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One couple's story of love and food found among the recipes
Violet and Charles Schafer were authors of a series of long-out-of-print cookbooks, most illustrated by celebrated artist Win Ng. Among them, "Wokcraft."
Seattle Times food writer
SOMETIMES, THE most cherished gifts arrive in an old box, unwrapped, no strings attached.
Mine came from sisters Camille Kariya and Erika Sweger. A pair of loose-leaf binders belonging to their late aunt and uncle, Violet and Charles Schafer, it was a carefully curated collection of research on ginger.
In this time of instant online answers and cookbooks as smartphone apps, this was a culinarian's treasure. Like unearthing your grandmother's secret scrapbook.
"You've probably never heard of them," Camille said when she called from her View Ridge home. The Schafers, she explained, were authors of a series of long-out-of-print cookbooks, most illustrated by celebrated artist Win Ng. Among them, "Wokcraft."
"Wokcraft!" I cried, recalling the Chinese cookbook that came packaged with my first wok, purchased in my teens from the housewares company Taylor & Ng (yes, that Ng).
"Wokcraft" was my introduction to Chinese cookery. But the ginger books became my introduction to Chuck and Vi Schafer, whose love affair with the printed word, the creative arts and one another could fill the pages of a rich historical novel.
Chuck was a manager for Pan American World Airways when the company's Clipper craft were pressed into military service during World War II. He was in Hong Kong when it fell to the Japanese and was taken prisoner, the family says. The couple met at Pan Am in San Francisco, where Vi was a technical editor. She left to work for Sunset magazine in 1947. They married a year later.
Childless, the Schafers built a house in Corte Madera, Calif., where they lived and worked until Chuck's death in 1995, followed by Violet's in 2001.
In storage for years, their "gingeries" as they called their unfinished work, represent two decades of research:
Ginger-related articles and recipes culled from publications; the last, a 1990 New York Times clip introducing readers to Seattle's newest hot spot, Wild Ginger.
Notes, scripted in Vi's careful hand. Typewritten reflections on a 1928 science text.
Subject dividers double as repositories for envelopes stuffed with postcards and index cards noting types of spice grinders and recipes. Brochures tout pudding molds and ginger jars; photographs illustrate the couple's 1979 visit to a Hong Kong cannery.
Best of all was the correspondence. Charles begging the pardon of a British bookseller, to whom he owed money; Violet begging House of Holland in Seattle Center's International Bazaar for a wood cookie mold.
Within weeks she received one, along with a handwritten recipe for "Speculaas Koekies."
That cookie mold resides, along with others, in the Whidbey Island home of Violet's sister, Irene Christofferson, 91.
Christofferson's daughter, Erika, recalls living with her aunt and uncle in the summer of '69 and '70, doing clerical work for Charles. Their frequent dinner parties were a cross between a theater production and a salon, Erika told me, with artists, beautifully presented food, and tables dressed with a mix of beatnik pottery and crystal from Charles' wealthy aunt.
"They got old, they got ill, they weren't able to go forward" with their book, says Erika, who cared for Vi in her dotage. But "they never stopped adoring each other."
She didn't need to tell me. My unpublished gift has a dedication page:
"For Charles," Vi wrote. "I do! I do! I do!"
Nancy Leson is the Seattle Times food writer. Reach her at [email protected]. Benjamin Benschneider is the Pacific NW magazine staff photographer.
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Getting wired on wireless work
By Nick Easen for CNN
Security is cited as one of the main reasons for a lack of uptake.
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(CNN) -- Growing numbers of airport lounges, fast-food restaurants, hotel rooms and rented offices are introducing wireless hotspots.
Wi-fi or wireless fidelity capability is also being installed in more laptops and newly-constructed office space.
Business travelers are using it and it is becoming cheaper, faster and more efficient over short distances.
But when will the majority of us be working wirelessly?
Optimists say it is just round the corner. More executives already have wireless enabled notebooks, 3G phones and PDAs, keeping them linked up to office networks in the conference room and the coffee shop.
And, although pessimists claim Wi-fi has as much potential as the paperless office, it is likely to be quickly eclipsed by more powerful technology. Many corporations are already locked into wired offices.
"It is still sort of in its infancy," John Antone of Intel Corporation told CNN.
"We are seeing more (wireless enabled) coffee shops and hamburger joints that have the capability, than we are seeing seats filled up with people plucking away at laptops."
Antone likens the rise of wireless work applications to that of the light bulb or the telephone -- in that it took a while to put in the infrastructure and even more time for the numbers to make economic sense.
"You have to get to some sort of critical mass before you see a fundamental benefit. Then people en-masse can start moving beyond that, then it becomes a real viral thing," explains Antone.
Aside from a slump in technology budgets, security is cited as one of the main reasons for a lack of uptake, although companies such as A.S. Watson, the world's third largest health and beauty retailer, believes the risk is manageable.
"We have security IDs, keys, digital certificates. If we keep on top of it and keep working with it we will stay ahead of the game," says Chief Technology Officer, Andy Buckle.
The company has 250 wireless staff and believes the move to wireless work has been worth it, even though it is hard to measure the return on investment.
"Forget about the technology. You need to examine your business. And ask 'will having my workforce flexible and being able to move out of the office benefit me?'" says Buckle.
Wireless work has also significantly impacted the insurance industry.
In Hong Kong, Canadian insurers, Manulife have had wireless insurance agents for five years. Several hundred work with Wi-fi enabled laptops in the office and go out for presentations to potential clients in coffee shops.
Their key to success -- make sure lots of data can be accessed remotely, not just e-mails.
"If you have wireless connections but you do not have application software for the agent to use, this is useless, no matter how much you spend, " says Michael Chan of Manulife.
A recent study by wireless chipmaker Intel also found that its staff saved about two-and-a-half hours a week by working wireless. Over a year, that adds up to 120 hours.
This extra time came from working with a wireless laptop in those small windows of time that were once unproductive; time between client or corporate meetings, when waiting for someone who is late, the airport, or in a hotel lobby.
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Today’s society is making it easier than ever to move a business entirely online. More and more businesses are choosing an online environment over a launch in a brick and mortar business. Instead of shelling out tons of cash up front for the development of a full store, business can receive just as much, if not more, business from running in an online environment. Although saving cost on development may seem like reason enough to ditch the idea of a traditional business, making a company successful online entails much more than simply setting up a website.
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Over the past month I have been learning AutoCAD P&ID at work and in my opinion I have gotten a good understanding of it. During the past week I have begun looking at Plant 3D and its functionality. This gave me two questions.
My question is if I can size valves (more specifically hand operated ball valves) smaller than 1 1/2"? Some of the systems I work on can be relatively small and only require 1/4" ball valves. I have been tinkering with Plant 3D and I can't seem to find any way to size my valves smaller than 1 1/2." I'm sure there is a solution to this and I can't just find it.
My other question is if a tutorial exists for Plant 3D? I know plant 3D is a relatively new product but there are tons of books at Barnes and Noble for AutoCAD and something like that would be wonderful for Plant 3D. I've looked on Amazon and I can't seem to find anything that appears to do a good job. Since a tutorial appears to be non-existent how did the experienced users get started with this software?
Any and all advice is appreciated and I look forward to hearing your feedback,
For tutorials and training, your AutoCAD Plant 3D reseller should be able to provide courseware (for example dealers listed here).
Regarding the valve dimensions, some sizes may checked [x] Remove From Spec and you can clear that in the spec editor. But if the ones you need are not there, you can use the catalog editor to add sizes and set your own dimensions. I recommend watching Specs and Catalogs Editor (Part 2).
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King Saline IV
He also promoted Stanley from a simple Piker to Warlord. Pleased with Stanley's performance with the Arkenhammer, the King promoted him to Chief Warlord and eventually made him Heir Designate, at great expense.Erf-b1-p079
At some moment Gobwins broke alliance with Gobwin Knob (which Sizemore considers very odd), captured the city and croaked King Saline IV.Erf-b1-p079 Stanley who was a Heir Designate recaptured the city and became Ruler -- an Overlord because he was not Royal. Ansom believed that Stanley orchestrated this rebellion to come to power.Erf-b1-p034
Real World References
Looks similar to King Radical, a dr. Mcninja character and who may be a villain. He is SOOO radical.
Also bears a striking resemblance to King Friday XIII from the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood children's television show.
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Although it seems like winning the lottery would solve your problems, this isn't always the case. In fact, for a lot of previous winners, they ended up right back where they started from, or worse! Our partner site Business Insider has collected lottery horror stories about winners who didn't really win in the end:
As America salivates over the $590 million Powerball prize won by a Floridian, we're reminded that winning the lottery will not solve all problems.
In fact many people's lives became notably worse after they got super rich, and they managed to lose it all in no time.
- The Griffiths bought their dream home then life fell apart
- Tirabassi is back in the working class after winning $10 million nine years ago
Before they won a $2.76 million lottery jackpot, Lara and Robert Griffith hardly ever argued. They bought a million-dollar house and a Porsche.
But 18 months ago, six years after their win, Robert drove away in the Porsche after Lara confronted him over emails suggesting he was interested in another woman. Their 14-year marriage was over, a freak fire gutted their house, and every penny of their fortune was gone.
In 2004, Sharon Tirabassi, a single mother who had been on welfare, cashed a check from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. for $10,569,00.10 (Canadian). She subsequently spent her winnings on a "big house, fancy cars, designer clothes, lavish parties, exotic trips, handouts to family, loans to friends" and in less than a decade she's back riding the bus, working part-time, and living in a rented house. Luckily Tirabassi put some of her windfall in trusts for her six children, who can claim the money when they turn 26.
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The state park is still there. The water is still rushing. But evidently that’s not enough to relax today’s Auburn students.
This spring at Auburn a new 240,000-square-foot recreation and fitness center will open so students and faculty can stay well and fit.
The building will include a 50-foot rock-climbing wall “with an auto-belaying system,” whatever that is, “four bordering caves for lateral climbing, a 20-foot wet rock climbing wall in the 20,000 gallon leisure activity pool, a 45-person hot tub in the shape of a tiger paw and a third of a mile indoor track with a corkscrew formation and 10 feet of altitude change.”
The track reportedly will be the longest indoor track in the country. In the country.
There will be floors for dancing, cycling, “core training” and a five-floor tower with “a gorgeous view of Auburn” at the top. You can pump iron or dance the Zumba.
Did I mention that the new recreation and wellness center will be “green,” “a sustainable building that decreases Auburn’s carbon footprint”? You wouldn’t want wellness and recreation to be offset by a huge carbon footprint.
In my day you went to the rooftop of Haley Center if you wanted a gorgeous view of Auburn. I guess you could have walked the stairway up the nine floors if you wanted exercise. Everyone I knew rode the elevator because most of us didn’t have cars and were tired from walking all day.
We also rode bikes, but we didn’t call it “cycling.” Our brand of biking didn’t need its own floor in a building. We danced, but not in a wellness center, more often in a frat house with a beverage in our hand. If we wanted to climb rocks, they were the ones at the aforementioned state park. We sometimes jogged at the Coliseum, but more often just ran to and from classes.
From what I’ve noticed on recent visits to campus, in my day we were as fit as today’s students without benefit of all the recreational frills.
“You’ll forgive me,” an Auburn professor emailed his department colleagues, “when in future meetings I just blurt out ‘45-person hot tub in the shape of a tiger paw’ when the next round of budget cuts or library cancellations is announced.”
A campus marketing spokesman saw it differently. “The students voiced a major concern that they wanted to have a top-tier facility. They see their friends at other universities having that. They wanted the same amenities and features that are at other institutions.”
Well, by all means. You wouldn’t want some other Alabama university or Louisiana campus or Georgia college getting a bigger hot tub or longer track or better view than Auburn gets.
This way, when Auburn students leave campus, they will be fit to climb rocks, Zumba, cycle or run. And if Auburn graduates haven’t learned as much as, say, graduates of Princeton or Bucks County School of Beauty Culture, at least they’ll be well and rested up.
Syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson lives near Iuka. Contact her at Iuka, MS 38852. To find out more about Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.
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Comics : Spider-Man 2: The Joke Book
Among the bundle of small-format "kids story books" created for the movie tie-in, there are three books which have taken a slightly more off-beat approach. Those three are Spider-Man 2: Friends and Foes, Spider-Man 2: The Daily Bugle Stories, and this book here - "Spider-Man 2: The Joke Book".
This is the cheapest of all the seven kids books in this series in terms of printing format, and the cheapest-equal on price. Basically... it's a bunch of "jokes" about Spidey and Doc Ock. Hey, Joke Books are a pretty well proven concept. What could possible go wrong?
Note: There are probably U.K. and U.S. versions of this book, probably with separate ISBNs. We'll catch up with that info all in good time. But for now, let's just open up and have a look inside.
Spider-Man 2: The Joke Book
Jun 2004 : SM Title
These books are the same size as most of the other HarperCollins movie tie-ins, namely 5" x 7.5". This one is square binding, but with only 48 pages. Glossy cover like all the other books, but inside this one is different - it's printed on cheap cream newsprint. There are some grainy B&W photos scattered here and there. Other than that, there's just jokes... an average of about three per page. Probably 100 or so jokes all in all.
But are they funny?
Well, having just started writing the new Fans : Spider-Fun weekly cartoon strip, I know how tough it can be to write one funny joke in a week - let alone half a dozen. Fortunately the writer of this book, Thea Feldman, has clearly enlisted the help of her two close friends - Susan, a three year old child with the hiccups, and Neville, a retarded former train-spotter just returned from a two month prison sentence in South Wales. Together, here's the kind of thing they came up with:
Q. "What did Doc Ock drive to the bank?"
A. "An armoured car!"
Q. "What did Doc Ock do at the bank?"
A. "Commit armed robbery!"
Q. "What did Spider-Man do to the bank customers?"
A. "Keep them out of arms way!"
Q. "Where does Doc Ock keep his arms?"
A. "In the armory!"
Q. "Why isn't Spidey afraid of Doc Ock now?"
A. "Because he's armless!"
Q. "How did Doc Ock make the bomb armless?"
A. "He dis-armed it with his arms in the armory!"
Look. There's a fixed number of times I can laugh at a sentence with the sound "arm" in it somewhere. That number is less than or equal to one.
Sure, there are a couple of giggle-worthy jokes in here, but they're few and far between. I can almost feel the pressure of somebody being forced to create 100 Spidey jokes in a fortnight. The vast majority of the jokes here are basically the same joke again and again.
On one hand, with the right delivery my eight year old kid would probably laugh at half of these gags. That's probably the right age. Any younger won't get them, and any older and you start to get a better understanding of what really makes a joke funny.
But in fact, I can quite easily drive my eight-year old into hysterics by sticking my fingers in my ears and walking around making "Dweeek! Dweeek!" noises at random intervals. I'm going to push my luck here, and say that I can still tell the difference between a truly clever, funny joke for eight year olds, and a yet another freakin' stupid pun on the words "arm", "bug", and "web". This book is almost entirely filled with the latter.
One and a half webs, just because I appreciate Thea's charitable nature in attempting to provide work experience for retarded former train-spotters.
Laugh? I almost did.
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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802779972, Hardcover)In 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah, the acclaimed memoir that told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, a few years later Tamim had himself been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War. He was held in the very same Cairo prison from which his father had been expelled from Egypt to begin a second exile in Budapest when Tamim was only a few months old. Ranging freely back and forth in time between the 1990s and the present day, Barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of Palestinian history and daily life - the pleasure of coffee arriving at just the right moment, the challenge of a car journey through the Occupied Territories, the meaning of home and the importance of being able to say, standing in a small village in Palestine, 'I was born here', rather than saying from exile, 'I was born there'. Full of life and humour in the face of a culture of death, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is destined, like its predecessor, to become a classic.
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A moving and revelatory account of the power of homeland and the pain of exile.
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When the GDP number came out for the Indian economy grew at 5.3% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal. Impacting the expectation of India growth story of growing more than 7%. The 10-year bond yields fell 3 basis points to 8.49% as concerns over global risk aversion lured investors towards safe-haven government debt.
In the mean time some of my friends wanted to understand the impact View full article »
When INR touched the level of 56 against 1$, the first sms I received “Ab Tak – 56″. One of the thriller movie in Bollywood. The other msg that I received which is now trending in twitter the famous dialogue of an Indian flick “Amitabh Bachchan has demanded at all payments to him be made in dollars instead of INR. Kyunki main aaj bhi gire huye paise nahi uthaata”
The Rupee has been trapped in a vicious circle, the free fall is on the roll, View full article »
When INR touched 55 versus 1 dollar it made the record, for some of the traders it was a key level. From the data on the RBI the dollar has appreciated by approximately 22 per cent in the last 1 year. This is a major move after the crisis of 1991.
Obviously the answer to above is difficult to analyze, because in the normal circumstances demand and supply decide the market determined rates. We do not have free market for the forex. The rupee has never been convertible on capital account. The Reserve Bank of India still has a variety of controls on who may buy foreign exchange and for what purpose in the market. View full article »
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Articles by Darrol J. Stanley, DBA
Darrol J. Stanley, DBA, is a professor of finance at the Graziadio School of Business and Management. He is well-known as a financial consultant with special emphasis on valuing corporations for a variety of purposes. He has also rendered fairness opinions on many financial transactions, and he has been engaged by corporations to develop strategies to enhance their value. He has served as head of corporate finance, research, and trading of four NYSE member firms. He likewise has been the principal of an SEC-registered investment advisor. He has completed global assignments as well as having served as Chief Appraiser of International Valuations/Standard & Poor's in Europe, Central Europe, and Russia.
Darrol J. Stanley, DBA revisits his 2008 article “Top 10 U.S. Economic Issues to Monitor” with new insights on key economic, social, and political issues.
The Federal Reserve continues a tradition of sharing little information with practitioners, increasing uncertainty and further hindering economic growth.
It appears that more than just the American economy is bordering on breakdown. It is far more significant that America its culture and spirit is in total crisis and bordering on collapse.
The times are changing, and they are changing more rapidly than anyone could have forecast. It will be necessary to possess character to cope.
Darrol J. Stanley, PhD, addresses what many believe to be “The Top 10 U.S. Economic Issues to Monitor.”
If an investor follows his conscience to invest in socially responsible companies, will he lose money, or does socially responsible investing pay off in the end?
What are the factors necessary to develop a corporate strategy that creates long-term corporate success while at the same time creating value for the compa
Corporations that emphasize meaningful communication, willingness to serve, and common purpose will have more favorable financial and/or investment results.
If a “Main Street” investor wants to hedge against an unanticipated event, there are some options, including a synthetic hedge portfolio.
It is important to understand the nature of alternative investment strategies and their risks before considering any action.
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Shay Olivarria is a motivational speaker, financial literacy coach, former foster care youth and author of 10 Things College Students Need to Know About Money and Money Matters: The Get It Done in 1 Minute Workbook. As an ambassador for financial freedom, Shay travels all over the country to educate people on responsible financial decisions.
You’ve seen her in Redbook and Essence and read her financial education articles in Parents of Color Magazine, The South LA Report, HBCU Digest, and Prominence Magazine, among others. She’s appeared on domestic and international radio shows to share tips on making small financial changes that make a big difference. She’s worked with high schools, colleges, and community organizations such as Independent Lens, San Diego State University, University of Southern California, Upward Bound, and Promise House.
Shay’s passion for motivational coaching was ignited seven years ago when she began outreach efforts for the San Diego Community College District. She advised students on the college process and has continued to reach out to youth on a number of levels. Shay is dedicated to community activism and specializes in mentoring gang-involved and at-risk youth, and has been able to channel her life experience into her professional and entrepreneurial efforts. Shay explains, “Aging out of foster care made it clear to me that I need to take responsibility for my financial future. I started reading books, attending seminars, and piecing as much information as I could together. After working with students in truancy and mentoring programs while in undergrad, it became apparent that these kids needed the same help I needed.”
After studying non-profit organizations, public companies, and micro-credit loan systems in graduate school, Shay began public speaking at a peace building organization and became interested in sharing her experiences. “During the seminars, I found myself including tips on money management. Students wanted to contact me personally to get information about scholarships and from there, I created a structured program. I wrote a curriculum and a training manual, and began shopping it around.”
What came from that program is now known as Bigger Than Your Block, a financial literacy organization that incorporates popular culture, games, and group discussion into the educational experience. Topics include Money Management, Understanding Credit and Credit Cards, Understanding Auto Financing, Understanding Retirement Accounts, and Goal Setting and Motivation, Travel and Cultural Competency, etc. Through these workshops, she has fostered relationships with several participants. To date, Shay has spread financial wealth tips to hundreds of students across the country.
Shay earned her Bachelor of Arts degree (Anthropology major, Business Management minor) from California State University – Dominguez Hills. She is working towards her Masters of Science (Anthropology major, Business Management minor) from the University of North Texas.
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16 - A humble home
My home, my castle - as the saying goes. With dwarves, it's literal. After all, a dwarf needs a safe home before he can consider getting himself a nice lass and some wee dwarflings. Thus the value of this gift.
The dwarves build you a solid house that could withstand the apocalypse - or half a dozen of them. Complete with siege engines on the rampart and in the tower, of course - what good is a house that can only take punishment, and dish out none?
17 - A delver buddy
Actually a miniature metal golem, the delver buddy is indispensable below the earth. He can watch your back while you dig, crawl where you cannot go, measure time without fail, store your gold nuggets for you and watch out for dangerous gasses and tremors. He also passes you tools upon request, and holds one small flask of brandy, one torch and a piece of deep mole jerky in case of emergencies.
18 - The funny tome
Dwarves value good humor, they just differ from other races in the definition of "funny". This pocket-sized booklet holds scores of dwarven jokes, tried and true. For example: "Why aren't you ining for gold today, Hrangwulf?" "Ah, I think I already have enough." is an oldie but goldie.
19 - Boomsticks
Dwarvs like fire and loud entertainment. Fireworks exactly fit the bill. You get handed a huge box with crackers, rockets and flares sufficient for a lifetime of Silvesters, or blowing up a medium-sized city.
20 - A reliable ride
You get a faithful mountain pony. They can subsist on a handful of oats, resist temperatures near absolute zero, can drink more vodka than you, and handle any terrain, whether tunnel, decris or near-vertical slopes. Also, when faced with greenskins, they're of more use than an average human militia.
21 - The Ring of Friendship
A subtle steel band with dwarvish writing, the ring bears a subtle enchantment. Any dwarf will know what you did for its creator. Even dwarves born away from their home holds, in the lands of man, will recognize and honor the ring.
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Today the folks at Google have been tipped to be pushing all (if not most) of their chat apps and ecosystems together into a single entity called Babble. This single chat system would take everything that is Google Talk, Google+ Hangouts, Voice, and Messenger, combining them into a final product that spans the entirety of your Google-made universe. With Babble, Google will have its Gmail for chat.
If you log in on your desktop computer, your Android smartphone, your Chromebook, or anything in-between, today you’re able to access your Gmail account. Not quite so solid is the connection between the many odds and ends in Google’s chat environment. If Google did indeed create a single chat service for any and all environments, anyone would be able to work with it as easily as they do Gmail – app or no.
The word on the street today is that Google Babble would work on many – if not all – mobile products as well as in-browser for desktop machines. BlackBerry own BBM – BlackBerry Messenger – continues to be one of their “unique” services that users love to a degree that keeps them stuck tight to the hardware. Apple uses Messages which now works between mobile and desktop machines seamlessly.
Even the app called WhatsApp has been trying to capitalize on the one-app cross-platform messaging gap that exists in the Google universe right this minute. So what’s holding Google back?
Perhaps nothing! If Google Babble does exist, you may want to bank on it being revealed around or at Google I/O 2013 – that’s starting on the 14th of May – coming up quick! Have a peek at the timeline below for more information on Google’s recent innovations with Hangouts in Google+ to see what we very well may be experiencing in Babble soon!
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At Bradford Grammar School we believe that extra-curricular activities are as valuable to the development of the individual as are academic studies. For that reason we continue to have Wednesday afternoon as a time for activities. All pupils in the First to Third Forms must take part in something, although this becomes optional from the Fourth Form onwards. Pupils are able to choose from 53 clubs and societies, from climbing, rowing and orienteering, to war games, debating and chess. Many of our departments also run clubs for pupils who would like to pursue an academic interest; the Chemistry Club and the Internet Club are examples. The Art and DT Clubs also enable pupils to continue with their interest without taking a formal examination in the subject. Bradford Grammar School offers an exciting programme of outdoor activities for pupils of all ages, interests and abilities.
Outdoor activities are important in broadening the experience of young people. They provide challenge and competition, and promote teamwork, skill, athleticism and a sense of personal achievement. The school has easy access to the Dales and the Lake District, which provide the ideal environment for outdoor activities such as fell walking, climbing, abseiling, mountain biking, sailing, the CCF and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. Outdoor activities extend well beyond the local region. Ski parties visit Alpine resorts; there is an annual watersports trip to the Ardèche gorge; and for First Form pupils (age 11), there is a wonderful residential weekend each September with PGL. Outdoor activities are run by committed and experienced teachers. Most activities take place on Wednesday afternoons; others are organised at weekends and during holidays. Many outdoor activities bring together pupils of different ages and create an environment in which informal relationships between staff and pupils flourish.
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Hello, Christmas fans, and welcome once more to ChristmasWatch 2012. Winter Clearlight here, your ever faithful guide to all things Christmas in the world. Only 19 days remain now on the clock, and as the days turn colder, everyone seems more and more aware that the time is getting closer.
And as people become more and more eager, many become particularly creative. As this photo blog from the Huffington Post discusses, around the world people create the most unusual Christmas trees. From massive trees made of fiber optic lights and large decorative cones, to trees made of stuffed animals, discarded cans, and even bicycles, there are so many ways to create a Christmas tree that has no greenery, or a completely different shape than normal.
At Christmas Central, we embrace this idea as fully as anyone else. From spiral shaped and whimsically crooked trees, to cheerful candy constructions, we have so much to choose from! Would you like a cone shaped tree made out of peppermint candy? We have it. One doesn’t need to feel bored with seeing the same decorations, year in and out, when there is so much more to explore in the idea.
As it is each day, this is Winter Clearlight saying, why not try something new for your Christmas? Decorating should be about stamping your own identity on your environment, being able to create whatever style you would like to see. And that’s the way trees are.
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What generated a sense of excitement in your childhood? Well, there was the belief in Bigfoot. You used to go on those excursions with your friend in the woods behind the neighborhood searching for the beast. There was also the belief in Santa Clause and the reindeer…the Tooth Fairy…the Easter bunny…the Great Pumpkin. Too bad these all turned out to be a bunch of lies. Why do parents need to make up lies and fairy tales? Is it because the reality and truth of human momentum is devoid of excitement? Is adulthood really that bad…forcing us to make-believe with our children? Perhaps…instead of lies…we could talk about some real significant humans and human achievement and celebrate that…or…there is an abundance of beauty and mystery to celebrate in the inhuman sphere.
There were lots of real adventures that got the heart pumping. Those secret missions at night, once the parents were asleep…sneaking out to egg and toilet paper neighborhood homes. Remember that time you and xxxxxxx poured gasoline on the neighbor’s firewood pile, set it aflame, and then proceeded to be firemen putting out the blaze? Remember how fast your heart was pumping when the cops rolled into your driveway? The approaching storms were invigorating. You would watch them approaching from the front porch…the lightening…the thunder…the swirling dark clouds…the tornado warnings. Remember when your brothers used to make you punch some random kid so they could watch a fight? How mean. But, it did get your adrenaline flowing,,,right?
Man, all the fun and enjoyment you had outdoors. Remember catching fire flies in your hands on a warm summer night? Remember building snowmen, snow forts, throwing snowballs at moving cars and running as fast as you could when they slammed on the brakes? All those games…kick the can…tag…war…bikes…big wheels…tackle football in the snow…playing for hours outside until dusk…when mom blew the whistle three times to let us know it was time for dinner. Remember the public swimming pool…when we would pick a corner in the deep end and as a group jump in with cannon ball form…blowing away all the would be swimmers…the corner would be ours. We called it…the Bermuda Triangle…lmao.
There were more memories of feeling excitement and being alive. Remember that trip to the Cayman Islands? You went skinny dipping with your brothers at night during a full moon. That beautiful water, light but dark…swimming in terror and excitement. Remember the horror movies, the haunted houses, the damn scary pirate mask that your brothers terrorized you with…the vivid nightmares? Remember that one night…when you thought about being dead forever…and you almost grasped what that meant? The fall…the leaves changing…jumping in piles of colorful leaves. And King, the family dog…a real dog…Norwegian elkhound…such a spirit…always finding ways to escape and roam free for days.
These are the broad memories of your childhood…the important ones…when you felt excitement…when you felt alive. I find it very interesting and telling…that the majority of this excitement was outside…not indoors. Indoors was the place to eat and sleep and get warm. Other than that…the indoors was simply a means to prepare to go outdoors…and live. There was also a little bit of trouble…mischievousness…freedom to roam…and some disappointment in the adults or culture…the lies…the fairy tales…the cover-up…the misdirected celebrations. But all in all, it was a good lively childhood…mainly spent outdoors…or so that is…all that I remember.
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January 23, 2013
Tweetable facts about Cape Town
Stuart Buchanan is a journalist, blogger, and online writer for Flow Communications.
He grew up in Durban and has lived in various parts of South Africa and the UK, before finally settling on Cape Town. He often wonders why anyone would want to live anywhere else.
So you know that there is a flat mountain and pretty beaches, but there is much, much more to the beautiful Mother City than that. Here are a few short, interesting facts about Cape Town to share on Twitter, among friends, or maybe at your next pub quiz, to help you sound like an authority on the matter!
- Cape Town has a population 3.7-million people
- Cape Town receives an average of 283 days of sunshine per year
- Cape Town International Airport has been voted Best Airport in Africa for the past two years – and 8-million passengers passed through it in 2011
- Cape Town's container terminal moves 700 000 containers per year
- The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway has been operating since 1929, receiving its 1-millionth visitor 1959, and its 22-millionth in 2012
- In the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen even recommends a little Constantia for its "healing powers on a disappointed heart", in reference to the Cape wine region
- More species of plants grow on Table Mountain than in the whole of the United Kingdom
- The world’s first heart transplant was performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town in 1967
- Cape Town is home to the world’s largest individually timed cycle race, the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour
- The daily noon gun is not only Cape Town’s oldest living tradition, but the guns used (there are two, in case one fails) are two of the oldest in the world still in daily use
- Many of the houses in the Bo-Kaap area were built from the ballast that Dutch ships used on their voyages to Cape Town
- Table Mountain is the only terrestrial landmark to have an equivalent in the stars – Mensa (meaning "table"), a constellation which like the mountain even has a "tablecloth", in the form of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Know any other good ones? Share them below!
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Creating Value by Exposing the Creative Process
Every Christmas my family finds a couple of pieces of art on my wish list. They’re usually small prints from independent artists that can be easily purchased online. It can be difficult to find affordable art – but fortunately, there are a lot of places online that sell small prints from unknown artists that are amazing.
While I love the pictures themselves, a huge part of the joy I get from receiving one is knowing that we’re supporting independent artists. I like to think of the time and love that these artists put into their work, and unlike popular artists or massive print runs, how each sale is noticed and appreciated.
Because these artists are small and unknown marketing is a challenge – just like any start-up. Illustrator Elfan Diary is gaining attention by posting videos of himself creating his art:
It doesn’t look like his individual pieces are for sale – he’s probably marketing himself for contract work – but I think this would be a brilliant strategy for artists with online stores. The peek into how the art is created emphasizes the uniqueness of the pieces, and the skill of the creator. Every time a customer looks at a piece she bought she would remember the video, so the whole experience gained by the art would be greatly expanded. I thought of this when I first saw this video, and was looking forward to the experience so much that I immediately searched for a “buy” button. I’m still disappointed that I didn’t find one.
I can easily imagine this technique brought into software – in fact, 37signals does a great job of this with their blog. Are there ways you can create more value for your customers by demonstrating the care that goes into creating your products?
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BubbaBuddhist wrote:... If we become a fascist society, where the government assumes the right to seize citizen's assets--leave. Move to where you stashed the gold and live there.
Can you be certain of getting out? Many Jews tried to leave Nazi Germany but couldn't get a visa.
Did the Buddha stash gold in the forest? Hardly!
If you lose all your money, it's likely you will find shelter and food, through social security payments, working, or begging. What else do you need? If things are really bad, you die. So what?
About ten years ago I decided on a long-term investment policy, leaving me free to think about other things than money juggling. Check out ideas by people like Warren Buffett and Jim Bogle to see how you might "invest and forget".
Buddhist monks don't even handle money, I think the rest of us should handle it as little as possible!
Did the Buddha give any direct advice on how lay people should handle money?
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A Kabul-based think tank has accused international forces in Afghanistan of misleading the public by calling military operations "Afghan-led," even when Afghan forces do not take a leading role.
The Afghanistan Analysts' Network charges in its report issued Wednesday that NATO applies the term so broadly that it has, in at least one instance, used it to classify an assault conducted primarily by U.S. forces.
The report lists the July 2011 shooting of an Afghan journalist by an American soldier as an example. Omaid Khpulwak, who worked for foreign and Afghan media, was killed last year in a counterattack after Taliban insurgents stormed the offices of national broadcaster RTA in southern Uruzgan province.
The report's author, Kate Clark, wrote that NATO said Afghan forces had led the counterattack, while the Afghan government blamed Khpulwak's death on the Taliban. However, a U.S. military investigation determined that one of the American soldiers clearing the building shot and killed Khpulwak after mistaking him for an insurgent.
Clark noted that although Afghan troops did fight the Taliban at a separate attack on the governor's compound, "their role at RTA was dismal, virtually negligible." She said NATO's press release of the twin attacks gave a "glutinously adulatory account" of the Afghan forces and failed to mention any international military involvement.
A U.S. forces spokesman told the Associated Press that it was still appropriate to call the response "Afghan-led," because Afghan forces were overseeing the entire response that day to all attacks.
Coalition countries are pulling out their troops ahead of a 2014 deadline, after which Kabul plans to take full control of security operations in Afghanistan.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.
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Play begins with a die for each player to roll off to see who shakes first.
First player shakes all the dice looking for 1's (aces). If a player doesn't shake any dice, the cup is passed on to the player to his left. If a player does shake and get an ace (or multiple), count the number of aces and shake again, building upon the previous number. When a player reaches, or surpasses the numbers 7, 14, 21, the following happens:
7 = choosing a shot
14= buying the shot
21= drinking the shot
Upon reaching the number 17, remove the aces from play. For example, if you are shaking on an 18, there should only be three dice in the cup.
Twist... if a player is shaking on the number 20, you can shake the die in the dice cup and push it (without looking) to another player. That player would have to drink the shot upon looking at the die. If an ace isn't rolled that player shakes and takes the roll or passes it to another player. This can get interesting if there is a battle between two players.
Greg - Milwaukee
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To the Editor:
After criticizing President Obama’s stimulus package which financed building and improving our highway, Rep Foxx is advocating for the creation of more highway construction jobs. Rep. Foxx criticized signs posted to identify the project failing to acknowledge those signs were created by a small business.
Sometime ago, Rep. Foxx introduced a bill that will spur the creation of more highway construction jobs by reforming the nation’s Highway Trust Fund. Of course her bill would eliminate the “Davis-Bacon” labor Act, sponsored by Republican Senator James J. Davis and Rep. Robert L. Bacon and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1931, fueled by the Great Depression. Congress enacted the DBA to assure workers a fair wage, provide local contractors a fair opportunity to compete for local government contracts and to preserve its own ability to distribute employment and federal money equitable through public works projects.
Despite many attempts to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act, like Rep. Foxx, the law has bi-partisan local support across the nation. The DBA was amended in 1935 to ensure that contractors bidding on public works projects would not lower wages in order to achieve a lower bid. The Act was modified again in 1964 to include fringe benefits in the calculation of prevailing wages and in 1994, the DBA was amended so that the construction, renovation or repair of buildings used by Head Start programs are also subject to the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act.
Another Republican from North Carolina, Rep. Sue Myrick, tried to repeal DBA outright. The Republican Party has long been trying to repeal the Davis Bacon Act on grounds that the regulations are outdated, expensive and bureaucratic. The Republican Party continues its attempts to kill Social Security and Medicare.
North Carolinians are often characterized as people who do not vote for what is in their best interest. Rep. Foxx does not have the best interest of her constituents at heart. America has been good for Rep. Foxx, but Rep. Foxx is not good for America!
M. D. Block
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Traffic in Kuala Lumpur can be a nightmare. Firday evenings after a heavy downpour are the worst. What can we do to solve this? Join and help!
Cityleft has worked together with Travelsharing.netsons.org to develop an open source website for car pooling.
Carpooling (also known as car-sharing, ride-sharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage), is the shared use of a car by the driver and one or more passengers, usually for commuting (Wikipedia).
However Travelsharing.netsons.org extended this approach to other forms of mobility such as biking, hiking, and so on.
The website is still at its beta version. Users should join to the community in order to translate contents in local languages.
To take part to this Travelsharing.netsons.org project visit:
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It's MagNut Time!
Oh, what a girl can do! It's time for the 2012 MagNut Program!
Our annual fall program of magazines orders and nuts/candy gives each registered Girl Scout the chance to set a goal and earn proceeds.
Girl Scouts can earn 15% of their total sales through the MagNut Program. Last year alone, GSWPA Girl Scouts earned more than $410,000 for their troops, which they used for tons of activities including caring for animals at a shelter, visiting Washington, D.C. for the national singalong and attending programs listed in our S'more publication.
Check out the full line up of nuts and candy.
The timing of this program gives girls revenue to start out their Girl Scout year before they benefit from their Cookie Program proceeds. They also earn fun recognitions -- and develop five skills they'll use throughout their lives:
- Goal Setting,
- Decision Making,
- Money Management,
- People Skills, and
- Business Ethics.
Want to order but don't know a Girl Scout? We can help!
Yes, we know many schools are also holding fundraising activities during the fall. But, Girl Scouts is offering some very unique items in our line-up. The popular chocolate covered pretzels in an adorable Library Tin, Dark Chocolate Mint Penguins – great for our hockey fans — and our Cranberry Nut Mix make great teacher gifts or stocking stuffers. This year’s unique Juliette Low’s Mailbox Tin filled with Carmel Treasures is a must have keepsake for all current and former Girl Scouts – and magazine subscriptions are a great gift that lasts all year and is perfect for faraway relatives.
This year's unique Juliette Gordon Low malibox tin filled with Caramel Treasures is a must-have keepsake for current and former Girl Scouts -- and magazine subscriptions are great gifts that last all year (perfect for faraway relatives).
Learn more about the MagNut Program
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Tuesday's rainy weather might have been dreary, but it didn't stop the York County SPCA from celebrating the groundbreaking of its new high-volume spay/neuter clinic.
About 25 people attended the event -- as well as a handful of dogs and a horse -- under two tents.
The York County commissioners committed $1.6 million over the next 12 years to the animal adoption center in order to decrease the large number of strays in the area.
The current SPCA facility in Manchester Township filled within two weeks of opening, said Kathy King, president of the organization's board of directors. The new clinic is a $1.35 million, 4,000-square-foot project scheduled to open in August 2013.
King said the clinic will enhance the SPCA's spay/neuter program, reducing the number of stray animals over time, thereby reducing the shelter's cost.
Kevin Smith, vice president of the board, said there are 110 Humane Alliance-affiliated clinics across the United states. This will be the first one in Pennsylvania.
"By year's end, we're hoping to perform 35 spay/neuters each day," Smith said.
That comes out to nearly 13,000 each year, a marked increase from the 5,000 procedures King said the organization currently performs yearly.
The cost of the procedures will depend on the animal, he said, but they will be offered at reduced rates. Smith said a dog's procedure would cost around $75, whereas feral cats are treated at much lower rates.
Smith said the organization, is mostly donor-funded, will retrain its current employees and possibly hire a few new ones.
Sue Wagner, a volunteer with the SPCA's equine group, stressed that horses -- 19 of them -- also are up for adoption.
The horses are currently housed in foster homes and have been neglected or abused, but Wagner said the volunteers work and ride with them until they are comfortable.
"Aside from maybe some scars, they are no different," she said.
To adopt a pet from the center, visit ycspca.org and download an adoption application.
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Jan 10, 2012, 4:00 AM, Posted by Pioneer Blog Team
These questions and others were posed following the release of OpenNotes’ findings about patient and doctor attitudes toward opening doctors’ medical notes to patients. The survey of nearly 38,000 patients and 173 primary care physicians revealed patients were enthusiastic about the prospect of reading their doctors’ notes while doctors were cautious.
Patients who signed up for the project, such as Linda Johnson, 63, a Harborview patient, told The Seattle Times she found the notes helpful in recalling what she and her doctors had talked about and how she was supposed to follow up. "I have found, as I get older, I need more visits to the doctor, and there are more things we need to talk about…I find having them written down helps a lot." Patient Candice Wolk, a 39-year-old mother of twins, told the New York Times that reading her notes after a pregnancy check-up reminded her to follow-up with a dermatologist to have a dark spot on her back checked.
Doctors enrolled in the project also shared their thoughts. David Ives, MD, an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess, told American Medical News he thinks OpenNotes is a rousing success, saying “The patients loved it, and it had absolutely no impact on me really at all. It was amazing how little impact it had.”
Bloggers chimed in too, including patient advocate Trisha Torrey who called on her readers to “continue to encourage your doctor to share your records – to provide easy access to you” and Ted Eytan, who wrote that “here’s something in health care that most patients want to receive, but not all doctors want to provide.”
The media stories and blog posts such as those on The Health Care Blog, TIME’s Healthland Blog, NPR’s Shots Blog, and Vitals on MSNBC.com sparked conversations and debate and were shared widely through social networks. You can join the conversation by commenting on these stories or tweeting @myopennotes or @pioneerrwjf.
Looking ahead, one thing is clear: the final results of OpenNotes, due later this year, are eagerly awaited and have the potential to spur real change in the way doctors share information with patients about their health and health care.
OpenNotes is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. The survey results were published December 19, 2011, in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Posted 9/02/09 (Wed)
By Tina Foreman
Farmer Staff Writer
The main goal of the Watford City Police Department is to keep the community safe. In an effort to do that, the department has added a new member to its team, a member that is capable of doing things most police officers can’t.
The newest member is Tyson, a seven-year-old male black lab who began training to be a police dog at just one year old.
“Tyson was trained with officer Kennedy of the North Dakota Highway Patrol,” says Dustin Newman, Watford City Police Officer. “The NDHP retired him, but because he still has many good years left in him we were able to purchase him for our department.”
Tyson is trained in narcotics, but in addition to detecting drugs, he can also detect articles.
“He’s not just a drug dog,” adds Newman. “Because he can also detect articles, he will be a great asset at locating criminals or missing persons.”
Although Tyson is trained, he’s not quite ready to head out on any big jobs just yet. His first few weeks will be spent bonding with Officer Newman and learning that he has a new handler. Following that, both Tyson and Newman will go through a training course to become certified and then he should be ready for the full-time duties of a police dog.
“There is a lot more work involved with having a K-9 unit than people realize,” states Newman. “For one thing, the training is ongoing and his job is just as strenuous as ours, but I still have to spend some time with him every day like you would a pet.”
Newman feels that Tyson will be a great asset to the community for safety and education.
“He will be a great safety tool for the community,” comments Newman. “But I think the community will benefit even more through what they learn from having Tyson here.”
Newman plans to have an event for the community so they can meet Tyson and learn about him. But for now, he urges anyone with questions to stop him and ask.
“I want the public to feel free to come up to us whenever. They just need to respect that Tyson is a working dog,” adds Newman. “The handler is the only person allowed to touch the dog. Anyone else needs to ask my permission first. He is not allowed to be played with by other people because he is a working dog.”
Tyson comes to the Watford City Police Department thanks to Officer Kennedy of the NDHP and the Watford City City Council for the funding to purchase him and do training.
“I think a K-9 unit is a great asset to the community, which is why I pursued this,” says Newman. “I am very thankful to the City Council and Officer Kennedy as well as The Sign Shop in Williston for giving us the window graphics for my patrol car. I am confident that Tyson will be a great asset to Watford City.”
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Stairway to Hell
Picture Bible Code
Found 2000 years after Pentecost, AD 33,
(Part 2 of two parts on
(Encoded within Isaiah 46:1-6)
(The Sheol aspect of this bible code was discovered late Aug. 30th,
2004, and published on Net late Sept. 6th, a week later. This second part was put out on the Net late the next day, 7th.)
In this article we discuss the numeric and thematic links between the Sheol aspect of this bible code put on the Net now, and the fall of the Twin Towers three
The uncanny timing of when the Sheol/Hell aspect of the
bible code was revealed is, in and of itself, a sign that the events to which it speaks are coming soon. ('How soon' remains unknown.)
The Numeric Connection:
The Sheol code was found 2000 years after Pentecost, AD 33. (2000 x 360 days = 720,000 days.) This is the traditional date of when God poured out His Spirit upon the 120 in the upper room (at 9 am), (Acts 2). I realized this
fact about 8:30 am (Sept. 7, 2004) the morning after I put out the article on
This 2000 years from Pentecost (720,000 days) denotes the end of the 6000 (4000 + 2000) years from Creation, with the seventh 1000-year millennial reign of Christ about to begin---about which this code speaks. This
picture code is a sign and wonder that His reign will soon begin!
The importance of the 2000 years (720,000 days) from the Pentecost of Acts 2 cannot be appreciated unless one has read the articles on the Twin Towers.
9/11 Twin Towers:
Code -1- -2-
'Twin Towers' as "Two Witnesses" -2-
'Saddam's two sons' as "Two Witnesses"
945000 days: Ezek. 31
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Three great signs
on 1st anniversary of 9/11
(Flash 'mene' code)
Here is a quotation:
"Exactly 2000 years since Pentecost:
(Click here for the mathematical details.)
As most know, "1260 days" is '360 days x 3½ years'. (A prophetic year has 360 days in it when not adjusted to the sun.) Now it happens that Sept. 11, 2001 "about 9:00 am"
(the same hour as the terrorist attack) was exactly 2000 years plus a day (of the 360 day-calendar unadjusted) from Pentecost, Sunday, (AD 30, 9 am) when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the 120 in the upper room. At that time, they all spoke supernaturally in
different languages; God was undoing the TOWER of Babel (BABYLON) curse. (360 x 2000 years = 720,000 days = 1971.2946 normal solar years.) The Spirit told me by various signs to put out the mene/hand code
720,000 days after Jesus' death, which thing I did on Sat., July 21, 2001, 6 p.m. About 50 days later, therefore, was Pentecost (plus 720,000 days) and the Twin Tower disaster."
Three years after the Twin Tower disaster, there terminates another 2000-year span that likewise begins from the Pentecost of Acts 2 in the following sense:
The actual Pentecost of Acts 2 occurred in AD 30. However, the traditional date is AD 33---three years later. (Note: Some scholars still favor the AD 33 date. The bible itself, and not just tradition, creates this
ambiguity due to a statement in John 2:20. But that is beyond the scope of this discussion.) Hence, the fall of the Twin Towers was 2000 (x 360 days) from (actual) Pentecost (AD 30), and again now at this time, at the putting out of this
article, there are 2000 years from (traditional) Pentecost (AD 33).
Click here for the detailed calculations.
(Ezek. 31 and Isaiah 14.)
See the article on the 945,000 days elapsed from Ezek. 31 as it pertains to the Twin Towers, put out on the Net a few years ago.
(945,000 is, among other things, [1290 + 1335] x 360 days. See Daniel 12.
Also see, Three Great Signs on the 1st anniversary of 9/11.)
In the above articles, I point out how that the passage of Ezek. 31 about the fall of Egypt and Pharaoh as symbolized by the felling of a tree---cast down to the deepest pit---also relates to the Twin Tower disaster. The Ezekiel 31 passage is
very much like Isaiah 14. (Isaiah 14 describes Lucifer's thrust into the pit---about which the picture code of the stairway to Hell also describes.)
art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning (i.e., Lucifer)! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit."
Compare chapter 14 of Isaiah with Ezek. 31.
The comparison is most striking in every way. Moreover, both passages fit the bible code almost at every verse. Thus, God is linking the code about Sheol with the Twin Towers of 3 years ago, (and with Saddam Hussein; for it was the
Twin Towers that justified the attack on Iraq [ancient Babylon].) (This is not to imply that all that died in that tragedy went
The following is taken from Ezek. 31. Compare it to the several picture-codes on this page. (Note that Saddam's name appears at the very top-most of the tree in a 12th leaf not shown here.)
"And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth
are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot
up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit."
"Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep
for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that
descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that
dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD," (Ezek. 31:12-18.)
The following are other images that tie in with this whole code. They will be explained (Lord willing) in the future.
Eventually, many of these images turn out to be hieroglyphics using as script that dates back to the time when the Hebrew language was just taking on its own (borrowed) script, (about 1000 BC). This lengthy code is
deciphered by reading up the river according the where each image intersects the river. (However, the river is always changing, and the wheel is moving. This is the codes greatest mystery!) We hope to detail each pictographic (hieroglyphic) image later. But for now note
that the letters (formed by encoded images) are emitted from the fountain ('ayin') of the wheel (circle), which is located at the exact center of where the bottom hand of the balance was. (This spot represents the day of Pentecost.)
here for the first article in this series.)
Its location, I believe, suggests that these pictographic letters are meant to depict the going forth of the word of God from the scroll ("roll") of the Lamb of Revelation 5, sealed with seven seals. As said in another document, the
location represents 'Gilgal' (where the Israelites crossed the Jordan and were circumcised). For those familiar with the bible, check the root meanings of this word. It can mean a "wheel", a "role of a scroll," a "fountain," a "heap
of stones," (as a witness), and "a whirlwind." All these meanings are depicted in the pictures, made clear by what the images read, and by its numeric. (The following are a sampling of them.)
The above is confirmed by the below image. It reads, "The Lord is a zayin,' or, "The Lord is armed (for battle)," (i.e., part of the Ezek. 8-11 scene). It forms a bow strapped around the altar that is in the shape of a zayin (in
the ancient script). But coming from the center of the location of the wheel and hand is a zayin as it would have been written at the time of Messiah, and still is today. Note that both zayins connect to both the river and the altar! Also, the top zayin
is at 7-letter intervals, and it happens that a zayin can stand for the numeral "seven"! The other zayin is 40 letters long. It reads, "I am a zayin," or, "I am armed." (Hence, the two images have virtually the same reading.)
The shape of a zayin depicts an ancient weapon, probably a dagger---hence the further connection to the altar, and also to Ezek. 8-11. (Note that judgment, using the weapons of wrath, also began
at God's altar in Ezek. 9. "The perfect bow of justice," reads one bow---a play on words for a "writing kit," (Ezek. 9:1-4). This is the arrow that strikes the Lord, or our behalf. Yeshua (Jesus) is marked with a mark ('Tav') for us, so that we might be
marked for mercy by God. Also note that these series of bible codes were discovered exactly 1260 (Revelation 12) + 1335 (Daniel 12) years to the week and very day from when this event in Ezekiel actually took place! Repent and believe the good news that Yeshua is the
Messiah, the hope of Israel!
As for the exact day---Pentecost, according to tradition, fell on a Sunday, (7 weeks after Christ rose from the dead, which was also, therefore, a Sunday. It was "the first day of the week.")
Since 720,000 (less a day) is divisible by even weeks, therefore, 720,000 days later must land on a Monday, if the count begins on (Pentecost) Sunday. In earlier documents, I examine how that the Twin Towers fell one day later,
that is, on Tuesday morning, (or 720001 days). The extra day is for the purpose of pointing to what Jewish tradition now calls, "second Pentecost." It is the 66th day from the Jewish (religious) New Year. In the same way, this morning, between 8:30 to
9:20 am, the Spirit opened my understanding to realize that this very hour was therefore 3 years exactly from the fall of the Twin Towers---to the very hour. ("Exactly 3 years," that is, according to Jewish-calendar reckoning, and according to how it
would have fallen between the Pentecost Sundays on AD 30 and AD 33, [a span of 1092 days]. This amounts to 37 lunar months, which is the said 1092 days, and is divisible by seven).
I worked on the document throughout Monday, Sept. 6, (which was exactly 720,000 days from Pentecost, AD 33.) I completed it and
put it on the Net at 12:30 that night---exactly 72 days from when the revelation of this code first starting coming to me, and (as explained) is the anniversary of the Twin Towers disaster. Note that the the branch of the lamp/balance also spans 72
letters long. And that every step of the stairway is 36 letters apart; (36 x 2 = 72).
But more importantly, notice the diagram put out yesterday. (See right.) Note the emphasis on the number 720. I mention these things so that others may know that the code is itself a sign. It is a sign
that the 1000-year millennial rule of Messiah Jesus over this earth is at hand. Are you ready?
Also note the 1260 letters of the Sheol code, and the 1260,000 days from the fall of 1447 BC, when the plagues began
upon Egypt just before the release of the Israelites from 430-years in Egypt. Both 1260,000 and 720,000 are 1000 times 1260 and 720. The purpose of the '1000-times' numeric is to strengthen the code and its message---namely, that the 1000-year
reign of Messiah will soon begin, and Satan will be bound. (But this 1000-years must first be preceded by a 1260, or 1260 x 2-day trial upon the earth, known as the Great Tribulation.)
There is so much to say! Such as the fact that 72 days ago, when this code first came to me, was also 1260 + 1335 years to the very day from when Ezekiel completed laying on his side 390 days to bear
the sins of the house of Israel, about which this bible code constantly alludes. (Dated according to the 360 calendar. God is using both the 'normal' Jewish reckoning as well the prophetic calendar of 360 days.)
Moreover, since the 360 calendar can be put up a month (due to when the leap
month is to be added), thus, Sunday of Sept. 5th can also be viewed as the end of the 40 (and thus 430) days in which Ezekiel laid on his side to bear the sins of the house of Judah, (see Ezek. 4).
(Also see the 1260 + 1335 years back to the Tav/mark as seen in image on right.)
For just one example of how this Picture Bible Code harmonizes with a multitude of Bible passages, please see Psalm 18 and 2Sam. 22
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Dr. Durant, who was assistant general director of Massachusetts General Hospital, became a prominent and well-loved figure in the international aid community for helping to provide medical assistance to war-torn and disease-stricken nations such as Cambodia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Rwanda, Iraq, Somalia and Bosnia. He was honored for his service by the United Nations in 1995 as part of its 50th anniversary with the World Humanitarian Award.
Boston College presented Dr. Durant with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Commencement last spring. Dr. Durant "radiates the splendor of the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Sermon on the Mount," read the degree citation, which proclaimed the University's "profound admiration for a just and righteous son's inspiring imitation of Christ the Healer."
Dr. Durant is survived by his wife, Fredericka, and sons Stephen, Joseph and Sean.
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(Source: Ellis Smith Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. (MCT) — The rural credit company that made it through recessions and fought off attempted takeovers for 68 years soon will lose its independence.
In a move that surprised and dismayed some members, Chattanooga Agricultural Credit Association will merge with the larger Jackson Purchase Agricultural Credit Association out of Kentucky to create River Valley AgCredit, effective July 1.
“Stress in certain segments of our portfolio caused a drop in earnings and impacted our ability to make patronage payments,” board members of Chattanooga Ag Credit wrote to members of the cooperative a few days before the vote.
Chattanooga Agricultural made its money making loans to rural farmers, who in turn bought stock in the company.
However, “the adverse financial conditions over the past several years and the continuing uncertainties facing us have caused us to reevaluate our structure,” the company wrote.
The problem is, not everybody’s buying that story.
Charlie Barker, a third-generation member of Chattanooga Agricultural, said the merger will send members’ hard-earned money to an association based in Mayfield, Ky.
It’s true the Chattanooga Agricultural lost $260,000 in 2011, he acknowledged. But it would take years to eat through the cooperative’s vast reserves at that rate.
Furthermore, the merger will transfer members’ $27 million war chest out-of-state, including a $13.3 million unallocated surplus that would disappear forever, Barker charged.
“When the merger takes place, the new board has the discretion to take that away from the members, and they don’t have to pay it back,” Barker said. “But it’s the membership’s money, they made it.”
His father, who served as Chattanooga Agricultural’s chairman in the 1980s, also questioned the timing of the merger.
The co-op’s members, many of whom are farmers busy with spring fieldwork, received the 189-page single-spaced disclosure statement on May 7, with instructions to read it and mail their ballots back by May 12, said Flavius Barker.
“A little over 200 voted out of 1,300,” said the elder Barker.
In fact, company officials say that about 250 voted out of 1,400, and the vote was about two-to-one in favor of the merger.
Now, a group of members are working to reverse the vote. Petitions and signatures are making the rounds through farm country, ahead of a Friday deadline to call for another vote on the merger.
Anti-merger members say they’ll need more than 200 names to win the right to another vote.
But Chattanooga Agricultural board member Blan Dougherty argued that the deal is good for members, and that anti-merger activists are working against their own interests.
“We were concerned that if we didn’t do something to get a bigger footprint, then we might get stepped on,” Dougherty said. “This merger is a pretty sweet deal for both organizations.”
As for the $13 million in members’ unallocated surplus, Dougherty said that the merger would do a better job of protecting that money than the status quo.
“There’s been no change in that, it’s no more risky now than it was before,” he said.
©2012 the Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Visit the Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, Tenn.) at www.timesfreepress.com
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Professor and Chair of Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
Professor Jerri Willett, Ph.D., has earned an international reputation for her groundbreaking work in the fields of language and literacy. For more than two decades, she has been a compelling advocate for the professional development of teachers of second language learners.
Working closely with colleagues in her department, Professor Willett established the Access through Critical Content and English Language Acquisition (ACCELA) Alliance, a state and federally funded collaboration that supports and improves the education of second language learners across the Commonwealth by providing effective professional development for their teachers.
The ACCELA Alliance includes UMass Amherst and the Springfield, Holyoke, and Amherst school districts as well as several community organizations throughout western Massachusetts. These areas have large populations of English language learners, and Professor Willett and her colleagues saw the challenges that teachers and administrators faced in handling students who were learning both English and regular content at the same time. The ACCELA Alliance has answered these challenges by providing resources for teachers such as degree programs (a Bachelor's of General Studies and a Master's of Education) and the Teacher Quality Dialogues Project, a collaboration between UMass Amherst and the Springfield school district. The latter opens up a discussion between teachers and administrators in order to develop shared expertise about the instructional needs of English language learners.
The ACCELA Alliance also gives teachers the opportunity to collaborate with doctoral students and professors, examining questions about teaching and learning in these particular classroom environments. These questions, in turn, open up new areas of research, with a total of 18 doctoral students writing dissertations about the experience and bringing what they've learned to universities across the country.
"Now we can see the importance of not just hiding these students away until they learned English," Professor Willett says. "The work has energized everybody. The faculty have been going out into the districts and seeing at the ground level what they need to be doing. It has given them different ways of looking at teaching."
In the last seven years of ACCELA's operation, 65 teachers have earned graduate degrees while participating in the program. In total, almost 5,000 teachers and students have been positively affected by this program.
Professor Willett spends countless hours in the schools, working with teachers in Holyoke and Springfield and mentoring students in the doctoral concentration. Her consistent presence in the lives of these public school teachers along with her dedication to improving the education of second language learners have been instrumental to the ACCELA Alliance's success. Professor Willet and her colleagues in the language and literacy concentration at UMass Amherst are currently working to expand the ACCELA program across the Commonwealth.
Professor Willett is chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at UMass Amherst. She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University.
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Australians are not Godless, they're hungry
The facts show the Pope's comment about our country's lack of faith is untrue, writes Paul Collins.
AT FIRST sight Reverend James Denney, a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian theologian, and Pope Benedict XVI don't have much in common. Except that they both believe that Australia is "the most Godless place under heaven", as Denney put it.
The Pope's comments about Australian "Godlessness" have been widely reported. In some off-the-cuff remarks while on holidays in the Italian Alps last month, Benedict said that nowadays "the mainstream churches appear moribund. This is so in Australia, above all, and also in Europe, but not so much in the United States".
Why Australia is targeted is hard to fathom. Perhaps those who applied for the World Youth Day for Sydney overstated the case and made us sound like a mob of heathens?
Mind you, there are many, secularists and churchmen, who do think Australia is "Godless". They point to history: the convicts had to be forced to go to church, and in the 19th century many of the lower orders, such as ex-convicts, bush labourers and gold diggers, were far from pious believers. The middle and upper classes saw churches as bastions of morality rather than as promoters of genuine faith. Also, from the 1860s to the 1900s a fairly militant Australian secularism gained a voice through The Bulletin and writers such as Henry Lawson.
But history needs to be viewed critically. There was still a reasonably high rate of religious practice in the late 19th century among both the working class and the middle class. Catholics, Presbyterians and Methodists increased their attendance throughout the first decades of the 20th century.
Catholicism achieved this through social cohesion. The church formed a kind of Irish-Australian "ghetto" based on Catholic schools, a common worship and piety, dominant priests, and doctrinal and moral code. By the 1950s rates of practice among Catholics were extraordinarily high: upwards of 60 per cent at Mass most Sundays.
It is true that in 2005 this has all disappeared. Practice rates hover at best around 13 per cent of Catholics attending Mass most Sundays. Catholics are also no longer doctrinally predictable. For instance, a July 2005 Australia Institute study surprisingly showed that Catholics are among the least homophobic people in Australia. It looks like Pope Benedict and Reverend Denney are right. Australia is a "Godless place".
However, I'm not so sure. It actually suits two groups of people to emphasise our "Godlessness". First, secularists: it shows they were right after all. Australia is a "secular paradise".
And then there are church leaders who can use our presumed "Godlessness" to claim that the collapse in religious practice is not their fault. It's not church structures, or poor leadership, or uninspired ministry that has led to this. Therefore things do not have to change in the church. It's all really the fault of the crass materialism of the unwashed punters out there.
Also, I'm not sure Australia is, as Benedict says, the most secular place in the world. What about the United Kingdom, or Portugal where practice rates hover around 5 per cent? What about the Pope's own country, Germany, or France, where Catholicism has suffered catastrophic declines in belief and practice? And the US? Are they as religiously healthy as is presumed? You would only think that if you thought the kind of fundamentalism espoused by many who voted for George Bush had anything to do with faith.
It's all a bit more complex than Benedict XVI suggests. My observation is that Australians are not crass materialists or secular slobs. And Catholicism here is not dying.
First, Catholics still identify in the census as Catholics. Catholicism is increasing in proportional terms. We have gone from 23 per cent to 28 per cent of the population over the past 25 years. As I said in my book, Between the Rock and a Hard Place (2004), this shows that even non-practising Catholics still identify culturally with the church.
Second, Catholicism still has a school system where almost a quarter of Australian students are educated. These schools form a kind of "Catholic imagination", a specific way of viewing the world. I explained this as "a set of symbols, beliefs and practices that create and form a unique meaning structure that provides the filter and framework through which a person perceives and arranges their view of the world These symbols also provide a pattern of moral, ethical and social response to all that happens."
Third, there is a real hunger for spirituality and a deeper meaning among Australians. Sure, "spirituality" is one of those undifferentiated words that can mean anything. But people today are dissatisfied; they are looking for an ethical structure to govern their lives. They want something better. What Catholicism needs to do is to try to hear the unarticulated questions implied in the undifferentiated desires expressed in our culture.
The church needs more flexibility and creativity. The old cliches achieve nothing. But an imaginative application of the Catholic-Christian tradition to contemporary questions might well bring about a whole revitalisation of the church.
Paul Collins is a Catholic historian and writer. His new book, God's New Man, on Pope Benedict XVI will be published on September 1.
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Why attempt something never done before? See how Lexus takes the hard way with the behind-the-scenes mini-documentary for the Chain commercial.
Sometimes, doing things the hard way is the only way. This Sunday, Lexus will debut a new broadcast spot as part of its “The Hard Way” brand advertising campaign. The campaign focuses on the engineering and manufacturing techniques the automaker employs that may be more difficult, but allows them to engineer a vehicle that inspires absolute confidence.
It the spot titled, “Chain,” a lone crane slowly lifts the front end of a Lexus LS, then a second vehicle is attached using cables and stretch bars, then another, and another and finally, a fifth Lexus vehicle is suspended in mid air from the crane using no support other than the strength of the LS. The gravity defying spot was created without the use of special effects or camera tricks. The vehicles really were suspended in mid air, not once or twice, but several times for three days straight!
Keywords: Chains, Behind, the, Scenes, Youtube, 264, FINAL
The Making of titled Chain (Behind the Scenes) was done for product: Lexus Ls (brand: Lexus) in no country. It was released in the Jan 2011.
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US president to lead discussion on Diaspora .
The Caribbean diaspora is growing from strength to strength so much so that the role of the diaspora is one of the topics listed for discussion when Caricom Heads of Government meet US President George W Bush and his top aides at the White House between June 19 and 21. Last month, Calypso King of the World Francisco Slinger, the Mighty Sparrow, told me in an exclusive interview in Florida that the diaspora can play a very important role in assisting to develop the region.
However, another musical legend, Dave Martins of the Trade Winds, feels that the diaspora are not allowed to play the part which they would like to play. He said that they are being shut out.
The Guyanese-born singer in an exclusive interview at his office in Georgetown, Cayman Islands, told me that he tried on several occasions to assist the country of his birth, but it seems as if some of his countrymen are putting up a barrier because they feel threatened that their glory and honour would be reduced or curtailed. This, he said, is unfortunate because he wants to give and not to take. Many of them told him that "they stay and bun and the diaspora cut and run".
He added that many Guyanese see him and other members of the diaspora grouping as outsiders who want to interfere.
The well-known Caribbean entertainer said he has no doubt that the diaspora from other states and territories in the Caribbean are viewed in the same light.
The national awardee, who no doubt copped the Golden Arrow of Achieve-ment (AA) award for his tune Not a Blade a Grass", said that he and others are not allowed to give back to the community which he said is very disturbing.
He pointed out that he was invited to participate in the 40th anniversary of Guyana's independence last May in which he wrote a full length musical on Guyana's achievement after nationhood, and he was surprised to hear some adverse comments like "why bring Dave Martins from abroad for our celebrations" - thus branding him as a foreigner. The unfortunate comments were made despite the fact that the programme was a tremendous success because of his presence and contribution.
Despite this, the 71-year-old artiste said "I still want to contribute to my country".
He said, "it is regrettable that the more successful and outstanding the overseas-based Guyanese are, the more they are being marginalized". Some make statements like "you come back from outside, you think you better than we?"
It seems as if Guyanese and other Caribbean nationals prefer their relatives to send monthly remittances to them rather than trying to assist in a more practical manner.
Asked whether he would like to return to Guyana to settle, he responded that like most Guyanese, he is reluctant because of the crime, lack of medical facilities, water and electricity situation and other problems.After leaving Guyana, Dave lived in Canada, and Barbados before moving to the Cayman Islands where he now works with the Government of that British Overseas Dependant Territory as the Executive Director of the Pirates Week National Festival. In addition his band, the Trade Winds, is still entertaining large crowds.
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“WHERE DO I PUT MY NAME?”
“I didn’t sign up for this!”
Is that what you thought when your parent became disabled and you became their sole care-giver?
When your employer demanded you work weekend overtime, did you sign up? When your sister and her 4 kids needed temporary housing because her home was foreclosed, did you sign up to be the cook for 9 without help, or thanks? When you found your 13 year old daughter’s text messages to a 40 year old man were less than appropriate, were you waiting with a pen?
When all three of your children got stomach flu, were you ready to volunteer? When your 14 year old experimented with toxic inhalants, did you sign up to stay up endless nights watching until he regained his lung capacity, recovered, and then tried a repeat?
In the book “Ransomed Dreams”, by Sally John the heroine learns that volunteering to counsel Columbian women of the street can lead to bigger problems, she learns that God can “tag” us with tasks we are unaware or humanly unprepared for. Those that would profit from women’s activity both in human trafficking and in diamond smuggling, caused her physical and emotional trauma.
Sheri learns that sticking by her husband who was seriously disabled by the bullet that was meant for her, was not something she would have chosen. “I didn’t sign up for this!”, she cried out to God. Sheri was bitter, resentful, fearful, unwilling to care for her invalid husband, and bitter about giving up the passion she’d had for her life’s work.
I planned carefully for how my life would be organized after my mother, still young by today’s standards, moved in with my husband and me. She is physically and financially crippled, but not so much so to require my constant attention. I could still manage family events, my own interests and activities, and was free enough hours in a day and a week to keep my sense-of-self along the way.
Okay, I didn’t mention that she brought with her a new husband of only 3 years who was no-one’s shining knight. Okay, I told myself, I can make adjustments. I did adjust. I adjusted my space, my time, my willingness to help, my communication, and then – my attitude. It suffered the most.
Medicare and local family services issues, missed SS income, their loss of some abilities, and their own dysfunctional, wobbling relationship all began to eat away at my bravado. I gave up a few things, but not willingly. I was becoming resentful and fearful.
My step dad subsequently had a near heart attack and then by pass-surgery. We spent 8 days driving 36 miles a day to hospital and back, and on 3 of those days spent more than 5 hours waiting for doctors to make reports to us.
I didn’t sign up for this.
But God knew I was meant for the job. It was his plan all along, and He ‘tagged’ me for it. It was not His intention for my attitude to go sour. It was not He that planted those seeds of regret, fear and resentment in my heart. Yet, he knew that somewhere in me, there were the right ingredients for this job.
Sheri was asked what she thought of when she first woke in the morning. She recited her feelings of hopelessness, dread, anger, and fear. When Sheri gave up that attitude, there was room in her heart for renewed love, thanksgiving and hope.
Sheri was reminded of the words in James chapter one; that essentially say: “hurrah, I’ve got more trials, trouble, big challenges! Am I glad? I cannot ever learn to live by faith without them.”
It’s just life. Faith grows alongside trouble. God is still working on me. And it’s unfinished business.
What are doing that you did not sign up for? Tag. You’re it!
April Boyer © 2010
“Fiction. See what it can do in your life”
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June 15, 2012
NEWPORT, Ore. -- The Oregon Departments of Fish and Wildlife and State Lands have proposed administrative rules for the newly-designated marine reserve sites at Cape Perpetua, Cascade Head and Cape Falcon, and will be asking for comments during a series of public meetings in June.
The new marine reserves were created during the 2012 Oregon Legislative session with the passage of Senate Bill 1510. The bill directs the state agencies to adopt rules establishing boundaries and regulating activities in the marine reserves and associated marine protected areas.
The draft rules are available for public review and comment on the Oregon Marine Reserves Website at oregonocean.info/marinereserves.
The agencies will host four public meetings on the proposed rules. All meetings are from 6-8 p.m.
- Astoria, June 19 - Clatsop Community College, 1651 Lexington Avenue
- Tillamook, June 20 - Oregon Department of Forestry, 5005 3rd Street
- Florence, June 25 - Florence Events Center, 715 Quince Street
- Depoe Bay, June 26 - Depoe Bay Community Hall, 220 SE Bay Street
The public also can comment before the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission at its Aug. 3 meeting in Salem.
Written comments can be sent by July 27 to:
The rules proposed by ODFW will regulate fishing and hunting activities within each site. While the rules regarding marine reserves specifically prohibit hunting and fishing, some of these activities will be allowed in the adjacent marine protected areas. Proposed fishing regulations would take effect after two years of collecting baseline data.
The DSL rules will establish site boundaries and regulate seafloor uses that require state authorization or a removal-fill permit, including the harvest of subtidal kelp.
The Oregon Legislature designated the state’s first marine reserves at Otter Rock and Redfish Rocks in 2009.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Social and location based marketing
Big data is creating opportunities for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to establish new revenue streams. With big data technology, CSPs can analyze the location data generated by millions of mobile devices and use the resulting insights, along with offerings from business partners, to deliver customized services and offers that consumers want.
IBM is getting currently more and more attention on there big-data solutions and thinking. Specially for big-data IBM has created a specific big data hub site which can be interesting for everyone interested in big-data solutions and how to use them in a enterprise.
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Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is hoping to become one of the handful of local law enforcement agencies that have received federal clearance to use unmanned aerial drones to fight crime, a goal that already is arousing concerns among privacy advocates.
Civil liberties and privacy groups revealed Thursday that Sheriff Greg Ahern is seeking Department of Homeland Security funding to buy a small remote-controlled drone called a Dragon Fly. If the money comes through and the Federal Aviation Administration permits the department to test the device, Alameda would be the first public safety agency in California to deploy technology first developed for spying on U.S. enemies overseas.
A memo that one of Ahern's captains prepared over the summer, obtained by the Freedom of Information Act web site MuckRock, says the drone would be equipped with a long-distance camera, live video downlink and infrared sensors that could be used for monitoring bomb threats, fires, unruly crowds, search and rescue operations, and marijuana grows. Read More
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THE OLYMPIC GAMES open in Seoul, South Korea, tomorrow. With this and other recent events, the subjects of drug use by athletes and drug testing come to public attention again.
Recent developments make it likely that international agreement on drug testing and sanctions can be achieved, although the effect on athlete drug use may not be seen for some time. Meanwhile, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) says drug testing will continue despite a California court ruling that exempts Stanford University athletes from participating.
On another front, the experience of a group of Oregon medical students in trying to educate high school students about the dangers of anabolic steroids suggests that any educational effort needs to be carefully examined for its impact. With a new study showing that about 7% of male high school seniors have used anabolic steroids, it is obvious that chemical performance enhancement remains a serious subject
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If your 9 to 5 requires you to be a desk jockey for most of the day, chances are you either need to hit the gym to work off that Subway sandwich you had for lunch – or worse yet, you don’t work it off at all (Jared would not be proud). Enter the Sit to Walkstation. This desk/treadmill combo is the answer to every desk potato’s prayers! It allows you to sit, stand or even walk on a treadmill as you work so that your body can look as stacked as that last set of blueprints you handed in to your boss.
Author’s Note: I am standing as I write this article and will be attempting to work the whole day today on my feet. 10:34AM: My legs are about to give out, but I am going to try my best to power through.
The Sit to Walkstation is an integrated treadmill and desk with room to fit an office chair and all of the files, folders, accessories that you would at a normal desk. In order to switch from sitting mode to standing or walking, all you have to do is push a button. And while we can’t say that the Sit to Walkstation is truly eco-friendly, it is definitely an example of design for health and it’s got steel components (steel is often a recycled material and a very recyclable material).
So why stand or walk while working? Well, the answer may seem obvious – to burn calories and stay fit! – but if you aren’t convinced, read this article from the New York Times about how much of a difference having a standing desk can make. If you don’t do it for the weight-control benefits, do it for the positive effect it can have if you suffer from back pains associated with sitting in a chair for 8 hours.
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My response to the 2012 election may not be as populist as Bobby Jindal’s, but his speech to the Republican National Committee is no less worthy of praise in my eyes simply because of that difference. As is his custom, Jindal proves that he is a politician blessed with both intelligence and inspiration; a combination as laudable as it is rare—especially in a political figure. The following excerpt from his speech is a long one, but it is worth highlighting:
If any rational human being were to create our government anew, today, from a blank piece of paper – we would have about one fourth of the buildings we have in Washington and about half of the government workers.
We would replace most of its bureaucracy with a handful of good websites.
If we created American government today, we would not dream of taking money out of people’s pockets, sending it all the way to Washington, handing it over to politicians and bureaucrats to staple thousands of pages of artificial and political instructions to it, then wear that money out by grinding it through the engine of bureaucratic friction…and then sending what’s left of it back to the states, where it all started, in order to grow the American economy.
What we are doing now to govern ourselves is not just wrong. It is out of date and it is a failure.
We believe in planting the seeds of growth in the fertile soil of your economy, where you live, where you work, invest, and dream, not in the barren concrete of Washington.
If it’s worth doing, block grant it to the states.
If it’s something you don’t trust the states to do, then maybe Washington shouldn’t do it at all.
We believe solving problems closer to home should always be our first, not last, option.
We believe hiring others, far away, is the last and least effective way to meet our social responsibilities to others.
States should not face a moral dilemma when they try to right size their own budgets and federal strings stand in the way.
While the Democrats work on taking more from working Americans, we should stand for radically simplifying our tax code – not for the benefit of Washington, but to get the Washington out of the way.
Get rid of the loopholes paid for by lobbyists and blow up the incentives that Washington uses to coerce behavior from the top-down.
It shouldn’t be complicated for a taxpayer to fill out his taxes…or to live his life without fear of the tax consequences of his or her choices.
When it comes to education — let the Democrats extoll the virtues of our hopelessly antiquated one-size-fits-all factory schools where the child follows the dollars.
Meanwhile, let us feature the success of child-centered education solutions that meet the needs of the digital age, education where the dollars follow the child.
These are but a few examples of the way we must fight the battle of ideas, or as [Margaret] Thatcher said, how we must win the argument.
One thing we have to get straight — Washington has spent a generation trying to bribe our citizens and extort our states.
As Republicans, it’s time to quit arguing around the edges of that corrupt system.
And like any good leader, Jindal does not hesitate to take his own side to task when he must:
… the Republican Party does not need to change our principles…but we might need to change just about everything else we do.
Here are seven things that I believe we must change if we are to amass a following worthy of our principles, and if we are to be in position to win elections and lead America:
1. We must stop looking backward. We have to boldly show what the future can look like with the free market policies that we believe in. Many of our Governors are doing just that. Conservative ideals are aspirational, and our country is aspirational. Nostalgia about the good old days is heart-warming, but the battle of ideas must be waged in the future.
2. We must compete for every single vote. The 47 percent and the 53 percent. And any other combination of numbers that adds up to 100 percent. President Barack Obama and the Democrats can continue trying to divide America into groups of warring communities with competing interests, but we will have none of it. We are going after every vote as we work to unite all Americans.
3. We must reject identity politics. The old notion that ours should be a colorblind society is the right one, and we should pursue that with vigor. Identity politics is corrosive to the great American melting pot and we reject it. We must reject the notion that demography is destiny, the pathetic and simplistic notion that skin pigmentation dictates voter behavior. We must treat all people as individuals rather than as members of special interest groups. The first step in getting the voters to like you is to demonstrate that you like them.
4. We must stop being the stupid party. It’s time for a new Republican party that talks like adults. It’s time for us to articulate our plans and visions for America in real terms. We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. We’ve had enough of that.
5. We must stop insulting the intelligence of voters. We need to trust the smarts of the American people. We have to stop dumbing down our ideas and stop reducing everything to mindless slogans and tag lines for 30-second ads. We must be willing to provide details in describing our views.
6. We must quit “big.” We are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, or big anything. We must not be the party that simply protects the well off so they can keep their toys. We have to be the party that shows all Americans how they can thrive. We are the party whose ideas will help the middle class, and help more folks join the middle class. We are a populist party and need to make that clear.
7. We must focus on real people outside of Washington, not the lobbyists and government inside Washington. We must stop competing with Democrats for the job of “Government Manager,” and lay out ideas that can unleash the dynamic abilities of the American people. We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop. Our government must pursue a level playing field. At present, government is the un-leveler of the playing field.
This is a pathway forward for the Republican Party, one that honors our principles, the American people, and also, will help us win elections.
It is good to see that much of Jindal’s message is reinforced by Republicans like Haley Barbour. And yes, I know that self-criticism can be a painful exercise, but after having lost four of the last six presidential elections—and five of the last six popular vote contests—perhaps a little self-criticism is called for.
There are a lot of people talking about Bobby Jindal for president in 2016. If he continues to use his public profile to speak hard truths and to encourage new and innovative thinking, he will show himself to be presidential material.
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Veronique de Rugy writes on NRO: Recently I've been reading economists Leonard Burman and Joel Slemrod's Taxes in America. Like pretty much everything else these two write, this book is well worth reading. In particular, it hits all the important questions about taxes in a clear and neutral manner.
I highly recommend it whether you want to learn more about our tax system, its incidences, its cost, and more, or whether you want to learn how to explain complex tax issues in a simple and concise way.
In the context of the current debate over the fiscal cliff, I was particularly interested in the chapter called “Taxes and the Economy.” Slemrod and Burman, for instance, ask questions such as “How do taxes affect the economy?”
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Gems of geometry
By John Barnes
When Gems of Geometry arrived through the post it seemed the Gods had conspired to despatch the perfect book for me to review. Like the author, John Barnes, I have a fascination with Edwin Abbot Abbot’s Flatland and spent many childhood hours gluing paper models of fantastical geometric constructions together. Not only that, mine and Barnes' paths had also crossed in a former life, when I once shared an office with the commissioning editor for his best-selling computer programming books.
So, would the author of successful student textbooks in one field, be able to apply his magic to a popular mathematical treatise?
At first glance the content is fairly standard stuff: we learn about the golden ratio, explore Platonic and Archimedian shapes and solids in two and three dimensions and dabble in four-dimensional figures, projective geometry, topology, chaos, fractals and relativity. What's not so standard is the stuff you find out along the way. Barnes, as it turns out, is a geometry geek. And, as with all geeks, when he's talking about his pet subject you can't help but be inspired by his quirky, endearing and infectious enthusiasm, even if he occasionally veers off topic.
Throughout, Barnes refers to physical manifestations of the mathematical concepts, whether it's Meccano structures, the buds of sunflowers, cacti and pineapples or some elderly paper models of his own making. These help to bring new perspectives to even the most familiar of shapes. For instance, imagine a solid cube. What shape would you see if you sliced diagonally through its centre? What solid would you make if you joined the midpoints of its faces? And what relationship does this have with the form created by joining the midpoints of an octahedron's faces? If you'd like to try it out yourself, you'll find the answers below.
Barnes also considers common artistic and literary interpretations of geometric figures, regularly citing the work of Escher and Dali, and talking about the stories of Charles Dodgson (a.k.a Lewis Carroll), William Upton and Robert Heinlein. In the latter's And he built a crooked house a couple's new dream home folds up into a hypercube (the four-dimensional analogue of a square) after an earthquake. If the couple attempt to go out of the window of the master bedroom above the kitchen, they end up falling into the kitchen from the ceiling. If they leave the kitchen by the window opposite, they enter the study by the corresponding window, upside down. And when they go out onto the roof of the study they end up in the basement. Sheer havoc.
This fascination with stories and books isn't limited to the main text. Each chapter ends with a detailed description of recommended further reading, which led me to add a number of titles to my Amazon wish list. Who knew about Robin Wilson's Stamping through mathematics, which collects together almost 400 images of postage stamps depicting aspects of maths? (Plus, it seems, did — read the review here.) Or Soap Bubbles, published in 1890? Its author, Sir Charles Vernon Boys, was known for entertaining Victorian dinner parties with his soap bubble demonstrations.
There are also regular pauses for discussion of the curious etymology of mathematical terms. Barnes shares the Greek and Latin derivations of seemingly familiar words like corollary (from the Latin corollarium, a garland of flowers given to an actor as a gift, indicating that a corollary comes for free with no further effort) and concurrent (from the Latin con — together — and curro — I run). He also makes a point of stating the proper name for a regular nine-sided polygon as enneagon (from the Greek for nine, ennea) alongside the more common Latin prefix version, nonagon. And if you look carefully, you'll even find a nod towards Old Norse — used to describe a solid with 12 pentagonal faces and 80 triangular ones.
All these disparate topics aren't just interesting asides. To some extent they reinforce Barnes' belief in the beauty of geometry itself, which he considers demonstrated by the occasions when "seemingly unrelated topics suddenly have a deep resonance". Sharing this beauty — and the sometimes surprising nature of geometry — is just one of the book's objectives, though. Barnes is also keen to show that, despite living in a three-dimensional world, our understanding of three dimensions is fairly poor. So, in answering the questions above, did you realise that a diagonal cut through a cube produces a hexagonal shape? Or that joining the midpoints of its faces produces an octahedron? And that doing the same for an octahedron produces a cube — making the two shapes dual? I certainly didn't.
The book's other key aim is to stress that solving and understanding a problem depends very much upon getting the right point of view, whether that's considering the location of a clock-watching observer in a special relativity experiment or using projective geometry and inverse transformation to prove Steiner's porism about circles within circles. There's even a chapter dedicated to four dimensions, where Abbot's Flatland is invoked to encourage us to imagine what we would see if four-dimensional figures were to pass through our very own "spaceland".
If all this sounds a bit too complex, you should be able to get through most of the book without much mathematics. But if it's just the gems and beauty you are after, you won't be disappointed. The book is illustrated with vibrant colour figures, some produced in stereo (you'll need to hold a piece of paper between the printed images and focus into the distance in order to appreciate the full effect). And there are plenty of exercises and suggestions which encourage you to make or colour in shapes and patterns (just another example of how Barnes taps into that childish fascination with geometry for geometry's sake). My only quibble is that, having invested in glossy paper and colourful illustrations, the publisher might have gone one step further, to lay out the book in a more imaginative style. For me, the rather academic page design undermines the work's key selling point: the author's passion (verging on obsession). And unlike your average student textbook, this is a book designed to be dipped into, explored, enjoyed and savoured.
- Book details:
- Gems of geometry
- John Barnes
- hardback — 324 pages
- Springer (2010)
- ISBN: 978-3642050916
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About the author
Anna Faherty read physics at Cambridge before working in publishing for fifteen years. She commissioned the Modular Mathematics Series and worked on 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know. Anna is now a freelance writer and consultant working with a diverse range of clients including the Science Museum, the National Maritime Museum and Time Out London Guides. She also lectures in the School of Journalism and Publishing at Kingston University, London.
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Never share an act with an animal or a child. Or, if you can help it, with the Dow Jones index. Last week, US President George Bush made a televised attempt to calm the economy, a task rendered doubly difficult by the presence onscreen of the Dow Jones worm. During the course of the President's speech, the worm appeared relaxed and comfortable. The moment Mr Bush finished speaking, however, the worm took fright and hurried underground.
This neurotic animal seems to need the constant tone of his master's voice to keep it tranquil. The President should, therefore, best serve his nation by speaking confidently for the remainder of his administration. This patriotic act would not detract from his other duties, for the traditional presidential functions are now the responsibility of Wall Street.
It shall be difficult to keep the President talking without pause for the next three years, but not technically impossible. Amphetamines can be piped into his bloodstream when the presidential eyelids droop. Nutrition can also be supplied intravenously, and peanut oil can be piped discreetly to his larynx to preserve his soothing down-home drawl. These procedures shall cause considerable discomfort to the incumbent. Tough. If he can't do the hard yards, he shouldn't have fixed the election in the first place.
We can expect covert attempts to alleviate the President's misery. A replacement state-of-the-art CyberBush dismays the markets when a wing-nut disguised as the President's left ear accidentally detaches itself, causing the Executive Head to separate into its different components. A too-hastily cloned Bush decomposes rapidly before an appalled national audience. This in turn is hurriedly replaced by a shoddily assembled and completely unconvincing Mr Potato Bush. In desperation, the secret services scour the nation's prisons for Bush look-alikes, all of whom appear, disappointingly, to be too intelligent for the role.
Back before the cameras, in concert with the worm, the real President Bush resumes the Sisyphean task of Talking Things Up. Bored aides wile away the empty hours trying to make himcrack up on national television. Faces are pulled, and coarse noises made using armpit and palm. Noses are thumbed. The ever-ebullient Dick Cheney removes the presidential loafers and places lit matches between the presidential toes.
To no avail. Watch as the President drones on, placating the worm and preserving the market economy from ruin. An inspiration to us all.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's candidate to head the World Trade Organization said Thursday that if he's selected he'll focus on restarting long-stalled global talks to lower trade barriers.
Speaking at a news conference in the capital, Brasilia, Roberto Azevedo said he'd strive to build consensus between developed and developing countries in hopes of resuming the so-called Doha Round of talks that began in 2001 but have not reached agreement. The unwillingness of developing powerhouses Brazil, China, Russia, India and South Africa to cede to U.S. demands for greater market access has been widely cited as one of the main stumbling blocks to the negotiations.
"The impasse in Doha Round negotiations has resulted in serious and concrete differences among the member states," said Azevedo, a 55-year-old who has served as Brazil's ambassador to the WTO. "Therefore, it's fundamental that the future director general be able to move easily among the different groups of countries, regardless of their level of development, without imposing views on anyone and trying to forge all possible consensuses."
Azevedo stressed that Brazil is known for its soft diplomatic touch and its ability to nudge opposing sides into sitting down together and said that he personally has demonstrated a similar capacity for consensus building during his tenure as WTO ambassador. He also emphasized that his insider knowledge of the workings of the WTO would prove an asset, were he to be selected.
In his bid to replace the WTO's outgoing director general, Pascal Lamy of France, Azevedo is up against seven other candidates from countries including South Korea, Jordan, Kenya and Ghana.
Two other Latin American contenders, from Mexico and Costa Rica, are also in the running, prompting some observers to speculate about whether the regional vote might be split between the three candidates. At Thursday's news conference, Azevedo brushed aside that possibility. He stressed that another regional powerhouse, Brazil's neighbor to the south, Argentina, has already come out in support of his candidacy.
The final phase of the selection process runs from April 1-May 31.
Brazil, along with other fast-growing developing nations, is looking to take on bigger roles in major global financial and trade decisions, primarily within institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the WTO.
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November 6, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Evergreen Valley College Marketing and Community Relations
Alcanzar Redefines Mentoring at Evergreen Valley College
In its traditional form, mentoring refers to older, wiser people giving advice and feedback to those less experienced. A new initiative at Evergreen Valley College, the Alcanzar Community Meetings, changes all that. Alcanzar mentors are required to model behaviors in personal growth as a way to “show” positive behavior rather than “say” it. For this innovative program, which kicks off this coming Saturday, November 10, EVC and its Enlace Program partnered with Community Partners for Youth (CCPY) to mentor 30 at-risk students, 90% of whom are Latino/Latina.
CCPY Executive Director, Jeff Bornefeld, a former corporate mentor who has dedicated his non-profit to changing the lives of at-risk teenagers, believes that “kids will only do what we do and not what we say or tell them to do. They respond to authenticity, honesty and dedication.” Alcanzar mentors, who come from high school and college and are trained by CCPY, are required to set two goals and be held accountable for accomplishing them by the end of the program year, as are their “mentees.”
On Saturday, each 8th grader from JW Fair Middle School (FMS) will be assigned to an Enlace/CCPY Step-Ahead mentor pair to create awareness of the broader community of minority students who are succeeding in their education.
Victor Garza, Jr., who is coordinating the effort at EVC, feels that “Alcanzar will help the students discover that they are capable and valuable, have a future worth working towards, and they’ll recognize the role education can play in that.”
Enlace and CCPY mentors, CCPY staff life-skills coaches, and other volunteers will provide each Alcanzar student with at least 6-8 hours per month of positive role-model contact after school, at weekend sessions and during educational and recreational outings in the surrounding area. Monthly Community Meetings at Evergreen Valley College will teach Life Skills. The program goes till May 2008.
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ABOUT Evergreen Valley College
With student learning as its primary focus, Evergreen Valley College’s mission is to embrace its students, to validate, nurture and celebrate them so that they may succeed in a global, multicultural society. The College, which sits on a picturesque 175-acre site in the eastern foothills of San Jose, provides access to comprehensive and flexible post-secondary education to prepare students of all ages and backgrounds for balanced and productive lives and to improve the workforce and quality of life in our community.
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PARKERSBURG - A Wood County Schools director says Wednesday's two-hour delay gave teachers valuable time to work on classroom strategies and goals , which will be evaluated on the next delay day in January.'
Judy Johnson, director of curriculum and instruction for Wood County Schools, said Wednesday's collaboration will have a direct impact on the classroom, and teachers and administrators will be tracking and reporting the results Jan. 30 during the next two-hour delay.
"We wanted them to set a focus, to begin using the data they had," Johnson said. "They were asked to set goals, what they want to improve by Jan. 30. They will look at those things, whether it's in test results or student work, and decide if they met their goals."
Johnson said the idea of spacing out the four two-hour delay collaborative times throughout the year was to give teachers more bite-sized periods in which to track achievement and adjust their classroom strategies.
"We didn't want to wait until the end of the year to find out if something wasn't working," she said.
Johnson said the middle schools were able to use recently released test results from the national ACT Explore, administered to all eighth-graders, and the ACT Plan, administered to all 10th-graders.
"The schools were using those test scores to help set their goals. They were asking 'Am I teaching what these students are expected to know to be successful?' " she said. "This is a national exam, so we know how our students are performing nationally. The timing was just perfect because the results had just come in."
Johnson said many schools did "vertical teaming," where they assembled teachers from multiple grades and multiple disciplines to share steps they all can take within their classrooms.
"Then they broke into smaller teams, either based on grade levels or departments, to work on specific classroom strategies," she said.
For example, at Edison Middle School related arts teachers began assembling lists of math and science vocabulary words to work into art and music lessons.
"They can reinforce what students need to know by using a common vocabulary," Johnson said.
Central office administrators visited schools throughout the morning, monitoring the collaboration time.
"The office staff were very pleased with what they saw," Johnson said.
Sue Woodward, assistant superintendent of school services, said the district saw few bus issues even though it still ran gifted routes, something that does not happen on weather delay days.
"The buses ran well. Attendance was good. Collaboration went well," she said. "Overall it was a good day."
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Quantum Physics and Theology - Polkinghorne, John - Yale University Press
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Quantum Physics and Theology
An Unexpected Kinship
Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-provoking book. From his unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, Polkinghorne considers aspects of quantum physics and theology and demonstrates that the two truth-seeking enterprises are engaged in analogous rational techniques of inquiry. His exploration of the deep connections between science and theology shows with new clarity a common kinship in the search for truth.
The author identifies and explores key similarities in quantum physics and Christology. Among the many parallels he identifies are patterns of historical development in quantum physics and in Christology; wrestling with perplexities such as quantum interpretation and the problem of evil; and the drive for an overarching view in the Grand Unified Theories of physics and in Trinitarian theology. Both theology and science are propelled by a desire to understand the world through experienced reality, and Polkinghorne explains that their viewpoints are by no means mutually exclusive.
John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS, is fellow and retired president, Queens' College, Cambridge University. He was founding president of the International Society for Science and Religion and in 2002 was awarded the Templeton Prize. He is the author of many books, including the following published by Yale University Press: Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion; Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality; The God of Hope and the End of the World; and Belief in God in an Age of Science.
OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
For sale in North, South, and Central America exclusively. Not for sale in the European Union and Commonwealth Nations, except Canada.
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Wed November 16, 2011
Head-On Collision Kills 18 Kindergarteners In China, Prompting Outcry
Originally published on Wed November 16, 2011 1:12 pm
A truck carrying coal slammed into a overcrowded bus this morning in the Northwest Chinese township of Yulinzi, killing 18 children and two adults. According to China's official news agency Xinhua, 44 other children were injured. Xinhua reports that "a van with nine seats was carrying 64 people."
Reuters reports that the accident has prompted anger toward the government:
Officials hurried to the scene to offer support and promised a crackdown on road hazards. But a flood of messages on Chinese web sites echoed with outrage about lax safety enforcement.
"The nursery school can't shirk responsibility for such serious overcrowding," said one comment on Sina's "Weibo" microblogging site.
Another said: "Why don't we protect children in the same way we protect our leaders?"
Chinese authorities have tried to crack down on dangerous driving but breakneck economic growth, and rapid expansion in the number of roads and drivers, creates many menaces, especially on poorly policed rural roads.
Over the past few years, China has experienced a series of incidents that resulted in rare criticism of the authoritarian regime. Back in January, a battery factory poisoned 24 children. Then in August, a high-speed train crash killed 40 people. There was so much outrage over that crash that China ordered media outlets to only report positive stories. In September, a subway train collision in Shanghai injured more than 200 people.
The AP reports the van was headed to drop off the children at a kindergarten. The news agency spoke to on expert who explained what this crash says about China's spotty safety record:
"'This accident says a lot about the problems with the government's role of monitoring school safety,' said Liu Shanying, expert in public administration at the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 'It involves the education, traffic safety and work safety authorities. They should all be blamed for this. They should all be held responsible.'
"'The kindergarten van was carrying seven times as many passengers as it should have been, which meant the kindergarten should have bought seven times as many vans,' Liu said."
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At Granite Springs, we believe that groups are one of the most powerful ways to connect people to each other and to God. There are a variety of groups within the community of Granite Springs that encourage, support and connect people. To find out more about any group, use our contact form.
M.O.P.S. (Mother’s of Preschoolers)
Is for all those age 55 or better and beyond the child rearing years. Gathers monthly from September to May for fun, food, and fellowship. Group is always open to new members.
Meets periodically for fun, food and fellowship. Group is always open to new members.
Meets during the first service in the Adult education room. It is intended to augment Sunday worship attendance. Topics very every 6-8 weeks. Group is always open to new members.
There are a variety of small groups that meet through the week in (mostly) homes. To find out more about joining a small group, please use our contact form.
What is a small group?
We gather on Sundays to worship corporately. Many of us gather together in homes regularly. We call these small groups. Small groups provide an opportunity for your spiritual journey to go deeper quicker. You experience care, prayer, community and an opportunity to study the Bible together. Many people feel like they belong to Granite Springs because they also belong to a small group.
How do groups study the Bible?
Many people find meaning in life by attaching it to a larger story line; such as immigrants from Asia or Europe hanging on to pieces of their ethnic culture (language, cooking, customs), people born in Minnesota becoming lifelong Vikings fans even though they’ve lived most of their life in California. A small group invites you to make sense of your own life story through the ancient, life-giving story of the Bible.
The Bible can seem odd at first. It can feel as strange as arriving in Paris without knowing any French and trying to navigate the elaborate public transit system. For other readers, the Bible seems too familiar. They are convinced that they already know its story. Maybe they have already rejected it as too binding and restrictive. Maybe rule-oriented people have presented the Bible to them as a set of commandments to guide their life. Watching such principles lived out only left them feeling cold and angry.
At Granite Springs, we believe the Bible is the greatest story ever told.
We hope the Bible begins to feel like opening a family album with strange uncles, weird cousins, and majestic great aunts who keep the family together in adversity. Maybe you’ll want to make this story your own.
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[I stayed up late watching the Mets lose, so i didn't get time to write anything, here's a reprint from a couple of years ago]
(Criterion Collection: 2 DVD set, $49.95)
The Criterion Collection has once again gone to the vaults to present an important yet overlooked filmmaker, in this case World Series winning manager Whitey Herzog. While greatly overshadowed cinematically by his brother Werner, Whiteys movies are pivotal in the evolution of filmmaking and they take on subjects that although altered would surface in his brothers films years later. Whitey’s first feature 1948’s Abner: The Anger of God (originally released through Filmtown Studios) is a hallucinatory retelling of the origin of baseball, the film takes place on an abandoned steamboat on the Mississippi river. The film made no money, got horrible reviews, and put the struggling Filmtown Studios out of business. However, an impressed Orson Welles saw the film and declared that it was a masterpiece and financed Herzogs second feature, Mister Hildago (released 1952, Wellfilms Studios). Welles not only financed but starred in Mister Hildago, which told the story of a minor league baseball team with a broken team bus that had to be dragged across the Appalachian Mountains. Mister Hildago was another bomb. Herzog and Welles never worked together again due to a heated argument over the infield fly rule. A disillusioned Herzog left his cinematic dreams to his younger brother Werner and had a hugely influential career in baseball. In Orson Welles autobiography Well, Well, Welles (1976, Remainder & Sons) he called Whitey Herzog “A complete ass, but not an untalented one”. In a 1981 Sports Illustrated interview when asked about his movie making past Herzog responded “I would call Orson Welles a louse but I don’t want to demean louses”.
The Criterion Collection 2 DVD set includes both Abner: The Anger of God and Mister Hildago in newly restored widescreen digital transfer. Also included is the short film, Evolution of the Balk (1949, 22 minutes) , two episodes of the unaired television series Umpy! -”Umpire by Day, Detective by Night”, which starred Larry Storch (1952, 46 minutes) and an interview with both Whitey & Werner Herzog on the David Susskind show (1983, 43 minutes).
The Brothers Herzog, Whitey
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History of Freedom
Freedom Credit Union was originally chartered in 1922 as the Western Massachusetts Telephone Workers Credit Union. From a small office in the telephone company building on Worthington Street, the credit union grew until we found a new home on Springfield's Main Street. As a result of telephone company downsizing and reorganization, the credit union chose to expand to include select employee groups, companies in Hampden County that were approved by our Board of Directors to form a credit union partnership with, and offer credit union membership through the workplace to their employees.
As demand for the benefits of a credit union grew, we applied for a community charter. In January of 2001, membership eligibility was greatly expanded to include anyone who lived or worked in Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, or Berkshire counties.
In January 2004, the membership voted to change the credit union's name to Freedom Credit Union. This name better reflects the current demographics of our membership.
Our Northampton Branch came about through a merger with FHBT (Franklin Hampshire Building Trades Credit Union) in May 2004. In November of that same year, we opened our Chicopee Branch.
A merger with Four Rivers Federal Credit Union in October of 2005 gave us two more branches in South Deerfield and Turners Falls.
Two more branches opened in 2009. In June, we opened our Greenfield Branch (which absorbed our South Deerfield Branch) and in September, we opened our Feeding Hills Branch.
In June 2010, our Easthampton Branch opened, providing members with two locations in Hampshire County. One year later, we opened our second branch in Springfield on Cooley Street in Sixteen Acres.
Our latest branch opened in September 2012 on Center Street in Ludlow, providing members with five locations in Hampden County.
Freedom Credit Union now boasts nine branches all along the I-91 corridor.
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Sat September 22, 2012
'Clifford The Big Red Dog' Turns 50 (In Human Years)
Originally published on Sat September 22, 2012 8:35 am
A big dog celebrates a big birthday this year: Clifford the beloved "Big Red Dog" first appeared on the literary scene 50 years ago, along with Emily Elizabeth, the little girl who loves him.
It was 1962, and Norman Bridwell was a "struggling, not very successful artist in New York," he says. His wife, Norma, suggested that he try his hand at illustrating children's books. So Norman did 10 kid-oriented paintings and took them to publishers. He was rejected everywhere, except at one publisher, where a young woman told him he wasn't a very good illustrator, so if he wanted to illustrate a book, he'd need to write one on his own.
Bridwell recalls: "She pointed to a sample painting I'd done, of a little girl with a gigantic red dog, and she said, 'Maybe that's a story.' And I went home, and over that weekend I wrote the story Clifford the Big Red Dog and was shocked when it was accepted for publication, because I'd never written anything before."
His wife was also in shock. "I couldn't believe it at first," Norma says. "When I did realize it wasn't a dream, I said to Norman, 'You could write another book! Maybe you could write two or three books, who knows!' And his reaction was, 'Oh, no. This is just a fluke.' "
That "fluke" turned into close to 90 Clifford books that have sold more than 126 million copies in 13 languages. Clifford's animated series on PBS is seen in 65 countries around the world. In September, Clifford's publisher, Scholastic Press, reissued the original stories under the title Clifford Collection. Norman Bridwell talks with NPR's Scott Simon on the occasion of his dog's 50th birthday.
On Clifford before he was "Clifford"
"I started off calling him Tiny. And Norma said, 'Well, that's a stupid name for a dog like that.' And she went back to her childhood and took the name of an imaginary friend, Clifford, and gave it to the dog."
On keeping up the Clifford series for five decades
"It has gotten more difficult over the years. Every time I think of an idea, I think, 'Well, that's kind of like the idea that I did a couple of times before.' And I'm running out of situations."
On trying not to take advantage of Clifford's popularity
"My first editor said: 'I'm not going to take Clifford soup. You can't throw him into a plot and stir him around and expect me to buy it. It's got to be something that is interesting and entertaining for children.' "
On the advice he gives to young people who want to write a book
"I often tell young people who write ... 'It's not easy.' ... I was extremely fortunate. It's a very discouraging business sometimes, but the rewards are marvelous, especially emotionally."
On replying to all the letters that children send to him or to Clifford
"We make a real effort to answer every letter. It's sometimes difficult, but I think if they care enough to sit down and write, I should give them an answer."
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. If we tell you that Clifford's turning 50, chances are you won't think of Clifford Lee, the famous Philadelphia Philly pitcher, or Clifford Chance, the big London law firm, but a big red dog - in fact, the big red dog - and Emmy Elizabeth, the little girl who loves him. Norman Bridwell wrote the first "Clifford the Big Red Dog" story 50 years ago. Since then, he has written close to 90 more "Clifford" books that have sold more than 126 million copies in 13 languages. And Clifford's animated series on PBS is seen in 65 countries around the world.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "CLIFFORD")
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (as character) Wow, Clifford. Lily of the Valley picked you as Dog of the Year. But you're dog of the year every day to me.
SIMON: This month Clifford's publisher, Scholastic Press, is reissuing the original "Clifford" stories under the title "The Clifford Collection." Norman Bridwell joins us from the studios of WCAI in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Thanks so much for being with us.
NORMAN BRIDWELL: Glad to be here.
SIMON: And you are joined by Norma Bridwell, your wife.
SIMON: Good morning, Mrs. Bridwell. How are you?
NORMA BRIDWELL: Good morning, Scott.
SIMON: You both have a hand in this. How did Clifford get born?
BRIDWELL: It was 1962. I was a struggling, not-very-successful artist in New York. Norma said, well, you always wanted to illustrate children's books. Why don't you try that? I did about 10 paintings that I thought would appeal to children. and took them to publishers and was rejected everyplace except at one publisher. A young woman said, well, you're not very good. She said if you want to illustrate a book you'll probably have to write one of your own. She pointed to a sample painting I done of a little girl with a gigantic red dog and she said maybe that's a story. And I went home and over that weekend I wrote the story "Clifford the Big Red Dog" and was shocked when it was accepted for publication because I'd never written anything before.
SIMON: Norma Bridwell?
SIMON: What did you think about all this?
BRIDWELL: I couldn't believe it at first. When I did realize it wasn't a dream, I said to Norman, you could write another book. Maybe you could write two or three books, who knows? And his reaction was oh, no. This is just a fluke.
SIMON: Clifford is bigger than a house, but once you accept that premise, he doesn't do any superhero stuff, right?
BRIDWELL: No, no. My editor was very wise to suggest he's, after all, just a dog. He doesn't have magical powers.
BRIDWELL: Call him an accident at birth or something like that.
SIMON: Now, Clifford was big because he's loved so much.
BRIDWELL: Yeah. After I did, I think, four books of the big dog, I got letters from kids asking what was he like when he was born? Was he a giant puppy? Was his mother and father big dogs? We thought it would be fun to make him - he's a very small puppy and he grew because Emily loved him.
BRIDWELL: Yes. He was the runt of the litter and the man who was giving her a dog, a puppy, said, oh, don't take him. I don't think he'll even live. He's so small. Then love came in there and, you know, did the trick.
SIMON: Is it hard to top yourself book after book with Clifford?
BRIDWELL: It has gotten more difficult over the years. Every time I think of an idea I think, well, that's kind of like the idea that I did a couple of times before. And I'm running out of situations.
SIMON: Mr. and Mrs. Bridwell, do you draw any lesson and should we perhaps draw some lesson from the fact that you endured so many rejections and now are one of the best selling authors in the world?
BRIDWELL: I often tell young people who write and say I'd like to try writing a book. I always tell them it's not easy. I said I was extremely fortunate. It's a very discouraging business sometimes. But the rewards are marvelous, especially emotionally.
SIMON: I have also read, Mr. and Mrs. Bridwell, that any kid in the world who writes you or writes Clifford a letter probably gets a reply.
BRIDWELL: We make a real effort to answer every letter. It's sometimes difficult but I think if they care enough to sit down and write, I should give them an answer.
SIMON: If Clifford grew so big because he was loved so much, after 126 million books, shouldn't he be just about as big as Brazil right now?
BRIDWELL: That's a nice compliment.
BRIDWELL: I think he's reached his non-threatening limit.
SIMON: Well, happy birthday to Clifford and thank you very much. Fifty years...
BRIDWELL: Thank you.
SIMON: ...of making children laugh. That's wonderful.
BRIDWELL: Thank you, Scott.
SIMON: Norman Bridwell and Norma Bridwell. "Clifford the Big Red Dog" is 50 years old. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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France's Hollande warns economy to stall in 2013
Monday, September 10, 2012
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande is blaming a worse-than-expected economic slowdown for new cuts in the government's growth forecast.
Speaking Sunday in a televised interview on French channel TF1, Hollande said gross domestic product growth will be "barely" above zero this year and only 0.8 percent in 2013. His Socialist government had previously predicted 1.2 percent growth for next year.
Hollande also is pledging to forge ahead with a controversial plan to raise income tax on France's wealthiest citizens to 75 percent.
He said he expects to unveil proposals for lifting France's growth and ability to compete by the end of the year, with the results expected to be felt in 2014.
One area that could see reforms is labor market flexibility.
The president said his goal was to reverse France's rising unemployment trend by the end of next year. Overall unemployment in France is now at 10 percent, but it is 22.8 percent for those under 25. French employers are especially reluctant to hire young people because restrictive labor laws make it very hard for companies to lay off new employees.
Last week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned that Europe's debt crisis is pushing the entire 17-country eurozone toward recession and dragging down the global economy with it.
Hollande admitted the economy was "even worse than I anticipated because of the aggravation of the crisis," but pledged that by the end of his term in 2017, "the French will be able to say we live better than in 2012."
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Scrum is an iterative methodology often seen in agile software development. Victor Szalvay is a Scrum project expert who leads development for CollabNet's ScrumWorks suite, which is used by more than half of the Fortune100. Szalvay joined CollabNet in February when it acquired Danube Technologies, a provider of Scrum products and services that Szalvay cofounded. Dr. Dobb's managing editor Deirdre Blake recently spoke with him about the state of Agile.
Dr. Dobb's: What's the most compelling reason for an organization to adopt Agile processes?
Szalvay: Agile development makes clear responsibilities associated with a pro duct's direction and quality. Before adopting agile, there's typically a game of “hot-potato” at most organizations re gard ing who's responsible for schedules and the features delivered. At the same time, managerial pressure to deliver puts developers in a position to cut quality. Agile frameworks like Scrum appoint a single person who consciously makes these trade-offs, while affording development teams the ability to implement with- out shouldering quality decisions.
Dr. Dobb's: Agile requires effective communication to work. What are some techniques teams can use to keep everyone in sync when transitioning to a truly collaborative workflow?
Szalvay: The ideal technique is to collocate cross-functional teams in a bullpen-style environment. If collocation isn't possible, then start with cross-functional teams. This requires breaking people out of their functional silos and asking them to work as a real team — developers, quality assurance staff, documentation writers, all together. Then require that work be delivered incrementally, not just when the code is complete. The biggest obstacle to agility is a siloed organization with gated hand-offs between roles, because it makes it easy for upstream roles to rely on downstream roles for quality.
Dr. Dobb's: In what ways has the Agile methodology been affected by the shift toward cloud computing?
Szalvay: As teams and organizations start thinking Agile, they realize the value of rapid builds, continuous integration, and heavy test automation. These practices enable agility by providing a safety net of instant feedback when team members embark on radical code changes. The faster the feedback, the better, but most organizations are hardware-resource constrained. Enter cloud computing. Once there's an infrastructure in place, developers can deploy to the cloud and get feedback from test automation suites running in the cloud. And since it's on demand, resources are well utilized and costs stay reasonable.
For more information on ALM and SCM, download the Dr. Dobb's ALM Sourcebook.
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Often, people accuse the media of having an agenda. And in the Optic’s case, they are absolutely right. Our agenda is simple: Promote open government.
On Jan. 26, Las Vegas resident Leith Johnson submitted a public records request to the city government for “all records pertaining to the collection of the one-fourth of 1 percent gross receipts tax specially to be applied to water.”
She asked, “How much has been collected since the (tax) law was passed? How much interest has been earned on the money? How has any or all of it been used?”
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Making a museum from scratch: Part Seven
After my long Australian interlude, I bet you thought I’d given up on my little thought experiment. But, no! For better or worse, it still resonates with me, and I keep encountering people and examples and issues that bear on it. So, without further ado…
Making a “born digital” organization now
The posts on making our imaginary museum thus far have focused on the organization, but as Mary Case pointed out in Part Six, a “born digital” museum (one that is organized from the ground up to take advantage of digital technologies and the Internet to carry out its mission) will need a staff that is able to come to work every day and live out the mission of a radically transparent organization, with all the uncertainty that any new workflow embodies. These people will also have to incorporate engagement and outreach activities that are now usually relegated to specialists. The who and the how of hiring and growing a staff who are able to work with these technologies, engage with the audience, and keep their skill sets fresh in the face of the day-to-day realities of getting work done is an issue that the field as a whole hasn’t made much headway in tackling. Oonagh Murphy tweeted as much not too long ago that the biggest issue in our field is a digital skills shortage in the cultural sector. This theme is amplified by survey data, too. In the New Media Consortium’s report, “The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2012-2017”, which will be released next week, two of their top three challenges for STEM+ education (and museums by extension) are:
- Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
- The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices.
Both of these I see being among the biggest challenges in the museum sector as a whole right now. Not only is digital literacy becoming ever more important, but the capacity for museum professionals to adequately increase their literacy is woefully inadequate.
Gretchen Jennings has started a series of posts on the challenges facing museum educators in the 21st century, particularly in regards to our relationship with formal education. You’ll recognize many of the challenges she lays out,
“In order to integrate into exhibitions and other museum offerings the kind of intrinsic, joyful, and self-motivated engagement that Garcia extols, educators are going to have to create interpretive plans, become experts in current learning theory as it relates to participatory experiences, understand and use social media effectively, and gain expertise in communicating effectively the links between design and interpretation. Educators need to devote at least as much time to honing these skills as they do on activities that support the schools. And, as Garcia states, all of us need to become much more articulate in communicating what makes our museums unique and important in their own right in the spectrum of experiences we call education.”
Spend as much time in professional development and outreach as in supporting formal Ed.? That’s a tall order, but it’s one I completely agree with.
One common solution I hear to the skills gap is that this is a generational problem and once the “digital natives” come into their own throughout the workplace, most of our problems will cease to exist because they “get” digital media, having grown up with it. The trouble with that narrative, of course, is it’s overly simplistic, and it serves to turn what I see as an attitudinal issue into a generational one. Even the bright young things who get all of 2012’s technology don’t necessarily have the skills for 2015’s technologies or 2020’s. Without reshaping the workplace to account for that ongoing professional development need, hiring the rising generation is just kicking the can down the road a few years.
And it fails to account for innovations currently underway. MONA is groundbreaking on several levels. The Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz? They’re trying very different models and they’re doing it now, not someday in the future. I am reminded of Serge Bramly’s biography of Leonardo da Vinci, where he imagines the artist telling us, “Open your eyes. You have only to see things clearly to understand.” One thing this experiment has shown me is that the digital literacy issue not an insurmountable problem. It’s just a hard one.
So what are some ways our museum might differ from current ones?
Engagement is important enough to be everybody’s job
The first thing that popped into my head as I was considering how our museum might differ from traditional museums were the outreach activities that such a museum would conduct in a more evenly distributed way than we currently do. Jasper Visser wrote a brilliant post a few months back that unpacks ideas of engagement and outreach that rally speak to me. I’ll paraphrase him and recommend you read the whole post yourselves.
“There’s a subtle but important different between providing good engaging online content and actually reaching people with it.
Engagement is about designing projects that turn occasional passers-by into enthusiasts willing to go that extra mile for you. Engagement is done, usually, within the safety of your institution’s building, website or social media presence.
Outreach is about designing strategies that reach people wholly unknown to you and connect them with your institution. Outreach increases the number of people you can later engage. Outreach is done, usually, outside of the comfort zone of your institution’s building, website or social media presence.
Every successful digital strategy combines engagement and outreach activities. Outreach connects with people and invites them to come by, and engagement turns them into enthusiasts. Both require different methodologies, different tools and especially a different mindset, though.”
“If you build, they will come.” is not a successful engagement strategy, though it does seem to motivate a lot of museum online efforts. That audience focus is the crucial ingredient that takes our scholarship and authority and unites them with people. Nina Simon‘s comment on the post is illustrative, and provides field data as well.
“When my museum started creating unusual events–new forms of engagement–we knew that we were woefully lacking in the ability to do effective outreach around these projects… So for the first year, we had a rule: every new program had to have a partner organization that was strictly about outreach. We would partner with media outlets, social groups, and advocacy groups to ensure that while we were busy developing terrific programming, they were busy reaching out to their people to get them to come… It’s a good model for us as a small institution with no marketing budget to speak of.”
There’s a pretty easy way to overcome the first hurdle in doing anything new; we can build it, but will anybody come? For an institution committed to radical transparency, finding the right outreach partners should be a byproduct of just doing the day’s work, right? If you’re out there in the digital weeds, you’re much more likely to bump into opportunities.
Well before any programming can happen in the space, our engagement and outreach efforts should be an integral part of the daily workflow. Last year, I asked a question about dealing with cognitive loads, and got four posts worth of fascinating responses from the field. In the fourth part, people I think very highly of shared their strategies for keeping abreast of developments in the field. All of them involved making learning part of the day, not a “when you have free time” activity, but a required part of the workday. And these people aren’t exactly slackers.
Keeping up to date
It seems vital that everybody be hired with the clear expectation that they are going to have to put themselves “out there” as part of working at this museum. It’s not an “additional duty”, engagement and outreach are core competencies. I see a triangle of dimensions of people’s work at our museum, there is their functional dimension (collections, web development, educator, office mgr…), their communication dimension (how are they communicating their work to the audiences) and their professional dimension (how is what they’re doing being communicated to the profession and how are they demonstrating their understanding of the current state of the art in their work). It’s a very different kind of job; one third doing, one third interacting with our communities, and one third learning/teaching. I think it could work, though. It’s not hard, it just takes commitment.
Staff would have to get used to thinking about openness, transparency and engaging with our audience right from Day One. Since this is such a radically different model than most institutions have, it would take repetition to inculcate people with these new ways of working. New staff could be introduced as they’re hired, and even provide their own short bios, as a way of personalizing the institution and preparing them for the joys of audience engagement, both physical and digital. This is not to say that every person on staff has to be an überblogger, but in the interest of radical transparency, we would subvert the current paradigm and make the default expectation be that you engage with the public unless there’s some reason for you not to. It would be nice to follow the lead of the Medical Museion in Denmark, where all staff are encouraged to contribute to the blog, and the main website is actually set up as a conversation. Their basic idea is that all staff have something of interest to someone.
Some possible examples of what this engagement might look like, courtesy of Suse Cairns:
- A weekly blog post/video, talking about has happened/been discussed through the week? Met with the architects? Great – here are some of the issues we’re trying to grapple with when dealing with our old building. We have a space that isn’t very wifi friendly, so here are some of the solutions we’re investigating.
- Capture the transformation of the space, and the process. Let people see the museum being built from the inside out, even as it happens.
- Introduce people to key objects in the collection well before they can see them in the flesh, and discuss their significance, by bringing them into the colelction and by bringing the collection out in to the world.
- Document (and make available those docs where appropriate) issues around preserving the collection as it is moved from its former home. Have you ever seen those shows about moving old houses from one side of the country to another? They are pretty interesting. No reason why moving a museum collection filled with potentially damageable stuff shouldn’t also be compelling for people to learn about/watch if the way it’s packaged is managed well.
Being transparent also becomes then an ongoing “pitch” for the institution. Its core beliefs, and the place it will fill within its communities (academic, local, professional) become evident by the actions of the staff, not just by a mission statement.
What successful engagement strategies have you encountered in your travels, or longed to see someone try?
Thinking About Museums: Making a Museum from Scratch: Part Six
The New Media Consortium’s report, “The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2012-2017”
Museum Commons: Museum Educators-What Next?
The Museum of Old & New Art
The Museum of the Future: Engagement and outreach
Thinking About Museums: Dealing with your cognitive load
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July 17, 2012
Annan Finds Mild Response in Russia on Syria
MOSCOW — As fighting between rebels and government forces raged in the Syrian capital, U.N. envoy Kofi Annan held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Syria's crisis. The response from Syria-ally Russia was largely muted.
But Putin vowed to support the peace effort in Syria. “We will do everything that depends on us to support your efforts,” the Russian leader said.
Annan was in Moscow to line up support in advance of a vote Wednesday at the United Nations on extending the U.N. monitoring mission in Syria.
The mandate expires on Friday. And with street fighting taking place in Damascus, the future of the 300 cease-fire monitors may be in doubt.
After meeting with Putin, Annan said he hopes common ground can be found.
"Obviously, the discussions in the Security Council regarding the resolution also came up. And I would hope that the Council will continue its discussions and hopefully find language that will pull everybody together," Annan said.
Russia supports a simple three-month extension of the observers' mandate. Western powers want language that could open the door to military action by outsiders.
In Russia, that topic is taboo.
Fyodor Lyukanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, says the Putin government will not budge.
“There is a red line which Russia will never cross. I will say never. This is legitimization of any kind of outside intervention, military intervention in Syria,” Lyukanov said.
For the 16 months of Syria’s uprising, Russia has stood out as the closest ally of the increasingly isolated nation.
But as Moscow digested news of heavy fighting in Damascus, Russian officials took a low profile.
Russia 24, the state-run all news channel, showed no photo of Putin meeting with Annan. Instead, the channel aired lengthy reports on the Russian president coordinating relief to victims of the last week’s flooding in southern Russia.
Separately, a Russian ship carrying refurbished helicopters for Syria took an inexplicable detour to St. Petersburg, adding extra days to its route to the Mediterranean.
Also silent was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who on Monday gave a lengthy press conference on Syria.
He told reporters that Russia’s influence in Syria is overestimated. He said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not leaving power because he retains substantial popular support.
The Russian foreign minister stressed that Russia was acting on principle - the non-intervention in the internal affairs of other countries.
Lyukanov, the analyst agrees, saying that arm sales and Russia’s naval base at Tartus, Syria are minor issues.
“How this conflict will be settled will serve as a model for future dealing with internal crisis situations in many countries. And that’s what Russia now considers to be important. It’s not about arms sales. It’s not about Tartus base. It’s not about anything else. It’s not about Assad,” Lyukanov said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed Tuesday to China for talks with President Hu Jintao. China has joined Russia in vetoing Security Council resolutions calling for tough action against Syria.
The official People's Daily newspaper ran a commentary Tuesday rejecting foreign intervention in the Syrian crisis.
On Wednesday, the visitor to Moscow will be Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Although Turkey is coping with tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, analysts here do not predict that he will be able to shift Russia’s hands-off policy.
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Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn sponsored legislation requiring the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to issue an annual report to Congress that identifies programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives, within departments or government wide, which have duplicative goals or activities.
The first GAO report was recently released and it revealed the following duplications within the federal . . . → Read More: Eliminating Duplication In Government
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Cantori New York to Present Lisa Bielawa's LAMENTATIONS FOR A CITY, 3/9-10
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by BWW News Desk
On Saturday, March 9 at 8pm, at DiMenna Center's Mary Flagler Cary Hall (450 West 37th Street) and on Sunday, March 10 at 3pm, at Park Avenue Christian Church (1010 Park Avenue) composer Lisa Bielawa's Lamentations for a City will be performed by choral group Cantori New York.
On Lamentations for a City, Bielawa explains, "The poet of the Lamentations of Jeremiah was witness to the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BCE. His descriptions of the details of suffering are painfully vivid, and his passionate eulogy to the wounded city takes its literary place alongside Euripides's heartbreaking verses to the fallen Troy or W.G. Sebald's searching inquiries into the rubble of Dresden. When I wrote these Lamentations I was on retreat in Umbria, a valley of walled cities with ghosts at every gate. The now-serene and quaint countryside has a deep history of brutality... In September 2004, I turned to the hemorrhaging web media for crisis reports from cities all over the world. This language appears as background texture in Lamentations for a City to give testimony to the vitality of the human tradition of bringing cities to their knees through cruelty, treason, humiliation and destruction."
Lamentations for a City was written in 2004, and was performed in 2007 by the Cerddorian Vocal Ensemble on A Handful of World (Tzadik). Press copies are available upon request.
About Composer and Vocalist Lisa Bielawa: Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. Gramophone reports, "Bielawa is gaining gale force as a composer, churning out impeccably groomed works that at once evoke the layered precision of Vermeer and the conscious recklessness of Jackson Pollock," and The New York Times describes her music as, "ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart."
Born in San Francisco into a musical family, Lisa Bielawa played the violin and piano, sang, and wrote music from early childhood. She moved to New York two weeks after receiving her B.A. in Literature in 1990 from Yale University, and became an active participant in New York musical life. She began touring with the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1992, and in 1997 co-founded the MATA Festival, which celebrates the work of young composers.
Lisa Bielawa's music is frequently performed throughout the US, and in France, Italy, the UK and Rome. Recent highlights include the premieres of Rondolette by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and pianist Bruce Levingston; Double Duet by the Washington Saxophone Quartet (with subsequent performance by the Prism Saxophone Quartet); Graffiti dell'amante performed by Bielawa with the Chicago Chamber Musicians in Chicago, and with Brooklyn Rider in New York, Harrisburg, and Rome; The Project of Collecting Clouds at Town Hall in Seattle by cellist Joshua Roman and chamber ensemble; the world premieres of Double Violin Concerto and In medias res by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), part of Bielawa's three-year Music Alive residency with that orchestra; the premiere of The Right Weather by the American Composers Orchestra and pianist Andrew Armstrong at Carnegie Hall; and the premiere of The Lay of the Love and Death at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Bielawa's work, Chance Encounter, a piece comprising songs and arias constructed of speech overheard in transient public spaces, has been performed by soprano Susan Narucki and The Knights in Seward Park in Lower Manhattan and at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in Vancouver, on the banks of the Tiber River in Italy, as part of the opening of the celebrated new MAXXI Museum in Rome, and in Venice.
Bielawa is currently at work on Airfield Broadcasts, a massive 60-minute work for more than 600 musicians which will be premiered on the tarmac of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin (May 2013) and at Crissy Field in San Francisco (October 2013). Bielawa will turn the former airfields into vast musical canvases, as professional, amateur and student musicians execute a spatialized symphony.
Other upcoming premieres include a Radio France commission for Ensemble Variances - the new 15-minute work will be performed in Paris, Rouen, Metz and Montreal as part of a program called Cri Selon Cri or "Cry by Cry" which explores the idea that the cry is a primary sound shared by animals and humans from all cultures of the world. In addition, Bielawa will compose a piece for the 50-member Finnish male choir Akademiska Sångföreningen on a text from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Both new works will feature Bielawa as the vocal soloist.
Bielawa's discography includes A Handful of World (Tzadik); The Trojan Women on a disc entitled First Takes (TROY); Hildegurls: Electric Ordo Virtutum, (Innova); The Trojan Women in a version for string quartet performed by the Miami on The NYFA Collection (Innova); In medias res (BMOP/sound), a double-disc set of Bielawa's solo and orchestral works; the world premiere recording of Chance Encounter (Orange Mountain Music), and Elegy-Portrait on pianist Bruce Levingston's 2011 album, Heart Shadow (Sono Luminus). For more information, please visit www.lisabielawa.net.
About Cantori New York: Cantori New York, praised by The New York Times for its "spirit of exploration" and "virtuosity and assurance," celebrates its 28th season of programming featuring new and neglected works that deserve to be performed and heard.
A three-time winner of the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, Cantori has built a strong reputation for artistic excellence and innovative programming, including an evening of theatrical choral music with Tony Award winner Maryann Plunkett. Cantori's collaborators have included the Cassatt String Quartet, Prism Saxophone Quartet, and the Gregg Smith Singers; appearances have included the opening season of Zankel Hall with Michael Tilson Thomas, Great Performers at Lincoln Center, and World Financial Center Arts & Events.
Cantori's recordings include The Metamorphoses of Paul Crabtree, Echoes and Shadows (contemporary American choral works), and the first CD recording of Frank Martin's Le Vin Herbé, which was an Opera News Editors' Choice. For more information, visit www.cantorinewyork.com.
Saturday, March 9 at 8pm
Sunday, March 10 at 3pm
Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Seniors; $5 Students at www.cantorinewyork.com or call 212.439.4758.
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Universal Credit timetable published
The timetable for the introduction of the new Universal Credit has been published by the government.
The credit will replace existing benefits such as Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support and Housing Benefit.
It will be phased in from October 2013 and will cover 12 million claimants by 2017.
The plan for Universal Credit was first announced earlier this year as part of a radical simplification of the state welfare and benefits system.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said: "From October 2013 it will replace the current costly, outdated process with a digital system, which will be simpler to use and make work pay for hundreds of thousands of people across the UK."
"And today we have set out our migration plans which will see nearly 12 million working age benefit claimants migrate onto the new benefits system by 2017," he added.
The government says the new credit, run on a new computer system, will be much simpler for both staff and claimants to use and understand.
About 30% of the new computer system is now in place and has been tested on claimants who are either single or in couples, with testing on family claimants about to start.
Moving claimants from the old benefits to the new one will take place in three stages, spread over four years.
The process will cover new claims, natural changes and managed changes.
- From October 2013 to April 2014 about half a million new claimants will receive Universal Credit instead of Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment Support Allowance, Housing Benefit, Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.
- At the same time, another half a million existing claimants and their families will be transferred to the new credit when their family circumstances change significantly, for instance if they get a job or have another child.
- From April 2014 a further 3.5 million claimants and their families will move to Universal Credit.
- And from the end of 2015 to the end of 2017 a further 3 million people will be moved over, focusing on Housing Benefit claimants
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On Air Staff and WPM Interns
Tue September 11, 2012
Book Review: 'God Carlos'
Originally published on Tue September 11, 2012 7:57 pm
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
And I'm Melissa Block. Now to the 16th Century and the Spanish port of Cadiz. It's the setting for "God Carlos," a new novel by Jamaican-born writer Anthony Winkler, who takes us on a voyage to the New World. Alan Cheuse has this review.
ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: The Carlos of the title of this gusty, boisterous, entertaining and, by my life, X-rated slice of historical fiction, is a barely literate, itinerant 25-year-old Spanish sailor - his full name being Carlos Antonio Maria Eduardo Garcia de Cal Fernandez. Carlos, between voyages in Cadiz, Spain, spends his last few coins on a prostitute, the scene of which gives the novel, as I see it, the X-rating, and he signs on for a voyage to a newly established Spanish port in Jamaica.
He's a naive if affable young man and tries to make friends among the crew. But his egoistical fantasy of playing God to the New World Indians wins him the enmity of another sailor whom he kills in a knife fight. Carlos' fantasy of Godhead doesn't die, it only becomes more inflamed once they reach the Caribbean island where Christopher Columbus had briefly put down his anchor.
In scenes of a mixture of pride, madness and comedy, he plays out his role as deity among the naked islanders - bullying the Indian men, raping the women at will and living a fantasy that most readers will find believable, if horrific. Along with the horror, the book does offer some beautiful moments of discovery, as when, as Winkler narrates, the ship takes the Mona Passage to Jamaica instead of the barren emptiness of deep sea, the coastline, we hear of an Edenic island, green and aromatic, opened like a wildflower. For all of its scenes of braggadocio and brutality, the book often works on you like that vision.
BLOCK: The book is "God Carlos," written by Anthony Winkler and reviewed by our own Alan Cheuse. His latest book is called "Paradise." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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Federal Direct Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS)
To receive a Federal Direct PLUS loan, a parent must be a biological or adoptive parent of the student for which the loan is being borrowed. The loan is based on the credit worthiness of the parent. The maximum a parent can borrow is Denison's cost of education minus all financial aid the student receives. The interest on this loan begins to accrue when it is disbursed to the student's account, and continues to accrue until the loan is paid in full.
Repayment may be deferred until after the student graduates and has a ten year term.
PLUS loans will have a fixed interest rate of 7.9%. Parent borrowers are charged a four percent (4%) origination fee that is deducted from the gross loan amount. The net loan proceeds are credited to the student's account electronically in two equal desbursements, 10 days prior to the beginning of the each semester .
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The MPN is a promissory note that can be used to borrow multiple loans for multiple academic years (up to 10 years). The MPN requirement will be for all first-time borrowers of a Federal Direct PLUS Loan who do not have any adverse credit issues. Parents will only need to complete one MPN while their student is attending Denison University.
- A FAFSA must be filed by the student for whom the PLUS loan is being borrowed.
- Parents apply online at www.studentloans.gov
- A federal PIN is required to sign into StudentLoans.gov. If you do not have a PIN, you may request one from the official PIN website.
- First-time borrowers may also complete an Electronic Master Promissory Note (eMPN) at www.studentloans.gov.
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Story by Jon Letman
Photo by Matt Mallams
Dylan Thomas points to an exquisitely carved miniature canoe in the Havaiki Oceanic and Tribal Art gallery in Hanalei. It’s an example of the unique pieces for sale in the gallery, but to him it also symbolizes teamwork—the kind of collaboration necessary to bring art from the farthest reaches of Oceania to the North Shore of Kaua‘i.
When lifelong sailor Jim Punter and his wife Vicki took on the poetically named South African as a deckhand in 2002, they planned to travel from the Virgin Islands through the Panama Canal and into the South Pacific to create a charter sailing business. Their journey became instead an odyssey through Oceania. A year at sea drifted into two, then three, their schedule guided not by clocks or calendars but by winds and currents. They sailed through Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, going as far as Indonesia. They collected from artists who would paddle out to greet Firebird, their eighty-four-foot ketch. They traded in villages where currency mattered little, bartering fishing supplies, hardware, batteries and canned fish for traditional works of functional and ceremonial art.
Traveling by boat gave the trio access to remote areas where few art collectors tread. Over five years and forty thousand miles, they collected handcrafted pieces like ifelele and u‘u clubs from Samoa and the Marquesas, Tahitian fatatea and toere drums and ebony nguzunguzu (the gs are silent) canoe prow figureheads from the Solomon Islands.
Recognizing that such art was the modern equivalent of pieces described in early historical accounts of the Pacific, and inspired by their love for island peoples, they opened Havaiki (the name for the legendary homeland of the Polynesians) in 2007. Dylan (pictured at right) manages the ever-changing collection, about a third of which comes from artists in Hawai‘i, while Jim and Vicki continue collecting and sailing in the western Pacific.
For his part, Dylan doesn’t seem too upset about staying behind; the gallery he manages is doing important work, he believes. “It’s a team effort,” he says, admiring the miniature canoe. “This is where we are: in this boat together, driving forward. We’re minor players in a big resurgence in cultural recognition.”
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. v.99 n.5 Cape Town mayo 2009
Bio-ethics vigilance vital: medical and legal doyens
Advocate George Bizos gave a University of the Witwatersrand audience some unpalatable food for thought in the 'Ethics alive' forum last month when he outlined the involvement of doctors, many of them Wits graduates, during the worst excesses by apartheid security police.
The celebrated human rights lawyer, now 81, gave a moving address tracing the dramatic history of dual loyalties in South Africa over nearly half a century, with a personal account embracing most of the pivotal cases. Speaking in a soft voice that compelled a ghostly silence, he cited a string of doctors who helped security police cover up torture and murder, by either ignoring glaring injuries before or after detainee deaths or by failing to speak out. He also named doctors who did speak out and/or were detained, tortured or murdered for their beliefs or for putting their patients first.
These ranged from Dr Fabian Ribero and his wife Florence (murdered in their Mamelodi, Pretoria, home in 1986 for giving free medical treatment to township residents injured by police gunfire during protests), trade unionist and medical aid activist for workers Dr Neil Aggett (found hanging in his cell in 1982 after 80 days of solitary confinement and torture), to doctors who helped exonerate police for the deaths of Ahmed Timos (injuries later found to be inconsistent with his fatal 'fall' from the 10th floor of Johannesburg's John Vorster Square) and the most infamous collusion by district surgeons, Drs Ivor Lang and Benjamin Tucker, who examined Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko after his brutally fatal security police torture and interrogation.
Bizos was scathing of Tucker's 'lack of common human decency' and sensitivity, revealing that Tucker dispatched a Truth and Reconciliation Committee orderly with a message for him at the amnesty hearing of Biko's killers. 'Tucker came in his Sunday best with his wife and smart hat. He sent the orderly to ask whether "Mr Bizos would kindly come and have his photo taken with us".' Bizos refused.
He quoted Tucker's (successful) affidavit applying to be reinstated on the Medical and Dental Professions Board (MDPB) doctors' register in which he merely stated: 'I have been advised that in order to be re-admitted I have to apologise. I hereby do so.'
Bizos observed: 'There are people who not only do not have loyalty to their profession, they lack a sense of common human decency (inaudible) ... to do the right thing.'
Dual loyalty did not 'disappear with apartheid'
Former head of the World Medical Association Ethics Unit, Professor John Williams, said hearing Bizos speak reminded him of the torpid response by the world's researchers after the Nuremberg Trials involving Nazi doctors conducting medical experimentation on human subjects. 'One would have thought that this would have made a great impression on medical researchers across the world to ensure that the highest standards of research ethics were maintained, but nothing much happened until the late 60s.'
It seemed 'the atrocities were so horrible that people believed they couldn't possibly happen again'. Nobody had really bothered to develop high standards of informed consent and research monitoring 'because people were going to do the right thing anyway'. However, people did not and 'eventually a lot of horror stories were revealed before action was taken'.
Modern-day doctors: 'stay awake'
Williams wondered whether a parallel situation did not exist in South Africa, where young students 'don't consider themselves a part of the system. Dual loyalty is simply not a problem anymore.'
He said vigilance was crucial, especially when abuses occurred in more subtle ways.
'These need dealing with in medical education right up to the self-governing bodies of the profession,' he warned. Bizos warned today's doctors that 'many great countries profess to be great democrats, but whenever they're threatened or under danger they no longer comply with or have regard for the laws of humanity'. The danger for such tyrannies, oligarchies or illegitimate governments was that 'they too may one day be in distress and the laws and values will not be there to protect them'.
Hogan tortured by security police
He revealed that a district surgeon once mysteriously confessed to him, threatening 'to deny it if you say anything', that the current health minister Barbara Hogan had complained to him that she was tortured in detention. This came while he was probing Dr Neil Aggett's death by suicide. Hogan was one of 18 people from whom he obtained affidavits after their detention by the same team of security police.
Of the district surgeon's 'anonymous' confession Bizos said: 'He said his job was at stake. I don't know what made him confess to me. He had great loyalty to the regime he was serving.' Bizos said he kept his promise not to call the district surgeon to the witness stand as this would have been a betrayal of confidence.
Unlike her erstwhile district surgeon helper, Hogan appears to remain willing to pay a price for her principles when it comes to dual loyalty and human rights. This March she demanded a public apology by the government for refusing the Dalai Lama a visa.
Speaking on 24 March at the AIDS Law Project's 18-month review of AIDS, health and the law, held at the Constitutional Court, Hogan said: 'The very fact that this government has refused entry to the Dalai Lama is an example of a government that is dismissive of human rights. I believe (the government) needs to apologise to the citizens of this country, because it is in your name that this great man, who has struggled for the rights of this country, has been denied access.'
Government spokesperson Themba Maseko described Hogan's statement as 'open defiance. However, government sources said that President Motlanthe was unlikely to take any harsh steps against Hogan and would at best censure her and then leave it to his successor to take a decision on her reappointment to the cabinet.
Watch this space
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Bageshwari Qamar is the first woman shehnai player of India. Bageshwari Qamar learnt Shehnai from Ustad Bismillah Khan. She was crowned Shehnai Queen at Chandigarh in 1983, the year she made her debut. Bageshwari has recorded a jugalbandi with Ustad Bismillah Khan apart from solo cassettes. She represented India at the Bharat Mahotsav at Russia in 1988.
Bageshwari Qamar is the daughter of Jagdish Prasad Qamar, the only disciple of Ustad Bismillah Khan, who joined him as per the traditional Gurukul system. Jagdish joined Ustad Bismillah Khan at the age of 10 in 1946. He lived and learned shehnai at the Ustad’s house in Benaras.
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President Barack Obama will meet with some unusual potential allies Wednesday -- CEOs of some of the nation's biggest companies.
It would be Obama's first public meeting with major CEOs since being re-elected, and it's expected to be tense. But he is also expected to find backing for some of the administration's positions ahead of negotiations with Congress on avoiding the fiscal cliff.
The fiscal cliff is the top economic issue facing the nation, and leaders of the largest companies have indicated they are holding back hiring and spending because they are worried about Washington gridlock over the fiscal cliff.
Moreover, some of these companies flexed their political muscle to defeat Democrats in the latest election.
Among those attending the White meeting House are General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault.
The stakes are high for the president and Congress to find a consensus to avoid the fiscal cliff, which economists and CEOs agree would hurt the economy, taking down thousands of jobs and increasing taxes for millions of Americans.
At the end of this year, the George W. Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire, and on Jan. 2, automatic spending cuts will commence that amount to $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.
Obama's relationship with big business has been strained over his first term thanks to new laws like the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and Affordable Care Act.
In 2011, Obama tried to mend things by appointing a jobs council to give him advice on growing the economy. But that group quietly fell by the way side and hasn't met since January.
The strain can be seen through the lens of campaign contributions. A majority of the large companies in the president's jobs council favored Republican candidates over Democrats in the latest election. General Electric's corporate political action committee gave $258,000 more to Republicans than Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Recently, Aetna Inc CEO Mark Bertolini told CNBC in an interview that the company could be forced to lay off employees if the country cannot avert the fiscal cliff. Bertolini is also in the list of CEOs invited to the White House meeting.
Corporate leaders are expected to press the president on issues confronting their companies related to tax cuts and revenue generating ideas tied to the fiscal cliff.
Despite the tension, Obama and business leaders are united in their goal of seeking a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Last week, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Business Roundtable and the Business Industry Political Action Committee, called upon the president and Congress to delay the fiscal cliff by a year. Those groups also called upon leaders to avoid raising taxes on anybody, including the nation's wealthiest Americans.
Also this week, a group backed by large companies like GE and Honeywell International called "Campaign to Fix the Debt" has launched advertising to push Washington leaders to avert the fiscal cliff by mimicking well-known ads such as the "Got Milk" campaign from milk processors, and the "Just do it" ad from Nike.
Other CEOs invited to the White House are Honeywell's David Cote, Xerox's Ursula Burns, Wal-Mart's Mike Duke, Dow Chemical's Andrew Liveris, Ford's Alan Mulally, Pepsico's Indra Nooyi, IBM's Ginni Rometty and Chevron's John Watson.
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A few months back, I visited at Chandi devi Mandir, Haridwar and Parmarth Ashram & Ram jhula, Rishikesh. It was a plan which made all of sudden. I was at my in-laws’ home (Najibabad), wanted to go for some pleasure trip, so we decided to go Haridwar or Rishikesh. And as we didn’t have much hours, so we chose Chandi Devi Mandir and Ram Jhula. I wanted to experience the fun of rope way at Chandi Devi Mandir and haven’t seen Ram Jhula yet. Whenever i visited Rishikesh, only used to be at lakshman Jhula, may be it was because that’s more famous. Finally me with my wife and her brother left home for Haridwar. Haridwar is approx 42 KM far from Najibabad and can be reached via Mandawali. You will cross Rajaji National Park on your way to Haridwar.
Within an hour we reached at Chandi Devi Mandir and parked the car in parking. Parking was for free as they didn’t charged any thing from us, so nice of them :). Then we took 3 tickets of rope way to Chandi Devi. Four persons can share one cable car. The ticket fare includes up and down journey. Going through cable car was an experience in it self. There is a dense forest on the other side of the hill and the rope way offers panoramic views of the Ganges River and Haridwar. I was so exited to saw the city from top. You may also chose trekking up to Chandi devi mandir instead of cable car rope way. To reach the temple one has to follow the 3 kilometre trekking route from Chandighat and reach the shrine by climbing some steps.
Chandi Devi Temple is situated on the top of Neel Parvat on the Eastern summit of the Sivalik Hills, the southernmost mountain chain of the Himalayas, at a distance of 4 kilometres from Har ki Pauri. Goddess Chandi Devi is the main deity of the temple. The temple was built in 1929 by Suchat Singh, the King of Kashmir. It is said that the main murti of Chandi Devi had been installed in the 8th century by Adi Shankaracharya. The temple is also known as Neel Parvat Teerth which is one of the Panch Tirth within Haridwar. Chandi Devi Temple is highly idolised by devotees as a Siddh Peetha where all wishes get fulfilled. It is one of three such Peethas located in Haridwar, the other two are Mansa Devi Temple and Maya Devi Temple.
The Temple is visited especially during the festivals of Chandi Chaudas and Navratra and the Kumbha Mela in Haridwar, to seek the blessings of the goddesses who is believed to fulfill their wishes. Near to the Chandi devi temple, the temple of Anjani, mother of Hanuman is located and devotees visiting Chandi Devi temple also visit this temple.
After spending some time there, we moved to Rishikesh. Let me tell you that I find Rishikesh more peaceful and environmentally beautiful than Haridwar. I love Rishikesh so much that I dream of having a home there. I have already said why I chose Ram Jhula to visit that day. I was driving slow while enjoying the ride and hilly views of Rishikesh so it took half an hour to reach Ram jhula. We parked our car there. Parking was paid this time. An advise – Never park car on road, as the roads are narrow, find parking instead.
We crossed the Ram jhula to be at other side of river Ganga. My wife praised for Parmarth Ashram, so we finalised to be there. It was really a beautiful place. So beautifully decorated gardens and statues there were. We sat there for some time for meditation. Rooms are available in ashram on cheap rates. Then we found some place for lunch. I have tried chotiwala before so we reached there, but that was fully crowded at that time. So we found its substitute, Topiwala. Food was not up to our expectation. After having lunch, I felt sorry to others as it was my suggestion to eat there. But as you learn from your mistakes. They let it go…so kind of them.
Post lunch, we decided to give look to the street-side shops. I bought some artificial jewellery for my wife, she liked some bangles there. There were small shops of artificial jewellery, antic items, statues and framed photos, wooden items and other art & craft work. My wife got tired so it was time to go back home. This time we preferred boat to cross the river. We enjoyed the boating, had some photos, and go straight to parking. I was feeling low as always while leaving Rishikesh. I made a promise to come back soon and this time I would love to visit Neel Kanth Mahadev mandir.
Happy Ghumakkari to all.
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- (Photo: REUTERS/Danny Moloshok)
World champion boxer Manny Pacquiao has denied ever referencing a Bible passage that says homosexuality is punishable by death after the erroneous attribution stirred a flurry of criticism and even had the boxer's sponsors worried.
"I told (the reporter) I'm against same-sex marriage," Pacquiao shared on Wednesday with The Associated Press. "He said, 'Why?' I said, 'It's the law of God.' That's all I said."
Responding to President Barack Obama's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage, Pacquiao made it clear that he defends the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman in an interview last week with Examiner.com.
In the interview, Examiner reporter Granville Ampong referenced the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13 -- which reads: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
The Examiner report prompted much debate and discussion among readers, many of whom were confused as to whether Pacquiao had actually quoted that verse himself or if the passage was simply included by Ampong.
Ampong, listed as the Conservative Examiner, has reportedly since clarified that Pacquiao did not specifically offer that verse during the interview, but that he himself had included it.
After the article was released, Pacquiao was even banned from a Hollywood mall on Wednesday where he was set to give an interview. Officials apparently unhappy with the alleged anti-gay comments told the boxer to find an alternate venue for his meeting.
While the Filipino congressman held firm on his comments that he does not agree with the president's endorsement of same-sex marriage because of his Roman Catholic beliefs, he has clarified that he is not against gay people and that he has relatives and friends who are gay.
In an interview with "Extra" published Wednesday on the entertainment program's website, Pacquiao addressed the controversy, saying: "To the gay community, I apologize. I'm against same sex marriage, but I'm not condemning you. My favorite verse is 'Love one another as you love yourself. Love your neighbor.' So, I love everybody!"
In the wake of the Examiner interview, a petition was immediately started on Change.org urging sponsor Nike to drop Pacquiao. It had gathered more than 4,000 signatures before the petition was suspended Wednesday morning after Ampong's clarification was reported.
The Christian Post attempted to contact Ampong for further clarification on his interview with Pacquiao, but did not receive a response by time of press.
"With great power comes great responsibility, so that's my responsibility, to handle everything," Pacquiao added in the AP interview, acknowledging the stir that the Examiner report caused. "This has happened before. You have to explain and understand. It's a lot more fun to train (for a fight)."
Top Rank Boxing, which represents Pacquiao, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Christian Post.
Lucia McKelvey, however, an executive at Top Rank Boxing, apparently flew to New York on Wednesday to meet with Hewlett-Packard and Hennessy, who hold endorsement contracts with the boxer, to discuss Pacquiao's alleged comments.
According to The New York Times, Hennessy was "extremely upset" with the negative reactions the company received because of confusion over the Examiner article.
"His sponsors know what Manny stands for," she reportedly said, sharing that she does expect Pacquiao to lose his endorsement deals. "He's not a gay hater, by any means. He simply doesn't believe gays should be married."
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"Wages" means all remuneration paid for services rendered by an individual, including commissions and bonuses and the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. Gratuities customarily received by an individual in the course of his employment from persons other than his employer and reported by the individual to his employer shall be treated as wages paid by his employer. The reasonable cash value of remuneration paid in any medium other than cash shall be estimated and determined in accordance with rules prescribed by the board. The value of room and board, if set by agreement between the employer and employee, must be reported as wages. Where there is no agreement, the department uses the minimum values assigned to room and board as established under the wage and hour program.
Types of Payments are not Considered Wages
By statute, the term "wages" shall not include:
A) The amount of any payment (including any amount paid by an employer for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to provide for any such payment) made to, or on behalf of, an employee or any of his dependents under a plan or system established by an employer which makes provision for his employees generally (or for his employees generally and their dependents) or for a class or classes of his employees (or for a class or classes of his employees and their dependents), on account of:
i) sickness or accident disability (but, in the case of payments made directly to an employee or any of his or her dependents, this subparagraph shall exclude from the term "wages" only payments which are received under a workers' compensation law); or
ii) medical or hospitalization expenses in connection with sickness or accident disability; or
B) Any payment on account of sickness or accident disability, or medical or hospitalization expenses in connection with sickness or accident disability, made by an employer to, or on behalf of, an employee after the expiration of six calendar months following the last calendar month in which the employee worked for such employer;
C) Any payment made to, or on behalf of, an employee or his beneficiary (i) from or to a trust described in section 401(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code which is exempt from tax under section 501(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code at the time of such payment unless such payment is made to an employee of the trust as remuneration for services rendered as such employee and not as a beneficiary of the trust, or (ii) under or to an annuity plan which, at the time of such payment, is a plan described in section 403(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code;
D) The payment by an employer (without deduction from the remuneration of the employee) of the tax imposed upon an employee under section 3101 of the United States Internal Revenue Code;
E) Any amounts received from the federal government by members of the National Guard and organized reserve, as drill pay, including longevity pay and allowances.
The state law uses similar language as found in the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and for many years, the types of payments excluded under both federal and state law were the same. Currently, federal law excludes some types of payments from the definition of wages under federal laws that are not excluded in state law. A common example is federal law excludes payments made under a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan from the definition of wages. Any payment excluded under the federal definition that is also not excluded under state law must be reported as wages. State law also provides that if federal law changes so that one or more of the payments currently excluded under both state and federal law is no longer excluded under federal law, then state law automatically no longer excludes those same types of payments.
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One of my best friends sent this to me the other day and thought I should share. Oswald Chambers (I recommend his daily devotional ‘My Upmost for His Highest’) looks at Mark 6:45 “He made His disciples get onto to boat and go before Him on the other side.” If you read further in Mark you find that once their boat was in the middle of the lake, the winds from the storm “terrified” them, for they didn’t know what would happen, they didn’t know if they would make it to the other side. They didn’t realize what God had intended for them.
I think we have to understand that we too are like Jesus’ disciples, He asks things of us and sometimes we can’t see then end goal; but that is all we focus on. We don’t take note of what is going on in the present, right now. God’s will for us is to make a difference with what we have TODAY. We can’t say we’ll get there 4 years from now, after we graduate, when we get married, because we aren’t promised tomorrow. Its says in Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” So what does this mean for us? Simple, He has given us today, HISday; and He asks us to live it well as best as we can. We can’t worry about what will happen because we aren’t even promised that.
Are we willing to fully understand and commit to this? Are we willing to truly take up our cross and follow Him in whatever circumstance He gives us? I pray that we can do this each day. We serve an incredible God who loves us more than we can ever fathom. Its truly overwhelming.
Be present TODAY.
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BSC Students Participate in Summer Research Internship at Virginia Tech
CreatedMonday, September 24 2012
Created byJim Nelson/Media Relations - (304) 327-4103 [email protected]
(Bluefield)—Bluefield State College students Musa Nyassi (left) and Baboucarr Bless Jagne (right) invested ten weeks of intensive study this summer as participants in the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP) at Virginia Tech. The BSC students, both from The Gambia, took part in the MAOP's Summer Research Internship, working with a Virginia Tech faculty member in a mentor/protégé relationship to design, conduct, and present a scholarly research paper.
Nyassi, a Computer Science major, utilized computer models and Netlogo, an agent-based modeling and simulation toolbox. "I studied the spread of malaria in a population and the effect of different human intervention strategies," he explained. "Simulation and visualization shows how people infected by mosquitos carrying malaria parasites can get sick and it can also be an effective tool in disease prevention." His study considered the impact of three intervention strategies—mosquito nets, a clean environment, and the use of insecticides, to determine their impact on slowing or stopping the spread of the disease.
Jagne, a Business Accounting major, used Netlogo to compare the effectiveness of two types of companies—one that was extremely profit-driven and another that focused more energy on employee relations. "The variables that I considered included the educational level of the workforce, and employees' commitment to their jobs to determine which type of company will do better over time," he recounted. "I determined that neither type of company would outperform the other type in every instance."
MAOP is an academic success community founded upon the principles of self-help, mentoring, and peer support. Participation is open to students who demonstrate a clear commitment to the pursuit of academic excellence and are interested in the promotion of diversity.
"In addition to our research, we attended seminars, took field trips, and prepared for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)," Nyassi added. Both BSC student participants plan to continue their studies in graduate studies. They expressed appreciation for the letters of recommendation from the College's faculty and staff, and for the encouragement and direction of their MAOP mentor, Dr. Yang Cao, Associate Professor/Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
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Bio & Incident Details
Tour: 22 years
Badge # 54-26
Cause: Heart attack
Incident Date: 12/4/2003
Marshal Mark Clapp suffered a fatal heart attack after a violent struggle with a 17-year-old domestic violence suspect.
Marshal Clapp and his son, a county jail officer, responded to a domestic dispute at 10:30 am. As Marshal Clapp's son waited in the patrol car, Marshal Clapp accompanied the suspect into his home. While inside they became engaged in a struggle. Marshal Clapp's son was unaware of the struggle until a local deputy arrived at the scene and requested assistance when Marshal Clapp fell ill. Marshal Clapp died at a hospital early the following day of a heart attack. The suspect was taken into custody by the responding officers.
The suspect was charged as a juvenile and convicted of battery and resisting law enforcement, but was not found guilty of manslaughter.
Marshal Clapp had served as the New Richmond Town Marshal for 22 years. During that time he had worn only a generic shoulder patch. He had a new patch designed and received it only one week before his death, but never had a chance to wear it. Marshal Clapp was survived by his wife and son.
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After China met with European Union leaders Wednesday in a one-day summit in Brussels,one major disagreement remained.
European leaders urged China to allow its currency, the yuan, to appreciate more rapidly, just as the United States has urged. But Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao resisted, saying that instead, Europe and the United States should lessen their pressure for China to make such changes.
Mr. Wen said that while some U-S congressmen, among others, have called for a rapid increase in the appreciation of the yuan, there are reasons why it would not be such a good idea.
"If China is going to raise its exchange rates by 20 to 40 percent then many of our export companies will have to close down. Then those enterprise employees will lose jobs and migrant workers will have to return to their villages. That will give rise to social turmoil."
Mr. Wen added that that would not be a good thing for the world economy. China says the problem with trade imbalances between China and Europe, and the U-S, for that matter, has more to do with the structure of their economies than with the yuan exchange rate.
Such words and disagreements along with recent efforts by Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, as well as others to weaken their currencies in an attempt to boost exports have led some to suggest there could be what's being termed a global "currency war" brewing.
However, Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company told Bloomberg News there is really no reason for a "currency war."
"I think there's a fundamental difference between China's slowdown, or the currency's rise and trying to knock it down, that is devalue it." "To me," Chandler added, " I'd say there'll be no currency war because these countries that are trying to take action all have rising currencies. All those countries are really talking about is modifying the pace of acceleration."
Mr. Wen's meeting in Brussels is seen as an important precursor to next month's gathering in Seoul, South Korea of the group of 20 wealthy developing nations who will be trying to resolve the major regulatory issues in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The questions about currency valuations will most likely be high on the G-20 agenda.
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Twitter Chats: The Power of a #Hashtag
Welcome to the next level of Twitter communication, where you and other interested professionals and non-professionals alike can talk about anything to anyone, from any location in the world, at any time. I’m talking about Twitter chats, a platform for open discussion using a hashtag as the key to entry.
(Screenshot of the #socialchat Twitter chat using Tweetdeck. #Socialchat happens every Monday at 9pm EST, and covers topics surround social media marketing)
What is a Twitter chat?
Twitter chat is a chance for you to communicate with any of the 140+ million other Tweeters out there about anything under the sun. Someone (anyone!) sets a time, a topic and a hashtag for all users to incorporate in their 140 characters. The set hashtag and phrase is what gets a user into the chat (e.g., #Renegaderocks, the tag for a chat about Renegade enthusiasts). One of the many benefits of a Twitter chat is that because of the character limit, participants are forced to make their messages short, sweet, and to-the-point. No novel-length opinions allowed!
What are they used for?
Twitter chats can be about literally anything, and start in several different ways. One common form is a scheduled chat. For example, Mashable has provided 15 essential Twitter chats for Social Media Marketers that happen weekly. Additionally, Twitter chats often form at live panels, where a moderator will announce the appropriate hashtag, and attendees can tweet opinions about the selected topic, or pose questions for the panelists. Some of the most popular Twitter chats erupt from TV shows like The Voice, an example that we blogged about just last month. Before, during and after each show, thousands of people (including Christina Aguilera, a judge on The Voice) incorporated #TheVoice into their tweets, creating a trending topic that eventually became a 24-hour chat.
What can it do for you?
Twitter chats can be useful for both consumers and brands. Participating in chats can aid consumers in forming opinions, voicing thoughts and finding out what others have to say. Brands can also benefit in several ways. First and foremost, these chats provide free and honest feedback from the public. Just a few years ago, companies were paying for a voice from their consumers with surveys and oftentimes their results were biased for several reasons like lack of blinding and measuring the wrong target audience. The public nature of a Twitter chat also builds a brand’s social media presence. With strategically worded hashtags your brand can gain visibility from hundreds, thousands and even millions of Tweeters. Finally, by analyzing the demographics and psychographics of Twitter chat participants, brands can easily get a better understanding of their existing and target communities. Take into consideration brands like Toyota, a company that practices good online presence by hosting several Twitter chats, ranging from discussion with their designers to advocating their philanthropy. By casually interacting with the public about the company, Toyota was able to make themselves open and accessible to Toyota lovers and potential customers alike.
Tips for a successful chat:
Twitter chats can be constructive and beneficial, but there are several ways that the chats can go south. Take these next few tips into consideration to make sure your first chat goes smoothly:
- Use Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or some other type of social media management program with a live stream to track the hashtag. The original Twitter UI is fine, but not ideal for chats, especially huge ones where tweets stream in faster than you can click the Refresh button!
- Don’t worry if you can’t keep up with the conversation. Again, some chats have tweets coming in every other second, so just keep your eyes peeled for what’s relevant or interesting, and feel free to re-tweet the best ones. Retweeting is a way to moderate the chat and may spark more conversation about that particular topic.
- Recognize the community: People of all ages and personalities are getting active on social media, and they communicate in different ways. Depending on the audience of the chat (e.g., a chat about Justin Bieber vs. a chat about business culture), you may have to adapt your voice for that particular chat.
Now that you’re more informed about Twitter chats and all of its glory, I leave you with the ultimate Twitter Chat Google Doc. Peruse the 600+ topics (any chat about food is a personal favorite) and start engaging with people who share your unique interests.
Let us know about your Twitter chat experiences! We’d love to hear the rants and raves of your time in the Twittersphere.
- Jaime Cheng, @Rochambeaux
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The MBTA has won general approval for its proposal for fewer and better bus stops—including some with sections of widened sidewalks at least 60 feet long to act as mini T platforms—on the Route 39 corridor from the citizens’ working group reviewing route improvement ideas.
The MBTA will now seek to tap part of $8 million in federal stimulus money to build the sidewalk exten-sions, T project director Erik Scheier said at an April 21 working group meeting at the Agassiz School. He said the construction contract likely would have to be issued by “early summer” to secure the funds.
“We actually have funding,” Scheier said.
The working group has only reviewed less than one-quarter of the 39’s route in detail. It is unclear when it will next meet and whether the rest of the route, which runs between the Forest Hills and Back Bay T Sta-tions, can be reviewed before a construction contract goes out.
But the general concept approval, which was expressed in general discussion rather than a formal vote, is a step forward from the last working group meeting in March. At that time, there was not consensus on the sidewalk extension idea.
The April meeting featured more detailed sketches of the sidewalk extensions and a promise that they would all allow for traffic to pass a pulled-over bus.
The Route 39 improvement process is focused on reducing the number of bus stops and relocating some to better areas to make for a faster trip. The widened sidewalks at some stops would allow the route’s giant buses to pull up to the curb completely for easier access, and would make room for bus shelters and other street furniture. The overall goal is to boost ridership.
Some points of controversy remain among working group members. One is the makeup of the group itself, which consists mostly of JP residents. The entire Route 39 improvement process ultimately came from a law-suit involving the removal of Green Line streetcar service from most of JP, which the Route 39 at first serving as its replacement.
“We’re lacking representation from the Mission Hill neighborhood,” said member Jeffrey Ferris, referring to a significant stretch of the route along Huntington Avenue. No meetings have been held in that major residential and institutional neighborhood.
Member Michael Reiskind repeated his concerns that operational improvements may be more effective than construction projects. Operations include driver training and policing of illegal parking in bus stops.
The MBTA has made it clear that infrastructure changes are the focus of the project, but various opera-tions ideas have been discussed as well. In one bit of news, Scheier said that the MBTA will “definitely” be painting an outline of the bus stops on the street to make it clear no parking is allowed in them.
Meanwhile, Scheier gave a hard sell on reaching consensus for the bus stop proposals. “I have plenty of other projects” that could use the stimulus money, he warned. “I’m trying to make this a shovel-ready op-tion.”
All of the ideas remain rough and conceptual. The group’s approval allows a more in-depth study to begin that may change the ideas. Also, the Route 39 improvements will be coordinated with the city’s upcoming re-design of Centre and South streets.
At the April meeting, the working group looked at more detailed sketches of the South and Centre streets section of the route from the Forest Hills T Station to the Centre/S. Huntington Avenue intersection. The nine stops on that stretch would be reduced to seven, and some would move. There would be a net gain of five on-street parking spaces on the strip.
The bus stops after the proposed improvements would include, by street name: Roseway/Moraine; Robin-wood/Beaufort; St. John/Pond; Seaverns/Burroughs; Centre/South (Monument Square); Child/Jamaica; and Spald-ing/St. Rose.
The two removed stops would be South Street very close to Forest Hills Station, and the Carolina/Custer stops at the South Street Mall and Harvest Co-Op Market. Some members noted the popularity of the Caro-lina/Custer stop, especially for people buying groceries at the market.
Sidewalk extensions are proposed for the Centre/Seaverns stop in front of the Purple Cactus restaurant; the new St. John stop in front of Gentle Dental; the Beaufort stop in front of the Forbes senior housing building; and the Roseway stop.
One point of concern for the working group was a lack of proposed improvements for the bus stop at For-est Hills Station. Currently, buses stop on decaying cobblestones and streetcar rails, and frequently park across a major entrance path for the station.
In a related point, Reiskind said his approval of the general stop improvement concepts was contingent on also improving pedestrian access from South Street to Forest Hills Station. Scheier said that issue will get a closer look.
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The Electoral Victory of Political Islam in Egypt by Samir Amin
By Samir Amin – The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. The decline brought about by the current globalization of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called “informal” activities that provide the livelihoods of more than half of the Egyptian population (statistics give a figure of 60%).
And the Muslim Brotherhood is very well placed to take advantage of this decline and perpetuate its reproduction. Their simplistic ideology confers legitimacy on a miserable market/bazaar economy that is completely antithetical to the requirements of any development worthy of the name. The fabulous financial means provided to the Muslim Brotherhood (by the Gulf states) allows them to translate this ideology into efficient action: financial aid to the informal economy, charitable services (medical dispensaries etc.).
In this way the Brotherhood establishes itself at the heart of society and induces its dependency. It has never been the intention of the Gulf countries to support the development of Arab countries, for example through industrial investment. They support a form of “lumpen development” — to use the term originally coined by André Gunder Frank — that imprisons the societies concerned in a spiral of pauperization and exclusion, which in turn reinforces the stranglehold of reactionary political Islam on society.
This would not have succeeded so easily if it had not been in perfect accord with the objectives of the Gulf states, Washington, and Israel. The three close allies share the same concern: to foil the recovery of Egypt. A strong, upright Egypt would mean the end of the triple hegemony of the Gulf (submission to the discourse of Islamization of society), the United States (a vassalized and pauperized Egypt remains under its direct influence), and Israel (a powerless Egypt does not intervene in Palestine).
The rallying of regimes to neo-liberalism and to submission to Washington was sudden and total in Egypt under Sadat, and more gradual and moderate in Algeria and Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood — which is part of the power system — should not be considered merely as an “Islamic party,” but first and foremost as an ultra reactionary party that is, moreover, Islamist. Reactionary not only concerning what are known as “social issues” (the veil, sharia, anti-Coptic discrimination), but also, and to the same degree, reactionary in the fundamental areas of economic and social life: the Brotherhood is against strikes, workers’ demands, independent workers’ unions, the movement of resistance against the expropriation of farmers, etc.
The planned failure of the “Egyptian revolution” would thus guarantee the continuation of the system that has been in place since Sadat, founded on the alliance of the army high command and political Islam. Admittedly, on the strength of its electoral victory the Brotherhood is now able to demand more power than it has thus far been granted by the military. However, revising the distribution of the benefits of this alliance in favor of the Brotherhood may prove difficult.
The first round of the presidential election on 24 May was organized in such a way as to achieve the objective pursued by the system in power and by Washington: to reinforce the alliance of the two pillars of the system — the army high command and the Muslim Brotherhood — and settle their disagreement (which of the two will be in the forefront). The two candidates “acceptable” in this sense were the only ones to receive adequate means to run their campaigns. Morsi (MB: 24%) and Chafiq (Army: 23%). The movement’s real candidate — H. Sabbahi – who did not receive the means normally granted to candidates, allegedly only got 21% of the vote (the figure is questionable).
At the end of protracted negotiations it was agreed that Morsi was the “winner” of the second round. The assembly, like the president, was elected thanks to a massive distribution of parcels (of meat, oil, and sugar) to those who voted for the Islamists. And yet, the “foreign observers” failed to observe a situation that is openly ridiculed in Egypt. The assembly’s dissolution was delayed by the army, which wanted to give the Brotherhood time to bring discredit upon itself by refusing to address social issues (employment, salaries, schools, and health!).
The system in place, “presided” over by Morsi, is the best guarantee that lumpen development and the destruction of the institutions of the state, which are the objectives pursued by Washington, will continue. We will see how the revolutionary movement, which is still firmly committed to the fight for democracy, social progress, and national independence, will carry on after this electoral charade.
Samir Amin is a Marxist economist. Translation by Julia Monod (first published by Pambazuka News under a Creative Commons license).
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BP Admits to Photoshopping Oil Spill Command Centre Activity
Photoshop, or any other form of photo editing software, is an double-edged sword. It can make a good photo even better and it can allow designers and creative people to create stunning works of art. However, in the wrong hands, people can use it to alter photos for malicious and dishonest purposes. In this case, BP has admitted that it has altered photos to exaggerate activity at their Oil Spill Command Centre.
Guardian - BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command centre in Houston.
The picture posted over the weekend showed workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images.
The spokesman Scott Dean said yesterday that three screens were blank in the original picture and a staff photographer used Photoshop software to add images.
To see the photos, click here.
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Had to pass along my Monkey Product. It’s a little dated but it’s classic.
When my wife and I were married, we received lots of very nice gifts - dishes, pots and pans, small appliances, glassware, serving trays, bedding, etc. One of the things we got was a toaster. It looked like a pretty nice toaster but one thing I noticed that I thought was odd was that the power cord came out the front of the toaster, where you select how “brown” you want your toast. Now, while this was a little different, what I found very strange, and something that just ended up infuriating me, was the fact that the length of the power cord was about 12 inches. So to plug the toaster in to any outlet, you had to turn the unit away from you to use it, which meant that you had to select how brown you wanted your toast before you plugged it in. This wouldn’t be a problem if you lived alone but if you wanted really brown toast, and your spouse wanted slightly brown toast, well….you get the picture. The monkey that designed our toaster with a 12 inch cord that came out the front needed to be shot!
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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||October 19, 2007
This love story takes place on the Greek Island of Kos, where Hippocrates, the father of healing, lived and worked there.
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The Lion and the Nurse" is a story that takes place on the beautiful Greek island of Kos, where Hippocrates, the famous physician, was known to teach and heal people. This romance is about a nurse who returns to the island to help her ailing mother and finds love in the process. Her healing powers are able to save others, but not herself. When she experiences her own mortality, she witnesses the breathtaking power of love.
Cassiani stepped out on to the sunlit balcony carrying a bucket of dirty soap water in one hand and a wet mop in the other. Her mind was miles away at the University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked the past five months as a registered nurse. Today she would have been taking blood pressure readings at seven o’clock in the morning or popping thermometers into patients’ mouths. Or she would have been reading charts and administering medications. Instead, she was here on the Greek Island of Kos, mopping Mrs. Lukas’ upstairs apartment.
A week ago, when she and her sister received the telephone call from the doctor at Kos Hospital telling them that her mother experienced a heart attack, it had come as a shock. Athena couldn’t come because she was pregnant with her second child, so it was decided that Cassiani would come. Cassiani rushed to get here, dropping everything she was doing with no other thought but to nurse her mother. When she arrived three days ago, little did she know that today she’d be cleaning and mopping Mrs. Lukas’ house.
Cassiani lifted the bucket and poured the soapy water over the side of the balcony, watching the water disappear down the slope of the lime-green hill below. Further observation revealed flecks of color among the hill; clusters of white cyclamen, bunches of daisies, and bright red poppies that swayed with each caress of the wind. She took a deep breath, enjoying the fresh mountain air.
“This would be a good place to rest,” she said aloud. Two wooden chairs and a small square table sat on the balcony. She sank into one chair, plopping her slender legs up on the other chair, enjoying the sun-drenched panoramic view of Kos Island below. She could see far on this clear day; the whitewashed houses scattered here and there, the sandy beach of Tigaki with its salt lake, and in the horizon, the small island of Pserimos.
Her gaze settled to her left, beyond the row of Cypress trees that marked the property’s boundary, on the winding road leading to the house. She remembered the walk she had with her mother years ago down that very same road. It was dusty and half the width; suited more for pedestrians and donkeys than for cars. This morning her mother said, “You’ll find the road paved now, so don’t miss the way. It was done two years ago when Mrs. Lukas bought a new Mercedes.”
Cassiani glimpsed the dark shade of a lonely automobile driving up the road, but lost track of it just as quickly; probably her imagination at work. Mrs. Lukas was napping downstairs and wasn’t expecting anyone. She yawned, rubbing her eyes, enjoying the feel of the warm sun on her face. Her eyes fluttered shut as she fell into a light sleep.
Cassiani jumped up from her chair, knocking it over, her heart beating wildly. She anxiously peered through the balcony’s glass door into the darkness of the apartment. Could it be that Mrs. Lukas had walked up the stairs looking for her and had slipped on the newly mopped floor? Then she caught sight of the man. His movements were slow and cautious, as if he had sensed another presence…her presence. “A burglar,” she whispered. She quickly made the sign of the cross. “Dear Lord, have mercy on me.”
He was lean and dressed in dark clothes, and was heading purposefully towards her.
Michael Bilirakis Review
“Patty Apostolides’ novel, which takes place on a “typical” Greek Island, Kos, is truly a proper follow-up to “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” although it comes from a different direction – Americans experiencing the Greek culture in Greece.” - Michael Bilirakis, former Congressman
Nikos Kokonis Review
“What impressionism achieved on the canvass, Patty Apostolides seems to accomplish on the printed page – and her psychological insights are remarkable. A stunning achievement!” – Nicholas D. Kokonis, Ph.D., Author of the award-winning novel Arcadia, My Arcadia
Aphrodite Matsakis Review
“Patty Apostolides has done it again! Just as in Lipsi’s Daughter, The Lion and the Nurse captures the beauty and charm of a Greek island in a love story that is more than a love story. This romance about Cassiani, a nurse who returns to Kos to help her ailing mother, is also about the triumph of eternal values, such as truth and caring, over materialism and deception. It is also about the loneliness and the struggles of two widows and about how love transcends all planes, even in modern times. This book is a real page-turner. I couldn’t put it down!” - Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D., Author of Growing Up Greek in St. Louis
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Let A = be a matrix with nonnegative entries such that
By the change of variables theorem, with , the integral of the inner product of y with z over the region AC is given by
The left side is .
The right side is
Putting the two together, you see that .
This is a pretty proof, but as such it would actually prove that for every nonnegative matrix , wouldn't it? I have some concerns about this last line:
which is much larger.
A possible proof: define by dividing each line of the matrix by its sum, hence making it a "stochastic" matrix. We have , and by the arithmetic-geometric inequality, the prefactor (which is positive) is less than , so that we are reduced to proving that . This is a classical fact, which one can prove by looking at the complex eigenvectors: if , applying the triangle inequality at the line corresponding to the largest entry , one gets . Or there is also a geometrical proof along the exact same lines as yours! since in this case
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How to Draft a Fundraising Strategy for Your Nonprofit
Implementing a nonprofit fundraising strategy is a lot easier when you have a guide to follow. In the first stage, you brainstorm and then refine your list of ideas, creating a fundraising strategy that defines reasonable goals. In the second stage, you identify the specific activities to address those goals, set a schedule, decide who will do the work, and make sure that you have the tools you need to succeed.
Create a list of fundraising prospects
If your organization is brand-new, brainstorm with your founding board members the names of people and organizations they know that may support your cause. If your organization has been around for a while, begin by listing its previous contributors.
Annotate your list by identifying which supporters are likely to support it again. Then stretch your thinking to consider new prospects — people who know you or who support other causes that are related to yours.
After you begin this effort of generating names and ideas, you’ll begin to notice prospects all around you. A good sleuth is ever vigilant, collecting names from newspaper stories, athletic event programs, public television credits, donor display walls in buildings, and related organizations’ websites. You want to make sleuthing a regular habit!
Refine your nonprofit prospect list
Professional fundraisers will tell you that the three keys to raising money are research, research, and research. After you identify specific foundations, corporations, and government agencies on your list, you want to check on their current guidelines and giving priorities.
Approximately 13,000 foundations have websites that can help you with that task; you can find many more of them by subscribing to The Foundation Center’s online directory. You also can search for federal government agencies and programs on the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and at Grants.gov.
As you conduct your search, you’re likely to uncover other prospects that you didn’t think of when brainstorming, and you also may eliminate many that you discover are inappropriate.
Go back through your list of individual donor prospects with board members, volunteers, and trusted associates. Note who knows whom. Try to discover as much as you can about them from media sources, the Internet, and people who know them.
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If your organization is new, estimating how much you’ll receive in donations is challenging, and it’s recommend that you be conservative. Look at the prospect list and set goals for the contributions you intend to secure Setting these donation numbers gets easier in subsequent years. However, donors’ interests and circumstances change, so never assume consistency.
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To sext or not to sext?
Published: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013 12:05
A text message may lead you to engage in a close and intimate conversation with someone. As one texts back-and-forth to another, conversations may start to get flirtatious, and then things start to spice up when people send sexually explicit images or messages.
Sexting is becoming more common among college students. According to a study done by Michelle Drouin, an assistant professor of psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 745 U.S. college students aged 18-25 suggest that sexting is a popular means of sexual communication between committed romantic relationships and casual sexual relationships.
The study showed that 80 percent of students with committed romantic partners have sent or received sexually explicit text messages and 60 percent have sent or received sexually explicit pictures or videos. With casual sexual partners such as, flings or hookups, not boyfriends or girlfriends, 70 percent have sent or received sexually explicit text messages and 51 percent have sent or received explicit pictures or videos.
Sure, I understand for some, sexting is a convenient way to engage in sexual interactions, especially for distant men or women who are less likely to see each other. But I don't understand, for those that are close, the desire to engage in phone sex or sexting when actual sex is an option. Perhaps naughty, long sex conversations through text messaging are good foreplay that one can engage in throughout the day.
Drouin's research stated that although men and women sexted with equal frequency, sexting appeared to be particularly appealing to certain types of individuals – those who were dependent on text messaging to navigate their social relationships, and those who were insecure with or emotionally distant from their romantic partners.
Sexting, however, is not something to play around with, because it can go wrong. There has been a lot of negative backlash for sexting, and there are cases pending about sexual assault via publishing of sexts and pictures.
Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner posted on his Twitter account a series of lewd photos that he sent to women online. In an interview with ABC news, he also said he was engaged in several electronic relationships with women over three years. It became a big scandal, and three weeks later, he resigned from his seat.
While today's technology, email, IMing, social networking and texting are growing in popularity, the majority of our conversations are taking place in text form. As much fun as that can be, there is something lost when a text replaces actual face-to-face conversation. There is something special about being physically there with another person, hearing their voice, looking in their eyes and having that feeling of a friendly embrace.
Sexting with someone can't replace that physical connection between two people. This is a sexual act that you are consenting to with your partner and no one else.
My advice? Sext all you want ladies and gents, just think twice about what you send. I personally would not like for a guy to be sending me an obscene picture of himself and I would never send one. It's degrading and it lowers one's values. But I'll say this, the occasional flirty sexts using only words can be fun. If there's going to be anything explicit, I'd prefer showing that stuff in the bedroom.
Beatriz A. Castañeda may be reached at [email protected].
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For the open-source Radeon and Nouveau graphics drivers on Linux, OpenCL/GPGPU support has been implemented via the "Clover" OpenCL state tracker
with the Radeon/Nouveau drivers built atop the Gallium3D driver architecture. While Intel's latest hardware supports OpenCL with its graphics core, their open-source Linux driver has lacked any support, but that is changing.
With Intel sticking to their Mesa DRI "classic" driver rather than migrating to the Gallium3D driver architecture, they haven't been able to tap the OpenCL state tracker and thus are stuck to coming up with their own implementation. Intel has put out their own closed-source OpenCL SDK that works on Windows and Linux but on the Linux side has been limited to using just the CPU and not integrated with their GPU driver.
Fortunately, fairly quietly over the past several months there's been a new Intel OpenCL Linux effort: Beignet. The open-source Beignet is an OpenCL/GPGPU implementation targeting Ivy Bridge hardware and newer.
Beignet is an open source implementaion of the OpenCL specification - a generic compute oriented API. This code base contains the code to run OpenCL programs on Intel GPUs which bsically defines and implements the OpenCL host functions required to initialize the device, create the command queues, the kernels and the programs and run them on the GPU.
Beignet is an original project and not tied to Gallium3D/Mesa. Fortunately, it's not entirely from scratch, but does leverage the LLVM compiler infrastructure. LLVM is used by the Gallium3D compute support as well as within the proprietary graphics driver from NVIDIA.
Aside from the LLVM dependency, Beignet also relies upon several X11 components and the DRM library for communicating with Intel's kernel DRM driver. The hardware coverage right now has been specifically tested against the Ivy Bridge "GT2" graphics core.
This current OpenCL implementation is not fully complete but still TODO is support for samplers/textures, events, Enqueue\Buffer, full support for images, and state tracking.
Beignet is mostly the work of Ben Segovia out of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center. The code to Beignet is hosted on FreeDesktop.org Git
and has seen quite a lot of activity, but unfortunately not any public activity since mid-November. The project's README can be viewed through CGit
Hopefully Beignet is able to mature and take-off -- along with the Radeon Gallium3D OpenCL support -- so we can finally see OpenCL used more on Linux and become a common component to the Linux desktop.
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QATAR. The greatest vote of confidence on the Qatari banks came from the country’s sovereign wealth fund – the Qatar Investment Authority – a few weeks ago when it decided to buy local bank shares in a US$5.3 billion plan. The QIA will buy between 10% and 20% of the banks’ listed capital on the Doha Securities Market based on closing share prices on 12 October.
The plan came amid government’s efforts to prevent the contagion from the global financial crisis from spreading to the region in general and the country in particular.
The global downturn has already forced local banks to adjust lending procedures, rendering it difficult for customers to borrow money either for mortgage or personal needs.
The Qatar Central Bank has taken a series of steps this year to ensure local banks were not overexposed to real estate, which is affected by the economic downturn and expected to go through a major correction in 2009. Local banks are now forbidden from extending more than 15% of their equity as finance to real estate. A mandatory deposit up to 35% will be required if a customer wants to take out mortgage finance from local banks.
Although Qatar is among the least affected by the global economic turmoil due to its strong macroeconomic fundamentals, plunging global oil price is certainly raising concerns over the future growth of the Gulf Co-operation Council region as a whole.
This is why local banks are tightening lending; imposing tighter curbs on mortgage financing and personal loans. Until August, the banks had seen their credit portfolio expanding. It had gone up by 58% to QAR217 billion, the QCB said.
Interestingly, credit off-take by the real estate, industry, public sector and services segments outpaced the industrial average of 58%, even as personal loans constituted the largest share of domestic credit. This ought to change in 2009 with new lending regulations in place.
Merrill Lynch has noted that Qatar’s banking sector liquidity had clearly tightened since the first half of 2008. Nevertheless, it said local banks are still in a “comfortable liquidity position” and are “less exposed” to the retrenchment of external liquidity compared with the UAE.
Many Qatari banks continued to tap foreign shores as competition hots up in the home market Some of the local commercial banks have also ventured into Islamic finance, the latest being IBQ.
After obtaining approval from the QCB to launch Islamic services in the country and introduce a suite of corporate and retail Islamic banking products, IBQ’s Shariah-based banking arm Al Yusr last week arranged a QAR324 million Murabaha facility for Doha-based Ezdan Contracting Company.
Many local banks have forayed overseas, either acquiring a stake in foreign banks or opening branches or representative offices this year. They include QNB, Commercialbank, Doha Bank, QIB, International Islamic and Al Khaliji.
QNB, Commercialbank and Doha Bank continue to dominate the non-Islamic banking sector by virtue of their size, reach and coverage.
“They have competitive advantage over the smaller ones on account of strong brand equity and distribution coverage”, an analyst said.
In mid-2008, domestic liquidity reached an all-time high of QAR150 billion, up 27.5% on 2007.
Domestic liquidity is a key driver of consumption and investment, and thus, economic activity or income. It is made up of assets that can be sold or bought relatively easily and includes bank accounts, mutual funds or stocks held by individuals or businesses.
QCB figures indicate there was an increase in demand deposits with local banks, which rose by 63.6% to reach QAR50.5 billion in June. Savings and time deposits increased by 20.8% to reach QAR72.8 billion in June compared with QAR60.2 billion in December 2007. Customer deposits with Qatari banks totalled QAR208.5 billion in June, up 24.1% on 2007.
The engine of growth for local banks will continue to be the Qatari economy. The country’s GDP is set to double in the next five years.
The underlying fundamentals of the Qatari economy are very strong. The per capita consumption has also been projected to grow in the coming years though the pace may slow down due to the global economic turbulence.
A senior banker said: “Qatar’s commitment to upgrade its infrastructure and push industrial expansion will create immense opportunities for all of us. Sitting on huge gas reserves, the impact of global economic crisis on Qatar will be more of sentimental in nature. We have no reason to panic.”
MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS COMMENT & ANALYSIS
date:Posted: May 25, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Oil exporters maintain healthy non-oil growth, oil importers see moderate recovery; Transition countries need resolute actions to maintain economic stability and promote inclusive growth.
date:Posted: May 24, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. A currency war is different from any other kind of conventional war in that the object is to kill oneself. The nation that succeeds in inflicting the most damage on its own citizens wins the war. The only real way to win is not to play.
date:Posted: May 23, 2013
UAE. Stock market indices racing ahead but GDP figures do not support the euphoria and commodity outflows fuel the rally; Is there too much liquidity in the banking system?
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Morisette, Alanis Biography
Alanis Morissette's 1995 international debut Jagged Little Pill became one of the most successful albums of all time. The raw intensity of the album's first single, 'You Oughta Know', led Morissette to be labeled the 'first lady of rage', though the album itself contained only two songs that hinted at any sort of anger or resentment. Since the extraordinary success of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette's popularity has waned as singers such as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera gained attention, though she is still one of the industry's premiere female singer/songwriters. Her latest album, So-Called Chaos, on which she received sole writing and co-producing credits, sold over 115,000 copies in its first week of release.
The early years
Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an early age. When she was 9 years old, she went to the home of singer Olivia Newton-John, one of her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: 'Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you.'
In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, 'Fate Stay With Me', at the age of 9:
With the help of her childhood mentor Leslie Howe, Morissette released 'Fate Stay With Me' when she was 11 years old. A year later, Morissette auditioned for a role on the Canadian children's television show You Can't Do That on Television, shot in Ottawa, her hometown. Morissette became a recurring cast member, but left after one season.
With the support of her parents and a relentless desire to succeed, Morissette traveled with Howe to New York City to meet with record executives, an experience that she would later write about in songs such as 'UR' (from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie):
Alanis and Now Is The Time
In 1990, Alanis Morissette signed with MCA Records and released her debut full-length album, Alanis, in 1991. At the time, Morissette was credited simply as 'Alanis' to avoid possible confusion with fellow Canadian singer Alannah Myles. The album went double platinum, and its first single, 'Too Hot', reached the Top 10 on the Canadian charts:
In 1992, Morissette was nominated for three Juno Awards: Single of the Year, Best Dance Record, and Most Promising Female Vocalist (which she won). In the same year, she released Now Is The Time, her follow-up to Alanis. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, Now Is The Time sold less than half the number of copies of her debut album, and Morissette lost her recording contract with MCA Records.
Moving to Los Angeles
In 1993, Alanis Morissette moved from her hometown of Ottawa to Toronto. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy of songwriters, but the results frustrated her. A move to Nashville a few months later also proved unfruitful.
Morissette began making trips to Los Angeles and working with as many musicians as possible, in the hopes of meeting a collaborator. During this time, Morissette met with producer and songwriter Glen Ballard.
According to Ballard, the connection was 'instant', and within 30 minutes of meeting each other, they had begun experimenting with different sounds in Ballard's home studio. Despite Morissette's naïveté, Ballard knew he was dealing with a woman wise beyond her years.
The turning point in their sessions was the song 'Perfect', which was written and recorded in 20 minutes. Morissette improvised the lyrics on the spot to Ballard's delicate guitar strums. The version of the song that appeared on Jagged Little Pill was the only take the two had ever recorded. With 'Perfect', the floodgate was opened, and soon Morissette's thoughts and emotions began pouring onto paper at a frenzied pace.
In Los Angeles, Morissette lived in a small, one-room apartment. On the way home from the supermarket one afternoon, she was robbed at gunpoint. A man rummaged through her bag while another held a gun to her head and made her lie face down on the pavement. Morissette later revealed that her only concern was for the book of lyrics she was carrying in her bag. To her relief, the lyrics were untouched. They would eventually make up the bulk of Jagged Little Pill.
She would later write about her move to Los Angeles in the song 'Unprodigal Daughter' (from the album Feast on Scraps):
Ballard and Morissette recorded the songs on Jagged Little Pill literally as they were being written. According to Morissette, Ballard was the first collaborator who had encouraged her to express her emotions completely and fully without any any fear of shame or embarrassment. As a result, Morissette unabashedly shared everything, from her buoyant love of life ('You Learn'), to her warm infatuations ('Head Over Feet'), to her darkest, most ruthless revenge fantasies ('You Oughta Know'). Morissette drew inspiration for her lyrics completely from personal experiences. For example, as Morissette began meeting with record labels, she wrote and recorded 'Right Through You' about the patriarchy she encountered in the music industry (from the album Jagged Little Pill):
The word 'shake' referred to the record executive's handshake, which was not warm and firm, but cold and slippery. All was well, however, by the spring of 1995, when Morissette inked a deal with Maverick Records.
Jagged Little Pill era (1995-1998)
In 1995, at age 20, Alanis Morissette released her first international album, Jagged Little Pill (lyrics (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/wojtkiewicz/jagged.html)). Expectations for the album were low, and Morissette's manager and long-time friend Scott Welsh would later admit that he didn't expect the album to sell any more than around 250,000 copies. The album debuted at number 118 on the Billboard 200 chart.
'You Oughta Know' instantly garnered attention for its use of the word 'fuck', one of the first times the word was used by a playlisted female artist. (The caustic lyrics were supposedly inspired by a bad relationship with Full House star, Dave Coulier.) The video went into heavy rotation on MTV and radio. Listeners were shocked, unnerved and delighted by the song, which emerged during a time when testosterone and male rage (in the form of grunge) dominated the airwaves. As one fan put it: 'Finally, someone who's speaking for me'.
While 'You Oughta Know' was a hit, it was the seemingly endless series of singles following it that sent Jagged Little Pill on its meteoric rise to the top. Second single 'Hand In My Pocket' showed a calmer, mellower Morissette reflecting on her life, while third single 'All I Really Want' made a casual reference to the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations:
Jagged Little Pill's fourth single, 'Ironic', went on to become Morissette's biggest hit. She received heavy criticism for the lyrics, however, which asked the listener after every verse, 'Isn't it ironic?', even though the verses described situations that some argued were not ironic:
Jagged Little Pill was a phenomenal success. It went on to sell 16 million copies in the United States alone, over 30 million copies worldwide, and its singles have become some of the most recognizable songs of the decade. A backlash, however, was quickly brewing.
Morissette was dismissed by some as a record industry puppet. She was attacked for collaborating with producer and supposed image-maker Glen Ballard, though Morissette was responsible for all of Pill's lyrics and much of the album's music, and such a collaboration was not uncommon for many solo artists at the time.
Others called her sudden image change 'calculated', 'manipulative' and 'greedy', while fans countered that such criticisms failed to acknowledge the possibility that Morissette may have grown artistically since she was a 17-year-old.
Despite this backlash, the album was nominated for six Grammy Awards. At the 1996 ceremony, Morissette performed a moving rendition of 'You Oughta Know', one that all but drained the anger from the song, leaving only an air of sorrow and remorse. That night, Morissette won awards for Album of the Year, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album.
Later that year, Morissette embarked on a one-and-a-half year world tour in support of Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. The DVD Jagged Little Pill, Live chronicled the bulk of this tour.
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie era (1998-2002)
In 1998, Alanis Morissette recorded 'Uninvited', a song from the soundtrack to the motion picture City of Angels. The track was never officially released as a single, but nevertheless received widespread radio airplay.
Later that year, she released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (lyrics (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/wojtkiewicz/supposed.html)), an experimental album with a wordy title and lyrics to match. Morissette once again collaborated with Glen Ballard, but this time she helped produce the album as well.
Fans and critics alike were shocked. Morissette didn't release Jagged Little Pill, Pt. 2, which would have been the commercially savvy thing to do. Obviously, Morissette was no longer pursuing commercial success. Most of the songs on the disc challenged 'traditional' song formulas, including 'The Couch':
and 'I Was Hoping', which recounts several experiences that shaped Morissette's life, including an encounter in a restaurant with a chauvinistic waiter:
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the record for the most albums sold in a single week by a female artist. As a follow-up to Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie had very little staying power. Its wordy, personal lyrics turned many fans off, and after only 38 weeks, it left the Billboard 200, selling 'only' 2.5 million, a huge drop from Jagged. In 1999, the song 'Uninvited' won two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. The first single, 'Thank U', was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. That same year, Morissette released the live acoustic album MTV Unplugged.
Many critics wrote off the album as a flop; however, repeating the incredible success of Jagged Little Pill was an almost impossible task that Morissette never expected nor set out to do. Many fans now consider Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie to be Morissette's strongest work to date.
In 1999, Alanis Morissette expanded her résumé by delving into acting. She appeared as God in the motion picture Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith. Smith, who claimed to be a big fan of Morissette, asked her to be in the film several times. She had to turn down the female lead, and by the time her schedule allowed her to participate in the film, only the role of God, which involves virtually no speech and appears at the very end of the film, was left.
Under Rug Swept era (2002-2004)
In 2002, after a four-year absence, Alanis Morissette released her third international studio album Under Rug Swept, with the notable absence of Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie collaborator Glen Ballard. For the first time, Morissette took on the role of sole writer and producer.
The album spawned the hit single 'Hands Clean'. The song's multi-layered lyrics told the story of a young Morissette's affair with an older man from two points of view:
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold close to a million copies in the United States alone, even though only one song from the album received any substantial radio airplay. Despite eleven very well-received songs, Maverick Records only released two of them as singles, a move criticized by many fans.
In December 2002, Morissette released a dual CD/DVD combination package, Feast on Scraps, which included live concert footage and eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions. The album was nominated for a Juno for Music DVD of the Year.
In September 2003, Morissette made headlines for supposedly exclaiming, 'Thank you, Brazil!' after a show in Lima, Peru. Morissette and her concert attenders later indicated that she had in fact said, 'Thank you, bless you', but by then the damage to her reputation had already been done.
So-Called Chaos era (2004-present)
In response to the Super Bowl halftime controversy that occurred earlier in 2004, and the stricter Federal Communications Commission regulations that followed, Morissette changed the first line of her song, 'Everything', from 'I can be an asshole of the grandest kind' to 'I can be a nightmare of the grandest kind' for radio.
In April 2004, Alanis Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004, which was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sporting a short, new hairdo, Morissette looked like a drastically different person from the angry, long-haired woman who once wrote and sang 'You Oughta Know'.
At the event, Morissette satirized the public outrage caused by Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident during the Super Bowl. Stepping out of a nightgown and wearing a semi-nude bodysuit, Morissette said, 'We live in a land Canada where we still think the human body is beautiful and we're not afraid of the female breast.'
The joke was, however, that Morissette was still forced to 'remove' her pasted-on nipples and pubic hair because they were not allowed to be shown on public television.
Morissette's music video for the single '8 Easy Steps' featured various video clips spanning her career in music, film and television. Beginning in present day and passing through former videos, movie and T.V. clips and eventually childhood footage, the clips were digitally edited to make it appear that Morissette was singing the song at all of those times.
In May 2004, Morissette released So-Called Chaos. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally favorable critical reviews. On May 18, 2004, the cable channel Oxygen taped an unprecedented eight hours of live footage, showing Morissette in New York City promoting the release of her new album.
In July 2004, Morissette appeared in the motion picture De-lovely, a tribute to composer Cole Porter. She performed the song 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love', and had a brief acting role as an anonymous stage performer.
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|Toyota said Wednesday it will recall more than 110,000 hybrid vehicles in the United States, Japan and Europe because of faulty transistors in electrical power control boards.|
The US market is the most affected, with the Japanese auto giant recalling 45,500 units of its Highlander Hybrid and 36,700 Lexus RX 400h vehicles due to "inadequate soldering".
Toyota said certain transistors could be damaged from heat caused by a large current flow during high-load driving due to the defect.
In most cases the vehicle will enter a fail-safe driving mode, resulting in reduced power in which the vehicle can still be driven for short distances. In the worst case the vehicle could stop, Toyota said.
Roughly 3,000 of the same vehicles are also being recalled in Canada, a Toyota spokeswoman told AFP. Toyota is also recalling 11,164 of the same vehicles in Japan for the same defect.
In Europe, the recall will cover roughly 15,000 vehicles, the spokeswoman said. Toyota said it is "working on" obtaining replacement parts and will notify owners when available.
The latest global recall is a another blow for the company struggling to restore its reputation as a quality automaker, having recalled millions of vehicles since 2009 over safety defects and paid US authorities nearly $50 million in penalties.
Toyota earlier this month also had to recall some 139,000 vehicles globally, including 106,000 first-generation Prius hybrid vehicles, because of a problem with the steering system.
Ratings agency Moody's on Tuesday said it had downgraded Toyota and its affiliates by one notch to Aa3, citing concerns for its profitability against a strong yen and materials costs.
It said the ratings remain on review for possible further downgrade.
Toyota had said it expected net profit in this fiscal year to drop 31 percent on-year to $3.5 billion on a strong yen and the effect on production of the March earthquake and tsunami.
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Bears are notorious for following their powerful noses toward food. But a hiker in Alaska said he stumbled upon a bear cub that got his whole head stuck where it didn't belong: in a plastic jug.
Michael Schuler said he was hiking up Ketchikan's Deer Mountain with his dog when he spotted something wiggling around in the snow about 10 feet from the peak, the Ketchikan Daily News reported.
"I knew it wasn't a marten ... so I thought it was either a bear cub or a wolverine," Schuler told the newspaper. "A bear cub I can handle, but if it's a wolverine and I pull that thing off, I'm toast."
According to the publication, Schuler walked up and saw that it was a snow-covered bear cub with a jug stuck on its head. He attempted to call wildlife authorities for help, but wasn't able to gain a cell signal on his phone.
He told the newspaper that he approached the cub only after looking around for its mother, tried to pull the cub out and then attempted to shake the jug loose -- with no success.
Schuler said that's when he pulled out his ice axe and tried to cut the jug open.
"I was basically able to sit on him, hold him by the scruff and make a slice into the neck of the jar," Schuler said.
He said the cub then popped out of the jug hole, and ran off into the trees.
Schuler said the jug was just some trash that someone had left at a campsite.
"His future was pretty said and done," Schuler told the newspaper. "He wasn't going to move. He probably would have lain there until he died."
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I sidled up to it in my chapter on the pudgy Slovenian in Criticism of Heaven and Adam Kotsko narrated its passage to and fro in the man’s thought in his Žižek and Theology, but I wonder whether anyone has argued that Žižek’s thought is actually caught in this irresolvable tension – irresolvable at least for him. It is the tension between the argument (most forcefully put in Lacanian terms) that any revolution will run into the mud, since it still operates with the same coordinates as that which it seeks to overthrow, and the desire for a genuine revolution, which is cast in various terms, whether theological, Leninist, good old communist or what have you. In short: the tension between signing up for the Cause or refusism. And I wonder whether this tension, to which Žižek returns again and again, marks the trauma of the failed revolution in Slovenia, in which he was a full participant?
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Solitary Moon Rite
This rite may be used for either New or Full Moon. The difference is in your meditation and mental attitude in preparation. Remember that the New Moon is a time of outward work and thought, building to the peak which is the Full Moon. At the Full Moon, you should be preparing to lessen the outward flow of energy, bit by bit, until the period before New Moon, during which you are passive, building a pool of energy within you, in preparation for the New Moon.
The altar should be placed in the center of the ritual area. On it should be placed a rose or stick of incense on the eastern side, a red votive candle to the South, a cup of water on the West, and a bowl of salt or living plant on the North.
Around your ritual area, you should place an unlighted candle at the cardinal point of each direction.
To begin your rite, enter your darkened temple, carrying one burning candle, white or lavender, with you. Place it on the center of your altar, sit, and meditate on the meaning of the rite. When you feel the time is right, stand, and go to the eastern point, carrying with you the burning taper. Light the votive at the eastern point and go to the southern, picturing, as you do, an arc of pure strong light curving from one candle to the next. Continue to the West, and then to the North, lighting the candles as you go, and then walk to your eastern candle again, having formed a circle of protective light surrounding the area in which you worship.
My Lady of the Moon, who is called Diana, Artemis, Levanah, Isis and by any other names,
Mentally divide the room into four quadrants by visualizing a line of silvery moonlight from the southeast to the northwest, and from the northeast to the southwest. Go the East, taking with you the rose or incense. Say:
Sweet Goddess, the gentle breeze is the touch of your loving hand,
Place the rose next to the votive candle, then stand there as you picture the quadrant filling with moonlight. See the moonlight streaming quietly and gently into the room, filling the quadrant from center point to the edge of your circle.
Most loved Lady, the light of the candle is a guide along our path leading to you;
At the West:
Lovely One, the quiet pool is the serenity of your being.
At the North:
Goddess of all, the fertility of the earth is a sign of your fertility, whence all life
Go to the center of your temple, which is now filled with moonlight.
Everything in the circle is touched by it, blessed by it, including you. Sit down and feel this moonlight around you. Know that it is the Goddess. Realize that you are in the center of a sphere of light that is half above and half above and half below where you sit. Begin to breathe slowly and evenly, deep breaths that penetrate your whole body. When this rhythmic breathing becomes natural, imagine that the moonlight by which you are surrounded enters you, fills you entirely.
With each exhalation of your breath, some of the essence of yourself leaves your body, and with each inhalation, the light enters you. You are being filled ever so gently with this beautiful light. This light, which is the presence, the being of the Goddess, is within you as well as without. With each breath, you are less yourself and more the Goddess.
When you are filled with light, filled with the Goddess, the shell of your body fades away. You have no body; there is nothing to separate you from the entire being of the Goddess. Nothing exists but the being of which you are apart. You have ceased to be a separate entity. You are nothing and everything. All that was, that is, and all that will be, you are.
Enjoy this feeling as long as you like. When you feel it is time, picture the outer shell of your physical body reforming, becoming solid again. It is being built out of the Universe of which you are a part.
Now, as you continue your slow deep breathing, see the moonlight flowing out of your body, as gently and slowly as it entered. As it flows out, realize there is a difference. Because you have become one with the Goddess, with the Universe, your being has changed. As the moonlight flows out of your body, it takes with it a part of that which was yourself, now part of the Goddess, and leaves behind a part of the Goddess, forever now part of you. You become yourself again, solid as you were, but changed. You are surrounded by the presence of the Goddess, which now contains a part of yourself .
Move again to the East. As you speak, and after, picture the moonlight in that quadrant flowing back to its source, leaving that quadrant as it was.
Do this at each quadrant, until all the moonlight has returned to the Moon.
At the East:
My Lady, guide my thoughts.
At the South:
Gracious Goddess, guide my actions.
At the West:
Lovely One, guide my emotions:
At the North:
Sweet Goddess, let my mind always be fertile and strong,
Return to the East to complete the circle and say:
Queen of Heaven, I thank you for your presence,
All spirits who have joined me tonight may depart, with my love. Return to your proper places.
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Offence: Theft > grand larceny
Punishment: Imprisonment > hard labour
I drive Mr. Wadsworth's waggon, which comes from Newport Pagnell in Bucks. On Saturday morning, at about half an hour after two o'clock, just before I got to Newgate , I heard something crack on the off side of the waggon; I turned about and saw the prisoner with a flat of butter in a basket on his back; there was another man with him; the things in the waggon were tumbling about; I could not go after him; I called stop thief; a watchman picked up the basket that morning, and brought it to me; the ropes of the waggon were cut, and I missed a flat of butter.
On Saturday morning, between two and three o'clock, I heard a cry of stop thief; I met the waggoner; he said he had been robbed of a flat of butter, by a man who had run up Giltspur-street; I pursued the prisoner; he ran down Snow-hill; he was stop'd by a watchman in Turnagain-lane; I did not see any thing upon him at that time.
[The watchman deposed that he stop'd the prisoner.
The constable produced a knife which he found on the prisoner when he searched him.
The watchman who found the basket did not appear.]
I know nothing of the matter.
The prisoner called three witnesses who gave him a good character.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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Combining two of my biggest passions in life pottery and photography I have been making ceramic cameras for several years now. These are fully functional cameras that produce black and white prints. Somewhat different from what you'd find at the local camera store, these creations are pinhole cameras.
The design of this particular camera is based on a hexagon, with a pinhole aperture on every other side wall for a total of three openings through which light reaches the negative. The pinhole drilled through the sheet metal in each of the three openings is about 1/100th of an inch in diameter. Three small lids work like a shutters for the camera. The shutters fit tightly in place, blocking light from the pinhole until the beginning of the exposure. To take a picture each shutter is removed (as shown in the first photograph) and light travels in to the negative. This camera has six feet for stability.
Pinhole cameras can be made from just about any container, so long as the imaging light reaches the negative only through the small pinhole opening. In my cameras I use black and white photo paper for the negative, and the paper is often fitted into a curved holder to give each camera a unique perspective. In the camera shown at left, the 5 x 8 inch paper negative is wrapped around a ceramic cylinder in the interior of the camera.
This camera is about 30 cm tall, and 26 cm wide. It's made of stoneware, reduction fired to cone 10. It has an iron red glaze, and a cobalt blue glaze, plus a post firing decoration of 24K gold leaf. Inside it is glazed matte black. There is no lens, viewfinder nor light meter.
The second photo shows a shutter in place on the side of the camera. The shutter has cork attached to the inner flange to hold it snuggly in the camera opening surrounding the pinhole. To take a photograph the camera is loaded with a piece of photo paper in a darkroom, and then taken outside. The shutter is removed and the negative is exposed. The shutter is replaced, and the camera then goes back into the darkroom, the negative is removed from the camera and developed.
The third photo shows the interior of the camera; the large lid on top has been removed. It shows a piece of photo paper wrapped around the ceramic cylinder in the centre of the camera. The cone of light entering the camera through each pinhole falls on roughly one third of the photo paper, with a little bit of overlap with the light from the adjacent pinholes.
The forth image is the test photograph I made with this camera to see if it worked properly. Pinhole photographs often have a slightly surreal look to them. One of the pinholes was pointing down my driveway, another was pointing at the headlight of my car, and the third was pointing at me while I timed the exposure. Pinhole cameras typically have very long exposures, and this one was one minute in full sun. The long exposures mean that the passage of time itself becomes a factor in the final image as you can see, I'm somewhat transparent in the photograph! This is because for the first ten seconds of the exposure I was busy next to the camera taking the shutters off, and for the last ten seconds of the exposure I was busy putting them back on, so I was only in the picture for two-thirds of the exposure! The bright marks on my face are actually dapples of light shining through the trees on the other side of my head. Each image that comes through the pinhole is flipped horizontally and vertically before it reaches the negative making for an interesting jumble in the final image.
There are some more examples of my ceramic cameras on my Cameras
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No reason to assume she'll be right, mate
No reason to assume she'll be right, mate
The subprime mortgage meltdown in the
And yet the mantra of most analysts is that we are only witnessing a "market correction" — an idea that is as wishful as it is misleading.
Belief in a self-correcting market has a long and mythical status in liberal economic thinking, something approaching a law of nature. It is based on two false assumptions.
The first is that the involvement of the state isn't required when markets fail — or that markets never really fail. And yet this occurs even in the
The second assumption is that the world economy, despite its volatility, is inherently rational and therefore manageable. There is little evidence to support such a belief.
According to economic historian Gabriel Kolko, it is a mistake to postulate a coherence and rationality to the world economy that assumes it is deliberately integrated and viable, so that a functionalist vision of it emerges. According to this view, there are few mistakes or failures. Someone is always in control and directing. Failsafe mechanisms built into the world's financial structures will ultimately avert a "great unwind".
Kolko argues that the problem with such a vision is that it takes little account of accidents, stupidity, or failures of intelligence due to bureaucratic players. It cannot explain confusion or why things regularly and suddenly go wrong. Most importantly, it mistakenly assumes there is a higher capitalist intelligence or "logic" that directs and controls events. This may be reassuring, and even necessary to maintain confidence in the system, but it is an illusion.
Kolko claims the greatest single error in assessing the world economy is to assume that systems with such diverse political, economic and ideological components are capable of being rationally managed. They cannot. The world economy is becoming increasingly anarchic, partly as a consequence of deregulation and liberalisation, and in part because of the bewildering array of mysterious financial strategies devised to enrich the greedy and impatient. Threats to the stability of the world's financial sector are now a major concern for conservative economists, central bankers and the IMF.
Opaque and complex financial instruments such as credit derivatives, collateralised debt obligations, credit default swaps and binary options — which few people can explain — are the lifeblood of hedge funds that spread financial panic whenever they collapse.
Enron used them extensively, collapsing into bankruptcy in 2001 with losses of $US100 billion ($A121 billion). In September last year Amaranth Advisory lost $US6 billion, or over 60 per cent of its assets, in a single week. The recent collapse of two hedge funds at Bear Stearns Asset Management has still not been costed.
Hedge funds now hold assets of over $US1500 billion, a figure that has trebled in less than seven years. Moody's credit ratings agency now thinks there is a 50-50 chance of a major fund collapsing in the wake of subprime losses.
Exotic securities, such as structured investment vehicles that employ short-term borrowing to fund investments in illiquid long-term investments, pose a challenge to the integrity of the world's financial system. Few, including their designers, understand how they work.
Those who seek to regulate these products are either intimidated into silence or simply unable to keep pace with such an innovative and sophisticated industry. Prudence and long-term investment strategies by establishment bankers have given way to speculation and gambling for instant profits by private equity groups.
What concerns many observers is that some of these hedge funds are now too large to be saved by government intervention if they collapse. The next stage after that is system failure.
"Market corrections" and "risk management" give a veneer of rationality to a financial jungle undeserving of such a description. If the bubble bursts they will provide little comfort to those who have lost their homes, retirement benefits or life savings.
As Kolko notes, those who "manage" capitalism cannot convincingly explain it or describe how it functions. Worse, they are unable to maintain the system on a stable basis, periodically leaving distress and inequities in its wake. This is the first lesson of the subprime debacle.
Dr Scott Burchill is senior lecturer in international relations at
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MCAS Enrichment courses are offered in both the Language Arts and Math/science areas to all students in grades 9 and 10. All Enrichment classes will be cycled through the Reading/Math labs to utilize computer software to improve reading and math grade levels. Enrichment classes will focus on test-taking strategies and practice MCAS questions in all formats. Summer enrichment programs will also be offered. Students in grades 11-12 will have additional MCAS preparation options offered during the school day if needed.
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GrowGreen Power chooses NC for its greenhouse/biomass power plant
Following an intensive nationwide evaluation, GrowGreen Power Inc. has chosen Piedmont in central North Carolina as the location for its 50-acre greenhouse and 46.3-megawatt (MW) cogeneration plant.
The plant will use a combination of solar and biomass resources such as wood waste, although no supply agreements are in place, according to Sean Lehman, director of communications for GrowGreen, which has locations in Boulder, Colo., and Raleigh, N.C. “The vast majority (of the energy) will come from biomass,” he said, hesitating to estimate a percentage. Six MW will be used in the greenhouse and the remaining 37 will be sold to the grid.
The hydroponic greenhouse is a completely controlled growing environment capable of producing up to 30 times more high-quality, safe produce than traditional farming, according to GrowGreen. Initially, GrowGreen North Carolina will produce tomatoes on the vine.
“North Carolina is an ideal spot for us,” said Bradley Nixon, principal and CEO of GrowGreen Power. “GrowGreen Power Inc. is committed to integrating state-of-the-art growing and renewable energy systems that deliver both fresh produce and sustainable power to local communities. North Carolina has a rich agricultural heritage, quality workforce and access to regional produce distribution and energy markets. Those factors combined with the support we’ve received from state leaders and its communities make North Carolina an excellent location for us to launch our first project in the United States.”
North Carolina House Speaker Tom Tillis praised the aspects of the plant that will bring local benefits. “I am encouraged that GrowGreen Power is considering North Carolina for a project that would bring over 300 jobs to Piedmont,” he said. “I am further encouraged that this $250 million investment would occur in an area of our state that is rapidly becoming an energy hub of the Southeast. The Piedmont region has the perfect combination of traditional farmland and a motivated workforce, and I look forward to working with GrowGreen Power to ensure that they bring their investment to our state.”
Providing local produce and clean energy can go hand in hand, Lehman said, and the notion has possibilities for global application. “We wanted a concept that would be sustainable in its own right and we can locate them around the world,” he said.
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28 February 2007
Just Making a Little Pot, Sir--no Beer Here
The World War One Draft Board found this well-known American employed as a chemical engineer for a pottery. Of course 1918 was Prohibition and we can't have any beermaking going on, now can we? This well-known member of a brewing family is making pots until the heat dies down and Prohibition is repealed. He's 34 years old at the time of the draft, but during Prohibition, age was not a factor.
Search the World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 database at Ancestry.com for your ancestors--you'll have to use other sources to determine how they felt about Prohibition...
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