, Lou Harrison, Kenneth Patchen, James Laughlin, Ezra Pound, Georgia Blizzard, Basil Bunting, Raymond Moore, Charles Henri Ford, Father Thomas Merton, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Buckminster Fuller, Henry Miller, Paul Metcalf, Tom Meyer, Robert Duncan and Jess.
Commenting on these portraits in A Palpable Elysium
, Williams wrote, "You see people both relaxed and ruminating. These people were friends, not celebrities on the prowl, pressing the flesh." Williams famously detested the paparazzi, pundits, fanfare and crowded urban centers. Art often brought him to cities, but he willfully insisted on spending most of his time in the rolling hills of Highlands, North Carolina or daleside at Corn Close in Cumbria. The portraits tell us this, most of them set in rural or remote areas. The poets and artists pictured stand in isolation, given entirely to themselves and the camera that calls. And it is this delight in the remote, this intentioned exile, Williams so highly appreciated in others. Take his blurb for Niedecker's T&G
: "She shuns the public world, lives, reads, and writes, very quietly, near the town of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, by the Rock River on its way to Lake Koshkonong. Her importance to — and remove from — the urbane literary establishment is of the rank of Miss Dickinson's. We are in the presence of a poet whose peers are the Lady Ono Komachi and Sappho. Few others come to mind." For Williams the careful, measured work of poets like Niedecker in Wisconsin, Loy in Colorado, and Bunting in Northumberland reaffirmed his disdain for the crowd and his affection for the remote.
In the obit posted on his blog earlier today Ron Silliman noted that Williams was included on Larry Fagin's neglectorino list, a catalog of criminally neglected poets. More widely regarded as one of America's most important small press publishers, Williams work as poet and essayist has been eclipsed by his publishing accomplishments. It's easy to forget Williams was among those poets included in Donald Allen's New American Poetry
and The Beat Scene
, edited by Elias Wilentz and published the year before Allen's seminal anthology.
As an adolescent enrolled at St. Albans Academy in Washington DC, Williams occasionally made his way to New York City where he worked intermittently shelving and packaging books for Elias, Jan and Ted Wilentz at now-mythic Eighth Street Books. Here he first encountered, on Ted's recommendation, the work of Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth and others. He continued traveling from DC (and later North Carolina) to NYC, attending readings, gatherings, openings and other events. And it was during these years that Harry Redl took a number of what are, to my eye, the finest photographs of Williams as a young man. The images are striking. One finds Williams, then in his mid-twenties, looking visually determined and even thuggish, hands firmly on hips and a tweed flatcap yanked down low over the brow. I have seen these pictures at Buffalo, where his literary archive is kept, and they're certainly available at the Beinecke where his photography archive is housed, but any attempt to find these powerful images on the web is vain. If they are available on the web (which seems doubtful) they are crowded out by images of Ginsberg, Dylan, Kerouac, McClure and others. Like those poets Williams later struggled to draw into the fold, Williams somehow fell out of view as a poet. Perhaps it is this — the critical and popular attention one deserves as a poet — that is lost when sanctuary and sanity are found in all things remote.
One of the few critical essays which devotes careful attention to Williams' poetry is Guy Davenport's essay Jonathan Williams, Poet
. Brought out as a pamphlet through Jim Lowell's Asphodel Book Shop in 1969, Davenport reads Williams work with the critical eye so characteristic of his translations and scholarly work. Unfortunately I don't have the essay with me as I write, but it is indeed one of the few which considers the poem and only the poem, refusing to allow Williams' work as publisher, photographer or book designer to elide his achievement as a poet.
Looking at only the range of his work as a poet, the achievement is broad in scope, the earlier work marked by a gravity informed by Olson and the later work — especially the Meta-Fours — saturated with the scathing wit of a Juvenal or Martial. And even in the earliest work Williams is attentive to the line, painstakingly constructing its limits, sensitive to it's ability to embed itself in the eye and echo off the walls of the mind. We find this in "The Distances to the Friend", a poem that appears in Allen's NAP, Williams' work sandwiched between that of Ed Dorn and Joel Oppenheimer:
grabbing on, hard,
a red, raw
he ate it,
stifling all repulsion
For Williams living demands a certain courage and graciousness, a disciplined ability to swallow the chaff against fits of nausea. The weight of each line, the ability of each word to project itself outward by way of discipline enacts, within the body of the poem, this gracious and highly disciplined stifling.
Williams' Meta-Fours, a project begun in the 1990s, balance out the seriousness of this earlier work, foregrounding a humor and wit found largely in his essays. Here another view of Thoreau forty years later:
estimated acres of forest
henry david thoreau burned
down in 1844 trying
to cook fish he'd
caught for dinner 300
These "meta-fours" — subtitled "Voces Intimae" — appear as occasional and improvisational as the verses WCW scrawled across the pages of prescription pads between patients. Many of them come quick, like a staircase comment uttered in passing and felt not on delivery but moments later:
so life goes on
very much like a
piece of Morty Feldman
Jimmy Rowles (1918-1996)
a voice like a
canoe being dragged slowly
across an abandon road
Situated between his early open-field work and these Meta-Fours is the long poem simply titled Mahler
, first published by Marlborough Fine Arts Limited in 1965 and later by Cape Goliard, then under the editorship of Nathaniel Tarn, in 1969. With each of these publishers in the UK, this poem wasn't available to American readers until Copper Canyon brought out Jubilant Thicket
in 2005 some forty years later. Yet despite being unavailable and thus under-read, the poem is among the finest of long poems produced in the latter half of the twentieth century. It is a poem situated at the border of the totalizing modernist long poem and the open-ended serial poem.
The first part of the poem begins with an epigraph by Mahler dated 1895 and lineated by Williams:
...to write a symphony means, to
construct a world with all the tools of
the available technique. The ever-new and
changing content determines its own form.
To be sure there is nothing new under. This epigraph strikingly similar to Creeley's well-known statement contained in a letter to Olson and later writ large into law through Olson's "Projective Verse": FORM IS NEVER MORE THAN AN EXTENSION OF CONTENT. And after years spent meditating on Mahler's symphonies, Williams allows the content of Mahler's work to determine the form of his writing. The project is one that explores association, spontaneity, procedure and consciousness. Using Duncan's statement on responsibility as a springboard ("Responsibility is to keep/ the ability to respond") Williams investigates the limits and possibilities of response, titling each section of the poem after the symphonic movement to which he responds. And he responds as
he listens, using in spring of 1964 "earphones to listen to the recordings in my collection, which serve to blot out extraneous background noise and enhance concentration."
But this encounter with Mahler as
he wrote was not his first. In the preface to the first edition Williams writes: "Since I first heard a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. I
, in D Major
by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy on November 8, 1949, in Carnegie Hall, New York, I have been more responsive to his music than any other. In other words, for some fifteen years now. And so it seems fitting, in May 1964, when the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo has returned to these mountains and intimately evokes the First Symphony, to practice these exercises in spontaneous composition to the movements of all the Mahler symphonies."
While listening to the fifth movement of Symphony No. 2, In C Minor —
Scherzo tempo: all stops out —
Williams wrote the following lines:
The Lord of Orchards
selects his fruits
in the Firmament's
Williams too — devoting more than half a century to selecting the choicest from the arts, however concealed or difficult to reach.
There are a handful of books beside me here which, given their fine quality and limited availability, deserve mention.Language Led Astray.
Designed and printed by Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn at Coracle Press in Tipperary, this book contains images of travel notes constructed by Erica Van Horn and poems by Richard Deming, Nancy Kuhl, Tom Meyer, Cutts and Williams himself. The poems in the book were composed during a visit Deming and Kuhl made to Skywinding Farms, Scaly Mountain, North Carolina between March 3 and 11, 2006 — around the occasion of Williams 77th birthday.Catgut and Blossom
is another Corcacle publication brought out in 1989 on the occasion of Williams' 60th birthday. As with all Coracle books, the design is impressive. Contributors include a wide range of exclusively British and Irish poets, which points toward Williams' presence in the world as a transatlantic force. Some of these contributors are Ian Hamilton Finlay, RB Kitaj, Richard Caddel, Harry Gilonis, Basil Bunting, Eric Mottram, Gael Turnbull, John Furnival and Alan Halsey.Futura
15 (1967). Edited by Hansjorg Mayer and published in Stuttgart, Germany, this issue of Futura
contains Williams response to Ian Hamilton Finlay "for a one word poem anthology issue of his magazine poor old tired horse". Williams was also strongly connected to concrete poetry, largely through figures like Finlay and Furnival. Williams himself produced a number of concrete poems, as did Ronald Johnson, a poet Williams fiercely promoted and whose Book of the Green Man
comes from hiking with Williams through England's fells and dales.Gay Sunshine
. I will try to emend this in the next day or two and get precise information, but far and away the finest interview with Jonathan Williams I've yet read is contained in a 1976 issue of Gay Sunshine
. It is a three-way written interview with Jonathan and
covering a wide range of topics, from their first introduction through Robert Kelly, their poetic production and processes of composition, and early Black Mountain and Bard College days. Most importantly to my eye, it marks Jonathan and Tom's enduring connection to one another as both poets and beings in the world, covering the period of their lives from the late 1960s through the '70s, a moment in Williams' life often given short shrift in interviews.
Williams, like most any other poet invested in small press communities, published hundreds of poems in any number of seemingly ephemeral publications. I mention these here because they serve well as representative samples of the type of work which has yet to be gathered into a collected edition and yet to be widely read.
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American Electric Power named Michael Rencheck senior vice president and chief nuclear officer for its D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Bridgman, Mich. The American Public Power...
Hurdles loom in 10 states eyeing deregulation.
Lawsuits and delayed deadlines. A "go slow" approach and more studies. Stranded cost debates and commission reports that make recommendations but avoid concrete action.
With a new wave of states addressing electric competition, these are a few of the themes that have emerged in 1998. In most states, the process has been slow, though the start of competition does, in fact, appear closer in many.
Here are 10 states that have largely stayed out of the headlines but have made at least some movement in 1998 toward retail choice for electric customers.
Arizona (em Too Much, Too Soon? At press time, settlement talks were in progress on lawsuits filed in September by the state Attorney General and Tucson Electric, challenging emergency rules %n1%n finalized on Aug. 10 by the state corporation commission that would speed up the pace of electric competition through a more rapid phase-in than originally approved in December 1996.
A dissenting opinion issued Aug. 12 by Arizona commissioner Carl Kunasek highlighted the controversy. Kunasek criticized the new rules as "too much, too soon," and predicted that most consumers won't know what to do when retail choice becomes available for all on Jan. 1, 2001, two years after the rules begin to phase-in retail choice for larger customers. He also complained that the new rules reached "no real decision" on stranded costs, since they would have the utilities either divest generation or seek some level of transition revenue yet to be decided. Kunasek saw it all as a formula for litigation.
"The time for resolving stranded investment issues starts well before competition begins," he noted. "To date, we've solved nothing."
Nevertheless, according to ACC spokesman Perry Baker, if a settlement is reached in the Tucson case, the Attorney General would probably drop his lawsuit as well. The commission, for its part, says it doesn't anticipate that its Jan. 1 startup date will be affected by the lawsuits. That target marks the date to begin the phase-in plan for retail competition, by which all customers would be eligible by Jan. 2001. (On May 29, the Governor had signed HB 2663, which called for competition for 20 percent of system load on Jan. 1, 1999 and 100 percent on Jan. 1, 2001.)
The two options on stranded costs have prompted different strategy choices by Arizona utilities. Under the first option, utilities may recover 100 percent of stranded costs determined by auctioning all generation assets. They would be able to keep 50 percent of auction proceeds above book value. Should a utility choose not to divest, the second option provides for a 10-year guarantee of sufficient revenues to maintain financial integrity. Tucson Electric announced on Aug. 21 that it planned to divest, %n2%n while Arizona Public Service was seeking regulatory approval to recover approximately $533 million of stranded costs from ratepayers. %n3%n
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[PATCH] [RFC] Make drive C always a
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 8 11:06:40 CDT 2009
King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote on March 8th:
>It is definitely possible for Drive C: to be a network share on all versions
>of Windows starting from Windows 95. This does not exempt Windows
>XP/Vista/2k3/2k8. In fact, a public library in Indiana that I used to go to
>before I moved has all their machines set up this way. It takes a LOT of
>tweaking to make it work properly, because some applications expect Windows
>on Drive C:, but it is possible to do it.
I think this is how Fedex Office (formerly FedEx Kinkos) does it. I know that one of the local university's was also looking into this to prevent spread of viruses and to prevent 'file sharing'. This is absolutely possible and programs should support installation to a network share as C:. Windows can also be run this way.
Rather than set C: as Fixed, Wine should be set so that C: can be a network share that is NOT removable. This will take effort. Sometimes the easy solution is not the correct one.
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Governor Ernie Fletcher’s Communications Office
Governor Fletcher Removing Tolls on Natcher and Audubon Parkways
Tolls come off Wednesday, November 22, 2006
FRANKFORT, Ky. – During an event this afternoon at the Hartford Toll Facility, along the William Natcher Parkway, Governor Ernie Fletcher announced that the tolls were coming off the William Natcher and Audubon Parkways. The announcement drew thunderous applause from the crowd.
“These are the last parkway system toll roads in Kentucky,” said Governor Fletcher. “For far too long people have said this area is the only place in Kentucky that you have to pay to get in to and pay to get out of. We are changing that effective Wednesday, November 22nd. By removing the tolls we are clearing a path for new jobs and economic opportunities throughout this entire region.”
The 23-mile Audubon Parkway opened in 1970 while the 70 mile William Natcher Parkway opened in 1972. There are four toll plazas along the two parkways. The tolls were scheduled to be removed by the end of the current fiscal year which is June 30, 2007. Governor Fletcher made the decision to remove the tolls early.
“We are able to take the tolls off early due in large part to the tremendous savings that my administration has created though best management principals and greater efficiencies of government operations,” continued Governor Fletcher. “I said my administration would be good stewards of tax dollars. Today’s announcement is yet another promise made and promise kept.”
Kentucky’s toll road system had a total of nine separate toll roads and one toll bridge open to traffic by 1974. These toll roads totaled 676.79 miles and cost approximately $900 million dollars to construct. They were designed and built to give access to economically undeveloped areas not reachable by the interstate system.
“This mission that I started on the first day I took office has not been an easy one,” said Rep. Joe Bowen (R-Owensboro). “Secretary Nighbert and Governor Fletcher have been supportive of this effort throughout the process.
“Everyone up and down these two parkways will celebrate tonight because they will not have to pay these tolls after November 22, 2006,” said Bowen. “Because of the efforts of Governor Fletcher, Secretary Nighbert and so many others, tonight I can say mission accomplish.
“This Governor is committed to creating economic opportunities across the state,” said Transportation Cabinet Secretary Bill Nighbert. “Today’s announcement allows communities across the western Kentucky region to unleash their Unbridled Spirit.” | <urn:uuid:cf03488c-6b9a-4178-b5b5-011e6e33e925> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://migration.kentucky.gov/newsroom/agovernor/20060927tolls.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967416 | 567 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Papal Legate Apologizes to Abuse Victims in Ireland
Cardinal Ouellet Meets With Survivors
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DUBLIN, Ireland, JUNE 13, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, papal legate to the 50thInternational Eucharistic Congress, participated in a pilgrimage to Lough Derg on Monday and Tuesday, where he met with a representative group of survivors of child abuse in the Church. The representatives included victims of clerical and institutional abuse from different parts of Ireland. Each survivor had an opportunity to give their experience and the impact that it has had in their lives. The meeting with survivors lasted two hours.
The papal legate, who is the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, celebrated Mass at the pilgrimage site’s St. Patrick's Basilica with 100 Irish and international pilgrims from the Eucharistic congress. His pilgrimage to the lake island in County Donegal was made at the Holy Father’s request. He fasted and did the traditional penitential exercises that pilgrims to the island do, before his meeting with the victims.
In his homily at the basilica, Cardinal Ouellet indicated that he was sent to Lough Derg by Pope Benedict XVI to ask God's forgiveness for sexual abuse by clergy not only in Ireland, but anywhere in the Church. "In the name of the Church, I apologize once again to the victims, some of whom I have met here in Lough Derg," he said.
"The tragedy of the sexual abuse of minors perpetrated by Christians, especially when done so by members of the clergy, is a source of great shame and enormous scandal. It is a sin against which Jesus himself lashed out: ‘It would be better for him if a millstone was put around his neck and he is thrown in to the sea than for him to cause one of the little one’s to stumble’ (Luke 17:2)."
The Canadian prelate reaffirmed the Catholic Church's commitment to providing a safe environment for children where "a new culture of respect, integrity, and Christ-like love would prevail in our midst and permeate the whole society."
Regarding the meeting with survivors of abuse, the cardinal said that he was deeply moved and would be reporting on the meeting to the Holy Father.
Cardinal Ouellet’s delegation included the papal nuncio in Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown, along with Bishop Liam MacDaid of Clogher, where they stayed overnight. During their stay, they fasted and participated in other penitential exercises with the pilgrims on the island. | <urn:uuid:e6fd685d-0dcd-4d5f-83f8-87e4b209dc0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/papal-legate-apologizes-to-abuse-victims-in-ireland | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972537 | 561 | 1.507813 | 2 |
A Hidden Climate Win in the Fiscal Deal
In the midst of this week's fiscal cliff hullabaloo, with tax hikes for many Americans, tax breaks for Big Oil, and a superstorm of righteous outrage over withheld storm aid, you'd be forgiven for not noticing the climate win that slipped in at the eleventh hour: a long-awaited extension of the wind energy Production Tax Credit, a federal incentive that has for many years been the bread and butter of the wind industry, providing $1 billion each year to keep wind competitive against heavily-subsidized fossil fuels.
Despite being a record-setting year for wind installations, 2012 was a nail-biter for many in the industry, who feared Congress would axe the credit and send the industry from boom to bust, as has happened several times in the past when the credit has not been extended. The industry's trade group was a clearinghouse for grim prognostications: Some 35,000 jobs lost and up to a ninety-percent drop in wind projects, should the credit not be passed. Even with the extension, the industry's financial backers were so spooked by last year's uncertainty that investments are almost sure to fall in 2013.
"We've effectively killed 2013 by waiting this long to extend [the PTC]," Jacob Susman, CEO of wind installer OwnEnergy, told me a few months ago.
And while the extension was an excuse for wind folks from Colorado to Iowa to Boston to pop an extra bottle of champagne, the industry ain't out of the woods yet: The recent extension is only for one year, which means the battle to wring money from Congress will need to be fought all over again in just a few months. Indeed, the complaint one hears most often from industry leaders is that the constant political kowtowing necessary to secure this essential tax credit makes it nearly impossible for the industry to secure long-term growth. That's very different from fossil fuels, whose benefits, as my colleague Andy Kroll points out, are "baked into the tax code."
But this extension comes with at least one big improvement: In the past, to secure the credit, wind projects had to be delivering power to the grid before the credit's expiration date at year's end. That led to a huge push to get projects up and running in the final months of 2012, but also threw up a barrier to any projects that got started too late. This version sets a lower bar: The credit is now available to any projects that break ground in 2013, giving everyone from turbine manufactorers to installers to investors much more breathing room on a realistic timescale, which David Roberts at Grist says is equivalent to extending the old version for two or three years.
The challenge for Big Wind this year will be to work with Congress to find ways to keep the industry competitive in the long term, while unleashing it from year-to-year political turmoil.
"The extension is a very important piece of legislation," industry researcher Matt Kaplan told the Financial Times. "The big question, though, is what comes next." | <urn:uuid:a1e15b6e-059c-4377-a081-c64c15cd20d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/hidden-climate-win-fiscal-deal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966155 | 628 | 1.726563 | 2 |
"The republic of Buryatia is located in the heart of Siberia in the shadow of the Sayan mountains. Most of its territory is covered with crystal rivers, virgin forests and the verdant shores and limpid waters of Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake. The beautiful landscapes leave visitors dazzled, but the local population, who know no other scenery, find inspiration in local spirits, prayers and rituals."
This is a great video from Sandra Ingerman where she talks about several important aspects of shamanism and being a shamanic practitioner. A quote: "I really do believe that it is a destiny to be on this path. It is not an easy path. It is the path of the wounded healer."
"In windswept Siberia, shamans have for generations cured illnesses without touching their patients, sung with their diaphragms and controlled the weather. Some can travel over long distances and even levitate, hovering above the birch trees. They regularly communicate with kind and evil spirits. One of them, Tyurgen, manages to balance shamanism with life in industrial Chelyabinsk. " | <urn:uuid:305e17fe-4bce-4a73-ab8e-574bd0db2f8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shamanswell.org/topic/Videos | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932692 | 234 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is probably the most diversified of the large healthcare companies. In addition to a global consumer products business, Johnson & Johnson manufacturers and sells pharmaceutical and medical devices. Foreign sales accounted for about 56% of total revenue in 2011. Consumer products comprised 23% of 2011 revenue. Pharmaceuticals encompassed 37%. Medical devices and diagnostic equipment generated 40%.
Johnson & Johnson has over 250 worldwide operating subsidiaries. Despite this entrenched global reach, the company is committed to maintaining its leadership position with development of new products. Research and development spending in 2011 totaled $7.5 billion, which was an aggressive 11.6% of revenue. The company has also expanded with acquisitions.
Several product setbacks in recent years have disappointed Johnson & Johnson shareholders. However, the company has persevered with a steady stock price and healthy dividend payment. The company’s future depends on successful introduction of new products and continued global expansion via acquisitions. Consequently, this article examines the product pipeline and acquisitions at Johnson & Johnson, along with the existing impact of current products on revenue and profit margin.
Johnson & Johnson announced several developments regarding new products in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved use of Xarelto (rivaroxaban) for treatment of a new indication in reducing risk of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Also in the quarter, the European Commission granted marketing authorization for Edurant (rilpivirine), in combination with other antiretroviral agents, for treatment of HIV-1 infection in certain patients.To continue reading, click here. | <urn:uuid:4d33b2af-e77b-4ffb-ab91-5c51a107eddd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stockcroc.com/2012/05/11/johnson-johnson-could-leap-4-higher-by-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931633 | 343 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881, Oil on canvas. 51 ¼ x 69 1/8 inches. Acquired 1923. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
I recently tagged along with a group of local 10th graders and museum visitors on a Spotlight Tour of Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party led by education intern Meagan Estep. She gave us a few minutes to study the piece in silence but this didn’t last long as sounds seem to emanate from the painting itself. The magic of Renoir’s famous work, and perhaps one reason for its popularity, lies in its ability to transport the viewer to the balcony of the Maison Fournaise for a leisurely dejéuner. Whereas painted scenes often give viewers only voyeuristic enjoyment, framing portals to far-off worlds, Luncheon of the Boating Party invites you in and lets you partake in some afternoon carousing by the Seine. It’s not hard to start feeling the summer sun or a friendly Ça va? on the tip of your tongue.
The first question Meagan asked us was, “What’s going on?” I felt like a 10th grade newcomer, getting an introduction to the complex social groupings of the cafeteria at lunch, as the students commented on one of the most noticeable and interesting aspects of this painting: the realistic and intriguing groupings of people, complete with telling gazes and expressive body language.
These gazes and poses proved not only intriguing, but gossip-worthy, as someone asked, “The woman in the back . . . who’s she really looking at?” Perhaps her dreamy gaze drifts beyond the man opposite her to the handsome guy in the white jacket. Perhaps she’s secretly ogling the studly boater in front. Or maybe those bedroom eyes are just sleepily shutting, as she’s sedated by sun and several glasses of sauvignon blanc.
It’s fun to speculate, especially given that this Boating Party is made up of Renoir’s real-life friends, including his girlfriend who plays with a puppy at lower left, and the restaurant owner’s children. There’s a story to be learned here, and more importantly, a story to be continued, as this scene is hardly complete without the engagement of the viewer, who’s readily welcomed for a leisurely lunch.
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AUSTIN -- Each day, dozens of Austin utility workers check water meters across the city. They are the first line of defense to combat water theft when they spot meters turned off by the City, but still in use.
"You're taking something that's not yours and that's important for people to understand," said Austin Water spokesperson Jason Hill.
It's a crime a KVUE Defenders investigation found increasing in Austin. According to water utility records reviewed by the Defenders, the city reported more than 586 million gallons of water stolen from 2008 to 2011; a 24 percent increase over the past two years.
To put that in perspective, it takes about 4.5 million gallons to fill the Barton Springs pool. The amount of water stolen in Austin could have filled the pool more than 130 times.
Depending on the meter rate, the half a billion gallons totals $4.6 million worth of water.
Hill said there’s not clear cause for the spike in theft.
“That increase, we did see. We are going to have to take it out a little bit longer. If it goes down, if it goes up again to really get a bead on what caused that," said Hill.
Water theft typically happens two ways. When residential customers hook up to meters before notifying the City; and through commercial use. If contractors draw water from fire hydrants without paying for permits, the City considers that water theft.
"They use a lot of water. So, when they're hooking up to those things, I mean they can fill up tanker trucks of water," Hill said.
Those caught stealing face a $150 water tampering fees. The City has collected more than $450,000 in water theft fines since 2008. Thieves could also face criminal prosecution.
Tony Allevato is one of 2,700 Austin water customers fined for meter tampering since 2008.
Allevato said when he renovated his North Austin bingo hall, his plumber connected his building to two water meters, but the City only knew about one.
Austin water then turned off his service.
"At that point, I called them and said ‘What gives?’ And they said 'You haven't been paying, no one has been paying on this meter and you've been drawing from it,'" Allevato said.
He said it was an honest mistake and the City returned his water service almost immediately.
The City charged Tom Blackwell with a tampering fee in December. Blackwell didn't know about it until we showed him.
“I guess I should have paid closer attention to my bill," he said.
Blackwelll told us he asked his plumber to hook up to an old meter so he could water trees dying from the drought. He said he then quickly contacted the City to turn on service.
"I thought I was doing absolutely the right and honest thing to do, because it would have been easy to do by putting the hose bib on there and not tell anybody, but we didn't," said Blackwell.
Done unintentionally or not, water theft impacts all of us. Continued theft could raise water bills and there’s also a chance of water contamination.
Rigged meters can allow dirty water to backflow into the City's system.
"We know what's in our system's water. It meets city, state, federal regulations in regards to safety. We don't want water that we don't know where it's from, back into our system because now that's a threat to public health," said Hill.
According to stolen water figures provided by San Antonio and Fort Worth, it doesn't appear Austin's water theft is out of the ordinary.
While half a billion gallons of stolen water is a lot of water, Hill said it still averages out to less than one percent of the total water used each year in the city.
If you suspect water theft, call 311. For more information on how to help the City spot and prevent it, check out its water theft page on its website. | <urn:uuid:ba0e6f07-dcb7-4e57-bad5-6be223253ddf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kvue.com/video/featured-videos/Water-Theft--half-a-billion-gallons-stolen---191287571.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975707 | 830 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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* [email protected] (E.B. Dreger) [Tue 16 Oct 2001, 21:09 CEST]: >>> In short, we start looking at multiple FIBs. It's not really >>> that much more difficult; it's more of a scalability issue. I >>> know that Zebra can run multiple router processes, but I've not >>> played with this feature... perhaps that's a start. >> Zebra doesn't actually forward packets. Ciscos with newer IOS can do > Correct. It edits the *ix kernel's FIB, adding and deleting > routes. However, Zebra running on a single machine can have > multiple BGP processes running... which is along the same lines. Except that Zebra currently does not have any provisions to be able to tell the forwarding engine it's running on (i.e. any Unix) a rule to the effect of "If packets originate from this peer [this interface] and are destined for this prefix, route them over that particular interface instead of the interface that would've been taken for all packets from all other prefixes." Which is, in effect, what multiple FIBs mean in practice. >>>> Frankly, if I were B I'm not sure I'd be all that happy with customers >>>> influencing my routing decision process. They hand me their packets >>>> (or not); that should be it. >>> I disagree. Let's say that you sell me transit, and purchase >>> yours from 701 and 1239. Would you complain if I fill my pipe to >>> you with traffic to/from 701? No. If I fill it with traffic >>> to/from 1329? No. >> Yes, I would complain if you sent me packets with source addresses you >> shouldn't be sourcing (i.e., not your own). Traffic from 701 or 1239 >> should not pass you to reach me (if I were B and you customer A). > Whoa! Where did I say spoofed packets? If 701 is one of your > upstreams or peers, then I can exchange traffic with 701 all day > long. I never indicated using improper source addresses. Please > reread my post. Sorry, I misread you. Let me restate my previous statement before that a bit then: Yes, I would mind them attempting to choose which exit point into AS701 their packets would take. This could lead to suboptimal performance for all B's customers and a loss of control over the bills sent to B by its upstream providers. In addition to having to monitor its own network for long-term bottlenecks B will have to stay on a continuous alert for customers clogging one link. > me <--> you <--> 701 > me <--> you <--> 1239 > > Both are valid. Used above by me, customer A <--> B <--> AS701 (West Buttmunch) <--> AS701 (East Buttmunch) (numbers hold of course no discernable relationship to reality) >>> Why, then, would you complain if I set a community to _prefer_ >>> 701 over 1239 or vice-versa? By giving your downstreams fine- >>> grained tuning, you allow them to tinker for a system that they >>> like... and you don't reach the extreme cases that are possible >>> even without fine-grained tuning. >> This is about packets from the world via me to you, not from you to the >> outside world. The case you just described already exists; I wrote so >> before (albeit in a bit broken English). >> The only routing decision customer A can force upon B is "Send packets >> destined for these netblocks <here's a BGP announcement> to me," and > In your scenario. But this is arbitrary; it is not borne of > necessity due to the technology. Actually, yes. The technology exists today for customer A to tell B to announce A's prefixes only to some peers/upstream providers of B, but not to route packets from A all via some peers/upstream providers of B and not via the others, even though B would choose those routes for its own packets (and thus has installed them into the FIBs of their routers). >> enforces this via a contract both parties enter in and A (presumably) >> pays B for. > Let's say that I'm strictly a Web host. Inbound traffic is > negligible. I send any and all 701-bound traffic via you; any > and all other traffic goes through <some other upstreams>. No > complaint there -- and I can do this in your aforementioned > scheme. > > Why do you balk at a community that says "I dislike 1239", > thus _preferring_ 701, when I could simply route _all_ non-701 > traffic over another one of my upstreams? IMHO, your dislike > of tuning is illogical... I can sway the balance _far_ more > with coarse-grained routing when you don't provide fine-grained > controls. Because then you introduce C into the mix, another upstream provider of A. That's cheating. :-) I thought the whole discussion was about B having multiple exit points and A influencing what exit points from B's network A's packets would take? > Not providing fine-grained tuning accomplishes nothing positive, Simplicity for its own sake also has value (even aside from benefits like easier troubleshooting in case of failures, no need to generate transient outages while fiddling with the tuning knobs, etc.). Regards, -- Niels. | <urn:uuid:4c468462-322a-4750-be8f-1006054d504e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/2001-10/msg00350.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947633 | 1,183 | 1.804688 | 2 |
With graduation season recently passed and many early summer weddings ongoing, a lot of people are facing the task of writing a big pile of notes to friends and family, thanking them for their gift-giving generosity. I’ve faced down this big task several different times in my life – and interestingly enough, most of those occasions fell squarely in the middle of the month of June.
Frankly, though, thank you notes can be a big source of anxiety for many people and it’s often something that’s put off until later because of that anxiety. To help get through that anxiety, here’s a guide to thank you notes, covering when they’re appropriate to send and how to assemble an effective one.
Why Send Thank You Notes At All?
A thank you note has two big things going for it.
It’s a simple way of showing gratitude towards someone who has done something kind for you. Whenever someone gives you a gift, they’re taking a piece of their own resources and handing it to you, a resource that could have been used to plan for their own future. With that consideration, I’m usually quite grateful for any gift I receive, and a thank you note is a very tangible way to show your thanks for that gift. It’s something that takes just a moment or two of your own time, yet clearly and permanently shows gratitude for a gift to someone else.
It keeps the communication loop open between you and that person. A thank you note extends the window of opportunity of communication with someone else, keeping your name in their mind. It’s for this reason that many people advise sending a thank you note after a job interview, as it will add a late positive to their opinion of you as they make a hiring decision. It can also serve to keep open communications with someone with whom you may have a strained or a small relationship.
In other words, a handwritten thank you note is a perfect balm for many situations. It can help extend your personal relationships and also in extending your career.
When Are Thank You Notes Appropriate?
A long time ago, I wrote a paean to the thank you note that listed many occasions upon which a thank you note is appropriate. Here are some of those occasions.
Whenever you receive a gift, send a thank-you note. If someone sends you a gift (that’s more than just a product promotion), this is a great opportunity for such a note. This is particularly true with Christmas and other personal gift-giving occasions, though for personal notes, you should use blank, hand-written notes.
Whenever you interview for a job, send a thank-you note. This is true whether or not the interview went well; in either event, you should show appreciation. Why? Even in the worst case scenario, it taught you some things about yourself.
Whenever someone does something for you that is helpful for either your personal or professional life, send a thank-you note. I find these are the most powerful ones in terms of building a network of people that you can regularly connect with. I’m not typically the most social person, so when I am able to make a significant contact with a person, I make sure to follow up, because those individuals may eventually become your co-workers, your clients, or potentially your friends.
Whenever you establish a new professional contact, send a thank-you note. This doesn’t mean that you should send a note to every person that gives you a business card. Instead, wait for encounters that are actually meaningful. What I do is if I spent time interacting with someone and some genuinely fruitful ideas come out of the meeting, I’ll take their card and jot down a quick note on the back as a reminder. Then, when I have a few moments, I take the cards with notes on the back and issue thank-you notes to those individuals, using the jotted note as a reminder.
Avoid sending thank-you notes to the same person more often than every six months. I’ve found that more often than this creates a sycophantic impression, which is a negative. One note is great; five notes is creepy.
In short, send a thank you note when someone does something for you that has a positive impact on their life.
How to Write an Effective Thank You Note
First of all, thank you notes can be written on very informal stationery. I’m partial to very simple cards with an elegant image on the front and a blank inside upon which a note can be written. Don’t sweat it too much – just pick something that you like that isn’t potentially offensive to others.
Second, always hand write a thank you note. A handwritten thank you note has a certain level of elegance that you just can’t capture by typing and printing a note. Take out your pen and write down your thoughts. If you prefer, you can draft the note at the keyboard, but then copy your final text from the screen to the card.
Given that, it’s okay to use printed labels to save time with addressing the envelopes. Whenever we have many cards to send, I always print a sheet of address labels using my electronic address book. Not only does this save time, it also ensures accuracy of the address. As long as the note inside is handwritten, this is completely appropriate.
Addressing the thank you note Start off with the word “Dear,” then imagine you walked into a room and saw this person (or these people) without having seen them for a year. How would you address them? That’s what you should use next. For example, if it’s an old friend, use their first name. If it’s one of your parents’ friends that you don’t know particularly well, use Mr. and Mrs. Lastname. If you’re not sure, ask a person in the middle.
The first sentence Say “thank you for” and state the gift or opportunity you’ve been given. Here are three examples:
Thank you for the gift of $20 on the occasion of my graduation.
Thank you for the opportunity to interview for the systems analyst position.
Thank you for the wonderful dinner party you hosted on the 20th.
Thank you for the set of kitchen knives you gave to us for our wedding.
The second piece Express a further detailed appreciation of the gift or opportunity by explaining what it meant to you or what you plan on doing with the gift. Continuing with the above examples:
I plan on using that money to help buy textbooks in the fall.
It was exciting and interesting to learn more about your organization and the analyst position.
The roasted lamb was exquisite and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Barack and Michelle.
The knives have already found a home in our kitchen, and just last night I used the chef’s knife in preparing our first meal at home as a married couple.
The third piece Try to build towards a future connection with the note target. Some examples:
I hope you’ll stop in over Thanksgiving break at my parents so we can touch base and I can tell you all about my first semester in college.
I hope to hear from you soon about the position, and I hope that your organization and I can have a long and happy relationship.
Marge and I are planning a dinner party of our own in October, and I’ll be sure to call you to check with your calendar very soon.
We plan on being back there in August and we hope that we’ll bump into you then.
The signature Sign it pleasantly and friendly, no matter what. I almost always sign my notes “Thanks again!” and my name under that.
Here are the four full notes from the examples above.
Dear Mr. Hobbs,
Thank you for the gift of $20 on the occasion of my graduation. I plan on using that money to help buy textbooks in the fall. I hope you’ll stop in over Thanksgiving break at my parents so we can touch base and I can tell you all about my first semester in college.
Dear Dr. McCaskill,
Thank you for the opportunity to interview for the systems analyst position. It was exciting and interesting to learn more about your organization and the analyst position. I hope to hear from you soon about the position, and I hope that your organization and I can have a long and happy relationship.
Dear Mr. Hobbs,
Thank you for the set of kitchen knives you gave to us for our wedding. The knives have already found a home in our kitchen, and just last night I used the chef’s knife in preparing our first meal at home as a married couple. We plan on being back there in August and we hope that we’ll bump into you then.
Bill and Marjorie Larson
Dear Steve and Colleen,
Thank you for the wonderful dinner party you hosted on the 20th. The roasted lamb was exquisite and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Barack and Michelle. Marjorie and I are planning a dinner party of our own in October, and I’ll be sure to call you to check with your calendar very soon.
But it doesn’t sound natural! This is why it’s often good to work on a note on the keyboard first, where you can edit it a bit until it sounds natural. Copy and paste a note from above, edit the pieces as you see fit, and keep tweaking until it sounds right. When it does, you’re probably very close to something that will work for all of your thank you notes, so pull out the pen and get to work! | <urn:uuid:b0462ddc-be1d-42fd-9ebf-c26c37e10411> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/06/16/how-to-write-an-effective-thank-you-note-for-any-occasion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955168 | 2,029 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Ask us a question about just about anything and we’ll do our best to answer it, or find the people who can. Just Ask is a recurring Keizertimes feature.
We’ve gotten a few questions lately about The State of the Urban Chicken here in Keizer. What with all the feathers that flew in a similar debate in Salem (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun), a natural thing to wonder. Connie Roth-Ames asks us via Facebook:
“With all the talk about chickens in back yards in Salem, are Keizer residents allowed to have chickens in their backyards?”
Connie, the short answer is it depends on where you live in Keizer, but probably not. Chickens are allowed in three zones under Keizer’s development code: Exclusive Farm Use (EFU), Urban Transition (UT) and Agriculture Industrial (AI).
There’s not a specific ban on chickens in other areas of town. It’s that keeping chickens is considered a farm use according to City Attorney Shannon Johnson.
“We’ve taken the position … that chickens would probably be a farming practice and probably wouldn’t be allowed in most zones except the agricultural zones,” Johnson told us in 2009.
That doesn’t necessarily mean residents aren’t keeping them illicitly. We’ve been told there are already a few backyard coops in town.
Kevin Watson, who is Keizer’s assistant to the city manager, said he hasn’t heard the outcry for chickens in Keizer like there appeared to be in Salem. One person has appeared before the Keizer City Council in 2009, but that’s basically been it.
Councilors asked city staff to look into the issue last year, but Watson said staff wanted to see the outcome of the Salem debate.
“We’re going to look at it and possibly present something to council,” Watson said.
Proponents like the idea of urban chickens – with no crowing rooster, of course – for a variety of reasons – fresh eggs when you want them, saving money, self-reliance, more control over the food they eat, and some just plain like them as pets.
Opponents at Salem City Council have raised concerns about noise, the smell of an unclean coop, and possible negative effects on property values.
The Salem City Council, after more than 18 months of debate, finally passed an ordinance this week that would allow up to three hens per household with a city-issued license, so long as they are cooped up in the rear yard, maintained so that the coop “doesn’t produce noise or odor that creates a nuisance.” Roosters are not allowed. Licenses for a coop are $50.
There’s also proposed rules on how far the coop can be from a neighboring home (or the permitted household itself), and of course other setback rules.
Violating the permit rules is $250 on first offense.
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Interactive: The Age Divide of Texas Cities
AUSTIN, Texas — Curious how your city is divided by age group? The U.S. Census Bureau released the most detailed information to date from the 2010 census on the demographic breakdown of Texas cities on Thursday. The Tribune created this interactive to show the estimated number of people and the percent of the population by age group.
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Zuleika is an incredibly beautiful young woman, famous as a conjuror, who visits Oxford as the guest of her grandfather, Warden of Judas College. There she meets the extremely eligible Duke of Dorset, an undergraduate, who leads the other students first into falling in love with her and then into suicide because of her.
o had been reading too much Mommsen. He persisted that he had seen what he described. It was not until two days had elapsed that some credence was accorded him.
Yes, as the landau rolled by, sweat started from the brows of the Emperors. They, at least, foresaw the peril that was overhanging Oxford, and they gave such warning as they could. Let that be remembered to their credit. Let that incline us to think more gently of them. In their lives we know, they were infamous, some of them-- "nihil non commiserunt stupri, saevitiae, impietatis." But are they too little punished, after all? Here in Oxford, exposed eternally and inexorably to heat and frost, to the four winds that lash them and the rains that wear them away, they are expiating, in effigy, the abominations of their pride and cruelty and lust. Who were lechers, they are without bodies; who were tyrants, they are crowned never but with crowns of snow; who made themselves even with the gods, they are by American visitors frequently mistaken for the Tw | <urn:uuid:b7832fcb-bc08-4697-80fa-69405be8cc0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manybooks.net/titles/beerbohmetext99zdbsn11.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9923 | 312 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Upholding the life sentence awarded to Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh, the Supreme Court today said although his victims, Australian Missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons, aged 10 and 6, were burnt to death while they were sleeping, the “intention was to teach a lesson” to the father about his religious activities. Twelve years after the “triple murder”, the apex court dismissed CBI’s appeal to enhance the Orissa High Court verdict of life imprisonment to death penalty for Singh. Staines and his sons, Philip and Timothy, aged 10 and 6, were burnt to death along with their father on the midnight of January 22-23 of 1999. “The deceased, Graham Staines, was engaged in propagating and preaching Christianity in the tribal area of interior Orissa,” the bench of Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan recorded the prosecution case in its judgment today.
“Whether a case falls within the rarest of rare case or not, has to be examined with reference to the facts and circumstances of each case and the Court has to take note of the aggravating as well as mitigating circumstances and conclude whether there was something uncommon about the crime which renders the sentence of imprisonment for life inadequate and calls for death sentence,” said the bench. “In the case on hand, though Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burnt to death while they were sleeping inside a station wagon at Manoharpur, the intention was to teach a lesson to Graham Staines about his religious activities, namely, converting poor tribals to Christianity. All these aspects have been correctly appreciated by the High Court and modified the sentence of death into life imprisonment with which we concur.”
Introducing Staines as a person who worked with tribal people, especially lepers in Orissa, Justice Sathasivam, who penned the judgment, said: “It is undisputed that there is no justification for interfering in someone’s belief by way of ‘use of force’, provocation, conversion, incitement or upon a flawed premise that one religion is better than the other”. Referring to the messages of Mahatma Gandhi and former president of India K R Narayanan for religious unity to carve a “integrated prosperous nation”, the court said “taking lives of persons belonging to another caste or religion is bound to have a dangerous and reactive effect on the society at large”. “It strikes at the very root of the orderly society which the founding fathers of our Constitution dreamt of,” the judgment said. “Our concept of secularism is that the State will have no religion. The State shall treat all religions and religious groups equally and with equal respect without in anay manner interfering with their individual right of religion, faith and worship.”
- SC ruling on Dara ‘lenient’: Cong (Jan 21, 2011, Hindustan Times)
- An enigma called Rabindra Pal Singh alias Dara (Jan 22, 2011, Times of India)
- Everyone should be given another chance to live: Staines widow (Jan 21, 2011, Indian Express)
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Morsi: New Egypt Charter Guarantees Equalityإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday said a disputed new constitution guaranteed equality for all Egyptians, and downplayed the country's economic woes in an address before a newly empowered senate.
Egyptians voted in a December referendum in favor of the charter, which was rushed through by an Islamist-dominated council amid political turmoil and became the focus of the country's worst crisis since Morsi's election in June.
The senate has been invested with legislative powers under the new charter until a parliament is elected in two months' time.
"All are equal before the law, and in this constitution," he said of the charter, adding that there would be "freedom for all people, with no exceptions."
The constitution has been fiercely criticized by human rights activists and the secular-leaning opposition for failing to guarantee women's rights and potentially curtailing freedom of expression and freedom of worship.
"General indicators for the social and economic situation have shown some noticeable progress," Morsi said of the economy, despite concerns over a downturn.
A declining Egyptian pound and a $4.8 billion IMF loan stalled after weeks of often violent protests have put the country on edge, two years after the economy nosedived with an uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.
In a televised speech on Wednesday, Morsi welcomed the approval of an Islamist-backed charter in a referendum, despite fierce opposition protests, and pledged to turn his attention to the economy.
He also promised to reshuffle his cabinet. Two ministers, including an Islamist ally of Morsi, have so far resigned in disagreement with government policy.
Mass rallies that began in November after Morsi adopted extensive powers -- later repealed -- have now subsided, but the opposition this week called for further protests against the new constitution.
The opposition, led by the National Salvation Front coalition, sees the charter as a possible tool to introduce strict Islamic sharia law by weakening human rights generally, women's rights and the independence of the judiciary.
It also stressed that just one in three of Egypt's 52 million voters actually cast a ballot in the two-stage referendum on December 15 and 22.
The likelihood of prolonged "elevated" political conflict despite the adoption of the constitution prompted the ratings agency Standard and Poor's this week to knock Egypt's long-term credit rating down a peg to "B-."
The National Salvation Front is also now looking ahead and preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections, after which the senate will be dissolved ahead of another round of elections.
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Maybe you read former Post-Standard reporter, Molly Hennessey-Fiske's story about Debi Austin, the longtime smoker who starred in a state of California-sponsored anti-smoking campaign in the 1990s.
Austin had a laryngectomy after her diagnosis of cancer of the larynx, but she continued smoking two to three packs of cigarettes per day. In the campaign, she smokes through the hole in her throat, telling the camera: "They say nicotine isn't addictive. How can they say that?"
Well, now Austin has quit smoking, thanks to a niece who said she wanted to be like Austin. She is a tobacco educator and motivational speaker now.
If you need help quitting, Upstate Medical University's HealthLink seminars include "Quit Smoking for Good - and for Free" sessions starting this month. Call 464-8668 to register. Choose from two locations and times:
* noon to 1 p.m. at Downtown YMCA, 340 Montgomery St., Syracuse. Classes start Wednesday, Jan. 12 and continue Jan. 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9 and 16, plus Friday, Jan. 28.
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Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC is less than a month away and with the recent sequester cuts and still-looming budget battle to come, it is vitally important that members of Congress hear how important the arts are to you and your community in person.
Even the staunchest supporters of a tight fiscal policy believe in the value of arts education. In this new video, Senior Director of Federal Affairs and Arts Education Narric Rome provides a quick snapshot of the importance of federal arts education advocacy:
Arts Advocacy Day will take place April 8—9 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park and the Cannon House Office Building on Capital Hill.
In addition, the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy will be an inspiring speech and performance by Grammy Award®-winning musician Yo-Yo Ma at The Kennedy Center at 6:30 p.m. on April 8. Tickets are included for Arts Advocacy Day participants and are still available to the public.
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The following forecast is provided by Joe Kravitz, the instructor for the Introduction to Meteorology course:
Summary: There is little change from yesterday’s forecast. The cold pool aloft (upper-level low pressure), which helped generate the surface low that gave us almost one inch of rainfall overnight, and its associated instability showers (cold aloft, warmer at the surface) are presently moving through central NY state. These showers will loose some of their energy as they rotate through Berkshire County after the “sun” sets. However, most of the county will see some snow showers and/or flurries through the evening and into the early morning hours. The ground is still warm and wet and surface temperatures will be above freezing so not much snow accumulation is expected. In fact, lower elevations will likely see just rain showers at first until the air below cloud level cools enough (evaporation of falling precipitation) to prevent melting of the falling snow. Many places will see a dusting overnight to perhaps 1/2″. The higher elevations could see an inch or two in some locations.
It will turn blustery and colder overnight and through the day on Wednesday, although it will only be “seasonably” cold. There may be a few lingering flurries Wednesday morning. It will be mostly cloudy (predominantly low clouds) for most of the day Wednesday, a typical December day for Berkshire County, as low-level moisture from the Great Lakes (“lake-effect”, as cold air blows over the warmer lakes) is lifted by the Taconic and Hoosac Ranges. It will clear overnight Wednesday as surface high pressure builds in and we will have one nice day on Thursday before a surface low once again tracks to our northwest, bringing us about 0.50″ to 1.00″ of rainfall Thursday night and Friday morning. The passage of the cold front associated with this low will open the door to much colder air over the weekend. There is still some hope for a white Christmas as it appears that the low pressure system may cut-off from the jet stream and stall over the Canadian Maritime region. This will give us a strong, cold northwest flow of air and this will likely generate considerable lake-effect snowfall. Most of the accumulating snow will fall over upstate NY but, as the last stop on the lake-effect train, we could get a few inches as well.
Overcast with snow showers and flurries likely this evening into the early morning hours. The precipitation will likely start as rain showers in the lower elevations but be snow everywhere by midnight. Probability of precipitation 70%. Accumulations generally a dusting, to up to 1/2″ in the lower elevations. There could be an inch or even two in some locations over the elevated terrain. It will turn blustery and colder.
Temperatures falling to near 30 by morning, mid to upper 20s in the elevated terrain.
West-northwest winds at 10-15 mph, 15-20 mph over the elevated terrain with gusts between 25 and 30 mph.
Mostly cloudy, breezy and seasonably cold. There is the chance of lingering snow flurries in the morning.
High temperatures mid to upper 30s in Pittsfield, upper 30s in Adams, North Adams and Williamstown, near 40 in Great Barrington and Sheffield, and low 30s in the elevated terrain and hilltowns.
Northwest winds at 10-20 mph, 15-25 mph over the elevated terrain, with gusts to near 30 mph.
Clearing skies with diminishing winds and seasonably cold temperatures.
Low temperatures in the mid 20s in the lower elevations with low 20s over the elevated terrain.
Northwest winds at 10-15 mph early, becoming light after midnight.
Mostly sunny in the morning, increasing high clouds in the afternoon will dim the sun at times.
High temperatures near 40 in Pittsfield, near 40 to low 40s in Adams, North Adams and Williamstown, low 40s in Great Barrington and Sheffield, and mid to upper 30s in the elevated terrain and hilltowns.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Treaure Trove of Tips
The line between fiction and lifestory or memoir is finely drawn and permeable. The main difference is that our characters and events come ready-made. and we have an obligation to portray them truly. That truth is shaped by the way we transfer them from memory to page, and that involves both heart and craft. Our heart shapes the slant of our stories. Craft fleshes them out for the benefit of readers. In general, fiction writers have taken the lead in the area of craft.
In my most recent post I mentioned K.D. Weiland’s blog, WORDplay. Aside from her rich array of blog and video posts, she offers a free 50 page eBook, Crafting Unforgettable Characters: A Hands-On Guide to Bringing Your Characters to Life. I urge you to click over and download this book right away before she realizes just how valuable it is. Although its focus is on creating and portraying fictional characters, if you adjust your filters, you’ll find a treasure trove of tips for capturing the essence of the ready-made characters in your life.
Her "Character Interview Form" almost slid past unnoticed as I skimmed the contents the first time through. Why would I need that? I thought. I already know my characters — primarily me. Then the lights went on. If I use this form to interview myself, I’ll have a pile of focused material for my memoir and may find a couple of interesting twists.
In fact, this is a good time for me to take a break and do just that. I’m well underway with the memoir project (you can follow my progress on my Los Alamos Girlhood blog), but more focus will surely help.
These unforgettable character tools will be useful even if you write loose collections of stories rather than formal memoir. If certain people regularly appear in your stories or memoir, you may benefit from using the interview technique with them too. Use the Interview form primarily for major characters. Use the other tips for any person you mention in your story. The tips will enhance your creativity so even pop-in characters take on added sparkle with a few deftly chosen words.
As icing on the cake, this eBook is over-the-top gorgeous, with spectacular layout. I'm a layout junkie and had to ask, “Did you do this yourself?” She did! It’s not a layout you’d use for simple story, but keep your eyes open for examples of great craft as inspiration for your own projects.
Write now: download a copy of K. E.’ s eBook and read it — it doesn’t take that long. Then write a new story or reopen an old one that features a strong character. Use one or two of her techniques to make that character even more vivid.
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Welcome to Heaven Sent Doves!
Coming soon... photos of our release baskets and display cages.
This site is in progress!
Why have a white dove release?
Doves have long been a symbol of purity, devotion, love, fidelity, heaven, and spirit. Rock doves pair for life and spend a lot of time wooing each other, cooing and bonding with their mate. Long ago it was believed that doves choose their mates on Valentine's Day! Males and females both sit on the eggs, each for about half the day, and take turns feeding their young 'crop milk' which they both produce. They have an extremely strong connection to their home loft. All these things make doves stand for the cooperation and devotion necessary for a successful marriage and a reminder of the sacredness of family.
A pair or more of beautiful white doves rising into the sky at a wedding is a sight that makes an impressive memory for the bride and groom and their guests. A single dove soaring up toward the clouds, released from the hands of a family member or friend, reminds those at a funeral of the beauty of life and hope. Nothing has the quite the same impact as a release of these lovely and amazing creatures!
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Sometimes, a good idea can only take you so far. A lot of people say that the hardest part of a project is coming up with the idea, and perhaps even laying the initial foundation. What happens when you have all of that; you nail the idea, you have a concrete foundation, and everything else fails to take shape? I will tell you what happens. You end up with something like Sumioni: Demon Arts.
Developed by ACQUIRE, Corp. and published by XSEED Games, Sumioni follows in the footsteps of other action games such as Shinobido, Tenchu, and Way of the Samurai. In concept, Sumioni is a great idea. Based on the traditional Japanese “sumi-e” ink art style, the game tells the tale of a lazy in demon named Agura. Agura, along with two Ink Gods, was summoned to end the treacherous reign of a corrupt leader. It is a very convoluted story that really tried to hard; it draws itself out and over-complicated things immensely to set the foundation for the adventure. All that you need to know is that the real world and the “ink world” have started to merge, and Agura has the ability to interact with both. Using his ability to control the ink, the player will assist Agura and his companions in combating a variety of enemies and huge bosses in stylized and interesting ways.
At its core, Sumioni is a side-scrolling action game similar to many classic arcade games like Legend of Kage or Shinobi. Agura can run, jump, and attack his enemies with a sword. It plays out like the simplest of action games, utilizing the directional pad and the Vita’s face buttons. Where things get novel and interesting are the implementation of the use of ink and water in the game world. The crux of the gameply lies on the interaction of these two elements along with the touch screen abilities of the Vita.
At any given time during your game, the player can use ink and water to draw / erase items in the game world. If an enemy or object is too high to reach, simply draw a platform (or series of them) with your ink brush to assist you in reaching them. If an enemy is bombarding you with projectiles, use the water brush to block them by erasing them. Both brushes are fueled by an ink gauge that depletes as you draw on the screen. It can be refilled by either collecting jars of ink found throughout the game world or by rubbing the rear touch panel of the Vita, although you will find this to be the less feasible of the two options (which I will explain later).Your ink reserves can also be used to summon your companion Ink Gods into battle as well.
The act of drawing platforms for traversing and blocking enemy projectiles can be done at any time by simply swiping your finger across the screen. In order to activate some of your more advanced ink-fueled abilities, you will need to enter into draw mode by pressing the right trigger. Once this mode is activated, everything within the game world freezes for a few brief moments. You can then either draw lines which will burst into flames once gameplay resumes or summon one of the two Ink Gods. When you summon either the Water or Black Ink God, you will be asked to match a design drawn on the screen with your finger. The more accurate you trace / recreate the design shown, the more powerful your companion will be and the longer they will fight alongside you.
While this gameplay mechanic is great in concept and has a firm foundation, the implementation causes the overall experience to plummet downhill. The drawing mechanics work like a charm, particularly in the platforming aspect(s); it is truly a joy to quickly spawn a platform, or series of them, which you can use to navigate the screen, especially against the bosses. It is very easy to quickly dash a line across the screen and jump back to using the directional pad and face buttons.
The problems arise when you have to pause the action and use the screen to select between the different styles of ink and selecting which Ink God to summon. Freezing the action to activate one of your stronger powers completely brings the game to a halt; it really takes away from the fast paced charm of the game. Having to touch a specific point on the screen for either really limits the flow and feel of the game. The rest of the action is so fast paced, slowing down the focus in on a very specific spot really grinds things to a halt. Had those options been mapped to the trigger buttons, things would have played out a lot better.
The regenerative ability of your ink reserves also brings the game’s action to a grinding halt. For some strange reason, the developers have elected to make it so that Agura must be standing still in order to refill your ink gauge using a rubbing motion on the back touch panel. Considering that the game strives to keep you moving given the constant barrage of enemies and projectiles, this becomes increasingly difficult and more of a chore as the game progresses. Some may call that design decision strategic, but I found it to be simply annoying and counter productive to the overall experience.
The game tries to give you a bit of variety in the form of numerous branching paths and alternate endings. These are all fueled by a rating system that scores your performance on each level in the game. The problem with this mechanic is the player’s inability to pick and choose levels to play at your will. The game pushes you to achieve 3-star ratings on each and every level, it would have made more sense to allow players to selectively replay levels in which they need to improve their performance. You don’t get a chance to do that here; if a you want to retry a particular level, you will need to play through the game again from the beginning and meet the various conditions required for the games many, branching paths to get back to the specific stage in question.
There are roughly 30 of these stages featured throughout the game, and 6 different endings depending on you performance as you run through them. Another huge issue lies in the fact that there is very little variety in the levels aside from the boss battles; even those become a bit monotonous by the end of the game. There is no variety in the things that Sumioni asks you to do; you go from point A to point B, and kill everyone in between. It is too simplistic and repetitive given the novel drawing ideas presented in its gameplay; the idea of crafting your own platforms opens the door for some great platform / puzzle scenarios, neither of which are ever realized.
It is clear to see what the developers wanted to accomplish with Sumioni, but unfortunately they missed their mark (ink-related pun intended). The core mechanics behind the game are solid and could have fueled a much bigger and better game than what we ended up with. Instead of putting the rock solid drawing mechanics to use in conjunction with the fast paced gameplay, they are implemented in a way that slows everything down and detracts from the experience. This idea was clearly meant for bigger and better things than what we have here. Sumioni could be so much better than it is.
* The product in this article was sent to us by the developer/company for review.
Sumioni is a mixed bag. While it is a solid action game in terms of its foundation, the overall execution of the idea and obtrusive touch screen controls prevent the complete package from excelling.
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Remarks as Prepared for Delivery
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman
Nuclear Deterrence Summit
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I would like to thank Ed Helminski and Exchange Monitor Publications & Forums for organizing this summit and inviting me to speak. The issues that will be discussed over the coming days at this conference are of vital importance to the Nation.
As we consider our nuclear energy future, all three program areas of the Department of Energy will be involved:
- National Nuclear Security Administration: We are working to reduce nuclear dangers, maintain a strong, safe and effective deterrent, and minimize the threat of proliferation.
- Office of Energy: At the same time, we view nuclear energy as a vital element in building a low-carbon future.
- Office of Science: Science and technology underpin our security and energy efforts and are at the core of everything we do - from maintaining our deterrent, to ensuring the safe operation of the current generation of nuclear power stations, to exploring new technologies.
You have heard us talk about working across stovepipes within the DOE, and nowhere is this more important than in the nuclear arena.
Maintaining our Deterrent
First, let me address our nuclear security efforts. President Obama outlined an ambitious agenda in Prague to reduce nuclear dangers. And he gave it an animating vision when he expressed "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
In that spirit, the President has called for reducing the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy, for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and for negotiation of a fissile material cut-off treaty. Even as we speak, U.S. negotiators under the direction of Under Secretary Tauscher are working hard to conclude a new START Treaty with Russia.
Now, as the President recognized in Prague, a nuclear weapon-free world will not be achieved quickly, perhaps not in our lifetime. And he was clear that so long as nuclear weapons exist, we must ensure that the U.S. nuclear stockpile remains safe, secure, and effective.
As many of you know, the early analysis from the Nuclear Posture Review concluded that providing that assurance, especially at lower numbers of nuclear weapons, will require increased investments to strengthen an aging physical infrastructure and to sustain scientific and technical talent at our nation's national security laboratories.
As such, the President's 2011 budget includes a 13.4 percent increase in funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration to support necessary infrastructure, warhead life extension programs, and science and technology.
I know Tom D'Agostino will address these issues in great detail later in the session, so I will leave further discussion of the NNSA complex to him.
Securing Vulnerable Materials
While maintaining our deterrent, we must do all we can to keep terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons or the material to build them. That is why President Obama has called for an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.
To underline his commitment to this goal, President Obama has invited more than 40 leaders from around the world to meet here in Washington to enhance global efforts to increase nuclear security and to prevent nuclear terrorism.
The April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit will allow leaders to speak directly to one another on the issue of nuclear security, and to strengthen national commitments and cooperation at the highest levels.
The Department of Energy is hard at work in support of the President's effort, through a number of important programs:
- We are working to minimize the use of HEU in research reactors around the world, and repatriating U.S. and Russian-origin HEU.
- Internationally, we are accelerating our efforts to secure nuclear material at its source.
- We are also helping to strengthen the capability of foreign governments to deter, detect, and interdict illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials across international borders and through the global maritime shipping system.
In addition, through our Plutonium disposition programs and our monitoring of the HEU transparency efforts, we are working to convert surplus weapons-grade material into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors - the ultimate swords to ploughshares effort.
We are also consolidating nuclear materials domestically. We have completed shipments of special nuclear material for the Hanford de-inventory campaign and moved eight metric tons of special nuclear material from NNSA sites.
We are on schedule to complete the removal of Security Category special nuclear material from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by the end of 2012.
Beyond our DOE programs, we are also working hard to preserve and strengthen the cornerstone of global nonproliferation efforts, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, when it comes up for review in May. Fortunately, the President's Prague vision and agenda have laid a strong foundation for a successful conference.
That said, the NPT faces severe challenges right now. In order to preserve its vitality, we must deal effectively with outliers. That brings us to North Korea and Iran.
For both of these hard cases, the U.S. position is clear. North Korea must, in a verifiable and irreversible way, dismantle its nuclear weapons program. As President Obama has said, "North Korea must know that the path to security and respect will never come through threats and illegal weapons."
Regarding Iran, we have been clear all along that the United States does not dispute Iran's right to a peaceful nuclear program. But with that right comes responsibilities to live up to global nonproliferation norms. And here Iran has fallen woefully short, conducting clandestine enrichment operations for years at Natanz and, more recently, at Qom.
Iran remains in breach of its International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards obligations. Three times the UN Security Council has approved sanctions resolutions in response.
Iran's recent announcement that it will start enriching uranium to nearly 20 percent U-235 is a transparent ploy. It has nothing to do with trying to help Iranian cancer patients who will need medical isotopes later this year since, by its own admission, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran cannot fabricate the fuel elements that work in the reactor in time to ensure uninterrupted production of the medical isotopes.
Iran's enrichment of that material would, however, yet again flout UN Security Council resolutions - a provocative move that calls into question its nuclear intentions.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and several governments did respond positively and creatively to Tehran's initial request for assistance in refueling the Tehran Research Reactor with a fair and balanced proposal designed to meet Iran's humanitarian needs and begin to build mutual trust and confidence.
I want to highlight that on October 1, in Geneva, Iran agreed in principle to the IAEA's proposal - to send 1200kg of low-enriched uranium from Natanz out of Iran, in order to produce the replacement fuel needed for the TRR.
A few weeks later, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei convened representatives from the United States, Russia, France, and Iran to finalize the IAEA proposal. I had the privilege to lead the U.S. delegation to those talks and I can tell you that they were pragmatic and earnestly focused on addressing Iran's humanitarian needs, in a manner that could also start to build international confidence in Iranian intentions.
We have even offered to facilitate Iran's procurement through the world markets of the medical isotopes its citizens need. Regrettably, Iran's leaders apparently prefer to reject the most responsible, cost effective, and timely options to ensure access to medical isotopes in order to advance their nuclear program.
Iran's response to our engagement efforts has not been encouraging. And so, while the door to Iran is not closed, the President made clear last week that we are now working on developing a significant regime of sanctions that will reflect how isolated Iran is from the international community. At this time the international community must speak with one voice on the imperative for Iran to meet its responsibilities and obligations under the NPT.
International Framework for Civil Nuclear Cooperation
Even as Iran continues down the path of nuclear defiance, many nations are increasingly turning to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, as we all seek ways to meet growing electricity demand in a manner that does not increase carbon emissions. Indeed, over 50 civil power reactors are now under construction around the world.
If nuclear energy is to fulfill its promise to help put us on the path to a low-carbon future, we must do all that we can to minimize the risk that the expansion of nuclear energy might also lead to dangerous technologies and materials falling into the wrong hands.
That is why, in Prague, President Obama called for a new framework for civil nuclear cooperation, "so that countries can access peaceful power without increasing the risks of proliferation."
The United States is taking steps to build that international framework. Last October, I traveled to Beijing for a meeting of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, which includes 25 partners and 31 observer nations.
To be clear, the U.S. is no longer pursuing those aspects of GNEP that relate to the early recycling of reprocessed plutonium in commercial reactors, but we are still pursuing those aspects that seek to assure countries that they may gain reliable access to nuclear fuel services without developing their own uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing capabilities.
At the Beijing meeting, the GNEP Executive Committee agreed to "explore ways to enhance the international framework for civil nuclear cooperation", noting that "cradle-to-grave nuclear fuel management could be one important element of this framework."
The idea behind cradle-to-grave is simple. The primary proliferation concern in a civil nuclear energy program arises from the facilities used to enrich uranium and separate plutonium from used fuel.
So if some combination of governments and companies can assure any NPT-compliant owner of a civil nuclear reactor that all of its nuclear fuel servicing needs can be met by existing suppliers without fear of disruption, then the incentives to build sensitive fuel cycle facilities would be minimized.
There are a number of complex and challenging issues that would need to be addressed for this new framework for civil nuclear cooperation to succeed, but the year ahead should provide a number of good opportunities to discuss this with our international colleagues.
Restarting our Domestic Nuclear Industry
In addition to our international efforts, the Department of Energy is also working hard to expand the use of nuclear energy here at home.
President Obama made clear in his State of the Union address that he is committed to restarting our domestic nuclear industry. This is a key part of our response to climate change. But it is also clearly in our economic and security interests. And so we are taking action on a number of fronts.
Our loan guarantee program will help secure financing for the first group of new nuclear power plants to be built in many years. So many people in this room have been working on this challenge for years, so I am sure that you shared our satisfaction yesterday in seeing the President announce the first conditional loan guarantee for the Vogtle nuclear power station. In addition, the President's budget this year requests an additional $36 billion in loan authority, which would triple our loan guarantee authority for nuclear.
Clearing the path forward for nuclear energy in this country also requires a fresh examination of the technology, economic, and policy choices surrounding the question of what to do with the used fuel from commercial reactors, as well as with the high-level waste from our defense programs.
As you know, we recently announced a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, under the distinguished co-chairmanship of Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, which is bringing together leading experts to consider all options surrounding the back end of the fuel cycle, and to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term approach to managing the Nation's used nuclear fuel and its nuclear waste.
Science and Technology
Finally, the Department of Energy supports a robust, science-based nuclear R&D program. For example, we're currently researching advanced reactors that would use advanced fuels, while improving safety and reliability. These reactors could also burn down long-lived actinides.
And we're supporting the development of small modular reactors that can be built and shipped as a single unit. These reactors could be viable for countries with smaller electrical grids, while reducing both proliferation risks and the burdensome capital costs of larger units.
We're also evaluating new used-fuel processing methods to reduce proliferation risks. Some ideas for reprocessing technologies show promise for enhanced energy recovery, cost reduction, waste reduction, and proliferation resistance. We need an ambitious R & D portfolio to explore and develop these ideas.
Finally, we need to educate and train the next generation of nuclear scientists and engineers.
By harnessing the power of American innovation, we can lead the nuclear industry in the 21st Century and promote nuclear energy in a manner that meets the highest standards of safety, security and nonproliferation.
Now I have focused my remarks so far on the challenges we face and some ambitious plans we have to tackle them. But how is the Department of Energy going to manage it in a manner that promotes our security, energy and science goals? That question is of keen interest to many of the people gathered here for this conference. Indeed, many of you are already deeply engaged in that enterprise.
It is of equal interest to those of us at the Department of Energy. That is why the Secretary and I are strongly committed to management excellence, and to management reform.
Management reform is the right thing to do. The challenges we face are so great, the stakes are so high, that we cannot afford anything short of our best effort.
We cannot afford to respond to every problem with a new directive, with a new layer of bureaucracy, with more red tape.
As we look ahead into a long period of tough budget decisions, we need to learn to do more with less.
As we look at foreign competitors who are embracing new energy technologies with vigor and speed, we need to move faster, but wisely. Nowhere has this been more apparent than with the $36 billion entrusted to the Department under the Recovery Act, where the need to create jobs is urgent, but the need to invest prudently is essential.
In this, and in the loan guarantee program which is supporting so many of our critical investments in clean energy, we know that we must be faithful stewards of the taxpayer's dollar.
How do we promote management reform? We start from the following principles:
- Our mission is vital and urgent.
- Science and technology lie at the heart of our mission.
- We will treat our people as our greatest asset.
- We will pursue our mission in a manner that is safe, secure, legally and ethically sound, and fiscally responsible.
- We will manage risk in fulfilling our mission.
- We will apply validated standards and rigorous peer review.
- We will succeed only through teamwork and continuous improvement.
These principles apply across the entire DOE enterprise, both federal employees and contractors alike. We are all working for the President and for the Nation, and we will only succeed by working together.
We apply these principles to a set of goals that we develop through our strategic plan, goals that are rooted in each of our program areas:
- To lead the world in science, technology, and engineering;
- To build a competitive, low-carbon economy and secure America's energy future; and
- To reduce nuclear dangers and environmental risks.
We support these goals through an improved planning, programming, budget and evaluation process that starts from a blank sheet of paper containing only our strategic objectives. We are now beginning the Fiscal 2012 exercise with a blue-sky discussion based on that premise, not on a marginal discussion of how to tweak existing budget numbers.
Once we have our goals, plans, and budget in place, we need to execute our programs efficiently and effectively, which requires still further management reform.
We need to attract the best talent, and give them the opportunities and training to keep them and see them grow and flourish as they work on some of the world's hardest problems.
We need to communicate better within and across our IT platforms, at the same time that we protect sensitive information, and bring DOE's deep cyber expertise to the wider community in and out of government.
We must approach issues like worker safety and security in a way that clearly defines our objectives first, and focuses on performance and outcomes rather than a narrow compliance mentality.
Now as anyone familiar with the history of the Department of Energy, dating back to the Manhattan Project, knows, we accomplish our mission through contracts.
So contract management must also be part of our reform. There are many aspects to this, but allow me to mention a few things I saw at our Kansas City Plant when I visited there recently to illustrate the point.
The federal site manager and the contractor are working well together, clearly understand their respective roles and missions, apply Six Sigma management techniques, use the same data base to manage and oversee the contract, have streamlined safety directives, developed a new NNSA-wide approach to supply chain management, and achieved outstanding production results.
But you don't have to take my word for it. The Kansas City Plant recently received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest Presidential honor for performance excellence.
So, there is a lot we can learn from each other and apply in different places around the complex. We need to do that not only for contract management in general, but for project management in particular.
We have a number of multi-billion dollar capital projects, some of which have had troubled histories, so we need constant effort to improve our project management principles and practices. We need to be sure that the objectives of the Department align with the objectives of the contractors, and that the incentives align up with both. And that is another element of our management reform.
The final element of our management reform is monitoring our results because, as I learned from one of my mentors, "if you don't measure it, you don't manage it."
The watchword here is transparency. We need both the flexible IT systems and cultural norms to share information widely, in real time, so we can capitalize on our successes and correct our errors. We need to work across the organization so we can share ideas and best practices. We need the data to evaluate how well we are doing in achieving our goals.
But we need to remember that with this transparency comes the responsibility to use the information wisely, to empower our people to go out and do great things, to strip away extra steps that can slow us down.
Taken together, our management reforms comprise a "Circle of Life":
- We begin with our principles and objectives;
- Translate them into plans, programs and budgets;
- Support them through robust IT, a motivated and talented workforce, using performance-based approaches to safety and security;
- Executed through best-practice contract and project management;
- Monitored through transparent data; which
- Feed back into evaluating our goals, where the circle starts again.
With the help of the people in this room, the companies represented here, our international partners, and the stakeholder community, and with the support of the U.S. Congress, I believe we can achieve our goals.
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22 May - 12:16 pm NZ
Updated at 10:03 pm on 29 January 2013
A former top road policing officer says the changes to the warrant of fitness system will result in more deaths on the roads.
The Government has decided new cars registered after 2000 will need a yearly warrant, instead of a six-monthly check once they are six years old. The newest vehicles will not be tested for three years following an initial inspection.
Retired head of the Serious Crash Unit in Waitemata Stu Kearns attended more than 1000 fatalities in his 28-year career.
He said fatal crashes are still being caused by basic mechanical faults that would have been picked up in a warrant of fitness inspection.
"It may not happen immediately, but over a period of years I believe the good work the police have been doing to try and reduce the road toll to under 300 is going to be ruined. I think we'll see injuries and fatalities increase."
Mr Kearns said New Zealand drivers are not in the habit of getting their cars serviced in between warrants, and the police are unlikely to pick up on problems when they carry out roadside checks.
The Government said the changes will be in place by July next year and will save motorists, businesses and the Government $159 million a year.
But Mr Kearns said the social cost of a road fatality is about $3 million, so any savings will be lost over time.
The Police Association has welcomed extra Government money for road policing but says more frontline staff are needed to manage the new system.
Police funding will be increased by up to $5 million, but Police Association president Greg O'Connor said this does not mean extra staff because constable numbers have been capped.
Mr O'Connor said the vehicle compliance work will mean less time is spent on other frontline tasks.
The Transport Agency said the increased funding is likely to come from the National Land Transport Fund but that will not be assessed until April.
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< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 1 OF 2 ·
|Jun-12-04|| ||Checkmate123: Zugzwang. |
|Jun-13-04|| ||iron maiden: Neat little knight square after 30...Ne5. Would have fit well into "Picturesque Positions." |
|Aug-09-05|| ||ksimm38: Could someone please explain to me why this position is zugzwang? It seems to me that Nc-d5 gives white a fighting chance. Perhaps I'm missing something.|
|Aug-09-05|| ||The beginner: <Ksimm38>
The knight on e4 is hanging, white is losing a piece, After..
38 Nd5 ..Rxc2+
39 Rxc2 ..Rxe4
|Aug-09-05|| ||ksimm38: <The beginner>
Ah. I see. I was looking at the knight taking the bishop after the rook exchanges, but failed to see that the black rook could then take the knight. White would still be down a piece. Thanks.
|Aug-10-05|| ||ughaibu: I dont see why it's a zugzwang either, how does 38.Kh1 worsen white's position?|
|Aug-10-05|| ||olav dalkeith: After 38. Kh1, the g-pawn will fall and the h-pawn soon after.|
|Aug-10-05|| ||ughaibu: I agree that white has no defense but that doesn't make it zugzwang.|
|Aug-10-05|| ||olav dalkeith: I think it is, if following definition is applied:
"Zugzwang occurs when one player is put at a disadvantage because he or she has to make a move — the player would like to pass and make no move, but the fact that the player must make one means being forced into a weaker position." I think the disagreement comes from the fact that it is not an immediate loss of the game, which is otherwise often the case with Zugzwang.
|Aug-10-05|| ||ughaibu: I still dont see what difference Kh1 makes(?)|
|Aug-15-05|| ||olav dalkeith: neither of white's 4 pieces can move here or he will lose one of these. Same with g-pawn. laves the king. If white king could stay were he is, black could take pawn on g4 but take pressure of white's pieces, so better option for black to move N to d3. White rook would then be forced to move to d1 or else he will loose a piece, but then black knight would move to F2 forking rook and king. That's at least what I can see!?|
|Oct-26-05|| ||patzer2: Ivanchuk's 36...Bb4! sets a decisive pin, after which the waiting move 37...Re3! puts Nikolic in a bind due to the overloading of pieces on the pinned Knight on c3 and the attack on the weak pawn on g4. For example, play might continue 38. Kf2 Nxg4+ 39. Kg2 f5 when Black wins easily.|
I don't think this is a Zugzwang position, because the side in Zugzwang is considered OK if a move is not compelled. In this case, even if White could throw out the rules of chess and decline making a 38th move, the threat 38...Nxg4! is decisive for Black.
|Oct-29-05|| ||thathwamasi: <chessgames.com> Could you please clarify if this is a zugzwang or not?|
|Oct-29-05|| ||MaxxLange: If 37. Rd7+, Black plays not 37...Nxd7 38. Kxf3, but rather 37...Ke6!, I take it?|
|Oct-29-05|| ||Dionyseus: This one was easy. First move I considered was 36.Bb4 as I saw that it wins a piece. I spent the next several minutes trying to find a stronger move because I couldn't believe it was that easy, but nope it was indeed Bb4.|
|Oct-29-05|| ||patzer2: Well on second thought, I guess it depends on whose definition of Zugzwang you use.|
IM Jeremy Silman at his site defines <Zugzwang: “Compulsion to move.” A German term referring to a situation in which a player would like to do nothing (pass), since any move will damage his game.> And in this case since White loses if he does nothing (passes), it is not Zugzwang by this definition.
Note that 38...Nxg4 and 39...f5 will follow undermining White's tied down pieces, whether or not he moves them (i.e. not moving doesn't help White here).
However, at NM Dan Heisman's site he defines <Zugzwang: When you have to move, but any move is bad for you.> So, by this definition <Iron Maiden> would be correct in classifying 37...Re3! as a Zugzwang tactic.
I suppose it is more important to understand the tactics in this week's puzzles rather than worrying about their classification. And I suspect that may well be the point <chessgames.com> is making with today's instructive puzzle.
|Oct-29-05|| ||An Englishman: Good Evening: Surprisingly easy for a Saturday; I don't consider this a true zugzwang because Black has two threats, against the a and g pawns. But others may disagree, given that any move of the four White pieces is disastrous. |
The lack of an absolutely precise, universally agreed definition of Zugzwang (there's not even agreement on whether or not to capitalize) has caused a fair amount of disagreement lately. I would submit, however, that most of us will agree that the finishes of this week's games have been surpassingly beautiful.
|Oct-29-05|| ||HelaNubo: I had thought 36...Re3! and only after that 37....Bb4. I see now that Fritz says I am right. To tell the truth, Fritz means (at deep 14) that even 36....Rf4 is better than Bb4, which comes as a third possibility.
Nice finish though, and the idea is always the same, so perhaps I could say I got it;-)|
|Oct-29-05|| ||snowie1: I like Golombek's 'tsooksvunk' definition; any legal move one can make in zugswang will cause a decisive deterioration in his position. Anyway, I gottit this time.|
|Oct-29-05|| ||chessfreako: This is a very interesting game.
Apparantly the best escape for white is (Considering black makes its best move too):
38. Re2 Rcxc3
39. Nxc3 Rxc3
40. Rxc3 Bxc3
Although in this postition its vs , black has the upper hand but I still can't figure out why yet... Can someone please enlighten me on this?
|Oct-29-05|| ||Averageguy: I looked at 36...Re3 27.Rdc1/d2 Nxg4 threatening 28...Rxe4 29.Nxe4 Rxc2 30.Rxc2 Ne3+ going into an endgame up a piece.|
|Oct-29-05|| ||Averageguy: <Although in this postition its vs , black has the upper hand but I still can't figure out why yet... Can someone please enlighten me on this?>
It's not much, but since pawns are even the black has a 1 point material advantage in his B+N vs R.|
|Oct-29-05|| ||johnwgoes: 37. Nd6 37....Bxd6 38. Rxd6, then what?|
|Oct-29-05|| ||HelaNubo: <johnwgoes: 37. Nd6 37....Bxd6 38. Rxd6, then what?> Simply 38...R8(or R3)xc3.|
|Oct-29-05|| ||jahhaj: I also had 36...e3 first, seems to work just as well. But after 37.d4 I mistakenly had 37...f3 threatening Nxd4 and Ne1+ however White just about escapes with 38.d7+ e6 39.f2. Instead simply 37...Nxg4 gives Black a clear advantage.|
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Making the Faith Felt at Universities
Interview With a Spanish Delegation at the Symposium
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ROME, JULY 21, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The presence of faith in the university must not be something that is concealed but rather expressed naturally, participants in the symposium on the "University and Church in Europe" told ZENIT.
Those interviewed, members of the Catalonian delegation from Spain, were promoting the idea of a theology secretariat at universities, a place for professors and students to meet to reflect on faith and introduce theology in civil universities.
Q: What is the contribution made today by a Catholic university?
Jordi Giró, professor of the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona: The quality "Catholic" is not an adjective but a noun. It is not a play on words, but a reality of great transcendence and differentiation.
Someone with a Christian identity must be able to contribute a point of view to science, a way of seeing, reading and interpreting the world from a universal perspective. In the same way that in a plural society Christians have the mission to be the sign of a presence, this mission is also taken to the university.
Q: What is the challenge facing Christians in the university?
Óscar Vernaus, secretary of SAFOR (Service of Assistance and Religious Formation) of the University of Barcelona, Central Campus: At present, the principal challenge facing Christians in the university is to make their presence completely normal while, at the same time, their commitment to the faith they have received must enable them to carry out a normal dialogue -- in addition to being very necessary -- with the given scientific contents.
A faith that is detached from culture and science is a faith without roots, a dehumanized faith. All this, of course, must take place within a sense of unity and consistency that must characterize all pastoral action in the university.
Q: Do you think that Christians must be courageous, explicit and clear when it comes to proclaiming the Gospel in the university?
Jaume Soler, secretary of SAFOR of the Autonomous University of Barcelona: Yes, but above all it must be known that courage is not synonymous with arrogance but, rather, with charity and solidaristic commitment. We must not be afraid to make known the God in whom we believe, if we want to be the yeast in the dough.
Transcendence, in fact, has been removed from studies although, according to Christianity, it is that which man has that is most human, that which most unites him to his true being.
The dialogue of faith with culture, with an open, respectful, rigorous, serious point of view free of taboos … cannot do other than enrich and complete the integral and human formation of the university population, students or professors.
Q: Cardinal Lehmann suggests that "new ways" be created for university pastoral care, especially dialogue with nonbelievers. What kind of activity could the university realm suggest today in this respect?
Antoni Matabosch, delegate of the Lay Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Barcelona: It is difficult to initiate a dialogue directly, as often the need doesn't arise, especially among individuals who are indifferent. It is easier with agnostics. What can be done is to talk about "borderline" subjects, such as biology, evolutionism, the dialogue between faith and science.
Q: Is it easier to evangelize students or professors?
Jaume Dantí, professor at the University of Barcelona: It is easier to evangelize students. They are more willing to question themselves about their own life. There are no prejudices before the possibility of knowing and believing.
There is willingness in face of credible testimony. There is a need to feel oneself welcomed and accompanied amid a world of doubts. However, there is much fragility and the opposite ambience often imposes itself. The steps taken by professors can be definitive.
Q: Students move on but professors remain. Should the greater evangelizing effort be made in the teaching ambit of the university?
Llum Delàs, delegate of the university pastoral care program of the Archdiocese of Barcelona: Students change every five years; it is an unstable public by definition and with a date of expiry. Instead, professors are stable and exercise natural leadership as teachers.
Therefore, it is necessary that the Church "spoil" professors, and not just accompany students. At times some professors, because of reserve and embarrassment, have failed to give personal witness and neglected the formation of faith in the university.
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For more than two months now in the United States and even longer globally with protests in Egypt and Spain, for instance, a lot of attention has obviously been given to the movement to raise awareness of economic injustice.
That being said, I still find a lot of people in the United States of America, the 99%, quite apathetic or at the very least unaware of the movement's developments or even how it has already changed a lot of public dialogue concerning the dismal state of economic affairs. It has educated many on subjects such as corporate personhood and the Glass-Steagall Act, and even brought more attention to alternative energy sources such as solar power in addition to economic statistics such as those highlighting the continued growing income disparity, for instance.
For many of the first responders, a term used by an insightful Occupier in conversation the other night, this new way of thinking and keeping abreast of developments at the very least are daily parts of the lives of those engaged in this movement whether we occupy land, march in streets, write blogs, post video, teach workshops, perform, actively reach out to others in public, or a combination of some kind.
In the spirit of expanding the awareness of what the movement is about, what it is accomplishing, what it's message is as it evolves, creativity with events, and more, I have opened a Facebook page entitled OCCUPY OUTREACH.
Here is what it is about:
The primary purpose of this page is to occupy an online space for sharing creative ideas and promoting created events that reach out to the global public in a variety of peaceful ways. Express yourself ethically,intelligently and simply from the heart!
If you have an interest in creatively raising awareness and promoting the creative, ethical, peaceful, and intelligent elements of the Movement, I invite you to check it out. We've only just begun!
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Support for a Privately Funded Medical Marijuana Research FacilityUMASS-AMHERST MEDICAL MARIJUANA RESEARCH FACILITY
On February 12, 2007, DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Mary Ellen Bittner issued an Opinion and Recommended Ruling determining that DEA should grant the application of Professor Lyle Craker, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, for a Schedule I license to grow marijuana for distribution exclusively to federally approved researchers. Prof. Craker's proposed production facility would resolve the controversy over medical marijuana by determining whether it meets the FDA's standards for safety and efficacy.
Unfortunately, DEA is under no obligation to accept Judge Bittner's administrative ruling.
Should DEA grant a Schedule I bulk manufacturer license to Prof. Lyle Craker, Director, Medicinal Plant Program, Dept. of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences, UMass Amherst, to establish a privately funded facility to produce marijuana exclusively for federally approved and privately funded research?
Despite the fact that federal law clearly requires adequate competition in the manufacture of Schedule I and II substances, since 1968 the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has maintained an unjustified monopoly on the production of marijuana for legitimate medical and research purposes in the US. DEA helps to protect NIDA's monopoly by refusing to grant competitive licenses for marijuana production.
Currently, the only way for marijuana to be evaluated by the FDA to determine whether it meets the standards necessary to become a medicine under federal law is for privately-funded sponsors to conduct FDA-approved clinical trials. Unfortunately, NIDA's monopoly on the supply of legal marijuana is a fundamental obstruction to such privately funded research, which is currently not being conducted despite strong public interest.
The DEA wants to have it both ways, denying that marijuana is a medicine because the FDA has not approved it, while simultaneously blocking the appropriate administrative channels which would facilitate FDA clinical trials.
Arbitrary and Lengthy Delays: Despite the fact that it is not NIDA's mission to study the medicinal uses of marijuana or to advocate for such research, NIDA's monopoly on the supply of cannabis available for research results in arbitrary and lengthy delays. For example, Chemic Labs, a DEA-licensed analytical lab, was made to wait more than two years for a reply to its initial request to purchase 10 grams of marijuana for privately sponsored research into vaporizers, a non-smoking delivery system which the Institute of Medicine report recommended be developed. After two years of delay, the application was rejected. NIDA has also refused to provide marijuana to two other privately sponsored, FDA-approved protocols that sought to evaluate marijuana for AIDS wasting syndrome (IND #43-542) and for migraines (IND #58-177).
Congress should support and encourage DEA to accept the February 2007 Opinion and Recommended Ruling of Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner. Furthermore, DEA should grant a Schedule I bulk manufacturer license to Prof. Lyle Craker, UMass Amherst, to establish a privately funded facility to produce marijuana exclusively for federally approved and privately funded research. | <urn:uuid:7dbebf26-51d1-4323-9f83-322b9c4c648e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://americansforsafeaccess.org/article.php?list=type&type=317 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934321 | 628 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The Citizens United decision brought about the rise of super PACs, and empowered 501(c)(4) public advocacy groups and 501(c)(6) trade associations to participate in (at times secretly-funded) electoral advocacy. The resulting influx of money into the election cycle has considerably altered the political landscape – and D.C. lobbyists have taken note.
As reported by Dave Levinthal at POLITICO, interest groups are utilizing super PACs to ‘twist arms.’
So for some issue interest groups, super PACs are a potentially major complement to — if not upgrade over — traditional, Capitol Hill lobbying in their ability to bring heat on lawmakers and twist their arms toward their agendas.
“If you’re a lobbyist, you’re talking with a legislator and mention you’re forming a super PAC, their ears are really going to perk up just because you said the words ‘super PAC,’” said Shana Glickfield, a partner at public affairs firm Beekeeper Group. “It’s such a big, scary thing — and can give you an extra edge of influence.”
One of the first powerful lobbying firms to create a super PAC for additional influence was the National Association of Realtors, which has since rewarded lawmakers friendly to their agenda with hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertisements and air cover. A host of other lobbying groups have done so as well.
As People For noted in our written testimony for the Senate Constitution Subcommittee hearing this past July on the need for constitutional remedies to overturn Citizens United, the power of super PACs is twofold. Not only can special interest groups now spend freely on elections to promote their policy agenda, they can threaten to spend freely, effectively achieving the same result.
Of course, to accomplish its goals, a corporation need not actually spend such sums in every race they are interested in. Far from it. Especially for offices or in areas where electoral races are generally not overwhelmingly expensive – in other words, for most state and local legislative and judicial elections throughout the United States – the implied threat to spend large expenditures against elected officials could easily be enough to “persuade” them to take the “right” position. Conversely, the promise of an enormous windfall in supportive corporate independent expenditures could have an equally persuasive effect.
Such corruption leaves no evidence: no paper trail, no recordings, no ads. But it poisons our nation’s democracy.
Do D.C. lobbyists really need more tools in their arsenal to effectively ‘twist arms’? Are Sacramento lobbyists, Albany lobbyists, Tallahassee lobbyists or any other state-based lobbyists in desperate need of influence?
The obvious answer is no. Yet in the post-Citizens United world, the game is rigged, and those with power only accrue more of it. The people, meanwhile, are left with less and less of a say in government. It’s no wonder the Democratic Party , President Obama , nearly 2,000 public officials , seven state legislatures and over 300 cities/towns , and 1.98 million Americans are in support of a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Citizens United decision. | <urn:uuid:3e758bb1-0709-4274-925d-1a710140a6c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pfaw.org/print/41120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955035 | 658 | 1.664063 | 2 |
David Keplinger (2003)
"Elegy for the Precious Time Before Dinner" was one of those poems which incubated for years, then appeared one afternoon in a matter of ten minutes. It had been, in fact, many different failed poems that came together as one. Looking at the piece and its cast of characters, its backdrop of the maximum security Graterford Prison and my late aunt's house on the Pennsylvania countryside, the process by which this poem came to be seems now exactly right. So many disparate forces had crisscrossed there. In between those two worlds -- one of possibility and one of consequence -- there was a beautiful cornfield where I would sit all afternoon. The poem tries to create a "cathedral effect" in which no contradictory element is unwelcome. That's how I feel about poetry. It is literally supposed to smash you, or, your old preconceptions, and connect you to a more grand, more expansive "you" at the same time. As Rilke said, "You must change your life."
Elegy For the Precious Time Before Dinner
Along the fringe of two known worlds
That make the field, the prison yard,
Behind the house my mother and her sisters
Live in, this was years ago.
We're all still there, itinerant
As wind, the straits of corn
And guards who pace their impossible promontories,
And the small mouse just born here,
Total as a thumb.
With her sisters who are dead and my mother is a beauty
Taking the spoon
To beat the dog back from the pot,
At which they all begin to laugh.
Little beetles with a kind of Viking armor
I want to smash you, smash the spiders
Atop their pagodas
Which are the same as thoughts,
Smash the crazy locust that won't abandon its post.
At the house the women happily
Eye up the sauce about to boil.
I am wearing my emblematic cape.
I can fly at any moment if I want to,
But I don't.
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At least with regard to finance and business, the consensus seems to be clear: Success is the work of Great Men and Great Women, while failure can be pinned on the system...
At a CNBC event yesterday, groups of 10 to 12 people sat at tables and mooted three questions: Which policy assumption failed? Which regulatory failure proved to be the largest systemic shock? And which market failure proved most damaging? The answers were obvious: poor regulation of the shadow banking system, mispricing of risk, the failure of models. But there was very little talk about the people who helped design and justify the systems, the mispricing, and the models. At one point, someone in the crowd stood up and said: "It's intriguing nobody is to blame. In other industries, there are consequences if you make toxic products that hurt people. Policy makers need to make it clear that there are serious consequences for that type of behavior."
The dismissal of human agency is ironic, but also predictable. Just as financial markets in the United States privatize profits and socialize losses, Davos and other conferences like this privatize success (by chalking it up to individuals) and socialize failure (by blaming it on large systemic problems).
31 January 2009
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Tue November 20, 2012
Update On Gaza Conflict
Originally published on Sun November 25, 2012 8:52 am
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won't be hurrying home today, along with the president, but rather she's going to Jerusalem. There, she'll meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then on to meetings with Palestinians on the West Bank - and then to Cairo. The swirl of diplomatic activity is aimed at brokering a truce between Israel and Gaza. Rockets and missiles continue to fly, today, between Israel and the Hamas militants that now control Gaza.
And to learn more, we turn to David Ignatius. He writes about foreign affairs for his column at The Washington Post. Good morning.
DAVID IGNATIUS: Good morning.
MONTAGNE: Now, Israel launched a big offensive, might recall, four years ago. It created a lot of damage, pain on both sides, produced no clear results. What's different about this?
IGNATIUS: So far, you'd have to say not very much. Rockets have continued to fly from Gaza into Israel, creating what Israeli politicians say is an intolerable situation. The Israeli application of limited force doesn't seem to be enough to stop Hamas from allowing those rockets to be launched, so Israel's, again, threatening a ground invasion, which it clearly doesn't want to mount because of the high casualties to, both to Israel and to Gaza.
MONTAGNE: And why did Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launce this particular offensive at this particular time?
IGNATIUS: Well, Israeli officials say that the trigger for the escalation in the killing of the Hamas defense minister, Jabari, last Wednesday was the step up in Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza. They say that since the last loose cease fire ended, about 700 rockets have been shot into Israel, and that that led them to take this action. There are other things that we think of, watching this from a distance, like the fact that Israel may have to - decide it has to launch military action against Iran in coming months, and for that reason might want to, kind of, try out of its systems, smoke out where the rocket fire in Gaza will come from, see whether their new antimissile system, the iron dome, has been successful - and it has been pretty successful, from everything we read.
So that may be another factor, but the basic thing that I hear from Israelis is, we don't really have a strategy for this kind of operation. Every five, six, seven years we sometimes just have to take a punch at our adversary to get our adversary to stop doing the actions that threaten Israelis.
MONTAGNE: What does each side gain or lose from a cease fire - starting with the Israelis?
IGNATIUS: The Israelis gain, a cease fire, a respite in these rocket attacks. We have an Israeli election coming up, and stopping the rocket fire would certainly be popular for Bibi Netanyahu. What Hamas would have to gain from a cease fire will be one of the interesting diplomatic questions. Hamas isn't going to quit firing these rockets without getting something. So, what people are talking about is some easing of the blockade, which makes life very difficult for people in Gaza, probably an effort to get greater ties between Gaza and Egypt under the new president, Morsi. Morsi's role in brokering the cease fire - if it proves decisive - would probably represent the biggest change of all in the region. It would mark his arrival as a significant player and even a statesman.
MONTAGNE: And Secretary of State Clinton, what does she bring to the table?
IGNATIUS: She brings her experience. She's there, supposedly, as a mediator. The problem is that Secretary Clinton is only going to talk to one side in this conflict. She's going to go and talk to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders, but she isn't going to talk to Hamas because that's not permitted. Congress has passed legislation declaring Hamas a terrorist organization, so she will, instead, talk to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank - which is fine but they don't have anything to do with this violence. She'll also go to Egypt and talk to President Morsi there, and through him, presumably, will try to influence Hamas.
MONTAGNE: And what do you think, a deal will be struck
IGNATIUS: Well, I think it's possible that this round of the conflict will be ended with a deal. The problem, I think, that Israelis increasingly are facing up to and writing about in their media, is that they climb up these hills without a clear way to get down. I know that Israelis wonder, is there a more strategic approach to this problem, if we find, in the new Egypt of President Morsi, a more constructive partner in working with Hamas and the people in Gaza.
MONTAGNE: David, thanks very much.
IGNATIUS: Thank you.
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Mozart complete edition
| Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Symphony no. 9 in C major D944 “The Great” [51:00] (1)
Mass no. 6 in E flat major D950 [58:46] (2)
Peter Schreier, Werner Krenn (tenors)
(2), Walter Berry (bass) (2)
Wiener Sängerknaben (2), Herrenchor der Hofmusikkapelle (2), Hofmusikkapelle
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1)/Karl Böhm
rec. live, 12-13 June 1973, Grosser Musikvereinssaal Vienna (1), 28-29 June 1976
Hofburgkapelle, Vienna (2)
I’ve never really made up my mind about Karl Böhm (1894-1981).
From my earliest years of record collecting he was always “there”.
He’d been “there”, for that matter, from the earliest days
of my father’s record collecting, and maybe a bit before
even that. Yet he never seemed quicken anyone’s pulse.
Known as a protégé of Richard Strauss, his recordings of
the latter’s operas were widely admired. Yet whenever there
was an alternative by Krauss or E. Kleiber earlier, or
Solti later, it was invariably found to be better. As for
the tone poems, he was never even asked to set them down
systematically. Those he did record failed to kindle the
imagination as did those under Krauss or, in the 1970s,
Kempe. And all this without considering the Karajan equation.
All the same, this was a conductor who commanded the admiration
of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics.
Around the later 1960s, as his older – and even younger – contemporaries
began to die off, Böhm was shunted into the position of
a great elder statesman conductor. He was hailed as the
Mozart conductor of our times. Little present in London
for most of his career, he happily filled, with the LSO,
the interregnum between the death of Otto Klemperer and
the invention of Günther Wand. In his last years he slowed
down, Klemperer-style, but he lingered on less and all
things considered a much smaller part of his recorded legacy
is compromised by human frailty than is the case with Klemperer.
The present two performances may seem dated dangerously
late, but even in the Mass I can detect no lessening of
control or flagging concentration.
His reputation plummeted after his death and has not so
far revived very much. Those who listen to his humourless “Nozze di
Figaro” and his sane and sensible “Così fan tutte” are
apt to find that several of his contemporaries or even
predecessors were producing Mozart performances that have
more appeal for us today. The present Schubert performances,
at any rate, still have a lot to offer.
Technically, Böhm is a type of conductor who arouses bewilderment
among today’s acrobats of the podium and their fans. The
few shots we get from back in the hall show that his gestures
were so directed towards the orchestra rather than the
audience – this is rarer than you’d think – that his by
no means capacious rear view practically hid them. This,
of course, could also be said of Reiner or Toscanini. I’d
say that Böhm’s audiences didn’t “watch” the conductor
the way Bernstein’s did. He was simply a reassuring presence,
a guarantee that all would be well.
Students of conductor footage will know that Reiner and
Toscanini had magnetic, flashing eyes. The extract of Reiner
Beethoven 7 and subjecting his poor players to looks of
utter disgust such are normally reserved for a cat that’s
brought home a dead bird has become something of a party
But Böhm’s secret isn’t there. His eyes are shielded by heavy glasses – and
seem to have been so from quite early on in his career.
No expression is discernable*. And his face is totally
impassive. Just once, at the dramatic climax of the Symphony’s
slow movement, he allows his mouth to open a fraction.
This is the only proof we have that the face we see is
a real one not a waxwork. In the Mass he is fractionally
more forthcoming. At climaxes he seems to be murmuring,
if hardly mouthing, the words. As the Agnus Dei swings
into a serenely flowing “Dona nobis pacem” a wisp of a
wintry smile briefly crosses his countenance.
It is, therefore, the baton and the left hand – when used – that do
the trick. The movements are miniscule but certain shots
from the back of the orchestra show that they are very
clear. His hand never rises above the level of his head,
though the baton itself does. His movements are generally
quick and transparent, not expansive or rhetorical. A curious
gesture is a sudden stooping down and lowering of his baton,
almost as if he is pulling a rug from under somebody’s
feet. It seems to serve its purpose of alerting the orchestra
to a change of mood. I take it that it was by these means
that he got from the orchestra a rather lean, Weingartner-like
sound, rather than a romantic one. And be it noted, at
the height of Karajan’s dominance, creating a much denser
sound from both the Berlin and the Vienna orchestras, they
seemed to provide Böhm automatically with the sound he
wanted. However, the part of the process we don’t know
is the rehearsals, at which I understand Böhm could be
exacting and temperamental.
By 1973 Harnoncourt et al were leaving the confines of
their period instrument bands and working their wicked
will on standard
orchestras. This performance of the symphony may have seemed
a blast from the past in a way it didn’t when Böhm set
down a similarly conceived reading with the Berlin PO ten
years earlier. The first movement themes alternate between
two completely different tempi in a way that began to be
frowned upon even then. The coda gradually lurches to a
halt. Leaving as a case apart the exceptional magic of
Furtwängler’s ramble through the Austrian woods, I find
this perhaps the most convincing of the “romantic” readings
I’ve heard, since Böhm’s control of the structure and his
way of slipping in and out of the different tempi almost
makes it seem “classical”.
The slow movement has a fine sense of inexorable looming
tragedy, with passing moments of assuaging beauty. Here,
deviates from his original tempi several times. The climax
is immensely powerful.
The scherzo seemed a little slow, but this is maybe the Viennese way.
It has a nice lilt without succumbing to schmaltz. The
finale has terrific spin.
Even more valuable is the Mass, which Böhm did not set down commercially
so far as I know. You will notice that no female soloists
are named. It may be a Viennese tradition rather than a
decision by Böhm to use all-male voices since ten years
earlier Ferdinand Grossman set down a version for Philips
that used treble and alto soloists from the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
Two of the soloists were also the same – Kmentt and Berry.
The alto has the hardest job to hold his own against his
mature colleagues but the team is an excellent one.
Böhm’s performance is essentially dramatic though tenderness is allowed
where appropriate. Particularly moving is the emergence
of an innocently pastoral “Dona nobis pacem” from the granitic “Agnus
Dei” that preceded it. The return to darkness is therefore
all the more powerful.
Altogether, this DVD makes a strong case for rediscovering
* Since writing this I read in John L. Holmes: “Conductors:
A Record Collector’s Guide”: “Like so many other great conductors,
it was his eyes that communicated most to his players”. I can
only report that it doesn’t look like that.
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Steve Durbin, Global Vice President, Information Security Forum
Synopsis: Organisations can’t avoid using the cloud. With surveys reporting that 90% of organisations achieve projected savings and 80% increase their competitive advantage, as one tech writer put it, “the cloud is coming to your business, like it or not”. But with cloud systems come inherent challenges. These are further complicated as data subject to privacy regulation inevitably moves into the cloud. This webinar explains why data privacy in the cloud is a business issue. It provides an overview of privacy as a concept, explains personally identifiable information (PII), along with the demands typically placed on organisations by privacy regulations and de-mystifies the complexity of cloud-based systems and their inherent risks. The webinar maps out how you can manage the risk of using cloud services for private data – whatever stage you are at – based on current efforts to formulate good practice at leading ISF Member organisations around the world. It offers independent guidance on simplifying the complexity of cloud-based systems and their inherent risks, providing insight into how organisations can develop the necessary privacy safeguards and good practice guidelines to achieve privacy compliance when using such systems.
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Houston lost more construction jobs than any other metropolitan area between February 2009 and February 2010, according to a national report released today.
Only 10 out of 337 metros added construction jobs during the 12 months, and 230 experienced double-digit declines in construction employment. Just two cities experienced a double-digit increase.
“In virtually every area, construction workers continued to suffer the brunt of the recession,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “Job losses in far too many cities were simply, and sadly, staggering.”
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Voices of Our Past
By Robert Kreutzer
Disembodied voices pleading for help—or delivering dire warnings. Objects that move when nobody is around. Mysterious blips, flashes of light or images occurring at places of crime or tragedy. These are things going on all over the Inland Empire. The cliché slam against the IE is that it’s kind of dead, but the truth may be that it’s undead.
While Los Angeles and Hollywood, with all of their showbiz suicides, serial killers and questionable demises of all manner get the press, there’s some seriously weird crap going on all over 909 and 951. Paranormal investigators, of which there’s no short supply in Southern California, have found no scarcity of mystical phenomena at which to wave their meters.
The phenomena which they check takes many forms. Most ghost hunters will tell you 90-plus percent of what they find is explainable and nothing mysterious at all. Most approach their investigations as skeptics, looking to disprove rather than prove.
But once in a while, they find stuff even they can’t quite explain away. While full body apparitions (a.k.a. ghosts) are rare, they find other evidence, less vivid perhaps but still compelling: Orbs—circles of energy that hurtle about; objects, such as cups or bottles, that move without apparent help; unexplained shadows; unknown voices; cold spots; presences that can be felt though nobody can be seen; sometimes explorers to a paranormal site will feel aches and pains that disappear once they leave a haunted area; electronic devices that turn on and off spontaneously.
Most of the communities in our beloved IE have someplace where these occurrences— and more—point to the otherworldly. It’s hard to pick the most haunted of these, but a few have garnered local, regional and sometimes even national interest.
Granada Theater: The Wild West of the Supernatural
One such place is the venerable Granada Theater in Ontario. It is in limited use now, but for many years it was Ontario’s most hoppin‘ place. It wasn’t just movies and live shows, but also several other businesses attached to the building that made it one of the local destinations.
These days, it seems the ghosties are the ones making guests jump. The theater has earned a reputation for being a wild west of the supernatural, ranging from flying objects, unexplained voices, touching sensations, and even full body apparitions. Several organizations have poked around—and often came away hard-pressed to explain what they saw.
Steve Hembree, co-founder of the paranormal investigative group Claranormal says that many visitors have reported strange occurrences there, but one of the most macabre incidents was something he himself experienced.
“Some of the things we’ve been told have been quite scary,” explains Hembree, “so scary I can’t pass them along” But what Hembree did pass on was some of the theater’s sordid history, which is believed to contribute to all of the paranormal activity so many have described.
“There was a speakeasy underneath,” Hembree says. “A doctor, Calvert Emmons, had set it up for himself, his friends and his cronies. Not many people know that. That’s really important, because if you go back in time, Ontario was dry even before prohibition. There was Prohibition, [and] then Ontario was dry even after Prohibition.”
Of course, along with Prohibition came unsavory characters, some not above violence to get their way. Hembree tells of a creepy experience he had during one visit.
“I had these mental impressions that were like déjà vu but without the previous experience,” says Hembree. “They were like split-second movies that tell you a story. The story was like a 1930s gangster movie. There was a guy tied to a chair who was being beaten.
“I almost didn’t say anything about it. What I didn’t know was that six months later a paranormal investigation team from Orange County also went to the theater, and one of the guys later told me that he had the same experience. In mine, the guy was just getting the snot beat out of him, but [in] his the man got killed.”
The theater has also, on at least two occasions, housed abortion clinics—an illegal clinic first, then a legal one post Roe v. Wade. Hembree said several EVP—Electronic Voice Phenomenon have been detected. In ghost hunting parlance, EVP refers to the capture of voices emanating from the spirit realm.
“We got a callout from a girl named Emma,” Hembree explains. “Two of us heard it, but nobody else did.” The group also recorded several other voices, including screeches and phantom voices ordering people to quiet or calm down.
Another haunted spot in the theater is the projection room. Hembree explains that projectionists often have an outsized devotion to their job, one that, at least at the Granada, may last beyond their earthly days.
“We recorded EVPs of someone saying ‘Get out of the way’ and ‘This is mine,’” Hembree reports. “Projectionists love their job—they have to. They’re stuck in that small, hot room all day long, watching the same movie over and over again. We think we found one here that just stayed behind.”
Rialto Historical Society: Specter Central
It’s not just theaters that experience otherworldly visits. Churches, by their nature, are supposed to be spiritual, but the former First Christian Church in Rialto is, by many accounts, off-the-hook haunted. Today, the church is home to the Rialto Historical Society, but it also might be the home of many ghosts.
John Anthony Adams is no lightweight. Adams owns and operates Adams Acres, the last operating commercial orange grove in Rialto, a profitable grove his grandfather planted. Adams is also a member of the historical society. It is there that he saw things that turned his beliefs upside down.
Adams authored a book, The Little Girl in the Window, recounting his experiences at the building, and telling of the many sightings of the ghost of a young girl.
“One incident in particular caused me to take note,” Adams recalls. “There were some ladies—friends of a previous president of the historical society—who would come and play cards. The church building contained the ashes of Kristina Hendrickson, a little girl who had died some years earlier.
“There was one woman who was usually very level-headed, but we could hear her keep saying ‘Leave me alone. I can’t help you’ even though no one was around. A few days later, a newspaper in Northern California reported the girl’s brother had died. I wrote and got the death certificate.”
Many others have witnessed other ghosts besides Hendrickson’s. Historical society member Rich McInnes snapped a famous photo, which appears to show an illuminated skeleton standing atop a staircase. McInnes claims he did not see the image when he snapped the picture.
Adams tells of another ghost sighting made not by just one person but by two third-grade classes.
“Third graders used to study Rialto history,” Adams says, “and they made regular field trips to the historical society. Two classes from Boyd Elementary were visiting, and several girls saw a ghost right where the photo was taken. They were well-behaved up to then, but when they saw the ghost they went berserk.”
It’s possible that, rather than just one or two ghosts, the Rialto Historical Society might be Specter Central. Adams says portals have been found that may bring hosts of ghosts to the building.
“The portal was reported by different psychics,” says Adams. “Tom Hagman (a veteran parapsychologist and psychic) noticed one by the church’s kitchen. This would allow ghosts from other places to enter from the kitchen. He put his hand around it to make the size and shape.” Adams said two other psychics independently confirmed that portal and suggested there might be others.
Castle Park: Magnet of Ghostly Energy
It doesn’t just have to be old or historic buildings that are haunted. Sometimes relatively new places have also shown signs of great interest from another spiritual plain.
Downtown Riverside is rumored to have several landmarks that are haunted, including its jewel attraction, the Mission Inn. Any place that has catacombs gets a head start on creepy. Those catacombs connect it to Mt. Rubidoux, also a place of interest to some paranormal sleuths. But Riverside’s epicenter of eeriness may be Castle Park, a popular destination for ghost hunters.
Civilian and spook hunter alike have reported myriad strange occurrences. Peaches Veatch, Director of California Paranormal Private Investigations, has seen—and recorded—all kinds of activity at the amusement park.
“We’ve been there half a dozen times,” Veatch says. “We’ve gotten quite a few EVPs, some whispers saying ‘get out.’ It was weird enough that it has scared a few investigators into quitting.”
One of the ghosts rumored to stalk Castle Park’s grounds is a female phantom of unknown origin.
“There’s a lady in white who hangs out by the employee dressing room,” Veatch confirms. “We checked out the area and did get some cold spots. If something is trying to manifest itself or make itself visible, it can cause the environment around it to become much colder.”
Other figures have on the grounds, some of which are just difficult to classify altogether.
“We saw a shadow by the train tracks,” Veatch recalls. “It was also near the employee dressing room. Something walked in front of us and made a 10-foot shadow, but we couldn’t see anything pass by. It was humanoid but we couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman.”
Veatch said that history makes Castle Park a prime haunting location. A few paranormal researchers say the grounds were once part of a Native American burial ground, but Veatch said there’s no evidence of that. She pointed to the park’s rides as the magnets of that ghostly energy.
“All of the rides have come from other places,” explains Veatch. “All of these items had a lot of attachment to someone, and their spirits followed the items here. For example, the carousel is very active. Even though we don’t know its exact history, we get a lot of EVPs on it.”
The Others: They Still Exist
Perhaps the most obvious place folks like Veatch to poke around would be a cemetery. Many inland cemeteries are alleged to be haunted. Veatch mentioned Redland’s Hillside Cemetery as one of the most active.
“We did an informal investigation of Redlands Hillside Cemetery,” says Veatch. “We visited a couple’s grave and could hear the sound of footsteps. The woman had passed away in her ’40s. My friend actually got an EVP that said ‘Turn your face.’” On many occasions, fires have been seen that disappear as visitors get closer.
These are only a few of the Inland Empire’s most well-known haunted hotspots. Just a list of public places and businesses would reach from here to the Netherworld, nevermind private residences. Others include Agua Mansa Cemetery in Colton, said to have it’s own La Llorona, the fabled crying ghost of Mexican folklore; the J.J Live Oak Steakhouse in Corona may be home to the ghost of a waitress who was murdered in 1988; and San Bernardino High School, located near Mt. View Cemetery, is thought to be frequented by the spirit of Vicki Baxter, a student killed on her way to the prom in the late ’20s.
It would be easy to dismiss all of this as pranks or publicity hounding, or people looking to cash in on the popularity of TV shows like SyFy’s Ghost Hunters and its dozen or so knock-offs. But none of the investigators or witnesses interviewed for this story sound like cranks or cynics. Adams, for example, has a Ph.D. in soil sciences and a solid scientific background. Before his experiences he was quite a skeptic. That has all changed.
“I would say I was an atheist until I was 53,” says Adams. “I was sure there was no creator or nothing happening beyond death. As a result of my repeated experiences, I’m convinced there’s an existence beyond death. I don’t subscribe to any particular religion, but these experiences have turned my life upside down. I used to be horrified by someone’s death, thinking their memories and experiences were gone. Now, even if they’re dead, I still think they exist.”
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Factors to Consider When Choosing A Home Loan [ May 16th, 2013 ] | 180 views | Leave a Comment
The margin of financing is also known as loan-to-value ratio. It is the home loan amount expressed as a percentage of your property’s value. The lower the margin, the more “equity” there is in the property. The margin of financing can go up to 95% of the value of property, and is assessed based on:
i. Age of borrower
ii. Income of borrower
iii. Type of property
iv. Location of property
Some mortgage lenders may impose an early settlement penalty if the loan is paid off in full within a lock-in period, including refinance the loan with another lender. However, it depends on the term & size of home loan, the charge can be quite significant.
There are a number of related costs such as professional fees and government charges that you would have to pay when you get a home loan. Some common fees and charges you would expect to pay include:
i. Stamp Duties Fees: Sale & Purchase Agreement - ranged from 0.5% to 1.0%, Loan Agreement - 0.5% and Transfer of Title (MOT) - ranged from 1.0% to 2.0%
ii. Disbursement Fees: vary by state, land office and property type. Includes land search and bankruptcy search
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Today is the anniversary of the death of Blessed Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou Monastery on Mt. Athos. He lived and worked for Christ in Zaire, Africa until his tragic death in 1989. May we have his prayers and blessing!
An excerpt from the Introduction to Apostle to Zaire: The Life and Legacy of Blessed Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou (Source)
In every generation there are those few exceptional souls who rise out of the conventionality of social life to become pathfinders to the catholicity and otherworldliness of Christianity. Heroic and uncompromising, they imitate Abraham and become exiles and martyrs for Christ, following Him with loving exactness and mountain-moving faith. They “hate their life in this world” in order to keep it—and that of their neighbor’s—for eternity; and to successive generations they become models to imitate, witnessing, long after their departure, to the honour the Father bestows on those who serve Him.
Such a one was blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou, enlightener of Zaire.
A Model of Mission Work in this Age of Antichrist
From as early as eighteen years of age [Fr. Cosmas] received from God the call to work in His mission field. Possessed of a dynamic personality that “was inspired by a burning love for Christ, he did not want to live a conventional Christian life nor to be limited to some usual ecclesiastical career and service. He longed to offer himself entirely to God and his fellow man.” He sought not honors, for “his chief concern was with the salvation of men and the upbuilding of Orthodoxy in Zaire.” The beloved Cosmas was, in the words of the former Metropolitan Avgoustinos of Florina, “the trailblazer of a beautiful journey for our race.” He made Christ’s departing directive to “teach all nations” his point of departure from a life of compromise and port of entry for Orthodoxy in the sub-Saharan and the hearts of countless souls. Unlike the missionaries of heterodox confessions, he laid stress on both the first and second part of the Great Commission: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” His success, or rather faithfulness, in carrying out the first half of the Great Commission, was a direct result of his faithfulness and resolute determination to observe the second half, that is, to be exact in teaching them “to observe all things” that Christ has commanded us.
It could not be otherwise, for the African is neither as the contemporary European, worn out by centuries of dizzying ideologies and spent on a myriad of humanistic philosophies, nor as the typical American, quick to compromise and moderate things in order to achieve outward success. His noble, humble soul still inclines toward the other world and his simple, intuitive mind still has a healthy disposition for the noetic realm. A few months before his departure from this life, Father Cosmas visited the monastery of his repentance and spoke to the pilgrims there of this African nobility and their desire for authentic, ascetic Orthodoxy. Bishop Athanasios Yievtich, a close disciple of the great contemporary Church Father, Archimandrite Justin Popovich, was present and relates what Fr. Cosmas had to say:
They are people with a sensitivity and awareness of the inner world. Europeans usually underestimate them, but they are very mistaken. The soul of the African inclines toward mysticism and for this reason Orthodoxy has something to say to them and something to offer, but only authentic Orthodoxy— monastic, hagiorite Orthodoxy. For among the brethren of Africa, witchcraft and magic holds great sway, a real demonocracy. In Africa, I saw how true the Gospel of Christ is! Everything that He said about the possession of men by the demons, I saw first hand. However, the Living and True God is more powerful than Satan and all his servants. Let it be understood, however, that true missionary-apostolic work cannot be carried out in Africa if one does not decide to leave his bones there.”
And so in teaching the native Africans the entire Gospel of Christ and revealing to them the undistorted Image of the God-man and His Church, it was only to be expected that his self-offering would likewise be complete and unqualified. In his “unique, genuine and very useful” study on mission work, entitled Thoughts about Missionary Work from Experience, he lays out the cornerstone principle for all who would follow his example:
The missionary’s beginning is significant, however it is not the sum of the matter . . . The outset might be blessed or might become blessed at the end. What’s important is that the giving be true and total, without holding back, with a disposition to self-sacrifice and self-denial, and with the aim of leaving our bones among the natives . . .”
Long before one leaves his bones on the mission field, however, he must have discarded his pride and vainglory first, if he wants the final offering to be fruitful. Thus, for Fr. Cosmas the true missionary, in order to attain the blessed end, must leave no room for jealousy or vainglory, but rather must understand all to be shared: “common the struggle, common the pain, and common the glory of the Church.” He must “offer an open heart, love and communicate with others, concern himself with his own problems without adding more, being attentive to what others are doing, without turning to the devil and causing division.” And carrying out his duty in humility, “the true missionary does not seek recognition for his work, neither from the natives nor from those abroad, for the testimony of his sound conscience and the witness of his spiritual father and co-workers is sufficient for him.”
About the Book
Apostle to Zaire is the story of the life and legacy of a man who was chosen by God from the young age of 18 to be the Enlightener of Zaire. In the first part of the book, we encounter the life, last days, letters and the writings of Fr. Cosmas–an Athonite ascetic, a modern model of mission, an apostle to the heart of Africa. In part two, we read accounts of miracles and the battle with magic, interventions of the Saints and conversions of sinners, missionary adventures and baptismal testimonies. This a unique biography of a contemporary missionary and a practical introduction to Orthodox mission work.
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Even though there won’t be many green-collar San Diego jobs available during the next year, most of those who are lucky enough to be hired can expect a high-paying salary.
A recent report focusing on the green-collar industry found that only 34 percent of environmentally-friendly companies are planning to hire during the next year, while 66 percent of companies aren’t planning to bring on any new staff members.
That report was conducted by the University of California San Diego Extension and Sustainability: The Journal of Record. A total of 366 employees of corporations, nonprofits, and government participated in the survey.
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A House bill that is calling for a 10-cent beer tax hike is threatening to put the state’s beer breweries, including one building a multimillion-dollar new home in Hampton, over a barrel.
“This affects all of us,” said JT Thompson, the minister of propaganda at Smuttynose Brewing Company.
Thompson called it a “sin tax” that will adversely affect larger breweries and micro breweries.
“We should be encouraging local businesses to grow instead of raising taxes on them,” Thompson said.
If Smuttynose has to pay an additional 10 cents per gallon, Thompson said that represents a pretty big spike they would have to absorb. In 2012, he said Smuttynose brewed 43,000 barrels of beer and each barrel contains 31 gallons. The proposed tax increase would leave Smuttynose with just over $133,000 in additional costs.
“With a new brewery opening up, we feel like that money could be put to much better use to hire staff or increase production,” said Thompson. Smuttynose is currently building a new brewery in Hampton that is scheduled to be done by Thanksgiving.
House Bill 168 is being co-sponsored by Rep. Charles Weed, D-Keene, and Rep. Richard Eaton, D-Greenville. If passed, the bill states that it would raise an additional $4,295,108 for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services alcohol abuse treatment and prevention fund by increasing the current beer tax from 30 cents to 40 cents per gallon.
Weed said he believes the bill is good for New Hampshire because he thinks "that government provides a service and people ought to pay for it.”
He also said the state needs more revenue and has been underfunded for quite some time. More importantly, Weed said the 10-cent tax increase would fund additional rehabilitation for people who are suffering from drug and/or alcohol abuse.
Rep. Laurie Sanborn, R-Bedford, who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and owns The Draft restaurant and bar in Concord, said she doesn’t think it is good idea to raise taxes on anybody.
“Now is a really bad time to be taking money out of the economy,” she said Thursday evening.
Rep. Patrick Abrami, R-Stratham, said he is also hesitant to approve an additional tax, especially the beer tax. For example, Abrami said that if the bill was approved, New Hampshire would have the highest beer tax compared to Maine (35 cents per gallon), Vermont (27 cents per gallon) and Massachusetts (11 cents per gallon).
The committee is comprised of 11 Democrats and nine Republicans and Sanborn believes most of the GOP members would not support this bill.
Thompson questions why the state lawmakers want to make brewers pick up the tab instead of getting the money from the sale of spirits at the New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlet stores.
Thompson said New Hampshire breweries do a great deal for the state as far as drawing visitors and promoting the state’s image. On Thursday, Thompson said he was reaching out to brewers across the state to get them involved in the effort to reach out to the state Legislature to come out against this bill.
Thompson said the New Hampshire Wholesalers Association and state Grocers Association also have a vested interest in this.
On Friday, Thompson said the negative ripple effect of a higher beer tax would be felt restaurants, grocery stores, bed and breakfasts, any business that sells beer and they would have to pass the additional cost onto their customers. Thompson said consumers might have to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 additional cents per six pack.
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Architects: Aata Associate Architects
Location: Licancheu, Navidad, Chile
Client: Mario Cerda Sepulveda
Construction start: 2005
Contractors: Carlos Vidal
Materials: Straw bales, polycarbonate, wood
Budget: 700 US$ / m2
The assignment was consisting of a small cabin for visits.
It was thought as for it spoils reason it was decided to do it in 2 levels, this way to diminish the surface that deals with the area.
The project is a 540cm cube (exterior measure) of wooden structure with two levels inside.
It is thought as a housing of low energetic consumption, as what special care was had in the orientation, and the interior color, the location of the windows and the isolation. In this case, the isolation material gives a special characteristic to the façades and to the entire project.
For the walls bales of straw were in use stuccoes in mud, given its high thermal efficiency and for being an abundant material in the zone. These are protected from the rain by plates of transparent polycarbonate, which leaves in evidence the materiality and zinc waved in the parts top and low.
The cover is a green cover, with pasture, which prevents that the wind to strikes directly the surface, and take heat from it. This is considered a 5th façade for its also visible.
The location of the windows was projected to allow abundant sun light in the interior in winter and a crossed flow of air to ventilate it in summer.
The interior was decided to be painted white, in order that the natural light bounces and diminishes the need to use artificial light. | <urn:uuid:437ab087-044d-4e6b-b159-aff799ebb0b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.archdaily.com/630/guests-house-aata-associate-architects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957367 | 351 | 1.53125 | 2 |
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi will lay out a plan Thursday on how the continental bank will address current fiscal issues.
European Central bank President Mario Draghi gets another chance Thursday to spell out how the bank intends to rescue the 17 countries that use the euro from financial disaster.
Expectations have been high since late July when the ECB head vowed to do "whatever it takes" to hold the eurozone together. The following week, on Aug. 2, Draghi announced the broad outlines of a plan to buy government bonds to help out eurozone countries struggling to manage their debt.
Until then, countries such as Spain and Italy had seen their borrowing costs — reflected in the interest rates on bonds they sell — rise to unmanageable levels. Investors were worried the two countries could soon get to a point where they couldn't afford to handle their finances and be pushed into asking for a bailout.
That has already happened three times in the eurozone — with Greece, Ireland and Portugal. The worry is that Spain and Italy are too big to bail out. If those countries fail to pay their debts on time, it could spark a financial crisis that could see the eurozone break up, spreading turmoil throughout the global economy.
Analysts say Draghi's comments Thursday are likely to be constrained by the fact that the ECB is still working on its plans. The ECB chief has to strike a delicate balance: promise and reveal enough to keep markets happy, while nudging Europe's politicians to do more.
Here is a look at what Draghi and the ECB have been working on and what to look out for on Thursday:
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In 2007, four jurisdictions in northwest Arkansas enrolled in the controversial 287(g) program. At a statewide level, however, much of the proposed anti-immigration legislation in the 2009 legislation session did not move out of the Judiciary Committee.
2011 Session: January 10–April 8, 2011
Senate: Despite the fact that Arkansas’ federal races shifted toward the Republicans, at the state level Democrats maintain control (D – 22; R – 13).
House of Representatives: Though they suffered some losses, Democrats were able to retain their majority (D – 55; R – 45).
Governor: Governor Mike Beebe (D) has concerns about the cost associated with a law to enforce federal immigration laws at the state level.
NCLR’s Arkansas State Assessment: Possibly debated
There is some organizing in Arkansas to support Arizona-like legislation, but they failed to get the measure onto the ballot. The federal lawsuit has served as a warning to the legislators in the state and legislators lack leadership on the issue. | <urn:uuid:80c9b5b4-a7c4-4592-ba3f-d85265eab3e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://action.nclr.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=4828 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959965 | 208 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Local Arts Centres; > Singapore Repertory Theatre
The DBS Arts Centre where the SRT resides permanently.
The Singapore Repertory Theatre’s (SRT) goal is to provide a platform for Asian artists and to allow Singaporeans and visitors to experience Broadway, the West End and the richness of Singaporean culture.
The SRT is reputed to be one of Asia’s leading English-language theatres. Besides its repertoire of original work, the company has also produced some well-liked and critically acclaimed productions of western classics starring Asian performers. These include The Glass Menagerie, Nora, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Little Shop of Horrors and Art.
The SRT also had the honour of staging the first musical Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress during the opening festival of Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay in 2002.
Other than that, the SRT has worked alongside famous international stars such as Lea Salonga and Ming-Na Wen as well as some of the world’s most sought directors and award-winning technical, stage, sound, lighting and costume designers. Their talents have provided local artists with invaluable learning experiences and the SRT hopes that the opportunities offered to the local artists to work with the best in the world will add a new touch of professionalism to the industry in Singapore. | <urn:uuid:9e2e8083-e20c-4413-aff6-08fde24143d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01945/srt.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945345 | 288 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Someone once declared that skills don’t get you to the superior – and they were right. Of course, developing a particular skill usually takes you a long way in the direction of success, but if you need to stay there, you’ll need something else. So many massively talented people have gone up to the top, only to appear crashing back down.
Precisely why? Because they didn’t have the essential ingredient to long lasting success – the single thing that everyone who has been hugely successful has experienced – the right state of mind. But, finding along with sustaining a productive, optimistic mindset can be very demanding. A lot of people – young, old, professionals, college students, business owners, etc. – are now embracing experts who run personal development courses to assist them to do exactly that.
Personal development courses are perfect success tools given that they cater to a wide range of men and women and subjects.
These courses help people just like you recognize their dreams, become self-confident, learn how to deal with inner thoughts, connect with spiritual techniques, and so much more. In short, they modify your life because if you create a positive attitude, everything changes for the better, including you as a person!
This all sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?
What’s the catch?
You have to be ready to do the work.
Don’t be fooled into contemplating that you can attend one short personal development course and everything will abruptly be perfect. Of course, you will have to commit to enhancing yourself and act. If you want the best that life has to offer, you’ll have to give it absolutely every little thing you’ve got.
Creating and maintaining the best mindset in order to find good results is challenging, but if you speak to any person who’s ever done it, they’ll tell you that the returns far outweigh the tough work.
All you need to do is take the initial step…
Are you ready to change your mindset?
Are you ready for a personal breakthrough in your life, your career, your family?
How would you like to change your mindset about money?
You were created to be successful!
Decide that you’re worth the investment you make in developing your own positive attitude!
To your success, | <urn:uuid:dcfddc35-2d7d-470e-ab88-03ec3ee20a52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dabecintl.com/get-the-best-of-life-with-personal-development-courses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953392 | 486 | 1.570313 | 2 |
OVERCOMING DYSLEXIA. LD Online Newsletter pointed us to two items about dyslexic achievers -- one the popular actor/author Henry Winkler (ex-Fonze), who read his first book in his 30s and later began writing children's books, the other about Bob Clausen from Clinton, Iowa, who was in his 30s when he learned to read. Clausen spent three years acquiring the skill and has spent the last 30 years fighting illiteracy. Read about Winkler; read about Clausen.
AUTISTIC APPROVED FOR NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY. Ari Ne'eman's nomination to the National Council on Disability has been confirmed after being held up for half a year, possibly because of his view that "autism should not be cured, but instead should be accepted and accommodated," according to Disability Scoop. Find out more.
THE DAVIDSON INSTITUTE ENEWS UPDATE for June has been posted at the DITD site. In the news are honors received by a Davidson Fellow and Davidson Academy students at the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair; notice of the upcoming deadline for applications to the Davidson Academy for 2010-11; and information about the free, nationwide Davidson Young Scholars program for profoundly gifted young people. Find the newsletter.
AUTISM/ASPERGER'S BARNSTORMERS. A team of experts is being featured in a series of summer and fall conferences on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Among the experts featured at the conferences by Future Horizons are Temple Grandin, Tony Atwood, and Jed Baker. Venues include Seattle, Denver, Wichita, and Dixon, Illinois. (We know where Dixon is. Do you?) Find out more.
RUSHING THE FALL. It's a little early, but the U.S. Census Bureau has released a collection of statistics concerning the 2010-11 school year.
- The number of students projected to be enrolled in U.S. elementary and high schools is 56 million.
- The percentage of students enrolled in private elementary and high schools is estimated at 11 percent.
- About 19 million students are expected to enroll in colleges and universities.
- And, looking back, per-pupil expenditures in public elementary and high schools in 2007 was $9,666. | <urn:uuid:a7aed4b2-7e78-46d8-8591-1974ec47ae7b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://2enewsletter.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958483 | 481 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Maria Antonia is only a young girl when she’s informed that she is to be the bride of the future King of France – if she can get up to scratch, that is. She quite distinctly must become Marie Antoinette, a woman capable of being Queen of France, with the bearing, appearance, accent, and knowledge that any queen needs. She is melded to progress her family’s agenda, then sent to a brand new country to meet a completely new family, as though her life in Austria never existed. This first installment of a new trilogy fictionalizing Marie Antoinette’s life truly does describe how she became the queen remembered throughout history.
Grey’s novel takes on the life of Marie Antoinette somewhat earlier than other books do and appears to be really taking an exhaustive look at her. I’d never before read about her struggles to actually be accepted as the appropriate wife of the Dauphin; it must have been hard for any young girl to be judged wanting so very much by her future family. She endures extra lessons, surgery on her teeth, and is constantly inspected for improvements.
As you might expect, then, Grey’s Marie Antoinette is a very sympathetic girl. She’s used to the relative flexibility of the Austrian court, even with her strict mother, and the laxness of her tutors who will falsify her results rather than force her to actually learn. Preparing to enter the French court – and then actually doing so – is a rather unpleasant revelation, and we can feel for the girl who has lost everything familiar to her.
Marie Antoinette’s relative innocence navigating the court in France continues, even as she is forced to seduce her own husband by order of her mother. She must become pregnant to solidify her family’s position and to provide an heir to the throne, but her husband is reticent for reasons mysterious to her. The poor girl is not only in an unfamiliar court, confused by the immorality around her, but is also rejected by the one she hoped would treat her well.
If you’re looking at a very sympathetic look at Marie Antoinette, you could hardly go wrong with this one. It’s also very well written, with fantastic descriptions of life in Vienna and Versailles. Grey has done quite a bit of research, as she explains in her author’s note, and almost everything she uses is true to history. She does an excellent job of matching the personalities of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, who both mainly just wanted to escape from their duties and be normal – a tragic story for those who know what is coming.
While I’ve read the story of Marie Antoinette’s life before, I found myself very much enjoying Becoming Marie Antoinette and looking forward to the next volumes. The author’s treatment of a familiar story is well done, and will have the most reluctant reader feeling very much for a young girl cast adrift in an unfamiliar world.
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Jul 18 2012
The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Constitutionality of ObamaCare sets a disturbing and dangerous precedent. Their ruling in effect confirms that there are no limitations whatsoever on the powers of Congress.
To use the now-famous example from the oral arguments in this case, if Congress wished to mandate that everyone buy and eat broccoli, the Court has essentially ruled today that they have such a power.
Just as dangerously, ObamaCare takes control of people’s health care decisions out of the hands of doctors and patients and puts them instead into the hands of unaccountable government bureaucrats. By making doctors answerable ultimately to the government and not to their patients, this threatens to corrupt the very foundation of medical ethics.
It is clear that, irrespective of the intentions of those who passed this law, the Act will impair access, increase costs, reduce choice, cripple innovation, and diminish quality of care.
In the wake of this disappointing decision from the Supreme Court, Independent Women’s Voice will continue our efforts to see to it that this deeply unpopular and perilous government take-over of private health care decisions is fully and completely repealed.
It is important to note that the Court’s ruling today isn’t the end of the challenges to this law. In fact, it’s just one of the many Constitutional challenges to ObamaCare, including cases regarding privacy, the conscience exemption, and freedom of contract. And, there’s also the issue of the IRS now taxing employers without Congressional authorization and absent any statutory authority to do so.
The Court’s decision today also reaffirms the importance of The ObamaCare Repeal Pledge.
With ObamaCare having been upheld by the court, it is now even more necessary and important for any and all candidates seeking elected office and all incumbents currently holding office to sign the Pledge and demonstrate to the American people that they are serious about repeal of ObamaCare and willing to be held accountable for taking the necessary steps to ensure full repeal.
Independent Women’s Voice looks forward to continuing to lead the charge for repeal through the ObamaCare Repeal Pledge, as well as being a part of crafting new, patient-centered health care reform that empowers individuals once the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully and completely repealed.
Thank you, Heather R. Higgins, President & CEO, Independent Women’s Voice | <urn:uuid:3f6448ee-a577-494a-964a-ba913d966201> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kevinbryant.com/2012/07/18/independent-womens-voice-on-obamacare/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940347 | 481 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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