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It's expected, but you can't kick them all, you know
Last weekend we saw both the agony and the ecstasy that goal-kicking can produce. On Saturday night Bryson Goodwin kicked a goal from the sideline to win the game for Canterbury. On Sunday, Luke Burt missed a seemingly simple kick that would have taken the Parramatta-Wests Tigers match to extra time, giving the Eels a chance at two vital competition points.
One of the competition's best goalkickers, Burt had kicked 16 consecutive goals prior to this miss and has kicked numerous pressure goals in his time. With the standard of goal-kicking reaching an all-time high, lets take a look at some of the finer points of goal-kicking and how your team's kicker can avoid a similar disappointment.
ANGLE OF APPROACH
The angle from which any kicker approaches the ball is based on what suits their natural style of kicking. Some kickers, such as Johnathan Thurston, have a very sharp arc on their leg swing and therefore need to position themselves a long way around-the-corner in relation to the ball. Others, such as Todd Carney, have less of an arc and run in on a much straighter line. Getting this combination right is imperative and it's important that the kicking style is the dominant force, dictating where the kicker runs in from and not the other way around. The diagram, below right, illustrates the varying run-up angles used by some of the kickers in the NRL.
KICK THROUGH THE BALL
A very common mistake for around-the-corner kickers is to think they have to pull the ball around to the posts to compensate for the angle of approach. This is not right. The best kickers have learnt to trust their natural arc and are, therefore, totally committed to kicking through the ball along the same line they are running in on as opposed to deliberately pulling it around with their leg. A kicker who doubts his leg swing will find he is over-compensating. This will increase his arc and cause him to drag the ball left if he is a right-footed kicker and vice versa if he is left-footed.
STAYING DOWN OVER THE BALL ON IMPACT
The position of a kicker's upper body when he strikes the ball is very important when looking for goal-kicking perfection. Thurston, pictured right, shows how this should be done. When the upper body is leaning forward like this, it helps to direct all of the kicker's momentum towards the target. If a kicker lays back off the ball on impact, his momentum will stop with the leg failing to finish its true arc. This will result in a miss to the right of the posts for a right-footed kicker.
THE MENTAL CHALLENGE
In 1996 I was kicking better than I ever had before. One Sunday afternoon, I kicked nine-from-nine, which took my tally from previous games to 32 goals from 33 attempts. That evening I bumped into Phil Gould, who was coaching the Roosters at the time. We were scheduled to play the Roosters the following week and Gould was aware of my current kicking stats. During a conversation I was having with Gould and three others, the Roosters coach leaned in close to my face and said, ''You can't kick 'em all you know, JT!''
He then went back to the conversation as if he'd said nothing. About an hour later I was chatting with a friend when out of nowhere Gould's head appeared between the two of us. He looked me right in the eye and said, ''You can't kick 'em all you know, JT!''
He did this again a while later and at the end of the night when I was standing in the street waiting for a lift home a white Falcon came over the hill with a red-haired figure hanging out of the driver's side window yelling, ''You can't kick 'em all you know, JT!'' I knew he was playing mind games with me and I honestly didn't think about it again until I was running back from my first goal kick the following Sunday in the game against his Roosters. My kick had hit the posts and was waved away.
Had Gus been able to get into my head or was I going to miss that kick anyway? Regardless, what happens in the mind is crucial. A kicker may have a great technique but it takes mental strength to execute under pressure. Knowing your technique and how it works comes first, but you must then set about building trust and belief in this process. It doesn't matter if the grandstand is on fire, trust the process and the result will look after itself.
Burt has all this in place but anxiety took over. His heart started beating faster and he wanted to get it over the crossbar sooner rather than later. This desire to hurry up and kick it through made him run in too fast. His technique went out the window and in a flash the kick had missed.
So how will your team's kicker handle the pressure in the coming weeks? You can't kick 'em all you know, but in this day and age, you're certainly expected to.
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There will be a certain amount of magic in the air at 11 a.m. Thursday when the church bells toll for local Remembrance Day services across the county, says Zone 6 Commander John Rogers.
“For 364 days of the year, the veterans may be using canes or walking a little slower, but come November 11, the agility of these people changes and they are standing upright and walking straight,” said Rogers. “There is a lot of pride there.”
Rogers said the Royal Canadian Legion branches are well aware that the average age of a veteran is around 85 years old, so they are making some changes to their services that include having chairs at the outdoor services and hosting banquets and other events throughout the week rather than all on one day.
He said the county-wide service held this past weekend is a good example of this because organizers decided to hold the service at local church rather than subject veterans and guests to Mother Nature’s wet and windy weather.
Yet, despite the age of the veterans, the enthusiasm for the service is very much alive with all ages attending the Nov. 11 ceremonies and different events taking place in local schools, said Bill White, president of the Royal Canadian Legion in Stellarton.
“The crowds still come out for the services and the churches are packed,” he said.
Rogers said youth play a big part in honouring Remembrance Day by hosting ceremonies at their schools and inviting the veterans to take part in their events.
“The education level for this day is at a peak right now at the local schools,” he said, adding many local cadet groups and other youth organizations play an active role in many of the services and help with the poppy campaign.
Dennis Chipman, recreation director for the Northumberland Veterans Unit, said the veterans are made to feel like celebrities when they walk into a school gymnasium and the children clap for them.
He said many of the 20 veterans in the local unit look forward to taking part in these ceremonies each year, but there are some who prefer to remember their time in the military with quieter reflections.
“There is definitely mixed feelings,” he said. “There is a real sense of pride by the veterans for serving their country and some are more sombre. They all do it in their own way. All of them have different experiences because they’ve all been different places in the world.”
Poppy Campaign needs volunteers
The Royal Canadian Legion’s poppy campaign is continuing to thrive, but it’s getting more and more difficult to find volunteers to help distribute the red flowers of respect, said Bill White of the Stellarton legion.
“We feel when you are initiated into the legion you should work the poppy campaign,” said White.
He said the same small group of people turn up every year to help run the campaign which involves having volunteers go out to local businesses and collect donations in exchange for a red flower.
“It’s a grind to get it done,” he said, adding some veterans are still taking part in the campaign but the numbers are getting low. He said the legion has used the local cadet groups to help with taking donations and he is grateful for their support.
“We need to get younger people to volunteer and help out,” he said. “A lot of veterans can’t do it anymore.”
Zone 6 Commander John Rogers said the poppy is a symbol, but it also is a fundraiser that gives money back into the local community. He said money raised during the poppy campaign is collected into a public trust and distributed to youth through bursaries and helps out seniors and veterans.
“If it wasn’t for the younger people coming in we’d have a harder time,” he said. “We always need more support from our membership and community with the distribution of the poppies.”
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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
- Don D., California
Coverage Initiation: PriceSmart
Value Line recently initiated coverage of little-known wholesale club chain PriceSmart (PSMT). The reason why most U.S. consumers are unfamiliar with the brand is because its warehouses are exclusive to Central America and the Caribbean.
PriceSmart is the third venture of Sol Price, the retailing titan who pioneered the concept of paying a membership fee to buy everyday products at discount prices.
Mr. Price entered the retailing business in 1954 when he opened the first FedMart using $50,000 in startup capital and a warehouse he inherited from a family member. The three initial product categories sold by FedMart were jewelry, furniture, and liquor, and its only clients were government employees. Despite the odd combination of goods, the business was quite successful and went on to spawn such innovative offerings as gasoline sold at wholesale prices, in-store pharmacies, and optical centers.
Sol and his son, Robert Price, sold FedMart in 1975 and started Price Club the following year. Although the two chains shared similar concepts, Price Club is commonly regarded as the first true warehouse store because its merchandise catered to restaurants, newspaper stands, candy shops, and any other small businesses that couldn’t afford the kind of volume that warrants wholesale prices.
Price Club enjoyed a dominant position for over 15 years and inspired a host of imitators, such as Costco Wholesale (COST), BJ’s Wholesale (BJ) and Wal-Mart (WMT) owned Sam’s Club. Eventually, the latter overtook the originator in terms of market share, which motivated the Prices to merge their chain with third place Costco in 1993. The combined entity, dubbed PriceCostco, had a footprint twice the size of both individual chains and was headed by Robert Price.
Unfortunately, the new arrangement was shortlived since PriceCostco’s dual headquarters structure proved inefficient and ended up failing. This led to a breakup of the company, with Costco management gaining total control of PriceCostco and Robert Price taking some real estate assets and the rights to operate membership club stores in certain international markets.
The assets gained from the transaction formed the foundation for what is now PriceSmart. The chain’s primary objective is to operate U.S. style warehouse clubs in growing, middle-class Central American and Caribbean markets that face little competition from Wal-Mart and other big-box discounters.
The chain started out well by expanding rapidly and surpassing sales targets. However, it eventually began to suffer from the mismanagement of Gilbert Partida, a lawyer with no retail experience whom the Prices chose to lead the company.
Mr. Partida’s missteps were plentiful and damaging. Shortly after attempting to solicit a new equity offering, he sold a third of his stake in the company, which rattled investor confidence. Then he rolled out telephone cards with razor thin margins, and opened three stores in Wal-Mart dominated Mexico that proved unsuccessful.
In 2003, Mr. Partida abruptly resigned amidst heavy losses and a plummeting share price. Robert Price took over PriceSmart and attempted to correct his mistakes by closing four stores and exiting the telephone card business. It proved difficult to rectify investor sentiment though as the company was forced to restate its SEC filings for 2002 and 2003 due to revenue recognition errors.
PriceSmart eventually shuttered its Mexican locations and halted expansion efforts for several years, choosing instead to focus on improving sales and profitability at current warehouses.
The strategy has been paying off as sales have improved steadily after reaching a low point in the November 2004 quarter. The larger purchasing quantities that result from higher volumes have given PriceSmart greater bargaining power with suppliers. This trend should continue since management has resumed evaluating sites for additional warehouse locations and still has ample room for traffic gains in existing markets. In late 2009, it acquired land in the Dominican Republic for a new club to be opened in 2010. Additionally the company is looking to launch multiple clubs in Columbia.
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EW YORK – In response to various network operators’ diverging demands for small to large cells, Freescale Semiconductor and Texas Instruments are unveiling this week at the Mobile World Congress their respective visions for a “base station on a chip.” Freescale is rolling out a scalable, multimode wireless base station processor family, dubbed QorIQ Qonverge. The new family of products, designed to scale from small cells (Femto and Pico) to large cells (Metro and Macro), share a common architecture consisting of Freescale’s proven multi-core communication processor, multi-core DSPs and baseband accelerators. Freescale’s new baseband SoC is also playing a critical role in lightRadio technology, recently announced by Alcatel-Lucent. LightRadio technology, which Alcatel-Lucent is working on with Hewlett Packard and Freescale, is designed to help create mobile phone wireless base stations for carriers that are said to be “barely bigger than a golf ball.” Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of at Freescale’s networking and multimedia group, said, “Our new baseband SoC is in it.” Texas Instruments, on the other hand, has developed a new multimode wireless base station chip, called TMS320TCI668, delivering “double the LTE performance of any existing 40nm SoC,” according to the company. TI has added hardware accelerators to the company’s recently announced base station SoC, called TCI6616. Both TCI6618 and TCI6616 use TSM320C66x – TI’s new DSP featuring floating point and fixed point math in every core. Facing exponentially increasing data traffic, network operators have been scrambling to find new solutions to their networks. Freescale’s Su bluntly put: “Most operators can’t keep up with data traffic today.” Operators want network solutions that are “multi-mode” and “future proof,” she explained. While the transition to LTE could help, LTEs are still in early stage, said Su, despite a number of trials. If operators are still building out a 3G network, they want that equipment “to be 4G capable,” she said. In explaining the wireless network architecture’s current state of flux, she added: “Femto cells, deemed an ‘interesting solution’ six months ago, are now a part of the solution many operators are looking at.” Network operators want network architecture “optimized for cost, performance and capacity,” she added. Many in the industry agree that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the wireless network architecture of tomorrow. “Everyone is designing their own vision of network architecture right now,” observed Brian Glinsman, general manager of TI’s communications infrastructure business. “Solutions proposed by equipment vendors are colored by their top five customers,” he added. This trend, in turn, influences semiconductor suppliers’ base station SoCs. “Any operator who says they know what client devices will demand in flavors of 802.11, WiMax, LTE, various flavors of 4G…is lying, overly optimistic, or both!” noted Rick Doherty, co-founder and director, at The Envisioneering Group. “So the only sane survival method is build cell systems with agile software radio support until 4G ‘stratifies’ into clear winners… again, driven by the consumer, business and institutional device mix and demand.” TI’s strategy is squarely focused on “spectral efficiency.” The new hardware acceleration integrated in the TCI6618 is responsible for handling the high numbers of bits flowing through base stations, while freeing the programmable DSP cores’ processing power to execute customer differentiation chores like scheduling and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antenna processing. TI claims the new TCI6618 enables gains “up to 40 percent spectral efficiency.” By making TCI6618 pin and software compatible with TCI6616, TI offers customers flexibility in designing multimode base stations supporting all 2G, 3G and 4G standards, according to the company. TI’s TCI6618 base-station SoC does not come with a RISC processor — necessary for network processing. The company won’t be detailing such a base station SoC complete with a cluster of ARM cores until mid-2011. As an interim step, in collaboration with Axcom Technology, TI is offering a new 3G/4G small cell base station platform in the second quarter of 2011. The platform consists of TCI6616 SoC for PHY and Layer 2 processing; C6A8167 Integra DSP+ARM processor for Layer 3 processing; GC5330 transmit/receive processor for digital radio front-end processing; and NaviLink 6.0 solution GPS for clock synchronization. “We are offering such a platform now so that developers can start writing code,” explained Glinsman. In contrast, Freescale’s plan is to start offering a family of base station processors integrated with their proven network processor. Well-established CPU and DSP technology Freescale’s QorIQ Qonverge processors combine on a single chip: multiple Power Architecture cores; StarCore DSPs with MAPLE packet processing acceleration engines; and interconnect fabric. Noting that there will always be waste in a system using discrete components, Su pointed out the efficiency of the QorIQ Qonverge processor, in particular, comes from its multi-core fabric. “We spent a lot of time developing it.” “The key strength of Freescale is that it has both well-established CPU and DSP technology,” noted Joseph Byrne is a senior analyst at The Linley Group. “Nobody else is in the same position.” According to Byrne, “Freescale’s embedded-processor business has been stronger than its DSP business, which creates a particularly good opportunity for the company.” He explained, “Freescale is well-placed to lure OEMs that had been using TI DSPs with Freescale embedded processors, eliminating TI from these designs.” TI, of course, will try to do the reverse but [the company] is not a well-established supplier of embedded processors, he added. Freescale’s Picocells/Enterprise-Femtocells base station SoC In all fairness, the timing for the availability of complete base station SoCs – both from Freescale and TI — may not differ much in the end. Both are aiming at the second half of 2011. But analysts believe Freescale may have an edge. “We think Freescale’s exisitng and new customers will get to the market faster because Freescale offers more tools and endorsed, trusted third party solutions (like performance monitoring) than TI,” said Doherty. “Time to market, flexibility to change designs as market demands (more so on enterprise cell than femto cell) is criucial.” Freescale is seeing fundamental changes in base station design and deployment. Freescale’s Su described the expected proliferation of tiny base stations enabled by Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio technology as akin to cloud-computing. “Instead of racks of servers, we now see a network of desktop connected to cloud,” she said. Similarly, by combining Alcatel-Lucent’s antenna and RF communications with Freescale’s digital baseband unit, “you will soon see a network of small base stations that are the size of a Rubik’s cube,” enabling networks. The Linley Group’s Byrne agreed. “The big-picture is that mobile broadband requires a dense network of base stations, but carrier’s capital expenditure is limited. Thus, some kind of solution that provides density economically is required.” He said that lightRadio looks like the kind of architecture that can do the trick.
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Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" is as dark and gloomy as a Russian winter. The stifling set has a black backdrop, with four bare walls on either side and a maze of doors. There are plain chairs, a table, and a piano which emanates original music reminiscent of some of the more gloomy music of Rachmaninoff. The Professor, Vanya's brother-in-law, Sonya's father, has moved in with his second wife, and turned the whole household upside down. He sleeps all day, demands tea at 2 A.M., while he pores over his books and complains about his gout. His wife, Yelena, has Vanya and the Doctor intoxicated by her beauty.
Vanya and Sonya have done all of the work on the estate and sent the money to the Professor to live on. They are affected by the laziness that consumes him and his wife, and do nothing but complain. Vanya is 47 years old and sees that his choices in life were wrong. The Professor, who he adored, is a fraud, and he has no hope of improving his lot. Alan Coates' Doctor has a wonderfully deep, dark, richly resonant voice as he talks about the humid heat, which instantly augments the stifling atmosphere. He pinpoints the Professor who "for 25 years teaches what smart people know and nobody else cares about." He's the first environmentalist I have encountered in the arts. He plants trees for fun. His maps chart his district for 50 years, showing the destruction of forests, ponds, and animal life that inhabited them. He says "People are destroying their habitat and futures. Mosquitos and disease have taken over." He creates an atmosphere as thick and oppressive as a colorless painting by Claude Monet. The Doctor calls "the peasants crude and dirty, while nothing is left free and pure in the intellectuals. You love trees - strange; you don't eat meat - strange." None of these characters are happy.
Director Libby Appel captures all of the frustration, gloom, and oppression in this darkly Russian masterpiece of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" presented in The Angus Bowmer Theater at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It runs through November 1, along with "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "A Touch of the Poet," and The School For Scandal."
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 98
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Midsummer Night's Dream | School for Scandal | Uncle Vanya | OSF Commentary
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This is the stuff of a parent’s worst nightmare. You take your child to the doctor’s and learn the worse. Your son or daughter has been diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Such is the reality of Ian Lana and his family. Ian attends the same school as my children, Quest Elementary, and he is in kindergarten. Ian also has Severe Aplastic Anemia (SAA) and is in need of a bone marrow donation.
To help find a donor and bring attention to the disease, Emma Mason, conceived the idea of the Bone Marrow Registry Drive. Emma is Ian’s sister and a senior at Hilton High School. Last Thursday, March 24th, the drive was held at Hilton High School and over 500 people turned out to have their cheeks swabbed and become possible bone marrow donors. The test was so simple – not even a blood draw, to the relief of many I am sure. Well I was simply blown away by the overwhelming community turnout for this child in need.
Again I am simply astounded by the sheer generosity of our community. Time and time again selfless generosity and unconditional giving are the norm for us. I can think of my friend’s cousin who has breast cancer and the support for her family exceeded every one’s expectations. The young girl who wanted to attend prom and did so because of the support of many before she succumbed to her battle with cancer. The list is endless.
While Ian is student in the Hilton Central School District, the population of that school district has a large concentration of families from North Greece. Our friends and neighbors answered the call of a little boy who needs our help. Ian’s treatment consists of frequent blood and platelet transfusions and he is seen at Golisano Children’s Hospital on an outpatient basis.
I have a nephew who suffered from a similar disease and his sister was his bone marrow donor. He is now a sophomore in college and the world is his oyster. For those suffering from SAA their bone marrow does not produce the red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets as needed. Why a child is forced to suffer from a disease like SAA and others defies explanation. The giving spirit and outpouring of love to their families from our community may help to ease the burden. And for one night Ian’s family grew by 500!
The timing of the drive is interesting as another Quest student lost his battle with childhood leukemia four years ago. Ryan McPhee would have 16 years old on March 29th and the school every year holds a Pennies for Patients Collection in Ryan’s honor. The students at the school collect change to raise funds to beat this disease and others. These students and others learn early about paying it forward and become the givers of tomorrow. I’m proud to know them.
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e they for?
FREDA. My lady told me to give the yellow to Mrs. Keith, Sir William, and the white to Miss Lanfarne, for their first evening.
SIR WILLIAM. Capital. [Passing on towards the drawing-room] Your father coming up to-night?
SIR WILLIAM. Be good enough to tell him I specially want to see him here after dinner, will you?
FREDA. Yes, Sir William.
SIR WILLIAM. By the way, just ask him to bring the game-book in, if he's got it.
He goes out into the drawing-room; and FREDA stands restlessly tapping her foot against the bottom stair. With a flutter of skirts CHRISTINE KEITH comes rapidly down. She is a nice-looking, fresh-coloured young woman in a low-necked dress.
CHRISTINE. Hullo, Freda! How are YOU?
FREDA. Quite well, thank you, Miss Christine--Mrs. Keith, I mean. My lady told me to give you these.
CHRISTINE. [Taking the roses] Oh! Thanks! How sweet of mother!
FREDA. [In a quick, toneless voice] The others are for Miss Lanfarne.
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a sweeping education overhaul into law Monday morning, paving the way for longer school days for Chicago students and making it harder for teachers to go on strike.
The law also changes the so-called "last hired, first fired" teacher seniority policy that districts used in deciding which educators to lay off. It also makes it easier for districts to fire chronically underperforming teachers.
The bill-signing ceremony at an elementary school in suburban Maywood was more grandiose than usual, complete with a marching bands colorguard team.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has been a vocal supporter of the bill, touted a provision that would allow him to lengthen the day for Chicago public schools’ students, who he said now have one of the shortest [school] days in the country.
"We are now gonna have the ability to do what we have denied the kids of Chicago for generation after generation," Emanuel said. "When the governor signs that, that is going to end."
State Sen. Kimberly Lightford, the Maywood Democrat who sponsored the measure, touted the spirit of cooperation between unions, administrators and reform groups during negations.
Lightford acknowledged the new law makes it more difficult for teachers to go on strike, but she cautioned unions and management that such friction isn't good for students
"Transparency is there so all your dirty laundry will be aired out publicly," Lightford said. "No 'behind closed doors.'"
Officials and education reform advocates repeatedly praised the law as a national model, particularly because it was negotiated with relatively little acrimony, even as fights over collective bargaining for public workers have raged in other Midwestern states, such as Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio.
But notably absent from Monday’s signing ceremony was Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who had characterized parts of the bill as an attack on teachers' collective-bargaining rights. Lewis did not attend the event because she was "busy focusing on the budget" ahead of a special school board meetin Wednesday, said union spokeswoman Liz Brown.
The union did have problems with the original proposal, but they were resolved when the General Assembly later passed some amendments, Brown said.
"We're glad to be looking forward to actually improving schools as well through lower class sizes and equitable funding," she said.
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We’ve all heard that ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’
I’m not sure I could come up with a 1000 different words every time. But, I think the point is that images allow each of us to make our own connection. We can each pull 1000 words to describe what we see and probably how we feel when we see it.
We attach our own emotions.
And attaching our emotions is the key. This is how the majority of us process information to make decisions.
Think about the last major purchase you made.
What was it?
Did you do research? Did you head to the web to investigate?
Did you rush to the store to touch it, feel it, try it out?
Did you proceed with caution?
Or was it an impulse buy?
Regardless of your process, no doubt you encountered images of the product along the way.
On the company website.
In a magazine.
On an email blast.
In a brochure.
On the packaging.
Did these images make an impact on why you made your decision?
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James' poetry shares the range of interest in those "other things." On this recording, for example, there are pieces that draw on the same sardonic humour that characterises his television work, such as 'Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini', and others that turn to the literary strand of his career, as 'A Valediction for Philip Larkin'. This allows for creative misleadings; the Blade Runner reference of 'Deckard Was a Replicant' suggests a poem based on film criticism, but in fact the piece that follows touches on nature, aging, love and art.
The importance of form to James is clear from his frequent use of rhyme and metrical effects, from the strict pentameter of 'Lucretius the Diver' to the deliberate irregularities of 'The Artificial Horizon'. He is also drawn to longer poems, such as 'The Great Wrasse', written for Les Murray's sixtieth birthday, which demands space for its meditations on memory, on the eponymous fish in its reef, on the dedicatee and on "Those new and strange and lovely living things," his poems.
As would be expected from a broadcasting professional, James' delivery is polished, and moves from irony to sincerity with the same ease as his writing. It allows its audience to hear the poet's commitment to his assertion that a poem "ought to be something that could be recited and performed: something entertaining in the first instance." The New York Times wrote that James "knows how to write poems worth reading"; this recording shows that he also knows how to read poems worth writing.
These recordings are taken from The Artificial Horizon: Poems from The Book of my Enemy read by Clive James, available from Macmillan Digital Audio.
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The first time I used my smartphone, I remember thinking about the above quote by Arthur C. Clarke. I was using an instrument that I knew was technological, but the technology was so beyond my grasp that it honestly felt like magic. And that (as all things do) made me think about fantasy novels.
Often, fantasy contains some element of magic. Sometimes that magic is tied to nature, and other times it's relatively unexplained. And sometimes--as in the Artemis Fowl books--that magic is coupled with technology.
Personally, I love thinking about this link between magic and technology. Perhaps what we think of as magic is just some type of extremely advanced technology, and so the story is really science fiction. Thinking like that makes my brain hurt! But it's also intriguing.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this magic vs. technology idea. Have you read stories that you felt blurred this line? Did that make you feel more or less connected to the magic? At what point does technology start to feel like magic?
Anna Staniszewski is the author of My Very UnFairy Tale Life. The sequel, My Way TOO Fairy Tale Life, is coming in March 2013. Visit Anna at www.annastan.com.
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Rapper Tupac Shakur, who was murdered16 years ago, re-appeared on stage in Coachella on April 15, 2012, in the form of a highly realistic hologram. This performance, which was the brainchild of Dr. Dre, took several months to create. The extreme realism of Tupac has led to the misconception by some that this was old concert footage that was somehow digitized into holographic form. In reality, it was a complete re-creation of the rapper. Still, seeing a performer of years past come to life on stage is exciting. One can imagine seeing the likes of Jim Morrison, Elvis, or Jimi Hendrix taking the stage in this fashion.
Here is the video in its entirety.
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Golf scholarships offered by outside organizations are more common than in many other sports as the game has grown in popularity with players like Tiger Woods bringing more spectators to the sport. While the NCAA still controls a large portion of the funding awarded by colleges, golfers willing to do a bit more research will find that scholarships in the sport are easier to find than they thought.
A goal and trend of golf scholarships recently has been to broaden the diversity in the field, with many awards now targeting women and minorities. Such awards often only require an interest in the field or intent to pursue golf in the future, with less emphasis placed on being the best golfer on your high school team. Other awards from golf associations looking to reward college-bound golfers often place some weight on financial need, extracurricular activities and academic records beyond talent. Don’t rule out the lesser-known funding sources, as they may be far less competitive and just as generous as awards given by your college.
Check out some examples of golf scholarships below. For additional information about golf scholarships and awards based on different criteria, try conducting a free college scholarship search at Scholarships.com.
About $1 billion in full and partial athletic scholarships are awarded each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to more than 126,000 undergraduate student-athletes at Division I and Division II schools. Although these scholarships are awarded and administered directly by each academic institution, not the NCAA, you’ll be required to meet the requirements of the NCAA to receive any funding. Those requirements include a minimum GPA for both the college-bound and those already on campuses, and qualifying standardized test scores. Contact your intended school’s athletic department for more information if you have the academics and the skill to play on a college team.
The NCAA won’t be the only resource for you to investigate if you’re pursuing golf on the post-secondary level. The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) also awards full and partial scholarships to talented athletes. If you’re a golfer interested in community college, consider contacting those schools about potential scholarship opportunities in your sport. If you’re at a high level of skill with a decent academic record, consider your options on the junior college level, but know that if you transfer to an NCAA college after two years, the GPA and standardized test score requirements may be stricter.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) also offers scholarships on both the Division I and Division II level. While the association will have fewer scholarships to go around than the more expansive NCAA, the requirements of getting onto a team and staying there at an NAIA school are less strict. Students must two of the following three criteria: have a minimum ACT score of 18 or minimum SAT score of 860, have a minimum 2.0 GPA, or have graduated high school in the top half of your graduating class. Don’t rule out NAIA schools when looking for colleges where you could be a student-athlete.
Caitlin Brondolo Charitable Foundation Golf Scholarship
May 31, Annually
A charitable Foundation has been established to honor the memory of Caitlin Brondolo. Caitlin lost her life tragically at the age of 12, on May 31, 2009. Caitlin had a passion for golf, and always strived for academic excellence. Caitlin started playing competitive golf at age eight and hoped one day to play collegiate golf. The objective of the Caitling Brondolo Foundation Scholarship is to [...] More
Anne Trabue Scholarship
May 15, Annually
Anne Trabue, affectionately known as the mother of women's golf in Southern California, was a noted journalist who wrote extensively about golf in Southern California in the first half of the 20th century. Her contemporaries described her as a woman of gracious charm, intelligent foresight and great patience. She was the driving force behind the organization of the Women's Southern California [...] More
Bev Granger Memorial Scholarship
May 15, Annually
Family and friends of Bev Granger, to celebrate her life, collected contributions to establish a scholarship in her name. Not only was Bev an avid golfer, she was also an ardent tennis player and skier.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota's School of Nursing, she balanced family and career, working as an x-ray technician for 45 years and raising three children. Fishing, tennis, skiing and [...] More
Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Program
January 27, Annually
In 1988, the National Collegiate Athletic Association established the Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Program as a means of recognizing the contributions of the former executive director through encouraging excellence in academic performance by student-athletes. Under this program, one male and one female student-athlete annually will be awarded a postgraduate scholarship in recognition of [...] More
Mimi Deatherage Memorial Law Scholarship
May 15, Annually
Marion (Mimi) Deatherage practiced law and loved the game of golf. Born and raised in Long Beach, she attended Wilson High School, and obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado before attending Southwestern School of Law. After graduation from Southwestern, she joined her father's law office. During the seventeen years she spent practicing [...] More
Bill Dickey Scholarship
April 30, Annually
One of the greatest challenges facing America today is preparing our youth for the future...reaching them; empowering them and inspiring them to make goals and realize their potential to achieve. This challenge has never been greater. Thus, the opportunity never brighter for The Bill Dickey Scholarship Association (BDSA) to impact the lives of young men and women throughout the United States. [...] More
Davis Law Group Scholar Athlete Program™
Scholar Athlete Program recognizes exceptional student athletes that are performing well in the classroom and on the field. To register for the scholarship, students need to apply online or be nominated by a coach, teacher, parent or friend. Students must be a senior in high school, currently attend a Washington State High School, have a 3.0 GPA or higher and participate in a sport. Students can [...] More
Webber International University Athletic Scholarship
The Athletic Scholarship is awarded at the discretion of the athletic deptartment in football, basketball, tennis, volleyball, soccer, golf, softball, cross country, baseball, track and field and cheerleading.
For more information about this opportunity, please [...] More
Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship
September 30, Annually
The Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship is a grant that covers tuition and housing (when applicable) in an Evans Scholarship House and may be renewed for up to four years at the Foundation's option.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Financial Need
Applicants must have caddied for a minimum of two years at a WGA-affiliated club, rank in the upper [...] More
The Dinah Shore Scholarship
May 15, Annually
The Dinah Shore Scholarship was established in 1994 by The LPGA Foundation to honor the late Dinah Shore, a graduate of Vanderbilt University, a Hollywood entertainer, and an honorary member of the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame. The Dinah Shore Scholarship is granted annually to a female high school senior who played golf during high school and is pursuing a college education, but will not be playing on [...] More
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund
December 01, Annually
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund is considered "The Golf Charity of Massachusetts" and is one of the largest independent scholarship organizations in New England. The Ouimet Fund was founded in 1949 and since that time has awarded over $14.2 Million in need-based college tuition assistance scholarships. The Ouimet Fund is a 501 (c) (3) organization, to which contributions are tax-deductible. [...] More
Furman University Athletic Scholarships
The Furman University Athletic Scholarships are partial to full scholarships awarded in 17 men's and women's intercollegiate sports. For more information, contact the director of athletics or the head coach in the sport in which you are [...] More
GCSAA Scholars Program
June 01, Annually
The GCSAA Scholars Program offers awards to outstanding undergraduate students who are planning careers as golf course superintendents. Selection criteria for this program includes academic excellence, work experience, extracurricular activities and potential to become a leading professional in the golf course management industry. These scholarships range from $500 to $6,000.
Applicants must be [...] More
J. Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship
The J. Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust has provided over $9.18 million in college tuition grants to deserving caddies associated with the Member Clubs of the Golf Association of Philadelphia.
Since 1958 the Trust has made it possible for 2,816 caddie/scholars to receive the benefit of important educational dollars. The scholarship program is open to young persons who have caddied for at [...] More
The Marilynn Smith Scholarship
May 15, Annually
The Marilynn Smith Scholarship is granted annually through The LPGA Foundation and the Marilynn Smith Scholarship Fund. Established in 1999 by Marilynn with the proceeds of a golf tournament she organized, the objective of the Marilynn Smith Scholarship is to provide a scholarship to a female high school senior who has played golf in high school or in her community, and is planning to play golf [...] More
New Jersey State Golf Association Caddie Scholarship
March 01, Annually
The New Jersey State Golf Association (NJSGA) Caddie Scholarship is available to qualified applicants who have caddied at a member NJSGA club for at least two seasons. Full-time attendance as an undergraduate at an accredited institution that is a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities is required. Children of private golf club members are not eligible for [...] More
The Phyllis G. Meekins Scholarship
May 15, Annually
The Phyllis G. Meekins Scholarship is granted through The LPGA Foundation and the Phyllis G. Meekins Scholarship Fund. Established in 2006, the objective of the Phyllis G. Meekins Scholarship is to provide a need-based scholarship to a female high school senior from a recognized minority background, who will be pursuing a full-time course of study and playing collegiate golf at an accredited [...] More
William Woods University Athletic Scholarships
March 01, Annually
The William Woods University Athletic Scholarships are available to students who demonstrate talent and skills in the areas of basketball, baseball, cross country, track and field, golf, soccer and women's [...] More
Women's Western Golf Foundation Scholarship
March 01, Annually
The Women's Western Golf Foundation is a charitable trust providing undergraduate scholarships. Award winners receive a grant in the amount of $2,000 yearly. The scholarship is renewable each year, for four years, provided the recipient shows continued financial need and maintenance of GPA above 3.0.
- High school senior female who intends to graduate high school in [...] More
GCSAA Essay Contest
March 31, Annually
This program awards scholarships totaling $4,500 to applicants who are undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in turfgrass science, agronomy or any other field related to golf course management. Applicants much be GCSAA members. The original essays should focus on golf course management and should be 7 to 12 pages in length.
The winning essay may be featured in the online version [...] More
Kyle R. Magoto Scholarship Fund
March 22, Annually
To be eligible for an award from the Kyle R. Magoto Scholarship Fund, applicant must be a Russia High School (Shelby Co., Ohio) graduating senior who is pursuing an associate's or a bachelor's degree as a full-time student at an acredited educational institution, have a high school GPA not less than 3.0 on a 4.0 grading scale and must have participated in no less than five (5) athletic seasons [...] More
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Home Report Property Questionnaire
A Home Report must contain at least three documents:
The Home Report Property Questionnaire is the part of the Home Report that the seller completes. It is designed to provide information that only the owner is likely to know.
For example, it asks whether the property has been flooded, whether the owner has the right to walk over a neighbour's property and whether there have ever been repairs for damp or wood rot.
Why is a property questionnaire important?
The Home Report Property Questionnaire is not a short document, about nine pages. Some of the questions, such as how long the seller has owned the property, are fairly straightforward. Others, such as whether the owner must contribute to common repairs, may not be so obvious. You may need the help of your solicitor to answer some of these questions and, as both lawyers and estate agents, GSPC members are perfectly placed to help.
Although the seller may be best placed to answer most of the questions, don't forget that the surveyor who conducts the Single Survey may be able to provide at least part of the answer to some of the questions.
If, for example, the owner installed replacement windows or made an alteration or added an extension, this will be noted by the surveyor. In most cases, the surveyor will check his or her findings against the answers in the Property Questionnaire before the Single Survey is signed off, so it makes sense to spend some time getting these questions right first time.
If you, the owner, did carry out work that would normally need consent, you will need to show that you obtained a building warrant, that you got planning consent if necessary and that you have a completion certificate. If you don't have these documents, then this is the time to take remedial action. If you are in any doubt, GSPC members (who are, after all, lawyers as well as estate agents) will be able to advise you on the best course of action.
Read more about what getting a Home Report involves.
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Walk #554: Stonehaven to Kirkside
Map of the walk
Maps courtesy of Google Maps. Route for indicative purposes only, and may have been plotted after the walk. Please let me have comments on what you think of this new format. For a detailed table of timings for this walk, please see the table file.
The sound of the waves cashing against the sea wall at high tide this morning woke me up several times, and consequently when I woke up for good this morning I was quite tired. I really wanted to get an early start to today's walk, but I decided it would be best just to lie down on the sofa in the back of Mervan and have a rest. I still managed to set off before nine, so it was hardly a late start.
It took me longer than expected to walk along the promenade and footpath to Stonehaven Harbour, which was absolutely lovely. It reminded me very much of a Devon or Cornish harbour rather than a Scottish one, and I walked around it for a short while to explore it in more detail. I then had to find a way to get up onto the road that runs on the cliffs above the harbour, and a local told me the route through the village to reach the path that led to the road.
On the hillside above the town is a large and dominant war memorial, which is designed to look uncompleted in memory of all the young uncompleted lives that were lost. I went off the path to have a better look at this, and I walked around it to read the names of the battles engraved on the stonework. I quite like looking at war memorials as I pass them, and I find it quite sobering to read the names of the people who have died. I have seen many different styles of memorial on this trip, but this was one of the more memorable ones.
About a mile south of the war memorial were the stunning remains of Dunnottar Castle. This castle is on a peninsular that is almost totally separated from the mainland, and I can imagine that it would have been extremely difficult to attack. I walked around the cliffs that surround it to try and get some decent photographs, but the sun was in the wrong position for all of them and I doubt that I have any nice ones. I was tempted to go and look around the castle, but they recommend two or three hours for a trip and I did not want to spend the money for a flying visit, so I reluctantly decided to move on. When I got back to Mervan I found out that my thoughts about the impregnability of the castle were more or less correct - it withstood the onslaught of Cromwell's army for eight months in 1651 to 1652. They were attempting to capture the Scottish crown; sceptre and sword of state that they thought were hidden in the castle. The regalia were smuggled out of the castle in a fish-wife's basket and hidden in Kindeff Church. Sam and I saw the Scottish crown jewels during a wedding reception at Edinburgh Castle last year, and it was nice to see another part of their history.
The morning was uneventful until I got to Catterline. I was not sure how I was going to cross the stream that runs past the village, but when I neared the inn I could see a bridge in someone's garden. I went down, only to find that the bridge was at an angle and extremely decrepit. I chatted to the owner before descending down the bank to the side of the stream. There were not enough stones for me use them to cross, and so despite my trainers I just crossed, getting my trainers soaked in the process. This did not bother me too much as my trainers dry out very quickly, but a few yards further on in the field I came across a fairly boggy piece of ground. I managed to cross most of this, but then my left foot sunk in to my ankle and I fell forwards. My right hand went in to above my wrist, and I was left looking as though I was playing a game of twister. I carefully picked myself up so I id not get any more mud on me, and made it across the rest of the boggy ground. I must have looked a real sight I did the best I could to wipe the mud off my right hand on some grass, but was not too successful. I cursed my luck on getting my trainers soaked in mud immediately after soaking them in a stream; if it had happened the other way round I could at least have washed them off! To make matters worse a little further on whilst making my way to the lighthouse at Todhead Point I had to climb uphill through an area of gorse and low conifers, and ended up crawling on my hand and knees through the trees and ended up covered in pine needles!
After all this I decided it would be tempting fate to go cross-country, so I stuck to tracks and roads for the rest of the way to Inverbervie. I must have looked a real sight as I walked down the A92, but I was really beyond caring. Eventually I reached Sam in Inverbervie, and we sat down and chatted for a while whilst I cleaned myself off a little and changed into my boots. The going for the rest of the day was much easier, especially the first four miles when I followed tracks southwards beside an old railway line to Gourdon and Johnshaven, which had a lovely harbour. I chatted to a lady by the harbour who wanted to have streetlights fitted all around it, which I must admit may spoil the nice view somewhat.
From Johnshaven a path continue on along the coast, initially as a track but then as a path that climbed up and down a cliff face to reach Seagreens and the caravan park at Milton of Mathers. The only real problem section on the rest of the walk was from Milton Ness to St Cyrus, where the path marked on the map was very overgrown and in places eroded away, leaving steep drops down the high cliffs. I would have climbed over the fence and taken an easier route on the field side of the fence, but there was a two-strand barbed wire fence that I could see would be problematic to climb over. Eventually I reached a sloping path that led down onto the beach, and I thankfully took this down onto the northern end of the beach below St Cyrus. I soon made my way to the visitor centre where Sam had parked Mervan, to find a local photographer waiting for me. We had a nice chat and he took some photos, and I then collapsed into Mervan.
This walk starts off at the northern end of the promenade near a caravan site in Stonhaven. Walk south along the promenade and then follow a boardwalk that heads towards the beautiful little harbour. At the harbour turn right and then left down a road near the police station that soon ends, but becomes a path that heads uphill and ends at a road on the cliffs to the south of the village. At the road turn left and when the road curves sharply to the right take a good surfaced path to the right that leads south past the war memorial. Here it becomes unsurfaced, but is clear enough as it progresses on to the ruins of Dunnottar Castle.
At the castle turn right down a track that leads to a car park near Mains of Dunnottar. Turn left down the road for a couple of hundred yards until it ends at the A92 road. Turn left and walk south down the A92 for a couple of miles, and then turn left down a road that heads south for a mile before ending at a car park in Crawton. Continue on past the car park towards the end of the road, and before you reach a house with a blue railway carriage in it turn right and enter a field. Follow the edge of the cliff southwards past Crawton and Trelong Bay and into Catterline. In Catterline I turned left and headed towards the inn; just past here I turned right towards the stream.
The little footbridge across the stream was decrepit, so I had to ford it and climb up the other bank. From here I headed uphill in a southerly direction towards the house and track at Millhil. Here an ingrown track headed southwards into a stream valley; at the bottom of the stream it became indistinct and I had to scramble uphill through some tree before making my way across a field to the lighthouse at Todhead Point. Here I turned right down a road that led to Halhill.
When the road curved to the right I continued on down a track, and when this ended I continued southwards across fields to the end of another track that leads to the farm at Whistleberry. Continue straight on past the farm, and follow the track as it heads westwards and ends at a T-junction with a road. Turn left down this road and follow it southwestwards until it ends at the A92 turn left and follow this road southwards for about a mile. The road crosses a bridge over Bervie Water and enters Inverbervie; when you reach a church turn left and head downhill to a car park by Bervie Bay.
At the car park turn right and follow a track that heads south alongside the foreshore for about a mile until it reaches a road on the eastern outskirts of Gourdon. Here turn left along a road that follows the shore until the harbour is reached. A track (part of cycle route 1) then heads southwestwards near the old railway line along the shore for a couple of miles, eventually reaching a road in Johnshaven. Continue on along this road towards the harbour and then on along a track to the Narrows. Here the track ends, and a path continues on around some cliffs towards a caravan park at Milton of Mathers and on to Tangleha.
Here turn right up the road and after a couple of hundred yards turn left down a track that ends near a cottage. Here turn right and follow the top of the cliffs westwards; a path descends down into a valley and up the other side where it runs along a narrow band between the fence and the cliff edge. Eventually a cottage is reached to the southeast of Nether Woodston; here a good path descends to meet the northern end of the beach. Walk southwestwards along the beach, and after half a mile turn right and join a track that runs behind the beach past a graveyard and ends at a road by a car park. This walk ends at the St Cyrus National Nature Reserve Visitor Information Centre, which is near to the car park at the road.
This makes a total distance of 22.0 miles, with 2063 feet of ascent and 2053 feet of descent.
We spent the night in a little car park right beside the St Cyrus National Nature Reserve Visitor Information Centre, which unlike the nearby car park did not have height barriers. The warden very kindly allowed us to stay here, and it was an ideal spot for us to spend the night.
Please note that I take no responsibility for anything that may happen when following these directions. If you intend to follow this route, then please use the relevant maps and check the route out before you go out. As always when walking, use common sense and you should be fine.
If you find any information on any of these routes that is inaccurate, or you wish to add anything, then please email me.
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Although this site includes links providing convenient direct access to other Internet sites, I do not endorse, approve, certify or make warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the information on these sites.
And finally, enjoy your walking!
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I took my 4 year old son 2 wks ago for his seasonal flu vaccination, which he got in the mist form. I did not take him for the H1N1. My fiance was first to get sick, and my son got sick afterward. He began Friday morning with a cough and Friday evening with a fever. The fever lasted all weekend and kept going up and down. His fever is now gone. During the weekend, my son complained of throat pain and has his appetite decreased tremendously. This is normal of course, but I took him to the doctor Monday (as I was told to do should he have gotten sick after his vaccination) and all was fine. His strep throat test came back negative but his throat was a bit red, due to a viral infection. He currently has a little dry cough, no fever, no diarrhea, but still refuses to eat full meals. He asks for snacks and is drinking fine but for meals, since Saturday, he doesn't want to eat. When I ask him why he doesn't want to eat, he says b/c he doesn't like to eat. He also seems to be more tired than usual. I assume it's the rest ofhis sickness leaving his body making him feel like this but since he is not eating as much, he is losing his energy making him more tired. He now naps about 3 hours during the day and falls asleep earlier than usual. He was never one to go in his room on his own to nap and now he does and tends to doze off watching t.v. I am concerned though his doctor's say it's fine. I am wondering, has any other parent gone through this with their toddler(s) after a flu vaccination? Cough, being more tired than usual and lack of appetite for several days? I don't see this as normal. My fiance insisted I should not have taken him for the flu shot given he is not in school yet and is home cared for, but I tend to take him every year for it, and this is the 1st time he has gotten sick off it. Please tell me I am not the only one going through this.
Just to let you know, anytime you get the flu vaccine you can catch it. Especially if its the live virus, which it may be if its the mist. You can give him vitamin c-childrens of course, sorry just saying, and even vitamin d will help to prevent and fight off infections.
Yes, I have been giving him vitamins and he finally seemed to get his appetite back, however,he is still falling asleep more now than ever. He now takes 2 naps a day and falls asleep watching tv and even at the dinner table when he is eating. He never used to be like this so I am now just concerned. His doctor said to wait the full week it takes to get out your body and see how he is. I am however, going to request blood work be done, to be sure all is well with him.
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Mar 6, 2000
what do you mean by body composition? and what is the average weight to have if my original weight was 60kg( I mean before getting infected)? but now ...after I was infected -- now it is one year -- I feel that I've gained weight? how much weight to gain or to lose from my normal weight is considered normal!! and how often do we have to weigh ourselves to check the weight? thank you doctor
Response from Dr. Dieterich
Body composition is the breakdown of what you are made of: water, lean body mass and fat. It can be measured scientifically. You should weigh yourself weekly at the same time of day wearing the same clothes or not. Usually your MD will weigh you on your monthly visits too. Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D., Ph.D.
losing muscles in my legs!and arms!
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An Auditor's Thoughts On Access Control
Four key access control considerations an auditor will look for
Regardless of whether it's for PCI, HIPAA, SOX, or GLBA, chances are high that if an auditor's bound for your organization, your access control is about to go under the microscope. With so many compliance-driven mandates around separation of duties and user monitoring dependent on strong access control regimes, it's no wonder that this is one of the key areas that auditors will focus their efforts.
For his part, Rick Link, managing director, southwest region at Coalfire Systems, says that after general policies, standards, and procedures, access control is one of the first things he examines in his audits. A security and audit professional for nearly 30 years, Link says that the following are some of his top-of-mind access control considerations during his assessments.
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1. Multidimensional Authorization And Authentication
Before delving into access control specifically, Link says to stop a second and imagine a bull's eye with access to the data itself in the center and concentric circles around that. Each subsequent circle stands for the application, database, operating system, network, and then finally the physical data center layers. An interruption or compromise of any of the outer layers will affect access to those inside them.
"I'm looking at what are the authorization controls and what are the authentication controls for every layer of that bull's eye," he says. "Authorization is user account [approval] to get access to their data, and then authentication controls are going to be password controls."
On both counts, Link says he'll be looking for policies, standards, and procedures for ensuring security and reliability of access and user monitoring. So for authorization, that includes things as simple as policies around naming conventions, as well as definitions of what accounts can do on the system and user approval processes. For authentication, these policies include how often passwords are reset -- commonly between 30 to 60 days -- and length of passwords -- with seven being the safe bet in the industry at the moment, he says. Additionally, he'll also be looking at how passwords are transmitted and stored.
"The minimum security we're going to have around the passwords is that it has got to be encrypted -- encrypted at the time of entering and encrypted during storage," he says. Not only does this prevent malicious hackers from stumbling on a treasure trove of passwords, but it also is critical for maintaining the integrity of separation of duties.
2. Role-Based Access Control
Another important aspect to enterprise access control that's on Link's hot list is that the organization engages in role-based access control (RBAC). Ideally, organizations should be streamlining the authorization process by creating user roles based on the rule of least privilege. Well-defined roles and good administration of the provisioning and deprovisioning to roles make it easier to ensure users have access only to what their job requires.
"And every time a new user comes into the organization, I don't have to go add in his or her user ID to that particular set of database resources; I add them to the role," he says. "That role is the one that maintains the access and so that way, it makes it a whole lot more efficient for adding users to the system. Then their access is going to be controlled based on their job responsibility."
3. Privileged User Protections
In order to keep application and database environments humming, there's naturally going to be some IT super-users out there who will be able to touch more data than the common worker bee.
"Those are people that you should be logging everything they do," he says. "Typically, there's an administrator account that has access to the database that can do anything and everything. You want to monitor that account."
But he's not just looking for straight logging. He also looks to see whether the organization has instituted a way for specific users to log in to that root account through some sort of intermediary account that will allow for monitoring not just by the account, but by the user controlling that root account at any given time.
4. Filtering And Parsing User Activity
Effective access control doesn't just put up barriers to entry -- it also enables for more effective and granular visibility into what specific employees are doing within specific systems.
According to Link, one of the biggest problems he sees is around the compliance logging required by many regulations to monitor user activity. Often that log data remains untapped, with organizations failing to use a filtering mechanism or log management tool to parse data.
"You're interested only in those logs that meet a predefined set of parameters that are of concern to the organization," he says. "So, say a password after five attempts is automatically suspended and then you see another attempt tried five times and that's suspended. If the parsing tool can interrogate all that data, that's the alert I want to be sent to the security administrator or the analyst to investigate or follow."
As he explains, PCI is "very black and white" about having daily log reviews.
"If you have high alerts come in, what are your processes to deal with them?" he says.
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The Cherry Orchard
Act Two [ Until Ranevsky's entrance]
Sitting near an abandoned chapel, in view of the cherry orchard, are Charlotte, Yasha and Dunyasha, and Yephikodov. They are sitting on a bench, talking, while Yepikhodov plays a guitar and sings. Nearby is a well and what look like old tombstones. Telegraph poles run off into the distance, and dark poplars can be seen along with the cherry trees. Charlotte has a shotgun and is wearing a man's peaked cap. Yasha is smoking a cigar. Dunyasha sits and powders her face.
Charlotte tells everyone her life history: how she was taken from town to town by her mother and father, performing circus tricks at local fairs. After they died she was taken by a "German lady", who educated her. She admits that her mother and father were probably never married. Yepikhodov plays a sad and mournful song on his "mandolin", which according to him is what his guitar is to "a man crazed with love". Yepikhodov, Yasha, and Dunyasha talk about how lucky Yasha is to have traveled outside of Russia and of how fun life is in other countries. Yephikodov professes that despite the number of books he's read, he still can't decided anything about his life, most importantly whether or not to shoot himself. He then displays his revolver that he continually carries about in case he makes up his mind.
Charlotte leaves in semi-disgust at Yepikhodov, both his erratic behavior and his singing, and complaining that "all these clever men are stupid," referring, it seems, to both Yasha and Yephikodov. Yepikhodov asks to speak to Dunyasha. She reluctantly concedes but only after she demands that he go back to the house and get her cape. He complies but only after implying that he might shoot himself in the meantime. When they are alone, Dunyasha begins to worry, apparently for the first time, that Yephikodov might actually be contemplating suicide. Yasha responds by kissing her and calling her a "tasty little morsel," just as he did when they first met. Dunyasha confesses her love to Yasha. She says that he is "so educated, and can talk about anything". Yasha reacts disinterestedly. He admits that what she says about his education is true. He also says that, according to him, it is sinful for a woman to be in love with a man. When he hears Ranevsky and the others approaching, he tells her to leave and pretend that she has been bathing down by the river, so that they won't be seen together. He says that he couldn't bear people thinking that they were. She complies, choking on his cigar smoke as she leaves.
Initially, we might wish to dismiss the scene with the four young servants as simple comic relief. Chekhov definitely changes the tone of the play somewhat from the more serious discussion that ended the last act toward a more comedic voice. But he is also commenting on memory, about nature, and about drama itself in this presentation of a pastoral idyll, full of poplar and cherry trees. But the idyll is not wholly interrupted: the telegraph poles challenge and disrupt this picture of things, and Charlotte, as a young woman, wears a man's hat and carries a man's weapon. She is a woman who cannot remember whether her mother and father were married, where she came from or who she is. Charlotte's lack of memory constitutes a lack of identity, and this linkage of memory and identity will prove important later on.
Yephikodov also has something of an identity crisis; he self-consciously he wishes to be considered a Romantic, yet is extremely unconvincing in the role, to such an extent that it is funny. His songs are mournful, yet to Charlotte they sound like "hyenas"; he claims to contemplate suicide, even bringing out his revolver, but in his hands the weapon is totally unconvincing and generates no concern amongst the others. With Yephikodov, Chekhov does several things. First, he satirizes the romantic, idealistic hero, common in Russian literature amongst authors like Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky—characters such as Eugene Onegin and Prince Myshkin from The Idiot. Yephikodov's talk of suicide might even be seen as a gross parody of Hamlet's contemplation of suicide in his famous soliloquoy; Shakespeare was widely read among Russian writers. More specifically, however, Yephikodov's revolver, as well as Charlotte's shotgun, mock nineteenth-century theatre's traditional reliance on "the gun"; many nineteenth-century plays were intensely melodramatic stories revolving around a duel or some other act of violence. With this act of mockery, Chekhov at once declares his independence from nineteenth-century theater and also seems to warn against interpreting the current play in a tragic light; tragedy is much too funny, it seems, to be really tragic.
Charlotte is a more complex character than Yephikodov; she stands apart from the lovers, declaring herself "alone". As she leaves, she spouts a paradox in saying that "these clever men are all so stupid." Again, Chekhov is making an allusion here to Shakespeare, to a type of character that Shakespeare often employed, which is that of the Fool. As a carnival trickster, she is adept at manipulating illusions; the implication is that she can recognize the illusions others create and by which are fooled. For example, the illusion Yephikodov creates that he is a Romantic hero, which convinces no one. Or Dunyasha's illusion that Yasha is in love with her, which convinces only herself; it is clear that Yasha considers Dunyasha to be nothing more than "a tasty little morsel". And there is Yasha's illusion of culture and sophistications, to which both Yasha and Dunyasha succumb, but which is belied intellectually by his boorish treatment of Dunyasha and physically by the acrid smoke of his cigar.
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Book review: Jesus Potter Harry Christ
by Derek Murphy
Was Harry Potter molded in the form of Jesus Christ? This book touches on the similarities between Jesus and Harry, but only as a surface introduction and running theme floating above a much deeper topic. The meat of the book is in its serious research into Jesus as a nonhistoric figure, a developed myth. Like our favorite little wizard.
This idea of a nonhistorical Jesus greatly disturbs most Christians. Murphy takes a stab at explaining our unease: “If Jesus was not historical, he would have been no different from other myths and fables … he would be meaningless, and it is impossible for him to be meaningless, because he is meaningful to me. Therefore he is historical.” He’s right, the idea of Christ as a myth is more than a bit disconcerting; it hits at the very heart of many of us.
Yet Murphy’s intent is not to demote Jesus to the role of an ordinary fictional being, or even an ordinary god. Jesus was never meant to be the same as other contemporary figures of mythology; to his storytellers, he was the epitome of such. “Jesus would be something entirely new simply by virtue of his being an assimilation of the best features of each. Jesus is the culmination and combination of all other religious traditions of his time.”
Murphy sifts through various mystery religions and myths of a dying and resurrecting god, and their possible influence upon the Gospel story. For once, it’s done tastefully and without sensationalism. Maybe you’ve read works by Freke, Dougherty, and Harpur. While I don’t want to take anything away from those researchers—their books are interesting in their own right—I found Murphy’s tempered treatment much more to my taste. Without trying to foist a Gnostic version of Christianity on me, and without succumbing to overzealous scholarship, Murphy gently yet forcefully introduces the strong similarities between Christianity and other first-century religious philosophies and mystery cults, concluding in the strong likelihood that Jesus was a mythical savior.
I cannot help but add my two cents. Part of Murphy’s argument seems to be that it’s unreasonable to expect first-century writers to knowingly attribute mythical qualities and stories to a historical person. Ergo, Jesus must have been understood mythically. I must confess that my area of research biases me in favor of a historical Jesus. I’m a hard sell, because for years I immersed myself in the topic of divine attributions awarded to real, historical persons in the Imperial Cult (the cult of the Caesars) and I recognize much of the New Testament as a response on the same playing field; Christians lifting up their guy in the same manner. I find nothing strange about honoring a man such as Jesus in supernatural story and find it a quite plausible explanation for the plethora of Jesus’ similarities to pagan gods and heroes.
Additionally, in order for Murphy to prove Jesus was never a real person, so much hinges on Paul, our earliest Christian writer, and Paul is an enigma. Murphy points out many interesting similarities between the teachings of Paul and the mystery religions, where the central rite, it appears, was a symbolic death of the initiate, followed by rebirth into a new life. Sounds a lot like Paul, doesn’t it? Murphy argues that Paul recognized Jesus’ crucifixion metaphorically, and expected his converts to experience the same death. Unquestionably, Gnostic strands of Christianity did worship Jesus in the form of a mystery religion, and such groups did embrace the writings of Paul. But would such an understanding of Jesus drive Paul to such great suffering and imprisonment? Would it leave him absolutely convinced that the world was ending—quite literally and quite rapidly—and that believers in Christ would be swept up to heaven? Remember, Paul was so convinced the end of the world drew near that he even encouraged abstinence, telling his readers that the time grew so short that they needn’t bother marrying.
So, even though it’s hard for me to fully embrace Murphy’s conclusion, I loved the book, and found it to be a fascinating and scholarly contribution to a very hot debate. It should be welcomed as such.
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American conductor Richard Bernas talks to Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Bob Wilson, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman, Meredith Monk, David Lang, Nico Muhly, John Rockwell, Paula Cooper, among others, as he undertakes a critical survey of five decades of Minimalism in music. He traces its origins in both the San Francisco and New York underground cultures of the early 1960s, exploring the relationship between music and the visual arts, but also theatre and dance. He also assesses how Minimalism, arguably the newest style proper to emerge in Classical music, evolved into a mature and powerful force during the 1970s and 80s, eventually becoming part of the cultural mainstream of today's America. Crossing the Atlantic, he examines its influence in the wider field of European composers, such as Michael Nyman and Louis Andriessen - who've created their own brands of Minimalism.
Presenter: Richard Bernas
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo.
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MOSCOW - Alexei German, a Russian film director best known for his works chronicling the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union, died in Moscow on Thursday. He was 74.
His son, Alexei German Jr., said in a blog post Thursday that the filmmaker died of heart failure at a hospital in St. Petersburg.
German came to prominence internationally for his 1983 production "My Friend Ivan Lapshin" about a police investigator battling a criminal gang. Authorities blocked the film's release for two years because of its realistic depiction of Soviet life in the wake of the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s.
"Khrustalyov, My Car," a grotesque narrative centred on Stalin's final days, had a troubled production and received a hostile reception at its Cannes premiere in 1998, but later attained cult status.
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A container being taken by road from Yorkshire to the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria leaked radioactive material for 130 miles, a court heard.
The cargo was being transported to Sellafield in Cumbria
Leeds Crown Court was told that it was "pure good fortune" no-one was dangerously contaminated in the incident in March 2002.
AEA Technology was transporting part of scrapped cancer treatment equipment. It admitted health and safety breaches.
The company is due to be sentenced at the court on Monday.
The Oxfordshire-based company was transporting part of a piece of cancer treatment equipment, which had been decommissioned at Cookridge Hospital in Leeds, to the Sellafield complex on 11 March, 2002.
But a "plug" was left off a specially built 2.5 tonne container to carry the contaminated material on a lorry.
Mark Harris, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive, said: "Through pure good fortune no-one involved in the removal, containment and transfer of the source may have been directly exposed to the radiation beam.
"The risk of such exposure was undoubtedly present - at Cookridge, during the journey and at Sellafield."
He said detected radiation at Sellafield was between 100 to 1,000 times above what would normally be considered a very high dose rate.
Mr Harris said it was beyond the capabilities of normal hand-held monitoring equipment.
He said the radiation leak took the form of a narrow "beam", which was fortunately directed vertically into the ground.
Mr Harris said the result would have been much worse if the beam had escaped horizontally.
AEA Technology - which is a privatised arm of the UK Atomic Energy Authority - admitted a series of breaches of Health and Safety regulations.
The HSE has already asked for costs of £151,323.
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Oleg provides various arguments against including call/cc as a language feature.
Note: Saw this on Sunday (9/11), but waited for it to go viral before posting it here.
Ironically, I saw this leak via a Google Alert keyword search. It has propagated to at least Github, the Dzone social network, The Register and Information Week since Sunday.
Tony Arcieri, author of the Reia Ruby-like language for the Erlang BEAM platform, wrote a piece in July, The Trouble with Erlang (or Erlang is a ghetto), bringing together a long laundry list of complaints about Erlang and the concepts behind it, and arguing at the end that Clojure now provides a better basis for parallel programming in practice.
While the complaints include many points about syntax, data types, and the like, the heart of the critique is two-fold: first, that Erlang has terrible problems managing memory and does not scale as advertised, and that these failures partly follow from "Erlang hat[ing] state. It especially hates shared state." He points to the Goetz and Click argument in Concurrency Revolution From a Hardware Perspective (2010) that local state is compatible with the Actors model. He further argues that SSA as it is used in Erlang is less safe than local state.
Programming and Scaling, a one-hour lecture by Alan Kay at his finest (and that's saying something!)
Some of my favorite quotes:
And there are some other nice ideas in there: "Model-T-Shirt Programming" - software the definition of which fits on a T-shirt. And imagining source code sizes in terms of books: 20,000 LOC = a 400-page book. A million LOC = a stack of books one meter high. (Windows Vista: a 140m stack of books.)
Note: this a Flash video, other formats are available.
Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware by Sarita V. Adve and Hans-J. Boehm
This is a pre-print of the actual version.
Pure and Declarative Syntax Definition: Paradise Lost and Regained by Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser, Guido Wachsmuth from Delft
I haven't compared this version with the Onward 2010 version, but they look essentially the same. It seems timely to post this paper, considering the other recent story Yacc is dead. There is not a whole lot to argue against in this paper, since we all "know" the other approaches aren't as elegant and only resort to them for specific reasons such as efficiency. Yet, this is the first paper I know of that tries to state the argument to software engineers.
For example, the Dragon Book, in every single edition, effectively brushes these topics aside. In particular, the Dragon Book does not even mention scannerless parsing as a technique, and instead only explains the "advantages" of using a scanner. Unfortunately, the authors of this paper don't consider other design proposals, either, such as Van Wyk's context-aware scanners from GPCE 2007. It is examples like these that made me wish the paper was a bit more robust in its analysis; the examples seem focused on the author's previous work.
If you are not familiar with the author's previous work in this area, the paper covers it in the references. It includes Martin Bravenboer's work on modular Eclipse IDE support for AspectJ.
A (brief) retrospective on transactional memory, by Joe Duffy, January 3rd, 2010. Although this is a blog post, don't expect to read it all on your lunch break...
The STM.NET incubator project was canceled May 11, 2010, after beginning public life July 27, 2009 at DevLabs. In this blog post, written 4 months prior to its cancellation, Joe Duffy discusses the practical engineering challenges around implementing Software Transactional Memory in .NET. Note: He starts off with a disclaimer that he was not engaged in the STM.NET project past its initial working group phase.
In short, Joe argues, "Throughout, it became abundantly clear that TM, much like generics, was a systemic and platform-wide technology shift. It didn’t require type theory, but the road ahead sure wasn’t going to be easy." The whole blog post deals with how many implementation challenges platform-wide support for STM would be in .NET, including what options were considered. He does not mention Maurice Herlihy's SXM library approach, but refers to Tim Harris's work several times.
There was plenty here that surprised me, especially when you compare Concurrent Haskell's STM implementation to STM.NET design decisions and interesting debates the team had. In Concurrent Haskell, issues Joe raises, like making Console.WriteLine transactional, are delegated to the type system by the very nature of the TVar monad, preventing programmers from writing such wishywashy code. To be honest, this is why I didn't understand what Joe meant by "it didn't require type theory" gambit, since some of the design concerns are mediated in Concurrent Haskell via type theory. On the other hand, based on the pragmatics Joe discusses, and the platform-wide integration with the CLR they were shooting for, reminds me of The Transactional Memory / Garbage Collection Analogy. Joe also wrote a briefer follow-up post, More thoughts on transactional memory, where he talks more about Barbara Liskov's Argus.
Many a people have looked at Programming Lanugages through the Sapir-Whorf lens so it's not uncommon to find people making PL claims using that hypothesis. Also not surprisingly, the topic keeps re-appearing here on LtU.
Microsoft employee Bart De Smet, who has a widely trafficked blog, has been writing a lot in the past few months about a new library being designed by his group at Microsoft. Here is a whole truckload of blogpost links, in chronological order, which appears to be how Bart intended folks to read it:
Dec 26, 2009: More LINQ with System.Interactive – The Ultimate Imperative
I don't usually read blogs, but I thought this was a pretty cogent series of posts. Also, judging by how interested LtU and the surrounding blogosphere community was from Erik Meijer's presentation on the Rx framework at the JVM Language Summit 2009, I figured people would like this as well.
Leo Meyerovich recently started a thread on LtU asking about Historical or sociological studies of programming language evolution?. I've been meaning to post a paper on this topic to LtU for awhile now, but simply cherrypicking for the opportune time to fit it into forum discussion. With Leo's question at hand, I give you an interesting paper that models language evolution, by artificial intelligence researcher Luc Steels. Steels has spent over 10 years researching this area, and his recent paper, The Recruitment Theory of Language Origins, summarizes one of his models for dealing with language evolution:
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Memphis (AP) -- When Republican Bob Corker takes the oath of office in the US Senate, his ambitions for Tennessee start on the back row of the chamber now controlled by Democrats.
As successor to retiring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and with the lightest seniority in the chamber, what does such a starting point mean for Tennessee's stature?
Corker's swearing-in is set Thursday and Political Analyst Marcus Pohlmann at Rhodes College in Memphis says Tennessee's "position has been weakened."
Pohlmann says Tennessee is a predominantly Republican State and the Republicans aren't in control anymore. He says Frist's departure is a "pretty significant loss" for the state.
Two days after Democrats won both houses of Congress, Corker joked in Memphis about his humble status as the lone GOP newcomer to the Senate, saying he will be getting a lot of special attention as the only one in his Republican class.
Senate Historian Donald Ritchie says the former Chattanooga mayor will have to attract attention from a back row desk.
Copyright 2007 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Regular titanium is softer than hardened steel, so it doesn't hold an edge very well. There's something called titanium carbide which is harder, but I'm not sure what its other properties are -- wikipedia calls it a ceramic so I'm not sure if that'd be strong enough to use as an edge.
I looked up Batalean's marketing blurb and they claim the edges are made of "Titanal", which is a rather funny word. Presumably they've added something to the titanium in order to trade tensile strength for hardness. I couldn't find any info on Burton's site about their edges.
I guess I've been turning into a materials dork recently..
edit: beat'd by grizz. only one point of disagreement: if I have it right, titanium isn't brittle, it's just soft compared to hardened steels
edit 2: There are some pros for titanium as an edge material though: It won't rust and it's light.
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OUGHT. SHOULD. MUST. Three small words with perilously explosive potential. "Handle with care" should have been as plain to see as a gorilla gone ballistic at a children's petting zoo. Frightened friends feigned the warnings. Fragile. Do Not Drop. A bitter boss caused the warnings. Beware Of Dog. No Trespassing. And Jack? Jack awakened one morning in a box that belonged to an authentic litigation attorney; a square peg with wrong motives in someone else's round hole.
--- Copyright © 2004 Brian G. Jett
Overworked and underpaid. Fed up with punishing put downs by the firm's senior partner, a once summer intern nicknamed Ned. Ned had been dead from the heart down 20 years or more. Jack had been born again since he was 19. Ned flirted with the King's English like King David flirted with Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:3). Everyone that knew Jack knew something was wrong - really wrong. Fearing he might respond poorly, his friends kept their distance.
At home, Jack felt like a Jewish prisoner and his home had "Auschwitz" written in sign language all over it. Sentenced to death by silence. The silence stilled his faith and stifled his spirit. Prayer had become painful. Forgiveness felt like asphalt.
Five years ago, Jack flew into enemy air space and Ned had a good shot. Anxious to devour the newest associate, he fired ground-to-air missiles with deadly precision. Jack fought the good fight both in and out of the office for almost four years. During his fifth year with the firm, his faith began to fade and the good 'ol boys from the Bible Study walked away.
Could he and should he have picked up the shattered pieces of the man that still existed from better days he'd lived before? Good question and maybe you know the answer. Understand that months of unyielding pressure had impaired his eyesight. Understand that when we question another man's character we better have some answers to explain our own. Jack did what we've all done. He did what you might be doing now. He let the sun go down on his anger one time too many (Ephesians 4:26). He cracked open the door of doubt and devilish discouragement made a mad dash for the it and ushered guilt in to act as the assassin of his faith.
You see, Jack never planned to become an attorney after he completed his undergraduate work. His real passion wasn't a real job. Not his words, but those of his father. Painting was God's gift and calling and he knew it in his heart, not just his head (Romans 11:29). Yet, acquiring his father's acceptance won out over his passion as well as his sense of purpose.
Married to his high school honey as well as a high monthly mortgage payment didn't make quitting an appealing option. Already the proud father of one with one on the way added to his financial insecurities and so he opted to stay the course and put up with Ned's oral lashings.
Another day came and Ned's neurosis sought to fool around with Jack's self-worth. But this time he went for Jack's jugular. The tiny soft tissue of Jack's heart that refused to harden; the joy that still remained. Jack's remaining joy had run to greet him every evening without fail and sat on his lap and uttered, "It's okay daddy". Jack's remaining joy hadn't yet imagined a love that walked away without a kiss goodnight. Jack's remaining joy said, "daddy," but saw Superman. Jack's remaining joy was his four year old boy, Jacob. Jacob, unlike Jack's busy wife and hushed friends, broke the silence and the code of conduct that so insidiously crept into their household.
Ned began to speak: "Should have got it right the first time, Jack. You ought to know by now that I expect perfection. Oh, and in case you forgot, it must be done today! If you want to act like Mr. Daddy-Do-Good before that bratty kid of yours goes to bed, you'd best get busy. Hope the boy has his mother's brains! Jack, I should have fired you a long time ago and saved the both of us a lot of heartache!"
Jack listened as his lips tightened. His blood pressure rose, his fists clinched. He closed his eyes and imagined Jacob's smile. He said nothing to Ned as he was blinded by the stack of bills he'd seen on the kitchen table before he left for work four hours earlier. Jack walked out in silence. He'd grown wearily used to it. He sat down as his face felt unusually tingly. He ignored it. He began to prepare his mind for a long night. A long night it would be for everyone but Jack.
You see, Jack's drive to meet the deadline caused his heart to flat line. Jack died in the box that belonged to an authentic litigation attorney. Dead at 35 from a massive heart attack. Found in his office chair the next morning by none other than Ned
Jack's joy remained. His little boy and God's miraculous creation. Jacob, like his daddy's friends, knew something was wrong. Jacob's love endured. Jacob's love stepped in when fear-wrought men walked out. He fell asleep where his daddy slept the night before. Daddy didn't come home to announce his departure or to plant a farewell kiss on his son's cherished cheek. Jesus walked in soon after Jacob had fallen asleep, and whispered in his tiny ear, "Your daddy's Home with Me."
Rather depressing story isn't it? Feeling like Jack? Jammed into a job that's joyless? You read the story and allow me to add that if you can relate, you are but one of millions. Jesus knew His disciples before hand. Matthew made nothing more than money before Jesus came along. Tax collector? Omnipotence knows our potential, His purpose, plan and specific calling for our lives.
A Jack in the box. As children, an amusing toy. Turn the crank, listen to the cheap composition, and eventually Jack pops up for a breath of fresh air. As adults, being a Jack (or Jill) in the box has been and continues to be a claustrophobic nightmare. May I encourage you to read Romans 11:29 and then Jeremiah 29:11?
Soon after reading Max Lucado's book, "It's Not About Me," I felt compelled to write and the above story is what flowed out in short order. May we all become about being God's Son Reflectors by simple obedience in using the gifts and fulfilling the calling He has provided each and every one of us.
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U.S., Iraqi Troops Transform ‘Purple Heart Boulevard’
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2007 U.S. soldiers called Haifa Street in Baghdad “Purple Heart Boulevard” for the trouble they encountered on the street. Today, U.S. and Iraqi forces are teaming to provide security for the Iraqis living on Haifa Street. The street is the heartbeat of the Karkh District, a neighborhood of 250,000 people on the west side of the Tigris River.
Army Col. Bryan T. Roberts, the commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division, has responsibility for the section. He spoke to Pentagon reporters via teleconference from Baghdad today.
“Our brigade, partnered with the Iraqi National Police Brigade, began to operate in Karkh in January,” Roberts said. “Every day, insurgents attacked coalition forces and innocent civilians. In January, there were 87 attacks on coalition forces, and 53 murder victims of sectarian violence.”
Before that, the district had become a support base for terrorists and groups ranging from al Qaeda in Iraq to criminal gangs.
“Haifa street was largely abandoned,” Roberts said. “Its few residents couldn't go out on the streets due to threats of snipers and roving bands of criminals. The residents that did stay in the area only came out at night to scavenge for food and water.”
The brigade launched a number of clearing and combat operations and saw an almost immediate drop in attacks on both civilians and security forces. In May, there were 35 attacks in Karkh, a drop of 60 percent.
“Even more impressive is the decrease in sectarian murders – four in the month of May, down 94 percent from January's 53,” Roberts said. “With improved security and the drop in violence, we have been able to focus on another of our primary missions, working with local leaders to improve essential services and economic opportunities in central Baghdad.”
A big part of that effort is the Haifa Street Project, the colonel said. “We believe that the revitalization of Karkh must begin with this icon, Haifa Street,” he said. “The goal of the Haifa Street Project is to make Haifa Street a safer, cleaner and better place to live.”
The Haifa Street effort consists of about 20 projects that demonstrate visible signs of change and a return to normalcy -- from eliminating graffiti and patching bullet holes to improving soccer fields and picking up trash consistently.
The second part of the project is to improve essential services for the residents. This included repair and maintenance to the sewer system, water delivery, school and clinic renovations and improving electrical grids.
Roberts said that this week, local workers employed under a coalition contract finished cleaning all the main and neighborhood sewer lines in the district. “All Iraqi citizens deserve a healthy, sanitary and safe environment, and we are dedicated to making this happen in Karkh,” he said.
The third aspect of the plan is to keep up the successful coalition and Iraqi security force partnership.
“Karkh is patrolled day and night by both coalition and Iraqi security forces, and checkpoints and joint security stations have been established where Iraqis and Americans are working side by side,” the colonel said. “We have a great partnership with our Iraqi security force brethren who are making a major contribution to the Baghdad security plan every day.”
The proof is in the usage. Haifa Street, while still occasionally dangerous, is no longer the Purple Heart Boulevard. “We are on the right track here in Karkh, and the continued downward trend in violence is a good indicator of things to come,” Roberts said. “Karkh is once again a bustling district – cars, horses and donkey-drawn carts, people and markets fill the streets.”
Roberts said the enemy will continue to try to undermine the progress being made. “We will maintain a stable and secure environment with Iraqi security forces and improve essential services, economics and governance with the local leaders of Karkh,” he said.
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DUCK TAPE is the most amazing thing ever invented. Not ducT tape, ducK tape.
*Like the force: dark side & light side and holds the universe together.
Duck Tape is the bomb.
Duck tape is NOT a mispronounciation of duct tape. Duck tape is the original name of the tape from when it was first invented and used by the military. Only, when people started using duck tape to repair ducts, it got the name duct tape.
Duck tape sucks for repairing ducts because it falls off after a while. The officially recommended tape for repairing ducts is foil tape.
Duck tape is used in movies extremely often. A few examples:
- Panic Room
- American Pie: The Wedding
The comic boot error has a healthy obsession with duck tape!
A multi-purpose, strong adhesive tape which will bind just about anything together, well-known for it's durability.
Common uses include:
-Taping people's mouths shut.
-Binding people's hands and feet together.
-Poor man's Viagra - two Popsicle sticks and duck tape.
-Make-shift contraceptive device (works equally well for males and females, but significantly reduces pleasure).
-An alternative to bras for women that can provide incredible lift and cleavage by taping the breasts together; as well as flaming red blemishes after removal.
-Insta-Lawn for your front yard (simply lay over old grass and paint green).
-Taping a sleeping friend's facial, chest and pubic hair and waiting for them to remove it.
-Instant Wart/Pimple removal.
-Extra-Strength toilet paper, particularly after a bout of diarrhoea.
-Seat-belts for those fidgety children.
-Temporary car windows.
-A substitute for a Roof Rack on your car.
-Non-stick toilet seat cover.
Duck Tape holds the universe together.
A brand of duct tape that produces several colors of duct tape and other sorts of tape. One of the best kinds of duct tape you can find.
Person 1: Dude this duct tape is awesome.
Person 2: Thats because its duck tape brand duct tape!
Other way to say duct tape. Originated from military use, as it was water repellant (like a duck, get it?), as apposed to civilian use on airducts. Also the the brandname of MANCO brand ducttape.
"i got rolls of duck tape in 18 different colors and i aint afraid to use em'
If you can't duck it, fuck it!
that's right it's duck tape
A mispronunciation, folk etymology, and quack etymology of duct tape. The story that duct tape was originally duck tape is an urban legend. No researcher has ever found a single instance of the adhesive tape developed in 1942 being called "duck tape" until the 70s and 80s, long after it was established that it was called "duct tape" and people were simply mispronouncing it. This urban legend has picked up a lot of steam for various reasons, but is wholly unsubstantiated.
People like to tell the story that "duck tape" isn't really a mispronunciation, but is actually the origin of "duct tape," but the story is just that: a story.
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Esko, MN (Northland’s NewsCenter) --- Hundreds of concerned Esko community members and teachers rallied for a referendum and levy that aims to support educational programming and facilities.
The school board would like to increase its general education revenue by $341 dollars per student, for the next nine years.
Voters in Esko will see two questions on the ballot in November.
The first will ask voters to approve an operating levy that would provide funding to maintain class size, prevent future cuts and restore the schools industrial technology program.
The second will ask voters to support a $2.7 million referendum to improve the schools sporting facilities.
Those at Eskomo Pizza Pies turned out to show support and share their view of why additional funding for school is critically important.
"Here, the school is the community. It's the center of the community,” Esko Principal Greg Hexum said. “They really feel invested in it. I hope the energy and passion they have will hopefully bring us success in November."
Numerous volunteers have already donated money and labor to restoration projects.
Cindy's Shake Shop, next door to the Eskomo Pizza Pies is donating .25 cents to the new budget plan for every item it sells.
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In a fake socialist state like ours, nothing is free. Within weeks of Amartya Sen holding out his theory that poverty is not just being poor, the Congress government has announced this gem.
Currently, BPL families are identified on the basis of scores (0 to 4) on 13 socio-economic parameters. But an expert committee, formed by the rural development ministry, has recommended additional marks for scheduled castes and tribes (SC/STs), Most Backward Castes, Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Muslims. If a household has members with tuberculosis, leprosy, disability, mental illness or AIDS, it will also be awarded points.
Every instrument of dispensation of public goods are now being made to serve the grand interest. The Indian state will divide people even for completely secular purposes such as identification of the poor. The actual benefits that accrue to the BPL families from such divisions are not important.
What is important is to demonstrate :
- the power of the elected to determine your position in society in a completely ad hoc way
- the width of this regime. It is not just about college seats.
- the plight of those who are not covered. (we get nothing, but my neighbour gets shafted, so this must be good for me, let me vote for my group)
- the irrationality of it all (for example : why are christians not given 1 point for being a minority? ) By intentionally leaving irrationality on the table, they will put it out of sane discussion.
If there are any international* students of political science who want to study India. Start from here. This is the where it starts and ends. There are very few free agent voters. The number is getting compacted every election cycle.
* (Indian political science students, please do not explore this angle in your thesis. Lets just say…)
To The Gentle People of the World,
We wish to inform you that the following headlines are not representative of what people think in India.
A nation outraged ! (over Harbajans racial attack on Symonds)
A nation outraged ! (over Shahrukhs ‘detention’) My great aunt (74 yrs) traveling alone has been detailed in JFK for 11 hours. She does not have a muslim last name. She came out with a smile. Her only complaint was there was no vegetarian food in the deli that the immigration officer too her to. So, she just had to eat the hamburger buns. King Khan should stop crying. Special treatment by birth, political connections, corruption enabler middlemen connections, bolly/kolly/tollywood status, or closeness to 200+1 families stop once you leave our shores.
Nation clamors for social justice to Shah Rukh Khan. (No, the nation clamors for no such thing. The nation clamors for data driven social justice, but the politico-medio class wants ad-hoc social justice delivered purely at their pleasure. But you already knew that this setup forms the cornerstone of Indian politics)
Nation clamors for vengeance against Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie (No such thing) The nation could not care less. SRK shows his bollywood shtyle mentality by declaring that “If they want I can frisk Angelina when she is here in India”. Dude, this is cheap even by Bollywood standards.
In fact, if you see any headline that starts with “A nation outraged …” – Run ! The media here does not know the first thing about what the nation thinks.
Hey readers, Are you checking out the only worthwhile Indian blog on contemporary issues, Barbarindians ?
Amartya Sen is all over Indian TV channels promoting his new book titled “The Idea of Justice“. I am just writing this post from observing the various interviews he has given to TV channels like IBN and NDTV.
In the true spirit of the “Argumentative Indian”, it is hard to really get to the core of what he is trying to say. He is like a dragonfly, you approach it with great stealth, your fingers ready to snap it, you are almost certain you have it but it flies off to land a feet away.
Take the following example :
Three children — Anne, Bob and Carla — are quarrelling over a flute: Anne claims the flute on the ground that she is the only one of the three who knows how to play it; Bob demands it on the basis that he is so poor that — unlike others — he has no other toys to play with and it would therefore mean a lot to him if the flute were given to him; and Carla says that it belongs to her because she has made it with her own labour.
The important thing to note here is that none of the claimants questions their rival’s argument but claims that his or hers is the most persuasive. So, who deserves the flute?
Should it go to the child for whom it represents the only source of entertainment as he has no other toys to play with? Or to the one who can actually make practical use of it; or to the child to whom it must belong by virtue of her “right” to the fruits of her labour?
To the common man, the question of who should have the flute can be easily adjudicated. It is as simple as this. Who has current ownership of the flute. We have evolved to a point where the words ‘current’ and ‘ownership’ are fairly clear. Dissent at this basic level will be met with, ‘What the f— is he thinking’. If you find something unclaimed first, you have a ownership right over those who only found it in your possession.
If Carla (the child who made the flute) has not yet traded her ownership rights (i.e sold it ) she owns it. Bob (the poor child) has no rights unless he found the unclaimed flute first. Similarly, Anne (the child who knows to play it) has no rights unless she too found the unclaimed flute first.
I do not think any reasonable person, including die hard socialists really dispute the simple ownership scenario described above. It is helpful to remember that socialism never promises an absolute equality, it only promises an undefined greater equality. The soup called ‘something better’ can easily be sold to the masses under various brands.
The scenario described by Amartya Sen is not about justice but about social justice. It could be better phrased as the following.
Imagine that a government had resources to produce exactly one flute, and it was decided that it had no choice but to produce a flute. Who among Bob, Anne, Carla should get that flute ?
See how smoothly we are able to transpose a scenario of ownership into a scenario justifying a central power deciding competing claims.Mr Sen is simply saying that this central deciding power must be compassionate and hold judgement in favour of eliminating the most obvious forms of injustice. Mughal emperor Akbar is portrayed as the ideal here. It is hard to argue with this theme because we are instantly presented with an example of how hard it is to teach a starving student. The real problem in the Indian context is that there are multiple such ‘obvious forms of injustice’ so the problem comes down to assigning weights and evaluating claims of being a victim of an ‘obvious injustice’.
This is the well tread social justice trail.
The book should have been called the ‘The Idea of Social Justice’.
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Vision and Mandate
We are a national organization promoting socially responsible livestock production in Canada. We help communities that are dealing with problems caused by factory farms and factory farm proposals. As an alternative to industrial livestock operations, we promote livestock production that is safe, fair and healthy for the environment, farmers, workers, animals, neighbours, communities and consumers. Establishing socially responsible livestock production is a means to reach the overarching goal of food sovereignty—democratic citizen control of our food and agriculture system.
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Reference Librarian James Oliver greets patrons at the information desk in the Downtown Lansing branch located at 401 S. Capitol Avenue, Lansing, MI.
By Allison McLary
Here at the Capital Area District Libraries (CADL), staff is always looking for ways to share valuable information with people. These efforts often take the form of reading recommendations, but Jim Oliver, a Reference Librarian at the Downtown Lansing Branch located at 401 S. Capitol Avenue, Lansing, MI, is taking a different approach.
“Working in reference means mostly working in nonfiction,” he says. “People really enjoy reading about historical events, politics, biographies, etc. So I thought it would be a good idea to present those same kinds of topics in film.”
That idea has led to a new documentary series debuting in September at CADL Downtown Lansing. Each month, the library will screen a timely, thought-provoking documentary, followed by a brief discussion.
“I’ve tried to choose titles that people would find entertaining and interesting,” Oliver says. “I’m hoping to get them thinking and talking about topics they might have missed otherwise.”
So far, three films are scheduled to be shown at 2:00 p.m. on the third Saturday of the month in the library’s auditorium:
· September 15, 2012: This 1994 film follows two inner-city high school basketball phenoms as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA (PG-13).
· October 20, 2012: This showing will be sponsored by The New Citizens Press Community Action Network (TNCP CAN), dedicated to stopping violence in the Greater Lansing area. Made in 2011, the award-winning film tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once used themselves (not rated; some violence and very strong language). Following the film, members of TNCP CAN will lead a discussion.
· November 17, 2012: In 2007, filmmaker Werner Herzog took his camera to Antarctica to tell the stories of the brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions (not rated).
“Everyone is welcome,” according to Oliver. “I’m looking forward to seeing some really good films and then hearing what others think afterward.”
In addition to the new documentary series, CADL offers film showings at several branches, including some in Spanish. For a complete list, visit cadl.org/events
and type “Movies” in the keyword box.
The Capital Area District Libraries Marketing Department is located at 401 S. Capitol Avenue in Lansing, MI. Contact them at 517-367-6348. Find information about CADL locations, services and events at cadl.org
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Resource Center Dallas is calling on the city to investigate whether the intent of its ordinance prohibiting anti-LGBT discrimination is being honored.
In a letter today to three city council members, Resource Center’s Rafael McDonnell points to Dallas Voice reports saying that in the nine years since the ordinance was passed, more than 40 complaints have been filed, but none has ever been prosecuted.
McDonnell’s letter to Councilwomen Angela Hunt, Delia Jasso and Pauline Medrano was triggered by reports on this blog last week about anti-gay discrimination by the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center, which has repeatedly refused to sell family memberships to same-sex couples.
The city ordinance, passed in 2002, prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing and public accommodations. Gender identity is included in the definition of sexual orientation under the ordinance. Each violation of the ordinance is punishable by a maximum $500 fine.
A Dallas Voice investigation in 2008 concluded that at the time, 33 complaints had been filed under the ordinance. In 22 of those cases, the City Attorney’s Office determined that there was no cause to prosecute.
Of the other 11 cases, three were successfully resolved through mediation; three people withdrew their complaints after signing statements indicating that defendants had taken actions necessary to address their concerns; five complaints were found to be nonjurisdictional, meaning the incidents occurred outside city limits or defendants were exempt from the ordinance; and in one case the party filing the complaint couldn’t be located.
Here’s the full text of McDonnell’s letter:
Dear Councilmembers Jasso, Medrano and Hunt,
As you three know, Dallas is one of a handful of cities in Texas that includes sexual orientation and gender identity in its non-discrimination policy. Resource Center Dallas is proud to be in a city offering such protections. We assume that you, like us, are disturbed by last week’s stories on the Dallas Voice’s blog.
The Voice reported that a gay couple who recently moved to Dallas sought to join Baylor’s Tom Landry Center under the family membership program. The couple was advised that Baylor only offers family members to people who are married as defined by Texas law. There is no same-gender alternative, which, to us, is monetized discrimination.
The Voice’s blog also reported that since the ordinance became law in 2002, more than 40 complaints have been filed. Yet, shockingly, the City has not prosecuted one of those complaints. Is this correct? Are complaints being resolved through mediation, settlements, or are the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people filing these grievances walking away empty-handed?
We write to ask for your help. We would like for you to call for an investigation of whether or not the intention of the ordinance is being honored. As we know you will agree, enacting an ordinance is only the first step in addressing discriminatory practices. The critical second step is its enforcement. From the Voice’s reporting, it sounds like the ordinance we all worked so hard to put in place may not be as effective as we thought.
Strategic Communications and Programs Manager, Resource Center Dallas
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More travellers will keep a closer eye on what they spend whilst on holiday in 2011, a travel company has predicted.
Furthermore, travellers will watch the pennies not only in the run-up to trips but also while they are away, according to responsibletravel.
“The pressure on travellers’ finances has not disappeared and 2011 will mark the age of ’selective austerity’, the company added.
Justin Francis, responsibletravel managing director, said: “Travellers will do whatever it takes to save pennies on the mundane stuff – packed lunches, cutting out the daily latte, rethinking their journey to work, switching to a different energy provider.
“These small selective cuts to daily living will allow them to pursue their annual dream holiday.”
He added: “We’ll also see the idea of ’selective austerity’ influencing holiday schedules.
“Travellers will, for example, opt for four nights in a cheap hotel so they can afford a few nights somewhere magical at the end, or dine out at local markets in order to afford to stay in a blow-the-budget guest house.”
The firm also predicts that more people will use trains to get to their holiday destinations as the number of travellers inquiring about rail journeys has risen 20% year on year.
Such trips are popular with what the company calls the “journey junky” who is addicted to slower travel and savours the journey as part of the overall holiday experience.
But travel is still expected from UK airports such as Luton, Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow, with Responsibletravel also predicting a rise in holiday destinations that offer the learning of traditional skills and crafts such as weaving and pottery.
Copyright Press Association 2011
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Rabid Catholics turn on Glastonbury Pagans
Next Step: Call in the Real Witches and Send Catholics a Nasty Potion
A group of conservative Catholic Pilgrims in Glastonbury, UK, where according to legend Joseph of Aramethea in about 60AD, took the Holy Grail and founded an Abbey reputed to be the resting place of King Arthur, seized the opportunity of their visit to attack local pagans in a daring and bold display of their love for Christ, the Guardian of London reports.
Glastonbury, about 150 miles southwest of London in Somerset, is a favorite with tourists and witches of all stripes because of its Abbey ruins and delightful concentration of energies for perfecting potions, brews, and the like.
The Catholic group on pilgrimage, Youth 2000, describes itself as "an independent, international initiative that helps young adults aged 16-35 plug back into God at the heart of the Roman Catholic Church" by attacking others they believe may not be as pure and godly as they.
While on pilgrimage, members of the group began to “cleanse” the town of pagans by yelling at them and disparaging their wares at a local store.
The archdruid of Glastonbury, Dreow Bennett, said: "To call the behaviour of some of their members medieval would be an understatement. I personally witnessed the owner of of the Magick Box being confronted by one of their associates and being referred to as a bloody bitch and being told 'you will burn in hell'."
The full story may be read here. Glastonbury Abbey may be accessed here and here. Web visitors are warned that a witches’ script inserted into all Glastonbury web pages may compel them to travel to the area and spend large amounts of money on hotels, dining, walking Glastonbury Tor, and securing “genuine” hangnails of Joseph of Aramethea and other relics.
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A federal appellate court recent held that Maryland’s wiretapping statute could not be used to prevent citizens from recording police activity.
The abuse of this Maryland statute by police has been ripe for a challenge. When Simon Gilk was arrested for violating the statute because he was videotaping police in public view, he filed a civil rights suit against the officers and city for violating his First and Fourth Amendment rights. The officers attempted to get out of the case as named defendants because they claimed they had probable cause for the arrest. The court disagreed.
In the court’s opinion confirming the First Amendment right to videotape police in public places or when they come onto your property, the court noted the following:
Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting “the free discussion of governmental affairs.”
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This is particularly true of law enforcement officials, who are granted substantial discretion that may be misused to deprive individuals of their liberties. Ensuring the public’s right to gather information about their officials not only aids in the uncovering of abuses, but also may have a salutary effect on the functioning of government more generally. (citations to cases omitted).
And here’s the big holding that photographers who are not members of the press should pay specific attention to:
The First Amendment right to gather news is, as the Court has often noted, not one that inures solely to the benefit of the news media; rather, the public’s right of access to information is coextensive with that of the press. (my emphasis)
While this case is a First Circuit Court of Appeals case, the basic tenants of First Amendment case law cited by the court come from Supreme Court cases. As a result, photographers across the nation should feel a little better that this case has reached an appellate court and delivered this result.
Hopefully, this case will reach the desk of police chiefs across the US and will cause their departments to develop policies and training that acknowledges the fundamental right of any person to photograph or record police activity.
Silk’s civil rights case will continue because of this holding. Perhaps the city should have settled like Atlanta did earlier this year.
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Engineering is a very vast field and it offers a lot of engineering jobs for freshers. Engineering has many branches including civil engineering, mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, software engineering, and many others. There are several types of engineering jobs for freshers. Freshers can find many job opportunities in various branches of engineering – civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and telecommunications engineering, chemical engineering, aeronautical engineering, software engineering, hardware and network engineering, automobile engineering, mechanical engineering, construction engineering, process engineering, design engineering, architectural engineering, production engineering, CAD/CAM engineering, structural engineering and aircraft engineering. Freshers can find a suitable engineering job for themselves in that branch of engineering in which they have got a bachelor or master degree. Freshers can find engineering jobs anywhere in India but they can get easily in cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Noida. Engineers India Limited, CAES, Radiant IT Solutions, Dyanamic Institute of Automation & Control, and Impact Technologies Pvt Ltd are some of organizations which offer engineering jobs for freshers.
Software is a branch of IT. A large number of IT organizations offer Software jobs for freshers in India. Software professionals are in great demand in all types of organizations whether media, entertainment or marketing. Software jobs for freshers are available in several Indian cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Chandigarh, Noida and Gurgaon. Software jobs for freshers in India include the areas of Software development, Software designing, Software testing, SAP, Quality Assurance/Testing, CRM/ERP, System programming, Application programming, Java developer, Website designing, Ecommerce, Internet, Database Administrator (DBA) and Web promotion. Software jobs are offered to those freshers who have BSc, BE, BCA, BTech, MSc, MCA, MTech degrees in computer science or software development. Software jobs are available in various forms like Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Trainee – Software Development, Project Manager – Software Development, Software Development Manager, and Senior Software Development Engineer. As a fresher you can get a software job as software engineer and trainee software development. After some years of experience, you can be project manager in software development.
Human Resource jobs are known as HR jobs in short. Human Resource Management is a vital feature of an organization or company. The smooth running of an organization is based upon the shoulders of an HR Executive. There is no shortage of HR jobs for freshers in India because you can find various corporate organizations, media houses and entertainment industries in metropolitan and non-metropolitan cities. HR job for fresher is a well-paid profession. One thing that needs to be mentioned is that an HR executive plays as the communication linker between departments of a company or organization and between the employees and employers. They are liable for efficient management of office affairs and general welfare of the organization. There are various types of HR Jobs such as Receptionist, Front Office Executive, HR Executive, Secretary, Office Assistant, HR Operations Executive, IT Recruiter, Placement Executive, SAP HR Consultant, SAP HR-Payroll Consultant and HR Head. There is no specific educational requirement to get an HR job as a fresher. But if you want to get a management post in HR, you must have an MBA (Human Resource).
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Sullivan asserts that those with an articulate awareness of both what they want on the one hand and what they don’t want on the other possess a twin motivation that is more than the sum of the parts.
Standing in the middle is different than holding both extremes in tension. In the middle I have neither much I am working to avoid or much I am working to achieve. At the extremes I am working very hard to avoid certain fearful possibilities and to achieve certain very attractive dreams.
My personal challenge out of this chapter is to adjust my strategy away from striving for the mythical middle point and toward the clear identification of where those powerful twin motivators of fear and desire find their expression in my story.
Such reflection is going to require both courage and reflection. Self-awareness is a skill most of us spend a lifetime avoiding. And yet, even as I have advocated over the years for the unsurpassable value of self-awareness as a life and leadership core competency, I can feel the stakes go up when it comes to identifying what I fear and what I desire.
Fear and desire can paralyze as easily as they can motivate. The status quo can feel safer than actively working against a negative line of outcomes or possibly failing at one’s efforts to achieve the positive line of outcomes.
Can you articulate what you want? What you fear? Can you articulate them in such a way that they both become positive motivators for you to work toward?
What was your main take-away from this chapter?
On your side,
- Karl Edwards
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Shhhh! The Art of Listening in an Inattentive Culture
Like friendship, listening is remarkably neglected by scholars. Even more surprising, it receives scant attention within the church—we who are called to "listen" to God and God's beloved. In our day of shallow, broad connection—much of it in the forms of texting and posting—there's growing evidence from a variety of fields that the deep, attentional art of listening is health-inducing and life-enhancing, countering some of the pathogenic elements in our environment. Moreover, listening just might be essential to sanctification. The evening will be spent reflecting on listening's significance in our lives of citizenship, discipleship, and fellowship.
Susan S. Phillips has served as Executive Director at New College Berkeley since 1994, is a trained spiritual director, and is keenly interested in how we live our faith in daily life, drawing insight from the diverse fields of the social sciences, biblical spirituality, and practical theology. Read her full bio.
Join us for this free Evening Public Lecture. Our lectures tend to draw large crowds, so plan to arrive early for a good seat.
For more information about this lecture, contact Doug Hills at [email protected] or 604.221.3373.View all events
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Kids & Jay Walking
I just got back from Tokyo, Japan where walk/stop signals on the streets are strictly adhered to. That fact sparked up the age-old conversation here in the US around adherence to these signals while raising kids. As parents, do we adhere to the letter of the law all the time, or as pedestrians do we cross the street with our kids when a pedestrian signal says "stop?"
When my son was about four or five years old I "jay walked" with him for the first time. Prior to that we had been obeying the pedestrian signaling without question (nice and easy). It happened early one Sunday morning while walking around downtown. There weren't any cars around, and we were standing at a traffic light with the pedestrian signal indicating "Stop." I stepped into the street to cross with his hand in mine. He said "daddy, the hand is up!" I replied "yes it is," and we kept walking.
A long conversation ensued in which I tried to explain my departure from previous behavior, how what mommy and daddy had been telling him to-date was no longer valid (you're getting older and streetwise now, so the childish, simple, rules we've been applying aren't as relevant anymore), what "the law" meant (the state works to protect us with generic rules that work most of the time), what discretion meant (as humans, we are autonomous sentient beings that make our own decisions based on certain circumstances), what idiocy meant (we were standing at a clear intersection in the off hours of the day without any cars in sight, staring at a mindless red hand strapped to a pole telling us to "stay put"), what independence meant (there are times we take matters into our own hands), what risk meant (by doing this, we were clearly breaking the law and we could be ticketed for doing so. also, if we're not careful, we could dull our awareness to the protection that the law provides, and walk into a busy street at some point in the future; putting ourselves and others in danger), what peripheral vision meant (if you see movement out of the corners of your eyes, identify it and evaluate it before walking into a street), and what responsibility meant (we'd have to humbly accept the consequences of breaking the law if we were caught).
Needless to say it was a nearly impossible conversation to have with a child, that stemmed from a conceivably simple act of crossing the street. I felt it was crucial and necessary however. Life does not work by adhering to all of the rules all the time. There are times when we take risk to accomplish the things we want, and to be who we want to be. There are times when we know better than the system.
I've since had the conversation and "crossing" moment with my daughter. We have thoughtful, aware, and generally (we cross the street when we're not supposed to sometimes) law abiding children. We DO NOT have blind rule followers that stop and go through life like zombies lacking an understanding of the world around them.
We've been breaking this law with discretion for years now, and we'll continue to do so. We have, thankfully, been accident free (incident free for that matter). My kids are highly aware of their surroundings when out in the world; other people, cars, trucks, alleys, crosswalks, street lights, etc.
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I was recently inspired to undertake a mod far beyond my knowledge and capacity. I aim to achieve a very particular aesthetic effect without sacrificing the quality provided by a mechanical keyboard. Specifically, I'm looking to mod a mechanical keyboard such that each time a key is pressed, an LED behind a blank/translucent key will light. When the key is released, the LED turns off. The effect is a sort of futuristic or mad scientist series of flashes as one types.
It seems whichever keyboard I end up using will definitely have Cherry switches. I will at least be purchasing the Deck clear keycaps and associated blue LEDs. I am currently away from my initial idea of a starting from a Deck Legend, because I think it would be more practical and beneficial to my understanding to build up from a keyboard without LEDs rather than start with one and try to remove/change its functionality. That's not decided quite yet and I won't be starting this for a few months (while I learn).
I've read a decent amount about LEDs in this forum so far. I was wondering if anyone had any advice or resources relating to the electronic layout or construction of LED keyboards? Specifically, how an LED is wired to be underneath each key. Is each key its own circuit and how is it all tied into the USB power?
Sorry to pile on so many questions, but one more:
I'm told that Cherry Switches have a specific place for an LED to fit, which is convenient. Ideally, I'd like to just wire the LED to receive power when the switch is pressed utilizing the same power used for the key's signal. I assume a key's signal is rather low/weak. Would it make sense to put more power to the key's circuit, then connect the LED first in series with the switch... and somehow (again I'm lacking in knowledge) make sure that the LED uses up just enough power to not cause the keyswitch any problems (overload)?
Ideally I would love to buy a Deck Legend and use some of its layout as an example while I build the mod by adding LEDs to another board. Then even if I screw up, I still have an awesome Deck to use.
I apologize for the odd questions and my complete lack of knowledge. Hopefully this is an acceptable place to ask, as I intend on using Deck parts, and possibly a Deck keyboard itself. If anyone knows of a good electronics enthusiast forum that would be more suited to these kinds of questions (and not be bothered by my ignorance and inexperience), I will gladly take my issues there instead.
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Is this as good as it gets? How do you balance reality today with the prospect of something greater to come? How do we live today in the light of God's spoken promises to his people?
The scene is set in Jerusalem, God's people having been exiled in Iraq are back home. The city is flattened and they're sent home to rebuild God's house (see Ezra 1). Life amongst the ruins was not easy, and into it comes this book and also the book of Zechariah.
These are the kind of questions the 38 verses of the book of Haggai seek to answer. It is written in the time of the return from exile, documented in Ezra 3 particularly. Reading through the book we're encouraged four times to "Consider" (1v5,7,2v25,18)... we're told of God's people being unfruitful, and twice of a time when God will shake the earth. Its dramatic stuff!
Part 1. The priorities of God, his pleasure and his glory
1v1-15, 01/06/02 (Year of Darius)
The people are delaying the task they've been given. They were sent home with the express purpose of rebuilding the house of the LORD their God (Ezra 1v2). Instead however they've built their own homes. They find themselves repeatedly thwarted by the LORD (v6). They are unsatisfied and unfruitful.
Into this situation the LORD speaks to tell them what is going on! His message is simple - build the house of the LORD. Do so for his pleasure and his glory (v8). The priorities of God ought to dominate the people of God. He seeks to be happy - and what happens on earth has a bearing on that! As at the return to the land (Ezra 1v1,5) the LORD moves them to respond. They are stirred and get on with the building work.
The LORD works through his people for his pleasure and his glory to establish his place with them. He is the happy God and he will be seen to be big amongst them. The ultimate locus of God's pleasure and glory of course centres upon Jesus. (John Piper writes excellently about this in The Pleasures of God, about the Pleasue of God in his Son.)
Part 2. There is greater glory to come
Seven weeks later God speaks again. An enquiry is made: who saw the previous temple? How do you feel when you see this new effort. God acknowledges their disappointment. This rebuild is a mere shadow of what went before. But, the LORD will act in accordance with his prior promises to his people. He rescued them from slavery in Egypt and remained with them. He will shake the earth, treasures will come from the nations and the temple will become most glorious. This latter glory will far outstrip the former glory.
Generations later as Messiah Jesus comes we see the truly glorious representation of God with his people. In a person. Through him, in him, is formed the true people of God - the church. A people adorned by the work of the Holy Spirit to be more beautiful than any gold or silver. A glory that comes to people from all nations.
Part 3. Defiled by sin, but a new day comes
One holy item does not make everything holy (2v12). One defiled item makes everything sinful (2v13). So it is with God's people. They are sinful and so is their work and their offerings. Everything is defiled by their sin against God. I find this very challenging - to see how serious and infecting sin really is.
Their good works are unfruitful and blighted by the LORD (2v17a). It is him who blights them. And yet they have been unrepentant. God acted to get their attention but they did not respond (2v17b). Now the foundation of the temple is laid and a new day comes.
Sin is truly bad, pervasively staining everything. Only the work of God can end its defilement. Change only comes by God's work - and as the foundations of his place are laid it is he who changes the situation. It is he who brings blessing - when ultimately the temple is rebuilt (see Jesus, in John 2?).
Part 4. The Lord's servant is safe
The LORD is about to shake the earth - just as he promised. This shaking we know will bring in treasures from the nations - but it will also be destructive. But, the LORD says, his ruler Zerubbabel, will be kept safe. Previously, in Jeremiah 22v24, the leader of God's people was cast off in the time of judgement. Now God's ruler will remain. The tide turns. At last God's leader is pleasing to the LORD. And when King Jesus comes - a greater leader still, God will find the one who is truly pleasing to him - one whose every act brings glory to God's name.
Haggai is a short sharp message to look to the LORD's pleasure and glory. A jolt to self-centredness to look to the LORD's bigger plans for the nations. It stands as a rebuke, a challenge and a message of hope of what is sure to come. There is better than this still to come.
Daniel is talking about gospel-centred Bible study... of Matthew 18v15-20, take a look. Daniel links to here and to beginningwithmoses.org so we like him!
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There are an infinite amount of staggering China statistics. One of my favourites is the quantity of meat. Over a billion pigs are in China, more than every other country combined, and 12 million of them are eaten every week. On average, a small Chinese village eats more hog than Egypt’s entire population living along the Nile. But to think that China is just about animals that oink would be unnecessarily underselling that other well-known white meat, the chicken.
As you read this blog, there will be over a billion chickens in China busily laying eggs, of which six billion will hatch, destined for the Lazy Susan sometime this year. And those home-grown chickens won’t alone satisfy China’s ravenous appetite. Poultry accounts for 75% of Chinese meat imports, which grew over 300% to $1.4 billion from 2005-2010. In 2006 the average Chinese urbanite consumed 8.3 kilograms of poultry per year, 244% more than they did in 1990. Although city dwellers averaged 19.1kg of pork, it only grew 108%.
Some pundits hypothesise that this growing love of chook comes from the Chinese becoming wealthier and more diet-conscious, therefore opting for healthier, leaner chicken over pork. But that theory falls flat when you note the large portion of chicken’s rise coming in the form of big buckets of greasy drumsticks from KFC and the slew of imitations.
Fastfood in China: Chicken vs. Hamburger
Nowhere is China’s love for chicken more obvious than KFC. Colonel Sanders’ restaurants rule the roost in China, blitzing every other chain for volume and profits. There are now more than 3,700 KFC outlets in China, with parent company Yum! Brands drawing up plans for 16,000 more. Yum! Brands, who also owns the much smaller Pizza Hut, accounts for 40% of China’s fast food market, slaughtering the number 2 ranked McDonalds’ 16% share and 1,100 stores.
Is the Chinese love of chicken solely responsible for The Colonel making a clown of Ronald McDonald? Partially, but KFC have been much smarter with their entry into China in what has become a well known lesson for foreign businesses with Chinese aspirations. While McDonalds virtually duplicated their menu from the USA, KFC took a good look at China’s considerably different tastes and tailored their menu much more to their liking. Top sellers include egg and vege soup, pickles, preserved eggs and everyone’s favourite rice porridge, zhōu. With Yum! Brands bringing home an operating profit of more than $2 billion in 2011, the Kentucky crew are doing something right.
Localized menus aside, it appears KFC has the leg up over McDonalds in the eye of China’s Internet censors. An Google search within China’s Great Firewall for “麦当劳”, McDonalds in Chinese, will temporarily disable your Internet connection (for around 90 seconds), whereas “肯德基”, KFC in Chinese, allows you to freely surf greasy chicken until your heart’s content. Is someone in the Internet Censoring Office getting a few sly buckets of drumsticks to help Yum! Brands along?
China: Paradise for those who love a good breast
Although KFC is popular, there’s much more to China’s chicken repertoire than the deep fried and battered. Chicken feet, cartilage, bones, skin, intestines, bowels, liver – all those lovely chicken bits that wouldn’t make the supermarket chiller back home, are things of beauty to your average Chinese foodie. The plump, succulent chicken breast doesn’t even get a look-in. Chinese consider breasts flavourless and too poultry-tasting, which is great for expats. When chicken breasts are for sale, they’re the cheapest meat of all; even at expensive expat supermarkets a nice slab of breast will set you back less than US$1. Although it probably wasn’t roaming free in an idyllic Chinese village, when the MSG and oil is all getting a bit much, those breasts are a godsend.
With the soaring price of pork in China, and chicken being much more efficient to farm, I suspect we’ll see many more of our feathered friends being served up in high rise apartments all over the mainland. Wonder what that’ll do to the price of a roast chicken in Wellington?
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Catechism of The Catholic Church #50
50 By natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis of his works. But there is another order of knowledge, which man cannot possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine Revelation. Through an utterly free decision, God has revealed himself and given himself to man. This he does by revealing the mystery, his plan of loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all men. God has fully revealed this plan by sending us his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
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A lot has recently been said about the Penguin update that took place a few months ago. It impacted a lot of companies and many links were penalized for bad SEO practices. In turn a lot have people have been screaming foul at any SEO attempts for fear of a big Google backlash on their site. They have also been preaching a lot about the importance of content, and they’re right on that end. The fact is that SEO is not all of a sudden some dirty term we need to shy from. In fact it still plays a big role in a lot of company’s efforts, but there does need to be a balance. Finding a balance in great content generation matched with SEO efforts can still yield good results. More importantly results that Google won’t penalize.
Solid Content Creation
This is really what it all comes down to. If you want to still have link building campaigns, you’re not out of luck now because of the recent update.
What was being penalized was poor practices and trash content that stood out like a sore thumb. But those who did, and continue to, link to their sites from solid content creation didn’t get penalized. That’s because they weren’t generating bad content and dropping in links out of context. Those who did are now suffering the consequences of a more advanced algorithm.
The fact is, however, people are still thriving with link building campaigns, and it has to do with the fact that they produce quality content. Getting backlinks to a website isn’t a shady practice, and it’s the reason so many trusted sites do so well in Google; they are being linked to from other sites. So say a satellite television company wants to get some link love. Them posting on entertainment sites with related television news or programming wouldn’t at all be out of place. Yet if they went onto a “mom blog” and kept keyword targeting words like “Dish TV,” then yeah, there might be some problems. Overall the stigma behind SEO has gotten a little out of control in the last few months, and anyone writing with purpose should have nothing to worry about. That goes for writers and blog owners.
What You Should Avoid
This was touched on a little bit, but yes, there are some bad SEO practices that you should avoid, knowingly or unknowingly, as to not hurt your link building efforts. For one, keyword stuffing. I know this is completely outdated, but you would be surprised how many people still try to do this. Google knows you’re doing this, and it is hurting you. On the other hand, sometimes keyword stuffing happens accidentally. There are some terms and topics that are just hard to rephrase, and might be the main focus of an article. If this is the case, try your best to work around it. The best tool for content writers online is a thesaurus. Get one, use one, and you’re good.
Also, while linking from good content is perfectly acceptable, don’t link to your website over and over again. Overly linking to the same page is a huge red flag. It is possible to relevantly link to your site more than once, but they have to serve a purpose, and should also be a deeper, different page. Use natural phrases, not targeted terms, and go to a page that is relevant.
Overall, the concept is simple. Content is king, and always will be. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean that SEO is dead. The two work together very well, and has been the key to success for a lot of web blogs. Your content is what gets you noticed, and your SEO efforts in the payoff. On the other hand, if your content is lacking and no one cares about what you have to say, no amount of SEO tactics in the world will help you.
About the Author: Jordan Mendys is a social media and SEO blogger. He often focuses on the importance content creation plays into the digital marketing world.
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Kash has a good view of Our future fiscal psychosis. This stands as a part of the Bush Effect. The Government, led by George W. Bush and the current Congress, plans a program of escalating annual deficits. They not only plan on Spending big, but on taxing small. The Later can be explained in Tax planning devoted to taxing Consumption, and not Income. Why the love of taxing Consumption? All must pay for Consumption when any form of tax is imposed, to greater or lesser degree, and the lesser degree pays the largest volume of tax revenues. Higher Incomes will inevitably find a reduction in Tax, while the Poor will be required to pay their full measure. Bush denies the notion that the Wealthy should pay their full measure as well.
The American Ambassador to Iraq, at the probable instigation of Cheney, created the unpardonable gaff of internal manipulation of Iraqi politics. Democracy is sacrosant, if and only if the American President approves. George W. does not understand how beloved he is to the Iraqi people, al Satr will probably be the next Prime Minister in Iraq.
Putin says the U.S. Government is undercutting Russia's efforts to join the WTO, but will not stipulate what exactly is the stance of the U.S. Government. The Oval Office Oil Combine probably went back to insisting Russia not undercut current Oil pricing with extension of longterm low-cost Supply contracts to foreign Energy Consumers. This is a practice long used by Russia to gain Trade advantages, but the Oil Combine does not like the drop in Profits from the World Oil price reductions generated by these longterm Contracts. This Author has long perceived that the World Trade Organization might have to change its name to the WTSO--or World Trade Strangulation Organization.
The Bush effect has been noted by many Authors, whether talking about Tax Cuts in the face of rising fiscal instability, diplomatic efforts to please political supporters--remember Venezula, inciting to violence by making bellicose statements about foreign nations, or acting as a very partisan lobbyist for the Oil industry. We luckily have only some three years left of this insanity of the White House run by and for the Profit motive. lgl
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Cincinnati Zoo’s NEW Children’s Zoo Ready for Play
CINCINNATI - Children will have the opportunity to swing like monkeys, hang like pottos and balance like cats at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden with the official grand-opening of the newly renovated Joseph H. Spaulding Children’s Zoo. The Children’s Zoo has been under construction for the last four months, but media are invited to a special media opportunity this Thursday, May 13 at 10:30 a.m.
“The Children’s Zoo has been a special place for families for a long time,” said Chief Operating Officer Dave Jenike. “We continue to look for more ways to inspire visitors with wildlife every day. This new area is the perfect place for families to relax, interact with animals and have lots of fun!”
In 1937, the Cincinnati Zoo opened one of the world’s early children’s zoos and has been renovated several times since. In 1947, the Children’s Zoo was renovated in time to be used by a new generation of post-war “baby boomers.” The Children’s Zoo was greatly improved in a 1964 renovation. And, in 1985 the Children’s Zoo was completely rebuilt in a major renovation, made possible by Mrs. Ruth Spaulding in memory of her son and husband. Twenty five years later, the Joseph H. Spaulding Children’s Zoo opens with a fresh, new look at the animal nursery, a new and improved “Be the Animal” playscape, expanded contact yard and little penguins viewing area, and lots of new animals.
Children can let loose their inner animals in the play area that features a slide, crawl tunnel, monkey bars, balance beam, synthetic mulch, as well as the always popular spider web and turtle shells, and much more. The expanded petting yard will allow more space for children and families to interact and even brush some of the Zoo’s friendliest animal residents, including baby pygmy goats, Nigerian dwarf goats and NEW baby doll sheep. The petting yard is open weekdays 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. and weekends 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., but guests can feed the animals outside the yard all day! In addition, baby miniature cows, llamas and alpacas have been added to the barnyard.
The Children’s Zoo will also feature an updated nursery viewing area, where guests can see a baby aardvark, “Lucy,” the bearcat and “Rocko,” the wallaby and a variety of baby animals throughout the year.
The Zoo season is packed with special events that will delight the entire family. The Cincinnati Zoo opens daily at 9 a.m. Regular admission prices are $14/adults, $9/children & seniors (2-12, 62 +) and children under two are FREE. Parking is $7. For more information, visit www.cincinnatizoo.org
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NFL players more aware of the risks
Web linksBlog: Bob Glauber's NFL Hot Reads
The reminders of danger are everywhere.
On the warning signs printed on the back of their helmets: "No helmet can prevent serious head or neck injuries a player might receive while participating in football."
In the news media, with the shocking news last month that former Chargers linebacker Junior Seau had committed suicide. And almost daily reports of former players -- nearly 2,000 in all, many of them suffering post-NFL problems -- suing the league over not doing enough to warn players about the dangers of concussions and intentionally misleading them about the severity of head trauma.
At home, where loved ones often worry openly about the risks they take every time they suit up on game days. And whether the financial windfall from playing will last into retirement or evaporate the way it has for high-profile players such as Warren Sapp, who recently filed for bankruptcy, and Terrell Owens, who has said he's lost the $80 million he earned as an NFL player.
As if the challenge for today's players isn't daunting enough, the increasing awareness of the perils of playing in the world's most dangerous game have added another layer of stress in an already pressure-filled world.
"I remember being a rookie in Denver [in 2007] and I was told, '30 years from now, you'll see if everything was worth it from playing football,' " Giants receiver Domenik Hixon said, referring to a rookie symposium held before the season. "All the surgeries, all the beating you take, throughout a season and your career, it's going to affect you later in life. I really didn't understand at the time what it meant, but as you get older, you realize how difficult it can be. And hearing that so many former players are either financially stressed or bankrupt, that stuff hits you."
The Jets, Giants and the 30 other teams are going through their offseason workouts. But they're finding that their coping mechanisms for dealing with the sport are being tested almost as much psychologically as they are physically.
Some players have taken precautions to try to stave off injury and be more mindful of financial pitfalls in the future. Others opt to live in almost a purposeful state of denial, shutting out any fears they might have simply in order to survive.
"You don't think about things like concussions or that kind of stuff," Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul said. "Right now, we have a job to do. This is my career, and I love it. When you do something you love, you don't think about anything that might go wrong. You don't worry about it. When you worry about things and take precautions, that's when bad things happen."
Eli tries to be prepared
Giants quarterback Eli Manning said it's not so much ignoring the risks as it is preparing for every eventuality. So far, he has managed to stave off injury, playing every game since taking over as a starter midway through the 2004 season.
"Obviously you play a physical sport, but as a quarterback, you try and be smart, you know when guys are blocked or unblocked, so you don't take unnecessary hits and you trust your guys in front of you to do their job and you go play football and hope for the best and don't get all too caught up in it."
Denial? Not quite.
"If you start thinking about injuries and get scared of getting hurt, that's usually when it happens," he said. "Injury is sometimes part of this game . . . You have to be smart in certain things and not put yourself at risk."
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has placed a high priority on player safety in recent years, repeatedly has expressed his support for initiatives aimed at reducing injury. Goodell sanctioned the Saints with heavy penalties for their alleged bounty program, in large part because the system of rewarding players for big hits compromised safety standards.
"We have been very clear about our priorities for player health and safety and that we are going to do everything we can to provide the safest and healthiest environment for our players," Goodell said last week at the NFL's spring meetings in Atlanta.
Jets tight end Dustin Keller said he is increasingly aware of the physical and financial problems experienced by current and retired players, and has made a point of doing more to avoid those difficulties.
Two years ago, for instance, he purchased a hyperbaric chamber at a cost of about $20,000. He said he uses the machine almost every day in training camp as a way of recovering more quickly from practices, and he also uses it during the season. Keller said he's also being more careful with his money, in part because his wife is pregnant with the couple's first child.
"I think a lot of guys aren't as educated when it comes to money, because you're thrown a bunch of money at one time," he said. "Before this year, I wasn't paying as close attention, but now I have a really good grasp on my finances. Having a baby on the way, I've started tightening up on things, things I should have been doing a long time ago."
Jets defensive tackle Sione Pouha needs reminders of reining in spending. Not long ago, he bought his wife a brand new Cadillac Escalade, fully equipped, as a gift. His wife returned the car, preferring to keep her 2000 model. "My real financial adviser," Pouha said, "is my wife and four kids."
Making the transition to life after football, even with increased self-awareness, won't be easy, Pouha said.
"There's going to come a time when you're going to have to clean out your locker, we all know that," he said. "But we're always thinking about how to make the team, not about what happens when we're not on the team."
Play another sportGiants Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson, who has had concussion-related symptoms in retirement but isn't suing the league, doesn't want his grandchildren to think about a post-football career. Carson told Newsday's Tom Rock last month that he will not allow his grandson, now a 2-year-old in South Carolina, to play football.
Jets linebacker Bart Scott defended recent comments in which he said he doesn't want his son to play football because the sport is too dangerous. He said he has received some criticism about his opinion.
"People are idiots," he said Thursday. "They have no idea. If you don't want your kid to play baseball nowadays, you're stupid. You're giving away a quarter-billion dollars. Why can't I want my kid to be president or a CEO or own a football team? You should want the best for your kids."
Giants defensive end Justin Tuck is convinced he won't have it as tough as some of the struggling former players he now reads about, in part because of what he believes is greater awareness and an increased willingness to be more selfish about his own well-being.
Carson said if he knew now how football would affect him, he never would have played.
Tuck had not heard of Carson's comment, and seemed somewhat shaken by the revelation. But he believes he won't fall victim to similar problems.
"The Giants have the best ownership in the league, but they're going to do what's best for the New York Giants, not necessarily what's best for you all the time," Tuck said. "So you need to do what's best for you and not necessarily what's best for the team. That's hard when it goes against everything you've been taught as a player, but that's the way this league is becoming right now. Fifteen years from now, if I have to get surgery for a bad knee or a bad shoulder, [the Giants] aren't going to be getting the operation with you."
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Los Angeles-based architecture firm Ball-Nogues Studio has been selected as the winner of the “Pavillon Spéciale” competition for the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture. The competition provides an opportunity for students and practitioners to work together for three months from design to construction for a new experimental pavilion for a large rectangular outdoor garden at the school. Winners are selected as “emerging international architects under the age of 45.”
Ball Nogues, a firm familiar with building systems of interactive, repeated components, has produced a form active canopy for the winning design. As explained by the Bustler in a post announcing the winner, “The structure is comprised of approximately 200 ‘cells,’ each made from locally sourced plastic tubing that will be bent and curled in custom jigs designed and constructed by students. To provide shade, each cell will have a locally sourced sheet material spanning between the tubes within it. The cell module is a very effective way of constructing a temporary structure: each can be transported as a flat unit and rapidly assembled on site; when it is time for the structure to come down, dismantling and transportation to a new site is easy.”
The structure will require Ball-Nogues and students to test full-scale mock ups because the form active system is difficult to duplicate with software without direct empirical evidence.
Entries in Ball-Nogues Studio (3)
Commissioned by the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, "Cradle" is designed by Los Angeles-based studio of Ball-Nogues and is situated on the exterior wall of an existing parking structure at Santa Monica Place. Near the beach and the Third Street Promenade, the site is heavily trafficked by tourists on foot and in automobiles. An aggregation of mirror polished stainless steel spheres, the sculpture operates structurally like an enormous Newton’s Cradle - the ubiquitous toy found on the desktops of corporate executives. Each ball is suspended by a cable from a point on the wall and locked in position by a combination of gravity and neighboring balls while reflecting the a distorted image of passerby in both cars on foot.
A site-specific installation by Ball-Nogues Studio, in collaboration with UCLA students, will serve as a temporary environment for music, dance and other performances on the UCLA campus. The project explores a "cross-manufacturing" strategy: After the structure has served as a set piece, the parts making up the installation will become smaller-scaled commodities, available as consumer products.
The installation is open now and will last until June 12, 2010. Check out more about it at Ball-Nogues Studio's website.
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If dealing with customer support leaves you crying, are you likely to do business with the offending brand again? I’m guessing the answer would be a resounding “NO!,” so did we really need a study on the emotional aspect of customer service? Not really!
But don’t dismiss the study, conducted by AchieveGlobal, a workforce development firm, as completely useless just yet. What surprised the heck out of me, given our I-want-and-need-it-now attitude toward everything, is the fact that one three respondents to the survey said they preferred being treated well over having their issues immediately resolved.
The study, titled “Why Your Customers Stay or Stray: Insight From Global Customer Experience Research,” also found that the behaviors most irritating to customers stem from detached emotional awareness and connection. Forty-six percent of respondents noted that agents who are rude, short, nasty, unhelpful, or impatient did the most damage to the customer experience. Using a canned script in dealing with issues (17 percent) and saying “no” or “I don’t know” (16 percent) also ranked among the top customer experience failures.
Again, not exactly earth-shattering news, but it does attach a number to the obvious.
“No matter where you are in the world, a positive customer experience is marked by respect, simplicity, solutions, and responsibilities,” said Sharon Daniels, CEO of AchieveGlobal, in a statement. “Delivering on these simple but critical expectations should be central to any company’s business strategy. Consumers are emotional beings, and training customer-facing employees to recognize emotions and respond in a concerned, effective, and professional manner is essential to owning the customer experience.”
Daniels further explained that slashing prices and holding special promotions might be good for getting customers in the door, but an inability to connect with them on an emotional level could irreversibly damage the relationship. Not surprisingly, the consequences are often negative posts about the company on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and, in extreme cases, abandoning the brand altogether. Half of respondents said they would walk away after one bad experience, and 93 percent are gone after three bad experiences.
Again, the research tells what many of us already knew, but it is a message worth repeating.
I wrote an article earlier today for our magazine Web site about a study that CFI Group did recently that found overall customer satisfaction with contact centers climbed slightly in 2012. This by no means suggests that the contact center experience is great. Satisfaction reached 77 points on a 100-point scale.
When I was in school, a score of 77 equated to a C, and if I brought home those kinds of grades, I’d be grounded for at least a month. As I reflect on these contact center scores, I can almost hear my mother’s disapproving clucks.
And while we can’t ground all of our contact center managers—those prisoner ankle bracelets can be very expensive and hard to monitor—there are a few things we can demand of them instead.
“Understanding that emotion—the human connection—is at the heart of the customer experience is key to building customer loyalty and advocacy in today’s socially connected and ever-evolving world,” Daniels suggested.
I’d say it in even simpler terms: Let’s only hire caring, sympathetic agents who will always answer the phone with a smile.
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Aside from the natural beauty of Philpott Lake, other gems await to be experienced by its guests. The Visitor Center offers a unique display of exhibits pertaining to the natural and cultural heritage of Philpott Lake.
These include a number of interpretive displays, such as: the Four Seasons of the Whitetail Deer; Fish that reside in Philpott Lake and Smith River; American Black Bear; American Beaver, and regional Native American and local history. Local lore includes interpretive panels featuring construction activities associated with the massive Philpott Dam - even historic photographs of flooding that used to occur in nearby towns before dam was built.
HOURS OF OPERATION: Mon-Fri 8-4 and weekends 9-5. The facility is open year round. FREE ADMISSION.
Last Updated: 3/2/2011 1:18 PM
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The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth World Cup Cricket and will be hosted by three of South Asia cricket Test playing countries: India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Bangladesh will co first time hosting a Cricket World Cup. World Cup cricket use an International Day of format, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled to compete. The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match to be played on February 19, 2011 with co-hosts India and Bangladesh, face to face in the stage of Sher-e-Bangla National Mirpur, Dhaka. The opening ceremony was held on February 17, 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, two days before the start of the tournament, and the final on April 2, 2011 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
The World Cup should also be co-hosted by Pakistan, but following the attack in 2009 on the national cricket team in Sri Lanka in Lahore, the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to strip Pakistan of their right to housing . The head of the organizing committee is originally in Lahore, but now have moved to Bombay. Pakistan is supposed to have 14 games, including a semifinal. Eight of the parties of Pakistan, were awarded to India, four in Sri Lanka and two in Bangladesh.
1. ESPN3.com – Official site to watch Sports online, mainly for users of U.S.
2. espnstar.com/cwclive – Official ICC Live Streaming site to watch all CWC 2011 matches live online in India
3. Crictime.com – Multiple Live Streaming links to watch cricket online
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Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000
Ranjit de Silva
New Commerce Secretary to begin Digital Inclusion tour with visit
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today released a new report that discusses how a Commerce Department program is demonstrating that ready access to information technologies can help promote development in America's communities and help them keep pace with social and economic advances in the 21st Century.
"As the Secretary of Commerce, I want to see the nation move from a period of 'digital divide' to one of 'digital inclusion'," Secretary Mineta said. "This report, Community Connections: Preserving Local Values in the Information Age, presents a compelling case for including all of our communities in the digital revolution," he said.
On Thursday, Secretary Mineta will begin his digital inclusion tour in Philadelphia with an event to highlight participation of senior citizens online. Visits are planned to several other cities in the coming weeks. The tour is a continuation of the Administration's long-standing interest in the issue, including former Commerce Secretary William M. Daley's series of visits around the country highlighting the need to make sure that everyone has access to the best information and telecommunications technology. A report by the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued last year said the gap between Americans with access and those without access to information technologies---tools critical for economic success and advancement---had widened in recent years. It also said that the country's senior citizens trail all other age groups in computer ownership and Internet access.
The report released today profiles projects funded under the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) administered by the department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). It illustrates how 11 communities sought to ensure that powerful new information technologies strengthened, not weakened, the bonds between neighbors.
"This report illustrates how communities are discovering ways to use information technology to learn more about their own neighborhoods, to gain new insights into local problems and to use it to improve their lives," Secretary Mineta said. "It shows how networking tools are helping local communities keep pace with social and economic advances in the 21st century," he added.
Secretary Mineta also called on Congress to increase funding for the TOP program, which is at its lowest level since it was created in 1994. The Administration's request is to increase TOP funding to $45 million to support innovative local projects to close the digital divide. "I really hope Congress will join in the effort to close the digital divide by increasing funding for the TOP program," Mineta said.
"TOP funded projects outlined in this report illustrate the fully-connected community of the 21st century that uses local information as a vital community asset, empowering citizens to compete electronically in the global economy," Gregory L. Rohde, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, said.
The TOP program promotes the widespread availability and use of advanced
telecommunications technologies in the public and non-profit sectors. TOP
grants are provided for model projects demonstrating innovative uses of
network technology to benefit communities across the country, especially
those in rural and underserved areas.
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CHAVEZ TO OBAMA: FORGET GLOBAL WARS, FIX DOMESTIC WOES|
Posted On: November 9th, 2012
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By Andrew Cawthorne
CARACAS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. government's chief antagonist in Latin America, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, has advised newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid further entanglement in international conflicts and concentrate on fixing internal problems.
"He should reflect first on his own nation, which has a lot of economic and social problems. It's a divided, socially fractured country with a super-elite exploiting the people," the socialist president said late on Thursday in his first reaction to Obama's victory this week.
The maverick Chavez, who has inherited Fidel Castro's mantle as Latin America's most voluble challenger of U.S. power and policy, said it was time Obama pulled back from global affairs.
"He should dedicate himself to governing his country and forget dividing and invading other nations," added Chavez, who has constantly criticized U.S. involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hot spots around the world.
To the disappointment of the U.S. government, Chavez was re-elected for another six-year term in October, providing a continued platform to implement his self-styled socialist revolution and keep railing against Washington.
The 58-year-old Chavez, a quieter figure these days after a year of debilitating treatment for two bouts of cancer, had backed Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the White House.
Nevertheless, he does not disguise his disappointment in Obama, accusing him of perpetuating the same aggressive foreign policies as his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Since his Oct. 7 presidential election victory over opposition challenge Henrique Capriles, Chavez has been relatively subdued, only popping up on state television once or twice a week in meetings with ministers.
He has made no major new policy announcements, beyond promising more efficiency in government and a widening of socialist "communes" across Venezuelan society.
Many Venezuelans expect a devaluation of the bolivar currency in coming months - the black market rate is three times the official one - and perhaps more nationalizations in an economy where Chavez has radically increased state ownership.
"I'M NO WOLF"
Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Chavez made light of nationalization concerns, urging businesses not to fear him.
"Come and invest! Don't believe the fairy tale that we're going to expropriate you," he said in comments on state TV.
Earlier in the week, Chavez plied the same line, espousing a supposed new moderation toward private business that critics scoff at as hypocritical and barely believable.
"It's totally false that I have a plan to expropriate everyone," he said then. "Don't be deceived by that tale of 'here comes the wolf.' Lies. I'm urging you to come and work."
He was less conciliatory in his view of Venezuela's upcoming state elections on Dec. 16, casting them in his Thursday appearance as a continuation of the state's battle against "counter-revolutionary" candidates of "the bourgeoisie."
"We have to keep fighting this ideological confrontation," he urged his candidates for governorships in the 23 states.
The most closely watched vote is in Miranda state, where incumbent governor Capriles aims to hold off a challenge from Elias Jaua, a heavyweight Chavez ally and former vice president.
Should Capriles lose, it would dent his status as Venezuela's main opposition leader and deal another blow to the coalition of anti-Chavez parties already demoralized by their failure to oust him from the presidency.
However, pollster IVAD put Capriles way ahead this week, with 55 percent of voter intentions versus 34 percent for Jaua. The opposition currently holds seven states.
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|Front Page News & Announcements Campus Facts Staff Directory Map to Our Campus Visit Main Web Site Administration CAC Members PTA Officers School Report Card & AEIS Information Testing Calendar Campus Calendar Lunch Menu Internet Links Bond Projects Supplemental Education Services Texas Educator Excellence Grant ACC College Connection||
Travis (William B. Travis) High School
The mission of William B. Travis High School, through its commitment to excellence, is to promote individual student success and responsibility within a caring and cooperative environment.
Facilitate the creation of a School-to-Career transition system for all students (including special education) from Pre-K through 12th and beyond. Integrate higher level of thinking skills and problem solving into all academic classrooms. Teachers in grades PreK -12 will collaborate and exchange ideas to improve student performance in math, reading, and writing. Continue to expand the number of students taking and receiving credit for advanced placement tests. Publicize merits of program to community with special emphasis on parents and students in feeder/vertical team schools. All students will be provided with rules for attendance. Provide students/parents with early information when absences occur. Motivational incentives will be implemented consisting of short term goals to improve attendance. Major initiatives will be implemented to bring the community and school together.
Major Programs and Initiatives
The Travis Communications Academy A school-to-career academy was developed which is called the Communications Academy. This academy will allow students to specialize in the areas of Multimedia, Teleproduction, and Telecommunications. Students learn industry standard processes and software in their area of chosen study. After graduation they may receive employment in these fields or continue their education at a two or four year college. Articulation agreements with area institutions for college course credit in escrow are being expanded to include our selections being offered. A career center was established and is being staffed by Mike Garcia,through support from the Capitol Area Training Foundation. Multimedia, Telecommunications, and Teleproduction The Travis Multimedia program has been in existence for three years. This program is one of the first of its type in the state of Texas. Students learn all of the aspects of producing multimedia and eventually author their own CD-roms. Students learn very advanced software which is used by the Austin multimedia industry. Junior and senior students have the opportunity to participate in paid and unpaid internships. Telecommunications is a new feature of the academy where students will learn how to create their own web pages. The teleproduction program has been in existence for several years and is known as YouthVUE. This program is done in conjunction with other members of the vertical team and KVUE Channel 24. Programs of local interest are produced to be shown every two weeks during news casts. The Travis Vertical Team The Travis vertical team was the first such vertical team in the state of Texas. The vertical team is a close partnership between the elementary, middle school feeders, higher education (UT and St. Edwards) and Travis High School. This collaboration ensures a consistent and coordinated curriculum from kindergarten to college. A vertical team advanced placement project called the Renaissance Program was developed to support the Communication Academy and increase student participation in advanced coursework. To address math test scores, a vertical team Math Cadre was developed to address curriculum alignment and to develop common problem solving strategies and math vocabulary throughout the vertical team. Math teachers attended regional, as well as national conferences on mathematics. Math teachers organized a TAAS Roundup during both semesters to help support students prior to testing. Partnerships with St. Edward\\\'s University, Southwest Texas State University, and the University of Texas were enhanced through programs such as the Science/Math Homework Help Line, NEA Action Research, the EPC, and teacher education and research programs. The development of the Delta Program and the use of Nova Net was implemented to reduce the dropout rate and accelerate graduation. Freshman Transition Course 9th grade students at Travis High School have a special transition course to ensure academic success and adjustment to high school life. This program also addresses study and social skills. Other 9th grade initiates addressed include academic teaming, the construction of a low-impact ropes training facility, and the establishment of a High School Portfolio program which contains career and educational plans for each student. Mentor School Travis High School has been selected as a mentor school by the Texas Education Agency. This honor recognizes the innovation being implemented at Travis. Schools from across the state come to Travis to learn about how to restructure and innovate. Faculty Travis has an outstanding faculty. Many of its members have advanced degrees as well as national and statewide awards. For example, the Multimedia instructor is one of the two Christa McAuliffe fellows in AISD.
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galgil wrote:so 3g networks are safer or at least more challenging to eavesdrop e.t.c? as you see i have opened a thread about a way for someone to discover your mobile number through a sd memory card. But if you say that it can be done by a neighboor then maybe an sd card isn't even needed to sniff the mobile number in a specific range close to you.
I know this is kind of old but..
GSM networks do indeed operate under the A5/1 (some regions A5/2) encryption scheme. The fact that they are vulnerable though poses just a question as to what kind of expense one needs to go in order to decipher data.
3G networks are not secure either. They operate under the KASUMI system which was cracked a couple of years ago aswell.
All in all, mobile data transmission (be it voice,text or whatever) is NOT secure. So if you plan on having some kind of confidential conversation, nothing beats face to face. Or using a HAIPE device
"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
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The flight to Japan was half full. It reminded me of similar flights I have taken to other disasters-Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Katrina, 9-11 in Manhattan. It sounds like the return flight may be full. The immigration hall for arriving passengers is completely empty. No one is coming to Japan these days. A passenger on the plane told me that 170,000 foreigners have left Japan since the earthquake. I wonder about all the Japanese people who have no choice but to stay.
I take 3 trains to get to the CRASH headquarters. All are crowded with evening commuters. People are very helpful with directions. They ask me in broken English why I am here. I respond with one of the few Japanese words I know--tsunami. They look down and say nothing. There is great sadness here.
I'm staying in the home of a missionary family on vacation. I have the top bunk of a teenage boy. As I climb into bed, the room starts to rock. An aftershock. For a few moments, nothing is stable. My bed continues to shake. I wonder what others here are thinking. It wasn't an earthquake. Only an aftershock. But, I'm sure it served as a reminder to many of the terrible disaster that happened here .
Tomorrow, I head for Sendai, one of the areas most affected by the tsunami. CRASH has assistance centers throughout the area. I look forward to seeing how they are using our support to bring hope and critical resources in a very difficult situation.
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Background: Insulin replacement in diabetes often requires prandial intervention to reach hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) targets.
Objective: To test whether twice-daily exenatide injections reduce HbA1c levels more than placebo in people receiving insulin glargine.
Design: Parallel, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, blocked and stratified by HbA1c level at site, performed from October 2008 to January 2010. Participants, investigators, and personnel conducting the study were masked to treatment assignments. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT00765817)
Setting: 59 centers in 5 countries.
Patients: Adults with type 2 diabetes and an HbA1c level of 7.1% to 10.5% who were receiving insulin glargine alone or in combination with metformin or pioglitazone (or both agents).
Intervention: Assignment by a centralized, computer-generated, random-sequence interactive voice-response system to exenatide, 10 µg twice daily, or placebo for 30 weeks.
Measurements: The primary outcome was change in HbA1c level. Secondary outcomes included the percentage of participants with HbA1c values of 7.0% or less and 6.5% or less, 7-point self-monitored glucose profiles, body weight, waist circumference, insulin dose, hypoglycemia, and adverse events.
Results: 112 of 138 exenatide recipients and 101 of 123 placebo recipients completed the study. The HbA1c level decreased by 1.74% with exenatide and 1.04% with placebo (between-group difference, −0.69% [95% CI, −0.93% to −0.46%]; P < 0.001). Weight decreased by 1.8 kg with exenatide and increased by 1.0 kg with placebo (between-group difference, −2.7 kg [CI, −3.7 to −1.7]). Average increases in insulin dosage with exenatide and placebo were 13 U/d and 20 U/d. The estimated rate of minor hypoglycemia was similar between groups. Thirteen exenatide recipients and 1 placebo recipient discontinued the study because of adverse events (P < 0.010); rates of nausea (41% vs. 8%), diarrhea (18% vs. 8%), vomiting (18% vs. 4%), headache (14% vs. 4%), and constipation (10% vs. 2%) were higher with exenatide than with placebo.
Limitations: The study was of short duration. There were slight imbalances between groups at baseline in terms of sex, use of concomitant glucose-lowering medications, and HbA1c levels, and more exenatide recipients than placebo recipients withdrew because of adverse events.
Conclusion: Adding twice-daily exenatide injections improved glycemic control without increased hypoglycemia or weight gain in participants with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes who were receiving insulin glargine treatment. Adverse events of exenatide included nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, and constipation.
Primary Funding Source: Alliance of Eli Lilly and Company and Amylin Pharmaceuticals.
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Marilyn Monroe's legacy in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, New York City and Westwood is legendary. But, when Marilyn needed a calmer escape, the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley became her getaway.
The Valley was important early in her career — and people who lived there were important to her memory.
In a few of the video clips enclosed above in the gallery to this story (above) are Monroe's arrival to a party at the home of Ray Anthony in Studio City on Aug. 3, 1952. Before that rather abrupt helicopter landing, she prepped and powdered up nearby at Dorothy Dandridge's house. The video is a rare clip, and photos of the private affair were taken by a David White Stereo Realist Camera, a dual-lens point and shoot that creates a three-dimensional effect when seen through a special viewer. (They are available for sale.)
On a personal note, I knew a few of the significant people in Monroe's life who lived in the Valley. I knew Marilyn's step-sister Bebe Goddard, who lived in North Hollywood, who lived with her as a child in Van Nuys.
I befriended Evelyn Moriarty, who lived most of her life in Valley Village and was Monroe's stand-in and was the startlet's friend in the last part of her life. And, I interviewed Bob Slatzer, who lived at the time in Studio City, and he claimed to have married Monroe and said she loved going to the Studio City Theatre which is now the
I introduced all of them to Teresa Seeger, one of the founders of the longest-running Marilyn Monroe fan club, Marilyn Remembered. (She writes film reviews for Studio City Patch under her pen name Cheyenne Chasen.)
There are great stories about Monroe in the Valley. She tried "making sushi" at her house here for her first husband, James Dougherty, after he brought fish home when they lived in Van Nuys. She has on Cahuenga Boulevard and was rumored to hang out at the .
She went to 10th grade at Van Nuys High School, 6535 Cedros Ave., where her co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jane Russell also went to school. In fact, their handprints and footprints are now immortalized next to each other at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
In Burbank, near the Media Triangle, Monroe rented an apartment on a second floor, and she also rented a place in Toluca Lake (although reports are sketchy to the exact address, so we are not confirming it).
In Van Nuys, the Radio Plane Corporation at 7901 Woodley Ave. was significant because it was when a then-unknown Norma Jeanne was discovered by photographer David Conover and she got her first modeling job.
She also lived on 4524 Vista Del Monte St. in Sherman Oaks, click here for photo of the house.
Here are other significant San Fernando Valley addresses for Marilyn where she was known to live, and the years:6707 Odessa Ave Van Nuys, CA 1937 14743 Archwoods St Van Nuys, CA 1937 6707 Odessa Ave Van Nuys, CA 1938 11348 Nebraska Ave. Sawtelle, CA 1938-41 6707 Odessa Ave. Van Nuys, CA 1941-42 11348 Nebraska Ave. Sawtelle, CA 1942 4524 Vista Del Monte St. Sherman Oaks, CA 1942 14747 Archwood St. Van Nuys, CA
1943131 South Avon St. Burbank, CA
An award-winning Marilyn Monroe impersonator, Charleen Haynes, still lives in Studio City, and above in the video gallery is a performance at Studio City's once-legendary Queen Mary of drag performer Heather Fontaine as Marilyn Monroe.
Another little-known Monroe trivia note is that her mother, Gladys, was labeled insane and put into the Rockhaven Sanitorium, and when she was 63 years old, she escaped. Police found her a day later wandering Ventura Boulevard in Studio City.
Also, Studio City owns some of Monroe's furniture and he "speaks" to her regularly. He tells us that Marilyn's spirit is very much still in Studio City—and she feels very much at home here.
A reception following the memorial service will be held at the Westwood Presbyterian Church fellowship hall. A Hugh Hefner-signed Marilyn Monroe painting of the first cover of Playboy will be on display at the reception and offered for sale to benefit children suffering from abuse and neglect. To view or learn more, go to www.hollygrove.org/help/events_marilynpainting.shtml .
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Early in my career, long before the Internet, I assembled file folders on every environmental organization I had ever heard of -- their literature, fund-raising letters, annual reports, etc. I was unknowingly assembling a portion of what Richard Seireeni is calling, in his new book, "The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today's Most Visible Green Brands." The Gort Cloud is named after the Oort cloud, a field of stellar debris that orbits our solar system -- although its mass exceeds that of the earth, it is invisible to us.
If you've worked in the environmental field at any level, you're likely aware of this invisible network connecting millions of environmentally aware people. On one hand, it is the enforcer of credibility standards -- a watchdog against greenwashing. On the other hand, it is a partner, providing insights into consumer preferences, linking manufacturers to distributors to retailers, and being the ultimate sounding board for anyone marketing a product or service to the highly focused audience of the green consumer.
While huge consumer products companies rely on advertising (what Seth Godin calls "shouting at strangers"), start-up green companies reach out directly to the Gort Cloud, using one-on-one relationships with green academics, NGOs, certifying organizations, news outlets, trendspotters, distributors, and eco-conscious consumers to build their brands. Because everyone is connected by the common goal of sustainability and powered by the currency of transparency, start-up green companies can gain an edge over the titans whose advertising strategies are less effective every year.
The Gort Cloud has aspects of Web 2.0, viral marketing, crowdsourcing, and social media, but more than that, it is an amazing business resource for honest green companies. It delivers a market (and marketing partners) at a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising and with greater credibility.
In his book, Seireeni explains how 23 successful green companies (including Seventh Generation) built their brands using this invisible marketing force to reach the green community. To see a visualization of The Gort Cloud click here (pdf).
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British Prime Minister David Cameron promised the government would "ensure everything is being done to help" after winds and torrential rain left one person dead and forced hundreds from their homes.
His comments came as the UK's Environment Agency revealed more than 800 homes have been flooded.
A 21-year-old woman was killed and two people were seriously injured in Exeter, Devon when they were crushed by a tree.
It follows the death of a man on Thursday, who died when his car became wedged under a bridge near a ford in Chew Stoke, Somerset.
A 50-year-old man also died after falling into a canal in Watford on Saturday.
The agency issued more than 550 alerts, including 280 flood warnings - the second strongest alert.
People were forced to flee their homes last night as flood water and torrential rain caused "serious threats to life" in villages in Cornwall.
Special rest centres were set up in the worst-hit villages, though Cornwall Council said these were all later stood down as people returned home or went elsewhere as flood threats stabilised.
Severe flood warnings have been issued for Lostwithiel, Helston, Polperro and Perranporth in Cornwall, where rivers threatening to burst their banks.
Roads have also been closed across the region as highways became impassable because of rain and debris.
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I was pleased to see an editorial in the Globe regarding urban grilling (“Urban grilling: a sizzling business opportunity,” July 28). But your idea of dealing with violations in part by anticipating the manufacture of safer grills does not address the immediate problem adequately.
Grills are in common use on rooftops and decks all around the community where I live. In my condominium, fire safety inspections are routinely ignored, and fire safety inspectors have been verbally abused.
Street cleaning improved measurably after increased parking fines and towing were implemented. Fire safety inspectors need strong, straightforward methods for dealing with grill safety, and if, after one written warning, violations continue, confiscation of grills and heavy fines might be in order.
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A Canadian mining company is punching back after being hit with
an uppercut by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Northern Dynasty Minerals (AMEX:
is a co-owner of the Pebble project, a polymetallic deposit located
200 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska. The site contains copious
amounts of gold, copper and molybdenum.
Northern Dynasty and a 50/50 European partner have put significant
financial resources into studying and assessing the mine in the
hope of one day pulling out its vast riches. And there is no
disputing the wealth that Pebble holds: 67 million ounces of gold,
3.3 billion pounds molybdenum and 55 billion pounds of copper.
But those hopes may have just been dashed, or at least delayed.
The EPA recently released a harsh watershed assessment report that
outlines numerous concerns, most notably the potential threat of a
dam breach that could leak waste material from the mine into the
surrounding Bristol Bay -- one of the world's largest salmon
This is not the final word on the project, but the opposition does
present a formidable roadblock to future development. Themarket
reacted swiftly, lopping nearly 40% off Northern Dynastyshares over
a brutal three-day selloff.
Why am I bringing this up? Because I see a potential
Scarcity & Real Wealth
readers know that I seldom see eye-to-eye with the EPA. And while I
don't agree with its ruling, the EPA may have just handed investors
an opportunity to take a flier on this stock -- and potentially
My take on the ruling
As a Louisiana native and avid fisherman, I witnessed firsthand the
damage caused by
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and understand the importance of
protecting waterways. I don't think anyone would dispute the need
for common sense safeguards.
But any regulations have to be balanced with the need to create
jobs, reduce dependence on foreign oil, keep homeowners' gas and
electricity bills in check, and harvest the nation's vital energy
and metals resources.
Those goals are usually at odds with the EPA's single-minded
mission to block drilling and mining projects rather than look for
compromise and solutions. The agency frequently overplays the hand
it has been dealt. Just last week, it was rebuked by a federal
appeals court that overturned a heavy-handed EPA mandate meant to
cripple coal-fired power plants.
In this particular case, the agency jumped the gun. Why do I say
that? Because Northern Dynasty hasn't submitted any specific plans
or proposals for the Pebble Mine. Heck, it hasn't even formally
applied for an environmental permit yet.
The Bristol Watershed report was a pre-emptive strike. And it was
based solely on hypothetical mining scenarios.
How can you assess the potential impact of a project that hasn't
even been designed yet? That's like rejecting a future job
candidate a few months before they officially turn in an
application and without anyone having read their resume.
For its part, Northern Dynasty argues that the EPA findings are
based on distorted maps and figures that "lean heavily" on
political propaganda disseminated by environmental groups.
The company also notes that the mine is little more than a speck,
covering just one-twentieth of one percent of the land in question.
The surrounding waters account for less than 1% of the bay's total
Pebble's owners have spent eight years (and $150 million) studying
the potential environmental impact. Those data were compiled in a
27,000 page report that was submitted to the EPA last December.
However, this work reportedly came in too late to be evaluated --
never mind that the company hasn't yet applied for a permit.
Ironically, the EPA dragged its heels for years on the Keystone
Pipeline and ultimately rejected the proposal because more study
time was needed. This time, the agency was in such a rush to pass
judgment that it apparently didn't even take the time to evaluate
Fortunately, this was only a rough draft (the final version is due
out in November). And a peer-review panel of 12 independent
scientists and consultants who were asked to review the report
skewered it earlier this month.
Some citedmultiple errors, omissions, flaws and inconsistencies.
Others logically pointed out that you can't reasonably determine
ecological risk from a project that is still in the hypothetical
Such stinging criticism from independent experts will force the EPA
to start over and rely more on science than politics -- which means
the Pebble Mine still has a fair chance.
Risks to Consider:
The difficulties that Northern Dynasty is facing underscore the
risk and uncertainty shared by all junior and exploratory miners.
The lesson here is simple: don't place too much value on metals in
the ground until they can be brought to the surface.
Action to Take -->
Northern Dynasty has a veteran management team. If the company can
sidestep the environmental hurdles and begin production, this $2
stock would be a steal. But that's a big "if". For now, I plan to
keep Northern Dynasty on my watch list.
-- Nathan Slaughter
P.S. -- While I'm waiting to pull the trigger on Northern
Dynasty, there's another "Scarcity" situation you need to know
about. It involves the Russians, a nuclear "crisis" and an
emergency briefing involving President Obama. You couldn't make
this stuff up. For details, go here.
Nathan Slaughter does not personally hold positions in any
securities mentioned in this article. StreetAuthority LLC does not
hold positions in any securities mentioned in this article.
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Refugees find new life in regional Queensland
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says a successful refugee settlement program in central Queensland could be rolled out to other regional areas.
Mr Bowen is in Rockhampton today to launch a report into the experiences of eight Afghan men who have been resettled and employed in the city.
The report, 'Settlement Works' by the Multicultural Development Association (MDA), profiles the experiences of asylum seekers who have settled in Rockhampton.
The MDA began an assistance program in Rockhampton last year.
Mr Bowen says the success of the program is proof resettlement can work in regional areas if the right support networks are in place.
"Over the last five years, we've had about 300 people - as best we can tell - move to Rockhampton who've been in our humanitarian program," he said.
"That's a pretty reasonable number.
"It shows that there's demand to come here and certainly demand from employers to hire people.
"I think it is a good model, a best practice model, that could be rolled out in other areas if other areas chose to look to the Rockhampton model as to how it can work."
MDA chief executive Kerrin Benson says the program has helped those who have moved to Rockhampton understand Australian culture.
"They need to know how our culture works and how our systems work and that can be something that they need to learn," he said.
"What we're also finding is that people are incredibly grateful and they're really motived to work and very motivated to be good residents here in Rockhampton."
Mr Benson says the program can be used in other regions with labour shortages.
"We're really keen to tell the story and to say to other employers that are looking for workers that there are a large number of really motivated refugees worth consdering as a workforce stategy," he said.
He says it shows asylum seekers are willing to move to regional centres.
"A few people move to the big bright lights of Sydney or Melbourne, but increasingly we're finding people from Sydney or Melbourne are really really keen to move up to Rockhampton, because they've heard it's a great place to find work and people are really welcoming and it's a great place to settle and raise a family," he said.
Many asylum seekers who have resettled in Rockhampton are Hazara people, an ethnic minority persecuted in Afghanistan.
Ghulam Haider, from the Central Queensland Hazara Association, says there is a strong sense of understanding in the community.
"We are trying our best to take part and responsibility in our community," he said.
"I haven't seen any difficulties or discrimination or anything - we don't have [any] in Rockhampton."
Mr Haider says educating the community is helping to overcome some misconceptions.
"Some people, they were thinking that we are Al Qaeda or we are Taliban," he said.
"We are trying to explain for the people that we are different to them.
"This is the reason that we left our country - that there was no chance for living for us."
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As part of the ehospice remit to bring you expertise and experience of the global hospice and palliative care community we share Dr Beatriz Thompson’s inspirational article on hospice and palliative care in Belize. Dr Thompson is co-founder of the Belize Hospice Palliative Care Foundation – it was her realisation of the need for quality care for cancer patients while working in a hospital in Mexico that led her to return to her native Belize to evaluate end of life care services and resources available to Belizeans. At that time, the people in Belize did not have anyone available to help them in managing their pain or to care for them during end of life.
The Belize Hospice Palliative Care Foundation was born from the minds of a group of housewives, teachers, nurses, doctors, tax collectors, bank employees who gave voluntarily of their time and resources for those who were diagnosed with end-stage cancer in Belize.
However, in pursuit of an organised manner of serving these people it developed a mission, vision, short term goals, long term goals. It hopes that we may always be there for our brothers and sisters who are going through the experience of cancer, in a humble, compassionate, committed and available manner. In Belize the majority of cancer patients are diagnosed in late stages.
Up until 2008, cancer care was only available to those who could afford to travel outside of Belize, and except for pethidine and codeine there was not any other opioid for pain management. As a foundation we started lobbying with the ministry of health to facilitate the availability of oral opioids in Belize. In 2010 this became a reality. This has changed the faces of our patients who were dying in excruciating pain to now people who can still be able to sit out of bed, be able to go to the park, enjoy get together with other patients and their families.
The ideal hospice and palliative care is still a dream yet to become a reality, since we are still a group of volunteers going to our patients when we can. There are some of our patients who are homeless and family-less and it is our goal to get them a home where they can enjoy God's presence, nature and its beauty and just have peace and tranquillity and when its time to go to embrace death as a transitioning process.
As a foundation we have networked and linked and we hope that one of our goals of incorporating palliative care into the nursing school curriculum will be a reality by 2013-2014 God willing.
It's been a joy to be able to work with this type of patient and to see how God has provided big time for them and also to see how this has grown from an idea to what is our reality at the moment in Belize.
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RE: Nitrates for plants, how to up nitrates?
In my two planted tanks, I have some biological filtration occurring. Now,
if I need to increase my nitrates since they're at 0 in both tanks, should I
take the biological filter media out of the filters?
Tank 1 info:
29 gallon planted in my office with vals, hydro, java moss, crypts and
elodea. pH is 7.5 to 7.8. The water is hard and I've introduced a
DIY-yeast CO2 bottle to help lower the hardness. I have a power filter with
sponge on the intake pulling in the CO2 bubbles and another sponge in the
power filter. Fish are: 2 swords, 1 male betta, 2 corys, 3 red eye tetras,
4 ottos, and a growing guppy population currently at 4. Oh, and a ton of
small assorted snails. Fish get fed 5x week.
The plants are very slow growing even with the 3 watt/gallon and 3x weekly
fertilizing with Natural Gold. Substrate is just gravel with mulm. Had a
blue-green algae bloom when I arrived back from vacation thanks to the guy
over feeding my fish. Now it's under control after I rinsed the plants off
and replanted. Had some hair algae, bought the swords, now that's under
control. Also added Algae Fix for 1 week upon return. No plant loss. Java
moss is growing like crazy. Hydro is growing very slowly. Some of the new
growth on vals is light green. Elodea growth is very slow.
90 gallon planted with vals, hydro, java moss, crypts, rotola indica,
elodea, pearl grass, java fern, clover, hair grass, hornwort, sunset hydro,
and a number of unidentified stems that just keep coming up. pH is 7.2 to
7.4. Water is not as hard as office tank. No CO2 yet. Filtered by a
Fluval 404 with sponge inserts and BioMax rings in two of the levels. Fish:
8 tiger barbs, 5 clown loaches (3"), 8 corys, 2 mollies, handful of guppies,
4 gold tetras, 1 sm pl*co, 6 ottos, minimal number of snails. Fish get fed
Substrate is 1" kitty litter, 1" sand, 2-3" gravel and mulm. 2
watts/gallon. Vals grow like crazy. Hydro gets trimmed 2x month.
Otherwise, minimal pruning. Fertilized with Natural Gold daily. Had a
small beard algae growth on old plants leaves. Added Algae Fix, now it's
almost gone. No plant loss.
Even when I started the tanks back in early May, I've never had any
nitrates/nitrites registering on my tests. Now, I'm concerned that the
plants aren't getting any nitrates and that's why I've had some algae growth
lately. I was thinking of pulling out all the biomedia and replacing it
with just floss. Would that increase my nitrates? Or would I need to add
even more fish? I don't like crowded tanks.
In St Paul, MN
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Nutrition- PCF nutritional philosophy is quite simple. We do not like the term “diet” nor do we believe in anything that is too restrictive or difficult to follow with the modern day lifestyle. We know that 80% of the effectiveness of any training program comes from what you put in your mouth each and every day- regardless of the intensity of the training. This is why we take the nutrition component of our services so seriously.
What do we advise for our clients? In very broad terms we follow the advice of Greg Glassman- CrossFit’s founder. “Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise, but not excess body fat.” There are a million ways to skin the cat- but we find our trainees that have the best results conform to a more whole foods style of eating with reference to food quality and incorporate good carbohydrates, lean proteins and healthy fats proportionately at each meal and snack.
By tweaking around with the proportions of protein vs. fat vs. carbohydrates, we are able to dial in performance fueling programs for our trainees based on their individual goals and their desire to succeed.
Whether you’re looking for a way to lose weight, gain energy or maintain proper nutrition, AdvoCare has what you’re looking for. AdvoCare offers health and wellness products that fit every lifestyle. Thousands of people just like you choose AdvoCare products because they work. World-class professional athletes endorse them; amateur athletes and weekend warriors have achieved amazing results with them. The power of AdvoCare products lies in the stories of those who use them. Find out more about the people who have experienced life-changing results with AdvoCare.
High Intensity vs. Long Slow Cardio
We are often asked how short, intense workouts can provide better fat loss benefits than traditional long duration, low power workouts in the so called “Fat Burning Zone.” The “Fat Burning Zone” is supposed to be exercise done at around 50% VO2 max. That means, working at half (50%) of your aerobic capacity (V02 max). In other words, slow and easy. Jogging or other slow paced exercise on “cardio” machines is often proclaimed to be the most efficient way to lose weight. But, it’s not.
Do you know anyone who jogs for miles every week and cannot lose weight? The people you see who religiously do 30-60 minutes on the elliptical machine look about the same as they did months ago, don’t they? Why aren’t they getting fitter? And why are we, CrossFitters, getting such amazing results while our workouts last a mere 20 minutes?
We’ve all seen the charts on cardio machines and on the walls of traditional gyms that erroneously show that the most effective fat burning exercise occurs when the heart rate is in the range of 55% to 65% of maximum. These charts are in exercise science books everywhere. This inaccurate obsession is based on research which shows that when we exercise at 50% of VO2 max (low intensity cardio) our body draws about 50% of its energy from stored fat, and that when we go to higher intensity, 70% or more of VO2 max (CrossFit), we only draw about 33% of our energy from stored fat. All this is true (Romijn et al and other researchers have come to similar conclusions). But, we burn more calories overall with a more intense workout. A smaller percentage of a bigger total can be better than a larger percentage of a smaller total. Would you rather have 1% of a million dollars, or 50% of a thousand?
Now, if you go on an all day hike or four-hour bike ride, you will burn a significant amount of body fat (that is, if you don’t sustain an overuse injury in the process). Possibly more than during our 20 minute workouts. But if you don’t have 4-8 hours every day to work out, high intensity is the way to go (assuming a level of intensity that is safe for you). Obviously, “high intensity” is a different value for everyone. My grandmother’s high intensity will be drastically different from a college athlete’s high intensity; it’s all relative.
But there is more to the story than just the amount of fat burned during the exercise session. High intensity exercise raises your metabolism for a longer period of time post exercise than slower paced aerobics. After finishing an intense (but short) workout, your metabolism may be higher for up to 14 hours afterwards. But at the end of a slow, steady jog, your body will be back to it’s steady state within an hour and you will be right back where you started. A higher metabolism post workout means you are burning more calories, even if you’re sitting at a desk most of the day. Not to mention, you will have significantly more energy!
More vigorous workouts will give you greater fat loss and better overall fitness than slow and easy workouts. If you have limited time to workout, interval training will help you reach your goals faster. However, you should never jump right into a high intensity exercise program. You must begin by learning the techniques and movement patterns. Only then can you begin to gradually increase the intensity level of your workouts. Your body will need time to adapt to the stimulus, as it is vastly different from watching tv on a stairclimber. But, you will not be disappointed with the results!
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When Suu Kyi travels to the US in September, she will be presented the country’s highest award, the Congressional Gold Medal, officials announced on Wednesday.
|Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her Nobel Prize speech during a ceremony at Oslo's City Hall on June 16, 2012. Photo: AFP|
The US’s top honor was bestowed by the US Congress in 2008, when Suu Kyi was under house arrest.
During the trip, the exact dates are not yet known, she will also receive the Atlantic Council’s “Global Citizen” award, which is also being presented to former diplomat Henry Kissinger, Japan's Sadako Ogata, a former UN high commissioner for refugees, and Quincy Jones, a composer and musician. She is scheduled to receive the award in New York City on Sept. 21.
The trip, following Suu Kyi’s five-country tour of Europe in June, will mark her first return to the US since she worked in New York City at the UN from 1969 to 1971. Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November 2010, and earlier this year was elected to the Burmese Parliament.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited Suu Kyi to Washington when the top US diplomat paid a landmark visit to Burma in December. Since then, the US has suspended investment sanctions against Burma and US companies are poised to invest in the country’s oil and gas fields and other businesses.
A delegation of top US business leaders and economic officials travelled to Burma last week to meet with officials and talk business deals. General Electric was the first US company to strike a deal that involved medical equipment, and said it is ready to do deals in producing electrical energy, health care and other areas.
Suu Kyi remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the past 21 years, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
In April 2012, her opposition party, the National League for Democracy, won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the Lower House.
Suu Kyi, 67, is the third child and only daughter of Aung San, considered to be the father of modern-day Burma.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Your recent articles regarding oil and gas development in Routt County bring to mind many questions. It would be marvelous to reap the benefits of new jobs for Routt County and to reduce dependence on foreign oil for our nation, but first we must learn how this would affect our community.
One well is already in place near Wolf Mountain. A proposed second well on the Camilletti property was tabled until March 1 by the Routt County Planning Commission. While the county researches the issues regarding the tabled proposal, the Steamboat Pilot & Today has an opportunity to present an authoritative series of articles giving us all an accurate picture of what to expect if these two exploratory wells were to go into full production and if many more wells were to be permitted in the future. Here are a few questions to start the conversation:
■ How many trucks a day will haul out the oil produced? Will they carry that oil through downtown Steamboat to the refinery in Commerce City or through Hayden to Utah? How will the natural gas be moved?
■ How equipped are our roads and bridges for this traffic? Will the oil companies pay for road construction and repair?
■ How prepared are we for an emergency such as an explosion, fire or cave-in at the well site?
■ In your article of Jan. 18, what does the third tank in the picture contain? Its contents are described as “well fluids,” but what are they?
■ Will there be hydraulic fracturing at these wells? If so, what fluids will be used? Where will the water come from and how will the used water be disposed of? Is waterless fracking an option?
■ What will be the effect on our water and air quality?
■ Do we know how many wells could potentially be permitted?
Social, economic concerns
■ How many jobs for these projects will go to local workers?
■ How many people will be imported? Where will they be housed?
■ What impact can our schools expect?
■ Some oil-boom communities have experienced increases in drug and alcohol use, crime and sexually transmitted disease. What precautions can we take to avoid these?
■ How will this affect property values? Our tourism industry?
I inherited mineral rights years ago from my grandfather, and I hold oil and gas leases. It is therefore especially important to me that if these leases go forward, it is with the utmost care and concern for the people and environment of Routt County. Please use your investigative resources to inform your readers about the impacts of the proposed oil and gas drilling on our communities.
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Women's Studies Program
Margaret Laurence Women's Studies Centre Speaker Series Presents
What Does Feminism Look Like?
This year the Margaret Laurence Women's Studies Centre Speaker Series will focus on making feminism visible revealing and exploring the many places where feminists are hard at work, and the many different ways in which feminists are working to make change. The series aims to build connections among feminist scholars, students, activists, artists and community workers, as well as to affirm and support the work of feminism in our communities.
Please join us for stimulating talks and conversation All Welcome!
January 12, 6:00-7:30, 1L07, University of Winnipeg
The Empire Has No Clothes: Experiential Learnings of an Eco-feminist MLA
with Marianne Cerelli
In this talk Marianne Cerelli will explore four political experiences what occurred, what she did, what happened and what we can learn from these experiences to work for change in the system of electoral politics, political parties, and health/environment/economy/development decision making. The four issues demonstrate how an Eco-feminist approach to politics is transformational by bringing together women's empowerment, with community development, health, sustainability and peace.
Marianne Cerilli was born in Toronto and grew up in Winnipeg. She has two degrees from the University of Manitoba, a Bachelor of Physical Education and Recreation Studies and a Bachelor of Education. She has traversed the political rapids as the youngest woman elected so far to the Manitoba Legislature, 1990-2003. Before pioneering new trails as an eco-feminist MLA she has gone from recreation leader and youth advocate, to volunteer and youth program consultant, to guidance counselor. Still trail blazing to the beat of her own drum, Marianne is starting her own community development business. Her business card says, Marianne Cerilli Change Agent: Community Development for Health, Sustainability and Peace. She is currently teaching part time at the University of Winnipeg, courses in women in politics, health education and Gender and Education. She is also currently an Advocate/Mentor in the core of Winnipeg at the West Central Womens Resource Centre, a womens advocacy and community development organization. With a career path that has been neither straight nor narrow, Marianne is also a mother/parent (with Glen) to six year old Mira, a writer and poet.
January 19, 7:00 - 8:30, Graffiti Gallery, 109 Higgins
Looking for Girl Land
with Chandra Mayor
Co-sponsored by the Manitoba Writers Guild and the Manitoba Arts Council
Part reading, part discussion, part performance, and part lecture, award-winning author Chandra Mayor embarks on an artistic feminist road trip to find and uncover Girl Land. In the never-never land of contemporary urban subcultures, where are the lost girls? What are their stories, and whos telling them? What are the taboos against telling, and how do we subvert them? From the almost-inner circles of neo-nazi skinheads to hard core mosh pits, from feminism as a life-line to the secret blogs of lesbian bar staff, Chandra shatters silences to tell girl stories funny, beautiful, painful, and real and asks, what are your stories?
Chandra Mayor is a Winnipeg writer and editor. Her first book, August Witch: poems, was short-listed for four Manitoba book awards and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes award for best first book. She is the recipient of the 2003 John Hirsch award for most promising Manitoba writer. Her second book, Cherry, a novel, was short-listed for the Margaret Laurence award for fiction and won the Carol Shields Winnipeg book award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and Chandra was a featured reader in the inaugural Poetry Train and Random Acts of Poetry events. She has appeared in writers' festivals and reading series across the country, and is currently the poetry co-editor for Prairie Fire magazine.
February 1, 12:30 - 1:30, University of Winnipeg
Are University Womyns Centres Feminist?
with Tanya McFadyen, Sabrina Deforest, Sarah Amoyt, Aviva Cipilinski and Meredith Mitchell
In this panel feminist student activists will discuss their views on and experiences with University Womyns Centres. They will discuss the role of feminism(s) within university womyn's centres by examining the intersection between feminist values and the customs, vision and practices of these centres, which can sometimes be in opposition to feminist values. They will also discuss the herstory of campus womyn's centres and feminist praxis, with a focus on both the Univeristy of Winnipeg's and University of Manitobas Womyn's Centres.
Tanya McFadyen is a fourth-year Honours Women's Studies student at the University of Winnipeg. During her four years at the University, shes had the opportunity to be chairperson of the UWSA Daycare Management Committee, a member of the Women's Studies Program committee, a regular host of a feminist campus radio show called 'Say it Sista' on CKUW 95.9 and a research assistant for the Margaret Laurence Women's Studies Centre. Currently she is Vice President Internal for the University of Winnipeg's Students' Association. She loves to organize events on and off campus, do homework, and spend time with her five-year-old daughter, Emily.
Sabrina Deforest is the current co-ordinator of the University of Winnipeg Students Womyns Centre. She is a third year Education student and has been a member of the Womyn's Centre on campus since her first year at the University of Winnipeg.
Sarah Amoyt is currently the General Coordinator at The University of Winnipeg Students' Association and has been a feminist activist and organizer on and off campus.
Aviva Cipilinski is proud to be a tree huggin', gender bending, raging feminist activist from the prairies. It is her passion to advocate for change both on and off campus and to take up as much space as she possibly can with her voice, body and spirit. She currently works as co-coordinator at the UofM Womyn's Centre, is one of many co-hosts on UMFM's feminist radio show Eve's Third Wave and is the Women's Representative on UMSU council. She is also involved in starting up a new Radical Cheerleading group in the city and is am a part of the newly formed Ladyfest Winnipeg collective.
Meredith Mitchell is finishing up the honours program in women's studies at the University of Manitoba. She has been a collective member at the University of Manitoba Womyn's Centre since 2002 and this year is one of the co-ordinators. She is also involved in starting up a new Radical Cheerleading group. Meredith loves watching new members use the space and get excited about feminist action. Plans for the future be more like my grandma.
February 22, 1:30-3:00, 2M70, University of Winnipeg
When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness
with Rozena Maart (Evening Reading to be announced)
Dr. Rozena Maart was nominated to the "Woman of the Year," award in 1987 at age 24, for her work in the area of violence against women and for starting, with four women, the first Black feminist organisation, WOMEN AGAINST REPRESSION, in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the winner of "The Journey Prize: Best Short Fiction in Canada," 1992. Her collection of stories entitled Rosa's District 6 encapsulates the lives of the people in Cape Town's District 6. Set during South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, these moving and fascinating tales demonstrate that even at a time of profound racial intolerance and strife, life goes on. Her scholarly work focuses primarily on language: as speech, the imagination and writing. She has given visiting lectures in Canada, The United States and England and is the Director of the Biko Institute, a small educational institute in Guelph, with four divisions, one of which is the Amilcar Cabral Arts Collective: a small collective whose focus in Media Arts is first and foremost the politics of resistance. Her work has been selected along with 23 African Canadians to be part of Black Ink/Encre Noire, which will be introduced by the new Governor General of Governor and will travel throughout the 10 provinces of Canada. She currently lives in Guelph, Ontario.
The talk will present conceptualisations around White Consciousness and the usage of Black Consciousness, historically and in its contemporary form, to articulate and put forward a politics of consciousness and a consciousness of politics. Merges between and among Black Consciousness, psychoanalysis, derridean deconstruction and feminist theory and practice will be examined and in the process the outcome of particular research with violence against women groups will be presented.
Excerpts from The Politics of Consciousness: The Consciousness of Politics. When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness From Volume One, Chapter One I bring the politics of Black Consciousness into confrontation with the absence of the knowledge of politics in psychoanalysis; I bring Derridean deconstruction into the realm of Black Consciousness, hold psychoanalysis under the darkness of Black Consciousness, examining their commonalities and differences, srcutinizing their relationship to key concepts such as resistance, consciousness, the unconscious, the mind and transference. Black Consciousness, Derridean deconstruction and psychoanalysis all focus on the mind. But it is not the mind that acts, it is the body--agency, the flesh--the racialised being who acts through his/her racially constructed identity.
From Volume Two, Chapter Seven The functioning of White Consciousness is therefore a world of words; words emptied of their historical facts, deprived of an understanding of naming, and the knowledge that such naming be associated with the direct relations with which words hold true to their historical meaning. It is this absence of the knowledge of White Consciousness that is created through the absence of the words with which to say it.
February 28, 1:30, Bulman Centre MPR, University of Winnipeg
Queer and Mennonite: Putting My Protestant Work Ethic to Good Use
with Jan Braun, in collaboration with LBGT**Gender Week
Co-sponsored with the Manitoba Writers Guild and the Manitoba Arts Council
In this reading and following discussion, writer Jan Guenther Braun will read from her work-in-progress, Somewhere Else, a work that tells the story of a young, queer Mennonite woman. Within this context there is an examination of how both personal and group mythology is created and why. Guenther Braun attempts to give a full and honest account of literary, theological, philosophical, geographical, and cultural influences within a blood, sweat and tears narrative struggling towards a personal truth.
Jan Guenther Braun is a writer who is also part of a collectively owned organic grocery store. On the weekends she performs civil marriages. In the past year she was selected for the Manitoba WritersGuild Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program, won the Manitoba round of the CBC Poetry Face-Off and received a Manitoba Arts Council Emerging Writers Grant. Jan is currently at work putting the finishing touches on her first novel which is tentatively entitled Somewhere Else. Originally from Saskatchewan, Jan grew up on a farm and moved to Winnipeg in 1997 earning a Bachelor of Theology from Canadian Mennonite Bible College in 2000 followed by a B.A., English Literature (Hons) from the University of Waterloo. In her work as an undergraduate in English Literature she focused on the transformative power of performance poetry within the context of communities in conflict. With a background in theology, farming, and performance poetry she integrates these themes in her writing through the lens of a queer Mennonite.
March 2, 2:30 -3:45, 3M63, University of Winnipeg
She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes: teaching places in the path of beauty with Debbie Schnitzer
In her imaging of the possible life and death of Shakespeare's unknown but equally gifted sister, Judith, Virginia Woolf observes that "if we worked for her," she would "come," "put on the body she has so often laid down." In this discussion of my own practice, I am imagining and exploring the conditions that encourage us to position ourselves thoughtfully and joyously in such meeting places, shape rooms that sustain and reveal our diverse, multivalent responses to the call of art.
Debbie Schnitzer is intrigued by correspondences among art forms, the biology and biography of the creative process and the way we represent and value the arts of discovery in learning cultures. She works as an editor, teacher, writer and activist.
March 8, International Womens Day, 3:30-5:00, 3M63 University of Winnipeg
International Womens Day Panel Discussion
Forming a Feminist Identity: Coming Out as A Feminist in the21st Century
with Meredith Milne
This panel is organized by University of Winnipeg Womens Studies student Meredith Milne as part of her Womens Studies practicum placement at the Margaret Laurence Womens Studies Centre. Meredith Milne observes that as a young feminist it is difficult to identify with feminist ideologies and disclose your beliefs. She is organizing this panel to focus on ways we can help other women (young and old) to form their feminist identity. She will bring together women from different backgrounds to talk about how feminism has influenced them and to identify struggles that feminist activist and academics face everyday. The challenges and obstacles feminists face to create a positive space for women will be a focal point of the discussion. Panelists will discuss how they came to be feminists, how they challenge societal norms of patriarchy in our society and how they have learned to create understanding and form coalitions with other women. Concrete strategies women can implement for change will also be offered.
March 9, International Womens Day
Celebrating Feminist Culture! An Evening of Feminist Activism and Performance
at the West End Cultural Centre (Watch for Details!)
Be a part of the organizing team email [email protected] to get involved.
March 15, 7:00 pm Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg
The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in the New Age of Empire
with Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe, who grew up on Long Island and received a Ph.D. from the University of California/Berkeley, has served as chair of Clarks Government Department and Director of Womens Studies. Professor Enloe is currently a Research Professor in the IDCE Department and teaches the intensive seven-week seminar, Gender, Militarization, and Development. She has been awarded Clarks Outstanding Teacher of the Year three times and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.
Enloes feminist teaching and research has focused on the interplay of womens politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how womens labor is made cheap in globalized factories (especially sneaker factories) and how womens emotional and physical labor has been used to support governmentswar-waging policies, and how many women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic, and national identities and pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities have been common threads throughout her studies.
In recent years, Enloe has been invited to lecture and give special seminars on feminism, militarization, and globalization in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada, Britain and numerous colleges across the U.S. She has written for Ms. Magazine and Village Voice and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. She serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Among her nine books are: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women s Lives (2000), and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, (2004).
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Al, can you take a look on that.
It looks like a handfull of people undermine the reputation of safety in climbing. I translate or write some part of mountaineering freedom of the hill and grimper, wrote by Patrick Edlinger and two teacher of univeristy (doctorat and more) and those handfull just want to bring people to use superficial rules and discourage people to learn to climb safe. What they wrote are just an insult to the good climbers from the books where I take the information, climber that make the history.
If you look at the section and find any beginer giving comments or other people giving positive comments on the good side of safety of montaineering freedom of the hill... it is rare. People don't want to talk because of an handfull number of people who just was angry because they loose a friend while climbing or was scare by an accident, people that you probably know.
Climbing is dangerous. But if that handfull of people influence the beginer to not practice safety and be scare by accident...it will not be good for trad climbing. I am sure that all of your member of more than fifty who climb for many years will agreee with me. They climb safely, with not as good equipment than today, and they still enjoy climbing.
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When buying a house, it's a very good idea to get a home inspection before you close your purchase and take possession of the home. It's not uncommon for a lender to include a home inspection as a condition in your purchase agreement.
AOL Real Estate's What Works Now tagged along with Kenny Rhodes, a licensed inspector with 20 years' experience, to get some insights into the home-inspection process and to learn why this unbiased, third-party evaluation is so important to the home-buying transaction.
The inspection "isn't a pass-fail examination," explains Rhodes. The inspector's job is to evaluate a house's mechanical systems, structural integrity, and safety features, and identify any items that need attention. An inspection allows the buyer to identify any issues with the home prior to the closing.
If a buyer can attend the inspection in person, or walk through the house with the inspector shortly after the inspection is completed, the inspector can point out to him or her what they've found. An inspection of the home typically takes three to four hours and covers:
With his flashlight on his hip and his clipboard in hand, Rhodes heads for the first stop on today's attic-to-basement tour with the buyer in tow.
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Rhodes's goal, like that of all inspectors, is to assess current conditions and help set priorities for attention. "I'll tell you what you need to be thinking about," he says. Some of his comments are suggestions-that is, "get to it when you can"--while others are recommendations for more more immediate action.
Within a few days of the inspection, Rhodes delivers the results to the client--in this case the buyer--in the form of a detailed written report.
While most inspections are performed for home buyers, inspections for home sellers can also be a strategic tool to help uncover potential selling pitfalls well before a buyer is involved.
To find a qualified home inspector, Rhodes suggests, start by asking your Realtor for recommendations. You can also use the "Find a Home Inspector" locator on the ASHI website at www.ashi.org. Inspectors listed there have met rigorous testing and experience requirements, ensuring that you're put in touch with one of the nation's most qualified professionals when it comes time to schedule that critical home inspection.
Tom Kraeutler is a Home Improvement Expert for AOL Real Estate and host of The Money Pit, a nationally syndicated home improvement radio program. To find a local radio station, download the show's podcast. To sign-up for Tom's free weekly e-newsletter, visit the program's Web site.
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This streetcar once belonged to the city of Albany. Originally, the streetcars were horse-drawn. The streetcars travelled on Pine, Jackson, Broad, and Washington to and from the train station. This is the body of a Kankakee single-truck streetcar; it is a pre-Birney design built by American for Albany and later sold to the city of Kankakee, Ill. It later became part of a diner in downtown Gardner, Ill., and still exists there today. The diner was once a favorite hangout of Al Capone. This photo and about 2,000 others are on the Facebook page “Vintage Albany”.
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Welcome. Join Us.
Published: 28 April 2010
Member Delivers 10,000+ Signatures to Development Minister Oda in Support of Results-Based, Time-Bound Plan
Washington D.C. - As G8 Development Ministers leave Halifax, Nova Scotia today, global anti-poverty organization ONE called the development meeting "productive but must follow up in June with a clear, tangible action plan to improve child and maternal health." Emphasizing the need for a plan, Canadian ONE member Jana Henderson today personally delivered a petition, signed by 10,191 ONE members, to Development Minster Bev Oda asking for a results-based, time-bound plan come out of this week's meeting.
"It is encouraging that the G8 Development Ministers will leave Halifax to advise world leaders on targeted initiatives to address child and maternal health." said Olly Buston, ONE's European Director. "Though light on details, this meeting will hopefully set the table for robust, specific, and coordinated commitments to be made in June."
"Real progress happens with real commitments," said Buston. "To effectively improve child and maternal health as well as other poverty-fighting measures, the G8 cannot simply issue a feel good consensus statement but must make concrete commitments to ensure that all are held accountable in delivering smart, effective assistance. With Canada's leadership and public commitment to this issue, 2010 can be the year when the G8 finally takes action."
Despite substantial improvements in global health in recent years, progress on maternal and child health is still far from where it should be. The G8 Muskoka Summit is an important time for these issues to be highlighted, as global leaders will meet at the United Nations in September to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With MDGs on maternal and child health being some of the most off-track, a robust plan from the G8 on this issue could galvanize the international community.
In line with Canadian Development Minister Bev Oda's goals for the Halifax meeting, including reaching a consensus on a G8 child and maternal health initiative in an effective, sustainable and accountable fashion, ONE is outlining its recommendations to the G8 in the lead up to their meeting in Huntsville, Ontario in June 2010. In order to effectively make a substantial difference in the lives of families in the world's poorest regions, the G8's action strategy should:
To learn more about ONE's TRACK principles, please go to: www.one.org/track
ONE is a global advocacy and campaigning organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world dedicated to fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. For more information please visit www.ONE.org
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Reporting from Kandahar, Afghanistan — Rahmatullah, a slender Afghan engineer who lives in Kandahar city, tried to be polite when young Shawn Adams of Digby, Nova Scotia, offered to help in his efforts to build a local school.
Sgt. Adams, 23, was leading a Canadian foot patrol when he encountered Rahmatullah, who complained that he and his neighbors had donated land for a school that the Afghan government has refused to build.
Adams promised to pass the complaint up the chain to his military superiors. But Rahmatullah simply sighed and said: "I'm sorry, sir. I've been here six years. I've heard these promises so many times I don't believe them anymore."
The recent encounter exposed the limits of good intentions in Kandahar, a province dominated by the Taliban, ill-served by a corrupt government, and patrolled by foreign forces just now getting around to governance and development, nearly nine years into the longest war the United States has ever fought.
In the struggle to win over Kandahar civilians and weaken the Taliban, U.S. commanders have ordered NATO troops to join with civilian development experts to create a competent government where none exists. But the effort has so far seen few concrete results.
Development projects have been modest and plagued by insurgent attacks or threats against Afghan workers. Residents complain of shakedowns by Afghan police. Many U.S. soldiers say they don't fully trust their nominal allies in the Afghan police or army, who are scheduled to take responsibility for security by next summer.
What little government exists in Kandahar is overshadowed by a cabal of Afghan hustlers who have milked connections to high government officials to earn illicit fortunes. Last month, a congressional subcommittee said Afghan warlords have siphoned off millions of dollars through protection rackets involving security escorts for North Atlantic Treaty Organization convoys.
All this weighs down U.S. efforts to bring Kandahar under control. The province is the focus of the "surge" of 30,000 troops ordered by President Obama in December, but the heavy combat sweeps promised by top U.S. commanders in briefings to reporters in the winter have not taken place. Those commanders now say there will be no massive military operation here, instead describing a sustained effort designed to establish security bit by bit to pave the way for development and proper governance.
Most of the added troops have been patrolling Kandahar for weeks, pumping residents for information on insurgents while promising development and a responsive government. An accompanying civilian surge — specialists in government, development, agriculture, policing — is cranking out various community projects from their air-conditioned office redoubts.
The Taliban have responded with an onslaught of assassinations, rocket attacks, car bombings and homemade bombs. The NATO toll of 103 in June made it the deadliest single month for Western troops since the war began in 2001.
This is the landscape that greets Gen. David H. Petraeus as he takes command following the resignation of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was at the helm for just a year. Petraeus has his own short timetable: He is under pressure to show swift results in order to meet Obama's determination to begin drawing down U.S. troop levels by August 2011.
The leadership change reinforces the sense here that the United States has been engaged in a series of one-year wars since toppling the Taliban regime in 2001. Because the typical troop rotation is about 12 months, each year brings a new approach that often is at odds with the previous effort.
Kevin Melton, an American contractor who heads civilian operations in Arghandab district, northwest of Kandahar city, said the United States began making a concerted effort in the province only a year ago. From 2001 to 2006, there was no significant Western troop presence in Kandahar.
"Why has it taken eight years to commit the resources to do what we really need to do here?" Melton said. "We took our eyes off the ball. So we've really been at this for a year, not eight years."
In Arghandab, Melton works in the same heavily guarded building on a U.S. military base as four Afghan district officials struggling to create a local government. Afghans who wish to visit the district office must first pass through three security posts — a search by Afghan police, then the Afghan army and finally by U.S. forces.
The tight security underscores the frailty of the fledging local government whose officials must take refuge on U.S. military bases. When the Arghandab district governor, Abdul Jabar, ventured out June 15, he was killed in a car bombing.
Corruption is another corrosive problem. The national government of President Hamid Karzai is riddled with officials who have enriched themselves through bribes, government contracts and the lucrative drug trade.
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Roche Holding AG won the backing of a European advisory panel for its skin-cancer medicine Erivedge, a step forward in the Swiss drugmaker’s plan to market the non- surgical, non-radiation treatment for people with advanced forms of the most common type of skin cancer.
Two Arkansas doctors sued the state over a law restricting the availability of abortions after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in a complaint filed in Little Rock federal court, the latest in a series of challenges to a new set of abortion restrictions.
C. Everett Koop, the U.S. surgeon general who set aside his religious beliefs to promote childhood sex education for AIDS prevention and issued the first government warning about second-hand tobacco smoke, has died. He was 96.
It is two years since Japan’s 9.0- magnitude earthquake, one so powerful it shifted the position of the Earth’s figure axis by as much as 6 inches and moved Honshu, Japan’s main island, 8 feet eastward. The tsunami generated by the earthquake obliterated towns, drowned almost 20,000 people and left more than 300,000 homeless. Everyone living within 15 miles of Fukushima was evacuated; many are still in temporary housing. Some will never be able to return home.
German drugmaker Grunenthal GmbH and companies now part of GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi hid results of studies that would have revealed birth defects caused by Thalidomide sooner, 13 Americans claimed in a lawsuit.
Doctors cheered last year when the U.S. gave its first approvals for drugs to combat obesity in more than a decade. Eight months later, the two treatments have yet to catch on with consumers or investors.
Infants exposed to radiation near Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s damaged nuclear power plant have a higher risk of developing cancer, though the threat outside the immediate area is low, the World Health Organization said in the first global assessment of risks from the 2011 disaster.
An abnormally high incidence of birth defects in Falluja, Iraq, way have been caused by weaponry used when U.S. forces assaulted the city six years ago, the Guardian reported, citing a study it’s reviewed.
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ZAP Wins Contract to Convert a USPS Mail Truck to Electric
In brief: ZAP's California headquarters has announced that they've won a contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS to convert a mail truck to electric power for testing.
The Postal Service has received a mandate from Congress to replace a chunk of its sizable fleet with electric and hybrid vehicles. As part of that, the USPS is giving out contracts to various electric vehicle manufacturers to convert mail trucks to EVs.
ZAP won one of those contracts and will be doing the conversion for on-road testing by the USPS this year. The conversion won't be a current ZAP model (as shown, in the Xebra), but will likely be a current-model USPS gasoline delivery truck that ZAP will convert into an EV.
And so ...
A USPS fleet of Xebras would be interesting, though. Wouldn't it?
Photo credits: ZAP
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How You Can Help BORDC Restore the Rule of Law
- Share your concerns with your federal representatives
- Raise your voice online
- Join an affinity group
- Start a local campaign
- Build the People's Campaign for the Constitution in your community
- Become a volunteer researcher
- Donate your web, design, and computer skills
- Become a guest blogger
- Give a guest presentation in a local school
- Donate resources to support BORDC's work
Take action without leaving your chair! Sign your name to a petition or send an email to a key government official. Join the chorus of Americans calling for the restoration of our constitutionally guaranteed rights and liberties.
But don't stop there...
The People's Campaign for the Constitution recently launched our first national affinity groups, and they're off to a great start. Our legal professionals group has three projects currently underway:
- Seeking transparency into fusion centers by using state FOIA and Sunshine laws
- Promoting executive accountability for torture by developing and enacting local ordinances asserting jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute torture, filing ethics complaints in state bar associations against former government lawyers complicit in torture, and offering opportunities for the public to support those complaints.
- Public education by organizing volunteers to write op-eds, letters to the editor, or blog posts
To get involved in the legal professionals group, see their current volunteer opportunities.
Our educators affinity group also has three projects underway:
- Developing lesson plans and interactive teaching tools for K-12 teachers and students connecting civics, history and language arts curriculum to current events and issues.
- Developing a report for policymakers on behalf of teachers concerned about how school security measures impact students, their expectations of privacy, and our constitutional culture.
- Forming a teacher peer network to assist teachers in navigating complex policy-related situations
The PCC also organizes affinity groups for health professionals, clergy and religious lay-leaders, and students. These groups are currently under development and seek motivated members to play a coordinating role among their colleagues.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has developed the following local campaigns, which allow individual municipalities to do what the federal government will not: protect law-abiding Americans' liberty and privacy, and hold accountable government officials complicit in torture.
- Local Civil Rights Restoration (LCRR) campaigns focus on ending local police participation in warrantless surveillance and profiling based on race, religion, or political viewpoint
- Campaigns to restore due process and the right to trial work to end the indefinite military detention powers authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012
- Torture-free zone campaigns give local communities a voice to call for executive officials who authorized torture to be held accountable for their crimes
Contact the BORDC organizing team for more information.
The People's Campaign for the Constitution organizes concerned individuals to take action in their own communities. The PCC toolkit includes step-by-step guidance, as well as supporting materials, to help you build a movement in your community. The toolkit can help you:
- Reach out to people you know, and build a local campaign and plan further outreach
- Build a coalition from across the political spectrum by promoting the campaign and creating a dialogue
- Hold representatives accountable by holding Town Halls or other public forums
The toolkit includes suggestions and advice, as well as templates for fliers, brochures, social networking tools, and other educational material to better inform your community about civil liberties.
BORDC is currently seeking volunteer researchers. Research projects currently in progress include:
- identifying and collecting contact information for academics who support BORDC's positions on torture, detention, surveillance, and other issues.
- identifying members of city councils who supported resolutions opposing the PATRIOT Act and determining their current governmental roles.
- projects relating to each of the PCC affinity groups' respective projects.
BORDC's web presence is one of our key organizing tools. We're always looking for ways to make it more accessible, effective and useful for our supporters. If you have web, design, or computer skills and would be willing to volunteer your time, we have numerous projects that may interest you, including the following:
- Supporting our fusion center transparency effort by assisting with database and wiki development
- Designing social networking applications to help educate the public about surveillance and the rule of law
- Developing new web technologies
- Updating content appearing on our websites
- Promoting content from our sites, or The People's Blog for the Constitution
BORDC is looking for people to join the editorial team of the People's Campaign for the Constitution blog as a guest editor. Guest editors commit to post just twice a week, on a specific day of their choice.
We are looking for volunteer bloggers to post content on designated days concerning the core rule of law issues currently facing our nation: surveillance, detention, torture, and secrecy. Posts can be as simple as a short summary of existing material, linking to the original source—or potentially more involved, featuring your original writing for review and editing by BORDC's staff.
Our interests include multimedia content, which could include YouTube videos of speeches or rallies, editorial cartoons, or anything else relating to civil liberties and the rule of law. We ultimately hope to engage your creative ideas to help inform and educate your fellow Americans. And while ideas are always welcome, what we're looking for at the moment is your time.
Teaching young people about the Constitution and Bill of Rights is one of the most important ways to protect and defend the rights and freedoms they guarantee to all Americans. Volunteer to give a guest presentation at a school near you!
There are many opportunities to give a school presentation, including:
- Constitution Day (September 17)
- Election Day (early November)
- Bill of Rights Day (December 15)
- Flag Day (June 14)
Just ask the school principal or teacher whose school you'd like to visit if you can give a guest presentation on one of these days—or any other day of the year!
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee appreciates your support and welcomes contributions of any size and any form. Donations are fully tax deductible.
Your generosity will support BORDC's efforts to raise awareness about—and mobilize grassroots action supporting—the liberty and privacy interests that once united our nation across the political spectrum. National security policies including surveillance, detention, torture, and secrecy continue to undermine our nation's constitutional values, and will continue to drive a false consensus in Washington until an engaged, active, and diverse movement emerges to challenge it. BORDC stands on the front line of the struggle to build that movement, and invites you to join us in our compelling work.
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"Too often we underestimate the power of a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring; all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia
"To know someone with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of any distances or thoughts
unexpressed...that can make this life a garden."
"It is nice to be known."
- Adolescent client
"It is incredibly healing when someone knows everything about you and they still completely accept you."
- Adult client
"It is important to have someone who sees clearly every corner of our interior world and who accepts us just as
we are. Feeling known and empathized with, understood deeply for who you are, is a powerful healing force."
- Tara Bennett-Goleman, Emotional Alchemy
"One of the deepest human desires is to be known and understood."
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
"I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be
understood by them, and to be touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and to
touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made."
- Virginia Satir
"Belonging somewhere, being accepted for who you are, knowing that your life matters to other people is a basic
We forget that people have been helping each other with pain and loss and grief for thousands of years, and
there isn't a right and wrong way to do it, there's just caring. And the caring is what matters, not the words.
Long before any experts we were there for each other, listening, honoring, believing and strengthening each
other and each other's stories.
A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words.
Many of the things that are most true cannot be quantified, but only known. You can't duplicate a human life.
Each one of us is unique. What we are talking about is a path, and each one of us will travel that path in our
own way. There is a great deal that is mystery in it."
- Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
"Feeling completely seen and accepted for who you are often unfolds in silence, in a parallel play of doing
together and being together, wordlessly. But you know in that moment that you are seen and known and felt, and
nothing, nothing in the world, feels better, puts you more at ease and sets the world aright, puts you more at
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, M.D.
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Provillus Consists of Special Components and Applications to Effectively Stop Hair Loss
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Certainly, yet, hormones and heredity are a substantially more complicated matter In relation to heredity it’s a non-reversible problem.
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In men testosterone is plentiful. Inside testosterone enzymes are working. As a result this creates an incredibly renowned substance known as DHT. Due to the fact DHT circulates within the blood, it causes irregular conditions.
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Powell would close Gitmo 'not tomorrow, but this afternoon'
"Guantanamo has become a major problem for America's perception as it's seen; the way the world perceives America, and if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo -- not tomorrow but this afternoon -- I'd close it," said Colin Powell on NBC's Meet the Press this morning. "And I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system."
"The concern was, 'Well, then they'll access to lawyers, then they'll have access to writs of habeas corpus.' So what? Let them. Isn't that what our system is all about?" he continued.
Powell said the US justice system "can handle bad people." He told host Tim Russet that he would close Guantanamo and stop using the military commission system. Instead, he would deal with prisoners in more "constitutional terms."
"Essentially we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," he said. "We don't need it, and it's causing us far more damage than any good we get for it."
The following video is from NBC's Meet the Press, broadcast on June 10.
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Law School Curriculum Might be Reduced to Two Years
by Craig Eley
The Colorado Supreme Court took public comments on April 1 on a proposal to reduce law school from a three-year to a two-year curriculum.
The move stems from an effort to be prepared for a projected shortage of lawyers. The shortfall is projected if voters pass the Personal Responsibility Initiative on the Colorado ballot in 2010.
The initiative, the wording of which has not yet been decided, would outlaw a number of common medical procedures that are deemed (at least by the initiative’s proponents) to be necessitated by a person’s volitional habits and practices.
According to one of the proponents, Em Balmer, she was inspired by the hoopla surrounding a Colorado state senator who voted against Senate Bill 09-179. That bill would require health care providers to offer a pregnant woman an HIV test.
The bill passed almost unanimously in the Colorado Senate. The only holdout was Sen. Dave Schultheis, a senator from Colorado Springs. "We do things constantly to try to remove the negative consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly," said Schultheis. "This stems from sexual promiscuity."
What do Sen. Schultheis’ theories have to do with the Personal Responsibility Initiative? Everything, says Balmer.
For example, he said, poor eating habits and lack of exercise cause heart disease and adult-onset diabetes. Drinking too much alcohol causes liver disease, as does intravenous drug usage. Therefore, the initiative would ban heart and liver transplants, as well as heart bypass surgery, stent implantation and angioplasty. Treatment for all types of hepatitis would not be allowed, and insulin for Type II diabetes could not be prescribed.
Phil Graves, the Personal Responsibility Initiative’s public policy director, said that the initiative goes even further than just limiting treatment for diseases. Any injuries sustained by someone in an auto accident who was not wearing a seatbelt would not be treated, he said. It would be the same with head injuries of bicyclists who were not wearing helmets.
Of concern to the Bar, lawyers’ work
Graves disputed the e-mails he’s received, many of which have stated that it’s draconian to let injured people die unnecessarily or live with disabilities. "Look, we are only making the guilty, and no one else, live with the consequences of their decisions. This is way more lenient than Sen. Schultheis would be toward the offspring of HIV-positive mothers."
People eventually will look beyond their initial gut reactions to the initiative, he said. "First, just as the promiscuous mother envisioned by Sen. Schultheis will feel guilt when she contemplates her ill child, and perhaps reform her ways, so those who witness a relative die from coronary insufficiency brought on by not getting enough exercise may be motivated to get off the couch."
"And let’s not overlook the most important benefit to come from this initiative," Balmer declared. "Health insurance rates will plummet." Adopting the Personal Responsibility Initiative nationwide could help solve the impending bankruptcy of the Social Security system. Many with bad habits, immoral ways and risky behaviors would not live long enough to retire, he said.
Graves is optimistic about the initiative’s chances of passage, because Sen. Schultheis’ sentiments did not result in a rebuke from his party’s headquarters.
Of concern to the Bar, lawyers’ work involves a lot of stress, and that translates into heart conditions that may have to go untreated if the initiative passes. Fewer lawyers means less supply to meet the demand for legal services, thereby making it more expensive for consumers to afford to purchase those services. Reducing the time spent in law school will mean that a legal education would be less expensive, would attract more people to the profession, and would enable schools to crank out more lawyers in less time.
A final word from Phil Graves: "Although Sen. Schultheis is not part of our organization, he was and remains our inspiration, and our motto is proudly taken directly from a quote which appears at the bottom of his web page: ‘Tolerance is a virtue of a man without convictions.’ -- G. K. Chesterton"
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Film photography seems so quaint in this age of rapidly evolving technology, though the nostalgic charm is somewhat diminished as I flip through photo after photo. There we are, my friends and I, with eyes closed on the summits of mountains or with big fat thumbs obscuring an otherwise stunning sunset. And to think I paid for these crummy pictures, even more if I got them developed in an hour! If I got seven or eight good shots out of a roll of 24, I was usually pretty happy.
It was 2003 when I retired my fancy-pants film camera (complete with a high tech remote!) for my first digital, a clumsy but lightweight device featuring a robust 2.2 megapixel resolution and a shutter speed that took a good three seconds to actually take a picture. Likewise, it was about that same time I acquired my first GPS, the Garmin GPS12, which did little more than draw a line on a black and white screen and offer up geographical coordinates. Despite the unwieldy interface and quick-draining battery system, the fact that I could (for free) know my position on planet earth from satellites in outer space blew my mind. Actually, it still does today.
Rather quietly, technology has gotten easier on the wallet, more intuitive and generally accepted in the outdoors community. With all apologies to nature purists, the fact that you can take a photograph and have it online in mere seconds or chart your tracks across the globe using free software like Google Earth adds an exciting new element to archiving outdoor adventures. There’s no doubt the technology of 2011 will seem as antiquated as whale blubber lamps in five years, but until then, here’s some of the coolest advances in outdoors tech available right now in the Year of the Golden Rabbit.
When commercial GPS units first appeared around 15 years ago, they were intimidating, expensive and far from user-friendly. Even if you had the money and patience to understand them, they didn’t do much more than offer up coordinates and crude temporary maps, making them more of a novel accessory for your map and compass. Oh, how far we’ve come in so little time!
GPS technology has become incredibly affordable and accurate.
Car-compatible units helped ease the cultural transition of GPS beyond a fringe gadget to a genuinely useful tool for navigation.
Hand-held units have evolved from their Atari-like beginnings to robust mini-computers with features such as highly detailed, full-color 3-D topographic maps; barometric and triangulated altimeters; vast memory banks; easy-to-use touch-screen menus; and even built-in cameras that automatically geotag each photo. Add to that, nearly all modern GPS units are compatible with Google Maps and Google Earth, free software that lets you literally view the ground you walked upon.
And even handheld GPS units are becoming somewhat obsolete, as more and more smartphones offer optional GPS add-ons. Admittedly, most of them lack the accuracy and power of dedicated GPS units, but the potential for creative integration into your smartphone is right around the corner.
But smartphones offer much more than just a way to track your way through the woods. Apps (short for application software, for those of you still stuck in 2006) are affordable — and sometimes free — plug-ins that expand the information you can take in your pocket into the wilderness. Detailed guides for birds can use your GPS coordinates to narrow down what avian pal you’re looking at, and one ambitious app lets you record a live bird song and tries to identify it from its database of calls. Likewise, guides for animal tracks, botany, geology and history are all at the tip of your fingers. And one especially useful Colorado app attempts to identify the names of far-off mountains in real 3D by taking your coordinates and showing you a picture of what you are likely looking at.
Yet another somewhat unnoticed revolution is happening in the world of batteries, where the race to keep all your cool toys fully powered has brought about some huge leaps in energy technology. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are getting more efficient, but even more impressive is the power behind non-rechargable lithium batteries that are slowly taking over the old alkaline battery market. The high-end non-rechargable lithiums are only a dollar or two more expensive than regular batteries, and the advantages are well worth the investment. They are noticeably lighter and offer incredible resistance to cold, meaning the days of your instantly dead camera on chilly ski days is a thing of the past. Besides being longer-lasting, they are also more environmentally friendly to dispose.
The final stop on our technology tour are LED lights, those wonderful little glowing diodes that have made our headlamps a lighter weight than ever. If you invested in an LED headlamp four or five years ago, you may now be experiencing the shortcoming of early LEDs: a tendency to fade out and lose luminosity over time. Modern LEDs start off much brighter and last longer (and in most cases, can now be easily replaced when they do fade). This same LED technology is coming full circle and bringing down the price of screens for smartphones, GPS and digital cameras.
Nothing beats the beauty of the natural world, of course, but there’s nothing wrong with a little modern ingenuity to help enhance the memories and experience of being connected to mother earth.
Magellan eXplorist 710 GPS
At the cutting edge of GPS technology is the newly released eXplorist 710 by Magellan. Full-color, highly detailed topo maps (with 3-D viewing options) and touchscreen navigation make it easy to record your adventures.
A built-in camera geotags your pictures so you’ll know exactly where they were taken. For more info on the eXplorist 710, check out www.magellangps.com.
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From the book
The circus arrives without warning.
No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick.
But it is not open for business. Not just yet.
Within hours everyone in town has heard about it. By afternoon the news has spread several towns over. Word of mouth is a more effective method of advertisement than typeset words and exclamation points on paper pamphlets or posters. It is impressive and unusual news, the sudden appearance of a mysterious circus. People marvel at the staggering height of the tallest tents. They stare at the clock that sits just inside the gates that no one can properly describe.
And the black sign painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, the one that reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at Dawn
"What kind of circus is only open at night?" people ask. No one has a proper answer, yet as dusk approaches there is a substantial crowd of spectators gathering outside the gates.
You are amongst them, of course. Your curiosity got the better of you, as curiosity is wont to do. You stand in the fading light, the scarf around your neck pulled up against the chilly evening breeze, waiting to see for yourself exactly what kind of circus only opens once the sun sets.
The ticket booth clearly visible behind the gates is closed and barred. The tents are still, save for when they ripple ever so slightly in the wind. The only movement within the circus is the clock that ticks by the passing minutes, if such a wonder of sculpture can even be called a clock.
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
The sun disappears completely beyond the horizon, and the remaining luminosity shifts from dusk to twilight. The people around you are growing restless from waiting, a sea of shuffling feet, murmuring about abandoning the endeavor in search of someplace warmer to pass the evening. You yourself are debating departing when it happens.
First, there is a popping sound. It is barely audible over the wind and conversation. A soft noise like a kettle about to boil for tea. Then comes the light.
All over the tents, small lights begin to flicker, as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies. The waiting crowd quiets as it watches this display of illumination. Someone near you gasps. A small child claps his hands with glee at the sight.
When the tents are all aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the sign appears.
Stretched across the top of the gates, hidden in curls of iron, more firefly-like lights flicker to life. They pop as they brighten, some accompanied by a shower of...
"The Night Circus made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book." - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"If this novel is just cotton candy, it's cotton candy spun from strands of edible silver...With no more lust than a late volume of Harry Potter, Morgenstern manages to conjure up a love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic. When Celia calls their circus a 'wonder and comfort and mystery all together,' she could have been talking about this book." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A Romeo and Juliet tale drenched in magic realism, The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations. In short, it's a showstopper." - The Boston Globe
"Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, The Night Circus, is quietly, enchantingly perfect...reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical." - Newsday
"[A] dark and extravagantly imagined debut...The plot follows the separate and then intertwining lives of Celia and Marco, both forced to spend their lives pitting their unusual talents against each other in a cruel competition. But their world is Morgenstern's most vivid creation, a fantastical circus featuring illusionists whose powers transcend mere sleight of hand; like those performers, the author entices her audience to suspend disbelief and rewards its members with captivating pleasure." - People magazine
"Morgenstern's exquisitely realized world will have the reader wishing to run off and join this circus." - USA Today
"Morgenstern's Circus is the stuff that dreams are made of, and nothing short of a wild ride." - Elle magazine
"Magical. Enchanting. Spellbinding. Mesmerizing." - Associated Press
"[A] few pages into this story of a mysterious circus and its two stars, a young man and a woman who are both capable of real magic, and you know you are in the presence of an extraordinary storyteller." - The Daily Beast
"Morgenstern's novel feels crafted from the fabric of a dream, and the circus itself never fails to astound. For me, the only real disappointment was that I couldn't buy a ticket." - The Christian Science Monitor
"[T]he world of The Night Circus is elaborately designed, fantastically imagined and instantly intoxicating -- as if the reader had downed a glass of absinthe and leapt into a hallucination." - Rachel Syme for NPR.org
"Two star-crossed magicians, Celia and Marco, duel for supremacy against the backdrop of a big top unlike any other. Morgenstern conjures up a world of dark enchantment and romance in this dazzling foray into the dreamscape of illusion." - Family Circle
"A beguiling, gripping read...Ms. Morgenstern has crafted a thrilling and transporting tale. In so doing she makes it clear that of all the shapes magic may take, storytelling is often the most powerful of them all." - The Economist
"Debut author Morgenstern doesn't miss a beat in this smashing tale of greed, fate, and love...a giant, magical story destined for bestsellerdom. This is an electric debut on par with Special Topics in Calamity Physics." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Self-assured, entertaining debut that blends genres and crosses continents in quest of magic... Generous in its vision and fun to read. Likely to be a big book--and, soon, a big movie, with all the franchise trimmings." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"To enter the black-and-white-striped tents of Le Cirque des Rêves is to enter a world where objects really do turn into birds and people really do disappear...Debut novelist Morgenstern has written a 19th-century flight of fancy that is, nevertheless, completely believable. The smells, textures, sounds, and sights are almost palpable. A literary Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, this read is completely magical." - Library Journa
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Since I have a category about difficult childhoods, I felt I needed to balance it out by recommending some books about happy childhoods. I had a happy childhood, and I hope I am giving my son one too. To me, a happy childhood is one where you know your parents love you, you had a sense of wonder and innocence about the world, and you had an inner life that nourished you. These books capture those feelings and make you laugh in the process. If you are in the mood for a feel good book, these will do the trick!
- A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
- Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories And Other Disasters by Jean Shepard
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The title pretty much says it all, but it doesn’t tell you how amazingly well-written this book is and how endearing the author, family and town is. I fell in love with this book when I first read it, and I reread it every few years just to revisit the world that Kimmel describes with such love. There is a follow-up book — She Got Up Off The Couch — that chronicles the author’s mother’s “radical” (for the times) college education and what she went through to get it.
I pretty much enjoy anything that Bill Bryson writes so it was a no-brainer when he put out a memoir of his childhood. My dad — who grew up about the same time as Bryson — thought it was pitch perfect for someone who grew up in the 1950s. And I loved it as much as a my dad. Just an enjoyable easy read about a happy childhood by one of my all-time favorite writers.
My dad gave me this book when I was growing up, and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. I later found out that a few of the stories from this book were turned into the classic holiday film A Christmas Story. Just a wonderfully written, hilarious account of growing up — with a tall tale aspect to it that just elevates the stories to pure fun!
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US High-Skilled Immigration Policy: A Self-Inflicted Wound
by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Article in YaleGlobal Online
July 1, 2008
© 2008 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
America rose to global economic prominence, superpower status, and victory in the Cold War on the shoulders of the most highly skilled workforce in the world. However, America's global "skills leadership" is now under challenge. An increasingly vicious combination of long-term trends in the form of retiring baby boomers and stagnating US educational attainment, combined with increasingly restrictive laws on high-skilled immigration increasingly undermines the US position. This will seriously jeopardize long-term economic growth opportunities, especially for US high-tech sectors.
Aging US baby boomers were the best-educated workers in the world when they entered the workforce 30-some years ago. Building on visionary policies like the GI Bill of 1944, college-level graduation rates for US baby boomers reached almost 40 percent during this period, far exceeding graduation rates of 20 to 25 percent enjoyed by contemporary British, French, German, or Japanese baby boom generations in the late 1960s and 1970s. The year 2008 is the first in which Americans born after World War II can retire with public pensions—hence, the loss of large numbers of well-educated baby boomers will be more severely felt in the United States than among other major industrialized economies.
Another long-term worry is the stagnation seen in the average educational attainment of Americans in recent decades. Almost unique in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the tertiary-level graduation rates among present-day US labor market entrants, aged 25 to 34, is the same as that of their baby boomer parents, aged 55 to 64—stuck below 40 percent. Hence, there's a risk in coming years that as many high-skilled Americans will retire as will enter the workforce. The century-long continuous compositional skills improvement of America's workforce may soon end.
Moreover, while America failed to continue to improve broad educational standards during the last 30 years, the rest of the world has not stood still. Today, over 50 percent of young Canadians, Japanese, and Koreans obtain tertiary education representing a vast educational advancement relative to their parents' generation. American labor market entrants today barely make the global skills top-10 list. As a direct result, for the first time in generations, the US risks becoming less skill-abundant than an increasing number of its global economic competitors (see figure 11).
|Note: Tertiary education equals ISCED categories 5A/B and 6. 2005 or latest available from 2003/04. |
Sources: UNESCO/OECD World Education Indicators; OECD Education at a Glance (2007); China Statistical Yearbook 2005 for China; and the 61st NSS Round for India.
Policymakers cannot stop the graying of the US population or the imminent retirement of baby boomers. Similarly, successful overhaul of the US education sector could only begin to reverse more than 30 years of educational stagnation over the long term. Improving the education system is hardly a realistic or quick solution to forestalling broad skill shortages in the US economy over the next decade.
US policymakers can only hope to counter these long-term phenomena in a timely manner by reforming high-skilled immigration policies and facilitating the continued and increasingly economically necessary inflow of high-skilled workers from abroad.
Instead, US high-skilled immigration policies have in recent years become tangibly more restrictive—waylaid by wider congressional gridlock on immigration and political emphasis on indiscriminate enforcement. This restrictiveness is relative to earlier periods in US history and, more importantly, other industrialized countries today.
In April 2008, for instance, about half of 163,000 US businesses wishing to hire a foreign high-skilled worker on H-1B visas were denied this opportunity by the annual quota of 85,000 available visas2 (65,000 plus 20,000 available to foreign graduates with advanced degrees from US universities).
The immigration policy undermines the economic characteristics—entrepreneurial vitality and mastery of new advanced technologies—that make the United States the envy of the world. Just like Google, eBay, and Yahoo, more than half of engineering and technology companies founded in Silicon Valley from 1995 to 2005 had at least one foreign-born founder.3 More than a third of US venture capital–backed technology firms report shifting investments and jobs outside the country due to restrictive regulation,4 and America's largest, most competitive companies cannot get visas for foreign high-skilled workers they want to hire.
Meanwhile, contours of the global battlefield for talent are rapidly changing. The recent proposal for an EU "Blue Card" would allow high-skilled workers from outside the European Union to work in multiple EU countries, just one example of a new trend across the OECD. Affected by more rapid population aging than the United States, other OECD countries aggressively work to liberalize their high-skilled immigration laws, while simultaneously tightening regulation of low-skilled and humanitarian-based immigration. Ironically, the other nations frequently copy US policies, particularly those that attract and retain foreign students.
Equally worrisome for the United States, the top countries of origin for high-skilled migrants—fast-growing China and India—offer incentives for skilled workers to return home. In 2007, China launched its "green passage" initiative, aimed at luring back tens of thousands of acclaimed overseas Chinese scientists, engineers, and executives with promises of guaranteed university places for their children, exemption from household-residence registration—or hokou—requirements, and tax benefits.5
The United States—historically the world's country of choice for foreign high-skilled workers—has the most to lose from any change in these human-capital flows. While the rest of the rich world has caught up in welcoming high-skilled foreigners, the United States could soon struggle to attract global talent.
With the skill-base of the US workforce declining at an accelerating pace relative to the rest of the world, America in the 21st century will need foreign high-skilled workers more than ever. At stake is the ability of the US economy to thrive in the global marketplace.
Reprinted with permission of YaleGlobal Online (www.yaleglobal.yale.edu), 2008 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
1. The methodology utilized in figure 1 is a static snapshot, and when used here as a "de facto time-series" incorporates the combined impact of at least four different effects active over time: domestic education (what the highest level of education attained by country residents in different age groups is), immigration (whether new immigrants of all ages are high or low skilled), life-long learning (people may choose to go back to school at an older age), and mortality differentials (highly educated people generally live longer than less educated people). Disentangling these individual effects in detail is very difficult. However, as they work in different directions and given the magnitudes of the cross-country differences, they do not materially impact the conclusions drawn here. It should be noted that "life-long learning" is likely less of an uncertainty than many people think, when considering the frequency at which older people jump into a new educational attainment group. The overwhelming share of "late school returnees" who go back to school later in life to earn bachelors or higher degrees already have at least a college or master's degree. By returning to school and adding "another degree" to their curriculum vitae, they therefore do not jump to a new level and into the category of high-skilled, and do not add to the absolute number of the highly skilled.
2. US Citizenship and Immigration Services Press Release, April 14th 2008.
3. Duke University School of Engineering and University of California Berkeley School of Information (2007), America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Duke University/University of California Berkeley.
4. National Venture Capital Association (2007), American Made—The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on US Competitiveness. Available at http://www.nvca.org/pdf/AmericanMade_study.pdf.
5. China Daily, The Turning Tide of Overseas Chinese, May 30, 2007; China Daily, China Hit by Brain Drain, Report Says, June 1, 2007.
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For the past few days I've debating whether or not to make any personal endorsements for the upcoming election. This is, after all, a mountaineering website, and with all the competing campaign messages bombarding us, it's been nice to keep SierraDescents as a sort of non-political safe haven (illusory or not).
That is, until I happened to browse my site today and found political ads running all across it, including a particularly contemptible ad run by the Prop 8 proponents, courtesy of Google.
I've pulled all Google advertising from my site, and will keep it pulled through tomorrow.
Let me also state my strong opposition to Proposition 8, which would amend California's state constitution to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.
Since California's constitution guarantees people equal treatment under the law, the only way to deny same-sex couples the legal right to marry in our state is to specifically single them out in our constitution and exclude them from equal protection.
That's called discrimination.
Normally, we write laws—and especially Constitutions—to prevent discrimination; not codify it.
Same-sex couples already have the right to marry in California. Since they've been doing so, it doesn't seem to have undermined my marriage. It doesn't seem to have undermined anything, in fact.
The fabric of our society has not unraveled.
As the Los Angeles Times writes:
Look at what Proposition 8 is actually about: a group of people who are trying to impose on the state their belief that homosexuality is immoral and that gays and lesbians are not entitled to be treated equally under the law.
This is not who we are. Vote NO on Proposition 8.
UPDATE: I should clarify that Google the company is not paying for these ads; Google is simply running these ads on its ad network. There was apparently a spirited internal discussion at Google as to whether or not to carry pro-Prop 8 ads on its networks (Google itself has a strong anti-discrimination policy). Google did not, however, offer its publishers (like me) any warning that these ads would be coming, nor any easy way to quickly opt out of running them—except pulling all Google advertising, which I have done.Leave a Comment:
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Obama addresses National Urban League
NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama wrapped up a cross-country campaign swing Wednesday night touching on themes of access to education, inequality, personal responsibility and the economy in a speech to the National Urban League.
In the 40-minute address, Obama praised the group’s history of civil rights work and compared it to his days working in Chicago, where he said his desire to earn a paycheck was supplanted by his call to affect change.
The president called on young people in the audience tostop hanging outand to earn their success.
“You’re competing against young people in Beijing and Bangalore,” Obama said. “They’re not hanging out. They’re not getting over; they’re not playing video games. It’s a two-way street. You’ve got to earn success.
“That wasn’t in my prepared remarks,” Obama said to widespread cheers.
The president frequently called on themes he has made on the campaign trail arguing that his vision for prosperity will come through the strengthening of the middle class.
In painting Republicans as beholden to the wealthy and out of touch with the middle class, the president told the crowd everybody should have a fair shot, not just some.
“We’re not a nation of people looking for handouts. We certainly don’t like bailouts. ... but we do expect hard work to pay off,”Obama said.
Obama described the lack of progress in Washington D.C. as a stalemate over what he called two fundamentally different ways Democrats and Republicans want to create job growth.
“This country works best when we are growing a strong middle class. That has guided every decision I’ve made as president of the United States,” Obama said.
The president also defended his 31/2-year record in office by describing the country as on the brink of economic collapse after a decade of sluggish job growth when he took office in 2009.
Obama spoke about 28 straight months of job growth, 18 tax breaks for small business during his time in office and a rejuvenated automobile industry. He acknowledged that recovery from the recession hasn’t been as fast as he had hoped.
In a written statement released hours before Obama spoke, Gov. Bobby Jindal said: “We welcome Barack Obama to New Orleans. We hope that he has the opportunity to enjoy some of our city’s unique attractions. Many happen to be small businesses built by hardworking, independent folks, who are offended by the idea that their success is not the result of their own efforts.”
The Romney campaign also released a prepared statement.
“President Obama comes to New Orleans today trying to hide from his failed record as president. After three and a half years of liberal policies that have grown the size of government, President Obama’s record is clear,” spokesman Chris Walker said in the written statement.
Speaking just hours after the Senate passed an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts to the middle class, Obama called on Republicans in the House of Representatives to drop their opposition to end tax cuts to those earning more than $250,000 per year.
Framing the country as stuck in an economic situation where middle-class workers bear the brunt of the struggling economy, the president called for what he described as fairness.
Nobody who works hard in America, should be poor in America, Obama said to roaring applause.
The president also urged colleges and universities to expand access to higher education by lowering tuition, calling advanced degrees a necessity, not a luxury.
Near the end of his remarks, Obama addressed the contentious Affordable Care Act, his signature legislative achievement, ticking off some of the bills more popular elements including health care insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and the ability of parents to keep children on their health plans up to age 26. He also promised to improve the law.
“We’re going to implement this law and America is going to be better for it,” Obama said.
The president ended his speech asking for support in the Nov. 6 presidential elections urging a group which chanted four more years moments before he took the stage that failure is not an option.
“We will finish what we started,” Obama said.
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Wildlife alert—Castlewood Property Owners told its members last Friday that a mountain lion was spotted strolling across the golf course between Castlewood Drive and Greens Lane.
For those unfamiliar with the neighborhood, that’s in the heart of the country club on the hill course (Castlewood Drive is the main road. The lion was seen near as are the 2nd, 17th, 18th and 1st fairways.
The association management wisely lifted some of the best practices in dealing with a large wild cat that is happy to prey upon the Bambis that frequent the neighborhood.
We live below the club on Foothill Road, but still have seen and witnessed the damage from numerous deer (all of our roses and other important plants are behind high fences). Last summer, we saw a multi-pronged buck wandering in our back yard near the lemon tree.
So, what are best practices because mountain lions have been off-limits without a special permit for more than 20 years.
The property owners offered the U.S. Forest Service’s recommendations that are largely common sense, but offer some important recommendations:
• Avoid walking alone and at dusk or dawn.
• If the lion notices you, stand up and be as “big” as you can. Never, never, never bend over. Maintain eye contact. Do not run.
• If you have something in your hand and the lion is approaching, throw it and bellow at the lion.
• If you are walking with children or animals, pick them up without bending over or looking away—this will take lots of imagination.
• If attacked, fight back as aggressively as you can. P.S.—if you have your gun, use it.
• If you see a lion, report it to the Sheriff’s Office, 510-667-7721. In unincorporated areas, the department has the responsibility for animal control.
The point: as has been observed elsewhere, expanding human housing has been encroaching on habitat areas. And lions, with no natural predators, have been seen in much more developed areas than the rural Castlewood area. Castlewood has been here for many, many decades—the original club buildings are more than 100 years old.
What has been the effect of the “let’s be kind to the lions” initiative on the mountain lion population. As one who has been to Africa many times, I shuddered when I saw one of the hunting shows on NBC/Comcast chronicle the killing of a magnificent leopard (I’ve actually seen a small one in the wild in Kenya.)
That’s a far cry from controlling a dangerous predator in neighborhoods.
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Andrea Palpant Dilley spent six years of her childhood in Kenya, where her father was a medical missionary. Her family lived among the people they served, among who were refugees from Idi Amin’s reign of terror in Uganda. A refugee from Uganda who worked with her father led Andrea to faith in Jesus Christ.
Andrea’s family did not live in some missionary compound sheltered from the harsh reality of life outside. Her parents made the decision to raise Andrea and her brothers at their side, as they worked to ease the suffering of the people of Lugulu, Kenya. Andrea learned the meaning of giving a cup of cold water in Jesus Christ’s name from observing her parents and those who worked with them in the hospital. She learned what it meant to give and receive love. Likewise, she learned to share the grief and sorrow of those around her, as well as her own.
Back in the United States as a thirteen year old seventh grader, Andrea began to question what it meant to be a Christian. It was an awakening to the need for a reasoned and confident faith. Like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, and like thinking Christians throughout history, Andrea set out on the pilgrim’s journey to a faith based upon a reasoned understanding of her faith, not on emotion or a blind, mindless acceptance of some creed or systematic theology.
After graduating from high school, Andrea enrolled at Whitworth College, a private Christian liberal arts college located in Spokane, Washington. Whitworth promotes itself as a college with a healthy tension between Christian commitment and intellectual curiosity. Put another way, their goal is to help students to think, not tell them what to think.
As a symbolic gesture of her decision to explore the mysteries and uncertainties of the pilgrim’s journey, Andrea chipped the Ichthus sticker off her car. It was a way of turning away from a simplistic “pop” faith and the plastic culture that came with it.
In her book, FAITH AND OTHER FLAT TIRES, A MEMOIR: SEARCHING FOR GOD ON THE ROUGH ROAD OF DOUBT (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), Andrea Palpant Dilley uses John Bunyan’s story of THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS as the model for her own journey of faith, a journey which she acknowledges is a lifelong pilgrimage.
FAITH AND OTHER FLAT TIRES is her first book, but I hope not her last. I enjoyed this book for its realism. Her journey is mine, also. The decision to follow Jesus Christ is only the beginning. There is far more mystery in Christianity than any of us can begin to understand. Our risen Lord invites us to stop at the inn, to share a meal with Him, and listen as He explains the great parable, the greatest story ever told, or as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien put it, the “true myth.”
I choose to end my review with a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke from his book of poetry titled, THE BOOK OF PILGRIMAGE, as quoted by Ms. Dilley:
Whom should I turn to,
If not the one whose darkness
Is darker than the night, the only one
Who keeps vigil with no candle,
And is not afraid—
The deep one, whose being I trust.
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It is an honour for Te Papa to welcome this month’s resident weavers for the Kahu Ora exhibition – tutors and students from the Design and Art course of Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Otaki.
Under the name of Toi Whakarākai, senior weavers Sonia Snowden, Pip Devonshire and Elaine Bevan later to be joined by others, will occupy the weavers’ studio until the 30th September. Famous for their beautiful work in kete whakairo, piupiu, poi and kākahu, each of these accomplished weavers bring their own special magic to Kahu Ora.
Elaine is weaving a shaped muka and feather pōtae or cap. She deftly twines in tiny delicate tūī feathers individually with each weft row, starting at the crown and working round, adding warp threads as she goes. It is very exacting work. Elaine’s pōtae is based on two fragile and unique examples that she has studied in the Te Papa collection. We don’t know much about them, but think that they may be aged over a hundred years old. Can’t wait to see how Elaine’s pōtae progresses.
Whaea Sonia is processing muka, the fine, silky threads extracted from green harakeke leaves for weaving. Her finely coiled twists of muka in groups are beautiful. Visitors are enthralled watching her demonstrate the haro (extraction) process of the muka with a mussel shell.
Pip Devonshire is weaving a muka and kiwi feather tauira (sample), using a pair of driftwood turuturu (weaving pegs) attached to a wooden base, to suspend her work. The method is an adaption of the use of turuturu for weaving kākahu in the past, the only difference is that the turuturu were held upright in the ground.
Te Papa host Hohepa Potini is doing a great job with his own weaving. Hepa has been busy extracting, rolling and coiling muka fibre into bundles in preparation for a kākahu for his own children and grandchildren one day. So far he has produced over 1400 threads, phenomenal. Hepa’s feathered friend prefers to keep one eye on Hepa rather than sit with his manu-mates on the touch trolley. He’s got his hands (beak) full too. So goes the whakatauki, or proverb, of Tamaterangi from Ngāti Kahungunu-”He ao te rangi ka uhia, he huruhuru te manu ka tau. ” As clouds bedeck the heavens, so feathers adorn the bird. Meaning, being appropriately dressed is everything.
Come see and talk to the Toi Whakarākai weavers, with Hepa, Lucy and the host team in Kahu Ora, from Wednesday to Sunday, 12-4pm.
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Wherein a yawning women ruins my day (and other language infractions)
I’m chatting with a co-worker the other day as I’ll reluctantly do from time to time. She’s droning on about something or another…blah blah blah son in college blah blah blah new TPS report...etc. I was busy calculating in my head planned paces for Sunday’s 10 miler so I really didn’t have any idea what she was saying. She stops, stretches her arms over her head, opens her mouth and yawns. Nothing unusual there except – as she does this – she says with mouth still agape “YAWWWNNN”.
Uh, what’s that all about? You were yawning so….you said Yawn?
Now I’m looking at her all crooked headed like a dog watching a butterfly. She continued on with her story but now, instead of calculating paces, I’m trying to determine what just happened. Then, she did it again. Arms up. Mouth open.
What in the hell is going on? Did I miss a memo somewhere? Are we supposed to verbalize our actions now? It’s not enough to simply do them but we actually have to say what we are doing? A verb is typically something that happens right? We can see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, etc. Its often unnecessary to actually put a word accompaniment to it.
Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against verbs. They’re some of my favorite things. Eat. Sleep. Run. Read. Listen. And, ahem, other stuff (winking at you Mrs. Nitmos). Just try to create a sentence without one. Not easy. :)
Once Sleepy McYawnslot finished her Tales of the Bland and Uninteresting, I wandered down to the break room for a pick me up coffee consumed with this idea of verbalizing our patently obvious actions. I met another co-worker – a fellow runner – so obviously we had to stop and compare notes. He mentioned his crazy ass 20 milers in this sweltering heat and, I thought, maybe I’d just try out this new concept Sleepy just inflicted upon me.
“Um, what?” He said. “What did you say?”
“I said ‘Guffawing’. In fact, big guffawing. I can’t believe you are hitting those miles in this heat.”
I could tell by the confused look he hadn’t been initiated into this new VV* movement. I wasn’t going to explain it. Let him wear it around like a saddle for the next few hours like I would be doing. And screw him for cranking out 20 miles in this humidity.
This is really obnoxious. Imagine the problems this could cause.
On my way back from the break room, I spotted my boss and tacked away from his path. The only word that came to mind was Loathe. I thought it best not to tempt it.
For the rest of the day, I mulled over this idea of verbalizing our verbs. It burrowed into my skull and nested like an intestinal parasite. It ruined my evening run. Turn up the mp3 as I might, I could not keep the verbs from running through my head and out my mouth.
Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Breathe. Run. Run. Run. Snot Rocket. Apologize. Clean (stranger’s leg). Run. Run. Run.
Enough. A decision was made. I’m going to go ahead and state I’m anti-VV. I don’t care if that makes me a verb bigot. Judge me all you want.
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Happy Father's Day this weekend! This is always a special time around the Nitmos home. It's my chance for me to tell my kids exactly what I think of them based directly on the quality of the gift I receive. I look forward to this all year. The over/under on my use of the word "ungrateful" currently sits at 4.
Five hard miles in the humidity last night. Again, I missed the Limbo for the 3rd straight time!
Miles of 6:54, 6:54 (hundredths of a second under the first mile according to Garmin!), 6:41, 6:51 (missed!), 6:39.
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Thu November 29, 2012
The Car-Sized Bow And Other Gift-Giving Lies Pop Culture Told Me
'Tis the season when the ubiquity of gift-themed commercials and entertainment makes the ubiquity of American Idol in May feel like the subtle nudge of a kitten.
People are giving each other gifts, promising each other gifts, buying gifts, receiving gifts, and wrapping gifts all over your television, and they know they have you as a captive audience, because what are you going to do, go outside? Read a book?
The least you can do for yourself is be aware of the biggest gift-giving lies in popular culture, and fortunately, we have a list.
It is a good idea to give someone a surprise car with a big bow on it. The car bow is a cliche now, and Lexus is routinely slammed for their bizarre holiday ads, which suggest that you should not only buy a person a car as a present (and hope they don't, you know, LOOK OUTSIDE), but you should also invest in a giant red bow and perhaps a custom music box that plays the Lexus Love Theme, which you have helpfully had your custom music box maker orchestrate.
Or maybe you shouldn't buy the car as a gift. Maybe you should just buy the car and assume it will cause a hot person to appear in your life. You know, stranger things have happened.
But before you buy your giant car bow, keep in mind that unless you share no financial burdens whatsoever with the person you're giving the car to, and unless you will not be driving it, what you are really saying with a surprise Lexus is, "Merry Christmas! We bought something expensive you didn't know about!" Oh, and also, if your neighbors see a car in your driveway with a bow on it, you are never getting invited to a neighborhood party again.
It is a good idea to surprise someone with a pet. If Saturday Night Live really wanted to mock a true holiday trope, they'd have made a song called "Dog In A Box." Despite the fact that dogs don't like being in boxes, cats don't like being in boxes, and you're very likely to open a box full of distressed animal to find plenty of evidence of animal distress, the myth of opening a cardboard box to find an imprisoned puppy retains some charm for some people.
In addition to the fact that a pet is not the kind of thing you surprise someone with ("Surprise! This will be going to the bathroom somewhere in your house for the next 15 years!"), the match between pet and owner is such that nobody should be denied the opportunity to fall plainly and majestically in love with a pet and choose it on that basis. Otherwise, it has the potential to be like going on a bad blind date and finding out that you have to take the person home, feed him, wash him, clean his parts, and walk him on a leash till death do you part.
All women love jewelry. Don't get me wrong. Jewelry can be a great gift. If a woman likes jewelry, or if it's a lovely piece of jewelry, or if it's been carefully chosen with love, it can be a great gift. But don't think that women aren't aware that it can, in the wrong hands, be the soap-on-a-rope of gifts for women, the "here is a thing I am giving you because it's the day for thing-giving!" of discouraged shoppers. Please resist the urge to be the guy who expects that if he gives the gift of jewelry, then without fail, there will suddenly be classical music and people leaning out of windows calling out their congratulations in Italian or whatever it is that happens in diamond commercials. Witness this sadistic, mean lady who acts embarrassed and horrified and withholds her affection when her fella yells that he loves her, but declares her love when he gives her stuff. She is not to be trusted.
Snow globes are the most sentimental gift that can be passed from one person to another. I am convinced that the best PR professionals in the entertainment field work for the snow globe industry, which I imagine has secret kickback deals in which the International Snow Globe Manufacturing Association is giving checks under the table to everyone who overstates the significance of the snow globe in gift-giving culture. Because any time there is a script that contains a moment when a gift should be given, and it should be clear that the gift is a gift with all kinds of feeeeeeeelings involved, there is an excellent chance that the gift will be a snow globe. Now, tell the truth: If you are not a snow globe collector and you do not do your Christmas shopping at the airport, how many snow globes have you bought and sold, relative to how much love you have given and received? I REST MY CASE.
You should write in a book that you give to a person who loves books. I'm certainly not saying you should never write in a book that you give to a person who loves books. But there are different kinds of book people. One kind of book person doesn't mind dog-eared pages, broken spines, and other signs that books have been handled by humans. The other kind of book person sees an old ten-cent paperback being thrown in the recycling and calls the How Could You Police. If you have the first kind of book person, you should feel free to write in the front of the book, "I thought you might like to read this! Merry Christmas!" If you have the second kind of book person, it might be safer to insert a card in the front of the book so that the person can throw it in the recycling and retain a pristine book that still appears untouched by human hands. I'm just saying, it could be a safer choice than writing a lovely inscription that, whatever it says, will be read as "I got you some offensive and unfeeling vandalism! I hope you like it."
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A $7 million fine imposed by 38 US states will settle an investigation into Google's grab of private data - including emails, text messages, browsing histories and passwords - from unsecured wireless networks as its cars patrolled neighborhoods, snapping photos around the world.
Today's Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 61st birthday of Douglas Adams, the British satirical author who gave the world The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
Google just slammed the door on a number of vulnerabilities in Chrome.
Just two days before its flagship browser was due to go under public hacking scrutiny at a Canadian security conference...
Attackers could - until Google issued a fix last Thursday, that is - bypass Google accounts' two-step login verification, reset a user's master password, and gain full profile control, just by capturing a user's application-specific password.
The number of people using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music fell by 17% last year, compared to 2011, according to a report released yesterday.
Have your joined thousands of others, and become a loyal listener to the "Chet Chat" yet?
Here's the latest Naked Security podcast, Sophos Security Chet Chat 103, discussing a range of recent and newsworthy topics from the world of computer security.
Account takeovers are down a mammoth 99.7% compared with what they were at the height of the spear-phishing plague of 2011, the company (rightfully) brags.
Do not relax: such success doesn't let us users off the hook when it comes to account security beef-up.
Searching on certain illogical strings returns sites with very XXX titles, all with NSFW tag lists hot enough to burn a hole through your monitor.
Not all cybercriminal activity is sophisticated.
It doesn't have to be clever in order to earn money for the bad guys. If you never buy goods promoted via spam, life becomes much harder for the spammers. And maybe they'll have to find something else to do with their time.
Only six weeks to go until PWN2OWN 2013, where you can hack the Big Four browsers and the Big Three plugins, and win over half a million dollars.
But is it just about the money?
Paul Ducklin investigates...
"Please log into Google Docs, and then you'll be able to read my message."
"I've provided a handy link..."
The Marketing Monster of Mountain View has felt the wrath of the US Federal Trade Commission on several occasions.
But callously running down an innocent pack animal in rural Bostwana? Surely that's stooping to a whole new level?
Is this a cheap shot by Microsoft?
Or are they right to highlight the malware problem on Android smartphones?
A U.S. federal judge in San Francisco gives the nod of approval, declaring that Google should pay a $22.5M USD fine for misleading consumers about the privacy protections offered to users of Apple's Safari web browser.
Google has released its semi-annual Transparency Report, saying that it received more than 20,000 requests for user data in the first half of 2012 - a sign of greater government surveillance.
Google’s Chrome web browser finally joined the ranks of privacy-conscious web browsers this week, with a new release that adds a Do Not Track feature, along with other changes.
Last month, Naked Security uncovered evidence that Google was planning to starting scanning Android apps for malware on users' smartphones.
Google has now shared more information about the technology it plans to introduce to fight malware on mobile devices.
Naked Security's Paul Ducklin talks to the Risky Business podcast about Oracle's patching schedule, lawsuits against Sony after the PlayStation Network breach and how a mathematician unpicked Google's DKIM verifier.
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In a speech yesterday Minister for the Armed Forces Nick Harvey both showed how ministers can stake out clearly different ground from the Conservatives and also gave a hint of major debates over nuclear weapons yet to come.
In his speech to the Franco-British Council Defence Co-operation Conference Nick Harvey said,
As you will know, the two parties in the UK coalition Government have a different approach to the renewal of the current Trident system, but we are jointly pledged to maintain Britain’s nuclear deterrent…
As a Liberal Democrat Minister in this UK Coalition Government, I have the freedom to explore and argue the case for an alternative successor to the planned replacement of Trident.
This is not Government policy, but I and my party colleagues would certainly be willing to explore the options for the UK and France to plan our successor programmes in closer co-ordination including, in the longer-term, the case for deeper co-operation on operational nuclear deterrence.
The background to this is the growing cooperation on nuclear matters which Harvey outlined:
Under [the Teutates arrangement], the UK and France will share facilities to maintain the safety of our independent nuclear deterrents.
Instead of building duplicate national facilities, we have agreed jointly to construct and operate a new Hydrodynamics Facility at Valduc in France and a new Technology Development Centre at Aldermaston in the UK. And we have moved quickly on this work – the facilities will be operational by 2015, with the first UK experiment time-tabled for 2017.
In combining our scientific and engineering talent and in sharing expensive equipment, we can sustain the expertise and capabilities required as responsible nuclear powers and potentially save considerable sums of money. And it will enable us to maintain the safety of our existing nuclear stockpile without breaching the conditions of the international treaties.
Let me stress that this does not threaten the independence of each country’s operational nuclear deterrent. This co-operation does not involve the sharing of any nuclear deterrent capability such as submarine patrols. But it does mark a willingness to co-operate in depth in an area that has traditionally been taboo.
Nick Harvey’s comments are designed to open up a range of possibilities, from future cooperation on submarine design through to much closer cooperation on operational matters.
Where on that spectrum the Liberal Democrats want the party’s position to be, and what views it wants its ministers to be promoting may, on past form, to be the cause of lively debate in the party. But it will be an important debate to have, especially as it is one area which not only is of great importance to the country but also is likely to be one where the two coalition parties disagree at the next general election.l
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The Air Jordan 5 shoe was released in 1990. Phil Jackson took over as head coach for the Bulls in the 89-90 seasons, who gave the Bull’s an extra boost and everything was flying. Jordan kept on playing his game and set a personal best when scoring 69 points in a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Hatfield came up with a revolutionary design for the Air Jordan 5. A few elements were picked up from its predecessor but it featured a great silver/reflex tongue and a clear/see-through rubber sole which gave it a totally unique look. Air Jordan 5 Shoe was the first time anyone had ever molded foam into a shoe upper. Tinker came to the conclusion that the way Michael performed was “like a Fighter Plane”. The design of Nike Air Jordan 5 gets inspiration from “grey nurse shark” or Super marine Spitfire MkVIII, which is a World War II British fighter plane. To add to the finishing touches of the shoe, Tinker added a reflective 3M tongue with Jumpman embroidery. When the Air Jordan 5 Shoes first came out in 1990, they retailed for $125.00. In 2000 when the Air Jordan 5 shoes made its second appearance they sold for $120.00. 2006 Jordan Brand re-released the Nike Air Jordan 5 Shoes once again with retail for $135.00. Enjoy them on our site.
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I a thought just brought itself together to me yesterday that I had to throw out there. During the Olympics I was talking to my kids about China and how we find that they attack American servers so much. I personally have tried to track down IP addresses on servers I’ve run and even at my home in the past and traced them down to a Chinese IPs before I even knew about all the attacks.
Fast forward to the night before last. I was watching a James Bond movie called “Tomorrow Never Dies.” The movie’s plot in short was a plot by a media magnet billionaire (obviously Ted Turner) making the news so his magazines, TV, and newspapers could report it first. So, he used a stealth ship and park it near the Chinese ships and attack the British and vice versa.
So, in my preparation to write this post I was listening to a podcast called Linux Outlaws and found out that John C. Dvorak or the Twit network also came up with this conclusion. What if it’s someone else attacking us by attacking Chinese servers and routing through them? In my own history I have found that a server that I had control of but wasn’t supposed to really touch was compromised many years ago. The thing is, during the forensics process of this I found out that the attackers were from Germany and using my server to attack the company 3COM (who also notified me of the attack). Dvorak seems to think it is the Russians attacking US computers but I haven’t thought too much about the “who” just the “not who.”
Just a side thought. Tomorrow Never Dies was made in 1997. Somebody else was watching and coming up with this idea. Plus, we know that the Chinese servers aren’t totally without holes. The whole drama about the Chinese gymnists being too young really broke after an american IT security guy hacked (well not really hacked but run with me) into Chinese search engine servers cache files, got data, and used Google to translate the pages. From that he found that all the references to a gymnast meet just last year where the girls were 13 and now they’re 16 by the time of the Olympics. Right…
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Winning With Option Volatility
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There's been a lot of talk about volatility in stocks lately.
But today, I want to focus on options volatility and what it means for the options investor.
So let's start off with a definition:
Volatility measures the rate at which a security moves up and down. If a security is moving up and down quickly, volatility will be high. Conversely, if a security is moving up or down slowly, volatility will be low.
Options volatility is largely pinned to the underlying stock.
Traditionally, option traders look to buy options when volatility is low since premiums are lower.
And traders look to write options when volatility is high as option premiums tend to be higher.
Of course, the trick, like anything, is knowing what's high and what's low. If you're buying options with low volatility, you then want to see the volatility increase. And vice versa, when writing them.
But I do want to say, volatility is only one item in determining an option trade. Putting on an option solely because of volatility would be a mistake. But understanding how volatility affects your premium is important.
Volatility can also tip you off that something big might be getting ready to happen.
When option volatility is low, there is a high probability that a big move could be getting ready to occur.
Interestingly, when volatility drops and things are kind of quiet in the market, that's often when things heat up all of a sudden. The smart options trader will look to buy options in that environment - whether he's bullish or bearish - by buying calls or puts.
Because in addition to the option increasing in value due to moving in the right direction, it'll also increase in value because of the increase in volatility.
This happens because as volatility increases, there's an increased likelihood of rapid advances and larger price swings. That also means the higher the likelihood of an option trading in-the-money by expiration, the more it's worth to the buyer of an option.
And the writer of the option demands a higher premium for taking the other side of the trade because he's now taking more risk that he won't profit.
Looking at the other end of the spectrum, when volatility is high, or excessively high, the market is full of traders, and people are looking and expecting big things to happen.
Often times, that's when nothing happens, and the market falls into a trading range for while or slows down.
In this environment, volatility starts to shrink as the probability of large swings in the market shrinks. For the option writer, the risk of having an option he wrote get in-the-money by expiration has diminished. And for the option buyer, the chance of it getting in-the-money has shrunk as well.
As such, the writer demands less premium to cover his risk. And the purchaser pays less as his probabilities shrink as well.
So the buyer wants to see volatility trend up. And the writer wants to see the volatility trend down.
So for the writer, after volatility has trended up for a while, he will look to cash in on this by writing options as he expects volatility to cool down and maybe trend lower, increasing his chances of success.
A great way to think of volatility is this: if a security was trading at $50, and it had a 20% volatility, that means there's a greater likelihood that the security could trade within a 20% range (20% above $50 or 20% below $50) over a period of time.
That's a great way to wrap your mind around volatility.
In future examples, we'll talk about volatility and how to use it to your advantage in a practical sense.
You can learn more about different option strategies by downloading our free options booklet: 3 Smart Ways to Make Money with Options (Two of Which You Probably Never Heard About). Just click here.
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MARSHALL - About 15 students gathered at Southwest Minnesota State University on Tuesday night to hear plans for the next step in the marriage equality campaign.
"This is a presentation by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) about what's next with the marriage amendment," said student organizer Katie Langel, a sophomore from Remsen, Iowa.
The event was part of a week-long series of events to highlight inclusiveness in the university community.
"We had events all week," said Anjelica Burghardt, a junior from Watertown, S.D. "Tomorrow (Wednesday) it's about gender stereotypes, Thursday about ability-disability."
Tuesday's presentation was about keeping the momentum of the defeat of the proposed marriage amendment to the state constitution in the November election, which would have banned same-sex marriage if passed.
"Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. State Senator Scott Dibble (DFL) and State Representative Karen Clark (DFL) are going to introduce bills for marriage equality at the Capitol," said Sue Morton, president of the PFLAG Marshall-Buffalo Ridge chapter. "Our goal tonight is to talk about the accomplishments of November 6, 2012, how the no vote was accomplished, and how we narrow the gap between straight and gay marriage equality.
Morton outlined strategy and tactics for a campaign to approach and influence state legislators to vote for the proposed bill by the end of the legislative session.
"Why do we need to pass a bill now?" Morton said. "Why not go to a lawyer and get power of attorney and medical power? Because it's not enough, it's not equality."
Morton elicited suggestions from the audience, which included: e-mail campaigns, phone banks, handwritten letters, postcard campaigns, lobbying at the Capitol and approaching legislators at town meetings where legislators go during the break in the session to sound out popular opinion.
"The goal has to be realistic," Morton said. "You have to have an audience that's approachable, and you have to approach them in a civil manner. Argumentation doesn't work."
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