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John Lingan's essay on William Gaddis in the latest Quarterly Converstation is very good, one of the best analyses of Gaddis's work I've read recently. I particularly like this description of The Recognitions and JR:
Gaddis anticipated postmodern American literature’s obsessions with entropy and the “death of the author,” but he shared the high modernists’ attention to form. Like Joyce peppering Ulysses’s newsroom scene with capitalized headlines, Gaddis constructed The Recognitions and JR as mimetic of their subjects—the former is as bulging and ornate as the Flemish paintings that protagonist Wyatt Gwyon is paid to forge, and the latter is one continuous flood of voices, frequently unidentified, that recall either a stock ticker’s relentlessness or an overlapping teleconference. . . .
I also mostly agree with this characterization of Gaddis's work:
Just as his novels JR and A Frolic of His Own announce their subjects (”Money . . . ?” and “Justice?” respectively) in their opening sentences, William Gaddis’s career could have started with the question, “Work?” No single word better encapsulates the concerns and organizing metaphor for Gaddis’s artistic project, in which he chronicles the myriad ways that postwar industrial American culture devalues and drowns out individual expression in an endless barrage of information. His concerns were weighty—nothing less than the erosion of western culture and society—but Gaddis’s novels are ultimately saved from grim systemic coldness by his emphasis on work, which he defined strictly and defended with religious zeal. To Gaddis, work equaled an individual effort (best exemplified by the sympathetic and underappreciated artists of his first novels, The Recognitions and JR) to sort through the swarming cultural ephemera and create, with monastic persistence, something that no machine or business could adequately reproduce. Since Gaddis believed the two to be tantamount, his emphasis on the value of work was nothing less than a defense of the artistic impulse itself.
I don't think that Gaddis avoids "grim systemic coldness" simply through his depiction of work (a point on which I elaborate below), but that the "work" of art holds special value for him is clearly enough illustrated in his novels.
However, I can't really accept the implications of Lingan's conclusion about the "difficulty" of Gaddis's fiction:
The Recognitions and JR. . .are not books that function as the literary equivalent of a player piano. They are not “hot media,” to borrow one buzz term that Gaddis quoted in his National Book Award acceptance speech for A Frolic of His Own. Rather, they require effort, metaphorical reading between the lines, and ideally a little research, as evidenced by the encyclopedic website The Gaddis Annotations, devoted to annotations of the novels. They require, in other words, the readerly equivalent of a Protestant work ethic.
Gaddis is indeed one of those modern/postmodern authors whose writing is considered "difficult," requiring more effort than the casual reader is likely to expend. While it is true that books like The Recognitions, JR, and A Frolic of His Own call for a special kind of attention on the reader's part, an attention capable of reading not just between but around the lines of dialogue that comprise so much of these novels, I don't believe that referring to the act of reading Gaddis as encompassing "the readerly equivalent of a Protestant work ethic" is ultimately very useful or very accurate in commending his novels to potential readers. It suggests that, as the "last Protestant," his "work" privileges moral critique over art, is more ponderous matter than engaging aesthetic manner, and I don't think either is true.
Lingan quotes Gaddis himself protesting this austere view of his fiction:
. . .I think the reader gets satisfaction out of participating in, collaborating, if you will, with the writer, so that it ends up being between the reader and the page. . . . Why did we invent the printing press? Why do we, why are we literate? Because of the pleasure of being all alone, with a book, is one of the greatest pleasures.
The perception of Gaddis as a moralist depends largely on construing his fiction as essentially a kind of satire of what Lingan calls "postwar industrial American culture." There is undeniably an element of satire in Gaddis's novels but in my view to settle for that in responding to these novels is to settle for the least possible interest one might find in them. Satire is ultimately a one-channel mode of discourse: the satirist mocks, and the reader is duly edified. There is no "participation," no "collaboration" on the reader's part--except to agree that the subject at hand is worth mocking. When Gaddis says that what his fiction offers "ends up being between the reader and the page," he is asserting that it provides a much more complex reading experience, one that is itself the source of "pleasure" and that transcends the lesser value to be found in satirical correction.
However much fiction like Gaddis's challenges some complacent reading habits, it does so in the service of expanding our capacity to read abundantly, and thus our capacity to take "pleasure" in what we read. An assumption that seems to be held by those who decry "difficulty" in fiction is that the ideal reading experience is one in which little is asked of the reader, who judges the value of the experience by how quickly we can get from one sentence to another, one paragraph to the next. A reading experience is worthwhile if reading is in effect concealed, the reader made to forget that words are interceding between him/her and the "story," that a work of fiction is ultimately a verbal composition the patterns and internal logic of which are more immediately the object of the reader's engagement than any "content."
But I think many readers implicitly reject this notion of reading, and many others could be led to do so if confronted by a text whose initial difficulty--which is to say unfamiliarity--is eventually ameliorated by the work itself, which teaches us how to read it as we go, and which proves to be as aesthetically pleasing as any more transparently "enjoyable" conventional narrative--indeed, perhaps even more so, since this pleasure has been earned more rigorously. Gaddis's novels are of this type, it seems to me, and fans of these novels are not just responding to their invocation of a "work ethic" but are finding the work exerted amply rewarded by the subtleties of effect that become available and by the very heightened attention that makes these effects more visible. Both the volubility evoked by Gaddis's emphasis on talk and the silences such talk obscures, the reader asked to make those silences speak, act to make Gaddis's fiction very active, and thus very entertaining in its own way. This is what makes his fiction appealing to most of his readers, not the prospect of gaining glory through hard work.
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Interesting question, I thought. As a hospital chaplain, I served the needs of people of all religious persuasions. I recited prayers for healing, brought religious ritual objects to patients, and in one case said last rites for a patient when a priest could not get there in time. All this time, I was acting as a rabbi with a grounding in my own tradition. Others acknowledged my standing as clergy and saw me as a conduit through which their religious needs could be served. The fact that I was a rabbi, and not from their faith tradition, did not matter.
Why then would it matter if two people who were not Jewish wanted a rabbi to marry them? It is starting to happen more often than you might think. A few years ago a non-Jewish friend of mine asked me if I would officiate at her wedding. In the end, she bowed to parental pressure and went with their minister, but she confided in me that it would have been much more meaningful for her to have me, a close, friend officiate than someone she really did not know. Several people I know have gotten on line “ordination” as a universal life minister so that they could marry friends or relatives. Remember the TV show Friends? Joey does this so he can marry his friends Monica and Chandler. Having a personal connection to the officiant is becoming more important than having an officiant from a particular religious tradition.
Does anything in Jewish tradition forbid a rabbi from officiating at non Jewish marriages? Not really. Until now, no one would have asked a rabbi to do such a thing. As a rabbi, I would make some changes in the traditional Jewish ceremony so that it would apply to the situation at hand. But my power as clergy in the US still makes it a legal wedding under US law. It may not be a valid wedding under Jewish law, halachah, but since these are non-Jews, whether or not it is valid according to Jewish law does not pertain. Many of the symbols of a Jewish wedding translate beautifully in to any wedding – a marriage contract where the two parties spell out their commitment to each other, a wedding canopy signifying the new home being created, a series of blessings for the new couple, and a broken glass to remind us of their commitment to each other in good times and bad.
So do I think that a rabbi can officiate at a marriage between two non-Jews? My answer is a resounding yes.
Let the celebration begin. Mazal Tov!
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Makoto Aida at the Mizuma Galleryby Monty DiPietro
For several years now, the Tokyo art scene has been trying its best to keep up with the work of Makoto Aida, a task made difficult by the fact that it is nearly impossible to anticipate where the enigmatic artist will go next. At the ripe old age of 35, Aida has covered most of the artistic angles with an oeuvre that includes manga, painting, video, and installation, executed with such a wide range of expressive qualities that it is difficult to believe all could have been created by a single artist.
So while most were amused, few were surprised to discover that the entranceway for the scruffy artistís latest show requires visitors to climb a three-step ladder, hoist themselves through a hole in the wall and slide down a three-meter-long "tongue" in order to get inside. Making an artful and fun entrance is what the show, "Otoko no Sake," is mostly about Ė the splashy installation that cover the floors and walls of the Mizuma Gallery in Tokyoís Shibuya Ward evolved over a period two weeks, as Aida worked with the eager assistance of 40 community college student apprentices.
The lightweight art filling the tin foil and cardboard-covered gallery includes a wall full of crepe paper flowers, a large water tower photograph, a crude cardboard mobile featuring giant mop, broom, and toilet plunger, and several painting on board pieces that resemble theater scenery Ė the most impressive of these depicting a blender filled with human bodies.
"I didnít really think about anything for this show," laughs the artist at an opening party filled with the participating students and their drunk and giggling friends. "Itís like a school festival, and acts as a counterpoint to my serious work."
Aida may be best-known for his disturbing Nihonga paintings of young female amputees, some of them leashed like a dog. He has also exhibited a "Fake Suicide Machine," built a cardboard castle for the Shinjuku homeless, and done a splendid series of mock childrenís paintings on themes such as "Save Nature," and "Be Punctual."
Some recent examples of what Aida calls his "more serious work" can be found in the group show "Ground Zero Japan," now on at the Art Tower Mito in Ibaragi. Here Aida is showing byobu (folding screen) paintings from his ongoing "War Picture Returns" series. The mixed-media constructions find flag-waving Koreans, the Hiroshima atom bombing memorial dome, and a four meter wide panorama of mother-of-pearl Japanese Zero fighter planes buzzing a burning New York City, in a commentary on the propaganda paintings glorifying the Imperial Army that artists such as Yokoyama Taikan painted during the Second World War.
A political-activist in college, Aida says he believed that "English-language education was an intrigue by American imperialism," and so resolved not to learn the language. Strains of nationalism can be evidenced in the artistís work, most obviously in his "War Picture Returns" series but also in other pieces such as the video "Lonely Planet," in which the artist makes anonymous telephone calls to non-English-speaking countries. In an attendant note to "Lonely Planet," Aida bemoans his discovery that Africans can speak French. Somebody might want to tell Aida that many Koreans can speak Japanese, and then explain the reason why.
Thankfully, Aida plans to relocate to New York City in February of next year. A little time in a cosmopolitan environment will do the clever artist a world of good, and enable him to see his country from a new perspective. And then, again, we in the Tokyo art scene can wait and wonder, with the same question: What on earth is Makoto Aida going to think of next?
Notes: Until Jan 29, (3499-0226). The ATM show runs to Jan 23.
Makoto Aida gallery
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I have been on at least six trips to archives outside of my state (I.E. involving a significant investment in money and time) and countless trips to the NARA Seattle branch near where I live. I've built up what I consider a good set of tools to research with. Some may fall under the "duh!" category but some may surprise you. They are based loosely on a necessity/nice to have scale:
1) Laptop & scanner:
This might be the "Duh!" I mentioned earlier but it may also be a new concept for some, so it is at the top of the list. A researcher can reproduce documents at various archives (speaking of more than just the National Archives), but usually at cost. If one plans several tips where copies are going to be made, it may very well be a cost savings to buy these up front. Primarily though, it just gives you a better foundation to work with and makes it easier to use your research; you can back it up, trade it, send it to a publisher, etc., fairly easy in digital form.
The laptop does not need to be anything fantastic as it's main function is a scan engine. Choose something reliable and to to taste; perhaps you like a bigger screen or smaller, more compact design. One thing to keep in mind is USB capacity; my Dell Latitude has four ports and there are times when I've used all of them (scanner, mouse, USB memory, headset). Hard drive space is something to consider; will the laptop be your primary storage area or will you keep copies elsewhere, such as a home computer or external hard drive. My preferred image format is tif, and my collection of research is over 150 gigs.
Scanners: multiple flavors with different abilities and costs. My current tool is a Microtek that was a gift from my wife. It is not as portable or rugged as the Canon LIDE 30 I used previously, but the bundled OCR software more than makes up for it with its better recognition of text (To be honest, it's a couple of years newer than the software that was bundled with the Canon).
I'm a big fan of the Canon line as they are compact and don't need a separate power cord. A couple of things to be aware of, however. In my experience the Canons have an extremely narrow focal point and the edge is raised; this means that if you have a photo with any sort of curl or ripple to it you have to take care to firmly press it down or you will have areas that are blurred and out of focus. Since it has a plastic "glass" plate, there were times when I was pressing down on areas too hard and bowing the scanner plate down such that it contacted the scanner arm as it passed. The raised lip mentioned above may be an annoyance when scanning documents larger than the scanner plate to digitally stitch together later.
Along with that, notes are crucially important. You may come across something that you don't have time to scan in now but might in the future and you will definitely want to make it quick to grab. Some people prefer to save things based on the subject, I.E. they will create a folder structure something like "US Navy/Battleships/North Carolina" but I prefer to keep my documents in the original structure I found them in, something like "Settle NARA/Ship Files/Box 4/BB55 (Folder 1 of 5)." This is purely personal preference but I find it helps me retain some familiarity with the records structure and provides a bit of a backup in case I lose my spreadsheet (Not bloody likely!) The Spread sheet I have organized with different tabs on the bottom for different Archives (I.E. College Park, Seattle, San Bruno, Laguna Niguel) and then three columns set so that I can print them out if I need a hard copy without cutting off any text. I create a row or two where needed that lists the Accession (I.E. Ship Files 1940-50, declasssification review #12345) and then underneath that the left most column is the box number, then the second is the folder, and the third and most wide is the notes. If I have too many notes for one line I copy the folder down, indent it and add "(Continued)" and then write more. This excel spread sheet is THE MOST important document I have; I keep multiple backups so that even if my house and the office I keep an off-site backup burns down and both copies of my scans are lost I still know where I found stuff and can at least go back and get it. Additionally, things that I've seen but not scanned in can be used in trade; perhaps you have contacts with another researcher who wants to research a topic; I have traded information in the past.
Well, that went a little longer than expected....
2) Digital Camera:
Depending on what you are after this may make a better tool than a scanner. I have known researchers after bulk documents to use a camera for the speed. If you are only after a deck log and know that you have 1,000 sheets to do, will a scanner that takes 20-30 seconds per scan or a camera that takes a second or two per shot work better? Additionally, in some cases items that are too large for the scanner can be easily photographed.
3) USB Memory Drive or external hard drive.:
Once you have the data, how do you protect it? If you spend $500 and a week on a research trip, what is the value of what you find, and what does it "cost" if you lose it? I typically travel with my laptop and a 16 gig USB Memory stick. Once the day's scanning is over I COPY the scans on to the USB drive so that I have a backup right then and there. Once home, Copies go on to the home work station and an external hard drive that mostly stays off-site. Copies of my afore-mentioned spread sheet are saved to all four, plus a copy on a server that is out of state. The 16 gig memory stick was a cheap investment in 2009 of $40.
4) Mental Diversion:
With the extended hours some archives have, it is possible to spend up to 60 hours in 5 days researching. If you are doing research that requires mental acuity I believe it pays to bring along something to keep your mind as fresh as possible. Since rubber chickens are disallowed, it's usually easiest to set up something on the computer, be it some music (using headphones of course) or something like solitaire. Don't be afraid to get up and walk around too; a five minute break will work wonders.
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MBA: Valuable and Versatile
DID YOU KNOW...that Chris DeWolfe, one of the founders (and current CEO) of MySpace, has an MBA from the University of Southern California? According to Fortune magazine's authorized peek at Chris's MySpace page, he landed on his feet after his first venture failed, then invited new partner Tom Anderson (MySpace co-founder) to "Go figure out how to make money." (Looks like they got that covered.) Or how about Scott Adams, creator of the much-appreciated Dilbert comic strip? Adams's MBA is from UC Berkeley. Did you know that Tom Freston, one of the founding members of MTV, is a New York University MBA alumnus?
The Versatility of the MBA
The MBA degree originated in the U.S. at the start of the 20th century, after the country industrialized. The number of business schools increased rapidly and the MBA degree evolved into a highly-sought degree after World War II, when industry became interested in scientific approaches to management and business analysis. One great advantage of a good MBA degree is its applicability to a wide range of industries and organizations. The combination of a well-rounded MBA with a specialization in a particular field of interest can result in a versatile, useful credential.
Today, you have the option to earn your MBA degree online. The coursework will probably be just as demanding as that of a traditional campus-bound program, but the online format may allow you to continue gaining work experience on the job while simultaneously completing your degree. Just be sure that the school and the MBA Online program you choose is accredited.
Famous MBAs include:
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip. A member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Adams worked with corporate telecommunications engineers in California prior to his career as a cartoonist. He cites that experience as rich and fruitful food for his creative genius. Speaking of food, Adams is also CEO of his own food company, which makes the Dilberito, a vegetarian and vegan microwave burrito.
Arthur Rock, "the father of Venture Capital" who, along with Laurence Rockefeller, virtually founded the venture capital business. Credited with coining the term "Venture Capital," Rock helped to fund every major semiconductor company, including the first -- Fairchild Semiconductor -- and the biggest -- Intel. He was also an early investor in Apple Computer and Scientific Data Systems.
Tom Freston, one of the founding executives of MTV: Music Television, who, as the head of the Marketing division, created the "I want my MTV" ad campaign. Freston is currently on the Board of Trustees for Emerson College, a preeminent arts and communications liberal arts university in Boston.
Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is responsible for the application of systems analysis to public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. He taught at the Harvard Business School at age 34, worked for the Air Force Office of Statistical Control during WWII, then joined Ford Motor Company upon his return, eventually becoming its first president from outside the family. From 1961-1968, he was Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, later drawing tremendous criticism for his role in extending the Vietnam War. He left the White House to become head of the World Bank, where he oversaw great increases in funding, a change in focus from infrastructure to meeting basic human needs, and improved methods for evaluating the effectiveness of funded projects. One notable project started during McNamara's tenure was the effort to prevent river blindness, the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness.
Tom Magliozzi -- "Clack" -- of the Tappet Brothers, co-host, along with his brother Ray, of Car Talk, the irreverent NPR radio show. A graduate of MIT, Tom earned his MBA at the BU Graduate School of Management. (He also has a doctorate in Marketing.) Tom also writes for CarTalk.com and runs his own consulting business. His big Hollywood break came in 2006, when he and Ray had cameo appearances in the 2006 animated movie, Cars -- Tom was a 1963 Dodge Dart.
Charles R. Schwab. Schwab pioneered first the discount brokerage industry -- demystifying the stock market and opening it up to the everyday investor -- and then online investing, capitalizing on the Internet to build the leading online trading company. Not bad for someone who had to overcome dyslexia as a student. Whether you actually talk to him or not, you can certainly thank Chuck that you're no longer paying one percent of the purchase price on every stock transaction.
Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder (along with Tom Anderson) of MySpace, the online social networking community. According to Alexa Internet Inc., which collects statistics on web traffic, MySpace is currently the world's sixth most popular English-language website, the sixth most popular website in any language, and the third most popular website in the U.S. As of September 7, 2007, there were more than 200 million accounts -- of which DeWolfe's was the sixth.
Peter Lynch, who managed Fidelity's Magellan Fund for 13 years, making it the world's largest mutual fund. Lynch started out as an intern at Fidelity Investments, in 1966. Similarly to how would-be authors are advised to write about what they know, Lynch recommends that non-professional investors invest in what they know -- that is, to research investments related to industries or topics in which they have already acquired extensive knowledge through personal experience.
Meg Whitman, President and CEO of e-Bay. When Whitman joined eBay, the company operated only in the U.S., with 29 employees. Today, eBay is a global organization with more than 11,000 employees. BusinessWeek cites exemplary customer communications as one of Whitman's secrets of success at eBay, particularly her emphasis on keeping customers informed about site changes and welcoming feedback.
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City. Before venturing into politics, Bloomberg founded a real-time news service for investors. Twenty-five years later, Bloomberg L.P. is the largest financial news and data company in the world, controlling 33% of market share and employing 9,000 people worldwide. Pretty impressive when you consider that Reuters and Dow-Jones had a 100-year head start.
Susan Decker, president of Yahoo! Inc. Before joining Yahoo! in 2000, Decker was the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation, at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and before holding that role, was an equity research analyst, receiving recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.
Phil Knight, chairman of Nike. Knight, who lettered in track as a University of Oregon undergraduate, is credited with putting an American company back at the head of the shoe industry pack after decades of being outrun by foreign competition. His strategy included expansion into multiple sports niches and marketing campaigns. Nike employs 22,000 people-- including Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Schumacher, and Roger Federer.
Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, which he co-founded along with three partners in 1982. Sun Microsystems was one of a group of successful startup companies in California's Silicon Valley in the '80s, but, unlike many members of the Silicon Valley community, McNealy's background is in business rather than computer science or programming background. McNealy is one of the few heads of a major corporation to have been CEO for over twenty years.
Thomas G. Stemberg, Staples chairman, who founded and built the chain of office supply stores into an $11 billion company. Fulfilling the proverb "Necessity is the mother of invention," Stemberg reportedly came up with the Staples idea (in the mid-'80s) on July 4th, in response to the frustration of not being able to buy a ribbon for his printer because all the stores were closed. Stemberg also a director of Petsmart, a chain of pet supply stores.
Arjay Miller, a Ford Motor Company "Whiz Kid" (along with Robert McNamara). The Whiz Kids were ten U.S. Air Force veterans of World War II who became Ford Motor Company executives in 1946. After 20 years at Ford, during which time he rose to become president of the company, Miller went to Stanford University Graduate School of Business to build it into one of the leading schools of business in the U.S.
Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in the world. Buffett actually has a master's degree in Economics rather than an MBA, but the different degree doesn't seem to have held him back. A legend for having made his fortune through investments in undervalued (and unexciting) stocks, Buffet filed his first income tax return at age 13 in 1943, deducting his bicycle as a work expense for $35.
The Value of the MBA
The value of an MBA is such that a number of executives, Bill Gates included, have attended short-course "Executive MBA" programs. Although Gates never graduated from Harvard -- due to the opportunity he saw in the personal computer industry -- he did attend a Harvard Executive MBA program during the 1980s.
1) Fortune Magazine and Fortune Magazine Archives, September 4, 2006.
3) Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
4) Chief Executive Magazine, Online.
5) "The Accidental Entrepreneur," by Gordon E. Moore, Nobelprize.org.
6) Google Answers
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About Donold Bradford Lourie
Donold B. Lourie (August 22, 1899 – January 15, 1990) was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions there and for several other businesses. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Lourie to a position in the State Department, and he served in that capacity for one year. Lourie attended Princeton University where he was a star quarterback, and he was named a consensus All-American as a junior. Lourie was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.
Lourie was born on August 22, 1899 in Decatur, Alabama. He grew up in Peru, Illinois where he attended LaSalle-Peru High School. He then attended boarding school at the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, but was constantly bullied. He played football there, and in his junior season in 1916, scored the winning touchdown against his school's "ancient rival", Andover. On the first play in the fourth quarter, he went around the left end to rush 33 yards for the game's only score.
Education and college football
He attended college at Princeton University where he played football and competed in track and field. In track, he won a broad jumping championship in the United Kingdom. In football, he played as a quarterback and was named a consensus All-American as a junior in 1920. Teammate and fellow All-American Stan Keck wrote a few years later that the 1920 Princeton–Yale game "stands out in my mind as that which offered the most stirring spectacle of my career." Princeton led in the last minute of the first half, 3–0, during which they had struggled against their opponent. With the ball on the Yale 40-yard line and only enough time remaining for one play, the Elis assumed that Princeton would attempt a field goal. Keck was set to be the kicker and Lourie the holder. When it became apparent Yale would attempt to block the kick, Lourie made an audible to fake a kick attempt and run the ball himself. Keck threw a block and allowed Lourie to run to the end zone for a touchdown. Princeton later extended their lead and won, 20–0, and finished the season with a 6–0–1 record. Walter Camp described Lourie as "the remarkable little general, disclosing every weak point of the opposition."
Lourie missed half of his senior season in 1921 because of an injury. He was awarded the Poe Memorial Cup for services rendered to the team both as a junior and a senior. Lourie was named to the all-time Princeton team in 1948, and in 1964, the National Football Foundation bestowed upon him its Gold Medal for lifetime achievement. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974. In his honor, Princeton created the Donold B. Lourie Award, which is awarded annually to the team's most outstanding freshman. Lourie graduated as the president of his class in 1922. He declined an offer to play for the Chicago Bears in the fledgling National Football League, and instead, remained at his alma mater as its backfield coach.
Lourie then went to work for the Quaker Oats Company. In 1923, he married Mary Edna King with whom he later had a son, Donold K. Lourie who became an attorney, businessman, and novelist. He became the president of Quaker Oats in 1947. In 1953, he took a leave of absence from Quaker when President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as the Under Secretary of State for Administration where Lourie oversaw a reorganization of the department. He returned to Quaker the following year, and in 1956, he became the chief executive officer, and in 1961, the chairman. At different times, Lourie also acted as director for Illinois Central Industries, the International Paper Company, International Harvester, and the Northern Trust Company. In 1970, Lourie retired from Quaker and moved to Longwood, Florida. He died on January 15, 1990 at the age of 90 in Wilmette, Illinois.
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From [email protected] Tue Jan 24 12:51 EST 1995
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 18:44 EET
From: Inter Press Service Harare <[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Subject: Message from Ipshre
Dilemna Of Female Circumcision
ByCharles Wachira, IPS, 24 January 1995
NAIROBI, Jan 24 (IPS) - Mary Nyamboki ran away from home at the age of 15 because her mother refused to allow her to be circumcised.
"All my friends were getting circumcised. I felt that if I was left out I would become the laughing stock. So I ran away from home and went to stay with grand mum who gave me the greenlight to become a woman," recounts Nyamboki.
Today, the 35 year-old mother takes a different view of female genital mutilation. She flares when asked if she would allow her daughter to undergo the traditional operation.
"Don't ask me such a question. If you would allow your daughter don't think I would," she says.
Female circumcision is customary among the majority of Kenya's ethnic communities, and is still widespread in the rural areas.
Only the western-based Luo and the Turkana in the north have not adopted the practice, out of the country's 43 tribes
An umbrella women's rights organisation, 'maendeleo ya wanawake', has however taken the brave step of announcing that it intends to see the eradication of genital mutilation.
It fully appreciates that it is not going to be an easy task.
A random survey carried out by the organisation in Nyamboki's home district of Kisii, 300 kms west of here, showed 98 percent of women interviewed in the villages had undergone the ritual.
Moreover, a frank 47-page report on harmful traditional practices by 'maedeleo ya wanawake' provides heavy calibre am munition to the conservatives who want to see circumcision preserved.
It points out that, "...65 percent of the women interviewed wanted circumcision to continue citing reasons like 'it is a good tradition' and 'a sign of maturity' making it clear that changes may be extremely difficult to bring about."
According to Leah Muuya, the group's project coordinator: "We are under no illusion that the job to be done is aweso me, but somebody has to do it. We are aware the cultural barriers of our people could be a problem but we must find a so lution."
There are three forms of female genital mutilation practiced in Kenya:
'Sunna' involves the removal of the hood of the clitoris and is found predominately among the Kisiis.
The excision method cuts away the hood and glands of the clitoris and adjacent parts of the labia minora and is commo n in the eastern district of Meru.
Infibulation is the severest operation of all, where the entire clitoris, and the labia minora is removed and the ope ning sewn to allow a tiny passage for the passing of urine and menstrual blood. It is used by the Samburu and ethnic Som alis.
Circumcision is usually performed during the school holidays by traditional birth attendants on girls that are around 14-years-old.
When Christian missionaries first arrived in Kenya in the early 19th century, they attempted to do away with the ritu als, but were defeated by the power of its cultural significance.
"We are aware culture is important. For culture means the person. Our entry point therefore will be the people. Fema le circumcision is not a standing issue. It has to do with what happened and what has happened," notes Muuya.
According to communities which uphold the tradition, the rite represents a passage to adulthood and enhances tribal a nd social cohesion.
"Circumcised girls receive important recognition among peers and within the community. It also increases marriage op portunities for girls and assists in ensuring a favourable economic situation for the family," says Dr. Agina Alour of the University of Nairobi's anthropology department.
Banning the custom is "unpromising in the light of socio- cultural attachment of the practice," she believes.
However, apart from the issue of women's rights, there are health grounds on which a case could be built for legislat ion.
The crudely performed operation with unsterilised blades can kill. There is also the risk of infection and excessive bleeding, complications during labour and delivery, reduction of sexual desire and sometimes an accompanying fear of sex ual intercourse.
Unlike their rural sisters, there is much stronger opposition among better-educated women in Nairobi to circumcision.
"The issue does not even arise. Its a foreign thing at this time and age. Women today cannot succumb to rituals that suppress their womanhood," says Jennifer Mwikabi, an advocate with a city firm.
"In a male dominated society, female circumcision is one way of subjugating women," she adds. (end/ips/cw/oa/94)
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Housing Affordability Index to set snnual record for 2012
With 11 months of data reported, 2012 will go down as a record year for favorable housing affordability conditions, and a great year for buyers who could get a mortgage, according to the National Association of Realtors.
NAR's national Housing Affordability Index stood at 198.2 in November, based on the relationship between median home price, median family income and average mortgage interest rate. The higher the index, the greater the household purchasing power; recordkeeping began in 1970.
An index of 100 is defined as the point where a median-income household has exactly enough income to qualify for the purchase of a median-priced existing single-family home, assuming a 20 percent down payment and 25 percent of gross income devoted to mortgage principal and interest payments. For first-time buyers making small down payments, the affordability levels are relatively lower.
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Grant: $17,664 - Department of Health and Human Services - Jun. 4, 2009
No votes have been cast for this award yet
Award Description: Fund two undergraduates and one high school student for summer resesarch. These students will be working on the synthesis of novel glycodendrimer structures (undergraduates) and the generation of quantitative amounts of oligomeric sugars to be used for glycodendrimer synthesis proposed in the parent grant (high school student).
Project Description: This project employed two undergraduate researchers for the summer. This allowed them to work solely in the laboratory during the summer, rather than having to have an outside, non-scientific job for the summer. This will help these students continue to develop their laboratory and critical thinking skills, such that they will be desirable candidates for either advanced study, or for full-time employment in the chemical industry when they have finished their bachelors degrees. During their time in the lab, they worked on the synthesis, purification and characterization of glycodendrimers as presented originally in the parent grant. They achieved improving yields on reactions such that more material could be had for the construction of their final products, and also made good progress in successfully performing new reactions needed for their projects. With these achievements, they will be able to complete their projects next summer.
Infrastructure Description: N/A
Jobs Summary: Two summer undergraduate students (part-time) working on the synthesis of novel glycodendrimers with lactose-terminated ends. (Total jobs reported: 1)
Project Status: Less Than 50% Completed
This award's data was last updated on Jun. 4, 2009. Help expand these official descriptions using the wiki below.
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Things that weren't actually said, but became myths
Similarly, the statement "A billion here, a billion there...." is frequently attributed to Everett Dirksen. HOWEVER, this may be an urban legend created by a misquote of Dirksen by a newspaperman, as noted by the Dirksen Center: Update, May 25, 2004. A gentleman who called The Center with a reference question relayed that he sat by Dirksen on a flight once and asked him about the famous quote. Dirksen replied, "Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so go that I never bothered to deny it."
See also Willie Sutton and "where the money is."
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Teacher talked shooter into giving up the gun
By Tracie Cone/Associated Press
TAFT, Calif. (AP) -- The 16-year-old boy had just wounded a classmate he claimed had bullied him, fired two more rounds at students fleeing their first-period science class then faced teacher Ryan Heber.
"I don't want to shoot you," he told the popular teacher, who was trying to coax the teen into giving up the shotgun he still held.
Recounting the suspect's words, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the confrontation was enough of a distraction to give 28 students time to escape their classroom Thursday at Taft High School.
The violence came just minutes after administrators had announced new lockdown safety procedures prompted by the Newtown, Conn., school massacre.
"Just 10 minutes before it happened our teachers were giving us protocol because of what happened in Connecticut," said student Oscar Nuno, who was across campus from the science building when an announcer on the speaker system said the school was under lockdown "and it was not a drill."
The teen victim, who classmates said played football last year for the Taft Wildcats, was in critical but stable condition at a Kern County hospital Thursday night. He was expected to undergo surgery on Friday.
The suspect surrendered his shotgun to Heber and campus supervisor Kim Lee Fields. His pockets were stuffed with more ammunition, Youngblood said.
"This teacher and this counselor stood there face-to-face not knowing if he was going to shoot them," Youngblood said. "They probably expected the worst and hoped for the best, but they gave the students a chance to escape."
Heber's forehead was grazed by a stray pellet, but Youngblood said the teacher who had graduated from the Taft school two decades ago was unaware he had been hit and didn't need medical attention.
"He's the nicest teacher I know," Nuno said. "He loves his students and he always wants to help."
Administrators closed the school Friday as residents of this remote town of 9,400 that sits amid tumbleweeds and oil fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles tried to make sense of what happened.
"We know each other here," said former Mayor Dave Noerr. "We drive pickups and work hard and hunt and fish. This is a grassroots town. This is the last place you'd think something like this would happen."
The 16-year-old suspect's name is on the lips of everyone in town, but authorities aren't releasing it because he's a juvenile. He had felt bullied by the victim for more than a year, said Youngblood, who added that the claim was still being investigated.
Trish Montes described her neighbor as "a short guy" and "small" who was teased about his stature by many.
Montes said her son had worked at the school and tutored the boy last year.
"All I ever heard about him was good things from my son," Montes said. "He wasn't Mr. Popularity, but he was a smart kid. It's a shame. My kid said he was like a genius."
On Wednesday night the teen went home and plotted revenge against two students, Youngblood said. He found a gun that authorities believe belonged to the suspect's older brother and went to bed that night plotting revenge against two students.
"He planned the event," Youngblood said. "Certainly he believed that the two people he targeted had bullied him, in his mind. Whether that occurred or not, we don't know yet."
The suspect arrived after 9 a.m. Thursday, and video surveillance cameras captured him looking nervous as he entered through a side door, Youngblood said. He made his way to the second floor of the school's science building, where Heber's class with 28 students inside was under way.
The suspect walked in a door close to the front of the classroom and shot his classmate. When the shots were fired, Heber tried to get the more than two dozen students out a back door and engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, Youngblood said.
"The heroics of these two people goes without saying. ... They could have just as easily ... tried to get out of the classroom and left students, and they didn't," the sheriff said. "They knew not to let him leave the classroom with that shotgun."
"When your son does the right thing, you have to feel fantastic," said the teacher's father, David Heber, who also lives in Taft.
He described his son as a "teacher who knows every single one of his students and not just by name."
He said his son had been teaching science to different grade levels for seven or eight years. The younger Heber was student body president when he went to Taft, his father said.
Heber couldn't remember any other time when a confrontation turned so violent. "I don't think he's ever been in a fight in his life. He can always talk himself out of it."
Youngblood said that the suspect would be charged with attempted murder. The district attorney will decide whether he's charged as an adult, Youngblood said.
Authorities said a female student was hospitalized with possible hearing damage because the shotgun was fired close to her ear, and another girl suffered minor injuries during the scramble to flee.
Wilhelmina Reum, whose daughter, Alexis Singleton, is a fourth-grader at a nearby elementary school, got word of the attack while she was about 35 miles away in Bakersfield and immediately sped back to Taft.
"I just kept thinking this can't be happening in my little town," she told The Associated Press.
Officials said there's usually an armed officer on campus, but the person wasn't there because he was snowed in.
The attack there came less than a month after a gunman massacred 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then killed himself.
That shooting prompted President Barack Obama to promise new efforts to curb gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden, who was placed in charge of the initiative, said he would deliver new policy proposals to the president by next week.
Associated Press writers Robert Jablon and John Antczak in Los Angeles, and Juliet Williams in Sacramento contributed to this report.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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May 18 2013 Latest news:
Rachael Getzels, Reporter
Sunday, April 15, 2012
A terrified woman’s encounter with a fox “the size of a wolf” has led to renewed calls for action against the urban pests in Westminster.
Carol Gould, 58, came face-to-face with an earth of foxes at the entrance to Northwick Close in St John’s Wood where she lives.
“I was confronted by a pack of four foxes including one large bushy-tailed black one the size of a wolf,” she said.
“Having no idea what to do I rang a friend of mine who used to be a member of a country hunt and she told me not to approach them as packs always attack.
“It ended up being a stand-off because they would not budge from the entrance to the mews and looked quite vicious. I thought I would freeze and contemplated checking into a hotel.”
A neighbour came to her rescue, scaring the feral animals away with a torch.
Residents have complained about gangs of foxes and Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg, leader of the opposition, has gathered an 81-signature petition calling for action, which is to be considered in the next week.
A council spokesman said it “still does not classify foxes as pests” placing them beyond the realm of the pest control team.
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PARKERSBURG - The city soon will launch its largest and most comprehensive initiative to date in several areas in the city aimed at cleaning up and rehabilitating blighted areas and other neighborhoods that have been underserved, according to a release from Mayor Bob Newell.
Starting April 18, city officials from code enforcement, the police department, street cleaning, street maintenance and sign department will begin evaluating three-block areas. The goal is to address several different areas of concern.
"This goes beyond code officers notifying residents regarding trash and debris violations and dilapidated structures. This initiative will provide assistance in the removal and disposal of trash and debris located on properties," Newell said in a press release.
Photos by Jody Murphy
An abandoned house in Parkersburg may soon be targeted for cleanup as part of the city’s spring initiative to clean up and rehabilitate blighted areas in the city.
The program is also geared toward city maintenance issues that have long been ignored in these areas, Newell added.
Street maintenance and cleaning supervisors will be listing and scheduling street cleaning, patching and paving projects, while at the same time eliminating grass and weeds on public rights of way.
Abandoned vehicles will also be tagged and removed. Additionally, missing street signs will be installed and other signs and sign posts will be replaced as needed.
Cleaning up the City
The program will begin in south Parkersburg in areas along Camden Avenue. The process will go as follows:
A team consisting of officials from code enforcement, police department, street maintenance department, street cleaning and street signs department will walk a three-street area to identify all the issues.
The team will leave door hangers regarding any violations of trash and debris with information on how to get help removing trash and debris.
A different team will follow-up with trash and debris removal, street repairs, sign repair and replacement and street cleaning.
"It is difficult to expect property owners to clean up their properties when the streets and other public areas have been ignored. Cities have a sad history of ignoring areas that are out of sight," Newell said.
Officials from the code department also will be delivering information about available funds for emergency home repairs and owner-occupied rehabilitation money. There are grants ranging up to $35,400 available to city residents through the development department in the Emergency Housing Program.
Additionally, low interest loans are available up to $48,000, based on qualifications, in the Owner Occupied Rehabilitation Program. The monies are federal funds
Residents will also receive scheduling information on the removal of trash, debris and abandoned vehicles. Citations will be issued to those who refuse to take advantage of the opportunity to become compliant with code regulations.
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1 “aGive ear, O heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 “aLet my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
bAs the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.
3 “aFor I proclaim the name of the Lord;
bAscribe greatness to our God!
4 “aThe Rock! His work is perfect,
cA God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.
They are not His children, because of their defect;
bBut are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 “Do you thus arepay the Lord,
bO foolish and unwise people?
cIs not He your Father who has bought you?
dHe has made you and established you.
Consider the years of all generations.
aAsk your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.
8 “aWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of 1man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
bAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 “aFor the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10 “aHe found him in a desert land,
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as bthe pupil of His eye.
11 “aLike an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
bHe spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
12 “aThe Lord alone guided him,
bAnd there was no foreign god with him.
13 “aHe made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
bAnd He made him suck honey from the rock,
And coil from the flinty rock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,
aWith the finest of the wheat—
And of the bblood of grapes you drank wine.
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
And scorned dthe Rock of his salvation.
16 “aThey made Him jealous with strange gods;
bWith abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 “aThey sacrificed to demons who were not God,
bTo gods whom they have not known,
cNew gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.
18 “You neglected athe Rock who begot you,
bAnd forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 “aThe Lord saw this, and spurned them
bBecause of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
aI will see what their end shall be;
bFor they are a perverse generation,
cSons in whom is no faithfulness.
21 ‘aThey have made Me jealous with what is not God;
cSo I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
22 aFor a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of 1Sheol,
bAnd consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 ‘aI will heap misfortunes on them;
bI will use My arrows on them.
bAnd bitter destruction;
cAnd the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
dWith the venom of crawling things of the dust.
25 ‘aOutside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—
bBoth young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.
26 ‘I would have said, “aI will cut them to pieces,
bI will remove the memory of them from men,”
That their adversaries would misjudge,
And the Lord has not done all this.” ’
And there is no understanding in them.
29 “aWould that they were wise, that they understood this,
30 “aHow could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their bRock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of apoison,
Their clusters, bitter.
33 “Their wine is the venom of 1serpents,
And the 2deadly poison of cobras.
34 ‘aIs it not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
35 ‘aVengeance is Mine, and retribution,
bIn due time their foot will slip;
cFor the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’
36 “aFor the Lord will vindicate His people,
bAnd will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their 1strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
37 “And He will say, ‘aWhere are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?
38 ‘aWho ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
bLet them rise up and help you,
Let them be your hiding place!
39 ‘aSee now that I, I am He,
bAnd there is no god besides Me;
cIt is I who put to death and give life.
dI have wounded and it is I who heal,
eAnd there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
40 ‘Indeed, aI lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
And My hand takes hold on justice,
bI will render vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
42 ‘aI will make My arrows drunk with blood,
bAnd My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired 1leaders of the enemy.’
43 “aRejoice, O nations, with His people;
bFor He will avenge the blood of His servants,
cAnd will render vengeance on His adversaries,
dAnd will atone for His land and His people.”
48 aThe Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying,
50 “Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be agathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
51 abecause you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the bwilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.
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What: A series of vignettes are woven into this tale of a young Chicana as she faces the harsh reality of her neighborhood while holding on to the dream of what she will someday become. This professionally-staged production from New York's American Place Theatre features a verbatim theatrical adaptation of Sandra Cisneros' critically-acclaimed book, "The House on Mango Street." The production explores important social themes such as racism, sexism, estrangement, loss and the concept of home. In the author's words, the book conveys "the shame of being poor, of being female, of being not quite good enough." Join the artist for a post-show discussion.
When: Tuesday, February 24 at 8 p.m.
Where: LeFevre Theatre, Saint Mary's College of California, 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga
Contact: Committee for Lectures, Arts and Music (925) 631-4381
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|Data Quality News|
Data suppression - Is your head still in the sand?
Earlier this year research was commissioned into data suppression, to gauge how seriously suppression is considered within organisations and their contact data strategy. The full whitepaper and all the results can be downloaded via the link at the bottom of the article, but here is a taster of some of the results.
Findings from the research revealed that on average IT managers admitted that 10.5% of their data was inaccurate. Whilst 49% claimed not to have the tools to help with address cleaning, other organisations have made the investment in data quality and suppression and are reaping the rewards.
The perils of inaccurate data are indicated by consumer opinion. 70% of consumers would either be less inclined or would go out of their way to avoid doing business with a company that has continually sent out information addressed to an old occupier.
Please submit the form to download the new QAS white paper, including top tips on how to get your suppression strategy off the ground.
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Google Alters News Indexing to Accommodate Pay Walls
In a bid to appease publishers, Google has updated its search programs, allowing publishers who charge for their content to limit users to only five free page views per day.
Many publishers impose this type of limits on free page views for Web surfers who visit their sites directly. If you browse the WSJ site directly, for example, you could browse a certain number of articles for free, but once you reach the set limit, you would be prompted to register or subscribe to the site.
But, in the past, Google refused to implement these limits on its search results and articles in its Google News service. If you only clicked through WSJ articles using Google News, for example, your entries weren't counted toward the site's limit.
Because of this stance, Google has drawn the ire of some news publishers. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has called Google many names and has threatened to remove its news assets (like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal) from Google search. There were even discussions of Murdoch partnering with Microsoft, which would pay to exclusively index the content.
Google has stood firm and refused to pay news publishers for indexing their content. But the search giant now seems to have acknowledged the turmoil the newspaper industry is going through and is now making changes to accommodate the much disputed pay walls on certain Web sites.
The changes to Google's First Click Free program let publishers prevent unrestricted access to subscription Web sites. So if one user clicks on more than five articles in a day, he/she will be automatically routed to subscription purchase pages. Google's John Mueller explains in a blog post that the company hopes "this encourages even more publishers to open up more content to users around the world!"
On Tuesday, the same day that Google announced the changes, Rupert Murdoch spoke at a Federal Trade Commission workshop on the future of journalism in the Internet age. Murdoch explained that good journalism is an expensive commodity and criticised sites that profit from reusing news articles by others without paying. He did not mention name of sites, but this has been seen as a direct attack at Google and its News service.
Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post also spoke at the workshop on Tuesday, and accused Murdoch of confusing aggregation of news with misappropriation. Huffington said she strongly believes in aggregation next to original content, noting that some of Murdoch's own sites aggregate eternal content as well.
Rupert Murdoch is expected to erect more pay walls for it news properties in the coming months.
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Traditionally, financial companies and financial advisors have asked the following question of investors: "What is your tolerance to the variance of returns of risky assets?" This question was particularly appropriate during the investment accumulation phase and the matching diversification-based investing approaches.
Recent product enhancements, such as principal protection, payout and other features, have made a positive initial foray into the emerging decumulation phase. But do they address all of the investors' risks that we should care about as we continue to work our way from the investment accumulation mindset and towards the retirement income mindset?
Identifying Risks for Retirement IncomeLet's run a thought experiment: You are responsible for the retirement income strategy of your business or practice. You are eager to remove the impressions of distrust and complexity that you believe hinder market acceptance and revenue growth. You are also averse to the idea that the there may be a fundamental shift in investor expectations from diversification-focused asset accumulation towards retirement income-focused asset "decumulation". You believe that an incremental solution to this shift is possible.
How would you go about approaching the situation? In particular, what specific problem or problems are you trying to solve for the investors? We should probably start by making a list of the risks that concern your clients, such as:Market Risk: The investor's portfolio experiences larger and/or longer than expected downside fluctuations in market prices and in asset values.Issuer Risk: The investor's portfolio is negatively affected by unexpected changes initiated by or impacting the issuers of the assets, including changes in terms, unexpected downgrades in credit rating, or business failure.Inflation Risk: The purchasing power of the investors' assets is negatively impacted over time. Household Shock Risk: The investor experiences unfortunate events (e.g., death of a spouse, divorce, unemployment) with the potential to require unexpected and forced changes in earlier and hard-to-reverse decisions related to portfolio composition.Spending Risk: The investor spends more than the planned income and may have to invade capital.Income Risk: The investor's investments experience unexpected or un-manageable reductions in income generation either because of changes in the interest-rate environment or because of lower than expected performance of portfolio choices.Health Care Costs Risk: The investor experiences unexpected and expensive changes in the cost of maintaining his health, requiring spending above budget and the need to dip into capital.Longevity Risk: The investor lives longer than planned or expected, increasing the likelihood of not maintaining the desired standard of living.Public Policy Risk: Government legislative and regulatory changes affecting retirement and income planning lead to earlier-than-expected portfolio depletion or the invalidation of previously sound recommendations.
By rearranging these risks into generic types and putting them in a table format, we can see the beginning of a risk matrix with nine risks arrayed across three categories of risk. [See Table 1.]
The Retirement Income Risk Framework"Probabilities" are but one dimension of risk and often do not represent the most relevant dimension from a client's perspective. This is because, in most cases, consequences trump the odds. For instance, how would you think about probabilities if the matching consequences included losing your life?
From our investor's point of view, a risk is relevant if there is an identifiable hazard; the investor has exposure to the hazard; the consequences are greater than what the investor is prepared to ignore; and, the probability of such negative consequences is high enough to make the combination relevant.
Adding these dimensions to our previous list of risks produces the risk matrix seen in Table 2.
Looking at our initial question "What is your tolerance to the variance of returns of risky assets?" in the context of this table, we can see that the risks relevant to the investor with a retirement income mindset may be more numerous than those for the investor with an investment accumulation mindset. This is not the case because these risks are new (hazard) or because their probabilities were not contemplated before. Rather, it's because the investor is now meaningfully exposed to these risks (exposure) and realizes that the negative outcomes (consequences) can no longer be ignored.
Thinking about retirement income planning can bring about a dislocation of expectations. The investor may have to contemplate that remaining life-cycle consumption must be decreased to a painful level upon discovery that savings are or will be inadequate to allow retirement at the desired age and at the desired standard of living.
At this point, experienced financial advisors have been heard to say: "Investors have retired before. Financial advisors have provided retirement income services before. What's new? What's changed?"
What's changed is the quantitative impact driven by the demographics of the baby boomers. This growing, quantitative change is reaching a point where it also creates qualitative changes, including:o The portion of the financial advisor's practice focused on high-net-worth clients (vs. merely affluent clients)o The portion of the financial advisor's services dedicated to retirement income planning (vs. traditional investment management)
If you combine this annual increase in the raw numbers of incoming retirees with the matching qualitative impacts on served markets and practice mix, you should start to see the need for new, retirement income focused, scale-driven products, processes and advice-focused business models.
To further refine our understanding of such changes, it may be helpful to review last year's lessons, taught by Professor Moshe Milevsky, in the context of the retirement income risk framework. First let's summarize the lessons:o Lesson 1, The Trigonometry of Retirement Income: The sequence of returns implies that with respect to market risk, advice needs to be iterative and flexible given the probabilities involved and the impact of the consequences.o Lesson 2, The Uncertainty of Death and Taxes: The hazard arising from public policy risk, in particular changes in the marginal tax rate, implies that our decisions must provide tax-outcome diversification as well as asset-class diversification. o Lesson 3, Sustainability and Ruin: A probability of sustainability, or ruin, can be computed by combining inflation, longevity and market risks.o Lesson 4, Inflation Rates and Retirement: Investment returns must cover inflation as well as taxes. There are many inflation indexes. Which index is most relevant given a client's specific exposure to inflation risk?o Lesson 5, Spending Buckets and Financial Placebos: Can your cash-flow generation strategies create unexpected market risk exposure?o Lesson 6, Longevity Risk: There are many longevity risk tables. Which table is most relevant to the exposure faced by a specific investor?o Lesson 7, Annuitization: This lesson summarizes the pros and cons of annuities for investors and advisors who need to hedge exposure to income risk.o Lesson 8, Defined Benefit Pensions: Winners and Losers: What are the potential and observed market risk consequences that risk-capping may have on the company stock?o Lesson 9, Moral Hazard: This lesson explains the issuer-risk hazard created by the investors' asset allocation behavior for the insurance companies that provide equity put options in their variable annuity contracts.o Lesson 10, Questions to Ask Annuity Wholesalers: What are the organizational and strategic exposures that income riders create for issuers and what questions should advisors ask wholesalers?
If we organize these lessons in table form, we can begin to see patterns that would otherwise be easy to miss. [See Table 3.]
One way or the other, we can see that qualitative changes from the accumulation mindset become more visible as shown by Milevsky's lessons that address key retirement income focused topics. We can also see blanks that suggest that there may be other topics that we would want to read about in future articles.
In our next article, we will look at ways of improving individual investor risk profiling to help us deal with and manage the changes in the investor's mindset from investment accumulation to income distribution.
Francois Gadenne is president of Retirement Engineering Inc., a Boston-based R&D company that designs insurance and investment products for retirement-income needs (www.IncomeAtRisk.com); he is a co-founder of the Retirement Income Industry Association.
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Washington State Tobacco Quitline resumes service for all residents
Quitline to provide free help for all Washington adults who want to quit using tobacco
OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adults in Washington who are considering quitting tobacco can now get free help from the Department of Health's toll-free Washington State Tobacco Quitline. Calling a quitline significantly increases a person's chances of kicking the habit.
New funding from the Washington State Legislature and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention means the Department of Health can once again provide help quitting to all adult tobacco users in the state. Funding cuts in 2011 eliminated free quitline help for many, including people without health insurance.
"Getting our quitline back in business for everyone has been one of my priorities, and I'm thrilled it's happening," said Gov. Chris Gregoire. "For the last year we've been the only state without quitline help for people without insurance. That's unacceptable. The Tobacco Quitline truly is a state service that saves lives and money. We must be there when people need help."
Starting immediately, all adults in Washington regardless of insurance status can call the toll-free Washington State Tobacco Quitline for support to quit using tobacco. The quitline (1-800-QUIT-NOW, 1-877-2NO-FUME in Spanish) provides free counseling, a personal quit plan, a quit kit, and referrals to local resources. Eligible callers can also get a supply of nicotine patches or gum.
"This is great news for the health of people in Washington," said Secretary of Health Mary Selecky. "The best thing a person can do for their health is quit using tobacco, and the quitline makes it easy for anyone to get the help they need. I urge anyone who uses tobacco to call and join thousands of others in kicking their addiction for good."
In the past year, more than 6,500 people called the quitline for help but didn't qualify for service. The quitline has a long list of people who asked to be called back if services were restored.
"We're pleased to offer support to all Washington residents once again, and look forward to getting back to people who called over the last year but didn't get help," said Ryan Crawford, a Quit Coach supervisor. "Quit coaches help callers identify personal smoking triggers, develop a tailored quit plan, and make decisions about quit medications—support that can double a person's chances of quitting."
The benefits of quitting tobacco are immense and immediate. When a person quits, their body starts to respond within 20 minutes as positive health effects begin. Quitting lowers the risk of lung cancer, heart attack, stroke, chronic lung disease, and other cancers.
The quitline is a key part of Washington's tobacco prevention and control efforts, which have contributed to a 30 percent drop in adult smoking since 2000. More than 170,000 people have received help from the quitline since it opened for business in 2000. Today, there are many more former smokers in Washington than there are current smokers. The estimated 329,000 fewer smokers in the state represents an overall savings of $3 billion in future health care costs.
Washington has made significant headway in lowering smoking rates, but there's still work to do. Prevention and cessation services have been drastically reduced due to budget cuts, yet the tobacco industry spends more than $122 million each year to attract new smokers. In Washington, about 50 youth start smoking each day and about 7,900 people die every year from tobacco-related diseases.
SOURCE Washington State Department of Health
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Cellphones trump TVs, but Internet No. 1
Cellphones have become so essential, people would rather go without TV, but when choosing between cellphones and Internet access, the Internet wins, according to a new survey released this week.
JWT, a large U.S. advertising agency, asked about 1,000 people a number of technology questions earlier this month. The results show that cellphones and Internet access are playing a very important role in people's lives.
Asled how long people could go without Internet access, 15 percent of respondents said a day or less, 21 percent said a couple of days and 19 percent said a few days.
A lot of the findings seem to make a good business case for cellphone operators, as well as WiMax service providers such as Kirkland-based Clearwire and Sprint Nextel, which are all rolling out mobile Internet access.
"Mobility represents the next big shift," says Marian Salzman, JWT's executive vice president and chief marketing officer. "Older Americans are happy to sit in the same place to go online, while younger people expect to be able to connect anywhere at any time."
In fact, 48 percent of respondents agreed with the statement: "If I cannot access the Internet when I want to, I feel like something important is missing."
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Today, in response to calls from People For the American Way and others, presidential candidate Mitt Romney gently distanced himself from the hateful language regularly pushed by radio host Bryan Fischer, Director of Issues Analysis at the American Family Association.
In his speech at the Values Voter Summit, Romney stated :
“Our values ennoble the citizen, and they strengthen the nation. We should remember that decency and civility are values too. One of the speakers who will follow me today, has crossed that line I think. Poisonous language does not advance our cause. It has never softened a single heart nor changed a single mind. The blessings of faith carry the responsibility of civil and respectful debate. The task before us is to focus on the conservative beliefs and the values that unite us – let no agenda, narrow our vision or drive us apart.”
Last week, People For the American Way called on Romney to stand up to Fischer’s long record of bigotry against progressives, LGBT people, Muslims, Native Americans and Mormons. Romney’s need to distance himself from Fischer was especially pressing as Fischer was scheduled to immediately follow Romney at the podium today.
“Mitt Romney clearly realized that his presidential campaign couldn’t ignore the bigotry of Bryan Fischer and the American Family Association,” said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way . “I’m glad that he saw fit to put at least a small distance between himself and the hate speech regularly pushed by Fischer, even if he couldn’t bring himself to call Fischer out by name. Since he began running for President, Mitt Romney has bent over backwards in a desperate attempt to make himself palatable to the extreme right. At least we’ve seen that there are some things he’s willing to speak out against, no matter how tepid his condemnation may be. It’s disappointing that none of the other candidates have been willing to go even that far.”
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By Carol Mills
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
How many gallons of paint does it take to cover a small deck? More than you think.
The last week of March, I was off for a week and decided to paint my deck.
It’s only 12 foot x 10 foot because it extends from my carport, which is 12 feet wide and goes out 10 feet to an apple tree. Since the house is split level, the deck is high off the ground. It also has a high bar across the back so that I can hang flowering plants on it. And, it wouldn’t be complete without a bird house on each end of the bar.
I went to Lowe’s Home Improvement because I wanted good paint and I needed advice on how to do this project. The deck had a light oak stain on it and was discolored and ugly so I decided on a colored deck. The lady at the paint desk said I needed a colored stain. I didn’t know there was such a thing.
I told her I wanted a brick red to match the bricks on my house. I brought a brick that was left over from when the house was built in 1966 and showed it to her and she helped me match it up. It is called California Rustic. I didn’t realize how much orange color there was in a brick I thought was red.
I explained to the clerk how small my deck was and asked her how much paint I would need. She said she didn’t think one gallon would do, so I bought two for about $40 apiece including tax. I also bought a big brush, a small brush, a pan with two rollers in it, and a bottle of deck spray cleaner. She threw in a couple of stir sticks and said that was all I needed. $100 worth of work.
My lawn mower man did most of the work, though. First, we had to move 17 big pots from the deck that my mother plants her garden in. Then we had to clean the deck, rinse it with water, and let it dry. That took a whole day.
Mow man started painting the bar and rails the next day, but before he got that part done, he had run out of the first gallon of paint. He started on the lattice and before long ran out of the other gallon.
Off I went to Lowe’s to get another gallon of paint.
Mow man finished the lattice, but ran out of paint before he finished the floor.
Off I went to Lowe’s to get another gallon of paint. It started to rain so we couldn’t finish the paint job until the next weekend because I had to go back to work.
I did do a little work on the deck. I went after mow man and touched up spots and cleaned up some paint spots on the carport with a wire brush.
After four gallons of paint, the deck looks real good but cost twice as much as I thought it would. Don’t try and buy the economical brushes like I did because they wear out too fast and you wind up paying as much as if you had bought a couple of good brushes.
My next project is to paint a stationary porch swing, a small table, and a wishing well bird bath to match the deck.
Off to Lowe’s to get another gallon of paint . . . or two? . . . or three?
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The orange-striped tom cat that was living under a Sentinel-Echo van in the parking lot last summer and fall is alive and doing well in Corbin on a farm near Kentucky Fried Chicken. I wished I lived close to that restaurant.
I adopted Morris out to Denise Harmon who works in London but lives on 8 acres in Corbin. She kept Morris in her garage for a few weeks before she let him out so that he wouldn’t run away. She said he hid from her in the garage and only came out to eat.
Now he runs around the farm chasing birds and having fun. Denise said he hasn’t bonded with her but she can see him out her windows. He comes to her house to eat and then runs off again. He will never be a lap cat, but at least he didn’t have to live on the streets of London last winter.
I fed and watered Morris while he was on the streets and we bonded with each other, but he was still wild and was very difficult to catch to give away.
I still miss him and I wonder if he still remembers me.
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A magician pulled a rabbit out of a hat. Dinger, the Sacramento Rivercats' mascot, signed autographs.
Ruthie Bolton, veteran guard for the Sacramento Monarchs, sang "Silent Night."
It was an afternoon of face-painting, spray-on tattooing and holiday crafts for more than 100 pediatric
cancer patients, their siblings and parents in the UC
Davis Cancer Center auditorium. The annual event, held the second Friday of December, is sponsored
by the Sacramento Active 20/30 Club, a civic organization that buys and wraps enough gifts for every child
at the party. The club also arranges a magic act and visit from Santa.
The Keaton Raphael Memorial, a Roseville-based organization that supports pediatric cancer research at
UC Davis Cancer Center, provided crafts
and a mural project, in which partygoers fashioned clay "snow people" and affixed the creatures
to a large board painted with a winter scene. The completed mural was carried across the street to UC
Davis Children's Hospital to help decorate the pediatric inpatient cancer floor.
"It's a great event," says Jonathan Ducore, professor of pediatrics and head of the pediatric cancer
program, who came in white coat and Santa hat. "The party makes a lot of kids very happy."
Children from throughout Northern California, southern Oregon and western Nevada come to UC
Davis Cancer Center, the region's only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, for treatment.
The UC Davis Pediatric Cancer Program includes a pediatric stem-cell transplant program and a large pediatric
clinical trials program.
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Second Health London
This public engagement research project by Imperial College London is spread over 8 islands.
The islands and the website
have been live since August 2007 and are an experiment to help people to understand the vision for future healthcare delivery, stressing the patient experience and a new focus on keeping healthy rather than the historical focus on curing patients once they fall ill. Users can tour the hospital and complete our onsite questionnaire to help us to improve this facility further. Users may signup to the Second Health mailing list to be kept informed of developments and events being held in our auditorium.
Over 25,000 people toured these islands during its first year (Aug 2007-2008) and a similar number viewed the ground-breaking machinima that we produced inworld to illustrate the patient’s experience in this future healthcare model.
A 10-minute orientation experience for new avatars to learn how to tour, attend meetings, view presentations and communicate with other people. At the end of the trail, users can teleport to our other islands. Visit the Second Health website if you are new to Second Life
An immersive experience of future healthcare: a Local Community Hospital with embedded Polyclinic, based on NHS London’s report ‘A framework for action’ occupies almost 2 complete islands.
Visitors to this Polyclinic can speak to a Virtual Patient chatbot in the high dependency unit. This development was used during local public consultations to help elicit feedback.
Frequent international healthcare events are held at the auditorium including the international Virtual Association of Surgeons (iVAS) seminars on surgical practice and several clinical summits and conferences.
This fictional area of London illustrates key public health messages on keeping healthy and the many ways in which Londoners will be able to access healthcare services in their community. Start the tour at the London Underground where if you are feeling stressed help is at hand. Follow signs to the Polyclinic to learn about its role alongside GP clinics and other local facilities. This area of London is so extensive that it stretches over 4 islands.
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Registration for summer seminars is now open. Delve into Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, or the lovely world of Japanese bookbinding. Reacquaint yourself with Chicago’s public art, from commemorative statues to sprawling murals. Or join a writers’ group and pen that imaginative children’s book you’ve been thinking about.
All classes begin June 4 on a rolling basis. PLEASE NOTE that there is a May 29 registration deadline. Those signing up after the deadline might incur a late fee.
The Newberry’s next Spotlight exhibition will feature more than 40 books on religion that date from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. “Treasures of Faith: Twenty Years of Acquisitions” will showcase extraordinary examples from the more than 8,000 religious volumes the Newberry has acquired over the past two decades. The exhibition runs from April 24 through July 6.
Don’t miss this year’s artists’ reception and purchase prize presentation at Exploration 2013: The 27th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective at the Newberry. Free and open to the public, the event runs from 11 am to 3 pm Saturday, April 13, and includes calligraphy demonstrations, a talk by artist Jane Ewing, and the award presentation. The exhibition will continue through June 7.
The Newberry is pleased to announce that David McCullough will receive the 2013 Newberry Library Award. Established in 1987, the library’s centennial year, the award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the humanities, particularly in fields of endeavor related to the Newberry’s collection.
Chicago this spring will be celebrating the rich tradition of underground, dissident, and alternative publishing, highlighted by two special programs at the Newberry.
Called the archaeologists of texts, paleographers, according to Anthony Grafton, “tell us which texts were written when and what they say, which scripts were used where, and why, and by whom.” Paleographers do the detective work that makes all other research possible.
The Newberry and the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois proudly announce an annual grant enabling two short-term fellowships for qualified Ph.D. and postdoctoral scholars to study at the library.
The Newberry is home to a world-class collection of millions of books, manuscript pages, and maps—a wealth of primary sources for English and history teachers. Yet finding the time to research the collections can be a challenge for busy educators. To facilitate access to this archive, the Newberry teacher programs staff has collaborated with scholars and university faculty to develop Digital Collections for the Classroom.
We’re very pleased to announce that our Campaign for Tomorrow’s Newberry has raised almost 85 percent of its $25 million goal. Our heartfelt thanks go out to those of you who have helped make this success possible through your gifts to the campaign and the Annual Fund.
The Newberry already is putting our campaign commitments to work to enhance the library’s programs and services. Thanks to generous gifts, we’ve been able to:
As part of our 125th anniversary, the Newberry has published a book highlighting 125 outstanding items: “The Newberry 125, Stories of Our Collection.” The Newberry is home to millions of books, maps, manuscripts, and other media, and these featured few represent the collection’s most awe-inspiring.
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Voters lined up outside Lake Anne Elementary early Tuesday morning. Voters reported about a 45-minute wait at Lake Anne Elementary.
Photo by Amiee Freeman
While voter turnout in Fairfax County on Election Day was at an all-time high--80.5 percent of registered voters cast their ballots, compared to 78.7 percent in 2008--some voters faced long lines and endured hours of waiting in the cold to cast their ballots.
Lines and waits varied throughout the County’s 237 precincts. Voters at Vienna’s Flint Hill Elementary School reported ample parking and virtually no lines. At other locations however, lines snaked around elementary school parking lots and through buildings, and it was not unusual for voters to have a wait over an hour.
“I had to wait nearly two hours to vote at Franconia,” said Dwayne Hardee, 29, who attended the Democratic victory party at the Tysons Sheraton Tuesday. According to Cameron Quinn, the County’s chief election official, the last voter at the Skyline precinct in Bailey’s Crossroads voted before 10 p.m. Polls closed at 7 p.m., so some voters waited nearly three hours before casting their ballots.
Long wait times and other voting-day issues concerned Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova (D-at-large), who called for the creation of a bi-partisan commission to streamline the process and analyze inefficiencies.
“While all together the day went well, I think it would be beneficial to examine what lessons we can learn from the 2012 Election,” Bulova said on Wednesday, adding that she waited only 20 minutes at Villa precinct Tuesday morning to vote.
“I plan to present this issue to the Board of Supervisors at our next meeting and suggest the formation of a bi-partisan commission to identify ways to reduce lines, decrease wait times, and streamline our election process,” she said. The next Board of Supervisors meeting takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 20.
She said the commission will review and make recommendations regarding Fairfax County’s election process. “The commission will be asked to concentrate on ways to improve the County’s efficiency on Election Day, with a specific focus on addressing wait times, long lines and other voting issues,” Bulova said.
Elections officials said a shortage of poll volunteers coupled with complicated ballot questions and bond issues meant some voters took much longer to finish their ballots.
While long lines created headaches for hundreds of Fairfax County voters, it was much worse in some parts of the state. In Prince William County, some voters faced five-hour waits before casting their ballots.
"Asking anyone to wait several hours is unacceptable," Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Brian Moran said in a statement Wednesday. "Why did it go so poorly this year and why were these long lines experienced? We're going to be a battleground state, so ultimately we don't want this to happen again. Let's take the proper steps. Let's fix it."
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Meal and Rest Break Lawyers
Can a Boss Dictate When Workers Can Take a Break?
Yes, an employer can tell workers where and when they can eat and drink on the job. In a majority of states employers must grant ten minute rest periods every four hours. However, no rest period is necessary if total daily work time is less than three and a half hours. No deduction from wages may be made for authorized rest time. If possible, a rest period should be in the middle of each work period.
What Are a Worker's Rights On Taking Lunch?
With the exception of the broadcasting and motion picture industries, the rule for meal periods is that no person may be employed for a work period of more than five hours without a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. However, the meal period may be waived by mutual consent if a work period of not more than six hours will complete the day's work. Unless the employee is completely relieved of duty, the meal period must be considered time worked. Also, if employees must eat on the premises, a suitable place for that purpose must be designated
Are Workers Injured During Lunch Or a Break Covered By Workers' Compensation Insurance?
If an employee is injured at lunch it is usually considered outside the scope of the employment relationship unless the employee was not completely relieved of their duties during the lunch hour. The nature and place of the injury are also strong considerations. An employee injured during a break is likely to be considered within the scope of employment and thus eligible for workers' compensation insurance.
Can a Boss Interrupt My Lunch Or Work Break For Work-Related Items?
This is an issue that depends mainly on the nature of the interruption. If the boss is interrupting a break to attempt to deny a worker their breaks and occurs regularly, then workers may have a grievance that they may present. In the event of an emergency or urgent work-related item that occurs very rarely, however, the boss is probably not wrong to interrupt a break.
What Type Of Claim Could I Make?
Denying workers breaks is a violation of Wage and Labor Laws which can create a great deal of trouble for the company with government authorities. However, the worker may also be able to claim back wages for as long as their breaks were denied, which may constitute overtime pay.
An employer may counter this, however, if a worker who eats at their work station and attempts to do work is ordered by the employer or by the human resources department to stop.
Do I Need an Employment Attorney?
An experienced employment attorney is capable of informing you of your rights and evaluating whether you have a valid grievance against your employer. If you are an employer, an employment attorney can also make sure you are in compliance with all state and federal meal and rest break laws.
Consult a Lawyer - Present Your Case Now!
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I was wondering why do the Tendai monks at Mount Hiei walk over 1000 miles around the mountain ?
What is the purpose behind the walking is it walking meditation to attain samadhi ?
I hope I'm not posting too much. I don't post more than once a day and if I do I try to find a section where I haven't posted previously. Any advice on how often I can post ?
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Namu-myoho-renge-kyo. no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever." - Nichiren Daishonin
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As Jurors Deliberate Sandusky Case, Law Enforcement Urges Continued Push to Curb All Cases of Child Abuse, Neglect
Leaders say that nation can and must do more to prevent child abuse and neglect through early childhood home visiting programs
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WASHINGTON, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With jurors set to deliberate on the alleged sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky, the scandal represents just the tip of the iceberg, the national anti-crime organization Fight Crime: Invest in Kids said Thursday. Nearly 700,000 U.S. children were confirmed victims of abuse or neglect in 2010. At least 1,560 of these children died a result. Tragically, the vast majority of abuse, sexual or otherwise, is committed by a child's parent or other family or household member. The youngest children are the most at-risk for these types of deadly cases of maltreatment: one third of child abuse and neglect victims are under age 4, and almost half of child abuse and neglect fatalities were infants.
"No matter the verdict, this case is an urgent reminder that all of us have a responsibility to protect children from harm, and we can and must do more to prevent cases of abuse wherever and whenever we can. The research shows that we can start doing that by ensuring that at-risk families have access to voluntary home visiting with proven ability to help prevent child abuse," said Natasha O'Dell Archer, J.D., national director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.
While the response to the Sandusky case has focused attention on important issues that come up after a child has been victimized, the early prevention of child abuse and neglect has been discussed far less. In fact, in the last interview he ever gave, Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno told the Washington Post, "If nothing else maybe the Sandusky scandal will help drag the subject out of its dark corner."
In the interest of preventing more victims of child abuse, the law enforcement organization Fight Crime: Invest In Kids is leading a national effort to educate the public on the problem of child abuse and neglect and call on policymakers to fund effective programs that prevent child abuse.
More than 1,560 law enforcement leaders and survivors—one for every child who lost their life to abuse or neglect—have signed a letter urging Congress to protect and expand funding for evidence-based home visiting services (see a list of who signed the letter). The letter emphasized the benefits of voluntary home visiting services, which help new parents cope with the stresses of raising a young child.
Research shows quality, voluntary home visiting programs can cut child abuse and neglect by up to 50 percent, significantly reduce later crime and save taxpayers money. Evidence-based home visiting can save as much as $21,000 for each family served by reducing abuse, neglect, juvenile crime and other negative outcomes (read more on how home visiting works).
Focusing on the range between prenatal care to preschool age, home visiting programs send specialized paraprofessionals to the homes of low-income, first-time young mothers, These home visitors provide guidance to young parents and help families address head-on the most prevalent reasons for child abuse and neglect. Law enforcement leaders fully support the home visiting approach to child abuse prevention because it breaks a cycle in which all too often the negative behaviors and consequences, violent or otherwise, of one at-risk generation are passed on to the next generation, and the cycle continues.
The signatories of the letter, members of the anti-crime organization Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, pointed to hundreds of thousands of cases of abuse or neglect that occur every year and said that the scope of the problem should "shock the conscience of every American."
"From a fiscal, moral and public safety perspective, we have an obligation to invest in home visiting and protect children from the harm caused by abuse and neglect," the leaders agreed.
RESOURCES: Read our letter to Congress. Get quick facts on child abuse and neglect from our info-graphic. Get data on abuse/neglect and child deaths in your state from our national report. Read real-life stories from law enforcement and survivors.
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You may think you're in a field in France or looking at a crop in California. But it's all a tour of Texas and these grapes are grown within 45 minutes of Bryan-College Station at several local wineries.
"To drive within an hours range and to taste those wines, you're actually in the heart, soul, the mind and kitchen of each of those wine makers," said Jerry Bernhardt with Bernhardt Winery in Pleasantville.
Now the oldest area winery is right here in Bryan at Messina Hof. It was establish in 1977 but it's not the only winery here in the Brazos Valley. Just down the road in Brenham you'll find the Pleasant Hill Winery and the Windy Winery. In Whitehall, just outside of Navasota, you'll find the Retreat Hill Winery. And in Plantersville, you'll find the Bernhardt Winery. These are just five out the seven wineries that make up the Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trial.
"They've got enthusiasm and they're making great wine. And that's important," said Paul Bonarrigo with Messina Hof.
Bonarrigo is considered one of the architects of the Texas Bluebonnet Wine trail simply because he was the first to start growing grapes in the Brazos Valley.
"Back then what we had was a lot of enthusiasm. I mean the Brazos Valley is one of the most fertile lands in the world," said Bonarrigo.
Pleasant Hill is the second oldest winery in the Brazos Valley.
"You can see I put down roots for sure," said Pleasant Hill Winery owner Bob Cottle.
Cottle started this winery in 1992 and the secret to the success of the Bluebonnet Wine Trail is the quality of the wines.
"The wines we're making are pretty incredible. We're learning how to grow the grapes better every year and the better the grapes are when we start the wine making process, the better our wine could possibly be," said Cottle.
The Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail is growing and there are several factors to the reason of the trail's success, great wine is just part of it.
"We've become one of the most recognized named trails in the state of Texas," said Bernhardt.
"We're 60 miles from the 4th largest city in the united states and there is a lot of wine consumption coming from Houston," said Billy Shannon Cox Jr. with Retreat Hill Winery near Navasota.
"Texans are great supporters of Texas made products and there is nothing more Texas made than wine," said Bonarrigo.
"You can meet the owners at pretty much every winery, every weekend," said Cottle.
"I think we're going to become a very integral part. It may be a little ambitious but we'd like to be like the Fredericksburg, Hill Country Wine Trail eventually," said Linda Meitzen with Windy Winery in Brenham.
"It's such a unique event to go out to a winery and to be able to get a chance to walk through the vineyards and hold a cluster of grapes," said Bernhardt.
"I believe that within 10 years we'll have 50 wineries in the Brazos Valley," said Bonarrigo.
So enjoy it while you can, it's not everyday that you can pick grapes with the actual wine makers or get an inside look at the secrets of wine making.
"I think people have gone to the hill country wineries and I think they like the quaint wineries. Some of the Hill Country wineries have gotten so big and so commercial. I think people still like to come out here and walk around the vineyard and meet the winemaker and be able to have that personal relationship with the person that is putting the win in the bottle for them," said Cox.
And the trick to keeping this Brazos valley business booming?
"A lot wine consumption, that's our goal. Please consume wine," joked Cox.
The Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail is a check mark on the Brazos Valley Bucket List that requires a designated driver.
Below you can find links to the Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail as well as links to each of the wineries on that trail.
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published: Tuesday, January 08, 2013
State legislators, overpaid or exploited -- you decide
Several readers - convinced that some state legislators have high salaries, generous pension plans and free medical care - have contacted the News-Sun asking about actual figures.
We've done some research.
According to sunshinereview.org, state senators and representatives are paid $29,687 a year and are considered part time.
The regular legislative session begins on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March every year.
A regular session typically lasts 60 consecutive days, although it can be extended by a 3/5s vote in each legislative house.
In addition to their salary, legislators receive a $333 per day per diem that is earned by the number of days in the session. A 60-session per diem payment equals $7,980. Travel money is reimbursed, but must be substantiated.
According to the Florida Retirement System, it has an elected officer class. The vesting schedule is six years, but a legislator must be 62 years old or have served 30 years in order to receive benefits.
For example, a four-year term Senator must win at least one re-election to be vested; a two-year term representative must win two re-elections to qualify. Florida has eight-year term limits.
In terms of the benefits, legislators get 3 percent service credit for each year of service.
The FRS states that a typical elected official serves eight years. Three percent times eight years equals 24. That is, a retirement benefit of 24 percent of the annual salary, or $7,200 every year. Legislators are eligible for the same 2 percent COLA as every other state employee in the system.
The health care insurance benefit to legislators is quite generous.
In the first place, part-time state employees do not qualify for the insurance benefit, even though part-time legislators do.
In the second place, state elected officials qualify for the insurance upon being sworn in.
In the third place, the insurance is very inexpensive -- $8.34 per month for individual insurance; $30 per month for a family. State employees pay roughly six or seven times that.
In February 2012, Senator Joe Negron introduced an amendment raising the legislator's contribution to be in-line with other state employees -- $50 a month for individual coverage, and $180 for a family.
According to several newspaper reports at the time, including the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, there was immediate opposition to the amendment from both Democratic and Republican legislators.
Brought up in committee under the leadership of then Senate Budget Chief J.D. Alexander, the proposed bill failed in a voice vote and never reached the floor. Alexander did not have the committee members polled.
So, those are the basics. We leave it to the reader to decide if legislators are overpaid or not.
We urge anyone with time between 9 and 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15, drop in on the Highlands County Delegation's public meeting. It's the best way to make sure your elected representative is working for your tax dollars, and it is wise keep up with whatever legislative plans are floating around.
(by: Nancy Argenzianio - 1/10/2013)
I was a legislator, the average pay when I was there was 26K yr. If done properly, it is NOT a part time job. Many have other jobs, businesses and do not do constituent services as they should. Many legislators are quite wealthy. Few are full time public servants and there is a need for them to be. The session per deim used to be 3,000 per session,and that appears to have gone up quite a bit. The salary is artificially low if you do this job they way it should be done, but if a legislator is a "special interest" legislator that makes money from the process (many do), or if they just follow the partyline (many do) then they are over paid. But the leaders have kept the salary artificially low so the average person who wants to participate in their government, cannot. True, many of them forget they are public servants, have large egos and do not really do the work they should be doing. More average people need to be in these positions.
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Researchers have devised a method of automatically adjusting a stereo signal to match whichever ears a pair of earphones are squeezed into. At last, the days of squinting to see the tiny Ls and Rs on your phones may finally be at an end. A group from the Igarashi Design Interfaces Project in Tokyo put a proximity sensor into …
Really getting wired
> a weak current, which runs between the buds, is broken.
Now that could add an extra dimension to the music. I can just imagine some over zealous royalties enforcer requiring a chip in all new players that turns this current up to 11 if the requisite DRM checks don't pass.
On the matter of detecting which orifice an earbud is inserted into, wouldn't it just be easier to colour-code them?
Either red = right, white = left, or red = left green = right
Combine this with the "we can make you hear sounds by zapping your brain" and you could do away with the player altogether.
You colour your ears red and green if you like, I'm happy with both of mine being pinkish.
Even though I haven't used them in at least 20 years, I still remember the colour coding on the Game Boy bundled buds - blue=left, red=right.
Pretty much any bud I buy these days are either marked or are asymmetric in design so that left/right is ruddy obvious. Quite a cool idea for switching to mono automatically though.
Left = Blue : Right = Red
Longstanding convention in audio and audiology. Many pro headphones are already coloured this way, also some of the cheaper ones... and hearing aids!
Personally, mine are indestructible, given my propensity to massacre them after a few months usage, so these seem like they wouldn't las a week.
Plus, mine have braille-type bumps on the left 'stem', which comes in handy -- I don't even look at them any longer.
sometimes the best ideas really are quite simple.
I've always added a spot of tip-ex to one. Easy to find by feel.
When I get new buds I tie a little knot in the left cable...
And I bet you end up needing to buy new buds a lot when the left one dies...
Because I wear them while active, the wire where it joins into the plug is the place that gives up first. Damn those insanely flimsy wires!
Given most in-ear earphone are shaped to the ear anyway then isn't this just an inovation looking for an application?
Because it is backwards?
Sound is recorded and reproduced so you hear things the same way round they were recorded. This needs you to insert the phones in the correct ears. It is not about whether they will fit on your ear or not.
If you insert your earphones in the wrong way round, all your music will play backwards from the end to the beginning, unless you walk round backwards of course. :-)
@Because it is backwards?
Making it much easier to hear those messages from Satan...?
What happens if you switch earbuds? The music sounds as played behind you instead of in front of you -- so what? That happens anyways in many cases (see: car stereo).
It's not as if the music will suddenly play backwards (revealing satanic messages, unavoidably).
It irritates me...
...seeing teenagers sharing headphones, so that one of them can only hear one channel of the music. It would drive me MAD! so the trick of switching automatically to mono when you share is also excellent.
Are pubs wired in stereo, especially when the speakers are split between rooms. One place I used to go to used the balance control to adjust the volume between the bar and the lounge, if someone put on some music from when stereo was in its infancy then one room just got drums.
"2 fish and chips and 2 bitters, Where are you sitting love?"
"In the drum room, near to the bass speaker".
Simpler even than colour coding
Pete 2 suggests colour coding, but that might add a penny or two to the unit cost (different materials/coating), so why not have a physical difference between the two sides which can be detected by touch (so the blind could also make use of it). Left bud has a groove/depression/bump, right one doesn't?
Or if it's that important to have the things in the correct ears, just put another option on the MP3 player to switch the channels over, or to mono. That solution works whatever is attached to the player.
As for sharing your earbuds, this does seem like an awful lot of trouble to go to for the opportunity to give your ear wax to someone else.
It would be even better if they integrated the technology to tell when a car is approaching so it turns the music down from 11 to a volume that allows them to hear the screech of tyres as people try to avoid the "music lover" who steps carefree into the path of oncoming traffic whilst listening to their latest dub step download.
"....This is detected when a weak current, which runs between the buds, is broken."
Having a low level eletric current running though your brain when using these bad-boys will defo help fend off depression and cure bi-polar diseases!
It's almost like these were designed by a higher power to cure mankinds ills.
Long Hair or Hat
How does it work with long hair or a hat that covers your ears?
Sounds like a great idea to me. Now they just need to figure out how to get them to automatically increase the right volume slightly to compensate for my poor hearing on that side.
What about the third one?
For real Star Trek technology they also need to detect the Final Front Ear.
That one was old when god was a teenager :)
Asymmetric phones have one cord longer than the other. It goes behind the neck so when you remove them from your ears the phone hang round your neck. The side effect is you never get the Left and Right confused. Costs nothing uses no power. Simple.
Left and right
Does it matter which side you have left and right in? If they're wrong, just turn around.
It's red=right for audio, red=port for navigation lights. My HD414s just have coloured foam pads.
They're in-ear phones, so they sound shit. Always. And for many wearers, they're only giving you background music for your day anyway. Why pretend you care about whether you're getting instruments panned to the correct side?
Tried a good (or even average) set of canalphones?
They're anything but shit. Granted you can get noise from the lead moving, but you also don't look like you have two tin cans strapped to your head.
Says me on the bus with the Sennheiser HD428s.
Most sound engineers I know put a tab of tape (usually gaffer tape) around the cord for the left earphone, less than a hand width from the earpeice.
Quick, cheap, and you know which one is which if you're sharing monitors during a gig.
Cord for left earphone?
My Beyer DT150's (the best headphones in the world IMHO even if they are the most uncomfortable) only have a cord that goes to the left hand side and they also feel very wrong if you are still stupid enough to put them on the wrong way round.
Imagine the possibilities for the next Tom Cruise Mission Impossible (to watch) movie
Dermatrodes and Black ICE...
"... a weak current, which runs between the buds ..."
Yup... Until the 'buds fail to detect a watermark in the music, and determine that you're listening to pirated content. Then the current gets cranked up to Black ICE ("Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics") level, and fries some neurons as a warning against your pilfering ways.
The world of Neuromancer edges closer, one invention at a time... :-)
could the next design iteration
detect if they were inserted anywhere other than an ear and provide the appropriate stimulation?
Left, right; confusing isn't it?
My wife tells me that's why she only buys knickers labelled C&A.
Is there a right and wrong stereo?
Despite always checking that I have my L and R earbuds in the correct ears, does it really matter?
The only time it be apparent you had them in backwards would be watching movies where on-screen action is synced to the correct audio channel.
For the majority of music listening shirley either way round would work no?
...the violins on the right seems a bit odd.
In general, I actually agree with you. But still, the purist in me feels that if the musician wanted me to hear the music that way round, that's the way I ought to listen to it.
headphone phase--does it matter? (mostly OT)
I had an old set of cans whose cable had broken off in one ear and I finally got around to soldering it back on. With no markings on the terminals, I downloaded some in-phase and out-of-phase samples to listen to after wiring it up both ways. From reading how out-of-phase wiring should sound, I *think* I wired it up right, but I still have doubts. I know this isn't a problem these cans are supposed to fix, but I'm curious whether anyone here can give a definitive answer as to whether headphones being out of phase really matters?
AFAICT, out of phase stereo signals sound different on speakers because the sound waves coming from each speaker interfere with each other, selectively destroying parts of the signal it shouldn't. Thinking about this in terms of headphones, it's not clear that there should be any interference pattern set up at all unless the brain is doing some analogous processing on the sounds. So my question, as per title--does stereo phase matter at all when wiring headphones?
On topic: speaking of stereo, it seems that if each bud had two sensors (antennae placed at right angles to each other) you could do detection in much the same way that a theremin works. The articles mention only one sensor, and the reg article mentions breaking a circuit, but I wonder if there isn't some mini theremin gizmo at work here? Can you even miniaturise a it to that level? I have no idea.
Off topic again... I've had theremins on my mind since the recent reg article on increasing screen resolutions on tablet computers. I mentioned the problem of accurately hitting a patch of screen with a finger as the resolution of the monitor goes up. Later it occurred to me that something like a theremin could detect an incoming finger and selectively zoom in on the target area (with the feature possibly keyed to a gesture, like circling the finger in as it approaches the screen). It might need two detectors for near/far range. Just throwing the idea out there, fwiw.
Yes it matters
Easiest way to do it is feed a mono signal, ideally just someone speaking, to both phones. If you close your eyes you should be able to visualise (auralise?) that the person is speaking from a point somewhere directly in front of you. When they are out of phase you won't be able to do that as it will sound a bit weird and the point from which the sound appears to come is elusive to spot. Just try it and you will see what I mean.
@Yes it matters
I did think I noticed some difference when I wired them up and picked the wiring that I thought sounded better. I'll do the mono test later and see what that sounds like. I'm not looking forward to resoldering them when I'm still not 100% sure that I can aurally tell the difference between the two polarities :(
You wouldn't happen to have any links that explain exactly why phase matters for headphones, would you? My searches didn't turn up anything conclusive, and I still can't quite understand what makes out of phase headphones sound wrong. Thanks :)
"Easiest way to do it is feed a mono signal, ideally just someone speaking, to both phones. If you close your eyes you should be able to visualise (auralise?) that the person is speaking from a point somewhere directly in front of you"
Utter utter bollox. It's a mono signal, the sound coming out of both 'phones is identical. Swap them around all you like, you can imagine the sound coming from in front of you, or behind you, or above you for that matter.
We sense directionality of sounds through ear lobe reflections and echoes which a headphone can't take advantage of, primarily for high-pitched noises. We also sense it through actually moving our heads slightly to change the balance of the sounds, particularly for low-frequencies.
Phasing isn't L/R swapping
Not 'bollox'. The guys above aren't talking about swapping audio channels, but about reversing the phase of one channel.
Look, maybe I'm missing a point here, but surely you'd only tell the diffference between 'right' and 'wrong' way round on the 'phones when you're listening to something you're familiar with. I'd guess with music (non-orchestral at least) it actually doesn't make any odds.
I'd always thought that the point of stereo was to give the impression of separation or whatever, but does anybody give a flying f**k whether the bassist's on the right and the lead on the left or vice-versa? I can see that for something with a formal layout - like an orchestra - left & right might make a difference, but otherwise? Just a case of OCD if you ask me (CDO if you really must have the letters in alphabetical order, of course).
Feel free to enlighten me if there's more to it, of course; can always rely on Reg commentards :)
I think it's fairly unimportant for music (to most people, at least), but can be pretty relevant to things like games and movies.
Bumps and stuff
Having a bump on one of the buds is OK, so long as you know which one the bump is on.
The Sennheiser MX-880 doesn't. It has a bump on (I think) the left, and no other markings. Would it have killed them to put a line in the user guide telling you which channel has the bump?
No not bollox. Phasing matters even if it's a mono signal. The image should be centered in front of you or, more likely with cans, behind you. Of course phase information is a lot more important for stereo, but if you use compression algorithms like MP3 they do nasty things to it, because they encode/decode a sample on the left channel, then one on the right and so on. Then they mash it up if it's joint stereo. So you're left with worse than than pan-pot stereo at best. For some genres that hardly matters!
If you get the speaker/headphone phasing reversed (on one side) then you lose the stereo image and just hear two sound sources.
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Theres a little-known fact about guns in America, and its one that the firearms industry and its political allies dont like to dwell on: The rate of gun ownership in America is declining.
This has been the case for decades. Rates peaked way back in the 1970s, the era of disco balls and bell bottoms. In 1977, 54 percent of American households reported owning guns. In 2010, the last time the General Social Survey data was compiled, the percentage had shrunk to 32.
The Violence Policy Center follows such data, as analyzed by the National Opinion Research Center. The centers last report was A Shrinking Minority: The Continuing Decline of Gun Ownership in America.
The trend is expected to continue. It seems counterintuitive, given all the recent headlines about people lining up at gun stores and given the stranglehold the gun lobby has on American politics. It raises all sorts of questions. Who owns guns, who doesnt, and why? For the nation to handle its problems with gun violence effectively, we need to grasp the nitty-gritty realities of gun ownership.
First of all, whatever upticks have been observed in the purchases of guns and ammunition seems to reflect stockpiling by those who were already gun owners. Gun manufacturing increased dramatically between 2007 and 2011, from 3.7 million weapons to 6.1 million being produced. You have to wonder if owning guns, for those who still do, is a bit like buying cell phones. Once youre hooked, only the newest killer version will do, prompting more frequent purchases.
Meanwhile, the declining overall trend in ownership rates is largely explained by the changing demographic composition of America.
Older white men, many of whom grew up with hunting as a part of their lifestyle, are in decline relative to other demographic groups. Younger people are more likely to play soccer than sit in a duck blind or deer stand.
More and more households are headed by single women, and they are far less likely to have guns than families with a father in the household. So the swelling ranks of single mothers, a topic of much hand-wringing in other regards, may actually help to reduce suicides and accidental gunshot injuries.
But what about all of those news stories of women flocking to shooting ranges, eagerly buying up pink-handled pistols and bedazzled accessories to hold extra clips? The rate of gun ownership among women peaked back in 1982 at about 14 percent. It fluctuates more for women than for other categories of people, but it was just under 10 percent in 2010.
What those news stories about female gun fascination reveal is not so much reality as it a gun industry fairy tale. Its marketing. Gun manufacturers, the National Rifle Association, hunting organizations and shooting ranges want to shore up a market that has been slipping away for decades.
Its of a piece with the events known as zombie shoots, staged target practice encounters designed to lure in younger people who arent being taken hunting by their parents.
A declining proportion of the American public is getting involved in gun culture that is, the gun industrys customer base is not growing and yet business is booming. This should lead us to an alarming conclusion. The marketing of more lethal forms of weaponry and ammunition is how the gun industry has decided to shore up profits. The fierce resistance to bans on assault weapons and large ammo clips, as well as to background checks and any other hurdle put in the way of those who want to arm themselves, is not about defending the Second Amendment. It is about defending a business model a sick, cynical business model.
If this werent the case, the gun industry would be engaging with the general public in a more benign and constructive manner, committing itself to protecting us from the harm its products inflict. Instead, Americans have become fed up with its paranoia and its rank influence peddling. It has lost its credibility.
This much is clear. Gun ownerships place in American culture is withering on its own. Industry and political efforts to resuscitate it need to be understood and, when appropriate, challenged in that context.
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US 4570351 A
Cases (covers) for binding books are made in a series of sizes which differ from each other in the width of the spine and each size accommodates a range of book cores. The gauge of the present invention indicates which size case is proper and further measures the precise thickness of the core. Simultaneously, the gauge moves an edge guide of a positioning guide so that the core is located accurately centered relative to the spine area of the case and the case is also located relative to the guide.
1. A device of the character described comprising a base member having a bottom edge, a slidable member on a first side of said device partially overlapping said base member, means for guiding said slidable member for movement at an acute angle relative to said bottom edge, a book case bottom stop on said base member on the second side of said device, a book case side stop on said second side perpendicular to said bottom edge, a book core bottom stop on said first side parallel to and spaced away from said book case bottom stop, and a book core side stop on said slidable member on said first side parallel to said book case side stop.
2. A device according to claim 1 in which said means for guiding comprises at least two slots disposed at said acute angle in one said member and studs extending from the other said member through said slots.
3. A device according to claim 1 which further comprises a ratchet on one said member and a pawl positioned to engage said ratchet on the other said member whereby said members may be restrained in relative position until said pawl is disengaged from said ratchet.
4. A device according to claim 1 in which said base member is formed with a first window adjacent a portion of said book case bottom stop, said base member is formed with a second window adjacent said book case side stop, and said slidable member is formed with a third window at least partially overlapping said second window.
5. A device according to claim 1 in which said slidable member is formed with finger grip means to assist the user in sliding said slidable member relative to said base member.
6. A device according to claim 1 in which said base member is formed with a marginal foot parallel to said book case bottom stop.
7. A device according to claim 6 in which said slidable member has an edge formed with a plurality of steps having top edges substantially parallel to said foot, whereby book core width may be measured by placing said core and said foot on the same flat support surface and then moving said device toward said core until said core fits under the top edge of one of said steps.
8. A device according to claim 7 in which said means is disposed for movement of said slidable member at an angle of about 67
9. A device according to claim 7 in which said core side stop moves parallel to and away from said case side stop an increasing distance as said steps move toward the plane of said foot.
This invention relates to a new and improved tool used in desk top book making. It is used first to determine the size of the case (book cover) which should be used to encase a book core of particular spine thickness and then to position edge guides so that the core is properly centered relative to the spine portion of the case.
In commercial bookbinding, the apparatus for casing books is elaborate and expensive. Heretofore, the assignee of this application has developed two different devices for centering the core relative to the case as set forth in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,912,304 and 3,825,964. The present invention constitutes an improvement over the latter patents in that it is simpler in structure and easier to use.
A preferred book core with which the present device may be used is designated as reference numeral 56 in FIG. 6 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,964,770. In this preferred embodiment, there are book pages which vary greatly in number from instance to instance of use. The number of sheets in the core creates the problem which is solved by use of the present invention--namely, that a thicker book requires a case having a wider spine area than a thinner book and, for a particular range of sizes which use one particular case size, for aesthetic reasons, the spine of the core must be accurately centered relative to the spine of the case. In addition to the book sheets, in the preferred embodiment there are optionally end sheets such as those shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,749,422 at the front and back of the core and binding means binding the end sheets and the pages together. A preferred binding means is made of plastic strips such as those shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,369,013. It will be understood, however, that the use of end leaves and the use of plastic binding strips is optional since the present invention can be used with a core of any type.
A preferred case, or hard cover, is shown in FIG. 5 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,964,770. Thus the preferred case has a flexible spine area between two hard covers. In the middle of the spine area is a foam plastic pad coated with pressure sensitive adhesive and initially protected by release paper. The release paper is removed and the spine of the core adheres to the pad of the case. Thus is produced a cased book such as that shown in FIG. 1A of U.S. Pat. No. 3,749,423. As has been mentioned, it is important that, for aesthetic reasons, the core be centered relative to the spine area of the case. Unless it is so centered, the margin between the outer edge of the core and the outer edges of the top cover will be different than the margin between the outer edge of the core and the outer edge of the bottom cover of the completed book. Although a preferred case has been mentioned herein and is hereinafter described in considerable detail, nevertheless it will be understood that the present invention may be used with cases of other construction.
The device which is the subject of this invention is intended for use by relatively unskilled operators in an office environment, as contrasted with commercial book manufacturing equipment which is cumbersome, expensive, occupying large areas of a factory floor and requiring highly skilled operators to set up the machine and supervise its operation.
Another feature of the present device is that it is quickly adjusted for different sizes of book. Conventional book casing equipment is usually set up for a particular book of particular dimensions. Shifting from one size to another requires time and skill.
Accordingly, the present invention is easy to use and produces accurate centering of the core relative to the case with little operational experience and skill.
The device is a small tool which requires very little storage space. It is inexpensive to manufacture and requires no maintenance.
The device of the present invention is used first of all to select the proper size case, i.e., to measure the thickness of the spine of the core and thereby determine the proper size case spine width.
The device, in addition to assisting in selection of the case size, also accurately measures the thickness of the spine of the core and simultaneously moves a side edge guide for the core. The edge of the core is placed against the side edge guide and this locates the core symmetrically relative to the spine of the case. Another edge guide locates the core symmetrically relative to the top and bottom edges of the case.
The present invention is used in assembling a core 21 and a case 22 to produce a cased book 23. Core 21 consists of a plurality of sheets 26, the number of such sheets varying from book to book. In a preferred embodiment, end leaves 27 such as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,749,422 are positioned on the top and the bottom of a stack of sheets 26, having pressure-sensitive adhesive on the outer faces thereof initially protected by release paper 28. Binding means 29 such as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,369,013 binds together the two end leaves 27 and the sheets 26.
Case 22 such as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,964,770 has front and back covers 31, separated by a flexible spine area 32 which has a hypothetical center line 33. Covering most of the spine area 32 is a pad 34 of a resilient foam material having pressure-sensitive adhesive on its upper face initially protected by release paper 36. The purpose of the present invention is to assist in selecting a particular case 22 having a spine area 32 of proper width and then to position the core 21 so that the center line of the core is accurately located relative to the center line 33. In commercial practice, cases 22 are designated as sizes "A", "B", etc., depending on the width of spine area 32. The details of construction of core 21 and cases 22 which are described and illustrated herein are subject to considerable variation.
The tool which is the subject of this invention consists of a slidable portion 41 and a base 42. The slidable portion 41 partially overlaps the right hand end of the base 42, as illustrated herein. Formed in base 42 are slots 43 which slant downwardly and to the left at an angle of about 67 slidable portion 41 fit through the slots 43 and are formed with heads 45 to retain the two parts in assembled, but relatively slidable, position. Pin 78 on slidable portion 41 fits into slot 77 in base 42 (which is at the same angle as slots 43) and the length of slot 77 limits the length of movement of the two members 41, 42 relative to each other.
Base 42, on its left-hand side, has a foot 46 which, when the device is used as a gauge, fits flat on a table or other supporting surface. On the back of base 42 at about the level of foot 46 is a bottom stop 47 for the case and on the front of base 42 is a bottom stop 48 for the core. Stop 48 is farther from foot 46 than stop 47. Extending at right angles to the stops 47 and 48 on the back of the base 42 is side stop 49 for the case. To help the user determine whether the device is accurately in place on a case, bottom window 51 is formed approximately midway of the length of bottom stop 48, the stop 48 being suitably interrupted for such window 51. Similarly, a side window 52 is formed immediately to the left of side stop 49. The left side of base 42 is cut away as indicated by reference numeral 54 and the lower right corner 55 of base 42 is cut away at about 45
Formed on the upper surface of the portion of base 42 which is overlapped by the slidable portion 41 is a ratchet 56, or toothed surface. An inverted U-shaped slot 57 is formed in the slidable portion 41 overlying ratchet 56 and a pawl 58 is formed just below the top of the slot 57. Pawl 58 fits into the teeth of ratchet 56 and because of the slot 57 the pawl 58 is flexible relative thereto. A finger grip 59 is formed on the exterior of slidable portion 41 to facilitate sliding movement of portion 41 relative to base 42. Additionally, a forwardly bent tab 61 is formed on the upward extension 62 of the top edge of slidable portion 42, further to facilitate movement of the two parts relative to each other.
The lower right-hand corner of slidable portion 41 is formed in a series of steps 66 which are preferably designated with indicia such as capital letters which are used for particular spine widths of cases 22.
On the front of slidable portion 41 extending vertically along the length thereof is a side stop 67 for the core. Overlying said stop 49 is a side window 68 formed in the slidable portion 41.
In use, the operator first lifts the slidable portion 41 upward and to the right relative to base 42 to the limit of its movement, sliding being facilitated by reason of the flexibility of the pawl 58 located within the U-shaped slot 57. Turning now to FIGS. 6 and 6A, with the slidable portion 41 fully up, the foot 46 is placed on a table and a core 21 or 21a placed adjacent thereto. The user then brings the steps 66 into proximity to the spine of the core 21 and determines the lowest step 66 into which the core 21 fits. By reading the particular designator ("A", "B", etc.) the proper case 21 size (i.e., spine width) may be selected. In the relationships shown in FIGS. 6 and 6A, although the cores 21 and 21a differ in thickness, both are accommodated by a "D-size" case.
The next step in use of the device is for the operator to push downward on the tab 61 until the "D-size" step 66 fits securely against the top of the core 21. Because the core 21 of FIG. 6 is thinner than the core 21a of FIG. 6A, this means that the slidable portion 41 has moved downwardly and, more importantly, to the left relative to the position which it can move in FIG. 6A. In other words, the side stop 67 for the core is farther to the left in FIG. 6 than it is in FIG. 6A. The pawl 58 fitting into one of the teeth of the ratchet 56 holds the parts 41 and 42 against unintentional relative movement until the completion of the casing operation.
The next step in the operation is illustrated in FIGS. 7 and 8. The device is placed over the proper case 22 and the bottom guide 46 is placed in close contact with the bottom edge of the right-hand cover 31 while the right-hand edge of the right cover 31 is placed in close contact with the side guide 49. That the case 22 is in proper relationship to the base 42 is observed through the windows 51 and the aligned windows 68 and 52.
The release paper 28 is preferably removed at this time, which exposes the pressure sensitive adhesive on the pad 34.
The next step in the operation is shown in FIGS. 9 and 9A. The bottom edge of the core 21 is placed tight against the stop 48 on the front of the base 42 and the side edge of the core 21 is placed tight against the side guide 67 on the slidable portion 41 and the opposite side edge edge of the core 21 along the binding means edge is placed onto the adhesive surface of pad 34, which assists in retaining the core 21 in its proper position. It will be observed from FIG. 9 that the right edge of cover 31 extends to the right of the right edge of the core 21. In FIG. 9A, since the core 21a is thicker than the core 21 of FIG. 9, the guide 67 is positioned to the right of its postion in FIG. 9. The purpose of the different postions of the stop 67 in the two figures is accurately to locate the center line of the spine of the core 21 relative to the center line 33.
As shown in FIG. 9A, since core 21a is thicker than core 21 (shown in FIG. 9), the distance 37 from centerline 33 is greater than the distance 38 from the edge of the core.
Thereupon, the left cover 31 is brought upward and to the right until it encloses the core 21. This brings the adhesive on the pad 34 into intimate contact with the spine of the core 21 causing the two parts to adhere. Such a relationship is shown in FIG. 10. The final step in the preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. 11 where the release papers 28 are being pulled away, exposing the pressure-sensitive adhesive on the end leaves 27 which adhere to the insides of the covers 31, forming a completed cased book. The use of the present invention insures that spine area 32 properly fits the thickness of core 21 and also that the outer edges of covers 31 extend the same distance beyond the outer edge of core 21--i.e., the core 21 is symmetric relative to case 22.
Other objects of the present invention will become apparent upon reading the following specification and referring to the accompanying drawings in which similar characters of reference represent corresponding parts in each of the several views.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of the device showing the device in two positions of use.
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the structure of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 3, 4 and 5 are enlarged fragmentary sectional views taken substantially along the lines 3--3, 4--4 and 5--5 of FIG. 1, respectively.
FIG. 6 is a front elevational view (in reduced scale) showing the device of the present invention being used to gauge the the thickness of a particular core.
FIG. 6A is a view similar to FIG. 6 showing the device used to gauge the thickness of a core which is thicker than that of FIG. 6.
FIG. 7 is a front elevational view showing the device in place used as a guide for positioning a case.
FIG. 8 is a rear elevational view of a portion of the structure of FIG. 7.
FIG. 9 is a front elevational view showing the device used to position a case and also the core which has been gauged in FIG. 6.
FIG. 9A is a view similar to FIG. 9 showing the device positioning the core of FIG. 6A.
FIG. 10 shows the device partially withdrawn from the assembled book after it has been used to position the spine of the core centered relative to the spine of the case.
FIG. 11 is an end elevational view of a completed book showing the release paper for the end leaves in the process of being stripped from the end leaves.
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Hurricane Katrina downsized his domain to nothing. Today, his new castle is about one-seventh the size of his old one, measuring 450 square feet. But surveying the familiar view from the dollhouse porch of his "Mississippi cottage," Mr. Voorhies is one of many storm survivors who have reassessed their coastal existence.
"Small works for me right now," Voorhies says of his cottage, one of nearly 2,400 the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) has given to state residents to replace the FEMA trailer. "There's less to lose."
Not everyone is an enthusiast of the Mississippi cottage – a wheeled version of the now famous Katrina Cottage – despite its compact cuteness. Most communities along the now-rebuilding Gulf Coast have demanded that MEMA haul them out by next March, citing concerns about their storm-worthiness, low assessed values, and aesthetics. That is leading some cottage-dwellers to vow to fight for their abodes, promising a showdown ahead.
New Orleans is grappling with post-hurricane demolitions, including teardowns of houses the owners have been planning to renovate. See the Squandered Heritage blog for details, and note that a team from New Orleans will be at the NetSquared conference coming in May 27-28 2008. Here's some small measure of the problem they are up against:
My house was a 1945 Gentilly bungalow with double parlor, original floors, the Gentilly tile, and deco molding. It was in no danger of falling down. My contractor drove by, called, and asked why there were bulldozers on the property the morning they tore it down. Before he could reach us, the house was gone.
I cannot return to the city now. I feel such pure fury when I think of my house being torn down. City bulldozers trespassed on my property and tore down my lovely Gentilly bungalow. New Orleans has nothing to do with America anymore. New Orleans is dead to me, and I will not lift a finger to help or give back to it again.
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Quick show of hands: How many of you, while driving around Denver, have been on the receiving end of a one-finger salute from an angry bicyclist? Me, too. I've sent a few out as well, because contrary to what some would have us believe, cyclists can, occasionally, be wrong.
Last week, the Post ran a story about how local police are stepping up the enforcement of bicycle laws. I actually symapthize with the cyclist cited in the article who was ticketed $65 for not coming to a complete stop at an intersection; as long as a bike isn't impeding auto traffic or near-missing pedestrians, who cares?
The problems arise when cyclists do impede traffic and almost hit pedestrians, which happens pretty frequently, especially downtown. It usually goes unpunished, and if police are going to keep up this enhanced prosecution of bike laws, offenses like these deserve closer scrutiny. As Denver strives to become a bike-friendlier place— a terrific ambition for any city—some cyclists have taken this as an open invitation to do whatever the hell they want, as if going the two-wheel route magically confers a Teflon-coated nobility upon the rider.
A guide to Colorado bicycle laws can be found here. Whether you ride a bike or not, read it. The main takeaway should be that bicycles must follow, with a handful of exceptions, the same rules as any other vehicle. This means cyclists can't ride on sidewalks, or the wrong way along a one-way street, or in the middle of automobile lanes while blocking cars behind them.
Think of it this way: If a motorcycle can't do it, a bike probably can't, either. Unfortunately, plenty of cyclists violate these laws all the time, and they generally greet any objections with a reaction that ranges from an indifferent shrug to an indignant eff-you. Using urban congestion as an excuse no longer flies; we now have bike lanes running through many downtown streets, as well as the car-free Cherry Creek bike path. Use them. The vehicle's nimbleness makes cutting a few blocks over no big deal; it's one of the main reasons you bought the thing in the first place.
As I said, the attempt to encourage more bicycle riding is a worthy one, and cyclists have legitimate complaints about the over-aggressiveness and outright hostility they see from many drivers. If someone wants to propose more draconian penalties for hit-and-run offenders who victimize cyclists—an unconscionable act of cowardice—I'll be the first one to sign the petition. But "share the road" doesn't mean give it over to the bikes; it means share the road.
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By Hannah Abu-Asaba
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (UTC/The Loop) -UTC gets to experience a new pool in the Aquatic Recreation Center for the first time this year.
The Universities campus website said that the ARC service satisfies the outdoor and indoor activities that are now available to all current students.
“I do think UTC has spent money wisely building the new pool that gives us another way to exercise in a state of the art pool facility,” Ashley Freeman, Chattanooga, Tenn., senior, said.
Freeman said that she enjoys what the campus has to offer students in between classes.
“Aquatic center of the ARC has a lazy river with a kayak plunge, thirty person bubble bench, a five lap line swim area, a two story high slide that is a hundred feet long, a water basketball court, and a water volley ball court, and its open Monday through Friday eleven to one lap swim only, and free swim from one till closing time.” Kaila Gunter, Chattanooga, Tenn., arc control, said.
With all the features the pool provides students have a new opportunity to have fun wile exercising.
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“Experts say Bible has role in American life,” ran the dog-bites-man headline in the Duke Chronicle. “Contrary to popular belief,” the article begins, “the Bible affects people’s everyday lives because of its influence on the political and social realm, experts said.” The experts were on hand for a day-and-a-half conference on “The Bible in the Public Square” sponsored by Duke’s Center for Jewish Studies (with help from the Religion Department and Southern Methodist University).
Panels ranged from The Bible and Popular Culture to the Bible and Middle East Policy. (All sessions were videotaped and can be viewed in their entirety on the conference website--eventually.) Jacques Berlinerblau, a wisecracking former jazz vibraphonist from Brooklyn who now teaches at Georgetown, opened the conference with a paper on the Bible and presidential politics, reminding us that how scholars read the Bible and assess Biblical literacy is very different from how politicians (and ordinary Bible-believers) read and deploy the Good Book. He also plumbed the mystery of why no one has succeeded in organizing a voting coalition made up of all the religious folk left out of the Religious Right—most Catholics, mainline Protestants, non-Orthodox Jews, Unitarians, Quakers, Pagans, seekers, and so on. These modernists would number some 90-100 million and be electorally decisive.
My powers of concentration were admittedly flagging by late afternoon, but two long papers on the Bible and Middle East Policy by Yaakov Ariel and Mordecai Inbari didn’t add much to what I could remember about the End Times from Boyer, Marsden, and McAlister. The final session included refreshingly crisp presentations from Charles Haynes of the First Amendment Center, Melissa Rogers of the Wake Forest Center for Religion and Public Affairs (those southern lawyers can really orate), and Mark Chancey of SMU, one of the organizers of the conference, who in addition to his scholarship on the New Testament and early Judaism has been active in public interest groups working to ensure that religion courses taught in public schools honor the First Amendment (who spoke as well as a southern lawyer).
The longest session focused on the Bible and Popular Culture. Adele Reinhartz focused on the Bible in Hollywood, speaking mainly of DeMille’s The Ten Commandments and the 2007 film In the Valley of Elah. David Morgan examined the Bible as material artifact in people’s lives. As the Bible has been gradually excised from school classrooms over the 20th century, the flag and Pledge of Allegiance have been substituted in as sacralized objects/rituals (though that hasn’t ended the ongoing struggle to get the Bible into the public square). Reviewing the way in which Bible stories like Cain and Abel have been represented in Christian comic books (chiefly the “Brick Testament” in which Bible scenes are created from Legos), Reuben Dupertuis argued that these texts function as translations, which generally work to domesticate stories from unfamiliar contexts, i.e. 1200 B.C .E., but sometimes to “foreignize” them. My own talk presented my ongoing research on Psalm 137 as America’s longest-running protest song.
The focus on the Bible facilitated a lot of back-and-forth movement between Judaism and Christianity, logical given the fact the conference was sponsored by Jewish Studies. Sacvan Bercovitch emerged as a kind of patron saint of many of the papers, although as Fea pointed out there was that danger of interpreting too much American history through the lens of New England. Sitting through so many sessions so soon after Labor Day felt a little like getting up from a lounge chair at the pool to run a 10K. But the Duke hospitality was bountiful; we stayed in the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, a tony joint that serves reservation-only high tea and boasts a corridor whose walls are covered by historic photos of the Duke dynasty and no fewer than five busts of Duke family patriarchs. A far cry from the cash-strapped public universities from whence I come.
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We have been favored with the following extracts from a letter written by a member of the Palmetto Guard
Vienna, July 26, 1861.
Dear M—: —I telegraphed you a few days ago that I was quite well, and last night received your answer. The last part of your message I could not exactly make out, but take it that you intended to ask whether any of our company were killed or wounded. I had just written M—, and told her to send you word, but before this reaches you, you will have heard that we escaped without losing any.
W. Elliott was struck by a shell and stunned, blood issuing from his mouth. He is with us now, but is, I think, injured internally. Reeder was shot through the arm; a bad flesh wound. He had another wound, which I think was in the shoulder. J. L. Moses was struck in the collar bone. Walter was shot through the neck, the worst wound of all. Calder was knocked down by a shell or spent ball, but is now with us. The Captain of the Butler Guards was wounded in the arm; it is thought he will lose it. One of our men, Rice, went off the ground with him, and while doing so was also shot in the arm. Barnwell, a relation of the Captain, who was fighting with us, was wounded slightly in the nose. These are all we had injured.
Otis Prentiss was a prisoner for a time, but escaped. The loss of our Regiment I do not know. Hardy, one of the Colonel’s aids, was killed; one of the Butler Guards and one of the Camden Volunteers were killed. De Pass, a brother of Sam, it is said, is mortally wounded, also a member of his company. You will, however, get full accounts from the official reports.
I will now, as well as I can, give you an account of the whole affair.
On the 17th instant, soon after we had taken our wash, it was reported that the Yankees were coming in great force. Most of us then went to breakfast and ate a hearty meal. The order was soon afterwards given to strike tents, which was done, but not without a good deal of murmuring, for they had made us throw up embankments, and now for South Carolinians to retreat before Yankees we looked upon as a disgrace.
Every man packed his knapsack and made ready for a long march back to Bull Run. We were then formed in line, the company being over one hundred strong, when the Colonel advanced and addressed us in such language that we thought we had been mistaken and were not to retreat.
We then advanced and deployed as skirmishers. After remaining there some time, we returned to our quarters and marched towards Bacon’s Regiment. The enemy’s bayonets could now be seen and we were certain of a fight, and, of course, of a victory. Most of us unstrapped our knapsacks and placed them in charge of the villagers, though I could have carried mine without any inconvenience.
Our going into the batteries was only a sham to make the enemy believe we were going to fight, until the other regiments got out of the village, when we followed them; and that is the last we saw of our knapsacks, or ever will. However, I can get along very well. I have an oil cloth and two blankets, captured from the enemy, to compensate for my loss. The Yankees had 50,000 and we had 5000. Their object was to surround us and cut us to pieces, but they were mistaken, we got out about a quarter of an hour in advance of them. It was a very hot day, and we suffered intensely; one of our men, Brown, from Barnwell, died at Centreville from the effects of the march. We rested at Centreville till 12 o’clock that night, when we took up our line of march for Bull Run, the battle ground. Again did the enemy almost surround us, but we got out as successfully as we did before.
I was at first opposed to retreating, but now think it was all for the best.
We reached Bull Run about 2 o’clock, and went back to our old company ground, took a short nap and then got ready to meet the enemy; this was on the morning of the 18th. Two of Kemper’s cannon were stationed on a hill about five hundred yards in advance of the breast work; they were supported by our company and one other. Soon the enemy began to throw shot and shell at us but without much effect. Kemper’s battery fired eight shots at them, and we then retired to our breast works; they still continued to fire upon us but without any injury. Soon we heard the report of rifles and musketry on the right, the enemy trying to flank us; he was met, however, by the Virginia and Alabama troops, and repulsed with great loss. Again did a portion of our troops advance with Kemper who fired several more rounds doing – it was said by those who had climbed into the trees – immense damage. We heard but a little more of the enemy till Sunday. In the meantime our regiment had been removed to the left of the brigade.
On Sunday morning they again poured in on our batteries, but it was only a feint, as the battle soon afterwards commenced on the left at the Stone Bridge, where Sloan’s Regiment was, together with Hampton’s Legion and troops from other States. After they had been fighting about an hour, orders came for our regiment, together with Col. Cash’s, to proceed to the field. Off we started in high spirits, and on our way met numbers of the wounded coming from the field. They all told us the day was lost; that the enemy was cutting us to pieces.
Never did men go into battle under more unfavorable circumstances, but they did not appear to mind it much. We were also told that friends were firing upon each other as it was impossible to distinguish friend from foe. We “formed line of battle,” by coming into line by “on right by file into line;” it was done under a galling fire. We then fixed bayonets and charged into a thick wood which we found filled with the enemy.
It was while forming that Elliott, Reeder and Moses were wounded, and our flag was struck twice. We charged out of the wood with a yell when the enemy broke and run. We poured into them a terrific fire, and could have killed many more, when the cry of “Friends!” was raised, at which we ceased until the Stars and Stripes came into view, when we pushed into them right and left. The artillery came up, and the rout became general, and such a rout you never saw. They lost about fifty pieces of artillery, and baggage wagons innumerable. Of this you will see an account in the papers. If I live to see you again I will tell you more about the battle, it was the greatest defeat the world has ever heard of, and it is said that to Kershaw’s and Cash’s Regiments, together with Kemper’s Artillery, which is attached to our regiment, is due the credit of the victory.
Charleston Mercury, 8/2/1861
Contributed by John Hennessy
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A South Texas girl diagnosed as autistic allegedly has been denied use of her service dog at school.
The mother of 17-year-old Colleen Molohon says a George West Independent School District review committee on Monday ruled against the dog named Chili.
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports Superintendent Ty Sparks declined comment on the closed-door meeting.
Donna Osborn says her daughter's physician diagnosed the girl as autistic. Osborn says the Australian cattle dog helps the girl, who's had spinal surgery, with physical tasks and alerts her on communication issues. Chili wears a service dog badge.
District officials and the Texas Education Agency say the girl has emotional issues, not autism.
The Justice Department last year decided so-called comfort animals are not service animals. The district does not allow comfort animals.
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Things to check while investing in Fixed Income instruments
For all those who are looking at making some fixed income investments there are few things that they need to check before they actually decide about completing this process. Only when these points are addressed should the individual be confident that the fixed income investment will serve a specific purpose. This means avoiding some situations where the decision is not being made properly. This might seem to increase the work at the initial stage but the benefits that this brings out is far more as the gains will be significant for the individual over the longer time duration. Here are some of such situations and the manner in which they should be tackled.
There are many investors who do not look at the choices that are in front of them but just make an automatic allocation to a particular area. This is not a good way of going about the investment process because there is no chance or opportunity that is actually being given to the various alternatives in terms of checking whether there is a benefit that they offer. So investing only in recurring deposits without checking other alternatives would be an example of such a move. The other way would also be to look at whether there are some features that are suitable for a particular investor leading to a particular investment.
There can be a situation where there is the entire amount with an individual is being invested into debt like fixed deposits or there could be very little amount that is coming here because the figure is going elsewhere like real estate. Both of these are conditions that should be avoided because they lead to a situation where the entire investment is skewed as proper evaluation is not being undertaken of the various alternatives.
All choices to be considered
Another problem that a lot of people end up having is that they seem to have very few choices in front of them once they select a particular asset for making the investment. This could mean a position where they either think that when it comes to fixed income investments it means only fixed deposits or only small savings plans offered by the post office. Again the situation is such that there is a large choice available in all types of investments and hence this will have to be analysed and then the final decision has to be made. If this is not done then there could be a concentration of investments into just one sub area like say company fixed deposits while other alternatives like bonds or debentures might be completely avoided. This might not be the best solution for the requirement of the individual and hence this has to be taken into consideration.
Many investors tend to look at the fixed income investments in isolation but there is a need for them to actually consider this as a part of their overall portfolio. There has to be a match between the need of the individual and the particular investment and at the same time efforts have to be undertaken to ensure that there is no increase in the risk element that is generated when the portfolio is constructed. This means avoiding a similar kind of investment and spreading the investment across different institutions and options. Once this is done then there will be a proper way in which the overall risk will be contained.
It is only when there is a proper portfolio built up that has several elements and which covers all the requirements of the individual that there can be good results expected at the end of the day. This has to be considered as a team effort because the overall funds of the investor has to rise at the end of the day and not just one or two investments. In this sense that has to be right efforts so that good returns are earned and at the same time this beats inflation.
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An autorickshaw is forced to switch on headlights on a foggy morning in Jamshedpur on Friday. The unfavourable weather meant visibility was reduced to a mere 350 metres at several places in the state. Picture by Animesh Sengupta
Jamshedpur, Feb. 1: The final bells are tolling for the winter chill.
A change in wind pattern coupled with a western disturbance pushed up the Celsius across a foggy Jharkhand today. And, if weathermen are to be believed, the nip in the air will be gone by this weekend.
The freak streak of a maverick winter continued with an abrupt rise in night temperatures in the past 24 hours in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Daltonganj and several other places.
“The wind pattern is shifting from westerly to easterly. There will be free flow of easterly currents in the next couple of days due to a western disturbance hovering near Jammu and Kashmir,” said A.K. Sen, the director of Patna Meteorological Office.
He added that the disturbance was “strong” and would “impact” some states, including Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttarakhand. “At this moment, it is difficult to predict, but light rain may occur in some parts of the state after February 4.”
The Regional Meteorological Centre in Calcutta too hinted at a Celsius surge after the next 24 hours. “We are expecting a rise in minimum readings in Jharkhand owing to the easterly wind flow, which will also result in moisture incursion,” said director G.C. Debnath.
The day’s above-10 readings further corroborated the forecast.
The night temperature in Jamshedpur rose to 13°C from 9.3°C yesterday. Today’s minimum reading was a notch above the average normal. Ranchi too was warmer at 12.8°C. Yesterday, the capital had recorded 8.1°C.
Daltonganj, which had dropped to sub-seven temperatures earlier this week, felt cosier at 11.8°C. Yesterday, the Palamau district headquarters was shivering at 8°C. The day’s minimum, again, was a notch above the average normal.
Several districts like Bokaro, Koderma, Hazaribagh, Giridih, Simdega and Gumla too crossed the 11°C mark. They had all reeled under 8°C earlier this week.
The unfavourable weather resulted in moderate to heavy fog at many places, especially those at higher altitudes. Visibility was reduced to 350 metres this morning in East Singhbhum, Seraikela-Kharsawan and Koderma. Met officials said the haze would partly clear tomorrow due to formation of clouds in the lower levels of atmosphere.
January-end had been unusually cold this year, with the sub-10 minimum remaining much below the average normal for eight days at a stretch. A weather analyst said free flow of the North Wind had triggered the cold spell, which is now being broken by a strong western disturbance.
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The Overall quality of your life is greatly affected by the way you feel. When you are healthy, confident and have energy you are going to natural feel better and enjoy life. With more and more of us working physically inactive jobs it is important to find the time to get the exercise your body desperately needs. Exercising will naturally speed up your metabolism helping you lose or maintain a healthy weight as well as give you a healthy natural boost of energy that will stick with you throughout your day making more productive at home and at work without relying on those terrible energy drinks. Finding the time to work out and getting into a routine you can stick with us important to make sure you stick with it. You want a life style not a two week phase you went through were you wanted to be healthy. Having work out equipment at home will allow the flexibility to exercise when it works for you, as well as saves money over expensive gym memberships increasing the chances of you sticking with it. At http://www.lifeforfitness.com you will find a huge selection of the best home workout equipment at cheap discount prices. Whether you are looking to just start working out or a way to enhance your current exercise routine they offer a huge variety of exercise home equipment and the information you need to come up with the perfect fitness plan for you and your needs. You can find them in the Health, Fitness and Exercise Equipment sections of our Online Shopping Mall. Also make sure to check out the Workout Equipment category of our Shopping Blog to learn more about this site and the importance of exercise as well find an easy new way to get information and shop. http://easyplacetoshop.com
January 28, 2010
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6 quick facts about the capital gains exemption in Canada
Yesterday I was visiting my parents back home on the farm and enjoying a lazy Saturday afternoon away from the big city. In exchange for some really great ice cream, my Mom asked me for some tax advice related to the lifetime $500,000 capital gains exemption.
Long story short, she was under the impression she could shield any and all capital gains using the exemption. Unfortunately, the exemption is very specifically targeted and is not a blanket exemption for just any gain.
So, a rundown of the basic facts surrounding this oft-misunderstood tax tidbit.
- Share sales qualify for the exemption if and only if they are of a Small Business Corporation, which is defined in the Tax Act as being a Canadian-Controlled Private Corporation with generally 90% of its assets involved in active business.
- The shares must have been owned by you or a relative for a 24-month period prior to the sale, and for that same period at least 50% of the assets must have been used in active business in Canada.
- Steps should be taken to “purify” the corporation to take advantage of the exemption. This normally means removing investments held by the corporation, as these are assets not used in its active business and could thus violate the 50% and 90% rules above.
- The 2007 budget proposed increasing the lifetime exemption from $500,000 to $750,000, and proposes to take effect for dispositions after March 18, 2007.
- Unincorporated businesses — sole proprietorships or partnerships — are not eligible to use the exemption, which is a prime benefit to incorporation. There are ways to roll business assets into a newly formed corporation not resulting in tax.
- You can “crystallize” the exemption at a time when the corporation qualifies, which involves transferring the shares to a holding corporation and electing to recognize a gain. In case the government decides to eliminate or change the exemption, you’ve already taken advantage and are protected.
As with any general tax information, your situation will be unique. You should definitely seek out a Chartered Accountant to review your personal situation and prepare a plan tailored to you. If you need a CA, please contact me and I can provide some recommendations!
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School Children Across the U.S. to Celebrate the One-Year Anniversary of NABEF's Let's Move! Flash Workout Featuring Beyonce's "Move Your Body"
NEW YORK, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, May 3, 2012, WAT-AAH! will be spearheading the one-year anniversary celebration of the "Let's Move! Flash Workout," with the support of 16-time Grammy Award winner, Beyonce, and the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF). Students from over 600 schools across the United States will unite to celebrate the first anniversary commemorating last year's event where children across the globe were moving and dancing to Beyonce's workout routine in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative to combat childhood obesity.
Last year, Beyonce debuted "Move Your Body," for the Let's Move! Flash Workout event. The song and music video instructed a pre-choreographed dance routine to be performed by the thousands of school children on May 3rd, at 1:42 EDT, simultaneously. As the featured performer of this movement, Beyonce surprised Harlem's P.S. 161 students on the day of the event, which gained global recognition.
The nationwide event will be held on an identical date and time as last year. Elementary through high school students and other supporting organizations, professional athletes, celebrities and politicians, will simultaneously dance to Beyonce's "Move Your Body" 4-minute exercise and dance routine.
"We are so happy to participate in WAT-AAH!'s event," says Emily Natalie, from Harding Elementary, Erie, PA. "We have been using the 'Move Your Body' song this year as our physical activity. The majority of our school, 630 students, actually have been taught and know the dance, so this event will be even bigger for us this year."
Last year, the NAB Education Foundation spearheaded the Let's Move! Flash Workout. "With the extraordinary success of last year's movement, people around the world became aware of the impact childhood obesity has on the lives of our children," says NABEF President Marcellus Alexander. "This year, we are all pleased to support WAT-AAH!, the students, schools, and organizations that have joined together for a fun exercise routine that reinforces the Let's Move! message about the benefits of healthy diet and exercise."
The First Lady issued the following statement in support of the one year anniversary celebration:
"One year ago today, I teamed up with Beyonce to show kids all across the country that being active isn't just good for you - it's fun, too," said First Lady Michelle Obama. "But you don't only have to dance in a flash mob to get moving. Whether it's hula hooping, playing sports or just going for a walk, all kids can find a way to be active for 60 minutes a day and eat nutritious, delicious food so they grow up healthy and strong."
"We are thrilled to lead the first anniversary celebration of the Let's Move Flash Workout. The tremendous and positive response we received from everyone is bound to make May 3rd a spectacular day," says Rose Cameron of CEO/Founder of WAT-AAH!.
WAT-AAH! is a line of functional water for kids and teens free of sugar or sweeteners of any kind. It was created by Cameron in 2008, after learning an alarming fact that the current generation of kids are predicted to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents due to childhood obesity. WAT-AAH!'s mission is to convince kids to drink water as opposed to sodas and surgary drinks. WAT-AAH!, working alongside NABEF, was the exclusive beverage partner of last year's event.
The NAB Education Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to reinforcing the future of broadcasting through a commitment to education and to advancing excellence in the diversity and community service efforts of our industry. Learn more at www.nabef.org.
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He was addressing the second Economic Conference 'Dividends' held at a local hotel under the flag of Aman Ki Asha - a joint initiative of Jang Group Pakistan and The Times of India for improvement of Pak-India relations.
The aim of the conference is to explore new trade avenues and to create an enabling environment for enhanced economic activities between the neighboring countries.
Addressing the conference, the Indian High Commissioner said that India and Pakistan should target $ 12 billion trade within next five years, asserting, "Our growing economic agenda also includes finalization of modalities of electricity trade between the two countries and trade in petroleum products."
Sharat Shabarwal said that India wanted to build a relationship of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation with Pakistan.
He said that there was a keen desire on both sides to improve trade and economic links, bridge the information gap between business communities and address each other's concerns. "A number of business delegations have travelled in both countries to bridge the information gap and dialogue between the two commerce ministries has led to a number of important steps," he added.
Shabarwal said the moot would enable businessmen of both sides to discuss modalities to expand trade and economic relations between the two countries, particularly in the light of opportunities arisen as a result of interaction between the commerce ministries over the last one year.
The Indian high commissioner also appreciated the decision of the Pakistan government to accord an MFN (Most Favoured Nation) status to India, as well as to move from a positive list of imports from India to a negative list. "We hope that the negative list will be phased out by the end of the year, as planned. The step will also pave the way for preferential trade between the countries under the South Asian Free Trade Area Agreement or (SAFTA)," he maintained.
He said that significant steps had also been taken to address concerns and apprehensions of business communities on both sides, adding that India and Pakistan also initialed three agreements in areas of customs cooperation, mutual recognition of testing laboratories and redress of trade grievances and they would be signed and put into effect in coming weeks.
Shabarwal said, "We will like to carry the process of trade liberalization forward in a manner to create a win-win situation for both sides."
He added that in February India had supported approval of the European Union trade concessions package for Pakistan by the WTO General Council. "We are ready to commence discussion on reducing the size of sensitive lists under SAFTA. India has also agreed to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from Pakistan for which necessary procedures and requirements are being formulated," he maintained.
"As a result of two meetings held last year, both sides' interior ministries were able to finalize the draft of a revised visa agreemment, containing, inter alia, liberal provisions for business visas. We hope it will be signed during a meeting of our interior/home secretaries in coming weeks," he added.
He said the Wagha-Attari trade gate was another mega achievement of the neighbouring countries that would boost the bilateral trade volume. "I will like to mention in particular the decision taken by the commerce ministers earlier this year to explore the opening of the Munabao-Khokhrapar route for trade. Such land trade routes, besides giving freight advantage to goods of both countries, will also contribute significantly to the economy of the regions on both sides of the border," he mentioned.
In his address at Aman Ki Asha Economic Conference, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) President Adi Godrej said the organisation was also focusing on bilateral trade relations, deepen and strengthen people-to-people contact and share heritage.
The CII, he added, wanted to enhance Pak-India exports, however, a lot has yet to be done to reach the full potential of each other. "Matters pertaining to FDI, non-tariff barriers, energy trade, opening of air and land trade routes between the two countries needed greater focus," he said and cited, "Then we will be able to converge our potential to gain $ 10 billion bilateral trade volume by 2015."
Pakistan Business Council (PBC) Chairman Asad Umar also expressed the same view by saying that the PBC wished improved trade ties with India and as soon barriers were removed it would be better for citizens of both countries and "We will really be entering into a meaningful relationship."
He, however, expressed concern that Pakistan textile products were not given attention by the Indian side which was focused on textile exports from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and added that unless India resolved the matter, the Pak-India peace initiative could not bear tangible results.
Times of India Executive Director Rahul Kansal said 'Aman Ki Asha' was aimed at opening new windows in each others minds by involving the media and civil society. "Under this peace initiative, we have stressed upon cultural relations and economic cooperation to get closer together and share our potential for the benefit of both sides as well as to enhance people-to-people contact," he added.
In his welcome address, Jang Group Managing Director Shahrukh Hasan said the 'Aman Ki Asha' peace initiative campaign was launched on January 1, 2010, to create awareness among the people on both sides of the divide to take dividends of maintaining a peaceful relationship.
Shahrukh termed President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani's visits to India as a great leap in Pak-India ties.
He observed, "We have struggled too far on the political side but could not improve the economic sector despite both countries have great potential to alleviate poverty and unemployment by working together." (Geo/APP)
Monday, May 07, 2012
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The News on Sunday Special Report: India Pakistan prisoners more editions
We probably didn't need to do this Special Report. Newspaper stories don't matter when it comes to Indians in Pakistani jails and vice versa. In fact, 'vice versa' sums it up. We do to them what they do to us.
Except when the two countries decide to begin talking, yet again! This time a little before the foreign secretary level talks, some Pakistani prisoners were released by India (and vice versa must have happened) and some more were release....read more
For the past 2 years the Jang Group and Geo have been working on a project of great national interest; one that we hope will help usher in an era of peace and prosperity in the country and indeed, in the region. And one that hopefully all Pakistanis can be proud of. more
The Jang Group has entered into an agreement with the Times of India Group, the largest media group of India, to campaign for peace betw
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Says his elections proposal would allow "a potential of 168 hours (of early voting), which I think is the most we’ve ever had."
Rick Scott on Friday, January 18th, 2013 in a TV interview
Rick Scott says his plan would expand early voting hours to record high
Gov. Rick Scott wants Florida lawmakers to revisit the 2011 elections overhaul, which was widely blamed for problems with early voting during last year’s presidential election.
In an interview on Miami-based WPLG Channel 10, Scott stressed he wants local supervisors to have the option to implement the most early voting hours in Florida history.
"What I think we ought to be doing is give the flexibility to our supervisors of elections, most of them, as you know, are elected county by county, but say you can do anywhere from eight to 14 days, six to 12 hours a day," Scott said in the Jan. 18, 2013, interview, "so a potential of 168 hours, which I think is the most we’ve ever had."
Scott, who refused to extend early voting in 2012 despite long lines at some polls, is also calling on the Legislature to restore early voting on the Sunday before Election Day -- the day when African-American groups hosted popular "Souls to the Polls" events.
Here we’ll examine whether Scott is right to say his proposal would be the most hours for early voting.
Florida’s history with early voting is short.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush signed early voting into law in 2004. That law required early voting to start 15 days before an election, with at least eight hours per weekday and eight hours total for each weekend. Voters had 104 early voting hours.
Even though election supervisors asked for more hours and more locations, Bush and the GOP-led Legislature passed a new law in 2005 that reduced hours and confined voting to election offices, city halls and libraries. Under the new law, early voting lasted 14 days, for eight hours on weekdays and a total of eight hours on the weekend. That’s 96 hours.
In the 2008 presidential election, voters had more time to vote early thanks to an emergency extension ordered by Gov. Charlie Crist (read that executive order.) Many news accounts put the total number of early voting hours in 2008 at 120, but the Department of State calculates it at 116.
In 2011, the Legislature passed a sweeping elections law that reduced the amount of days for early voting from 14 to eight. The new law gave supervisors a choice of offering between between six and 12 hours of early voting each day. (Here’s a related check on that.) So local elections supervisors had the choice to offer between 48 hours and 96 hours of early voting over eight days.
The Legislature is poised to tweak the state’s early voting system again in 2013 because of the long waits to vote in some places during the 2012 presidential election.
Scott, echoing proposals from the elections supervisors association, recommended the Legislature give supervisors the ability to offer between eight and 14 days of early voting, while maintaining six to 12 hours each day. He also wants to add more early voting sites.
So under Scott’s proposal, supervisors would be able to provide a maximum of 168 hours of early voting (14 days multiplied by 12 hours a day). On the flip side, the fewest number of hours they would be required to offer is 48 (eight days multiplied by six hours).
Activists behind the liberal campaign Pink Slip Rick disapproved of Scott’s proposal, saying Scott should have restored the number of days for early voting to 14, the way it was before the 2011 election law.
"Anything less than that is not a promise to restore or expand early voting," said Amy Ritter, executive director of Florida Watch Action, the liberal group behind Pink Slip Rick.
A few election supervisors we interviewed about Scott’s plan said they welcomed the idea of tailoring early voting to their home county’s needs.
"We kind of came to the conclusion that obviously, with Florida being such a huge and diverse state, one size does not fit all," said Brian Corley, Pasco County supervisor of elections.
Corley, who heads up legislative affairs for the state supervisors association, said he does not think Pasco would need the full 168 hours, but "it’s nice to have the option, if need be, for a major presidential election."
A spokeswoman for Broward County supervisor of elections Brenda Snipes said her office had not yet begun planning for the scenario under Scott’s plan but would probably go back to 14 days of early voting, the way things were before the Legislature’s 2011 law.
"We would likely conduct early voting as it was structured prior to HB 1355," said public services director Mary Cooney in an email.
Scott said that his proposal would allow "a potential of 168 hours, which I think is the most we’ve ever had" for early voting. He’s right that his proposal would give supervisors of elections the option to offer 168 hours of early voting, and that would be a record.
We should note that supervisors would also have the option to only offer 48 hours of voting, which is less than previous law. But Scott was very careful with his wording, noting that 168 hours was the maximum and outlining the specific days and hours.
A claim from his critics, Pink Slip Rick, said the law "only mandates 48 hours of early voting." We rated that Mostly True, because it didn't leave open the possibility of more hours. Scott's statement, on the other hand, specifically notes that the 168 hours are a maximum.
Scott chose his words carefully and precisely. We rate his statement True.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 at 5:55 p.m.
Gov. Rick Scott statement on election reforms, Jan. 17, 2013
Gov. Rick Scott interview with Michael Putney, WPLG Channel 10, Jan. 18, 2013
Interview with Amy Ritter, Florida Watch Action executive director, Jan. 21, 2013
Orlando Sentinel, "Analysis: 201,000 in Florida didn't vote because of long lines," Jan. 19, 2013
Interview with Daniel A. Smith, University of Florida political science professor, Jan. 14, 2013
Interview with Ida C. Elliott, Franklin County Supervisor of Elections, Jan. 22, 2013
Interview with Susan Gill, Citrus County Supervisor of Elections, Jan. 22, 2013
Interview with Brian Corley, Pasco County supervisor of elections, Jan. 22, 2013
Interview with Shirley Anderson, Hernando County supervisor of elections, Jan. 21, 2013
Interview with Craig Latimer, Hillsborough County supervisor of elections, Jan. 22, 2013
Email interviews with Chris Cate, Department of State spokesman, Jan. 22, 2013
Email interview with Mary Cooney, Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office spokeswoman, Jan. 22, 2013
Email interview with Christina White, Miami-Dade supervisor of elections, Jan. 22, 2013
Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections 2013 legislative package
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What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front PageWednesday, September 7, 2011–Saturday, September 24, 2011
What should we be looking at? The extraordinary number of photographs taken on September 11 made it the most photographed event in history and may have signaled the birth of citizen journalism. However in our impulse to record, we have not formulated new strategies to gain a better understanding of today’s pressing issues of a globalized world.
As traditional print journalism was threatened, and the number of images published online has exploded into the billions (sixty billion on Facebook alone), we have been left with few common sources of news and analysis. There is no longer a “front page” to act as a societal filter through which, we can learn about important events and trends. Even the role that the physical café once played in our communities—the place we went to discuss and digest what’s going on around us — has become fragmented across a myriad of virtual spaces.
Where should we turn for our information? How can we function as a society with so few common reference points? How can we intelligently sort through all the images and information available to us? In terms of photography and visual information, what should we be looking at?
Ten years post-9/11, at a time when we are more overloaded with information than ever but cannot access it in a coherent manner, Aperture will create a visual café for collective social engagement with the question: What Matter’s Now? and turn it into an evolving exhibition space. During a two-week period Aperture will turn itself “inside out,” letting participants engage in the editorial process of weighing questions, ideas, and images, and proposing conceptual and curatorial solutions. Both invited guests and gallery visitors will be asked to participate. The exhibition What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page will combine the crowd sourcing of images and ideas with the curatorial engagement of six experienced individuals, each hosting a table and a conversation within the space, where on corresponding walls each group will present its proposals for the contents of a ‘New Front Page’. Hosts include a variety of visual image specialists: Wafaa Bilal, Melissa Harris, Stephen Mayes, Joel Meyerowitz, Fred Ritchin (who conceptualized this project) and Deborah Willis.
As the exhibition opens, each of the hosts will have a designated space, but the walls will be empty. Progressively throughout the first two weeks of the “exhibition,” the walls will be filled in whatever manner each table decides. As the exhibition emerges, its contents will be posted online, daily, via a dedicated blog, as well as via Facebook and Twitter, at www.aperture.org/whatmattersnow and #whatmattersnow; allowing remote participants to respond and to create a seventh wall dedicated to ideas from the public.
Computers, printers, phones and iPads will be used by hosts and audience members for the duration of the exhibition. Materials may be printed, projected, hung and even destroyed as the exhibition progresses. Hosts might decide that what we should all be looking at is a particular Renaissance painting, or the work of particular photojournalists, or a thousand mini print-outs of images sourced online—or nothing at all. Contributions will be solicited from people around the world who are not able to visit in person. By sending files to dedicated email addresses set up for each table, as well as a general account, remote participants will be able to add their suggestions of imagery, multimedia projects and websites as part of the exhibition in-process.
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CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON AL-QAIDA: IS IT STRONGER TODAY THAN WHEN IT FIRST DECLARED WAR AGAINST AMERICA…AND, IF SO, WHY?
Next month will mark a decade since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, and major media outlets have already started their coverage. Much of that coverage will tell the American people that al-Qa’ida has been significantly degraded—especially through this year’s killing of its leader, Usama bin Ladin by U.S. forces in Pakistan—and that the United States needs to look for the next threat. To our minds, the most important thing that Americans could do would be to reflect, seriously and honestly, about the war on terror unleashed in response to the 9/11 attacks—to reflect on what actually prompted the attacks, and whether the ways in which the United States responded have actually made it more secure. To stimulate this kind of reflection, we recommend reading and pondering an article, see here, published by Michael Scheuer—former head of the CIA’s bin Ladin “unit” turned trenchant critic of America’s counter-terrorism strategy and Middle East policy—earlier this week in The National Interest .
The article, entitled “The Zawahiri Era”, is, first of all, an analytic tour de force, offering an unflinching look at the motives and strategy behind the 9/11 attacks, al-Qa’ida’s rather successful adaptation to the post-9/11 environment, and the movement’s future prospects under Ayman al-Zawahiri’s leadership. But the article is also much more than that; its second half is an equally unflinching look at the political circumstances that keep al-Qa’ida going, with a focus on the United States:
“BEYOND LEADERSHIP crises, changing tactics and mounting operations is one steadfast reality: al-Qaeda’s indispensable, long-term and utterly reliable ally—Washington’s interventionist foreign policy—remains the group’s true center of gravity. It is a galvanizing force which cannot be harmed, let alone destroyed, until U.S. leaders in politics, the media, religion (especially evangelical Protestants), the military and the academy begin to accept the truth; that is, the United States government is hated by most Muslims for what it does in the Islamic world, and not for how Americans think and behave at home…
“As al-Zawahiri takes charge, the U.S. government continues to: arm and defend the Saudi police state; depend on oil and debt purchases from Riyadh and other oil-rich Gulf tyrannies; keep military forces in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; fund and defend Israel; fund and direct a new U.S.-NATO war on Libya; and assist the UN, EU and George Clooney in tearing out the oil-rich southern region of Muslim Sudan and giving it to a new Christian state. In other words, the powerful religious motivation for al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups to fight the United States and the West remains exactly what it was when bin Laden declared war in 1996—Israel, oil, intervention, occupation and support for tyranny.
“And one other key thing remains the same. President Obama continues to glibly lie to U.S. citizens, claiming—as did Presidents Bush and Clinton—that al-Qaeda, its allies and those they inspire are attacking us because they hate freedom, liberty, democracy, gender equality, elections and virtually every other thing Americans hold dear. The script of these presidents deftly scares U.S. citizens and ably prevents substantive foreign-policy debate. It is useless, however, for educating Americans about the deadly and growing enemy they face, one that hates their government, not them. There is no better recruiting strategy for the mujahideen in all parts of the globe than to pray for the maintenance of the status quo in U.S. and Western foreign policy in the Muslim world. With Obama et al at the helm, they have little to worry about…
“Then there is the Hillary Clinton–devised cultural war on Islam, now championed by Obama and Cameron as the proper response to the so-called Arab Spring. After the fall of the tyrannical Arab regimes in Tunis and Cairo, and the now ongoing slipping-away of those in Yemen, Libya and Syria, Secretary of State Clinton decided the time had come not only to out-Bush George but to by far out-Wilson the lamentable, bloody-handed Woodrow. Not only would she and her State Department bring freedom and democracy to the Arabs, but she would through decree—and with force if necessary—install Western-style women’s rights, freedom of religion, and the separation of church and state (which in Democratic doctrine means driving religion from both governance and the public square). In other words, Professor Huntington’s clash of civilizations is ready to be started and then driven not by caliphate-obsessed Islamist fanatics—as promised by the (usually) neocon reactionaries Walid Phares, Bernard Lewis, David Horowitz, Robert Spencer, and the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard and National Review—but by naive, well-meaning, ahistorical, antireligious, arrogant and largely Ivy League–trained ne’er-do-wells like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, George W. Bush, and the editors and reporters of the New York Times and Washington Post.
“By declaring this cultural war on Islam, Barack Obama effectively applied a tourniquet to the wound inflicted on al-Qaeda and the Islamist movement by the SEALs’ killing of bin Laden. In the midst of uncertainties about the impact of that death, Obama told young Muslims worldwide that he was George W. Bush vis-à-vis U.S. policy in the Islamic world, even paraphrasing his predecessor’s zany ideas with such words as “we know that our own future [America’s] is bound to this region [the Arab world] by the forces of economics and security, by history and by faith.” The young-Muslim translation: U.S. and Western military, economic and political interventionism is here to stay, words that merely back up the signal sent by the U.S.-NATO war of whim on Libya, continuing drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, and Mrs. Clinton’s thinly veiled military threats against Syria.
“But they also heard much more. They heard Obama pledge the U.S. government to the task of making Muslims into good, secular Westerners. In the speech, Obama left no room to doubt that he foolishly believes democracy is on the march in the Arab world and that he will use U.S. power to intervene and transform Islamic culture. This latest war on Islam was a gift to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda and its Islamist allies, second in magnitude only to Bush’s jihad-justifying invasion and occupation of Iraq…
“[W]ars are never won by dead martyrs, rather by living and intelligent fighters who demonstrate courage, piety, prudence, patience, a reliable eye for the main chance, and—if God smiles on the warriors—an enemy who plays the part of a willing and effective foil, at times even that of a patsy. Al-Zawahiri takes charge in difficult and dangerous circumstances, but he faces a situation more promising than any al-Qaeda has encountered since its founding. All Americans should pray al-Zawahiri squanders his opportunity, as that may be the only way to avoid the military defeat and economic ruin the U.S. political elite seem eager to impose on their countrymen by refusing to face and combat the true sources of the Islamists’ motivation.”
–Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
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Marvell, Apple, Toledo Public Schools: Intellectual Property
A federal jury in Pittsburgh on Dec. 26 hit the maker of chips for computers and mobile phones with the fourth-largest U.S. patent verdict ever, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. All three verdicts larger than the one against Marvell were reversed on appeal.
Marvell doesn’t use the technology at issue and “there are strong grounds for appeal,” Marvell, based in Hamilton, Bermuda, said in a statement yesterday. The company will file post-trial motions to overturn the verdict, and if necessary appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., according to the statement.
The jury found Marvell’s infringement willful, providing a basis for U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer to increase the award by as much as three times, according to a statement by K&L Gates LLP, the law firm representing the university. Tripling the award would make it the largest ever in a patent case.
Marvell said in yesterday’s statement it hasn’t recorded any liability on its financial statements for the lawsuit.
“In assessing the impact of this jury verdict on its financial statements, Marvell will review the verdict, evaluate the post-trial motions, and evaluate the likelihood of a successful appeal,” the company said.
Carnegie Mellon sued over use of the two patents, issued in 2001 and 2002, that cover ways to detect data stored on a computer’s hard-disk drive by filtering out noise or unwanted electrical signals. The school in a March 6 complaint said at least nine types of Marvell’s circuits use its inventions.
“We are gratified by the jury’s unanimous verdict,” Ken Walters, a spokesman for the school in Pittsburgh, said in an e- mailed statement. “This case deals with fundamental technology for increasing the accuracy with which hard-disk drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks.”
Apple Gets Patent on Process Used to Make Curved Glass
Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPad and iPhone, has received a patent on a method of making curved glass.
Patent 8,336,334, which was issued Dec. 25, covers a process for molding glass at a high temperature in such a way that the glass is able to bend around the mold.
According to the patent, Apple’s process is an improvement on previous methods of glass formation that left molded glass with flanges on the edge that had to be removed, adding cost to the product.
Glass formed using this process can be used for glass covers for small electronic devices such as mobile phones. It can also be used for larger devices such as televisions or personal computers.
Cupertino, California-based Apple applied for the patent in March 2009, according to the database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Apple General Counsel Gets $69 Million for Litigation Leadership
Managing Apple Inc.’s patent litigation brought General Counsel Bruce Sewell $69 million in compensation for the fiscal year that ended in September 2012, according to a regulatory filing for the Cupertino, California-based company.
This is in contrast to Sewell’s 2011 $1.41 million compensation, the filing revealed.
Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook’s 2012 pay package totaled $1.36 million salary and $2.8 million in incentive plan compensation. His big payday came the previous year with $378 million, one of the biggest pay packages on record, boosted by $376.2 million in stock awards that he’ll get over a decade.
Intel Gets Patent on Safety Feature for Hand Held Game Devices
Patent 8,333,661, issued Dec. 18, covers a gaming system with a built-in alarm. According to the patent, the game console could contain sensors that detect the bodily movement of the user and the proximity of surrounding objects.
According to a 2007 story in PC Magazine, a number of accidents have occurred in the past from too-vigorous use of the Wii game controller made by Nintendo Co. (7974) They include smashed television screens, broken blades for ceiling fans, holes punched in walls and black eyes or bruises for onlookers when the user accidentally loses control of the device.
Intel’s newly patented technology would cause the hand-held device to emit an alarm when it is too close to an object.
Santa Clara, California-based Intel applied for the patent in March 2011. For more patent news, click here.
For trademark news, click here.
Downloading for Personal Use Still Permitted in the Netherlands
The Netherlands’ house of representatives rejected proposed legislation that would ban downloading of content for personal use, the TorrentFreak anti-copyright news website reported.
Kees Verhoeven, a member of the house, said that while a ban on downloading doesn’t solve the problem of unpaid downloads, it could lead to other problems such as a restriction of the privacy of individual users, TorrentFreak reported.
Copyright owners are presently compensated for the downloading through a so-called “piracy tax” on blank media, according to TorrentFreak.
That taxing system was extended in October to cover a wider range of media-storage devices such as smart phones, USB drives, tablets, personal computers and laptops, TorrentFreak reported.
School District Settles Publisher’s Copyright Infringement Suit
Toledo Public Schools has settled a copyright infringement suit brought by an Ohio-based publisher.
Align Assess Achieve LLC of Worthington, Ohio, sued the school district in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, in January 2012. The publisher claimed the school district made electronic copies of books and other materials aimed at helping teachers meet the state’s curriculum standards.
According to court papers, although the district had a limited license for the use of the content, it engaged in “massive infringement” by hiring teachers to spend their summer break transcribing the content and inputting it into a computer system.
The publisher claimed that the district bought fewer than 10 copies of any of its works, “apparently for the sole purpose of stealing and widely distributing the materials.”
Align had asked the court for a ban on further unauthorized use of its content and money damages.
According to the case file, the dispute is settled. The Toldeo Blade reported yesterday that the Board of Education agreed to buy $38,400 worth of books, with additional damages including the publisher’s attorney fees for a total of $59,600.
A second infringement suit, this time against the Urbana City Schools, was settled in September, according to court files. Terms of that settlement weren’t disclosed.
The case is Align Assess Achieve LLC v. Toledo Public Schools, 2:12-cv-00016-ALM-MRA, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio (Columbus). The other case is Align Assess Achieve v. Urbana City Schools, 2:12-cv-00131-MHW-MRA, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio (Columbus).
For more copyright news, click here.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at [email protected].
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The DISCLOSE Act recently passed the Committee in the House of Representatives charged with dealing with it, without many of the provisions that most worried broadcasters and cable companies. We recently wrote about the DISCLOSE Act legislation proposed in both the House and Senate in response to the Citizens United Supreme Court case (which freed corporations and labor unions to spend money during political campaigns to explicitly support or oppose the election of particular candidates). When introduced, in addition to provisions mandating new disclosure requirements for corporations, labor unions and other third parties who decide to run political ads, the legislation had a section expanding the requirements for lowest unit rates and reasonable access - extending these rights to political parties (as opposed to being limited to the candidate's own campaign committees, who are the only ones eligible under current law) and mandating advertising rates even lower than the current lowest unit charges in certain circumstances. That section of the original bill also required that the FCC conduct audits of broadcasters' compliance with the political rules, and seemingly expanded the FCC political advertising obligations of cable systems. The House of Representatives Committee on Administration this week approved the bill, sending it on to the full House for consideration. The DISCLOSE Act's sponsors want to have the bill approved and in place by July 4th so that it will have an impact on the November elections. The approval without these provisions, which may well have caused broadcasters and other media companies to come out in opposition to the bill and delayed its passage, signals that the Act may in fact move on the rapid timeline that its sponsors envision.
Of course, this is not the end of the story. The Senate still has to consider the bill in committee, and the full House and the full Senate have to vote on the legislation before it is adopted. At any point, amendments can be offered that could have the impact of returning some of these provisions of concern. But, at least for now, while imposing some additional disclosure requirements on political advertisers, the House version of the legislation is much more palatable to the broadcasting community. But watch this bill as it progresses through Congress in the coming month to see what else may develop.
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Carroll County General Hospital is well on its way to becoming an almost paper-free institution.
A new computer system links many hospital departments, lab tests are ordered and recorded by computer, and soon local doctors will be able to read their patients' hospital records on computers in their offices.
The $2.4 million system, which has been installed over the past three years, has made it possible for doctors to receive medical information on hospital patients and has eliminated many mistakes caused by human error, hospital officials say.
"We call it a hospital-wide system," said Kevin Kelbly, Carroll County General's vice president of finance. "All the financial and clinical information is kept in one . . . data base, and that's a big step forward for us."
The hospital's lab, radiology, pharmacy, dietary and therapy departments are linked by computers.
"A doctor can go to any terminal throughout the hospital and pull up the information on a patient," said Dyana Young, assistant vice president for information services. "A patient may see as many as 10 doctors during a hospital stay, but all the doctors will have access to the same records."
The hospital has an integrated computer system, which means that different departments with different software packages are linked within a host system, Ms. Young said.
Eventually, the hospital will be able to communicate with other health care providers in the area, officials say.
Most larger hospitals in the Baltimore area have integrated computer systems, Mr. Kelbly said, but not necessarily the capability to link with systems outside the institutions.
Carroll County General plans to have complete computerization of medical records by 1999, said Gill Chamblin, hospital spokeswoman.
Some of the most dramatic results of the hospital's move to computerization have been in the laboratory department.
1% "As soon as a lab test is complet
the results are automatically entered in the computer," said Patricia Supik, director of medical, surgical and psychiatric nursing. "That allows us to respond to patients in a quicker and more informed manner."
Before computerization of the lab, technicians would wait until they had completed about 20 tests for patients in the same nursing unit. Then the collected results would be hand-delivered to the unit, and each lab result would be physically attached to a patient's chart, Ms. Supik said.
Based on the results of a lab test, a nurse can now go to a computer, call up a menu and immediately make adjustments to a patient's plan of care.
For example, the nurse can gain access to several categories -- such as diet review, nursing management and pharmacy -- for patients on his or her floor.
Gil Conley, administrative director of the hospital's lab, said computerization of the lab has significantly improved identification of samples and specimens taken from patients.
When a lab test is ordered, the computer prints out bar code labels for each patient, which eliminates most transcription errors.
In addition, the testing instruments record the lab results directly in the computer system.
"We don't want anything handprinted," Ms. Young said.
Once a day, the lab prints a cumulative report of all tests done. The
lists help doctors assess patient progress.
"The doctor can look for trends or responses to therapy based on lab tests that we've done," Mr. Conley said.
Computerization of the lab also has streamlined the hospital's billing process.
"We used to spend a lot of time shuffling paper around to try and get the billing right, and all of that happens automatically now," Mr. Conley said.
Computerization has allowed the hospital pharmacy to integrate its records of intravenous and oral medications, and screen more efficiently for drug interactions and duplications, said Mike Ranke, Carroll County General's director of pharmacy.
"If a patient is taking two different tranquilizers prescribed by two different doctors, it will be detected and prevented," Mr. Ranke said.
The hospital's integrated computer system gives the pharmacy access to a patient's lab results, which can be helpful in monitoring the effectiveness of antibiotics, Mr. Ranke said.
The next phase of the hospital's computerization will be to equip local doctors' offices and train their staffs so they can access their patients' records at Carroll County General. The hospital is testing the system with a few private doctors' offices, and hopes to make it available to all doctors by June, Ms. Young said.
Computerization of the surgical system and operating room also is planned. That will mean a surgical procedure, the equipment used to perform it and its duration will be entered into a computer in the operating room, Ms. Young said.
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Inventory of the Stanley ArchivesSearch | About the Stanley Archives | Contact | Download
About the Stanley Archives (by Peter Daerden and Maurits Wynants)
The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) has always been very interested in archive material (letters, maps, reports) related to exploratory expeditions in Central Africa in general and to the journeys and commissions of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) in particular. When on 10 May 1954 the museum commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Stanley with a solemn ceremony and an exhibition, it already owned 34 of the 77 items presented. At that time these were principally donations from institutions and private individuals. On the occasion of this celebration, then director Frans Olbrechts contacted Denzil M. Stanley, the stepson of the explorer. A deep friendship developed between them that resulted one month later in a large donation of approximately 300 pieces of memorabilia including some extremely valuable items.
After the death of Denzil M. Stanley in 1959, the contacts were continued, now between Richard M. Stanley, the stepson of Denzil, and Mr. Marcel Luwel, head of the history department of the museum. He was given free access to examine and study the archives of Henry Morton Stanley at Stanley's country estate "Furze Hill" in Pirbright, Surrey. In 1982, this continuing friendship and the lack of interest in England for the life and work of the explorer resulted in Richard declaring that he was prepared to sell to the Belgian state all the inherited paper testimony that was present at Furze Hill. At the proposal of governor R. Lamy, the Société Générale de Belgique and five subsidiaries were prepared to pay the requested amount. The only remaining problem concerned the export licence, but a solution to this was found. The Africa Museum in Tervuren was the logical place to store the collection. To this end the former curator's residence to the left of the museum was completely renovated and renamed the "Stanley Pavilion". Particular attention was paid to fire protection, including the installation of fireproof vaults. The building was inaugurated on 24 February 1987 and since then the inherited archives of Henry Morton Stanley have been safely housed here.
It was initially assumed that all of the archives were transferred from Furze Hill to Belgium in 1982. However, in 2000 Christie's contacted the museum to say that the family - Richard Stanley had died in the meantime - had found 4 more boxes with miscellaneous archive material. After inspecting the items, it appeared that they complemented those purchased previously. This time it was the King Baudouin Foundation that provided the required resources and purchased this second part of the archives. It is referred to as the Stanley Papers Part II.
On 24 November 2002, Christie's put up the entire contents of Furze Hill for auction. Interesting photo albums and other documents again surfaced, but the high prices being asked meant that only one lot could be purchased, the so-called "Belgian honours" (Stanley Papers Part III). Exactly one year later, a few items that had found no buyer the year before were put up for auction. We were able to acquire three lots (Stanley Papers Part IV). The purchase of these was also made possible by the support of the King Baudouin Foundation.
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When the Workbench is launched, the first thing you see is a dialog box that allows you to select where the workspace should be located. The workspace is the directory where your work will be stored. For now, just click OK to pick the default location. (You can also check the checkbox to prevent this question from being asked again.)
After the workspace location is chosen, a single Workbench window is displayed. A Workbench window offers one or more perspectives. A perspective contains editors and views, such as the Mathematica source editor, the Package Explorer view, and the Tasks view; it can also be reset to its initial state.
Initially, in the first Workbench window that is opened, the Mathematica Development perspective is displayed with only the Welcome view visible. The title bar of the Workbench window indicates which perspective is active.
The welcome screen that is displayed has links to various useful details. It can be closed by clicking the cross mark on its tab, and you can return to the welcome screen from the menu bar; select Help > Welcome.
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"Drop this! I won't fight with you. I won't be made ridiculous."
"Ah, you won't?" hissed the Gascon. "I suppose you prefer to be made infamous. Do you hear what I say? ... Infamous! Infamous! Infamous!" he shrieked, rising and falling on his toes and getting very red in the face.
My grade 11 history teacher wore a brown leather jacket, Lennon specs, and a beard. He was a Harley-riding born-again Christian. Mr Osgan encouraged all sorts of strange ideas. For example, we did a unit on Ancient India, which may not sound so strange in these enlightened times, but back in my day, the classes of my peers were essentially limited to the big three: the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
Naturally, the course material lent itself to discussion of philosophy and religion, and really, that's all your typical hormonal teenagers really want to talk about. I don't think it was just me; most kids thought he was pretty cool, laid-back, like, he got it, man.
He'd go off on all sorts of interesting tangents. It seemed to me they were all about road trips, and meeting hippies and drinking tea and playing sitar. No, he probably didn't tell us any stories quite like that, but he may as well have, man, that was totally the aura he exuded.
For some reason, Mr Osgan seemed to think I was pretty bright, and he gave me A++s (that's double pluses) on my essays. I wrote something on Lucretius and Epicureanism. Then there was this thing on Pythagoras's Table of Opposites and how Pythagoras was clearly(!) influenced by Eastern philosophy. I had to present that to the class. Mr Osgan told me he was giving me bonus points for having conducted the whole seminar barefoot, that it somehow enhanced the material. But I hadn't given it any thought. I was just reckless that week. That was the week my mom went to visit my sister, and I stayed home alone with my big brother, though you can't really say my brother was very present. I had friends over, and stayed out late, and didn't prepare for my project at all. I just left my shoes somewhere, or my feet hurt or something. It was spring, and warm and sunny.
Anyway, before all that stuff, on the very first day of class — history was my home room — Mr Osgan had us fill out some basic information about ourselves, things related to culture and language and religion, I think, and we had to respond to something like, I dunno, "How would you describe yourself," or "What do you want me to know about you?" — something like that. And I remember I wrote that I was "a prolific reader" and I think I was going through my Somerset Maugham phase and I said something about that, but then I worried a long time, for days, about whether I'd used the word "prolific" correctly.
So Mr Osgan notes that I'm Polish, and he starts to tell me, and the whole class, about Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, and how remarkable it is that he should write so remarkably well in a language (English) other than his mother tongue (Polish), and, really, I should read him. I'm pretty sure he noted Nostromo as being particularly good. And then he went off on a tangent about some commune where they drank tea and read Conrad or something.
Shortly thereafter I had my very own copy of Nostromo (did our rinky-dink local bookstore actually have it in stock? did my mother special order it for me?). I'm sure Mr Osgan noticed me carrying it around for a while, but he had the sense never to ask me about it.
I still have that book somewhere. Dogeared at page 17. It bears the distinction of being the first of very few books I never finished.
University was a lot harder than high school. In first year, I was a math and philosophy major, but everyone still had to take English. Everyone was tested and placed according to their abilities. I was exempt from all the basic grammar and composition stuff, and ended up in a lit survey course, which was one of the very few lit courses I took in university.
Of course, Heart of Darkness was on the syllabus, and nothing in the world could convince me to read it. I'm not sure I even tried. Maybe I tried. Maybe I read a page. I'm pretty sure I didn't even try. I totally faked it. I hadn't even seen Apocalypse Now.
And I've felt this gaping lacuna in my literary education ever since.
I tried to read Nostromo again later, in my twenties, which served only to grant it the the distinction of being the only book I never finished twice.
Melville House's mailing list (offer no longer available).
Conrad's Duel. It's funny! And absurd — the extent to which honour may be insulted and defended. I'm not quite finished, but finish it I will. I may even try Nostromo again.
Thank you, Melville House, for reconciling me to Joseph Conrad. Otherwise this standoff might've lasted to the death (mine).
Congratulations, Frances, for all the extraordinary reading you accomplished this month — the Art of the Novella reading challenge — and thanks for the nudge in this direction.
Sorry, Mr Osgan, that I never appreciated Conrad the way you hoped I would. But look at me now.
Saying these words the chief spun round to seize the truth, which is not a beautiful shape living in a well, but a shy bird caught by strategem.
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The campus sponsored a trip to Wales for students enrolled in two of its Spring 2004 classes.
Wales 2004 trip participants (left to right) Kathy Coy, Kevin Coy, Amy Guthrie (adjunct instructor in French), Shawna Randolph, Kameelah Gloster, Kevin Troubaugh, Dr. Clifford Manlove (Asst. Professor of English), and Ray Fan together at Haverford West.
Students enrolled in the Welsh Art and Architecture and the Anglo-Welsh Poetry classes traveled to Wales under the supervision of McKeesport faculty members Amy Guthrie, adjunct instructor in French, and Dr. Clifford Manlove, Assistant Professor of English.
Dr. Manlove on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Trail, near St. David's on the coast of Wales.
During the trip students toured the Welsh fishing town of Tenby and the cities of Swansea and Cardiff (the Welsh capital). Among the sites visited and studied by the McKeesport students were several Norman castles, sacred Celtic and Iron-Age sites, the home and haunts of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, St. David's Cathedral, the Gower Peninsula, Cardiff Castle and Civic Centre, the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, and other Welsh museums of art and history. Flying into Londen en route to and from Wales, the students also had the opportunity to visit Stonehenge, Trafalgar Square, and Buckingham Palace in England.
Ms. Guthrie and Dr. Manlove planned the Welsh experience to allow the students a balance of structured tours and time to become more ingrained in Welsh culture. Students were encouraged to visit markets and local eateries, to use local transportation, observe music and other art forms, and communicate with the Welsh people. The Welsh are considered a "minority" population within Great Britain; many also speak the language, distantly related to Irish and Scottish.
The international experience is meant to expand the horizons of the participating students, increasing their understanding of what is involved in foreign travel. Trips are also meant to create a broader perspective and acceptance of others as students are exposed to a different culture. Comparisons to their own lives in America are common as students experience the food, language (including slang) and lifestyle of the country being visited. For example, in Wales, the students became acutely aware of why the Welsh people are dependent on public transportation as the price of gasoline was noted at $6.00 per gallon.
As part of the Welsh Art and Architecture class, students were asked to view art and architecture of different time periods, making connections between art and history. In the Anglo-Welsh Poetry course, students studied Dylan Thomas and the references drawn from the Thomas poems to the Welsh culture and its people.
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's shed in which he did writing in the latter years of his career, 1940s, 1950s.
Students in both classes were required to keep a daily journal of their travels and personal observations. The journal was the final assignment for both courses and was meant to make the students reflect on their experiences while in Wales. The journals will also give the instructors insight on the students' perspectives for future planning.
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SUN-TIMES: Conflict in Israel, Palestine is political -
- not religious
By Amina Sharif, Communications Coordinator
On Feb. 12, the Sun-Times published a letter by Maniza Azam [a CAIR-Chicago intern] in which she discussed Israel’s double-standards as illustrated by its relief work in Haiti and restriction of relief work in Gaza. She titled the letter “Israel’s kind acts in Haiti create double standard” but the paper ran it as “Jews hurting Palestinians“. This title is dangerously misleading.
Saying that “Jews [are] hurting Palestinians” is a sweeping generalization and falsely gives the impression that all Jews are hurting Palestine. In reality, many Jews — even in Israel — sympathize with the Palestinians and criticize their own government’s policies toward Gaza and the West Bank.
Jews in Israel were also among the first to note the double standard of their government helping Haiti while creating a humanitarian crises in Gaza.
The conflict in Israel and Palestine is political, not religious. It is not between Jews and Muslims; it is between the government of Israel and the people of Palestine (who are Muslim and Christian).
At no point in her letter did Maniza state that “Jews are hurting Palestine.” In fact, she acknowledges that Jews believe in “repairing the world” and she commended them for acting on that mandate in Haiti. When the media conflates Jews with Israel, it makes it harder to discuss the real problems facing the Mideast peace process.
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A documentary of the Cottage Studio in Hamilton Ontario, Canada. The
studio has been operating at St Paul's Presbyterian church in
downtown Hamilton as a place where those with serious mental
illnesses can go to pursue art. Over the years, the program has grown
and is now operated by the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia Family
Association. A grant from the Trillium Fund enabled them to renovate
an historic cottage on the church grounds into a proper studio.
artists at the Cottage Studio had the opportunity to prepare for and
hang a show of their work at an opening at the Gallery
on the Bay
in Hamilton at the end of June 2009.
documentary deals with their preparation for the show, the show
itself, and in-depth interviews with three of the artists.
While the story is about the preparation for a serious gallery
opening for these artists culminating in the opening itself, the
interviews will explore the very issue of schizophrenia, the lives of
the people it affects and the role of artistic expression in their
The film is distributed exclusively in Canada by Moving Images Distribution in Vancouver but is available outside Canada from Amazon either for purchase or via online streaming (coming soon) Amazon
2 SCHIZOPHRENIA IN FOCUS
IA 54 minute documentary created by
psychiatrist and filmmaker David Laing Dawson. Dawson has been
investigating schizophrenia for over 30 years as a psychiatrist,
scientist, as well as a writer and filmmaker. Using excerpts from his
previous writings and films, dramatizations and first person accounts,
as well as an interview with Dr Richard O'Reilly, a professor of
psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, the film explores the
nature of this disease.
Walter tried to kill himself and failed, so he decided to tell his
story instead. Finding an abandoned theater, he stands on the stage
alone and recounts his descent into mental illness, into schizophrenia.
Created by a psychiatrist who has worked for many years with
schizophrenic patients, this compelling dramatic monologue presents an
accurate depiction of a devastating, costly, much maligned, and
misunderstood illness. This program has been screened at film festivals
and professional conferences, including the American Psychiatric
Association Annual Meeting, and was well received by doctors and nurses
as well as patients and their families. (53 minutes). available from
year old Philip Renold finds himself locked in a Mental Hospital. He
doesn't understand why his family has abandoned him, why his
friends have turned against him. He struggles to find his
way through the horror that has become his life and it all seems
hopeless until he meets a young woman also suffering from
schizophrenia. An engrossing psychological thriller and an accurate
and honest depiction of serious mental illness.
say: "riveting" and "a far truer and rawer depiction
of schizophrenia than you have seen before."
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The presidential race
In praise of the primaries
Iowa and New Hampshire perform a vital function
IT IS easy to make fun of Iowa and New Hampshire. These two states, with a combined population of 4.3m mostly white people, will soon kick off the 2008 primary season (see article)—and also influence the presidential race out of any possible proportion to their size. Ethanol subsidies for greedy farmers, bleak midwinter meetings in rural diners, humourless men in lumberjack shirts: all come in for their share of ribbing. What an absurd way to choose a president, sneer many non-Americans, perhaps forgetting their own arrangements (the coronation of Gordon Brown as Labour leader and prime minister, without a single vote, springs to mind).
In fact, the primaries system, once again, is working pretty well. There is a basic reason why Americans don't seem seriously interested in challenging the position of the kick-off states: in the end, it doesn't really matter which states start the ball rolling, so long as they are small. For the past four months or so, and now at a hysterical pitch, America's presidential candidates have been forced to campaign for their lives in these unlikely arenas. Slick TV ads alone will not cut it, as they must in bigger states where meeting more than a fraction of a percent of the electorate is an impossibility. Iowa and New Hampshire want their candidates up close and personal.
This imposes immense, and immensely testing, challenges. Money and organisation matter far less than stamina, agility and that most unfakeable of all political attributes, charisma. Anyone deficient will be found out: anyone with the right stuff has a chance to shine. The bruising campaign has already seen Hillary Clinton's star wane, as she has shown herself tetchy and hectoring, and her panicky operatives have been caught playing grubby tricks; Mike Huckabee, an unknown from Arkansas, has soared to recognition on the back of his folksy ability to reach out to evangelical Christians without alienating those of more restrained faith. A field of some 20 hopefuls has already been winnowed down to six or so.
What happens in these two states does not stay there. Thanks to the internet, anyone can scrutinise every aspect of the “retail politics” stage of the American presidential contest as it is played out in Iowa and New Hampshire. Gaffes, slurs, foolish e-mails, the commentaries of local papers and the blogs of humble voters are all available to the global village.
The two earliest states are not just a giant focus group; they are the first leg of a pentathlon—a competition designed to pick the best all-rounder. In their wake come Nevada (disproportionately Hispanic), South Carolina (disproportionately black) and Florida (disproportionately big). Finally, on February 5th, the presumed finale: some 20 states will hold their primaries and caucuses—a contest fought out through television advertising (a function of money-raising skills) and get-out-the-vote operations (a sure test of organisational ability). Just like the athletic pentathlon, you don't have to win the first event (Bill Clinton was beaten in both Iowa and New Hampshire in 1992); but it is front-loaded. Momentum counts for a lot.
Run, rabbits, run
That is not to say that the primary system has no flaws. In its nostalgic moments, The Economist wishes the whole thing still started later. In 1968 the New Hampshire primary took place in March. It is not just that the skiing is better then; a later start would stop the primaries from monopolising so much of the previous year's politicking. Ideally, the pentathlon should last longer too—giving more time for retail politics elsewhere. Iowans have their faults, notably their antipathy to farm reform. And, yes, the system can throw up duds as well as Ronald Reagans. That, though, is a feature of all styles of government. Americans will soon make a freer and better-informed choice than citizens in other democracies ever can.
From the print edition: Leaders
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Olana was the 19th century home, studio and designed landscape of Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), his wife Isabel and their four children. The 250 acre historic estate features an elaborately stenciled, Persian-inspired mansion filled with original sketches, studies and paintings by one of the mid-19th century's most famous artists. A diverse decorative arts collection includes objects from around the world. Five miles of carriage drives, many of which are now pedestrian-use only, traverse a property developed in much the way Church created his canvasses, with strategically revealed vistas of one of the most strikingly beautiful places in the Hudson Valley.
Visitors to Olana enjoy guided house tours, view changing exhibits in the Evelyn & Maurice Sharp Gallery, hike, run and walk dogs in the Picturesque landscape, picnic, paint, photograph and take part in programs and special events for all ages. A Visitor Center offers an exhibit, film, interactive touch screen computers and museum shop. Family activities are available regularly at the Wagon House Education Center. A self-guided walking tour of the landscape leads visitors to the Church's first home on the property, the family's farm and orchards, a lake created from swampland, the site of Church's first studio at Olana and several planned views.
Don't miss these popular destinations within or near Olana State Historic Site:
- Barnyard, farm complex - Church's land was home to a farm, learn more about what animals were kept and where
- Cosy Cottage - original family home, now the offices of The Olana Partnership
- Gift Shop - located in the Visitor's Center, find artsy and historic items for everyone on your list!
- Visitor's Center - view videos and information on the Church family
- Wagon House Education Center - experience year-round programs and events in the farm complex
View a list of the Taconic Region events for September here. Olana Historic Site is Awarded $1.5 million through Governor Cuomo's New York Works Initiative
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Hi Guys, Perhaps you may help out:
Recently I bought a compendium lens shade with vignetting mask for my Linhof TK 4x5. In general I know how to use it but in detail not. My question is regarding the vignetting mask. How can I get the mask into the optimal position? I may either look on the ground glass and shift them until light fall-off or I look straight through the lens shade and through the open lens to see, if a vignette-mask would be between light to be taken and ground glass (?).
What are your experiences? Is there a quick way to get the lens shade and its vignette-mask into optimal position?
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For many people, it's hard to be openly Pagan or Wiccan. Particularly if you live in a conservative area, coming out of the broom closet may not be something you want to try. Few environments, however, are as conservative as the United States military, and for those thousands of Pagans who serve their country's armed forces, there are a special set of circumstances that surround the choice to follow one's spiritual path openly.
Stefani Barner's book, Faith and Magick in the Armed Forces: A Handbook for Pagans in the Military, looks at some of the unique situations that military Pagans and Wiccans may find themselves facing. Barner examines the life of active duty service members, and delves into the needs and requirements of the military spouse and children.
Faith and Magick in the Armed Forces is divided into four sections, based upon the traditional witch's motto: To Know, To Will, To Dare, and To Keep Silent. Each section looks at different aspects of the journey of the military Pagan and his or her family.
In To Know, Barner looks at important things to keep in mind, such as knowing one's options and legal rights. She reviews the Army Chaplain's Guide to Wicca, examines the requirements that must be met to form a Designated Faith Group on a military installation, and goes over important things to keep in mind when heading off to basic training.
To Will covers in depth the sacrifices that must be made not only by the active duty service member, but by his or family as well. Particularly in cases of deployment to a combat zone, there are issues faced by military Pagans that the civilian population is simply unaware of. Barner also touches on the sensitive issue of "willingness to kill," which is something that any military member, Pagan or not, may be forced to evaluate at some point.
The section entitled To Dare focuses on the myriad of issues that accompany deployment -- both for the soldier and for the family members left behind. How to deal with separation, and the return home, are discussed frankly and openly.
Finally, To Keep Silent takes an honest and straightforward look about what it's like at the end of the day, when all is said and done, for military Pagans. Barner discusses the ongoing battle faced by Pagans in a decidedly non-Pagan environment.
In addition to the issues covered by each section, Barner includes rituals and ceremonies written with the serviceperson and his or her family in mind. There is also a compendium of warrior deities, a list of resources for military personnel, and information on where to find support for veterans and families.
Hands down, this is a book that any Pagan who is a member of the United States military should have on their bookshelf. Not only that, if you're the parent, child, or spouse of an active duty service member, you should read this too. Barner covers Pagan life from a unique perspective -- her husband is a career Air Force member and a veteran of multiple tours in the Middle East, and together they're raising children in a Pagan tradition. Her tips and advice are practical, and the personal (and often deeply moving) interviews with servicemen and their families remind readers that the Pagans who choose to serve in the military are people just like the rest of us.
Barner obviously spent countless hours researching this book, and some of the things she brings up may surprise you. She doesn't hold back when it comes to discussions about marital rape and sexual assault in the military, as well as the misogynistic "boys will be boys" mentality that's often found in conservative institutions. Although Barner makes it clear that she'd far prefer peace to war, she does so in a way that is ultimately respectful towards those who are making sacrifices in the name of protecting our freedoms.Faith and Magick in the Armed Forces is available from Llewellyn Publications, 2008.
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Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler announced that the number of vehicle crashes in the City has decreased despite increases in the City’s size and number of registered vehicles. The City’s 2010 Crash Study shows that 7,710 crashes were reported in Lincoln compared to 7,738 reported in 2009. Beutler said the City’s Transportation Safety Improvement Program that began in 1979 has been successful by focusing on the “three Es” – engineering, enforcement and education.
“The improvements have been very effective in the overall downward trend in traffic crashes, and it’s important to maintain this transportation program,” Beutler said. “Our Taking Charge budget process continues to rank safety and security as our top priority, and reducing traffic crashes is an important element. As our community grows, we will continue to emphasize the importance of roadway safety.”
Beutler also thanked drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists for their attention to safety. He announced that Allstate Insurance ranked Lincoln third in the nation in the 2011 America’s Best Drivers report, an improvement over the City’s number-nine ranking a year ago. Based on the Allstate averages over the past seven years, Lincoln is ranked #1 among cities its size.
The report lists 68 intersections of the 1,290 studied as high-crash locations. The intersection of 14th and Superior Streets has the highest crash rate of all the intersections with traffic signals. (The crash rate is determined both by the number of crashes and their severity.) A multi-lane roundabout is now under construction at the intersection, and Mayor Beutler commended the Public Works and Utilities Department for its pro-active approach to improve high-crash intersections.
Miki Esposito, Public Works and Utilities Director, said the Crash Study will help officials decide when to aggressively compete for Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funds and where to effectively use the limited local resources. She said that since 2001, staff has successfully competed for and received about $9 million in HSIP funds to supplement local street construction dollars for safety projects.
HSIP funds were recently used for the intersection improvements at 56th and Elkcrest and for the pedestrian countdown signals installed citywide. Other upcoming HSIP-funded projects include the I-180 east ramp at Superior; S. Coddington at W. Van Dorn; N. 14th at Cornhusker; and N. 66th at Fremont.
Other results from the 2010 Crash Report include the following:
• The total monetary loss to the public from traffic crashes in 2010 is estimated at $251 million.
• The number of bicycle crashes (140) rose slightly in 2010, while the number of pedestrian crashes (72) dropped. Both have showed a downward trend over the last two decades.
• Statistics show drivers the greatest risk for a crash is a rear-end collision during a Friday afternoon rush hour in January.
• Average numbers of crashes for four types of intersections:
• Intersection of two arterial streets with a traffic signal - 10.2 crashes
• Intersection of two arterial streets with a stop sign - 3.9 crashes
• Intersection of two local streets with no control - 1.2 crashes
• Intersection of two local streets with stop sign control – 1.3 (higher than no control)
• Most common type of crashes:
• Rear end - 30 percent
• Right angle - 18 percent
• Parking - 15 percent
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Horses pulling up lame at auction
Closure of Texas slaughterhouses reverberates throughout equine market
Linwood Still shaggy in its winter coat, the colt pirouetted, almost daintily, in the wood shavings on the arena floor.
Its rider and owner, Pat Saffer of Melvern, Kan., deftly guided the horse, turning first this way and then that, showing how it responded to gentle inputs with the reins.
Although Saffer would say later that the young chestnut was no great shakes as a horse, to the untrained eye horse and rider presented a momentary picture of the almost-mythical union that they say occurs between a man and a horse.
Then auctioneer Brandon McLagan rapped his gavel to start the proceedings, and any such romantic notions were shattered like fragile glass in a crescendo of staccato exhortations.
It was Monday night at the horse sale at Campbell's Sale Barn east of Linwood and the bidding was under way well, sort of.
Horses are not a hobby for Saffer. He and his wife, Jennifer, run about 50 head on a 400-acre ranch near Melvern.
Unfortunately for Saffer on this night, the young chestnut wasn't able to generate much interest among bidders. The horse brought only $130.
A couple of years ago, Saffer said, that horse probably would have brought $400.
And so it continued until about midnight, as 42 head of horses and mules went under the gavel. The highest price given for any of the animals was $1,200 for a quarter-horse gelding, said sale barn owner Everett Campbell.
That's a far cry from prices of just a couple of years ago, horse sellers say. For a variety of reasons, the bottom has fallen out of the horse market.
Several factors are mentioned the price of feed and hay, for example. Rising interest in ethanol production has driven up corn prices, and boarding and pasturage costs also have risen.
But the chief reason, many sellers say, is that animal-rights advocates forced the closure of slaughterhouses in Texas and Illinois that formerly kept prices higher.
In 2006, the last year they were in full operation, horse slaughter plants in De Kalb, Ill., and Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, killed 100,800 horses, processed the meat and sent it overseas for human consumption, much of it to France.
After years of campaigning by animal-rights advocates such as the Humane Society of the United States, the plants were closed in 2007. In Texas, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stood by its January 2007 ruling that upheld a state law banning the sale of horsemeat for human consumption. The law had been enacted in 1949 but never enforced.
The Illinois plant was closed in March 2007 after a judge ruled it illegal for the plant to pay the U.S. Department of Agriculture for inspection costs. Congress eliminated funding for the inspections in 2005. Later in 2007, Illinois also passed a law prohibiting the sale of horsemeat for human consumption.
Previously, Saffer and others say, the slaughterhouses set a floor for horse prices. If the slaughterhouses would pay 50 cents a pound for horses, any plug horse that weighed 1,000 pounds was worth $500.
Without that floor, there is almost no bottom to the market.
Witness the $130 for Saffer's first horse. He didn't consider that price an adequate recompense for the hours he spent training the animal, but of even greater concern was his next commission, a 2-year-old paint quarterhorse gelding, similarly trained, that sold for $460.
"Back in the day," Saffer said, "that horse would have brought $1,500, $1,600."
The market is flooded with unregistered, worthless horses, Saffer said. Most of the animals at Monday night's sale should have gone to slaughter, he said.
Campbell, owner of the Linwood sale barn, site of a horse sale every Monday for the past 22 years "except for about three" canceled by bad weather agrees that, generally speaking, the quality of the stock offered for sale is down.
The closure of the slaughter market is partly responsible, but is only one factor, Campbell said.
"It's fuel prices and grain prices that's hurtin' everything not only the horse market, but everything in general."
Still, occasionally an animal comes through that generates attention.
"Some of the horses sell extra good here at our sale," Campbell said.
A horse at a recent sale sold for $4,000, he recalled.
Other nearby horse sales are in Salina, Kan., and Tulsa, Okla.
Hay and grain prices have risen considerably, as have costs for boarding.
At one area facility, boarding costs have risen from $425 to $475 a month in two years. Pasturage prices have risen as well. Costs at Oakridge Farm in Shawnee Mission Park have gone from $150 a month in 2005 to $165 a month today.
The debate over the closure of the slaughterhouses goes to the bone in horse country, and it is a debate that centers on the relationship between a horse and its owner.
"A horse is a livestock animal," says Bob Saffer.
"There's two schools of thought on that," counters Sally Dwyer at Seven Oaks Ranch, a boarding facility in Spring Hill. "These horse people, they don't like to see horses slaughtered. They don't like to see horses go over to France for horsemeat."
And, although horse prices are down, that's not bad news for everyone, Dwyer said.
"It's a good time to buy a horse right now," she said.
Saffer decried the closure of the slaughterhouses.
"Until they get that opened back up, we're going to have a bad market," he said.
What authorities should have done, Saffer and his wife say, is regulate the manner in which animals are euthanized, rather than banning slaughter outright.
"I believe in humane slaughter," he said.
There should be nothing wrong with eating horsemeat, he said. At least, Americans should be able to use horse products in dog food.
Despite American prejudices against it, horsemeat is often consumed in Europe, chiefly in Italy, France and Belgium, and in some parts of Latin America and among nomadic cultures in Asia. Horsemeat is often described as slightly sweet in flavor, but with slightly less protein that beef or pork.
The closure of the slaughterhouses is also part of the reason for increases in the number of abandoned horses.
"That's 99 percent of the reason there are so many abandoned horses," Jennifer Saffer says.
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LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that a federal court has approved a $1,245,000 settlement of a class action race discrimination lawsuit brought by EEOC and private counsel against McKesson Water Products Company and Groupe Danone (which acquired McKesson in 2000). The suit was filed under Title VII OF the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Judge Florence Marie Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California approved the Consent Decree on February 13, 2002, providing for payment of the damages to the class members and eight of the individuals who originally brought the charges to the EEOC in 1998. In addition to the monetary compensation, the settlement, (Case No. CV 01-09496 FMC PJWx), also provides for wide- ranging injunctive relief, including the implementation of company anti-discrimination policies and procedures; the provision of training on equal employment opportunity law; the institution of a formal job bidding system; and the development and implementation of improved criteria for determining route assignments, compensation, promotions, and performance evaluations.
"There are tremendous positives that have come out of the settlement of this case," said EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez. "The company can now turn its attention to further preventing and eliminating workplace barriers - both organizational or attitudinal - that obstruct fair and free competition in the workplace."
The EEOC initiated an investigation of McKesson in 1998 when Steven Crutchfield and several other African-American employees filed charges of discrimination with the Commission alleging that they had suffered racial discrimination at the drinking water processing and delivery company.
Specifically, they charged that McKesson had paid African-American drivers less and increased their compensation at a slower rate than white drivers. They claimed that McKesson assigned African-American drivers to routes in low-income neighborhoods, which were often less profitable than routes in affluent communities. Because pay and promotion were tied to the profitability of the routes, the African-American drivers received lower compensation and fewer promotions than those assigned to the affluent areas.
"Black drivers understood that they would work the so-called 'ghetto routes' while Beverly Hills would be handled by white drivers," said Antonio Lawson, private attorney for the drivers who filed the charges. "After many years of job segregation, they decided enough was enough."
Based upon its investigation, the EEOC joined with Lawson, the Pasadena firm of Traber & Voorhees, and Berkeley-based The Impact Fund, a non-profit civil rights law firm, to pursue the class action lawsuit against McKesson. Lawson and the EEOC will monitor the provision of injunctive relief for the duration of the five-year consent decree.
"In addition to providing a substantial amount of monetary relief to the victims, the settlement puts in place extensive mechanisms to further improve the company's workplace policies and practices," said Olophius Perry, Acting Director of the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which is handling the case. "The monitoring provisions of the consent decree will allow the Commission to work collaboratively and proactively with the company over the next five years to prevent discrimination."
EEOC Regional Attorney Anna Y. Park pointed out the smooth cooperation between the EEOC and private counsel in prosecuting the suit: "The Commission congratulates the employees and their private counsel, as well as counsel for Danone. We believe that Danone, which inherited McKesson's problems, is committed to a policy of non-discrimination. During the next five years, we will work with private counsel and Danone to ensure that the procedures put in place by this Consent Decree will be administered properly."
Michael Harrison, Vice President and General Counsel for Danone North America, who led the negotiations for Danone, remarked: "We are committed to working closely with the EEOC in successfully implementing the settlement agreement. We look forward to moving ahead with Danone's culture and values to ensure that our company is a great place to work for all employees."
In addition to enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, the EEOC enforces the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which protects workers 40 and older from discrimination based on age; the Equal Pay Act; Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits employment discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector and state and local governments; prohibitions against discrimination affecting individuals with disabilities in the federal government; and sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the Commission is available on the agency's Web site at www.eeoc.gov.
This page was last modified on March 6, 2002.
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“People aren’t angular. So why should they live in rectangles?” he said.
There’s no way anyone could confuse this house with the rectangular homes of the 1960s. The 7,500-square-foot home is three levels and curves unpredictably. It was designed as a sculpture first; the floor plan for the home was drawn up later (thus it was given the name, “Sculptured House”).
The architectural curiosity, constructed in 1963, was featured in
Huggins, 44, a Colorado native, said he had been interested in the home since he was a young boy. By the time he bought it, after nearly 36 years of neglect, the windows had been smashed in, the plaster was coming down, and there was snow inside the house. Three years and several million dollars later, Huggins added 5,000 square feet to the property–using plans that had been drawn up years before by the original architect–and completely redesigned the interior with custom-made modern furniture.
Located about 15 miles west of Denver, the home has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a four-car garage and a media room. It was just listed a few weeks ago at $10 million, which includes the furniture. Rollie Jordan of Kentwood Cherry Creek is the exclusive listing agent on the property.
Woody Allen released Sleeper nearly 30 years ago, and it’s still one of his top-ten grossing films. It generated about $18 million in sales at the time, but when that figure is adjusted for inflation, it grossed about $52.5 million, making it Woody Allen’s fifth most financially successful film. Sleeper famously ended with the line: “Sex and death: two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you’re not nauseous.”
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What better way to end the week than with yet another lavish, happy list of book-recommendations? Our sub-genre is once again that of my beloved historical novels, those perfect embodiments of Horace's famous split mission of delighting and entertaining, so let's get right down to brass tacks, shall we?
When Knighthood was in Flower by "Edwin Caskoden" (1898)
Charles Major wrote this book in 1898 under the pen-name Edwin Caskoden, and it sold like hotcakes. Month after month, year after year, customers would walk into bookstores from Boston to Boise and ask for "the knighthood book" - and long-suffering clerks knew exactly what they were talking about. Major was a hard-working Midwestern lawyer when the book first came out, but it was such a huge best-seller that he was soon able to retire to writing full-time - although none of his subsequent books managed to recapture the fire and fun of this, his debut. It's the story of the love that grows suddenly and unstoppably between Mary Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, and Charles Brandon, the King's best friend, and in its perfectly-tuned sunlit descriptions, it was the most irresistible piece of historical fiction to appear since Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur. Given the Tudor-mania that's recently been sweeping the reading public, I'm amazed nobody's reprinted this with a trendy cover. If an enterprising publisher were to dig deep enough, they could find a glowing blurb from none other than Theodore Roosevelt
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci by Dmitri Merezhkovsky (1902)
The 1963 Washington Square Press edition of Merezhkovsky's monumental best-seller greatly expands the truncated version authorized by the Merezhkovsky in 1901. Despite its limitations (translators and audiences today would likely find them unacceptable), that 1901 translation done by Herbert Trench sold millions of copies around the world - month after month, year after year, customers would come into bookstores from Boston to Brest and ask for "The book about Leonardo" - and long-suffering book clerks knew there could be no other (despite the presence throughout the decades of some very good actual biographies of Leonardo). And with good reason: even in the 1963 translation by Morris Gurin and Helen Gourin (which improves on Trench but is still mighty damn creaky), the glow and pageant of the Renaissance lives again - and the central port of Leonardo is so perfectly researched and rendered that it's small wonder half the used bookstores in in the world accidentally shelve this thing under Biography.
The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr (1951)
Carr wrote dozens of novels, perhaps hundreds, under his own name and many others. He was a quintessential hack, churning out perfectly (and sometimes not so perfectly) plotted mystery yarns at a rate that makes Anthony Trollope look like a slug-a-bed. Carr never took days off from writing, never revised a single word he wrote (a word of his fiction, that is - like many hacks, he could be meticulous about his nonfiction)(his 1963 book The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey is very much worth your time), and never agonized over the woof and weave of his plots' deeper meanings. Instead, he just kept at it, even when afflicted with a stroke. In this tangled and immensely rewarding pot-boiler, Carr's intrepid Professor Fenton makes a deal with the Devil that sends him back in time to Restoration London in order to solve a murder. Carr takes great pleasure in summoning all the gaudy details of that oft-fictionalized period, capping everything with his signature puzzles and sudden revelations.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1819)
It's almost a sin to mention the words "historical fiction" without mentioning "Sir Walter Scott" in the same sentence. His book Waverley, first published anonymously in 1814, changed the genre of historical fiction completely - indeed, it would be fair to say it created what we now know as the historical novel. It and all Scott's subsequent novels (none more so than Ivanhoe) exerted an influence on virtually every literate person in the Western hemisphere, and the strength of that influence can never be fully mapped and has thus, to my mind, never been given its proper due. Partly this is due to the uncomfortable fact that Scott is an atrocious writer of English prose - this famous story of the virtuous Saxon knight Ivanhoe, the various villains of King John's court, the sweet young Jewess Rebecca, and Robin Hood himself is a great galloping inelegant thing, full of purple passages and cardboard characters. And yet, Scott wrote with that particular magic that's only vouchsafed to hacks, and his millions of readers over the centuries (long may their line continue!) have willingly surrendered to the spell.
The Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr (1993)
Alexander the Great is a tough choice for a fantasy writer, because his life reads more grippingly - and less believably - than most fantasy novels. Tarr takes the story of the young man who conquered most of the Western world before he was thirty and weaves into it a second narrative, a sinuous story of ancient Egypt and the many temptations it could offer somebody of Alexander's messianic tendencies. The temple priests of Amon send Meriamon, the artistic, insightful daughter of the Pharaoh, to the sweeps of Persia to find this rumored phenomenon, this unbeatable Macedonian warlord and convince him to turn south and come to Egypt, where a godlike destiny beyond his imagination awaits. Tarr creates an Alexander to remember, but even more she creates an ancient Egypt steeped in magic and the pretense of magic - what results is like a turbo-charged variation on the theme of Marc Antony and Cleopatra - a meeting not only of religions but of living gods. A well-made new trade paperback of this wonderful book would be a good idea.
Katherine by Anya Seton (1954)
Publishers have recently been very good at keeping the great, under-appreciated Anya Seton in print, and it's understandable why: in her taut narrative tempos, effective but not cumbersome 'period' dialogue, and powerful female characters, she's an obvious precursor to that Attila the Hun of contemporary historical fiction, Philippa Gregory (a fact to which Gregory herself pays ample and becoming tribute). Katherine is easily Seton's best book, the gripping story of Katherine Swynford, the smart, sharp long-time mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt (and the sister-in-law of that rising man about court, Geoffrey Chaucer). Historians look at Katherine Swynford mainly as the fons et origo of the Wars of the Roses, but no reader of this novel can ever do that - for us, history's Katherine is forever Seton's Katherine, inquisitive, passionate, self-assured yet self-doubting, and thoroughly, three-dimensionally human. And unlike some of her later disciples in the genre, Seton manages to impart something of that complex humanity to almost all of her characters.
Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell (1959)
This immensely popular historical novel about the life of Saint Luke was a best-seller for years, reprinted innumerable times, and month after month, year after year, in bookstores from Boston to Buenos Aires, customers would come in wanting "that Gospel book" - and long-suffering book clerks would know exactly what they meant. The author was prolific, and yet a great many of the novels are resoundingly good, and Dear and Glorious Physician (one of three of her books derived from the New Testament, the other two being Great Lion of God about Saint Paul and the vividly excellent I, Judas co-written with Jess Stearn) is one of her best. Her Lucanus is an early scientific sceptic, a rational young man who resists the Good News even while he's interviewing healed people and talking with Mary, the mother of Jesus. There's plenty of action and character here, but it's the lavishly detailed depiction of the grudging stages by which a deep-thinking man acquires an unthinking faith that's the most memorable thing about the book.
My Lord John by Georgette Heyer (1975)
At this point, need I say it? Month after month, year after year, in bookstores from Boston to Burundi, customers would come in looking for "her last book" and long-suffering book clerks would know exactly what they meant: My Lord John, the big, intensely ambitious historical novel by Georgette Heyer, published posthumously by her husband from the vast sea of notes and plot outlines and written drafts she left behind. Heyer was a monumental best-seller in her day, famous both for her fizzy murder mysteries (picture the novels of Agatha Christie, only well-written) and for her extremely lucrative Regency romances, which fell as the gentle rain from Heaven onto book shop front tables every Christmas and parted customers from their money as gently as a single raindrop. My Lord John - even in this truncated version (I often wonder if some enterprising Heyer archivist someday will give us a much, much longer version of this book - I'd clear my calendar to read it) - is a much weightier matter, the story of John, the nice-guy brother of King Henry V (and, coincidentally, the grandson of the aforementioned Katherine Swynford). The sweep and quiet swagger of this achievement will make just about any reader wish Heyer's public had been a bit less demanding for more of those damn Regencies, so that she might have had the time to do this epic justice.
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (2009)
I'm well aware that this surprisingly gripping novel of Elizabeth Woodville has been, um, very enthusiastically reviewed elsewhere, but I could hardly let this little round-up of historical fiction conclude without hauling in the very Philippa Gregory we've been hinting at and alluding to, now could I? Gregory of course made her name with The Other Boleyn Girl (bringing us full circle to those damn Tudors!) and its companion Tudor novels, but in this book and its mirror image The Red Queen, she explores the equally-fascinating (though far less popular) period of the aforementioned Wars of the Roses. The idiot ur-realityTV star Woodville is at the heart of that period, the wife of Edward IV and the mother of the famous Princes in the Tower, and The White Queen brandishes the same machinery that brought Gregory mega-success: short, fast chapters, naked first-person narration, and just the right seasoning of book club-friendly anachronisms. This book's portrayal of Richard III will, incidentally, both intrigue and in part infuriate any remaining adherents that wretched character might still have in this day and age.
And there you have it! Not only eight meaty historical novels to tempt you, but also, I can't help but notice as I look back on the list, a handy little illustration of that hoary old concept, the Wheel of Fortune: just look at how many of these authors are now entirely unknown despite once having their names on the lips of bookstore customers from Boston to Byzantium and back. Gregory had better salt something away for the proverbial rainy day.
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Eight (more) Great Historical Novels!
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Labels: anya seton, dear and glorious physician, dmitri merezhkovksy, edwin caskoden, fiction, georgette heyer, historical fiction, ivanhoe, john dickson carr, judith tarr, katherine, lord of the two lands, my lord john, philippa gregory, sir walter scott, taylor caldwell, the devil in velvet, the romance of leonardo da vinci, the white queen, when knighthood was in flower
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It came to my attention quite a while ago that supermarkets have started putting electronic tags on joints of meat. I discovered it when I set the store alarm off when leaving Tesco only to find that a joint of meat I had purchased from the reduced section had an electronic tag still attached to it. It appears from this article that as prices go up more supermarkets are putting tags on meat because they are starting to have an increased problem with theft. In some cases it appears that people are stealing joint of meat and large packs of bacon to order but there is also evidence that there is an increase in people stealing food to eat themselves.
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Desmond Tutu’s Letter of Affirmation to the Presbyterian Church
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
This May the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) passed and ratified an amendment to its Book of Order, which now permits “the ordination of non-celibate unmarried persons, including gays and lesbians.” The decision has created tumult within the denomination itself and with other branches of the Church, most notably by the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, which overwhelmingly decided to end its relationship with its U.S. cousin.
But, the PCUSA is also receiving some support from some worthy advocates, including this letter from Anglican Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu:
Dear Brother in Christ,
I am writing you with the request that you share these thoughts with my brothers and sisters in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.):
It is incumbent upon all of God’s children to speak out against injustice. It is sometimes equally important to speak in solidarity when justice has been done. For that reason I am writing to affirm my belief that in making room in your constitution for gay and lesbian Christians to be ordained as church leaders, you have accomplished an act of justice.
I realize that among your ecumenical partners, some voices are claiming that you have done the wrong thing, and I know that you rightly value your relationship with Christians in other parts of the world. Sadly, it is not always popular to do justice, but it is always right. People will say that the ones you are now willing to ordain are sinners. I have come to believe, through the reality shared with me by my scientist and medical friends, and confirmed to me by many who are gay, that being gay is not a choice. Like skin color or left-handedness, sexual orientation is just another feature of our diversity as a human family. How wonderful that God has made us with so much diversity, yet all in God’s image! Salvation means being called out of our narrow bonds into a broad place of welcome to all.
You are undoubtedly aware that in some countries the church has been complicit in the legal persecution of lesbians and gays. Individuals are being arrested and jailed simply because they are different in one respect from the majority. By making it possible for those in same-gender relationships to be ordained as pastors, preachers, elders, and deacons, you are being a witness to your ecumenical partners that you believe in the wideness of God’s merciful love.
For freedom Christ has set us free. In Christ we are not bound by old, narrow prejudice, but free to embrace the full humanity of our brothers and sisters in all our glorious differences. May God bless you as you live into this reality, and may you know that there are many Christians in the world who continue to stand by your side.
God bless you.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu (Cape Town, South Africa)
About the image: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City (photo: Chris Hall/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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You've Got To See This!
Wow: Amazing bird swarm caught on tape
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Video captured thousands of birds hovering near a freeway in Sacramento like a big black cloud.
Experts believe it was a swarm of European starlings.
Drivers were pulling over to the side of the road along Highway 16 in East Sacramento County to see what was going on.
Jeff McLeod was one of several people who pulled over to look at the thousands of birds swarming.
"At first, it looks like a funnel cloud," he said.
While it may look bizarre to us, the birds are practicing a common behavior. Experts say it's all part of an evening routine they do before going to sleep.
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North Cascades National Park Proposals Selected for Centennial Initiative
Contact: Charles Beall, 360-854-7302
North Cascades National Park, WA – Seven proposals in North Cascades National Park are among the 201 proposals totaling nearly $370 million that National Park Service Director Mary Bomar and Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced at a press conference in Yosemite National Park today to celebrate the 91st anniversary of the NPS.
Welcoming a Diverse Community to the North Cascades would introduce a more diverse community to the park, particularly the Hispanic residents of Skagit County, the park’s “gateway” community. The proposal would result in targeted outreach and specialized programming at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center that would help new members of the local community learn that national parks are places for family fun, learning, and recreation. Matching funds would be provided by and the work done in partnership with the North Cascades Institute. “We’ve been working closely with North Cascades National Park since the Institute started in 1986 and we are proud to be included in the National Park Centennial Initiative, said Kris Molesworth, Director of Development. “This exciting new support will help a broader diversity of people learn more about the environment of the North Cascades and take better care of it, too.” More information about the North Cascades Institute is available on-line at www.ncascades.org.
Cascades for Kids would design, fabricate, and install new furnishings and other structures to create a dynamic and fun children's learning area in the North Cascades National Park Visitor Center. A puppet stage, touch table, bulletin board, books, and games will encourage children to explore, play, and learn in a special area of the Visitor Center designed specially for them and their families. Matching funds would be provided by Washington’s National Park Fund.
Design and Construct Diablo Lake Overlook Interpretive Shelter would result in a new interpretive shelter for the popular Diablo Lake Overlook. The structure would provide an area sheltered from the sun and wind for park interpreters, a gathering point for visitors, and interpretive information through exhibits. This proposal would further some of the other work which has recently taken place at the Diablo Lake Overlook -- such as new restrooms walkways, and landscaping -- to create a welcoming and comfortable place to explore and learn. Matching funds would be provided by Washington’s National Park Fund.
Botany Forays – A Search for New Plants at North Cascades would engage skilled volunteers from the University of Washington Herbarium working in concert with park staff to conduct a botanical inventory of a targeted park area. This inventory would result in valuable species information critical for sound resource management. Matching funds would be provided by Washington’s National Park Fund.
Create Junior Ranger Program would create new opportunities for families visiting the park. This proposal would produce a new series of Junior Ranger activity booklets to engage the entire family, provide fun learning opportunities, and create lasting memories. Matching funds would be provided by Washington’s National Park Fund.
Understanding High Elevation Climate Conditions would install two semi-permanent high elevation weather stations in the northernmost reaches of the park to record temperature, snow depth, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, and humidity. This data will be linked to a larger data set for sites above 6,000 feet elevation and would support the hydroelectric industry, salmon and trout recovery efforts, fire management, flood forecasting, and natural resource management efforts throughout the region. Matching funds would be provided by Puget Sound Energy, Washington's oldest and largest energy utility.
“Through the generous support of the American people we are able to care for their national parks, including North Cascades.” Jenkins said. “We are proud to be working with North Cascades Institute, Washington’s National Park Fund and Puget Sound Energy to develop these proposals.”
“There is a huge wave of excitement among National Park Service professionals and our partners,” Bomar said. “We will create park-based centers for Junior Rangers, implement cutting-edge energy projects like fuel cells and geothermal and build multimedia wayside exhibits that “talk” to visitors. This is a victory for national parks and over 270 million park visitors we see each year.
“Last week, I sent an email to the men and women of the National Park Service to inform them of our announcement. One of the replies I received says it best: ‘This is thrilling! A win/win opportunity like we've never seen before. Thanks for the energy and vision for the NPS.’
“That thanks,” Bomar said, “is for the many who worked to transform vision into action: Secretary Kempthorne and our friends in Congress, from both sides of the aisle who introduced legislation to support the Centennial. But most of all, our thanks go to park superintendents, friends groups, partners and an army of supporters.”
“When history is written,” Bomar said, “the Centennial Initiative will be second only to the creation of the national park system itself.”
The full list of centennial challenge-eligible projects and programs is available on-line at the National Park Service centennial web site www.nps.gov/2016.
Did You Know?
Grizzly bear tracks can be a reliable indicator of species? Grizzly bear and black bear forepaw tracks are distinct from one another and often times better than a photo of the bear to confirm an observation. So don't just look up, look down.
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"Children have stories in their heads," my director George Hill, told me. "You don't have
to tell them what to write. You give them a pencil and a piece of paper, a method, and
I wasn't sure if I believed him. Was this really the best way to teach ESL to a class of ten
Vietnamese refugees? After all, I could barely teach them to add the "s" in the singular
verb tense--how could I teach these children how to write creatively? A large part of me,
too, doubted their innate talent. They haven't been brought up under the American school system, I thought. They haven't been taught to exercise their imagination.
So began my first summer with the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) Program at Harvard. My previous experience in teaching had been with rich Korean Americans who wanted their children to read three years above their grade level, not
with a class of ten Vietnamese fifth graders who had immigrated to America only a few years before. When the only phrases I knew were "Good morning children," "Make one line please," and "I am very handsome," I knew that language was going to be a problem and a barrier in reaching my students.
On the second day of class, then, I stood in front of my students and nervously cleared my
throat. "Good morning," I said. "Today our class is going to learn the writing method."
So began a painful period of explanation, translation, and discipline. With only a limited
command of the English language and a very small literate background, the students saw no reason behind the process of prewriting, writing, revision, and editing. "Just try it," I
repeated through gritted teeth, again and again. "Did my elementary teachers ever feel like this?" I wondered. "Who ever knew I would dislike class as much as my students did?"
One night at the convent where we stayed, I despaired with my co-workers. "Theyll
never get it," I mourned. "Maybe I should go back to grammar and vocabulary." Mai Nguyen, a Mount Holyoke student with a way with words, replied, "Just don't give up, you stupid bum. They all have something to write about, and they're worth the effort."
Amazingly, she was right. Soon stories began pouring from the hands of my students. I
marvelled at imaginative tales of magic rocks who wanted to be boys, accounts of their experiences with racism, and descriptions of their favorite BRYE teacher, "Big Sister" Peter. I devoured tales of trees and parks and girls to whom little boys gave flowers; I watched as topics of writing appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Who ever
knew that Thien had a fish of seven colors? Who would have thought that Thai could write a haiku
about his walkman? Who would've hoped that Tuyen would say that she loved BRYE Summer more than anything?
And who would have known the awareness of children in dealing with the refugee experience? I was most shocked by the piece written by Anh Nguyen, "I Live in the Thailand." An avid
Backstreet Boys fan, she was always listening to their newest album on the van ride to school, or on the afternoon field trips. I spent most of my time with her crooning "I Want it That Way" or whatever random Disney tune we could think of. Her draft was simple and nostalgic, beginning with the phrase, "In Thailand I have a very bad and good life at the same time..." But when her talk of pigs and school and bicycles ended, she decided to write about the bad life in Thailand.
"One day there is a riot in the other refugee camp; the children cannot eat and people stab themselves with sharp knives and spoons, The Polices come to stop the riot; they hit the refugees and some of refugees stab themselves to death. However, the reason the riot begins is because these people want to go to U.S., but they cannot go, so a lot of refugees commit suicide. I see that this is so scary and this is so sad."
To know the extent of her suffering--barely a teenager--and the severity of her experiences...I realized then that this instruction was not only about how to speak English, but also how to process all the struggles and trials these children had undergone. Through words and pictures, they trusted me enough to express the pains and joys of their lives--and both I and the children have grown immensely because of that. For all the Anhs I can reach, I'm going back to BRYE Summer this year.
For more information on the BRYE Summer program, go to www.hcs.harvard.edu/~brye or contact [email protected].
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GOP Bill Will Make Health Coverage More Affordable for Millions of Uninsured AmericansPosted by Press Office on May 25, 2011
Today, the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on the Health Care Choices Act (H.R. 371), legislation introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) that will help lower costs by allowing Americans to shop for coverage across state lines. The bill is part of the Republican effort – outlined in the Pledge to America – to repeal the Democrats’ job-crushing health care law and replace it with common-sense solutions that lower costs and protect jobs.
According to Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), “the Council for Affordable Health Insurance has identified a total of 2,156 mandates across the 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2010,” with each mandate adding to the cost of health insurance in that state. “By some estimates, an average of 30 to 40 mandates can increase the total cost of a policy between 20% and 45%,” said Rep. Pitts. The Health Care Choices Act would allow Americans who have been priced out of the market in the state they live in to shop for more affordable coverage across state lines. As experts at today’s hearing made clear, this legislation would increase health care choices, improve quality, and allow millions of uninsured Americans to purchase more affordable coverage. Here are the highlights:
In the Pledge to America, Republicans promised to repeal ObamaCare and replace the job-crushing law with better solutions to “lower costs for families and small businesses” and “increase access to affordable, high-quality care.” The new House majority has already voted to fully repeal and defund the $2.6 trillion law, and will continue working to advance solutions, like the Health Care Choices Act, that will help lower costs and protect jobs.
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There was positive news last week out of Washington as the House of Representatives voted to approve an extension of current highway and transit funding at existing levels through September 30.
The bill, which garnered bipartisan support, will now move to conference with the Senate’s $109 billion two-year surface transportation reauthorization bill, dubbed MAP-21.
To boil it down, this action buys Congress more time as the well of transportation dollars was set to run dry June 30. Buying more time is nothing new when it comes to funding the expansion and maintenance of our nation’s highways and keeping our buses and trains running for the millions of people who depend upon them. This is the 10th time since October 2009 that the previous six-year transportation bill has been extended.
And while an extension is a step in the right direction, what we must have is a long-term surface transportation bill.
Without a dedicated and reliable stream of federal funding, we are significantly hampered in our ability to effectively plan for, deliver and maintain critical transportation infrastructure projects.
Nowhere is the need for freeway improvements and maintenance more apparent than in our own backyards. Every four years, the Southern California Association of Governments updates its Regional Transportation Plan.
Approved last month, the latest plan calls for a $524 billion investment through 2035. Of that amount, $305 billion is projected to come from existing sources, including local sales tax measures. The remainder, nearly $220 billion, is expected to be raised through yet-to-be implemented innovative financing strategies and new revenue sources. These efforts — like raising the federal gas tax or introducing a vehicle-miles traveled fee — face considerable obstacles.
Without question, finding a way to improve and continue to maintain our transportation system will be a significant challenge over the coming years.
In Orange County, we fund transportation primarily through local means, like the voter-approved, 30-year, Measure M half-cent sales tax. In fact, of funding for projects, 76% are local dollars, 13% come from state funds and the federal government provides 11% through the Highway Trust Fund.
And while 11% may seem like a small portion, the Highway Trust Fund is the lifeblood of transportation funding. Those are dollars Orange County can rely upon and use to plan for the future. Of course, that is entirely dependent upon Congress finally passing a multi-year transportation bill.
Unfortunately, transportation and its funding often takes a back seat to other high-profile national debates. The economy, healthcare and education grab headlines day after day, but there is arguably no issue that touches closer to home for more Americans than transportation. From an economic perspective, — both in terms of job creation and moving people and goods — mobility is a fundamental building block to ensure our economic prosperity, not to mention our quality of life.
The time has come to stop the extensions and pass a bill that recognizes how vital transportation is to our nation’s future.
In case you missed it...
Read our METRO blog, "Is aim to end transit violence with tasers misguided?" here.
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VarshaSanskriti School, Delhi, India
NikitaSanskriti School, Delhi, India
PrashastSanskriti School, Delhi, India
ShashankSanskriti School, Delhi, India
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Completing this website in itself was a huge challenge for us as several obstacles were hurled our way. During the course of creating this website, three members had to study for their SATs in January, there were several cultural functions (the Annual Day, the Grade XII farewell) in school and the first terminal examinations and final examinations took place. Each of the aforementioned activities absorbed at least one of us at a given time, eating away precious time that could be spent on the project.
Besides being in the same school, we live quite a distance away from each other. The only solution to this problem of distance was communicating via the Internet. Consequently, communication worked out rather well. The endless discussion threads among us make for an entertaining, yet intelligent read.
None of the us had high resolution monitors so it was tough to fit in the graphical aspect. After much discussion, we decided amongst ourselves that a website designed for a 1024x768 resolution would be best as it was the most commonly used desktop resolution.
Nikita and Diksha were especially adept with coding and CSS, Shashank took on the task of conducting the research, Varsha created the beautiful backgrounds on each page and Prashast handled mostly the dynamic objects, compilation and generally chipped in everywhere.
The students discussed the time-line amongst themselves and spent hours debating about how it could be formulated to seem believable.
The Globe on the home page was constructed by Prashast using a 3D software and by rendering every frame of the globe's rotation separately, and then importing each frame into Flash in order to make it interactive.
Each of us made our skills collide to cause an explosion of collaboration, which eventually shaped our website.
All the members are students from Sanskriti School, New Delhi. Each of them is ethnically Indian, but different in many other ways. To start with, Nikita and Diksha have taken up a Science course. Which means they study Physics, Chemistry, Math, English and Web Technology. Varsha has taken up Commerce and she studies Business, Math, Accounts, Economics and English. Finally, Shashank and Prashast have each taken up a Humanities course with a varied subject combination ranging from English, Political Science, History, Math, Web Technology, Fine Arts, Economics. However, both of them are the only students of Political Science in the group.
Though Varsha, Nikita and Diksha were not generally interested in political affairs and history, this project made them. We began by taking up paradoxes as the subject of our website, we then read about Nostradamus' predictions about the third world war and each of the members were instantly captivated and decided to write a time-line of their own. Of course, this would mean that each of them would have to understand the conflicts that had previously happened. Varsha, Nikita and Diksha happily obliged into reading about the conflicts because doing so for something they found so fascinating was quite a small price to pay.
Apart from their subject selection, the students also come from different parts of India. Every state in India is culturally and historically diverse.
Shashank comes from Andhra Pradesh and within his household, politics is taken quite seriously. It is a family ritual to watch the news everyday and discuss current affairs over dinner. The knack for research comes from within him.
Nikita and Diksha come from Punjab, in the northern part of India in the alluvial plains. It is the land associated with colour, joy and festivity. The closeness of Punjab to the Pakistan border makes this place a tribute to the partition of 1947.
Varsha comes from Tamil Nadu, in the southern part of India. The state is known for Bharatanatyam (a form of dance), Tanjore painting, and its architecture.
Prashast hails from a family which combines the diverse cultures of both North and South India.
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Flexibility and Opportunity
For students not able to complete the four-year program before graduation, the two-year program is available in two distinct options.
Prior Service. Students with previous military service are exempt from the first two years and, if academic juniors, may enroll immediately in the Advanced Course. They must then complete the Advanced Course as full-time students for two academic years to receive a commission.
No Prior Service. It is not too late for students who have not taken Army ROTC during their first two years of college. Students may attend the Army ROTC Leader’s Training Course at Fort Knox, KY, during the summer before their junior year of college. Upon completion of the month-long course, graduates receive credit for the first two years (Basic Course) of the Army ROTC program and can then enroll in the Advanced Course.
The Leader’s Training Course (LTC) allows students to:
- Test-drive Army ROTC without any obligation. The decision to join Army ROTC is made only after LTC is completed and the student returns to school in the fall.
- Earn money for LTC (and be compensated for all LTC-related food, travel, and lodging).
- Compete for Army ROTC scholarships.
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One of the nation's major grocery store chains is eliminating self-checkout lanes in an effort to encourage more human contact with its customers.
Albertsons LLC, which operates 217 stores in seven Western and Southern states, will eliminate all self-checkout lanes in the 100 stores that have them and will replace them with standard or express lanes, a spokeswoman said.
"We just want the opportunity to talk to customers more," Albertsons spokeswoman Christine Wilcox said. "That's the driving motivation."
Privately held Albertsons LLC operates stores in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. To find a store, click here.
The move does not affect stores operated by grocery giant Supervalu, which operates more than 450 Albertsons stores in 16 states including Nevada, southern California and the Pacific Northwest.
Wilcox said the replacement of automated checkout lanes with human-operated lanes likely would mean more hours available for employees to work.
The move marks a surprising step back from a trend that began about a decade ago, when supermarkets began installing self-checkout lanes, touting them as a solution to long lines. Now some grocery chains are questioning whether they are really good for business.
Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the U.S. (with some 2,500 outlets), is experimenting with removing all self-checkouts in at least one Texas store, reports StorefrontBacktalk, an industry publication. Publix, another major chain, is "on the fence" about self-checkout, according to a report quoted in the story.
Self-checkout industry leader NCR Corp., which counts Albertsons among its clients, does not see the grocery chain's move as a threat to its business, said company spokesman Cameron Smith.
He said more than 150 retailers in 22 countries use the company's self-checkout lanes, and not just for groceries. The market is projected to grow by about 15 percent annually, he said.
"Ultimately, customers appreciate the choice of self-checkout," he said.
Do you agree? Weigh in below.
© 2013 msnbc.com. Reprints
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This Wiki is mostly used to keep track of work in progress. It is also intended to help organise the Web site's content. It's hard to organise about 100,000 references and about 10,000 pages, but many people use Google search to find what they are looking for (which we know isn't the ideal route because of dependence on a third party).
How to Help with Antitrust Exhibits
If someone is willing to help us extract the text from PDFs, that would be splendid. We have some in various categories and we strive to have things complete some day.
Some of the exhibits might not be 'high priority', but at least they have some OCR to begin with.
What I typically do is use Adobe Reader to "Save as text" and then read through the text with an in-line spellchecker. One monitor has the PDF (KPDF) and another has the text (plain text).
Thanks to all those who are willing to help us document offences as this assists restoration of justice.
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ASPCA says Coffee not being abused
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.
Is Norberto Fernandez exploiting his dog? Maybe. Is he abusing her? No — at least that’s the opinion of an ASPCA investigator who looked into the treatment of Coffee, a pit bull who poses for donations outside New York stadiums during baseball games.
Animal welfare officials have examined the dog often seen panhandling outside Mets and Yankees games and say she bears “no signs of abuse or neglect,” NBC News reported.
The dog, typically dressed in baseball jerseys and often seen wearing a Groucho Marx disguise, or with a pipe in her mouth, was examined Wednesday by the ASPCA.
“It was determined that she bore no signs of abuse or neglect,” the ASPCA said in a statement. “The ASPCA will continue to monitor this situation and be prepared to take action, in the event that any New York State animal cruelty laws are being violated.”
The owner, Norberto Fernandez, of Queens, spoke told NBC New York on Tuesday that he is a professional dog trainer who rescued Coffee from the streets and taught it to pose and hold a pipe in its mouth. He said they make about $75 with each appearance.
“All I do is train dogs and people are starting to hate on me — they’re surprised of all the tricks my dog can do,” Fernandez said.
Some animal lovers have claimed Coffee works without water or rest, and that her behavior is controlled through use of a shock collar — all allegations Fernandez denied. An ASPCA veterinarian found no evidence of a shock collar on Wednesday.
Concerns about the dog’s situation prompted the creation of a Facebook page, “Stop Abusing Coffee.”
Judging from the comments there, not everybody is satisfied with the ASPCA’s investigation, in which Coffee was visited at her home, rather than during one of her appearances at the ballparks.
Posted by jwoestendiek May 26th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abuse, animal welfare, apsca, ballpark, baseball, campaign, coffee, complaints, concerns, costumes, disguises, dog, dogs, facebook, investigation, mets, new york, norberto fernandez, panhandling, performing, pipe, pit bull, stadiums citi field, stop abusing coffee, tricks, yankee stadium, yankees
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The challenge is to integrate the use of social media into the mindset of the quality improver. The Improvement Model asks three questions - all of which are relevant for social media use:
- What are we trying to accomplish?
- How will we know its an improvement?
- What changes can we make that will result in an improvement?
If you're starting out using, say Twitter, and you're in a healthcare quality improvement role the have a think about:
- What do you want to achieve? What is your purpose in using Twitter? Do you want to discover new info from others, link to others, use the media as a broadcast system, raise awareness, raise your own profile... etc? You need to have a purpose.
- How will you know it's an improvement? In the Twitter case, how will you know whether you are reaching your purpose / objectives and in a way that's better than what you do now? It really helps to think about this. How will you measure your progress? How will you learn? Will you be using an analytics system to learn about what works (classic PDSA processes work very well for understanding how Twitter can work for you).
- Linked to the measures above, how will you maintain your learning and continue to get better and better at using Twitter?
In my experience it's best to thing through purpose and practice as part of starting on the social media road. An online social media account where nothing happens tends not to be a good strategy.
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Minnesota remains one of the best when it comes to citizens covered by a health plan. The recession, though, has hurt those good numbers. and we've had more than a few conversations with Minnesotans rolling the dice on health coverage.
Understanding what options are there isn't easy, especially with the new health coverage law..
A new federal web site may help change that.
At healthcare.gov, the feds have a page where you answer general questions about your household health insurance and it walks you through coverage options to explore and parts of the federal law that might help you.
The site still amounts to baby steps in the quest to understand health insurance. But it's a start.
It plans to add specific information on public programs like Medicaid, and private insurance plans.
Cost estimates on private insurance plans are expected in October and the feds say it will allow side-by-side comparisons.
I started playing around on the site this morning and found helpful ideas. No "Aha!" moment in understanding all that's out there. But still worth watching to see how they make it better.
Do you know a good, independent site that lays out health coverage options in a fair and understandable way?
Drop us a line and tell and we'll share it on MinnEcon.
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Click on the headline (link) for the full text.
Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage
It’s Not That Bad, Is It? The Changing Role of the Peak Oil-Aware
Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
... This quote resonated with me after watching James Howard Kunstler on Glenn Beck’s show on CNN. It was also something I was thinking about after Monday’s You and Yours show and a couple of talks I have given recently. Kunstler has always, as far as media appearances go, been the bearer of bad tidings, the Writing on the Wall, taking the role of persistently breaking the bad news about peak oil and the end of affluence to a population that really doesn’t want to hear.
Things are moving so fast at the moment as we stand on the cusp of $130 a barrel oil and the impacts are starting to bite on everyday lives, and it feels to me like our roles are changing. In the CNN clip, it is actually the presenter who is in peak oil panic mode, and Kunstler finds himself more in the role of “whao, slow down, deep breaths now…”. The presenter has clearly either just had, or is having live on air, his End of Suburbia moment, his peak oil revelation, and is turning to Kunstler for some support.
It left me wondering, as did the You and Yours programme, about how those of us who have already undergone our peak oil moments, who have sat in the dark place already, and who have re-emerged with our daily lives underpinned by an awareness of the great impermanence of our industrial surroundings, are finding our roles changing as the rest of our friends and neighbours catch us up.
I find that with more and more people my role changes from saying “do you know what, this is really, really serious”, to saying “well yes, given that it is really serious, don’t panic, let’s explore this…” Clearly there are times when a peak oil fire and brimstone talk is appropriate, but I am finding more and more as I travel and give talks that audiences are catching up very fast and need clarification and the placing of their work in the context of the emerging responses, of which Transition is one.
(21 May 2008)
So, you've just discovered peak oil!
Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book
Original title: Peak Energy and an Overview of Its Implications for Food
... just knowing what peak oil *is* doesn’t necessarily help you. [Sharon's co-author] Aaron had to, as he joked, “talk a friend off the ledge” this week, and I suspect there are a lot of people out there who have just encountered a new and terrifying idea, and who are now panicking. And this is scary. It does mean an enormous amount of change.
BUT- and this is an important but - we are not all doomed. This is hard and scary, but it is not the end of your world. So before you rush out and buy MREs and ammo (Aaron’s line was “Spam and automatic weapons are the new black” ;-)), read some more stuff. Because it is important to remember that what is happening is the beginnings of a huge and difficult change - but change can happen. There are a lot of people - a lot on this site, a lot in the world - who can help.
To the extent I can help anyone, here’s some stuff I’ve written before on this:
The truth is, your world has just changed. You can’t unknow things. But that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing good left.
If you are still dubious and don’t understand how this is different than the 1970s, you might look here:
(21 May 2008)
Part of a long post about many things, titled "Peak Energy and an Overview of Its Implications for Food". -BA
New Zealand Guide to Surviving the Future 2008
Kevin Moore, book
New Zealand Guide to Surviving the Future
By Kevin Moore
ISBN 9781877 400001
The 2006 edition of The Thinking Person’s New Zealand Guide to Surviving the Future highlighted the imminent arrival of a worldwide triple crisis -an energy crisis, an environmental crisis and a financial crisis.
During 2007 oil prices reached new highs, food prices rose, hedge funds and finance companies collapsed, gold hit new highs, and currencies fluctuated wildly. We can confidently say that the world as we have known it -a world of cheap
energy, cheap food and financial stability- is disappearing fast. Whilst many are preparing for what is to come, most on board the 'Titanaic' fail to notice the sugns and are still unaware the 'ship' has been 'holed'.
The world is now rapidly dividing into those who will ride the storm and those who will not: survivors and perishers. Those who wish to take advantage of the rapidly vanishing window of opportunity need to act quickly.
The above text is the correct text from author Keven Moore. The text at the link may not be up to date. Keven adds:
The full story is that "The Thinking Person's New Zealand Guide to Survivng the Future" was first published in mid-2006. The updated 2007 edition never got onto the website. I updated and rewrote much of the book though late 2007 to early 2008 and called it the '2008 Edition' to make it quite clear that it is effectively a new book, as opposed to a reprint of the original.
Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change
Alex Steffen, Wired
Another example of how carbon blindness leads to counterproductive policies: embracing nuclear power as a clean energy source. ... a cut-carbon-at-all-costs approach blinds us to more-sustainable, and ultimately more-promising, solutions.
To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems at once. We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.
We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
We can build a future in which technology, design, smart incentives, and wise policies make it possible to deliver a high quality of life at lower ecological cost. But that brighter, greener future is attainable only if we embrace the problems we face in all their complexity. To do otherwise is tantamount to clear-cutting the very future we're trying to secure.
Alex Steffen ([email protected]) is the editor of the green futurism site Worldchanging.com and of the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.
(19 May 2008)
Counterpoint article to the current issue of Wired: Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green.
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March 2, 2006
2 Mar 2006: New NIEHS Associate Director to Integrate Environmental Health Research with Advances in Patient Care
William J. Martin II, M.D. will join the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, as Associate Director for Translational Biomedicine beginning March 6th. Translational Biomedicine focuses on moving research results from the NIEHS portfolio into clinical practice.
Dr. Martin will work to ensure that the Institute's research is more rapidly integrated into advances in patient care. He will develop new clinical research programs, as well as interdisciplinary training initiatives to extend the influence of environmental health sciences into the clinical arena. He will also serve as liaison between NIEHS and its partners, including academia, professional societies, and other NIH institutes as NIEHS continues to foster and cultivate new relationships and collaborations.
Establishing the Office of Translational Biomedicine is in line with the NIEHS mission to understand how the environment influences human health and disease, according to the NIEHS Director, David A. Schwartz, M.D.
"As a physician-scientist who has worked in both the research and clinical arenas, Dr. Martin is uniquely qualified to help bridge the gap between research and patient care," said Dr. Schwartz. "He shares my vision that environmental health science can provide unique approaches to understanding diseases that affect people around the world. I am thrilled that he has agreed to join the leadership team at NIEHS. He brings a wealth of professional and practical experience, and also a vibrant creativity to this new role."
Dr. Martin served as the Dean of the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine and is a past president of the American Thoracic Society. He also served as the Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Indiana University for twelve years before becoming the Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University's School of Medicine.
Recently, Dr. Martin worked as a volunteer physician aboard the US Navy Hospital Ship, the USNS Comfort as part of Project Hope during the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. In this capacity, Dr. Martin helped establish clinics and provide medical services in devastated areas of Mississippi and saw first hand the impact that natural disasters can have on a population."I plan to approach my new position at NIEHS with the same sense of commitment and urgency I felt while working with the Katrina relief efforts," Said Dr. Martin. "There is such a sense of excitement in the environmental sciences community right now about the new initiatives that NIEHS is undertaking, and I want to be part of that. I am very excited about the new office and the opportunity to work with the in-house and grant-supported researchers as we work together to develop new approaches to clinical research."
Some of the new interdisciplinary initiatives that Dr. Martin will help oversee include the Institute's new Disease Investigation for Specialized Clinically Oriented Ventures in Environmental Research (DISCOVER) program (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-06-001.html) . DISCOVER is a new program designed to support teams of researchers focused on integrating environmental health research with patient-oriented and population-based studies.
"Developing a more integrated program in environmental research, where we have more researchers trained and involved in this field, will allow us to more rapidly disseminate and translate research findings so they can improve the health of the patient," Dr. Martin said. Dr. Martin received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1974, and completed his pulmonary and critical care training at Mayo Clinic in1979. Following completion of his research training in the Pulmonary Branch at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, he joined the staff of Mayo Clinic as a clinician-investigator in 1981. While on faculty at Indiana University, Dr. Martin served as a Health Policy Fellow, United States Senate, Labor and Human Resources Committee in 1995.
He has authored more than 130 research and clinical papers, and has been an NIH-funded scientist for the past 24 years. Dr. Martin has been an invited speaker for nearly 200 events, including testifying before the World Health Organization and U.S. Congress. Dr. Martin has received numerous awards including the Sagamore of the Wabash, the highest award presented to a citizen of Indiana by the Governor of Indiana.
NIEHS, a component of the National Institutes of Health, supports research to understand the effects of the environment on human health. For more information on environmental health topics, please visit our website at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/ (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/) (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/).
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Catherine Corona's "The Great Mystery" recently won best documentary and the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Estes Park Film Festival in Colorado.
Catherine Corona grew up among the big dogs of journalism and social activism.
When she was 16, she would take her car downtown to meet up with her uncle, Chicago photojournalist P. Michael O'Sullivan, and his buddies, who were also journalists, artists and critics. It was the early 1970s, and O'Sullivan was at the height of his career, having shot covers of the Detroit riots for Life magazine and interviewed leaders of the Irish Republican Army.
"We were really interested in … figuring out what it is that we needed to tell people that would get people into changing (the world) and making things better," said Don Johnson, of Waukegan, O'Sullivan's best friend and a former reporter for Newsweek.
The teenage Corona sat among these muckrakers, listening to them talk about their work, and said it just "seeped in" that you could use your craft to make a difference.
O'Sullivan died in 2004, but Corona, now 54, hasn't forgotten his influence. Last month, the filmmaker released her first full-length documentary, "The Great Mystery," which is quickly gaining recognition for its contributions to peacemaking and interfaith dialogue.
Now a resident of Boulder, Colo., Corona grew up in Glen Ellyn, where her family still lives. She describes it as a town with "churches on every corner." In the film, she remembers one night at catechism at her Glen Ellyn Catholic church when the priest told her that everyone who wasn't Christian would go to hell. The idea bothered her and seemed to feed her curiosity about other faiths. By 17, she says she had visited every church in town.
The next year, Corona moved to Colorado to go to college. She moved into a room on a ranch with Native Americans who brought her to their sweat lodges and meetings with a local medicine man. When the Native Americans moved out, a group of Sufis moved in. Over the years, Corona went on to get her doctorate in theology, become a script supervisor for several feature films, produce more than 400 commercials, and write a book — all the while bombarded with new religious encounters.
As opportunities surfaced to learn about other religions, Corona remained open to learning about them as a way to deepen her experience of Christianity.
"I don't see how we can have peace with (a) close-minded approach," she said. "People lose an opportunity to deepen their own faith if they shut themselves off from other faiths."
Combining her curiosity about God with a quest to contribute like her uncle, Corona embarked on a road trip through western America. In the film she visits a Lakota holy site, Tibetan Buddhist temple, Islamic mosque, Catholic church, Jewish synagogue and Hindu temple to inquire about perceived divisions among religions.
Corona says religion is the "conflict of our time," but she has hope that friendships will transcend religious differences.
Optimism in tow, Corona asked everyday people what they thought about God and faith. Similar themes popped up among all religions featured in the movie: compassion, devotion and recognition that all religions worship the same God.
Viewers may be surprised to see a different side of Islam than that often represented. The film features scenes at a Denver mosque, the women separated from the men, the younger children playing in another area with the teens. Corona says non-Muslims often assume this division represents inequality or segregation. On the contrary, she said the separation offered practitioners an opportunity to spend time with their brothers or sisters and get a break from watching their kids.
"It's actually pretty natural," Corona said. "At Thanksgiving dinners in our families, the women were always hanging out together and the men were watching football. It really was no different than that."
Corona's ability to tackle such a challenging subject and capture candid conversations has caught the attention of early viewers. The film won best documentary and the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Estes Park Film Festival in Colorado last month, beating 34 other documentaries and feature films. Corona said several people in the audience were moved to tears.
Her publicist, Todd Appleman, says the film has the "goose bump factor."
"You can just tell that this is a woman that's been on a lifelong journey to understand the religions of the world, and she has such an optimistic hope for a better world," he said.
The film is available from Netflix and Amazon.com. Appleman says he and Corona are approaching theater chains for distribution and have already confirmed screenings in Singapore and Indianapolis. Corona hopes to be able to screen the film in Glen Ellyn soon.
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Building Your College Tennis Program Chapter 4: Building a Positive Relationship
within your Athletic Department
There are several little things you can do to have your program be seen in a favorable light, even if you are not notching conference titles and winning seasons every year. Four general ideas for building departmental support are:
Building Your College Tennis Program
Chapter 4: Building a Positive Relationship
Have a plan
Know your image
Put an emphasis on success off the court
Take an interest in others in your department
HAVE A PLAN
Administrators will tell you that that while they don’t necessarily mind their coaches coming to them with a problem, it annoys them if the coach has no solution or plan for the problem. If you show that you have a plan and ways to fix some of the problems you are facing, you are more likely to get your AD’s support and interest. You need to let your AD know that you are very interested in doing the work needed to make your program better, whether it be a facility improvement or fundraising for a bigger budget.
Stanford’s Dick Gould gives this advice on working with superiors: “Present your ideas to superiors with as much information as possible. If you get a ‘no’ answer, be firmly, but ‘nicely’ persistent and come back with another ‘twist.’
"Pick your 'battles' well - don't waste your energy and your administrator's time on picky little things," adds Gould. “Rather spend your energies on those which you feel will make a marked difference in your program.”
“It is difficult to ignore a large and positively vocal group,” says one AD, noting the importance of having a wide-base of community support. “A coach needs to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. My coaches have learned that I respond much better to their issues when they bring positive solutions to the table, and I don’t think I am much different than any other administrator when it comes to this.”
KNOW YOUR IMAGE
A coach should stop to think about personal areas which can be improved. What type of image do you think you have within your department? What is your reputation?
Can you sometimes be seen by others in your department as a “high maintenance” coach? This is not necessarily a bad thing. It could mean that you are active, ambitious, a hard worker and getting the most out of the resources within your department. But it can also mean that others in the department are always being brought into your problems or that you tend to complain too much. Which end do you fall on? It is very important to know this.
This is what on AD says about coach-AD relationships: “I get turned off quickly by coaches who I only visit with when there is a crisis or they want something. The question I ask is ‘When you talk to me, is everything always 'heavy'?’ I actually have coaches who stop in just to ask how my dog is doing or to inquire about my latest remodeling project or ask me to lunch and not talk about business. Coaches need to understand the importance of non-confrontational conversation. It is better to practice casual office politics 75 percent of the time; otherwise administrators are loathe to see the coach when they appear. I tell my coaches they will have more success with me if every conversation we have is not about their problems or themselves.”
There are times when a coach needs to be aggressive to get the best results for his or her program. But there are other times when a coach needs to consider how his or her actions may be viewed by others around them and what kind of long term effects they may have.
Notre Dame’s Bobby Bayliss suggests requesting an end of the year meeting with your Athletic Director for the purpose of receiving constructive criticism, if something like this is not already in place.
Bayliss also recommends asking your team for an evaluation of how they feel about you. He distributes a questionnaire which is completed anonymously and returned to the captain, who gives it to him. Bayliss says: “I don’t always like what I read, but at least if there is a problem with the way I am doing things, I will know about it.”
Also take stock in what your player’s images are. If an administrator came out to one of your matches, what kind of team would they see? Would they see solid sportsmanship or arguing and yelling? Are your players wearing six different shirts? Also, what are your players like off the court? Sound students and role models or sub par students and partiers? Players are a reflection of their coaches and can impact how a department views a coach.
The ITA now offers a weekly ITA National Team Sportsmanship Award, another thing to strive for to help build your team’s image.
SUCCESS OFF THE COURT
One coach says her Athletic Director told her: “Your standing is safe here so long as you or your players don’t ever do anything to damage this department’s reputation.” Not exactly a news flash, but something coaches should always keep in mind. This means paying attention to success off the court.
First, there is the academic arena. Set a team grade point average goal. Make it known that this is a big priority for your program. Maybe your program isn’t known for winning matches, but it can be known for players earning academic accolades at the conference and national level or within your own athletic department. For instance the ITA honors several schools each summer for registering a 3.20 GPA as ITA All-Academic Teams, and hundreds of student-athletes who have a 3.50 GPA as ITA Scholar-Athletes. If your team and/or a player receive an academic honor, you should publicize it. Make sure people know your program is doing things that can make your university proud.
There is also the opportunity for community service, which has been documented in previous Building Programs chapters. This is another area you can set goals for your program. While teams obviously should not participate in charitable activities just for publicity and to pat themselves on the back, they do need to make their community activities known in order to encourage others to do likewise; you and your players can be seen as positive role models. If your athletic department does not have any type of community service participation award for its programs, start one and have your team strive to win it each year. Community service and involvement is also, as emphasized throughout these chapters, a great way to connect with you community and gain support.
TAKE AN INTEREST IN OTHERS
It might be a cliché, but be a “team player.” This means supporting the other programs in your department. As explained in an earlier chapter, a good idea is to set up a system with other coaches looking to fill more seats in the stands - your team is going to be at the soccer matches and the soccer team is going to be at the tennis matches. Send a note or leave a voice mail for another coach in your athletic department congratulating them when their team does something special.
Invite your administrators to your matches. Show them that it is important to you that they see what you are trying to accomplish and that what you are doing is special. Some teams have also set up tennis clinics and/or tennis mix and match events for the faculty and athletic department as a way of connecting and as a good will gesture.
The bottom line is that in any type of employment, if your superiors like and respect the type of person you are, your team’s image and the effort you are giving, there is a good chance you will be at that place for a long time.
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Means: Say what you mean Around Town, posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jan 31, 2008 at 10:48 am
When incoming Mayor Tom Means told the Voice what his goals were for the year, he didn't talk about fixing major problems like transportation, crime or housing. He said he simply wanted to make sure council meetings didn't run late into the night, and that the council spoke with clear direction.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, February 1, 2008, 12:00 AM
Posted by WC, a resident of the Monta Loma neighborhood, on Feb 3, 2008 at 10:37 am
I believe Means could recognize & open up to understanding councilmembers who are trying to compromise between residents & developers to decide a smart path. Examples of careless development abound, jumbling cities of the character that brings us there.
At a glance, LEED lays out a point system by which council & developers can aim and whose residents' interests are represented in a green background. I wish I had known about LEED to emphasize it for Mayfield.
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Raleigh, N.C. — John C. Bland, 48, tried to vote Thursday at Durham County's Githens Middle School early voting location, only to be told by election officials that he had already cast a vote.
"I said, 'Maybe you've got it mixed up,'" Bland said Monday. His father, James Bland, has a similar name. And it turns out there's another John Bland who lives in Durham, although he's 17 years older, lives at another address and is a different race.
Nope, poll workers insisted, John C. Bland had already voted.
"It took me about 15 minutes, but eventually they let me vote a provisional ballot," Bland said. Provisional ballots are held out until canvass day, which comes the week after Election Day. At that point, local boards of elections determine whether provisional ballots should be counted.
But as of Monday morning, there appeared to be quite the mystery. State board of elections records show that both Bland's father and the other John Bland are recorded as voting under their own name. And they also showed that John C. Bland had voted. In fact, the two John Blands appeared to have voted on the same day and same place.
This mystery seems to have an answer, according to Don Wright, who is the chief lawyer for the State Board of Elections.
But to understand the explanation, it might be helpful to hear from the other John Bland, John H. Bland, who is 66.
"Well, let me tell you what happened when I went to vote," John H. Bland said when asked about John C. Bland's tale.
He said that he originally was given a ballot application form – the piece of paper you get and sign before getting your ballot – with the wrong name on it.
"It was John Bland, just like mine, but had a different middle name," he said. He couldn't remember which middle name was there, but he said that it wasn't his.
John H. Bland said he pointed out the error and eventually got the right form, and his own ballot, to vote. Poll workers, he said, crossed out the ballot application form they had created, he said.
Wright showed WRAL News a copy of that form, which indeed bore a big "X" across it.
However, the poll workers failed to carry out a crucial step on Oct. 18, Wright said.
"It (the ballot) was spoiled by the poll worker, but they failed to cancel the vote," he said.
That meant the county and state vote tracking systems showed that John C. Bland had gotten his ballot already. However, that ballot was never cast, Wright said.
"It's an administrative error," Wright said.
John C. Bland said he is still uncertain. He said that Michael Perry, director of Durham County's board of elections, showed him a form that seemed to indicate someone had signed for his ballot.
Wright said he was sure the ballot in question was not voted and that the provisional ballot that John C. Bland cast would be counted during the canvass.
Bland said this isn't a political story, but it argues for better security at the polls.
"We need some better better system of identifying people who are going to vote," Bland said. Whether that system involves photo ID or something else, he said, is for others to argue.
Update: After the story above went online, we got an e-mail from Nichole Michelle Brown, also of Durham County. And she had a similar story, which she provided in her own words:
I just read your article on "Men with same name face ballot confusion" and the same thing happened to me at the Durham South Regional Library today. I went to early vote and when I gave the election judge my information, she looked and said "it shows that you've already voted." The problem was, I hadn't voted. Then I was told that there was another Nicole M. Brown in the system and when she came to vote, they gave her my ballot. I don't know how this could happen because the name on my Ballot is Nicole Michelle Brown and if they were really checking the address and date of birth, they would've known that the other Nicole M. Brown was not me. I had to do a Provisional Ballot and I was not told that my vote would not be counted with the other votes on Election Day. I was only told that my vote would be counted. I'm glad I did early voting and discovered this problem early. Had I waited until Election Day, I don't know what would've happened.
Michael Perry, director of the Durham County Board of Elections, said this problem isn't exactly typical.
"We see it more often with juniors and seniors, especially when they have the same address," Perry said. That is to say, if there is a John Doe Sr. and a John Doe Jr. on the voting list, that's an easy mistake to make.
In Mr. Bland's case, Perry confirmed Wright's account, saying that a poll worker had failed to cancel the first voter authorization that was handed to John H. Bland. Nobody who wasn't supposed to cast John C. Bland's ballot, he said.
He had not heard about Brown's case.
Asked if this was a common problem, Perry said that the board of elections trains its workers to be careful when looking up and printing forms.
"In spite of all that training, we occasionally make a mistake," he said.
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The process of forgiveness and reconciliation can often be a complicated task to wade through. David Guretzki, professor of theology, church and public life, and Briercrest’s executive lead for strategic and ministry partnership, has written an entire course about it.
“I’ve been working on the topic since at least the late ‘90s,” Guretzki said. “Glenn Runnalls and I originally co-taught the course but then I carried on ever since. The course developed both as a felt need to respond to what Glenn and I felt were some inadequate and harmful ‘pop’ teachings on forgiveness that were circulating even among Christians, but perhaps more importantly, out of an experience of having gone through some significant times of forgiveness and reconciliation in my own life and relationships.”
Interest in the topic is taking the course outside the walls of Briercrest.
InterAct Ministries, an organization that serves indigenous peoples and immigrants across the North Pacific Crescent, has invited Guretzki to teach his four-day course April 8-11 for the professional development of its staff and missionaries at Crossfield Baptist Church in Crossfield, Alta. The general public is also invited to enrol in the class.
Guretzki was invited to teach the course on forgiveness after he spoke on the topic at InterAct’s annual general meeting last summer.
“After speaking, the staff’s interest was sufficiently piqued in the topic that the leadership decided to offer a full four-day course to all their staff,” Guretzki explained. “They felt that it is an area especially needed for missionaries working with First Nations peoples, as many of them are.”
“I think some of what we are hoping to accomplish is to provide an opportunity to see theological teaching interwoven with relational, holistic ministry among First Nations peoples,” Greg Hamilton, administrator in the Canada field office of InterAct ministries explained. “It is a chance to broaden our understanding of God's desire for relationship and intimacy with His creation. The trust relationship between European immigrants and First Nations people has a long history of hurt. This course on forgiveness and reconciliation allows us to develop tools that aid in restoring a relationship of trust in our ministry settings.”
Guretzki sees the course material as a good fit for a professional development seminar.
“It is hard to imagine contexts where relational tensions are absent – even in the smoothest running of Christian organizations,” he said. “Unfortunately, all too often people have only vague and often unbiblical notions of how to resolve conflict, which is really what forgiveness and reconciliation is all about. Worse yet, conflict is often left unresolved and eventually can cause all kinds of damage to an organization, not to mention detracting them from their primary mission.”
The Briercrest professor says his course offers a “biblically-grounded model of reconciliation” that looks at such concepts as confession, repentance, forgiveness, discipline and reconciliation. These concepts are presented in a visual model that can be easily used to assess relational conflict.
“I provide practical steps for helping to move parties forward to reconciliation, or for those who are called upon to mediate disputes or relational dysfunction,” he continued. “The model is, of course, not magical or foolproof and sometimes conflict is simply slow to be resolved because, let’s admit it, we are all sinful and stubborn beings. But at least part of my goal in teaching this material is to point people to the hope we have in the Gospel that teaches that God himself is all about reconciliation. Sometimes the most important step toward reconciliation is starting to believe that God could heal what appears otherwise to be an unhealable relationship.”
Guretzki has seen exciting results in students’ lives as they apply the course material in their own relationships and ministries.
“It’s been really exciting to see how the course content is being used in ways I could never have anticipated,” he said. “I know one student who took the course and is now a professional counsellor. She told me she keeps a copy of the model I have developed in a drawer in her desk and often pulls it out when doing counselling with couples. She has found it often helps people make breakthroughs in figuring out how to move forward in a relationship that seems stuck in unforgiveness, pain and frustration.”
The four-day course is available to the general public both for audit and seminary or college credit. Those wanting to only sit in on the course may contact Greg Hamilton at [email protected]. Those desiring to take the course for seminary or college credit may register by contacting Shirley Entz at [email protected].
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Need For Sustainable Fisheries Operations In The Pacific
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE USE
15 November 2012
Need For Sustainable Fisheries Operations In The Pacific Highlighted
The Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association (PITIA) began a two-day workshop for its members in Auckland today, to discuss issues and concerns about the sustainability of fisheries operations in the region.
It comes a day after PITIA, together with the Pacific Cooperation Foundation, held a successful Investment Forum that brought together its members with potential investors, in order the explore future partnership opportunities.
PITIA chair Charles Hufflett says the day highlighted the need for Pacific nations to work together for the benefit of fisheries operations in the whole region, including New Zealand.
“The value of Pacific fisheries to national economies is huge, so PITIA therefore has a vested interest in making sure that it remains viable and sustainable throughout the entire region through closer collaboration of relevant stakeholders.”
Ensuring that industry in the Pacific maintains strong rights over its operations was one of the major themes to emerge from the day’s discussions, Mr Hufflett added.
“Our members were keen to discuss the progress of the Economic Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated with Europe, and highlighted the need to secure access to this market to ensure viability.”
“They also wanted to stress that these negotiations give due consideration to the complexities presented by the Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary requirements being pursued and seek assistance where possible to breach gaps in this area.”
In addition to sustainability of industry, members also expressed concern about the sustainability of PITIA as an organisation representing their interests.
“There is some anxiety about the financial security of the association,” Charles confirms. “Today we looked at various funding models that combine internal industry support with external donor assistance and support from national governments as well.”
“We will continue to look at options to ensure that PITIA remains able to continue its work supporting the interests of tuna fisheries in the Pacific.”
PITIA works on behalf of members from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
About Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association (PITIA)
With its membership covering 14 Pacific Island countries and several national industry associations, the Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association (PITIA) provides information and services to its members to encourage information and engagement of industry in key policy decisions affecting their businesses. www.pitia.org
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In an interview with CNBC this morning, Wells Fargo CFO Howard Atkins comments on the Dodd-Frank Act which President Obama signed into law this morning. Mr. Atkins focused on the consumer protection aspects of the law and was asked whether Wells Fargo should be considered “too big to fail”.
At a time when most government officials in the executive branch and at the Federal Reserve continue to support the “bail out” approach, Thomas M. Hoenig, President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve bank and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, has put forward an alternative prescription to deal with the troubled financial system. The text of Mr. Hoenig’s recent testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress requires close attention. Read this article for more details.
The financial markets appear to be on edge this week ahead of the government’s release of the methodology for “stress testing” the top banks which is set to be issued on Friday, April 24. Much of the attention has centered on the levels of tangible common equity held by banks and the protection implied by Tier 1 capital ratios. In an interview today, Warren Buffett made a number of comments related to this topic that regulators should consider prior to finalizing the stress test methodology.
Warren Buffett has a long standing reputation for not making stock recommendations, particularly in cases where Berkshire holds positions. I believe that this long standing policy has been in place primarily for two reasons, each of which have been very important to his success and reputation over time. Did Buffett recently tip his hand with recommendations for Wells Fargo and American Express? Read this post for more on this.
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For various reasons this brand new release is codenamed the release release.
New code names will appear as per industry standard guidelines to emphasize the state-of-the-art-ness of this document.
This document was written when I read a feedback asking for a template to fill in to make new HOWTOs. This template was initially made by extracting the skeletal structure of the Multi Disk HOWTO which is a rather large HOWTO. It then went through extensive editing.
Stating the background is a simple way to getting started writing the intro.
First of all we need a bit of legalese. Recent development shows it is quite important.
This document is copyrighted (c) 2001 Duane Dunston and is distributed under the terms of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) license, stated below. It's requested that corrections and/or comments be forwarded to the document maintainer.
Unless otherwise stated, Linux HOWTO documents are copyrighted by their respective authors. Linux HOWTO documents may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, in any medium physical or electronic, as long as this copyright notice is retained on all copies. Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however, the author would like to be notified of any such distributions.
All translations, derivative works, or aggregate works incorporating any Linux HOWTO documents must be covered under this copyright notice. That is, you may not produce a derivative work from a HOWTO and impose additional restrictions on its distribution. Exceptions to these rules may be granted under certain conditions; please contact the Linux HOWTO coordinator at the address given below.
In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this information through as many channels as possible. However, we do wish to retain copyright on the HOWTO documents, and would like to be notified of any plans to redistribute the HOWTOs.
If you have any questions, please contact <[email protected]>
No liability for the contents of this documents can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk. As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely, the author(s) do not take any responsibility for that.
All copyrights are held by their by their respective owners, unless specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.
Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.
You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before major installation and backups at regular intervals.
This has undergone many revisions as this began as my final project for SANS GIAC certification.
If you have the capability, it would be nice to make the HOWTO available in a number of formats.
In this version I have the pleasure of acknowledging:
Patti Pitz for her editing and help with organizing the paper. Doug Eymand for his technical editing.
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Are you pregnant and wondering how to jumpstart your labor? We’ve rounded up various natural and medical methods of inducing labor that Circle of Moms members have tried. Please note that you should always get an induction method approved by your doctor before giving it a go.
Natural Ways to Induce Labor
If you want to naturally induce labor at home, Circle of Moms members have plenty of advice. One of the most common tips is to try stimulating your nipples. Carolyn R. explains: "Nipple stimulationcauses the same hormones to be released that they use in inductions, the same hormonal reaction caused by orgasm."
Speaking of orgasms, sex may also help induce labor naturally. Issa relays her midwife's advice: "Semen contains something that stimulates the cervix to soften and dilate." Specifically, it contains prostaglandins, which may also be given to you by a doctor trying to induce your labor.
What really worked for Issa, however, was physical activity. "I have four children," she says, "and with all four, walking around periodically all day long did the trick."
Herbal Ways to Induce Labor
In addition to the natural induction methods above, Circle of Moms members have shared several herbal methods for starting labor naturally.
One of the most widely recommended tips is to drink raspberry tea. Angela B. explains: "Red raspberry leaf teais an excellent herbal assist. It's a great ‘woman’ tea for many reasons, but especially good throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. For childbirth assist, I was told to brew a good strong quart of it (sweeten with honey if needed) and drink it to help move things along.”
Other moms, including Amy, relay that evening primrose oil caused their labor to begin: "My midwife said to take one [capsule] three times a day, then the next week two [capsules] three times a day, and then the third week three [capsule] three times a day until birth. I only made it to the two [capsules] three times a day before I gave birth."
Rachel H. also found the evening primrose capsules worked, but offered some words of caution: "Remember, primrose oil doesn't induce labor, it helps ripen the cervix. If your body isn't ready, it won't respond to the natural methods. I started the evening primrose oil at 40 weeks and five days, went into labor [at] 41 weeks exactly."
Pressure Points That Induce Labor
Massage or acupressure may be another way to get things moving along. Kristin W. shares: "Acupressure points in your ankles and the fleshy part between finger and thumb can help. (You know you've got the right spot when it feels like a period pain in your hand.)"
Similarly, Dawn G. recommends a foot massage: "There are certain spots in the feet and ankles(and hands) that may help things along, but I'd strongly advise you to see a massage therapist who is properly trained in this area."
Mia B., meanwhile, had acupuncture to help induce her first child: "It work[ed] within 30 hours, but some people take more than one treatment. It's also an awesome opportunity to have a rest while the acupuncture needles are in, it makes you feel so relaxed."
Controversial Induction Methods
You should always check with your doctor before trying to induce labor, but Circle of Moms members especially emphasize caution with castor oil.
“My midwives suggested castor oil numerous times, but I was afraid due to the bad stories about the washroom type side effects. Finally at 2.5 weeks overdue, they convinced me that castor oil would be better than a medical induction at the hospital. I did the three doses first thing in the morning, had some stomach upset throughout the day, my water broke that evening and I had him by 3 a.m., no problems all natural (except the lovely nitrous!).”
How Your Doctor May Help Induce Labor
Your doctor may also try to help induce labor. One of the common methods is stripping or sweeping the membranes. A Circle of Moms member who goes by "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" explains: "You can have your membrane stripped at your next visit. It sounds worse than it is. They stick a finger up, and move it around past the cervix to get thing stimulated."
Another tactic could be to artificially rupture the membrane (AROM). As the American Pregnancy Association explains, breaking the amniotic sac increases the production of the hormone prostaglandin, which will speed up contractions.
Medical Procedures That Induce Labor
Tried everything and still aren’t in labor? You may just need to let nature take its course or take medication to induce labor. "I don't want to burst your bubble," says Circle of Moms member Kathryn N., "but I tried everything with my last two pregnancies to try and induce labor, and nothing worked other than having the doc break my water."
Circle of Moms members discuss two main types of medication that induce labor. The first are prostaglandins, hormones taken as a suppository in the vagina.
The second is oxytocin, a naturally produced hormone that stimulates contractions. Common brand names of oxytocin include Pitocin and Syntocinon. As Circle of Moms member Brenda D. shares: "Pitocin is the form of artificial hormone that induces labor. Cervadil is commonly used first, followed by the Pitocin."
The preceding information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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The ISETT SETA seeks to develop South Africa into an ICT knowledge based society. They generate, facilitate and accelerate the process of skill development in our sector.
The Microsoft IT Academy program helps learning institutions connect the world of education and to the world of work, by enabling faculty and students to acquire new technology skills in an academic setting.
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BROOKFIELD - In an area nationally known for closed factories and poverty, a business news network found growing signs of life - and good restaurants.
"If they have an image (of the Mahoning Valley), it's probably the Bruce Springsteen song, and it's all about crime and poverty and lost jobs and the failure of steel. Nothing positive, so it's nice to come here and hear some positive things and see some positive things happening," Jane Wells, California-based reporter for cable network CNBC, said Friday before a live newscast from the thriving TMK-IPSCO Premium pipe plant in Brookfield.
Wells' four-day, first-ever stay in the area began with the idea of doing a story about the impact of potential defense budget cuts from the congressional debt super committee.
CNBC's Jane Wells visits TMK-IPSCO's Brookfield plant.
She said she visited RTI International Metals Inc.'s titanium mill in Weathersfield to show the effect cuts would have on a small defense supplier. RTI relies on defense for about 30 percent of its business.
The committee has until Wednesday to announce ways to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the nation's debt over 10 years. If it fails, defense and nondefense spending will share equally in that amount of cuts.
Because it's Green Week on CNBC - natural gas is cleaner burning than coal or oil - the network also decided to report on the area's booming natural gas shale drilling industry, taking her to Dearing Compressor and Pump in Boardman and to TMK.
Tribune Chronicle photos / Larry Ringler
Vicki Avril, president and chief executive officer of TMK-IPSCO’s Brookfield plant, explains two of the precision couplers the plant makes to join steel tubes used in natural gas drilling.
She reported live from inside the plant about 11:40 a.m. Friday, while some of the plant's 72 mostly production workers behind her threaded and processed pipes used in drilling by Chesapeake Energy and other exploration companies.
Drillers use a controversial practice called hydraulic fracking, in which water is forced into horizontal drill holes at high pressure to crack shale rock deep underground and release the gas.
The Brookfield plant also makes couplers with threading precise within several thousandths of an inch to connect pipes for drilling.
The couplers must be able to withstand a 30-degree bend for every 100 feet the pipe is curved in the horizontal drilling process, according to David Green, director of plant operations.
The couplers also must withstand intense pressure of water being forced through the pipe to fracture the shale rock, he said.
Hydraulic fracking is drawing sharp criticism in some areas for potentially contaminating well water, along with creating millions of gallons of waste water that must be disposed.
Wells said her report focused on the expected thousands of jobs being created by the drilling frenzy, but added, "If the technology proves to have problems - mineral rights, water quality - we'll cover it then."
Jobs are what TMK and other energy-related companies are providing through Pennsylvania, New York, eastern Ohio and other states where an estimated trillions of cubic feet of natural gas is located.
Vicki Avril, president and chief executive officer of TMK IPSCO, said the 110,000-square-foot Brookfield plant is set up to add a third pipe-threading line, creating 30 "very technical, skilled jobs" to work "pretty much around the clock."
She said there's no forecast when a third line will be added, but said the company hasn't had any problems finding workers.
Wells said she didn't have any trouble finding good area restaurants. She said she and the crew ate at Leo's Ristorante in Howland, Alberini's in Niles and the Upstairs Lounge in Austintown.
"I found a lot of great food - I think I gained five pounds - and met a lot of great people," she said.
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the doll games
THE DIFFICULTY OF REMEMBERING [HOW COLLABORATION WORKED]
P: Theres so much we dont remember, as I just said twice without the Record button on.
S: And as I was going to reply: well thats the weird thing about memory, you remember these high points as you skim over them in your mind, and they are always there so you sort of assume the rest of it is there too. And then you try to remember what the rest of it is, and it isnt there. Weve said this before, but I think its important that we make part of the work be our investigation of failure and doubt and loss and gaps, and our inability to reconstruct and remember. Because in a way our relationship to the doll games is as much made up of our distance from it and its sort of mysterious egg-like enclosure in our pastso we have to kind of talk about what it means to us now, and why were still interested in it, and how thats different from what it meant to us then.
P: I was also thinking there are more recent episodes we could talk about, like when we started the project before a couple years ago, and when I got obsessed with Harvey and started taking all those Polaroids, because Harvey somehow was the doll who best embodied my relation to all that stuff in his sort of ridiculousness and poignancy. I mean, now we have this whole new history of talking about this and thinking about this.
S: Yeah, so we dont present Doll Games as this work that just sprung into existence complete. Especially since were interrogating the whole method of collaboration, which we are having to reinvent in order to do the doll games project.
P: And thats also something we should be reflecting on, how the collaboration is going, and how it is different or similar to the collaboration of the doll games themselves, how it repeats elements or doesnt, in ways that we might have to work out. Like right now Im holding the tape recorder for the first time!
S: I know! So we might also have to embarrassingly investigate aspects of our own relationship, or at least include in the thinking about it our knowledge of our resistance to investigating features. Like my being the boss, and controlling things, but also our having this self-imposed moral guideline of equality.
P: Thats one of the things that I wonder about, because I know I didnt feel like I was not an equal participant, but Im sure that you were the one that guided the stories, because thats just what you did. And since I dont remember much about my role I end up really seizing on the material artifacts we have, like doll writings that I did, as evidence of what I was doing.
S: Well it was really organic and we did both contribute, so it wasnt like you were my puppet, but I was conscious of manipulating things, trying to make you feel like you were doing things freely when sometimes I was forcing them on you.
P: Like what? Like decisions about plots and characters?
S: I dont know, its more a general feeling I have about things we did together than a memory about the doll games, but Im sure it played into the doll games.
P: I remember mostly the time when I became resentful, and a bad collaborator, because I felt that I wasnt equal.
S: You mean in the doll games?
P: No, later. I think as long as the doll games were going on I had no real consciousness of that. The only thing I remember I might have felt towards the end was some anxiety about making sure that Melanie was just as good as Mara. Thats the only thing I can access at all, which makes me think that it was a little bit later, after the doll games, when I really started having issues and feeling oppressed by you being always the one who the guide of our adventures.
S: I was completely oblivious to it too, except that I did have a certain amount of cunning; I felt at times that I was making things happen but making you think that you were making them happen. And so I also felt guilty about those things, although I think in the doll games we were so bent on the same ends that although I do remember maybe being a more energetic generator of plot ideas, and overriding you sometimes because I had such a brilliant idea, that was something we both were perfectly happy with because we wanted the best ideas. So you were happy too. I mean I always thought that was the case.
P: Yeah, I think I was.
S: But then you said recently that maybe the sex aspect of the doll games had been completely my idea, and that you didnt know if you even understood it at first, and that made me wonder if I had completely been oblivious to your relationship to the doll games all along, and was just making you an unwitting participant in all these elaborate scenarios that were entirely my own obsession. But I always thought it was totally mutual.
P: Well I think both things might be true. You were creating the world, and it was my world. I had no resistance to it, so even if I didnt really understand why we were having this kind of game in the beginning, I was perfectly happy. I obviously learned the rules and got into it. Its strange, because I know it was your sexual fantasy life that we were working out first and most explicitly, and I dont know how it impacted mine, or what I would have done on my own. I have no way of knowing that. But its not like I felt like I was participating in some alien ritual, it was more like just with everything we did together as kids, you were older and you knew what the right thing to do was before I did. So it wasnt like there was even a possibility that my right thing might be different, I didnt start thinking that until much later. Until high school, I think.
S: I was thinking about that when Carol was talking about Nikola and Reed playing. Reed can barely talk yet, and Nikolas sort of leading him around the house going "No, the game has to go like this, you say this now" and he willingly does it. And I was thinking oh, of course, thats just what happens when one kid is older, shes thinking on a different level than the other kid, so naturally she leads the way. But I still have this sort ofwhen we were kids we just thought of ourselves as equals, so I had this idea of myself as bossy, and sort of a mixture of feeling pleased with myself that I had better ideas and feeling bad that I forced things on you. When really it had nothing to do with my particular character, even though it became that.
P: I dont even remember thinking of you as bossy until later, the issue didnt come up until later and I dont think its that my will was being trampled on and I finally realized it, I think its more that there was a developmental point when I needed to have my own will and it occurred to me that we might not be just collaborators on a single project, that that might not be the whole way that life is. And that was the traumatic part, the earlier part wasnt traumatic. I completely trusted you to come up with the right things that we should both do.
S: Theres a right way and a wrong way to play a doll game, and I know what it is!
P: I dont actually remember it the doll games so much as with something like drawing, where you would come home withwhere suddenly it was important for us to draw things anatomically correct, for example. And it hadnt been before. But I would just think, "of course."
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By Hannah Joseph
“Once upon a time, there was a princess named Marie. She had long, thick curls and beautiful brown eyes, and her clitoris was three centimeters away from her vagina. The last bit was very depressing for the princess. She could never manage an orgasm during intercourse, and she felt certain that the far-off placement of her clitoris was the reason.”
In her latest New York Times bestselling novel, Mary Roach explores such questions as “Does height affect a woman’s capacity for sexual pleasure?” and “Can a person really achieve orgasm through mental concentration alone?” Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex covers facts, myths and the weird, investigating a wide range of studies conducted around the world. I caught up with her at her book reading event at the Bodies Exhibit and solicited her for an interview. Luckily she obliged my humble requests and I was able to squeeze in a few questions during her busy book tour.
H: Your research process must have been interesting, to say the least. How long did it take? Did you hit any speed bumps along the way?
M: It took a couple of years. You know a lot of the time I was waiting for some study to get going and they wouldn’t get funding, or they’d get delayed. So the whole process got stretched out because I’m dependent on the researchers’ schedules and things tend to move very slowly in the academic world. The problem was usually that they weren’t doing something in the labs that was interesting to describe or they were already done with the project or they were only doing survey work.
H: During the course of your research, you traveled to Taiwan, Cairo and London. Did you notice any cultural differences in the way researchers approached the study of sex?
M: Certainly, Professor Shafik
H: I’m sorry to hear that; he was a real maverick. I was especially interested in his implications when he said, “In all Arab countries, I don’t know why and how, conservative people are coming up greatly. Greatly!” Similarly, you mention on separate occasion that America in the 1950s was much more conservative than America in the 1920s. In terms of sexual liberation, are societies progressing or regressing…or what?
M: I think that we took a couple steps backwards during the Bush administration because there was such a rise in support of conservative family values. Christian groups would target researchers who did sex research. They would target them for criticism or put them in the spotlight for ‘wasting funds.’ Hopefully, with the Obama administration things are back on track. In general, though, sex is a lower priority for research than, lets say, cancer or cardiac issues or mental health. It tends to be considered a lifestyle issue so it doesn’t get priority for funding as much.
H: Well maybe if sex was given more scientific priority we could more quickly expel common misconceptions. My favorite comes from the Middle Ages (and page 143 in the paperback version of Bonk) explaining male impotence: “…the common assumption was that impotent men had been cursed…
M: I’m hoping people would look back with utter
surprise and incredulity at the opinions of people who don’t accept homosexuality, who think that it is something to be punished for or ashamed of or discriminated against. I think that seems pretty backwards, so hopefully in 200 years that will be just really puzzling to that people who were persecuted or beaten up or murdered or denied the ability to legally adopt a child because of their sexual preferences. We should be there by now and we are in urban areas, but we’re not in the rest of the world, or even the rest of the country.
H: One of the fun tidbits in your book cites that some bulls actually exhibit homosexual arousal while others may exhibit the desire for multiple cows. If cows don’t seem to mind homosexuality (or threesomes for that matter) why should we? I mean, er, do you think that the existence of homosexuality and “aberrant” behavior in other species supports the “nature over nurture” theory?
M: Well, actually there is a book called Biological Exuberance, which has about 600 pages and contains all kinds of quote unquote aberrant behavior in animals. I wouldn’t draw any conclusions but I think it is so prevalent across the animal kingdom – I think you could certainly point to that as an indicator… that its not surprising that it occurs in humans too. I’m sure conservatives would have a different interpretation of it.
H: Love and sex have been portrayed inextricably in so many instances. And yet, you consciously isolate the two and focus solely on the mechanics of sex. Was that an intentional choice? Would you write a book on love?
M: I’m always interested in surprising and peculiar things going on in laboratories. Love is particularly ill-fitted because it’s almost impossible to bring love into a laboratory situation. So, it doesn’t work as something you can study quantitatively very well and for that same reason… I wouldn’t do a book about it. People write about it in terms of evolution or biology but that’s theory and speculation and it’s not my bag.
H: Then, what is your next venture?
M: My next book is about the early days of aerospace medicine and current day space simulations. It covers all the weird physiological and psychological things that happen to human beings when you put them in an environment for which they are utterly un-adapted. It’s another quirky science.
H: Does aerospace sex make a guest appearance in the book?
M: Oh yeah, certainly. There’s a chapter about zero gravity sex, absolutely! I’ve already written it.
H: Oh, tell me about it!
M: No! You’re going to have to wait.
Mary Roach has been published in Outside, National Geographic, New Scientist, Wired and The New York Times Magazine. She has published three books including Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and most recently, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wesleyan University.
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Egypt on the Eve of Elections: Economy, Democracy Are Priorities
On the eve of the first presidential election of the post-Mubarak era, Egyptians remain hopeful about the future of their country, and they strongly desire both an improved economy and democratic freedoms .
Public Yawns at European Economic Woes
The European debt crisis has attracted minimal interest or concern among the U.S. public, despite warnings from economists that Europe’s problems may threaten this country’s fragile recovery.
Confidence in Democracy and Capitalism Wanes in Former Soviet Union
Two decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russians, Ukrainians, and Lithuanians are unhappy with the direction of their countries and disillusioned with the state of their politics. Enthusiasm for democracy and capitalism has waned considerably and most believe the changes that have taken place have had a negative impact on many aspects of public life.
U.S. Status as World’s Superpower Challenged by Rise of China
The U.S. image abroad is more favorable than it was in the Bush years, but it now faces a new challenge: doubts about America’s superpower status and the belief that China either will replace or already has replaced the United States as the world’s leading superpower.
Japanese Resilient, but See Economic Challenges Ahead
A majority in Japan believe their country will emerge stronger in the aftermath of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Japanese are broadly unhappy with their own government’s handling of the catastrophe, but there is considerable praise for the U.S. Most Japanese, however, also foresee a rocky economic road ahead.
Upbeat Chinese May Not Be Primed for a Jasmine Revolution
Judging the Chinese appetite for democracy is not easy, but polling suggests China may not be ripe for the kind of uprisings seen throughout the Middle East.
Brazilians Upbeat About Their Country, Despite Its Problems
At a time when global publics are mostly glum, half of Brazilians say they are satisfied with national conditions, and 62% say their economy is in good shape. Most also see their country as a rising global power.
Obama More Popular Abroad than at Home, Global Image of U.S. Continues to Benefit
The president gets an enthusiastic thumbs up from the world (with the notable exception of the U.S.) for the way he has handled the world economic crisis. Obama’s personal popularity remains high, as do favorable views of the U.S. In a striking difference from the Bush years, while many around the world disagree with Obama’s foreign policies, the U.S. image has not been significantly dented as a result. Muslim countries, however, continue to hold a negative view of America and most also give Obama unfavorable ratings.
Czechs’ Commitment to Free Markets and Democracy Stays Strong Amidst Troubled Economic and Political Waters
Despite broad dissatisfaction with their country’s current economy and direction, Czechs’ enthusiasm for free markets and open elections has remained strong.
Hungary Dissatisfied with Democracy, but Not its Ideals
Hungarians, who once pioneered the transition away from communism, are not turning their backs on democracy. Instead, they are frustrated by the fact that democracy has yet to fully flourish in their country.
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Posted at 7:29 AM on October 28, 2010
by Julia Schrenkler
MPR News helps you navigate the tangle of candidates this year with Select A Candidate.
By answering a series of questions about major issues, you can quickly learn which candidates are most closely aligned with your views. You'll be able to learn more about each candidate and find out how your results compare with those of others who take the survey.
As always, the reminder:
Q: Does Select A Candidate tell me who to vote for?
A: Absolutely not. Its main purpose is to introduce you to the candidates who are running and their positions on the issues.
Really. It is easy. Spend some time with it online and learn more about the people on the ballot.
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