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Today Governor Sara Palin (R) of Alaska has announced that she will be resigning as of July 26th. This comes as a surprise to many Americans as well as political analysts.
She has decided not to finish out her first term as Governor of the state of Alaska. In a new conference in her home town of Wasilla, she stated “We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities,” “I know when it’s time to pass the ball for victory.”
Palin, 45 was put in the spotlight after Senator John McCain nominated her to be his running mate. Throughout the campaign she was disrespected and insulted by the main stream media. From the way I see it, the Democratic party as well as candidate Obama felt threaten by her.
Unfortunately, this latest move might be the end to her political career. Leaving the Governor’s office after only fulfilling half of her term might make it hard for the Republican party to consider her again fro a national position. I could be wrong since politics and politicians have never thought logically.
Whatever Sara Palin and her family decide to do in the future, I want to wish her the best for them.Tags: America, McCain, Media, Palin, politicians, republican party | <urn:uuid:d3453368-441e-4516-aa2a-db989b7b124a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://leftandrightpolitics.com/tag/mccain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982371 | 273 | 1.632813 | 2 |
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University and Oregon University System leaders joined hundreds of faculty, students and supporters on Friday for the dedication of the Linus Pauling Science Center, a $62.5-million facility that will house the programs for which its namesake was best known.
Pauling, OSU's most famous alumnus, gained international fame in the post-World War II era as a scientist and peace activist, becoming the only two-time individual winner of the Nobel Prize. His son, Dr. Linus Pauling Jr., a retired psychiatrist, offered graceful and very personal keynote remarks at the science center dedication, recounting how he and his father had determined in the early '90s to move what was then the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine from its home in Palo Alto, Calif., to Oregon State University.
Then struggling for research funding and other support, the scientific center gained stability, focus and a new name at OSU – the Linus Pauling Institute. Today, it is a national center of excellence of the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and, along with the OSU Dept. of Chemistry, is an anchor tenant of the new Pauling Science Center.
Pauling Jr. marveled on Friday at how the decision that he and his father made has worked out. "What a great choice it has been," he said, adding with emotion a few moments later, "I'm sure, if he were here, he would have tears of joy in his eyes, just as I do."
(Read additional coverage in the Corvallis Gazette-Times.)
The center is the largest donor-supported building project in the history of OSU, a 105,000-square-foot research and educational structure. Primary support that made the new facility possible came from the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation – a $20 million gift – and another $10.65 million from Pat and Al Reser. Construction began in 2009.
Following Friday's dedication ceremony, OSU scientists offered presentations on some of the cutting-edge research that will take place in the facility, including studies on such micronutrients as vitamins C and E, cancer chemoprevention and green materials chemistry.
Chemistry research in the new facility will include organic synthesis, relevant to the creation of new drugs, and analytical chemistry, including a clean room for preparing "lab-on-a-chip" devices useful in sensing and measurement. The facilities will house $8 million in new equipment, including magnetic resonance and electron microscopy instruments.
A 180-seat auditorium will serve as a state of the art learning space, with full multimedia capabilities and the ability to capture and display events for distance education. More individualized 24-person laboratory modules will enhance student education.
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Much has been said about the US recession and its effect on the growing economies around the world and especially the outsourcing industry in India. The financial crunch that accompanies such hard economic times also undoubtedly leads way for tough decisions regarding money…a decision very significant to venture capitals around the world and their counterparts – startups. The biggest question at such times is whether or not to start a company.
But first how does the recession affect VC financings? A recession is generally a difficult time for companies that are trying to raise venture capital because VCs are less likely to fund companies when the economy is suffering. For this reason, a recession is not an ideal time to start a company that requires a lot of start-up capital to get off the ground. If one could go back a little into history it would become clear that VCs will put less money into funding companies, converse cash and wait until the acquisition and public markets open up a bit. With grey clouds over possibilities of a good exit a VC would not want to invest in a company…it is against the basic principle of venture funding. But if we limit investments to early-stage small companies - possibilities are that we might be looking at a brighter picture. So some of the reasons why I think a recession is in fact a good time to start and incubate a small startup.
As far as VCs are concerned there are some quick lessons that they might also need to take with the US economy heading downwards. Here are some lessons from the last time we went through something similar:
If we do get to a full bust, I will come back with some more. Remember, the great companies of today were built on surviving the last bust. Here’s your chance.
Xirrus, Inc., the only Wi-Fi “Power-Play” that can replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi as the primary network connection for end users, has recently closed a third round of funding, securing an additional $26 million in equity financing. The round was led by Canaan Partners, with additional participation by all existing investors. The investment will be used to fuel further acceleration of customer acquisition and international expansion. Eric Young, General Partner, Canaan Partners has also joined the Xirrus Board of Directors.
iYogi, a next generation remote technical support company recently announced the expansion of its small business services to include support for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, enabling business owners to efficiently maintain their network without maintaining an IT department. iYogi’s Remote Service for Windows 2003 Server along with all of its services, is available to customers in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. With a resolution rate of 86% and customer satisfaction rating of 93%, iYogi provides customers with an inexpensive and consistent option for their technical support needs. Customers will be able to select from the following pricing plans, paying a flat rate per incident or purchasing an annual subscription.
—Single Incident $ 189.99
—One year, unlimited access to technical support $ 999.99
Cellcast Group, a global interactive digital broadcaster recently agreed for an exchange of its two channels for one on the Sky Digital platform for 1.4 million stg. The net book value of the two channels being exchanged is 304,936 stg. The net proceeds will be used to provide general working capital and to repay the 500,000 stg outstanding under the existing facility provided by Headstart.
Seth A. Rudnick, Venture Partner at Canaan Partners and M.D at Liquidia Technologies, a nanotechnology company focused on development of engineered particle-based therapeutics and featured optical films has been appointed as the Chairman of Board of Directors at Liquidia Technologies. Dr. Rudnick has been an adjunct clinical professor of medicine at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
BarCamp Mumbai 3 was recently held on March 29, 2008 at the School of Management at IIT Mumbai. In the true spirit of BarCamp it’s provided an open platform which anybody could make their own. For the event this time the infrastructure was extended in view of the overwhelming participation at BarCamp Mumbai 2. This edition also hosted a BlogCamp which had people talking about blogs and also other aspects of social media and marketing. The ‘FireTalk’ like minded people were brought together to discuss interesting ideas that could evolve into full scale business plan.
Canaan Partners invests in entrepreneurs and works alongside them to turn visionary ideas into valuable companies. Since 1987, the firm has catalyzed the growth of disruptive technology startups and healthcare companies revolutionizing the practice of medicine. With $3.4 billion under management and more than 94 acquisitions and 54 IPOs to date, Canaan has funded companies such as Acme Packet, Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo), CommerceOne, DoubleClick (acquired by Google), ID Analytics (acquired by LifeLock), Match.com (acquired by IAC), SandForce (acquired by LSI), SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP) and Virsto Software (acquired by VMware), as well as notable healthcare companies such as Advanced BioHealing (acquired by Shire), BiPar Sciences (acquired by Sanofi), Chimerix (NASDAQ: CMRX) and Elevation Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Sunovion). Current technology investments include Blurb, Kabam, Lending Club, Performance Marketing Brands, SOASTA, Tremor Video and Zoosk in the U.S.; BharatMatrimony and UnitedLex in India; and PrimeSense and LiveU in Israel. The Canaan healthcare portfolio includes emerging leaders such as Liquidia Technologies, Civitas Therapeutics and DICOM Grid. Canaan maintains a presence in the global innovation hubs of Silicon Valley, New York City, India and Israel. For more information visit www.canaan.com or www.facebook.com/canaanpartners.
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The evolving ecosystem of NewSpace
by Jeff Foust
|“I haven’t invented warp drive,” Goff said, “but I think I can do a tractor beam.”|
Six months later, after working on miscellaneous contracts for other companies, Goff discussed his company’s new focus in a presentation at the Space Access ’11 conference in Phoenix. “You’d think we’d be doing most of our work on rocket propulsion, rocket vehicles, things like that,” he said. “But it turns out the first product we’ve really gained traction with is actually a rendezvous and docking technology. I didn’t think I was starting a spacecraft mechanisms company, but apparently I did.”
That direction, he said, was driven by the need for improved, simplified docking systems to support the high flight rates envisioned for future RLVs to serve markets like propellant depots. The solution Altius has proposed is what the company calls the “Sticky Boom”: a long, deployable boom that has a special electrostatic adhesion material, developed by SRI International, that allows the boom to attach to almost anything without the need for special manipulators or grapples. “You don’t even have to know what the thing is made of what it’s shaped like before you go to stick to it,” Goff said.
At the time of the Space Access conference, Altius had developed a proof of concept demonstrator: a small boom that extended about a meter with a C-shaped grapple on the end that included the electrostatic adhesion material, allowing it to attach to objects (in this case, a small can) and move them across a table. The demonstration became the hit of the conference, and after Goff’s presentation people surrounded a table in the conference’s exhibit area to see the boom at work.
Nearly four months later Goff was again presenting about Altius, this time as one of the finalists in the NewSpace Business Plan Competition at the NewSpace 2011 conference at NASA Ames Research Center in California. The Sticky Boom technology, advanced over the interim through a series of development “sprints”, including one that concluded with a successful test of the system on a zero-g parabolic aircraft flight, was now at the center of a concept Altius called “Direct to Station” to enable just-in-time deliveries of small cargo to the station.
In the Direct to Station system, a small rocket, such as a dedicated nanosatellite launcher, would launch a cargo spacecraft carrying critical supplies to the station. Rather than docking directly to the station, though, the spacecraft would only approach close enough to be in range of a Sticky Boom system on the ISS. The boom would deploy, attach to the spacecraft, and reel it in. “It allows us to offload the visiting vehicle requirements off the nanosat launch provider and more towards our side of the solution space,” Goff explained in his pitch to the business plan competition’s judges. “It will ultimately allow us to change how space deliveries are done forever.”
This solution, he said, would open up a new market for launch providers as well as for his company, which would generate revenue from leasing the hardware to the station and charging fees to the companies delivering spacecraft to the station. The technology had applications elsewhere, he added, noting interest from NASA and industry for uses ranging from Mars sample return missions to orbital debris removal.
Back at Space Access, Goff recalled that some have argued that it won’t be possible for commercial space activities to go much beyond the status quo without a quantum leap forward in propulsion technology, like the warp drive from Star Trek. “I haven’t invented warp drive,” he said, “but I think I can do a tractor beam.”
Altius Space Machines is not the only NewSpace company focusing on an enabling technology rather than a complete launch vehicle or spacecraft. At Space Access, Max Vozoff discussed work by Innovative Space Propulsion Systems (ISPS), a company commercializing NOFBX, a new monopropellant based on nitrous oxide intended to replace hydrazine in space applications. NOFBX, Vozoff explained, is more efficient and less expensive than hydrazine and, unlike hydrazine, is non-toxic.
|“The problem for space experimenters currently is that they have to spend as much time building their computers as they do building the experiment itself,” said Celestial Circuits’ Dunstan.|
The challenge Vozoff and ISPS face is trying to demonstrate those advantages. “We are lacking 50 years of flight heritage,” unlike hydrazine, he said. The company is planning to start closing that gap in experience by flying a demonstration of their system on the ISS late next year. If successful, that could unlock an existing market Vozoff conservatively valued at $500 million a year, plus new enabled markets created by this propellant.
Vozoff joined ISPS as its vice president of business development after leaving SpaceX, where he has worked on the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. “The opportunity to be a founding member of ISP Systems was a significant factor in my decision to leave SpaceX last year,” he said. That opportunity, though, is not without considerable work. “I thought I had a leisurely six to nine months to get our business model together and roll it out in an orderly fashion, and all of a sudden all these big proposals were due the next month.”
At the NewSpace 2011 business plan competition, two of the other four finalists were also focused on products that supported the broader NewSpace industry. Celestial Circuits plans to develop low-cost flight computers for small satellites, including cubesats—tiny spacecraft 10 centimeters on a side and weighing one kilogram that are popular with university programs—that today often have to rely on custom-built solutions. “If I want to conduct a chemistry experiment, the first thing I don’t do is invent the Bunsen burner,” said co-founder Jim Dunstan. “The problem for space experimenters currently is that they have to spend as much time building their computers as they do building the experiment itself.”
Celestial Circuits plans to offer several tiers of computers, from low-end systems designed for educational use in the lab to fully space-qualified radiation-hardened systems for spacecraft, using the volume of demand they anticipate to lower prices below existing options. The company already has a memorandum of understanding with NanoRacks, a company providing small experiment rack space on the ISS, to use its computers. “Celestial Circuits is going to standardize and drive down the costs of computer hardware for the cubesat format,” Dunstan said, “and the same hardware can be used from tower drops, or dropping it off your school if you’re a student, all the way up to the ISS.”
Final Frontier Design, another company in the business plan competition, seeks to enter the market for spacesuits. That area is relatively crowded given the low demand for such products currently: in addition to existing companies like ILC Dover, Hamilton Sundstrand, and Oceaneering that have largely focused on NASA work, Orbital Outfitters has been working on pressure suits for the last several years, targeting NewSpace vehicle developers in particular.
What sets his company apart, said co-founder Ted Southern, is their pressure suit design, which does away with the double-layer pressure garments—an inner pressure bladder and outer restraint layer—common to other suits in favor of a simpler single-layer design that weighs less, is more comfortable, and also costs less. “We see a huge advantage in this technology,” he said. That suit technology has been developed by Southern and his fellow co-founder, Nikolay Moiseev, who spent over 20 years developing spacesuit designs for the Russian space program.
|“To me, a NewSpace company is a company that is built, formed, operated by, funded by, or has as part of its business plan the opening of the space frontier, and making a profit while doing so,” Tumlinson said.|
Southern said his company plans to sell suits directly to vehicle developers, and has been in discussions with Armadillo Aerospace via Space Adventures—who will market suborbital space tourism flights on vehicles Armadillo plans to develop—regarding suits. Each suit would sell for $75,000 and be certified for ten flights; southern added that the cost to develop the suits is “encouragingly cheap.”
At the end of the banquet that capped off the NewSpace 2011 conference two weeks ago, the business plan competition judges announced the winners. Final Frontier Design won third place and a $2,500 prize. Celestial Circuits won second place and $5,000. And Altius Space Machines? Its Sticky Boom reached out and grabbed the $25,000 grand prize.
“Wow,” Goff said in accepting the prize. “We’ve got a lot of work ahead for ourselves.”
Altius Space Machines CEO Jon Goff poses with the check for winning the grand prize in the NewSpace Business Plan Competition last month. (credit: Altius Space Machines)
This broader scope of companies that fall under the NewSpace umbrella, from developers of inexpensive spacecraft computers to new propellants to booms that make spacecraft rendezvous and docking simpler, raises a fundamental question: what does it mean for a company to be a “NewSpace company”? And, just what exactly is NewSpace, if it’s more than companies building low-cost suborbital and orbital launch systems? Can more established companies working in new commercial fields—think Orbital Sciences in commercial cargo to the ISS and Boeing in commercial crew—be considered part of NewSpace?
“We have some disagreements, back and forth internally, about what NewSpace means,” Space Frontier Foundation co-founder Rick Tumlinson said in a luncheon speech at the NewSpace 2011 conference. NewSpace, in his opinion, is “a way of doing business and NewSpace is an industry doing business in a new way, and NewSpace is an industry that’s doing business for a purpose.”
And what purpose is that? “To me, a NewSpace company is a company that is built, formed, operated by, funded by, or has as part of its business plan the opening of the space frontier, and making a profit while doing so,” he said. “It is the industrial engine that will power the movement” towards a more fundamental goal of space settlement. The definition is certainly broad enough to capture a wide range of entrepreneurial and even established companies doing far more than space tourism and servicing the ISS. Just how lucrative those markets are, though, remains to be seen. | <urn:uuid:7b86b627-f13f-4c1f-8264-418d15223c2a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thespacereview.com/article/1906/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959797 | 2,306 | 1.75 | 2 |
ATHENS – Greece aims to shield its banks from possible lawsuits linked to a crucial buyback of sovereign bonds and has no plans to extend the acceptance deadline for the scheme beyond Friday, a senior finance ministry official said.
A successful buyback is central to Greece's efforts to slash its debt. Greek banks will hold board meetings on Friday to decide whether they will join in and must declare their interest by 12 noon EST.
Greek lenders' participation is key for the success of the plan, under which Athens aims to spend 10 billion euros of borrowed money to buy back bonds far below their nominal value, cutting its debt by a net 20 billion euros.
Newspaper Kathimerini said there was a possibility the government would extend the deadline to early next week.
But the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, played down the report.
"The process will close today and there is no need for an extension," he said.
The government would provide legal cover to protect the management of banks choosing to participate in the plan from possible lawsuits from shareholders who may suffer losses, the official said, without giving details.
Greek lenders hold an estimated 17 billion euros of bonds out of the 63 billion eligible for the buyback. They are expected to participate because they depend on the bailout funds Athens stands to receive once the buyback is completed.
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One potbelly pig captured; another still at large
Animals make a home outside Linthicum office park
A pair of Vietnameses pot-bellied pigs head toward the woods where they have taken up residence near an office park on Hammonds Ferry Road. (Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun / September 23, 2011)
The target: potbelly pigs.
"Chasing down a pig can be impossible," Robin Small, administrator for Anne Arundel Animal Control, said of the animals that have taken up residence outside an office park at 601 N. Hammonds Ferry Road.
The pigs, which were first seen Sept. 2, have delighted workers at the office park near Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
"They're as cute as can be," said Karen Gower, an employee at the Red Wing Shoes store. "They don't bother anyone."
But that sentiment does not sway the county's animal control officers. Traps were set for — and ignored by — the pigs.
Until Thursday evening, that is, when one of the pigs, a 26-pound female, was captured with a net.
The other pig is thought to be male and of similar size. Small said that she and her colleagues will continue their efforts to capture it.
Gower and Will Jones, who also works at Red Wing Shoes, have grown fond of the pigs, which stayed in the grass next to the parking lot, they said.
Gower noticed that someone has been leaving food for the pigs in their favorite spot: a space between three large pine trees where the ground is coated with soft pine needles. Gower said she suspected Jones of being be the pig-feeder, but he would "neither confirm nor deny" his involvement, he said with a grin.
Kimberly Silvestro and Sarah Plymire, who work at Valley Lighting, share the warm feelings toward the newcomers.
"We should put a fence up [blocking the parkway] and keep them in," Silvestro said. "I think everyone's growing fond of them."
Plymire said that the pigs haven't caused any damage to the area and that no one has been bothered or harmed by their presence. "They mostly play," she said.
As endearing as they may be, Small said they cannot stay where they are for safety reasons. Because the area is right next to the highway, "they can be put in jeopardy," she said.
Susan Magidson, owner of a potbelly pig rescue farm, agreed, saying that the pigs must be captured and returned to a home. Because pigs can reproduce very quickly, the two potbellies could become "very much a public nuisance" if left in the wild for too long, she said.
"It just does not make sense not to capture them," she said.
Magidson, who has been rescuing potbelly pigs at her Pennsylvania farm for 20 years, has placed 1,200 pigs into homes in that time. She is the president of the Pig Placement Network — an Internet community that finds new homes for pigs — and will be working with Anne Arundel animal control officers to find homes for the two office-park potbellies, if needed.
Small said that the pigs, once caught, have to spend five days in the shelter to allow their owners time to reclaim them, but after that they will be available for adoption. Animal control officers are accepting applications for ownership of the captured female through the Pig Placement Network.
"We don't know how they got out there, where the pigs came from," Small said, but animal control officers are working as hard as they can to "provide for them a safe environment." | <urn:uuid:396369f9-f656-42f4-b3d4-d1bcbd61c2bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailypress.com/topic/bs-md-ar-suburban-pig-hunt-20110916,0,4996868.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982126 | 767 | 1.664063 | 2 |
So after examining close-up pictures of "fennel pollen" (at least, the retail stuff like this: http://www.pollenranch.com/fennel-pollen-spice.html
), I've decided that it is actually the fennel flowers
. Of course, the flowers are tiny, yellow and fuzzy-looking, so it's an understandable misnomer. It's also something of a relief, because I went a-foraging a few days ago to a patch of wild fennel. I harvested around 50 smallish 'heads' of flowers, then left them to dry overnight on a big paper bag, as suggested on this website: http://fleaabouttown.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/free-fennel-pollen.html
Next day, I examined the yield - it was ridiculous, about enough to cover my fingernail! Then, on closer examination, it didn't even seem to be pollen. Now admittedly, I don't have a microscope or even a magnifying glass, but my eyesight is pretty good, and this tiny pile of yellow looked more like tiny little fennel-flower petals to me. So, with that decided, I went about detaching the rest of the flowers. Many came off just by rubbing them between my fingers, and I ended up attacking some of the more stubborn heads with nail scissors. The yield was about 2 tablespoons.
I may go back and have another go using the "fresh harvest" method, and see if that yields any more actual pollen.
But in the meantime, I have my (no doubt pollen-rich) fennel flower-buds. They're lovely. Very sweet, and a strong, lingering fennel-oil flavour, with none of the "grassiness" of fennel bulb/leaf, and none of the woodiness of fennel seeds (though as others have said good-quality, freshly-ground seed would be the nearest substitute). I plan to use some on my next chevre.
Also, if anyone in Australia is unable to source this ingredient - well, first I would suggest looking in the nearest open space beside a railway track, as they grow feral along every rail line within a few hundred km of Sydney, and also along roads. Be quick though, as the wild fennel will start to go to seed soon. And if you still can't find any and have some cheese project that requires it, PM me your address and I'll post you a spoonful. According to other forum members, a teaspoon is enough for ~500g of chevre, and you would use even less for any kind of aged cheese, so that should go a long way. Only while stocks last! | <urn:uuid:ed564ce1-8483-4003-ad6a-f0a851c9760c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,9280.msg68035.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958463 | 573 | 1.632813 | 2 |
SHELTON, Wash. - Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Norm Dicks are visiting the Olympic Peninsula Thursday to promote their Wild Olympics legislation. They're stopping at a Taylor Shellfish site near Shelton and touring areas that would be affected.
Bills in the House and Senate would create nearly 200 square miles of new wilderness in Washington's Olympic National Forest and designate 19 rivers and seven tributaries as Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Murray and Dicks say they have made compromises to overcome objections the designations would be too restrictive on logging and recreation.
The Aberdeen and Cosmopolis city councils and Grays Harbor County commissioners have passed resolutions opposing the Wild Olympics campaign. | <urn:uuid:f99d859d-0181-48dc-9c2d-856f7fd7a6fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kbkw.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=4465 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953051 | 137 | 1.546875 | 2 |
This week in Rotary: Greta Schock - going to Brazil. Greta’s father has been a Wenatchee North Rotarian. The... http://t.co/Tz3krasda9
Wenatchee Rotary was organized on January 11, 1921. Prior to that, the idea of having a Rotary Club in Wenatchee came to Dr. H.F. (Bert) Morse who was a natural born Rotarian and deserves recognition as being the Father of our Wenatchee Rotary Club. On his way to Chicago to attend a 1920 convention of Osteopathic Physicians, Bert had as a companion a Wenatchee attorney. Together they decided to call on the International Association of Rotary Clubs to make inquiry as to how to form a Rotary Club in Wenatchee.
Bert was advised to get in touch with Nelson Pike of the Spokane Club, who was governor of District 101. A District Assembly for club presidents and secretaries was being held in Walla Walla and Bert, along with several others, made the long trip in the heat of July to contact the District Governor. They were told that Rotary frowned on organizing clubs in cities under 10,000 population. Wenatchee barely qualified.
The District Governor commissioned the Rotary Club of Spokane to sponsor a club in Wenatchee if a survey showed the city had qualified business and professional men to form a club. A committee of Dr. Morse, Alex Corbin, Ira Edwards and O.B. Shay signed up 25 charter members. At the time the club first met there were only Rotary Clubs in Yakima and Walla Walla between Seattle and Spokane.
Growth of the club was fantastic. At the end of the second year, there were 58 members with an average attendance of 92.49%. "Service" was emphasized from the beginning when, in 1922, a carload of apples was sent to both the Industrial School for Boys and the Industrial School for Girls. Later projects included paying for Scout-A-Vista, building of Mission Vista Group Home, sponsoring cabins at Camp Zanika-Lache, YMCA projects and helping to establish the North Central Washington Museum, the Wenatchee Valley College and the Wenatchee Valley Senior Center.
From the beginning, we have had outstanding members from our community who have served as members of the school board, the Chamber of Commerce, on the city council and as mayor, as state representatives and senators, as well as leaders in the business and professional community. Eight of our members have served as Rotary District Governors. Ed Cadman, one of our members, served as President of Rotary International from 1985 to 1986 and, following that, as Chairman of the Trustees of the Rotary Foundation.
At the present time, the Greater Wenatchee community numbers about 50,000 and there are 4 Rotary Clubs here. Along with Rotary International, our club has participated in the effort to eradicate poliomyelitis in the 21st century. We currently have reduced the cases of polio by 99% since 1988 and hope to complete the effort within the next couple of years.
Over the years we have conducted fun-raisers to support many projects in our community and around the world. We helped build a feeding station and day care center in Danli, Honduras, provided 100 wheelchairs to the disabled in Troitsk, Russia, provided a van to an orphanage in Russia, participated in Cleft palate surgeries in Viet Nam, Peru and Venezuela. Built water wells in Africa and provided clean water in Haiti. We have provided shelter boxes for national and international disasters.
In Wenatchee we have lit ball fields, provided art sculpture in the parks, helped build Habitat for Humanity Houses, financed work on the Guild House, financed DARE projects, built maintenance facilities for the Saunders Miniature Railroad in the Park., Built Rotary Park on Western Avenue and built a playground at Lincoln Park. and provided scholarships to many youth. In addition, to these many projects, we have taken on a five year project of helping WestSide High School in their transition to a new facility. All of this while participating in International Youth Exchange and Group Study Exchange programs.
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Asian Heritage Tours in Houston's booming Asiatown in Southwest Houston highlight the best of Asian culture, including tea tasting, herbology, Chinese calligraphy, Dim Sum, shopping, and Buddhist temples.
Houston's Asiatown began as a small Chinatown in downtown Houston with the opening of the store Quong Yick in 1926. At that time, fewer than 200 Chinese lived in Houston. Today, Chinatown has expanded to include other Asian cultures and has moved from downtown to southwest Houston.
Asian Heritage Tours, which can be tailored to each group, can include any of the following:
Tea Tasting and Herbology
Sip freshly brewed tea while learning to brew the perfect cup. Distinguish among exotic varieties of tea and discover the health benefits of herbal remedies.
The art of Chinese calligraphy is practiced by skilled artists and takes many years to perfect. Each guest is encouraged to try his/her hand at writing simple Chinese characters. Receive a souvenir of your name written in Chinese calligraphy.
Pick and choose from any piping hot appetizer-portion dishes presented on carts wheeled around the banquet hall, from turnip cakes and mango pudding to shrimp dumplings and spring rolls.
Shop at the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in the southwest, with nearly 30 stores among lily ponds and fountains. Hong Kong City Mall is the perfect place for unusual finds.
Guests will be enlightened on the practice and teachings of Buddhism at a traditional Buddhist temple. Guests may light incense and give offerings of paper money and fruits to their ancestors.
Shao Lin Kung-Fu
Guests may take an introductory class in Shao Lin Kung-Fu, which was first developed in the third century in Shao Lin temples in remote areas of China. As the style grew, other forms such as Tai Chi were absorbed and incorporated.
Tours are by appointment and can accommodate small and large groups.
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Teens Who Gamble
She started gambling when she was 7. Her parents, both alcoholics, thought it was cute to have a child playing poker games with the adults. Karen H., who doesn't use her full last name as a rule of anonymity through Gamblers Anonymous, has not gambled for more than 24 years. She is the executive secretary for Gamblers Anonymous International Service Office in Los Angeles, Calif.
Even though legal gambling is restricted to those over 18 years of age, an increasing number of teenagers borrow money, neglect themselves, miss class, pawn items and lie to hide their gambling addictions – and the Internet makes it easy.
A True Story
"I gambled as a teenager," Karen says. "I learned how to shoot dice, and I shot dice with the boys in the co-ed locker room at my junior high school. It was just the excitement. I took money out of my mom's purse to gamble."
Her gambling also manifested itself in seemingly less harmful ways. "[I] used to throw baseball cards up against a garage door with friends, and whoever got closest to the garage door got the baseball cards," she says.
Karen even got married in Las Vegas. She agreed to join Gamblers Anonymous as a way to pacify her husband, thinking she would quit gambling for a while and then go back to it. "My marriage was on the verge of disaster, but I did not care about anybody," she says.
She quit gambling when her children were 9 and 13. "I would be gone for a day – maybe two days – when the clubs started staying open all night, and I would do things I'm not real proud of like leave my 7-year-old," she says. "I'd drop her off at school and say, 'Now you wait here on the street corner for me. I'll be here to get you. You have a dentist appointment,' and I'd never show up to get her. Same thing with my son. They would be waiting for me on the porch when I got home. Sometimes it was raining. Sometimes I did not get home."
Karen says teenagers occasionally show up at Gamblers Anonymous meetings, but most are having too much fun gambling to give it up. She still is not sure why gambling became an obsession for her. "My parents were both alcoholics, and they died drinking alcohol," she says. "I think one of my reasons for gambling was to escape the reality of my life at that time. I realized I could have a better way of life. I do it one day at a time."
According to a recent Gallup Poll Social Audit, seven out of 10 adults and 26 percent of teens have taken part in some form of legal gambling with lotteries being the favorite form of most Americans. Twenty percent of teenagers say they gamble more than they should compared to 11 percent of adults. Also, 29 percent of teen gamblers claim to have made their first wagers when they were 10 years old or younger.
Ed Looney of Clifton, N.J., the executive director for The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, Inc., says his organization has a compulsive gambling awareness program for teenagers. They use the "Safe Bet" video and have been going to schools since 1983. He says 12 percent of people have compulsive gambling problems and the numbers are increasing among teens.
"Every high school we go to there is gambling," Looney says. "Some of it is really out of control. When you get to the college level, that's when it's epidemic. When they first start gambling, they say, 'I bet I can beat you to the corner, I can make more foul shots than you can or that the Giants win this weekend. It's nickel and dime, small amounts of money."
Betting Through Bookies
Looney says one of the most problematic areas for teen gambling is sports. They often start participating their sophomore year of high school. Teenagers who gamble are introduced to bookies, who give them an opportunity to gamble on games illegally as well as a credit line.
"They might get a credit line of $25 or $50 a game," he says. "He can bet on games all week, and then Sunday night he tallies up if I owe him the money or he owes me the money. It's not uncommon for kids in junior and senior high schools to have a bookie. Now they are dealing with organized crime. They are excited about it because they are betting on their favorite teams."
But just like in the movies, bookies can get violent, starting with verbal abuse and threats if the teenager does not pay up. To avoid the harassment, some teens steal jewelry from their mothers. Others might break into other homes or even begin selling drugs.
Gambling becomes easier for some teenagers once they enter college and have more space and freedoms as well as access to credit cards. "They also have Internet gambling," Looney says. "Now they are getting credit cards when they go to college. They can get a credit line and open up an account on Internet gambling and do the same thing from the quiet of their dormitory."
Profile of a Teen Gambler
Parents will not always be able to spot a teenager with a gambling problem. However some of the most obvious warning signs are financial problems. In addition, Looney says gambling teens let their school work slide, miss classes and don't stay focused. He says it's not uncommon for some college students to drop out without telling their parents.
Ironically enough, the profile of a teenager gambler might be someone a parent would want his or her son or daughter to date. He or she is usually a good student, highly motivated, excellent at math and popular. They don't like to lose, and that contributes to their compulsive gambling problem.
Looney says gamblers go through a phase where they feel lucky and special followed by a downward spiral that ends in a desperation phase where they can't stop gambling. "The critical thing not to do with an addict is to bail them out," he says. "They need to address that pressure in a healthy way. They need treatment."
If a teenager does not receive treatment, he or she may be more likely to become involved in illegal activities or to commit suicide. According to Looney, more than 20 percent of compulsive gamblers think about suicide during their desperation phase. "Suicide becomes a real strong choice for many," he says. "The addiction comes before your wife, your kids, your best friend, your reputation. The addiction comes first."
All in the Family
Carol O'Hare, the executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, says all gambling starts out harmless, and most people don't think a playful poker game will lead to a lifetime of impulse control problems.
"What distinguishes between social gambling and problem gambling has more to do with the individual than the games they are playing," she says. "You can't necessarily say if kids start out playing games as children that it progresses to gambling addiction. We may find there are some common characteristics among youth who gamble."
O'Hare says adults with a gambling problem need to understand that their problem does have an impact on their children and family. "It's not uncommon for them to say my dad was an alcoholic or a problem gambler," she says. "It's only logical then that we have to be concerned about the generation of adults right now with gambling problems. What then is the next generation impact for those kids?"
Oftentimes children of gamblers will not develop good coping skills or miss the emotional security that is so important during childhood. "As they get older they are subject to those same kinds of problems as the parents were," O'Hare says.
Parents can help, not just in leading by example. Although most teenagers do not want to get help for their problem, parents can set up short-term counseling and introduce them to Gamblers Anonymous, a long-term support group for people of all ages and all walks of life.
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Melissa Harris-Perry | February 10, 2013
>>> we are previewing president obama 's tuesday night state of the union address . i want to turn to my guests to find out what they think the president will say and what they think he should say. author of "blue grit," suzanne, a republican strategist and msnbc contributor. richard kim , editor of the nation.com and fellow at the lbj school at the university of texas . she's director of communications for latino decisions. laura, how can the president make tuesday night count?
>> what is he going to say -- the state of the union is strong. listening to his speech from the dnc all those years ago, red not blue, we have a very divided nation. one thing is to point out that our congress in predominantly working and middle class country is a congress of billionaires and multimillionaires. i think at the last count, most of them had not more than 1.5% of their work lives ever involved in any kind of manual labor or service industry job. you have a huge division when talking about union. if you want to talk about the political division , the country is red/blue divided like when on the verge of the civil war . i think there's something he could do. last year the state of the union declared the $25 billion housing settlement. a lot of people want to know where has that money gone? it goes to the question of wealth in this country and specifically you talked about it, race. african-americans lost 75% of their wealth. black wealth is at the lowest in 26 years. color of change and a lot of others are saying this is the kind of action to monitor where the money is going. stop the banks as they try and fine every trick they can to distribute the money where it's not needed and raise the issue of wealth and equality. it would be interesting and memorable if they say the state of our economy is improving. the state of our union -- not so good. that would be like if he said we are not unionized because of the inequality.
>> the speeches you showed earlier, they were all on the campaign trail or states of emergency. i think obama's state of the union is overwhelming because it's a cramped environment. that's what he's trying to project. do you remember the 2011 siege? i think this is going to be back to the state of the union speech . it's going to focus on education, energy and infrastructure. it's the same things he laid out for four years in a row. he did it in 2011 . there's nothing wrong with that bipartisan all hands in, call for america to create jobs. he's avoiding conflict in that. he's not willing to push the political leverage to get this done. it failed as an insightment to action. i wonder what he can do new in this setting to move that agenda forward. susan, people watch. this was one of my questions. is it just us? i watched the state of the union . i won't this year because of mardi gras .
>> priorities. what watches. is it the political class? no. people tune in. with the president, it goes up and down. we are talking tens of millions of people who watched the state of the union over the years for the president. one of the things people watch for is that applause line, right? and particularly the partisan nature of it. what are they going to see from republicans? what are they going to applaud and not applaud?
>> it's interesting. the response from marco rubio will provide a greater insight to go back to what he needs to do. he needs to pull the political lever. he took a lot of mixed criticism for his inaugural speech. he's not going to have more than a year to move forward. this is going to determine his legacy. she should be political. as much as he's been trying to unite the country or say he believes this that message, we see the fights. no one believes it. why not draw the line in the sand ? he's been successful. i agree with the policies.
>> i agree with susan. i'm looking for the moment to jump on the republican strategist. okay.
>> as a strategist, that's what you should do. get into what the republicans do to respond to it. also he's in a difficult situation. how much does he go to the economy? everyone is concerned. an issue like gun control which is starting to lose steam in the american public's eye. this is something he should be on. i hope he's successful at it. he could be losing it and have to balance that.
>> who is his audience? i sit down and think when you are talking here, you are preaching to the choir. what i'm interested in and what i think is going to be fascinating is how republicans respond. republicans right now are at a cross roads . they are trying to shake out how they are going to respond the next two years going into the 2014 midterm and into the presidential. marco rubio is giving the official response. rand paul is giving the tea party response. we are going to see how these two republican factions fight it out amongst themselves in response to the president's speech.
>> very specifically on the applause line, what about immigration? rubio is going to give the response. this is one of the places where there isn't that much daylight between the president and the senator on issues of what the immigration plan looks like. it ice brand-new, right? let's be clear. what he makes is the common sense immigration lines. are we going to see the whole chamber stand for those?
>> okay. let's remember, there is that faction of extreme conservative that is only want ward of security. they don't want to see anything but immigration. speaking of rubio's response, it's interesting it's the first time we will see a response in spanish, it's a step in the right direction. you have to have substance behind the style. don't just speak to me in spanish.
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The Foundation for Physical Therapy
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physicians who have established self-referral arrangements compared with those
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differs between these 2 groups, and whether there is a higher overall cost
associated with physical therapy self-referral arrangements.
Mitchell, a professor of public policy at
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RHI gets approval following cut to biomass tariff
Green energy news – by Beth Glanvill
26th October 2011
The delayed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will go-ahead, but not without cuts to the tariff for large-scale biomass.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change
(DECC) said today the RHI
for the non-domestic market had received the go-ahead from the European Commission
following revisions to the regulations
of the scheme. These changes will see the tariff for large-scale biomass
cut by more than 60 per cent. Subject to Parliamentary approval, the scheme will now launch in late November, DECC said.
Originally due for launch at the end of September, DECC was prevented from launching the RHI, after the European Commission raised concerns
the tariff for large-scale biomass had been set too high. To meet State Aid approval, DECC said it had to re-lay the regulations.
"We have now updated the RHI regulations to reflect the required change to large-scale biomass tariff by the European Commission," a spokesperson for DECC said. "The large scale biomass tariff has been revised from 2.7 pence per kilowatt hour (KWh) to one pence per KWh.
"The regulations have been laid before Parliament, and subject to Parliamentary approval we hope to open the scheme before the end of November."
Renewable Heat Incentive
The RHI is expected to expand the market for renewable heat generation and supplies in the UK. Heating is responsible for 46 per cent of UK carbon emissions and the RHI aim to cut this by 10 per cent by 2020.
With a Government’s budget of £860 million, the RHI for non-domestic will provide funding through a reward-based scheme. The green subsidy will go towards those in the non-domestic sector who install renewable
heat technologies and fuel uses such as solid and gaseous biomass, solar thermal, ground and water source heat-pumps, on-site biogas, deep geothermal, energy from waste
and injection of biomethane into the grid.
Up to 123,000 industrial, commercial and public sector renewable heat installations could be up and running within the next decade, because of the scheme, according to the Government.
Buildings will have meters installed to measure the amount of heat generated, and the owner will be paid for the amount of usable heat generated. Solar thermal projects under 200 kilowatt hours (kWth) in size will receive the highest tariff at 8.5 pence per kWth.
Industry reacted to today’s news with a mix of relief that the scheme was finally launching, and concern about cuts to the subsidy.
"Industry will be relieved that the heat incentive will now go ahead," said Paul Thompson, head of policy at the Renewable Energy Association (REA), but he added that a cut of "more than 60 per cent" to one megawatt plus installations was "an extremely unwelcome surprise and will badly undermine projects at this scale."
Tim Minett, chief executive of leading UK biomass supplier CPL Distribution, however, was more sanguine: "Today’s news is a much-needed injection of confidence for the UK’s renewables sector […] The overwhelming majority of businesses will be unaffected by the revision."
A spokesperson for DECC acknowledged that the changes were "frustrating", however without them, he pointed out the scheme would not have been able to proceed.
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SCA Dance Cheat Sheets
Source: Playford (1653), Millar.
Setting: A longways set of couples.
It is not necessary to stay synchronized to the music for this dance.
Up a double and back, two times. The first couple casts off and leads down the outside, followed by everyone else, and back up the center to place.
Arched hey: All take hands; the first couple faces down, and goes under an arch made by the second couple, then over the third couple, and so forth all the way down and back, followed by all the other couples. When each couple reaches the end they turn around.
When the first couple returns to the top, they stop; when every one else returns to their original position, they stop as well.
First couple turns by the right in the center, then by the left with the twos, then by the right in the center, and so on down the entire line.
Transcription (1653 Playford, provided by Dani Zweig):
Lead up all a D. forward and back 3. times, cast off, meet below and come up, do so 3. times: First Cu. go down under the 2. Cu. arms, the 3. come up under the first, do this forward and back twice or thrice.
First man set to the 2. Wo. then to his own, then to the 3. Wo. then to his own, then to the 4. Wo. then to his own, and so to all the We. and men, then your Wo. do the same: then arm them as you set to them arming your Wo. then your Wo. as much.
Lead up again, then turn your Wo. with your right hand, and the 2. with your left, your Wo. falling as you turn, till you come to your place, then your Wo. do the same, you following her, the rest doing these changes.
A dance with this name is mentioned as early as 1551, but that mention is probably not the same dance. According to the Cunningham article on early references to ECD, the following item appears in a list of clothing: ``Thre garmentes of sarsenett for them that daunsed trenchmore,'' 1551/2, Feuillerat: Revels of Edward VI. However, since Playford's Trenchmore is a longways dance for as many as will, it seems that this mention of clothes for just 3 dancers would be referring to a different dance. Other references to Trenchmore in succeeding decades (given in the Cunningham article) also seem to be referring to a dance which is not a longways dance.
The book ``The British Broadside Ballad & Its Music'' has a few references to Trenchmore:
Lodowick Barry's play Ram-Alley, act III, scene i: Justice Tutchin says: ``Well I shall catch him in a narrow roome,/Where neither of vs can flinch; If I do,/Ile make him dance a trenchmoore to my sword.'' The author lived from 1580 to 1629; I'm not sure about the date on the play.
The Roxburge Ballads, volume XII, has a ballad, probably post-period, which is entitled ``The West-Country Jigg: Or, A Trenchmore Galliard.'' However, this use of ``Trenchmore'' is definitely as a place-name in this instance.
The detailed set of steps we have comes from Playford in 1653, over 100 years later than the first mention. The steps given above correspond to how my local SCA group dances it. Playford repeats the first section 3 times instead of 2, the arched hey `twice or thrice,' and has the first couple set down the line and turn back up it instead of just turning down the line. The music given in Playford is similar to the first part of the songs ``Tomorrow the Fox Will Come to Town'' and ``Willy prethe go to bed,'' which date back at least to 1609, in Thomas Ravenscroft's books.
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Slowing growth as well as deficit and debt problems in the Eurozone, U.S., China and the emerging nations increases the odds of a deflationary global recession and a renewed down leg in the ongoing secular bear market.
The Eurozone crisis is worsening as economic growth is being hit by front-loaded austerity measures that are exacerbating budget deficits and reducing tax revenues. The southern-tier nations, particularly Spain and Italy, cannot get credit as interest rate spreads have widened to unsustainable levels. Funds have been flowing out of the disadvantaged nations and appear on the verge of a full-fledged run if financial aid in some form is not provided in the very short term.
As we write, the EU is meeting in emergency session to take up measures to shore up the finances of Spain and Italy with the hope that they can buy enough time to start planning on longer-term solutions. For the last two years the EU has enacted one emergency bailout after another only to have to come back and try again within a short period of time. Most likely, they will come up with another short-term plan this time as well, although how much time it will buy is questionable.
The U.S economy has been slowing in the last two or three months. Either downside surprises or actual declines have been reported in key economic indicators relating to consumer spending, new orders, production and employment. A number of major companies have either revised down their second quarter earnings estimates or reduced their guidance for the second half. As a result, second quarter earnings estimates for the S&P 500 have been declining and full-year estimates probably will drop as well. When we further consider the dysfunction in Congress, the "fiscal cliff", the prospective end of operation twist, the elections and the prospect of renewed fighting over the debt ceiling, the threats to an already fragile recovery are high.
The Chinese economy is slowing, perhaps by more than the official numbers show. The NY Times has reported that many local and provincial officials have been falsifying numbers to hide the true extent of the problems. China's economic model is heavily dependent on capital investments and exports, while internal consumer spending remains a relatively small part of GDP. Although Chinese officials recognize the need to increase consumer spending as a percentage of GDP, that is a long-term solution. In the meantime, exports to Europe, China's top customer, are falling now and cannot be offset, except by ordering the building of more plants that will produce goods for which there is no current market. All in all, it seems that it will be difficult to avoid a hard landing.
The slowdown in Europe, the U.S. and China is also impacting the economies of the emerging nations, which are heavily dependent on exports. Declining growth is also driving down commodity prices. Despite all of the talk of decoupling, it seems apparent that the economies of all nations are linked and that there is little prospect of an oasis of prosperity in an increasingly dependent world.
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Have you ever heard of an anathema? It refers to a person who is considered eternally condemned or cursed of God. In other words, one is doomed to eternal condemnation in hell if he is anathematized.
The Greek word anathema is used 5 times in the Bible and Paul was the only writer to use it. Those are the only anathemas which are binding for us today. They are found in Romans 9:3; 1 Cor. 12:3; 1 Cor.16:22; Gal. 1:8 and Gal. 1:9.
Only Five Binding Anathemas
The first anathema is cited and shows Paul’s desire for the Israelites to be saved in exchange for himself being eternally condemned or cursed:
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race (Rom 9:3)
A different anathema states that no one can say Jesus be cursed under the control of the Holy Spirit:
Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor 12:3)
The third time anathema is used in Scripture is at 1 Cor. 16:22, where we read:
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema. (KJV)
Then we have the last two times that word (anathema) is found. Paul wrote regarding the seriousness of preaching a false gospel in Gal. 1:8,9 where he used that word anathema twice. He said this:
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Those are the five anathemas found in the Bible and the only ones relevant for us today. The last three are associated with not loving the Lord Jesus and the lethal error of preaching a false gospel. With that in mind, to love the Lord Jesus means you will obey him (John 14:15, 23,24). To know what a false gospel is, one must first know the real. The real gospel includes a conditional security for the believer:
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. (1 Cor 15:2)
if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. (Col 1:23)
Hence, to declare something to the contrary is dangerous to both the preacher and listener!
Catholic AnathemasAs is often the case, there seems to always be counterfeits. Such is true here with anathemas as well. When it comes to counterfeit anathemas, no group will ever surpass the Roman Catholic church. The Roman Catholic church has pronounced hundreds of anathemas on those who would disagree with them. Though Roman Catholics of our day would vehemently deny that one must be a Catholic to have salvation, the large number of anathema pronouncements against all who would doctrinally disagree with them presents a solid case for the opposite!
From The Council of Trent
Let me give you a few specific examples of counterfeit anathemas from the Roman Catholic church Council of Trent, which took place from 1545 to 1564. Regarding sprinkling infants, for what they call baptism, the Catholic church stated the following:
If anyone says that in the Roman Church, which is the mother and mistress of all churches, there is not the true doctrine concerning the sacrament of baptism, let him be anathema. (Session Seven, canon 3 under baptism).
In other words the Roman Catholic church pronounces a curse of damnation to hell on all who correctly reject, based on the Bible, the idea that an infant is born again when sprinkled during their baptism. They also teach that at infant baptism one get forgiven and becomes a child of God.
Here is another example. This one is given regarding what they call the Holy Eucharist. Bible believers call that communion. They said this:
If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but says that He is in it only as a sign, or figure or force, let him be anathema (Session Thirteen, chapter 8, canon 1).
In other words, the Catholic church has placed an anathema upon billions of people who reject their doctrine that the consecrated communion wafer is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine and should be worshiped like God Himself. This particular false doctrine related to transubstantiation has led many into idolatry. Clearly, if one worships a communion wafer he has committed idolatry. Yet the Catholic church would call this true worship. Imagine that!
One final example of another counterfeit anathema is related to what the Roman Catholic church wrote about their own mass:
If anyone says that the sacrifice of the mass is one only of praise and thanksgiving; or that it is a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross but not a propitiatory one; or that it profits him only who receives, and ought not to be offered for the living and the dead, for sins, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities, let him be anathema. (Session 22; chapter 9, canon 3).
So again the Roman Catholic church condemns to hell billions who correctly reject their doctrines associated with the repeated unbloody sacrifice for sins, purgatory, etc.
If you are thinking those Catholic anathemas came 450 years ago and have no place today, remember this: The latest Roman Catholic church council, Vatican Council II, reaffirmed the Council of Trent. By reaffirming Trent they also reaffirmed well over 100 Anathemas placed on all non-Catholics, including the ones just cited!
As I stated earlier, there are true anathemas and there are false ones. The only anathemas that are from God (the ones you need to be concerned about) are the ones cited in the Bible. They alone are relevant. All other anathemas are erroneous and therefore nothing but empty words. Don’t fear them. GOD BLESS YOU.
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Cooking With Cannabis
Smoking anything is almost certainly not good for you. However, there is an alternative for people who don't want to smoke but still want to enjoy the effects of cannabis - you can eat and drink it.
Of course, it should be pointed out that eating cannabis is just as illegal as smoking it and it carries a few risks of its own, but it does avoid all the hazards of smoking.
Cannabis can be added to a wide range of foods and drinks. Using it this way is called "ingestion" and perhaps explains how ex - US president Clinton "never inhaled", yeah, he probably munched hash cakes, after all politicians never lie...
THC, the main psychoactive chemical found in cannabis along with all the others, is soluble in non-polar liquids - bet you never knew that! What this means is that you can extract it into fats, oils and alcohol but not into water, in English, it doesn't dissolve in water but does dissolve into fats and oils ... or alcohol.
While eating it is just illegal as smoking it, it is a lot less obvious and so perhaps you're less likely to get busted for possession of a cake than a hash pipe.
Rather than tell you how to make a cake (go look up the recipe!), this section is dedicated to the theory of how to use cannabis successfully in any recipe that requires butter, fats or oils.
So you can add cannabis to any food that contains animal or vegetable fats, such as cakes, biscuits, stews or drinks such as milkshakes, drinking chocolate or yoghourts.
Important points to remember when cooking with cannabis are that you need to ensure an even spread of cannabis throughout the chosen dish and that the meal or item produced should not be too heavy. If you have a full stomach then the cannabis constituents will take longer to enter the bloodstream.
The basic principal in cooking with cannabis is to first extract the THC into a fat, for example butter or an oil. You do this by grinding up the cannabis into a fine powder and then adding it to a small amount of hot oil and allowing it to dissolve, then you add the oil/cannabis mix to the food you're preparing.
If you live in or near an Asian community, you can do even better by using ghee (clarified butter) which is widely used in Asian cookery. Because ghee has been clarified, had all the impurities taken out, it tends to become very hot when liquefied, so be very careful when melting it.
When powdering the cannabis, the pieces should be as small as possible. Now we come to the difficult issue of how much to put in. One suggestion is to make several items each the same size, for example cup cakes or squares of chocolate. Think of each one as being a spliff and put that amount in the mix, times the number of items you're making. If you assume 20 items to 2 grms (a "teenth") - 0.1 grm in each - that might be as good a starting point as any but remember, it's impossible to give firm advice. If it's too weak, you can always eat another but be warned you might find that even this dose is a bit too much..
If you're making a few items with a couple of grams of cannabis, you only need a small amount of oil, say a large spoonful or so. Heat this in a ladle or serving spoon but be careful not to burn your fingers.
Once up to temperature turn down the heat so that the oil is not burning or cooling off.. Sprinkle in your crumbled cannabis and stir gently. It is up to you how long you heat the mixture, stirring occasionally, to ensure the THC fully dissolves, but around an hour is a good guide. When this is done, add it to your cooking - any recipe calling for marg or butter - biscuits and cakes are a favourite or if you're really lazy melt it into chocolate.
Getting the strength right is the difficult part, since this depends on the strength of the cannabis you're using as well as simply the amount, as we say thanks to prohibition there's no way of knowing how strong it is without "sucking and seeing". UKCIA sugests that you make a large number of cakes or biscuits - say make 20 from 2grms (1/16th ounce) for starters and see how you go from there. You can always eat more than one if you think you need it.
It is also better to use grass rather than resin as it tends to be purer and easier to filter out the solid that remains after the extraction.
Either way grind up your chosen form of cannabis as finely as possible, before you add the alcohol soak it in warm water over night. This will remove any water soluble impurities but not any of that precious THC. After soaking drain of the excess water and place in an airtight jar and pour in the alcohol. Seal the container and place in a cupboard.
Most of the THC will have been absorbed within a week, but connoisseurs may leave it for a year or more! Whenever you feel like it drain of the liquor. If you use weed strain it through a sieve and then a coffee filter, for hash the coffee filter alone should be enough.
Pour liquor back in bottle and consume as desired. Using a fruit drink, rather than a clear spirit like vodka, will help hide the colour change and the sweetness will mask the bitter taste the cannabis extract can cause. A little practice will let you find your personal favourite flavours and strengths.
Things to be aware of
How it works:
The most important thing to know about ingesting cannabis is that it takes a while to have any effect. Nothing will happen for an hour or so, but when it does it can be far more potent than smoking the same amount. Many people say eating cannabis produces a more "trippy" effect, it can be very intense if you over do it and that may not be a nice experience, especially if you've never got stoned before and don't know what to expect.
Don't eat cannabis without a little bit of planning, including where you are and who you're with and what you intend to do for the next few hours
When prohibition ends, cannabis foods will no doubt be available in known doses, just like alcohol is today. Until then we have to live with this uncertainty. Trouble is, street cannabis varies greatly in strength from the pathetically weak to the nailing to the ground strong, so it simply isn't possible to give any firm advice on how much to use, beyond the rather vague "go by how much you smoke".Once the hash cake or whatever has gone down the neck, there's no going back. So it's important to start low and go slow!
If you do have a dose which is really too high, it can last a long time and might be very unpleasant. If you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people it can become very upsetting, perhaps even frightening. Although any bad effects usually pass when the cannabis wears off, for some people, especially children or young teenagers, this might contribute to emerging mental health issues. In any case, having a bad time is not the reason to take any drug.
Never give cannabis food to children, eating cannabis when pregnant included
There is an additional problem caused by the prohibition (illegality) of cannabis
Cannabis which you grow yourself or which was grown by someone you know will be OK But it's important to realise that cannabis is supplied by an illegal economy and the so called "black market" weed and hash may be very contaminated.
In the UK this not only means "Soap bar" (which should always be avoided anyway), but it may well apply to any imported hash or weed. Also the problem of contamination isn't limited to the "grit weed" which become so widespread.
Eating/drinking cannabis can be extremely dangerous due to the presence of chemical contaminants and / or pathogens (microbes), given the high possibility of adulterants in imported cannabis, you should really think twice before using a nonsmoking method.
There is no reliable way to clean contaminated cannabis, for example if your grass comes from sprayed crops there's nothing you can do about that. Crops in the producer countries are being sprayed by the US government (and probably by ours as well) with cancer causing herbicides as a part of the UN plan to eradicate cannabis form the world by.. er .. 2008. Seriously, that was the plan
Cooking at a high temperature will kill most pathogens, but maybe not all of them - if you crank up you're oven too high you'll nail the THC too... not to mention burning the brownies!
At the very least, NEVER eat street cannabis which hasn't been cooked, e.g., hash which has just been crumbled up and sprinkled on a sandwich; you'll probably be OK, but you might just end up with the runs - you could conceivably end up with hepatitis.
The obvious answer to all this is the end of Prohibition and the introduction of quality controls, but meanwhile please be careful regarding the eating / drinking method. It's generally good advice not to buy cannabis supplied by organised crime, get to know someone who grows at home.
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What Is a Community Redevelopment Agency?
Chapter 163, Part III, Florida Statutes, provides counties and municipalities with the authority to establish community redevelopment agencies in order to guide and support redevelopment activities to prevent and eliminate blighted conditions and to improve the economic climate within a specially designated area or areas.
Redevelopment activities are implemented through a public body, which is known as a community redevelopment agency. Under strict adherence to Chapter 163, Part III, Florida Statutes, the general purpose of a community redevelopment agency is to protect and enhance the district's tax base through redevelopment endeavors and the establishment of public/private partnerships.
Community redevelopment agencies have the ability to utilize a designated funding tool known as Tax Increment Financing, or TIF, which is available to cities and counties for redevelopment activities. TIF is used to leverage public funds to promote private sector activity in the denoted area or areas.
The dollar value of all real property in a redevelopment district is determined as of a fixed date, also known as the frozen value. Taxing authorities that contribute to the tax increment continue to receive property tax revenues based on the frozen value. These frozen-value revenues are available for general government purposes. However, any tax revenues from increases in real property value, referred to as ncrement, are deposited into a community redevelopment agency trust fund and dedicated to the redevelopment district. It is important to note that property tax revenue collected by a school board, or other entity considered to be a special district, is not affected under the TIF process.
What Is the Rockledge Community Redevelopment Agency?
Pursuant to Chapter 163, Part III, Florida Statutes, the Rockledge City Council established the City of Rockledge Community Redevelopment Agency (Agency) in 2002 as a dependent special district to guide the City in its redevelopment efforts.
The Redevelopment Agency Board of Commissioners
The seven-member Community Redevelopment Agency Board of Commissioners (Board) customarily meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1600 Huntington Lane, Rockledge, Florida. (Please note: meeting times are subject to change.)
The Redevelopment District
After determining it was necessary to tackle the blighting conditions threatening its commercial core, the City created four sub-districts that compose the entire Rockledge Community Redevelopment District.
Focused around the City's major arteries and collector roadways, these four sub-districts include:
2010 – A Year of Transformation
2010 was a particularly significant year for the Agency, and a number of positive transformations took place. Click here to read about them.
Adopted 2013 Redevelopment Agency Meeting Schedule
Rockledge Community Redevelopment Plan
Each community redevelopment agency in the State of Florida is guided by a community redevelopment plan. Essentially, the redevelopment plan serves as a redevelopment agency’s handbook, and any projects or initiatives undertaken by a redevelopment agency must relate back to the redevelopment plan. The Rockledge Community Redevelopment Plan was recently updated! (Note: large file size; may take several minutes to load)
Proposed FY 2013 Agency Budget
Adopted FY 2013 Agency Budget
Please take a few moments to peruse our Web site.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Review: Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The psychology of C.G. Jung was a modern system, constructed at the touching point between what is typically labelled as science and what is commonly called religion, which, I would argue, offered us one of the most accurate and necessary diagnoses and prescriptions for the state of mankind -- both as a collective and as individuals. This book is a popular presentation of that psychological-religious-philosophical-scientific theory written by Jung and by several of his most astute students. While I do not agree with every conclusion that Jung and his students/fellow-authors reach here, I do recommend this book, particularly Jung's opening chapter, as an excellent look at, to use Jung's terminology from another of his books, "modern man in search of a soul."
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Asia News Archive
Schools must revamp how they teach about the environment to prevent ecological collapse, conservationist Charles Saylan and UCLA life scientist Daniel T. Blumstein argue in "The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)."
In an event marking Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, the Israeli day of independence, members of the public and the UCLA community engaged in a discussion with award-winning director Yael Katzir on her latest film, set against the backdrop of the Lebanon war of 2006.
Burkle Center Fellow, Matthew Alexander, appears on CBS Evening News to discuss the implications of enhanced interrogation and its role in providing critical intelligence necessary to prevent terrorism at home and abroad.
Matthew Alexander on MSNBC's Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on The Legacy of Enhanced Interrogation
Alexander discusses the long-term costs of enhanced interrogation use and its impact on the lives of American service members at home and abroad.
Walls, fences and being overheard beyond walls and fences were the themes of Taiwanese intellectual Lung Ying-tai's May 2 lecture, in which she invited the audience to "sit along with me at the writer's desk." The event, attended by nearly 300 people, was sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
Burkle Center Fellow Matthew Alexander's Foreign Policy Reflection on the Logic of Torture After Osama bin Laden's Death.
The United States didn't need to waterboard anyone to get Osama bin Laden.
Burkle Fellow Matthew Alexander on The Ed Show Discussing Cooperation with Pakistan and Interrogation in the War on Terror.
Matthew Alexander analyzes possible trends in partnership and intelligence emerging out of the death of Osama bin Laden and comments on the legacy of torture and its effects on the international War on Terror.
Burkle Center Fellow Amy Zegart comments on KTLA on the meaning of Osama Bin Laden's death and its impact on the War on Terrorism.
Zegart discusses how Al Qaeda has grown stronger since America began its hunt for Bin Laden.
Burkle Center Fellow Amy Zegart quoted in CNN story “Is the U.S. safer today than before the 9/11 attacks?”
Experts believe the U.S. is safter today, but they say the nation still faces threats that are very real.
UCLA pediatric critical care doctor Kozue Shimabukuro flew to Japan and joined a roving government medical team in the first weeks after the quake and tsunami. This week, she spoke to give a voice to the tsunami orphans still in need of help.
Does WikiLeaks' newest document dump tell us anything we don't know about Guantánamo, or is it just another reminder that the United States' least worst place is now its most intractable legal problem?
Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University delivered the Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture, presented annually by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, on April 21 to a standing-room-only audience at the Anderson School's Korn Convocation Hall.
Economists and policy-makers need to rethink the long-term development of the nation's economy rather than design temporary solutions to crises, said the Columbia University economist, reports The Daily Bruin.
UCLA experts agree that the United States must do more to plan for worst-case scenarios when it comes to nuclear power.
The civil and environmental engineering professor traveled to Japan with a team seeking to understand why structures in the area failed, reports The Daily Bruin.
Two skeptics of the no-fly zone mission in Libya, Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. (ret.) Wesley K. Clark and Acting Professor of Law Asli Bali, identified a range of mixed motives behind the move to intervene and speculated on what will happen next.
Drawing on memoirs, personal interviews and other sources, Professor of Political Science Daniel Treisman, who first traveled to Russia in 1988, has written a sweeping study that covers roughly the period he's spent watching the country. Instead of pondering Russia's dark side or its "soul," Treisman in "The Return: Russia's Journey From Gorbachev to Medvedev" looks at Russia as a typical, though important, country facing everyday 21st-century social, political and economic challenges.
Three UCLA experts with family ties to Japan are among the Bruins who have rushed to aid Japan after that country’s devastating March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
A new report from the National Research Council recommends that the U.S. intelligence community adopt methods, theories, and findings from the behavioral and social sciences as a way to improve its analyses. To that end, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) should lead a new initiative to make these approaches part of the intelligence community’s analytical work, hiring and training, and collaborations.
Gen. Wesley Clark discusses the United Nations Security Council's decision to approve a no-fly zone over Libya, and says that the coalition needs to know how military action will impact the ultimate political goal in Libya. Aired on CNN Newsroom on March 18, 2011.
UCLA professors and campus groups are joining relief efforts, including a pediatrician who is part of a medical team trying to reach the devastated areas, a computer mapping expert who is assembling information to aid U.N. relief workers, and an earthquake engineer who will inspect damaged structures.
Matthew Alexander, an 18-year Air Force and Air Force Reserves veteran and author of books about effective, non-coercive interrogation methods, is bringing his on-the-ground perspective about counterterrorism policies to UCLA as a Burkle Center fellow.
Peek into Judith Carney’s background and you can understand her interests. "In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World," co-written with her husband, is one of two winners of the most recent Douglass prize, awarded to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.
Minister of National Infrastructure Uzi Landau speaks on national resources and the unrest in Arab countries, in a talk sponsored by UCLA's Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Tonight, more than 1,000 attendees are expected to gather in Royce Hall to welcome a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers, including director Aaron Williams, former National Public Radio director Frank Mankiewicz and MSNBC 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews. The Daily Bruin reports.
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Consumers now expect companies will conduct a dialogue with them online. Companies like Dell, Comcast and Zappos have changed customer expectations about what it means to reach out to a company for the simplest of requests or the most complex of complaints. Instead of calling a call center on their time, the consumer simply writes a blog post, Facebook update, or tweet anticipating a company will respond.
To write well in social media is not about being the most polished writer, or a creative copywriter, rather the skills that are needed to succeed are an ability to listen, be empathic, admit mistakes where necessary, and take a stand knowing the customer is not always right. Online, the good writer is outpaced by the good conversationalist.
You’ve developed your brand, spent decades on refining the look, and meaning of what it means to purchase your products. Perhaps the experience of going into one of your stores in Raleigh, North Carolina is the same as going into a store in Oakland, California. The experience of purchasing the product, sitting in the store describes the value of the product, but also conveys clues to a company’s corporate culture. Your company is a machine. However, your employees interpret your brand through a human lens everyday; they bring life to the machine, the process, and as a result turn a brand into a living perception in the minds of customers wanting to return.
It’s ironic that much of what tells the story about a company, its advertising, its website, and corporate communications does not allow the human ability to converse in. Especially because many organizations find that once they do start talking with customers using the web, there are a lot of good stories to hear. But corporate culture, the culture of the communication workflow in the company may not encourage dialogue with consumers even though conversation happens every day in thousands of stores across.
If you have a corporate culture where you don’t want employees revealing too much about a company, blogging may not be for you. If your company worries about giving employees the freedom to write a blog without editorial control, a blog is not for you. If there are legal or regulatory restrictions on what content you can publish, perhaps the banking or healthcare industry, you will have to think carefully before blogging.
To start corporate blogging, you have to be more open, willing to take criticism, and discuss any issues that arise because they probably will. If things get bumpy you have to be willing to give your point of view and state what you can and cannot do or say. If you’re not able to participate, engage, have a dialogue as part of your culture; blogging is not a good fit for you. And could harm your company if you participate, because once you set up a blog you are saying to the world that you are willing to conduct a dialogue, and if you don’t when the community expects your response, and you don’t respond instead of thinking of the employees in the stores across the nation, people will think of a company unwilling to talk back and forth. | <urn:uuid:4038af25-ed60-4961-ac26-70802a3012cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pr.typepad.com/pr_communications/2009/11/is-starting-a-corporate-blog-true-to-your-company-culture.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954441 | 627 | 1.742188 | 2 |
California has been reduced to throwing the world's biggest garage sale.
From the Times of London:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning to sell San Quentin prison and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in an attempt to raise money to ease California's huge budget crisis.
The 157-year-old prison, which houses more than 5,000 inmates - including more than 600 on death row - sits on prime real estate overlooking San Francisco Bay and is surrounded by some of the most expensive properties in the state. The Coliseum is the only stadium in the world to host the Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1984, and has been declared a historic national landmark.
The proposal to sell state assets is part of the California Governor's revised budget plan. The state faces a projected deficit of $15.4 billion (£10.2 billion) - or more if voters reject a series of cuts in a ballot next week. If, as polls indicate is likely, they do, California will face a deficit of $21.3 billion up to mid-2010, according to Mr Schwarzenegger.
The state, home to 37 million people, has seen income plunge, thanks largely to a calamitous decline in tax revenues caused by the housing crisis and recession. California had a budget of $131 billion in 2008....MORE
An in-depth story from the Mercury-News
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Players, teams learning to treat anxiety
Clubs turning to sports psychologists as athletes open up
Mel Didier is as old-school baseball as they come.
The 83-year-old has been around the game for 58 years as a Minor League player, big league scout and executive and has seen and learned a lot.
It was Didier, for example, who told Kirk Gibson that Dennis Eckersley would throw a back-door slider with a full count and first base open and then watched one of the most famous home runs in World Series history leave Dodger Stadium.
In other words, not a lot surprises Didier, even though he has seen established Major Leaguers such as pitchers Zack Greinke and Steve Blass, catcher Mackey Sasser and infielders Chuck Knoblauch and Steve Sax suffer from diagnosed and undiagnosed psychological maladies that affected their play in strange and sometimes career-threatening ways.
He's also watched this year as talented and successful big leaguers Dontrelle Willis, Khalil Greene and Joey Votto have been put on the disabled list because of similar problems, now known by the collective phrase of "social anxiety disorder."
"I'm sure it has happened in baseball forever, but back in my day, players probably played through it because there was somebody below them that was hankering to get to the big leagues and was capable," Didier says.
Didier is not alone in those thoughts, as these disorders aren't well known and are not easily diagnosed. While these types of disabling conditions might not have been recognized or treated in the past, there no doubt were individuals affected by the symptoms players have discussed more publicly than ever before this season.Psychologists and doctors contend very real problems exist, and it's logical that they are made that much more evident by the 24-hour news cycle and the pressures of playing up to lucrative contracts, among other factors. And the reality is mental roadblocks have stalled the seasons of Willis, Greene and Votto, and their teams are looking for 21st-century answers to getting these talented players through it.
More than a just a slump
Willis, the affable left-hander with the cap turned slightly sideways and the huge smile, is a two-time All-Star who won 22 games in 2005 and finished second in the National League Cy Young Award voting that season as a member of the Florida Marlins. He was traded to Detroit before the 2008 season and hasn't shown any command of the strike zone since.
During Spring Training, the team diagnosed him with an anxiety disorder, citing blood tests that raised concerns. He missed the first two months of the season, returned in May, continued to pitch poorly, and was put on the disabled list once again last week.
"I'm not crazy," Willis said. "My teammates might think I'm crazy, but this is not something like that. This is something totally different that I'm concerned about. This is something in my blood."
Greene has been quietly dealing with a different type of anxiety, one that has manifested itself not only in subpar results on the field -- he hit .213 while with the Padres last year and was batting .200 for St. Louis this year before being placed on the DL on May 29 -- but in erratic verbal and physical outbursts. He missed the last two months of the 2008 season after breaking his left hand punching a storage chest.
Greene's trip to the disabled list was followed by a short Minor League rehab stint, and when he returned to the big leagues last Thursday, he hit three homers in his first four games back with the Cardinals. A shortstop for his Major League career, Greene shifted to third base upon his return from the DL.Greene, 29, described his condition to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as anxiety caused by fear of failure, something that he has experienced since childhood but has intensified over the last couple of seasons.
"It's difficult for me to manage that [anxiety]," he told the paper in May. "I don't know how many people can relate to it. It's so strong. It's a very intense feeling and it's very unpleasant. It's not life-threatening. I'm not putting myself at risk. But at the same time, those responses are there automatically. I really have to concentrate to slow down, focus and stay in the game."
Votto, meanwhile, had been bothered by dizziness brought on by an inner ear infection along with the flu, and the 25-year-old slugger exited three games this year with those symptoms.
On May 21, tests revealed the inner ear infection, but there was enough wrong outside of the physical problem to warrant a team meeting.
On Tuesday, Votto finally opened up to the media, saying he had battled depression and anxiety related to the sudden death of his 52-year-old father, Joseph, last August.
"He was in my thoughts and I was dealing with it on a daily basis, but as powerful a moment that was to lose your father so young, in a way, I did suppress it," Votto said.
"From the beginning of the offseason until Spring Training, I was pretty severely depressed and dealing with the anxieties of grief, sadness and fear and every single emotion you can imagine everyone goes through. I had a really difficult time with it."
Help on the way
More and more, clubs are turning to sports psychologists to make these situations less difficult, and according to a prominent doctor in the Pacific Northwest, it's good to see anxiety disorders now being considered legitimately DL-worthy.
"It's a highly stressful situation with players these days," says Dr. Donald Smith, the director of the clinical psychology program at the University of Washington and a former roving Minor League psychology instructor for the Houston Astros (1985-96) and team counselor for the Seattle Mariners (1990).
"Anxiety is a mind and body phenomenon, and muscle tension interferes with the smooth, athletic movements we normally associate with Major League players. We tackle it by teaching stress management coping skills."
Smith says he has helped conduct studies that have shown that anxiety is much more likely to affect pitchers than position players and that even moderate muscle tension by a batter can "make an 85-mph fastball turn into 95 mph."
And for any team that has any doubts that psychological treatment can help players riddled with anxiety, Smith says clubs can go ahead and avoid it -- at their own risk.
"I met an old-school pitching coach who told me, 'I'm not here to coddle mental weaklings. It's a game of survival.'
"Well, survival is exactly what I'm talking about here, because a Major League team can't really afford to chalk these problems up to a guy not being 'tough enough' and letting him drop by the wayside. You need depth up and down that roster. You want as many players as possible being as healthy as they can be."
To that end, clubs are taking anxiety problems seriously before they even draft players.
Charlie Kerfeld, a former big league reliever and longtime scout who now serves as a special assistant to Philadelphia Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., says this approach is a no-brainer nowadays.
"Oh, absolutely, you have to dig for all that stuff," Kerfeld says. "By the time guys become Major Leaguers, most of that stuff has been out there by then. If they have problems they've been through in the past, in high school and in college or even before then, you better know about it already."
A different approach
And that's where Dr. David Grand's unique methods come into play.
Grand, a sports psychologist based in a suburb of New York City, helped cure Sasser, the former promising Major League catcher who, after suffering a collision in 1990, had trouble throwing the ball back to the pitcher. Grand did it with a procedure that he and his Massachusetts-based associate Dr. Alan Goldberg refer to as "brainspotting."
"Traditional sports psychology looks at performance problems in baseball such as those of Sasser or Knoblauch on a purely conscious level," Goldberg says.
"It says that if a player can control negative thoughts, he can concentrate better. But the problem is that these issues are not caused by conscious control. They reside in the athlete's body. Trauma doesn't get processed, it gets stuck. And the pressure of the big leagues triggers it."
Goldberg said more often than not, these traumas are rooted in physical injuries the athletes suffered years before, sometimes even in childhood.
"With past injuries, the brain doesn't process them," Goldberg says. "The physically and emotionally taxing experience is stored, and long after the experience happened, the body maintains the memory of it."
Grand's methods involve a bilateral stimulation of the brain in which music plays in alternating ears while the patient is asked to look from left to right and identify where they are looking when their anxiety intensifies.
"Where you look shows how you feel," Goldberg says. "They can open up and tell us what experiences they've had in the past that might have caused these problems."
Sasser swears by it, saying Grand helped him identify scarring experiences from boyhood. A college catcher patient of Goldberg's found that the numbness in his hand when he threw the baseball was related to a broken wrist suffered while being hit in a football game in seventh grade.
But no matter how a baseball player is treated for anxiety, Goldberg says the important thing is to recognize that it truly is a debilitating condition and not one to be ridiculed.
"We have to remember that these are human beings," he says. "They have emotions and frailties and feelings."
From darkness to light
Happy endings do exist for players stricken with anxiety disorders. Just ask 25-year-old Royals righty Greinke, a big-time prospect who left Spring Training in 2006 because of anxiety and missed most of that season.
"It wasn't as much pitching lows, it was more just dealing with stuff like this, where it used to bother me a bunch," Greinke said earlier this year while surrounded by about 15 media members.
"I hated being around attention and stuff in the clubhouse, and I just hated being around that. I just really didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part."
With the help of doctors who diagnosed his disorder, Greinke has come all the way back, with an 9-3 record, a 1.90 ERA, 111 strikeouts in 109 innings and a good chance at starting the upcoming All-Star Game for the American League.
"What players and teams have to understand is that there is light at the end of the tunnel," Smith says.
"With the proper treatment, these problems can be taken care of. The player can return to the performance that everyone knows he's capable of."
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By Khatchig Mouradian
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On Aug. 23, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement that reiterated its objection to the Armenian Genocide Resolution pending in Congress and continued to ambiguously recognize the Armenian genocide by calling “for further dispassionate scholarly examination of the details of those dark and terrible days.”
“The force and passion of the debate today leaves us more convinced than ever that this issue does not belong in a forum such as the United States Congress,” the statement read.
“We must encourage steps to create an atmosphere in which Armenia will respond favorably to the several recent overtures of Turkey to convene a joint commission to assist the parties in achieving a resolution of their profound differences,” it continued.
Several genocide and Holocaust experts expressed outrage over the idea of convening with Turkish state historians who have made a career out of denying and trivializing the Armenian genocide. When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested the idea of a “joint commission” a few years ago, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) sent an open letter to Erdogan saying, “We are concerned that in calling for an impartial study of the Armenian Genocide you may not be fully aware of the extent of the scholarly and intellectual record on the Armenian Genocide. … We want to underscore that it is not just Armenians who are affirming the Armenian Genocide but it is the overwhelming opinion of scholars who study genocide: hundreds of independent scholars.”
Genocide and Holocaust scholars in the U.S. and Europe, contacted by the Armenian Weekly today, harshly criticized the ADL’s statement as well as its hypocritical approach to the Armenian genocide in general.
“ADL is getting into the issue a bit late to be of any substance," said Dr. Stephen Feinstein, director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. "Furthermore, by Foxman saying there was a need to protect the Turkish-Jewish community, the question is, protect from what if they have lived as a loyal minority for 500 years? This suggests that the ADL is missing the point and cannot be part of the discourse,” he added.
“A commission now would be a disaster. The Turkish state must make clear that they have a very strong intention to resolve this issue. The rhetoric of the Turkish authorities is not conducive of a solution. As long as people like Yusuf Halacoglu—a very radical, nationalist, even racist historian—Gunduz Aktan and Sukru Elekdag give the tone for the policy of Turkish government, I don’t think that you can reach any result from a commission,” said Turkish-born historian and sociologist Taner Akcam, author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian genocide and the Question of Turkish responsibility. “For them the commission would be the continuation of the war they are waging against the Armenians, whom they consider as the enemy,” he added.
“We don’t need a historical commission. We need historians to have completely free and open access to the archives in Turkey so scholars and anyone else can research, write and talk about this history without fear of intimidation,” said Professor Eric Weitz, author of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. “That is the key issue: free and open debate without intimidation from the state and from anti-democratic organizations that are allowed to operate with the tacit support of the state.”
“Furthermore, not the regional ADL leader [Andy Tarsy] but Abraham Foxman should be fired," Weitz added. "He should have been fired a long time ago for many other statements and comments in addition to his long-standing refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide.”
“I’m entirely in agreement with Eric Weitz on the access [to archives] and free debate,” said Dr. Donald Bloxham of the University of Edinburgh who was recently awarded the 2007 Raphael Lemkin prize for his book The Great game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians.
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At a MacWorld keynote in 2000, Steve Jobs pitched the Mac as the Digital Hub, and shortly afterwards released the iPod. Now that technology has had a few years to advance, this concept is finally coming to life…
The iPod was Apple’s first component of the Digital Hub (other than the Mac of course ;-) ). The aim of the digital hub: Steve knows that most people think computers are a pain (thank Bill Gates for that), and are reluctant to do much more than use Office and download MP3′s. With the digital hub, he hoped to design computers to work for people rather than against them when dealing with devices that have the potential to make your life much easier and/or more enjoyable. Essentially, Steve realised that now music could easily be integrated into the digital realm, he could market a revolutionarily consumer-friendly music playing device – people may not like computers, but they most probably like music. So you see the angle.
As the iPod photo and AirTunes begin to show, Apple is, having been thrown in the brightest spotlight currently shining in the consumer world, now beginning to expand the range of the digital hub. Inevitably, Steve must have wondered what other massively popular aspects of culture can be merged with the Mac. So here are a few guesses, looking at the bigger picture:
As a rumour posted on TreoMac.com today suggested, and Apple designed phone could already be on its way from Motorola, though this should be taken with a garbage truckload of salt, as we’ve been following false rumours about the iPhone for some time.
Having said that, cell phones to me are like computers to windows users – frustrating and often baffling. Not only that, but there really just aren’t any really fashionable phones around. I’d have thought Steve, particularly with the Motorola relationship (shhh) would have noticed the potential market here. Sure, it may not have made sense When Apple was out of the consumer eye. But with the free publicity and support they get thanks to the iPod, maybe it could all work out now?
These days, a digital camera is quite a common thing to own, but like most other digital devices not made by Apple, they can often be a pain in the ass for someone who just wants to be able to take a good looking photo of whatever they’re doing no matter how wasted they are at the time (your average consumer). In my opinion, a consumer digital camera designed with that Apple ease of use/stunning good looks (that doesn’t look like IR binoculars), marketed well, could do for digital photography what the iPod did for digital music.
DV cameras are becoming pretty common too these days, but are still too expensive and the market for them is moving too slowly to prompt huge technological advances which benefit the consumer. In the stagnant market of DV cameras, if an iFilm were to join the growing digital hub, it could well spark the real DV revolution.
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French and Italian fashion houses have dictated clothing trends for many years, but are these nations really the most stylish in the world? In fact, when you take a look around the world’s biggest cities, you will soon discover that Barcelona, Melbourne, Copenhagen or Sao Paulo easily rival Paris, Milan or Rome. Today, the best fashion scenes are not the catwalks but the streets where people are dressed with style, look uniquely and sexy.
Below are five most fashionable nations.
It must be the sun, ocean and a laid-back attitude towards life that make Aussies look so great, relaxed and well-dressed. Australian fashion, with its casual and individualistic approach, can be clearly distinguished from European style that is still a bit conservative. Let’s make it clear – no one wears flip-flops to the theatre in Europe. Most of the clothing designs in Australia are influenced by the surf culture, outdoor activities, graffiti and arts that form impressive fusion of styles and colours.
Still, Australian dress-code is more than foot thongs, swimming suit and a pair of old jeans. Today, the country’s fashion industry has grown big and its designers are world-renowned and internationally acclaimed. The streets of Sydney, Melbourne or Perth are filled with super-dressed people wearing innovative unique clothing that can rival the best European haute couture.
Sao Paulo Fashion Week, one of the flagship events of the Brazilian clothing world, provides some evidence for Brazil’s passion for fashion. It is not the latest trends straight from catwalks that make the Brazilian fashion so interesting, however. The nation’s great sense of style, full of colors, mosaic patterns and well fitting or actually, skin-tight clothes, capture the optimistic spirit of Brazilians best.
Exotic and sexy style of the women is admired and envied all around the world and the Brazilians’ unique mix of different cultural influences, from Africa to Europe and Asia, make the country’s fashion extraordinary and internationally acclaimed.
Today, Brazilian clothing industry has grown strong on the global markets. Original design and custom-made lines rival the world’s largest industries – the country is currently the second largest denim fabric producer and fifth largest apparel producer in the world.
Denmark is trendy! The Danes have this great fashion sense simply running through their veins. It can be easily observed on the streets of Denmark’s largest cities, Copenhagen, Aarhus or Alborg, where literally everyone is dressed with style. Still, the Danes don’t seem to care as much about the latest trends, they rather follow their own fashion rules – the clothes are somehow both classical and innovative – their simple cut, organic colours, perfect fit and top quality materials accompanied with stylish patterns and original detail make Danes look absolutely gorgeous.
Today Danish fashion is one of the main pillars of the country’s export industry. Despite its small size, Denmark is the 9th largest exporter of clothes among the OECD states, and it holds 2.8 % of the international export market.
Fashion in Japan is not only the bizarre and insane look of crazy teenagers occupying the streets of Harajuku, the trendy shopping district in Tokyo. Actually, Japanese have an amazing sense of aesthetics and there are no other countries in the world where art plays such a big role in the history of the nation. From ink painting on silk and paper and subtle calligraphy to more recent manga and cartoon, Japanese’s need for expressing themselves through art can be observed in every aspect of their life. Also in the clothing world, Japan is a place where fashion meets art.
The way Japanese dress is refined to the last detail, unique and rich. Fashion in Japan reflects the latest trends of the world’s biggest fashion houses but it can also perfectly combine modern ideas with classical Japanese look.
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Michele Kerr is a second-career teacher with a master’s in education from Stanford University, with credentials in math, history, and English. She will start her fourth year of teaching in the fall.
My best moment as a teacher–so far–came right after a miracle.
It was the end of the school year. I was teaching a unit on Elizabethan theater in my freshman humanities class, and on this day the students delved briefly into the sonnet. With reading abilities ranging from fifth grade to college-level, they wouldn’t all be capable of close analysis, but that was beyond the scope of my lesson anyway. I just wanted to give the students an hour of listening to and thinking about sonnets, with the hope that they would later be able to tell me later that sonnets had 14 lines.
I’d chosen five poems; three because they are high on the list of Sonnets: All-Time Greatest Hits, making them useful content knowledge (and they are, still, beautiful). The other two are personal favorites that never fail to astound me with their power (and they are, still, well-known).
I played the poems in chronological order. First up were Shakepeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” and Donne’s “Death, Be Not Proud.” The students listened politely and, when the reading finished, wrote their initial response. Most of the kids wrote for five minutes as required; some of them scribbled a few desultory thoughts and then waited out the clock. The kids then shared their responses in a class discussion. I threw in some literary terms as needed. Things were going well.
Third in line was the Milton sonnet, “Methought I saw my late espoused saint,” a poem drenched in grief, loss, and longing, a poem I’ve loved since adolescence, a poem that I thought, perhaps, they wouldn’t entirely understand.
And so the miracle.
Ian Richardson recited the poem. I had no projector that day; they only heard his voice. You should click the Youtube link above, to hear it.
When his voice faded away, I opened my mouth to instruct them to write their response….and then closed it again. The kids were just sitting there, stunned.
A good twenty seconds passed before Luke spoke. “Holy crap. That was…..”
“Sad,” Sadie finished.
“Devastating,” Melissa added.
“Tragic,” said Kylie.
“Beautiful,” from Narciso.
“I’m depressed,” said Frank, in astonishment. And….
“Play it again,” said Daniel. The class murmured assent.
I played it again. When it was over, twenty-three heads bent down to write. Many students struggled to tell me that yes, the poem was sad, but that wasn’t the point. What mattered, to each of them, was they got it. They understood suddenly how loss can be so crippling that the dream of its return, the mere memory of happiness, can “bring back the ‘night’ of grief during ‘day’,” as one of my strongest students wrote, when the respite of the dream ends. I still remember another student’s sentence: “Being happy in your dream only makes pain worse.”
And then I told them that Milton was blind.
“Auggghh,” said Annie , holding her head. “So he was dreaming of two losses that came back to him.”
“…and then left. Again,” Armando finished.
The comments came fairly quickly; I jumped in a few times to define “paradox” and point out that the “day” brought back at least two “nights”–that of grief, and that of sightlessness, but for the most part the kids carried the conversational load on that poem for 10 minutes.
I always think of those minutes as the miracle. Was it their response to the poem? My recognition of their response, my decision to keep my mouth mercifully shut (a rare event of itself)? I honestly don’t know. But no sensible teacher would ever plan such perfection as twenty-some-odd adolescents with no particular interest in literature being touched to the core by a Milton sonnet.
Of course, nothing about that miracle improved my students’ academic skills. Some of them spelled “feel” with an a, “wife” with no e’s, and “grief” with two. Had I wanted to push on and ask them to analyze Milton’s use of metaphor in an organized essay, no more than five of the students would have even known where to start, even though they’d written several analytical essays that year.
Moreover, had I been observed by an administrator that day, I would have been dinged in several important areas. I wasn’t helping the students make progress on ELA standards. The students had no vocabulary list to define by reading the words in context. They had no pre-reading guide explaining key concepts. They hadn’t been given specific learning objectives, and had no clear writing template to follow for their responses. The literature was focused entirely on Western lit (four dead white guys, one dead white chick).
I knew that at the time, and know it even better now. I didn’t care.
Don’t get me wrong; I support standards. I believe that state tests measure important information. I want my students to demonstrate improvement, and find it entirely reasonable that schools should be held accountable for student academic progress.
But I’d spent the ELA portion of that year focused on standards-approved objectives. I’d pushed through Twelfth Night, an obscure Indian novel, and Filipino magical realism literature, texts that a number of my students couldn’t understand even if they’d wanted to—and many of them didn’t. I’d assigned them essays that they wrote by rote by design, using the irritating Shaffer chunk method, a routine that the strongest writers found limiting and dull (the rest listlessly followed the rules to write sentences they didn’t mean and hadn’t thought about). Meanwhile, I couldn’t spend too much time helping students remember the importance of spelling “wife” and “grief” properly, or of constructing a simple sentence that expressed thoughts that they did care about, although I did create my own customized SSR/SSW program that gave them time to gain content knowledge and informal writing skills.
All I wanted was a day dedicated to listening to, and thinking about, sonnets that connected the poetry to the history of Elizabethan theater, the larger unit.
We moved on. They found Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee” pretty shallow, after the intensities of the three previous poems. (“She loves him yeah, yeah, yeah” wrote one student, a la the Beatles tune.) But Robert Frost’s “Design” went over very well. Although they weren’t able to visualize the poem’s tableau the first time through, they wanted to know more because on that day, at least, they were beginning to realize that confusing poetry can make sense with more context and information. When they learned the “white heal-all” was usually blue, they asked to listen again.
After the second recitation, I told them to underline the last two lines: What but design of darkness to appall? If design govern in a thing so small. Then I reminded them of the Calvin and Hobbes raccoon story, and the panel that shows Calvin hiding under the bed: “It’s either mean or it’s arbitrary, and either way I’ve got the heebie-jeebies.” They got the connection immediately.
“So was Calvin and Hobbes copying Frost?” one student asked.
“No. They’re both illustrating the same theme. The world can be an unforgiving, cruel place. Is it part of some great plan? Do things happen for a reason–Design, as Frost says–or is it arbitrary and random, as Calvin worries? And which is scarier to contemplate?”
“Does that happen a lot?” asked Alexandra. “Do people write about the same thing in different ways?”
“Funny you should ask. Listen to this song and tell me what sonnet explores the same theme.”
The specific logistics of this lesson were fuzzy until 30 minutes before class, when I belatedly realized that professional recitations were obviously superior to my original vague thought of the students reading the poems to themselves. But the sonnet and this song had been in the lesson since I’d originally conceived of it, several weeks earlier. In fact, the song may have been the unconscious premise of the entire lesson. Still, I hadn’t really expected them all to be familiar with John Mayer, adult contemporary pop crooner.
I was therefore caught entirely off-guard when the opening strums of “Dreaming with a Broken Heart” came over the speakers and the class exploded with energy and excitement. Everyone in the room instantly knew the song and recognized the connection. Some students literally jumped up and down as they realized that over three hundred years earlier, poets had gotten there first, that all those years ago grief and sadness, loss and longing were still best told in verse, not prose, and they began feverishly writing, underlining and circling words to make it clear that John Mayer and John Milton were writing about the same thing.
Looking out over a class nearly incoherent with excitement at their new awareness and understanding, I bit my lip hard to stop from crying and told myself ferociously to just enjoy the gift of a perfect moment.
Like all teachers without tenure, I spend a lot of time job-hunting. Along with the obsessive, hopefully illogical, worry that I won’t find a new position comes a litany of memories, favorite moments I won’t find in any other life, moments when I know I made a difference, when I helped students feel more competent, have more confidence, feel a greater awareness of the world or how it works. And of those moments, this is the one I remember first.
Yet not a second of that moment had anything to do with test scores, with measurable academic outcomes, with improved reading ability, or the correct spelling of “wife” or “grief.”
Do truck drivers, manicurists, and retail clerks need to write compare and contrast essays on sonnets? Probably not. But surely, at some point in the past, our educational system gave truck drivers, manicurists, and retail clerks a sense of the beauty of the world, our heritage, the history of our country–and, ideally, the ability to spell “wife” and “grief.”
Today, our educational system has no interest in truck drivers, manicurists, and retail clerks. All students must perform as if they are college bound. Since most of them can’t perform at that level, regardless of their desires, teachers must spend all their time getting as many students as possible close enough to understanding to fake it on a multiple choice question, to get those test scores as high as possible, even knowing that many students will never gain a real understanding of the demanded material. We can’t teach them what they need to know, and we can’t spare any time to give them knowledge they might find actually interesting, or experiences they can enjoy without forcing them to process it into analysis.
Implicit in the expectations for all students is the belief that truck drivers, manicurists, retail clerks, fire fighters, and all other occupations that aren’t driven by intellect, simply aren’t good enough. They don’t matter. These aren’t lives that might benefit from beauty or poetry, an opinion about the Bill of Rights or, hell, even an understanding of why you should always switch if Monty Hall gives you the option.
Naturally, anyone on the “college for all” bandwagon, reformers and progressives both, would vehemently deny such beliefs. But the logic of their demands is inescapable. Students have no way to step off the college train. They can’t say “Hey, I don’t want to take trigonometry. I just want an interesting math class.” or “No more lab science; can I just take a writing class that focuses on modern ethical issues in medicine?” or “Can’t I just read and write without having to think like an English lit major?” Denying them that choice leaves failure as the only other option. That lack of options betrays the value system at the heart of those who deny education the right to sort by abilities and interest.
Obsessed with ending the achievement gap, our current educational policy pushes everyone down the same college path and then blames the teachers when they don’t get the desired results. Lost in these demands are the millions of students who are doomed to years of boredom and, worse, a sense of inadequacy-lost, that is, until the teachers are blamed, again, for failing to help them achieve more.
And so, many people will read of my miracle and that perfect moment and point out that my students hadn’t improved their skills. Yet I defy them to say I didn’t teach my kids something important that day.
I don’t know if my students even remember the day. I’m certain they never think of the lesson as an important moment, much less a miracle. But I am also certain that in that moment, all of them understood—some for the first time—that they could understand and empathize with great poetry. They realized intuitively that art could explore themes and ideas using metaphors so powerful that artists return to them time and again over centuries. They learned, too, that this knowledge had value and meaning to them—not because it made them better readers or writers, or got them better grades, but simply because that knowledge led them to a better understanding of beauty….and so, of life.
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New Delhi, Jan. 22
Speaking at an event in Erode, Mr Maran said the Government is taking steps to bring down the prices of the natural fibre in the domestic market.
“The Government will allow export of only 55 lakh bales of cotton which is surplus and, on no account, we will allow more cotton to be exported,” Mr Maran said.
This comes in the wake of a statement by the Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, on Friday that the Government may consider allowing further export of cotton, as production is expected to be slightly higher than the initial estimate of 32.5 million bales in the crop year to September.
The Government had earlier allowed export of 55 lakh bales for the 2010-11 marketing season (October-September) of which 36 lakh bales have been shipped so far.
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An appeal calling on the federal government to allow Texas to "withdraw from the United States of America" following President Barack Obama's re-election doesn't have the support of the Lone Star State's governor, his office said in a statement Tuesday.
"Gov. (Rick) Perry believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it," his press secretary Catherine Frazier wrote in a statement to the Dallas Morning News. "But he also shares the frustrations many Americans have with our federal government."
The petition, which had received nearly 65,000 signatures by mid-morning Tuesday, cites continuing "economic difficulties stemming from the federal government's neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending" as the reason for the proposed secession.
"Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government," asserts the petition, which appears on a section of the White House website called "We the People: Your Voice in our Government."
The section was designed to allow citizens to voice their concerns and desires for the federal government, and stipulates that if a petition gets enough support, "White House staff will review it, ensure it's sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response."
The threshold for eliciting a White House response is 25,000 signatures within 30 days, meaning the Texas secession appeal has surpassed the requirements for official administration comment. None has yet been forthcoming.
The fine print notes the White House "may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."
A host of other states have similar petitions on the "We the People" section of the White House website, including South Dakota, West Virginia, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, California, Ohio, New York, Delaware, Nevada and Arizona.
None of those petitions were close to the 25,000-signature requirement for a White House comment.
Other petitions on the website take the opposite tack: an appeal to "strip the citizenship from everyone who signed a petition to secede and exile them" had just over 1,000 signatures on Tuesday. | <urn:uuid:8d5bcc1a-248c-4b07-98c0-9b8222a58ec5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wxii12.com/news/politics/Rick-Perry-doesn-t-support-secession-petition-on-White-House-website/-/9677658/17385384/-/bneovl/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965382 | 519 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Three apprentices from a Salford-based clean technology business have restored an historic engine that powered the post industrial revolution.
© Anson Engine Museum
For the past two years the trio from firm ENER-G have worked alongside retired engineers at the Anson Engine Museum, in Poynton, Cheshire, to restore the 1943 Brotherhood Engine, which is the size of a transit van.
It was last in use more than 20 years ago to power beer making at Kirkstall Brewery in Yorkshire.
Each Tuesday for the past two years, the apprentices have taken it in turns to work at the museum, working with other volunteers to strip down the type R63/8 371 kW (500 bhp) engine and completely restore it to working order.
Their hard work has now paid off and the engine is now, once again, in full running order and has been powered up as part of a remarkable collection of working engines ranging from very early Crossley gas engines through to modern diesels.
“This was the first time we’ve seen the engine working, so it was fantastic to get it running and to show it off,” said Dean Mellor, aged 20, who has recently completed his apprenticeship and is a qualified production fitter with ENER-G.
“We’ve gained a fantastic education from the other volunteers who have years of experience in traditional engineering and have passed on to us the techniques and skills that they’ve been using all their working lives. It’s given us a deep understanding of engines and made us so much better at engineering.”
ENER-G started its engineering apprenticeship scheme in 2006, and trainees complete a four-year programme spending one day a week studying for ONC and NVQ level 2, and then HNC and NVQ level 3. The firm presented the museum with a donation of £1,500 to thank them for hosting the apprentices as part of the scheme.
It’s the first time the museum has involved apprentices and according to Volunteer Coordinator Peter Wood it has been very successful. “We’re all getting on in years so it’s been really nice to have young people around. It’s been a two way relationship in that we’ve benefited from their help, and they’ve learnt valuable skills from qualified engineers with years of experience.” | <urn:uuid:bd00f3c6-fdae-420e-b8aa-5afa5f2d09e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/work%20%26%20daily%20life/industrial%20heritage/art349205 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973006 | 493 | 1.796875 | 2 |
By Cyrus Sanati
FORTUNE -- John Paulson and other plutocrats should think twice before moving to Puerto Rico in search of a tax break. While the Caribbean Island's recent push to lure wealthy individuals from the U.S. mainland seems like a great deal, there is no guarantee that the Puerto Rican government will be able to make good on their long-term promises.
The U.S. territory has a bevy of social and economic problems that appear to be getting worse by the day, making it an inhospitable place for a wealthy individual seeking safety and stability. Crime broke through record highs in the last few years and has started to spill into the wealthy neighborhoods of San Juan, the capital. The violence and economic malaise show little sign of abating. It's a long way from the financial paradise the Puerto Rican government is trying so hard to portray it as.
The financial crisis has forced governments around the world to think of new and creative ways to generate and retain income. In the U.S., fiscal stimulus and money printing was the name of the game for the first few years. Now the government is slashing spending and raising taxes, much to the chagrin of just about everybody, but especially to the top 2% of U.S. taxpayers who are bearing the brunt of the tax hikes.
Indeed, the tax rate on long-term capital gains and dividends for the top 2% of earners jumped this year from 15%, where it had been for over a decade, to just under 24%. The wealthy also saw a boost in federal income taxes from 35% to 39.6%. This has made a lot of America's top earners very upset, especially for big-time investors, like John Paulson. The hedge fund manager who made an estimated $15 billion betting against the housing bubble, along with a number of rich investors, is reportedly looking to move to Puerto Rico to avoid getting stuck with a high tax bill.
Why Puerto Rico? Well, the island recently passed a law allowing new residents to pay zero tax on capital gains and zero tax on income derived from local businesses. This rate applies only to income and gains derived from investments made after the person has become a resident of the island and will last through the end of 2035. Income and gains that accrued before residency was established, but have yet to be taxed, such as paper gains made in a stock that has yet to be sold, will be subject to Puerto Rico's normal 10% capital gains rate. For investments sold after 10 years, but before the end of 2035, the rate drops to 5%.
Being able to move investment earnings made in the past is probably what grabbed Paulson's attention. He has apparently reinvested much of his winnings back into his fund, so he has not paid taxes on the bulk of his wealth. His investment performance hasn't been so hot since the housing crisis, but he still has billions of dollars left floating in his fund that he can't take out without receiving a big tax bill from Uncle Sam.
So to save a few billion dollars, Paulson could make the move down south to Puerto Rico. Becoming a resident of Puerto Rico and receiving this tax benefit involves filling out a simple form and living on the island for at least 183 days per calendar year. But unlike other tax avoidance schemes, Paulson and his family don't have to renounce their U.S. citizenship to get the special tax break given Puerto Rico's unique tax arrangement with the U.S.
There are worse fates than to be forced to live in Puerto Rico for half the year. But for millionaires and even billionaires, like Paulson, it may not be worth it. The political, economic, and social conditions down in Puerto Rico are extremely unstable and may not be the best bet in the tax game.
Politically, Puerto Rico is in a state of flux, which means its new investment law could be countered or revoked. There is a reason why Puerto Rico hasn't tried this beggar-thy-neighbor kind of tax war with the U.S. in the past -- it makes Washington angry. That's a big deal given that Puerto Rico receives around $22 billion from the U.S. every year in the form of aid and subsidies. That makes up around a quarter of the island's GDP. It could see some of that aid sliced off if it nails some big billionaire fish like Paulson.
"The situation with Puerto Rico might draw more attention to how U.S. territories are treated under U.S. tax laws," Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa and member of the Joint Committee on Taxation, told Fortune. "Harmonizing the tax rules of the territories could be something to look at if Congress and the President undertake comprehensive tax reform. Or if Puerto Rico maintains a separate tax system, which could be conditioned on accepting certain rules to prevent tax evasion."
It is not just Republicans who have their eye on Puerto Rico. A spokesman for Senator Max Baucus, the Democrat from Montana and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said that the Puerto Rico issue is on the Senator's radar, and he is looking into it as part of his efforts in comprehensive tax reform.
The U.S. government could bully Puerto Rico to harmonize its tax code by withholding funds, or it could do it by default by just making it the 51st state. While that might sound crazy, it is actually a real possibility. Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly to join the U.S. as a state in a non-binding referendum last November. President Obama says he supports the admission of Puerto Rico into the union as soon as possible. Congress needs to vote on its admission, which could theoretically occur at any time. The only thing standing in Puerto Rico's way is partisan politics. Republicans aren't too keen to allow in a new state that would be solidly Democratic blue. But with the party championing Marco Rubio, the young Hispanic Republican Senator from Florida -- home to many Puerto Ricans, Republicans may come to see Puerto Rico as an asset and not a liberal liability in the 2016 election.
So the new law may eventually become null and void. If Paulson moves fast enough he may slip under the radar. But he would still have to live in Puerto Rico with his family for at least 183 days per year, which will undoubtedly be scrutinized by the U.S. government extensively to make sure he isn't cheating. Life in San Juan isn't as exciting as it is in New York, and the shopping pales in comparison. Indeed, San Juan and the rest of the island are heavy on the kitsch but low on the substance when it comes to entertainment options. The beach is amazing, but eventually, for a city boy like Paulson, the island could come to resemble a sort of paradise prison.
And Puerto Rico is not all beaches and historic forts. Paulson must live amongst a population under economic and social terror. Forty-five percent of the population lives under the poverty line. The reduction of manufacturing subsidies by the U.S. government combined with the financial crisis has hit the island's economy hard. Unemployment is up around 15%, nearly double that of the U.S., forcing Puerto Ricans to abandon the island in droves, especially the educated elite.
The poverty has forced many into the underground economy, most notably the drug trade. Puerto Rico is an excellent gateway into the U.S. market as planes taking off from the island bound for the mainland are considered domestic flights. Smuggling drugs on the island from places like Colombia has become child's play, making Puerto Rico one of the deadliest crossroads in the never-ending War on Drugs. Murders on the island hit an all-time high in 2011 with 1,136 people killed. The murder rate of 31 per 100,000 people is six-and-a-half times higher than that of the U.S. and nearly a quarter more than that of Mexico.
It is not just drug smugglers getting killed; ordinary citizens, many of them professionals, have been killed in a rash of fatal burglaries, home invasions, muggings, and car jackings, which have their roots in the drug war. Muggings in the posh Condado neighborhood in San Juan, the area Paulson is reportedly looking into buying a property, are on the rise. NPR recently profiled one such mugging in a week-long special highlighting the troubles plaguing the island. The New York Times told the story of a banking executive who was shot three times in the neck while driving his Lexus in the summer of 2011.
A couple of high-profile murders seem to have pushed Puerto Rico over the edge. The first was the shooting death in November of three-time boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho while he was sitting in his car outside of a nightclub by unknown assailants. The second was the death of José Enrique Gomez in December. Gomez, a publicist, was robbed, beaten and doused with gasoline, and then set alight by four young men. The brutal and senseless killing shocked the nation because Gomez was robbed in a supposedly "safe" area and was not involved in the drug trade. Ricky Martin and other Puerto Rican celebrities -- none of whom actually live in Puerto Rico anymore -- took to social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook to protest the murder.
Crime happens everywhere, but the high murder rate in Puerto Rico is enough to send the toughest plutocrat back to the U.S. in short order. The new governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, activated the National Guard to patrol key areas of the country as his first order. The stepped-up presence could make a difference. While sending in the troops is usually frowned upon for routine patrols, it may be necessary to retain order given the ineptitude of the Puerto Rico police force. But the political risks combined with the crime seem to paint a picture that isn't ready to bring in millionaires, let alone billionaires like Paulson.
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I often read or hear of interesting links and I always mean to post them but I never get around to doing it. This week thanks to the Jewish Homeschool Carnival I will actually do it!
This month's Jewish Homeschooling Carnival is hosted by Adventures in Mama Land. Even though I'm just a wanna be there's a link for my Fall Leaves Garland. I (of course) think it would be a good project for anyone with kids.
I heard about this really cool website on NPR called Save the Words. It's a site that is trying to save words that have been removed from the Oxford English Dictionary in order to make room for new words. You can adopt a word that has been removed and try to use it as often as you can to help bring it back into fashion. The word I adopted is wilmish. It means a pasty and/or sickly complexion.
The next time you feel bad about how much TV your kids are watching read this article in the Wall Street Journal. I was shocked at how many hours a week of TV the average American pre-schooler watches. You'll also find out who's fighting to get a piece of that time.
I love this apartment that was in the New York Times Home section last week. It's got some really interesting ideas about using space when you don't have enough, a problem that most New Yorkers have.
I discovered the BBC's education site after reading about it on Patch O' Dirt Farm. My kids seem to really be enjoying it and I love the British accents that all the characters have. | <urn:uuid:aba112cd-cc3d-41f1-aca1-383b398faf94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.upperwestsidemom.com/2010/11/interesting-links.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981186 | 323 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Cedars-Sinai beautification project honored for enhancing a civic asset
LOS ANGELES (June 20, 2012) – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has won a civic award for a major beautification project featuring lush gardens, landscaped walkways and freshly painted buildings – a renewal meant to turn the campus into an urban oasis.
The medical center has received a Community Impact Award from the Los Angeles Business Council for its “transformational development project,” which, when completed in 2014, will include water fountains, sculptures and roadways framed by palm trees and other greenery.
The council announced the award today as part of its 42nd annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards.
Cedars-Sinai is undertaking the makeover to tie together a campus that accommodates 18,000 to 20,000 patients, medical staff and visitors on a typical day.
“Cedars-Sinai is an important part of this community, and we want to create a soothing environment not only for our patients but for our neighbors,” said Larry Colvin, vice president of facilities planning, design and construction. “The project will beautify and unify this ever changing campus.”
The beautification plan involves two significant elements: landscaping and painting.
- The medical center will be ringed by greenery, including dozens of palms trees and other leafy plants and trees to soften its border and provide shade for pedestrians. Streets and walkways on the medical center campus also will be greened, and the changes will include a cascading water sculpture called “George and Gracie,” named for Hollywood legends George Burns and Gracie Allen, whose names adorn the streets that run through the heart of the medical center. The plaza level, currently a mostly concrete area where patients and families often stroll, will be transformed into a “healing gardens” with lush species of plants and trees, terraced waterfalls, an amphitheater and more than a dozen new works of art.
- Four structures on the medical center campus will be repainted in a “champagne metallic” color to match the newest building on campus, the Saperstein Critical Care Tower. The four are the Davis Building, the Thalians Building, Parking Structure 8 and the eight-story main hospital complex, which is getting its first new paint job since it opened in 1976. Crews already have begun stripping old coats and applying new ones, along with painting window moldings a dark chocolate color. When the work is finished next year, painters will have applied 5,875 gallons of acrylic paint over 885,250 square feet of exterior walls – a paint job that is expected to last at least 10 years.
The president of the Los Angeles Business Council applauded Cedars-Sinai for the beautification efforts and for taking steps to integrate the campus into the surrounding neighborhood.
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By Hilary Russ
(Reuters) - Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proposed on Wednesday a $34.8 billion state spending plan for fiscal 2014 that would raise income taxes by 1 percentage point to increase revenue for new education investments.
Patrick's plan would raise the income tax rate to 6.25 percent from 5.25 percent, double the personal exemption for taxpayers and strip the commonwealth's tax system of several itemized deductions.
The plan, which state lawmakers will be asked to approve, would also lower the sales tax rate to 4.5 percent from 6.25 percent, and would dedicate sales tax revenue to transportation projects that Patrick said were critical for the state's future.
He also repeated a call to tax soda and candy sales, which are currently exempt, and said the cigarette tax should rise by $1 to $3.51 per pack.
"I do not submit this proposal lightly," he said of his plan to hike income taxes. By focusing on education and transportation, Massachusetts will be able to grow its economy, he said during his budget presentation, which was streamed on the Internet.
Massachusetts, which has a population of 6.6 million, has a median household income of $65,981, well above the average in the nation of $52,762. Its unemployment rate stood at 6.7 percent in December, compared to 7.8 percent nationally.
The governor's total spending plan did not include the state's required pension contribution of $1.6 billion, an increase of about $78 million from fiscal 2013.
The state's pension funds were funded at a combined level of 71 percent, with a total unfunded liability of nearly $64 billion, as of fiscal 2012, the Pew Center on the States reported in June.
The commonwealth will also have to spend $62 million more on debt service payments next year, for a total of $2.4 billion.
Not included in the total budget number is more than $13 billion of additional revenue from the federal government and other sources.
The proposed tax changes makes the system fairer, said Noah Berger, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, in a statement.
Rebalancing the state's tax regime to rely more on income taxes and less on sales taxes would make the system less regressive, the center has said.
Massachusetts, called "Taxachusetts" by some citizens who complain about high taxes, had been facing a projected budget gap of at least $1.28 billion in fiscal 2014, according to the center.
In a call with reporters, Massachusetts Finance Secretary Glen Shor said the budget was balanced.
The proposed budget uses new revenues while holding spending nearly flat in many areas, Shor and other officials said.
New revenues include the increased taxes, additional federal money for Medicaid, tougher enforcement of tax collections, expanded gambling venues, and an agreement with online retailer Amazon to begin collecting sales tax on goods sold in the commonwealth.
The state's use of one-time revenue sources would drop to $555 million next year from $919 million this year. And Patrick's proposal would leave the state with at least $1 billion in its reserve fund at the end of fiscal 2014, officials said.
Patrick's budget also calls for the commonwealth to borrow $400 million by issuing notes backed by the new, anticipated tax revenue that would be generated in fiscal years 2015 and 2016.
Overall, spending would rise by 6.9 percent over current levels, while base tax revenue - which doesn't include the new revenue sources - is projected to grow by about 4 percent.
Spending on education would rise to $6.8 billion from $6.2 billion under Patrick's proposed budget.
The governor also focused on transportation systems, saying the state should boost spending by $269 million.
That proposal would eliminate the structural operating deficit of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which operates the "T" mass transit system, and would allow officials to expand service, according to a budget document.
It would also be used to trim the MBTA's use of borrowing through bond sales to pay operating costs.
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This book is far more than a historical survey of magical techniques throughout the world. It is the most complete book of spells, ceremonies, and magic ever assembled. It is the spiritual record of humanity.
Topics in this book include magical spells and rituals from virtually every continent and every people. The spells described are for love, wealth, success, protection, and health. Also examined are the theories and history of magic, including its evolution, the gods, the elements, the Kabbalah, the astral plane, ceremonial magic, famous books of magic, and famous magicians. You will learn about talismanic magic, exorcisms, how to use the I Ching, how to interpret dreams, how to construct and interpret a horoscope, how to read Tarot cards, how to read palms, how to do numerology, and much more. Included are explicit instructions for love spells and talismans; spells for riches and money; weight-loss spells; magic for health and healing; psychic self-defense; spells for luck in gambling; and much more.
No magical library is complete without this classic text of magical history, theory, and practical technique. The author is known for her excellent books on magic. Many consider this her best. Includes over 150 rare photos and illustrations.
Most people think of angels as ethereal beings, dressed in white, diaphanous gowns, with gossamer wings and shiny halos. Nothing could be further from the truth. Angels are very real, but they have no physical substance. So, who are the angels, and how do we contact them? Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, author of The Kabbalah & Magic of Angels, explains.
Timing an operation can be as simple or complicated as required, and often the immediacy of the need plays a large part in how appropriate timing can be incorporated. Obviously one shouldn’t wait for an opportune time when the need is immediate, as this would be foolish, but neither should one be surprised when a working for increase fails at a time when nature’s tide is destructive.The largest...
What kinds of protective rituals and spells can you perform to ensure that your (or your loved one's) travels are safe and successful? Learn several simple acts of magic you can practice before a long journey, including making travel talismans, magically charging a vehicle, and reciting words of power.
In my book, Modern Magick, I gave a brief introduction to one of the most important people in the history of magick, Dr. John Dee (1527–1608 or 1609). More than a magician, Dee was also one of the most interesting and fascinating figures of the Elizabethan Age. When he died, his home in Mortlake (a district of London on the southern bank of the... read this article | <urn:uuid:ded90a7c-53af-4283-b1a5-067bbc35c706> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780875422862 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943067 | 586 | 1.757813 | 2 |
I am a big fan of irony. I’m not sure most people understand the true meaning of “irony.” It is frequently used when the right word should have been “sarcasm” or “justice” or even simple juxtaposition. In fact “irony” has been incorrectly used in the place of “sarcasm” so much that many dictionaries have the same definition for both. Which is ironic.
The word “irony,” especially used in a literary or analytical sense, means “an outcome that is incongruous and undesired compared to the intended outcome.” Many definitions use “opposite” instead of “incongruous” but I prefer “incongruous” because that includes opposite but also covers outcomes that are simply completely unpredictable. Many ironic situations do not end up with an “opposite” outcomes, but all of them end up with outcomes that are in some way contrary to the original goals.
Here’s an example in the Democratic nomination process.
For decades Democrats have played identity politics. They have systematically carved out chunks of the general population, labeled them, assigned them roles and played up to their individual narrow desires in order to win their allegiance and therefore their votes. In doing this the Democrat party has effectively marginalized the largest single group of voters in their party. This group is the “white male” vote. In fact Democrats are so out of touch with this group, and so dismissive of them, that they routinely describe them as “Angry White Males.”
In the past few months I have seen story after story about the Democrats need to mobilize the black vote, the female vote, the gay vote, the hispanic vote, all the typical identity politics groups. But I have heard virtually nothing about the white male vote. Hillary has gone overboard attempting to pander to the hispanic vote. Obama seems to have the black vote neatly tied up. They have been fighting over the female vote most recently, with Obama making big gains in Texas, enough that Hillary is in danger of losing Texas because she lost the woman vote.
But the white male vote has been virtually ignored. And that is the largest group in the party, and it has been steadily moving towards Obama for two months. In some polls white male Democrats prefer Obama over Hillary by as much as a 2 to 1 margin. In virtually every poll for remaining primaries Obama has a commanding lead in the white male vote.
This is one reason I’ve argued with Drax that Hillary’s supposed commanding lead among hispanics in Texas is not going to save her. If the white male vote continues to shift towards Obama, there simply aren’t enough hispanics in Texas to overcome the tide.
So why is this ironic?
Because the Democratic party has been systematically and purposefully attempting to marginalize the white males in their party to the benefit of the victim groups they can use as voting blocs, and now in what they claim to be the most important election in decades, their party’s choice for that election is between a female and a black man, and their candidate will most likely be chosen by white males.
And why is that result potentially counter to Democrat’s goals?
Because there is some question if the white males who voted for Obama in the primaries will stick with Obama when they have a white male to vote for in the general election.
I predict you will start to see stories about this situation over the next few weeks as Democrats start to wonder if the “Reagan Democrats” (mostly white males) will defect to McCain in the general election, just as they did in 1980 and 1984.
But again the irony is that there is nothing they can do about it. They have kicked that dog for so long, there is no way they can convince white males that they are truly appreciated in time for the general election.
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IronPort Systems' program certifies e-mail senders as legitimate and requires them to post a financial bond guaranteeing their continued good behavior; it now will handle more than 30 percent of all e-mail traffic.
Searching for a way to stem the tide of spam flooding its customers inboxes, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will announce that it has joined a program that certifies e-mail senders as legitimate and requires them to post a financial bond guaranteeing their continued good behavior.
The program, known as Bonded Sender, is the brainchild of IronPort Systems Inc., a maker of mail security products. Microsoft has been participating in a pilot phase of the program with its Hotmail and MSN services for five months.
Bonded Sender is a twist on the old concept of authenticating mail senders, which many experts say is the best hope for stopping the majority of spam. One of the main reasons that spam is so prevalent is that SMTP, the protocol by which most mail messages are transferred, allows for anonymous sending. This has given spammers the ability to hide behind spoofed e-mail addresses, obscuring the real location of the machine sending the unwanted messages.
SMTP authentication is hitting the standards track. Click here for Security Center Editor Larry Seltzers take on the development.
IronPorts program relies on both the sender and the recipients for help in solving this problem. In order to join Bonded Sender, high-volume e-mail senders, such as ISPs and online businesses like eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., must submit to a certification process.
The sender must be able to demonstrate a track record of responsible mailing practices and ownership of the sending IP addresses for a considerable period of time. TRUSTe, an independent organization, looks at the senders history and mailing patternsas well as complaint rates from recipientsto see whether the company qualifies as a trustworthy sender.
For insights on security coverage around the Web, check out eWEEK.com Security Center Editor Larry Seltzers Weblog.
If accepted into the program, the sender then has to post a financial bond, which is held in trust by a bank. IronPort will debit the bond if the sender runs afoul of the programs guidelines by sending messages on behalf of a known spammer, sending unwanted mail to subscribers or other similar violations. The amount of the bond is determined by the volume of mail sent and the nature of the organization; for example, nonprofits can post much smaller bonds than large, international ISPs.
IronPort depends on recipients to complain if they begin getting unwanted messages.
"Spam isnt a business done at low volumes, and there are only a couple of legitimate reasons to be sending e-mail in large quantities. If youre not an ISP or a large marketer like eBay, chances are youre a spammer," said Scott Weiss, CEO of IronPort, based in San Bruno, Calif. "The best way to separate the wheat from the chaff is through customer complaints."
Microsofts participation in the program means that Hotmail and MSN users likely will begin seeing far less spam in their inboxes. Depending on how the Redmond, Wash., company decides to implement the program, Microsoft could choose to accept mail only from bonded senders, of which there are thousands, and treat all other messages as spam.
With the addition of Microsoft to Bonded Sender, the program will touch more than 30 percent of all of the e-mail traffic on the Internet, IronPort officials said.
"The promise to the ISP is much less spam," Weiss said.
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Born Joseph Cuoghi, 15 May 1922 Died 13 July 1970, Memphis, Tennessee
Joe Cuoghi (pronounced so that it rhymes with boogie) was the founder and president of the Hi label. This is not so much a biography of Cuoghi as a history of Hi Records. Joe Cuoghi founded a record shop in Memphis, Poplar Tunes, in 1946 with a high school friend, John Novarese. Soon it became a hugely lucrative business, which was expanded to become a distributor to the jukebox trade and a one-stop (a subdistributor that services small shops with all labels). Among the frequent visitors of Poplar Tunes was one Elvis A. Presley: http://www.catsmusic.com/content/elvis.aspx
In 1957, Cuoghi got a visit from three men : Ray Harris, Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch. Former Sun singer Ray Harris felt he could produce records and wanted to start a record label. Cantrell and Claunch, who had worked for Sun and Meteor on country music production, were his partners. While working in construction, Harris had met Carl McVoy, a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, and for $3,50 Ray cut a demo of McVoy doing a rocked-up version of "You Are My Sunshine". In order to get the record issued, Harris and his partners needed someone with money. Cuoghi couldn't resist the opportunity to start his own label and so Hi Records was born. He recruited his lawyer, Nick Pesce (pronounced "Pay-shee"), and three other investors, Sam Esgro, Bill Brown and Bill Crudgington. They put up $500 each. Harris, Cantrell and Claunch put up nothing, but were to work on the creative end. Cantrell was to be president. Each of the eight partners had thirty shares. Harris and his two partners took off for Nashville with the money and recut "You Are My Sunshine" with "Tootsie" as the other side. This became Hi's first release (Hi 2001), but shortly before it was issued, Cuoghi bought out the three silent partners, making him the majority stockholder. He replaced Cantrell as president.
Early in 1958, the Carl McVoy single showed signs of success and as the distributor orders rolled in, the pressing costs climbed. As hopes and egos soared, hardly anyone noticed that none of the distributors were paying their bills. The record almost put Hi out of business before they got off the ground. Ultimately, the disc - and McVoy's contract - was turned over to Sam Phillips (for $2600) for release on his Phillips International label.
With Sam's money, Cuoghi and his partners rented an old theatre at 1320 South Lauderdale and installed recording equipment. This theatre became the Hi recording studio. It took some time for Hi to find its distinctive niche. The first sixteen records issued on Hi (1957-59) - all unsuccessful - were by an array of obscure local performers, some of whom were heard from later. By the summer of 1959, Hi Records was about to fold.
Enter Bill Black. One Sunday in 1959, Elvis's original bass player came to see Ray Harris. Black and Presley had fallen out the previous year and the bassist planned to start his own combo. Harris had some local musicians in mind to work with Black. Together they recruited Reggie Young (guitar), Joe Hall (piano), Martin Wills (sax) and Jerry Arnold (drums). Their first record, "Smokie, Part 2" (Hi 2018), became Hi's first national hit, peaking at # 18 pop and # 1 R&B in late 1959. Meanwhile, the label had been picked up by London Records for national distribution, an arrangement that would continue until 1977.
Cuoghi couldn't afford to pay session fees for all the hours the musicians had invested in "Smokie" and offered them a profit-sharing plan instead. This led to Willis and Hall leaving the Bill Black Combo ; their replacements were ... Carl McVoy (piano) and Ace Cannon (sax). In December 1959, Hi released its first album, "Smokie", by Bill Black's Combo (HL 12001). Ray Harris quit his job to concentrate on Hi and persuaded Cuoghi to plow back some of the earnings into a three-track recorder. Quinton Claunch was forced out of the Hi partnership after cutting a Bill Black soundalike band for another label. Carl McVoy bought Claunch's share for $7000, which he earned on the next Bill Black record, for which he brought an old Hammond organ to the studio. "White Silver Sands" (Hi 2021) was a Top 10 hit (# 9) and, like its predecessor, topped the R&B charts for four weeks. The Bill Black Combo maintained a consistent output with varying degrees of success for many years, even after the death of Bill Black in 1965.
Ace Cannon cut a solo album with his own combo in 1961 and soon had a hit of his own with "Tuff" (# 17 pop, # 3 R&B). The course of Hi Records was set. Greasy blues-based instrumentals became the label's trademark. By the mid-sixties, the sales of Bill Black and Ace Cannon began to tail off and Hi's most consistent seller became Willie Mitchell, who was essentially recording a punchier version of the same thing. But there were vocal hits as well for Hi. Gene Simmons, who first recorded for the label as early as 1959, had a # 11 hit in 1964 with a slick remake of Johnny Fuller's "Haunted House". Jerry Jaye revived Fats Domino's "My Girl Josephine" and took it to # 29 in 1967. However, by then Hi was stagnating. The salvation for the company came as Willie Mitchell started assuming an increasing role at the Hi Studio. Mitchell had a taste for jazz, but also understood what was commercial in contempo- rary black music. He moved Hi into the soul music genre, achieving fantastic success with Al Green (from 1970 onwards), the most successful Hi artist of' them all. Chart success on a more modest scale came with Ann Peebles, also in the early seventies.
Joe Cuoghi died in July 1970. Willie Mitchell became executive vice-president (after buying out Ray Harris and Carl McVoy) and Cuoghi's lawyer, Nick Pesce, became president.
After turning down a $ 9,000,000 offer from Atlantic Records, Hi was sold in 1976 for considerably less. The buyer was Al Bennett, one of the founders of Liberty Records, who operated from the West Coast. After a couple of years of trying to record Memphis Soul in Los Angeles, Willie Mitchell left the label.
Since the introduction of the compact disc, Hi leased their material to several labels, including Motown, MCA and Right Stuff (EMI-Capitol Special Markets), with much of the label's output being reissued on CD.
Sources / further reading: - Colin Escott : How to start a record company, 4 : Hi Records, Memphis, 1957. In: Tattooed on their tongues (New York : Schirmer, 1996), page 77-84. - Liner notes (by Martin Hawkins) for the double-LP "Hi Records : The Early Years : Memphis Rock & Roll, 1957 to 1964" (Hi DHI UK LP 434). - David Edwards and Mike Callahan, Hi Records album discography. http://www.bsnpubs.com/hi.html
CD: Hi Records : The Early Years, Vol. 1 and 2 (originally on vinyl) have been collected on a 2-CD set (Cream/Hi HEXD 44). 57 tracks. Annotated by Colin Escott.
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Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the ghosts to leave.
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Checked one of my yards yesterday and found one hive totally empty. This was one of my stronger colonies, so this is a disappointment. This was a new package this spring on all new equipment. I'm running all mediums, and this one had filled four boxes plus another super of surplus honey. I did no treatments. I did not do a mite count prior to buttoning things up for the winter.
No signs of robbing, all of the honey was still capped. Several sections of pollen packed away, and the brood spaces on comb was nearly empty. There were a handful of still-capped brood. There were a couple dozen dead bees on the bottom board.
From all appearances the hive was ready for winter...except there are no bees.
The other two colonies on this site appear to be in good shape for winter, and there was activity outside those hives yesterday.
All of my yards are on native prairies sites. This one the landowner did a modest fall burn (only several hundred square feet) that came within ten yards of the hive on one side.
Could the burn have convinced the bees to abscond? Or could this be colony collapse disorder?
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Poor grades can mask progress in complex IT environments, such as DHS
The Homeland Security Department has received an F on the last two computer security report cards issued by the House Government Reform Committee, prompting chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) to warn that 'DHS needs to get its house in order.'
Outgoing CIO Steven I. Cooper gave the committee a frank assessment of the department's cybersecurity road map for the coming year.
'I'm hoping we'll get to a D for 2005,' he said.
It's not that the department is not making progress, Cooper said. Some 2,500 IT systems have been certified and accredited, and a tangle of legacy systems are being consolidated and reorganized.
But the scale used by the committee to grade compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act masks much of that progress, Cooper said.
'We have inherited a huge amount from our legacy environment,' he said. 'We have more than 3,600 systems.'
That means DHS lost 10 points because only 68 percent of systems had gone through C&A, even though they include many of the department's most critical systems.
The grading scale also includes 20 possible points for establishing detailed security configurations for a lengthy list of specific software platforms.
'We have everything on the list,' Cooper said. Because the department plans to retire many of those platforms in its consolidation, it is focusing on configuration management for only those systems it plans to keep. For that, Cooper said, he expects to lose many of those 20 possible points.
These losses and high thresholds in other areas make it unlikely DHS will rise above the 66 points needed to achieve a D for next year. Cooper said the department's performance would make more visible improvement in 2006 as it completes the C&A process and meets other thresholds.
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Facebook is expected to announce its IPO registration Wednesday, and is rumored to be seeking a valuation of $100 billion. That’s more than half of Google’s market value, which stands at $188 billion. But Facebook brings in only one 10th the revenues that Google does. So how can it possibly be worth half as much as Google?
That is a question that any other company might have to answer as it tries to sell stock to the public. But not Facebook. This company is different. No matter what the price, investors will clamor to own a piece of a company that has defined social networking and has, in effect, built its own private Internet, with more than 800 million members.
Facebook reportedly aims to raise $5 billion (earlier reports guessed $10 billion) in the deal, which would take place in May and rank as one of the biggest IPOs of all time. (See chart.)
There are lots of reasons to be wary, including these:
• Facebook’s operating profit for 2011 is said to have been about $1.5 billion. That’s a respectable profit margin, but by no means outstanding.
• As Business Insider pointed out, Facebook is seven years old and its revenues lag behind what Google’s were in its seventh year. Moreover, Google was building its business at a time when there was less overall ad spending on the Internet.
• Google’s answer to Facebook, the Google+ social network, now has 90 million members and is growing quickly. It’s no threat to Facebook today but could be in the future.
But the biggest concern is the $100 billion valuation that Facebook is seeking. To get an idea how outrageous this is, consider that Apple—the biggest, most powerful, most lucrative tech company in the world—sells for just over three times last year’s revenues. If you valued Facebook that way it would be worth only $12.5 billion.
Do the same calculation with Google, and Facebook is worth $20 billion. Assign the same multiple as Facebook game maker Zynga, which is one of Facebook’s biggest sources of revenue (Facebook skims 30 percent of Zynga’s virtual-goods transactions) and Facebook is worth $25 billion.
But maybe you figure that Facebook deserves a better multiple, because it will grow faster than any of these companies. So, fine. Assign Facebook double the multiple of Zynga, and even then it’s only worth $50 billion.
You get the idea. The idea that Facebook is worth $100 billion, or even $75 billion, is, well, a bit optimistic. Or would be, if there were anything rational about this deal. But there isn’t.
Investors will view the Facebook IPO the way Apple fans view every new iPad or iPhone, not so much as a product but as a kind of cultural event.
Heck, $50 billion is the valuation that Goldman Sachs and other investors paid for a chunk of Facebook in January of 2011.
Recently, shares in Facebook have been trading on secondary markets at valuations around $80 billion, according to TechCrunch.
If Facebook traded at a rational price, those investors would be underwater. But chances are, they’ll be fine. Because Facebook has a great story and an amazing brand. Who hasn’t heard of Facebook? Who doesn’t use it?
For every curmudgeon like me who grumbles about relative valuations, there will be 10 optimists in Silicon Valley who will say Facebook’s valuation makes perfect sense. They’ll remind everyone that Google and Amazon once seemed to be outrageously expensive too, but look at them today. (Just keep in mind that those optimists are probably holding Facebook shares and hoping to flog them off to the public, so of course they'll tell you what a great deal they are.)
The guys in Silicon Valley will say who cares about last year’s revenues, because Facebook is just getting started. And how can you compare Facebook with Google, or any company, for that matter? Facebook is uniquely positioned to cash in on the Internet in ways no other company can match.
Investors will view the Facebook IPO as a once-in-a-lifetime event. They will view this deal the way Apple fans view every new iPad or iPhone, not so much as a product but as a kind of cultural event, something you can’t afford to miss.
Finally, selling only $5 billion worth of stock, Facebook will constrain supply, which should boost its price. If demand is insane, Facebook can expand the amount of stock to sell.
The risk is that while Facebook may pull off a $100 billion valuation, it might have trouble going higher. Especially if at some point the irrational exuberance wears off and reality starts to set in.
The fault lies with private investors who have driven this company up so much in private markets that it’s been picked clean, leaving little upside for public investors. Something similar happened to Zynga, which had been so overpriced in private funding rounds that its IPO price was actually lower than what it fetched from T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, and others.
That sort of thing isn’t supposed to happen. But this is the brave new world of tech investing. With Facebook, and some of the other new tech companies, the smart money has already got in and got out long before the IPO ever happens.
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SB 95/FN (BR 921) - M. Wilson, K. Winters
AN ACT relating to summer learning camps and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to outline rationale for summer learning camps; define terms; encourage the establishment of summer learning camps for students who are identified for Title I services that meet certain minimum requirements and that include innovative instruction in the core academic areas and enrichment activities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to describe how funding may be provided; EMERGENCY.
SB 95 - AMENDMENTS
HCS/FN - Retain original provisions except require that if there are no summer learning camps in the district, funds be used for closing the achievement gap; direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a legislative task force to develop a strategy to provide computing devices for fifth and sixth grade students; establish task force by June 1, 2012; report findings to Interim Joint Committee on Education no later than December 1, 2012.
HCA (1/Title, C. Rollins II) - Make title amendment.
Jan 11-introduced in Senate
Jan 12-to Education (S)
Feb 2-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Feb 6-2nd reading, to Rules
Feb 7-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Feb 8-3rd reading, passed 37-0
Feb 9-received in House
Feb 14-to Education (H)
Mar 7-posted in committee
Mar 26-taken from Education (H); 1st reading; returned to Education (H)
Mar 27-reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) as a Consent Bill
Mar 28-posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 28, 2012; 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
Mar 29-received in Senate
Mar 30-posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) ; Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) ; passed 37-0; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer; delivered to Governor
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"Buddhism Without Beliefs" is an important work for a number of reasons; it might also be a helpful book, or a dangerous book, depending on one's point of view. Certainly Batchelor's agnostic stance is problematic for a traditionalist believer; one need only read the virulent comments here (and also at jeweldakini.com) to see that this is so.
I do not share Batchelor's views on reincarnation; I admit to being a believer. However, in all honesty, I must also declare myself an agnostic, as does Batchelor, for precisely the reason that I do not know from direct experience whether the Buddha's teaching of past and future births is true, or not. To the extent that few (if any) human beings really *know* whether rebirth is a fact, we must all--in the interest of intellectual honesty--admit to being agnostics, even if we are not ideologically comitted to agnosticism (as Batchelor seems to be).
Batchelor's practical advice on the "existential" approach to Buddhism at turns rings both true and hollow. It rings true to the extent that a "metaphysics of hope and fear" is certainly a less viable template for meaningful human experience than an "ethics of empathy" grounded in a nitty-gritty confrontation of the basic facts of existence. Batchelor's discourse rings false to the extent that he has, in effect, elevated agnosticism to the status of a dogma. It is *good* not to know, he seems to say; it is good, because it is an honest assessment of one's condition.
Granted, we do not know everything, and to his credit Batchelor is the first to admit it. On the other hand, all schools of Buddhist thought maintain that one *can* know the truth, the ineffable and unchangeable root of samsara and nirvana, and that one should become certain in one's realization of it.
Batchelor argues--and not without good reason--that striving for certainty ultimately leads to dissatisfaction, because it reinforces the dichotomy between who we are, and who we wish to become, or who we *think* we are. I think he makes a subtle but significant omission in not affirming more strongly that earnest confrontation with oneself and one's human frailty is the first step toward to achieving certainty -- certainty that none of our self-imposed limitations truly exist. Though Batchelor does speak about emptiness, his discussions of emptiness do not, in my estimation, convey a sense of certainty.
This book left me with the impression that, in the final analysis, Batchelor is more inclined to believe that one cannot know the truth with complete certainty, and that he is rather less inclined to believe in the possibility of full enlightenment (which is total certainty; cf. my book, Mipham's Beacon of Certainty).
All the same Batchelor speaks coherently of awakening as a *process*, not a goal -- and for the very reason that goals easily become obstacles in the study of the self, this way of speaking is meaningful and appropriate. It is also not without traditional precedent, e.g., in the writings of Chogyam Trungpa and in Dzogchen philosophy. Batchelor is a pragmatist, and thus prefers to dwell on the verifiable certainties of human mortality and doubt, rather than on the abstract and immediately unverifiable ideals of enlightenment and omniscience. This emphasis on the here and now is both instructive and limiting; it draws attention to the most pressing issues of being human, but it also detracts from the immense possibilities which obtain from changing one's conception of what it means to be human.
Batchelor's book is important, then, if not as an ideological reformulation of Buddhism for the West (and in that it may yet prove most important), then at least as an eloquent expression of the western psyche at the dawn of a new millenium, and as a record of how western minds are struggling to realize the prospect of freedom to which the Buddha exhorts us. | <urn:uuid:ab07a851-d5fc-4df2-bf06-d6f3d89b44a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amazon.ca/Buddhism-without-Beliefs-Stephen-Batchelor/dp/1573226564 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955884 | 863 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The 2011 AHL Hall of Fame Inductees have some incredible stories to share. Photo courtesy of SportsLogos.net. All rights reserved.
The first U.S. born female to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature, Pearl Buck, had some incredible knowledge on the subject of history. She once wrote, "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." These words of wisdom perfectly describe how to embrace the present without holding on to the past. Rather, we are encouraged to search the past in ways that force us to understand where we are today.
Hockey fans know a thing or two about the past. Those that long for a day when hockey was simple and pure are called "dinosaurs". Yet on the other hand, those that embrace goal celebrations and big pads are "youngsters". However, one undeniable fact that both groups firmly embrace is that hockey has a rich and enthralling history. From elementary roots in the pond hockey game to the streets of New York and Sean Avery's man-fashion blithering, the love of the game can be celebrated by exploring the progression of its players and supporters.
The American Hockey League is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in 2011, and like any tough old bird, it's seen, heard, and experienced many incredible moments. Like a great-grandfather unpacking memories to future generations, the AHL has announced four more than admirable inductees into this year's Hall of Fame. The 2011 class will be honored at the AHL All-Star Classic in Hershey, PA in a special ceremony on January 31st. They'll be joining the ranks of Bruce Boudreau, Johnny Bower, Willie Marshall, Eddie Shore, Frank Mathers, and many other names that are certainly held in high regard by fans around North America.
Although the league itself is 75 years old, the American Hockey League Hall of Fame has only been in existence since 2006, which makes for a slew of individuals to choose from its historic past. This year's inductees include a founding father, an old-timey Red Wing, a 17-year goalscoring machine, and a centerman with 12 consecutive 20-goal seasons. This group is actually quite remarkable, as each member has left his mark on a league known for developing strong, viable talent for 75 years.
The Founding Father - Maurice Podoloff (1890-1985)
To label Maurice Podoloff as a founding father of the American Hockey League is something of an understatement. He was born in Ukraine, but his family moved to New Haven, Connecticut when he was only six years old, and he was no stranger to struggle. His humble and penniless upbringing forced Maurice's father to seek work in the real estate business, which by the early 1900's was a burgeoning profession. Through hard work and diligence, Maurice Podoloff would go on to graduate from Yale University and Yale Law School. Realizing that the legal profession didn't quite fit his life goals, Maurice followed in his father's footsteps and entered the real estate business. One of his first business transactions was the purchase and refurbishing of a run down ice rink in New Haven. He leased it to the Yale hockey team for some time, but had a few holes on the weekly schedule that needed to be filled. The dollar signs flashed before his eyes, and he purchased a professional hockey team that would play neighboring teams from Boston, Philadelphia, and Providence, teams that were a part of the Canadian American Hockey League which included Podoloff as a charter member. In 1935, Podoloff was elected the league's secretary-treasurer and was instrumental in facilitating a merger between the CanAm and International Leagues, forming the International American Hockey League. By 1940 the "International" was dropped from the name and the American Hockey League was born. He added to his list of accomplishments by adding new teams in Washington, Buffalo, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. His steady promotion of the game and support for fundraisers during World War II further cemented his name in the hockey history books. Podoloff accomplished many incredible things for hockey in North America while simultaneously becoming the first president of the National Basketball Association. He was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1974 and each year the Maurice Podoloff Trophy is awarded to the NBA's most valuable player. Let's see Gary Bettman do that!
The 20-Goal Campaign - Harry Pidhirny (1928-Present)
Reliability and consistency are two qualities that every hockey player pursues. In such a rough, torrid sport finding these qualities in a player is rare, but when it happens, it's a beautiful thing. Harry Pidhirny was a centerman's centerman: durable, tough, and strong on his skates for nearly 17 seasons in the American Hockey League. The Toronto kid began his playing career with the Young Rangers and would eventually join the Philadelphia Rockets in 1948 where he would score 39 points in 68 games. The following season he was signed by the Springfield Indians for only $7,000 by owner Eddie Shore, and began a streak of 12 consecutive 20-goal seasons. From 1951-1954 the Indians were shipped off to Syracuse where he led the team in goals scored all three years, capping it off in 1953 with a six-goal game, a feat that's been achieved only three times in AHL history. Harry would later play for the AHL's Providence Reds and the old Western Hockey League's San Francisco Seals. In a recent interview, Pidhirny said of the era, "It was good hockey. There was only about eight teams in it and only six National Hockey League teams. There was no such thing as a slapshot when we started." During his time with the Indians he only mustered two NHL call-ups to the Boston Bruins, but he didn't seem to mind as long as he played the game. He was the first AHL player to reach 1,000 games played and eventually tallied 1,071 games, which places him third on the all-time list. His reliability, durability, and consistency is probably best demonstrated by the fact that he played in every one of his team's games five different times. He dabbled in coaching, and even played briefly in a senior league before retiring at age 41. Harry enjoys hockey to this day, but like every good retiree, spends a lot of time with a driver and tee in hand; now he can enjoy it as an AHL Hall of Famer.
Old Timey Red Wing - Larry Wilson (1930-1979)
As a member of the NHL's original six, you have to stop and relish in the greatness that is Red Wings hockey. From top to bottom, the list of players, records, and Stanley Cups is pretty staggering for a non-Canadian franchise. Larry Wilson accomplished a feat that very few get to enjoy. In 1950, Larry Wilson's first year as a Red Wing, he won the Stanley Cup as a centerman on a team that featured wingers Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe. He would spend some time in the AHL with the Indianapolis Caps, and did a short stint with the Edmonton Flyers before embarking on an adventurous 15 seasons as a player and six more as a head coach in the American Hockey League. 13 of those 15 seasons as a player were spent with the Buffalo Bison, in which he would become the all-timer leader in every offensive category imaginable. Three times in Buffalo he played over 70 games and won the Calder Cup with Buffalo in 1963. Upon his final game in 1968, Larry Wilson had racked up 298 goals and 492 assists for 790 points in addition to 543 penalty minutes. After hanging up the skates, Wilson would turn to coaching. In his first season he took the Providence Reds to the Calder Cup Finals where he was defeated by the Springfield Kings, coached by his four-time Stanley Cup winning brother, Johnny Wilson. Larry died suddenly from a heart attack prior to his coaching season with the newly established Adirondack Red Wings. Alongside his brother Johnny, Larry's son, Ron, would add to the Wilson legacy of coaching as the coach of the Ducks, Capitals, Sharks, and currently, the Toronto Maple Leafs. From an early NHL high to a powerhouse in the AHL as a player and later as a coach, Larry Wilson's legacy of greatness lives on.
The 17-Year Goal Scoring Machine
Listed at only 5' 6", Mitch Lamoureux found ways to be a dynamic goalscorer and a scrappy opponent too. Lamoureux, a native of Ottawa, was selected in the eighth round of the 1981 NHL draft after early success with the Oshawa Generals of the OHL. He had several stints in the NHL, but the 1983-84 season with the Pittsburgh Penguins was his best, putting up a decent showing of 18 points in 62 games. He hit his goalscoring stride when he was sent from Pittsburgh to the Philadelphia Flyers and from there to Hershey, where he'd become a Bear to remember. In a recent XM Home Ice interview, Lamoureux elaborated on his domination as a goalscorer: "Plain and simple, I made a living in front of the net." Hitting that net hard earned him a Calder Cup Championship in 1988 following the Hershey Bears' first-ever 50-win season. Although pausing to head overseas for two seasons, Mitch Lamoureux would continue on as a Hershey Bear in 1993 and post a career high 45 goals and 60 assists. In that same XM interview Lamoureux pointed out the importance of the AHL: "A long time ago someone gave me some great advice. Really two pieces of advice. Play as long as you love the game, and play as long as they'll let you." Mitch reached the 30-goal mark six times in his AHL career; he sits seventh all-time in goals with 364, and ninth in points with 816. And at 5' 6" he managed to hold his own, punishing opponents with 100+ penalty minutes in six different AHL seasons. Today, the Hershey Bears continue to be a how-to guide for minor league hockey development. They've been in the AHL since 1938 and have four numbers hanging in the rafters: #3 - Defensemen Frank Mathers and Ralph Keller, #8 - Centerman Mike Nykoluk, #9 - Centerman Arnie Kullman and Tim Tookey, and #16 Centerman Willie Marshall and Mitch Lamoureux. Settling down in Pennsylvania is something that Lamoureux did many years ago. He continues to be called upon by the Bears for special events, and will be rightfully lauded by the crowd at the January 31st, 2011 Hall of Fame ceremony's in Hershey, PA. "I was never the type of player that could lug the mail and go coast-to-coast," said Lamoureux on XM, "but with great teammates, and great coaching, I found a career. Hockey is in my blood."
After much research, and plenty of thought, I too found myself embracing the past in the American Hockey League. A league that was founded by men who embraced the can-do spirit to the players that developed along the way, it truly is a remarkable history. A history lesson wouldn't be complete without some sort of emotional tie-in or life-lesson, but to me this year's Hall of Fame inductees demonstrate so perfectly why hockey is the greatest game on earth. It's simple, rough, dynamic, enticing, brutal, and sometimes unjust, but at every level - Juniors, International, Collegiate, and beyond - the hard work and persistence of such an entertaining sport pumps out some of the most remarkable figures in sports history. So let's grab a healthy dose of history, and whether you're a "dinosaur" or a "youngster" begin to understand the journey of those that played a game we all love and know so well. | <urn:uuid:16c5996e-bb87-48c6-925b-bf93fba5970e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.coppernblue.com/2010/11/4/1786422/2011-ahl-hall-of-fame-yesterday-today-tomorrow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979952 | 2,466 | 1.609375 | 2 |
This semester I read the book Love’s Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom a writer who is also a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. This book is the non-fiction account of ten patients who have been in therapy with Dr. Yalom over the years. All of the patients have very different problems but they all experience some kind of personal breakthrough during their therapeutic sessions.
I really enjoyed reading this book in conjunction with our class discussions because it gave me a glimpse into the process of psychotherapy, and the change psychotherapy can cause within a person. Even though psychotherapy was criticized a lot in our class, and is criticized a lot in general as a type of treatment, reading these moving stories about how effective the process can be makes you believe that it is possible to take control of your life and make major changes. The people in the book gained the courage to make these changes through psychotherapy, but as we have discussed in class, this is not the only way to achieve self-actualization. Regardless about how one might feel about psychotherapy, I believe most people would find this book inspiring.
What really made this book stand out to me is when Dr. Yalom discusses his therapeutic technique. I have not read much about the process of psychotherapy but Dr. Yalom’s explanations of why he would say or do certain things in a therapy session were easy to understand and interesting to read about. He talks a lot about “existence pain” which underlies his approach to psychotherapy. He believes that existence pain is the basic anxiety we all feel and use to cope with the four givens of existence, “I have found that four givens are particularly relevant to psychotherapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life” (1).
While I am not necessarily sure I agree with Dr. Yalom, I do not know anyone who would not feel anxiety reading the list of his four givens. Since the book is written from his point of view, he also offers commentary on what he was thinking during sessions with the different patients and reflects on mistakes he might have made during the therapy. It is interesting to hear how these sessions are also a learning experience for Dr. Yalom and not just the patient.
Often the mistakes he makes are based on countertransference, or the therapist’s feelings about the client that stem from experiences in their own life (2). It is somewhat refreshing to be reminded that Dr. Yalom is a person with his own issues just like the rest of us. At time though, I did feel bad for the patients. Dr. Yalom is extremely candid about his feelings of disgust and dislike towards some of his patients. Usually as the therapy progresses and the patient begins to show their true self to Dr. Yalom these feelings disappear but they are still hard to read about.
You come to care about the people described in the book and you share their happiness in the changes they make in therapy. The cases Dr. Yalom chose to write about are really interesting and unique. Each case is very different, but the way Dr. Yalom is able to describe his patients’ keeps the book extremely engaging all the way through.
Even though the book was depressing at times, I really enjoyed learning about the therapeutic process and reading about how these patients gain insight into their own behavior. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the therapeutic process. I think it would be useful for anyone taking “The Brain and Mental Health” course to read this book as it provides a fascinating look at how psychotherapy works. I definitely plan on reading more of Dr. Yalom’s books in the future.
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Thomas Hart Benton's politically-motivated painting of 1951, titled "Flood Disaster," fetched $1.87 million at a Sotheby's sale of American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture totaling $27.1 million on Thursday. American private collectors purchased the top ten lots of the sale. Six works went above $1 million.
Butler Museum Acquires 1892 American Genre Painting by James Longacre Wood
Release Date: 18 May 2011
Officials from The Butler Institute of American Art have announced that the museum has acquired a master work by American painter James Longacre Wood (c. 1863-1938) titled “Mumble the Peg.” Painted in 1892, a full twenty years after Winslow Homer (1836-1910) painted “Snap the Whip.” ...
Jewels with intruiging provenance or rare qualities piqued bidders' interest at Geneva auctions that fetched an impressive total of about €140m. A tiara commissioned for a German princess was among several record-setting pieces in the spring sale series in Switzerland. Christie’s sold more than €75.8 million over three days, including the record amount of €7.65 million paid for an internally flawless, 56-carat heart-shaped diamond. The buyer was reportedly Graff. A buyer dropped ...
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The hugely popular news link site Reddit is taking steps to make sure that the third party links that that show up as being popular are truly as a result of reader interest. VentureBeat reports that Reddit has now restricted its users from posting links from a handful of sites that Reddit believes was using artificial means to boost up their link popularity.
The sites, some of which are listed on one of Reddit's pages, include some high profile pages such as BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Phys.org, GlobalPost, ScienceDaily and Discover Magazine's blog. Reddit General Manager Erik Martin said that while Reddit has always had a ban list, this week the site changed its policies on how it handles submissions from banned sites.
Before this week, a Reddit user could submit a link from a banned site and it would show up. However, that submission could only be seen by that user. Now, when a Reddit user tries to post a link from a banned site, that user cannot complete his or her submission. Martin said, "We want to show that this behavior isn’t OK instead of keeping the banned domains secret.”
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In this full-day kindergarten, we have only sixteen children with one teacher. If your child is developmentally ready for a kindergarten program but does not meet district age requirements, you may want to consider this as an alternative. Parents who are working and want their children to have a high quality experience with the same teacher throughout the day will appreciate the full-day curriculum. Children engage in many activities emphasizing both creativity and problem solving. Hand-on learning takes place in math, language arts, social studies, science, and other learning centers.
Missy has been at Starbright for a total of 8 years. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Physical Education from UAA. Missy is a master at demonstrating consistency and offering a positive learning environment for children. She has developed a fantastic reading program and responds attentively to individualized developmental abilities. In addition to the classroom learning, she also is proud and excited to take your children swimming every Monday and teach vital water skills. Look for her M-F from 8:00a.m.-4:30p.m.
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February 4, 2010
United States Seizes more than 1,500 Cases of Food from Wisconsin Distribution Warehouse
FDA News Release, Feb. 3, 2010:
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals on Tuesday seized a wide range of human and animal food products stored under insanitary conditions at Mid-States Closeouts, a distribution warehouse in Ellsworth, Wis. The products were seized under a warrant issued by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
U.S. Marshals seized all FDA-regulated human and animal food susceptible to rodent and pest contamination or other filth. The products are adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) because they have been held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth.
During an FDA inspection of Mid-States Closeouts conducted in November and December 2009, the agency found widespread and active rodent infestation, numerous gnawed packages of human and animal food, rodent excreta pellets on, in, and around food packages and rodent nesting material. The facility also had structural defects permitting easy pest access to the entire facility, and rodent harborage areas near the warehouse.
"The violations at Mid-States Closeouts are widespread and significant,” said Michael Chappell, the FDA’s acting associate commissioner, Office of Regulatory Affairs. “The FDA took this action because the company failed to provide adequate safeguards to ensure that products they hold for sale remain free of contamination.”
The FDA has not received any reports of human or pet illness or death associated with consumption of food distributed by Mid-States Closeouts. However, the seized products were in permeable packages and held under conditions that could compromise the food’s quality.
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Feeding a family can be more complex than managing the dietary requirements of an individual. In this episode of Lifestyle #9, Graham and Treena Kerr offer expert advice on creating a healthy diet for the entire clan. They examine the various health needs of different members of a typical household and highlight the importance of implementing nutritious diet guidelines for older citizens. This lifestyle and wellness program also features interviews with medical experts and offers health tips for promoting a balanced diet, such as eating nine fruits and vegetables a day.
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Medicare, Insurers Push Patients To Overpay For Home Medical Equipment
Medicare routinely advises seniors to rent home medical equipment when it would be far less expensive if they bought it. Medicare, the government health program for seniors, isn’t alone in this practice. Some private insurers do the same thing.
Colorado Public News has found that oxygen concentrators, used by patients who have trouble breathing, are a prime example of the high cost of renting home medical equipment. Years of investigations and reforms haven’t fully solved Medicare’s problem with overpaying, partly due to orders from Congress.
A new concentrator can cost just $695. But Medicare tells seniors to rent the machines on 36-month contracts that add up to $6,234, or nearly 10 times that amount. Prices are set by Congress.
Medicare and taxpayers cover most of that. Patients pay 20 percent of the monthly rental fee of $173.17, but even just the patient co-pays add up over three years to double the cost of buying.
An oxygen concentrator is about three feet tall and some look like a miniature robot – think R2D2 from Star Wars. The device removes nitrogen from the air, leaving concentrated oxygen. It delivers the oxygen through a clear tube under the nose.
Extra oxygen is necessary for people with serious respiratory illnesses, including emphysema, chronic bronchitis and sleep apnea. In Colorado, high-altitude thin air affects some people’s sleep patterns enough that they need extra oxygen at night to get rest.
Rent includes more
Rental companies say their contracts include services, not just the machine. And some patients are too sick to handle even minor maintenance.
“If you buy an oxygen concentrator, you’re on your own; whereas under a rental agreement with the insurance company, we are on call to service your concentrator 24/7,” said Respiratory therapist Craig Rapp of Longmont’s Bethesda Home Respiratory Services.
But Medicare and some insurers don’t tell their clients that purchasing is a cheaper option.
Margaret Hrchek has been on overnight oxygen for 10 years to control her severe pulmonary hypertension. The Highlands Ranch woman was on an insurance rental plan, but only because she didn’t know that she could buy a machine herself.
“It took me a long time to buy one, because the provider told me a new one would cost $3,200 out of pocket,” Hrchek said. But that wasn’t true. It took my husband 10 minutes on the Internet to find out we could get a good one for $800. It worked so well, we went out and bought a second machine” as back-up.
Hrchek and her husband change out their own filters and breathing tubes, and call for maintenance on their concentrators when it’s needed.
Medicare routinely pays for oxygen equipment, wheelchairs and other “durable medical equipment” through rental plans. Federal audits have cited the waste, and Medicare says it is working to resolve the problem with competitive bidding.
“We’re spending way too much money on this equipment in the aggregate and we know it. The office of the inspector general knows it. And the Government Accountability Office knows it,” said Medicare spokesman Mike Fierberg.
But Medicare won’t reimburse patients who buy their own, even though it saves them and the government thousands of dollars. Congress prohibited it.
Medicare not alone
Kaiser Permanente is one of the private companies that directs oxygen patients rent machines. Denver patients typically pay 20 to 50 percent of Kaiser’s cost of $140 a month with Apria. People with higher co-pays could cut their expenses in just a few months by purchasing a used machine for $195.
Kaiser spokeswoman Amy Whited said the rental contract – like Medicare’s – includes maintenance.
“Our arrangement ...provides for a variety of services to ensure the safety of our patients,” Whited said. Apria “make(s) sure the oxygen generators are calibrated correctly to dispense the appropriate level of oxygen, and they provide preventative maintenance and replacement or repairs when necessary. ”
Rapp, of Longmont’s Bethesda Home Respiratory Services, says most of the cost of renting is maintenance, and that’s why people with serious respiratory problems should rent.
“Who’s going to be there for you at 3 a.m.when the power goes out?” he said. “Concentrated oxygen is a prescription drug. It’s not like breathing air,”
His company services its machines at customer’s homes every six months. The kind of patient who should own a machine, Rapp advises, is “someone who is younger, and just using it at night for an illness like obstructive sleep apnea. ”
Recently, Rapp went to Edna Fiore’s home in Lakewood to check on her oxygen concentrator, which hums along in her dining room. He exchanged a filter and checked the amount of oxygen coming out of the machine.
Fiore suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, commonly known as COPD. She is literally tethered to her machine by a 25-foot plastic hose attached to her nose, so that she can breathe while she does her chores around the house.
At first, she says, it was a nuisance, but now the tubes are a way of life. “I always said God thought I was flowing around too much, so she gave me a leash!” Fiore said.
At 78 years old, Fiore knows without oxygen she would pass out and die. For her, buying her own oxygen concentrator is out of the question.
“Are you kidding?” She laughs with Rapp, who is changing her machine’s air filter. “I’m not an engineer. These are highly sophisticated pieces of equipment. ”
John More, customer service manager at Centennial’s American Medical Sales and Repair, says maintenance is easy. Owners must clean filters, set dials, and change out tubes. He recommends professional servicing and calibration once a year.
But More says buyers should beware, as some people sell concentrators out of their garages with no follow-up.
Medicare’s Fierberg says the agency is working on its problem of severe overspending on home medical equipment, on which it spent $8 billion in 2009. After investigations by Congress’s General Accounting Office and others, Medicare started competitive bidding on various equipment in nine cities last January, resulting in a 30% savings, he said.
Fierberg says Medicare has had fewer than 100 complaints with the new bidding program “...and that’s amazing considering this affects millions of beneficiaries. ”
But bidding won’t go into effect in Denver- Aurora and Colorado Springs until July, 2013, according to a schedule that Fierberg says was set by Congress. There’s no date yet for the rest of the state.
Medicare expects bidding to save the government $18 billion over 10 years.
The New York Times in 2007 detailed years of attempts to cut Medicare payments to oxygen companies, including one by then-President Bush to slash payments by 63 percent. Congress rejected it -- after providers fought it, and their patients called Congress, sometimes in panic, to insist there be no changes.
Medicare overpays on other equipment as well. A CNN investigation found Medicare paid $1,200 for a scooter that can be purchased by $349 from the same supplier. Medicare cut the three-year cost of a home hospital bed from $4,500 to $3,200 with bidding, but a similar bed can be found on the Internet for $1,300. | <urn:uuid:83e199dd-b67e-4b11-bdd2-1943c625ccfe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kunc.org/post/medicare-insurers-push-patients-overpay-home-medical-equipment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953697 | 1,659 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The mafia and NYC pizza cheese Apr 26 2011
Why can't you get a slice of pizza at John's on Bleecker or Patsy's? Allegedly because of Al Capone:
In his 1981 book on the mob called Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace, the late Jonathan Kwitny detailed how Al Capone -- who owned a string of dairy farms near Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin -- forced New York pizzerias to use his rubbery mob cheese, so different from the real mozzarella produced here in New York City since the first immigrants from Naples arrived in Brooklyn around 1900.
As the story goes, the only places permitted to use good mozzarella made locally were the old-fashioned pizza parlors like Lombardi's, Patsy's, and John's, who could continue doing so only if they promised to never serve slices. According to Kwitny, this is why John's Pizzeria on Bleecker Street still has the warning "No Slices" on its awning today. | <urn:uuid:92fc6f39-d729-4e1a-996c-a601f8201c1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kottke.org/tag/Al%20Capone | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954025 | 216 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Biological validity of the IBIS inferred binding sites. a) Histogram showing the frequency of protein chains as function of their biological relevancy as suggested by overlap of the inferred binding sites with CDD conserved feature annotation. b) Percentage of proteins with their inferred sites having their 1st and 2nd rank clusters with CD annotations; 165 proteins have only one predicted site.
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Story posted March 27, 2007
As winter slowly gives way to spring, and nature's beauty begins to emerge anew, a number of Bowdoin students can rejoice in having planted some seeds of hope.
The Winter Break Mini-Grant sent students off on a host of missions across the country and around the world. Anne Shields, Director of Fellowships and Scholarships, says an annual gift began in 2003, when Tom and Janet McKinley's son, Thomas McKinley '06, was a first-year student. "I love Bowdoin," says McKinley. "It was such an incredible place. We wanted to help the community and not just the students."
"People can make a profound impact on the community and on themselves in a short amount of time," says McKinley. He and his family donated $5,000 for the program. Participating students volunteer with non-profit community service organizations and use the money for such things as train fare, parking, lunch and supplies. "It's a way to remove the financial obstacles for students to do the kind of volunteering they want to do over break," says Shields.
Beth Colombo '07 volunteered at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, Mass. The center provides community-based health care to people to live and work in the surrounding communities. Colombo split her time between the healthcare office and the Teen Clinic.
"This experience taught me some of the challenges that are involved in working with children from an underserved population," says Colombo. "The kids were wonderful, and many of them made incredible progress in the short time I was there."
Interested in the fusion of science and legislation, Benjamin Freedman '09 traveled to The Nature Conservancy's California headquarters in San Francisco. Freedman's research focused on the Klamath River Basin and the federal regulations that have diverted a portion of the river for irrigation use on farms in the northwest. He reviewed new programs that might help to monitor and restore fish levels on the Klamath River.
"Spending my time with The Nature Conservancy was unquestionably one of the richest experiences I've had, in that I was able to apply what I have learned in many of my courses while applying myself to a completely new area of study," says Freedman. "I was able to interact with lawyers, scientists, lobbyists, GIS specialists, and marketing specialists. I am excited to now take more courses that both reflect what I did at TNC and also contrast with my work, so as to build a stronger foundation for when it comes time to make decisions after Bowdoin."
Having grown up in New York City, Elizabeth Leiwant '08 says she knows firsthand it's a city of immense inequality. She volunteered at the Harlem Children's Zone, saying the work it does to mitigate that inequality with its mentoring programs, smart-parenting classes and anti-violence initiatives is crucial to maintaining a thriving society.
The Harlem Children's Zone, a pioneering community-based non-profit organization, is overseen by President and CEO Geoffrey Canada '74, who is renowned in his own right for exemplary leadership in public service.
The environment proved an enriching one for Leiwant. "Through my experience at Harlem Children's Zone, I learned a great deal about urban education, teaching, educational policy, and strategies for working with middle school students," says Leiwant. "It was a challenging experience and one I am happy to have had."
Elizabeth Lovell '07 and L.D. Lord '08 traveled to Guatemala City to work with the late humanitarian Hanley Denning '92 and her non-profit, Safe Passage, which offers support and resources to the children of families who make their living at the city dump. Denning was killed in an automobile accident in Guatemala City January 18, 2007.
Lord and Lovell say they're glad to have met Hanley Denning and to have been part of her incredible organization. "Hanley had an amazing vision and courageously took action to make it reality," says Lovell. "It is now up to us to carry on her work anyway we can." Lovell helped organize activities that encouraged children to express themselves through art.
Lord worked to educate social workers about the newly developed theories of addiction, as a high proportion of the children of Safe Passage face substance abuse problems.
Lord says her approach was to stick to short-term goals. "I clearly don't have the power or the influence to change the lives of these children by any means," says Lord. "But I'd like to think that I did have a positive influence by making some of them smile for a few hours over the course of the week."
Elizabeth Richardson '08 spent winter break in New York City working with Common Ground and the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen to learn how these non-profit organizations tackle homelessness. "[It] has really opened my mind and made me aware of the terrible state of our nation in terms of dealing with poverty and homelessness," says Richardson.
A passion for improving foreign policy dialogue coupled with an existing engagement in Bowdoin's Common Good Grant Committee inspired Dawn Riebeling '07 to work with the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation in Greenwich, Conn. Riebeling helped with administrative tasks and research in advance of the June 2007 New Orleans tour for the Youth Symphony for the United Nations.
"I am enthusiastic about the mission of FAF and feel that the internship gave me invaluable experience with non-profit operations in an immensely well-run, successful organization with a major impact," says Riebeling.
Fourteen students traveled to Lima, Peru, to work with the non-profit group Solidarity in Action. The students built a park that they say represents a sense of hope for the impoverished people living in the shantytown of Las Gardenias.
Bowdoin's women's hockey team spent winter break close to home and on a familiar surface. The women joined local volunteers at the Falmouth Ice Arena to coach, mentor and befriend young challenged skaters. The Adaptive Hockey Program is designed to be an outlet for special needs youths, so that they may get some exercise and experience what the Bowdoin women call "the fastest game on earth."
While McKinley and his family fund the Winter Break Mini-Grant, Thomas McKinley '06 also funds the Summer Entrepreneurial/Community Service Grant which bears his name. These grants support Bowdoin students who are pursuing either significant entrepreneurial experiences or community service projects of their own design, anywhere in the world, in the summer after their sophomore year. Click here to read more. | <urn:uuid:41d4f9f2-5847-41ee-b26e-f749c5125d55> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/003890.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971281 | 1,351 | 1.5625 | 2 |
February 28, 2011
A Kamloops man has been banned from owning animals for five years after failing to provide veterinary care for his injured five-week-old pomeranian puppy. William Wallace was charged with animal cruelty in 2010 and was sentenced last week following a BC SPCA investigation into the case.
Wallace was also fined $250 and ordered to pay $558 in restitution to the BC SPCA for costs incurred in the dog’s care.
The plight of Toni, the tiny Pomeranian puppy, came to the SPCA’s attention after Wallace called the BC SPCA Spay/Neuter Clinic in Kamloops to say his puppy was injured and was not bearing weight on her rear right leg.
An SPCA officer attended the home and was shown the injured dog but Wallace refused to cooperate in seeking urgently needed veterinary care for the puppy.
The SPCA executed a warrant to take custody of Toni, who was rushed to a veterinarian for treatment of a painful broken leg. She has made a full recovery and has since been adopted into a new, loving home.
“We are very pleased with the outcome of this case,” said Kent Kokoska, senior animal protection officer for the BC SPCA. “We believe the sentence is appropriate and makes a clear statement that it is not an option for pet owners to withhold veterinary care for their animals.”
Last year the BC SPCA conducted nearly 7,000 cruelty investigations and found new, loving homes for nearly 19,000 abused, neglected and homeless animals. Your gift can help animal protection officers rescue animals in need and bring their abusers to justice. Please donate today.
Photo caption: Toni, a tiny pomeranian puppy, suffered a badly broken leg. Her former owner failed to provide veterninary care and is banned from owning animals for five years.
The BC SPCA is a non-profit organization funded primarily by public donations. Our mission is to prevent cruelty and to promote the welfare of animals through a wide range of services, including cruelty investigations, emergency rescue and treatment, sheltering and adoption of homeless and abused animals, humane education, advocacy, farm animal welfare, spay/neuter programs, and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. | <urn:uuid:60a8678d-53cf-4dcf-8131-3d54053d8916> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spca.bc.ca/news-and-events/news/kamloops-resident-sentenced.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974453 | 471 | 1.695313 | 2 |
P. W. Freshley. Among the most prosperous and well known farmers and stockmen of Columbiana County is P. W.
Freshley of Knox Township. He was born in this township, March 1, 1876, and is the son of Jesse and Scyrmantha
Jesse Freshley, who is widely known as an extensive farmer and stockman, is also a native of Knox Township, born
in 1851, and the son of John and Mary (Miller) Freshley, who settled in Columbiana County about 1825. The Freshley
family are of German descent. They have always been interested in general farming and are among the largest land
owners of this section. Scyramantha (Ruff) Freshley was born in Knox Township in 1858, the daughter of Hiram Ruff,
pioneer of Homeworth. To Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Freshley the following children were born: Edith, the widow of Austin
Sanor, resides at home with parents; P. W., the subject of this sketch; Daisy, the wife of Lyman Marietta, Affiance,
Ohio; Edcher, Cleveland; Homer, resides in Hanoverton, Ohio; Owen, lives in Knox Township; John, Knox Township;
Olive May, deceased; Monroe, Knox Township; Estella, widow of Walter E. Bedford, resides at Limaville, and Allen
and Ellen, twins. Allen lives in Knox Township and Ellen married Chester Stoffer, Beloit, Ohio.
P. W. Freshley grew up no his father's farm and received his education in the schools of Knox Township, Mt. Union
College and Ada College. He taught school for several terms, later engaged in the mercantile business at Homeworth,
and for a number of years has followed general farming and stock raising. He operates 55 acres of land and his
home is one of the finest residences in the township.
On Dec. 18, 1906, Mr. Freshley was united in marriage with Miss Dora Unger, a native of this township, and the
daughter of Charles and Mary (Randolph) Unger. Mr. and Mrs. Unger reside in Knox Township opposite the Freshley
farm. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Freshley, as follows: Ruth A., born Sept. 27, 1907, was graduated
from Alliance High School in 1924, now studies and teaches music; Donald Earl, born April 13, 1909; Atlee Pomerene,
born March 4, 1911; Wilson Bryan, born Jan. 21, 1914; Wendall Wayne, born Jan. 25, 1920; and Dwight Lowell, born
June 27, 1924.
Mr. Freshley and his family hold membership in the Methodist Church at Winona. He is a Democrat and takes an active
interest in the affairs of the community in which he has spent his entire life.
History of Columbiana County, Ohio
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Columbiana County, Ohio Biographies
Names A to F
Names G to M
Names N to Z
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Our work takes us to communities across the country facing a range of issues.
We often begin our work when a community member or municipal official contacts us because they’re facing a proposal for an unwanted factory farm, water withdrawal, or other threat. We work with communities to understand why they can't simply say "No" to those threats.
This involves working with community members and elected officials to recognize how our structure of law works and for whom - and how communities are beginning to make changes through local self-government to protect the places where they live.
If you would like to learn more about our work, there are many resources on this website. We also encourage you to get in contact with us at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:bebb5ac4-a5cb-44ec-bc65-53f5dd8978b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.celdf.org/our-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971221 | 152 | 1.757813 | 2 |
It's weakened a little bit, but Hurricane Isabel is still a monster.
The storm has sustained winds of 150 miles per hour as it churns West-Northwest toward a meeting with the US East Coast later this week.
Isabel is now down to Category Four and experts say it would be
extremely unusual for Isabel to maintain its former Category Five strength as it moves north over cooler water.
The National Hurricane Center says models show the storm weakening during the next four days. But it could still pack 130 mile-per-hour winds when it hits somewhere between North Carolina and New Jersey late Thursday into early Friday.
People along the coast have been gearing up -- buying plywood to board windows and stocking up on some essentials. | <urn:uuid:254055c1-90dc-4439-819a-7d6f6020c63e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/465957.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96628 | 149 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Hilton Head Island Town Councilman Lee Edwards said the state and county should instead pursue a new plan by Beaufort County Councilman Stu Rodman.
Rodman wants to eliminate the eastbound flyover and instead make the extension at grade.
The Fording Island Road Extension would then intersect with Bluffton Parkway rather than going under it.
Doing so would save millions, according to Rodman, without endangering the project, but would not address the more prominent westbound flyover Edwards argues spoils the entrance to the island.
Rodman, though, says engineers should reassess whether the westbound flyover is warranted, arguing traffic models used are outdated. Should it remain, he argues it could be beautified similar to the U.S. 278 crossing over S.C. 170. He said bidders were asked to say how they would spruce up the flyovers with landscaping and decorative materials.
Unlike Edwards, however, Rodman does not want to see construction halted.
“My hope is engineers will take a look at it, but I do not want to lose the $15 million,” he said of state and federal money that has been set aside for the project, expected to cost $36.7 million to $43 million.
S.C. DOT commissioner Craig Forrest of Bluffton has warned that could happen if significant changes are made.
“A lot of money has been spent to prepare the area for the flyovers to be built,” Beaufort County Council chairman Weston Newton said. “And you come back to testament from emergency management officials who say most recent suggestions don’t allow for continuous flow of traffic. Aesthetics is important, but so is the efficient movement of people in a safe manner.” | <urn:uuid:e47c7982-5d78-4a38-801e-1b5bcede6073> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.islandpacket.com/42395 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960979 | 369 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Financial bliss after 'I do'
(BPT) - Wedding season is here. It's estimated that more than 2 million couples will be married in the United States this year. As couples young and old unite their hearts and lives, they will also face the challenging task of uniting their finances.
The truth of the matter is, financial bliss is only partially connected to the size of one's bank account. Especially for newlyweds, financial satisfaction and contentment is often found in the uniting of partners' financial values and goals.
These values, or life priorities if you prefer, can range from security, to service, to status. Alternatively, they might encompass areas such as independence, financial wealth, meaningful work, faith, family or excellence, among others.
Once newlyweds have identified their top values - and have seen the values identified by their mate - they can use this knowledge to create shared goals.
What if he values money and she values friendship? Is conflict sure to follow?
There is "give and take" in every relationship, including a couple's financial priorities. Once each partner understands the values of his or her mate, it becomes easier to set shared short- and long-term goals. At a minimum, it helps couples understand what drives the other's thinking.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
provides these 10 basic steps that newlyweds can take to launch their new financial lives:
1. Identify your core values.
2. Establish your shared needs and short- and long-term goals.
3. Create a budget.
4. Reduce and eliminate consumer debt or other loans.
5. Start or increase an emergency fund.
6. Insure your health, property, income and life through appropriate insurance.
7. Save for your retirement.
8. Educate yourself about financial issues.
9. Meet with a financial professional to help you stay on task.
10. Talk regularly about your financial goals and performance.
Following the steps above will not address the "who, what and how" related to paying bills or balancing checkbooks. Frankly, there is no one right formula for determining who does what. Newlyweds will need to invest time, conversation and experimentation into finding the right fit for their unique circumstances and personalities.
Establishing a regular "money date," where you set aside uninterrupted time to discuss your finances and measure them against your goals can be a fun way of addressing something otherwise considered "work." This date need not be costly or even away from home, but it must be a time without distractions from television, phone calls or friends. This is truly "your time" to study and learn about your finances as a couple.
After "I do," the work of establishing your new life together begins. By giving regular attention to your values and financial goals, you can enhance the likelihood of living "happily ever after" from a financial viewpoint. | <urn:uuid:6776beb2-d196-40fb-b5fe-2eea1d32bbc2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hillsdale.net/section/?template=araArchiveDetails&CategoryID=209&article=8052290507&archive=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939597 | 605 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The Gear-cube is a brand new concept in cube design and has the following inventive steps. Using a full gear mechanism that requires twelve 90° turns to complete one rotation but having said this it is still slightly easier then the Rubik’s cube, Designed by M. Oskar van Deventer and inspired by a gearing idea by Bram Cohen, it will be Meffert’s Puzzle Of the Year for 2010.
Placing the gears externally, so that their orientation can be seen, Adding gear teeth to the corner and edge pieces and using a new speed cube inner core.
These steps result in a twisty puzzle that on the one hand has some of the features and attractiveness of the original Rubik’s Cube. Whereas on the other hand it creates a completely new and unexpected solving experience.
To summarize, the following aspects add to the attraction of Gear-Cube;
A first solving reward is getting the puzzle to its cubic state. This is relatively easy.
A second solving reward is getting the puzzle to a state where each face has only two colors (of opposite faces).This is a bit harder, but achievable for many people.
Hardest is solving the puzzle as a whole, which is still easier than the original Rubik’s Cube.
We would like to thank Laura Ohrndorf for giving us permission to use her video on Youtube.
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We’re always plugged in, engulfed by information.
While methods to reach us have expanded and changed, our brains work much the way they have for the past 40 to 50,000 years.
We’re connected with people from all over the globe but that doesn’t mean we know a whit about them, their cultures, their beliefs or how they work.
Complexity is increasing. Tools to simplify information, make it memorable and lasting, are not keeping up. If we want to bring people together in the workplace, minimize risk, and increase productivity, we can’t just assume that the latest technology will help rather than overwhelm us with more complexity guaranteeing reduced results. Unfortunately, we often assume that more technology and more content means better compliance results. Neither nor both do.
In this eBook we present our view that how we communicate and educate on compliance and related issues must be “revisioned” to match the needs of our organizations, learners, and the times.
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Over the years, he has worked with numerous nationally known industry leaders to help them communicate standards of proper legal and ethical behavior along with their companies’ own missions and policies in order to build civil, inclusive, and productive workplaces. He pioneered the development of interactive, model-driven training that addresses workplace legal and fair employment issues by providing practical skills people can apply every day at work. | <urn:uuid:991e73bb-5f07-4d69-a19b-049c329982a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eliinc.com/revisioning-the-way-we-learn/ | 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 | 0.960082 | 310 | 1.804688 | 2 |
As Mr. Obama made his comments at the announcement of the pay freeze, the bipartisan commission he established in February to propose ways to reduce the growth of the national debt entered a final two days of negotiations over combinations of spending cuts and revenue increases. In a sign of the struggle to find a compromise that could attract Democratic and Republicans votes, the commission chairmen — Alan K. Simpson, a former Senate Republican leader, and Erskine B. Bowles, a chief of staff to President Bill Clinton — decided to meet privately with members one at a time on Monday and Tuesday instead of convening all 18 members.
The above emboldened words illustrate the stupidity of Washington. Simply put there is no way to balance the budget without two things happening: taxes going up and some kind of compromise on health care spending. There is just no way for meaningful change to happen without both parties compromising on their key issues. So, expect the problem to continue. | <urn:uuid:19203787-863f-4639-b12f-53fb89a19cfd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bonddad.blogspot.com/2010/11/washington-lobotomy-factory-is-in-high.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955069 | 191 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Red fire hydrants are common sights along streets in Holyoke.
"People do take them for granted, and the average person never has to use them in their life," said Lt. Thomas Paquin of the Holyoke Fire Department.
However, when a fire starts, their function can mean the difference between life and death.
With February's big snowfall, many of these important lifelines in Holyoke and other communities across Western Massachusetts have been blocked by snow.
"Valuable time is lost when trying to shovel out the hydrant before the guys can really tie into the hydrant to work on a fire," Paquin said.
Since many of the city's fire hydrants are still clogged by snow, the Holyoke Fire Department has been encouraging the public to help clear off the city's hydrants.
Fire officials have some advice about how much room you should leave when clearing off a hydrant.
"Probably a 5' diameter is good. A good time to get it is when the snow is still soft," Paquin said.
Fire hydrants aren't the only objects that need clearing off.
Paquin told CBS 3 that cleaning out direct vents for furnaces and water heaters is also crucial to prevent carbon monoxide buildup.
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The Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is
’s apex institution for research and advanced studies in law. It was a brainchild
of the legal academic community established in March 1979. One of the main ideas
in founding the Institute was to establish it as the centre for advanced legal research
for all the Nigerian universities with Faculties of Law, so that all postgraduate
work could be undertaken there under the joint auspices of the most experienced
and learned academic lawyers available in the country, whether indigenous or foreign.
The Library would be the best equipped collection of law books and publications.
This would, no doubt, assist in resolving the difficulties hampering the organisation
of postgraduate studies needed to fill in the gaps in the training of Nigerian lawyers
at the time.
At inception, the Institute was funded with generous financial and
academic support from external agencies such as the Ford Foundation and the Commonwealth
Secretariat. Such assistance, however, declined over time. The National Universities
Commission also funded the Institute through the
University of Lagos
until 1984 when by virtue of Decree No. 18 of June 27, the Institute became autonomous
under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Justice. This development greatly
enhanced the mandate and institutional capacity of the Institute to discharge its
Additionally, in 1995 the
enabling law of the Institute, now fully incorporated into the Laws of the Federation
2004 as section 4(c), Cap. N112, was amended to mandate the Institute to run post-graduate
courses in legislative drafting. Consequently, the Institute’s Post-graduate School
(PGS) was established in 1997 as the Post-graduate Studies Unit with the sole aim
of running a Post-graduate Diploma in Legislative Drafting (PGDLD) and Masters Degree
in Legislative Drafting (LLM.). This was the first of its kind, not only in
. The Institute has also recently commenced a Ph.D Programme in Legislative Drafting. | <urn:uuid:45463772-a0ce-4d67-96d9-ffca400870f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nials-nigeria.org/text/History.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948708 | 408 | 1.703125 | 2 |
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched Mexico's southern Gulf coast Thursday and was expected to head inland, as authorities in the flood-prone region prepared shelters, army troops and rescue personnel.
Ernesto spun through the southern Gulf of Mexico, across waters dotted with oil rigs operated by the state oil company, after hurling rain across the Yucatan Peninsula but causing little major damage. The government closed its largest Gulf coast port, Veracruz and the smaller ports of Alvarado and Coatzacoalcos.
The major oil port of Coatzacoalcos had already gotten 7 inches (177 millimeters) of rain in the 24 hours before Ernesto's center passed just a few miles (kilometers) away, according to Mexico's national weather service. San Pedro in the neighboring state of Tabasco had seen more than 10 inches (273 millimeters).
"It's raining intermittently, it rains, its stops, and then it rains again," said Juventino Martinez, the city's civil defense chief. "We have some flooding, some water building up" on streets in lower-lying sections of the city. He said 40 shelters were ready but hadn't been used yet.
Municipal employee Brito Gomez reported water was waist-high in some neighborhoods.
About 2,000 army and navy personnel are on stand-by to head to the jungle-clad hillside inland to help in rescue work if needed, said Noemi Guzman, Veracruz state civil defense director. Guzman said no flooding had yet been reported at any of the state's many rivers.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm's sustained winds had declined to about 60 mph (95 kph) at midday Thursday as it interacted with land along the coast. It had grown into a hurricane shortly before landfall Tuesday night near the cruise ship port of Mahahual, but it weakened as it crossed the peninsula. Ernesto then steamed back out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters said Ernesto was expected to roar through Veracruz state's lush Los Tuxtlas region, roughly 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Coatzacoalcos, creating the threat of torrential flooding.
Much of the storm was already over land Thursday morning and it was centered about 5 miles (10 kilometers) north of Coatzacoalcos, moving to the west at 5 mph (7 kph).
The hurricane center said Ernesto was expected to produce rainfalls of up to 15 inches in some parts of the mountainous areas of Veracruz, Tabasco Puebla and Oaxaca.
With many small communities clinging to hillsides in those states, authorities are worried about potential flash floods and mudslides.
Petroleos Mexicanos, the state oil monopoly, announced it had evacuated 61 workers from a drilling platform and had taken other safety precautions, but it said production had not been affected.
There were no reports of storm deaths or major damage, though Ernesto ripped down billboards, toppled trees and cut electricity as it hit land well south of the region's main resorts of Cancun and the Riviera Maya and then passed near the Mayan ruins of Calakmul.
In the Pacific, Hurricane Gilma gained some strength but was not seen as a threat to land. Early Thursday, it was about 730 miles (1,175 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph (130 kph).
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Dobbs Ferry UFSD Gets Good Grades in DiNapoli Audit
Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District’s controls over purchasing are effectively safeguarding district assets, according to an audit released by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
“The Dobbs Ferry audit proves that school districts can get it right the first time with the right tools and policies in place,” said DiNapoli. “School officials should be commended for their work, and taxpayers can rest assured the district is making the best use of their tax dollars when making purchases.”
An effective procurement process obtains the best quality of goods and services at the lowest possible price in compliance with district policy and the law. This helps to ensure that officials are making the best use of taxpayer dollars. General Municipal Law (GML) and the district policy require that purchases and public work contracts, when exceeding aggregate amounts of $10,000 and $20,000 respectively, during a fiscal year, be publicly advertised for bids and awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.
Exceptions to the competitive bidding requirements include purchases of materials, equipment or supplies that are made under state, county, and local Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) contracts, professional services, emergency purchases, or when the particular goods or services are available from only one source.
Auditors selected a sample of 19 of the vendors the district used. During the period July 2006 to July 2007, the district made payments totaling $1.1 million to these vendors. Auditors examined $312,355 of these payments to determine whether the district followed GML and its own policies when procuring goods and services. Auditors found no material deficiencies in the district’s compliance with state law or district policy.
Click here for a copy of the audit.
School District Accountability
To improve accountability of the state’s schools, DiNapoli’s office will audit all of New York’s 834 school districts, Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) and charter schools by 2010. The State Comptroller’s office has completed 490 school audits, with approximately 200 school audits currently underway. | <urn:uuid:8fbfd334-b467-4cf9-b17e-53d331f476c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/oct08/102708.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939033 | 449 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The 'will they or won't they' speculation over whether the iPhone 5, expected to be unveiled on 12 September, will come with NFC continues to rage and the latest analysis suggests that it won't — although two early Apple patents may mean that the conclusions drawn may not turn out to be completely accurate.
Earlier this week, a new feature shown in images of a purported iPhone 5 could mean that the iPhone 5 could come with NFC. But an analysis by Anandtech of those images and other information believed to be known about the latest Apple device leads them to conclude there is no room for an NFC antenna in the new iPhone.
"Given the primarily metal backside of the new iPhone, it's highly unlikely that NFC is in the cards for this generation," they say. "In fact, given the very little space at top and bottom dedicated to those glass RF windows, you can almost entirely rule it out."
"There's also a healthy number of signalling pins in the flex cable leaving the mystery chip, some of which appear to be signalling for the front facing camera which is part of the assembly, others for earpiece, proximity, and ambient light sensor," they add.
A patent application filed by Apple in December 2007, however, suggests that the iPhone maker could find other ways to add NFC to the device. The 'Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader' patent describes a method of building an antenna into a touch screen, thus avoiding the issue of a metal back interfering with the signal.
"The RFID antenna can be placed in the touch sensor panel, such that the touch sensor panel can now additionally function as an RFID transponder," the patent explains. "No separate space-consuming RFID antenna is necessary."
The patent was granted in April 2011.
A second patent granted in July 2011, meanwhile, covers the addition of an NFC antenna to electronic devices with metal elements. "Electronic device with conductive housing and near field antenna" covers a variety of ways in which NFC could be added to a metal-backed iPhone 5 without causing signal issues.
In the meantime, Apple patent applications making mention of NFC continue to appear. The latest, titled "Motion based payment confirmation", was filed in January 2009 and granted on 28 August 2012. | <urn:uuid:ed48693f-ab7b-49c4-b8c0-f0ac01be0d82> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/08/29/317440/iphone-5-no-room-for-nfc-well-maybe-there-is/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963386 | 460 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Side Effects of Surgery
Any man considering prostate surgery will want to weigh the risks and benefits of the procedure. The two major risks are incontinence, the loss of control over the release of urine, and impotence, the inability to get or sustain an erection. You will also lose your fertility and no longer be able to father a child.
Other risks include those of any major surgery: the potential for pain, infection, blood loss that requires a transfusion, and blood clots in the legs. Most of these problems, such as blood clots, are very rare, or they can be controlled with medication, such as pain after surgery.
Many men are afraid they will be incontinent after prostate surgery. However, with an expert surgeon, the risk of severe incontinence is less than 2 percent. Incontinence can often be corrected later with minor surgery.
Some degree of incontinence after surgery is common, but it usually only lasts a few days or weeks. You may need to wear a small pad to catch leaking urine. Ask your doctor about medication that may help with this problem.
Impotence is the inability to have or maintain an erection. Most men are impotent after prostate surgery, unless they have a nerve-sparing prostatectomy to preserve the nerve bundles that control erections, or a nerve-graft procedure. Even with the nerve-sparing procedure, you probably will have diminished function right after surgery, but this should improve as you recover.
Ask your doctor about medications or devices that can be used to help correct impotence.
If you have a prostatectomy, you will be infertile. If fertility is a concern for you, talk to your doctor about options such as freezing your sperm before your surgery so that it will be available if you want to father a child later on. | <urn:uuid:2347ec1d-f34a-432e-8673-0bb1d9a0daae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seattlecca.org/diseases/side-effects-of-surgery.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955767 | 380 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Sometimes you can catch a glimpse through a large building’s door as it is opened, and there is a whole other part of Paris to be be found there. Masked from the visitors’ eye are the insides of these old stone buildings that date back to the 30′s or 20′s or the end of the 19th century, or even older than that…
I LOVE to catch those doors as they are closing and grab a shot or two to keep of these charming places that are not readily available to the Parisian wanderer.
Here are a few. I won’t put the addresses so as to protect the inhabitants of those buildings from too many curious lookers, but I will tell you the arrondissement :
This courtyard door was open, and therefor I didn’t feel stealth walking in, but it was clear I was walking into someone’s front porch area. A beautiful looking apartment with an expansive artist’s window to let in the light, and a wooden, table for an apéro with friends perhaps…
The first time I walked through the door on the boulevard where I found this place, I was awestruck. The ground level is lined with 19th century office spaces, and the cobble stone with flower pots scenery seems to come straight from a postcard! Every doorway to the different buildings seems to have a potted tree and flowers with a bicycle in front of it. | <urn:uuid:1a63b6c2-b22f-4d30-9f34-546a1536b635> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pretemoiparis.com/2011/08/07/behind-paris-doors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977399 | 300 | 1.828125 | 2 |
“Caring about the law means caring about individuals because individuals are the ones impacted by the law,” says Associate Professor Justin G. Holbrook
, the Director of Widener’s Veterans Law Clinic
, who hopes to instill that philosophy in his students. “When I think about a legal rule, I want to think about how it impacts the individuals who will be affected by that rule,” he explains.
“I’m completely energized by the teaching process and its focus on critical thinking and rigorous analysis,” he says, adding that he aims to train students to “approach legal issues cautiously, creatively, and courageously.” Professor Holbrook cited this as the main reason he enjoys working with students on their oral and written advocacy skills, whether in one-on-one meetings or coaching moot court teams representing Widener Law School in competition.
Widener’s support of the military and veterans played a central role in attracting Professor Holbrook, who came to Widener in July of 2010 following six years as an active duty judge advocate in the United States Air Force. He deployed twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and also served as Chief of Military Justice and Chief of International Law at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a reservist in the United States Air Force.
Beyond interacting with his students, he also hopes he can contribute to the world of ideas through his scholarship. He has particular interests in international comparative law, military and veterans law, and criminal law. His work on a variety of rule of law initiatives overseas led him to explore “broader issues of legal plurality and hybrid legal systems” in the Philippines, a topic he recently addressed at the Third Congress of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists in Jerusalem, Israel. Moving forward, he hopes to look at the value of the law in resolving normative conflicts through hybrid legal systems operating at “both the national and supra-national levels.”
Professor Holbrook has also conducted extensive research into the veterans court movement in the United States, including leading the first national survey into the effectiveness of such courts in treating veterans and reducing recidivism rates. “The research suggests that the criminal justice system would benefit if stakeholders consider the unique needs of veterans who find themselves in court, especially those impacted by combat trauma after a deployment.” While criminal misconduct should not be excused, the justice system should “approach traumatized veterans with an eye toward rehabilitation rather than simply toward punishment.”
“At the end of the day, the law is about helping people. It brings tremendous satisfaction if something that I’ve worked on contributes, even in a small way, to that goal,” Holbrook concludes. | <urn:uuid:2124b251-03ca-4d30-8b71-ed2279487385> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://law.widener.edu/Spiffs/FacultyProfiles/JustinHolbrook.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969302 | 578 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Surprisingly, this seems to be one of the most complicated and misunderstood aspects of a real estate transaction. In my own opinion, people do not always take enough time to understand the implications of who a REALTOR® is representing and later are surprised to learn what impact it may have on a transaction. When it comes to buying or selling your home, I suspect surprises are the last things you want.
REALTORS® believe it’s important for you to understand who they represent, and what services you can expect from them. The real estate profession itself lobbied for many years for the creation of the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO), a self-management body for the profession in Ontario. As of January 1, 2000, all licensed real estate brokers and sales people must follow certain rules designed by RECO to protect consumers.
These rules clearly establish who the REALTOR® represents in a real estate transaction — the buyer or the seller — and acknowledge that relationship in writing. Failure to have a written representation agreement is a breach of the RECO code of ethics.
The next time you are buying or selling a home, you will be asked to sign some form of representation agreement. You will be asked to sign a listing agreement if you are a seller. You will be asked to sign a buyer representation agreement if you are a buyer and have agreed that the REALTOR® is representing your interests. And, whether you are a buyer or a seller, you will be asked to sign documentation confirming that you understand for whom the REALTOR® is working.
What follows is an excerpt from the Ontario Real Estate Association’s brochure explaining "representation."
REALTORS® are governed by the legal concept of “agency.” An agent is legally obligated to look after the best interests of the person he or she is working for. The agent must be loyal to that person.
A real estate brokerage may be your agent – if you have clearly established an agency relationship with that REALTOR®. But often, you may assume such an obligation exists when it does not.
REALTORS® believe it is important that the people they work with understand when an agency relationship exists and when it does not – and understand what it means.
In real estate, there are different possible forms of agency relationship:
1. Seller Representation
When a real estate brokerage represents a seller, it must do what is best for the seller of a property.
A written contract, called a listing agreement, creates an agency relationship between the seller and the brokerage and establishes seller representation. It also explains services the brokerage will provide, establishes a fee arrangement for the REALTOR’s® services and specifies what obligations a seller may have.
A seller’s agent must tell the seller anything known about a buyer. For instance, if a seller’s agent knows a buyer is willing to offer more for a property, that information must be shared with the seller.
Confidences a seller shares with a seller’s agent must be kept confidential from potential buyers and others.
Although confidential information about the seller cannot be discussed, a buyer working with a seller’s agent can expect fair and honest service from the seller’s agent and disclosure of pertinent information about the property.
2. Buyer Representation
A real estate brokerage representing a buyer must do what is best for the buyer.
A written contract, called a buyer representation agreement, creates an agency relationship between the buyer and the brokerage, and establishes buyer representation. It also explains services the brokerage will provide, establishes a fee arrangement for the REALTOR’S® services and specifies what obligations a buyer may have.
Typically, buyers will be obliged to work exclusively with that brokerage for a period of time.
Confidences a buyer shares with the buyer’s agent must be kept confidential.
Although confidential information about the buyer cannot be disclosed, a seller working with a buyer’s agent can expect to be treated fairly and honestly.
3. Dual Representation
Occasionally a real estate brokerage will represent both the buyer and the seller. The buyer and seller must consent to this arrangement in writing. Under this “dual representation” arrangement, the brokerage must do what is best for both the buyer and the seller.
Since the brokerage’s loyalty is divided between the buyer and the seller who have conflicting interests, it is absolutely essential that a dual representation relationship be properly documented. Representation agreements specifically describe the rights and duties of everyone involved and any limitations to those rights and duties.
4. Customer Service
A real estate brokerage may provide services to buyers and sellers without creating buyer or seller representation. This is called "customer service."
Under this arrangement, the brokerage can provide many valuable services in a fair and honest manner. This relationship can be set out in a buyer or seller customer service agreement.
Real estate negotiations are often complex and a brokerage may be providing representation and/or customer service to more than one seller or buyer. The brokerage will disclose these relationships to each buyer and seller.
Who’s working for you?
It is important that you understand who the REALTOR® is working for. For example, both the seller and the buyer may have their own agent which means they each have a REALTOR® who is representing them.
Or, some buyers choose to contact the seller’s agent directly. Under this arrangement the REALTOR® is representing the seller, and must do what is best for the seller, but may provide many valuable customer services to the buyer.
A REALTOR® working with a buyer may even be a "sub-agent" of the seller. Under sub-agency, both the listing brokerage and the co-operating brokerage must do what is best for the seller even though the sub-agent may provide many valuable customer services to the buyer.
If the brokerage represents both the seller and the buyer, this is dual representation.
Code of Ethics
REALTORS® believe it is important that the people they work with understand their agency relationship. That’s why requirements and obligations for representation and customer service are included in a Code of Ethics which is administered by the Real Estate Council of Ontario. The Code requires REALTOR® to disclose in writing the nature of the services they are providing, and encourages REALTOR® to obtain written acknowledgement of that disclosure. The Code also requires REALTOR® to submit written representation and customer service agreements to buyers and sellers. | <urn:uuid:016389aa-a94c-4907-842a-c3a0b9084313> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.collingwood-bluemountain.com/buyers/who-is-your-agent-working-for/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949564 | 1,341 | 1.664063 | 2 |
BELLINGHAM - Few details were offered Tuesday, Jan. 8, as U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, met with representatives from local colleges to talk about the next steps in the fiscal cliff debate.
But one thing was certain: The fiscal cliff - a combination of expiring tax cuts and automatic cuts to federal spending - could impact higher education.
Congress approved the tax portion of the cliff earlier in January. But lawmakers delayed the spending cuts decision for two months, during which time lawmakers will debate the makeup of those cuts and whether they also will include new revenue.
"If it's all spending cuts, I can assure you that will come right down into your universities and colleges," Larsen said.
Larsen met with Whatcom Community College President Kathi Hiyane-Brown, Bellingham Technical College President Patricia McKeown, Western Washington University Vice President of University Relations Steve Swan and representatives from Northwest Workforce Council at the WCC Foundation building in Bellingham.
While he said that over the next two months, "the oxygen in the room will be sucked up" in Congress by the fiscal cliff debate, he also assured them that access to higher education and developing job skills were still on his agenda.
Officials shared their concerns that decreasing state support was putting the burden of college costs more heavily on students, many of whom rely on federal aid to help pay tuition.
"We're really concerned about who's going to be able to afford to get a higher education in the future," Swan said.
They also were worried about what would happen to grant money that has traditionally helped the schools bolster and develop programs in high-demand fields.
The more general worry, though, was about Congress itself and whether these repeated, time-consuming fiscal cliff and debt ceiling stalemates were just the new normal for lawmakers.
"This does end," Larsen said. "I don't know if we get something done in the next two months, but this does end." | <urn:uuid:15a2cbb4-9e96-4f96-bb46-57520c089158> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/01/08/2428278/rep-larsen-fiscal-cliff-could.html?storylink=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979307 | 411 | 1.625 | 2 |
Taking the First Steps To Sustainability
May 01, 2011
A business consultant shares what makes some contractors vulnerable to changing market forces and what keeps others on the road to long-term sustainability.
As I consult with top energy contractors across the country, I see that they fall into two types. On the surface, both types appear to be successful, and in many cases they have found success in the short term. But when I “look under the hood,” I begin to see which contractors are vulnerable to changing market forces and which ones stand a good chance of long-term sustainability.
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Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage were up about 4 percent in 2012 to $15,745. On average, workers paid $4,316 toward the total cost of the coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust 2012 benefits survey.
Though this year’s increase is considered moderate, it outpaced the growth in workers’ wages (1.7 percent) and general inflation (2.3 percent). The increase “still takes a growing bit out of middle-class workers’ wages, which have been flat or falling in real terms,” said Kaiser CEO Drew Altman.
The survey found that workers at lower-wage workplaces pay on average $1,000 more each year out of their paycheck for family coverage. Also, those earning less are more likely to face high deductibles. | <urn:uuid:8c16e5ed-4784-4eaa-a4ad-0a0169bd3492> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hr.blr.com/HR-news/Benefits-Leave/Healthcare-Benefits/Family-health-premiums-reach-nearly-16000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964428 | 174 | 1.75 | 2 |
It depends on the position you are being interviewed for.
1. If you are a skilled worker (carpenter, welder, cook, etc.) the interview takes about 15-20 minutes and it's mandatorily followed or preceeded by a test where you get to prove your skills. The test is much more important and decisive than the interview.
2. If you are being interviewed for an entry level position that doesn't require special technical or language skills (for example waitress) the interview takes about 20 minutes. If the job you apply for requires additional skills (like French, German, or IT skills like SQL, Linux, C++ just to name a few) the interview will be 20-30 minutes, language skills may be tested during the interview and you may be asked to come later or to stay after the interview for additional IT tests.
3. If you are being interviewed for a middle level position (for example experienced salesman), expect the interview to last 30-45 minutes.
4. Finally, for a manager position, interviews can take up to 2 hours and there may be several than one.
Also, when you are scheduled for the interview, it's more than ok to ask for the time you should reserve, especially if you take time from work or from school to go there. The recruiter should normally tell you about the length of the interview and tests but if they don't, just ask. | <urn:uuid:08d52b1c-2e94-4071-8694-29af1754839b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hr-faq.com/2012/02/how-long-should-interview-take.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945254 | 292 | 1.75 | 2 |
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17 July 2009
Among the topics covered in workshop sessions will be mobile journalism using portable audio and video equipment; free or cheap alternatives to audio, photo and video editing software; the myth and reality of the “Twitter revolution”; distributing video online via YouTube and Vimeo; search engine optimization; best practices for online interviews and podcasts; and writing for the Web.
“Participants will learn to conceptualize, map and produce compelling stories across media platforms, including audio, video and interactive graphics,” says Matt Mogekwu, associate professor and chair of the journalism department. “They will talk with experts and exchange ideas on multimedia journalism, gain field experience in multimedia storytelling using digital content-gathering tools and present case studies on multimedia journalism. Through this workshop, the Park School hopes to contribute to the global discussion on the role of new media platforms in the practice of international reporting.”
Scheduled for July 20–24, the Multimedia Workshop for International Journalists was developed by the Department of Journalism in Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications.
Visit http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/depts/journalism/interworkshop to view the complete workshop schedule.
A ReadyCam satellite uplink is available for conducting interviews.
Both Mogekwu and fellow workshop leader Vadim Isakov have extensive international media experience. Prior to joining the Park School, Mogekwu had served as dean of the faculty of human and social sciences and as a professor of communications at the University of North-West in South Africa. Isakov, who serves as a scholar-in-residence in the Park School, has worked in Central Asia as a reporter for Agence France-Presse and a press officer for the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 2006 he was recognized as one of the top 10 bloggers in Uzbekistan.
The workshop will feature presentations by two guest speakers. Jeff Cohen, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College and founder of the media watch group FAIR, will speak on “The State of Independent Media in the U.S.” Paul Jay, CEO and senior editor of the Real News Network, a start-up aiming to be a daily mass video news service for the Internet and television, will discuss “Surviving and Thriving in the Online Media Environment.” Jay was executive producer of the CBC news shows “CounterSpin” and “Face Off” and has produced and directed more than 20 major documentaries, including “Return to Kandahar.”
Margarita Akhvlediani is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Go Group/Eyewitness Reporting Studio, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. The studio’s network of professional journalists, together with actively involved “resident reporters” from the general public, produce short documentary films and multimedia productions that are placed on the studio’s website.
Ekeh Kenneth Anayo works as an independent marketing consultant and freelance journalist in Nigeria, writing feature stories on political, social and economic issues.
Moatlhodi Dilotsotlhe is director of corporate affairs and marketing at the Tshwane University of Technology and teaches media studies at the University of South Africa. He has 15 years of experience in journalism, public relations and business communication.
Lissy De Abreu Gallego started her career as a local news reporter at “El Nacional,” Venezuela’s leading newspaper. She currently reports for the international section and has recently covered such issues as the OAS Summit of the Americas, the situation in Cuba and the use of Twitter during the Iran election protests.
Prithviraj Hegde is deputy managing editor at Rediff.com, India’s largest and oldest news, information, entertainment and shopping Internet portal. He previously worked at Mid Day Multimedia Ltd., publisher of Mumbai’s largest-circulation afternoon newspaper.
Siok Hui Leong is a senior writer at “The Star,” Malaysia’s largest English-language newspaper. She has a special interest in ecotourism and works closely with the conservation group Wild Asia.
Sergiy Leshchenko has been a journalist for the online newspaper “Ukrainska Pravda” since 2000. He won the Oleksandr Kryvenko Award and is one of the Ukraine’s best-known investigative reporters.
Roseleen Nzioka began her journalism career in 1993 as a cub reporter for “The Standard” in Nairobi, Kenya, and now serves as an online editor for the newspaper.For more information on the Multimedia Workshop for International Journalists, contact Matt Mogekwu at [email protected] or 607-274-1994. | <urn:uuid:b3a4caa8-88bc-4905-82ac-c7de216fe874> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greaterdiversity.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=235:international-journalists-hone-multimedia-skills-at-ithaca-college-workshop&catid=52:weekly-headlines&Itemid=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936736 | 1,013 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Shaanxi Women’s Federation project “Establish Model Cooperatives in Two Districts of Shaanxi Province, China”
This two year project has now completed its first year of implementation. In March 2012, Shandan Coop expert Liu Guozhong, and NZCFS’ Dave Bromwich spent a week conducting a mid-project evaluation.
Background to the project.
The project is aiming to achieve the following key outcomes:
(a)Eight cooperatives will be established to a high level of standard cooperatives, and act as models for further cooperative extension.
(b) A core of cooperative trainers or coaches will be trained in the two districts and project locations in aspects of cooperative development to mentor the development of the 8 model cooperatives, and assist with further extension downstream.
Project activity to date:
In February 2011, Shaanxi Women’s Federation selected ten cooperatives in eight counties of Baoji and Hanzhong, and from these, the final eight to participate in the project were confirmed following a visit by Shandan coop trainers Liu Guozhong and Chen Zhinian in March 2011.
The selected coops are, from Baoji City:
1. Jinse Qinchuan Kiwifruit Cooperative in Meixian County;
2. Xinxing Crafts Cooperative, Yanjia Village, Nanzhai Town, Qianyang County;
3. Fengsheng Cucurbits and Vegetables Cooperative, Qishan County;
4. Forest Musk Deer Breeding Association, Fengxian County;
From Hanzhong City:
5. Gaokang Palm Products Cooperative, Nanzheng County;
6. Luye Cooperative for Chinese Medicinal Herbs, Nanzheng County;
7. Luhai Seedlings Reproduction and Operation Cooperative, Yangxian County;
8. Shunli Pig Breeding Cooperative, Lueyang County.
All of these cooperatives will have an opportunity to recieve an award for 2012 UN International Year of the Cooperative, to be jointly presented by NZCFS, Gungho and Shaanxi Women’s Federation
Training project coaches
• In late March, early April 2011, an initial training workshop was held. From the selected cooperative sites, Women’s Federation representatives from city, county and township level, persons in charge of agricultural economic management stations, and project cooperative leaders attended an initial cooperative training, which also included discussion on implementation of the project.
• In August 2011, an advanced training was held, followed by visits by project cooperative trainers to individual cooperatives, to mentor the loal coaches.
• In the first year, the locally trained coaches made from 7 to 18 visits to their respective cooperatives to give ongoing support and training.
• The coop experts have visited each cooperative once.
• All coops have received a computer allowing internet access, and a printer from the project.
The Monitoring and Evaluation process and results
Results from the mid-project DLA show increase in capacity in all areas measured.
A comprehensive questionnaire especially designed for Gung Ho coop evaluation was presented to ten members from each coop. The 100 questions allow a quantitative assessment of member and leader understanding and satisfaction in the four major areas of strategic planning, governance and management, business management and financial management. Overall, an average increase in capacity from 0.71 to 0.85 has been measured from the baseline survey conducted at the beginning for the project.
The monitoring also checked a variety of records kept by the coop leaders and management teams, to ensure management processes were robust.
Some contact by the local trainers with other cooperatives in all counties (total 17) has been initiated to present the 8 selected cooperatives as models.
Activity for Year Two
A further visit is to be made by a cooperative expert to each cooperative, and a follow up workshop with coaches is planned. A selection of the best coaches will also make another field visit to a Gungho cooperative in Sichuan to enhance their ability to lead extension of the cooperative model in the future.
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This motivational quote “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it”, comes from the basketball legend who has earned numerous MVP awards and who has won six NBA championships. He is considered by many people as one of the greatest players of all time. Michael Jordan is truly exceptional figure in the history of basketball. Below you will find more than 70 great quotes from Michael Jordan on motivation, failure, success, life and basketball.
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Welcome to Chipping Norton School
Chipping Norton School is a popular 11-18 rural comprehensive located in the attractive Cotswold market town of Chipping Norton. We have over 1100 students, 250 of them in the sixth form.
Our facilities are excellent and enable us to very effectively meet the learning needs of our young people. We are a school proud to deliver high quality education in a twenty first century environment.
At Chipping Norton School every child matters and our clear educational vision and values make the school a special place in which to learn and work. Chipping Norton School:
- Is a school at the heart of our community with the individual at its heart.
- Is a school where individuals enjoy learning in a dynamic environment of challenge and support
- Is a school which unlocks lifelong learning potential and celebrates the success of each individual
The values underpinning this vision are evident in our daily work. They are the values of Excellence, Respect,Tolerance, Enjoyment and Commitment. Our students, our staff, our facilities and the wealth of opportunities make Chipping Norton School an exciting place. This prospectus gives a good idea why, but it cannot tell the whole story. I would like to extend a warm welcome to you to visit and see our school in action.
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The RSPCA cut its links with Crufts yesterday as a leading charity warned the organisers of the dog show that they must act to prevent the breeding of “deformed and disabled” animals.
The BBC, which has broadcast the show for 40 years, is also thought to be on the verge of deciding whether to continue its coverage. The sponsors of the show await its decision.
The RSPCA’s decision to relinquish its stand at Crufts in March next year follows a BBC documentary, broadcast last month, that highlighted the genetic side-effects of intensive breeding programmes.
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"A better name for it is 'slavefare,' " said Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D., Calif.). He argued that the provision would be used in some areas as a substitute for effective training and that recipients would be consigned to the kind of dead-end jobs that caused some of them to end up on welfare in the first place.
The emphatic 347-53 House vote came a day after the bill sailed through the Senate on a vote of 96-1. Reagan has said he supports the measure.
Despite the lopsided margin of victory, several House members complained that the bill represented a high risk at best and a cruel hoax at worst.
"It's a coin-flip as to whether it'll help," said Rep. Bill Frenzel (R., Minn.), who voted for it.
But Rep. Bill Archer (R., Texas) said it was a "loser . . . a bill that does not reduce the welfare rolls and does not reduce the overall cost of welfare."
At the end of five years, he said, the cost of the legislation will be at least $1 billion a year more than the $9 billion the federal government is spending now on the principal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
The bill will cost about $3.3 billion above current costs over the next five years. While some members complained that this is too much, others insisted that it was not enough to do the job effectively.
"I'm all for jobs," said Rep. Major R. Owens (D., N.Y.), "but you have to put some real training behind it. This bill does not provide adequate job training and adequate education. There will be no real jobs at the end because without the basic job training and education skills, people won't get the jobs."
Hawkins and other liberals chided colleagues for backing down from their own version of the bill, which cost $7.1 billion, had no workfare requirement and offered states incentives to raise cash benefits to the needy.
But supporters called the bill a good beginning that could blossom into a comprehensive attack on the roots of poverty that spawn chronic welfare dependency. "It's a major step forward," said Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D., Ill.), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D., N.Y.), one of the bill's chief architects, acknowledged that the final version was "a product of compromise" and did not go as far as the sponsors hoped in providing job-training and education opportunities.
But, he added, "we got extended child-care and health-care coverage for
families in which the mothers are making the transition from welfare to full- time employment, and that is a tremendous accomplishment."
He said those provisions would give mothers more incentive to enroll in job-training programs.
In all, 3.8 million families - encompassing more than 11 million individuals - are receiving AFDC monthly benefits. The federal government contributes about 55 percent of the cost; the states pay the rest.
For years, critics have complained that the welfare system has driven generations of poor people into an endless cycle of dependency, creating a hard core of untrained, undereducated recipients who have no job skills and spend a lifetime on the public dole.
Besides job training and education benefits, the bill provides for child- care payments and Medicaid health coverage for a year after recipients go to work.
Many studies have shown that welfare mothers are reluctant to go off public assistance to take low-paying, entry-level jobs if they lose their health coverage and cannot afford day care for their children.
The bill also strengthens continuing efforts to require absent parents, mostly fathers, to make monthly child-support payments.
In addition, 26 states that do not now do so voluntarily would be required to provide AFDC benefits to two-parent families in which the breadwinner was unemployed. One of the longstanding criticisms of AFDC was that it promoted the breakup of families by denying benefits to mothers if fathers were still in the household.
Rostenkowski estimated that from 250,000 to 400,000 people would be helped each year by the job training and work program, that 65,000 new two-parent
families comprising 285,000 people would now be aided, and that 250,000 to 475,000 individuals would continue working because of the child-care and Medicaid transition benefits.
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I'm teaching a webinar on the basics of sensemaking later today. (Sorry. I just realized that you readers might be interested in this too!)
title: Sensemaking: The next level of search skills
abstract: Sensemaking is what you do when you collect, organize and restructure information to come to some deeper understanding. In essence, it's the process we follow when we research complex historical topics... or when we're buying a refrigerator. I'll talk about ways that people do sensemaking, some best practices and how you can improve your sensemaking behavior.
date/time: Tuesday, June 21 (1:00pm PST) to register: http://goo.gl/cMWRX
The presentation will be archived within a few days after it goes live at this link: https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/webinars
Note-to-self: Because there are a wide variety of people signed up for this webinar, I'm really not sure at what level to pitch it. There are elementary school teachers signed-up and research managers from DARPA. Uh oh. That's a big dynamic range to try and teach in one class. Remember for next time--describe the level of the class more accurately!
I'm going to try and make it both a graduate level seminar AND a practical guide to sensemaking. If you attend and have any comments, please let me know. I'd love to hear your feedback. | <urn:uuid:f9146556-c34d-4c29-96b0-960c1d4ffb7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2011/06/webinar-on-sensemaking-today-at-1pm-pst.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946815 | 309 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Your search "microscopic" resulted in 2 Articles
The world's smallest sculptures are the feat of Russian sculptor Nikolai Aldunin. With the aid of a 28-year-old microscope, Aldunin delicately crafts his world-record masterpieces, inspired by a Russian folk tale. After the jump, peer into Aldunin's magnifying tool and enter another realm entirely!
Science Journalist Brandon Broll has gained media attention for the microscopic photos in his new book Microcosmos. Why's that? Just take a look, and you'll see. | <urn:uuid:8c9f6f77-0818-49bb-aee5-4d0ed2d83aa6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lomography.com/magazine/tags/347362-microscopic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94407 | 115 | 1.820313 | 2 |
A Downhill Role
Dear WD: Lately I have seen several instances of confusing the word “role” with “roll” (in the sense of a list). The most frequent misuse seems to be using the word “role” to mean a list of some sort, usually (in my experience) the members of a church (saying “parish roles” instead of “parish rolls”), although I have also seen references to a “roll model.” Any insight into why this occurs or why it seems to be happening so much now? — Bob McGill.
Well, shucks, don’t be alarmed. It’s just another bit of evidence that civilization as we know it is skipping gaily down the slippery slope to the damnation bow-wows. End of the world. New Dark Ages. Nothing to worry about, really. Incidentally, if anyone comes looking for me, I’ll be hiding in the basement with ten cases of Spaghetti-O’s and my Oxford English Dictionary.
But seriously, folks, I say it’s all television’s fault. It used to be that the average person learned to distinguish between homophones (different words that sound the same, as “role” and “roll” do) by seeing them in print. Now that those dusty old bookshelves have been tossed out to make room for super-duper multimedia entertainment complexes in our national living room, no one knows the difference between “threw” and “through” (which is now usually spelled “thru,” anyway). Goodbye Beowulf, hello Baywatch. It’s gotten to the point that even the people who run television can’t spell common English words anymore. It is increasingly common to see one of the blow-dried twits known as “newscasters” blithely sitting in front of an enormous computer graphic containing the sort of grammatical or spelling error that would have shamed the fourth-grader of yesteryear.
Incidentally, while I certainly don’t wish to give aid and comfort to anyone who blurs the distinction between “roll” and “role,” I should probably point out that they are, essentially, the same word. “Role,” meaning the part one plays in a play (or, figuratively, life in general), comes from the French equivalent of our English “roll.” An actor’s “role” in the early days of the theater was that portion of the parchment manuscript roll containing the lines he or she was given to speak. | <urn:uuid:7c6971e3-a662-41be-aea4-7e97fe25dd2a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://word-detective.com/2011/12/role-roll/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960905 | 568 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Welcome to the District of Columbia Courts
About D.C. CourtsWelcome to the District of Columbia Courts. The Courts are here to serve you, and we hope that this information will make it easier for you to complete your business with us. If you have any suggestions about how we might better assist you, please leave a note in any of the suggestion boxes located throughout the Courts, or contact the Executive Office, Room 1500, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001. (202) 879-1700.
- The D.C. Courts are comprised of the D.C. Court of Appeals, the Superior Court of D.C., and the Court System, which provides administrative support to both courts.
- The D.C. Courts are the third branch of the District of Columbia government. The Mayor presides over the executive branch and the Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch. The Courts hear and decide cases based on the evidence and the applicable law.
- There are about 120 judges in the two courts as well as 24 magistrate judges and a professional staff of approximately 1,500. | <urn:uuid:df3e89ce-9d0c-464b-ab11-34f9f06c3e1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dcappeals.gov/internet/about/main.jsf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950956 | 235 | 1.679688 | 2 |
For most kids, school's out for the summer. If your child struggled at school last year, an undetected vision problem may be to blame. A child who is unable to see the blackboard clearly or has a hard time focusing on the work at his desk will soon become frustrated.
Many children's vision problems go undetected during school vision screenings, so parents and teachers should watch for the following signs that may signal vision problems. This summer, schedule an eye exam for your child. It could be the start of a great school year. | <urn:uuid:1e5fed83-d879-4079-8148-ade216180f6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://vision.about.com/b/2012/06/08/could-your-child-need-glasses.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972458 | 110 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The Gospel According to Saint John
- Andrew T. Lincoln
- Jan 1, 2006
- Series: Volume 9 - 2006
Andrew T. Lincoln, The Gospel according to Saint John. Black�s New Testament Commentary. London and New York: Continuum; Peabody: Hendrickson, 2005. ix + 584 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-56563-401-2.
A venerable mid-level commentary series in the United Kingdom, Black�s has never been as well known in the U.S., especially since Harper stopped co-publishing it under the label of Harper�s New Testament Commentary. The original series was completed a quarter century ago, but slowly replacement volumes of very high quality have been appearing. We now have Morna Hooker on Mark, James Dunn on Galatians, J. P. Muddiman on Ephesians, Markus Bockmuehl on Philippians and Sophie Laws on James. Andrew Lincoln, the Portland Professor of New Testament at the University of Gloucestershire at the time this volume went to press, is well known as the Word Biblical commentator on Ephesians and the author of Truth on Trial: The Lawsuit Motif in John�s Gospel. His commentary on John is a worthy addition to this prestigious series.
Lincoln takes something of a centrist position on the historicity of John. While on the one hand highly stressing the witness motif in the Fourth Gospel, he insists that it often does not refer to eyewitness activity. The document may reflect fundamental Christian theological truth without necessarily reflecting the kinds of historical genres to which moderns have become accustomed. Thus Lincoln recognizes a key core of historical information, written up in , overlaid with and augmented by the anonymous author�s unique style, interpretations and inventions to highlight the meaning of Jesus for him. More so than most Johannine commentators of recent vintage, Lincoln sees John beginning in almost every passage with key Synoptic kerygma but then going his own way as he adds his distinctive material to it. Still, it would appear that his approach is consistent with Richard Bauckham�s highly acclaimed work on The Gospels for All Christians.
The strengths of the commentary, however, do not lie in Lincoln�s approach to historical questions. (He acknowledges my much more conservative conclusions in The Historical Reliability of John�s Gospel but rarely interacts with them.) Rather, it is Lincoln�s grasp of the theological intentions and meaning of the Fourth Gospel�s author that commends this volume. He insists that all the building blocks for Nicea are genuinely found in John, whether on the deity of Jesus in such framing texts as John 1:1 and 20:28, on the coinherence of Father and Son in 14:10-11 or on the procession of the Son from the Father and the Spirit from both Father and Son in the Farewell Discourse more generally. He highlights the recurring role of key themes such as God as judge, Jesus as his agent and the way the world is put on trial even as it thinks it is trying Christ. He demonstrates that the supposed anti-Semitism of the Fourth Gospel is no �worse� than the internecine controversies within the Hebrew Scriptures or within late-first-century Judaism. He acknowledges the weaknesses of assuming a watershed event during that era that produced the birkath-ha-minim (the synagogue curse against heretics, including Christians), but still doesn�t admit the larger problems with J. L. Martyn�s two-level reading of John, as Robert Kysar has recently exposed. He does rightly accept conventional wisdom with respect to an end-of-first-century date, and an outline which finds a prologue, a record of signs of glory, a section on departure as glory, and an epilogue.
All manner of smaller details capture John�s theological genius along the way. A minute sampling includes his downplaying of the Baptist�s prominence in light of those who would overly exalt him. The turning of water into wine reflects the abundance of the Messianic age and the impoverishment of the old Jewish rites of purification. The most striking aspect of the famous John 3:16 is God�s love for the world, not just the sum total of humanity, but fallen, rebellious humanity. John 4 should be read in terms of a betrothal-type scene, but Jesus elevates the �engagement� from the physical to the spiritual realm. �The main themes of this narrative might be summed up alliteratively as wedding, water, worship and witness� (p. 182).
The contrasting details of John 5 and 9, in the two healing miracles of men involving pools of water in Jerusalem, create an important balance: someone�s sickness may have a direct connection to one�s particular sins but it need not. Honoring the Son just as one honors the Father (5:22-23) reflects a strong claim to deity, because God does not give his glory (honor) to another. Feeding the 5000 illustrates Jesus� previous claims that the Scriptures, and particularly Moses, witness to him, especially by means of Jesus� follow-up Bread of Life discourse. Walking on water represents an epiphany, with Jesus� �I am� anticipating the strong claim of 8:58, which in turn alludes to Isaiah 43:10. Chapter 7:37-38 should be punctuated so that the rivers of living water flow only from Jesus, not from the believer, because water for John symbolizes the Spirit and one believer cannot impart the Spirit to others. Jesus� seemingly contradictory statements about judging and not judging are best harmonized by understanding �that by ordinary criteria his activity is not really judging, because it is not according to worldly values and is not exercised as an independent human judgment� (p. 266). The good shepherd is best understood as the noble or honorable leader willing even to lay down his life for his flock, as over against the disgraceful leaders of that time who were mercenaries unwilling to sacrifice for their people. In all of these central chapters of John, a major theme is �Jesus as the fulfillment or replacement of the significance of the Jewish festivals� (p. 309).
The resurrection of Lazarus provides the pivot between the two major halves of the Gospel; it is the climactic sign and the catalyst for the plot to take Christ�s life. Mary�s wiping of Jesus� feet precludes our seeing this as a royal anointing but prepares the way for Jesus� own footwashing ceremony, also unique to John�s Gospel. The Pharisees� lament that the whole world had gone after Jesus (12:19) is confirmed by the arrival of the Greeks who want to see him (v. 20). But the rest of this chapter shows that the Gentile mission can come about only by and after Jesus� death. The preparation for that death in successive chapters proves increasingly unprecedented. If �there is no parallel in extant ancient literature for a person of superior status voluntarily washing the feet of someone of inferior status� (p. 367), neither is there parallel within early Christian tradition to viewing the crucifixion itself as exaltation, as in John�s unique references to Christ �being lifted up.� The exclusive claims of 14:6 stand as a direct counter to typical Jewish absolutizing of Torah. The disciples� �greater works� in verse 12 are neither quantitatively nor qualitatively better than Jesus� but represent their full participation in the coming, greater new age. The ministry of the Paraclete in 16:8-11 involves his convicting the world of its sin and condemnation but of Jesus� righteousness. The prayer of chapter 17 forms an equivalent to the Lord�s prayer of Matt. 6:9-13 with parallels to all of its original petitions.
The witness theme comes to a climax with Jesus� passion, death and resurrection. Jesus remains remarkably in control, even as the Judge becomes the judged and then martyred. �God is supremely made known in this death appears so ungodlike� (p. 482). Chapter 20:1-18 is unified by the figure of Mary Magdalene, but Peter and the beloved disciple are introduced as two legal witnesses, because they are male. Their relationship is developed, however, throughout the rest of the narrative, not as a rivalry but to demonstrate both martyrdom and a life of authentic, truthful witness as legitimate Christian alternatives.
The format of this commentary is an attractive one. Each periscope begins, in bold-face type, with Lincoln�s own translation of the Greek text. Then proceed, without subheadings general material introducing the passage, with special reference to its structure, verse-by-verse commentary with wording from John again reproduced in bold-face, followed by concluding summary thoughts often relating the material to Synoptic exemplars (or other sources). Consideration of textual variants is usually relegated to footnotes, but otherwise Lincoln�s text is uncluttered by parenthetical documentation or any other footnotes or endnotes interacting with the wealth of secondary literature that he has obviously digested. This last feature breaks with the precedent established by this series, and, while making the text easy to read, in my opinion, makes the work less valuable than its predecessors, because only the fellow Johannine specialist will know where he has gotten his various opinions from. The bibliography at the end of the book is ample enough yet with a number of surprising recent omissions.
At just about any other time in recent scholarly history, a volume of this caliber would have catapulted to the level of being one of the top two or three commentaries in print on John. But with Köstenberger�s Baker Exegetical volume of 2004 taking pride of place among commentaries on the Greek text, with Kruse�s revised Tyndale volume and Keener�s large two-volume work, also published by Hendrickson, both out in 2003 and offering outstanding succinct and fulsome commentary, respectively, and with D. A. Carson�s Pillar volume of 1991 still reflecting the most sensible all-around opinion at the mid-level range, Lincoln�s probably ranks no higher than fifth in current value. Still, numerous factors regularly prevent theological students, pastors and teachers from purchasing biblical commentaries in their exact order of value, content-wise, so Lincoln�s should certainly be on any serious library builder�s short list of volumes to acquire on John. | <urn:uuid:bcaeedcc-32f8-4924-a5c8-1ec28f60970f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.denverseminary.edu/article/the-gospel-according-to-saint-john/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956402 | 2,356 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Sonya Newenhouse, Ph.D. is an eco-entrepreneur who enjoys providing practical and creative solutions to help individuals and organizations live and manage green. Her firm, Madison Environmental Group, provides LEED green building and sustainability consulting services. She is also founder and president of Community Car, a car sharing organization in Madison Wisconsin. Currently she is developing NewenHouse, a business that will provide super-insulated sustainable kit homes.
We’ve moved in and are enjoying living in the first NewenHouse. We were curious about what it would really feel like to experience this house and we have lots of news to report. Here's a first floor view just prior to us moving in. The kitchen window faces north and the storage/three-season room. Beyond the north door is the 6-by-14-foot breezeway leading into the three-season porch and storage room.
Electricity: After a month we received our first electrical bill. We consumed 350 kWh and produced 384 kWh, receiving a credit on our bill. Our solar hot water installer, Full Spectrum Solar, suggested that we unplug the electrical water heater backup system and see how long we can last with using only the sun to heat our water. It’s been 73 days and we have not needed to plug in the backup electric water heater. We take showers every day, do multiple loads of laundry when the sun’s out, wash our dishes after every meal, and have yet to run out of hot water. There was only one day when we took a “Luke Skywalker shower” with lukewarm water. My guess is that in November when the string of shady days begins to descend on Wisconsin we will need to plug into the electrical grid.
Air exchange: This past Friday, October 21, the Alliance for Environmental Sustainability held a tour here thanks to a Zehnder sponsorship. After the house tour we listened to presentations by our Green Rater, Laura Paprocki; the EMF (Electromagnetic Fields) consultant Spark Burmaster; and the Passive House consultant Carly Coulson. In the morning we conducted the final duct blaster test and reached .51 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals! So we passed the preformance measurement for Passive House certification which allows .6 air changes per hour. It’s harder to achieve this number with a small house as our air volume is much less than most homes. This number is thus particularly impressive. See Joe giving us the thumbs up below.
Heat Recovery Ventilation Unit (HRV): We balanced the HRV with the help of Joe Nagan, who is a leading energy expert in Wisconsin. It’s important to balance the air flow for optimum performance. Balancing the HRV took longer than expected, but now I understand the system much better and know how to change the filters and adjust the air flow if I need to. One of the filters was dirtier than I expected, but Carly explained that it was most likely due to the construction dust. The Zehnder HRV we installed from the Netherlands is so efficient the sound meter could not pick up an acoustical reading. When we first moved in we weren't sure it was running because we didn’t hear it until I put my ear directly up to the unit. Cecil stood on a chair and put his hand to the fresh air diffuser and felt the air move. That was our low-tech way to know it was working. In a small house it’s especially important that your HRV is quiet. If it’s not you may be inclined to shut it off, thus making the unit completely ineffective and potentially harmful to your health. When we turn it on the highest setting (while we shower and cook) you can hear it faintly. Below Laura is balancing the HRV in our bedroom. Under this blue devise is a fresh air diffuser.
Jason La Fleur, the Alliance for Environmental Sustainability Tour organizer, and two of the Chicago group tour attendees spent the night and we had loads of fun staying up until 12:30am talking about energy-efficient, green-built homes. From our discussion I learned that the NewenHouse will be particularly suited to people who are concerned about their health. Below I'm standing next to Al (peeking), Jason and Pam.
Noise: Alvin Meroz (a member of Passive House Alliance Chicago) and Pam Garetto were also impressed by how quiet the house is and had the idea that the home might be suitable for noisy areas, such as near a train track or airport. The 16-inch-thick walls, triple-pane windows and Energate triple-pane doors sure help reduce sound.
Doors: Another comment that most people share when entering our home is how the doors feels like vault doors when you open and close them as they are so airtight and beefy. The doors are five inches thick, so when you open the 36-inch door, it only gives you 31 inches of clearance. I will change the design for the next home to include 40 inch doors. This will make it easier to move in furniture too. Lucky I have a few inches to spare in the floor plan to allow for this change. The doors are wood, have insulated frames, and a triple-closure mechanism. Thanks to H Window out of Ashland, Wisconsin, for giving us a discount on them for the prototype.
Our next NewenHouse OpenHouse is Friday, November 24, the day after Thanksgiving, from 4 to 6 pm. We’ll head to the Driftless Café for dinner afterwards. Please call or email if think you may attend: (608) 638-2012 or [email protected].
Following are three videos of the NewenHouse prior to moving in furniture -- a tour of the first floor, a tour of the second floor, and a tour of the three season porch and storage room.
Tour of the First Floor of the NewenHouse
Tour of the Second Floor of the NewenHouse:
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Lights! Camera! Reform!
In an effort the further push his health care reform agenda, President Obama is enlisting the help of the people who would be most likely effected by the change to health care. These people being you and I. In partnership with Obama’s website, Organizing for America, the President is calling American citizens to submit 30 second videos explaining why health care is important to them, and why this reform is so vital to the improvement of lives in this nation. As personal as health care is to each and every one of us, it’s important to highlight how significant good health care coverage can save lives and families. Our stories may never be the same, but our cause surely can be. So here’s the challenge:
Create the best 30 second video you can that makes the case for passing health insurance reform in 2009. This is a complex and often personal issue, and there’s way more angles to cover than anyone can squeeze into 30 seconds. So here are some themes to consider as you choose what to focus on:
The need for reform
• Personal stories: It’s hard to get more powerful than sharing a personal story about how the broken status quo has affected you and the ones you love.
• The cost of inaction: There’s lots to cover about how spiraling costs are breaking the budgets of families, governments and businesses, and the high price we’ll all pay if we don’t act.
• The opponents of reform: It’s amazing the levels some will stoop in order to score political points or protect their profits. This is your chance to call them out.
The President’s plan
• For those with insurance, the President’s plan will provide more security and stability. You won’t get cut off for being sick, face discrimination because of your gender, or run up against an annual or lifetime cap ever again.
• For those without insurance, the plan will guarantee affordable options so that every American finally gets the peace of mind and quality care we deserve.
• And it will rein in out-of-control health care costs and accomplish reform without adding a dime to the deficit.
Your video can be serious or funny. It can feature charts and graphs or satire and songs. It can just be you with a good idea in front of a basic web camera, or it can be a special effects filled mini-spectacular. Just keep it to 30 seconds, keep it honest, and make sure that folks who see it will be fired up about passing health reform in 2009.
President Obama seems to be sticking to his grassroots background, the same initiative that got him his Presidency in the first place. This is the best possible way for American citizens to make their voices heard amongst the complaining and fighting between the Democratic and Republican parties. The same bickering that seems to be taking the place of rational conversation between these two groups, causing our politicians to forget who this reform will most effect: The American people. So if you’ve got a story, the President wants the hear it! Deadline for submission will is October 18, 2009. After the submissions are judged by a panel of hand picked Obama officials, college students, and even a few celebrities, the winning video will be aired nationally. That’s right, you could be on television urging our nations leaders to create better health care coverage for the American people!
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She Writes founders Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel on the 8 things they believe:
ONE. We believe that writing is life and world-changing for women.
TWO. We believe that community has the power to nurture and sustain creativity.
THREE. We believe in the psychology of abundance: we have everything to gain by sharing what we know, and everything to lose if we withhold our wisdom from one another.
FOUR. We believe that writing is a journey, and that publication is only one of its many meaningful destinations.
FIVE. We believe technology, employed thoughtfully, will empower and amplify the voices of women and girls who have not otherwise have been heard.
SIX. We believe in building a platform upon which all of us can stand.
SEVEN. We believe writing is only as good as the labor expended to produce it.
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A handwritten Caution Wet Floor sign greeted curious shoppers and nostalgia seekers to a pilot run of the Katz Midtown Market on Saturday.
By MARY SANCHEZ
The Kansas City Star
Yes, Katz of the drugstore fame. The historic Katz Drug Store building at Westport Road and Main Street is the focus of a revitalization attempt thats getting inspiration from the divine.
An interdenominational church in midtown purchased the building at auction last year. Redeemer Fellowship is nearby in the 3900 block of Baltimore. Church leaders envision a monthly market in the old Katz building, a place to showcase local merchants and artists. Theyre still talking about other uses for the building.
My job is to see how our church family can love the city, this community, said Chris Gorney, community development associate with Redeemer.
Saturdays unrelenting rains forced vendors to move inside the building from the parking lot. Just as well. The problem of what to do with the market once winter arrives was solved. It will be an indoor event.
Purchasing the building was an ambitious undertaking given the large space (more than 17,000 square feet on the main floor alone) and its condition (leaky roof). But at least someone stepped forward.
The negative impact of a prominently situated building growing more dilapidated cant be overstated. Its an eyesore symbolic of economic downturn.
The store last operated as a drugstore more than five years ago. It was a Skaggs and an Osco before CVS Corp. bought Osco. But the glory days were under the Katz name.
The Katz brothers, immigrants from the Ukraine, are a Kansas City entrepreneurial success story. Isaac and Michael Katz first operated two cigar stores downtown, beginning in 1914.
Advertising geniuses, the brothers were able to shift their business model to adapt to changes brought by World War I, governmental regulation and competition. Eventually, Katz drugstores were located throughout the Midwest.
Their first store outside of downtown was this one, built in 1934. It was known for its art deco style. Clarence Kivett, nephew of the Katz brothers, designed it and then went on to architectural fame.
For Redeemer, the focus is on not what could be done with the space, but rather what needs to be done to benefit midtown, Gorney said.
One distinctive feature of the Katz building is its giant clock face on Main Street. The hands are stopped. A guesstimate by Redeemer staff is that refurbishing it will cost at least $20,000.
But if that can be accomplished, it would be a symbolic gesture sealing the reclamation of an old historic building, proving it is no longer past its prime.
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Add the ability to set alert thresholds for CPU, RAM and disk utilization
Setting alerts for resource usage of droplets and being notified via email can be useful when the alert thresholds are crossed.
Ollie Glas commented
Bandwidth alerts would also be helpful
Chris Bunting commented
It would also be nice to see CPU, Ram and Disc utilization when clicking on the server as well when logging in.
There are also software and hosted apps to provide server statuses until they get it up and running. I know of New Relic and scoutapp.com New Relic offers a free version but scout is used by major companies. I've heard that munin can do it as well and it's free, http://munin-monitoring.org/ but I haven't had the chance to try it.
Kenn Ejima commented
+1 this feature saved our ass a lot on Linode.
Bradley Weston commented
You could install mobilepcmonitor? I use this and it also uses Apple's push notification service where you can set it to notify you of just about anything that happens on your server.
Pierre-Louis Gottfrois commented
+1 I think this is a great idea in addition with graphs.
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The Obama administration deserves credit for finally ending its kowtowing to Beijing. As the New York Times notes, the administration has recently raised the ire of Chinese officials in several ways. The biggest and most recent is the announcement of a $6 billion arms sale to Taiwan, which China claims is simply a breakaway province — a fiction that far too many nations, including the United States, collude in by refusing Taipei formal diplomatic relations. China has reacted predictably, suspending military-to-military contacts with the U.S. for some unspecified period; other expressions of pique are no doubt coming. The Obama-ites knew this would happen, but they went ahead anyway. Good for them.
The president is also finally going to meet the Dalai Lama, something he refused to do before his visit to China in the fall, where he went to contemptible lengths to please his hosts. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has unveiled a doctrine of Internet freedom that rankles China, which is in the midst of a dispute with Google over Chinese censorship and hacking.
Chalk this up as another area where some of the illusions that Obama and his aides carried into office are being shed as they confront the cruel reality of the world. They had hoped that by making nice with the Chinese, they would win Beijing’s cooperation on issues like global warming and sanctions on Iran. It hasn’t worked out that way. Instead of signing up with the Obama agenda, China’s Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, went out of his way to humiliate the American president at the Copenhagen global warming summit. The latest initiatives from the Obama administration can be interpreted as payback.
It’s about time. After his first year in office, Obama gave the distinct impression that he could be pushed around with impunity. That is cheering news for America’s rivals and enemies — and dangerous news for us. Obama needs to do far more to dispel that impression of weakness, but this is at least a start. Next up: Iran? | <urn:uuid:acf5b17a-8e8c-4505-b6ed-330dd350fa01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.commentarymagazine.com/topic/president-at-the-copenhagen-global-warming-summit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975843 | 414 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Insists Recipients of US Aid 'Act Like Allies'
While his father Rep. Ron Paul (R – TX) has made a career of loudly condemning foreign aid on general principle (along with a myriad of other types of government largesse), Sen. Rand Paul’s (R – KY) recent criticism of US foreign aid policies has taken on a very different tone, at least beneath the veneer.
Its not that the US government is spending tens of billions of dollars it doesn’t have that the younger Paul objects to, you see. Rather, he’s annoyed that the money isn’t buying the pretense of gratitude he seems to think it should, and wants to slap conditions on it.
“If you want to cash an American check than act like an ally,” Paul insisted, saying he believes it is unacceptable to be sending aid to nations like Egypt and Pakistan while anti-US protests are continuing in the streets.
Interestingly, Sen. Paul doesn’t seem to believe that recipients of US aid will actually become proper allies, and openly mocks that suggestion in his comments. But instead of taking his comments to their logical conclusion he ultimately decides that the pretense of alliance is good enough for him, and for America.
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Fire will be met by fire and quiet by quiet, a top IDF officer said Saturday
night after a day of continued violence in the South in which 23 rockets were
fired into Israel and a cease-fire was reportedly going into
Nearly 150 have been fired into the country since the beginning
of hostilities on Monday. The Iron Dome intercepted five Grad rockets over
Ashkelon on Saturday.
A number of rockets on the same day targeted
Sderot, injuring a factory worker.
One projectile also smashed into an
empty school, causing extensive damage.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
spoke by phone on Saturday with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of General
Staff Lt.-Gen Benny Gantz and directed them to “continue to act strongly to
protect the security of the residents of the South.”
Except for comments
he made to the Likud faction meeting last Monday following the killing of Sa’ed
Fachachte, who was working on the security fence along the border with Egypt,
Netanyahu has made no public statement over the last week regarding the recent
Netanyahu, one government official said, has been careful to
be “very measured” in his public comments about the situation. The official
denied, however, that the volatile situation in Egypt or the scheduled visit on
Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin has had any impact on Israel’s
reaction to the barrage of rocket fire on the South. He said the IDF’s reaction
to this round of violence was not significantly different than it was to a
similar escalation some two months ago.
Netanyahu has said repeatedly in
the past that the one of the many benefits of the Iron Dome system was that it
gave Israel more flexibility in determining how and when to respond, preventing
Jerusalem from being dragged into a widescale conflict in Gaza at a time not of
its own choosing. The logic is that, were it not for the Iron Dome and were
dozens of rockets and missiles falling on major population centers and causing
casualties, Israel would have had no choice but to launch a massive military
action against Gaza.
The Israel Air Force retaliated with a number of air
strikes late Friday night after terrorist groups in Gaza – although not Hamas –
fired rockets into Israel despite reports that an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire
had gone into effect in the morning. IDF sources said that most of the rocket fire over the weekend was carried out by the Popular Resistance
Committees and other small terror factions.
In response to the rocket
attacks on Friday, early Saturday morning the IAF bombed three Hamas bases in
the Gaza Strip, wounding around 20 people. In response, Hamas fired rockets and
mortar shells mostly into Sderot. The factory worker was injured in one of the
attacks while seeking cover.
He sustained moderate shrapnel wounds to his
neck and stomach and was rushed to the Barzilai Medical Center in
A factory manager said that the site had been hit twice before,
but that on this occasion, expensive equipment worth millions sustained a direct
hit. Two other civilians were treated for shock in the attack.
cannot remain silent in the face of the recent escalation of violence in the
South, Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i said Saturday morning during a
visit to Sderot and the Sha’ar Hanegev region. The minister also paid a visit to
the IDF’s Gaza Division for an operational review of recent events.
hold Hamas fully responsible for everything that happens in the Gaza Strip,”
Vilna’i said. “Israel is working, and will continue to work with a heavy hand
against those terrorists that want to escalate the situation in the
Also Saturday, the IAF carried out an air strike against
Palestinians spotted preparing to launch rockets into Israel. Two Palestinians
were killed, raising the death tally to 14.
“We will continue operating
to prevent the rocket fire but in general, quiet will be met by quiet and fire
by fire,” a senior IDF officer said Saturday night.
The officer said that
Israel had received signals from the Egyptians that Hamas was interested in
ending the current round of violence. He attributed Hamas’s interest in stopping
the fighting to the IDF’s aggressive response Friday night and Saturday to the
rocket fire, which included bombings of several of the group’s military
“Hamas was surprised by the bombing of one of its bases since
until now the IDF has limited its attacks to smaller outposts,” the officer
said. “This made Hamas understand that it is in its interest to obtain
The officer said that while Hamas was not behind most of the
rocket fire over the weekend, Israel expected it to rein in the other terror
factions in Gaza and to stop their rocket attacks.
“If the attacks
continue though, the IDF will not hesitate to act against the terrorists
launching the rockets,” the officer said.
Jerusalem Post staff
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May 22, 2007
Less red ink
Federal budget deficits have become so common that the best question to ask each year is "how much?" N.C. State University economist Mike Walden looks at the deficit statistics for 2006.
"We did run a federal budget deficit last year in 2006. That's the bad news I guess," says Dr. Walden, of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "Hut the good news is that it actually got smaller.
"Now the way that economists look at this is not so much in terms of the dollar amount -- although in this case the dollar amount did get smaller," he continues. "But we look at the budget deficit as a slice, if you will, of our total economic pie -- our total economic output
"And looked at in that way, in 2005 the deficit took 2.5 percent of the total U.S. economic pie. Last year 2006, the slice was down to 1.2 percent –- so almost cut in half.
"The main reason was not necessarily a slowdown in the growth of federal expenditures. It was a big increase in federal revenues as a result of the fact that the economy is doing very well.
"So Uncle Sam still has to borrow, but at least last year relative to the economy he had to borrow much less."
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