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Jim Henson would have been 73 years old, Steve Whitmire is 50. Jim Henson performed Kermit for 35 years, Steve Whitmire has performed him for 19.
I had planned a big, long, essay-like article about Jim and Steve, but then I remembered possibly the best piece of advice Jim Henson ever gave: "Simple is good."
So, in honor of Jim Henson, today's Mindset is simple. Pictures of Jim and pictures of Steve. Enjoy!
Remember to celebrate today in your own special way. Wear a Sesame Street t-shirt, tell a bad joke, wave your arms around and shout "YAAAAY!", sing, dance, or just make people happy. It's what Jim would've wanted, and it's the legacy that Steve has dedicated his career to preserving. | <urn:uuid:9f3321d9-9a9b-40a5-86ae-e4813865e7ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://themuppetmindset.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-birthday-jim-henson-and-steve.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977262 | 169 | 1.679688 | 2 |
‘Dead’ Father Found Eight Years Later
As any genealogist knows, many genealogy records are of questionable value. Even old government records can contain misspellings, typos and even outright errors. Apparently, these problems can extend to modern government records as well and sometimes the errors can be big ones.
The Telegraph has an interesting story about how a series of errors led to the wrong person being declared dead. Fortunately, the story had a happy ending and the father was reunited with his family. It serves as a useful reminder to check and double check all genealogical facts, even from official government records. | <urn:uuid:05ea96ff-5b17-4b1c-8dfe-e11a6550966e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.genealogyintime.com/NewsStories/2008/September/dead_father_found_eight_years_later.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963294 | 127 | 1.8125 | 2 |
With war looming, it's time to be prepared. So last week I switched to a fixed-rate mortgage. It means higher monthly payments, but I'm terrified about what will happen to interest rates once financial markets wake up to the implications of skyrocketing budget deficits.
From a fiscal point of view the impending war is a lose-lose proposition. If it goes badly, the resulting mess will be a disaster for the budget. If it goes well, administration officials have made it clear that they will use any bump in the polls to ram through more big tax cuts, which will also be a disaster for the budget. Either way, the tide of red ink will keep on rising.
Last week the Congressional Budget Office marked down its estimates yet again. Just two years ago, you may remember, the C.B.O. was projecting a 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. Now it projects a 10-year deficit of $1.8 trillion.
And that's way too optimistic. The Congressional Budget Office operates under ground rules that force it to wear rose-colored lenses. If you take into account -- as the C.B.O. cannot -- the effects of likely changes in the alternative minimum tax, include realistic estimates of future spending and allow for the cost of war and reconstruction, it's clear that the 10-year deficit will be at least $3 trillion.
So what? Two years ago the administration promised to run large surpluses. A year ago it said the deficit was only temporary. Now it says deficits don't matter. But we're looking at a fiscal crisis that will drive interest rates sky-high.
A leading economist recently summed up one reason why: ''When the government reduces saving by running a budget deficit, the interest rate rises.'' Yes, that's from a textbook by the chief administration economist, Gregory Mankiw.
But what's really scary -- what makes a fixed-rate mortgage seem like such a good idea -- is the looming threat to the federal government's solvency.
That may sound alarmist: right now the deficit, while huge in absolute terms, is only 2 -- make that 3, O.K., maybe 4 -- percent of G.D.P. But that misses the point. ''Think of the federal government as a gigantic insurance company (with a sideline business in national defense and homeland security), which does its accounting on a cash basis, only counting premiums and payouts as they go in and out the door. An insurance company with cash accounting . . . is an accident waiting to happen.'' So says the Treasury under secretary Peter Fisher; his point is that because of the future liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, the true budget picture is much worse than the conventional deficit numbers suggest.
Of course, Mr. Fisher isn't allowed to draw the obvious implication: that his boss's push for big permanent tax cuts is completely crazy. But the conclusion is inescapable. Without the Bush tax cuts, it would have been difficult to cope with the fiscal implications of an aging population. With those tax cuts, the task is simply impossible. The accident -- the fiscal train wreck -- is already under way.
How will the train wreck play itself out? Maybe a future administration will use butterfly ballots to disenfranchise retirees, making it possible to slash Social Security and Medicare. Or maybe a repentant Rush Limbaugh will lead the drive to raise taxes on the rich. But my prediction is that politicians will eventually be tempted to resolve the crisis the way irresponsible governments usually do: by printing money, both to pay current bills and to inflate away debt.
And as that temptation becomes obvious, interest rates will soar. It won't happen right away. With the economy stalling and the stock market plunging, short-term rates are probably headed down, not up, in the next few months, and mortgage rates may not have hit bottom yet. But unless we slide into Japanese-style deflation, there are much higher interest rates in our future.
I think that the main thing keeping long-term interest rates low right now is cognitive dissonance. Even though the business community is starting to get scared -- the ultra-establishment Committee for Economic Development now warns that ''a fiscal crisis threatens our future standard of living'' -- investors still can't believe that the leaders of the United States are acting like the rulers of a banana republic. But I've done the math, and reached my own conclusions -- and I've locked in my rate. | <urn:uuid:c295353d-c6e7-4cb6-88c2-c5bf01b49341> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/opinion/11KRUG.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952068 | 916 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Asia After the Crisis—Challenges for a Return to Rapid Growth: Perspectives on a Global Economy
This issue of Global Perspectives focuses on the long term and asks what are the opportunities for growth in Asia and can the extraordinary improvement of living standards continue? After the current economic crisis subsides, the outlook for acceleration of growth in Asia is favorable. This means that the possibilities for profitable investments in Asia will be good after the current storm. But, as with any prediction, some key assumptions are made. A crucial element of long-term recovery is the development of policies and institutions that facilitate the flow of resources from lower to higher productivity activities. Although there is evidence that many Asian economies are moving in this direction, the pace of progress varies. | <urn:uuid:74cad5d4-c02b-4951-862c-62ae4a5d038c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=403&topicid=0&subtopicid=210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935442 | 150 | 1.539063 | 2 |
BLAIRSBURG - Northeast Hamilton High School senior English teacher Sherry Leksell wants all her students to get a job - or a least know how to apply for one.
As part of the six week career unit in Speech class, the senior students have been required to research their career interests, compose a resume, develop a cover letter and schedule a mock job interview.
"The exercise gives students a chance to participate in a job interview with a professional from their field of interest," explained Leksell.
Susan Leman, educator at Webster City's Van Diest Medical Center welcomes NEH senior Trevor Klaver to a mock job interview. The exercise is a component of Sherry Leksell's senior English class. Students composed their resume, sent a cover letter to a prospective employer and scheduled an interview with a professional in their field of interest. Area professionals in medicine, education, agronomy, meteorology and animal management will take part in the class project. The interviews are conducted during the class period with the professional visiting the classroom in person or appearing via Skype.
Throughout the next seven days, students will watch as their classmates take turns participating in a job interview with a visiting professional to their classroom. Conducting the interviews are professionals in public relations, medicine, education, agronomy, meteorology and agriculture.
Senior Trevor Klaver sat for the first interview with Susan Leman, educator at Van Diest Medical Center on Wednesday.
Other professionals scheduled to participate are Dennis Bahr representing education, Linda Pruismann of the Webster City Medical Clinic, Roberta Katschke of Ellsworth Municipal Hospital, Tim Scott of New Pioneer Coop, Caroline Hicks of Swine Graphics and Brandon Tapper. Conducting an interview on Thursday via Skype will be KCCI-TV meteorologist, Kurtis Gurtz.
Part of the exercise not only teaches the students how to compose a job resume and conduct an interview but also how to view their life skills as a positive asset to a company, said Leksell.
Students need to realize their life experiences are skills which can translate into a positive asset when applying for a job, said Leksell. Those assets include being hardworking, quick learners who are proficient at technology and new machinery such as the iPads introduced into the school curriculum this year.
Prospective employers are also looking for people who show leadership
and the typical NEH senior has proven shown they can lead, said Leksell.
"Through clubs, offices and sports, you have shown leadership," said Leksell.
In addition, employers favor workers who show initiative, practice time management and are hard workers, she said.
"How many of you have started homework after 10 p.m.?" Leksell asked her students, who all raised their hands. "Or have done homework in a car or on a bus? You do that in addition to keeping up with family, work, church, clubs and sports."
But even though the interviews are only make-believe, the experience is still daunting to most of them.
"I'm terrified," admitted one student of his approaching interview.
"I think once it is over, I will feel better," admitted another.
"Once you get through it, it's nearly not as bad as you think it will be," said the seasoned veteran Klaver.
"I am very excited about this," Leksell told her class. "This is the first big, grown-up step for you. This is the magic moment when I see you as a grown-up".
In addition to preparing for the interview, students are coached on wearing proper attire for the interview and sending a thank you note to the prospective employers following the interview, said Leksell. In the coming weeks, they will also attend a business luncheon and learn proper etiquette.
A first for NEH
This is the first opportunity for any NEH senior class to participate in this live interview curriculum, said Leksell. With NEH participating in partial day sharing with Webster City, the students take electives at WCHS, but attend CORE classes, such as English, in their home district.
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Combining his remarkable talents as a pianist, essayist, radio producer and director of radio documentaries, Glenn Gould shocked audiences with his performances, and took the world by surprise when he withdrew from the public stage at the age of 32. He had ceaselessly stimulated musical minds with his experiments in recording and sound.Today, 20 years after his death, Glenn Gould remains one of the most unique and celebrated figures in the world of classical music.
Hereafter is a retrospective of the life and work of Gould, seen from today's point of view.
The film captures the essence of Gould's genius such as it is perceived by his audience, an audience that extends far beyond the strict notion of a musical audience.
Furthermore, based on a synthesis of all the documents existing on Gould, whether of a musical (sound and audio-visual) or of a literary and intellectual nature, this film strives to deal with the question of Gould's genius as a whole.
Discover this wonderful film on Blu-ray Disc for the first time!
1080i Full HD · 16:9, DVD: PCM 2.0, PCM 5.0
Original languages: English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese
Booklet: English, French
Running time: 106 mins
“Monsaingeon has unearthed a great deal of footage of the young Gould playing the piano and talking about musical generally”
“Glenn Gould's cult status makes it hard for the would-be objective critic, compelled to fight his way through a tangled thicket of hero-worship and self-conscious idiosyncrasy. Gould's early retirement from concert-giving and his decision to devote himself exclusively to recording is castigated by Menuhin, for whom the live concert is sacred. For Gould a mosaic of takes, often extending over many years, was a musical ideal... there are valuable previously unavailable examples of Gould's playing, with dazzling flights through Chopin (the second Etude), Weber and Hindemith…” | <urn:uuid:885f7d10-54ed-423e-aa3c-d6a4fdf71488> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Medici%2BArts/3073314 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955412 | 431 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Brennan Discusses National Defense Authorization Bill
Originally published on Fri December 9, 2011 5:12 pm
LYNN NEARY, HOST:
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Lynn Neary.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 runs hundreds of pages. It authorizes hundreds of billions in defense spending. And as it stands, the version of the bill approved by the Senate is facing a veto by President Obama.
The administration's main objection is to one part of the bill, the part that governs the treatment of detainees. According to the administration's reading of it, the bill mandates military custody for a certain class of terrorism suspects. And since it would apply to individuals inside the U.S., it would, and this is a quote, "be inconsistent with the fundamental American principle that our military does not patrol our streets."
Well, John Brennan is President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, and he joins us from the White House. Welcome.
JOHN BRENNAN: Hi, Robert.
SIEGEL: The administration says the detainee provisions here could restrict intelligence professionals from doing their job and restrict the president's ability to fight terrorism. How exactly would it do that?
BRENNAN: Well, in a number of ways. First of all, we don't believe that this legislation is necessary from the standpoint of the language that is included on detainees and military detention. What it calls for is that there'd be required military detention for certain individuals who are determined to be part of al-Qaida, and that would apply whether or not these individuals are captured overseas or, you know, captured, arrested here in the United States.
And so, what we've tried to do in this administration is to maintain as much flexibility as possible. And anything that restricts our flexibility in terms of how we want to detain them, question them, prosecute them is something that counterterrorism professionals and practitioners really are very concerned about.
SIEGEL: But is the administration's concern here based on the efficacy of making cases, investigating terrorist suspects? Or is it over the principle that the military doesn't enforce law in the U.S.?
BRENNAN: Well, it's both. One is that it complicates greatly the ability of individuals who capture these individuals or arrest them to make the determinations in the immediate aftermath of that detention, about how to handle them. And so, that puts quite frankly a lot of red tape. And the last thing that we need in government is more red tape.
Secondly, we have, I think, a very strong established track record of dealing successfully with individuals here in the United States who are involved in terrorism-related activities. President Obama, I think, has a record second to none in terms of his willingness and determination to go after these individuals aggressively overseas, but also to deal with them forcefully if they're found here the United States.
SIEGEL: But it seems that part of what you're up against here is some pretty broad public resistance to treating terror plots as common felonies. This is what Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said when he took issue with those who claim that this law violates the prohibition against a military role in law enforcement.
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: This is the central difference between us. I don't believe fighting al-Qaida is a law enforcement function. I believe our military should be deeply involved in fighting these guys at home and abroad.
BRENNAN: Yeah. Well, I don't agree with Senator Graham. I, you know, I think that they are well-intentioned in terms of what they're going to do. But the practitioners who are out there really want to make sure that we're able to deal with these individuals appropriately. They're not considered to be common criminals.
What we want to do is to extract the intelligence from them so that we can keep this country safe. We cannot hamper this effort. It's been successful to date and this legislation really puts that at risk.
SIEGEL: Now, there's criticism from the other side as well. Some civil libertarians are very concerned that this bill would permit a U.S. citizen to be detained indefinitely by the military. In addressing that concern, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan quoted the Hamdi decision, which said that a citizen, no less than an alien, can be part of supporting forces hostile to the U.S., and there is no bar to this nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant.
For the administration, is the inclusion of U.S. citizens picked up on U.S. soil at all troubling here?
BRENNAN: It is very troubling in terms of picking up somebody here on U.S. soil. If there are U.S. citizens who are engaged in hostilities on the battlefield abroad, we want to make sure that our military is able to deal with them appropriately. But there also are certain considerations we need to account for in terms of U.S. citizenship.
We are a country that takes very seriously our commitment to the rule of law. When I go overseas and I talk to other governments, talking to them about making sure that they handle their cases appropriately and not throw people into military detention, not throw them into a military court, hold them indefinitely without the due process of law, this is what has caused a lot of problems overseas. And if we go down this road, we're sending a very bad signal.
We need to demonstrate, through the strength of our judicial system, that we can handle these issues, particularly on our soil, in a way that's consistent with our commitment to that rule of law, but also works very effectively in terms of getting the intelligence we need to keep this country safe.
SIEGEL: Senator Dianne Feinstein of California attached an amendment to the bill which says: Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the U.S., or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States.
If that language isn't sufficient to satisfy the administration and win the signature of the president, what is? What would be sufficient?
BRENNAN: Well, you know, we've looked at the latest versions of the legislation and it's still insufficient. And the president has made it clear he is not going to sign any piece of legislation that restricts his ability to deal effectively with the terrorist threat we face. And so, there are a number of recommendations that have been put forward to ensure that we are able to continue to prosecute our effort.
You know, Senator Feinstein and others have been, I think, working very strongly to try to get some of this language in there that will protect our citizenship, our liberties and our freedom.
SIEGEL: Well, Mr. Brennan, thank you very much for talking with us today.
BRENNAN: Thank you. Thank you.
SIEGEL: John Brennan, who is deputy national security adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and assistant to the president. He is President Obama's chief adviser on counterterrorism. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:e55bf9dc-419f-4af8-95ab-3a3094ccc4d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redriverradio.org/post/brennan-discusses-national-defense-authorization-bill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966491 | 1,500 | 1.71875 | 2 |
After a brief informal meeting two months earlier when they were impressed with each other, Countess Marie Walewska formally meets Napoleon Bonaparte at a ball in Warsaw. When Napoleon notes her husband is three times her age, and as he is taken with her charms, he unsuccessfully tries to seduce her. She ignores his frequent letters and flowers until a few grim Polish leaders led by Senator Malachowski urge her to give into his desires as a personal sacrifice in order to save Poland. She goes to him despite the humiliation of her husband, who leaves for Rome to annul their marriage. They are extremely happy for a while; Napoleon divorces childless Empress Josephine and Marie eventually becomes pregnant. She is about to tell Napoleon about her baby when he tells her he decided to marry Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. He explains it will be a political marriage to insure his future son could rule securely with Hapsburg blood in him. It will not affect their relationship, he says, ... Written by
Arthur Hausner <[email protected]>
The lavish ballroom set where Napoleon dances with Marie Walewska is actually identical to that used in Maytime - the Jeanette McDonald /Nelson Eddy operetta. It has simply been redressed and given a different floor covering and shot from a different angle. See more »
When the film leaves Walewska behind to follow Napoleon, it drags.
Ever since I first saw "Conquest" back in '38, I've been convinced that the first half of the film is a magnificent production, while the second half is terribly slow,as Clarence Brown's films always tended to be. The magnificent opening, with the cossacks invading the Walewski Palace, is typical of the best Clarence Brown, even if reminds you of Josef von Sternberg's "The Scarlet Empress". The trouble with the picture is that it starts telling the story or Marie Walewska, and in the middle leaves Walewska (and Garbo!) behind to tell us the political and military fall of Napoleon, which it does very badly. It is typical of this Garbo film, that its best scene omits her, and is a verbal duel between Charles Boyer and Maria Ouspenskaya. Garbo is magnificent, but Boyer was a more talented performer, and is the only actor ever to "steal" a picture from her. Magnificent production, a screen play that has no unity, and a direction that drags, conspire to make you admire Garbo, Boyer and Ouspenskaya during the first half, and sleep through the second.
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It's that time of the year again. The fashion gods walk amongst us, swathed in exquisite fabrics, flaunting pret-a-supposedly porter magnificence beyond the ability of mortals to possess. Or, for that matter, understand. To most of us, the creations models display on the ramps at Mumbai or Delhi would merely be outlandish. To the arbiters of fashion and good taste who frequent such shows, they are, presumably, high art. If the designers and fashionistas wish to engage in some hieroglyphic displays, that is their concern. What is difficult to understand is the fawning attention paid to them by those of us in the vast majority who have no use for their creations and no intention of ever possessing any.
If high fashion is to be judged by the standards of the label it has appropriated for itself, our various fashion shows - and the industry as a whole - are in contradiction of all the principles that underlie the concept of art. Art of any kind is rooted in certain societal contexts. It might rebel against those contexts, it might push their boundaries, but it has relevance to them. The fashion that one sees on the ramps, on the other hand, exists in a vacuum. Various schools of visual, musical or literary arts have been accounted avant garde at their inception, but they have never been entirely beyond the reach of the common man. Anyone may read Henry Miller or appreciate John Coltrane's improvisations; many did even when they were considered new and unconventional.
Compare that to the fashion world. Is one ever likely to see those absurd creations on the street, or even in a far more rarefied atmosphere? Certainly, utilitarianism alone makes for a dull showing, but form cannot be divorced entirely from function. Yet, that is what designers insist on doing. And that is why it is time someone pointed out that the emperor's new clothes are, to put it mildly, rather silly.
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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Anne Truitt: Drawings, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street.
This retrospective of Truitt’s works on paper spans the four decades of her career. The 40 works on view date from the early 1960s, when she first developed the totemic sculptures in painted wood for which she is best known, to the last years of her life. Many works are being shown for the first time.
Drawing was a daily ritual for Anne Truitt (1921-2004). The works in the exhibition include the full range of her drawing techniques including graphite, ink, pastel, and acrylic on paper. Edges are variously taped, rolled, and sliced. Line is sometimes bold, and at other times subtle enough to appear at first glance almost invisible. A 1966 series of distilled, hard-edge forms evoke the architecture of Truitt’s childhood home with its white clapboard siding and picket fence. In a group of works from 1976, paint is applied in layers of subtle color, a signature of her work in all media.
A fully illustrated hardcover book, with an essay by Brenda Richardson, will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Anne Truitt was born in Baltimore and lived the majority of her life in Washington, D.C. Her first one-person exhibition was at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, in February 1963. Her work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1973); the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1974); and the Baltimore Museum of Art (1974 & 1992). In 2009, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., organized an acclaimed retrospective of her work. Truitt was also a distinguished writer and published three volumes of her memoirs, Daybook (Pantheon, 1982), Turn (Viking Penguin Press, 1986), and Prospect (Penguin, 1996).
Anne Truitt: Drawings will be on view from February 4 through April 14, 2012, from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. at 523 West 24th Street.
For additional information, please contact Jeffrey Peabody at
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Russell Simmons Suggests Unarmed Mediators in Schools
4 months ago
Funding and attention should be given to minority communities as well, he said.
Along side NYC Council members Leroy Comrie and Ruben Wills, Russell Simmons called for funding for unarmed peacemakers in schools rather than armed guards. In a press conference on City Hall’s steps, the Hip Hop mogul emphasized the important of focusing on “underserved communities.”
"The recent Sandy Hook incident put gun violence in the forefront but there's a Sandy Hook every weekend in Chicago,” he said. He cited one weekend in Chicago when 56 young people were shot, saying that they seem to be left out of the conversation when it comes to protecting the community. More specifically, he asked for funding for nonprofit organizations like Life Camp, Man up, and I Love My Life that support his suggestion for unarmed mediators. | <urn:uuid:40e02086-2228-4ddf-9327-eb78f265d1b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.loop21.com/culture/russell-simmons-suggests-unarmed-mediators-schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954442 | 187 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Romania is pressured to reopen adoptions for foreign citizens, Romania libera reads following a decision of Romanian authorities in 2005 to block the process. President Basescu gave plenty of assurances that the situation will not change in his mandate. Meanwhile, Romania is under a lot of pressure from US and EU officials to reopen the adoptions program for foreign citizens.
In an interview for the newspaper US General Consul James Gray talks about the issues that stand between cooperation of the two countries in this sector. Gray said that things have changed since 2005 and now authorities have tougher measures that imply real responsibilities to satisfy the state of origin of the children. In his opinion, Romania needs to change legislation and there was a proposal for a limited reopening of adoptions but the incumbent PM Emil Boc refused it. | <urn:uuid:7e66e2b6-7791-4a63-8a3b-6ff473b71f48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.romania-forexportonly.eu/2011/05/us-pressure-on-romania-to-re-open-intercountry-adoption/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965909 | 160 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Lotus Elan 1962-1973
Simca 1000 1962-1978
The Simca 1000 was an immediate success when it was launched at the 1961 Paris Salon, It remained in production for 16 years In all, 1.6 million units were made.
Opel Kadett A (1962-1965)
The Kadett was introduced in 1962. The cars were produced in a new factory in Bochum. A coupé was added to the range in 1963, as was a station car, the Caravan.
Morris 1100 & 1300 1962-1971
Lauched in 1962 the P4 was a car with modern looks and a new V4 1183cc engine. It was Ford's first mid-sized car with front-wheel drive. It was originally designed with the US market in mind.
The large saloon line was updated in October 1961 with the Mark X.
Ford Consul Capri 335 109E/116E [1962-1964]
Sporty version of the Consul Classic, unloved when new. There was also a 1.5 litre GT version.
Ford Zodiac III [1962-1966]
This photo is from the site of THE SOUTH CANTERBURY ZEPHYR & ZODIAC ENTHUSIASTS CLUB of Timaru New Zealand. The Club caters for anyone who owns or is interested in any of the Ford Zephyr, Zodiac and Consul range of cars that were produced from 1951 to 1972. | <urn:uuid:9e1cb2f7-95a8-4c73-aa90-3a9fd628f349> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.philseed.com/taxonomy/term/38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970821 | 311 | 1.5 | 2 |
You have the right to remain silent. No one should ever feel obligated to entertain or otherwise indulge others when they are suffering in pain.
You have the right to expect non-judgmental validation and support from your core support network of loved ones, friends, etc. No one should ever have to defend their symptoms. To anyone. Period.
You have the right to obtain a second, third or seventeenth opinion about your course of treatment(s). No medical professional, family member, or other person should ever bully a woman or girl with endometriosis into a specific treatment because “their friend did it” or “that’s what everyone with endo does”. What works for others, may not work for you, and vice versa. Only you can decide what fits your symptoms, life and needs.
You have the right to authoritative information about your disease without having to weed through the ever-present propagation of myths, misinformation and inaccuracies that still continue to enshroud endometriosis.
You have the right to be “selfish” and focus on yourself and your recovery/well-being.
You have the right to remove toxic people from your life. We only get one time around the ride; make the best of it in spite of this disease. If it doesn’t bring value-added positivity to your life, remove it.
You have the right to efficacy of treatment(s). If it’s not working, say “no more” and go to Plan B – whatever “Plan B” means to YOU.
You have the right to speak out about your disease. If we don’t break the societal taboos about period pain”, painful sex, infertility and all the other aspects of this illness that are not considered “appropriate” for public discussion, no one ever will.
You have the right to laugh, cry, scream, rant, rage, and show any other emotion you wish. “Emotion” is not synonymous with “weakness”.
You have the right to expect appropriate pain relief measures without being labeled a ‘drug seeker’ and to hold an empowered role in your own healthcare decisions.
You have the right to have endometriosis acknowledged as a very real disease, the far-reaching impact of which is perhaps indescribable to others who do not live with the first-hand experience of it. Simply because someone does not understand what you go through, does not make endometriosis any less a pivotal part of your life. The onus to understand is on them - not you.
You have the right to grieve pregnancy loss, infertility and any other tangible or intangible loss associated with your battle against the disease - without being told to “move on” and “get over it”.
You have the right to share your feelings...
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BEIJING (AP) — Talks between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese leaders Wednesday failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and how to resolve Beijing’s territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors in the South China Sea.
Clinton, who met President Hu Jintao, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and other top officials but not leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, wants China to stop backing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has been pushing for it to be more flexible in lowering tensions over the potentially oil-rich South China Sea.
But comments from Clinton and Yang showed the countries remain deeply divided on those issues, although both maintained they are committed to working together despite the differences.
The United States and other countries are upset that China and Russia have repeatedly used their veto powers in the U.N. Security Council to block actions that could have led to sanctions against Assad’s regime. China says Syria’s civil war needs to be resolved through negotiations and not outside pressure.
“I think history will judge that China’s position on the Syria question is a promotion of the appropriate handling of the situation,” Yang told a news conference with Clinton. “For what we have in mind is the interests of the people of Syria and the region and the interests of peace, stability and development in the region and throughout the world.”
The comment was a direct rebuke to Clinton, who has said the Chinese and Russian vetoes have put those nations “on the wrong side of history.”
She responded bluntly to Yang by saying the violence was boiling over into other countries like Jordan and Turkey and that the Security Council has to act.
“It is no secret that we have been disappointed by Russia and China’s actions blocking tougher U.N. Security Council resolutions and we hope to continue to unite behind a real path forward to end the violence in Syria,” she said.
Clinton had been scheduled to meet Vice President Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over as China’s top leader later this year, but that was canceled by the Chinese for “unexpected scheduling reasons,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. A meeting between Xi and the visiting prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, also was canceled without explanation.
Yang would say only there should not be “unnecessary speculation” about changes to Clinton’s schedule.
Before meeting Hu, Clinton said the U.S.-China relationship is strong even though there are disagreements over issues like Syria, the South China Sea and human rights. “We are able to explore areas of agreement and disagreement in a very open manner, which I think demonstrates the maturity of the relationship and the chance to take it further in the future,” she said.
In later talks with Premier Wen Jiaobao, Clinton was also put on notice that China disagrees with the U.S. push into Asia.
“The U.S. should respect China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, respect China’s national core interests and the people’s feelings,” Wen said at the beginning of the meeting.
Clinton arrived in China from Indonesia where she urged Southeast Asian nations to present a unified front in dealing with Beijing in attempts to ease rising tensions in the South China Sea. China and a host of Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei, have overlapping claims to several small but potentially energy-rich areas of sea, reefs and islands.
The U.S. wants China and the other claimants to adopt a binding code of conduct for the region, along with a process to resolve maritime disputes without coercion, intimidation or the use of force.
Clinton wants the Chinese to drop their insistence on settling conflicting claims with individual nations and instead embrace a multilateral mechanism that will give the smaller members of the Association of South East Asian Nations greater clout in negotiations. She said she wanted all sides to make meaningful progress by a November summit of East Asian leaders that President Barack Obama plans to attend in Cambodia.
“We believe ... that it is timely now to proceed with that work and help to lower the tensions and create the code of conduct in the next period, hopefully in preparation for the East Asia Summit,” she said.
Yang, however, repeated China’s statements that it is ready to discuss the sea disputes only through bilateral talks, in which many believe that China would have an unfair upper hand. And, he was cool to the idea of reaching an agreement before November, saying that China and some of its friends in ASEAN wanted to work only toward the “eventual adoption of a code of conduct.”
“China has sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea and the adjacent waters. There is plenty of historical and jurisprudence evidence of that,” he said.
Yang also rejected that the tensions would pose any threat to international maritime commerce, something Washington has cited as the reason that peaceful settlements of the claims are a U.S. national security interest.
“The freedom and safety of navigation in the South China Sea is assured,” he said. “There is no issue currently in this area nor will there ever be issues in that area in the future.”
Hu began his talks with Clinton by praising her for implementing a student exchange initiative, for pushing for the construction of the U.S. pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo two years ago, and for backing the strategic and economic dialogue, annual talks used to boost understanding between the countries.
Clinton was greeted by criticism in the official Chinese media over the last two days. A Global Times editorial said the United States was behind the disputes in the South China Sea and accused Clinton of seeking “unilateral compromise by China.”
It said “China should not let the U.S. have any doubt or other misjudgments regarding its determination.”
Clinton is at the midpoint of an 11-day, six-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific region that started in the Cook Islands. She next visits East Timor and Brunei before heading to Russia’s Far East to represent the United States at the annual meeting of leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vladivostok. | <urn:uuid:515c8371-59d8-4cf8-bd05-3a732baad5d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.macombdaily.com/article/20120905/NEWS05/120909816/clinton-china-haven-t-narrowed-gaps-on-syria-sea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963771 | 1,320 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Senate-Obama immigration divide
LAS VEGAS – The immigration reform plan President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday sounds a lot like the new bipartisan proposal from the Senate — and on the broad points, it is.
But the differences are in the details. And those details, with the liberal stamp Obama put on his approach here, could be the difference between a deal and another failed effort on an issue that Washington has struggled with for years.Continue Reading
Obama’s speech launched a campaign for legislation built on several overarching principles: provide a path to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, streamline legal immigration, crack down on employers who hire undocumented workers and strengthen border security.
That’s all in the blueprint offered Monday by a group of eight senators, led by Republican John McCain and Democrat Chuck Schumer.
That’s where things get tricky.
Senior administration officials said the contrasts and omissions aren’t red lines for the president. But they do foreshadow the points of tension in the upcoming legislative negotiations.
Perhaps the biggest hurdle is a trigger for citizenship that Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) describe as a must-have.
Obama wouldn’t make citizenship for undocumented immigrants contingent upon a declaration that border has been secured. And he highlighted that difference with the Senate plan in his speech Tuesday, saying “it must be clear from the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship.”
The president didn’t explicitly endorse the need for a temporary worker program, which he did do in his 2011 immigration blueprint. The Senate proposal would set up a process for American companies to hire low-skilled labor under certain circumstances — a concept that’s divided labor and business — but the White House doesn’t view such a program as essential, given the current economic conditions.
Obama also didn’t embrace a proposal from the Senate group that would set up an expedited citizenship process for agricultural workers who commit to working in the industry.
And although he didn’t mention it in his speech, his plan explicitly includes protections for gay couples. Unlike the Senate blueprint, Obama’s plan “treats same-sex families as families by giving U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the ability to seek a visa on the basis of a permanent relationship with a same-sex partner.”
Obama praised the work of the bipartisan group of senators, but said that if the Senate did not act on it, he would send his own bill to Congress for an up or down vote.
“It’s important for us to recognize that the foundation for bipartisan action is already in place,” Obama said. “If Congress is unable to act in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away.” | <urn:uuid:f564e040-ee5d-4582-ac87-f6146080d334> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-immigration-reform-citizenship-86879.html?ml=al_2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960169 | 592 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A Ryan Arcidiacono three-pointer with seconds remaining in regulation forced overtime in Philadelphia, an opportunity of which the Villanova Wildcats took advantage in shocking Syracuse with a 75-71 victory.
It was Villanova's second win over a top-five foe after a stunning 73-64 win over Louisville on Tuesday, and it never should have happened. Despite the preponderance of evidence and statistics showing the advantages of a team leading by three to foul its trailing opponent in the final seconds of a game, Orange head coach Jim Boeheim instructed his team not to foul.
The strategy might have appeared to work, as Villanova's James Bell missed the three-pointer to tie with eight seconds remaining. But Syracuse failed to snatch the rebound, allowing the Wildcats' Mouphtaou Yarou to grab the board and dish it quickly to Arcidiacono who hoisted up an awkward, but effective, game-tying shot.
For some reason the debate still exists whether teams up three should foul late to prevent a game-tying three-pointer. To us, this argument seems as pointless as claiming Earth is flat. Just because we can perceive of ways fouling late can backfire does not mean that strategy should not be used; the reality is that a team's probability of losing increases fourfold if they don't foul.
We've addressed how stupid highly-paid football coaches can be at using suboptimal strategies in the past, both on the field and off it. Basketball coaches have the reputation of being more forward-thinking, but the late-game strategy in this case is so obviously weighed toward the optimal choice it's sort of mind-blowing anyone—let alone one of the legendary coaches of his sport—is still making the wrong one. [ESPN] | <urn:uuid:686d531f-2056-46b3-b8f5-8294fc7960bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deadspin.com/5979237/villanova-upsets-third+ranked-syracuse-because-syracuse-was-stupid?tag=news | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96951 | 363 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The House passed the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill on Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and throwing the issue squarely into the Senate’s lap.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said the bill was “needed to prepare for countries like Iran and North Korea so that they don’t do something catastrophic to our networks here in America.”
The final tally was 248-168, enough to pass the measure but not enough to override the threatened veto. Forty-two Democrats broke with the White House to vote for the bill, and 28 Republicans voted against it.
(Also on POLITICO: War over CISPA)
The administration and Democratic critics opposed the bill because of privacy and civil liberties concerns. The other main sticking point was that, unlike a Senate bill by Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), CISPA would not mandate new security requirements for a critical infrastructure network.
Although those disagreements still exist, House Republicans have now jumped ahead of the Senate in a race to avoid the political fallout in the event of a major cyberattack.
At least some of CISPA’s Democratic supporters weren’t happy with their colleagues’ opposition to the bill, nor with the White House.
After the White House issued the veto threat Wednesday, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, Rogers’s chief Democratic ally, launched an all-out lobbying effort to persuade his fellow Democrats to back the bill.
“We worked it. We worked it hard, we contacted people personally. Many people I talked to just on the floor,” Ruppersberger of Maryland said after the bill passed. “This [issue] is very complicated, a lot of people didn't understand it.” He said that, as of Thursday morning, he didn’t know how much Democratic support there was for the bill.
“Yesterday was a tough day for me with the White House,” Ruppersberger said.
Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) a CISPA co-sponsor, echoed Ruppersberger.
“It was disappointing, I think it could have been handled differently,” Langevin said of the White House move. “To do it at this stage, I don’t think it was very helpful to get an information-sharing bill through.”
Langevin and other supportive Democrats say CISPA is needed to counter the possibility of a major cyberattack.
"This is not a perfect bill, but the threat is great," Ruppersberger said on the House floor on Thursday.
Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that the White House was in "a camp all by themselves." Nevertheless, most Democrats voted against the bill.
“CISPA would trample the privacy and consumer rights of our citizens while leaving our critical infrastructure vulnerable,” an administration official said Thursday in response to Boehner. “We need Congress to address this critical national and economic security challenge while respecting the values of freedom, privacy, openness and innovation so fundamental to our nation.”
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), formerly the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, voted against the measure.
After the vote, she tweeted: "I voted no on #CISPA-it didn't strike the right balance & #GOP didn't allow amendments to strengthen privacy protections."
The House adopted several amendments to the bill before passing it, including one by Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) that added a five-year sunset to the bill.
But lawmakers voted to reject a motion to recommit by Rep. Ed Perlmuttter, who sought to add language specifying that nothing in the bill could be construed to allow employers and the government to mandate that employees and job applicants disclose confidential passwords without a court order. The defeated motion also would have added language saying that nothing in the bill could allow the government to block access to the Web through “the creation of a national Internet firewall similar to the ‘Great Internet Firewall of China.'”
Privacy hawks were disappointed with the outcome of the passage vote.
"Americans should be concerned at the extent to which their privacy will be compromised because of the passage of this bill in the House of Representatives," said Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). "They should be very afraid."
Markey had wanted to offer a floor amendment, with Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), to address privacy concerns, but Republicans did not allow a vote on it.
"I'd just encourage those that voted for [CISPA] to read the 4th Amendment," Barton said.
The tech sector immediately applauded the House action on Thursday.
“We strongly urge the Senate to swiftly take up this issue because the United States cannot afford to wait to improve our nation’s cybersecurity posture,” TechAmerica CEO Shawn Osborne said in a statement. “Standing pat will only further risk our national security.”
But civil libertarians were unhappy with the outcome.
“Cybersecurity does not have to mean abdication of Americans’ online privacy. As we’ve seen repeatedly, once the government gets expansive national security authorities, there’s no going back,” ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson said. “We encourage the Senate to let this horrible bill fade into obscurity.”
The Senate is expected to turn to the issue next month.
"Sen. Reid has said as explicitly as he can that we're going to take this up in May,” Lieberman said earlier on Thursday. “I'm glad the House is taking it up now because it's a kind of preface and encouragement for the Senate to act.”
Jonathan Allen contributed to this report.
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Water Damage in Cell Phones: July Puts You at Higher Risk
We all know that water damage is a big problem facing cell phone users, but did you know that during the month of July you are at even greater risk of water damage to your brand new iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S3, or Motorola Razor? According to Asurion, the largest provider of mobile phone insurance in the U.S., July is the worst month for cellphone issues, with more claims filed around the 4th of July holiday than any other time of the year. According to an Asurion’s press release:
“As people enjoy time outdoors during weekends and over the Independence Day holiday, mobile phones are increasingly lost, damaged or stolen. The days immediately after the July Fourth holiday, more claims were made than at any other time of the year. Water-related damage is particularly high in July; in fact, Asurion saw more water damage issues than any other month, followed by June and August, respectively.”
So what does this mean for you, the cell phone user and potential victim of water damage? During the warm, summer months when people are spending more time outdoors and near water to keep cool, the potential for water damage is much higher than during the colder months. Here at HzO, we recently conducted our own study on water damage where over 400 individuals, ranging in age from under 24 to over 65 were most worried about damaging their phones during outside activities. In addition, most participants were worried about water damage from a body of water, such as a lake, pool, or beach, or water damage from rain. Most striking was the fact that 42% have experienced some sort of water damage on an electronic device in the past. These respondents also indicated that being able to take devices to the pool or beach without the worry of possible water damage would be extremely valuable to them, and a welcome addition to their lifestyle.
5 Water Damage Solutions
Currently, there are five solutions when it comes to truly attempting to deal with water damage prevention: aftermarket cases, manufacturer installed gaskets and O-rings, silicone/acrylic coatings, plasma coatings, and HzO WaterBlock.
- Aftermarket waterproof cases: Aftermarket waterproof cases come at no cost to the manufacturer, but often at great cost to the consumer. Not only are they sometimes bulky and awkward, but they can reduce use of the device itself. These cases rely on a series of plastic snaps and rubber seals to keep water out so, if they fail, or if there is user error in application, your device is going to face the effects of water damage anyways. This leaves manufacturers and consumers in the same initial position- both potentially stuck with the costs of device replacement and crazy water damage fixes on their own.
- Gaskets and O-rings: Both gaskets and O-rings, applied at the manufacturing level, provide a physical barrier between certain electronic components, such as smartphone cameras, and water. They work only when sealed and aligned properly, so any changes in alignment or gasket size due to manufacture defects, drops, temperature changes, age, etc. cause the seal to fail and allow the water and contaminants to penetrate and potentially compromise the device. In short: if you are looking for a foolproof way to prevent water damage, this isn’t it.
- Silicone/acrylic coatings: This is a type of device nanocoating mainly used for dust and dirt protection on small circuit boards within TVs, printers, and other electronics. It is a directional, spray-type coating, so it provides very little protection against water damage due to missed cracks and crevices that water can seep into. The coating is much thicker than newer nanocoatings, so it can lead to heat-retention issues and add weight to the device.
- Plasma applied coatings: Currently, plasma coatings are applied in one of two ways. The first is an aftermarket option where consumers can pay expensive, out of pocket costs to have their personal devices treated with the special coating. The other is a manufacturing solution where plasma coating is incorporated into the manufacturing process. In both options, the performance of plasma applied coatings remains the same: average, at best.
- HzO WaterBlock: HzO’s WaterBlock technology is nearly invisible, uniform, and 100 times thicker on a nano-scale than any other water resistant nanocoating- making it more difficult for corrosion or other common forms of water damage to occur. WaterBlock is only applied to the inside of the device, so it protects the critical electronic components without changing the aesthetics or function of the device itself. Applied at the manufacturing level, HzO’s WaterBlock not only provides manufacturers with superior water protective nanotechnology for their devices, but can also be covered by the manufacturer’s warranties so that consumers don’t have to pay out of pocket costs to have their devices individually water protected after they are purchased.
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Voters in Iowa will caucus today to select their choice for the 2012 presidential nominees. As the rest of the nation watches, Iowa’s choice could help frame the debate for this election year.
And as the voters speak, others are weighing in on what they believe is the best direction for America’s government and policy in 2012 and beyond. Over the weekend, The New York Times editorial page was one of those voices, yet again carrying the torch of the liberal, progressive movement. The Times revealed its dismal view of America and a call for more of the same policies that have left the country in an economic quagmire. “The way to revive sustainable growth is with more government aid to help create jobs, support demand and prevent foreclosures,” the Times writes. “As things stand now, however, Washington will provide less help, not more, in 2012.”
What the “Old Gray Lady” is referring to, of course, is push back from conservatives who do not see “more government” as the ultimate solution to America’s problems. Instead, conservatives see the years of liberal big government policies, increased spending, growing deficits, and sprawling regulations as the root of America’s problems–and a contributing cause to continually high unemployment and economic stagnation. And when you ask voters what they think the government should do to solve the nation’s economic problems, they overwhelmingly fall in the “less is more” camp.
Last week, Rasmussen reported that “Among all voters, 77% want the government to cut deficits, 71% think the government should cut spending, and 59% want the government to cut taxes.” And as Heritage’s Rob Bluey reports, new polling data shows that voters in Iowa and New Hampshire overwhelmingly believe the federal budget deficit is the most important economic issue facing the United States today.
The Times‘ message is worth noting not for the sake of amplification, but for examination. Theirs is the message the left will be carrying in 2012, from the halls of Congress to Main Street America. Thankfully, there is another policy direction America can take. In “Issues 2012: The Candidates Briefing Book,” The Heritage Foundation lays out key issues and policy recommendations for candidates seeking elective office.
On the issue of budget and spending — which is one of the many on top of voters’ minds — Heritage recommends cutting spending now and enacting spending caps, rejecting tax hikes and aggressively pursuing tax reform, empowering states and the private sector, and reforming the budget process. And with some 13.3 million Americans out of work, Heritage offers several policy recommendations for creating new jobs and getting the economy back on track, including ending any suggestion of higher tax rates, cutting the budget deficit, advancing free trade, and repealing Obamacare, among others.
Today, America faces crushing debt, unsustainable entitlement programs, threats of even higher tax burdens, the ongoing threat of terrorism, and instability around the world. It is in the face of these challenges that voters in Iowa’s caucuses will take the first step toward setting America’s course for 2013. Should America continue enacting more of the same policies that have led to its current economic state, or should it adopt reforms to encourage growth and help guarantee a brighter, more secure future? Let the debate of ideas begin.
- The price of crude oil has gone up by more than 2 percent amid concerns over tensions between Iran and the United States. Last week, Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for sanctions from the West.
- A gas pipeline in Syrian has exploded, the fifth since uprisings against President Bashar al-Assad’s government began in mid-March. The Syrian government blamed terrorists for the explosion, though opposition groups say the government is using the incident to consolidate support.
- Just how far can the Environmental Protection Agency go in dictating what you can do with your property? The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could help answer that question–at least where the Clean Water Act is concerned.
- Over the weekend, President Obama signed a $662 billion defense spending plan but offered up reservations about certain provisions, including powers of “detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.”
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I made this simple quiz today to test students' knowledge of general things. Nothing scientific about it just 10 simple questions I think everyone should generally know. A fun way to see how "on the ball" your students are (or you the teacher!). Challenge your students and see how they do.
Good luck to you and your students. Feedback or additional questions for a new test/version, appreciated.
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By Brian Pizzalato
In 2 Timothy Paul says, “Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus” (2:3). Following this Paul speaks of his imprisonment for the preaching of the Gospel, “the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal” (v. 9).
We hear how his suffering affects other when he says: “I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which in Christ Jesus goes with eternal glory. The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him” (vv. 10-12).
In this passage, we see clearly that Paul views his suffering as being salvific for others; he suffers to bring the Gospel, the message of salvation, to the people. He endures his suffering so that they may obtain salvation. Dying, living, and reigning with Christ are aspects of salvation; they “go with eternal glory.”
This notion of suffering to obtain eternal glory is also found in Roman 8:17-18 where Paul is speaking of receiving the Spirit of sonship whereby we become children of God and co-heirs with Christ. Paul says: “…and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
Further on in Romans 8 he tells us, “We know that in everything [suffering] God works for good with those who love him who are called according to his purpose” (v. 28). Those who suffer are called to share in eternal glory, which is made clearly manifest by the resurrection of Christ.
This notion of our suffering and glory go hand in hand with the suffering and glory of Christ. Not only did the resurrection of Christ show his glory, it was also manifested through the cross. John Paul II notes, “In weakness He manifested His power, and in humiliation He manifested all His messianic greatness” (Salvifici Doloris, 22). Christ manifests his power in our suffering and death, which will one day lead to the resurrection.
Elsewhere Paul speaks of his suffering for others so they may obtain glory. He says, “So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory” (Ephesians 3:13).
In 2 Corinthians, Paul speaks of how he is afflicted in every way, perplexed, persecuted, struck down, always carrying in his body the death of Jesus (cf. 4:8-10). He also speaks of how in living he is dying for the sake of Christ.
However, suffering is not only for Christ. Paul goes on to say: “[K]nowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake…” (4:14). Notice once again he reveals how suffering leads to being raised. Paul suffers not only for his sake, nor only for Christ’s sake, but also for the sake of others, so that they may be brought into God’s presence.
John Paul II recognizes in this text that “these sufferings enable the recipients of that letter to share in the work of Redemption, accomplished through the suffering and death of the Redeemer” (SD, 20).
Colossians 1:24 brings together all that has been said thus far. It summarizes Paul’s view that when he suffers he does so for Christ and for others. We see in this passage that when Paul speaks of suffering for Christ, it necessarily includes suffering for others, namely the church. Here Paul’s teaching on the mystical body is linked most profoundly to his teaching on suffering when he says, “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.”
John Paul II notes concerning the notion of making up what is lacking: “This good in itself is inexhaustible and infinite. No man can add anything to it. But at the same time, in the mystery of the Church as His Body, Christ has in a sense opened His own redemptive suffering to all human suffering. Insofar as man becomes a sharer in Christ’s sufferings…to that extent he in his own way completes the suffering through which Christ accomplished the Redemption of the world” (SD, 24).
We must realize that making up what is lacking in Christ’s suffering does not mean that redemption is not completed by Christ. Rather, “it only means that the Redemption, accomplished through satisfactory love, remains always open to all love expressed in human suffering” (SD, 24).
Paul is trying to show us that when we suffer we participate in the saving act of redemption. This is not because Christ did not do all he needed to do, but rather that Christ allows us, by divine will, to participate in this aspect of our own and others’ salvation. Suffering is not meaningless. Paul rejoices because in his suffering he suffers for Christ the head, and Christ the body, the church, bringing about her salvation. He is also joyful because suffering is not useless. John Paul II notes, “Faith in sharing the suffering of Christ brings with it the interior certainty that the suffering person ‘completes what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions’; the certainty that in the spiritual dimension of the work of Redemption he is serving, like Christ, the salvation of his brothers and sisters (SD, 27).
For Paul, suffering leads to hope precisely because of God’s love. He says, “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Rom. 5:3-5).
Printed with permission from the Northern Cross, Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota.
Brian Pizzalato is the Director of Catechesis, R.C.I.A. & Lay Apostolate for the Diocese of
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UK fraud strategy 'more worthy of Uzbekistan'
Cambridge don lets rip
A UK government strategy for tackling internet fraud has been criticised by a senior banking security researcher.
The UK's first National Fraud Strategy, launched on Thursday, aims to crack down on fraud that costs Britain £14bn a year, by "strengthening the counter-fraud community’s response to their activities and providing real help, protection and support to individual consumers and businesses". The three-year strategy has four key aims:
- Improving the building and sharing of knowledge about fraud, through establishing a new National Fraud Reporting Centre and National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, under the City of London Police
- Tackling the most serious fraud threats, such as identify theft
- Disrupting and punishing more fraudsters while improving support to their victims
- Improving the nation’s long-term capability to prevent fraud
Ross Anderson, professor in security engineering at the University of Cambridge, said that the proposal to allow the new National Fraud Reporting Centre to sit alongside the banking industry funded Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit within the City of London police is an arrangement "more worthy of Uzbekistan than of Britain".
Anderson, one of the world's foremost experts on banking security, writes: "You have to ask how eager the City force will be to investigate offences that bankers don’t want investigated, such as the growing number of insider frauds and chip card cloning? And how vigorously will City cops investigate their paymasters for the fraud of claiming that their systems are secure, when they’re not, in order to avoid paying compensation to defrauded account holders?
"The purpose of the old system was to keep the fraud figures artificially low while enabling the banks to control such investigations as did take place. And what precisely has changed?
"The lessons of the credit crunch just don’t seem to have sunk in yet. The Government just can’t kick the habit of kowtowing to bankers."
The Cambridge don adds that the creation of the new National Fraud Reporting Centre, to be run by the City of London Police, is "presumably intended to defuse the Lords’ criticisms of the current system whereby fraud must be reported to the banks, not to the police". Cambridge security researchers, led by Anderson, have consistently argued that the business model for banks consistently transfers liability for fraud on customers, through unfair terms and conditions and "false claims about system security".
"This is a regulatory failure: the FSA has been just as gullible in accepting the banking industry’s security models as they were about accepting its credit-risk models," he writes.
Anderson is well known in the UK for testifying in cases about "phantom withdrawals" from bank accounts, arguing against the frequent insistence of banks that its systems are foolproof and that any contested withdrawals must therefore be the fault of customers. His thoughts on the UK's new strategy for tackling cybercrime can be found here. ® | <urn:uuid:d822977a-4ea1-4295-a95c-2cc75b424a71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/uk_fraud_strategy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952431 | 614 | 1.523438 | 2 |
POSTED: Friday, December 9, 2011 - 6:40pm
UPDATED: Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 12:40am
FORT BLISS - After the deaths of three Fort Bliss Soldiers in Afghanistan, nearly 500 soldiers are set to deploy overseas.
The soldiers will spend a year in Southwest Asia. They'll provide air defense for "Operation Enduring Freedom."
"I think this is a great opportunity. This is what we get called upon to do, and this is what we train hard for. I look forward to these soldiers getting the opportunity to show the world they've been training, and they're prepared," Battalion Commander Lt. Col. James Ellerson said.
Soldiers say they're staying in good spirits, despite leaving on the eve of a tragedy and so close to the holidays. They're simply looking forward to serving the country. Although, as you can imagine, it's still a difficult time for families.
"She really doesn't understand what deployment is, so when I tell her 'daddy's going bye, bye,' she's like 'well, when's daddy coming back,'" Jacqueath Gaines said.
It's not only hard for Gaines 3-year old daughter to understand why her daddy's going away, many military families struggle to say goodbye.
"They can't stay here because they have a mission to accomplish. So, they have to be out there helping all the soldiers and helping all the other families so everybody comes back safely," Gaines said.
Gaines is great at staying positive about deployment, because she also helps other soldiers' families.
"I'm like a shoulder for them to lean on," she said.
Gaines is part of a family support network on post.
"I do get a lot of phone calls of people crying and saying they don't want their family members to go anywhere. I have to re-assure them that they're going to be fine," Gaines said.
Every military family hopes and prays for a soldiers safe return, but too many families know that's not always the case. As we mentioned, three Fort Bliss soldiers were killed in action overseas just six days ago.
"Well, there's a bunch of mixed emotions," Command Sergeant Major George Eddie Clark Jr. said.
Clark Jr. is also deploying with the other soldiers. He says the best way to honor soldiers lost is to move forward.
"We honor those soldiers that paid the ultimate sacrifice, and we do not allow, soldiers do not allow, that to stop them from doing what they're called to do, because the nation depends on them," he said.
As for the military families staying here in the Borderland, they rely on monthly meet-ups from the support network to cope with deployment.
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U.S. Election Puts U.S.-Russia Ties In Spotlight
President Obama tried to "reset" U.S.-Russia relations, without much success. Republican nominee Mitt Romney says Russia is America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe." Many Russians think the relationship between the two countries will be rockier over the next four years.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Foreign policy has not played much of a role in the presidential campaign, but we have a reminder this morning of how important it is to any president. And today we continue our series on foreign policy and this fall's election. We're going to focus on Russia. As NPR's Corey Flintoff reports, no matter who wins, Russians are worried.
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: For many Americans, U.S. relations with Russia are represented by the standoff over Syria in the U.N. Security Council. This is as is Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, speaking to the state-funded Russia Today television network, after blocking a U.N. draft resolution that would have put pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
VITALY CHURKIN: The strategy of our Western colleagues seems to be to try to whip up tensions in and around Syria at every opportunity. And we needed to veto, together with China, that unacceptable draft.
FLINTOFF: The normally urbane Churkin was blunt and combative in the debate, which pitted Russia and China against the U.S., most of Europe, and the Arab League. This is mild compared to the day in 1960 when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe on the desk at the U.N. General Assembly. But some analysts say Russian and American relations are drifting backward toward a Cold War agenda.
In a widely studied foreign policy speech in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to welcome that. He said that relations between Russia and the U.S. were most stable during the 1980s.
ALEXANDER GOLTS: And has nothing to do with reality, of course, because our relationship in '80s were very, very difficult.
FLINTOFF: This is analyst Alexander Golts, a military expert and editor at Yezhednevny journal. Golts says that Putin, a former Soviet intelligence officer, believes that Washington is behind the revolutions of the Arab Spring, and he believes that the West wants to do the same thing in Russia.
GOLTS: He has no doubt that all demonstrations that took place in Moscow in December, March this year are the result of Western conspiracy.
FLINTOFF: Therefore, Golts says, Putin's strategy is to keep the West preoccupied with Cold War issues, such as counting the number of warheads in each country's nuclear arsenal. Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of the policy journal Russia in Global Affairs, says that's an agenda that's growing increasingly irrelevant.
FYODOR LUKYANOV: Who cares, actually, how many warheads Russia and the United States have?
FLINTOFF: Lukyanov says Putin's agenda is probably closer to that of the Republicans.
LUKYANOV: It will be easier to deal with a Romney administration because I think that they will just disregard Russia.
FLINTOFF: Based on the statements of the candidate and his advisors so far, Lukyanov says, a Romney administration will stop arms control talks. That plays into Putin's hands, he says, because Russia has no desire to reduce its arsenal at the moment. Lukyanov says that having far more nuclear weapons than China reinforces Russia's sense of military security, and having parity with the U.S. enhances its prestige.
But what is President Obama wins a second term? Is there room for a second reset and a stronger focus on current problems such as Syria and Iran? Victor Kremenyuk says he doesn't expect that President Obama will be as closely engaged with Russia as he once tried to be.
VICTOR KREMENYUK: I think simply that Obama is disillusioned, disappointed. He really wanted to invest heavily into the relations with Russia.
FLINTOFF: Kremenyuk, the deputy director of the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies in Moscow, says President Obama may have thought that he found a working partner in former President Dmitry Medvedev, but that Putin proved to be much less cooperative. He says Putin's policy seems to be to keep a clear distance between himself and any U.S. leader.
KREMENYUK: Not to be too close, because when he's close he feels that he's not free to undertake some actions inside Russia, especially directed against dissidents, against business community, and against intellectuals and so on.
FLINTOFF: All three analysts say the next four years could be a time of lost opportunities if the two countries can't find a way to create an agenda that's suited to the problems of the 21st century. Corey Flintoff, NPR News, Moscow. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:5528ce32-a16d-4523-91c5-9f3e0d056dd1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wbur.org/npr/160989373/some-believe-u-s-russia-ties-will-weaken | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967803 | 1,068 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Thursday, August 09, 2012, 03:49 pm
Apple files hint at re-engineered iMac and Mac Pro models, potentially without optical drivesInternal configuration files in Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple's iMac (iMac13,0) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,0), both in the context of USB booting options that indicate the new Mac desktops could, for the first time in nearly 20 years, lack built-in optical drives.
The discovery, made by an AppleInsider reader Jason, appears in a configuration plist file used by Boot Camp Assistant to designate the Mac model versions capable of supporting either a optical boot disc, or alternatively, a USB flash drive volume capable of installing Windows to a Boot Camp partition.
While all modern Macs can boot OS X from a USB drive, Apple's Boot Camp Assistant references the plist to display a listing of newer Mac models with EFI-level support for booting a legacy operating system from a USB flash drive. The primary advantage to using a USB flash drive to create a bootable Windows 7 volume from an ISO (disc image file) is if you lack an optical drive burner.
The file lists a series of Mac models that support USB flash drive booting, referring to each model by its initials and its internal architectural version number. While it includes MacBook and MacBook Pro models with optical drives, most of the Macs in the supported list are optical free.
The list of models (below) include the "MM50" (the Mac mini 5,x series, also known as the "Mid 2011 Mac mini", which is the first non-Server version of the Mac mini to lack an optical drive), along with other optical-free models including the MacBook Air.
New sixth generation Mac Pro
Two of the models in the USB-boot support listing refer to Macs that haven't been released yet: the MP60 (the six generation Mac Pro, or MacPro6,x) and IM130 (pointing to the 13th generation iMac, or iMac13,x).
The current Mac Pro, updated only slightly in June during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, hasn't changed enough over the previous model for Apple to assign it a new architecture designation; it is still internally referred to as the "Mac Pro 5,1" just like the Mac Pros that originally shipped back in August 2010.
Apple's conspicuous lack of timely updates for the Mac Pro (and its relatively small and shrinking proportion of Apple's Mac sales mix) has created the expectation that the company might eventually discontinue its full sized desktop the same way it terminated its rack mounted Xserve, an idea Apple reportedly evaluated as an option.
However, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook confirmed in June that Apple would not be killing the Mac Pro, stating instead in an email to a concerned customer, "Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didnt have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at todays [WWDC] event, dont worry as were working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today."
Cook's choice of the words "working on something really great," indicates Apple plans to significantly update its Mac Pro model, which has carried forward the same basic aluminum box design introduced for the 2005 PowerMac G5.
While removing its optical drive would do much less to save space and thickness compared to Apple's notebook designs, it's likely that an all new Apple desktop aimed at professionals would rethink its use of slow, bulky and essentially obsolete optical drive devices and perhaps instead incorporate high performance SSD RAID options for a reduced profile.
New 13th generation iMac
Apple's current iMac (referred to internally as the iMac 12) was last refreshed in May 2011, indicating that it's overdue for a refresh. A new 13th generation iMac generation identified as "iMac 13,2" has already appeared in Geekbench benchmarks.
John Poole of Primate Labs, which developed the Geekbench software and maintains user submitted scores, told AppleInsider that while some machine benchmark reports on the company's site refer to themselves a "iMac 13,2" not all of them are genuine Apple machines. Some are "Hacintoshes," or Windows PCs configured to boot and run Apple's OS X software.
At the same time, at least one of the new Geekbench reports (below) calling itself an "iMac 13,2" does appear to be real, Poole noted. There is however, no way to determine if the new iMac model used to submit the test incorporated an optical drive or not.
"There are a number of things to look at when trying to figure out if Geekbench result is from an unreleased Mac or from a Hackintosh," Poole explained. "The first thing to examine is the operating system version and build number. Unreleased Macs run unreleased builds of Mac OS X, while Hackintoshes run public builds of Mac OS X (and sometimes they're a couple of builds behind)."
Poole added, "the next thing to examine is the processor. Apple has not (and probably will not) use unlocked processors (e.g., the Intel Core i7-3770K) in a Mac, while the Hackintosh community prefers unlocked processors. If a result has an unlocked processor, it's probably a Hackintosh.
"Finally examine the motherboard and BIOS strings. If the result is from an unreleased Mac then both strings should contain the model id (e.g., iMac13,2) in some shape or form. Both strings should also not refer to any of the popular Hackintosh distributions (e.g., tonymacx86 or multibeast)."
Unlike the Mac Pro, which was designed to accommodate a series of large hard drives, full size graphics cards and provide a number of open PCI expansion slots, Apple's iMac is designed to be a slim, elegant system not much larger than a standalone display. Removing its optical drive would have a much larger impact in making it more space efficient, and in particular, thinner.
To this end, people familiar with the matter told AppleInsider in April that the company has been working on a pair strikingly slimmer, lighter, and more elegant models that will feature of profile similar to today's latest LED TVs, though radiating a bit more panache.
Similarly, patent filings reveal Apple has also been working to once again slim down the peripherals that ship with its industry-leading all-in-one desktop, with the designs referenced in those filings having the potential to accompany the next iMac update.
Apple works to abandon the disc
The appearance of new Mac Pro and iMac models in the USB booting support list doesn't definitively mean the models won't have optical drives, as it also lists MacBook and MacBook Pro models that do incorporate an optical drive.
At the same time, Apple has clearly indicated in the newest Mac mini and Retina Display MacBook Pro that it plans to get rid of optical disc drives as soon as possible across the board, providing an external USB drive as an option for users who need one.
Users increasingly have fewer opportunities to use optical drives, as the bulk of third party software is now available as a digital download either directly from the vendor or through Apple's App Store. Apple also sees digital distribution as the future of music and movies, as exemplified in Apple TV, which has never included an optical drive.
The company has never supported any new HD optical disc formats on its products, including Microsoft's ill fated HD-DVD or Sony's Blu-ray format, despite initially being involved in the Blu-ray standardization process. Instead, Apple has put its resources behind developing increasingly higher definition audio and video formats that it can distribute electronically through its own iTunes Store.
Apple even developed an alternative iTunes Extras web based multimedia format to deliver the same kind of interactive menus supported on DVDs, with a parallel solution for albums it called iTunes LP.
In addition, Apple introduced technologies intended to wean its Mac platform from optical disc dependance with the MacBook Air, which was designed to remotely share disc drives available on the local network (even remotely install OS X) via Remote Disc and handle Migration Assistant tasks over a wireless network connection.
Modern Mac models can now apply system updates, such as OS X Mountain Lion, entirely via digital downloads, while Apple's newest Mac models can boot legacy operating systems from USB flash drives.
By ditching the need for a built in optical drive, Apple can not only make new Macs smaller, thinner and more energy efficient, but will also increase their overall reliability, as optical drives become one of the last complex physical mechanisms inside computers.
Apple has similarly helped to pioneer the mainstream adoption of Solid State Drives as an alternative to the more fragile mechanical design inherent in conventional Hard Disk Drives. Its most popular general computing device, the iPad, makes no use of either optical drives or HDD mechanisms.
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Texas is not a two-party state in the Constitution, or in the law, but it looks that way when the argument is over elections and political districts.
The Libertarians and the Greens in Texas hold no partisan political office in the state. And they were sideswiped by the redistricting litigation that delayed primaries, and by confusion over filing deadlines.
“It did affect us. It was nutty. We lost some candidates because of it,” said Patrick Dixon, who heads the Libertarian Party of Texas.
They had feared that the delayed primaries would be more disruptive, keeping people off the ballot or fouling up their convention plans. But both Libertarian and Green candidates have demonstrated enough support in past elections to get on without submitting petitions. And although neither party holds a lofty political seat, Dixon and others like him are optimistic. Confident, even.
“We do a little better every time,” said Dixon, who has served as a nonpartisan city councilman and is running this year for Travis County commissioner, a partisan post. “I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t see some progress.”
Viability is a standard question in politics. Why is she running? What about that guy? Don’t they know they’re going to lose?
They do, and they don’t. Dixon is watching the 14th Congressional District this year, wondering about the voters who are replacing with Ron Paul’s retirement. “It could be interesting if people there want to keep a libertarian in Congress,” he said.
Paul is nominally a Republican now — he was elected on that ticket and is chasing the party’s presidential nomination. But he ran as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 1988 and is still a rock star for some of its voters.
Dixon also counts it a coup when his party’s candidates win important slivers of the vote. Texas election results are sprinkled with races in which Libertarian or Green candidates have grabbed enough votes to throw the outcome.
Democratic consultants are not above recruiting Libertarians to run in swing districts, hoping those candidates will shave away enough conservative votes to keep a Republican from winning. And Republicans play, too, hoping Green candidates will whittle away liberal voters who would otherwise support Democrats in close races.
However they get into the races, their effect is undeniable.
Libertarians often get 3 percent of the vote or less in races where each of the two major parties has a candidate. Sometimes, even that slim result is influential.
State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, won re-election in 2010 by a dozen votes, getting 48.5 percent of the vote. Ben Easton, a Libertarian, got 2.9 percent, presumably from conservatives who didn’t vote for Dan Neil, a Republican. It doesn’t always go the Democrats’ way: Rep. Paul Workman, R-Austin, beat an incumbent Democrat in a race where, because of a Libertarian candidate, nobody got 50 percent.
When only a Republican is running, the Libertarians do even better. Bob Townsend got 18 percent in his race against U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, in 2010. David Sparks got 18.4 percent against U.S. Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Carrollton, in that same election. Greens don’t do as well, but they have done well enough to keep their right to get on the ballot without petitions. Edward Lindsay got 6.3 percent against Comptroller Susan Combs, a Republican, in 2010; Mary Ruwart, a Libertarian, claimed 10.5 percent in that race.
The outsider parties don’t hold primaries, choosing their candidates in state conventions — both on the second weekend in June this year. It’s old-fashioned politics. You won’t see any commercials for these people, probably, in the way the Republicans and Democrats seize your television before a primary. But it’s competitive. The Libertarians meeting in Fort Worth will be choosing from among six candidates for U.S. Senate. The Greens have two in that race.
Sometimes, the minor parties outdo the major parties. Both of the little parties have candidates for each of two Railroad Commission seats on the statewide ballot. That’s the agency that regulates oil and gas in Texas, no small thing. Texas Democrats fielded only one candidate in one race and nobody in the other.
The small fries haven’t won one yet. But you can’t win if you don’t play.
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The Basics of Video Conferencing – Part I: The Equipment
May 13, 2008 @ 06:00 AM | By Brian Trampler & Sara O'Rourke
So, you’ve decided to look at videoconferencing because everyone is talking about Telepresence, HD, travel restrictions, and lower corporate budgets. And just to throw one more in, don’t forget the person who mentioned that “green” videoconferencing will allow you to track your carbon offset. But the information out there is daunting. How do you cut through the mix? Have no fear; some basic info about the equipment, the technology, and the terminology will help you wade through the sea of information out there.
This time around for the blog, let’s start with the equipment you need. There are really 3 categories of video gear. They are:
• Desktop systems: Desktop video can mean software that can be installed on your laptop or desktop and used in conjunction with a high-quality webcam, but it can also be a separate piece of hardware that uses a flat screen with a built-in camera for display. The price range can be anywhere from $250 for the software plus webcam to $8,000 for an HD quality unit. And if you want to step up to an even higher level, there is a new class of personal telepresence units that take both quality and price to a new level.
• Small group systems: This type of system usually allows for 1 to 3 participants to be comfortably viewed on each end of the video conference. These systems are usually an all-in-one type of system that includes the video hardware, a built in camera, and a display that comes in a slim form factor. They are typically a single screen display, and the view is split on the screen to allow multiple locations to show. The price ranges start lower than the hardware based desktop systems, around $3,000 to $5,000 at the low end, but can be around $20,000.00 at the high end. It all depends on the quality of cameras, resolution and size of displays you choose. .
• Large group/boardroom systems: Provide the highest-quality video, typically 2 42” or higher flat screen or projection screen displays are installed to allow for “life-size” views and multiple locations on the screens, but they also come with the highest price tag, with systems starting at $10,000. High end telepresence suites that covers entire walls in the room, with all the bells and whistles, can run upwards of $300,000. These systems must be seen to be believed, as the quality really does allow you to feel like you could reach out and shake hands at the end of your meeting.
Telepresence can be counted as either a high end solution or a solution in each category. Some people classify these systems in a different category due to the special high end type of white-glove service that is bundled in, but in reality they are coming out with very high quality video conferencing solutions at all ends of the spectrum.
One last thing to think about while you’re doing your research – Is there anything out there that would allow someone that is just entering the videoconferencing market to get a taste for the technology without that size investment?
Yes! Look for a virtual or shared office space that has a videoconferencing room and equipment for rent. These rooms are available globally in most major metropolitan areas and even in some smaller cities as well – InterCall’s network covers about 9,000 locations, so there is likely one near you. They are typically able to be rented by the hour, and it may just be the way to get a taste for video conferencing. After a few meetings, you’ll see the value and will know whether it will help your project or initiative. And that might be just what it takes to make that move to purchase a reality for your organization.
So how do you explain the technology behind videoconferencing to the folks that pay the bills at your organization? Let me know what questions you might have on that subject and we’ll discuss them the next time around on the InterCall Blog!
Brian Trampler is the Sr. Product Manager of Strategic Video Solutions & the "Video Conferencing" blogger. Throughout his 10 years in the conferencing industry, he has successfully launched numerous web, streaming, and video services. Prior to making the jump to conferencing, Brian was involved in gymnastics both as a competitor and coach. If you’re lucky, you might also find Brian performing musical theatre throughout the Denver metro area. | <urn:uuid:93b69f99-561f-46ad-b28b-06dfcf145ed3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.intercall.com/2008/05/so-youve-decide.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946501 | 978 | 1.671875 | 2 |
MADRID – A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a 20th-century painting of Christ that has been disfigured by a local artist who was trying to restore it.
Juan Maria Ojeda, an official in Borja town, said 80-year-old Celia Gimenez decided to touch up the fresco of Christ wearing a crown of thorns in the Misericordia church. He said no one realized how badly disfigured the painting was until she rang town hall to say what she had done.
The fate of the painting, completed in 1930, has made national news in Spain.
The fresco is of the genre known as "Ecce Homo" style ("Behold the Man"). But on Thursday some Twitter users were dubbing it "Ecce Mono" ("Behold the Monkey"). | <urn:uuid:1154d025-26a0-4fa2-bdfc-8f2baaddacc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/23/elderly-woman-in-spain-ruins-20th-century-fresco-in-attempt-to-restore-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986362 | 176 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The essence of reporting: communication and character
Here’s Greg Brewer, a nice guy and a great winemaker [Brewer Clifton, Melville, Diatom], on Richard Sanford [Alma Rosa], quoted in R.H. Drexel’s inaugural issue of Loam Baby: A Wine Culture Journal.
Look at Richard Sanford. When I’m in his presence, it’s special because he deserves more and he’s never spoken ill of anyone. He’s so gracious. He’s put in 40 years around here [Santa Rita Hills], for crying out loud. And he’s rolling as quietly and supportively and as politely as anyone I know. That is really special, you know? No bravado. No pretense, no “Don’t you know who I am” or “Don’t you know how long I’ve been here?”
Greg is speaking of Richard’s character, a concept that doesn’t get examined much lately. What I want to talk about–as a reporter, journalist and wine writer–are the insights I get into human character from my job.
The essence of reporting is communication. A reporter doesn’t make stuff up. We depend on people telling us things, which we then write about to report to the people who read us. It’s a three-way conversation: source to reporter to reader. But, of course, the magic can only happen if the source talks to the reporter, and then, the information is only worthwhile to pass on if it’s genuine.
I should maybe come up with different words than “source” and “reporter” because that makes it sound like Deep Throat in the parking garage at night, leaking secrets off the record to an investigative journalist. That’s part of reporting, but it’s not really what wine writers do. We have conversations–with winemakers, grapegrowers, merchants, sommeliers and others in the industry–which we learn from, and then share the fruits of our knowledge with our readers, who presumably are hungry for more education.
Richard Sanford is, as Grew Brewer said, one of the politest, most respectful and helpful people in the industry. For a reporter like me, he’s a godsend. Fortunately, the wine industry is filled with such people. Well, Richard is a cut above most everyone. But in general, wine people are good communicators.
The reason this is important for consumers is because knowledge and information are vital aspects of wine appreciation. Wine is different from bread, soup or cereal. We may eat and enjoy those things, but we don’t care much about where they came from, or who made them. We don’t meet in groups to discuss the intricacies of cereal, nor do we buy books on soup. (I’m not talking about cookbooks, obviously.)
For this knowledge and information to be passed along, it’s necessary for knowledgeable people to share what they know with the public, through the medium of the reporter. A man like Richard Sanford knows so much that he could spend the rest of his life communicating it and still have oodles of information left over. And Richard is happy to communicate, in his own quiet, unassuming way. This is what Greg Brewer sees in him: Richard’s lack of pretense. If anyone in the industry has a right to “Don’t you know who I am?”, it’s Richard. But you’ll never get that from him.
Unfortunately, not everyone in the industry is like that. There are some people–I won’t name names now, although I’m tempted to, and one of these days, I will–some people in this industry who couldn’t be bothered. They’re too puffed up with their own self-importance. (I’m thinking of one such right now, who happens to live in Napa Valley.) They’re successful, which merits respect, but they’ve let their success go to their heads. They may fancy themselves a part of the wine community, but they’re really not. They’ve cut themselves off from the true community, and walled themselves into a tight little clique that reflects back only what they want to see and hear.
The wine community, happily, is so much bigger than that. It’s a place where people from every walk of life, with every kind of job, are united in one thing: the love of wine. It’s a place where people return phone calls and texts and emails, and drink and eat together, and have conversations, and pass knowledge back and forth, and laugh. Richard Sanford understands that and expresses it in everything he does. He has character. I wish everybody in the industry did. | <urn:uuid:2f1bebcf-9406-4e4b-b2db-82b850656a97> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.steveheimoff.com/index.php/2012/07/13/the-essence-of-reporting-communication-and-character/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958382 | 1,042 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Holland has a total population of 35,048 and a student population of 3,467. Of these students, 3,230 are enrolled in schools that offer information systems programs.
Holland's largest information systems school is Hope College. In 2010, Hope College graduated approximately 5 students with credentials in information systems.
A reported 5 students graduated with credentials in information systems in Holland in 2010. In 2009 tuition at information systems schools in Holland was $25,660 per year, on average.
You should also anticipate spending about $800 for information systems related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $7,870 per year, on average, for room and board at Holland-based information systems schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $0.
Many information systems graduates choose to work as information systems professionals after graduation. If you choose to follow that path and remain in Holland, your job prospects are average. In 2010, 1 out of every 65 information systems professionals in Michigan were working in the greater Holland area. The government projects that the number of information systems professionals in Holland will increase by 10% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for information systems professionals.
The average salary you can expect to earn as an information systems professional in Holland is $85,330 per year, which is lower than the average for information systems professionals state-wide. | <urn:uuid:79c3ceb9-c838-46ab-b646-1134d33746ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/michigan/holland/information-systems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954774 | 300 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Child abuse and trauma therapy expanding to in-home visits
BY MIKE AVERILL World Staff Writer
Monday, January 07, 2013
1/07/13 at 8:21 AM
Family and Children's Services is expanding its Child Abuse and Trauma Services program to include in-home child trauma treatment.
The new initiative is designed for families who have barriers preventing them from consistently attending office appointments.
Lack of transportation, the inability to miss work and affording child care for siblings are some of the biggest barriers, said Christine Marsh, director of Child Abuse and Trauma Services at Family and Children's Services.
"Children with the most severe problems are often least likely to show up in clinical care settings. By providing home-based treatment, Family and Children's Services provides a greater guarantee and lessens the risk that one of these children will fall through the cracks," said Gail Lapidus, the agency's CEO.
The agency has partnered with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for years to provide home-based case management but those case managers aren't able to do therapy.
"We recognized the need is there and hope to be able to make a big impact," Marsh said.
Last year the agency's Child Abuse and Trauma Services program served 8,172 children in its clinic.
This program will serve 30 children the first year and expand to about 80 the next year.
"By taking the mountain to Mohammed - bringing services to Family and Children's Services' clients, in this case - we can help children recover from the traumas they've suffered, improve their ability to perform academically and lead them to happier, healthier futures," Lapidus said.
"What we're doing is unconventional, but the long-term risks of not helping children who've suffered abuse, neglect or other traumas are too great to ignore."
The agency received a four-year, $1.6 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative to fund the at-home treatment program.
This is the third time the agency has received a similar grant. The first two grants, in 2003 and 2009, allowed the agency to develop and implement evidence-based treatment interventions including parent-child interaction therapy, child-parent psychotherapy and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.
"Home-based therapy is highly promising for a small subset of vulnerable clients who otherwise would receive no treatment or incomplete care because their parents can't take off work to get them here, or because of other family members' special needs, or because there is no car or gas money to get to our office," Lapidus said.
Marsh stressed that the home-based treatment is not perfect for everyone and that a therapist's office is still the best setting.
"They can come here and drop their stuff and don't have to worry about who is listening. Then they can leave it all here and have their home untouched," she said.
For more information, call 918-712-4301 or go online to tulsaworld.com/fcsok
Original Print Headline: Trauma therapy to be offered in-home
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Ben Hill Griffin Jr., a major figure in the Florida citrus industry, died yesterday at his home in Avon Park, Fla., after a long illness. He was 79 years old.
Mr. Griffin was chairman and president of Ben Hill Griffin, Inc., one of the largest citrus producers in Florida, with 10,000 acres of citrus groves and 85,000 acres of ranch and timberland in central Florida, where Avon Park is situated.
He was also chief executive and a major stockholder of Alico, Inc., a publicly held company that controls more than 175,000 acres of citrus groves, grazing land, oil and mineral deposits and timber. From 1958 to 1981 he was also a major producer of orange juice concentrate, including Orange Nip, his regional brand.
He became a millionaire in 1962 when his groves escaped a freeze that destroyed more than a million orange trees and caused the price of concentrate to jump to 65 cents a pound from 25 cents.
Over the years Mr. Griffin's interests also included a fruit-packing house, a canned-juice operation, a bank, a car dealership, a fertilizer plant, a country club and a 15,000-acre ranch with about 25,000 cattle. Forbes magazine listed him among its 400 richest Americans, citing him in 1989 as 261st, with estimated assets of $390 million.
''It doesn't affect my ego a damn bit,'' he said in a 1982 interview when asked about being on the Forbes list. ''There are people who would give $10,000 to get on that list. I wouldn't give 2 cents. I wouldn't give 1 cent.''
Started With 10 Acres
Mr. Griffin began his business empire in 1933, after studying agriculture at the University of Florida. His father gave him 10 acres of orange groves as a wedding present. Through hard work, business acumen and the seizing of opportunities, he became one of the five largest growers in Florida.
One opportunity came in 1958 when the Justice Department, acting in an antitrust case, ordered Minute Maid to divest itself of some holdings in the orange juice industry. Mr. Griffin agreed to buy a juice processing plant for $1 million, if Minute Maid financed the deal and added a packinghouse.
He was a major benefactor of the University of Florida, endowing a chair of agricultural economic marketing and establishing a citrus research and education center. The university named the stadium at its athletic field in his honor.
He was also a member of the major citrus industry organizations.
A conservative Democrat, Mr. Griffin served in the Florida Legislature for 12 years, 8 in the House and 4 in the Senate. In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully for Governor.
He is survived by his wife, Eleanor; a son, Ben Hill Griffin 3d of Frostproof, Fla.; four daughters, Harriett Harris of Bartow, Fla., Sarah Jane Alexander and Lucy Anne Collier, both of Frostproof, and Francie Milligan of Marseilles, France; a stepdaughter, Julie Chapman of Avon Park; a sister, Naomi Drane of Sebring, Fla.; 16 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:f3fe8d30-2a31-4a35-97e8-e82df68a4044> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/02/obituaries/ben-hill-griffin-jr-79-is-dead-leader-in-florida-citrus-industry.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967761 | 646 | 1.617188 | 2 |
O.K.- Brass tax time....
1. ECU controls fuel: True, but the second system listed on this site uses a piggyback and second set of injectors to supply the fuel. This works, but it's a hack. What really needs to be done is re-engineering the fuel maps, and larger (30 to 36lb) injectors. The timing would also need to be fine tuned to prevent detonation. Without proper fuel supply, yes it will be lean.. then pop- time for a new lump.
2. Diesel compression small- Untrue. Diesel's commonly run on 20:1 compression. My old TDI Jetta ran 22:1 compression. Diesel is just predetermined detonation. Turbo helps the effiecieny and torque of a deisel, but it is not required to run.
3. Intercooler not needed: True, dependand on boost. As boost levels rise the temperature also rises. It is positive for any turbo system to have an intercooler, the bigger the better. A lower temp intake charge is always preferred. So, on a low boost application you may be able to get away without one, but having one will only make your system more complete.
4. Pre tuned ECU on Benz TD. Yes, the factory system is optimized, but this system was not added as an afterthought- it was designed as part of the original car at the time of manufacture. When you add power to any engine, wheather it be normally aspirated or forced induction proper tuning is necessary. Ever put pipes on a bike or sled?
Dinan SC SFW- No this will not work. The best cheap system is A, used AA system or B, RMS with AA tuning. I wouldn't suggest to anyone they buy this system. It's a cheap hack, and as djcontra stated you'd end up replacing, and improving this system so much that you'd be better off doing it right the first time.
1997 Z3 with N/A power adders....
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“But I shall quote the passage by which it is made known that God divided all the nations. It is as follows: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee; when the Most High divided the nations, as He dispersed the sons of Adam. He set the bounds of the nations according to the numbers of the children of Israel; and the Lords portion became His people Jacob, and Israel was the lot of His inheritance. ” 2461 And having said this, I added: “The Seventy have translated it, He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. But because my argument is again in nowise weakened by this, I have adopted your exposition. And you yourselves, if you will confess the truth, must acknowledge that we, who have been called by God through the despised and shameful mystery of the cross (for the confession of which, and obedience to which, and for our piety, punishments even to death have been inflicted on us by demons, and by the host of the devil, through the aid ministered to them by you), and endure all torments rather than deny Christ even by word, through whom we are called to the salvation prepared beforehand by the Father, are more faithful to God than you, who were redeemed from Egypt with a high hand and a visitation of great glory, when the sea was parted for you, and a passage left dry, in which [God] slew those who pursued you with a very great equipment, and splendid chariots, bringing back upon them the sea which had been made a way for your sakes; on whom also a pillar of light shone, in order that you, more than any other nation in the world, might possess a peculiar light, never-failing and never-setting; for whom He rained manna as nourishment, fit for the heavenly angels, in order that you might have no need to prepare your food; and the water at Marah was made sweet; and a sign of Him that was to be crucified was made, both in the matter of the serpents which bit you, as I already mentioned (God anticipating before the proper times these mysteries, in order to confer grace upon you, to whom you are always convicted of being thankless), as well as in the type of the extending of the hands of Moses, and of Oshea being named Jesus (Joshua); when you fought against Amalek: concerning which God enjoined that the incident be recorded, and the name of Jesus laid up in your understandings; saying that this is He who would blot out the memorial of Amalek from under heaven. Now it is clear that the memorial of Amalek remained after the son of Nave (Nun): but He makes it manifest through Jesus, who was crucified, of whom also those symbols were fore-announcements of all that would happen to Him, the demons would be destroyed, and would dread His name, and that all principalities and kingdoms would fear Him; and that they who believe in Him out of all nations would be shown as God-fearing and peaceful men; and the facts already quoted by me, Trypho, indicate this. Again, when you desired flesh, so vast a quantity of quails was given you, that they could not be told; for whom also water gushed from the rock; and a cloud followed you for a shade from heat, and covering from cold, declaring the manner and signification of another and new heaven; the latchets of your shoes did not break, and your shoes waxed not old, and your garments wore not away, but even those of the children grew along with them.
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An app named Carma won Onstar‘s second Student Developer Challenge. Developed by Vineet Gopal, Joshua Ma, and Max Kolysh, three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carma attempts to solve the ever-growing problem of motor vehicle pooling.
In a nuthsell, Carma lets drivers of OnStar-equipped vehicles accept ride sharing requests from stranded students on a website, where drivers can connect with those in need of a ride (by sharing their routes in hopes of finding someone to ride alone with); those without transportation are able to submit ride requests that an OnStar driver can accept or decline. In effect, Carma would replace, reduce, or greatly streamline the process of posting pleas for rides in college residence halls (and elsewhere).
During the Developer Challenge, students had six weeks (starting in May) to create “”the next cool voice-based app” using OnStar’s data model and could freely pick their choice of voice platform while using OnStar’s API (Application Programming Interface) that was announced at CES in January. Their submissions were reviewed by a panel of executives that judged each of the entries on the factors of responsible connectivity, informed driving and location-based data. The winning team received a $10,000 OnStar Student Developer Dream package.
Recently, OnStar announced a partnership with RelayRides — a firm that enables owners of OnStar-equipped vehicles to rent their cars using the telematics system — giving them the ability to potentially earn rental money on a monthly basis.
The GM Authority Take
By building a cellular connection as well as GPS module into each vehicle, GM and OnStar have a monumental competitive advantage compared to competitors that, by far and large, skimp building the equipment into the car itself (read: Ford). Carma may seem like a small and insignificant step, but we can already see a future where systems such as OnStar and third-party apps like Carma play an increasingly important role in using vehicles to meet the transpiration needs of current and future generations.Google+ | <urn:uuid:18809ae9-2042-4fa8-b1d0-afdb3eb3f98f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gmauthority.com/blog/2012/08/carma-wins-onstars-student-developer-challenge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958167 | 433 | 1.625 | 2 |
The timber-framed hall house sits on the edge of Ashdown Forrest in the picturesque Wealden village of West Hoathly. Built in the fifteenth century for the Priory of St. Pancras in Lewes, the property was later seized by Henry VIII. Central chimneys and a fine Horsham stone roof were added later when it became a substantial yeoman farmer’s house.
Now, containing seventeenth and eighteenth century country furniture, ironwork, textiles and domestic objects displayed in furnished rooms, it stands in a traditional cottage garden. The garden includes herbaceous perennials, shrubs, wild flowers and over one hundred and seventy herbs. | <urn:uuid:ec2dc8c8-1bb3-423a-bbb8-7c6b83e93f74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.all4kidsuk.com/business/the-priest-house | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946371 | 138 | 1.585938 | 2 |
That afternoon, out of the dark machinery, one of the dead of the future arrived.
Images: While Jacob watches, the cave opens up and swallows him. Concentric counterspinning boxes mark his path downwards.
Having been to visit the bees in their strange habitat, Jacob expects that they will visit his body's world as well. That afternoon, a variety of blandly threatening shapes approach him with an unwanted familiarity. Jacob feels that he knows or could be these things. Wisely, he ignores them, caught up in the sense that walking will take him right to the person he is meant to surprise, while never thinking what will happen after he finishes that small task. | <urn:uuid:d3b82efa-74f1-48d7-b31b-ee06f06b0e82> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/wax/english/2start/1main/3/3a2a16a1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969623 | 138 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Firewall to Firewall Transfers
Ares Galaxy is a piece of software that wants to be there for all users, no matter who they are or what the specifications of their computer are. This includes those who are behind tough firewalls which will do its best to block transfers such as the one made by our download. In some cases, you may not be able to alter the firewall – and we’re mainly talking about users in college or in places such as Starbucks where you have very little control over the internet infrastructure. A unique feature about our program is the ability to transfer files through firewalls and this is something we’re going to talk about in more detail today.
To start with, let’s go into a bit more background about how this feature came into action. Back in 2005, it was reported that the developers received a cease & desist notice because of the actions available through the use of the software. For this reason, they decided the best way to go about increasing and improving the software was to make the source code freely available to all that were interested in it. This allowed other developers to look into it and provide advice to the core developers who could help to provide features and functionality.
At the time, network firewalls were starting to become more and more popular. This was because it helped to keep them safe and secure from viruses and other unwanted data but the problem that was caused by them was that it was difficult to partake in file transfers because they were simply blocked by the firewalls. This became a huge problem at the time and most P2P software didn’t have a solution and definitely struggled on this part. However, the developers of our Ares free download managed to find a great way around it and became one of the first pieces of software to do it in this manor.
The feature was first made available in version 1.9.0 which is quite a while ago now but all features are constantly improved and added to which is why file transfers are much quicker and more secure than they were many years ago. Even the connection times are a lot lower now than they were, that’s why we always recommend that you keep it updated after you’ve installed it from our website. Normally, you wouldn’t be able to download any files through firewalls because of the way P2P networks work but the feature we’re about to mention changes all that.
The way our Ares download gets around the firewall issue is by tricking the firewall into thinking it was the one who made the request. By doing this, the firewall allows it without blocking it instantly. If both computers running firewalls think they’re the one who started the connection, both will allow it but neither of them will actually send the data. How does this work then, you may ask? Well there’s even more technology in place to resolve this, a third party comes into the middle of it which will manage the transfer of all packets until they’re allowed through the firewall. This is currently the best way there is of getting past the problem and it does seem to work significantly well compared to other potential options.
Even if you are both behind strong firewalls, there isn’t anything to worry about as you’ll still be able to join the P2P network and you’ll still be able to use our system to download any piece of data you’re looking for. For this reason, you should have already realised by now that you can use this P2P network no matter what your circumstances are or who you are, it really is available to everyone. The download is free and easy to use so there’s no excuse not to use it, we’ll always do our best for our users. If you want to get started and benefit from this firewall to firewall transfer technology you can do so by using the download link we’ve provided to you on our website. We look forward to you joining the millions of other people who choose to use it on a regular basis! | <urn:uuid:b16c5e70-2636-48d8-93e1-7b616c809f98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.softwarepapa.com/ares_download/blog/ares-firewall-to-firewall-transfers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979091 | 841 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Tahiti’s peak season is during the summer months of June, July, and August, when the weather is dry. Temperatures are also cooler this time of year, with an average of 75 degrees during the day. In June, the largest cultural festival in the country, Heiva i Tahiti, takes place in Papeete’s To’ata Square. Expect music, dance, arts, and other pageantry. Almost every weekend in summer brings a sporting event, be it world-class surfing, a sailing regatta, an Ironman competition, or outrigger canoe races. A favorite among islanders is the Tahiti Traditional Sports Championship in mid-June, when contestants climb coconut trees and lift heavy boulders.
September and October are delightful months on the island. The July and August crowds are gone, yet you still have the same dry weather. Be on the lookout for Mahana Pae, a traditional dance show performed at Place Vaiete in Papeete throughout the month of September. A number of handicraft shows that feature local artisans dot the town this time of year.
As the calendar hits November, the humidity rises and the rainy season begins, lasting through April. This being the tropics, the rain is usually a torrential downpour that moves out quickly, with sunshine returning again. Be aware that a cyclone might threaten the island in the months of January, February, and March. | <urn:uuid:da9d1d84-0d40-41ad-93d9-fd0622827110> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://away.com/destinations/best-time-to-visit-tahiti-wp-cid384-sidwcmdev_158212.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945951 | 296 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) has proposed a budget for 2013-2015 that puts an additional $1 billion toward public education, with some of the money coming from tax increases on wholesale fuel and diesel sales.
As noted in "budget highlights" posted on the state's Office of Financial Management website, the proposed $1 billion increase would begin to address the requirements of the McCleary decision, a Washington State Supreme Court ruling that determined the state was not adequately funding public education.
What do you think of the governor's budget proposal? Tell us in the comments section.
A news release from Gregoire's office describes the $1 billion as a "down payment" toward fulfilling the state mandate. The money would come from an added excise tax on wholesale fuel and diesel sales, as well as an extension of surcharges on beer and business-and-occupation taxes.
“My goal with this budget was to give our incoming governor and the Legislature a balanced and sustainable plan that addresses our fiscal problem and preserves services that are pivotal to our future prosperity,” Gregoire said in a news release. “Nothing will do more to ensure a bright future for our state than the many enhancements we are proposing throughout our education system.”
As required by law, Gregoire also developed a second budget that solely relied on existing funds. The governor said in a news release that budget would amount to $52 million in cuts to state colleges and universities as well as elimination of the state's food assistance program.
“A budget that relies only on existing revenue would not only jeopardize essential services—I’m convinced it would also hinder our economic recovery," she said.
Gregoire steps down as governor on Jan. 16, making these two budget proposals her last after eight years in office. Her successor, Jay Inslee (D), will have the option of drawing on Gregoire's proposal or coming up with a completely new plan when he takes office next month. | <urn:uuid:c9309be4-a8c8-462c-ab65-370765c59f6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redmond.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/governor-s-proposed-budget-adds-1-billion-for-public-schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963802 | 411 | 1.679688 | 2 |
1 Warning to Pay Attention
1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. 4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
5 Jesus Made Like His Brothers
5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But there is a place where someone has testified: 6 "What is man that you are mindful of him, 6 the son of man that you care for him?
7 You made him a little[a] lower than the angels; 7 you crowned him with glory and honor 8 and put everything under his feet."[b] 8 In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
10 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. 11 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. 12 He says, 12 "I will declare your name to my brothers; 12 in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises."[c]
14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. 17 For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for[f] the sins of the people. 18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Top 10 sermons on Hebrews 2
- Better than Angels
- I'm Not Perfect, But ...
- A Dirty Christmas
- The Celebration
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|Our booth at the Reeds Spring Market, late July.|
It's hard to write about failure and despair in the garden. As gardeners, we start out as wide-eyed idealists. The season will be perfect, the packets of seed will be everything, and more, they promise. The photos on seed company websites give us waking dreams of perfect tomatoes, robust corn, twining, vining tendrils on skyrocketing vines. Some years our garden is a paradise. This year, it is struggling to stay alive.
|Adam, waiting on a customer.|
Adam, you may remember him from 3 seasons ago as our summer WWOOFer, came this year to experiment in production growing for farmers market. Because I had agreed to a great deal of lecture travel this season, it was a good fit for me to turn the entire garden over to him. A relief, actually, because he and I garden well together. He shares my passion for growing plants and experimenting. It was to be a summer with him and his girlfriend, Amelia, producing quantities of vegetables and selling them at market.
|Beds that aren't watered, look like this. In the foreground is Mioga ginger, sad.|
First, you may recall, we had an incredibly chilly, wet, prolonged spring. Each week brought us 4, 6, 8 or more inches of rain. Then, the second week of June, the water was turned off. We've had one, small rain since. Daily temperatures hover between 100 and 105 degrees F. (that's 37.7 degrees Celsius). Add that to constant sunshine, a bit of wind each day, and plants have gone into shock. Most put down few roots, thanks to the constant rainfall, so when the rains quit, they had to struggle to find moisture.
|One view of a portion of the garden. It doesn't look parched until you look close.|
We water daily, usually 12 hours or more a day, using soaker hoses, lots of mulch, and shade over the tomatoes. With over 100 tomato plants we should be harvesting bushels of tomatoes a week. But tomato blossoms fall off the plant in such heat, not setting fruit - a protective mechanism for the plant as they can't support more tomatoes in a drought. Even with constant watering, the plants struggle. And when plants are weakened for any reason, they are more susceptible to attack from pests.
|A native bean variety, Potawatamie limas, seem to do well in spite of the drought.|
Cucumber beetles and the viruses they carry, wiped out the entire melon patch in less than 24 hours. Then the cucumbers fell prey to the same problem. Next were the zucchini, attacked by both squash bugs by the millions, then by cucumber beetles, and finally by squash vine borers. Out of 50 plants, we have 2 left. Those have suffered the humiliation of rooting armadillos, which are attracted by the smell of damp soil, from our watering. They dig wherever there are earthworms or grubs, and simply root plants out of their way. Two nights ago, a huge armadillo, about 16 pounds, went right down the row of egg plants, tossing several out of its way.
|The heat has curtailed the tomato crops severely.|
Josh and Adam have taken turns, with Molly by their side, to sleeping on a cot outside next to the eggplants and 2 remaining zucchinis, standing guard. Molly alerts the guard to the intruder, who wakes up and shoots the armadillo. Or raccoon. Last night was an armadillo. Two nights ago it was 4 raccoons in the pear tree beside the eggplants, eating away at the pears. Between the squirrels and raccoons, we don't get a pear at all this year.
|Fennel doesn't seem to mind the heat.|
It's so frustrating, not just for the loss of the garden, but at seeing Adam's enthusiasm and excitement at the experiment at production, dashed by things out of any of our control. His goal was to learn how to time his plantings, what he could grow and how much he could make from selling at farmers markets. I'm certain he's learned a lot, but it's a hard lesson to learn in a year rife with problems.
|Mexican oregano withstands the harsh conditions of this summer pretty well.|
From friends in the greenhouse plant busienss I've heard this has been a very difficult and unprofitable year for plant sellers. Lowes and Home Depot, as well as Wal-Mart, all have enormous left-over shrubs, trees, perennials and even annuals, left in their inventory. All of them are trying desperately to sell off as much as possible. Yesterday when I was in town (Springfield, MO) I passed the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store and saw shelves and shelves of plants out front for sale. Nursery businesses can donate their left over plants to such charities, for a tax write-off and in turn the charity sells or gives away the plants to low-income people.
|Swallowtail butterflies seem to do well this year. There are more than I have ever seen.|
One worry I have is for the 7 million new gardeners last year and this, who were filled with enthusiasm for learning to garden. Since the drought and heat are widespread, from way out West, to New York City and south into Mexico, those folks will be even more discouraged than us seasoned gardeners. I worry they will be so discouraged they will not try to garden again. I worry, too, that this cycle of cool, wet spring, followed by 3 months of heat and drought, is here to stay. It's what has been predicted for several years by scientists who warn of global warming problems. This year is what we had last summer, only worse. If it continues, our gardening season will have to be early spring, and late fall, under plastic.
|Fritilary butterflies are doing well, too.|
It's not all doom and gloom. A few things, besides weeds, have managed to continue. But life in the garden is a struggle this year, almost nationwide. The great expectations we felt last spring have dwindled considerably. The reality of one of the harshest garden years in recent history, is daunting. | <urn:uuid:c7ca89f4-677c-4a19-bbbe-a43d699b4cf6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jimlongsgarden.blogspot.com/2011/07/harsh-summer-of-drought-and-heat.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969961 | 1,336 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Last Updated: Friday - 09/24/2010
Week of June 21, 2004
Strive for a faith-filled culture
Fr. Jack Gallagher urges Formation for Pastoral Service grads to make an impact on public life
By BILL GLEN
WCR Staff Writer
Now is the time to take steps to change the public's perception of faith, declares Father Jack Gallagher.
Speaking to a standing room only gathering in the Newman Theological College chapel June 13, Gallagher, president of Newman Theological College, told the 21 graduates of the Formation for Pastoral Service program and their guests that more people must discern their religious responsibilities.
"In our society, we live in two different cultures. There is the domestic culture, involving your homes, neighbourhoods and personal relationships, and there is a public, or popular culture which is largely a product of the mass media."
The two-year Formation for Pastoral Service program allows people from parishes across the Edmonton Archdiocese to study the faith and its foundations. It also provides an experience of service that enhances the ability of the graduates to serve in their parishes.
"This affects the preaching of the Gospel a great deal," Gallagher explained, "because there is an interaction between the two cultures. By the time something has bubbled up into the public culture, it has already been sifted through many different sieves."
At this point in time, public culture does not give much support to the faith, he said. To help change that, the graduates should continue what they have been doing the last two years.
"You have taken in the Gospel and reflected upon it in a communal way, not only to enrich your domestic culture, but also to be able to go out and have an impact upon the public who are constantly forming us whether we like it or not," he said.
Tom Adamyk, from St. Michael within the cluster of parishes out of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Fort Saskatchewan, says what he has gained from the program might not change the world, but he might be able to convince others to commit themselves to the Church.
"What this gives me is more knowledge of the Church. It has given me more theological studies and more understanding of Church history and where it is going in the future," Adamyk said.
"I know how important this program is to enhance the laity's perspective of the Church and how important it is for us to have some education to better serve within our communities."
Adamyk said he enrolled in the program because of a strong desire for more instruction in the Catholic faith, and he sees that same need in rural communities. "I am doing this because I feel we have almost been let down by the Church for 40 years," he said.
A light in the tunnel
"For two generations, we have had little after the nuns disappeared. This is a small light at the end of a long tunnel to get the laity involved in catechism programs. With the marriage, baptismal and Confirmation preparations, having an educated laity will be more of an asset to your faith communities."
Michelle Poitras has been involved with St. Francis of Assisi Parish for several years. "Prior to starting the program, I was on the liturgy committee and I was a Eucharistic minister," Poitras said. "Since I enrolled, I have now been helping with the sacramental preparation sessions offered in our parish. The single most significant benefit I received from this program is an absolute desire to continue learning about my faith and continuing my religious education."
St. Theresa Parish council member Stephen Dufresne agrees much can be done to let all sectors of society know that God is life.
"I have always believed we have to do parish work differently," Dufresne said. "We are not getting the results. We need to empower members of our faith communities to step up to the mark and be challenged to share their stewardship with other members of their community.
"We must be more in touch with what our time, talents and treasures really are. I hope to do this by having taken this program and I hope to encourage others to take this program.
"We have to step up to the responsibility of what is going on in our parishes."
Archbishop emeritus Joseph MacNeil prayed that the graduates have a blessed life of service.
"May God bless you and make you always aware of his saving wisdom. May he expand your faith and the fruits of his love so you will persevere in good work," MacNeil said. "And may he direct your steps to himself and show you how to walk in charity and peace." | <urn:uuid:1728125b-5522-402d-9a79-a2ba74de2fe3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wcr.ab.ca/old-site/news/2004/0621/gallagher062104.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973012 | 958 | 1.5625 | 2 |
While WW is busy fighting crime, I thought you would like to revisit this topic the”Your Black World” July 2011 article since it is soon in coming. I think it is an outrage that the MLK Memorial looks Asian, appears angry, and is minus African American workers or artists!!
MLK Memorial Still Brews in Controversy for Building with Chinese Workers
July 5, 2011 By Staff of Your Black World
Your Black World reports.
We have just two months before the August 28 celebration of a new memorial in Washington DC dedicated to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The site will be four acres, and cost $120 million to construct. The memorial continues on in spite of controversy about the builders choosing a sculptor from China.
The King family is in support of the use of a Chinese sculptor, leaving many American and African American artists disappointed that their talents were not used by the family. There are also some who believe that the 30-foot likeness of Dr. King appears too confrontational, contrasting with King’s non-violent approach to Civil Rights.
Ed Jackson, executive architect of the Martin Luther King National Memorial, said that the King family approved the likeness created by Lei Yixin.
“I’ve seen probably 50 sculptures of my dad, and I would say 47 of them are not good reflections — that’s not to disparage an artist,” said Martin Luther King III. “This particular artist — he’s done a good job.”
The critics of this decision include a sculptor who was on an earlier team. Also, academics, union members and others were angered by the decision to bring a group of Chinese workers to Washington to put the statue together. Those who support the monument are working to deal with the criticism as they seek ways to raise the last $6 million needed to finish the project.
“He had already created … three additional sculptures of Dr. King’s head,” Jackson said, referring to past work that had been done by Lei.
Jackson then brought pictures of four different heads to two of King’s children, who chose Lei’s as the best of the group.
“The response was the first one,” King III said. “I informed them that this was the one that had generated all that controversy about their father looking confrontational. Martin said, ‘Well if my father was not confrontational, given what he was facing at the time, what else could he be?’”
Ed Dwight, a sculptor who’d been on the project earlier, said that he thought that Lei Yixin would help him, but not that he would be doing the job by himself. Dwight claims that King would be insulted to hear that a sculptor from a Communist country would be working on his likeness.
“Dr. King would be turning over in his grave if he knew,” Dwight said. “He would rise up from his grave and walk into their offices and go, ‘How dare you?’”
There are also some who would argue that Dr. King, a man who fought for the rights of American workers, might be concerned about the exclusion of black and white American workers on the project. Bringing Chinese workers across the world to work on a King memorial is an interesting reminder of corporate globalization that is taking place in America today. Throughout the economic recovery, American workers have been the least to benefit, while the wealthy and corporations have done quite well. Part of the reason for this division is due to the fact that wages are kept low by using workers overseas. | <urn:uuid:ad7dabbe-b3be-408d-9d30-5059d5ef56ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://themilwaukeedrum.com/category/black-arts-theatre/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982483 | 758 | 1.695313 | 2 |
It's been a long time coming, but 91-year-old Marion Cox, dubbed the honorary mayor of Fort Union, will be saluted with a ceremony and plaque for his family's role in the early pioneer heritage of the Salt Lake Valley.
Cox, a retired carpenter, was instrumental in preserving the home Jehu and Sarah Cox built in 1849 in the area now occupied by a massive shopping district, the Family Center at Fort Union in Midvale.
The historic home was scheduled for demolition when the developer, Hermes Corp., received zoning approval from Salt Lake County to expand the Fort Union Center in the 1990s. But Cox and others with interest in the role Fort Union played in early Mormon history persuaded the county to move the home, which still stands amid the shopping and business district.
Jehu and Sarah Cox, Marion Cox's ancestors, were the original property owners in the area and donated 10 acres in the 1850s at the request of Brigham Young so a fort could be built to protect farmers.
The 11 a.m. ceremony Wednesday at the Midvale Museum will honor the unassuming Cox and his family. Meanwhile, the County Council is considering requests for a $45,000 appropriation to commission a bronze statue of the Coxes to be erected at the site of the home, which for a while was used as a hair salon in the Fort Union center.
Democrat to debate whomever • We have seen empty chairs used by frustrated candidates to depict incumbents who won't debate them, but Democratic Senate candidate Scott Howell may be the first to challenge a made-up person to a debate.
Howell issued a news release this week that complained about incumbent Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch's refusal to debate him. The release said if Hatch doesn't want to face Howell in a traditional debate, Howell would be willing to joint him at a town hall meeting.
If Hatch still doesn't want to appear, Howell said he would be willing to debate a Hatch surrogate, like Hatch's campaign manager Dave Hansen or even Heather Brady.
No one by that name is associated with Hatch's office or his campaign. So perhaps Howell is so frustrated with Hatch's invisibility, he'll just debate anyone off the street. Maybe he could grab a shopper from the checkout counter and challenge her on the economy.
Or maybe Howell's campaign meant he would be willing to debate longtime Hatch aide Heather Barney.
Drinking too much tea? • An employee of the Walmart in Centerville forgot her watch at work recently and walked into the foyer to check the time stamp on the television on the wall.
No luck there because the Republican National Convention was being aired and the time stamp was not on the screen.
She then went to a cashier to ask the time but was told to check the time stamp on the TV.
"The convention is going on right now and the time stamp is not on the TV," she said.
"You mean Romney's convention?" the cashier asked.
"Yeah, if you want to call it that."
"Now who's he running against?"
"The president of the United States."
"You mean that Obama guy?"
It ain't over till it's over • Who said Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart is humorless?
At a legislative audit committee meeting Tuesday, when members were preparing to hear the latest report about incompetence, corruption and other problems at the troubled Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Provo Republican sought some levity by channeling Yogi Berra.
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Jacobs pointed to some of the first drivers to go under Rock Road as evidence. Many were honking or waving at construction crews.
"Before we started, it took about 10 minutes to get through the Rock and Armour area," says Jacobs, "and what they're going to find is it's going to be less than two minutes."
Only two eastbound lanes of Kellogg were opened on Wednesday. Westbound lanes will open on Friday, and the through and turn lanes of Rock Road will open next week.
Since 1985, Jacobs says Wichita has spent $500 million on turning the Kellogg corridor into a freeway. The city's goal is still to expand the freeway to Goddard on the west side of Wichita and the Butler County line on the east side. You can read details on these projects below through the live updates Eyewitness News provided throughout the day Wednesday.
Update - 3:30 p.m.:
The first phase of re-opening Kellogg and Rock Road is now complete. Traffic is flowing on Eastbound Kellogg under the Rock Road overpass.
The other phases will happen on Friday and the coming weeks.
Eyewitness News Reporter Cliff Judy is following the Kellogg & Rock intersection reopening.
He asked Special Projects Engineer for the City of Wichita, Michael Jacobs, about what's next for Kellogg.
"The next thing that you're going to actually see is out on the west side of Wichita, we're going to build a couple of miles of frontage road," Jacobs said, "There's one that's been built from 119th to 135th. That's what we're going to do out there to preserve the corridor, open up that area for developments so people can have better access. Then, we'll come back and probably do the Webb interchange. After that, probably the Greenwich interchange. Then, we're getting out into the future. What's going to be next? I don't know. That's quite a ways out."
Jacobs said the city will have Kellogg and Webb plans written up and ready to go by 2012. It's the funding that's the problem because the city pays for the vast majority of the project. Jacobs says the more realistic time frame when Kellogg and Webb construction will start is 2016. He says if some other funding source or partner came into the picture, that would speed up the process.
By Jennifer Searle (WICHITA, Kan.)
The intersection of Kellogg and Rock will get a little easier to travel through this week. The city says it will start opening it to traffic in the following order:
Wednesday: Eastbound traffic will be routed onto the freeway after the morning rush.
Friday: Westbound traffic will be shifted onto the freeway beginning at Cypress after the morning rush.
Next week: All north-south through lanes and all turn movements for Rock Road traffic will be opened.
Week of November 16: Through lanes and turn movements for Armour/Towne East Mall Drive will open.
The construction project won't be complete. You'll probably see construction cones until spring 2010.
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Bicentennial Committee to host marker ceremonies
By Dianne Yost
The Morgan County Bicentennial Committee will host three special Bicentennial Marker ceremonies on Monday, August 4 to honor significant and historic sites that mark Morgan County’s legacy. The public is invited to attend each ceremony beginning at 1:30p.m. at Hard Labor Creek State Park, at 2:30 p.m. in the Mallory Community and at 3:30 p.m. in the southwestern tip of Morgan County at the site of a World War II airplane crash that claimed the lives of five American heroes.
Members of the Morgan County Bicentennial Committee began dedicating the commemorative markers last year. “We continue to dedicate the markers throughout the county to commemorate and honor Morgan County. We especially wish to invite the public to join us in celebrating our unique history,” said Morgan County Bicentennial Committee Co-chair and Madison-Morgan County Chamber President Marguerite Copelan.
Last year the committee dedicated seven of the Bicentennial markers. By the end of the year Copelan says a total of 21 will be dedicated throughout the county.
The Hard Labor Creek State Park ceremony at 1:30p.m. in Rutledge on August 4 will take place inside the park at the park office that houses the gift shop. The marker describes the historic significance of the park. It reads as follows:
“The park was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal program sponsored by President Roosevelt. It was administered as a division of the U.S. Army to reclaim unusable farm land, create recreational areas, and teach young men a skill or trade. Enlistees of the CCC were paid about $30 for a six-month enlistment, $25 of which was automatically sent to the enlistee’s family. There were two CCC camps housed at the Park.
The first camp, District “B” Company 459 Ga. SP-8, Rutledge, GA, operated from 1934-1939. The second one, 3442nd Company CCC Camp Ga. SP-11, Rutledge, GA, operated from 1935-1937. The National Park Service designed the park’s layout. The site had been a vacant, overworked agricultural land at the time the government purchased it for a recreation demonstration project. The plan included the construction of two lakes, camping areas, observation tower, boat house, trails and other amenities. A February 1935 nursery plan included the cultivation of over 850,000 trees on site including pines, oaks, maples, and sweet gums to reforest the park. These CCC camps, together with the U.S. Forestry service, are responsible for many of the park’s original structures and landscapes. They built roads, bridges, retaining walls, Camp Rutledge, Lake Rutledge, the superintendent’s home, and several structures located at Camp Daniel Morgan. Much of the work stopped at the start of World War II. Hard Labor Creek Park became a National Park in 1939. It served as a National Park until 1946 when it was turned over to the state of Georgia, which continues to operate and maintain it today.”
The Mallory Community marker ceremony begins at 2:30p.m. on August 4 at the intersection of Mallory Road and Bostwick Highway (Highway 83). The marker commemorating the Mallory Community formed in the 1840s, reads as follows:
The early tax records of Morgan County indentify the family of “Malry” in the Harris Militia District as early as the 1840s. By the turn of the 20th century, the community of Mallory existed in the area owned by this family.
By 1897, the Mallory community boasted a church, Mallory Chapel, and a school, Mallory School. By 1911, a second school, Longs Academy, served the Harris District. There was also a general store and a post office.
The application filed with the Postmaster General in 1890 indicates that the post office would serve a community of approximately 2,000 individuals, and noted that, “the proposed office is in the midst of an intelligent community that is densely populated.”
In close proximity to the center of the Mallory Community was a grist mill on Big Sandy Creek operated by the Gibbs family. There were also two cotton gins in proximity to the community. One was located approximately two miles south at the intersection of present-day Bostwick Highway and Sandy Creek Roads.
The other was located approximately two miles north at the intersection of present-day Bostwick Highway and Nolan Store Road, a community that later was identified as Drexel. Because of the individuals who take pride in this community, Mallory is recognized as a significant part of our county history.
The third August 4 ceremony takes place at 3:30 p.m. to honor the rare site of a World War II B-25C airplane crash site which took place in 1945 and claimed the lives of five Americans. The marker will be planted at Godfrey Road and Walton’s Mill Road which is located in the southwestern tip of Morgan County where the county line meets Putnam and Jasper Counties.
The marker tells the story of the crash and honors the lives of American heroes. It reads: In the early afternoon of January 10, 1945, residents of the southwestern portion of Morgan County were witnesses to the crash of a B-25C airplane in a field near the intersection of present-day Godfrey Road and Walton’s Mill Road.
The plane had taken off from Greenville Army Air Base in Greenville, South Carolina, and it was on a low altitude rendezvous mission at 500 feet. Witnesses to the accident reported seeing the airplane flying below altitude and very close to the trees. According to published reports from Army Air Forces, after striking a tree the plane crashed to the ground and burst into flames.
Witnesses reported seeing smoke coming from the plane before it crashed, suggesting mechanical failure. The official report filed with the AAF Office of Flying Safety identifies a possible loss of power on the right engine as a contributing factor to the crash, but the underlying cause is listed as “unknown.” Casualties were: Lt. Calvin Elden Stocking, 21, pilot, Greenville, S.C.; Lt. Samuel James Strong, 21, co-pilot, Bakersfield, Ca; Lt. Frank H. Bartels, 25, bombardier-navigator, Ronceverte, W.V.; Cpl. William E. Thrash, 20, engineer-gunner, Murphreesboro, AK, and Cpl. Robert Deana Rodgers, 19, radio-gunner, Maplewood, N.J.
The local newspaper The Madisonian noted on January 19, 1945, “the sympathy of the people of Morgan County goes out unstintingly to those whose homes are bereaved by this unfortunate accident.” Because of the sacrifice of these men, we commemorate our WWII veterans. | <urn:uuid:59545e3f-e611-4002-b310-526e27ac19dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://morgancountycitizen.com/?q=node/7464 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961493 | 1,465 | 1.820313 | 2 |
UK Feminista’s feminist lobby of parliament
UK Feminsta has joined forces with a number of supporting organisations, such as women’s charity Eaves, to create the event which brings the public face to face with their local MP’s to discuss how politics can rectify issues affecting women.
Some of the topics of discussion include combating violence against women and girls, inequality in the economy and the workplace, strengthening democracy and women’s rights.
To join in on the day the organisation asks members of the public to register their attendance via the UK Feminista website. By registering with your address, an email will be sent on your behalf to your local MP inviting them to attend the feminist lobby.
On the day there will be a pre-lobby event from 14:00-16:00 at the Abbey Centre which will include training, talks and stalls to prepare and unite campaigners.
Dr Helen Pankhurst, great granddaughter of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, will be joining the lobby and reuniting with the Olympic Suffragettes to “lobby for an end to the backsliding on women’s rights.”
Speaking to UK Feminista, Pankhurst declared:
“Lobbying parliament today is as urgent and vital as it has ever been. Politicians and other leaders can and must do more to tackle the serious injustices against women that persist – and the human rights violations that they contribute to – and that continue to thwart our potential as a society.
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The growth of atheism is coming at the expense of religion. As freethought makes gains in society, it will inevitably start by appealing to those who are religious only by default – the people who go to church because they’ve never known an alternative, those who are receptive to our message and easily persuaded. And as their members join us or simply drift away, the larger, established churches are bound to begin feeling the sting of declining membership. There are encouraging signs that this process is already underway, especially with the single largest Christian denomination, the Roman Catholic church.
Every major religion except Islam is declining in Western Europe, according to the Center for the Study on Global Christianity at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. The drop is most evident in France, Sweden and the Netherlands, where church attendance is less than 10% in some areas.
Last month, Pope Benedict XVI lamented the weakening of churches in Europe, Australia and the USA. “There’s no longer evidence for a need of God, even less of Christ,” he told Italian priests. “The so-called traditional churches look like they are dying.”
Even in traditionally Catholic countries like France, Spain and Ireland, the decline is apparent:
In Spain, where 81 percent of the population is Catholic, two-thirds of respondents in a 2002 survey said they rarely or never attend services. (source)
In the 1970s, more than 90% of Irish Catholics said they went to Mass once a week. Now the number is 44%, according to a recent survey.
…Last year, 15 men were ordained as Catholic priests for the entire island, with 5.6 million people. (source)
In 2006, 39 percent of babies were baptized, according to figures from state statistics institute Insee and the Conference of French Bishops. In 1996, it was 55 percent.
About a third of marriages were celebrated with a Catholic Mass in 2006, down from 44 percent 10 years earlier. (source)
America, too, has seen its Catholic population dropping steadily. As many as 10% of Americans are ex-Catholics, and churches and parishes are closing across the country because there are neither enough priests to run them nor people to attend them:
The “most damaging change in Catholic life is the precipitous decline in Mass attendance. It’s the sign of a church collapsing,” says Catholic University sociologist William D’Antonio, co-author of statistical studies of American Catholics.
Nationally, attendance slid from 44% in 1987 to 37% in 1999.
…”Each generation starts with a lower attendance rating. People don’t grow into attending Mass,” he says. (source)
Hispanic immigrants are one of the church’s few bright spots, but even they tend to secularize after one or two generations.
There are several reasons for the steadily dwindling attendance and influence of the Catholic church. One of them, I feel certain, is that young Catholics feel increasingly disconnected from a church that continues to bash gays, exclude women from the priesthood, and preach against contraception. As society becomes increasingly liberal and tolerant, the Catholic church continues to cling obstinately to its irrational rules, and is accordingly being left in the dust. Another is the devastating sex-abuse scandal which has severely damaged the church’s reputation and weakened people’s trust in its hierarchy. A third is probably that people in increasingly prosperous and educated societies see less need for the consolations of religion. And all these factors operate in a positive-feedback loop, making people less willing to attend church or become priests, which contributes to further declines in the church’s wealth and power.
Similar to what’s happened with Judaism, we’re seeing more and more evidence of “cultural Catholicism,” where people identify with the church as part of their heritage and culture, not out of a sense of religious obligation. As the West becomes more secular, Catholicism and other churches are likely to shift their focus to the Third World to survive – yet even that can be at most a temporary refuge. As humanity as a whole makes progress, the churches fade, and freethought grows.
What will become of a post-church world? Articles like this one, “From a Divine Order to the Public Good“, give a hopeful glimpse: as religious orders die out, their land is being bought up for conservation and public use, turned into nature preserves or acquired by schools and nonprofits. I have to say that it echoes a passage of mine from the Ebon Musings essay “Looking Ahead“:
I see a world where the churches have become libraries and schools and museums, institutions dedicated to the preservation and expansion of knowledge, where reason is enshrined rather than faith.
For the good of humanity, I hope that the churches continue to fade, so that a new enlightenment may arise in their place. | <urn:uuid:36332760-3b50-4ee0-90d9-b39725255f4e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2008/09/the-fading-of-the-church/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970978 | 1,023 | 1.75 | 2 |
Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program.
By Monday afternoon, benchmark March crude was up $2.02 to $105.26 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since May. The contract rose 93 cents to settle at $103.24 per barrel in New York on Friday.
Iran’s announcement will likely have minimal impact on supplies, analysts said, because only about 3 percent of France’s oil consumption is from Iranian sources. Britain had not imported oil from the Islamic republic in six months.
“The price rise is more a reflection of concerns about the further escalation in tensions between Iran and the West,” said commodity analyst Caroline Bain of the Economist Intelligence Unit. “Banning the tiny quantities of exports to the U.K. and France involves very little risk for Iran — indeed quite the opposite, it catches the headlines and leads to a higher global oil price, which is something Iran is very keen to encourage.”
Markets in the United States are closed Monday for the Presidents Day holiday.
Iran’s oil ministry said Sunday it stopped crude shipments to British and French companies in an apparent pre-emptive blow against the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on Iran’s crucial fuel exports. They include a freeze of the country’s central bank assets and an oil embargo set to begin in July.
Iran’s Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi had warned earlier this month that Tehran could cut off oil exports to “hostile” European nations. The 27-nation EU accounts for about 18 percent of Iran’s oil exports.
Tehran also is considering extending the embargo to other European countries, a semiofficial Iranian news agency reported Monday.
The head of Iran’s state oil company Ahmad Qalehbani was quoted by the Mehr agency as saying that the country would stop selling crude to nations who take action against Tehran.
The EU sanctions, along with other punitive measures imposed by the U.S., are part of Western efforts to derail Iran’s disputed nuclear program, which the West fears is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Iran denies the charges, and says its program is for peaceful purposes.
Oil prices also rose on hopes that Greece’s new bailout deal will be approved on Monday as well as by China’s decision to boost money supply bid to spur lending and economic growth. China’s central bank said Saturday it will lower the ratio of funds that banks must hold as reserves, a move that frees tens of billions of dollars.
Oil has jumped from $96 earlier this month amid optimism the global economy may grow more this year than previously expected. J.P. Morgan raised its Brent crude price forecast to as high as $135 from $120 — on Monday, the April Brent crude contract was up 79 cents at $120.37 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
“Building economic momentum has the potential to pull oil prices higher for the next 12 to 24 months,” J.P. Morgan said in a report.
In other energy trading in March contracts, heating oil gained 3 cents to $3.22 per gallon and gasoline futures rose 3.2 cents to $3.22 per gallon. Natural gas lost 7 cents to $2.62 per 1,000 cubic feet.
• Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.
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Simply: No they're not
With ab exercises you train your muscles, the body takes it's energy from every source it got, no matter where it's needed. So you can't specifically burn fat at a particular bodypart.
But as you want to reduce your belly fat, why not also define some nice muscles beneath it...
It's absolutely true that you cannot burn fat at a particular body part - in other words, you can't target fat reduction or "spot reduce" fat on any part of your body. However, the idea that abs exercises do not burn fat is a popular misconception. It comes about from misunderstanding the principles behind fat burning and muscle building. When developing a nice set of six pack abs, there are two main parts: 1) fat burning in order to "uncover" the abdominal muscles; 2) muscle building in order to "build" the abdominal muscles and make them appear more "chiselled" and bumpy, which is really just making them slightly bigger and stronger. I emphasise slightly because if you have overdeveloped abs, then it will give you a somewhat bloated look (trust me, you don't want this - a lot of bodybuilders have it and it just looks exaggerated).
To answer your original question, ab exercises are not necessarily more useful for reducing belly fat than other exercises, but they are still VERY useful. To clarify what I mean by this, here are a couple of questions to think about:
- Do ab exercises use up energy and thus burn calories?
- Yes - Of course they do; they put tension on the abdominal muscles
- Do ab exercises temporarily break down the abdominal muscles resulting in strengthening of those muscles in between training sessions?
- Yes - Any exercise which isolates or targets a single muscle group is technically a strength building exercise
- Do both of the above "burn fat" so to speak?
- Yes - burning calories creates a calorie deficit which, eventually, results in a fat loss (including around your stomach!); strengthening abdominal (or any other) muscles also burns additional calories at rest by increasing your metabolism.
So the benefits of ab exercises are:
- they strengthen you abdominal muscles, which will produce that chiseled look once you've stripped away all the remaining fat
- they DO assist in fat burning because, like strengthening ANY other muscle, strengthening your abs boosts your metabolic rate at rest
What does this mean for your training regime? It means that if you were to try and sculpt out your abs by doing ONLY abs exercises, then it would probably take you a lot longer, simply because you would not be taking advantage of all the other ways of burning fat such as interval training and steady state cardio. It also means, however, that if you're already doing regular cardio and you intend to continue doing it, then you can also increase your volume of abs exercises in addition to whatever other training your doing.
I have recently increased the volume or amount of abs exercises I'm doing because I already do a lot of cardio (such as walking) and strength training, so for me personally, there doesn't seem to be much room for increasing what I'm doing in other areas besides abs work. The other main alternative to getting past a fat burning plateau is to increase the weight you are lifting in your strength training exercises, since that will then stimulate your other muscle groups to grow more muscle which will consume more calories at rest. And a nice side effect of doing that, of course, is that you'll also become more ripped and developed in the rest of your body, not just your abs.
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Ben Colburn, pictured above (credit to Norman Fraser) was a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge until September 2010 when he became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He recently gave a lecture to the Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) on the subject of Social Liberal Values. From Monday to Thursday this week, at 10 am, I'll put up a chapter of his lecture. Enjoy - and as I'm away on my holidays, play nicely in the comments threads If you missed it, you might want to also read Robert Brown's speech from the same event.
Part 1 - Against the Orange Book
What is a social Liberal? What are the values that underpin social Liberalism, and distinguish it from other political creeds, both within and outwith the Liberal family? And – most relevantly, for a meeting launching the Social Liberal Forum in
Scotland – what makes social Liberalism
better? This essay aims to answer
those questions, and also to make a start at showing how those foundational
values can be put to practical work in developing policies and informing
To start with, however, I want to focus on our rivals. Effectively, this means the position set out in The Orange Book, especially by David Laws in his keynote essay ‘Reclaiming Liberalism: a liberal agenda for the Liberal Democrats’. There is much that is wise and liberal in Laws’s essay, and in the Orange Book more widely. Nevertheless, seeing what’s wrong with Laws’s position seems to me the best way of motivating, and helping to characterise, a social Liberal alternative to the economic Liberalism articulated there. As we will see, the theoretical terrain is a good deal more complex than a simple opposition between two clear, distinct and homogeneous rivals; but we have to start somewhere.
The best thing in Laws’s essay is his injunction against a la carte Liberalism; that is, a political position not motivated by sound and consistent Liberal principles, but rather composed of a mish-mash of apparently worthy causes, adopted piecemeal with no overall theoretical framework. Laws is right that this is a bad thing. The danger of such an approach is that, while each of these policies might seem well-intentioned in context, it leads a fractured and contradictory picture overall. The chance of a clear and distinctive Liberal voice is lost, and the failure to articulate clear general principles underlying our policies gives the impression of their being an opportunistic pick and mix, even if they’re not.
So far so good. The social Liberal should agree that we must avoid a la carte Liberalism. Nevertheless, we part company with his positive proposal for how to do so.
Laws identifies four central commitments of the Liberal tradition: personal liberty, political liberty, economic liberty, and social liberty. The first consists in freedom from interference and coercion; the second in participation in the political system; the third in private property rights and the ability to participate in a free market; and the fourth in possessing the necessary internal and external resources to use the other types of freedom for individual and societal betterment. Laws’s view is that Liberalism should be concerned with the balanced combination of these four elements. However (he says) in the twentieth century the Liberal and Liberal Democrat parties consistently downplayed the importance of economic liberty, eventually leaving the Conservatives of Margaret Thatcher to become its champions. In the interests of restoring balance, Laws argues, we must reclaim economic liberty, and return it to centre stage in Liberal Democrat thinking. This is the guiding spirit of many of the essays in the Orange Book as a whole, most of which in one way or another argue for the incorporation of free market mechanisms into the organisation and delivery of public services.
The problem with Laws’s argument is that the four strands that Laws identifies are unhappy companions. True, they have all been elements of the Liberal heritage, albeit in different combinations and with different emphasis at different times. That history, however, doesn’t mean that all four elements can unproblematically now be combined. In fact, the opposite is true. To take one example, unconstrained economic liberty tends over time to lead to large inequalities in wealth and influence. Such inequalities impede political liberty because of their negative impact on people’s ability to participate in the political system on an even footing. To take another example, trying to promote social liberty sometimes leads to people having less personal liberty than they might otherwise have. Laws himself quotes a speech by Joseph Chamberlain in 1885, in which the latter evokes exactly this sort of tension:
The great problem of our civilization is still unresolved. We have to account for, and to grapple with, the mass of misery and destitution in our midst, co-existent as it is with the evidence of abundant wealth and teeming prosperity. It is a problem which some men would set aside with references to the eternal laws of supply and demand, to the necessity of freedom of contract, and to the sanctity of every private right of property. But gentlemen, these phrases are the convenient cant of selfish wealth.
In other words, in our current unjust world, we can’t pursue all four types of liberty at the same time. We can’t always have all the freedoms we might want, because in a non-ideal world the different types of liberty aren’t always mutually supportive. So, the assumption that they can be harmoniously combined and pursued in tandem is unrealistic, and it’s irresponsible to sell a political position by pretending that they can. It’s also dangerous, because it conceals the costs of giving one of the four strands greater emphasis: emphasising economic liberty risks diminishing social and political liberty, and we’d better not pretend otherwise. All of which is to say: if (as we should) we take seriously Laws’s injunctions against a la carte Liberalism, we should worry that his version of economic Liberalism is guilty of precisely the sins against which he rightly inveighs. | <urn:uuid:183168f1-fdf3-4d15-96c3-e75ffaf4e0f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://carons-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/against-orange-book-ben-colburns-social.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950876 | 1,255 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Obesity problem in spotlight
Health providers and community groups in Marlborough and Nelson must form an alliance to tackle obesity in the region, says the head of a sports trust.
Sport Tasman chief executive Nigel Muir said more work was needed to get people exercising and eating healthily. He called for continued support from the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board despite funding for a nutrition and physical activity programme, which started five years ago, ending last month.
Mr Muir was speaking at a health committee meeting in Blenheim last week when he called for the board to lead a "propaganda war" against the district's obesity problems.
Community-based service director Peter Burton said the board would continue to endorse healthy living through the Public Health Service. However, the economic climate was different to that of five years ago, he said.
Mr Muir warned one in two New Zealanders would be obese by 2024. In 2009, it was one in four, he said.
In Nelson-Marlborough, there was a disconnect with reality with people claiming to get enough exercise, he said.
"The people in this room know that is not the case."
Gym costs, lack of equipment and lack of a partner stop people from exercising, he said.
"We have to find a way to remove these barriers for people," Mr Muir said.
Chief executive John Peters said the health board would support Sport Tasman and community groups to tackle obesity but within its existing resources.
Acting committee chairman John Moore questioned the board's funding priorities.
"We spend $40 million a year on pills no problem but can't find $1m a year for this."
AT A GLANCE
Findings from the nutrition and physical activity programme in Nelson - Marlborough:
49 per cent not getting enough exercise
53 per cent not taking active transport
17 per cent say they will start a healthier lifestyle in the next 30 days
16 per cent of New Zealanders take part in sports to win. Most others site fitness, relaxation and social interaction as the main attraction.
67 per cent of people eat takeaways one to four times a month.
41 per cent have fizzy drinks weekly.
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The following quotation comes at second or third hand. John Alexander Smith (1863-1939), Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford, gave a lecture sometime before WWI, attended by Harold Macmillan. Macmillan reported Smith's words to Isaiah Berlin, and Isaiah Berlin told them to Ramin Jahanbegloo, who reproduced them in Conversations with Isaiah Berlin
(London: Phoenix Press, 1993), p. 29:
All of you, gentlemen, will have different careers -- some of you will be lawyers, some of you will be soldiers, some will be doctors or engineers, some will be government servants, some will be landowners or politicians. Let me tell you at once that nothing I say during these lectures will be of the slightest use to you in any of the fields in which you will attempt to exercise your skills. But one thing I can promise you: if you continue with this course of lectures to the end, you will always be able to know when men are talking rot. | <urn:uuid:a3ae63a7-8fbb-4763-8e13-3f73d0fb4deb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2004/08/philosophy-lecture.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93833 | 212 | 1.726563 | 2 |
DC YouthLink: Promoting Public Safety, Preparing Youth to Succeed and Investing in DC
White Paper: DC YouthLink: Promoting Public Safety, Preparing Youth to Succeed and Investing in DC
By focusing on community-based interventions, DC YouthLink is at the forefront of a national trend in positive, community-based services and placements for youth committed to a juvenile justice agency. The initiative is based on the premise that youth are best served within the context of their home community and that building upon their strengths and the strengths of the community is the most effective way to enhance public safety. This report provides a description of DC YouthLink, its relationship to current trends in juvenile justice, and initial outcomes associated with the initaitive. | <urn:uuid:5fb746ed-be6b-448c-8b64-b230f7461354> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mpdc.dc.gov/node/439672 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951547 | 153 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Paulo Coelho tells the story of the painter Henri Matisse who used to visit the great Renoir regularly.
As Renoir became more ravaged by arthritis, Matisse arrived on a daily basis, taking brushes, paint and food for the ailing artist.
Matisse would watch Renoir paint and every time the brush touched the canvas the master painter would wince in pain.
“Master, you have already created a vast and important body of work, why continue torturing yourself in this way?”
Many of us would like to create at least one masterpiece in our lifetime.
Write a book like Hemingway.
Paint a picture like Rembrandt.
Write a song like Lennon.
Brain surgeons are allowed (in my opinion at least) to be scumbags. They have my permission (for what it’s worth) to act how they want, say what they want, have a terrible attitude, a haughty sense of entitlement and complain about everything and everyone.
I have two reasons.
Firstly, they are really hard to replace. It takes a lot of intelligence, discipline, skill and training to become a brain surgeon. I know that I couldn’t become one, and I’m guessing that you couldn’t either. I don’t want to limit your potential, but I’m probably right. Brain surgeons don’t grow on trees, so I’m OK for them to act like scumbags because we don’t get a lot of choice about whether we get the nice brain surgeon or the surly one.
Secondly, brain surgeons save people’s lives. They do pretty amazing and complex work that significantly benefits our society, so they are allowed to balance this out with a terrible attitude.
We don’t have that option.
Avalanches are incredibly destructive forces that take all before them.
They are often initiated by a loud noise, then the snow begins to build up, gradually gathering momentum until it becomes an unstoppable force.
Why not start one of our own?
I’m sure that you’ve heard the old saying, “Give a man a fish and he’ll have food for a day, teach him how to fish and he’ll have food for a lifetime.”
It’s a terrific principle when working with people living in poverty and trying to assist them to get back on their feet.
It’s also a key principle to be conscious of when leading people.
If you want a successful organisation or enterprise, equipping people for a day won’t help you much.
As a sports fan, I am conscious of how easy it can be for an athlete to fall out of form and how challenging it can be to fire on all cylinders again.
A few times this year, I have also been conscious that there are occasionally areas of my life when I’ve been out of form. It may be in my role as a husband, parent, leader or christian, but I can sometimes get in a bad rut that can be a challenge to break out of.
Form slumps are normal and most of the all-time greats have experienced them at some stage of their careers, so it’s only natural that we will go periods of time when we’re not performing at our best.
So how can you break out of a form slump?
On his blog, John C. Maxwell recently showed a video clip for a message that he was delivering. He started to tell this story (or at least a derivative of it) when his own attitude was tested with humourous consequences.
He never got to finish the original story, so I searched for it and found this version on Kent Crockett’s site.
Two construction workers had taken a lunch break and opened up their lunch boxes.
One of them looked inside his box and said, “Not baloney sandwiches again! I can’t believe it. I hate baloney. This is the third time this week I’ve had baloney. I can’t stand baloney!”
The other one said, “Why don’t you just ask your wife to make you something different?”
It’s a common question, “When is the best time to take action?”
My response would be, “right now!”
Too many times we wait around for the right time, the right economic conditions, the right people to give us their tacit approval, the right whatever half-baked excuse we use to procrastinate and not take action.
If you want to be successful in any area of life, assume that the light’s always green.
It’s the standard comment that most of us make on a Monday morning.
So many of us need that morning caffeine fix to get us up and running for the day.
But what if there was another way to get us going?
There’s a story about two brothers who appeared on an American talk show.
The first one came out and told his story.
He was divorced, broke, unemployed, angry about life, unable to control his emotions and had problems with alcohol abuse.
When asked why he thought he was this way he responded, “What choice do I have? My father was an abusive alcoholic and I was destined to turn out like this, it’s all his fault!”
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It's All Politics
Thu April 26, 2012
Some Campaign Donors Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Isn't
Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 1:09 pm
Much of the attention on money in politics this election cycle has been focused on the new superPACs, and with good reason.
Recent court rulings allow superPACs — which officially are independent of specific candidates — to raise and spend unlimited money to support their favorite politician or cause.
"The top 10 contributors gave more than a third, or $68 million of the nearly $202 million reported by the outside spending groups this election," the Center for Public Integrity noted Thursday, in its analysis of Federal Election Commission records.
The superPACs have raised the profile of some wealthy donors who had been relatively anonymous outside of their business fields. On Morning Edition, NPR's Robert Smith took a look at one such donor who would have preferred to remain under the radar.
But The Washington Post reports that publicity-shy donors are finding an alternative: Lots of money is going to politically active nonprofit organizations. As with superPACs, those donations are limited only by the donor's largesse. But unlike with superPACs, donations to these nonprofit organizations are anonymous and normally cannot be tracked back to individual donors.
Nonprofits could play a larger role as the presidential race turns to the general election, the Post reports:
"Nearly all of the independent advertising being aired for the 2012 general-election campaign has come from interest groups that do not disclose their donors, suggesting that much of the political spending over the next six months will come from sources invisible to the public. ...
"Most of the ad spending has come in swing states from conservative groups that criticize President Obama's policies, the data show. Secretive groups have spent tens of millions more targeting congressional races, again mainly in support of Republicans.
"The numbers signal a shift away from superPACs, which are required to disclose their donors to the Federal Election Commission and which have overwhelmed spending in the Republican primary contest. Instead, the battle between Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney appears likely to be dominated by a shadow campaign run by big-spending nonprofits that do not have to identify their financial backers." | <urn:uuid:e257a47c-bd86-4f15-b171-d3d65cfb1947> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://krvs.org/post/some-campaign-donors-putting-their-money-where-their-mouth-isnt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96625 | 454 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Pilot programs for heavier-weight trucks in two states are included in the 2010 transportation bill. Maine and Vermont will conduct the programs, allowing trucks to carry more weight on their Interstate highways, once the bill is signed by President Barack Obama.
Currently, trucks over 80,000 pounds in Maine must leave I-95 in Augusta to use secondary roadways. Vermont has similar requirements.
The Consolidated Appropriations Conference report for fiscal year 2010 won approval from the U.S. Senate on Dec. 13. Six funding bills are covered under the $446.8 billion legislation, including Veteran’s Affairs and Housing and Urban Development. | <urn:uuid:cd87772e-077c-406a-abd2-6f1519a8fad7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetruckersreport.com/heavy-weight-truck-test-program-added-to-transportation-bill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956063 | 128 | 1.75 | 2 |
Electronics supply chain managers generally agree that social media has a role to play in business, but nobody’s sure exactly what it will be. All partners are struggling with the same set of questions regarding social: What information should be shared, and with whom? What do businesses do with incoming data? How much can this information be trusted? And what will it cost to get involved?
Right now, many individual companies are working within their respective silos to figure this out. E2open, which provides a connectivity platform for supply chain networks, is expanding the base through an initiative to integrate social technologies into its E2open Business Network. “Our customers tend to be innovative, and want to use this technology to be more productive,” Lorenzo Martinelli, SVP Corporate Strategy at E2open, told EBN in a recent phone interview.
E2open cites research published by the McKinsey Global Institute in July 2012, which says:
Improved communication and collaboration through social technologies could raise the productivity of interaction workers by 20 to 25 percent... These technologies, which create value by improving productivity across the value chain, could potentially contribute $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in annual value.
E2open is focusing on three key areas most pertinent to the supply chain: issue collaboration, demand sensing, and supply risk monitoring. These areas could benefit from social media application, Martinelli says.
The most common communication among trading networks is collaboration to resolve supply chain issues, E2open has found. Currently, this communication is typically done via email, instant messaging, phone/conference calls, war rooms, and face-to-face meetings. “There is a belief that the current structure, with different companies in different time zones, is not as productive as it could be,” Martinelli said. He went on:
Since the supply chain already uses a process of exception management, this is a good context in which to start the conversation. For example, if there’s a shortage, have the right people been notified? Are there costs associated with this shortage? Since mobile is already a common communications tool, we think that could be escalated to a higher level of structure. Facebook and Twitter may not be the right platform for this; if not, we could provide one.
One of the biggest challenges across trading networks is inaccurate demand management due to the volatile nature of forecast planning and limited real-time visibility. According to Martinelli:
The concept is pretty simple. Let’s say I come up with a new lipstick in red and pink. Our forecasts are at best a guess. Now, let’s say we are tracking what people are saying on the social network on red vs. pink. We see more people talking about pink, but my production forecast is for 50 percent red and 50 percent pink. Social can be an indicator to what people really want, and that can help a forecast.
Supply risk monitoring
A critical risk across trading networks is the occurrence of an unplanned event that has a negative impact on the supply of products and/or their logistics movements. Many E2open customers have identified the combination of social media monitoring with cloud-based, big-data, predictive analytics as a potential way to change the economics of supply risk monitoring. Martinelli went on to explain:
There may be a problem with a particular supplier, or a problem that affects all suppliers and logistics lanes in a specific geography. The concept is similar to demand modeling, but the information is about a specific supplier or the logistics route a company takes. Let’s say the Occupy movement has shut down a seaport and I have cargo coming in next week. I could contact a commodity manager and let them know that there will be a delay and help this supplier rebalance inventory. The challenge is building the knowledge base to look for the right things. If we had known about the rains in Thailand, we could have saved millions of dollars.
E2open's customers -- and most members of the supply chain -- spend most of their time just resolving issues, Martinelli says. "If you approach these things in a more structured way, you can improve productivity.”
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Crowdfunding is on the rise, and while crowdfunded investments in startups are some months off in the United States, services like Kickstarter have given individuals and businesses a viable way to raise money -- in some cases hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
As the most prominent crowdfunding platform in the U.S., Kickstarter's biggest success stories are well-publicized, but there's also a dark side to Kickstarter that is increasingly being talked about.
There has been a lot of discussion about the way Kickstarter "hides" failed projects, and recently, the subject of refunds for projects that fail or aren't completed on time has been a source of debate.
At the heart of the debate is the perhaps-not-so-convenient fact that many Kickstarter projects make big promises that are likely to be difficult -- if not impossible -- to deliver. Technically, backers are supposed to understand that a project may or may not succeed, but in practice, Kickstarter in many cases serves as a pre-purchase mechanism. Like a gadget that somebody is hoping to build? Back her project and you're paying to develop something that will eventually be built and delivered to you.
It's a sticky subject for Kickstarter and one that could very well threaten the service's future. So yesterday, the company took to its blog with a strong message: "Kickstarter is not a store."
Writing "It's hard to know how many people feel like they're shopping at a store when they're backing projects on Kickstarter, but we want to make sure that it's no one," Kickstarter's Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler announced changes that they hope will make this clear. Those changes include:
- A new Risks and Challenges section that project creators must complete. This is designed to give potential backers an understanding of the risks associated with a project and gives the creator an opportunity to explain why she's qualified to overcome any challenges that are anticipated.
- A restriction on simulations and renderings for physical products. Creators can only display what exists today; they can't use impressive-looking images or videos showing what a product will do in the future.
- A prohibition on offering multiple quantities. According to Kickstarter, "offering multiple quantities feels premature, and can imply that products are shrink-wrapped and ready to ship."
On paper, Kickstarter's changes seem sensible and it will be interesting to see what impact, if any, they have on the service's popularity with both entrepreneurs and consumers.
At the same time, Kickstarter's challenge isn't necessarily making sure that creators and backers know the score. If Kickstarter is to keep things under control as it grows, it will need to remind itself that it's not a store too. As an astute Hacker News commenter observed, in promoting one of its biggest success stories to date, the Ouya video game console, Kickstarter promoted the project, writing, "In just 24 hours, 20,000 people bought an Ouya console - a product they had never heard of before yesterday." Oops. | <urn:uuid:860c5726-243f-4760-9abb-de5d94a81418> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/10746-kickstarter-reminds-consumers-we-re-not-a-store | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965583 | 620 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Public Holidays 2010
All government offices and most retail establishments in the Cayman Islands are closed on the following public holidays:
|New Year’s Day||Friday, January 1|
|National Heroes’ Day||Monday, January 25|
|Ash Wednesday||Wednesday, February 17|
|Good Friday||Friday, April 2|
|Easter Monday||Monday, April 5|
|Discovery Day||Monday, May 17|
|Queen’s Birthday||Monday, June 14|
|Constitution Day||Monday, July 5|
|Remembrance Day||Monday, November 15|
|Christmas Day||Saturday, December 25|
|Boxing Day||Sunday, December 26|
Since Christmas Day and Boxing Day fall on the weekend, both Monday December 27 and Tuesday December 28 will be public holidays.
Visitors should also note that most retail establishments, including grocery and liquor stores, are closed on Sundays. | <urn:uuid:2b3c6670-e04b-4139-b0fc-4d291d4ce2d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.grandcayman4u.com/essential/holidays.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951169 | 198 | 1.617188 | 2 |
As you may have been reading in the news, Microsoft has recently agreed to purchase the popular VoIP service Skype. After a couple of previous acquisitions in the past, Microsoft has made it’s biggest purchase – this time worth well over $8 billion.
Before I even start, I think it’s fair to say that this is either going to be a monumental win or a catastrophic fail – one or the other.
The question is, what will Microsoft do with Skype? Obviously, Skype certainly hasn’t been in the green lately – it’s debts have definitely been on the rise. So, Microsoft have evidently got to make a few considerable changes – otherwise the rather large purchase will become rather a large waste of money – even on Microsoft’s terms!
I can imagine Microsoft will probably implement increased charges for the paid services. However, I do hope that Microsoft will lower the charges for features in Skype that could potentially become very popular – such as group video calling. I happen to think that group video calling was a very well implemented feature into Skype – but unfortunately Skype started charging ridiculous amounts of money for it. If Microsoft lowered charges to £1-2 per month, I would probably consider purchasing it.
The other big question is whether they will continue to support all of the operating systems that Skype currently supports. Microsoft has never really supported Linux and people are starting to ask if Microsoft will drop support for it. Personally, it wouldn’t surprise me hugely if they did – but it would be a real shame.
The sale probably won’t finalise for another few months at least, so we’ll just have to wait and see what changes Microsoft will inevitably implement. In the mean time, enjoy Skype in it’s current form while you can! | <urn:uuid:c1aae9bc-3d76-423e-802d-98fc883347b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.geekonthepc.com/2011/05/12/microsoft-buys-skypewhat-happens-next/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971249 | 368 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Ethyl acetate Overview Transcript
Ethyl acete or etac is a solvent with the main outlet being coatings which account for about 60% of demand.
Process solvents including pharmaceuticals and organic synthesis account for 15% while printing inks are also estimated at 15%. Miscellaneous uses including adhesives cosmetics account for a further 10% of demand.
The main European producers of ethyl acetate are Ineos, Sekab and Solutia. Product is regularly imported from Celanese in the US and Rhodia in Brazil. There are also imports of Indian product, and while there are some regular players involved in this, there is also some more sporadic involvement depending on net-backs and demand.
Producers generally agree contracts direct with the larger customers and have contracts with the distribution network to deliver to medium and smaller buyers.
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I was urged to watch this movie by my Uncle and a fellow fishermen who is a life long ocean conservationist. I was asked not to mention names in this post, but you know who you are and thank you both for opening up my eyes to this travesty that is taking place.
The Cove is a film about a handful of activists included the infamous Flipper trainer Ric O’Barry, trying to open the world’s eyes to a massive Dolphin killing fest that goes on every year in Taiji, Japan.
As Fishermen I believe hat we have an obligation to protect and fight for the waters that we fish, and what body of water is more important than the ocean. This ecosystem is the livelihood of our planet, and we must make sure that it is not taken for granted.
So please go to The Cove website and rent, buy, watch clips of the movie, and then sign up to help this cause. Not only will you be saving the live of countless Dolphins and Whales, but also of the many people that suffer from Mercury poisoning from consuming these creatures.
Saturday started out as a beautiful day. I woke up early in the morning to head up to the San Gabriel River, the birds were singing and the coffee was calling my name.
The Reservoir was filling up the OHV area and will be fishable soon, and the water levels were running fast and high. I hit the corner to the entrance of West Fork and utter shock came over me, I knew since we had all of the recent rain the fork would be a little blow out but this was insane.
The water was running Dark Brown with sediment and all of the stream lining shrubbery was wiped out. I made my way back to were Bear creek dumps in and the difference in water color was shocking, it was like photos from National Geographic of the Amazon River trying to force it’s way into the ocean. I am extremely worried about how many fish will survive, and how many if any fish spawning will produce this year.
I had to get my mind of this, so I strolled over to the East Fork to fish one of my favorite holes and breathed a sign of relief when I seen the water running high and clear. What a load off my mind, a large amount of sediment run off on both major forks would be devastating to the Wild Rainbow Population.
East Fork yielded a few tiny fish and a couple of half hearted looks from some larger ones. Water Flows were high and the fish tend not to bite as well when you can’t get your fly to stay in the strike zone very long.
“I want to urge anyone that goes fishing on the San Gabriel River to practice catch and Release Only. The river is already not being stocked, so the fish you are catching are all wild and a decrease in the number of fish this year seem to be inevitable. So please do not take any of the fish on any of the forks, or in a few years there might not be any fish left!”
As if it needed confirming, I just confirmed a quirk in my personality that didn’t need confirming – I hate sitting still.
This revelation came about because I injured my back pretty seriously the other day and the chiropractor who worked miracles on it in the past insisted that I give it three days of near total rest interspersed with grueling stretch routines in order to get things back in alignment. So, all day Friday, I lay there with the heating pad on high, grimacing and staring at the ceiling until a little timer would go off indicating that it was time for me to roll carefully off the bed and force myself into these awkward positions that eventually got everything back into the proper alignment and proved to the neighbors that I have an almost unlimited repertoire of “colorful metaphors” at my disposal.
Now lying in bed all day might be a dream come true to some, but it is torture to me. It is even more torturous if the sun is out. Despite the current popularity of vampires and werewolves and other so-called night people, daytime always has and always will be the right time for me.
Nevertheless, I followed the docs orders and heeded my wife’s threats and stayed put.
However, by day two, I figured out a way to position my computer so that I could check e-mail, work on some articles and even surf the net while maintaining the ever important flat back position.
It was one of my little “surfin’ safaris” that led me to discover a highly entertaining series of fishing videos on YouTube. I had typed in some different phrases centering on the word “fishing” and eventually stumbled upon Matt Hayes, Mick Brown and the Great Rod Race.
The clips appeared to be segments from a British series in which these two affable English blokes raced along the length and breadth of the UK, in a van reminiscent of the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo, in an effort to catch (and release) some thirty-five different species of fish in under thirty days. The target species ranged from the diminutive Stickleback to massive Salmon to Eels to Carp. They employed cane poles, baitcasting rigs, spinning rods, sling shots, pounds of dog food, tons of tackle, some funky things called bivies and, of course, fly rods.
Along the way, we were introduced to the oddly charming, somewhat eccentric but thoroughly British way of angling.
All in all, I could think of a thousand different, less educational ways I could have squandered my down time. So, aside from distracting me from the annoying throb in the small of my back, these sort videos taught me a ton of technique and tricks to use on those difficult days and… helped my stay still.
Perhaps the biggest lesson though was the fact that the Brits are total “gearheads” when it comes to angling. I thought I had too much stuff! My equipment inventory looks like the bargain bin at a second-hand store compared to the plethora of gear employed by our angling brethren across the pond. Wow!
It’s been twenty years since I last went to England. At that time I was more interested in wandering the halls of the Natural History Museum, climbing the steps of St Pauls Cathedral and sampling Guinness from the tap than perusing the aisles of the local Bait and Tackle but priorities change and it now appears that some lengthy conversations with the Secretary of the District Angling Society while leaning on the counter of a village Tackle Shoppe might be a great way to really connect with the heart and soul of the Island.
Next time you are down for the count…or just snowed in and wishin’ you were fishin’, check out Matt & Mick and then be sure to bookmark a segment so that when the Visa statement arrives and the Sweetie complains about the amount of hard-earned spent on “silly fishin’ stuff” you’ll have something to use in your defense.
So, my wife and I were barreling down the westbound 91 freeway today in our 27-foot long mobile animal hospital, gulping down foil wrapped food-like substances as we used our theoretical lunch hour to make up time between appointments when I saw the zig-zag dance of flashing blue and red lights about ¾ of a mile ahead of us.
In SoCal that usually means that the Highway Patrol is running a traffic break.
In case you are unfamiliar with such things, a traffic break is a technique that allows the CHP to create a temporary safe space in the endless flow of traffic so that the dauntless CalTrans workers can retrieve some object or cover some substance that presents a hazard to the motoring public.
The CHP car roars onto the freeway and then with full lights and sirens, begins to sashay back and forth across all eight lanes of traffic, daring anyone to pass them. Eventually everyone falls into place and then it is simply a matter of waiting to see if we will all come to a complete stop or just creep along at five miles per hour until whatever needs to be removed is removed.
Typically, the offending object is a wayward extension ladder from a work truck, or a mattress that someone was certain would stay on the roof of their car with a tie-down made from a pair of granny-knotted boot laces and a hank of the protective plastic overwrap held firmly in the driver’s left hand. Occasionally, the objects are much more unusual and offer some relief – in a perverse sort of way — to the frustration of coming to a complete stand still on a major highway. I have personally seen a 26-foot Boston Whaler complete with dual outboards, a stack of wooden pallets, numerous orange Big Wheel tricycles, the blade for a bulldozer and a kitchen table sitting where they ought not be.
Whatever the object, it is usually retrieved, pushed, pulled, scooped, scraped or sanded down in mere moments and then traffic roars back to life the way stock cars do when the yellow flag gets lifted at a Nascar event.
In any event, as soon as I saw the flashing lights today, I knew we were gonna be late.
Not that I minded so much. The precious seconds at a standstill gave me enough time to finish my meal without accidentally ingesting bits of foil and to glance over to the right side of the road to study and daydream about the section of the Santa Ana River that runs parallel to the highway at that point.
You see, there is about a three-mile section of river there that has the potential to be a fly casters dream. Were it anywhere else, there would be a mom & pop fly shop somewhere on the bank with guys in waders lunching on the front porch, savoring coffee and homemade apple pie and swapping stories of the one that broke off just before it got to net. Were it anywhere else, local clubs would be diligently and lovingly tending the banks and removing invasives. Were it anywhere else, magazines would have ads recommending guide services to it. Were it anywhere else, I wouldn’t have been sitting in traffic, staring at it and wishing I were fishing…
But circumstances being what they were, I sat there and opted to practice a little river reading over pontificating to my long-suffering wife on the bumper sticker slogan plastered on the SMART car in front of us. So, in the few moments that we were stopped I noticed a fast main channel with an excellent drift past sand bars and over gravel beds. I noticed pockets of slower water and undercuts. I saw numerous boulders offering shelter and opportunity from within the main flow. I noted that the brush was beat down from recent storms and there were a couple of snags where fish might sit. I noticed the foam lines and how bits of debris moved as they rode the current and lastly, I noticed the posted sign warning that it is an area that is off limits to fishing.
That last thing, the no fishing sign bugged me. I don’t know why it is there. Believe me, there are far worse spots that ought to be off limits but where we regularly “fling some string”. This section of the Santa Ana appears to be a picture perfect place to practice a little urban fly fishing – not picture perfect as in those stunning shots you see in magazines — get real, this is SoCal: A major freeway runs parallel just yards from it and concrete and chain link line the banks. I mean picture perfect in the sense that it has many, if not most, of the elements that make it the kind of place where fish are found and where anglers want to fish but it is closed.
It seems like a waste of good water to not be able to fish that section of river.
…Predictably, the flashing lights edged over to the right shoulder and traffic began inching then lurching then speeding forward. The cause for the delay this time, turned out to be a solo spin-out who, despite the scattered bits of plastic fender still littering the roadway appeared to be shaken but healthy.
Through careful and judicious use of lane changes, speed limits and knowledge that the CHP officer on duty was parked a few miles back lecturing a twenty-something about driving and cell phone use, we were not late to our next appointment.
In fact, I arrived somewhat refreshed, having taken a little three-minute mental fly-fishing vacation on the way to our destination.
I am going to have to do a little investigative snooping though – I’ll keep you posted.
The other day I just needed to get in some time on the water, and the closest Park Lake had to do. I hopped in the truck and there I was in less than 10 minutes with Fly Rod in hand and a readiness to fish.
Sometimes fishing doesn’t go the way you want it to and the catching becomes more like searching and coming up empty. So after a while and only 2 fish caught I decided to take a few pictures of the beautiful sunset.
I hear from so many people things like “Why would you want to fish at a Park Lake?” or “You Fly Fish around the corner from your house, that can’t be very pretty?”
Well take a look at these pictures and tell me that a Park Lake can’t be as beautiful as a stream in the hills of Montana. Beauty is in the perspective and my mine says that fishing in the city holds a mystique all it’s own. Try it sometime and see if it doesn’t get into your blood.
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A move by San Francisco's city officials to support a celebration of the 40th anniversary of legalized abortion in the U.S. has been interpreted by some as an attempt to discourage a local pro-life rally.
“San Francisco City government, as well as many local residents, cannot abide the fact that the Walk for Life can attract over 40,000 participants annually to oppose a cause that their worldview holds as gospel,” said Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the San Francisco archdiocese.
Despite low attendance of a similar abortion advocacy event last year, San Francisco Supervisors Malia Cohen and David Campos introduced a resolution to the city’s Board of Supervisors to support the “Celebration of Women, Life and Liberty” event on Jan. 26, 2013.
The event, which aims to commemorate the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade four decades ago, was approved in a resolution which passed 10-0 on Dec. 12.
In a Dec. 12 interview with CNA, Evans pointed out that the actual anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the U.S. is Jan. 22.
However, she said, organizers of the pro-abortion rally chose Jan. 26 because it falls on the same day as the increasingly popular Walk for Life West Coast, a rally dedicated to changing “the perceptions of a society that thinks abortion is an answer.”
Since its beginning in 2005 the interdenominational pro-life event has grown substantially each year from its first crowd of roughly 5,000 participants, but it has also consistently been met with opposition from city officials.
“Since day one of the Walk for Life in 2005, the City's pro-abortion forces backed by the San Francisco Mayor, Attorney General and Board of Supervisors have attempted to discourage us,” Evans said.
In spite of this opposition, “they had little success against us,” she said. “Our numbers grew, theirs dwindled.”
The event that gained the support of city officials will take place immediately before the Walk for Life West Coast and will use the same location that the pro-life march has used as its ending point in the past.
“To ignore the pain of millions of women and their dead babies who commiserate 40 years of abortions under the yoke of Roe v. Wade is an admission by the Supervisors that they devalue women who don’t count in their books,” Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King and a speaker at the 2008 Walk for Life West Coast, said in a Dec. 12 statement.
“Their sense of injustice is a threat to justice everywhere,” Dr. King added.
Speakers for the 2013 rally include Lacey Buchanan, a mother whose video about herself and her blind son encouraging people not to choose abortion has drawn over 11 million viewers on YouTube; Elaine Riddick, who was forcibly sterilized at age 14 at the orders of North Carolina’s Eugenics Board; and Rev. Clenard Childress, the founder of the BlackGenocide.org website. | <urn:uuid:17cf7207-1f07-4766-956b-09445dc8bd84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/newf.php?url=san-francisco-officials-accused-of-discouraging-pro-life-rally/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948433 | 654 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Adafruit Industries sent us one of their SIM Reader kits a few weeks ago to test. Assembly was a breeze thanks to the through hole components and good documentation. We plugged it into our USB -> RS232 converter and tried out the provided pySimReader software. It worked fine, but our modern SIM card out of an N95 didn’t prove very interesting. It was too new to attempt cloning and being a smart phone it doesn’t rely on the SIM for storing anything unless you specifically tell it to. The story was the same for a SIM we pulled out of a Treo. We tried the device with [Dejan]‘s SimScan and a copy of Woron Scan. Both worked without any issue. Conclusion: the device works great despite us lacking anything interesting to do with it.
Adafruit Industries just announced their next kit: a SIM card reader. Using the kit, you can read or write any SIM card. You could use this for fun things like recovering deleted contacts and SMS messages. The kit looks like a very straight forward design (based on [Dejan]‘s work); the only chip is a hex inverter and the board is powered by a regulated 9V battery. With all through-hole components, it should be easy to assemble. You can talk to it using the board mounted serial port or connect to the extra pin header using an FTDI USB cable just like the Boarduino. The FTDI option is bus powered, so you won’t need the battery. [ladyada] has collected some resources in case you want to learn more about smart cards. | <urn:uuid:bd35f06d-2b6b-4160-8c77-7260010aebef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hackaday.com/tag/simreader/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952019 | 334 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration | Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013
Join us at Carolina for a week of cooperatively planned events to commemorate the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact UNC-Chapel Hill Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at (919) 962-6962 or by email.
Twenty-Eighth Annual University/Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Banquet | 6:00 pm |Friday Center
Achieve. This year’s keynote speaker is Judge Henry Frye. Justice Frye was the first African American to be elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in the twentieth century. He served in the State House for twelve years and was then elected to a two-year term in the North Carolina Senate. In 1983, Justice Frye became the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He was appointed by NC Governor Jim Hunt to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in September, 1999. Please come hear Justice Frye’s inspirational message as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King and the scholarship of local high school students. Sponsor: The University/Community MLK Planning Corporation. Contact: Brooke Hill at [email protected] | <urn:uuid:11d6c37c-88ed-4e81-bad6-d928f962e124> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unc.edu/minorityaffairs/mlk/sunday.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93843 | 273 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Q & A: What's the difference between strata and community title
- From: The Messenger
- November 02, 2012
EACH week Messenger Community News picks the brains of local real estate agents. This week, the topic is strata and community title.
What's the difference between strata and community title?
Peter Asimakoloulos of Harcourts Mawson Lakes:
Strata Title: Town houses, units and some types of commercial property generally fall under these categories.
Each unit and common property comes from one large parcel incorporating property and land.
Each unit or allotment is given its own title as well as the common property (shared between all members of the group).
The difference is in the way in which the land boundaries are defined.
A Strata Title unit's boundaries are defined by reference to parts of the building, not by the land. There must be an area of common property, for which everyone is responsible.
Community Title: Similar to that of a Strata Title holding, Community Titles are defined by lot boundaries and surveyed measurements unlimited in height and depth, as well as reference to parts of the building.
Community Title Corporations are also appointed and comprise registered owners of the lots in the community scheme.
The Corporation is responsible for the administration of the group's by-laws and for maintaining the common property and any fixtures on the property.
Apartment complexes generally fall into this category.
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The latest information on hearing aids costs for individuals who are experiencing hearing loss, looking for hearing health information for their loved ones, or just desire to learn more about the cost of hearing aids to make the right hearing health decisions.
We invite you to add to the conversation and share your thoughts on any article or news release at the end of each story.
When deciding whether or not to use hearing aids from a friend or family member, there are a few factors to consider.
People with hearing loss often wonder about how to pay for hearing aids. There are many resources available for hearing aid funding.
The Center for Hearing, Speech and Language provides hearing aid assistance for deaf and hearing-impaired individuals. They also offer evaluations, fittings and repairs.
Hearing loss is the third largest health problem after heart disease and arthritis in America today. When people cannot afford hearing aids it impacts their work and earning potential, relationships, education opportunities, and their ability to participate socially.
Representatives Tom Latham (R-IA) and Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) have reintroduced the bipartisan Hearing Aid Tax Credit (H.R. 1479) with 36 original co-sponsors, including 4 members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Solar Ear is a low-cost hearing aid that gets a charge from solar-powered batteries and brings hope to hundreds of thousands of hearing impaired people in the developing world.
The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA) is supporting a bill to amend the Income Tax Act relative to hearing impairment. The amendment would ensure all eligible individuals with hearing disabilities have fair access to the disability tax credit.
The Hearing Aid Tax Credit which must next be considered by the Michigan House of Representatives. Michiganders - contact your state Reps and a hearing on the bill during the Lame Duck session after the November 2 elections.
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) emphasized the importance of enacting the Hearing Aid Tax Credit (S. 1019) to help people and families who need hearing aids at an event attended by 170 Michiganders in East Lansing on Sept 3.
Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) urged a capacity crowd of 120 Texas Hearing Aid Tax Credit supporters to help him work for passage of the bill (H.R. 1646) in the final months of this Congressional session or in the new Congress that will convene in January.
Your help is needed to attract an impressive crowd to support the Hearing Aid Tax Credit Bill. HIA is partnering with the Michigan AG Bell, HLAA and IHS chapters to host a dinner event for Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) in East Lansing on Friday, September 3.
The tax credit coalition continues to work with lead sponsors Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) to insure that the Hearing Aid Tax Credit is considered when major tax reform legislation moves to the top of the Congressional agenda.
Financial Assistance for Hearing Impaired Children is available from AG Bell. Applications are due by July 30, 2010.
The Hearing Aid Tax Credit was introduced to provide assistance to some of the 34 million people who need a hearing aid to treat their hearing loss. If enacted it would provide a $500 tax credit per hearing aid for children and people age 55 and older.
Applications for the AG Bell 2010 School-Age Financial Aid Program are now available. The program offers financial awards for students ages 6 to 21 who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Negotiations continue to determine which elements of the House bill will be adopted including the specifics of a proposed tax on medical devices. HIA and a coalition of hearing health groups continue to support the provision which would exempt hearing aids from the device tax.
Approximately 95 percent of people with hearing loss can be helped by hearing aids, only 23 percent use them. Cost of hearing aids is a primary reason for not seeking help. NIDCD's working group is investigating ways to make hearing care affordable.
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Friday October 1st at 8:30 AM
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to join the debate on Bill S-210, An Act to amend the Federal Sustainable Development Act and the Auditor General Act (involvement of Parliament). I am, of course, in support of this act. Its purpose is to amend the Federal Sustainable Development Act and the Auditor General Act so as to ensure the full involvement of both Houses of Parliament on these very important issues.
This bill would require that reports tabled to the House of Commons under the current Federal Sustainable Development Act by the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development must be tabled to both Houses of Parliament. Currently, as written, the act does not require these reports to be tabled in the Senate, nor are they required to be referred to committees of the Senate.
The second part of the bill seeks to amend the Auditor General Act to enable the Auditor General and the Commission of the Environment and Sustainable Development to make more than one report in a year. For example, if a key issue comes up on which they wish to report after their annual report, under this amendment, this act to amend the Federal Sustainable Development and Auditor General Act, the Auditor General would have that power to make more than one report.
How did the requirement for this bill come about? The requirement to report to the Senate and Senate committees was in the original bill, as written. Amendments at committee were made to remove the Senate, one of our key Houses of Parliament. I would contend that the committee members who sought those amendments were making two key mistakes. The first mistake was to underestimate the challenge of sustainability, which is the challenge of our generation and of our century. The second mistake was to underestimate and undermine the importance of the Senate and senators in addressing these critical issues of sustainability and sustainable development.
I am pleased that those mistakes would be rectified by this bill. I hope all members of this chamber will support Bill S-210.
I consider this bill not simply to be a housekeeping or correction bill or a technical amendment. I consider it very significant legislation in that it would restore the Senate to its rightful position as being a very important body, an important group of senators who bring wisdom to the table, people who have addressed some of the very complex issue of our time over many generations. Currently, senators address issues as various and complex as equity for aboriginal people, accountability of government, budgets and fiscal management, Canada’s role in the world, veterans, human trafficking, the health of Canada’s democratic institutions, defence and security, human rights, immigration, official languages, combating poverty, the environment and health care. All of the important complex issues of our day are thoughtfully addressed by senators and the Senate chamber with a view to improving people’s lives and making a contribution to the public good. So, restoring the role of the Senate is a very important aspect of this legislation.
Second, sustainable development, as I have named it, the challenge of our generation, is a hugely critical and complex issue. What do we mean by sustainable development? I will reiterate the most common definition. From the Brundtland report, known as “Our Common Future”, sustainable development is defined thus:
|Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.|
Sustainable development, using this definition, requires that we think of the world as a system and our part in it as a system where what we do impacts others and other places and other times.
When we think of the world as a system, we realize that what happens in Alberta with oil sands development can affect the Arctic. We realize that what we do today can affect future generations. It is that realization that drives so many Canadians to be thinking of how we can address this challenge of our times.
The people of my constituency, Vancouver Quadra, are very concerned and engaged in working to meet the challenges of our time with sustainable development. From Southlands to Kitsilano, to Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale and the Musqueam lands, from Marpole through Arbutus, through Dunbar around UBC to Point Grey, the people of Vancouver Quadra are educated and engaged. They care about the health of our democracy, the issues of the day and sustainability.
The challenge of stewarding water for future generations, for example, is complex and it requires both Houses of Parliament, the House of Commons and the Senate, and the Canadian people to thoughtfully address and meet the challenges and sustain water for our future generations.
For example, in Vancouver Quadra I received well over 1,000 letters, emails and postcards calling on me to assist with ensuring that our Pacific north coast inland waters will be protected from oil spills. This is not about stopping economic development. This is about sustainable economic development. It is about the 56,000 jobs in fisheries and tourism on the Pacific coast that depend on the environment being clean.
In response to this campaign, I have worked with a number of parliamentarians and the Liberal leader has committed to a permanent ban on tanker traffic, where, I might add, there has never been tanker traffic in that area and we want to keep it that way. There are other transportation routes for our products from Alberta to go east to Asia. Those transportation routes will be able to handle capacity for many years to come and, therefore, it is not worth the risk to our waters to have super tankers in those dangerous and vulnerable waters.
The challenges of stewarding biodiversity for future generations is complex and requires both Houses of Parliament, the House of Commons and the Senate, and the Canadian people to be thoughtfully engaged and meet the challenges of sustaining biodiversity for future generations.
Many people in Vancouver Quadra are concerned about the fisheries and salmon. Runs have been unpredictable and the trend lines have been down. Many top-notch researchers at UBC are addressing the issues of salmon and many people in Vancouver Quadra have come out to my town hall meetings to hear about their research. People in Vancouver Quadra and Marpole have worked for decades to protect the riparian areas of the Fraser River, which is an important salmon habitat. It is not about stopping development or salmon aquaculture. It is about creating sustainable economic development.
These issues are complex, whether it is water, biodiversity, climate change or the involvement of our first nations so that the gap between the achievement of first nations in education and health and non-first nations is closed and those communities are fully engaged in sustainable economic development. These are complex challenges.
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Ali Jarekji / Reuters, file
Morocco's King Mohammed reviews Bedouin honour guards upon his arrival at the Royal Palace in Amman Oct.18.
RABAT, Morocco -- Moroccan police on Sunday broke up the first street protest against spending by King Mohammed, witnesses said.
They said police with truncheons ended a rally outside parliament by a few dozen Moroccans, kicking and beating protesters including Abdelhamid Amine, the head of the Moroccan Human Rights Association. The police said the demonstration was not licensed.
The activists were angry over the size of the monarchy's expenditure in the national budget as the country faces economic difficulties.
"Shame on you, you have squandered the budget," protesters chanted, addressing themselves to the government. Others carried shopping bags with holes punched through them to indicate lower spending power among average Moroccans.
Public finances are in dire straits in the North African country of 33 million people because of the financial crisis in the European Union, Morocco's main economic partner.
Increased social spending last year that helped to contain Arab Spring protests has also put a squeeze on the budget.
"We wanted to protest over the parliamentary debate on the 2013 budget and royal expenditures, which are actually rising while the country goes through a financial crisis," Amine said later. "But it seems that their method of discussion is beating people up."
Last year the king reacted swiftly with some constitutional reforms after Morocco saw large-scale protests following uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
But King Mohammed retains wide powers. Under the new constitution the king, who bases much of his legitimacy on his Islamic credentials as "Commander of the Faithful" and as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, keeps control of military, security and religious affairs, while parliament legislates and the government runs the country.
Anger over rising prices, unemployment and wealth distribution remains in a country where around a quarter of the population live in poverty.
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Tsunami warnings have been issued across much of the Pacific -- from Australia to Hawaii and the US West Coast. Coastal areas of Hawaii were evacuated Friday morning and airports in Maui, Kauai and the Big Island were shut down Friday as a precaution.
The Foreign Office has issued a warning for Japan and areas of Asia Pacific and the Americas. There is a helpline, or those seeking assistance can email [email protected]. Travellers with upcoming trips to Japan should contact their travel provider for details and updates.
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Scott Walker opens up about White House ambitions
Entitlement reform and the long-term debt, for example, should be put in terms grandparents and their grandchildren can understand, he said: how bringing down spending will ultimately improve the economy so future generations may find better job prospects and enjoy a better quality of life.
“Put things in those terms and then I think you make it a moral, not just a fiscal, issue,” he said. “People want to act on it.”Continue Reading
Walker showed little interest in discussing the culture wars and particularly gay marriage, something the governor acknowledges those same future generations feel differently about than their elders.
“I do think it’s generational,” he said about views on gay rights, calling younger Americans “more open and accepting on that issue.”
But he also called its importance among youth “overblown” and said he still opposes same-sex marriage.
“I think most people in college might tell you, ‘Yeah, I don’t care what somebody does in that regard but what I care about is whether I’m going to have a job in a couple of years when I graduate.’”
Walker seems to think the best way for the GOP to address its generational challenges on culture is to simply focus on other matters.
“I’m certainly not branded by those,” he said of how Wisconsin voters see his stance on social issues.
Indeed, Walker rejects the choice between the libertarian-at-home, restraint-abroad calls advocated by the likes of reformers such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — and the change-nothing approach pushed by traditional conservatives.
On defense, Walker said the GOP should reject isolationism but also not be trapped by dogma from an earlier era.
“We’re not fighting the Cold War anymore and I certainly think, not just in the war on terror, but increasingly in places like, not just the Middle East, but Russia and even other areas, there are new and extreme threats,” he said, citing cyberterrorism as one issue that can’t be addressed by masses of troop divisions.
While wanting to move forward and position himself for future prospects, Walker couldn’t resist looking back at last year’s campaign and reprising the frequent criticism he leveled at Mitt Romney’s campaign.
The Wisconsite explained how the 2012 GOP standard bearer could have better handled Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment.
“Most of those people are already with us,” noted Walker of the business owners and entrepreneurs Romney held up for having “built that.”
Romney would have been better off talking to those who “don’t have a chance to build it,” said Walker.
As for Romney’s” 47 percent” comment, Walker pointed out that many people receiving government benefits during the recession don’t want to turn to such welfare.
Recalling the reaction from Romney’s high command to his shots at them, Walker laughed: “Got a lot of screamers out of Boston.”
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Social Sciences Forum
Fall 2012 Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor
"Income, Inequality, Educational Outcomes"
Sean Reardon, Professor of Education, Stanford University
Income inequality among the families of school-age children in the U.S. has grown sharply in the last 40 years. What impact has this had on the educational success of U.S. students? This talk will describe three recent studies that examine the trends in the relationship of income and income inequality to academic achievement and college enrollment. | <urn:uuid:37f1d9a2-13df-4e88-b4cc-874dc87da563> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.umbc.edu/education/announcements/Social_Sciences_Forum.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961066 | 123 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Malaysian National News Agency or BERNAMA, a statutory body, was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and began operations in May 1968. BERNAMA's role as a source of reliable and latest news is well known among local & international media including government agencies, corporations, universities and individuals nationwide.
Most Malaysian newspapers and electronic media and other international news agencies are BERNAMA subscribers. BERNAMA is operating in the information industry, which is competitive but has tremendous growth potential. BERNAMA is continuously conducting research to upgrade the quality of its products and services which include real-time financial information, real-time news, an electronic library, dissemination of press releases, event management, photo and video footage.
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Many camps have “pre-camp” events such as Open Houses or “newcomer weekends.” These events allow and encourage families of new campers to visit the camp, meet with directors and staff, see the facilities, and ask questions. If these events are not available, ask the director to arrange a time to meet you one-on-one. Directors should be happy to honor this request where, like the above, you can have the opportunity to visit the camp, meet staff, see the facilities, and so forth. You should never have to send your child to camp on opening day and have this be the first time they and you have seen camp! Other options may also be available to you such as camp brochures and camp videos. While not the same as being there, these tools can also offer families a chance to “see” and learn more about the camp you are considering for your child. The best scenario is when you receive all of these opportunities and tools to aid you and your child in the decision making process. | <urn:uuid:3bd96028-0bfc-427a-8222-6cde65926be1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.indiana.edu/~nca/discover/preparing/openhouse.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964359 | 216 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Aubrey Soper has a further comment, Saturday, July 30, 2005, on an official US army photo of the slave-labor missile factory at Nordhausen
Life and death at the Nordhausen rocket factory
THANK you for posting the captioned photo of the Nordhausen rocket factory in a hollowed out mountain on your web site. Contrary to standard reports of this facility being a fetid charnel house where starving Jewish slave workers promptly perished, the fact of German civilians in the vicinity taking refuge of a comfortable sort there in response to allied bombing raids makes sense.
No one who appreciates the unmatched hazards involved in launching V2 rockets -- a fifty foot high missile with a ton of explosive in the nose, balanced on its frail tail fins while being charged with alcohol and five tons of liquid oxygen, while connected to various electrical and electronic circuits for monitoring, guidance, startup and firing---made in this facility could accept the idea of Jewish or any other slave laborers making delicate parts for such a complex weapon or assembling them.
Sweeping the floors or making coffee, maybe, but not fabricating weapons so sophisticated that the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union all impressed German specialists to teach them how to launch the V2's they took home at the end of the war.
Logic satisfies me that if any sort of prisoners had made a meaningful contribution to the fabrication of V2 rockets, they would have been subsequently abducted by the US, Britain, and Soviet Union along with the specialists mentioned, the rockets, related accessories, and engineering paperwork.
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When most people say their world is turned upside down, they mean something bad has occurred. When that happens to Emily Cook, though, the Olympic aerialist is right at home. Cook has spent most of her life inverted—deliberately—first as a gymnast and a diver, and ultimately on skis.
“I knew I would come back, compete again, and go to the Olympics. It was unfinished business for me.”
Cook first strapped on skis at age 4 and moved into freestyle at 14 while a student at Maine’s famed Carrabassett Valley Academy, a school and training center for winter sports athletes. She made the decision to leave gymnastics for competitive skiing the year before. “I realized that I loved skiing and that gymnasts peak really early,” she says, now 32. “If I had remained a gymnast, my career would already be over.” Instead, she is in training for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
At 14, however, like most new freestylers, Cook was a combined skier. Her first World Cup performance, in 1999, was as an acrobatic skier, before she decided to focus on aerials. “My background as a gymnast and diver was very helpful to me,” she says. “So was knowing how to ski. Many aerialists come in as acrobats—gymnasts or trampoliners—and have to learn how to ski.”
Cook describes her years at Carrabassett as critical for her mental, as well as physical, development. “It’s not an environment to be in if you don’t want to really do something great,” she says. “I learned how to be a great athlete from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep—the type of human being who knows how to set goals and reach them by really working hard. One of the best parts was the sports psychology section. That was the first time I had incorporated mental imagery into my training.”
A small business provides early support
Once she found her focus, Cook’s career as an aerialist literally took off. By 17, she was a member of the U.S. Ski Team and was living and training full time in Park City, Utah. That was where she met the owner of a small business—Black Diamond Gymnastics—who gave Cook some early support by hiring her to coach kids in gymnastics. “She was great,” says Cook. “She worked around my schedule to make sure I was training or studying or whatever I needed to do. It gave me a chance to earn some extra income and a ‘family’ in a new place.”
By 2001, Cook was the U.S. aerial champion and had stood on her first World Cup Podium." In 2002, she had three top-10 World Cup finishes and was the first female aerialist named to that year’s U.S. Olympic Team.
But 2002 was also when her own world turned upside down for real. Coming off a jump just two weeks before the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games were to open, Cook landed badly, breaking both feet. The extensive injuries kept her off skis for two years. But if her hopes for the Winter Olympics were gone, her spirit was not.
“It was all about commitment,” says Cook. “It was not a question of going back, but how long it would take. I knew I would come back, compete again, and go to the Olympics. It was unfinished business for me. The team at the rehab hospital was great, and the amount of support I had around me was terrific. They inspired me, and I made myself do it.”
The combination of inspiration and hard work brought Cook back in world-class competitive form. Her Olympic dream came true, and she competed in Torino in 2006 and Vancouver in 2010. She won back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 2011, and had her second career World Cup win last season.
Through it all, Cook has been supported by Visa, which has sponsored her since 1998.
A small business of her own
Knowing that even aerialists can’t compete forever, though, she has begun thinking about what comes next. She envisions a small business of her own—probably coaching or motivational speaking, or both. Then again, she enjoys non-profit work, and she’s also interested in health and wellness. Plus, she will soon graduate with a degree in communications and already writes a column for Ski Racing magazine. The world will have to wait and see.
Whatever she does, Cook sees the link between athletics and small business as a combination of commitment and attention to detail. “Being part of your community is also important,” she says. “If you have all that, you’ll get where you want to go.” | <urn:uuid:deb2bf2f-b3e6-45ae-99fd-30135b0b1150> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inc.com/visa-business-of-the-olympic-games/commitment-emily-cook_Printer_Friendly.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990106 | 1,044 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Education-slicing budget sets the stage for another looming fiscal battle.
House will vote tomorrow on a plan that would cut Title I, IDEA, Head Start and more.
Test scores equate to people who can find answers. Should we instead be developing students who can ask great questions?
If teachers are afraid of or unsure how to go about the teaching of writing, the time that is dedicated to writing will continue to be negligible.
"The most important factor in any educational initiative is how well we empower the teacher," says Donna Tileston. | <urn:uuid:b2f92a47-d54e-4f90-86d4-3372aa2757a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.naesp.org/blog/node/1069?page=8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951475 | 113 | 1.65625 | 2 |
With myriad weapons, armor, and useful gear always on hand, the weapon bearer squire ensures her knight is equipped for any task.
At 1st level, once per round, a knight can retrieve an item carried by his weapon bearer squire as a move action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity. In addition, a weapon bearer squire can pick up items dropped by her knight as an immediate action without provoking attacks of opportunity.
The knight and the weapon bearer squire must be adjacent to each other and must both be able to move and communicate to use these abilities.
At 2nd level, a weapon bearer squire can quickly hone her lord's weapons to make them more effective in combat. As a full-round action, a weapon bearer squire can use a whetstone to sharpen a weapon she is holding, granting whoever wields the weapon a +1 circumstance bonus on his next attack roll with that weapon. In addition, she can apply a weapon blanch to a weapon she is holding as a standard action, instead of a full-round action.
At 3rd level, a weapon bearer squire can ensure her liege never goes unarmed, even if his weapon has all but shattered. As a full-round action, a weapon bearer squire can make rapid repairs to a weapon she is holding and is proficient with by succeeding at a DC 20 Craft (weapons) check. The item does not regain any hit points, but loses the broken condition for a number of rounds equal to the weapon bearer squire's class level.
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President Obama / Carolyn Kaster, AP
It's immigration week for President Obama, and perhaps immigration year.
As the Senate prepares to unveil a bipartisan immigration plan on Monday, Obama prepares to fly to Las Vegas on Tuesday to promote his own long-standing plan.
Both the Senate and the president's plans include pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already in the United States, as well tighter enforcement on the border.
The differences are in the details of tighter security, and the rules for citizenship.
Previous efforts at winning a big immigration bill, during both the Obama and the George W. Bush administrations, have fallen short.
But Obama and many lawmakers, including Republicans, say a new factor is work:The 2012 elections.
Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney among Hispanic voters by 71%-27%, according to exit polls.
Hispanics are the fastest growing part of the electorate, and some Republicans worry about their future electoral prospects unless the party gets right with more Hispanic voters.
"Look at the last election," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaking on ABC's This Week.
McCain, one of the senators who will unveil a bipartisan plan on Monday, said, "we are losing dramatically the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours, for a variety of reasons, and we've got to understand that."
Even if the Senate passes a big immigration bill, it would still have to get through the Republican-run U.S. House.
White House officials also say the political dynamics have changed after the November election, but add that the nation needs to address its troubled immigration system.
"This is not a partisan or ideological pursuit," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "It's the right thing to do for our economy, and (Obama) looks forward to speaking about it next week and to working with Republicans and Democrats to get it done."
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In the 21st century buying, selling, marketing and advertising is not limited to the shop or market as it was 50 years ago. Today the business persons know that online marketing is more effective than the real world one. Business is prospering more in the virtual world as people like to shop from their living room today. The ways of traditional sales and marketing is costly and also results in minimum return from maximum effort. Therefore, shoppers as wells as the sellers are meeting online for fruitful business deals.
Advertisement was always an indispensible part of the business process; even the higher technology cannot deny the utility of advertising. In the virtual world advertising is done in a different process. SEOs, paid online ads, social networking sites etc. are different modes of online advertisement. Among these methods Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) is the most popular one. SEO is a technique which increases the exposure of the website to each and every visitor of the search engine. SEO content are created for the website abiding by the rules and regulation, to optimize the website. More the contents and keyword are appropriate; more the website gets a top position. Therefore, it is very important to get the best content for your website. Many companies prepare their own web site content and some hire SEO specialists to get better SEO results.
Here are some reasons why it is better to hire an SEO specialist for preparing web content:
In the first place the seo specialists are enriched with proper knowledge about SEO writing. It is actually hiring their knowledge. An SEO specialist is not a mere web content writer, on the contrary he is enriched with experience, skill, and knowledge gathered over the years. SEO techniques and algorithms are subjected to frequent changes and only an SEO expert can work accordingly to place the website at the top of search engine results. Specialists not only possess the knowledge about how to optimize the content but also remains updated with the latest developments in SEO writing.
Skill is the most important aspect while writing the web content for SEO. It is not all about writing keyword rich content but it is also about writing skills to attract the traffic as well as to create the rankings. The SEO specialists are hired for their skills and techniques of writing effective SEO contents. There are some nuances which can create better ranks in search engine, and the experts are only who are aware of these, therefore it is always better to hire a specialist than to try it yourself.
Hiring SEO specialists are not only hiring their skills and knowledge but also hiring their intellectual properties like tricks and techniques. SEO experts have their own techniques and ways to produce best quality contents of his/her clients. Therefore, hiring an SEO specialist is nothing but ensuring higher rank in search engine.
But before hiring specialist it is advisable to check their work ethics, skill, and experience so that one gets the best quality works without any legal and ethical hassles. Only experienced SEO writers can provide you with the best quality content and SEO ranking.
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Vice President Al Gore casting the deciding vote as President of the Senate.
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: The Democratic Party under the leadership of President Jimmy Carter! Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to these people, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violating of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!... The worst part about it is un-informed citizens believe it!
There you have it, the facts that Democrats do not want you to know. If enough people read this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. | <urn:uuid:051bc9f8-f211-49e0-bd88-792258031eb6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.targetofopportunity.com/social_security_facts.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964792 | 221 | 1.765625 | 2 |
We’ll See [7:56 am]
What else are you going to be able to do anyway? Big Tech Companies Back Global Plan to Shield Online Speech (pdf)
The principles are the starting point for a new effort, called the Global Network Initiative, which commits the companies to “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression,” according to a final draft of documents obtained by The New York Times.
Stating that privacy is “a human right and guarantor of human dignity,” the initiative commits the companies to try to resist overly broad demands for restrictions on freedom of speech and overly broad demands that could compromise the privacy of their users. | <urn:uuid:490140f8-3fe5-450d-9dee-4df1c37d477f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/?p=7312 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935795 | 142 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Discourse: It will be a disaster if a king, who can do no wrong, is governor’
The special status of Yogyakarta province has become hot news after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued a statement on a possible conflict between the monarchy and democracy. Senior political observer Ichlasul Amal of Yogyakarta-based Gadjah Mada University talked to The Jakarta Post’s Sri Wahyuni on the issue. Below is the excerpt of the interview.
Question: How do you see the monarchy issue?
Answer: Yogyakarta special status cannot be separated from the important role of Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, king of Yogyakarta Palace, and Paku Alam VIII of Pakualaman castle in the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia. Hamengkubuwono IX co-founded the state. In such a position, it was very certain he would have said Yogyakarta was part of Indonesia. It was impossible for him to say the opposite. He did say so. This was later followed by other smaller kingdoms, which also declared that they were part of Indonesia.
His role in the government was unquestionable. He even spent most of his life in Jakarta to serve the country, as minister several times and later as vice president.
Are you saying that the status is not automatically passed on?
Yes. I think the incumbent sultan must understand his position and role are not the same as that of his father’s. In reality, the incumbent sultan serves two consecutive terms as governor through elections in the provincial legislative council.
So, what is the meaning of Yogyakarta special status now?
It is the name of a province. Only in Yogyakarta, we have a sultan who has a kind of right to control the activity of the provincial administration. That is what is special about Yogyakarta.
Considering these pros and cons on the special status, what would be a desirable solution?
There must be a clear formulation regarding the term penetapan [appointment of the governor and deputy governor] in the bill on Yogyakarta special status.
If the appointment means a governor and deputy governor are appointed every five years, as in the previous election in the provincial legislature although there was only a single pair of candidates, it is OK.
But, it is impossible to have the Sultan and Paku Alam, and later their heirs, appointed for the rest of their lives. This is what is called a monarchy in which the governor and vice governor posts are passed on from generation to generation.
I cannot imagine how we would stipulate it in a law. We cannot have it if appointment means that the sultan is the ex-officio governor and vice versa. That is not good for the administration.
If that is the case, how would you position the palace on the province’s political map?
The sultan will remain the ruler of Yogyakarta Palace while the provincial administration will be run by an elected governor, whose candidacy must gain approval from the sultan. Those who do not obtain the approval cannot go on with their candidacy in the election.
This was what we, lecturers of political sciences at the UGM, once proposed as a solution. Regarding this concept, the sultan can also play as controller on how the provincial administration is run. For example, he can veto a program that he sees as not in accordance with the local culture. But this does not mean that all programs have to be approved first by the sultan.
What is the advantage of such a system if applied?
With the current system, we have a democracy. We have the legislative council whose position is at the same level as the governor. When the sultan is also the governor, he is placed in a position where he is a target of criticism.
In fact as a king, he can do no wrong. Thus, it will be a disaster if a king, who can do no wrong, is governor. How can the councilors criticize the governor? How will provincial administration staff criticize him? It would be as if they were getting mad at their own king.
This is what we have been witnessing. We don’t want our king treated that way, but as governor, he has to ready himself to be treated that way. This accounts for why the bureaucracy at the provincial administration does not run normally. There has been some kind of obstacle.
The idea that the UGM once proposed, therefore, is trying to protect the nobility of the sultan and the royal family from the impact of practical political interests. It does not reduce a bit of the palace’s
There has also been a call for a referendum to decide on the special status of Yogyakarta. Your comment?
It is impossible to have it. “Referendum” is a very sensitive word in the history of Indonesian politics. Those who understand the country’s state administrative matter will say that it is nonsense. | <urn:uuid:dc430739-841b-43d2-9010-bb145317a2d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/12/03/discourse-it-will-be-a-disaster-if-a-king-who-can-do-no-wrong-governor%E2%80%99.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974036 | 1,040 | 1.75 | 2 |
I happen to be a professor at a reputed college. I want to design an online exam for over 1000 students via around 50 computers right after the vacation ends. Now the problem is that I have heard that many students use Google on a different tab to find answers when no invigilator is around.
I want to know if there is a way to backtrace it after the exams via some kind of history or any other possible way.
In our university there is a standard system. I am not good with computers but I will try to explain. Each computer uses mozilla to connect to a server centrally located via an IP. The students open it and enter a unique ID and password to start the exams. Many questions are jumbled and different groups of students give exam in a different time slot.
Is there any way to trace it since I want to set an example for students so they won't cheat and give exams in an honest way.
Additional details: Since the number of computers are less than the number of students, more than 10 students are going to use a single computer on a single day over a period of 10 hours. After this, if I check the history (and let's say someone even forgot to delete the history and I see it), will I able to figure out who among the 10 has done it? Moreover, is it even practical and feasible? | <urn:uuid:bd58326c-bc31-401e-989e-200e134f8be4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://superuser.com/questions/438636/is-it-possible-to-trace-someone-using-google-during-an-online-exam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963726 | 279 | 1.84375 | 2 |
After leaving Rome for the East, Jerome writes to Asella to refute the calumnies by which he had been assailed, especially as regards his intimacy with Paula and Eustochium. Written on board ship at Ostia, in August, 385 A.D.
1. Were I to think myself able to requite your kindness I should be foolish. God is able in my stead to reward a soul which is consecrated to Him. So unworthy, indeed, am I of your regard that I have never ventured to estimate its value or even to wish that it might be given me for Christ's sake. Some consider me a wicked man, laden with iniquity; and such language is more than justified by my actual sins. Yet in dealing with the bad you do well to account them good. It is dangerous to judge another man's servant; Romans 14:4 and to speak evil of the righteous is a sin not easily pardoned. The day will surely come when you and I shall mourn for others; for not a few will be in the flames.
2. I am said to be an infamous turncoat, a slippery knave, one who lies and deceives others by Satanic arts. Which is the safer course, I should like to know, to invent or credit these charges against innocent persons, or to refuse to believe them, even of the guilty? Some kissed my hands, yet attacked me with the tongues of vipers; sympathy was on their lips, but malignant joy in their hearts. The Lord saw them and had them in derision, reserving my poor self and them for judgment to come. One would attack my gait or my way of laughing; another would find something amiss in my looks; another would suspect the simplicity of my manner. Such is the company in which I have lived for almost three years.
It often happened that I found myself surrounded with virgins, and to some of these I expounded the divine books as best I could. Our studies brought about constant intercourse, this soon ripened into intimacy, and this, in turn, produced mutual confidence. If they have ever seen anything in my conduct unbecoming a Christian let them say so. Have I taken any one's money? Have I not disdained all gifts, whether small or great? Has the chink of any one's coin been heard in my hand? 1 Samuel 12:3 Has my language been equivocal, or my eye wanton? No; my sex is my one crime, and even on this score I am not assailed, save when there is a talk of Paula going to Jerusalem. Very well, then. They believed my accuser when he lied; why do they not believe him when he retracts? He is the same man now that he was then, and yet he who before declared me guilty now confesses that I am innocent. Surely a man's words under torture are more trustworthy than in moments of gayety, except, indeed, that people are prone to believe falsehoods designed to gratify their ears, or, worse still, stories which, till then uninvented, they have urged others to invent.
3. Before I became acquainted with the family of the saintly Paula, all Rome resounded with my praises. Almost every one concurred in judging me worthy of the episcopate. Damasus, of blessed memory, spoke no words but mine. Men called me holy, humble, eloquent.
Did I ever cross the threshold of a light woman? Was I ever fascinated by silk dresses, or glowing gems, or rouged faces, or display of gold? Of all the ladies in Rome but one had power to subdue me, and that one was Paula. She mourned and fasted, she was squalid with dirt, her eyes were dim from weeping. For whole nights she would pray to the Lord for mercy, and often the rising sun found her still at her prayers. The psalms were her only songs, the Gospel her whole speech, continence her one indulgence, fasting the staple of her life. The only woman who took my fancy was one whom I had not so much as seen at table. But when I began to revere, respect, and venerate her as her conspicuous chastity deserved, all my former virtues forsook me on the spot.
4. Oh! envy, that dost begin by tearing yourself! Oh! cunning malignity of Satan, that dost always persecute things holy! Of all the ladies in Rome, the only ones that caused scandal were Paula and Melanium, who, despising their wealth and deserting their children, uplifted the cross of the Lord as a standard of religion. Had they frequented the baths, or chosen to use perfumes, or taken advantage of their wealth and position as widows to enjoy life and to be independent, they would have been saluted as ladies of high rank and saintliness. As it is, of course, it is in order to appear beautiful that they put on sackcloth and ashes, and they endure fasting and filth merely to go down into the Gehenna of fire! As if they could not perish with the crowd whom the mob applauds! If it were Gentiles or Jews who thus assailed their mode of life, they would at least have the consolation of failing to please only those whom Christ Himself has failed to please. But, shameful to say, it is Christians who thus neglect the care of their own households, and, disregarding the beams in their own eyes, look for motes in those of their neighbors. Matthew 7:3 They pull to pieces every profession of religion, and think that they have found a remedy for their own doom, if they can disprove the holiness of others, if they can detract from every one, if they can show that those who perish are many, and sinners, a great multitude.
5. You bathe daily; another regards such over-niceness as defilement. You surfeit yourself on wild fowl and pride yourself on eating sturgeon; I, on the contrary, fill my belly with beans. You find pleasure in troops of laughing girls; I prefer Paula and Melanium who weep. You covet what belongs to others; they disdain what is their own. You like wines flavored with honey; they drink cold water, more delicious still. You count as lost what you cannot have, eat up, and devour on the moment; they believe in the Scriptures, and look for good things to come. And if they are wrong, and if the resurrection of the body on which they rely is a foolish delusion, what does it matter to you? We, on our side, look with disfavor on such a life as yours. You can fatten yourself on your good things as much as you please; I for my part prefer paleness and emaciation. You suppose that men like me are unhappy; we regard you as more unhappy still. Thus we reciprocate each other's thoughts, and appear to each other mutually insane.
6. I write this in haste, dear Lady Asella, as I go on board, overwhelmed with grief and tears; yet I thank my God that I am counted worthy of the world's hatred. John 15:18 Pray for me that, after Babylon, I may see Jerusalem once more; that Joshua, the son of Josedech, may have dominion over me, Haggai 1:1 and not Nebuchadnezzar, that Ezra, whose name means helper, may come and restore me to my own country. I was a fool in wishing to sing the Lord's song in a strange land, and in leaving Mount Sinai, to seek the help of Egypt. I forgot that the Gospel warns us Luke 10:30-35 that he who goes down from Jerusalem immediately falls among robbers, is spoiled, is wounded, is left for dead. But, although priest and Levite may disregard me, there is still the good Samaritan who, when men said to him, John 8:48 disclaimed having a devil, but did not disclaim being a Samaritan, John 8:49 this being the Hebrew equivalent for our word guardian. Men call me a mischief-maker, and I take the title as a recognition of my faith. For I am but a servant, and the Jews still call my master a magician. The apostle, likewise, is spoken of as a deceiver. There has no temptation taken me but such as is common to man. 1 Corinthians 10:13 How few distresses have I endured, I who am yet a soldier of the cross! Men have laid to my charge a crime of which I am not guilty; but I know that I must enter the kingdom of heaven through evil report as well as through good. 2 Corinthians 6:8
7. Salute Paula and Eustochium, who, whatever the world may think, are always mine in Christ. Salute Albina, your mother, and Marcella, your sister; Marcellina also, and the holy Felicitas; and say to them all:
We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, Romans 14:10 and there shall be revealed the principle by which each has lived.
Source. Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001045.htm>.
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Okay, here's the bio I came up with for Janacek. Thank you for your patience... I'm sorry it took me so long! Any criticism is welcome.
By the way, I had italicized the proper names of the operas, piano cycles, etc. in my Word document, but I can't seem to find an "italics" button on the reply setup. Maybe I'm missing something?
Born on July 3, 1854 in Hukvaldy, Moravia, Leoš Janáček showed musical promise very early in life. His talent first manifested itself in vocal ability; the young boy recieved his first studies in choral singing at the Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, studying under the tutelage of Pavel Křížkovský. While there he also learned to play the piano and organ. When Janáček was 20 years old he entered the Prague organ school. Although suffering extreme poverty, Janáček managed to make the most of his studies underneath František Skuherský and František Blažek. He graduated with honors in 1875 in spite of being nearly expulsed from the school for a published criticism of one of his teacher's performances. Shortly thereafter Janáček began teaching privately and at Berno's Teachers Institute.
Though pleased with his position at the Institute, Janáček soon desired to acquire more musical training. After several months at Leipzic Conservatory Janáček transferred to Vienna Conservatory. He only stayed two months, however, due to criticism of his composition and piano performance styles. In Brno again, Janáček settled down and married one of his former students, Zdenka Schulzová, and took an appointment as director of the Brno organ school. This position enabled Janáček to begin to compose more systematically, as well as begin to become more involved in music criticism. During this period, too, the young man became fascinated with folk melodies and began to weave them into his work.
In the new century, fresh compositions continued to flow from Janáček's pen. His sacred composition Ave Maria and the popular piano cycle On an Overgrown Path were two of the works from this era of his career. Some of these works developed as a result of sorrow in Janáček's life. He and his wife had already lost a son in 1890; to compound his sorrow, in 1902 his beloved daughter Olga became seriously ill. In 1903 she died. Janáček expressed his deep grief through composing his noted opera Jenůfa.
After only one performance of Jenůfa in his hometown, Janacek was unable to stage any further performances of his opera. Grieved, exhaused, and dejected, Janáček journeyed to the Luhačovice spa to recover his strength and compositional inspiration. He eventually found his verve again and set to work on a set of notable choral, chamber, and orchestral works, as well as several operas. In this surge of productivity, Janáček received great encouragement; his opera Jenůfa was performed in Prague's National Theatre to enthusiastic audience members and critics alike. Finally, Janáček had recieved notice and acclaim.
This was also a time of new professional and personal relationships. In 1916 Janáček became associated with Max Brod, a critic, dramatist, and translator. Janáček also met a new love, singer Gabriela Horváthová. Upon hearing about the relationship, Janáček's wife Zdenka attemped suicide and "informally divorced" her husband. A year later, Janáček met a very young married woman, Kamila Stösslová, whom he passionately and obsessively loved and corresponded with until his death. The woman provided inspiration for a book and many musical works.
In 1920, Janáček retired from his teaching position at the Brno Conservatory. However, he continued to teach privately until 1925. He still kept his pen busy; in the autumn of his life, he produced some of his best works, like the Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass. In 1926 he traveled to England, greeted by a wam welcome and many London performances of his works, which led to more international exposure for the composer.
As Janáček neared the end of his life, he composed two last masterpieces: the operatic work The House of the Dead, and his "manifesto on love," the "Intimate Letters" string quartet. On a trip to Štramberk with Kamila and her son Otto, Janáček received a chill and fell ill with pneumonia. He breathed his last on August 12, 1928 at Ostrava. He was laid to rest in the Field of Honour at the Central Cemetery in Brno.
Janáček's musical legacy is extensive. Arguably his best works lay in the operatic medium: Jenůfa, of course, as well as Káťa Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos Affair, and From the House of the Dead. His two string quartets are standard repertory in chamber music. The Sinfonietta, the Glagolitic Mass, and the Tara Bulba rahpsody are other well-known works of Janáček. While Janáček wrote relatively few piano works, the two books of On an Overgrown Path, the I. X. 1905 piano sonata, and the cycle In the Mists remain beloved works in the pianists' repertoire. | <urn:uuid:f18b79ad-b7c1-403c-ae21-16dcd12a7e58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pianosociety.com/new/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=46914 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981683 | 1,203 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The modern horse is very much like the modern athlete. We have more and more expectations of
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What is the Krannert Executive Forum?
The Krannert Executive Forum is a management class (MGMT 40100) that features top-level corporate executives sharing their experiences with students. It has been a unique and valuable addition to Krannert's management curriculum since 1973.
The Forum is designed to provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of topics and issues facing business and management education between students and executives who have achieved high levels of success and recognition. These exchanges are directed toward an understanding of problems and solutions, opportunities and the need for educational preparation of future business leaders. Dialogue develops that gives the students, faculty, and business leaders a better understanding of themselves, their responsibilities and their relationships with each other.
This one-hour class meets each Friday at 11:30 a.m. in the Rawls Hall Forum (room 1086). The class offers undergraduate management seniors, as well as students from engineering and other schools on campus, a practical business and management perspective seldom found in other courses. Master's degree students and faculty are also encouraged to attend, and the Forum is open to the public as seating permits.
Students in the Forum are expected to familiarize themselves with the firms the speakers represent and to participate in class discussions. Students also submit written critiques on the presentations during the semester.
A typical itinerary for a visiting executive includes breakfast on Friday morning with Forum students, brief meetings with graduate students and faculty members before the Forum, and an informal luncheon with 20 to 30 students after the Forum. If the schedule permits, the visiting executive also meets with senior Purdue and Krannert administrators, tours the Purdue campus, and participates in graduate classes and other activities during the day.
For many top executives, this is their first introduction to Purdue University and the Krannert School, its students, and programs. Many of these speakers continue their relationship with Purdue and Krannert as advisers, recruiters of management students, and supporters of our programs. A state governor, three editors of national magazines, a United States cabinet member, and over 350 nationally or internationally-known companies have been represented in the Krannert Executive Forum.
The Krannert Executive Forum continues to be a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and thus an excellent vehicle for improved understanding between the executive suite and the academic classroom. When you visit Purdue, please plan to include the Krannert Executive Forum to hear one of our many great speakers.
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GUWAHATI, India - The toll from one of India’s worst ferry disasters rose to 113 on Thursday as rescuers fished out the bodies of more passengers who drowned when the boat sank in a river in Assam state.
Chandan Brahma, transport minister of the northeastern Indian state, said a search was still on for bodies of other victims of the double-decker ferry which capsized in the Brahmaputra river during a storm on Monday.
“Four more bodies were recovered today by fishermen at India’s borders along Bangladesh, taking the number of bodies recovered (so far) to 113,” Brahma told reporters in Guwahati, Assam’s main city.
The boat was on its way from the district of Dhubri, 300 kilometres (186 miles) from Guwahati to Fakirganj in Assam.
Rescuers and soldiers have salvaged the mangled wreck of the 80-foot (25-metre) ferry, which was reportedly crammed with up to 350 people despite its operating capacity of 225.
Some 150 of the ferry commuters swam to the banks of the fast-flowing Brahmaputra while 90 others remain missing, according to official estimates.
The Brahmaputra, which is eight kilometres wide at the scene of the accident, flows through northeastern India into Bangladesh and out into the Bay of Bengal. | <urn:uuid:bb5dcb9b-3b82-4010-acd6-d358df159975> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120503-343719.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956988 | 292 | 1.5 | 2 |
Name: Ivy "Plant" Marie Richards
Age: 218 (Born April 25th, 1791 - turned January 16th 1810)
She is a transformed vampire that lives off of animals and rarely on humans.
Her power is a mental ability. She can read the minds of any and everyone. Not that she enjoys this power, she would rather not know what most others are thinking.
Generally she is a free spirit. She was born to a rather rich family in the late 1700s. She was the third child of five. She was born over 200 years ago but still keeps up with the times - she dyed her hair green and has a tatoo on her face. She loves the forest and everything in it, that is why she dyed her hair green, its a protest of environmental issues. She can be a pessimists a lot of the times and quiet sarcastic but that is way she likes it. She isn't bad or mean but she doesn't like to ber serious. She only talks around her own kind, rarely around humans - they fear her and she doesn't much care for them. Her personality is simple - Sweet (when she wants to be), calm and sometimes a loner. She seems complicated but she really isn't. She is that sidekick that everyone loves but can be shy and somewhat awkward.
Her fate is a live one.
The reason she is a vampire in the day is because this was orginally the design for a project in my art class XD Ignore the blue sky :D
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We know the answer is always that they are smart, and that if we don’t “get their vision” they just need to explain it better.
“Australians have limited understanding of climate change, Climate Institute finds”
A new survey by the Climate Institute on attitudes to climate change shows the majority are concerned for the environment, but confusion reigns supreme.
After years of vigorous and at times toxic debate, more than 1000 people surveyed gave an amazing array of answers …. Sixty-nine per cent thought humans were causing it. But when asked to explain the Gillard Government’s carbon pricing scheme, focus groups returned blank stares.
The reality is of course that climate scientists have a limited understanding of our climate, and that most Australians are suspicious that a tax can change the weather.
Try not to throw up reading the actual report: Climate of The Nation. For starters, the low contrast colors in baby blue and penitentiary-grey-brown are designed not to be read, but to be absorbed. The layout and feel is very much the style of a baby formula brochure. Bask in the “atmosphere” as you scan, but bring out your magnifying glass if you actually want to read it. The sickly sweet, staged photos announce that The Climate Institute has money to waste — your money. Only the most ultra trendoid marketing and PR agencies need apply for the job of selling The Carbon Pox to the nation.
What do these results mean? Who knows? I can’t find the actual survey questions, so at this stage: nothing. I mean “two thirds say climate change is occurring”. Really? (So 36% think Climate Sameness is a possibility?) The language and the mindless labels wait like trolls under the bridge to suck any sane analysis out of loaded questions on a road to nowhere.
Nearly all skeptics think the climate is changing, so when faced with an inanity like “do you believe in Climate Change?”, a skeptic can be either literal and straight, or play the game where they try to guess what the researchers were really attempting to find. | <urn:uuid:2e013a26-7221-426f-bf9f-f32e55db88ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://junkscience.com/2012/07/26/climate-institute-poll-finds-we-are-all-stupid-confused-gillard-must-sell-the-carbon-pox-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943046 | 446 | 1.695313 | 2 |
School officials shut down a gym and cafeteria after find cracking in beams supporting the gym ceiling. Des Arc Superintendant Carroll Denton said the initial crack was discovered during a basketball game on Tuesday. Engineers surveyed the damage on Wednesday but haven`t determined the cause. However, they did recommend shutting down the gym and a cafeteria which was connected to the building. The gym was built in 1965 and was home to many basketball championship wins. Engineers are expected back at the school on Monday. | <urn:uuid:8b934dee-3657-4cbd-839d-fa29c9e9f437> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arkansasmatters.com/fulltext?nxd_id=43374 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985258 | 97 | 1.828125 | 2 |
By Donna Miller
In today’s culture, the term “cougar” refers to an attractive mature woman who can still attract young men. According to About.com, a cougar is “primarily attracted to and has sex with significantly younger men.” The site also notes that “cougars prey upon men almost young enough to be their sons.”
At 29, Kim Kardashian could be called a cougar and recently projected that image in a magazine photo shoot with 16-year-old pop star Justin Bieber. Sadly, Bieber
looks more like a 13-year-old — adding to the pedophilic look and feel of the photos.
Kardashian’s dalliance with Justin Bieber has netted her the publicity she seems so insatiably to crave. Her famous face, however, would join other Hollywood celebs as a PSA for statutory rape if she were to take her sexual teasing to a consummation of the relationship. California’s age of consent is 18, and Justin Bieber is still a minor.
Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber were featured in a Bahamas photo shoot for Elle magazine. Both wore wet and clinging clothes in the shoot titled, “The Graduate,” harkening back to the ‘60s movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. The movie featured Bancroft as an older woman out to seduce a college-aged Hoffman. But Bieber isn’t a college graduate; he’s a high school teenager.
In the sleazy Elle shoot, Kardashian showed plenty of flesh, so much so that one Fox News program slammed her (she is the supposed adult involved) and questioned whether the shoot was appropriate.
The most intellectually-challenged comment on the show’s guest panel that night came from Fox News business correspondent Rebecca Diamond, who argued, “It’s every 16-year-old male’s dream to have pictures with Kim Kardashian.” Apparently, Diamond sees nothing wrong in toying with a teen’s affections. Nor does she appear to realize the damaging impact of such behavior on society.
The host noted that there would have been outrage had it been an adult man with a 16-year-old girl. He’s right, and it’s time for women to assume equal responsibility.
As a society, America has established a trend of giving female predators a pass; the most notably being female predator teachers. Communities still see women as nurturers and caregivers. However, female predators provide alcohol and pornography to minors and groom them like any male predator would. Will this trend become even more popular as Hollywood, via glossy photo shoots like the one in Elle, continuously romanticizes adult/child relationships?
And a question to Miss Diamond: Are you ready for those 16-year-old boys to become fathers? Many female predators force teen boys into that role at an early age. These boys are victims of adult sexual abuse, and that’s not something to be celebrated!
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Combine the expectation of divorce for new couples hovering around 50 percent with a variety of studies that suggest money is the most divisive topic for couples, and you get a formula for disaster. But one expert thinks it doesn't have to be that way.
Certified public accountant and author Jane Honeck believes that while a SmartMoney Magazine survey revealed that 70 percent of all couples talk about money at least once a week, the communication isn't very effective. She has advice that can help couples make arguments about money a thing of the past.
"Focusing on an overall vision and money plan will keep both of you moving in the same direction," she said. "Once you have done that, the small everyday decisions about what to spend your money on take care of themselves with little or no effort. When we have clear communication and know why we do something, the 'what to do' with our money is easy."
Honeck's tips include:
Talk Talk, talk talk. Money like sex is still a taboo topic and we often don't have a clear idea about how our partner thinks or feels about money.
Find balance Balance power around money. One person making all the decisions and having all the control is a recipe for disaster. Find ways for you both to be equally engaged in all money decisions.
Make decisions Decide together what is mine, yours and ours. Most couples have their own hybrid system for what works best. Find the one that is best for both of you.
Define your system Have a clearly defined money management system all the way from who handles the mail to who sends out the checks. Without a well thought-out operational plan, things fall through the cracks.
Address problems When things get tough, address problems immediately (no secrets allowed). Avoiding the issue only makes it more toxic and drives a wedge in the relationship.
Perform checkups Schedule an annual money checkup with each other. Things change and just like our physical health, money management needs an annual checkup to keep it healthy and relevant.
Talk a little more Talk, talk and talk some more. The most important thing is to have open communication with no blame and shame. We all have hang-ups around money. Treat your partner with compassion.
"At the end of the day, couples need not argue about money," she added. "And it's not just about communication. It's about making a plan, and sticking to it together. Information gives you power over your finances. Not talking about them, not making a plan and not coordinating as a team makes you a victim of your finances. If you control your finances, they will never control you or your marriage." | <urn:uuid:f875bffe-2994-49f5-bc17-f56d48578543> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/555612/COLUMN---Couples-need-to-work-together-on-money-issues.html?nav=5015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960033 | 547 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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SOURCE Thrustcycle Enterprises LLC
HONOLULU, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lane Motor Museum has contracted with Thrustcycle Enterprises LLC to restore the gyroscopic system for the 1967 Gyro-X in celebration of Alex Tremulis' 100th birthday in 2014. Featured on the cover of the September 1967 edition of Science and Mechanics, the Gyro-X was designed by Tremulis and built by Troutman and Barnes. Thomas O. Summers developed the car's gyroscopic system and was issued a U.S. patent for it in September of 1969.
Thrustcycle Enterprises LLC will be restoring the Gyro-X's gyroscopic and related control systems to function as designed in 1967, while the rest of the vehicle is being restored by the Lane Motor Museum at their restoration shop. "The Gyro-X uses hydraulic controls and a gyroscopic system that is quite different from what we're building today for our other vehicles," says David Ryker, Thrustcycle's Chief Technical Director. "Hydraulics present certain challenges for us, while also allowing us to do some things better than with pure electrics. There is definitely a place for hydraulics in energy recapture for certain types of vehicles." Ryker is familiar with the system as he was advised for his own gyroscopic vehicle in the 1990's by Summers. "It's an honor to be asked to restore the system created by the man I consider my mentor," says Ryker. He continues:
Alex Tremulis and Thomas Summers dreamt of creating vehicles that are more efficient than anything out there today. Better aerodynamics, less rolling resistance, and the ability to efficiently recapture energy normally lost to braking were all important to them. They also believed that gyroscopes would enable safer in-line vehicles by providing better control and preventing wheels from sliding out from under the vehicle during turns. When completed, the Gyro-X will not only be a historic vehicle, it will also be a technological marvel, even by today's standards. The Gyro-X will be the only gyroscopically stabilized vehicle with a hydraulic flywheel kinetic energy recovery system (KERS). We would like to thank Jeff Lane and the Lane Motor Museum for letting us participate in the restoration.
Alexander Sarantos Tremulis (born on January 23, 1914) was a famed industrial designer who was inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame in 1982. His illustrious career included positions in Cord Automobile, Duesenberg, General Motors, Tucker Car Corporation and Ford Motor Company. Tremulis designed the gyroscopically stabilized Gyro-X for Gyro Transport Systems Inc. He also designed a streamlined motorcycle Gyronaut X-1, which won the land speed record at Bonneville in 1966.
The Lane Motor Museum is home to rare and unique vehicles, as well as those that have been influential to the development of transportation. Boasting the largest collection of European vehicles in the U.S, the museum is located 3 miles from downtown Nashville, TN. The Lane Motor Museum features a collection of 150 unusual cars and motorcycles not typically seen in the U.S.
Thrustcycle Enterprises LLC specializes in gyroscopic stabilization and control technology, and energy efficient transportation systems.
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