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This Month's Books!
Here are some of Buddy’s favorite books.
He likes to read a lot and always finds out about new and interesting things
in the books he reads. Click on the titles to see the TV promo for each
"Bunnies and Their Sports"
Buddy says read Bunnies and their Sports by Nancy Carlson. Bunnies who
jog. Bunnies who go biking. Which one of these sports is most to your
liking? The bunnies in this book do sports because they make them feel so
good!!! How about you? Don't forget.....read with a bunny (I mean Buddy).
"I Went Walking"
Buddy says read the book I Went Walking by Sue Williams. What do you see
when you go for a walk? A green duck or a pink pig or a yellow dog? Each
page makes you want to see what's coming next. And don't forget....read with
"Caillou Gets in Shape"
Buddy says read the book Caillou Gets In Shape. Caillou finds out how
much fun it is to exercise with his friends and family. Even Gilbert the cat
gets in on the fun. "We can all exercise each and every day. Let's exercise
together and get started right away!"
Don't forget.......read with a Buddy!
Buddy says read the book Who Hops? by Katie Davis. Who does hop, fly,
slither, swim and crawl? Find the answers in fun book. It doesn't matter how
you move....as long as you DO!
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Tessa Barton - Photography
Barton's photography focuses on the poverty she encountered in India, while at the same time exploring the passion and raw beauty of this culture. She tries to express "a depth of understanding of the circumstances many of these people live in" through her photography as she tells "the story of lives through [her] photographs."
(Pride - Photography - Tessa Barton)One of her most powerful pieces, entitle Recluse was of an old man who was blind. "He was open-hearted and willing to let us into his life," she explains in her artist statement. "The foundation I was working with had found a way to surgically heal this man. Although it only worked for one eye, this man was able to see again after 35 years. I will never forget the joy of that day." Each of Barton's photographs opened my eyes to the hope that arises from the poverty in India.
Naomi Marine - Mixed Media
Marine's mixed media left a lasting impression on me as well. A room in the gallery was hung with her 3D art, all of it large enough for the viewer to interact with it. She notes that her exhibit "is a 'submersive' environment in which a series of fantastical organisms engage in complex, poetic patterns of growth and decay."
The exchange of artist and viewer was almost conversational. One piece, Seed and Shadow left me with many ponderings. Her art truly created what Marine describes as a "shadowy, transitory space" where the viewer could "fluctuate between alternate states of being." The best way to understand this is to experience Marine's art for yourself.
Helenka Bimstein - Mixed Media
(Sculpture Pranksters in front of painting Snakes and Celebrants)Bimstein's art touched my soul. Her detailed paintings each tell a story in an extremely passionate way. Her original artist statement explains that the evolution of her art is "an attempt to recover that moment of almost lost, innocent discovery." Bimstein's son and daughter were there, telling me what it's like having had a mother like Helenka (she passed September 2010). Phillip Bimstein explained that his mother's art is very musical. "She's very romantic in every piece and in her life" he explains, mentioning that his mother was still hoping to "get a man" at age 96 (since her husband had passed 18 years before).
(Philip Bimstein, center in black, addresses gallery patrons
about Helenka Bimstein's artwork.)Phillip's sister, Barbara described the first time she came across her mother's paintings behind a furnace: "I had a fit because she wasn't still painting." The quality of her mother's work had touched her deeply. "I nurtured her to take hold of herself and her art," Barbara explained.
(Bright Orb in Vegetal World - Watercolor - Helenka Bimstein)Truly, the most lingering emotion I had after gazing into the soul of each of the artist's masterpieces was one of awe. I will not soon forget encountering such passion and vibrancy of emotion on display throughout the gallery, nor the bittersweet pride of the children of Helenka Bimstein. To read more about Bimstein's life and artistic philosophies, click here.
Thank you to these three fine women who shared a portion of your souls, truly, you have made this world that much better of a place. The Finch Lane Gallery at 54 Finch Lane (1340 E 100 South, SLC) will feature these displays until March 4, M-F from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call 801.596.5000 or visit www.slcgov.com/arts. | <urn:uuid:da757b37-d2d3-4973-bc25-0b7d858b4e44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://saltlakemagazine.com/blog/2011/01/15/finch-lane-gallery-where-art-breathes/?t=136895859545 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974755 | 779 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Housing and autos have always been key drivers for the US chemicals industry. We should be concerned if the housing market weakens further.
Yesterday saw two significant announcements:
• Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement store chain, announced that existing store sales were down around 5% because of the US housing slump. And CEO Frank Blake said he saw ‘continuing headwinds through 2007 and probably some into 2008 as well’.
• Standard and Poor’s (S&P), the ratings agency, threatened to downgrade $12bn worth of securities backed by sub-prime housing mortgages. Echoing Blake, the company said ‘We do not see the poor performance abating,’ and added that losses ‘remain in excess of historical precedents and our initial assumptions’.
The announcements have implications both for chemical demand, and for chemical stock prices.
On the demand side, a slowing housing market impacts sales of paints, consumer durables and furnishings, as well as building materials. And if demand is softer, then it also becomes harder to protect margins by raising prices. So it will be a struggle to compensate for recent oil price hikes.
On the financial side, things are shaping up to be even more difficult. Estimates of sub-prime housing mortgage losses vary between the $52bn estimated by Credit Suisse to $90bn by Deutsche Bank. And already one can hear the sound of stable doors being slammed, as regulators and lenders suddenly start to insist on higher lending standards.
The implication is that pension funds and other investors will become more nervous. They may no longer automatically support high-priced acquisitions of chemical companies which rely on high debt levels. In turn, stock prices may no longer benefit from the automatic 30% bid premium that has been attached to so many companies.
However, as my friend Kevin Swift of the American Chemistry Council reminded ICIS news readers last week "steady gains in employment coupled with rising earnings - from a tight labour market – are largely supporting consumer spending and the economy".
But the announcements from Home Depot and S&P are warning signs that the housing market slump could still undermine performance in the next few months. | <urn:uuid:3baada25-9c3e-470d-bbd6-f22e2763cbc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.icis.com/blogs/chemicals-and-the-economy/2007/07/will-the-us-housing-slump-impa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962021 | 449 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Rise of a Dynasty
The '57 Celtics, the First Banner, and the Dawning of a NewAmerica
On a fateful day in 1957, the country saw the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks face off in one of the most dramatic NBA games in history. But the score at the final buzzer told only part of the story. Celtics rookie Bill Russell, traded by the Hawks because of his race, emerged as a new sports hero. Boston's coach Red Auerbach went on to become the ultimate winner and builder of championship teams. And the city of Boston and its beloved Celtics had their first NBA championship-and the makings of a dynasty.
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Tom Clancy returns to Jack Ryan’s early days, in an extraordinary novel of global political drama.
“Smart and likable, Jack Ryan has become one of the best-known characters in contemporary American fiction.” -The Washington Post
Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer-as well as his counterpart with the British SIS, Sir Basil Charleston-and when Greer asked him if he wanted to come aboard as a freelance analyst, Jack was quick to accept. The opportunity was irresistible, and he was sure he could fit it in with the rest of his work.
And then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov, were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.
Could it be true? As the days and weeks go by, Ryan must battle, first to try to confirm the plot, and then to prevent it, but this is a brave new world, and nothing he has done up to now has prepared him for the lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States. In the end, it will be not just the Pope’s life but the stability of the Western world that is at stake. . . and it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about it.
“Clancy creates not only compelling characters but frighteningly topical situations and heart-stopping action,” wrote The Washington Post about The Bear and the Dragon. “Among the handful of superstars, Clancy still reigns, and he is not likely to be dethroned any time soon.” These words were never truer than about the remarkable pages of his breathtaking new novel. This is Clancy at his best-and there is none better. | <urn:uuid:bb1e1660-4f6a-4edc-8dcb-0c29a505b738> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.emusic.com/book/tom-clancy/red-rabbit/10000962/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979644 | 482 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Greensboro, NC - When you're going out on a job interview, be sure to know what you'll be asked. In today's One Minute Career Check, Consultant Joyce Richman offers advice on what to expect before walking into your next interview.
"Among some of the greatest concerns people have when they are interview, they say, 'I don't know how to answer the interviewer's questions.' About the 99.9% of the questions you're going to be asked have to do with you. So you don't have to know obscure research. This is about you. But you do have to do the heavy lifting about your own inventory. So it's always going to have to do with what did you do best, where have you done it, where have you worked, with whom have you worked, what were your accomplishments. If you failed, how did you fail, where did you fail, when did you fail. When you achieved, where when how. Because the interviewer wants to know how you are going to make a difference for them. You need to do this homework. Instead of waiting until the very last minute or hoping you are going to be able to pull the answers out of the sky or out of your back pocket. Do your homework. Answer these questions. Know them, practice them, be ready for them, so you can't wait to interview and knock it out of the park."
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ESW-RPI is a student-run organization at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute affiliated with Engineers for a Sustainable World. We are dedicated to combining the knowledge, skills, and experience of the RPI community to engineer solutions to social, environmental, and economic problems, both domestic and foreign, in the most sustainable way possible. Even in areas where sustainability may not immediately appear to be the problem, it is important to consider. This is demonstrated in high-profile projects conducted by other organizations, such as the provision of water pumps to African communities. Often, these pumps are highly-engineered, manufactured products that soon break in use and are not repairable by their users. As such, they are not a sustainable solution. We in Engineers for a Sustainable World endeavor to design solutions that will bring benefit over a great length of time, considering technological, social, and environmental limitations as they interrelate. We are not restricted to environmental projects, and we welcome all interested people, engineer or not. | <urn:uuid:a1273055-851b-46ae-b142-360659ae8fed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://esw.union.rpi.edu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963012 | 204 | 1.53125 | 2 |
New York, NY September 3, 2009 – Thousands of university students across North America are once again receiving Israel-related news and opinion through the Israel Campus Beat, a bi-weekly e-mail resource from the Israel on Campus Coalition and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The ICB features concise summaries of top news stories, analysis and opinion pieces from various points of view compiled from American, Israeli and international media, campus publications and think tanks with hyperlinks to the original sources. Student-authored articles and reports on current Israel-related issues and activities on campus are included along with links to informative Israel-related internet sites. The ICB is distributed every other Sunday; the current edition and ICB archives can be found on line at www.israelcampusbeat.org.
The ICB is geared especially to college students and campus professionals, as well as alumni, faculty and interested community members. A joint initiative of the Conference of Presidents and the ICC, the Israel Campus Beat is prepared by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The ICB helps educate students by offering reliable information, context and perspective on vital issues of the day. Campuses have seen sharp increase in anti-Israel sentiment and activity and the return of the ICB is an important component of a broader coordinated program to help strengthen Israel advocates on campus.
Between its first launch in 2003 and 2007, the ICB’s subscriber base grew to 50,000 students on nearly 1000 campuses across United States; its readership resided in 34 countries around world. The e-newsletter’s readers also included staffers in US governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, corporations, Congressional offices and diplomatic embassies.
“The ICB is a companion to the Conference of Presidents’ highly acclaimed daily Middle East information source, the Daily Alert,” said Carolyn Greene, Conference of Presidents Associate Executive Director. “The Daily Alert offers an international readership a broad scope of news and compelling commentary from around the world. Students need an additional resource geared to their particular needs, as well as access to news and opinion from their peers on campus,” she noted.
“The Israel Campus Beat is particularly unique because it provides student journalists with a national media outlet for discussion of campus Israel issues,” said Tamara Sharon, Senior Associate for Operations at the Israel on Campus Coalition. “We are thrilled to re-launch this project and hope that many students take full advantage of the ICB and use it as a resource for pro-Israel activism on campus."
The Israel on Campus Coalition is a partnership of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, in cooperation with a network of 34 national organizations committed to promoting Israel education and advocacy on university campuses across America.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations speaks for organized American Jewry on vital issues of international and national concern. Representing 52 national Jewish organizations, the Conference provides a common voice for affiliated American Jews from across the political and religious spectrum, forging diverse groups into a powerful, unified force for Israel's survival, and for protecting and enhancing the security and dignity of Jews abroad.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is an independent non-profit institute for policy research and education that seeks to influence global opinion on key issues affecting Israel's security and international standing. | <urn:uuid:4b3f2d60-6ec8-49c9-9f26-1d58a7b98715> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hillel.org/about/news/2009/sep/03sept09_ICB.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942834 | 684 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Earlier today Google responded to every search with the message ‘this site may harm your computer’. Google has apologised – with the official line that the mistake was caused by human error. The company said the glitch lasted for 40 minutes – which, in my view, is quite a long time for the world’s biggest and most influential search engine to remain effectively useless. The company has apologised to the owners of sites that were incorrectly labeled as ‘harmful’. It will be interesting to monitor how the company handles the inevitable criticism.
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FF applying to become bike-friendly communityPublished 11:07am Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Central Lakes Trail connects Fergus Falls to miles of cycling opportunities, but now Fergus Falls officials may soon make biking a little more friendly within the city as well.
Fergus Falls may become the sixth official “Bicycle Friendly Community” in Minnesota and the 216th nationwide.
“The purpose is to promote cycling as something that is safe and can help communities,” said local certified cycling instructor David Sanderson. “As a former physician, I see a lot of health benefits in cycling.”
Sanderson has been working closely with the project, and he said he hopes the city can have an application ready to send to the League of American Bicyclists by late February. It may be weeks or even months until results come back, but this is a good start.
The extensive application process digs deep into five basic criteria, known as the “five Es” – Engineering, Education, Encouragement, Enforcement and Evaluation.
Engineering refers to the structure of the cycling routes within the city. Each Bicycle Friendly Community must have a comprehensive and well-maintained cycling network. This might mean that the city will add bike lanes or designated routes through town for cyclists to follow.
Bicycle Friendly Communities also must have opportunities for cycling education. Instructional classes should be offered, and a “safe routes to school” program should be in place. Fergus Falls is in the process of getting these things in order.
The third E, encouragement, means there needs to be events and activities that make cycling visible in the community. A bicycle rodeo was held in the spring, and Sanderson said he hopes to make it an annual event.
Proper cycling enforcement is necessary in all Bicycle Friendly Communities, and police officers will need to be well educated on cycling laws.
Evaluation refers to the process of constantly looking at ways to modify and improve cycling in the community to create a better experience for riders.
The Fergus Falls City Council recently approved the application process to move forward, and Sanderson along with city officials and several others will work on the project.
“It has been shown in other communities that people look at things like this when they move to a community,” Sanderson said. “Those little things add up, and it helps to attract people. It really does make a difference.” | <urn:uuid:f3064681-3915-459e-88c3-30f8fd9ffed8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2013/01/03/ff-applying-to-become-bike-friendly-community/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968429 | 508 | 1.71875 | 2 |
MFYC offers an inclusive, performance-based music education program with a strong multicultural focus. We strive to create a positive musical experience for all children.
MFYC welcomes boys with changing voices as well as treble voices.
Singers ages 7 to 10 sing in this choir, which rehearses on Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. The singers receive a performance-based music education that includes sight-singing and musicianship. They perform their own repertoire at all Mississauga Festival Youth Choir concerts, and also sing selected numbers with the other levels. The repertoire has a strong multicultural focus, and our emphasis is on creating a positive musical experience for all children.
This choir is comprised of singers ages 11 to 19 and rehearses from 7:30 to 9:00 pm every Wednesday. The singers engage in choral singing of a high performance level with a focus on compositions that reflect our multicultural community. Opportunities to mentor singers from the younger choir are encouraged, and singers will continue to gain sight-singing and musicianship skills.
Chamber choir singers are selected by audition from the Senior Choir. This choir performs mostly a cappella repertoire, and rehearses from 9:00 pm to 9:30 pm on Wednesday nights. This choir may have additional performance opportunities. The program also offers annual choir tours which any chorister may attend provided the tour fee and parental approval are received. | <urn:uuid:5fe42896-bbdf-4d97-9641-3408ec6cea87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mfyc.ca/our-programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955166 | 291 | 1.546875 | 2 |
FACETIME- Dirty dogs: Local animal lover pursues her dream
Last summer, when Patricia Wilkinson got a call from a friend that a snake was loose in the Belmont Lofts condominium complex, she knew just what to do. Rather than taking tools or weapons, Wilkinson brought a pillow case and calmly picked up the snake.
"Snakes," she says smiling, "are just misunderstood."
Wilkinson, who has always been a lover of all creatures great and small, is acting on her passion for animals and doing something many people dream about but few dare to do. After quitting her full-time job as a respiratory therapist at UVA, she opened her own business, a self-service dog wash located in Belmont.
Wilkinson, 53, "just has a way" with animals, says longtime friend Maria Bell. "She's not afraid of them, and they do what she wants."
It was Bell who called Wilkinson to remove the snake from the condo complex, and she recalls how Wilkinson grabbed the critter with ease while a small crowd of men "stood by in awe."
Located on Avon Street under the Belmont Bridge, Wash & Wag opened quietly in early February. While initial business has been slow, and while running her own business is "terrifying and exciting at the same time," Wilkinson says it "just feels right."
The Belmont resident learned how to handle snakes– and a bevy of other creatures– in her four years serving as the game warden for Falls Church. She says she did everything from investigating possible animal abuse to conducting rabies education seminars in local schools. While she loved her job, she never made enough money to support herself so she decided to go into what she calls "people medicine."
In the same determined manner that she rescues snakes, she has tackled and overcome a number of obstacles on the road to small-business ownership. It was extremely difficult, for example, to find a location she could rent that was willing to accommodate so many four-legged friends traipsing through the doors.
As it turns out, she found the perfect little place in her very own neighborhood, a place she believes is exactly "the way a neighborhood should be." She loves that fact that Belmont still has little shops and that "neighbors take care of each other."
To celebrate the shop's opening, Wilkinson organized the first annual Wag for a Wash run on Saturday, April 5 right outside her store. And the grand prize? A free dog wash, of course. | <urn:uuid:930e83a9-877a-44dd-ab5b-096c9f874451> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.readthehook.com/82113/facetime-dirty-dogs-local-animal-lover-pursues-her-dream?quicktabs_1=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978021 | 520 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Almost 150 criminals, racist killers and those responsible for mass atrocities committed during and immediately after apartheid have been recommended for special pardon in a deeply flawed and unconstitutional process headed by President Jacob Zuma, the South African Coalition for Transitional Justice (SACTJ) warned today.
The Coalition asserts that President Zuma would be acting inconsistently with the values and principles of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as well as a recent decision of South Africa’s Constitutional Court which confirmed that the disclosure of truth was an essential precondition of the process.
Dr Allan Boesak recently addressed Monash University on the search for reconciliation in South Africa. He spoke to many issues that are central to the work of Khulumani Support Group as it continues the struggle for reconciliation based on justice in South Africa.
Dr Boesak asserted that "If the moral justification of apartheid was apartheid's heresy, this (current) abuse of reconciliation is our political heresy. In this process, we have perpetrated a further, grave injustice. We have ... re-victimised the people, ... robbed them of their rightful place in history, ... dispossessed them of their pride in their heroic role in the struggle for liberation, and ... disowned the sacrifices they have made". We have trivialized their suffering, suppressed their voices, minimised their sacrifices and overlooked their 'forgiveness, magnanimity and grace' in the face of imprisonment, torture and the murder of loved ones. "This ... purposeful unremembering serves the hegemonic narrative".
A Khulumani member from Whittlesea, a Grade R teacher, has called together all Grade R teachers in the district to compile a list of grievances to deal with the discriminatory treatment of both Grade R teaches and learners from across the Eastern Cape:
At the end of April, no Grade R teachers in the province apparently received their salaries. In addition, school authorities in many areas do not include the Grade R learners as recipients of the school-feeding that is provided, despite the evidence that adequate feeding of young children is the greatest investment to make in a child's future to ensure maximal brain development.
In March 2012, Craig Divis, a Distinguished Fulbright Teacher for the 2011-2012 school year, spent a day with Khulumani Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Ms Nomarussia Bonase.
Craig is visiting South Africa from Vermont in the United States. He is keeping a blog about his visit to South Africa and explains that he has travelled “to South Africa to study, research, and carry out professional development. My focus is on the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa’s history, and I will be focusing on the various tactics, strategies, and ways that individual people, groups, organizations, both within and outside of South Africa, resisted and dissented the apartheid regime.”
KHULUMANI WELCOMES JUDGE NAVI PILLAY’S DECEMBER 2011 AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF in support of the PETITIONERS, ESTHER KIOBEL et al in their case against ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM CO et al: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Supports that Holding Corporations Liable for Human Rights Violations is Fully Consistent with International Law. (SEE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF ATTACHED).
Khulumani welcomes the landmark decision handed down this morning by the North Gauteng High Court that the South African authorities must investigate Zimbabwean officials, who are accused of involvement in torture and crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe.
The litigants, the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Zimbabwe Exiles’ Forum (ZEF) expressed appreciation for the very strong ruling of Judge Hans Fabricius which asserted that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the South African Police Services (SAPS) had acted unconstitutionally and unlawfully in not taking forward the original investigation into Zimbabwean officials linked to acts of state-sanctioned torture (SEE PRESS RELEASE ATTACHED).
It has been an unacceptable reality that the member countries of the South African Development Community have refused up to the present, to investigate and prosecute perpetrators whenever they travel to South Africa and other SADC jurisdictions.
As an active member of the Right to Know Campaign (R2K), Khulumani notes that a report on the public hearings held across the country about the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) was tabled in Parliament today and is to be discussed throughout this week by the Portfolio Committee chaired by Ms Faith Kwaza. Her contact details are: Cell: 072 122 0371; Tel: 021 403 8062 and E-mail:
Khulumani will be following the developments on this bill with interest in the context of the threats to access to information that cold result in diminishing the hard-won right of access to information in South Africa as a constitutional right to promote transparency, openness, responsiveness and accountability in government as we try to move out of the historical practices of the secrecy of the past.
This is Khulumani's submission, dated 24 April 2012, to the Department of Justice with regards to the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, 1995: Education Assistance and Medical Benefits Regulations (proposed DOJ amendments – March 2012).
Khulumani is commenting on the present regulations which the TRC Unit is rushing to see implemented in the words of the TRC Unit, to spend the money that is available.
Khulumani mourns this extremely limited perspective when so much is possible with the existing money in The President’s Fund and when all the submissions made for better solutions, have not been interrogated to date.
On Workers’ Day 2012, Khulumani joins the SASOL ex-workers in mourning the passing of their colleague, Mr Ntombela – and in calling on SASOL to make redress for the injustices faced by ex-workers who were illegally dismissed 25 years ago.
A former loyal employee of SASOL at its Sasolburg premises, Mr Andries Ntombela, passed away on Saturday April 28, 2012 after several weeks in hospital following a motor vehicle accident.
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On Sept. 21, 2007, the editorial board of the Colorado State University student newspaper decided to publish a four-word editorial. Apparently finding the traditional mode of expressing ideas -- arguing a case in a few hundred words -- too demanding, they instead wrote four words: "Taser this … F--- Bush." Needless to say, they spelled out the F word.
The "Taser" referred to the police using a stun gun on a student at the University of Florida who refused to relinquish the microphone to other students at a speech at the university given by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. (How George Bush is connected to the use of a Taser on a left-wing student interrupting a speech by a left-wing anti-Bush senator was never explained by the editor.)
When universities were governed by people -- either liberals or conservatives -- who valued civilization i.e., before the contemporary left took over the universities, such an "editorial" was inconceivable. It would have been regarded as the work of moral and intellectual idiots whose political philosophy, to the extent that they had any, was anarchism.
But not today. It cannot be stated often enough that our universities generally are run by fools who are breeding a generation of fools. There are, of course, many exceptions, but these exceptions have little impact on the deconstruction of civilization and the breeding of anti-intellectuals taking place at our universities.
The more one knows about what happened at Colorado State University the more this grim assessment of our universities makes sense.
First, the "editorial" itself: It was purely a tantrum, the likes of which we associate with little children. But the editor, David McSwane, is a child; and his editorial board, which unanimously supported the four-word "editorial," is composed of children. Indeed, immaturity is a major feature of college life. For most students, college delays, rather than fosters, the maturing process. Universities, once founded to take young people and help mold them into adults, now work to keep them from becoming adults.
One reason tantrums in place of reasoned arguments are acceptable to the left-wingers at Colorado State (and elsewhere) is the importance the left puts on feelings. If one is really, really angry at President Bush, one should so emote. That's one reason (the other is an acceptance of public cursing) "Buck Fush" bumper stickers are common; why Code Pink anti-war women had a tantrum at the Congressional hearings on the war in Iraq; why the left has substituted feel-good textbooks for objective history books; why the left supports the student self-esteem movement and the abolition of competitive sports that make losers feel bad; among many other examples.
In light of the feelings-based anti-intellectualism that permeates the left, it is surreal that the left routinely accuses those who criticize the low state of our universities as "anti-intellectual." It is so clearly a form of projection. Those of us who lament the state of our universities are protectors of the intellect; it is the feelings-based "F--- Bush"-"Buck Fush" left that is the anti-intellectual part of the political spectrum. That is why Colorado State University, while mildly criticizing the editor -- for using an expletive -- would not remove him, let alone the whole editorial board.
Read this report from CNN, and then weep for our society:
"Speaking for the board that oversees student media, CSU faculty member Jim Landers read a prepared statement and refused to comment further. 'We see the editorial as an opinion which is protected by the First Amendment,' Landers read."
Two sentences that say so much. The misunderstanding of freedom of speech is breathtaking. Retaining or firing the CSU editor had nothing to do with freedom of speech. It had to do with whether someone who abuses the editorial space of a major university newspaper is fit to be its editor. But the left confuses freedom with license (just as it confuses tolerance with acceptance). And so, in the name of protecting freedom, an obscene violation of elementary standards of intellectual coherence and decency went unpunished.
The other illuminating aspect of those two CNN sentences was that professor Landers "refused to comment further." Why? The reason is apparent to anyone familiar with our universities: Liberal professors are unused to being challenged. They are not challenged by other professors, and they hardly are challenged by 19- or 20-year-old students. Professor Landers was not about to open himself to intellectual challenges now.
Likewise, the child-editor himself, "refused to comment," according to CNN. When you retain your job as editor-in-chief of a university newspaper after writing a four-word editorial consisting solely of "'F---' the President of the United States," why would you feel it necessary to explain yourself? Like his mentor, professor Landers, McSwane is aware on some level that he has no intellectual or moral defense for what he did. And like the professor, he feels no obligation to the society-at-large whose mores he so offended.
As for the other students on the newspaper's editorial board, The New York Times reported: "Hailey McDonald, The Collegian's managing editor, said Mr. McSwane had the full support of the newspaper's student leadership." And CNN reports that Sean Star, another member of The Collegian's editorial board, "expressed his admiration for McSwane."
Finally, let it be noted that the CSU faculty apparently has said next to nothing about the four-word large-font "editorial." Why not? Because, as the Talmud said 1,600 years ago, "Silence is agreement." If questioned, one suspects that nearly all the silent professors of Colorado State University would respond that this was a freedom of speech issue.
Of course, it is not. And that is proved easily: What if an editor had published a four-word large-font editorial that read "F--- Martin Luther King Jr."? Would the professors have kept silent because they deemed the issue one of freedom of speech? Would The New York Times and virtually every other liberal editorial page in America have said nothing about that editorial, as they have said nothing about the "F--- Bush" editorial?
CSU's retaining an editor who wrote four words, including the F word, in a huge font instead of an editorial is one more reason I have come to believe that, with regard to universities, no society has ever paid so much to so many to have its children so alienated from it.
In each case, just as in the disastrous invitation to Ahmadinejad, liberals feel good about their intentions and therefore about their decisions. But few, if any, of those decisions are wise. This is not surprising. A generation whose primary goals have included overthrowing Judeo-Christian values, which once said, "Don't trust anyone older than 30," and which has rejected external moral authority (God, parents, teachers, religion) is not going to be wise. And absence of wisdom is why Columbia University and The New York Times thought inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a good idea.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: "MS, WI, TX, ND, AR, Have Become States of Misogyny of Bigotry" | Greg Hengler
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About the Calendar Kids Program
For the past 17 years, the American Kidney Fund has conducted a nationwide art contest for young artists up to 18 years old who have kidney disease. Thirteen drawings are selected for inclusion in the annual calendar, and the cover artist is selected through online voting. The program provides an opportunity for pediatric patients to express themselves through artwork and to receive national recognition while increasing awareness of kidney disease throughout the United States. The Calendar Kids Program is supported by an educational donation provided by Amgen.
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Are there bulletins from GM on how to correct a problem that supposedly doesn't exist? I read that repair requires the removal (or modification) of a part in the brake combination valve or master cylinder. That information came from an individual who had the work successfully done at the local GM dealership. Searching GM's website, calling, asking local dealers, and much discussion did not produce any listed remedy. GM either does not want to acknowledge that rear brakes are my problem or couldn't care less!
I currently know of three trucks ('97-99) with the exact same brake problem! In my research I have found this to be a common complaint for these years. My last resort is to scrap my present system and adapt the brakes from a '75 Chevy pickup. Please help me, and thanks for the answers. I really enjoy your monthly column.
A: We have to think GM does care that you have brakes. Unfortunately you didn't give us much information to go on. Is your truck a 1/2-, 3/4-, or 1- ton Silverado? Yes, there are a few service bulletins (SBs) around the scope of your problems. We'll refer to a few of them and make some guesses based on what type of vehicle you have.
First, you stated that you have intermittent ABS engagement at slow speed. SB 02-02-25-006B explains a corrosion problem that occurs between the hub and the ABS sensor mounting. What this causes is an increased air gap between the sensor and the reluctor wheel on the hub. This generates a lower-than-spec voltage signal that goes back to the ABS computer and applies the ABS erratically. The fix is to remove the ABS sensor, plug the hole in the hub to prevent debris from falling into the hub, lightly sand the mounting surface of the hub, apply Rust Penetrating Lubricant PN 89022217, and allow it to dry. Then apply a thin layer of wheel bearing grease to the hub surface and the sensor O-ring to prevent further rust buildup under the sensor.
As for the prop/combination valve, the only bulletin for that is on '92-99 Suburbans with an 8,600-pound GVW. Another thing you may want to look at if you have a 3/4- or 1-ton truck is that some models have a brake bias valve connected through linkage from the frame to the rear axlehousing. This adjusted the rear braking pressure based on the load in the box of the truck. If this valve is malfunctioning or maladjusted, it could be causing reduced brake pressure to the rear brakes.
We hope this helps with your problem. Also, just because there isn't a bulletin on your problem doesn't mean you don't have a problem with the combination valve on your truck. It may be limiting the brake pressure also. Check it out and be safe.
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March 9th, 2012 | Comments Off
You’ve made a documentary, it’s finished, looking great and perhaps you even have a couple of screenings lined up somewhere. But now what? How will you convince the reviewers, bloggers, opinionators and the general audience that they should come and watch your film, actually make it the success you want it to be? DocGeeks looks at a few examples that made it happen.
The digital era brought us lot of advantage points, for filmmakers one of the biggest ones might be that they themselves now have the possibility to (cost-efficiently) create a demand for their movie, therefore being less dependent on a traditional push strategy from the industry. Online distribution is one such example, but if you do not want to go down that route (or even if you are) cheap blogs, websites, Facebook and Twitter are within reach and can help turn your documentary into a success with sold-out screenings in various cinemas.
By looking at some recent examples such as Dreams of a Life, Sound it Out and The Interrupters, we like to give you an idea of what is needed. Beware though, it might be a cost-efficient way to promote your documentary, it will however cost you a lot of time and you need to be willing to invest energy in this bit of the process as much as you were when you were making the film itself.
As there is a whole book to be written on the subject we focus on a different aspect in every post on the subject. Today it’s Twitter.
With nearly 400 million users Twitter is not to be underestimated as a promotional tool. Though every film or filmmaker out there is on Twitter, only a few have managed to ‘master the art’ of successfully creating a demand by using the microblogging tool. So here a few things you should definitely do:
Provide background information If you are making a movie about a certain topic such as a town, a famous person, a sport or a musical streaming you can create an interest in the topic (and therefore the film) by tweeting articles related to that subject. For example, When Jeanie Finlay tweeted about her film Sound It Out on both her own as well as the film’s Twitter account, she also shared articles, photos and tweets relating to record shops and record shop closures as this is the subject of her film. With this she manages to draw in people who care about the subject and via the tweets get exposure to her film.
Use hashtags Though many people have a Twitter account not that many also know how to actually make best use of it. A hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in a tweet helps to categorize those tweets so they come up higher in the search function. We often add #documentary to a tweet if it is not yet in the title, this way people interested in documentary news can find us easily. If you use the title of your film or a specific hashtag you can also use it to see which other tweets have been issued with the same keyword by clicking on it.
Carry out searches It is not just hashtags that you can search for though. For example, by typing in ‘Interrupters’ in the search function, Kartemquin, the company behind Steve James’ documentary The Interrupters, see exactly who tweets something about their film. They can then use this knowledge to retweet or reply directly to whoever sent out the tweet.
Engage in conversation Replying is quite a big part of audience engagement. Even though Twitter is a static tool the most successful accounts tweet as if they were having a conversation. You thank people who say nice things about you or your film, send a little message when they retweet and if they ask something then reply. Your film after all is not a brand, you have put in a lot of hard work and energy and that thus makes it something more personal. If you want your audience to feel the same way then you need to give them a reason. Look at this twitter account of filmmaker Carol Morley- when her film Dreams of a Life came out she had never tweeted before, a few months later she engages people, promotes her documentary and other work and has over 1200 followers who are there to spread the word for her when she needs it.
Retweet Though you wouldn’t necessarily cut out your review and run with it to a pub full of strangers, that is exactly what you would do on Twitter. If someone says something nice or post a review that they tweet about then retweet it straightaway. People are still afraid to be left out and follow their peers, if your film seems to be getting a lot of attention then they need to find out what it is about. On top of that, eternal gratefulness from the tweeters makes them closer to you.
Don’t just sell your film! It is a no no no to just try to sell your film and get screenings or DVD sales. Who wants that? We already have traditional media doing the same thing, the idea behind ‘social media’ is that it is all about engagement and empowerment, we decide what we want, not you.
Over the next few days we will go into this topic a bit further and explore other media you can use but for now have a browse through the examples that are given and get inspired.
If you have any questions or like to show us what you are doing then feel free to leave a comment below!
Written by Alexandra Zeevalkink
Alexandra Zeevalkink is a Dutch-born journalist living in London who founded DocGeeks in August 2011 in order to have a legitimate excuse to watch every documentary under the sun. She freelances for various publications and writes mainly about documentary films, art projects and social inequalities. When she is not blogging or watching films she enjoys theater, photography and reading loads of books. She is always on the look out for potential partnerships with other creative minds.
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She’s Fast, but Is She a Woman?
Posted on Aug 19, 2009
South Africa’s 18-year-old Caster Semenya, the new 800-meter world champion, is so fast the International Association of Athletics Federations has dispatched an endocrinologist, a gynecologist, an internist, a genderist (?) and a psychologist to determine whether she’s actually female.
That has to be an awkward conversation. And how is this development supposed to make women feel?
A spokesman said, “The gender verification test is an extremely complex procedure.” How complex can it possibly be? —PS
“In the case of this athlete, following her breakthrough in the African junior championships, the rumours, the gossip was starting to build up,” said Davies.
“The gender verification test is an extremely complex procedure. The situation today is that we do not have any conclusive evidence that she should not be allowed to run.”
A group of doctors, including an endocrinologist, a gynaecologist, an internal medicine expert, an expert on gender and a psychologist, have started the testing procedure but it is uncertain when the results will be known.
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Recently, we polled our readers about how much student loan debt they had. We know most people have some student loans after college but the question is how much. From the results we see that the vast majority of people responded with “over $25,000″. We actually realize that we should have broken the numbers down further for everything over $25,000. Either way that is a lot of money of anyone just coming out of school.
We are going to continue to poll our readers on this topic to further break down these loans, what degrees they are in and if they can be avoided. Thanks for the responses!
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MPs to vote on call for referendum on UK leaving the EU
Backbench MPs have agreed to hold a debate and vote on calls for a referendum to be held on whether the UK stays in the European Union.
Members of the Backbench Business Committee agreed to hold the debate on October 27 on a motion calling for a referendum by May 2013.
Tory MP David Nuttall's motion says the public should have three options put to them in the nationwide vote - keeping the status quo, leaving the EU or reforming the terms of the UK's membership of the European Union.
The government would not be bound by the result of the vote but it could prove politically tricky for David Cameron.
He has refused calls for an in/out referendum but it has been a popular idea among Tory backbenchers.'Public demand'
The motion proposed says: "This House calls upon the Government to introduce a bill in the next session of Parliament to provide for the holding of a national referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union, leave the European Union, or renegotiate the terms of its membership in order to create a new relationship based on trade and cooperation."
End Quote Prime Minister's spokesman
We would expect MPs and ministers to follow the government's policy”
Mr Nuttall said the debate was overdue as there was "enormous public demand" for people to have their say on the issue of Europe.
"I believe that a referendum along these lines would allow the public to make clear their views about our current membership of the European Union," he said.
"It is 36 years since we last held a referendum and our relationship with what was then known as the Common Market and the European Union has changed out of all recognition."
No 10 have indicated that all Conservative MPs will be expected to support the government in rejecting the referendum option - the coalition agreement commits the UK to being a "positive participant in the European Union" .
The prime minister's spokesman said: "I imagine we will establish the whipping arrangements nearer the time but we have a very clear policy on that and that is set out in the coalition agreement.
"We would expect MPs and ministers to follow the government's policy."
But Eurosceptic Conservative MP Bill Cash said it should be for Parliament to decide on the issue and the "national interest" should override the coalition agreement.
BBC Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy said about 50 Conservative MPs could support the referendum call, which would mean Labour's approach to it "could turn out to be less academic than the normal Opposition line".
Labour says a referendum would be a "distraction" for the UK at a time when British business needs all the inward investment and export opportunities that they can get.
A spokesman said: "Britain should be focused on creating the jobs and growth we desperately need, not cutting ourselves off from major export markets that British jobs depend on."
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, said the debate was "a good start... but with all party leaders demanding that their MPs reject the motion I hold out little hope of a yes vote".
"The real debate is going on out there in the country, in people's homes, businesses and pubs. We know from many polls that a vast majority of people want this referendum, we learn next week how many of the MPs have the courage to support their constituents."
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Subjects covered in this autobiography include sailing experiences, airplane testing during World War I, life at Stanford
from the 1920s to the 1950s, experiences working on rockets during World War II, and his experiences as a pilot. There is
very little on his years at Harvard. A bibliography of Webster's work is included.
David Locke Webster, professor of physics (1920-1954; emeritus, 1954-1977) and chairman of the Physics Department at Stanford
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LEGISLATURE ‑- ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ‑- LAW AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ‑- EFFECTIVE DATE OF CHAPTER 259, LAWS OF 1981
(1) The effective date of §§ 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 259, Laws of 1981, relating to the appointment of administrative law judges to hear complaints filed pursuant to the state law against discrimination (chapter 49.60 RCW) is July 1, 1982.
(2) The legal authority to appoint such administrative law judges for the Washington State Human Rights Commission is vested in the chief administrative law judge who is appointed by the Governor in accordance with § 12(1), chapter 67, Laws of 1981.
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September 15, 1981
Honorable Raleigh Lewis
Human Rights Commission
402 Evergreen Plaza Building
Olympia, Washington 98504 Cite as: AGLO 1981 No. 26
By letter previously acknowledged you requested our opinion on several questions which we paraphrase as follows:
(1) What is the effective date of §§ 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 259, Laws of 1981 relating to the appointment of administrative law judges to hear complaints filed pursuant to the state law against discrimination, chapter 49.60 RCW?
(2) In the event that §§ 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 259, Laws of 1981, supra, take effect before July 1, 1982, who has the power to appoint such administrative law judges between now and then?
(3) Thereafter, who is empowered to appoint such administrative law judges and to whom [[Orig. Op. Page 2]] should a request for such an appointment, by the chairperson of the Washington State Human Rights Commission, be made when § 2, chapter 259, Laws of 1981 is in effect?
We respond to your questions in the manner set forth in our analysis.
Your inquiry basically involves the interrelationship between two acts passed by the recent, 1981, legislative session. They are, respectively, chapters 67 and 259, Laws of 1981.
By the first of these two enactments, the legislature created an Office of Administrative Hearings. See, § 1 of the act which provides:
"A state office of administrative hearings is hereby created. The office shall be independent of state administrative agencies and shall be responsible for impartial administration of administrative hearings in accordance with the legislative intent expressed by this chapter. Hearings shall be conducted with the greatest degree of informality consistent with fairness and the nature of the proceeding. The office shall be under the direction of a chief administrative law judge, appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, for a term of five years. The person appointed is required, as a condition of appointment, to be admitted to practice law in the state of Washington, and may be removed for cause."
And see also, § 12(1) which reads:
"The governor shall appoint a chief administrative law judge to take office no later than the thirtieth day after the effective date of this section. In the interim period between appointment and July 1, 1982, the chief administrative law judge shall specifically plan and administer as efficiently as possible the initial implementation of this chapter and of RCW 34.04.020 and 34.04.022 as now or hereafter amended, and shall develop and submit a plan and budget for financing the office after July 1, 1982."
[[Orig. Op. Page 3]]
Then, in turn, the chief administrative law judge is directed by § 3(1) to ". . . appoint administrative law judges to fulfill the duties prescribed in this chapter. . . ." And, under § 9 of the act,
"(1) All state employees who have exclusively or principally conducted or presided over hearings for state agencies prior to July 1, 1982, shall be transferred to the office.
"(2) All state employees who have exclusively or principally served as support staff for those employees transferred under subsection (1) of this section shall be transferred to the office.
". . ."
The second of the two 1981 enactments to which your request refers, chapter 259,supra, amends various provisions of the state law against discrimination, as codified in chapter 49.60 RCW. Specifically, insofar as your questions are concerned, § 2 amends RCW 49.60.250 to read, in material part, as follows:
"In case of failure to reach an agreement for the elimination of such unfair practice, and upon the entry of findings to that effect, the entire file, including the complaint and any and all findings made, shall be certified to the chairman of the board. The chairman of the board shall thereupon ((
appoint a hearing tribunal of three persons, who shall be members of the board or a panel of hearing examiners, acting in the name of the board,))request the appointment of an administrative law judge under Title 34 RCW to hear the complaint and shall cause to be issued and served in the name of the board a written notice, together with a copy of the complaint, as the same may have been amended, requiring the respondent to answer the charges of the complaint at a hearing before (( such tribunal)) the administrative law judge, at a time and place to be specified in such notice.
". . ."
In addition, other amendments to RCW 49.60.250 which are contained in this same section continue this process of [[Orig. Op. Page 4]] substituting administrative law judges for the hearing tribunals which were previously provided for; and, likewise, §§ 3 and 4 of the act amend RCW 49.60.260 and 49.60.270, respectively, by merely substituting, wherever appropriate, the term "an administrative law judge" for the words "a tribunal," "hearing tribunal," and "a hearing tribunal" as the case may be.
The problem which you have raised pertains to the effective dates of these two 1981 laws. First, insofar as chapter 67, supra, is concerned, § 40 thereof provides as follows:
"Sections 12 and 37 of this act are necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately. The remainder of the act shall take effect July 1, 1982."
And, in the case of chapter 259, supra, § 7 thereof says:
"Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this 1981 act shall take effect upon the enactment of House Bill 101, 1981 Regular Session."1/
With that we complete the circle. House Bill 101, which is referred to in § 7, supra, is the bill which became [[Orig. Op. Page 5]] chapter 67, Laws of 1981, supra. But, as also above noted, with the exception of §§ 12 and 372/ it has a delayed effective date‑-July 1, 1982‑-although (of course) it was literally "enacted" when it was signed by the Governor on April 25, 1981.
Your first question calls upon us to unravel this seemingly incongruous, legislatively produced, puzzle by asking, in light of the foregoing:
What is the effective date of §§ 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 259, Laws of 1981 relating to the appointment of administrative law judges to hear complaints filed pursuant to chapter 49.60 RCW, the state law against discrimination?
We believe that the proper answer to this question‑-the one which a court would reach should the matter be litigated‑-is July 1, 1982.
It is true, of course, that House Bill 101 (i.e., chapter 67, supra), which is referred to in § 7 of chapter 259,supra, was technically "enacted" when it was signed by [[Orig. Op. Page 6]] the Governor on April 25, 1981.3/ In addition, it is also true that two out of its forty sections actually took effect on that same date. But clearly, those two sections are not sufficient to afford the obvious "dovetail" effect which the legislature intended should exist between its provisions and those of chapter 259,supra, insofar as the appointment of administrative law judges for purpose of conducting administrative hearings under the state law against discrimination is concerned. For, until the remaining substantive sections of chapter 67 take effect, in accordance with § 40,supra, on July 1, 1982, there simply will be no administrative law judges in existence over whom the chief administrative law judge (appointed by the Governor pursuant to § 12, supra) will have any supervisory authority. And therefore, it will not be possible for an ". . . appointment of an administrative law judge under Title 34 RCW . . ." to be made, in the manner contemplated by RCW 49.60.250, et seq., as amended, until that time.
We think, therefore, that what the legislature truly had in mind when it adopted what is now § 7, chapter 259, supra, as a Senate floor amendment to the then pending Substitute Senate Bill 37044/ was, instead, that §§ 2, 3 and 4 of that measure would only take effect upon the effective date of those provisions of House Bill 101 (now, chapter 67) whose existence, as law in effect, were obviously contemplated by SSB 3704 at that time and whose enactment would be necessary in order for those portions of that bill to become functionally operational.
This conclusion is amply supported by several well-established principles of statutory construction. First and foremost, it is in line with the following statements which appear inIn re Horse Haven Irrigation District, 11 Wn.2d 218, 226, 118 P.2d 972 (1941):
[[Orig. Op. Page 7]]
"The courts, in pursuance of the general object of giving effect to the intention of the legislature, are not controlled by the literal meaning of the language of the statute, but the spirit or intention of the law prevails over the letter thereof.
". . .
"It is a rule of such universal application as to need no citation of sustaining authority that no construction should be given to a statute which leads to gross injustice or absurdity."
Another, related, principle of statutory construction which also supports our answer will be found inWilson v. Lund, 74 Wn.2d 945, 447 P.2d 718 (1968) at pp. 947-8 as follows:
"The presumption is that the lawmaker has a definite purpose in every enactment and has adapted and formulated the subsidiary provisions in harmony with that purpose; that these are needful to accomplish it; and that, if that is the intended effect, they will, at least, conduce to effectuate it. That purpose is an implied limitation on the sense of general terms, and a touchstone for the expansion of narrower terms. This intention affords the key to the sense and scope of minor provisions. From this assumption proceeds the general rule that the cardinal purpose or intent of the whole act shall control, and that all the parts be interpreted as subsidiary and harmonious. 'A statute is to be construed with reference to its manifest object, and if the language is susceptible of two constructions, one which will carry out and the other defeat such manifest object, it should receive the former construction.' 2 Sutherland, Statutory Construction § 4704 (3d ed. Horack)."
A third rule of construction which applies here is that where two laws relate to the same subject matter they are to be read inparamateria, to the end that any apparent conflicts between their provisions are to be resolved and harmonized, if at all possible. And, as noted by the Court in State ex rel. [[Orig. Op. Page 8]] Oregon R & N Co. v. Clausen, 63 Wash. 535, 116 Pac. 7 (1911), this rule applies with particular force to statutes passed during the same session of the legislature‑-as in the instant case.
Conversely, unless one totally ignores or rejects the very existence of an ambiguity in the language of § 7, chapter 259, supra, and thereby walks, lockstep, down a narrow road marked "literal language" there is no principle of statutory interpretation which is in any way supportive of a contrary answer‑-that the legislature intended §§ 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 259, supra, should take effect as of the date (again April 25, 1981) when the Governor signed chapter 67, supra, into law. In fact, notably, chapter 259 itself was not even signed by the Governor until nearly three weeks later‑-on May 18, 1981.
The foregoing disposition of your first question renders consideration of your second question unnecessary. Because, in our opinion, §§ 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 259, Laws of 1981, supra, do not become effective until July 1, 1982‑-when the major segments of chapter 67, supra, take effect‑-there is no reason to be concerned with the procedure for appointing administrative law judges between now and then.
Your third and final question, repeated for ease of reference asks:
Thereafter, who is empowered to appoint such administrative law judges and to whom should a request for such an appointment, by the chairperson of the Washington State Human Rights Commission, be made when § 2, chapter 259, Laws of 1981 is in effect?
The answer to this question, in our opinion, is that the power of appointment is vested in the chief administrative law judge who is appointed by the Governor in accordance with § 12(1) of chapter 67, supra. It is he who, under the terms of chapter 67, has supervisory authority over the cadre of administrative law judges who will be available to perform the functions contemplated by that act when it becomes fully operative. And therefore, it is he to whom the chairman of the state Human Rights Commission should properly turn, for assistance, when the time comes.
[[Orig. Op. Page 9]]
This completes our consideration of your questions. We trust that the foregoing will be of assistance to you.
Very truly yours,
KENNETH O. EIKENBERRY
PHILIP H. AUSTIN
Deputy Attorney General
*** FOOTNOTES ***
1/Section 5 of chapter 259, which is not pertinent to your present inquiry but is also referred to in this "effective date" section of the act, adds the following new section to chapter 49.60 RCW.
"Any city classified as a first class city under RCW 35.01.010 with over one hundred twenty five thousand population may enact ordinances consistent with this chapter to provide administrative remedies for any form of discrimination prescribed by this chapter: PROVIDED, That the imposition of such administrative remedies shall be subject to judicial review."
2/Section 12, as earlier indicated, provides only for the appointment of the chief administrative law judge but not for the other judges, and § 37 merely makes an appropriation, as follows:
"To carry out this act, there is appropriated to the office of the chief administrative law judge from the general fund for the fiscal year from July 1, 1981, through June 30, 1982, the sum of one hundred twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary."
3/See, Wash. Const., Art. II, § 1 and amendments thereto, and Art. III, § 12.
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Ahmed Alema Hessan, the 60-year-old balabat, or leader, of the Bouri Modaito clan of the Afar in Ethiopia, hasn’t driven camels for more than 30 years. The start of this walk is a journey of rediscovery for both of us. He tries to recall the complicated harness roping of his youth. And I struggle to apply, once more, the skills of mule packing learned in childhood Mexico. As often happens in this part of the world, people materialize out of the desert void to help us. They mock our clumsy handiwork and rebalance our loads. Most walk along for awhile, exchanging news at a murmur before padding away, so quietly that by the time I’m aware of their absence, they’re often mere squiggles on the horizon. Such random encounters are a pleasure of foot travel in the Great Rift Valley—an inhabited wilderness. Listening to a camel train pass, inching across the land at two or three miles an hour, is like eavesdropping on a public conversation. It has its own syntax. Alema chats at its head. I walk at the rear. The camels’ soft feet whisper through the dust in the middle. A tea kettle keeps the beat. And a relay of stray curs zigzags behind like wary punctuation. It is a sentence that renews itself. | <urn:uuid:1bf7a406-ec54-46fa-ac11-37eb3982771d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/25/camel-walking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94399 | 291 | 1.820313 | 2 |
TransCanada Corporation has submitted a Presidential Permit application to the U.S. Department of State (DOS) for the Keystone XL Pipeline from the U.S./Canada border in Montana to Steele City, Nebraska. TransCanada will supplement that application with an alternative route in Nebraska as soon as that route is selected.
"The multi-billion dollar Keystone XL pipeline project will reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil and support job growth by putting thousands of Americans to work," said Russ Girling, TransCanada's president and chief executive officer. "Keystone XL will transport U.S. crude oil from the very large Bakken supply basin in Montana and North Dakota, along with Canadian oil, to U.S. refineries.
"Our application for a Presidential Permit builds on more than three years of environmental review already conducted for Keystone XL," Girling added. "It was the most comprehensive process ever for a cross-border pipeline and that work should allow our cross border permit to be processed expeditiously and a decision made once a new route in Nebraska is determined." | <urn:uuid:a9745102-c26a-4641-aa2f-72bd1ff4bec6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scandoil.com/moxie-bm2/news/pipeline/transcanada-applies-for-keystone-xl-presidential-p.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958935 | 219 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Pierre Miquel : "Les Poilus d'Orient"
end 1998 by Editions Fayard, "Poilus d'Orient" (Privates of the
East) was written by Pierre Miquel, one of the better known French
specialists on the Great War.
start with, it tells the story of the Gallipoli Campaign and the French
army engaged there. In a second part, it deals with the expedition to
Salonika. The latter is beyond the scope of this website, but reading the
Gallipoli history as seen by a French historian, might offer some new
information and a fresh view on the 1915 Campaign.
new it is.
give a few examples, Pierre Miguel informs us about the exact landing
place of the Australians and the situation on 26th April, one day after
the landing :
Australian readers finally get to know that no positions inland were
captured on the first day of the landing, and that places like Lone
Pine, Quinn's Post and the Nek did not exist. Moreover, this is only
logical, when one understands at last that the landing was made south of
Gaba Tepe and not some miles north of it, as all the other books about
Gallipoli seem to state.
know, it might be too harsh to condemn an author because he did not go
to Turkey to have a look himself. Not consulting -at least- the official
histories of the Gallipoli campaign is already a different matter. What
is entirely unacceptable however, is the fact that he simply fills in
the gaps in his knowledge with pure fantasy. Not only is this a
procedure for which you fail in your first year at university, it is
simply a lack of respect towards the reader and history itself. Call it
an arrogant way of using one's reputation as a historian (?), call it
laziness or making a perverse use of the innocence of French readers,
the result is there. When reading Miquel's pulp fiction, I can't help
wondering how naive one must be as a historian, to think that nonsense
of this kind might go unnoticed.
the back cover of the book, the publisher declares : "This less
well-known episode of the Great War is here told with devotion and
passion by Pierre Miquel, whose publications about WWI have been a
reference for years."
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Food is probably the biggest force in franchising. The International Franchise Association (IFA) 2012 Franchise Opportunities Guide shows that approximately one-third of all franchise establishments are food related (quick service restaurants, retail food and table/full service restaurants). The restaurant industry generates an estimated $632 billion annually with typical industry sales at about $1.7 billion daily. The industry is one of the largest private sector employers with 12.9 million employees and is expected to add roughly 1.4 million positions in the next decade.1
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Donald R. “Pete” Hart, Jr. ’33, 1918 – 2011, A Mooreland Treasure – The oldest Mooreland Hill School alumnus, Donald R, “Pete” Hart, Jr. ’33, April 17, 2011. One of the first four students in the little school founded by his mother and friends, Pete Hart began a 78-year history with Mooreland Hill School (nee Shuttle Meadow School, from which he graduated in 1933. He prepped at Avon Old Farms School (classmate and dear friend of folksinger Pete Seeger), spent his college days at Amherst College, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, master 13 languages, taught French, German, Spanish and Latin and headed the Language Department at Avon Old Farms.
Pete was truly a man for all seasons. Drafted early in World War II, he was one of a select group of individuals who founded the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) now the C.I.A. During his time of service, he handled French sabotage operations in France, ran a spy transit station and captured Nazi collaborators in Paris after its liberation, all for which he received the prestigious and coveted Legion of Honor medal from the French Government. From 1983 to 1999, he and his wife Vera volunteered fro the disaster program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), working at more than 30 disaster sites.
His Mooreland Hill connections were also legion: student, graduate, alumnus, parent, Board member and volunteer extraordinary. During his Mooreland years he often rode his horse to school “parking” him in the school’s red barn, now the site of the Robert C. Vance Center. For as long as can be remembered he annually attended Mooreland graduations along with his sister Mary Jane Hart Clark ’35 and was often a guest speaker for special campus events. During the school’s 75th anniversary celebration he was unanimously selected for the Volunteer of The Century Award.
A Special note is Pete’s stint as an editor. With the help of Mooreland friend and cousin Norman Eddy ’34, Pete created a neighborhood mimeographed weekly Current Events of the Week, while he was a Mooreland student. The paper was filled with gossip, school news, creative writing and sold for five cents a copy. It was a total moneymaker; all of the proceeds paid for a cruise to Bermuda for the young boys, all by themselves. In the 1980’s Pete resurrected the newspaper as Current Events of the World, compiling news from a cadre of 200 family members and friends for over 20 years.
In addition to his wife Vera and sister Mary Jane, Pete leaves behind a wealth of family and friends including his brother Dr. David L. Hart “33, and his children Peter R. Hart, Christine H. Hart ’68, and Philip D. Hart.
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Eighty-five-year-old Pope Benedict XVI has a Twitter handle. He’s well-aware of the influence Facebook and other social media have on society, and he’s said he’s serious about bringing a truly catholic message to the World Wide Web.
Cyber evangelizing — why not? What has he got to lose? He has to reach them somehow, and any short exposure to the public and their smart phones makes it clear that this may be the only way.
With nearly 2 million Twitter followers, (11,000 of whom follow his Latin tweets exclusively), His Holiness is off to a wonderful start, in spite of a terrifying potential deterrent (from the AP):
[T]he digital exposure hasn’t come without risk or criticism: In the days after the Vatican announced that Benedict would respond to questions about faith on his first tweets from his (at)Pontifex handle last month, the Vatican was bombarded with threats of “Twitter bombs” from critics trying to scare the pope away from the online social forum.
Twitter bombs? Heaven forbid! Luckily for the Pope, the Catholic Church is no stranger to would-be assailants. The Church and her servants have survived some 2,000-odd years of persecution, some of which included real, live lions.
The Pope himself reportedly performed an exorcism or two in his day. I think he’ll be able to handle Twitter trolls just fine.
A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
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In his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, President Obama declared keeping the “American Dream” alive to be “the defining issue of our time.” At a time when a large percentage of the working population finds itself questioning whether if it will ever recoup the lost income, property, earning potential and savings lost in the aftermath of the greatest recession of that last 75 years, I talked with one man who says we need to create our own opportunities and stop waiting for our ships to come in.
Don’t just look for a job; make a job! Financial success is linked to thought, so get creative. – Willie Jolley
Willie Jolley, host of the Sirius XM talk show, The Willie Jolley Wealthy Ways Radio Show and author of Turn Setbacks into Greenbacks (Wiley, Hardcover, 2010) has been dubbed “America’s Comback King” by Success Magazine. I asked Willie to share his formula for jumpstarting the American Dream. Warning: His irrepressible positive outlook is infectious.
Cindy Ratzlaff: I’m noticing a lot of fear in the entrepreneurial world. Financing is tight, spending is weak and people are saying this isn’t a good time to start a new business. How can we keep the American Dream alive in that kind of climate?
Willie Jolley: People are still spending money on things that provide value and that make them feel good. Movie tickets are at an all time high, but people are still going to the movies because they make them feel better. Apple just released their earnings statements for 2011 and they had a banner year. People are buying ipads and Macs because they provide value and they make them feel good. Warren Buffet said that tough times are the greatest times to start a new business and I agree. There are two kinds of animals in the dessert; vultures and humming birds. Vultures focus on dead things and hummingbirds focus on life. Focus on it and you’ll find it.
Cindy Ratzlaff: The press has talked about the “uncounted underemployed,” those people who have simply given up looking because they can’t find a job that pays what they are used to earning and they just can’t let themselves take a job that’s beneath their previous positions for fear of stepping down the ladder permanently. If we stop progressing in our earning potential, how can we continue to uphold that American dream?
Willie Jolley: Don’t let your pride poison your prosperity. Stop trying to put up a façade of success and get real. Any work that is moral and legal is honorable. I knew a man who built an IT firm from the ground up. He had 600 of the brightest IT employees and he was doing great. But hard times hit and he had a choice to make. So he took the money he paid himself as CEO and he paid his employees salaries to keep the company going with the talent it needed. He worked a full day at his own business and at night he drove a trash truck. And he kept those employees and because of that he kept that company afloat and later sold it for $600 million. Here’s what you have to remember. It’s not personal. It’s not permanent. Get over it and do what you need to do. Don’t just think about today or tomorrow. Think about the tomorrows down the road and get over it. Do what has to be done.
Cindy Ratzlaff: Close friends and family might logically tell you that this is not a good time to start a new business. What do you say to people with a vision and a dream but no idea how to make it happen?
Willie Jolley: Stop commiserating! People who sit around and commiserate are the people who would rather complain about problems than do anything to fix them. Stay away from negative people. Sometimes those people are right in your inner circle. Read and listen to something positive every day. The news will tell you the economy is down, gas is up, terrorism is here. It’s all doom and gloom. Turn it off. Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams and turn the rest off.
Cindy Ratzlaff: If you could give one last piece of advice to a new business owner or entreprenueur what would that be?
Willie Jolley: Stop waiting for your ship to come in. Financial success is a choice you must make happen, not a chance that you sit around and wait for. There’s nothing stopping you. People have lots of excuses like “I only have a GED.” I say so what. Lots of people only have their GED’s. That can’t stop you from success. They say, “I have an idea but all my friends and family think it’s crazy.” I say “stop talking to them about your idea. Talk to people who share your vision and encourage you.” People have “possibility blindness.” If you spend all your time talking about your goals with them, all you’ll get is discouragement. Don’t just go through tough times. Grow through them. Take control of your ideas and dream. Think like the CEO of Y.O.U. Figure out how what you know can fill a need for others. And get yourself into the right frame of mind to believe you can succeed.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Lady Gaga is lending star power to Polaroid and the MIT Museum.
The pop star known for her outlandish wardrobe posed Wednesday for a Polaroid at the museum run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In January, she was given the title of creative director for the company that owns the iconic photography brand.
The museum had recently taken possession of thousands of Polaroid inventions that revolutionized photography in the 20th century, including the 20- by 24-inch camera that was used to snap the photo of Lady Gaga wearing a low-cut black lace dress. Lady Gaga has concerts in Boston on Thursday and Friday nights.
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Genre seems to be on its way to a future grave, so it is appropriate to begin this discussion with the genre that has always looked ahead: science fiction. Once upon a time, science fiction works were fairly easily defined as "hard" (science-based) or "soft" (character-driven or "sociological sci-fi") – although even that had its difficulties (Anne McCaffrey, for example, has long protested the general categorization of her Pern novels as "soft").
Now, science fiction has now grown so many subgenres as to be nearly impossible to navigate without a guide, especially given the prolieration of similar monikers: if you like steampunk, odds are you won't care for biopunk. Science fiction has also grown a number of time-based categories to compound the confusion. For example, a given story written in the 1980s might be considered cyberpunk, whereas a similar tale published today would be considered near-future fiction. Meanwhile, older classics may or may not be sorted into the new categories in fairly arbitrary style, and popular genre-busters like Diana Gabaldon's historical time-travel romance novels often end up outside the science fiction and fantasy shelves altogether.
Other literary trends involve abolishing certain genres altogether. In 2005, author David Leavitt suggested that "gay fiction" should end as the Oscar Wilde bookstore in New York, widely heralded as the world's first gay and lesbian bookstore, shut its doors forever. "Once it was revolutionary to publish a gay novel, or open a gay bookshop, but now the time may be upon us when the revolutionary thing to do is to retire the category altogether," says Leavitt. "[E]very time I go into a Borders, I move a few books from the gay fiction shelf to the general fiction section, restoring them to their rightful place in the alphabetical and promiscuous flow of literature."
Johnny Temple of The Book Standard offers another reason to do away with the gay and lesbian sections: "Though the idea behind the segmentation is to connect book-buyers with titles likely to interest them, few authors want to limit their audience by being housed in a separate section—one that’s often hidden in a back corner of a store." In addition, that ability of segmentation to connect readers to new books is far from perfect: Leavitt found "gay fiction" by straight authors usually shelved in the mainstream fiction section, whereas "mainstream" fiction by gay authors remained in the gay section despite the lack of relevance.
Some retail outlets have gone so far as to internalize the splintering and restructuring of genre. In Portland, Oregon, the bookstore Countermedia shelves its stock based on its own category system; one might find half a shelf dedicated to "Freaky Stuff." The legendary independent video rental store Movie Madness follows similar unique conventions, including for example, shelves dedicated to horror films centering upon "bad seeds." Considering the current spate of high-profile genre-bending films such as David Cronenberg's Oscar-contender "Eastern Promises," described by the director as a homoerotic Russian mob thriller, Movie Madness may indeed have better luck categorizing modern film than your local Blockbuster – but finding something specific in either one can be surprisingly difficult.
So why not do away with the splintering of genre and return to "simpler" shelving practices? In some cases, genre is synonymous with a cultural identification that many are loathe to simply abandon. Cyberpunk, steampunk, and biopunk all carry with them audiences firmly entrenched in the statements of the genres – politics, fashion, and ideology, respectively. In an increasingly varied world, one could expect this fragmentation. It's visible in pop music as well: we are far from the days when a single artist could dominate pop culture as thoroughly as the Beatles or Elvis Presley. Our tastes as a culture are so varied now that no one act could garner such a large percentage of the population's interest.
"I wasn't aware that your sexuality was something that you could (or would want to) 'move past,'" says AfterElton.com blogger Brian Jurgens of the "post-gay" movement. Though it's a fair point, sexuality itself is changing its stripes. Last year, podcaster Cunning Minx coined the whimsical term "boobiesexual" to describe the growing number of straight women she knew who were "into" breasts. Rachel Kramer Bussel expanded the term to include gay men who were similarly enamored: "Boobiesexuals mess with our strictly defined norms. What does it mean to be aroused by a woman, or at least her tits, but not want to have sex with her? They counter our very simplistic ideas about lust – if you're into me, you must want to fuck me – when true desire is more complex." Thus the busting of the gay genre could conceivably have nothing to do with "moving past" one's sexuality but simply no longer defining it quite so sharply.
Whether we deal with broad, splintered, or merged genres, there is no easy answer – on shelves or in life. The question of how (or whether to) segregate works of art seems to mainly serve as a comfortable once-removed method of asking the question of how (or whether to) segregate human beings. Existing in small groups is comfortable but limiting; it's easy to get lost in larger groups, but it's easier to find diversity, too; when there is no grouping whatsoever, it's often idealistically satisfying but chaotic in reality. How we manage our art will speak volumes about how we manage ourselves.
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US court rejects bid to reclassify marijuana (Update 2)
A U.S. appeals court Tuesday rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana from its current federal status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use.
The appeals court panel denied the bid from three medical marijuana groups, including Americans for Safe Access, and several individuals. In 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration had rejected a petition by medical marijuana advocates to change the classification.
In his majority opinion, Judge Harry T. Edwards wrote that the question wasn't whether marijuana could have some medical benefits, but rather whether the DEA's decision was "arbitrary and capricious." The court concluded that the agency action survived a review under that standard.
The ruling came just months after Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana for recreational use. Last month, President Barack Obama said that federal authorities have bigger priorities than pursuing recreational drug users in those states.
In the federal system, marijuana is classified as a controlled substance, categorized as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use, together with drugs like heroin, LSD and ecstasy.
The court noted that the DEA denied the petition to change the classification after the Department of Health and Human Services gave the DEA its evaluation that marijuana lacks a currently accepted medical use in the United States.
DEA regulations define "currently accepted medical use" to require, among other things, "adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy."
Americans for Safe Access cited more than 200 peer-reviewed published studies demonstrating marijuana's efficacy for various medical uses, including a 1999 study by the respected Institute of Medicine, a government adviser on health issues.
"The IOM report does indeed suggest that marijuana might have medical benefits," the court conceded. "However, the DEA fairly construed this report as calling for 'more and better studies to determine potential medical applications of marijuana' and not as sufficient proof of medical efficacy itself."
Joe Elford, chief counsel with Americans for Safe Access, said his group will likely file a petition for rehearing. Failing that, it would seek a rehearing of the full appeals court. If that isn't successful, he said the group would probably appeal to the Supreme Court.
Elford said that while he was disappointed by the ruling, he said it "lays the groundwork for future cases."
"I kind of take it as, 'Come back to us when those studies are completed if they actually demonstrate medical efficacy,' " Elford said.
The DEA referred questions to the Justice Department, which also did not immediately respond.
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Balls could be flying on Squamish’s highly anticipated turf field as early as this fall.
On Tuesday (June 19), the Squamish council awarded the construction of the field to two companies — Sea to Sky-based Coastal Mountain Excavations Ltd. and WorldWide Turf Inc. For approximately $547,000, Coastal Mountain will complete the grading and drainage for the project, with WorldWide Turf installing the artificial turf at a cost of $440,000.
The opening date depends on the amount of time it takes for the earth to settle, said Greig Garland, the district’s capital works engineer.
“We still remain very tight in terms of getting it done this year,” he noted.
The engineering report to council stated construction could begin this month. District staff anticipate the turf and shock pad would be installed in September and October. If the work hits delays, the project would likely be completed next spring.
“Hopefully it will be done before the rains,” Garland said.
Garland noted municipal staff anticipate the field will come in under its current $1.7 million budget. The estimated tab sits at approximately $1.3 million.
Last year, council earmarked $500,000 from the Sports Legacy Fund for the project, with an additional $500,000 coming from the provincial community recreation program and $100,000 from the Squamish Soccer Association.
It’s a lot of money for taxpayers to pour into a project, Coun. Susan Chapelle said. Earlier this year, she criticized the field’s bill, noting the municipality has failing infrastructure and other recreation facilities that have been highlighted as higher priorities in municipal reports.
“It is costing the community quite a lot of money for a single user group,” she said.
District officials anticipate the field will cost the municipality $70,000 a year for operating and replacement costs. That includes $50,000 per year to the 10-year life expectancy of the synthetic turf, $10,000 per year for the 20-year life expectancy of the underlying shock pad and $10,000 annually for maintenance.
If the district is going to spend the money on the field, Chapelle said municipality must ensure it is done right the first time. She requested municipal staff examine whether it would be cost effective to place lighting conduits in the initial building phase.
Lighting, which is currently not slated in the plan, would extend the field’s hours of use and allow for nighttime competitions, she said. Councillors Doug Race and Ron Sander agreed, and asked that parking be added to the list of potential components to be examined as possible additions to the project. | <urn:uuid:31d80664-f572-4c8f-9ef2-0fcac7edd927> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.squamishchief.com/article/20120621/SQUAMISH0101/306219960/-1/SQUAMISH/squamish-turf-field-on-its-way | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948559 | 563 | 1.601563 | 2 |
LETTER: Iraq and Afghanistan will forever be unsettledThe after 9/11, we all thought that Bin Laden would quickly meet his demise. Instead many of us were in complete shock that Iraq would be the chief target.
To the Editor:
The after 9/11, we all thought that Bin Laden would quickly meet his demise. Instead many of us were in complete shock that Iraq would be the chief target.
As a result, this produced more fire power against the wrong opponent while causing tremendous loss of life from being undermanned trying to fight two wars (at least 100,000 troops too few) fighting on two fronts.
When then the famous “Surge,” Surge meaning: We did not have enough troops from the outset.
As a result, this gave Bin Laden 10 years of sending out suicide volunteers before he was finally silenced.
It soon became apparent why other countries were not willing to join the game plan of then Bush administration.
This writer thinks that if they had to do it all over again, they would have scrapped the Iraq invasion.
They simply underestimated the resolve of the Middle East mentality, their traditions, their history and hatred by outsiders trying to change outlook and beliefs.
Truth be told, Iraq not only did not have weapons of mass destruction, but had no capacity to fight a war.
As a result, we now are into 11 years in Afghanistan, our are kids being shot by those they are asked to defend. “Insiders” is the term not being used. Little comfort then to those parents when they receive the news that their loved one has been “killed in action.”
This pattern in both Iraq and Afghanistan will not soon end. Always present and looming is another confrontation with another country. Hopefully that will not happen, but should it, trillions more will add to our national debt and our already overburdened grandchildren.
So the bottom line message is this: With the biggest election in my lifetime looming in November… We are at an all-time decision making crisis… to all voters, my advice… If you ever got it right, make this the time.
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By Amol Sharma
When Indian industrialist and politician Naveen Jindal set out to build 206-foot flagpoles around the country, he turned to K.V. Singh, a 73-year-old retired Indian Navy commander who is one of the country’s foremost experts on the national flag.
Mr. Singh has been doing all the legwork to erect the monuments — from scouting sites in the states of Haryana, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh to sourcing the 3,500 square foot Indian flags from a specialty manufacturer in Mumbai.
Mr. Singh has also been busy promoting the Tricolor in other ways as chief executive of the non-profit Flag Foundation of India. Mr. Jindal set up that group after his victory in a 2004 Supreme Court case that gave all Indians the right to wave the flag on all days of the year.
Through the Flag Foundation, Mr. Singh is trying to get more shops to sell flags and flag-related trinkets like lapel-pins and wristbands. In New Delhi, he plans to open a flag kiosk at “Dilli Haat,” a market for local artisans.
He recently approached Fabindia, a major clothing retailer, about collaborating on flag products, but the company declined his request last month, he says.
“While we appreciate and commend Naveen Jindal’s role in every Indian’s right to fly the Flag, our core business lies in bringing to market goods of practical utility, made from natural materials, using traditional knowledge and craft-based processes, sourced largely from rural areas,” Fabindia spokeswoman Prableen Sabhaney said in an emailed statement. She said the company is “not looking upon the Tri-color in the light of a commercial venture or proposition.”
The Flag Foundation has put out a coffee table book on the Indian Tricolor and held flag trivia quizzes. Mr. Singh is now looking to hire an advertising agency to run a print and TV campaign promoting the flag and Mr. Jindal’s giant installations.
All these initiatives are part of Mr. Jindal’s efforts to get convince his countrymen to take better advantage of their freedom to waive the Tricolor, which before 2004 could only be flown by ordinary citizens on national holidays.
“He’s started making people aware of it, that the flag belongs to you for 365 days per year,” Mr. Singh said. Confusion still reigns, despite the court’s 2004 ruling. “Educated people don’t even know if they can fly the flag — they’re ignorant about it,” he says.
Mr. Singh, who retired from military service in 1992, is the author of “The Indian Tricolour,” a book that traces the history of flags in the Indian subcontinent from the ancient Indus Valley civilizations to the banners of the Maurya and Gupta dynasties to the saffron, green and white design that became the flag of independent India in 1947.
He knows India’s Flag Code – the rules that govern the proper display of the national flag – as well as anyone. He’s irked when he sees someone holding the flag “saffron down,” which is a big no-no. It bugs him to see coffins covered with the Indian flag from head to toe, rather than draped over them sideways. “It should never be touching someone’s feet in any way,” he says.
Of course, the rules can make things complicated, as Mr. Singh discovered when he tried to wash the gigantic flags he’s been putting up. “You have to place them on the ground to wash them,” he says, “but putting the flag on the ground violates the Code.”
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May 4, 2010
J STREET ARRIVES ON MAIN STREET
Last week, a full page advertisement appeared in seven major Jewish newspapers around the country. Placed by the self proclaimed Israeli advocacy institute J Street, it presented a letter from former leftist Meretz leader Yossi Sarid addressed to the Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel. Earlier Wiesel had published his own missive, in a number of major American newspapers, imploring President Barack Obama’s understanding of the Jewish attachment to Jerusalem and why another division of the city can never be contemplated.
“For Jerusalem, Jews, Christians and Muslims are able to build their homes anywhere in Jerusalem and that only under Israeli sovereignty has freedom of worship for all religions been assured in the city.”
Sarid counters that there is a tacit racism inherent in Israeli housing policy that allows Arab families to be evicted onto the street if it suits the occupying power. He also warns Wiesel, who is certainly no Jewish fundamentalist, to avoid placing too much emphasis on the Jewish people’s religious attachment to the city.
“ You, my dear friend, evoke the Jews’ biblical deed to Jerusalem, thereby imbuing our current conflict with messianic hues. As if our diplomatic quarrels weren’t enough, the worst of our enemies would be glad to dress this epic conflict in the garb of a holy war. We had better not join ranks with them, even if unintentionally.”
But Sarid goes much further than even this. In his admonition to Wiesel, he states baldly what no other Israeli leader has previously dared to plead:
“ Barack Obama appears well aware of his obligations to try to resolve the world’s ills, particularly ours here. Why then undercut him and tie his hands? On the contrary, let’s allow him to use his clout to save us from ourselves, to help both bruised and battered nations and free them from their prison. Then he can push both sides to divide the city into two capitals - to give Jewish areas to the Jews and Arab areas to the Arabs - and assign the Holy Basin to an agreed-on international authority.”
Here we have a frank admission - and condemnation - rolled into one. Sarid is saying that since the fractious Jews have proved themselves incapable of resolving their own problems with their contentious neighbors, they should resign themselves to their incompetence and willingly give up problem-solving to a benevolent omniscient being who has only their best interests at heart. Only He is capable of bringing the peace that all sides to the conflict crave.
Talk about Messianism.
The suggestion to involve an honest broker in the so-called “peace process” is nothing new. But the idea that the same outsider should be vested with the responsibility of imposing a solution on the question of the territorial boundaries of the State, smacks of contempt for Israel’s sovereign rights, as well as a rejection of the authority of its democratic government to make decisions for its citizens.
The letter from Sarid is a study is self delusion. Not only does he wish the Jewish people to eschew any historical/ religious attachment to Jerusalem ( not surprising from a guy who has described Judaism as “a primitivist cult” ) but he ignores completely the prolific spread of illegal Arab housing in East Jerusalem; the unwillingness of any Arab government in history to the ensure the inviolability of Jewish holy sites and the rampant demonization of Israel in Palestinian society - as sure a sign as any that a future State of Palestine will have no inclination to live in harmony with its Israeli neighbor.
Sarid also excoriates rich American benefactors for their support of a Jewish presence in East Jerusalem while ignoring the deliberate and consistent rejectionism of Arab governments who have used the Palestinians for close to a century as pawns in their own Middle East chess game.
I also have my problems with Wiesel’s letter –
“ Is there a solution? There must be, there will be.”
No, Mr.Wiesel, there is no solution. While Palestinians live in thrall to supremacist rhetoric; while their religious leaders repeatedly call for Jihad against the Jewish infidel and Palestinian leaders do not even accept Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, there is no solution – for these things take generations to change. In the meantime there remains a conflict that can only be managed.
Jerusalem, will, for the foreseeable future, remain at the core of this conflict. Israel’s self declared “pro-active friends” such as J Street, would be well advised to understand that any endorsement of a policy which promotes the surrender of the Jewish state’s sovereignty will do nothing to bring peace. Instead it will empower Palestinian rejectionism, the one great diplomatic skill these wards of the West have mastered throughout history.
Avi Davis is the president of the American Freedom Alliance in Los Angeles. His writings and blog entries can be found at The Intermediate Zone and at the Los Angeles Jewish Journal blog On The Other Hand.
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For Pittsburgh Steelers safety Will Allen, mentoring young adults is a labor of love born from passion.
“I’ve always had people in my life help me and push me. I would feel just awful if I didn’t give the knowledge and the wisdom I have gained throughout the years, if I didn’t pass it on or pay it forward to young people,” Allen told Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin.
Allen is reaching out to students through the “Quest for Real Life Success” after-school program, which is considered the core of his Will Allen Foundation.
The program kicked off in 2010 at two high schools in Tampa, Fla., where Allen played as a member of the Buccaneers before joining the Steelers. It has since expanded to Allen’s high school alma mater in Ohio and North Hills High School in Pittsburgh.
“I think it’s really helped all of us become prepared for the future,” said North Hills High School student Sydney Brown. “In the next couple of years, there are so many things coming up -- taking the SATs, college admissions -- and it’s helped us approach that one step at a time.”
But students, like Brown and her classmates at North Hills High School, learn more than just book smarts. Allen’s program extends beyond the classroom to subjects like professional development, strategic planning and financial management. It also covers social issues, such as bullying and drug use.
“We want this to be a safe place where these students can really talk about these things openly (and) they feel they can work with one another (and) they can see Will and myself as mentors and really ask us questions that maybe they don’t feel comfortable asking their teachers and parents,” said Quest program coordinator Alexis Maddox, who has known Allen since college.
At the end of the day, the students are quizzed in a Jeopardy-style game about what they’ve learned.
“I said, ‘Let’s just quiz them over everything we’ve done but make it fun.’ They’re in school all day. Let’s do something fun, entertaining for them. (Let’s) give them a team, a competitive nature. I think that’s also what they need to know -- how to be competitive but have fun while they’re doing it,” said Allen.
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Forty-three years ago, Jamestown was a city of 41,818 people that spent roughly 8.3 percent of its budget on police and fire protection. Now, Jamestown is a city of 31,146 that spends nearly 55 percent of its budget on police and fire protection.
There are dozens of reason for such growth in police and fire department budgets, not the least of which is the existence of binding arbitration for public safety unions. Binding arbitration is the final say in a public safety union's contract when a union and municipality reach a point where negotiations simply won't result in a contract. If mediation doesn't result in a contract, a three-member arbitration panel - one person for the union, one person for the municipality and an impartial third party - hears the case and decides the contract.
It sounds fair in theory. It's unfair in practice.
Take, for example, the city of Glens Falls, which finds itself in much the same position as Jamestown and which recently received its binding arbitration results from a three-member Public Employee Relations Board panel. In exchange for an increase in the amount Glens Falls police officers will pay for their health insurance, police officers were awarded a 13 percent pay raise over three years, with the city to pay all retiree health insurance premiums for any new retirees starting in 2014.
If a union can get that type of reward for going to arbitration, what is the incentive to negotiate in good faith?
That is the question Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to answer with his binding arbitration reform proposal that municipalities found to be in fiscal distress would not be allowed to increase the union's total compensation package by more than 2 percent a year. The limit would have applied to all pay and benefits except for pensions and the first 2 percent increase in health insurance costs.
While the state budget isn't quite finished, binding arbitration reform seems too rich for the state Legislature's blood. Neither the state Assembly or Senate included Cuomo's proposal in their one-house budgets, opting instead to continue binding arbitration unchanged for another four years.
As the population of New York's municipalities continues to shrink, municipalities must have the ability to cut the cost of public safety, whether it's by cutting staff or by holding the line on pay increases. Such decisions are better made by local elected officials than by appointed panel members who don't have to live with the decisions they render.
Arbitration reform should be part of the state budget when it is passed this week. Cuomo's binding arbitration reform doesn't go nearly far enough to fix such a broken system, but a half-step is better than no step at all. | <urn:uuid:979dac97-f421-45b8-8cc4-b585fd8f7a96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/619449/Arbitration-Reform-Must-Be-In-Budget.html?nav=5010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970217 | 538 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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By revealing the standard methods used to persuade kids to annoy their parents into making the ‘right’ purchase (think free-gifts, heavily branded online games, social networking), the charity aims to highlight the lengths to which the food industry will go to get the little darlings hooked on their products.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this accusation of online culinary grooming has not been well received by an industry body called the Advertising Association.
Taking time out from snorting enormous piles of cocaine, they have hit back stating:
‘Nobody wants a marketing free-for-all, but demands for bans based on hyperbole threaten people’s jobs, affordable media, a choice of foods we all enjoy and the inalienable right of a child to grow to the size of a medium-sized dirigible before the onset of puberty.’
Now, quite obviously, that last bit isn’t entirely accurate.
After all, who’s going to try pronouncing ‘dirigible’ after hoovering a line of cocaine the length of Hadrian’s Wall?
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Joe Friedman, who wrote the excellent Inside New York: Discovering the Classic Interiors of New York, describes Brooklyn’s Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building on Ashland and Hanson Place as ‘the tallest and most Priapic commercial building in Brooklyn.’
Pause while I let you look up ‘priapic’.
The ‘Willie’ was built by the architectural firm Halsey, McCormack and Helmer from 1927-1929. It is 512 feet tall, and can be seen from Brooklyn housetops as far away as Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. It is the tallest building in Brooklyn and one of the two tallest buildings on Long Island. Its four-faced clock was the largest in the world in 1929, and held the title until 1962, when it was surpassed by the clocks on the Allen Bradley Building in Milwaukee. The ground-floor banking room boasts a 63-foot ceiling, and windows overlooking Hanson Place are 40 feet high.
The crowning dome was built as a homage to the other Brooklyn Williamsburgh Bank building, on Broadway in Williamsburg (the bank has an h, the neighborhood does not). Since 1987, the two buildings have been a part of the Republic National Bank and subsequently, the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation.
So far, so NOT Forgotten. Every Brooklyn resident pretty much knows about the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building. But, since 1977, you haven’t been able to see Brooklyn from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. Forgotten Fan Doug Douglass had the opportunity to do just that from the usually closed observation deck on the 26th floor in 2000.
From Seth Robbins and Robert Neuwirth’s Time Out New York article of April 22, 1999:
Once upon a time, in the swellest city around, a guy could take a date to the tops of the jazziest roosts in the burg. You might impress her at the 500-foot high hangout overlooking Times Square. Or you could snag lunch and sit atop your pick of four slick spires way downtown. You could even walk into uptown buildings so fancy you felt like Croesus himself, catch an elevator and walk outside a thousand feet up, the whole never-sleepin’ shebang at your feet.
This was New York during the golden age of public observation decks. In the 1880s, nearly all of our highest towers’ tops were open top the public; by the 1930s, there were 11 skyscraping public observation decks. Higher than 800 feet were the downtown decks at 22 William Street, 70 Pine Street and 40 Wall Street. Almost as high was the deck at the Woolworth Building, the “Cathedral of Commerce”. Times Square had the Paramount, the corner of 42nd and Lex flaunted both the Chrysler and the Chanin. And who could forget the RCA, the Empire State and Riverside Church’s tower? Even Brooklyn weighed in, with the highest structure between Manhattan and Paris, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower.
While no one was looking, though, New York’s once-public skies were gradually declared off-limits. Only the Empire State Building, 2 World Trade Center and Riverside Church (Sundays only) are open now. And while glorious, they are reminders of all lost panoramas.
While the Williamsburgh Savings Bank was the tallest building in Brooklyn until the opening of the Brooklyner Tower, it wasn’t the tallest structure. That distinction went to the 597-foot tall radio/TV tower at Brooklyn Tech High School on Fort Greene Place (foreground).
Beyond Brooklyn Tech can be seen Fort Greene Park and the Williamsburg Bridge.
The tall, white column seen just below the radio tower in the center of the picture is the 1908 Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument, designed by McKim, Mead and White. It was erected in honor of the over 11,000 Americans who died in eleven British prison ships anchored in Wallabout Bay (where the Navy Yard is now) between 1776 and 1783. Remains of the prisoners were still washing up on the shore well into the 1800s.
This closeup shot of the same scene emphasizes the Citibank Tower in Long Island City. The 45-story building on Jackson Avenue can be seen at ground level from as far away as downtown Brooklyn and indeed from most points around the city.
Brooklyn’s downtown towers are in the foreground, Manhattan’s in the background. The most recognizable structures are the twin World Trade Center towers. The V at the bottom of the shot is Flatbush Avenue on the right and Schermerhorn Street on the left.
The red brick building at the bottom left is the 1894 Baptist Temple. The confluence of Flatbush, Lafayette and Third Avenues is known as Temple Square.
The dome at the extreme right is the Dime Savings Bank on DeKalb Avenue and Fulton Street. It was built in a Greek Temple revival style in 1907. A visit to its lobby is a highlight of any shopping trip to the Fulton Mall. Look for the giant Mercury dimes at the top of the Corinthian columns!
The now-destroyed Twin World Trade Center Towers loom at the rear.
Fourth Avenue, the link from downtown to Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, stretches off into the distance.
In that distance, through the haze on a hot sticky May day, can be seen the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, there since 1964. On the right is Upper New York Bay.
The Long Island Rail Road has seen service from downtown Brooklyn to eastern Long Island since 1834. This is a large LIRR train yard between Flatbush and Vanderbilt Avenues along Atlantic Ave. The reverse-L-shaped building in the foreground is the new Atlantic Commons shopping center which opened in 1995. Pacific Street, to the north of the trainyard, featured a New York Daily News printing plant until the 1980s.
On the right, Flatbush Avenue marches southeast to Grand Army Plaza, the patch of green in the upper right.
Until the end of the 1970s, the area directly to the east of the Long Island Railroad terminal along Atlantic Avenue was devoted mainly to meatpacking businesses and slaughterhouses. These have vanished now, and the area is being converted to residential and commercial purposes, as new buildings are springing up along Atlantic Avenue and the streets north of it.
In 2012 the Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets, was under construction in the foreground. A furious battle between developer Bruce Ratner and residents of the buildings displaced by the Atlantic Yards project was waged for years.
Above photos by Doug Douglass.
The bank tower was converted to pricey residences in the late 2000s. The building’s observation deck, with historic vistas denoted by these plaques dating to 1976, is no longer open to the public but still there. Photos: Moses Gates/Mike Epstein
Inside New York, Discovering the Classic Interiors of New York City, Joe Friedman, 1998 Phaidon.
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The Landmarks Of New York City, Barbaralee Diamondstein, 1998 Harry N. Abrams.
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New York From The Air, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and John Tauranac, 1998 Harry N. Abrams.
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HISD gifts: Rockets tickets, phones, fishing trip
Memo details costly perks and gifts for HISD employees
Free trips, tickets, phones and more end up costing millions in lost funding
, HOUSTON CHRONICLE |
July 27, 2010
The gifts and offers to Houston ISD employees flowed: fishing on a luxury yacht, tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones.
Technology vendors vying for business in the Houston Independent School District peppered staff, including former Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra, with perks over several years, according to a federal investigation.
A recently released memo from HISD's outside law firm details for the first time the gift-giving allegations that landed the district in trouble with the U.S. Department of Justice, costing taxpayers an $850,000 fine and students tens of millions of dollars in technology at their schools.
The department accused HISD of violating competitive-bidding rules — arguing that the elaborate freebies could influence who got contracts - and in 2006 froze the district's access to federal funding through the so-called E-rate technology program.
HISD Superintendent Terry Grier finally settled the case with the federal government in March and, as part of the deal, hired a new high-level compliance officer to monitor questionable conflicts, gifts and favoritism related to E-rate.
The federal E-rate program, which is funded by fees from telephone users, allows schools that serve mostly low-income children to apply for funding for discounted hardware and Internet access.
Richard Patton, HISD's E-rate compliance officer, said the district has tightened its policies to forbid employees from accepting any gifts from E-rate vendors and to require them to report any offers.
"There is no tolerance," said Patton, whose annual salary is $150,000.
No HISD employees have faced criminal indictments over the allegations.
A similar but apparently more extensive scheme in Dallas ISD resulted in criminal convictions of that district's former technology chief, Ruben Bohuchot, and a Houston-based business owner, Frankie Wong. Both are now in federal prison on bribery and money-laundering charges after evidence showed that Bohuchot had shared inside information to help Wong's company, Micro Systems Engineering, land E-rate contracts in DISD.
A Justice Department spokesman said he could not comment on the HISD investigation.
Vendor got $26 million
HISD used to have multimillion-dollar contracts with Wong's company and with another computer reseller, Analytical Computer Services, run by one of his business associates, Frank Trifilio.
Houston ISD made its last payment to Wong's business in February 2007, three months before he was indicted. In all, HISD paid the computer vendor $26 million.
Saavedra, who retired as superintendent last year, watched three Rockets playoff games in 2005 from a suite belonging to Analytical Computer Services. The next month, he sent a $300 check to Trifilio as reimbursement, according to the memo from the HISD lawyers with Bracewell & Giuliani.
Saavedra said in an interview that he was invited to the games by "a trustee or some trustees," whose names he said he could not recall. Once at the games, he said, "it became very obvious to me that this suite was a vendor's suite," so he later wrote Trifilio a check and a letter saying he needed to pay for the tickets.
ACS - which has received $104 million in HISD contracts - also paid for cell phones for 26 school district employees for five years until HISD's chief financial officer put a stop to it in 2007, the memo said.
HISD's top technology official, William "Bill" Edwards, reported to the district's inspector general that he and a co-worker, Laura Palmer, accepted Wong's invitation to go fishing on his yacht at least once between January 2005 and December 2008, the memo said. The $305,000 sport-fishing vessel, named Sir Veza, was central to the case in Dallas, with the district technology chief there given free rein over its use.
Birthday dinner for 15
Edwards also reported that Larry Lehmann, another business associate of Wong's, gave Palmer checks totaling $30,000 to help with personal expenses, and she repaid him "shortly after," the memo said. For Palmer's birthday, one of Wong's employees bought dinner for about 15 people at a high-end steak and seafood restaurant.
Lehmann offered to loan Edwards money as well, for repairs to his airplane, but Edwards told the HISD inspector general that he didn't accept, according to the memo.
Edwards, the assistant superintendent of technology, resigned in 2005. Palmer, who was promoted to that position in February 2006, retired the next year, district records show.
Federal investigators also alleged that Steve Kim, HISD's manager of network operations, took two trips to Las Vegas, paid for by Wong and Hewlett-Packard. The district could not confirm whether Kim went on the trips, according to the lawyers.
None of the HISD employees or vendors could be reached for comment.
School board involved
Four current and former HISD school board members - Diana Davila, Manuel Rodriguez Jr., Larry Marshall and Kevin Hoffman - received several thousand dollars each in campaign contributions from Wong, Trifilio or Lehmann.
Rodriguez told the Chronicle in 2005, when the scandal broke in Dallas ISD, that he had sat in Trifilio's Reliant Stadium suite for a soccer match.
The trustees all have said that the campaign donations did not influence their votes on contracts.
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Attack of the Bucolic Plague
RAY: The real question is if the test comes back positive what is the real probability that you actually have the bucolic plague?
Let's say that where you live there are a million people, and .1 percent, or a thousand people out of a million, have the disease.
If the 999,000 disease-free people are tested, the results will say that one percent of them, or 9,990 have the disease when, in fact, they don't.
TOM: They're misdiagnosed!
RAY: Correct. And of the thousand people who do have the disease, the test results will say that 99 percent of them, or 990 have the disease. So we have a total of 10,980 positive results.
But, we know that out of a million people, only a thousand people really do have the disease. So, the chance that you have Bucolic Plague if you test positive is about one in eleven, or less than 10 percent.
The moral of the story is this: You shouldn't lock yourself in the bathroom, unless you have some really good magazines. Do we have a winner?
TOM: Of course! The winner is Jean Gaska from Shelbyana, Kentucky. For having her answer selected at random from all the correct answers that we got, Jean gets a twenty six dollar gift certificate to the Shameless Commerce Division of Cartalk.com, where she can choose from a wide array of fine quality Car Talk junk.
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The Growing Backlash Against Automated Cheating Detectors
from the but-for-a-good-reason dept
It's been nearly four years since we wrote about students and parents being upset that online services that check student homework for plagiarism were also uploading and storing a copy of every paper they checked. It got to the point, earlier this year, that at least one university banned the use of Turnitin, one of the most popular services in this field. It seems that the student rebellion against such tools is growing, as many more students are questioning the legality of such tools, and asking their schools to stop using them. They're not just upset about the uploads, but about the assumption of guilt. While there clearly is plenty of plagiarism to go around, that doesn't mean this is the right solution to it. It's often easy to just throw technology at a problem, but it's worth recognizing that doing so always raises unexpected issues -- and those issues may not be technological on their own, but legal and cultural issues. It seems like many of the schools who jumped on the Turnitin bandwagon didn't spend much time thinking about those additional consequences, and are now facing student anger because of it. | <urn:uuid:801eaab0-972f-40d0-890e-5c4504c0dc59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060922/142813.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986682 | 249 | 1.578125 | 2 |
In the last federal budget, the Conservative government said program expenses were forecast to drop to 12.9 per cent of gross domestic product in 2015-16 from 15.1 per cent in 2010-11, held up as evidence of its tight fiscal management.
However, in order to increase program spending as planned while lowering its percentage of GDP, the economy will have to grow in the next four years from about $1.2 trillion to $2 trillion, a massive - and, frankly, unbelievable - annual growth of 13.5 per cent."
Oh Canada. (via jakke)
You know, I tend to be a bit of an ideological (or maybe naive) soul about the concept “lying politicians” - I don’t think most of them lie, I think a lot of them make promises that they think they can keep at the time, and then when they are actually voted in, the cold hard chill of reality sets in, and they can only do say 10% of what they promised. This is clearly not the case here.
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Editor's note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and author of "Cooking with Grease." She was manager for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000.
(CNN) -- As we prepare to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, let us not forget that Friday marks the second anniversary of the start of the BP oil spill. It deserves more than a shrug, an "oh, yeah," and "how's the fishing?" It deserves more than a solemn voiced announcer relegating it to a "this day in history," with a picture from the archives to jog our memory.
Sometimes, a tragedy has its own tragedy: It has its day, or week, or month in the news cycle; then time passes and other things happen. We move on, directed by the media and politicians, to the next great outrage.
In so doing, we may lose the why and the wherefore -- the things that caused us, through the lens and the pen, to be interested, involved, invested in a tragedy not our own. And we then forget just what made us a community, if only for a moment. As Desmond Tutu said: "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Dear Reader, share with me, for a few minutes, the humanity of the Deepwater Horizon. For I am a daughter of the Gulf South, and this is personal -- though, as is often the case, the personal is universal.
When the Deepwater Horizon well exploded, 11 people died. Not a lot of people, in the sense that they measure tragedies. But "every individual is a world." Eleven worlds exploded, and they had satellites -- spouses, children, siblings, parents, friends and neighbors -- still affected, still reeling out of orbit, still trying to cope with a void that can never be filled.
Others lost their livelihood. We call the work we do "making a living." If we lose a job, we can hopefully, eventually, find another. But if we lose a "living" -- a way of life -- what then? The fishermen and their support network -- their satellites and dependents -- were crippled by the oil spill. Yes, the seafood industry has begun to recover, but it still limps.
Tragedy affects our lives and our livelihoods. But it also affects our environment and the creatures that make it habitable, beautiful -- and profitable. Two years ago, we cringed at the pictures of the oil-soaked pelicans, the turtles and fish drowned in oil; we were repulsed by the images of wetlands and marshes greasy, with slimeballs surfacing. Do we know the status of the fauna and flora today?
And we cheered the rescue efforts, we donated, we educated ourselves about ecosystems and coastal waterways and environmental interconnectedness. Do we have a minute on this anniversary to continue our education, to donate again to our ecological survival?
I felt anger two years ago, as oil spewed into my beloved Gulf. I was so angry, and words seemed as helpless as the birds and the marshes. How stupid. How arrogant. How greedy. Why don't they do something?
When the governor and the local politicians railed and ranted and demanded and got their airtime, I'll be honest: I cheered. I felt righteous indignation vicariously justified.
Nor was the anger misplaced. BP was at fault. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill wasn't an unavoidable accident. It resulted from negligence and avarice. Profit first, responsibility second. I am reminded of what Shirley Chisholm once said: "When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
But there is profit, and there is profit, and there are moral lessons in every tragedy -- practical lessons that bring us from the personal to the universal.
Over the past two years, I have reflected, off and on, about dismay and anger and lessons, and I think I've discovered three in the Deepwater Horizon.
First, only Big Business has the resources to clean up its own mess. The federal government had neither the technicians nor the knowledge to stop the oil from gushing into the Gulf and sliming our shores, the barrier islands, marine life, our way of life and food supply.
Second, and as a consequence, the philosophy that government should stay out of the way of Big Business primes the pump of disaster. I don't want Big Brother in my life any more than the most fervent tea party Republican does.
But, brother patriot, let me tell you a fact of life: We need the federal government to act as umpire. Only Big Government is big enough to keep Big Business from thumbing its nose at the public welfare, and besmirching the public's health and safety. There's a reason the Constitution begins, "We the people in order to ... promote the common welfare ..."
Third, there's something wrong with the philosophy that almost any regulation is overregulation. No, we should have done something before the spill. We should have regulated BP and watched it closely, instead of giving it a pass to do as it pleased. To modify a cliché, an ounce of regulation is worth many pounds of rectification.
But in remembering this event, let us never lose sight that we're all in this together. And when disaster strikes -- natural or man-made -- we must find the will to rebuild safer and stronger than before.
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What was the mission of the project?
The Aspen section of The Art of Flight was all about filming the athletes take on the incredible jumps and half pipe that was being constructed. We spent a week in the field setting up several motion timelapse setups each day. Each shot took between 2-3 hours to setup and 6-8 hours to film. We mostly worked the graveyard shift as a lot of the work was done from when the sun went down to when it came up.
I am a passionate Timelapse Photographer, Filmmaker and Producer. I have always enjoyed the creative and technical challenges of filming in remote locations around the world and Art of Flight was one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had. I spent the past four years on active duty as a Captain assigned to 55th Combat Camera, the only active duty Combat Camera Company in the United States Army. I served as a Platoon Leader in Operation Iraqi Freedom for nine months in charge of a team of 22 filmmakers and photographers who documented the war in support of combatant commanders’ tactical, operational, and strategic objectives.
What equipment was used? And why is this gear the gear of choice?
We used the Kessler Crane ShuttlePod and PocketJib to pull off the shots in the Aspen section of Art of Flight. We would construct 20 feet of track on the ShuttlePod to do the shoot, then move, then shoot dolly shots. We also setup the PocketJib to slowly dolly up or down over a 6-8 hour period. For a few of the shots, we attached the PocketJib to the ShuttlePod so we could extend the reach of the camera over a half pipe ledge. I have used Kessler systems for all my timelapse work and they work flawlessly in a variety of harsh weather conditions including the extreme heat and cold. It was also important for the gear to be portable enough for us to transport the rigs up and down the mountain each day.
The biggest challenge was the inconsistant weather conditions on the mountain. We would spend hours setting up a timelapse shot and the clouds and weather would be perfect. Then, after only a few hours into a 6 hour timelapse move, it would start dumping snow and the entire shot would be ruined. Moreover, wind played a huge factor in getting stable timelapse moves. We had to use shoot, move, shoot on the Kessler Motion Control system so each frame would have time to settle from the wind before an exposure was taken.
What were the shots that you got? Were you happy with the results?
Tyler: I setup a 20 foot astro timelapse dolly shot in the half pipe with the milky way in the background. Unfortunately, this shot was ruined on my first attempt due to my fill light malfunctioning from the extreme cold. Curt understood the situation and told me that I needed to try it one more time. So, I stayed out again until 2am the next night making sure every last variable of the shot was perfected and working properly. As a result, I pulled off the shot successfully the second time thanks to Curt and his leadership as a Director to keep pushing me.
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End the Fed? David Korten Responds
Wednesday, November 9, was Occupy Wall Street Federal Reserve Awareness Day. The day’s events included an interview with David Korten for occupywallst.org and occupiedwallstjournal.com by Harrison Schultz, an occupy organizer. This blog provides a context for the interview.
Listen to the interview
I don’t normally agree with Congressman Ron Paul, but his claim on MSNBC in December 2009 that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is more powerful than President Obama has substantial merit. As Paul went on to explain “He [Bernanke] can create a trillion dollars in secret without any monitoring of the Congress.”
We now know that Paul understated Bernanke’s power by $15 trillion.
The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010 included a mandate for a one-time Government Accountability Office audit of the emergency lending facility the U.S. Federal Reserve established in response to the 2008 Wall Street financial crash. The audit revealed that the Fed had secretly made $16 trillion in financial commitments to a long list of the world’s largest financial institutions and corporations, many based in other countries. It was all done entirely in secret, at the Fed’s own discretion, and based on nothing more than computer key strokes.
No Congressional authorization was required. Nor was the Fed required even to inform Congress, the administration, or the public.
Now that is real power, beyond the wildest dreams of any U.S. president—and totally contrary to the basic principles of democracy or a market economy.
To put $16 trillion in perspective, we can compare it to the U.S. GDP ($14 trillion), the total U.S. debt accumulated over our 200+ year history ($14.5 trillion), the federal budget ($3.5 trillion), or the amount the Congressional Supercommittee is charged with eliminating from the federal deficit ($1.5 trillion).
The U.S. Federal Reserve System [the Fed’s primary functions are carried out by a system of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks] is a study in obfuscation. It appears in the organization chart of the U.S. government and presents itself to the world as an independent government body, but its highly complex governance structure assures its operations are in fact controlled by the big banks whose interests it faithfully serves. It piously reports that its accounts are subject to extensive internal and external audit, but only the special one-time audit ordered by the U.S. Congress in the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010 under vigorous Fed protest revealed the amount and the beneficiaries of its $16 trillion post-crash handouts.
There are angry calls from both left and right to shut down the Fed. The anger is justified. The call to shut it down, however, ignores the reality that a national money/banking system requires oversight and management by a central bank or its institutional equivalent. The choices center on that institution’s degree of transparency, to whom it will be accountable, and what its priorities will be.
The Federal Reserve System under Allan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke has used its power to maximize Wall Street profits by suppressing wages, inflating financial bubbles, facilitating predatory financial games that should be illegal, and bailing out the losers—all behind a veil of strict secrecy. It can and should be restructured to be transparent and publicly accountable for using its power to support full employment and maintain stable asset valuations.
The Fed needs to be entirely restructured as one element of a needed restructuring of our entire system of money/banking/finance to create a system of community rooted and accountable financial institutions that function as well-regulated public utilities to fund productive investment and home ownership.
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Your First Trimester, Week-by-Week
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The pressure of your growing uterus on your bladder may cause you to leak small amounts of urine.
Start doing Kegels: Squeeze the muscles around your vagina as if you're stopping the flow of urine; do several at a time, a few times a day throughout pregnancy. They strengthen your pelvic-floor muscles, helping with incontinence while preparing your body for delivery.
What to do now:
From the stressful (prenatal tests! gaining weight!) to the sheer fun (buying maternity clothes! your baby shower!), growing a baby involves a seemingly endless host of developments to expect, plan and accomplish. Our step-by-step timeline and checklist will help you navigate your pregnancy with as little stress and guesswork as possible. So grab your pencil, put your feet up and simply gestate! | <urn:uuid:ca879a21-f0a4-4a24-addc-fefcfb30be03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fitpregnancy.com/your-first-trimester-week-by-week?page=9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945893 | 182 | 1.734375 | 2 |
We’re All Guinea Pigs
I don't want to expose the most precious people in my life to an endocrine disruptor.
A few years ago, my world changed when I began dating a single dad whose youngest child was a toddler. Bonding with and loving his two kids has been the single most enriching and rewarding — and sometimes frustrating and exhausting — experience of my life.
During the three years we lived together, I became a de-facto stepmother. Parents, you know how it is with 3-year-olds. The name of the game is “choice.” Either you yield some control and decision-making power or they’ll assert themselves in ways you might find inconvenient.
As we introduced the little one in my life to normal routines like brushing her teeth, washing her hands, and going to bed at a reasonable hour, we tried to make it fun.
“Do you want to use the bubbly soap or the fruity soap?” we’d ask her. “Do you want to wear SpongeBob or princess jammies?” This was a much more successful strategy than simply commanding her to go to bed.
Around the same time, I began reporting on some very scary chemical news. One by one, I’d discover the dangers of this toxic chemical or that one. I carefully eliminated these chemicals from my own life, replacing them with affordable and effective alternatives.
Out went Herbal Essences, and in came Dr. Bronner’s castile soap. And who needs a chemical cocktail labeled “aloe” when they can easily keep an aloe plant in the front yard or their windowsill to take care of sunburns?
But occasionally, out of curiosity, I’d pick up Miss Toddler’s bubbly soap or princess pajamas to read the ingredients label. Lo and behold, the kid products — which should be the safest things in the house — were often the most toxic.
One offending ingredient in the soaps and toothpaste marketed for tots is triclosan. It’s common in anti-bacterial soaps aimed at the grownup market too — as well as facial cleanser, shave gel, lip gloss, deodorant, and even dog shampoo.
Triclosan is an endocrine disruptor, which means it can confuse the signals your body receives from hormones. It’s found in three-fourthsof the liquid soap Americans use. (Another endocrine disrupting chemical, triclocarban, lurks in deodorant bar soaps.)
In studies, antibacterial soaps are no more effective in preventing disease than plain old soap and water. However, they are possibly quite good at increasing your risk of cancer.
After it goes down the drain, triclosan gets released into our waterways in treated wastewater. Then it breaks down into cancer-causing dioxins. I don’t want to expose the most precious people in my life to an endocrine disruptor, nor do I want to leave them a planet laced with dioxins.
Keeping your kids safe and healthy shouldn’t be this hard. It’s challenging enough to get them to eat their vegetables and brush their teeth without also worrying whether every single berry-flavored product on the market might give them cancer some day.
Do you assume that the products on the market are safe simply because they are sold in stores?
A new report by the World Health Organization may help change your mind about that.
The report targets endocrine disruptors, chemicals like triclosan that mimic hormones in our bodies. Citing a global increase in health problems such as low sperm count, genital malformations, neurobehavioral disorders, endocrine related cancers, and diabetes, the report calls for action to protect ourselves, our kids, and our wildlife.
Although there are 800 known or suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals, only a small fraction have been tested. “The vast majority of chemicals in current consumer use have not been tested at all,” the report says.
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What started as a small, simple specification ended up spread over 5 (and counting) documents. Given that these are still moving targets, at least for a little bit longer, it can get very confusing for people trying to follow this work. A few months ago I wrote about the new discovery stack which included XRD, LRDD, and the three links. Since then, the design has changed to include new components and some shuffling of the existing ones.
The main components remain XRD, host-meta, and LRDD. They are slightly rearranged to move XRD lower in the protocol stack, as it no longer provides its own discovery flow, only a simply schema to describe resources. host-meta has been redefined and /.well-known added for the more generic use cases. And last, WebFinger was added to present a more comprehensive picture of the discovery framework being discussed.
In addition, the latest draft of Web Linking removed the need to list the individual link locations (e.g. HTTP header, <Link> elements in HTML and ATOM). Web Linking is in its final standardization phase and will be covered by an upcoming post.
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"White House warns of slowdown ahead"that's the headline that CNN.com gave to this afternoon's news that the Bush administration (specifically the Council of Economic Advisers, the Treasury Department, and the Office of Management and Budget) had lowered its economic growth forecast for this year and 2007.
Technically, the headline is correct. The White House now predicts that the economy will grow 3.1 percent this year, down from the 3.6 percent rate predicted in June, and 2.9 percent next year, down from an original 3.3 percent forecast. So yes, growth is slowing. But I have to be honest: If some all-powerful economic wizard had approached me a year ago and offered meLet's Make a Deal-stylea choice of these growth numbers vs. the option of just taking my chances with the economy over the next 12 months, I would have jumped at these "slowdown" numbers. (FYI: They are about where the Federal Reserve places the economy's sweet spot.)
Between the energy-price shock kicked off by Hurricane Katrina, a housing slowdown, and continuing Fed rate hikes, you wouldn't have needed to be a pessimist to have contemplated the possibility of an outright recession taking place. In fact, it looked a lot like a "perfect storm" scenario. Instead, the economy has stiff-armed these challenges and continued chugging along. And just look at some of the stocks that are economic bellwethers. Last year at this time, Federal Express was trading at 98; today it's at 114. Last year, the Chicago Board of Trade was trading at 112; today it's at 162. The Dow itself has risen to 12,337 from 10,766. Seems like a lot to be thankful for. | <urn:uuid:c198c81e-d4b2-41f7-996d-12b7e1739469> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/capital-commerce/2006/11/21/slowing-economy-could-be-much-worse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965728 | 362 | 1.59375 | 2 |
April 5 - Wisconsin Psychological Association annual meeting, Madison, Wisconsin April 5 - Rainbow Book Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin April 13 - San Antonio Book Festival, San Antonio, Texas April 15 - Book People, Austin Texas April 29 - Book presentation, Lozano Long Latin American Studies Institute, Austin, Texas May 18 - The Twig bookstore, San Antonio, Texas May 24 - The Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas June 1 - Barnes & Noble (N. Preston), Dallas, Texas
The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly 20 percent of the country’s drug-related executions have taken place in the city, a city that can be as unforgiving as the hardest places on earth. It is here that the Mexican government came to turn the tide. Whatever happens in Juárez will have lasting repercussions for both Mexico and the United States. Ricardo Ainslie went to Juárez to try to understand what was taking place behind the headlines of cartel executions and other acts of horrific brutality. In The Fight to Save Juárez, he takes us into the heart of Mexico’s bloodiest city through the lives of four people who experienced the drug war from very different perspectives—Mayor José Reyes Ferriz, a mid-level cartel player’s mistress, a human rights activist, and a photojournalist. Ainslie also interviewed top Mexican government strategists, including members of Calderón’s security cabinet, as well as individuals within U.S. law enforcement. The dual perspective of life on the ground in the drug war and the “big picture” views of officials who are responsible for the war’s strategy, creates a powerful, intimate portrait of an embattled city, its people, and the efforts to rescue Juárez from the abyss.
War Stories is a film about the experience of war and how war transforms the lives of those who have lived it. Regardless of time and place, regardless of whether or not a war is seen as justified, for the soldier there is something deeply universal about the experience, as if he or she were enacting something timeless, something known but not fully thought or articulated that only those who have lived it can comprehend. This film attempts to bring the viewer closer to that inarticulable experience through the stories of those who have seen war up close.
Mexico, America’s third most important trading partner and a country with whom the US shares a 2,000-mile border, is hanging by a thread. "The Fight to Save Juaréz," explores Mexico’s war against the drug cartels and the implications of this campaign for Mexico and the United States. The focus of the book is Ciudad Juarez, epicenter of Mexico’s war against organized crime, where thousands have died and where at one point 25% of the Mexican government’s forces fighting this war are deployed. The book reveals an intimate portrait of a city caught in the crossfire, where no one can escape the extraordinary violence that is taking place.
This film describes the wave of kidnappings and other crimes that have swept over Mexico in the last decade. Today Mexico has one of the highest incidences of kidnapping in the world, for example, and while the phenomenon was initially a problem for the wealthy elite, it has become increasingly ‘democratized’ (as the rich found ways of protecting themselves). Today, people in all walks of life are ready targets.
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This exhibit (part of the permanent collection at Humanities Texas) explores the impact of the racially motivated murder of James Byrd on that community. Ricardo Ainslie created, wrote, and produced Jasper, Texas: The healing of a community in crisis, a traveling photographic exhibit (New York City, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Galveston) for which he enlisted the collaboration of photographer Sarah Wilson. Each exhibit opening (the exhibit book won the 2003 Digital News Award for Best Project -photography, text, design) was conceived as an event in which audiences learned the lessons of Jasper as conveyed by some of the Jasper residents who were widely credited with keeping the peace in the tense aftermath of the murder.
Through interviews with some of the world’s leading researchers studying the ways of the brain, this film explores such topics as the relationship between the brain and the visual arts, music, and poetry, conscious and unconscious functioning, and the relationship between the consciousness of humans in comparison to other animals.
Looking North: Mexican Images of Immigration (2007, 30-minutes) explores Mexican views of the phenomenon of mass migration that has resulted in the exodus of so many Mexicans from their country origin. Through man-in-the-street interviews with people from all walks of life we get a glimpse at America’s immigration controversy from a decidedly different point of reference. Viewers will be surprised at the range of reactions and feelings represented in this film.
Crossover (1999, 55-minutes) illustrates the bittersweet legacy of school desegregation in the town of Hempstead, Texas, where the historically African American K-12 school was razed and all of its contents, including years of awards and trophies, disappeared. The Sam Schwarz School was not even noted in the official history of the Hempstead Independent School District, even though most of Hempstead’s African Americans who were over the age of 40 had attended it and remembered it fondly and with a certain nostalgia, notwithstanding the Jim Crow era with which the school was associated. Crossover has been screened to a broad range of audiences across the country (from the National Science Foundation’s Chautauqua Course in 2003, the American Psychological Association’s National Multicultural conference in 2005, to conferences at historically African American universities and community Black History Month events –over 22 screenings in all). Crossover also became the cornerstone for “Crossover Lives,” a Humanities Texas – National Endowment for the Humanities oral history project (in collaboration with the Texas Association of Developing Colleges and the Texas African American Heritage Association) exploring personal narratives of the experience of school desegregation.
Drawing from in-depth interviews with identical and fraternal (same-sex and opposite-sex) twins ranging in age from 15 to 65, The Psychology of Twinship (Second Edition: Northvale: Jason Aronson, Inc. 1997) explores the emotional development of twins, their relationships with each other, and how others experience them. The book is unique in its interest in the psychology of twins’ experience rather than twins and the influence of genetic makeup.
In 1998, three white men dragged James Byrd to death behind a pick up truck in Jasper, Texas. Byrd was black, and at least two of his killers were members of a white supremacist prison gang known as the Confederate Knights of America. The racially motivated dragging death was a modern-day lynching. Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper (University of Texas Press, 2004) explores the life and psychology of Bill King, the man who took the lead role in the murder. Ricardo Ainslie spent two-and-a-half years researching the book in Jasper and on Texas’ Death Row, where King is presently housed. Long Dark Road was runner up for Best Non-Fiction for the 2005 Hamilton Book Awards.
No Dancin' In Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change (Jason Aronson, 1995/The Other Press, 2002), explores life in a small West Texas town following a life-imitates-art controversy in which the City Fathers outlawed dancing within the city limits and the controversy that ensued. Anson’s dancing controversy was symptomatic of Anson’s social transformation following the Civil Rights Act. People of Mexican ancestry who during Jim Crow had not been permitted to live within the city limits or eat at its restaurants now comprised a third of the town’s population. No Dancin’ explores the implications of Anson’s profound social change as both individual and a collective experiences and the ways in which this small Texas town may mirror what is taking place in America more generally. | <urn:uuid:b6df30bd-a261-43ca-a460-76d4e0ce811d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ricardoainslie.com/all-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955312 | 1,724 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The day has been punctuated by an intermittent mechanical rumbling as helicopters pass backwards and forwards over the house. Great scoops of water dangle beneath them like the thoraxes of those hornets found round here, called mule-killers for the potency of their sting. The helicopters, and the odd seaplane equipped with a tank for water and known in Italy as a Canadair, are trying to douse the first real fire to get this near to the town since last year.
The rough grass and other scrub vegetation on this side – the southern side – of Passignano, the hill behind Fondi, has been burning off slowly but steadily since this morning and now there’s a large patch of grey-black stubble the shape of Africa, extending from the peak of the hill, over 400 metres above sea level, to the highest house on the slope, a derelict stone building I’ve often coveted, maybe a third up from the foot. The fire’s not out yet; as the light begins to fade the scurries of flame around its edges are more evident than before and almost beautiful. It’s almost certainly someone’s handiwork.
The land isn’t cultivated and is too steep for building, so the culprits are unlikely to be farmers or developers. The only people who stand to benefit are the part time forestry workers who wait to be called, each summer, to deal with fires of this kind. It’s a closed circuit, and as long as no one dies and no famous beauty spots are touched no one seems to care that much, although dogs don’t like the low, rather throaty noise of the helicopters. Maybe, to them, it sounds like a growl. | <urn:uuid:9e7638ba-d367-4523-9f14-7c2e7f8f3b62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://charleslambert.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/fuoco-fuoco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96937 | 364 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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Have you ever had a mud therapy? Did you know that in certain parts of China eating live frogs is a cure for abdominal pain? Know more about these and other bizarre health care remedies from around the world
Garra rufa obtusas, also known as "doctor fish", swim around the face of a man as he relaxes in a hot spa pool in Kangal, 105 kilometers (65 miles) south of the central Anatolian city of Sivas. The treatment is believed to heal Psoriasis, a chronic skin disease which affects the joints and skins. Garra rufa obtusa, also known as "doctor fish" which live in mineral-rich hot spa pools, is used in the treatment as they nibble away the diseased skin. The mineral-rich water is then believed to aid in the healing process of the lesions. People suffering from psoriasis travel to Kangal to stay at the spa for 21 days and visit the fish pools twice daily for four-hour treatment sessions. | <urn:uuid:1fdc9d1c-4ce5-47a8-952a-4024b06c8a9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/gallery/unusual-remedies-from-around-the-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964278 | 209 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Hello, my name is David, and I'm a pollaholic. For the past several months, I have spent inordinate amounts of time poring over election polls. A couple of times a day, I check the websites to see what the polling averages are. I check my Twitter feed to see the latest Gallup numbers. I've read countless articles dissecting the flawed methodologies of polls I don't like.
And do you know what I've learned from these hours of attention? That if the election were held today (which it won't be), then President Barack Obama would be a bit more likely to win. At the same time, there seems to be a whiff of momentum toward Mitt Romney. That's it. Hundreds of hours. Two banal observations.
I have wasted a large chunk of my life I will never get back. Why? Because I've got a problem.
Look, I know in the cool light of rationality how I should treat polling data. First, I should treat polls as a fuzzy snapshot of a moment in time. I should not read them and think I understand the future.
If there's one thing we know, it's that even experts with fancy computer models are terrible at predicting human behavior. Financial firms with zillions of dollars have spent decades trying to create models that will help them pick stocks, and they have gloriously failed.
Scholars at Duke University studied 11,600 forecasts by corporate chief financial officers about how the Standard & Poor's 500 would perform over the next year. The
And if it's hard to predict stocks or the economy, politics is a field perfectly designed to foil precise projections.
Politics isn't a game, like poker, with an artificially limited number of possible developments. National elections are rare, so we have ridiculously small sample sizes. Political campaigns don't give pollsters immediate feedback, so they can gradually correct their errors. They have to wait for Election Day for actual results, and only the final poll is verifiable.
Most important, stuff happens. Obama turns in a bad debate performance. Romney makes offensive comments at a fundraiser. These unquantifiable events change the trajectories of tight campaigns. You can't tell what's about to happen. You certainly can't tell how 100 million people are going to process what's about to happen. You can't calculate odds that capture unknown reactions to unknown events.
The second thing I know is that if you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the studies that show that people who check their stocks once a day get lower returns than people who check them once a quarter because they get distracted by noise and make terrible decisions. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.
I know all this. But do I obey? Of course not. I check every few hours. I'm motivated by the illusion of immanent knowledge. I imagine that somehow the next batch of polling will contain some magic cross tab about swing voters in Ohio that will satisfy my voracious curiosity and allay this irritable uncertainty.
I'm also motivated by the thrill of premature celebration. Elections aren't just about policy choices. They're status competitions. When the polls swing your way, you feel a surge of righteous affirmation. Your views are obviously correct! Your team's virtues are widely recognized! You get to see the humiliation and pain afflicting your foes.
When the polls swing the other way, well, who believes the polls anyway? Those idiots are obviously skewing the results. This has been a golden age for confirmation bias.
Finally, I'm motivated by the power of cognitive laziness. It's hard to figure out how each candidate will handle the budgetary fiscal cliff or the uncertainties involved with Iran. But the polling numbers are like candy. So clear and digestible! Just as the teenage mind naturally migrates from homework to Facebook, just as the normal reader's mind naturally wanders from Toynbee to Twitter, so the political junkie's brain has a tendency to slide downhill from policy to polling.
Look, I went into a profession committed to the mission of describing the present. Imagine how many corrections we'd have to publish if we tried to predict the future. Yet, despite all that, every few hours, I'm on my laptop, tablet or smartphone -- sipping Gallup, chugging Rasmussen, gulping Pew, trying to figure out how it will all go down.
Come on, David, think through the poll. This is the first day of the rest of your life.
Wait a second! The 7-Eleven Coffee Cup Poll is out! Just one more look. Obama is up big!
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Top outdoor activities for seniors
Are you looking for some fun activities to do outside? Try these ideas:
Walking: Walking can benefit seniors physically and socially. Walking helps keep seniors fit and healthy, and it can also boost their social circle as it’s a great activity to do with friends.
Gardening: Gardening is a great activity that can keep seniors busy, keep them active and also gives them a project that will have a beautiful end result for their home.
Volunteer: Seniors can benefit themselves and their community by volunteering their time. Contributing to a cause can use seniors’ skills, provide them with a social group, and allow them to help those in need.
Sports: Sports like swimming, golf and tennis are great activities for seniors. It allows seniors to be active and allows them to spend time with friends.
Fishing: Fishing is a great outdoor activity for seniors. It allows them to spend time with their friends and family while enjoying the outdoors.
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United Methodists need to learn how to talk about divisive issues in constructive ways that bring people together, says the director of the church’s JustPeace ministry.
For the last few years, United Methodists have been seeking ways to have debates on difficult issues without stopping dialogue on them. As the denomination’s top lawmaking assembly prepares to meet in Fort Worth, Texas, in April, bishops and other church leaders have called for a civil gathering that places more emphasis on common ministry rather than on issues such as homosexuality, which have divided previous General Conferences.
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could experience holy conferencing in Fort Worth, if we could name the real issues in our church and talk about them, learn from each other and come to a better place together?" asked the Rev. Tom Porter, executive director of JustPeace.
At the risk of extending my reputation for grumpiness (h/t, ER), may I just say, rhetorically, that any sentence that begins "Wouldn't it be wonderful if . . ." just gives me hives.
[Douglas] Stone [co-author with Porter of the book Difficult Conversations] advised that delegates to General Conference, the denomination's top lawmaking assembly, deal with hot-button issues by creating space for listening and inquiry, to take the role of understanding how others view issues instead of being purely an advocate.
Inquiry, he said, "is helping me understand not just what you see but why you see it that way. What goes into your point of view? What values and experiences, what assumptions, what fears, your predictions about the future, what do you care about?"
There is only one problem with this particular approach to conflict within the United Methodist Church. Conservatives are quite clear that they care about one thing, and one thing only - power. This warm and fuzzy approach to conflict only works if one's opponents deal in good faith, and we have had an entire generation's worth of experience to show us that is just not the case with the folks from Good News, The Confessing Movement, and so on. They aren't interested in coming to some kind of mutually-agreed-upon conclusion, because in reality there is no such thing. They know it, we know it, and trying to be nice - all that does is give the game away before the opening whistle.
Sorry, but I do believe that being clear about who we are as the Church, what the demands of the Gospel are - including love not being warm and fuzzy but sometimes hard, even brittle - and how we incarnate the openness of God to all creation in our lives is far more important than making sure we all get along. | <urn:uuid:83dc4884-ec46-4d7c-904d-99fd7f83be34> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whatsleftinthechurch.blogspot.com/2008_02_10_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965841 | 558 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Billionaire vows to make Titanic II
An Australian billionaire on Monday said he'll create a high-tech replica of the Titanic using a Chinese shipbuilder, and that its maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York, just like the original.
An Australian business man announced plans to build a replica of the Titanic this morning, with all the luxuries of the former ship but none.
Our spoof story became a reality today with news that billionaire businessman Clive Palmer is planning to build Titanic II. And whilst there's no word yet on the guestlist for the new liner's maiden voyage, who's to say we haven't got that right too!
Palmer, a self-made mining billionaire, said he had commissioned state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to construct Titanic II with the same dimensions as its predecessor. “It will be every bit as luxurious as
CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian billionaire announced plans on Monday to build an "unsinkable" version of the Titanic, 100 years after the original sank after hitting an iceberg. Titanic II is expected to make its maiden voyage from England to North | <urn:uuid:5fafbaa6-6477-40a6-9d60-e755990cb756> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.fulltips.net/billionaire-vows-to-make-titanic-ii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954665 | 235 | 1.804688 | 2 |
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien, born September 19, 1966, is an American broadcast journalist. O'Brien's parents, both immigrants, met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her mother, Estella, is from Cuba and her father, Edward, is from Australia and of Irish descent. Both attended daily Mass at the church near campus. Every day her father would offer her mother a ride. Every day, she declined. Finally she said yes. One year later, the day after Christmas in 1958, the two of them were married in Washington, DC.
At the time, interracial marriage in Maryland was illegal, so O'Brien's parents married in Washington, D.C. where marriage laws were less restrictive. The newlyweds moved to the Long Island community of St. James, on the affluent North Shore, where Soledad O'Brien was born and raised.
Soledad O'Brien grew up in a family that valued education. Her father was a professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University and her mother taught Spanish and French in the Smithtown high schools. Her father had a very immigrant mentality: No matter what happens, no one can take away your education.
Like her older siblings, O’Brien was accepted into Harvard University. She attended Harvard from 1984 to 1988, but did not obtain a degree until she returned in 2000. She left Harvard where she took pre-med courses while majoring in English during her senior year to take a production assistant job at WBZ-TV in Boston.
Soledad O'Brien began her career as an associate producer and news writer at WBZ-TV, then the NBC affiliate in Boston. She joined NBC News in 1991, and was based in New York as a field producer for the Nightly News and Today. She worked for three years as a local reporter and bureau chief for San Francisco NBC affiliate KRON. At KRON she was a reporter on "The Know Zone." The program later moved to CNET without O'Brien.
O'Brien then anchored MSNBC's weekend morning show and the cable network's award-winning technology program The Site, which aired weeknights from the Spring of 1996 to November 1997.
She co-anchored Weekend Today with David Bloom beginning July 1999. During that time, she contributed reports for the weekday Today Show and for weekend editions of NBC Nightly News, and covered such notable stories as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane crash and the 1990s school shootings in Colorado and Oregon.
O'Brien moved to CNN where she joined Miles O'Brien (no relation) to co-anchor CNN's flagship morning program, American Morning, in July 2003. In 2005, she covered the Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans, where she interviewed then head of FEMA Michael Brown.
O'Brien anchored a CNN special, Black in America, in July 2007. The program documented the successes, struggles and complex issues faced by black men, women and families forty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. In the first installment, O'Brien investigated how James Earl Ray, an armed robber and escaped convict, had already spent a year on the run just a month before his path collided with Dr. King in Memphis, Tennessee. In "The Black Woman & Family," O'Brien explored the varied experiences of black women and families and investigated the disturbing statistics of single parenthood, racial disparities between students and the devastating toll of HIV/AIDS.
O'Brien completed a documentary entitled Latino In America that documented the lives of Latinos living in America. She continues to work as a reporter for CNN, mainly hosting "In America" documentaries and occasionally filling in for Anderson Cooper on Anderson Cooper 360. She also anchored exit poll coverage during CNN's coverage of the primaries and caucuses in the 2008 United States presidential race.
Soledad O'Brien has received numerous awards for her work including a local Emmy and the NAACP President’s award. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, which named her the Journalist of the Year 2010 and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
In April 2008, she became the first recipient of the Soledad O’Brien Freedom’s Voice Award, an award created in her name by Morehouse School of Medicine. "The award was created to recognize her accomplishments and willingness to be a voice for the voiceless in our society, and her determination to cover stories that might otherwise go untold. It will be given annually to mid-career professionals who serve as catalysts for social change in their given fields."
During a panel discussion for the 50th National Convention for Delta Sigma Theta sorority in New Orleans, LA, O'Brien announced that she would be inducted as an honorary member of the sorority in February 2011. She was inducted on February 7, 2011 during the Sorority's 22nd Annual Delta Days in the Nation’s Capital. | <urn:uuid:485ec2f4-3340-4cf3-a255-cdf6c0f255c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bloggingblackmiami.com/2012/09/hispanic-heritage-month-soledad-obrien.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975394 | 1,015 | 1.625 | 2 |
If you're a Gen-X'er, you probably remember the sheer thrill you experienced seeing the fearsome dinosaurs of Jurassic Park nearly jump out of the screen when the film debuted almost 20 years ago. These exotic creatures from eons past have always captured our imaginations, as the success of Spielberg's aforementioned trilogy proves, and that fascination persists today. The Louisville Zoo is proudly capitalizing on that appeal when it opens its exciting DINOSAURS! exhibit, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, on March 31.
Much like Jurassic Park itself, this primeval playground will feature dinosaurs from five different continents and will include eleven brand-new, never-seen-in-Louisville species, as well as the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex (back by popular demand from the 2010 exhibit). Taking up residence in the wooded area behind Lorikeet Landing will be the Megalosaurus, Edmontosaurs, Triceratops, Coelphysis, and the breathtaking Deltadromes -- estimated to have been 44 feet long while still roaming the earth! -- among many others.
Magical animatronic technology will bring these beasts to life as they move, roar, and track with lifelike eyes, transporting visitors back through time to an age preceding the very dawn of civilization. Their solid steel frames were built by Billings Productions in Texas, and a combination of advanced electronics and pure piston power will move the claws and teeth of these primitive menaces. Snarls and chirps distinctive of each species will be broadcast through booming sound systems, putting the final touches on this utterly mesmerizing wonderland. The Zoo's hope is that visitors will be both entertained and educated as they relive the wonders of the past and consider how conservation and preservation -- both of which are at the heart of the Zoo's mission -- can prevent the extinction of any more of our wild friends.
DINOSAURS! will run through July 31, and will feature the dinosaurs themselves, a Dino Dig for younger "paleontologists," and Shopasaurus, a new gift shop at the exhibit's exit. A special attraction fee of $5 will be applied for non-members in addition to regular Zoo admission, while only $4 will be applied for Louisville Zoo members. Children under the age of 2 are admitted free. If you are part of a group of 15 or more, or you would simply like more information about this exhibit, call (502)-238-5348. | <urn:uuid:fc2674d1-d026-4e52-acc4-cbfcdc78a903> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.louisville.com/print/25430 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93525 | 504 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Just in time for the premiere of Mel Gibson’s latest movie, another popular culture figure has stepped forward to add his own ugly thoughts about Jews to the public discourse. As we report on this week’s Shmooze page, Don Imus, the irascible radio-and-cable talk-show host, recently complained on-air that he had been barred by his network’s “Jewish management” — “money-grubbing bastards,” he added — from airing a heartwarming segment featuring a blind, black gospel group known as the Blind Boys of Alabama. As the in-studio banter heated up, Imus’s co-host suggested that “they were probably trying to push a more Semitic group on you. I don’t know, maybe the Paralyzed Putzes of Poland or something like that.” To which Imus added, “You can’t believe what goes on behind the scenes, at least with me, with these people.”
For our part, we’re finding it harder and harder to believe what goes on in public. The outrageous bigotry that is casually spewed into our airwaves on a nearly daily basis — against gays, blacks, Muslims, Hispanics and Asians as well as Jews — has become a national epidemic. The apologies that inevitably follow hardly carry any meaning anymore.
It must be acknowledged that not every offense is out of bounds, and there are those self-appointed watchdogs who try to use the accusation of bigotry to stifle open debate about sensitive topics. It must be acknowledged, too, that the sort of indecency directed so freely against Jews of late has been a familiar aspect of life for blacks and gays in this country for years. Many of us were too slow to notice it until it caught up to us. Many of us, in fact, encouraged these open displays of incivility in the name of opposing “political correctness.”
It should now be obvious that the dams have been breached. It’s time for some genuine soul-searching — within the vulnerable communities and across those boundaries — to see what we can learn from each other’s experiences. America is better than this. | <urn:uuid:bec2fa95-d7ea-4eaa-a423-602b982d34a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forward.com/articles/9586/says-who/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976652 | 465 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Beer should be served at the correct temperature. For cask beer this is generally considered as being around 12 degrees centigrade1. Too cold and flavours can be masked as well as inevitable problems with chill haze. Much worse is the crime of serving beer too warm; the drinking experience is not enjoyable and an otherwise well brewed beer can be ruined as a result.
There is unfortunately a pattern; tied pub estates often have significant care given to the quality of installed equipment. OK, the beer range may not be particularly varied or imaginative, but you can be more certain that the beer is better looked after. There is very good reason for this.
With a tied house the beer sold is entirely supplied through one route to market. It might be a single regional brewer or it may be a PubCo but there is at least a central purchasing route and maximising sales is crucial to the profitability of the owning business. Cellar support is inevitably very good with great care given to maximising the quality of the beer.
By contrast many free houses have poorer investment in cellar equipment and dispense technology. A very noticeable but in my view completely unacceptable omission is, as I think Tandleman put it, "python2 cooling to the point of dispense". This should include jacketed handpulls and carefully regulated circulating cooling water from a dedicated cooler, i.e. NOT from the keg cooling circuit.
Moreover, some of my very favourite beer outlets do suffer from beer serve temperature problems. This results in public naming and shaming of the very places I love. So, perhaps these places could help to prevent Tandleman and I from falling out by thinking about investing a little in dispense equipment?
On Beer, Birra, Bier there is an interesting reflective post on my most recent twitter discussion with Tandleman.
Expensive but very good handpulls can be bought here. Pythons and other such wonderful things can be bought here. Personally I find the technicalities of putting these things together very straightforward, but if your practical skills aren't up to it a good cellar technician shouldn't cost too much.
If any cellar technician tries to tell you that it's OK, it's "trad beer" and doesn't need python cooling, look for someone else.
1personally I think there is an argument for some very light and hoppy beers being served a little cooler and things like strong stouts and barley wines a little warmer. 12 degrees is a good compromise however and I totally reject the excuse some dinosaur cellar-men use to say cask beer should be warm. Cask Marque is one organisation that has set some parameters and this cannot be a bad thing.
2A python is a thermally lagged bundle of pipes that includes a flow and return cooling circuit. It's really good at keeping beer at the right temperature from the cellar right to your glass. Generally, if beer is too warm, it is highly likely that this technology is not in use, or it's broken. | <urn:uuid:2e6d52e6-c645-4a13-8dc8-e0225c489fee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hardknott.blogspot.com/2011/08/cool-snake.html?showComment=1313084039671 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964301 | 616 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Abu Dhabi: The Zayed Future Energy Prize, the world’s preeminent award for innovation in renewable energy and sustainability, has selected a mascot to represent the new Global High Schools Prize category.
Earlier, Zayed Future Energy Prize launched a nationwide competition for school students across the UAE to create a mascot, reflecting the concept of the Prize and the components of renewable energy and sustainability.
The creation of Omar Al Nafea, a 14-year old student from the Al Dhafra Private School, Al Ain, was selected at the Abu Dhabi Science Fair.
Omar’s creative interpretation will be translated into a costumed mascot that will make its debut early next year. A digitised form of the mascot will be featured on the Zayed Future Energy Prize website.
The Global High Schools prize mascot will represent the category in all local and international engagements of the Prize, across print and online media.
Omar and two members of his family will attend the 2013 edition of the awards ceremony on 15 January, during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.
The Zayed Future Energy Prize embodies the vision of the late founding father of the UAE, Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan who laid the foundation for renewable energy and sustainability as part of his legacy in sustainable development in the UAE. An annual award, the prize is managed by Masdar on behalf of the Abu Dhabi government and seeks to award achievements and innovation in the fields of renewable and sustainable energy, as well as to educate and inspire future generations.
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The names listed on that document don't look particularly Jewish.
My document for governance (you'll be thankful it's significantly shorter than 218 pages):
A governments sole purpose is the protection of it's citizens liberty and private property.
(I can dream!)
Whereas a government's actual purpose is the transfer of money, and with money privilege and status, from one group to another, when that second group can be one and the same as the government. You only know you don't have a government, or are a regent, when you don't get taxed.
There is not a government on historical record which was particularly effective at anything other than the forced transfer of wealth. The life cycle of a government begins and ends with taxes. Security, freedom, construction, welfare is what happens in between, something governments do with a struggle, and to the advantage of some groups over others. Wealth transfer is and always has been central to what government is, and effortless.
If we don't have a government which protects its citizens' liberty and property then we can conclude that the only means by which our government can extract wealth is by the removal of freedoms and property rights. Otherwise, if the government was any good for us personally we'd donate our money to it. People donate to NGOs to advance the interest group to which they belong, which behave like arms of the state in third nations, but don't donate to the state.
The only "document" of government that has ever mattered was, and still is, weapon-shaped. I believe George Orwell may have referred to it as a boot. | <urn:uuid:c2b1fcc9-0b20-476d-874d-01f74cda3e8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://umbrellog.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1008444 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978195 | 326 | 1.8125 | 2 |
I have been searching and searching for quick and easy tutorials to make hanging pom poms out of tissue paper. I combined a few different ideas/methods that were all very similar, and here is what I ended up with!
It is very simple. First, layer 4 sheets of tissue paper on top of each other, then cut them into quarters.
With one stack of 4, start folding accordion style.
Lay it flat, then cut the top and bottom in an arch. Cut half way into the center without going all the way through.
Using dental floss (mint flavoured if you have it, then they’ll smell nice as well as look nice!) tie a double knot in the center of the tissue.
Open the tissue accordion up.
Starting with the top, start pulling apart each layer until you have a nice, crimped pom pom.
For smaller or larger pom poms, use smaller or larger pieces of tissue. You can display them hanging, in bowls or individually on plates – really, however you want to! | <urn:uuid:36f9e0f6-2f49-4ba3-880f-b56c7960b2fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.servingfromhome.com/2011/08/too-cute-tuesday-tissue-paper-pom-poms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945693 | 222 | 1.53125 | 2 |
06-05-2012, 12:16 PM #1
Setting up a small brackish aquarium
I'm thinking about making my 35l desktop tank into a brackish one, rather than a shrimp tank as I'd planned originally. I've never done brackish before so I need a bit of advice. It's a pretty tiny tank, so the range of fish I could keep is probably quite small.
I want to move my whitecheek goby from my freshwater tank into it (my otherwise excellent LFS insisted it would be fine, but I've been hearing otherwise) and maybe get some pygmy puffers, if they'd be peaceful enough. I'd also like to put various little gobies in, like dwarf dragons and maybe peacocks- do they do well in brackish? I've also heard celebes rainbows do better in brackish. What species would do well in a brackish tank of this size?
06-05-2012, 12:32 PM #2
The pygmy puffer will not work. AFAIK they are strictly freshwater and should only be kept with their own kind. I currently have one in a fresh 10 gallon with a pair of ottos and that is the only tankmates I have been able to get away with. Here is a link to more info on the puffer:
I can't speak for any of the other fish you suggested so I would wait for other more experienced memebers to chime in.
06-07-2012, 01:20 AM #3
Ok, thanks- having looked around a bit I don't think any of the small puffer varieties will make very good tankmates for pretty much anyone :/ does anyone else have any ideas about fish for a small brackish tank? Brackish killies maybe?
06-07-2012, 01:30 AM #4
35 l is about 7 gallons? About all you can keep in there for brackish is about one bumblebee goby.
06-07-2012, 09:56 AM #5
The tank only being 7G will severely restrict you stocking options no matter what type of tank you want, FW, SW, BrackishMy therapist says I need a bigger tank . . . . .
06-07-2012, 10:35 AM #6Originally Posted by smaug
Originally Posted by scottishfish
06-07-2012, 04:23 PM #7
Its a tiny tank,limits you to tiny fish and small numbers. Brack makes it even worse due to limited biological filtration capabilitys. Then there are the fish themselves to consider. Bbg are nasty little buggers at times and one would need tbe whole tank to feel secure. There aren't too many tiny bw fish available either.
06-07-2012, 04:30 PM #8
06-07-2012, 09:15 PM #9
Swamp guppies look really interesting, thanks for the suggestion :)
The aqadvisor calculator thinks 4 swamp guppies, 4 whitecheek-sized gobies and a nerite snail comes to 89% stocking, does that sound right? Sounds a bit ambitious to me, but that would make a rather lovely little tank if the numbers add up.
06-07-2012, 09:23 PM #10
That's ambitious alright! | <urn:uuid:e0275fbf-21e9-4215-8adc-b9120b3ee3ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aquariumforum/showthread.php?t=92841&p=1033614 | 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 | 0.960571 | 710 | 1.507813 | 2 |
10 year old Alanna Meyers, of Tarpon Springs, the inventor of the “Pain Free Bandage Remover” was recently awarded the grand prize on Nickelodeon’s Game Show, “Figure It Out”, after stumping the show’s celebrity judges about her invention.
A fifth grader at Safety Harbor Montessori Academy in Clearwater, Alanna’s Pain Free Bandage Remover was inspired by her long time dislike of the bandage removal process. At the grand old age of 8, she decided that enough was enough, and experimented with several different combinations of safe, organic ingredients until she hit upon the perfect formula. Her focus group was her then 2nd grade classroom, where kids and parents alike were immediately sold.
Since then, her product has been featured on “The Doctors”, “Rachael Ray” and several local news programs. Alanna has applied for a patent trademark hopes to go into full production soon, marketing to childrens hospitals, pharmacies, health food and natural food stores, assisted living and nursing homes, with plans to donate 1% of all sales to the Arts for children.
Way to go, Alanna! | <urn:uuid:17fb889d-d26d-4956-a587-3008b52c5d20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tampabaymakerfaire.com/2012/08/09/10-yr-old-tarpon-springs-inventor-wins-nickelodeons-figure-it-out/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=79631356d4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969494 | 252 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Rainy Day Fun: Easy Homemade Pretzels
March 6, 2013Posted by pamela |
It's almost as fun for kids to make their own snacks as it is for them to eat them! This pretzel recipe—adapted from one that my daughter brought home from school—is easy and perfect for small children to help with, and the results are pretty tasty, too. It's a great activity for rainy days and playgroups, too. Why not bake up a batch to eat during the big game this weekend?
They won't look like the dark brown store-bought pretzels, though; that color is achieved by dipping the unbaked pretzels in a lye solution, which is way too dangerous for kids—and adults, for that matter. Here we brush the tops with an egg wash, but if that's a problem you could use milk or even a little olive oil.
To make the pretzels you'll need:
- 1 envelope active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 egg + a few teaspoons water
- Salt for sprinking
Pre-heat your oven to 425ºF. In a bowl, dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Add the honey and the salt and mix thoroughly. Stir in the flour until ingredients are mixed, then turn the dough out onto a floured board and knead until it's smooth. Cut pieces of the dough and roll them into long thin cylinders, then twist them into a shape. The traditional pretzel shape is the obvious choice here, but you can twist them into any design your imagination can come up with.
Beat the egg with a little water to make an egg wash. Put the twisted pretzels on a lightly greased or non-stick baking sheet, brush the tops lightly with the egg wash, then sprinkle with coarse salt. You could also put sesame or sunflower seeds on top, too.
Bake the pretzels for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool a few minutes before eating, but a hot pretzel right out of the oven is a real treat!
This recipe makes anywhere from 6 to 8 pretzels, depending on how big you make them, and can easily be doubled if you're feeding a crowd. | <urn:uuid:3c53b774-d1a5-4a4b-bbfc-e4f7c56e9c2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marinmommies.com/rainy-day-fun-easy-homemade-pretzels | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956192 | 494 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Brand new 2011 batch. Best yet.
Dive in to the Eagle's Nest! Nestled high above the fertile valleys of Sri Lanka, lies the Idulgashinna Estate, the world's first certified organic tea garden. This designer tea, acquired by Zhi, has all the hallmarks of a world class tea. And indeed it is.
Reminiscent of a top-quality second flush Darjeeling, with a distinct muscatel flavor, Eagle Nest is a sweet, malty delight that reveals its deep character over several steepings. We are proud to offer this superb tea from this renowned estate.
USDA Organic and Fair Trade Certified
2.4 oz Tin - $18.50 - 34 Servings - 54¢ per cup
4.0 oz Refill Pouch - $26.00 - 56 Servings - 46¢ per cup
Water: 200°F | Leaves: 1.5 -2 teaspoons per 6 ounce cup | Infusion Time: 3-4 minutes
Basic Steeping Tips
- Use filtered or spring water, whenever possible
- Don’t overboil water
- Remove leaves after recommended time (adjust to taste)
- If you want stronger tea, use more leaves instead of steeping for a longer time
Leaves can be resteeped 2-3 times resulting in various flavor differences. Don’t throw out those leaves until they have given it all up!
Polyphenol in oolong tea is effective in controlling weight. It activates the enzyme that is responsible for dissolving triglycerides. Studies have confirmed that a 2-3 cup per day intake of oolong tea contributes to enhancing the function of fat metabolism and controlling obesity.
The history of tea in China is long and complex. The Chinese have enjoyed tea for millennia. Scholars hailed the brew as a cure for a variety of ailments; the nobility considered the consumption of good tea as a mark of their status, and the common people simply enjoyed its flavor.
Tea was first discovered by the Chinese Emperor Shennong in 2737 BC. It is said that the emperor liked his drinking water boiled before he drank it so it would be clean, so that is what his servants did. One day, on a trip to a distant region, he and his army stopped to rest. A servant began boiling water for him to drink, and a dead leaf from the wild tea bush fell into the water. It turned a brownish color, but it was unnoticed and presented to the emperor anyway. The emperor drank it and found it very refreshing, and cha (tea) was born. | <urn:uuid:f82aa082-2915-433d-9c51-81cf3c41e196> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zhitea.com/catalog/product/view/id/1183/s/eagle-nest/category/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949934 | 538 | 1.757813 | 2 |
MARGIE SMITHURST: Hello and welcome to the first Territory Stateline for the year. I'm Margie Smithurst, coming up ... a refugee family reunited after years torn apart by war ... and how to train a winning greyhound.
But first ... hundreds of thousands of locals and tourists visit the top end's Litchfield National Park each year.
But the tourism industry is worried not enough's being done to improve the park and help it cope with huge visitor numbers.
David Coady reports.
DAVID COADY: The pouring wet season rains in Litchfield National Park have transformed the swimming pool at Wangi Falls into a rapid.
These tourists are being treated to nature's full force.
Between bursts of rain, the visitors from down south and overseas are taking in the unique Top End landscape.
VOX POP: It's been nice. It's rained a bit but it's nice and warm.
VOX POP: The views are great good to have a swim in a place where there are not many opportunities to have a swim.
VOX POP: Pretty glad I come this time of year because it's all green and all the waterfalls you see they're prety strong and they're nice.
DAVID COADY: It may be the low season in the Top End, but the waterways are anything but low.
Wangi Falls is closed..
Visitor numbers have hovered around a quarter of a million people a year since 2000.....but the tourism industry says the main attractions are becoming increasingly crowded.
MEGAN RYAN - TOUR GUIDE: It would be nice to see some of the other watering holes opened up and improved so that people can go and use five sites instead of three sites in the park, that will ease the pressure on the three major locations here
DAVID COADY: Litchfield may not have the profile of its big sister - Kakadu.
But it's just as popular and arguably as beautiful.
The guide on today's tour Megan Ryan has spent the last year showing-off the park to eager travellers.
MEGAN RYAN: "...you may see some of the local goannas, these goannas we call water monitors."
DAVID COADY: The visitors like what they see .. but operators aren't satisfied with how the park is being developed.
MEGAN RYAN: We do come out here and eat lunch in a picnic form. And to escape the rain and escape the sun is what we need so we need some shelters out here.
"How are you going ladies?"
DAVID COADY: Terry Patroni has been a fan of Litchfield for two decades and set up his business here five years ago.
The cafe owner thinks the Territory Government should be spending more on opening up new waterholes and attractions instead of closing them.
TERRY PATRONI - CAFE OWNER: It's very frustrating when you have people coming to the cafe and sit down and say 'well we did plan to spend two or three days here but we've seen it all,' or 'we're not happy, we're going somewhere else.' And leave.
DAVID COADY: Operators are worried not enough is being spent on fixing walking tracks, and general wear and tear at popular sites.
TERRY PATRONI: I think it's largely a lack of funding. The Territory government at this stage tends to be putting a lot more emphasis on the marketing side of things. And not putting the funding that's needed to make the infrastructure that supports the marketing work. Just a lack of it.
DAVID COADY: On the other side of Litchfield, tourists are admiring a unique Top End phenomenon.
LUKE PLAYFORD - PARK RANGER: "With these magnetic termite mounds they get that name because they're actually on a north south axis."
DAVID COADY: On the other side of Litchfield, tourists are admiring a unique Top End phenomenon.It's beauty like this that makes Ranger Luke Playford's job a pleasure.
LUKE PLAYFORD: I've been here, coming up to four years. I took the job on because I love working out in the bush. All the parks, they've all got something special about them.
DAVID COADY: As well as talking to visitors, the ten Rangers at Litchfield are responsibile for the park's upkeep.
One and a half million dollars is spent on Litchfield each year, but Parks and Wildlife admits there's always more to do.
LUKE PLAYFORD: Well we've seen some upgrades in the Florence area, upgraded the picnic area and the walk down to the falls, hardening the walking path making it safer. We're doing constant maintenance on boardwalks etc to keep them safe. There is a plan to keep upgrading in line with the increase of visitors.
MEGAN RYAN: "Now it's going to be powerful down there at Buley also so please take care while down there."
DAVID COADY: Buley Rockhole bears the brunt of visitors looking for a dip in flowing freshwater.
The rain kept most out of the pools... but there's concern bad behaviour by some in the peak-season is ruining the tourist experience.
LUKE PLAYFORD: The majority of people are here to enjoy the park and have a good time. Some just take it a bit too far when alcohol's concerened. The police have got parks radios in their vehicles, so they're never far away if we do require them
DAVID COADY: The Territory Government committed to sealing the loop road on the western side of the park two years ago...cutting half an hour off a trip from Darwin.
MEGAN RYAN: If we could just come straight through the national park and come back around on the loop road we could spend more time at the watering holes, more time looking at the environment here.
LEN KIELY - PARKS & WILDLIFE MINISTER: We'll get that ring road completed which will uplift the vistors' experience. Give them greater mobility. Litchfield park was established as an easy to get to park for two wheel drive vehicles. We're going to make that a reality.
DAVID COADY: Work on stage one has begun but the full 40 kilometres of dirt track wont be sealed for years.
The Territory Government is now considering a five year, seven million dollar blue print for upgrading the park.
Operators are optimistic but their patience is wearing thin
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Memories of Bullo Pill
This hotel was owned by my mother Patricia Woods till around 1959. Newnham was a busy place then. H G Zeal had a themometer factory in the High Street.
Above the hotel was a dairy farm run by A.Jones (Dean Forest farm).
As a matter of interest, the name Unlawater translates to River of Sorrows and was from a time back in history when Lady Padget lived there and a member of the family drowned in the river.
Rai Woods. (Captain)
My First Home
My parents owned Unlawater House from 1963 until the 1970s. It was their first house when they were in their twenties and they ran it as a private children's home. I spent the first eight years of my life there and have great memories of lunches in the garden.
They re-roofed it within the first five years of purchase. The council bought some of the land along the road to widen the road as it kept flooding as a result of the Severn tidal wave; they did eventually rebuild the pretty red brick wall which runs along the perimeter.
There were some beautiful trees in the garden (many of which have since been taken down), and a superb monkey tree which we used to decorate with coloured lights at Christmas.
This Picture is Very Nostalgic For Me,
Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget, 1839 - 1929 Born in Germany was a diarist and the last of Queen Victoria's intimate friends.
Lady Paget died of burns after falling asleep by the fire at her home Unlawater House, Newnham on Severn, England, at the age of 90.
Nodding over her newspaper in the Small Library of Unlawater House, Lady Paget lapsed gently into sleep. The newspaper slipped from her fingers, lodged against the blazing coal grate. She woke with a start to find both the newspaper and her skirts aflame. Being frail and unable to rise alone, she rang for her butler.
Swift to respond as usual, the butler arrived in time to tear the skirts off Walburga Lady Paget before her upper clothing caught fire. When he finished stamping out the flames he found that she had swooned. She was removed to Wooton Hospital. There, a few hours later, she died.
But believe me she still lives on at this... Read more
Memory of Soudley
Steam to Stratford, in the early 20's James Joiner (a contractor from Soudley) assembled his convoy of Traction Engines en Route to Stratford Upon Avon to start the new Sewer Contract which was awarded to Joiners for £57,000.
He used Forest Coal miners who were unemployed, to tunnel under the Town Streets to engineer this prestigious contract. My late father, Roy James Bevan was a 15 year old traction engine Driver's mate, starting his own career as a transport pioneer buliding up a Transport business in Soudley with his brother. The photo shows the road to Sutton Vale towards Littledean. When I worked for my father we road tested vehicles on this stretch of road. On a more romantic note, it was along this road I courted my late wife Ursula - we used to walk on Sunday evenings to the Top Ponds.
My Sister Mandy
Myself and my husband Roger had visited Soudley Ponds several times when travelling around during weekends away and my younger sister Mandy loved to listen to tales about where we had been and what we had seeing and doing. Roger and myself loved Mandy and her husband John and had spent many many happy times together over the years. We decided one day to take them to see for themselves and along with their daughter Sophie aged 10 we had a lovely day. The weather was quite damp and it had been raining. We arrived early and decideo to walk around the pond while we waited for the Heritage Centre to open. As we neared the end the sunlight broke through the clouds. It hit a willow tree standing on the other side of the pond. The tree was heavy from the moisture in the air and heavy droplets were falling into the water from the drooping branches, one of the most magical sights. As the sun broke though... Read more
In the 1950s Lensbrook Tea Gardens became the site of Billy Thomas's scrap yard. I was born and brought up at Lensbrook and my mother used to work at the tea gardens. I was born in 1942 and I can never remember it being tea gardens. I used to play in the scrap yard with Billy Thomas's daughter Diane. | <urn:uuid:bf98fbfb-36ee-44ac-af8b-93e39f04258f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.francisfrith.com/bullo-pill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976072 | 1,137 | 1.640625 | 2 |
A new document has surfaced showing Mitt Romney’s strong support for regulating carbon dioxide in 2003, when he called cap and trade “an effective approach” to combating climate change.
The comments were made in a letter from Romney to New York Gov. George Pataki about a regional cooperative system for regulating greenhouse gases. In the letter, Romney agreed with Pataki on the need to “reduce the power plant pollution that is harming our climate.”
But today, in trying to align himself with conservative political backlash against climate science, Romney says “we don’t know” whether humans are warming the planet, and that doing something about the problem “is not the right course for us.”
Here’s the full letter from Romney to Pataki:
Thank you for your invitation to embark on a cooperative northeast process to reduce the power plant pollution that is harming our climate. I concur that climate change is beginning to effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action toward climate protection. Furthermore, I share your interest in ensuring that the economic and security contributions made by our electricity generating system are not negated by the impact of emissions from that system on the health of our citizens.
As you may know, the commonwealth is making major strides to reduce the environmental impact of our power plants. Specifically, I am making good on my pledge to clean up the six oldest and dirtiest power plants in the state and bring them up to new plant standards for NOx, SOx, mercury and CO2. We are the first state to enact a cap on CO2, implementing regulations that, by 2008, will reduce these emissions by 10%, removing 6,750 tons of Co2 per day. Furthermore, Massachusetts, along with the other New England states and Canadian provinces, has a target of reducing greenhouse gases and improving the efficiency of the grid substantially over the next 20 years.
I believe that our joint work to create a flexible market-based regional cap and trade system could serve as an effective approach to meeting these goals. I am ready to have my staff work with yours to explore how we might design such a system — one that would keep the cost of compliance as low as possible, diversify our fuels, encourage energy efficiency and renewables, and keep our energy dollars in the region. Thank you for your initiative in proposing this project.
Mitt Romney is getting a lot of media attention for his contradictory stances on energy policy. Every week, there’s a new document or quote surfacing from the past that counters all of his current campaign mantras.
This adds to the very long list of dramatic changes to Romney’s energy policy. During his last bid for the presidency in 2007, Romney advocated aggressive fuel efficiency standards, electric vehicles, and public-private partnerships to develop clean energy.
In 2006, Romney said that high gas prices were good for discouraging consumption, explaining that he was “very much in favor of people recognizing that these high gasoline prices are probably here to stay.”
In 2004, Romney introduced a climate protection plan for Massachusetts, laying out a “no-regrets policy” to tackling climate change.
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This guide will teach you how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub. It assumes that you already know about how to use Git for version control and that you already have a GitHub account.
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GitHub is pretty great about giving advice to users starting new repositories, but it isn't very helpful when it comes to contributing changes back to other projects. Hopefully, this guide will help.
Before you get started, find the page of the project you're looking to improve. Poke around in the code a little bit, familiarize yourself with their development styles, check the commit log to see who is contributing and check out the profile of the core maintainer.
The first thing to do is check the Network tab on the project to see all the other forks that other people have made. Spend a few minutes digging around in them, as it's quite possible that somebody is already working on the problem that you'd like to see solved. It'll also give you an idea of the activity of the project, and how likely it is that your changes will be merged in.
Next, head over to the Issues tab. Have a look around, see how many issues there are and if anybody has opened up the issue that you're interested in working on.
This is an important step that many people forget about, and they just submit major pull requests to maintainers without considering that the maintainers might not have the same intentions with the software as they do. This is especially true if a new feature requires user interface/design changes, as often, that's the aspect of programs that people are the most protective of.
If your issue doesn't exist already, open up a new issue. Standard human interaction rules apply here; be friendly, be polite, say thanks for making the project, describe the bug or feature you'd like to work on and then offer to help.
Hopefully, they'll reply shortly with some input on how to solve the problem.
Here's the fun part! Hit 'Fork'. Now you've got your own version! Go to the page, get the ssh: url from the box at the top and then
git clone **your ssh/git url**
to your local machine. Hooray! You have the code on your local machine now.
This step isn't absolutely necessary, but I find it very useful if you plan on working on this project for anything more than a very quick fix. Use the following commands to add the 'upsteam' (original project location) as a remote branch so that you can get their updates into your branch. Replace the 'upstreamname' and 'projectname' values with that actual user/project name that you're trying to track.
This will add the original project as a remote named 'upstream'. To get the code, type:
git fetch upstream
Then, to merge it into your own project, type:
git merge upstream/master
Tada! Now you'll have an up-to-date version of the upstream code in your current branch.
Now you're getting ready to start hacking, you'll want to switch off of the 'master' branch and onto a different branch for your new feature. It's important to do this because you can only have onePull Requestper branch, so if you want to submit more than one fix, you'll need to have multiple branches. Make a new branch like this:
git branch newfeature
Then switch to it like this:
git checkout newfeature
Now you're on your new branch. You can confirm this by simply typing 'git branch'.
This part's up to you. Hack along as you normally would until the code is in the state where you're happy with it, it performs the task as described and it passes all the tests you've written for it. Yayyyy!
If you're a heavy committer like me, you've probably got lots of poorly messaged commits ('works!', 'broken', 'fuck', 'woo', etc.). This is a bad habit, but I haven't been able to break it yet and I know I'm not the only one!
Before you submit your pull request back upstream, you'll want to squash these commits into a small handful of well-labeled commits. To do this, we're going to use the git rebase command. First, take a look at the commits we've made with git log and figure out the commits that we want to squash. If we wanted to squash the last 3 commits into one, we'd open up an an interactive rebase like this:
git rebase -i HEAD~3
This will bring you into your editor with some text that will look something like this:
pick df94881 Allow install to SD pick a7323e5 README Junkyism pick 3ead26f rm classpath from git
To squash those commits into one, change to something like this:
pick df94881 Allow install to SD squash a7323e5 README Junkyism squash 3ead26f rm classpath from git
Then, save/quit, and you'll be brought to into another editor session. Describe the changes as well as you can and save/quit again. Hooray! You've squashed your ugly commits into one nice one. Now you're ready to submit a pull request.
Once you've commited and squashed your changes, push them to your remote like this:
git push origin newfeature
Then go to that page on GitHub and change branches to the one for your new feature.
Then, click on the little button that says 'Pull Request'. This will bring you to a page asking you to describe your change. Describe it thoroughly.
Then press 'Submit Pull Request'. Hooray! You did it. Now, you're not quite done yet. If the maintainer finds some problems with your code, they won't want to pull your changes until you fix them. Fortunately, whenever you commit and push more things to that branch of your code, they will be included in that pull request until it is closed.
Bonus! If you're on the receiving end of a pull request, how do you merge the changes? Easy - press the button! GitHub now has an auto-merge button which does everything for you in one click. However, it doesn't always work, in which case you'll have to do the merge on your own machine, like so:
git checkout master git remote add contributor git://github.com/contributor/project git fetch contributor git merge contributor/newfeature git push origin master
And then their changes will be properly merged into your main master branch.
Sometimes, for technical or organizational reasons, your pull request will be rejected. This can feel really frustrating, and there are a few different ways you can proceed. Just remember to act rationally.
The simplest thing is to simply accept their judgement. It's their project, and a good maintainer knows when to say "no." If their argument is logically sound, you should accept it. If you don't think it's a particularly important feature, hopefully whoever is looking at the project will check the Network and Issues tabs of the upstream project and will notice your changes. However, I think this is a pretty poor solution in cases when the upstream maintainer is wrong or unresponsive.
A better thing to do is write about it. Write about it on your blog, start a discussion on a mailing list, and solicit opinions from the community about what the best way to proceed is. It'll also give some Google-juice to your project/issue, which will help other people who ran into the same problem you faced.
The last option is to sever ties with the upstream and declare yourself the new maintainer of the project. This should only be as a last resort and should only really be done when the upstream project is dead or has gone completely off the rails. That being said, this kind of software deadheading can actually breathe a lot of new life into a project - just look at how LibreOffice has managed to revive the OpenOffice project by severing ties with Oracle.
If you do this, you should rename your project to differentiate it from the upstream, explicitly state your reasons for the schism in your README, and be sure to give proper copyright credit according the the open source license they originally chose. Maintaining an open source project carries quite a lot of responsibility, so make sure you're prepared to care for the project once you create such a schism.
Hopefully this little guide was useful for getting you started with collaborative software development on GitHub!
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Intro to Kite Surfing
Have you ever looked out on the horizon and been amazed by Kitesurfers sailing and soaring above the water? Now is your chance to try this exciting new sport!
- Over 6 years of experience teaching kiting to hundreds of students
- Learn the basics of kite safety and kite control in a safe environment
- This land-based lesson will provide you the basic skills needed to progress into riding on snow or water
This course covers the essentials to begin kiting. It will cover a bit of theory, and you will have considerable hands-on experience.
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the sport of kiting, and teach you about how and why a kite flies, safe flying practices, and different kite types. This is a land based lesson with a small traction kite, where you'll learn kite control without risk of injury.
After completion of this course, you should have the basic skills and fundamentals to hit the water or the snow and take your kiting to the next level.
Seasonal: during the summer months, wind and weather permitting.
This is an introductory course, so no prior experience is necessary. All equipment will be provided.
Approximately 1.5 hours
You may be joined by up to 8 people.
This experience is weather dependent, and requires ample and safe wind. Always contact the Experience provider with any questions regarding weather conditions.
What to Wear:
This class is on land, so wear comfortable athletic clothing and bring a good pair of grippy shoes.
For this experience, it is recommended to request bookings 14 days in advance.
Once you have received a booking confirmation, cancellations and rebooking are allowed up to 14 days prior to the Experience. Failure to appear on your booked date or to cancel and rebook at least 14 days prior to your booked date will result in the loss of the value of your Experience.
Can anyone learn to kite?
Kiting can be learned by anyone in decent physical shape. With proper instruction and adherence to safety precautions anyone can fly and enjoy kiting. The sport offers many levels of extremes and how far you choose to push it will be up to you. Some prefer to cruise around in light winds very relaxed, others are pushing the envelope each time they go out, jumping higher, trying new tricks etc. It is important to find the path that feels comfortable for you.
Is kiteboarding safe?
With proper instruction, you'll learn how to control the kite, where to fly safely and how to minimize injury to yourself and others.
Unfortunately, a lot of what people see of kiteboarding is the freestyle end of kiteboarding, where riders are hucking themselves 20-35 ft in the air, "going off". While this is a great, exciting part of the sport, it is not for everyone. Freestyle does add a level of risk that not all are comfortable with. Many riders love to quietly slice through the wind, leaving all their troubles behind, relaxing, suspended under the pull of the kite. Others like to go Mach 6 across the water or ice. Some like to carve huge GS turns downwind. Kiteboarding is about finding your ride, the ride that gives you the most pleasure with a level of risk you are comfortable with. | <urn:uuid:e9b2cd0f-aace-4893-a651-bf74f1ed6158> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cloud9living.com/minneapolis/intro-to-kite-surfing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938628 | 690 | 1.734375 | 2 |
As the downturn in the economy forces companies to deal with declining revenue, layoffs and tight-to-non-esistent credit problems, will workplace safety become collateral damage to the economic crisis?
Companies spend about $170 billion a year on costs associated with workplace injuries and illnesses, and almost $1 billion every week to injured employees and their medical providers, according to Warren K. Brown, president of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).
So what impact will declining revenues and tight credit have on safety? One safety specialist expressed it this way, “This sudden economic crisis will have many effects on workplace safety… mostly negative.”
It's important for employers to remember that they are not alone in the turmoil, that insurance providers also are cutting back on staff and resources, thereby shifting the increased responsibility for workplace safety from one leaky boat to another, with few life preservers available.
A myriad of problems are arising as the economy continues to tighten. Layoffs force fewer people to do more work, while always thinking in the back of their minds, “Am I next?” As a result, focus shifts from attention to detail and workplace injuries likely will increase.
Concern for job security means workers are reluctant to report safety infractions or near misses because they don't want to be perceived as “troublemakers,” and thus, one step closer to the door. From the employer's standpoint, safety training takes a budget hit, and accidents sometimes are not reported in order to keep insurance premiums down.
Another area that warrants concern is the machinery and equipment workers use daily. In good times, companies could stroll into a bank and with little effort, draw on funds needed to purchase or update aging equipment. But current conditions force the extension of the life of equipment by re-tooling parts to save money, increasing the chance of breakdowns and possible mishaps. Other companies find themselves forced to move from their current location to smaller buildings that may not be as “safety friendly.”
With all this being said, now is the one time we can't afford to move away from workplace safety. With payrolls running lean, we need people on the job and working at full capacity now more than ever.
First, companies need to know right off the bat that they will receive less support from their service providers. Accept that fact and move on. Now that you have taken on that added responsibility, the next step is to make sure you don't cut safety resources.
A discretionary view of safety puts both your employees and your company in harm's way. As Brown points out, “A company's reputation is at risk should a disaster or incident occur. Employers face a damaged reputation and brand when employees are injured, especially if the incidents are preventable.”
It equally is important to bring employees into the loop, to let them know the message from top management is clear: “We will never compromise safety!” They have to be taught to watch out for each other and believe, through your example, that there truly is a “we're all in this together” mentality within the organization.
Companies are under pressure. Insurance companies are under pressure. And certainly, safety professionals are under pressure. But all three must be united in a common bond of staying safe on the job. Because investing in safety is not only investing in a safe working environment, but also in your company's bottom line.
In a recent address to the American Gas Association's Safety Leadership, then-U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao probably summed up the situation best. “Safety and health programs in the workplace are not only an employer's legal responsibility, it also makes good business sense,” said Chao. “No price can be placed on the most important benefit, and that is to see that every worker returns home safely to their loved ones at the end of each work day.”
Frank Pennachio, CWCA is co-founder and director of learning at the Institute of WorkComp Professionals, Asheville, N.C, the largest network of workers' compensation professionals in the nation. He also is president of a workers' compensation insurance agency, and a licensee and trainer for Injury Management Partners. A well-known speaker, his articles appear regularly in business and trade associations. He can be contacted at frank@workcomp professionals.com. | <urn:uuid:b421d3b1-8e4f-454d-87dc-60e3f0fc50cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ehstoday.com/columns/effects-economy-workplace-0309/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968177 | 904 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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Here is a brief summary: About 6 months ago, the computer battery would shut off at random while running on the battery. The battery connector was loose, as the computer battery‘s battery worked immediately after shutting down. I later fixed the loose connector and the computer battery ran perfectly fine for a few months without random shutdowns. 2 months ago, I was working on the computer battery, plugged in, when I left to go eat. I returned 15 minutes later. I decided I wanted to work somewhere else in the house, so I unplugged the computer battery. The computer battery died immediately, and would not power up without the adapter since then. The battery’s condition is fine, since it worked properly up until this problem occurred. Also, the battery says it’s 60% full. Some notes: I did use the computer battery on a 240v line for a week while I was in China. The MacBook’s power adapter is designed to handle foreign voltages and frequencies. This problem began a couple of weeks after returning. I have reset the PRAM and the SMU. This same problem occurs while in the boot menu, in Mac OS X Leopard, and also Windows XP. Please leave only “smart” comments. System Specs: MacBook Core 2 Duo 1.88 GHz (Late 2006) 1.25 GB Ram (had for 1.5 years) 160 GB WD HD (also had for 1.5 years) COPYRIGHT 2008 musicfreakcc Embedding of this video on other websites is PERMITTED and encouraged You may not re-upload this video to YouTube or anywhere else without my prior approval.
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Learn to cook with Head Chef Fabio Pozzati and experience the rich flavors and traditional cuisine of the Emilia Romagna region of Italy.
The Palmer House Inn and Osteria La Civetta invite you to a session of time-honored Northern Italian style cooking. These classes will be a journey through the world of taste and genuine cuisine of the Emilia Romagna. Students will discover or re-discover the cooking styles of traditional home-made Italian cuisine. The same preparation and cooking styles that were used by their mothers, grandmothers, and other ancestors will be covered in both days of classes, connecting the students with not only the food, but their roots.
February 11, 2012
Each Holiday in Bologna has its cake: the “Tronchetto di Natale” for Christmas and Brazadela, or Ciambella, for Easter are offered to relatives and friends during the various parish feasts in town.
Tronchetto di Natale is a tasty and very elegant recipe from Haute Cuisine for a Christmas Dessert, made with cocoa, cream and “Pan di Spagna”. This Traditional cake is shaped like a log. The “pan di Spagna” is rolled in chocolate and decorated to resemble a Yule log.
Brazadela, one of the most traditional cakes of the Region is quite easy to make. It’s wonderful for breakfast, dipped into warm milk or caffe’ latte. It’s also nice at the end of the meal, either with a glass of dessert wine or dipped in zabaione or mascarpone cream.
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Q: Since the Commercial Boulevard interchange on Florida's Turnpike was renovated, the middle toll booth has been closed. Every morning, vehicles in the SunPass lane to the left of the middle toll booth stretch all the way onto the northbound turnpike lanes. Southbound turnpike drivers exiting at Commercial pass to the left of the toll lanes for northbound traffic, but then have to cut across several lanes to the right to go west on Commercial Boulevard. If the middle toll booth will be opened as a Sun Pass only lane, that would help.
Modi Marcus, Tamarac
A: The toll plaza's middle lane was closed after staff was cut more than two years ago, said turnpike spokeswoman Nichole Kalil.
Kalil said your request is "logical" but added it would require a major equipment change to install the SunPass equipment.
A dedicated westbound lane was added to ease bottlenecks, but beyond that, officials say there's really not much more they do to improve the interchange. Kalil said it's one of the busiest in South Florida plus the toll plaza is close to the intersection of Commercial Boulevard, which doesn't allow much room to change lanes or for cars to stack up when waiting for the light to change.
Q: Has there been any thought of widening Dixie Highway from Yamato Road to Linton Boulevard to four lanes to match the section of Dixie south of Yamato? Also, why is Dixie from Yamato to Linton marked with a double-yellow line for no passing, even though this section of road is long and straight.
Larry Danker, Boca Raton
A: This stretch of Dixie belongs to Palm Beach County, and there are no plans currently to widen it.
The no passing zone is in place because of the large number of driveways and side streets, said Owen Miley of the Palm Beach County Engineer's Office.
Q: I take a Broward County Transit bus on University Drive from Tamarac to Davie a couple nights a week to go to school. It's a pretty smooth ride except for when we get to Peters Road. It usually takes three cycles of the traffic light to get through the intersection. Signals along University were re-timed recently, so why does the green light for Peters Road, which has less traffic than University, last just as long as the green light for University. You can't chalk it up to rush hour since there is no bottleneck like this anywhere else on University.
Alan Cortazzo Jr., Tamarac
A: Traffic engineers reviewed the intersection and confirmed the green time for University Drive is longer than for Peters Road.
The signal timing allows a minimum of 60 percent of green time for University drivers and a maximum of 40 percent of green time on Peters. But Peters doesn't get that maximum time unless pedestrians use the crosswalk signal to cross University, or when there is very heavy traffic volume on Peters.
County engineers say traffic on Peters is increasing as drivers attempt to avoid the I-595 reconstruction.
Q: SunPass and electronic tolling is anti-tourist, specifically for people who are driving rental cars. Recently, I was in Orlando, drove to Mount Dora and back in a rental car. I used my GPS from home. It routed me onto a toll road and told me to get off an an exit with a sign that said "no cash accepted." In any case, the GPS is screaming at me to turn, I'm confused as to what the sign means and traveling at 60 mph had to make a quick decision and decided to go through the exit. I find no place to put in my money and then see a sign that I am going to be fined $100. Now I wonder what will happen next.
Leonard Lyons, Rochester, N.Y.
A: Both toll road agencies in the Orlando area - Florida's Turnpike and the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority – have agreements with most rental car companies so the turnpike can bill the companies for tolls when you drive through any toll plaza in a rental car.
A photo is snapped of the license plate every time you go through a plaza. Each company has a different arrangement so check your rental agreement carefully.
Some companies charge a daily or weekly fee, plus the tolls. Others provide unlimited toll usage for a set per day or per week amount. For information about participating rental car companies, go to http://www.sunpass.com/rentalcar.
If you're concerned, call your rental car company or check your credit card statement to see how you've been charged.
There are only two interchanges in the Orlando area that do no accept cash: They are both on Florida's Turnpike, one is a northbound entrance/southbound exit at Kissimmee Park Drive and the other is a southbound exit to Consulate Drive and the westbound Beachline Expressway.
All other locations accept cash or coins, although some may require exact change if they are unstaffed. Exits that require exact change are labeled as such.
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Ag Bill Would Create Another Crop Insurance Entitlement
The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a five-year, $480 billion farm bill that creates a new entitlement for federal insurance to cover farmers’ “shallow” losses of revenue.
The current farm bill expires in September. The new bill would repeal direct payments to farmers, ACRE (average crop revenue election) payments, and countercyclical payments. Overall, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the measure, as passed by the committee, would save $24.7 billion over the next 10 years.
More Cuts in White House Budget
But that figure is well below the $33 billion in cuts that had been called for in the White House budget. And the bill doesn’t cut at all into the $9 billion federal crop insurance program, under which taxpayers pick up the tab for more than 60 percent of farmers’ premiums. Actually, the crop insurance program is set to grow by $2.7 billion over the next decade, due largely to $3.2 billion in additional subsidies for “stacked income protection” for cotton farmers.
The bill also blocks the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency from attempting to use its leverage to drive a harder bargain with the private crop insurance industry. In response to the 2011 Standard Reinsurance Agreement, in which $6 billion was cut from federal crop insurance subsidies through USDA negotiations, the Senate bill includes language requiring the next SRA must be “budget neutral.”
Another $29 Billion
The bill also takes most of the savings from canceling direct payments and funnels them into a new “agricultural risk coverage” program. This program would pay participating farmers who see revenues from a crop fall 11 percent to 21 percent below the five-year average. This new “shallow loss” coverage is projected to cost taxpayers $29.2 billion over the next decade.
“What we actually have today is so far beyond a program that would be limited to underwriting crop losses that the reason we have a federal crop program, you can’t look to economics for it. You have to look to politics for it,” said University of Iowa economic Bruce Babcock, who in April released “Giving It Away Free,” a crop insurance study that concludes it would be cheaper to give free crop insurance that covered 70 percent of every farmer’s yields than to run the program as currently structured.
Babcock says he doesn’t support free crop insurance but believes the conclusion demonstrates how wasteful the program is, and how badly it needs to be reformed.
Babcock said using subsidies to take risk out of farming makes it “a lower-risk business so that bankers in some sense have less risk and have to pay attention less than they otherwise would . . . And also then you have a big interest group, which is the crop insurance industry, which has every incentive to lobby for the maintenance of the program” because every year insurers are paid $3 billion to $4 billion in subsidies to deliver the program.
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View Full Version : To Catholics: corporal punishment in Cathlolic school
Of those of you who attended Catholic schools, were you rapped on the knuckles with rulers and other such things by the nuns for various infractions?
I mentioned knuckle-rapping in a conversation, and one father who had kids in Catholic school got real furious. He said that that was just an "urban legend". I didn't argue with him, but it seems like every recollection of Catholic school I've heard before mentioned something about the ruler raps.
08-24-1999, 03:27 PM
My father was rapped on the knuckles for being left-handed. They forced him to become right-handed (something to do with the devil probably).
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895)
08-24-1999, 03:27 PM
Well, I went through 16 years of Catholic schools and the only rapping going on was by Public Enemy.
Ok, bad joke.
Nah, there was no corporal punishment in my school. Teachers would talk about how there used to be ruler slapping in schools when they were a kid, but I figured that was just a general thing, from public to Catholic. Hey, I can just give you my experience, there was no ruler rapping, or making kids use their right hand if they were left handed. But, I started first grade in 1980, so maybe it had alll happened before I got there.
08-24-1999, 03:43 PM
I went to Catholic school from 1-6th grade and I DID get my knuckles rapped (sp) with a ruler. The nuns wanted you to write with your hand positioned in a very specific manner and if you didn't (couldn't, really) comply, then you got your hand smacked. In one case, my 5th grade teacher, Sr Theresa Larine (sp, however we called her Sr Theresa Latrine anyway) made us write with a nickel on the back of our hand, very uncomfortable position. If the nickel fell off, we would get smacked. I really hated that nun. The funny thing is she got run over by the town bully (really big kid) on his bike one day in the school parking lot, hee hee.
08-24-1999, 03:45 PM
Catholic or not, I think that action by a teacher is inexcusable. Including for left-handers. If I had a kid who got that treatment in school, the next person that teacher would hear from would be my lawyer!!
08-24-1999, 03:46 PM
BTW, I forgot to mention that I was in Catholic school from about 76 to 82, so it wasn't all THAT long ago.
08-24-1999, 06:08 PM
I went to a weekly class in Catholic school for 8 years and I never got hit by anything as punishment. Although I always hear my teachers say that they use to get hit a lot by their teachers when they were in Catholic school.
08-24-1999, 06:10 PM
08-24-1999, 06:45 PM
Happened to me - early 60's - in Ireland at the time, so it might not have been true here. I don't recall it when we came back to the states.
The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around.
08-24-1999, 07:15 PM
Got my hand smacked by Sr. Marie Elizabeth the Samurai Penguin in 6th grade for sneaking a hand up Paula Curtis' dress. I did a lot of Hail Mary penance time for that, along with the ruler slap. Had a grudging admiration for Sr. Marie, she could wield that ruler like a samurai's katana . She must've served with the great warrior Musashi in a previous existence.
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08-24-1999, 07:26 PM
Ohhhh yes. I was left handed. My penmanship today is illegible. Once, I was taken into the ball room (nothing Freudian here) and had my pants taken down and was spanked. I think the nun really got off on it.
I was the only child in the history of the school to be kicked out of the 4th grade.
After a couple of glorius years in the public schools I had to return to 'the system'. High School was worse in that the priests and lay teachers could be quite ferocious. After witnessing a couple incidents (beatings, slaps in the faces) I was scared smart.
08-24-1999, 10:55 PM
Most of my teachers (1956-1964) were not really into corporal punishment. If you had been very bad (stealing, lying, fighting and not breaking it up on command) you might get a couple of swats on the butt with some sort of paddle. There were a couple of teachers who were borderline psycho, however, and it sometimes took the administration more than one year to figure it out and remove them. Even they were more into humiliation than physical pain. I have run into enough kids who were rapped on the knuckles that I believe it happened. It was not, however, the rule that every nun addressed every infraction by busting knuckles. I never saw it done, although my sister reports having been rapped by one of the psychos two years after that nun had spent the year bruising my psyche.
08-25-1999, 03:19 AM
I was in PUBLIC school and until like 1972 or so they would paddle you. Only back then if you went and told you parent they would paddle you again for making the teacher's job hard and causing trouble.
By the way 1976 is 23 years. That's a while by any means :-)
08-25-1999, 06:33 AM
I was only in first grade in 76! Thanks for the ego boost though. I think I'll go get my prunes and ben gay now...
08-25-1999, 10:28 AM
While *I* was the model student at Our Lady of Perpetual Misery (sic) there were kids sent down to the principals office for a paddling. Knuckle wacking wasn't as common when I came through the system, but my older siblings told me stories of rulers being busted over kids hands.
As for left handers, brother #4 is a leftie. He was punished for using his left hand ( being the sign of the devil) and forced to use his right for years. To this day no one can read his handwriting.
I do not fear guns, knives, fire or falling to my death, but nuns scare the crap outta me.
08-25-1999, 08:01 PM
Paddling? They were still doing that until very recently. I remember a kid getting paddled in kindergarten, and I was there in '88-'89. But it didn't really traumatize me. He was always stealing my sweaters, for some reason, so I figured he had it coming. But it did ruin the "Mr. M" letter-people song for me forever. But hey, I'm sort of digressing....
"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." --1984
08-26-1999, 09:13 AM
One of the more amusing titles for detention was given by the principal at my grade school. Instead of calling it detention, for some reason it was called Jug.
08-26-1999, 06:53 PM
I am not Catholic, but I think somehwere my parents (we're from Indiana) picked this joke up from a Catholic family.
Some kid who was a real hellion--he stole things, smoked, lied, picked fights, started fires--everything--put his parents at their wits' end tryinbg to straighten him out. Finally a friend suggested sending him to a parochial school instead of public school that fall. The kid, of course, fought the idea fiercely, but the parents won out.
He went the first day, and when he came home his manner had already started to change. By the time school was about to close for the next summer vacation, he had made an earnest effort to patch things up with all the people he had wronged, and his manners became impeccable; and his schoolwork made him a straight-A student.
When he came home from school the last day, his parents met him to tell him how proud they were of him for how the parochial school had improved him. And they asked, "Son, something must really have made an impression on you that first day. Did they discipline you?"
He said, "No. but we went into the chapel that first day and I saw a statue of a man nailed onto a cross. I saw that and thought, 'Is that how they punish you here??'"
08-27-1999, 01:53 AM
I went to a Catholic high school, but it wasn't like what I see depicted as "normal" Catholic schools. All but two teachers were laypeople. Corporal punishment was never used.
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Kenya: Mombasa, Nairobi
2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks
Typical Duration of Program
The daily tasks in the home are centered around the demanding care of these very young children and babies. Feeding them, changing them and keeping them active with toys and giving them love and attention at this crucial early stages of life. Volunteers can also help with the preparation of food and clearing up after feeding times and helping get them to sleep. The children being so young need the same care an attention that anyone would give to their own children. Many of the babies are transferred from hospitals where they have been abandoned or the parent has died from HIV. Some are admitted with no knowledge of their background too. Most babies admitted who have been born form HIV positive parents however do not always have HIV. Most of the babies arrive malnourished and often ill where the home, volunteers and staff care for them in everyway possible.
The home in central Kenya is situated 45 minutes away from Nyeri town, where it is possible to find all things modern from Internet to pubs and five star safari clubs. Nyeri sits just a couple of hours drive north of Nairobi where you would fly into and have your induction. This part of the country has a beautiful topography that is well covered by tall and green trees that gives a perfect setting for bird watching, or evening walks. For the adventurous, Mt Kenya is only an hour away, thus an attempt to climb to any of its three peaks would be a fulfilling move. Besides that, most of us would visit Meru reserve that is famous for Joy and George Adamson's hand rearing and releasing of animals. The famous lioness 'Elsa', whom most of us know from the film 'Born Free' The area is rain forested so game spotting is hard and an easier alternative is Aberdare a few hours away, or Samburu where you are likely to spot the elusive Leopard. The other homes in Nairobi and Mombasa are close to shops and everything else convenient.
People willing to offer compassion, skills and support. This placement would best suit someone looking for a chance to do some good away from home and cities. It would also suit groups of two to six people with a wish to effect a major and positive change in the lives of truly destitute babies. Experience with handling young children would also be of great benefit although being warm, adaptable and have a love for young children is paramount. The trip can be perfectly combined with a holiday. For instance, an individual could volunteer at the home for three weeks then take on a holiday safari for a week at a special cost. You could combine this with a second month at a clinic where we have a placement. Volunteers are expected to take part in all duties to help staff in this location. Tasks included washing by hand, sweeping and helping cooking and other jobs that form an essential part of the running of these placements. Potential volunteers must understand this prior to booking. Be ready for a warm welcome and lots of fun.
The Children's home is an ideal placement for those looking for places to initiate projects that would strike a positive and immediate effect to a needy person's life for long period of time. Its a great opportunity to have an impact on babies who really have no hope.
One must be prepared to face hash realities of life, with regard to the levels of need and sufferings. In return the children will give you a rewarding and memorable time you will never forget. The staff are also very warm and welcome help where they will offer you much friendship and assistance. The area is safe and simply stunning and our host family accommodation is better than most volunteer companies can offer. For those willing to spend their days caring for baby orphans and who really want to make a difference but value your own comforts, this is for you.
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Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.
To send groups of people to Kenya and Sri Lanka to contribute to the people and culture in a productive and meaningful way.
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If one QSA's advice differs from another's, get him to explain his reasoning. And then judge which meets the intent of the standard.
Director, Illumis Ltd,
Poor and inconsistent advice received during QSA assessments are creating difficulties for project managers working to make their companies compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Members of the U.K.'s PCI DSS User Group vented their frustration at the last meeting in London on May 27, saying that Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) often provided conflicting advice, even when they worked for the same company, causing serious PCI compliance issues.
"We had one assessor approve some of our compensating controls. Then he left and the next assessor from the same company said the controls were completely inadequate," said a project manager working for a large publishing company.
Others complained that their consultants often lacked relevant experience and had merely undergone a short training course that qualified them to carry out nothing more than a box-ticking exercise, rather than offering valuable PCI compliance advice.
The PCI DSS User Group, which meets regularly to exchange ideas and share information, includes representatives from both the private and public sectors, with members from most segments of industry. Few claimed to be close to reaching compliance with PCI DSS, even though some have already been running projects for more than five years.
One reason cited for the poor rate of progress is inadequate training of many QSAs. Despite recent moves by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to introduce more stringent controls over who can practise as a QSA, user group members said there was little evidence of improvement based on their recent experiences.
"QSAs are still very variable. The quality and continuity are just not there in some of these consultancies," said another programme manager who asked not to be named.
To combat the lack of consistency, some members said merchants should always ask for any decisions to be validated by the consulting company rather than the individual PCI QSA. That way, the advice is more likely to be reviewed by other members of the consultancy and, therefore, be more consistent.
But the PCI SSC is promising imminent improvements. Bob Russo, the organisation's general manager, told SearchSecurity.co.UK that a quality assurance (QA) programme for individual QSAs, introduced more than year ago, is already bearing fruit and helping to raise PCI QSA assessment standards.
"The merchants and acquirers are telling us there's a big difference from what they saw two years ago, and they like it," Russo said.
He admitted that QSA assessments may be "more of an art than a science" and that it was inevitable that QSAs might hold differing opinions about certain details. But he added that a recently introduced QA programme for QSA firms would increase consistency, and ensure that companies manage their own QSAs better. Also, the introduction of version 1.2 of the standard last year set out new quality assurance requirements and a scoring matrix aimed at preventing QSAs from cutting corners and ensuring they produced a thorough report on compliance (known as the ROC).
The scoring matrix forces the QSA to cover all elements of the standard, and is designed to allow the SSC to ensure a level of quality assurance over the work done. QSAs also now need to be recertified every year.
Those QSAs who fail to make the grade are put into remediation -- a process to help them mend their ways -- and are not allowed to practise again until they can demonstrate adequate improvements.
Merchants choosing a QSA can view the status of any QSA on the SSC website. The site is updated weekly and displays in red text any QSAs undergoing remediation. A handful of U.K.-based assessors are currently in that position.
One admirer of the new QSA quality assurance process is Simon Sharp, a director of newly-formed Illumis Ltd., a two-man consultancy based in Cambridge. Having just gone through the approval process to become a QSA, he said it was stringent and that the scoring matrix ensures QSAs do a good job.
His advice to merchants is to check that their QSAs have experience relevant to their respective businesses. He also said that consultants should have their work reviewed by their peers before providing advice to clients.
"You need more than one set of eyes on the problem," Sharp said. "Compensating controls are a sticky subject, but the merchants need to look at the intent of the requirements, and not just ticking the box. If one QSA's advice differs from another's, get him to explain his reasoning. And then judge which meets the intent of the standard."
He added that merchants need to have the right person running the compliance programme. "Compliance is a business and a technology project," Sharp said, "but the programme manager needs to be able to understand the technology."
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Mathematics at MCLA
As a mathematics major, you will gain an understanding of complex systems and of the utilization of abstract concepts. Training in precise thinking, creative problem solving, and insightful analysis are among the intended outcomes of your classroom experience and independent research projects.
Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics Offers
You will receive a classical foundation in calculus, analysis, abstract algebra, statistics, and geometry. Special topics courses will allow you to explore areas of interest such as cryptography, mathematical modeling, and math for elementary education. Your input is welcome as special topics courses are developed, and independent study courses are frequently offered.
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Study also compares Michelle Obama with the Royals
NarrativeTracker analysis of Internet, social and traditional media
AUSTIN, Texas. April 18, 2011. With less than two weeks left before the Royal Wedding on April 29th, Kate Middleton is already posting Diana-type numbers in terms of news worthiness and celebrity status on the Top Global Media sites as well as on the Internet and Social Media according to The Global Language Monitor. Previously GLM had found the soon-to-be Princess Catherine the Top Fashion Buzzword of the 2011 season, replacing the eccentric Lady Gaga.
The GLM study compared the citations of Kate Middleton with those of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince Harry, and Camilla Parker Bowles. Michelle Obama as First Lady of the United States was included as a relevant American comparison. For the Top Global Media, the citations were measured over the last three months as well as all the archives available.
“Kate Middleton is set to eclipse Princess Di as the media star of the Royal Family,” said Paul JJ Payack, President and Chief Word Analyst of the Global Language Monitor. “In fact, Kate could surpass all Internet, Social Media, and Global Print and Electronic Media citations by the time the Royal Wedding-related stories are compiled.”
Two weeks before the Royal Wedding, Middleton’s Internet and Social Media citations, surpass all members of the Royal Family. Prince William comes in as a close second followed by Princess Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997.
For Internet news citations, Middleton follows only Prince William and Prince Charles. For comparison, First Lady Michelle Obama, since she first came to notice in 2004, would rank No. 3 in Internet and Social Media citations, just ahead of Princess Diana and would rank No 4, again slightly ahead of Princess Diana in Internet news.
In the traditional Global Print and Electronic Media, Prince William and his bride-to-be, both double references to Queen Elizabeth and quadruple those to Prince Charles who would also follow Michelle Obama.
Note: Princess Di is cited in hundred of thousands of news stories even though she died before Google, social media, and smartphones existed. Even without the current media environment where the Internet, social media and the traditional media feed upon themselves as some sort cyber echo chamber, the study demonstrates the enduring legacy of Princess — some fourteen years after her death.
GLM used NarrativeTracker Technology in this study.
NarrativeTracker is based on the global discourse, providing a real-time, accurate picture of what any audience is saying about any topic, at any point in time. NarrativeTracker analyzes the Internet, the top global print and electronic media, as well as new social media sources (such as Twitter).
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I don't think we are very far away from a time when all new personal computers ship with some form of cache system installed at the factory. Just a few days ago I saw a Youtube video of a motherboard still in the 3D modeling stages with a SandForce drive built onboard specifically for cache. Until those days arrive, products like the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid will bring the future within our grasps today.
We've looked at several drive caching systems over the years, from high dollar enterprise systems to the most basic consumer versions that use USB flash drives. So far the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid has been the absolute fastest we've tested and in many ways the easiest to configure for optimal performance.
By using their new VCA 2.0 system, OCZ managed to harness the performance of two SandForce SATA III SSDs in RAID and put that power in front of a large 1TB HDD. What you end up with is awesome SSD performance around 85% of the time and a full 1TB of capacity. The key is having your important data on the SSD portion of the RevoDrive Hybrid. With 128GB of space available to keep your hot data, the RevoDrive Hybrid simply holds more than competing products on the market.
The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid isn't going to be for everyone, though. With a cost of right around 500 Dollars the first hurdle is a pretty steep one to climb over. With that price you have to wonder if a Vertex 3 240GB boot drive paired with a 2TB HDD for storage isn't a better option. If you take advantage of all of the mail-in rebates and instant rebates, this combination could be had for the same cost.
We applaud OCZ's continued efforts to push the envelope and release new innovative products to the market. That said, we feel that SSD cache technology should be a low cost alternative to SSDs and not just an alternative. OCZ chose performance with the RevoDrive Hybrid and that is reflected in the price. Those looking for a low cost solution can opt for OCZ's Synapse Cache SATA III product that also uses Dataplex to control the software.
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when something extremely funny happens i can guarantee you im that one friend who keeps laughing even though everybody stopped 15 minutes ago
People need to understand that there are many different types of self harm. Yes, the most common one is skin-cutting; however, there is also burning, hitting, banging yourself against inanimate objects, hair pulling, scratching, drinking or eating toxics. Another thing, if someone self harms the reasoning isn’t always depression or suicidal. They can be schizophrenic, Post traumatic syndrome, D.I.D, stress disorder and more.
It’s a much more serious and broad matter than people realize.
I honestly think that crying over a book is one of the most prominent sign of compassion for humanity. You’re crying over someone who isn’t really there, doesn’t really exist, but you still feel for them as if you have known them your entire life. | <urn:uuid:46272867-a83e-4c16-a4c1-49b6b47b4f75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://camoxytocin.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959514 | 190 | 1.804688 | 2 |
One of the advantages of being given the opportunity to write
this monthly article is the chance to get feedback about my
ideas from all over the world. There is no one way to teach
a shot or learn a particular stroke or strategy. Rather,
there are several ways to interpret each tip or lesson.
That is what makes the job of teaching tennis so interesting
- each player and his/her strokes are unique and figuring out
the best improvement strategy is a welcome challenge.
Although a teaching professional can help you correct a stroke
or strategy problem, it is important to let your instructor
know what YOU feel is giving you a problem. Most students
rely on the professional to direct the lesson and work on a
shot the professional feels needs work. Your instructor can
certainly analyze what you are doing wrong during the lesson
-- but that is not necessarily the same stroke that gives you
problems in your match play. If you've read my previous
articles, you know how much I emphasize the need for practice
between lessons. I think it is very important to spend quality
time in match play trying to use what you've worked on in your
You know your game better than anyone. Your instructor can
help you understand your capabilities and limitations but
he/she can't see all of your matches. By telling your
instructor more about what you think you need to work on, you
will be setting your goals so that you can best receive your
instructor's help in achieving those goals. Think about your
last tennis lesson for a moment - did you spend time on what
bothered you in the last match? Have you set a game plan to
improve on your weaknesses during the next few practices?
Personally, I like it when a student comes in and tells me what
he/she would like to work on in a lesson. It lets me quickly
develop drills, point situations, etc. to focus on that
particular area of the player's game.
I bet giving your teaching professional more feedback about
your practices and matches between your lessons it will help
him/her help you. That means faster improvement in your game
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Ben, Two thoughts come to mind:
Perspective: where you place the camera.
Composition: what you include in the photograph.
When I was first deciding the kind of compositions I preferred, I'd find a scene that I liked (and had time to explore it), I'd pick a place where I liked the view (perspective). Then I'd shoot a variety of compositions from that place, i.e. zoom in, zoom out, aim down, aim higher, etc.
Then I'd move to another place and repeat the procedure.
When I had spent enough time there, I'd pack up and drive somewhere else entirely.
At home, I spent a lot of time deciding what perspectives and compositions I liked and what I didn't like.
After a while, I learned the kinds of perspectives and compositions I preferred, and concentrated on them.
Note: I paid some attention to photographs taken by others, but never tried to emulate any of them. Just quick looks and decided what I liked and why, and what I didn't like- and why.
In the era of digital cameras, the whole process should be much faster.
Ben- I've seen a couple dozen of your posted images, and I'm not sure what you think it is that you do weirdly. These two shots, for example, are not at all weird to me. Whether I would have chosen them if I were there- well- I don't know. But that doesn't matter. Take a big variety of shots, decide which you like the best, and process them the way you want.
Feedback on cropping and processing can be helpful, but I'm not so sure about composition suggestions- unless the other person is with you at the time you take the pictures.
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Nokia guide to saving a Lumia Windows Phone from drowning
Nokia has published this semi-humorous guide to saving a Lumia Windows Phone from being permanently damaged by water. Should you so happen to drop your Lumia device into a swimming pool or a bath, then these simple steps might just turn your bad luck (or clumsiness) into a gigantic sigh of relief. So how does one go about rescuing a drowning Lumia Windows Phone?
Firstly, one must remove the device from its watery hell as quickly as possible. The faster it's removed from water, the lower the chance of permanent damage. You should then remove the SIM card and battery (if possible) to prevent further damage to components.
Next up is actually drying the handset. To carry this out effectively, one should use a dry cloth or towel - don't attempt to use paper towel, toilet paper or even a hairdryer (do we need to explain why?). Ensure all excess water has been removed from the Windows Phone. Of course this wont completely dry the device inside-out, so a nights rest next to a radiator (or in a bag of rice / wrapped in a towel) is required.
Once the phone has had time to shake off, re-insert the SIM and battery to check if it boots up. If it's successful then congratulations, if not then you're looking at the possibility of irreversible damage. We're pretty sure this guide can be applied to all sturdy Windows Phones, just remember not to go swimming with your handset in your pocket. | <urn:uuid:16302353-368e-4786-9dbb-8eb7810fc9e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wpcentral.com/comment/264233 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937752 | 313 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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PRESS CONFERENCE ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY DIALOGUE ON RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY
Energy was central to all aspects of development, the Ambassador of Belarus said today, urging United Nations Member States to bridge the current “energy divide” by, among other things, creating a global mechanism to ensure that all countries, especially developing nations and transition economies, gained fair and adequate access to technologies for new and renewable sources of energy.
Briefing the press at Headquarters during the mid-day break of the General Assembly’s interactive thematic dialogue on “Energy efficiency, energy conservation and new and renewable sources of energy” (see Press Release GA/10838), Andrei Dapkiunas said that addressing the existing global energy divide required a giant leap forward that included sound initiatives for structural adjustments, as well as a breakthrough in the perception of the limits of what could be achieved. Further, he added: “We must be willing to rally the amount of empathy [and] understanding to address this truly global issue.”
“We believe […] that broad proliferation of advanced sustainable energy technologies for development is possible,” he said, adding that Belarus, which had been instrumental, along with a number of other Assembly delegations, in seeing that the thematic dialogue was held, also believed that more robust North-South cooperation on energy was possible, dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and conservation could be achieved, and that sustained intergovernmental dialogue on energy conservation was possible.
He called on the participants in the thematic dialogue to engage in shaping the pragmatic vision of a breakthrough on sustainable energy and, along the way, shape the beginnings of a United Nations energy agenda. He stressed that, when the United Nations and its agencies discussed climate change, poverty reduction, food security, or other priorities on the global development agenda, energy issues must not be sidelined. “Energy […] links all those subjects and can perhaps provide solutions,” he said.
Mr. Dapkiunas said his Government hoped that advice and recommendations that emerged from the dialogue could lead to the consideration of the establishment of a global mechanism that would ensure that all countries, especially developing countries and transition economies, would get fair and adequate access to technologies for new and renewable sources of energy. The beginnings of such a mechanism were in place, he said, noting the abundance of national- and regional-level good practices. However, there no clear scheme on how to make advanced technologies for new and renewable sources of energy readily available at the global level.
Belarus was not proposing a new bureaucratic structure, but rather a set of practical measures that could improve and strengthen the existing international institutional and legal environment, he said. That effort could include creating a database of the relevant technologies and could also build on the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Expert Group on the Transfer of Technologies. He also proposed the creation of a global fund to finance transfer of energy technologies, and added that Member States might also want to consider the establishment of a United Nations-backed centre focused on the transfer of advanced energy technologies.
Responding to questions, he said Member States should not shy away from innovative thinking because some ideas or solutions seemed like they might “not be UN enough”. Indeed, taking a bolder approach to energy matters might be a way to open up the discussion and ultimately lead to some feasible, practical solutions. “But right now, we believe we need to use every means to get us together […] not just to get us in the same room but to get us on the same wavelength, developed and developing countries alike.”
He said the thematic dialogue had its roots in the comments made by the Minster for Foreign Affairs of Belarus during last years general debate, who had suggested that the 192-member body should get involved in the growing international discourse on energy, not because it was becoming fashionable, but because energy matters were at the heart of so many issues the United Nations was attempting to tackle.
He said that, when Belarus had decided to initiate the dialogue, it had considered the comparative advantages of having it convened by the world’s most representative body, even as discussions about energy efficiency and renewable energy were taking place in other forums. “We didn’t need another talk shop [and] wanted to consider how the Governments of the world thought about ways intergovernmental engagement could be adjusted to facilitate development, transfer and application of advanced and breakthrough technologies in the sphere of [sustainable] energy.”
As for the outcome of the current Assembly dialogue, he said that, while the President would prepare his traditional summary of the talks, Belarus hoped that the co-organizers of the event would contemplate ways to keep up the momentum generated today. In practical terms, Belarus hoped to draw on the discussion, as it drafted a resolution on new and renewable energy that it planned to introduce in the Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Financial) in the fall. Looking ahead, Belarus hoped that, one day, the Assembly would proclaim advanced energy technologies the common property of mankind.
While that might seem like a naïve notion, he said, with all the challenges facing the international community, market-based, profit-and-loss considerations and concerns over intellectual property rights should not stand in the way of crafting a broad, globally agreed mechanism to provide energy technology for development.
Joining Mr. Dapkiunas was Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, who said that, while energy was central to human prosperity and sustainable development, the disparity in access to energy, between the United States and Bangladesh, or India and China, for instance -- especially access to technologies used to promote clean energy -- was eye opening.
That disparity in kilowatt hours of energy used trickled down to all levels of human development; where energy use and access to energy was low, studies had shown that child mortality rates rose and life expectancy decreased. No country had reached adequate levels of human development without 100 per cent access to electricity, he said, adding soberly that 2.5 billion people worldwide had no access to any electricity at all. “So you see why we have such a strong agenda to increase the access to energy of countries and populations that do not have enough.”
While getting energy to those without it was crucial, Mr. Banuri said the United Nations believed it was also important to take innovative steps to curb energy waste, as well as to begin adopting renewable energy solutions that would address the effects of climate change. One key obstacle there was that, currently, non-renewable energy was cheap, while clean energy sources and technologies were expensive.
So the priority was to ensure that renewable energy was affordable now and in the future, especially so that more people in poor countries could afford it. It was also critical for affluent countries to wean their populations from wasting energy and from using fossil fuels. “We need polices that can bring both sides together,” he said.
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It’s getting easier to fly without a printed boarding pass as airlines expand electronic boarding passes to more airports.
Just last week, American Airlines rolled out paperless boarding passes to three more airports — Las Vegas, Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul. After checking in normally, customers traveling on domestic flights through these airports can choose to receive an electronic boarding pass via email, which can be displayed on Internet-enabled cell phones and other mobile devices. When the bar code is received, travelers have the option of downloading the image to their phones (like you would with a photo) so it can be called up at any time, regardless of the current Internet connection. At the airport, customers scan their cell phone screens when going through security and when boarding just as they would a traditional paper boarding pass.
American also offers mobile boarding to passengers departing on domestic flights from Chicago’s O’Hare International, Los Angeles International and John Wayne Orange Country airports. Continental offers mobile boarding at several airports including Houston, Newark, and New York’s LaGuardia airport. Delta passengers can use electronic boarding passes at LaGuardia in New York and Minneapolis-St. Paul. And Alaska Airlines has been testing the program at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
But like any new technology, mobile boarding is not without glitches. David Lambert, a frequent business traveler from Dallas, tried to go paperless when flying out of Los Angeles International airport on American a couple of weeks ago by checking in on his iPhone and receiving his electronic boarding pass barcode via email. He sailed through security without any problems, but when he got to the gate, he couldn’t get an Internet connection to show the gate agent his electronic boarding pass. “I had to run to the Admiral’s Club to have a boarding pass printed,” because the gate agent was dealing with eight other people with travel issues, he said. “I learned my lesson — always save the barcode to your phone.” | <urn:uuid:1bdc170c-6b04-43b6-a88b-4a171633eebd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/practical-traveler-mobile-boarding-passes-roll-out-to-more-airports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948739 | 409 | 1.5 | 2 |
Happier times with his son.
Some comments on this accident follow:
1. The rider almost chose not to kiteboard because of the strengthening wind conditions. Sometimes it is best to go with your gut in things and as they say, "live to kite another day."
If conditions seem to be excessively gusty carefully consider not riding.
2. Try to pick a kite and line setup suitable for anticipated winds targeting the lower to mid wind range max.
Avoid intentionally or accidently going out in overpowered conditions.
3. Work to ALWAYS launch UNHOOKED
Practice the technique in more moderate winds, it isn't that complex or hard to do. Learn to trim your kite for max depower feasible while still maintaining stable flight for the kite size and wind speed to better manage the kite load. If you have an acceptable downwind buffer if you need to you just drop your kite to the leash and depower it ideally with no problems. Practice "just letting go" in an emergency as opposed to clinging to the bar like grim death.
4. It would have been better had the kiter and his helper walked out into the shallows well away from shore before launching. He indicated a 1 m depth of water was about 70 m offshore. It sounds like the hurricanes moved most of the soft sandy bottom out of the shallows. Finding a sandy verge in a reasonable riding area may be difficult off some parts of the island at this point. If there is an area with side to side onshore clean winds with a sand bottom it would be better to launch and ride there, if such an area can be readily accessed.
5. As the kiter says, ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET, a good one suitable for kiteboarding and use an impact vest while you're at it. These simple aids may not help in a severe accident but then again they may make an important difference in the outcome and recovery. A good helmet might have lessened the abrasion and impact scalp injuries in this accident.
One thing is certain, if you don't use safety gear it will do you NO GOOD whatsoever.
People have said helmets make them look bad.
Do you really think having your scalp look like rider's would make you feel more cool?
Thank God the injuries are mainly above the hairline and he should have his good looks back in no time.
Get a good SKID LID for kiteboarding, wear it when ever you ride and forget it is on. The last part comes naturally for most people.
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Prime Time for Financial Planning?
Many of us assume that the services of a financial adviser are most appropriate for two groups of people: those who have more money than they know what to do with, and those who can't make it from one paycheck to the next.
But say you stand somewhere along that wide range in between. You meet all your expenses, you have your debts under control, and you've set aside a cash reserve that would carry you through several months should a financial emergency arise. Beyond that, you have additional money that you've begun to invest to build your financial future.
A financial planner is someone who can evaluate your overall financial situation--your budget, savings, investments, retirement plans, taxes, estate planning, and insurance--and recommend strategies that will help you reach your financial goals.
To decide if seeing a financial planner would be a wise move for you, Sharon Danes, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, suggests asking yourself seven questions:
If you answered "no" to some of the above, you may be a candidate for professional financial planning advice, Danes says. The more "no" answers you gave, the more strongly you should consider consulting a financial planner.
Income level alone is not an indicator of your need for a financial planner's services.
Danes emphasizes that income level alone is not an indicator of the need for a financial planner's services. While her list mentions a $50,000 income guideline, she's not suggesting that anyone earning more than that automatically needs to see a financial planner. Neither does this decision depend solely on reaching a certain stage in life.
Can you afford a financial planner?
Vickie Hampton, a certified financial planner and associate professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, agrees that deciding to use a financial planner hinges on much more than how much money you make.
For instance, a change in life circumstances, such as the birth of a child or the death of a family income-earner, may spur someone to seek financial planning help. "Sometimes it's just a matter of reaching a point when you think it's time to deal with your finances," Hampton notes. "You could learn to do it yourself, but you'd prefer to do something else with your time. It may be more cost-effective to pay a professional to help you with your finances."
While Hampton says it's difficult to pinpoint an income threshold at which you should consider using a financial planner, she points out that because you're paying for those services, your income has to be sufficient to justify the expense. And the cost can vary widely.
Some planners provide ongoing consultation and assess a fee based on a percentage of the client's assets or income. Others charge by the hour or a flat fee for the job. Some charge no fees and earn commissions from the companies whose financial products they sell. Some get paid with a combination of fees and commissions, while others earn a straight salary paid by the company for which they work.
Nobody cares about your money more than you do.
"There are so many business models out there," Hampton says. "We're also seeing more financial planning done in the workplace and in banks and credit unions. Those models often are better suited to moderate-income people."
You can work with a financial planner in many different ways, which also affects your costs. For example, asking a planner to provide an ongoing comprehensive review of all your finances would be the most costly. On the other hand, you'd pay much less to hire a planner to sit down with you for an hour or two, maybe once every few years, to get a second opinion on whether your own financial decision-making is on the right track.
Choices, choices ...
A confusing array of options awaits the person who decides to seek consultation with a financial planner. Most anyone can claim "financial planner" as his or her job title, and there's little government regulation.
Thus, it's wise to check the education, experience, and credentials of anyone you decide to hire. You'll encounter such designations as CFP (certified financial planner), ChFC (chartered financial consultant), and CPA/PFS (certified public accountant/personal financial specialist). These professionals had special training and passed exams to earn credentials as financial planners. They also must meet continuing education requirements.
One adviser alone, however, may not be able to handle all your financial planning needs. For instance, if you have a complex tax situation, you may need advice from a tax attorney. A reputable planner will refer you to specialists in areas outside his or her expertise.
Most anyone can claim "financial planner" as his or her job title, and there's little government regulation.
Even if you do use a financial planner, you still need to stay on top of what's going on with your finances. Be sure you understand the planner's advice. Ask questions. Read to build your own knowledge of financial topics.
"You have to know enough to know whether your planner is steering you right," Hampton notes. "There's a saying that nobody cares about your money more than you do. So keep in mind that when all is said and done, it's your responsibility. You're the one who will reap the benefits or the losses. You have to stay engaged."
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The second step to get into the unexplored territory of the kingdom of God is to become a son of God.
2. THE SON OF GOD
How does man become a son of God?
That is when he believes in Jesus Christ and repents from his sins.
Try to imagine that you are the son of God, the Creator of heaven and earth… this makes you dangerous and untouchable because your Dad is the Supreme Authority!
No one and nothing could touch you without His permission. Even your very hair is accounted for. This means that no one could touch the least part of your body, like the hair, without His permission!
Your Father is the owner of the whole universe - He is the CEO of the Kingdom, the Son, Jesus Christ is the COO and we, the sons, are the managers of the Kingdom (the sons are the ones running the family business).
The Son made us “sons” by redeeming and restoring us into His Kingdom. The Son redeemed the sons in order for them to liberate the whole creation. That is the task of man, who is the son. Adam, the first son, lost the Kingdom when he fell into sin in the garden but the Son, Jesus Christ, regained the Kingdom in the same garden: Gethsemane. Gethsemane means “get same man”! So when the Son regained this Kingdom, He was given all authority in heaven and on earth. And that authority, He shared it with the sons. As the bible says…
Mat 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Mat 28:19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
The Son is the perfect image of the Father while the son (man) is the image of the Son. So now, man has a relationship again with God the Father. When man fell into sin through Adam, man became the son of the devil. But this time, he is the son of God again through Jesus Christ. This makes life exciting! Exciting means you are free from worries, struggles and most of all free from the power of the enemy.
So when you approach God, you approach Him as your Daddy. This is your direct access to the King of the universe, as a son. If you have problems in life, you can easily share it to Him because He is your Father. You can share to Him even your emotions or anything that concerns you.
You are not only a son, but also you are a co-heir with the Son, which means everything the Son owns, you own it also. The Son owns the whole universe. Imagine the whole universe or the unexplored territory… that is what you own! Sometimes your life is so boring because you don’t know this truth; you don’t know that you are a son of the living God; you don’t know that you belong to the royal family of the King of the whole universe.
The main business of the sons is dominion. It means, they are the controller of the planet earth. As the bible states…
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Gen 1:26)
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Julia Gillard has dumped many election promises because she now relies on a motley group of independents and The Greens to stay in power - but she has signalled that she will proceed with one promise: a vast network of marine reserves right around the Australian coastline.
In her speech opening the 43rd Parliament, setting out the new Government’s program, Governor General Quentin Bryce said: “To better protect our most sensitive marine habitats and assist the long-term viability of our ocean based industries, the Government will seek to build a representative network of protected areas in Australian waters.”
In the months leading up to the August election, fishers around the country became aware of Labor’s plans for a vast network of reserves right around the Australian coastline out to the 200 nautical mile limit of the Exclusive Economic Zone.
The suspicion of fishers about the government’s intentions were increased when it became widely known that then Environment Minister Peter Garrett declared the entire Coral Sea a conservation zone after discussions with only the U.S. based environmental organisation the Pew Foundation, and the Australian Conservation Foundation. No other stakeholders were consulted, leading to justified concern about a bias towards extreme green outcomes.
Suspicions were further heightened when Mr Garrett pushed the announcement of draft marine reserves out until well after the election. The first is now due next year. Concern also deepened as the pre-election deal between Labor and The Greens brought the latter’s anti-fishing policy into clear focus.
Anti-fishing Greens policies include a call for 30% no-take zones across all of Australia’s territorial waters, 100% no-take for the entire Coral Sea, compulsory state zoning to matching federal bans, and removal of the tax break on diesel costs for the fishing fleet.
From July next year the minority Labor government will need the support of The Greens in the Senate to govern, and will therefore have to give them some policy wins.
Senator Boswell said fishermen – professional and recreational – had to prepare now for the battle of their lives to protect their livelihoods – or their precious pastime.
“There is some hope that now we are rid of Garrett, some commonsense might return to the process, but the big complication is the extreme nature of The Greens policy, and a strong pro-Green flavour in the Department itself.
“Add to that mix Labor’s need to keep the Greens happy and we could be in for some extraordinary proposals. The only language Labor will understand is a threat to the political future of every Labor member, state and federal, within 50 kilometres of the ocean - right around the Australian coastline.
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About The Book
The handbook “A Practical Handbook On Right To Information Act, 2005 ” attempts to focus on the practical aspects of its implementation and throws light on certain grey areas of the Right to information Act, 2005. It thoroughly covers the objectives and the background of the act, the mechanism of implementing the act, the hurdles faced during implementation, the guidelines to public information officers and Appellate Authorities and the various achievements of RTI. In addition to these, the role and responsibilities of the judiciary, Educational Institutions, Ministry/Government, CIC, PSUs, NGOs and other authorities, associated with RTI Act, have also been described in details.
About The Author
Shri S.R. Khaneja, the author of this handbook is a holder of honors Degree in Engg. and Masters Degree in Foreign Trade. He has served with various renowned private and leading public sector undertaking like Steel Authority of India Ltd., Kudremukh Iron Ore Co. ,NTPC Ltd. , Coal India Ltd.. etc. for 35 years at variour capacities,. He was chief of vigilance in NTPC Ltd. and Executive Director (Vigilance) in Coal India Ltd. in 1994 .
Shri Khaneja had authored a book captioned, “ A Handbook on Departmental Proceedings in Public Sector Undertakings “, released by the then Central Vigilance Commissioner Shri N.Vittal and recommended by Director , CBI and the Chairmen of various PSUs.
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on July 31, 2000 at 13:23:27:
Hi -- I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Alzheimer's was genetic. My grandfather had it before he died, and it scared me because he couldn't even remember my name.
My dad is getting old, and is starting to forget things too.
I'm only 38, but should I be worried about it? Is there anything I can do for my dad, in terms of herbs or medications?
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