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Through the numerous rumors and countless fallacies that are fed into the freshman mind about Greek organizations when they first hit campus, its become easy for students to believe false ideas and assumptions about what it entails to be a member.
Some students are lucky enough to have some kind of idea how the Greek community works if they have close friends or family who have pledged Greek letter organizations; others are not so fortunate.
Being apart of the Greek world myself (Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc.) I can tell you that when I first arrived on to my college campus I knew about one sorority and then as I slowly began to learn more, I learned all of the myths that were whispered around campus.
First of all, I can be the first to humbly admit that being in an organization changes you, but you can be the one to let it change you for the better or worse.
All sorority and fraternity members are not stuck up or conceited.
I am also not saying that there are members that aren’t stuck up or conceited, oh yes, there are a few, but that shouldn’t keep you away. Those people are just jerks and are few and far between; most people in Greek life are people looking to make friends, just like you.
Being in a Greek letter organization is NOT all about partying and drinking.
Although one of the perks of being Greek is the parties, that’s not all we do. Every organization is founded upon principles that we have to uphold, one of which is academics.
Before we were initiated members the majority of us came to college to get a degree; receiving letters didn’t change that goal. Undergrad isn’t supposed to last forever and we all do plan on graduating some day, a consistent amount of parties and alcohol would alter that goal.
This kind of goes in hand with #1, going Greek won’t change your individuality if you don’t let it.
It is easy to let all the limelight and get caught up in all of the popularity that Greek life may bring to you, but remember to remain humble. It only lasts for so long and at the end of day you’re still a regular person just like the people that didn’t join.
And Finally, the mother of all misconceptions. Hazing.
Truthfully, we know by the media and by school and state regulations that this does go on. I cannot speak for any organization’s process but my own and I can say that I did not and would not do anything that would resemble hazing.
If you are considering joining an organization and you feel like they’re making you do something that may consider hazing or something you don’t want to do, then don’t do it. Nothing is worth your self respect.
Bottom line: it may be for you it may not be for you. Regardless, your college experience is a joy within itself. Enjoy that before anything.
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Michigan Business P2 Partnership (MBP3)
Organizations in Michigan have the opportunity to become involved in a unique program encouraging businesses to apply creative, cost-effective techniques to reduce waste and prevent the release of hazardous substances.
Known as the Michigan Business Pollution Prevention Partnership (MBP3), this voluntary program is open to all Michigan businesses, regardless of size, interested in initiating or expanding pollution prevention (P2) practices and receiving recognition for these efforts. Participants are asked to provide an annual summary of their progress and share success stories on their pollution prevention activities. Developed jointly by the business community and state government, the MBP3 program is managed by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Office of Pollution Prevention and Compliance Assistance, who will be responsible for providing pollution prevention assistance, recognizing participants, and reporting on the program's progress.
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The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones,1 and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets,2 which you broke.32
Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.4 Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.
No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain;5 not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."
So Moses chiseled6 out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.75
Then the LORD came down in the cloud8 and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.96
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate10 and gracious God, slow to anger,11 abounding in love12 and faithfulness,137
maintaining love to thousands,14 and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.15 Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;16 he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."178
Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.
"O Lord, if I have found favor18 in your eyes," he said, "then let the Lord go with us.19 Although this is a stiff-necked20 people, forgive our wickedness and our sin,21 and take us as your inheritance."2210
Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant23 with you. Before all your people I will do wonders24 never before done in any nation in all the world.25 The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
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The secret nature of B.C.'s new impaired-driving sanctions might force the government to open driving records to public scrutiny.
Right now, such records are considered private. But that means many people punished for drunk driving will escape public notice, because the new administrative penalties will be imposed by the police at roadside and never make it to a public courtroom.
Solicitor General Mike de Jong told the Times Colonist that he will consider setting up a system similar to that in Ontario, where people can check how many traffic infractions someone has committed, or whether they've had their licences suspended for impaired driving over a three-year period.
"We may want to look at that," de Jong said. "If a driver has been sanctioned for behaviour that society condemns, then there is a reasonable argument that says that information should be readily available."
He said government is not attempting to shield impaired drivers from punishment or publicity.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," he said. "These are the toughest sanctions in the country."
The new rules give police discretion to slap first-time offenders with an immediate 90-day driving ban and $500 fine, rather than a criminal charge, if they fail a roadside screening test. They'd also have to participate in a responsible driver program and blow into an interlock ignition device before starting their cars for a year.
Unlike speeding offences or criminal charges for driving under the influence, however, the administrative penalties do not generate a court file, so there is no public record of the offence.
That means you might never know if your mayor, MLA, daycare provider or child's school-bus driver has been fined or lost their licence for impaired driving.
By contrast, if you live in Ontario, you could pay a fee to obtain a three-year snapshot of a person's driving record -- including traffic act and criminal convictions, licence suspensions and demerit point total. The driver's home address is withheld for privacy reasons.
Emna Dhahak, a media liaison officer with Ontario's Transportation Ministry, said the three-year driving snapshot has been a public record in that province since 1973.
She was unable to locate records indicating why Ontario first made the records public.
"To the best of anyone's recollection, it was for consumer protection and road-safety purposes," Dhahak said in an e-mail to the Times Colonist. "For example, it allows an individual to check the driving record of the person they are loaning their vehicle to, insurance companies for automobile-insurance underwriting purposes, as well as permitting employers to check the driving records of employees driving company-owned vehicles."
De Jong said any move to provide similar transparency in B.C. would require legislation, but he's willing to look at that.
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By Lily Kubota, Content & Communications Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America
If there is one thing about coffee that you can count on, it is change. Coffee is an ever-evolving, amorphous concept. Coffee is the seed of a fruit, it is a roasted “bean”, it is a batch brewed cup, a shot of espresso. Coffee is difficult enough to pin down, but we’re not in the business of coffee anyhow. We’re selling specialty. By definition, specialty coffee is something special. Something delightfully unexpected or comfortingly familiar, prepared with great attention to detail, and presented in such a way to show how truly remarkable it is. With the care and dedication present in every cup of specialty coffee, the importance of communicating this message becomes a great responsibility. What does it mean when someone says, “Let’s go get coffee”? Are they simply planning to purchase a cup of black coffee or a coffee beverage, or are they seeking out an entirely unique coffee experience?
As coffee evolves, the way we sell and talk about coffee is evolving. Our coffee retail spaces are changing, the way we brew and serve coffee is adjusting as new trends emerge, oldies re-emerge, and others die off. Evolution, in coffee as well as biology, gives rise to diversity at every level. Where there is a niche to be filled, someone will evolve and adapt to the environment and fill this need. The beauty of the coffee culture is our ability to fill these niches and adapt to changing conditions, sometimes very rapidly. Those who are better adapted to their environment will thrive; those unable to adapt or find their niche may unfortunately face extinction.
In recent years, we’ve seen a re-emergence of traditional brewing methods used prior to the classic electric coffee maker, urns, and air pots that reigned king for so many decades in coffee retail settings. Does the recent rise in popularity of alternative brewing devices in the café setting indicate a return to craft, and a focus on delivering a truly special experience? With this shift towards a more handcrafted coffee service, cafés are building opportunities for dialogue. Whether a café is able to maximize this opportunity to expose their customer to new ways of thinking about and enjoying coffee is dependent on whether the establishment can deliver this experience in an authentic and approachable way.
In order to deliver this experience, cafés must be set up to welcome curiosity and embrace a new, perhaps hesitant, audience. The reality in the marketplace is that a whole lot of people drink coffee, but a still relatively small percentage of coffee drinkers are seeking out truly special coffee experiences. There is comfort and assurance in the same old thing; a sense of authenticity and familiarity. These consumers are intimidated by the lingo and sensitive to environments where they feel out of place.
Acknowledging the challenges we’re up against, wouldn’t it be reasonable to suggest that authenticity and familiarity are precisely the qualities that we must capture and convey through specialty coffee experiences? The key becomes delivering this familiarity in unexpected ways, and delivering value in this experience. When great attention is paid to the preparation or presentation of coffee, people are either curious or resistant, and often both. But…do we just give up on them? This could be the same consumer who goes to the market and picks out a craft beer off the shelf that is twice as much as a lesser quality beer, without blinking an eye at the price. With specialty coffee, we’re seeing a bit of hesitation and trepidation, but the curiosity is there and there are indications that there is a willingness to pay for the specialty coffee experience.
The value of coffee is dependent on countless variables, most often beyond our control. However, according to James Hoffmann of Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London, the environment in which the transaction occurs has a huge effect on the price that a customer is willing to pay. At the SCAA 2012 Symposium, James discussed the variables that affect the price of a hamburger in London, comparing a £1 burger to a £15 burger. He noted the main factors that motivate folks who are more willing to pay for the more expensive burger, listing better quality ingredients, preparation, better ambiance and environment, and better service as examples. He mused that most people wouldn’t be willing to pay £15 for a hamburger in a place where the chairs are bolted to the floor, no matter how good the burger.
Click here to watch James’ talk at Symposium 2012 on YouTube
James noted that although people are more willing, perhaps, to spend extra money on the expensive hamburger, there is also a place for the £1 burger. Some people may only experience the £15 burger a few times in their lives, but they’ll go to McDonald’s every week. These experiences can co-exist in the world of hamburgers. Likewise, there is room for diversity in coffee, even within specialty coffee. There is already a wide range of experiences available, but for the most part – and particularly in the US – there is still a gravitation to the traditional café model where you order at the counter, pick up your drink, and go sit down. There is nothing inherently wrong with this model, but James suggests that perhaps there is room for alternate café concepts to exist harmoniously.
How do we design new experiences that feel familiar and expose consumers to specialty coffee in a way that feels authentic? How do we convey our message in simple terms that still reflect the care, passion and dedication at every step of the way that were necessary to culminate into this one specialty coffee experience? Providing value through information and being available and willing to share are important for a positive consumer experience, but at the end of the day this has to translate into a tastable difference in what the customer is experiencing. The coffee has to be great.
Lily Kubota began her career in coffee at age 15 with her first job as a barista and became increasingly interested in coffee and café culture over the years. As Content & Communications Manager for the SCAA, she has been privileged to observe and reflect on the intricacies and nuances of the coffee industry on both the consuming and producing side of the supply chain and gain a deeper understanding of this exciting community.
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Whereas it is found expedient, for the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the territories and jurisdiction of the parties, respectively, that persons committing certain heinous crimes, being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; and also to enumerate such crimes explicitly; and whereas the laws of Austria forbid the surrender of its own citizens to a foreign jurisdiction, the Government of the United States, with a view of making the convention strictly reciprocal, shall be held equally free from any obligation to surrender citizens of the United States; therefore, on the one part the United States of America, and on the other part His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, having resolved to treat on this subject, have, for that purpose, appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, to negotiate and conclude a convention; that is to say:
The President of the United States, William L. Marcy, Secretary of State; and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, John George Chevalier de Hulsemann, his said Majesty's Minister- Resident near the Government of the United States; who, after reciprocal communication of their respective powers, have agreed to and signed the following articles:
It is agreed that the United States and Austria shall, upon mutual requisitions by them or their ministers, officers or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the fabrication or circulation of counterfeit money, whether coin or paper money, or the embezzlement of public moneys, committed within the jurisdiction of either party, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other: Provided, That this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offense had there been committed; and the respective judges and other magistrates of the two Governments shall have power, jurisdiction and authority, upon complaint made under oath, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of the fugitive or person so charged, that he may be brought before such judges or other magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered; and if, on such hearing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such fugitive. The expense of such apprehension and delivery shall be borne and defrayed by the party who makes the requisition and receives the fugitive. The provisions of the present convention shall not be applied, in any manner, to the crimes enumerated in the first article committed anterior to the date thereof nor to any crime or offense of a political character.
Neither of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver up its own citizens or subjects under the stipulations of this convention.
Whenever any person accused of any of the crimes enumerated in this convention shall have committed a new crime in the territories of the State where he has sought an asylum or shall be found, such person shall not be delivered up, under the stipulations of this convention, until he shall have been tried and shall have received the punishment due to such new crime, or shall have been acquitted thereof.
The present convention shall continue in force until the first of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and if neither party shall have given to the other six months' previous notice of its intention then to terminate the same, it shall further remain in force until the end of twelve months after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of such intention; each of the high contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at any time after the expiration of the said first day of January, 1858.
The present convention shall be ratified by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States and by His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this convention and have hereunto affixed their seals.
Done in duplicate at Washington, the third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States the eightieth.
Treaties, Conventions, International Acts and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers 1776-1909.
Compiled by William M. Malloy
Under Resolution of the Senate of January 18, 1909
Washington : Government Printing Office, 1910.
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Guest Author - Tony Daltorio
One of the most common ways that the individual investor invests in the stock market is through mutual funds. There are literally thousands and thousands of mutual funds in the marketplace from which to choose from. It can be quite a time-consuming task for an investor to research all of these funds and then to decide which funds to invest in.
Fortunately, there are many sources of information on mutual funds which an investor can use to research the funds. The leader in the field of mutual fund research is, of course, Morningstar. Other good sources of mutual fund information can be found at Yahoo Finance, MSN Moneycentral, and at online brokerage firms such as E-Trade and Schwab.
How can an individual investor choose among all the various mutual funds? What criteria should the individual investor be looking for? Some of the more obvious criteria would be the performance of the mutual fund and also the fees charged by the mutual fund companies.
The investor should check the actual track record of the fund. See what the fund actually returned. Some funds shamelessly advertise that they beat the 'benchmark' consistently. Do not fooled by this old Wall Street 'game'. The fund companies love to show charts of their fund versus the S&P 500 index. If the 'benchmark' is say down 20% and a fund beats the benchmark, so what? You may have still lost money! Make sure the fund is actually making you money.
With regard to the fees, many investors don't dig deep enough. They look to see whether the fund is a load fund or a no-load fund and they stop there. Every mutual fund investor should dig deeper to see what other fees are charged. Some fund companies charge 12b-1 fees. These fees are fees the fund companies charge their shareholders to advertise their funds. I do not care for the 12b-1 at all.
The other important fee to look at is the management fee. This is basically the fee that fund companies charge their shareholders to actually run (pick the stocks,etc.) the fund. These fees should be as low as possible and at most 1% for domestic funds and 2% for international funds.
The most important item that mutual fund investors should look at is the actual stock portfolio of the particular mutual fund. What does your mutual fund actually own? Many mutual funds have a dismal track record. Why? Are the fund managers just dumb? I believe that the reason for many mutual funds poor performance is that they are too diversified. That is, the funds own far too many stocks. So even if a fund manager picks some big winners, the effects are diluted by the many stocks that have done nothing or have gone down.
I believe that a fund manager (and individual investors too) should actually think about the big picture. Where is the economy headed? What are the global mega-trends? And then the manager should invest accordingly into, I believe, no more than a hundred or so stocks. If the fund manager makes the right choices, the fund definitely will make a lot of money.
Why don't more fund managers invest that way? Again, it is the Wall Street game of beating the 'benchmark'. Many fund managers get paid to simply beat the 'benchmark'. So many fund managers just don't want to risk losing their big bonuses for 'beating the benchmark'. So even if your mutual fund lost money, as long as the fund manager beat the benchmark, they collect a big year-end bonus.
In order to get a decent return on their money, investors should look for a fund manager that doesn't play these games and has a reasonable portfolio size of approximately a hundred stocks. A good example of this would be Ken Heibner of the CGM funds. His CGM Focus fund actually has only 25-35 stocks in it and yet the returns are fabulous. The fund has a 10 year annualized return of over 25% and a 5 year annualized return of over 30%! Even this year where the stock market has stunk, the fund has returned nearly 7%. So there are great fund managers are there, you just have search for them.
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It can be difficult to know how to act in some situations. An easy answer can be to do what other people think you should do. After all, why would someone want you do to something that isn’t good. Some bad decisions come from trying to impress other people. Impressing other people is too . . . → Read More: Decisions to impress
I have written several posts about goal setting. Goals help you focus on what you want to accomplish. I know I can get really excited and energized bout my goals.
The common advice is to tell people about your goals. The premise is that if you tell people you are running a marathon, you . . . → Read More: Your plans don’t impress me
How do you act when you meet someone new? It may be working with someone new, it may be a new friend, or it may be someone you are introduced to.
A wish to impress others is a natural human behavior, but resist as much as you can to try . . . → Read More: Do I impress you?
Trying to live up to someone else’s expectations is not a good idea. The belief is that trying to satisfy someone who you are intimated by will somehow help you to win. Striving to impress other people will take away who you really are and slow down your progress to become the person you . . . → Read More: Impressing others is not so impressive
Our culture may define our status in it, but it doesn’t have to define you. Keeping up with the Jones’ isn’t really that hard to do (just look at my family). You and I know plenty of people working hard to impress their friends, family, and neighbors. I have found that these same people . . . → Read More: Overcoming a major personal blow
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APTA responded to FoxNews.com regarding a May 2 article, "How can chiropractors benefit your health?" in which Keith Overland, president of the American Chiropractic Association, said that chiropractic treatment may include "combinations of chiropractic manipulation, physical therapy, and rehabilitative procedures for many musculoskeletal problems." APTA tells Fox News, "'Physical therapy' is not a generic term. It describes only those services provided by a licensed physical therapist. Chiropractors may provide some of the same treatment modalities as physical therapists, but they should portray their services as chiropractic and not as 'physical therapy.'"
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- Special Sections
- Public Notices
He only has one eye and goes by the name of “Chicken,” and not only has he stolen the hearts of all those at an animal rescue facility in Shelby County but also that of a woman 3,000 miles away.
“He’s just the most amazing little guy you ever saw, and this woman is driving all the way out here from California to pick him up,” said Ashley Shelburne, founder of Tyson’s Chance, an animal rescue organization.
Shelburne, owner of Shelburne’s Pet Center in Shelbyville who established the rescue center on Kentucky Street in February, said the woman, Laura Carson, saw Chicken’s photo on her organization’s Facebook page and immediately fell in love with this bedraggled little Shih-Tzu.
“She said it just touched her heart how much he reminded her of her little dog she had to put down at age 19,” she said. “Chicken is an older dog also, and he has a number of health problems, including the fact that he is totally missing his left eye, and he has limited vision in his right.”
Shelburne said it means a lot to her and her staff that someone is willing to adopt such a dog.
Carson said that she couldn’t help but respond to the dog’s obvious plight, and she will arrive in Shelby County today to pick him up.
“Everybody wants puppies, so older dogs often get overlooked,” she said. “And also, older dogs usually have some health issues, and need loving care more than pups.
“When I saw his picture, it was like he was saying to me, ‘Hey, mom, come and get me.’”
Carson, who has two other Shih-Tzus at home, said her dogs have been wonderful companions to her and have helped her through some rough times.
“I came out of a horribly abusive marriage, and they have helped me heal,” she said. “So anything I can do for them, I will.”
Carson is originally from Illinois, but her mother and brother moved to the Elizabethtown area, and it was through her mother that she found Shelburne’s facility, where her mother had adopted a dog.
Shelburne laughed when recalling how the dog acquired his name.
“The lady that brought him to us said she found him wandering around her neighborhood, and she kept talking about how he smelled like he had been in a chicken coup, and I don’t know if you’ve ever smelled one of those, but it has a very distinctive smell,” she said.
“And she was right, he did smell like a chicken.
“So we started calling him The Colonel, because it sounded more dignified. But he was so cute, my staff started calling him ‘little chicky man,’ and it just stuck.”
Shelburne said she usually has about 20 dogs, and a few cats, at Tyson’s Chance Animal Foundation, a facility she founded with a mission to rescue, rehabilitate and provide care for dogs, especially those with special needs, prior to finding them good homes.
“About fifty percent of our animals are special needs,” she said, adding that she is partial to pit bulls personally, because that breed is often abused and neglected.
“I’m a pit bull owner, because I have a soft spot for them,” she said. “They are often owned by the wrong people, who mistreat them, and that’s how they’ve gotten the reputation they have. I had an East Middle School class came visit here recently, and my pit bulls gave all the kids lots of kisses.”
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24 P.S. Section 13-1306.2
DATE OF ISSUE: July 1, 1999
REPLACES: Educational Services for Students Incarcerated in Local
Correction Institutions, BEC 24 P.S. Section 13.1306.2,
issued January 15, 1998
Act 33 of the Special Session of 1995, authorizing the adjudication of school age individuals as adults, has increased the student population in local correction institutions. Incarceration, however, does not negate the responsibility of a school district in which a local correction institution is located to provide education to the students residing in the institution. These students should receive basic and special education in the manner described below.
I. Basic Education
Until they reach 17 years of age, students are subject to compulsory education laws. Further, persons under 21 years of age who have not graduated have rights to an education upon request. It is the law and policy of the Commonwealth that all school-age individuals who are of compulsory school age must attend a program of basic instruction as further defined below, and that these programs must be offered to all school-age individuals ages 17-21 who have not received a high school diploma and who wish to continue their education.
Act 30 of 1997 amended the Public School Code by including Section 1306.2 to define the minimum level of education that must be provided to school-age individuals incarcerated in adult local correction institutions. Section 1306.2(e) expressly defines local correction institutions to include any jail, prison or detention facility operated by a county or jointly by more than one county or by a municipality. Section 1306.2 delineates between school-age individuals that have been charged with a criminal offense and those individuals that have been convicted of a criminal offense.
A. School Age Individuals Charged with a Criminal Offense
Section 1306.2(b) requires that persons under twenty-one (21) years of age who are confined to an adult local correction institution following a charge for a criminal offense shall be eligible for educational services in the same manner and to the same extent as a student who has been placed in an alternative education program for disruptive students pursuant to Article XIX-C (Disruptive Student Programs). Alternative education programs for disruptive youth may operate outside the normal school day, and these programs may modify the requirements established in Sections 1327, 1501 and 1504 of the Public School Code insofar as they require a particular number of days or hours of instruction. In order to receive these waivers of the School Code, however, a district must annually either apply, or be a party to an application filed jointly with other districts or by an intermediate unit, to the Department pursuant to Article XIX-C. Local school districts who do not submit an application to operate an alternative education program for disruptive youth must provide basic education programs in the county prisons in conformity with all of the requirements of the School Code, including the days, hours and curriculum requirements of the Code.
While Section 1306.2(b) provides flexibility in the days and hours requirements of the School Code, Department approved alternative education programs for disruptive youth must permit students to make normal academic progress and achieve requirements for graduation as defined by either the home or host district. It is anticipated that alternative education programs in county jails and prisons will operate five days per week. In order to secure Department approval, programs must offer at least twenty (20) hours of instruction per week or fewer hours of instruction per week covering at least four of the following curricular areas: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Health or Life Skills and show that normal academic progress may be achieved in fewer than twenty (20) hours of weekly instruction. Districts must explain in detail in their applications how their programs will meet these criteria. The Department will perform monitoring to confirm that all districts in which local correction institutions are located are offering alternative education programs that comply either with Department approved waivers or with the full requirements of the School Code and regulations.
B. School Age Individuals Convicted of a Criminal Offense
Section 1306.2(a) requires that persons under twenty-one (21) years of age who are confined to an adult local correction institution following conviction for a criminal offense shall be eligible for educational services in the same manner and to the same extent as a student who has been expelled pursuant to Section 1318 of the Public School Code. Pursuant to 22 Pa. Code Section 12.6(e), expelled students who are less than 17 years of age are still subject to the compulsory school attendance law, and districts must make some provision for the students' education.
Applicable to programs for both charged and convicted individuals, Section 1306 of the School Code requires the "host" district (the district in which the jail is located) to allow nonresident students residing in institutions within the district to attend the public schools of the host school district. Where this is not possible, the host district shall conduct an educational program at the institution. Historically, the host district has charged the school district where the student's parents live, or "resident" district, the host district's tuition rate as determined by Section 2561 of the School Code. Act 30 of 1997, by the addition of Section 1306.2(c), requires the Department of Education to effectuate necessary procedures for the transfer of funds from the school district of residence to the host school district in which the local correction institution is located. Pursuant to these procedures, the Department, not the host district, effectuates the transfer of funds. In doing so, the Department may deduct the appropriate amount from the basic education funding allocation of any school district whose resident students were provided educational services in a local correction facility. Districts educating individuals in local correction institutions should secure and file all applicable forms with the Department's Bureau of Budget and Fiscal Management, Division of Subsidy Data and Administration to ensure appropriate billing by the Department.
II. Special Education
The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) imposes a duty on state educational agencies (SEAs) to ensure the rights of students with disabilities to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in order to receive federal funds. As the SEA, the Department provides general supervision of services and programs under Pennsylvania's special education regulations and standards, Chapter 14. The Commonwealth has delegated to school districts the operational responsibility to offer FAPE to each student who is eligible for special education until the student or students who turn 21 during the school term are entitled to finish that school term, whichever occurs first.
School districts, within whose boundaries a local correction institution is located, should comply fully with the requirements of the IDEA and Chapter 14 regarding the identification, evaluation, placement and provision of special education services to all eligible school-age individuals housed therein. Eligible students are entitled to receive special education both when they are charged with a criminal offense and are awaiting trial and after they have been convicted of a criminal offense. Specifically, school districts providing special education services to incarcerated school-age individuals are required to:
1. comply with the "child-find" obligations of IDEA;
2. utilize appropriate evaluation procedures and diagnostic/screening instruments
to determine the eligibility and educational needs of inmates;
3. implement, timely review and/or develop Individualized Education Programs
("IEPs") for eligible students in accordance with state and federal laws and
regulations, including compliance with procedural safeguards; and
4. provide FAPE in conformity with the IEP.
Section 1309 of the School Code permits the district providing special education to charge the district of residence a special education charge not to exceed the total net cost of the special education program provided. Again, pursuant to Section 1306.2(c), the Department of Education will effectuate necessary procedures for the transfer of funds from the school district of residence to the school district in which the local correction institution is located which may include a deduction of the appropriate amount from the basic education funding allocation of any school district whose resident students were provided educational services in a local correction facility. In addition, the Department of Education will perform monitoring to confirm the appropriate provision of special education to children confined in local correction institutions.
Districts have a responsibility to adopt and use a system to locate and identify all students within the district's jurisdiction who are thought to be eligible and to determine those students' needs through a screening and evaluation process which meets the requirements of Chapter 14. Part of this responsibility is to provide annual public notice under Section 14.121. Districts should send their annual public notice to the warden of each county jail or prison within their jurisdiction. Furthermore, districts in which local correction institutions are located must develop a systematic, on-going means of communicating with these institutions to ensure that all incarcerated students who may be eligible for special education are located, identified, evaluated, and, when deemed eligible, offered FAPE. In addition, districts may obtain information from the Department's PennData database to determine whether school-age inmates have been previously identified as eligible for special education by contacting the Records Center at 717-541-8575 or 1-800-945-7854. Obviously, the provision of special education in local correction institutions is somewhat unique. Added pursuant to the 1997 amendments to the IDEA, Section 614(d)(6) recognizes the atypical nature of providing services to children with disabilities who are convicted as adults under State law and who are incarcerated in adult prisons. Section 614(d)(6)(A) provides that the following requirements of IDEA do not apply:
A. participation of children with disabilities in general assessments as is required
in section 612(a)(17) and paragraph (1)(A)(v); and
B. transition planning and transition services as is required in subclauses (I)
and (II) of paragraph (1)(A)(vii) with respect to children whose eligibility will
end, because of their age, before they will be released from prison.
Finally, Section 614(d)(6)(B) provides that if a child with a disability is convicted as an adult under state law and incarcerated in an adult prison, the child's IEP team may modify the child's IEP or placement notwithstanding the requirements of section 612(a)(5)(A) and 614(d)(1)(A)(least restrictive environment) if a bona fide security or compelling penological interest that cannot otherwise be accommodated is demonstrated. Where the continued delivery of services in a student's IEP is superseded by the duty of the local correction institution to maintain and control security, the school district must conduct an IEP meeting and revise the IEP accordingly, following the usual procedural safeguards provided for under Chapter 14.
It should be noted that Section 614(d)(6) of the IDEA applies only to individuals with disabilities who have been convicted as adults under State law, not to those individuals who have merely been charged as an adult and are awaiting trial.Questions regarding this Basic Education Circular should be addressed to the Bureau of Community and Student Services (Basic Education), the Bureau of Special Education or Bureau of Correction Education (Special Education), or the Bureau of Budget and Fiscal Management (Funding issues).
24 P. S. Section 13-1306
24 P. S. Section 13-1306.2 (Act 30 of 1997)
24 P. S. Section 13-1308
24 P. S. Section 13-1309
24 P. S. Section 13-1318
24 P. S. Section 19-1901-C
24 P. S. Section 25-2561
State Board of Education Regulations
22 Pa. Code Section 11.6
22 Pa. Code Chapter 14
Department of Education Standards
22 Pa. Code Chapter 342
20 U.S.C. Section 1400, et seq. (IDEA),
including Amendments of 1997 to Sections 612(a)(I) and 614(d)(6).
34 C.F.R. Part 300
Bureau of Special Education
School Services Unit
717.787.4860 (Basic and Correction Education)
Bureau of Budget and Fiscal Management
Division of Subsidy Data and Administration
717.787.5423 (Funding issues)
Pennsylvania Department of Education
333 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17126-0333
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Several of my friends have now posted this TED video by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, talking about how more women can become leaders in their careers. At this stage in my life, I've been giving a lot of thought to the topic of women and careers. So I feel compelled to comment on what I see as misguided advice that successful career women often give their younger counterparts.
I won't spend much time nitpicking at Sandberg's delivery, but I can't help but groan at her business-jargon-infested style, which reminds me of a verbal version of powerpoint. I think her main goal is to encourage women to be strong and believe in themselves, which I'm completely in favor of. And she does give many useful pieces of specific advice. But her broader message is garbled and ambiguous, and troublingly values-free.
She recounts a story of her brother boastfully predicting that he would ace an exam despite shirking in the class, while she and a female friend nervously fretted in self-doubt. Her lesson from this story is that women need to correct our under-confidence problem. But implicitly, she's also saying that we live in a world of over-confident men, and in order to succeed in that world we have to be more like them.
I don't like this implication. I value the fact that I don't think I'm right all the time, and don't boast about being the best at everything. I do ruefully acknowledge that overconfidence is often rewarded as much as substance. But I don't have any desire to be like her brother in the story, even if it would help me get ahead.
Sandberg's most compelling story involves giving her talk about women and leadership at Facebook. After her talk, she said she would take two more questions before concluding. While all the women put their hands down after she answered the last two questions, she continued taking questions from the men who kept their hands up. Her lesson for women is to "keep your hands up," and she views the men's behavior as "reaching for opportunity." I view it as being obnoxious, and I think Sandberg’s perspective disempowers the women who respected her own stated wishes by viewing them as timid and weak.
More emphatically than in the first story, Sandberg encourages women to elbow our way in, demand higher pay, and become more like men in order to beat them in the career rat race. I've heard the type of advice Sandberg gives all too often: "be selfish," "ask for more," "resist your maternal instinct." But I think what's really holding women back is not that we're not aggressive enough, or that we don't negotiate for higher pay. It's that we frame ourselves into a position of weakness instead of owning up to who we are and the choices we make.
The pay gap is a prime example of how a statistical fact can be viewed to either empower or disempower women. Under one view, women who are paid less are inferior and less worthy, because pay is the measure of one's worth in society. But Dutch women view it a different way. Instead of wasting our time in a pissing contest over who gets a higher bonus, women are focusing on whether our jobs lend meaning and fulfillment to our lives, and enable us to connect with and help others. Under this view, women who refuse to compromise their values to get higher pay are asserting their identities, not cowering in self-doubt.
If selfishness and arrogance are the main reasons for the male-female pay gap, as Sandberg implicitly suggests, we should start talking about another lurking inequality: the asshole pay gap. Perhaps the male-female pay gap has nothing to do with being a woman per se. Rather, climbing to the very top of any profession might simply require traits that are primarily expressed in a small subset of men: raging assholes. The studies Sandberg cites are consistent with this conclusion. Men tend to over-estimate their ability, they tend to negotiate harder for higher pay, and they tend to bulldoze social norms in order to grasp for their own gain. I haven't seen an econometric test of the asshole pay gap hypothesis, but if it were true we'd find that it's not just women who receive lower pay and are shut out of the top jobs, but a large subset of men as well. If men get paid more by being assholes, they can keep their pay gap, and I'll keep my dignity.
So if we stop looking to men as our role models for leadership, who can we look to? I think that feminist-y, career-oriented women like me could take a cue from conservative women like Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell. Not ideologically, but in the way they present themselves and the choices they've made. Politics aside, I find it incredibly refreshing to see these female leaders presenting public images that fully embrace their femininity and motherhood/singlehood instead of wringing their hands at all of the compromises they've made, talking about how hard it is to juggle all of their goals and responsibilities, and feeling guilty about their choices (notice how the words we use make us appear and feel weak?).
To take a broader view on women and careers, I’ll point to the growing evidence that women are better adapted to the demands of the modern workplace (see this much-discussed article entitled The End of Men, and this study of labor market trends by MIT economist David Autor). Women are better at staying in school, have higher social intelligence, and are better at communication, and part of these valuable skills may be attributable to the very traits that Sandberg portrays as weaknesses that women should overcome. In light of the unmistakable trends toward female economic domination, advice that women should adopt the behavioral tactics of men seems like a relic from an earlier feminist era. Leaders like Sandberg would do better to think more about how they can reward women for the talents they possess, rather than encouraging them to conform to a declining and mal-adaptive male archetype.
- The End of Men – Hannah Rosin
- Impending Labor Market Challenges: Males between the Blades of the Marshallian Scissors - David Autor’s talk at the 2011 AEA
- Are Men More Competitive Than Women? - By Ray Fisman
- Going Dutch: Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it. - By Jessica Olien
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All other things being equal, I’d guess most of us would rather have wireless than wired headphones. It is pretty obvious that cords get in the way, cords require you to remove headphones to get up and find an old CD, and cords restrict your dance moves. Of course, cords are so much a part of headphones that we don’t think about the limitations they impose. Sennheiser has, however, thought about it, and they’ve produced a broad range of wireless designs—ten different designs in all, to cater to various budgets and tastes. Are these a valid alternative to their wired brethren?
Consider this wireless headphone if: you crave the freedom of wireless headphone listening and want a balanced, low coloration sound.
Look elsewhere if: you want the last word in clarity and bandwidth, or if you prefer to fine-tune your headphones via amp selection.
• Treble: 9
• Midrange: 8.5
• Bass: 8
• Soundstaging: 10
• Dynamics: 8
• Value: 10
The Sennheiser RS 180 under review here is the top of Sennheiser’s RS line of wireless headphones, and seems to be the model most oriented to accurate musical reproduction. The RS line uses RF (Radio Frequency) wireless signals to transmit sound from a source (CD player, iPod or PC with DAC and line out) to the headphones. Sennheiser claims that the RS 180s work up to 100 meters from the transmitter (a small vertical box that sits next to your source). In practice, I found the RS 180s worked up to about 75 feet, which is still substantial in the context of normal rooms.
The RS 180 wireless headphone system utilizes Kleer's uncompressed digital wireless audio transmission technology, operating at 2.4 GHz. The transmitter can serve up to four pairs of headphones, so you can listen to movies or music with friends. The transmitter module also serves as both a headphone stand and charger. The input to the transmitter is analog, via a supplied cable terminated with RCA male connectors. The connector on the transmitter is a 3.5mm stereo mini jack, so you could also connect the line out of an iPod with the appropriate cable or docking station.
The RS 180 headphones themselves have controls for mute/power, volume and balance, so that you don’t have to return to base for these adjustments. The controls are on the right earcup, and seem to have been designed without reference to actual human bodies. The buttons are on the bottom of the earcup, which pretty much forces thumb operation (or contortionist use of the right hand fingers). But even my smallish thumb was much larger than the buttons, making accurate operation a bit difficult. Not only that, but the combination mute/power button is between volume up and volume down, which invites scenarios where you accidentally silence and/or turn off the RS 180s, when in fact you wanted to raise or lower volume. Recognizing that the power button also doubles as a mute button makes it position seem more logical, but even so I’d rather have it in a different place. After some use you get more adept at running the controls, but they require more thought than is ergonomically ideal.
Incidentally, we asked Sennheiser to comment on the placement of the RS 180 controls and here is their reply. “The button layout was placed where it is after years of feedback from customers who used the RS 130 and RS 140 and complained that when leaning back in an easy-chair, the volume knob hit the chair and was raised or lowered without the user desiring the change. Although the layout is on the underside of the headphone, it best prevents the controls from being accessed accidentally.”
While on the subject of ergonomics, I found the earcup design to have moderate pressure and good long-term comfort. The headband, however, is a bit stiff and needs to be readjusted periodically.
Okay, enough hardware description, already—what about the sound?
Let’s get right to it: these are pretty darn good headphones, wireless or wired. Unlike many headphones, the RS 180s sound basically balanced across the broad frequency range. By that I mean that bass, midrange and treble are presented at roughly even levels in comparison with live music. Many headphones have an obvious bass or treble boost, or a big dip somewhere in the midrange. Sometimes this is euphonic, sometimes not, but in any event the RS 180s avoid these issues.
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A survey of smartphone users suggests mobile advertisements are forgettable and ineffective. Then again, they might still be working.
The claim comes in a survey of 1,014 British smartphone owners. It was carried out for Azullo, a company that offers “in-content brand engagement across premium publishers,” so it’s fair to say it doesn’t have much interest in pushing the message that everything is working out just fine with mobile ads.
Anyhow, the results said that only 21 percent of people can recall seeing even one specific advertisement on their smartphone in the past six months. Of these, 53 percent said they couldn’t remember exactly what brand or product was being advertised.
Only 14 percent said that not only could they remember what was being advertised, but that it made them more likely to buy. Of course, few people admit to being influenced by any form of advertising.
Perhaps more worryingly for mobile advertisers, 34 percent said the ads they’d seen were simply not memorable, while 39 percent said the ads appeared not to have been adjusted to fit a small screen and were thus visually distorted.
81 percent of all the respondents agreed that advertisers weren’t doing enough to make their mobile ads effective. (That doesn’t necessarily mean they want the advertisers to do so…)
Mobile advertisers do seem caught in a quandry with phone screens. Simply scaling down website banner ads reduces the impact at best and creates a visual mess at worst. However, more intrusive and bolder ads such as full-screen displays that appear before a page loads can be so disruptive as to annoy the customer and put them off the product.
Facebook recently appeared to conclude that there’s no simple way to solve this on its own mobile site and applications. Instead it’s decided to farm out user data to other companies and let them take the heat if the ads annoy users.
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Herald Journal, March 31, 2003
Columbine survivor to speak in Winsted
By Ryan Gueningsman
It takes an extraordinary person to take a tragedy like the Columbine shootings and turn it into something positive.
Lauren Bohn, 19, now of Hutchinson, has been able to do just that.
Through speaking about witnessing the shootings, and the profession of her friend's faith when asked if she believed in God, and replying "Yes," seconds before being shot to death, Bohn feels that the whole situation has made her a stronger person.
She will share her experience and how it has impacted her life at St. John's Lutheran Church in Winsted Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m.
That fateful day
She was just a freshman in her first year at Columbine High School in Littleton Colo. when on April 20, 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, brought machine guns to school and shot and killed 12 students and one teacher.
"I had just gotten out of gym class and was headed down towards the cafeteria to eat lunch with my girlfriends at the time," she said. "There were roughly 200 kids in there."
She next remembers seeing teacher David Sanders and a janitor running through the cafeteria telling people to "get underneath the tables and cover your heads."
"I remember his (Sanders) face it was very, very pale," she said. "We crawled under the tables and we started giggling 'cause we thought it was a fire drill we didn't know what was going on."
About two minutes later, she heard a young man scream loudly, "He has a gun, he has a gun everybody run."
"By that time, there was already a mass of kids that were running, and pushing, and shoving," she said. "I turned around and looked in the direction everyone was running from, and I couldn't see Eric or Dylan. I couldn't see them or hear any gun shots, but people kept saying, "Come on, we gotta get out of here."
She grabbed her friend's hand and began running with the crowd. They started running up towards the main level of the school and eventually reached the top step.
"A teacher opened her door and scolded us, asking us what was going on, and why everyone was yelling," she said. "Just after that, the first shot went off, it was really quick, and everyone froze.
"I turned around and looked back down in the cafeteria, and everyone down there stopped and looked back at us like "What was going on?"
"It was a definite machine gun," she said. "It was very rapid. We kept running and it was like slow motion. Everything around me was blurry and not even a reality. I could tell that they were coming from behind me from the way that it was echoing."
One thing that was found out later was that Sanders had been wounded outside, but came back inside to warn the students in the cafeteria.
"He was wounded in the shoulder, and he basically bled to death in one of the science classrooms," she said. "He's a hero he basically saved all of our lives."
Bohn made it outside of the building where she saw a policeman with his gun drawn. The officer was asking for information, and he told the group of students to keep running and to not look back.
Profession of faith
It wasn't until after she was safely outside the building that she learned the fate of her close friend Rachel Smith.
"She was a modern day martyr she died for her faith," Bohn said. "Eric and Dylan knew very well that she was a Christian. She was the first one to die that day."
Smith was outside of the cafeteria eating lunch when she was wounded in the leg.
"She started to stumble around, trying to get away, and they both came up to her and lifted her up by her hair, literally.
"They put the gun to her head and said, 'Do you still believe in God this moment, Rachel?' and she said 'yes.'"
It is known that this took place because a young man that was laying next to her heard it. He is paralyzed today from the waist down because of injuries sustained that day.
"The biggest mystery is what was their motive," Bohn said. "A girlfriend of mine was in the library under a table and she saw Eric. She looked into his eyes and she said 'it was like he wasn't even there, it was like he was being possessed.
"You know how they say your eyes are the window to your soul it was like he had no soul."
Sharing her message
Bohn was born in Wisconsin and raised in a Christian family. She moved from her home state of Wisconsin to Colorado in 1990.
"I never really had a relationship with Christ it was more like we just did this 'cause that's what the family did. After this all happened, I realized that if I died that day, I would go to heaven, but it made me realize that life was short and that I had to serve God each and every day."
"I was home-schooled from first grade all the way to my freshman year in high school," Bohn said. "So, my first year in a public school was the year that the tragedy happened."
She finished out her high-school years at Columbine, graduating in spring of 2002, and becoming engaged on the last day of her senior year to her husband Brent, who is currently the youth pastor at Riverside Assembly of God Church in Hutchinson. She is planning on attending college next year.
Bohn has traveled the country coast to coast since she was 14, talking about that day and how it has affected her.
"I began speaking about it about a month after, and that's a miracle in itself that I was able to pull myself together to do that it was only by the grace of God," she said.
There were times she was gone every weekend of a month which, at times, affected her studies.
She has since spoken to more than 10,000 youth. She also attended the memorials which took place on the one and two-year anniversaries of the shootings.
This year is the first year that she will be unable to attend, because it is on Easter Sunday.
"The very first one was inside the school very, very emotional and touching," she said. The next two took place in the park near the school.
"So much positive has come out of it," she said. "It took me deciding that I was going to make a positive situation out of a horrible thing. There are so many kids that are not right in their mind because of it."
"You're not guaranteed a tomorrow," she said. "I wake up every day just thankful for another day to serve my Lord, and one more day to basically pay Satan back for what he did.
"What Satan intended for evil, God did turn around for good."
The message that Bohn hopes to share with Winsted and the surrounding area is that no matter what situation you are in, or no matter how low you are, God can reach down and pick you up.
Bohn's presentation is open to anyone interested in attending.
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In 1909, the name of the Board of Fish Commissioners was changed to the Fish and Game Commission. Then in 1927 the Division of Fish and Game is established, set up within the Department of Natural Resources. In 1951 the Reorganization Act elevated the Division of Fish and Game to Department of Fish and Game (DFG).
Sometimes change makes sense, other times....... not. Changing a departmental name that has held up for almost a hundred years? What was the benifit to taking the word "Game" out of the description?
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Pediatric dentist Dr. Misee Harris of Kentucky is petitioning to become the first ever Black “Bachelorette.” This prospect means a lot is surfacing for me regarding the harmful stereotypes reinforced by women of color on reality television. How would she be received? If she did get an opportunity to be on the show and chose a non-black man, what would the social implications of that be? But more than that, I feel disheartened because I know that this reality reflects how America feels about who deserves to be happy and who doesn’t. Keep reading »
We’re more than a decade into the 21st century. I’d hoped — in vain — that some basic understandings of how non-Black people should interact with Black people could be something I could take for granted. But no. Somehow there are “those people” who remain entirely clueless, so much so that they will call a 9-year old the c-word, or paint a white model bronze-Black, or not even, as so-called, journalists, bother to learn the pronunciation of an Oscar nominee’s name. This is unacceptable.
Recently, I read the comments section of a post on Clutch where a male reader was baffled as how to initiate a conversation with Black women and asked for some rules. Several helpful women obliged. In the same spirit of combating ignorance, I offer rules for non-Black people to engage Black women without causing offense. If you can manage NOT to do the following, you can probably come across as a decent human being.
Humbly, I submit a basic list, my rules of engagement, and ask you NOT to do the following (and encourage Black women to add to the list in the comments)… Keep reading »
When Sean Norman’s bull terrier slipped into Pam Nkosi’s yard and bit her seven-year-old daughter, she felt that it was an act of racism. “I feel that the dog is racist. The way it behaved. It shows that it was not familiar with other races,” Nkosi said.
Norman initially denied that his dog bit the girl, accusing another dog of biting her and finally, claiming that the girl fell into a hedge. But a doctor confirmed the dog bite was from Norman’s bull terrier. Nkosi claims that Norman never checked in to see how her daughter was doing or offer to pay for any of the medical bills. An SPCA inspector didn’t comment on whether or not the dog was “racist” but said the case was being investigated. Keep reading »
This spread in Numero magazine is a headscratcher. Why did they hire a white model and cover her in brown makeup instead of just hiring a brown-skinned model? Or is she supposed to be a white woman in Africa who is, for some reason, Tanning Mom-level tan? Numero likely knew that photographing a 16-year-old white girl in heavy brown makeup, wearing colorfully printed clothing, next to the words “African Queen” would get people upset about blackface. And it worked. [Clutch Magazine]
Insult comedian Lisa Lampanelli has made headlines again – for all the wrong reasons. Last week during the Writers Guild Awards, she shamelessly tweeted a picture of she and HBO “Girls” producer and star, Lena Dunham captioned “Me with my Ni**a @LenaDunham of @HBOGirls – I love this beyotch!!”
The interwebs erupted with rage as yet another privileged white comedian made a “joke” at the expense of the Black experience. The ubiquitous nature of racism means while we see and hear it everywhere, we’re rarely given the opportunity to understand the motivation behind it. Lampanelli’s entire shtick is to exploit the sensitive nature of race and homosexuality and to make money from abusing the art of comedy, not taking responsibility for the social implications of her “work.” Keep reading »
UPDATE: The Onion has posted an apology on their Facebook page. Read it here.
Last night’s Oscars draggggggged on and on, but if you managed to stay up for the full exhausting affair, and were fooling around on Twitter at the same time, then you probably saw controversy erupt over a tweet posted to The Onion’s account.
Everyone seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhane Wallis is kind of a cunt right?
Quvenzhane Wallis is nine years old, you guys. Not okay, The Onion. But they weren’t alone. Seth MacFarlane crossed the line big time too. Keep reading »
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'Couple built homemade bombs to attack UK Jews'
Court hears that Muslim couple inspired by al-Qaida propaganda were plotting an attack on Manchester Jewish community.
Osama bin Laden Internet video [file] Photo: REUTERS
LONDON – A Muslim couple inspired by al-Qaida propaganda on the Internet were in the early stages of plotting a terrorist attack on the Jewish community of Manchester, UK, a court heard on Wednesday.
Manchester Crown Court heard that Muhammad Sajid Khan, 33, and his wife, Shasta, 38, from Oldham in greater Manchester bought material from supermarkets to assemble homemade explosive devices.
They were planning to attack Jewish targets in Prestwich, an area with a large, mainly Orthodox, Jewish community. Manchester is home to the second-largest Jewish community outside London with a population of around 50,000.
Police only discovered the bomb-making materials after a domestic disputed alerted officers to their house in July 2011. Khan had attacked his wife’s father, and her family decided then to “spill the beans” telling police that he was a “home grown terrorist.”
The couple were arrested and indicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 on charges of planning and preparing a terror attack.
According to the prosecution, the couple had had become radicalized by material on the Internet, including al-Qaida’s online magazine, Inspire, where they also may have found details on how to build a bomb.
Khan has already pleaded guilty but his wife denies any involvement and has pleaded not guilty.
Shasta Khan is charged with engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism and three counts of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing for an act of terrorism.
Behind their “apparent normality of daily life,” Kahn and his wife planned to carry out “jihad at home,” prosecutor Bobbie Cheema told the Manchester court.
“In 2010, after they were married, and in 2011, the two of them became radicalized by material found on the Internet, such as an al-Qaida magazine called Inspire, the aim of which is to encourage Muslims in the West to carry out violent holy war, or jihad, by mounting attacks in their own countries independent of any outside direction or association with any other person,” Cheema, a London-based attorney, said.
“In response the two began to make preparations to carry out a terrorist attack on British soil, with the most likely target being an Orthodox Jewish area of Prestwich in Greater Manchester,” she added.
While the targets are not yet known, it was alleged that the pair carried out “multiple reconnaissance trips” to the Jewish areas of North Manchester.
While a motive for the alleged attack has not yet been revealed, the prosecution said the couple “believed in and supported an extreme ideology of violent holy war” in which “Jews are seen as particular enemies for their presence in Palestine and support for their existence there and, in part, by the United States and Britain for Israel.”
The court heard Thursday that Police found a cache of terrorist material at the couple’s house.
Beheading videos, propaganda glorifying Osama bin Laden and bomb-making guides were seized along with the peroxide and bleach which together with electrical equipment - including electrical wires, Christmas tree lights, bulbs and a battery - were being readied to make an improvised explosive device, the jury was told.
Seemingly innocuous and innocent items had a more sinister purpose, it was suggested to the jury.
Ground-up fire lighters, safety goggles, a funnel, needles and syringes were also part of the items police found which could be used to make a home-made bomb, the court heard.
An article from the al-Qaida magazine found, entitled “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom”, offered a step-by-step guide, from how to get ingredients without raising suspicion, to building a bomb using Christmas lights.
According to the article, in one or two days a bomb could be made to kill "at least 10 people" and with more time "tens of people."
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Artists are often the first admit they are terrible with money. They talk about spending it as soon as it comes in, and scrimping at the end of the month for enough to pay their rent. “I’m hopeless with this money thing,” they say, laughing off their financial hopelessness as they cram another handful of fast-food tomato sauce packets into their backpack.
The truth is, when it comes to running an art business we all need to get serious about finances. Even artists have to pay taxes and ensure we’re meeting the legal requirements. This two-part series looks at some of the issues and struggles of dealing with the finances of an artistic business.
Financial planning for artists
The term “Financial Planning” makes me want to roll my eyes back into my head and die of boredom, but it’s actually a vital skill all artists need to learn.
Financial planning simply means understanding what money is coming in and where it’s going. The more you understand about your finances and keep them under control, the less likely you are to suffer major financial setbacks.
Here are three ways to do that:
1. Keep accurate records
The first thing you need to do is keep some kind of record system. You might like to purchase an accounting system like Quickbooks or Xero, or you could use a spreadsheet or ledger book, but you definitely need a system to track your earnings and expenses.
You need to have a dedicated business account and, probably (as I’ve discovered) a credit card. You’ll also need to ensure you’re setting aside money for taxes. I set aside 1/3 of everything I make—any surplus money at the end of each tax quarter is re-invested in my business.
Once you’ve got a system in place, be diligent about keeping up with it. Set aside time every week to enter receipts and balance your books. Every quarter, add up how much you’ve earned and file your taxes on time.
Beyond just keeping track of month-to-month expenses, you will also want to look back and see how you’re doing over the years.
2. Price your work correctly
One of the biggest problems artists face is pricing their work correctly. Many of us will simply stand back from a finished piece and decide on a price based on what we think someone would pay for it.
Unfortunately we’re not the best judges of value, largely because we think “I can do that myself” whenever we see something artistic. As a result, we’re much less willing to part with our money then, say, a lawyer with no artistic inclinations.
When pricing your artwork, take account of the cost of the materials you’ve used. Then, add your time—at a reasonable hourly rate—and a profit margin as well. Gallery or agent commissions may raise prices even further.
Of course, if you’re producing prints of your work, this can make prices more difficult to figure out. Look at other artists in your area who are similar, and try to match the prices they put on their work.
Whatever you do, ensure the price your asking for your art covers your expenses and gives you a profit at the end of the day.
3. Embrace frugality
As an artist, you will probably see many months with no money coming in at all, followed by other months where you’re totally flush. To be truly successful in such a volatile career, it’s important to be as frugal as possible with the money you DO have, and put aside as much as possible into a savings account for the future.
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LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) - Saving a German shepherd stuck in the rising Los Angeles River was the right thing to do, the risks were slight, rescue crews were on standby, extra taxpayer money wasn't used and the alternatives were unacceptable, authorities said Monday.
The helicopter and swift water rescue crew members that saved the dog on Friday have been hailed as heroes, feted on television and radio and congratulated on the Web and in print. But they have also been vilified by a few in blogs, on social networks and story comment sections.
"You're not going to please everybody. There's always 10 percent, they either don't like animals or think we are wasting taxpayer money," Capt. Steve Ruda said.
The dog, nicknamed Vernon after the city where he was rescued, remained in quarantine at the Southeast Area Animal Control Authority shelter in Downey, just south of Los Angeles.
Joe St. Georges, 50, the 25-year firefighting veteran who hoisted Vernon to safety, lost a fingernail and fractured a thumb when the dog bit him during the rescue. St. Georges just needs time to heal and he will be back at work, Ruda said. "He's anxious to get back to work to be with his crew."
The dog, which appears to be about 4 years old and weighs about 65 pounds, was eating everything given to him, sleeping well and showing no signs of rabies, said Capt. Aaron Reyes, director of operations for the SAACA shelter.
If no owner shows up, "we do have a mile-long list of people who want him," Reyes said.
On several Internet sites with comments about the rescue, the only people who left their names were those who supported the effort. There were a couple of open critics, but their identities were not easy to decipher.
Friday's rescue was televised nationally by the major cable channels.
About an eighth of a mile downstream from the rescue site, the water was much deeper and the current much faster, Reyes said.
The dog would have drifted on down and died. Do you just wait at the mouth of the river and wait for the carcass? Any way you slice it, that is unacceptable. They would not have been able to live that down," Reyes said. "They made a decision and we support that decision."
Firefighters on the ground said a crew could get the dog and the helicopter pilot, who had been standing by just 45 seconds away from the river, reported he could clear high tension lines in the area, Ruda said.
Swift water teams were on standby because of weeklong storms that had dumped as much as 8 inches of rain on some parts of Los Angeles County, Ruda said. Although as many as 50 firefighters were at the river, no firefighters were called in on overtime to take part in the rescue.
"All life is important," Ruda said. To prove his point, he pointed out that firefighters carry oxygen masks for cats and dogs that become victims of fire.
In addition, he said, 900 people die every year across the country in water accidents and one-third of them are rescuers. If St. Georges and his crew had failed to get the dog, "civilians, do-gooders and good Samaritans" would have been in the river, Ruda said.
The dog is thoroughly enjoying all the attention, Reyes said. "He's a big lover" and caters to women at the shelter.
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LA Fire Department: http://www.lafd.org
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Water-resistance: 3 Bar
Zapping (SLZ104) bristles with energy, buzzes with electricity, transpires, happens, zaps. With his television-colours and information-spangled design, the endlessly original Nam June Paik seems to be flipping through the channels along the length of the watch. He juxtaposes magnetically charged images, compressed bits of information zipping through the ether on waves of broadcast TV shows or Internet superhighways. Rendered with a jewel-clear chartreuse plastic case, a flexible strap as glossy as a magazine and an intense blue dial with a scrawled white design, Zapping is a clever, information-age timepiece, infused with the Zeitgeist of the 90s.
Nam June Paik was a pioneering American artist who worked in a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist. Born in Seoul, Paik was at university when he met the composer John Cage and the artist Joseph Beuys, who inspired him to begin work in conceptual art. Paik is known for making robot-like video-sculptures out of wire, metal, and parts from radio and television sets and for his collaborations on many provocative, tongue-in-cheek performances and videos. A major retrospective of Paik's work was held in 2000 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.see all watches by this artist
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Before there was YouTube, Facebook and social media, there were story-tellers. Sitting around fires, whether in the wild, caves or at the home hearth, human beings apparently have never been at a loss for words to entertain each other, says storyteller Carolyn Stearns of Storrs.
It's an art form that Stearns, a board member of the Connecticut Storytelling Center, based at Connecticut College, says is a natural with children, regardless of the onslaught of electronic gadgets and games. Children have always learned sounds, phonetics and words from listening to and watching others speak, she points out, long before vocabulary lists and teaching-to-the-test.
"Our brains are wired to learn from oral," says Stearns, who also is a dairy farmer, horse show announcer, sandwich generation daughter, mother and grandmother, 4-H club leader and afterschool program staffer. "Storytelling can span just about any topic from multicultural tales to history or science stories and can be tailor-made to support any curriculum."
The storytellers have teamed up with Fort Hill Farms in Thompson, which days ago was awarded a 2012 Connecticut Pineapple Award for CT Tourism Ambassador, to hold a butterfly release fundraiser for storytelling efforts in the state.
The festivities take place on June 2 (or rain date of June 3 - butterflies won't fly if it is raining), featuring stories and music under the tent from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., when everyone who has preordered their butterflies gets to release them into the air.
"Can you picture the Kodak moment when you open your little container and release your butterfly into the beautiful setting of Fort Hill Farms, its gardens, vistas and, of course, the cows?" says Stearns, who welcomes novice and seasoned storytellers to join her under the tent to entertain listeners with tales. She'll be telling an original yarn about butterflies, an intertwining of Native-American and other lore.
Fort Hills Farms, a bucolic marriage of organic gardening, dairy farming and agro-tourism run by Peter and Kristin Orr, is one of the Farmers Cow brand dairy farms. It's also a breathtaking rural vista for Kristin's Quintessential Gardens, home-grown, hardy and care-free organic perennials and her labyrinths of lavender plants, which are the basis for dried lavender, bouquets and even lavender sauce, which goes well with Farmers Cow ice creams. In 2010, Yankee Magazine named the place one of the Best Places to Go Nowhere in New England.
This event was cooked up by Orr and Stearns well before the farm was honored at the CT Tourism Conference for its tourism draw. It was the only farm nominated for the award.
Funds raised will support activities of the CT Storyteller Center, based at Connecticut College. In addition to the recent annual Connecticut Storytelling Festival and Conference, the center organizes Campus Slammer, an intercollegiate story slam that engages college students in storytelling competition, and a bridge to literacy programs available to schools across the state.
"The storytelling center is a resource center for people who are listeners, as well as for the tellers," says Stearns, who is one of the storytellers at Mystic Seaport's 33rd annual Sea Music Festival on June 9 and 10.
Supporters of the cause don't have to be present for their Monarch ($25) or a Painted Lady ($12 each) to be released, but butterfly orders need to be placed by Friday, May 25, with Fort Hill Farms or online through the CT Storytelling Center.
"Monarchs can only be raised on live plants, no fast food," says Orr, an advocate for more open space and native vegetation. "That's why it is so important for people to raise native flowers and plants for butterflies and beneficial insects."
See connstorycenter.org/butterflyrelease.htm to order butterflies. For details and directions to the farm, see www.forthillfarms.com. Ice cream and toppings will be available for purchase in the farm creamery.
Suzanne Thompson lives in Old Lyme. Catch her weekly radio show, "CT Outdoors," on WLIS 1420/Old Saybrook and WMRD 1150/Middletown or online at www.wliswmrd.net, Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. She can be reached at [email protected].
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FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The euro crisis may be largely over by the end of 2013 as a result of the progress made in the eurozone, a German economist said in a report on Monday.
"The euro crisis can fade over the course of 2013, if none of the tail risks materialize," said Holger Schmieding, chief economist with Berenberg Bank, in a report identifying risks and progress made by the eurozone.
Schmieding attributed the progress largely to the new bond-buying program, the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program, of the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB promised to buy an unlimited amount of sovereign bonds of some debt-ridden eurozone countries provided they officially ask for help from the rescue mechanisms.
Although none of the eurozone countries has asked for a bailout and the ECB has not intervened, the OMT program has worked even better than expected, Schmieding said. "Clear words have done the trick," he said.
According to Schmieding, financial markets are starting to transmit the ECB's monetary policy to the real economy, real M1 money supply, investor confidence and business expectations have started to rebound.
"All relevant forward-looking indicators point to a return to modest growth in the eurozone this spring after a recession in late 2012," he said.
There are also signs of improvement in some crisis-hit economies. Ireland has already turned the corner, Italy looks set to exit recession this spring, Portugal's economy will likely start expanding again by mid-2013 and Spain should see growth again this autumn, Schmieding said.
The eurozone has made major progress in terms of fiscal deficit reduction, with fiscal deficit down from 4.1 percent of GDP in 2011 to an estimated 3.4 percent in 2012. Schmieding believed the fiscal shortfall could drop below 2.5 percent of GDP this year if growth resumes this spring.
"The eurozone has by far the most sustainable fiscal position of all major regions in the Western world," he said.
The combined current account deficit of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece fell from 7 percent of GDP in 2008 to an estimated 1.5 percent in 2012. They look set to balance their external accounts this year, Schmieding added.
Schmieding said some of the potential risks included a global recession triggered by a U.S. fiscal crash, reversal of the Monti reforms following the Italian elections, a loss of patience by voters elsewhere in the eurozone, and a French financial crisis.
However, he pointed out that "the probability that any of the really disastrous risks will materialize looks fairly low."
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Grab your computer or your art materials and get thee to a coffee shop.
Vivian Helena wrote to ask why:
You mentioned going to a coffee shop to “work.” I have several friends that do this.. How do you concentrate with everything going on? I can create at home for many days with out a care in the world. Am curious why so many seem go to busy areas with their computers.
Artist Barbara McKee shared how/why she paints at coffee shops in this post. Now I’ll tell you how and why I work in coffee shops.
4 Reasons To Leave Home
- The main reason that I go to coffee shops is for a change of scenery. I have a home office, so I’m in that house most of my life. A new space gives me fresh perspective. I feel better. When I feel better, I’m more productive.
- People! The coffee shop is a community. I know my baristas by name, but I don’t know anyone else in the joint. Still, we’re together. I’m no longer alone, but part of the big, colorful, amazing world we live in. And it’s kind of good that I don’t know others because it keeps me from chatting with them.
- My home office has 3 cats, piles of paper, mail, ringing phones, and doorbells begging for my attention.
- At home, I get caught up in answering email and shuffling paper. The minute I head to the coffee shop, there is a mental switchover from “I’m in my office to work” to “I’m going to the coffee shop to write.” I don’t go to coffee shops to just to work. I go with a single purpose: to write my newsletter, blog posts, and other content. Much of I’d Rather Be in the Studio was written in my favorite coffee shop.
Sure, coffee shops have their own distractions. Sometimes there are especially loud people – like the guy that sat in the center of the shop about halfway through the draft of this post right next to me. Or the woman who is here now and finds it necessary to talk with someone two tables away. (See “ear buds” below.) Or the person who, I swear, didn’t hesitate sharing her credit card number on a cell phone call.
But a full coffee shop provides just the right level of white noise, which is more conducive to certain kinds of writing and working than silence.
If you’re going to work at a coffee shop on your computer, I suggest packing the following:
- Ear buds. For reasons mentioned above, don’t forget ear buds that you can plug into your favorite music to work to.
- Mouse. I’m not a fan of using the built-in pad on my Mac. I have a compact mouse that I take everywhere with me. It’s the only Microsoft product I don’t gripe about. I’m on my second one and will be heartbroken if they ever quit making them.
- Computer. You know.
- Notebook. Because sometimes you just need paper.
Be sure to order water with your coffee so you hydrate!
Go With a Purpose
You could use the coffee shop just to get out of the office or studio. You could check email or Facebook. But I discourage you from wasting your time with these at coffee shops.
You will get a lot more accomplished if you know why you’re going in the first place.
Coffee shop time is sacred time. It’s my most productive content-generating time of all.
And, yes, this post was written first as a draft in the coffee shop and then later edited at the same café.
Do you work at coffee shops? What did I forget?
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Last Updated: 4:31 AM, February 25, 2013
Posted: 10:40 PM, February 24, 2013
Just weeks after the Brooklyn College political science department co-sponsored a hate fest advocating boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel, the City University of New York psychology and philosophy departments are now cosponsoring another hate fest against the Jewish state.
“Homonationalism and Pinkwashing,” sponsored by CUNY’s Gay and Lesbian Studies Center, is scheduled for April 10-11, 2013; the cosponsors include New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and several other centers and programs at both schools. We’re told the conference will be academic, but much of the emphasis plainly will be on the claim that Israel is “pinkwashing” its mistreatment of Palestinians by promoting gay rights in Israel.
The conference’s coordinator and inspiration is gay activist Sarah Shulman. In a New York Times op-ed and elsewhere, she has argued that Israel’s positive approach to gay rights is “a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violation of Palestinians human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life.”
In other words, she accuses Israel of feigning concern over the rights of gay people in order to whitewash — “pinkwash” — its lack of concern for Palestinian people.
This absurd, obscene argument is nothing more than anti-Semitism with a pink face.
Israel is easily the most gay-friendly country in the Middle East, and among the most supportive of gay rights in the world. Openly gay soldiers have long served in the military and in high positions in both government and the private sector.
In the West Bank and Gaza, by contrast, gays are murdered, tortured and forced to seek asylum — often in Israel. Indeed, in every Arab and Muslim country, homosexual acts among consenting adults are criminal, often punishable by death.
But all this doesn’t matter to the “growing global gay movement” against Israel, which (Schulman insists) regards these positive steps as nothing more than a cover for malevolent Israeli actions.
Schulman makes no secret of her irrational hatred toward Israel, which she calls “a racist government” that is “cynically” pinkwashing the occupation.
But how this is supposed to work, she doesn’t say.
Are the media supposed to be so impressed with Israel’s pro-gay policies that they no longer cover the Palestinian issue? Well, that certainly hasn’t worked.
Are gays around the world supposed to feel so indebted to Israel that they no longer criticize the Jewish nation? That surely hasn’t worked, either — witness the increasingly rabid anti-Israel advocacy by some radical gay groups.
But to the anti-Semite, it doesn’t matter how Jews manage their supposed manipulations. The anti-Semite just knows that there’s something sinister at work if Jews do anything positive. The core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the certainty that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that’s wrong is done by the Jews.
To the anti-Semite, every depression, war, social problem, plague must have been the fault of the Jews. Whenever the Jews seem to be doing good — giving to charity, helping the less fortunate, curing the sick — there must be a malevolent motive, a hidden agenda, a conspiratorial explanation beneath the surface.
Today, the twisted illogic that has characterized classic anti-Semitism is directed at the Jewish state, which for the anti-Semite has become “the Jew” among nations.
So when Israel sends help to tsunami and hurricane victims, the ideological soulmates of the pinkwash brigade accuse the Jewish state of merely trying to garner positive publicity calculated to offset its mistreatment of Palestinians. When Israeli medical teams save the lives of Palestinian children, they must be up to no good.
And when news surfaced that the Israeli Army has the lowest rate of rape against enemy civilians, radical anti-Zionists argued that this was because Israeli soldiers were so racist that they didn’t find Palestinian women attractive enough to rape!
Nothing the Jew or the Jew among nations does can be praised, because its purpose is always to “manipulate,” to “conceal,” to “divert attention away from” or to “distort” the evil that inheres in all Jewish actions and inactions.
That is the bigoted thesis of the “pinkwashing” campaign, and it is little different from similar campaigns organized by classic brown-shirted anti-Semites.
Of course, neither Schulman nor the other conveners of this hate conference speak for all gays. Many prominent gay activists, including elected officials, have condemned this absurd pinkwashing theory and the CUNY conference.
The gathering, and the hate it is to promote, should offend not just Jews and gays, but all friends of rationale thought.
Promoting classic anti-Semitic bigotry in the name of gay rights: One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Alan M. Dershowitz is a professor at Harvard Law School.
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Lyon G. Tyler Department of History
Named for Lyon Gardiner Tyler, the College's seventeenth president, the Department of History's dedicated faculty and distinctive history give it a unique character among public institutions, and create a learning environment that fosters close interaction among students and professors.
The Department of History's faculty members have areas of expertise ranging across the globe, and covering the entire period from the end of the ancient world to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Numerous faculty members have won William & Mary's, Virginia's, and the historical profession's most prestigious awards for teaching, for scholarship, and for general excellence; US World & News Report's 2009 rankings of graduate programs in History named the Department of History's doctoral program in U.S. Colonial History as one of the top four in the country, alongside the University of Pennsylvania's, Yale University's, and Harvard University's.
Undergraduate students pursuing their Bachelor of Arts degree are welcome (and encouraged) to explore the histories of North America, Latin America, South America, of Africa, Asia, and Europe. At the graduate level, the Department of History offers a Ph. D. in American History, as well as Master's Degree Programs in American History and in Comparative History.
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MN State Senate Passes Constitutional Amendment For Vote On Photo ID At Polls
Much has been made of Wisconsin now requiring voters to bring photo identification to the polls, and it appears Minnesota may be heading in the same direction.
A state Senate committee has approved a constitutional amendment that would allow Minnesotans to decide whether voting should require a photo ID. Despite objections from Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who has told the Associated Press such a move will be difficult to implement, the vote is appearing more likely. Ritchie also says requiring ID would only increase federal government oversight of the state’s elections.
The Senate State Government Committee approved the amendment 8-5 Wednesday on a party-line vote. If the GOP-backed amendment makes it all the way through the Legislature, the final decision will rest with voters statewide in November.
Ritchie testified Tuesday that implementing a photo ID requirement is likely to be expensive for his office. He also says the federal Department of Justice is likely to get more involved in monitoring Minnesota elections to make sure that civil rights are not violated.
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This is an area that I am drawn to and I’m sure many of you reading are too. It can be very straightforward or it can be very calculating. Let’s start with the mode button on your camera. The purpose of this pre selected program is to enhance outlines, colours and contrast. With a wide field of view and vivid colours you are set to take stunning vistas.
Many of the shots I take nowadays are just snap shots, which I find great for documenting and journaling my journeys in the most Gonzo way I can think of. Most of my pictures are taken with my digital compact 3 mega pixel camera (yes it’s that old) that fits in my pocket.
Now the complicated bit. A landscape shot can be a snap shot or it can be something you want frame don your wall. A snapshot can easily be turned into a great shot by simply being there at a different time of day. LIGHT IS YOUR FRIEND. This of course being down to the sun. Knowing where the sun is going to be at what time can be the best bit of knowledge a photographer possesses. I’m sure you can all relate to this observation. For me living on the east coast of England it’s the sunrise I feel more connected to. So typically, to go out with the intention of photographing the sunrise I would have to ensure what time sunrise was, roughly whereabouts on the horizon it would rise (hmm a stone circle would come in handy) and arrive about 30 minutes before. Of course it’s all down to luck as you never know what the weather is going to do. Too many clouds is a wasted journey and usually no clouds at all is a waste. But if nature decides to throw a few clouds into the mix, it’s picture frame time.
The light hitting clouds approximately 30 minutes before and up to 30 minutes after, both sunsets and sunrises is the perfect light for such photographs. Known as the golden hour.
Midday practical exercise- White balance tricks.
On a sunny day, with beautiful blue skies and happy little clouds, go out and take a landscape picture in the midday sun. Happy? Quite plain?… Tell your camera who’s the boss, put it on MANUAL and set the white balance to cloudy. It should add a warm tone to the overall picture, making that standard snapshot stand out from the rest. I can't promise the outcome here as all cameras are set up differently
On the subject of the sun, try to take your photo, either with your back to the sun or at a right angle to the sun. This will give you a blue sky and your subject won’t be silhouetted against the sky. If it isn’t possible to move around the subject, try pointing the camera at the ground. Half press the shutter-release button; this will cause the camera to take a meter reading without the glare of the sun. Still with the button half depressed, point the camera at your subject, compose the shot and press. You should be able to see the subject clearly against a probably white sky. You have to decide if the subject is more important than the sky.
Another time you will have to deceive the camera is in the snow. The cameras sensor just cannot cope. You will often find pictures looking grey and dull. What needs to be done is, is to put camera onto MANUAL mode and overexpose the shot by +2 or +3 to bring some of the whites to life.
Here is a quick example of underexposure (because there is no snow around at the minute to show you overexposure). In the auto exposure picture the camera has tried to get an equal balance between the light and dark. This has resulted in it taking a slightly washed out picture. The underexposed shot (underexposed by -1) has brought detail to the centre of the flower and made the colour of the petals deeper. It is down to personal taste though.
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A little while ago, on the yahoo page, a news blurb appeared briefly, then disappeared rather rapidly. It told of a five-year old shooting his/her four-year old brother, and killing him, in Texas.
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This is not news, one can argue, as in Texas, there are probably far more guns than people, and an occurrence like this one might possibly be quite common. And when something is possibly common, then it loses the possibility of being shocking.
I happen to think that a five-year old killing a four-year old is, primarily, shocking. But that’s just me.
I ran this news item by the few people sitting at computer terminals in the back office of the nursing station where I am based.
One of them, a third-year medical student, quipped that he lived in Texas, and that guns are the “culture” there. He was about to continue speaking when I interrupted him, quite passionately, by forbidding him to use the word “culture” next to the word “gun”, as this is obscene.
I went on to explain that “culture” is something that is nurtured, grows, and expands; that “culture”, whether it is bacterial, or arts-related, is a word which is reserved for designating something proliferative, something which enhances life.
Guns do not enhance life.
There are many other word choices for guns: gun habit, gun obsession, gun passion, gun need, gun want, gun addiction, gun worship, you get the idea. Just not “gun culture”, because it is a misappropriation of the word “culture”.
Now, if a five-year old killed a sibling with a rifle, it means this: the rifle was accessible; the rifle was held and pointed at the victim; the rifle was discharged of its ammunition by the pulling of a trigger.
How does a five-year old know to follow these steps to shooting someone?
An adult shot someone, or pointed a rifle at someone, and the child is imitating what the child saw.
If the adult had shot a target object, or an animal, the five-year old would not have chosen a sibling as a target, but a rabbit or a tin can.
Many would say this was a tragic accident.
I will say this was a tragic upbringing of children.
So much for the idealistic part of my opinion.
Now for the realistic part of my opinion.
The NRA and other groups are glued to the Second Amendment which allows Americans the right to keep and bear arms. Now, your Second Amendment, at the time of its adoption into your Constitution, allowed your citizens to keep and bear arms, because this would facilitate the formation of a militia in case the British, or others, attacked your country. The United States would be well able to defend itself if every citizen could keep and bear arms.
Okay, but that was almost 250 years ago. If anybody attacks now, it will be by bombing, and not “arms” as it might have been then. Which means that all citizens bearing arms would be useless, and, for the most part, dead.
Keeping and bearing arms, as it was intended in 1776, is no longer relevant in 2011. But the Second Amendment continues to protect gun owners because the interpretation of said Amendment now extends to guns for fun.
It would be time to amend the Amendment, in a way which restricts its interpretation, rather than expanding on its interpretation.
The American Academy of Pediatrics thinks that no guns in the house is the most reliable way of preventing gun-related injuries in children.
Pediatricians are asking parents if they have guns in their houses. There are State Legislatures at work for laws that would penalize doctors asking this question.
There is the question of violating the doctors‘ First Amendment rights.
Constitutional lawyers seem to be siding with the doctors.
For the moment, there is a little hope for a little more safety.
But then, ideals and realism both notwithstanding, children are continuing to kill children with rifles.
Is this civilized?
Or is it barbaric?
Are Americans civilized or are Americans barbaric?
Of all known institutions, I attend only two: church, in my heart, and school, in yours. Both are subject to demolition. - Lucie Adams, 2007
It is only for poetry to know how many stanzas fit into one caress. - Lucie Adams, 2008
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Let me be blunt. The Italian election result is a triumph for fantasy and irresponsibility. It is quite bad news and no one knows what will happen next. It is possible to lay out several potential outcomes, with various degrees of damage to Italy, Europe, and the U.S. We can even handicap the odds of the outcomes, but we simply cannot know what will happen in this unprecedented situation.
The best outcome would have been a majority in the Chamber of Deputies for the Democratic Party and the partners in its electoral coalition and a majority in the Senate when their seats were combined with those of the party built around the out-going Prime Minister, Mario Monti. Both groupings have real flaws, but they are at least serious about proposing solutions for Italy that might actually work and are in line with the advice of their key European partners and, in most cases, with the advice of academics and neutral analysts.
Instead, Italians predominantly voted against pain and austerity, while ignoring the lack of reality, and sometimes outright irresponsibility, of the parties they supported. It is hard to know whether to be more worried by the quarter of the vote that went to a new protest party formed by an Italian comic turned politician named Beppe Grillo, with its incoherent policies and lack of serious answers, or by the resurgence of Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is at least a smart politician with a history as a leader, but he became a laughing stock in his disastrous last term as prime minister and he campaigned with promises of magic solutions that are clearly not realistic. He is held in contempt by many of the European leaders with whom the Italian government will have to work, which is crucial given the clear necessity of continued support from the stronger European nations.
The result of the election is that the Democratic party and its electoral coalition have a working majority in the Chamber of Deputies, but only because the current election law awards a bonus to guarantee 54% of the seats to the winner of the most votes, even if they receive less than a third of the actual votes, as was the case last night. The problem is that the law works differently for the Senate, which has co-equal powers with the Chamber. Here the result was a disaster. No one came close to a majority in the Senate. It would take a post-election coalition of two of the three major groupings to produce a majority and all of those potential coalitions are problematic. So what are the possibilities?
A grand coalition of the Democratic Party and Berlusconi. The likeliest result is probably that Berlusconi cuts a deal with the Democratic Party to form an unstable coalition government. (Monti’s group might be added, but its votes would not be needed and Berlusconi may not allow its inclusion.) It would be unstable despite holding a clear majority of seats in both houses, because the views and interests of Berlusconi and the Center-Left only partially overlap. Further, the Democratic Party is fairly committed to continuing on the economic path agreed with its European partners, while Berlusconi campaigned on the idea of rejecting that path. Finding a set of policies that both groups could support and that would not trigger a rupture with Germany and Brussels, spooking the markets, will be difficult. It will not be forgotten in Germany, which is facing its own election in the autumn, that Berlusconi demonized Merkel and Germany.
I nonetheless think this is the likeliest outcome because it could be less bad than the other choices and Berlusconi and the other politicians are pragmatists. For Berlusconi, it would be the opportunity to be back as part of the government, representing a triumphant resurgence for a man who was written off as dead politically. More importantly, it puts him in a position to protect his business and personal interests from the threat of further attack, including the ongoing criminal investigations. Berlusconi is very vulnerable when out of power, so being back has great attractions for him beyond all the usual reasons that politicians want power. It should be noted that he would not even have to take an office, but could operate behind the scenes through other members of his coalition.
For the Democratic party, it would let them stave off dangerous new elections and ensure that their leader, Bersani, would be prime minister. Their hope would be that surviving as a government for a year or so might allow enough time for tempers to cool among the protest voters and for the economic outlook to turn at least a little cheerier, improving their chances in any subsequent election. They might be able to obtain the agreement of Berlusconi to their key policy goals, as he has a very strong pragmatic streak.
New elections in a few months. On the other hand, the gaps in views between Berlusconi and the Democratic party may prove too great to bridge. The chances of a different coalition being able to form a government are very low, so an inability to form a Berlusconi-Democratic party coalition would very likely force new elections in the near term. It is also possible that one side or the other believes that a new election would work to their advantage and therefore would force one. The President of the Republic, a largely non-political figure in the Italian system, would arrange an interim government to hold the country together for a few months until a new election takes place. There would be attempts to change the election law to improve the chances of a stable government the next time around. It is unclear whether it would be possible to gain a broad enough consensus to pull this off, however, so something close to the current system might stay in place.
Scenario A. If we are lucky, we might get a kind of repeat of the experience of last year’s Greek elections, where the second election produced a somewhat stable government of relatively responsible parties. The reactions of the markets and the rest of the world to Italy’s election may be sufficient to scare some sense back into the country. Enough of those who did not vote, or voted out of anger, may switch and vote for the Democratic party or for Monti’s group, giving a coalition of those two groupings a majority in both houses of parliament. This would likely still not produce a strong government, but it could be good enough to get by for a critical year or two. A couple of percentage point swing in the Senate votes could produce this relatively benign result.
Scenario B. The nightmare is that Grillo’s party could be bolstered by the failure of the traditional politicians to pull together a coalition. Enough Italians may be ready for a radical change, and a rejection of European pressure, that Grillo would get the nod the second time around. This seems to me to be a less likely result, as it requires a significant further swing to an untested party, combined with a fairly even breakdown of the vote between Berlusconi, the Democratic party, and Monti’s grouping that gives neither Berlusconi nor a Democratic party-Monti coalition enough votes. It is quite possible that Monti would withdraw and implicitly or explicitly throw his support behind the Democratic party coalition, as the lesser of the evils. This could ensure a plurality for that grouping, even if only half of his voters followed his lead.
However, it is easily conceivable that Grillo could win a plurality in the Chamber of Deputies and thereby 54% of the seats, even if he is far from a majority of seats in the Senate. This would produce an even more chaotic outcome than yesterday’s results, with the possibility of a third election to follow.
Scenario C. It is also conceivable that Berlusconi would ride back to power in a new election, although this is the least likely of the outcomes. He could combine the political advantages of his attacks on European-imposed austerity with an image as the one politician strong enough to pull together a working government. However, he is not likely to pick up many Grillo voters, who seem quite disgusted with the existing politicians, nor many of those who voted for the Democratic party. He might pick up some Monti voters who are not comfortable voting for the Center-Left, however, and he might pick up some of the abstainers. Berlusconi came close to winning a plurality of votes for the Chamber, so it is certainly possible that Italy’s greatest living campaigner might pull off an even bigger victory next time.
A coalition with Grillo. A coalition of Grillo with the Democratic party grouping would have a majority of seats in the Chamber and the Senate. This might appear plausible, since Grillo seems to have gained most of his support from the left of the political spectrum. However, Grillo’s support is for a rejection of the traditional politicians, including the Democratic party, and for a rejection of the accomodations being made to the rest of Europe, and even for a potential withdrawal from the Euro.
Further, Grillo has come close enough to victory to taste it and is more likely to prefer to gamble on another round of elections rather than risk losing much of his support by being part of a government that will inevitably disappoint many of his followers. Protest parties often lose much of their base if they join in an actual government and thereby take on responsibility for real world decisions.
The prospects for a Berlusconi-Grillo government do not appear much better. Grillo’s voters are not natural allies of Berlusconi. For his part, Berlusconi would find it very hard to fit Grillo’s party into a government that he led. He would either have to follow through on rhetoric that would immediately pit him against the rest of Europe and against the markets, likely bringing his government down in short order, or would face a risk of losing Grillo’s support in the near-term.
In the end, we know we are facing a period of serious uncertainty for Italy, for Europe, and in consequence, for the U.S. Europe will very likely hold together, but an increased probability of a truly bad outcome could depress economic activity across the world, as businesses and families hold off on investments in the future and on spending while they wait for the uncertainty to be worked through.
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Moo-ving people toward compassionate living
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"Be the change you wish to see in the world" ~Mohandas Gandhi
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Originally Posted: February 4, 2012
Please contact CBS and politely let them know what you think of The Price is Right sponsoring the cruel and deadly Calgary Stampede Rodeo.
Contact CBS via their online web form:
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
The Calgary Stampede Rodeo, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a cruel and violent event wherein numerous animals are injured and killed annually. On February 1, 2012, the TV game show The Price is Right gave away a trip to the Calgary Stampede Rodeo as a prize.
Peter Fricker, Projects and Communications Director of the Vancouver Humane Society in Vancouver, BC states: "More than 80 animals have died at the Calgary Stampede since 1986."
Appalled that his former show was supporting animal cruelty, former host, executive producer and TV legend Bob Barker (pictured right) released the following statement to SHARK:
I am very sorry that The Price is Right producers have chosen to align themselves with an activity that is cruel and violent. Rodeo does not honor western heritage in the US, Canada or anywhere else. Rodeos torment, injure and kill animals. I hope PIR decision makers will immediately reassess their very bad decision.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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Click on the photo of AEV President Scott Thornton and the Kurrent for a high-res gallery of photos from our visit to the AEV factory
Mix an old non-descript suburban Detroit warehouse with some new Ikea furniture and fixtures, throw in some entrepreneurs with extensive auto industry experience and a plan to attack an environmentally conscious market niche and you have American Electric Vehicles (AEV). AEV President Scott Thornton invited AutoblogGreen to visit their factory in Ferndale, MI to see their production process and drive their first product, the Kurrent neighborhood electric vehicle.
ABG talked to Scott in late December about his company, the Kurrent, but this was the first opportunity to see this Italian-designed NEV in person. The Ferndale warehouse serves as headquarters, engineering facility, parts warehouse and assembly plant for AEV. Most of the staff are auto industry veterans, including Thornton who has 27 years in the business, much of it with Jeep. Right now, apart from the office areas, the build is divided into two main areas, with one being used for parts storage and the other for assembly and testing. As production ramps up through this year, the parts storage area will be switched over to a second assembly area. Continue reading about the assembly process and driving impressions after the jump.
Related GalleryAmerican Electric Vehicle factory tour
Click to watch a short video the assembly process for the Kurrent NEV
Due to the relative simplicity of the Kurrent, the assembly area has no moving line, but uses a cellular process instead. The major components like the body panels and the frame are produced by suppliers off-site and delivered to the AEV facility ready for assembly. The mechanical components are all off the shelf parts such as the front shock absorbers which are sourced from Ducati motorcycles, all of which helps to keep the overall costs of the Kurrent to a minimum. The ABS body panels have the color molded in, so no painting is required. The aluminum "egg-shell" tube frame also comes into the plant painted, and is exposed to view in many areas of the vehicle. Check out the video for nice overview from Scott of the whole assembly process.
Right now there are about a dozen people working on assembly and each car takes about 16 man-hours to assemble and test, and they are turning out about one complete car a day. The AEV team are currently refining all the assembly processes to make it easier to build and speed things up. For example they had been assembling the doors horizontally on a workbench but are now doing upright on a special jig. They hope to get the production rate up to about 10,000 cars annually by the end of the year. If sales justify it, they also plan to add a second assembly location on the west coast.
After seeing the assembly process, we went for a test drive in a Kurrent. The Kurrent is far more than your average golf cart, but it certainly isn't a car for everyone. The thirty-five mph top speed means that drivers aren't going anywhere near a highway. On the other hand if you live in a gated community or work on some kind of campus, this could be a very economical way to get around. It could also work in smaller to medium sized cities like Ann Arbor, MI or Madison, WI. If you live in the city not too far from the downtown area, it makes a very efficient, clean way to go to a class, work, or grocery store. Speaking of the latter, the Kurrent has a real locking trunk that easily hold three or four bags of groceries.
While not luxurious by any means, the Kurrent is relatively fully equipped. It has locking doors with roll down windows, a radio, heater, windshield wipers, seat belts, hydraulic brakes and a choice of either a glass roof or a folding fabric roof. The Kurrent is small at a mere 92 inches long, and a weight including the batteries of 1080 lbs. The is plenty of head and leg room but shoulder room is tight with two passengers, since the car is only 50 inches wide. The glass roof in the example I drove does helps make the car feel more open. There is no transmission, just a rocker switch on the dash to select Drive or Reverse. To drive the car, you turn the key, select D or R and step on the accelerator.
Given the 4.1 kW motor, acceleration is leisurely, particularly with people aboard. Lifting off the go pedal reveals fairly aggressive regenerative braking to maximize the battery range. Speaking of range, it maxes out at about 40 miles, but is reduced depending on your driving habits, use of the headlights, radio, etc. The car feels fairly solid, thanks to the stiff aluminum frame. Anyone who has spent any time driving in Michigan, knows that we have almost certainly the worst roads in the nation. Given that, even with the short wheelbase, the ride was stiff but not intolerable, and it didn't feel like the car was going to fall apart. Handling isn't really much of an issue for a vehicle with such a low top speed, but it certainly didn't feel tippy going around corners. The brakes felt fairly strong, although most of this was probably the regen.
This is certainly not a car for everyone, but if you fit the profile, it definitely feels like a very reasonable choice. It's cheaper than a GEM and much better equipped. Styling is always a matter of taste, but the Kurrent has plenty of character for such a small car, and it's definitely better than your average golf cart. If a neighborhood electric vehicle meets your needs, the Kurrent is definitely worth checking out.
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Dr Alexei Poliakov and Dr Paul Cook
Dr Alexei Poliakov is an Investigator Scientist at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research Department for Developmental Neurobiology. Alexei leads a team of physicists, mathematicians and developmental biologists to answer one of the most intriguing questions in modern biology: How do cells organise themselves into highly ordered and super-dynamic communities called tissues organs and organisms?
In 2009, Alexei was paired with Dr Paul Cook, Head of Microbiological Food Safety Branch at the Food Standards Agency. Alexei took part in the scheme because of his interest in policy, and was able to shadow Dr Cook at a two-day workshop in the Netherlands:
“I wanted to take part in the scheme as I see clearly the benefits of the engagement of scientists with business and politicians. I understand the importance of correct and timely scientific policies that set the pace and directions for the flow of knowledge from laboratories into business. I think that one of the main barriers to successful interactions is that experimental scientists can be reluctant due to a lack of understanding and appreciation of the importance of policies and regulations.
As part of the scheme I attended a two-day workshop in a small and quiet city in the Netherlands, where 34 scientists and policy-makers discussed the Guidelines on the Application of General principles of Food Hygiene to the Control of Viruses in Food. It was a good opportunity to meet scientists and policy-makers from different countries and discuss their personal experience on using science in policy-making and the general role of scientists in society.
I asked Paul what kind of scientific evidence policy-makers are looking for during their daily work on new guidelines, policies, and supporting documents. He advised that reliability, strong statistics, and attention to details are the key elements, which distinguish policy-valuable from story-telling science.
I am very glad that I had his wonderful opportunity to see how scientists contribute to policy-making from within.”
The 2012 scheme is now closed to applications from scientists.
Applications for the 2013 scheme will open in Spring 2013.
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See a list of all previous participants here.
Learn about our mission to expand the frontiers of knowledge.
There are about 1,450 Fellows and Foreign Members.
The Council and Board manage the Society's activities.
We have had 350 years at the heart of scientific progress.
Annual publications about our finances and activities.
Information about jobs and internships at the Royal Society.
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For millennia, travelers the world over have been fascinated with Egypt. The country's monuments were ancient even in the days of Herodotus the Greek, who journeyed to Egypt to see the Pyramids and other great temples of the Pharaohs. Today, Egypt's rich history has created a tapestry of cultural and archaeological treasures unmatched anywhere in the world. Your begin your journey in Cairo, Cairo "Al Qahira", is Egypt's capital city, and is a destination in itself: a bustling and crowded metropolis full of intriguing contrasts - old and new; western and oriental; modern hotels next to traditional bazaars and coffee shops; 5,000-year-old pyramids and 19th Century palaces. Lying 420 miles south of Cairo, Luxor is the most important and dramatic historical site in all Egypt, and has often been called the world's greatest open-air museum. Today, Luxor is home to more than half of all of Egypt's antiquities and is a must-see highlight on the itinerary of almost every visitor to Egypt. The town has a village atmosphere and a bustling local market, and one of the most pleasant ways to get around town is by the "caleches", or two-person horse carriages, that run along the Corniche. Your adventure ends in Aswan which is truly the "Jewel of the Nile". Pink and grey granite thrusts upward through the Nubian sandstone, forming mountains, cliffs and jagged outcroppings. The Nile runs clear and cold, splashing and swirling around the jutting granite that mark the First Cataract. At Aswan, the Nile has lost its buffer of cultivated land, and endless waves of golden sand swirl against its banks.
Price Per Person:
US $3580 (6 Jan – 28 Mar, Oct); $3980 (29 Mar – 30 Apr); $3375 (May – Sep); $3695 (Nov – 20 Dec); $4160 (21 Dec – 5 Jan 2011) Per person, double occupancy. Based on a minimum of two travelers. Estimated price of tour is valid until January 05, 2011
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Board of Directives
John S. Petersen
John Petersen is the President, Chairman and founder of Petersen Advanced Lithography, Inc. (PAL). Working at Texas Instruments, Shipley Company, SEMATECH, and now PAL, John has performed advanced semiconductor imaging since 1980 and is internationally recognized as an industry leader in the field of optical microlithography. John has published sixty papers, holds six patents, has taught classes for SEMI and SPIE, and currently teaches for PTI-Seminars. Prior to forming PAL in 1998, John was a Fellow at International SEMATECH where he assessed the use of advanced optical techniques for 150nm (and smaller) imaging in production and provided widely accepted roadmaps that are still used today. Throughout his career, John has studied the interrelationship of physics and chemistry for the microlithography imaging process. Working first at Texas Instruments, then later at Shipley, he spent over thirteen years building a number of various applications, product testing, field service, and product development groups in the United States and in Japan. After a five-year assignment to SEMATECH, he left Shipley and joined International SEMATECH, where he was elected Microlithography Fellow in 1997. His current research includes development of advanced optical lithography and e-beam distributed-computing simulation tools that are used in mask-transform-correction and other DFM techniques needed for development and production of 65nm and smaller technology nodes.
John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado. He did graduate work in physical inorganic chemistry at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. E-mail: [email protected]
Chris A. Mack
Chris A. Mack received Bachelor of Science degrees in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1989, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Mr. Mack founded FINLE Technologies, the developer of the lithography simulation software PROLITH, in 1990, serving as President and Chief Technical Officer until the acquisition of FINLE by KLA-Tencor in 2000. For the next five years he served as Vice President of Lithography Technology for KLA-Tencor. In 2003 he received the SEMI Award for North America for his efforts in lithography simulation and education, and he became a fellow of SPIE in 2006. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he writes, teaches, and consults on the field of semiconductor microlithography in Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife Susan and their daughter Sarah.
Kenneth A. Rygler
Ken Rygler is the president of Rygler and Associates, Inc., a technology consulting firm focused on “Bringing Technology To Market”. He is the founder of Dupont Photomasks, Inc. (DPI), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of photomasks. Mr. Rygler was Executive Vice President of DPI before resigning in 2001. Mr. Rygler held numerous senior business management responsibilities in a variety of businesses in the electronics, industrial, and consumer markets for E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc. for over 30 years. Mr. Rygler graduated with Honors from Bethany College in 1964 with a major in chemistry and a minor in economics. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Austin Symphony Orchestra (and a member of its Executive Committee), and Petersen Advanced Lithography, and is CEO of Pixelligent Technologies.
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Featuring a first-rate faculty, strong chamber music and orchestral programs, and frequent performance opportunities, the string program at the Conservatory of the University of the Pacific is committed to preparing students for a successful career in music.
Student-centered learning is a vital characteristic of the string program. By recognizing that every student is unique and requires an individualized approach, each applied faculty member adapts his or her teaching methods to meet the student's needs. In addition, the applied faculty members have a holistic approach to teaching, helping their students develop both technically and musically. Through weekly private lessons, students develop invaluable problem-solving skills that enable them to identify and subsequently solve problem areas in their playing.
As members of the University of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, all string students perform orchestral repertoire ranging in style from Classical and Romantic master works to exciting world premieres.
String performance majors and other interested string players cultivate their collaborative skills through participation in the chamber music program. During their time at Pacific, these students play in a wide variety of ensembles, allowing them to learn the intricacies of working with pianists, winds, brass, and other string players.
Students in the performance program are held to the highest level of achievement on their instruments. The program offers juniors and seniors the unique opportunity to receive two hours of private instruction per week, as opposed to only one hour per week, which is the custom at most institutions. This extra hour is vital to preparing the students for their degree recitals and graduate school auditions. During their freshman and sophomore years, performance majors receive one hour of private lessons per week.
Many students are studying music education, music therapy, music management, or composition with a string instrument as their primary instrument. Based on the students' goals and abilities, the applied teachers tailor the private instruction to provide the students with the skills that will be most helpful as they continue their careers beyond Pacific.
Many students love performing but are interested in another area as well, such as music education, therapy, management, composition, or other academic subject. Many Pacific students choose to double major, thereby fulfilling their desire to study both. Many double majors require at least an extra year of study.
Students gain fundamental performance experience through Conservatory-wide solo classes, regular orchestra concerts, chamber music performances, and degree recitals (performance and education majors). Faculty members and the Trio 180 inspire the students by performing recitals regularly.
Ann Miller, Program Director for Strings
Assistant Professor of Violin, 2008
B.M., Rice University
M.M., D.M.A., Julliard School of Music
Student of Ronald Copes and Kathleen Winkler
Lecturer of Viola and Violin, 2006
M.A., Odessa State Conservatory
Student of Zoja Istomina and Galina Gritzenko
Lecturer of Cello, 1997
B.M., University of Southern California
Student of Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff, and Frank Miller
Lecturer of Bass, 1988
B.M., M.M., California State University, Sacramento
Student of Abe Luboff, Stuart Sankey, Murray Grodner and Dennis Trembly; his conducting studies were with Leo Eylar and Peter Jaffe
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Why Buy Chickens
Chickens are a fantastic pet that are not only loveable but a fantastic recession buster. Chickens are an inexpensive pet to own and offer benefits through the fresh eggs that they lay allowing you to reduce your outgoings.
Why Buy a Chicken Coop
Chicken coops make a fantastic home for your chickens and it is vitally important that your chicken coop makes your chickens feel safe and secure. If your chickens do not feel comfortable then there will be negative effects on the eggs that they lay so it is important to house your chickens in an environment which they are comfortable.
Chicken coops are a great way to protect your chickens from predators and there are a range of chicken coops that include chicken runs and easy access nesting boxes offering the highest security for your chickens.
Many people do try and build their own chicken coops but many people do not realise that chickens can pick up many diseases through old wood that isn’t treated. Walton’s chicken coops are built from Chinese fir wood which offers a reliable and safe design which allows your chickens to have the perfect hen house.
With the recent news of the first chicken hotel being opened you may wish to form your own chicken hotel in the area you live and buy a range of five star chicken coops for the chcickens comfort.
Which Chicken Coop Should I Buy?
In our range of chicken coops we have chicken coops that are suitable for housing up to ten bantam hens and a range of designs. For example Walton’s chicken coop 1 and 2 are perfect for people looking to keep chickens for the first time, chicken coop 1 with run and chicken coop2 with extra run both offer the option of extending runs in the future so you can expand your chicken coop in the future. Waltons Chicken Coop 4 and the chicken school dormitory are all round chicken coops and offer optimal safety as there is a run enclosed and raised nesting areas which will ensure your chickens feel safe and relaxed.
The chicken ark is the latest chicken coop within our range and offers a unique design and exceptional security with an enclosed run. Which chicken coop design you use is down to your preference and how much room you have within your garden. It may also depend what you are looking to raise your chickens for.
Waltons Chicken Coops
At Walton’s we have a selection of chicken coops and hen runs perfect for keeping chickens and hens at home.
Our Chicken School Dormitory 1, designed in conjunction with Chicken School Limited, can house up to 6 bantam hens. This Chicken School Dormitory is designed with easy grip handles and a pop-hole mechanism to aid access to the chicken coop for cleaning, and as it is built as a single unit, it can be easily moved around your garden to provide fresh grazing for your hens.
The Chicken School Dormitory is also fitted with a coated board roof, which is treated to help prevent red-mite infestations.
New to our range in 2010 are our four chicken coops, each available with a run as an optional extra. These chicken coops can house from four to ten bantam hens, depending on the size of the chicken coop chosen.
These Chicken Coops are constructed from Fir wood and machined to a smooth finish, with a water-based wood treatment providing a great undercoat for you to add treatment to after purchase.
The Chicken Coops are built on a slightly raised platform, allowing air to circulate underneath, whilst a ramp provides easy access in and out of the sliding door for your hens.
All of these products are delivered to most UK mainland postcodes FREE.
If you live in Ireland and are looking to buy chicken coops then visit our Irish site www.waltongardenproducts.ie
The perfect hen house/chicken coops
Safeguard your chicken coop against predators
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During the residency of President Kennedy, I was invited to join a group of historians who were invited to tour the White House. Mrs. Kennedy was in the midst of her massive changes to the mansion, but the day before our arrival, she had returned the RESOLUTE DESK to the Oval Office. There was a great deal of excitement over this event, and our group felt the enthusiasm and excitement about this event. The photograph of President Kennedy’s son John playing around the desk is a real part of American photographic history. I had no idea there is a second RESOLUTE DESK in Windsor Castle. I am always interested in links which tie the United States of America and the United Kingdom, and the RESOLUTE DESK is one of the most interesting. I have gathered a few articles and photographs which I will put together for your enjoyment. I have enjoyed finding all these bits and pieces.
Thomas Moore email: [email protected] Telephone: 801.791.9918
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If you got a chance to view the video Elliott mentioned in his post on gamification earlier this week, then you are familiar with the possibilities of games in our daily lives. I don’t know about you, but the last few minutes of the Jesse Schell’s talk scared me a bit—I’m not sure that I want to live in a world where every action is monitored and geared towards me earning points.
But then I started thinking about all the ways that gamification touches my life today. Nordstrom has gotten me with their virtual points that I receive for every credit card purchase. My mom has gotten me with her “who’s the best at flossing their teeth” game. Even monitoring the number of ounces of water I drink has turned into a game, with me filling out the little water tracker in my Noom app.
Why it works
As Jesse points out in his talk, adding game elements to every day experiences—gamify-ing something—lets you access new levels of psychology. Drinking water is a pretty mundane experience, but add a little competition in there against my friends to see who is the most hydrated, and therefore the healthiest, and you have just tapped into human beings’ fundamental desire for the species to flourish.
By understanding human behavior, brands are establishing a deep emotional connection between you and themselves with their games. For me, one of the most interesting moments of Jesse’s talk was when he broke down the justification humans give for playing Facebook games. To paraphrase, if I spend a lot of time doing something (playing this game), then it must be worth something. If it’s worth something to me, then it must make sense for me to pay $20 to get more features in the game. And if I paid $20, then it really must be worthwhile because I wouldn’t just spend my money on meaningless things. Ahem. (By the way that surfaces another element of gamification: The monetization of virtual goods, which Jackie discussed earlier today.)
Can I play?
So how can you gamify your brand and get people to connect with it? As Jesse mentioned, the people who are creating these gamified campaigns today aren’t gamers in the professional sense of the word—they are just people who understand how to incentivize behavior to establish a connection with their brand. I’ve got good news for you: Tag can help make this happen. We’ve had several “gamey” campaigns that have been run by our customers, all with fantastic results. Here are just a few:
The dining service had been running traditional “collect all 10 pieces and win’” games for years in their cafeterias. To break out of that mold, they integrated Tag into their contests. Users scanned Tags and received a discount on food or won prizes. Eurest was smart; they knew that if they let people get a discount every time, eventually they would get bored and stop playing even if they did get money off their lunch. Instead, using Device ID to associate scans with specific devices, Eurest built a win algorithm that let people win on every third scan, and when they got enough players hooked, began upping the instances so people would win every eighth or tenth time What happened? Instead of people getting frustrated and throwing down their smartphones in a huff (not recommended), their customers kept scanning. That little competitive bug in the back of our brains just won’t let us pass up the opportunity. Participation in their Tag contests has skyrocketed over their traditional ones. Redemption on the coupons has increased too. But the best part: People began buying more. Total receipts are up 15% since introducing the game. And that’s not 15% in virtual money, that’s the real deal.
The magazine has incorporated Tag into their free giveaway issues over the past two years. In previous years, players would fill out an entry form online and each day have to return to the website to try and win one of the many prizes that Allure was giving away during the month-long contest. To make things easier, the publication let their players enter using a Tag; they scanned to register for the contest, and again, using device ID, were able to just scan Tags next to the particular item they wanted to win on the day it was available. As an added smart step, Allure also included a tear-out universal entry Tag that readers could keep in their purses. An SMS alert would be sent to them letting them know the items they were most interested in were about to be given away. They could then just fish out that Tag, scan it and be entered to win. Allure has run two instances of the contest and far surpassed their participation and opt-in rates. This demonstrates how people will go to great lengths, or perhaps even depths (depending on the size of the purse) to participate and win.
Tomorrow I’ll be writing about other brands that are gamifying campaigns and what they are using to evaluate success. Gamification is catching on in many aspects of our daily lives. Put some thought to how you can gamify your campaigns utilizing Tag and let us know about them with your comments below or on Facebook or Twitter.
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Mr Charles GrevilleMarch 4, 1911 - January 20, 1984
Titles in Lords
- Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court January 31, 1928 - January 20, 1984
- Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle January 31, 1928 - January 20, 1984
- Earl of Warwick January 31, 1928 - January 20, 1984
First recorded, on April 29, 1942 INDIA. Lords
Last recorded, on September 13, 1956 THE SUEZ CANAL Lords
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The Sad, Sorry Guineas of Lincoln County are a wretched bunch. Two and Three are your standard pearl guinea. One is a lavender; Four is a purple. They are all intent on being the victims of starvation or predation.
Since their flee on Mother's Day morning they have been seen twice and heard from only a few times more. Two evenings ago marked the second (and feared last) sighting. Dear Old Four, at first mistaken for a chicken, was found alone at dusk feverishly racing the sun for the last of the feed and water. The sun set on him nearly five and a half feet up in the apple tree and by morning his branch sat empty.
AND SO, the feeders of The Sad, Sorry Guineas of Lincoln County turn their ears towards the wind in search of wayward guinea calls of homecoming. They also sit in what can only be described as a bit of fearful anticipation for the day when their neighbors will call and request the removal of those four fool birds from their property. Because damn it. Guineas are nuts, especially when playing the role of the pursued.
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Not respectful of vegans
Posted on 04 / 01 / 2012
I really want to love this restaurant. The ceiling is ornately hand carved and painted in the traditional style of Tajikistan. There is an indoor koi pond and potted trees. The building is surrounded by rose gardens and there is outdoor seating next to a creek. In short, it is beautiful.
However, the staff will tell you that your food is vegan when it is not. On one occasion, my server advised me to order the chickpea kufteh, minus the egg on top. When it arrived, it had a mostly raw egg on top. (Even the "white" of the egg was clear and runny... Isn't that a health concern for people of any diet?). After sending it back, I was served what I was assured was a vegan order of this entree. However, the chickpea balls seemed to be made mostly of egg, so I googled it. The chef at the Boulder Dunshabe Teahouse was invited to post this very recipe on the website of the Boston Globe, and it is mainly egg. The tomato sauce has honey. Still, I've been back twice, both times ordering salad, and asking for no dairy. Both times, the salads came coated with tiny bits of cheese. I've also been assured that the samosas are vegan, although even when I mention that I'm lactose intolerant, they still bring the yogurt sauce and assure me that all is vegan. (when I've pointed out the yogurt sauce, my waiter has responded, "Oh that. I guess yogurt has milk.")
After these experiences, I don't think I can trust this restaurant to be honest about its food. Eating here means never being certain that you aren't consuming animal bits.
Most beautiful atmosphere in Boulder
Vegans regularly served cheese, yogurt, eggs
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Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 6th, 2011
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The Lord is quite clear here on how He deals with His people who tolerate anything less than a whole-hearted passion for His ways. It might seem contradictory to us. We need to look into this. But for sure, whether in the Old Testament or New Testament, God deals with us the same.
How do we expect the Lord to deal with us? We would think that God would greatly bless every Christian in such a way that the world would want to be a Christian too. Some flagrant preachers try to show off their wealth so that they can get others to want to be rich like them and know God. This is a sham. They worship Mammon, not the Creator. We worship the God of blessings not the blessings themselves.
God does not equally bless all of His children. Instead, we find that God actually holds back his blessings. Now we must remember that He will hold back certain blessings for different reasons. Job’s friends made a colossal misjudgment because they were not careful discerning what the problem was. And to be honest, it is hard to know what God is doing in another’s life. In John 15 it tells us that God prunes the faithful ones. He wants them to produce more fruit. This is different than what we see here in Judges 2. Here in verse 3 the Lord Himself guarantees that their enemies will become ‘thorns in your sides and their gods to be a snare to you.’ They were not bearing fruit, and God wanted them to bear more fruit. Not at all.
I like you have seen a spoiled child grow up. The child didn’t respect the parent, and the parent was upset with the child. But now the child is getting close to getting his or her driving license. The parent thinks that giving the child a nice car will win respect. This parent is totally deluded. The child will despise his parents even more. When parents have wealth, they think they can win the child’s heart through making the right purchases. This is not what the Lord does. He does the opposite. God chastises those whom He loves.
In other words, God will not reward you for your disrespectful attitude. If you have been disobeying Him, then a comfortable life would cause you to think that your disobedience would not make much difference. But the Lord would rather make the enemy strong so that He could teach us a lesson and draw us from our disobedience. By completely eliminating the enemy, we would become deluded in our comfortable situation. God’s greatest goal is to make us close to Him and from that relationship find blessings. The Lord wants our devotion.
Comforts in life are not the joy of life. Without a full commitment to God, we cannot have His joy. God wants these things for us– a great marriage, good children, good job, great service, but He will make it hard for us if we do not obey Him. The majority of diseases that people face are a result of their sins. Immorality is sin. Disobedience to our parents is sin. Lying is sin. Anxiety is sin. It shows that we are not trusting in the Lord. And if we persist in worrying, we will end up with one or more of the many side affects. Are you taking medication for things? I am not saying that you shouldn’t be, but have you ever thought why you need it? Is it because you have not forgiven someone. Without forgiving another, you live without God’s grace. This bitter state builds up problems in our bodies. Jesus said,
Do you feel thorns in your life? Something is not right? Things are working against you? Have you checked out your life to see if you are being fully obedient? Have you paused lately and seen whether the Lord wants you to do something specific? Let’s do that now. It is not hard. But if we run so hard in life and constantly keep distractions in front of our eyes and our ears filled with iPod earplugs, then we will not hear Him. Perhaps this is deliberate. Maybe we don’t want to hear Him. Is this possible?
Let us pause now. What is the Lord want for your life? Whatever He puts before your mind, do it. Make sure it is within the bounds of scripture. Sometimes we do not make the connection of a certain relationship problem with our disobedience. Maybe we should not be seeing that person. Maybe we have issue of pride or jealousy..
The good thing is that when we begin to do all that our Lord wants, then those enemies and problems that exist because of our sin quickly disappear. This is true if we do not give a percentage of our wealth to the Lord, forgive people, worry about things, indulge our flesh with food, play with pornography or neglect a host of things that the Lord said is important.
We know what happens when a person steps over a cliff. He falls. A law of gravity dictates that he will descend with increasing speed. Judges 2:3 gives us a law of Christian life. If we disobey the Lord in anything, then there is a consequence that will arise. These consequences are designed so that we will refrain from doing the wrong thing, turn about, confess our sins and do what is right. It is then that the Lord will restore our lives from the impact of the enemies and the resulting thorns.
The next time you have a conflict with a boss, or a spouse or parent, don’t react defensively. The situation might have arisen because you did not faithfully do what the Lord wanted. God might just be using another person to chasten you. => Next
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They still won't give their last names.
It's the night of a historic Sept. 20, and about 75 people have gathered at the Underground bar downtown, including enlisted men and women. These soldiers are here to celebrate the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and the beginning of a professional life lived with newfound openness.
Music is blasting; red, white and blue balloons hang above; the main bar hustles with mingling crowds. Tables of friends jabber and a few people attempt pool games. Upstairs, on the deck, every table is full.
The service members here seem happy, even relieved. And yet, in the same breath that they tell you being gay in the military isn't a big deal anymore, most will tell you they have no intention of coming out to their unit.
Dustin, a Army soldier in his mid-20s who has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, guarded the U.S.-Mexican border as a member of the National Guard, and been on tour in Korea, says simply, "I like to keep my work and private life separate."
Dustin says he's seen other soldiers "outed" over the years. He's been outed himself before, and some of his colleagues have known he's gay. (This is true for every soldier consulted for this story.) But, he says, he's never seen anyone dismissed from the Army for being gay.
Asked why he won't go public with his full name now, Dustin only says that some in his unit "are still ignorant."
Shawn, a 25-year-old Army Reservist who wants to be a career military man, mostly echoes Dustin's sentiments. He's already an active member of OutServe, an organization dedicated to gay and lesbian service members, and says he harbors no fear about being outed. But at the same time, he's not about to come out on his own.
Asked why he and others feel this way, he says, "I think people don't want to deal with the awkwardness, I guess."
A historic moment
DADT was a relic of President Bill Clinton's compromise to end a ban on gays serving in the military, which dated to the days of President Harry Truman. President Barack Obama promised in his campaign to get rid of DADT, and was successful despite Republican resistance.
Dave, 45, has been in the Navy for 23 years, meaning he entered when gays were banned from the military, saw DADT passed, and now has seen it repealed.
He remembers being pleased with DADT initially — "It was even worse before, so it was cool that nobody asked" — but now he can finally bring his partner to the Christmas party.
"It's just really nice that we don't have this burden on us," he says.
For Lawrence, 23, who's in the Air Force, the repeal means something different: finally telling his office the truth about himself.
"I'm basically going to turn around and say, 'Who doesn't know that I'm gay?'" he says.
Angie Edwards, 40, the partner of an Air Force major who flies into combat zones to rescue wounded soldiers, notes that she can finally be an emergency contact for her girlfriend, that she can pay her partner's bills when she's deployed overseas, and that they can cuddle at an Air Force football game.
Meanwhile, a 21-year-old man named Akoni, jovial and clad in his friend's Army uniform, says he's joining the Navy. Akoni comes from a military family — actually, that's why he doesn't want his last name used — but he's never had to serve in secret. And now he never will.
Asked whether he'll be out in the Navy, he says, "I'm gonna be myself ... I'm gonna be out and open."
Around the nation
Tuesday morning, messages heralding the appeal were filling inboxes. From local gay organizations to U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, everyone wanted a piece of the celebratory action.
President Barack Obama's campaign manager put "It's finally over" in the subject line of his e-mail, which included a video of gay and lesbian former and current service members talking about how difficult it was to serve while leading "second lives." Many of the discharged ones wanted to re-enlist — a point the video painted with teary-eyed patriotism.
The clip didn't mention that none of the 14,000 or so men and women discharged under DADT will be given preference in re-enlisting.
Obama's campaign certainly wasn't alone in focusing on the positive. OutServe, for instance, publicized a recently conducted a survey of its membership, all gay and lesbian service members, on its website.
Among 533 responders, a whopping 78 percent indicated they were already "out" to at least some people in their unit. Two-thirds said they would "definitely" or "likely would" take their partner to a unit event — roughly the same number who expected colleagues to treat them with "universal" or "general" respect.
Elsewhere online were tales of long-delayed same-sex weddings and heartfelt accounts of service members coming out.
One such story was collected on a Twitter chain set up by Udall. A linked video shows a nervous young soldier calling his father in Alabama to admit that he's gay.
"Do you still love me?" the young man asks, his voice shaky.
"I still love you, son. ... It doesn't change our relationship," his father's voice says over the phone.
"You hear me? It doesn't change our relationship."
Across the country, men and women are waiting to see if the same will hold true with their comrades in arms. That is, if they choose to tell them.
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Here is a guest post by Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University.
As I prepare for my commencement speech this year, I remember vividly when I first realized that I could graduate college in three years rather than four. As a freshman, I was certainly in no hurry to leave. Indeed, I loved being in college: I was excited by the combination of freedom and opportunity to work hard on subjects I loved with faculty I admired. I didn’t want to leave – even for vacations!
But I realized that graduating in three years would save my family lots of money. Neither of my parents had attended college, and they had sacrificed for years to send my brother and me to the schools of our choice. My father was a furrier, and my mother had given up a promising singing career to raise us (while earning money selling clothes in our basement). They were proud that they were able to afford good colleges for us, and they would never have asked me to skip a year.
But I was proud, too, and I wanted to show my father that all the studying I had done had paid off in some way. I had accumulated credits through APs and a summer program, and with a little extra effort I could save almost a year of tuition – over $6,000! I loved my alma mater, but it seemed expensive even in the 1970s, and so I became a sophomore during my first year. The campus offered me countless opportunities, and I ran after them: I was president of my (co-ed) fraternity, published fiction, took music lessons, held down more than one job, and sought to excel in my classes. At the time, I thought that given the fact that I was going to be at school for only three years, I’d better take full advantage of everything there that I could.
Well, I have now been back at my alma mater as its president for five years, and I still find it an amazing place full of opportunities for learning. Recently, I have spoken with the trustees here about measures we can take to make the university more affordable while still ensuring the quality of an education that comes from face-to-face learning with accomplished scholar-teachers. Wesleyan, like many universities, has gotten ever more expensive, and even though we have a robust financial aid program, we know that many families who don’t qualify for large scholarships have great difficulty paying the high tuition we charge. We use these high fees to maintain the quality of our campus and our instruction – and to provide more funds for financial aid.
But in the last year or so, I’ve come to believe that this model is unsustainable. In a new model we are developing we will be committed to spending almost a third of our revenue on scholarships while meeting the financial need of our students without requiring excessive loans. We will also commit to linking tuition increases with inflation, rather than depending on the much higher rates of increase to which Wesleyan (like most colleges and universities) has been accustomed for decades.
We will also make more visible -- and provide more support for -- the “three year” route that I chose in the mid 1970s. That is, we will help those students who choose to graduate in six semesters (along with some summer work) get the most out of their time on campus. The three-year option isn’t for everyone, but for those students who are prepared to develop their majors a little sooner, shorten their vacations by participating in summer sessions, and take advantage of the wealth of opportunities on campus, this more economical BA might be of genuine interest. In our case, allowing for some summer expenses, families would still save about 20 percent from the total bill for an undergraduate degree. At many private schools that would be around $50,000!
Some have said to me that students think of their undergraduate experience as among the four best years of their lives – so why would they only want three? That’s the question I faced in 1975, and my decision then was that the economic trade-off was worth it. My appreciation for the remarkable experience had at residential liberal arts colleges has only grown since then, but that does not mean that I came to regret my decision. Three marvelous years here were enough to set me squarely on the path of a lifetime of learning.
Again, by no means is the three-year option for everyone. But if we can offer families the same quality undergraduate degree at a significantly reduced total price – and I think we can – why not do it? Our professors will continue to advance their own fields as they mentor young people whose curiosity, idealism and ambition are unleashed. By making this experience a little more accessible, I am betting we will only add to the diversity and quality of the experience for all our undergraduates.
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I know that politics suck. No body wants to get into it and trust me I am with you on that one. Basically politics is a form of manipulation that is legal.
I finally decided to post another blog because
- Its been a VERY long time since ive posted a blog
- It’s a sort of tribute to my government and economy class I took at ACC
- I know my buddies are all taking that class now while I am typing this on my off period and I thought I would give them a heads up.
So what I learned is that our founding fathers were geniuses. I mean, you realize that they came up with this years and years ago and we still use the system today. My ACC teacher was in love with the Federalist papers and we mostly focused on 10 and 51 (which were written by Madison) and those thoughts were amazing. While I for one hate what people did to politics and warped the central ideas of the founders, I have to say that Government is an amazing subject filled with interesting ideas and policies that somehow fit together in a way.
Just so you know my favorite quote is from Madison, and I will never forget it because it is so TRUE! “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” I love this quote. If we were perfect, if we were infallible, incapable of being tainted or committing evil then we wouldn’t have to give up our rights or to be more accurate, our freedoms to a government.
I feel people are being stupid if they think that they can have all of these benefits and stations, or more facilities without having to pay taxes. It’s freaking equivalent exchange. YOU must give something up to GET something back. You can’t ask for things and expect to get your taxes lowered too. It’s ridiculous how people think. You give up things to the government for a reason. You can’t go around taking other people’s things because you gave up that power so you would be protected from other people who might just do that to you.
All of this power that we as individuals give up, is given to the government and is equally split up among the Federal and state, the branches of government, the representatives, the law makers, the mayors, the neighborhood leaders and even church groups. All of this power given up is shared and divided so that no one could possibly be able to completely take over the government. It is literally impossible. Unfathomable.
They made it that way on purpose. People like Madison knew that if humans had too much power then they would be corrupted by it. I know that if I was the only leader of a nation, I would have to split my powers so I won’t take over and manipulate and misuse my power. I know that I am capable of being corrupted. I am after all human.
So even if you don’t like politics or are at all interested in the government, there is a reason to learn it. We are affected by it every day. The ads on TV the things we eat, the books we read the money we are paid and pay as well as the rules we follow are all aspects that have been touched by the government that rules over this country.
It’s good but it’s pretty awful too. Sometimes you’ll look in the news and see actual representatives of the states say things like “We need to get rid of the 14th amendment” and you’ll think “WHAT THE HELL! ARE THEY ALL RETARDED THERE!” (the fourteenth amendment, you will learn, it is an extremely important amendment to the bill of rights. It makes sure that you are protected from not only the federal government as well as the state. The states could have technically done whatever they wanted to the people legally for almost 80 years untill the amendment was ratified.) You WILL most definitely feel like the government, that is so important to everyone in this country’s lives including yours, is run by a bunch of idiots and that it could be better led by a bunch of teenagers. (I do)
You will also learn that the media that supplies us with information is led by a small group of people who are billionaires and don’t care if you get accurate or unbiased opinions, just that they get a profit.
YOU WILL be disgusted by businesses (like the ones that caused the oil spill in the gulf) that care more about money and getting a profit than the greater good or the safety of their employees.
It’s a disgusting world out there and you go to class to learn these things and not stay ignorant of the world around you. They affect you whether you believe it or not.
Maybe you’ll learn something this year. After I finished my class (BTW I got a B so take that suckers!) I felt like I really got to take something from that class. I felt better prepared for life and found my opinions a little after that semester.
I hope everyone has a great experience like mine.
Good luck to all of you that has to take those classes. (My heart goes out to you while I sit here comfortably typing this out during my off period. :P take that)
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After a protracted debate the Los Angeles City Council yesterday voted unanimously to ban all medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.
The vote was originally 13-1 with Councilman Paul Koretz dissenting, KPCC reports, but he apparently gave in and flipped his vote to allow the paperwork to get to the mayor’s desk sooner.
Since California first voted to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, Los Angeles has become something like the Amsterdam of the U.S.—medical pot has been a calling card for the city and has made it millions in tax revenue. All 762 registered dispensaries are now scheduled to receive shut-down notices within the 30 days, and the city will work to shut down the additional 100 to 200 unregistered dispensaries believed to be operating within the city.
State-level marijuana legalization has always been a legal mess. Two years ago Los Angeles passed a partial ban on dispensaries. Recently an appeals court struck down the ruling, saying state law trumped city law, but Los Angeles city officials disagree, saying federal law trumps California state law, and federal law is on their side. The federal government agrees apparently, having escalated its own operations to shut down California dispensaries in recent years despite state law.
The whole thing is a tangle of one-upmanship, and which government strata even has the authority to make the law seems up for debate.
Even more confusing, the Los Angeles ban enacted yesterday contains a provision to at some point down the road revisit the idea of allowing 180 pot dispensaries that were operating before 2007 to reopen. The ban also still allows hospice and medical care agencies to prescribe pot to patients.
Part of the argument for banning the dispensaries was the claim that crime has increased in the areas immediately surrounding the dispensaries. AP reports that people making this argument were “a priest, drug counselors and others.”
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Teachers, administrators, parents and community activists want police to clean up a newly renovated playground at Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary School that is overrun by drug dealers, addicts and prostitutes.
Without police intervention, they said at a meeting this week, kids can't play safely on the jungle gym, sliding boards or basketball court at the playground, which underwent a $100,000 face lift.
"Our children are in danger," said Damion Olds, 29, whose daughter, Antwauna Robinson, 8, is a third-grader at Eutaw-Marshburn. Another daughter, Moesha Olds, 3, attends the school's Head Start program, housed in a portable building with bullet holes in it.
"That danger is the drugs that surround and consume our children and community day after day," said Olds. "Our children walk through drug activity on the way to and from school. There is shooting on the playground while our children are in school."
Olds was among several speakers at Monday's meeting, attended by about 70 people, at the West Baltimore school.
The meeting was organized by the Child First Authority, the Eutaw-Marshburn Police Athletic League, Metro Delta & Martin Luther King Head Start, Baltimore Public Schools, Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development , Druid Heights Community Development Corp. and the Mount Royal Improvement Association.
"We have too many bright, young students here that we treasure," said the Rev. Rodney Little, whose daughter is among about 550 children at the school. "I refuse to move out of the neighborhood that I love because of drug activity."
Police said they are working to eradicate the drug problem surrounding the school, which includes Wilson and McMechen streets, where there have been more than 50 arrests in two months, said Maj. Steven McMahon, commander of the Central District.
McMahon said authorities make arrests, but have no control over prison sentences.
He said most people get arrested a minimum of 10 times before they serve time. Several city police officers patrol outside the school, he said.
"The drug dealers and buyers are still there," McMahon said. "If I've got to step it up another step, I'll step it up another step. We're going to get the problem out of there."
City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., whose district includes the school, said he would talk with Mayor Martin O'Malley in the next few weeks about the problem.
"I would definitely like to see an increase in police visibility there," said Mitchell, who attended the meeting. "Also, I'd like to see stricter enforcement of prostitution and the drug activity there. I get a lot of complaints from residents in that area."
The councilman said it was a shame that the kids can't enjoy the playground, which was dedicated Nov. 23.
"School is supposed to be their escape from the cruel world, so to speak," he said. "And here they are. The crime is constant in their lives, and it shouldn't be."
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A half day event covering Vapour Cloud Formation: The Safety Issues on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in Aberdeen and via webcast on Thursday, March 21, 2013.
With the subsea and deepwater field experience gained over the last decade, great strides have been made in the understanding and management of production transport threats, also known as flow assurance. This workshop maximizes the exchange of ideas among attendees and presenters through brief technical presentations followed by extended Q&A periods.
This facilitated workshop will provide practical guidance and experienced-sharing on Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs.
The theme of the AccBio/QbD 2013 is "Meeting Current Challenges in Therapeutic Protein Technical Development." The conference, co-chaired by Jim Thomas (Amgen) and Reed Harris (Genentech) will include a special 1 ½ day portion focused on application of Quality by Design in Biologics and will be chaired by Beth Junker (Merck).
Organized by the Chicago Local Section with support from AIChE headquarters, the AIChE MWRC provides an opportunity for engineers and scientists in the region to learn about new technologies and network with others in the region.
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|Big Boom in Boomer Knee Replacement Surgeries|
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The number of baby boomers opting for knee replacement surgery earlier in life is growing at an exponential rate - in just 10 years, there could be as many as 3.2 million annual knee replacements. While knee replacements do have a positive impact on a patient's quality of life, U-M experts worry that the demand for new knees could outpace the availability of surgeons
John Birko's knee had osteoarthritis, was painful, and severely limited his day-to-day activities.
While his knee felt as though it was about 80 years-old, Birko was only 49. And like many other baby boomers today, he was not was ready to slow down, and instead decided to have knee replacement surgery.
"Having knee replacement surgery made an extraordinary difference in my life," says Birko, who is now 51 years-old. "The day after surgery, I felt terrific. I had forgotten what it was like to not be in pain. I was on top of the world."
The number of baby boomers who are opting for knee replacement surgery earlier in life is growing at an exponential rate, says J. David Blaha, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Michigan Health System.
Only a few years ago, between 300,000 and 350,000 knee replacement surgeries were being done. Today, that number has risen to a staggering 500,000. And 10 years from now, experts estimate there could be as many as 3.2 million annual knee replacement surgeries.
While knee replacement surgery does have a positive impact on a patient's quality of life, Blaha and other experts in the field worry that the demand for new knees will far outpace the availability of surgeons trained to perform the procedure.
"A recent study that looked at trends in joint replacement found that although the number of orthopaedic specialists who do joint replacement is going to increase by about 2 percent, the need for orthopaedic surgeons is going to increase by 500 percent," he says. "That's a problem of epic proportions."
The reason for the increase can be attributed to baby boomers wanting to maintain an active lifestyle. Previously, Blaha notes, knee replacement surgeries were reserved for very old patients who were severely crippled by osteoarthritis.
But younger patients like Birko - who tore his ACL and cartilage when he was a teenager and later injured his knee again while playing sports - are experiencing an earlier onset of osteoarthritis that affects their daily lives.
Today, degenerative arthritis remains the main reason for joint replacement surgery. Degenerative arthritis is a chronic disease that causes the cartilage at the end of the bones to deteriorate, bringing with it pain and a decrease in joint function. Without a means to replace cartilage in knees, total knee replacement remains the only option to regain mobility and end pain.
Fortunately, knee replacement surgery has come a long way in recent decades, and is now far less painful and the recovery is much faster.
With knee replacement surgery, the ends of the damaged thigh, lower leg bones and often the kneecap are capped with artificial surfaces lined with metal and plastic. Usually, doctors replace the entire surface at the ends of the thigh and lower leg bones.
Although knee replacement surgery allows patients to do many of their daily activities more easily, Blaha says surgeons still don't have a good estimate for how long knee implants will last - especially now since so many patients are getting new knees at a younger age.
"We want joint replacements to last for more than 20 years. But one of the problems is, that no matter how good we get with statistics, it still takes 20 years to get 20 year results," says Blaha, professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the U-M Medical School. "So we're faced with a young population that is in its 50s, and has the opportunity to live into its 80s and 90s. They want their joint replacements to last 30 to 40 years, and we just don't know yet if that will happen."
One way to avoid needing a knee replacement is to take steps to prevent degenerative arthritis. Since obese people have a higher incidence of degenerative arthritis, Blaha recommends maintaining a healthy body weight and taking steps to stay active at any age.
Osteoarthritis (OA, also known as degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint disease), is a condition in which low-grade inflammation results in pain in the joints, caused by abnormal wearing of the cartilage that covers and acts as a cushion inside joints and destruction or decrease of synovial fluid that lubricates those joints. As the bone surfaces become less well protected by cartilage, pain is experienced upon weight bearing, including walking and standing. Due to decreased movement because of the pain, regional muscles may atrophy, and ligaments may become more lax.
About Knee Replacement
Sometimes also called "resurfacing", this operation involves the removal of the damaged, worn ends of the thigh (femur), and leg (tibia) bones that make up the knee joint, as well as the back of the kneecap (patella). The bone ends are precisely reshaped and recapped with metal surfaces, with special plastic liners added as a bearing surface that promotes low friction gliding between metal and plastic.
After an incision is made, the surgeons remove the damaged portions and surfaces of the bones using guides or jigs, and oscillating saws. Precise amounts of bone are removed, usually between 2 and 12 mm. The ends of the bones are shaped to accommodate the prosthesis to be used. Trial, or test prosthetic components are then used to evaluate the fit, range of motion, stability, alignment, and balance of the soft tissues. When all is satisfactory, the final prosthetic components are cemented into place, and the surgical wound is closed.
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An Extra Chromosome
Panorama, SA, Australia
From New Beginnings, Vol. 25 No. 6, 2008-09, p. 20
I remember the night my son was born. I remember my tears drenching both our faces. I remember the nurses prying his tiny body from my arms, crowding around him, blocking me out as they laid him in the transport crib. I remember being in a haze from medication and not knowing if I would ever see him again. I remember thinking that one of the most joyous moments of my life had become a nightmare.
What the neonatologist and pediatrician said was, "We think your son might have Down syndrome, and a major life-threatening heart defect. He isn't getting enough oxygen, and we need to transfer him to Stanford, tonight." What I heard was, "Your son is retarded. He'll never walk, talk or grow out of diapers. He may not even recognize you, and he is condemned to wearing brown polyester pants and shirts buttoned up to the collar, having a pudding-bowl haircut, buck teeth, a lolling tongue and a stoop to rival the Hunchback of Notre Dame." That was the stereotype I had of people with Down syndrome.
For the next seven days, as I waited for the specialists to confirm or deny the presence of the extra chromosome, I alternated between reassuring myself that he did not have Down syndrome and hoping that if he did, he would die before I had to bring him home. If he died, I would get sympathy for having lost a child, and would not have to deal with the trauma.
This was not the Ben I had dreamed about those past eight months. The baby I was expecting would have his father's height and musical talent, my outgoing personality and blonde hair, his father's freckles, and intelligence to rival either of us. No. This infant who was born to us was not part of my perfect family-to-be. How could we go camping and backpacking? How would he learn the French horn, or play competitive basketball or scare me witless when he learned to drive?
During pregnancy, I had been determined to breastfeed, but in the hours after my baby's birth I thought that was impossible. He was more than 40 miles away. I could barely sit in a car, let alone drive. The nurses brought me a mechanical breast pump. I guess they showed me how to use it, but I just ignored it, begging that the fog of pharmaceuticals and some sleep would bring me a new day and a nurse's apology that there had been a mistake -- this perfect little baby was my newborn, not that other one.
The next day I awoke to no newborn, no husband, no friends, and engorged breasts. I was shown, once again, how to use the pump. My father arrived with a bottle of champagne and a video camera that was sent straight to Stanford to film the first child of a new generation in my family.
The pump became my mission, my only focus in a world of desperation. What else could I do? At least I could pump, right? The baby needed breast milk, and word from the nurses at Stanford was that he needed my colostrum, that liquid gold. I followed all the directions. I sat in the hospital cafeteria, weeping, forcing myself to eat the meals that I was told would make good milk. I pumped every three hours, round the clock. I started to let down when I heard a lawnmower, or even a chainsaw. It wasn't natural. It wasn't normal. Our freezer held enough milk to make quiche for an army.
Yet in the end it was worth it. Ben did learn to breastfeed. It took a team of professionals, a lactation consultant, occupational therapist, breastfeeding support group, and my mother to get us there. I remember yelling and hanging up on a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit who fed Ben from a bottle before I had a chance to try breastfeeding him. I bargained for Ben to be sent back to our local hospital.
But we did it, even as I was still grieving the little boy I had lost. The karyotype showed the infallible evidence that every single cell of my baby's body contained an extra chromosome, that my baby did indeed have Trisomy 21, Down syndrome.
I remember when I truly felt that Ben became my son. He was three months old when I said "I love you" to him, and it wasn't lip service. It wasn't my duty and I wasn't just trying to convince myself.
At six months, breastfeeding became a joy, and at 10 months, Ben's first success at sign language was a sign he invented, asking to breastfeed. We continued for two and a half years.
My journeys of breastfeeding and of acceptance and consummate love are parallel paths. Both began with duty and powerlessness and both ended with pure joy. Now, at eight years old, Ben has been camping nearly every year of his life. Our hikes are slower than they used to be. He tells me that he loves me, many times every day. He wears trendy clothes, has lovely teeth, and an exceptionally cute haircut. He likes to compete with his brother on who can pee the highest on a tree trunk and he only sticks out his tongue to be rude. He doesn't have his father's height or musical talent, but he does love to sing and dance. He is more outgoing than I ever could have imagined. He has my blonde hair and his father's freckles and an extraordinary type of intelligence that truly exceeds any I've known.
Note: Sam Paior is the mother of two boys, one with an extra chromosome, and one born far too early. She is now a volunteer breastfeeding counselor at her local hospital and treasures time with families whose children were born early or with special needs. As a parent who has "been there," reaching out to these families and supporting them makes her feel good.
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Random testing can eliminate subjectiveness in constructing test data and increase the diversity of test data. However, one difficult problem is to construct test oracles that decide test results - test failures or successes. Assertions can be used as test oracles and are most effective when they are derived from formal specifications such as OCL constraints. Random testing, if fully automated, can reduce the cost of testing dramatically. We propose an automated testing approach for Java programs by combining random testing and OCL. The key idea of our approach is to use OCL constraints as test oracles by translating them to runtime checks written in AspectJ. We implement our approach by adapting existing frameworks for translating OCL to AspectJ and assertion-based random testing. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach through case studies and experiments. The results are encouraging in that our approach can detect errors in both implementations and OCL constraints and provide a practical means for using OCL.
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USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) reached a historic milestone with the success of its 200,000th trap on its flight deck July 13.
Lt. Ben Hartman and Lt. Ian Hudson, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129, said they were honored and surprised to learn they got the 200,000th trap.
Cakes were presented in Wardroom III to the aviators who landed the EA-18G Growler, and in Arresting Gear Room 4, to the Sailors manning the V-2 engine room who manned the arresting gear for the landmark trap.
“It feels good to be part of Carl Vinsonís history. It’s a new community weíre apart of, so everything is new and exciting,î said Hudson. ìIt takes 25 years plus to accumulate 200,000 traps on an aircraft carrier.
ìItís really surprising we got the 200,000th.î
The aviators expressed how proud they were to be manning the aircraft, but also recognized the sailors who made the monumental achievement possible.
ìIt definitely feels good, but itís more of a testament to the guys working on the flight deck and the arresting gear. Theyíre the ones working hard all day every day,î said Hartman.
ìThis is a testament to the kind of sailors we’ve had working this flight deck for the past 28 years,î said Cdr. Richard Wiley, Carl Vinsonís air department head. ìTwo-hundred thousand traps means we’ve done it right, and weíve done it safely for a long, long time.
ìCarl Vinson, also known as the ‘Gold Eagle,í has built a legacy of excellence, and itís been built by the sailors we had out there today and the men and women who served before them.î
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I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the hype that positions it as some amazing new essence that businesses and consumers must embrace… sorry.
I acknowledge that it’s useful to have a label to refer to this concept, but is it revolutionary? Or, is it the next stage in an evolutionary process? Stay with me a little and I’ll explain why I think it’s an evolution, and also what small and local businesses should be doing about it.
I recently attended the excellent Local Social Summit 2009 event where I had the privilege of contributing in a panel discussion moderated by Greg Sterling on the subject of “Local Gets Social – The Impact of User Generated Content and the Promise of Real-Time Search.” My fellow panelists were Seb Provencher of Praized Media, Andrew Hunter of Qype UK, and Sokratis Papafloratos of Trusted Places.
It was an interesting discussion (you can read Greg’s summary of the event here), firstly because not everybody agreed on the actual definition of the term “Real-Time Local Search”, but secondly, because it became clear to me that there might just be a big jug of Kool-Aid being passed round here.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this isn’t important, only that we need to be a bit grounded and realise that this is an evolution not a revolution. Let’s explore a few thoughts on the subject
The definition of real-time local search
So, lacking any universally agreed upon definition, allow me to make a suggestion at least for the dimensions it encompasses (and please commenters, any insight on this is most welcome.) There are (at least) 3 dimensions that I can see:
- Timeliness, ‘current-ness’. The information found should have some element of timeliness. For example, discovering that there’s a restaurant on a particular street corner is not timely in itself, but discovering that there’s a restaurant on a particular street corner that’s offering a two-for one deal tonight might be.
- Localness. Of course, it’s in the title, but what does it mean? Well, here I’m a little confused, because, you see, the definition of local varies for different people, and for different services, at different times (so that’s at least three variables at play here).Allow me to illustrate: For those living in city centers, life may very well revolve around a relatively small area, and so, in many of their daily needs local does indeed mean local to them at almost any time.
However, for those living in the suburbs, life is much more likely to extend to a somewhat broader geography so that, at the point of time of looking for a service, location may be very different to the location at which the service is to be consumer, especially if the need for that service is not immediate but is at some future point in time (i.e. any time we plan ahead – busy people take note).
- Relevance. Results must of course be relevant but, when you’re dealing with information that has both timeliness and localness dimensions, the potential for irrelevance increases. ‘Regular’ search engines ( maybe we’ll have to start referring to them like this to distinguish from real-time) use ranking algorithms to display results in some order of relevance, but what is the algorithm that determines relevance when you introduce the new dimensions of timeliness and localness (perhaps OneRiot has at least part of the answer).
What’s the popular demand for real-time local search?
Well, you see here, I think it rather depends upon who you are, what you’re searching for, and when you need it. For me, it keeps coming back to those three dimensions above.
I do believe in some cases this thing that’s being called Real-Time Local Search is incredibly important, but it’s not important across the board. The best way in which I can illustrate this is to offer a few user scenarios (I’m sure you can think of many more) where I try to assess whether real-time local search is likely to be important to me (consumer) or a business (supplier).
Scenario 1: I’m looking for a concrete cutter to cut a slab in my driveway at my house in Winchester (from where I take a 60 minute commute to London for work each day) to install a new manhole cover. I’m time-poor and the only chance I get to do the research is at work (London).
Conclusion: The service is extremely unlikely to have a real-time component, and the point of consumption of the service is far from the point (in space and time) of search.
Scenario 2: My conference wraps up at 6.00pm and I want to network with colleagues over food immediately after the event at some convenient nearby location.
Conclusion: Highly likely to have both an immediate timeliness and a localness dimension.
Scenario 3: My conference wraps up at 6.00pm and I want to find a spot for dinner with my wife when I eventually get home after a long commute.
Conclusion: Less likely to have an immediate timeliness dimension, and localness dimension is complicated because the location at the point of search is not same as the location at the point of consumption.
Simply speaking, there are many permutations of who’s doing the searching, timeliness, and localness that are a bullseye for Real-Time Local Search and others that are way off the board. Admittedly, what’s missing from my discussion is any idea of how often we have a hit compared to a miss, indeed I’d be interested to hear any views on this.
To be truthful, my sense is that there are relatively few categories of business for which Real-Time Local Search may be very important, but let’s not allow my gut-feel to confuse the picture. There are some smart, creative businesses out there that can take a non-time-sensitive business and make it time-sensitive to great effect.
Indeed a story comes to mind, as told to me by a friend in Boulder, CA, of a local baker that tweeted each time he was about to pull a fresh batch of cookies from the oven. Surrounding businesses, as I’m told, stood still as workers who followed the baker on Twitter quit their desks to line up for fresh cookies (I couldn’t resist Googling this, looks like they’re not the only one).
Similarly, it’s obvious how businesses like bars, clubs, pubs and restaurants (even child-minders, dog sitters, and more) do have a very strong local component that’s tied to the location that the consumer is actually in, but less so for businesses such as accountants, brokers of many sorts, and web designers.
Is there a popular demand? I don’t know, but I think in time we will see.
Guidance for local businesses
In all the hoopla, it can be hard for the (business) man-on-the-street to make sense of it all, especially to know what (if any) action to take.
My thoughts? Don’t worry. If you’re already engaged in the local and social web, you’re probably doing just fine. Continue to be engaged in social sites like Twitter and Facebook (there’s already plenty of information out there on using these tools for your business – e.g. here’s what Chris Brogan says on the subject) as well as local directories and the local listings in the search engines. Being active in all those places is important.
Maximise the reach of your activity in those places by utilizing widgets to spread your real-time wings across your other web presences, for example, get your Twitter feed into your blog or website, and link to your Facebook profile or show your status updates if you use Facebook to promote your business.
Also you might consider how you can get closer to real-time with your customers by utilizing widgets like BookingBug’s real-time availability and reservations widgets on your websites, blog, Facebook page and more.
Basically, continue to get stuck into and engaged with social and local media. A lot of the innovation in this space is occurring in Internet companies that are providing real-time-like search experiences for consumers and businesses, rather than in the local businesses themselves, and they’re trawling their content from the same places in which you should already be playing.
Evolution not revolution
I guess if I was to try to summarise this piece, it would go something like this: don’t get hung up on the label “Real-Time Local Search” – at least, not just yet. I’m not convinced that the ‘Local’ bit isn’t a bit of a red-herring in the wider scheme of things.
For some people, at some times, and for some needs this is really important concept, but remember it’s not (yet) universally applicable.
It’s useful to have a label to refer to, and so “Real-Time Local Search” works as well as anything for me, but is it revolutionary? I don’t believe so. Yes, it’s another step along a continuum of increasingly current search results. Do we want search results that are more current? Of course we do, and they’re getting so all the time, but using the words “Real-Time” suggests we’ve reached the end, and we haven’t.
Footnote – Some examples of Real-Time Local Search in action:
Whilst writing this article, I found myself drawn into trying out a few of the ways of searching with both timeliness and localness in mind, this is a mere tip of the iceberg (commenters, please feel free to make further suggestions to try) but this gets you started:
Twitter search Try this – http://search.twitter.com/search?q=pizza+in+soho Local? Yes. Useful or relevant results? Somewhat – certainly the results feel more time-relevant than Google.
Try this – http://search.twitter.com/search?q=pizza+in+london – Not really a good local example, too wide to be considered local, but useful to see what happens.
Here’s what they say “OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages”
I head about these guys via the excellent Leo Laporte show This Week in Tech (TWiT)
Google Ah, the old fav, the established ‘standard’ for search Try this – http://www.google.com/#q=pizza+in+soho Local? Yes. Useful or relevant? Yes, but no sense of timeliness (so doesn’t really qualify as real-time)
I saw this mentioned by Greg Sterling here, it’s interesting but the long set of instructions about how to use it was rather a turn off. Not sure I’d really call this real-time. Sure, you get results in real-time (but don’t you get that from any search engine), but the results don’t seem to have what I’d regard as a real-time dimension. In fact, they appear to be just what I’d get from their directory service, it feels a little contrived and I don’t see why I wouldn’t just use their website on my mobile. Still, as Greg says in his piece, it’s good “example of Superpages pro-actively taking its data and local search capabilities out to where users are” so hats off to them.
I came across this whilst reading Matt McGee here. Try this – http://surchur.com/all/pizza+in+soho A bit thin on results for my query to make a judgement, but interesting in terms of discovery versus search with those ‘hot’ panels on the home page.
Try this – http://collecta.com/#q=pizza%20in%20soho Hmm, can’t make up my mind about this one, lots of results like “Yummy pizza in Clerkenwell. Now to Soho for jewellery supplies and general mooching about” but most don’t really help me find any business I can actually use. My jury is out.
Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.
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Voices of the Other New York: Dispatch from the Second Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement in El Barrio
Amid the global financial crisis, the private equity companies that once threatened to swallow up the last of Manhattans affordable housing stock may be on the road to mass extinction. And amid the political crisis in
But the Other New York is still here and still at it, fighting for the block and the dignity of its denizens. Here in East Harlem, known to its own as El Barrio, the banners insist, We will not be moved, or No nos moveran. To those who’ve watched this movement fight (and win) battle after David-and-Goliathian battle with local slumlords and multinational corporations, it is clear that they mean it.
On the evening of June 7, 2009, the Second Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement brought 38 organizations and scores of people, tenants, organizers, families with children, all gathered in the basement of an
This Second Encuentro (or encounter) was hosted by Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB), an organization based in the immigrant communities of
We are humble people. The majority of us are mothers who are fighting for a better future for our children, explained Ana Laura Merino of MJB at the opening of the encuentro. MJB awakens the desire to struggle in our community, added Sonia Guzman in the closing speech.
The tenants who live in the buildings, who organize, are the ones who make decisions in their own struggle, said Oscar Dominguez. We all together decide to see what is the path that were going to take as an organization and to develop a struggle against the enemy, which is capitalism and the bad governments. We practice autonomy and democracy. We go to the streets to consult the community.
The Second Encuentro, writes MJB, like the First Encuentro two years back, was inspired by the encuentros of the Zapatistasin order to get know each other and recognize one another in our struggles for a world where many worlds fit and against neoliberal exclusion.
Speaking of each of these struggles were members of not only MJB, but also CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, which is fighting the gentrification of Chinatown and beyond; the Harlem Tenants Council and the Coalition to Preserve Community, which persist in resisting the expansion of Columbia University and rezoning of 125th Street; the Sunset Park Alliance of Neighbors, building local power in south Brooklyn; and Thomas Jefferson Tenants Association, taking on police violence in public housing.
They were joined, too, by a troupe from Make the Road New York, the low-income community organization based out of Bushwick, Brooklyn, which expressed its own community’s struggles in little bits of theater pitting prowling loan sharks and cigar-chomping landlords against the good people of New York, who ultimately overpowered the powerful to the sound of maracas, guitars and accordions.
The conversations at the encuentro crisscrossed barrios and neighborhoods, as organizers, guarded on each side by a Zapatista puppet and introduced by Juan Haro of MJB, took on the conditions they face, how they struggle, who their enemies are and what their dreams look like.
Those at the frontlines of
This truly is neoliberalism at its worst, said Nellie Hester Bailey, director of the Harlem Tenants Council. We are its victims. She should know. Her husband was murdered by a brutal landlord 20 years ago this month. What we are fighting, she declared, is the ruling class. This is the epicenter of international finance capital. What we are talking about is whether poor people can live on expensive real estate. [With Plan 2030,] As rich people come into the city, Bloomberg is pushing us out of the city.
The presentations from Bailey and other speakers are periodically punctuated by chants of, Harlems Not For
Tom Demot, of the Coalition to Preserve Community, has been working to that end for 30 years. I like to talk about enemies, he told the crowd. Our enemies don’t want to hear the word, they want us all to be friends as they screw us. In addition to developers, Demot called out the elected officials at City Hall, most of whom have supported the rezoning and gentrification of Harlem, along with the local development corporations, the land use laws, and the elitist class system in the
Other organizers pointed to the alignment of the city’s policies and the landlords interests. The city is working with the landlords in kicking people out of their homes, says Bin Liang of CAAAV, who’s been organizing in
So its not about peoples human rights and their housing needs, Liang concluded, but how to make money the fastest way possible.
Its the rich people who are trying to take away our homes, and its the political system , including the mayor and the city councilmen [Mark-Viverito, Jackson and Dickens], that are helping them to do that, reported Dominguez of MJB. We decided not to work with the politicians, because they will never be in our favor, because they’re for the rich people.
Pearl Barkley, of the Thomas Jefferson Houses Tenants Association and Mothers Against Abusive Policing, suggested another means that the city has employed to implement policies of planned shrinkage of troubled neighborhoods: Aggressive policing of people who live in public housing.
We see the practices of NYPD, says Barkley, in concert with NYCHA [NYC Housing Authority], as a way of eliminating all low-income people who live in NYCHA. Its a very insidious thing. People cannot walk out of their building or empty the garbage without police asking them for ID. That’s the plan for eventually getting us out. How is NYPD and NYCHA doing it? Through criminalization of its tenants.
Javier Genao, an organizer with the Sunset Park Alliance of Neighbors, here with his young daughter, offered a warning to those assembled: We know that there’s a history of divide-and-conquer. This is something we’ve seen in the past that the city has done and developers have done, because they don’t want us to unite and struggle against our same enemy. Yet there are Latino and Asian neighbors organizing together, he reported, on issues from tenants rights to toxic developments.
The new villain on the block, Bailey went on to say, in addition to familiar ones like absentee landlords and imperially minded universities, is what she calls predatory equity investment the influx of private equity firms that once aimed to evict 20 to 30% of the tenants in their properties and quietly convert thousands of rent-regulated apartments into luxury units meant for a different kind of city.
On some blocks, the financial crisis has put such hostile takeovers on hold. The payday never dawned for Dawnay, Day, the London-based investment bank that once sought to build a
Something strange happened on the way to the bank, Bailey explained. You know what? Theyre all in foreclosure. All of those projects, including the
The Second Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement also opened up the floor to the voices of national and international movements for vivienda digna, dignified housing. Eviction and displacement are happening all over the world, noted Filiberto Hernandez of MJB. Which is why we have to organize so that united we can destroy this corrupt system in its entirety.
The speeches were accompanied by documentaries and dispatches from other fronts, including
More chantsLibertad y Justicia para Atenco! Presos Politicos, Libertad! Todos Somos Atenco!
Oralia Mondragon Ramirez, an MJB organizer, proceeded to read aloud a statement from Atenco sent by the Peoples Front in Defense of the Land:
One struggle unites us. The struggle against capitalism. It doesn’t matter where we encounter ourselves. In Harlem,
The land is not for sale, the statement proclaimed. It is to be loved and defended.
Each of the presenters went on to share a piece of their dream for their neighborhood and their world, just as they had shared a piece of their struggle.
Our dream, said Liang, is for every tenant to live peacefully, whether they have money or not, and not to be harassed.
That housing is not a privilege, said Bailey. That housing is a basic human right. It doesn’t matter if you have a job, if you’re old, if you’re inform, it is your right. That has to become a reality.
We dream of a world, said Guzman, in which we can exercise our rights to justice where we can advance together hand in hand where the powerful stop trying to manipulate the humble at their economic convenience where our children can have a shining future.
For our children to stop being killed. That’s very real for my community, said Barkley. We dream of the day when we are related to as full human beings, and not a cash crop to provide for the police and prison-industrial complex.
We dream of a victory, said Genao. We dream of having community control of our communities. We dream of the day when people don’t respect the authority of police officers or of elected officials, but that people respect the authority of what people decide together as a community.
Those are the dreams, he concluded, that carry us through this very difficult struggle.
Meanwhile, the young ones flitted back and forth next door ahead of the anticipated game of Gentrification Piata/Neoliberal Piata that was to be the final event of the evening. The piata, a mean and green and greedy-looking thing, hung by a single thread from the ceiling of the
Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a freelance writer from
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Images from the Second Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement (by Michael Gould-Wartofsky):
Movement for Justice in El Barrio. Chronicle of the Second NYC Encuentro for Dignity & Against Displacement, June 7, 2009, http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/105808.html.
Glen Ford, Holding on in East Harlem and Points West, North and South, Black Agenda Report, June 16, 2009, http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/holding-east-harlem-and-points-west-north-and-south.
Gretchen Morgenson, Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity, The New York Times, May 9, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/business/09rent.html?_r=1.
Jennifer Janisch, Victory in El Barrio: East Harlem Tenants Win One, The Indypendent, Nov. 17, 2008, http://www.indypendent.org/2008/11/15/victory-in-el-barrio.
Kavita Shah, The New Face of Gentrification, The Nation, June 9, 2008.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky, We Will Not Be Moved: El Barrio Fights Back Against Globalized Gentrification, April 22, 2008, http://counterpunch.org/gould04222008.html.
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For Immediate Release
San Francisco, January 6, 2012 - San Francisco AIDS Foundation is deeply concerned about significant cuts in the governor’s proposed budget which would severely impact tens of thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS and urges him to identify alternate cost-saving measures. The cuts will place a disproportionate financial burden on some of our state’s most vulnerable citizens and seriously jeopardize their health.
The governor’s plan calls for low-income and uninsured HIV-positive people in the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Plan, or ADAP, to share costs and in some cases monthly co-payments could be as high as nearly $400 for life-saving medications. Forcing co-payments for AIDS drugs during these troubling economic times will ultimately result in people dropping out of the program altogether, putting their health and the greater community at risk.
“Now is not the time to place a heavier financial burden on people who are already living on the margins and rely on this program to stay healthy,” said Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, director of state and local affairs. “ADAP is an essential life-line to people across our state who would not otherwise be able to access HIV medications.”
ADAP provides medications to more than 40,000 low-income, uninsured, and underinsured people. Cuts to ADAP services will have costly implications for our state and will result in advanced HIV disease, increased co-morbidities, and even premature death for Californians.
Medications provided by ADAP also help to prevent the spread of HIV. People on effective treatment can reduce the amount of HIV in their blood to undetectable levels. Mounting evidence shows an undetectable viral load makes HIV-positive people less likely to spread the virus to others. In fact, a study published by the National Institutes of Health shows HIV-positive people who are on drug therapies are 96% less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfected partners. For every new HIV infection we prevent, California saves an estimated $600,000 in lifetime treatment costs.
“Maintaining current ADAP funding is essential to our efforts to end HIV/AIDS once and for all,” said Neil Giuliano, CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation. “At a time when we should be expanding treatment to people living with HIV, because it is proven to stop the spread of the disease, the governor proposes we take a step backward and that’s not acceptable public health policy.”
San Francisco AIDS Foundation and its partners across the state stand ready to play an active role in voicing the concerns of all people living with HIV to the governor and the legislature to ensure everyone has access to proper care and treatment.
About San Francisco AIDS Foundation
No city experienced epidemic levels of HIV faster than San Francisco. At San Francisco AIDS Foundation, we work to end the epidemic where it first took hold, and eventually everywhere. Established in 1982, our mission is the radical reduction of new infections in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and direct services for prevention and care, we are confronting HIV in communities most vulnerable to the disease. We refuse to accept that HIV transmission is inevitable. For more information, go to www.sfaf.org.
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Early and Recent History and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Representative Citizens
JAMES D. SPENCER. No man is better or, more favorably known in Franklin township and that section of Greene county than James D. Spencer, now living in retirement in Springfield, having attained his seventy-fifth year and certainly entitled to a little respite from life's serious labors, for his record shows that he has been a man of great industry and also a man of usefulness to his community. He devoted over a half century to farming on the same place in Greene county, and for more than three decades was justice of the peace, one of the most efficient And popular justices the county has ever had. He is a native Missourian and has been a good representative citizen of the state all his life.
Mr. Spencer was born in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, September 20, 1838. He is a son of Andrew and Christina (James) Spencer. The father was a native of North Carolina, who emigrated to southeastern Missouri in an early day and located on a farm. His wife's parents died when she was quite young.
Mr. Spencer grew to manhood on the farm in his native county, amid the rugged scenes of the early days, and he worked hard when a boy. His education was somewhat limited, but he improved such opportunities as he had and studied at night by the light from the open fireplace at home. On June 3, 1852, at the age of fourteen years, he arrived in Greene county, Missouri, and settled in Franklin township on a farm which he developed and kept well improved and here he carried on general farming for a period of fifty-four years and ranked among the best farmers of the township. He served the people of Franklin township as justice of the peace for a period of thirty-two years and it stands to his credit to add that during that protracted period he never had a decision reversed at the hands of a higher tribunal. This would indicate that he had a sound knowledge of the basic principles of the law and that he dealt fairly with all who came before him to settle their differences, his decisions being unbiased and satisfactory to all concerned. And his long retention of the office would also indicate that the people reposed in him the utmost confidence and held him in the highest esteem.
Mr. Spencer was married in this county on December 5, 1869, to Mary E. Wallace, who was born near Cave Spring, Missouri, in the northern part of Greene county, and there reared to womanhood, and was educated in the common schools, and, although her education was limited, she was studious and was enabled to teach three terms of subscription school in her community when a young woman. She is a daughter of Jeptha and Nancy Wallace, natives of North Carolina from which state they emigrated to Missouri as early as 1836 and located on a farm in Greene county, and the Wallace family has been well known in the northern part of the county from that time to the present. Mrs. Spencer is one of ten children, four sons and six daughters, five of whom are living. Mr. Spencer is one of six children, an equal number of sons and daughters, two of whom are living.
During the Civil war Mr. Spencer desired to take an active part, but was not in proper physical condition. However, he served in the Home Guards three months. He and his wife retired from active life and moved to Springfield, January 22, 1907, where they have since resided, owning a home on North Main street. He has been a loyal supporter of the Republican party all his life. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church.
The union of Mr. and Mrs, Spencer has been without issue.
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When Barca lit the blue touch paper
Chelsea and Barcelona's recent rivalry reignited at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night, but it began in 2005 as Jose Mourinho and Frank Rijkaard clashed over accusations that the Barca manager had spoken to referee Anders Frisk at half-time. The two games - culminating in a wonderful 5-4 win for the Blues on aggregate - were quickly overshadowed by events off the pitch that turned the clubs into two of the most bitter rivals in European football.
Before the turn of the millennium, Chelsea and Barcelona had only ever faced each other in one competition, the 1966 Fairs Cup semi-final, when a Joaquim Rife-inspired Barcelona side won out 5-0 in a replay after the first two meetings had finished 2-0. Barca went on to win the competition and, coming as it did in the Real Madrid dominated mid-1960s, it was a rare trophy for the Blaugrana. Little did anyone know that the rivalry between Barcelona and Chelsea would brew less than half a century later.
Before Roman Abramovich had ever considered making a move to London to make Chelsea his plaything, the club were fighting for glory among the best in Europe for the first time as their debut Champions League campaign arrived after a third-place finish in the 1998-99 season.
Under the management of Gianluca Vialli, Chelsea's run to the quarter-finals that season was full of memorable moments - a famous Dennis Wise equaliser away at Milan's San Siro stadium, Galatasaray's noisy support silenced by a 5-0 win in Turkey - but the crowning achievement was a 3-1 win over tournament favourites Barcelona in the quarter-final first leg at Stamford Bridge thanks to a Gianfranco Zola goal and a brace from Tore Andre Flo.
The Guardian's Martin Thorpe wrote: "On one of the finest nights in the club's history, Chelsea proved beyond doubt that they can live with the very best in Europe. They scored three goals in eight minutes just before half-time to consign Barcelona to their first defeat in this season's competition."
But all hopes of reaching the semis would come crashing down at the Camp Nou as the Catalans put on a masterclass to leave the Londoners ''outclassed and largely outfought''. A 3-1 scoreline after normal time meant an additional half hour and Rivaldo's penalty, along with a Patrick Kluivert header, sent Barca through. The referee that day: a certain Anders Frisk, for whom the tie would take on added meaning in the years to come.
Indeed, by the next time the two teams clashed in 2005, much had changed. Barcelona had failed to win anything after parting company with Louis van Gaal in the summer of 2000 (though he returned for a short spell) but a new era was dawning after the appointment of Frank Rijkaard in 2003. Chelsea, meanwhile, had been busy building an empire, and the arrival of Abramovich's billions had brought about a dramatic transformation.
Under Jose Mourinho, the Blues were on the verge of claiming a record points tally of 95 in winning the Premier League - their first title in half a century. A star-studded Barcelona, meanwhile, were also closing in on their first La Liga crown since 1999. All signs pointed to a titanic clash, which was ultimately overshadowed by controversy. Boldly, Mourinho got the fireworks underway as he named Barcelona's side at the pre-match press conference, while Rijkaard insisted: "Usually when people talk, it is a sign that they are not very calm."
Ultimately, the first leg, a 2-1 win for Barca, was a tight affair heavily influenced by the sending off of Didier Drogba for a second yellow card after 56 minutes. The Guardian's Kevin McCarra wrote: "Jose Mourinho had never before lost two matches in a row as a manager, but he may yet bless the narrowness of this defeat which leaves his team well placed for the return leg. He should save all his curses for Didier Drogba."
Bless he did not. Instead, Mourinho cursed the officials for Drogba's cards and in particular referee Anders Frisk, whom he accused of allowing Rijkaard into his dressing room at half-time. The Portuguese manager refused to speak to the media after the game, but wrote in his column for newspaper Dez Record in his homeland a few days later: "When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off (after half-time) I wasn't surprised."
Chelsea stood by their man and chief executive Peter Kenyon revealed that the club would report their concerns to UEFA. "We as a club are putting in a report," he told BBC Five Live's Sportsweek. "There was an incident at half-time which we weren't happy with. It was a real situation and we're making a point, not an official complaint."
Labelling Mourinho's behaviour ''pathetic'', Barcelona assistant coach Henk ten Cate hit back, while Rijkaard himself played down any role in the incident. "There was a lot of talking before the game and now surprisingly there is a lot of talking after the game. It is not good behaviour after a match," he said. "Maybe they want to start something and make it worse than it is. I really don't understand it. I am calm about it."
Ahead of the return leg on March 8, though, the war of words had reached fever pitch. Mourinho, undaunted, continued his criticism of Frisk by dismissing suggestions that he had called for the world's top official, Pierluigi Collina, to referee the return leg. Instead, he responded dryly: "I would like Frisk as the ref. Perhaps he would help us like the way he helped [Barcelona] in Spain."
The repeated condemnation was not received well by UEFA, with the director of communications William Gaillard suggesting on the day of the game: "I don't think it is very helpful to keep on criticising the work of a referee like Frisk. To suggest he influenced the game in Barcelona is an unacceptable comment."
Mourinho was later handed a two-match ban for his comments, but was pitchside for the game at Stamford Bridge, and Collina was indeed in charge, although he could do little to halt the carnage that followed.
A blistering start saw Chelsea take a 3-0 lead inside the first 20 minutes. Goals from Eidur Gudjohnsen, Frank Lampard and Damien Duff ensured that the Blues were doing their talking on the pitch, although they were pegged back to 3-2 before half-time through the magic of Ronaldinho. The Brazilian coolly converted a questionable penalty awarded against Paulo Ferreira for a handball, before an innovative static toe-poke levelled the tie at 4-4 on aggregate. Barca, though, were still ahead on away goals.
Then, in the 76th minute, the blue touch paper was lit: John Terry leaped highest to head home from a corner to make it 4-2 and put the Blues ahead again, but Barcelona's players were incandescent as they believed Chelsea centre-back Ricardo Carvalho had obstructed goalkeeper Victor Valdes by holding him back. Collina remained unmoved.
Oddly in a game of such twists and turns, there were no more goals. However, as the final whistle blew and Mourinho ran onto the pitch to celebrate, it all kicked off on the touchline. Rijkaard and Chelsea scout Andre Villas-Boas confronted each other, while Barca striker Samuel Eto'o was the centre of attention after he was accused of spitting at stewards and in turn claimed to have been racially abused.
The Cameroon striker was furious after the game and, although there was no evidence to substantiate his claims of racism, revealed: "Mourinho is shameless. If this team wins the Champions League, it would make you want to retire. With so much money and so many players, what they do is not football."
Reflecting on the game - and the war of words beforehand - Rijkaard added: "You always feel bitter after a loss, but maybe I feel a bit more bitter because of all the lies that were told before this game. I suppose all the stuff surrounding the game wants you to win a bit more, and makes it hurt more when you lose. These things happen when people show their emotions sometimes."
What happened next? Despite the fact that the game was over, and Chelsea were through, the recriminations continued. Frisk retired on March 12 because of death threats from fans and said: "I've been subjected to things that I couldn't even imagine. I love to referee and I have done it since 1978, but what has happened to me over the last 16 days means it is not worth continuing. I won't ever go out on a football pitch again. I am too scared. It is not worth it. Unfortunately that is the way football looks in 2005. I've had enough. I don't even dare let my kids go to the post office."
Claim and counter claim followed, with UEFA official Volker Roth calling Mourinho "an enemy of football" (a claim not endorsed by his organisation), and the Portuguse was eventually charged for his comments on April 1. With controversy following them everywhere that season, Chelsea eventually fell to Liverpool in the semi-finals, courtesy of Luis Garcia's famous 'ghost-goal'.
Their war with Barcelona reconvened as the Catalans got revenge the following season as Mourinho accused Lionel Messi of getting Asier Del Horno sent off and, in 2009, Tom Henning Ovrebo was the subject of the Blues' ire as he was branded a disgrace by Didier Drogba after failing to give decisions their way before Andres Iniesta's last-gasp goal knocked them out in another high-profile semi.
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If time is money then taking the time to call companies to see if you can get a lower rate or save some dough may be well worth it.
Rule number one: most businesses won't call to tell you how to save so it's up to you to dial up savings.
Once a year Chantay Bridges dials her way to saving big bucks and sometimes even more often than that.
Chantay cut what she pays for her phone, cable, utility and insurance bills and saved on credit card and bank fees and interest just by calling the companies. She's got it down to a science.
"I reminded them of our credit scores. I reminded them of our loyalty," Bridges says.
Experts say Chantay's calling strategies are on the money. And you can actually try dialing for more savings even more often.
Finance guru Mitchell Weiss with the University of Hartford says it certainly can't hurt to "check in" every quarter to every six months with businesses who bill you.
And if you see a company advertise a special deal take that as an opportunity to call and say you're interested.
Weiss explains businesses want customers to stick around because it costs more to lose a customer than to offer them some new ways to save.
"It costs money to get them. It costs money to keep them,” Weiss says. “Why would you want to turn that over to a competitor?"
So how can you make sure dialing through the phone maze of customer service reps is worth it?
People pay personal finance administrator Roblee Hoffman to lower their bills and now he's sharing his secrets with us.
Hoffman can usually save people between two hundred and twelve hundred dollars a year and here's how you can do the same:
Review all your monthly bills and try calling each company. The phone is the most effective way to negotiate.
Have two to three months worth of past bills when you call so you can be precise on what you're paying.
"Be a great customer,” Hoffman says. “A great customer is one who has been with a company for a fair number of years and pays their bill on or before the due date and pays the full balance."
Then once you've established your history with the company ask for lower rates, a cheaper plan and monthly fees to be removed.
If you can't negotiate with a customer service rep, ask for the customer retention department or the president's office. They may offer more incentives always be professional and polite.
And research what the business' competition is offering customers.
"The only time you want to be confrontational or say to a company that you’re going to go to another service is when you've prepared it ahead of time and done your research to know there is other service available at a greater cost savings," Hoffman says.
Chantay says knowing what a company's competition is offering is key to negotiating.
And if you've never called a business for a better rate, start dialing, it could save you a lot of dough
"It's worth the time and it's worth your money," Bridges says.
Many credit card companies and banks say they welcome you to check in with them for better deals frequently.
And at least one cell phone company told us it would gladly review your bill to see if you're paying too much for minutes and data you don't use.
It could mean a cheaper monthly bill.
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Melvin Earl Newlin enlisted in the Marine Corps in Cleveland on July 18, 1966. Within one year, his heroism under enemy fire would earn him the Medal of Honor - the nation's highest award for valor.
A native of Wellsville, Pfc. Newlin was sent to Vietnam in March 1967 to be a machine gunner with the 1st Marine Division. On July 3, he and four other Marines took mortar fire near Nong Son. His comrades were killed. Although wounded, Newlin propped himself against his machine gun and fired at the charging Viet Cong. Repeatedly hit by small-arms fire, he managed to repel two assaults on his position. During a third, a grenade knocked him unconscious.
Assuming he was dead, the guerrillas charged past toward the main Marine force. But Newlin came to, crawled to his gun and fired on their rear - inflicting heavy casualties and disrupting the charge.
Newlin died on the Fourth of July 1967. He was 19.
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Eli Broad is a lot of things to a lot of people—capitalist, philanthropist, art collector and innovator, among them. But the billionaire is anything but conventional in his approach to life, money, art and time.
Broad’s head for business has yielded two Fortune 500 companies, a considerable boost in the cultural infrastructure of Los Angeles, the founding of the Broad Foundations and a pledge by the author and his wife Edye to give three-quarters of their amassed fortune to philanthropy.
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The I/O scheduler problems have drawn my attention, and besides trusting empirical results, I tried to do more of benchmarking and analysis, why the heck strange things happen at Linux block layer. So, here is the story, which I found myself quite fascinating…
The synonym for ‘i/o scheduler’ inside Linux kernel is ‘elevator’ – and it helps to explain many things. The physical movement needs of disk spindles are similar to how elevators move people in tall buildings:
- Attempting of going single direction, just ‘up’ or ‘down’, and grabbing all people on their way.
- At every floor where it stops, waiting for more people to show up, not closing doors immediately.
- More full the elevator cabin is, more efficient it is in terms of transported people.
- More full the elevator cabin is, more annoying is for people in it – stopping at every floor, then waiting, people start hitting ‘close door’ button nervously.
- Buildings solve this by having more elevators, or sophisticated queueing systems for getting into them
Now, imagine a huge hotel building, that is having huge convention of privacy-worshippers. Or just misanthropes. They will never get into elevator, until they know that it is empty, and human that was traveling before got out of elevator safely. Essentially, thats how database transaction serialization works.
Thats where smart elevators fail – they immediately notice, that all writes are going to same location and prefer to wait for more requests – and merge them. Though, whenever an elevator decides to wait, nothing happens – there is a global lock inside database engine, which tells not to write until first write finishes.
Scheduler waits, decides that it did wait too long, flushes the write, gets another request, notices write goes to same location and there might be chance to merge subsequent requests, which… do not come in again.
And the solution is – using teleports. Well, at least treating database writes as instant accesses, not caring about order, waiting, just doing everything as soon as possible.
To demonstrate this I went to the world of edge cases – made the performance test, which maybe shouldn’t be called a ‘benchmark’. I created a very simple table and started spamming rows, each as a separate transaction, into it. The hardware for test was a ‘regular’ DB box, 8 disks, write-behind cache on RAID controller, 16GB of memory, 8 cores – not my desktop or laptop. The sole idea of test was finding how different I/O modes affect ability to write to I/O controller as fast as possible – resulting in transaction throughput.
Here are some results:
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Here, CFQ had very huge regression at higher concurrency, actually Anticipatory showed similar, slightly better results. NOOP showed similar results to deadline, much faster at single thread, slightly slower at multiple.
So, whichever decisions CFQ takes during this test, they must be all wrong – with multiple disks and raid controller handling flushing of write cache there is no need for elevation or request merging, multiple tagged commands can be sent to the I/O subsystem, and they will be executed swiftly. It is supposed to be a scheduler good for most of workloads, and it probably is. But high-performance databases rely on storage being fast, and for enforcing of ACID requirements, synchronous operations should not wait forever (or wait, when not necessary)
Of course, CFQ may provide better performance on systems that do extensive I/O scanning, so for folks with slow queries it may end up providing more throughput, as it will tolerate delaying small things for big things to get through – deadline would not care about fairness and try getting everything done as quickly as possible.
The worst part is that Deadline is enabled by default just on community distributions, like Ubuntu Server (though Ubuntu desktop kernel has CFQ by default). So, most of people will end up having anti-database scheduler for ages, and will rarely get into internals of whole stack, or analysis of performance profile. Switching to another scheduler is a matter of single command (though it managed to crash my system once :)
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Tax Increases on the Horizon
In our most recent client bulletin, we discussed the possibility of no action by Congress — to extend the Bush-era income and estate tax cuts before Election Day — resulting in one of the largest tax increases in history.
Well, Congress has decided to do just that and “Punt on Taxes” as headlined in the September 24th issue of the Wall Street Journal and again on September 29 in an article titled “Walloping the Middle Class.” “It’s official: Democrats in Congress will adjourn at the end of this week and leave unsettled what happens with income tax rates next year.”
Review our client bulletin to compare the 2010 tax rates with those that will take effect in 2011, unless a future change is made.
If you’d like to learn more about how this change will impact you, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
President, Principal, and Senior Financial Advisor
Live Long & Prosper
By Jerry Miccolis, Chief Investment Officer, Principal and Senior Financial Advisor
As we continually advise our clients, the average American is living longer and longer. And that fact highlights the need for appropriate long-term investment planning, including realistic lifetime cash flow analysis.
These days, the average individual is placing more and more money in “safe” havens like bonds, cash, and CDs. While this is understandable human behavior in times of greater market turbulence, this is precisely the wrong thing to do in the face of lengthening lifetimes. Such”safe” investments will not provide you with adequate protection against inflation. And for most people, the biggest threat to a comfortable retirement is inflation — not short-term market volatility.
All investors – regardless of age — should inform their retirement planning with an underutilized tool: an actuarial life-expectancy table.
These tables have some real eye-openers. For example, if you are a 65-year-old male, you have a 50% chance of living to 85 or older (88 if you’re a female) and a 25% chance of living to 92 or beyond (94 if female). A couple at 65 have a 50% chance that at least one spouse survives to age 92 and a 25% chance that one will survive to age 97. If you’re over age 65, you can expect to live to even more advanced ages. And updated tables that will emerge from the 2010 census will likely extend those life expectancies even further.
Most people understate their life expectancies — and thus their investment horizons — by at least a decade. To achieve a retirement portfolio that will meet your needs through your expected lifespan without exposing you to too much risk, you need a portfolio of diverse investments that work together to both exploit and tame market volatility.
A truly diversified portfolio should include stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, managed futures, and absolute-return strategies, plus some explicit portfolio protection. And you need to rebalance these asset classes regularly. Our clients’ portfolios reflect these facts; do you know someone who may not have all the facts? Please share this newsletter with them and feel free to contact us directly should they need help.
Actuarial information is from 2000 and is provided by the Society of Actuaries.
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Jerry Miccolis, CFA, CFP, FCAS, MAAA, is one of America’s leading authorities on asset allocation. Jerry is also the co-author of Asset Allocation For Dummies (Wiley 2009) and one of the originators of Enterprise Risk Management.
Did You Know:
Proceed with caution… China has 1/5 of the world’s population, is the world’s second largest economy, is the largest auto market, and is the biggest consumer of energy. Their current economic growth rate is 11%. Source: The Directors Letter.
One must watch our November elections as the major consequence of heightened protectionist rhetoric from the US towards China will have a direct impact on our financial markets, cause greater volatility and further decline the investor’s risk appetite.
“The pace of appreciation [of the renminbi] has been too slow and the extent of appreciation too limited. We are examining the important question of what mix of tools, those available to the United States and multilateral approaches, might help encourage the Chinese authorities to move more quickly.”– Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a Senate Banking Committee, September 16
“We cannot imagine how many Chinese factories will go bankrupt, how many Chinese workers willlose their jobs, and how many migrant workers will return to the countryside [should China acquiesce todemands for a 20 percent to 40 percent gain].China would suffer major social upheaval.”
– Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to reporters at a United Nations conference, September 22
News & Noteworthy:
We were pleased to sponsor the Basking Ridge Country Club’s “Golf for a Cure” to support breast cancer research, and the annual “Circle of Life Golf Outing” also at Basking Ridge Country Club. The Circle of Life Foundation provides palliative and end-of-life care for children with chronic or life-limiting illnesses.
Also, we have become active in the Harding Township community. We were proud sponsors of The Grand Opening of the Kemmerer Library building in New Vernon, New Jersey on May 14th and recently sponsored their Annual Concert on the Lawn on Oct 3rd.
On September 29, Brinton Eaton conducted a webinar on Portfolio Safety Nets. To view the presentation, visit our Library www.brintoneaton.com/library/topics-of-interest/.
Brinton Eaton maintains its focus on education with informative webinars and many additional events planned for the fourth quarter — stay tuned!
BE In the News:
Brinton Eaton continues to garner prominent local and national news media attention. For example, we’ve been quoted and featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Chicago Tribune and many other publications over the past several months, and in videos posted on the online versions of the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and Barron’s.
To read a few of these news items, please visit the “In the News” page of our site, located at www.brintoneaton.com/media/in-the-news-2/.
BE Team Update:
We’re pleased to announce that we have enhanced the firm’s client service capabilities with three key promotions and two new hires. Promotions include Marina Goodman to Investment Strategist, David Hill to Financial Advisor and Abigail Scandlen to Financial Advisor.
New hires include Janet Critchley, CPA/PFS, as a Financial Analyst and Matthew DiQuollo as a Financial Analyst. Janet has 25 years experience in tax compliance, planning and research, and financial planning. Matthew brings a decade of experience in capital markets trading, both in brokerage and asset management.
Brinton Eaton helps affluent clients protect, grow, administer and ultimately transfer their legacy. We aim to provide a worry-free state of mind that enables you to continue to lead a financially independent and deeply rewarding life as well as leave a legacy for generations.
If you are not already a Brinton Eaton client, and are interested, contact us for a no-obligation consultation.
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Media diversity fears are absurd and obsolete
The twin themes of the media debate - new regulation and creative destruction - coexist awkwardly.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told Channel Ten's Meet the Press recently that his government's proposed public interest test for media acquisitions was not aimed at Gina Rinehart's investment in Fairfax. In fact, the mining magnate would pass the new test.
This revelation will disappoint many of his colleagues. But thank goodness. The Gillard Government is, happily, not so brazen as to write a new law to stop one particular critic from investing in the media. Doing so would be the essence of arbitrary government, and would be clearly in response to Gina Rinehart's political views.
Not all media reform is a threat to free speech. But motives do matter. The Government's hostility to News Limited damned the Finkelstein inquiry. Any new ownership regulation inspired by one specific proprietor would also be dodgy. Some in the government have suggested media purchases could be conditional on signing up to a charter of journalistic independence - which just happens to be the matter of dispute between Gina Rinehart and the Fairfax board. A coincidence, I'm sure.
So if the Labor government is backing away from such obviously political media laws, that's good.
Yet Conroy's defence on Meet the Press still struck a weird note. He argued that any suggestion the test was aimed at a specific person was false because the ALP has been campaigning for a public interest test for a long time.
That's true. When the Howard government directed the Productivity Commission to look into media regulation in 1999, the Beazley opposition talked at length about public interest guidelines for ownership.
But that was a long time ago. Compare then and now. We had a very, very different media market in 1999. Google had only eight employees. Its news aggregation service was still three years away. And in the compressed history of the internet, Google is relatively old. MySpace didn't launch until 2003. Most of what we think of as 'new media' didn't exist. Facebook didn't exist. YouTube didn't exist. It wasn't until mid-2000 that Apple starting thinking about music. The first iPod arrived in late 2001.
And when the Beazley-led opposition was first promoting a public interest test, Fairfax shares were trading at a price nearly 10 times greater than today. Indeed, the turn of the millennium seemed like a great time to get into newspapers.
In politics, consistency is usually admirable. Yet there is consistency and there is stubbornness. It's bizarre hearing Conroy strike the exact same notes as Beazley did a dozen years ago. Everything has changed. Apparently the ideal policy has not.
For both Conroy and Beazley, the goal of extra media ownership restrictions would be to protect a diverse range of opinions and voices. But it is exactly the enormous choice of opinions and voices on the internet which is uprooting the media landscape.
Put it this way: budding moguls would not be able to buy press assets so easily if the newspaper business hadn't been undercut by the very diversity Conroy claims is at risk. This is a weird recursive loop. Surely we do not believe the extraordinary growth of voices online is reducing the diversity of voices overall.
Yet that seems to be the logic behind the current push for a public interest test.
Policy proposals have use-by dates. Something that is arguable in one decade can be silly in the next. Press proprietors have never been less powerful than they are today. Newspapers and broadcasters do not have the monopoly on information they enjoyed in the past.
That Conroy's views on this are about 10 years out of date shouldn't be a surprise. Australia's communications ministers are notorious for fighting the last war. They have a track record of either accidentally delaying or actively resisting the implications of technology. With motives good and bad, our ministershave held back the introduction of new radio stations, new television stations, pay television, and FM radio.
The Gillard Government's Convergence Review was supposed to be a break with the past. Yet even it got caught up trying to impose anachronistic laws on new technologies. Local content requirements are one example of regulations which do not make sense in the internet age; ownership limits are another.
So the major policy outcome of the apparently forward-thinking Convergence and Finkelstein inquiries could be tackling obsolete fears of media moguls.
It is absurd to think that just as the newspaper industry is going through a once-in-a-century upheaval, the Government is devising ways to limit investment in the press. But in media regulation, absurd is not unusual.
This article originally appeared on The Drum on 1/8/12 and can be accessed at http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4168622.html
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October 27, 2011
If you are one of the 15 million people who daily experience heartburn or other discomfort related to acid reflux, you have no doubt already tried many a pill to find relief. Anyone who has ever experienced heartburn knows that, in the moment, the only thing that matters is soothing the pain. With the increase in suffers from acid reflux and related conditions, more and more pills and supposed solutions have hit the market.
For a mild case of heartburn, antacids are a preferred remedy. This treatment option neutralizes your stomach acid. These pills often contain both aluminum and magnesium, both helpful ingredients when attempting to ease heartburn. Antacid pills are available over the counter, making them easy to find and affordable.
Another time of pills, H2 blockers, work by decreasing the acidity of your stomach by telling the histamine interacting with your stomach cells to stop producing the painful acid. This type of heartburn remedy is available both over the counter and by prescription, depending on the specific type and strength you want.
Forming agents, on the other hand, coat the contents of your stomach to prevent reflux. For example, if you have eaten a hotdog and it is causing heartburn, a forming agent remedy will protect your stomach wall by creating a barrier between the masticated hotdog and your stomach lining.
Prokinetics are another treatment for acid reflux discomfort. By speeding up how fast your stomach processes food, this option provides relief by eliminating the agitator. Whatever you have eaten that is causing your pain or discomfort, prokinetics flush out of your body as soon as possible so you can enjoy an empty and pain free stomach.
Another way to block the production of stomach acid in your system is by taking proton pump inhibitors. This deactivates the enzyme in your stomach that produces the acid to begin with. This treatment option is usually reserved for severe cases of acid reflux, heartburn and related conditions. If you have a long term, reoccurring, harsh case of heartburn, your best bet may just be a proton pump inhibitor.
With so many people suffering every single day from this annoying and painful condition it?s no wonder there are so many products custom made for certain types of conditions and symptoms. Some people use all natural or homemade remedies to soothe their condition, too. Because this is such a widespread condition that varies greatly between one patient and the next, the large variety of products makes sure everyone finds relief.
Finding the right solution to your acid reflux troubles might not be as simple as going to the closest drug store or pharmacy. You will have to find just the right treatment for your body and condition to get true relief. To find the information you need to make this important health decision and finally get some relief, check out Reflux Remedy at www.refluxremedy.com. This website has all the further information you will need to select the safest, most effective treatment for your acid reflux.
Filed under Heartburn Remedies by gina
October 14, 2011
People who have experienced heartburn know firsthand that it can hurt so bad that you want to rush to the hospital for emergency treatment. Fortunately getting rid of heartburn does not have to go to this extreme. Instead there are four quicker and cheaper ways to get rid of heartburn.
One way to get rid of heartburn is with home remedies. Chances are likely that you already have either some or most of these products in your kitchen.
Some of the home remedies used for heartburn relief is surprisingly healthy foods such as bananas and almonds. Fat free milk can also relieve heartburn discomfort.
Baking soda is another home remedy choice for getting rid of heartburn. Mix a teaspoon of baking soda into a full glass of water. Stir it until the baking soda is dissolved. Although this mixture has an appalling taste, you will be grateful to have instant relief from heartburn.
This remedy, however, is not recommended for pregnant women or high blood pressure patients. This can cause water retention as well as increased blood pressure.
Yellow mustard not only flavors up a hot dog; it is also recommended as a heartburn remedy. Eating just a tablespoon of this condiment rids you of heartburn. This is because it contains distilled vinegar.
In regards to vinegar, apple cider vinegar is another home remedy that can be used to get rid of heartburn. Mix a teaspoon of this liquid into a cup of water. It provides instant relief of heartburn.
The second method is the most common used method for getting rid of heartburn: over the counter antacid medicines. Such examples of these medicines are Pepto Bismol, Tums, and Maalox. Newer brands of over the counter antacid medicines such as Prilosec and Zantac provide longer heartburn relief; up to 24 hours.
Since no prescription is needed for any of these instant pain relievers, you can purchase these medicines at local supermarkets and drugstores.
The third way to get rid of heartburn is to change your diet. This can be done by either cutting back or eliminating certain foods that are notorious for causing heartburn. The following foods should be eliminated: onions, spicy foods, tomatoes, tomato based products, fatty red meats, chocolate, citrus fruits, and dairy products like ice cream and cheeses. Even beverages such as coffee, sodas, and alcohol should be avoided in effort of preventing heartburn.
The fourth and final way to get rid of heartburn is to change the time you eat. Do not eat two hours prior to going to bed. Avoid late night snacks. Taking this advice will put your stomach at ease; thus, allowing you to get a restful night?s sleep.
If you continue suffering with heartburn after trying these four suggestions, then you may need to consult a doctor as soon as possible. It is probable that your heartburn could be an indication of a more serious health condition such as acid reflux. Otherwise, watching when and what you eat will help you avoid heartburn. Contact Reflux Remedy at www.refluxremedy.com for causes and cures of heartburn today!
Filed under Heartburn Remedies by gina
August 30, 2011
If you are one of the many people who suffer from constant heartburn, you can experience some relief simply by making a few changes to your diet. This includes re-evaluating your food choices, as well as establishing some new eating habits.
Certain foods can trigger heartburn in one of two ways:
(1) They irritate the lining of the esophagus, causing that familiar burning sensation in your chest.
(2) They encourage the sphincter muscle between the stomach and the esophagus to open wider, which enables stomach acid to travel upwards.
Common trigger foods include acidic items such as citrus fruits, tomatoes and vinegar. In general, high-fat foods can cause heartburn because they take longer to digest and require more stomach acid production. Many people are sensitive to coffee, chocolate and other products that contain caffeine. A number of heartburn sufferers also identify alcohol as a trigger. Keeping a food diary and pinpointing specific foods that are problematic can help you avoid constant heartburn.
Heartburn can be caused not only by eating certain types of foods, but also by preparing them in a particular way. For instance, you should avoid cooking with heavy oils, due to their fat content, and nutrition experts recommend grilling, baking or broiling foods rather than frying them. These healthier cooking methods can help you prevent the discomfort of heartburn.
If you suffer from constant heartburn, try to include the following types of foods in your diet:
-Low-fat foods, including dairy products. Stay away from high-fat items like cheese and ice cream, which can trigger heartburn. Seafood, lean meats and poultry are also suggested low-fat alternatives.
-Foods that are rich in fiber, such as beans, brown rice and high-fiber pastas. Whole-grain breads and cereals also provide beneficial amounts of fiber when eaten regularly.
-Non-citrus fruits, including apples, bananas and pears. You can eat fruit on its own, or you can incorporate it into healthy recipes. For example, replacing oil with applesauce is a popular method of making certain dishes lower in fat and healthier overall.
-Most vegetables are considered safe, although some people are sensitive to raw onions and garlic. Cooking these items could help you prevent heartburn symptoms.
Making healthier food choices is only one factor when trying to prevent heartburn. Along with modifying your diet, you should also consider changing some related eating habits. For example, many people routinely overeat at meals. This in itself can trigger heartburn, so it may help to eat smaller meals, five or six times a day. You should not lie down immediately after eating or eat just before going to bed. Doing so will not give you the chance to digest your meal properly. Finally, drinking more water throughout the day can help reduce stomach acid production.
Of course, dietary modifications alone might not be enough to cure constant heartburn, which can be a symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also known as acid reflux. GERD is potentially more serious than mild heartburn and should be evaluated by a physician. For more information on the causes and cures for heartburn be sure to visit Reflux Remedy at www.refluremedy.com today!
July 12, 2011
The painful symptoms of heartburn can make it hard to concentrate on anything other than the pain. Burning in the chest, pain that intensifies when you lie down and coughing are all symptoms of this condition. Triggered by drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, consuming food that is too spicy or fatty and eating certain foods can trigger the painful symptoms. Traditional medications aren?t without their own risks, but there are herbal remedies that can help alleviate the condition. Add some of these herbs to your arsenal so you can be prepared the next time heartburn sets your chest on fire.
As stomach acids move into the esophagus heartburn will occur. While medications are effective at putting out the fire after it starts, there are better treatments.
Aloe vera is great for more than external burns. Consuming it can also help ease the burning sensation in the esophagus. Taking ? cup of aloe vera juice about twenty minutes before a meal can help ease the pain. Be sure that the juice consumed is designed specifically for internal use as aloe gel should not be consumed.
Slippery elm is another good option for easing the pain. A primary ingredient in herbal throat lozenges, it can be found in health stores. Pregnant or nursing women should not use this herb as its potential effects on the unborn child are currently unknown.
Marshmallow root tea can be made by steeping one tablespoon of the dried root in 8 oz of boiling water. Allow the root to steep for at least 10 minutes before straining the tea for consumption. Marshmallow is not safe for pregnant or nursing women and can prevent proper absorption of other medications.
Gingerroot will absorb the stomach acid while also create a calm feeling. The calming effect helps it battle heartburn that results from stress and worry. Available in either capsule or tea, it?s also easy to take. It will also help ease nausea should that be a problem. Chamomile also helps ease stress and the calcium in it will help counteract the stomach acid.
Meadowsweet has a reputation for being the most effective herbal remedy for heartburn. It possesses anti-inflammatory qualities, will counteract stomach acids and can stimulate digestive activity.
Dill contains high levels of anethole, an essential oil. It can aid in digestion, reduces muscle spasms and can help make the digestive system healthier. Dill can also be used to treat the hiccups and colic. Unlike some of the other choices, dill is safe for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. An added bonus for mothers is that it will actually increase the levels of breast milk.
Herbal treatments will alleviate your heartburn pain safely and effectively. Some herbs also offer added benefits such as helping to soothe nerves or curing hiccups. While prescription medications and over-the-counter products may have serious side-effects, herbs do not typically pose any problems. Because some of these herbs can only be found online or in health food stores, it?s advisable to stock up on them before gastric reflux rears its ugly head again.
Download the Reflux Remedy Report at www.refluxremedy.com for more information on remedies for acid reflux today!
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There are so many blood pressure treatments to choose from. How do you know which one is right for you?
You and your doctor will work together to find a blood pressure treatment plan that fits your needs and your lifestyle. The recommended approach for most people is to start with a healthy living plan that includes:
Some people may also need to add medications to their plan; this depends on your blood pressure. If your blood pressure is quite high, you may need to start a medication right away. If not, your doctor may recommend you try the healthy living plan on its own for a few months to see how much it will reduce your blood pressure. If you can reach a healthy blood pressure using healthy living, you won't need any medication. Otherwise, your doctor may recommend you start a medication.
Starting a medication does not mean you should stop your healthy living plan. These changes can help your medications work better and make you healthier.
So which medication is best? The answer depends on your body and medical history, your preferences, and your schedule. Your doctor will consider all of these factors when recommending a medication. Many people will start on a diuretic, alone or in combination with another type of blood pressure medication, such as ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, or calcium channel blockers. Your doctor's recommendation may be affected by whether you have certain medical conditions, including:
For more information on the different types of medications and how they work, see "How does your blood pressure medication work?"
Not sure if you're on the best medication? Talk to your doctor about your blood pressure treatment plan and whether it's meeting your needs.
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Working In These Times
Rare Victory for Common Sense in Connecticut’s Paid Sick Time Law
The economic horizon is looking pretty grim for people in Connecticut these days. The state is poised to bump up unemployment with a few thousand additional layoffs. Increasingly desperate unions are fighting a war of attrition against politicians who've refused the painful concessions so far offered up. And yet in the past few days, a gap opened in the clouds and Connecticut pioneered an unprecedented paid leave law.
The law, just signed by Governor Daniel Malloy, enables hundreds of thousands of workers to take time off to deal with medical issues, both for themselves or for a child or spouse, without losing pay.
Under the law, which will affect about 200,000 to 400,000 workers statewide, reports the New York Times, a worker will earn paid sick time depending on how many hours they clock, up to five days per year. The measure targets service-sector workers like “waiters, cashiers, fast-food cooks, hair stylists, security guards and nursing home aides."
Though it's a watershed for a nationwide movement to enact paid leave legislation state by state, the legislation was hacked down from a broader proposal and even then only narrowly passed in the Senate. It exempts manufacturing workers and day laborers, leaving out a big swath of the blue-collar workforce. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees are also exempt. And no guaranteed paid sick leave for “independent contractors,” presumably because they're “independent” enough to negotiate time off individually. (Sure, tell that to the uninsured jazz musicians and overworked truck drivers who've fallen into this oft-abused legal category.)
Nonetheless, the legislation marks a rare triumph of reason over big business. According to the National Partnership for Women and Families:
nearly 40 percent of private-sector workers lack even a single paid sick day. And an additional 4.2 million are too new to their jobs to be eligible for paid sick days through their employers. Only 19 percent of workers in the lowest tenth of wage earners have paid sick days.
Advocates are hopeful that Connecticut, which faces the same economic predicaments as other states, reflects a changing landscape for paid leave policies across the country. “Connecticut’s workforce represents the American workforce,” said Vicki Shabo, director of work and family programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families for the National Partnership. “Throughout the country, we see the same patterns in access to paid sick days, with low-wage workers in particular being denied this basic workplace protection.”*
Paid sick days are a significant safeguard for working women. In businesses with fifteen or more employees, nearly forty percent of female workers have to give up a day's earnings to stay home to nurse a child or see a doctor. The tension between health and income is especially acute for black and Latino moms, who are more economically vulnerable in general.
The fact that such a common-sense policy is lacking in most states illustrates how heavily corporations have invested in fear-mongering. Lobbyists generally stop short of saying outright that punishing employees who fall ill is good for business. Instead, they warn of the supposed financial burden of letting sick workers stay home, suggesting that mandatory paid leave would “kill jobs.”
As we've reported before, empirical evidence shows that mandatory paid time off does not pose an excessive cost on employers, and that the expense is more than offset by the benefits of having a healthier, happier, probably more productive and dedicated employees. (Not to mention less likely to sneeze on the food at a restaurant or pass out at their desk.)
As for fears that workers will use their sick days to slack off, research indicates workers with access to the benefit take just one more day off than other workers without paid leave, on average, and that half don't take days off at all. In other words, bosses' distrust of workers is self-defeating: the risk of “abuse” of sick leave seems to be exponentially smaller than the risk of hurting their business by breeding poor health and resentment among their staff, both of which add up to a harmful contagion known as “presenteeism.”
The rest of the industrialized world is relatively enlightened. As David Moberg reported, throughout the industrialized world, the U.S. stands alone in the lack of mandatory paid sick days, along with similarly ungenerous policies on vacation time. Workers in 136 other countries enjoy a week to a month off to tend to medical issues without losing pay. A graphical breakdown in Mother Jones reveals other brutal forms of American exceptionalism: while women in Western Europe enjoy guaranteed paid maternity leave of at least several weeks, a typical mom here might be getting ready to return to the office the minute she checks out of the maternity ward.
Prospects for national legislation for mandatory paid sick leave are bleak in this Congress. But states like California and cities Washington D.C. and San Francisco have made strides with various paid leave laws. A follow-up study on San Francisco concluded that the policy regulation was far less painful than some businesses originally feared, and local job growth has actually been positive in recent years.
Clearly, paid sick leave isn't a cure-all. It doesn't make a difference to Americans who don't have jobs, it won't relieve the sting of public sector cutbacks in Connecticut, it won't remedy a broken healthcare system or the multiple barriers mothers face in the workplace. But from an economic and an ethical standpoint, there's no rational argument against mandatory paid sick days. So even when workers are under attack from all sides, occasionally, a little bit of reason shines through.
*The attribution of the quote from the National Partnership has been corrected to the director of work and family programs.
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By Marice Richter
DALLAS (Reuters) - Boy Scouts of America is considering ending a longstanding national ban on gay youth and adult members and leaving policies on sexual orientation to its local organizations, a spokesman said on Monday.
Lifting the ban would mark a dramatic reversal for the 103-year-old organization, which only last summer reaffirmed its policy amid heavy criticism from gay rights groups and some parents of scouts.
The organization's national executive board is expected to discuss lifting the ban on gay members at its regularly scheduled board meeting next week in Texas.
"The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic or educational organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting to determine how to address this issue," spokesman Deron Smith said in an email to Reuters.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the United Methodist Church and the Catholic Church have the largest youth membership in the Boy Scouts among faith-based organizations.
The organization, which had more than 2.6 million youth members and more than 1 million adult members at the end of 2012, "would not, under any circumstances, dictate a position to units, members, or parents," Smith said.
The Boy Scouts has also faced criticism for keeping private files covering decades of child sex abuse incidents within the organization. The Scouts released thousands of pages of files in October covering incidents from 1965 to 1985.
The Boy Scouts won a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the organization to ban gays in 2000, but has come under increasing public pressure in recent years from activists. They include Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout with two lesbian mothers, and Jennifer Tyrrell, a lesbian mother from Ohio who was ousted as a Scout den leader and treasurer.
"This is absolutely a step in the right direction," said Wahls, who is founder of Scouts for Equality, a group that includes 3,151 other Eagle scouts.
Wahls said he would turn to persuading local councils to enact nondiscrimination policies if the change is approved.
Tyrrell said she looked forward to a day when she and her family might participate in scouting again.
"An end to this ban will restore dignity to countless families across the country, my own included, who simply wanted to take part in all Scouting has to offer," Tyrrell said in a statement.
GLAAD, an anti-discrimination advocacy group, began to press for a reversal of the Boy Scouts policy after Tyrrell was removed from her son's den and more than 1 million people have signed petitions on Change.org seeking an end to the policy.
More than 462,000 people signed a petition on Change.org calling for the Boy Scouts to grant an Eagle Scout application for Ryan Andresen, a California resident who is openly gay.
Andresen's scoutmaster refused to sign the application because of his sexual orientation. A review board for the California chapter recommended he receive the rank, but its recommendation was never forwarded to national headquarters.
The organization has faced pressure from board members - Ernst & Young chairman and chief executive Jim Turley and AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson have spoken out against the ban - and some corporations withdrew support over the policy.
United Parcel Service was among corporations that have said they would pull funding from the organization over its policy.
The Family Research Council, which said in December it would pull its business with UPS because the package delivery company had decided to cease funding of the Boy Scouts, said on Monday the Scouts should resist the pressure to change its policy.
"If the board capitulates to the bullying of homosexual activists, the Boy Scouts' legacy of producing great leaders will become yet another casualty of moral compromise," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said in a statement.
Patrick Boyle, whose 1994 book "Scout's Honor" was among the first to examine sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, said on Monday the "striking reversal in policy" was likely the result of growing pressure from corporations.
"This is a safe way out of this mess for the national organization, which takes the fight back to the local level, and says to a local leader, 'you make the choice that's right for you'," Boyle said. "It's essentially the Boy Scouts' version of states' rights."
(Additional reporting by Ian Simpson, Barbara Liston and Chris Francescani; Writing by Greg McCune and David Bailey; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Andrew Hay)
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Reading Suite Française with this back-story in mind, I was astonished by the depth of Némirovsky’s achievement. With great writing that comes out of an author’s personal experiences in troubled times, we expect a certain amount of time to have elapsed between the experience and the writing process – so the writer can distance herself from her more extreme emotions and make full use of what Graham Greene called “the sliver of ice in a novelist’s soul”. But Suite Française was written by someone who was living through and simultaneously chronicling one of the darkest periods in human history. Imagine Némirovsky, 38 years old, a Jewish woman in a France that had surrendered to the Nazis, fearful for her own and her children’s safety, and creating this beautifully observed work in those conditions. The shadow of death and deprivation hangs over nearly every character in the book, the author herself would die in tragic circumstances just a few months after she began working on it - and yet each page throbs with life, and with a compassion for humanity and a historical perspective that is stunning given the circumstances. (In this situation, any writer might have been excused for not being able to look beyond their own backyard.)
“Storm in June”, written in 31 short chapters, follows four or five separate groups of Parisians as they come to terms with the sudden upheaval in their lives and the dissolution of the comforts they had taken for granted. Némirovsky gives the most space to a cultured, upper-class family headed by the resolute Charlotte Pericand who, along with her younger children, her senile father-in-law and a few servants, must leave Paris for her mother’s house in Burgundy. Her husband, a respected museum curator, stays behind, as does their eldest son Philippe, a priest.
The second son, the 16-year-old Hubert, is a young man with wildly romantic notions about war, and Némirovsky uses him for some of her sharpest observations about the foolish jingoism of the period: Hubert’s voice breaks with emotion when he asks a group of soldiers if he can join them; he’s so busy preening that he can’t see how weary and disinterested they are. (Later, even when it’s obvious that the French have been defeated, he expects to see a fresh battalion appear on the horizon, shouting patriotic war cries.) But the great quality of Némirovsky’s writing is that Hubert isn't a mere object of ridicule - this is also a sympathetic picture of a young boy growing uncertainly into a man, dealing with his responsibilities and trying to reconcile a naïve worldview with the harsh realities around him.
Others on the canvas include an effete, self-absorbed writer named Gabriel Corte, his mistress Florence, and the middle-aged Michauds, out of home and employment and worried about their soldier son. The chapters alternate between these characters and some stories are more fleshed out than others, which is probably indicative of the hurried, unstructured writing process. (Sandra Smith’s excellent English translation throws up repeated reminders that Suite Française was a work in progress.) But such is the economy of the writing, it doesn’t matter. Time and again, Némirovsky captures a whole way of life (and the crumbling of a whole way of life) in a few sentences.
“Storm in June” is a stunning portrait of people stripped down to their essence – in some cases surviving on nothing more than the reassurance of their loved ones’ presence – but still clutching desperately at things they have been conditioned to believe in, such as class distinctions. It’s also about the delusions they must maintain to keep their sanity intact. When Madame Pericand learns of her eldest son’s death, she consoles herself with the idea that he was a martyr, sacrificing himself for a noble cause and to benefit others; but we have already seen in the previous chapter how utterly mundane and meaningless Philippe’s death was. The book itself repeatedly eschews the idea of a Grand Scheme, a Larger Picture that might make sense of all the senselessness. The only thing worth clinging to is whatever humanity can be found in the present moment.
The recurring theme that grand ideals and beliefs quickly fall away in times of extreme crisis is made most explicit in a passage that begins with Charlotte encouraging her children to share their food with others:
“Jacqueline, you have some lollipops in your bag,” said Madame Pericand, with a discreet gesture and a look which meant, “You know very well you should share with those who are less fortunate than you. Now is the time to put into practice what you have learnt at catechism.” She got a feeling of great satisfaction from seeing herself as possessing such plenty and, at the same time, being so charitable.But soon after this she finds that all food shops in the vicinity are out of stock, and this discovery effects a big change in her attitude to charity. “Get back inside,” she now tells her children. “I forbid you to touch the food.”
Grabbing the two stunned culprits firmly by the hand, she dragged them away. Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilisation, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She needed to feed and protect her own children. Nothing else mattered any more.This is a one-of-a-kind work. As I mentioned before, most great books about the Holocaust or about wartime experiences are written at a certain distance from the events they speak of. Among the exceptions, there’s Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist, written shortly after his experiences in 1940s Warsaw, a book that was suppressed by the Polish government and republished 50 years later (and made into a fine film by Roman Polanski). But the first thing that strikes you about The Pianist is how cool and detached it is (if I remember right, an epilogue suggested that this was because Szpilman was still in a state of shock when he wrote it and had not yet processed the magnitude of his tragedy). On the other hand, there’s nothing remotely cool or detached about Suite Française. It’s warm, passionate, full of a deep, unforced humanity, with empathy for its characters and their foibles.
Where she might easily have contented herself with reportage-oriented writing (she had experience of journalistic work), Némirovsky even finds the time to be playful and experimental. In one delightful chapter, the protagonist is Albert, the Pericands’ cat, whom we follow as he goes hunting outside while the family sleeps (“He was a very young cat who had only ever lived in the city, where the scent of such June nights was far away...the smell rose up to his whiskers and took hold of him, making his head spin”). Structurally, there is little justification for this chapter in the midst of all the others that deal strictly with human movement (though one must remember that Némirovsky never got a chance to fine-tune her work anyway; perhaps she would have dropped or modified these passages) – but it’s a demonstration of the joy she took in her writing, even in these dire times. Here and in many other places, one also gets the sense that the things she was seeing daily, the constant reminders of death all around her, must have intensified her love for life in all its forms.
P.S. around the same time I read “Storm in June”, I was also browsing through the new Granta: War Zones. In his introduction to this collection, veteran Granta editor Ian Jack points out that wars had a remarkably good press among civilians until some years into the 20th century – people cheered and looked forward to armed conflict, with its promise of heroic deeds and the vanquishing of the Faceless Enemy. But this changed with the events of 1914-1918:
After the First World War, the prospect of fighting between nations made people morbid, anxious and fearful. Ten million dead had knocked sense into them...it was no longer possible for even the most gullible patriot to regard modern warfare as a brave adventure where death, in the unlikely event it came, would arrive as a nice clean bullet through the heart. The foundation was laid for a new and realistic appreciation of war – the constant cruelty and frequent stupidity of it – that has coloured attitudes ever since.
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ALPENA - Four Alpena High School Leadership students volunteered at Alpena's teen Mothers of Preschoolers meeting on Friday. The students brought teen moms holiday gifts and organized a Christmas craft, making blankets for holiday gifts. Marie Lockwood, leadership teacher, said the students chose to work together with teen moms to celebrate the holidays.
"We really wanted to do something to help teen moms feel appreciated and welcomed," Alaina Clearwood said.
Taylor Genschaw said AHS leadership students spent a few weeks making 13 stockings, one for each teen mom, filled with lip gloss, personal items, perfume, a card, teddy bear, and popcorn for each girl.
News Photo by Emily Siegmon
Alpena High School Leadership students presented Alpena’s teen Mothers of Preschools Christmas stockings filled with different items during lunch at Word of Life Baptist Church. Then they worked together to make blankets for holiday gifts.
"We're also going to make blankets with them. We brought blue and gray, or black and green fleece to help them make blankets for gifts, or for their babies," Grace Eagle said.
The MOPS group meets twice each month for approximately three hours at the Word of Life Baptist Church for relationship building activities, discussions, a meal, and babysitters through the mentoring program.
"We want to celebrate the privilege and responsibility of being a mom," Lilian Shriner, MOPS coordinator, said. "We talk about and do anything practical that will help them in their life, personal growth, or for their children. It's what we're about."
Ann Eagle, part of the steering committee, said MOPS was introduced to Alpena in 2005, but is a national organization to support local moms.
"It's a community event, free and funded through community donations. Ultimately, we're here as a foundation for moms. It's an international group, but we're proud to be part of it," Eagle said.
For more information about MOPS visit mops.org or to donate items or money to fund MOPS meetings stop by Word of Life Baptist Church.
Emily Siegmon can be reached via e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 358-5687.
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Welcome to Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation that administers over twenty federal, state and private grants and contracts in a variety of areas including health, research, and environmental quality. ITCA staff provides technical assistance, disseminates information and conducts trainings to assist Tribal governments in operating programs that comply with federal regulations and policies and protect the health and safety of Tribal members. ITCA employs approximately 70 staff to carry out the goals of these programs.
The membership of ITCA consists of twenty of the federally recognized Tribes in Arizona. ITCA coordinates meetings and conferences to facilitate participation of Tribal leaders and other Tribal staff in the formulation of public policy at all levels.
2011 Annual Report
ITCA has carried out the goals identified by its member Tribes for over 35 years.
In 1952, the elected leaders of nine Indian Tribes in Arizona formed an association to provide members with a united voice. The purpose of the association was to address the issues that affected the Tribes collectively or individually. This forum enabled tribal governments in Arizona to combine their efforts and resources for common goals.
In 1975, with the realization that ‘these challenges and opportunities require the force of united and concerted voice and action which one tribe alone does not possess,’ the Tribes established the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
Today 20 federally recognized Indian Tribes belong to the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. The highest elected officials of each tribe – the chairpersons, presidents or governors are members of ITCA.
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The recent brouhaha surrounding the kosher status of some Starbucks products has brought a fundamental issue into the spotlight. The kosher certification industry has jumped leaps and bounds in recent years certifying an impressive array of products and retail establishments for our convenience. This is especially true in large Jewish communities such as Greater Toronto where there is no shortage of kosher products and places to eat. Yet, from time to time, we find ourselves frequenting uncertified establishments; when the craving hits for some sort of specialty coffee; or when we need to cool off with a Slurpee or a frozen yogurt. Perhaps the time has come to re-examine our habitual routines and to ask if we are safe in purchasing these products from stores like Second Cup, Starbucks, Menchies, Yogenfruz and Baskin Robbins, to name a few.
The truth of the matter is that throughout our history, the kosher consumer has been more than comfortable with the notion that some products, even some processed ones, are intrinsically kosher and do not require any type of kosher supervision. Indeed, Shulchan Aruch dedicates a full chapter to listing processed foods and drinks that can be purchased from an unsupervised environment. The kosher traveler has also been afforded leniencies when it comes to eating in a non-kosher environment. While times have changed and food production has become more complicated, surely there must be some basic products upon which kosher certification would be superfluous.
What actually happened at Starbucks? In my view, a justifiable practice - purchasing a standard coffee in an unsupervised shop - has opened a new door to a world of Espressos, Cappuccinos and Frappuccinos. Deciphering the kosher status of such specialty coffee drinks is a journey into unchartered territory that should not be taken without careful thought and discussion. While some products are made from exclusively kosher ingredients, others are not. The use of non-kosher utensils and equipment is a significant issue which must be weighed accordingly. While some products will surely survive intense scrutiny, others will not. We must be careful not to cross the line due to false assumptions or misunderstandings.
It seems that we went down the same slippery slope with regard to ice cream/frozen yogurt shops. I have many stories to tell – including discovering that a popular frozen yogurt store was erroneously telling its kosher customers that their flavouring for the yogurt was certified kosher when it was not. Just today, I sat in a meeting together with a senior executive and a local franchisee of a large ice cream chain. The franchisee is interested in kosher certification for her store because many of her customers want strictly kosher. She related that although she tries her best to provide her kosher customers with product that is strictly kosher, oftentimes she is unable. She cited an example of a sorbet that suddenly started coming in to the store without kosher certification. Another time, she was unable to buy a kosher topping so she had to buy the non-kosher version. Customers were not aware of the sudden change and had purchased the non-kosher product. She didn’t want that responsibility anymore so she turned to us!
While we are not suggesting that one should stop purchasing products from unsupervised venues, because that would be impractical, we do suggest that the consumer take responsibility for what they purchase. Even if “everyone” is buying that brand-new Slurpee flavour or getting ice cream in that new parlor, one must still investigate that it is kosher.
I would like to propose a five-step framework that will help us determine the kosher status of unsupervised products:
1) Ingredients – Using an ice cream cone as an example:
• Verify that all ingredients going into the ice cream cone, including the ice cream, the cone and the toppings, are kosher by checking packaging and containers for a reliable kosher certification.
• Visual inspection of the package is mandatory to ensure that it bears a kosher symbol. Company literature should not be relied upon as mistakes can be made and literature may be outdated.
• To clarify - a letter of kosher certification (LOC) which verifies the kosher status of a product does not certify the facility. If the consumer sees only the LOC, but does not see the symbol on the product, then he cannot assume that he is purchasing the kosher product cited in the LOC.
2) Cross Contamination – Determine whether there is any contact between non-kosher products or ingredients and the kosher product.
3) Equipment – Inquire as to whether any piece of equipment, or component thereof, that is used to make or serve the kosher product is also used for or cleaned together with a non-kosher product.
4) Process – What is involved in the processing of the product?
• If cooking is involved, what equipment is used in the cooking? What else is cooked with that equipment?
• Is bishul akum an issue?
• For a Jewish owned store, consider how chillul Shabbos affects the kosher status of some food products.
5) Halachic Guidance – Take all of this information and discuss it with a Rabbi at the COR or with your Rav. Surprisingly enough, a Rabbi may permit the purchase of the product even though some cross-contamination may exist between kosher and non-kosher product and equipment, depending on the specifics of the question.
1 “CRC Guide to Starbucks Beverages” (http://www.crcweb.org/starbucks_intro.php) is a comprehensive halachic article written by Rabbis Sholem Fishbane and Dovid Cohen of the Chicago Rabbinic Council regarding the kosher status of many popular Starbucks products. The article – based on visits to multiple Starbucks locations, interviews with current and former company personnel, research of the halachic principles and discussions of all of the above with experts in the field – makes an eye-opening attempt at clarifying the multiple issues involved including the store environment, the inherent kosher status of items, the transfer of ta’am and practical applications. In a number of instances the article forbids the consumption of products that have long been presumed kosher.
2 Yoreh Deah (YD)
3 See Taz YD [91:2] for a fascinating glimpse of the “customs” of the kosher traveler of earlier generations. Apparently, things haven’t changed!
4 See She’aylas Yavetz [2:142, 143]; Pischei Teshuva [114:1]; Yad Efraim [ibid.]; Noda B’Yehuda Tinyana ; Aruch Hashulchan YD [122:16]
5 There can be a fundamental difference between regular coffee and specialty coffee, even if the ingredients and the equipment used to prepare them are identical. Regular coffee is generally made in “bulk” and dispensed for the purchaser whereas specialty coffees are generally made specifically at the request of the purchaser. This seemingly innocuous point could make all the difference if any of the equipment, even sometimes, comes into contact with or is cleaned together with non-kosher food. The principle of “stam kaylim aynom bnai yoman” (an assumption that the non-kosher utensil did not come into contact with hot non-kosher food or drink for the last 24 hours) will only permit coffee which was not made specifically at the request of the purchaser. For the same reason, one must also ensure that the store does not use a non-kosher spoon to mix the sugar into your regular coffee because this would be done specifically for the purchaser. See Shulchan Aruch YD [122:6], Pischei Teshuva [ibid.:6].
6 In many instances, even visual confirmation of a hashgacha symbol is not halachically sufficient if the package is not completely sealed. This discussion is detailed and beyond the scope of this article. Please consult with your Rav for guidance.
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Have anthropology journals ignored students? Is this one of the reasons for the popularity of anthropology blogs? Anthropology journals are not well known among students, Owen Wiltshire writes in his class assignment Why do anthropologists blog? A mini ethnography, a story, and a field report:
A restrictive publishing environment gives little voice to students. Not only that, but anthropology journals have ignored students and perhaps in doing this they have missed out on generating a name for themselves. As more and more material becomes freely available online, it becomes a matter of knowing where to look – and my small survey of students revealed that journals are not well known.
My small survey revealed that students had a hard time identifying a prestigious journal in their field, and the survey from Savage Minds shows that graduate students make up a large percentage of the readership. In my exploration of blogs I found a number of graduate students writing them. So perhaps the limited distribution of academic publishing contributes to the desirability of the blogsphere.
Owen Wiltshire found much “interesting thought” in the blogosphere and wonders if journal publications would only serve for the purposes of gaining prestige: “Everything is being said in conversations elsewhere, but is ‘proved’ in journals".
In his text, he discusses several reasons for why anthropologists blog - or do not blog. Among other things he talked to several anthropologists who wish there was more room for new ways of writing anthropology.
Several students don’t want to share their thoughts online because they fear of having ideas “stolen":
Another anthropology professor discussed the way societies he had studied were hierarchical, depending on secrecy and not necessarily the democratic exchange of knowledge – but as my interviews revealed many students worry that ideas can be stolen, and this is perhaps another reason people might have to not blog. Anthropologists in this sense are a hierarchical organization too, and secrecy is indeed a reason many do not feel comfortable sharing or discussing their ideas.
Here is his prelimarlary summary:
Why do Anthropologists Blog?
Why Don’t Anthropologists Blog?
Wiltshire explored this issue by participation in the blogosphere through his own blog, and reading and writing on numerous other anthropology blogs. He also discussed blogging, sharing information, and public engagement with a focus group of six students, and multiple interviews with students and one professor – all at Concordia University.
Related issues are discussed by Erkan Saka in an e-seminar at the EASA Media Anthropology Network 19 May - 1 June 2008. “Blogging as a research tool for ethnographic fieldwork”.
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Housework Yoga: Apply Yoga Principles in Daily Chores
Convert your daily chores to blissful yoga practices by applying these simple tips. You will be amazed at how quickly your work gets done and the wonderful state of mind you have during and at the end of your chores.
Today's world moves at a fast-forward pace. We are constantly pressed for time - rushing through the day, honking through the evening traffic - until finally we can breathe a sigh of relief at the first glimpse of home.
Ironically, that sigh of relief triggers off the opposite reaction in the husband or wife at home. Hungry children have to be provided with tasty snacks (while sneaking in some nutritional content as well). The tired spouse needs a steaming cup of tea (and sometimes a little pampering of the ego). Then there are dirty socks that insist on crawling onto the sofa, school bags and brief cases spilling their contents onto the floor... the list is endless. No matter how hard we try, we are never fully prepared for the barrage of daily tasks that seem to pile on and on, leaving no time for ourselves.
The trick, of course, is to apply the Tom Sawyer logic to one's everyday tasks- when you enjoy doing something, it ceases to be work. And this is where yoga comes in - just add a dash of yoga and relaxation techniques to your daily housework.
For example, rolling chapattis (flat bread) can be given a yogic element simply by paying attention to posture, standing erect and allowing the mind to focus only on the steady rhythm of the movement. Similarly, reaching for the salt on the top shelf can be transformed into a relaxing stretch simply by paying attention to the group of muscles working.
All one has to do is find a housework that takes half an hour or so and cultivate total awareness of the body while performing these activities.
Breathing deeply and diaphragmatically is a good place to start. For example, while ironing, you may become aware that you are scrunching your neck and compressing your spine while bending toward your iron. You can extend your feet and plant them firmly on the ground and it is better to bend from the hips rather than the back. Soon, you will get into the flow of ironing, breathing deeply, hips bending a little as you flex and stretch - and the hour of ironing will pass without you even realizing it.
Once you learn to become aware while doing household tasks, it is easy to apply it to other areas of action, such as climbing the stairs or walking in the street. As you start applying the principles of yoga to everyday aspects of your life, you will stop thinking of your daily tasks as chores. More importantly, you will have greater positive energy that will help and influence every member of the family.
(Written by Andrea Jeremiah, this article is reproduced from Rishimukh - the Art of Living magazine.)
Youth Empowerment Seminar Yes!+ (18 bis 30 years)
The Art of Silence (Part 3) in presence of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Art of Breathing (Part 1) in presence of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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POTSDAM The village has finalized its decision to shut down the Potsdam Community Development Corp., citing strict state regulations that make it impossible for the organization to continue.
The corporation, which lends village money to businesses to spur economic development, will remain intact only until a replacement is found.
The nonprofit corporation was founded in 2006. It also applies for grant funds used to repair dilapidated buildings.
In 2005, the state passed the Public Authority Accountability Act, a law created to battle corruption at large public entities such as the state Canal Corp. and the Thruway Authority. The laws strict auditing requirements also apply to small public corporations, which has drastically raised Potsdams costs.
They cast a very wide net, and ended up catching a lot of small communities, Potsdam Planning and Development Director Frederick J. Hanss said.
The annual audit costs Potsdam $2,500.
The corporation used to issue three to eight loans annually, at an average of about $25,000. Jernabi Coffee, Potsdam Specialty Paper and Village Wines & Liquors are recent recipients. Almost all of the corporations loans are paid back in full, Mr. Hanss said.
The village is looking for a private nonprofit organization to take over the duties of the development corporation. The North Country Housing Council, a nonprofit group that already uses public and private funds for homeowner assistance and community development, was one of the first groups the village approached. Others have since joined in the discussion, and the village has yet to make a decision.
We have had some conversations with groups that have the ability and the capacity to do a loan program, Mr. Hanss said. We hope that they get wrapped up relatively early.
The Community Development Corp. will remain in place until a replacement is found, but this will not be long, according to Mr. Hanss.
I imagine that will probably be a matter of weeks, not years, he said.
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Welcome to our "Like An Olympian" series. As the 2012 London Olympics nears, HuffPost Healthy Living will take a look at lifestyle and fitness lessons from competitors, coaches and former Olympians alike.
Newsflash: Olympic training is hard. Even as a civilian of respectable fitness, I will probably never achieve a level of athletic acumen sufficient enough to understand how hard it is. But that doesn't mean it wasn't worth a try.
When a representative for Josh Holland -- one of Madonna's tour trainers who will be helping out at the Olympics -- contacted the Healthy Living team about working out on the equipment that will be installed at the main gyms in the Olympic village, I jumped at the chance.
Two weeks later I found myself in an elegant, polished showroom for TechnoGym in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. It wasn't exactly the setting I would most associate with a glycogen-blasting, muscle-trembling nuclear-grade Olympic workout, but I was happy to enjoy the blast of central air conditioning and faint scent of eucalyptus.
The walls of the showroom were lined with aesthetically pleasing wood planks and webs of black cables -- setups akin to those found in a Pilates or barre studio. Digital dials on the walls (what I later learned controlled resistance levels) were the only indication that these machines were different.
Holland, a gregarious and knowledgeable trainer, is an accomplished athlete himself: he had a black belt in Karate by age 11 and won state championships as a track and basketball star in high school and college. He began by demonstrating the Kinesis machine -- the system I'd be testing. Strapping his ankles and wrists into cords attached to the machine, he increased the resistance and began to demonstrate natural movements for a variety of sports: sprinting, swimming and basketball.
As he crouched down to mimic the marking position of a sprinter, he explained how crucial a full power start could be to the race. "How you move out of the blocks could cost you only .5 seconds, but that could be the difference between Gold and not medaling at all," Holland said. He proceeded to move out of the blocks, charging forward and sprinting in place over and over again.
Then he invited me to strap myself in and give it a try. "Why couldn't a sprinter just practice these moves on, you know, actual blocks at a track?" I wondered. As I crouched, lifted my hips into the air and tried to shoot forward in a sprinting motion, it became clear that the resistance bands were going to do everything in their power to hold me back. Even though I was charging forward fewer than three feet and sprinting in place for the equivalent of a 100 yards, I felt as though I were trying to break through a forcefield. After several reps, I was sweating and already beginning to feel tell-tale tightness in my shoulders and biceps.
(In the serene environment of a luxury store, that could be a bit awkward; as I exerted myself, several well-dressed customers sauntered in, dressed in crisp button-down shirts, to order new parts. In my slightly damp, head-to-toe spandex and humidity-enhanced hair, I more resembled something out of a sideshow than a showroom.)
In fact, as Holland explained, the resistance bands act as an impediment, in part to simulate setbacks that Olympic athletes may face, like exhaustion or stress. While practicing the sequence of movements required to shoot out ahead in the 100 meter dash, an athlete can actually improve their abilities by making things harder during the practice.
Once I got the concept down, Holland took me through a series of defense and dribbling basketball drills and -- somewhat hilariously -- several swimming laps, that I performed while suspended over a yoga ball, attached at the wrists and ankles to as much resistance as a moderate sea current would probably provide.
By the end of our hour-long session, I certainly felt the effects of moving my whole body. Having that much resistance tugging me back to the wall meant that I had to engage my entire muscular system, and especially my core, to stay in correct alignment and to complete each task. And, as Holland explained, a strong, engaged core is -- excuse the pun -- at the center of any athletic performance. Stabilizing strength can be the difference between an inconsequential collision and a debilitating injury.
I left with a greater understanding for how precarious one's competitive standing can be. However briefly, I had entered into the mindset of a serious athlete: if you aren't practicing at a disadvantage, you'll enter the competition with one.
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Ceremony at tower to celebrate eccentric Lord
LEGEND has it that Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, dyed doves in vibrant colours and once kept a pet giraffe at his Faringdon stately home.
Now the eccentric aristocrat’s links with the Faringdon Folly landmark are being highlighted by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.
A sign in memory of Lord Berners, who lived at Faringdon House, is being attached to the folly on Saturday, April 6, at 11am.
It will be unveiled by Sofka Zinovieff, the grand-daughter of Robert Heber-Percy, to whom Lord Berners left Faringdon House and his estate when he died in 1950.
Eddie Williams, a trustee of the Faringdon Folly Tower Trust and chairman of the Friends of the Folly, said he was delighted.
He added: “The folly was built for Robert Heber-Percy in 1935, and he gave the tower to the town in the 1980s.
“The plaque will be another good reason for people to go and visit it and find out more about Lord Berners.
“He was a very eccentric character and it was rumoured he once kept a pet giraffe, but I haven’t found any photos to prove it.
“Lord Berners died in 1950 but his memory lives on in Faringdon, and Peter Wentworth, one of the Friends of the Folly, sometimes dresses up as him.
“About 3,000 people a year climb the tower and we hope numbers will grow after the plaque has been attached.”
Eda Forbes, secretary of Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, said the board agreed Lord Berners was a deserving recipient after he was nominated by a former mayor of Faringdon, Margaret Barker.
Ms Forbes added: “Lord Berners was a professional eccentric, an avant-garde 20th century composer who wrote ballet music.
“When he was living at Faringdon House in the 1930s it became a salon for cultural luminaries, including the painter Salvador Dali, novelist Nancy Mitford and the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Sir John Betjeman.
“The character of Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford’s novel Love in a Cold Climate is based on Lord Berners.
“And Betjeman’s wife Penelope was once photographed in the drawing room at Faringdon House on her favourite horse.
“Perhaps Lord Berners’ most famous eccentricity was building the folly, the last known one to be built in England.
“Faringdon House is privately owned so a plaque on the folly will be much more visible to members of the public.”
The tower stands behind Sudbury House Hotel on top of Folly Hill just off the A420 on the Oxford side of Faringdon.
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TRURO — There are fundraisers, and then there are fundraisers.
Then there is what Michel Garant is attempting to do.
Garant is cycling across Canada, 7,300 kilometres in fewer than 90 days, in an attempt to raise $150,000 to buy five service dogs for an organization called Mira.
The organization, which trains service and assistance dogs and gives them to people free of charge, is one Garant believes passionately in, in no small part because he is one of the more than 2,000 people helped by Mira.
The 55-year-old Levis, Que., resident became a paraplegic eight years ago after a snowboarding accident.
During a stop along Highway 104 near Truro on Monday, Garant said the Mira program has meant a better quality of life and more freedom since his accident. His assistance dog, Mollo, who is along for the journey, helps Garant with his mobility and also to retrieve items.
Mollo, along with Garant’s wife, Brigette, and other volunteers, follow in an recreational vehicle.
It was two years ago that Garant was inspired to take his message on the road.
He did a tour of the Gaspe peninsula in 2010 and 2011, each year putting in more than 900 kilometres on his adaptable bike.
“After that, one of my nieces said ‘Why don’t you ride across Canada?’” Garant said in French.
And so he started the preparation. Although there was physical training involved, Garant said the biggest challenge is the mental aspect of the trip.
Out on the road, he must remain focused on his safety, the traffic around him and monitoring how he is feeling.
Asked what he thinks about during those long rides Garant, ever the Frenchmen, looked at Brigette and smiled.
“I think of my wife and my children,” he said.
Jean Brousseau, a member of the Mira board, said Garant’s fundraiser is a first for the organization and would help elevate Mira’s profile outside of Quebec, where it is already well-known.
“It’s superb,” Brousseau said. “What is really good about this is Michel (achieving) his dream and (showing) people who are either mentally or physically challenged that they can fulfil their dream and make it a reality when you really want it.”
Mira has provided dogs to people in need for 35 years, working since 1995 in the Atlantic region, where it raised as much as $200,000 each year.
At $30,000 to train and prepare a dog, money doesn’t go as far for Mira.
Brousseau said doctors refer people to the program. The candidate is evaluated to see if they qualify before being matched with a dog. The pairing process takes a little more than a month.
For Garant, Mira has helped him live a more normal life since his accident.
As he nears the end of his journey, he said he hopes that others can learn from his example that no challenge is too big to overcome, especially with a bit of assistance.
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Taking action is the most commonly mentioned obstacle when discussing voice-of-the-customer strategies. In many organizations, particularly those that are large and complex, it is incredibly difficult to weave through all the obstacles to turn customer insights into action and results.
Sometimes it helps to think of the key elements that make action possible. Here are four key elements that would apply to almost any organization:
ORGANIZATION – You need the right team structure to effectively deploy your customer strategies. This refers to everyone involved in the process of collecting, analyzing, reporting, delivering, and acting on customer insights. A solid structure needs to be in place to make sure voice-of-the-customer strategies are actionable.
PROCESS – Organizations must have systematic ways to improve customer processes. Customer advocates must develop procedures, methods, and tools to ensure customer insights drive improvement, whether it is to correct a problem, discover a new solution, expedite a procedure, or grow a relationship.
COMMUNICATION – Effective communication needs to ignite the right action. In today’s business environment there’s an incredible amount of clutter. Any business has a multitude of initiatives making it difficult to ensure voice-of-the-customer strategies are seen as important and relevant. Effective communication has become critical to make sure people are aware of customer initiatives, understand their role, and believe in them so they will ultimately take action.
MOTIVATION – Customer strategists must provide the right motivation for action. In some cases incentives are involved. Other times it’s driven by operational metrics. Whatever the case may be, understanding how to motivate the users of customer feedback is a key element to any voice-of-the-customer strategy.
Large organizations can quickly get bogged down and distracted. Keeping these four elements front and center can help customer strategists stay focused on driving action and results.
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EPSO which is the European Personnel Selection Office has launched the 2011 linguist selection procedures that will help to set out a clear set of guidelines that will help member states of the EU to find capable translators and interpreters to work in top jobs across Europe.
The move continues to reinforce the clear message that is being put out by the EU stating that multilingual communication is very important for a successful Europe. It is clear that the EU thinks that translators and interpreters are vital in helping to break down the language barriers that still exist throughout Europe.
Translators and linguists are the key to making sure that ideas and information flow freely between the different countries in Europe without anything important getting lost in translation along the way.
The new guidelines for the selection procedure of new translation and interpreting staff comes approximately one year after the EU introduced an assessment that enabled EU officials to be selected for jobs across the whole of Europe. It was hoped that the guidelines that were set out then would help to set a benchmark from which recruiters could make sure that their staff were up to the standard of the EU- with the hope that it would help the EU to run more efficiently.
The new guidelines for the recruitment of linguists in Europe will hopefully do the same for language jobs in countries that are members of the EU.
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Bad Dentistry - Dentists Took Advantage of Me by Trying to Fill Extra Cavities
What follows below is a real case study submitted by a reader of this website. It describes how their health was harmed by bad dentistry.
My name is Rebecca from Newark, DE. I am 40 yrs, 5 foot 3 tall and now 120 lbs but was about 100 lbs at the time of the dentist visit in February 2010.
After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, I went on a low-fat raw food vegan diet---which is basically a lot of fruits and veggie diet and was successful to experience significant health improvements. But then, in January 2010, 1 year and 3 months into the fruits and veggie diet, I started to have such an agonizing tooth pain on two molars---Oil pulling gave me a temporary relief but the throbbing toothaches were getting worse and worse to rob me of normal eating and sleep.
At the same time, I was researching on mercury effects on our body and decided to take them out. By recommendation, I found this expert dentist in amalgam removal in Pennsylvania. Though she was 3 hours away from where I lived and takes no insurance, I was happy to find her and went in for the assessment visit. After all, people from all over the US fly to her office to get the job done.
During the first visit, full mouth x-rays were taken and the dentist went over my blood work and hair analysis results. For nutrition, she recommended some supplements along with an addition of half stick of butter and hard boiled eggs to my diet, which I brushed off since I was a hard-core fruits and veggie person. But in my hindsight, this was an excellent suggestion. She assessed that I had not just one but FIVE new cavities which was a shock to me since I had none when I had my regular dental check-up six months earlier. Since she practices a “whole” dentistry, she insisted that I need to have all those five cavities treated when I come in for amalgam removal on my next visit. It would be all or nothing. This first visit was about two hours long and cost me $450.
I knew something had to be done for my cavities---but I felt very uneasy to treat all those five at the same time, so I researched some more. That’s when I found out about Ramiel’s book on curing cavities naturally---I devoured his book and read some more of the books he referenced---such as Dr. Price’s and Ajounus Vonderplanit’s books. With such information, my diet went from low-fat raw vegan to high fat from raw milk/butter/raw cheese/raw eggs diet in March. I started to experience a welcome relief from the throbbing toothaches around the same time. To my delight, in my subsequent visits to other dentists in March and May, no cavities were detected.
In April, as Ramiel warned, I did go through an intense detox from raw eggs and had to skip work for several weeks. But after that, my health is improving and the cavities are mostly arrested. I am very thankful to Ramiel for his priceless info.
Lastly I also want to point out that when I visited the other dentists, I learned that they are and have been using digital x-rays for sometime now and were all surprised that my full mouth x-ray at the expert dentist in Pennsylvania was not digital. I had become weary of all chemicals and radiation in the past few years and didn’t want the x-rays done but went through it anyway only because it was “necessary.” If only I had known about the digital x-rays---I would have chosen that method at all costs for I hear that the difference in radiation between the digital and the old way is quite significant.
I filled my story with lots of personal dietary info and experiences as well as my dental journey but I hope this will help people avoid making similar mistakes.
I decided to create an area on my website to focus on bad dentistry. Many people have kept quiet about the mistreatment of their teeth by dentists. I do not encourage people to avoid dentists, but in order to get people to go to the dentist, the dentist must provide excellent care. Unfortunately most do not. This list can help you find a good dentist.
Modern dentistry, in general, damages our teeth. It drills away too much healthy tooth structure. It places toxic materials in our mouths, and recommends treatments that don't last over the long term. Moving beyond bad dentistry means using the book, Cure Tooth Decay, to help you remineralize your cavities naturally.
You can submit a story about how dentistry has negatively harmed your life by sending an e-mail to: [email protected]
Make sure to include the name you want posted on your testimonial, a little bit about yourself, and how you were harmed by bad dentistry. You do not need to remain silent about the harm done to your mouth. Because I do not want to be in the middle of any type of dispute I will not post the name of the bad dentist.
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I had several very painful cavities postpartum (after having twins) that kept me up all night in pain and made it so I could barely eat... After following the advice in this book accurately my tooth pain subsided within 24 hours and no longer hurt at all, my teeth also look nicer and my gums no longer bleed and are a nice pink color. - J. Steuernol, Canada
The practical advice in this book really seems to be reversing my tooth decay!!! Halleleuiah brother!!! I bought the book for $28... What a bargain, The dental work was going to cost well over $4,000.00 Think I'm excited, you will be too if you use this info to take tooth health into your own hands! Very satisfied. - Mike in Ashland, Oregon
This book is a must read for everyone interested in improving their health. - Pam Killeen, NY Times bestselling author
The protocol in this book is very effective for preventing and mineralizing cavities. - Timothy Gallagher, D.D.S., President, Holistic Dental Association
I was ready to have a tooth pulled and the dentist told me that I needed a root canal, but I had no money for either procedure. I was in pain and my cheek had already begun to swell. But after just over a month of following Ramiel's dietary protocols it is hard for me to feel which tooth was bothering me. Thanks a million to Ramiel Nagel for writing this book. Unbelievable! - Leroy, artist from Utah.
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I do consider the book informative, inspiring and altogether helpful. - Laura De Giorgio
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I purchased your cure tooth decay book and appreciate all the info that has opened my eyes to this nutritional healing. - Ace
I have read your book and I am very grateful for it. Thank you for all your hard work! - Joni
I purchased your book about a year ago and found it fascinating and encouraging. I am glad to learn of evidence that teeth which have suffered decay have the potential to heal over and remineralize to the point of avoiding extraction, root canals or other invasive treatments. - Pete
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H. A. Ironside not only became a highly sought-after preacher and classroom teacher during his lifetime,but his years of dedicated study also produced a series of Bible commentaries that are widelyrespected to this day. The Ironside Expository Commentary series offers insightful and practical commentsthat bring out the essential truths of God's Word.These reprints of the Ironside commentaries present the unabridged text in a newly typeset edition. Aperfect resource for preaching and teaching, these commentaries also provide the general reader with anexcellent resource for personal study and spiritual growth.
"If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much." The young Harry Ironside knew the truth of his own statement all too well. He began leading a Sunday school class in Los Angeles at age eleven, but stopped when he realized his own need to know God more intimately. Converted at age thirteen, Ironside began to preach shortly thereafter and continued to pursue God's calling for the rest of his life.
Ironside not only became a highly sought after preacher and classroom teacher, but his years of dedicated study also produced a series of highly regarded Bible commentaries. The Ironside Bible Commentary Series offers concise outlines of the biblical text along with insightful and practical comments that bring out the essential truths of God's Word. This reprint of the Ironside commentaries presents the unabridged text in a newly typeset edition. A perfect resource for preaching and teaching from the English text of the Bible, these commentaries also provide the general reader with an excellent resource for personal study and spiritual growth.
H. A. Ironside (1876-1951) was an internationally recognized Bible teacher and preacher as well as the author of more than sixty books. His ministry spanned fifty years, including many years as pastor of the historic Moody Memorial Church in Chicago and as a visiting professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. His writings include expositions or commentaries on numerous biblical topics, the Old Testament prophetic books, and all the books of the New Testament.
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Gadhafi's Military Muscle Concentrated In Elite Units
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has deliberately kept his army weak in recent years, but he has bolstered elite forces that are personally loyal to him, Italian analysts say.
As the former colonial power in Libya, Italy has maintained a close interest in the country. The Italian intelligence services are relatively well informed about what's happening there; an Italian intelligence report on Gadhafi's military strength was recently presented to Parliament.
"We know very little, but we know one thing: His military machinery is not so big," says analyst Alessandro Politi.
After international sanctions on Libya were lifted in 2004, Gadhafi was able to refurbish his country's weapons systems, Politi says. But fearing a coup, Gadhafi kept the regular army relatively weak.
"The real nucleus of his security is around the presidential guards, mercenaries and a few other elite units who were directly controlled by his family and his tribe or his money," Politi says.
Along with an unknown number of foreign mercenaries, there are said to be four elite brigades with a total of some 10,000 men. One stands out: the 32nd Armored Brigade under the command of Gadhafi's son, Khamis. It's estimated to have 4,000 to 5,000 highly trained and very loyal fighters, armed with Russian-made tanks and rocket launchers.
Military analyst Carlo Jean says the other elite brigades are composed of members of the Libyan leader's tribe and another tribe loyal to him.
"Keep in mind that Gadhafi's tribe, the Gadhafa, is made up of a million people, as is that of the other tribe loyal to him, the Warfala," Jean says.
After seizing power in 1969, Gadhafi went on a spending spree — buying thousands of tanks, armored vehicles and cannons; hundreds of aircraft; and four submarines. In 1979, the mainly desert country with a population at the time of 2.5 million owned more fighter planes than Great Britain.
Libya had also stored 1,000 metric tons of Semtex, a key element of terrorist bombs in the 1980s.
With an army of some 50,000 men and highly sophisticated weapons — and with the dream of forging pan-Arab unity — Gadhafi launched three wars over two decades and lost them all.
Another Spending Spree
The Libyan army was demoralized, as was Gadhafi himself. His biographer, Angelo Del Boca, says the Libyan leader felt his people had not understood the utopian project he had laid out in his Green Book.
"When I last saw Gadhafi, I asked him how successful his Green Book had been in Libya. He said, sadly, 'It was a total failure. Libya is still dark, not green as I had hoped,' " Del Boca says.
For Gadhafi, Del Boca says, "dark" meant a country still riven by tribal loyalties. But with the army no longer trustworthy, tribal loyalties became key to Gadhafi's own political survival.
And with Libya's return to the international stage seven years ago, Gadhafi again went on a spending spree for his elite brigades.
"Libya is chock full of weapons, but we don't know how well they're maintained," says Jean, the military analyst. "Today, Ukrainians do the maintenance, but they're not as skilled as the East Germans were during the Cold War."
Italian analysts believe Gadhafi is still in control of his military machine and has reserves of tanks and artillery. He can continue to order airstrikes on rebel positions, but analysts say Gadhafi does not seem to have the logistical support to push eastward, into rebel-held territory.
Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act into law in 1990.
Last week, Senate Republicans effectively killed the Law of the Sea Treaty, despite the support of the Bush/Cheney administration, the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and James Baker. And why did the Senate GOP do this? Because of paranoid fears about the U.N. among right-wing activists.
It's not the only treaty in trouble. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities also enjoys bipartisan support, with Republicans like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) arguing that it would simply extend our Americans with Disabilities Act to people around the world. But once again, the right, led by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), isn't happy.
"Parts of this treaty deals with abortion and the rights of children, issues that should be addressed by states, local governments and American parents not international bureaucrats," DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton told The Hill in an email. [...]
[S]ome home-schooling advocates are worried about "international bureaucrats" telling them how to raise their children. In a 2007 study, six percent of the parents of the nation's 1.5 million home-schooled students cited health or special needs as the reason for educating at home.
Rick Santorum is also helping rally conservative opposition to the measure, telling the right that the U.N. treaty would "usurp the rights and powers of parents here in the United States."
As a factual matter, this is absurd, but the larger takeaway from this is a reminder about the dwindling influence of the Republican foreign policy establishment. There was a time not long ago when a proposal on international affairs backed by Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and every living former Secretary of State from Republican administrations would have been seen as a no-brainer.
But as the Republican Party has become radicalized, the influence of the GOP foreign policy establishment has dropped to a modern low point. We saw this in 2010 during the debate over the New START treaty, and now we're seeing it again this year on Law of the Sea and U.N. Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
My first instinct was to describe the larger dynamic as the "demise" of the Republican Party's foreign policy establishment, but that's not quite right -- the GOP's foreign policy establishment isn't dead; it's just irrelevant. There are elder Republican statesmen who still want to influence their party with sensible advice, but too many within the party choose not to listen. Even when nonpartisan military leaders urge the GOP to take certain actions, Republicans have decided they don't care about the brass, either.
Jacob Heilbrunn argued a while back that we're witnessing the "twilight of the wise man," and that 2012 may well mark "the last gasp" of the Republican foreign policy establishment. The party that once considered foreign affairs one of its signature issues may never be the same.
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Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, O.P.
Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, O.P., leader of the Archdiocese of Louisville from 1982 to his retirement in 2007, died the morning of December 14, 2011, at home. He was 80 years old.
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz praised his brother bishop for his witness and service to the Archdiocese of Louisville: “With the death of Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, O.P., the local church of Louisville has lost a friend, humble servant and dedicated man of God. Archbishop Kelly served for more than a quarter century as the Archbishop of Louisville and remained active as Archbishop Emeritus for almost five years. Throughout his ministry, he has consistently shown his wit and intellect to all who knew him, but most especially and most deeply, his humility and compassion for all. I am personally grateful for his friendship and welcome of me as his successor. In his 80 years of life, he has been thoroughly a priest of Jesus Christ as a faithful Dominican, as a diplomat and administrator at the Nunciature and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, as Metropolitan of the Province of Louisville, as a true Archbishop, and in these last days as a faithful parish priest.”
Born in 1931 in Rochester, New York, Archbishop Kelly entered the Dominican order in 1951 after studying for two years at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. He pursued philosophical studies at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, and St. Joseph’s Priory, Somerset, Ohio. Ordained a priest in 1958, Kelly received a Licentiate in Theology degree from the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., in 1959 and a doctorate in canon law from the University of St. Thomas in Rome in 1962. He also studied at the University of Vienna and at Cambridge University.
Archbishop Kelly began his ministry in New York City in 1962 as secretary in the Dominican provincial office of St. Joseph Province. He also worked with the Legion of Decency and the Archdiocese of New York tribunal. Archbishop Kelly moved to Washington in 1965 as a secretary and archivist for the Apostolic Delegation.
In 1971 Archbishop Kelly joined the NCCB and USCC as associate general secretary. He was elected in March 1977 to a five-year term as chief administrative officer and general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) in Washington, D.C. In July 1977, Pope Paul VI named Kelly auxiliary to the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and titular bishop of Tusuro, Africa. In August 1977, he was ordained a bishop at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop Kelly to the Archdiocese of Louisville in December 1981, and he was installed as Archbishop in February of 1982. During his years as Archbishop, he initiated a systematic approach to planning, resulting in the first long-range strategic plan in 1989. This plan was updated several times. He launched a major project to restore the Cathedral of the Assumption. As a result of this innovative, interfaith project the Cathedral has become nationally known as a public sanctuary and as a center of the arts and of compassionate service to those in need. In November 1994 Kelly held both archdiocesan and community interfaith services to dedicate the renovated Cathedral, and in 2002 he was present as the 150th anniversary of the Cathedral was celebrated. In 1996 the Archbishop spearheaded the Endowment for Excellence, a campaign for Catholic education.
Archbishop Kelly accompanied Mayor Jerry Abramson and advisers to Biloxi, Mississippi, in June 1987, in a successful effort to persuade the Presbyterian Church (USA) to move its headquarters to Louisville. He also was involved in the planning for the first two papal visits to the United States.
Archbishop Kelly was active in national, local, and regional organizations and has served as chancellor and trustee, Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky; chairman, Catholic Conference of Kentucky; member, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; and member, International Dominican Foundation Executive Committee. In addition, he was one of the founding members of the Cathedral Heritage Foundation and was vice-chairman of the Catholic Education Foundation, both in Louisville. He also served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Educational Association and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association.
Archbishop Kelly was a member of the Statutes and Bylaws Committee, the National Advisory Council, and the Canonical Affairs Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and has served as national episcopal liaison (1995-2000) for the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. He served as the chair of the bishops’ advisory committee of the Catholic Committee of the South. Past memberships also include: board of directors, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kentucky; Pontifical Commission for Religious in the United States; Seminary Board, Archdiocese of Chicago; Providence College Corporation; and board of trustees, St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Archbishop Kelly was a recipient of the following honorary doctoral degrees: Sacred Theology – Providence College; Laws – Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts; Human Sciences – Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey; Human Letters – Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky; Humane Letters – Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut; Sacred Theology – Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, California; Theology – Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, Missouri.
In 2007, Archbishop Kelly celebrated 25 years as Archbishop of Louisville, 30 years as a bishop, and 55 years as a Dominican. In his retirement, he lived at Holy Trinity Parish in Louisville, Kentucky.
Archbishop Kelly was the third Archbishop and first member of the Dominican order to head the Archdiocese of Louisville. He succeeded Archbishops Thomas J. McDonough, 1967-1981, and John A. Floersh, 1937-1967.
December 14, 2011
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CLEVELAND, OH -- Appearing in an economically hard-hit corner of the crucial battleground state of Ohio, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan attempted to put a softer edge on the GOP ticket’s plans to reform social programs.
In one of his only major policy speeches of the campaign, the Wisconsin congressman sought to widen the GOP ticket's appeal beyond Republicans and to Independents and Democrats -- just as President Barack Obama's campaign warns that GOP nominee Mitt Romney's proposals would wreck the social safety net and stunt upward mobility.
“Upward mobility is the central promise of life in America. But right now, America’s engines of upward mobility aren’t working the way they should,” Ryan told the crowd at Cleveland State University. “Mitt Romney and I are running because we believe that Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.”
Slideshow: On the Trail
The speech hit on policy more than politics, evinced by the fact that Ryan mentioned Obama's name only once in his speech.
“Mitt and I have a message that’s bigger than party. We are speaking to all Americans in this campaign,” Ryan said in front of nearly 600 people, adding, “Wherever we are in life, whether we are rich or poor, black, brown, or white, American by chance or by choice, we are one nation, rising or falling together.”
He continued: “Whatever your political party, this nation cannot afford four more years like the last four years. We need a real recovery,” Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, said with both American and Ohio flags lining the stage behind him.
The seven-term Wisconsin congressman referenced his former mentor, Jack Kemp, in the speech and said that a Romney administration, if elected, would do everything it could to help the 46 million Americans in poverty today.
“In this war on poverty, poverty is winning. We deserve better. We deserve a clear choice for a brighter future,” he said, speaking off a teleprompter.
Slideshow: Twin sons of different parties
The list of topics Ryan on which touched didn’t stop there, extending into themes he discusses regularly on the campaign trail -- but counched differently for the more formal speech. He also included standard Romney agenda items, such as "urgent" reforms of the school system, repealing Obama's health care law, and protecting religious liberties.
“Look, I am a proud Republican,” the GOP VP nominee said. “Our party does a good job of speaking to the part of the American Dream that involves taking what you’re passionate about and making a successful living from it. But part of what makes America great is that when we don’t succeed, we look out for one another through our communities. My party has a vision for making our communities stronger – but we don’t always do a good job of laying out that vision.”
Wednesday’s speech in the Buckeye State was a step toward trying to help better illustrate that vision.
"In a Cleveland speech today less than two weeks before the election, Congressman Ryan will attempt to hide the truth about Mitt Romney’s policies," responded Danny Kanner, a spokesman for the Obama campaign. "But one last-minute speech won’t be able to mask the truth: the Romney-Ryan approach would close ladders to the middle class with a budget that, according to one expert, would “likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation’s history)."
The last major policy speech on the Republican side came back on Oct. 8, when Romney spoke in the battleground state of Virginia on foreign policy. Ryan’s event in Swanton, OH that day was delayed to watch his running mate’s address. Today, shortly after Ryan took the stage in Ohio, Romney started his campaign rally simultaneously in Reno, NV.
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By Pat Stacey:
By now you have probably heard of the boycott threat against fast food giant Chick-fil-A because of the company president's comments about supporting the traditional model for marriage. Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A founder S-Truett Cathy expressed his personal views and acknowledged that his company supports the traditional model for marriage as being between a man and woman as opposed to supporting same sex marriage. Immediately, a firestorm of protest erupted. So now it seems we have dividing lines in our country as a result of corporate philosophy. Now Chick-fil-A does not discriminate against any one, they just support a traditional marriage model – and they are being boycotted by some groups as a result. As a country we continue down the road of dividing and not debating. And once divided, pride often stands in the way of re-union. The knee jerk reaction by some to instantly label companies like Chick-fil-A as villains because their ownership expresses a philosophy is tearing at the fabric of civility and once something like this goes viral and is spread through social media, it really can't be reversed. Chick-fil-A also has a policy of being closed on Sunday to allow their employees to go to church – if they choose. You get the feeling that soon even that practice will come under attack. Mr. Cathy took a risk when related his company's beliefs and time will tell if it will hurt him or help him. However, last time I checked, Chick-fil-A still had a line of cars around its drive thru.
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That's how much Northampton County Council spent for the laptops they lavished on themselves recently. Did they do this to make it easier to communicate with you? No, you won't find their email addresses listed on the county web page. That extra computer will make it easier for them to read this blog, but it will also make it easier for them to participate in back room shenanigans.
Don't think that happens? Look at the computer purchase. Not a single word was uttered about this transaction in any public meeting. Council instead buried the cost in recent "renovations" to their star chamber.
That's why council's proposed $500,000 slush fund, politely called a "contingency" fund, should be eliminated in its entirety. Council's surreptitious purchase of laptops is wasteful spending. Two members do not even use computers. Moreover, their secretive actions should be discouraged.
So what happens if an unforeseen expense arises? For that, we have the unrestricted cash reserve, the county's rainy day fund.
Eliminating this $500,000 in monopoly money will reduce budget expenditures by 0.2%. It's not much, but it's a start.
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A good friend and previous customer ordered her second Adirondack chair and I thought I would take some step-by-step photos as I started the project. Maybe this will be helpful for those who haven’t tried to build one of these great chairs, or is curious about how they go together. My design is a modified version of Tom Begnal’s chair from Fine Woodworking. I have made some subtle changes with each one I build, mostly with the seat slates and the arm shape/width.
|Chair parts cut and ready to assemble|
First I cut the parts required for the chair. Having built a number of these, I have a set of templates made of hardboard to speed up the layout of most of the curved parts.
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Take the two sides and attach the front seat slat, drill and counter sink the holes. I use waterproof glue and stainless steel screws and bolts in my chairs. Once the front seat slat is installed, and the lower cradle and attach the same way you did the front slat.
Glue the leg assemblies now, I find this easier than bolting the chair to the body and then trying to add the arm support parts. Again, SS screws and waterproof glue. I drilled the holes for the arm attachment later in the process.
Clamp the front leg assemblies to the base. Mark and drill the bolt holes to attach the front legs. The angle of the chair is determined by the cut on the bottom of the sides so when you lift the front, it will be clear where to drill the holes to attach the legs. Quick clamps help out here.
Front legs bolted to the chair frame with 3/8” SS bolts, washers and nuts. Next step is to prepare the back risers.
Determine the angle to cut the back risers. This is where the upper cradle attaches and determines the slant of the chair back. In this case the angle is 25*. Anything less and the back may be more upright, more and the back will lay back. A personal preference, but this angle seems to be most comfortable.
Attach back risers in the same manners as the front legs. Glue prior to bolting the risers, unlike I did the first time I bolted these to the sides :)
Add a temporary spacer at the top of the risers to get the proper spacing for the upper cradle. Drill and countersink the holes for the cradle and attach with glue and screws to the top of the risers.
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The base is now complete. All of the back slats and seat slates have been cut, sanded, and ready for the finish. This chair will receive 2 coats of Porter Paint's exterior latex enamel. In the past I have either brushed or sprayed the paint after the chair is complete. I found it very difficult to get into all the tight spots after so this time I am going to paint everything before attaching the slats and arms. Look for the results in the second part of this post. You can see the templates I mentioned earlier on the right edge of the photo.
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Henry Dunant Medals awarded
31-12-1999 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 836
Four people have been awarded the Henry Dunant Medal for humanitarian service, two of them posthumously, by the Council of Delegates at a ceremony held in Geneva on 28 October 1999.
The recipients of the Henry Dunant Medal are:
Ms Ute Stührwoldt , a paediatric nurse from the German Red Cross;
Mr Donald Tansley , former Executive Vice-President of the Canadian International Development Agency;
Dr Byron R.M. Hove , former National Chairman of the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society and former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Commission (posthumously);
Dr Guillermo Rueda Montana , former President of the Colombian Red Cross (posthumously).
The Medal is awarded every two years to acknowledge and reward outstanding service and acts of great devotion by members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The criteria for receiving the Medal include risks which are incurred on behalf of others and which endanger life, health and personal freedom. It may also be awarded for a long period of devoted service to the Movement.
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Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo's announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S.
But that cut wasn't completely without precedent.
Nintendo's cut seemed unusually sudden. Let's look at some older systems: The original Game Boy was released in 1989 for $120 (or $90 without a game packaged in) and wasn't cut to $50 until 1991, and even then it was to coincide with the launch of Sega's Game Gear. The original PlayStation launched for $300 in 1995 and was cut to $200 in mid-1996. The Nintendo 64 launched for $200 in September 1996 and was cut to $150 in early 1997, six months later. Those cuts were fast and deep, spurred by the competition's own launches and cuts.
What about less successful systems? The star-crossed Dreamcast waited until late 2000, a full year after its September 1999 launch, to cut its price to coincide with the release of the PS2. The Gamecube and the original Xbox both dropped in price in 2002, less than a year after release their releases in 2001. Those cuts were timed to coincide with the PlayStation 2's first cuts, as that Sony console was released a year earlier.
Unfortunately for Nintendo, the only other console that dropped in price so quickly after launch without any competition utilizing similar cuts was Nintendo's last eye-popping experiment, the Virtual Boy. In August 1995 the Virtual Boy was released for $180. After lackluster software support and complaints of headaches the system was dropped to $160 in October of 1995, only two months after launch. In May 1996, only seven months after the first price drop, Nintendo cut the Virtual Boy to $100. By the end of the year the console was discontinued.
Nintendo's cut seemed unusually deep. A price cut of 32% seems like an awful lot no matter how long after launch it is. The Nintendo 64, Gamecube and Dreamcast all dropped from $200 to $150 with their first price cuts, a 25% drop. Some consoles had even smaller cuts, with the Game Boy Advance, the original DS and the Xbox 360 only dopping $20 in their first price cut (although Xbox cut $50 for a premium console, instead of the $20 for a core bundle). However, it is not unheard of to see price cuts of over 30%. The original PlayStation, the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox all saw their prices go from $300 to $200 in the first price cut, a 33% decrease. While the PS2 waited two years to cut its price, the original PlayStation did it in eight months; the first Xbox cut its price by 33% in six.
The original Xbox comes close to having performed the same quick, deep cut as Nintendo did with the 3DS, but that console was released in November of 2001 and took full advantage of of the holiday rush, only choosing to drop its price the following May to keep up with the competition's price cuts and to bolster sales during a slow summer, with extremely positive results. The 3DS came out in March and will be cut in August, selling at its highest price point during the slowest months for gaming.
So what does this all mean? The money taken off the price is hefty, although not unheard of. The timing, in the absence of an obvious direct competitor launching or slashing price, is unusual, fuel for the argument that Nintendo is reacting to non-traditional competition, such as Apple or even its own DS.
Looking at another handheld, the PSP had similar problems with sales out of the gate. People don't seem to like expensive handhelds, but Sony resisted cutting the price. In fact, a year after the PSP's launch Sony released a slimmed down "Core Pack" that left out accessaries such as the 32MB memory card, and sold it for $200 compared to the original $250 price tag. Even two years after launch Sony only reduced the Core Pack to $170. So in reality it took them two years for any real price drop, and it was only a $30 cut.
Nintendo has rejected the PSP's strategy and in favor of a a strategy closer to what the Virtual Boy, first PlayStation and Xbox did. However whether it's the Game Gear, Virtual Boy, or PSP any handheld priced too high at launch for consumers' tastes has been torched in the open market. Nintendo is attempting to backtrack to a time when they were still perceived to be the price conscious company that sold a $90 Game Boy and launched the $250 Wii, but so far the 3DS has some pretty nefarious company for console comparisons.
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Military skills can be a plus
Job search site CareerBuilder.com found in a recent survey that 20 percent of employers report they're actively recruiting veterans for work over the next 12 months. Major areas of hiring are information technology, customer service, engineering and sales.
Patriotism can be a noble reason for hiring a vet, but there are many military skills that transfer, Godhwani said. They include not only specialized technical training but a strong work ethic, being on time and task-oriented, and leadership.
The security clearances that military members have gone through can be a plus for some companies as well.
But many veterans — and employers — have trouble figuring out how to transfer skills, Godhwani said. "It's almost as if you're speaking two different languages," he said. So it's important for a veteran who's applying for a job to make the case — for instance, to point out how serving in the infantry can build skills for a civilian security job.
Search filters that SimplyHired has created help job seekers find vet-friendly employers — for instance, companies that hold jobs for employees who are called up for active duty in the National Guard or Army Reserves.
Job bank and tax credits
This week, Obama used executive authority to create the new online jobs bank, which the White House depicts as just a start to help veterans.
It wants Congress to approve giving firms tax credits of up to $5,600 for each unemployed veteran they hire, and $9,600 for each veteran with a disability suffered as a result of military service.
These measures are part of a $447 billion jobs bill that Republicans have generally opposed, but many in that party have expressed support for the measures aimed at veterans.
In the meantime, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is looking into job discrimination against veterans with disabilities. Next week it will hear testimony from nine experts to help formulate ways to stamp it out.
Also of interest: 6 tips to job hunting online. >>
Aaron Crowe is a freelance journalist who specializes in personal finance.
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I begin a video scene of a Nazi propaganda film. Students analyze the motifs (coming from the sky, illumination, a sense of religious foundation), the peer pressure, the testimonials, the loaded language and the symbolism. Yet, in the fourth minute, as the crowd begins their Heil Hitler chants, a student whispers phrases in his best German accent.
“Let’s be honest, haven’t you ever forgotten to wear deodorant?”
“Oh, that’s a lot of raised hands. I’m glad I’m not alone. I’ll just . . . we’ll I’ll sort of raise my arm half-way like this. Is that better?”
“Who here has ever laughed so hard they farted? Me, too. It happens. It’s totally natural. Let’s embrace it.”
“How many of you thought I accidentally smeared my face with a little chocolate bar. Yes, right there. It’s okay. You can raise your hands. It’s a mustache. Really it is.”
When I finally turn to look at him, he stops. I don’t correct him, though, and I wondered afterward if I should have encouraged him to continue.
Despite his silly mustache and his strange mannerisms, Hitler took himself seriously. In fact, in all the Nazi propaganda, it seems the biggest missing element is a sense of humor. He never seemed to open a speech with a few one-liners, but instead chosen a passionate oratory style that often incited anger more than chuckles. Maybe he could have used a pie in the face. After all, isn’t it the nation that invented schadenfreude?
I can’t prove this, but I have a feeling that Hitler would be more incensed at being laughed at than in being portrayed as a villain. As a villain, he instills fear (and rightfully so) but when history portrays his dictatorship as a farce, the response is a lasting sense of mockery. I’m not suggesting that we don’t view him as morally wrong. The guy was evil, for sure. And I would never support laughing at the Holocaust or at war atrocities. But I also believe there is a point in laughing at him. Hitler was an absurd man who never should have been taken serious. If more people had mocked him rather than feared him, I doubt he would have captivated the heart of the German citizenry.
There is lasting social change when something becomes laughable. The temperance movement failed, not because of the rise in crime or the increase in drunkenness, but because it became laughable to support temperance. Meanwhile, the legalization of pot, which once seemed laughable now seems a bit more serious. When something is truly mocked and satirized and turned into a joke, it has an effect that moral arguments simply cannot achieve.
It’s for this reason that the greatest obstacle to political extremism in the United States is not healthy debate (which I still endorse) or even rational discourse. Instead, it’s guys like Colbert and Stewart who have taken some great shots at the insanity on both sides, not by pointing out logical holes, but by showing how laughable they are. Similarly, it wasn’t the pundits who ruined Sarah Palin’s popularity ratings so much as it was Tina Fey’s dead-on impersonation.
I’m wondering in education reform if the answer isn’t so much engaging in logical debate as much as it is approaching “no nonsense” reforms with a bit of nonsense. Laugh a little. Create some satire. Mock a chancellor who poses on a national magazine with a broomstick (was it a Nimbus 3000?) because ultimately that is how absurd arguments are exposed.
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If you are hunting for a special fashion of massage remedy, then an Historical therapeutic massage, also identified as Thai therapeutic massage is undoubtedly really worth a attempt. Thai therapeutic massage is recognized as an historical therapeutic massage strategy which was brought to Thailand two,500 many years ago from India which was later on practiced and developed by monks as a element of their early medicine treatment. Nike Free 3.0 This type of massage strategy employs unusual massage strokes and techniques that are relatively peculiar on 1st look but are really effective in carrying out their goal. A Thai therapeutic massage is an extraordinary method that is vigorous however the two energizing and at the very same time comforting. This variety of therapeutic massage technique had Nike Free 5.0 its wonderful impact from the Historic Chinese individuals who had been practicing alternative medicine and is dependent on the Ayurveda concepts. Acupressure method is then utilized on Thai massage which deals mainly on meridian details also acknowledged as power lines. This strategy targets the seventy two,000 sen on pathways or electricity lines that should be free of charge flowing on the human human body. When these pathways are clogged, the human body’s immune program is considered to deteriorate and becomes inclined to any sort of illness. Acupressure is related to Nike Free Run Australia acupuncture which focuses on meridian factors all in excess of the human physique, although acupressure only makes use of strain on individuals points as an alternative of slim needles. One of the unique factors about a Thai massage is that there is no nudity essential in purchase to execute a great therapeutic massage session. If you are a single of the many people who are unpleasant undressing on a massage session, why not try this one particular? Some massage spas provide free of charge free garments as component of their service to the affected person. Nevertheless, if you are not utilised to currently being as well close with a stranger, this would not be a great massage variety to be encouraged to you. There will be personal and near contact positions throughout the massage session. Most folks who had experienced a Thai therapeutic massage specific that the complete experience is equivalent to obtaining a Yoga session but without having exerting any hard work on your portion. Like any other massage strategy, the masseuse or therapeutic massage therapists are all licensed and skilled in performing a Thai therapeutic massage treatment. This is vital due to the fact of the stretching and vigorous operate completed by the therapeutic massage therapist throughout the therapeutic massage session. Though there are no critical accidents in the course of a therapeutic massage treatment, it really should be done only by specialist therapeutic massage therapists. This variety of therapeutic massage strategy utilizes the mixture of therapeutic massage methods for a much more efficient and calming entire bodywork experience. Shiatsu, acupressure and Yoga are the fundamental strategies blended well together and utilised to develop a good substitute recovery and calming technique. The shiatsu approach aspires for the clearing of blocked meridian details all in excess of the physique with the use of acupressure on these details even though the yoga is a lot more on relaxing the affected person to quickly and effectively recuperate a healthy condition. The individuals will really feel comfortable and revitalized on their total body right Nike Air Max after 60 minutes of Thai massage treatment.
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1. STRIKE A POSE
Your neighbor yammers nonstop about her yoga class, but is it really more calming than your treadmill time? Most definitely. A new study from Boston University found that people who twisted, toe-touched, and tree-posed three days a week felt more positive and less anxious than those who walked for the same amount of time. Why? The combination of focus, slow breathing, and stretching make you feel relaxed and loose. For free yoga workouts, try the Yogamazing podcast on iTunes, or try our favorite moves at redbookmag.com/exercisevideos
2. GET SOME LOVIN'
If you or your guy are prone to anxiety or a temper, having sex more often may make you both happier, a study in Social Psychological and Personality Science
found. The more often newlywed couples knocked boots during the first four years of marriage, the more satisfied they were in their unions, whether or not their partner was occasionally edgy. A romp cancels out negative emotions with a rush of oxytocin, dubbed the "love hormone" because it makes you feel calm and content.
3. SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
Having a silent conversation with a loving figure (whether it's God, the universe, or your aunt who passed away) can beat back gloom, a new study from the University of Wisconsin, Madison found. The meditative qualities of prayer have a calming effect on the brain and body. Plus, letting everything out helps wash away negative feelings, says researcher Shane Sharp.
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recently tackled perhaps its raciest topic ever: underwear! Almost 30 percent of women polled said that wearing unattractive or ill-fitting undies bums them out, and 47 percent said putting on a "special" pair gives them a boost.
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Our favorite Indian restaurant was jam-packed when we arrived, one of those nights when every table is full and you are so close to the diners at the table next to yours that, despite your best efforts, you cannot tune out their conversation. Halfway through our meal, a woman and a young man who was unmistakably her grandson were seated at the two-top next to us. Even without the grandmother's large chai necklace, they looked (as my Russian Jewish father-in-law would say) "typically Jewish," and given our neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, there was nothing atypical about that.
Try as we might to concentrate on our own conversation, we could not—they were, after all, only inches away. The grandson had just returned from a life-changing semester abroad in India, and was intoxicated by the experience. He ordered proudly from the menu, explaining the dishes to his grandmother and how they differed from what he had eaten there. He described how he had decided to major in Eastern Religion and hoped to get back to that part of the world. He talked about the Bhagavad Gita and the teachings of his favorite Hindu masters. His grandmother listened patiently, but seemed bewildered by her grandson, who was unshaven and long-haired but otherwise looked just like her, yet was learning Sanskrit and had had his world thrown open by a country, people, and culture completely foreign to her. She never said it, but you could see it in her eyes: "India? What does that have to do with you, a nice Jewish boy?"
As Jewish Americans, we have the greatest blessing our people has ever known: freedom. A freedom that grants us not only the ability to vote and educate ourselves and live as full citizens of our great nation, but also to explore faiths and traditions and cultures besides our own and to choose any of them for ourselves. If the Hindu masters move my soul more than the teachings of the Rabbis—well, it's a spiritual free market in 2012 America. I can choose to be whoever I want to be.
The most important question of our time is, therefore: Why should I? Why should I choose a Jewish life? And more than just a "Jewish" life—which might consist of nothing more than bagels, gefilte fish, and a penchant for Seinfeld reruns: Why should I choose a life of mitzvah, of Jewish commitment and action, when there are so many other compelling religions and spiritual paths?
Choice, choosing, chosenness: all themes that emerge in Parashat Reeih. The Deuteronomic voice is concerned with persuading us to live according to the path laid out in the previous four books of the humash, and it is clearly wary of the fact that we do have a choice in the matter.
"See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin you this day; and curse, if you do not" (Deut. 11:26–28). Reward and punishment, blessing and curse. Choose Judaism because bad things will happen if you don't. How antiquated and defensive this seems, and how absurd when read literally. As Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky (z"l) wrote:
We often call Halakha "Jewish law," but the flouting or abrogation of Halakha carries no sanctions. No court or police enforces these rules . . . And in the post-Holocaust era, few believe in supernatural sanctions, neither in God's reward and punishment of the nation through history, nor in the judgment of the individual in an afterlife. Halakha exists today, in the Jewish Diaspora of the twentieth century, as rules without sanctions, strictures without consequences. The performance of a mitzvah (commandment) is its own reward. ("Toward a Liberal Theory of Halakha," Tikkun, July/August 1995, p. 42)
No, I will not choose a life of mitzvah because I will be rewarded if I do, and cursed if I do not. I choose a life of mitzvah because "the performance of a mitzvah . . .is its own reward." Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch wrote, in his gloss of the verse about the blessing (Deut. 11:27):
Very significantly it does not say here, as it does in the following verse at the curse, im tishm'u but asher tishm'u. The actual fulfillment of God's commands is already in itself a real part of the blessing, which not only follows the obedience but starts to be realized by and with the carrying out of the mitzvah. The mental and moral act which is accomplished every time we faithfully obey the Torah is itself a blessed progress, a step forward of our whole being, and with every mitzvah-act we bless ourselves. (Hirsch, The Pentateuch, rendered into English by Isaac Levy. 1962.)
I could go to India, or the church across the street, or become part of any of a host of secular humanistic communities whose adherents live deeply meaningful and fulfilled lives. Any would likely bring me to the end I seek. But there is one thing I cannot do: I cannot not choose. I have to choose something. If I choose well, if I choose something that works—and Judaism enjoys the status of being one of the world's great religions precisely because it works—then that choice will in and of itself be its own reward, a step forward of my whole being.
Is my choosing a life of mitzvah, then, arbitrary? To a certain extent, yes. One of the parashah's other attempts at persuading us to choose Judaism is: "For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: the Lord your God chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be his treasured people" (Deut. 14:1). Most contemporary American Jews bristle at the idea of Jewish "election" or chosenness. It reflects neither our understanding of a God who has created multiple forms of religious expression and loves all Creation equally and mercifully, nor our conviction of the biological equality of all races and nations. But one bit of this verse cannot be ignored, and this I offer as part two of the answer to the "Why should I?" question: that we Jews are chosen to uphold a certain spiritual path. Not because God loves us more, not because it is the best path, but because, as Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan put it:
Mankind is not all of one piece and, in the task of preserving and developing the spiritual heritage of the human race, the various historic groups have to assume responsibility, each one for the maintenance of its own identity as a contributor to the sum of human knowledge and experience." (The Meaning of God in Modern Religion, 96)
There are, after all, only about 15 million of us; given that we have to choose some way of living and meaning-making, why not choose this one?
In my own life, as I read through Deuteronomy this time around and watch for the new moon of Elul to come on the horizon next week, I find myself blessed for the moments of this year in which I have been able to deepen my own practice of halakhah, the new steps I've been able to take, and even the strictures that have grounded some of the most important pieces of my life. Is my choosing arbitrary? Could I have found myself feeling similarly blessed had I chosen other paths this year? Probably. But having chosen this life, I find myself feeling deeply the words Frymer-Kensky wrote in the Tikkun article: "The ultimate purpose of the Halakha is to infuse our daily biological and social activity with a sense of divinity, purpose, and community, so that we can truly live in the path of God."
As we headed out of the restaurant that night, I engaged in one of my very few acts of unsolicited keruv. I handed the grandson my business card. "Your journey sounds amazing," I told him, smiling. "If you ever consider coming home, call me."
The publication and distribution of the JTS Torah Commentary are made possible by a generous grant from Rita Dee and Harold (z"l) Hassenfeld
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Newsletter May 2005
Morel Mushroom Hunting Club
" Georgia Motherlode"
By: Chris Matherly
In March, 2003, I received an email from Roger R. in Jasper County, Georgia. He had been turkey hunting and stumbled across what he thought may be Morel Mushrooms. He resides about an hour and 20 minutes North of me. He described them, and at the time, were very small still. He had a relative from Michigan, and had seem some years before, but just was not sure about an ID. I kept in touch with him, and said they were growing, and I set up a time to meet him, so that I could check out his find and prove whether they were Morels or not. I arrived and we walked down the four-wheel-drive path into a pine thicket. I was thinking, sure doesn't look favorable so far.... We soon turned off the trail and into the woods, and I could spot a deciduous transition ahead. Things were looking better. We came into a low lying area, and was more overgrown with weeds and bushes than the woods we had came through. It was very wet lowlands, and even muddy in a few areas, and we had to cross over a series of small ditches with water standing. Up ahead, I was encouraged, as I spotted several Ash Trees. Also Poplars. From 30 yards I saw large orange masses in the distance. I could not believe my eyes. The closer I got, my eyes grew larger. I could see dozens of very large Morchella esculentas. I had only found a few of these larger Morels in the state of Georgia, never in such masses. The most common Morel I had normally found in Georgia was Morchella deliciosa, the slender Morel, under Poplar trees. This particular area was all lowlands, and Ash Trees were dominant, with a few Poplars and Box Elders mixed in. The soil was extremely dark, black, rich and moist. I immediately could tell this spot was Morel Heaven, and probably had been producing Morels here in the same area for hundreds of years. It was simply prime Morel habitat. There was a stream nearby, and I found one right on the edge of the bank. I looked across the stream, and could easily see that there were Ash trees across the creek and it looked very similar conditions to where we had been finding them. From 35 yards away, standing on the edge of the creek bank, I saw a large Ash Tree, and spotted an "Orange" shape at it's base. I notified Roger, and he said " Chris, I am not going to believe it if you actually spotted a Morel from 100 feet away!" We crossed over and went to the tree, and sure enough, there it was, an 8" giant Morel, in full glory. (Along with a few dozen others that we found across the creek)!
Every 2-3 feet were large Morels!
April 1st, 2003: This is no April fools! Roger Reynolds and Chris Matherly found 158 very large yellow Morels (5-8 inches) (total of about 25 pounds!) in Jasper County, Georgia. It was one of the best spots I have ever been to with large morels about every 3 feet or closer for hundreds of feet in rich lowlands with mainly Ash, Box Elder, Sycamore, River Birch, and Poplar trees. This was no mushroom hunt, simply a harvest! Unbelievable!
Chris' Tailgate! Roger Reynolds started his first shrooming experience off with a bang!
8" Monster! Not bad, eh? Photos by: Chris Matherly
Below is the most common Morel I had normally found in Georgia was Morchella deliciosa, the slender Morel, under Poplar trees.
The second year, (2004), I decided to try and do a Morel Growth Study. Pam Kaminski had done it with Black Morels. (This can be viewed in the member areas). I wanted to do it with Morchella esculenta, simply to prove once and for all that the smaller, thicker Gray Morel that soon follows the blacks will grow into a large Yellow Morel. Not a different species. For me, it was a 3 hour drive there and back, so it was a lot of devotion and time consuming to pull this off. I kept in touch with Roger R. and he notified me that he had seen just a few small Grays, so I went to photograph them. I picked several subjects, and good thing that I did, because a few dried up or withered away, but I got some amazing results. Clearly, below you can see that it started Gray and 2.5" and ended up Yellow and 6"! This was over a 15 day period, and prior to the first photograph, it was there at least another week or more. This means that they grow slowly over a 3 week period, not pop up overnight. Not don't get me wrong. If there is a lot of moisture, and they have began to grow, then it hits 90 degrees for a few days in a row, they will rapidly mature, but under normal conditions, it is a much slower process. You can view Pam Kaminski's entire Growth Study, as well as mine in the member areas.
March 22nd, 2004 April 6th, 2004
Additionally, the second year, we hit some amazing Morels again in the same patch! The other interesting thing is, that there was only .25" of rain the entire month of March in 2004. But they still were plentiful, and big. Obviously there is a high water table in this spot.
April 8th, 2004: Roger R. and Chris Matherly found 125 giant yellow Morels in Jasper County, Georgia. The largest was just shy of 8 inches. These are all quite large Morels, and total weight nearly 15 pounds! This area is where we found them at last year, and originally only held 4 this season, and we left them to do the Morel growth study, viewable in the member areas, and went out to film the final series of pictures, and was very surprised to find 125!
Now, this past year(2005), the season was much wetter, and much later. We had over 6 inches of rain. When we went to our spot, it was hard to even get to, as water was standing. There was even mud that you would sink in where we had found some last year, obviously too wet for Morels in these areas. But overall, they were still there, and in abundance. Evidently, the excess moisture made them grow to extreme size, as our largest one was a full 11" Monster!
April 12th, 2005: Chris M, and Roger R, found 114 Giant Yellow Morels, in Jasper County, GA. The tallest was 11 inches, one 10", several 8 inchers. These will be featured on the upcoming Georgia Motherload Video.
I have been able to photograph some of the most amazing Morels at this location, as well as film much content of digital video. I will be putting together a fabulous DVD titled "The Georgia Motherlode" and should have it complete and offer it this Fall. If you are interested in this DVD, please send me an email, and I will notify you when it is available. You won't want to miss it!
A special thanks to Roger, for contacting me originally, and keeping me included and sharing this wonderful Morel Heaven Spot.
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