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Bachelor of Business Administration
Do you like working with people? Are you interested in a career of managing people? Do you aspire for a position of authority, responsibility, or leadership? The business management major of the Bachelor of Business Administration degree (B.B.A.) is designed to provide graduates with the knowledge and skills necessary to secure an executive or management position or to advance in responsibility at a current position managing people.
The business management major provides meaningful coursework in all the functional areas of business, e.g., accounting, business law, computers, economics, finance, human resources, leadership, management, marketing, sales, etc. Additionally, students will receive a valuable education in the liberal arts that will complement their required business coursework. The broad knowledge provided by this combination of professional knowledge in business and liberal education will position students for a career in a wide range of job titles encompassing manufacturing to services to non-profits to even starting and running a business (entrepreneurship).
Students begin the Bachelor of Business Administration program as a pre-major in any one of the majors. After successfully completing the first two years of coursework, students move to their major which can be accounting, business management, computers, economics, finance, marketing, or operations management. (Note: All of the coursework for the business management major is available on all of the regional campuses. For any of the other business majors, students will have to attend the Kent Campus for some portion of the major course requirements.) The B.B.A. degree requires successful completion of a minimum 121 credit hours.
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Pick of the week: Exploring the spiritual vision and radical technique of an often-overlooked French genius
Watching any movie always involves getting used to a particular director’s narrative rhythms — that is, how he or she is telling the story, as well as what kind of story it is. Watching the films of Robert Bresson, the ascetic French director who made only 13 features in a 40-year career, reminds us that most of the movies we watch, from Steven Spielberg to the Coen brothers to Pedro Almodóvar, share an essentially similar set of narrative principles. Bresson’s best-known pictures simply don’t. This winter and spring, North American viewers get an exceedingly rare opportunity to see Bresson’s films projected on the big screen, in a near-complete retrospective that opens this week in New York and will move on to many other cities. (For more details, see below.)
Bresson moves the camera rarely and only when necessary, uses only the crudest special effects and minimal musical motifs (or none at all, in later films), and never relies on editing tricks to heighten the drama, which never amounts to much by the standards of post-D.W. Griffith action-oriented cinema. Most famously, he has no interest in conventional drama or characterization, compelling his nonprofessional actors — or “models,” as he called them — to do repeated takes, in an effort to strip all “performance” from their line readings. (Bresson was apparently displeased when Anne Wiazemsky, the teenage star of his 1966 “Au Hasard Balthazar,” went on to become a professional actress.) His scenes are direct, clear and concise, with little visible emotion or inflection. Faces are often expressionless and eyes downcast. He frequently depicts action or motion by means of synecdoche, showing feet walking, hands turning doorknobs and so on.
Viewers accustomed to the pace and style of Hollywood movies can sometimes find themselves alienated by the seemingly obscure or symbolic mode of European-style art-house cinema — What am I missing? Why don’t I get this? — but Bresson presents almost the opposite problem. There are no 12-minute shots of people driving cars; his movies are brief and tell simple stories that aren’t difficult to follow in the slightest. “Au Hasard Balthazar,” which I take to be his masterpiece (it’s a pretty conventional opinion), is exactly what it seems to be, a fable about the parallel lives of two suffering innocents, an abused donkey and an abused girl. “Pickpocket,” from 1959, is an even more compact tale about a petty criminal who begins to imagine a different way of life, and half-intentionally allows himself to be captured and imprisoned.
In those cases and others, the austerity and simplicity of the film can be disorienting on its own terms; you cast about for some familiar emotional or psychological foothold and don’t find one. It takes a while to relax into what critic Kent Jones has called Bresson’s “perfect rhythmic clarity,” a “profound sense of harmony between images and sounds” that appears artless but is in fact exquisitely controlled. The mysteries of films like “Au Hasard Balthazar” and “Pickpocket” and “Mouchette” (probably his three most highly regarded works) lie entirely in how you interpret them and what you take away from them, in how and whether the spiritual or transcendental lessons Bresson tries to impart work on you.
Bresson is almost certainly the most important Christian, and specifically Roman Catholic, filmmaker in cinema history. (We can have the debate about Martin Scorsese some other time, but he’d be happy to concede the point.) Yet it’s not clear how much comfort the faithful have ever found in his work, which is rooted in the severe strain of French Catholicism known as Jansenism, and in the demanding, uncompromising Jesus Christ of the Sermon on the Mount. Bresson’s influence, which has never been wide, is largely found among semi-experimental filmmakers who tend toward atheistic or agnostic worldviews, from the French New Wave to Jim Jarmusch and Michael Haneke. It was Jean-Luc Godard, no friend of the Church, who described “Au Hasard Balthazar” as containing “the world in an hour and a half.” Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, of “The Son,” “L’Enfant” and the forthcoming “Kid With a Bike,” are the most obvious Bresson acolytes in contemporary cinema, and perhaps the most sympathetic to his faith.
That said, Bresson’s rarely seen color films of the 1970s appear to render an increasingly ambiguous verdict on the relationship between man, God and the world. It’s often startling to encounter motorbikes or transistor radios or rock music in Bresson — he seems to belong to a pre-technological era — but it’s safe to say he generally views such things in a baleful light. If anything, as the settings and themes grow more modern in pictures like the Dostoyevsky-inspired “Four Nights of a Dreamer” (1971), the teen-suicide drama “The Devil Probably” (1977) and the Tolstoy adaptation “L’Argent” (his final film, made in 1983), Bresson’s rejection of modernity grows more forceful. In Kent Jones’ wonderful phrase, it’s as if he has “drifted to the edge of his ‘Christian universe’ and measured the void beyond on behalf of his defeated protagonists.”
If you’re already an admirer of Bresson’s most famous films, this retrospective allows you to see them again, in full-screen projection and often gorgeous new prints, and also to catch other works you’ve likely never seen at all. “Four Nights of a Dreamer” has been unavailable in North America for many years (except in a squashed, scratched-up and illicit bit-torrent version), and I had never previously seen the 1974 medieval mashup “Lancelot of the Lake” or Bresson’s 1943 debut feature, the convent melodrama “Les Anges du Péché” (also known as “Angels of the Streets”).
If you’re a newcomer to Bresson, I can’t promise that you’ll fall in love with these movies passionately and immediately. A famous French academic supposedly once quipped that Bresson’s films were more interesting to read about than to see, and while I don’t quite agree, I get what he meant. There’s an adjustment process in dealing with Bresson’s sui-generis version of cinema; not everybody can make it, and there’s no shame in that. His films do demand an open, contemplative cast of mind, but on the other hand they never waste your time and I personally find them almost addictive: The more of his aesthetic and worldview you absorb, the more of it you want to see.
Here are my five favorites, with the proviso that “A Man Escaped,” Bresson’s marvelous drama based on his experiences as a World War II POW, and his most commercially successful film, will play a separate theatrical run in most locations. (One Bresson film, “Une Femme Douce” from 1969, is apparently not included in this retrospective.)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951) After making his first two films in the familiar costume-drama style of the 1940s French industry (often called the “tradition de qualité”), Bresson struck out in a revolutionary new direction with this intimate and memorable adaptation of Georges Bernanos’ novel about an idealistic young curate battling apathetic parishioners and a debilitating illness. At 115 minutes, “Country Priest” is much longer than most Bresson movies, but the narrative simplicity and direct, non-actorly performances he would refine in later works first come into focus here. One of Martin Scorsese’s favorite films, this is arguably Bresson’s most straightforward declaration of faith — but even the most skeptical viewer will find its emotion powerful and its depiction of human suffering free of cant or sentimentality.
Pickpocket (1959) Both an ingeniously choreographed crime film and a moral drama influenced by Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” “Pickpocket” marks the apotheosis of Bresson’s stripped-down style. There’s little or no psychological realism or conventional drama at work in Martin La Salle’s portrayal of a master thief who plies his trade at the Gare de Lyon and easily outwits the cops who seek to ensnare him. See it once to appreciate the spare elegance of the pickpocketing scenes, and then a second time to appreciate how subtly Bresson accomplishes the story of a man’s self-willed corruption, his liberation through imprisonment and his redemption through love, all in less than 80 minutes.
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) Largely based on transcripts and eyewitness accounts of the 15th-century trial and execution of France’s patron saint, this quasi-journalistic account is almost the opposite of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s far more famous “Passion of Joan of Arc.” With its memorably straightforward performance by Parisian college student Florence Carrez, this rarely screened film may be the most extreme example of Bresson’s form of reverse sympathetic magic. In stripping the story of this legendary heroine down to a legalistic procedural — focusing entirely on what was said and done — he forcefully makes a case for Joan as an uncompromised (and possibly divine) martyr to moronic bureaucracy and petty politics.
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Probably the film best loved by Bresson adherents, and almost certainly his most heartbreaking. Teenage Anne Wiazemsky (Jean-Luc Godard’s future wife) plays the rural teenage girl who is betrayed and abused, partly or arguably due to choices she herself has made. But it’s her fuzzy-nosed co-star, the long-suffering eponymous donkey, who steals the show, bearing his burdens and accepting an animal version of martyrdom without complaint. Beneath the deceptively simple story lies a complex and tangled portrait of rural life defined by pride, greed, cruelty and human sin of all varieties. (Animal lovers: While the actual donkey used in the film may have been harassed and irritated during the shoot, he was not actually beaten or substantively harmed.)
The Devil Probably (1977) Shot in color among the disillusioned, long-haired youth of post-’60s Paris, Bresson’s next-to-last film remains controversial, viewed by some critics as a classic study of postmodern alienation and by others as an aging filmmaker’s desperate grasp at hipness. (Bresson himself was 75 when this was made.) As usual, the acting is affectless, the camera largely static and the story is deliberately “de-dramatized.” We already know that androgynous 20-something drifter Charles (Antoine Monnier) will die after his explorations of religion, revolutionary politics and psychoanalysis; what we don’t know is exactly why or how. Both a visually ravishing work and a supremely unforgiving one, “The Devil Probably” has the feeling of a stern farewell to youth, movies and the modern world. Bresson would indeed retire from filmmaking after “L’Argent,” his next film, although he would live on for many years, dying in 1999 at age 98.
The Bresson retrospective opens this week at Film Forum in New York; Jan. 19 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif.; Jan. 20 at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Mass.; Jan. 21 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago; Jan. 31 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Feb. 9 at the TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto; March 1 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; March 3 at the Cleveland Cinematheque and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; March 6 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.; March 9 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville; April 4 at the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver, Canada; April 13 at BAM in Brooklyn, N.Y.; May 1 at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle; and May 10 at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. (Further venues and dates may follow.)
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
Who can say that they have a friend? Wait, let me define that term. I’m talking about a friend who knows you – not you on the outside but you on the inside. Not the friend that you laugh and share small talk with but the one who sees you with no makeup. The one who knows the story behind all your glory. The one who has seen your ugly cry. A friend that tells you the truth in love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. (Proverbs 27:6) The friend who sees the real you and not your representative or your face for the world. Still got your hand up? Okay, who has a friend that loves you when you don’t love yourself? The friend who loves you in spite of the questionable reputation you may have? The one who risks his good name because he sees the value of who you are and doesn’t care how the world views him. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. (Matthew 11:19)
Friendship is the basis of all of our relationships. We have to be careful in whom we place our trust, our hearts, our friendship. Husbands and wives should be friends first. This is the basis of the love relationship. His mouth is most sweet, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend… (Song of Solomon 5:16) The Bible teaches us the characteristics of a real friend as well as the characteristics of a false friend. But how should we go about being a friend and selecting our friends. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18:24) A friend is someone we seek for counsel, for comfort and for confirmation. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. (Proverbs 27:9) While having a true friend is a blessing and brings great joy, these same persons can inflict the worst pain. Betrayal of a friend happens to us and it leaves devastating results. We are robbed of our trust. We are reluctant to put our trust in anyone. Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psalm 41:9) We can all relate to being betrayed by the one we least suspected, right? Ouch! Only those we love and trust can hurt us so deeply. So how can we guard ourselves from hurt and betrayal? With whom can we trust to be our friend at all times? In any circumstance, you know, when we aren’t very friendly ourselves. Who wants to around us when we don’t want to be with ourselves? The world says our friend is the one we have known the longest and spend the most of our time. The one who will “ride or die” with us – meaning they will do whatever we want – good, bad or otherwise – no discretion. You know, the blind leading the blind?
Whatever definition you have of a friend it pales in comparison to my friend. I recommend Jesus! Now you don’t have to take my word for it but go to the Word. His reputation is well documented. The Bible most assuredly tells us who our one, true friend is and that is Jesus Christ. He is a friend to the friendless. He is a friend to anyone who accepts His friendship. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. (John 15:14) The songwriter said it best:
What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.
Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.
Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do your friends despise, forsake you? Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In His arms He’ll take and shield you; you will find a solace there.
Blessed Savior, Thou hast promised Thou wilt all our burdens bear
May we ever, Lord, be bringing all to Thee in earnest prayer.
Soon in glory bright unclouded there will be no need for prayer
Rapture, praise and endless worship will be our sweet portion there.
So, who’s your BFF? Mine is Jesus and whether you know it or not He’s yours, too. Be blessed and know you have a friend in Jesus.
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The fight to end the school-to-jail track and reestablish restorative justice practices is personal for Jasmine Jauregui, a youth organizer from the Youth Justice Coalition.
“I have a family with a history of incarceration. My father is serving a life sentence at the moment and I don’t feel comfortable around [school resource] officers.”
Jauregui is just one of a number of students who recently met with Secretary Arne Duncan and David Esquith, director of the Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS), at the Department of Education to discuss school safety. The students, who work to break down silos and make their schools and communities safer, represented coalition members of the Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ), the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) and Padres y Jovenes Unidos (Parents & Youth United).
One day before the students met with Secretary Duncan, they participated in a rally on Capitol Hill calling on Congress to implement positive approaches in response to gun violence and address the impact of school safety policies.
Secretary Duncan applauded the students’ efforts to make their voices heard to lawmakers and was interested in hearing some of the alternative recommendations they’ve developed.
“Rather than promote more school resources officers (SROs) in schools, we want school administrators to promote positive measures such as positive behavior intervention and restorative justice,” said Yuki Diaz, a youth organizer of Padres y Jovenes Unidos via video teleconference.
Other students agreed, saying that they felt their schools needed an increased presence in guidance counselors, social workers and psychologists.
Secretary Duncan said that he believes each school is unique and should have the flexibility to choose school resource officers or social workers and counselors in order to prevent violence.
Padres y Jovenes Uniodos recently reached a historic partnership with the Denver’s police department and school district that limits the role of police in schools. The organization is hoping that their interagency agreement will be used as a model for other urban schools confronted with alarming rates of misconduct and violence.
The Department of Education has already provided technical aid to help nearly 18,000 schools implement evidence-based strategies to improve school climate. “One of the things that the President is proposing is a new $50 million initiative to scale up positive behavioral interventions and supports,” said David Esquith.
Other youth activists such as Nicole Cheatom of the Baltimore Algebra Project said that it shouldn’t have taken the tragedy at Sandy Hook to build momentum on school and community safety. She cited that a school shooting occurred last year at Perry Hall high school in Baltimore, and that it didn’t receive national attention.
Earlier this month, ED’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students awarded more than $35,000 to the Baltimore, County, Md., high school. The Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grant will assist with ongoing recovery efforts.
Christina Cathey, a youth activist and college student at Tugaloo College said that she hopes the Department continues to support alternatives to a culture of zero-tolerance, punishment and push out in schools. She said that ED’s leadership can serve as a catalyst at the local-level.
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Each March we take time to reflect on the amazing women who have left their mark throughout history. At the U.S. Department of Education, we realize we have a lot of women to celebrate in education. Every mother is an educator, instilling life lessons for future generations from the moment her child is born. Every sister, aunt, grandmother and even friends, help us learn valuable lessons in and out of the classroom. After all, we never truly stop learning and an education never ends.
As a small part to the month-long commemoration of inspirational women, we have chosen to highlight two women educators because of their incredible ability to break glass ceilings through their dedication to education. Please read and share these inspirational stories with the women and young girls in your own life.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) Physician:
After many years of determined effort, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to complete a course of study at a medical college in the United States, graduating at the top of her class at Geneva Medical School (NY) with an M.D. degree in 1849. Blackwell later used her education and experience to help other women achieve doctorate degrees by establishing the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the first medical school for women, resulting in greater acceptance of female physicians across the country.
Famous Quote: “It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.”
Share Elizabeth Blackwell’s story with your classroom:
Mary McLeod Bethune (1877-1955) Educator:
Equal parts educator, politician, and social visionary, Mary McLeod Bethune, dedicated her life to improving the lives of young African American women through the power of education. In 1904, Bethune established the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Girls, aimed to help young African American women living in the most impoverished areas of Florida get an education.
Famous Quote: “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
These are just two women out of the millions who have helped educate our children. On behalf of all of us at the U.S. Department of Education, we thank you.
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In Novum Testamentum 48.4 (2006), which was published online around the same time as 49.1 (2007), there are a number of reviews of interest to textual critics. One that caught my attention (on pp. 400-404) was the review of Tjitze Baarda of P.J. Williams, Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels. It is a very detailed engagement and appears to demonstrate that Williams has not convinced everyone to change their ways of analysing versions. Nevertheless, Baarda says 'I cannot but admire the audacity with which the apparently young and assertive scholar Williams has tried to develop new ways of interpreting Syriac linguistic phenomena in view of their importance for the recovery of the Greek text.' For those who are interested in following in detail the review's interaction with the book I'd note that on Williams p. 300 the pages of discussion for Mark 1:16 should be '59-60' and that, contrary to the suggestion in the review, Williams suggests no more emendations to the NA27 apparatus of this verse than the removal of the Peshitta's support for αμφιβαλλοντας τα δικτυα.
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If the apocalypse comes, I want to spend it with the teams who competed in the Red Bull Creation event. They were given 72 hours and a pile of junk, along with the mission to illustrate “Energy in Motion”. Any scraps were fair game, from metal to electronics to slabs of wood, and the creations were just astounding. What they created was absolute brilliance, from hamster wheels to see-saws, and did I mention they did it in 3 days? If you left me in a room with a pile of junk and Red Bull, you’d come back to find a hyper-caffienated blogger probably trapped under said pile of junk. You certainly wouldn’t find the jaw-dropping creations these 16 teams welded, nailed, and glued together!
Gear Diary had the opportunity to see the final showcase, and chat with some of the teams as they explained their creations. It sounded like everyone had consumed large amounts of Red Bull, all of them were running on very little sleep, and they ranged in background from video game designers to engineers and biologists. What really amazed me was how they saw random items (i.g., a bike seat, a wheelchair motor, copper piping), and found inspiration — which often wildly varied from team to team.
I had two personal favorite creations from the day. My absolute favorite, because I am a five-year-old deep down, was the Wedgie People Mover by Ruination. It was a metal frame with a trampoline base and a harness suspended by ropes. The operator jumped up and down on the trampoline while in the harness, and the movement pushed the whole contraption forwards. The bouncer could even use additional ropes to steer! Who wouldn’t want to bounce and wedgie their way around?
My other favorite had a leg-up based on their name alone: 1.21 Jigawatts! Sadly they did not create a time machine, but they created something almost as cool; a giant hamster wheel that powered a text message printer. Somehow, in 72 hours these guys built a wheel, hooked up the guts of a cell phone AND created a giant ink printer with a butcher paper feed. And clearly I wasn’t the only impressed, as 1.21 Jigawatts won the competition, along with $10,000 (and the hero-worship of geeks and hackers everywhere)!
One other highlight of the day was the performance by an incredibly talented artist called “That 1 Guy”. He used a self-designed and built instrument he calls the “Magic Pipe”. His music was funky and cool, and if you had your eyes closed you would never believe it was coming from a 7ft series of pipes! Be sure to check out his website, and if he’s coming to your town GO SEE HIM!
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, and while I could spend all day describing the brilliant creations we saw, it’s best to just peruse our extensive gallery below. This seriously was an amazing event. Some of the teams had no experience with welding, and yet they turned out polished, amazing, functional creations! Makes you eye your overstuffed garage in a whole new light, doesn’t it?
Check out the official Red Bull video on the maker scene that inspired the event (and more on the official Red Bull Creation site), plus all our amazing photographs, courtesy of Sarah Wolff.
Let us know in the comments what would you have used to illustrate “Energy in Motion”, with the random flotsam and jetsam of New York City as your supplies! | <urn:uuid:ffddea59-12a4-4e6f-8150-0a356fa99d4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://geardiary.com/2011/07/12/red-bull-creation-event-the-official-gear-diary-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977537 | 755 | 1.609375 | 2 |
North Carolina senior field hockey player Katelyn Falgowski is finally getting the senior year she deserves.
The top-ranked Tar Heels are headed to the NCAA semifinals for the third consecutive year and are seeking their third national title in the past five years — and seventh overall — at Louisville’s Trager Stadium beginning Friday. UNC will face fourth-seeded Connecticut, while Maryland and Old Dominion will tangle in the other semifinal.
The opportunity to compete for a national championship might be most rewarding for Falgowski, who had to sit and watch her teammates from the sidelines during all of last season after suffering a preseason concussion.
In August 2010, Falgowski was at the top of her game. A native of Landenberg, Pa., Falgowski was an All-America midfielder and a Dean’s List student; she had been a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team with plans of participating in 2012. Falgowski had just returned from a European trip with the U.S. National Field Hockey Team, and jumped right into preseason practice with the defending NCAA champion Tar Heels.
Emergency room visits are on the rise for kids with sports and recreation-related brain injuries, a CDC report said last month.
According to the study, almost 250,000 children were taken to the ER with concussions and other brain injuries in 2009, up from just 150,000 in 2002.
Dr. Julie Gilchrist, a pediatrician at the CDC, and lead author of the study says she believes the numbers are up because parents and coaches are better educated.
“Because of the increased awareness of concussions, we hope more people are seeking treatment and evaluation of traumatic brain injury,” she said. Early detection and treatment, she says, are the key to preventing serious complications.
“First is recognizing there may be a brain injury, and pulling that child out of play,” she says. “Then they need to be evaluated by a medical provider that’s trained in diagnosis and management of concussions.”
About a week into practice, the Tar Heels were holding an intrasquad scrimmage.
“I went to go intercept the ball — in retrospect, I probably left a little too late — and I ran into one of our assistant coaches at the time,” Falgowski said. “I thought she was going to be turning the other way when she received it. I went hard to intercept it and she turned right into me and the back of her head smacked into my front left-eye area. I went down and was out of it.
“It wasn’t necessarily a really hard hit, or something really brutal — it was just something normal that happens when two players run into each other.”
Falgowski did not black out, but immediately did not feel well and suffered from blurred tunnel vision for about an hour after the collision.
After about five days of no activity, Falgowski underwent a gamut of concussion tests with the staff at UNC Sports Medicine, renowned for their work in concussion research.
“I took it easy for a few days and thought I was feeling fine,” Falgowski said. “I went into take the tests the first time, and came out and my scores were nowhere near where they should have been. It was definitely discouraging, but a lot people don’t pass it the first time.”
Most concussion symptoms subside in one or two weeks. Falgowski was not so fortunate. Her balance and visual acuity were nowhere close to her baseline numbers — every student-athlete is tested at the beginning of their career. There was more rest, and then more test-taking.
“For about two weeks, I had not been doing anything,” Falgowski said. “I started to just warm up, and one day I did some minimal activity, but I guess it was too much for me at the time. I plummeted again and had a big setback. I went back to really poor scores on the tests again.”
Falgowski stopped all activity, and worked with the UNC medical staff and trainers to alleviate the problem. Thankfully, she knew she was in good hands. Kevin Guskiewicz, chairman of UNC’s Department of Exercise and Sports Medicine, is recognized his work with sports-related concussions, and received a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” for $500,000 in September.
“I knew I was feeling off, and I was still having vision issues,” Falgowski said. “The great thing about UNC is that we’re one top research centers for concussions in the country. I am so fortunate to be here with that staff and our trainers as well. I kept telling them I didn’t feel well, and the testing for it is so intensive that it is so amazing that it pinpointed the areas I was still having trouble with.”
Because of her slow path to recovery, Falgowski decided to forego the season and apply for a medical redshirt.
“Once we get outside of the normal recovery curve, we do not have a good litmus test for how long things are going to take,” UNC trainer Scott Olario said. “To guess at that is not something we want to do. The brain is a highly dynamic functional organ and once things break the normal recovery curve you expect, you’re going to get outliers. Katelyn was certainly an outlier.”
Guskiewicz referred Falgowksi to Dr. Susan Durham, who specializes in sports vision therapy and has worked National Hockey League players that have suffered from concussions.
“Right away, she was able to determine so many reasons why I was having trouble with my vision,” Falgowski said.
Falgowski underwent rehabilitation for visual acuity and capacity. She had trouble transitioning her vision from different distances, and could not focus on moving patterns.
In the meantime, Falgowski was not doing any physical activity in order to limit the stress on her brain. Even light jogging could tamper with her progress because of the visual strain. For an Olympic-level athlete, complete rest may have been the most difficult part of rehab.
“It was such a different feeling,” Falgowski said. “There are always points when you want to take a week off because you’ve been working hard for a long time — but that is a choice. I didn’t have the option of wanting to go out for a run — I just couldn’t. It changes your body. It was very challenging at points to get through the whole process of resting. Obviously, you only have one brain, so it is important that you treat it and allow it to get healthy again.”
In December, after about four months of no activity, Falgowski was allowed to work out on the stationary bike. At the end of January, she slowly began the process of playing again, and eventually joined the team in February with some of their workouts.
“I don’t think I was worried about running into anyone again, but I was concerned about pushing myself too hard and regressing,” Falgowski said. “I had come so far and was finally feeling well. I didn’t want to go through what I had just done again. I was fortunate to know my body well enough to know what it could handle and what it couldn’t. I wanted to be smart about things, and trusted the staff.”
Falgowski went to vision therapy until May, and continued to do visual exercises on her own, as well as playing special computer games to help her recovery. She now wears special prism glasses that help her peripheral vision.
“Katelyn did an unbelievable job of coming in to work on her visual rehab,” Olario said. “It’s something that is not easy. If she was not so diligent – even though it took four to five months to return to normal — it was a daily grind for her. I would be worried that if it happened to another player that did not have her motivation, recovery would have not happened as readily for that person.”
“There are people that it takes years for their vision to come back after something like this,” Falgowski said. “It was really scary for a few months.”
Although recovery was a long process, Falgowski’s return to the field has certainly been worth the wait.
“It has enjoyable because I hadn’t done it for so long,” Falgowski said. “I wanted to get back into shape, and have that feeling of my body being tired. I actually missed feeling my muscles being sore.”
Since August, Falgowski has more than made up for lost time with both the Tar Heels and the U.S. National Team. She earned her 100th international cap playing against Germany during a European Tour this summer.
“It was really encouraging that I was able to bounce back and get back up to the standard I had been at before the concussion,” Falgowski said.
Falgowski returned to join the Tar Heels for the season opener on Aug. 27, but has spent the last several months juggling her time between the two squads. She missed seven UNC games in October while playing for the U.S. at the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, as the Americans won their first gold medal in the competition with a victory against top-ranked Argentina, earning a spot in the 2012 Olympics.
“I dedicated a month of my season to the U.S. and accomplished that goal and now with just three weeks left in the season and I still have another goal to accomplish,” Falgowski said following her return from Mexico. “I’m setting my sights on that right now.”
Two days after flying back from Mexico, Falgowski started for the Tar Heels against then-No. 1 Old Dominion and tied the UNC career record for assists as she helped on the game-winning goal in the 3-2 overtime victory on Oct. 30 to conclude the regular season. The Tar Heels then claimed their first Atlantic Coast Conference title since 2007, defeating Wake Forest and Duke in a three-day span. With a goal and two assists in the two contests, Falgowski was voted tournament most valuable player.
North Carolina earned the top seed in the NCAA tournament, and has rolled to wins against Ohio and Michigan to clinch a spot in the NCAA semifinals for the third consecutive year. The Tar Heels are just two wins away from taking the national championship trophy back to Chapel Hill. But regardless of how much those accomplishments mean to her, Falgowski knows that no gold medal or trophy or accolade can ever substitute living a full, healthy life.
“Any competitor or athlete is going to on the outside say they’re feeling OK even if on the inside they’re not feeling well,” Falgowski said. “They’re going to want to play in that game even if they’re not supposed to. My coaching staff and trainers took the matter seriously and I was fortunate enough to understand the situation as well. You only have one life, and one brain.” | <urn:uuid:1d40d217-4f1f-4be7-80ae-c13f745fd5c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncaa.com/news/fieldhockey/article/2011-11-16/falgowski-endures-long-road-back | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984534 | 2,389 | 1.570313 | 2 |
What Happens With VMFS3 LUNs Greater Then 2 TB
I had someone run into an issue earlier in the day that I couldn’t’ explain in regards to a datastore size. We found the LUN size itself was greater then 2 TB, which was acknowledged as not being supported but the amount of space that did become available did not make sense.
So we all know that there is a 2 TB-512 LUN size limit for VMFS3, but do you know what size LUN you will be presented with when you present a LUN bigger than this?
Lets say we add a new VMFS3 volume on a presented LUN that is 3,5 or 7 TB? One would expect that you would then receive a 2TB LUN at least, but in actuality you will end up with a 1 TB LUN. How about a 3.5,5.5, or 7.5 TB volume? You would end up with a 1.5 TB LUN in each of these cases.
I looked for a knowledgebase to back this but could only find one community posting which alluded to the LUN size being based on the remainder of what was presented after taking 2 TB chunks out at a time. This means you could end up with some really weird sizes you weren’t expecting.
*Note-Frank Denneman(http://frankdenneman.nl) made an important observation that this information only applies to VMFS3. This entry has been updated to reflect that this information applies to VMFS version 3. VMFS version 5 will support a 64TB LUN. | <urn:uuid:d97aef68-45c4-4bb2-91c8-6b19d189cadd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seancrookston.com/blog/2011/09/19/what-happens-with-vmfs-luns-greater-then-2-tb/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968357 | 339 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Two South Dakota lawmakers with roots in law enforcement argued Thursday that people charged with possessing small amounts of marijuana should be able to defend themselves in court by arguing they need if for medical reasons.
Rep. Dan Kaiser, R-Aberdeen, a police officer, and Sen. Craig Tieszen, R-Rapid City, a retired police chief, told a South Dakota House committee that their bill would not legalize marijuana. But they said people suffering from cancer and other debilitating and painful diseases should be allowed to use medical necessity as a defense if they’re arrested for possessing two ounces or less of marijuana.
‘‘I believe these people ought to have the opportunity to defend themselves,’’ Tieszen said.
However, law enforcement officers and others opposed the bill, saying it would open the door to eventual legalization of marijuana in the state.
Minnehaha County States Attorney Aaron McGowan said the measure would clog up the courts with hearings and jury trials on misdemeanor possession charges because many people would argue they need the marijuana for medical treatment.
‘‘It will be burdensome to the taxpayer,’’ McGowan said.
The Health and Human Services Committee heard some testimony on the bill Thursday but delayed a vote on the measure until Tuesday. | <urn:uuid:f0c83546-b521-4048-b04f-2c5fbbfeae51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aberdeennews.com/news/aan-sd-house-committee-hears-bill-on-marijuana-defense-20130131,0,1882895.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960566 | 266 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Welcome to the Hofstra’s Music Education Programs
Hofstra's Music Education Programs offers various highly diversified programs designed to prepare students with the comprehensive knowledge and skills required to succeed in today's schools.
We offer the following undergraduate and graduate programs:
- Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S. Ed.) in Music Education
- Master of Science in Education (M.S. Ed.) in Music Education
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Music Education
- Music Education Certificate
- Intensive Non-Degree Program in Music Education
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Wind Conducting
Our accomplished faculty represent diverse areas of specialization, bringing a wide variety of professional backgrounds and experience to bear in their teaching. Our Composition faculty includes members who have won Emmy and Academy Awards, National Opera Association Awards, and other professional recognition for their film scores, operas, and other compositions, and have had works performed by such renown ensembles as the New York City Opera, The American Chamber Ensemble, The Jupiter Symphony, and others; our Jazz faculty includes performers and arrangers of international repute who have performed and recorded with such notables as Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz and others, and have performed in the pit orchestras of many of Broadway's top shows; our Ensemble Directors include faculty who have appeared as Guest Conductors, Clinicians, and Workshop Directors with professional ensembles, at festivals, schools and other events throughout the world; our Music History and Theory faculty have had research published in many prestigious books and journals, such as the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Music Theory Spectrum, The American Journal of Semiotics, The Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, and Theory and Practice, and have served as officers of major national and regional societies; and our Performance faculty consists of working professional musicians who are continuously active as performers on the New York musical scene.
Every year thousands of students choose to become a part of the Hofstra Family. Take a look around to see which Music Education Program is right for you! | <urn:uuid:e1a0a97d-3af6-49ad-9984-74c429217408> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/SOEAHS/TLL/MUSED/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957966 | 447 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Credit Card Issuers Urged to Promote Safety of Online ShoppingWith online shopping increasing, credit card issuers would do well to initiate campaigns promoting the safety of shopping on the Web, particularly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
A recent study by research firm BAIGlobal Inc., Tarrytown, NY, found that 41 percent of U.S. credit cardholders made at least one online purchase in 2000, up from 27 percent a year earlier. The average cardholder made 10 online purchases in 2000.
However, 54 percent of those surveyed said they were not very or not at all comfortable with using their cards online. Despite this fear, 34 percent of them said they made an online purchase with a credit card anyway.
"It's a good time for card issuers to promote card security," said Andrew Davidson, vice president of BAIGlobal's competitive tracking division. "Despite negative stories about the risks of fraud when using cards on the Web, our study found Americans' comfort levels using their credit cards online are increasing and that actual fraud levels are stable."
Online fraud has remained at 17 percent to 19 percent for the past two years, he said, based on the percentage of people who reported incidents.
"Fear of fraud from using credit cards on the Internet is more a perception of risk than reality," Davidson said. "A consumer's level of online purchasing activity does not make them more vulnerable to fraud."
He said that card issuers can "raise consumers' comfort level" by motivating them to shop online by offering compelling services and educating them to the benefits -- and safety -- of buying over the Web.
"Security will obviously be on the top of people's minds," he said. "The last thing people are thinking about now is responding to a credit card direct mail piece."
BAIGlobal noted that credit card direct mail volume for 2000 reached an all-time high of 3.5 billion pieces. However, as volume grew, response rates reached an annual low of 0.6 percent, continuing an eight-year decline. In the first quarter of 2001, total credit card acquisition mail volume was 1.2 billion pieces, with a response rate of 0.7 percent.
"The low response can be attributed to two factors -- high mailbox clutter, which is making it difficult for card issuers to differentiate their offers, and the high penetration of credit cards that already exist," Davidson said. "Going forward, issuers need to break through the clutter and offer something compelling to get a response." | <urn:uuid:d811b652-413d-4d20-86b4-7e7bc405a043> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dmnews.com/credit-card-issuers-urged-to-promote-safety-of-online-shopping/article/74802/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972682 | 516 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Budget Cuts Cause a Fitter,Trimmer Army
Like all other places the United States Army has been forced to cut it’s budget and as a result we now have a much stronger Army. Under pressure to reduce it’s ranks, the Army is dismissing a large number of soldiers who do not meet their fitness standards, another fallout of our nation’s obesity problem.
It is obesity that is the number one reason people are denied the opportunity to join the Army. In a twelve year period of time from 1998 to 2010, the number of active duty military personnel considered to be overweight tripled.In 2010, 5.3% of the current Army personnel we considered to be diagnosed as overweight or obese.
This statistic has prompted the Army to re-examine their training programs and also drove commanders to weed out soldiers deemed to be unfit to fight. So far in the first ten months of this year, the army has released 1,625 soldiers for being out of shape which is 15 times the number released for that reason back in 2007.
Interesting numbers to say the least. | <urn:uuid:1478b66e-e616-4043-bdd8-315e84699823> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://y101radio.com/budget-cuts-cause-a-fittertrimmer-army/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964242 | 225 | 1.75 | 2 |
Book review – A Walk Across the Sun
Posted by lucypopescu on June 21, 2012
Human slavery today takes many forms but increasingly involves the trafficking of women and children across borders and even continents. The consequences are always devastating for the victims. A novel about the brutal world of child prostitution is probably not the easiest of books to market so Corban Addison, a human rights lawyer, has made a bold decision to explore this difficult subject through literary fiction.
Seventeen-year-old Ahalya and her younger sister Sita find their lives turned upside down by a tsunami that tears through their Indian village killing their entire family. Attempting to reach their convent school, many miles away, they are kidnapped by a taxi-driver who sells them to a sex trafficker. They are swiftly transported to Bombay’s seedy red light district and find themselves incarcerated in a brothel. Virgins, crudely referred to as ‘sealed packs’, attract the highest bidders and so Ahalya and Sita are considered lucrative acquisitions.
Running parallel to the girls’ story is that of an American lawyer, Thomas Clarke, who witnesses the kidnapping of a young girl in his home city of Washington. Struggling to come to terms with the death of his baby daughter and subsequent collapse of his marriage, he decides to follow his wife Priya to her native India. Haunted by the memory of the kidnapping he takes a year’s sabbatical from his job with a high-powered law firm and accepts a position with the Bombay branch of the Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE).
While working with CASE, Thomas witnesses a raid on the brothel where Ahalya and Sita are held. Just before the police move in, Sita is sold on to another trafficker who intends to use her as a drugs mule. After meeting Ahalya, Thomas promises to try and track down her sister. It’s a journey that takes him to Paris and back to America.
Threaded through the main plot are Thomas’s various attempts to reconcile with his wife – a touching love story that gives emotional depth to Thomas’s character and softens the impact of the girls’ heartbreaking trauma.
A Walk Across the Sun is immensely readable and a powerful indictment of the global trade in human beings. Addison highlights the fact that men who pay to have sex with minors or trafficked women are as much abusers as the criminal gangs. As an FBI agent remarks towards the end of the novel: “Trafficking will stop when men stop buying women.”
For his research Addison spent time with the International Justice mission in India and went undercover in the brothels of Bombay. By setting a major part of the novel in the US, Addison does not shy away from the grim reality that American citizens make up a sizable proportion of those who help to sustain the global sex trade. | <urn:uuid:34081dce-550a-42a1-863d-dcda1714c559> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lucypopescu.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/book-review-a-walk-across-the-sun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970131 | 607 | 1.53125 | 2 |
There’s an interesting idea that I’ve seen coming out of the social enterprise movement, which looks holistically at the value a business creates, both financial and social. Social entrepreneurs say that it will become more mainstream for businesses, especially smaller ones that can have a more idiosyncratic approach, to look together at both the social and financial value they create.
This aligns with what I heard a few months ago at a meeting of businesses from the environmental industry – speakers from successful environmental businesses talked about how intertwined their businesses were with their values. These were not micro-entrepreneurs, but rather people running thriving businesses in industries like power generation, waste management, and furniture manufacturing, who operated their businesses in as close to a sustainable fashion as they could manage. They spoke passionately about how bringing their values and their businesses together gave them integrity that they felt would do nothing but add to their ultimate success, including financial success.
Even if they don’t identify as social entrepreneurs in the slightest, part of the reason many people are in business for themselves is the chance to mold their businesses as they see fit. And they have always used their businesses to manifest their values. We are working with a client right now who’s a family-run business going into the second generation, and they clearly have values around how they treat their employees and customers that are part and parcel of their business. They are incredibly focused on client satisfaction because they truly see their clients offering them the privilege of being in business. This perspective permeates everything they do, and it’s absolutely a manifestation of their value system.
It may be that a new generation of entrepreneurs are just more conscious and perhaps more explicit about how their businesses enable them to fuse their economic life with their social values. This would, for one thing, enable them to connect more easily with others around common interests, whether business or otherwise, which can only create stronger communities across all facets of their lives and ours. What a great trend, if so. | <urn:uuid:6ea1b07a-a7e7-40ba-bdf2-12baa6814ce7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://themezzaninegroup.com/blog/2011/10/does-your-business-express-your-values/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978782 | 408 | 1.742188 | 2 |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Protesters are upset that Charlotte police are using new restrictions to control demonstrations outside two corporate meetings in North Carolina's largest city.
The environmental group Greenpeace and others said Wednesday the protests will be peaceful, and the city is violating its free speech rights.
The city in January adopted an ordinance allowing it to declare public gatherings as extraordinary events. That allows the city to create extraordinary event zones — designated areas where people won't be allowed to carry backpacks and other items.
The measures were adopted in advance of this summer's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
City Manager Curt Walton said the city will use restrictions for Duke Energy's and Bank of America's annual shareholders meetings because of protesters.
They'll also use it for Memorial Day and July 4th.
What's On TonightFull Schedule
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READ THIS FROM THE INDEPENDENT…..
A Lloyd’s insurance syndicate has begun a landmark legal case against Saudi Arabia, accusing the kingdom of indirectly funding al-Qa’ida and demanding the repayment of £136m it paid out to victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The Brighton-based Lloyd’s 3500 syndicate, which paid $215m compensation to companies and individuals involved, alleges that the oil-rich Middle Eastern superpower bears primary responsibility for the atrocity because al-Qa’ida was supported by banks and charities acting as “agents and alter egos” for the Saudi state.
The detailed case, which names a number of prominent Saudi charities and banks as well as a leading member of the al-Saud royal family, will cause embarrassment to the Saudi government, which has long denied claims that Osama bin Laden’s organisation received official financial and practical support from his native country.
NOT A SURPRISE, BUT THE TREATMENT, OR LACK THEREOF, OF THE FIRST RESPONDERS IS DISGUSTING.
FROM COMMON DREAMS.ORG.
This weekend, the public will mourn a site of loss, recasting the painful memories and haunting fears that still hover over the aftermath at Ground Zero. But the people who worked and breathed that tragedy in the days and months following September 11 won’t be at the primary commemoration ceremony for the families of victims. The Mayor’s decision to limit the attendees by excluding the 9/11 first responders is an unnerving metaphor for an unhealed scar of 9/11. Many of the rescue and recovery workers who labored at Ground Zero have been plagued by a metastasizing medical crisis, aggravated by chronic political failure.
This week, 9/11 firefighters and police chiefs rallied to demand changes to the rules governing compensation for health problems tied to poisonous air and debris at Ground Zero. They want federal funds to support treatment for cancer, which is currently omitted from the primary legislation covering Ground Zero-related medical needs. For years, researchers have been uncovering fresh evidence of widespread and devastating illnesses afflicting a large portion of people exposed to the aftermath; ongoing health issues range from crippling lung and breathing problems to post-traumatic stress disorder. But adequate funding for 9/11 workers has often been ensnared in political gridlock, not to mention the general incompetence of the healthcare system.
The UK Guardian reports that new research could trump politicians’ concerns over potential cancer liabilities:
Cancer treatment has been specifically excluded from federal health funding, with officials arguing there has been insufficient evidence to prove any direct link between the toxins present at the site and the disease.
But last week the results of the first large-scale study, published in the Lancet, found that firefighters who were involved on the day of the attacks and in the weeks that followed had a 19 percent higher risk of contracting cancer.
The study looked at 9,800 male firefighters, comparing those present during and after the attacks with those who were not involved.
Beyond the study’s findings, there’s disturbing anecdotal evidence of cancer and various other problems, like gastric ailments and the inflammatory disease sarcoidosis. No one knows what the long-term effects are, but whatever the fate of these responders, there are about 15,000 people currently receiving treatment who will need answers soon.
The story of firefighter Richie Manetta, documented in Brooklyn Ink, evokes the threats that loom over many first responders who worked amid mountains of debris:
“We were literally chewing on that stuff,” said Firefighter Rob Angelone.
Manetta remained “on the pile” for the rest of the day, as the FDNY implemented 24-hour shifts to staff the rescue and recovery operation, with nothing to protect his lungs from the intake of pulverized cement, glass, asbestos, and lead, among other aerosolized particles, as well as toxic fumes from burning jet fuel. According to Angelone, who returned to Ground Zero no more than ten times, Manetta was there “more than the average” firefighter….
Years later, a bump on Richie’s upper thigh—initially thought to be a hernia—was revealed to be a malignant tumor. The cancer spread to his testicles, lungs, and brain….
Manetta died within five days of two other Ground Zero workers with similar afflictions—New York police officers Robert Grossman, 44, and Corey Diaz, 37.
New York Representative Carolyn Maloney, who helped shepherd the Zadroga Act through Congress, said “the study provided enough solid evidence for cancer to be included on the list of eligible conditions for federal funding,” according to the WSJ, which could unlock some of the allotted $4.3 billion based on a provision for treating additional illnesses identified in new research. In July, federal officials declared there wasn’t yet enough evidence connecting Ground Zero toxins to cancers.
The outrage that among Ground Zero emergency responders and volunteers is stoked by the belief—recently affirmed by a ProPublica investigation—that the government failed utterly to warn people in the area about the risks of the pollution, or to implement essential safety measures for workers at the site, like enforcing rules about protective gear.
For thousands of workers, this anniversary of 9/11 is an especially deep measure of loss—not just the immediate loss of life but years of lost opportunities to make still-neglected victims whole. Though “never forget” is a common refrain these days, the reality is that the public will always fixate on selected memories of the tragedy, while the lessons not yet learned—about the government’s responsibility in times of crisis—are left buried in the dust.
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I wrote another boxing piece with the assistance of Zombie Prophet, our resident gif master, so I thought I'd bring it over!
Hope you don't mind clicking the link and as always all feedback is much welcomed.
Many of my regular readers will recall my constant referencing of the "Golden Age of Boxing" and wonder just how good a sport could have been thirty, forty or even fifty years ago. There were no readily available performance enhancing drugs, cardiovascular training methods were archaic, and strength and conditioning didn't exist. Boxing unlike every other sport in the world, has not gone forward in leaps and bounds technically since 50 years ago. In fact it's interesting to note that Floyd Mayweather, considered one of the best fighters pound for pound and the best defensive fighter on the planet, is called a "throw back" due to his old school fighting style that confounds today's square on, combination spamming fighter.
From the 1890s to the 1960s boxing was the world's favourite sporting event and almost every healthy young man strapped on the gloves at some point. Whether it be the gentleman's clubs of London who wagered on and negotiated the bouts, or the young men with no saleable skills aside from their punch, boxing was practised and speculated by a huge portion of society. Due to the huge pool of fighters and the regularity with which they fought, defensive genius came to be of paramount importance. Watch a fighter such as Archie Moore who fought 219 recorded professional fights, then watch a man such as Ricky Hatton and you'll notice that a man who fights a couple of times a year until the age of 30 never has to correct the errors in his dangerous, self sacrificing style. When you fight as often Archie Moore or his contemporaries did, safety and career longevity become of great importance. Consequently there were a great many knockout artists, counter punchers and defensive geniuses around in the 1950s who deserve the attention of the combat sports student today.
Today I have teamed up with our fantastic media man, Zombie Prophet, to examine and comment on some of the high quality gifs he has assembled from the 1950s boxing archives. This is part one of a two part series on the 1950s and if it goes well we hope to do other decades as well so do let us know what you think!
Archie Moore versus Yvon Durelle - 1959
Our first knockout comes courtesy of the aforementioned Archie Moore. Affectionately nicknamed "The Old Mongoose" in his time, Moore became the world light heavyweight champion in 1952 at the age of 36, and ruled until 1962 when he abandoned the title. Moore had met the Canadian, Yvon Durelle in 1958 and had been floored 4 times in the opening rounds before coming back to knock Durelle out in the tenth round, showing the heart of a true champion. In 1959 at age 43, Moore defended his title again in a hotly anticipated rematch against "The Fighting Fisherman".
This is the last of four knockdowns and demonstrates Moore's wiliness in action. Almost every other fighter would be swarming on Durelle and swinging at his head - instead Moore performs an inside slip, towards Durelle's powerful right hand (a signature of Moore) and delivers a ripping left uppercut to the Canadian's body. They pivot around and Moore dispatches his winded foe with a few good punches to the head to put him on his knees for the count.
Floyd Patterson versus Archie Moore - 1956 When Rocky Marciano retired as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world it was decided that Patterson and Moore were the most deserving contenders. In a true match of experience versus youth as Patterson was just 21 years of age. Patterson was the charge of Cus D'amato who many of you will remember was Mike Tyson's adoptive father and trainer, and as such fought with what the newspapers dubbed a "peek-a-boo" style.
Many great classical style boxers - those who enjoy using the right hand to parry jabs in order to economize on footwork - have proven susceptible to a leaping left hook behind their right hand which is often forward of their chin and ready to parry jabs. Joe Louis was dropped by numerous opponents who shouldn't have given him any trouble with surprise left hooks, and here Archie Moore meets Floyd Patterson's money punch. Patterson's left hook from the deep crouch has been called the "Kangaroo Punch" or more commonly "The Gazelle Punch" and despite the similarities in training that he and Mike Tyson underwent, Tyson's leaping left hook never really captured the distance or grace of Patterson's. Patterson finishes the fight with the hand speed that he was known for. Before the emergence of Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), Patterson was considered the fastest punching heavyweight ever and he certainly carried a power that Ali never rivalled.
Floyd Patterson versus Pete Rademacher - 1957
Pete Rademacher is an interesting case as he is the only man in boxing history to be given a title fight in his professional debut. A sterling amateur record and an olympic gold medal did support Rademacher's case for a title shot, and he certainly backed it up when he dropped Patterson several times in the opening rounds. Patterson rallied soon after however and put Rademacher down for the count in the sixth round.
Though Patterson was known for his left hook he was also a powerful right handed puncher and it was this tool that he used to fell Rademacher. Notice that Patterson clips Rademacher twice with right hooks as he is exiting the pocket. In fact the first right hand is thrown as Rademacher is pushing Patterson away.
Jersey Joe Walcott versus Ezzard Charles - 1951
You've probably all read my gushings over this punch and Jersey Joe before, but this is one of the finest fight finishers I have seen to this day and I don't anticipate there being many better before I'm gone. Jersey Joe Walcott is possibly the savviest fighter in boxing; impoverished for much of his career, feeding a family by working menial jobs and still having time to floor men like Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano in his evenings, Walcott is an inspiration figure and a hypnotic fighter. Ezzard Charles is perhaps the greatest light heavyweight of all time and fought many of the greatest fighters of his era and in fact ever - Walcott, Louis, Marciano.
This bout was finished with a beautiful inside slip past Charles' excellent and dangerous jab, followed by a lead uppercut / hook hybrid that caught Charles at the perfect angle as he dipped into this. The best thing about this punch? Ezzard Charles did everything right - his right hand is up, his lead shoulder is high and he doesn't telegraph the jab at all. The inside slip is fairly offbeat and the inside slip to lead uppercut counter is especially rare because it is a difficult slip followed by an awkward, short punch. The fact that Walcott did this so nonchalantly against one of the greatest technical boxers who ever lived and who had already bested Walcott twice is a credit to how bizarre Walcott's style was. I break down this counter in detail in my book, Advanced Striking.
Rocky Marciano versus Jersey Joe Walcott - 1952
You knew this one would make the list and thanks to Zombie Prophet it appears in the the top notch quality that it deserves. I could watch this gif all day. Rocky Marciano received his title fight after grafting away through the heavyweight division and being forced to knock out his childhood hero, Joe Louis to gain the attention that his ugly, attrition style had not granted him. Walcott had won the title from Ezzard Charles with the knockout listed above and this was his second defence after a rematch with Charles.
Though Walcott beat Marciano from pillar to post for twelve rounds he finally let the Brockton Blockbuster catch up with him in the thirteenth round. Here is just one of many examples in Walcott's career of his unorthodox style playing against him - where he confounded orthodox boxing greats such as Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles, he often struggled against brawlers and big hitters. Throughout the fight Walcott had been deliberately fighting with his back to the ropes - a terrible idea against Marciano who excelled against the ropes. In the thirteenth round Rocky Marciano finally beat Joe Walcott to the punch and demonstrated concisely why trading along the ropes is a terrible idea; the man on the ropes can never get as much power in his strikes as the man who is trapping him there and lacks the freedom of movement to evade them.
For those of you who haven't seen the entire fight, it's definitely worth watching this highlight to see what Walcott had been doing on the ropes throughout the bout.
Rocky Marciano versus Jersey Joe Walcott II - 1953
Due to the dominance Walcott showed through the first fight and the one punch nature of the finish, an immediate rematch was made between the two men. This time Marciano was not forced to show any of his trademark grit as he demonstrated what happens when a fighter with one punch power follows an effective gameplan with discipline. Here Marciano fakes the jab to make Walcott dip with the counter jab, and instead catches Walcott leaning with a hard left hook. While Walcott looked as though he could have continued, he was counted out and never competed again.
Willie Pep versus Lulu Perez - 1954
Even the great ones make mistakes and here is one of the extremely rare examples of Willie Pep getting caught clean. Willie Pep was known as Will o' the Wisp for good reason, he was one of the most evasive boxers of all time. Excluding a TKO loss to the relatively unknown Tommy Collins, the only fighter to make Pep look anything less than superhuman in his defence was the great rough house puncher, Sandy Saddler.
Lulu Perez was nothing too special in terms of boxing skill or even punching power - he was certainly nothing on Sandy Saddler - but this clip amply indicates how circling into a punch can very quickly ruin a fighter's night. Pep goes to perform his signature side step to the left (which was his main offensive technique, circling left until the opponent chased him then circling back the other way with a left straight in a southpaw stance) but instead walks into a jab which stifles him and hides the powerful right that follows. Perez's lack of hesitation in the face of Pep's overconfidence in his usual tricks to slow down the pace of a fight was truly the defining moment of this fight. It's worth noting that some analysts claim that Pep took a dive in this fight but I think it's pretty clear to see that he was genuinely hurt. | <urn:uuid:a0db0bf9-8bc3-4653-b069-ea08b2a4c98e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/9/27/3419910/greatest-knockouts-of-the-1950s-gif-tacular | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977573 | 2,213 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The book is the latest edition of one of the most useful British genealogical guides in print. At its core (more specifically, in its yellow pages section at the back!), the Family and Local History Handbook carries the essential genealogical directory for the UK and beyond, with details on all the key family history societies, archives, libraries and more that will ever be of use to your research - some 5000 contact details.
But the book provides much more than just phone listings and web addresses. The greater part of the volume carries articles from authors across the UK on various topics of interest to your family history. If you ever wanted to know about sources for Welsh genealogy, the family history of Stan Laurel, the Wiltshire Society of Apprentices, the General Strike of 1926, the history of the Weavers of Perth, hunger marches, army regimental numbers, how to search the papers of landed families in Ireland, the Women's Land Army, Scottish parish listings and so much more, this has to go tops on your Christmas card list for Santa (though rumour has it that he is so busy reading it that Christmas might actually be cancelled this year). There's murder, crime, charity, the power of the press, love and sex (i.e. in the Enlightenment!) - the full list of articles is available at www.genealogical.co.uk/flhh12.htm.
Packed with useful tips and stories from authors across the country, it is a book that you can read from cover to cover and dip into again and again and again.
Here's the better bit. The book is not officially being released until November 2009 - however, if you are at the National Family History Fair at Gateshead on September 12th, you can pick up your copy early at Stand 26! Priced at just £9.99, you can also order your copy in advance now at www.genealogical.co.uk. Get it now before the rush!
And don't forget that you can buy Volumes 1-10 on a new CD format as the Family and Local History Handbook Omnibus from the publisher, as well as Volume 11 in paperback format. Details again on the website.
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Saying Massachusetts has become the first state to “crack the code” on soaring health care expenses, Gov. Deval Patrick signed cost-control legislation this week that is estimated to save $200 billion over the next 15 years.
The new law holds the annual increase in total health care spending to the rate of growth of the state’s Gross State Product (GSP) for the first five years, through 2017 and then even lower for the next five years, to half a percentage point below the economic growth rate.
“Today, we take our next big step forward,” Patrick said during a well-attended State House ceremony packed with medical, business and labor leaders, caregivers and patient advocates, and legislators and policy makers. “Massachusetts has been a model to the nation for access to health care. Today we become the first to crack the code on cost. And we have come this far together.”
The new law is considered to be the second phase of the initial health care reform legislation signed into law in 2006 by then-Gov. Mitt Romney. That first phase is responsible for expanding coverage to over 98 percent of state residents, including 99.8 percent of the state’s children.
In addition, Patrick administration officials claim that over the last two years, small businesses and working families have saved over $600 million as a result of their reducing the average annual increase in health insurance premiums from over 16 percent to less than 1 percent.
By most accounts, the state health care reforms are working. As Patrick Administration officials are quick to point out, over 90 percent of Massachusetts’ residents have a primary care physician and four out of five have seen their doctor in the last 12 months.
Seventy-eight percent of businesses in the state now offer health insurance to their employees, compared to the national average of about 69 percent.
“What we’re really doing is moving toward a focus on health outcomes, and a system to reward that,” Patrick said. “We are ushering in the end of fee-for-service care in Massachusetts in favor of better care at lower cost.”
Under the new law, workers are expected to see an additional $10,000 in take-home pay over the next five years while the average family will see an estimated savings of $40,000 on their health care premiums over the same time period.
“Today, we take another big step forward towards achieving affordable health care for all of our residents,” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. JudyAnn Bigby. “We are moving towards a health care system that is more focused on better care and better health at lower cost.”
Part of the new reforms increases transparency by giving consumers better information about the price of procedures and health care services. The law requires health insurers to provide a toll-free number and website that enables consumers to request and obtain price information.
“The passage of today’s bill is all about seeing our health care system through the eyes of the patient,” said Representative Steven M. Walsh, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. “We have the highest quality medical system in the nation and the highest percentage of health care coverage, yet it is a struggle for families to afford their health insurance premiums.
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Discover History's Core & r & The National Park Service's Corps of Discovery II, a mobile exhibit that celebrates our Lewis and Clark heritage and is housed in a long-haul truck painted a really neat shade of blue, is making stops in Kamiah, Idaho (Sept. 16-26); Clarkston, Wash. (Oct. 1-9); the Tri-Cities (Oct. 14-17); Umatilla, Ore. (Oct. 21-24); and The Dalles (Oct. 28-31).
All of which proves that a) compared to the keelboats of 200 years ago, today's big rigs aren't one bit faster, and b) the National Park Service must think that Kamiah, Idaho, has twice as many people as the Tri-Cities.
Anyway, down in Clarkston, Oct. 8-9 will bring the storytelling and canoe-building hilarity of "Lewis and Clark Days." Call (509) 758-3126. And on Oct. 15 -- with that big blue truck still driving around Kennewick and refusing to ask directions -- there will be a "Down to the Great Columbia" Heritage Festival, recalling the time, 200 years ago to the day, that Bill and Meri traded goods with more than 200 Indians and learned for the first time that they had indeed taken the correct route. Yes, they really were on their way to the mouth of the Pacific -- where, the Indians informed them (by the use of some incredibly detailed sign language) that there was a really cute B & amp;B with taupe linens and scones that were to die for. Call (800) 254-5824.
Big Hairy Deal & r & Guy in upstate New York has three-inch eyebrow hair. Turns out it's a record.
"It's crazy how much people want to know about this," Frank Ames said last week. "I could build children's hospitals all across the world, and this is what I would still be known for."
Ames' record appears in the "Body Parts" section of the 2006 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.
Where does Ames get off, suggesting that we don't have our priorities straight? We know that charity is important. We wouldn't waste our time looking at some of the stuff that's in that Body Parts section, probably. What page was that on?
It's Our Can-Do Attitude & r & On Thursday, Sept. 22, bring three cans of stuff like tuna, chili, stew, soup or fruit to the Regal Cinemas at either NorthTown Mall or the Spokane Valley Mall and you'll not only get in free, you'll receive a small bag of popped corn kernels. It's all part of the 25th annual Cans Film Festival supporting the Second Harvest food bank. Visit www.2-harvest.org or call 534-6678. | <urn:uuid:5d7115d7-b81f-43b1-8428-525f43f68a63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-8316-buzz-bin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967539 | 601 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Bob Hill has been an award-winning columnist for the The Louisville Courier-Journal for over 25 years. He has written books on gardening, basketball, the history of Louisville, and Double Jeopardy, a true crime book about a Louisville murder that was featured twice on NBCs “Dateline,” and will be an Arts & Entertainment network feature with Bill Kurtis. Hill is a graduate of Rice University, where he played basketball.
Crack of the Bat is a comprehensive and entertaining look at the most famous icon in the history of baseball, the “Louisville Slugger” bat. The story includes the evolution of bats from pioneer wagon tongues to the sleek aluminum models of today. It examines the amazing physics involved in hitting a baseball, where .007 second means the difference between a home run and a foul ball. It tells the fascinating history of the still family-owned Hillerich & Bradsby Company, which in just 80 years went from making butter churns to producing seven million bats a year. Reinforcing this tale are dozens of stories about the the idiosyncrasies of the most famous hitters in baseball history, including Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Cal Ripken Jr., and Derek Jeter. Illustrated with hundreds of archival photographs, baseball decals, and icons — many in color — this book will become as much a cherished keepsake as some of the bats it describes.
Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove
How is it that Larry King remembers every detail about his first baseball glove, but Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith can’t recall a thing about his? Such is the mystery of the baseball glove, a simple piece of sporting equipment that is both functional and, for reasons that are hard to pin down, often unforgettable. This handsome and smartly illustrated history of fielder’s gloves is rich with information about and appreciation for the game. Lieberman explains how ballplayers were once thought unmanly if they used gloves to field thrown and batted balls and how big-leaguers vary in their approach to picking out and maintaining fielder’s gloves; New York Yankee Derek Jeter opts for a new glove at the start of every season, but former Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson, probably the greatest defensive third baseman ever, would use his “until it was ragged.” Lieberman’s book does not require any intellectual heavy lifting, but with plenty of archival photos and a bundle of funny anecdotes, it gives readers an amiable way to welcome the new season. Kevin Canfield
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Do you remember your first glove? Or the one that meant the most to you? Almost everyone does.
Bernie Williams does. So does Greg Maddux. Hall of Famers Dave Winfield and Jim Palmer do as well. Indeed, just above every major leaguer remembers his first glove. Some, such as Doug Rader, who won five straight Gold Gloves at third base with the Houston Astros, even wore the same glove from sandlot games all the way to the pros.
Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of Baseball Glove will help you recall your fist glove as it shares similar memories from the game’s greats. Glove Affairs also provides informative and surprising details about the history of the glove, its evolution, and its place in American culture.
More than just an ode to the glove, however, Glove Affairs serves as a practical guide to purchasing, breaking in, maintaining, and repairing a glove. Dozens of current and former major leaguers offer their battle-tested advice about getting the most out of a glove. They also share countless stories, from the passionate to the hilarious, about the glove and their relationship to it, including their superstitions and rituals, some of which are downright bizarre.
Whether you’re a little leaguer seeking tips about buying and caring for your first glove or just a little leaguer at heart hoping to revisit fond memories, Glove Affairs will educate you, illuminate you – and stir your emotions. | <urn:uuid:0ca735bd-7875-4a1d-87d6-2b50841c2c81> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lirenwo.com/2012/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952954 | 852 | 1.757813 | 2 |
BAWDEN - Stephen in 1851 Census and 1861 Census
This Stephen was born/christened 19 May 1791, according to the 1851 census in Kenwyn and according to the 1861 census in Gwennap, Cornwall. Gwennap seems to be the more prevalent reference.
He married on 17 Aug 1809 in Redruth, Elizabeth JELBERT nee GILBERT - an old transcriber error. GILBERT website and family groups include both names.
Elizabeth was born/christened 18 June 1791 in Redruth, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth REYNOLDS GILBERT. Richard was born/christened in Illogan, Cornwall, 24 Oct 1763 and Elizabeth REYNOLDS born/christened 26 Dec 1765 in Redruth.
Stephen was a blacksmith and this BAWDEN family had 8 children. Stephen spent his later years, the family became victuallers at the Redruth Inn - no longer exists - on Fore St. in Redruth. A victualler holds the supply and liquor "license", but this family ran the Inn.
After wife Elizabeth died, Stephen went to spend his last years with daughter and son-in-law Elizabeth BAWDEN who was his executrix, and Michael MACCOOEY/MCCOVEY.
Stephen died with dtr Elizabeth and Michael's family in Redruth on 8 June 1861.
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A BARN,A SILO AND A DREAM
In the spring of 1949, Edith Disney and her son, Will, discovered an old barn on the side of a lake in Washington County. An amiable farmer named Mr. McDowell agreed to lease the barn on his working farm to the Disneys for use as a space to present live stage plays. The original stage, surrounded by wooden folding chairs, was located in the center of the barn floor, forming the area's first theater-in-the-round.
In June, 1949, a skeptical critic, F.S. Olmstead, wrote: “The Little Lake Theatre opened last week out at Donaldson’s Cross Roads, and provides an interesting experiment in theatre experience…For some reason they have chosen the idea of ‘central staging’…To be perfectly frank, its sole merit lies in novelty and on that basis alone it gets by. Its drawback is in the goldfish bowl appearance of the cast … It is something like attending a circus or tennis match—your head is constantly swinging from one side of the stage to the other as you try to follow the dialog…”
Two months later, in August 1949, in a follow-up article, Mr. Olmstead conceded: “The experiment of ‘arena staging’ has apparently proved most successful. Little Lake Theatre’s patronage has climbed every week since they opened, and just a week ago they had SRO on three nights, with over twenty standees Saturday!... There were many local doubters that [central staging] would be accepted in Pittsburgh, but the energetic and able director, Will Disney, stuck to his decision and has proved again that ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating.’ ”
Founding Director, Will Disney, and His Legacy
In the year 2000, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette named Will Disney one of the region’s top ten most influential artists of the previous century, attesting to the importance and significance of Little Lake Theatre. But Will Disney’s legacy has not been in the form of a “place.” His gift has been in the form of a community. He created a community in which actors, directors, designers, volunteers and audience members support one another, learn from one another and very thoroughly enjoy one another.
Now, sixty-three years later, Little Lake Theatre Company continues to thrive under the direction of Will’s daughter and son-in-law, Sunny Disney and Robert Fitchett. Along the way, a remarkable 1322 actors have trod the mainstage boards in a total of 877 productions.
In a recent Pittsburgh City Paper review, critic Ted Hoover wrote “For something quintessentially Pittsburgh, you can visit Little Lake Theatre, in Canonsburg... Little Lake is a celebration of Pittsburgh theater. Unlike tours or shows using out-of-town artists, Little Lake is all about showcasing local talent. As a bonus, it's one of the area's best community theaters.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Christopher Rawson wrote, “...In contrast to some other theaters, the audience is growing younger....And what’s happening on stage keeps getting better.”
And in an article by Doug Shanaberger, Washington Observer-Reporter: “Little Lake Theatre has, in recent years, made almost a game of reaching beyond what used to be perceived as limitations. Remember when the group staged William Luce’s ‘The Belle of Amherst,’ breathing life into one of the theater’s most problematic, least commercial forms—the one-woman play. Remember the eras and places conjured up in ‘The Voice of the Prairie,’ ‘Becoming Memories,’ ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ and ‘The Crucible,’ dramas that weren’t crafted for an in-the-round setting and were, nonetheless, realized to perfection at Little Lake....”
WQED OnQ: Little Lake Theatre Company
Watch OnQ contributor Beth Dolinar's story on 60 years at Little Lake.
It started in a barn near Canonsburg Lake, back in 1949. Sixty years, scores of actors, and hundreds of quality productions later, Little Lake Theatre is now considered a community treasure. OnQ contributor Beth Dolinar reports.
The mission of Little Lake Theatre Company is dedicated to presenting a thoughtful, well-balanced offering of plays appealing to an audience of mixed social, economic, educational, and generational levels; providing comprehensive training and hands-on experience in theater arts to emerging, as well as experienced actors, designers, and technicians; involving the community in outreach programs designed to provide accessibility and to encourage appreciation of live theater.
This means that it is our mission is to present a variety of works including:
- classic American plays, comedies and drama;
- works that reflect themes and issues relevant to, and reflective of,
- works that will serve as a thought-provoking introduction to dramatic literature and, thereby, provide opportunities for families to attend;
- and plays that will serve as an entertaining introduction for new theater-goers and will serve as encouragement to attend future productions
Eleven Mainstage productions;
A summer Looking Glass Theatre series of three plays for young audiences currently celebrating its 40th anniversary season;
Two Fall Family Matinee plays;
Two sessions of Theatre Arts Summer Camp for children, grades 4-12;
A comprehensive Apprentice Training Program for young adults ages 14-19;
Acting classes for adults;
An educational outreach program that tours to approximately 30 elementary schools annually;
Little Lake Book Club for Kids, a three-session workshop series that includes activities that prepare children for the Looking Glass Theatre plays; and
An active Speaker’s Bureau that sends members of the theater company to speak or perform for civic and social organizations.
The Work of our Company
“My vision for Little Lake Theatre Company is to encourage our creative artists to produce work that has integrity, respect for the intelligence, spirit, aesthetics and heart of the audience—and for each other as artists—while communicating clearly and honorably the work of the playwright. This means that when the work is challenging it is also fulfilling and, with every new project, we aspire to learn and to grow as actors, directors, technicians and designers. And for our audience, it is our hope that our work provides experiences that are refreshing, educational and enriching.”
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Investors in UK companies from Mulberry to Burberry owe much of their recent new found wealth to China's love of prestige marques. But the country's love of a name has taken a fresh twist.
An investigation by the The Daily Telegraph has found that it's not just handbags that the Chinese are snapping up. It's the names of the brands themselves.
In a revelation that will shock many UK business leaders, it has emerged that High Street names are being registered by Chinese individuals in their droves.
Stalwarts of the retail industry such as Sainsbury's and John Lewis have had their names registered in China, potentially posing problems should they ever choose to take their brands to the Asian powerhouse.
The Hangzhou Buluna Garment & Accessories company owns the "Sainsbury's" name. When contacted the Hangzhou company declined to comment.
Sainsbury's also kept quiet when asked about third parties registering its trademark, but did say that it began registering its trademarkets in China several years ago to support growth plans.
In the southern city of Shenzhen, a man named Liu Mingxi has the right to produce garments, shoes and belts under the "Asda" label until 2018.
John Lewis and Waitrose are registered to the Li Can International Investment company while Dixons, together with its Chinese name Di Ke Xun, is owned by the Shenzhen Basicom Electronics company, which makes 10m mobile phones a year. Dixons declined to comment, while John Lewis said the business constantly keeps its trademark and brand protection strategies under review.
Neither is fashion retailer TopShop immune. In July 2009, a man named Zhuo Hongxiang, who lives in a village in Fujian province, registered the Topshop trademark for selling stereo equipment, cameras, lenses and glassware. He owns the name until 2019.
TopShop insisted the registration of its trademark for cameras was not an issue and that it owns its name in China for fashion purposes. Arcadia, the group that owns TopShop, works with its local attorneys internationally to ensure it has appropriate protection.
Whether companies believe they have protected themselves or not, the spate of trademark registrations points to difficult times ahead for some. Some of that appears to be down to a lack of savvy among some UK companies; some of it to Chinese laws that allow greater leaway.
In the US, Canada and the UK, the rights to a brand are determined on use and on whether there might be confusion if another company starts using the same name. China, however, follows the European system: whoever registers the brand first owns it, in whichever category it is registered. About 600,000 trademarks were filed in China last year, according to Thomson Reuters research.
The Chinese system has already claimed some high-profile victims. Apple is stuck in a court case with Proview, a hardware company from Shenzhen, over the rights to its "iPad" brand. Already, iPads have been pulled off the shelves in some Chinese cities and analysts believe Apple will have to pay handsomely to settle the case. Proview has demanded $1.6bn (£990m).
In the last few months, Hermes lost a bid to stop a small Chinese clothing manufacturer from making ties under its Chinese name, Ai Ma Shi. Hermes has been fighting the Chinese company, which registered its name in 1995, in court for years and has consistently lost out. Meanwhile, Chivas, the whisky brand, has been unable to stop another garment firm from selling clothing labelled with its Chivas Regal Scotch logo.
"Too many companies were told not to bother registering their trademarks because China does not enforce its laws," said Dan Harris, a lawyer at Harris & Moure, an American firm specialising in China. "Many others were told nothing at all."
In fact, China strictly enforces trademarks, in favour of whomever has registered them first. And Chinese courts look dimly on Western companies who complain their brand has been registered by another party in "bad faith". Mr Harris said: "The cheapest and easiest thing to do [if your brand has been hijacked] is to set up in China under a new brand.
"When you call up the Chinese party, they think they have won the lottery. They ask for a million dollars. We never call up, because if it comes from an American law firm the price is two million".
Last October, Karen Millen, the womenswear brand, said it had been in "complex negotiations" with a Chinese investor to buy out the rights to its name so that it could begin opening shops in Beijing and Shanghai. In the end, the company decided to pay out "tens of thousands" of pounds for its name. But, a tobacco company has also registered "Karen Millen" in a separate trademark category.
There are as many as 40 categories under which brands can register their trademarks in China, and it can be expensive to buy up blanket rights. "Each trademark filing costs around £460," said Mr Harris. "So if you are Pfizer you register your name across all 40 categories. Then you have to register Viagra across all 40, and then your logo across them all and it begins to add up."
Theo Fennell, the jewellers, is another brand which shares its name with a Chinese company. The Guangzhou Gaozhuo Business & Trade Co has registered "Theo Fennell" for making clothes and children's wear. And while Theo Fennell is aware of the infringement, it has decided to swallow the situation. A source said that no legal action has been taken because sales are not affected. The Guangzhou company – which said it had no idea Theo Fennell was a UK brand – sells children's clothes as opposed to luxury jewellery.
Thomas Pink, the shirt makers, has had the same issue and said it had "opposed such a registration".
Nor are companies the only victims. The Chinese and English names of ITV's The X Factor and BBC's Strictly Come Dancing are owned by Chinese individuals, as is the generic name "Savile Row". In Guangzhou, someone owns the rights to "Justin Bieber" while a Shanghai company owns the rights to "Angry Birds". A spokesman for the BBC said it was not aware of the Strictly registation.
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December 1, 2005, 12:00 AM
By Tim Heffernan
Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones design fonts. You've seen their work; it's all around you--on billboards and computer screens, on the pages of books and magazines. U. S. Census forms are printed in Interstate; Frere-Jones based the eminently legible design on highway-sign lettering. Hoefler's Knockout, drawn from antique wood-block type often used on Victorian circus posters, recently advertised New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics. Frere-Jones's crisply tailored Esquire Text, the magazine's primary text font (until recently, used nowhere else), helps define Esquire's look.
In a field dominated by revisionists and radicals, Hoefler (with the beard, at right) and Frere-Jones stand out as proud revivalists, craftsmen whose work draws on the vernacular letterforms we see all around us--on old hand-painted signs, on the awnings of diners, on the spines of dusty books--and expands them into complete alphabets that anyone can use at the stroke of a key. Their fonts lend a sense of history and place to the pages where they are displayed, which may explain why, in this age of standardization, their work is so damn popular.
Astonishingly young for all they have accomplished, they were born six days apart in New York City in 1970. Both fell under the thrall of typography early. As a fifth grader, Hoefler admired the illustrations of letters in old dictionaries, and he was twenty-one when he designed an original typeface for Harper's Bazaar. Frere-Jones found the old hand lettering on Wrigley's gum packages inspiring; he started creating his own successful fonts shortly before graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992.
For each, font design embodies a happy union of diverse interests--art, writing, language, history, and, above all, the homespun creations of long-forgotten sign painters and midnight pamphleteers. Their New York office is littered with such works, rescued from Dumpsters and the back rooms of antique stores. The objects are a constant source of inspiration--and a poignant reminder that modern typography, even their own, has made the old ways obsolete. Several years ago, Frere-Jones bought a pack of Wrigley's for old times' sake, only to discover that the company now uses a variation on one of his fonts. "I didn't like it," he sighed. "I wanted that hand lettering back."
All we wanted to do was go for a ride on her motorcycle.
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The city of Russellville is thinking about revitalizing the Neighborhood Watch Program if they find there is enough interest by citizens to do so. The city once had a Watch several years ago, some signs are still standing in remembrance of the once supported initiative throughout the city.
A Neighborhood Watch is a program of systematic local vigilance by residents of a neighborhood to discourage crime. The Watch would be organized and implemented in conjunction with the Russellville City Police Department. Meetings would be held with interested citizens and plans would be put in place to deter crime.
The Resurrection of the program has been talked about for a couple of years, said the city’s police chief Victor Shifflett. Russellville Mayor Mark Stratton spoke with Shifflett and they both would like to see what kind of interest there is throughout the city before bringing the program back. One of the things kicked around is possibly putting a survey on the city’s website to help find interest.
“It may not be as full blown as it was in the 90s, but I think it will stir some interest back up,” said Stratton. “Sometimes you need stuff like this revitalization just to get people’s awareness back. This is not intended for meddling in other people’s business, but just for keeping an eye on people’s property when their gone.”
Shifflett said it would probably be beneficial to follow the motto Bowling Green has, because it has been awhile since the city of Russellville has had anything to do with theirs.
“It’s a pretty standard program. We would have to go out into all the neighborhoods to see what kind of interest we had in it. If you don’t have a lot of interest in it in the neighborhoods, its probably not going to be worthwhile doing,” said Shifflett, who wants to involve both WRUS and the News-Democrat & Leader in helping to get the word out.
The chief said the police department is starting a Facebook page. He added that it seems to be the best way to get things out to the public anymore, as bad as he hated to say it. “But it’s the easiest and quickest way to get it out to a lot of people, Shifflett said.
“The program itself, we don’t mind doing it,” said Shifflett. “We’d be glad to do it for us as officers, because it gets us back into contact with the community on more of a personal basis. A lot of people in the neighborhoods don’t have any contact with the police unless they see us ride around the square, or if they are involved in a wreck or something. We have very little contact with the majority of the citizens and this will put us back in contact with the regular public, plus it builds that relationship back up, which is always good for us. It kind of gets people back into the thinking that if something doesn’t seem right, they need to give us a call. It doesn’t hurt, you never know.”
Shifflett said the police department already had a program that citizens use where when they go on vacation the police keep a check on their residence. “We have a certain group of people that use it all the time, but it’s a small number. I wish more people used it, it’s a good tool and it’s free,” said the chief.
In the meetings that would be held for the Watch Program, citizens would be given effective crime prevention tips. These would be reminders and common sense stuff, said Shifflett. “When you’re not a victim of crime, you don’t think about it, and let your guard down, and that’s when something happens. This would be a reminder to everyone to be diligent in what goes on in their respective neighborhoods.”
Councilman Bill Decker said the one thing this program does is brings people back together to watch your property. plus you get to know your neighbors a little better. “This will maybe be a deterrent itself to know someone is watching. Even speeding in a neighborhood is a danger. Anything you can do to make your neighborhood safer,” said Decker.
“I think it would be worth trying.,” said Shifflett.
Councilwoman Pat Bell remembered being involved in the program when it was up and running in the past. “I think it’s a real good program. I think it will bring awareness,” said Bell.
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Former U.S. labor secretary and University of California professor Robert Reich said Tuesday that efforts to crack down on the ongoing “Occupy” protests around the country actually helped to strengthen the movement.
Police in riot gear evicted “Occupy Wall Street” protesters from their encampment at New York City’s Zuccotti Park in a surprise pre-dawn raid Tuesday. Spin-off protests in numerous other cities have also recently faced police action. But the protesters inevitably return.
“Every movement that has occurred over the last 75 years of American history… when they are cracked down upon, when there is a violent effort to end them — and also especially when the members of the movement maintain a kind of peacefulness, non-violence, civil disobedience — that strengthens the movement,” Reich said.
“And that is almost inevitably what is going to happen here.”
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Sirindhorn Dinosaur Museum
Sirindhorn Dinosaur Museum or Poo Goom Kaow Museum exhibits the dinosaur bones that were excavated in Kalasin province. There is also an exhibition to show the origin of dinosaurs and human beings. This museum is considered as one of the best in Southeast Asia.
Sirindhorn Dinosaur Museum is located at Tambol Noneburi, Amphur Sahaskun, Kalasin, tel. 043-871-014 (around 28 kilometers from the city). Kalasin is one of the most cultivated provinces in Thailand. It is well known for its Praewa silk and Ponglang (a local musical instrument). Additionally, this city is rich in its beautiful mountain scenery. Tourists can visit the Sirindhorn Dinosaur Museum then visit the temple and the antique village. The antique village is the center of the Dhavaravati Kingdom, which is more than 1,000 years old. The Dhavaravati Kingdom has a unique tradition inherited from Buddhism in India.
The well-known Praewa silk is a product of the OTOP merchandise. Formerly, red with the black background was the most popular color. These days, there are many colors for the customers to choose. At Amphur Kummuang, there is a group of weavers that have produced this silk for many years.
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In tuplesort.c, it initially reads tuples into memory until availMem
It then switches to the tape sort algorithm, and allocates buffer
space for each tape it will use. This substantially over-runs the
allowedMem, and drives availMem negative.
It works off this deficit by writing tuples to tape, and pfree-ing
their spot in the heap, which pfreed space is more or less randomly
scattered. Once this is done it proceeds to alternate between freeing
more space in the heap and adding things to the heap (in a nearly
strict 1+1 alternation if the tuples are constant size).
The space freed up by the initial round of pfree where it is working
off the space deficit from inittapes is never re-used. It also cannot
be paged out by the VM system, because it is scattered among actively
I don't think that small chunks can be reused from one memory context
to another, but I haven't checked. Even if it can be, during a big
sort like an index build the backend process doing the build may have
no other contexts which need to use it.
So having over-ran workMem and stomped all over it to ensure no one
else can re-use it, we then scrupulously refuse to benefit from that
over-run amount ourselves.
The attached patch allows it to reuse that memory. On my meager
system it reduced the building of an index on an integer column in a
skinny 200 million row totally randomly ordered table by about 3% from
a baseline of 25 minutes.
I think it would be better to pre-deduct the tape overhead amount we
will need if we decide to switch to tape sort from the availMem before
we even start reading (and then add it back if we do indeed make that
switch). That way we wouldn't over-run the memory in the first place.
However, that would cause apparent regressions in which sorts that
previously fit into maintenance_work_mem no longer do. Boosting
maintenance_work_mem to a level that was actually being used
previously would fix those regressions, but pointing out that the
previous behavior was not optimal doesn't change the fact that people
are used to it and perhaps tuned to it. So the attached patch seems
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As the French prepare to vote on Monday, Mary Dejevsky says the outcome is far from certain
Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande espouse very different policies; they are quite different personalities, and they were not play-acting in Thursday's debate: they really, truly, loathe each other. It is fashionable to lament the death of politics and the lacklustre campaigns. But anyone looking for signs of political life in recent weeks had only to look at France to rediscover politics, red in tooth and claw.
French voters, young and old, have flocked to rallies, where they have chanted and barracked and roared. The internet and Twittersphere have been abuzz.
And the whole invigorating process culminated in a rip-roaring television debate on Thursday that was bellicose, needling, highly personal, and stuffed with political argument to the point where it overran its allotted time by almost an hour.
No one who watched even a fraction could doubt that French voters, who go to the polls on Monday, have a stark choice. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande espouse very different policies; they are quite different personalities, and they were not play-acting in Thursday's debate: they really, truly, loathe each other.
But outside France this epic duel, being fought out in a time of economic crisis, has already been framed according to certain assumptions - assumptions not necessarily correct.
But so prevalent have they become that they risk skewing the international response, when the victor's face emerges, in time-honoured manner, on French TV screens after the polls close on Monday.
The first assumption is that Sarkozy, the incumbent President, is certain to lose. It is true that all opinion polls on the eve of the debate had him trailing the Socialist, Hollande, by about six points (47 to 53 per cent); that the gap has been quite consistent since the first round the Monday before last; and that six points is a lot to make up with very little time to do it.
But some caveats are in order. National Front leader Marine Le Pen's almost 18 per cent of the first-round vote has to go somewhere.
The French are conscientious voters (as witnessed by the 80 per cent turn-out on April 23), and by no means all will follow Le Pen in leaving their ballot papers blank. Not all those votes will go to Sarkozy, for all his increasingly shameless efforts to win them, but some will.
Add to this the slight narrowing of the polls over the past week, and the fact that the full impact of the debate will be felt only in the actual vote.
Sarkozy failed to land the killer blow; he came across as aggressive, ill-tempered and self-absorbed. But such attributes will not necessarily be condemned by voters craving a President who will stand up for France.
His challenger came across as almost equally ill-tempered, with less rapid-fire repartee, and less experience. Sarkozy is a fighter, and it is not over yet.
The second assumption - sometimes aired by Sarkozy supporters to frighten waverers, but more often brandished abroad - is that if Hollande is France's next President, he will have to tack to the left to placate those who cast their first-round votes for the far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon.
But this neglects two realities. The first is that, although Melenchon performed creditably, he did not make the breakthrough his campaigning charisma had suggested. The second is that the political complexion of France, as revealed by the first-round vote, still tends more to the right than to the left. That is the France that awaits the next President, whoever it turns out to be.
The third assumption outside France is that a Hollande victory would spell meltdown for the euro.
Such thinking is based partly on the fact that Hollande is the Socialist (and so, it is supposed, the less fiscally responsible). And, of course, Sarkozy traded on this in the debate.
It proceeds also from Hollande's emphasis on "growth" over "austerity", and from his election pledge to reopen the European Fiscal Stability Treaty.
But the logic of these arguments is questionable. "Reopening" does not have to be the same as "renegotiating", and there are many other imponderables - the Irish referendum, the Greek election, the Spanish economy - which suggest the treaty may not be set in stone.
The main reason why a Hollande victory will not trigger an immediate euro crisis, though, is that the financial markets have already anticipated such a result. The wobble, in so far as it happened, followed Hollande's first-round victory and subsequent polls forecasting an easy second-round win.
As for commitment to the European project, French Socialist leaders have been at least as communautaire as their Gaullist counterparts, and sometimes more willing to cede small pieces of national sovereignty to the common cause. Hollande will not break that particular mould.
The fourth assumption outside France is that Hollande's arrival at the Elysee would damage the Franco-German engine that effectively holds Europe together. The claim here is that Angela Merkel not only shares a centre-right world view with Sarkozy, but has invested so much in a difficult personal relationship that a new start with a Socialist leader would be worse. But would Merkel really find Hollande a trickier proposition than Sarkozy? German and French leaders of different parties have often hit it off better than those of supposedly like political mind, while character-wise, Merkel - cautious, solid and consensus-seeking - would seem to have more in common with Hollande than she ever had with Sarkozy. The big ideological divergence - growth versus austerity - might even become more bridgeable in their hands.
Which leads on to the fifth, and last, false assumption: that a second term for Sarkozy would mean more of the same, while his defeat would effect a break with the past of the sort he promised five years ago, but mostly failed to deliver.
In fact, Sarkozy's failure illustrates the limited room for manoeuvre that any national leader has in straitened times, whatever their promises and ideology. At the same time, however, Europe's tolerance for unadulterated stringency seems to be shrinking, with a serious search on for ways of generating jobs, if not rapid growth, without busting the budget.
And Germany, with its low unemployment and comparative social peace, is the euro country that sets the standard here, too, as it does for living within one's means.
Sarkozy's stump speeches and debate answers show that he, no less in fact than Hollande, has been contemplating adjustments in the austerity/growth ratio. The upshot is that, whoever wins on Monday, left or right, is probably destined to be - in the words of Hollande's campaign slogan - the President of change.
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It was Leonardo da Vinci who said, “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” When it comes to facing hurdles, those of us working to remove paper from the mortgage process can certainly relate to one of history’s greatest innovators, a man who dreamed of helicopters and solar power centuries before they would become reality. Then again, in the 10-plus years since federal e-signature legislation was signed into law, it occasionally feels as though the e-mortgage is also centuries away from becoming a reality.
A big reason for this is the collapse of the housing market, which led to increased regulations and tighter investor guidelines that have drawn out the time it takes to originate loans. Homebuyers are familiar with these obstacles, too, as they continue to jump through an unprecedented number of hoops to qualify. That’s why the Internal Revenue Service’s decision to accept e-signatures on tax transcript requests is so important.
Earlier this year, the IRS completed a pilot program to test the ability to accept electronic signatures on its 4506-T Request for Tax Transcripts form, the standard document used by lenders to determine a borrower’s income and, by extension, the borrower’s ability to pay back a mortgage loan.
How important was this step? With e-signatures, borrowers can already give lenders near-instant access to their credit profiles and bank balances, the two most common factors for determining creditworthiness, second to tax transcripts. But because the IRS does not accept e-signatures, borrowers must sign 4506-T forms by hand and wait at least two days for their transcripts to be delivered.
This might not seem like a lot of time—and of course, most borrowers have no choice—but it’s still frustrating, and for lenders, any delay in the origination process has the potential to affect pull-through rates.
Electronically signed 4506-T forms, on the other hand, will mean that lenders will be able to verify the borrower’s income in as little as a few minutes. Imagine loan officers being able to sit down with a borrower, run the borrower’s numbers, and provide a solid loan approval in the time it takes to finish a cup of coffee. Yet those of us who have worked diligently for this moment to arrive have learned to expect questions.
For example, are lenders truly ready? Given the years it has taken to get to this point and the Mortgage Bankers Association’s own campaigning on this issue, the question sounds almost silly. Yet the mortgage industry as a whole has not always adapted to advances in technology, even when they were widely available—even automated underwriting tools took time to get off the ground.
Yet, I believe mortgage lenders—and indeed borrowers—are thirsting for this development. More than ever, it has become crucial for lenders to lower costs, and e-signed and delivered income verifications will save both time and money.
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Wounded Pakistani rights activist to receive medical treatment in England
CWN - October 15, 2012
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani human-rights activist who was shot in the head by would-be Taliban assassins, will travel to England for medical treatment.
Yousafzai, who underwent emergency surgery to repair the gunshot wound, was originally reported to be recovering. But doctors have downgraded her condition, saying that her life remains in danger.
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Herd of Zebras
Your zebra party guests will have a blast herding the 'zebras" into their pens! In this exciting zebra party game, guests will race to herd zebra balloons into their goal before the other team.
What You'll Need:
Before the Party:
- with zebra stripes drawn on them
- Masking tape
Mark off two goal 'pens" with the masking tape on the floor and inflate your zebra balloons.
At the Party:
- Place all the zebra balloons in the center of the play area.
- Separate your zebra party guests into 2 teams. Start each team within their pen.
- At the starting signal, have one player from each team attempt to herd a zebra balloon from the center of the play area back to their pen only by blowing on it.
- Once the 1st player successfully retrieves a balloon from the center, send out the 2nd player to bring back a second zebra balloon. Continue until all the balloons are gone from the center of the field.
- The team with the most balloons in their pen is the winner! You may award small prizes to the winning team or award everyone a participation prize. | <urn:uuid:c9de2a82-37aa-41a0-83d0-dfbae1664dc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.birthdayinabox.com/activity-guides/zebra-party-game-herd-zebra-balloons-game.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94755 | 256 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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Western Words: Sept. 11, 2012
The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection: Selected Works, a publication of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
When he was a law student at the University of Arizona, James T. Bialac began collecting kachina dolls. After amassing more than 1,000, his interests expanded into other Native American artwork, from drawings and paintings to sculptures, jewelry, ceramics, baskets, and textiles.
Today, the collection — which includes more than 4,000 items — ranks among the most remarkable in existence. In 2010 Bialac bequeathed the collection to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. The book features selected works from this treasure trove, representing a wide range of indigenous cultures including the Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo, and many of the tribes of the Great Plains.
San Miguel, by T.C. Boyle
T. Coraghessan Boyle has written 23 works of fiction, though he may be best known for The Women, a New York Times bestseller. His latest, San Miguel, is set on a tiny windswept island off the coast of Southern California. There, two families arrive 50 years apart, each with their own aspirations. A shadow of a great war looms over both, as they struggle to persevere in face of hardship. Boyle’s work is always remarkable for its period detail, and San Miguel is no exception.
Born on the Island: The Galveston We Remember, by Eugene Aubry and Stephen Fox
When you meet someone in Galveston, Texas, one of the first questions they may ask is, “Are you BOI?” That means “born on the island,” and it’s indicative of the native pride that Galvestonians share. One of their favorite sons, artist and architect Eugene Aubry, created a series of works that celebrate the unique architectural style of the island’s buildings.
Commissioned by the Galveston Historical Foundation, Aubry’s 67 watercolors and drawings have been collected in Born on the Island: The Galveston We Remember. Stephen Fox provides insightful descriptions and context for each image, which celebrate an uplifting history that will appeal to BOIs and non-BOIs alike.
A Fistful of Collars: A Chet and Bernie Mystery, by Spencer Quinn
Dog lovers and fans of detective stories have already discovered the whimsical world of Chet and Bernie, who return for their fifth adventure from the ever self-assured pen of Spencer Quinn. It’s not easy to write a book narrated by a dog, but Quinn pulls it off while avoiding all the easy dog jokes that a less skilled writer would be tempted to insert.
This time, the clever canine and his detective owner are hired by the mayor of Hollywood to protect movie star Thad Perry, who is about to play the lead in a big-budget western. What begins as basic bodyguard duty soon takes a sinister turn, complicated by Bernie’s troubled love life and Thad’s preference for cats.
Colorado can be a tough place to hike for novices, but the natural scenery is so stunning that it’s worth the altitude-induced oxygen deprivation. For those that love a great uphill walk, James Dziezynski has compiled more than 80 treks of varying length and difficulty, from Sangre De Cristo to Medicine Bow. He describes the sights along the way, what not to miss, and which hikes are best suited to which times of day.
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Cheyenne Animal Shelter Says Rescued Cats Need New Home
Two cats that were seized from a home near Carpenter last month need the community to rally behind them and save their lives. Two of the four cats that were rescued by the Cheyenne/Laramie County Animal Control from terrible conditions at the home tested positive for Feline Leukemia. Cheyenne Animal Shelter spokeswoman Baylie Evans says the cats are Playful Bug, a 1-year-old male black and white Domestic Short Hair, and Snuggle Bug, a 4-year-old male orange Domestic Short Hair. The shelter is looking for special homes for these two cats.
There is no cure or treatment for Feline Leukemia. However, cats with the disease can live many healthy years, especially if certain precautions are taken. Feline Leukemia is most commonly spread through saliva and is contagious among cats. They should be strictly indoor-only cats and never exposed to other cats that don’t have the disease. The disease does not appear to affect other animal species or humans. | <urn:uuid:1e04ad78-aa68-40e8-873f-5f988b33ba3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kgab.com/cheyenne-animal-shelter-says-rescued-cats-need-new-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952504 | 216 | 1.632813 | 2 |
7 Tips for Writing a MemoirFor years my dad's cousins have been telling me my writing remind them of their grandmother "Gangy." She was known for having a way with words -- a blogger before the days of blogging. (How I love having this connection to the past!) There had been mentions of a memoir, but somehow ear infections, preschool drop-off, and my own writing never seemed to afford me the time to read it. Recently one of my family members was thoughtful enough to send me a printed copy, and I knew it was time to dive in.
It turns out it's the story of my great grandmother's grandparents - their journey west as a young family. A toddler on horseback. A baby in a covered wagon. A life of adventure and hope. Since all the family pictures from the time were destroyed in a couple of tragic events, it's all the more amazing.
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It got me thinking, how cool would it be to pass on something like this about our lives today for generations to come? Of course it seems we document everything in photos and Facebook updates these days, but wouldn't it be neat to have some thoughts jotted down in a notebook as well?
You don't have to be a writer to capture meaningful moments in your life. It doesn't have to be long. It doesn't have to be well thought out. It doesn't even have to be in chronological order. Just think about these things, grab a notebook, and go for it. I promise, whatever you come up with will be meaningful. Here are 7 tips for writing your memoir.
1. Turn off the computer
Your handwriting and doodles will help personalize the story. (But if you feel it will be less distracting and give you more wiggle room for error, by all means type it.)
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2. Remember, the facts are just the skeleton
Of course dates and locations are an important part of the story, but most of that information can be tracked down elsewhere. How you felt, what you were doing, who else was there-those are the meat of the story.
3. Use your words, not your English teacher's
That's right, throw out grammar and write the way you would talk. If it helps, record your thoughts on tape and then transcribe them. This will capture your personality, the vernacular of the time, and will ensure you're telling stories along the way.
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4. Think about the behind-the-scenes moments of your favorite photos
Anyone can look at your wedding photo and see that you were a glowing bride. But what was a sweet moment from the day? Or something that went wrong? What did your dad whisper in your ear as he walked you down the aisle? These are the moments that make your story yours alone.
5. Build the characters
The best books, TV shows, and, yes, memoirs are packed with personality. Just a couple sentences about each important person will help bring that person back to life years later.
6. Include timely, cultural references
Whether you're passionate about music, politics, entertainment, or anything else, be sure to make reference to how those play into your life at different stages. What song do you hear that takes you back to that very moment? What shift in policy or culture impacted your ability to do something new?
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7. Keep adding to it
Your story is just beginning. As you experience defining or meaningful moments, add them. Even throw in bullet points along the way if that's easier. It will be a wonderful glimpse into your life for centuries to come.
- By Amy Heinz
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July 13, 2012 —
The exhibition features more than 40 wood carvings by Elliott County folk artist. Barker, like many of his generation, had been a part of the great Appalachian outmigration during the two decades that followed World War II.
Upon his retirement as a technician from a northern Indiana steelworks, he and his wife, Lillian, moved back home to Elliott County. With early encouragement from the famed folk artist Minnie Adkins and the upstart folk art center at MSU, he took up wood carving as a way to keep himself busy and find a new sense of purpose in his post-retirement life. Barker would go on to create some of the most beautiful and recognizable wood sculptures in the history of folk art. He only carved for a few years before his death in 2004.
Recent years have seen an ever increasing demand for Barker’s sculptures on the collectors market as the art world finally began to recognize the significance of his work. This exhibition represents the first ever retrospective showing of Barker’s work. Most of the pieces in this exhibition come from the collection of Rita Biesiot.
In a brief statement written for the exhibition catalog, Biesiot writes:
“While I have a large collection of other folk art, mostly three dimensional and mostly made by Kentucky folk artists, my Barkers are my pride and joy, my favorite pieces by far. His work is unique and quite striking, almost like fine art. I still find myself picking up a piece every now and then to feel the wood, to examine the fine lines and features, and to just take in its wonderfulness. I think of Linvel and the great love he had for his wife, Lillian, and the joy they shared making art.”
“Barker’s carvings will continue to be objects of insight and the subject of inquiry,” said Adrian Swain, KFAC artistic director. “His art represents his fascination with life. His body of work remains, now that he is gone, for us to appreciate and to be inspired by his unique vision. We couldn’t be happier that Rita Biesiot is willing to share her fine collection with the public.”
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Mrs. Ming, the baby-sitter, is repeatedly confronted by a wide-awake Jeremiah, who explains in imaginative terms his familiar dilemma of not being able to get to sleep. Mrs. Ming, who is interrupted reading the Financial News, practising her ballet steps, studying a poetry book, and hammering a nail into the wall, responds with patience and understanding at bedtime, setting the stage for Jeremiah to contentedly fall asleep.
"This demure, beguiling repetition book is beautiful and whimsical. Levert's playful pictures reflect both the composure of the characters and the sway of imaginative forces. A likely winner for the bedtime slot." - Toronto Starclose this panel
Sharon Jennings is a language arts editor, children's drama teacher, and children's author. Her previous works include No Monsters Here with Ruth Ohi and the award-winning Jeremiah and Mrs. Ming. She lives in Toronto.
Mireille Levert was born in 1956 and at age twelve decided to be an artist. Since 1975 she has illustrated children's books and magazine articles. Her artwork has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Japan, and has won numerous international awards.close this panel | <urn:uuid:7a3804ee-7416-4659-95cf-afec306ce533> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://49thshelf.com/Books/J/Jeremie-et-Mme-Ming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969538 | 248 | 1.835938 | 2 |
From the Super Mario Wiki
“What do we have here...? Looks like a soft, white mushroom, eh? You know, the stuff you're finding is pretty weird... But I guess that's just the universe we live in, right?”
The Boo Mushroom is a type of Mushroom that appeared in Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 and turns Mario into Boo Mario or Luigi into Boo Luigi. It's a white mushroom with a Boo-like face. When Mario or Luigi obtain this Mushroom, he will transform into Boo Mario or Boo Luigi. It is the least used power-up in Super Mario Galaxy, found only in the Ghostly Galaxy, Sand Spiral Galaxy, and the Boo's Boneyard Galaxy. It is used only once in Super Mario Galaxy 2, in the Boo Moon Galaxy.
The Boo Mushroom turns Mario into Boo Mario therefore giving him the power to do several things that ghosts do in the real world such as float through walls and fly. He can become intangible if the player shakes the Wii Remote and he can then go through the object. Another effect of being Boo Mario is that Mario will attract other Boos towards it and those Boos will make him lose the form by touching him. The only other way to become Mario from Boo Mario is to go into a light beam.
Super Mario Galaxy
Ghostly Galaxy
In the mission "Luigi and the Haunted Mansion", the Boo Mushroom appears for the very first time in the whole game at the end of the level when Mario has to actually free Luigi. It is in a room behind a moving light which will make exiting the room without losing the mushroom an extra challenge for Mario. Mario must then use the mushroom to travel along until he gets another mushroom which he must use to actually free his brother Luigi.
Sand Spiral Galaxy
The Boo Mushroom reappears in the mission "Choosing a Favorite Snack" where Mario has the choice of either the Bee Mushroom or the Boo Mushroom. If Mario chooses the Boo Mushroom he will turn into Boo Mario and have to travel over a lot of quicksand. There is a boo at the start who will see Mario and fall in love with him, chasing him for several meters until it gives up. After that there are several lights all around trying to shine on him and make him lose his Boo Mushroom.
Boo's Boneyard Galaxy
In the mission "Racing the Spooky Speedster", Mario makes his final encounter with the Boo Mushroom when he must use it to race the Spooky Speedster and to win the level. There are many shortcuts that can only be accessed by Boo Mario and no lights to make Mario lose his Boo Mushroom in the whole level making it one of the easier levels.
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Boo Moon Galaxy
In the mission "Haunting the Howling Tower," Mario (or Luigi) must use the Boo Mushroom to go through walls and progress to the top of the tower.
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Watchdogs warn that UAVs increase “First Amendment risks for would be political dissidents”
February 28, 2012
Several prominent privacy watchdog groups have petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on the proposed increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies above the US.
Over 30 rights groups, including The American Civil Liberties Union, The Electronic Privacy Information Center and The Bill of Rights Defense Committee are demanding that the FAA hold a rulemaking session to consider the privacy and safety threats posed by the increased use of drones.
The petition (PDF) notes that because “drones greatly increase the capacity for domestic surveillance”, including the use of sophisticated high-definition digital and infrared cameras, heat sensors and motion detectors, they must be subject to increased rather than relaxed scrutiny and regulation.
The petition also notes that the FAA must follow its legal mandate and protect the safety of Americans by “resolv[ing] the privacy problems association with the highly intrusive nature of drone aircraft, and the ability of operators to gain access to private areas or to track individuals over large distances.”
The privacy groups also note that the use and retention of data gathered by government and privately operated drones should be flagged.
“The consequences of increased government surveillance through the use of drones are even more troubling.” the petition notes. “The ability to link facial recognition capabilities on drone cameras to the FBI’s Next Generation Identification database or DHS’ IDENT database, two of the largest collections of biometric data in the world, increases the First Amendment risks for would be political dissidents.”
“In addition, the use of drones implicates significant Fourth Amendment interests and well established common law privacy rights.” the rights groups add.
Congress recently passed legislation paving the way for what the FAA predicts will be somewhere in the region of 30,000 drones in operation in US skies by 2020.
Once signed by president Obama, the FAA Reauthorization Act allows for the FAA to permit the use of drones and develop regulations for testing and licensing by 2015.
The bill will exponentially speed up and streamline the process by which the FAA authorizes the use of drones by federal, state and local police and other government agencies. Currently, the FAA issues a certificate on a case by case basis.
The legislation represents the result of a huge push by the military industrial complex to open up US skies to what will become a multi-million dollar business.
The ACLU has noted that “This bill would push the nation willy-nilly toward an era of aerial surveillance without any steps to protect the traditional privacy that Americans have always enjoyed and expected.”
A recent Rasmussen poll found that despite a willingness on the part of Americans to see the use of drones by the military in overseas situations, 52% oppose the use of surveillance drones by private entities, police agencies, and government agencies inside the US. Just 30% said they were in favor of the use of drones in the US.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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Communication issues are one of the biggest causes of project failure these issues are magnified with internal projects. Just because the “customer” works in the same building and has their paycheck signed by the same person as you doesn’t mean there won’t be communication problems. In fact, internally facing projects are often worse than projects for paying customers because internal customers don’t have to adhere to a contract, and no tangible value is placed upon the work.
In these situations, there is little incentive for the customers to work well with you, and if communication breaks down, they complain about how “IT is stonewalling us.” The result is wasted time and money due to things being delivered late, delivered wrong, or not delivered at all.
This is no way to run development projects. All too often, the IT department eventually tires of it, tries to establish some sort of process to put on the brakes, and gets initial buy-in from leadership. And when the other departments think “IT is stonewalling us,” leadership changes course and rescinds their buy-in without telling IT.
Offshore workers are an entirely different issue. it’s extraordinarily difficult to manage a project that is developed offshore. Chances are, you’ll need at least one employee for every couple of your offshore workers just to manage them and keep track of what is happening.keeps the product from ever reaching the users, what happens if the users never get documentation or training? Unless your application is as easy to use as, say, a phone book, it’s unlikely anyone will ever use it. Unused applications are the biggest waste of time and money possible because you went through the whole development cycle for nothing.you could have paid your team to sit at home playing video games and have gotten the same results.
Many companies aren’t set up well for development, especially if there are only a few developers on staff. There is a lot more to working on code than having a standard desktop PC with an IDE installed and a few books on the desk.
There should be version control systems and bug tracking applications for all but the smallest of shops, for example. Developers will probably need additional support from IT, such as test machines (physical or virtual), database servers isolated from the production servers, and maybe a section of the network set aside to contain disasters if needed.
When developers don’t have the necessary resources to work safely and effectively, their work is slowed down, or it impacts the rest of the company in negative ways. Think about it. if a developer’s faulty test code blows up a database server, wouldn’t you rather they didn’t blow up the one that the accounting system is also running on?
There is a fundamental flaw with many IT development projects: No one tried to calculate ROI before giving the go-ahead. Yes, ROI calculations tend to be overly optimistic and difficult to get right (or even close to right), even after the project is in production. And yet, some projects are clearly a waste of money.
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By Peter Zulim |
Editor’s Note: In last month’s issue, you learned that there are several different ways of heating your sauna. And not all have the same effects. This month, continue to learn about details to pay attention to when shopping for the perfect sauna for your home or office.
The next consideration is the type of wood used. The traditional wood used for saunas has been cedar and is still the preferred wood by most manufactures and buyers. Cedar has the advantage of being durable but it is an aromatic wood and individuals may be sensitive to the odor produced by cedar. The odor is produced from off gassing. As the sauna is used this off gassing will diminish. Canadian Western Red Cedar is considered the best cedar to use in a sauna, but is also short in supply, making it the most expensive.
Aspen, basswood, hemlock, and spruce are other commonly used woods in saunas. The advantage of these woods is that they produce little or no off gassing. Aspen and basswood are considered to be the most hypoallergenic but are also more expensive.
An overlooked item by most sauna purchasers is whether the entire sauna is made of a hypoallergenic wood. Some sauna manufacturers cut corners by using an inexpensive wood on the bottom, top, and back portions of the outside of the sauna. Some manufactures even go so far as to use plywood, which out gasses formaldehyde and other toxic substances.
It’s best to buy a sauna that uses only one wood and to stay away from any product that uses plywood. Also, you do not want to buy a sauna that uses glues and epoxies in its construction. A wooden sauna can be made without the use of such materials.
There is a growing concern that electro magnetic frequencies (EMF) are a risk to health. If you are concerned about EMF exposure you should look for a sauna that has shielded electrical wires.
Placement and ease of use of the controls are important considerations. It is best to have the on and off switch on the outside of the sauna where it is easy to access. Some saunas have only one control which is on the inside back wall which forces you to go inside to the sauna to turn it on and off. Some saunas take more than an hour to get up to operating temperature and will only stay on for an hour at a time which will require it to be turned on again. The temperature display should be on the outside and inside of your saunas so you can monitor the temperature before and during you sauna session. One of the most useful features is to have it where you can program your sauna to come on at a certain time so it is ready to go when you are. This is especially important for those with a busy schedule and do not have the time to turn on the sauna and wait for it to heat up.
It is highly recommended that you buy your sauna from a local dealer. Those that buy saunas over the Internet or from a wholesaler run the risk of getting stuck with something that does not work or meet expectations. Often the sauna will be delivered by a freight company and it is entirely up to the purchaser to bring it inside of the building, unpack it and assemble it. If there is a problem it is often difficult to get help from the seller who may be hundreds of miles away. It can be a very difficult and expensive task to ship the sauna back to the seller.
Ideally you should take your sauna for a “test drive” before purchasing. You should be able to go over to the dealer and sit in a sauna and sweat. More than one time is desirable because you might sweat more or less on different occasions. Look for a dealer that has a clean shower where you can shower off after your saunas session. You do not want to wait to go home and shower where you will reabsorb some of the toxins you just sweated out.
Ask questions. Talk to other sauna owners. A sauna is not like an automobile where if you have a problem you can drive it back to the dealer for service or trade it in for something else.
Investigate the manufacturer. How long has the company been making saunas? What kind of warranty does it offer? You want to get the best sauna for your money but more importantly you want to get the best sauna for your health. Sometimes the best sauna for you will be made overseas. Sometimes a manufacture will stress country of origin to over shadow its weakness. What is more important than where the sauna is made is that it works and is made out of quality materials and is well crafted. Look at the fit and finish. Some things to consider are: Is there gaps in the seams? Does it feel flimsy? Is it easy to assemble and disassemble? Are the benches narrow or deep?
Lastly, look for a sauna that has been independently tested by a third party to determine whether it is producing the correct micron of FIR energy and that it is not out gassing any toxins. Usually only the higher end manufactures will have these tests done because they are expensive; many saunas would not pass such a test, and therefore are not tested.
1. Infrared Sauna Guide-How to Use them and Why You Need Them, by Reggie Anderson, M.H. (2005)
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Toyota settles with owners taken for a ride by stuck accelerators
The Prius was one of the great automobile success stories of the last decade. Toyota's hybrid took off very fast -- too fast, it turned out, when owners found their accelerators sticking. And yesterday, Toyota said it had reached a settlement worth over $1 billion with car owners who'd sued over the defects -- and the accidents that resulted.
Ted James's Prius.
In "The Prius Can Take Owners on a Wild Ride," an April 2009 Westword cover story, Paul Knight detailed some of the problems that owners had encountered with their hybrids. Here's his account of what happened to Ted and Elizabeth James of Eagle:
Ted James, a middle-school math teacher in Eagle, had received a $10,000 Toyota Time grant given to 35 math teachers around the country to develop inventive programs. James used his money to buy equipment to monitor the water quality of a local watershed, and his students used advanced math techniques to analyze the data they collected.
In 2002, Toyota paid for James, along with the other Toyota Time winners, to travel to company headquarters and talk about their projects. During a lunch break one day, Toyota executives introduced the group to the Prius. Each teacher was outfitted with one of the hybrids for a day of driving around Torrance. "I thought they were the coolest thing ever," James remembers. He and his wife, Elizabeth, an elementary-school teacher, bought their first Prius three years later.
"I was very proud because we were the first teachers in the parking lot to be sporting a Prius," he says.
On August 10, 2006, Elizabeth James was driving the car east on Interstate 70 toward Denver to catch an early-morning flight. Near the small town of Lawson, she pressed the brakes to slow down, and when she let off the pedal, the Prius took off. The car wouldn't slow down "no matter how hard I pressed on the brake," she remembers, so she used her left foot to slam down the emergency brake. Nothing.
The brakes spewed blue smoke from the back of the car, and when Elizabeth glanced down, the speedometer displayed 90 mph and the Prius was rocketing toward a car in the slow lane. Gripping the steering wheel with both hands, Elizabeth whipped around that car along the shoulder of the interstate, exited the Lawson ramp, ran a stop sign, passed a couple of people walking in the road and steered into a grassy field when the feeder cut to the left.
"She said she felt like the pilot of a plane that was trying to crash-land," Ted James says. "So she was looking for a place to crash the car, and that was one of the things that were really tough: She thought she was going to die and had enough time to think about it."
The Prius sped through a wooded area, clipped a weather monitoring shed, flipped and landed in a river.
Elizabeth survived the wreck, but her legs and back were banged up and she still hobbles, despite a year's worth of physical therapy. Scar tissue on her intestines requires her to drink MiraLAX for the rest of her life to ease stomach pains.
After the crash, Ted James enlisted the help of a childhood friend, attorney Kent Spangler (who practiced family law at the time and now is a magistrate in Fort Collins), to steer the Jameses through arbitration with Toyota. They wanted Elizabeth's medical bills -- about $15,000 -- paid and to have the smashed Prius examined for a cause of the wreck. "You'd think Toyota would be interested in how their car functioned in that crash," James says. "My wife's brother and sister owned Priuses, and we were really worried that this could happen to someone else. Toyota's whole reaction was really disconcerting. It was like 'deny everything.'"
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Fallout: How rape has affected the women I study, and my life
By— February 7, 2012
I. My rape
I was sexually abused at the age of 6. I did not know this experience was merely an initiation into sexualized violence that seems, too often, throughout the world to be as inescapable a part of becoming a woman as menstruation. My coming of age in New Jersey in the late 1980s was marked by sexual harassment in school ranging from male students using sexual comments to dismiss my intelligence to more direct physical threats such as grabbing my breasts. Such behavior was overlooked or encouraged by teachers. In young adulthood, sexual coercion in dating seemed almost normative. My experience of sexualized violence culminated in being brutally raped while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa.
As a result of my rape, I developed full-blown posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I was plagued with unwanted memories, I felt numb, could not eat or sleep, and was constantly on guard. I was hopeless about the future and often wished he had killed me because living with the shame of the rape seemed unbearable. I also found out my attacker was likely HIV positive and, due to the lack of prophylactic medication for HIV in 1991and inconclusive testing, feared for almost a year that I had also contracted the disease.
However, I was lucky. Unlike the women in conflict situations from Darfur to the Holocaust, I could escape back to the United States, where I slowly rebuilt my life and created meaning from my experience by pursuing a career aimed at understanding the causes and consequences of trauma and PTSD.
II. The consequences, compounded by conflict
Sexualized violence—which includes everything from forced penetration to sexual slavery—has wide-ranging mental and physical health consequences for victims and their children across all cultures and societies. PTSD is the most common and most well-studied mental disorder following sexualized violence. Population-based studies in the Archives of General Psychiatry and the American Journal of Psychiatry have repeatedly shown that people who report sexualized violence are at higher risk of PTSD than those who report other types of traumatic events such as exposure to disasters, sudden unexpected death of a loved one, or even combat. The high prevalence of PTSD, as well as other mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal behavior among survivors of sexualized violence has been documented throughout the world—including in Liberia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Croatia, Bangladesh, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The adverse consequences of sexualized violence go well beyond mental health. This kind of violence and its subsequent mental health problems increase women’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Rape is used as a tool of genocide via the spread of HIV, as it was in Rwanda, where women “were taunted by their genocidal rapists, who promised to infect them with HIV,” according to a 2006 briefing paper from the United Nations Population Fund. Traumatic genital injury from sexualized violence impairs women’s ability to produce offspring, compounding the shame of rape with infertility in societies where a woman’s value is placed largely on having children, such as Congo.
Studies carried out in Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia among other places has shown that sexualized violence alters life trajectories by increasing risk of women’s poor school performance, poverty, marital instability, and teen pregnancy. By affecting her ability to care for her children, the consequences of sexualized violence extend from the victim herself to the next generation. Moreover, children of women who experienced sexualized violence are at greater risk of being victims themselves.
Food insecurity and lack of access to quality medical care are common in conflict-ridden countries and further compound the intergenerational impact of sexualized violence. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature suggests traumatic events such as sexualized violence may produce chemical changes to our genes that may be passed to our offspring. Children of mothers with PTSD who survived the Holocaust are more reactive to stress whether or not they have PTSD themselves, according to research published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
III. Adapting to terror
The human brain evolved to maximize physical survival. When threatened, the brain activates the body’s “fight or flight” system in an attempt to thwart or escape the threat. When the threat is overwhelming (cannot be fought) and inescapable (cannot be fled)—as is so often the case in sexual assault—the brain tells the body to shut down or freeze.
Many victims of sexual assault describe this process in vivid detail: “I was struggling to get him off me by pushing against his chest but he was very forceful and much stronger than me. I tried harder and harder to push him off and started kicking. But he used his knees and right hand to hold me down. I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God he is going to rape me.’ Suddenly I felt nothing. I was floating outside my body.”
This is taken from my journal entries written shortly after the rape.
The activation of the stress response system is adaptive. It mobilizes energy, increases vigilance and focus, and facilitates memory formation. If the body survives, the brain, having evolved over tens of thousands of years of evolution to maximize survival, will encode the memory with the goal of keeping the body alive in the future.
This process is referred to as “fear conditioning.” Sensory details present at the time of the event—the gas fumes, a scratchy beard, drums beating, a military uniform—become inextricably linked to the memory of the event. Previously innocuous, any one such detail will trigger the victim’s memory, reactivating the stress response and the memory of the assault. The memory may be so vivid she may even feel like she is reliving the assault over again.
To use my own experience as an illustration, about a month after my rape I was riding the D.C. metro to meet a friend for dinner. A man came in the car who smelled like my rapist. Suddenly, my heart was racing, I couldn’t breathe, and I was propelled back into the courtyard in Agadez, where the rape occurred. My flight response was fully activated; my only thought was to get away from the smell. I stumbled off the train at the next stop thinking I was going crazy. I was not. My brain had been alerted to danger by the smell of my attacker and, to protect me, told me in no uncertain terms to get away.
IV. Recovery, elusive in conflict
Over time, I had the opportunity through individual and group therapy with other rape survivors to experience reminders and memories of the event in safety. The physiological and emotional response to the event diminished, a process referred to as fear extinction. The memory was not erased, but my brain learned to modulate my body’s response to the memory. I was forever changed, but with time I was able to put the event in the past where it belongs and move on with my life. My HIV test came back negative and since I had received immediate prophylactic care for STDs, I experienced no long-term medical or physical adverse effects from the rape.
For women in conflict situations, however, the potential for recovery from sexual assault is much more difficult on multiple levels. Global and culture-specific attitudes of permissiveness around male violence against women and that blame the victim perpetuate sexualized violence in all its forms—and hinder recovery. On top of that, the chronic stress of food shortages such as in Darfur IDP camps or Liberian villages, inadequate shelter, and unpredictable living conditions make women more vulnerable to developing PTSD.
When all the members of a society are experiencing horrific events, such as during the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, women’s experiences of sexualized violence are often minimized. When I was working as a clinician, a Holocaust survivor who had been raped reported she had been told many times, “So what if you were raped? At least you are alive.”
Women in all societies have primary responsibility for protecting and caring for the next generation. Under threat, women may cope by caring for others and may, therefore, ignore their own suffering. Women who become pregnant as the result of rape, particularly in countries without prophylactic pregnancy prevention or Plan B, will be stigmatized either for having an abortion (which may even be illegal in cases of rape, as in El Salvador, Afghanistan, or Niger), or having a child from the rape. Cultural values around virginity (see our Egypt analysis on “virginity tests") and sexual relations outside of marriage may dictate that victims of sexual violence be punished for their experiences—becoming “unmarriageable” or considered “whores” by their families or peers.
Narratives from women who have experienced sexualized violence in conflict situations attest to their heroic resilience in the face of these challenges. Rwandan genocide-rape survivors have organized associations to address problems associated with genocide-rape including using informal networks to provide mental health care. Women in other countries have merely gone on with their lives, continuing to provide for their families and dealing with stigma from being rape survivors.
Sexualized violence is perpetuated by the shame of its victims, who are instructed by society to suffer privately. The only cure for sexualized violence is to make the personal political. Only then, via education and legal action can the hard work of cultural change begin. Until that occurs, women who are sexually assaulted need to be provided with the opportunity to revisit reminders and memories of the assault in safety in order to recover. For women in conflict situations—such as the Democratic Republic of Congo or Somalia, where the violence is ongoing—no such place exists.
Karestan C. Koenen, Ph.D., is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York, where she does research and teaches about psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger from 1991 through 1992. She testified about the rape she experienced while serving in Niger and the need for reform of the Peace Corps rape response protocols at House Foreign Affairs full committee hearings, and was the driving force behind a Polk Award-winning ABC News investigation. Koenen is a licensed clinical psychologist and epidemiologist and is currently president-elect of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. | <urn:uuid:265293f8-1c47-420f-85db-666f65b42e1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/the-fallout-how-rape-has-affected-the-women-i-study-and-my-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970594 | 2,147 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Electronic Discovery Law
National Archives and Records Administration Revises Regulations Regarding Management and Disposition of Very Short-Term Temporary Email
The National Archives and Records Administration ("NARA") announced that it will be revising regulations to provide for appropriate management and disposition of very short-term email by allowing management of such records within the email system. Disposition of Electronic Mail Records with Short Retention Periods, Final Rule, 71 Fed. Reg. 8806-8808 (Feb. 21, 2006) (to be codified at 36 C.F.R. pt. 1234). The effective date for changes is March 23, 2006.
The rule waives the requirement to print out or otherwise save very short-term email records covered under categories listed in General Record Schedule (GRS) 23, Item 7, or in file series in agency schedules with similarly short term disposition periods.
NARA responses to comments from Federal agencies and public interest groups include the following:
-It was requested that the definition of short-term not be limited to 180 days or less, but instead extended to up to 3 years. NARA denied this request, as the rule is only meant to apply to records of fleeting value.
-A definite cut-off for short-term was requested, and it has been set at 180 days.
-Concern was expressed that the change could result in the destruction of important email records and help foster the attitude that email generally is disposable, and it was suggested instead that every email should be preserved. NARA disagreed, finding that requiring the creation of a record copy of every email would be extremely costly and burdensome, and may cause government employees to forgo any email record retention.
-Agencies stated that the proposed rule would require a technology solution, but NARA disagreed because the rule allows message management within the email system - transitory messages no longer need to be placed in a separate recordkeeping system.
-Agencies are required to comply with legal demands and thus may be required to freeze merely transitory documents.
-The rule only applies to Federal executive branch agencies.
-An electronic mail message is defined by 36 CFR 1234.2 as a "document created or received on an electronic mail system incluing beief notes, more formal or substantive narrative documents, and any attachments... which may be transmitted with the message."
-The messages to which this rule applies are only those which need be preserved for a minimal amount of time based on business needs or accountability. Under 36 CFR 1234.24(a), each agency must ensure that the proper metadata is captured as part of the record when it is required.
-Email attachments must be managed as records, such that if the attachment is also deemed transitory it can also be deleted from the email system without producing a recordkeeping copy. Emails and attachments must be considered together to determine if one provides context for the other before either is deemed transitory.
A copy of the announcement can be found by searching for "page 8806" (in quotes) here.
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Alex TrebekGame Show Host
Born: 22 July 1940
Birthplace: Ontario, Canada
Best known as:
Host of the TV quiz show Jeopardy!
Name at birth: George Alexander Trebek
Alex Trebek is the longtime host of the TV quiz show Jeopardy! The show was a hit in the 1960s and early 1970s with original host Art Fleming; Trebek joined the show as host on its revival in 1984, and remained the popular face of the show well into the 21st century. Earlier in his career, Alex Trebek hosted the game shows Wizard of Odds and High Rollers, among others, and was a newscaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He also has emceed the annual National Geography Bee for students. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000, and in 2006 he received a maple leaf on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.
Alex Trebek suffered a mild heart attack in December of 2007; he returned to regular Jeopardy! tapings in January of 2008. He suffered another heart attack in June of 2012, but again pledged to return to the show... Alex Trebek earned a philosophy degree from the University of Ottawa... He founded Creston Farms, a thoroughbred horse facility near the town of Templeton, California... Alex Trebek was host of Jeopardy! during the 75 consecutive appearances of supercontestant Ken Jennings.
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I don’t see many exercise classes taught at libraries, do you? If you know of a library that sponsors a regular exercise class, send us the link. The lack of workouts at the library doesn’t surprise me because most facilities don’t have the space or equipment. Some do not want to run anything longterm because it keeps other patrons from accessing the space. This all makes sense, but so does offering courses on hatha yoga, meditation, and walking at your local library.
Here’s an example of a hatha yoga class in a library http://www.myacpl.org/events/yoga-people-50-and-2012-04-11. The course is ongoing and has been a success for several years. However, like most library settings, the space is limited. Namaste to instructor Linda Cochran for continuing this great program in the Athens Public Library, Athens, Ohio.
Here’s a very good article about the rationale for libraries extending their services to include fitness courses http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/Libraries-Now-Offering-Books-and-Workouts.html
Put this way, it makes a great deal of sense in spite of the limitations and hesitations to blend your books with your bodybuilding by getting it all at the local library. In his fab book SPARK, Dr. John J. Ratey with Eric Hagerman, (a book I require in my college courses,) explains the benefits of exercise to brain health and overall wellbeing when he recommends exercise first then hitting the books. Exercise improves brain elasticity and grows new brain cells capable of absorbing new information.
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Analysis By Sergei Blagov
(IPS) MOSCOW --
seemingly strengthened President Boris Yeltsin
will push this week for a stronger role in solving the conflict in the
Balkans, but at home there is a growing perception that the Parliament's
failure to impeach him last weekend only further weakened Russia's political
The failed impeachment is widely seen as a defeat by the Communist-dominated opposition rather than Yeltsin's victory, while the disbelief many Russians feel over their rulers -- in the Kremlin, in government or in Parliament -- seems to be reaching nadir.
"They -- the political elite -- are solving problems of their own," Alexander Kupriyanov, a medical worker from Moscow, told IPS. "They just got out of touch with the needs of ordinary people."
"Everybody is sick and tired of this endless political instability -- we are living as if near a volcano," Sergei Tarasenko, a self-employed businessman said. "However, what else can we do? Just wait and see."
Russians believe that their representatives in Parliament defend
personal, rather than political objectives.
The State Duma -- the lower house of Russian parliament - had vowed to push ahead with the impeachment hearings against Yeltsin, who had dismissed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, in what was seen partly as a preemptive strike against the opposition.
But as Yeltsin's approval rate in the country scores at about 1-2 percent, "the impeachment has already taken place," claimed a confident Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov.
Yeltsin was accused of destroying the Soviet Union in 1991, illegally dissolving Parliament in 1993, starting war against the secessionist region of Chechnia in 1994, undermining the Army's combat ability, and waging genocide against the Russian nation with policies that destroyed the economy and sent life expectancy plunging.
Opposition leaders wrongly expected that at least one of the charges -- the disastrous Chechen war -- could be passed.
Lawmakers had planned to hear from many voluntary witnesses, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former defense minister Pavel Grachev. However, virtually all witnesses failed to show up because they apparently had no faith in the procedure.
Thus, what had promised to be a historical event, proved to be rather boring. Though a couple of hundred protesters staged demonstrations against Yeltsin in the street outside the State Duma, Muscovites seemingly remained indifferent.
To impeach the President, Russian law requires 300 votes, or two-thirds of the chamber. Yeltsin's opponents managed to muster just 283 votes in support of the strongest bid -- the Chechen war -- while other charges were supported by fewer deputies, though all five votes garnered a solid majority of over 50 percent.
It had been clear form the outset, however, that the impeachment had few -- if any -- chances to materialize, as Yeltsin's ousting would have also required two-thirds majorities at the upper house of Parliament and both the Supreme and Constitutional courts.
Impeachment approval by all three institutions was believed to be virtually impossible, sparking allegations that the move to oust Yeltsin was just a public relations exercise by the Communists and their allies -- aiming at parliamentary elections due next December.
The impeachment vote signified the "failure of a shameless political venture" by the left-wing opposition, said Georgy Satarov, an analyst and former Yeltsin's aide.
"It's bad that we did not gather enough votes, but we do not feel defeated, as all Communist deputies voted for the impeachment," Zyuganov said.
Had the impeachment reached the required majority, Yeltsin would have dissolved the Duma, 75 percent of Russians thought, according a survey conducted in the days prior to the hearings. Hence, many now think that some deputies did not attend the procedures to protect their parliamentary benefits.
If Yeltsin's approval rate is low, Duma members themselves are not particularly popular among ordinary Russians, who are wary of the deputies' high salaries and privileges.
There are also conspiracy theories surrounding the failure. For instance, ultra-nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose party unexpectedly backed Yeltsin, claimed that the president must not be impeached because NATO's air strikes against Yugoslavia were also a threat to Russia.
But his opponents overtly asked Zhirinovsky how much had he charged for derailing the impeachment. There have been rumors among Duma deputies that some of them were offered cash payments of up to $30,000 just to refrain from voting.
In the immediate future, the failed impeachment means that Yeltsin's new prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, has got better chances to be confirmed in office.
Stepashin, a former interior minister and a career security officer, already won cautious expressions of respect throughout the Duma, even from leftists who were outraged by Yeltsin's dismissal of their ally Yevgeny Primakov last week.
"Reason prevailed, and a possible political crisis was averted," commented Stepashin, who implied that a constitutional stalemate could have led to a 1993-style crisis, when Yeltsin dissolved the Parliament and ordered it shelled by artillery when its members refused to abide.
However, in the longer term the mere fact that the impeachment proceedings ended in vain is unlikely to boost confidence in Yeltsin, or convince anybody that the ailing president is fully capable to run the country.
A consensus is emerging that Yeltsin's health -- who slurs his speech and needs help to mount just a few steps -- is the country's main immediate problem.
Even a prominent pro-Kremlin lawmaker, Vladimir Ryzhkov, who actively lobbied against the impeachment, concedes that Yeltsin's months -- if not weeks -- in power are counted due to his poor health.
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Storage Tanks & Pumps
Storage tanks and cisterns are seen throughout the Texas Hill Country and can bring peace of mind to your home or business. Storage tanks provide water for irrigation, during drought conditions, and well outages. A tank provides fire protection, aeration of water to remove sulfur, and can supply multiple homes. In addition, a storage tank can increase the lifespan of your well pump by preventing short cycling, which is turning on and off too frequently.
Our storage tanks are constructed with 5000 PSI concrete with a wall thickness of 4 inches. The walls are also fiber mesh and rebar reinforced for extra strength. The tanks are poured offsite and arrive to your location on a flatbed truck. Each ring of the tank is lifted by a crane and set in place one at a time. The tanks are then mortared and sealed on the inside and out. A trench that contains piping and electrical conduit connects the storage tank to the well house. An additional pump is installed inside the well house to supply the home or business with water pressure from the storage tank. This pump provides better pressure and a greater flow rate than the well pump. The only job of the well pump now is to fill the storage tank when needed. Our tanks are now constructed with no exterior sidewall penetrations or piping runs up the side. All stainless/brass/PVC fittings are poured into the 6 inch base and can be custom configured for your application. Not only does this improve appearance it protects from freezing and leaking of the sidewall.
Storage tanks come in many different volumes and can be made of concrete or plastic. A tank system can be fitted with a level indicator, a low level alarm, a pump protector that turns off the well when a low well level is detected, and independent pumps can be installed for irrigation or supplying multiple households.
A PUMP PROTECTOR CAN SAVE YOUR WELL PUMP FROM THE DROUGHT! It can be installed without a storage tank and protects well pumps up to 5HP. We have these units for $250.00 plus tax and labor. We recommend installing one at bare minimum to protect your well pump. These units shut down the well when they detect an abnormal power spike due to a low water level. After a preset time period has passed and the well is allowed to recover the unit attempts to restart the well pump. Coupled with a storage tank this system minimizes the stress on your pump.
Newman Water Services also offers a variety of pumps and pressure tanks for multiple applications. We only provide industry proven equipment and warranty all of our installations. Contact Us for specific sizing and application of your system. We will be happy to come out and take a look at no charge to you. | <urn:uuid:76709b95-47da-47fc-ae37-4a5a70269f4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newmanh2o.com/storagetanks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946591 | 558 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Facebook has denied reports that Facebook plans to establish a research center in Moscow instead of luring Russian programmers to the U.S.
A company spokesperson told CNET that while the company is interested in Russia, it had no plans to expand operations into Russia at this time.
The news, reported by the Associated Press, was based on a tweet that may have been lost in translation. The tweet came from Russian communications minister Nikolay Nikiforov, who was commenting on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Russian today.
"U @ MedvedevRussia agreed with Zuckerberg, it is more profitable to open a research and development center in Russia Facebook," Nikiforov wrote (translated) in the tweet, linking to a photo of him shaking hands with Zuckerberg.
Another tweet shows Nikiforov responding to a retweet that suggested the same notion as the AP's news.
"Wrong quote, do not distort the facts," he wrote.
Of course, that doesn't mean Facebook isn't interested in investing more in its presence in the country.
"Russia has a strong developer community that has been making great use of the Facebook platform," according to a statement from Facebook. "A number of gaming companies in particular are building their businesses in Russia thanks to the global audience they reach through Facebook."
Facebook said Zuckerberg is spending several days in Moscow, where he will "attend a number of private functions as well as public engagements," including a talk for students at Moscow State University and a visit to the Facebook Moscow Hack -- a part of the World Hack 2012 tour. | <urn:uuid:115cb297-294d-4050-8461-bab4321b8ba8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57523676-93/no-russian-research-center-planned-for-facebook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974538 | 322 | 1.546875 | 2 |
June 25, 2001 ANN ARBOR, Mich. - No one likes to be in the hospital longer than needed. Now, a new approach to prostate cancer surgery using a combination of existing techniques may help men get home within 24 hours of having their prostates removed - without making them less satisfied with their care or putting them at extra risk of complications.
That finding, from a study comparing a "fast track" prostate surgery pathway with a standard approach that keeps patients in the hospital for up to three days, was presented this week at the American Urological Association's annual meeting in Anaheim, CA by researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. It's the first study of its kind.
The U-M's 24-hour approach stood up to the prospective comparison well, yielding high patient satisfaction rates and low complication rates almost exactly like those seen with standard care, says senior author Martin Sanda, M.D., an associate professor of urology at the U-M Medical School and associate director of the U-M Health System's prostate cancer program.
Sanda and his colleagues devised the pathway, which uses epidural anesthesia, non-narcotic pain relief and tailored patient education materials to help early-stage prostate cancer patients get home sooner, just as safely, and with less expense. They then compared it prospectively with standard care in 153 patients operated on in the year 2000 by two U-M surgeons.
"Our findings suggest a possible new standard of care that would lead to a 24-hour stay for most patients, if their surgery is performed at centers specializing in prostate cancer care," Sanda says. "Since prostatectomy is the most common treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, and indeed is one of the most common cancer operations overall, a more streamlined approach could have a major impact on both patient experience and cost of care."
The U-M pathway doesn't rely on any brand-new advance - just coordinated use of a lower-body epidural anesthesia approach that avoids the "hangover" effect of general anesthesia, non-narcotic pain drugs such as ketorolac and ibuprofen that let the patient be more alert and active soon after surgery, and specially developed education materials to help the patient and his loved ones know what to expect regarding post-operative care and at-home self care.
Just by combining these elements and making a determined effort to offer the patient the option to go home after 24 hours, the U-M team was able to send 77 percent of patients home after one day's stay, while maintaining a satisfaction rate of 94 percent and a post-operative complication rate of about 5 percent. These two rates almost exactly matched the rates for patients receiving standard care. Long-term outcomes have also been favorable.
Other advantages to the new pathway included the decreased use of narcotic pain relievers, which in most cases were discontinued on the same day as surgery, and increased involvement of the patient and his spouse or family member in the post-operative period. The two go hand in hand, as patients who are off narcotic medication can take a more active role in caring for themselves.
The new pathway is becoming the standard for many early-stage prostate cancer patients at the U-M Cancer Center. Sande hopes it will help other centers determine whether they can streamline care for their patients.
"No one has looked at how perioperative and postoperative care can be optimized, to reduce the length of hospital stay while maintaining patient-reported satisfaction," Sanda explains. "This study indicates we can keep the patient happy and comfortable, and give him the option of going home earlier, with a proactive, coordinated approach."
But, he adds, no patient was shoved out the door just to cut the length of their hospital stay. "Fast track" patients who elect to stay longer are always allowed to do so.
"None of our patients reported feeling rushed, and no one was forced out; the option to leave at 24 hours is just that, an option, and not a requirement or expectation." Sanda emphasizes. "Nevertheless, most patients given this option did indeed choose to go home early and were medically well enough to do so."
The study's other authors are urology resident Stephanie Kielb, M.D., who presented the results in a poster at the AUA meeting; research associate Jennifer Resh; and James Montie, M.D., Valassis Professor of Urologic Oncology and head of the section of urology in the U-M Medical School's Department of Surgery.
This research was funded in part by a National Cancer Institute Prostate Cancer SPORE (Specialized Program of Reseach Excellence) grant to the University of Michigan.
For information on prostate cancer care at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, please call the Cancer Answer Line at 800-865-1125.
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Stanley Fish has written on the inability he perceives liberalism to have in having tolerance for religious faith. My meager response follows:
There is actually an older source than either Milton or Mill for the notion of separation of church and state: Jesus of Nazareth. He said, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and render unto God what is God's." (Matthew 22:15-22; Mark 12:13-17; Luke 20:20-26)
2000 years before Stanley Fish, Jesus was able to point out the fallacy of Professor Fish's argument. Professor Fish assumes that religious inquiry and political action are activities that exist in the same sphere: public. However, the realm of the spirit is inherently private and personal, and while it will undoubtedly influence the political and public outlook of an individual, it is not and should not be a public expression in and of itself.
Jesus is also the best source for wisdom on what to make of those who would move their spiritual quests from the private realm to the public: "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." (Matthew 6:5-6) The meaning here, to me, is clear. The TV preachers, the Ayatollahs, the President who sees his administration as being ordained of God are all hypocrites. By making their spirituality (if true spirituality it be) so needlessly public, they subvert it.
For it is possible to be spiritual and political and to keep both in their proper place. In that case, spirituality and even adherence to a set of particular religious dogmas can be a helpful and healthy thing. The private informs and illuminates the public. Unfortunately, the reverse is quite often the result of mixing the two, and the public political ideas come to dominate the personal and spiritual.
Professor Fish does, though, discuss a difficult sticking point for many who would identify themselves as "liberal." As tempting as it is to sometimes wish to deny others free speech because we believe their religious and political beliefs intolerable, we cannot. For when we do, we are the hypocrites praying on the street corners. Even those who understand religion to be a sword rather than a balm must be allowed to speak, and we must try to engage them with rationality, regardless of the frustrations involved in doing so. It's not easy, but that's how it is.
Finally, if Professor Fish does not think that George W. Bush is a religious extremist, he is living in a fantasy world. His entire description of the balancing act he claims that American politicians have to walk is absurd and indicates that he must have been either unconscious or sequestered during both General Elections in 2000 and 2004. | <urn:uuid:9cb701d0-474e-4548-aa02-5396ade5db16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nextintheseries.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-response-to-latest-stanley-fish-blog.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96834 | 623 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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What better way to get your kids excited for Halloween than building a great haunted house as a family! The Craft with Clay Haunted House is a great Halloween decoration that is embossed and comes ready to decorated with paint and air-dry clay. Just like other fabulous Creativity for Kids kits, everything you need is included to make this 7"w x 7"h x 4"d house. To add to the fun, Halloween goodies and candies can actually be stored in the house, something my son was extremely excited about.
The kit, designed for ages 5+, includes:
- sturdy cardboard house
- spooky paint colors
- tools necessary to decorate the house
Review: Art is definitely not my son's strongest ability and he does not really enjoy it either so I was pleasantly surprised to see the excitement on his face when the kit arrived in the mail. The possible ways to decorate this house are endless. My son had a good time painting and then making some clay figures. He is not exactly detail oriented so there certainly could have been a lot more done with the clay but he was happy to throw some ghosts on the house and call it a day. I really love how you can store candy on the inside. This is definitely a fun craft and it is certainly a keepsake!
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OB solidly criticizes the "tendentious manipulative hostile language" in reports about Salman Rushdie's knighthood. Apparently the event "provoked" protests from angry Muslims. OB thinks this is unfair on Rushdie. But it's also worth pointing out how appeasement disrespects Muslims. ('Shouldn't we know better than to prod the animals?' one imagines the journalist asking. 'They might bite!')
Human beings have agency; we make choices. When someone says or does something we don't like, we can choose how to react. We aren't animals, to respond to any 'provocation' with a bloodthirsty snarl, threatening violence. Such behaviour is not to be expected of decent human beings. To consider it par for the course for Muslims, then, is soft bigotry. It denies them agency, and treats them as mere animals.
Granted, some Islamic extremists (apparently including Pakistan's religious affairs minister) behave like animals, with their obscene death threats. But we should expect better of them. Their degraded state is not simply 'par for the course', or 'to be expected'. They're human. They should start acting like it. We should expect no less. Violent behaviour is, and ought to remain, remarkable. So, next time an extremist chooses to act like an animal, remark on it. Show them that much respect. They're not animals; their behaviour stems from their own agency, not our poking and prodding. | <urn:uuid:b5cced35-8f47-436d-a5c6-c2d8c7238590> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.philosophyetc.net/2007/06/denying-agency.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955289 | 302 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Counter Our Consciousness Destruction by Capitalist Doctrine: Stress the Real Economy
by Horace Carby-Samuels
Capitalist doctrine has promoted a civilization where persons are socialized to live their lives by primarily chasing after money and financial-equivalent results. However, humans are essentially mind-guided entities who are intuitively aware of their latent cosmic-linked Consciousness. Addtionally, the fiduciary currency which capitalism is conditioning humans to chase, has been a relatively recent convenience that has been created to accompany human civilization.
Meanwhile, as the human brain and our physical structure evolved, humans developed awareness of a number of critical dispositions, which capitalist doctrine and its supporting apparachnicks is busy trying to get us to overlook. Humans recognized their mortality, at the same time that they framed a latent awareness that they shared in a cosmic linkage, (which essentially led them to construe and to execute burial rituals).
Additionally, as humans began to develop technology, they also began to formulate concepts about their quality-of-living; and about how their own living could be advanced. Humans therefore began to see their living as exercises in how they are able to manage the commitment and the allocation of the time (for living) that became available to them. Humans therefore began to economize on the allocation of their time for living, long before the invention and the usage of any other sort of currency.
Humans as mind-guided entities, have therefore historically set out to budget, to categorize, and to evaluate (appraise) the returns from the allocation (commitment) of their time. In his book Principles of Economics, which was first published in 1890, the neo-classical English economist Alfred Marshall explicitly recognized that humans draw on this intuitive principle of ranking in living-centred terms, the different yields from how and where their time for living had been committed.
In recognition that living, was the substantive operation that humans saw at hand, Marshall stressed that persons changed jobs on the basis of their judgments as to how their real income would change, rather than how their money income would change.
Clearly, when Marshall drew attention to the latent historical presence of the real economy, that was critical.
In particular, Marshall was pointing out that conscious, mind-guided persons, had targets in respect of the quality of their existence, that they used to judge how effective their time ommiments had been.
In contrast, proponents of the capitlist doctrine do not make what happens to people, their priority. Instead, they emphasize the money economy. However, the money economy, which capitalist doctrine emphasizes, was a manifestation of society, which was developed much later, after societies developed fiduciary currencies, to counteract the quantity and other limitations of commodity currencies.
Meanwhile, historically, by virtue of their ideological commitment to focus only on monetary-equivalent transactions, capitalist economists (such as Milton Friedman) have downplayed the presence of the real economy. They argue that, the real income (to which Alfred Marshall had alluded), is no more than the monetary income of persons, which they have [implicitly statistically] adjusted, for changes in the price levels which [they may expect to] occur as a result of inflation. Accordingly, that misperception by capitalist doctrine, is therefore being fed to us in the statistical reports that Western governments provide.
Capitalism does not emphasize persons, as being consumers of their time for living. It also does not emphasize them as being managers of that time, toward maximizing their opportunities to achieve Human Development. Therefore, proponents and supporters of capitalist doctrine, do not countenance the presence of the real (living-centred) economy out of which Marshall’s comment had come.
However, the ancient Gnostics had warned us about the presence of a hostile, predatory, alien consciousness (such as that which is now behind the promotion of capitalist doctrine), which is living among us in various masquerades. They pointed out that the aim of this predatory consciousness is to capture and to manipulate the evolutionary potential and the soul of humans. Accordingly, the hostile alien consciousness (behind capitalist doctrine), aims to use a human focus on monetary results, to befuddle and to distract humans.
This latent , hostile, and predatory alien consciousness behind capitalist doctrine, aims to distract the latent Consciousness which humans have of their cosmic linkages; and thereby aims to destroy human existential sensibilities.
By means of formal and informal programs of education and socialization, the capitalist doctrine is being used to steer us away from either being aware of, from contemplating, or from pursuing, an action-linked evolution of our Consciousness. Instead, the capitalist socialization emphasizes how our actions can be linked to the enhanced private acquisition of financial-equivalent wealth.
In the name of science and the scientific method, the capitalist doctrine promotes a civilization where persons are conditioned to primarily and overwhelmingly pursue the enhanced acquisition of money, (which they may then spend in profit-supportive trade). The system of governance in societies that have been conditioned to operate under the guidance and under the recognition patterns of capitalist doctrine, therefore promotes the generation of financial balance sheet results, (and so measures economic performance).
Living is about Trade and Exchange
Quality-of-living is about what we get in exchange for committing our time. Therefore, although the usefulness and convenience of money in commercial trading operations cannot be gainsayed, our latent awareness of the historical presence of the real economy, leads us to recognize some critical existential facts. Chief of these is the fact that it is the presence of the real economy, (in the form of the mix of opportunities among which we may commit our time), together with the understanding that we form as to what living is all about, that enables us to decypher the quality-of-living which we have.
Accordingly, we may not allow ourselves to forget that, notwithstanding the capitalist emphasis on monetary results, an economy is not about the monetary value of prevailing trade and exchange. Rather, it is about the pattern of outcomes which arise, in association with the time and effort management operations of the people who make up a society.
In particular, an economy (of any sort), shows the living-related results, that have been forthcoming from the productive participation of collectives of persons. who together contribute to the mixes of products and services which comprise the real economic data.
These participating persons should be seen as coping with their environment, while they are at the same time aiming to give content and meaningfulness to their respective decisions to remain alive. We therefore need to move our understanding of our reality, away from the money-chasing civilization into which the capitalist socialization has systematically set out to condition us.
As Conscious mind-guided persons, our alternative is to focus on the sense of being, toward which our historical and latent awareness of the real economy (in which our historical commitment to survival via time use management), has so far nurtured us. Therefore, ,to appraise prevailing economic performance, we need to look at the pattern of survival benefits that humans secure, as they aim to enhance the effectiveness of how they are able to commit their time for living.
An economic performance appraisal context which is consistent with this type of time-use recognition, was elaborated by Horace Carby-Samuels (2006) Quality-of-Living and Human Development as the Outcome from Economic Progress; Ottawa, Canada, (Agora Cosmopolitan Publishing, ISBN1897036353). He elaborated that, toward achieving the patterns which frame the quality-of-living that arises in the real economy, and that also lead to the achievement of Human Development, there are three types of not mutually exclusive time-use management activities among which persons allocate their efforts.
These critical indicative time-use activities of persons comprise their (a) Subsistence-Securing operations; (b) Meaning-Search operations; and ( c) Rest and Recreational operations. As a result, governments that aim to service the real economy, will need to ensure that their economic development commitments will enable persons to secure access to (at least minimum) targetted levels of these mixes of critical living-supportive services.
Additionally, mindful that persons aim to give meaning to their decision to reject suicide (and remain alive), economic development programming that aims to service the real economy, must foster and must also complement knowledge-acquisition by the members of the society.
Governments therefore have the responsibility to see to it that barriers are not placed on information transference (as persons aim to understand and to cope with their natural environment, and its laws of autonomous evolution). Finally, governments will need to recognize that in the real economy, persons also seek to have at least some customary amount of time for rest and recreation..
Prevailing Economic Management Realities
Meanwhile, consistent with the capitalist oversight of the opportunities which people have to manage the allocation of their time, reports about the economic downturn of 2008-2009, concentrated on what the money economy showed. Circumstances regarding the real economy, and about how the quality-of-living of the members of the society could be enhanced, were essentially ignored. However, what cannot be ignored is that the recorded downturn in trade and exchange, arose from some disingenuous business operations in the banks and near-banks, that form the U. S. system of (trade-centred) financial intermediation.
True to the greed-promoting norms of the money economy, a number of these bank and near-bank agencies, in pursuit of profit results, had created a mix of questionable commercial paper “assets”. These “assets” were then sold (for profit, of course) on the world-wide market, to other financial institutions, which later found themselves holding what amounted to worthless paper..
The cascade of financial credit curtailment that then resulted in the commercial market; was also accompanied by insolvencies in the commercial banking sector.
However, notably, the “corrective” measures which governments then took, were largely all directed at propping up the commercial banking system. In the process, these governments caused their treasuries to create financial assets that were then ploughed back, as capital, into the ailing banking system, which has since then continued merrily on to generate “profit” earnings, through its speculation in commercial paper..
Like other Wesern governments, in the “corrective” economic measures regarding the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the president of the United States proposed in his Economic Reconstruction and Renewal package, no substantive remedy focus on fostering enhancement in the quality-of-living of the people who make up the society. Rather, these (western) governments were largely concerned with what the cash-equivalent volume of profitable commercial trade (largely by the banks and corporations) would show.
Their remedial focus was NOT on promoting the avilability of services that form the backbone of the real economy, (where the economic emphasis is on the types of participative efforts which are available to the persons who make up the society).
Arguably, therefore, these governments need to recognize that notwithstanding the capitalist propaganda (such as that which is offered as economic development “advice” to The President of the United States, and to western governments), an economy, is not about the changes in monetary value of trade, that the activities of corporations have generated.
An economy is about the pattern of outcomes which arise, in association with the time and effort management operations of the people who make up a society. Additionally, an economy shows the mixes of products and services, which have been forthcoming from the productive participation of the collectives of persons that operate within an environment of governance..
Meanwhile, these participating persons must be seen as coping with their environment, (while they are at the same time aiming to give content and meaningfulness to their respective decisions to remain alive). Accordingly, and in particular, an economy (of any sort), shows the living-related results from the resource management operations in which thepeople at hand participate.
Real economic performance is therefore shown by HOW the quality-of-living of the human participants (in the society at hand) has been affected. However, capitalist economic reports are not interested in those economic outcomes, in behalf of human survival, (that are shown by the opportunities of persons to enhance their quality-of living). Meanwhile, the ancient Gnostics had warned humans about the fact that a predatory alien consciousness which is operating among us under various masquerades, will advance an insidious emphasis (such as the money-centred one of capitalist doctrine) which is indifferent to fostering the quality-of-living the experience of people.
These capitalists argue that application of the scientific method, shows that this money-centred doctrine which they articulate (and also empirically apply), provides the best vehicle for understanding what constitutes revealed progress from how humans manage scarce (biologically limiting) time and their other resources.
Indeed, capitalist doctrine, uses this “scientific bogeyman arbiter”, as an excuse to ignore and to essentially downplay the living-centred aim which is behind human economic management activities. The capitalist doctrine argues net financial-equivalent gain (as the indicator of economic performance), because that happens to be the ONLY measurement context which may be also used to gauge the success of the banks, and the corporations, (whose operations and objectives, the capitalist governments aim to service).
Through programs of formal and informal education, capitalism therefore executes a pernicious socialization. In it, persons are conditioned to accept an economy as being an environment where they must go about earning money, that will thereby show (as it does for in non-mortal corporations), how successful the management of scarce resources on their their time path of survival, has been..
The capitalist socialization, therefore conditions people to seek “employment” where they are “hired” to perform as corporate “wage slaves”, who are in market competition with each other (in the cycle of financial achievement). In that socialization, people are distracted from their latent awareness of the real economy; from their mortality; and from their latent cosmic linkage (as mind-guided entities). As a result, they are not conditioned to seek out, and to execute positive participative opportunities in their personal evolution, and in that of their society.
Capitalist doctrine has therefore been used to generate, or to perpetuate among human beings, an exploitive socialization, rather than one where persons relate empathetically to each other, at the same time that they recognize their mutuality.
Additionally, by keeping the prospects for the private acquisition of money at the forefront of the awareness and interactive patterns of persons, the capitalist socialization is centred on having people chase after money. However, experience shows that the perpetuation of the money economy is a societal mode of fraternal and environmental parasitization, rather than one of mutual ennoblement.
The Adjustment Path
If citizens aim to enhance their quality-of-living attainments so as to access oppportunities for Human Development, there are specific operations into which they will need to enter. For example, they will need to require, and to also give support to those governments that begin to focus on fostering their access to those types of time-use opportunities which will lead to enhancement of (what Alfred Marshall had called) their real income; and also about which Carby-Samuels (2006) had elaborated
Any sort of government commitment, to fostering the availability of features that lead to quality-of-life enhancement, will await citizen prompting and insistence. That is because governments will look beyond servicing the profit opportunities of the corporate sector, only after citizens begin to demand that these governments make themselves aware of the real economy which they must also service. It must also be impressed on these governments that this real economy is expressed in the mix of the time-use opportunities that are available to the persons who are contributing participants in the society.
It happens, however, that when the foregiong type of citizen input is made, governments will need to pay close attention to the structure and to the content of prevailing programs of education and socialization which they promote. In particular, these programs will need to do more than deliver mixes of “wage slaves” who will compete among each other for corporate-provided financial compensation (only.
Meanwhile, under the influence of the prevailing predatory hideous alien consciousness that is behind capitalist doctrine, a capitalist-sponsored government and the educational system that it promotes, will dig their heels in to emphasize the overwhelming importance of likely financial outcomes. Such a government and its systems of formal and informal education will be unlikely to aim to foster the capability of citizens to develop the technical and environmental awareness, that will assist them to achieve opportunities for Human Development (as a bonding with their cosmic-linked human birthright).
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We've heard how the value of the dollar affects
gas prices and indeed the price of everything. I was pleased that my
request for a hearing on such was granted by the Financial Services committee
and we were able to hear some very informative testimony. Certainly domestic
policies, regarding off-shore oil drilling bans, ethanol mandates, refining
capacity, and CAFE standards are interventionist and harmful enough in the energy
But how does foreign policy affect gas prices? One important factor is that
oil on the world market has been priced in dollars exclusively since 1973. Only
two leaders have gone against this arrangement Saddam Hussein in 2000
and more recently Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the recently opened Iranian Oil Bourse
which trades in non-dollar currencies. But since oil is otherwise exclusively
traded in dollars, this means that oil producers have vast amounts of assets
held in dollars. Especially since the War on Terror and the PATRIOT Act, many
oil-producing nations and banks are concerned the US government may freeze assets
based on flimsy pretexts. This fear contributes to dollar weakness, and therefore
also high oil prices.
Recently I and other members of Congress spoke out against H Con Res 362 and
exposed this seemingly innocuous bill for what it really is a call for
a blockade and a build up to war with Iran. Thankfully it has not come to the
floor for a vote as I had fully expected it would. But to even propose legislation
like this, and get an alarming 261 cosponsors, makes the oil markets jittery
and encourages more capital flight from the dollar. We only isolate ourselves
on the world stage with actions and attitudes like this. After all, how can
it be wise for the rest of the world to bank on America, when we tend to freeze
assets and blockade entire countries for no good reason?
Another major factor is our intervention in international military conflicts.
These conflicts are often much more complicated, and have more to do with oil
than our own leaders are willing to acknowledge. Too often the side we support
points our weapons right back at us down the road. The best policy is always
free trade with all and entangling alliances with none, but instead we isolate
ourselves by picking sides and making enemies out of our friends or potential
friends. In the recent conflict with Russia and Georgia, it appears that once
again the administration is going to pick sides and send taxpayer money, when
we are in a deep recession here at home. There is no good reason for us to put
a dog in every fight around the world.
The contributing factors in the price of oil are complicated and legion. The
fact is, it is an immensely valuable resource, and, as our demand for this resource
is great, our relationships with world leaders who control it should be handled
with reason and intelligence. However, our interventionist mindset when it comes
to foreign policy never ceases to get us into sticky situations, for which we
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Date of Press Release: August 22, 2007
The University of Alaska Southeast will offer Entry Level Mine Training beginning October 15. The Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development has provided funding to the University of Alaska Mining and Petroleum Training Services program, which is based at UA Anchorage’s Kenai Peninsula College. The MAPTS program is branching out through UAS to make the training available in the Southeast region.
A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the UAS - MAPTS Mine Training Center will take place on Tuesday, August 28 at 4 pm in the UAS Technical Education Center, which is across Egan Drive from Juneau Douglas High School.
This offering is the first of its kind in Alaska and is in direct response to the mining industry’s request for better trained entry-level employees. Completion of this MAPTS program will also benefit the entry level employees. The skills obtained in this training will help workers succeed on the job and make them better candidates to move up the career ladder. The program includes; Entry Level Mine Labor Training, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), and Entry Level Underground Miner (Nipper) class.
"At the University of Alaska Southeast we prepare Alaskans to work in every sector of the economy," said UAS Chancellor John Pugh. "Our partnership with the Department of Labor is important to our mission and is important to the workforce development of Southeast Alaska. It is very fulfilling to help young Alaskans, who want to stay in the region, find good high paying jobs."
Those who are interested in the training should contact the Department of Labor and Workforce Development at 465-5953 or UAS MAPTS Mine Training Center at 796-6160.
UAS Adminstrative Manger School of Career Education
University of Alaska Southeast
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A recent article in The Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of some law schools to generate applicants (and enroll students) in the declining legal market. The print version of the paper included a large photograph of University of Illinois College of Law Dean Bruce P. Smith. It’s an odd time for that school to seek publicity. Not long ago, the ABA fined the school $250,000 for intentionally submitting false LSAT and GPA data.
The new initiatives include scholarships, although for many schools those aren’t really new. For years, some law schools have used non-need-based financial aid to lure students with high LSATs. Lurking behind the current initiatives — and the counterproductive behavior of far too many law school deans — are the ubiquitous U.S. News rankings. Obsession over those rankings created a climate that produced the University of Illinois College of Law’s sanctionable conduct.
There’s just one problem…
The difficulty for many “merit” scholarship recipients is two-fold. First, the money often disappears after year one. For years two and three, the law school business model reasserts its power and, for most students, loans for tuition keep school revenues and profits flowing. The New York Times wrote about that phenomenon last year.
I don’t know what the University of Illinois College of Law’s approach will be, but tuition there is $44,520 for non-residents and $37,100 for residents. Dean Smith said that grants went to every member of the class of 2014 (including those admitted from the wait list) at a total cost of $3.6 million. Maintaining that average of $18,000 per student (assuming enrollment of 200) for all three years would be a daunting task. After all, it’s a state school and Illinois is in terrible financial shape.
Make that two problems…
The more abiding challenge for many students surfaces a bit later: limited job opportunities. For example, the University of Illinois College of Law awarded 190 J.D. degrees in 2011. According to its July 2012 ABA employment report, nine months after graduation, only 96 had full-time long term jobs requiring bar passage.
Other schools mentioned in the WSJ article include:
USC (Gould School of Law): 207 graduates in 2011; nine months after graduation, 134 with full-time long term jobs requiring bar passage.
UCLA: 344 graduates in 2011; 211 with full-time long term jobs requiring bar passage.
George Washington University: 518 graduates in 2011; 421 with full-time long term jobs requiring bar passage.
Brooklyn Law School: 455 graduates in 2011; 215 with full-time long term jobs requiring bar passage.
The overall full-time long term employment rate for all 2011 law school graduates with jobs requiring bar passage was 55 percent.
An old trick
The premise of these scholarship programs is simple. Rather than reduce tuition for everyone, keep the list price high (hotel managers would call it a room’s “rack rate”) for those who can afford it and offer differential discounts to those who are price sensitive at the margin. The secrecy of individual grants creates a perfect environment for implementing what economists might call pricing along the demand curve. Extract as much as possible from each buyer while maximizing total sales (enrollments).
For anyone with a long-run perspective that extends beyond filling up next year’s law school classrooms, the approach might seem a bit perplexing. If there are twice as many law jobs as there are graduating students with J.D.s, might it make more sense to adopt a strategy that reduced total enrollment?
To their credit, some schools, including George Washington University, are doing that. But for the most part, each law school is striving to maintain enrollments and the credentials of entering classes. Insofar as they are now throwing scholarship money at prospective students who are uncertain about whether to attend law school at all, they’re making things even worse.
U.S. News strikes again
Professor William Henderson correctly closes the article with this observation: “It’s the fear of a U.S. News downward spiral. It’s hard to come up in the rankings when your applications are going down.”
Thank goodness the U.S. News rankings’ guru Robert Morse clarified his magazine’s position on all of this: “[T]he rankings should not be a management tool that law school administrators use as the basis for proving that their school is improving or declining.”
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I just got caught up with posting some new composer lapbooks to the Color In My Piano shop! As you may recall, I teach a Music History Class for homeschoolers each week. I started creating my own music history curriculum after I was unable to find anything quite like I was looking for. I ended [...]
“Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.” – John Philip Sousa Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. [...]
Greetings! I know I’ve been MIA around the blog lately — it’s been a busy couple of weeks. This time of year always requires lots of planning time, for upcoming festivals and recitals. I’ve been helping students pick out repertoire and keeping track of forms and registration dates, etc. :) Anyway, I though I would [...]
“Never play anything the same way twice.” – Louis Armstrong Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. Have suggestions? Send me a message here.
Pinterest is wonderful, isn’t it? :) While browsing Pinterest, I was inspired by this picture by the blogger Becki Lewis. Becki’s Finger Number Beanbag Game is a simple but very effective game for young beginner piano students. Students stand in front of the mat and drop the beanbag. Then, they name the finger the beanbag [...]
I’ve added a new sign to the pdf pack called “Signs for Beginner Piano,” which I originally posted in September. This new sign shows the 2 mnemonics I use when I teach piano: You can find the whole pdf on the Printables > Other Resources page, and scroll down to the S’s for “Signs for [...]
”There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.” – Camille Saint-Saëns Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. Have suggestions? Send me a message here.
A couple of months back, I shared on facebook that Clavier Companion magazine was looking for submissions of photos of different piano studios. I decided to go ahead and submit a few photos of my studio, and I was thrilled that they decided to use one of them! If you subscribe to Clavier Companion, take [...]
This post is a sequel to the post, 9 First Classical Anthologies for Piano Students. As mentioned before, anthologies are great for exposing students to a variety of composers and styles of literature at a great value. After the student’s first introduction to classical pieces, there are many, MANY of different options for classical anthologies [...]
When I was a 5-year-old beginner piano student, I remember being re-assigned one-/two-line method book pieces when the only thing lacking was dynamic contrast. And I remember being frustrated with this. My frustration was partly due to the fact that I was bored with the music I was playing; I wanted to be reading staff [...]
Our previous Forum Q&A post was about Christmas gifts for piano students. We received a LOT of responses — thank you! I will definitely be consulting that post again next year when Christmas rolls around! Our new Forum Q&A is a topic suggested by a reader. She says: “My New Years resolution in my studio [...]
Last Saturday, I held another Piano Party for my students. I had record attendance: 14 students! Here’s a run-down of what we did: We introduced ourselves, and shared our favorite Christmas present this year. Christmas Recital and Name-That Tune game. Yes, I know Christmas is over! Because of how busy December often can be, I [...] | <urn:uuid:7beb7177-910c-4aab-8a9d-d41403d5d02d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://colorinmypiano.com/2013/01/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953174 | 843 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Aw man, I didnt mean to imply that you suck.
And non stick pans are great for eggs.
Just that once you figure it out, you dont need nonstick.
They are also great for amateurs.
Jack and Julia only use non stick because they are demonstrating to the masses. Not necessarily pros, lie us.
Try these tips to get some non-stick action from cast iron or SS.
First and most of all, cold oil hot pan. Meaning heat the pan up really well then add oil immediately before you add the eggs, or food to be cooked.
There are a couple of inherent problems with butter. One is that if you add a pat of butter to the pan by the time it melts it will be as hot as the pan itself before adding the eggs. They will most likely stick.
Also the milk solids in the butter can start to burn before the egg is well cooked. Also the browning milk solids can make the egg brown more easily as well. Some find this brown on the eggs, scrambled or fried, undesirable.
Try making clarified butter. It is not very hard and works great in all of your cooking where frying or sauteing in butter is desired.
This is also called ghee in Indian cooking.
Here is Alton Browns method for making clarified butter. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/ghee-recipe/index.html
If you apply the hot pan cold oil method with the ghee, you will get great omelets every time. With a clarified butter flavor like no other.
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While many individuals create wills and living trusts at an early age, others die without leaving any written instructions for their beneficiaries and descendants. If you die intestate, meaning without a will, the court has the jurisdiction to dispose of your assets and choose guardians for your minor children, other dependents and any pets you own at the time of your death according to the state's intestacy laws. The decision whether to create a simple will or a detailed living trust depends on your individual circumstances and the complexity of your estate.
Living trusts allow you to establish a plan for the management of assets both before and after death. You can change the provisions in your living trust while you are alive and mentally competent, but once you die, your living trust usually reverts to an irrevocable trust, meaning others cannot change the provisions of the trust. You may name yourself or someone else as the trustee, or manager, of your trust. Transferring all your assets into your trust can help your estate avoid the probate process after your death. Living trusts often contain pour-over wills, or wills that include provisions for any assets not placed into the trust.
While trusts work well for some individuals, others prefer basic wills to provide instructions regarding final wishes and inheritance provisions. Although trusts can be more expensive than wills to create, they provide a measure of privacy that wills do not. Wills must go through the probate process, making them part of the public record. However, for those not overly concerned with privacy, the AARP advises that wills are adequate for most people with modest estates.
When creating your trust or will, consider who you want to carry out your final wishes. The individual you name as the executor or administrator of your will, or the trustee of your trust, has the responsibility of carrying out your final wishes and instructions. Choose an individual who respects your wishes, has the time and capability to perform the responsibilities, and is willing to manage your estate in your absence. Include detailed instructions for the division of all your assets as well as your choice of guardian for your children and pets. Update your will or living trust to reflect changes in your circumstances that may affect the provisions in your estate planning documents.
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It isn’t easy knowing how the whole universe works. First off, no one believes me when I say that I do, and that can be very frustrating at times. I mean really, how would you feel if people didn’t believe you when you tell them what you do?
These days — because I know how the universe works — I tend to avoid most situations where the question comes up, like cocktail parties, etc.
It’s just not worth it anymore. A typical exchange would go something like this.
Other person: “So, what do you do?”
Me: “I show people how the universe works.”
At that point the other person either looks beyond me for a reason to excuse themselves from further conversation or laughs nervously and entertains my obvious madness for a short while with a superficial tongue-in-cheek verbal volley, never considering for even one moment that I might actually know how our perceivable universe works.
I mean, I can’t really blame them either. We were all raised, myself included, to never believe such heresy. Only God and chosen individuals like Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius, and Krishna, (to name the usual suspects), are allowed to claim such enlightenment.
We are told that understanding the breadth and nature of the universe that we live in is and always will be beyond the comprehension of the common man. Bullshit. People used to say that man would never fly, or travel to the moon and beyond, and you know what, those people were wrong! So are people that say we cannot understand the true nature of our reality, and how and why everything happens around us as it does.
I didn’t always know how the universe works. In fact, I had no idea how the universe worked when I was born. After all, I was just a little kid, and believed the things that adults told me about the world around me, just like everyone else. But then, as I grew up, I found that a lot of the things that adults had told me weren’t true, and that made the world a confusing and scary place.
What made it particularly difficult for me, and what I wasn’t aware of until much later in my adult life, was that I have always had an ability to see the “math” of any circumstance. That made the hypocrisy of the world around me completely visible at a very young age, and fostered a cynical response to authority, which ultimately caused me to have to think for myself to find truth in this world of illusion.
I can’t stand watching all the pain and confusion going on all around me and want to do something to help. I mean for Christ’s sake, I even invented a new kind of clock that actually shows people how time happens because the clocks we were brought up with are just subjective garbage that keeps us enslaved to the illusions of the world around us.
I have a letter from the Dalai Lama thanking me for the
“Earth Clock” that I sent him and sending me his blessings for the success of my work. I mean, what’s an enlightened individual to do these days in the face of the cacophony of crap that comes out of the ether and overstimulates the senses of the poor unenlightened masses?
People think I’m arrogant too because of statements like that one. But to understand what I mean, you have to first consider that you have been misled into believing that we cannot know the world around us. It’s just not true.
“Seek and ye shall find,” I was told in the shower one day when petitioning a higher power, asking to know the truth of things. It turns out that guidance was correct. I did, and I did, just as promised in the great books of religion, and I’m not a religious person as the word religious is interpreted in today’s “modern parlance,” to quote Jeff Bridges as “The Dude” Lebowski.
So I searched, and I found, and now I know, and ironically no one believes that I do, regardless of logic or demonstration.
No one believes that the wind spoke to me and revealed to me the hidden nature of the electromagnetic dynamic by which all things are powered to become as they must in this world.
Or that my mind, because of its nature, has been able to reconcile all of the religious and spiritual teachings of this world with the facts of quantum mechanics and theoretical physics to mathematically and scientifically show the proof and the why and how of the phrase “as ye sow, so shall ye reap,” and the nature of karma.
In an attempt to enlighten others to this incredible perspective of reality I made a video. Its introduction begins: “Morning. Dawn. A new day. But what if this day was different? What if this day, you understood the whole world around you? What if this day you could see beyond the surface of reality, to the essence of creation?”
I heard a viewer scoff, laughing and saying it was impossible. It’s not. I see the world as a Magic Eye stereogram insofar as everything to me is a metaphor for the circumstances and conditions that cause it to be what it is, and I can follow it “down the rabbit hole,” so to speak, to its origins.
It’s easy, because everything in this universe happens exactly the same way, and for exactly the same reason. There is at the bottom of it all a lowest common denominator — the singular universal law that causes everything to become as it does, and seeing it is the key to personal empowerment and creating a world of our wanting and choosing.
I even tried joining a writing group. That didn’t go well. No one could focus on my writing because they were too put off by the fact that I’m so convinced that I know how the universe works. They think I’m pretty weird and not the type of person (arrogant, self-important, but never right) that one would like to be known to associate with.
One participant in the group went to far as to spew loudly in my face that there was no way that I could know what I say I know. Mind you, neither he, nor most of the others I encounter ever bothered to try and understand what it is that I say I know about how the universe works, but rather just judge without investigation that I can’t possibly know it. I mean really, could you take that on a regular basis?
Why do I bother trying to explain it to others? Good question, but once you get it, you realize there’s nothing else really worthwhile doing while you’re here.
When you really get to the essence of it all, the world quite simply is what we choose it to be, and look at the state of things around us — complete confusion and chaos because of the sheer amount of misinformation that we receive and then base our decisions on.
How big is a second? Most people have no idea, but each human second of earth time (time isn’t real, neither is gravity, but both are just local manifestations from the same force of electromagnetism) is approximately 18.5 miles long, and every one of them is exactly the same size, and every second’s condition is an ongoing electromagnetic evolution of circumstances and conditions that can be mathematically demonstrated by applying the Fibonacci series of whole numbers to the dynamic of evolving seconds. It’s how the future gets created, and how we can logically backtrack to the beginning of anything, including our universe.
See what I mean? I’m like Rain Man with this stuff. I can clear a room in minutes without even trying. So if I run into you at a cocktail party, and you ask me the inevitable question, be careful. I mean well, but I just might tell you the truth.
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The recent recession has changed the make-up of the workforce. Since the recession, there has been a rise in temp jobs, freelancing jobs and adjunct professor jobs. If you are looking for a job, it’s a good idea to consider the realities of the new job market.
Employers Look for Less Expensive Workers
Employers are looking for ways to cut costs, and less expensive workers are in demand right now. As a result, there has been a recent increase in recession jobs: freelance jobs, temp jobs, and even adjunct faculty positions. Each type of job has its own benefits for employers, but probably the big one is this: Employers don’t have to provide benefits for freelancers, temporary workers and adjunct faculty. That represents a huge savings. Other savings, such as reductions in overhead costs such as office space, might also be realized.
For regular employees, this can be a problem. Jobs come with less security, and you might find yourself let go in favor of someone who can do your job — even remotely — at a lower cost to your employer. While not all jobs are in danger this way, some jobs could be. It might be time to review your skills, and figure out how you can be of value in the new economy.
How You Can Benefit from New Job Trends
With employers on the lookout for less expensive employees, this might be your chance to find a little work, or to develop a side hustle for a little extra income. One of the areas that is really exploding right now is freelance work online. Technology has made it possible for many people to work from home, and the rise of the Internet has created whole new career fields. As a freelancer, you can provide your services on a time schedule that works for you. In some cases, it is possible to take your freelancing side hustle full time.
If you have been laid off, and have had trouble finding a job, you might sign up for temp work. Temp agencies put you on the payroll, and, while you don’t usually get benefits, you will get regular pay. If you have a specific skill, or don’t mind doing certain types of work, you can find long-term temporary positions. My brother has had luck finding decent paying positions as a temp, including positions that last weeks — or even months. Companies still need workers to do jobs, and being willing temp means you can fill that need. Of course, the big downside is the loss of benefits, which can be devastating. Even if you are making a little bit more per hour, you might miss the fact that the benefits made things like health care a little more affordable.
One of the bummers, from a more personal standpoint, though, has been the trend toward more adjuncts. My husband is making it work for him, teaching classes as an adjunct at two different universities. The upside is that he might be able to turn one of the positions into a tenure-track position if the university decides that it has the budget for a “full time” professor next year. Plus, it’s good teaching experience for someone who didn’t have much previous experience.
In the end, opportunities are what you make of them. There are opportunities for work out there, but the changing demands of the job market may mean that you have to change your expectations.
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A story, not the story of the Depression years
Seabiscuit, written and directed by Gary Ross
7 August 2003
Seabiscuit, written and directed by Gary Ross, based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit was a race-horse who aroused great popular interest in the US in the late 1930s. Something of an underdog, undersized and with a poor previous track record, he electrified crowds with his speed and fighting spirit. The human beings around him—his owner Charles S. Howard, trainer Tom Smith and jockey Johnny ‘Red’ Pollard—were also unusual and colorful figures. Laura Hillenbrand wrote a best-selling account of the circumstances (Seabiscuit: An American Legend) and Gary Ross has now filmed a version.
Seabiscuit follows the traumas undergone by the three central figures and their subsequent resurrection. Howard (Jeff Bridges), a successful car dealership owner in San Francisco, loses a son in a heart-breaking accident and a wife to divorce. Horseman Smith (Chris Cooper) finds himself at loose ends after the Western frontier comes to an end and the age of the automobile dawns. As an adolescent, Pollard (Tobey Maguire) is cut off from his family in Canada and forced to make his way as a journeyman jockey and boxer.
Seabiscuit unites them and ultimately offers a means by which they overcome their past failures and realize their dreams. He becomes a national sensation in 1937, defeats the country’s most celebrated race-horse War Admiral in a head-to-head competition in November 1938 (without Pollard) and ultimately wins the most lucrative purse of the day in the Santa Anita Handicap in March 1940 (after enduring a career-threatening injury and with a seriously damaged Pollard on his back).
Any work of history, any illumination or distortion of the past serves purposes in the present.
Hillenbrand’s book makes pleasant enough reading, although it hardly creates a dent as serious cultural or social history. Her analysis of the Great Depression, the crucial historical background for her work, fits into six paragraphs. In that passage Hillenbrand argues that by February 1937 the Depression’s “sweeping devastation was giving rise to powerful new social forces.” The author names two—“a burgeoning industry of escapism” and “technological innovations,” radio in particular. She continues: “The modern age of celebrity was dawning. The new machine of fame stood waiting. All it needed was the subject himself. At that singular hour, Seabiscuit, the Cinderella horse, flew over the line in the Santa Anita Handicap.”
Hillenbrand is attuned to certain issues and writes adequately about them. Much of the social universe, however, escapes her attention. In another day, when memories were fresher and the social climate more favorable, an historian—even of thorough-bred racing—would probably have found it challenging to refer to “February 1937” and avoid mention of the high-point of the wave of sit-down strikes reached that month at General Motors in Flint, Michigan. Indeed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that volatile year some 400,000 American workers engaged in sit-down strikes—potentially a significant challenge to capitalist private property.
The absence of any reference to one of the most dramatic and explosive events of February 1937 is all the more startling when one considers that the life of one of Hillenbrand’s principal protagonists, Howard, was bound up with the automobile industry and specifically General Motors and, furthermore, that, as she writes, the “scattered lives” of her three leading characters had come “to an intersection” at a Detroit race-track in the summer of 1936.
There is no reason to believe that the omission was a conscious one. To many members of the educated or quasi-educated middle class in America at present the life-and-death social struggles of another era have little or no resonance. For Hillenbrand, who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome and remains more or less restricted to her home, the Seabiscuit story seems primarily to signify the principle of personal perseverance in the face of physical and other kinds of suffering.
Filmmaker Gary Ross (writer of Big and Dave, director of Pleasantville) adopts a somewhat more politically-conscious approach than Hillenbrand to the events, but given the nature of his outlook, the overall result is shallow and largely delusive. A former speech writer for Bill Clinton and delegate to a Democratic National Convention, Ross wants his film to inspire those in his audience bitter or demoralized by social hardship with this fable about steadfastness in the face of adversity.
In the film’s production notes, the director explains, “Red lost his family, Howard lost a son and Smith lost his way of life. How do you transcend that kind of pain, overcome the grief? What I discovered in the story was three characters all broken that could have quit. Instead they reached out to each other and formed a unique nuclear family.”
Beyond that, Ross means the story as a metaphor for a “broken” America in the 1930s and presumably at any time of economic and social difficulty. The filmmaker has included a narration by historian David McCullough that refers in glowing terms to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. About the “New Deal” McCullough intones, “It had a lot of names ... but it really meant one thing. For the first time in a long time, someone cared.” Clinton too, it must be remembered, felt one’s “pain.”
Ross’s uplifting message is repeated at regular intervals throughout the film. It makes its way into virtually every scene. One character or another is bound to recite, “Sometimes when the little guy doesn’t know he’s the little guy, he can do big things,” or “You don’t throw a whole life away just ‘cause it’s banged up a little” or “Sometimes all somebody needs is a second chance” and, finally, “We didn’t fix this horse. He fixed us—and we fixed each other.”
Verbal, visual and dramatic clichés are piled upon one another until the closing credits. From the first sequences no spectator will be in doubt as to the fate of the three men and their race-horse. Obstacles and setbacks are merely occasions for the film to redouble its commitment to the characters’ ultimate triumph. Each scene—rather, each camera angle, lighting arrangement, vocal mannerism, body gesture and note on the soundtrack is organized and directed toward that end. The film is being pulled along at every instant by the gravitational force of its inevitable heartwarming and cathartic conclusion.
Ross’s Seabiscuit has been described as “Capra-esque,” but, frankly, even Frank Capra’s films were never as simple-minded or linear as this. The relationship between filmmakers, audiences and social reality in the 1930s was different and would not have permitted it. Social polarization in America and a world of $100-million-or-more films have helped create a genuinely unhealthy situation.
The tale is intended as a populist celebration of the “little guy,” the “underdog” who overcomes enormous odds. The production notes breathlessly depict the race between War Admiral and Seabiscuit as “a contest between two worlds: the East Coast establishment of bankers and their beautiful horses versus a nation of downtrodden but spirited have-nots who championed a ragtag team of three displaced men and their unlikely challenger.” (A Washington Post critic correctly remarks about Ross’s thoroughbred, “He’s a salvation machine ... a kind of surrogate for FDR.” Absurdly, the faces of desperate men and women cheering the Seabiscuit team seem intended to bring to mind Walker Evans photographs.)
In stuffing the story of Seabiscuit into this framework, however, Ross has inevitably sacrificed a portion of the truth. Hillenbrand’s work is limited, but it presents facts that contradict the film’s oversimplified and mythologized version of events.
Only in a country where right-wing billionaire Ross Perot was able to posture as the defender of the “little man” could Charles Howard be described as a “displaced” man who represented “a nation of spirited have-nots.” Following an agreement with General Motors chief Will Durant in 1909, Howard, Hillenbrand notes, “was soon the world’s largest distributor in the fastest-growing industry in history.” A millionaire many times over, Howard purchased in the 1920s a 17,000-acre ranch in California’s redwood country north of San Francisco. (Ross’s screenplay also clearly implies that Howard lost his only son to the fatal accident, when, in fact, the auto magnate had several children.)
Trainer Tom Smith had certainly suffered financial and psychological difficulties in the Depression, along with countless others, but the film’s implication that he somehow drifted directly from lassoing mustangs on the open plain to directing Seabiscuit’s rise to racing success is misleading. Smith had been working with racehorses for more than a decade, including a stint for “the winningest trainer in the nation.” He had operated in relative obscurity, but when banker George Giannini introduced Smith to Charles Howard, he told the latter, “Now you can have the best trainer in the country.”
Pollard had known more than his share of ups and downs, including genuinely painful experiences as a teenager attempting to survive in the harsh world of bargain basement horse-racing, but he was hardly an unknown quantity in 1936 as Seabiscuit suggests. Hillenbrand explains that in 1928 Pollard along with his friend George Woolf had taken “the racing world by storm. ... Pollard earned assignments on nearly three hundred mounts and guided them to more than $20,000 in total purse earnings. His fifty-three winners placed him in a tie for twentieth in winning percentage among fully employed riders in North America.”
And Seabiscuit himself, although small in stature and having had his talents go unrecognized and skills misused, hardly came from nowhere. He was a descendant of Man o’War, perhaps the most celebrated racehorse of all time, through his sire, “the brilliantly fast, exceptionally handsome Hard Tack.” (War Admiral was the son of Man o’ War.)
That Ross was obliged to “change details and ... fictionalize parts”—to use his phrase—in this significant manner is not accidental. Treated objectively and soberly the story of Seabiscuit, a fascinating enough account of one courageous animal and a team of remarkable racing professionals, simply could not have been made to conform to the director’s schema.
There is a relationship between the depth of a drama, on the one hand, and social-historical truth, on the other. In his imagination—and his scenario—Ross can manhandle the conflict between Howard’s entourage and the group around War Admiral into representing any process he likes. On screen it can be made to stand for the struggles of the “underdogs” during the Depression and their eventual “salvation” under Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, there are artistic consequences. If an artist does not penetrate (directly or indirectly) to the fundamental social-historical conflicts of a given period, if, for example, he falsely elevates an entertaining but somewhat accidental episode into the story or one of the stories of its time, he will be forced to resort to trickery and juggling with the facts and, consequently, the work will seem unreal and overblown. It can never have a profound impact.
After all, contrary to the claims or beliefs of many today, drama springs from life. It is not arbitrarily or merely subjectively derived. The emotional and moral impact of a story is related in part to the truth of its reflection of life. To make Seabiscuit into a parable about a nation’s recovery and survival in hard times only deceives people about American society and history. In the end, such an effort is meant, rather flimsily, to “keep hope alive,” at a time when serious doubts about the viability of the present set-up are forming in many minds. | <urn:uuid:1c8dafaa-a475-4183-9389-c62af130ba3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/08/seab-a07.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966221 | 2,652 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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on 2001-03-28 20:40:57
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QUESTION: Well, Secretary Clinton, thank you very much for making time for us. We really appreciate that. The headline that you created in one New Zealand newspaper was “Clinton Crushes 25 Years of Ice.”
SECRETARY CLINTON: (Laughter.)
QUESTION: Do you feel that that is what happened yesterday?
SECRETARY CLINTON: I think we’ve always had a very close relationship on so many issues, and it was important for me to demonstrate that very vividly. We work together on everything from climate change and renewable energy to nonproliferation – our soldiers are working together in Afghanistan – and just on so many fronts.
But I do think there was the perhaps lingering impression that for whatever reason, the last 25 years had served as an obstacle to our close partnership, and I’m glad that the ice is crushed or melted or whatever the metaphor might be.
QUESTION: And as you say, metaphor and a lot of symbolism in the news today, but what about the practical impact of this close relationship? You said in Hawaii on the 28th of October, and I’ll quote you, that the United States had created new parameters for military cooperation with New Zealand. What are those new parameters?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, those, of course, will be defined and developed by our defense experts. But New Zealand has just published its own defense white paper, which is very far-ranging in their understanding of the threats that we all face. I have talked with the defense secretary and others in your military establishment, and they’ll be working closely with our counterparts in the United States to put some meat on the bones.
QUESTION: So do you expect there to be more training, I guess, if I can put it --
SECRETARY CLINTON: Yes, I think more training, more sharing of lessons learned. We’re very admiring of New Zealand’s military presence and the peacekeeping work that you do, for example, in the Solomon Islands. That is certainly an impression that is very highly held with respect to the work that you’re doing in the PRT and your special forces in Afghanistan. Earlier today, I went to the War Memorial in Wellington and I met veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, people serving today. And a lot of the World War II veterans were telling me that they had flown with American squadrons, they had trained with American service members.
So I think that there is a closeness, but we need to update it. We need to make sure that we’re looking toward the future, not the past.
QUESTION: And given that closeness, why not simply lift the presidential directive and resume business as usual in terms of military training?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, we’re moving in a very positive direction, but I know there are sensitivities that exist in your country and mine. And we want to be sure we’re on very firm ground so that the steps we take are both warranted and well regarded.
QUESTION: Before I leave that subject of the sensitive ground, the nuclear issue, as far as I understand it, U.S. Navy warships don’t carry nuclear weapons. It’s the nuclear power that prevents them from coming into New Zealand waters. Now, given the widespread use of nuclear energy – in fact, even as a clean energy in this age of climate change, do you find it a little bit amusing that New Zealand refuses to have entry from U.S. warships which have nuclear power?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, that’s, of course, a decision for New Zealand to make. But our ships that are nuclear-powered have proven over time to be very reliable, very safe, and we’re proud of their record. But again, we’re taking this on an ongoing evaluative basis, so let’s look toward the future.
QUESTION: Does that mean you would like to see the return of a U.S. Navy ship?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, that’s something that is really up to the Government and people of New Zealand.
QUESTION: Let’s look at an area where we do have more cooperation, I guess, and that is Afghanistan. New Zealand’s special forces troops are in Kabul and due to pull out in March of next year. Would you like them to stay longer?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, of course, we would like them, if that’s possible. But again, that’s a decision for New Zealand because they are very highly regarded. They work extremely professionally, along with our troops and other NATO-ISAF members.
We’re making progress on the ground. I think that the operational integration of the buildup in troops that the United States has made along with some of our other partners has demonstrated a capacity to really change the situation there. So we have a high regard for New Zealand and the troops that you deploy there. And of course, we would like them to stay as long as you have them stay.
QUESTION: Was there any discussion with that – with our prime minister during your visit? Did you put the case to the prime minister that perhaps they could stay longer?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, again, it’s a decision of the Government and people of New Zealand, but I certainly praised their performance and expressed to the prime minister how grateful both our military and civilian officials are at the work that is being done by the troops from New Zealand.
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SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, first of all, we have such a vigorous trade relationship. I don't know the exact figures, but a significant percentage of all of New Zealand’s exports go to the United States. In return, we have many of our companies – excuse me – operating here in New Zealand employing the citizens of this country. And we’re working together on what we think is a very exciting development, the Trans Pacific Partnership, which will be a multi-country trade agreement.
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QUESTION: Just finally, if I can turn briefly to domestic politics, it seems almost incomprehensible at this great distance that the euphoria which accompanied President Obama’s victory in 2008 has seemingly evaporated in the midterm elections. Why has that happened?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, of course, we have a historical pattern of this happening, that the party of the President loses seats in the first midterm election. So in that respect, this is not at all out of the ordinary. I remember very well it happened to my husband back in 1994. That doesn’t make it any easier and it’s deeply saddening to see good people lose their congressional seats.
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QUESTION: A final question: You’re in a country which has had two female prime ministers. You’re heading to a country --
SECRETARY CLINTON: (Laughter.)
QUESTION: -- that has a female prime minister. Is your country ready for a female president?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I hope so. It should be and --
QUESTION: Could that be you?
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West Yorkshire, England
By Chris Helgren
I met Alice at a rescue center in West Yorkshire. She was skin and bones, flea-ridden, and half the weight of the dog she should have been. Alice was a greyhound bred for racing, who was picked up wandering the busy Doncaster Road, the victim of an uncaring owner who had dumped her rather than continue feeding her. She was brought to Tia Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue center, a sanctuary sited on the edge of a moor near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Tia was borne of the need to house dogs which were either abandoned or whose owners or trainers could not find space at regular welfare kennels. The Retired Greyhound Trust is doing an admirable job in housing and arranging for homes for about 4,000 dogs per year through their 72 branches, but their space is limited to about 800 kennels. Also, kennels charge up to 300 pounds for a new dog to be admitted. What happens in the cases seen by Rothery in Yorkshire is that if a greyhound owner cannot place their dog in one of these kennels, the pressure is on to move it out of their care in other ways, such as by advertising via websites Gumtree or Preloved. These new onward owners are not vetted, and there is no return policy if it doesn’t work out.
Debra Rothery, who runs the Tia center, said that at any given time they house 80 dogs which would “otherwise be dead”. The animals coming into her care are from a region surrounding the center, where there are six regulated and non-regulated racetracks. She said that about 50% of her greyhounds were abandoned, the remainder brought in by owners and trainers. Rothery said that the operating costs of Tia, which run at £1000 per day, are met by donations.
I’m not a dog person, I’ve always had cats, so my motives behind pursuing this story were not sentimental. I merely sensed a story of injustice, one of the classic themes for reportage. When I saw the state of dogs that had been freshly retrieved from the streets of Yorkshire, and heard what had happened to some of them, to me it was an obvious story. Former working dogs that should be enjoying their retirement are being cast aside or killed because elements of the declining racing industry turn a blind eye to the problem. The Greyhound Board of Great Britain does not believe the dogs registered with them are being set loose on the streets in large numbers, and have a set of standards that they maintain are vigorously enforced by their welfare officers who report breaches to prosecuting authorities. The GBGB say that the greyhound is now the most protected of all canine breeds after the introduction of the 2010 Racing Greyhounds Regulations. However, despite the tough talk, Tia’s kennels continue to fill with unwanted animals.
The project started originally from a simple exercise in environmental portraits at Wimbledon Stadium for my MA course in photojournalism and documentary photography at London College of Communication. When I lived in London in the 1990s, I visited the now-derelict Walthamstow racetrack on several occasions. A friend of mine introduced me to the place, a grand palace of the sport, and I felt an affinity with the atmosphere. Later, I brought friends of mine to experience racing nights there and witnessed what appeared to be real Londoners enjoying themselves. Central London seemed to me at the time to be filled with transients, both foreigners like myself and office staff who had migrated from the rest of the United Kingdom. Real Londoners seemed to have kept themselves segregated and went off to live their lives apart from us. But here at the track in east London, this was where to find them, their stock was undiluted. | <urn:uuid:cff54f22-7fa8-4ecc-b2f5-e4552eb58015> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/tag/animals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980687 | 797 | 1.671875 | 2 |
By Sean Pendergast
By Sean Pendergast
By Jeff Balke
By Richard Connelly
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By Casey Michel
By Craig Hlavaty
By Jeff Balke
Time and time again, when the call from the jail came, she hopped in the family station wagon and bailed her daughter out of jail.
But Maria (she asked that her last name not be used) tired of her child's misdemeanor frays -- truancy, shoplifting, public intoxication and other minor offenses.
When a collect phone call from jail arrived a few years ago, Maria accepted it, but she'd had enough of her child's indiscretions. She left her daughter in jail and only talked via telephone with her.
The daughter got out of jail after about a week, but the full cost of that incarceration didn't become clear until later. When Maria, a mother of limited means who lives only a few miles from the jail, got her phone company bill, there were $85 in collect calls -- local collect calls -- from the jail.
Another family had suddenly discovered that the price of an arrest in Harris County is more than attorney bills, bail amounts, court fees, fines or even freedom. Right there with the others guaranteed to get a piece of the action is none other than Ma Bell. Nearly $10 million annually is jingling in from those Harris County Jail calls.
For most Texans who use a Southwestern Bell pay telephone, the cost is 35 cents, chump change. But there is another set of customers whose friends, relatives and lawyers pay a lot more for the opportunity to practice free speech over the phone lines. Local collect calls received from prisoners in city and county jails across the state cost a whopping $3 per local call to those who accept the charges.
Bell says it does not discriminate. Any local collect call from a pay phone in the company's vast calling area costs $3 for the person who accepts it. But few folk on the outside are short of the 35 cents in change that it takes to make a local call.
For those wondering why prisoners don't just drop in a quarter and a dime, they can't. All money, even change, is confiscated from inmates when they are booked into jail. And in the Harris County Jail, at least, there are only pay phones in the cellblocks.
So the most captive audience in Texas is handing Southwestern Bell big bucks. How big? Spokeswoman Amber White says nobody is likely to find out, because the total figure is, uh, an unlisted number as far as Ma Bell's concerned.
Texas Public Utilities Commission spokesman Terry Hadley says he believes Bell does not have to publicly disclose the amount because it is not even required to be revealed to the commission.
Governmental jurisdictions throughout the telephone company's system are also profiting from crime, or at least from those accused of it. Spokeswoman White says the company negotiates its contracts on an individual basis with cities and counties. "Revenue is shared with the facility. The percentage varies with the contract."
In the case of Harris County, White is slightly off base. The revenue is not shared exclusively with the Harris County Jail. It goes into the county's fund for general operations.
Harris County gets 48 percent of the revenue from the calls. It reports that Bell kicked back almost $4 million to county coffers for the '97-'98 fiscal year and almost $5 million for '98-'99. That puts total combined revenues received by both the phone company and the county at nearly $10 million yearly.
In today's highly competitive telecommunications market, where some long-distance calls are going for as little as a nickel a minute, $3 is stout by any measure. Many of the calls from prisoners last only long enough to inform whoever accepts the call that the other person is in jail and wants to be bonded out.
According to the state's utility commission, the company can charge as much as it likes for these calls because there is no regulation regarding pay phone collect rates, from jails or anywhere else.
"There is no ceiling," the PUC's Hadley says.
But there usually is a ceiling on the amount of money the families of many inmates can afford to pay when they talk to their incarcerated loved ones. Inmate advocate Ray Hill says some inmates' families reach that ceiling all too quickly.
"I've seen instances where a family's bill normally is $21 per month," Hill says. "Then somebody in the family goes to jail, and before they know it, the bill jumps to $300 for the month because of the collect calls from jail. They can't pay the bill, and they lose the phone altogether."
Hill says Bell is disproportionately preying on the poor, because most people in jail, and their families, are needy. "They are price-gouging the poorest families in the state for money which those families could be using to buy bread and milk."
He calls the contract relationship between counties, cities and Southwestern Bell "corrupt."
Hill, however, estimates that only about half of the inmates have anyone to call at all. "They either have no family, or their behavior has been such that nobody wants to take a call from them."
The utility commission has received few, if any, complaints against Bell regarding the charges made on collect calls from jail.
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Bouldering differs from other forms of rock climbing in a variety of ways, such as its heightened social element. When top roping, for example, climbers are more isolated, relying on a partner below to maintain rope tension. But because bouldering is done on lower courses that don't require a rope or harness, climbers are free to scale walls at will, often resulting in people sharing walls and striking up conversations in between surmounting terrain such as verticals, slabs, and roof climbs—overhangs that put climbers' bodies parallel to the floor.
That's how The Circuit Bouldering Gym got started. Some bouldering enthusiasts crossed paths at a local gym and found they all wanted to expand Portland's bouldering options. Today, they welcome guests to surmount courses—including a hanging boulder—ranging from 8- to 17-feet high and surrounded by crash-pad flooring. Boasting one of the largest bouldering-only gyms in the world, they also designed many of their simulated climbing stations as top-out boulders, letting guests experience what it's like to stand atop a boulder in the Rockies or on the moon. Additionally, they instruct guests with programs such as 90-minute intro courses, four-week movement clinics, and programs tailored for kids. Between climbs, a lounge area lets visitors relax and swap tales of defying gravity's relentless bullying.
To further build the bouldering community, the gym's team organizes annual events that include the Pump-a-Thon, a fundraiser for the Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome Educational Foundation, and the Portland Boulder Rally. | <urn:uuid:74c2625c-03c3-4a79-baee-df395a2037ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.groupon.com/local/tigard-or/gym-exercise-weightloss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953083 | 331 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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In forming the new Comprehensive Plan initiating committee, the Mayor studiously avoided recruiting members of the Sustainability Visioning Task Force who challenged the narrow approach foisted upon that effort by staff.
The concerns raised by those committee members (Sustainability Task Force: The Whole or The Sum of the Parts? ) are unlikely to be addressed by the currently constituted group.
Without those dissenting voices, the Comprehensive Plan Initiating Committee will most likely craft a process that is targeted towards a particular outcome rather than one that will illuminate and resolve the discrepancies and omissions in our current Comprehensive Plan discovered by that task force.
Those gaps have led to development outcomes which our community has found troubling.
December, 2008 the Neighborhoods for Responsible Growth held a forum on development density which highlighted some of the issues which have to be addressed in the new plan to meet the future needs of this community. It’s a long forum but worth reviewing to get a sense of the rising tide of negative community reaction to the current “rah rah growth at any cost” approach which has failed to yield the advertised results.
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Sir.—The clinical spectrum of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in children has continued to expand. Reported abnormalities include failure to thrive, chronic interstitial pneumonitis, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse adenopathy, protracted diarrhea, recurrent otitis media, eczematoid rashes, and thrombocytopenia.1 Low platelet count has been shown to be due to increased destruction, although the pathogenesis remains unclear.2,3 We report a case of thrombocytopenia secondary to selective bone marrow failure in a child with AIDS.
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|Developed from||XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1|
|First Seen||0133 U.C.|
|Last Seen||0136 U.C.|
|Manufacturer||Strategic Naval Research Institute|
|Operator||Strategic Naval Research Institute|
|Known Pilots||Umon Samon|
|Power-plant||Minvosky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor|
|Pilot Accommodations||Pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso with Core Block System using Core Fighter|
|Armor||Gundarium Alloy/Ceramic Composite|
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The XM-10 Flint is a mass-production version of the Crossbone Gundam series. It retained the long X-shaped thruster assembly that was part of a plug in Core Fighter. With the addition to the AMBAC by the additional limbs, the main thrusters, composed of four thrusters can be pointed at any direction, or combined into one huge rocket column for increased speed, allowing high mobility around Jupiter's orbit without increasing the size and mass of the mobile suit.
Another feature utilized by the Flint is the Anti-Beam Coating cloak, which can be stored in the back and unfolded when needed. When unfolded, it covered the entire body, and dispersed energy over the cloak. Armaments included a pair of beam sabers, a pair of beam shields, the head Vulcan, mega machine gun, and a beam rifle. One notable feature was its eye patch that was in fact a high powered sensor scope to increase targeting accuracy.
- Vulcan gun
- The Flint is equipped with a pair of head mounted Vulcan guns. The purpose of the Vulcan guns is to serve as a mid-close range defensive weapon. While it can normally do little damage against the armor of a mobile suit it serves as a much more efficient and cost-effective as a means to shoot down incoming missiles, as opposed to using the beam rifle, the power of which would be over kill and far more limited in ammunition. At close range the Vulcan guns can do some damage to an enemy mobile suit, especially to unarmored areas such as the sensors in the head. When faced with Vulcan fire enemies seem to instinctively try to dodge or at least attempt to protect vital area of the mobile suit, actions the pilot of the Flint can take advantage of.
- Mega machine gun
- The scaled-down version of X1 Crossbone Gundam's Mega Machine Cannon, mounts on the chest of Flint. In the age of miniaturized mobile suits, the emphasis for mobile suit designs is speed, thus armor is sacrificed to reduce mass and weight. This leaves many mobile suits vulnerable to physical round weapons, such as machine guns, that had been discarded for mobile suit combat because of a lack of effectiveness after the One Year War.
- Beam saber
- The beam saber is the standard close-combat melee weapon of mobile suits descended from the RX-78-2 Gundam, and many other machines developed in the years after the One Year War. Beam sabers are powerful weapons that emit a blade of plasma contained by an I-field that can cut through any physical armor. The only way to fully defend against a beam saber is to block it with another beam saber or a beam shield. Because of the I-field a beam saber can be used to block an attack from a beam rifle, but this is a technique that requires considerable skill, and can only block an attack of so much power. The Flint is equipped with two beam sabers stored in shoulder racks when not in use. They also serve as the beam guns the beam guns for the corefighter.
- Heat dagger
- The Flint are equipped with four heat dagger weapons for close combat. As their name implies the heat daggers rely on the technology, first developed by the Principality of Zeon, of using thermal energy to heat up a metal blade to super-high temperatures. The high heat allows the blade to begin melting the enemies armor on contact, which when combined with the force applied to the attack, can inflict significant damage. The four heat daggers of the Flint are mounted in the legs, two stored on the back of the calves that are hand-operated when in use, and one stored and in each foot that slides out but is permanently mounted in the foot and used in kicking attacks. Because the heat daggers do not have the range or the power of the beam saber the pilot is required to be more precise in their use, relying more on skill than technology.
- Beam shield/brand marker
- A new protective device used by the mobile suits of the U.C. 0120 era. Thanks to their increased generator output, the scaled-down mobile suits of this era are able to use beam technology for defensive purposes. Unlike an I-field generator, which is effective only against beam attacks, the beam shield blocks both beam and projectile weapons. The beam shield generates a plane of energy similar to the blade of a beam saber. This plane is divided into multiple sections, which can be turned on or off as needed to conserve energy. Individual sections are also automatically deactivated whenever they're in danger of coming into contact with the mobile suit itself. Beam shield generators can be built into the arm of the mobile suit or they can be optional equipment, a unit that mounts on the mobile suit's arm and draws power directly from the fusion reactor. The beam shield generators of the Flint can further take advantage of beam energy malleability, forming four short beam blades at the corners of the beam shield generator that meet at the center, which gives the brand marker as a whole a pyramidal shape. The brand marker slides over the fist of the mobile suit and is used as a punching weapon. When used, the the brand marker leaves an X-shaped hole, if the target area isn't completely destroyed.
- Beam rifle
- The standard ranged armament of the many mobile suits is the beam rifle. The particle beam fired from a beam rifle can penetrate almost any armor that has not been treated with specific counter-measures. Like most beam weapons of the period, the Flint's Beam Rifle is powered by a replaceable energy cap. If the beam rifle runs out of energy, the current energy cap can be removed and replaced by a new one, which is stored on the unit's shield.
- Beam zanber
- The beam zanber is a high power beam saber and is the primary weapon of the Flint. The hilt of the beam zanber is modeled after that of a traditional pirate cutlass, as does the beam blade when it is formed, and is stored on the left hip when not in use. The power of the beam zanber is significantly higher than that of ordinary beam sabers, such that it is easy for the Flint to overpower an enemy in melee combat or even "cut" through the beam of an ordinary beam saber. Behind the guard of the beam zanber is a gun handle that is used in the zanbuster configuration.
- Anti-beam Coating Cloak
- As with other Crossbone Vanguard mobile suits used in the year UC 0133, the Flint could be equipped with a cloth cloak that had been treated with an anti-beam coating. Functioning similar to the old physical shields that had received the same treatment, the cloak was used to protect the mobile suit from beam shots. With its size it could completely cover the mobile suit, with the exception of the head, providing full body protection. However, despite its advantages, one of which is conserving power, the cloak has two disadvantages. First, unlike a beam shield the cloak can only handle about 5 shots before the coating wears off, rendering the cloak to simple cloth. The second disadvantage is that the cloak offers no protection from physical weapons.
- Unlike normal Mobile Suits, the Flint is equipped with long variable X-shaped thrusters, composed of four thrusters can be pointed at any direction: with the addition of AMBAC, the main thrusters allow high mobility around Jupiter's orbit, while combined into one huge rocket column they largely increased the unit's top speed, without increasing the size and mass of the mobile suit.
- Special Weapons Targeting System
- In order to increase the accuracy of the Flint, a Targeting System was equipped on this Mobile Suit. It's a high resolution camera, which takes the look of a pirate's eyepatch. This device was more than enough to raise the efficiency of the pilot.
- Blackrow Shipping worker mobile suit disguise
- The Crossbone Vanguard created this device to hide the Flints. When they are inactive, the Flint was disguise as Working Mobile Suit of the Blackrow Shipping Company (A front company of the Pirates).
During the first Jupiter conflict Crossbone Vanguard pilots Umon Samon, Yona, and Jared were each given a Flint unit, which they used in the final battle against Jupiter Empire president Crux Dogatie who piloted eight EMA-10 Divinidad with the help of an organic control system. After the Jupiter Empire conflict ended, the three Crossbone pilots would use their Flints as combat and work mobile suits under the new Crossbone Vanguard lead by Tobia Arronax. The Flint will also see action in the second Jupiter conflict, only to be defeated by Jupiter Empire's Amakusa. | <urn:uuid:99d95e07-a9b4-4a1d-9888-7aaf9fc5bbe5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/XM-10_Flint | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937084 | 1,935 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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How we think about technology is directly related to how we talk and write about it. As long as we are limiting the discussion to technical specifications, we reduce accessibility, limit usability, and ultimately fail to realize the benefits of these tools for many individuals. And, as businesses, that means we lose potential customers and revenue.
Tech companies have earned a reputation for not caring about how bewildering their products are to the average person. But they should care. For in the increasingly competitive marketplace in which we find ourselves—a marketplace that adds more and more non-technical users every day—a company that makes a product that is easier to use and understand will have a distinct competitive advantage over those that neglect their audience’s needs.
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Creativity and Inspiration, Pep Talks, Photographically Speaking, Rants and Sermons, Thoughts & Theory, Vision Is Better
I rediscovered this sequence of photographs while putting together Photographically Speaking. In the book I discuss one of these images and explore the elements and decisions that make the photograph what it is. But looking at the 3 together I think there’s a lesson along the lines of the stuff I’ve been talking about lately, specifically the idea of inspiration coming from work, and my more recent post, Do The Work.
It’s easy to see something, to photograph it, and to move on. But you can photograph even the most amazing scene – the one where you’re sure you “got the shot” from an almost limitless number of angles. Add that to a variety of focal lengths, and you’ve got your work cut out for you. This is the photographer’s equivalent of the writer sitting down at her laptop to write the next chapter. This is the process of experimentation, muttering to yourself, then trying something else. It’s creating 100 sketch images to get to the next one. It’s why we need to understand the elements of the visual language; so we recognize them when we see them and put them to good use. Because, frankly, there is no “got the shot.” There are thousands of potential photographs in these scenes, not one, and how long you’re willing to explore, how receptive you are to what is in front of you, determines how many of them you create. I thought I had the shot when I took the top photograph. I was giddy. I nearly ran off to show someone how amazing I was. My (misguided) ego nearly ruined this series. Sure, you could stop at one. But sometimes the good gets in the way of the great, and I think this series together is more powerful than the first photograph alone, but even on their own, these three – and making them – brought me more joy than I’d have had to simply stop at one and call it a day.
The writer doesn’t stop and pat herself on the back when she’s written a really great sentence. She keeps writing. She does the work. Because she knows there’s a better sentence around the corner, and they’ll fit together brilliantly and the combination of the two will be even better than both alone and no amount of patting herself on the back will create that next line. Just work. The work. YOUR work. Being open, receptive, and observant, comes with practice, not as a stroke of luck. Keep at it. I shot this, still struggling (I know, my angst is exhausting) to get comfortable with my craft, after 20 years as a photographer. I’m getting there. So are you.
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I sometimes notice leadership lessons hiding in odd places. They are around if you look for them. You can find leadership lessons from such unexpected places as Superman II, Pulp Fiction, and other odd sources. Here's another:
Are you familiar with the leadership lessons of Shan Yu? No, not that Shan Yu from Sci Fi's Firefly. I mean Shan Yu from Disney's Mulan.
Sure, Shan Yu may be the bad guy in that movie, but who says that movie villains can't also be good leaders? And it turns out that Shan Yu is pretty good at developing his team through coaching.
There's a key scene in the movie where Shan Yu decides to return a doll to a little girl in a nearby village. Shan Yu is present as a leader, and takes advantage of a coaching opportunity:
(Shan Yu scans the landscape from the top of a tall tree. His hawk flies overhead and drops a small doll. Shan Yu investigates the doll, jumps down from the tree, and throws the doll to his Hun leaders.)
Shan Yu: What do you see?
Hun #1: Black pine ... from the high mountains!
Hun #2: White horse hair ... Imperial stallions.
Hun #3: Sulphur ... from cannons.
Shan Yu: This doll came from a village in the Tung Show Pass, where the Imperial Army is waiting.
Hun Archer: We can avoid them easily.
Shan Yu: No. The quickest way to the emperor is through that pass. Besides, the little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her.
Note how Shan Yu uses this opportune moment to coach his staff. Before offering his own opinion, he asks his team leads for what they can learn by examining the doll. In turn, they each respond with an answer that offers new insight: the doll comes from a village high in the mountains, and the Imperial cannon brigade is there too.
The "coaching button" is something that sticks with your listener. Like the button on a shirt or coat, a "coaching button" doesn't do the whole job, but over time as you use more "coaching buttons" the whole picture comes together. They key is to make those "buttons" easily understood and memorable, able to stand on their own, but part of a larger story.
Shan Yu's comments are brief, memorable, but not overpowering. He is able to offer his own opinion (and decision to return the doll) without discounting the team leads. From what we see in the movie, it seems that Shan Yu has taken advantage of other coaching moments to help his future leaders develop.
"Coaching buttons" are wonderful conversational gifts. Take any available opportunity to do brief coaching conversation with your team. For example, you might find yourself early for a meeting, only one staff member is there, giving a short time for a "coaching button". Never waste an opportunity for coaching, however brief. The "coaching button" might only cover one question without an opportunity for follow-up questions to delve deeper - but if you can find frequent opportunities for several "buttons", I find it can be helpful.
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Emergency Medial Service workers responded to 2,110 calls in 2010. While firefighters responded to 276 emergency fire situations and assisted EMS a total 1,746 times. Fire fighters were cancelled in route 88 times last year.
Fire calls for the year included: 46 false alarms, 33 natural vegetation fires, 32 structure fires, 24 vehicle fires, 16 leaks or spills, 14 chemical releases or toxic releases, 14 electrical wiring or equipment problems, 10 public service assistance and 10 smoke or odor problems. Firefighters conducted 9 extrications, 8 other fires, 8 system or detector malfunctions, 8 unintentional system/detector operations, 6 good intent calls, 5 outside rubbish fires, 5 severe weather calls, and 5 special outside fires. Other responses by the fire department were 4 hazardous conditions, 4 other service calls, 3 fires in mobile homes, 2 calls each for excessive heat, person in distress, and steam. The Plymouth Fire Department responded to 1 crop fire, 1 hazmat investigation, 1 special type incident, 1 vicinity alarm, 1 water problem and 1 wrong location.
When looking at the various incidents by district calls were divided with 1,408 in Plymouth290 in West Township, 270 in Center Township, 23 Culver Paramedic assists, 22 Lakeville/LaPaz Paramedic assists, 19 Walkerton Paramedic assists, 17 in Polk Township, 16 paramedic assists to Argos, 16 in LaPaz, 14 Argos, 6 Starke County Paramedic Assists, 5 calls to Culver, 2 other paramedic assists, 2 other locations, and 1 Bremen.
Key to the department was the overlapping of incidents. In 2009 there were 223 times and last year 206. The percentage of overlapping incidents is 10% for last year.
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As companies prepare for 2012 and CIOs think of ways to use technology and avoid e-discovery issues and problems, following the mantra “mind your P’s and Q’s”—proactive, preservation, process, proportionality and questions— can yield significant benefits.
Proactive. Companies are struggling to manage the increasing demands of preservation for three reasons: volume, costs and risk of sanctions. By all accounts, traditional reactive approaches to e-discovery are not working. For many companies and lawyers, it is the lack of understanding of the rules, data and technology that leads to an inability to meaningfully discuss proportionality in the area of preservation. For example, cloud computing has become very popular, but that doesn’t mean that your company should jump to the cloud just because a competitor did. Be proactive but also be careful. It might just turn out that the risk/benefit analysis for your company’s data does not warrant the jump.
Preservation. One of the most important ways to reduce risks and costs associated with e-discovery is to establish a defensible preservation protocol. Many e-discovery problems can be fixed if the data has been properly preserved in a timely fashion. Companies can further reduce the risks and costs by insisting on meeting and conferring with the other side as soon as possible after the lawsuit is filed, to negotiate an agreed-upon scope of preservation and production. That will significantly reduce the costs associated with end-of-discovery spoliation fights.
Proportionality. Another key weapon in the arsenal for dealing reasonably with discovery is the concept of proportionality. However, companies need to be proactive in their search for proportionality in preservation and production. Just using the terms will not be enough. Reasonableness and proportionality are principles that are already contained in the federal rules, so it is going to take more concentrated effort.
Process. Reasonable and proportional preservation starts with a records management process. There needs to be an effective and efficient records management process in place that can quickly transition to a preservation process when the duty to preserve is triggered. This fundamental idea cannot be emphasized enough. A defensible process could all but eliminate the probability of any significant discovery sanctions.
Questions. Knowing the right questions to ask can be half the battle in many instances. Education, like technology, in the area of e-discovery is ever-evolving. What we really need is effective education with incentives for all constituents to engage in meaningful and informed discussions. It is only when both sides are educated in the law and informed as to the nuances of the data and technology that they are dealing with in their particular case, will there be any hope for real and meaningful progress.
Predictions for 2012. Cloud computing, social media and data privacy and security will continue to dominate the discussion. The new P’s on the horizon— predictive coding and project management—will be hot topics for reducing costs and minimizing risk in 2012 and beyond. | <urn:uuid:843c0235-3ce5-4959-8656-ded6836c30a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insidecounsel.com/2012/01/03/e-discovery-mind-your-ps-and-qs?t=e-discovery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955664 | 611 | 1.609375 | 2 |
I'm so glad to see all the new members who are joining us for Forget the Joneses this year!! For the first year ever, we will be ENDING with a spending freeze instead of starting with it. HOWEVER, if you are deeply in debt you may want to consider starting your spending freeze early and continuing on through the duration of the program. This year, we're going six weeks and giving assignments Monday-Friday. There will be 30 assignments in all.
I'm going to try and keep things simple by giving assignments that can be completed in 15 minutes or less. There may be a few that last longer, but the main thing will be to make them easy to carry out.
Did You Get Your "Homework" Done?
If you haven't yet done your "homework," here are some questions to answer. Your answers will come into play in future assignments. Click on each link and respond there. If you want, include your worksheets in your Forget the Joneses Binder.
- Think of the last few times you were really joyful
- If I had an extra hour in my day, I would....
- What are the three things that keep you up at might most often, or are the most troubling to you?
- What are some ways you've invested in yourself?
- My Household Would Be Happier If...
- Which activities cause you to lose all track of time?
Forget the Joneses Day One Assignment: Create a Bucket List
Take fifteen minutes of uninterrupted time to write down as many things you'd like to accomplish in your life as you can. Choose things in a wide variety of areas of your life: personal, professional, financial, spiritual, and so on. What would you like to learn? What kind of person do you want to become? What do you want for yourself and for your family? What would you do if you were guaranteed not to fail? Some of the questions you answered in the homework above should help you identify what you'd like to put on your list. If you'd like to extend the project to come up with a list of 100, that's even better.
Daydreaming isn't just for kids! A lot of us don't allow ourselves to dream anymore because we don't see our dreams as feasible. Or, maybe it's a protective mechanism because we don't want to get our hopes up about something only to have them not happen and be let down. Try to break past those psychological barriers and allow yourself to fantasize about what you would do if you have unlimited funds and unlimited ability.
These should be things that really mean something to you personally and will have a positive impact on your life. Your list should look like nobody else's list, and be a true reflection of your own unique interests, priorities, and goals.
If you'd like to use a template, here is a .pdf you can print out to create your bucket list. It includes a variety of different categories (relationships, leisure, etc.) as well as a space to indicate if it's a short-term, mid-range, or long-term goal. Try to include a variety of things, and indicate their priority level (by circling it). For example funding my retirement is a high-priority item on my bucket list, visiting all 50 states - while still something I'd like to do - is on the "low" priority dream list because it's not as important. | <urn:uuid:037442cb-aa53-4bae-949e-0a9ccaa8841b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mommysavers.com/c/t/197054/forget-the-joneses-day-1-create-a-bucket-list | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97176 | 709 | 1.679688 | 2 |
With humble beginnings of strapping an Ipod Touch to the bottom of a skateboard, Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille of Design I/O have created a method to visualize skateboard tricks in real time. Called Skataviz, it’s done using the Ipod Touch’s gyroscope and accelerometer, which is sent to openFrameworks to create live video overlays.
Employing the help of professional skaters Frankie Nash and Thomas Kramer, they were able to capture the kinetic movement of various tricks, as well as track the rotation of the board as it flew through the air. The software is in the prototype stages right now, but is still visually stunning. With all the movement that goes on as skateboarders ply their craft, expect some even more impressive dataviz in the future.
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One thing that a lot of people have problems dealing with in the workplace is criticism. It can destroy confidence and might be a cause for some people to quit. However, when taken well, criticism can do wonders to your performance and can be one of your greatest lessons in becoming a better employee.
You’re not perfect. As soon as you accept that – really accept it – then half the battle is already won. Most people have problems dealing with negative assessments because they think they’ve done the best job anyone could have done and to question that is not only hurtful but also unbelievable.
Check your output. Most of the time, there is some truth in criticism. Before you get defensive and whiny, check first if there is some truth in what your boss is telling you, and chances are you’ll find something you need to fix.
Pay attention. When your work is being reviewed, it is essential that you pay attention to what your boss is saying. Take notes. This can serve two purposes. One, and the most important, your boss will be under the impression that you are a willing student and that you will implement all suggestions given. And two, there will surely be something in your notes that can be of help when you’re faced with a similar assignment in the future.
Learn. Look for something that will help you do your job better. Bosses mostly don’t criticize employees just for the heck of it. The most important thing to walk away from an evaluation is a lesson that will help you become a better employee.
Let it go. Don’t go planning the downfall of your boss and his immediate family. This does not only cause more stress, but also prolongs whatever bad feelings you might have. Learn to accept, then let go. Move on to the next project. Keep the lesson, let go of the grudge. You will feel so much better. And on top of that, expect huge improvements in your future undertakings. | <urn:uuid:4a5ea0af-8448-4574-af30-18044514089a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nursingassistantguides.com/2012/how-to-accept-your-boss-criticism-with-class/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968489 | 410 | 1.796875 | 2 |
6/19/2009: US religious freedom panel denied visas to visit India - ENI
Washington, 19 June (ENI/RNS)--Indian government officials have denied visas to commissioners of a U.S. religious freedom watchdog panel for the second time since 2000, Religion News Service reports.
Members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom were forced to cancel their plans to assess religious freedom in India. Panellists, who were scheduled to leave on 12 June, have been trying to obtain Indian visas for the past seven years.
Nina Shea, a commissioner, said it is troublesome that the Indian authorities are so defensive about exposing potential religious violence in the world's largest democracy.
"I believe at the root of this, they want to cover it up," she said. "They have something to hide."
Hindu organizations in India are reportedly suspicious of the panel's intentions, according to an Indian news article that was forwarded to USCIRF from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. The panel's visit to India is "an attack on our religious sovereignty," a spokesperson for the Vishva Hindu Parishad, a right-wing Hindu organization, told the Navbharat Times.
Commissioners had planned to travel to Gujarat, Karnataka and Orissa - all areas where religiously motivated violence directed against minorities has been reported.
Shea said commissioners will look to experts and documentation to complete their report, though the trip would have been a chance for the Indian government to participate in preventive strategies at the local and national levels. | <urn:uuid:11f64888-eb1e-4bae-bc00-7c5ea1bdc295> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2535 | 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 | 0.970273 | 318 | 1.671875 | 2 |
- And through this I became certain: I am one particular individual. Me. Whoever that is. It is a start. I am not a "what", Cassie! I am a "who".
- -- Vision src
When Nathaniel Richards, a teenage version of Kang the Conqueror, came to the "present" to enlist the aid of the Avengers, he found only the ruins of the Avengers Mansion. After being ignored by Captain America and Iron Man, he found the mangled remains of the Vision and downloaded his operating system into his Neurokinetic armor. Through this merger, Nathaniel was able to access plans the Vision had created in case the Avengers ever fell, the Avengers Fail-Safe Program. Taking on the guise of Iron Lad, he used these plans to assemble a new team of "Young Avengers."
Not long after their first mission, the Young Avengers were attacked by Kang the Conqueror. To prevent Kang from tracking him, Iron Lad removed his Neurokinetic armor and the Vision's operating system causes the armor to become a sentient being. When Iron Lad returned to his own time period, he left the armor behind with the Vision's operating system activated.
This new Vision remained in the custody of the New Avengers at Stark Tower due to their concerns that he was still controlled by Kang the Conqueror. After Iron Man's examination, it was determined that the new Vision is quite different from his predecessor. The new Vision was technologically superior to the original, and although he had all of the physical and emotional potential of the original, he lacked the first Vision's vast experience and maturity. Additionally, the first Vision's brain patterns were based on Wonder Man, the new Vision's brain patterns were based on those of Iron Lad.
After Hulkling was captured by Kl'rt the Super-Skrull, the Young Avengers sought out the Vision to located more "Young Avengers" using his prior incarnation's contingency plan. The Young Avengers recruited both Thomas Shepherd and Vision, and were successful in averting a war between the Skrulls and Kree Empires. Vision also altered his appearance at Cassie's request.
During the Superhero Civil War, Vision originally sided with the other Young Avengers in rebelling against the Registration Act, and sided with Captain America by joining the Secret Avengers. Vision played a major role in the final battle, disabling Iron Man's armor.
Desiring to discover his own identity. To that end, Vision began to travel the world. After providing relief work in Darfur, studying in Japan, fishing in New Zealand and searching for the Scarlet Witch in Wundagore Mountain, Transia, Vision realized that despite being based on Iron Lad and the original Vision, he was a completely unique individual. He even adopted the name "Jonas" in order to display his sui generis.
After discovering himself, Jonas, determined to pursue a romantic relationship with former teammate Cassie Lang, impersonated Tony Stark and infiltrated Camp Hammond to invite Cassie to join him for lunch at a local diner. During the lunch date, Jonas discussed his journey, share his new name and revealed his true feelings. The conversation was cut short when the pair was attacked by a rogue AIM contingents attempted to capture Vision, but accidentally trapped Vision mid-phase in Stature. The pair defeated th AIM agents, and later Stature was able to grow large enough that Vision was able to phase out. Although Vision declined Stature's offer to join her with the Initiative, he was somewhat successful in convincing Stature of his feelings.
During the Secret Invasion, Vision and the Young Avengers were the only team in New York City to respond to the Skrull troops first attack. The Vision was severely damaged in the first battle, but he repaired himself in time for the final battle.
Mighty Avengers and Siege
When Stature and Vision received an ominous message from Wiccan, they arrived at the Avengers Mansion to find the other Young Avengers apparently turned to stone. However, Loki, disguised as The Scarlet Witch appeared to whisk them away and offer them positions on her new Mighty Avengers.
For a time, Stature and Vision split their time between both Mighty Avengers and Young Avengers.
During the Siege of Asgard, the Young Avengers joined the battlefield alongside all the heroes available. Stature and Vision assisted the Mighty Avengers, while the other Young Avengers helped elsewhere.
The Children's Crusade
After Wiccan's powers overloaded and the Avengers decided to keep him under observation, the other Young Avnegers broke Wiccan out of holding and began the search for the Scarlet Witch. Accompanied by Magneto and Quicksilver, the team traveled to Transia and then to Latveria before discovering a depowered and amnesiac Wanda engaged to Doctor Doom. The rediscovery of Wanda did not go unnoticed though, as the Avengers soon arrived on the scene. A battle with Doom's Doombot army soon broken out and was only stopped by the arrival of Iron Lad.Iron Lad took the Young Avengers and Wanda into the timestream in an attempt to regroup and restore Wanda's memories. The group arrived at the Avengers Mansion, shortly before the Scarlet Witch originally killed some of her fellow Avengers. Cassie used this opportunity to save her father's life from Jack of Hearts. This trip was successful in restoring all of Wanda's powers and memories. Returning to the present Avengers Mansion, Wanda and the Young Avengers were met by Beast Jessica Jones and Hawkeye. With Wanda's memories restored, she desired to make amends for M-Day, but was unsure how. To determine if she could repower any mutants, a volunteer was needs: Rictor from X-Factor Investigations. Wanda was successful in restoring his powers, but the celebration was cut short by the arrival of both the Avengers and the X-Men.
With tensions high, a brawl broke out between the Avengers, Young Avengers, X-Factor and X-Men over the custody and fate of the Scarlet Witch, forcing Wanda to put everyone asleep in an attempt to quell the fighting. Next with the Young Avengers, Wanda returned to Doom in Latveria to regain her reality warping powers. However, during the ritual to restore her powers, Patriot intervened and Doom betrayed them stealing the power for himself.
Armed with the reality warping powers, Doom returned to New York City to offer the Avengers and X-Men a choice: join him or perish. During the ensuing battle, Doom's powers were overloaded and depleted. Unfortunately, Stature gave her life to defeat Doom.
Iron Lad proposed saving Stature by traveling into the timestream, but Vision refused, resulting in his destruction at the hands of Iron Lad. Although Wiccan warned of the danger of becoming Kang the Conqueror, Iron Lad left with the intent of altering the timestream to suit his will and promising he would be much better than Kang.
In the aftermath of the battle, the Young Avengers disbanded and remained low profile. They discussed possibly rebuilding Vision, but decided against it due to the uncertainties of being able to rebuild him and Stature's death. Eventually, the remaining Young Avengers (Hawkeye, Hulkling, Speed and Wiccan) were summoned by Captain America, and officially inducted as full-fledged Avengers, and a memorial to Stature and Vison was unveiled.
Powers and AbilitiesEdit
The Vision was original designed by Nathaniel Richards to act as Neurokinetic Iron Lad armor, but was later downloaded with the original Vision's programming. As such, he possess many of the abilities the original Vision and several unique abilities granted by his technological superiority, including:
- Shape-Shifting: The Neurokinetic alloy making up Vision's body allows him to physically alter his appearance and shape with his thoughts.
- Holographic Manipulation: In addition to being able to physically alter his appearance, Vision can also project realistic holograms around himself to "appear" as a different person. It can be an existing person like Tony Stark, or a person of his own design.
- Time Travel: Vision is potentially capable of opening wormholes to travel into the timestream.
- Flight: As demonstrated when used by Iron Lad, Vision is capable of self-propelled flight, unlike the origin Vision who flies by altering his density.
- Energy Manipulation: Jonas can fire blasts of various kinds of energy from his hands and eyes, and disrupt electrical systems.
- Superhuman Strength, Stamina, Reflexes and Durability: Due to his android body, the Vision is capable of many physically abilities beyond that of humans.
- Density Control: Like the origin Vision, Jonas is able to control his body's density and solidity. Utilizing this power he can become a weightless, transparent, and intangible.
- Physical Disruption: The Vision can use his density control offensively be attaining minimum density (intangibility). Passing a part of all of his body within another living being and ever so slightly increasing his density (tangibility). Even increasing his density to one half ounce (14.25 grams) is sufficient to cause the organism he passes through excruciating pain, a shock to the nervous system, and unconsciousness. Were he to become any more dense than one half ounce the shock would probably kill the other organism if the organic damage was not extensive enough to kill the other organism in itself. Accordingly, the Vision employs this power with extreme caution.
- Computer Brain: Jonas's brain is an artificially intelligent computer. He is able to store nearly endless amounts of data within his AI, such as world history, and foreign languages. He can think and analyze data rapidly. He can record more data and information he scans, playback his personal experiences in head, and store music which he can play, much like a boom box. He keeps many songs performed by Stature's favorite artists in his databanks. He can also interface with other computers and has his own WiFi.
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Strength levelVision can lift normally 5 tons, at maximum density he can lift 75 tons.
- This Vision, similar to the old Vision, has show himself to be a unique entity, despite having his brain patterns based on other individuals.
- Vision views Egghead as interesting and disturbing; somewhat an evil twin.
- There exists a somewhat odd love-triangle between Vision, Cassie and Iron Lad.
- Vision's brain patterns were based those of Iron Lad, but Vision proved himself to be a unique individual and to have truly developed feelings for Cassie.
- Cassie quickly fell for Iron Lad after meeting him, and originally felt uncomfortable around Vision. Slowly Cassie came to develop feelings for Vision despite his non-organic-ness.
- Iron Lad returned Cassie's affections although their time together was brief, and viewed the Vision as little more than a toy.
- Viewed as little more than a toy, Vision was killed by his creator, Iron Lad.
- 108 Appearances of Vision (Jonas) (Earth-616)
- 65 Images featuring Vision (Jonas) (Earth-616)
- 1 Quotations by or about Vision (Jonas) (Earth-616)
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- ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade - Young Avengers #1
- ↑ Young Avengers #1-3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Young Avengers #4-6
- ↑ Young Avengers #7-8
- ↑ Young Avengers #9-12
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Young Avengers #10
- ↑ Civil War #2
- ↑ Civil War #7
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Young Avengers Presents #4
- ↑ Secret Invasion #1-7
- ↑ Mighty Avengers #21
- ↑ Siege #2-3
- ↑ Siege: Young Avengers #1
- ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #1-4
- ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #5-6
- ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7
- ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #8
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Avengers: The Children's Crusade #9
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Young Avengers #7
- ↑ Dark Reign: Young Avengers #3
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 13
- ↑ Dark Reign: Young Avengers #1-5
- ↑ Young Avengers #6
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A large fan constituency here in Jim Tressel's hometown long ago excused the mistakes of the fallen Ohio State coach. But now that WKYC Channel 3 has hired him to deliver a weekly homily on the lessons of sports, how much will his new forum affect his tangled legacy?
In the first episode of "A Moment with Jim Tressel" , Tressel discussed the virtues of unselfishness. The sentiments he expressed contain truths that might seem corny or trite to those who have never competed or have never been around those who did. But they help create the chemistry that binds teams together.
Perhaps the series itself amounts to a kind of altruism and an attempt to make others better.
The irony is that Tressel's cover-up of the selfishness of several players in a memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal -- driven in part by his own egotistical dream of a second national championship -- led to his forced resignation.
Tressel certainly made serious mistakes. In the Ray Isaacs scandal at Youngstown State and the Maurice Clarett scandal at OSU, he emerged relatively unscathed. His plausible deniability was a product of not wanting to know what either player was doing.
The tattoo cover-up was different. An email trail clearly indicted him. So did a signed NCAA compliance form, in which he stated that he knew of no rules violations on his team.
Tressel's new TV job presumes a continuum between sports and life. At Ohio State, Tressel was always talking about "teaching moments" and "life lessons." Yet he himself, a devout man who did many public and private good deeds for no personal gain, was able to separate his career from what he professed to believe and who he professed to be.
At one point in his testimony before the NCAA Infractions Committee in 2011, he recalled a conversation, presumably with quarterback Terrelle Pryor, the ringleader of the tattoo scandal. Tressel told the unnamed player: "You'll only reach your goals in football if you become the right kinda man. And if you become the right kinda man, you're gonna have no trouble reaching your goals."
It is the kind of idealism he espoused, but did not always practice.
At another point in his testimony, Tressel said, referring to the NCAA's cynical decision to allow the five players involved in the tattoo scandal to play in the 2011 Sugar Bowl against Arkansas: "I even recommended to one of 'em – 'If I were you, I would – if you wanna start fixing your brand, if I were you, I would step up and say, "I don't deserve to play in this game," and not put that decision on me.' "
Tressel, of course, never made that decision. Players want to play, and the coach could not win without them.
He was, however, genuine in his desire to help his players. After kicking wide receiver Ray Small off the team before the 2010 Rose Bowl for recreational drug use, Tressel was asked how many "shots" (chances) he had given the Glenville graduate. "More than LeBron takes," he said.
Is such an approach expediency or encouragement? It can be read one way by his supporters, another way by his critics.
The coach gave quarterback Troy Smith multiple shots after suspending him for two games for taking money from a booster in 2004. It paid off in thrilling victories over Michigan that Smith led, a BCS Championship Game appearance and Smith's 2006 Heisman Trophy. It also paid off in an Ohio State degree for Smith, which he was unlikely to have earned without Tressel's faith in him.
Selfishness and altruism, the need to win games and the attempt to save a reckless player -- the whole Smith saga repeated itself a few years later with Pryor. After Tressel's ouster, Chris Spielman and other respected former players said OSU had taken too many players who were high risks. Yet the schools that were the runners-up for Pryor's services were Penn State, Michigan and Oregon. All of them would have taken him gladly.
As a coach, Tressel was a perfectionist. As a man, like all of us, he did not always meet his highest ideals. But he tried to make it through the day with a gesture or two of kindness and comfort for others.
Altruism is difficult to balance against the demands of a profession that stresses the scoreboard's instant gratification and measures job security by championships. Unlike many others, Tressel gave it a shot. | <urn:uuid:35415906-0f66-41ad-ae04-0a1cdae2db5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2012/10/former_ohio_state_coach_jim_tr.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986588 | 956 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Government spending, according to some conventional wisdom, is out of control. That battle cry rallied many politicians during the mid-term elections, helped elect Tea Party and conservative Republican candidates, while putting Democrats on the defensive over the deficit. But now that elections are over, do politicians have the stomach for real change? Yesterday, the co-chairs of President Obama's non-binding fiscal commission on deficit reduction released a draft plan to curb spending ... but the plan met with general dismay in Washington. Why?
Features includes drastic spending cuts — some $200 billion annually by 2015 — and promises to significantly reduce deficit over the long term. Oh, and if this didn't seem miraculous enough, this plan also claims to offer a way to preserve Social Security for another 75 years and reform the tax code.
So why are politicians bristling? Todd Zwillich, Takeaway Washington correspondent, and Charlie Herman, Economics Editor for The Takeaway and WNYC, help us figure out the nuts and bolts of the plan, and whether any sitting politician would vote for it. | <urn:uuid:07335aee-3d0f-4b5c-96a0-860cf8e42e07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetakeaway.org/2010/nov/11/bi-partisan-deficit-proposal-both-democrats-and-republicans-will-hate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947807 | 214 | 1.835938 | 2 |
New Zion Union Church Cemetery is the only public cemetery in Waiteville, Monroe County, West Virginia. The New Zion Union Church is a Methodist church, and is located on Ray Siding Road, in Waiteville.
The Church sign indicates it was founded in 1863, but the cemetery indicates from its' tombstone inscriptions that it has been there since before that date.
The original church no longer exists. The main part of the "new" building was built around 1925, with the extension [a Sunday School suite] being built about 1958 or 1959 - seen on the right].
I will be listing the stones each week in the order they are in my files [they are alphabetized by “first” name].
Ira or Ora E. Doss
I have no information for this little lamb. [This is obviously a child.]
The birth date was illegible. But the death date looks to be Feb. 8, 1901. A search through Death records is not bringing the child up.
B: 11 Sep 1874, Mountain Lake, Virginia
D: 16 Jun 1948, Waiteville, Monroe, West Virginia
Son of: Mazarine and Sarah Lafon
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A Con-Dem minister began to show some common sense over root causes of poverty and crime yesterday after saying children in care are more likely to be at risk but then totally blew it.
Instead of sticking blame and responsibility where it was due - on the government's cuts and austerity agenda - Children's Minister Edward Timpson said local authorities should be picking up the pieces.
Mr Timpson said vulnerable young people were forced out of care at the age of 16 and warned many soon fell over a "cliff edge" into a trap of poverty and joblessness.
He said almost half those leaving care at 16 were not in education, employment or training when they reach 19.
Then he said councils should award teenagers a minimum £2,000 grant to cover costs of setting up a new life outside care and warned he would consider setting a national rate if they didn't "make more progress."
He went on to accuse officials of treating teenagers as a tick-box exercise and failing to leave them with a proper safety net. There was no indication how cash-strapped councils would find the cash.
Mr Timpson said: "It is still a national scandal that children in care are more likely to end up with worse exam results, poor mental and physical health, to be convicted criminals and unemployed or out of education.
"These are the most vulnerable children in society who need the most support.
"We shouldn't underestimate the barriers facing children leaving care. There is good work going on where young people get the help they need to land on their feet - but it's not the norm across the country."
But shadow children's minister Lisa Nandy reminded the government that had systematically stripped away support for young people and "it must be willing to take responsibility not just criticise others." | <urn:uuid:56330de1-4a93-42e1-977a-48fe6eba745a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/content/view/full/125548 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979127 | 362 | 1.617188 | 2 |
African American Funeral Program & Obituary Collection
This page is created with the intention of providing information for family researchers and historians willing to share data, and seeking information about death records and funeral programs. Because of the geographic focus of the collection---mostly Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma---the information on this page will provide an opportunity for researchers to share data with others.
The names included in the following links are taken from either, funeral programs or obituaries or death certificates that have been collected. Many are from Ft. Smith records, and funeral program while many others are from Oklahoma funeral programs, or newspaper obituaries. The info provided on the page is taken from a database that has been constructed.
The purpose of the collection is to give African American researchers an opportunity to share data with, and obtain data from others. You are invited to particate by either forwarding a copy or copies(photocopy acceptable) of funeral programs, and/or newspaper obituaries,of a desceased person that can uploaded to the database on this page. The only requirement for submission, is that the funeral program(s) being listed must pertain to a person either born or died in the two state area of the Arkansas / Oklahoma region.
In addition, you may also request a copy of one of the funeral programs, or obituaris the database, for the cost of $1 to cover postage and copying charges and $.50 for each additional record. The purpose is to offer the opportunity for researchers to share data with each other. If you are submitting a funeral program for inclusion on the database you can request one free of charge for each program that you submit.
(No personal family information is on the page to protect the privacy of those family members who survived the desceased person.)
In many instances funeral programs are very helpful for genealogists. They tell where a person was born, and when they are born. Many times the parents of the | <urn:uuid:b4630630-d233-4f1a-882e-ed924c1ea92a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.arkansasfreedmen.com/obits.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948265 | 400 | 1.5625 | 2 |
During the years 1995-96, with the help and support of its members,
the Trust had purchased approx. 26 acre of land to set up its main
campus on village Bhopani-Lalpur Road, which is about 10 km. far
from Faridabad town in the National Capital Region of Delhi. The
campus has been named as 'Satyug Darshan Vasundhara', which in collective
terms mean, a place on earth from where to march towards 'Satyug'
- The Era Of Truth.
Within a span of nine years, it has emerged as a small township.
Surrounded by boundary wall on all sides, it has a Satsang Hall,
a 'Satya Deep Grih' with 128 single room independent units for senior
citizens, a small Dairy Farm, a Nursery to class XII co-ed residential-cum-day
boarding school namely 'Satyug Darshan Vidyalaya', a Sewage Treatment
Plant, a Laundry Unit, an in-house Power Generation Unit, an extension
counter of a Bank and a Small Dispensary with 6 bedded medical-investigation
room. Considering the future requirements, the Trust has recently
purchased another 10 acre of land adjoining the main campus for
expanding its school activities.
Provision to open a Naturopathy-cum-Eye Care Center has also been
made and approx. 2 acre of land has been earmarked for the same.
In the midst of this calm, serene and pollution free campus, a
huge dome-shaped meditation-hall is under construction. From here
the science of inner dimensions will be taught through the process
of meditation i.e. a way by which one could always remain in one's
natural state of Pure Being in all its splendour. Meditation is
the only spiritual tool to liberate the mind from ignorance, illusion
and evil instincts. This Meditation Hall would have a water body
around it and lighthouse on its top. Lush green large lawns surround
it. Various kinds of shrubs and floral trees enrich its beauty to
manifold. Its main gate, which would be followed by seven other
gates leading to the Meditation Hall, is under construction and
once completed will further enhance its sacred view.
To maintain the pious environment at 'Vasundhara'- where one can
easily be inclined towards spirituality; smoking, playing cards
or gambling, taking liquor/alcohol and non-vegetarian food etc.
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Reading Level: Grade 7+
Card, the author of the beloved Ender Wiggins series, scores again with this new series. 13-year-old Rigg has lived an isolated life with his demanding father hunting and trapping in the wilderness. Despite their isolation, Rigg's father has given his son an exceptional education is languages, science, and psychology. He has also pushed Rigg to hone his unusual path-finding skills.
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The book, which touches on Francis' thoughts on atheism, abortion, fundamentalism and same-sex marriage, will be available in North America beginning April 30.
Buenos Aires, Argentina – In some ways, Federico Wals had a curious job for the last six years as the spokesperson and media coordinator for Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, a prelate who rarely gave interviews and who was famous for preferring to let his deeds do his talking.
While some corners have praised the pope for his simple gestures, reformers question whether he will address issues that have cost the church "a generation of Catholics."
Buenos Aires, Argentina – Would Pope Francis shut down the Vatican Bank? A former aide says he wouldn't be surprised if it happens.
Buenos Aires, Argentina – When torrential rains and flooding hit Argentina yesterday, leaving more than 50 people dead and thousands homeless, the “Solidarity Network” founded by a veterinarian, social entrepreneur and Catholic layman named Juan Carr sprang into action.
On Wednesday, the movement positioned a large red truck in downtown Buenos Aires to collect food, clothes and other supplies for the flood victims, with a hand-painted banner reading: “You are not alone … the entire country embraces you!”
Q & A: The new pope's own sister was pulling for another cardinal? John Allen found out that and more in his interview with Maria Elena Bergoglio.
Vatican City -- "Women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord," Pope Francis says.
Buenos Aires, Argentina – For all those curious as to whether Pope Francis can deliver the reform of the Roman Curia that was so much in the air during the pre-conclave period, the right person to ask would probably be someone who knows the Vatican from the inside out, and who also watched then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio work in Argentina.
Pope Francis has expressed an affinity for Pope John XXIII, calling the late pope's secretary on the phone Monday and saying "I see him with the eyes of my heart," according to the Vatican's semi-official newspaper.
Francis, according to a report Tuesday in L'Osservatore Romano, called John XXIII's former secretary at the late pope's summer home to personally thank the secretary for a letter he had sent to Francis suggesting an official celebration of the 50th anniversary this June of John's 1963 death.
It probably shouldn’t be a surprise that the election of the first-ever pope from Latin America is causing a mini-Catholic boom in his home country, but however predictable, signs of a “Francis effect” in Argentina seem almost ubiquitous.
Among other indications of ferment, local Catholics say there’s probably never been a better attended series of Holy Week celebrations in the history of Argentine Catholicism than what transpired in late March 2013. | <urn:uuid:72a3f1ad-a060-4a94-8ad4-fc15461f5905> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ncronline.org/feature-series/pope-francis?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961015 | 597 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Georgia, Tbilisi, 31 Jan. / Trend N.Kirtskhalia /
The main task for today is prevention of new escalation of tensions between Russia and Georgia. That is adherence to the policy of pragmatism, for which the government of Bidzina Ivanishvili has headed, Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania said in an interview to BBC Russian service on Thursday.
He stressed that it is very important for Georgia.
Alasania believes that relations with Russia should begin with trade and cultural ties.
"We have no illusions that in the near future, Russia will change its political views on the priority of Georgia to be a member of NATO or the EU, or change its attitude to the territorial integrity of the country. But we have to start somewhere. And I think that pragmatic approach of Bidzina Ivanishvili and our government will bring results," he stressed.
Large scale military action was launched in South Ossetia in Georgia on August 8, 2008. Later, Russian troops occupied Tskhinvali and expelled the Georgian military. Russia recognised the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia late in August. Tbilisi ended diplomatic relations with Moscow in response and has announced the two unrecognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be occupied territories.
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CMS superintendent continues town hall meetings with parents
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CHARLOTTE -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools parents will get another chance to weigh in on how the school system is doing. That will be at a town hall meeting Monday night, which is part of an effort by Superintendent Heath Morrison to get to know the district.
When Morrison was hired this summer, he got an earful about how CMS didn't do a good job communicating with families. The town hall meeting that will happen at Harding High School Monday is part of Morrison's efforts to change that.
This will be the second of seven meetings that are open to the public. The sessions allow people to offer thoughts about what's working in CMS and what needs improvement. They also include small group discussions.
Morrison says he'll use all the information he learns through these meetings to craft his long-term plan for CMS, which he plans to unveil in December.
At the first town hall meeting, Morrison heard from folks about a wide range of issues from teacher pay to dealing with special needs students.
Morrison is also holding a separate series of meetings just for CMS employees. One of those sessions will happen Tuesday night at Butler High School.
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Despite outrage over girl’s shooting, Pakistan still split over confronting Taliban
ISLAMABAD — The horrific shooting of a teenage girl by the Pakistani Taliban to silence her campaign for schooling for girls has forced a battered Pakistan to consider how it can tackle violent extremism after years of equivocation and toleration, analysts and politicians say.
Pakistanis, almost obsessively, have followed the news of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai since Taliban assailants shot her in the head a week ago. The shock has jolted Pakistanis to resolve that the country can no longer live with an organization and an ideology in its midst that would attack a girl who only wanted to be allowed to go to school — and then brazenly promise to hunt her down again if she survived.
“Malala is Pakistan right now. This is not the Taliban’s Pakistan. This is our Pakistan,” said Asma Shirazi, the host of a popular nightly political show. “We have created this problem. Now the fire has reached our house. This is a question of our survival.”
Pakistan President Asif Zardari even addressed the subject Tuesday at an economic summit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. “The Taliban attack on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack on education, and on all civilized people,” he said.
Still, there is no consensus on whether fighting or talking is the answer to the militant challenge, leading to dangerous fractures in society. Thousands of Pakistanis have died in what people here call America’s “war on terror,” and many are reluctant to embrace a fresh military offensive against the Pakistani Taliban, which is based in North Waziristan along the border with Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, writing in the same newspaper, The News, a Pakistani daily, two columnists drew opposite conclusions, one pushing for immediate military action, the other opposed.
Maleeha Lodhi, a former ambassador to Washington, warned that “the window of public consent” for an operation against the Pakistani Taliban could close rapidly if not seized now. Ansar Abbasi, an influential conservative commentator, argued that such an operation would be a trap. “They (the West) want to use the poor girl’s case to further chaos and anarchy in Pakistan,” he said.
The military and the civilian government have given conflicting signals about whether an operation is being planned. With winter setting in, which would make conditions tough in the mountainous North Waziristan terrain, and an election due in the next six months, action would need to begin within weeks.
Malala was shot Oct. 9 as she waited in a school van for the ride home. A gunman approached the van, asked who was Malala and then shot her when another schoolgirl pointed her out. This week, she was taken by air ambulance for treatment in England, where it is said that she will require weeks or even months of treatment and rehabilitation.
Malala had earned the Taliban’s enmity in 2009 when a diary she had written chronicling life under brutal Taliban rule in her home district of Swat became the basis for a series of BBC news reports. A military operation subsequently reclaimed Swat, a former tourist resort that lies in northern Pakistan. The Taliban made it clear after Malala’s shooting that they had not forgotten her role, saying she deserved death because she promoted Western ways.
The rest of Pakistan, however, condemned the attack in an unprecedented moment of national outpouring and oneness. The tragedy forced the country to open its eyes to the nature of the Pakistani Taliban, which is more extreme and more closely linked to al-Qaida, in operations and ideology, than the original Afghan Taliban.
Apparently seriously rattled by the public revulsion since the assault on the teenager, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, the coalition of jihadists known usually as the Pakistani Taliban, issued a new seven-page defense of its actions Tuesday, this time in the national language, Urdu. Previous defenses have been in English.
“For this espionage, infidels gave her (Malala) awards and rewards. And Islam orders killing of those who are spying for enemies,” the TTP said. “We targeted her because she would speak against the Taliban while sitting with shameless strangers and idealized the biggest enemy of Islam, Barack Obama.”
For years, Pakistan’s powerful military has supported jihadist groups as its proxy warriors in India and Afghanistan. In the 1980s, that policy was backed and funded by Washington as it helped to battle the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the Pakistani military, through its Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, continued to rely on the jihadists, though a 2007 military assault on a radical mosque in Islamabad that turned into a bloodbath, followed by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto months later, prompted made many Pakistanis begin to question the wisdom of that policy.
But zeal to confront the extremists soon dissipated then, and there are signs it may be doing so now.
Some religious conservatives even are trying to smear Malala, calling her an “American agent” and suggesting that the assassination bid was either a deliberate conspiracy to justify future military operations or that the event has somehow been “hijacked” by the West or pro-Western elements in Pakistan. As “proof” of this conspiracy, pictures have been circulated online of Malala meeting Richard Holbrooke, the late former U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
On Sunday, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a political party, staged a rally attended by thousands for Malala in the southern port of Karachi. Its leader, Altaf Hussain, speaking to the gathering by telephone from exile in London, said, in remarks directed at the military: “Move ahead and crush the Taliban and 180 million people will be standing behind you.”
“You are either with the Taliban or you are against them. There is no third option,” he said.
But such talk is not universal. On Tuesday, Imran Khan, a cricket superstar who has turned populist politician and urges negotiations with the Taliban, warned at a news conference against military action.
“If, in anger at this tragedy, we do a military operation, our problems will only increase,” he said. “If military action were the solution, this issue would have been solved by now.”\
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So what does an award-winning lighting designer do for an encore? For Wilkerson, the larger-scale reprisal of Tommy represented an opportunity to expand the lighting concepts he had developed for this classic “rock opera,” which tells the story of a young boy who goes deaf, dumb and blind after seeing his father shoot his mother's lover upon returning from a World War II prison camp. The Who's well-known tale follows Tommy's triumph as he becomes a “pinball wizard” and eventually regains his sight.
Lighting and video were especially important at certain key points in the show, Wilkerson said, beginning with the opening scenes, in which the designer displayed actual historic British World War II footage, to the use of different colors to dramatize Tommy at different ages, to the spectacular mind-blowing “Pinball Wizard” scene. As in the earlier production, Wilkerson chose products from Elation Professional to light up Tommy in the larger venue, expanding his range of Elation gear to include: 8 Elation Design Wash LED RGBW moving heads, 8 Elation Design LED 60 Strips; and 3 Elation Design Beam 300 moving heads.
“One of the most appealing parts of remounting the show was the opportunity to revisit the design,” said Wilkerson. “I had several discussions with the director (Oanh Nguyen) prior to production . . part of it was preserving what we thought worked and the other part was expanding some of the original ideas and adding details. The venue (Founders Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts) is much larger than the Chance Theater with a higher grid and far more lighting positions, so while many of the ideas were transferred from the original production, the interpretation was different, in some case significantly.”
Concepts that were expanded in the remount included the creation of “color stories that were tied specifically to Tommy's three different ages and experiences, as well as tying specific colors to the pinball machine,” Wilkerson said. “I suppose the biggest impact moment I wanted was during ‘Pinball Wizard.' Everyone knows how that song starts with the strumming acoustic guitar, but then it launches into those two giant electric guitar chords, and I wanted those two chords to knock people back in their seats. Part of that fell to our very talented Music Director, Mike Wilkins, but the rest of it was up to lighting.”
When looking for lighting to use for “Pinball Wizard,” Wilkerson said he called Blaine Engle at Elation and “asked if they had anything that would fit the bill. He sent me a few links and a couple things caught my eye. For the original show, I had used (4) Design LED Strips, (4) Impressions, and (4) Design LED 108s. We expanded on that in the remount to include (8) Design LED Strips, (8) Design Wash LEDs, and (3) Design Beam 300s.
“The Design LED Strips ended up carrying a lot of the weight for the ‘Pinball Wizard' moments. We stacked them vertically on four trusses and used them as blinders. There are a couple things I like about them – first off, they resemble old-school mini-strip lights, which gave us a retro feel, but they are also RGB LEDs, placed behind a lens so they mix to create good, strong colors, including a spectacular blinding white.”
One lighting fixture new to the remount was the Design Wash LED. “I switched from the Impressions to the Design Wash LEDs primarily because they have white LEDs in addition to RGB,” explained Wilkerson. “They also move really quickly and have a good dimming curve without the LED ‘dropoff' in the lower percentages.”
The Design Beam 300 moving heads were also a new addition. “I chose the Design Beams for a couple of reasons,” Wilkerson said. “They're only 300 watts, but they produce a super-bright beam that's very narrow. That was key for the World War II sequences as well as the scenes where Tommy becomes a rockstar pinball player.”
Wilkerson said that he was also very pleased with the Elation gear's reliability in standing up to the day-to-day requirements of a theatrical production. “Everything performed beautifully for the run of the show.”
For more information, call Elation Professional toll-free at 866-245-6726 or visit www.elationlighting.com
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Jun 21, 2012|
Why do you think muay Thai is making a comeback?
There are two main reasons: firstly, people are caring more about their health so are using muay Thai as a way to exercise while learning self-defense. Secondly, it’s already popular with foreigners and a lot of people just like to follow what they do.
How has muay Thai changed over time?
It’s become more business-centric. More people are now focused on building good fighters and putting on a good show for the sake of money and gambling. The rules have also changed to comply with this outlook—and sometimes referees bend the rules to ensure a better fight, something that didn’t happen in the past.
What are the benefits of the sport?
You learn to respect your teacher, be humble, patient, capable of forgiveness and sacrifice and grow as a person, as well as improve your stamina.
Are people mostly training or do they actually spar too?
It depends on the school and teacher, but in most cases if you’re a beginner, you’ll learn the proper footwork and defense moves first, then once you’ve got the balance right you’ll get a chance to fight.
How long does it take for a beginner to turn pro?
It varies depending on the person. If you have a good teacher and you train daily, you’ll be able to defend yourself within three months, and both defend and attack within six months to a year.
What are the signs of a good muay Thai school?
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Twin Rivers Adult School is a California Adult School, that is part of the Twin Rivers Unified School District. We are postsecondary accredited through the Western Associations of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Our Allied Health program is accredited through the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians (BVNPT)
History of Twin Rivers Adult School
Twin Rivers Adult School started as Grant Adult Education in 1937 by providing night classes for Grant High School. It later moved to the WWII baracks known as "Splinter City" on the now-closed McClellan AFB. In the 1970s English as a Second Language became part of Grant Adult Education with the passage of the Montoya Bill. In 1976 the Program for older adults was founded, and in 1980 the Adults with Disabilities program started in partnership with United Cerebal Palsy. In 1983 the Allied Health program begins fully accredited by the California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians.
In 2007, to recognize Grant Adult Education's 70th anniversary, and the difference it has made in the community, the City of Sacramento designated March 12, 2007 as Grant Adult Education Day, and the County of Sacramento designated March 16, 2007 Grant Adult Education Day. Further, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, commended Grant Adult Education's teachers and staff for their hard work and dedication.
With the merger of the Grant Joint Union High School District with several other districts, the new district is named "Twin Rivers Unified School District" and Grant Adult Education has been renamed to "Twin Rivers Adult School"
Twin Rivers Adult School is committed to providing the community with opportunities for individuals from diverse populations to achieve their personal, educational and vocational goals and to become more responsible and productive members of society. As such, our mission is to help students gain the knowledge and skills needed for employment, career advancement, productive citizenry and social responsibility.
Our Goals for Our Students
We have the following student learning outcomes that students who complete courses of study will be
self-directed achievers who
- analyze data and solve problems (study information and work out problems)
- initiate and complete tasks (start and finish every job)
valued community members who
- apply knowledge and skills at home and at work (use what they learn at home and at work)
- participate in outreach activities with individuals from diverse populations (work well with people from other cultures)
productive workers who
- take responsibility for their performance at work and in the community (are good workers and good neighbors)
- integrate written, verbal, and technological skills appropriately (use technology to write and speak better)
Twin Rivers Adult School does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability.
Our Staff and Instructors
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